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The Ethnography of Rhythm
Orality and Its Technologies
Haun Saussy
Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"—core ideas of modern literary theory– were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts—starting with Homer and the Bible—had emerged from an oral tradition, assumptions on how to read these texts were greatly perturbed. Through readings that range from ancient Greece, Rome and China to the Cold War imaginary, The Ethnography of Rhythm situates the study of oral traditions in the contentious space of nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking about language, mind, and culture. It also demonstrates the role of technologies in framing this category of poetic creation. By making possible a new understanding of Maussian "techniques of the body" as belonging to the domain of Derridean "arche-writing," Haun Saussy shows how oral tradition is a means of inscription in its own right, rather than an antecedent made obsolete by the written word or other media and data-storage devices.
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Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
A Farewell to Tony Yu
Many traditions depict life as a pilgrimage. Though he spent much of his life in Chicago, I can't imagine Tony otherwise than en route to somewhere. In him the seriousness of the Tang Monk was always mixed with the mischief of the Monkey King– these being the two main protagonists of the Journey to the West to which he dedicated many years of his full life. Like them, he had powers of perception and transformation that seemed superhuman, and any demons on his path had to reckon with his swift ripostes; and like them, he was restless in the pursuit of a world-embracing harmony with room for rebels and saints alike. If you had not been so vividly and undeniably part of our world, Tony, we might have thought someone like you could only have been dreamt up in fiction.
Listen to Your Elders
Jean-Luc Godard, at 84, can still do a good enfant terrible. See Sofilm #30 (May 2015):
–Since you're interested in History, what do you think about the Greek demand that Germany pay them war indemnities?
— They're completely right to do so! And I suggest you watch Chris Marker's film "The Owl's Legacy" which shows how we owe everything to Greek thought, which lasted two thousand years. He even shows it influencing Japan. Give yourself one evening to watch "The Owl's Legacy" and you've solved the Greek-European-German problem. Europe and Germany ought to get down on their knees and say thank you to Greece. That's all. Every time you utter a sentence and you use the word "therefore," the Greeks ought to get ten dollars of royalties, and that would take care of the Greek debt.
— Do you consider yourself an "auteur"?
— These days everybody's an "auteur." The guy who claps the clapperboard wants to be the auteur of the clap. This question of royalties has swollen to grotesque proportions, especially with the Internet. … I got paid, and I don't have any further rights in it. Afterward, let people do what they want. If they want to make off with the film, it's not my business. A director should know how much he wants to be paid for his film, and once he's received that, he can just hand over the excess to Amnesty or the Red Cross. …
The whole idea of intellectual property, of patents and copyrights, goes right over my head. I don't even know who came up with three quarters of the dialogues in my films, I don't write them down. I take snippets that interest me and I don't care about the rights. If somebody sues me– but nobody ever has; sometimes I'd have welcomed a lawsuit. Once Anne-Marie [Miéville] and I were imagining she might sue me, just to create the precedent… Bottom line, it's just literature, because it doesn't exist except through texts, on paper. When the judge sentences you and says, "By virtue of the law such-and-such," somebody is the author of that law too, and often the law bears the name of its author, the Tom-Dick-and-Harry Act, and so on. In France, there's the Evin Act that regulates smoking. Somebody should ask the judge, "And how about you, are you paying royalties to M. Evin?"
— So the idea of the "auteur" is misused?
— Absolutely, but there's a lot of money riding on this kind of thing, they put a sixty-year limit on it, pretty much the same time they put on archives before they're declassified. What about news agencies, what royalties do they handle? Plenty of dead people have never seen a penny of their royalties. Three-quarters of the pictures in the paper come without a statement of ownership, you see a guy in poverty, a drowned girl. The TV stations and newspapers could put a little money aside and try to find out who really owns that. When there's a close-up on the front page of the paper, the photographer got his salary, but the crash victim, she never got a penny. There are thousands of cases like this.
— The industry's terrified of the Internet.
— Yeah, but "the industry," it's like "the market," it's made up of men and women. People say "the markets" the way they'd say "the dragons."…
— Why did you give up your studio?… And are you happy like this?
— If you're even slightly well-off, if you have a roof over your head, if you manage to think a little on your own, and have a few people around you that you can talk to, some landscapes and a dog, that's such a huge stroke of luck that in some ways you just say: this is an amazing world. Because for a long time, it was changing and nobody saw it change; today, three-quarters of people can see that it's changing right before their eyes. Whether it's climate, politics, whatever…. People feel that it's changing, and it's beyond their control. …
Merci Jean-Luc.
(Translated HS. In the spirit of the interview, I didn't ask anyone's permission.)
Taking and Giving Offense
Something came full circle the other day. On a mailing list for historians of France, H-FRANCE, someone had asked for good teaching materials about the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre and subsequent events. Many suggestions came forth, including some of the commentaries that blame the Charlie journalists for being Islamophobic (a view more common in the US and UK than in France). And this too:
As a former journalist in Charlie, really offended by what I read about my ex-magazine (a real antiracist newspaper who just did laugh about fanatics of all religions), I would love to be part of the discussion by adding this article : http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7185898
Thank you, Caroline Fourest
I would never deny Caroline Fourest the right to be "offended" by what she reads. I don't doubt that her feelings are sincere. "Offended," in this case, means "outraged to read things said about this group that I, as a member of the group, am sure are not true."
Being offended has become the primary channel of response to works of art and the intellect, it seems to me sometimes. Not that everyone acts on their offense by pulling out the automatic weapons, mercifully; but rare it is that anybody bothers to pause and think about how something might have been constructed, or how one's own perception delicately interacts with properties of the message proposed, or whether there is a looming situation or context that predetermines the way something will be taken– in short, whether there are mitigating factors. People are offended, they demand that the offending word be taken back or eliminated, and they usually preface their declarations with an "As…" clause. "As a former Comcast subscriber," "As a graduate of a non-Ivy institution," "As a sufferer from myopia," I hereby announce to you that your words or images have the effect of demeaning me in the eyes of the world, and I call on you to retract, apologize, and right this wrong.
The judgment of offense is easier to put forth than the judgment of taste (at least as Manny Kant formulated it) because the latter seeks recognition as a "universal," whereas to be offended, all you have to do is name yourself as a member of a group and claim that your particular group is wronged. And far from being "universal," the judgment of offense can't be subjected to dialectical testing (I can't say "no, you're not offended"; I can barely say, "you have no reason to be offended," but that's not often going to be accepted). Moreover, the relation between the truth and falsity of the representation at issue can be completely flexible. I might denounce your account of me because it is inaccurate, or I might denounce it because it is too accurate (but I don't want to argue about its accuracy): the shriek of being offended obscures the matter of fact. If you wanted to prove that Charlie was not a racist periodical, there are ways of doing that. You show examples, you quote statements of policy, you do statistics, you tell stories about the editorial board (which counted several people of a non-Vieille-France background). But being "offended" seems to be beside the point.
Especially since the point of Charlie— and of so many journals that came before it, on the right and on the left– was to offend.
Is nothing sacred?
De Selby Evolution
It was the first handshake that told me we were in De Selby territory. The dentist held out his wrist to me, as we do in bike repair shops. Only a bike repairman extends the wrist because his hand is covered in black grease, and Dr. Bellaiche's were in green gloves.
The purpose of our little get-together was to extract a cracked eyetooth and replace it with an implant. I expected drilling, discomfort, time spent staring up at a bright light. I hadn't anticipated such great strides forward on the path outlined for us by De Selby so many years ago.
I was aware I would leave with new substances filling new hollows in my body: metal, resin, fiberglass, even gutta-percha. But the fully realized De Selby moment came when the stalk for the implant was rooted, and the dentist screwed the crown on it: twist, twist, twist, and a last hard half-twist.
We mammals, unlike our friends the snails and shellfish, don't have a lot of body parts with a spiral structure. Hard ones, at least (the labyrinth of the ear forming a semi-counterexample). This must have to do with the medium we spend most of our time in, the air, which is more easily parted than wet sand. The combatant creatures with twisted horns, like the gazelles and narwhals, are the other counterexample, and I don't know whether the torsade is there for piercing effectively or for reinforcement.
