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Colton Shreve has been through a grueling recovery since being badly burned July 8 while working to brighten someone else's life. Now others will try to make his life a little easier by having a benefit chili supper 5-7 p.m. Friday at Cascade High School where donations may be made...
New tax proposal studied
(Local News ~ 10/28/04)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners' budget and finance committee considered a third proposal for a tax on new residential construction Tuesday evening -- this one would raise more than twice as much as the two proposals discussed last month. The committee is calling its proposal an "adequate facilities tax," which differs under state law from an "impact fee."...
Police seek clues in murders
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Questioning and studying evidence continues as clues to the murders of Anthony "Bubba" Baltimore and Rebecca "Becky" Ray are sought. The teenagers were found dead Monday at their Sims Road home. Reports indicate they were last seen Saturday night...
Champs celebrate Senior Night
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Cascade's state playoff-bound Champions close out the regular season at home Friday night at 7 against Mt. Pleasant, the top team in Region 5A and the second ranked team in the state, according to the Associated Press poll. It will be Senior Night for eight Champions, a group who Cascade Coach Kenny Parker has enjoyed coaching...
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Empowering students to play an active role in their education
The Williamsburg High School of Arts and Technology in Brooklyn wanted to cultivate the next generation of computer engineers—creative, innovative thinkers with both the hard and soft skills necessary to become leaders of the future. To get there, they wanted students to become co-creators in their own education, rather than passive recipients of it, but they weren't sure how to engage students in this way.
To guide WHSAT's efforts to engage students in co-creation, the Openbox team first immersed ourselves in the school, observing and interviewing students and staff. We used learnings from this round of research to design three experiments, involving real issues around the school, that would bring students and staff together as thought partners. These experiments ran live across the school for a week, exploring variables such as decision moments, roles, location, and timing. The experiment insights allowed us to develop a set of practical co-creation principles that the school can readily build upon for future co-creation activities—amplifying the equitable, arts-based, and experimental ethos of the school.
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Recently I've had an overwhelming number of clients bring up the 5 Star Health Rating as one of the tools they are using in an effort to getting their health on track.
Obesity and health are major problems in the western world, so kudos to the government for attempting to do something about it.
Unfortunately, it's not all it's cracked up to be and may actually be preventing you from achieving your health goals.
Ok, so you're probably wondering if I'm just being an uptight nutritionist who is high on kale, cacao and self importance, or if there's really something to my claims. Let's break it down.
The idea behind the star rating is pretty simple – the fewer stars, the worse it is for you, whereas 5 stars will have you glowing with health and smug satisfaction. Apparently.
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- Total energy (kilojoules) of the product. An average Australian adult should consume around 8,700 kJ a day.
- The saturated fat, sodium (salt) and sugar content. Consuming too much of these risk nutrients is linked to being overweight and obese, some cancers, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
- The fibre, protein, fruit, vegetable, nut and legume content. Increasing consumption of these healthy nutrients and ingredients is good for your health.
This was pulled straight from the government site FAQ
For those of you who have been reading my articles for a while now, you'll know how passionate I am about fighting the war against fat and promoting it as a healthy part of our diet. As I've referenced in these articles, good quality fat – including saturated fat – is an important part of our diet and promotes satiety and weight management, improved mental health, better quality sleep, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, increased cognitive function and much more. Saturated fat is the first thing on their watch list, yet is effective at reducing the risk of a number of risk factors mentioned in their brief.
Salt is also an essential part of our diet, especially for those of us living in tropical and subtropical climates. It's important to ensure that we are getting this from proper food sources such as sea salt and not processed foods or the nasty salt that seems to grace the tables of every food court in the world, but more on that another day.
Sugar. Well, at last I have found something I can agree with! As people are becoming aware, sugar is responsible for weight gain, inflammation, promoting disease, hyperactivity, energy crashes, inability to focus and more. I was excited to see sugar on here and thought this might be a redeeming feature, but it doesn't really seem to add up with the health ratings being doled out.
For example, did you know that Milo has a 4.5 health star rating? While my inner 8 year old jumped for joy at reading that and had flashbacks to hiding in her Nanny's pantry to secretly eat milo straight from the tin, the nutritionist in me couldn't help but die a little inside. At 27.3g of sugar per 100g, this is hardly a low sugar option, while Nutrigrain gets a 4 star rating and has a staggering 32g of sugar per 100g. Up & Go also comes in with a 4.5 star rating and while it is relatively low in sugar (3.3g per 100g), it has a whopping 67g per 100g of carbohydrates. A further issue is that Up & Go has 3.3 serves per unit, though most of us would consume the entire contents in one go.
Just like the Heart Foundation tick of approval that was thankfully discredited, this rating system doesn't accurately demonstrate which foods are healthy, only how they stack up against other foods in their category. "The system allows us to quickly compare the general nutritional profile of foods within the same category of packaged and processed goods. And it's simple to understand and use." It's one saving grace is that it's not a rating that is bought, though it is left up to manufacturers to create their own rating in accordance with some very confusing and flexible guidelines. So while it's great that they're comparing apples with apples, it seems they've forgotten to rate apples at all!
Sadly, unprocessed foods such as fresh meat, fruit and vegetables don't get a star rating at all. Yet isn't this what should comprise the majority of our diet?
So, scrap the star rating, the heart foundation tick and any other gimmick they pitch at us and just get back to basics. Shop the outside of the supermarket, eat predominantly fresh food and stick to items that are low in sugar and don't have more than a handful of ingredients in them. Simples!
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One of our books exclusively discusses the United Daughter of the Confederacy, and I got really intrigued and perplexed at the same time about this organization. The book by Karen Cox, Dixies's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of the Confederate Culture really opened my eyes into a world that I was totally unaware of. For one, I could not believe that mainly one organization was responsible for the massive monument collection of Civil War veterans in the South. Also, women were responsible for preserving the South. Then, we read the book and it wasn't as wonderful at it sounded. I wanted to be optimistic and encouraged that women in the nineteenth century could be so strong and involved with the culture of the entire South. However, after reading the book, my opinions have skewed due to Cox's discussion of the hidden agendas that the Southern ladies of the UDC had.
So, my research began by first exploring the UDC website. On the homepage, nothing really stands out except a woman with a medal around her neck. Then you begin reading "Why I Am a Daughter of the Confederacy" by the current President-General, Mrs. Martha Van Schaick, for 2010-2012. Some peculiar phrases stand out to me, especially after reading Cox's book. Mrs. Schaick states, "….I was born a Daughter of the Confederacy. A part of my heritage was that I came into this world with the blood of a soldier in my veins."[1] A statement that is interesting to say the least. Cox discusses how children were "born into the Confederacy" due to the mission of the UDC educating the children of the South. This woman makes it sound like she didn't even have a choice to belong to the UDC, over 150 years later; they are still doing the same thing. If you keep reading there are more perturbed phrases such as comparing her obligation to perform to the Bible, her birthright, and of course the true history of the South, as in the Southern Constitution (not the US Constitution). All of Mrs. Schaick's speech draws questions about the UDC still to this day, like nothing has changed.
