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UPDATE: 1445 hours
Emirates Team New Zealand will return to its base this afternoon as a happy team. The Kiwis won both races of the opening day of the 34th America's Cup versus ORACLE TEAM USA. The Kiwis won Race 1 by 36 seconds and followed it up with a 52-second win in Race 2.
34th America's Cup Standings (first to 9 points wins)
- Emirates Team New Zealand – 2
Race 2 Performance Data
- Course: 5 Legs/10.11 nautical miles
- Elapsed Time: ETNZ – 22:46, OTUSA – 23:38
- Delta: ETNZ +:52
- Total distance sailed: ETNZ – 11.3 NM, OTUSA – 11.3 NM
- Average Speed: ETNZ – 30.12 knots (35 mph), OTUSA – 28.92 knots (33 mph)
- Top Speed: ETNZ – 46 knots (53 mph), OTUSA – 42.87 knots (49 mph)
- Windspeed: Average – 16 knots, Peak – 21 knots
UPDATE: 1432 hours
Emirates Team New Zealand is having an easier go this race. The Kiwi crew leads by 46 at the windward gate, having added 39 seconds to its lead on the 3-mile beat. Before the race the ORACLE TEAM USA crew appeared worried about something with the wing sail. Could they be favoring the boat so the issue doesn't become explosive?
UPDATE: 1422 hours
Emirates Team New Zealand fended off ORACLE TEAM USA on the first run and leads by 7 seconds at the leeward gate, beginning the 3-mile beat.
UPDATE: 1416 hours
Both crews were close to the start line and slow at the gun, but Emirates Team New Zealand was to windward and got up to speed a split second before ORACLE TEAM USA, which allows the Kiwis to lead at the first reach mark by 2 seconds. The wind is blowing around 17 knots from 250-255 degrees.
UPDATE: 1339 hours
Emirates Team New Zealand has won Race 1 of the 34th America's Cup with a 36-second victory over ORACLE TEAM USA. The fantastic race saw the lead change hands two times and close boat-for-boat racing. Once the Kiwis regained the lead, they sped away from the defender and steadily increased their lead to the final delta, the largest of the race.
Race 1 Performance Data
- Course: 5 Legs/9.71 nautical miles
- Elapsed Time: ETNZ – 23:30, OTUSA – 24:06
- Delta: ETNZ +:36
- Total distance sailed: ETNZ – 11.7 NM, OTUSA – 11.4 NM
- Average Speed: ETNZ – 30.07 knots (35 mph), OTUSA – 28.58 knots (33 mph)
- Top Speed: ETNZ – 43.54 knots (50 mph), OTUSA – 42.51 knots (49 mph)
- Windspeed: Average – 16 knots, Peak – 21 knots
UPDATE: 1332 hours
A fantastic windward leg saw the lead change hands two times and the Kiwi and ORACLE TEAM USA crews traded exhausting tacks. The Kiwis lost the lead and then regained and then stretched away to lead by 25 seconds at the windward gate, a gain of 21 seconds on the 3-mile leg.
UPDATE: 1320 hours
Although the Kiwis initially stretched their lead on the first run, ORACLE TEAM USA closed it up to within a length for most of the leg. Emirates Team New Zealand led by 4 seconds at the leeward gate in some amazingly close racing. ORACLE TEAM USA tried for a port-starboard protest in a close call, but the umpires green-flagged it.
UPDATE: 1317 hours
Emirates Team New Zealand took a familiar position on the start line, to windward of ORACLE TEAM USA, and led at the reach mark by 3 seconds. The Kiwis quickly extended that lead beginning the run to more than 150 meters.
UPDATE: 1255 hours
About 20 minutes from the start of Race 1, the wind is blowing around 16 knots from 241 degrees.
UPDATE: 1230 hours
The wind is blowing between 14 and 18 knots from 240 degrees.
Both ORACLE TEAM USA and Emirates Team New Zealand left their moorings at the America's Cup Park with gennakers tacked to the bowsprits. The wind would seem stronger than what we believe is optimal for the giant headsails, in the 8- to 10-knot range, so the question is: What's the top end windspeed for the gennakers or are the two crews trying to psyche each other out?
UPDATE: 1200 hours
Initial wind reports from the racecourse indicate a strength of 15 knots from 250 degrees. Race 1 is scheduled to start at 1315 and Race 2 at 1415.
In the U.S., the America's Cup Finals will be broadcast live on NBC and NBC Sports Network. Replays will be available on the America's Cup YouTube channel. Saturday's and Sunday's racing will be broadcast live nationally on NBC, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm PT.
Internationally, the America's Cup Final can be viewed in more than 170 territories. All racing is also live on America's Cup YouTube channel (subject to territorial restrictions).
You can also follow racing with America's Cup App for android and iOS devices.
UPDATE: 1105 hours
The weather conditions for the first day of the 34th America's Cup look very favorable for racing. Winds of 12 to 18 knots are expected throughout the day with warm temperatures and sunny skies. The wind limit of 23 knots is increased to 23.9 knots for the first race and reduced to 22.5 knots for Race 2, taking into account the tidal corrections.
"You always go to a regatta and they say it's never like this here, well that's what it's like today," said Regatta Director Iain Murray at his morning briefing. "The good news is the westerly has started to prevail under the Golden Gate Bridge. It's probably 6 knots now, and has pushed the northwest and easterly winds into the back country back. We're hoping for around 12 knots at the start of the first race and we're confident that when the flow gets going and established we might get 17 knots in the second race.
"We don't expect any issues with wind strength," Murray continued. "You'll see the current line move quickly across the course, it'll be like a division on the racecourse, and will lead to a negative .5 ebb factor in the second race. I don't think it'll play a factor today. I think we're more at the other end of what we didn't expect to see."
The winner of the 34th America's Cup will be the first to win 9 points. Don't think of it as a best-of-17 series, the winner is the first to win 9 points. For the Kiwis that means nine race wins and for ORACLE TEAM USA it means 11, due to the penalty imposed by the International Jury.
In the U.S., the America's Cup Finals will be broadcast live on NBC and NBC Sports Network. Replays will be available on the America's Cup YouTube channel. Saturday's and Sunday's racing will be broadcast live nationally on NBC, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm PT.
Internationally, the America's Cup Final can be viewed in more than 170 territories. All racing is also live on America's Cup YouTube channel (subject to territorial restrictions).
You can also follow racing with America's Cup App for android and iOS devices.
