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May 4, 2012
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Jami Carlton's collection of photography is on display this weekend.
One photography student has some lovely ladies of illusion featured in her senior exhibit at Virginia Commonwealth University.
VCU senior Jami Carlton shot drag queens Michelle Lavigne, Natasha Carrington, Sharon Husbands, Monica Duvall Ferrah, and Jennifer Warner for a collection of photos in the dressing room and backstage
An opening reception is on Friday, May 4 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. p.m. at Gallery 4, 114-A Virginia Street. The event is free and open to the public.
This extensive exhibition also includes work from graduating senior students: Christi Addison, Fionnuala Bradley, Levi Cheff, Will Douglas, Kara Groux, Emily Jones, Bree Davis, Sara Tyler, Stephen Turner, Stephen Wozny, Andrew Jordan, Alex Leslie, Charley Monaghan, Kevin Murphy, Melissa Rabin, Lauren Rice, Stephanie Fry, Anna Hendrick, Cate Henry, and Seychelle Stableford.
The students were assigned to create, fund, and promote the eclectic show through Facebook page, a Kickstarter page and a film. Additionally, several bake and craft sales were held to help defray costs and expand awareness.
Professor in the Department of Photography and Film, Shane Rocheleau says of his experience with the senior students that "I get excited looking at the expanse of their work. . . You'll see it in stories, love, confusion, landscapes, humor, family, and even drag queens. It's all there and so is so, much more."
VCU's Photography BFA Exhibit will be open during gallery hours, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5. The gallery is open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 6. A discussion of the seniors' work will be held May 7 at Virginia Commonwealth University's Grace Street Theater, 934 W. Grace St., 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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(Thimphu, Paro)
The scent of the surrounding pine forest fills your nostrils and the gentle flapping of prayer flags beckons you onwards as you climb toward Bhutan's most spectacular monastery.
Taktsang monastery is precariously perched on the edge of a sheer rock cliff that plunges 900 meters into the valley below. According to local folklore, this is where Guru Rimpoche – the mystic who brought Buddhism to Bhutan – landed on the back of a flying tigress to subdue a demon. And taking in the rolling mountains and drifting mist, it's easy to imagine the magical. Locked away from the world for centuries, remote Bhutan's pristine natural environment is matched only by the centuries-old richness of its cultural traditions. You'll visit Thimphu's stunning temples that date back as far as the 12th century; learn about ancient local healing practices; take in the sights and sounds of the vibrant markets; observe the art of traditional paper making; and explore the extensive collection of antique thangkha paintings, textiles, weapons and armor housed in Bhutan's National Museum.
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Visit the Changangkha Lhakhang, built in the 12th century, this is the oldest temple in Thimphu. It is hovering over a ridge above Thimphu, near Motithang. Lama Phajo Drukgom Zhigpo who hailed from Tibet chose this site to build this Lhakhang. The Lhakhang houses Chenrizig, an 11-headed, thousand-armed manifestation of Avolokitesawara. The prayer books in this Lhakhang are larger than the usual Buddhist texts. You can purchase some of the world's most beautiful postage stamps, collector's items and postcards at face value from the general post office, and you will also see the Bhutan National Bank. Next head to a local arts and crafts school, to visit with some local children, and then carry on to the Traditional Medicine Institute where ancient healing arts are still practiced. Finally, visit the Motithang Takin Preserve, which is a local wildlife reserve. Later, if time permits, take a stroll through the main streets to see the interesting Himalayan artifacts and textiles that make Bhutan famous.
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Hauksbee's work had roots in 1676, when a French astronomer named Jean Picard was moving a mercury barometer in the dark. He noticed a glow in the empty glass tube above the mercury column, and a bit of experimenting showed him that it was strongest when the mercury was moving up and down in the tube.
This was interesting, but it was not astronomy. The news eventually reached London, by way of Johann Bernoulli in Groningen. This was a time when indoor illumination involved fire: fireplaces, candles, oil lamps. It was dim, smelly, and hazardous. A new source of light could be very useful. Francis Hauksbee's first appearance before the Royal Society in 1703 was with his new air-pump, and experiments showing the "mercurial phosphor". Hauksbee did many interesting and beautiful experiments with mercury and the mercurial glow. (How I long to repeat some of them! But the modern world is less tolerant of mercury than the science of Hauksbee's day was.)