There are tabs on the right of the website where one can browse through various topics like Children of the Confederacy, Scholarships, Remembrance of 150 years Committee, different divisions around the nation, and programs and events. None of these are really that off the wall other than the Children of the Confederacy.
The Children of the Confederacy is interesting in that children of today are still being educated and inducted before they even know how to talk. The current President-General states that, "Together, we can use this sesquicentennial period in our history as a tool to learn and teach others the real truths of the War Between the States and honor the memory of our brave Confederate ancestors. As CofC members, we must never forget!" [2] Still the language of the past is resonating today in the youth of the South.
How can we progress if this Lost Cause is always present and influencing the tomorrow generation with the ideals of yesterday? It makes me wonder, because we discussed this in class on how to move forward but can't if white supremacy and vindication still rule today. I know it's just the South, and only a limited part of the South, that probably still thinks the way the UDC did. But, as an ever increasing mobile society, I can't help but think the mentality will spread and keep hindering our society to get past segregation.
Here is some references relating to the UDC.
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett Library: open to members of UDC, nonmembers by appointment only
Helen Walpole Brewer Library: contains microfilm copies of the National Archives Compiled Confederate Service Records and a limited number of regimental histories, family histories, pension records, and cemetery records.
UDC magazine:
[1] United Daughters of the Confederacy, "Why I Am a Daughter of the Confederacy," accessed June 21, 2012, http://www.hqudc.org/index.html.
[2] United Daughters of the Confederacy, "Children of the Confederacy," accessed June 21, 2012, http://www.hqudc.org/CofC/index.html.


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On Sunday, I did another mixed-terrain ride on the Long Haul Trucker. The same route I rode on this ride. It was a hot morning and I was sweating profusely but had a great ride. Lampkins Ridge Road kind of reminds me of how Shilo Road used to be, although not as rough. But it's a long, mostly-downhill run down a ridgetop with lots of twists and turns. Simply a blast to ride. And as I came around a corner I saw a stunning view of some huge nearby hills and slammed on the brakes to get a photo. I had a few shifting problems from where I messed up my shifter so I just threw it in friction mode and it worked great — better sometimes than indexed mode. I can shift almost completely silently sometimes in friction mode, and it's so smooth. This ride took me on paved and gravel roads, trails, and a bike path.
A better shot of the bridge on Friendship Road
A house for sale. I love that the rustic sign has a gmail address on it.
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Bemedalled general retires from the service
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Bemedalled Marine Lt. Gen. Juancho Sabban did just in his last three years in active military service as the straightforward, no-nonsense chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Command (Wescom) based in Palawan.
As WesCom commander from 2010 up to on Monday, when he reached the mandatory age retirement of 56, Sabban had directed 14,000 security operations in his area of responsibility.
Sabban said the bulk of these missions comprised of "sovereignty patrols" at the height of the country's territorial dispute with China over the Philippines' regime of islands in the Spratlys.
In his speech at Monday's turnover rites, Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista cited Sabban's strategy of combining "diplomatic, informational, military, economic, and sociopolitical initiatives" in Palawan through partnerships with key local leaders.
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As I believe I mentioned the other day, I've recently started re-watching Six Feet Under, which I believe is one of the greatest television series of all time, for a lot of reasons. I also discovered that evidently my landlord is also a fan who recently started watching (and I think he reads this site sometimes, so, uh, know that there are some spoilers ahead, Anonymous Landlord!). It's been so long since I watched the show that a lot of it feels new to me, especially minor plot points, and that's why I was kind of startled when I realized that abortion kept coming up as a recurring theme, and that the framing often felt very "pro-life*" to me.
I don't think that the show as a whole is necessarily "pro-life," but rather that abortion was an inevitable topic, and that the creative team took it in some interesting directions, and some of those directions apparently included a "pro-life" perspective. It's also a show which is very evidently and heavily about death, and so there's a clear contrast between the potential of life and death which was being utilized through the depiction of the abortion debate. And I do think that Ball was pretty daring, as a producer: this was one of the earliest shows to depict raw homosexual sex, as well as abuse in a gay relationship, and so perhaps it's not surprising that Ball appeared to buck Hollywood orthodoxy when it came to the subject of abortion.
In the second season, Nate learns that a one night stand with an old fling resulted in a pregnancy, when he runs into Lisa Kimmel at a supermarket and she reveals her very pregnant belly. Lisa has moved from Seattle to Los Angeles with her pregnancy, and it seems rather evident that she's chasing after Nate and a dream of love, even if she won't admit it. Nate experiences some deep conflict over the idea of impending fatherhood, especially since he is about to marry another woman.
Six Feet Under often uses ghosts to say things that the characters can't or won't, and the same holds true here, with Nate being treated to a procession of his aborted children who casually talk about how he killed them ("The Secret," Episode 10, Season 2). It was a scene that totally threw me. It played so heavily on "pro-life" rhetoric that it almost felt like propaganda, and felt a bit heavy handed, actually. The scene was designed to impress upon us that Nate felt confused and conflicted, that he was struggling with the consequences of his previous sexual escapades, and that he was morally troubled by the abortions, but it felt a bit clunky to me, probably because of my own political views.
Ball's discussion of this scene on the commentary focuses on Nate's unease at being confronted with his own mortality, and he says that the scene was meant to be about a thorny issue "without being about the issue." But he goes on to explain the very deliberate staging, which was definitely designed to push the idea of happy families and ideals about having children to viewers. At the end of the scene, we even are reminded that Ruth has been deprived of being a grandmother, as she wanders through a room filled with children, carrying a tray of cookies and milk.
The plot also briefly played with ideas dear to the heart of men's rights activists, with Nate being asked to sign a document which would give up all paternal rights, and feeling conflicted about this as well. The context is clear: Nate was happy to "kill" earlier unplanned pregnancies, but when it came to giving up rights over something sharing his genetic material and living somewhere in the world, he can't do it. Interestingly, although Lisa's choice figures heavily in this pregnancy, we are not given information about the role of the women in the previous terminations. They are presented without context, as though all that matters is Nate and his genetic material, not the women.
Ultimately, Nate is pushed into "doing the right thing" by Lisa and marrying her so that he can play an active role in the child's life as a parent. Later he expresses a lot of bitterness and anger about being "trapped" by Lisa. This parallels the marriage between Nathaniel and Ruth which resulted in Nate's birth, yet another example of the circular nature of Six Feet Under, a show which constantly references itself and ponders the outcome of decisions large and small by exploring numerous possible events.
