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The remarkable career and mission of oceanographer Sylvia Earle is profiled in new documentary
In the Neflix documentary Mission Blue, oceanographer Sylvia Earle says, "If I seem like a radical, it may be because I see things others do not." Throughout her career, Earle has explored oceans teeming with life— from studying seaweed for her dissertation to diving at record-breaking depths to behold bioluminescent creatures. But in her lifetime, she has also witnessed the manmade consequences the oceans have endured including the destruction of coral reefs, overfishing, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
The film documents Earle's life starting with her fascination with nature as a child and the effect her family's move to Florida has had on her life. With the Gulf in her backyard, she became an explorer and eventually a scientist which led her to expeditions from the Indian Ocean to the Galapagos to the Great Barrier Reef. That she was a woman in a field dominated by men was often noted by the media who at times questioned how she balanced the personal (she had three children) with the professional, and at other times acknowledged the glass ceiling she was breaking through. Technologies also played a role in her career as diving instruments were developed further, taking explorers to never before seen depths for longer periods of time. Earle even played a hand in improving the design of the manipulator arms on one of the suits, to improve underwater dexterity.
Another important part of Earle's life was her role as Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where she became known as the "Sturgeon General." In the position however, she found her voice censored, with politics and bureaucracy stifling efforts at protecting the oceans and marine life. So she resigned, opting for life as a citizen who could speak freely rather than a government official with talking notes.
The footage and statistics that the documentary reveals is telling, from Earle's grim trip to a Tokyo fish market to the fact that we went from one dead zone in 1975 to presently over 500. The assault on the ocean has led Earle to advocate for its preservation in the form of "hope spots"—areas that are protected from fishing and dumping. Her goal is to get 20 percent of the ocean protected by 2020 (currently less than 3 percent is protected). Although she recognizes the vast challenge in such a mission, she also knows that with "No oceans, no life; no oceans, no us."
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This one's for all the shut-ins, diabetics, and people with uncomfortable foot conditions.
"America's Funnyman," comedian Neil Hamburger, has been known to rattle off a near-encyclopedic list of ailments (such as the aforementioned maladies) that might prevent people from coming to see his stand-up shows. With that in mind he's bringing the laughs to you with First of Dismay (Drag City), a collection of his usual acerbic jokes about celebrities and one-liners that seem poorly constructed or like non-sequitors on the surface, but are brilliant in their simplicity. And, as any student of comedy will tell you, delivery and timing are just as important as the material. Hamburger is the type of comedian that can make a crowd laugh with excessive throat clearing and knock-knock jokes about the Red Hot Chili Peppers; in other words, his delivery is finely polished.
First of Dismay opens with Hamburger berating a heckler who loses his courage to interrupt once he's called out. From there he turns the vitriol upon himself with the disc's first song "Your Town U.S.A." A country-western lament about a busted career and self-loathing, the tune tells us your town—yes yours, dear listener—is the one in which laughter grows on the vine and gives a broken down comedian all he needs to keep going. While the songs may be written off by some as novelty, they are far from pointless indulgences. Delivered by a rock solid band, dubbed "The Too Good For Neil Hamburger Band," the songs draw laughs but would be right at home on a dance floor full of two steppers. "Nickel Candy" and "Endless Roll" are the highlights, the latter a disco-funk complaint letter about a huge box of subpar trash bags.
But of course, the biting celebrity jokes are Hamburger's bread and butter. The celebrities here are some easy targets such as Steven Tyler and Carrot Top. Others are a bit more innocuous, such as Bobby McFerrin, who finds himself in the middle of a joke about buying used toilets on Craigslist. And lest one thinks Hamburger is a one-trick pony who tells jokes about easy targets, "He Spoke" is a five minute exercise about an historic Hollywood theater in which countless legendary entertainers performed, all wrapped up with a delightfully vulgar bit about world-famous mime Marcel Marceau.
Neil recently took some time out of his busy schedule to speak with us over the phone about the new record, his hard life on the road, and his utter disdain for Pringles and Steven Tyler:
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"Meditation has been pretty influential. I became really interested in the structure of it—the way you are led into it, the way you sink deeper and deeper into it, and the way you are pulled out of it, back to reality." –Peter Silberman, The Antlers
The depth of that into which Silberman finds himself sinking, we may never know; but one thing is for certain: If there exists a suitable soundtrack for life's most tranquil doings—meditation, yoga, getting properly stoned whilst cooking breakfast tacos on a Sunday—it is The Antlers' new album, Familiars.
Never before have The Antlers utilized more space or shown more patience in composition than on Familiars, not even on its chilled-out precursor, Undersea—an EP that arguably sounds better rotating at 33 RPM's than the prescribed 45. Familiars is an expansion on the trio's most recent work, yet more ambitious and cohesive in vision. "It's important that we had long instrumental passages to have room to improvise, experiment, and let the mood develop," Silberman explains during an aimless stroll around the Westport neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, moments before the band melted a sold-out Riot Room. "But it comes down to taking risks for the right reasons. You have to have solid intent going into the creative process."
Subtle risk-taking has remained a vital component of The Antlers' approachably experimental aesthetic since the release of 2009's Hospice—an album that struck a near-perfect balance of diverse musicality and raw, relatable lyrical content. Hospice's inevitable, yet unexpected success acted as a springboard, bequeathing unto The Antlers a myriad of new opportunities, the most fruitful being an enlarged road map for touring. Whereas many spirits are broken on the road, the influx of live shows served as a gelling mechanism and catalyst for true collaboration amongst The Antlers, a project that was initially launched as the sole effort of Silberman.
