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For Fox it will be A Christmas Story. I never saw the stage.musical. I saw the movie countless times. This will be tough to do since it has to come close to being as good as the movie if not it would be forgettable unless its a disaster.
For NBC its Jesus Christ Superstar. The definitive televised version is the 2000 edition so this better equal that. Personally I like the 2000 version more then the Ted Neely edition. A clip from.the 2000 version.
Who.saw A Christmas Story musical? How is it? Good songs? Which is most important part of musical. Not sure why they went for a musical that few have seen or know about. They should have stuck to a classic. Chicago or A Chorus Line would have been better. Actually with all the dance competition shows I woukd have gone with A Chorus Line.
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text: Its been 3-4 years since i put out any music. Since then i opened the first Lightsleepers retail location in McCully. I Quit my job to do so. Try my damn best to be a husband and father. Also the countless design, shows, and misc things that life throws at you. So for me to release this EP, POKE is huge. I know that kids now days release mixtapes and beats on the daily and i know thats not my race to run. I have a new race and its pure creative and challenging, which i welcome with open arms and ears. I've been yapping about my RAW VOL1 beat tape so much i figure i put up or shut up, so that is why i wanted to hit you with this EP, because talk is just air moving, im trying to bend earth. So i hope you enjoy the RAWEST beats to come out of Hawaii. Don't Sleep.


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Is it just me or is this whole nightmare just getting worse? After being "mistakenly" bot-blocked in the Presale (thanks Max for your magic in getting me a code just in time) and then sitting on my hands after both my wife and I were put on the waiting list in round one of the general sale, I was naively optimistic that ticketmaster would come through for me in round 2. I did everything they asked if me...I jumped through all their hoops like a trained seal. Alas, neither my wife nor I got so much as a rejection email this time around. No email, no code, no clue as to why we are both being completely shut out of this process! Is anyone else out there having a similar experience? So disappointed in the band that has meant everything to me over the last 30 years. It appears that my loyalty is no longer wanted. Can't even listen to the music anymore and seriously considering selling the one set of tickets I was able to procure. No longer angry...just Sad.
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Any fans from LA going to San Diego Friday?
trueblue7 posted a topic in San Diego - Qualcomm StadiumI'm going to San Diego Concert on 9/22 on the train from Los Angeles. Thinking of leaving on the 11:20pm or 12:30pm Amtrak from Union Station LA.(arriving at 2pm or 3 respectively). Anyone out there doing the same thing or carpooling from Los Angeles on Friday? I'm looking to find some True fans, heading to San Diego on Friday, who want to come back to LA right after the show. The morning train doesn't leave San Diego till about 7am Saturday. I don't want to wait that long in the dark at a lonely train station. So I was hoping to share the ride back Saturday--even halfway to Orange County— then using Uber the rest of the way. I'm a rock girl; U2 is like church for me. I have been to every tour since October. Hoping to meet like minded fans, who know all the lyrics to sing along with me from the seats. Also, I haven't bought a GA ticket yet. Plan to on Ticketmaster tomorrow, unless someone has an extra ticket.
Any Cleveland fan gathering news?
notthesame posted a topic in Cleveland - First EnergyHowdy! Any word on fans getting together the day before the show?
This happened within 6 hours of landing in Ireland my first ever visit
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From the album: i+e DublinAll 4 of the boys came out and said hello during the tech rehearsal on Sunday night before the shows started. Talk about being in the right place in the right time. Special thanks to Jose, Ken, Sil and the rest of the Brazilian crew who were kind and smart enough to figure this out. Forever grateful. After 20+ years I finally got to say thank you.
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Australia to Dublin.....Hi everyone, is anyone organising any fan parties/catch up in either Dublin or Belfast? Anyone else doing the long trip from Melbourne?
Fan meetup?Any fan get togethers proposed for Vancouver yet?
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Something strange is happening with my Thursday boxing class, but not in a bad way. For reasons I don't understand, that class is sparsely attended. The gym is right next to a major transportation hub in midtown, just after work, with one of their best boxing instructors, you'd figure there'd be 15-20 people there. But it's usually more like 4-8 people, which makes for an excellent workout, but worries me that the revolving-door gym manager might poke his head in and wonder if the class is worth keeping.
Lately, the New York Jets cheerleaders have been showing up and prepping for their workout in the large stretching area outside the gym. Here's a video that shows them working out in our gym. This may not be the actual squad, but finalists training for the last audition. It's hard to tell. I recognize only one of them in the pictures on the website, and we're talking about 20-25 women I've been seeing in that stretch area.
Rest assured, they're real physical specimens. I was surprised by how short they were: you see professional cheerleaders on TV, they all look to be about six-feet tall with, allow me to quote Rod Stewart, legs right up to their necks. They're not: notice the high-heel boots in the photos. Most are around 5' 8" but do have a certain body type: lean, zero extra fat, long legs even if they're not tall, and the prerequisite, long flowing hair, mostly blonde. Surprisingly, not all drop-dead gorgeous in the face – I'd imagine a slightly above average looking women with the right body and hair type can pull this off if she has the moves and make-up skills.
It's a welcome distraction, to say the least. A few of the guys are under the misguided impression that "they're looking at us, dudes." But they're not. We're working out in the gym, in front of the wall mirror that these women are trying to look at themselves while they run through routines. We're in their way, which is why they appear to be engrossed with us. I don't doubt for a second that "look at these old, out-of-shape dicks" is the main thought in their minds, seeing as how they're used to being around finely-tuned professional athletes. And we're blocking their mirror!
The women in the class? You can sense a mild tension. Really, there are two or three regulars in that class who are good-looking women, as in most boxing classes, real tomboys who are in great physical condition and easy on the eyes. I'd be much more inclined to spend time with someone like this than a flighty twentysomething cheerleader … but that doesn't mean much when there are 20 stunningly attractive women gathered together in a group outside the door going through traditional cheerleading routines in unison. That hair toss you see all the time? It doesn't come naturally: they rehearse it constantly.
I've been studying them (said the old man in the dirty raincoat). No, but I've been paying attention to how they interact, how the two black girls position themselves away from the others (and often won't work out with them at all), how the slightly older looking women (probably ancient at 26) tend to group together. Mostly, I notice the over-powering self-confidence they have in a large group. When they first start showing up in that area, there are a handful or less, and they tend to make small talk, not really exert much of a presence. But when everyone starts showing up, it's interesting to see the transformation. It seems like each of them purposely makes eye contact with everyone in her line of vision.
Eye contact is a big thing in New York. I've learned when to use it and when not. Generally, it's a good idea to make brief eye contact with people on the street, let them know you're aware of their presence, but not to dwell or linger on it. I've also learned if I want to intimidate someone walking towards me, it's best to make no eye contact at all, just focus my eyes lower, about chest level, but straight ahead. With people wrapped up in smartphones all day long, I use this all the time to let people know I will walk into them rather than around them because they're not engaged in reality: it works.
If someone's making prolonged eye contact with me in public, I take that to mean they either want to intimidate me or simply want something from me. Overly confident people in business do it all the time. In their minds, this is a normal function to exert their dominance. They're usually smart enough not to do it when they recognize they're not in a power-struggle situation. Much like people raising their voices … you have a lot more to worry about from someone who's completely silent. I equate intimidation with fear, not self-assurance. Or put it this way: the people I've seen who are convinced they're the most self-assured people in the room are generally suffering some mild form of mental illness … for which they're often financially rewarded! The world isn't upside down – it's always been this way.
So when I see these gorgeous cheerleaders, all white-teeth smiles and direct eye contact with everyone in their path, I take it with a grain of salt. They're young. They're beautiful. They're in a gang. This is what Hitler had in mind, especially with the blonde hair and blue eyes!