Was the scene supposed to leave viewers with the idea that abortion is murder? That Nate thinks abortion is murder? That if you knock someone up, you need to marry them? I'm not sure, but it was a troubling sequence.
The theme of abortion came up again at the end of Season Three, with Claire seeking an abortion after breaking up with Russell when he has sex with her art professor. Like much of of Six Feet Under, the scenes play out in a quiet, repressed way. But the overtones are also very heavy. The abortion clinic is depicted almost like a processing line, with girls being pushed through the assembly line one by one, and Claire opting for twilight anesthesia which allows her to forget the procedure (and allows the show to elide the actual process of the abortion).
The ultrasound, which is actually routinely performed before an abortion to determine the stage of the pregnancy in the real world, was depicted as a grim and horrifying moment for Claire instead of a routine medical procedure. Thank Pete, we weren't treated to an image of her cringing at a screen depicting the fetus. The episode also underscores Claire's sense of isolation: she doesn't tell any of the family, and ends up going to the clinic with Nate's ex-girlfriend. Bad girls who get abortions, you see, can't tell their families, and then end up on the couches of their brothers' nymphomaniac ex-girlfriends, wracked by guilt and cramps.
Later, Claire meets the product of her abortion in another dreamlike sequence, in which Nate's now-dead wife Lisa assures Claire that she will take care of the baby. If you read these recurrent sequences with the dead in the show as the invention of the minds of the characters as an expression of their subconscious, which I do, then this scene could read as Claire constructing a soul for the baby and a caretaker for it to feel better about her actions, which suggests that she does (and perhaps should, in the eyes of the creators) feel regret over the abortion. It also carries the suggestion similar to the sequence with Nate, that the product of conception has a soul more or less immediately, and that, therefore, abortion is murder.
The first episode of the fourth season includes Claire's confession about the abortion to Russell, in a stilted scene in which he refers to the fetus as "his" and becomes bitterly angry that she didn't tell him. She responds with sarcasm and anger, saying "you'd already done enough" when he says that he wishes he could have been there, and the scene sort of underscores the message that Claire somehow wronged Russell by having the abortion. He tries to suggest that she is cruel and callous, while she is never given a chance to defend herself or explain her reasoning. Her dialogue with Russell parallels the theme of the episode, which involves conflicting choices and the consequences of making choices against the will of others. The whole scene was very unpleasant, and it played on a lot of stereotypes about abortion.
Craig Wright, the writer, claims that this scene was supposed to show a man's perspective on abortion, and his grief over "his own loss." He treads kind of fine ground when he says that viewers can either have sympathy for Russell, or not, suggesting that the reading of the scene actually reflects more about the beliefs of the viewers than it does of the characters (which may well be true). In fact, he almost argues against commentaries themselves when he suggests that the illusion of a connection between viewers and creators generated by commentaries just generates a lust for knowledge which can never be filled, and that perhaps viewers would be better served by just being able to experience the art. (Joss Whedon seems to share this view when he talks about experiencing discomfort because viewers insist on seeing his work through the lens of perception informed by what they know about him.)
The scene is mirrored at the end of the fourth season when Russell throws the abortion in Claire's face as she is riding on the high of her success with her first art show. It's a very bitter, angry scene: he accuses her of stealing his idea and using it in the art show in the same breath that he screams about the abortion (which he is clearly viewing as his stolen manhood). As a viewer, I can't say that I felt terribly sympathetic to either claim, but I can see how the scene could be read with Russell as the wronged party. In the commentary, Ball calls the fight "ugly and nasty and stupid" which kind of skips the overtones I saw in it; the scene exemplifies how repressed everyone is, and how the characters continue to subvert their pain in weird ways. It was far from stupid, and much closer to tragic.
The abortion issue rears its ugly head again at the start of the fifth season, as Nate and Brenda have a vicious argument when prenatal testing reveals that her pregnancy may have a problem, and the doctor recommends an amnio. Nate pushes for the procedure, to learn more, and Brenda opposes it, saying that she will carry the child no matter what and that Nate just wants to "kill" the fetus if it does indeed have a problem. Now, prenatal testing is actually pretty complicated, nuanced, and not always correct, which means that she may have been justified in wanting to carry the child because there might have been nothing wrong. But the pretty extreme rhetoric which got used was rather intense.
Like the framing of the issue with Claire and Russel, this scene really highlighted the issues that can be created in a relationship when one partner wants to abort and one doesn't. Brenda's tendency to go behind everyone's back manifests when she sneaks off for another ultrasound, much like Claire went behind Russell's back earlier, and Nate becomes extremely angry over this. Nate pushes for abortion, while Brenda is vehemently opposed, and it pretty much tears their marriage apart. I don't think it's fair to blame the failure of Nate and Brenda's marriage on the dispute about the pregnancy, but it definitely plays a pretty major role. It is fascinating to watch Nate evolve over the course of the series, and this argument also touches upon an issue I've been pondering lately myself: abortion for disability, and the accompanying moral implications.
It's weird that I totally missed the discussion of abortion in my previous viewing of the series, and I think that says more about me as a viewer than it does about the show itself. Obviously, abortion wasn't really on my mind when I watched the show as it aired, but now it is, so I find myself drawn to the framing of abortion in the show.
It's kind of inevitable that a show about death would touch on abortion eventually, especially since the show deals with the intersection between sexuality and death. But this unexpected portrayal of unplanned pregnancy and choice was sometimes rather stark and unpleasant, for me, and it makes me wonder about Ball's personal positions on the issue. I note that in the director's commentary on the episode in which Claire meets her baby, Alan Ball claims that the show wasn't trying to send "pro-life" messages, and that it very much supports a woman's right to choose, but that's not entirely the way in which the scenes read, and Ball makes no comment about his own beliefs.
Perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Some of the depiction of abortion does seem fairly balanced, and I think that the scenes involving abortion did raise some interesting issues and spark some serious thought. It seems like the creators were trying to bring up the issue of the fact that abortion often becomes a source of conflict in relationships, and that repression and lack of communication in relationships can make the process way more complicated than it needs to be, but the portrayal felt a little heavily slanted towards the non-vagina-owning partner in the discussion. I'm not entirely sure that discussion of abortion was strong enough to sway viewers one way or the other, nor did it need to be, but it did sometimes create situations in which people could choose which character to sympathize with, which is a little different from the usual framing of controversial issues, in which readers are only really given one side to connect with. The conscious decision to allow viewers to choose their sympathies was pretty remarkable, and an illustration of how innovative Six Feet Under was.
