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New Old Things
"Collectors," wrote Walter Benjamin, "are physiognomists of the world of things." Luc Sante is such a collector, rescuing materials from the dustbin (or used-record bin) of history. Whether tracking the origin of words like "funk" and "dope"; eulogizing an old New York of burned-out buildings and flamboyant addicts; listening to the Mekons and the blues; reading Apollinaire, Terry Southern and Tintin; looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio and Farm Security Administration photographs; extolling cigarettes; or remembering his immigrant Belgian parents and soul-killing high-school job at a seedy factory molding nameless plastic parts, Sante traces the lineaments of a world that has not vanished because he is still writing about it. As he says of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s, "I was enthralled by decay and eager for more."
Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005 collects mostly portraits, plus reviews and catalog essays. First published in places like Granta and the Village Voice, the selections are short but expansive. Subjects are writers, artists, musicians and their haunts--Francesco Clemente in 1985, painting murals at the Palladium on Fourteenth Street; Buddy Bolden in 1902, improvising "Funky Butt" at the Union Sons Hall in New Orleans. Sante's deep preoccupation is an outlaw history of Modernism in which avant-gardists and roustabouts sync up. Masters of the idiom include Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton, Walker Evans and the anonymous rural photographers presented in Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip (1973). Certain innovators (Rimbaud, Dylan) loom as importantly as in other histories of the Modernist recognition (ecstatic, agonized) that "I is somebody else." Sante, however, selects his heroes not through survey or snobbism but by dint of a passionate gaze into the face of their work. It functions as a mirror.
Such fervent identification with aesthetics offers a method--one of few good ones--for forging a persona, a community and an ethos. This is another argument implied in Kill All Your Darlings, and it is grounded in autobiographical detail. As readers of the memoir The Factory of Facts (1999) know, Sante was born in Belgium in 1954 and arrived in the United States in the early 1960s. He grew up bilingual, bicultural and working-class. "I thought I might someday be a cartoonist or an historian or a researcher of the paranormal," he recalls. "Then, not long before my tenth birthday, a teacher told me I had talent as a writer, and for some reason that changed everything." Or rather, it brought everything together, since an author whose interests include Hergé--creator of Tintin, the "Euclid" of the comic form--and the bluesman's fabled pact with the devil at the crossroads--allegedly sworn by Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson and others--has upheld that 9-year-old's ambitions. Sante's mother drilled him in French and was reluctant to speak English. His father was a socialist whose eventual Parkinson's and dementia were related to a lifetime of toxic factory labor. Thus, in the essay "The Injection Mold," when the teenage Luc arrives on the plastic-parts shop floor, he understands that the machine in question is not only a rig he operates but a rigid shape into which society pours the ductile materials of teenagers without privilege. He reads Céline while feeding the extruder, because his books "were all spat out in brief, angry bursts." Most kids in dead-end New Jersey jobs in 1970 were probably not reading Death on the Installment Plan in French. But then, such conscious self-fashioning from inherited oddments--either towering, glowering archetypes or "folk-lyric readymades"--also seems as American as rock 'n' roll.
Often, in these essays, what molds consciousness is rock 'n' roll. Or it is dope--a thing not high, not snooty but tinctured nonetheless with mystery.
It could mean "to poison," "to lubricate," "to medicate," "to adulterate," "to predict," "to figure out," or "to dawdle".... You could say that "dope," a purely and utterly American word, stands for the familiar unknown.... It is the stuff in the cabinet, under the stairs, out in the toolshed, in an unlabeled jar, pooled at the bottom of an old tin can, stuff you use without really knowing much about it, stuff that works but that you don't care to inquire too deeply about. This describes an enormous category in American life.
Sante, of course, does care to inquire deeply. He wears his research lightly. But, as his cultural histories Evidence (1992) and Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991) have shown, his fact collection is prodigious. He likes to fold one icon into another, as in parsing Dylan through John Berryman and Hart Crane, or to focus, like a novelist, on minor characters as lead-ins to the greats. Often the humble onlooker is himself, as in his reminiscence of living downstairs from Allen Ginsberg, who once complained to him about a loud stereo. Elsewhere we are reminded of John McKendry, curator of prints and photographs at the Metropolitan Museum, who gave Mapplethorpe a decent Polaroid camera. Roy Stryker and Marion Post Wolcott, respectively head of and contributor to the Farm Security Administration, get mentions, as does Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie's sideman. Victor Hugo is considered less as a poet or national treasure than as a painter--a bit part within his own career--whose technique involved eccentric use of "soot, black coffee, fingerprints, fingernails, matchsticks, inkblots, stencils, sprays of water, the impression of cloth textures, of lace, of stones." In other words, Hugo--like all of Sante's "scalawags" and "mahatmas"--used dope.
With brief exceptions, the chosen ones are male. An admiring excursus on Patti Smith comes as an aside in the Mapplethorpe discussion, and Wolcott, Berenice Abbott and Helen Levitt are named under Evans's aegis. Georgette Magritte, the painter's wife, accompanies her husband; and Sante's own wife, the writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson (with whom he collaborated on O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors, published in 1999), makes a cameo in his review of the corporatized farce that was Woodstock '99. Apropos the one-hit wonders on the CD boxed set Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era, he observes, "Numerous are the hapless females apostrophized as 'Girl.'" That's about it. The imbalance is surprising in one so resourceful at finding avatars who fulfill and reflect his tastes. It's also the only aspect of Sante's writing that risks being tiresome, especially since one longs to hear his thoughts on, say, Claude Cahun, or Billie Holiday, or Kathy Acker--or some soulful iconoclast we don't yet know about, whom Sante would be uniquely qualified to find.