By the time Burst Apart was released in 2011, multi-instrumentalist Darby Cicci and drummer Michael Lerner were making sound-shaping contributions to the band's music, a trajectory that would eventually land them in their current state of interdependency. Silberman described the effect of this dynamic on the writing process during Familiars: "A faith has developed from playing together for so long that we sort of know how to imagine the others while writing. I think that's why the songs have become more spacious, because we're leaving room for each other to coexist while writing." This trust has broadened The Antlers' creative scope by allowing the strengths of each member to grow individually. Evidence of this mutual development is found throughout Familiars—Silberman no longer defaults to his usual falsetto, Cicci has created a voice of his own with the trumpet, and Lerner's approach to the drums is as cleanly complicated as any.
On July 2nd, The Antlers stopped in Kansas City to share a live interpretation of their new album with an anxious and at-capacity crowd. Each audience member nodded in unison to an hour of deep-cutting new material, peppered with old favorites. The Antlers played with the brand of energy unique to veteran bands just a few dates into a touring cycle—nothing to prove and everything to give. Allowing the ground to acquiesce beneath their audience and helping them to sink, deeper and deeper, to unfamiliar depth.
Watch The Antlers perform songs off the new album for an in-studio performance at KEXP in Seattle:
Wind and clouds inspire musical renditions.
Musician Will Bates and artist David Bowen have taken note of philosopher George Santayana's statement, "The earth has music for those who listen." Each has taken the sounds of the natural world to create musical pieces. Bates' project was initiated by the company Siemens to promote the 448 wind turbines that they are installing in Iowa (the leading state in wind power in the U.S.). The new turbines will generate power for 317,000 homes. Using the sound of wind generated from turbines and recorded through an assemblage of PVC pipes and microphones, Bates recreated the Blue Danube waltz. The musician commented, "We had first envisioned creating an original piece but felt the scale and style of the Blue Danube waltz was well suited due to its recognizable sound and the quality of the tones. It is haunting when translated." The song accompanied by scenes from Iowa can be seen here.
Cloud Piano is an installation conceived by Bowen who has previously experimented with the sound of ocean waves. Bowen set up a camera on the roof of L'Assaut de la Menuiserie, a museum in France, which tracks clouds. A computer program translates the appearance of the clouds into 88 segments (for each of the keys on a piano) which are sent through sensors to a piano that is housed on a stage inside the museum. The keys are then pressed based on the shape of the clouds. Bowen says, "If a dense cloud is detected, the key is pressed hard. If it is a light cloud, the key is barely pressed at all. In this way, the intensity and speed at which the piano is played is determined by the intensity, speed, and shape of the clouds." What makes the project especially unique is Bowen's philosophy of literalism. Nothing is added or mixed to the compositions – the shape of the clouds creates the final sound.
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Institutions invest in preserving Syria's relics.
One of the affects of conflict that often gets overlooked is the destruction it wreaks on cultural sites and artifacts. In Syria, UNESCO World Heritage sites and religious structures have been looted or in other cases, destroyed unintentionally. To stem the losses, various institutions are stepping up in myriad ways.
The Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk was developed by the International Council of Museums. The list includes categories such as coins, instruments, and vessels and is intended to be used as a guide to educate collectors and customs agents about items that dealers may be trying to smuggle or sell.
Another initiative is through Penn Museum's Penn Cultural Heritage Center and the Smithsonian who have teamed up with The Heritage Task Force, an organization established just last month which is working in Syria. So far the collaboration between the three institutions has resulted in a three-day training program that educated Syrian participants on how to safeguard museum collections. Of particular concern were Byzantine mosaics housed in the Ma'arra Museum which had come under attack. Attendees were given direction on how to deal with the situation and provided with packing supplies they can use to prevent damage to various objects. Brian Daniels, Director of Research and Programs at Penn Cultural Heritage Center said, "While it is very difficult for international heritage organizations to travel into Syria today, there are a number of Syrians who regularly risk their lives to protect their cultural heritage. This workshop and other efforts going forward are designed to support these individuals and their efforts." The team is now working to document what artifacts remain in Syria and plan future preservation initiatives.
The value of preservation is manifold. Despite the ongoing civil war in Syria, antiquities represent a shared culture. Such sites and objects, which entwine both place and time, express what it means to be human—to have identity, history, and memories. They are also symbols of creativity and human development. Additionally, Anne Richards, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration who announced the release of the Red List, points out the economic benefits. Museums and heritage sites made up 12 percent of Syria's GDP before the war broke out. While this benefit may not be a reality in the immediate future, Syria only has to look next door to Iraq, which has worked to recover looted objects now displayed in the renovated Iraq Museum.
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The new doc Anita—Speaking Truth to Power is a powerful reminder of the change that can take place when one person speaks out and how far we have come from 1991 in terms of gender equality.
