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Wingnut Calendar of EventsPosted: June 30, 2011 in Uncategorized
Tags: active rva, activerva, activist, anarchist, political, radical, Richmond, RVA, Virginia, Wingnut
Wingnut Open Hours HiatusPosted: March 18, 2015 in Uncategorized
The Wingnut is taking a break from open hours and community Wednesday dinners for at least the remainder of March. We have plenty of events in March still – a Food Not Bombs Fundraiser on 3/21 @ 2-5 on lacto fermentation $35, a book and movie give away on 3/28 @ 10-2, and Food Not Bombs cooking at 12:30 on Sundays!!! More details on those events on other posts!
March Events:Posted: February 27, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tags: activism, activist, anarchist, communal, Food Not Bombs, free market, library, open hours, radical, raise up, really really free market, Wingnut
More info on all of these events is found on this website and on facebook. Just compiling the whole list to make this coming Month easier to navigate! Hope to see you out!
Saturday February 28th – Basement Cleanup 12- 5
Sunday March 1st – 12:30 Food Not Bombs cooking at the Wingnut, meal is always served at Monroe Park at 4pm on Sundays at the corner of Main and Belvidere
Wednesday March 4th – 6-9 Open Hours / Community $3 dinner / Polyamory workshop
Sunday March 8th – 12:30 – 3:30 Food Not Bombs Cooking at the Wingnut
Tuesday March 10th – Virginia Raise Up community allies meeting at 6pm at 231 Belt Blvd
Wednesday March 11 – 6-9 Open Hours. Community $3 dinner
Sunday March 15th – 12:30 -3:30 Food Not Bombs cooks at the Wingnut
Saturday March 21st – 2- 5pm Lacto Fermentation Workshop $35 donation to Food Not Bombs to attend.
Sunday March 22nd -12:30- 3:30 Food Not Bombs Cooks at Wingnut
Wednesday March 25th – 6-9 Open Hours/ $3 communal dinner
Saturday March 28th – 10-2 Book and Movie Give away event at the Wingnut!!
Sunday March 29th – Food Not Bombs 12:30-3:30
Richmond Zine Fest 2015 AnnouncedPosted: February 25, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tags: anarchist, DIY, radical, richmond zine fest, RVA, zines
No Wingnut Dinner this week – instead Panel Discussion at VCU on Fight for $15Posted: February 23, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tags: april 15, fight for 15, living wage, naacp, raise up, RVA, VCU
Activists Block Dominion Headquarters and Demand "Stop Selling Our Futures"Posted: February 23, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tags: active rva, anarchist, atlantic coast pipeline, blockade, climate change, direct action, dominion, dominion headquarters, Dominion Power, dominion resources, earth first!, environment, environmentalists, free nelson, justice rva, no acp, noacp, protest, radical, rising tide, RVA, stop selling our futures
For Immediate Release from Justice RVA
Activists Block Dominion Headquarters and Demand "Stop Selling Our Futures"
At 7:00 a.m. a group of over 50 activists blocked vehicle access to Dominion Resources' Tredegar Campus in Richmond, Virginia to protest the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Traffic quickly formed on Tredegar Street as activists stretched large banners across the road and paraded large puppets around the scene. Two activists remain suspended from a pedestrian bridge with a banner reading "Stop Selling Our Futures" while a larger crowd occupy the access way to the campus below.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would transport natural gas from West Virginia, where there is a boom in hydraulic fracturing, 550 miles, through Virginia, and into North Carolina. "This proposal would be a dangerous investment in fossil fuel infrastructure at a time when the scientific consensus is clear that we must invest in renewables, such as wind and solar, to avoid further warming of our planet. " said Whitney Whiting from Newport News, Virginia.
This action follows several months of grassroots resistance in the region against Dominion. On February 3, an activist scaled a crane at a construction site for Dominion's proposed Cove Point LNG export facilities in Lusby, Maryland. On February 9, activists with the group Beyond Extreme Energy staged a disruption at a Dominion analyst meeting in New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, also with the message "Stop Selling Our Futures".
Shantae Taylor from Norfolk, Virginia said, "As a person of color, I am out here because I am disturbed by the climate crisis in the Commonwealth. The Tidewater region is second only to Louisiana for its vulnerability to sea level rise. Now we're facing the additional threat of offshore oil and gas drilling. I don't want another Hurricane Katrina or BP oil spill to happen here. It's time to push back against Dominion's corrupt political influence and demand an end to fossil fuels."
"I've been born and raised in Virginia, where we have pride in our land", said Phil Cunningham, from Prince Edward County. "Now Dominion wants to come steal people's property and sell our futures to the highest bidder. We are here to send the message to Dominion that people matter more than profits. This is our Keystone XL, and we will stop it. "
Here is a link to the facebook page where you can find more pictures and videos from the event: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Richmond-Peoples-Climate-March/345371075613238
And the Free Nelson page: https://www.facebook.com/freenelson2
Or search on twitter for #noacp
Raise Up for $15 Panel Discussion Feb. 25Posted: February 19, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tonight's Egalitarian Community Event may be cancelled due to snow!Posted: February 16, 2015 in Uncategorized
UPDATE: tonight's event is likely to be rescheduled due to the snow which is being called for. Will say for sure by 3 this afternoon. Sorry!
Here is the original description and hopefully if we need to reschedule more folks will be able to come out next time!
If you missed the amazing presentation at the Wingnut last night you can listen to this audio version. Thanks again to GPaul and Paxus as well as all the folks from Acorn and Twin Oaks who brought food and knowledge to share.
And a cheat sheet on different egalitarian communes:
We are having our next meeting on the subject on February 16 at 6:30 pm and it will be a potluck.
We are currently looking for people interested in joining/forming an egalitarian community in Richmond using the Wingnut house as a starting point, but with the hope of expanding to include multiple residences and properties.