The crucial mention of a woman appears in the volume's dedication, to New York Review of Books co-founder and longtime editor Barbara Epstein. And true to form, if this marginalia is followed up, it opens voluminously. As befits a rags-to-riches literary protagonist, Sante's professional life began in the mailroom. He started there at the NYRB, became Epstein's assistant and developed into a frequent contributor. Some of the best pieces in the present collection first appeared in its pages, and Sante acknowledges that "she formed me as a writer." So the theme of elective affinity takes on another shade. Anyone who thinks to do so, surely, can outline a private pantheon in which real-time mentors and colleagues correlate with the adopted dead. But not everyone does think to do so. Such forgetfulness allows the web of relationships that embolden free and tough creative practice to atrophy. Sante's self-appointed task is to think carefully about what it means to appreciate, to imitate, to rebel against, to inherit--and thereby to construct a cultural matrix that permits some badass elbow room. Reminding us that serious readers of text and image learn by apprenticeship, he shows how the election of forebears and compatriots builds an ad hoc, transhistorical mutual-aid society, a gene pool of style. (This is why the dearth of women artists in the essays--as opposed to the marks that have clearly been made on Sante's life by living women--is noteworthy.) For, as Benjamin argues, past and present are dialectical. The past undergirds the present. But the present deciphers and recalibrates the past: "To renew the old world--that is the collector's deepest desire." Renewing the old world changes it.


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The Permian of Northern Pangea
This book brings together the widely scattered observations about Permian rocks of the northern part of Pangea. In Volume 1 broad overviews are provided for Pangean paleogeography and continental positioning as well as faunal and floral extinctions. Several papers examine Permian paleoclimates and climatic cyclicity using computer modeling, traditional geological evidence from climatic indicators, or a combination of both approaches. More detailed, and more conventional correlation techniques are discussed in papers dealing with biostratigraphic and paleogeographic aspects of the most important fossil groups in the Permian. The reader will find a synthesis of current geologic knowledge and an outline of modern trends of interpretation for a time interval which is receiving increased attention.
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Sunrise Pass comes out into Artesia Road that runs into Upper Colony Road that runs into Wellington. In Wellington we would pick up Hoye Canyon Road, which follows the west fork of the Walker River back into Antelope Valley, where it turns into Eastside Lane. Risue Road forks off Eastside Lane back to the east. This would be a chance to run up Eastside into Walker for lunch. Or keep moving and take Risue over the norther should of the Sweetwater Mountains and come out on SR 338, whgich we take south until we hit the east fork of the Walker and turn onto Forest Road 28. Shortly after it crosses the river we'll turn off onto Forest Road 46 which takes us into Masonic, an old mining camp. and then out the old stage road from Masonic to Bodie. There are many variations to this route. Its a bit of a long day, maybe pushing 250 miles, 80 of which would be the run back home on 395, but if there is enough daylight and desire, on the way back can take Bircham Flat Road from Sonora Junction to Walker, pick up a local utility road from Holbrook Junction to the top of Monitor and then Leviathan Mine Road back down to 395.
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 2, Part 4
Though weak with hunger, Salo takes a stand
Meanwhile he starved, though occasionally some sympathetic old baba yaga would scuttle forth from her kennel to spare him a stale pierogen or a potato as soft as a powder puff. These he would dine on for days, storing the leftovers under the burlap in the refrigerated casket to extend their relative freshness. Lightheaded from hunger, Salo sometimes daydreamed: The river he had just been ferried across (for the price of reading scripture aloud to an illiterate ferryman) was the lost Sambatyon, on the other side of which lay the land of the immortal red-headed Jews. Or had he strayed off the map of the known world entirely and crossed the border into Sitra Achra, the kingdom of demons, which was beyond God's jurisdiction? But even as he indulged them, Salo recognized such notions as merely the shades of dead fancies, lingering vapors of the bubble-brained boy he had been only a short time ago. Moreover, with every meal he missed, a bit more of his vestigial baby fat melted from his bones, and although there were no available mirrors, Salo could feel that he was becoming somebody else: He was a young man transporting a sacred burden through a menacing winter landscape, the hero of his own unfolding story, who had no need of encumbering himself any longer with superstition and grandmothers' tales.
Sometime during the third week after the departure from his native shtetl, Salo came across a thickset peasant in sheep pelts shambling along the road, clutching one end of a rope that trailed over his shoulder. At the other end of the rope was a noose that circumscribed the neck of a woman whose haggard features—nose protruding like a cucumber from the folds of a ragged shawl—identified her as a suffering Jewess. Salo's first impulse was to nod deferentially to the peasant and pass by. The journey had taken a toll: His empty belly whistled to rival the flatus of his rattle-boned mare, and his feet ached as if he were trampling glass; to say nothing of how the relentless cold froze his brain. But prey to a stronger urge than self-preservation, Salo addressed the man in the Polish he'd heard since birth, and scarcely recognized his own brash voice.
"What's that you got there, friend?"
"Are you blind, friend?" said the peasant, giving the salutation a hostile emphasis as he continued to walk on.
At that Salo gripped Bathsheba's bridle to halt her, and turned to inquire in as diplomatic a tone as he could muster, "Beg pardon, but has no one challenged your right to the woman?"
The peasant abruptly paused and turned about, bristling, his flat face as flushed as a purple onion. "I found her in the village of Plok," he barked. "She's mine."
"Who's arguing?" said the young man, conciliatory, then gently submitted, "But isn't she, excuse me, a human being?"
The peasant peered at Salo as if he were a half-wit. "I knew she wasn't a goat."
Salo grinned, deciding to try another tack. He cleared his throat and assumed an attitude he thought of as strictly business. "So what'll you take for her?"
The peasant cocked an ear. "Is she for sale?"
Shrugging what he supposed was a mercantile shrug, Salo replied, "Everything's for sale, friend."
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Axel Hieberg Island, Canada
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Axel Heilberg Island in Canada's arctic is shown in an April 8, 2008, image. Note the blocks of ice that have calved off the foot of the glacier (middle-bottom), as well as the melt feature and stream (bottom-right). This photograph was obtained from on board the NASA P-3B aircraft during ARCTAS, a NASA-funded contribution to POLARCAT, a core activity of the 2007/2008 International Polar Year.
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Aurelio, the Garifuna artist based in Honduras, will be interviewed on tonight's Radio 4 Front Row at 19.15. This key BBC arts program will be discussing Aurelio's new Real World album Laru Baya. Aurelio is one of the most extraordinary and passionate artists of his generation, and a major tradition-bearer of the Garifuna culture that fuses African and Caribbean roots. Laru Beya was recorded in Honduras, Belize and Senegal, where Aurelio worked with Youssou N'Dour and Orchestra Baobab, who both guest on the recording.