ORACLE TEAM USA Crew List
Skipper: Jimmy Spithill (9), Tactician: John Kostecki (11), Strategist: Tom Slingsby (10), Wing trimmer: Kyle Langford (8), Jib trimmer: Joe Newton (5), Off-side trimmer: Rome Kirby (4), Grinders: Shannon Falcone (1), Joe Spooner (2), Jono MacBeth (3), Gillo Nobili (6), Simeon Tienpont (7)
Emirates Team New Zealand Crew List
Skipper/helmsman: Dean Barker (14), Tactician: Ray Davies (10), Wing Trimmer: Glenn Ashby (3), Trimmer: James Dagg (9), Bow: Adam Beashel (2), Pit: Jeremy Lomas (8), Pedestal 1: Chris Ward (7), Pedestal 2: Rob Waddell (11), Pedestal 3: Grant Dalton (6), Pedestal 4: Chris McAsey (5), Float/Grinder: Derek Saward (12)
Today in America's Cup History
September 7 is notable in America's Cup history for:
- 1988: Race 1 Stars & Stripes 88 vs. New Zealand – First catamaran appearance in the America's Cup Match. Stars & Stripes wins by 18:15
- 1895: Race 1 Valkyrie vs. Defender – Defender wins by 8:49 on corrected time. Lord Dunraven asks for Defender to be re-measured suspecting illegal ballast added
- 1885: Race 1 Genesta vs. Puritan – abandoned due to light winds when Puritan was 2 miles ahead
- 1886: Race 1 Galatea v. Mayflower – Mayflower wins by 12:02 on corrected time. First time a woman sails in an America's Cup race – Susan Henn (née Bartholomew) of Glasgow who paid for Galatea.
America's Cup Park
10:00 am – America's Cup Park opens to the public with free access
10:45 am – Marching band starts at America's Cup Park
11:00 am – AC72s on moorings
11:00 am – America's Cup Trophy on display, Presentation Stage until 12:00
11:15 am – Special Dock Out Show, Presentation Stage, Includes special performances starting with an aerobatic display by Sean D Tucker from Team ORACLE
12:30 pm – America's Cup Pavilion open for race viewing
12:45 pm – Pre-Race Show with Andy Green and Tucker Thompson
1:00 pm – "America's Cup Race Show" includes live commentary from 1:15pm, until 3:00
1:00 pm – America's Cup Trophy on display, 'A', Main Entrance until 2:00
1:15 pm – America's Cup Final 1: ORACLE TEAM USA vs. Emirates Team New Zealand
2:00 pm – Paddle Boarding simulator challenge, Center of Sailing
2:00 pm – Arr Hour: MOA Bar Drinks Specials – Beer Garden until 6:30
2:15 pm – America's Cup Final 2: ORACLE TEAM USA vs. Emirates Team New Zealand
3:00 pm – Post Race Q&A with Andy Green and Tucker Thompson
3:00 pm – Special Event – The Revival featuring DJ Julius Papp & DJ Kirk, with support from DJ M3 (Green Gorilla Lounge/Monarch), PUMA YARD until 7:00
3:10 pm – Sabering Demonstration by the St. Regis and Mumm Napa, Presentation Stage – followed by introduction to Michael Chiarello, immediately following Post Race Q&A
3:15 pm – Special Event – Lexus Presents Lexus Culinary Master Michael Chiarello in the Napa Valley Wine Lounge
3:15 pm – Poster Signing with team representatives from ORACLE Team USA, until 3:45
3:15 pm – Maori music and performance from New Zealand, Presentation Stage, until 3:45
3:00 pm – DJ Set – DJ Puzzles from New Zealand, MOA Bar, Beer Garden until 6:00
3:45 pm – America's Cup Sweepstakes, Plaza
4:00 pm – Poster signing with team representatives from Emirates Team New Zealand, until 4:30
4:00 pm – Race Replay: America's Cup Final Race 1 & 2 – North Point & Plaza
7:00 pm – America's Cup Park closes, PUMA YARD and Sports Bar open late
7:30 pm – Sammy Hagar with Rival Sons
America's Cup Village
AC Open: Hobie 16 racing (40 boats) and 18' Skiffs Mark Foy Trophy races – both with live commentary by Bob Billingham & Annie Gardner
11:00 am – America's Cup Village opens
11:05 am – Morning welcome and schedule for the day (on main stage)
11:15 am – Dock out show live from America's Cup Park (Pier 27/29) – on the big screens
11:30 am – Live Racing – AC Open: Hobie 16 Racing
12:20 pm – AC Open: Hobie 16 flyby & ramp interview at end of racing
12:45 pm – Pre-race show live from the America's Cup Park (Pier 27/29) – shown on the main stage
12:45 pm – Red Bull Air Force Show
1:15 pm – America's Cup Final 1: ORACLE TEAM USA vs Emirates Team New Zealand
1:45 pm – Halftime show shown on the America's Cup Village big screens
2:15 pm – America's Cup Final 2: ORACLE TEAM USA vs Emirates Team New Zealand
2:50 pm – Post-Race Show live on the America's Cup Village main stage big screen
3:00 pm – Post-race Q&A live from the America's Cup Park (Pier 27/29) shown on the main stage big screen
3:30 pm – Live Racing – AC Open: 18' Skiffs Mark Foy Trophy Race 1
4:00 pm – Race Replay: America's Cup Final Race 1 & 2 – shown at the main stage
4:20 pm – LIVE Racing – AC Open: 18' Skiffs Mark Foy Trophy Race 2
5:00 pm – America's Cup Village closes
ORIGINAL POST: 0815 hours
The 34th America's Cup begins today with two races scheduled for 1315 and 1415. It's a dream match-up between defender ORACLE TEAM USA and challenger Emirates Team New Zealand, led by skippers Jimmy Spithill and Dean Barker, respectively.
"They probably want to kill each other," said Kiwi wing trimmer Glenn Ashby when asked to characterize the two rivals. "They're both very dedicated guys."
The match pits two storied teams against each other, and it also features the AC72, the most technologically advanced America's Cup Class ever designed. Powered by wing sails 131 feet tall and riding on hydrofoils that lift the platform clear of the water, the AC72 is capable of covering its 72-foot length in a single second.
"Hydrofoiling is one of the coolest advancements in this America's Cup," said Spithill. "Foils are the future. It's so exciting to get out on foils and I'm looking forward to seeing where it ends up in five or six years."
"Foiling is a cool sensation," said Barker. "The boat, as it comes up out of the water, accelerates. You gain 3, 4, 5 knots boatspeed as the hulls pop clear. You take off and everything lightens up, the loads decrease, you go faster and faster. It's an amazing sensation."
Emirates Team New Zealand will enter the start box for Race 1 on port tack, and ORACLE TEAM USA will have port in Race 2.