Knowing only the general gist about Anita Hill, I was interested in hearing her story as I watched the documentary Anita – Speaking Truth to Power. The film's focus is the 1991 testimony she gave before the all-white, all-male judiciary committee and its aftermath. Hill was subpoenaed to testify following a leaked interview she gave documenting sexual harassment she had experienced working for Clarence Thomas from 1981 to 1983. Although Hill is repeatedly scrutinized by the committee, which included then Senator Joe Biden, she remains poised as she answers uncomfortable questions surrounding Thomas' behavior and her own motivations for bringing up the incidents. She says, "The issue became my character as opposed to the character of the nominee." Other people interviewed in the film include Hill's lawyer Charles Ogletree and former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who provide commentary on the media storm surrounding the case and what Hill's actions meant for the nation.
Following the testimony, Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court in a 52-48 vote. Hill ended up receiving death threats and threats of sexual violence. Fortunately she also received thousands of letters of support (which she keeps filed in cabinets) from people thanking her for her courage and relating their own experiences.
The trajectory of Hill's life as an Oklahoma law professor was forever changed and she eventually took a teaching position at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She also embraced a public role of advocating for women. Hill comments, "People misunderstand that harassment is about the sex. It's really about control and power and abusing it." She sees sexual harassment as just one part of gender inequality which spans many different spaces from the workplace to public sidewalks to inside the home. The film also shows her involvement as an educator and speaker which contribute to her legacy as an advocate for equality.
The documentary is a powerful reminder of the change that can take place when one person speaks out and how far we have come from 1991 in terms of gender equality. However considering recent decisions such as the Hobby Lobby case by the Supreme Court, it also reminds us just how far we have to go.
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Colombian musician/peace activist César López and his guitar built from a machine gun.
Can an instrument that is shaped like, and built on, the structure of a machine gun operate as a peace symbol? Colombian musician César López plays his unique instrumental invention, la escopetarra, a guitar that has been grafted onto the base of a decommissioned AK-47, as an activist for peace. López employs music, text, performance, and instrumental symbolism to advocate for non-violence. He also conducts community service—traveling to remote areas of Colombia that have suffered repression and violence. During these trips, López talks with victims and offers free concerts in an effort to understand the history of violence and also to contribute in some way towards healing the wounds. In 2006, he was named "Envoy for Peace" by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Colombia. He is an unusual and curious case. A peace activist who plays an instrument that looks like—and was—a weapon, seems at first glance to be inherently paradoxical. In spite of, and in many ways because of this curious paradox, López's gesture—of acquiring a surrendered weapon and transforming it into a guitar—represents and actualizes the transformative power of art and music.
Whereas López's 2010 album Toda Bala es Perdida (Every Bullet is Lost), engages thematically with the concepts of violence and war, his overall project, of the same name, constitutes a call for reparations and a future of non-violence. The album is comprised of 16 songs—rock songs inspired by specific historical tragedies in Colombia. These tragedies exemplify different forms of aggression including violence against women and children, gang violence, prison conflict, and violence against communities at different moments during Colombia's long-lasting armed conflict.
Many of the songs feature guest vocalists and musicians, a detail that underscores the album's heterogeneous polyvocality. Although the individual songs tell discrete stories through diverse musical styles, the songs engage with each other both musically and thematically. The lead singer of, "¿Qué vendrá?" (What will come?), Maricarmen Rosillo, accentuates her vocals with the characteristic inflection of a flamenco singer. The song, "Efraín"—a piece that gives voice to a mother who became mute on learning the details of her son's horrific torture and death—incorporates recordings from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech. The following song, "Plegaria," recalls the massacre of 119 Afro-Colombians who were killed while trying to take refuge in a church. Musically and thematically Toda Bala es Perdida constructs a narrative that laments the catastrophic effects of armed conflict and violence in Colombia and elsewhere. As I finalize writing this piece, the United States is again reeling from another in our seemingly endless series of tragic mass shootings. We might learn something from Colombia and César López. López's work originated from Colombia's armed conflict, but gun-related violence in the United States and elsewhere proves that gun violence is by no means restricted to a theaterof war.
López performs his music, and gathers material for new songs, while travelling throughout Colombia and giving concerts in communities that have suffered the consequences of armed conflict and violence. Engaging with victims in these communities he attempts to understand their experiences and then subsequently gives voice to them. "The songs that I play," says López, "are songs that come from rural people and their communities. They tell me their stories and I turn them into songs. When I am playing I feel, in some ways, like I am the voice of those who are not speaking, those who told me their stories ... I feel like I am representing a lot of people who were touched by war, and that I am the vehicle that transmits their history to the audience." (Author's note: All of López's quotes in this article are my translations from Spanish).
López sees himself as a vehicle who transforms the victim's pain into music. He gives voice—and represents—the voiceless.
The most noteworthy element of López's project is his instrumental innovation, la escopetarra. In interviews, López recounts that the idea of transforming a gun into a guitar occurred to him after a bomb, attributed to the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia / Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), exploded on Feb 7, 2003 in a Bogotá social club (Club El Nogal: killing 36 and injuring 170). Previously, López had founded a group, el Batallón Artístico de Reacción Inmediata (The Battalion of Immediate Artistic Reaction), a collective of musicians that gathered at sites of violent incidents to play music and show their support for victims and survivors. On this occasion, a soldier ordered López to evacuate the area and struck his guitar with the butt of his machine gun. López looked up at the soldier and became aware of the fact that the soldier held his machine gun in a position similar the way in which he held his guitar. Subsequently, López obtained a Winchester rifle from the city of Bogotá (the mayor's office promotes campaigns during which citizens turn in their guns), and a luthier helped López transform this rifle into the first escopetarra. The name of the instrument, escopetarra, fuses the Spanish word for shotgun (escopeta) with the last two syllables of the word guitarra (guitar).
