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Welcome to the Pollmann website. Here you will find extensive information about the company, the products, services and people responsible for our high-quality portfolio. Pollmann International operates on three continents – Asia, Europe and North America – in the countries of China, U.S.A., Czech Republic and Austria. The headquarters are located in Karlstein, Austria. If you cannot find information you are looking for, please contact us by email or phone.
Since November, Michael Hauer has been assisting Managing Director Vaclav Krsik as Plant Manager at the Czech Republic location. His new duties cover organizational development, CIP (continuous improvement processes) and optimization of logistics concepts. Having been logistics manager at Pollmann Austria since 2001, Michael Hauer is very familiar with Pollmann processes and workflows. The "Pollmann Czech Republic" location is experiencing rapid growth both in terms of size and technological development. "Physical foaming" was installed at the location in addition to injection molding. It is important for Pollmann to closely integrate the two European locations in Austria and the Czech Republic so that we can meet customer demands for best possible unit prices. "We are happy that we were able to get Michael Hauer excited and willing to take on this important task as our new Plant Manager," said Erwin Negeli, Managing Director of Pollmann Austria.
Pollmann turned 125 – good reason for all of us to be proud and happy. We celebrated this anniversary with a special party for our employees under the motto "Once around the whole world". Our employees took part in a culinary world tour to the Pollmann locations and were surprised with spectacular attractions. Pollmann has been in existence for 125 years, is wholly family-owned and has more than 1,200 employees worldwide.
In August, Greg Harriman became Managing Director of Pollmann North America. He has been working for Pollmann North America as Director of Operations for the past nine months and is also responsible for the Production and Quality Management areas. As company owners, the Pollmann family is confident that the US location will have a successful and positive future and wishes Greg Harriman lots of success, determination and stamina for the new challenges ahead.
Last May, Pollmann conducted an international customer survey. More than 400 customers from Purchasing, Development, Project Management, Logistics and Quality were surveyed. The 52 percent response rate was remarkable (in 2010 it was only 47%). The results indicate that our efforts of the past few years have paid off and were well received by our customers. Since the last survey in 2010, Pollmann has paid great attention to communication with customers and alignment between the locations. The survey respondents perceive Pollmann as a technology leader. But there are still areas which Pollmann will improve and optimize going forward.
Reducing CO2 emissions is currently the biggest challenge for automobile manufacturers. The EU has adopted directives which target a limit of 90 g/km for all automobiles over the coming years. From a technical perspective, these requirements can only be met if the overall efficiency of the drive systems (engine, transmission, alternator, fans, steering, etc.) is increased substantially. In addition, loads such as steering, cooling fan, air conditioning compressor, water pump, etc. which are now mostly belt-driven, will have to be switched to electric power.
The following CO2-reducing products are already being produced by Pollmann International:
There are basically two different plastic foaming processes – chemical foaming and physical foaming. Pollmann International has done extensive testing with both systems and decided in favor of physical plastic foaming. All Pollmann plastic foaming processes currently use MuCell or are developed further based on MuCell.
Foaming has many advantages:
Ensuring cleanliness in production processes requires concentration on specifically defined areas. This is the only way that contamination risks can be minimized or excluded. As a qualified tier 2 supplier for the international automotive industry, Pollmann has installed a production area for highly automated equipment in a clean room. In this specific environment, various components are produced which are used in transmission controls, electric steering and start/stop automation.
For the third time, Pollmann International presented a state-of-the-art product portfolio at the hybridica trade fair which focused on metal/plastic composite components. Many customers and prospects visited our booth and showed great interest in Pollmann's high level of vertical manufacturing integration and global presence. This trade fair was another great success for the Pollmann Sales Department with a potential for many new orders and new long-term customer-supplier relations and partnerships.
The Pollmann sales team was happy to welcome many customers and interested parties to its booth. The productive discussions with potential new clients were especially rewarding. At this year's Fakuma, insert and outsert technology was the topic of many technical discussions and also featured highly in the exchange of latest information. The primary focus of these discussions was hybrid applications with electro-mechanical components from Pollmann to be used as control units for electric and hybrid vehicles. All in all, Hybridica 2012 was a great success for our company
Component production using metal/plastics composite technology has become an integral part of the automotive industry. Reel-to-reel technology makes it possible to produce these punched and bent parts cost-effectively in large quantities using partial remolding.
Pollmann North America in Romeoville near Chicago currently uses reel-to-reel molding for producing two complex metal/plastics composite parts:
As new general managers of Pollmann Mechatronics Kunshan, Herbert Auer and Ewald Miksche are convinced that "increasing competition in China's automotive industry requires an even more prominent position on the market." Today, the requirements of industrial companies in China are on par with Western standards.
Best in class for Brose with Volvo
The actuator project for a closure system for Brose [end customer Volvo/Greatwall] which recently went into production is evidence of Pollmann's best-in-class performance.
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The section of this document might also be considered a "sales" section or just plain old advocacy... pick your poison on that one. To put it bluntly Postfix is a very, very good MTA and if you haven't tried it you really ought to. As the author, Wietse Venema puts it, "Postfix is a direct competitor to the qmail by Dan Bernstein. That's competitor, not enemy. I'm sure that friendly competition will help to improve both programs."
In design Postfix is very, very close to qmail as it uses a modular design rather than a monolithic one (e.g. several smaller programs working together to complete the required tasks as opposed to one huge binary written to do it all). This means that Postfix conserves machine resources by default and in practice is lightning quick. The command line accessible binaries included with ostfix are:
The postfix command controls the operation of the mail system. It is the interface for starting and stopping the mail system, and for some other administrative operations. This command is reserved to the super-user.
The postalias command maintains Postfix alias databases. This is the program behind the newaliases command.
The postcat command displays the contents of Postfix queue files. This is a limited, preliminary utility. This program is likely to be superseded by something more powerful that can also edit Postfix queue files.
The postconf command displays Postfix main.cf parameters: actual values, default values, or parameters that have non-default settings. This is a limited, preliminary utility. This program is likely to be superseded by something more powerful that can not only list but also edit the main.cf file.
The postdrop command is the mail posting agent that is run by the sendmail command on systems that have no world-writable maildrop queue directory.
The postkick command makes some internal communication channels available for use in, for example, shell scripts.
The postlock command provides Postfix-compatible mailbox locking for use in, for example, shell scripts.
The postlog command provides Postfix-compatible logging for shell scripts.
The postmap command maintains Postfix lookup tables such as canonical, virtual and others. It is a cousin of the UNIX makemap command.
The postsuper command maintains the Postfix queue. It removes old temporary files, and moves queue files into the right directory after a change in the hashing depth of queue directories. This command is run at mail system startup time.
For sendmail compatibility the mailq and newaliases commands, as well as a link to the old sendmail binary location (/usr/sbin/sendmail) have been preserved. They are not the same as they are under sendmail but their functionality remains the same. The link to sendmail makes it really easy to use Postfix with majordomo as well, though there are some things you should change in your majordomo aliases. We'll cover that in the listserv section of this document.
From an anecdotal perspective Postfix stands up very well in head to head comparisons with sendmail. A scientific examination is not within the scope of this document but it might help you to understand how it compares if we relate a short story.
An ISP with approximately 7500 users was making the move from sendmail to Postfix. Their old MTA machine was an under-powered host running IDE disks, 128MB of RAM and a low end Intel Pentium II, single processor. They built a much better machine for their new mail server (SMP PII with a DAC960 RAID controller, a pile of SCSI disks and 384MB of RAM). As the following occurred the new machine already had Postfix installed and they needed to move their old mail spools over from the old machine to the new machine. There are lots of ways to do this but they chose formail (a part of the procmail suite) as the simplest tool to use. They wrote a script (formail -Y -s /path/to/sendmail email@example.com </path/to/mailspool) which recursed through their old mail spool files in alphabetical order and forwarded all of the mail for each user from the old machine to the new. The transmission medium was LAN based (the Internet was not used). Also the new Postfix machine was already the primary MX for their domain so it was receiving new mail inbound and serving up mail via POP3 as well. The old mail server (which was running sendmail 8.9.1) was no longer receiving mail or serving any POP3 clients at all. Once they started the process they'd only gotten about 10 minutes into operation and the old machine was on its knees and had just about broken down completely under the load. The new machine was happily chugging along with a load of about .5. The processes on the old machine had to be killed as the box was literally in the throes of a very nasty death. Once everything was back under control the chosen methods were reexamined. Now it's easy to say that the old box was just under-powered but the best part of the story is what happened next. Rather than continue the process as it was they elected to remove sendmail and install Postfix on the old machine. Once this was done they re-started the formail script and without a hitch all of the mail was moved over without any additional difficulty (though it did take about 9 hours to complete the process). Now this is definitely an anecdotal testament but it is a very good example of the significant differences between sendmail and Postfix in the "real world". It's important to note that this does not mean that sendmail is a bad product. It is the standard MTA used by the majority of mail servers on the net but in a head to head comparison it doesn't appear to bear up near as well as Postfix. Try it and judge for yourself.


