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Do We Know What Causes Eye Cancer?
The exact cause of most eye cancers is not known. But scientists have found that the disease is linked with some other conditions, which are described in " What are the risk factors for eye cancer?" A great deal of research is being done to learn more about the causes.
Scientists are learning how certain changes in the DNA inside cells can cause the cells to become cancerous. DNA is the chemical in each of our cells that makes up our genes, the instructions for how our cells function. We usually look like our parents because they are the source of our DNA. But DNA can also influence our risk for developing certain diseases, such as some kinds of cancer.
Some genes control when our cells grow, divide into new cells, and die. Genes that help cells grow, divide, or stay alive are called oncogenes. Genes that slow down cell division or cause cells to die at the right time are called tumor suppressor genes. Cancers can be caused by DNA changes that turn on oncogenes or turn off tumor suppressor genes.
Some people with cancer have DNA changes they inherited from a parent that increase their risk for the disease. For example, some people inherit a change (mutation) in the BAP1 tumor suppressor gene, which increases their risk of eye melanoma and some other cancers. When the BAP1 gene is mutated, it doesn't work normally, which can allow cells with this change to grow out of control.
Most DNA changes linked to cancer are acquired during life rather than inherited before birth. For example, recent research has shown that about 4 out of 5 eye melanomas have changes in either of 2 related genes, GNA11 or GNAQ, which appear to be oncogenes. Other, as of yet unknown, gene changes are probably needed for these cancers to develop as well.
Scientists are studying these and other DNA changes to learn more about them and how they might lead to eye cancer. But it is still not exactly clear what causes these changes to occur in some people and not others.
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Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity. Margaret D. Nadauld
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American school children are taught to revere the sacrifice made by soldiers in the Continental Army, during the winter of 1777-78, at Valley Forge. Most don't realize that the following winter, outside Morristown, New Jersey, was even worse. Here's a soldier's description, from Thomas S. Kidd's God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution (2010): "We were absolutely, literally starved — I do solemnly declare that I did not put a single morsel of victuals into my mouth for four days and as many nights, except a little black birch bark, which I gnawed off a stick of wood, if that can be called victuals. I saw several of the men roast their old shoes and eat them" (210). Only a few years after the revolution, virtually all Americans came to realize that our collective, national prosperity required a strong central government. Soldiers starved during the revolution because there was no national authority that could compel citizens or states to meet their needs.
As this Fortnight of Freedom occurs at a time when many would argue that the smallest possible government is best, we either need to be reminded of our own history, or ponder life in contemporary societies where strong governments do not exist to protect and promote the common good. A strong government can sometimes be a problem; a weak government always is. More than a century of Catholic social teaching affirms the role of government in promoting the common good. That teaching cannot be a casualty of the current crisis.
Giving government its due, before turning to the Church, ponder the role of faith itself in human life. Consider a letter that Abigail Adams sent to her husband John in 1783. She wrote, "I have a thousand fears for my dear boys as they rise into life, the most critical period of which is, I conceive, at the university; there infidelity abounds, both in example and precepts." Abigail urged her husband, absent in government service, "I hope before either of our children are prepared for college you will be able to return and assist by your example and advise, to direct and counsel them, that with undeviating feet they may keep the path of virtue."
That's faith at the American hearthstone, pondering the meaning of discipleship in an ever-changing world. The very word "religion" comes from a Latin root meaning "to bind together," which is precisely what it does in the life of an individual or a family. A religion pulls together emotions, virtues, deepest intuitions and aspirations. It clothes them in symbols, rituals, scriptures and commandments. In short, it unifies life. To be human is to collect one's energies and to focus them outside the self, on something larger than self.
Religion is so intimately bound up with the self — it's akin to finding a lover and giving oneself to that embrace — that, were it not for our mutual desire to live with others, we've have almost as many religions as we do people. The ancients — and until relatively recent times in the span of human history, all peoples — solved the problem of religion, being in equal measure unitive and divisive, by forming societies around single religions: one society, one faith, even if those who dissented were allowed to remain on the periphery. For centuries, this was the Catholic approach to the question: good governments chose the right religion, namely, the Catholic faith as given by God and protected by the papacy.
Some have argued that our bishops are asking the American government to accept their morality as the only one enjoying the right of law. If so, they would be turning away from Catholic teaching itself, because the Church, in the Second Vatican Council's Document on Religious Liberty, taught that governments must allow religious pluralism, that it is "imperative that the right of all citizens and religious communities to religious freedom should be recognized and made effective in practice"(Dignitatus Humanae §6). Why is that? Because we must be free to respond to God, to give ourselves to God according to the dictates of conscience. The Church no longer claims the right to legislate, simply because it is the Church. Put another way, the Catholic conscience — if there is such a singular thing — does not immediately become the constitution of the state. The Church exists to correct conscience, not to coerce it. Yet, even if the Church does not seek to dominate the state, the question remains, how does government, which by its very nature exists to draw us together, coexist with religion, which does the same?
America was founded both by those who represented the established Church of England and by those who had come to these shores in order to reject that Church. And, by the time of the revolution, American society had a growing number of intellectuals who, however they described themselves, believed that all forms of Christianity were in rapid decline.
These three groups – the established religion, its dissenters, and its disdainers agreed on a single point: since there could be no consensus in religion, it should never be the task of government to seek or to impose one. Contrary to popular opinion, America wasn't founded upon erecting a wall between Church and State, because such a wall would of necessity run through the center of the human person, through the heart of someone like Abigail Adams.
The American Jesuit theologian, John Courtney Murray, who helped draft Dignitatus Humanae, pointed out this error, one now proposed by many in our society, and at the highest levels of power. In The Problem of Religious Freedom (1965), he explained that there is "a hidden premise which is false, namely, a rationalist-individualist conception of man, as if the human person were somehow first an individual and only in the second instance a social being" (37). Remember Abigail Adams. She knew that her sons had been formed as human beings by their family life together. She also understood that they would be shaped by their higher education in, and outside of, the classroom.
All governments, by necessity, regulate the practice of religion. If they failed to do this, there would soon be unending religious strife, and we would return to the aboriginal state from which society emerged. Yet no government can draw a line of separation between religious congregations and religious activity, between Catholic Churches and Catholic institutions — medical, educational, and social — and argue that the one deserves protection of conscience and that the others do not. That line has been drawn by every totalitarian government of the 20th century: worship as you will, but we will control your social agencies. Such an approach attacks humanity itself by relegating religion, an integral part of human nature, to the private sphere.
All religions have expectations of how their adherents will live with others, how they will promote justice and the common good, how they will form their young in virtues and integrity of conscience. No government can legitimately order faith to be confined to church, synagogue, temple, or mosque, and yet each government has the unenviable task of protecting the liberty of one person's religion from the intrusion of another.
American history, and the Arab Spring, remind us that governments either promote the common good or it is the right and duty of men and women to replace them with those that do. We need government to protect us from ourselves, but we also need religion to reach beyond ourselves, to dream, to enkindle hope, the sort of hope that once stirred in hearts of Galilean fishermen, when they heard Jesus of Nazareth say, "Little girl, I say to you, arise!" (Mk 5:41).
Rev. Terrance W. Klein
Which schoolchildren, and where, is this being taught?
Rev. Terrance W. Klein begins his blog with:
"American school children are taught to revere the sacrifice made by soldiers in the Continental Army, during the winter of 1777-78, at Valley Forge."
To which school children, and where, is this being taught?
I suspect it isn't as widely taught as Rev. Klein posits at the beginning of his blog.
I'm not sure what our chidren are being taught to "revere" in their social studies classes. I teach catechism to 5th-8th graders who attend public schools on the South Shore of Staten Island, NY, and my impression is that anything these bright and wellborn children can be said to revere, it is neither the self sacrifice of the Continental Army of the winter of 1776-78, nor the self sacrifice of young men and women in the military today, but rather this year's Justin Bieber or Nick Swisher or Lady Gaga type that they are "catechized" into venerating, while being unable to tell you which "team" or which "label" John Roberts is on.