So the tapping of a screw course into my upper jaw and the movement of a bolt-shaped object up it confirmed that I am conclusively on the way to a merger of man and bicycle. What sort of part could it be, the torsaded stem, if it had to serve as unit of human and cycle biomechanics simultaneously? I thought that as we have 32 teeth, and 32 spokes is a good number for a wheel (though less stout than a 36-spoke cross-laced), then today's centaurification must have begun with a spoke, as good a place as any.
The repair was over. I rose to my feet, said thank you and staggered home. If you see me falling to the ground after abruptly jerking my head to the left or right, you'll know that the transmutation is advancing.
My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
Dr. Elizabeth Bennett
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Dear Dr. Bennett:
In the course of job applications, I have recently requested transcripts from my undergraduate institution, Yale, and my graduate school, UCI. Both were obtained through the National Student Clearinghouse. The Yale transcript cost $7, without a convenience fee. UCI's cost $17, with an additional convenience fee of $2.65.
I realize that it may be a point of Anteater pride, but surely you do not believe that UCI's transcript is worth two-and-a-half times the price of Yale's! Insofar as I can tell, the quality of the data, paper, and ink is the same. Given that I may require a dozen of these documents in the next six months, the added expense is both real and onerous. Please consider this when setting your fees.
Respectfully, Jonathan Cohen, MA '91
[I have received no response to this message.]
Massacre Relativity
Some of my friends are outraged by the fact that one media story after another comes along analyzing to the nth degree the known facts in the case of Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who committed suicide and took 150 strangers along with him, while at the same time the cold-blooded, deliberate murder of 148 university students in Kenya merits only a passing mention. Depending on your media feed, your results may differ: I'm not in the US and only rarely pick up the NYT, so I've seen less Lubitz and more Garissa– but not enough to make me feel that a just equality of attention has been applied to these two stories, analogous by number and by horror but different in so many other regards.
The hasty conclusion is that the Kenyans' deaths matter less than the Europeans' because they were black. And relatively less well-off (though as university students they were part of a lucky minority in their home country). To better gauge the proportion of sheer racism, however, read "The Structure of Foreign News" (1965) by the great peace scholar Johan Galtung, where it's reported that the importance given to a news story will be a factor of geography (is it close to us?), of identification (did it happen to people like us?), legibility, confirmation bias, and other features– go read the article, it's better than my ability to summarize today. So obviously for European media, the Germanwings crash ranks higher than a Kenyan massacre on many of these scores. But Galling wasn't just observing that this is the way of the world: he was convinced that if this is the way of the world, it is wrong, and we should counterbalance our egocentric news media in order to give reality to the sufferings of people distant from us on this or that axis.
And another reason for paying more attention to Kenya and less to Germanwings. What happened in the Alps was a one-off thing, extremely unlikely to happen to you (though of course it could, despite whatever new security measures are installed). What happened at Garissa is a lamentably frequent thing these days, and could indeed happen to you, maybe not this week or this year, but sooner or later, if something is not done to rein in the free romp of heavily-armed religious madmen. I don't specifically mean the madmen in the Villains of the Week Club; there's a lot of madness to go around. Let us stop funding one bunch of madmen in the hopes that they will do something more agreeable to our interests than whatever the last bunch of madmen (possibly funded by us, or by people in competition with us) did. And (a far more subordinate issue) let us stop whingeing about whether the diagnosis of depression in the co-pilot's case is stigmatizing for other depressed people, and blabbering about it with such frequency that this seems to be the major problem facing humanity at this moment. (People do tend to talk about what concerns them, and they like to fill the air with whatever they have expertise in, but enough is enough.) Let the ancient formula of damnatio memoriae be applied to Andreas what's-his-name, and let the students of Garissa, the women of Nigeria, and all such victims of armed bigotry occupy our attention most urgently.
Good Friday
I was just flicking through Tolstoy's writings on Christianity. Not very interesting reading, because I couldn't find much to disagree with. The anarchist Count thought, as I do, that if your religion tells you to kill, torture, starve and maim people, it must not be a very good religion–it must rather be a tool of the devil. Whereas there is apparently a significant fraction of opinion today that conceives that killing people, the more the better, in the name of your religion glorifies that religion.
I do find it hard to turn the other cheek to that kind of diabolism.
(Some unintentional humor about Tolstoy's break with religion here.)
A Long Fuse
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904), last chapter:
The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now built on the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.
And then what?
Sunny Flat
Perhaps you've been tempted by an announcement for a "Sunny Flat in Paris" (airbnb). Or perhaps you've clicked on item #57214 (sabbaticalhomes.com). I would recommend looking further, for example on a site directed to French consumers like seloger.com; or even biting the bullet of a finder's fee and dealing with a real estate agency (agence immobilière, they call it in the local parlance). The difference is that with a non-localized site like airbnb, you are outside of any jurisdiction, and recourse will be difficult in case it turns out that the apartment you've rented is small, dirty, ill-equipped, and does not have the nice view you were counting on. Say you were attracted by a charming urban vista like this:
and arrived with baggage and children after many hours of flight to look out the window at this:
You would, I think, wish you had taken another apartment. It's been known to happen.
George Akerlof (co-laureate of the 2000 Nobel Prize) analyzed this situation in his classic paper "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84 [1970]: 488-500).
There may be potential buyers of good quality products and there may be potential sellers of such products in the appropriate price range; however, the presence of people who wish to pawn bad wares as good wares tends to drive out the legitimate business. The cost of dishonesty, therefore, lies not only in the amount by which the purchaser is cheated; the cost must also include the cost incurred from driving legitimate business out of existence. (495)
Akerlof continues: "Dishonesty in business is a serious problem in underdeveloped countries." Well, perhaps the judicial void in which many Internet businesses operate is, for all its technological smoothness and the quality of its air-conditioning, in these terms still an "underdeveloped country." Akerlof sees in traditional "underdeveloped" societies, with their wide disparities in quality among instances of a like commodity (one grain dealer will put pebbles in the rice to add to its weight, another won't), a function to be filled by the entrepreneur or merchant, the person who makes a living from assessing good quality and bringing it to the end user. But as everyone knows, the great value of Internet commerce has always been to put you in direct contact with the primary seller– who may have as his or her rule of practice "Let the buyer beware."
Indiscriminate Discrimination
A friend wrote to ask me to sign on to a petition demanding that the Modern Language Association, a scholarly society with "over 26,000 members in 100 countries," apply the policies of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement toward Israeli universities and academics. I wrote back as follows:
I've been meaning to write you back but haven't found the time or the words to do it right. I'm more than a little ambivalent about BDS. I share in the signers' horror and anger about the occupation, continued settlement-building, harassment, denial of basic rights and necessities, etc., that have been the daily lot of most Palestinians for decades now. And Netanyahu's promise to kill the two-state solution, which resulted in his reelection, just slams the door on the reasonable aspirations of all Palestinians. In all of this I'm with the proponents of BDS. But I can't see myself as a co-signer because I don't believe in boycotts based on nationality. In denying a platform to Israeli academics generally, a boycott would deny a platform to the "good Israelis" (the ones who are for peace, diplomacy, and neighborly relations with a Palestinian state) no less than to the "bad Israelis"; and since the "good Israelis" are in the disadvantaged position just now (the "bad Israelis" won't give a damn about our boycott and will continue to appear in such fora as joint sessions of the US Congress), BDS would have the perverse effect of strengthening the dominance of the "bad Israelis" over political discourse concerning the future of Israel-Palestine. Although the statement says that it is directed at the Israeli state and not at individual Israeli academics, how is one to tell an Israeli colleague who has, let's say, applied to give a paper at the MLA annual meeting that "it's nothing personal" but s/he is not going to be accepted because of his/her nationality? I don't think this is a good path for the MLA or any scholarly organization to go down. Free and open discourse, that's what we should be about. I know that Palestinian intellectuals are routinely denied a platform for their views, and I am ready to protest and agitate for their freedom to travel, speak and have normal relations with their colleagues across the world.
