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Primary attribute for Barbarians and Crusaders.
Increases all damage for Barbarians and Crusaders by 42.00%.
Increases Armor by 42.
Dexterity: 105
Primary attribute for Demon Hunters and Monks.
Increases all damage for Demon Hunters and Monks by 105.00%.
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Gambia: Justice Prevails in a Two Year-Long Judicial Harassment Case Against Two Women Human Rights Defenders
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), welcomes the vindication of two women humanrights defenders in The Gambia following two years of judicial harassment.
On November 12, 2012, the Banjul Magistrates' Court decided to drop all charges against Dr. Isatou Touray and Ms. Amie Bojang-Sissoho, respectively Executive Director and Programme Coordinator of The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP), an organisation working on sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and children. The two women human rights defenders had been prosecuted since October 2010 on charges of "theft" for the alleged embezzlement of 30,000 Euros received in 2009 from "Yolocamba Solidaridad", a Spanish development NGO.
This landmark decision puts an end to an uninterrupted judicial harassment that had been going on for more than two years, since the police started interrogations of GAMCOTRAP staff in May 2010. Since the opening of their trial, Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho had been summoned to 66 hearings, which took place in a hostile atmosphere and on completely unlawful grounds. Indeed, the alleged victims had never filed a complaint and the Prosecution failed to present sufficient evidence that they had indeed committed a criminal offence.
Furthermore, on January 31, 2011, Ms. Begoña Ballestros Sanchez, Director of Yolocamba Solidaridad, denied accusing anyone associated with GAMCOTRAP of theft and submitting a complaint in relation thereof during a hearing at Banjul Magistrate's Court. During interrogation, Ms. Isatou Touray had to respond to very precise questions by the Prosecutor covering all aspects of GAMCOTRAP's activities, staff and resources that are unrelated to the charges. In addition, the Prosecutor also repeatedly made depreciating comments about the work of GAMCOTRAP's programme to eradicate female genital mutilation.
The Observatory welcomes this decision and thanks all the persons, institutions and organisations who intervened in favour of Dr. Isatou Touray and Ms. Amie Bojang-Sissoho. More generally, the Observatory hopes that their acquittal marks a step forward in the respect of the rights of human rights defenders in the Gambia.
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Having only execute permission is fine if it is a binary. Scripts must have read permission so that their interpreter can read them.
When APC is configured with mmap it only uses 1 shm_segment. To remove the warning either comment out or delete the apc.shm_segments line in your .ini file.
You are maybe not using the same php binary in the terminal and in cron, because of a different PATH setting. Enter which php in the terminal and put the full path to the php binary in your cron script.
In order to get the colour on your console with PHP CLI, php5-posix module has to be installed. With MacPorts the following command does the job: sudo port install php5-posix Enabling colour on the console for the PHP output will hugely improve the readability in Symfony projects for instance.
On debian/ubuntu it's the php5-cli package, but without knowing what OS you're actually using there's no real answer.
I am not sure if this is standard behavior or not, but you can always add -c /usr/local/lib/php.ini to the command to use a custom config.
I had the same problem. Running any command throws this error message PHP Warning: PHP Startup: apc.shm_segments setting ignored in MMAP mode in Unknown on line 0 in my case the setting was in apc.ini under the path /etc/php.d/apc.ini I have updated the line "apc.shm_segments=3" to "apc.shm_segments=1" and it solved the problem.
if you execute the script directly either using the full path or ./test.php with a shebang line it will need to be executable. If you specify the interpreter (ie. php) it's the interpreter that needs to be able to execute code, so in this case it only needs to be able to read the code.
It would seem fairly likely that you've made a mess of your php.ini. Comment out one change at a time until it starts working again, then leave that change commented and uncomment one chang at a time. If it stops working again, then leave that one commented and continue. Once you've got only the known troublemakers commented out, you can then work on ...
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Yes, the file needs to be readable for the user you try to run it with. On a side note, the executable bit doesn't need to be set if you call it the way you do (php /path/to/script.php).
Have you installed the extension to where your command line version of PHP expects it to be? Check extension_dir in your /etc/php.ini to see where it expects to find extensions and install the extension there or point it at your lampp PHP extensions directory (assuming it is a compatible version of PHP).
Both php.ini's contains a different extension_dir setting, /etc/php.ini seems to set it to /usr/lib/php/modules and LAMPP sets it to /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626. To make Mailparse work for LAMPP, you need to copy mailparse.so to /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626 and add extension=mailparse.so to ...
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just one of the tests that can be preformed. There are other elements they know the decay rate of that can also be tested. In addition they can estimate the age by the depth the artefact was found at. Deeper is assumed to be older, altho that isn't always true.
And to further confuse the issue, wouldn't an ice age pretty well destroy even our civilisation? What would be left of our "great" cities in only 100 million years after an ice age ploughed them under?
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Are Republicans and Democrats the Same? Bush's Lies Campaign Finance Citizens United Campaigns and Elections Conservatives and the American Right Electoral Politics Electoral Reform Lobbies Political Action Committees Political Analysis Polling and Opinion Surveys Presidential Campaigns and Elections Rural Issues Secrecy in the Bush Administration Soft Money Tea Party The Breakdown The Left Third Party Politics
Al Gore will be playing a special political role in the future.
The election reveals a deep need for voting reform.
Abolishing the Electoral College is one way the Florida fiasco could be addressed.
Some debatable assumptions underlie their use by the press.
Our drug laws, like those concerning voting, reveal bias and backward thinking.
Powerful elements converged to determine who would be president.
The Supreme Court was determined to make George W. Bush the winner of the election.
We know what they're afraid of. Cut through the Republican verbiage
that has clogged the airwaves and courts and you find one simple but
disturbing point: They fear an accurate vote count because it might prove
that Al Gore has the votes to be fairly elected President.
That's been their concern since election night, when they began their
drawn-out process of obstruction, and if they succeed in once again
killing the manual count through their US Supreme Court appeal, George
W. Bush's victory will stand as a low point in the annals of American
The indelible impression left on our history will be that Gore won
both the popular and electoral vote and that he and the voters were
cheated out of that victory by a US Supreme Court dominated by
political ideologues appointed by Republican Presidents. If the Justices
cared a whit about the sanctity of the vote, they would have let the
manual-counting process decreed Friday by the Florida Supreme Court
continue. If that had resulted in a Bush win, we should all have
gracefully acknowledged his victory.