The stock materials that López currently uses to make escopetarras come from decommissioned machine guns that guerillas and/or right-wing paramilitary fighters have surrendered to authorities. Each instrument's history is unique, and in some cases cyclical. The escopetarra that López plays, for example, began as an AK-47 in the German Democratic Republic, and was later dropped from an airplane to leftist guerillas hiding in the Colombian jungle. The gun was subsequently captured and used by right-wing paramilitaries before being turned over to government authorities, and, ultimately, transformed into a guitar for peace.
As new musical instruments, escopetarras occupy the shape, place, and history of their former existence as assault rifles. With the firing mechanisms removed and guitar fingerboards laminated onto the barrel, the escopetarras envelop the shell of the former machine guns. Rarely does the military root of the artistic term "avant-garde" resonate so loudly within a gesture to transform the conditions of reality through art. The violent shape of a machine gun remains visible in the musical instrument's structural image: The instrument retains the trigger, the magazine, the stock and the overall shape of a machine gun. Some escopetarras, furthermore, are inscribed with notches that the former owners carved to represent each individual they had killed with the gun. These notches are literal, physical, and historical traces of the armed conflict. Engraved lines scratched into hollow grooves in the metal allude to the empty spaces left behind by the dead—people taken out by the armed conflict. When originally inscribed, these notches celebrated these deaths with pride. Now, reinterpreted on the body of an escopetarra, they signify the emptiness left behind by violence.
Organologically, the instrumental form of the escopetarra is a conventional chordophone—physically and sonically, the escopetarra is a steel-stringed electric guitar.
They are, in fact, fine guitars, constructed by one of Colombia's best-known luthiers, Alberto Paredes. Analyzing an escopetarra visually reveals the instrument's inherent contradictions. An AK-47 is a cheap, though durable, machine gun that can withstand—and has withstood—prolonged periods of guerilla warfare and exposure to the elements in jungle, desert and alpine environments. The frame of López's escopetarra combines rusted, scratched gun-metal, patched with duct tape, now cut open—mutilated—with the fine craftsmanship of a highly skilled luthier. The ugly shell of a gun contrasts visually with the shiny plug-in, tone and volume knobs, high-end tuning mechanisms, and especially with the smooth wood of the meticulously placed rosewood bridge, fingerboard and headstock. The finely worked wood—an organic substance—juxtaposed with the beat-up, yet sturdy, frame of the gun, combine and coexist as two inseparable elements. The metal and wood manifest physical and temporal opposites—the machine gun and the guitar, the past and the present—together they constitute the escopetarra.
López further extends the reach of his project by gifting escopetarras to popular musicians and promoters of peace around the world. People to whom he has presented escopetarras include fellow Colombians Juanes and Andrea Echeverría (Aterciopelados); Argentines Fito Páez and Miguel Botafugo; Spanish/French guitarist, Manu Chau; Irish musician/activist, Bob Geldof; Kenyan singer/activist Eric Wainaina; as well as prominent public figures such as the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. In 2011, López presented an escopetarra to the Ghandi Museum in New Delhi at the site where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. In 2012, López presented an escopetarra to Guatemalan president, Otto Pérez Molina.
Some people question the concept of gun-guitar-as-peace symbol. The Dalai Lama, or his representatives, have twice turned down López's offer of an escopetarra on the grounds that a weapon is an inappropriate gift. Obviously, any symbol can be read in many different ways. López acknowledges the hermeneutic difficulty of controlling his message:
"It [the escopetarra] can be read in many ways. Some think that it is a call to arms, and others might think that it is simply a design, or a curious innovation to get publicity. It is very delicate. It's not only an instrument, because with the instrument come a lot of messages. If I use this instrument inappropriately, I'll destroy it's message. Or, I'll destroy my message."
"It [the escopetarra] can be read in many ways. Some think that it is a call to arms, and others might think that it is simply a design, or a curious innovation to get publicity. It is very delicate. It's not only an instrument, because with the instrument come a lot of messages. If I use this instrument inappropriately, I'll destroy it's message. Or, I'll destroy my message."
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives seems to take symbolism more seriously than lethal potential. López was told if he entered the U.S. with an escopetarra (which is completely inoperable as a weapon), he would risk 10 years in prison. Ironically, one can legally purchase an operational machine gun (an NFA or Class 3 weapon) in many U.S. states.
López plays the escopetarra—it is both a musical instrument as well as a powerful, and complex, symbolic instrument. Already embedded in a semiotic/military history, the escopetarra represents not peace, but rather a process of transformation and movement towards peace. This transformation and movement is part of the history of each individual instrument.
The machine guns used as source materials to build escopetarras were surrendered to government authorities (by FARC guerillas or right-wing paramilitaries) in voluntary demobilizations. Though the armed conflict in Colombia continues, these specific machine guns represent a conscious decision by their former owners to desist from warfare. According to López, ex-combatants have reflected that their personal transformations run parallel that of the escopetarra. "The young demobilized ex-combatants who were in the war say 'I am an escopetarra. I am a person who served for war, who served to shoot, and now I have a life project,' just like the one reflected in the instrument." In this regard, the demobilizations can be viewed as performances of peace. Those who surrender themselves and their arms have taken a significant step—they have renounced the concept of armed conflict as a solution.
