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The King of Skid Row revisits Minneapolis' seedy underside
Minneapolis was once home to a massive skid row in the Gateway District. Seasonal workers, pensioners, criminals, and alcoholics, dubbed "gandy dancers," stumbled from bar to bar, bloodied each other in fights, pissed in alleyways, and passed out in cubicle-sized rooms in cage hotels. Church mission workers preached in storefronts in an attempt to save their souls while undercover sociology grad students tried to understand them.
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John Bacich (a.k.a. Johnny Rex) was witness to it all as the owner of the Sourdough Bar, Rex Liquors, and the Victor Hotel. He captured the humanity, the depravity, and everything in between in photographs and on film before the area was demolished as part of the city's urban renewal project in the early 1960s. Bacich's footage was the basis of a public television documentary, Down on Skid Row.
Through 25 interviews with Bacich before his death in 2012, Star Tribune columnist James Eli Shiffer compiled the stories and images of this bygone era for his new book, The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis. He spoke with City Pages in advance of the book's launch on Thursday night at the Mill City Museum.
City Pages: The term "skid row" tends to have negative connotations. In the case of Minneapolis, you found that to not be entirely true. What were the positives of such a place?
James Eli Shiffer: I think it's a mixed picture. It's been presented just as a blight upon the city. What I learned from researching this book was that it was, in fact, a community — an unusual community, but a community nonetheless. These guys had friendships and rituals and homes — and they lived there by choice.
CP: Johnny Rex had an interesting relationship with the men on Skid Row. On one hand, he seemed compassionate toward them. On the other, he was serving them alcohol, which is part of what was keeping them down. How did you reconcile that?
JES: I didn't try to reconcile it. I hopefully presented a picture of a complex person who was sustaining a lot of destructive behavior. He seemed to have a different ethical system. When someone would say, "I really need to dry out," he would help them get dried out. He felt like he was keeping them safe, in a way. Taking after his father's example, who owned a bar in northern Wisconsin, you don't just take advantage of them. You take care of your guys.
CP: What was the role of women on Skid Row?
JES: Typically, the only time women were mentioned was if they were prostitutes. In terms of people living there, it was almost exclusively male. That was one reason why this community was viewed as so deviant in the eyes of people in the 1950s, when Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver were the ideal. A bunch of single men, living together, cheek by jowl, was viewed as deviant. The records of women in the Gateway are sparse, very sparse.
CP: How do you explain the absence of a skid row today? What happened to this culture of single, older men?
JES: They were kind of on their way out. Skid rows, post World War II, were dying because the guys were literally dying. The labor market really changed. They didn't need the huge workforce to work on the railroad or cut trees up north anymore. These guys got pensions or Social Security. They were aging. It was very much like other cities that had prominent skid rows — Seattle, New York City — those neighborhoods are still around, but they don't really have that population of single men anymore because they weren't renewed by a new wave of seasonal laborers.
CP: What factors went into the demolition of Skid Row?
JES: American cities were really under siege in a lot of ways after World War II. You had the interstate highway system, making it very easy for people to live in the suburbs and get to jobs. The first enclosed shopping mall in America was Southdale, built in 1956. The cities felt like, "Are we even relevant anymore? People want to drive everywhere. They want to have easy parking. How are we going to survive?"
The city's self-image, they felt, was very damaged by this central core of crumbling old buildings full of these unsightly men. Anybody stepping off the train at the Great Northern station or Milwaukee Road [Depot] would walk right into Skid Row. They thought, "We need to get this out of here in order for our city to move forward. Otherwise, people are going to abandon us. Women are not going to come downtown because they're afraid of these guys."
It was very much viewed as a defensive way to save the city and move the city into the era of easy parking and clean buildings. Old buildings were really viewed as obsolete at the time. It's a very different attitude today.
CP: You mentioned in the book that something like the demolition of Skid Row wouldn't happen today. Why is that?
JES: Minneapolis continues to tear down old buildings. It's not that they'll never do that. I think the scale of it was unprecedented. You had to negotiate with hundreds of land owners. You had to figure out how to relocate all of these businesses, how to relocate all of these people. It was a logistically huge thing, and incredibly expensive, but there was a big flood of money from Washington.
It's just harder to get stuff like that done these days. Everything is much more expensive and there's much more resistance in terms of lawsuits. But I also believe there is a different attitude about cities. We're looking at sort of a renaissance of people living in downtown Minneapolis, tens of thousands of people, which was kind of unthinkable even 20 years ago. Part of what attracts people to downtown is it's an interesting architectural streetscape. I think there would be more of an economic incentive now to renovate these blocks and reuse them because they're really unique. They'd be viewed as an asset.
CP: Do you think the city was, or is, overly concerned with its image?
JES: Hard to say. Minneapolis has always been deeply concerned with its image. Is it overly concerned? I do think that a lot of what happened was short-sighted. I think we would have benefited from having preserved that streetscape today, although that's not a guarantee that it would be this vital area now. I love historic preservation, but every city that has preserved its historic streetscape is not necessarily vibrant. Minneapolis has benefited to a certain extent from its willingness to be bold. Its path would have been very different had it not been this kind of activist government.
At the same time, Minneapolis had not solved its so-called "problem" of the Gateway district for 60 or 70 years. From the late 1800s it was starting to get seedy. They tried a bunch of things to reverse the plight. They built Gateway Park and the Nicollet Hotel and the post office, none of which really changed the neighborhood substantially. I think there was a perception into the 1950s that Minneapolis really wasn't activist at all.
CP: What was the most surprising thing you learned while writing this book?
JES: What was amazing to me was the scale of this community and how much character and personality and history that it had — at times, a disturbing, violent, degrading kind of community, but also these freely eccentric characters who lived there. It was so rich in a lot of ways and so different from the city that we know today. Downtown Minneapolis has got its problems; it can be a dangerous place, especially at night, but certainly there's no place in the city that resembles what Skid Row looked like. There are little pieces, but nothing that would even come close to capturing it.