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Hi Tera I am looking to pick up my racket again as well! I played in college about 15 yrs ago and I am also a bit rusty. I took a few community college classes in Tahoe just to play with others and it was a blast! I'm not sure where I rank (nor do I remember where I used to rank) but I am interested in trying us out?! Not too sure of even where we can play around Ventura/Oxnard/Hueneme where there are lit courts but I can check into it :) I am new to this site let me know if you want to meet up. Carri
Hey Tera,
I'm a beginner but would like to practice more. Weekends are best for me but some evening are ok. I just moved to Thousand Oaks but am in Ventura a lot. Let me know if you'd like to play.
Sarah, I wouldn't mind playing with you. As long as it has been since I've picked up my racket, we may be on a level playing field. Let's pick a weekend. :)
Hi Tera and Sarah,
I'm a beginner in Thousand Oaks and would love to meet up hit with either of you. Evenings and mornings are fine. I'd like to hit a couple times a week if possible!
Mornings don't work for me except on weekends, but evenings are good! Let's get in touch and play. I just sent you a friend request with a message.
Hi Tera, Sarah, and Nia,
I'm also a beginner, but I live in Newbury Park. I don't have any tennis balls yet, even, but I have 2 awesome Prince rackets I just got for my birthday on Sunday. Mornings, early afternoon (preferred), or evenings after about 6:30pm work for me any day of the week. I've had one free lesson, but I have good hand-eye coordination and lots of energy. Let me know if anyone would like to play! :)
I have balls and just got a new grip for my racket so I'm ready to play. Let's try to get together and play. Maybe we can meet somewhere between Newbury Park and Ventura. I'll look for courts midway.
Hi, not sure if any of you are still looking at this post, but I'm open to play whenever. There are lit courts at Camino Real Park in Ventura. I think you have to pay a couple bucks for them to turn on the lights though.There's another court that's really nice at Peninsula Park in Oxnard/Port Hueneme. It's not lit but it's a great location (right on the harbor).
I'm a fairly newer player, rated probably a 3.0. Still learning but want to try to play a couple times a week. If any of you are interested in setting something up (singles or doubles), preferably weekly, please let me know. Feel free to send me a PM or whatever.
Thanks! :)
I just sent you a message with a friend request.
If you are still interested, I'm interested in playing! :) I'm just like you! Used to play years ago...but I wouldn't say I was a strong player, but ok. Let me know if you would like to go play, esp on weekends.
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President Obama and Mitt Romney are tied at 47 percent apiece, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll released on the eve of the presidential candidates' third and final debate.
Obama is ahead 49-44 percent among all registered voters, but draws considerably less enthusiasm than he did in 2008 particularly among younger voters and Hispanic voters. The president gets a 49 percent job approval rating in the poll.
"We definitely have a barn burner," Bill McInturff, the Republican co-poll taker, told MSNBC's "Daily Rundown." McInturff conducted the poll with Democratic counterpart Peter Hart.
The president's campaign can point to a few signs of good news in the poll. A total of 45 percent of those surveyed predicted that America's economy will improve over the next year, versus only 9 percent who said it would deteriorate.
By a 49-43 percent margin, voters have a favorable opinion of the 44th president, versus a 43-44 percent negative rating for his challenger — higher figures than Romney has registered in the past, but still not an indication of overwhelming popularity.
Obama wins when voters were asked who would more likely be attentive to the middle class, and which candidate can better take care of the concerns of American women. Romney wins narrowly on who is likely to create more jobs.
Nearly half of those surveyed — 47 percent — say they are now optimistic about or at least comfortable with the prospect of a Romney presidency.
By a 44-41 percent margin, Obama is judged the better candidate to handle foreign affairs.
Obama has an enormous lead (92-5 percent) among African-American voters, and captures nearly 70 percent support among Hispanics. Romney leads by a 56-39 percent margin among white voters. Obama's other strong constituencies are women and young voters, Romney runs strongest with the elderly.
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In about an hour I will be interviewed for a local news station regarding Montana's cesarean rate. I don't know much more than that. The reporter has a young child. The reporter is supposed to be meeting with a local hospital official. Other than that, who knows what her focus will be. In anticipation of this interview, I decided to review some things that I have read and wrote regarding cesarean rates.
With regard to rates, it is important to consider that the US cesarean rate (2006, preliminary) is 31.1%. The rate has increased by 50% since 1996. The rate recommended by the World Health Organization is 10-15%. Once the cesarean rate exceeds 15%, the risks (statistically speaking) outweigh the benefits. The Montana cesarean rate (2006, preliminary) is 28%, nearly a 3% increase from the year prior. According to a source at the local hospital, our local rate is around 31%. I was told that only 16 VBACs took place in 2006 at my hospital. (A local CNM questioned the accuracy of the VBAC figure, suggesting that VBACs were under-reported.)
I can list many contributing factors to the continued increase in the cesarean rate:
- Medico-legal concerns on the part of doctors, hospitals, and insurance providers (it's HUGE, actually)
- "So and so had a cesarean . . ."
- Hollywood stars having elective cesareans
- Young and underpriviledged mothers are more at risk for cesarean surgery
- An unchecked trust in care providers – most women do not seek second opinions when it comes to maternity services
- Sensationalization of birth – Baby Story and OR Live come to mind
- Society – our view of birth has changed; the culture of fear has spread to childbirth
- Cesareans ARE more safe now than they ever have been
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I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It's finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way. It's living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It's taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things. Join me as I search for items for my house that combine the scientific romanticism of the Victorians with our real present and imagined future.
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"If you have no bathroom, buy a Mosely Folding Bath Tub", "Don't look around for another house, and "acts well and looks well". An advertisement also notes that the tub is "portable, with self-heating arrangements to heat water at a moments notice. A great convenience and when closed an ornament to any room...". Send two cents, for illustrated catalogue, showing 18 styles of tubs..."
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- trahern said...
Ya know...a folding tub is a great idea! I wonder that they don't make them now for limited space bathrooms.
- February 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Garden Pheenix said...
That. Is. Amazing.
I am in awe...
- February 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- Pandora said...
That's fabulous! I want one!
- February 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Waterbug Guy said...
I saw one on Antiques Roadshow last year. I thought it was a great idea.
That one was appraised at $3500 for insurance.
- February 28, 2010 at 10:46 PM
- Crescent Moon said...
That would be fantastic for a small vacation cabin!
- March 1, 2010 at 5:02 AM
- rachel said...
Fantastic! I've never seen one of these before. Wonder how the water is drained out of it?
- March 1, 2010 at 8:16 AM
- Keshlam said...
The thing I find interesting about this is that it gives us a historical precedent for hiding other "modern conveniences" inside period-looking cabinets... even if we have to make the cabinet unfold in an odd manner.
- March 1, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- Kalani said...
That is SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!
