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Lucky Gallery and Ventiko Host "Animamus Art Salon"
Lucky Gallery is extremely excited to work with artist/curator Ventiko in hosting an Animamus Art Salon at the Schoolhouse artist collective at 330 Ellery Street in Brooklyn, on April Fools Day, 2012, 7 – 11pm.
Created by Ventiko in 2011, Animamus provides a safe, supportive environment for artists of all mediums to debut and discuss their current work while encouraging audience participation. These monthly traveling salons create temporary communities where artists can exchange ideas amongst the peers and the public in NYC.
"This is the first time Lucky Gallery is hosting an event outside of its home of Red Hook, Brooklyn," says Laura Arena, Director of Lucky Gallery. "We are very excited to showcase gallery artists at Ventiko's Animamus Art Salon with our friends the Schoolhouse in Bushwick because we all share similar passion to provide a supportive venue for artists to share creativity and ideas."
Animamus Art Salon will feature the work of twelve artists, Karla Carballar, Andy Cavatorta & Mihaeko, TJ Hospodar, Jason Martin, Tessa Mauclere, Kathryn Moise, Mariette Papic, Max Piersol, and Justin Orvis Steimer including a performance by The Push Pops, a radical, queer feminist art collective, and an interactive performance by artist Laura Lee Gulledge.
Animamus Artist Salon this month takes place at the Schoolhouse, originally P.S. 52, a three-story live/work space in Bushwick. It is a venue for a wide variety of musical performances, art exhibitions, photo shoots and film projects and has been a home to artists since 1996.
Please join us on April Fools Day with performances and presentations from 7-11pm. Cost of admission is $10 and drinks will be available. We thank our sponsors Hi! Prosecco and Sixpoint Brewery.
Event Date and Time: Sunday, April 1, 2012, 7-11pm
Location: The Schoolhouse, 330 Ellery Street, Brooklyn, NY.
Event Cost: $10
Karla Carballar was born in Mexico City. Her work in video, photography and installation has been exhibited in the US, Mexico, Asia and Europe, including Today Art Museum, Beijing; Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Bienal de Yucatán, Mexico; and the Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, a year traveling exhibition around Mexico.
Andy Cavatorta is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the dark territory of human potential that lies just beyond the reach of imagination. Andy has partnered with Ensemble Robot and produced dynamic experimental musical instruments that challenged concepts of musical invention. After studying at MIT's Media Lab (2008-10) he spent eighteen months in collaboration with Björk and created pendulum-based Gravity Harps, which can be seen and heard in her current residency Biophilia.
TJ Hospodar was born in Ohio and currently resides in New York. His primary passions are photography and performance. He is interested in the norms found within gift economies and hospitality and tourist-versus-neighbor relations. He can be found operating his car service, often free, here in the USA, which he will present during the salon.
Jason Martin works in new media and will present a series under the general title POWER ANIMALS. This work engages species-queer, glamorous, and paganistic animism. With it, he explores power structures, species and gender hybridity, witchcraft, military conflict, rock music, pre-history, and analog electronics through rituals in bright spandex to open portals, utilizing a range of tools from electronics to wrestling holds.
Tessa Mauclere has lived and worked in New York City for the past three years and accumulates experience in various forms while finding her freedom of artistic expression to be muted by the challenge of survival. Late night collages, illustrations and secret archiving of documents meant to be thrown away become manifestations of what she calls this art of necessity where the lack of inspiration inspires.
Mihaeko is a versatile artist whose work combines the mundane with the poetic. Focusing on intimate aspects of silence and gesture, her work is often imbued with dreamy, lyrical overtones or comedic bits of absurdism that render her pieces at once surreal and profoundly personal.
Kathryn Moise is organized. She has developed a keen sense of evaluating what others need and carefully and efficiently executes solutions to make life easier and will be sharing her advice on how artists can simplify and organize their lives to get stuff done faster and more effectively.
Mariette Papic is a writer and photographer, the author of the chapbook, "Electric Bathtub Psalms" and essays on graffiti and culture, including "The Ache of The Real" (Pantheon Projects). She is a contributor to the Interview Blogazine, and 12Questions.us. She is an avid dreamer and traveler, exploring new forms of memoir and currency in a sphere inhabited by her alter ego, "Ruby Gold".
Max Piersol is an artist from Red Hook, Brooklyn who has been working in visual art, film making and acting since 1997. He specializes in stencil work and painting, and is inspired by stoke, living in New York and avoiding schoolwork. Max was in "Anatomically Incorrect", a street-art based collaborative show at Lucky Gallery, and has also written "A Hairy Situation", which won several awards in 2009.
Justin Orvis Steimer continues to explore the process of scribbling on found objects, the tactile nature of which he embraces as a counter balance to the digital world.