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James Eli Shiffer's The King of Skid Row launch and "Skid Row Minneapolis" opening reception
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Geography will enable all students to develop map skills, interpreting photographs, fieldwork skills, presenting, role play and debating techniques. Along with improving literacy through report writing and written work and make practical use of numeracy skills when you interpret data and construct graphs.
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Every business exists on a supply chain. As such, safety and sustainability are key to ensuring that the supply chain remains unbroken, functions smoothly, and affects the minimum amount of people and environments adversely. In the case of industrial chemical suppliers and laboratory chemical manufacturers, supply chain safety and sustainability are paramount. In worst case scenarios, improperly handled chemicals can have long-lasting and far-reaching negative effects. For this reason, it is important to work with a chemical distributor that maintains high standards of health and safety.
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MU researchers close in on possible autism detection method
Early detection of autism in children is key for treatment, and researchers at the University of Missouri are inching closer to determining the viability of using facial measurements as a potential detection marker.
Ye Duan, associate professor of computer science, worked with postdoctoral fellow Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Assistant Professor of Pathology Kristina Aldridge, as well as Judith Miles and T. Nicole Takahashi of MU's Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. The team's work resulted in a paper, "Facial structure analysis separates autism spectrum disorders into meaningful clinical subgroups," which recently was published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
The paper is a continuation of the 2011 paper "Facial phenotypes in subgroups of pre-pubertal boys with autism spectrum disorders are correlated with clinical phenotypes." That work used straight-line, or Euclidean, measurements to determine distance between standardized facial landmarks in a group of autistic children and a control group. This time, the geodesic distances were measured via three-dimensional imaging, measuring along the curvature of the face rather than in a straight line.
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"We want to define the autistic face," Duan said. "There's probably not a single autistic face, but we want to try to find how many different main types of the face there are, if there are any."
The process began back in 2009 with a grant from the Department of Defense's Defense Medical Research and Development Program. Duan said Miles noticed similarities in facial features among some autistic children and thought perhaps there was something more than coincidence at play.
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Megatrends – The late arrivals are finally here.
In 1982, John Naisbitt wrote a classic book entitled "Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives." In it, he predicted massive changes in world development. He got some right, including:
- The shift in the labor market from "blue-collar" to "white-collar" jobs.
- The rise of the global economy.
- The shift from either/or to multiple options, leading to more roles for women, flextime in the workplace, various arts, specialty foods, cable television, and religious variety.
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- Business management will shift from short-term planning to long-term perspectives, motivated both by concern for the environment and by economic necessity ("for-benefit" corporations).
- Banks will need to rethink their function in a world of electronic transfer of funds (cyrptocurrencies).
- The shift from hierarchies to networks as the pyramid structure collapses. The facilitator and the empowerer of others will be rewarded rather than the autocrat (blockchain).
The megatrends Naisbitt "missed" in 1982 are now clearly in motion, and will impact our world for generations. We've been featuring these trends over the last few months because they will impact your ownership of gold, silver, and so much more. Enjoy the newsletter!
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It usually happens by chance. You are alone in a deserted parking lot or at an interstate rest stop, when a man approaches you out of nowhere. An average-looking fellow with a good-natured smile; a man who, in your opinion, certainly couldn't harm a fly.
Then, in a flash, it happens. The pepper spray, the duct tape, the forceful imprisonment in the oily darkness of a car trunk. You lay there and listen as the car tires hum on the smoothness of asphalt, then the crackle of gravel, then the rutted instability of a lonesome dirt road. Above the noise you can hear your abductor humming a familiar tune cheerfully to himself - The Doors' "Riders on the Storm." It is at that moment that you realize that his grin was anything but good-natured and that his brain - and dark intentions - are as twisted and slimy as a nest of squirming nightcrawlers.
In Unhinged: Tales of Darkness and Depravity, southern horror author, Ronald Kelly, explores the blackest recesses of the human psyche in eleven chilling tales of dark suspense and terror. Serial killers, mass murderers, and other no-account folks stalk these pages, donning the mask of mediocrity and normality, until the masquerade comes abruptly to an end and the abominations lurking beneath are laid bare and unbridled. And, by then, it is too late. There can be no escape, for the one who has possession of your body and soul is hopelessly unhinged.


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Calgary Flames goaltender David Rittich was steamed.
Because he'd just moments earlier allowed an overtime marker, with Dallas Stars sharpshooter Tyler Seguin capitalizing on the first shift of three-on-three to lift the out-of-town team to Wednesday's 4-3 OT triumph at the Saddledome.
But mostly because he didn't think that Seguin's glove-side snipe should have counted.
Stars captain Jamie Benn had bumped the masked man as he tried to sneak through his crease and although the NHL's review crew determined that Rittich had enough time to reset to face the shot after that contact, the Flames' emerging fan favourite certainly didn't see it that way.
"He hit me so I was a little bit set, but not 100 per cent ready for anything," Rittich protested post-game. "Everyone saw it — I had a little bit of time, but not the full recovery of the shot.
"Maybe next time I will lay down for a half an hour."
On this night, some of his teammates seemed to snooze for even longer.
Sure, Seguin's overtime tally was controversial, but this assessment from Flames head coach Bill Peters is bang-on . . .
"You know what? I think we were fortunate to get a point out of the game tonight," Peters said. "I didn't think we were very good. I didn't think our attention to detail was very good, and our commitment to doing it right wasn't where it needs to be to get two points."
Prior to Wednesday's puck-drop, they put the microphone in the trustworthy hands of Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, and the toast-of-the-town did his darnedest to hype up the home-side.
Flanked by his Grey Cup-winning teammates for a pre-game celebration, Mitchell reminded an on-its-feet crowd that Calgary is not only home to the Canadian Football League's newly-minted champs, but to the top squad in the NHL's Pacific Division standings.
"We play for the best city in Canada," Mitchell declared.
The fans roared.
The local hockey heroes, though, couldn't quite live up to that marquee billing in a sloppy showing.