You've probably heard all this before.
Anyway, that's how I feel about it– it's a little more complicated than "yes" or "no."
We are living in horrible times. I don't have a solution. But I can recognize a counterproductive measure.
Loyalty Oath
A little over two decades ago, I signed a loyalty oath. In exchange for employment by the University of California, I pledged to "protect and defend the Constitutions of the United States of America and the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic." The loyalty oath was a relic of the McCarthy era, and there is an entirely unpleasant episode in University of California history, from 1949-1951, in which non-signers were dismissed. It was entirely clear to me that to HR, the oath was a formality I was supposed to sign in an instant and hand over. But I thought for a long time about whether I could sign it in good faith, "without mental reservation." In the end, I signed. Allegiance to a Constitution is allegiance to a principle, although I did not foresee the possibility of future amendments with which I might disagree. Allegiance to a flag is trickier — we are taught to pledge it every morning of our elementary school life, although I suspect for many children it is just a succession of syllables that one has gotten right if one has mastered the intonation. (I think Messaien, who notated birdsong, could have gotten a creditable piece out of the raw pitches of the Pledge of Allegiance.)
Loyalty to a flag is the subject of a kerfuffle at my alma mater. Some students in UCI student government patched together and passed a very poorly written piece of legislation removing all flags, but pointedly that of the United States, from a display area. What seemed like an enunciation of principle to them was anathema to others; I think that high in the minds of administrators was the awful prospect of being a Fox News headline for weeks or months. The Chancellor wrote the only letter he could have written, castigating the students and promising more and better flags at UCI "before too long." Fox News approved. Unfortunately, its viewers did not get the message, and are now threatening the students with death.
Obviously, the students had their principles, enunciated them, and could do so freely — although their bill, once passed, was vetoed by another committee. But the question I have is counterintuitive: by choosing to go to a public university, did the students incur any obligation, however small, of loyalty to the institution, the State, or its symbols? If that obligation existed, was it large enough to be given any place in their thinking? Or was their attending UC a consumer choice, like selecting Levis jeans over Wranglers, and where one doesn't give the jeans a second thought unless one has an unusually positive experience? Is attending a state school — the only Federal colleges and universities are military — any different in its requirements on the conscience than attending a private school?
The University of California has done its best to make the relationship between it and its students purely commercial. Its financial exactions on students are so great that there can be no reservoir of good will out of which loyalty might spring. Instead, students hand over their money (whether their own or the banks'), wash their hands, and move on. In exchange, say the Governor and the President, they will get a meal ticket to capitalist society. It is a quid pro quo transaction all the way; I can foresee a time when you can buy that meal ticket directly without the hindering formalities of professors and classes. As for the human emotion of loyalty, if it should still exist, the University has subcontracted its handling to its athletic department and its alumni association, both of which are here to extract still more money from students.
Because of this economic relation, which stunts the emotional relation, where can one find loyalty? In a world where the Presidentially lauded STEM disciplines do not, in fact, lead to jobs as a certainty — think of engineers after the "peace dividend," or computer programmers deracinated and displaced by hungry H1-B visa-holders — is there really even an economic contract between student and university?
So, I think that there is a generational gap between me and the drafters of the anti-flag bill. Even before I signed the loyalty oath, I had a sense that the University had given more to me than I could possibly give it in return. If the United States and the State of California made it possible, I owed something to them. Despite the idealism of the drafters of the flag bill, I don't think they felt they owed anything to the University, the State, or the United States. Thanks to institutional greed and governmental defunding, the drafters felt themselves to be free agents. That is a heady jumping off point from which to mount a critique — one from which it is too easy to fall.
The American Academy
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I am at the 2015 AAAS conference in San Jose with my wife, Natasha, to see for myself the decadent state of American biological science. Now that Putin has rehabilitated Lysenko — the traitor Sakharov would spin in his grave to hear it — there is no limit to our future. We attended the plenary lecture of one Daphne Koller, who is supposedly a "big cheese," but I have not heard of her, as she has never received the Order of the Badge of Honor. Next to us was a young, American, red-haired scribbler with a laptop — doubtless some kind of junior graduate student — and despite the enormous screens with Koller's image on them, I found myself looking over his shoulder to see what he was writing. To my horror, at the end of the lecture, I found that I had remembered every word he had written, but none of Koller's lecture. To get it out of my mind, I am reproducing what he wrote in its entirety:
I'm at the plenary session with Daphne Koller, founder of Coursera, one of the two major MOOC companies. It's a straight-on paean to the things, rosy beyond all belief, and even more rosy in 2015 than in 2012.
There are a few slight problems with MOOCs, which is one of the reasons there's been almost no time allotted for questions.
MOOCs make it possible for only a few professors to teach hundreds of thousands of students; grading is taken care of either by computer (for most structured question types) or peer grading (for everything else.) Crowdsourcing, usually acquired for free, is used to accomplish most other tasks, such as translation of course material into multiple languages. Coursera's investment is mainly in its computer infrastructure, including mobile apps and sophisticated analytics, and secondarily in the acquisition and filming of "talent" to teach its courses.
If indeed Coursera continues to grow, a few things will happen to its supporting ecosystem; like most colonialist enterprises, it pays little attention to the ecosystem that has made it possible. The academic enterprise, in my conception, consists of three things: preserving knowledge, transmitting knowledge, and extending knowledge. The only thing anyone understands needs to be paid for is transmitting knowledge: teaching and grading. In a world where only a few professors are teaching and where no one, adjunct or otherwise, is grading, the ecosystem will fail. There will be no more "star" professors to teach the MOOCs (or to do other research), there will be no graduate students or postdocs to follow along after them, and there will be few undergraduates, distance or otherwise, who will care to enter into such a tenuous enterprise as post-secondary education. We would need something like a "Farm Bill," where, just as farmers are paid not to plant corn, professors, adjuncts, and graduate students are paid not to teach or to grade. Try getting that through a Tea Party Senate. Coursera parasitizes off the top of the existing academic system; its instructors have appointments at their own institutions, the names of the institutions are used to add prestige to Coursera's courses' certificates of completion, and the lure of the classes is that they are taught by conventionally, prestigiously educated people. When Coursera starts to "eat its own dog food" and feature premium classes taught by people possessing no credentials other than their own certificates, perhaps then they will begin to be in earnest.
But perhaps they are already doing this, in a sense. All non-objective grading in Coursera is done by groups of five peers. None of these students may know the right answer. It is entirely likely that a few of them will know the wrong answer, which they will transmit to their less-certain peers. This is why, in more conventional institutions, feedback is provided by people more knowledgable and experienced than the students themselves. Here, though, Coursera risks transmitting ignorance; what it gains, however, is that grading is not a cost center — at all. Ms. Koller, who, by the way, seems to have obtained every achievement and credential one could possibly have short of a Nobel Prize, was a little shy about admitting that Coursera hasn't made any money yet. That day will come, and some very important part of the educational chain will very quickly become very expensive — likely after conventional instutions have fallen by the wayside.
But, in the audience, I could see people nodding. "Science has grant money for professors and postdocs. Teaching and grading are inconveniences. As long as we get grants, they'll leave us alone, and perhaps we can make some extra money on the side by teaching one of these courses." But an ecosystem is an ecosystem. The failure of one of its parts means the inevitable, wrenching alteration of the rest of its parts. They just don't see it yet.
And Now the Conspiracy Theorists
Komsomolskaya Pravda opened its columns yesterday to the head honcho of the French far-right, anti-immigrant party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has theorized that the murder of the Charlie Hebdo editorial board was permitted, if not actually orchestrated, by the French government as a means of discrediting the Front National. (Charlie was relentless in satirizing that bunch of neo-fascists.) This is likely to be received as a rational analysis in a country where not only are conspiracies stranger than fiction a matter of course, but the government itself weaves elaborate counter-scenarios to deny its involvement in things it almost certainly has been involved in.
And in the suburbs of Paris, a teacher is heard (and recorded) telling her students that "nobody ever saw the bodies of the journalists" and the "so-called dead policeman" was just a puppet in a soap opera dreamt up by the French government to incriminate the Muslim religion–which religion, by the way, "authorizes killing if it's necessary to defend religion." She was immediately fired. I'm sure people will leap to her defense, as to Dieudonné's.