In October of 1705, Hauksbee renewed his studies of this glow. The glow involved glass, mercury, vacuum, and motion. He'd already shown mercury and light inside an evacuated bell-jar; now he tried rubbing other substances inside evacuated jars. He eventually decided to see what would happen if he simply rubbed an evacuated glass globe, which could be rapidly spun on an axle by a "great wheel". One of the axles was hollow, and connected to the globe through a valve. He connected it to a vacuum-pump, and sucked all the air out. When he spun the device in the dark, rubbing it with his bare hand - behold, there was a glow. Eventually he had made a light source bright enough that "... Words in Capital Letters were legible by it".
And he noticed that his equipment was also creating electrical effects stronger than anybody had ever seen before. Gilbert had studied and analyzed the electrica of amber a hundred years before - but it had always been a weak force. For Hauksbee, electricity was no longer so weak.
I said that Hauksbee's invention was "the opposite of what most people expect". We think of Edison studying electricity and creating the lightbulb - but almost two centuries earlier, Francis Hauksbee was studying the lightbulb and creating electricity. And the work on the "mercurial phosphor" bore fruit in our time: mercury vapor, glowing electrically in a vacuum, is at the heart of the modern fluorescent light.
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"South is South": Writing About South Carolina Without Demonizing or Romanticizing Its Culture, Past, and People
The South of the Mind smells like honeysuckles; sometimes Charleston smells like sewage and dead fish. The sun is a warm friend in the South of the Mind, where snow is mere fantasy; last weekend, snow blanketed my hometown of Aiken, and a week before the sun was a bully breathing down the backs of our necks. Either genteel Southern belles or toothless rednecks populate the South of the Mind; South Carolina is populated by a growing diversity of people who do not easily conform to categories. Just like any other geographic region, the Southeastern United States suffers from an image problem, presumptions propagated by stereotypes about the places, people, and culture that overshadow the true nuanced portrait of the region. Perceptions of the South formed through fiction often affect people's opinions about the South itself. In writing The Heathens and Liars of Lickskillet County, I grappled with representing the small-town South in a way that felt authentic. On one hand, I wished not to construct the South as an overwhelmingly horrible and backwards place and therefore gloss over its positive attributes. On the other hand, I couldn't ignore its faults. While southern culture and politics does not escape unscathed in my stories, I intend to present a balanced representation—the beautiful, the ugly, and the damned.
Although all novelists writing in English must confront the hegemonic power of the language and the violence committed by its speakers both in the physical and intellectual realm, writers in the South wrestle with a particular complex past. Because our past brims with violence, exploitation, and continued inequality—trends that today perpetuate new forms of oppression—we cannot paint the South in its antebellum grace. Too often we portray the South as blood-less cotton fields and pristine plantations, southerners sipping sweet tea while seated in rocking chairs as the breeze tickles the backs of their necks. Conversely, we also tend to focus only the brutality of our past without taking into consideration the hardships of southerners. In order to truly have a conversation about how to write about the South, I think we should confront a few topics. Over the next few weeks, I will pen short essays on the intersection of fiction and other topics, how these topics pervade our culture and therefore our stories. Though I may choose to write more essays than I currently intend, the topics include race, development, politics, religion, and family.
While engaging these topics, I hope to challenge myself to think more critically about how I construct my own "South of the Mind" in my novels and short stories. The Heathens and Liars of Lickskillet County is only the first book I intend to write about the South, which tackles all of the above mentioned topics, but as I write about different cities in South Carolina and beyond (I am now writing about North Carolina, gasp!), I hope to show how nuanced each region truly can be. The "South" is merely an idea—a construct formed by unconscious popular consensus—in much the same way "Africa" is merely an idea for many Americans based not in any actual knowledge or experience (See Chinua Achebe's "Image of Africa" for confirmation of this). If you have any comments throughout the series on what ways portrayals of the South are fair or unfair, please share them. Likewise, I must contend that I speak primarily for South Carolina being born and raised in the state. Let us write with our minds and hearts open. See you next time for a frank talk about the South and its history of racial oppression.
"Pursuit of Happiness"- Derek Berry
A new slam poem.
Derek Berry Discusses Hip Hop and the Phenomena of THE BEST RAPPER EVER
Now, I'm by no mean a "hip hop artist," though my art form shares roots with hip hop, IS the root of hip hop. The reason I don't say I make hip hop is firstly because I don't make music or beats to poems, and I also don't participate in hip hop culture. Understand, I mean positive things when I say "hip hop culture," as in using art to create solidarity within black communities and spread messages of defiance and love.
But I've been open-mic-hopping for years, and what irks me is rappers who take hip hop out of context. They realize they can rhyme "life" and "knife" and suddenly assume they're "THE BEST RAPPER EVER." Like, you made a mix-tape with your older brother in the garage, and now you're "ON TOP?" What does that even mean? On top of what? You're not even the best performer at the open mic, so I don't know why you're accusing me of being a "hater" because I point out you're an amateur. It's okay. I'm an amateur, too. We're all amateurs, and we don't have to pretend to be anything else.