The Flames did erase another third-period deficit — Johnny Gaudreau and Mark Giordano both picked the top corner during a 70-second span to set the stage for another late-night rewrite — but couldn't hang onto that lead.
Garnet Hathaway also scored in the losing cause.
The good news?
Much to the delight of the Grey Cup MVP, the Flames remain in the top perch in the Pacific Division with a 14-9-2 record.
On this night, that wasn't going to make Rittich feel any better.
"Anytime you go to a review, it's a little scary, right? You don't know how it's going to turn out," Peters said, choosing his words carefully when asked for his opinion of the verdict from the NHL's Situation Room. "It could have went either way, and you could have agreed with it either way, probably.
"They said there was enough time between the contact and the ability to make the save and get reset on the shot . . . That's one you can discuss all night."
The Grey Cup champs — it was linebacker Alex Singleton, by the way, who was toting the trophy — had barely filtered off the ice when the Stars laid claim to an early lead thanks to a top-shelf shot by Jason Spezza.
Calgary's grind line squared the score before the first intermission. After some impressive cycle-work by their fourth unit, Hathaway leaned into a slapper, squeezing the puck under Anton Khudobin's arm on his glove-side.
There was just one lamp-lighting during the middle stanza, with Dallas' dangerous duo connecting for a man-advantage marker. Seguin saucered a cross-crease pass to Benn for a tap-in finish.
Benn was seated in the sin-bin — a two-minute sentence for slashing — when Gaudreau buried a power-play tally of his own nearing the midway point of the third, surveying his options before sizzling a wrister over Khudobin's shoulder.
Just over a minute later, Giordano tickled that same section of twine for the go-ahead goal.
Just when it seemed the Flames were on their way to another come-from-behind victory, rookie defenceman Gavin Bayreuther equalized with a shot through traffic after the Stars had forced a turnover on the forecheck.
Overtime was required.
You know what happened next.
"It's always tough when you lose," said Rittich, who now has an 8-2-1 record in 11 starts this season. "We did some good things, but it's not enough."
Next up for the Flames is Friday's clash with the Los Angeles Kings at the Saddledome (7 p.m., Sportsnet West/Sportsnet 960 The Fan).
Red Deer has always been a blurred line in the Battle of Alberta.
When it comes to NHL allegiances, the city is divided.
Heck, some households are divided.
Calgary Flames newbie Andrew Nielsen — acquired in Tuesday's minor-league swap with the Toronto Maple Leafs — hails from one of those.
Nielsen, honest, has always supported the southerners. Ditto for his dad, Jeff.
And what about his younger brother? Well . . . let's just say that Ryan could be unwrapping some red on Christmas morning.
"My brother is an Oilers fan," Nielsen confirmed Wednesday afternoon as he awaited an outbound flight in Toronto. "I don't think I've ever seen him put a Flames jersey on. But I mean, if my last name is on the back, I'm sure he'd put one on in a heartbeat. So hopefully we can get him converted the other way down Highway 2 pretty quick."
Before Nielsen's loved ones are driving through Innisfail and Airdrie, by Bowden and Balzac, to cheer him on at the Saddledome, the 22-year-old defenceman will have to campaign for a call-up with the American Hockey League's Stockton Heat.
He will report to the farm club as soon as he can secure a U.S. work visa.
Nielsen has been mostly an odd-man-out this fall with the AHL's Toronto Marlies, scratched for all but eight games with the defending Calder Cup champions. He has counted just three assists.
His current stat-line might not suggest it, but this is an intriguing addition for the Flames.
At 6-foot-4 and 218 lb., Nielsen adds some beef to the defensive depth chart.
Word is, he has a cannon of a shot.
The rearguard from Red Deer proved he could produce as an AHL rookie in 2016-17, racking up 14 goals and 39 points that winter, but hasn't had the same success since.
Nielsen arrived in exchange for forward Morgan Klimchuk, who was also raised a Flames fan and lived his childhood dream for one night in February against the Boston Bruins.
While the 23-year-old Klimchuk has that lone NHL appearance on his resume, Nielsen is still working toward his first spins at the highest level.
"I think, honestly, I'm at a good place in my game. I just need the opportunity," said Nielsen, a third-round selection of the Maple Leafs in the 2015 NHL Draft. "I want people to know I can make good first pass, that I can skate, that I can be trusted defensively . . .
"I feel like fans should be expecting me to be a big, physical presence on the back-end and in the defensive zone. I love to jump up in the rush, to be the fourth man in the rush and make plays over the red-line and in the offensive zone. I quarterback a power-play really well, I think. I have a good shot, good hockey sense.
"I'm just looking to get the opportunity to grow my game more and develop into the player the Flames want me to be."
Because this guy wants to skate for the home-side at the Saddledome. Always has.
Because he wants his own taste of the Battle of Alberta. (Preferably, with Ryan cheering for the gents in red.)
"Instant chills . . . Honestly, that was the first thing I felt," Nielsen said, reliving Tuesday's trade call. "I always kind of envisioned myself, if I ever got the chance to sign in Calgary or if a trade presented itself to go to Calgary, that I would always want to try to get there. So I'm very lucky and fortunate that this happened early in my career.
"I'm just so excited and so looking forward to the opportunity."
You won't find this stint listed on his HockeyDB page, but the Flames' latest acquisition was a water-boy for several seasons with the Western Hockey League's Red Deer Rebels.
He started when he was about eight or nine, not quitting until the Lethbridge Hurricanes offered an opportunity to actually be on the ice in the Dub.
"I was there when guys like Dion Phaneuf, Colin Fraser, Cam Ward, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, all those guys were there," Nielsen recalled. "I watched them growing up, and that only helped drive my passion for the game and wanting to get to the next level.
"Wanting to play in the Western League for as long as I wanted to and not really getting the chance until I was 17 with Lethbridge, I think that motivated me even more. Having to go watch kids my own age or fill up water-bottles for kids my own age or younger than me at training camp, I was like, 'I'm done with this. I want to be a player in the league one day.' So I did everything I could and Lethbridge gave me a chance and now the rest is history."