Wright's discussion about commentaries (and Joss' insistence that his intentions should not be considered when viewing his work), brings up some interesting points. In this era of DVD sets, public events, and direct dialogue between consumers and producers of art, we do expect a lot from the creators of artistic works. We want to know more about them as people, and we want to be able to pick their brains about the content of their work. Are we, as viewers, overthinking things? Or is this actually an era of opportunity in which we get to explore intentions and interpretations in totally new and interesting ways? Should the thoughts of the creators really matter, all that much, when we consume their work?
*As explained elsewhere, I put scare quotes around this term (even though I hate scare quotes) because I think that the so-called "pro-life" movement is way more interested in restricting and controlling women than it is in the sanctity of life.


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Explore Istanbul's Street Food !!!
Turkish Churro (Halka Tatlisi in Turkish): Sweet Churros are one of those very popular street foods or street desserts in Istanbul . They are mostly called Halka Tatlisi in Turkish . For me, it was a bit overly sweet, and the inside is just oozing with a honey-syrup, which is bit to much. One or two bites of that is probably enough.
Fruit Juice vendors: They are everywhere. It's great to have the option to drink pomegranate, orange, carrot, apple juice on the go.
Kokorec sandwich (kokorec balik in Turkish): Variety lamb or goat meat piled on skewer, then wrapped with intestines. One of the best drunk food in town.
CAY (Tea):Turkish tea is a must have drink for Turkish people. Mostly consumed during breakfast, however, there is no limit to it.
SIMIT : Simit, one of the most popular street foods, is a round bread covered with sesame seeds. It pairs well with cream or feta cheese and tea for breakfast.
Kestane kebab ( kes-tah-neh in Turkish ): Chestnuts roast outside in the fall and winter, when kestane kebab carts are all over town making Istanbul smell more authentic.
Tursu Suyu(tour-shoe sue-you in Turkish ):You are perhaps shocked that people are drinking pickled vegetable juice on the streets. Pickles are a pretty common sider in the Turkish cuisine.
Pilav –steamed rice with chicken and chickpeas, mostly sold in steam carts at night
BOZA (boo-zah in Turkish):Fermented wheat drink that is considered it to be a powerful aphrodisiac. Served with cinnamon, and leblebi (roasted chickpeas).
Doner kebab:The sliced meat of a Doner kebab may be served wrapped in a flatbread such as lavash or pita or as a sandwich instead of being served on a plate
AYRAN :Similar to Indian Lassi. It is a mixture of yogurt and cold water, with a pinch of salt.
Shish kebab : served on the skewer and cubes of vegetables such as eggplant, tomato, bell pepper, and onions
Mussels on the Streets of Istanbul: On any street corner or at any bus stop in Istanbul one will find a young man with a round dish piled with shining mussels, selling them one by one to passersby.


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U.S. Catholic Bishops Visit Zimbabwe and South Africa
September 8th, 2009
A delegation of American Catholic bishops has recently visited the church in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola, Florida, and Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, Utah visited Zimbabwe from August 26 to 28. They then traveled to South Africa where they stayed until September 6th, and where they were joined by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired Archbishop of Washington D.C. The purpose of the delegation was to observe first-hand the important humanitarian aid work done by the Church, especially in fighting HIV/AIDS and poverty. The bishops are members of the USCCB Subcommittee on Africa. They visited church officials and projects funded by the Pastoral Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa which raises money in the US to help the Church in Africa.
The bishops' visit coincided with the new report by Human Right Watch: False Dawn: Zimbabwe Power Sharing Government's failure to Deliver Human Rights Improvement, which was released on August 31. The report charges that the transitional government in Zimbabwe has failed to make progress in instituting human rights reforms in the six months since it was created. Human Rights Watch is requesting the regional body, Southern African Development Community (SADC), scheduled to hold a summit in Kinshasa on September 7 and 8, to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis and press the Zimbabwe power-sharing government to put an end to the human rights violations.
Six months after President Robert Mugabe and rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai forged an agreement they have failed to respect the principles and reforms on which both parties initially agreed. This failure by both parties has meant that the people of Zimbabwe, especially women and children, have remained without adequate food and medicines. Hyper-inflation has wracked the country's economy. In March 2009, the U.S. renewed sanctions against President Mugabe and his top government officials for another year despite appeals from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to western donors to lift the sanctions. The sanctions included in the Democracy and Economic Recovery Act 2001 (ZIDERA) enable the United States to impose financial restrictions on President Mugabe and his top lieutenants as well as on businesses owned by people dealing with his administration. The U.S. sanctions will remain in effect as long Zimbabwe's poor human rights record, political intolerance and denial of the rule of law continue.
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{epub} Magic Hours Author Tom Bissell – Sharkmotorcyclehelmets.co.uk
10 thoughts on "Magic Hours "
Bissell is a decent essayist with an eclectic outlook Unflowered Aloes is an intelligent discussion of literary immortality and the afterlife of books I believe no book should fall out of print, unless espousing hateful ideologies , Grief and the Outsider explores the dark hinterland of the unpublished writer, standing in their frustrated droves and flinging turds at the published and the publishers, with a look at the Underground Literary Alliance, a strange organisation that still seems to exist not unlike the organised Indie Author movements at large now , and Writing About Writing About Writing is an hilarious look at the self help writers books whose advice ranges from useless to fucking useless with occasional servings of useful from professional writers The other pieces in here are essays written for organs to quote DFW Bissell s touching tribute to the Great Dave is included here , including a long one on Werner Herzog of whose work I still remain ignorant , a full scale annihilation of Robert J Kaplan of whose work I will continue to remain ignorant , and less interesting if diverting magazine fodder such as an on set piece on Jeff Daniels, sitcom mogul Chuck Lorre, and two dull offerings on the not at all interesting voiceover actress Jennifer Hale, and the dull as an overworked simile novelist Jim Harrison More literary essays from TB, please
Anyone who knows me for than five years, whether online or off, can tell you that I used to be absolutely obsessed with becoming a professional writer I even had some modest success nine of my short stories were published and I spent four years as a copywriter for Rabbi Wein s Destiny Foundation About two years ago, all that changed I began working full time at a law office in Manhattan, and though I suppose my commute time could have become writing time, I used it for reading instead Except for the reviews I write here on GoodReads, I hardly write anything any I just can t seem to get myself motivated And I feel really bad about it.So when I heard Tom Bissell, author of this book and creative writing professor, in an NPR interview, I thought his book was just the thing to give me a kick in the pants In the interview, he spoke about Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson three giants in American literature who weren t all that successful in their lifetimes Heck, Dickinson was a complete unknown in her lifetime And though Melville had been a successful writer before the publication of Moby Dick, his masterpiece was panned by the reviewers, and that was basically the end of his career From then on, he shared his writings only with family and friends He died believing himself a failure How many unknown or midlist writers are in exactly that predicament today asked Tom Bissell The next generation s literary genius could well be struggling right now, undiscovered My husband and I looked at each other, wondering if it could be either of us or perhaps even both No doubt, any aspirant writer who heard that interview wondered the same.So naturally, I hurried to get the book on special inter library loan At first I was told it was so new, the other library wouldn t allow it Then, a third library came through as a complete surprise So when I got hold of it, I dropped what I d been reading till then and launched right in My eagerness had a practical side, too Renewals aren t allowed with inter library loans.With all that excitement, I guess it was inevitable that I d be disappointed It was a good book, but not the life changer I d been hoping for It s actually a collection of essays about a variety of creative artists not just writers, but filmmakers, an actress who does voice over for video games, and a polemical historian The essays on writing were definitely my favorite, especially Writing about Writing about Writing, which reviews some of the writing books I ve read myself, notably Bird by Bird by Anne Lammott and On Writing by Stephen King Bissell names John Gardner s On Becoming a Novelist as his personal favorite It was a life changer for him, much in the way that Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande was for me I expect the books are similar John Gardner wrote the introduction to my copy of Becoming a Writer.When I was unfamiliar with the artist Bissell was discussing, my interest varied The voice over actress was interesting, but I couldn t wait to get through the polemical historian s chapter If there s one thing Tom Bissell proves with this book, it s that he can rake someone over the coals when he wants to.And that brings me to the essay called Grief and the Outsider, which is about a group called the United Literary Alliance According to Bissell, they re basically a bunch of bitter aspirants railing against the publishing industry that has repeatedly rejected them And yet one of those aspirant writers whose work Bissell thinks is such junk came up with what pretty much defines my life as a writer at this point To be a good parent to your family won t make you a better writer But it ll make you a better person.