The Schoolhouse has been a home to artists since 1996. the building, originally ps 52, was built in 1883 and the energy from over 100 years of existence resonates throughout. the three story live/ work space manages to balance a productive environment with a strong sense of family and community. it has served as a venue for a wide variety of musical performances, art exhibitions, photo shoots and film projects while during most nights of the week the residents gather in the kitchen and cook dinner together.
Lucky Gallery
Lucky Gallery works with underrepresented and emerging artists looking for a venue to share creativity and ideas in a supportive environment. The gallery focuses on the interaction and communication between the artist and community, through performance, workshops, education and opportunity. For more information visit www.luckygallery.com or email email@example.com.
Animamus Art Salon
Drawing its inspiration from the salon format first popularized in 17th Century France, where aristocrats invited thinkers, artists, and writers to their homes to discuss ideas, Animamus Art Salon seeks, in this digital age, to create a physical meeting space that fosters exchange of ideas, facilitate discourse, and creates a sense of community. Salons are held monthly. Artists interested in participating in future salons can propose a presentation/performance by emailing email@example.com.


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Oh how I love that name! Gut und German! He wasn't born in Germany, nor was his father, but a fine German name he was given, and to a ripe old age he lived! He was going by "John" at the time of his death so that's what's seen in his obituary. John Kuehl is my husband's great-grandfather.
June 6-1974 - handwritten (unknown which Wisconsin newspaper clipping was published in)
"John Kuehl
John Kuehl, 90, of Route 3, Campbellsport, formerly of Kewaskum, died Thursday evening at St. Joseph's Community Hospital, West Bend.
He was born Sept. 14, 1883, near Theresa. He married Dora Herman on Nov. 6 1906, at St. Jacob's Church in the Town of Theresa.
Mr. Kuehl was a retired farmer and carpenter. He farmed in the Town of Wayne for 30 years, in 1947 he moved to Kewaskum where he resided until 1970 and the past four years with a son, Elmer at Route 3, Campbellsport.
Survivors include three sons, Roman and Elmer of Route 3, Campbelsport, [sic] and Marvin of West Bend; a daughter, Mrs. Leroy Stean [sic] of Sheboygan Falls; 13 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and three brothers, William of Milwaukee, Paul of West Bend and Rudy of Minneapolis, Minn.
He was preceded in death by his wife of Feb. 22, 1958, by a son, Lester, during World War II, and a son in infancy.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Salem United Church of Christ at Wayne. The Rev. Timothy Prasad will officiate and burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Visitation for Mr. Kuehl will be from 4 p.m. Saturday and until 11 a.m. Sunday at Miller's Funeral Home, Kewaskum, and at the church from noon Sunday until the time of services."
John's daughter is listed as Mrs. Leroy Stean, and the surname should be Strean.

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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Piedmontese Rice salad from my book "Nonna's Italian Kitchen" (Update: the recipe is on this blog here now.)
I was rushed today (as usual these days-- book deadline looming-- that's why not much blogging these recently!) and trying to figure out what to make for my husband's discerning (but omnivore) stepdaughter from Montreal, and her 12 year-old twin girls. I was also trying to figure out what to blog about before everyone gets here and I have no time to blog!
So, here's what I made for dinner tonight (well ahead-- everything but dessert can be eaten at room temperature) and they are due in about half an hour, so I'd better get going! I'll try to blog most of our meals over the week or so that they are here.
Italian Romano Bean salad (also from "Nonna's Italian Kitchen")
Summer squash "a scapici"-- the first picture with our own pattypan squash, and the second with a neighbor's green and yellow zucchini. (Also from "Nonna's".)
"A scapici" is a southern Italian version of the Spanish or Caribbean "escabeche" (cooked fish pickled in a vinegar sauce), or Latin American "seviche" (a method of "cooking" fish with the acid of lime or lemon juice, which is a very typical dish in Peru, where my father was born-- now I make seviche with mushrooms). In Italy, many vegetables are prepared a scapici, including eggplant.
Some versions use vinegar instead of lemon juice, add garlic, use other herbs (such as sage), and fry the vegetables in olive oil. I like this very simple grilled version (I "grill" it under my oven's broiler) made with fresh lemon juice. It's such a simple recipe that you might tend to overlook it, but it is one of my absolute favorites! The eggplant melts in your mouth, and the zucchini is juicy and sweet.
Here's the recipe, which is really mostly a guide:
Serves about 4
1 large eggplant or 2 medium zucchini
2 T. extra-virgin olive oil
1 T. fresh lemon juice
freshly ground black pepper
OPTIONAL: chopped fresh mint or basil
If using eggplant, slice it about1/2" thick. Salt it liberally and leave it to drain for half an hour in a colander. If using zucchini (I usually do some of each), slice it 1/4" thick and don't salt it.