A lot of folks around both the city and the Saddledome will be rooting for Klimchuk, the Calgary-raised left-winger who headed the opposite direction in that minor-league swap with the Maple Leafs. An alumnus of the Shaw Meadows minor-hockey association and later the Buffaloes AAA program, Klimchuk was hoping for more pinch-me moments with his hometown team, but not many locals wear the Flaming C for even one night . . . How about this? For the Flames' first-period strike against the Stars, all six guys on the ice for the locals were Stockton grads. Goal-scorer Garnet Hathaway, fellow forwards Mark Jankowski and Dillon Dube, blue-liners Rasmus Andersson and Oliver Kylington and netminder David Rittich were all seasoned in the minors . . . Flames defenceman Dalton Prout is back with the big club after a conditioning stint with the Heat. Prout was a healthy scratch against the Stars.


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From the outskirts of the South Australia capital of Adelaide is the contiguous area of hills, mountains, fields, valleys, and rivers known as the Adelaide Hills, which fans out through some of the state's most picturesque features.
The Adelaide Hills extend in a southeasterly direction towards Mt. Lofty, and then on to Hahndorf and Mt. Baker. Northeast heads towards Birdwood (where you'll find the National Motor Museum) and the source of the Torrens River. The Mt. Lofty Ranges run roughly southwest to northeast through the Adelaide Hills.
Always a Pleasant Stop
Less than 20 kilometers (approximately 12 miles) southeast of the Adelaide city center along the Mt Barker Rd lies the Mt. Lofty Botanic Garden, a magical place to visit when the grounds burst into flower in the spring. You may also wish to drop in at the Cleland Wildlife Park nearby.
But whatever the season, the Botanic Garden is always a pleasant stop (if not the day's destination) on an Adelaide Hills drive to the Mt. Lofty summit further north. Get a bird's eye view here of Adelaide city from a height of some 2,360 feet.
That river which courses through the city is the Torrens -- and you can almost follow it to its source all the way east to Birdwood and Mt. Pleasant, in the region they call the Top of the Torrens.
A Historic Village
From the peak of Mt. Lofty, you can retrace your route back to Mt Barker Rd which turns into the South Eastern Freeway just south of the Botanic Garden in the Adelaide Hills.
Exit the freeway about 10 kilometers southeast and head towards the historic and picturesque village of Hahndorf.
Settled in 1839 by Prussian Lutherans fleeing religious persecution in Europe, Hahndorf retains many of its heritage buildings and seems to have been frozen in time.
Hahndorf, SA's Most Popular Attraction
Considered South Australia's most popular tourist attraction, Hahndorf has a number of German cakeshops, tearooms. gourmet stores and gift shops. It is a perfect place to stop for a leisurely lunch on your exploration of the Adelaide Hills.
Don't forget to visit the Hahndorf Academy, the Antique Clock Museum and artist Sir Hans Heysen's house, The Cedars, which has been preserved with its collection of artwork and furniture.
Close by is Mt. Barker itself, at whose summit you can have panoramic views of Mt. Lofty, Lake Alexandrina and the River Murray in the south. There are vintage steam trains on the Steamranger Railway running from Mt. Barker to the town of Goolwa and Victor Harbor south of Adelaide.
All About the Onkaparinga Valley
From Hahndorf, you can proceed to the Barossa wine country through the scenic Onkaparinga Valley. The Onkaparinga River itself meanders through orchards and gardens and historic townships. At Oakbank, the Great Eastern Steeplechase is touted as the world's greatest picnic race meeting in the world. And for those with a sweet tooth, a visit to Melba's Chocolate Factory at the Heritage Park in Woodside should not be missed.
Things to See Within an Hour's Drive
From the valley, you can then wander in a southwesterly direction towards the coast. The good thing about the Adelaide Hills is that many of your destinations would be within an hour's drive from the Adelaide city center, many within a half hour.
Also, there used to be gold mining near Birdwood (who knows if there's any left there today?). But even if there's no gold to mine now, there are still great nuggets of excitement to explore on the discovery trail.


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Flash Points: Making the Bus Monitor Cry, Frank Ocean's Watershed Moment & Louie CK's "Rape"
This week we critically examine the 'Make the Bus Monitor Cry' video, look at the watershed moment of Frank Ocean's coming out, and laugh with tears at the "rape" of Louie CK.
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
The Making the Bus Monitor Cry video is our society in microcosm. The moral outrage might indicate otherwise, but the general reaction was more a case of the exception proving the rule. The rule being: know your place within the pecking order. The ten-minute video proved to be exceptional because it spotlighted a breakdown in acceptable channels of communication and the official system of social organisation. Those four school kids had obviously learnt about social hierarchies. Their mistake was not paying lip service to agreed upon lies — such as respecting the elderly and the equality of all people.
The school kids weren't so much speaking truth to power but making themselves increasingly powerful through speech acts and mobile phone. The source of injury can be literally seen and heard in the Making the Bus Monitor Cry video. The kid's linguistic 'performance' — and the way it intersects with their point of view — enact the violence on display. Their bullying finds its expression in the relation between sight and sound — it's the point where the verbal and visible become akin to sticks and stones.
It's also important to see, however, that the power of their words and images to subjugate and to injure resides in the outside world. Society is the original aggressor here: it has made it possible for school children to discriminate through value laden terms and social norms.
So who are we really kidding here? Our society doesn't show respect towards elderly or overweight people. And when one of these people happens to be female she might as well be wearing a target on her back. If women are no longer young or are not considered attractive, they have clearly outlived their usefulness. We also have little regard for people who have failed to achieve in life. No one grows up wanting to be a bus driver or bus monitor. People who end up doing such 'lowly' jobs would normally have to learn to swallow their pride. Being stuck in a job dedicated to social mobility would nonetheless be adding insult to injury: driving around children who will (hopefully) move through the ranks would be more humiliation than many of us could bear.