The odd thing is, the past decade of my life I've made friends with one of my old high-school's cheerleaders, who was beautiful in her teens and 20's. She looks pretty good now, too, but think Brooke Shields in the early 80's: just a stunningly attractive woman. I wouldn't be off mark saying this was the best-looking girl in high school, not just our class. Guys our age wouldn't approach her unless they were brash and "running the show" in terms of high-school popularity. (And there's a very odd story about one of these situations that's not mine to tell!) Older guys tended to hit on her because guys her age figured, "Snowball's chance in hell. Why bother?"
And I can see that even decades on, those two or three years when they were cheerleaders still affects how they are now. There were and are cliques, some of them going back to grade school, related to brains and beauty, almost as if they had a game plan for high-school domination. I think they were mostly innocent then and simply rode the wave of popularity such a position entails. The cheerleaders in my class were by no means wicked, as so often portrayed in movies. They were often pretty smart, too, and hustling for high grade-point averages as much as anything else.
A very odd thing is more recent reunions – in that a lot of the cheerleaders (not to mention the class president) haven't showed up for any, despite the fact that they're all doing reasonably well in life. Seemingly by default, my cheerleader friend and I have become heavily involved in running the reunions, so we have good insight into people's situations whether or not they choose to attend. We both get vague whiffs of those old cliques when it comes to this. One decides not to go, and the others similarly choose to veto. It just seems odd. We're talking one night a decade, with invitations going out a year in advance. I surely understand things like "getting fat" – I got fat for 20 years and still went! But maybe that's because I felt I had very little to lose in terms of power nostalgia, i.e., I wasn't running the show at all in high school and out-of-hand rejected so much of the social hierarchy (and I wish I had been more involved with some things).
One of the worthwhile things about reunions is they humanize people from an important part of our lives. Very few people show up to be assholes. You have a lot of money? Nice house? Nice car? Show up a decade later, you might be divorced and suffering from some unforeseen disaster that damaged your life irreversibly. That's how life works. Things go your way, and then they don't. Our lives tend to be a constant stream of success and failure, you'd have to be fairly blessed to show up at one of these things and advertise that your life has been one stunning success followed by another. Shit happens. Good and bad. I've had pleasant, reassuring conversation with just about everyone I spoke to at one of these things, whether the person had been popular or not.
None of the small cliques I was part of in high school survive to this day, and I'm glad for that. I know individual people from that time period, but we're not all on the same page, living hundreds or thousands of miles apart, doing different things, each with a wealth of knowledge and experience that has nothing to do with those few years we spent awkwardly slammed together in high school. Going to college was a revelation for me, where I came into my own, far more than high school. And moving to New York allowed me to walk away from so much of my past that just didn't matter. It granted me permission to be whoever I was … only to realize who I was already seemed to be woven into my character by how and where I was raised!
I'm trying to figure out how all this information feeds into the head of those New York Jets cheerleaders doing their routines in the stretch area. They did the near-impossible: they took a high-school fantasy into the adult world. Thousands of grown men lust after them, whether on the sidelines or those brief glimpses we get of them during games on TV. And they are lust worthy! It's hard not to return eye contact when a woman who looks like that gazes at you, even if it's only some bizarre form of territorial pissing. Like sirens calling your ship to the rocks!
Meanwhile, we're in the gym, pounding out that day's frustrations on heavy bags and hand pads, getting our batteries recharged after eight hours of grinding adulthood. I can't help but feel like I'm in high school in some sense when they're out there, but not in some fantastical way. I can't say the opposite, that I feel like some inadequate dick in their eyes. I don't. As noted, I can guarantee I'm older than some of their parents. And maybe it's because of the age gap that I don't feel intimidated. A good word to describe it is "giddy." Everyone gets giddy when they show up, the abnormal sight of that many beautiful women gathered in one place engaged in a high-school phenomenon that they've all been privileged enough, through looks and talent, to engage in. There's a purity to it. If I was sitting in a dressing room with a bunch of similarly-aged strippers getting ready to go onstage, the sexuality would be up front and far more visible. Here, it's still presented in a somehow hokey, "rah rah" fashion of cheerleading.
The point is I shouldn't feel intimidated by them: that might be part of the cheerleader myth of high school that loses its nasty edge in adulthood. These are beautiful women, most probably with day jobs no better or worse than mine, or still going to college. Some of them probably still hope to be professional dancers or choreographers. Most could surely run an aerobics class or even a gym. I'd rather not project any negativity on them, the same way I'd rather they not do the same on me. I'd imagine if I saw a dolphin swimming next to a boat I was on, I'd feel the same way.


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Scrutinising balance sheets will be the first challenge for the European Central Bank (ECB) as it prepares to take over the supervision of eurozone banks in 2014, according to Deloitte.
Clifford Smout, co-head of the Deloitte Centre for Regulatory Strategy, said: 'Under the single supervisory mechanism, all of the Eurozone's 6,000 credit institutions will come under the remit of the ECB.
'There is still a lot of uncertainty about what is on the balance sheets of the Eurozone's banks and it is no surprise that the ECB is keen to scrutinise their books in readiness for when it takes up its supervisory role in 2014.'
He added that 'it will also be important to consider what happens after the results of the balance sheet assessment are unveiled. It is almost certain that some bank restructuring and recapitalisation will be required. The ECB is planning to issue initial guidance in mid-October to allow banks to prepare for a thorough examination of their balance sheets. It will need to make sure that it gets the balance sheet assessment right as anything less will have serious reputational consequences for the single supervisory mechanism.'
On 27 September 2013, we wrote:
MEPs have given the green light for the creation of a single supervisory body for EU banks.
The new EU bank supervision system will bring approximately 150 of the EU's largest banks and will be directly overseen by the European Central Bank (ECB) from September 2014.
The MEPs have particularly focused on strengthening the system's transparency and accountability and have tasked the European Banking Authority to develop supervisory practices, which national bank supervisors should follow.
The system, which will be compulsory for Eurozone members, will be open to all other EU countries. MEPs also pushed for a decision-making model for the system, which would allow non-Eurozone countries to take part as equal partners.
The new oversight system involves the transfer of considerable bank supervisory powers from national to EU level. MEPs and various national parliaments have therefore insisted that such a transfer of powers require proportional democratic control of the new supervisor.
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Cereals and cereal bars
Morning rituals are changing, driven by different lifestyles and socio-economic challenges. To meet this trend, industrial companies are developing new ranges that provide more than just cereals; they provide fruit too. We can provide fruit inclusions with controlled water content and water activity.
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- 150 g oat flakes
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- 3-4 liquid honey
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(CBS News) NEW YORK - At least 46 people were killed Sunday in attacks throughout Iraq -- attacks against citizens at a coffee shop and a wedding party -- in attempts to destabilize the country. The war there brought suffering to Iraqi civilians for years and U.S. soldiers have stepped in to help. One of them is a U.S. captain who lent a hand to an Iraqi boy.
In 2009, Capt. Morrie Fanto was on a special mission in Iraq. He came across a little boy who had been badly injured by an IED.
"I was kind of shocked to see the extent of his injuries," he recalled.
His name is Wad and he needed a lot of medical attention.
"I didn't want to allow things to pass in and out of my life without trying to do something about it," Fanto explained.
While back at his base, Fanto decided to search the Internet for relief agencies and sent a letter to Elissa Montanti of Staten Island, New York. She runs a non-profit group called the Global Medical Relief Fund.
"Like many other requests I've gotten out of Iraq from the military, he had written if I can help this child," she said.
Asked about when she first saw Wad, Montanti said: "Wad was broken. Wad was missing an eye. His face was terribly scarred, missing an arm and missing a leg."
Now, she said, he's doing great.
Montanti's mission is to help children who had been injured in war and natural disasters. Wad is one of four boys living in New York getting medical treatment that is donated.