- March 5, 2010 at 8:22 AM
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love your blog - do you have an email or contact? I found something nifty I think you would admire. For now I will post it here in the comment as it is another tub - http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/boston/reimagined-bath-accessories-by-wieki-somers-110560?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+apartmenttherapy%2Fmain+%28Main%29
- March 7, 2010 at 9:38 AM
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LOVE the advert. We are putting in a new bath. I willl have to twist the hubbies arm!- XOX- Gin Shakespear
- March 30, 2010 at 2:14 PM
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Speaking of bathroom items, I came across this web site today. Most items are pricey, but what great stuff for the bathroom.
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In 2000 Brighton & Hove was granted city status as part of the millennium celebrations. There was a sense of optimism and the city staged extravagant events that continued into the decade. In 2002, 250,000 people occupied the beachfront for 'The Big Beach Boutique II' musical event. At the same time, the beachfront declined. In 2001 the West Pier partially collapsed when hit by severe weather and, a year later, the Palace Pier was damaged by fire.
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Just under nine years ago, I returned to my full-time job after having a baby. And I brought with me a key piece of equipment that helped me manage my work/parenting balance: A breast pump. I was lucky enough to find a used pump, so I wasn't out hundreds of dollars for the kind of electric pump that helps you express milk quickly enough to make the whole process manageable.
Right now, millions of mothers to babies are returning to work. Many of them are committed to breastfeeding -- and today there's one exciting piece of news that can help them. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, as of January 1, insurance companies are required to cover breast pumps.
Free breast pumps for everyone! Okay, not exactly. Just if you're fortunate enough be covered by health insurance already. But if you are, you're covered not just for breastfeeding support equipment, but also for consultants. Most likely that's just for consultants already part of your insurance network, but hey -- that's still progress. Have you ever priced out a lactation consultant? Yipes. I couldn't afford one.
This coverage could make the difference between breastfeeding for a full year or not breastfeeding at all for some women.
Some might say, "The government shouldn't be paying for breast pumps!" To which I say, YO! I'm talking about private health insurance, not Medicaid. To clarify, in case it wasn't obvious, this isn't about the government paying for breast pumps. Health insurance companies will cover them -- or they should be, anyway. We pay them money. They cover certain equipment and services. And guess what? This is equipment a lot of women want covered. (WIC provides some breastfeeding equipment and services, but that's not part of this legislation.)
And it's a smart investment all around. We all know the health benefits of breastfeeding. Enabling more women to breastfeed is preventative care that can save families and insurance money on health care costs over a lifetime. For both moms and kids.
Here's a helpful guide to how you can get your pump covered. Naturally they make it complicated because that's how most plans roll, but it's not impossible. Note: This went into effect for some back in August.
Would it make a difference to you if your health insurance covered breast pumps and equipment?
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by Tom Utescher
Despite the oppressive heat last Thursday, Mount St. Joseph Academy coolly dispatched another opponent in the Lou Cappiello Summer basketball league, rising to a record of 3-0 with a 49-17 victory over a fellow Catholic Academies squad, Villa Joseph Marie. The Magic forged a 26-6 halftime lead and then spread the gap to more than 30 points early in the second period, going up 38-7 before the Jems deposited their first field goal of the half.
Mount St. Joe, who had knocked off another league rival earlier in the week, Nazareth Academy, had a strong turn-out on Thursday, and was able to send in fresh bodies whenever the weather started on wear on the players who were in action at any given time.
Helping fill out the ranks were three incoming freshman guards, Caitlin Cunningham and Sarah Wills from the St. Alphonsus CYO team, and Libby Tacka, from Gwynedd Mercy Elementary. Tacka's older sister, Natalie, graduated from Mount St. Joseph in 2011 and is currently playing Division I collegiate field hockey at Lehigh University.
The Magic rebounded well on the offensive end and a lot of second-chance points were garnered by rising senior Meg Geatens, who scored 13 points in the first half. Geatens started out with a field goal and then made one of two free throws, and early on Villa Joe actually led, 4-3. The Magic then took off on a 14-0 run and the Jems never got back in contention.
Junior forward Carly Monzo put up half-a-dozen points before the first half was done, and one of the new freshmen, Wills, scored all of her four points for the night before the intermission.
As the second period began the Magic tacked on eight straight points before Villa Joe moved the numbers on its side of the scoreboard, netting a free throw. During one brief stretch in the middle of the half the Jems outscored the Magic 8-4, but the Mounties finished strong to spread the gap out past 30 points once more.
Geatens had 17 points and Monzo put in 10 for the night, while Tacka split her six points evenly between the halves. There were four apiece from Wills, juniors Alex Louin and Gen Hagedorn, and two points apiece from junior Regan Gallagher and sophomore Emily Carpenter filled out the total for the Magic.


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1. Ev'ry star is diff'rent,
And so is ev'ry child.
Some are bright and happy,
And some are meek and mild.
Ev'ry one is needed
For just what he can do.
You're the only person
Who ever can be you.
A shining star, shining brightly,
Not so very far, shining brightly;
Be a shining star. Shine so brightly;
Shine right where you are, brightly!
2. I can shine for others
And let them feel my love,
Follow the commandments
That come from God above.
I can help another
To learn to choose the right.
Having faith and courage
Will let my star shine bright.
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Music: K. Newell Dayley, b. 1939; arr. by K. Newell Dayley
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CIOs are frustrated at the lower quality of output from mainframe outsourcers, with over two thirds encountering hidden costs, according to a Vanson Bourne survey.
The poll, commissioned by Compuware, showed that many of the 520 CIOs approached from enterprises across the UK, US, Australia and several other nations were impacted by poor quality when mainframe application development was outsourced.
Many CIOs are faced with the need to reduce expenditure by outsourcing mainframe application development. Yet 71 percent said that hidden costs were causing frustration when such work had been entrusted to external organisations.
This is often down to the poor quality of work completed, the survey highlighted, with 67 percent of respondents reporting dissatisfaction with the level of work carried out on new applications or services. This was due to a number of factors, with CIOs citing a widening in-house skills gap, as well as knowledge transfer problems and high staff turnover within outsourcing organisations.
The low quality of outsourced work is also impacting on total cost ownership, demanding additional time and resources to be spent on completing projects.
Just over half of companies, 54 percent, have had to subsequently increase investment in performance testing and troubleshooting as a result. A similar number, 51 percent, claim to have also had to increase investments in internal staff to compensate for outsourced work.
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It's been worth the wait.
Three years after their excellent debut She Was Coloured In in 2010, Solar Bears are about to release a career-defining album, Supermigration.
Solar Bears is the band name for talented duo John Kowalski and Rian Trench, who have spent the past 18-months at studios in Wicklow, Ireland, working on Supermigration. It's a long way from their debut recording in a bedroom in Dublin.
