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Celebrate the Wesak Festival in Mount Shasta, California!
21st Annual Wesak Celebration, May 1-3, 2015
This Year's Theme: TBA
Wesak 2015 tickets are $200 until December 31st.
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The Wesak Celebration is held at the Mt Shasta City Park, Upper Lodge — Click here for directions.
With every century, people see things differently. A 21st Century worldview is emerging — of oneness, interdependence and the primacy of consciousness — but calcified institution stay stuck in the limitations of 20th Century thinking. Our job is to be the presence of the Alternative wherever we are, always presenting another way to see the world whenever love is not put first.
— Marianne Williamson
If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world. We are selfish, that's natural, but we need to be wisely selfish, not foolishly selfish. We have to concern ourselves more with others' well-being, that's the way to be wisely selfish. We have the ability to take the long-term benefit into account. I think it is possible to make real change in this century.
— HH Dalai Lama
Why did we pick these dates? Click here.
Our vending area is open to the public.
VENDORS: Click here for an important notice about your space.
Wesak Interview with Dawn Fazende and Sahadev
Dawn Fazende discusses Wesak 2012, interview by Judith Conrad
Mt. Shasta: its origin as mecca for spiritual seekers (Mt. Shasta Herald)
Check out our Wesak attendee photos page!
This year's event is also a fundraiser for our local Meals on Wheels Auxiliary. Part of the proceeds from Wesak 2014 will be donated to the program.
Meals on Wheels needs a wheelchair accessible van capable of carrying at least 4 wheelchairs. The cost on these is quite substantial — upwards of $50,000. Grants may cover part of the expense but they require matching funds from the program. We are counting on Wesak to provide a descent part of the those funds.
Photo by Living Shasta Photography
Human beings operate in so many realms, above and beyond the miraculous but relatively mundane physical, mental, emotional, and energetic. But what is it that connects us, what are the virtues and substance of our true natures, as individual "consciousnesses" and as the infinite, magical, mystery of which we are all part? And as our world changes, as time seems to speed up, as our minds and bodies and technologies evolve, what remains true and essential? Has this changed? Surely our relationship to it has, as we grow in awareness. With so much changing so fast, how do we stay attuned and aligned to live our part consciously, both personally and universally?
Mount Shasta's Wesak festival is a "spiritual family reunion" begun, in what some consider one of the holiest places on this earth, by the late Dr. Joshua Stone and now under the direction of Dawn Fazende (editor of Mount Shasta Magazine).
Wesak is named for the legendary convergence of Buddha, Christ and other Masters in the hallowed Wesak Valley in the Himalayas during the Buddha full moon occurring in May each year. The convergence is celebrated variously in cultures throughout the world, including annual pilgrimages to the original site. The Mount Shasta Wesak Festival, however, is an event whose scope extends far beyond the Buddhist holiday with whom many associate the term Wesak.
As one of the seven sacred mountains in the world, Mount Shasta is uniquely suited for this annual North American Pilgrimage. The very atmosphere here is charged with powerful energetic currents and a profoundly restorative silence. The mountain is considered alternately as the Heart Chakra or the Head Chakra of the planet. The I AM Activity, a religion based on instructions dictated by St. Germain in the 1930s on Mt. Shasta, states that this is the place where Christ energy enters the planetary grid.
Local Native Americans believe Mt. Shasta is where God lives and Creation began. Many believe there is a city under the mountain and that Mt. Shasta is a portal between dimensions. It is said that the lenticular clouds so frequently seen here are generated when a vehicle moves between dimensions. Tibetan Buddhists, who are building a monastery here, have 28 specific criteria a mountain must meet to be called sacred. Mt. Shasta is the only one in the USA that meets all 28. People have been drawn to be present with Mt. Shasta's pristine and beautiful natural environment for years. They come to renew their souls and spirits and, at Wesak, to hear the best teachers available anywhere who assist with their personal development.
Wesak is an Eastern Tradition
Years ago our local Buddhist Abbey contacted us about the fact that we were using the wrong date to celebrate Wesak. They reminded me that Buddha was born a Hindu, under the Vedic (or Sidereal or Eastern) Astrological system. I checked online and virtually all the Buddhist countries celebrated Wesak at a different time than we were.
So I contacted a Vedic astrologer who cast the Wesak dates back to the time of Christ and found they Wesak was ALWAYS on the full moon of MAY which, in the Vedic system is Taurus. It seemed westerners had again taken an eastern tradition and made it conform to our specifics by using the Tropical (Western) Astrological system.
I looked into this very carefully and came to the conclusion that Alice Bailey made a typical western centric mistake — normal for her time and culture — and assumed Wesak was a western creation, under a western zodiac, the one with which she was familiar. She was told to celebrate on the Taurus Moon (and we all know it's really the Scorpio moon, Taurus sun.) I believe she went with what she knew — the western sun sign of Taurus running from April 21 to May 21.
Many of the descriptions given by various western spiritualists — including I am told Bailey herself — say that the festivals of the three moons are EASTERN in origin. The Buddha full moon is a Vedic tradition — an eastern tradition. (Remember DK is the Tibetan.) The down pouring of the Wesak blessing has always been tied in with Buddha's birth/death/enlightenment, according to Dr. Stone. Wesak is the date of this birth, death and enlightenment. This is celebrated by Buddhist countries as the first full moon in May. The Vedic system shows Taurus at varying times — because it actually calculated when the constellations are directly overhead — but roughly mid May to mid June.
Sun in Taurus, full moon in sun sign Taurus, occurs twice in a year — once in the Tropical and once in the Vedic systems. We decided to used the Vedic system as it seems to be more in keeping with Buddha's heritage and traditions.
Where two or more are gathered the Ascended ones will attend, no matter what the dates may be. It is only we on this plane who are constricted by such measurements. We are fully in touch with Wesak's spiritual energies. Our participants fully receive the outpouring being offered by the Ascended Masters. While doing that they also receive information to allow them to incorporate that energy into their lives.
Vendor Spaces
Would you like to be a vendor at Wesak?
Please or call 530-926-1762 for more information and to reserve the best booth location. Vending space is limited.