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This year at Charlton Park, Real World Records will be represented by a range of exciting and diverse artists: Aurelio (Honduras); The Creole Choir Of Cuba (Cuba); Dub Colossus (Ethiopia/UK); Iarla O Lionaird (Ireland); and Samuel Yirga (Ethiopia).
For those of you that are attending please check out the official WOMAD iPhone app (also available for Android users ). The app is intended to complement anyone attending the festival so they can have offline access to the line ups, artist background, maps and other helpful information.
With weather reports looking positive, what better way to enjoy this coming weekend! Hope to see you all there.
- More information on the WOMAD website
- Download the WOMAD iPhone app
- Download a free Samuel Yirga track
Aurelio - A Voice for the People
In advance of this Saturday's concert at the Barbican in London, Aurelio talks to The Morning Star about the Garifuna culture, his election to the Honduran parliament and sharing musical ideas with Youssou N'Dour and members of Orchestra Baobab.
Iarla Ó Lionáird previews his new album, Foxlight, at the Galway Arts Festival, July 19
Iarla Ó Lionáird's new album, Foxlight, will be released early this Autumn. Foxlight shimmers with versatility and is one of Ó Lionáird's most organic and naturalistic records to date. Instrumentation and layers are embedded in each song, but ultimately it's about Ó Lionáird's exquisite, sonically unique voice. This concert is a special preview show of this new release.
Aurelio Returns To Europe
We are delighted welcome Honduran rising star, Aurelio, for a run of concerts and festivals, including WOMAD, Paleo and Etnosur.
On Saturday 23rd July, Aurelio performs in London at the Barbican's Blaze Festival, joining Danyel Waro and Carlou D for an evening of fresh and emerging global voices.
Aurelio is a WOMAD Charlton Park festival highlight with two performances over the weekend, Friday on the Charlie Gillett Stage and Saturday in the Siam Tent.
Aurelio's new album 'Laru Beya' has been described as '…one of the albums of the year so far' (The Guardian), "... just beautiful" (Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2) and '…an outstanding, surprise-filled offering' (The Observer).
- Tickets for The Blaze Festival, Barbican, London
- Blaze Festival - facebook event
- WOMAD Charlton Park
Syriana and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The combination of Syriana and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra last week was a musical experience to be savored. The concert, part of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival, featured some terrific orchestral arrangements of Syriana's music by Ian Stephens, and the Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell provided the symphonic punch that complemented Syriana's evocative sound.
Niccolo Piazza's films created a backdrop of images which ranged from the psychedelic to the eerily beautiful, with vivid shots of sculpted sand dunes, rolling desert skies.
Syriana Orchestral Debut Performance at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Bringing their intoxicating brew of Arabic and Western music to Liverpool Philharmonic, complete with a striking visual backdrop from filmmaker Nico Piazza, this unique concert debuts arrangements composed especially for the performance, which sees Syriana joined by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. This event on Thursday 7 July is a unique opportunity to see a dramatic meeting of Middle East and West - a powerful and cinematic experience in which the emotional narrative drama of Syriana's music is taken to new heights through the orchestral collaboration.
Fresh from their nomination for a 2011 Songlines Music Award as Best Newcomer with their album 'The Road To Damascus', and a second nomination for the prestigious German award Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (The German Record Critics' Award - set up to recognize high standards in music recordings), Syriana's highly acclaimed evocative and atmospheric pieces are effectively transcribed to a live stage performance.
Now released 'A life in film' Syriana on glorious vinyl featuring 6 tracks not available on the original CD. Buy the vinyl from our shop.
Direct from Addis - Introducing Samuel Yirga
An exciting young pianist from Ethiopia, Samuel Yirga first became known through his outstanding playing with Dub Colossus. Against the odds, Samuel found his way to music school in Addis Ababa and this rising young star is now re-writing contemporary Ethiopian music for the new generation . Experimenting with Jazz, Latin, the traditional songs and sounds of his country's roots and more contemporary Ethiojazz, Samuel's remarkable talent shines. His new recordings are bold and sensitive, often improvised, always deeply impassioned.
Samuel will be performing at WOMAD Charlton Park and festival goers will have the chance to discover his first solo release - a limited edition CD showcasing his remarkable playing.
- Read Samuel's full story
- Download a free track - 'Habasha Diaspora'
- A short film of Samuel performing recently at Momo in London
Spiro recording in the Big Room...
The extraordinary Spiro were weaving their magic in the Big Room studio last week. They are recording a second album for Real World Records with their usual breathtaking playing and heart-breaking melodies.
Photograph: York Tillyer
'In Trance' by JuJu out now
JuJu is Justin Adams (electric guitar, bendir, backing vocals), Juldeh Camara (lead vocals, ritti, talking drum), Billy Fuller (bass) and Dave Smith (drums, percussion). Their new album 'In Trance' has been recorded live to capture the spirit of JuJu's electric performances on stage - channelling trancey rhythms from traditional Africa, leftfield jazz and the wilder end of rock. The enthusiastic reaction to their live work outs have now been reflected in outstanding reviews of this new album.
"Avant-jazz dub-trance grooves."
The Independent
The Guardian
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A new double album, 'Forever,' offers one disc of live tracks from the acoustic tour and a second bonus disc of electric material where violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, original RTF guitarist Bill Connors and vocalist Chaka Khan joined the fun. Corea is taking an electric quintet out this summer with White, Clark, Ponty and guitarist Frank Gambale and later this year he will celebrate his 70th birthday with a month-long run at the Blue Note Club that will feature groups from different points in his career. We caught up with the iconic pianist recently by phone for the latest in AAJ's Jazz Legends interview series.
There is an incredible variety of projects on your resume, particularly in recent years. What's up? Are you easily bored?