Bush, who lost by more than 330,000 in the popular vote--what most of
us grew up thinking of as the real election--may now squeak by with an
electoral college win resulting from a ruling by the right-wing-led US
Supreme Court. During the campaign, Bush cited Antonin Scalia and
Clarence Thomas as his judicial role models, and he has been amply
rewarded. Legal gobbledygook has replaced reason when the mere act of
fairly counting the votes of the citizens is halted to suit the political
agenda of the party that appointed the majority of the Justices.
In a close election, a manual count of all votes not counted by the
antiquated voting machines is a statutory mandate in many states,
including Florida and Texas, and should have been the common-sense demand
of both candidates in Florida. If that simple standard--accurately and
fairly counting all of the votes to ascertain the intent of each
voter--had been asserted in a bipartisan manner, there would have been no
reason for the subsequent confusion and the never-to-end questioning of
the legitimacy of our next President.
Instead, unprecedented rancor will mark the next years of our
politics, mocking all efforts at bipartisan cooperation. This will be
particularly true in battles over the judiciary, which, more than ever,
will come to be viewed widely as a partisan tool.
The Florida election will always be too close to call in a manner that
would leave partisans of both sides totally satisfied. Whoever loses will
feel ripped off, but the denigration of the Florida Supreme Court and of
Gore's legal challenges by top Bush Republican spokesperson James Baker
has gone too far. Twice now he has smeared the motives of Florida Supreme
Court justices for daring to come to conclusions not to Baker's liking.
Yet he reached a new low Friday in disparaging the right of a
presidential candidate--who has won the national popular vote and is only
three electoral votes from victory--to ask for a judicial review of the
obviously deeply flawed Florida election results.
Get real. Both Baker and Bush know they would do the same had the
results gone the other way. Yet they self-righteously abandoned civility
when the nation most needed it. There are no villains in this election,
only imperfect machines and people, but the Bush camp has vilified the
Gore camp for daring to seek a fair adjudication of such matters.
We are still a nation of laws, and it was unconscionable for Baker to
blast Gore for appealing to the Florida state high court at the very time
Bush's lawyers raced to the federal courts in an unseemly departure from
the GOP's commitment to states' rights. In Baker's view, the problem is
not that we have a razor-close election and flawed voting procedures, but
rather that Gore dares to assert his legal rights: "This is what happens
when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to
lawsuits to overturn the outcome of an election for President. It is very
sad. It is sad for Florida. It is sad for the nation, and it is sad for
Hogwash! What is sad is that tens of thousands of African-American and
Jewish voters in Florida were systematically denied their right to vote
by poorly drawn ballots, malfunctioning voting machines and unhelpful
voting officials. What is sad is that election officials in two counties
turned over flawed Republican absentee ballot applications for
corrections by Republican Party officials but did no such favors for
What would be most sad--indeed, alarming--is if a partisan US
Supreme Court proves to be an enemy of representative democracy.
All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.
--John Lennon
Florida's electoral mishegoss lends itself to the exploration of an issue that receives no attention in the media and yet underlies virtually everything its members do. I speak to you, dear reader, of the Meaning of Truth.
Ever since Fox's John Ellis began the mistaken media stampede for his cousin George W. Bush's victory on election night, reporters, producers and executives have spun themselves silly trying to describe a situation that is ultimately an epistemological bottomless pit. There is no single "truth" about who won Florida. From the point of view of "institutional truth," we began without clear rules or precedents for measuring the vote, whether they include dimple-counting, partially punched chads or butterfly ballots. I am convinced Gore carried the will of the people, but I'm guessing that Lady Katherine Harris Macbeth would rather contract rabies than accept my admittedly subjective interpretation. From the perspective of "brute truth," however, the difference between the Bush/Gore numbers turns out to be so small that it will never exceed the count's margin of error. What we are seeing, therefore, is not a process of objective measurement but a contest of raw power. The Democrats use the courts and the law. The Republicans rely on rent-a-mobs, partisan hacks and power-hungry allies in the state legislature and Congress. Guess which side is bound to win?
Our media coverage admits none of this, because it is committed to a fairy-tale version of truth and objectivity that separates "fact" and "opinion" but cannot fathom anything in between. When Tim Russert declared on November 26 that George Bush "has now been declared the official winner of the Florida election...and therefore he is the 43rd President of the United States," he was making a statement that could not have been true when he made it. (Even Bush understood that he was only playing a President-elect on TV.) But the feared and celebrated Russert knew that his words were bound by only the narrowest definition of "truth." He could always take it back later.
The attachment to the idea of attainable objective "truth" on the part of American journalism is partially responsible for its frequent brainlessness. As NYU's Jay Rosen points out, "objectivity as a theory of how to arrive at the truth is bankrupt intellectually.... Everything we've learned about the pursuit of truth tells us that in one way or another the knower is incorporated into the known." (Remember Heisenberg? Remember Einstein?) The famous 1920s debate between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey shed considerable light on this problem, with Lippmann arguing for a "spectator" theory of reality and Dewey arguing for a more consensual one, arrived at through discourse and debate.
The notion of a verifiable objective truth received what many intellectuals considered its final coffin nail in the form of Richard Rorty's classic 1979 work, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. While the word true may have absolute correlations in reality, Rorty later argued, "its conditions of application will always be relative." What was "true" in ancient Athens--that slavery and pederasty were positive goods--is hardly "true" to us today. As Rorty explains it, we call our beliefs "true" for the purposes of self-justification and little more. The point is not accuracy but pragmatism. Moreover, Ludwig Wittgenstein has taught us that the gulf between what "is" and the language we use to describe it is so large as to be unbridgeable. "Truth" may be out there, but there is no answer to a redescription, Rorty observes, "save a re-re-redescription." Truth is what works.