At the February meeting we will be talking about what an egalitarian community with the Wingnut in Richmond might look like.
This is part of an ongoing series of educational, explorational, and conversational events we are hosting throughout 2015 in our attempts to form this organization and begin living an egalitarian lifestyle. Please come out to talk, network, share ideas, ask questions, and collaborate.
Justice RVA and Upcoming EventsPosted: February 15, 2015 in Uncategorized
From our friends at Justice RVA:
Dear JRVA,
We have some upcoming events we would like you to know about. Please note that not all of these events are planned by JRVA but we are still asking for you to support them.
UNC Chapel Hill Shooting
We want to continue to encourage JusticeRVA members to continue to speak out against Islamophobia as we mourn the UNC Chapel Hill shooting victims. We continue to demand #justiceformuslims. Like you, Deah, Yusor and Razan were activists fighting for change in their communities and were gunned down way to early. Read more about the amazing work they were involved in: https://www.facebook.com/ourthreewinners
Will Norfolk Become the Next New Orleans? People of Color Speak out against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Offshore Drilling and Fracking in VA
When: Today at 6:00pm
Where: Rag & Bones Bicycle Co-op
3110 W Leigh St, Richmond, Virginia 23230
Organized by JRVA. Please join us at Rag & Bones Bicycle Co-op (3110 W Leigh St, Richmond VA) for a chance to share info and discuss the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, offshore drilling and fracking in VA. The harmful effects of this pipeline, what it will do to our land, water and communities, the impacts it will have on people of color…
Take this opportunity to learn about the ACP, how it will effect you, network and meet others who are working to resist this pipeline & what you can do to help stop it!
Black Action Now Event – Black Trans Lives Matter Rally!
When: Feb 19 at 8p
Where: Monroe Park
This rally is to bring awareness to the violence suffered by the Black trans community. Just in 2015 alone, two Black transwomen have been brutally murdered. Lamia Beard, 30 years old of Norfolk, VA, on January 17th & Ty Underwood, 24 years old of Austin, Texas on January 26th. There is a prevalence and distinction of the gruesome violence that has been perpetuated against the trans community, but specifically against Black trans individuals. In order to bring attention to the violence committed against Black trans folx, we need to make people aware of all the Black lives affected by systemic oppression. That includes fighting for Black Trans Lives. Let's take a stand against transphobia, transmisogyny, anti-Blackness, and racism together and honor those who have been murdered or suffered due to these forms of violence.
Bring signs, banners, energy, and support! We will be meeting at Monroe Park at 8PM!
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Richmond People's Climate March and Interfaith Call to Prayer for Climate
When: Mon Feb 23 at 7AM (sunrise)
Where: Virginia State Capitol Bell Tower 1000 Bank Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Co-sponsored by JRVA: In the spirit of Love, Justice, and stewardship of our Earth, Richmond People's Climate March are calling for leaders of our local faith communities to join us to sound the alarm on climate change and pray for the wisdom of our elected officials as they finalize legislation during the 2015 session of the General Assembly. This is the moral challenge of our generation and we ask you as people of faith to join us to turn the tide for Virginia. This will be a breath taking ceremony during the sunrise featuring multicultural music, ceremonies and dance. We need to join our African-American and Indigenous brothers and sisters to resist the impacts of climate change! Please join us in Joyous Resistance!
MSA @ VCU Event: ROOTS: Islam & responding to Racism
When: Tuesday, February 24 at 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: VCU Student Commons
907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, Virginia 23220
Salaam brothers and sisters!
Please join us and the rest of the MSA members in an enlightening ROOTs session on Monday, February 24th, 2015, led by Br. Jesse Hudsonn. Br. Jesse will speak on the grave and present issue of racisim and Islam's response to it, and present what we as a Muslim Ummah can do to resolve this social injustice. The session will be in the VA Rooms of the Student Commons. Come out, bring your friends!
Shockoe Bottom Slave History Tour and Talent Show for Mass Incarceration
When: Saturday February 28 at 1p
Where: Main Street Station 1500 East Main Street
Join Urban AWAREness Inc., Sanctuary VA, Justice RVA and All As One The Universal Movement to CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!
We are hosting a Shockoe Bottom History Tour starting at 1p and 3p at Main Street Station 1500 East Main Street. We will be visiting historic locations in celebration of Black History month and the struggle to reclaim the Shockoe historic district and turn it into a designated park/cultural center.Tour Richmond's historic slave trading district and learn about the fight to reclaim this space. Make connections between slavery, the Jim Crow era and the New Jim Crow of Mass Incarceration. Tours begin at 1pm and 3pm.
Then, join us at 212 West Broad Street at 5p for a Potluck Dinner and 6p for a Talent Show.Join us in celebration of our skills and talents in dance, spoken word, poetry and more! Family-friendly event! Suggested donation $5 goes to benefit current and former inmates and community orgs.
Former inmates and those affected by mass incarceration are especially encouraged
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JUSTICE RVA PUBLIC STATEMENT ON MEETING AT RICHMOND POLICE ACADEMYPosted: February 10, 2015 in Uncategorized
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For Immediate Release
February 10, 2015
Justice RVA is a multi-cultural group based in Richmond, VA struggling towards collective liberation, with a focus on ending policing, mass incarceration, and other institutionalized oppressions using an intersectional approach. We take objection to the "Police and Peeps Community Conversation" taking place on Tuesday, February 10th and recognize it as an empty gesture from public officials, set up specifically by Richmond police and select individuals–not the greater Richmond community. Justice RVA does not endorse this event. This is not to throw shade on any particular group as we appreciate all work for social justice, this is just our collective decision and the rationale is listed below.