Rinse and pat the eggplant dry. Brush both the eggplant and zucchini with 1 T. of the oil and grill or broil it on bothsides about 3-4" from the heat source, or until slightly browned and soft. (This takes just a few minutes per side.)
Cut the vegetables into thick strips and arrange on a serving platter. Drizzle them with the remaining olive oil and the lemon juice. Sprinkle with pepper to taste, and salt the zucchini lightly (salt isn't necessary for the eggplant). Sprinkle with chopped fresh mint or basil.
For a bread, I made Potato Fougasse, which will be in my new book coming out late this year, I think. It's a sort of French focaccia, with an interesting tree-like design, and very yummy! I sneaked in quite a bit of fiber!
Here it's just placed in the oven:
And, for dessert, we're having what I call "Grown-Up Nanaimo Bars", a vegan, less sweet, and more healthful version of a popular BC sweet:
UPDATE: I forgot the roasted beets with olive oil, wine vinegar, salt and pepper and Italian parsley!
And here is the dinner before everyone demolished it! (It was a hit!)
Hope you're enjoying your summer!
13 comments:
- Tiffany said...
Everything looks great! I have A LOT of zucchini to use up--it's the only veg growing out back that the squirrels aren't devouring--so this recipe comes with perfect timing. :) Thanks for sharing.
- Wed Aug 11, 08:24:00 PM PDT
- Marja @ StuckInYourBeard said...
Wow, that all looks so good. Especially the squash and the bread! I've seen that bread at the bakery but it's never vegan---yours gives me hope!
- Thu Aug 12, 05:08:00 AM PDT
- Brenda W. said...
I always head to your Nonna's cookbook when fixing something for company!!
Your preparations look lovely as usual!! Glad all the fixings were such a hit!!
- Thu Aug 12, 05:39:00 AM PDT
- jess_fildespages said...
Those bars look amazing!!!!
- Thu Aug 12, 06:58:00 AM PDT
- Søren said...
Wow, this looks good, Bryanna. I can wholeheartedly recommend the piedmontese rice salad - it is simply wonderful! (I make it with roasted green asparagus - yum!)
- Thu Aug 12, 07:13:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Wish you could all have been at our summer table!
- Thu Aug 12, 07:56:00 AM PDT
- Any middle-aged German Witch in Amerika said...
Hey, my friend Søren brought me here, and I love your blog!
I am going to order your Nonna book now, it looks like I am going to really like that. Just my style of cooking and meal preparing.
- Thu Aug 12, 11:52:00 AM PDT
Book deadline? Tell us more! Is this the seitan book you have mentioned? I own all of your books and use them often. There is room on teh shelf for more.
- Fri Aug 13, 11:46:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
It's n international vegan cookbook. I'm also still working on the grain meat cookbook, in conjunction with David lee from Filed roast, and I plan to do my own seitan cookbook, either as an e-book or a regular book if I can find a publisher who wants to do it.
- Fri Aug 13, 02:06:00 PM PDT
Everything looks great Bryanna, but I'm really digging your bread! It looks absolutely wonderful.
- Fri Aug 13, 07:07:00 PM PDT
- Jessica said...
Everything looks marvelous. I'm anxiously awaiting for your book!
I'm certain that everyone will enjoy themselves tremendously. Thanks for sharing with us, and can't wait to see the pics and story of how everyone enjoyed themselves.
- Sat Aug 14, 01:58:00 PM PDT
- Zoa said...
Oh my god, this all looks so good! I will buy your seitan book however you end up publishing it--I had the Braised Chinese Seitan from your Authentic Chinese Cuisine last night (not for the first time) and it was just awesome. Hungry now, going to cook--
- Sat Aug 14, 02:07:00 PM PDT
Thanks for the grilled eggplant recipe. I took it as a guide as you called it and mixed it with pasta, spring onions and salad leaves for a really tasty pasta salad. I didn't salt the eggplant and for the herbs I added substantial amount of fresh parsley and mint. I mixed the olive oil, lemon juice and herbs with strips of hot eggplant before combining with the other ingredients and this way they seemed to soak up a lot of flavour. They eggplant was meltingly tender and had wonderful sweet flavour, as well as being tangy and herby. I would certainly like to try the recipe with zucchini sometime soon.
- Tue Aug 13, 12:12:00 PM PDT


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"On the construction of a healthy brain inter-subject diffusion tensor image and tractography atlas", 32nd Congress of the Europea Society of NeuroRadiolog, pp. 146, 2007.
"Feasibility and advantages of diffusion weighted imaging atlas construction in Q-space", MICCAI 2011: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, pp. 166-173, 2011.