My use of the word "performance" to describe the demobilizations is consciously polyvalent. On the one hand, a demobilization of guerillas, and/or paramilitaries, constitutes a performative act, a public announcement/commitment of their decision to abandon violence. This performative ceremony performs, it does something, it accomplishes a significant step towards peace. And yet, on the other hand, there have also been cases of faked demobilizations where the Colombian military and/or government, arranged for simulated demobilization ceremonies during which marginal individuals (homeless people) performed the role of former FARC members or paramilitaries, when in reality they never fought with these groups. For these political simulations, members of the military and Colombian government colluded with drug traffickers to provide the "actors" with uniforms and arms that they subsequently turned over to the government. The actors even received a salary—essentially they mounted theatrical performances. These performances intended to justify specific political policies and decisions.
A recent performance with the escopetarra simultaneously reiterates both sides of the instrument's paradoxical image. In 2012, at an event called Jóvenes por la Paz" (Young People for Peace)—a ceremony attended by 20,000 people in Guatemala City—López presented Guatemalan president, Otto Pérez Molina, with an escopetarra. The public celebration of nonviolence included the on-site destruction of more than 16,000 arms. President Pérez Molina even played the escopetarra on stage, calling for "more music and less violence."
On the surface this sounds like a wonderful celebration of peace. And yet this president's personal history is problematic. President Otto Pérez Molina served as Director of Military Intelligence and Inspector General of the Guatemalan army (and served in the notoriously brutal special forces, los Kaibiles) during a civil war that resulted in over 200,000 deaths, the vast majority of whom were indigenous people killed by the military. Pérez Molina specifically commanded troops in the Ixil region during the dictatorship of Efraín Ríos Montt who was convicted for genocide and crimes against humanity in association with the deaths of 1,771 indigenous Ixil Mayans in May 2013. During the trial, one witness specifically implicated Pérez Molina as the coordinator of burnings, lootings and executions. (Pérez Molina denies the accusations).
Can we really take President Pérez Molina at face value when he announces from a stage, with an escopetarra hanging from his shoulders, "we want more music and less violence"? Is this performance of peace legitimate, or is President Pérez Molina playing the escopetarra as a political prop, performing yet another act of governmental theatre? It is also significant to note that Pérez Molina recently replaced Guatemala's Attorney General, Claudia Paz y Paz, who prosecuted Ríos Montt with a former Supreme Court judge, Thelma Esperanza Aldana Hernández, with ties to Ríos Montt. Is López enabling hypocritical political theatre? Why present an escopetarra to a man who played a central role in Guatemala's dirty war?
I don't have a definitive answer to these questions. We certainly cannot change the past and we cannot undo the history of death and destruction. We can and should aspire to justice and political responsibility to be carried out in the courts. Perhaps López is hoping that Pérez Molina, too, will think, "I am an escopetarra. I am a person who served for war, who served to shoot, and now I have a life project, just like the one reflected in the escopetarra." Might the transformative power of art and music someday convert this theatrical performance into a true performance of peace? It is certainly laudable to take 16,000 arms off of the street and to destroy them. Is it better for leaders to perform a discourse of peace no matter what dark crimes they committed in their past?
The escopetarra, like all symbols, is open to multiple interpretations. Its hybrid composition, a former machine gun transformed into a guitar, paradoxically evokes both the memory of war, and the decision to abandon violence. We cannot know Pérez Molina's motivations (though his story and history are highly suspect). Regardless of where this particular man falls on the still unrealized transformation from war to peace and justice in Guatemala, his performance on and with an escopetarra—an instrument that simultaneously embodies violence and points towards peace—calls for the Guatemalan people—people who have suffered, and are suffering, from incommensurate violence—to at least imagine the transformation necessary to move away from violence. César López's escopetarra, then, is a powerful symbolic instrument, an instrument that provides an image with which to imagine a transformation from the quagmire of violence to a future of peace.
Robert Neustadt is Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American Studies at Northern Arizona University where he conducts research on music and politics in Latin America. He co-produced, and performs a song on Border Songs, a 31-track double album, that features music and spoken word in English and Spanish about the border and immigration. All proceeds go to No More Deaths (No Más Muertes), a group that provides humanitarian aid to migrants and recently deported people.
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When Kelsey Chandler enrolled at Hinds Community College a couple of years ago, she says it was a decision she couldn't be happier about today.
"It helped me get out of my fears for going to college because going to college can be scary coming out of high school," said Chandler.
As a current sophomore, she's joining with other students, faculty and staff, highlighting the state's 15 community and junior colleges and their impact on the state's work force and future success.
"We teach about a quarter of a million people a year and we are the main entity that teaches job skills to folks in our state," said Eric Clark executive director of the Mississippi Community College Board.
Clark says more and more students are turning to community colleges for various reasons. For Chandler, it all came down to affordability.
"If I would have gone to a four year university, it wouldn't have been possible. I wouldn't have been able to go to college at all so going to community college made college possible for me," said Chandler.