It s a difficult thing for me to evaluate this Scratch that It s a difficult thing for me to evaluate ANY book, not just this Even bad books, ones I carry deep, dark hatreds for, require a vigorous and focused back and forth I will always be awed by the spirit it takes for a person to create I think it is remarkably courageous even if, for many writers, this is unfounded and block headed courage, it is courage nonetheless I imagine many war heroes were not exactly rocket scientists, which is why they tried to fight 40 Germans with a spoon in the first place and somehow succeeded There s a point to all of this somewhere I think it has to do with liking very much parts of a book and disliking very much other parts and making peace with this.I ve read a few things by Tom Bissell now, and I even attended a reading of his He was magnanimous enough to invite us all back to his apartment afterward, which I for reasons completely unknown, declined It s probably the single largest mistake of my life, which means I ve been very fortunate, because he is a wonderfully introspective and hilarious writer However, I think his struggle as a writer is one of the things I connect with and enjoy most It s one of the things I appreciate about Magic Hours, that sense of wandering, bewildered exploration.See, Bissell has a wonderful voice and here s the important part when he can access it I m not sure what the disconnect is subject matter, motivation, state of mind at the time it s hard to tell The point is very much that some of the pieces herein fall, by my subjective and arbitrary standards, very flat It isn t that they are poorly written it s simply that they are uninspiring.In Extra Lives, Bissell was there he was present I was following him into the depths of his mind and into his tripping, electronic, cognitive dissonance When he is there, that is what it is like When he is not, it is like reading the reviews of every reluctant and flaccid critic Too often reviewers are vitriolic or soporific and rarely ever anything else.Bissell s works on The Room, I still need to get Bissell s The Disaster Artist on it are amazing They are amazing because he managed to pour out exactly what his passion and experience with that film was like and I was able to drink from it and see all the vivid and horrible colors But I think it was because he cared.Other pieces simply felt like something he was charged with writing Whether he was charged by some unknown entity or himself I don t know, but there isn t much of a difference in the end, so I don t care Many times, cracking the whip on oneself to write is just as laborious and unproductive as having someone else do it And I ll admit, because of this, I may have not finished two pieces which I found a little too academic, and a little too pallid in tone The point is, I think, at least right now before I change my mind at some later date, that how I feel after just finishing it is how I d like to think I feel about the entire book which is pretty great Despite the few times Bissell seemed lost, times I opted not to be lost with him, the rest of the journey was exactly what I was looking for His honesty, too, is something I can t help but love There are too few genuine human beings in this world It s nice to know he is one of them and that he too thinks that some of things published in McSweeney s aren t meant to be read or at least enjoyed.
a new imprint of mcsweeney s, believer books 2 gripes, the font is terrible, and there is no index, come on, we need an index mcsweeneys , has this collection from bissell, collecting about 12 years of essays taken mostly from mainstream mags harpers, new yorker, new york times book review, believer, outside etc and many of these are about tv shows and movies, which i skipped for the most part, though the overview of herzog is pretty fantastic and the thoughts about david foster wallace and his kenyon graduation speech almost made me cry bho hho i like bissell though, he is wide eyed country type, but brave, and fresh ish in his interpretations of art, politics, travel, and literature i first read his books about aral sea, and father of all things about vietnam vets his dad mainly and that war in general and liked them alot, so these magazine articles were interesting to me to see his immediate style of reporting all in all he does a good job of balancing fact and feeling, philosophy and physical description, but falls far short in some goofs which he admits, so there is that like not knowing what a crab apple tree is, or what a pheasant looks like i like this quote he pulls from kapuscinski, the polish world conflict reporter and public library shout out A nonfiction writer s style provides the first corresponding clue as to how we are to approach the facts at hand The style of the plainspoken, rigorously invisible journalist semaphores one kind of approach, that of the poetical, allusive, and interactive journalist another These are not competitive styles One is contentedly earthbound while the other mingles in a Milky Way where morality is not a matter of proper dates and chronology but of representational accuracy, context, language Its mode of communication is not discursive, or even necessarily informative, but visionary It is called poetic license for a reason one has to earn it As Kapuscinski once said, the subtle tyranny of what happened is exactly what I avoid He continued, If those are the questions you want answered, you can visit your local library.
I enjoyed some of these essays than others, but what all of them had in common was that I really liked Bissell s writing style That combined with the theme of creativity and creators really inspired me to want to begin writing again I ve been craving writing time for days now I probably most appreciated A Simple Medium and Invisible Girl, but many others had interesting thoughts to contemplate It took me a while, but I m glad I finished it.