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The Bicycle and Pedestrian Capital Plan was accepted by the MPO Officials Committee on May 30, 2013. The Plan includes an assessment of current conditions for biking and walking in Lincoln and Lancaster County as well as short- and long-range proposals for capital improvements to the biking and walking networks. It also includes suggested priorities for the community to consider for implementing the most useful walking and biking capital projects. Click here for the Final Report.


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Brian's Run
On August 26, 1978, Brian Bratcher, a promising fifteen-year-old football player at West Chester Henderson High, sustained a life-challenging spinal cord injury during a scrimmage and became paralyzed. Stunned by the tragedy, the community came up with the idea of organizing a sponsored race as a way of defraying Bratcher's medical costs and other expenses resulting from his injury. They hoped to get 100 participants for the one-time race, but over 2000 showed up for the event, boosting their initial goal of $500 to just over $20,000. Bratcher was overwhelmed and insisted, "Next year, let's do it for someone else." More than 20 years later, Brian's Run is still going strong.
David Block is a legally blind journalist and the producer/director of two documentaries on blind athletes Goalball: A Sport for Good Listeners (1992) (which was produced with and is distributed by Scribe), and Portraits of Possibility(1996). His works have been broadcast on two Philadelphia public television stations, WHYY TV12 and WYBE TV35, and they've received funding from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association, and the Karden Foundation. He can be reached via his Web site,www.BlindFilmmaker.com
June 6, 2002, "Ardmore Filmmaker David Block Has Stories To Tell," Main Line Times by Kevin Williamson
June 10, 2002, "Film Tells Story of Brian's Run," Daily Local News (Chester County) by Jessica McRorie
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Craig Clevenger Returns With Not One Shotgun, But Two..
The fireworks aren't over just yet! It's my pleasure to announce that Craig Clevenger's second short story (an excerpt from his forthcoming novel Saint Heretic) is now live.
Now watch those eyebrows and fingers, so you don't get hurt when you absorb this fireworks finale; Craig Clevenger will be returning to the site in a new capacity, as the first visiting author for our new 'Authors in Residence' series that we are unveiling this year.
This is different from previous Master Intensive Workshops, as it is not lecture and homework based, but more of a classroom creative writing course. A two week 'Shotgun' Intensive to focus on the material that you, the student, are working on.
To ensure personal attention and an intimate classroom style setting, both Shotgun Intensives will be limited to only 15 Students. But don't worry, there are two to choose from!
The dates for 2009 are:
Monday, July 20th through Monday, August 3rd
Monday, September 14th, through Monday, September 28
Yes, that's correct. Each class is 15 days. As usual, Craig is reinventing language in such a way that two weeks now means 15 days.
- Craig asked that students submit two pieces of work (2000-3000 maximum) so he can familiarize himself with your work and hit the ground running the first day of the class.
- There will be two conference calls each week with Craig to discuss your work with you and field any questions.
- Craig will be addressing student's individual projects rather than instructing in a lecture style format. ...Working on a novel, want to develop characters more fully, unable to end a story? Bring it on!
- Each Shotgun is limited to 15 students to ensure individual attention
Registration will open for both classes next Monday, July 13 at 10:00 AM PST.
You are allowed to sign up for both!
Registration is open to everyone. It is not based on writing samples.
Writing samples must be submitted to me within 24 hours of registration so I can forward them to Craig in a timely manner.
What's the cost for this opportunity to study with Craig Clevenger for two weeks in this intimate, and personal Shotgun Intensive: It's only $250 with special discounts as always to our premium members. Premium members will receive a courtesy discount of $25.
There is also an additional 'Early Bird' discount of $25 for registrations from July 13 through July 15!
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From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Set in the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, L4D's survival co-op mode lets you blast a path through the infected in four unique "movies," guiding your survivors across the rooftops of an abandoned metropolis, through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests in your quest to escape a devastated Ground Zero crawling with infected enemies. Each "movie" is comprised of five large maps, and can be played by one to four human players, with an emphasis on team-based strategy and objectives.
New technology dubbed "the AI Director" is used to generate a unique gameplay experience every time you play. The Director tailors the frequency and ferocity of the zombie attacks to your performance, putting you in the middle of a fast-paced, but not overwhelming, Hollywood horror movie.
- Addictive single player, co-op, and multiplayer action gameplay from the makers of Counter-Strike and Half-Life
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- See how long you and your friends can hold out against the infected horde in the new Survival Mode
- An advanced AI director dynamically creates intense and unique experiences every time the game is played
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27 March 2014 at 4.00pm | 3 Comments
**Update: The broadcast date for Ariadne auf Naxos has changed. It will now be broadcast on 16 July.
A total of seven Royal Opera performances are to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 across spring and summer, five of which will be relayed live.