"He was restored with youth and dignity," she said. "He has that leg to play soccer, because that was what he was truly upset about when he had lost his leg."
A couple weeks before we met with Montanti, she received another email from Fanto.
"He said, 'Hi Elissa. I'm now working at the Pentagon. How's the charity doing? And by the way, how is Wad?'" she recalled. "I said, 'Oh my God, I would love to meet you personally.' He said, 'I'm going to make it happen.'"
Then it was time for Wad to see the person who had made it all possible. Both Fanto and Wad hugged each other. "It's good to see you," Fanto said to Wad. "Look at how big you've gotten."
"I was trying to calculate in my head how much older he would be and how much he would grow," Fanto told us. "He looks like the same kid. He has a good soul. It was great to see him."
During the visit, Wad said to Fanto: "Thank you...I'm so happy to see you. I love you so much."
"I ended up spending so much time in Iraq," Fanto told us. "There were some very difficult times and some really good times. I think Wad and my relationship -- that symbolizes some of the good things that came out of those ten years in Iraq. A lot of great people there. I wish for the best future for Iraq."


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Heathrow Express: Direct non-stop train from Heathrow to Paddington Station in West London. Trains every 15 minutes. Super service but could be a little pricey for South Africans spending Rands - a single journey is approximately £16.50. Check out the Heathrow Express website for more information.
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Black Taxi: Another iconic London experience - especially if you get a talkative cabbie. The journey is metered (by time and distance) so if you get stuck in the notorious London traffic the journey could cost a small fortune - anywhere from £35 upwards. The advantage is that you and your luggage will be deposited at your final destination without any humping onto train or tube platforms.
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Without a doubt there is something very relaxing and pleasurable about cooking and eating grilled food. There are countless ways you can turn your grilling not only into a flavorful and enjoyable way to cook, but there are also many healthy and tasty alternatives. Like anything else in life, what you put on your grill is a choice. Grilling healthy first means that you have decided to eat healthy. Cooking on a grill can be a great way to reduce fats on while adding wonderful flavor however we must also be careful when grilling as there can be certain risks if precautions are not taken. Eating healthy always begins with choosing healthy foods that are low in fat and using marinates to reduce unhealthy caseinogens. We know that charcoal grilling can produce
We all have heard about barbecuing, but we are unaware of the real tricks in it. Barbecuing is also a form of art. To a person who is new to this art may get confused, because cooking meat in an open fire is a really tricky method. In order to get a really good and delicious bbq dish, one must have a lot of patience.Barbecuing can be done in two methods: through grilling and smoking. Grilling is the quickest method of cooking meat over a direct source of dry heat, whereas, smoking is a slow process, where the food is kept at a particular distance from the fire. Now let us take the two separately, to know the real processing. Grilling is of two types: direct and indirect. But before going into the details,let me tell you that there are three varieties of grills.
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Student Family Moms Prayer Group
August 7 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am
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An event every week that begins at 8:00 am on Friday, repeating indefinitely
Student Families moms, please join us on Fridays from 8-9 AM for a time of prayer. We meet in the worship center, room 105. All are welcome. For more information, please contact Jennifer Litowski at 704-321-5005.


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The Boosterthon fun run
This morning I went to Hamza's school to help with the Boosterthon fundraiser. So not only did I help serve water and popsicles to an entire grade of students, but I also got to watch Hamza run his 43 laps. It wasn't too hot, but was quite dusty out in the field.
The field as the fifth graders are marching in
At the start line
I managed to get a glimpse of Hamza while he was running
Enjoying a popsicle after the run
The purpose of the fun run is fundraising for the school. The students get a pledge per laps run, then collect the amount based on how many laps they actually completed. It's a great way to raise funds for the school, all the while encouraging some healthy activity.
Tomorrow is the much anticipated Cure for Darfur yard sale at Magnolia Park in Trussville, next to the First Baptist Church on Chalkville Road. The students have managed to acquire a truck load of donated items for the sale. They have spent many hours sorting and pricing the items, and the donated moving truck was loaded up Wednesday after school. We will be out on the field selling items from 4-7pm, although setup will start about 2pm. I hope to see some of my Trussville neighbors there. I am so proud of all the kids' efforts, they have been working together with such enthusiasm and motivation. Of course if you want to know more about what's going on you can always check out this blog, authored by my very own Safa. The students have succeeded in collecting over $200 in donations already.


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Just when I think I've completely failed as a mother something happens to reassure me I'm not a complete screw up. Yet.
Last week my oldest had parent-teacher conferences. They are student-lead so he had to go with me. His teacher absolutely adores him and I think that helps him in excel in the classroom.
I should probably back up a little bit and explain my hesitance for this conference. Before Christmas break Shaun's teacher sent home a progress report for the second quarter and he was below grade level for reading as well as handwriting. This frustrated me a little bit because learning came easy for me as a child. I loved to read and write. Shaun, not so much. I decided it was time for him to do a little extra work at home. I printed off a number of sight word practice sheets and decided to let him read to me instead of me reading the nightly bedtime book. It was frustrating at first, but it's definitely gotten easier.
At his conference his teacher made the comment he was at a 'G' reading level and at this point (early March) normal is a 'J' level. Not too bad, I thought to myself and breathed a sigh of relief. I made a point to ask about his handwriting because on her report card it hadn't improved. She was content with where he was at with writing, but I think it still needs work. We've slacked off some because of spring break and the time change, but we will get back at it.
The thing that stuck in my head about what she said about my son was he's nice to everyone and he follows directions. Praise the Lord! I'm happy he's nice because it's so hard to be that way with the kind of diversity he has in his classroom. We work at home on following the rules and "doing as he's told" and it's admittedly a struggle for both of us. I'm glad some of my frustration is paying off and he's turning into a good kid.
"You should be proud of him Mom," his teacher said.
Admittedly, a compliment is a tough pill for me to swallow. When I was running barrels my horse was good. I trained her myself and I knew what she was capable of. It took many, many good runs for me to say thank you when I got a compliment from someone instead of just smile and nod. Now, I need to learn this when it comes to my boys.
My youngest has been going to daycare since January. Within the last few weeks his teachers have started to gush about him and say he's so much fun. "Life's never dull when Chance is around." My normal response is usually, "oh really? You want to take him home?" The Chance I normally get is kind of grumpy, a little whiny and always asking for graham crackers.
I struggle with being a mom. It isn't something that's come very easy for me, and now that I'm elbow deep in this mess, I'm not real sure I'd change it. Catch me on a day like Monday when I lost my cool because of the constant pestering and I'd probably trade them off for a nickel. Or catch me on a day like last Sunday when Shaun rode my old brown mare without whining and listened to his mom tell him how to get her to go. Moments like that make me love him a little bit more.


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Newspaper Notes Rise in Advocacy Work by Gates Foundation
Covering the urban education, high school, and common-standards-and-assessment beats in the last decade, I've heard a good deal of both praise and grumbling about the role the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plays in shaping education. Praise in some quarters for the foundation's dedication to improving the learning experience for disadvantaged students, and grumbling from those who feel its massive investments have an outsized influence on the national schooling landscape.
Wherever you come down in the spectrum of views on the Gates Foundation, a story in yesterday's New York Times will be of interest to you: it highlights the rise in education-advocacy work by the Seattle-based philanthropy.
(My colleague Erik Robelen profiled Gates in 2006, as well, discussing the foundation's growing work in advocacy. In a story last year, he discussed foundations' work to influence education policy. Our pages are full of reporting on the foundation's support of small schools, common standards, and other issues.)
The New York Times story discusses the broad reach of Gates money, including to the nonprofit that publishes Education Week. One education expert quoted in the Times story calls the foundation's influence "Orwellian" in its power to shape how the public thinks about education. This comment echoes comments I've heard often about the foundation's work; they all hover around the idea that because of the amount of money it channels into education, its influence is just too, well, big.