Karen Klein had obviously learned this the hard way; moving to the back of the bus was merely confirmation of her social status. Indeed, to be publicly seen as a big fat loser is the ultimate (moral) failing. And that's why the former bus driver was being monitored in the first place — she was targeted for failing to measure up to pervasive social standards.
To clarify: the moral outrage — and subsequent outpouring of generosity — is not an instance of hypocrisy. Many people were genuinely (and justifiably) moved by the bullying of the elderly bus monitor — a 68-year-old grandmother literally driven to tears. Nonetheless, those kids had clearly internalised existing social values: the problem was that their behaviour was perceived to be antisocial. We're therefore commenting on the fractures within a value system that cannot abide its own rulings and prizes.
Making the Bus Monitor Cry prized open the cracks between appearance and reality. The video and/or widespread reaction to it is culturally significant because it documents the faultlines within our own society — it's all too easy to blame these kids when the adult world continues to lead by bad example. The moral faultline intersects with other planes of reference, laying bare the cracks within society.
Malcolm Gladwell recently observed that the tipping point of society is that moment when social behaviour goes beyond the norm of acceptability and spreads like wildfire. According to Gladwell, we are in the middle of a shift in how generations communicate and see the world. The new generation supposedly doesn't think in terms of hierarchy and is all about social networking. Making the Bus Monitor Cry puts that theory to the test by highlighting a contradictory feature of social networks: hierarchies will invariably emerge on a level playing field, anyway.
Making the Bus Monitor Cry was originally posted on Facebook by teenagers seeking status through the traditional structures of domination — trying to establish a pecking order through bullying. And like all bullies across the generations, these young boys picked their target and audience. Many of their 'friends' therefore witnessed a 'generational shift' by 'liking' a shift in the balance of power.
When the video was reposted on Youtube by a concerned adult, society began the process of correcting itself, when the video spread like wildfire. Nonetheless, the bullying of an elderly woman raises an age old question: why do some people seek (and achieve) status through the deliberate harming and humiliation of others?
Making the Bus Monitor Cry provides an answer to that question by teaching us about how bullying works: being bullied is (supposedly) not personal.
"The video doesn't reveal how the bullying started, but the way it escalates demonstrates how little it has to do with Klein, and how much with the dynamics of adolescent groups… If the victim is trapped and unable or unwilling to meet the group's aggression with equal force—a tall order for a kid and, as this video shows, for an adult, too— the bullying will quickly feed on itself, becoming a vehicle for one-upmanship and status. Responsibility is diffused across the group, and cruelty is normalized by virtue of the fact that everyone else is doing it." (Libby Copeland, "The Case of Karen Klein Proves that Bullying Isn't Personal", Slate, 22nd June, 2012.
While this is as fine as a characterization of the 'social dynamics' of bullying you're likely to read, it unfortunately minimizes other social forces at play. As the video reiterates time and time again, the victim plays an 'active' role by virtue of being who she is: a passive and (supposedly) deserving recipient of negative attention. Making the Bus Monitor Cry says as much about Karen Klein as it does about the school kids. The relationship between bullies and victim therefore remains integral, too. Of course its personal – that's why Klein was being victimized in the first place. And viewers were able to relate to the bullying because they personalized it: we might as well have been watching our own grandmothers or children interacting here.
Status is already written into the social script and re/enacted accordingly: people bully the weak and defenseless so as to distinguish themselves from them and assert everyone's place (or value) within a hierarchy. If the bus monitor happened to be a 'jock', we would have been witnessing an entirely different social dynamic – these kids would have been kissing his ass or he would have been kicking theirs. Substitute the elderly and overweight woman for a young cheerleader, and we would be watching the boys devalue each other as they compete for her attention or jockey for position.
The assignment of relative values remains the social lubricant, here. To highlight some examples:
"Oh my God, you're so fat". "Karen, your fat!" "Dumb-ass, fat-ass." "Maybe she is an elephant." "Fucking hearing aid." "I'll egg your house." "What's your address so I can piss all over your door." "I'll fucking take a crap in your mouth." "You touched her arm flap. It's all stinky and smelly." "She probably eats deodorant because she can't afford real food." "What size bra are you? Triple sag?" I want to know how poor you are. What a fucking poor-ass. You're so poor. You're fucking troll, Karen." "I'm gonna freakin egg your house. Your house is probably shit" "She probably lives in a fuckin trailer" "She's crying cause she misses her box of Twinkies" "she probably shoves the Twinkies up her freaking ass". "How bout I bring my knife and freakin cut you? If I stabbed you in the stomach, my knife would go through you like butter cause it's all fuckin lard" "how bout you shut the fuck up"?"If I cut you, the value meal's gonna be comin out like McDonalds" "It's gonna be fuckin Big Macs flyin out of your stomach. Fatass". "Is the word 'fat' or 'ugly' on there, because that's what you live by." "You probably got [that purse] at Family Dollar, but you don't have a family, because they all killed themselves, because they didn't want to be near you".
As can be seen, an order of subordination occurs through the act of devaluing her through language. Klein's social status is already determined by her place within a system that assigns relative position and value (rich versus poor, thin versus fat, beautiful versus ugly, smart versus dumb, young versus old, etc). Since Klein falls on the wrong side of the moral divide, she is repeatedly struck down with words.
Perhaps the other striking thing about the video, though, is what has somehow passed without comment. We were so taken aback by the children's use of language, we failed to note another force at play: it's the presence of the mobile camera that renders her completely powerless. Indeed, their camera is the other instrument of violence here: she is effectively subordinated within its unwavering gaze.
The mobile camera is so stationery that it might as well be mounted on a tripod. It barely wavers from its fixed point of view as the other bullying happens out of frame in the form of 'dialogue'. The 'staging' suggests that we are not watching a normal bus route but a scene specifically set up for the camera. Indeed, it appears that Klein is being 'framed' in another way: she's being set up and is trapped from the moment the camera starts monitoring her. A couple of the bullies find their way into the frame, of course, but they do not appear to be the main focus. It's certainly strange that the 'cameraman' makes little attempt to capture the behaviour of the 'stars' around her. These kids are obviously not camera shy: it's just that they're literally more focused on her as the bullying becomes a 'vehicle for one-upmanship and status'.