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Download example 3 ex3.cpp - Using Class Member functions via pointers.
Using Class Member Function PointersLets pretend that static class functions don't exist for now as those haven't been covered in a tutorial yet. That leaves class member functions. In example two, the function MyFunc() was not part of a class. It existed in isolation. But realistically we may well want to call class member functions through a pointer.
Here is the problem. It doesn't make sense to just take the address of a class member function (which is what we did with MyFunc) because we don't know which instance of the class we mean. What if we had an array of ten objects. Which one would it use? It needs the object as well as the function.
Defining the variable to hold the function is more or less the same as before. The syntax though is a bit uglier because the class is used. First the variable is declared to hold the class function pointer.
This has to have the class prefix CList:: or else the compiler will treat it as a non class function pointer. Likewise, anywhere it is assigned- in this function
int (CList::*m_pointerToMember)(pElement) ;
also requires the same treatment and the function assigned in List.SetCallback must be specified though you have the choice of either
void SetCallback( int (CList::*newpointerToMember)(pElement)) ;
Either will do though my preference is the latter.
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"All in all, Ragamuffin is a winner."—San Jose Mercury News"Buckell represents an important force behind the genre's change. Buckell's work deals with complex racial issues in a way worthy of the self-proclaimed 'literature of ideas': head-on, with no visible flinching, while still managing to give its readers a rollicking good time."—The Seattle Times on Ragamuffin"Ragamuffin establishes the author as a signature voice of Afro-Caribbean speculative fiction."—Library Journal"Buckell plays with Caribbean and Aztec cultures, bending their exotic flavor to technology-flavored ends. . . . A lot of fun."—Publishers Weekly on Ragamuffin"First-class space adventure, with tip-top characterization, action, and world-building. May Buckell enjoy a long, productive career."—Booklist on Ragamuffin"Full of wild-eyed action, feats of bravery, exotic beings, and odd ways of thought, startling uses of technology, and bold manifestos on freedom. I expect this is not the last we'll be seeing of these 'duppy conquerors.'"—Sci Fi Weekly (Grade A) on Ragamuffin
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Some of Fair Oaks' finest dining establishments are squaring off in Fair Oaks Patch's first "Best of" 2012 contests.
We'll use the term "fine dining" loosely, as Fair Oaks is home to a number of truly unique and delicious places to enjoy a special night out. Further, you're less than likely to have to worry about a dress code either. These are the kinds of restaurants one might go to celebrate a special occasion, whether that be with your special someone, some good friends and/or the entire family.
We kick off the first in the series of features asking readers to share their thoughts on and experiences with Fair Oaks fine dining.
Here's a list compiled from our directory of local businesses which is based partly on reader-posted reviews and ratings, but if we're leaving any off, please let us know in the comments. Readers can help their favorite restaurant win by rating it, reviewing it and voting for it in our poll.
Voting in the poll below is open until 9 a.m. Friday. Ties will be broken by whichever business has the most positive comments in the section below. We will announce the winner at noon Friday.
So tell us what makes your favorite fine dining restaurant in town the best. And don't forget to tell us in the comments below why.
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It's a nationwide campaign aimed at getting people back in touch with the great British food that's on their doorsteps throughout the land.
The cycle ride will create a 'food-chain' through Great Britain.
Eccentric foodie Tim Keates, tweed-clad and moustachioed, will pick up & drop off delectable samples of Great British food to Great British people as he pedals on his merry way through these islands.
But of course, foreign guests are more than welcome at the celebration! We are proud, not ashamed, to share our national cuisine! – or should that be 'national kitchen'?
So, organic butchers, artisan bakers and box-scheme makers - you are all invited to take part.
The Great British Food Cycle will champion food heroes like you from North to South.
How to get involved!
There are four ways to get involved:
- You can be a cyclist along the route. Join us for an hour, a delivery or as long as you like?
- Be a Producer or Consumer, let us know where we pick up and where we drop off?
- Donator to the charity we are supporting. Thrive – Using gardening to change lives.
- Assist during the event, & make it a success.
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Great British Beer Festival 13-17 Aug @ Olympia, London.
August 15, 2013
Had a very enjoyable afternoon slaking my thirst at this world class event. I met up with my buddy Frank who had flown from German especially for the day. Frank's love is for all things British, so he visits regularly. As far as a tipple goes his chosen poison is a dark mild or a […]More
Work in progress- Route map of Sept 2013 cycle ride
July 24, 2013
Here is work in progress. Route map is coming together 25 artisan and community producers on the map (so to speak). Butchers, watermills, cheese producers, brewers (and brewster) game dealers, fishermen, veg growers. We want 25 more. Box scheme, community kitchens, food groups. Contact me via twitter @gdfoodcycle or email: gbfoodcycle'at'gmail.comMore
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Hello Locavores A quick post to invite you all to a midsummer picnic on Wimbledon Common next Sunday 23rd. Starts at mid-day till 3pm. Head for the Windmill in the center of the Wimbledon Common. We will be situated 300m from the windmill along Windmill Road which is off Wimbledon Parkside. Here is a map […]More


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Brandeis University has contracted with ACE USA and Europ Assistance to provide worldwide travel assistance to all study abroad participants. Europ Assistance USA is a global assistance leader established in 1963 that offers robust services through 850,000 service providers located all over the globe.
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In addition to the coverage provided by your health insurance, ACE has arranged with Europ Assistance USA to provide Brandeis students studying abroad with access to its network of travel services around the world. These include:
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Related to my off-beat, what is WRONG with this woman post the other day, called There's Something More To Blogging, Michael Motherwell takes one of my grunt themes to a different angle. He asks, Is The Web "Dumbing" Everything Down?
I've concluded that the answer is YES, because there is more opportunity for mass exposure due to the Internet. Thus, anyone can participate, even if they're unskilled or uneducated. Opinion outweighs accuracy. And deep down inside, I just can't help but think we're not applying it thoughtfully. We've only touched the surface. There's something more, yet to be discovered and developed. Just my gut feeling…
The X Change Web Analytics Conference has added more speakers and covers a wide range of topics including persuasion architecture, search analytics and attitudinal research in web analytics. Held in September, in California's Napa wine country, this one looks like a tremendously valuable event.
It's a relief to hear from Kalena Jordan, who needed time off for a mysterious medical emergency. She's described her scare in The 3 most beautiful words in the English language. Kal, if you're reading this, I tearfully read your story and rejoice in your good news. Welcome back.
Slick new design for the SearchEngineWatch properties. Yes, people always grump but I like it when the pillows are fluffed up. You get to start over and fall in love with the experience all over again.
Congratulations to Mike Grehan on his appointment as Chair Search Engine Strategies (SES) London 2008 Conference & Expo. The man with the shoehorn has certainly earned the position. (I just know that didn't come out right.)
I am not a good heroine. Not like Hermione Granger, Feminist Role Model. I am weak. At least I was last Saturday. Finally, my pre-ordered Harry Potter book arrived and I did something I very rarely do. I read the last pages first.
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Out of respect for the Yom Kippur holiday, The Kansas City Zoo Run, "Run for the King Penguins" date has changed to Sunday, October 5th, 2014. There is no change to the start times. The 4-Mile event will start at 8:30 am and the 1-Mile Family Fun Run, will start at 9:45am. If you have already signed up, you will be receiving an email to see if you would like to participate on Sunday, October 5th. If you are unable to participate and you let us know by July 16th, you will receive a full refund. We are sorry for any inconvenience the date change may have caused.