Now, it's possible to contest Rorty on any number of counts. I personally find him overly generous to the extreme relativism of antifoundationalists like Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. (The antifoundationalist perspective can be simplistically summarized by the famous Surrealist painting of a pipe by René Magritte beneath the words, Ce n'est pas une pipe.) But the argument itself cannot be avoided. Truth, as Lippmann never understood but Dewey did, is a lot more complicated than a baseball box score or a Johnny Apple New York Times news analysis. What is needed to evaluate whether a report is ultimately credible is not an endless parade of "facts" that may or may not be true but a subjective marshaling of evidence. Yet because the entire media establishment treats these questions as just so much mental masturbation, the standard definition of "fact" often turns out to be any given statement that cannot be easily disproved at the moment it is made. Hence, we frequently see journalistic accounts of the mood of an entire country or even a whole continent based on little more than the taxi ride from the airport.
A second byproduct of American journalism's childish belief in attainable objective truth, Rosen notes, is the alienation it causes between journalists and intellectuals. In Europe the public profits from a two-way transmission belt between the world of ideas and that of reported "fact." But here such exchanges are nearly impossible because, as Rosen puts it, "intellectuals familiar with the currents in twentieth-century thought just can't deal with some of the things that come out of journalists' mouths." Such people, he notes, believe it "useless to try to talk with journalists" owing to their "naïve empiricism." Still, the academy is also at fault, owing to its recent retreat into a Derrida/Foucault-inspired debate that admits almost no reality at all outside the text and does not even pretend to speak intelligibly to the nonspecialist.
In any case, George W. Bush may be our next President. But it won't be because he outpolled Al Gore in Florida in any remotely objective sense. It will merely be because he might have, and we decided to call it "true."
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Congratulations to Ralph Nader on George W. Bush's decision to appoint Andrew Card, formerly the auto industry's top antienvironmental lobbyist, to be his Chief of Staff. Just a few more appointments like this one, I suppose, and the revolution can begin in earnest.
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I spoke recently at the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, Symposium, sponsored by the Global Alliance for Women's Health. The main focus of the session was tied to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and two of the most compelling Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), incorporated in that report which seek specifically to reduce maternal and infant deaths by 2015.
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She would instead make strange predictions every now and then. At that time, the Third Jurisdiction Corps of the National Police Reserve (later known as the National Safety Forces), which was created by MacArthur after the war, was stationed in Izumo in Shimane Prefecture, and each member carried a carbine thanks to a loan from the US military. The corps was basically made up of young people of that generation, born in the area and also coming in from other regions, who had missed out on deployment to the front. The carbine, a mysterious weapon from which fire erupted, naturally terrified the villagers. Even now, the provincial culture of the Edo period lives on in the village. When someone commits a crime, the people rally at the village headman's house, use spears and nets to catch the criminal, and then turn the offender over to the authorities.
When the young men in their khaki uniforms swaggered into town, clutching their carbines, little, illiterate, dark-skinned Manyo pointed at one of them, and said, "Be bright, scatter."
The young couple didn't think anything of it at the time, but when they were told that the gun of a National Safety Forces soldier had exploded late that night, killing the soldier, they cocked their heads to one side. All Manyo said when they asked her about it was, "'Be bright, scatter.' I saw it." This was a child talking, and so the young couple decided not to concern themselves with the matter any further, but the point here is that Manyo could, from time to time, in some strange way, see the future. Perhaps this was the real reason the outlanders had left her by the well that morning.
Every now and again, Manyo saw the future. This apparently happened most often when she was in a high place. She had seen the bright scattering of the dead man while the husband of the young couple walked around with her on his shoulders. And whenever they went up the mountain or to the top of the hill to a prosperous area known as Takami, the future would abruptly pass before her eyes. People died, were born, had serious accidents. Little Manyo simply watched it happen. She was a child, after all, and given the young couple's reaction when she saw the dead man brightly scatter, she figured it would be better not to talk about the visions too much. In the majority of cases, Manyo kept her mouth shut. And most times, the future she saw wasn't clear; she often didn't know what was happening.
And then the summer she was ten, Manyo saw the man flying up in the sky for the first time.
This man was not young. Or rather, although he looked young, Manyo later thought he was probably middle-aged. In any case, it wasn't as if there were all that big of a difference between the ages of twenty and forty to a ten-year-old girl. He was an adult man who seemed sad somehow. That was Manyo's sole thought. He was wearing clothing the color of dry leaves. Small in stature, he had just one almond eye in the flat, pale face characteristic of the region. That is, only the left eye was open wide; the right stayed firmly shut, looking like it had merged into the smooth skin around it.
The man hung lightly in the faintly peach-colored dusk.
His thin lips parted, and he whispered something.
"Cap. It. Al. Em!"
A phantom, Manyo thought. Though attending school, she was still illiterate. She had a hard time making any friends, looking as strange as she did and basically unable to do anything in class. The wind played with the black hair flowing down to her waist as she walked briskly along the village road. She was taking a shortcut, so she was halfway up the hill to Takami when the man suddenly appeared before her eyes.
He floated in the air facing downward, almost as if he had fallen from the sky, both hands spread out, and he stared intently at Manyo from directly above her. The man stayed there for a while, against the background of the peach sky, but he eventually receded and then disappeared, sucked into the darkening evening sky. About to call out for him to wait, Manyo snapped her mouth shut. She knew that this was the future. She didn't know what it meant, but the one-eyed man was flying. She understood that it would happen someday. That evening, when she saw the one-eyed man flying, little Manyo for the first time became conscious of the fact that she was Manyo, seer of the future, clairvoyant, freak. And that one day, she would meet the strange man with one eye who had appeared before her as a phantasm.
That was perhaps Manyo's bizarre first love. Fall came after, then winter, then spring, and still Manyo thought about this phantom man. She named him "One Eye." When evening fell, she would climb the hill to Takami, wondering whether she might not see some other future too, and she would focus her eyes off in the distance. But this phantom did not show itself to Manyo again. It was another ten years before One Eye, who lived peacefully in Manyo's heart, appeared in front of her in reality as a man with an actual, genuine body.
And it would be a looong time after that before the man would "fly" the way Manyo saw him fly.]]>
BATMAN Screenwriter Sam Hamm To Develop Script About An Infestation Of Deadly Hallucinogenic Spores
San Francisco, CA, Date February 12 2015 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, has announced that its Los Angeles-based film development division, VIZ Productions, is developing the haunting short story, "The Street of Fruiting Bodies," by famed Japanese author Sayuri Ueda into a feature film, and has retained Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm to write the adaptation.