Klein is like a rabbit caught in the headlights, and the school kids are (presumably) trying to get a rise out of her. Equally telling, however, is Klein's awareness that she's being watched: she remains seated as the camera records her every move in response. At one point, Klein even asks the child monitoring her to point the camera at her (other) verbal aggressors, too. In order words, we're not just watching a group of kids bully an elderly woman – we're also watching a surveillance video. It's almost as if the school kids are seeing how far they can push the bus monitor before she loses control.
As the second of two other harrassment videos indicates, Klein is perfectly capable of taking control of a situation when she's unaware of being 'watched'. Like the first harassment video, the framing is morally distinct to the third video: the camera wanders all over the place and remains haphazard in its point of view. And observe the way Klein manages to take control of the first situation: she wields her own mobile camera and stares them down in a battle of wills.
The staging in the third (and most infamous) video therefore appears to play an active role in the resulting social dynamics – the kids feel empowered by their mobile camera while Klein is rendered immobile and powerless. Despite appearances to the contrary, the camera is no innocent bystander or objective observer: it remains complicit in her bullying. As all three videos indicate, however, we're not seeing the full picture because they all begin mid-scene.
Flash Points is obviously not claiming that Klein is acting out of character or that she has brought the bullying upon herself. Nonetheless, she does appear to be on her best behaviour because she is (presumably) afraid of what the kids might do with potentially incriminating footage. She's clearly incapable of 'meeting the group's aggression with equal (or greater) force' because the locus of power is literally in their hands. All said and done, its beside the point of course: the kids paid the cost when their own footage was seen through other people's eyes. The resulting media attention invariably raises other questions – like whether it was appropriate to bully these kids in turn, and why it was felt that throwing money at this poor woman would soften the blows.


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|Holidaying in Winchester, Sth Island,NZ (I still have those pants!)
9 years ago:
|Venice, Italy (I still have that sweatshirt.. and that necklace)
8 years ago:
|Amsterdam (I still have that top.. OMG)
7 years ago:
|Back in Christchurch, NZ
6 years ago:
|Something happened that year that will forever change the nature of our piccies! Miss J arrived!!
Here she is trying to work my hair clasp.
5 years ago:
|More little people! I'm getting good at this 'Aunty' job.
4 years ago:
|Fun times with Miss J and the glorious Sistasana (also, she is the
Sana accounts person, so say 'hello' if you are a customer)
3 years ago:
|It's pretty stressful being four. Luckily Aunty Sara knows the head massage technique to relieve pre-school worries.
2 years ago:
|Spring was springing and things were getting back to normal after EQ1
1 year ago:
|I was discovering DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
|Mog and Timmy playing on the deck
I hope that was as fun for you as it was for me! I thought 10 to 1 could be a weekly feature. I guess next year I'll make it '11 to 1' and in 50 years it will be 60 to 1 (haha, what a thought!)


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In early June I went out to search around Yellowstone National Park with a CBS News crew from New York. They were creating a story on the treasure hunt for CBS Sunday Morning. When I met up with them they had already followed a family from Colorado who were searching and had also been down in Santa Fe and talked with Forrest…and I believe a few other folks in the area who know Forrest.
The Producer of the story, Dustin Stephens, contacted me about a month earlier and we decided on a date and location I would be searching where they would be able to meet up with me. What follows is a Behind The Scenes look at the shoot I experienced with the CBS News crew.
The location was to be near Fountain Flats in Yellowstone National Park. The date was to be June 5th.
Getting permission to film professionally in YNP is typically a simple process…unless the Chief Ranger is Tim Reid and unless you are going there to film a "searcher". So when Dustin filled out the necessary forms and sent them in, the whole "permission" process became convoluted. The administration didn't really want to allow a story about searchers in
their our park. They tried to prevent it but could't quite pull it off.
To begin, Ranger Reid would not allow himself to be interviewed by CBS because apparently "treasure hunting" is beneath him. The administration would only allow the crew into the park to film me if the crew, and I, agreed to a number of restrictions. For instance, I was not allowed to carry any kind of "searching tool". So I agreed to leave my ice axe in Esmerelda. The crew had to stay within a quarter mile of any road, which meant that I could not search beyond a quarter mile of any road. There were other rules too and many were unusual restrictions for a news crew. The most interesting was that we had to have a "guide" with us. The guide would be a ranger and the ranger would only be available for half a day so we had to get all filming inside the park accomplished during that time. Of course this meant that there would be someone official from the park with us if we were to actually find the chest. No sneaking it out of the park since the guide was watching us. It also meant we would not be able to postpone due to weather or equipment problems. We had a one half-day window and that was firm, not negotiable. I am pretty certain the administration used this requirement to absolutely limit the filming to something unreasonable in the hope that CBS would cave and film somewhere else. But CBS agreed to everything and we all met on June 5th at the appointed hour in the parking lot at Madison Junction to run off and start filming.
But the gods were not with us. The crew had been pulled off the Searcher story and were ready to pile into their vehicles and head for Billings to do a breaking news story on Dennis Hastert. So there we were, ranger guide, searcher guy, correspondent and news crew all ready to go but CBS News wanted the team to go do another story. Of course that meant they lost all opportunity to film in the park after their hard fought battle with the administration to do so. Hung by their own brand new rope.
So that gave me a day to think about where else we could film. Film crews are used to working hard to get all the footage and sounds they need to tell a story, but no one wants to scrabble up hill, over uneven terrain carrying cameras, tripods and microphones a great distance and I didn't want to spend hours driving up some dusty service road before we could get out and hike to a good spot.
