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Manufacturing Insights
August, 2006
Industrial CRM: An Area of Neglect
Thomas R. Cutler
With up to ten years of continued process improvements on the plant floor, back office, and distribution operations, manufacturers have finally arrived at the front door of customer relationship management (CRM). Still engineering and operations focused, many senior manufacturing executives are strongly resistant and visibly uncomfortable in approaching lean CRM. Applying a kaizen blitz approach to sales and marketing quickly results in the obvious for most manufacturing firms: an area of neglect.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors are capitalizing their long-established client relationship with manufacturers and distributor by attempting to extend their reach. Some ERP vendors offer industry specific CRM solutions; many do not. Bolt-on generic CRM solutions are frequently sold by ERP vendors assisting only the bottom-line of the software firm.
Larry Caretsky, President of New Jersey-based Commence, (
) developers of a stand alone industrial CRM solution, suggested that most ERP companies offering CRM have short-falls. According to Caretsky, "Managing the sales cycle and sales representative performance, marketing campaign management and integration with customer support are not provided by ERP tools."
One project-based ERP vendor acknowledged that CRM was neither their strength nor focus. "CRM is not within our strength or even portfolio of modules at the moment. We do not have a complete CRM product offering. Our older ERP product had an add-on module, but it is not a full CRM module by any means. Furthermore, none of our European customers have purchased it. For customers who may require CRM near term, we are recommending third party products or services."
While many ERP vendors do fall short on the industry CRM front; some have proactively addressed this critical lean aspect of the manufacturing enterprise. Toledo-based Technology Group International (
) is an ERP vendor that has developed a customized industrial CRM solution. Rebecca Gill, vice-president of TGI noted several key reasons for purchase an integrated ERP/CRM solution. Full integration allows:
• Access to data in manufacturing, distribution, and accounting.
• Instant notification of credit issues.
• Instant capability to promise data for both manufactured and distributed products.
• Direct tie between anticipated sales and related costs.
• Instant access to historical information like sales, returns, on-time payments, margins, and other data.
• Integrated dashboards that go beyond the typical sales funnel; show true margin comparisons.
• No need to re-shuffle sales data, or re-evaluate, or re-key. Data is all available to dice and slice as needed.
• No lag time between data syncing or replicating. Management staff has live, real-time sales data.
• True 360 degree view of the customer for the organization and not just the sales representatives.
Indeed stand alone industrial CRM solutions may also provide effective lean CRM processes as long as the vendor truly understands the nuances and idiosyncrasies of the manufacturing sector; most do not. Offering a glorified database satisfactory to any type of organization does not address central issue facing all industrial operations.
According to Caretsky, "Smart industrial organizations gather several key data points during customer research, which all helps to define a CRM profile.
• How clearly can customers articulate your value proposition?
• How well do customers know products or services?
• What is the customers preferred method of purchasing products and services supplied?
• Who do customers consider to be the preferred supplier products and services?
• When do customers typically purchase products and services?
• Why do customers typically purchase products and services?
• How do customers use products and services?
• Who is the decision maker? Who else influences the purchase?
• How do customers evaluate suppliers?
CRM technology must help to answer these questions.
Whether fully integrated in an ERP systems or stand alone industrial CRM, elimination of waste in the sales and marketing of manufacturers and distributors requires expertise, experience, and specialization.
Thomas R. Cutler is the President & CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based TR Cutler, Inc., the largest manufacturing marketing firm worldwide –
. Cutler is the founder of the Manufacturing Media Consortium of twenty seven hundred journalists and editors writing about trends in manufacturing. Cutler is also the author of the Manufacturers' Public Relations and Media Guide. Cutler is a frequently published author within the manufacturing sector with more than 300 feature articles authored annually; he can be contacted at
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VERMILLION, S.D. -- Students in the health profession programs at The University of South Dakota will participate in a workshop designed to teach them vital skills for their response to any local, state or federal disaster. The Sanford School of Medicine hosts a one day Disaster Life Support Training Workshop for students in the physician, nursing and physician assistant programs in Vermillion at the Andrew E. Lee Memorial Medicine and Science Building at 215 E. Clark Street on Friday, Feb. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Dr. Janet Lindemann, dean of Medical Student Education at Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota, oversaw the development of the program to fortify the state's existing medical system and prevent it from being overwhelmed during a time of crisis. "The idea for the training developed because we were looking for people with medical skills who would be available to be rapidly deployed in an emergency. It occurred to us that our students who are learning to be health care providers are the perfect group," said Lindemann.
This unique training program, sponsored by the South Dakota Physician Leadership Initiative and the South Dakota Department of Health, teaches basic skills which will help them aid emergency professionals in case of a disaster. "Through this collaborative effort, our students are going to learn how to prepare for and assist with a variety of disasters. In the event of a flu pandemic or bioterrorist attack, it might be necessary to immunize many or all of the state's citizens in a hurry. These students would be ready to go to designated places called PODS, for Points of Dispensing, and do this. And, of course, here in South Dakota, we have to be thinking about blizzards and tornadoes. Many of the principles they are learning, such as triaging mass casualties, would apply in any of these situations," said Lindemann.
In addition, students complete an online national disaster life support course, learn to implement an emergency incident command system and utilize emergency communications networks. Upon completion of the program, participants receive a certificate designating them as available to respond to sudden health crises in South Dakota.
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There is a reason I do not have ladylike, well manicured fingernails. In two words - leaky gloves.
I've tried all sorts of solutions.
Marigolds - robust, but can't feel anything through them.
Latex - they go sticky, a weird sort of feeling, but it must be something to do with being in contact with very hot yarn.
Vinyl - probably the best of the bunch, but still not tough enough.
The photo shows the result of spending an hour of so with the dyepots. My arms are a lost cause, I look as though I am covered in bruises and only a dousing with bleach really fixes the problem, but fingernails stay dyed for days, and no amount of scrubbing with a nailbrush shifts the colours.
I've been dyeing the yarn for the pledges and about half of it is done now. If you are one of those who pledged for yarn to go with your book, look out for one of these very soon.


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Breaststroke Made Easy: Do Less, Swim Better
Breaststroke is the world's oldest and most popular stroke. There is evidence of a breaststroke-like style being swum over 10,000 years ago and it was the first stroke taught formally, in books published between 1538 and 1794.
However, the highly inefficient and very slow style taught nearly 500 years ago—head held high with large, slow arm circles—still prevails among many lap swimmers today. Closely related styles that retain many of the inefficient characteristics of 'ancient' breaststroke are nearly universal today.
Our new Breaststroke Made Easy Self Coaching Course teaches a radically different style that incorporates key techniques used by elites which allow them to swim stunningly fast times—under 1:00 for 100 meters. Yet these techniques do not require youth, great fitness, or special talents. In fact, they can easily be learned by swimmers of any age or level of athleticism—including those learning breaststroke for the first time.
Four innovative high-efficiency skills
1. Minimize drag: Streamline underwater for most of each stroke cycle; spend less time at the surface.
2. Conserve energy: Return to the surface by 'catching a wave' of buoyancy and momentum.
3. Avoid waste: Pull and kick with smaller strokes that greatly reduce drag while producing highly effective propulsion.
4. Maximize momentum: Swim barely above and below the surface. Breathe with a stable and aligned head.
This Course Includes:
1. Four videos (totaling 23 minutes), illustrating four foolproof learning steps and featuring:
a. Surface and underwater views from every perspective;
b. Slow-motion and stop-action to highlight critical moments; and
c. Dozens of succinct on-screen coaching tips.
2. A 71-page densely-illustrated e-workbook, providing deep guidance on:
a. The efficiency foundations for the stroke you're studying;
b. How to succeed at each of the four learning steps for that stroke; and
c. Whole-stroke training tips
Beautiful photo illustrations show every key moment and position for each learning step and the whole stroke.