Meanwhile, in a Marseilles high school, some students elaborate. The whole thing was a manipulation by the French secret services, to destroy Islam. And simultaneously, it was a trick of the Mossad, to punish France for its recognition of the Palestinian proto-state. "A Muslim who dies in the course of the story, that makes it more believable, doesn't it? And the dead policemen, one French, one black, one Arab. How symbolic!"
No one has a completely open mind. Our prior beliefs act as filters on new information. When a piece of information comes at too high a cost– when accepting it would mean sacrificing some long-held beliefs or elements of identity– people will confabulate until the (sacred) cows come home. This observation also suggests a test for the kinds of beliefs that compel an exorbitant expenditure in ad-hoc theories in order to defuse new information; and for me, perhaps an economic rationalist for today, that would be the sign that maintaining such beliefs would be a losing proposition. But the literature on "cognitive dissonance" shows that people's behavior is otherwise: a challenge actually reinforces the unlikely belief. I suppose there are people who would be more comfortable living their lives in a village of fifty people, where little information trickles in from outside. But here they are, carrying their village explanations onto the world stage.
Feasibility Study
How can you have anti-blasphemy laws in a country with more than one major religion? What is permissible for one group will be forbidden to another, what is obligatory for you is optional or absurd or immoral to me. You can't be a good pluralist and mandate inoffensiveness.
A story comes to mind, told me by a Maronite friend from Lebanon. As children, he and his friends used to gather on the corner and play marbles. There were Christian kids, Muslim kids, maybe a Druze or two. And as they played, they shouted at each other in Arabic, learning each other's favorite swear words and oaths. The little Muslims said: "Mother of God, I will knock your marble out of the circle!" The little Christians said, "By the beard of the Prophet, that was a good shot!" The parents heard this and had a little meeting: henceforth, when they played, the children would have to speak French or English.
But what if there's not another language to take refuge in?
Plus c'est la même chose.
Since the Printculture archive isn't easily searchable from the front page, I take the liberty of putting up a direct link to one of our oldies, about caricature and the sacred, contending that the prohibition of images and the freedom of expression are at root the same thing. Thou Shalt Not, Or Thou Hadst Better Not, from 2005. (Incidentally, many of the ideas there were sparked by conversations with O Solovieva.)
And I am sad to see that, no more than in 2005, are people (many of my friends among them) willing or able to make some essential distinctions. Not only do people take it for granted that any jerk with a gun who shouts "Allah akbar!" speaks for all Muslims, they also make the Sassen Error (named for the sociologist Saskia Sassen, who in 2001 opined that the attacks on lower Manhattan were the revenge of the poor world against the rich world, conveniently ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the victims of the Taliban et consortes are poor people in the poor world); they have even found it "ironic" that the policewoman shot by one of the self-styled jihadis was a black woman from the Caribbean, as if operating on the assumption that all people of color are on "the same side." Come on, people. You would demand subtlety and fine distinctions if someone were analyzing your social world. Do the same unto others, at least a little bit.
Big Dill.
There's a kind of writing– I'd call it Pninian– that challenges translation in its specificity. Not, as some theories of the untranslatable would have it, because it calls on utterly singular and irreplaceable qualities of the language it uses, but because it is made of the interweaving of two languages at a specific moment of their histories. In Nabokov's Pnin, it's the combination of 1950s American English and early-twentieth-century émigré Russian that creates the discordia concors. In Lydie Salvayre's Pas pleurer, a new novel I unwisely bought for a friend who was seeking to raise the level of her French, it's the overlay of Spanish and French, or the revelation of the Spanish hidden in French, that brings the savor. I particularly loved the device whereby the narrator makes this stylistic effect a sign of both character and plot (motivirovka, the O.PO.JAZ would have called it):
Depuis que ma mère souffre de troubles mnésiques, elle éprouve un réel plaisir à prononcer les mots grossiers qu'elle s'est abstenue de formuler pendant plus de soixante-dix ans, manifestation typique chez ce type de patients, a expliqué son médecin… Elle qui s'était tant évertuée, depuis son arrivée en France, à corriger son accent espagnol, à parler un langage châtié et à soigner sa mise pour être toujours plus conforme à ce qu'elle pensait être le modèle français (se signalant par là même, dans sa trop stricte conformité, comme une étrangère), elle envoie valser dans ses vieux jours les petits conventions, langagières et autres. (82-83)
This gives such sentences as:
Et moi je grite encore plus fort: Je me fous qu'on m'ouit, je veux pas être bonniche chez les Burgos, j'aime mieux faire la pute en ville!… Plutôt morir! (14)
To translate this into, say, English, one would have to either imitate the effect of Spanish-tinged French– by appropriating the characteristics of Spanglish, say; but this kind of similarity soon points up the dissimilarity of associations between the two kinds of interlanguage. French-speakers readily recall the influx of Spanish-speakers following the defeat of the Spanish Republic in 1939, but the associations of North American Spanglish have to do with different conditions of migration and resettlement. Another, braver, method would require finding an analogous situation valid for the relation of Spanish and English and then rewriting, or restating, the whole novel as a function of that. Does anyone want to reimagine Pas pleurer as a story of Cubans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans (etc…) residing in San Diego as a consequence of their difficult history?
Lydie Salvayre, Pas pleurer. Paris: Seuil, 2014. Awarded the Prix Goncourt.


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North Cascades > Liberty Bell Group > North Early Winters Spire > Climber's Log
North Early Winters Spire Climber's Log
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|Chockstone Route
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2014
|Made it to the summit of all 5 spires this summer. Good times! This route has a historic feel with all of the old pitons and bolts. Easy way to the top, but I probably wouldn't climb it again. Better off on the NW corner or W face.
|Posted Sep 8, 2014 11:36 am
|West Face
Date Climbed: May 5, 2013
|Climbed w/ Ryan Hoover. Should have brought snowshoes for the approach.
|Posted May 6, 2013 8:05 pm
|NW Corner
Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2012
|Climbed with Dirk. Exciting climb and great views!
|Posted Dec 2, 2012 1:04 pm
|Great climb & time!
Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2012
|w/ G-Funk, Labor Day weekend. Great way to end our annual climb-a-thon! NW corner was super fun. Great rock, fun off-widthing, burly & exposed lie-backs. Great day! Thanks, G. Looking forward to our next adventure!
|Posted Oct 3, 2012 6:00 pm
|alpine climber
|link up
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2011
|Climbed the NW Corner as part of a 5 summit link up. Crux pitch was a little wet as there is a little pocket of snow still melting out. Doable if you're ok with a runout, wet, 5.7 slab/face section at the top.
|Posted Jun 23, 2011 11:16 am
|NW Corner
|A couple of time. Last time with Nick and a guy we met. We made him lead all the pitches since we had already done it. Great climb.
|Posted Dec 27, 2010 11:26 am
|SW Face
Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2005
|A varied climb in a great place.
|Posted Dec 19, 2009 6:00 am
|NW Corner
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2007
|Climbed Haydar and M Denyer, Haydar lead the crux pitches. Chilly Day!
|Posted Oct 1, 2007 6:33 pm
|brutus of wyde
|NW Corner
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2007
|Climbed this wonderful route with Nurse Ratchet on our honeymoon road trip. Possible to walk a #4 camalot in the OW, which is pleasant and awkward. Working on a topo for this page, which will show the undercling pitch as the crux.
Close encounters of the Goat kind on the descent.
Classic Route, one of the best on the road trip!
|Posted Sep 12, 2007 12:03 pm
|Southwest Face
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007
|OMG - what a loose mess. Most holds were quite portable. The last move over the top seemed alot tougher than the 5.7 traverse to the top of the chockstone. Off route? Probably LOL.
|Posted Aug 12, 2007 7:17 pm
|Martin Cash
|Northwest Corner
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006
|Bruce and I climbed this dissapointing route on Saturday. Bruce lead pitch #1, which is a crappy chimney into the trees. Bruce lead the first half of pitch #2 to a ledge, then I lead the second half. Fun pitch. I lead the 5.9 offwidth corner which was really awkward and annoying. The 4th pitch was decent with a short cruxy section. After that it is a scramble (mostly) to the summit.