"The Street of Fruiting Bodies" depicts the sudden spread of a mysterious and lethal species of hallucinogenic mushroom. The infestation is deadly, but it also offers visions of deceased loved ones to the infected, hinting at the reality of an afterlife, or at least a new kind of existence that is beyond human comprehension. Ueda's story appeared in the anthology, PHANTASM JAPAN, which collects works by several bestselling authors from both the United States and Japan and was published in English in 2014 by VIZ Media's Haikasoru literary imprint.
Jason Hoffs, Head of Production at VIZ Productions, says the story is well suited for feature film adaptation. "Sayuri Ueda turns the 'killer virus' concept on its head with an agent that strikes at our emotions rather than our bodies. We hope to marry the pace of a riveting popcorn movie with a compelling meditation on life-after-death, love and memory, and God."
Screenwriter Sam Hamm is best known for his script for the 1989 Tim Burton film, Batman, and also adapted short fiction for Showtime's Masters of Horror series. He says of the new project, "Ueda creates a world in which the most profound human emotions – love, grief, longing, and hope – can lead to one's salvation or one's undoing, and the true horror is that it may be impossible to tell the difference. 'The Street of Fruiting Bodies' is not only disturbing, it is moving."
VIZ Productions coordinates the licensing of Japanese entertainment media (manga, books and film) to North American-based film studios. The company's most recent project was 2014's sci-fi action feature, Edge of Tomorrow, which was co-produced by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures and starred Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton. The film was based on the novel, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL, written by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and available in English from VIZ Media's Haikasoru imprint. VIZ Productions is also currently developing a feature film adaptation of the hit manga property DEATH NOTE.]]>
Definitely Nicole for her note about I, Robot. It just struck as as a very, uh, brave admission.
Another winner is Leslie, who flattered us with Edge of Tomorrow. Does that kind of pandering really work with us? YES, YES IT DOES!
Ben B gets a nod for his entry about Heinlein adaptations Predestination (which we hadn't even heard of before now!) and Starship Troopers, a movie which always upsets people. That's worth a free book!
Finally, Takehaniyasubiko, you are not a "pleb", you are a winner! Yes, Blade Runner, of course Blade Runner, always Blade Runner.]]>
Dendera was quite famous in Japan. In fact, it was made into a feature film in 2012:
You may not recognize the actors, but imagine Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep running around in the snow, and you'll have a sense of the popularity and reputation of the players.
Which brings us to our contest question: what is your favorite film adaptation of a science fiction or fantasy novel? Just write us a little essay (or poem!) in the comments and you may be one of our lucky, and skilled, winners. Our four favorite answers will get a free copy of Dendera. We ship anywhere, so don't be afraid to play even if you're outside the US. We also read Japanese, Spanish, Greek, German, and Chinese, so give it a whirl! We'll announce the winners around noon on Friday the 23rd, so get your little essays in!]]>
"Saved? What does that mean, saved?" Kayu Saitoh asked.
"Well, this isn't Paradise, if that's what you mean." Makura Katsuragawa grinned. "We're on the other side. Of the Mountain, that is. The Mountain's between us and the Village. So the Villagers won't find us here. It's a good place. Now isn't that a comfort?"
Kayu Saitoh had never thought about life outside the Village during the seventy years that she had resided there, so Makura Katsuragawa's words gave her a new shock. She understood vaguely on a theoretical level that there were places outside of the Village, of course, but the idea that she herself was no longer in the Village was beyond her comprehension, in the same way that she understood that birds could fly but couldn't imagine flying herself.
"So you Climbed the Mountain too, right, Kayu?" Makura Katsuragawa lowered her face. "I was mighty sorry to see you in the state you were, collapsed in a heap at the top. But everything's all right now. We dragged you along to Dendera."
"Den . . . dera?"
"That's what we call this place. When I was dumped in the Mountain eighteen years ago I was all afeared and cold, the crows were pecking at me, but then the people of Dendera saved me, just like you. Sasaka Yagi and Naki Sokabe and Nokobi Hidaka all Climbed the Mountain that year too, and all of them were rescued as well."
"This place . . . has been here since before you Climbed the Mountain?" Kayu Saitoh asked.
"Just take a look around. Plenty of familiar faces, right? Of course, there are some who die here, and there are plenty we can't get to in time to rescue, but there's plenty that do survive, and here we are. And now you're one of us! You're one of the lucky ones! How does that feel?"
"What have you done?" Kayu Saitoh hurled herself onto Makura Katsuragawa, knocking the older woman to the ground. She wrapped her hands around Makura Katsuragawa's neck and squeezed. "Why did you do this to me?"
The very idea that you could Climb the Mountain and not die offended Kayu Saitoh. And even worse was to make a place like Dendera and live there. It was unforgivable. Makura Katsuragawa was supposed to have gracefully parted from this world eighteen years ago. She was not supposed to be eking out a miserable existence on the other side of the Mountain. The very idea was sacrilege. Kayu Saitoh felt defiled.
If Kayu Saitoh were to go back to the Mountain now, even though she had never meant to come back down again, even though she had been brought down without her consent, the Mountain would know. It would know, and it would not allow her to move on to Paradise. The path to the next world was closed off to her forever. The thought of this had made Kayu Saitoh boil with anger. And she had needed to take the anger out on somebody, and that somebody was Makura Katsuragawa. Makura Katsuragawa was struggling to push Kayu Saitoh off her, but she might as well have been a rag doll for all the good her resistance was doing. Kayu Saitoh squeezed harder, digging all ten digits into Makura Katsuragawa's neck. The other old women were watching the fray, though, and two of them leaped out and restrained Kayu Saitoh, pinning her to the ground.
"Let me go!" Kayu Saitoh shouted.
The two old women holding Kayu Saitoh down were Hatsu Fukuzawa, who had Climbed the Mountain four years ago, and Somo Izumi, who had made the journey fifteen years ago. Kayu Saitoh's anger was now directed at them. Weren't they ashamed to be still alive after Climbing the Mountain?
"Calm down, Kayu. What do you think you're playing at? I thought you only just woke up?" said Hatsu Fukuzawa, her foot planted firmly on Kayu's back.