1) "All governments, by necessity, regulate the practice of religion. If they failed to do this, there would soon be unending religious strife, and we would return to the aboriginal state from which society emerged." and
2) "No government can legitimately order faith to be confined to church, synagogue, temple, or mosque, and yet each government has the unenviable task of protecting the liberty of one person's religion from the intrusion of another."
If letting "All governments . . . regulate the practice of religion" or "each government [have] the unenviable task of protecting the liberty of one person's religion from the intrusion of another" makes sense, what does the First Amendment meant in America? That is more government power than I am comfortable with.
But this is not the issue that has given rise to the Fortnight for Freedom. The issue today is the present government's intrusion on our right to live by the dictates of our conscience and our religion. More specifically, it is the right to perform the corporal works of mercy without cooperating with immoral acts. The current administration, in multiple acts beyond the HHS mandate, is trying to reduce religious freedom to the right to worship. We are duty bound to oppose this restriction and we can help all our fellow citizens by re-focusing their attention on the first right in our Bill of Rights.
Here is a great quote from Archbishop Chaput from his homily today: ''The purpose of religious liberty is to create the context for true freedom. Religious liberty is a foundational right. It's necessary for a good society. But it can never be sufficient for human happiness. It's not an end in itself. In the end, we defend religious liberty in order to live the deeper freedom that is discipleship in Jesus Christ. What good is religious freedom, consecrated in the law, if we don't then use that freedom to seek God with our whole mind and soul and strength?


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|2009-10-21, 20:48
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Killing his clan? We know why that happened. It was the Uchiha's who were planning a coup and the village elders ordered itachi to carry out the mission. Even then he did not kill his kid brother.
While with Akatsuki? We don't have a single evidence of him commiting any heinous crimes. Even when he fought Kakashi, he chose not to kill Kakashi. (Kakashi himself wondered why Itachi didn't kill him since as Kakashi put it, it would have been "easy for him" to do so). You could further argue that Itachi considers kakashi a real ninja and he knew Kakashi could bear the torture and would come out stronger from it.
Kicking Oro's ass? Thats obviously good.
Transferring some power to Naruto? good.
Sacrificing his relationship and his honor in order to get sasuke to grow strong? Good.
Itachi = tragic hero
|2009-10-22, 02:08
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Compare this to the way the rest of Akatsuki acts, and you'll see what I mean. Attacking the major villages, attacking unrelated targets, slaughtering people at random, taking hostages and then killing them for the lulz after your demands are met, blowing Konoha the fuck up, provoking international incidents, and so forth.
|2009-10-22, 02:25
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These cases that you are presenting are just proving my point, he is not exhibiting heroic qualities. He is acting on his own rational self-interest in some instances and in the case of Naruto, how could we know what power he gave Naruto or what his intentions were for the use of said power. Also, most of what we know of Itachi's intentions were relayed to us, the audience, through a biased medium, Uchiha Madara. We cannot and should not take everything that Madara told Sasuke as scripture. Madara has a history of manipulation and trickery that can't be overooked in this context, and Madara's goal at the time was to manipulate Sasuke into working for him.
Once again, I will state that Itachi is an anti-villain. Not a hero. He is a villain due to the actions that he takes, when a hero would classically take the higher road. His methods are villainous but his intentions are contrary to that, aka heroic. Working with a character on a holistic level, any person should be able to derive this conclusion from Itachi's character.
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|2009-10-22, 05:58
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It's still genocide. You think his aunt was plotting a rebellion.
It's still not excusable no matter how hard you try.
And that wasn't for World Peace.
He was attacked by Oro, yet chose to let him live, which has nonsense / plothole if he is a good guy. Or you can consider Kazuzu a "better" guy for killing many Akatsuki.
He approved of genocide (which make him rank very high in the scum scale) to prevent a war, but if Sasuke is the one starting the war, then it's fine and rather than prevent Sasuke from doing it, he'd rather put the world at stake by powering up Sasuke and then gamble everything on Naruto because he is the only one who will refuse to kill Sasuke no matter how many Sasuke kill.
Using genocide to prevent a war only to help another war to start is not called heroism, it's called stupidity. And it shows that in the end, peace never was Itachi's goal. Everything was for Sasuke.
Also, if the guys who consider Itachi a hero could stop calling Danzou a villain, they would start making sense.
|2009-10-22, 14:30
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I don't think he'll be invited to Spiderman and Captain America's house warming party...
|2009-10-22, 14:48
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Itachi was an Anti-Villain who has the semblance of a hero because his idealistic goals and ultimate self-sacrifices stand out against a cast full of people with more dubious morals. I say the actions define the man, and while I admire him for being willing to sacrifice his honor, reputation, happiness and finally his life to try to avert a war, you must never forget all the things he made other people sacrifice because of his priority dissonance.
If he had picked one thing to stand for and stood for it absolutely, rather than standing 'against war', then 'for the village', then 'for my brother' in turn, he'd have had the chance to be a hero, but as it stands his indecision early in life set him on a path that was difficult to correct.
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|2009-10-22, 15:00
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|2009-10-22, 15:46
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Even the kindest of intentions can lead to the greatest of evils....
|2009-10-23, 02:33
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I'm really tired of reading arguments for Itachi being a hero that are substantiated upon a few isolated cases and not the character at the whole. By the way props to Ricky Controversy, good arguments were made...very much in line with my own on the whole. Anyone who truly wants to argue for Itachi to be a hero, I suggest that they first go pull out a Webster's Oxford English Dictionary and look up the classic definition of a hero and then attempt to argue. You should find that the character Kishi created in Itachi and the definition are in direct contradiction to one another.
|2009-10-23, 06:16
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He's a villain. The story is about Naruto. Anything that opposes Naruto is a villain regardless of their motives until they become best friends forever with him. Luckily that doesn't happen too often since they end up dead anyways.
|2009-10-24, 20:37
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Regarding definitions, I just looked up the definitions found here: http://dictionary.reference.com/
I still didn't decide which category I'd put Itachi in, since he had good goals but questionable methods. A civil war that would build up into a greater war was almost certain (the civil war being certain, and the greater war a good guess), and Itachi made the decision of killing few to save many. I don't know other people, but if my family were attempting to take power by force and creating certain civil war in the process, which probably would lead to a "world war", I would almost certainly choose to kill them (if I had the power to) instead of letting millions of people die (I say millions here because I am applying this to the real world). I say almost certainly because I fortunately have never had to make that kind of choice.
That being said, I think Itachi chose the methods he used because it was a way to guarantee that things would go the way he planned them to. There could have been other methods, but none (in Itachi's point of view) were sure-fire as the ones he used. He planned things so that the level of uncertainty in the way things played out was reduced to a minimum - and the only thing that went wrong with his plan was Madara surviving the Amaterasu because he managed to hide something from Itachi. At least that's what I think.
I see Itachi as a good guy, even though he had to do some pretty horrible things. He would be like The Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3, but more of a martyr since he would have liked to die without even Sasuke knowing what his true intentions were; and he wasn't ordered to do anything - he decided what to do by himself, and would have sustained the weight of everyone's hate, including Sasuke's + the guilt of killing his clan (I am guessing he wouldn't feel so guilty for the ones planning the coup, but to maintain the facade he wanted, he had to kill others who were innocent) to his death.
