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TNB: Mouth Wide Shut
I was at the fifth pitch of Sons of Yesterday when the delirium took hold. It was mid-August in Yosemite, a thousand degrees in the shade and Leo and I were the only C-suckers out there climbing in the afternoon sun.
I was at the fifth pitch of Sons of Yesterday when the delirium took hold. It was mid-August in Yosemite, a thousand
degrees in the shade and Leo and I were the only C-suckers out there climbing in the afternoon sun. We sizzled like suffering eggs on the white-hot
granite frying pan, but pushed upward despite the overwhelming desiccation.
I had just met Leo, and didn't know much about him other than he was Mexican. He appeared out of nowhere at my breakfast table that morning. Over coffee
and through belabored communication, we immediately recognized a symbiosis that had all the makings for a great climbing team. I would put up the harder
pitches, while Leo, by not knowing more than a few licks of English, would spare me the painful, mind-numbing banality of small talk.
We made it to one pitch below the top before I said I couldn't go any further. Being Mexican, Leo was apparently used to climbing in such intolerable conditions
and was no more stressed by the heat than a Zacatecan chuckwalla. My brain, however, was poached. Leo was accommodating and agreed to go down. I threaded
the ropes to rappel.
I was about to unclip from the anchor when Leo grabbed my wrist and shook my hand away from the carabiner. Great skullet of Jason Kehl! I hadn't clipped
the ropes into my ATC! We looked at each other and laughed crazily.
A whack of adrenaline cleared my head, and I immediately got it together. While rapping down the line, I pondered the meaning of what had just happened.
It was amazing in a sick sort of way. Leo had just saved me from falling 800 feet. Was he my guardian angel? I pictured his face, specifically his
pedo-moustache. Though he had grabbed my wrist deliberately, it seemed too improbable that his action was part of some purposeful divine mission.
Perhaps Leo was just a fluke, an accidental thwarting of the universe's attempt to purge itself of another cocky scourge. It was unsettling to be faced
with the thought that maybe I was meant to die that day.
I was pondering these things so deeply that I rapped right off the ends of the rope. Just kidding … but that would've been ironic.
CLIMBERS ARE OBSESSED with some pretty petty ethical dilemmas. Whether a rope should be above or below you when placing bolts. If "improving" a crimper
should be done before or after trundling 200 pounds of loose choss. How these things affect our sport's progress. Chalk bag with carabiner or not?
No seasoned moralist worth his salt would bat an eyelash at these scruples, yet they have occupied center stage of climbing's discourse for the last
30 years. Meanwhile, climbers have silently faced some truly thorny compunctions: namely, when you see someone doing something dumb, do you say something?
In my experience, personally and as an observer, the answer is often No. Rarely does anyone speak up when these future Darwin Award winners go down their
bat-shit crazy warpaths of self-destruction.
As a beginner, I spent many hours roaming the base of the Trapps at the Gunks, teaching myself to build safe anchors and staring up at routes I hoped to
climb. I wasn't an expert by any measure even though, according to those magnanimous Brits, I could scrape up some Hard Very Severe routes in my knickers
(if I owned any, of course). Still, I knew how the rope gets up thar.
One day I ambled up to a guy aid rope-soloing up a damp slab in a light spring drizzle. He stood in his etriers while ferreting through an El Cap-sized
rack. I could see he was using a Soloist. Interested in how he was anchored, I scanned the base of the cliff and, holy Henry Barber's moustache! He
hadn't tied his rope off to anything!
In fact, it appeared that the climber had simply clipped the Soloist to the rope above his knot. Meanwhile, the rope end sat in a flaked pile at the base
of the climb.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm soloing," he said. "See? I've got a Soloist on!"
He grabbed the Soloist, held it up and shook it thrice. In my memory, he was really smug about the whole thing, which made me doubt my understanding that
if his top piece popped, he'd take a big, fat grounder.
Though right, I wasn't then secure enough to tell the meat-wad he better pray to his own balls that he makes it to the anchor without screwing up. Silently
I debated if speaking up would even help. Would he freak out and have an accident, or just bite off my head? Both outcomes frightened me. Besides,
shouting across a distance of 50 vertical feet is no way to get into self-belay mechanics. I decided to leave him as I found him, blissfully ignorant,
and go on my way.
Over the years, I've become a better, safer climber, yet I'm still stymied when these conundrums confront me. It has been as mild as watching a trad climber
who doesn't know how to clean a sport route take the big-wood flogging through a dense pine grove after swinging out from the first draw, to the seriousness
of watching a gym-bred idiot try his hand at trad climbing on the "easy" grade of 5.10.
In this latter example, the climber and his two stooge friends had been spraying all week to everyone in Camp 4 about how nitro-amped they were dogging
some anonymous 5.12 projects in Tuolumne. They then decided to try their hand at trad climbing with Moby Dick, "only" 5.10a. The du jour leader of
this batch of undeveloped chromosomes grabbed the rack and jumped into the belly of the beast. When he tried to slot a #9 nut in a #3 Camalot crack,
the piece dropped into the maw like a tic-tac into a whale's mouth.
One member of the trio was a girl who was "stoneder" than a goat. She was fully deranged, too, laughing like a loon and yelling, "You're gonna DIE!" The
belayer had to shout over her hysterics about proper cam angles.
The climber finally finagled in a decent cam, but couldn't fist jam to save his own life. He fell, the top cam held, but every other piece of gear zippered
out of the crack like an exploding roman candle.
"You're gonna DIE!" the girl squealed again, rolling around in peals of laughter. I silently left.
These mortifying incidents don't always have to be gear related, though they often are, nor are they always traumatic do-or-die moments. I've watched some
friends begin to solo ever closer to their limits and others tumble toward that dead-end of anorexia. It is difficult, from the sidelines, to watch
a friend take a self-destructive path.
At my local crag, I see one woman who always climbs solo, stick clipping up routes, feeling the holds and occasionally trying the moves. We laugh about
the non-extreme stick clipping, but in fact, she is stronger than Joe Kinder and would be one of the burliest female climbers in the country …
if she weren't non compos mentis. She rides her bike, carrying all her gear including a rope, 10 miles straight uphill to the crag every day. I've
heard stories about her pulling off 5.14 cruxes. She's strong, lean and fit, but doesn't have the presence of mind to put a whole route together. Say
the wrong thing to her and you'll spark a fit.
The problem is the elaborate system she somehow devised for rope soloing. It's beautiful in its originality, but if you study what's going on, you quickly
realize that she's only ever clipped into a single bolt. The fact that she hasn't died yet is a testament to how infrequently bolts pull … yet,
we know they do pull, which is what's so frightening. This is a wholly sad story on many levels, especially as it feels as though little can be done.