"Maybe she thinks she's still dreaming," said Somo Izumi.
"Don't you dare talk about me as if I'm one of you!" Kayu Saitoh howled. Her body was starting to work again; she was starting to feel again. She could feel the snow, cold, underneath her. She wasn't supposed to be able to feel anything . . .
"Ka—Kayu," Makura Katsuragawa sputtered out eventually between heavy coughs. She clambered up and looked at Kayu Saitoh warily.
"What's this 'Dendera' shit?" Kayu Saitoh said. "Why are you all in a place like this?"
"What do you mean, 'why'?" said Makura Katsuragawa, rubbing her neck where Kayu Saitoh had been choking her. "Because we don't want to die. Why else?"
"Have you no shame?" Kayu Saitoh's voice was full of hate, and Makura Katsuragawa scurried back into the crowd without listening to the actual words. Kayu Saitoh wanted to chase after her; she made a renewed effort to throw off the two old women who were restraining her. At the same moment a new figure arrived on the scene. She too was an old woman. She wore dog pelts over her grubby white robe. Kayu Saitoh recognized her. It was Hono Ishizuka, the old lacquer-tapper's wife. She too had Climbed the Mountain—sixteen years ago. She too was supposed to be dead. She too was a gutless coward. Kayu Saitoh glared at her.
"Ah, Ms. Kayu. You are welcome here." Hono Ishizuka looked down at Kayu Saitoh. "Violence, however, is not permitted in Dendera. The next time there is a violent outburst from you, we will place you behind bars. You shouldn't cause such a scene. It makes problems for people. For yourself too. Now, you have been granted a new lease on life. Shouldn't you show some gratitude for this?"]]>
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How did you first come across the Japanese concepts you used in your story?
It was in some listicle about "untranslatable words". It may even have been in Cracked, of all places. Being a former philosophy major, I am drawn to metaphysical concepts, like a magpie to shiny objects. I deposit them in my brain, and pick them out occasionally to gawk at them. Occasionally, they resonate with something that I have observed in social reality. My encounter with tatemae and honne was particularly timely, as I'll explain when I get to your question about Maine. To map that resonance between concept and reality you need an instrument that is more sensitive than, say, an essay, which is better at mapping correspondences than resonances, showing how the concept describes reality. Resonances are more about situations where the concept provides us with a way of understanding reality that transforms the reality by intensifying already latent phenomena. The instrument for mapping the resonance is fiction, the writing of a story.
Most newer writers tend to stick to tried and true structural formulae and traditional themes. You went for an innovative list-structure "Thirty-Eight Observations on the Nature of the Self" and dove right into a theme that most genre fiction magazines warn people against submitting. What the heck, Joseph?
I am only a new writer with reference to short fiction as a form. My job in the grants office of a small college requires great volumes of writing, not just of grant proposals or portions thereof, but policy documents, institutional correspondence, etc., and that has been the case with all my jobs for the last fourteen years. Bureaucratic spoor is the prose that we all speak without knowing it. Against that background noise, people whose job it is to write persuasively–not just grant writers, but marketers, advertising copywriters, and the like—are the unacknowledged poets of our age, evoking intimations of the sublime through descriptions of measurable objectives and project outputs.
Nor is my experience with persuasive writing limited to the "day job;" for a comparable span of time, anonymously or pseudonymously, I have written reams of prose published through various blogs, internal bulletins, small-circulation magazines, and episodically photocopied leaflets, on the margins of the already marginal radical left. Since the type of radicalism to which I had formerly wed myself, Trotskyism, is a kind of alternate history in the field of political action, the transition to speculative modes of fiction was almost a given.
I never set out to make a career for myself in the writing of fiction. I enjoy the work I do, for which I am paid much better than most working writers, and I suspect at times that my off-hours would be better spent campaigning for candidates of the Maine Green Independent Party than trying to submit my work for publication. It's just that in the last three years, I have written more than twenty stories. I re-read them periodically to try and convince myself that they suck. Too often, I fail at that, and find myself still enjoying the piece and wishing that more people could read it. So I am trying, for now, not to let all that work go to waste, acting as a kind of Yenta the Matchmaker for my brood. I may never write another story, or I may live another fifty years and write a few hundred more. I write what I want, or what I feel compelled to write, and if it gets published, wonderful!
As for the theme: Many, though not all, of my stories draw upon past traumas, though usually they undergo more than a bit of sublimation and transfiguration along the way. I certainly understand why a magazine editor, weary of lazy depictions of traumatizing events, might impose a blanket ban on such themes. (I prefer it when such taboos are clearly stated in the guidelines, rather than left for the reader to infer.) But the net effect of such bans is to silence much of human experience.
You moved to Maine a few years ago and it is the setting for a couple of your stories. Was it difficult to place a Japanese cultural concept within such an archetypically American setting?
I made it easy on myself by setting it in Maine. For one thing, it seems like I have an easier time selling my stories set in Maine than those in other settings. I have multiple guesses as to why that might be the case, each of which is probably at least partly true. It is, as the Althusserians say, overdetermined.
But there are also some similarities between Japan and Maine. They have in common a relatively high degree of xenophobia. The statistics on both are well-known. Japan has the smallest immigrant population of any wealthy nation, proportionally, and is second only to the U.S. in the proportion of its citizens who speak no second language well. Maine, in turn, is the whitest state in the U.S., and has the smallest proportion of immigrants of any state. There is, further, the Maine concept of "from away." It is a status that is easy to assume and near impossible to shed. The husband of a former dean of mine once told me that, though his family had lived in Maine since colonial times and he had lived here nearly all his life, he would always be "from away" since he had had the misfortune of being born in Massachusetts. Even my infant son, born in a freak April snowstorm, will always be under suspicion of being "from away," what with his foreign-sounding surname and New Yorker parents. (The story of my origins is more complicated than it is interesting, but for all practical purposes, I am a New Yorker.)