I think Kishimoto wanted him to be looked upon as a hero, with Madara's revelation. Itachi's last words and poke to Sasuke's head is the scene that I want to see the most in the anime - it is to me the most intense moment in the series untill now.
|2009-10-24, 21:51
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Playing the role of a villain to the very end for someone else sake makes him a tragic hero in my eyes. Before you found out about how and why he became a missing-nin, you could have labeled him as definitely or maybe a villain. All that grief you put on Itachi for killing his friend, family, betrayals, and hanging out with weirdos inverts in respect when you find out he did it selflessly for his otouto. Respect on top of his badass factor. Kinda like in dating games where theres a chance in the story where all that hate a character feels for you flips into love through some incident (paraphrased from World God Only Knows--myself have no experience in those kind of games--seriously--ha ha ha )
|2009-10-26, 17:37
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Itachi on the other hand is manipulative and willing with full knowledge of the consequences manipulating his brother through a path of hate not to mention he willing helped in the destruction of his clan. Sure in his mind he's doing what he believes is necessary, but if you take that notion than Madara is a tragic hero as well since he's doing what he believes must be done for the betterment of the world. Itachi in my opinion is a villain.
|2009-10-26, 20:48
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Old heroes are usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
|2009-11-05, 05:20
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itachi is hero!
he save konoha from destruction for second time .
in a way to attck his village his meet uciha madara tht invade konoha to attck his clan and konoha.
but itachi begging to him not to aatck konoha in favor he attck his village because ucihah madara once does not be like in his village .
ucihah itachi is hero in konoha but villian in his village
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Haven't touched my collection of Laygoes for a few years, so what better way to make a comeback than a good ole fashioned game of Brikwars?
A couple hours of rabid Lego box mining later and the scene was set, silently awaiting the horrid carnage of ABS destruction to bless this field of combat.
My brother-in-law will be filling in as the evil D-bags waaaaaay in the back who have taken a hostage and rigged a low grade nuclear weapon to detonate in 30 MINUTES. It is the job of my minifigs or "Delta Team" to deactivate the nuke and save the hostage in the process. Or just blow the entire enemy team into kibbles and bits instead.
Turn 1: Delta Team rushes forward, the SAW gunner taking the left flank while the TALON operator takes cover and activates the robot
Turn 2: Mercenaries take up defensive positions. The Pyro loads his RPG
Turn 3: Both assault men take position behind the rafters, while the TALON remote assault vehicle crawls forward into firing range of it's mounted M249 SAW
Turn 4: A Merc pops off several shots towards the TALON from behind cover but it's armor proved to be too thick.
The Pyro takes aim at the stacked rafters. PFWOOOOOOOT The rocket screamed forward haphazardly before smashing into the barricade exploding into a ground shaking fireball
Turn 5: The Talon acquires it's target behind the tires, letting out a clacking burst of gunfire. The Merc dives behind cover narrowly dodging the barrage of fire.
Delta's SAW gunner stacks up behind some crates and unleashes hell in the form of full auto fire.
"Oh shi..."
His body armor shredded like tissue paper as his insides were punctured like water balloons filled with mashed potatoes, leaving a goopy internal mess.
Meanwhile Delta's Team Leader rushes to the left flank behind the TALON drone
Turn 6: Desperate to press back the assault, The mercenaries resort to high grade explosives. Their leader grabs a detonation remote and flips a switch.
Searing hot shrapnel and debris blasted in every direction while a firestorm burned where the claymore had once been. The force had tossed the TALON robot into the air then smashed it down like a crushed soda can. Delta's Team Leader laid face down in a pool of blood. Delta - 1 Mercs - 2
Taking advantage of the mass confusion, the mercs advance forward.
The Pyro cocks his pump action and fires, clipping a Delta trooper, and knocking him to the floor
Turn 7: The wounded trooper pulls his side arm, aims, and.....BANG....
AWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEEAAAH Critical Hit!
(Yes I know that whole shootout bends the rules a bit, but we both agreed on a suitable solution. When the Pyro shot the Delta soldier he rolled a 4, one point shy of killing my man who had 5 armor. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and said that hit at least imobilized me but I can still attack. What we didn't expect was an epic critical roll with a pistol so he allowed the kill as long as my trooper died of his wounds immediately after. So there you go, Rule of Fudge, don't bitch.)
Delta's TALON operator with nothing left to "operate" pulls his knife cause it's time for melee kids.
The SAW gunner lights up the oncoming Mercenary Rambo style.
Turn 8: The last remaining Merc grabs the hostage to use as a human shield
Turn 9: Delta advances
Turn 10: The Merc takes a shot and misses while he frantically yells "I'LL KILL HIM MAN, DON'T MAKE ME DO IT!"
Turn 11: The operator reaches back then flings his knife forward
"We don't negotiate with terrorists"
Turn 12: And he promptly catches a bullet between the eyes
Turn 13: The SAW gunner rounds the corner and delivers a swift 3 round burst to the head
That's all folks! I'll catch ya later with a proper game or something - Toastacular


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Daniels aims to keep Indiana graduates at homeby Howard W. Hewitt • October 5, 2004 Share:
Indiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitch Daniels said growing new jobs and supporting small business are two of the cornerstones to building Indiana's economy and keeping young people from leaving the state.
Daniels spoke to more than 100 students, faculty and community members Tuesday afternoon in Wabash Chapel. Daniels faces incumbent Democrat Joe Kernan in the Nov. 2 general election.
"If we can regenerate income and job growth in this state then we'll keep our best young people at home," the former Bush and Reagan administration member said. "Very few of them want to leave for lifestyle reasons. I think overwhelmingly, from the kids and the parents of those kids I meet, they leave regretfully because of the lack of economic opportunity."
Daniels' message was on target for College Young Republicans' president Andrew Wells '06.
"The one thing I'm glad he talked about today is his desire to bring business and jobs back to Indiana," the Portland native said. "I've seen it while here - people older than me that I knew graduating having to leave the state and not really wanting to."
Daniels, 54, reiterated familiar campaign themes during a 45-minute presentation but also took questions from the audience.
"We desperately need to diversify the mix of jobs in our state even while trying to support our manufacturing because they can't carry the whole load any more," the former Eli Lilly executive said.
"There won't be any one answer because we're too deep in the hole. But there are so many steps we could be taking in a new state government that might be more business minded and more committed to growth."
Throughout his speech Daniels talked about Indiana's job losses over the past 16 years, during which time Democrats controlled the governor's office.
Daniels' appearance was co-sponsored by Young Republicans and The Commentary.
"I was surprised at the number of examples he had and all the information," said Commentary spokesman Ken Rudolph '05. "I just figured it would be a stock speech. I figured more vagueness and theories, nothing real concrete.
"He seemed to address the main problems we have in the state. He's really got a concrete idea of what to do if he gets elected."
More than 50 people waited outside the Chapel for Daniels' Crawfordsville arrival. Many stayed afterwards to sign their name to his now-familiar RV that has traveled the state for the past 15 months of campaigning.
The candidate said he has visited each of Indiana's 92 counties at least three times and been to Montgomery County six or seven. He told the Chapel audience he has spent more time than the experts would recommend talking to young people.
"I've gotten a lot of inspiration, a lot of uplift and had a lot of fun," Daniels said of the college and high school visits. "I'm a parent of four daughters who are college age or just out of college. So our house has been full of young people for as long as I can remember.
"When people press me to explain why, for the first time in my life, I run for public office I tell them they'll know we've succeeded, and for the benefit of all Hoosiers, when our best young people know they can stay here and realize their dreams."


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Princeton Invitational Offers Glimpse of Ivy League Competition
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The track and field team will be traveling to their first meet of the outdoor season against Ivy League rivals. The Bulldogs will compete both Friday and Saturday at Princeton's annual Sam Howell Invitational. About 15 teams will gather for the unscored meet, including Ivy League teams Columbia and Dartmouth. It will be the team's first competition since their spring break meet at William and Mary.
This will be the first of many meets at Princeton's Weaver Track and Field Stadium for the Bulldogs. They will return only a week later for the Princeton-Yale-Penn meet, and then later in the season for both the Heptagonal Championships and the ECAC Championships.
Last year only jumpers and throwers competed at the Sam Howell Invitational, as the team had split up and most runners traveled to a different meet. High winds and thunderstorms made it a difficult weekend, but juniors Eve King and Emily Standish competed in the high jump, and King also competed in the long jump and 800-meter run. Junior Liya Assefa competed in the 1,500-meter run.