To keep that possibility alive for students like Kelsey, Clark says it all comes down to funding, or in this case, the consistent lack of. During a rally at the capitol Thursday morning, Clark helped lead the charge asking lawmakers to live up to a law they passed. The Mid-Level Funding Act, passed back in 2007, grants community college funding at a mid-level between public schools and universities. Based on recent funding levels, that should put the community college funding at about $5,100 per student. The problem is, current funding is just more than half of that at about $2,700.
"We're asking as the legislature comes to a close in the next month, to make community colleges a priority and to make some progress on mid-level funding," said Clark.
Without it, Clark says salaries decrease and so do the number of classes offered despite demand. Senator Terry Burton told the group he'll work to do all he can to make sure they have what they need.
"Our continued economic success demands that we provide for you what we can from the state," said Burton.
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for Saturday, September 11, 1813
Compiled, with comments
by HUGH C. MacDOUGALL
Agreeably to General Orders ... received last evening ... by Lieut. Col. Elijah M. Metcalf, of this village, it appears that this county has to furnish as its quota of Artillery, 1 captain, 2 first lieutenants, 2 second do., 5 sergeants, 6 corporals, 1 drummer, 1 fifer, and 90 privates, total 108,whom we understand, by Col. are to rendezvous in this village, as soon as they can be organized ...
The quota of Militia, of this county, is as follows: 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 2 Ensigns, 5 Sergeants, 5 Corporals, 1 Drummer, 1 Fifer, and 90 privates of Infantry, and the same of Light Infantry; total 216 ...
The detachment is required under the authority of the act of Congress, passed 28th February, 1795,and will not serve a longer term than three months.
COMMENT: All told, this draft of militia covered eight counties, and called for 1,496 infantry, 540 light infantry, 106 riflemen, 432 artillery, and a company of horse artillery. The field artillery were to be commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Hyde Metcalf (1778-1821) of Cooperstown.
Virtually all able-bodied white males were required to serve in the militia. When a draft of them was called, volunteers could take their place to the extent available. A major problem with New York militia during the War of 1812, aside from the fact that most were untrained and badly equipped, is that many units refused point-blank to serve outside the boundary of New York State, thus wrecking a number of American attempts to invade Canada.
"Light Infantry" were units intended to march outside the main heavy infantry units, to screen them from attack, and its "members were often smaller, more agile men with high shooting ability and capability of using initiative." Rifle-men, of course, carried rifles — as opposed to the smooth-bore muskets of regular infantry.
Direct Tax
By the "act to lay and collect a Direct Tax (of three millions) within the United States," the following apportionment is made among the several states ... New York $480,141.62 ... The quota of the state of New-York ... is apportioned among the several counties, as follows: ... Otsego $11,690 ...
A direct tax ... shall be assessed and laid on the value of all lands, lots of grounds with their improvements, dwelling houses and slaves ..."
COMMENT: New York was charged more tax than any other state (Virginia was next with $369,018.44). Of the 43 counties, Otsego paid more than Ulster County but less than Westchester. Under the Constitution (until the Income Tax Amendment of 1913), all direct taxes on income — like electoral votes — had to be apportioned in accordance with the population of states and counties, and slaves were counted as 3/5 of a white person (which increased the voting power of Southern whites, since slaves didn't vote, but reduced their direct taxes). Direct income taxes were collected under emergency legislation during the Civil War.
Married at Canajoharie ... on the 5th [September] by the Rev. Mr. Elliot, ALPHONSO WETMORE, Lieut. 23d Regt. U.S.I. to the amiable and accomplished Miss MARY SMITH, of that town.
At Cherry-Valley, on the 8th [September] by the Rev Mr. Cooley, Mr. ROBERT DUNLAP, of the late firm of Diell and Dunlap, Merchants, to Miss HANNAH BURGETT, step daughter of Mr. Jesse Johnson, of that town.
COMMENT: Alphonso Wetmore (1793-1848), married Mary Smith (b. 1793); they had eight children. Robert Dunlap (1787-1863) married Hannah Butler Burgett [aka Burkett] (1794-af. 1862); they had 10 children. We may hope that she was as amiable and accomplished as Miss Mary Smith.
In Albany, on the 4th [September] Mr. EZEKIEL BURLINGHAM, of Hartwick, in this county.
In this village, last evening, of a nervous fever, Miss LORA BALDWIN, aged 15 years, second daughter of Mr. Joseph Baldwin.
COMMENT: Joseph Baldwin, a cooper (barrel maker) settled in Cooperstown in 1790, the third settler in the village. Lora is buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard, Cooperstown.
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NOTICE: A MEETING of persons friendly to preferring a Petition to the Legislature of this State, at their next session, for the incorporation of a BANK in the county of Otsego, is requested at the Court-House in Cooperstown, on Thursday the 16th [September] at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Pro Bono Publico – September 4, 1813
MR. CLARK, I observe a notice in your last paper, requesting a meeting in Cooperstown, on the 16th [September] for the purpose of procuring a bank. I have for some time been anxiously wishing for the same, and have been surprised that it has not been agitated before. The county of Otsego is certainly second to but two or three counties of the state, for improvements; manufactures and a spirit of enterprise; and as far as I understand the principle of banking, I cannot believe, that the citizens of Otsego County are as much entitled to the privileges and benefits of a banking institution, and are as capable of managing its commerce as many other counties, who have already obtained charters ... A FARMER.
COMMENT: The Otsego County Bank was not, in fact, organized and incorporated until 1830, in the stone building with columns which still stands next to the entrance to Cooper Park.