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For the last three years, I've been making podcasts for a living. I'm really lucky to get paid to do what I love. But because I'm so busy, it makes it hard to keep music blogging and curating a weekly radio show, especially as music blogs are dying around me. Blog culture is over. Streaming seems to be in a perilous state. I'm not sure what comes next for the Canadian music industry, but it doesn't seem like blogs are going to make a comeback anytime soon.
In 2011, I began podcasting because I wanted to keep doing my CFMU weekly music show remotely. I've been doing that show since 2009 – it was the longest relationship of my adult life.
Two weeks ago, I decided to take a 4-month hiatus so I can focus on my work podcast projects.
Podcasts I'm working on:
- The Secret Life of Canada (currently ranking #2 in the country!) a brand new history podcast about the undertold stories of Canadian history
- Polaris Music Prize which explores the artists & stories behind Canada's most interesting music prize
- Safe Space with journalists Vicky Mochama (Toronto Star, Metro) & Ishmael Daro (Buzzfeed), starting season 2, which debuts next week
I'm not sure when (if) I'll be back. In the meantime, you can listen to past episodes of Indie-licious (there are something like 300 of them out there) here on the blog, or on iTunes.
But what about fun stuff?
After 8 years, I'm exploring new musical projects. My band Baby Cages will be releasing a new album soon. You can keep updated on Facebook. I'm really excited for this release because I get to play a ton of different instruments on it and flex my krautrock and psychedelic sensibilities.
My bi-monthly food/music/art series Feast In The East will continue to showcase amazing DIY musicians, artists, and up-and-coming chefs. Feast In The East #64 will feature Petra Glynt, Zacht Automaat, FET.NAT, and Joanne Pollock with art by Vanessa Rieger and food by Brendan Lehman and Josiah Tsang. Here's the Facebook event. You can check out our Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram for news & updates.
Last year, we put out a huge cookbook/art book/cassette compilation. You can buy or stream it and help support our work. It was a huge labour of love – we made the cookbook bindings by hand with the help of a few friends. Here's a sampler:
Sometimes it can be hard to part with projects you've been working on for so long. But for now, I'm really excited to be given the chance to do all this wonderful work. I'm grateful for everything.
Long live DIY.
Long live Canadian music.
Keep in touch on Twitter @katiejensen
your pal in music,


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DAVOS, Switzerland — If you ask a designer to name the most important issues facing design today, one is bound to be sustainability, which is design-speak for helping the rest of us to live responsibly, ethically and environmentally.
That's the easy bit. While most designers would agree that sustainability is important, they're very likely to disagree about everything else to do with it. What exactly is sustainable design? What constitutes success? And failure? On what criteria? Different designers may well give very different answers to all of those questions, and more.
The disagreements aggravate the uncertainties and inconsistencies around sustainable design. If designers and the people they work with can't agree on common standards, the quality of "sustainable" design will continue to be questionable. How can the rest of us be expected to measure the sustainable impact of the things we buy? And how can we be confident about the way in which they were designed, manufactured, shipped, and will eventually be disposed of?
These issues were aired Wednesday in a debate, which I moderated, on "Design for Sustainability" at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Also participating were three designers, each of whom is committed to sustainability, but approaches it from a very different perspective.
William McDonough is the American architect who co-authored the book, "Cradle to Cradle," which defines design as a force for good. Tim Brown is an industrial designer and chief executive officer of IDEO, one of the world's largest design consultancies. Cameron Sinclair is co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a global network of volunteers working on development and emergency reconstruction projects, including a five-year plan for Haiti.
As the lack of consensus over what constitutes sustainable design is one of the major obstacles to its development, we began the Davos debate by addressing that issue. Each speaker was asked to identify two examples of what he consider to be successful sustainable design projects, and one failure.
Mr. McDonough started with a recent success — the Brazilian city of Curitiba. Thanks to its visionary mayor, Jaime Lerner, Curitiba has been transformed by a series of sustainable initiatives from waste recycling programs to the construction of new parks (where sheep "mow" the grass) as well as a cheap, efficient public transport network and neighborhood libraries that offer every child free access to the books they need for school and the Internet.
Then came a historic example — the centuries-old Bedouin tent woven from goat's hair. "It does so many things with one simple non-toxic fabric," Mr. McDonough said. "It provides deep shade in a place with no shade. The black outer surface causes air to move by convective currents creating a cooling breeze. Its coarse open weave allows a beautiful light to permeate the shadow when the sun shines, but swells up tight as a drum when it rains. And you can roll it up and take it with you."
Mr. Brown focused on successful corporate approaches to sustainable design. One was the supply chain developed by Preserve, an American manufacturer of recyclable plastic household products from recycled materials. Preserve collaborates with empathetic businesses to recycle as much as possible throughout the product's life. As well as sourcing recycled plastic from the organic yogurt pots returned to Stonyfield Farms, it has established collection points in Whole Foods stores, making it easy for its customers to send back their Preserve products for recycling.
His second example was the Japanese government's Cool Biz campaign, which he praised for "speaking to one of the biggest challenges of sustainability — behavior change." It was intended to encourage office workers to wear lighter, less formal clothing during the summer thereby enabling their employers to save energy by turning down the air conditioning. A new line of clothing was produced, and the prime minister was photographed wearing it. To allay employees' concerns about breaching Japan's strict dress codes, their employers gave them "Cool Biz" badges to wear as reminders that they were allowed to dress casually.
One of Mr. Sinclair's successes was Sustainable Health Enterprises, or SHE, which was founded by the American entrepreneur, Elizabeth Scharpf, to address social problems in developing countries. SHE's first venture is helping women to set up new businesses to produce inexpensive, eco-friendly sanitary pads from locally sourced raw materials, starting with banana fibers in Rwanda. They will be sold to girls and women who might otherwise have to miss school or work during menstruation because they cannot afford to buy pads.
He also admires an environmental advocacy project, The Plastiki, a catamaran made from a new method of recycling plastic bottles. It is soon to sail from San Francisco to Sydney. Led by a British environmentalist, David de Rothschild, the voyage is intended to raise awareness of global waste, and to encourage smarter ways of dealing with it.
So far so inspiring, but the examples of unsuccessful sustainable design were equally enlightening. Mr. McDonough singled out the questionable recycling claims made for PVC-backed carpet. "PVC has been connected to some of the worst chemical consequences on human and ecological health," he said. "Recycling is an important sustainability strategy but recycling the wrong things makes the products perfectly wrong."
Mr. Brown critiqued a project that he sees as a technical triumph, which fails to meet some basic user needs. It is the Segway Personal Transporter, an electric two-wheel vehicle developed by the American company Segway. "The technology is almost miraculous," he said. "But it is too heavy for people to manhandle in and out of their homes, and the battery life is insufficient to allow a postal worker to complete a full round."
As for Mr. Sinclair, he picked the sustainable design crime of wasting resources on superfluous packaging, notably the single bananas sold by Morrisons, a British supermarket chain, each in its own biodegradable trays and wrapping. "It's ridiculous," he said. "Why couldn't they have put a price tag on the banana skin?"


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Welcome to Jackson Triangle, Hayward
The Timbers Apartments is ideally situated in Hayward's Jackson Triangle neighborhood, at the intersection of I-880 and Hwy 92. Living here means you are minutes away from easy freeway access, the San Mateo Bridge, and Jackson Street. Taking public transit couldn't be easier, with close proximity to local bus stations, and the South Hayward BART station less than three miles away. The Timbers Apartments' central Bay Area location, plus quick access to Chabot College and Cal State University — East Bay, make us a great option for students who wish to live off-campus and in the heart of Hayward.