I encountered the conceptual dyad at the core of the story, honne/tatemae, just as we were getting ready to move into our house, in a small town that is not named "North Glamis" (for there is no such town). I was anxious as to whether we would get along well with our neighbors, in a place where getting along well with one's neighbors was both possible and necessary in ways it had never been in the City. There was more cause for such anxiety than simply being "from away". For example, the town in which I live is, by some measures, the wealthiest in the state, and yet I am a communist. The place practically defines heteronormativity, yet I identify as queer (even though my life is, to all appearances, as heteronormative as any). To the extent that I try and get my writing published, I put this stuff out there. The anxiety was, in part, an anxiety about being found out and the impact that could have on my family.
It would be impossible to write a story about the honne (the true self) set in New York City. New Yorkers don't give a fuck about anyone's true self. If it ever shows, they'll just assume it's another constructed front (tatemae), put on for some sort of performative advantage. Mainers, though they would rather not be exposed to the true self, if it shows, they'll talk.
The first version of the story was terrible, too many correspondences and not enough resonances, too much like an essay. I knew I would have to radically rewrite it for it to ever be worth publishing. Around the time I started rewriting it for Phantasm Japan, my parents were going through an ugly and overdue divorce, in the course of which things came to light about my father that showed him to be an even greater asshole than I had hitherto believed him to be. There is nothing in the story that is crudely camouflaged autobiography or family tell-all, but the situation enabled me to be more creative in thinking about the manifold ways in which relations between fathers and sons, or between spouses, or between a person and his community, can fall apart when someone loses track of their own desires.]]>
"Her Last Appearance" is your short fiction debut. How long have you been writing and submitting?
I've been writing forever, but this was only the third story I've ever submitted. Mostly, I've been working on novels; I went to Clarion in 2008, so I wrote short stories for the workshop – and again when I took fiction workshops in grad school – but short fiction doesn't come naturally to me. I'm ABD in a Victorian Lit Ph.D. at Berkeley: I like long, messy novels with tangents and subplots and 200 characters.
One cool thing about publishing "Her Last Appearance" is that I feel like I might have finally learned how to write a story less than 20,000 words long. So that's exciting.
One thing that stood out about your story was its historical milieu. When people hear fantasy, they often think of a feudal past or an ultracontemporary setting. How did you settle on 1900?
I wanted to write about a fictionalized Kairakutei Black towards the end of his career. He's most famous as Japan's first foreign-born rakugoka, but he also published cultural "translations" of English sensation novels which abridged and retold the stories for a Japanese audience. So people would read these novels to learn more about English culture, but the specific details which were the most foreign had been ironed over and edited out in the name of accessibility.
I knew I couldn't write a story About Japan without feeling like an impostor, so I built the story around that question of authenticity. Black is in a tough position, because he grew up in Japan, but he can never belong there; he's a perpetual foreigner. His family tried to send him "home" to the UK, where he wasn't born and had never lived, but it didn't stick. Instead, he tries very hard to Become Japanese at the same time that Japanese culture is becoming more Western, which means he's really just trying to live in his own fantasy of what he thinks Japan is supposed to be like. It turns out that Japanese people aren't interested in running a queer orientalist theme park? The kuroko has his own version of this problem, because he's a country boy with romantic ideas about city life, and together they raise Shizuko to fit their ideas of how a sophisticated woman ought to behave. Meanwhile, Shizuko latches on to the English stories Black tells her. Everyone in the story is a giant fake in one way or another, but for most of them, it's a survival mechanism. How the hell are you supposed to be "authentic" when everyone's telling you you don't exist?
Do you have a performance background at all? What sort of research did you do for the story?
I do, though I hadn't made that connection – I was a theater student for most of college (as a writer, not a performer), and I've done a lot of academic work on melodrama. The real research I did was to read a lot of books. I read Ian McArthur's book on Kairakutei Black, plus everything else about him that I could find, and I read about women's lives and women's fiction during the Meiji period. I also spent a lot of time looking through photo archives like Harvard College Library's Early Photography of Japan archive.
Something that hurts my head: My girlfriend's mother wrote one of the books I read for research, Women Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan: Their Lives, Works and Critical Reception, 1868-1926. We started dating after I submitted the story, and I didn't actually figure it out until a month or so ago. Life is weird.
Have you seen a rakugo?
I haven't! I haven't seen a Victorian spiritualist act either. I thought I saw a kuroko in Brooklyn the other night, but it was so dark, it was hard to tell.]]>


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I am a fun loving person that enjoys every day for what it is and hates to be cooped up doing nothing. I am happy when outside enjoying everything offered or inside watching a movie. I would like to meet someone that has the same interests and/or outlook. Someone that is spontaneous, humorous, independent, romantic, attractive, athletic, and the list can continue.
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Always a pleasure to return to club quarters. All staff very efficient and friendly and location and rooms are excellent. Susana and Joana on reception always have a friendly welcome and deal with my stuff efficiently. Recommend a stay.
Thank you for the recommendation! We are glad to hear that you enjoy your visits with us. I will be sure to thank Susana and Joanna for their great guest service and agree that they are true assets to the hotel.
Stayed here for 3 weeks. Was pleasant stay and got to say the staff is extremely helpful. Luigi, Tadas, Adam, Joanna in particular. Quick service guaranteed. They also guide us on places to visit and how to travel. Pizza restaurant is also decent enough.
During a business trip , this hotel has a perfect location, located at trafalgar square. Also the people At the reception are very friendly, esp. Juana and Susanne and Juna. You are ensured you will stay at a place that made history
Thank you for your kind review and we are so glad to hear that you enjoy staying with us on business, as we pride ourselves on providing a full service to the business traveler. Thanks also for recognising the great customer service of our team members, I will be sure to thank all three for exceeding your expectations. We hope...
I stayed in this hotel last week for a couple of days on a leisure trip with my partner. We had no much time so the location was good. It was our first time in London and we found the staff very friendly. Susana at the reception, was very kind and helpful, giving us advise on what to do and...
Shocking room 835 stank of smoke. We went home instead at 11.00 pm but they have threatened to charge us ( room hadn't been used). At first they said no more rooms but then found one - not interested by then
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Thank you for your review and we were very disappointed that we did not meet your expectations on your recent visit. We are a non-smoking hotel and we pride ourselves on the cleanliness of our rooms, so be assured that we will review this as a priority with the management team and make improvements. Should you feel that...