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Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has consistently sat old men Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili on the second night of back-to-backs this season. Ergo, it's totally possible that Pop will effectively tank a real life playoff game to rest his stars for the rest of the series, the conference finals and the NBA Finals.


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The first degree murder charge against a western North Carolina man, who assaulted a woman more than 22 years ago, has been dropped, according to Henderson County District Attorney Greg Newman.
Kenneth Guthrie, 50, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge by a grand jury in connection with the Dec. 23, 1990, assault of Jacqueline Cain Maybin, according to Capt. Steve Carter of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office.
Guthrie was arrested on the charge Tuesday, which was then dropped on Thursday. Newman said the law that was used to indict him did not apply to the case.
Maybin died on Dec. 18, 2012, over 22 years after the attack, and the medical examiner classified her manner of death as a homicide. The district attorney then sought charges against Guthrie.
Guthrie was previously convicted of beating Maybin at a party leaving her paralyzed, deputies confirmed. Newman said, if the crime had occurred six months later, the murder charge would not have been dropped.
In May of 1991, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a person could be charged with murder indefinitely after an assault, Newman said.
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Clarion University has implemented several processes, intentionally aimed at improving student retention. The result? Clarion's retention of first- to second-year, first-time, bachelor's-seeking students has increased to 75.7 percent in fall 2013, an increase of 5.5 percentage points over the previous two years.
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The Wall Street Journal this week published the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus' review of "The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right" by Jon Shields. In the review, Fr. Neuhaus gives Shields, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College, high marks for "an excruciatingly careful study, studded with the expected graphs and statistical data—but not to the point of spoiling its readability—in the service of probing the curious permutations in contemporary political alignments." The book is scheduled for release on Feb. 19. The pro-life movement is a movement for change, indeed for what some view as the radical change of eliminating the unlimited abortion license. "Meanwhile," writes Shields, "the pro-choice movement is a conservative movement defending the status quo. Pro-choicers have little to gain from engaging their opponents and from the deliberative norms that facilitate persuasion." And, of course, they have the establishment media massively on their side. The head … [Read more...]
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I am busy hiring people now, and it got me thinking a lot about the sort of things that I want from my developers. In particular, I was inundated in CVs, and I used the following standard reply to help me narrow things down.
Thank you for your CV. Do you have any projects that you wrote that I can review? Have you done any OSS work that I can look at?
The replies are fairly interesting. In particular, I had a somewhat unpleasant exchange with one respondent. In reply for my question, the reply was:
My employer doesn't allow any sharing of code. I can find some old projects that I did a while ago and send them to you, I guess.
Obviously, I don't want to read any code that belong to someone without that someone's explicit authorization. Someone sending me their current company code is about as bad manner as someone setting up an invite for a job interview on their work calendar (the later actually happened today).
After getting the projects and looking them over a bit, I replied that I don't think this would be the appropriate position for this respondent. I got the following reply:
Wait a minute…
Can I know why? I took the trouble to send you stuff that I have done, maybe not the highest quality and caliber, but what I could send right now. You didn't even interview me.
How exactly did you reach the unequivocal conclusion that I am not a good fit for this job?
My response to that was:
Put simply, we are looking for a .NET developer and one of the most important things that we look for is passion. In general, we have found that people that care and are interested in what they are doing tend to do other stuff rather than just their work assignments.
In other words, they have their own pet projects, it can be a personal site, a project for a friend, or just some code written to get familiar with some technology.
When you tell me that your only projects outside of work are 5+ years old, that is a bad indication for us.
There is more, but it gets to the details and not really relevant for this discussion.
Let me try to preempt the nitpickers. Not having pet projects doesn't mean that you are a bad developer, nor vice versa.
But I don't really care about experience, and assuming that you already know the syntax and has some basic knowledge in the framework, we can use you. But the one thing that I learned you can't give people is the passion for the field. And that is critical. Not only because it means that they are either already good or going to be good (it is pretty hard to be passionate about something that you sucks at), but because it means that they care.
And if they care, it means two very important things:
- The culture of the company is about caring for doing the appropriate thing.
- The end result is going to be as awesome as we can get.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I am going to check out SignalR, because I don't feel like doing any more RavenDB work today.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Alexandru Repede replied on Wed, 2011/09/14 - 8:03am
Nicolas Frankel replied on Wed, 2011/09/14 - 8:34am
Also, as development team lead, a bunch of passionate developers are sometimes too much for a single person to handle. They may not share your vision and each pull in his prefered direction.
On the contrary, a developer who is professional but doesn't work at home may require more support but he'll probably go the way I tell him.
Since I've had both kind in my teams, I know which I prefer.
Stan Dyck replied on Wed, 2011/09/14 - 9:36am
I think you probably did the right thing by not hiring that guy. I think he may have a bit of a point though. Some employer agreements stipulate that *any* code you write in or outside of work can be claimed by them. I think this is horrible but it does happen. Under those circumstances, I would be very hesitant to hand over a personal project to a stranger (even to get a job). I might also want to hide my participation in an OSS project for the same reasons. I am very passionate about my personal projects, but they *are* personal.