I checked my list of 17 possible locations to check out on this trip. These are all places the clues in the poem take me right up to the blaze. My sense is that I will have to find the blaze when I get to any spot and then, if found, move on from that point in the poem. Whit's Lake seemed like a great possibility. Short drive, unlikely to be any other humans nearby, 20 minute hike from the vehicles and possibly picturesque. The clues to that area seemed strong. But since I had not been there I wondered if there was a blaze. Certainly we could film up there as long as we wanted.
Since Whit's Lake is on Forest Service land I wanted to check in with the USFS about filming there. The Forest Service has regulations about professional filming on
their our land as well as the Park Service. The folks at the Gallatin Nat'l Forest Ranger Station on the north side of West Yellowstone were very helpful and very gracious. They were curious about the treasure hunt because they had heard about it and were interested in more detail. I shared what I could before they got busy with phone calls and daily business. They were courteous and welcoming and even offered up a suggestion for a place I might want to look. A lot different than the Park Service. They never even mentioned the legal hassles if the chest were found on Forest Service land. "Go forth and search." the district ranger told me.
We did. Dustin, Mike, Barry, Andre and I proceeded up to the lake the next day. We filmed an interview followed by my search of the area around the lake looking for a lovely blaze.
I found a potential blaze in a solitary rock on the side of the lake and another potential blaze in a waterfall from the feeder stream heading into the lake…Neither very strong blazes but I would be foolish to walk away without checking them out…
Once again I found no chest. But I had a great walk, the day was beautiful. The company was great. The wildflowers were lovely…
My search along with all the other elements of this CBS News story aired on July 12th…
You can watch the story HERE. Look around on that page and you should find some additional footage including a clip of Forrest reading his poem..
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Sir Simon Rattle described Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 as a kind of showpiece for the composer to play on the piano. "He'd already written the First and Second Concertos for himself and the Third is very much a mixture of the spirit of Paris in the twenties, and America, and his type of look back at Russia," he said.


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Playoff number crunching
Before I get into the nitty gritty of Monday night's twice-delayed AAA Northwest Division 6 quarterfinal between Osbourn Park and Riverbend, I wanted to pose a hypothetical:
Team A runs 68 offensive plays to Team B's 41. Team A has 19 first downs to Team B's 10. Team B commits nine penalties for 91 yards, while Team A loses just 31 yards on six penalties. Team B has two turnovers, one on its first possession and another that results in a Team A touchdown. Team A punts just three times. Who wins the game?
Well, if you haven't guessed already, Team A was Riverbend last night. Team B was, of course, Osbourn Park. And it was the latest example of how meaningless a statistic time of possession can be in the playoffs (or any football game for that matter) when undeniable talent and big play capability are brought into the equation. If you checked out my game story in this morning's paper, you'd know Osbourn Park's Dominique Terrell went off for 271 total yards to lead the Yellow Jackets to a 28-13 victory despite fumbling a punt return that eventually gave Riverbend its only touchdown of the first half.
And take a closer look at Riverbend's 68 plays last night. They totaled 312 yards, or 4.59 yards per play. Over on the Osbourn Park sideline, the Yellow Jackets racked up 359 yards, meaning they almost doubled up Riverbend with 8.75 yards per play. Look no further than Terrell for that gaudy average, as he picked up 225 rushing yards on just 15 carries. That included a 66-yard touchdown run in the second quarter and a 52-yard run in the third quarter.
The 52-yarder might have been the biggest play of the second half, though it didn't ultimately result in Osbourn Park points. After entering halftime down 21-7, Riverbend came storming out of the gate, marching to the Yellow Jackets' six-yard line in seven plays. Osbourn Park's defensive line held on three straight plays, including a four-yard loss on thrid-and-goal. Then on fourth and goal from the 7-yard-line, Riverbend quarterback Zach Naccarato rolled to his left and fired a pass to wide receiver Nicky Lacik, only to watch the ball hit his hands and fall to the ground.
On the very next play, Terrell switched the field position with a 52-yard run down the sideline. Terrell, whose Yahoo recruiting page claims he runs a 4.4-second 40-yard dash, was actually caught from behind on the play by Riverbend's Jesse McNeal and sat out Osbourn Park's next two plays. When he came back in, the Yellow Jackets' drive fizzled, but the damage had been done and the momentum had changed. Riverbend didn't get into the red zone again until fullback Mitch Ratcliff scored on a 11-yard run as time expired.
The win was all the more impressive considering Osbourn Park's top running back, Gary Jackson III, fumbled on the game's first play and spent a majority of the contest on the bench as a result. Jackson rushed for more than 600 yards during the regular season.
Osbourn Park now has three days to prepare for a AAA Northwest Division 6 semifinal against No. 10 Woodbridge. Back on Halloween night, Terrell averaged just four yards per carry and Osbourn Park was held mostly in check by the Vikings's defense in a 9-3 loss. I'm no defensive coordinator, but it seems as the shifty Terrell goes, so goes the Yellow Jackets. The only question now is who on the Woodbridge scout team is imitating him this week in practice.
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November 17, 2009; 11:22 AM ET
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Mr. Giannotto,nice work. I really enjoyed this article. However, two corrections are in order. It was Justin Carolina (#11) that fumbled on OP's first possession, not Gary Jackson (#1). And, both Jackson and Carolina continued to play throughout the game.
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There were signs pointing to Swiber's troubles before collapse: S&P Global
SWIBER Holdings' failure was a result of a protracted slump in global crude oil prices hitting its earnings and the marine engineering firm's high leverage, S&P Global Ratings said on Wednesday.
In a study entitled "Sifting For Signs of the Next Swiber", the rating agency said Swiber's financial ratios and liquidity profile based on end-2015 are typical of companies that it rates 'B-' or lower.
"Between 1981 and 2015, companies rated in the 'B' category were 20x more likely to default within a year than 'BBB'-rated companies," said Elena Okorochenko, S&P Global Ratings' head of Asia-Pacific (ex Japan).
Issuers rated 'B-' or lower are deemed most vulnerable and have greater default risk than higher-rated issuers.