PLEASE NOTE: We DO NOT accept cash payments for vendor spaces. No representative of Wesak will ask you for a cash payment. Please pay by check or money order (made out to "Wesak"), credit card or PayPal.
Our vending area is open to the public.
Left: Audience interacting with one of our presenters.
Right: Early shoppers checking products at our Vendor Fair.
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Just completed my first 4 racess. Only dropped 3 points so far, although I weren't against the best opponents. Gonna finish my races later.
Just finished all of my races. Overall I'm currently 4th. Hopefully I'll stay in the top 10!
Lol. I've never been warned or banned on Miiverse yet but that's probably because I don't use it much. I do think that the Miiverse moderators are a little harsh sometimes.
Anyone played me? I race as Lakitu and my name is joe
@jreed3842 Hehe. I was so close! Good game!
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The prototype that led to Upgrade Soul
To celebrate the launch of Upgrade Soul, here's a screen shot of an eleven year old prototype I made that sets artwork from Will Eisner's "The Treasure of Avenue 'C'" (a story from New York: The Big City) in two dynamically resizable panels. At the time I was deep in production on Chroma, but my head was also ringing with inspiration from Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, and emboldened by a generous conversation with the man himself (who had been recently asked to comment by a New York Times reporter on whether Chroma was a graphic novel. The verdict? No, and rightly so).
It struck me that it would be pretty cool to make a comic with panels that could be resized, so I scanned in Eisner's work and put this test together (complete with little window resizing icons in the lower-right corners to grab on to). Digital comics have been a passion for me ever since.
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April 7, 2008
Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn
I felt there was something forced about this new edition of Barbara Pym's 1977 novel Quartet in Autumn. I'm a sucker for reissued 'modern classics', but there seemed something a touch in-your-face about writing the words PAN CLASSICS FOR A NEW GENERATION across the middle of the front cover. A quote from Jilly Cooper promising "gentle pleasure" was not quite an added incentive. But it had been recommended by people I trust, so I snapped it up anyway.
Pym's own story is worth going into briefly. Her books lost popularity in the early 1960s, and although she continued to write, she couldn't get published. But when the Times Literary Supplement, in the mid-1970s, canvassed the great and the good on the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, Pym's was the only name which came up twice. Her literary rehabilitation had begun, and culminated in the publication of this, her 'comeback' novel, in 1977. On reflection, that the two who nominated her in the TLS were Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil, might have warned me that this could be a dated and twee read.
It sort of is. There's nothing dramatically bold about Quartet in Autumn, no notable style, and although it's set in 1970s London it has the air of an earlier age. Yet there is a steeliness to its satire, and teeth behind the smiles. The quartet in question are Norman, Edwin, Letty and Marcia, colleagues who are nearing retirement and wondering how they might fill the voids in their lives that work will leave. When Letty and Marcia's farewell lunch comes ("their status as ageing unskilled women did not entitle them to an evening party"), the acting assistant deputy director manages to conceal in the valedictory speech the fact that nobody really knew what work they did, and that nobody had been needed to take their places:
'The point about Miss Crowe and Miss Ivory, whom we are met together to honour today, is that nobody knows exactly, or has ever known exactly, what it is that they do. They have been – they are – the kind of people who work quietly and secretly, doing good by stealth, as it were. … We shall miss them very much, so much so that nobody has been found to replace them…'
But it's this gentle wit that gives the book its appeal: quietness is its quality. Which is not to say that it's without edge. The theme of people, who did jobs that were never terribly stimulating in the first place, left dangling with nothing to fill their days with "eternity stretching before" them, is disturbing and at times quite terrifying. Pym has sympathy with her characters, but is not above swiping at their vanities and lack of self-awareness, and the idea that it is never too late to seize the day comes through loud and clear as Marcia in particular allows retirement to dissolve her.
What Quartet in Autumn reminded me of most was Penelope Fitzgerald, who (in my limited experience) has a similar softly-softly approach disguising a significant literary intelligence. Or it might just be that the covers are so alike.
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I'm one of those unfortunates completely taken in by the "softly-softly approach" of Barbara Pym, Penelope Fitzgerald, and several other wondeful English writers such as Angela Huth, Muriel Spark, and Mary Wesley.
Hi John,
Can one imagine anyone more spiky than Phillip Larkin, and he was an advocate of Barbara Pym? I forgot to mention Elizabeth Taylor who is beyond comparison as an English writer, yet her books had such innocuous titles as "Angel", "Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont", "Blushing", "The Wedding Group", etc. All of the writers I mentioned are worthy descendants of Jane Austen. Not that I automatically categorize all woman writers in England as great wirters. I'm no fan of Iris Murdoch, and not particularly taken with Doris Lessing.
These women probably didn't get married due to the shortage of men after WWII and had to keep working.
How sad that the general director said that he wasn't going have anyone else fill in their jobs and that he had now idea what they did.
But, there are clueless and tactless managers like him in real life.
When I retire, I won't have their problem. I know I want to do and there will probably be new activities being invented when the time comes. Maybe I can take a vacation in space??
Anita Brookner is often comparted to Pym, but — from the little Pym I've read — I don't see it. Brookner is actually quite an angry and bitter writer — its why I like her!
With Muriel Spark, her respect for Modernism and her moral seriousness which non-too slyly lurks is what marks her out …
I haven't read this one, but I really liked Pym's 'Excellent Women', and am keen to read more. Penelope Fitzgerald is more wide-ranging in her worldview, but I ken definitely see similarities. You're spot-on about Muriel Spark–she's much nastier (in a fun-to-read way) than the other writers discussed here.
I don't know that you're missing out on much with Brookner. Her 'best', 'Hotel du Lac', was so-so, and all the others basically seem to repeat the same book with small variations. Stick with Patricia Highsmith for that unreliable, restrained thing…
Critics give Pym a pat on the head and relegate her to the lukewarm category of tea & toast fiction populated exclusively by church busybodies, yet her view is actually vast. She is equally adept at male characters (and their views of female foibles), academics, office politics, London or village life, the flux of time, the infinite family dynamics of marriage and parenthood, and love. The larger world insistently crowds in on yesterday's England via immigrants, visitors, or foreign travel, and the long arm of History reaches out from the local manor house, or much older ruins, or remembered lines of verse. Though less relevant today, her explorations of religion, and class, and her marking of their waning influence in a changing era, add extra layers of depth not necessarily found in similar "gentle" writers' work. You could say she's muted, small-scale, interior; or you could say she's Vermeer.