I think a good compromise is to have the candidate describe one of their personal projects. In my experience, those sorts of exchanges will really show you if the person is passionate or not. If you have to shut them up after 5 minutes, you're on the right track.
kartbart replied on Wed, 2011/09/14 - 10:06am
You may be opening yourself up to legal issues here. Does every person who is passionate necessarily have the time to spare for personal projects outside of work hours? Are family obligations and other interests not of value? Looks like you are going to limit yourself to hiring nerds who do nothing else than code. There are some of us who are passionate about coding but have other interests to. This of course may be news to you.
Sounds to me like you are making up for your poor interviewing process by positing a criteria in the hopes of looking cool and classy.
Sony Arouje replied on Thu, 2011/09/15 - 5:04am
In my experience working on personal projects
1. Give more freedom
2. Experiment different frameworks or different way of implementation
3. Learn new things that we may not get in official work.
4. It also helped me to implement stuffs I learnt in my personal projects into official projects
I agreed with Author's intention. He is not just looking for developers, instead looking for developer who's passionate in coding.
Jeremy replied on Thu, 2011/09/15 - 8:16am
Matthias Huttar replied on Thu, 2011/09/15 - 8:28am
Bo Harris replied on Thu, 2011/09/15 - 1:21pm
This article reminds me of the old joke about the manager lost in the hot-air balloon who stops and asks for directions and then criticizes the guy who gives him directions. Moral of the story - he was a manager who always blames his employees for the companies problems.
Instead of blaming the candidate for not having outside projects why are you not prepared to conduct an interview that doesn't require the candidate to bring source from a pet project. Btw, how would you even know that the code they bring in is truly their code? There are a myriad of exercises and tests you could do to assess the candidates proficiency.
One of the best interviews I ever went on the manager gave me a take home exercise that I had to return a working solution to him within 24 hours (actually he did stipulate that the solution didn't have to be working-he just wanted to get a good idea on how I would architect a solution). I was very impressed with that approach and he was impressed with my solution and I got the job. I thought this was a great approach as it gave me an opportunity to really showcase what I could do. And allowed me to do it outside of the interview process where there was no one looking over my shoulder (which I hate!).
In over 15 years of programming I have interviewed more candidates than I'll ever be able to remember. And the one thing that stands out about those experiences is not the candidates but the experience I gained on how to properly conduct an interview. I sucked in the beginning but got better over time as I begin to review the results of my interviews. As with anything, attaining perfection is a process of refinement.
Which means doing plenty of post-mortems and identifying what went right, wrong, id'ing the causes and future solutions. That my friend is a sign of a good employer and/or manager. A manager/employer with a "my way is the right way" attitude is a pain in the ass to work for and you probably did the guy a favor as in your effort to be the next Joel Spolsky you basically come off as someone who he (nor I) would never want to work for.
As the old saying goes, you get out of it what you put into it. So let me ask you, how much thought have you put into how to properly conduct an interview? From this article it doesn't seem like very much. Here are some tips:
1)identify what level of candidate you are looking for
2)create a list of questions geared toward that level
3)create a programming exercise that can be accomplished in 24 hours that will showcase the skills you are looking for
4)study the resume
5)conduct a phone interview
6)hold a technical in-person interview
7)give the candidate the take-home exercise
8)score the exercise on clarity, effectiveness, conciseness and maintainability
9)stop being an a**hole
Adrian Engler replied on Fri, 2011/09/16 - 4:04am
That someone who already works over 40 hours a week as a professional software developer, in addition also works on pet projects at home can mean different things. It could mean passion, but it also could mean that this person is dissatisfied at work or that his or her interests are not very diverse. People can be passionate about developing software and follow this passion at work, while they follow other passions in their free time.
It might be that for some position you have a certain type of person in mind and that someone who works on pet projects better fits your idea of a person you want to hire.
But obviously, the idea that only people who have their personal pet projects are passionate about developing software is just as wrong as the idea that those who don't have their pet projects are bad programmers.
Of course, it is true that it is really helpful to look at code someone has written to get an idea about this person as a software developer. When I applied for my current job, I was also asked to show something I had programmed. The wish to see a candidate's code is completely understandable, it just should be understood that there may be good reasons why people who work full-time as software developers often do not have recent code they can show (students generally should have such code).
Jeremy replied on Fri, 2011/09/16 - 6:21am
Software Developers will tell you: "40 hours a week is more than enough".
People who excel at what they do (Nikola Tesla, Joseph John Thomson, Max Planck, Paul Dirac, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Konstantin Novoselov, Andre Geim, Charles K. Kao, Makoto Kobayashi, Roy J. Glauber, Riccardo Giacconi, Gerd Binnig, etc, etc) will tell you: "The more you put into it, the more you get out of it."
This shows that different people have different passions and motivations.
Some people put more into Software Development because they are investing in getting more out of work (e.g. money or achievement). Others put more into living, because they want to get more out of life (e.g. health or a good experience). This not only applies to work, but also school, marriage, friendships, kids, community, etc.
So for me everything boils down to one simple interview question: "Show me how much you've put into it".
Ray Hulha replied on Fri, 2011/09/16 - 12:07pm
I have so many pet projects I finally wrote my own source forge:
Of course raysforge is hosted at raysforge as well :-)
I just love to code...
Lund Wolfe replied on Sat, 2011/09/17 - 1:20am
If the candidate is satisfied to do programming they don't like at their current employer and compensate for it on their off-time with pet projects, this is a bad sign. You want someone who does their best work for all their paying employers, including you.


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