This year Yale should have a much stronger performance since the entire team will be present. The team is coming off strong performances at William and Mary two weeks ago. Freshman Adele Jackson-Gibson posted the first win of her outdoor collegiate career in the 100-meter dash (12.35 seconds). Sophomores Marieme Mbaye, Alexa Monti and Emily Shulan finished close behind her. Later in the day, Jackson-Gibson, Mbaye, Monti and junior Kate Grace came in second in the 4x100 meter relay, less than a second shy of qualifying for ECACs. These sprinters certainly have the potential to make an impact in the outdoor season.
Yale runners also performed well in other short events; junior Claudia Duncan finished second in the 200-meter dash with a personal record of 25.28, and also finished second in the 400-meter dash with another PR (56.41). Grace, who specializes in middle distance, showed off her speed by finishing fourth in the 200-meter dash (25.56) and third in the 400-meter dash (57.68 – a PR).
There was another exciting relay performance for Yale, as Duncan, senior captain Faith Briggs, Grace, and freshman Allison Rue won the 4x400-meter relay in 3:52.27 – also less than a second away from meeting the ECAC-qualifying time.
In longer events, Yale will look primarily to seniors Stephanie Pearl and Alexandra Cadicamo, both of whom have performed well this year, as well as Assefa and sophomores Jennifer Downing and Anne Lovelace.
Yale's throwers and jumpers will be relieved to compete in what should be warm, sunny weather at Sam Howell this weekend. Senior Rachel Kuschner and freshman Antonia Renker make up Yale's throwing squad, both competing in the discus and hammer throw. Standish and King are Yale's go-to competitors for the high and long jumps. Senior Bailey Carroll and freshman Jenna Poggi will be vaulting.
The Bulldogs have many opportunities to show impressive performances this weekend. Events will begin on Friday at 5 p.m., and resume Saturday at 11 a.m. More information can be found here. Results will be posted at YaleBulldogs.com at the end of each day.
Report by Kyle Eichner '12, Yale Sports Publicity


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Difference between revisions of "Lake Maninjau"
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Lake Maninjau is a large crater lake in West Sumatra, Indonesia with several villages bordering it. It is a great place to relax, experience local rural lifestyle and watch the sunsets. The lake also supports swimming, canning and fishing. The villages themselves are small and great for escaping the hectic pace of Indonesia.
Get in
You can rent a motorbike in Bukittinggi. Alternatively, hop onto an angkot to Terminal Aur Kuning, a bus terminal within Bukittinggi itself. From there, take a yellow minivan called Harmoni to the Lake. This trip costs Rp.15,000 and takes about an hour. However, the van will only leave when it is quite full. It may take upwards of two hours to fill up the van. Trips start from about 7am and leave every two hours. The last van from Lake Mininjau back to Bukittinggi is at about 5-6pm.
Get around
If you took the bus then there is not much to see when you arrive in front of the lake. If you have a motorbike, then you can go around the lake and enjoy the landscapes, it takes 2-3 hours. There are some possibilities for trekking. Lake Maninjau is deceptively cool. Bring sunblock.
There are many budget alternatives, most with very basic facilities.
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Posted June 9, 2009
Institute alumna Anna Cummins (MAIEP '02) and Marcus Eriksen, both of the Long Beach-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, will stop at the Institute on June 9 as part of "JUNKride 2009," a 2000-mile educational bike tour from Vancouver, British Columbia to Tijuana, Mexico. Both the bike tour and the duo's presentation are aimed at highlighting the recent California-to-Hawaii voyage of JUNKraft, a raft made of 15,000 water bottles and parts from a Cessna 310, built to raise awareness about the growing problem of plastic debris in our marine ecosystem.
The pair's presentations and an update from event co-sponsor the Surfrider Foundation will be followed by a meet-and-greet reception featuring a raffle to raise funds for the cyclists' unique journey. Read more about JUNKride and the JUNKraft.
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Eva Gudbergsdottir


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A Rich Hop-Growing History In Sangerfield And Waterville
During the 1800s and early 1900s, the Town Of Sangerfield and specifically Waterville were considered one of the major hop-growing regions in the country. Due to that fact, a number of local breweries were located in the nearby Utica area.
According to sangerfieldny.com:
"While dairy farming has been the mainstay throughout its history, the introduction of hops in the 1830's proved to be a boon to the area and Waterville and the surrounding area was considered the 'Hops Capital of the World." The development of railway service through the Town of Sangerfield made the area a major shipping point for hops-related cargo. Waterville was the 'exchange center for hops' for the entire nation at hop growing's peak in the 1880's and generated significant wealth to the area."
Hops are still grown in the area, and for the past three years, the F.X. Matt Brewing Company has conducted a hop harvest at the Wrobel Farm in Bridegwater. After the harvest, they brewed a special farm-to-tap Saranac Fresh Hop IPA using those local hops picked.
For more information, contact the Waterville Historical Society. And check out these vintage hop newspaper articles and adds from google.com.


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Milan Lukeš
Stage director: Jan Nebeský
Sets: Jan Nebeský, Jana Preková
Costumes: Jana Preková
Music: Aleš Březina
Dramaturgy: Iva Klestilová
Shakespeare??? Shakespeare!!! The tragedy of a king who is not able to recognise true love. King Lear, a wise and revered man descending into madness. The tragedy of a daughter who loves her father too much. The tragedy of a land in which intrigue does away with the ruler's reason. Many a time, great words and preposterous gestures cannot be taken back. Fate can be merciless, sarcastic and cruel, just like the people who create it. The Elizabethan genius elevated the fairy tale to great drama. The peerless stage director Jan Nebeský, possessing a unique scenic style and non-conformist view of grand themes, is again a guest of the National Theatre.
Drama in czech language.
Photo: Bohdan Holomíček
Duration of the performance: 2 hours and 15 minutes, 1 intermission


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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Pop questionnaire for the poets:
I think one (not the only) underlying element of recent debates about queerness and the Gurlesque anthology is a suburban/urban dynamic. Still thinking this through, though, and still waiting for my copy of the anthology to arrive.
I'm slapping my head a little here about, for example, how riot grrrl music and culture can be a reference point for many of us, but have it mean very different things (duh). I've always associated queer with riot grrrl--but a lot of the people that love Sleater-Kinney, for example, don't know that Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein are gay. Or they don't, maybe, care. I find this telling.
30 comments:
- Matt said...
i grew up in a medium-sized town (not a suburb). always wanted to move to a city someday. always thought it would be chicago. but then i found new york. i've been here almost 4 years, since i was 24. i always thought i would like a city better than a small town, and i was right.
- Patrick said...
I grew up in various suburbs and moved downtown asap (three days following graduation from high school). Sub- and urban landscapes, fiscal and eco- systems provide fodder for the modes of transit in question in a fair bit of my work.
I don't know much about the gurlesque as a category, but I heard someone read from the anthology the other night--a contributor--and the work seemed very suburban and very straight. I'm not naming names, though. I asked if Kathy Acker was a reference point when her contribution was solicited, and she said yes. Acker, insofar as she is a "maudit," is integrally linked to the urban landscape. The domestication of maudit impulses in USAmerican poetry seems to continue this suburbanization--even of urban spaces. The posturbane?
Riotgrrrl and gurlesque (knowing much more about the former) are not really maudit tendencies, as far as I can tell. It's a college town thing, maybe. This doesn't really seem to have been the case in the UK, where, in my estimation, the best riot grrrl stuff emerged.
- Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U said...
I think the underlying issue of the baiters of the Gurlesque anthology is territorialism. I don't see how it has to do with suburban/urban at all.
I also don't see how Amy and Ana can presume to know about the sexualities of all of the contributors.
It seems to me that they have picked absolutely the wrong target.
- K. Lorraine Graham said...
@Matt--I think your story is similar to many poets (though not all, of course). Why did you think you'd like a city better?