I've just picked this one up John, my Pym moment has finally arrived!
[…] in Spark Muriel at 7:57 am by John Self When Muriel Spark was mentioned in recent comments on this blog, I realised how long it is since I read anything by her. A few years ago, I worked my […]
You haven't read ALL of Jane Austen many times and can barely remember P and P? No wonder you don't dig Pym. I found Quartet especially to be deeply moving and no, I'm not ancient. Band of Thebes is right – Vermeer is a good comparison.
And some of "these women" didn't get married because marriage just isn't for everyone. If you read enough Pym, BTW, you'll discover that many of the characters resurface in her books and yes, they find love and interesting lives, even marriage. In fact Mildred does. She marries that cool anthopologist.
The evolution of her entourage is pretty darn interesting.
What a great thread, John. For the record, I think "Excellent Women" is quintessential Pym, "Quartet in Autumn" her most accessible for contemporary readers, and "A Glass of Blessings" her most fun, for its churchiness.


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Chai Rum Toddy
We're a little obsessed with tea toddies for the complex layering of flavors that occurs when tea and spirits mingle—not to mention their unbeatable warming qualities on a chilly day. Combinations of whiskey, lemon and honey are classic, but why stop there? This chai-rum toddy will brighten your winter with notes of citrus and spice.
2 cinnamon sticks
2 tsp. whole cloves
15 cardamom pods, crushed
7 star anise pods
1 tsp. black peppercorns
2 Tbsp. Ceylon or English Breakfast tea
3 oz. aged rum
16 oz. water
2 tsp. honey, or to taste
1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice
Tools: saucepan, tea infuser, fine-mesh strainer, spoon
Glass: mug
Combine spices with water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, lower the heat and add tea (in an infuser) to the water, allowing to steep for 4 minutes. Remove the tea infuser but allow the spices to simmer for another 6 minutes. Strain spiced tea into two glasses. Stir in 1 1/2 oz. rum , 1/4 oz. lemon juice and 1 tsp. honey (or desired amount) into each glass.
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News from Senegal about the latest Biennale, featuring 'Producing the common' that allows for anonymous contributions from artists. Many new possibilities are opened.
The Dakar Biennale 2014 by Olga Speakes Anna Stielau on 20 June | Artthrob.
News from Senegal about the latest Biennale, featuring 'Producing the common' that allows for anonymous contributions from artists. Many new possibilities are opened.
The Dakar Biennale 2014 by Olga Speakes Anna Stielau on 20 June | Artthrob.
In Sao Paolo, a major forum to consider the biennial 'from the point of view of the southern hemisphere'. The main focus is on Dakar, Istanbul, Jakarta and São Paulo. But where is Sydney? South, but not Global South.
Piecework, 2014 is an installation and series of durational performances that occur throughout its exhibition in Gallery 2 at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts. The installation consists of three workstations and three workers dressed in a uniform. The workers engage in an activity of casting plaster objects from moulds in the form of 14.4kg gold bars. These casts are then painted gold. Piecework displays a purposefully futile labour of a repetitive and tireless fashion. It explores a form of work relating directly to performance that is quantifiable, investigating ideas of power and value and asks questions about the role and meaning of labour within artistic practice.
Shift work is characteristic of the manufacturing industry, and the artwork employs performative strategies in a rigorous process and task orientated manner by using Linden as a workplace that is in constant operation over the period of a 24-hour cycle. The 'three-shift system' is performed (Shift 1: 06:00-14:00, Shift 2:14:00-22:00 and Shift 3: 22:00-06:00) by the three workers who produce these gold bars throughout the six week exhibition period. The workers are paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced/each operational step completed per shift. Ideas of the factory are embedded in the vary nature of the work mimicking a manufacturing process carried out by uniformed workers who take up their posts in eight hour shifts.
The catalogue essay by Jessica O'Brien:
The poetry and politics of production
Addressing the intersection between art, life and capitalism, Kay Abude's Piecework interweaves personal experience, a critique on the distribution of global economic power, and the relationship between producers and consumers.
Piecework unfolds over a six-week period. A durational performance piece highlighting labour and process, the performers undertake manufacturing processes that reference the artist's personal experience and recent site visits to Chinese factories. The group works through an endless pattern of standardised procedures that result in gold painted serialized plaster ingots. The performances are structured according to a three-shift system, dividing the day into three eight-hour working shifts that mimic a continuous 24-hour production cycle.
By foregrounding the body of the worker, Piecework engages with the pervasive neo-colonial first world practice of exploiting emerging economies and their abundance of cheap, unregulated labour. With most of Australia's goods produced offshore, the performance addresses the disconnection in the minds of the consumer between the products we buy, and the often dehumanising labour that is required to produce it.
Banal, repetitive, precise and designed for maximum efficiency, Piecework could stand in for the processes behind countless products and could be extrapolated in factories a hundred or a thousand times over. Each action is carefully considered, creating a Haiku-like poetry to the work.
Highlighting the formality existing in standardised production, there is a purposeful ambiguity in the artist's aestheticised interpretation of reality. Kay writes: "Two different types of labour exist in the two environments of the factory and the studio. The large populations filling the factories are dependent on the market that exploits them. These people labour because they must work for their livelihoods – they work in order to live and survive. The labour present in art practice is one that is voluntary and pleasurable for the artist – the artist lives to work and create."[1]
Downplaying the desire for a single 'artist's hand' in the work, while expressly displaying the labour that it took to create it, the audience is left to question the value of the objects that are produced, and how it is conferred.
At the crux of these ambiguities is the role of the audience in the artwork. "The fine arts traditionally demand for their appreciation physically passive observers…but active art requires that creation and realization, artwork and appreciator, artwork and life be inseparable."[2] Utilising the understanding that the relationship between the artist and the audience is at the heart of Performance Art, the seemingly passive and non-participatory viewers of Piecework are in fact directly implicated in the work.