Offensives include dissing on famous rappers you don't even know, rapping about how much money you don't actually have, and objectifying women. These are not actual staples of hip hop, only the version of hip hop that has been force-fed to this generation. Albeit, there are some really great artists out there talking about some real shit, but too often, we are exposed to those who glorify violence, hedonism, and apathy. Apathy isn't as cool as you think. You're not going to earn anyone's respect rapping about how many one-night stands you've had, because I frankly don't care.
For example, though, if you're trying to argue that Lil Wayne's a better artist than Notorious B.I.G., get out my face.
Alright, check out this video in which I go ham on some fake hip-hop artists, bam…
As the Tab of Yet Another Click-Bait Article Concerning "What Every 20-Year-Old-And-Five-Months Should Achieve Before Turning 20-And-Six Months" Loads Slowly on The Browser
After meticulously reading
an online review of Taco Bell's "secret menu,"
which includes potato-stuffed burritos named after superheroes,
without brand loyalty to either DC or Marvel,
I pushed back my chair and questioned
my predisposition to tell people that I am awfully busy
in order to avoid events and affairs unpleasant or boring,
considering how I had just whittled my lifeline
for the sake of taste bud analysis for the critically-acclaimed Queserito.
Perhaps journalism's dead, but keeps excavating the crucial mysteries of our time,
such as the quality of Frankenstein dishes at a fast-food-belch-haven. Dead in the same way
Bruce Willis had been dead throughout the entire movie, but he kept
digging at the paranormal crux of his own demise. Maybe everybody's a journalist these days,
even I worked in journalism for awhile, despite my linguistic
idiosyncrasies and dismissal of grammatical authority.
In other words, perhaps yoga pants do not accentuate each person's
ass in a flattering light, as yoga pants market themselves to do,
though who decides who does or does not wear yoga pants?
"Yoga pants" might be a good term for successive breathing, quick and deep, quick and deep.
Not counting persons who actually practice yoga, (evidently the minority
of yoga-pants-wearers), no one dictates that sort of non-dress-code.
Just like how the Internet's become a Wild West of bullshit-masquerading-as-truth
or Taco-Bell-reviews-feigning-to-be-news. Because for every blurb
intricately spoiling every single damn hit tv show on television
exists a well-argued essay in pristine prose
about the degradation of American culture
posted on some obscure blog that nobody's gonna fuckin' read.
Notes on a Long Island: The Spot
{Stories are 80% true, according to Long Island local Matthew Harberg, my roommate and King of the Sea. Having interviewed him on various subjects from the Long Island area, I have transcribed a series of stories exploring the culture and atmosphere of the island, though I have never visited there and know nothing about it. This particular story deals with a surf-shop owner from Long Island with a list of eccentricities.}
On the news, Snake watched the news anchor dead-pan as she explained how the police tackled a drunk millionaire earlier than day. "Local millionaire Ronald Artt is bringing charges against the Long Island Police Department for police brutality after they chased him into the street and brought him forcibly to the ground. Moments before, Mr. Artt had been standing in downtown Manhatten, wearing a suit and pink dress gloves, shooting a water gun wildly into the air." She shuffled her papers and looked to her co-anchor, who took over with a stifled hesitation.
"Yes, well, reportedly Mr. Artt claims that the gun was obviously a toy one, that the officers were quick to jump on him because—"
Clicking the Tv off, Snake lowered his head and looked across the counter at Carston. "What do you want?" He was seventy-years old, but often visited clubs with middle-aged Guido's. He tagged along with them, telling ridiculous stories and pumping his fist half-heartedly to techno-rap.
Carston looked to Danny, glowering from behind his orange-tinted shades. "Man, just the—you know, whatever you sell."
Snake shrugged. "Surfing board wax? A wetsuit?" The two boys stood in a shack just off the beach, a piece of beach the man behind the counter claimed to own. Though condos and houses crowded against the strand, the beach belonged officially to Snake—dread-haired geriatric owner of The Spot. Though he ran the joint ostensibly as a local surf shop, The Spot made the majority of its revenue in the local drug trade. Surfer dudes shopped there for small items, buying ounces under the counter—rumor had lead the boys through the glass doors plastered with advertisements for local club events months-past (Day Glo, Pirate Theme Night, $2 Jell-o Shots), across the sand-strewn tile, and to the front desk.