@Patrick--Yes, this the direction my tentative thoughts were moving: "The domestication of maudit impulses in USAmerican poetry seems to continue this suburbanization--even of urban spaces. The posturbane?"
@Nada--Agreed that territorialism is a huge issue in the recent debates about the anthology. Maybe it's the main issue. To do an anthology is to be hated--especially to do an anthology that's trying to think about...undefinied territories.
But I'm trying to pick apart the nuances of that territorialism--part of it may be, yes, about who gets to call what queer, but I think it's more than that.
I'm really interested in these shared references that have come up in discussions of the Gurlesque--especially the Riot Grrl ones. I suppose all territorial debates to some extent are debates about the meaning and value of shared references.
My thoughts also stem from one of Danielle Pafunda's comments on Amy King's blog about the versions of Riot Grrl that the Gurlesque might draw on. Here comments were, of course, comments on a blog discussion, not an edited essay, but I think they were very astute:
"At the end of the day, I think the Riot Grrrl that the Gurlesque draws on (if it does), is the trickle-down version. The Sassy magazine version. Which I don't want to belittle, 'cause it meant a lot to suburban girls like me who weren't able to get to clubs or zines or anything but the mall. The ones for whom Riot Grrrl bled into Ghost World geek-chic."
Hey, US Postal Service, speed up my delivery of the anthology, so I can actually talk about it, and not just conversations people are having about it.
- Matt said...
more stuff to do, basically. excitement. i mean, watching movies and tv from an early age, you know cities are where exciting things happen. ghostbusters was a big influence, i think. (how this all relates to poetry, for me, i don't know. i'm pretty sure i would be reading and writing the same stuff no matter where i am.)
- Johannes said...
Of all the lame posts I've read about the gurlesque, your comment here has to be one of the lamest. Seemed suburban, had nothing to do with Kathy Acker, won't name names, not maudit. Really - this reeks of the typical dismissals. Really lame name-calling.
- K. Lorraine Graham said...
If we were all at a bar discussing this, and believe me, I wish we were (maybe soon, at AWP?), everyone could all just call each other lame callers of lame names, or whatever, and then it would all go off into the ether. But it's a blog, and I'm attempting to have it be a conversation with people about something I'm really interested in. Please engage with the content of the comments. Or at least respond to my well-intentioned questionnaire.
- mark wallace said...
While it would be easy to overread the differences here as rural/suburban/urban, I do think you're onto something, Lorraine (and Danielle as well, from whom it seems you've taken this idea, in part), in at least two ways.
One, the (apparent) relative lack (not absolute lack) of certain kinds of more politically overt and lesbian approaches in the anthology does mirror the more limited avenues for protest that mark rural/suburban/small urban locations. There's a kind of coding in some of the gurlesque that has some similarity (not equivalence by any means) to earlier generations of more coded queer literature, though I'm not expert enough to trace this in any detail. Just as an obvious for instance, there's the connection between gurlesque exaggeration and camp.
The differences between being queer or straight women in any environment can't be avoided, of course, as I'm sure everybody involved in the debate knows much more fully than I do.
Two: the much more literal geographical split between urban U.S. poetry scenes and the main sets of poetry connections of the editors of the anthology. Literally a function of whose work you know or hear about or find out about, but it nonetheless generates real divisions in the question of whose work "counts." And real theoretical divisions too, although the degree of such differences is certainly not something I can speak to effectively.
I don't say any of this to suggest that the queer/straight set of issues/problems/concerns that the anthology raises are secondary--just that they perhaps intersect with other questions.
Also, I think it's curious that Johannes leaps to the conclusion that your mentioning of the word "suburban" must be a put-down, as opposed to a culturally and geographically significant context. I have no idea what he's getting at--does he hate the suburbs himself, or just think that every poet does?
To answer your question, I lived in the suburbs of Washington, DC until I was 18, although I regularly went into the city as a boy for church and museums and then later for music and parties. Moved into the city when I was 18. I lived in Binghampton and Buffalo from the ages of 24-32, places that in different degrees were connected to our ideas of what makes a city, and where I went for grad school. From 32-43 I lived in the city of Washington again, and since then, I've been in the suburbs in southern California.
There's no doubt that I've always preferred living in the city, for the reasons Matt more or less suggests, but there's equally no doubt that if I were to be honest, I'd have to say that my life has been a bit of an urban/suburban/small city hybrid. I like to think of myself as someone who can feel alienated everywhere I might live!
- Christa said...
I disagree--I think most people who like Sleater Kinney do know that Carrie Brownstein is queer and that she had a relationship with Corin Tucker. One point though. Its a bit disingenuous to identify Corin as "gay." She is married to a man and has a child with that man.
- Johannes said...
My comment was directed toward Patrick who used suburb in a very put-down way. Not Lorraine. But I am working on a less testy reply on my blog.But, yes, I hate the suburbs. Of course I hate the suburbs. I had to live there for some years and it nearly killed me several times.
- Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U said...
I have never lived in a suburb. I don't believe Marin Country in the 70s really counts as a suburb. It was something else, some kind of lalaland. I think I have some kind of suburb envy actually: space, lawns, finished basements, drugs...
- françois said...
I grew up in a French suburb, which sociologically means something quite different than an American suburb. Different organization of space, I guess.
@ Nada -- "Baiters"? "Target"? I realize your work is in the anthology but:
Apparently, you haven't actually read my problem with the book--at all. Anyone can call themselves a LUG, queer or once I fucked an X, and I can say I'm mostly straight too. I'm not going to rehash the entirety of my posts here in response to such reduction, BUT yes to part of Lorraine's reply and *yes* to part of Mark's reply.
- pam said...
(cont. from comment above, apologies for the length)
On the gut level, I don't like it when queer content/lineage gets elided from the discourse. Contributes to more lesbian erasure and isn't there enough invisibility already? So I can definitely see, yeah, why Amy King would feel "territorial" about riot grrrl. My own peripheral experiences in that scene taught me that it was about building a coalition of young feminists-- straight, queer, and everything in between, but with an emphasis/valorization of the queer approach, the queer outlook. Socio-normative identity had nothing to do with it. Yeah, Corin Tucker is married to a man now, and so is Ani DiFranco (right?). So what? The music, like the scene & the consciousness meetings, functioned as a site of empowerment for young feminist women, and queerness of outlook was integral to the culture & energy of that site.
So I guess I see the use of riot grrrl by the Gurlesque as an appropriation of the lesbian queer. And I've decided over the years that appropriation is generally a good thing, it's one of the things that keep culture going, but that if you're going to appropriate you also have an obligation to acknowledge the appropriation and cite your sources, kind of like citing the driving samples in your songs. If this acknowledgement happened, then I don't think I would have any issue with the Gurlesque. I wouldn't need to see queer poets or queer poems included in the anthology, unless they actually spoke to the performance of "girl" that Danielle talks about. In fact, I'm inclined to think that the inclusion of overt queer lesbian "content" in the Gurlesque would actually end up watering down the project, both the Gurlesque project and the project of queer lesbian poetics. Gurlesque does seem to be about something specific, something specifically interesting about queering heterosexuality as Lara Glenum has suggested. Betty Boop sings Portishead w/Lady Gaga tactics?
The question of how a queer femme lesbian poetics would or would not be aligned with the Gurlesque, however, remains an interesting one. Queer femme lesbian poets! You are everywhere seen yet unseen. What do you think of all this?
- pam said...
Patrick, I wanna know who those great UK riot grrrl bands are!! Who should I be listening to?
I grew up in the suburbs south of LA & the Republicans there nearly destroyed me. If I'd come out during high school, they would've literally killed me, as expression of yet another mid-level hostility to add to the mid-level hostility of xenophobic racism.
My family's move to the suburbs was seen as a sign of "making it," as opposed to our relatives who still lived in one of the various LA Chinatowns. The city was immigrant "ghetto." The suburb was normalization, assimilation, upward mobility. Yet I kinda enjoy my visits down there nowadays, it's like a vacation w/no pressure. California suburbs can be surprisingly diverse. I think you can get better Chinese food in the OC than in SF at this point.