This meeting is not a community conversation, based on its very structure. There is no way for open discussion to happen at the Richmond Police Academy, because this is not neutral territory. People who are the most likely targets of police violence and harassment will never feel comfortable at the site where individuals are trained to work within the racist, ablest, and violent structures of modern day policing. The structure of a Q&A does not foster a conversation, especially because there is no time allotted for audience rebuttal to statements made by the police, but only an opportunity for police to take up media air time. There has been no public process offered to maintain accountability and to take the feedback from the meeting into quantifiable action. Accountability to the community is especially suspect in light of the restriction of cameras to record this event.
If the Richmond Police and the City of Richmond really want to support the Richmond community, we need to see action on the demands Justice RVA publicly announced at the January 12th General City Council Meeting. The Richmond community's demands have already been voiced. Putting forth this meeting is just another example of the failure of the Richmond Police to really hear the community they supposedly serve and protect.
Specifically, Justice RVA has already voiced a grievance that the Richmond Police have failed to protect the Richmond LGBTQ community from discrimination and violence and know that the Richmond City Jail is the grounds of atrocious acts of violence against individuals incarcerated there. We demand that a more accessible citizen-watch board for the Richmond City Police and Richmond City Jail is implemented, that Richmond City provide more support for rehabilitation and restorative justice, and mass incarceration is finally ended.
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The Art of Fermentation Workshop Fundraiser for Food Not BombsPosted: February 6, 2015 in Uncategorized
Saturday March 21st from 2:30 – 5pm come to the Wingnut at 2005 Barton Avenue for a $35 workshop on Lacto Fermentation. This is a fundraiser for Richmond Food Not Bombs.
This event is a fundraiser for Richmond Food Not Bombs and the suggested donation is $35. You will be learning awesome skills from a talented teacher and supporting a local organization that works hard every week to stand against the war machine and bring healthy food to the community.
Learn to make delicious lacto-fermented foods in this demonstration/hands-on workshop. Fermentation is a traditional way of food preparation and transformation that not only preserves the harvest but also yields greater nourishment, a healthier digestive system, and thus increased vitality. There will be a wide array of samples and you will leave with the skills and recipes to begin lacto-fermenting foods at home.
Suzanna Stone is an herbalist in Scottsville VA. She founded Owlcraft Healing Ways where she offers clinical herbal consultations and teaches nine-month herbal apprenticeships and day classes in herbal medicine, traditional foodways, plant spirit medicine and drumming. She was raised in a home where herbs and whole foods were the foundations of health and has spent the last 15 years broadening that foundation and deepening her knowledge and understanding of the healing herbs. She serves as a guest lecturer at herbal schools and conferences throughout the East Coast. She lives on five acres of plant filled land with her artist/writer partner, their three children and various chickens, goats, cats and the canine herbalist Artemis.


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For fairness sake, it says already at the front page that it is a Suckless/OpenBSD/Linux-based distro.
But indeed, it is its 100% static nature that makes me very interested in it. I am considering installing some of its packages on my "standard" dynamic Arch system - especially a shell and Pacman. I have been hit by a broken glibc before, and having the core static would make that much less risky.
EDIT: By the way. If you are interested specifically in OpenBSD "core utilities" port to Linux, you might want to check out obase:
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/sarcasm-like rant thingy
il check if they are simple, i like simple code
speaking of simple code check plan9 from userspace
its a port of.. well plan9 userspace
simple programs as they should be, easy to read too
edit: BSD tools look readable and simple too, probably the reason they chose 'em
plan9 is simpler still
Last edited by gens; 01-25-2013 at 09:55 PM.
gens has it right, I think.
Regarding the claim that glibc is lightweight:
1: see http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
2: if that doesn't convince you, get back to me when you have booted a Linux/busybox system in 4 MB (mem=4096) and have 2 MB used after boot.
For those who are saying BSD should die:
Could you please check what you can build if you remove all glibc headers containing the BSD license notice?
Also, please remove sudo, ssh, mandoc, the groff mandoc, me, ms, and other BSD-derived macros, mdoc, tcl & tk, ldap, libtirpc, and any other permissively-licensed packages containing code copyright by "the Regents of the University of California"
Plan9 is indeed cool and is in fact my favourite hobby OS. It utilities are unix-like but often not-quite-unix and I have had to build a few utilities from sbase and Heirloom for APE to be able to run configure scripts etc. Starch contains 9base (plan9port without X11 progs). If it is simple utilities that you want, you should look at the sbase ones.
Oh, and another comment:
FreeBSD != OpenBSD.
From what I've seen, OpenBSD is much better than FreeBSD in terms of having clean, bugless code.
If you blindly trust your Linux chroots youre gonna be burned.
I never claimed that bsd jails are more secure, because I don't know those.Even Linux chroot is more secure than bsd jails.
Linux containers (lxc) are not really safe either. There are several known ways to break out from lxcontainers. They are slowly working on fixing those, but again, the main purpose of LXC is not security.Not to mention containers.
True. Grsecurity patch adds various (at least 13) chroot restrictions so that chroot acutallly can be used for security.There's also many more options on Linux that are more secure.
There is also a "container" project that is known to do containers/jails safely: Linux Vserver.
My point is that you should be really careful how you use chroots and LXC - if it safer than BSD or not I don't know - or care. There are many other good reasons to stick with Linux.
You can actually get those feature on Linux too, with PaX patches.
I know those things because I was around when propolice patches entered gcc. (gcc-3.3 -> gcc-4). Both OpenBSD and Gentoo Hardened did lot of good work there.
Check out Alpine Linux. Uses uclibc and busybox and shared libs.


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Discussing: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49178
19 Nov 06 1:59 PM
Original Post
General Audience
Last week, a person I'd never heard of claimed I had plagiarized from one or more stories I had never read. It was, to put it mildly, a shock to read this. The alleged acts of plagiarism were simply incorporating somewhat stock literary scenes into my story - a couple standing on a rooftop/high spot under the stars, a husband solicitously putting food onto a wife's plate, a person falling asleep while cradling something dear. My first reaction was to tell her she was no-good, two-faced, lying weasel trying to drum up some attention. Upon reflection, this does raise an interesting literary question - how does an author take a reasonably generic scenario or story element and make it her own?