JUST RECENTLY, FOR THE FIRST time in my climbing career, I was compelled to do something. There is a weight-lifting gym, which I won't name, that also
has a 30-foot climbing wall. One snowy Sunday, I walked into the facility and saw four Latino kids, between 16 and 20, playing around with the pre-strung
top ropes. I didn't think much of it until, great breasts of Bobbi Bensman! No one was wearing a harness!
I could tell by the body language of one kid that this hubris-bomb had convinced his friends he knew what he was doing. He took one rope end and wrapped
it around his left thigh, then wrapped more slack around his waist, and finally tossed some wraps around his right thigh. He finished off this ersatz
rig by tying a bowtie not fit for a birthday present.
The brave, doomed dumbass launched up the wall like a soldier. Even better was the half-baked belay set-up. You really need to picture what this looked
like to appreciate the full insanity of this story.
The belayer pulled down slack and launched into a spastic tornado twirl to wrap the rope around his waist, like a human Yo-Yo being wound up.
The other patrons, though not climbers, could tell that whatever these kids were doing was not the approved beta. A nasty part of me wanted to yell at
them, "What in the crap do you think you're doing?
Huh? Do you have shit for brains?"
The climber had summitted, but he was so flogged that he crawled halfway over the top of the wall, draping his torso over the other side like a beach towel
on a clothesline. I looked up at his punchy little legs searching around blindly for some purchase. It was funny, even though it wasn't.
After some hesitation, I finally ran over and took the rope out of the belayer's hands and said, "This isn't safe!" He didn't respond. "Here, this is how
you do it," and I showed him the hip belay.
"That's better?" he asked.
"Yes," I sighed. "Much better." Lame, but this was all I could muster. The climber began his descent. He slid down the slab, partly being lowered by the
unwinding Yo-Yo on the other end. The language barrier kept me from saying much more, and to be honest, I didn't really want to.
In these dicey, dangerous situations, doing what's right doesn't come easily. We want to act righteously and bring goodness to our surroundings without
being "the expert," that guy who runs around imposing his ego on everyone by telling him or her how to act. In the latter instance, the gym kids would've
been fine with or without me there—speaking up only made me feel worse.
Of course, most people would run out into the street to save a child from being hit by a bus, because there's no time for second-guessing or ego to pervert
the purity of the right action. It's easy to be like Leo stopping me from unclipping at the belay because that's when the self is forgotten and the
moral course of action just takes place. It happens with no effort involved, like gravity directing an airborne object.
But those instances, especially in climbing, seem rare. More often, there's no bus coming, just the specter of one. The danger unfolds more slowly—like
waiting for the rope soloist at the Gunks to place another piece, or seeing if the gym kids would actually even make it to the top of the wall, or
hoping my anorexic friend will start eating normally next week. The velocity at which it all unfolds allows your ego to enter and cloud the virtuous
path, the one that allows you to deftly penetrate these emotionally charged situations by finding the right words and selfless actions that will have
a positive effect.
Speaking up is hard. It immediately and inescapably intertwines you with the consequences of what happens. It can feel easier to live and let die.
Climbing, after all, is about freedom—of moving upward, but also, the freedom from responsibility. It is a game where you take your powerful instinct
to stand on top of something vertical, and balance that with your tolerance for risk and your creativity for figuring out how to get up there. This
has always been a teetering act, and many people who play this game too hard, too fast, have lost big. But some amazing things have also been accomplished,
expanding what we know about human potential and ingenuity. Climbing is a great (the best?) way to explore what we're able to endure and how high we're
willing to go. That needs to be preserved.
I'd like to say I wasn't comfortable defining those boundaries for these kids, or the fool on Moby Dick, or the gumby at the Gunks, but only part of that
is true. In reality, there was a moral sense that I ought to have acted as an educator to prevent disaster. But where does that start … or end?
The intensity of the action must match the situation. Finding that right degree, the right speech and the right listener all need to come together,
and I'm still not sure I understand how to achieve that balance.
But it seems like a good place to start would be learning Spanish.
Andrew Bisharat was once the world-ranking leader of doing dumb and dangerous things. Now he just writes about them.


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Friday Philosophy – The Worst Thing About Contracting December 2, 2011Posted by mwidlake in contracting, Friday Philosophy, humour, rant.
Tags: behaviour, contracting, Humour, rant
A while back I was asked by a friend to blog about being a contractor. In the pub last week my friend reminded me of this and that I had not obliged him. I will – think of this as instalment one Jason…
I've been a contractor on and off for 18 years. For anyone not familiar with the concept, it is where you are self-employed and you simply hire yourself out to a company for a period of time or to do a specific job. You generally have less job security than an employee and less rights and benefits – No holiday pay, no paid sick leave, no annual pay increase {OK, so that one is rare for employees too these days}, no training and generally the first out the door when the money gets tight. In return you get more money when working and a lot, lot less to do with office politics, HR, annual reviews and the like.
It is not for everyone but I like being a contractor. It gives me a broader degree of experience.
I like it apart from one main thing.
Recruitment Consultants. For every good one there are 3 bad ones. And for each bad one there are 5 absolutely terrible ones.
There are good recruitment consultants out there, some absolutely fantastic ones who do things like actually read CV's, understand the business they are hiring into and can be bothered responding to emails and telephone calls. You might even find one who has a mental list of their clients and their requirements and will actively look to place a good candidate in front of those clients. Claire Green at GT-Consulting is one. There are others of course.
However, most do little more than scan the database of candidate CVs for keywords and send the first three found off to the client for them to do the actual work of seeing if they actually have the skills and experience required. It would seem most have no ability or interest in trying to work out who would be a good or bad candidate themselves, like it being the service they are supposed to supply. If you try and get in touch directly to discuss a role, to maybe ask some questions to save both you and the consultant's client a wasted interview, many will not take your call {"Can I ask who's calling?" Brief pause whilst they realise you are a candidate not a client company "Ahh, sorry they are out of the office today, they'll call you back. Who were you again?"}. Only the good ones call you back. You will hardly ever be called back.
If you do speak to them, some will be your best mate – but can't quite fake sincerity… Sadly, it is often obvious that they have no idea about the business. I had a chap a week or two back telling me I needed PL or SQL to do the role and when I queried if they meant PL/SQL they got tetchy with me. Another a while back was insisting I was not suitable as I did not have 10 years of Oracle 10. As I beta tested Oracle 10 for over a year and thus, with around 8 years' experience at that time, was well ahead of the pack I suggested that maybe they needed to alter that requirement – or find someone who helped develop it at Oracle Corp…Again, some kindly advice was poorly received. OK, I was not kindly, I was tetchy too. He had stared off being my insincere best mate.