The broadcasts include the Company's 'musically exceptional' production of Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, conducted by Semyon Bychkov; and Gounod's Faust, starring Joseph Calleja, Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel and Sonya Yoncheva.
Full listings are as follows:
- Die Frau ohne Schatten LIVE – 29 March 5:50pm
- L'Ormindo – 14 April, 7.15pm
- Faust LIVE – 22 April, 6.45pm
- Dialogues des Carmélites LIVE – 7 June, 6.45pm
- Manon Lescaut LIVE – 1 July, 6.45pm
- Ariadne auf Naxos – 16 July, 7.30pm
- Maria Stuarda LIVE – 14 July, 7.15pm
All broadcasts will be available afterwards on BBC iPlayer for seven days. In addition to full performances, BBC Radio 3 will broadcast a number of interviews and features through the rest of the 2013/14 Season. For details of these, follow us on Twitter or Facebook.
Please note, details of broadcast are subject to change.


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Small Ash Tray Bulbs
This hard to find bulb is also used in the automatic shift indicator in the console and the heater control panel.
Each ash tray has one of these light bulbs
The automatic shifter indicator has one of these light bulbs
The heater control unit has one of these bulbs
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When you place an order the shipping amount will show $0.00. Soon after you place an order you will receive an email confirmation that shows the amount of shipping that was added to your order.
Shipping is $5.00. (Midwest-USA)
Final shipping cost is determined by weight of the item(s) and distance from Milwaukee, WI. Shipping prices quoted are for items shipped to the Midwest area in the USA. If you are ordering a single item or multiple items the total shipping price is determined after you place the order. I try to keep my shipping prices to a minimum and use Postal Flat Rate boxes whenever I can utilize them for an order.


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Relic Me This
May 12, 2009
DH Film
Day Two of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows location filming is underway currently in Wales, and we will be bringing you reports as soon as we can. Yesterday TLC brought you the first report and photos from Shell Cottage filming, and among the things noted was the large presence of paparazzi, which is making things difficult for fans to see all the action, and security is now strong in the area. However, if there is a silver lining to be had, the press does have those large cameras capable of getting large close up photos. In case you missed it yesterday, along with ones of the cast, two photos of note were obtained showing some interesting relics or items from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
Griphook and the Sword of Gryffindor
Harry and the Mirror shard (from Sirius)
TLC has crews on the scene for Day Two, and we will be bringing you more reports today, stay tuned! Be sure to check out our extensive collection of Day One photos from location filming at Shell Cottage built on Freshwater Beach, Pembrokeshire, Wales, here in our image galleries.


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The Effect
Next time you meet a friend for coffee, as a gesture of friendship, you bring along a CD you made for them of some music you thought they'd enjoy. As you give them the CD, you explain to your friend that listening to someone's music is a great way to get to know them. There's something deep and emotional about music that exists on a different level from plain conversation. You ask them what some of their favorite songs are, in an attempt to learn more about them. "If you like those songs, you're going to love this CD,"? you say, pointing to the disc they're now holding. The rest of the afternoon coffee is no different from any other. When they arrive home and play the CD, however, they realize that they will indeed love the songs on it. They're the exact same songs they mentioned to you earlier during coffee.
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- He mentions that computers are so fast they are like magic. I don't think it is a coincidence that he called the iPad "magical".
- He states that in a few years people will be spending more time interacting with personal computers than with cars. It seems so obvious now, but hardly a given back then.
- He equates society's level of technology familiarity to being on a "first date" with personal computers. He recognized that technology would continue to evolve in the near future as would people's comfort level with it. In hindsight, once it became dominant the PC industry stood relatively still while Jobs was busy planning "the next big thing".
- He confidently talks about the personal computer being a new medium of communication. Again, this is before networking was commonplace or there was any inkling of the Internet going mainstream. Yet he specifically talks about early e-mail systems and how it is re-shaping communication. He matter-of-factly states that when we have portable computers with radio links, people could be walking around anywhere and pick up their e-mail. Again, this is 1983, at least 20 years before the era of mobile computing.
- He mentions an experiment done by MIT that sounds very much like a Google Street View application.
- He discusses early networking and the mess of different protocols that existed at the time. He predicts that we were about 5 years away from "solving" networking in the office and 10-15 years from solving networking in the home. I'd say he was pretty much dead-on.
- He says Apple's strategy is to "put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes". Does that sound like anything we are familiar with today? And they wanted to do it with a "radio link" so that people wouldn't need to hook it up to anything to communicate with "larger databases" and other computers. Hmmm ….