Boy, do I love Tom Bissell s writing There is just no other way to say it And I m a sucker for his subject artistic process and artistic reputation The opening essay, Unflowered Aloes, is a sobering account of just how easily the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville might have failed to come down to us today in each case there were quite lucky circumstances There s an amusing and insightful piece on how to write guides, and a remarkable article about a remarkable group calling itself the Underground Literary Alliance The ULA seems to be made up of members most of them with noms de guerrewho seem to believe that anyone who manages to publish a book today is by definition a mediocrity with connections The piece is really about the concept sometimes fantasy of literary insiders and outsiders, and Bissell offers the clearly crankish and fairly talentless sounding ULA ers far respect than you might anticipate He seems, in fact, to be fascinated by the artistically unsuccessful another piece is a profile of a filmmaker who is famous only for how bad one of his movies is as are perhaps most of us who write or paint or perform, given that on many days we imagine that we are about to be exposed as just that Bissell is brave to really think about what it means to fail publicly and repeatedly and worst of all without realizing it After other forays into the fields of TV and film, the collection rounds off with an appealing profile of the writer Jim Harrison Lots of riches here, lots of superlative, energetic, intelligent writing.
A bit of an inconsistent collection, if only because all the pieces were written over 12 years for different magazines and different audiences The piece about Jeff Daniels s opus Escanaba in da Moonlight has a predictable kick your hometown in the nuts sort of feel but Bissell can turn a phrase masterfully and keeps it interesting My favorite chapter is the one called Writing About Writing About Writing where he takes various self help authors to the woodshed in a masterfully bitchy way There are other outstanding long essays involving people like Jim Harrison and Robert Kaplan, who Bissell fairly convincingly prosecutes for being both a shitty writer and a cold hearted warmonger Even the bits of literary criticism are worthy, although after a re read I still can t figure out whether he thinks The Sun Also Rises is a good book or not He obviously takes writing seriously but isn t humorless about its rewards and depressions as either a career or a hobby or a passion or an art form open to interpretation.There were a couple misfires for me Reading about Tommy Wiseau did not interest me enough to bother to learn anything else about Tommy Wiseau And Chuck Lorre is just another Hollywood workaholic I still could care less about But on balance this is a fine collection with many strong pages I wish I had written.
Interesting idea for a book, but the author kind of lost me when I got to the passage where trees perimetered a field Can t they just line the perimeter I am not a fan of noun verbs I know English is a constantly evolving language, but that s a trend I just don t care for It just strikes me as being sort of twee somehow, with an air of Look, Ma, I m making up words and being creative Also, there was a section of the book in which the author is talking about the ineptitude of a filmmaker, and trying to pass it off as the new creativity I just couldn t buy it It s one thing to understand the language of film and use it in a surprising or unexpected way as was done in the film The Sixth Sense , but not understanding it, and consequently making an inexplicable mess of a movie, is just incompetence.
Reading Tom Bissell s Magic Hours Essays on Creators and Creation was a similar experience to watching the Darjeeling Limited for the first time on a Jet Blue flight to Boston from Tampa without any turbulence If David Foster Wallace s magnificent writing were an opioid, this book functioned as literary methadone to help wean me from the withdrawal symptoms of not having any big scores left to consume after completing The Pale King.This collection included discourse on the struggles of one s writing being discovered and deemed famous and culturally relevant, Jeff Daniels creating a film in Escanaba, Michigan, Werner Herzog s unique filmmaking career including rescuing Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash , Tommy Wiseau as a savant, Chuck Lorre s rounds in the American sitcom circuit, as well as albeit brief discussions on Wallace Bissell s personal essays range from age twenty five to thirty seven.The main reason I was so drawn to Bissell s words is that he doesn t hold back on his opinions, especially John Kennedy Toole s A Confederacy of Dunces The suicide John Kennedy Toole is probably the most famous True Outsider, though it pains me to admit that I regard A Confederacy of Dunces as one of the most overrated novels ever published I am glad, all the same, that it was published, if only for the moments of reflection it caused those who rejected it to suffer 69 I couldn t agree .The ULA Underground Literary Alliance reads like a PG version of Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents, led by the likes of writers such as Jack Saunders In personal exchange with Saunders via USPS, Bissell concludes, I enjoyed what I read, but since I regarded and regard Saunder s work roughly as salable as a Hefty bag filled with hypos, I was too depressed to even write him back I also suspected that, if I did, I was going to get an extremely loquacious pen pal and perhaps even increasingly nude photos 90 Those who maintain that writing cannot be taught are in effect promoting the Priesthood Theory of Writing In short, a few are called, most are not, and nothing anyone does can alter that process 100 Tommy Wiseau is living The American Dream Americanness is also the central, and centrally unexamined theme of The Room Wiseau cast himself within the film as a hunk of Johnny Americana, with not corresponding recognition of how absurdly ill fitting this role actually is 222 I think Wiseau could be Lyle, the fitness guru incarnate, but replaces pubescent boy sweat with Red Bull.Pausing to enjoy nature and keeping dogs alive could be part of the secret formula to enjoying life.


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At the camera club, several members had exhibited images from the Pennsylvania State Capital Rotunda over the years. They all looked so beautiful. The capital must be beautiful. And they kept telling me that you could just walk in and take pictures.
So one weekend this year, Annette and I joined up with another couple and went in to see for ourselves.
I have to tell you, it was beautiful! All of the architecture! All of the gold! All of the ornateness! Just beautiful!
And it's true. You can walk right in (through the obligatory metal detector) without charge. (Well…Your PA taxes are your entry fee!) Unfortunately, when congress is not in session, you are limited to the rotunda. You cannot go wandering down the halls. But they did allow us to take our tripods inside.
All though, if you are there at the right time, there are two tours of the state capital on each weekend day. The tours take you to the gallery for the house of representatives and the gallery for the senate and actually take you into the courtroom for the Supreme Court of PA. Along the way, they give you a lot of information on the building.
Here are a couple of images from that trip.
Look at the gold!
There were original paintings in each arch in the hall way and all over the place!
The rotunda ceiling was intricate and beautiful, whether in black and white or in color.
It was tough to line up the camera to get a symmetrical image! I had to get down on my knees and look up through the viewfinder!
During the tour they told us that the Pennsylvania State Capital is one of the most ornate, most beautiful capital buildings in the country.
If you are in Harrisburg and you get a chance, it's worth going to see it and taking the tour.
Where to next? Where is our next photo shoot?


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Check out Monster's latest video promoting the fashionable line of Diamond Tears headphones.
Of all the press conferences that happened yesterday at CES, none were as star-studded and extravagant as the show put on by Monster Cable. In addition to a few new product announcements, the audio-focused company announced dozens of new partnerships with celebs and business execs to promote its headphones.
No need to worry if you missed the event – Monster put together this swanky video to showcase its new Diamond Tears headphones and show off some of its famous supporters in the process. Although the shiny exterior on these headphones is definitely easy on the eyes, we haven't yet had a chance to put them on our ears, so those of you curious about sound quality should be sure to check back for our review in the weeks to come.