text: AWARDS Ukraine's Odessa Film Fest Unveils Lineup 9:45 AM PDT 6/17/2015 by Vladimir Kozlov FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME 'Saul fia (Son of Saul)' by Hungarian director László Nemes is to be screened in the non-competition section. Ukraine's main film festival to screen Cannes and Berlin winners alongside local fare. Odessa International Film Festival, Ukraine's main film event, which is to run in the seaside resort city of Odessa from July 10-18, has announced its lineup. The festival is to screen several titles from this year's editions of Cannes and Berlin. Among the main selection's 12 films are H. by U.S. directors Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, the winner of the Someone to Watch Award at the Independent Spirit Awards; The High Sun by Croatia's Dalibor Matanic, which won Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes and another Cannes film, Embrace of the Serpent, by Colombian director Ciro Guerra, which won the C.I.C.A.E. Award. Saul fia (Son of Saul) by Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, the winner of Cannes' Grand Prize of the Jury, is to be screened in the non-competition section Festival of Festivals alongside Cialo (Body) by Poland's Małgorzata Szumowska, the winner of the best director's Silver Bear at the Berlin international film festival. The jury is to be headed by Jeanne Labrune, a French Cannes-winning film director, screenwriter and producer, also featuring Polish producer Dariusz Jablonski, Berlinale-winning Serbian director Srdjan Dragojevic and Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Sergiy Bukovsky. The festival is to also feature national competitions for Ukrainian features and shorts. The event faced serious financial problems last year, when state funding was denied. This year, its finances remain precarious. According to executive producer Julia Sinkevych, the state film agency didn't provide any funding for this edition either, but Odessa's municipal authorities threw in 1 million hryvnias ($46,440). "The situation has not improved this year because of the overall difficult economic situation in Ukraine," Sinkevych told The Hollywood Reporter. "But we are doing whatever we can to ensure that the festival runs at an adequate level, also thanks to our partners that realize its importance for Odessa and Ukraine." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Vladimir Kozlov email@example.com @thr


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Basing yourself at Egypt's stunning coastal resort of Sharm el Sheikh this winter? Many of you will plan your Sharm el Sheikh holidays around the undersea shipwrecks and shifting coral habitats that make this part of the Sinai Peninsula such a hit with the scuba diving and snorkelling community. However, set aside a few days to explore the surrounding area, and you'll find a few gems of the land-based kind.
St Catherine's Monastery, or Santa Katarina, is one of the most-visited sites in the region and with its dramatic position, nestled at the base of Mount Sinai, plus its religious significance to many people, it's not surprising. At around three and a half hours inland from Sharm, it's a historic day – or overnight – trip worth taking.
St Catherine's Monastery – why go?
A UNESCO World Heritage site, the chapel, church and fortified walls you can see at St Catherine's today date from the 4th to the 5th centuries and they were partly built on the orders of Byzantine Emperor Justinian. Moreover, almost 3,000 years of history connect this ornate complex to the stories of Moses, an important figure for Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
It's said that Moses received the Ten Commandments from God at the top of Mount Sinai and the chapel at St Catherine's Monastery is actually built on the site of the Burning Bush, where Moses is claimed to have first heard the voice of God.
What to see
Of course, most make a beeline for the Burning Bush (a thorn bush relocated when the chapel was built and said to be descended from the original) once inside the monastery complex. The Chapel of the Burning Bush itself isn't always open to visitors, but stop for a look at the 19th century bell tower with its Neo-Classical stonework.
Further in, the Byzantine basilica of St Catherine's Church looms against its mountain backdrop, while gold-tinged murals decorate the interior ceilings with Bible scenes: for many this is the highlight of the experience.
Spend some time exploring the unshakeable, early Medieval walls, stroll the Gothic arcades and examine the illuminated manuscripts and icons of the Monastery Museum and you'll find there are plenty more treasures to be discovered.
Mount Sinai
The mountain at Sinai can also be ascended via the same route that Moses supposedly took to the top. Whether you're a believer or not, the ruined chapels alongside the stone steps and the jaw-dropping views of the surrounding desert peaks are a sight to see.
Plan your trip
Mount Sinai and St Catherine's Monastery are available as day tours from Sharm el Sheikh, as well as nearby Red Sea resorts like Hurghada. You can usually organise one to pick you up from your hotel and guides are often included to take you around the site and relate the history of the buildings. Sunrise and sunset tours are a popular option for climbing Mount Sinai when it's bathed in spectacular natural light.
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We aren't sure who, but we are sure glad they did!! Downtown Palmer opens up to all the ladies for a weekend of fun, shopping, eating, music, events and probably a little mischief! The MatSu Running Club kicks off the weekend on Friday night with a great 5K Run/Walk! THE GIRLS ARE GETTIN' OUT! You boys can run too!Regular adult price of $25.00 for the 5K, $14.00 price for 14 years of age and younger in the 5K and a kids 1K is free!!Same Day Registration is $40.00
No matter what your skill level, experience past, present or what your future ambitions are, if it is around running, we can help "anyone" gain valuable knowledge, safety skills, experience, excitement, fun and confidence around running. Tuesday night track workout for girls only and Co-ed track workout is held Wednesday. Our coaches design our weekly track workouts and they can also help devise a running plan to meet your goals.There are over 80 members at different levels and abilities, you will be sure to find other runners in the same situation. Some people are looking to lose weight and start an exercise program. Others have specific goals in mind such as running a marathon or getting a PR on a certain race distance. Our club encompasses every type of runner from beginner, recreational to competitive.


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Congratulations to Prima Chellis for winning the 2013/2014 individual chess champion for Arizona.
Prima, an eighth grader at Vista Grove was announced the winner and recieved her trophies and awards on May 13th from CAA.
She has made stratigic strides this year in all she participated in this year, whether it was Flag Football, Basketball, or Chess she has ended her time with us in dramatic fashion. We wish her all the best in her high school years, she will be missed tremendously by our staff and students here at VGPA.
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Last Friday we were shipped a batch of scallops that were too small and some were broken. We had to send back the whole batch so we didn't have any to sell over the weekend... so bad! On Monday I called John our new seafood guy to get scallops from him instead of our regular supplier. The quality was better; they are sweet and firm. When we started to pan sear them their sweet smell filled the kitchen up so quickly... good sign... bravo!
Monday I was swamped with work. We worked on staffing for the upcoming weeks, tasted wines for our new wine list, discussed changes for our dinner menus, talked to suppliers, etc, etc, etc. I think that I may be too old for this job. To run restaurant is easy, but to keep it running with quality is tough, tough and tough.
We ordered ten pounds of Manila Clams. They were shipped in on Tuesday and Pook, Ali and I tasted them together. They were wonderful we will special them this week.
We also got in some Sunhollow Oysters from the west coast to replace our Island Creek east coast oysters. Look how beautiful they look!
This week's fish will be Black Cod. We wanted something besides halibut . The halibut was sixty to eighty pounds which is too big for us. John is shipping in Atlantic Black Cod about twelve pounds a piece. So we are looking forward to trying something new!
So far this year has not been the greatest for fish. It is hard to find really good, eye catching product. This will be my only post this week. I will talk to you next week.
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In SIESTA we deeply believe that through useful and beautiful projects we can positively influence human lives. As minimalists we think, that the more you have the more limited is your freedom. Therefore let's all try that every object we have tell a story. Not just any story, good story, your story. SIESTA – take it slow.