Due to a business trip to London at short notice, I had the misfortune of staying at the Club Quarters Trafalgar Square. The room I was checked into had one window in the corner of the kitchenette facing a narrow internal atrium, capable of opening no more than 2 inches. As a result there was no ventilation in the room...
Thank you for choosing to stay at Club Quarters Trafalgar Square for your recent visit to London and for your feedback which is very welcome. We are proud of our business conveniences such as express check-out and complimentary WiFi and are glad that you enjoyed these offerings. We were, however, disappointed to read that we clearly did not meet your...
I was here recently on business and loved the central location and the smart comfortable accommodation. The building is clearly old and has been well restored - lots of grand cornices, marble etc , Service was friendly and efficient. Overall very good. The food was notably good too
Was down in London for the weekend with family and found this hotel to be a great location for the sights and theatre land. Room was comfortable and quiet as we were at back of hotel which was great. Bed was a queen size which was okay and big enough. Overall I would recommend this hotel and will use it...
I would like to say that from the moment I arrived Joanna at the front desk made me feel at my ease and assigned me a lovely room with a great view. Excellent Large bed and very quiet. Great Business services. I would recommend this hotel
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Thank you for your recommendation. We pride ourselves on providing thoughtful services for business travellers so it is good to hear that you enjoyed these. We agree that Joanna is a true asset to our team, and I will be sure to thank her for her great guest service to you. We look forward to welcoming you back...
The room was inward facing on to the laundry chute. It was noisy, dark and dirty with cigarette buts on the outside window ledge . We asked to be moved but were told they were full. Given complimentary wine and extras to make up for it. Would stay again but not in the same room which was very disappointing .
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It seems Rita Ora and Rihanna are single handedly spearheading their very own sneaker chic movement.
You'll spy either one on red carpets or out and about, wearing prissy dresses or short shorts with Jordans, ditching the ridiculously high, platform heel in favor of comfortable trainers.
Of course the 'tomboy' aesthetic has been around in celebrity circles for years. Everyone from Kelis to Ciara and Amber Rose has been spied in Jeremy Scott sneaks, and girls like Vashtie and Teyana Taylor stay in casual wear.
But Rita and Rihanna have taken it to another level, wearing Jordans and Converses with absolutely everything. While most ladies wear a pair of sneakers to dress down, these ladies cling to athletic footwear with decidedly feminine 'fits.
Comfort is key–why should we be killing ourselves to walk around in vertiginous heels? And as a 'survivor' of bunion surgery, I can tell you foot problems are not the business.
But are you down for the 'sneaker chic' look? Would you rock a skirt with sneakers? Is it Hot! or does it make you go Hmm….?
I love sneakers! Miss those days working at Footlocker and getting 30% off!
ahhh youth ! I love the energy !
Sneakers are nice and comfy but not with everything. Like that animal print dress rita has on is extremely cute but those sneakers ruined it AND they don't match lol
Its crazy how Rita Ora is now Chic but just a few days ago her style was a No thats hmmm…
I love it, I'm a mom of multiples and yes I loooove dressing chic, pressy, and trendy but comfort is KEY. Although I'm soo a sky high stiletto girl I so still crave a fresh pair of cute sneaks… So I would say Hot!!! It secretly express yes I'm a Fly girl but with some EDGE :)
I rock my kicks all the time but Rita takes it to a new level. If your going to wear a gorgeous dress dont ruin the look by throwing Jordan's on. Have a balance to your style.
nah b, im good with my heels, my sandals, and my flats. You can keep the sneakers. Maybe i can deal with converses, or wedge sneakers. But as for the bulky Jordans and Nikes, no ma'am!
Its all about having the right balance and the right "elements".
every event doesn't call for sky high heels so this trend is great!
I LOVE sneakers, I'm all for this! You just have to know when to rock them and when a pair of pumps might be best. #justsayin
its funny how the fashion industry and celebrities jump on the bandwagon of something thats been going on for years and its oh so hot and new….i love sneakers and have worn all kinds since I was in middle school. I like how rihanna wears hers. i like to wear sneakers with feminie things but ms. ora not so much
I hate this trend, it's ridiculous. I understand dressing down and wearing sneakers with jeans and a casual like Ciara and Kelis. But this wearing big, bulky and FUGLY jordans with cute, chic dresses is just disrespectful. It was horrible when Lily Allen did it ages ago and it's horrible now, not here for this trend at all.
And Miss Ora is the worst, main offender. Saw a pic of her wearing the ugliest outfit I have seen in ages! She's too pretty for all that :-(
LOVE EM'! Check my sneaker collection out on my instagram Alexislovesme
I alternate between high heels and my kicks (Jordans, vans, nikes, pumas) . I'm very girly but also a bit of a tomboy so I like to do both. It is so comfy and super stylish….Jordans are classic of course! I have a pair of 3's but I totally want a few more pairs.
melissa looks better than both rita and rih, and looks just as comfortable. i'll do a flat sandal or lower heel, but not sneakers with a dress.
I think it's awesome! I always rock sneakers or flats and there are so many color ways that it's hard not to have a closet full. Also as a quarter-lifer I still love my kicks and now have a job where I can afford the ones I actually want :)
I agree its all about balance. Girls have bern wearing sneakers forever but its all about balance. Sneakers like chucks and vans which are slimmer can be more appropiate for wearing a skirt or a dress while bulky shoes like jordans should probably be reserved for just jeans and shorts. There are sneaker brands like sam eldeman, ash, and jeffrey campbell that have more "adult" sneakers in leather and suede as well.
but if you want to reference someone that gets the "sophisticated sneaker look" right every time you may want to feature cassie
Sneakers with dresses are for high schoolers, unless you're going to some festival where you're going to be standing the whole time. The look screams immature if you ask me.
Yay! The old comment section is back!
@Sun. Kissed Yep! Disqus failed on two counts: 1. Didn't import old comments. 2. Didn't work with Mobify. So we had to ditch it. I kinda liked it for a minute, but it just didn't work with what we've got going.
I like the old comment section way better tbh. Glad it's back.
anyway, the trend is okay SOMETIMES. you can't wear it with everything. you have to know when you step in a pair of heels.
Glad the old comment section is back. :-)
Love this chic way to roll.