Walking Distance to Everyday Conveniences
The Timbers Apartments is designed to provide you with the absolute best in efficient and practical community amenities. Our location takes convenient apartment living one step further to put you in the center of Hayward, with easy access to the greater Bay Area. Living just off of Jackson Street means you're minutes from regional expressways and large employers. You'll be near to everything Hayward has to offer, from errand running to community services.
We are across the street from Lucky Supermarket and a great selection of casual restaurants. When you're not in the mood to cook, pizza, burgers, Indian, and Chinese restaurants are all just a short walk from your front door. It's a quick drive to the department stores, unique boutiques, and dining options at Southland Mall.
Runners and cyclists will enjoy living just a few blocks from the Southgate Walking Path. No matter what type of outdoor recreation you're looking for, Hayward has something for you. This beautiful part of the Bay Area is home to numerous parks and recreation areas, including Hayward Japanese Gardens, Memorial Park, and Lake Chabot Regional Park.
What's Nearby
Food & Drink
- Grocery Outlet
- Lucky Supermarket
- Safeway
- Moon Indian Restaurant
- El Taquito Restaurant
- Mountain Mike's Pizza
- Nation's Giant Hamburgers
- Park Elementary
- Harder Middle School
- Mount Eden High School
- Hayward High School
- Cal State East Bay
- Chabot College
Points of Interest
- Southland Mall
- Southgate Park & Walking Path
- Hayward Japanese Gardens
- Memorial Park
- Downtown Hayward
- Cull Canyon Regional Recreation Area
- Lake Chabot Regional Park


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For traveling families one of the more difficult tasks—one that can either make or break a vacation—is finding suitable hotel accommodations that even the most demanding of guests (think 7-year-old princess) will be pleased with.
Enter Omni Hotels & Resorts. This award-winning collection of 47 properties in the U.S., Mexico and Canada known for catering to upscale leisure and corporate travelers, has raised the bar for family travel with engaging programs for both young children and teens, as well as family-friendly suites at many of its hotels.
Teen Connection, for example, was unveiled this past summer to offer teen guests at select Omni Hotels & Resorts special suggestions for activities during their stay. Here's the catch: the suggestions come from an official "Teen Concierge" from the Omni Teen Advisory Board, a teenager well versed on where to go and what to see in the particular city. The concierge knows places and sites that are well beyond the radar of adults.
According to Omni officials, Teen Connection is "more than a menu of activities for adolescents." A vacationing youngster can "connect with the hotel's teen concierge to learn about the hippest spots in town from someone within their age group who, as an insider, knows all the so-called tourist traps to avoid." As a bonus, the "Teen Concierge" is available through social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter and may be accessed via e-mail and texting.
According to Caryn Kboudi, v.p. of corporate communications, the seeds for this innovative program were planted by David Strebel, the 18-year-old son of the general manager at Omni Berkshire Place in New York City, who incidentally is also a resident of the hotel.
Omni Berkshire Place's Teen Connection microsite features Strebel skateboarding through Manhattan streets, stopping in parks, talking to buskers and eating street food while explaining his role "to give you a teen's inside perspective on New York City.
"I've spent most of my teenage years here, so I just want to pass that knowledge on to traveling teens," he says. "While on vacation, I understand that you and your parents' interests are likely to differ. As a teen who has personally experienced this frustration, I am devoted to show you the ins and outs of New York City."
During its first year of operation, Teen Connection's success has led Omni to offer the program at the Omni Chicago Hotel, Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., the Omni Parker House in Boston, the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate and the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Florida, and the Omni Hilton Head Oceanside Resort in South Carolina.
According to Kboudi, "Parents often like to unplug and unwind when on vacation, but teens like to stay active and constantly connected via social means, so we designed the program with them in mind…Omni is committed to making teens feel important instead of stuck between kid-friendly and adult activities."
But what about younger guests? Omni's commitment to family travel is mirrored in programs offered to all its young guests and available at most of its properties. Camp Omni, the brand's flagship summer package, is a program that, according to Kboudi, "provides unique experiences that combine nostalgia, entertainment and pure fun. It lends a sense of youthfulness and exploration to travel, and gets all members of the family involved in creating memories." It's a mishmash of summer camp-themed activities for younger guests such as treats including s'mores, a collapsible water bottle and a lanyard kit in a knapsack, as well as an adventure newsletter containing a scavenger hunt that rewards young guests with a merit badge, dessert and $10 Camp Omni gift cards to use in the gift shop or restaurant.
The program, offered through summers—the peak season for family travel—is expected to be renewed and improved every year, and provides a 15 percent discount on 2-night stays and complimentary breakfast for children under 12. Rates vary by property and date, but generally run from $189 to $349 per night.
The Omni Sensational Kids, meanwhile, offers kids a backpack containing a Discovery Map with 32 games, crayons, a hacky-sack and other kid-friendly "treasures," as well as milk and cookies delivered to the guestroom on the first night.
Then there are the colorful, kid-friendly Kid's Fantasy Suites, available at Boston, Mount Washington, San Francisco, and Texas properties and featuring kid bedding plus beanbag chairs, an art table, books, games and toys, as well as a connecting room for the parents.
Omni Hotels & Resorts has an agent-dedicated website that includes information on GDS and commissions; FAM rates; agent promotions; and information on the latest developments, as well as the option to sign up for "Omni eNews for Travel Agents."
contact information
Omni Hotels & Resorts: (800) 422-1212; omnihotels.com or omnihotels.com/TravelAgents.aspx


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Photo courtesy of Jonny Leather
ArpLine's music fits well into the current musical moment, with rock and electronic elements combining to make a cohesive whole. Some of their songs fall clearly into the radio-friendly camp ("Parts Unknown"), while others are more atmospheric, such as the Radiohead-referencing "Cap". While the focus of this excellent bill at Mercury Lounge was on headliners Bear In Heaven and second opener Oh No Ono, ArpLine started the night off extremely strong, giving a set that featured virtually all of their outstanding new album, "Travel Book". Vocalist Sam Tyndall and the band were on point sound-wise, and made the case that their songs translate well in the live setting. Expect to see this excellent Brooklyn band in a lot more places by the end of this year.
I recorded this set from the same location as the Bear In Heaven recording, but without the soundboard feed. The quality is excellent and there is almost no crowd noise. Enjoy!
Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY
An acidjack master recording
Recorded and produced by acidjack
Hosted at nyctaper.com
Equipment: DPA 4021>Edirol R-44 (24/44.1)
Position: FOB, Center, mics at 8?
Mastering: 24bit/44.1kHz WAV>Audacity (tracking, set fades, amplify each channel)>FLAC ( level 8 )
01 Parts Unknown
02 Game
03 Sound and Versions
04 Weekend in the Colonies
05 Cap
06 banter
07 Make It Rain
08 Rope
09 Amplify
10 Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT ArpLine, visit their website, and purchase their excellent debut album (which is available on a "name your price" basis) from their bandcamp site [here].


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This has been a great GSoC. This was the final week I was working on the project within the GSoC program. I will be doing my evaluations soon. My code in phpMyAdmin has not been merged yet. However the server side code is complete with tests. I am hoping I will be merging the phpMA branch very soon.
This week I have done a major change to the way stacktraces are marked as different among the different incidents, to make it more versatile when reports are grouped. I have also corrected whatever few comments were given on the phpma code.
For the future work, I am going to change the way a part of the phpma code works. I want to output js in the ajax requests rather than json. js gets automatically executed and would simplify the client side js code a lot. However the current implementation of PMA_Response class does not allow js as far as I can tell. I am either going to use 'echo' statements or I will have to augment the response class to allow for js responses. I will also talk with my mentor about the best way for me to do this.
I hope that I will do well in my evaluations. I will definitely apply here again next year and hopefully they would have liked my previous work and accept me. This project was very appealing and interesting and allowed me to hone a lot of my web development abilities. It also taught me about designing a good architecture and about the intricacies of cakePHP. I was given freedom in many design choices and I learned from my mistakes. I also created a lot of unit tests. This was my first experience with PHPunit and I learned a lot.