I could just be having a self-centred moan of course, in that the recruitment consultants don't realise how great I am ( 🙂 ) and find me lucrative jobs – but I've also been the client and had to wade through dozens of utterly unsuitable CVs sent in from them. The last time was particularly awful as we were not able to offer a great wage (but we were happy to take people with experience of prior versions and train them up to the latest-greatest). Most CVs sent in had the words Oracle, database and administration on them but not together. Several lacked any Oracle at all. Every recruitment consultant I dealt with that time gave me the same spiel about having the best candidates on their books, how they vetted everyone and sent only the ones with the best match of skills. They must have been telling a miss-truth about at least one of those claims as there was little match with our requirements for an Oracle DBA.
So, I really like contracting but not the dealing-with-agents bit. Oddly enough, any discussion with other contractors or managers who hire nearly always shows that my feelings are widely shared…
I've been thinking about doing this post ever since I started blogging but I didn't – because many jobs are only available via recruitment consultants. Insulting them is not going to help me get put forward for jobs. However, last time I was mouthing off about Satan's little Imps in the pub and how I had never done a Friday Philosophy on the topic, due to the fear of the consequences, one of the guys pointed out I was an idiot. Most recruitment consultants can't even be bothered reading your CV so they are not going to go check out someone's technical blog! {and Neil has just beaten me to posting about it and how they always ask for mostly irrelevant industry experience}. Any who do are going to be firmly in that rare Good category. I'd go as far as to say that any recruitment consultant who is reading this is in the top 5% of their field. Nice to talk to you again, Claire…
- 1. Tim Hall - December 2, 2011
I agee 1%.
- 2. Tim Hall - December 2, 2011
Bloody iPad keyboard. That was 100%. 🙂
- Graham - December 2, 2011
I'd probably have some sympathy for you if your house wasn't a 50 bedroom mansion made out of gold. OK, maybe I'm stereotyping the riches of a long term contractor… but your point about job security doesn't really stand up these days.
If anything the organisation I'm at presently is more likely to get rid of permies than contractors. That way they can show that headcount is reducing and shareholders are impressed with the cost cutting activities.
- 4. Øyvind Isene - December 2, 2011
I don't have experience as a contractor, but I have the same perception of recruiters for permanent employment. That obvious scanning for keywords in your CV and absolutely no idea what is important for the employee. Networking and friends is all that matters. Good post.
- 5. Narendra - December 2, 2011
Oh My God!!!
Two posts on the same day on the same topic (other one by Neil) and both struck, what has now become the most sensitive nerve, for me.
Not sure if you have had any experience (after all, you are in a different league) but what I hate the most is in a typical telephone call from a recruitment consultant (in response to my application) how the conversation changes to the agent asking me about whom can he/she talk to in my current organisation. What the hell !!! After a few initial incidents, I realized that these consultants NEVER had any vacancy for any client (if they have any). They just tend to copy-paste some job description from somewhere and post it in order to get access to new clients. Nowadays, I find it extremely difficult to speak in civilized manner when I get similar hint from any consultant.
- 6. Claire Green - January 3, 2012
Little bit late on this one but I'll comment anyway. Being the person Martin mentions as a decent recruiter, I have to say I cringe at some of the stories I hear about candidates dealings with agents. Especially frustrating is an agent asking what skills you have when it's clear the agent does not understand what the technology is (from a non-tech point of view). Being your best buddy and promising the world is another common irritant.
As Martin says, there are some good ones out there so please remember positive experiences too.
12 years experience in IT recrutiment has taught me how to treat candidates and clients right. All I can do is apologise on behalf of the less able recruiters out there, and continue to hope the general image of IT recruitment consultants moves up the ladder from slimy gutter turd to something more acceptable..
- 7. Jihad - September 6, 2012
I have been contracting for the last 17 years and I could not agree more. Fortunately for me, I never had any issue getting a contract once I set my foot into the client's premises and had a face to face interview. I have learned a lot and know how to deal with agents who waste my time.
Few tips:
Agent's Question: May I please have the name of your hiring manager?
Your Answer: I am afraid I can't, due to the Data protection Act as I have duty to not divulge my client's information.
Agent's Question: I need two references from your present employer to arrange an interview for you.
Your Answer: When I get a confirmed offer of the job, you will have two references.
Agent's Question: Are you still working with Dave blog? (they are waiting for you to say no I am working with so and so) . As soon as you give him/her a name, guess what is going to happen? your present client/employer will have a phone call from the agent asking about Mr. so and so trying to make a sale.
Your Answer: NO
Agent's Question: What do you want as a daily rate for this contract?
Your Answer: what on offer? (The agent is trying to get you cheap for two reasons, one to look good in front of the client, or to take the difference in rate for him on top of the commission he/she is already getting).
I can write a book about Agent's tricks.
Any way good luck contracting everyone and may the good and decent agent be with you all. 🙂
- Paul Brookes - January 13, 2015
A little late to the party here, but just came via your Twitter post.
I've also been contracting for around 18 years now, and the dirtiest trick I've come across was back in the late 90's. I'm sure this is one that still happens.
Agent 'A' called me about an Oracle role and requested that should I be approached by another agency then I should not ask to be put forward again, as apparently clients do not like to receive the same CV twice and it could jeopardise my chances.
Later that day Agent 'B' called about the same role. Of course, I explained that I had already been put forward and didn't want my CV sent again to the client. Agent 'B' accepted this and that was the end of that, or so I thought.
A day later Agent 'B' called me back and explained that he had taken the liberty of asking the client if they had already received my CV from another source. The client told him that they had not.
It was at this point the penny dropped. Agent 'A' had put forward what he felt were his strongest 3 CV's, and had then called as many other contractors with the same skillset and spun each of us a line simply to keep us off from applying for the role elsewhere and maximizing his chances of placing one of his preferred candidates. Of course he didnt get back to me when I phoned to call him out.
There was a good ending to this though. I got an interview via Agent 'B', got the role, and ended up contracting with the client for 5 years.
The moral for me is ignore agent requests to tell other agents not to put you forward, and get your CV on the client's desk by any means possible. It's a jungle out there!
- Claire Green - January 13, 2015
It's a shame there is a fair share of agents that have very low morals and values. It's a constant battle to get past the barriers put up by IT candidates, after they have had their fingers burned. As Martin says, you can only trust them once they have proved themselves.