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My friend Cathy once told me a story about her mom. Cathy was in high school and had saved up money to buy her first Coach purse (It was 1988 so this was as big as her hair was). After only a short time, Cathy lost her purse and was inconsolable. She cried and complained and whined for days. Her mother lent a sympathetic ear, but after a few days of Cathy's complaints, she was done.
"Oh for crying out loud Cathy! Get over it. It was just a purse."
Cathy was taken aback. And although her mother's words may have hurt a little, they gave her something she didn't have: perspective. It was just a purse. And suddenly, instead of being utterly depressed, she was a little embarrassed by her actions.
I'm not sure why Cathy ever told me that story or why it stuck with me, but it popped into my head again this morning as I was trying to parent.
My daughter Faye has spina bifida and her life is a struggle sometimes. I'm constantly torn between lending a sympathetic ear and giving her a dose of perspective. Two days ago Faye had a minor surgery on her knee. For my husband and I, this was like having her wisdom teeth pulled. We've clocked in well over 20 surgeries in her 11 years of life, and some of them were doozies. This time we were in at 8 and out by 4 with no pain and only a leg brace she has to wear for 13 days to keep her leg straight. Couldn't be easier.
But not to Faye.
This morning when I made her go back to school there were so many tears over the leg brace. The leg brace people. She wears braces of a different sort EVERY DAY. She walks with a walker. Why would she care if she had on a soft cast? She was concerned that kids would make fun of her.
So what did I do? I choose perspective. There wasn't an ounce of sympathy. "No one at school has ever made fun of you! They aren't going to start now!"
I even told her to stop the crying – as if that ever works. Nor is it very nice.
It was a rough morning.
I walked Faye to her classroom and helped her get settled in her desk. The window was cracked and we could hear all the kids playing outside. The smell of spring drifted in. No one else was there. She was just sitting alone at her desk. It was time for me to go, but I paused. I could not have painted a sadder picture.
"Are you ok? Are you still feeling sad?"
"If I tell you I'm still sad, will you take me home?" She looks away and I see her chin quiver a little.
"No honey, I'm sorry."
"Then what difference does it make how I feel?"
With that she put her head down on her desk and I ran to the car and cried.
Did I do the right thing? I don't know. She needs me to be tough with her, to help her find the independence that comes naturally to others, but I just wanted to swoop her up and take her home with me.
Choosing between sympathy and perspective is so hard as a parent.
When you have a kid that struggles with homework every night, when do you empathize and when do you tell them to buck up?
My sister has a gifted daughter that struggles with being a perfectionist. I mean it's a struggle. She loses sleep and is only in the 4th grade. How do you add perspective to that?
My son is extremely sensitive. Where do I draw the line between acknowledging his feelings were hurt and telling him he needs to grow some thicker skin?
No way are we going to get it right all the time.
When my daughter was younger and would whine about something she didn't have, I would always bring up my missions trips or talk about how much the rest of the world doesn't have. One time before I could even begin my usual response she clenched her teeth and said "So help me, if you tell me about the kids in the third world countries one more time I will have a breakdown. I don't live in a third world country mom. I live here. Can you just listen to how that makes me feel?"
Fair enough Emily – that day I needed to hand out a little less perspective.
There are really no answers to any of these questions. We just need to plug along as parents and keep doing the best that we can do.
I guess we'll know if we succeeded when they are adults. They will have felt loved, but have stories to tell their friends about the time their parent taught them perspective.
Cathy found her purse by the way. All that crying for nothing.
She has also grown up into a woman who loves people more than things and would not spend weeks crying over a lost purse anymore.
Her mom probably doesn't even remember that story – but it just goes to show that sometimes we can get it just right.


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I've long been a proponent of collaborative relationships. Libraries should be collaborating with their communities to see what sorts of projects can be developed that benefit the library, the partners, and the community. Doing so makes good sense – fiscally and socially.
The St. Paul Public Library is entering into a collaborative relationship with, of all groups, dentists:
The smiles of St. Paul children are in jeopardy, so city officials and dental care advocates are expanding a program to rescue them. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman announced a new partnership Thursday to provide dental care to disadvantaged children in several neighborhoods.
The Smiles Across Minnesota Coalition will bring dentists and dental hygienists closer to children who may not get adequate dental care.
The coalition will expand the reach of an existing program that brought dental care to St. Paul schools and Head Start Centers, which help economically disadvantaged pre-school children prepare for school.
The new partnership will bring these dental services to libraries, parks, and community centers in targeted St. Paul low-income neighborhoods.
What a fabulous idea. I'm not sure who thought to include libraries in this – whether the city contacted the library or vice versa – but it's a perfect example of a collaborative venture that will no doubt benefit not only those that take advantage of the service, but the dentists and libraries as well.


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We are still young, vertebrae like Silly Putty & it will all be used up.
Pupils like tumbleweed on a stimulant. Delirium with a body length.
The livestock are surveying morning light. It is a sign of continuum.
They graze like paper cut-outs from the juvenile section. We talk like
sugar cookie dough by the spoonful, eggshells indiscreetly folded in.
I heighten myself into calculated disembodiment. Dreamily underwater.
I want to be somebody's muddy diamond.
Brooke Nicole Plummer is a rural-focused poet from South Bend, Indiana. Her work has appeared in Analecta, New Views on Gender, Horror Sleaze Trash, and the upcoming Wordplay anthology. She is the cofounder and coordinator of the artistic collective called Speak Michiana.


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Over the last two years of directing Research Club, I have facilitated roughly 100 semi-formal presentations from amateurs, enthusiasts, and professionals from fields ranging from toilet design to art to open source software to community development. Having done this in Portland, Seattle, Berlin, and Glasgow, I have recognized some consistent patterns and practices that apply to the nature of standing up in front of a crowd to talk about something you care about when you have more enthusiasm than preparation and more technical knowledge than charisma. I would like to present a meta-presentation that will be a 75%-serious examination of powerpoint culture, the urge to present, and the pitfalls of doing so.
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7 years in antiquarian books; Ba(Hons) in painting from Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; 3 professional years in web development, 7 very unprofessional years; founder of Research Club; internationally exhibited painter


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Measuring Up: Quantifying Designers Performance
One question that's plagued many a creative director is this: How you measure a creatives performance? You can measure an account person by how much business and revenue they generate. How about designers?
Designers in the commercial design industry are tasked with creating work that works. Work that pleases the client, delights the consumer and drives sales of goods or services. Sometime that includes the work pleasing the creative director, sometimes not. It's commercial work, not fine art. Fine art has the luxury of being subjective and can be purely conceptual. Commercial work has to sell stuff.
The clearest metric to evaluate design work and by extension, the worker, is "adoption rate". Did the client choose the work? Did it make it to shelf, or on-air? Could the client quantify a sales bump? Or were all your designs left in the "outs" bin.
A slightly more subjective metric is whether the design delivered on the strategy of the project. Does the designer consistently hit the target - doing work that actually makes it to a client presentation (that is, past the CD and the account director whether the client chooses it or not).
The final criteria is the WOW factor. Is it gorgeous? Did it make the CD's eyes tear up just a little bit? Pure aesthetics are important, too, and a seasoned creative leader knows beautiful work when they see it. We were trained to recognize it and we have years of experience judging it. It also has a tendency to win awards if you're lucky on top of being good.
I generally take notes as the year passes and capture who did what work in my designers goals folders, so at annual review time there are clear examples to reference in your conversations.
Other factors also influence a designers success in the studio. Do they show up to work on time? Is the work ready at critique time? Is it visually presented well? How well do they speak strategically to the work? What do they bring to the table in brainstorming sessions? What do they contribute when it comes to studio-wide inspiration? What creative energy two they bring to the workplace? How are their client relationships? All important factors.
But the crucial metric of a designers success is certainly "adoption". Do they do strategic design work that makes it through the gauntlet? Is that work of high aesthetic quality? If the answers there are yes, you've got a winner on your hands and many other sins can be forgiven.
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Jared Leto Can Make Drop Crotch Pants the New Trend
Jared Leto wears a pair of black drop-crotch pants while leaving a casting office on Thursday afternoon (May 15) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 42-year-old actor sure can make something a new trend just by wearing it so we'll have to see if drop-crotch pants become a thing. We already know that Justin Bieber is a fan!
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"Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can," Jared tweeted that day.
Last week, Jared was seen going on a stroll with a mystery gal.