This was my first work in opensource projects but hopefully it wouldn't be the last. I am going to release at least one of the authentication components I have created as a cakePHP plugin so that no one else needs to reinvent the wheel. I will expand on them a bit and then add some unit tests and release them as a separate plugin. Hopefully this will be the first of many opensource projects that I will create.


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Welcome to Post-ADA America. We hope you've enjoyed your flight. Before leaving, please be sure to check the area around your seat for any civil rights or scraps of human dignity you may have managed to keep us from stealing. Thank you for flying with us — and remember, if you feel your rights have been violated, you're required by law to wait 90 days before suing us. Have a nice day.
The death of the Americans with Disabilities Act–if it is in fact dead–did not occur suddenly. Rather, the Supreme Court has subjected it to the judicial equivalent of the Death of a Thousand Cuts. No single ruling by the high court could be considered fatal, but cumulatively they–especially in the sections of the ADA pertaining to employment–have narrowed the scope of the act so drastically that only a small number of the estimated 54 million disabled Americans remain covered. As Sarah Triano, an advocate with Access Living Chicago and a person with an immune-system disorder, says, "I'm not even protected by the ADA anymore."
So far, Title III of the ADA–which requires access to public accommodations such as restaurants, stores and movie theaters–has escaped the Supreme Court's attention. Here, however, it's the United States Congress that seems eager to put on the executioner's hood. In February 2000 the so-called "ADA Notification Act" was tossed into the congressional hopper, and it has been reintroduced in the current session. Under the Notification Act, a person with a disability wishing to file suit against an inaccessible business will have to wait an additional 90 days to do so–presumably to give the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future enough time to visit the business owner and shame him or her into rushing to comply with a law that has already been on the books for 13 years.
"I don't think we dare let any more
Anger Management
When I think about what has happened to the ADA, I feel angry. And dejected. And betrayed.
Like a lot of people with disabilities on July 26, 1990, I felt a huge sense of triumph when I heard the act had been signed. I was too young to have taken part in the disability rights struggles of the preceding two decades, but each of the movement's victories had affected me profoundly. After sixth grade, thanks to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, I had the right to graduate from a segregated "special" elementary school into the same junior high that my brothers and sister had attended. My parents bought me a membership in the California Association of the Physically Handicapped (now known as Californians for Disability Rights), and when the organization's monthly newsletter arrived in the mail, I'd devour every word of it. I wrote letters to my city councilman demanding curb cuts in my neighborhood so I could wheel to the corner store. When disability activists occupied the San Francisco offices of the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare to demand implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, I cheered them on–and when a 1979 Newsweek article described disability as America's next great civil rights movement, I spent an entire lunch period in the school library looking for a copy of it. Times were changing, and even my pimply 14-year-old self felt like a part of it.
In high school and college my interest in disability rights waned (replaced by sex, beer, science fiction and punk rock, in no particular order) but it never completely faded. When deaf students at Gallaudet University took over the campus in 1988 to protest the appointment of a non-hearing-impaired chancellor, I felt a certain amount of pride even though I'm not deaf. And in July 1990 that pride all came rushing back. To this day, I still can't look at that photo of Justin Dart looking over President Bush's shoulder without getting goose bumps.
When I think about the years since that photo was taken, however, I end up asking: What the hell happened?
And then: Where the hell was the disability movement while it was happening?
Anger is like fire. Unchecked, it can burn you up from the inside and then destroy everything around you. But, channeled and controlled, it can become a useful tool–or a powerful weapon. I've decided to channel my anger into finding out why the disability movement never achieved the critical mass expected back in the 1970s. There's no way a single magazine article can provide an in-depth historical analysis of the disability rights movement–and no one without a Ph.D. in history would want to read it anyway –but it can ask some important, outside-the-party-line questions:
Could the disability rights movement have done more to protect the ADA?
Are we up to the task of salvaging what's left?
Do we need to start thinking beyond the ADA and finding new ways to bring about equality and inclusion for people with disabilities?
In these post-ADA, post-Sept. 11, civil-rights-averse times, is it all our movement can do simply to keep from becoming irrelevant?
The Media Miss the Message
"The biggest problem," says Cyndi Jones, "is that the movement isn't moving."
I'm sitting with Jones and her husband, Bill Stothers, at a cafe next door to the San Diego offices of the Center for an Accessible Society–a national organization designed to focus public attention on disability and independent living issues. It's in a quaint old part of town, whose Victorian and Craftsman houses are largely inaccessible but whose sidewalks–most of them, anyway–have curb cuts.
If anyone can help me find some answers, these two can. It was they–as the editors of Mainstream–who gave me some of my first assignments as a freelance writer, when no one else was buying stories about disabled people who weren't climbing El Capitan or pimping for Jerry's Kids.
I start the interview with the question of the day, the same one I asked Lucy Gwin: Is the ADA dead?
"No," Stothers says. "I don't think it's dead. Everybody focuses on the court rulings, but the fact is that access is happening." Although disability rights laws from the ADA on down remain underenforced, equality and integration for people with disabilities have slowly percolated through the larger culture–particularly when it comes to public facilities. In the United States, a disabled person will encounter many more ramps, accessible restrooms, Braille signage and closed-captioned television broadcasts in an average day than they would in comparably wealthy countries such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom or Canada–no matter how much more socially progressive those nations may otherwise be. "There's this change of attitude that's more powerful than the law itself," says Jones, "and that … is what causes things to happen."
Signs of this attitudinal shift have also appeared even in organizations usually viewed with suspicion by disability rights activists. While the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon still draws protests, and MDA itself has come under fire for alleged discrimination (see News, August 2003), groups like United Cerebral Palsy, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Diabetes Association have quietly included civil rights issues among their traditionally medical, research-and-treatment-oriented concerns. Says UC San Francisco historian Paul Longmore, Ph.D., "If you go to their Web sites, you'll find sections that address issues of public policy that don't have to do with medical research, but have to do with civil rights, [as well as] information about individuals confronting prejudice and discrimination." What's more, he adds, the last 13 years have seen a marked change in the American people's expectations for the role people with disabilities play in society. "They expect to see people with disabilities participating. … They're shocked and appalled when they learn about work disincentives. They support us, and when things are reported to them, they agree with us."
The problem is, so many of the issues facing us–the reasons that we need an ADA in the first place–have gone unreported. We haven't insisted that they be reported. The campaign for the ADA's passage is notable for its lack of any attempt by the disability movement to engage the media or public in the debate surrounding it, or in any broader discussion of disability rights and what they might mean for American society. You'd think that a movement so grounded in the ideals of previous civil rights struggles would have recognized the crucial importance of public support and sympathy; yet in our case, disability activists preferred to work behind the scenes with elected officials and did not seek the attention of the voters who elected them. "Most other civil rights legislation has come with broad, deep public support," Stothers says. "People demanded that it happen–they saw those police dogs chasing [civil rights workers] in Alabama and there was outrage. That's never happened with disability."
According to Mary Johnson–editor of Ragged Edge, co-director (with Jones and Stothers) of the Center for an Accessible Society, and author of Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights–the lobbyists working on Capitol Hill perceived, correctly, that it would be easier to sell the ADA directly to Congress without getting bogged down in lengthy public debate or dealing with the media. "As a short-range 'get a law passed' strategy it was very good," Johnson says. "But … in the long term you create a backlash when you don't get the public on board with you. The epigram that begins my book says it all for me: 'A law cannot guarantee what a culture will not give.'"