The difference is not just in the recording but in the quality and diversity of tracks. The interest in Science-Fiction is still apparent, but rather than the outward urge of space travel, Supermigration is more concerned with inner space and hints at dark, personal narratives that are often analogous with the genre.
I contacted John and Rian with some questions about the new album, Supermigration, and they started-off by explaining the influences on their recording:
John: We were listening to a lot of Eno and forgotten soundtracks which we had discovered on vinyl. Sampling these led to unusual routes for some of the finished songs on the record. It is largely dependent on what happens during a day session or a night session. The seasons played a part also. Often cases it can be something as simple as a string sound.
Rian: Its never a conscious effort to work in a set style, so in a lot of ways, the direction is determined by whatever riff, bassline, drum pattern, texture we start out with. New things definitely filtered through this time. We'd often have Al Green on in the kitchen in between sessions. We researched a lot of recording techniques. Steely Dan records were a constant reference.
Dangerous Minds: What was it like to spend so long in the studio and what was a typical recording day like?
John: It was really positive for me. One thing that did affect the recordings was getting our hands on new gear like a Korg MS-10 which a friend lent us. There were no typical days as I came down to the studio with either an idea intact or nothing at all. Rian had ideas dating back years so we concentrated on them for some of the tracks on the album.
Rian: Typically we'd bring something to the table, and just approach it in our different ways. Usually took a day to write the song, and then several days of tweaking. It was a great experience to be able to think about the tracks for long periods out of the studio. Writing time was interspersed between touring in Europe, so we had the advantage of talking about song structures and sounds etc while away.
Dangerous MInds: What is the back story with the title, Supermigration?
Rian: We were initially considering it as a track title, but then realized it kind of summed up the experiences and process surrounding the record. Its marries the journey the album takes itself. We always want to go somewhere we haven't been before.
There is a pattern we discovered after the writing process that hadn't been considered. We tried to vary the style and execution as much as possible, and then try to shape a very abstract narrative gluing it all together. If the composition is ready in our minds, it should allow you to invent your own story.
'Cosmic Runner'—Solar Bears, from 'Supermigration'
John: It is far more about inner space than anything external. The name itself was the only thing that made sense with the collection of songs we created together. We traveled a lot during the making of the record, seeing all that foreign scenery fed into the expansive sound of the LP somehow. My main ambition is to become more skilled as a music maker.
Looking back on the song titles there emerged a kind of science fiction psychedelic short story, starting with "Stasis" and ending with "Rainbow Collision". We feel very unproven, that's why we continue to work as hard as possible. Taking any of this for granted would be incredibly foolish. The label believed in us again and we love to work with all of them. Their advice and experience is invaluable to our group.
DM: What are the film references to Supermigration? And would you like to write a film score?
John: The White Ribbon, La Jetee, Gandahar and The Fountain. There is a little known Buddhist fable from Korea called Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring that has a unique soundtrack. It contains acoustics and electronics and has a very glacial sound to it. That would be one that I would like to re-score.
Rian: One of the things we want to do next is write a film score. We would love to work closely with a director on their project, try to elevate the images. Sometimes we feel that we are already scoring when writing together.
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More from Solar Bears, plus a film on the making of 'Supermigration', after the jump…


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - FT will retire in New Delhi next yr Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in FT will retire in New Delhi next yr Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> India View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message CubismJoined: 04 Jul 2008Posts: 283Location: US Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:06 pm Post subject: FT will retire in New Delhi next yr Howdy. For various reasons I like Delhi and plan to live there nearly full-time next yr. what i need help with: where to live like a normal person and not a superstar, a beautiful person with a huge expense acct. those guys rent a whole floor in vasant vihar and that's not even close to how i live. therefore: where? I've always stayed in north delhi, but that's a changed situation so i'm ready to change, too. suggestions? thank you. cube Back to top diced260Joined: 24 Feb 2009Posts: 80 Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:35 pm Post subject: A half dozen metro stops (blue line I think) or so, west of Paharganj, whatever the stop is for one of the FabIndia stores, is an area pretty much UNTOUCHED by foreigners. Young crowd. Must be housing. Must be cheaper than south Delhi. Back to top CubismJoined: 04 Jul 2008Posts: 283Location: US Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 1:23 pm Post subject: I can't believe it: how wonderful This is really great news. If you think of more ideas/things to pass along, pls do. Thanks......................Cube Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> India All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Happy holidays everyone!
Michel Foucault and I agreed to meet on top of the heavenly
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drags from his scentless Gaulloise, Michel draws a pocketbook from underneath his coat and hands it to me. Is this what I think it is? The third volume of his renowned History of Sexuality, The Care of the Self (Le Souci de soi), was not meant to be the last: Confession of the Flesh (Les Aveux de la chair) - or the "unborn fourth" - was left incomplete, privately held in the Foucault archive up to these days. It is now also held in
Michel: The reason is quite simple, really. With The Care of the Self, I wanted to examine how the way the individual makes use of his (you'll pardon me, the texts I reference very rarely refer to female individuals) - of his body and mind starts to take up a moral stance throughout the two first centuries of our era. Artémidorus's interpretation of dreams reflects principles of an appreciation of a specific sexual conduct. As I write in the book, these principles underlie Artemidorus' analysis of sexual dreams. In this type of oneirocritica, the social position (and sometimes, the physical condition) of the dreamer in relation to that of his sexual partner matters more than the sexual act itself. It is thus possible to witness an evident correlation between sexual and social scenes. For instance, Artemidorus will only imply that it is a bad or a good omen to dream of a sexual intercourse with a person who occupies a given social status (penetration being the only conceivable sexual intercourse), without ever referring to the concept of morality. To properly answer your question, I would say that this opening chapter serves to remind the reader of the fact that sexual experience is, at the time, still very much understood in classical terms: the value of sexual acts, in many instances, is defined by the social position of those who engage in them. This first chapter hints on this idea that while the subject is still understood in terms of his place in society - as a citizen - his individuality becomes also "subject" to scrutiny. The sphere of citizenship is thus extended, and starts permeating the private sphere; an honourable citizen must have an honourable conduct when out in the city (or city-state) as well as in his dreams.