Piecework replicates the role the audience plays as participants of consumer culture, in their role as consumers of the artwork. Abude is the manufacturer and we the consumer. Without a market or an audience, 'production', in every sense of the word, would not exist.
By foregrounding the human process by which consumer goods are made through the physical presence of the workers, Piecework addresses the disconnection and compartmentalisation that is characteristic of present day consumption in a capitalistic society. And yet it also replicates those very relationships, distilling and aestheticising disturbing imbalances of power.
As Claire Bishop's remarks: "The most striking projects… [hold] artistic and social critiques in tension."[3] Piecework is a considered response to a pervasive social issue, but does not attempt to present a fixed meaning, or take on the herculean responsibility of suggesting a solution to global economic inequality. As unwitting participants of the performance, the significance we chose to ascribe to our role as a consumer of product and artwork is up to us.
Jessica O'Brien
June 2014
Jessica O'Brien is an independent curator and writer based in Melbourne.
[1] Abude, Kay, Put to work, M Fine Art, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne: November 2010, p. 28.
[2] Kaprow, Allen, Essays in the Blurring of Art and Life, Berkeley: University of California Press: 2003, p. 64.
[3]Bishop, Claire, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, Verso Books: 2012, p. 277-8.
"Passion for the land where one lives is the foundation of belonging and is an action we must endlessly risk." Eduoard Glissant
Previous roundtables explored strategies for countering the commodification of art through the practices of the gift and openness. The Sydney roundtable brought together artists and writers who have an interest in local context. In a peripheral country such as Australia, the international stage beckons as a recognition of worthiness. The goal was to propose how the local might be represented without seeming parochial.
It was the evening of Bloomsday, an international celebration of locality in space and time, marking the day's journey through Dublin. The discussion was located in Addison Road Centre, a long-established precinct for cultural activity in the inner-western suburb of Marrickville. The various tenants there, representing diverse ethnic backgrounds and scavenging economies, reflect an local resilience.
The participants focused particularly on the understanding of place as a key goal. One aspect involves knowledge of local plants, particularly their names and how they might be used in cooking and/or medicine. The process of gathering this knowledge draws on the different cultures that inhabit this place, which have alternative ways of using what can be found. Underpinning this is a belief that paradise is here on earth.
A number of shared opinions underpinned this focus on place.
Post-colonial guilt is no longer useful. It has the effect of alienating us from place. Respectful acknowledgement of traditional ownership should not stop us embracing our responsibility for looking after our part of the world.
An important means of gaining local knowledge is walking. Walking not only helps us discover the local, it connects disparate elements together through experience. Walking need not only be an individual action, it can also include collective actions such as parades and marches.
The challenge emerges of how to locate this local. Within the concentric context of the 'international', the local is inferior. The local is less advanced and less informed than the metropolitan centre.
Within the perspective of Southern Theory, the local acknowledges its dependence on context, whereas the metropolitan centre presumes a universalism that denies its own locality.
One proposal to explore this perspective is to find a way of linking localities together that is not hierarchical. Working at the level of council, there is potential to activate connections between suburbs similar to Marrickville in Sydney, such as Brunswick in Melbourne and Tlalpan in Mexico. Similar processes of place-making such as foraging should be undertaken in different geographically distant localities. The results could then be shared. The common experience offers a sense of solidarity to counterbalance the centripetal pull of the metropolis.
There is potential to formalise this into an event like a locally distributed biennale. This would involve identifying a specific time period in which events would occur and be shared between different places. Alternatively, it may be possible to consider connections based on contrast, such as the different political orientations of Sydney's Marrickville and North Shore.
Questions which arise from this idea include:
The idea of a rhizomic biennale is now open for future development.
Therese Keogh was invited to create work for the Sievers Project, an exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography that revisited the work of a major Australian photographer who documented the glories of industry in the 20th century. Keogh was drawn to Sievers' photograph of a severed hand holding a sheaf of wheat, a fragment of the marble statue of Ceres in Rome. She discovered that much of the imperial marble was eventually transformed into quicklime used to make concrete. It can also be used as a soil amendment to counterbalance soil acidity. In order to investigate this process herself, Keogh sourced a marble pediment of an altar from a church in Ballarat. She then worked out how to fire this marble, which was eventually displayed in the gallery as a block of quicklime.
Keogh's work witnesses the reduction of art into commerce. This can be seen as a loss echoing the demise of the grand paternalistic world of manufacture once celebrated by Sievers. But it can also be seen as a recovery of value from what is left behind, returning products of human endeavour to the earth from whence it came.
What is interesting from the perspective of South Ways is the adventure of the artist in confronting the material challenge herself, without recourse to external assistance. Her two hands thus provide a tangible link between the various phases of the cycle, moving from monument to earth. They allow us to witness the transformation of matter itself, a dimension otherwise absent from the silvery surfaces of Sievers' prints.
Below are photos of the firing of the marble with Keogh's description of the process:
These images show the firing of a marble object inside a large steel box. I started with a block of marble in my studio, and – over a period of several months – chipped away at its surface. I didn't begin this process with an end point in mind. Part of me was looking for a fault in the marble, and so I kept carving in the hope that the stone would reveal its weaknesses, which would then allow me to stop. But one day the mallet I had been using broke with the force and repetition of the carving. The mallet's head split in two, and it was like the marble was reacting against its own transformation. So I stopped.
Marble is a form of calcium carbonate, metamorphosed from limestone. When fired, the carbon dioxide trapped inside is burned away, transforming the calcium carbonate into calcium oxide, or quicklime. Quicklime doesn't occur without human intervention, and is used for a variety of applications (including as a base ingredient in concrete, and, in agriculture, as a soil amendment to neutralise earth with high acidity). It is called quicklime (from the original meaning of the word 'quick' as something that is alive, or living) because when it comes into contact with water a chemical reaction takes place that creates extremely high temperatures, and has been known to cause severe burns to the skin of people working with it.
Once the carving had finished, I constructed a steel box that would house the marble during its firing. The box protected the marble from the smoke of the fire, and allowed it to be heated more evenly.