I like a lot of what Danielle Pafunda has said during the course of this debate. I find her observations quite acute and I think she gets the closest to what Gurlesque seems to be about, at the root, from what I understand. Like others, I still have yet to see the anthology proper and am just gleaning from discussions on the Gurlesque that have transpired over the past years & recently.
When I was 20, my riot grrrl radio dj friend gave me a sticker which I still treasure today. It's of Hello Kitty raising her fist in the air, a big frown on her face and her mouth (yes, this Hello Kitty finally has a mouth) open wide in an angry growl. This sticker epitomizes the rebellious kawaii wing of riot grrrl that I believe Arielle Greenberg was referring to in one of her early Gurlesque talks, and that Danielle also references in her comments about performing "girl" which is not the same as performing woman. A more toxic, militant version of Isobel Campbell twee perhaps? Anyway, I loved the Hello Kitty image, and I immediately reappropriated it as an Asian American for the cover of my first self-published "chapbook" of poems, which I passed out for free at parties.
- Joseph said...
I live in a place that looks like the suburbs but it's the middle of the city. Weird.
- Michelle Detorie said...
I'm way behind in my blog reading, and have a lot of catching up to do in the latest discussion of the gurlesque, but is anyone talking about class? That may address some of the urban/suburban dynamics that you are picking up on. Like I said, I'm behind; gonna go try to catch up now.
I grew up in the suburbs, and have since lived in itty bitty towns and big cities. I much prefer the extremes of rural life and city life to the suburbs. There is so much waste in the suburbs. It's a wasteland. There are also weird distortions of scale and scarcity and abundance.
@nada I like your comment about suburb envy. It *sounds* good, but one mention of finished basements and drugs and I'm having flashbacks to the date-rapey world of under-the-bleachers at football games and the punishing fatigue of having to pedal forever on one's bike to get out of a sad little subdivision filled with chain-link fences. lalaland sounds good to me! But maybe those feelings aren't just about suburbia, but the pain and isolation of adolescence. I take it that is pretty similar everywhere. Part of my relief at having left the suburbs is probably more about growing up than anything else.
- Ana Božičević said...
Nada, for an answer to your question, please read this post and comment stream:
I think we've resolved this particular issue. Just want to get this point straight. Or queer, as it were. Also, I never once thought that our critique of the Gurlesque was baiting. I know *I* take the project, and the editors, quite seriously.
Now we might move on to discussing the relevance to the Gurlesque of queer subjectivity/sex, queered cock, whether queer poetics actually turns away from anything, etc. The stuff that really matters.
As far as suburbs vs city, I
grew up in a small seaside town in a socialist country, and didn't really register this tension until coming to the US. There was not much commercial choice when I was a kid. Sometimes there was no chocolate (I grew fond of the weird-ass substitute they called "sugarboard.") But recently I've had the experience of living in a very uniform Italian suburb in Long Island, after many years in Brooklyn, and this experience has actually jumpstarted my thinking about kitsch. In that sense the suburbs have been incredibly generative. The world of flashing strip-mall signage one drives through, very abstracting to a Euro-born eye, the abandoned or tsotchke-filled malls, the ritualistic celebration of Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter... At first language totally collapses in contact with this desert of the real. Then, though on the one hand it's a much more recognizably kitschy/commercialized folk culture, it makes it gradually & painfully obvious to one that the city, eg Brooklyn's hipster mecca Williamsburg, is its own register of haute-aspirational kitsch just a bit different in its coding from the suburb. City/authentic - suburb/inauthentic might not be the most useful or functional binary anymore. Can we even talk about the 'authentic' in a generalized way in the US at this point? Reading the NYT, one might conclude that only people who can't afford to make a choice are authentic, unadulterated. Unstained by having the privilege of choosing a brand.
- charity. said...
@Pam: Huggy Bear!
- Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U said...
No, Amy and Ana, I choose not to participate in what I see as a kind of frenzied territorialism, so I am choosing not to read about this anymore. If nothing else, it's inthe rhythm and volume of your comments, which, really is what peole respond to online more than content. I really think that your critical energy could be better employed elsewhere. Me, I'm going to go convene with my inner trannie in the meantime and make all the real drag queens mad again (which is also ridiculous; would they rather I didn't relate to them at all?). Life is appropriation. Get used to it, everyone!
- Lara Glenum said...
Lorraine, I think these questions and discussions are so valuable and fascinating. My hope was that the anthology would open up new kinds of discussions about poetry and gender, and that's exactly what's happening. It's very rewarding, whether people like the anthology or not.
@ Nada - Online convo is about what's said, and if you were actually concerned (instead of just defensive), you would engage what has been said rather than reducing your uninformed 'input' to so much ad hominem mud. You "choose not to participate"? ..."frenzied" "territorialism" "target" "baiters" we talk too much (women always do!), etc - um, transparent much?
I should "employ" my "critical energy elsewhere"? You should engage your critical faculties period.
- Michelle Detorie said...
OMG HUGGY BEAR! One of the best bands EVER!
- Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U said...
Right, women talk too much. Goddesses forbid that women should publish an anthology of women. Let's make sure we complain about that instead of the patriarchy, because it's a soft target consisting of female people who will try to graciously listen to repeated pointed attacks as if they were really critique. I think Lara & Danielle have responded as classic placators. They are nice ladies. I'm not so nice, and I'm not suburban, and I can say what I think, and what I think is that you and Ana come off sounding relentlessly antagonistic (as is evidenced by your comment above), and you haven't discussed the poems at all.
Rather, your attacks have hinged mostly on the provenance & ownership of a word. That word is connected to your notion of your identity, and that's why it is important to you. Hence, territorialism.
Online conversation, like F2F conversation is never merely about "what's said." Come on, you are ostensibly poets, so you should know that.
- Patrick said...
Ana's question rings a rich chord for me: "Can we even talk about the 'authentic' in a generalized way in the US at this point? Reading the NYT, one might conclude that only people who can't afford to make a choice are authentic, unadulterated. Unstained by having the privilege of choosing a brand." (And not just because of the odd but irresistable stand off at Johannes' blog.)
Pam's remarks on appropriation illuminate the ways in which authenticity and sub-/urban imaginaries have material ramifications. I want to add a personal observation: that it works both ways. I was a poor kid in a rich suburb (or steadfastly middle class suburb, anyway) during the formative years. And I was working class, culturally, consciously. That consciousness was fraught with worries about authenticity, as one, when young and coming (ab)out in one's various ways, needs to still the center of the self enough to find that empathetic (appropriative) subcultural space that, for some of us, even the boys, was at one time Riot Grrrl. At another time maybe experimental poetics. The temporary center serves as a figure ground relationship to the authenticity of one's relative privilege. If one marks their origins as suburban in some way, the "urban" becomes fated: the ground to the figure of purchasing power. And one strives to transform that into purchase on one's power of self-determination, despite it all. The point seems to understand that that privilege exists, for whom and how is it exercised. That's the "tension," Lorrraine, as I see it.
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Oh I must embrace me some Huggy Bear at once. Thanks for the tip, peoples!
Purchase for self-determination, that's really beautiful, Patrick.
The more I look at it, the more I think that my use of the term "appropriation" in this context may be, well, inappropriate. A broader term might be incorporation, or even more simply, influence. In its worst top-down sense, appropriation implies that a more privileged group has taken something "belonging" to a less privileged group and is (mis)using that thing to the detriment of the less privileged group. I'm not sure that is at all what's going on here with Gurlesque and riot grrrl. This seems to be more a case of lateral appropriation, or simply influence. Again, I'm operating without having the actual anthology in hand, but judging from Ana Bozicevic's synopsis of the intro on Amy's blog, it looks like Gurlesque acknowledges a whole slew of feminist and queer-related influences. And then I found this from Lara Glenum's essay on Aase Berg:
"The Gurlesque's appropriation of the grotesque, like its appropriation of burlesque, camp, and kitsch, stands in outright defiance of the cannons of classical aesthetics and their masculocentric practices."