He sat like a regal Buddha on the steep wooden stool, his pointy elbows propped on the un-sanded counter. "Boys, are you paying any attention?"
"Sure, but we heard you sold—um, more than just surfing supplies?"
"Oh, oh!" He waved his arms, sliding off his stool and wheezing, guffawing. "I'm being a bit loopy, huh? I know the days come and go like they do, don't you know?"
"Sure, we know. So, how much?"
"For the emu? He ain't for sale?"
"It's the last one I got, go look at him, if you want." He hastily unlocked the door behind him, waving his arms for the boys to follow. As they trailed quietly after him, however, he did not lead them into a secret vault where he kept his stash of drugs; rather, he lead them into the backyard, fenced in with cheap vinyl fencing units—and in the center of the sand-and-grass lot was an emu tied to a wooden post.
"What the hell is that?"
"That's the last one, wouldn't you know?" Snaked shrugged, his dreads rolling off his shoulders, and he bore his red-cracked eyes into Carston's. "So, what about it?"
"Uh, I didn't come here to buy—an emu? What about the—you know, the stuff? The chronic?"
"I ain't gonna sell this emu, anyhow," said Snake, his face cracking like a broken public fountain. "He's the last I got. The first one, he died. A sad occasion. We put together a funeral for him, a whole affair with all my closest friends—his two emu buddies too. Then not a week later, one of the others escapes. This one's named Sunshine. Probably just mourning Birdie's death. God, we all loved Birdie, but Sunshine, he couldn't take it. He just broke out. I don't know how."
"I'm sorry, sit. I—um, I didn't know?"
Beside the emu stood a large white van—Snake had always wanted a VW van from the seventies where he could take local ladies, but he settled for something infinitely creepier—a windowless van spray-painted with comical signage. Peace emblems, color-faded flowers, and the paint-stenciled image of Bob Marley.
"Used to love animals, take care of them? Had a whole menagerie—wouldn't you know? Alligators, dogs, snakes as big as your arms, as long as a car, and even tamed squirrels. But they came and took them? Wouldn't you know the police are always sticking their nose into business ain't their business." He snuffled, then wrapped his arms around the emu, which shuffled awkwardly and pecked his shoulder in violent defense. "But then this emu escapes and it—well, it falls right into the bay. Runs out in front of cars, across town, down to the pier, trots down its length, and jumps headlong into the sea. Damn emu's dead. It swam around a while, until the fire department came and scooped it out the water."
"It—it died?" Carston began to back up, grabbing Danny's shoulder. "I think we came to the wrong place."
"The damn emu died," Snake said, wiping his tears. "I love Sunshine—he was like a brother to me. Loved him more than anything I ever loved." His raspy voice died down. "All the fault of the fire department—if they had been more careful, that's what killed him. They didn't take their time getting him out of the bay—they killed him."
Danny shrugged. "Guess that sucks. Well."
"Of course the police couldn't side with me, considering they didn't realize I had any emus in the first place, but a man's got to do something with his life's work."
"Sorry." Carston looked at his feet, clearing his throat. "Guess we really just wanted surfing wax after all."
Once Snake sold them an overpriced bottle of wax and given them half-off coupons for entrance to the Karaoke Party at Senor Frogs (which had occurred the weekend before), Snake returned to the back yard, rubbed his emu's neck softly, and called his lawyer seventeen times. His lawyer never picked up the phone, not to hear Snake complain again about the emu incident—he had already been on the television. Returning inside, Snake turned the mounted Tv back on, hoping he had not missed his televised interview.
Vignette: Cigarettes in the City
Everyone in the city smoked cigarettes, the orange-bright ends illuminating every stoop, park bench, and window. If we shut out the lights, cut the electrical lines, we might still be able to read by the glare of a million burning cigarettes, their ashes spilling into the crease between the pages. Many treated their cigarettes with ritual superstition—practicing traditions passed down from the Great War, from the Native Americans, and from the study-abroad semesters in Bulgaria. Each secreted upside down sticks in their packs—the lucky cigarette—absconding white lighters and lighting up with the ends of each others' cigarettes. When finished, they tapped out the cigarettes in overflowing ash trays, some plastic, others glass.
The smoke, meanwhile, floated above their heads in lazy spirals—smoke took on a life of its own, an animated beast rising and swaying like a drunk ballerina in flats not yet broken in. The bearded man with glasses, reading Kant with a mix of pretentiousness and a sincere desire to understand, the freckled girl with a glinting nose ring—hell, the Catholic Father with his black shirt unbuttoned in the simmering summer heat. Here they sat, sharing communion: rather than a reminder of life, they acknowledged death, welcomed it into their lungs with breaths deep as love.