My mum owns a property in Central Victoria, where I took the marble and the box to be fired. I propped up the box, with the marble inside, on four bricks in a paddock, and built a fire around it. The fire burned for about eighteen hours, as I stoked it through the night. When it had died down, I took the lid off the box. The marble – now quicklime – had cracked as it heated and cooled. Its surface had changed from being luminous to kind of chalky, as its chemical composition was irreversibly altered from the fire.
Therese Keogh is a Melbourne artist – www.theresekeogh.com. Featured image at the top of this page is her hand-drawn version of the original Sievers' photo.
South Ways is a lateral conversation about alternative platforms for creative practice that are particular to the South. The first roundtable in Wellington concerned the connection to Māori practices of koha, or gift-giving, and the emerging field of 'social practice'. This raised the need to frame creative works so that they might be reciprocated appropriately. The second roundtable in Melbourne dealt with the process of commodification and alternative ways of revealing the otherwise hidden labour that contributes to the cultural product.
The Melbourne roundtable was informed by the work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, who articulated an epistemology of the South where 'preference must be given to the form of knowledge that guarantees the greatest level of participation to the social groups involved in its design, execution, and control and in the benefits of the intervention.' (Santos, 2007)
The roundtable discussed different models for art that reflects the social relations in its production. Matthew Butler presented the Zaishu Project as an attempt to create work that straddles art and design by giving participants a stake in the outcome. Inspired partly by street art in Chile, the project emerged in 2004 when the City of Melbourne with John So as mayor was cracking down on street art. Lanes were continually painted a band of white to deter stencil artists from leaving their work overnight. One day, Butler lined a lane with cheap construction site plywood and with help of curator Andy Mac invited street artists to work on them in a clandestine stencilling event. The results were exhibited as a pop up exhibition in the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, along with DJ. The plywood was laser cut into slot together components to form the 52 stools and each artist was given one made from a random selection of works. The project has since involved hundreds of artists and gone on to include communities that include Bollywood poster painters in India, tribal artists in Fiji and is planned to go to Fitzroy Crossing in a project with Aboriginal youth.
Other projects were discussed:
There was broad discussion of artistic labour as a hidden component of public life. This included reflection on the pressure placed on the Sydney Biennale in the 1980s to feature more art and working life, led by artists such as Ian Burn. (Geoff Hogg)
Nathan Gray reflected on the criticism that artists who boycotted the Sydney Biennale because of Transfield sponsorship should also reject anything that has government funding. First, he argued that government funding is public money to be used for common good. 'You wouldn't think of banning someone from Medicare because they were critical of Julia Gillard.' Second, as a payment for services, the artists are in a position of subsidising events such as the biennale. During discussions between the participating artists about the boycott, it was revealed that both Australian and international artists were paid the same rate of $1,500. This discussion highlighted the unpaid contribution many provide for an event that contributes to the value for sponsors such as Transfield.
To build on this discussion, the project What I got paid? was proposed where artists submit information about how much they were paid for their labour. Similar to the Wikileaks strategy, the purpose is to weaken the structures of power that are built on secrecy through a flood of classified information. This would open up lines of conversation by artists about the value of their labour. There is potential for such a venture to now only include information about payments, but also attribution, as the contribution of many technicians and craftspersons to creative products often go unrecognised.
In general, the sentiment of the roundtable was to support art that open about its sources of production. One means of revelation is from the bottom up, through platforms where producers can share information about their contribution to cultural products.
Ceri Hann, Damian Smith, David Corbet, Diego Ramirez, Geoff Hogg, Laura Carthew, Matthew Butler, Nathan Gray, Nikki Lam, Trinidad Estay
On the morning of Thursday 27 February, 24 people gathered in Wellington to discuss how we can give art away. This roundtable was part of Kete, a biannual craft fair organised by the NZ Academy of the Arts. It was also the first in a series of meeting in South Ways, a project to identify and develop forms of creative practice that have a particular home in the South.
Wellington was an important place to begin this discussion (see background of the key word Bestow). It is the location of Te Papa, a museum whose brief involves the care for precious taonga, Māori treasures deserving special respect for their connection with ancestors and tribal life. It is also the site of vibrant artistic scene, including a community of contemporary jewellers who operate outside the gallery system. The roundtable was a space to stories from both sides about the dynamics involved in gifting art objects. Emerging from this are ideas for platforms that might support this practice.Art that is given carries a meaning that is different to art that is bought and sold. How can we make a space for this while acknowledging our dependence on money to survive in the current world?
Here is a summary of the discussion:
Gifting is an important means of creating relationships, particularly in Māori culture. The practice of koha cements relationships within iwi and between generations. For koha and other gifting practices, much depends not only the attitude of the giver, but also on the way it is received.
For contemporary jewellers, gifting and exchange has become an important means of sustaining its community of fellow artists. Newly emerging social practitioners are seeking to expand the circle of gifting to include the general public. This offers a counterpoint to the process of commodification that continues to deplete the public domain.
The issue they face is the potential lack of control over the disposition of the public. The danger is that these gifts are seen as 'freebies'. A challenge is to find frameworks in which objects might circulate into the public domain without too quickly being absorbed into private consumption. It is important to create spaces that involve mutual respect between audience and artist.
One way of framing the event so that strangers might be open to a gift is to declare a certain number of days when people are encouraged to give and receive gifts. These gifts would be tokens of connection rather than consumer goods. This has potential to enliven a city, making inhabitants more aware of each other. They can also create solidarity for particular causes or groups. This Festival could be supported by a city such as Wellington so that artists would be paid to set up participatory projects in which:
The receiver can have important responsibility. For example, in 1922 the Prince of Wales was given a Mere Pounamu presented with the blade first as a sign of kaupaki to establish an ongoing relationship. The idea was that it would be given back, which the Prince failed to appreciate.
There is the money market and Māori market. Less important things are made for money.
Andrew Last; Birgit Moffatt; Carol Mayer; Deborah Donnelly; Elsa Krasniansky; Helen Donnelly; Huhana Smith; Jacqui Chan; Joanna Mere Branthwaite; Johanna Zellmer; Katheryn Yeats; Kevin Murray; Kohai Grace; Laura Porterhouse; Matthew Wilson; Megan Tamati-Quennell; Owen Mapp; Peter Deckers; Richard Reddaway; Sandra Alfoldy; Sarah Read; Tiffany Singh; Vivien Atkinson; Yenji Chen.