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Macmillan Cancer Unit completes at Tameside
Posted on January 17th, 2017
A new purpose built Macmillan Cancer Unit at Tameside Hospital has been successfully handed over following a 26 week construction period.
Macmillan Cancer Support and Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have joined together to convert the former Ladysmith Building to provide treatment, care and support in one building for the first time. The dedicated centre will transform the services offered to patients across Tameside and Glossop.
A six-chair chemotherapy suite and a palliative care consulting room feature in the new facility with a Macmillan Information and Support Centre, complementary therapy room and other non-clinical amenities to support people affected by cancer. A prosthesis-fitting area and Headstart service where people can learn to wear scarves or hats as an alternative to wigs will be incorporated along with areas for counselling and support
Internal features include curved walls giving a smooth flow through the building, floor to ceiling glazing panels to give added light and a spacious feeling and a hi-tech communication system.
Acting as a base for the Macmillan team, including a Lead Cancer Nurse and nurse specialists, the central hub will bring the team closer to their patients.
John Turner Construction's in-house joinery facility manufactured and fitted the bespoke Corian reception desk, nurse base station, oak glazed screens, Corian vanity units, Integrated Panel System and Health Technical Memorandum standard fitted furniture.
An external courtyard with seating and brightly coloured planters links the Macmillan Centre to the hospital outpatient's building.
Events have been held to fund this bespoke cancer support unit from sponsored walks to cake bakes and hair shaving competitions to bighearted donations.
Macmillan Cancer provide support for people to take back control of their lives; with those affected by cancer receiving the help they need to face the toughest fight of their life. Over 700,000 people of working age are living with cancer in the UK and over 100,000 are diagnosed with cancer each year. No one should face cancer alone, and with your support no one will. Macmillan Cancer Support can be found at www.macmillan.org.uk.


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Statewide tech startup program begins
ANN ARBOR—A new technology acceleration program will bring together university and community innovators from across the state to help them explore business opportunities around their technologies.
Launching May 7, Michigan I-Corps is a seven-week entrepreneurial training workshop funded by the National Science Foundation and modeled after its Innovation Corps program.
The statewide program begins with three days of onsite training and culminates with a two-day demo phase. In between, participants attend online lectures, conduct outreach to potential customers, blog about their progress, and receive extensive mentorship and coaching.
The national and regional I-Corps programs share a format and core curriculum, but there is one major difference: Only NSF-funded researchers (usually university faculty) are eligible to apply to the national program, but any Michigan-based technologist, regardless of academic affiliation or funding source, is eligible to participate in the regional program.
"I'm excited to see the entrepreneurial networks in and out of the university become much more intertwined," said Michigan I-Corps director Jonathan Fay. "Feedback between teams will be much richer because of the diversity of perspectives. My hope is that opportunities to collaborate between university and community participants will arise because each group is bringing different skill sets and experiences to the table."
Twenty-one teams will participate in the inaugural Michigan I-Corps cohort. Six are from U-M, eight are from other universities across the state, one is joint and six are community-based.
According to Fay, community teams typically fall into one of three categories: a local business that wants to spin out a new company or develop a new product line based on an invention; an entrepreneur who needs help moving a startup idea forward; or an individual who has invented a solution to an identified problem in an industry but isn't sure if there's an associated business opportunity.
Team GLSVSound falls into the first category. Team members Stephen Polakowski, Steven Mattson and Andrew Halonen are all either employees or contractors at GLSV Inc., an engineering services company based in Houghton, Mich. They are developing acoustic modeling software that simulates the noise of a product for use in virtual reality simulations. The software was originally designed for the U.S. Army to predict the sound of a military vehicle in a combat environment. The team members say they hope Michigan I-Corps will help them explore other commercial applications of the technology and provide them with formal business training.
"Where else can we apply this technology? What other types of virtual reality scenes are out there? Who else does it make sense for us to partner with? We have a pretty extensive product plan laid out but we're lacking in the business part of it," said Mattson, chief engineer at GLSV and entrepreneurial lead for team GLSVSound. "You know, we're engineers. To touch on the business development and planning end of it seems like a really valuable piece for us."
Mattson finds a technology commercialization program that promotes interactions between small businesses and academic researchers refreshing.
"The mechanisms for actually working together are not awesome at this point," he said. "There are R&D funding opportunities you can't pursue any other way. You have to have a university partner. If we could find someone who's willing to partner to pursue some collaborative research, we'd be thrilled."
Rich Sheridan is the president and CEO of Menlo Innovations, an Ann Arbor-based software design and development firm. He has been a local entrepreneur for 12 years and an adjunct assistant professor for entrepreneurial programs at the University of Michigan College of Engineering for two. During the last decade, Sheridan says he has witnessed a trend of increasing collaboration between U-M and Ann Arbor entrepreneurs.
"Twelve years ago, the university was a tall tower and no one really knew if there was a door to get in there. Now I see a significant blurring of the boundaries," Sheridan said. "We're starting to take down the walls and really collaborate with one another and Michigan I-Corps is another example of this."
Fay agrees that the state's tech startup scene will benefit from an improved flow of people and ideas between universities and their surrounding communities.
"One of the reasons why Stanford is such a powerful force in the Silicon Valley is because the boundary between the university and the local community is extremely porous," said Fay, who received a Ph.D. in biomechanics from Stanford and worked for several Silicon Valley-based medical device startups before joining the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship as an associate director last year.
"These types of interactions strengthen an entrepreneurial ecosystem and create an opportunity-rich environment. We have to create more collisions like this in Michigan. That's where great ideas are generated."
In addition to U-M, other university participants in the program come from Wayne State University, Oakland University, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan State University, Michigan Technology Institute and Grand Valley State University.
Related Link:
- Michigan I-Corps 2013 cohort: http://www.michiganicorps.com/may-2013-cohort/


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Hankwitz Heating & Cooling
Keeping you comfortable in your home is the goal of Hankwitz Heating & Cooling of Ludington. We are a community-based company, orginally established in 1975. Owner David Hankwitz and his sister Cheryl Larson reopened the business in 2008, and with continued growth, now have a team of ten that are dedicated to providing only the best service to their customers.
Hankwitz Heating & Cooling is proud to have won the Gold Reader's Choice award for Best Heating & Cooling Business.
Thank-you to everyone who voted!
Lowell Hankwitz first opened the company in 1975, and David worked alongside his father, learning the business from the ground up. Upon graduation from college, David took over the operation, and except for a five year hiatus, continues the tradition of dependability and quality service. Cheryl manages the office, and her friendly demeanor is a big part of why people enjoy stopping into Hankwitz Heating & Cooling.
At Hankwitz Heating & Cooling, we take pride in our long-standing reputation for honesty and integrity. Serving our customers with quality and dedication is why we are in business.