I hate this trend. Sneakers come of juvenile to me, something a midleschooler/higschooler would wear. Most if these outfits look off because of the sneakers. Also hightops make some ppl look like they have stubby legs.
The sneakers with dresses are a hmm. Esp in the summertime. Feet need to breathe!
Also glad about the comments. My old bootleg work computer wouldn't even let me comment yesterday.
I agree with the old comment section being best! Its old school, and I don't like change lol.
It's funny this article pops up today because for the past week I have seriously been contemplating on whether or not I should start buying sneakers!
Ive always kind of hated any sneaker that went beyond vans and converse. (Seriously, seeing women walking around the city in athletic shoes and work attire makes me cringe) But now that I've moved to New York & I have classes all completely spread out around times square I completely understand why women have been rocking knee-length pencil skirts with nikes!
This look works well for Rita & Rihanna, but there is a thin line between coming off as "Ghetto" or a "trendsetter" and nationality has very little to do with it.
It's cute depending on how your carry yourself but with so many females praising the basketball wives and those love & hip-hop women I REALLY hope this trend doesn't catch on.
Comfort is key for sure but I think sneakers can't go with everything, I'd rather were nice flat sandals. Still these ladies do look nice in their sneakers, they make it work,
Jeeeeeez Claire are you trying to send Teyana Taylor into another twitter rant? J/K. If I had to give credit to someone form starting a "sneaker chic" movement it would be Lily Allen. She's been rockin Jordans with little cute dresses since she came out.
Rita Ora is the worst at it… the end !!
Everyone else im used to seeing them in sneakers, especially Teyana and rihanna… rita comes off as trying to hard.
Yay the old comment section is back…Strike is over…lol! I prefer cute flats over sneakers.
And to think when I wear flats with a skirt or dress I feel under dressed lol.
Too high-schoolish for me. And again, Rita Ora always looks bad.
Cute on them. I gave it a hot but I prob won't be doing it myself. :)
i love a good sneaker but to wear them with everything? trippin.
I HAVE always loved sneakers, because of my size I tend to shy away from them at times but yes! Sneakers, sneakers, sneakers, and MORE Sneakers. But let's not front Teyana Taylor has been rocking Sneakers for YEARS Rita and Riri are just doing it now cause it's more 'trendy'. Teyana rocked them years ago during her super sweet 16 remember?
Hate this look! It reeks juvenile something a midleschooler would wear. Plus it makes their legs look stubby.
The only thing Teyana can be remotely credited for is wearing sneakers to red carpet events but then what do you say about Vashti Kola (sp?) who is also the queen of casual red carpet attire? The idea that anyone should be given props for wearing sneakers is ridiculous. I'm from the DMV and everyone ALWAYS wore sneakers growing up and during college before there were blogs and tumblr teaching people how to dress. Plus most of the time that we see Rihanna, Ciara, etc wearing sneakers it is their day-to-day attire and they are paparazzi shots. Teyanna has nothing to worry about Rihanna will be wearing coveted designer duds and while she's wearing sneakers. rme
oh boy! the old comment section is back! yippie! I must say I was going to conform to the change but I love this way better lol! I wear a boys size 6! :) I must say these kiddies are keeping Jordan rich!
They are just sneakers lol! Yay for the old comment section!!!!!
There is nothing wrong with rocking sneakers, but throwing on a pair of Jordans with EVERYTHING is tacky. I was a major sneakerhead during my teenage years so to see female celebs rocking Jordans and Chucks all of a sudden is a snoozefest. We middle class folks have been there and done that. Lol
I don't mind sneakers in general but the way the examples paired the sneakers up with certain outfits were bad examples IMO so maybe that is why people are running away from the look. I think when done right a fresh pair of kicks with the right outfit is HOT
I love it! It is so easy to throw on a pair of heels with any dress, but pairing a girly, feminine dress with a pair of kick AND making it work?! That's style! Round of applaud! (Waka Flocka Flame voice)
Is it me or does Rita Ora come off as try waaaaay to hard? I don't know there really try a "push" this girl. I find her to be sooo random and her look doesn't match her music at all. I'm over this whole sneaker thing too,like stop trying to make the masses look like fools because we all know they will follow whatever these girls do.
It's funny because all of a sudden celebs are starting to where sneakers, now it's considered fashion. Women wear sneakers all the time in their day to day life (running errands, going shopping, lounging) I think there has to be a happy medium. Is it okay for women to wear sneakers? absolutely! But should you pair sneakers with beautiful dresses? not in my opinion. And this celebs are jumping on the Jordan band wagon. I say leave the jordans for men and the youth.
I wish I could rock the sneakers but I already have a young face and they make me look like im in high school…im damn near thirty.
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Huge turnover of new sale representative. They should give all new reps a learning curve and not fire them 1 week after training.
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Leadership should continue to be consistent and give reps a longer chance (longer than a month) or be more thorough in hiring.Approves of CEO
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"Comradeship yet individual acts of deceit and fraud allowed or overlooked by managers, apparently unbeknownst to owners. "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Career Opportunities
I have been working at Sales PartnershipsPros
There's lots of flexibility and most employees are great people and environment for most part is friendly.
Ability to learn from selling different types of products/services from different campaigns/contracts.
Very little micro-managing.
Very open atmosphere.Cons
Few employees, although allegedly been in existence for over 13 years, can lend to very little energy on 'sales floor'.
'Campaigns' don't experience longevity due to mismangement and unscrupulous hires.
Anxiety and apprehension whether one will have job from day to day.
Management is unprofessional at best.
Very little communication tends to create animosity and anxiety among employees creating rumor speading and gossip.
Few benefits yet much stress.
Below average pay gets below average employees that has promoted a low integrity mileu.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Keep better eye on who is 'managing' programs as several program contracts were lost entirely due to managements inapproprate and unprofessional behaviors and language. Hiring practices should be improved and modified to allow those who've proven themselves to be granted increased revenue/salaries. Perhaps moving forward away from older ways of thinking and listening to others that are more in touch with change and modification. Maybe reading "Switch" by the Heath bros. would enlighten someone there. Allowing some feedback from the overachieving and underpaid few leaders could effect some transformative change in the spi work environment leading to a successful program and company.Doesn't RecommendDisapproves of CEO