Or maybe I can't make up my mind. No, just kidding. Really, I'm just having a lot of fun, man. I have a lot of richness in my life with musicians and artist friends. One of the things I like to do on a project is absorb more and learn more, because I work with musicians who have something artistically to offer. That's the continual student in me. The other reason is that there is a richness to the friendships that results in projects and ideas.
So, moving from project to project means that you are just not stuck with the same guys, day in and day out?
Well, being stuck isn't a good thing. But in a sense, I miss having a steady group, a group of musicians who develop together. It's something that every year I'm thinking about. At this point in time it would probably have to be with some younger musicians, but any way that you are doing it, if you are doing it freely from the heart, it doesn't matter if it's short-lived or long-lived. I admire bands that can stay together and really keep on creating. It's unusual though.
Return to Forever Perform 'The Romantic Warrior' in 2008 Is this craving of musicians who have developed together the reason for this project with Stanley and Lenny?
Well, yes. It's been a long friendship and musical association. Stanley and I go back to the first formation of Return to Forever, or actually to weeklong gig we did together in Philadelphia with the Joe Henderson Sextet. He had an upright bass with an amplifier and I was playing Fender Rhodes and we hit it off. We put together several trios before I came to the idea of returning to New York with the idea of putting it together with a vocalist. Flora Purim singing with me resulted in Airto, her husband, coming along and playing kit drums. I hadn't known he played drums that way because when we worked with Miles he played percussion. So Lenny came into the band in '73 after Steve Gadd, who was the first drummer in the electric band, and there was an instant chemistry. Lenny also played a lot with Joe Henderson and played a lot with Stanley. He was Stanley's friend back then. The three of us gelled really well, so we like to keep it going. In 2009, we did an acoustic trio where we jammed on the classics and it sounded great. They are such a great rhythm section.
What were some of the things you explored as an acoustic trio?
We were trying to explore those rhythms and that vibe of music. We ended up playing some of the Return to Forever stuff acoustically for the fans and that turned out good too because of the different way we were touching our instruments. It was a lot of fun. After that, we decided to do another grouping of Return to Forever, which is what we are doing this year.
This time with Frank Gambale on guitar, right?
Yes, he was from my Elektric Band. Just with the instrument of the guitar, there's always been a challenge among musicians where the keyboard player tries to play in a jazz group with a guitarist. Guitarists play chords and do a similar function to what the piano does or can do. When Frank and I first got together in the Elektric Band, we had a lot of problems and challenges trying to make what we liked to do work. We worked it all out and after a while it got very smooth. Then to bring in Jean-Luc, who was one of the guys that helped create that fusion movement in '70s, his playing with Mahavishnu is still a hallmark of fusion playing and jazz playing. There are a lot of wonderful associations with this new quintet. We have a lot of things to explore.
Will it be an ongoing thing?
I'm not sure. I hope so. You never know until everyone gets in there. Everyone has a busy schedule as a leader and a record producer, so to make this a steady working band is not far-fetched, but who knows? We may have so much fun that we will want to do it again.
Speaking of Mahavishnu, you got to play with John McLaughlin in the Five Peace Band. How was that?
It was one of the high points of my life to play with John. He's one of my favorites and always has been. He's great but we never did a thorough project together. We both wrote some music and pieced the whole thing together. We are going to get together for a few days in November at the Blue Note with that band as part of my 70th birthday.
So what's going to happen?
It's going to be a month long, and every three nights there is going to be a different band. We are playing six days a week. It will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be a band. Then Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be another band. It will be a great jam session for a month. I'm really looking forward to it.
We saw you there with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motion.
Yeah, yeah, that was great too. You know, I'm having too much fun. I have a feeling I'm going to get arrested. It was a really free and open environment. They both played with Bill, Eddie for 11 years and of course Paul in that classic trio with Scott LaFaro. It was called Further Explorations of Bill Evans and we chose a few of his songs. We were even doing one song that was never performed before that he wrote for a publisher. I got it from his son Evan Evans. I just got done mixing that for release in Japan and we are going to call it 'Further Explorations.' Bill had a recording called 'Explorations,' so I took that idea and added to it. There were also some tunes from me and the other guys too.
We remember a Monk tune.
I don't have a hard statistic on this, but from my wanderings around the planet and listening, I believe that Thelonious Monk is the most performed composer on the planet. More than Duke Ellington and so forth. Everyone loves to play his tunes.
What's the appeal for you?
It's hard to explain. I met him once, but I hung around Monk a lot, growing up in New York. I saw him play a lot of sets and I'm familiar with the vibe. But the tunes he writes are so creative and so simple. They are like a pop song, like 'Eleanor Rigby,' where you start to hear the melody and you sing along.
I remember seeing him at one club on the Lower East Side where Ornette Coleman used to play as well. I was listening to the set and in the middle of a solo I think Charlie Rouse was playing and an alarm clock sitting on the piano went off. It was a kids' clock, one of those old-fashioned ones with the two bells on top. It rang and Monk shut the alarm of and the band walked off stage [laughs]. I remember that the club owner only allowed 20-minute sets because he wanted people to buy more drinks. So that was Monk's way of complying with the rule.
So why not bring Al Di Meola back and make it a full classic reunion of the RTF quartet?
Well, the chemistry of this quintet is pretty well intact. We did eight concerts in Australia in February and it was just a lot of fun. The combination of the violin with the singing guitar was real attractive to me. The band has nice, rich tones. I sampled my Fender Rhodes and inputted it into my Yamaha keyboard and it sounds really good. It works really well wit the violin and guitar. To have that sound is a real inspiration for me as a composer.
So can people expect new tunes?
Stanley wrote a beautiful new tune called 'New York.' I wrote some new stuff. Then we will put a new spin on the RTF material. We are doing short festival sets this summer so it will be 75-minute sets. There will be some of Lenny's repertoire and some of my earlier stuff and some of Jean-Luc's pieces that are pretty well known. So it is a work in progress.
You'll be doing acoustic and electric and mixing and matching?
Absolutely. We'll be playing some acoustic. We may play [RTF's] 'No Mystery' or 'Romantic Warrior' as an acoustic tune.
You tend to revisit things, unlike Miles Davis, who would walk through a door and shut it behind him, not playing the older music after a change. Why go back to things?