Decent route but not classic by any means.
|Posted Jul 17, 2006 3:28 pm
|West Face (July 2008): Nice route but the crux pitch was a struggle for me...shouldda asked Shirley to lead as she got it w/o trouble on TR....hmmmm small fingers??? Shirley led the upper .10 pitch which was a lot less aesthetic than I imagined it - shallow crack going to seam going to nice but short & low angle section. NW Corner still takes the cake for me (but maybe I'm just bitching since I found this crux hard).
Northwest Corner (Aug. 6, 2005): Stellar route. Perfect rock & great climbing. Quick approach and painless descent. What else can one ax for?
South Face (Oct. 4, 2003): After hearing good things about this little known route from our friends in the Mazamas, my wife and I decided to give this route a shot. Good stuff! Drove up there Friday after work and slept in the truck at the TH. Got a leisurely start at about 10 am and were on route by about noon. This is essentially the rap line that more talented climbers follow on their way down after summitting via one of the classic >5.9 routes. It was fun nontheless with about 4 pitches of mid-fifth class climbing (up to 5.7). We were the only ones on the route (of course) with two other parties coming up the the 5.9 route on the West Face. NEWS has a great, flat, and slabby kind of a summit - not the like the dirty summit of its southern neighbor. Views were spectacular in all directions (except part of the southern skyline is blocked by the slightly taller SEWS) though a bit hazy. There was a big fire going on to the north. We rapped the route - including the fun free air rap off the big chockstone - and were in the car after dark.....heading off for Del Campo on Sunday.
|Posted Aug 8, 2005 3:01 pm
|Alpine Eric
|Route Climbed: West Face Date Climbed: July, 15 1998
|Another fine alpine route on excellent cascade granite. Glad I didn't have to lead the hard pitch.
|Posted Apr 29, 2005 4:37 pm
|Derek Franzen
|Route Climbed: South Face Date Climbed: April 1978 & Multiple other
|1st time with M Woodmansee, E Sandbo and other SAC members. Full on conditions, visibilty quite limited. Climbed SEWS and rappeled down N face into notch between SEWS and NEWS. Climbed up S face on snow and ice covered rock. Rappels were interesting especially the one off the chockstone.
|Posted Aug 21, 2004 11:04 am
|Fred Spicker
|Route Climbed: Southwest Face Date Climbed: 10 July 1988
|Climbed with Paul Bishop. We forgot about the snow in the SW Couloir and had quite a time kicking steps in the hard snow wearing rock shoes.
|Posted Apr 2, 2003 3:25 pm


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|Spc. Steven Cave, Sgt. Kevin Berdan, Spc. Andrew Mclean, Sgt. Waco Randall and Sgt. David Gurule, all from the local unit of the Utah National Guard walk across the desert. The timetable for them and their comrades to return home has been set back, disappointing many of their families who looked forward to their return.
The phone rang early Saturday morning at the Deano Kontgas house in Price.
"I looked at the caller ID and saw it was my stepson's calling card, and I knew immediately what it was about," commented Kontgas.
It was like many calls that local families of National Guard personnel received over the weekend. It was a somber and disappointing message. The guard unit is not coming home from Iraq in May, but have had their stay in the middle east extended indefinitely.
"It was very upsetting," explained Kontgas referring to the call from Specialist Michael Pierce. "He has two little girls, one of which was born in March of last year and he has only seen her once."
The 1457th Engineering Battalion was called up before the Iraq war began and left in February 2003 for Fort Lewis, Wash. They were there for a couple of months and then were shipped out for Iraq, where they were stationed until just a couple of weeks ago. They had since been moved to Kuwait, where they had already loaded their equipment and were preparing to head back to the United States. When the new orders arrived that they were going to have to go back to Iraq, they were only a few days away from leaving the area.
"I'm so angry at the government about this," said April Durrant, the wife of Sgt. Charles Durrant of Price. "My husband called Saturday and talked with my kids, because I wasn't there. Then he talked to me last night (Sunday). My children are devastated, They're teenagers and need their father more now than when they were younger. We experienced one extension and we said 'Okay, we can do this.' But this doesn't seem right."
Durrant's comments were not that much different than what others in the area were saying on Monday.
"My husband called me and told me that they were going back into Iraq," said Vanessa Anderson, the wife of Sgt. Troy Anderson. "He said the lines to call home were very long. It was 3 a.m. in the morning there when he called me."
Anderson, who is the Family Resource Leader for the National Guard in the Price area said that he also told her that the battalion had already turned over much of it's equipment to the people who were replacing them in Baghdad, a National Guard unit from Virginia.
There were some in the area, however, that didn't know about their loved one's reassignment until they saw it on local television Sunday night.
"I had two mothers who's sons had not called them by the time it aired on television," said Becky Tallerico, who works with families from the National Guard Armory in Price. "That isn't a good way to find out."
Some people were also upset about the television stations jumping the gun on getting the word out, because when they began their coverage they intimated it was a done deal. The reason not everyone had officially heard about the extention was because even on Monday morning the Utah State office of the National Guard had nothing to say in one direction or the other about the decision.
"All I can say is that we have had calls from family members, but nothing official has come down from the federal government at this point," said Major Lorraine Januzelli, who works in public information for the Utah National Guard. But on Wednesday at noon, after a lot of gnashing of teeth by everyone involved a press release came from Januzelli that confirmed the fact.
"I know a lot of families feel blindsided by this," said Tallerico. "They were preparing for a welcome home celebration. Many are frightened and upset about the situation."
Tallerico doesn't only work at the armory but she too has a son with the 1457th, Sgt. Stephen Tallerico.
For most people family issues and the safety of their loved ones are of the upmost importance, but there is also another cost to the community: the loss of important parts of the social structure for another four months.
"My husband has lost two full school years over this," says Durrant of her spouse who is a teacher at San Rafael Junior High in Emery County. "Those kids also need him."
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That fact is not lost on the National Guard, however. On Friday, Major General Brian Tarbet will be in town to hold a meeting with all families and employers of guard members who were activated. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. at the Price armory. Tallerico says that those interested in attending it can contact her Thursday at the armory at 637-1743 if they need more information.
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12 U.S. Code § 1814 - Insured depository institutions
(a) Continuation of insurance
(1) Banks
Each bank, which is an insured depository institution on September 21, 1950, shall be and continue to be, without application or approval, an insured depository institution and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(b) Continuation of insurance upon becoming a member bank
In the case of an insured bank which is admitted to membership in the Federal Reserve System or an insured State bank which is converted into a national member bank, the bank shall continue as an insured bank.
(c) Continuation of insurance after conversion
(1) any State depository institution which results from the conversion of any insured Federal depository institution; and
(2) any Federal depository institution which results from the conversion of any insured State or Federal depository institution,
shall continue as an insured depository institution.
(d) Continuation of insurance after merger or consolidation
Any State depository institution or any Federal depository institution which results from the merger or consolidation of insured depository institutions, or from the merger or consolidation of a noninsured depository institution with an insured depository institution, shall continue as an insured depository institution.
Source(Sept. 21, 1950, ch. 967, § 2[4], 64 Stat. 875; Pub. L. 97–320, title I, § 113(c),Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1473; Pub. L. 101–73, title II, §§ 201(a), 205,Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 187, 194; Pub. L. 102–242, title I, § 115(b),Dec. 19, 1991, 105 Stat. 2249; Pub. L. 102–550, title XVI, § 1603(b)(6),Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4079; Pub. L. 109–351, title VI, § 608(b),Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1983.)
Prior Provisions
Section is derived from subsec. (e) of former section 264 of this title. See Codification note set out under section 1811 of this title.
2006—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–351, § 608(b)(1), inserted "and section 1464 (i)(5) of this title" after "section 1815 (d) of this title" in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 109–351, § 608(b)(2), which directed insertion of "or Federal" after "insured State,", was executed by making the insertion after "insured State", to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
1992—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–550amended directory language of Pub. L. 102–242, § 115(b). See 1991 Amendment note below.