I'm going to take those three elements and talk about how and why they have been brought into my novel Hands of the King (HotK). This is not so much to refute claims of plagiarism (the claims were false and malicious and the person has been banned from HASA) as to get us all thinking about the ways in which we all use common themes, symbols, scenes and structures to come up with original works.
Scene Setting - Location, location, location
One of the delights of writing Tolkien fanfiction is the wonderful geography available to us. Central to HotK is Minas Tirith. Physically and symbolically, the city serves as a focal point and is as much a character as any person. Denethor in particular has a unique relationship to the place of his birth. It defines him much as Rivendell defines Thorongil/Aragorn. The primary characteristic of Minas Tirith is its height - it is physically tall and also the capital of the kingdom, the highest point of society and government. Denethor is at its peak. He is, after his father, the highest ranking member of Gondorian society. He lives in the Citadel, the uppermost circle of the city. Throughout the tale, he can be found on rooftops, walking along edges, scaling walls, getting a rush from constantly teetering on the edge of a great fall. It is both bravery and recklessness.
For the other main character, Finduilas, there is a different relationship to Minas Tirith. It is a dreamscape, a place where hopes and nightmares come alive. She first sees it in a dream and is shocked into an asthmatic seizure when she sees it with her own eyes and recognizes her dream made real. The heights are places of peril, not exhilaration. She sees the relationship between Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr keenly; two places bound together by geography and fate to be the physical location for a metaphysical contest that spans the ages of Arda. As with Denethor, Finduilas is also at a social and political height - daughter of a powerful regional ruler, a woman whose marriage can solidify a husband's fortunes - but it is not as certain. In a way that Denethor does not, she has a choice of whether to stand upon the most exposed location in the socio-political world.
Thus, there are many scenes in HotK showing the two of them, together and apart, upon the walls, towers and roofs of Minas Tirith, reinforcing the theme of height. The scenes of them together also document the progress of their own relationship. Their first scene has them arguing, with Denethor in cynical despair and foreswearing marriage and children. The second has Denethor comforting her as she confronts him with the terrible visions she sees, fighting off his own desire for her as he does so. The third has Finduilas throwing caution to the wind and declaring her love for him and her intention to remain with him, wringing a confession of love from Denethor in return. A fourth soon follows, where the personal profession of love mutates into something more political, an explicit joining of forces against political enemies. A year later, they stand upon the walls after their wedding, on display for the entire city to acknowledge as their de facto king and queen, though the moment is haunted by Finduilas' visions of destruction and downfall. The scene claimed to be plagiarized refers back to the first rooftop scene. It is four years later, and they are wed, expecting a child. Finduilas demands that Denethor think back to his earlier despair and say what is in his heart now. The answer is not entirely reassuring.
Character Development - The sub-text of ordinary acts
We often have characters declaim on what they are thinking. An internal monologue can make things explicit to the reader. Characters can recount what they have seen or overheard to let us in on actions of other characters. But what if you need something more subtle?
The sub-text of ordinary acts can help you define a character in ways the reader may not be conscious of until an "Ah-ha!" moment in a story. It can be something that adds to a character, but is not vital to understanding the main plot. It can also help to display the contradiction between a character's explicit self-understanding and how they actually behave. It allows you to highlight aspects of a character that seem opposite poles, yet have an underlying connection.
Denethor serving food to Finduilas (and others, usually his elder sister, Aiavalë) is one of the ordinary acts I use to explore the tensions in his character. He is a dominant man who can be very submissive to the women he loves, to the point of being servile. He loathes being out of control of a situation. He is a generous person, capable of enormous acts of charity and decency, but he is also suspicious of placing himself in another's debt. In choosing food for Finduilas, he is both solicitous and controlling. Here, I have prepared this plate for you, denying myself the best. I have defined what is best, in the food and for you, and now you are beholden to eat it. You will eat what I give you, because it is done in love and for your own good. I am the arbiter of what is best for you, because I love you so much I would do without so that you may have it. Over and over in the story, you will see these unspoken moments of submission and control. Denethor himself is not really conscious of what he is doing. He is aware only in the obverse, for example when Thorongil attempts to gift him with a pipe and a pouch of pipeweed and Denethor immediately suspects a trick. It cannot simply be a gift of a generous heart.
Props - Fun with pets
Let's face it, sometimes you just need to get a scene going or bring it to an end. Hitchcock talked about "MacGuffins" which are plot devices to kick things off, but may not be relevant to the actual story. A good story can weave in its props and plot devices in such a way that whenever you need them, they are there, but don't end up being too crude or obvious.
One of my favorite props in HotK is Telperien, Finduilas' cat. It helps that she is animated and can respond to the human characters, but she's pretty much used as a filler on scenes or to allow something to happen. She came in quite by accident as a simple prop in an early chapter, and quickly proved to be useful. I use her in four reasonably consistent ways:
- As a "conversation partner" that Denethor or Finduilas can talk to, allowing me to let them speak thoughts out loud.
- As an emotional comforter and stand in for the other person when he/she is absent. Telperien does this more for Denethor than for Finduilas. There are several scenes in the story where the cat cuddles next to him in bed or in his chair, often soothing him to sleep with her purring.
- As a "trust" meter with other people. She likes Gandalf and Thorongil and screams bloody murder when Maiaberiel shows up.
- As comic relief. Let's face it, cats are funny. She plays games with Gandalf's smoke rings, she doe her best to trip her owners, she steals Denethor's writing quills, and crumples his reports.
Because she is integrated into the story, she is on hand for use whenever she is needed.