It came to me in an epiphany in 2001. Exactly 10 years ago, I was doing my 60th birthday and jam session at the Blue Note. At first I resisted the idea because it was presented to me by the club. I wasn't so sure about all the reunions, but my wife Gail saw the real positive side of getting together with old friends and approaching it like a celebration of life. That's what we did. It was such a great time with all these guys coming down and it occurred to me that basis of my music is the richness of all these friendships with these people. Why do I need to consider it a reunion to get together with them? Why can't we just get together with old friends and new friends and make some music? From that point on, I reached out a little more to get in contact with friends who mean a lot to me in my life.


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|4 (baby chickens)
|Powdered saffron
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Imperator Canceled
From Gamespy...
Mythic Entertainment announced today that it will be postponing production of the sci-fi MMO Imperator in order to focus on other properties.
After an internal review of the status of the game, the company has decided that it would be a better choice to focus on its Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer titles.
Magus, isn't that the one you said looked like an SWG clone? :)
Re: Imperator Canceled
This was announced on Gamespot acouple days ago (maybe even last week). From what I saw at E3, I could really careless. It didn't look that impressive at all.
Yeah, Its the one that I thought was SWG at E3.
Re: Imperator Canceled
this was kinda dissapointing to me. I know alot of people were not very impressed by it. But i was always hoping a developer would grab the sci fi market and make a better version of anarchy online. That game had so much potential.
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Ambassadors help provide Paws to Heart Rescue with a consistent, reliable income stream, allowing us to focus more resources on growing some new programs like our community pet food bank and low cost spay/neuter to owners in need, and less on raising the necessary operating funds such as rent, insurance, and veterinary expenses. Members like it because it is easy to budget for and it feels great knowing they are consistently helping animals in need.
As a thank you, Ambassadors receive an free welcome kit that includes a Paws to Heart Rescue t-shirt, a pet safety alert decal, brochures to help create awareness about animals in need of placement, and other resources on animals and how to help with issues that affect their welfare. In addition you will receive quarterly updates on how your donation is working for animals in our care through our newsletter.
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By sponsoring a pet, Paws to Heart Rescue will take a stray or surrendered pet into our care, rescue a pet from an open admission ("kill") shelter, or take a "free to good home" pet offered on a website such as Craigslist. Pets receive their medical care through a partnership with one of our veterinarians, and your contribution of $100 will not only cover the veterinary care of a rescued pet, but save a life! As a sponsor, you will receive photos, updates, and an adoption notice on your sponsored pet, as well as be listed on on the pet's enclosure and our website if you desire.
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Unless you're some kind of competitive survivalist, Griffith Park's desert trails and empty hills basically amount to nothing less than an expanse of wilderness in the middle of the second-largest city in America. It includes signs warning of mountain lions and rattlesnakes—though in truth you're more likely to run into budding actresses on their post-yoga trail runs or heading for the tennis courts. Atop the highest peak, hard by the "Hollywood" sign, you'll see Griffith Observatory, which offers views of the stars (inside) and the city (outside). The planetarium shows are a favorite of stoners far and wide.


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A Shock for the Ages
The news from Nepal this weekend could hardly be more dire. As aftershocks continue to buffer the regions around Katmandu, the remaining fine lines separating survival and death disappear for many.
For Global Action, there are many reasons to pause and mourn, including friends working in Nepal's disarmament, development, health and religious sectors. We have experienced large earthquakes elsewhere. There is simply no way to prepare for devastation that seemingly comes out of nowhere and undermines what little remains of our confidence in a predictable world.
But even more, one of our board members and most trusted advisors, Christina Madden just returned from an extended visit to Nepal. Christina, who serves as Executive Director of Himalayan Health Care, had just concluded a long trek with medical personnel and others committed to the health and economic well-being of Nepal's many underserved rural communities. Her tales of hope from those places were compelling and inspiring.
Even before the full benefit of her experiences had sunk in, this shock for the ages.
Global Action will do what we can to support Himalayan Health Care in its efforts to leverage medical care and economic opportunity. The needs now are on a scale that could never have been imagined just a few short days ago.
For more information on Himalayan Health Care, click here.
Respecting Indigenous Youth and Elders
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues returned to the United Nations this week. Under the leadership of Megan Davis of Australia (Chair) the Forum examined its own working methods, issued calls for more state attention to the promotion of indigenous rights, urged creation of indicators to more effectively measure social and economic progress of indigenous peoples, and discussed strategies to address disturbing statistics regarding self-harm and suicide by indigenous youth.
Linking Security and Development in the Post-2015 Agenda
On March 12, 2015 GAPW was joined by Ms. Maritza Chan of the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations and students and faculty of Instituto Mora in Mexico,DF for a webinar that explored the ways in which insecurity from illicit weapons, narcotics trafficking and an under-developed security sector threatens the full implementation of development priorities.
The webinar was the first in a series of events to promote "Linking Security and Development in the post-2015 Agenda," soon to be released by Instituto Mora. The book owes its existence to the steady guidance provided by Mora's Dr. Lucatello Simone. With its blending of Latin American and outside authors, the book attempts to link policy communities committed to peacemaking on the one hand and those who will lead the implementation of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the other.
Among the book's recommendations is the call for more policy attention on the preventive dimensions of the SDGs, including the prevention of pandemics such as Ebola, the restriction of flows on illicit weapons before they find their way into the hands of non-state actors or rogue elements, and preserving inclusive access to precious national resources before such resources become a pretext for violence. In these and other instances, more prevention and less reaction from policymakers to the many problems that inhibit development objectives would, the authors believe, be time well spent.
For more information on the webinar, including access to GAPW posts on current security and development issues, click here.
For more information on Instituto Mora, click here.
Examining the Diverse Roles of Media in Violent Conflict: INFOCORE
Global Action was pleased to join the dissemination team for a European Union funded project to examine "the different media roles in the cycle of conflict and peace building."