So the Gurlesque is quite aware of itself as a synthetic, recombinant practice. (The essay, btw, reminds me of depictions of teenage girls in Dario Argento films like Suspiria and Phenomena--the cruelty, the horror, the pent-up frustrations & aggressions, all phenomena thoroughly explored/"exploited" by Gurlesque practitioners, no doubt.)
On another topic, I don't like it at all that the Runaways film de-queers the historical facts. This reminds me of my adolescent peers who listened avidly to The Smiths and Pet Shop Boys but vehemently denied any homo implications in the songs, going out of their way to recast the lyrics in such a way that enforced homophobia and heteronormativity.
Sometimes, as M.I.A. has said, you can be magnanimous about letting your personal facts be "disposable information"; but sometimes you do have to mobilize a guerilla unit to ensure that you even have some ground, period, to walk on. That's where the theory ends and life begins.
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- Joseph said...
Pam, did you see the Runaways film? It was pretty explicitly queer -- I mean, it wasn't hardcore or anything, and I can sort of see Susie Bright's criticism; not having lived through the period myself I can only imagine what wildness went on. But it didn't shy away from presenting Joan Jett as a lesbian. It was a fairly central part of the movie. In fact, I read the movie as a love story. I thought the final scene, with the awkward conversation between Cherie Currie and Joan Jett on Rodney on the Roq, to the tune of Crimson & Clover, was as touching a moment of love and regret as I've seen on film in awhile.
What? They're 'nice suburban ladies' and 'classic placaters'-- and you're 'not nice or suburban,' which goes hand-in-hand? Do Lara, Arielle, and Danielle know how they are, according to your stereotyped, condescending characterizations?
Calling women involved in this anthology, who have clearly developed their thoughts and theory before and in response to my critique, whether they agree with it or not, "soft targets" is about as offensive as the patriarchy you're reinscribing in your faux-"defense." Do you really think they need *your* kind of defense, or anyone else's for that matter?
Could your replies be any less constructive, more obvious, and most of all, antagonistic? Shall we get our gats because we're so 'street' and pop a cap in each other's asses while we're at it? Re-frame and call it a duel?
Yes, Nada, we should reduce a discussion everyone is invested in, except you, bc you boastfully "choose not to know" what's going on, into some bogus online "urban" face-off because you're too lazy to take up what's really happening ...
If you're really interested in entering the discussion, start with the link Ana pointed to and with my most recent post at http://amyking.org , where I discuss several poems (which you'd know if you actually read rather than just trying to reduce and reframe the discussion); otherwise, we can play the game of who's a tougher bitch, but we'll have to do it offline or backchannel bc I'm not going to bog down Lorraine's blog by responding to any more of your baiting, posturing slag...
- pam said...
Ach no, Joseph. Obviously I didn't see the film myself and was relying solely on secondhand reportage. Thanks for the clarification. I'll just let my remarks re: queer erasure from pop culture stand in relation to the examples that I can actually speak knowledgably about.
Re: the sprawling suburbanesque landscape of LA, that is a fascinating topic in itself. More cities are starting to resemble LA in this respect, it seems.
- Office of the Cultural Liaisons said...
Early childhood near melrose and western in LA but at 7 moved to Canoga park. till i ran away at 14, ended in the Haight and Vancouver (67) then back into the city-echo park by 70. so back and forth.
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Saint Hieromartyr Metropolitan Petar of Dabar-Bosna (Свети Свештеномученик Петар Дабробосански) was the son of a nobleman ("vojvoda") and priest Bogdan Zimonjić (Богдан Зимоњић). He was born in Grahovo, on June 24, 1866. He completed the Seminary in Reljevo (1883-1887), and graduated from the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Cernovice (1887-1893). Petar took monastic vows on September 6, 1895. He was ordained deacon on September 7 and presbyter on September 8, 1895. In October 1893, Petar was appointed assistant professor in the Reljevo Seminary, and a year later he was appointed professor. He became a consistorial advisor in Sarajevo in 1901. In that period he was elected the Metropoliten of Zahumlje and Herzegovina. On June 9, 1903, Petar was ordained and enthroned in Mostar. After the retirement of the Metropolitan of Dabro-Bosnia, Evgenije (Letica), Petar was appointed the Metropolitan of this Diocese by a royal chart dated November 7, 1920.
After World War II had broken out, Metropolitan Petar was advised to move to Serbia or Montenegro. He replied saying: "I am people's shepherd, which means that I am bound to stay here and share evil with these people, as I used to share good with them; thus I have to share the destiny of my people and stay where I am supposed to be". He defended consistently the Orthodox faith in front of German Gestapo, by insisting on the using of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Roman Catholic priest Bozidar Bral, an adherent of the Ustase in charge of Bosnia and Herzegovina, had a decisive role in this severe attack, namely forbiddance of the usage of the Cyrillic alphabet. Metropolitan Petar was arrested on May 12, 1941. He was first imprisoned in the "Beledija" prison, and on May 15 of the same year he was transported to the "Kerestinac" prison where he got the number 29781. He was shaved there and all the bishop's insignia were taken away from him. After awful torturing he was taken to Koprivnica and then to Jasenovac (or Gospic). According to the testimonies of Jovo Furtula and Jovo Lubura from the Sarajevo District, Metropolitan was killed in Jasenovac and his corpse was cast in the fiery furnace for brick making. However, there is another version stating that Metropolitan Petar was taken to Gospic, namely Jadovno, where he was killed in a monstrous manner.
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Proving the Poobah's posts are prescient, it's seems the threat to smite the Mormons over posthumous baptisms caused them to collapse into mint jelly and quash the practice.
After the recent string of religious recycling, the all-male church elders have put the chastity belt on its database of Jews. It's nice they've taken the pledge to swear off wholesale religious reassignment surgery but the promise has the smell of Rush Limbaugh's apologies over Slutgate. Still, in a religion famous for resistance to change, it is a big step.
If only they'd not made the same promise in the 1990s, I'd be willing to give them a little more wiggle room. But for the time being, I'll take the advice of St. Ronny of Reagan and, "Trust, but verify". However, others aren't quite so forgiving.
To Jewish genealogist Gary Mokotoff, who was involved in the 1990 negotiations with Jewish leaders, the promise doesn't mean much.
"By not allowing public access to the records, it creates the illusion they have something to hide," Mokotoff said.
Apparently, he is not the only one with lingering concerns, genealogical researcher Helen Radkey has been blocked from the database, but is eying how she might continue revealing the ongoing practice.
"I don't believe for five minutes that they're going to stop baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims," Radkey said with good reason". She claims former Mormon bishop Larry Shaw, who she hadn't spoken to for more than 20 years, tried "to silence me as a dissenter."
Radkey says Shaw, "told me, years ago, as a Mormon bishop in Salt Lake City, that God would kill me if I laid a hand on the Mormon church. The first question he asked me tonight was how is my health?" In fact, he played the death card three more times in the same phone call Radkey says.
The Mormons may also be hedging their bets by failing to mention members of other churches and non-Jews like Mahatma Gandhi. The Mormons caught his runaway soul in 1997, after the initial promise to leave other people's religion to other people. It is a loophole big enough to give a 1 percenter a tax-free exemption hard on.
I'm no expert on the Book of Mormon, but surely there must be a "thou shalt not" clause for telling fibs. If so, they already have two strikes.
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I wonder - do we know what is the situation of other graduate students staff members? Movies? hmx9123?
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I have kind of gone in the other direction, working on enantioselective transition metal chemistry and total synthesis in grad school to what amounts to medicinal chemistry (with some enantioselective catalysis) for my postdoc. It is always good to learn new things!
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a. Conduct historical research
Assessment: all graduate history courses include some element of historical research through reviews of secondary source material, analyses of primary source material, historiographical essays, and/or traditional research papers. The two capstone experiences, four comprehensive exam questions drawn from two (of the three) fields (of American, European, or non-Western) and the thesis both require historical research.