The devil is in the details
I suspect that if I went through all Denethor and/or Finduilas stories, I could find several dozen (if not several hundred) examples of other authors having them kiss on a rooftop under the stars, serve each other food, and fall asleep cuddling a pet or one of their children. These are standard literary devices on which to hang an story precisely because they are such ordinary human activities. I've kissed my husband under the stars many times. I've fixed him and other loved ones meals intended to make them feel special. I have had pets all my life and cannot count the number of times I've fallen asleep with a dog as my pillow or with a cat in the crook of my arm. They are the basic building blocks of life.
What makes them original and gives us authority over them is in the performance of our writing. Of all the dozens or hundreds of kisses exchanged between Denethor and Finduilas in the fandom, what makes this one unique? Perhaps it is that we expect them to kiss and they don't, or not in the way we imagine. Perhaps it is the reason they kiss. Perhaps it is their mood as they do so - romantic, angry, anxious, afraid, sleepy, content. Perhaps what matters is not the kiss but the stars, or the elevation, or the shout that happens in the next minute. But the bare fact of them kissing, or even kissing on a rooftop in Minas Tirith at night, is a starting point, not a fully realized moment.
So, the final and only answer to the ham-fisted attempt by one integrity-challenged individual to hoard to herself the ordinary texture of life is this: we have taken these small acts and infused them with our own imagination, making them part of ourselves. There is nothing of you in them.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49183
19 Nov 06 5:15 PM
Reply To: 49178
General Audience
This may not be the ideal place for it, but I'd like to thank the people at HASA who investigated the claims of plagiarism and dealt with them so thoroughly. From the official statement posted today, a great deal of work and time has gone into this investigation - far more than I ever realised.
As one of the accused authors, I am very glad to have been vindicated, and would like to publicly thank everyone involved.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49184
19 Nov 06 6:03 PM
Reply To: 49183
General Audience
I'll second that! A huge thank you to the HASA admin team who kept the investigation clean, thorough and rapid. And a special thanks to them for putting the facts out in public.
I have been involved in fandom, in one way and another, for well over thirty years and this is certainly one of the nicest and most suportive comunities I have ever been involved with.
Thank you all so much!
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49191
20 Nov 06 2:29 AM
Reply To: 49178
General Audience
If I were to make a deceitful accusation of plagiarism, I wouldn't make the simple mistake of undermining my credibility from the start by targeting this combination of talented and diverse authors. Frankly, the suggestion that any one of them - let alone all of them together - might steal another writer's ideas or expressions, rather than demonstrating their own unmistakable creativity and skill, is simply absurd.
My heart goes out to each of the gifted writers who were falsely accused, and I applaud the HASA admins for their professional handling of such an egregious claim.
Warmest regards to all involved,
- Barbara
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49195
20 Nov 06 9:14 AM
Reply To: 49178
General Audience
I saw him as well schooled in some areas, both practical and academic. He's being taught weapon skills, tracking, hunting. He's also being taught the languages he will need. I see him as quite fluent in reading and writing Sindarin and Westron, at an intelligent 11year old's level, with a laborious intermediate knowledge of Quenya and Adunaic. He would certainly be being taught math and science, so he would be able to understand how the world works. But there are some things that eleven year olds are just not good at. The 'standard development' lists for eleven year olds say: http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=776
- tends to be egocentric, critical, and uncooperative
- may be tearful, fearful, and full of worries
- relationship with mother is particularly thorny
- displays anger physically--fights, slams doors, kicks
- away from home, behavior is well mannered and quite helpful
- friendships are still important, but with more quarrels than before
- may have one "best friend"
And while their decision-making skills may be improving, even the possibility of a thorough analysis, in advance, of the consequences of their acts is still some ways in the future (Heck, that's beyond a lot of adults, including me, most of the time.) I see eleven year olds as still partaking in some 'magical thinking': I want the consequences to be this way, so nothing else is possible as an outcome. But when things do go wrong, they are able to cope, adjust and learn from the experience in ways they could not have done six years earlier.
I've used Elrohir before as the person Estel goes to when he needs advice, see "Toy Story", so it seemed natural to use him again. And things would have to go a different way than Estel expected, or what would be the point of writing the story? There would be no tension, and nothing to resolve. Still, I didn't want to put him in actual danger. They all know he has to do that eventually, but I think the protective impulse would still be stronger.
I also didn't want to make Elrohir so perfect that he was above making mistakes with Estel. When things come to a head - Estel has 'failed', the 'orcs' are coming, there is no escape because Estel made mistakes, they are both going to die – to have Estel do anything other than break down and cry, and be comforted by Elrohir, would be unnatural. That Estel takes the wrong lesson from the experience, greatly frustrating Elrohir, also seemed to me to be quite typical of the eleven year olds I've known.
I wanted, and I think I managed, to put a unique twist on the "young boy's first experience in the wild" story.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49198
20 Nov 06 12:05 PM
Reply To: 49178
General Audience
I am most of all angry for the time and trouble this entire incident took from Hasa administration which does so much for so many of us purely for the love of it all! This type of thing is potentially dangerous in an environment based upon personal trust and am very relieved to see the back of its perpetrator!
Thank you again, Hasa admin, for your efforts to sort the whole thing out! You have been great.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49206
20 Nov 06 2:07 PM
Reply To: 49198
General Audience
(Can't promise I would have been so calm if she had attacked my current obsession--my WIP novel!)
Yes, Oshun -- how dare you steal my idea that *certain LOTR characters* might enjoy having sex? It's mine, I tell you -- mine! *removing tongue from cheek here*
These charges were preposterous, and I'm glad to see that those accused were given a fair review. This is bound to have a chilling effect on all of us, though. Already, I've considered abandoning story ideas because I've seen someone has beaten me to it, even though my own proposed story would be nothing like it.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49208
20 Nov 06 2:42 PM
Reply To: 49206
General Audience
As far influences within a community: the concept that it could be otherwise is beyond ridiculous -- otherwise we wouldn't have so many arguments about whether something is fanon or canon and so many acknowledgements in summaries, footnotes and author's notes.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49209
20 Nov 06 2:43 PM
Reply To: 49206
General Audience
This is bound to have a chilling effect on all of us, though. Already, I've considered abandoning story ideas because I've seen someone has beaten me to it, even though my own proposed story would be nothing like it.