Michel: Certainly. Before beginning my analysis of these other texts, I wanted to spend some time clarifying this notion of the "culture of the self", which is also the name of my second chapter. I wanted to see how I could connect a growing sexual austerity with a more and more intensive relationship to the self. Indeed, I found out that it is not through the tightening of a legal or religious code that sexual prohibition seems to take place, but because the individual starts to see himself as subject of his actions. Through my examination of Seneca and Epictetus's texts, I got to see this culture of the self as a veritable art of self-knowledge - "art de la connaissance de soi". Each individual, according to these authors, is expected to be taking care of his self: there is no age, not a moment or a situation more appropriate than another: it must be a perpetual exercise. It is possible to point to three main components of this art of self-knowledge: (i) knowing how to live without luxury, through abstinence, (ii) regularly subject oneself to a thorough examination of one's conscience, (iii) be in constant control of oneself. Again, I want to stress that this culture of the self didn't emerge as a result of a solidification of the law or religious codes; this change concerns the way the individual comes to see himself as responsible for constituting himself as a moral subject.
Florence: You spoke about - excuse me the rephrasing - the importance of the individual to place himself as an honorable subject in the realm of the community; can we now go more in depth into the complex relationship between social position and identity - a problem that you investigate in your third chapter, "Self and Others"?
Michel: I would say that it is by observing the changes occurring on the marital and the political scenes that it is most practical to account for this relationship between self and others. For instance, the evolution of marriage from a private to a public institution has the effect of interrogating this institution as a way of life; marriage becomes more and more about a healthy relationship between partners. One also notes a drastic evolution concerning the way politics is understood: one shouldn't feel obliged to actively participate in the life of the city-state, and if one does, one should bear in mind that he has to be a moral example to others, and know when his time has come to withdraw from the public scene. In public life as well as in married life, the growing concern for one's control over one's self can also be understood as a crisis of subjectivation.
Michel: It is interesting how philosophy
and medicine elaborate very similar discourses on aphrodisia - sexual pleasures. Both agree on the fact that to take care of one's self correctly, one has to pay attention to the health of the mind and the body: the unhealthiness of the body will result in the degenerescence of the mind, and vice-versa. The aphrodisia start to be comprehended as existing only for the purpose of reproduction, possibly detrimental to one's constitution when not refrained enough. Highly specific recommandations and precepts are developed by doctors (such as Galen) and philosophers as to what a good sexual conduct should be. These recommandations and precepts can't however be assimilated to a Christian moral: they are expected to be integrated within the experience the subject makes of his self.
Michel: It means that marriage is now more
about the bond between spouses than it is about economical arrangement. As far as the husband is concerned, a principle of moderation is to be respected: reciprocity, more than control over others, becomes the new duty. The art of married life takes shape through precepts - a lot of them developed by the Stoics. This way of life starts forming as a strong model, advertised as conform to nature and socially useful - beneficial to everyone's good. It is through marriage that man finds his rational form. And it is only through marriage that one can establish a satisfying relationship to one's self - the aphrodisia of course being subject to another form of scrutiny.
Michel: I must say that love for boys, at the end of the classical age, is no longer what is used to be at the time of Socrates. Plutarch and Pseudo-Lucian provide two contrasting examples of how love for boys and for women is rationally justified. Plutarch argues that relationships with boys are disgracious because non-consensual, while they are gracious with women, because reciprocal. Pseudo-Lucian hovers towards the opposite side, positting love for boys as more civilized, more evolved, than love for women - too natural, too primary. In any case, what happens at this time is that with the strengthening of the culture of the self, which implies a strong ambivalence and even hostility towards aphrodisia taking place outside the marriage/reproduction framework, a new erotica emerges, where virginity comes across as a highly respectable virtue.
Michel: Ah, this is an interesting question. I recently had a discussion about this with Deleuze. I won't expand too much on this, but referring to his idea of detachment (décrochement) which engenders a folding, a reflection (un plissement, une réflexion), I would say that you can see my text as an edification of a facultative rule - the rule for facultatively commanding oneself, as a free man, and of course, as a free woman, or whoever you happen to be as a human being.
It seems that Michel never ceased to use his time wisely since he left us. He has plenty of it to take care of his self, plenty of friends to share his reflections with. When I asked him if he still considered himself as a human-being, he frowned and, looking at the fog down below, responded with another question:
"Do you consider yourself a human-being?"
"We're not in heaven, are we?", I said, hyper-dubitatively. Here, another question.
"Surely you don't need to ask me. Rather, ask yourself the following: why have I come up here? You could as well be talking to yourself right now."
Maybe I should have gone through the effort of climbing
In a read that is simultaneously dense and playful, Munoz's thesis is informed by the theorizing of Ernst Bloch, a Frankfurt School Marxist that has been largely ignored compared to his Frankfurt colleagues. Munoz finds Bloch's ideas on utopia helpful for his project on queer futures, particularly since he sees Bloch as promoting "hope as hermeneutic"; Munoz explains "from the point of view of political struggles today, such a critical optic is nothing short of necessary in order to combat the force of political pessimism" (p.4). In addition to Bloch, Munoz also borrows heavily from Giorgio Agamben's notion of "potentiality," a concept that is distinguished from "possibility" since "unlike a possibility, a thing that simply might happen, a potentiality is a certain mode of nonbeing that is eminent, a thing that is present but not actually existing in the present tense" (p.9). It is this relationship to the future that Munoz believes can be a/temporally created in the present through intentional methods of queer living.
Munoz showcases important queer art and cultural artifacts that illustrate his thesis, including drag performers, photographs of queer stages, spaces of public sex, theater, and dance. For example, in Chapter 2, "Ghost of Public Sex: Utopian Longing, Queer Memories," Munoz uses a "performance text" by John Giorni called You Got to Burn To Shine, in which Giorni recalls "fucking Keith Harring" at Prince Street subway toilet in 1982. In the description, Giorni celebrates the spontaneous, anonymous, unbridled surrender to pleasure that occurred in the moment he and his then-anonymous partner explored each other's bodies, as other's watched. Munoz suggests that this can be seen as an act of resistance and world-making, especially in the face of AIDS-panic sex-policing that took place in the 80s. He then draws on the dialectal thinking of Theodor Adorno to show how "Giorni's text [is] pointing beyond the barriers of our current conditions of possibility, beyond the painful barriers of the AIDS pandemic; it lets us see, via a certain conjuring of "the past," and for many of us we see this past for the very first time" (p. 38).
Munoz's interest in the relationship of temporality to utopia continues throughout the book. In the chapter entitled, "The Future Is in the Present," Munoz tells us about Samuel R. Delany's memories of the advent of postmodern performance art, which he describes as "spare, difficult, minimal, constituted largely by absence, isolation, even distraction" (quoted in Munoz, p. 51). Delaney admits that his disappointment was a result of modernist expectations for something more coherent, but because "no one ever got to see the whole" Delaney (and Munoz) admit spaces of queer world-making. Here, Munoz turns to C.L.R. James' collection of writings, The Future in the Present, which is a Marxist project that posits the ability for the new world to be created in the shell of the old (as the old is still occurring). James' most lucid example is that of an old shop-worker who, because of decades of manual labor work, is unable to perform his job at the factory. In response, his fellow workers agree to pick up his slack so that he can stay hired, as he has a wife and children to support. Munoz connects James' description of dialiectical utopianism back to the discussion of public sex, which he cites as an example of an "outpost of a new society" (p. 55).