1991—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–242, § 115(b), as amended by Pub. L. 102–550, § 1603(b)(6), amended subsec. (b) generally, substituting present provisions for provisions which related to certification by other banking agencies.
1989—Pub. L. 101–73, § 201(a), substituted references to insured depository institutions for references to insured banks wherever appearing.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–73, § 205(1), inserted heading, designated existing provisions as par. (1), inserted par. (1) heading, and substituted "Each bank" for "Every bank", and added par. (2).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101–73, § 205(2)(A), (B), inserted after first sentence "Any application or notice for membership or to commence or resume business shall be promptly provided by the appropriate Federal banking agency to the Corporation and the Corporation shall have a reasonable period of time to provide comments on such application or notice. Any comments submitted by the Corporation to the appropriate Federal banking agency shall be considered by such agency." and struck out at end "A State bank, resulting from the conversion of an insured national bank, shall continue as an insured bank. A State bank, resulting from the merger or consolidation of insured banks, or from the merger or consolidation of a noninsured bank or institution with an insured State bank, shall continue as an insured bank."
Pub. L. 101–73, § 205(2)(C), which directed the amendment of subsec. (b) by substituting "(b) Certification by Other Banking Agencies.—Every national bank" for "(b) Every national bank" could not be executed literally because the original read "(b) Every national member bank", but was executed by inserting the heading without changing the text to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–73, § 205(3), amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: "Every Federal savings bank which is chartered pursuant to section 1464 (o) of this title, and which is engaged in the business of receiving deposits other than trust funds, shall be an insured bank from the time it is authorized to commence business, until such time as its accounts are insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation."
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101–73, § 205(3), added subsec. (d).
1982—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97–320added subsec. (c).
Effective Date of 1992 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 102–558deemed to have become effective Mar. 1, 1992, see section 304 ofPub. L. 102–558, set out as a note under section 2062 of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense.
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42 U.S. Code § 9606 - Abatement actions
(a) Maintenance, jurisdiction, etc.
In addition to any other action taken by a State or local government, when the President determines that there may be an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or welfare or the environment because of an actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance from a facility, he may require the Attorney General of the United States to secure such relief as may be necessary to abate such danger or threat, and the district court of the United States in the district in which the threat occurs shall have jurisdiction to grant such relief as the public interest and the equities of the case may require. The President may also, after notice to the affected State, take other action under this section including, but not limited to, issuing such orders as may be necessary to protect public health and welfare and the environment.
(b) Fines; reimbursement
(1) Any person who, without sufficient cause, willfully violates, or fails or refuses to comply with, any order of the President under subsection (a) of this section may, in an action brought in the appropriate United States district court to enforce such order, be fined not more than $25,000 for each day in which such violation occurs or such failure to comply continues.
(A) Any person who receives and complies with the terms of any order issued under subsection (a) of this section may, within 60 days after completion of the required action, petition the President for reimbursement from the Fund for the reasonable costs of such action, plus interest. Any interest payable under this paragraph shall accrue on the amounts expended from the date of expenditure at the same rate as specified for interest on investments of the Hazardous Substance Superfund established under subchapter A of chapter 98 of title 26.
(B) If the President refuses to grant all or part of a petition made under this paragraph, the petitioner may within 30 days of receipt of such refusal file an action against the President in the appropriate United States district court seeking reimbursement from the Fund.
(C) Except as provided in subparagraph (D), to obtain reimbursement, the petitioner shall establish by a preponderance of the evidence that it is not liable for response costs under section 9607 (a) of this title and that costs for which it seeks reimbursement are reasonable in light of the action required by the relevant order.
(D) A petitioner who is liable for response costs under section 9607 (a) of this title may also recover its reasonable costs of response to the extent that it can demonstrate, on the administrative record, that the President's decision in selecting the response action ordered was arbitrary and capricious or was otherwise not in accordance with law. Reimbursement awarded under this subparagraph shall include all reasonable response costs incurred by the petitioner pursuant to the portions of the order found to be arbitrary and capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law.
(E) Reimbursement awarded by a court under subparagraph (C) or (D) may include appropriate costs, fees, and other expenses in accordance with subsections (a) and (d) ofsection 2412 of title 28.
(c) Guidelines for using imminent hazard, enforcement, and emergency response authorities; promulgation by Administrator of EPA, scope, etc.
Within one hundred and eighty days after December 11, 1980, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, after consultation with the Attorney General, establish and publish guidelines for using the imminent hazard, enforcement, and emergency response authorities of this section and other existing statutes administered by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to effectuate the responsibilities and powers created by this chapter. Such guidelines shall to the extent practicable be consistent with the national hazardous substance response plan, and shall include, at a minimum, the assignment of responsibility for coordinating response actions with the issuance of administrative orders, enforcement of standards and permits, the gathering of information, and other imminent hazard and emergency powers authorized by
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 96–510, title I, § 106,Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2780; Pub. L. 99–499, title I, §§ 106, 109 (b),Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1628, 1633; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2,Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095.)
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 96–510, Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2767, as amended, known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, which enacted this chapter, section 6911a of this title, and sections 4611, 4612, 4661, 4662, 4681, and 4682 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, amended section 6911 of this title, section 1364 of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, and section 11901 of Title 49, Transportation, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 6911 of this title and sections 1 and 4611 of Title 26. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 9601 of this title and Tables.
Section 1321 (c)(2) of title 33, referred to in subsec. (c), was amended generally by Pub. L. 101–380, title IV, § 4201(a),Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 523. Prior to general amendment, subsec. (c)(2) related to preparation of a National Contingency Plan. Provisions relating to a National Contingency Plan are contained in section 1321 (d) of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.
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The Family Counseling Service of Northern New York will receive a financial boost from the Watertown Trust.
On Thursday, the Watertown Local Development Corp., also known as the Watertown Trust, approved a five-year, $30,000 loan to Family Counseling.
Of the $30,000, $17,000 will be new money to the organization, said Donald W. Rutherford, the local development corporations CEO. The remaining $13,000 will be rolled over from a previous $30,000 loan that will be paid back over the next five years, he said.
Payment amounts on the loan will not change, he told the board.
The $30,000 loan will keep the agency operational until it can receive reimbursements for services it has provided to clients.
The loan comes as Family Counseling has begun talks to merge with Credo Community Center for the Treatment of Addictions. Credo officials confirmed last week the organizations were talking about combining services.
Without naming Credo, Mr. Rutherford said Thursday the entire loan would have to be paid if Family Counseling merges with another organization.
Before the vote, Mr. Rutherford praised Family Counselings work in the community, noting the help its clients have received.
Its a pretty valuable community service, said Mr. Rutherford, who served as president of Family Counselings board about 20 years ago.
WLDC board member Donald C. Alexander, who also is CEO of the Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency, recused himself from the discussions about the loan because his wife, Collene D. Alexander, is Family Counselings CEO.
Founded in 1958, Family Counseling provides individual, marital and family counseling, sexual abuse and domestic violence counseling and clinical consultations. With offices at 120 Washington St., it has 17 employees who handle more than 1,000 visits per month.
Credo has provided services and treatment for more than 30 years to individuals, groups, families, adults, adolescents and children whose lives have been hurt by substance abuse, according to its website.
More information about the possible merger is believed to be forthcoming in about a month.
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POTSDAM The Potsdam man who was hospitalized in critical condition after being struck by a motor vehicle early Sept. 12 is being charged in the accident.
St. Lawrence County sheriffs deputies on Wednesday charged Christopher L. Deshane, 645 Sissonville Road, with disorderly conduct.
Deputies said Mr. Deshane was under the influence of alcohol and was standing in the middle of the southbound lane of Route 56, near the Lowes Home Improvement center in the town of Potsdam, about 1:30 a.m. Sept. 12 when he was struck by a car driven by Natalie G. Plunkett.
Ms. Plunkett, 26, of 575 Sissonville Road, was driving in heavy rain when she saw Mr. Deshane in the road, attempted to avoid him and sideswiped him, deputies said.