- He compares the nascent software development industry to the record industry. He says that most people didn't necessarily know what computer they wanted to buy. In contrast, when walking into a record store they definitely knew what music they liked. This was because they got free samples of songs by listening to the radio. He thought that the software industry needed something like a radio station so that people could sample software before they buy it. He believed that software distribution through traditional brick-and-mortar was archaic since software is digital and can be transferred electronically through phone lines. He foresees paying for software in an automated fashion over the phone lines with credit cards. I don't know about you, but I think this sounds incredibly similar to the concept of the Apple App Store. Plus his comparison to the music industry just might be foreshadowing the iTunes store. You need to listen to the speech to hear the entirety of this passage for yourself.
- Right at the end of the Q&A session, a question is asked about voice recognition, which he believed was the better part of a decade away from reality. Given the context of Siri today, it is interesting to hear him talk about the difficultly of recognizing language vs voice because language is contextually driven. He says, "This stuff is hard".
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Pure Magic -- Pure Steve Jobs
Today, a 1983 speech given by Steve Jobs at a small meeting in Aspen, Colorado to the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA) was posted online. If you want to have even the slightest understanding of why Apple is now the predominant computer company, all you have to do is listen to Steve Jobs talking in 1983. The speech and question and answer period that follows was put online on the Life, Liberty and Technology blog. Here is a quote of some of the things mentions back in 1983 before the introduction of the Macintosh:
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By Ahmar Mustikhan, American Reporter Correspondent
July 1, 2008
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From behind the ivory tower called the White House on New Year's Eve, even as the ground in Rawalpindi - headquarters of Pakistan's military - was wet with the blood of twice-premier Benazir Bhutto, the Bush Administration okayed the delivery of deadly F-16 jets to Pakistan worth nearly $500 million.
The manufacturer in question, Lockheed Martin has had a history of bribing foreign officials for arms purchases and though a special law was enacted to quell such bribery three decades ago, the practice seems to still be continuing vis-à-vis Pakistan, an elected official in that country said.
The lone voice of protest to the arms sales was that of Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations on the grounds that it was okayed prior to the general elections. Biden called the move "reckless."
Pakistan spends most of its $10 billion annual budget on its military on a plea of deterrence against arch-rival India
Pakistan, with a population of 165 million, despite being rich in resources is one of the poorest nations in the world, ranking around 135 on the Human Development Index. Still the military generals in the South Asian country are filthy rich thanks to corruption and bribery, a big chunk of which comes through arms purchases from the United States.
Pakistan spends most of its $10 billion annual budget on its military on a plea of deterrence against arch-rival India, from which it was carved in a bloody war of independence that pitted Muslims against Hindus when the British left the Indian subcontinent in August 1947.
The country was formed by slicing off Muslim majority areas in the northwest and southwest portions of India. At the time of its formation, Pakistan had two parts, each separated by 1000 miles of Indian territory, called East Pakistan and West Pakistan. After the 1971-72 Indo-Pak War, East Pakistan became Bangladesh, a nation that has foundered in corruption, political chaos, natural disasters and poverty ever since.
Since its founding, Pakistan's main focus has been developing its military, which now ranks fifth in the world in size - just one step behind the U.S. - leaving its growth as a modern society stymied. Ironically, after assuming the leadership role of the so-called Free World after World War II, for more than a half-century now, the United States has nurtured Pakistan's military forces in the name of its own vital interests.
According to official U.S. thinking even to this day, Pakistan's military is "the greatest single stabilizing force in the country."
Pakistan's social indicators still lag far behind
According to the World Bank, Pakistan's social indicators still lag far behind countries with comparable per-capita incomes - now less than $2 a day. Poverty rates, which had fallen substantially in the 1980s and early 1990s, have started to rise in the last 10 years. Among the most vulnerable are the poor in rural areas, where only 2 out of 10 girls and 4 out 10 boys complete their education. Less than half of the overall population is considered literate, but in the far-flung countryside the literacy rate plunges as low as 10 percent, thus providing fertile grounds for Islamic militancy.
Pakistan joined the World Bank in July of 1950 and by 1954 was a member of U.S.-lead aggressive military pacts called SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organization) and CENTO (Central Treaty Organization) in the name of fighting the global communist threat. It was around this time Islamabad began purchasing huge arms caches from the United States. Today, Pakistan owes the World Bank $10 billion, a sum that, not astonishingly, is equal to that of its arms purchases from the U.S.
Pakistan has been ruled directly by U.S.-supported military dictators for 33 years of its "independent" existence. The first military coup leader Gen. Ayub Khan ruled from October 1958 to March 1969; his successor Gen. Yahya Khan from March 1969 to December 1971.
Military dictatorships
Gen. Ziaul Haq, like Ayub Khan was a coup leader, was the third military dictator who ruled the country from July1977 to August 1988. The latest among coup leaders is Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in October 1999 and is still the president.