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The following are course descriptions for graduate level WRT offerings:
WRT 490: Writing and Rhetoric (3)
Study emphasizing audience, composing processes, and rhetorical theories, including issues relevant to writing professionally. Pre: 360
WRT 512: Studies in Rhetorical Theory (3)
(as taught by Professor Kim Hensley Owens, Fall 2009)
Beginning with a grounding in classical rhetorics, we will read from such well-known authors as Aristotle and Plato, Cicero and Quintilian. We'll also briefly explore selections from Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment rhetorics before moving our focus to modern and postmodern rhetorics, at which point we'll examine the work of such authors as Virginia Woolf, Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Gloria Anzaldúa.
Throughout the course, we'll consider how various theories have influenced and been appropriated by different theorists/authors, how ideas have been translated or transformed over time, and what impact these theories have on the field of rhetoric and composition and on our teaching of writing.
Our foundational text will be Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg's The Rhetorical Tradition, but we'll also include books by contemporary rhetorical theorists, including Ralph Cintron's Angels' Town, Roxanne Mountford's The Gendered Pulpit, Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Rhetoric, Elizabeth Britt's Conceiving Normalcy, and Paul Butler's Out of Style. Additional readings (journal articles and book chapters) will be chosen by seminar participants as part of the exploratory nature of the course.
Seminar participants should expect to read, research, and write regularly, make informal and formal presentations, read and respond to one another's informal and formal writing, and extend and revise shorter writing projects into longer projects. These practices mirror the academic activities professors engage in, recursively revisiting topics and pieces over time for different purposes and audiences
WRT 524: Histories and Theories of Teaching Composition (3)
(as taught by Professor Libby Miles, Fall 2007)
This course will function as an introduction to the field of rhetoric & composition, as seen and experienced through different educational contexts. In a slight departure from the course description, we will explore writing theories and pedagogies by moving back and forth between different historical contexts and our current educational practices.
Along the way, we will read about the exigency of the GI Bill and Open Admissions in shaping the field into what it is today. We will go back in time to rural classrooms, to institutions serving historically under-represented populations, to the elite colleges, and to the legacy of the Land Grant. We will pause for a while in the 1980s, grappling with the different iterations of the "process movement," and then we will move into the present to discern what "post-process" has brought to the conversation. We will look at specific activist rhetorics and community literacy programs, each inscribed in particular historical and social moments.
Your written projects in this class will include designing assignment sequences, analyzing educational artifacts, presenting materials during class discussions, composing exploratory short papers from materials found in the National Archives of Composition & Rhetoric, and writing a seminar-length paper at the culmination of the term.
Teaching experience, although not necessary, will be helpful. Learning experience, however, is a must.
WRT 533: Graduate Writing in Life Sciences (3)
Graduate writing skills for the life and environmental sciences; writing and editing journal articles, proposals; rhetorical analysis of scientific writing. (Lec. 2, Lab. 2) Pre: WRT 104, 105, or 106 or equivalent or permission of instructor; graduate standing or senior status.
WRT 645: Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition (3)
Critical and theoretical conceptions of rhetoric and rhetoricality with varying historical periods and/or connections to cultural studies, literature, and composition studies. Each spring, this class is taught by a different professor, who designs it to reflect his or her current research. Some recent examples are as follows:
- Writing Sustainable Communities: Working at the Intersection of Ecology and Composition Studies, Visitng Professor Matt Ortoleva (Spring 2011)
Sidney Dobrin and Christian Weisser remind us that "human hands have mapped and defined 'natural' places and that no matter how lost in the wild one tries to get, the natural environment is a world constructed and defined by human discourse." But what are the consequences of how we construct and define places and relationships to these places? Oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico? Toxic sludge threatening the Danube? The destruction of fish populations in Narragansett Bay? In this seminar, we will concern ourselves with the role language plays in the construction of ecological relationships to places and how people, through acts of rhetoric and writing, can and do create, challenge, and change ecological relationships to foster healthier, more sustainable communities. We will consider environmental and ecological controversies from a rhetorical perspective and how scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition have, and might continue to, respond to these controversies in productive ways. We will begin by reading scholarship in place studies and environmental rhetoric, and then we will explore ecocompositionÑan emerging theoretical and pedagogical response to ecological apathy. Furthermore, as we consider ecology from a rhetorical perspective, we will also consider rhetoric and writing from an ecological perspective.Throughout the entire seminar, we will consider possible research approaches and methods for studying the everyday rhetorics of places and ecological communities by engaging in the discourses and materiality of our own immediate ecological community: the Narragansett Bay watershed. To this end, we will, through fieldwork, explore and develop local knowledges and analyze everyday rhetorical and literate acts that have material consequences on the bay. In other words, we will practice Òbeing there.Ó Projects for this course include analyzing rhetorical artifacts, keeping fieldnotes and a place journal, discourse and place mapping, and conference papers.
- Writing in the Public Sphere, Professor Linda Shamoon (Spring 2010)
In her article entitled "Rogue Cops and Health Care: What Do We Want from Public Writing," Susan Wells tells the story of a Temple U. student who was stopped by two Philadelphia Police as he walked through a downtown neighborhood. The police accused the young man of running a crack house, beat him up and warned him to stay out of the area. In response, the student filed a citizen's complaint that attracted the attention of the chief of police, who cited the report as a reason that the dept. launched a massive investigation into police misconduct and abuses. Later, Wells realizes that, in fact, many other complaints, media inquiries and other pressures on the police actually led to the extensive investigation. In response, Wells bemoans both the tiny impact that student's—or any individual citizen's–public writing seems to have on public or political processes or problems, but she also cites the dire need for us as rhetoricians and writing teachers to teach public writing so that our students—or any citizen—could actually use their writing to make an impact on problems of social justice and difference.
- In this seminar we will explore public writing and many of the questions prompted by Well's article: What do we want from public writing? What do we mean by public writing? What are the theoretical bases of public writing? What should we teach when teach public writing? In a search for answers, we will review Wells' article and articles by other composition scholars who have contributed to an interesting critical discussion of public writing theory and pedagogy, and we will sample a few of the many disciplinary strands that feed into public sphere theory, sampling from fields as disparate as political science, sociology, women's studies, communications studies, and writing in electronic environments. With every reading we will ask what are the implications for research, writing and teaching in composition studies.
- Rhetorics of/and Reproduction, Professor Kim Hensley Owens (Spring 2009)
This course treats the topics of rhetoric–defined briefly for now as the study of language that produces and responds to material realities–and reproduction jointly and broadly. We will engage with texts that make rhetoric their subject, and we will engage the rhetoric of texts that make reproductive issues their subject. Representative readings include: Nelly Oodshorn's work questioning the rhetorical "sexing" of hormones both sexes possess; Mary M. Lay's rhetorical analysis of the history and contemporary legal status of midwifery; and analyses of breastfeeding discourses by rhetorician Amy Koerber and feminist theorist Alison Bartlett. We will use rhetorical theories to enhance our understanding of these and other texts, of reproduction, and of the rhetorical theories themselves. We'll consider how various texts and concepts function in and for rhetoric and composition, how they function in and for women's studies, and how they matter in and for the world beyond academe.This class takes as its stake the marriage of the material and the rhetorical in issues such as circumcision, gender roles, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Seminar participants should expect to write, read, and discuss weekly reading responses, prepare a proposal appropriate for a conference like "Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s)", write and present a conference-length paper, and extend that paper into a seminar paper of 20-25 pages. This mirrors the academic activity professors engage in, recursively revisiting topics and pieces over time for different purposes and audiences. Participants will also read and respond to one another's conference and seminar paper drafts.