Mr. Deshane was taken to Canton-Potsdam Hospital for treatment of head injuries before being transferred to Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vt., in critical condition.
He has since been released from the hospital.
Deputies said Ms. Plunkett will not be charged in the accident.
Mr. Deshane was issued an appearance ticket for Potsdam Town Court.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks closed higher Tuesday following a choppy session, bouncing back from a sizable drop that came after reports of fighting on the ground in Ukraine.
The main indexes advanced for a second straight day and finished a little under their morning highs, which came as blue chips Coca-Cola Co. and Johnson & Johnson Inc. boosted sentiment with upbeat earnings reports.
The S&P 500 US:SPX rose 12.37, or 0.7%, to end at 1842.98, with energy and utilities faring best among the index's 10 sectors. The benchmark pared its year-to-date loss to 0.3%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJIA gained 89.32, or 0.6%, to close at 16,262.56. The blue-chip index had been down by as much as 110 points at midday, and it also was up by 99.71 points at its session peak, according to FactSet data.
The Nasdaq Composite US:COMP tacked on 11.47, or 0.3%, to finish at 4,034.16. Earlier, the Nasdaq fell to an intraday low of 3,946.03, about 12 points shy of being down 10% from its recent intraday high on March 6 — in other words, correction territory. Read more: Nasdaq flirts with correction territory
Stocks rose early on the earnings reports from Coca-Cola Co. and Johnson & Johnson Inc. Their big tumble came following reports that Russian forces had been spotted in the Ukraine and that Ukrainian forces stormed an airport in Kramatorsk held by pro-Russian militants. Ukrainian forces reportedly secured the airport. The White House said pro-Russian militants are provoking Ukrainian forces into a confrontation.
"In my view, the Russian headlines were the cause for the decline," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG.
Equities started pulling back from earlier session highs after a lower-than-anticipated reading for a gauge of home-builder confidence. Also weighing on sentiment was an unexpected decline in the Empire State manufacturing index.
Tuesday's big swings are pretty much in line with the volatility stocks have seen over the past few weeks said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Asset Management.
"We've seen big swings and that's more a sign of investor indecision about anything and everything," Nolte said. "We're still trying to piece together what the investing landscape will be in three months."
The market's choppy action and slight year-to-date loss isn't surprising after 2013's big advance, said Jim Kee, president and chief economist at South Texas Money Management. Kee said the firm has been telling clients to expect one or more pullbacks or corrections this year, but ultimately a gain by the end of the year.
"It's kind of typical following a year like we had last year," he said of the market's slumps in 2014. Kee said the U.S. economy is normalizing, and he remains bullish. "We've been telling our clients that a pullback or a correction is a good time to put money to work," he said.
Among chart watchers, some see further pain in at least the near term for the S&P 500.
Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners, wrote in a note Tuesday that he expects the benchmark to slip to its 200-day moving average, which is currently around the 1,763 level. He's "looking for the SPX to test the 200 DMA in the next week or so," he wrote.


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As the weather continues to heat up, Carbon County residents will start heading for the hills to participate in camping events.
This year is no different from the past several. The drought conditions are expected to persist therefore, the fire danger will be high.
Outdoorsmen are encouraged to participate in safe camping habits and ensure that the Utah wilderness is there to enjoy for future generations.
The Utah Bureau of Land Management reminds Utahns about proper camping techniques for both undeveloped and designated camping sites.
Undeveloped campsites are found throughout the public lands and are administered by the land management agency. Such campsites are located more than 100 feet from streams, at roadside turnouts and near interesting rock formations.
These types of campsites are generally recognized by the presence of a fire ring.
The BLM explains that most campers prefer dispersed campsites because they feel they have the freedom to set up camp as they please with a large number of friends.
Pets are also allowed in these areas and most do not require payment to use.
Campsites such as these have few regulations, but visitors must be aware of these guidelines before using a public facility.
Camping at one of these sites is generally limited to 14 days per visit and it is extremely important that what is packed in is later packed out.
The land management agency stresses to camp 100 feet away from springs so that water is accessible to wildlife.
At any camping location, it is important to remember to never leave a campfire unattended.
The BLM explains that Utah public lands are being discovered by an increasing number of visitors. As a consequence, many campsites are showing signs of deteriorations.
The agency recommends that in order to increase the ability of dispersed sites to accommodate successive groups of campers, it is important for all visitors to adopt a minimum-impact style of camping.
To do so, the BLM recommends that campers stay at previously used camp sites if possible.
Research studies have shown that the most rapid negative changes to soil and vegetation occur during the first few times a campsite is used indicated the land management agency.
If it is necessary to camp at a previously unused location, the BLM provides the following minimum impact camping techniques that can reduce such impacts.
Maintain the beauty of campsites by staying on existing travel routes.
Avoid driving, riding or walking over areas where the vegetation is intact.
Do not put cans, bottles or aluminum foil into a fire ring. These items do not burn and their presence will lead subsequent users of the site to build a new fire ring.
Avoid building new fire rings.
Redundant fire rings scar the natural beauty of sites and reduce the amount of space available for sleeping and cooking areas.
If the site that is selected already has trash in the fire ring, please clean it out and place the trash in a bag for proper disposal.
Use only dead and down wood for campfires.
Both dead and live trees add to the scenic qualities of campsites. Leave them for the next visitors to enjoy and as habitat for desert animals.
Burn campfire logs to ashes then douse with water.
Do not smother a campfire with soil, this will make it difficult for the next visitor to use the same fire ring.
Dispose of human waste properly. The disposal site should be located well away from streams, campsites and other use areas. Toilet paper should be placed in a small plastic bag and put into a trash bag.
Pack out the trash that is brought in and take a little extra out.
For years, public land managers have promoted the pack-it-out concept in an effort to foster a self-cleanup ethic among public land users.
This program has generally been successful. Most people no longer leave or bury trash at campsites.
While the pack-it-out program has reduced the amount of trash left by campers and day users on the public lands, it has not entirely eliminated unsightly trash.
Campers can take an additional step by picking up trash left by less thoughtful people.
This act helps maintain the scenic beauty of public lands and frees land managers for other work explained the BLM.
Throughout the state, there are also developed campgrounds. These are areas that are designated for camping use and most of the time require a service fee.
Most of the above listed rules apply to these campgrounds as well. The following also apply for developed campground areas.
Visitors appreciate the quiet of the mountains. Keep noise to a minimum. The BLM advises that quiet hours are between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. at these sites.
Vehicles are only allowed on specified roadways and should be parked in designated areas only.
The BLM indicated that off highway vehicle use is not allowed in developed campground areas.
Although some areas allow animals, pets must be on a leash at all times.
Discharge of firearms or use of fireworks are prohibited in public Utah campgrounds.
Campgrounds may be adjacent to private lands. Respect private property and keep all gates closed.
The land management agency advises campers to report vandalism or unsafe conditions to the nearest BLM office.
Recreationalists are urged to respect these rules and regulations, but foremost, the land management agency advises that this year campers stay safe and have fun.


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MASSENA - Massena Electric Department (MED) Superintendent Andrew J. McMahon has responded to the New York Power Authoritys (NYPA) recent decision to approve increased funding of $2 million to help municipal and rural electric cooperative systems in New York State purchase electric-drive vehicles for use in their municipal fleets.
The financing was approved by NYPA trustees on Tuesday and will be offered as part of the groups Municipal Electric-Drive Vehicle Program.
The power authority serves 47 municipal and four rural cooperative electric utility systems around the state, providing them with low-cost hydropower to help meet the electricity needs of their residents and businesses.
MED is among many businesses, towns and villages eligible to participate in the program.
The program offsets additional purchase costs of clean-fueled vehicles and provides zero-interest financing. The funds made available for the purchase of these vehicles are recovered over the course of three years.
Among the electric and hybrid-electric vehicles now commercially available and offered for purchase under this program are the Ford Focus, Nissan Leaf and Honda Fit battery electric cars and the C-Max Energi, Ford Fusion, Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid cars.