While our own role in "Informing Conflict Prevention, Response and Resolution" ( INFOCORE) is modest, the project will provide important insights on how media outlets can exacerbate inclinations to violent conflict as well as assist in conflict prevention or in the reconciliation of former combatants and communities once conflict has ceased. Given our broad access to UN agencies and diplomatic missions working on a wide range of conflict-related issues, as well as our own media-related efforts at UN headquarters, we believe that we are in a particularly good position to ensure that INFOCORE media-related recommendations will find their way into policy discussions addressing many forms of violence from local discrimination against migrants to the most horrific mass atrocities committed against entire populations.
In one form or other, media outlets cover these and many more instances of violence and abuse, sometimes in constructive ways, other times not. Sorting out the norms and protocols for a more constructive role for media in violence prevention and reconciliation through comparative research and analysis is the welcome and highly-relevant objective of INFOCORE.
For more information on INFOCORE, please click here.
For access to GAPW's report on the status of UN media, please click here.
Disarmament Roads More Heavily Traveled
January 2015| Santiago, Chile
As readers of this space over the years are well aware, GAPW has a longstanding commitment to eliminating nuclear weapons, thus ending the stranglehold of such weapons on the security policies of possessor states.
Our work in this area has been mostly inspired by the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP), though we have contributed to discussions on nuclear weapons modernization with Reaching Critical Will, on weapons of mass destruction-free zones with the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), and on several inter-related security matters. We have also followed with interest recent discussions on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons as well as on an LCNP-supported suit filed with the International Court of Justice by the Marshall Islands whose residents suffered greatly from extensive above-ground nuclear testing in their region during and after WW II.
As we approach another installment of the UN Disarmament Commission in April and a review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty process in May, several states are organizing strategy sessions to look at possible outcomes and obstacles. One such session occurred recently in Santiago in the country (Chile) currently serving as Security Council president. The event, "Roads to Nuclear Disarmament: A Case of Convergence in Diversity," brought together Chilean diplomats, UN disarmament officials and key policymakers. LCNP's John Burroughs was asked to make a presentation at the panel focused on "Humanitarian Approaches to Nuclear Weapons" in which he raises the bar on 'good faith' nuclear negotiations.
With guidance from LCNP and other partners, GAPW will continue to weigh in where we can, as states deliberate and negotiate – mostly fitfully – towards a world without nuclear weapons.
For more information on the Chile event, click here.
For access to the paper by LCNP's John Burroughs, click here.
Registering the Need for Food Security
December 2014| Limbe, Cameroon
Food security is a large and growing global problem affecting many millions of people, including refugees as well as citizens in states that use food as a weapon to punish dissent. Recent briefing in the UN Security Council on Syria and the DPRK provided sober, painful reminders of the brutality that accompanies state policies to restrict food access for political, cultural or religious objectives.
Recently in Cameroon, GAPW worked with LUKMEF and other partners to explore options for women farmers who have largely been denied access to personal security and markets for their produce that can increase prosperity for their families and communities. Open and transparent 'cooperative registration' is widely believed to hold the key to greater empowerment for women farmers throughout the region.
LUKMEF's efforts notwithstanding, challenges in securing 'cooperative registration' have been considerable. Government 'cooperation' with registation has been elusive at best. The struggle for local food security through collective bargaining, purchasing, etc.,will remain a priority for some time to come.
Despite frustrations with registration, we personally witnessed some extraordinary efforts to improve food security and nutrition in local communities, including fish farming and women-led farms committed to both training the next generation of farmers and growing a wider range of vegetables to improve local nutrition, boost incomes and increase food security.
One such place was the Young Farmers Training Center in the town of Muyuka where we were treated to a tour of land that is among many farms carefully being transitioned from export crops such as palm and banana to crops such as okra, tomato and sweet squash more suitable for healthy, local consumption.
At the end of our tour of the Training Center, the women broke into a thankful chant to honor the 'wonder of vegetables.' In this season of abundance for so many in the west, we surely have chants of our own that we would do well to utter.
For more information on 'cooperative registration' for agricultural workers in Cameroon, click here.
A Fresh Voice on UNEPS and RtoP
November 2014| Sydney, Australia
Global Action is pleased to endorse the latest analysis by Dr. Annie Herro of prospects for a UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS), a standing, gender and service integrated, rapid-response capacity that can help the international community respond early and effectively to outbreaks of mass atrocity violence.
Regional 'rapid response' capacities are in various stages of development through the African Union and with the European Union's "Battlegroups." These and other iterations are prompted by the view, more and more widespread, that our responses to threats of violence against civilians come too late to either mediate disputes or to address violent outbreaks in their earliest stages.
Dr. Herro has a long relationship with GAPW and has authored other works on UNEPS with Kavitha Suthanthiraraj, formerly International Coordinator of GAPW. Their work looks beyond the technical details of a UNEPS to discuss how important norms — in this case the necessity of early and timely response — is affected by a number of factors including the political savvy and trustworthiness of the norms' caretakers. The book concludes that because the UNEPS proposal is intricately linked to the UN, trust in the world organisation and its leadership is also an essential ingredient in generating support for the idea. Herro urges us to ensure that the values and priorities of a wide range of stakeholders are represented while undertaking any potentially controversial proposal such as UNEPS is alleged to be by some UN member states.
GAPW, under the leadership of Dr. Trudy Fraser and Dr. David Curran, has also prepared a series of essays on rapid reaction peacekeeping that will soon be released by the German publisher Springer. Dr. Herro also contributed to this volume.
It should be noted that GAPW's work on UNEPS was supported for many years by The Simons Foundation in Canada, for which we remain grateful.
For access to a longer description of the Herro book, click here.
For more information on The Simons Foundation, click here.