- Beyond First Year Writing, Professor Libby Miles (Spring 2008)
Beyond the first-year writing course, there are vast and fascinating fields of study within Rhetoric & Composition – this seminar invites you to experience some of them. We are most readily identified as the folks who brought you first-year composition, but the intellectual discipline of Rhetoric & Composition has burgeoned in the past 40 years, particularly at Land Grant institutions like URI. On the other hand, there are still pockets of the country, particularly in small colleges, where the field has had little impact at all. This course grew from a study conducted in one such college: a setting in which there is no first-year writing per se, yet an environment utterly infused with writing nonetheless. In 2005-6, Professor Miles conducted naturalistic research of undergraduate students in a writing-saturated, maritime-focused, living-learning community. Her basic research question, "what happens to student writing in this educational environment?" yielded more questions than answers … questions that will be examined – and perhaps answered by you – during this seminar.Themes:
- self-sponsored, extra-curricular, and underlife student writing
- genre theory, particularly appropriated and subversive genres
- "embodied rhetorics" and the physicality of writing practices
- the materiality of writing
- place studies in rhetoric and eco-composition
- research on skills transfer
- histories of the function of disciplines in the university
- economies of writing instruction
- institutional conditions and critique
- histories and theories of WAC and WID (writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines)
- histories and theories of functions for rhetorical education
This will be a course making connections: historical, interdisciplinary, geographic, extracurricular, environmental, physical. At the same time, it will be an opportunity to pursue connections not yet made, paths not yet explored.
Highly recommended pre-requisite: WRT 512
- The Economics of New Literacies, Professor Michael Pennell (Spring 2007)
Whether we call it skills, training, employability, or "digital resilience," as Negroponte did over ten years ago, literacy is central to our current economic situation. And whether we agree that the current economic situation is marked by globalization, post-industrialism, and/or flexible accumulation, we must acknowledge that (knowledge) workers and their portfolio of skills—both real and imagined—are at the forefront of such economic change. This seminar investigates that connection between literacy and economic change, particularly in this new economy filled with new literacies.Education and literacy workers in general have both intentionally and unintentionally created a divide between school and work. Research on literacy education within formal education institutions abounds and, particularly in the field of professional writing, research on workplaces has expanded. Hovering between these two sites of research grows a rather new site, community. However, while community literacy research has initiated and explored the connection between literacy and economic change much of it is undertaken with a pedagogical imperative, many times in the form of service learning. This seminar seeks to problematize those divisions—school, work, and community—by beginning under the assumption that economy and literacy, and those three sites, are always already intertwined.Although we could go back to the American Industrial Revolution for evidence of such a connection, we will rely on the early 1970s as a starting point from which to examine our most recent economic change and the parallel change in what it means to be literate. Besides introducing some of the more popular versions of our most recent economic situation, we will trace the economics of new literacies across various branches of rhetoric and composition such as computers and composition, research methods, and education reports.
WRT 647: Seminar in Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition Studies (3)
Advanced practice in the theory and design of research projects, emphasizing qualitative and quantitative studies. May include archival research, teacher-research, ethnographies, case studies, interviews, surveys, experiments, and discourse analyses. (Seminar) Pre: graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3)
WRT 691: Independent Study in Rhetoric (1-3)
Advanced study of an approved topic in Rhetoric and Writing Studies under the supervision of a graduate faculty member. Pre: permission of WRT graduate director. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.
WRT 999: Methods of Teaching College Writing (0)
Materials and multiple methods of teaching writing on the college level.


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Zonnebeke Things to Do
New in 2004: Dugout experience
In 2004 from 25th of April a new museum is opening it's doors. In it - one says - the visitor can experience the hell that soldiers had to o through in the tranches. The memorial museum Passchendaele will also explane everything in detail of the heavy battle that took place in September to November 1917 in which the allied forces advanced forward...more
Tyne Cot cemetery.
The battlefields of Flanders, in the 1914-1918 World War created, in just this one place (and there are many more cemeteries in Flanders):35000 names of missing men on the Memorial Wall.Nearly 12000 headstones of Allied soldiers. Most of them are of unidentified men.........'known unto God', as their headstones say.White Portland stone was imported...more
Passchendaele Memorial Museum
Well worth visiting, even if you are not specifically on a battlefield tour/exploration.The museum is housed in a mansion (1920s), with a rather lovely water-lilied lake. Inside you'll find displays and artefacts from the First World War battlefields in the area, and a good re-creation of a British dugout.It will, I guarantee, make you think and...more
Visit the Memorial Museum (4)
Visit the Memorial Museum Another "experience" interesting is the visit of the journey was moving trenches in the museum cellars. One meet again in the middle of restored scenes: commandantuur, infirmary, transmissions, dormitories... A small idea of what was the life to the forehead without the noises, humidity, the pong... ---oooOOOooo--- Une...more
Visit the Memorial Museum (3)
Visit the Memorial Museum A room is devoted to the known used gasses in the region for the first time. A device is installed so that the visitor can smell the odours of 4 different gasses of which it famous Ypérite. Of course they are here inoffensive but I must say that I was sharply emotional and uncomfortable of the experience and especially of...more
Visit the Memorial Museum (2)
Visit the Memorial Museum Besides many photos, one finds here a lot of windows and explanatory panels. Often grouped together by theme, the visitor will be able to see and discover among others of the elements of uniforms of the different bodies of weapons in presence. ---oooOOOooo--- Outre de nombreuses photos, on trouve ici plein de vitrines et...more
Visit the Memorial Museum (1)
Visit the Memorial Museum The museum gives a life impression to the forehead during the countries of Ypres (there been some three) between 1914 and 1918. Many photos allow you to see places of the regions. Can will have you the time to return you in these places (as for example Dixmude/Dixmuide) in order to realize you the reconstruction (often in...more
Regional museum
Zonnebeke also has it's own museum. one that explanes about the history of this village and it's surroundings. Special attention in this museum, that is also partly outside in wonderful old houses, to the two abbeys that dominated this vicinity in medieval times. They were founded around 1100 and raided by the independance fighters in 1580...more
Zonnebeke castle gardens
In the centre of Zonnebeke one can also visit something non world war relative things. The attraction even before the war has always been the gardens of the castle Zonnebeke. This castle, situated near the springs of a small river (the Sun creek or in Dutch Zonne beek), is open for public and the castle has been rebuilt in Normandian style. It is...more
Saint-Charles de Potyze (part 2)
The special thing on Saint-Charles de Potyze cemetry is definately the fact that all the crosses here are simply made of wood. Nor British nor German cemetries have this, though the German cemetries immediately after the war as well had wood as basic material for the graves. On the french cemetry one also sees a dark statue of a "Pieta" from...more
Saint-Charles de Potyze (part 1)
This is one of the largest French cemetries on the Flanders Fields frontline. 4.000 souls are resting here, of whome 600 are in a mass grave, at the far side of the cemetry because they were not identified. The French closed the Northern part of the Ieper Saillant section and then covered the frontline along Diksmuide towards the North Sea (helped...more
Known unto God
Walking over the tyne Cot cemetry (as well as over all other cemetries) one must notice the shocking amount of gravestones that bare the text "Known unto God". These graves are containing the remains of a brave soldier that was not identified after being found. One must imagine that in no-man's land many men died or even worse, fell wounded to...more
Tyne Cot Cemetry (part 3)
Inscribed in the "Stone of Remembrance" is always the text "Their name liveth for ever more". This sentence was chosen by Rudyard Kipling (nobelpricewinner and autor of "Jungle Book"). He lost his only son in the first world war, who's body also was never retreived.The cemetry is however somewhat different as for it's extra buildings. Little dome...more
Tyne Cot Cemetry (part 2)
Tyne Cot cemetry has however few other items. First and above all there is the long stretched wall curving at the higher side of the cemetry. It encloses a whole side and exists of numerous plates filled with names. Here are the 34.957 names of fallen soldiers that fell after the 16th of August 1917 and are not burried in holy soil as their bodies...more
Tyne Cot Cemetry (part 1)
Near Zonnebeke, on top of a small hill, one can find the largest Commen Wealth military cemetry on mainland Europe. Here 11.956 soldiers are burried among which many in graves with the text "Known unto God only", which means their bodies have never been found or identified. The cemetry is huge and the white gravestones - so typical for all common...more
Zonnebeke Transportation
Zonnebeke is one of many stops along the "In Flanders Fields" car route. This 82 kilometers long drive through and around Ieper shows all mayor sites that are connected to the fierce battles around here in between 1914 and 1918. It is available through internet on the website of Westtoer as well as in the local tourist informations.
Zonnebeke Local Customs
Many buildings in Zonnebeke have been restored in original style. Therefor the centre of the village is a mix of modern and old fashioned looking buildings. The church is modern, with a straight belltower alongside it's ship. Across the street however there's the former boardingschool Saint Lucas, in wonderful neo-classic styles.