From an agents perspective, we do also encounter candidates that have equally low morals and values as the worst recruitment agents. I accept that this happens from time to time but set out on a positive footing with every encounter with a candidate and assume their intentions are positive. If I'm proved wrong, I'll decline working with them in the future, That's all I can do.
- 8. Friday Philosophy – Network to Work or Work to Network? | Martin Widlake's Yet Another Oracle Blog - December 20, 2013
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- 9. Ben - January 19, 2015
Well said mate! I have had the same poor experiences with recruiters and agencies in my career. For every good one, there are 1000 evil ones. I've decided at this point just to tell them to bugger off for the most part unless they have a clue about hiring good candidates.
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Students seek revenge when Miss Breakbone calls them dunderheads
The Dunderheads. By Paul Fleischman. Illustrated by David Roberts. Candlewick, 56 pp., $16.99. Age range: See discussion below.
By Janice Harayda
A cynic might call The Dunderheads an ideal book for anyone who believes that children are never too young to learn that some women with large breasts do have small brains. But that view may be too harsh. David Roberts's pictures are often funny even if the protagonist of this book looks like a refugee from a wacky Hooters franchise staffed by middle-aged teachers-union members.
The cruel Miss Breakbone seems not to have gotten the message that she might crush her students' fragile self-esteem if she never assigns essays on topics like, "Why I'm Special." She brazenly calls her class a bunch of dunderheads – at least when she isn't confiscating their cell phones and vowing not to give them back.
But her students have self-esteem to spare, fostered by their many achievements, and Miss Breakbone is too dumb to see how smart they really are. A female student nicknamed Hollywood is typical: "She's got every movie that was ever made and has watched them all 11 times." So one day when Miss Breakbone goes too far, her students take their revenge in a breaking-and-entering caper that ends when she finds a note that says, "The Dunderheads were here!"
All of this is reasonably diverting, owing largely to Roberts's flair for visually amusing details, such as the skull-shaped lamp on Miss Breakbone's dresser. But the plotting isn't as clever nor is the writing as sharp as in in many other tales of a classroom revolt, such as Miss Nelson Is Missing!. Miss Breakbone's name, for example, is somewhat labored and not as funny as that of Viola Swamp in Harry Allard and James Marshall's back-to-school tale. And a goggle-eyed character named "Google-Eyes" may leave some children using the incorrect phrase for a lifetime.
Best line / picture: Roberts's spread showing the movie addict named Hollywood in a bunker-like room full of cables, DVDs, Oscar statues, and a television and larger-than-life remote control.
Worst line / picture: "That's when Google-Eyes went to work." The girl shown on this spread isn't "Google-eyed" but "goggle-eyed." Fleischman also writes: "Spider went up the drainpipe like malt up a straw." That similie sounds dated coming from a young narrator whose classmates bring cell phones to school, all members of a generation that might never drink a malted milk (if that's what's meant here).
Suggested age range: The publisher recommends this book for ages 6–10. This suggestion is unrealistic for many children given that The Dunderheads has a picture-book format and children often begin to spurn picture books at about the age of 6 or 7 (and to crave picture books that have more than 32 pages, as this one does, one starting at 4 or 5). School Library Journal says the book is for Grades 2-5 (roughly ages 7-10). But, again, it seems too optimistic to believe this book would appeal to many 8- and 9-year-olds who have enjoyed, for example, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The natural audience for the format of The Dunderheads might seem to be 4- and 5-year-olds who want picture books with more than the usual 32 pages, such as the original Flat Stanley with words by Jeff Brown and illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. But — speaking just for myself — I wouldn't give this one to a literal-minded child who start school soon because of its message, however humorously developed, that some teachers just hate children and, if you get one, you may feel better if you take criminal acts of revenge.
Published: June 2009
About the author and illustrator: Fleischman, a Californian, won the 1989 Newbery Medal for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices and has posted an excerpt from it on his Web site. Roberts lives in London and has illustrated many books for children, some of them prize-winners.
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"A relationship is a myth you create with each other. It isn't necessarily true, but it's meaningful."
Philip Weiss quoted an unnamed man as saying this in "The Affairs of Men: The Trouble With Sex and Marriage," a cover story in the May 26, 2008, issue of New York that dealt with the Eliot Spitzer-inspired question, "Is man really a monogamous animal?" I liked the quote when I read it in the spring — it makes a subtle point about relationships that I can't recall having seen made elsewhere — but saved it for the appropriate day.
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This month's TWO QUESTIONS column features questions posed by two U.S. photographers. Based in Austin, Texas, BILL MCCULLOUGH makes his living predominantly from photographing weddings. However, he is far from your typical wedding photographer — his pictures are witty, surprising, spontaneous; they take us into social worlds not often seen so perceptively. His humor is gentle and good-natured, very much like Bill himself. EMILY PEDERSON is currently studying photography, languages (she has mastered Portuguese, Spanish, and Czech), and social justice at New York University. Her grandfather was a noted underwater photographer, so she grew up with photography in her life. She has photographed in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and New York, as well as in her home state of Rhode Island.--Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
BILL MCCULLOUGH: In photography, music, painting, and many other forms of expression, there is work that strikes the perfect balance of technique and emotion that can leave one in awe. You may ask yourself, "how did they do that?" You are both photographers who have been in the trenches and attempted many things; therefore, you also have insight, understanding, and respect of what is truly difficult to accomplish. Is there a photographer, dead or alive, who both inspires you and stumps you? If so, who and why?
ALEX WEBB: Ever since I first picked up a copy of Frank's The Americans –– sometime in the late 1960's –– my favorite photograph in the book has always been the mournful elevator girl. I hesitate to say much of anything about it because Jack Kerouac in his introduction to the book said just about everything that needs to be said: "And I say: That little ole elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what's her name and address?" What Kerouac latches onto is what has always most intrigued me about Frank's work, its emotive heart. Somehow, Frank managed to make deep and surprising poetry out of the mundane stuff of the world of America.
That quality is still what interests me most about Frank's work. But looking back now at this photograph, I am also intrigued by how it speaks of another era in America. I can't recall when I last saw an elevator girl. The notion seems quaint. It makes me almost nostalgic, nostalgic, among other things, for a more intimate world, where human beings –– including those in more menial positions –– somehow seemed to count. Now, soulless elevators in Miami gleam of burnished chrome. Chimes denoting each floor have replaced the human voice. Modern demons may sometimes stalk these elevators, but mournful elevator girls are long gone. I guess today, Kerouac would have to go elsewhere to find a name and number.
REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: From the moment I first saw a print of Robert Frank's barbershop in McClellanville, South Carolina, the image has lingered with me, a sign –– I've learned to trust over the years –– of a truly poetic image. Like the strongest and most resonant poems, the image sends me into a kind of reverie each time I view it. I think this has something to do with the fact that it's a reflection, one that blurs inside and outside, like a daydream. So, for me at least, Frank's mysterious barbershop blurs into the barbershop in my small town in southern Indiana where I was born. Like Frank, I, too, have pressed up against a small town barbershop's screen door, have seen into the interior thanks to my own shadow. Come to think of it, the screen door itself seems somehow quintessentially American (I don't recall coming across that many screen doors in Europe, for instance…). The screen door is welcoming yet protective, practical yet vulnerable, luring both june bugs and photographers alike.
Link to NPR story: "Robert Frank's Elevator Girls Sees Herself Years Later":
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EMILY PEDERSON: Rebecca, what is it about birds? In Violet Isle, birds are constantly appearing in your photographs. Why is that? What is it that draws you to birds?
RNW: As someone who comes out of the street photography tradition, I only photograph what I come across in the world, and the most common creature I found in Cuban menageries was the bird –– from roosters and peacocks and woodpeckers to cockatiels and pigeons and parrots. I love the rich and resonant questions this suggests: Of all the creatures, why are birds the most popular animal in Cuban menageries? What does this suggest about the individuals who have these menageries? What does this suggest about Cubans and their relationship to nature? And what does this suggest about Cuban culture more generally?
What I love about photography –– and poetry –– is that sometimes images have the ability to suggest these sorts of questions. One of my favorite lines about birds is by the poet, Li-Young Lee:
Only birds can reveal to us dying by flying.
And just yesterday I came across these two wonderful lines by T.S. Eliot in his poem, "Four Quartets":
…a hollow rumble of wings…
…wait for the early owl…
Personally, when I first started photographing birds in Cuba, it was a period in my life that roughly corresponded to my acquiring my first pair of professional birding binoculars, inspired in part by the red-tailed hawks in Prospect Park near my apartment, the same kind of hawk that's also found in my home state of South Dakota.
During one of my last trips to Havana, I remember the delight of watching a hawk attempting to open her wings just inches away from me –– instead of my observing the raptor from the usual distance of my field glasses. Yet simultaneously I also felt a something catch in my throat as I watched the hawk fumble, unable to spread her wings fully in so small a cage . Looking back, I realize that I often had this complicated and seemingly contradictory emotional response –– delight and discomfort –– while photographing caged birds throughout Cuba.
Li-Young Lee link: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/291
LInk to T.S. Eliot's poem, "Four Quartets": http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/
EP: Alex, when you photograph you seem to go back again and again to a particular place. You don't move there for a while to carry out your work, but you return over and over. How does that affect the way you see, the way you work?
AW: My meanderings in a country are rarely planned. For instance, in Havana, even when I find myself working in the same neighborhood, it is often somewhat by chance: I wander into the same locale three days later –– or even, perhaps, a year later. And even if I contemplate returning to a specific area, it is often a spur of the moment decision: I find myself completing work in one street or block and suddenly decide to return to somewhere that I have been before. Sure, sometimes I may decide that a street or a market that I photographed in the morning might be more interesting in the afternoon or vice-versa, but as often as not the return to a particular locale is serendipitous.
For instance, the above photograph was taken during my last of 11 trips to Havana over 15 years. Who know how many times I had walked down this particular street during my other trips. But the particular mood and color and feel of the street caught my eye in fall 2009.
I was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1989. I study photography, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Gallatin School at New York University.
My grandfather was an undersea photographer and cinematographer, and documented undersea life in the Bahamas in the 50s and 60s. So there were always neat old cameras in my house as I was growing up, and I started to take photographs early on. The summer after my junior year in high school I lived in Peru for a month doing volunteer work at an orphanage. It was my first true experience of life elsewhere, and it played out like a fever dream. I took thirty rolls of film, and after that was significantly more fascinated by photography.
After graduating high school, I moved to New York City and have lived there since, except for four months last year, which I spent studying in Prague, learning Czech and traveling in Eastern Europe. I'm currently working with Alex Harsley at the 4th Street Photo Gallery, which he established in 1971, helping him distribute his work and documenting the history the gallery has witnessed. I see photographs as agents of information and as records of light. What allures me the most is how photography gives us the ability to freeze time.–Emily Pederson
My website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilykpederson/
American photographer Bill McCullough was born in 1963, in Dickenson Texas. He graduated with a degree in Plan II economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986. He is a self taught photographer. His work has been published in Spot (Houston Center of Photography), United States; and Photonews, Germany. In 2008, his work was purchased for the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His first solo show will take place at the SRO gallery at Texas Tech University in March, 2011. He has been chosen as a 2010 Fotofest discovery. He currently resides and works in Austin, Texas.
Bill's webswite: www.billmccullough.com
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Today in the News: Belgium OKs euthanasia for children
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Belgian lawmakers today approved a bill that gives minors the right to euthanasia, CNN reported. The country passed a euthanasia bill for adults in 2002, and now terminally ill minors will be included. King Philippe needs to sign off on the bill for it to become law, but he is expected to do so. Minors will have to understand what euthanasia is and sign off on it, and their parents or guardians must as well.
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"At the moment, they are doing very well and are keeping each other company, but if there are some genetically more valuable giraffes in the program that need the space, we have to decide what to do with him." - Zoologist Jesper Mohring-Jensen, talking about a male giraffe at Jyllands Park Zoo in Denmark that also could decide to kill a healthy giraffe. Coincidentally, this male is called Marius, which was the name of the giraffe killed by the Copenhagen Zoo.
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From Sister Blog, Law and Mind (by HLS student, Rachel Funk):
Aunt Vivian: Gee, when Janice described him she didn't mention that he was…tall. Not that I have a problem with people who are…tall.
Uncle Lester: My cousin used to date a girl who was…tall.
Uncle Phil: Heck, the boy go to a predominantly…tall school.
Will: Now, am I alone on this or didn't y'all notice he was white?
~ Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Episode #2.6, Guess Who's Coming to Marry)
In a short article in the February/March 2009 issue of Scientific American Mind, Siri Carpenter discusses two studies done by psychologists at Tufts and Harvard indicating that people who avoid mentioning race may actually appear more prejudiced. In the experiment, one white participant was paired up with one black participant, and they were each given the same set of photographs of random people. The black participant would choose a photograph, and the white participant had to figure out as quickly as possible which photograph his/her partner had chosen by asking him/her questions about each one in succession. The study was designed so that the matching process would go much faster if the white participant asked about the race of the person in the photograph. Significantly, the study found that the "intrepid few" who asked about race were deemed less prejudiced by black observers than the vast majority of white participants who didn't mention race at all.