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We first bought wine from Jean-Noël Gagnard and his daughter Caroline Lestimé in the 1990s, during our sabbatical year in France. A decade earlier a bottle of Meursault at Georges Blanc's three-star had revealed just how wonderful white Burgundy can be, and a glowing note from Master of Wine Serena Sutcliffe led us to the Gagnards' door in Chassagne-Montrachet. The wines of Chassagne have their own distinct place at the top of the white Burgundy range, somewhere between the opulence of Meursault and the finesse of Puligny-Montrachet. "Weight without heaviness" is a description that resonates with us, and we have had superb bottles from this Domaine over many years.
The Gagnards own vines in Bâtard-Montrachet, the largest Grand Cru vineyard abutting Montrachet itself. There's usually only enough for a barrel or so (300 to 500 bottles), and with the Domaine's reputation the prices are always high, but we are able to acquire a few bottles from time to time on a special order basis. The wine that made Jean-Noël's reputation is the premier cru "Caillerets," a wine that needs some time to come into its own, but which offers superb balance and lavish complexity. It can be as good as white Burgundy gets. Caroline (who has led the winemaking at the domaine for more than 20 years) offers other superb premier cru Chassagne from Petits Clos, Maltroye, Champs Gain, Chenevottes, Chaumées, and Boudriotte. From time to time we are able to offer some of these as well.
At the village level, we have settled on the opulent "Chaumes," always a beautiful reflection of the vintage. Just over a decade ago, Caroline planted some vines in the Hautes Côtes de Beaune above St. Aubin. The vineyard, called Sous Eguisons for the cliffs above it, is now mature and producing delicious wine at an affordable price. The warming climate seems to enhance the quality every year.


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When Alex was born (read: found in a sewer), he had with him an ancient Palm Trio that had sacred texts on it. They told of a prophecy that would lead Alex to the promised land of gaming, CES 2015.
So this year Super Creative packed up the camera gear and traveled with their sewer baby all the way to Las Vegas for a journey of tech-pic proportions. The journey was long, hard, and consisted of talking robots and sexually violating massage chairs, but eventually the gaming was found. Watch as Alex searches for the legend of the game at CES 2015, and stumbles upon the gaming goldmine.
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|The Howard Zinn Book Fair is pleased to collaborate with the Center for Political Education for a special multi-session track, "Black Reconstruction in Our Times." This track will explore and update the ideas presented in W.E.B. DuBois' classic "Black Reconstruction in America: 1960-1880. This work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. We hope that these conversations will contribute to our understanding of how to build a movement against racism today.
More program announcements coming soon!
|Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans Jordan Camp (Policing the Planet), Laura Pulido (Development Drowned and Reborn) in conversation with Just Cause/Causa Justa and Movement Generation
|First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles: Author Damien Sojoyner (First Strike) and educators Chrissy Zavala and Mariame Kaba
|Futures of Black Radicalism, Ed Gayle Theresa Johnson Seth Markle, author Motor Cycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, organizers Sanyika Bryant (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement), and Ntayna Lee (LeftRoots)
|Ready to Work, Uprooting Inequity: Black Workers in Los Angeles County author Saba Waheed in conversation with Danielle Mahones (Black Workers Project), Melissa Burch (of University of Texas on employment for formerly imprisoned people)
|Resisting Repression, Jakobi Williams, From The Bullet to the Ballot and Donna Willmot, former political prisoner