If you let this stop you from writing what you want, then she has won. I say, "Go for it!" There is room in fandom for every sort of treatment of every sort of idea.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49210
20 Nov 06 5:46 PM
Reply To: 49178
General Audience
Well said and well met! I had no idea I was a part of such an illustrious company as this until I received an e-mail from The HASA site managers saying I, too, had been accused by this individual of plagiaring his/her material. Needless to say, I was stunned! After a bit of research my amazement turned into a simmering anger when I found that this writer's work that allegedly was plagiarized was submitted in 2006 and my story "The Haven of Rivendell" was archived by HASA in December 2004.
The idea of generic incidents in tales is as old as tale telling itself. Whenever I teach The Odyssey or Romeo and Juliet, I hear echoes of both in Tolkien's work, modern movies, and even my own writing. Haven't we all been influenced by what we read? Otherwise, why would we even be here having this conversation?
I am not sure what "stealing" I have been accused of by this individual, and frankly, except for my first glow of anger, I couldn't care less. Since my story of Denethor and Finduilas is anything but a love story (at least between that pair and I have not included a cat, though my tabby now wonders why he has not had a starring role in the adventures) I have to assume that my "thievery" had to do with Estel growing up at Rivendell...does that make anyone including this reference guilty of plagiarizing this individual's works?
On a sombre note, I write my tales for my own amusement and that of my friends. I submitted the first which was "Haven" on a dare and have added others solely based on the encouragement of readers here.
I wish I could say I've read all your wonderful stories but I have made it a point to avoid any stories of Aragorn's youth so I am not inadvertently influenced by others' writing. Good writing to you all.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49211
20 Nov 06 7:28 PM
Reply To: 49210
General Audience
Were all of the other five stories about Aragorn or characters from Gondor? I wonder how a Silmarillion geek like me got put into that group?
I thought that the story "Amras the Stableboy" was the story AMC supposedly plagiarized, but that was about Boromir and Faramir. And I was too lazy/miffed to go searching the rest of the stories.
If this is the case, then the bizarre just got bizarrer. ;)
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49212
20 Nov 06 7:52 PM
Reply To: 49211
General Audience
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49213
20 Nov 06 8:07 PM
Reply To: 49211
General Audience
No, 'Amras the Stableboy' was a Denethor and Finduilas. Finduilas was disguised as the stableboy...
I don't think you can actually apply logic to any of this.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49214
20 Nov 06 8:26 PM
Reply To: 49211
General Audience
Were all of the other five stories about Aragorn or characters from Gondor? I wonder how a Silmarillion geek like me got put into that group?
No. One was about Thranduil and his wife. The element was falling down after saying he wouldn't.
I think the Silm fics caught the attention because of the brothers comforting brothers. The whole thing was preposterous. Pelople need to understand what plagiarism really is.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49217
21 Nov 06 2:09 AM
Reply To: 49214
General Audience
People need to understand what plagiarism really is.
When I did the research for my little round-up on plagiarism, I noticed that most sources for plagiarism simply include the stealing of ideas without ever saying what an "idea" is.
And that seems to be the most important aspect for (fan) fiction (simple copying is easy to dis-/prove with those new software tools).
Not to turn this into a legal discussion or anything, but I thought it might be interesting to look at what the law *really* says about copyright of ideas:
(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship
extend to any idea, (...) regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
(§ 102, Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code)
So what's with plagiarizing an "idea"?
I have found only one good explanation for academic texts, in C. Barnbaum's "Plagiarism - A Student's Guide to Recognizing It and Avoiding It":
"If the author of the source article expresses a creative idea or suggests a solution to a problem, the idea or solution must be clearly attributed to the author. (...) For example, what a black hole is and how it is defined is general knowledge. You do not need to reference a general description of a black hole. The escape velocity of earth is also general knowledge and needs no reference. The approximate distance to the center of the Galaxy is also general knowledge. However, a new idea about how to look for black holes or a new solution to a physics problem needs to be attributed to the authors." (emphasis by me)
This *obviously* doesn't work that way for fiction. So what's with theft of ideas in fiction?
Just any "idea" cannot even be copyrighted, a "new idea" as outlined in the academic example above is not what we deal with in (fan) fiction.
For an "idea" to be stolen in fiction in a way that it amounts to plagiarism, the plagiarist has to steal not only the abstract idea, but the idea how it was expressed by the original author. An idea plus extras - the specific language and details.
For example, I wrote a huge fanfic novel about a German law student called Lothíriel who runs away from her exams, meets Gandalf, ends up in Middle-earth and becomes a Tenth Walker.
If someone else writes a Tenth Walker story, that's obviously not plagiarim, nor did I commit plagiarism by writing my story.
If someone else writes a Tenth Walker story about a girl called Lothíriel, I may make undignified noises and think privately that maybe someone was not very original (because I'm just that arrogant ), but that's *still* no plagiarism.
"Lothíriel" is a canon name with not much attached to it, a Tenth Walker story is a "generally accepted" motif in LOTR fandom.
However, if someone were to write about a law student called Lothíriel, who runs away from her exams to become a Tenth Walker ... then it's not just the abstract/general idea that was "stolen", but more, the idea how I specifically expressed it in my story (incidentally that *has* happened, but at FFNet).
Just my 0.02€.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49218
21 Nov 06 6:03 AM
Reply To: 49217
General Audience
However, if someone were to write about a law student called Lothíriel, who runs away from her exams to become a Tenth Walker ... then it's not just the abstract/general idea that was "stolen", but more, the idea how I specifically expressed it in my story (incidentally that *has* happened, but at FFNet).