Zonnebeke Off The Beaten Path
Australian 5th Division Memorial
Australian 5th Division Memorial Situated to a highly strategic point, the Polygon bos or Polygon wood, called equally Den Doel, (the goal, in does popular translation of "The Buttes" name employed by the military officers AFTER the memorial construction) to is the object of violent fight notably in September 1917 and spring 1918. Today, a mound...more
New Zealand War Mémorial
New Zealand War Memorial October 4th 1917, the troops New Zealanders attack the German positions with a "beautiful" success according to the order: An impressive number of deaths with the enemy, 1200 prisoners and... "only" a fifth one of the attacks (Neo Zealanders) lost. Strong of this succeeds, the état-major send back them October 12 to the...more
Catholic past, Catholic present
Through worldwars and revolutions. Through independancy battles and foreign occupation. Flanders is Catholic and will stay Catholic. The churches maybe geting emptier each year, but outside many things remember of this relgion. Crosses, chapels and statues on many corners and junctions.more
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Gentle Ghost: back and bloodier than ever!
Gentle Ghost's continuing collaboration with Delo Creative on the "Be Nice to Your Kids" video series has yielded not one, but two (!) visual accompaniments for new songs. Check out "Dark Parts," a nuanced, five-minute track that changes pace a couple different times and has a cool "cut out the heart" lyric, apropos for all the dried blood that's all over the place.
This one doesn't include a keyboard and is a little less urgent than "
," which we first heard last week, but the songwriting has a bit stronger, more present narrative to it, I think. Watch:
by Matt Carney
01.10.2012 2 years ago
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Odds and ends
New local tunes, info on that Polyphonic Spree show, and a free Flaming Lips documentary.
OKSee got sick last week — the doctor said it was a sinus infection, although I was hoping for "Cat Scratch Fever"— and in so doing, fell woefully behind the times. So here I am catching back up with Oklahoma music-centric news and notes from the last week. Let's get to it.
First up, we've got a couple of hip-hop mixtapes — both from Tulsa rappers, sure enough — that you can cop for free on these here Internets. First is P.D.A.'s "Occupy Hollywood" ...
Occupy Hollywood by P.D.A.
... and next is aDDLib's "99% of My Fans Wear High Heels."
99% of My Fans Wear High Heels by aDDLib
Secondly, Other Lives, now a major thing outside our humble borders, are playing shows in Oklahoma City and Tulsa before month's end. The Stillwater indie band graces the Blue Note on the 27th, so be sure to snag your tickets ($12) as far in advance as possible. As in,
right now
Coincidentally, they also recently announced a headlining date at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City
Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif. Awesomesauce.
Thirdly, it appears that Pitchfork has inaugurated a new video series titled "Classic," with a documentary about our own balloon-busting, psychedelic-rocking, jelly-not-using Flaming Lips. Specifically, it's about their 1999 opus, "The Soft Bulletin," and I can personally say it's pretty compelling stuff, especially if you still think that "The Spiderbite Song" isn't about mainlining heroin.
Watch the 45-minute doc over at Pitchfork
Fourthly, The Polyphonic Spree is returning to Norman! The last time the group was here, it headlined the inaugural Norman Music Festival on an adequately sized stage. This time, at 8 p.m. Feb. 7, the Tim DeLaughter-led band's 20-plus members intend to pack Opolis. I think at this point, if
Girl Talk can play a show there
, anybody can.
Here are a few details:
• New Fumes are opening.
• Only 150 tickets are available.
• The first set of tickets goes on sale tomorrow at all three Guestroom Records locations.
• Tickets are $25 each, cash only.
• Fifteen pairs of tickets will be given away from The Spy FM Spywagon at various locations throughout the OKC/Norman area on Friday, Jan. 13. Follow
on Twitter to find out when and where.
Fifthyly, but surely not leastly, Samantha Crain has a brand-new 7-inch single out. It's produced by Mr. John Vanderslice and is positively lovely.
Snag "A Simple Jungle" and "The Dam Song" at her website
Other Lives photo by James Rhodes
by Matt Carney
01.10.2012 2 years ago
at 02:00 PM |
Lemma — Lemma
Matt Carney
Lemma's self-titled full-length crackles to life with a big ol' baritone and spaghetti-Western guitar — a brief harbinger of a rock album that draws its influence from a wide range of artists, R.E.M. chief among them.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Free music for you from The Rapture, Laura Gibson and a bunch of artists in ol' Norman-town.
Economy — "Winter Recording Fiasco"
I have no idea what Economy is, nor anything more about the "Winter Recording Fiasco" than what the musical collective posted to its Bandcamp page, but judging by that information, it's the Zanzibar! Records folks exploring their weirdness.
These songs are droning and creepy, pulsing with what sounds like bass keyboard and rhythmic lyrics like "keep the species alive." They're also topical enough to title a song after a certain dictator of North Korea, recently deceased.
Winter Recording Fiasco by Economy
The Rapture — "Sail Away" remixes
While The Rapture's full-length fell a little more flat than I'd hoped, it had a couple of standout singles, and "Sail Away" was one of them. Cut Copy gives a signature tribal contribution, Aeroplane's starts out sparse before blowing up into a full-on house rave, and Cosmic Kids win the award for choppiest chop-up. Their spacier, hypnotic take, complete with long-echoing, mixed-up vocals is about as different from the original as you can get. Thanks, DFA Records!
Laura Gibson — "La Grande"
Plaintive, pretty singer/songwriter Laura Gibson visits Opolis in February with Breathe Owl Breathe. Take this opportunity from NPR to get to know her.
Josh Sallee — "Ride Out"
What immediately grabbed me about this song was the cheesy, Grandma-giving-the-thumbs-up art, which initially triggered what I call a "whack-novelty" reaction deep within my brain. Then the track kicked in and I got all excited for his forthcoming album, "Probably Flaws." Dude's got skill, and it's fun listening to him dance around the melody on the "
Birthday Sex
" sample. As solid a local hip-hop track as I've heard in a while.
by Matt Carney
01.16.2012 2 years ago
at 08:00 AM |
The Flaming Lips to collaborate with Ke$ha
'The Blah Blah Blah Song,' anybody?
Last week, Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne revealed that the band was putting the finishing touches on its latest project, a collaborative album bundling together work with artists including the likes of Bon Iver, Nick Cave, Edward Sharpe, Yoko Ono and more to be released on Record Store Day. He further stated that the band was hoping to team up with still more artists like Lykke Li, Erykah Badu and … Ke$ha.
It looks like one of those names is about to be checked off the list.
Mack Hawkins — sound engineer and drummer for The Non — revealed on Facebook Monday night that he is headed to Nashville, Tenn., this weekend to engineer and co-produce a track with The Flaming Lips and slut-pop quasi-rapper Ke$ha.
"We knew that she was a fan," Coyne told Rolling Stone. "There are a lot of these sort of druggy outlets out there that people get connected through. She's a freak."
Coyne also said he hopes to do some sort of "weird rap" for the track.
Singer/rapper/glitter enthusiast Ke$ha rose to fame in 2010 on the heels of chart-toppers "Tik Tok," "Blah Blah Blah" and "We R Who We R." She is currently working on her second full-length album, set for release in early summer.
Photo by Matt Carney
by Joshua Boydston
01.17.2012 2 years ago
at 09:00 AM |
OKS Chatter: Matt Moran
The singer for new Altus band The Typist chats about keeping up with music culture in southwest Oklahoma.
It's tough work doing everything yourself.
Living in Altus, the post-pop-punkers known as The Typist do a lot of music-related things themselves (read on for more about that), and that includes purchasing and operating their own recording equipment. Turns out, they did that quite well.
There's a lot of enthusiasm in "Midwestern High Life"'s 10 tracks — specifically, the big-rock keyboard melodies, but also in the earnest, aggressively sung and shouted lyrics that mourn busted-up relationships and reconcile the future against the prospect of leaving where you grew up and fell in love (see: "Midwest").
Singer Matt Moran was nice enough to answer a few questions about the birth of his band and what it's like recording music in a place like Altus. Read on, and be sure to give "Midwestern High Life" a listen, below.
The Typist plays The Conservatory tomorrow night with
Frank Smith
and O Fidelis.