If that finding is accurate and generally applicable, then we as a society have totally f***ed up in making it a taboo to mention someone's race. We have conflated defining someone by their race with simply acknowledging their race.
In her fantastic book "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race, Dr. Beverly Tatum confronts this issue head-on. In reading about the above experiment, I was reminded of the following anecdote from her book:
"A father reported that his eight-year-old daughter had been talking very enthusiastically about a friend she had made at school. One day when he picked his daughter up from school, he asked her to point out her new friend. Trying to point her out of a large group of children on the playground, his daughter elaborately described what the child was wearing. She never said she was the only Black girl in the group."
Despite the white father's being thrilled that his daughter was colorblind, Dr. Tatum suggests — and I think that this is probably right — that the girl's avoidance of mentioning her friend's race was not so much a sign that she was colorblind as it was that she had been trained not to make explicit reference to someone's race. (Interestingly, in the two studies mentioned earlier, one was done with adults, but the other one was done with children as young as 10 — the results were consistent across the two studies.) As further evidence of this phenomenon, Dr. Tatum notes that "[m]y White college students sometimes refer to someone as Black in hushed tones, sometimes whispering the word as though it were a secret or a potentially scandalous identification."
When I was taking the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School, I had to do a closing statement for a mock police brutality case, in which a white policeman in a predominately white, upper-class neighborhood had allegedly assaulted the plaintiff, a black man who had been waiting to pick his daughter up from her white friend's house. "Ladies and gentlemen," I began, "what do we know? We know that Robin Boyd was a black man in a white neighborhood." As soon as I said "black", the temperature in the room dropped by several degrees, I think because everyone stopped breathing.
For anyone who doesn't know me, I am extremely white. Pasty, even. And as a member of the oppressor group (or, to dress it up in fancy psychspeak, the socially dominant ingroup), it is my responsibility to avoid drawing attention to this fact. But why? Why is it that we feel the need to go out of our way to avoid mentioning someone's race, and often feel uncomfortable if someone else brings it up? Is it part of some elaborate construction of a fiction that we're colorblind? Or does it stem from a fear that we might unintentionally offend somebody, so it's safest to take the path of least resistance and avoid mentioning race altogether?
Dr. Tatum points out that many, if not most, white people simply never think about their race: "There is a lot of silence about race in White communities, and as a consequence, Whites tend to think of racial identity as something that other people have, not something that is salient for them."
This insight reminded of a time when I was riding the Metro in southeast D.C., an area of D.C. that is predominantly black. I spent the entire time being acutely aware of the fact that I was the only white person on the train, wondering whether this was all everyone else was noticing too, and trying to act like I hadn't noticed. In an uncomfortable moment of revelation, I wondered whether this is what the handful of black students at most higher ed institutions feel like all the time.
Most of the time, the default race position is white. For instance, in a novel, unless the author indicates otherwise (either by explicitly describing the character's race, or by laying out a context in which most of the characters will be of a specific minority, like the burgeoning class of novels geared specifically towards African Americans), we generally assume any characters that pop up are white. In fact, I remember being struck by, while reading one of Robert Parker's Spenser novels, the fact that the (white) narrator mentioned that another character was white. While Mr. Parker delights in bringing racial issues up in oblique, peripheral ways — I should note that the Spenser books are easy-read mystery/crime novels, not the kind of deep, soul-searching, trying-to-make-a-statement books you'd expect to confront issues about race — it still caught me off-guard. It surprised me that it surprised me, so to speak.
Time for a politically incorrect anecdote: One day, when my friends and I were walking back to Harvard from the Square, a couple stopped and asked us for directions to a building on the undergraduate campus. As highly superior law students, we of course had no idea. As they walked away, my Chinese friend commented, "They should know better than to stop and ask a little Asian girl for directions." To which my white friend joked, "Yeah, but at least you're good at math." (Followed by my Chinese friend yelling, "RACIST!" and chasing my white friend through Harvard Yard.)
There's no point to that story, I just thought it was time for a little levity in the post. (Although John Jost does offer some fascinating insights into complementary stereotypes via system justification theory…)
Since this is a blog about mind sciences and the law, what implications does how we think about race have for law? The following is a series of anecdotes meant to offer some food for thought on the various ways that law and race intersect:
1) A white public defender that I met during the Trial Advocacy Workshop told us that she always made it a point to put her hands on her client's shoulders (her client usually being a young black man) at some point during her opening statement, to communicate to the jury that she, as a white woman, trusted her client, and therefore they should too.
She also told us that she had to warn her clients that she was going to do that so that they wouldn't flinch when she did it.
2) A scholar at Harvard was attempting to research whether the verdict in jury trials where the defendant was black had any statistical correlation to whether and how many African-Americans were on the jury. However, there weren't enough black jury members in Massachusetts jury trials to provide a reliable sample.
3) The Vera Institute of Justice's Prosecution and Racial Justice project works with prosecutor's offices across the country to study how prosecutorial discretion is exercised in relation to race, focusing on four key areas where prosecutors have the most discretion: initial case screening, charging, plea offers, and final disposition. Not surprisingly, the project found that prosecutors as a group often exercise their discretion in a way that has a disproportionate impact on minorities. However, as part of the demonstration project, many of these offices have implemented policies that have significantly reduced this disparity, even when these policies did not explicitly focus on race. You can find out more about Vera's approach and findings here.
The popular image of Justice as blind seems to me to be exactly wrong. Justice is not blind because we are not blind, and it is through us that our justice system operates. Maybe if we saw Justice as mindful instead, we would have a better idea of how to go about achieving it.
Related Situationist posts:
- Preference, Principle, & Casuistry
- Interview with Professor Eric Knowles
- Color Conscious Situation of Neighborhood Choice
- "The Legal and Procedural Situation of Segregation,"
- "Perceptual Segregation – Abstract,"
- "Blood & Race,"
- "Wages Are Only Skin Deep – Abstract."
- "Why Race May Influence Us Even When We "Know" It Doesn't,"
- "Wages Are Only Skin Deep – Abstract,"
- "Colorblinded Wages – Abstract," and
- "Shades of Fairness and the Marketing of Prejudice."