The priest took a drag on his cigarette, and I wonder why he smokes, if there is reason at all or if it seemed something to do when there was nothing else to do. Some of the people in the city, they rolled their cigarettes. The heathens of the Holy City smoked everything they could stuff into rolling papers, fitting their filters sloppily to the end.
Perhaps he liked smoking for its symbolism, its thematic properties. Cigarettes reflected the American desire for death, the necessity of it with our lives, because without death, we would not be able to justify our wasteful lives. If we were to live forever, then we would be forced to do something, but death had become our ultimate cop-out, our greatest excuse for failure. We could try, try to do something good and impactful, but then too late—you died too soon, oh well.
The embers died out, crackling like a campfire in the jumble of ash trays, and the city grew dark as the smokers fell one by one to sleep.
We're all hungry for something more
And not just enough jumbo-sized pizza
Or calorie-rich milkshake from McDonald's
Or another side of cheese-and-bacon fries.
But instead for the light at the end of the tunnel
That was foreclosed in the recession,
for the fingertips that brush our hair back
When we fall asleep in the passenger's seat,
and for the words no one ever says
That could disrupt the void of silence
Fill the aching pit our stomachs reveal
When we realize we want something else, something more.
They say the whole country's obese,
So the question is:
For what are we so desperately starving?
Submerged: Part Four
I clawed through the water, sinking only ten feet beneath the surface before crawling back up from air. Gasp. A wave sprayed my face with stinging flecks of water. "Ethan!" No sign of a head bobbing above the surface, only a black expanse constantly displaced. "Ethan, where are you?" But he couldn't hear me, even if he swam twenty feet away, because the wind howled, the waves crashed against each other like war chariots, and my mouth filled again and again with salty water. "Ethan!"
Turning my head, thrashing through the water, I searched for anything. A sign. Where was the boat? I spotted it rising on the crest of a wave that had pushed it three hundred feet in the opposite direction. I furiously swam for the boat, wind-milling my arms, pushing through the black though the tide sucked me away from underneath. Another wave washed over my head, and I spun, clutching for something, anything. Climbing for air, reaching for the thin, drizzling light. But I couldn't find the surface, I felt so disoriented, like someone had hung by upside down by my toes and beat me like a piñata.
A hand clasped around mine.
The city rose up to swallow me, and through the ruins under the sea, I could imagine the city as it once had been. There, that strip had been an old market, where tourists bustled past each other to buy straw-woven baskets. A great grass square I passed on my days off, before a saw sliced off my hand. Young people, still delusional with visions of grandeur, rested without anxiety beneath the warm sun, rocking in hammocks, or sunbathing on beach towels.
There– there had been some sort of old prison there, a dark creepy place they said was haunted. Always stories about haunting, though in a way the city had become just another ghost story.
Floating high above, I could see everything. The whole history splayed out, the myths of a thousand ghosts floating in an underwater dream. The green glare of the past pulsated to the surface, the houses rebuilding themselves, then crumbling. In my dream, I could see the birth and death of a city, and it seemed now, like the life of any person, nothing significant.
He slapped my face with the back of his hand, then pressed his clammy hands to my throat. Still, I spewed water as I lay on my side, the sea escaping from my strained lungs. "You're alive. I thought you might be dead."
I opened my eyes, staring at the side of our boat, as Ethan leaned over me, checking my vitals like I had taught him. "Where were you? You– the rope."
"I'm right here now. I'm fine. I'm fine. You cranked the winch too fast, and the rope caught on a rusty nail down there, snapped the rope clean in two. Took me long enough to find the boat. Then there you were floating face-down in the ocean, I thought you were dead. You were dead, nearly."
"But I'm not. Where are we?"
"We'll need to paddle back to the island." Ethan stood, shaking the salt water from his pants legs. The boat had flooded, and as Ethan rowed us in the right direction, I found a bucket to toss the water from our interior, though the rain made it impossible to keep dry. The rain died down by the time we reached our island, bumping against the marshy silt and hopping onto the shallow green platform surrounding our house.
"I need to show you something," Ethan said, covering his eyes with one hand as he scanned the waves. "No one's around. The smugglers– I don't think they're coming back."
"What do you mean? How would you know?"
"I saw them. I mean, I saw their ship. They must have tried sailing into Charleston, but they crashed against the wall. Their whole vessel lies at the base of that wall." He reached into his cloth bag and dumped a pile of gold jewelry on the table, chain necklaces and sparkling engagement rings. Then a rusted can of what must have been petroleum.