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Résumé of Rhoda Orme-Johnson, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Literature, Maharishi University of Management
Winter: 191 Dalton Drive, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459
Summer: 2104 Diamond Lane, Fairfield, IA 52556
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Professional Experience
Sales Agent: Pelican Real Estate and Development Co. (1/15/2002 - present)
4039 E. County 30-A
Seagrove Beach, FL 32459
I began as a real estate agent in January 2002. My broker felt that my teaching career prepared me very well for selling real estate. It is a complicated process and it helps to be able to take a buyer or seller through all the necessary steps to close a deal. I hit the ground running and soon found myself in the top 1.5% of all the agents along the Emerald Coast. My newsletter "News from the Beach" attracted quite a few readers and was forwarded to friends and colleagues. My customers were and are lovely people. It has been a pleasure to help them buy and sell. Now that the market has slowed down quite a bit, I find myself enjoying what comes to me, but also branching out into other fields, such as the writing described on this site.
Teacher of the Transcendental Meditation Technique (10/1/96-9/1/2003)
I became a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation Technique in June 1992 and taught it El Paso, TX for about six months. At that point I joined the faculty of Maharishi International University and taught TM only sporadically, with the exception of stint in Armenia following an earthquake there in 1989. During a several months stay there I taught over 1000 people the technique for no charge. They benefited enormously, as did I. Upon leaving the University in October 1996, I started a TM center in Seagrove Beach, FL --the Emerald Coast TM Center -- and with my husband taught hundreds of people, offered weekend residence courses, hosted advanced techniques in the TM program, and all the activities accompanying those events. Once I became active in Real Estate I turned those activities over to other teachers and focussed on my new career, which was a financial necessity.
Professor and Chair, Department of Literature and Languages, Maharishi University of Management (formerly Maharishi International University) (1/1/73-10/1/96)
I created and taught courses in Classical Literature, Medieval Literature, Romantic Literature, Willa Cather, the modern novel, to name a few. I also made video tapes of some of my lectures and presented papers at various conferences (see my page on my academic activities). I also directed the B.A. in Literature, the M.A. in Literature and minors in French and Spanish, a theatre program, and a program in creative writing. I also served as Dean of the Faculty and on various committees. I was selected as Best Teacher of the Year on several occasions and was a favorite speaker at campus events and visitors' weekends.
International Vice-President, Maharishi International University (1976-1977)
With my husband, David Orme-Johnson, I represented the University at the International level, bringing University questions and concerns to that level and returning advice and suggestions to the University, as well as sending new knowledge and video tapes for the use of the University.
Administrative Dean, Maharishi European Research University, Seelisberg, Switzerland (1975-1976)
I developed and administered degree programs in the Science of Creative Intelligence and Vedic Science.
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I taught courses in composition and introductory literature courses.
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Here's another post from guest blogger and medium, Kate Sitka. Thanks, Kate!
I've got a little prank to blame on Erik right now, we'll see if he claims credit. I was listening to a podcast and the volume kept turning down. At first I thought it was an issue with the recording itself, or possibly my earphones. But after the fifth time of adjusting the volume, I picked up the ipod and watched as the volume bar rolled down before my eyes, and it actually fought me as I tried to turn the volume back up. Erik's been poking around lately, so I'm inclined to blame this on him as a bid for attention (or a smack upside the head.)
Erik, was that you? Naw! That doesn't sound like me at all. If it was me, I'd be turning the volume UP! You don't turn the funk down, ba-beh, you turn it up!
(Erik is being a funk artist with a base guitar, a huge floppy hat and massive, multi-colour dread locks sprouting all over the place. He's showing himself as a psychedelic hallucination, like a shadow of George Clinton superimposed over Erik's skinny frame.)
Here's a picture of George Clinton, in case you don't know him:
Was that a faulty ipod then, or was it someone else?
I'm not a tattletale! *grin*!
Alrighty then! HAPPY CHRISTMAS you undead weirdo! Here I've put all that effort into describing his funk costume, and now he's gone zombie on me. (There's a cultural obsession that I've never really understood.) Erik says, That's 'cause you grew up in the 90s when vampires were all the rage. You're too cool for Zombies, Kate, that's your problem. You're undead classist – we've gotta bust the caste system of the undead!
(This is all really funny / ironic because of course the *actual* dead aren't ranked – Erik hates it when I explain his jokes.) They'll GET IT, he insists.
Talking to Erik can sometimes feel like I've just acquired Tourette syndrome along with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Where the hell were we??
Ha! He's playing one of my favourite Beatles songs, "Revolution", which leads into our theme for today's piece: New Years Revolutions!
The truly funky thing about New Years, (funky = supremely cool – and he's back to being Funk Erik now – he says Funk is the "cool" hippies.) Everyone's in this Revolutionary headspace. It's a time when everyone's lookin' at the future together for all the things that can change, all the good shit that can happen, how their lives can change, how the world can change!
I dig it.
The people feel Empowered, man. That's the REVOLUTION, when people feel the power in their own hands, and the see good shit in the future with their own hearts!
That's deep, y'all, can you feel it?
What's cool about New Years is people just forget – they just fuckin' forget all of the shit in the past. For a night, they let it go, they drop it, and they celebrate the potential of the future!
Do you know that most of the time, people worry about the negative potential of the future? That's why I fucking LOVE NEW YEARS EVE, man! It's all about the GOOD SHIT that's coming down the pipes, and people really feel it, they just KNOW it's there! I love it!
Y'all know what it is, exactly, that you let go of on New Years eve? You let go of all the shit that you think was done to you by someone else. (He's really dwelling on the simplicity of letting go, it's not an intellectual thing, it's more like dropping a bag of something heavy.) New Years is a time to set everything down and you can decide if you want to pick it up again in the morning. Some people pick that shit back up because it feels familiar, it feels safe: it's THEIR shit. It's part of who they are. An' that's cool, if you want to/ need to pick it back up.
Just *feel* the supreme funkiness of feeling free of it. Just enjoy it, get reeeeeeeeaaaal comfortable with that feelin'. That's a feeling you can practice. That's a feeling that is the MOST NATURAL state of being – that optimism of New Years eve.
(Erik switches to being blonde, on a desert sand dune, oh yeah he's ridiculously cut, wearing a white loose pajamas with the wind blowing his hair and shirt back. This one's familiar, he's done it before.)
This is for the hamster-wheel minds, those beautiful, hard-working people who TRY to meditate, and they just can't get there. (Gives me the feeling of sexual frustration, thanks for that, dude.) It's like, if you're meditating and you're trying to get to Nirvana, you're imagining this feeling of bliss that's like getting off. I'm tellin' you, it's more like that feeling on New Year's eve, when everyone around you is a friend and everyone sees the good in each other and the world. That's a lot easier to get to than climbing some internal mountain of spiritual ecstasy – and THAT is why you –
Ha, okay I'll describe the visual he just gave me.
There's a spiritual leader in front of a podium talking to a group of several hundred people. The guy's talking and talking, blah-blah-blah-blah – and there's Erik right behind him making this funny face with his eyes squeezed shit and his teeth sticking out making this "jerk off" motion with his hands!
The interpretation is that sometimes when you hear someone talk about spirituality and you just get the sense they're stroking themselves with their words – it's because they *are* – but they're doing it because they're thinking of "enlightenment" as a sexual-like release. They have this desperate feeling of enormous spiritual frustration.
Spiritual Blue Balls
Thank you, Erik. Oh awesome, he's showing me the Christmas Ornament version of it. Fantastic. An' there's this long one right here –
Yeah we all know where you're going with that, little E.
Ha, he wants me to erase the "little E" part, says it'll give folks the wrong impression! Hey dude, you're the one who keeps trying to show me –
Okay, so what were we talking about Kate? You're kind of genital-obsessed, it's distracting. Seriously, girl, you need to work on that.
You want to talk Tantra?
OOO sure, let's talk tantra. The lights just flickered, that's funny. Turning down the lights to set the mood?
I'm bringing up tantra 'cause it's a way people have combined meditation with sexual release. For some people who are *really* hard-wired to their bodies, tantra is a great way to get to that feeling of spiritual bliss – to like, tack on sexual gratification with meditation. Or to use their drive for sexual release to help them get there, spiritually. That's why it's so weird when religions try to separate sexuality from spirituality.
I get it though – some people who think a lot about spiritual things, like what it all means, the state of the world, of humanity, where we all came from – those thoughts can really suck all your energy into your head. Some of these folks spend so much time thinking about this shit that they get disconnected from the lower parts of their body. The polite way to say this is they get "ungrounded". The RUDE way to say this is they're cold fish! LIKE A FROZEN COD!!! So then those cold fish go and explain to other people that if you're gonna be spiritual, it results in this disconnection from the body, and if you're doing "God" right, you won't get horny.
Well, while a temporary loss of sex drive can be a SIDE EFFECT of getting all up in your head (and it's not just spiritual stuff, you can just be all in your head with worries too, or depression) it's not really a state worth actively seeking out. (Shows me a fading willy with a disappointed, slide-whistle sound.)
But for other people, trying to make meditation a part of sex is going to KILL their boners. Lady or man.
(ha haa, lady-boner)
Some people try their whole lives to "become enlightened" – like it's the best orgasm they can have with the universe, AND IT IS! But you don't have to live a hundred lifetimes to get it, not when you can realize how simple it actually is: it's like New Years Eve.
New beginnings. RIGHT NOW is the time to try it. It's just a moment that's made so powerful and tangible because we're surrounded by humans all thinking and feeling the same reasonably-optimistic things. So piggy-back off all the good vibes around you and see where it gets you!
"I'm gonna quit smoking, I'm gonna lose weight" – these are all things that you can see yourself doing in the perfect optimism of New Years eve, so just fucking enjoy it and sit with it, get at home with that *feeling* and try and revisit that feeling more than once a year.
(The song's wrapping up with the lyrics, "You know it's gonna be alright.")
Here's a link to the video of the Fab Four playing Revolution: LINK
Erik's closing deep thought: You know what a revolution is, right? It's a circle, it's *returning*. Get it?
Happy New Year, beautiful People! Erik says, LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Kate Sitka is a spirit medium and animal communicator located in Tofino, BC. To learn more about her and her work, please visit her professional website tofinopsychic.com and her personal blog psychicintraining.com