Themes of space/time continue most saliently in Chapter 4, Gesture, Ephermera, and Queer Feeling, and also Chapter 6, Stages: Queers, Punks and the Utopian Performative. In the former, he uses drag performance artist, Kevian Aviance, who is "six foot two, bald, black, and effeminate" (p. 73), to discuss the potentiality of the "in-between." For Aviance, drag does not mean perpetuating the fictitious gender binary; he performs without a wig, does not cover up the bulge in between his legs, but is unarguably feminine in gesture and movement. Munoz states, "[Aviance] performs the powerful interface between femininity and masculinity that is active in any gender, especially queer ones. In this fashion he is once again a counterfetish, elucidating the real material conditions of our gender desire" (p. 79). Similarly, in Chapter 6, Munoz sees space/time working together in utopian ways in his discussions of a series of photographs that capture unoccupied queer stages. Although Munoz is talking about literal "stages" (upon which people perform, physically), he makes a nod to the double-entendre of the discourse placed on queer youth that their desire is "just a stage." The disconcerting images of empty stages where privy queers are used to seeing queer-worlds flourish are a reminder that "[t]he best performances do not disappear but instead linger in memory, haunt our present, and illuminate our future" (p.104). Munoz evokes Derrida's notion of the "trace," to explain the potentiality of memory (and the past) to inform our utopian futurity.
Munoz closes his book with the help of a Magnetic Fields song, "Take Ecstasy With Me," which he reads as call to submit to pleasures," but also "a call for a certain kind of transcendence" (p.185). Fittingly, Munoz reminds us that "queerness is not yet here; thus, we must always be future bound in our desires and designs" (p. 185).
As is true with his last book, Disidentifications, Munoz masters the art of combining high-theory with performance and media criticism. His ability to blend Marxist analysis and postmodern theory is an example of utopian promise in and of itself. Throughout each showcase of performance artist or artifact, Munoz is fairly consistent in convincing us that there is a space for futurity in queer-world-making. However, his ideas start to become redundant and what we get from each artifact starts to blend toward the middle and end of the book. We are shown over and over that alternate spaces of queer world-making are possible, that memory informs the present that informs the future, that potentiality is greater than possibility, but not much else. Furthermore, his attempt to claim the political potency of each of his examples (from drag to public sex to Andy Warhol to LeRoi Jones) falls flat at times, especially in contradictory moments when it seems he believes in the importance of collective organizing, but then concedes to individual acts of everyday resistance.
Those critiques noted, I still recommend this book as one of the most coherent pieces out there that addresses the other side of the antisocial thesis debate. Unfortunately (?), as is the case of many books-written-for-the-academy, it is a work that would be read best with chapters extrapolated for different themes of a course, or, what will probably be the case for me, for whatever paper a certain excerpt might be most relevant. Read as a whole, it's redundancy is on the edge of "boring," but Munoz avoids this through his engaging prose, his captivating examples, and his admirable unabashed optimism.
As the semester draws to a close (hurray and gasps of horror!), I'm working on finishing up my big project. Once it's done, I'll post it on the blog--for anyone that's interested in French film! It has been really useful and productive, and I'm pretty sure that I'll make use of what I've written later on when I teach. We even have some oppurutnities while teaching the lower langauge levels as grad students to bring in film, so I think I'll be able to use this (either exactly this or something in the same format) sooner than later!
I, like Liz, have struggled a bit to find a voice that I'm happy with, and I'm still not satisfied, but I think that it's just the nature of the "big project" beast. I worry that I've gone so far away from academic writing that it's too basic...but still useful, simple words can be useful (I keep having to convince myself).
I'll reflect more on the project in my "conclusion" section, as I think reflection within the project will be useful for furture film endavors.
Earlier this semester, Sara and I met to discuss this final project. Sara suggested that I write an annotated bibliography, aiming at supplementing the research I had just started for my thesis. I thus embarked on some sort of selection process: I had to come up with eight works that I found the most engaging and relevant to my research. I did a lot of reading, here and there (a lot of it actually coming from the course's assigned readings), and came to the following realization: although I am more fond of certain authors/texts than others, I can't say for now which I am going to make a more extensive use of throughout my thesis. However, what I can say is that with all this thinking and reading, an argumentative line (shall I even dare the plural form? - argumentative lines?) started to shape. Which means that now, I feel ready for a "proper" paper for this class. One of the advantages of a paper being: I can fit more of these greatly engaging authors I've come across. So a paper it will be, oh, what a conventional format.
I can't help but regretting not having had the guts (to avoid using another word) to try more and get over two essential problems, which prevented me from making the most of this class, namely: a very, very old, writer's block - from SMS to thesis, this affliction doesn't spare anything - and a reluctance to embrace "new" means of communication - e.g. emails and blogging. Raechel and Sophie have been doing such a great job with their blogs, it makes me want to re-/deconstruct this confusion (?!), redigest these weird feelings I have about writing a blog, about writing on a blog.
I wish myself, and of course all of you who aren't done yet with their (many?) papers a lot of courage and luck, shall Inspiration be your guide.
Afghanistan Soldiers do "Telephone":
(why isn't linking or embedding working for me?!?!)
MIA's "Born Free" (Warning: very violent):
PS: So sad today was my last time together with all of you brilliant wonderful ladies!
For my book review on Judith Butler's Frames of War, I've chosen to format it as a kind of "annotated abstract" by chapter.
Judith Butler starts out her book Frames of War with an explanation of her project. She frames the book as a collection of essays revised to make a cohesive book. With this collection, she says that she is attempting "to rethink the complex and fragile character of the social bond and to consider what conditions might make violence less possible, lives more equally grievable, and hence, more livable" (Butler, viii). Through this explanation, she seems to be situating herself and her words on the border between theory ("rethink," "consider") and praxis ("conditions").
Introduction: Precarious Life, Grievable Life
In the introduction, Butler suggests a way of perceiving the personal and the collective. She wants to find a broader way of understanding precariousness, particularly as related to the collective over the personal. Instead of only seeing individuals as precarious (or not), we need to start to think of everyone as collectively precarious, and of precariousness as a shared condition. I see this as stemming from her understanding that "lives are precarious by definition" (Butler, 25). If we understand precariousness outside of the individual and instead as this collective state that she describes, inevitable every life would fall under the category of "precarious".