Ping Pong: Colombia – Australia Cultural Connections through Visual Arts
7-30 November at RMIT Design Hub
The Embassy of Colombia in Australia, Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV), and RMIT University are proud to present Ping Pong, a pioneering international cross-cultural visual arts project where visual artists in Colombia partner up with artists in Australia, China and India.
This project is part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' "Plan de Promoción de Colombia en el Exterior", which promotes the country overseas through its cultural expressions.
The Ambassador of Colombia in Australia, Mrs. Clemencia Forero, looks forward to this project that will lead to a cultural exchange between Colombia and Asia Pacific countries: "Projects like Ping Pong strengthen cultural bonds and raise awareness on drawing, one of the most outstanding expressions of Colombia's current artistic scenario. We are very proud of presenting this project in Melbourne."
Exhibition 7-30 Nov
Opening: Thursday 7 of November at 11.00 am. Everyone welcome but RSVP is essential to [email protected]
Exhibition dates: Thursday 7 November – Saturday 30 November
Venue: RMIT Design Hub (Bldg 100), Design Research Institute Long Room, Level 9, Corner Swanston & Victoria St
Conference Colombia – Australia: Cultural Connections in the 21st Century.
Everyone welcome but RSVP is essential to [email protected]
Date: Friday 8 November
Time: 9:30-4:00pm
Venue:RMIT Design Hub Level 3 (Bldg 100), Lecture Theatre
Presented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia in partnership with RMIT University and Multicultural Arts Victoria. Supporters: Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne
Image: Jorge Julian Aristizabal, Bathos/Trivialidad 2013, image courtesy of the artist
Nicholas Mangan is a Melbourne artist with a strong interest in the material histories of the Pacific. His previous show at Sutton Gallery Nauru, Notes from a Cretaceous World concerned the history of phosphate mining in the remote Pacific island, which had become a processing centre for asylum seekers (see article). His recent show, Progress in Action, concerns struggle in 1988 by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army to close the Panguna Copper mine which was polluting their island.Mangan's strategy is to re-stage the BRA's attempts to cope with the blockage of food and energy by developing new modes of self-sufficiency. Locals took to the ubiquitous coconut as a resource to sustain their existence (as told in the film Coconut Revolution). Mangan learned how to extract oil from the coconut which could then be refined as a fuel to power a generator. This energy was then used to project a film documentary montage from the time. Alongside the installation and performance were copper plates, reproducing publications such as the Bougainville Copper annual report.
Mangan's work follows that of others who seek to re-enact past struggles, such as Tom Nicholson. What's particularly interesting here is the contemporary relevance of the energy system that he re-creates, showing the way in which the necessity of deprivation can lead to the invention of renewable energies. As Mangan says,
Beyond the politics or history for me it always comes back to the core materials that are formed or sculpted by an ideological determination, like copper being used for capitalist extraction or the coconuts being used as the agency for an eco-revolution.
In Australia, this has particular meaning as a challenge to the way neighbouring Melanesian region can be dismissed as an 'arc of instability'. It ranks alongside the television series Straits as a way of imaginatively connecting the continent to the oceanic web in which it is embedded.
Mangan's work also opens up a particularly southern strategy for art making, in revealing the means of production. Exposing the supply chain works against the commodification of art by revealing the process that lies behind the product. It sociology it demonstrates the kind of creative potential in the ecological knowledge outlined by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
Of course, it could go further. The exhibition itself is lacking a relational dimension. There is no active role played by people in Bougainville today. If only Mangan had the opportunity to visit Bougainville himself, and find ways in which they might like to become actively involved in his work.
Fortunately, the project is far from over. Mangan is in the process of shipping the installation to Brazil, where it will feature in the Mercosul Biennial at Porto Alegre. According to the curatorial statement, the biennial
gathers works together that explore different kinds of atmospheric disturbances propelling travel and social displacement, technological advancement and world development, vertical expansions in space, and transversal explorations through time.
This seems a perfect fit for Mangan and an important opportunity to have an Australian artist represented in this key South American event.
María Elena Lucero, Universidad Nacional Rosario, Argentina
11 August 2011 7:30pm, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, North Melbourne
Dr María Elena Lucero is Director of CETCACL (Centre of Critical Theoretical Studies of Art and Culture in Latin America), Universidad Nacional de Rosario. She is the author of many publications on Latin American art movements and artists, including Eugenio Dittborn, Cildo Merilles and Adriana Varejão. She has also written widely on pre-Columbian cultures. María Elena Lucero is coming to Australia exclusively to speak at the Southern Perspectives series at the IPCS.


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I believe in freedom of expression and of the press and all that stuff, but this crosses a line. Rolling Stone has noted this is a serious investigative piece about the bombing and what led to it, and the millenial generation and I am sure that is true. Rolling Stone does have legit journalism creds and I am all for a deep look at the bombing and the causes behind it. That said, the only reason to put this freak on the cover is to generate publicity and sales which will translate into money. Blood money.
I have been subscribing to RS on and off for decades. The magazine can sometimes be great, and it has helped me form a lot of my opinions about music and culture, but there has always been a lot of BS in RS. Rock Turtleneck will be canceling its house subscription.
One of the big slogans from the hippie era that Rolling Stone still lives in was "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." This cover is part of the problem.
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Rodriguez Diaz Perez Borges Y Cabron the Fernandoz Figueroa Y Pintxos de Martinez the – fictional - owner of Vallformosa. During a walk through his vineyards and castle he tells the viewer how he came up with the idea during an erotic dream. "Nowhere in the world people drink more cava than in Belgium. And that is why you need to have more sex. Because when you have more sex, " the cheerfully deranged owner continues, " more babies are born and I can sell more cava. " Followed by an emotional appeal to the Belgians: " So, dear Belgians, go and multiply and FUCK ME RICH ". Vallformosa. Made to make Belgium bubble. "
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Big Tex is the nation's leading open-format utility trailer manufacturing company, offering a diverse line of models ranging in capacity from 1,500 lbs. to 60,000 lbs. Their products include utility and landscape trailers, hydraulic dump trailers, car haulers, and a wide range of models that can accommodate motorcycles, ATVs, and golf carts.