How did you guys set up this show with Frank Smith and O Fidelis?
Matt Moran:
We've got a little bit of a history playing The Conservatory with old bands. I was also in a band that played with O Fidelis at the benefit for the UCO Jazz Lab a little while back. That's how we got that going.
What other bands have you guys played in?
Our bassist, Patrick [Bellamy], and I were in You'd Prefer an Astronaut, which was a post-rock band that was in the vein of This Will Destroy You-type music. I've been in a few older punk bands from a
that played Conservatory. It was a pretty youth-punk-type deal.
How did The Typist come to be?
I'd been in and out of bands, and I started doing stuff on my own. I'd been doing it for a while and I decided, "Y'know, I should probably start recording and playing new songs for people." So I recorded a short little EP — five songs, acoustic — but I realized that I was just meant to do the band thing. I got help from my friends Justin [Strickland, drummer] and Patrick, we started playing the songs and then decided we needed to write songs
as a band
, and get everybody involved. We came up with an album's worth of material, so we decided to record it.
We were like, "Well, we can go to a studio and lay this down," but we decided that we wanted to take the time we wanted to take and not be limited by studio money. So we threw all our money together, bought some recording gear and spent the last two and a half months recording it, day in and day out.
We didn't even actually add our keyboard player — who's my brother, Daniel [Moran] — until last month. He came in and laid down a lot of keyboard parts, and as soon as he was finished, we just looked at him and said, "You've got no option; you have to be in this band. You just completed it. You made everything sound twice as good."
What did Daniel bring with his keyboard? Was he playing a lot of riff-type stuff, or what?
He was doing a lot of Hammond organ stuff. I happen to be a religious follower of Charles Gillingham of the Counting Crows, and my brother came in and did that type of thing. He nailed it.
Do you guys all live in Altus?
Yes, except for Daniel. He lives an hour north, in Elk City.
What are some of the challenges of living and recording down in the southwest?
I guess the biggest challenge is just playing as much as you can. Down here — most people don't know this — we actually have a pretty good music scene. It has a very DIY aesthetic about it. Everything we do, living in Altus, we have to do everything ourselves. If we want to get a show together, it's the old DIY thing of finding a place, renting it out, getting a sound system, getting everything together yourself, promoting it as much as you can, and trying to do all that.
We like to come up and play in the city as much as we can, because we feel like it's one of the really good places to be. For so many reasons, we remain here, but we try to make the best of what we got. I think it instills a good work ethic into us.
What sorts of venues do you guys play in for shows in Altus?
We've done all sorts of shit. We usually rent empty halls out and put it on, but we've done house shows. I've done a show in a storage shed, which was actually a pretty fun time. We packed about 50 people into it.
That's impressive. Do you guys have something like a record store down there?
We don't have a record store, but we have a really awesome music store that's actually helped us out a bunch. Our drummer works there, and they've really helped us out and backed us up.
How do you stay up with new music?
Largely the Internet. We've got friends who are way more into that than we are. I go to Size Records every time I'm in the city, but otherwise, we've got to keep up with it online.
Through the Internet, you've got just as much access as me at my desk or somebody in New York or whatever. Do you feel it's a big enabler for you guys, like you have the same opportunity as anybody else?
Yes, definitely. That hits the nail on the head. It's kind of an equalizer for us. It's not like we can go up and socialize with people as much as we want to, or go to the places we want to go on a regular basis. We have to socialize and keep up with music online, then make the trip when we can.
What are the biggest limitations in being physically removed from the music scene in OKC, where you'd like to be more involved?
Mainly, it puts a limit on the camaraderie you can have. It's a small social network that we have, and you don't get to connect with people as much as you like to. When you can't have that regular connection, it makes it difficult.
How does that frustration factor into you guys' music?
Because of the tighter circle, we all know each other — musically — really well. You've got limited resources and limited people to make things happen with, so you really get to know each other. You grow to be a family.
Our drummer, he's an incredible drummer. When he tells me something, I know exactly where he's coming from, what he's talking about. There's nothing that ever gets lost in translation from instrument to instrument, player to player, or whatever.
If you had to sit down and talk it out as a band, what band would you say informed your music directly?
Like our biggest influence? I'd have to say probably a band like Manchester Orchestra. Very direct rock 'n' roll with Southern sound and a distinct keyboard.
Who wrote the lyrics? You?
Yeah, that was me. It was an interesting feeling to write all the lyrics for a record.
Had you never done that before?
I had, just mostly for my personal music before. Never with a band.
So were you apprehensive going into it?
It honestly did, because these other guys are really great musicians. I didn't want to do them a disservice. I didn't want them to walk away thinking, "This should change, that should change."
Did anybody else in the band try to offer advice on the lyric-writing, or do they understand it to be your thing?
They leave it to me, but they're very free with the advice on the vocal melodies.
Listen to The Typist's first album, "Midwestern High Life," below. You can download it for $5.
Midwestern High Life by The Typist
by Matt Carney
01.20.2012 2 years ago
at 09:10 AM |
Which Oklahoma bands made the cut for this year's SXSW festival?
Congratulations are in order for a handful of local bands named to the official South by Southwest festival schedule this week! They are:
Jacob Abello
The Boom Bang
Defining Times
Junebug Spade
The Non
(guitarist Zach Zeller pictured)
Horse Thief
Looking forward to seeing and hearing you guys represent the north side of the Red River well! Feel free to check out
the rest of the bands listed at the SXSW site
Former OKSee skipper Stephen Carradini and I will in Austin, Texas, next month (next month, you guys!), possibly with regular
contributor Joshua Boydston, whose press credentials we're waiting to receive. We'll be crawling all over town to bring you recaps and photos from these and other bands' sets, so be sure to check back with OKSee and
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by Matt Carney
02.01.2012 2 years ago
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Lots of locals in this week's edition of cost-nothing listening, including Two Suns, Dr. Pants and O Fidelis.
O Fidelis — "Mad World"
Normally, married Okie folkers' songs occupy the opposite side of the emotional spectrum as this 1982 Tears for Fears track (which you might recall that Gary Jules covered for the cult film "
Donnie Darko
"), but this cover suits them quite nicely, I think.
Dr. Pants — "Calling Chewbacca"
Don't neglect to read
the story
behind this one. It's a doozy.
<a href="http://drpants.bandcamp.com/track/calling-chewbacca">Calling Chewbacca by Dr. Pants</a>
Two Suns — "Not the End" and "Nostalgic"
"Dream Familiar," the debut LP from Jake Davidson's Norman recording project Two Suns, is now up to five tracks available for listening in his ongoing-release model. Check 'em out, as well as
our review
of the entire record.
<a href="http://twosunsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dream-familiar">Dream Familiar by Two Suns</a>
Larry Chin — "Days and Nights"
While not a new song, this dreamy, drippy guitar track from Kyle Mayfield (né Larry Chin) is now available for free download, with the message that he's working on a new EP. Gives a new meaning to the phrase "chin music." Anyway, this one gives a local lease on the excellent major indie band Real Estate.
Jack White — "Love Interruption"
Let's just say I liked Jack White better when he sported red and white and distorted blues guitar. This clarinet-blue-shaving-thing just isn't working out for me.
Dr. Dog — "Be the Void"
OKSee's groovier, hippie tendencies got really excited last week when we found out
Delo Creative shot the video
for the first single on this record. With the whole album now available to hear, we're happier than a dog off his leash.
Shearwater — "Animal Joy"
Looking for a high-concept indie record about nature? Look no further.
Air— "Le Voyage Dans La"
This first track "Astronomic Club" goes from sounding like My Morning Jacket's weird single "Holding On to Black Metal" into some kind of oddball spaghetti Western twang. Welcome back, Air.
Fucked Up — "Zodiac"
A couple of rare tracks from Canadian hardcore sextet about the Chinese zodiac. Nifty.
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02.06.2012 2 years ago
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Silly love songs
With Valentine's Day on the immediate horizon, local artists share their go-to tunes for loving tender. Or, y'know, gettin' your freak on.
Joshua Boydston
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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First in a three speaker series, a pioneer in the art of using recycled materials in cutting-edge garden design, Matthew Levesque is the program director and master of recycled art at the nonprofit San Francisco company Building Resources and the Red Shovel Glass Company. He has appeared on HGTV, the Discovery Channel, the San Francisco CBS affiliate, and other local broadcasts. His book, The Revolutionary Yardscape, is now in its second printing.