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LI restaurateur, Nassau contracts scrutinized
Newsday reporting and an investigative series examined Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh's connections to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay officials, as well as Nassau County contracting practices.
LI contractor arranged, paid for Nassau exec's trips
Harendra Singh arranged and paid for several vacation trips for Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and a top Oyster Bay town official.
Newsday / David L. Pokress; Howard Schnapp
Records: Restaurateur in lawsuits has ties to Mangano
Harendra Singh has financial, political and personal ties to the Nassau County executive, records show. The county paid almost $240,000 to Singh for hot meals for top officials after superstorm Sandy.
Newsday / David L. Pokress
Documents: Town helped get Singh $16M in loans
Town officials helped Harendra Singh secure loans by arranging with lenders to have the town pay in case of defaults — potentially exposing taxpayers to millions of dollars in liabilities.
Newsday / David L. Pokress
Restaurateur gave Mangano free meals, staff say
After Edward Mangano won election as Nassau's top leader in 2009, his longtime friend, Bethpage restaurateur Harendra Singh, crowed to his employees, 'I've just hit Easy Street!'
Whistleblower: DA failed to act on Singh records
Former Oyster Bay Constable Christopher Briggs said he gave the Nassau district attorney's office key documents on Harendra Singh in 2013, but DA investigators never followed up.
Newsday, 2000 / Karen Wiles Stabile
Town extended Singh's contracts despite late bills
The now-indicted restaurateur's companies owed more than $180,000 to Oyster Bay when town board members voted unanimously to extend its contracts with him in 2014.
James Carbone
Lawsuit: Singh Hospitality Group defaulted on loan
A creditor sued the parent company of Oyster Bay's concessionaire at Tobay Beach, alleging it defaulted on a loan for restaurant equipment and furnishings.
Andrew Theodorakis
Mangano's calendar shows little around trips
The Nassau executive's public calendar is redacted on certain days — including when records show he would be vacationing at Harendra Singh's expense.
Jim McIsaac
LI pols attended galas, raised funds for Singh charity
The Raj & Rajeshwari Foundation hosted lavish fundraising galas each year that attracted Long Island politicians, judges, union officials and other local leaders.
Raj & Rajeshwari Foundation Facebook page
Nassau contracting practices
Newsday's reporting revealed that Nassau County's specialty contracts often do not go to the lowest bidders, and that the county gave hundreds of no-bid contracts valued just dollars below a key threshold.
Documents: Contracts don't go to low bidders
Nassau County awards more than three-quarters of its specialty contracts — the type central to the Dean and Adam Skelos federal corruption case -- to companies that don't submit the lowest bids.
CH2M Hill
$4.5M contract's specs redone for firm's benefit
A Nassau County department rewrote bid requirements for a seven-figure contract, allowing the company already doing the work to stay on the job amid heavy competition.
Steve Pfost
County gave $9.5M in contracts just under $25G limit
Hundreds of Nassau contracts worth a total of nearly $10 million have been awarded in recent years at amounts just below the threshold for legislative approval.
Jim Peppler; John Roca; Frank Koester
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"We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families – recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country."
Who else will be marching in their city this Saturday? I am going to be in Oakland with Tyson's cousins if anyone in the area wants to meet up. 🙂 The more the merrier!
If you want to go and need to find a sister march visit the Woman's March Website.
Are any of you making posters? I found some examples that I really liked and thought I would share them with you. But for some reason I can't download the photos and insert them into the blog so here's the web page I found them on. ❤
Watch this video to get ready for your march.
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Someone Swaddle Me
jasmine banks
You know, the best skill to learn when you are a parent is the ability to remain calm in the face of your child's pain/horror/fury/whathaveyou. Even though your insides might be exploding from the sheer panic you feel when you realize your preshusss baby fell off the bed and has blood running down his face, even though you want to cry when they try to climb on the oven and end up cracking their head on the floor because hey, the oven isn't actually a climbing gym, you must remain calm. Because you know if you go OH MY GAWD! There is blood running down your face! Or, Good Heavens are you OK?! Or even, WHOA! the screaming and panic from the small one will increase exponentially. And its just not worth it. The crazy oven climber? he doesn't need his mother to freak out about the sound his head made when it hit the tile floor. He needs a calm monotone, that motherly shushing and patting and moomooing in his ear. So that's what you do, you squish the panic and fear and check his noggin for cracks, all the while shushing and moomooing and speaking in monotone.
Well you know what, I REALLY needed a shusshing moomooer yesterday. There I was, just innocently taking a shower, looking very closely at my body wash bottle. I don't know why I was looking at it so closely, have no idea really, but I was and then I flipped open the lid and BLAM! A glob of soap shot straight into my eye. And I proceeded to start yelling. And hopping. And stomping. And yelling some more.
And Norah was in the bathroom for all this, because she is always in the bathroom if I am in there, talking about Mickey Mouse most of the time (and you know, I really don't care what Mickey Mouse did with his balloons when I am trying to poop, Norah) so she was the witness to me losing my ever-loving mind. Thankfully Max was taking a nap, otherwise is head would have been in the shower too because he is also always in the bathroom with me, usually wanting to sit on my lap while I am sitting on the toilet (which, come on, there is something very wrong with that idea) so he didn't have to hear the stream of caveman words coming out of my mouth. But the ever helpful Norah, standing on her potty stool playing mad scientist in the sink while I pretend not to notice so I can have just one shower's worth of time to just think about myself, she's in the bathroom with me when I burned my eyeball out with soap and as soon as I started yelling and stomping she was all MOM! Whatsa matter?! And I was all AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!H!!!!&%^^^& I got SOAP in my EYE! BLAAAGGGG! Stomp stomp STOMP! And she was all Oh. Well Mom did you know that Mickey Mouse has a balloon that can talk? I didn't know balloons could talk MOM! And I was all OHHH MY GAAAAWWWDD! MY EYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ABLDHFUASGFYGFIOUAWED*&W^T&E%Q^EYIJ!(backspace!)
This continued for a rather embarrassing amount of time, me yelling and inserting type functions into my expressions of pain and Norah talking about that infernal mouse before I was able to get out of the shower and take my contact out. Soap in the eye is infinitely more painful when it gets underneath your contact and then just....stays there. So I took it out and walked around half blind for a while, though still able to see enough to post three agony filled tweets before attempting to re-insert the soap contact. Bad idea. Still had soap on it. And the eye that was just barely beginning to feel better got all burny again and then my whole face turned red. I kid you not, my eye still hurt 12 hours later.
So I was thinking, if Norah gets soap in her eye tomorrow night when I give her a bath, I really can't say anything if she flips her lid and like...punches a hole through the wall. Because she learned it from her mother, the soap eyed cave person yelling in the shower. No matter what she does after experiencing the soap eye pain I will just continue with my monotone shushing and moomooing, telling her everything will be ok, while inside I am screaming I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!


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The PADI Reactivate Course
Has it been a while since you've been scuba diving? Do you feel like your scuba skills and knowledge are a bit rusty? The PADI Scuba Reactivate is just the refresher you need. It reacquaints you with diving theory and skills so that you're back to feeling comfortable in the underwater world in less than a day. Brush up on your scuba knowledge and skills. Improve your diving ability, and get your scuba gear ready for your next scuba vacation or diving holiday.Reactivate! Today
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It's really cool to see these machines at work. They sound like Star Wars droids at work, but with much less sarcasm. Their movements are precise. I walked on the floor at the Durham facility with a notion of typical applications: wood, routers, furniture, signage, etc. Nothing too fancy. But Ted changed the trajectory of my thinking by placing these tools into the realm of digital fabrication. To him, digital fabrication is not about automating old ways of making things. It is really about finding completely new ways of making new products. Bringing ideas to life. For example, we saw a 5-axis machine that basically cuts out the tray you place your mini-pretzels on when you're in an airplane. Somebody has to make these things, right? The Shopbot enables the designer to build in certain features that would otherwise require two or more machines. Anyhow, think of this machine hooked up to a Kinect, so that anyone could carve out human figures with a few mouse clicks. Woah! That's a new way of getting something done.
So the inspiration I took away was to constantly look for news ways of doing things. Try them out. See what works. Keep asking " What if?" There's a lot of ingenuity going on in the Shopbot brain trust. A lot of "what if?" questions. And, it seems, a few answers to boot.