In addition to David and Cheryl, Hankwitz Heating & Cooling is managed by Tom Langfeldt. In addition to being licensed in all aspects of HVAC, Tom has a background in Construction, and enjoys keeping up with the latest technologies. Lead Service Technician Kevin Nash is factory trained on Heil furnaces and air conditioning, as well as Dunkirk boilers. Other team members include lead installer Tim Hutchison, and Service Tech Tech Dave Melin. All together, our team has over 100 years of experience, and Hankwitz Heating and Cooling is fully licensed and insured.
Hankwitz Heating & Cooling has been carrying the Heil product line for over 35 years. Heil gas furnaces are some of the best units you can buy...guaranteed to keep you warm throughout the winter. The experienced team at Hankwitz can have your new furnace installed and working in no time, whether you're buying one for the first time or replacing your old unit. Check out their selection of beautiful Napoleon and Superior fireplaces, along with Peterson gas logs, which adds beauty and a warm glow to any room. And to stay cool and comfortable in the summer months, have Hankwitz install a new Heil Air Conditioning System. They will work with you in determining the right size unit for your home, and you have the peace of mind knowing that your new Heil product is energy efficient and comes with a limited warranty. Ask about the Ductless Mini Split units by Fujitsu and ComfortAire. Other products offered at Hankwitz include Navien, Rinnai, and A.O. Smith water heaters, along with Dunkirk Cast Iron Boilers, and Viessmann High Efficient boilers.
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It will be argued that many Finland-Swedish authors have joint editions in both Finland and Sweden, for instance Lars Sund and Kjell Westö, but even by Finland-Swedish standards, Jansson's novel is published by a rather small press: Scriptum in Vasa. So it is unlikely that he will be widely read in Sweden.
The novel is nonetheless significant. It tells the story of how Communist youth from the 1970s grew disillusioned, but also weaves into the plot personal details from family life in the 2000s. The former aspect is the more important, perhaps, although Jansson's descriptions of his relationship in the 2000s are convincing.
The Communist youth movement in Finland was quite powerful. Maybe only Pirkko Saisio has written similar novels, but she wrote in Finnish. This is one of the very few Finland-Swedish novels that closely documents the feel, the music, the meetings, the trips to Tallinn, the blue-shirts and the red-shirts. Because even then the youth wings of the Communist movement were split in two. The so-called taistoiter, or hardline Communists, named after the leader of the hardline faction, Taisto Sinisalo, wore the uniform blue shirts, whilst the more liberal wing, which had the weekly Ny Tid as their mouthpiece, wore red uniform shirts.
I know all this because I was, at the time, the classic fellow-traveller. I sympathised with Communism, but could never bring myself to join any party. As I was living in Finland during the 1970s, first as a year-abroad student at Åbo Akademi, and later as an English conversation teacher in Jakobstad and Vasa, I experienced this whole ferment at first hand. When I left Finland in 1980 to go and teach in Umeå, Sweden, my friends were still fervent Communists. By the 2000s, they have become Greens, or have fallen silent.
But Jansson decided, very interestingly I feel, to document what it felt like to be a member of the Finland-Swedish wing of the Communist youth movement (blueshirts, as I believe) and how, in the early 1980s, he threw away all his written Communist material, including newspapers, magazines, minutes of meetings, and so on, something he now regrets. Because it was, to an extent, the documentation of his own life. But with only memory to go on, maybe Jansson has avoided getting bogged down in detail.
Henrik Jansson has always been keen on jazz and rock music. So there are plenty of mentions of Dylan, Donovan and John Coltrane, as well as home-grown bands and singers, plus leftwing composers and martyrs, such as Victor Jara and Theodorakis. And his protagonist has had good and bad relationships with women. So the actual number of political meetings described in detail are rather few, in comparison with the rest of the test.
Jansson swings, sometimes within the same paragraph, between the present (around 2005) and the distant 1970s. But the reader is not led into a labyrinth of narration. It is a readable book.
So I hope that those readers who saw the pathetic antics of the Russian provocateurs and their Finnish supporters today in Helsinki, by way of the online coverage, will one day read Henrik Jansson's novel to see at close quarters what drove young people in the 1970s, often from quite middle-class homes, to become Communists.


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Chain Chronicle: Haecceitas no Hikari Movie Part 3 | 480p 60MB | 720p 110MB | 1080p 180MB H264 & 80MB H265 (HEVC) MKV
Set in the land of Yuguto, the people thought that the land they live is the size of the world, but it's actually divided into several areas, each with a respective king. Even though there were small wars among areas, the kings had roundtable meetings to maintain peace and balance. It was until a dark group of dark monsters appeared…
Alternative Titles: Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas Part 3,チェインクロニクル〜ヘクセイタスの閃(ひかり)〜 第3章
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Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Feb 11, 2017
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Rating: PG-13 – Teens 13 or older
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How to Give a Negative Employee Evaluation
While employing workers who have no weaknesses and take it upon themselves to expand on their strengths may seem ideal, it's not realistic. Each employee likely has some improvement he can make. Negative feedback focuses on an employee's weaknesses, but the feedback must serve as a way to inform the employee of his weak areas and help him turn those weaknesses into strengths. Providing effective negative feedback requires you to talk to the employee in an honest but diplomatic manner.
Call the employee into your office for a one-on-one meeting. Never conduct a performance review in front of the employee's peers.
Begin by mentioning specific weaknesses the employee needs to improve. Avoid generic weaknesses that don't provide the employee with solid information, such as "Poor time management skills." List specifics only, such as "You had difficulty turning in reports on time."
Give examples of times when the employee has done something that resulted in a negative effect; then give an example of how the employee should have handled the situation. Always balance out an employee's wrongdoings by mentioning how he can improve. For example, suppose an employee angrily reacted to a co-worker for his inability to complete a task. Explain to the employee that he could have handled the situation more effectively by demonstrating leadership and assisting his co-worker.
Stress that you want the employee to improve. Avoid appearing as if you're attacking the employee. Explain that you're providing him with feedback so that he understands what he's doing wrong and how can improve. Remain diplomatic. Avoid words such as "Failed," by instead saying "Struggled." Remaining neutral at all times helps to avoid putting your co-worker on the defensive.
Listen to the employee if he voices his concerns or asks questions. Don't talk the entire time; give the employee the opportunity to speak. Some employees may disagree with your assessment. If that occurs, don't dismiss their opinions. Listen to them and strengthen your side of the argument by giving more concrete examples.
Ask the employee to outline how he can strengthen his performance. You can spend all day suggesting ways for the employee to improve, but unless he understands what he needs to do, it's not going to work. If he can give you a few solid strategies that will help him improve, he understands his weaknesses and the plan of action he must take.
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