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Review: Gift guide to smaller tablets
The tablet computer is without a doubt the gift of the season - just like it was last year. But if you resisted the urge in 2011, now is the time to give in. This season's tablets are better all around. Intense competition has kept prices very low, making tablets incredible values compared to smartphones and PCs.
The first step in the buying process is to decide on the size of the tablet. They fall into two rough categories: the full-sized tablet, pioneered by the iPad, and the half-size tablet, epitomized by the Kindle Fire.
Full-sized tablets, which generally have screens measuring about 10 inches on the diagonal, are better for surfing websites designed for PCs, and far better when it comes to displaying magazines and documents. Overall, they go further toward replacing a laptop. They cost $400 and up.
Half-sized tablets, which have screens measuring roughly 7 inches on the diagonal, are cheaper and lighter, but just as good as full-sized tablets for e-book reading. It's an excellent first computing device for a kid, or a gentle nudge into the digital world for an older adult with little computing experience. This year's crop costs $199 and up.
If you've settled on a small tablet, here are some top choices:
Apple iPad Mini (starts at $329 for 16 gigabytes of storage)
The most expensive of the small tablets is also the prettiest. Its exquisitely machined metal rim sets it well apart from competing tablets clothed in plastic and rubber. It's also thin and light, despite having a screen that's 40 percent bigger than other "small" tablets. But the quality of the screen doesn't quite measure up to the competition. It has fewer pixels than other small tablets, and they're spread over a larger area, making for a relatively coarse, pixelated look. On the other hand, the Mini has two cameras, front and back, which is a rarity.
Where the Mini really wins is in third-party apps: it's the only small tablet that has access to Apple's App Store, with a superlative selection of high-quality apps. It's an excellent addition to the household that's already hooked on iPhones and full-size iPads.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD (starts at $199 for 16 gigabytes of storage)
A year ago, the Kindle Fire was the plucky, cut-rate tablet, the Dodge Neon to the iPad's BMW. This year, the gap in quality and features has narrowed considerably. The Kindle Fire HD has a better screen than the iPad Mini, and now sports a front-facing camera. The original Kindle Fire had none.
In another nice touch, it has speakers on either side of the screen when it's held horizontally, making for much better stereo sound when you're playing a movie.
The selection of content is narrower than for the iPad, since it's heavily slanted toward Amazon's services. Likewise, the selection of third-party apps is smaller than on the iPad or Google's Nexus 7. But there are enough games to thrill a kid for hours, and like Barnes & Noble's Nook, the Kindle can be configured with a special "kid mode."
The Kindle Fire is especially useful for members of Amazon's Prime shipping service, since they get access to free streaming movies. On the other hand, anyone could be annoyed by the ads that appear on the lock screen. Getting rid of them costs $15. There's no option for cellular broadband, so you're limited to Wi-Fi connections.
Barnes & Noble Nook HD (starts at $199 for 8 gigabytes of storage)
Barnes & Noble has paid a lot of attention to the screens on its Nooks. This year, it's clearly outdone the competition, with a screen that packs the pixels tighter than any other small tablet. It's very sharp and colorful, approaching the look of the Retina screen that graces the full-size iPad.
The other strength of the Nook HD is that it has a slot for a memory card, meaning that you can expand the storage space for movies and music by 32 gigabytes for $25. It's the only tablet in our roundup with this feature.
The downside is that the Nook HD is less of a general-purpose tablet and more of a consumption device for books and movies. It doesn't have a camera, so it's no good for videoconferencing. The selection of apps is the smallest. You'll find big names like "Angry Birds" here, but there is no depth to the catalog. There's also no option for cellular broadband.
Google Nexus 7 (starts at $199 for 16 gigabytes of storage)
Frustrated that Amazon and Barnes & Noble were taking Google's Android software, gutting it and using it to power tablets that don't yield the search giant a red cent in advertising revenue or e-book sales, Google this year launched the first tablet under its own brand. The Nexus 7 has a power-house processor and a screen similar to that of the Kindle Fire HD. Since it runs stock Android, it has access to hundreds of thousands of applications written for Android smartphones, and it has more sophisticated multi-tasking abilities than the competitors, so it's easy to switch from program to program. Like the iPad Mini, it has a GPS chip for navigation. It has a front-facing camera for videoconferencing.
There's a $299, 32-gigabyte version that can connect to AT&T's wireless network.
The Nexus 7 is a great tablet for the technophile who would chafe at the restrictions imposed by competing manufacturers. But anyone will be able to appreciate it. In terms of kid-friendliness, it's beaten by Amazon and Barnes & Noble.


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Friends of Pickford Community Library seek public input
Friends of Pickford Community Library (FPCL) will hold their monthly board meeting on Thursday, January 17th at 7 p.m. at the PAL (Pickford Arts and Learning) Center, 230 Main Street.
The meeting will be structured as a public focus group.
The FPCL is asking the community for its input on their fundraising events, the Annual Campaign, the PAL Center, general perceptions of FPCL and what the committee's future goals might be. Volunteer opportunities both for the library and FPCL will also be highlighted.
The Pickford Community Librarian, Ann Marie Smith, will be present to address any questions or comments regarding the library.
The focus of FPCL is to support the Pickford Community Library. This is a great opportunity to get involved and have input on how two nonprofits, with a common goal, operate in the community.
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Boston bombing suspect #2 reported in custody
Boston police report that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the second suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings who was sought in a manhunt that closed most of the Boston area for Thursday night into Friday, has been captured.
Around 7 p.m. EDT Friday, reports of shots fired came out of Watertown, the suburb of Boston that police had searched door-to-door all day. It was unclear if officers had found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but TV news reports showed police and FBI troops heading toward a certain block of town.
Many local media began reporting minutes later that the suspect had been found in a covered boat stored in the backyard of a house at 67 Franklin St. in Watertown. Over the next 90 minutes or so police lined the property and sporadic pops, reported as flashbangs, or possibly gunshots, could be heard.
Crowds surrounding the scene began to applaud around 8:45 EDT at the reports that the suspect was alive and taken into custody. TV reports showed jubilant officers giving each other hugs and high-fives.
Friends and neighbors of Tsarnaev described him as a normal, social and quiet student.
The Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School graduate is suspected in Thursday's shooting death of an MIT police officer and subsequent carjacking and gunfight with police in Watertown later that night. Tsarneav reportedly escaped police capture after he and his brother threw explosives and fired automatic weapons at officers.
Police detained his brother – Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 – who later died in custody. ABC News reported that the suspects are believed to have had paramilitary training by the way they engaged police.
Friends described Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as "unremarkable" and "normal." He liked to talk about sports, music and girls, said a classmate, Ty Barros, 21.