Linking Community and Policy in Cameroon
October 2014| New York, NY
For the past several years, GAPW and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation (LUKMEF) in Limbe, Cameroon have undertaken joint programming on a variety of issues germane to the prevention of armed violence and mass atrocities in Central Africa. Currently we continue to create consultations linking offices in New York and Limbe/Douala while branching out to new civil society constituencies, including women farmers, whose empowerment and skills development can help eliminate prospects for mass atrocity violence in a region that faces a myriad of security challenges. To this effect, LUKMEF and GAPW with $10,000 in financial support from The NEXUS FUND are focusing on three key project areas for collaboration in 2014:
- A project to Prevent gender-based violence in rural communities of Central Africa areas by eliminating the economic vulnerability of women agricultural workers and by increasing their access to markets and other resources
- A project to help ensure equal access to justice for women and cultural minorities in Cameroon making good use of the administrative justice system to fight corruption and administrative bottlenecks that too often impede justice and fuel violence
- A project to facilitate more regular, security-focused discussion between military officials and culturally diverse civil society leaders.
An underlying goal in all these activities is the promotion of more community participation in policy and governance issues that can magnify diverse, local voices and eliminate impunity for the illegal actions of state officials.
As the security situation continues to pose significant challenges in Cameroon and several of its neighbours - specifically Nigeria and Central African Republic - it is critically important for programs based in this region to foster more government-civil society dialogue, more access to justice, more government -sponsored protective measures in rural areas, and more attentiveness to the policy integration of skills and voices from communities across the region. All of these activities make contributions to societies better able to resist any potential descent into mass violence. This NEXUS exchange builds upon and deepens prior work linking our two offices and helps us establish a more robust and permanent relationship.
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Scrutinizing the Security Council's Thematic Obligations
September 2014| New York, NY
GAPW has long understood the need to engage a full range of diplomatic and civil society initiatives to increase the accountability and effectiveness of the UN Security Council. From working methods and the use of the veto to the makeup of permanent and non-permanent membership, we have attempted to stay in creative relationship to a number of reform initiatives, especially the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group chaired by Switzerland.
As fires rage worldwide, and as more threats to peace and security are identified by the Council (the latest of which are ISIS and the Ebola epidemic), the need to link Council activities, especially in the thematic areas, to a wider range of capacities and preventive initiatives of states, civil society and UN secretariat offices is paramount. Especially this past summer, the Council has too often seems overwhelmed with crises while sidelining many potential collaborators and neglecting core aspects of the UN's preventive architecture.
With leadership from Dr. Vesselin Popovski and Dr. Trudy Fraser (our Peace and Security Fellow), GAPW was honored to contribute to "The Security Council as Global Legislator," published by Routledge. Melina Lito and Robert Zuber contributed an essay entitled "The Security Council as legislator and norm builder: Impacts on efforts to promote the Women, Peace and Security agenda." This essay examines themes that have guided our own gender-focused activities.
As noted by Routledge, this volume seeks to reframe discussions of whether the Security Council – in the current composition and working methods – is representative, capable or productive. Rather it assesses whether legislative activity by the Security Council can be beneficial to international peace and security. The authors examine and critique the capacities of the Security Council to address thematic international threats - such as terrorism, weapons proliferations, targeting of civilians, recruitment of child soldiers, piracy – as an alternative to the traditional model of addressing country-specific situations on a case-by-case basis. Ultimately, the book seeks to assess the efficacy of the Security Council as global legislator in terms of complementing the Security Council's mandate for the primary maintenance of international peace and security with other preventative and norm-setting capacities.
For access to the Popovski/Fraser volume, please click here.
For more on the Security Council discussion on the Ebola crisis, please click here.
Prioritizing Reparations
August 2014| New York, NY
On a Friday summer morning, the UN organized an extraordinary event focused on The "Guidance Note" of the Secretary-General on Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
The event brought together ambassadors from diplomatic missions and officials from the highest levels of the Secretariat, including Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson, Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo, ASG for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović and Special Representative to the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura.
This is not the first discussion at the UN focused on reparations, but in some ways it was the most satisfying. An earlier iteration of the UN's growing concern for reparations was organized in part by GAPW's Melina Lito.
Conference room 6 was packed on the first day of August, and few if any were sorry they made the trip. The insights were numerous and, in many instances, practical, supporting the Guidance Note's examination of a range of measures promoted by the UN and implemented by member states to promote access to many forms of reparations, including 'restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction,' and perhaps most importantly 'guarantees of non-repetition.'
Also of note was SRSG Bangura's explicit and welcome linkage between sexual violence, stigma and limited economic options for victims. In far too many instances, she noted, life is significantly better for perpetrators than for their victims. ASG Šimonović highlighted both the forensics challenges in investigating sexual abuse and the still-relevant limitations of state support for victim compensation. It is, he noted, "never too late" for justice. DSG Eliasson reinforced the urgent need to address reparations with "passion and compassion."
Perhaps the most salient point of the day was uttered by Ambassador Lucas of Luxembourg who quoted a woman she met in Guinea to the effect that "before turning the page, we have to read the page." It was the consensus of the group that reparations for victims of conflict-related sexual violence, not only cash but health care and employment opportunities, must be on any page that women victimized during conflict will want to read.
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Everyone has a list of things to accomplish during their lifetime. It usually reads something like this:
1) Fit back into my high school cheerleading uniform.
2) Trek up a mountain in the (hopefully) capable hands of a Tibetan sherpa.
3) Sleep with a B-list celebrity.
4) Write the great American novel (will settle for New York Times bestseller).
You get the picture: a to-do list that serves more to demonstrate how mundane life is than it does to offer validation. My aspirations are slightly less lofty.
My first stop was Saratori's, an Italian pastry shop that's an extension of Tully's Italian Deli. Located on San Mateo, Tully's has been selling sandwiches, pasta, meats and other treats di cucina for 38 years. When a tenant vacated a shop at the end of the building, the Camuglias, who own the deli and building it's housed in, weren't looking forward to re-leasing the spot. So Johnny Camuglia simply told his mother, Jerry, "I'm gonna do my own thing."
As if the buttery roll wasn't enough, its center gave way to orange rind and ricotta cheese.
Next time you stop by Tully's for lunch, make sure to drop by the bakery for dessert. Or head over for breakfast. Grab a cup of joe, some biscotti, settle into an overstuffed chair and try not to think about how this may be as close as you'll get to checking off No. 3457 on your list—taking a picture of yourself pretending to single-handedly hold up the Eiffel Tower.