Have you designed and built garden projects using repurposed materials? Bring them to share! We'll have small objects and photographs of larger projects on display as he presents "The Revolutionary Yardscape: Creative Solutions for Garden Design".
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It's been an intense few months for Spirit AeroSystems CEO Larry Lawson, who joined the company in April 2013.
"I've had my head down for the last 10 months," Lawson said.
"We were undergoing a strategic review, which we just wrapped up. Thank goodness. I gained 10 pounds," he quipped.
Lawson and his wife moved to Wichita from Texas, where he served as a senior executive at Lockheed Martin.
Lawson was the keynote speaker Tuesday at the Wichita Aero Club's luncheon at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel at the Wichita Airport.
Spirit is unique because the cost of its products, including the engineering and manufacturing costs, are attractive when compared to its competitors, which are the prime contractors themselves, he said.
The company employs 10,800 locally with a payroll of $870 million. It spends $664 million a year with about 360 Kansas suppliers.
Its 10 largest Kansas suppliers are Alcoa, Atlas Aerospace, Brittain Machine, Cox Machine, Ducommun Aerostructures, Exacta Aerospace, FMI, GKN Aerospace Precision Machining, TECT Aerospace in Wellington and Valent Aerostructures.
Eighty percent of Spirit's business is on large, mature programs for Boeing and Airbus. The remaining 20 percent is derived from new development programs, Lawson said.
"We've been digesting those," he said.
The company's biggest challenge has been in the new programs. "We're trying to reduce the investment piece and improve the financials," Lawson said.
Although some of the new programs have been a struggle, they're done with good quality and at low costs, he said.
Spirit has been working to bring up production rates to meet Boeing's record production schedules.
Production will reach the increased rate of 42 737s a month later in February.
Spirit builds the 737's fuselage in Wichita.
Building at those record rates makes for a fast-moving factory.
"It's moving a lot of metal," he said. "It's bucking rivets and a lot of robotics."
Spirit hired 500 people last summer to help get to the increased rate.
It's still hiring, but at a more modest rate, Lawson said after his speech.
"We try to work our costs; we have to work our overhead at the same time that we're addressing higher rates," Lawson said. "You go out to our World War II factory and see our investments in the infrastructure."
There are modern robotics on a large scale helping take production to the next level, he said.
Spirit also is working with composites as it builds the forward fuselage to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.
It starts with a quarter inch of carbon fiber wound on a mandrel, Lawson said.
Boeing's specially modified 747, the Dreamlifter, flies to Wichita to pick up the 787 sections and then takes them to Everett, Wash., for assembly.
Spirit was recently recognized by Boeing as a top performer on the program because of its on-time record, Lawson said.
Long-term, growth in the commercial aviation market is a lift for Spirit.
Boeing currently has a seven-year backlog of commercial airline orders.
The long cycle in commercial aviation attracts investors, Lawson said.
Spirit also is fortunate to be on defense programs, such as the forward section for the KC-46 tanker for the Air Force, the P-8A for the Navy and the Sikorsky CH-53K for the Marine Corps.
It also recently entered into an agreement with Bell Helicopter to build the fuselage on a prototype V-280 helicopter for the Army.
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The winners have been chosen and will be notified today through email, as well as via YouTube, just in time to play it on it's release day!
The Giveaway has ended! Thank you so much to all who participated.
The winners have been chosen and will be notified today through email, as well as via YouTube, just in time to play it on it's release day!
Ah, it's been awhile since we've updated the site. To be honest, now that we don't have to update this daily, it often slips my mind. Nonetheless the site is important in many ways. One of those ways is that this is where you awesome people helped me be able to purchase a professional microphone for my videos. This has saved me so much time on editing, and has allowed me to produce more and higher quality content. We will be switching to something for Weasel next, once we figure out what that man needs. Any donation will still be processed and will be greatly appreciated.
I don't know how to thank you guys, honestly. I made a Vlog, but truly there is no way for me to thank you the way I want to. It's so unbelievable that there are so many kind people out there willing to help, and it's even crazier because none of you know me that well, if at all.
You guys have helped way more than just donating. Your continuous support helps me to be encouraged to continue what I do, and it helps me grow. Everyone needs support, and I am glad I have you awesome people.
Before I ramble too much, I'd like to say thank you to all who donated, and to all to continue to support our cause. I leave you with this stupid Vlog, and bid you all a fantastic day.
To those who have been following the site, thank you. Your interest and support is very much appreciated by both myself and Sven. On that note, you may have noticed a slight change in the layout and the content of this site. There were some issues internally that had corrupted some of the services/plug-ins being used by the site. One in particular that made a huge difference is the one related to importing our videos from our YouTube channels.
So, as you may have guessed, we will no longer be posting our videos to this site. There are many reasons why we were a little unsure about the idea of importing the videos from the beginning. We originally wanted more depth than just a place for developers to request a video of their game, so we came up with that idea. The cons were primarily the time needed to edit tags and descriptions, the necessity of it considering they were direct rips from YT, and so on.
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Some pieces of music are beloved for a reason – they're just plain delightful to the ear, especially in the accomplished hands of an artist such as Aviram Reichert. An audience favorite at Music in the Mountains, he is performing several times in this, the 26th season, beginning with the Alpenglow fundraiser at the Glacier Club on July 9.
Reichert, you may recall, was the bronze medalist at the 1997 Van Cliburn International Competition, and the pianist who performed the hat trick of playing three Mozart concerti for Music in the Mountains first official recording.
Reichert began a magical evening of music with Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," a piece that has been popular since its début in 1801. (Its official name is Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2.)
Five years after Beethoven's death, poet and music critic Ludwig Rellstab likened the first movement of the sonata to "moonlight on Lake Lucerne," an allusion that has endured to this day. (But not without some controversy. Critics have found the title unfitting for a piece they describe as more akin to "a funeral march." Perhaps The Gramophone classical music magazine co-founder Sir Compton Mackenzie said it best when he said he found the title "harmless." What these austere critics fail to grasp is that unless the general public had responded to the suggestion of moonlight in this music, Rellstab's remark would long ago have been forgotten." Mackenzie was quite a character, having been a spy in Greece during World War I and serving as president of both the Croquet Association and the Siamese Cat Club at various times.) And here endeth the music lesson.
The piece was particularly magical with the moon shining over the San Juan Mountains that evening – maybe not Lake Lucerne, but anyone who says that isn't a gorgeous view is blind or a Philistine.
Perhaps as a bit of a poke at those music critics who call the "Moonlight Sonata" more of a funeral march, Reichert decided to play a real funeral march for his second piece. Frédéric Chopin's Sonata No. 2, Op. 35, "Marche Funebre."
My mother, Kathy Butler, was a tremendous fan of classical music, and I did a lot of homework to a soundtrack of Beethoven and Chopin. There's nothing like a live performance to remind us just how grand the music is.
A great deal of the fun was listening to Reichert talk about the pieces he had chosen. That kind of passion is infectious.
Bruce Weiss, the director of real estate at the Glacier Club, welcomed the 90 guests to the event. (They had originally set the limit at 80 people, but they allowed another 10 before calling it a sold-out smash.)
Bridget Risenhoover once again coordinated an event with some delicious food. The fresh peach slices wrapped in prosciutto, grilled and drizzled with balsamic vinegar were one of the most delicious bites I've enjoyed all year. Also on the menu were coconut shrimp with orange dipping sauce; Parmesan crisps with smoked trout and lemon-thyme cream; Thai-chicken endive cups; three different kinds of raw oysters on the half shell with grappa mignonette; sweet potato chips with house-cured pork belly and sweet onion ragoűt; and candied lemon slices with smoked scallop mousse and chive pesto.
The Glacier Club has committed to holding several events each year for Music in the Mountains, and it's definitely one of my favorite venues in the area. It was a splendid start to the season.
Reichert also will be playing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in C, Op. 26 at 5 p.m. Saturday and a chamber concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, both at the Festival Tent at Durango Mountain Resort, so there are more chances to catch this festival veteran.