"Holy– you took it all?"
"Not all of it. There was a lot. They lost everything down there, at the bottom of the sea. But I found something even more important." He reached into his pocket and removed orange medicine capsules, the kind they used to give out at pharmacies before people learned to print their medication for cheap at home. "That's no Advil in there. Those are seeds."
I picked up the capsule and studied it warily, reading a sticker label that had been hastily written on: Corn.
Submerged: Part Three
When it began raining, we brought buckets, pots, Tupperware, flower vases, trash bins, and plastic cups outside. Anything that could catch water, we hauled outside. Then as the sky puked its guts like a binge-drinking frat boy during finals, we paddled off in our rickety dinghy. Work to do, beneath the shifting sea.
Irregular, to purchase fresh water in this part of the country, most of the land underneath the ocean, but rain came every few weeks; we collected every last drop. Ethan struck his paddle into the water and pushed our vessel away from a shallow mud bed. We floated between two strips of land into the open sea, where the waves crashed violently against the edge of our boat.
As Ethan changed into his rubbery diving suit, I took the paddle and furiously beat against the waves. Our island stood several miles away from the bay where Charleston lay. In the islands near the coast, a few people still lived, either too criminal or too poor to survive in a city. Most people lived in cities, because the federal government had invested billions to protect the patches of urban growth, the places where money came from.
They built walls and glass ceilings that filtered the sun's UV rays; farms only existed in blooming skyscrapers, seeds sprouting in clean, white laboratories. Everything wild eradicated. And below the gleaming banks and offices with sterling views lay the waste of society. Slums strewn in the underbellies of luxurious hotels, these houses made of rotting wood and trash. The garbage was often unbelievable, sometimes flooding the streets. Sewage leaked into the streets, where children sifted through the muck that reached their knees, collecting trash to sell in local markets. For them, anything could have value, anything at all. Though we were no better, diving beneath the sea to strip garbage form forgotten cities, selling it to modern pirates.
Though the smugglers had not come, not for weeks. Before, they sailed the islands once a month, docking near us to buy whatever we had found. Sometimes copper, sometimes old car parts they no longer manufactured. Once, they paid us a fortune for a pack of unopened Coke cans. I wanted badly to let Ethan try drinking one, since they didn't make sodas anymore– you needed water for that, but we sold every last can. All unopened, not too badly damaged. We had found them floating inside one of the abandoned houses underwater.
Ethan pulled the mask over his face and mumbled, "Ready." Through the frothing waves, I could make out the dark patterns of Charleston's streets.
"Stay close. We're looking for more copper. Copper would be great." He nodded, then flipped backwards out of the boat. I cranked the winch backwards, the rope snaking into the water slowly. The boat bobbed with each passing wave, the rain splattering against the brim of my hat and trickling down my neck, cold as death. Grasping the rope, I let it run against the edge of the dinghy, burning my palms raw. Rain made it slippery to grip, and Ethan kept tugging, traveling further and further from the boat.
Another wave crashed against the boat's bow, water spraying onto the deck. The next onslaught fell heavier, crashing against my legs and nearly knocking me to the ground. The smugglers– they never came. What happened to those damned pirate bastards?
Not far from where the top of the wall still jutted from the ocean's surface, a broad white sheet as grandiose and strong as the Hoover Dam. I sighed, bracing myself as the waves crashed harder against me. A foolish idea to row out in the middle of a storm, but we would have been stupid not to– only a few copper wires, and what was that worth? There must have been more, under every house here.
Lifting the rope, I pulled as tight as possible. Ethan, how incompetent– had he not found a suitable house by now? I felt a tug in the rope, a sign to begin cranking. Turning to the crank, I clutched the handle and turned it wildly. The winch whizzed loudly, even against the pounding of rain, the rope disappearing into a thick hemp spool. A minute later, the end of the rope rose from the water and whipped limply onto the boat deck.
Collapsing against the boat's side, I clawed through the water. "Ethan?" Now I shouted his name. "Ethan." But no head came bursting from the water. I tipped out of the boat, plunging my head beneath the sea. Bubbles escaped my mouth as I called out his name again, and again. Then I rolled over the side, plummeting through the waves.
I had never lived in a city and never imagined one so antique like the kind you saw in classic movies. Like a tropical snow globe of pastel-bright houses and business men in flip-flops. But I arrived downtown in a traffic jam of shuddering cars, languid tourists, and horse-drawn carriages. All a mirage of simpler times, when no one worried the sea might kill us all.