In the backdrop of Cold War, the U.S. arms manufacturers saw an opportunity in Pakistan's paranoid behaviour towards India and began pumping arms into that country. Pakistan was designated most "allied ally" of the U.S., or for lack of better words, a client state.
Officials in Washington defend Pakistan's right to arm itself to the teeth. "I think it's the right of every country to modernize its army," said William B. Milam, former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan. Milam said he had heard "rumours" about corruption in the Pakistan army leadership. "If that it's true or untrue I can't say for sure because I do not have conclusive proof," he added.
Milam also ruled out any possibility of Lockheed Martin giving bribes to Pakistan generals for the F-16 sales saying such a practice violates U.S. laws. "If this was true they would be in jail," he said.
But bribery is not a new thing for Lockheed Martin Corporation. The nearly 100-year-old company, which was once called Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company, got mired in bribery scandals that made international headlines in the mid 1970s. At that time the corporation earned infamy for what was called the "Deal of the Century" - it was revealed that board members had bribed officials in West Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan starting from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating aircraft sales.
The opium of Islam
Pakistan might have missed mention, an interesting episode from the late 1990s reveals. At that point of time in the wake of Pakistan's nuclear program, the delivery of 28 F-16s for which Pakistan had paid the monies was cancelled under the Pressler Amendment, which forbade U.S. arms sales to countries engaged in clandestine nuclear weapons program.
Though the Pentagon was willing to reimburse the monies, a problem cropped up on how to account for the commissions that were given to generals close to coup leader Musharraf's predecessor, Gen. Ziaul Haq.
"One of Zia's closest generals, the late Gen. Fazle Haq, had got his commission and was dead and there was no way to give back those monies," Mir Hasil Bizenjo, secretary general of the National Party told this correspondent. During his lifetime Fazle Haq, who was also known as "Pakistan's Noriega", had unabashedly told the New York Times at a news conference that under Zia he "could get away with blue murder."
Enriched through corruption, Pakistani generals who ruled the country under direct U.S. tutelage for more than three decades, have left all democratic institutions, including the judiciary, destroyed. Instead, they promoted the military as a national institution. "This is strange. In my civic lessons I learned there are three institutions - legislature, executive and judiciary.
The army is supposed to be an organ of the executive not an institution by itself," says Senator Javed Laghari, a close confidante of slain premier Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated on December 27 last year. There is widespread suspicion that intelligence agencies related to the army had a hand in Bhutto's slaying.
Al-Qaeda Headquarters
Since its very inception, the masses in Pakistan have been fed on the opium of Islam to counter centrifugal nationalist tendencies. Pakistan has the dubious distinction of being the world's only Muslim country with nuclear weapons. Headquarters of Al Qaeda following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, in the rural countryside of the most populous Punjab province - stronghold of the army - Bin Laden is a folk hero called "Baba."
Pakistan's military also has refused to hand over the world's worst nuclear proliferators, father of the Islamic Bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan for international interrogation. U.S. media reports have belatedly cited Pakistan as one of the most dangerous places on earth.
According to the Arms Control Association, Pakistan is estimated as having an arsenal of approximately 60 nuclear warheads. Available delivery vehicles include ground-launched ballistic missiles and dual-use fighter aircraft, reportedly including U.S.-origin F-16 fighter jets. The fighter jets were not transferred for the purpose of delivering nuclear bombs, but Pakistan is believed to have modified the planes for that mission, the ACA believes.
The association says Pakistan continues to produce fissile material for weapons purposes and is seeking to expand its production capacity by building additional nuclear facilities, including a heavy water reactor. Pakistan is currently estimated to possess approximately 1,300 kilograms of highly enriched uranium and 90 kilograms of weapons plutonium.
Interestingly, the arms manufacturing lobbies in the U.S. appear to be in a position to continue to pump in arms in spite of the many threats emanating from Pakistan and its continued support to the Taliba'an. Casting aside diplomatic silence, both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and commanders of the International Security Assistance Force have come out openly against Pakistan in recent days.
Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. instead of putting Pakistan on a watch list for its Al Qaeda ties, the U.S. lifted the arms embargo that was put in place after Pakistan came out of nuclear closets and tested nuclear bombs in May 1998.
Since 9/11, the country has ranked among the top recipients of U.S. military equipment and received $1.5 billion in Coalition Support Funds, which is reimbursed as cash to partake in the war on terror with very little congressional oversight, according to the Centre for Public integrity. A new instalment of nearly $400 million was released Monday though the death toll in Afghanistan surpassed those in Iraq in the month of May. US officials said 18 coalition troops were killed in action last month in Afghanistan, compared with 16 killed in Iraq.