For those interested in seeing Reichert in his teaching mode, there has been a change in schedule for his master class. It will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Roshong Recital Hall inside Jones Hall at Fort Lewis College. Admission is free to the class.
One other quick note: Pops Night at 5:30 p.m. today at DMR features the music of Frank Sinatra with Steve Lippia. Because of a miscount, four seats opened Tuesday. If you're a fan of "Ol' Blue Eyes," this is a do-not-miss event. Call the festival office at 385-6820 to snag a pair.
Breaking out their umbrellas for their birthdays (Hurray!) are Jenna Baker, BillBorgers, P.J. Golbricht, Brian Shafer, James Somsen, Donna Stone, JesseDeNier, Tracey Palmer, Bob Vialpondo, Margaret Hjermstad, Charlie Arbaugh, Charles Williams, Cissy Anderson, Ken Fusco, Lora Woods and HollyNewby.
While I'm on the topic of Music in the Mountains, I should mention its Wine Raffle. Stan and Alice Crapo, who keep many nonprofit events well-lubricated with products from their business Star Liquors year-round, have once again stepped to the plate, donating a $2,400 gift certificate for the raffle winner.
Music in the Mountains Board President Terry Bacon said he calculated that to come out to 40 cases of Wild Turkey, but what it really comes out to is some great parties for your friends, an excellent start to assembling a wine cellar, some extremely fine hostess gifts or maybe just the best-stocked liquor cabinet in town. And a tremendous support for the classic musical festival.
Tickets are $20 each and six for $100. (Go in on some tickets with a group of friends to increase your chances and share the booty.)
Here's where and when you can get 'em: From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the week at the Music in the Mountains office, 1063 Main Ave.; half an hour before concerts and during intermission at the festival tent at DMR and at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College; from 4 to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at Star Liquors; from 4 to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturday afternoons at Kroegers Ace Hardware; and from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays at north City Market.
Now come on, they're making it easy for you to fit it in your schedule, so no excuses! And don't wait until the last minute – they're only selling 1,500 tickets, which makes the odds way better – and the drawing is at 5 p.m. Aug. 3 during a wine tasting where else but at Star Liquors.
Maybe they should call it a Potent Potable (just like the "Jeopardy" category) Raffle. I'm just saying.
Saturday has several cool events on offer. The Victorian Aid Society is holding its second Old-Fashioned Picnic complete with croquet. (Hmm, the second mention of croquet in one column – it must be the season.)
The picnic will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Rotary Park. Bring your own lunch and some moolah so you can buy a homemade pie and ice cream for dessert at the bake sale.
Last year, Darla Hill scandalously wore an 1890s swimdress to cool off in the Animas River. Will she do it again this year? You'll have to go to find out.
Also on Saturday, Durango Friends of the Arts is holding its first Artists Market, and it sounds like its has a winner right out of the gate. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Edgemont Picnic Grounds. The picnic grounds are only six miles outside of town, but they're a world away in terms of beauty, making it a great place to spend a summer Saturday.
They're easy to find. Just head out Florida Road, which becomes County Road 240. The picnic grounds are on the right shortly after you pass all the entrances to Edgemont Ranch and Edgemont Highlands.
More than 40 artists will be displaying the results of their creative labors, including Mary Ellen Long and Diane Welle with her spectacular hats. There will be live music, food and drinks for sale and a kids area for artful play, including painting.
Admission is free. Oh, and no dogs are allowed.
Nothing says happy anniversary like dancing in the rain for Terry and Toni Senters and John and Cherie Hughes.
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S.D. officer accused of attack keeps job, receives reprimand
June 16, 2006
San Diego police Sgt. Martha Sainz, who was accused of physically attacking a subordinate officer in front of children at a camp in August, has prevailed in her appeal to keep her job.
During a private hearing recently, Sainz gave her side of the story and convinced Assistant Chief Joel Bryden that his initial decision to fire her was too harsh, said sources familiar with the case. Bryden converted the firing to a reprimand.
Sainz is fighting the reprimand and seeking a promotion to lieutenant, which she believes was unfairly withheld because of the controversy surrounding the camp incident, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because personnel matters are confidential.
Bryden and Chief William Lansdowne declined to comment. Neither Sainz nor her husband, San Diego police Officer Jim Stevens, returned calls seeking comment. Her lawyer, Donovan Jacobs, also declined to comment.
Sainz's father-in-law, retired San Diego police Lt. Ed Stevens, reviewed the Internal Affairs report on the incident and pointed out problems that helped Sainz's case, according to the sources.
Stevens confirmed this week that he read the report but declined to say more. All everybody wanted from the get-go was fair play and justice, he said.
Sainz has been on maternity leave and it's unclear when she will return or what her assignment will be, the sources said.
Sainz was served with papers in January indicating that she was being terminated in connection with the incident at a safety-patrol camp for sixth-graders on Palomar Mountain.
Witnesses told The San Diego Union-Tribune that Sainz reacted badly when she unwittingly sat on a wet sponge in front of scores of campers and realized she had been the victim of a prank.
The witnesses said Sainz attacked the subordinate officer, Stacee Botsford, putting her in a headlock, punching and choking her. Botsford, who was not seriously injured, did not return calls seeking comment.
After the incident, Sainz, a 14-year veteran, was temporarily reassigned from her post in the Juvenile Administration Unit to an administrative post in the domestic violence squad.
Under the department's disciplinary system, firings are not effective until appeals within the department are exhausted.
Officials aren't talking about it, but many officers said they are confused and incensed that Sainz's punishment has been reduced to a reprimand, which means the incident will be noted in her personnel file and could impact her ability to be promoted.
I think the majority of the people close to this investigation as witnesses are outraged at this turn of events and it will be very interesting to see how she can supervise, said an officer familiar with the case.
Sainz filed a lawsuit in February before her termination was reversed alleging that the city and the department violated her rights by withholding information that would exonerate her. She sought unspecified damages and a promotion which she said she was about to receive when the incident occurred.
In the lawsuit, Sainz's lawyer wrote that her response to the prank getting Botsford wet with the sponge was acceptable horseplay and not violent. The suit also said Botsford was bruised not by Sainz, but while playing on a water slide at a pool party four days before the incident at camp.
The lawsuit criticized the Internal Affairs report, saying witnesses did not back its conclusions that Sainz hit Officer Botsford with her hands, knees and elbows, and attempted to place her in a chokehold.
The Internal Affairs investigator, Sgt. David Contreras, did not return calls seeking comment. Deputy City Attorney Michael McGowan also declined to comment because the case is still pending.
Bill Farrar, a veteran officer who in his previous role as president of the San Diego Police Officers Association became familiar with the disciplinary process, said he is not aware of the facts of this case. But for a chief to reverse his decision, the accused officer must have offered up a compelling reason, he said.
Obviously something didn't stand up. Or, Bryden listened and said even if this is true, it isn't worthy of termination. That's the beauty of the review process. It's a process we value in terms of having a second or even third chance of review, Farrar said.
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Original recipe yields 2 1/2 dozen
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet or line it with parchment paper.
- Whisk sugar, flour, and salt; set aside.
- In separate bowl, beat egg white until stiff. Fold sugar mixture into stiffened egg white. Add pecans and vanilla. Stir gently.
- Drop by teaspoonfuls onto prepared baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven until browned, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool 5 minutes on baking sheet, then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
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Good recipe for people who love pecans! I was not sure how this would turn out but they are good. Very much like a praline candy. Easy to make and few ingredients. Also I used only 1/2 cup of the new Splenda brown sugar blend.
This are so easy...and awesome! If you love pecans, you will eat all of these before they cool off. Thanks for a great recipe!
Very easy and a delicious treat for pecan fans! I love Lamme's famous praline candies and these were the same taste but with a crunchy texture. The middles were sticky and I don't know if that is because I didn't cook them enough but it wasn't bad. I beat the egg white by hand but don't recommend it, use an electric mixer if you can. I also used a cookie scoop which made tablespoon-sized scoops but smaller would have been better so next time I will use a teaspoon as the recipe states.
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Amount Per Serving (12 total)
- Calories
- 200 cal
- 10%
- Fat
- 13.1 g
- 20%
- Carbs
- 21.1 g
- 7%
- Protein
- 2.1 g
- 4%
- Cholesterol
- 0 mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 58 mg
- 2%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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