If a Congressperson submitted a bill in the House requiring African-Americans to wait 90 days before suing a business for race discrimination, the airwaves and op-ed pages of the nation would instantly be filled with calls for his or her political head. Earlier this year, gay and lesbian activists were highly vocal in their denunciations of Sen. Rick Santorum for remarks that they perceived as anti-gay. So why hasn't the disability community mounted a similar response to attacks on the ADA? In the words of Bob Dole, where's the outrage?
"We don't publicize our programs, our ideas," Johnson says. "Over and over again, I come back to that as our essential problem. The public only knows about the disability rights movement from the high-profile stories by the likes of John Stossel–they think it's a bunch of whiny opportunists complaining about every little thing and refusing to take responsibility. … We [could] show them that disability rights is about helping everyone to get the access and accommodation they need to live a decent life. But we don't frame things like this. We could, we should. But we don't."
Losing Consciousness
We don't connect with other crips, either. For me, the idea of my disability as a political and not just a medical issue took hold early on–but my experience is the exception that proves the rule. According to Longmore, the majority of disabled Americans "never got politicized about disability." That would certainly explain why, more often than not, when I first meet other people with disabilities and use names or concepts that folks in the movement take for granted–Section 504, IDEA, ADAPT, even New Mobility–they'll give me the blankest of blank stares.
Says Johnson, "Wade Blank [the founder of ADAPT] many many years ago made a point about how the way to get new people into a movement was to do things publicly that would draw people to you." If more disability rights groups took this approach–filing high-profile suits against inaccessible businesses, holding press conferences constantly, engaging in the sort of confrontational street theater for which ADAPT is well-known–"folks would start knowing about disability rights and … some young folks–the ones who have an activist bent–would start coming forward."
In Gwin's opinion, the disability community should replicate the consciousness-raising sessions that formed the foundation for the modern-day feminist movement. "The women's movement jumped on those–there was this huge buzz around the country because women were running off to meet other women … talking to each other about their civil rights for the first time in history. This is the kind of person-to-person organizing that we have to do now."
It sounds good in theory. But it also makes us sound as if we're stuck in the '60s. The leadership of the disability movement is not getting any younger–either it brings in some new blood, or it eventually becomes extinct. If we shut out everyone not old enough to remember Woodstock, how do we expect to attract the Warped Tour crowd?
People like Sarah Triano are just the type of up-and-coming leaders that the disability movement needs. As one of the founders of the National Disabled Students Union, Triano has worked to mobilize young people with disabilities on college campuses around the country. She, too, sees a desperate need for consciousness raising within the disability community: "The greatest obstacle [we] face today is our own sense of internalized oppression and shame. What good is an ADA, an IDEA or a Section 504 if people with disabilities are too ashamed to even admit they have a disability?" Socialized by nondisabled society to think of themselves as worthless, many disabled Americans are too demoralized to lay claim to the legislated rights they already have. "I call it cultural terrorism–that's what's been inflicted on us."
However, any outreach to young people with disabilities is going to have to come from young activists. Within the disability movement there persists a wide–and often unacknowledged–generation gap. "The first centers for independent living … were started by very young activists," Triano says. "But they've aged. And the view is that as you age you get more conservative . … A lot of the students in the NDSU don't see [older] leaders with disabilities as very radical."
vOn the other side, movement veterans often view younger generations–X, Y, Z, whatever–as either unaware or unappreciative of the effort and risk that went into earlier disability rights battles. "A lot of young people seem to assume that they will have the same kinds of life opportunities as their nondisabled peers," Longmore says. "I think they will, at some point, hit a glass ceiling, and I hope that that will politicize them." As someone who falls in the middle of this generational divide (either a young Boomer or an old GenXer, depending on where you draw the line), I suspect that the mistrust on both sides is at least partially justified. But when it comes to the issue of consciousness raising–or lack thereof–the argument is also irrelevant. By definition, the disability community is cross-generational, and no one age group holds a monopoly on apathy and ignorance. If we truly want the disability movement to be more than a historical flash-in-the-pan, we ultimately must set aside these kinds of differences and figure out how to mobilize our people across the board–with new perspectives, new ideas, and a renewed sense of our own unity.
Lights, Camera …
It's also no longer enough to confine our activities to the courts, the CILs, and the marble-lined corridors of policy wonkdom Disabled people "have too long relied on courts to provide fundamental human justice, and not enough on popular action to demand it," says Marta Russell. The author of Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract, Russell has written extensively not just on disability rights, but on labor issues, radical politics and the impact of economic globalization. "After the Supreme Court showed its colors regarding employment, for instance, we should have [demonstrated] against Toyota, Chevron, every corporation that displaced a disabled worker instead of making reasonable accommodations."
That kind of high-visibility, in-your-face action requires media savvy and the ability to mobilize large numbers of people–qualities that the disability rights movement has sorely lacked. Of the established disability organizations, only ADAPT has made street protest a regular part of its modus operandi–and while it typically stages at least two demonstrations a year, the number of attendees seems to have plateaued and the actions rarely make more than a brief blip on the media's radar screen.
Of course, part of the problem with mobilizing the disabled masses is a logistical one. It can be just plain hard for a person with a disability to travel from one city to another. Finding accessible transportation and lodging, arranging for attendant services on the road, dealing with broken wheelchair parts or sudden medical emergencies–all of these things can frustrate the hell out of just one disabled individual. Multiply them by seven figures–for a "Million Crip March" on Washington, D.C., say–and you have a logistical nightmare of apocalyptic proportions.
For this reason, some in the disability movement have begun to emphasize smaller-scale action at the local level over big, splashy–and overly ambitious–national spectacles. "You have to mobilize people locally–this is how democracy works," Gwin says. "You can't do it from a sitting position at home in front of the television. … People have to see the faces of their organizers."
Johnson agrees. "Our real strength is in the grass roots. We need to do local stuff, constantly and consistently, that gets ordinary people to understand that they have [rights]. If we can do that consistently … getting ourselves into the public eye as a local movement that benefits everyone, we will be doing a heck of a lot."
Whether it's local or national, mobilizing effectively is going to require each of us to recognize the common ground we share with those whose disabilities are different from ours–in other words, no more griping from us wheelchair users about how people with hidden disabilities aren't "really disabled"–and with other communities working to achieve their own civil rights goals. During the 504 protests, the people occupying HEW received active support from African-Americans, gays and lesbians, organized labor–all of whom recognized that they were fighting the same basic battle. But now, after two decades' worth of "identity politics" (also known as "multiculturalism," "political correctness" and "I'm a bigger victim than you are"), the civil rights landscape is as fragmented as a map of the former Yugoslavia. "Identity politics means that groups compete for 'our' agenda or 'our' piece of a reduced pie, whether economic, social or political," Russell says. "What we need to do is demand a transformation that delivers a different pie–one big enough for all of us. … We do not need to abandon 'our issues' but we do need to integrate our struggles with other struggles."
That's not easy to do, though–not when "progressive" organizers shut out people with disabilities by holding events at inaccessible venues, or disability activists pepper their discussions with racist or homophobic jokes that drive away interested people from other communities. "The disability rights movement can't be insular," Triano says. "We have African-Americans, we have women, we have gays and lesbians already in our movement … [but] I don't think there's enough coalition building."
British folk singer Johnny Crescendo–a polio survivor active in the disability movement in the United Kingdom–once said that there can be no integration without power; once we have power, we can choose to integrate with whomever we want. However, doesn't it also work the other way? If we separate ourselves from the larger community, how can we possibly attain the power?
History Never Ends
A few years after the ADA became law, I attended a disability event in Los Angeles. Billed as a "Chautaqua," the event was designed to bring disabled writers, artists and activists together to exchange ideas and educate ourselves about the experience and culture we had in common. One of the projects was a detailed timeline of important events in the history of disability. Some–such as the 504 protests–were well-known to me, while others–such as the turn-of-the-century "Ugly Laws" in Chicago, which barred people with visible physical deformities from going out in public–came as a shock. The timeline began in Biblical times and continued across the millennia to July 26, 1990–where it abruptly stopped. As if getting the President to sign his name to a piece of paper were the pinnacle of what we could hope to achieve.