{{{Juno}}} I am so sorry to hear that! Well, I'm sure there is no confusion by anyone who ever read your version - which I am sure is far superior.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49220
21 Nov 06 6:58 AM
Reply To: 49212
General Audience
Hi, Oshun,
I've tried to read your ficlet, but it won't open. Is it still up?
I didn't realize that the story targeted was the one inspired by AMC. Boo.
Looking at PV's list of stories, it just seemed that all were Aragorn- or Gondor-based. Given that, I found it a bit hard to fathom how Silm stories could be accused of plagiarism, but I suppose I'm trying to impose sense upon a senseless incident.
Btw, credit for inspiration is more than enough for me. I don't expect any credit at all since I don't have the audacity to claim to hold that I the rights to ideas. But I do appreciate it!
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49221
21 Nov 06 7:10 AM
Reply To: 49214
General Audience
Hi, Jael,
I know that the element particularly targeted in AMC was Maglor comforting Celegorm, but my foolish and logical mind assumed that her stories might have used the same characters? The same family? The same book, maybe??
But as you said, the whole thing is preposterous. I should stop trying to make sense of things, perhaps, and simply chalk it up as my most bizarre experience in the fandom to date.
Though I am glad that she didn't find the whole novel on my LiveJournal. OMG. I would have been in serious trouble. Later, Maedhros comforts Celegorm. Then Maedhros comforts Maglor. Then Maglor comforts Maedhros, and one could perhaps argue that there's a bit of comfort for and by Caranthir as well (though it's hard to tell since Caranthir is so weird). Are we limited to brothers because Fingon's in there too? But my big secret that I wrote 350,000 plagiarized words would have been out. /sarcasm ;)
Dawn, who is going to behave and go back to work now
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49227
21 Nov 06 10:02 AM
Reply To: 49218
General Audience
Thanks for the huggles, Gwynnyd! But it was really not a big deal, just another kid with no clue what plagiarism is, and it happened two years ago, so it's really old news. I just mentioned it because I think that's a good illustration for that difficult "plagiarism of ideas" stuff.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49231
21 Nov 06 12:23 PM
Reply To: 49221
General Audience
Hi, Jael,
I know that the element particularly targeted in AMC was Maglor comforting Celegorm, but my foolish and logical mind assumed that her stories might have used the same characters? The same family? The same book, maybe??
Hello, Dawn! No, the complaint against Jay of Lasgalen's Thranduil fic is what clinched it. Rather like the SATs, where they ask what doesn't fit. Obviously Thranduil didn't, other than the 'falling' element. Someone was really stretching to find similarities here.
I was a little bit worried myself, because my one published story, approved around the time of the others contained (gasp!) a scene with Thranduil holding his infant son. Such an unusual thing simply had to be stolen from someone else, right? LOL
Puh-leeze! Can't some people understand that, writing in the same universe, with the same characters, we are very likely to have some coincidental similarities?
my most bizarre experience in the fandom to date.
If that is the case, I would call you lucky.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49232
21 Nov 06 12:38 PM
Reply To: 49231
General Audience
I think the choice of the stories to go after was pretty random--since the supposedly similar elements were so generic.
"my most bizarre experience in the fandom to date" -- I've been lucky too. Up to this point my most heated exchanges have been over whether a character spoke Sindarin or not and possible physical aspects of a certain imaginary building! LOL I'd like to restrict my arguments to things, which at least assume a common interest and the desire to produce the best product possible.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49235
22 Nov 06 1:36 AM
Reply To: 49231
General Audience
No, the complaint against Jay of Lasgalen's Thranduil fic is what clinched it. Rather like the SATs, where they ask what doesn't fit. Obviously Thranduil didn't, other than the 'falling' element. Someone was really stretching to find similarities here.
I read through PV's stories (against my better judgement!) to find out what is was that I'm supposed to have plagiarised. I think it comes in 'Amras the Stableboy' - a wounded Denethor assures 'Amras' that he won't faint, then does.
In my story (A Crown of Woodland Flowers) a young and light-hearted Thranduil is showing off for his wife. He says he won't fall in the stream, but does. It's such a general sort of scene that I've seen it in films, cartoons and books, and in RL. What's more, that scene is an expansion of one in a much earlier story (Telparian) where a young Legolas does exactly the same, and Thranduil remembers. It doesn't strike me as being remotely similar to PV's!
I guess I've been lucky too. It's the first complaint I've ever received ;)
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49237
22 Nov 06 11:34 AM
Reply To: 49235
General Audience
I read through PV's stories (against my better judgement!) to find out what is was that I'm supposed to have plagiarised. I think it comes in 'Amras the Stableboy' - a wounded Denethor assures 'Amras' that he won't faint, then does.
In my story (A Crown of Woodland Flowers) a young and light-hearted Thranduil is showing off for his wife. He says he won't fall in the stream, but does.
You nailed it! I had read and reviewed both stories, so I saw it right away -- at least once I read the infamous playlist and saw the elements that were highlighted. And I though, puh-leeze! If something that general is going to be used as a basis for a plagiarism charge, then we might as well all shut off the lights and go home.
Re: Thoughts on Writing: Crafting Original Work
Message: 49238
22 Nov 06 11:36 AM
Reply To: 49211
General Audience
I wonder how a Silmarillion geek like me got put into that group?
That was actually more or less my thought - "Um, doesn't Dawn write Simarillion almost exclusively? How'd she get in there?"
I really didn't and don't feel anything other than, "Huh. Um....yeah, right. Whatever, lady." I'm very pleased that HASA admin took care of everything in such a swift, efficient manner. That approach made this whole incident as painless as it could be, and I'm very, very appreciative. In the hands of less-organized and dedicated people, it could have gotten very nasty. So again, thank you.


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49-2022.00 - Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
Install, set-up, rearrange, or remove switching, distribution, routing, and dialing equipment used in central offices or headends. Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property. May install communications equipment or communications wiring in buildings.