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BEIJING — The long-awaited trial of deposed Chinese politician Bo Xilai will begin Thursday, a court announced Sunday, setting into motion the final chapter of one of modern China's most dramatic and politically fraught cases and carrying deep potential implications for the ruling Communist Party.
For more than a year, the once-powerful regional party chief Bo has been at the center of scandal, political maneuvering and negotiations within the party. His fall from grace — sparked in part by the suspicious death of a British businessman — led to the party's biggest scandal and crisis in the past two decades and exposed divisions among its leaders. Because of the danger that those rifts pose to the party, the outcome of Thursday's trial has probably already been decided, say political analysts and party officials.
"The verdict won't be made by the court, but by the seven members of the party's standing committee," said Zhang Sizhi, a lawyer who defended Jiang Qing, the widow of party founder Mao Zedong, in a similarly sensational and politically charged trial in 1980. "Everything in court is already arranged. The court will be nothing but a rehearsed performance."
For the past year, party leaders have been working outhow to deal with Bo in a way that satisfies party factions that support and oppose him, say many party officials speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case.
For years, Bo campaigned for promotion to China's highest circle of power — a seat on the seven-member standing committee. In pursuit of that goal, he cultivated powerful party and military allies but also became a polarizing figure.
Bo represented a brash, left-wing Maoist ideology that was in some ways the antithesis of the party's market-driven factions. But the scandal and inner party battle that led to his fall from grace were largely struggles between power factions and not over ideological differences, party officials say.
Many believe that the negotiations over his fate have played out largely along the same lines. One key factor is Bo's complicated relationship with China's new president, Xi Jinping. Both belong to the party's new generation of "princelings," children of the party's founding fathers. But the two did not always get along.
"Bo was very ambitious. He looked down upon Xi Jinping when he was young," said one person with close ties with other princelings and schoolmates of the two. "When mentioning Xi Jinping in any occasion in those days, Bo Xilai often called him 'idiot,' and Xi knew it."
Now, as adults, Xi and Bo are on opposite ends of the trial process. Xi — still in his first year as China's top leader and trying to consolidate his hold on power — faces the thorny question of how severely to deal with Bo.
In an apparent reflection of Xi's delicate position heading into the trial, former president Jiang Zemin recently issued an unusual comment praising Xi and urging party members to support him.
On Bo's side, some believe that his main tools of leverage are the threat of division posed by his supporters as well as his knowledge, as a former member of the high-ranking party cadre, of potentially embarrassing secrets about others.
Working against Bo is the party's leverage in deciding not just his fate but also possible adverse effects on the future of his adult son Bo Guagua, who is studying in the United States.
In a sign of how carefully party leaders are managing the trial, supporters and critics of Bo who have been especially vocal about him in the past said in online posts and through friends that they have been arrested or put under surveillance by police in recent days. And the trial will be held in the city of Jinan in eastern Shandong province, far away from Bo's power base in the megacity of Chongqing.
Bo has not been heard from since his ouster from the party and its powerful 25-member Politburo. His wife, Gu Kailai, and former lieutenant Wang Lijun were both tried and sentenced on charges related to the death of Briton Neil Heywood. Many critics have also derided their trials as predetermined show trials.
Heywood's family is now seeking compensation for his death.
There was no mention of Heywood's death in the charges against Bo. The allegations are limited to bribery, graft and abuse of power — which some analysts see as a possible indication of a more lenient sentence.
Some in the party believe that Bo will be spared a death sentence — even a suspended one — because of an informal agreement protecting Politburo members against it.
A harsh sentence is also not necessary politically because Bo has already been removed from power, said Li Weidong, an analyst and former editor of China Reform magazine. With Bo already ousted, Xi mainly needs to ensure that he does not cause any more trouble during the next 10 years while Xi heads the party.
"There is already consensus in the party to 'protect' Bo to some degree," Li said. "Among the princelings I know, a majority of them support or are sympathetic to Bo. Xi Jinping doesn't want to lose their support."
One unanswered question is whether Gu, who received a suspended death sentence last year, will testify against her husband at Thursday's trial. Friends close to Gu's family, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive private matters, have described some rifts within her family and Bo's in recent months. At various points, relatives have tried to hire different lawyers to represent Bo, many of whom were prevented by the government from meeting Bo or representing him.
One close associate of Bo's family said they are now concerned about who among them will be approved to attend the trial.
Zhang Jie and Li Qi contributed to this report.