You get what you pay for in a utility trailer, and it's the way they are put together that makes the difference in durability, capability, and reliability. Just like the enclosed Wells Cargo utility trailers we sell, we're confident you'll find that Big Tex manufactures the highest quality and most competitively priced open utility trailers available on the market.
If you don't see something you're looking for at our dealership, talk with one of our friendly sales associates about ordering a custom built Big Tex trailer to suit your needs.
Single Axle Trailers are perfect for small jobs - like transporting a lawnmower or moving a friend's couch. While not the biggest or heaviest in Big Tex's trailer line, these little haulers are still "Tough as a Texas Longhorn" and capable of carrying most anything you can fit in them.
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When you need your equipment to be as mobile as you are, Big Tex equipment trailers are your choice for strength and flexibility. Whether hauling parts or small machines, if the job requires a little extra power in tow, these "Tough as a Texas Longhorn" trailers will finish the job.
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An uplifting and adventurous trailer piece influenced by the beautiful africa, it's nature and it's music. Enjoy.
Also available in my Epic Trailerpack Vol.I
Be sure to check out the sequel Return to Africa too.
It's always interesting to hear my music in your projects. Would be nice if you could let me know where you've used my tracks.


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I could use a wodge of em so if you would be willing to send me a few - I'd take some off ya hands !!
Or maybe keep them as backups so if you have a few SSD's fail then you could swap the SSD for the normal 2.5" drive and re image, continue to use until you get the replacement SSD etc ??
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::: Zalman, leading the world of Quiet Computing Solutions ::: that can emulate a DVD/CD from an ISO. It's been a god send for traveling from school to school with.
mac_shinobi £30 +VAT
edit: That's a USB 3.0 version
There's also one with an LCD screen for £39.99
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Got mine from quiet pc, although I'm sure I only paid about £20 for it.
Edit, also got mine from quietpc for less than $60 shipped to the far end of the planet.
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Host Protected Area. For that reason I tend to use the drives built-in Secure Erase command via Parted Magic. FWIW, Secure Erase is recommended* by NIST in the US as a suitable media sanitization technique - one of the only ones that does not involve physical destruction.
Infosec Standard 5 - which is the UK government's data destruction standard - has the following requirements and is quite similar to DoD 5220.22-M.
* See Table A1 on page 19IS5 defines two different levels of overwriting:
- Baseline overwriting of data involves one pass, overwriting every sector of the storage medium once with randomly-generated data.
- Enhanced overwriting involves three passes; each sector is overwritten first with 1s, then with 0s, and then with randomly generated 1s and 0s.
Regardless of which level is used, verification is needed to ensure that overwriting was successful. (Source)
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A New York State Historical Landmark sign sits out front of the depot. This is the last stop on the Adirondack before crossing the border.
CP 2252, AMTK 406 & AMTK 822 are stopped just north of the Rouses Point Station at sunset. They are at the head end of the CP Toys For Tots train, making its last stop of the weekend. For more tra... (more)
A fresh Canadian Pacific Railway SD60 6254 leads snoot-nose ICE SD40-2 6440, ICE SD40-2 6436 and CP SD40-2 6043 at Lacolle, Quebec with 80 loaded ethanol cars bound for Albany, NY through the clas... (more)
A fresh Canadian Pacific Railway SD60 6254 leads snoot-nose ICE SD40-2 6440, ICE SD40-2 6436 and CP SD40-2 6043 at Lacolle, Quebec with 80 loaded ethanol cars bound for Albany, NY past the histori... (more)
Running as a company "PR" train, the nearly spotless CP ES44AC 9368 leads a rather grungy AC44CW 9778 a patched Soo Line spacer hopper and 80 tanks of Global crude oil from the Bakken fields in No... (more)
Canadian Pacific Railway's train 252-07 is tied down at Hayford Road in Rouses Point, NY with CP AC44CW 9594 leading the DM&E SD40-2 6050 and IC&E 6414. Many more photos at http://steelwheelsphoto... (more)
Rolling northbound between Lake Champlain and Craig Harbor in Port Henry, NY, the Amtrak Adirondack train 69-27 is seen with the standard set of equipment, while its counterpart will be along shor... (more)
D&H ethanol train #642 awaits a relief crew at Hayford Rd in Rouses Point
Customs agents have just boarded Amtrak's Adirondack at Rouses Point, NY where it has just crossed the US border.
Canadian Pacific Railway train 252-11 is southbound on the Howards Siding in Westport, NY behind CP SD40-2 5698, CP (multimark!) SD40-2 6054 , CEFX SD40-2M (SD45 carbody) 2797 and HLCX (ex-BCRail)... (more)
Canadian Pacific Railway ethanol train 642-615 heads south toward Hayford Road and through the vacant D&H signal masts south of Rouses Point, NY with the CP SD40-2 6017 leading the CEFX SD40-2M 28... (more)
Canadian Pacific Railway ethanol train 642-615 arrives at the US Customs Scanner awaiting the arrival of Homeland Security officials to inspect the train as it rolls into the US at Rouses Point wi... (more)
Amtrak's southbound Adirondack train 68 is seen passing through the CPF-191 signals and the northbound CPR train 252-26 at Rouses Point, NY. The Amtrak southbound is led by P42DC 169 on Saturday, ... (more)
The state of motive power affairs is represented nicely on this CP 252-19 train that has just retrieved the trailing ICE SD40-2 off a passing empty ethanol train. The consist departing Rouses Poin... (more)
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SPOTTED: Roger Dubuis Wearing A Roger Dubuis Sympathie Bi-Retrograde Perpetual Calendar Moonphase
Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting the Roger Dubuis manufacture outside of Geneva and had the double pleasure of meeting Mr. Dubuis himself. After touring the facilities and learning of the rigorous processes behind the Poinçon de Genève standard, we were led into a large conference room with a sweeping view of Mont Blanc and the not-yet-completed Richemeont Campus Genevois de Haute Horology. When Dubuis entered the room – situated quite literally at the crux of the old guard and future of the industry – one of the key things on my mind was what was on his wrist that day.