U.S. military supplies for fighting terrorism are being used against Baluchistan
Human rights activists in and outside Pakistan fear the U.S. military supplies - in spite of Pakistan's Al Qaeda links and its blossoming nuclear weapons program - in the name of fighting terrorism , are being used against the area-wise Baluchistan province, bordering Iran and Afghanistan.
A bloody armed insurgency - the fifth of its kind - in Baluchistan over the last three years has left thousands killed, including former chief minister Nawab Akbar Bugti and a member of provincial assembly and guerilla leader Mir Bala'ach Marri, called Baluch Che Guevara. Baluchistan nationalists insist that their homeland was coerced into merger with Pakistan against the wishes of its people in March 1948.
London-based human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell denounced the F-16 jet sales to Pakistan. He told The American Reporter, "President George W. Bush is complicit in the war crimes, torture and other crimes against humanity being perpetrated by Musharraf's army of occupation in Baluchistan."
Dr. Wahid Baloch, founder of the Baloch Social Organization of North America, a group aimed at protecting human rights in Baluchistan, also deplores the continued U.S. arms dealings with Pakistan.
Baloch said the arms supplies escalate "collateral damage" in his home province of Baluchistan.
Pakistan's army has ruthlessly dealt with its national minorities
"The Pakistani Air Force Chief has acknowledged that fighter jets have been used in Baluchistan against 'the insurgents'," he adds. He said Pakistan's army has ruthlessly dealt with its national minorities, and drew a stark parallel between what is happening in Baluchistan to the bloodshed unleashed by Pakistan's army in the former East Pakistan. There, the army was justly accused of massacring hundreds of thousands of Bengali fighters in 1971.
Baloch cited published reports that claimed that the weaponry being used in Baluchistan includes American-supplied helicopter gunships, fighter jets, heavy artillery and missiles.
"Civilian concentrations have frequently been targeted. Many innocent civilians, including women and children, have been killed or have 'disappeared.' Exact numbers are hard to find given the complete clampdown on reportage and information from Baluchistan," he said.
A former member of Pakistan's National Assembly, Rauf Mengal, said people in Baluchistan were helpless before the army's offensive. "Many are still languishing in prisons," he said on phone from Quetta, capital of Baluchistan.
"U.S. arms sales have propped up the Musharraf dictatorship and facilitated Pakistan's murderous war against the people of Baluchistan," Tachell said from London. "The U.S. fought a war of independence to secure self-determination and self-rule. Yet, as Baluchistan mourns its 60 years of forcible incorporation into Pakistan, Washington is aiding the neo-colonialists in Islamabad," said Tatchell, who recently "ambushed" Musharraf's limousine in London with other demonstrators.
A new government assumed office in Pakistan in March, under Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. It has set up a reconciliation commission for peace in Baluchistan, but Baluchi nationalists have taken the move with a proverbial grain of salt.
"Unless both the military's budget and its dominant role in Pakistan politics is cut drastically, nothing will change," said Baloch.
Further destabilising the security environment in an already fragile South Asia
One dimension of the arms supplies is that the dangers they pose go far beyond Pakistan's borders, as these weapons could further destabilise the security environment in an already fragile South Asia. Pakistan has fought three wars with India, and fears still loom large that Pakistan's new nuclear-ready F-16s would be used against India. Pakistan has made it amply clear it would not shy away from being the first to use nuclear weapons.
"I would simply say there are two aspects of the U.S. military aid to Pakistan since 9/11 that raise questions," said Selig. S. Harrison, veteran journalist and Asia Director of the Centre for International Policy. "One of them is the fact that much of the military equipment transferred to Pakistan in the name of war on terror is more suited to conventional warfare against India than to counter terrorism operations.
"The other is that the so-called Coalition Support Funds dispensed in cash to Pakistan armed forces - nominally as reimbursement for counterterrorism operations - which have amounted to nearly $6 billion dollars since 9/11, are not subject to strict accountability. In addition to the possibility of large-scale corruption, this lack of accountability also raises serious questions concerning the use of these funds to build capabilities relating to India."
Media Bigwigs
A regrettable aspect of military equipment sales to Pakistan is that many of the 16 members on the Lockheed Martin board are on the board of key centres of learning, like Stanford and Harvard universities, and at least two of them are associated with the U.S. media.
One of the officials is Douglas H. McCorkindale, a former chairman of Gannett Co., Inc. who is now on the board of directors of the global U.S.-based news service, the Associated Press.
A second board member is Frank Savage, who serves on the board of the global Bloomberg, L.P., news agency. It might be these kinds of links that have led many to criticize the U.S. media of playing cheer leaders to the Pentagon - key issues like arms supplies get scant mention in mainstream U.S. media.
Ahmar Mustikhan is a freelance journalist, now based in the Washington D.C. area. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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