"So if we were to rate Swiber - and we weren't - our credit rating would indicate a relatively high chance of default," Ms Okorochenko said.
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While Swiber's collapse was sudden, there were signs the market could have seen of impending trouble.
First was the cutting of capital expenditure by major oil companies which in turn hit companies like Swiber which provide support services to the industry.
"The oil and gas sector globally started displaying prominent default risk in mid 2015. By June 2016, the sector had 59 issuers in the vulnerable category, accounting for 24 per cent of all issuers in the category,'' Ms Okorochenko said.
Second, Swiber's financial ratios had appeared weak in the past quarters, with its high debt of about US$1 billion as at Dec 31, 2015, and an earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of about US$150 million on a rolling 12-month basis, based on S&P Global Market Intelligence data.
"Even in 2013 when Swiber's EBITDA peaked at US$160 million, its leverage was around 4.3x,'' she said.
Third, the company's liquidity had been fragile on its short-duration debt. Ms Okorochenko noted that while Swiber had refinanced in the past, "with US$3 billion in debt repaid and US$3.1 billion raised over 2013-2015, these numbers show significant refinancing risk and some inability or unwillingness to reduce debt".
She warned that the possibility of further credit stress and defaults in the sector remains.
"With lenders' discomfort about extending credit to oil and oil-related companies, refinancing risk is likely to grow. We hope that investors will have sufficient tools and benchmarks to spot the next Swiber," Ms Okorochenko said.
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But this morning, we awoke in Cardiff, birthplace of Dame Burley Chassie (AKA Dame Shirley Bassie). I was able to have my "normal" full English breakfast (even though I wasn't *in* England) since my stomach behaved. And it wasn't long before we were on the road again.
On our way to Ludlow, we took a slight detour to Tintern Abbey for a photo op. Not only did I get pictures of the abbey, but I also found out they had a millstone at the parking lot roundabout, so I took a selfie of me with "The Coveted Millstone Award" to share with Papa. I'll get the photo to you eventually, dad, I promise! :-)
Ludlow, it turns out, has Britain's highest number of listed buildings with over 500. Most are Tudor-style though there were some Georgian around too. We had a 1 hour stop for lunch, so I popped into the local butcher's for a pork pie, then added to that with a few items from a local deli (some Thai salad, an elderflower lemonade, and a Portuguese custard tart). It was all very yummy and we sat outside on a bench in a square to enjoy our lunch. Then we took several photos (which I'll share later) and returned to the bus. Phew!
Next stop was Chester, where James took us on a tour of the Roman rows and pointed out several Tudor, faux-Tudor, Gothic, Roman, and Georgian buildings. Quite a mix, often at the same time. We parted at the Cathedral for a little free-time and mom, Amy, and I found a little coffee shop where we got coffee (not me), hot chocolate (me), and scones with clotted cream & the best strawberry jam I recall having. We finished just in time to return, once again, to the coach.
Our final stop of the day was the aformentioned Liverpool. When we arrived, they dropped off the bags while we had a short potty break (I just walked around the hotel) before turning to the bus, but with a new guide - Peter, our local expert. He's a Liverpudlian who does Beatles tours usually and gave us a tour of Liverpool in general and the Beatles specifically. Mom, Amy, and I got a photo by a Penny Lane sign.
Once back at the hotel, we got our room keys, dumped our bags (the big ones had been delivered), and decided to walk somewhere nearb for supper. After combing all the options at the Albert docks, we decided upon The Smugger's Cove. They were full up or normal dining, but there was room at the bar. I ordered their hanging lamb kebab, cole slaw, and a Buccaneer drink (rum-based coctail with raspberry liquer and peach juice or something). We had a pleasant evening not being in a rush for once. Plus, when we got back, I was able to work on two of my lessons for the college class I'm taking.
My girls are both asleep now and I should join them. Another early start tomorrow as we wind our way north towards Glasgow! We'll be in Scotland tomorrow!


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SUGAR LAND, Texas — On May 19 a spirited group of labor activists converged on the offices of Sunoco Logistics here to support its truck drivers, members of the United Steelworkers Local 13-1267, who are fighting a proposed pay cut.
It was an early weekday morning and the Houston sun was hot and the fire ants and mosquitoes were already biting, but that didn't dampen the spirits of the 15 activists who rallied to support their fellow unionists.
Jim Lefton helped organize the informational picket line outside Sunoco's offices at the Lake Point Plaza Building. He said the drivers, whose trucks carry crude oil, have been working to get a decent contract for years with Sunoco. However, the company is now proposing, in their "last, best and final offer," to not only deny them a contract, but also to cut their wages.
The company's offer, Lefton said, would result in "at least a $3 million reduction in pay" for the workers in the bargaining unit.
Flyers at the event read, "Sunoco wants the people who carry your crude oil to take an average $1,705 a year pay cut while their profits increased by 20 percent last quarter. Corporate greed is not a good thing!"
One woman, wearing her Exxon Mobil overalls, traveled from Baytown, 50 miles away, after a shift change to show her solidarity with the truck drivers.
In mobilizing for the action earlier in the week, the Steelworkers union said, "There are many other onerous proposals in their offer that will attack seniority, overtime and holiday pay, etc. The group, being new to the USW, would like to know someone cares and we need to show Sunoco that a Steelworker is a Steelworker is a Steelworker no matter what they do for a living or where they work."


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Not that we need it in a week that saw the anniversary of the deadly West Texas fertilizer plant explosion, a report on how oil disasters turn entire communities into endangered species, and no less than three damning studies on the multitudinous risks to public health posed by fracking, but here's more graphic proof of the dangers facing what remains our only planet. Based on data from the EPA and Greenpeace, a series of interactive maps showing thousands of facilities possessing "greater than certain threshold quantities of 140 chemicals" - a chilling phrase and number in and of itself - where a "catastrophic chemical release" could harm up to a million people. From Mother Jones. Who said, lest we forget, "Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living."
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