While part of Butler's argument certainly does focus on the recognition of lives that have previously been tagged as "ungrievable," she also wants to make room for those nations (mainly the US) to accept their own precariousness and their own right to grief. The possible downside to this recognition is a further refusal of certain members of that nation to be included in this acknowledgement of a collective precarious condition.
Chapter 1: Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect
The focus of this chapter is on certain questions or problems that are particularly relevant within the context of war. Butler puts into question who the subject is, especially during times of war, and how wartime heightens a sense of national identity. National identity during wartime serves to reinforce who fits into the cultural conception of human and who does not. Butler also indicates the circumstances under which someone is grievable or not.
To demonstrate her point, Butler brings in the photos and the poetry of Abu Graib prisoners, both in terms of content and of the censorship controversy that surrounds them. From the content of the poetry, Butler reveals the collective pain that the poets feel, and how torture exploits the vulnerability of the body. No doubt, she claims, the governmental system that allowed these torture acts to take place do not want the public, to whom they are trying to justify their usage of these methods, to see the "enemy" in a state of vulnerability, either through photos or expressive poetry.
Chapter 2: Torture and the Ethics of Photography: Thinking with Sontag
Turning to Susan Sontag's work on photography, Butler examines how photographs have recently been used within the context of war and specifically torture. She refers mainly to the photos taken of Abu Graib to show how suffering is presented to us and how this presentation changes our reaction.
Butler begins by explaining the dominance of "embedded reporting" in the coverage of the Iraqi War. This is a kind of reporting that is based only on the approved perspective of the government, and specifically of the military. Butler noted the specific example of the media agreeing not to show images of the coffins of American casualties returning home.
Turning again to the photos of Abu Graib, Butler points out that they too can be understood as part of embedded reporting as the photos are attempting to show American victory and military prowess. She notes on Sontag's distinction between narrative and photographs, that narratives inform us, but that photos haunt us. Sontag also points to the possibility to refuse to be haunted by images, which Butler ties to a refusal that comes from where the viewer sees the subject of the photo within the "frame" of humanity. If the subject is seen as outside of this frame, the images are not haunting. Butler argues that without a sense of haunting, there is no sense of loss, and that these individuals are not seen as grievable as they are outside of the frame of what the viewer considers to be human.
Chapter 3: Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time
In this chapter, Butler looks at the rhetoric of freedom and how it is used to justify state sanctioned force. She calls attention to the use of feminism and gay rights to attack Islam both physically and verbally, all while "reaffirm[ing] US sovereignty" (Butler, 105). Sexual politics are also used for arguably less extreme means; the case that Butler presents here is that of France's secular government. She links the rhetoric of laïcité (secularism) in France, which maintains that the heterosexual family is essential, to the Catholic argument of the necessity of the heterosexual family (and the rejection of the homosexual family). This association between the secular and the religious puts into question the origin of the cultural rules that dictate the symbolic order. Even in a rigidly secular nation, it seems, the symbolic order is maintained through religious norms.
Butler maintains that the hypocrisy of these rules is plainly presented, as sexual freedom is not completely open, in spite of the attempt of Western cultures to proclaim a superior tolerance in comparison to those individuals or cultures that are seen as extreme "others". Presumed Western tolerance is used to exclude presumed non-Western intolerance, in situations ranging from immigration to torture.
Chapter 4: Non-Thinking in the Name of the Normative
The issue that Butler brings up in her fourth chapter is the insufficient framework and language that is used to talk about the subject. She argues that the way the subject is talked about now "presumes specific kinds of subjects" (Butler, 137) that fit into specific categories. When we speak of the "cultural subject" or the "sexual subject", we are in essence, Butler argues, normalizing the subject in a way that does not allow the subject to be understood as it truly is.
The specific example that Butler presents is the "homosexual subject" and the "Muslim subject", two identities that are often thought of opposite and incompatible. She indicates that simply because a religious has certain rules, these rules cannot reliably show how people exist within them. Overall, she is indicating that the language we use limits the subject to the normative.
Chapter 5: The Claim of Non-Violence
With the concluding chapter of her book, Butler examines violence, non-violence, and the subject. She claims that non-violence cannot be seen as a principle, as it cannot be applied to everything and it cannot exist alone. This restriction in the way that non-violence can be understood means that it can only be thought of as an appeal. For Butler, this notion of an appeal for non-violence raises the issue of the time and circumstances required to respond to the appeal for non-violence.
The subject and violence are connected for Butler as her understanding of the subject implies that the subject is always formed through violence, as subjects are put into categories against their will (for example, gender). The violence of the creation of the subject continues as the subject exists. It is through this constant violence and struggle that there is a possibility for non-violence.
To explore this further, Butler reviews various theories on violence through mourning, mainly Levinas, Freud, and Klein.
Overall, I thought that this book offered an interesting new take on questions of violence, most notably state-sanctioned violence and how it is perceived, or how it is supposed to be perceived, by those around it. Butler offers compelling ways of thinking about how different kinds of lives, or even different kinds of subjects, are understood. My only critique is that often times, she makes rather large claims that she does not necessary back up, and I did not always feel convinced with the "facts" that she used as a basis for her arguments. I think that reading her work would be more fruitful if she were to more thoroughly cite her sources.


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Paris Platanias needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 118 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
I'm a Greek entrepreneur trying to show some great aspects of ancient Greek culture in an ordinary way as a t shirt is. I believe that we are wearing most of the time defines us and express our personality and world. Many cultures succeeded in this , like Japanese did, with Zen style minimal t shirts . But Ancient Greek civilization is trying to find a form and a style to show it's art in the paintings , sculptures , mosaics ,designs in a t shirt . It is a challenge!
Men and women 25 to 50
Well Educated
Good economical status
With great respect and love for everything Hellenic .
Eco friendly and conscious about nature and organic products
What we are trying to achieve in a sentence:
A t-shirt inspired from ancient Greek Civilization and Culture that has the quality and style of Ed Hardy's http://edhardyshop.com/
The design will have as a main theme POWER with sub themes BEAUTY , HEROISM , FATE and the daily battle in between them using Humans.
Greek mythology is amazing, so you must design an equally amazingly wicked Graphic T Shirt Design to showcase this ancient Religion and culture.
The design can be all over the t shirt and that is preferable but not a strict rule.
We included some photos so you can take patterns , extract designs and specific segments and alter them as you wish.
We appreciate Minimal ( like Japanese t shirt designs)
or Baroque and heavy of things
we don't appreciate neutral and designs that don't have something , an effect that the viewer will try to look deeper and ask the man on the road ..hey where did you get this...nice t shirt...
Not flashy but with class
In the attachments i have to files with inspirational photos of ancient Greek art and 2 books with brief Greek myths for everyone who wants to dig deeper