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Linux Foundation Brings OpenSUSE Build Service into Developer Network
The openSUSE project and the Linux Foundation will be making the openSUSE Build Service available through the Linux Developer Network (LDN). Among other things, the Build Service will take advantage of the LDN's AppChecker.
Along with the announcement of the Linux Foundation's LDN adoption of the openSUSE Build Service, the project financed through Novell is also releasing a new version 1.6 of the service, which supports compiling for the ARM platform for embedded devices.
Linux Foundation's VP of marketing and development programs, Amanda McPherson, commented on the deal: "The openSUSE Build Service is a huge step forward for developers and ISVs that want to package their offerings for all major distros quickly and easily."
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, community manager at openSUSE, was also excited about the "culmination of years of work" in the project: "The openSUSE Build Service has always been intended as a tool that would accelerate the general adoption of Linux. It's gratifying to see the build service becoming part of the Linux Developer Network and being embraced by the larger community."
Linux Magazine Online posted previous information about the openSUSE Build Service.
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Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
Poll: Vote for the Best Open Source Software for Photographers
The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
Debian Gets Forked
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Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
CeBIT Open Source Forum Call for Papers
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- Release Date 9/24/2003
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Dynasty Tactics 2 puts you back in the crucial war to unite the Three Kingdoms following the fall of the Han Empire. At this crossroads in ancient Chinese history, you will lead an army as a heroic general. The mighty Lu Bu joins the original cast of playable characters, each with new, compelling stories. Dynasty Tactics 2 also updates the "Tactics Linking System" to the "Sequenced Strike System" which allows a single military unit to a launch a deadly offensive using up to ten tactical links. Learn new tactics in the "tactics training camps" and build alliances with "Alliance Tactics." Build the right armies. Attack in the right places at the right times. Set off chain reactions of devastating tactical maneuvers!
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I love the Dynasty Warriors series and I am also a fan of the turn-based-strategy genre. So I had to try Dynasty Tactics 2. I liked the possiblity of pulling off Huge combos although most of the time alot of the combos very accidental, but hey they looked good anyway. That being said, the combat sys...more
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The first line of a story should hook the reader so they'll read more. It's so important to catch the attention of an editor or agent for the same reason.
WIFYR is serving up a new contest to hone that first line. The Great Beginnings First Line Contest is now open. The rules for the contest are as follows:
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New Interview! Jolene Purdy (Piper from Gigantic)
First of all, you must get this a lot but... your name is amazing. Are you named after the Dolly Parton song?
No, I don't know why my mom picked it! And actually she picked it as we were trying to leave [the hospital when I was born], 'cause she had to make a decision. I think it was a friend of hers growing up? They were trying to fill out the birth certificate and she hadn't picked a name.
Piper's kind of my favorite... do you love playing her?
She's kind of awesome. Because she does a lot of things I would like to do in real life, but I just hide behind my character and do it that way. That first day when we had to shoot the paparazzi-flashing scene -- I'm kind of a timid, shy person in real life, so it was kind of cool to just step out of that and just... let it all out there!
Wait that was your first day on set, and you had to film that scene?
That was my first day on set. Yeah. And we had to take still photos, so literally the first day I even met the cast, the first day of everything, we had to take still photos of that. And then the first day of shooting, we shot that scene. Yeah, they really wanted to make sure I was ready for all of it.
OK, so, I read that your beagle can sing.
Yes! One day I was rehearsing a song and she sat right in front of me and started to sing. And any time I held out a note, she would hold out a note with me. So now if I go up to her and I hit a certain note she'll know exactly what I'm doing and she'll tilt her head back and howl along too. And if I hit a note and then kind of slide up the note higher, she'll go up higher, and if I go lower she'll go lower.
Can I ask some Donnie Darko questions? Did you have an insane crush on Jake Gyllenhaal when you did that?
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Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "for this". It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes (compare a priori). Common examples are organizations, committees, and commissions created at the national or international level for a specific task. In other fields the term may refer, for example, to a military unit created under special circumstances, a tailor-made suit, a handcrafted network protocol, or a purpose-specific equation. Ad hoc can also mean makeshift solutions, shifting contexts to create new meanings, inadequate planning, or improvised events.
In science and philosophy, ad hoc means the addition of extraneous hypotheses to a theory to save it from being falsified. Ad hoc hypotheses compensate for anomalies not anticipated by the theory in its unmodified form. Scientists are often skeptical of theories that rely on frequent, unsupported adjustments to sustain them. Ad hoc hypotheses are often characteristic of pseudoscientific subjects.[1] Ad hoc hypotheses are not necessarily incorrect. However, an interesting example of an apparently supported ad hoc hypothesis was Albert Einstein's addition of the cosmological constant to general relativity in order to allow a static universe. Although he later referred to it as his "greatest blunder", it has been found to correspond quite well to the theories of dark energy.[2]
In military, ad hoc units are created during unpredictable situations, when the cooperation between different units is needed for fast action.
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Broken Tailbone: Will I Have to Live With This Pain?
I read your reply to the woman concerned about a previously broken tailbone and the effect during delivery. I was in the same situation, though no one rebroke it for me to make childbirth easier. It did rebreak and though I didn't feel it at the time since I was occupied with childbirth pain, I now cannot sit without discomfort. I think it may have healed at an odd angle and didn't even consider this until I saw your response to the initial woman's question. Do I just learn to live with this or can it be broken yet again and made to heal differently?Question:
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There are other things that can cause this type of pain, so I would urge you to consult your care provider. I'm not sure how postpartum you are, but episiotomy pain and rectal bruising may be contributing. I have known women who suffer for a year or more from mediolateral episiotomies or from lacerations into the rectum.
It would be an easy matter for a provider to see if manipulating the tail bone reproduces the pain you are feeling. If it does, rebreaking it, if it is fixed in an upward or backward position, might help but then again, it cannot be splinted like other broken bones, so it might heal into the same position.
I wonder if a physical therapist might not be a good referral for you. Sometimes, this type of pain is related to back or to muscles and supporting ligaments that could be strengthened with exercise or treated. I would opt for this before thinking about more aggressive and painful manipulations.
Sometimes, good chiropractic care can do much to alleviate this type of pain as well.
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