Still, the reminder loomed clearly from many miles away, the wall half-finished. It would be over nine hundred feet tall when finished, a bleak white spectacle. In downtown Charleston, residents and visitors tromped around like nothing was happening, like the world wasn't changing. At least someone had learned to ignore the inevitable.
I parked my truck by the docks where the man told me. Others waited anxiously, some without vehicles. Most looked like burnt-out college grads like me with too much stubble, and others looked unluckier. A man approached us wearing a bright-orange hardhat and holding a plastic clipboard.
"You're the ones here for a construction job?" He chewed on a piece of gum, glancing at the wall thirty feet away, which struck out of the water solidly, a concrete barrier. "Follow me, and we'll get you set up with jobs."
We all needed jobs here, I realized, all of us desperate and drained of ambition. Lining up behind the hard-hat man, we followed him up a set of steel stairs to a stark office where a fat man in a red tie assigned us, seemingly randomly, to different crews.
"Top of the wall, block placement."
"Filling cement."
"Cement cutter."
"Cement hauler."
"Top of the wall."
"Crane duty. Danny'll teach you. Just head over there."
"Cement hauler."
"Look like a good cement hauler."
When I approached him, he glanced at me only briefly before announcing "Cement cutter." Before I even knew what that meant, I was ushered off with the other men and women assigned to cut cement. Really, the task seemed pretty easy after a burly black man explained it to us at the base of the wall. Some other people created these massive concrete blocks a few miles away, then the cement haulers brought the huge blocks to the wall, where we would cut it into smaller blocks depending on what the foreman wanted. Then we loaded the blocks onto palettes, which were moved by massive cranes to the top of the wall. There, hundreds of men shoved the block into place Egyptian-style. It seemed very crude to me, it being almost the twenty-second century, but I could hardly complain about scoring a job.
The next day, after sleeping in dorms the construction company provided, I walked down to the docks where other men began climbing onto the backs of the flatbed trucks. One of the supervisors handed me a portable concrete saw and indicated the freshly drawn black lines running down the length of the long cement blocks. After cranking the saw until it vibrated violently in my hands, I pressed the blade against the concrete. I could hardly hold the saw still as I attempted to trace the black line, and sparks spat from the blade as I jerkily cut.
Pulling the saw away from the block, I nearly fell over, weighed by the saw's immense mass. "This is not as easy as I thought," I muttered. The black man from the day before stood beside me, wearing safety goggles and calmly cutting. He turned to watch me as I reapplied the saw.
"Careful there, now. Wouldn't want that saw to drop down, cut into your foot." I shook my head, that no, I didn't. But it was certainly one more thing to worry about.
Six weeks later, exhausted near the end of the day, I collapsed against the concrete block, and the saw veered from its path falling on top of me. But before the blade sliced through my chest, I grabbed it hard with my left hand. The blade sliced clean through my thumb, and as I fumbled with the saw, screaming, the blade fell against my wrist. Blood spurted from the stump as I crumpled to my knees. It took nearly ten minutes before the supervisor decided to call an ambulance.
And all I could think about as I blacked out, red lights blinking around me, men shouting, some jeering at my stupidity– now I was useless, truly useless, even for this sort of job.


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The doctor–patient relationship is by no means the only area where questions of a doctor's morality and/or decency might arise
The public has a high expectation of the moral standards that should be maintained by anyone who employs a position of trust in society. Morals are, essentially, guiding principles in relation to what is right and wrong, and they can apply to all kinds of behaviour. Moral actions and behaviour are virtuous, respectable and beyond reproach, so they clearly form an integral part of ethics.
The converse terms 'immoral' or 'immorality' are, however, most often used to describe sexual misdemeanours, although this is actually only one aspect of immorality. The terms 'indecent' and 'indecency' have been similarly commandeered to signify something improper or obscene in a sexual sense, whereas 'decency' is essentially the quality of fairness, respectability and of upright and proper behaviour. Another important facet of morality relates to honesty, but this is discussed further in Chapter 6 – Honesty.
It is obvious that a doctor should avoid any situation where it might be suggested that s/he has acted in an immoral or indecent fashion in relation to a patient. Less obvious, perhaps, is the fact that the doctor–patient relationship is by no means the only area where questions of a doctor's morality and/or decency might arise.
Regulatory bodies (Medical Councils and Medical Boards) have been known to view, with equal concern, allegations of inappropriate behaviour, especially of a sexual nature, involving staff members, or even situations arising in a doctor's personal life.
Regulatory bodies exist to protect the public and, in doing this, certain values and standards of personal behaviour are generally expected
The basis for this is that such behaviour can still suggest what is sometimes described as 'moral turpitude' – that is, deficiencies in a person's moral standards – whether or not any patients are involved. There is also a potential for such behaviour to undermine public trust and confidence in the profession.