At the time I thought to myself, "What self-congratulatory bullshit! Yeah, we got a law passed, and that's great, but that's not the end of it. We're sitting here patting each other on the ass like football players who've just scored a touchdown, and meanwhile the rest of the game is being rigged against us."
In retrospect, I probably overreacted. But then 1994 came around–the year of the Gingrich Revolution, the "Contract on America," and the first of many vocal attacks on the ADA from the media and the halls of Congress. The ensuing backlash against disability rights did not come as a shock to everyone. Says Longmore, "I had expected it long before it finally did occur"–but the movement as a whole was utterly gobsmacked by it, and it has never regained its momentum.
So maybe I wasn't overreacting after all.
On the other hand, the African-American civil rights movement didn't end with Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. It didn't begin there, either–nor did it begin with Rosa Parks, who had received intensive training as a civil rights organizer long before she refused to give up her seat on that bus. There's something to be said for the old saying about what happens when the going gets tough.
"This is the best time [for the disability movement] to be relevant," Jones says. "When things are easy, you get complacent. When things get difficult, that's when you need to come out and fight. … But that means you have to go out and do the organizing. It's not going to get any easier in 50 years."
Nor is the battle going to go away–not in 50 years or a century. That's the tragic burden accepted by anyone who believes in civil rights: Whatever your vision of equality looks like, chances are that you won't live to see it. Sometimes change happens with surprising swiftness, sometimes it becomes glacial, stops or even moves backwards–but one human lifespan is never long enough. True success, then, comes in taking a view that transcends generations and laying the foundation for a movement that will outlive all of us.
The timeline never ends. Not unless the world ends with it.
The Paradox of Activism
By Tim Gilmer
There was a time, not so long ago, when it seemed that disability activism was as simple as, "Ask, and you shall receive."
I had been using a wheelchair since 1965. After 10 years of not being able to enter public buildings in cities as large as Los Angeles or towns the size of Ashland, Ore., not being able to enjoy the luxury of accessible restrooms nor park within easy rolling distances of public events, my repressed anger was ready to channel into activism. When I saw the TV news report of disabled activists occupying the Health, Education and Welfare building in San Francisco, I realized it was our turn.
In 1975, getting around the campus of Southern Oregon State College–built on the side of a mountain–was next to impossible. Students using wheelchairs drove from one class to another. There was no handicapped parking, no disabled students office, no elevators in older buildings, zero awareness.
As an older returning student (30 years old), I felt I could talk to faculty and administration bigwigs as an equal, sensibly. I knew, for instance, that the cost of putting elevators in every older building on campus was prohibitive, but there was no reason why they couldn't handle one or two elevators per year. In the meantime they could reschedule classes when a student lacked access. Now we call it "reasonable accommodation." Then it was simply the right thing to do, and few opposed it, knowing that to do so would be considered the wrong thing to do. Now, since the battlefield is the courtroom instead of the civil arena of everyday behavior, the name of the game is to seek legal loopholes to escape doing the right thing. Legal means have a way of being considered legitimate, no matter how uncivil.
The hillside terrain on campus couldn't be changed, but disabled parking spaces could be put behind each building, and certainly a disabled student services office could be established to legitimize our needs, including dispensing elevator keys so disabled students could use existing elevators not intended for public use. But the biggest problem, then as now, was lack of awareness, which, as I came to realize, stemmed from a form of negligence: Many people were simply unable or unwilling to consider the disability-based point of view.
To make our needs known, a number of us organized and held a conference on campus. SOSC was small, and our gimp club was perfectly representative–one from each disability group. We invited the local press, the college radio station, administration officials, faculty and other interested people. To our surprise, more people came than we expected. Soon our mini-movement spread from the campus to the city. Before we knew it, we were lobbying for parking spaces, better access and increased awareness throughout Ashland. Next we formed a chapter of the Architectural Barriers Council and linked with other chapters throughout the state. As leader of the group, I decided to film a documentary to capture it all, which I hoped would be a powerful statement in itself.
It was exciting, making demands that had been too long in coming and seeing immediate, mostly positive results. Local newspapers became interested in my personal story as well as the larger story for which I had become a symbol. When the phone rang, it might be someone wanting to interview me or someone wanting to join our cause. All it took to gain attention was to speak out–everything else seemed to fall into place automatically.
In the mid-1970s people knew in their hearts that those of us with disabilities were the neglected minority, and they seemed almost eager to admit it. There was little opposition because we were not viewed as a political force. We were not powerful enough to cause problems. But a lot of people in positions of power were beginning to check their budgets and question how doing the right thing could be economically feasible.
In those early days of disability activism, I began to realize I had something to lose as well as something to gain. Increasingly, I was becoming known only as someone who had an agenda. I was the guy who had been denied for too long. I was the one in the news who was complaining about unmet needs. I was the wheelchair guy, the guy who was beginning to fit neatly into the latest stereotype. I began to feel a little like the stick figure guy on the parking signs that were going up everywhere.
Complete strangers would come up to me and offer to push me or open a door or tell me how wonderful it was to see me "out," as if I had been chained in a dark dungeon for decades like a shameful family secret. Increasingly, I began to feel that who I was and what I really wanted in life had somehow been pushed into the background. I was busy–going to school, working as a graduate teaching assistant for the English department, organizing and speaking out–too busy even to finish my documentary film project. Before I knew it I had earned my master's. It was time to take my place in society as a working, taxpaying citizen. I landed a job teaching writing classes at a community college, and my brief sojourn in the world of disability activism ended.
Now I had what I wanted–a chance to participate in society on an equal basis–or so it seemed. I was assigned to a campus that was almost entirely accessible, that had an active disabled student services office. They even paid me to counsel disabled students as well as teach writing classes.
One day, while counseling a newly injured 18-year-old para who reminded me of myself as a young man, tears sprang to my eyes. There I was, sitting with a young man who needed encouragement and help, who was struggling with his new body, his new life that he had no choice but to accept, and I, his counselor, was the one who was about to break down and cry.
The next day I told my supervisor that I wasn't prepared to be a counselor. They had made me a counselor of disabled students because I was easily identifiable by my own disability–and because of my recent history: I was the wheelchair guy. And because I had taken a couple of counseling classes, they figured I was qualified. But I had never intended to be a counselor. I was a writer who intended to make a living as a writing instructor, not a counselor.
In seeking to influence public awareness, I had crossed over an invisible line. On one side of the line I could be my private self, but once I crossed into the public domain I became a symbolic figure, and people automatically assigned me to the compartment that society reserves for us: the disability shelf. Any and all matters relating to disability–that was where I belonged. It didn't matter what my personal goals were or what I was qualified to do.
I had discovered the cost of activism, the paradox. Those of us who call attention to our disabilities in order to publicize the needs of the group to which we belong must pay a price. In seeking societal independence and freedom from restrictive stereotyping, we unavoidably sacrifice personal independence and individuality. The more we seek to break free from an outdated stereotype, the wider the stereotypical net stretches. At first we were seen as meek, polite, unfortunate cripples seeking what was rightfully ours. After activism became radicalized, the stereotype grew to include pushy, rude, ungrateful cripples demanding more than they were entitled to. It seems we are either one or the other.
In truth, we are neither. And that image is almost impossible to project. Who we really are is not an image at all. The general public must be made to understand that each type of disability is different, and that each person within each disability type expresses who he or she is differently. We are individuals who share certain needs. Maybe the best way to get that idea across is to invite people, organizations and businesses into our lives, to let them roll a mile in our chairs, rather than put them on the defensive with demands and threats. If activist groups can figure out how to do this, people may just start doing the right thing again.
And if they don't? Sue the bastards.


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