Sample of reported job titles: Central Office Technician, Combination Technician, Communications Technician, Customer Service Technician (CST), Field Technician, Install / Repair Technician, Installer, Outside Plant Technician, Service Technician, Telecommunications Technician
Tasks | Tools & Technology | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Note differences in wire and cable colors so that work can be performed correctly.
- Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
- Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.
- Drive crew trucks to and from work areas.
- Inspect equipment on a regular basis to ensure proper functioning.
- Repair or replace faulty equipment such as defective and damaged telephones, wires, switching system components, and associated equipment.
- Remove and remake connections to change circuit layouts, following work orders or diagrams.
- Demonstrate equipment to customers and explain how it is to be used, and respond to any inquiries or complaints.
- Analyze test readings, computer printouts, and trouble reports to determine equipment repair needs and required repair methods.
- Adjust or modify equipment to enhance equipment performance or to respond to customer requests.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
|Circuit tester — In-line modular adapters; Polarity testers
|GFI circuit testers — Cable fault finders; Receptacle analyzers
|Multimeters — Digital multimeters
|Stripping tools — T-strippers
|Voice data video cable tester — Bridge tap detectors; Modem verification units; Pocket toners; Telecom test sets
Technology used in this occupation:
|Analytical or scientific software — Fluke ClearSight Analyzer; Fluke Networks TechAdvisor Field Access System
|Expert system software — Fluke Networks Fluke TechEXPERT
|Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
|Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
|Word processing software — Microsoft Word
|Telecommunications — Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
|Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
|Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
|Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
|Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
|English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
|Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
|Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
|Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
|Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
|Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
|Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
|Troubleshooting — Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Equipment Maintenance — Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
|Repairing — Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
|Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
|Operation and Control — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
|Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
|Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
|Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
|Multilimb Coordination — The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
Work Activities
|Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
|Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
|Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
|Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment — Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
|Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
|Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
|Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
|Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Work Context
|In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment — 85% responded "Every day."
|Telephone — 72% responded "Every day."
|Face-to-Face Discussions — 73% responded "Every day."
|Contact With Others — 65% responded "Constant contact with others."
|Freedom to Make Decisions — 52% responded "A lot of freedom."
|Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 58% responded "Continually or almost continually."
|Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 64% responded "Every day."
|Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 67% responded "Every day."
|Deal With External Customers — 53% responded "Extremely important."
|Exposed to Contaminants — 49% responded "Every day."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include food service managers, electricians, agricultural technicians, legal secretaries, occupational therapy assistants, and medical assistants.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Post-secondary certificate
|Associate's degree
|High school diploma or equivalent
Interest code: RIC
|Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
|Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
|Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
|Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
|Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
|Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
|Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
|Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
|Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
|Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
|Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
|Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
|Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
Work Values
|Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
|Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
|Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2014)
|$26.53 hourly, $55,190 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2012)
|217,000 employees
|Projected growth (2012-2022)
|Slower than average (3% to 7%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
|State trends
|Top industries (2012)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014 wage data and 2012-2022 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2012-2022). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers Except Line Installers . Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition.


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MARYVILLE, TN —Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. and The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility partnered today to bring a life-saving lesson about the dangers of drunk driving and underage drinking students of Heritage High School. Brandon Silveria and his father Tony spoke to students about the importance of "making the right choice" about alcohol – and if students are under the age of 21, that the only responsible decision is not to drink. Brandon is a young man who was involved in an alcohol-related crash at age 17 just before his high school prom. The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility is a national not-for-profit organization funded by distillers dedicated to fighting drunk driving and underage drinking.
"Prom and Graduation Season is a time of great celebration for high school students. Sadly, alcohol is sometimes part of that celebration. The most recent statistics available show that in 2006, 714 youths under 21 were killed in alcohol-related traffic fatalities during the Prom and Graduation Season (April, May, June)." said Congressman Duncan. "Over the past ten years, there has been an eleven percent reduction in the number of our youth killed as a result of alcohol-related traffic crashes during this time. It is important that we continue in our efforts to stop drunk driving and underage drinking, especially during this celebratory time. We must do more to keep the teens of Tennessee safe and alcohol-free. I am proud to have Brandon and Tony Silveria with us today to communicate their life-saving message."
"In Tennessee in 2006, 199 youths under age 18 were arrested for driving under the influence, 1,422 youths were arrested for liquor law violations, and 428 youths were arrested for drunkenness (UCR 2006)," said Shannon Adams of The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. "Our goal with this presentation is to raise awareness about this serious problem and help our youth to make the right choice about alcohol. I'm pleased we were invited to Heritage High School today, and I am hopeful that Brandon and Tony's words will resonate with the students."
During the presentation, Brandon Silveria told students his wrenching story of how as a high school student he had everything a teenager could want—a job, a girlfriend and plans for the future—until he had a few drinks at a party and chose to drive home. After falling asleep at the wheel, crossing the centerline and crashing into a tree, he was left in a coma for three months and spent several years in rehabilitation. Brandon was so badly injured that basic motor functions such as walking, talking and swallowing had to be re-learned. He has permanent brain injury and suffers from dangerous seizures. Brandon's presentations continue to receive standing ovations from students across the country.
"What you become depends on the choices that you make," said Brandon. "When I was seventeen, I had a job and a girlfriend. Because of my crash, I lost both of them. My hope is that by sharing my experiences with other young people, I can prevent others from being hurt or killed."
Through educational efforts such as the Silveria lecture and video program, The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility educates students across the country about the hazards of underage drinking and driving. Since Brandon and his father Tony have become spokespeople for The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, they have addressed well over two million high school students nationwide and have been featured on such television programs as "Rescue 911," NBC's "Today," as well as media outlets across the country.About The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility
The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting drunk driving and underage drinking. Founded in 1991, The Foundation is funded by distillers. For more information on The Council and its mission, please log onto www.responsibility.org.
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