Allegations or convictions for indecent assault, or those which involve offensive behaviour of a sexual or immoral nature, such as rape or pornography (especially child pornography), are, therefore, likely to be viewed very seriously.
Serious criminal offences aside, some might question what relevance some of these other offences could possibly have to one's ability to practise medicine, and ask why a doctor is not entitled to a personal/private life like anyone else in society.
Such views are understandable, but regulatory bodies exist to protect the public and, in doing this, certain values and standards of personal behaviour are generally expected. They are considered to be a prerequisite for the relationship of trust and confidence that needs to exist between any healthcare provider and a patient.
It is the abuse of this trust that lies at the heart of cases where acts of immorality and indecency place a doctor's professional career at risk. The higher the public's expectation of morality and decency, the more severe any disciplinary sanction is likely to be. Here, as in many other areas, we find that the price of being a member of a respected profession is high.
Doctors need to be mindful of how their actions may be perceived or interpreted, however innocent or well-intentioned they might be
Doctors regularly find themselves working in close physical proximity to patients, which creates a need for doctors to be mindful of how their actions may be perceived or interpreted, however innocent or well-intentioned they might be.
When dealing with a patient who is acutely anxious or distressed, it is a natural human reaction to help and support them, and to demonstrate care, concern and compassion. In some healthcare settings – such as when someone is being told that a close relative has died – this may well involve putting a reassuring arm around them, or touching/holding their hand.
In the past, such acts on the part of a healthcare professional would rarely have raised any doubts or concerns, but the world is changing and one can find the most natural and innocent gestures being questioned.
Some individuals are instinctively tactile in their interpersonal communication, and because this is their natural style, it may not even cross their mind that it could be unwise to adopt the same approach when dealing with patients. Much depends upon the context, of course, and factors such as the age/sex/previous relationship between the parties are obviously relevant. But past experience suggests that male doctors need to be particularly cautious about any physical contact with female patients, however well-intentioned the motive.
The doctor should always preface an examination with an explanation as to what he is going to do and why
Just as doctors are different, so are patients. Wide variations can be found between one patient and another, because of their own particular background, upbringing and style of communication. There are also important cultural variations to bear in mind. A reassuring and fleeting touch of the arm of one person may be welcomed, while another patient may find such a gesture quite alarming and offensive.
Whilst the doctor may be absolutely clear about why or how he is conducting a particular examination, this is not always obvious to the patient, who may misinterpret the doctor's actions. The doctor should always preface an examination with an explanation as to what he is going to do and why. Even simple procedures such as fundoscopy may be open to misinterpretation. The patient needs to be told why the room is darkened and that the doctor's face will be very close to the patient's during the examination.
Where doctors are found to have committed acts of indecency, or to have behaved immorally, this is such a fundamental breach of trust that the professional consequences are likely to be severe and regulatory bodies will strongly disapprove.


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Linux Foundation Releases Enterprise Linux Report
Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users
The Linux Foundation recently released the "Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users," which provides new data about Linux's role in enterprise computing.
The invitation-only survey was conducted in late 2011 in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group and responses were received from nearly 1,900 individuals. According to the website, the survey reports trends among the world's largest enterprise companies and government organizations – as identified by 428 respondents at organizations with US$ 500 million or more in annual revenues or more than 500 employees.
According to the Linux Foundation website, the 2012 Enterprise Linux survey shows that affinity among new and veteran Linux users continues to increase at the expense of Windows and Unix. The website states that part of this growth is because of Linux's role in two of today's biggest IT trends: supporting the increasing level of "Big Data" and achieving productivity and security gains with virtualization and cloud computing. According to the survey, enterprise Linux users show steady progress on all of these fronts and a clear preference for Linux as the foundation for these trends.
Some findings include:
- Eight out of ten respondents say that they have both added Linux servers in the last 12 months and plan to add more in the next 12 months, with the same number planning to add more Linux in the next five years.
- More than 75% of respondents expressed concern about supporting "Big Data" and nearly 72% are choosing Linux to support it.
- Technical issues cited by Linux users dropped 40% – from 20.3% in 2010 to 12.2%. Twenty-two percent fewer respondents cite perception by management as an issue, and 10% fewer say there are no issues at all impeding the success of Linux.
- More than two-thirds of respondents consider Linux to be more secure than other operating systems.
You can read more at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/01/linux-foundation-releases-enterprise-linux-user-report or sign up to download the complete survey report at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation/linux-adoption-trends-end-user-report-2012
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