"He didn't have any glaring characteristics," Barros said. "He was pretty laid back."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was also a bright student, his friends said. He was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge in 2011. According to Cambridge Chronicle sources, Tsarnaev was an All-Star on the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School wrestling team. He was also on the volleyball team.
Derek Winbush, 18, said they smoked marijuana together and sometimes went to parties, but said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't party often.
"He did what normal kids do," Winbush said.
Although described as social, friends said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't joke around much.
"Me and my friends, we joke around a lot, but Dzhokhar wouldn't make a joke because I don't think he wanted to offend people," Barros said. "That's what made me wonder, what happened to him to make him want to do these things?"
Another friend, Devon Clark, who graduated with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said he wouldn't typically hang out with friends after school.
"He was by himself mostly," Clark said. "He was social in that he would nod and smile at you but he didn't talk much. He was kind of quiet."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rarely expressed political views, friends said. A neighbor, Caprice Ruff, 18, said she was aware the family is Muslim because she sometimes saw people visiting dressed in a hijab, but she never heard him talk about Islam. Ruff said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's sister did not wear a headscarf and dressed like her peers at Cambridge Rindge and Latin.
The Associated Press reported both suspects are from a Russian region near Chechnya. The uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade.
Ruff often saw Dzhokhar Tzarnaev riding a skateboard outside of his Norfolk Street home, including the night before the Boston Marathon bombings. Police are now stationed outside the home.
"We are progressing through this [Norfolk] neighborhood going door to door, street to street," said Col. Timothy Alben, the superintendent of Massachusetts State Police, during a press conference on Friday afternoon. "There has been no apprehension at this point. This afternoon, there will be controlled explosions over in Cambridge on Norfolk Street in the house we secured earlier today. This is done for the safety of law enforcement officials before they search the premises."
Friends were shocked to hear that their former classmate is suspected of four murders and over 170 injuries, including dozens of amputated limbs from the marathon bombings Monday.
Other classmates expressed disbelief when interviewed by WCVB on Friday morning.
"From what I know he seems like the sweetest kid; I'm not defending him, but he was a very sweet kid in high school. There was nothing weird about him," said Katherine McDonough, former classmate and president of the Class of 2011 at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. "Everyone is very shocked. ... It's very hard news to deal with especially since we have such a tight-knit community at school. As far as I knew him, it seems like he wouldn't even hurt a fly. We're confused, we're angry, we're hurt -- just a lot of emotions right now."


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Government Shutdown Week Two: 10 Days Until Default, No Resolution In Sight
Speaker John Boehner ruled out any measure to boost borrowing authority without concessions from President Barack Obama as the partial government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight steps closer to the United States' first default in the nation's history.
Washington will be closely watching the financial markets on Monday to see if the uncompromising talk rattles Wall Street and worldwide economies just 10 days before the threat of default would be imminent.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned that the budget brinkmanship was "playing with fire" and implored Congress to pass legislation to re-open the government and increase the nation's $16.7 trillion debt limit. Lew reiterated that Obama has no intention to link either bill to Republican demands for changes in the 3-year-old health care law and spending cuts.
A defiant Boehner insisted that Obama must negotiate if the president wants to end the shutdown and avert a default that could trigger a financial crisis and recession that would echo 2008 or worse. The 2008 financial crisis plunged the country into the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
"We're not going to pass a clean debt limit increase," the Ohio Republican said in a television interview. "I told the president, there's no way we're going to pass one. The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit, and the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us."
Boehner also said he lacks the votes "to pass a clean CR," or continuing resolution, a reference to the temporary spending bill without conditions that would keep the government operating.
The shutdown has pushed hundreds of thousands of workers off the job, closed national parks and museums and stopped an array of government services.
The one bright spot on Monday is a significant chunk of the furloughed federal workforce is headed back to work. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered nearly 350,000 back on the job, basing his decision on a Pentagon interpretation of a law called the Pay Our Military Act.
Those who remain at home or are working without paychecks are a step closer to getting back pay once the partial government shutdown ends. The Senate could act this week on the measure that passed the House unanimously on Saturday.
Democrats insist that Republicans could easily open the government if Boehner simply allows a vote on the emergency spending bill. Democrats argue that their 200 members in the House plus close to two dozen pragmatic Republicans would back a so-called clean bill, but the Speaker remains hamstrung by his tea party-strong GOP caucus.
"Let me issue him a friendly challenge. Put it on the floor Monday or Tuesday. I would bet there are the votes to pass it," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
In a series of Sunday television appearances, Lew warned that on Oct. 17, he exhausts the bookkeeping maneuvers he has been using to keep borrowing.
"I'm telling you that on the 17th, we run out of the ability to borrow, and Congress is playing with fire," Lew said.
Lew said that while Treasury expects to have $30 billion of cash on hand on Oct. 17, that money will be quickly exhausted in paying incoming bills given that the government's payments can run up to $60 billion on a single day.
Treasury issued a report on Thursday detailing in stark terms what could happen if the government actually defaulted on its obligations to service the national debt.
"A default would be unprecedented and has the potential to be catastrophic," the Treasury report said. "Credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, U.S. interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spillovers could reverberate around the world."
Private economists generally agree that a default on the U.S. debt would be extremely harmful, especially if the impasse was not resolved quickly.
"If they don't pay on the debt, that would cost us for generations to come," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. He said a debt default would be a "cataclysmic" event that would roil financial markets in the United States and around the world.
Zandi said that holders of U.S. Treasury bonds would demand higher interest rates which would cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars in higher interest payments in coming years on the national debt.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a force in pushing Republicans to link changes to the health care law in exchange for keeping the government running, spelled out his conditions for raising the borrowing authority.
"We should look for three things. No. 1, we should look for some significant structural plan to reduce government spending. No. 2, we should avoid new taxes. And No. 3, we should look for ways to mitigate the harms from 'Obamacare,'" Cruz said, describing the debt ceiling as an issue that is among the "best leverage the Congress has to rein in the executive."
Some Republicans, such as Rep. Steve King of Iowa, dismiss the warnings about a government default as an exaggeration, suggesting U.S. credit won't collapse and calling the talk "a lot of false demagoguery."
Asked how the standoff might end, Boehner, R-Ohio, said that he was uncertain: "If I knew, I'd tell you."
Boehner and Schumer were interviewed on ABC's "This Week," and Lew and Cruz on CNN's "State of the Union." Lew also appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation," ''Fox News Sunday" and NBC's "Meet the Press."
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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