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Assessment: through exams, papers, and class discussions students must demonstrate their understanding of historiography and its relevance to the study of history.
c. Develop historical arguments and debates
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Avorae, I'd be curious why you'd prefer a half caste at start. It might be something similar enough to work into your backstory and still Exalt as normal.
Well I have always had this idea of a Half-caste orphan who grew up in Nexus and whose primary motivation was to become a great martial artist and secondary motivation was to find out who her true parents where. And of course in during her struggles and triumphs in the game she would eventually exalt.Of course every game I've played in never lasted long enough for her to actually achieve either goal.
Ok, thanks from replies Andy :). Can we work on create charsheets and ponder later is there a bonus points based on castes covered by the circle?My concept is basically that my eclipse is graduate from House of Bells but he was 20 and was suspected he does never exalt. As most exalt during teenage years or latest at 18. The 20th year exaltations have occured but extremely rarely. Anyways deal is that he is trained warrior but he is scholarly diplomat sort and general and not melee power house (so more lean to mental and social attributes than physical).He is damn brilliant stragedian and one local champions in Gateway and he was assigned to north when Bull of the North was making one his raids. He is along with a talon of soldiers leading them as a captain, work more as rear guard while dragon bloods and their units are in front (he is archer so his unit was archers as well).Well, then is then that some exalt working with Bull of North snuck behind the army with sizeable hit and run squad, but my guy spotted the unit which was disguised as hermits, seeing through the disguise/bluff. However things get hairy when a solar exalt shows up to front and it causes the soldiers panic and run. But he stays and faces threat alone for sake keeping his duty as soldier and protect with his life his comrades rear.For his unyielding valor then UCS then blessed him and gave him power able combat the enemy solar who was rather stunned see a fellow solar but a dynast instead. Trying kill him but with combined dragon blood charms and solar archery charms he defeated her unit and herself in brutal barrage (thinking up a combo).Anyways upon foe's surrender he forced the solar take oath to never speak details of the battle, lie or just not talk about it nor reveal he is exalt (abuse of eclipse powers yeah). When he returned to his men most cheered for him as his anima had calmed down and he looked to have 'fiery white fire' as his anima banner when in truth it's a burning dragon with golden aura.However Cult of Illuminated figured him out and with their aid he got manse which helps disguise his anima banner so long he does not go iconic and can 'fake' to be a dragon blood. This naturally gave him promotions and so on and including to receive a bethroded from Mnemon house (he's from Cathak), but not yet married as they both agreed for at least ten years of courtship to see do their relationship work out. They worked together to do realm's duty as she likewise was legionnairer (a heavy armor battalion). However somepoint my char is forced to keep secrecy of his identity or save his wife's life so he revealed his full might as solar to defeat a deathlord from Mask of Winter's service.This of course is in background but there was hefty talking about between my guy and his bethroded which he had been holding courtship over four years and they had grown close. Then she decided ignore his anathema status as she knew quite well what sort of man he is and is keen eyed for deception in general. But they then together agreed they cannot continue their farce so they both left from Imperial isle together along with (unexpected) their soldiers who had sensed they are defecting from the realm even if they did not know details but once they learned they accepted their both commanders out of loyalty born in battlefield than national loyalty or Immaculate order teachings.Since then they had worked as renegade Dynast military unit which tries avoid to be caught up by Lookshy (who hate them out of principle) and Realm (who hunts them both for being traitors and my char being anathema). Also they had held a wedding and are now by law wife and a husband but they have pushed aside for any desire for children as raising them in war camp is not life what they wish for so they both seek a secure good place where they are accepted (whole legion, not just those two) and where they can continue their duty independly.
Also perhaps he did started show off anima banner in golden flames but his helm in his head blocked the mark?
The Exalt now known as Lightning-Caught-Flame was once a simple village healer in a small village near Chanta by the name of Elise. Of course, there always seemed to be a bit more to her than simplicity, as she was capable of curing diseases even the other healers couldn't figure out. She showed, from a very early age, a predilection toward the healing arts, and more specifically toward the healing side of Alchemy. However, this was simply put down as a simple gift, as she was never very adept at much of anything else.Of course, this all changed when an upstart god decided that he had had enough of these simple village folk not giving him enough prayer to survive on. He released a host of vermin that he had been keeping outside in the wilderness, allowing them to enter the village, bringing with them untold sickness and disease. The other healers scrambled to keep up, but they lost patients.It grew worse, when those same healers began to catch the very diseases they were attempting to cure and get rid of. Elise was in the middle of it, seemingly immune to the diseases that were striking down her compatriots around her, and claiming villager after villager.She worked ceaselessly for nights on end, not stopping even to take care of herself, aside from to grab a quick drink of water and a crust of bread. However, this began to wear on her heavily. After a week, she began to grow sluggish, to run out of the reserve of energy that, until now, had seemed limitless. It was then that the true horror struck.Her entire family fell ill with the same wasting disease that was crippling the town. What was worse, she learned that it had been she who had given it to them. She had carried it home during her increasingly short visits, and it had passed to each and every member of her family, from her parents, down to even her infant daughter.When it seemed like something was about to give, when SOMETHING had to crack under all the strain, the Wyld Hunt arrived, claiming that one of their healers was a demon summoning anathema. They dragged Elise, kicking and screaming, from the infirmary, even as she watched her daughter draw her last breath.The explosion that seemed to take place immediately at that moment has been described since as caused by a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky striking Elise where she stood railing at the Dragon-Blooded. When the cloud of smoke and debris cleared, a pillar of flame stood around her, surmounted by the gleaming, glowing caste mark of a newly Exalted Twilight Solar. Daring the Dragon-Blooded to stop her, she turned, returning to the infirmary and going through, touching each of the people afflicted, the illnesses sweeping away as if they had never taken hold.She vanished shortly thereafter, and her village has seen nothing of her since.
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EA Sports NCAA Football Producer Ben Haumiller says he's heard the critics and gamers across the web talk smack about the company's long-running college football series and believes this is the year they will change their tune.
With this week's decision by the NCAA to not renew its contract with EA Sports with the Ed O'Bannon copyright infringment case ongoing, it's quite possible that "NCAA Football 14" may be the last game in the series that bears the NCAA name. It may also be the best.
"NCAA games are always different from year to year, but this year's additions are noticeable improvements," Game Informer's Matthew Kato said in his review. "NCAA 14 doesn't take the kind of giant leap forward that will be noticed by the masses, but it's an installment that will be built upon and which we will look back at as a key moment in the franchise's larger history."
The company's latest addition to their annual college football series adds a bevy of secondary gameplay additions that Haumiller sees as a great way for the franchise to end its run on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 before the development team begins to focus on next generation consoles.
But before they go on to the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, Haumiller said he wanted to get the game right on the PS3 and 360.
"I think the biggest criticism with the last year's game was that it was starting to show its age," Haumiller said. "This year, we put a big emphasis on making changes to the game that will help us shed that perception. The front-end menus have a completely different look, instantly making the game feel different the first time you boot the game up."
New additions to the game's Dynasty Mode and the implementation of the Infinity 2 physics engine Haumiller said mean more gameplay options and a more realistic game than last season.
"Our Dynasty Mode is one of the deepest career modes in sports video games. With the addition of Coach Skills, and the revamping of recruiting, through the new Power Recruiting system, the mode is even more engaging than ever before," Haumiller said. "On the gameplay side, the additions of physics through the Infinity Engine 2 and in the option game add additional depth and realism to the game that we've never seen before in the NCAA Football franchise."
With the current console generation winding down as well, Haumiller's vision of making the best NCAA football game may become a reality.
"There were so many great things that came together this year to provide the most complete NCAA Football experience to date," Haumiller said. "I think this year's game will be remembered as the game that shrugged off the perceived staleness of the past and helped usher in the new era of college football."
"NCAA Football 2014" is now available on the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3.