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Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual[1] who has been described as one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful authors of her generation.[2][3] In 2018, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights (translated by Jennifer Croft), becoming the first Polish writer to do so.[1]
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk, 2018
|Writer, essayist, poet, screenwriter, psychologist
Notable work
The Books of Jacob
Primeval and Other Times
|Nike Award (2008, 2015)
Vilenica Prize (2013)
Brückepreis (2015)
The Man Booker International Prize (2018)
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (2018)
Prix Laure Bataillon (2019)
Tokarczuk is particularly noted for the mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw and published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. Flights won the Nike Award, Poland's top literary prize, in 2008. She attended the 2010 Edinburgh Book Festival to discuss her book Primeval and Other Times and other work. With her novel Księgi jakubowe (The Books of Jacob), Tokarczuk won the Nike Award again in 2015. In the same year, Tokarczuk received the German-Polish International Bridge Prize, a recognition extended to persons especially accomplished in the promotion of peace, democratic development and mutual understanding among the people and nations of Europe.[4][5][6]
Tokarczuk was born in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, Poland. Before starting her literary career, from 1980 she trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. During her studies, she volunteered in an asylum for adolescents with behavioural problems.[7] After her graduation in 1985, she moved first to Wrocław and later to Wałbrzych, where she began practising as a therapist. Tokarczuk considers herself a disciple of Carl Jung and cites his psychology as an inspiration for her literary work. Since 1998, Tokarczuk has lived in a small village near Nowa Ruda, from where she also manages her private publishing company Ruta. She has leftist convictions.[8]
Published workEdit
Tokarczuk's first book was published in 1989, a collection of poems entitled Miasta w lustrach ("Cities in Mirrors").[7] Her debut novel, Podróż ludzi księgi ("The Journey of the Book-People"), a parable on two lovers' quest for the "secret of the Book" (a metaphor for the meaning of life) set in 17th century France, was published in 1993.
The follow-up novel E. E. (1996) took its title from the initials of its protagonist, a young woman named Erna Eltzner, who grows up in a bourgeois German-Polish family in Breslau (the at that time German city that was to become the Polish Wrocław after World War II) in the 1920s, who develops psychic abilities.
Tokarczuk's third novel Prawiek i inne czasy ("Primeval and Other Times") was published in 1996 and became highly successful. It is set in the fictitious village of Prawiek (Primeval) at the very heart of Poland, which is populated by some eccentric, archetypical characters. The village is guarded by four archangels, from whose perspective the novel chronicles the lives of Prawiek's inhabitants over a period of eight decades, beginning in 1914. Prawiek... was translated into many languages (published in English in Antonia Lloyd-Jones' translation by Twisted Spoon Press in 2009) and established Tokarczuk's international reputation as one of the most important representatives of Polish literature in her generation.
After Prawiek..., Tokarczuk's work began drifting away from the novel genre towards shorter prose texts and essays. Her next book Szafa ("The Wardrobe", 1997) was a collection of three novella-type stories. Dom dzienny, dom nocny ("House of Day, House of Night", 1998), although nominally a novel, is rather a patchwork of loosely connected disparate stories, sketches, and essays about life past and present in the author's adopted home since that year, a village in Krajanów in the Sudetes near the Polish-Czech border. Even though arguably Tokarczuk's most "difficult", at least for those unfamiliar with Central European history, it was her first book to be published in English.
House of Day, House of Night was followed by a collection of short stories – Gra na wielu bębenkach ("Playing on Many Drums", 2001) – as well as a non-fiction essay Lalka i perła ("The Doll and the Pearl", 2000), on the subject of Bolesław Prus' classic novel The Doll. She also published a volume with three modern Christmas tales, together with her fellow writers Jerzy Pilch and Andrzej Stasiuk (Opowieści wigilijne, 2000).
Ostatnie historie ("The Last Stories") of 2004 is an exploration of death from the perspectives of three generations, while the novel Anna in the Catacombs (2006) was a contribution to the Canongate Myth Series by Polish publisher Znak. Tokarczuk's book Bieguni ("Flights") returns to the patchwork approach of essay and fiction, the major theme of which is modern day nomads. It won both the reader prize and the jury prize of the 2008 Nike Award.
In 2009 the novel Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead was published. It is written in the convention of a detective story with the main character telling the story from her point of view. Janina Duszejko, an old woman, eccentric in her perception of other humans through astrology, relates a series of deaths in a rural area near Kłodzko, Poland. She explains the deaths as caused by wild animals in vengeance on hunters.
Tokarczuk is the laureate of numerous literary awards both in and outside Poland. Besides the Nike Award, the most important Polish literary accolade, she won the audience award several times, Prawiek i inne czasy being the award's first recipient ever. In 2010, she received the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.[9] In 2013 Tokarczuk was awarded the Vilenica Prize.
In 2014 Tokarczuk published an epic novel Księgi jakubowe ("The Books of Jacob" in Jennifer Croft's provisional translation). The book earned her another Nike Award. Its historical setting is 18th century Poland and eastern-central Europe and it deals with an important episode in Jewish history. In regard to the historical and ideological divides of Polish literature, the book has been characterized as anti-Sienkiewicz. It was soon acclaimed by critics and readers alike, but its reception has been hostile in some Polish nationalistic circles and Olga Tokarczuk became a target of an internet hate and harassment campaign.[10][11]
In 2017, her novel Prowadź swój płóg przez kości umarłych ("Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead") was the basis of the crime film Spoor directed by Agnieszka Holland, which won the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.[12]
Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2015 Brückepreis, the 20th edition of the award granted by the "Europa-City Zgorzelec/Görlitz". The prize is a joint undertaking of the German and Polish border twin cities aimed at advancing mutual, regional and European peace, understanding and cooperation among people of different nationalities, cultures and viewpoints. Particularly appreciated by the jury was Tokarczuk's creation of literary bridges connecting people, generations and cultures, especially residents of the border territories of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, who have had often different existential and historical experiences. Also stressed was Tokarczuk's "rediscovery" and elucidation of the complex multinational and multicultural past of the Lower Silesia region, an area of great political conflicts. Attending the award ceremony in Görlitz, Tokarczuk was impressed by the positive and pragmatic attitude demonstrated by the mayor of the German town in regard to the current refugee and migrant crisis, which she contrasted with the ideological uproar surrounding the issue in Poland.[6][13][14][15][16]
In 2018 she became the first Polish writer to win the Man Booker International Prize for Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft.[17]
Tokarczuk also won the Kulturhuset International Literary Prize in Stockholm for her 2015 work The Books of Jacob, which has been translated into Swedish.[18]
In 2019, Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob translated by Maryla Laurent won Prix Laure Bataillon Award for the best foreign-language book translated into French in the last year.[19]
In 2019 her novel Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.[20]
Tokarczuk was attacked by the Nowa Ruda Patriots association, who demanded that the town's council revoke the writer's honorary citizenship of Nowa Ruda because, as the association claimed, she had tarnished the good name of the Polish nation. The association's postulate was supported by Senator Waldemar Bonkowski of the Law and Justice Party, according to whom Tokarczuk's literary output and public statements are in "absolute contradiction to the assumptions of the Polish historical politics". Tokarczuk asserted that she is the true patriot, not the people and groups who harass her, and whose xenophobic and racist attitudes and actions are harmful to Poland and to Poland's image abroad.[15][21][22]
- 1989: Miasta w lustrach, Kłodzko: Okolice. ("Cities in Mirrors")
- 1993: Podróż ludzi księgi. Warszawa: Przedświt. ("The Journey of the Book-People")
- 1999: E. E. Warszawa: PIW.
- 1996: Prawiek i inne czasy. Warszawa: W.A.B. ("Primeval and Other Times". Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Twisted Spoon Press, ISBN 978-80-86264-35-6)
- 1997: Szafa. Lublin: UMCS. ("The Wardrobe")
- 1998: Dom dzienny, dom nocny. Wałbrzych: Ruta. (House of Day, House of Night. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Granta, ISBN 1-86207-514-X; Northwestern University Press, ISBN 978-0-8101-1892-8)
- 2000 (with Jerzy Pilch and Andrzej Stasiuk): Opowieści wigilijne. Wałbrzych: Ruta/Czarne ("Christmas Tales")
- 2000: Lalka i perła. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. ("The Doll and the Pearl")
- 2001: Gra na wielu bębenkach. Wałbrzych: Ruta. ("Playing on Many Drums")
- 2004: Ostatnie historie. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. ("The Last Stories").
- 2006: Anna w grobowcach świata. Kraków: Znak. ("Anna in the Tombs of the World").
- 2007: Bieguni. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. ("Flights". Translated by Jennifer Croft. Fitzcarraldo, ISBN 978-1-9106-9543-2).
- 2009: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. ("Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead")
- 2012: Moment niedźwiedzia. ("The Moment of the Bear").
- 2014: Księgi Jakubowe. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. ("Jacob's Scriptures").
- 2018: Opowiadania Bizarne. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. (Bizarre Stories).[23]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b "Olga Tokarczuk's 'extraordinary' Flights wins Man Booker International prize". The Guardian. 22 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ Rzeczpospolita. "List of Polish bestsellers 2009". Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ Gazeta Wyborcza. "Tokarczuk wins NIKE prize for Bieguni (Flights)". Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ "Zgorzelec – The Neighbor". Welcome to Goerlitz/Zgorzelec. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015. Cite uses deprecated parameter
- ^ "Nagroda Mostu [The Bridge Prize]". Zgorzelec oficjalny serwis miasta. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ a b "Międzynarodowa Nagroda Mostu dla Olgi Tokarczuk [The International Bridge Prize for Olga Tokarczuk]". Wydawnictwo Literackie. 6 December 2015.
- ^ a b Wiacek, Elzbieta (2009). "The Works of Olga Tokarczuk: Postmodern aesthetics, myths, archetypes, and the feminist touch" (PDF). Poland Under Feminist Eyes (1): 134–155. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2013. Cite uses deprecated parameter
- ^ Dorota Wodecka (10 October 2015). "Olga Tokarczuk, laureatka Nike 2015: Ludzie, nie bójcie się! [Olga Tokarczuk, the laureate of Nike 2015: People, don't be afraid!]". Gazeta Wyborcza.
- ^ "Gloria Artis dla Olgi Tokarczuk". Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ Milena Rachid Chehab (4 October 2015). "Nagroda Nike 2015 dla Olgi Tokarczuk. Księgi Jakubowe książką roku! [Nike Award 2015 for Olga Tokarczuk. The Books of Jacob a Book of the Year!]". Gazeta Wyborcza.
- ^ Mariusz Jałoszewski (15 October 2015). "Internetowy lincz na Oldze Tokarczuk. Zabić pisarkę [Internet lynch on Olga Tokarczuk. Kill the writer]". Gazeta Wyborcza.
- ^ "Prizes of the International Jury". Berlinale. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ "Olga Tokarczuk laureatką Nagrody Mostu. Pisarka z serca Europy [Olga Tokarczuk won the Bridge Prize. A writer from the heart of Europe]". Gazeta Wyborcza. 20 July 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Olga Tokarczuk laureatką Międzynarodowej Nagrody Mostu Europa-Miasta Zgorzelec/Görlitz 2015 [Olga Tokarczuk is the laureate of the International Bridge Prize of Europa-City Zgorzelec/Görlitz 2015]". Zgorzelec oficjalny serwis miasta. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ a b Magda Piekarska (10 December 2015). "Olga Tokarczuk: To ja jestem patriotką, a nie nacjonalista palący kukłę Żyda [I am a patriot, not the nationalist who burns an effigy of a Jew]". Gazeta Wyborcza.
- ^ "Nagroda Mostu dla Olgi Tokarczuk [The Bridge Prize for Olga Tokarczuk]". ZINFO. 3 December 2015.
- ^ Codrea-Rado, Anna (22 May 2018). "Olga Tokarczuk of Poland Wins Man Booker International Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns första internationella litteraturpris tilldelas romanen Jakobsböckerna". Archived from the original on 29 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018. Cite uses deprecated parameter
- ^ "Prestigious award for Olga Tokarczuk and her translator into French". Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ^ Marshall, Alex (9 April 2019). "Women Dominate Shortlist for Booker International Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ Magda Piekarska (15 December 2015). "Nowa polityka historyczna wg PiS. Żądają odebrania Tokarczuk obywatelstwa Nowej Rudy [A new historical politics according to PiS. They demand that Nowa Ruda revokes Tokarczuk's citizenship ]". Gazeta Wyborcza.
- ^ Przemysław Czapliński (15 October 2015). "Czapliński: list otwarty do senatora Waldemara Bonkowskiego [Czapliński: an open letter to Senator Waldemar Bonkowski]". Krytyka Polityczna.
- ^ Literackie, Wydawnictwo. "Opowiadania bizarne". www.wydawnictwoliterackie.pl. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
Further readingEdit
- Ruth Franklin, "Past Master: An experimental novelist and the battle for Poland's national narrative", The New Yorker, 5 & 12 August 2019, pp. 20–26. "Her role, as she sees it, is to force her readers to examine aspects of history – their own or their nation's – that they would rather avoid. She has become, she says, a 'psychotherapist of the past.'" (p. 26.)
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olga Tokarczuk.
- Review of House of Day, House of Night in The Guardian
- Short biography at www.polishwriting.net
- Travel Files, article by Olga Tokarczuk January 2010, English, originally published in Polityka
- Olga Tokarczuk at Twisted Spoon Press
- Olga Tokarczuk at culture.pl
- short-listed for second Booker Prize 4/2019 https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/polish-novelist-nominated-for-back-to-back-booker-prize/