Everything is baked from scratch and nothing less than real butter gets mixed into the frosting. As it melted on my tongue, I realized that grocery store birthday cakes would never again satiate me.
Although cupcake-only bakeries are sprouting like weeds all over the country, Laurie is undeterred. Cupcakeology is more of a sweet-spot café than a typical bakery, with its pink-and-white decor and "You are what you eat, so eat something cute" scribbled on a wall. Small tables and coffee complete the feel. Her reason for only offering these paper-wrapped indulgences is purely logical. She laughingly explains, "They're the perfect size, they're a treat and they're a great vehicle for frosting!"
Cupcakeology is more of a sweet-spot café than a typical bakery, with its pink-and-white decor and "You are what you eat, so eat something cute" scribbled on a wall.
The Alibi recommends from Saratori's:
• Limone farfalla
• Buccellati biscotto
• Sfogliatelle
The Alibi recommends from Cupcakeology:
• Coconut cupcakes
• Red velvet cupcakes
• Monkeybutter cupcakes
Saratori's di Tully, 1425 San Mateo NE, 268-2627. Hours: Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Sun-Mon. Price range: Inexpensive. Credit cards accepted.
Cupcakeology, 2000 Carlisle NE, 266-1115. Hours: Tue-Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Sun-Mon. Price range: Inexpensive. Credit cards accepted.


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Markets closed due to bad weather
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Philippine financial markets were shut down Monday as heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm "Maring" flooded the National Capital Region and some parts of Luzon, reminiscent of how the "Habagat" (monsoon) downpour paralyzed the metropolis around the same time last year.
The Philippine Stock Exchange announced early Monday morning that there would be no trading at its bourse as clearing and settlement at Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines had been suspended. As operations at government offices were suspended, clearing and settlement operations in the Philippine banking system likewise ground to a halt.
Most banks declared work suspension in the NCR and affected areas of Luzon but some chose to remain open for business. Bank of the Philippine Islands, Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. and Citibank were among those that kept their doors open except in areas where a local holiday was observed, including Quezon City, which celebrated its foundation day.
Most employees, however, were sent home earlier than the usual working hours. On the other hand, BDO Unibank, HSBC, Philippine National Bank, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., Security Bank, China Bank, Union Bank, United Coconut Planters Bank and East West Bank immediately suspended work in affected areas.
The banks encouraged customers to use electronic banking channels like online banking and automated teller machines to conduct vital transactions. In Aug. 7 last year, an inclement weather that flooded the metropolis similarly forced Philippine financial markets and banking operations to a halt. Meanwhile, Metro Manila's major shopping malls and grocery chains remained open for business. Ayala Land Inc., SM Prime Holdings, Robinsons Land Corp., Megaworld Corp. as well as retailer Puregold Price Club Inc. said they were open to serve consumers.
In the case of SM Prime, only its shopping mall in Bacoor was closed. Because surrounding area of SM Bacoor was flooded, portions of this Cavite mall took in water but sandbags were placed to prevent flood from getting in, based on an advisory from SM. Doris C. Dumlao
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The nation's weather
Wet weather was forecast to persist in the Northern Plains and Northern Rockies on Wednesday as a low pressure system slowly moved into Canada.
The system has brought moderate to heavy snow to Montana and Wyoming, and has also created a strong cold front that triggered severe weather in the Dakotas. As the system was expected to slowly move northward into central Canada throughout the day, it would continue slowly pushing a cold front eastward over the Northern Plains and into the Upper Midwest. The entire system would lose much of its strength and energy because of its slow propagation. Thus, the front would only kick up scattered showers with mild thunderstorm development. A quarter to a half-inch of rain was expected in the eastern Dakotas and Upper Midwest, with up to a half-inch in areas of thunderstorms. Flow around this system was expected to continue pulling moisture around it and into the Northern Rockies. Thus, Montana and Wyoming would see another 2-5 inches of snow Wednesday.
Meanwhile to the South, a trough of low pressure was forecast to move farther inland over Texas from the Gulf of Mexico. As this system moved away from the Gulf, it would lose much of its energy and moisture, thus, only overcast skies with a few scattered showers were expected over most of Texas.
The coasts, on the other hand, would see mild weather with high pressure dominating the Southeast and Southwest. However, forecasters said light rain may reach into the extreme Northeast as a minor trough of low pressure dipped in from Canada. Also, a low spinning off the West Coast might spread light showers along the coasts of Oregon and Washington.
Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Tuesday ranged from a low of 10 degrees at Bryce Canyon, Utah, to a high of 88 degrees at Smyrna, Tenn.
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On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:09 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:Frank Murphy wrote:Asked here because, I know some programmers frequent. Is linux code "ones & zeroes", when you get to the bit\byte end of things. Depending on answer, will then scan in a quick doodle (very ruff), to get opinions.Sorry but I don't understand the question... can you elaborate?I believe all code ends up as 10101010, in various combinations?
Anything going in the computer is translated to binary: operating system, executables, data.1010101 = binary?
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Author(s): Zisk, Kimberly Marten
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Did a "doctrine race" exist alongside the much-publicized arms competition between East and West? Using recent insights from organization theory, Kimberly Marten Zisk answers this question in the affirmative. Zisk challenges the standard portrayal of Soviet military officers as bureaucratic actors wedded to the status quo: she maintains that when they were confronted by a changing external security environment, they reacted by producing innovative doctrine. The author's extensive evidence is drawn from newly declassified Soviet military journals, and from her interviews with retired high-ranking Soviet General Staff officers and highly placed Soviet-Russian civilian defense experts.
According to Zisk, the Cold War in Europe was powerfully influenced by the reactions of Soviet military officers and civilian defense experts to modifications in U.S. and NATO military doctrine. Zisk also asserts that, contrary to the expectations of many analysts, civilian intervention in military policy-making need not provoke pitched civil-military conflict. Under Gorbachev's leadership, for instance, great efforts were made to ensure that "defensive defense" policies reflected military officers' input and expertise. Engaging the Enemy makes an important contribution not only to the theory of military organizations and the history of Soviet military policy but also to current policy debates on East-West security issues.
Kimberly Marten Zisk is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate of the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University.
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