The Municipal Electric-Drive Vehicle Program is consistent with Governor Cuomos efforts to encourage the use of electric-drive vehicles in order to reduce air pollution, lower the cost of government and reduce dependence on imported oil.
NYPAs overall statewide Clean Transportation Program, including the Municipal Electric-Drive Vehicle Program, has placed more than 1,300 hybrid and all-electric vehicles in the fleets of numerous towns, villages and cities across New York. Together, these vehicles have traveled more than 11 million miles.
Mr. McMahon explained that MED has been involved in many programs offered by NYPA in the past that have focused on the environment, conservation and energy efficiency.
In fact, we participated in a previous NYPA vehicle program, where we purchased a hybrid bucket truck. MEDs hybrid bucket truck uses about 30 percent less fuel than our other bucket trucks, he said. While there have been some technical challenges associated with the new hybrid bucket truck, it has been a source of great pride to be involved in the development of a more fuel efficient fleet as well as being on the leading edge of our industry. This program is typical of NYPAs efforts to facilitate the evolution of our industry.
Mr. McMahon said that the NYPA board and others should be applauded for their work.
The NYPA Board, the Governor and (NYPA president and CEO Gil C. Quiniones) should be applauded for supporting the growth of this and other technologies which will lead to a more sustainable future, he said.
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Chicago – The electric utility industry can comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's clean air rules – the proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Rule and the final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule – while maintaining the reliability of the nation's electricity grid, Exelon said today.
"The rules have been in the works for about a decade, and the electric utility industry is well-positioned to respond, with more than 60% of coal-fired power plants already equipped with pollution controls," said Joseph Dominguez, senior vice president of federal regulatory affairs, public policy and communications for Exelon. "Those companies that have done little or nothing to improve or update antiquated, inefficient plants should start planning for compliance now, instead of lobbying for categorical extensions or legislative delays."
Those utilities claiming a large volume of coal plant retirements due to the rules are citing retirement estimates made before the details of the rules were released, so those estimates overstate the impact. But the more recent Bipartisan Policy Center report, Environmental Regulation and Electric System Reliability, projects 15-18 gigawatts of incremental coal plant retirements by 2015, which is less than 6% of total coal-fired capacity, and less than 2 percent of total generating capacity.
In addition, an August 2011 report from the Congressional Research Service highlights the nation's substantial amount of excess generation capacity and the industry's proven track record of building capacity in far greater quantities and more quickly than may be needed under the rules.
If there are isolated cases where power plant owners need more time to install pollution controls, existing regulatory and market mechanisms can provide extensions on a case-by-case basis. For example, the Clean Air Act provides the opportunity for extensions to install pollution controls. In addition, the U.S. Secretary of Energy has authority under the Federal Power Act to order units to operate on a limited basis in emergency situations.
Furthermore, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule's 2012 requirements were designed to be met by operating existing pollution control equipment and limited fuel switching.
In their joint comments to the EPA on the Toxics Rule, five grid operators responsible for ensuring the reliable flow of electric power to over 146 million Americans also proposed a limited, targeted "reliability safeguard" that could be used to address any localized reliability issues. It should be noted, however, that the grid operators also emphasized that they expected the safeguard "would not be invoked often, if at all."
Exelon supports the grid operators' approach. In fact, Exelon has experience working with the nation's largest grid operator, PJM, when Exelon sought to retire four of its Pennsylvania fossil-fired units. PJM notified Exelon that two of the units needed to stay in operation to meet local reliability needs for several additional months until transmission upgrades could be constructed. All of the necessary upgrades will be completed within 29 months of Exelon's announcement of its plans to retire the units. By operating these fossil plants for reliability purposes only, Exelon has been able to maintain electric reliability while minimizing harm to the environment and human health.
"Exelon's experience demonstrates that there are existing mechanisms that would allow the health and economic benefits of the rules to take effect as quickly as possible, as opposed to a blanket compliance extension that would unnecessarily prolong the public's exposure to dangerous pollution," said Dominguez. "Implementation of the rule also provides the regulatory certainty utilities need to make substantial capital investments in modernizing the nation's electric system, which will create jobs."
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Interesting. It looks more like my old T1 Quarter Dome shape. Perhaps Easton is trying to add an extra pole but cut down on weight by eliminating the triangular configuration of the present tent? That somewhat flat spot on the top of the fly is a bit of a concern since it appears water could puddle up there. Will be interesting to see what comes of it.
Flat spot ?Where ?
Edited by Franco on 01/08/2013 00:50:53 MST.
FrancoI think the comment was in reference to the picture David posted with 2 poles.
Thanks. Somehow I missed that shot...
Thanks for the heads up. I've been looking for a light weight 1 person tent and had considered this tent but eliminated because of unknowns and cost. Then this thread popped up and then the price at left lane and I thought that it must be devine intervention so I bought it. Thanks.
BTW, back to the flat roof (new version) .. a few years ago that design (cross over poles) came up at Luxe Outdoor , so some clever chap suggested a way around the flat bit and this is how it was done :Just a suggestion for the users of the first version.(I had a play with one in my backyard just a few days ago.)Add a tie out point right in the middle of the bottom seam on the non door side and stake that out.It is not going to save the design but it will help.I made that suggestion when I first spotted the design and trying it out confirmed the idea.
Edited by Franco on 01/08/2013 14:05:21 MST.
You are very welcome Sean. I have an Obi 1 myself (bought on this website) but I'm glad the info helped someone.The added footprint is a nice addition. Hope you enjoy it and safe travels.
Regarding the issue with getting the tent to pitch well, I discovered I was guying out too tightly. I had to mess around with adjusting and readjusting the guy lines in different spots and tautness levels before I could get the pole to line up with the ridge line. Just takes a little finessing...like a good woman. :)
I have had my tent for about a month and have had it out in the backyard a couple of times to set it up. The first time I set it up was a cold windy day and I set it up just to see how I liked my new toy. The sagging inner disappointed me but it was too cold to mess around with it. I set it up again today, nice day in the low 60's, so I spent about an hour playing with it to perfect the pitch. Raquel is right about not pitching it to tight and having to finess it. When you pitch it too tight it pulls the ridge pole over and causes the inner to sag. Also using the extra guy lines helps pull the ridge pole back in the correct alignment and allows a somewhat tauter pitch. I'm going on a weekender in a few weeks and I'll report back when I've had some experience in the field with it.
I found the Kilo to short for me. I'm 6'1" and no matter how I positioned myself either the foot of my sleeping bag or the head of hit were always hitting the tent. I had high hopes as the design is ideal for me. The single pole setup with the side entry. If it could have just been 6" longer.
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MASSENA Massena Memorial Hospital is watching its dollars when it comes to recruiting physicians because of its financial situation, according to Chief Executive Officer Charles F. Fahd II.
Were attempting to be careful about the types of dollars that we are shelling out for these physicians to join us, Mr. Fahd told the board of managers this week.
He said the hospital can employ the physician, it can set a physician up for a private practice or the doctor can work directly for another physician.
The discussion came up when board member Paul B. Morrow questioned why the hospital had not yet recruited a particular physician who had contacted it and indicated he was interested in coming to Massena four days a month from Plattsburgh.
Mr. Fahd said when it hires new physicians for its staff, there is an initial outlay of funding by the hospital.
It takes months for them to ramp up the practice. During the ramp-up time, theres not a lot of dollars coming in, but theres a whole bunch of dollars going out, he said.
Given the fact that were losing a half a million dollars a year, it does not seem to be the best time to start shelling out. We have to have it to spend it, Mr. Fahd said.
Mr. Morrow suggested the hospital could borrow money in the interim.
We know if we spend $500,000 OK, we have to borrow money we know hes going to return that in the next year, year and a half, he said.
But Mr. Fahd said he preferred not to go that route.
That would obviously be a board decision. I dont want to get into borrowing money to bring physicians in because weve never done that, he said.
Consultants have suggested that because of Massena Memorial Hospitals financial troubles, it should switch from a municipal hospital to a nonprofit facility.
They predicted that maintaining the status quo would mean the hospital would go bankrupt in 2017.
The hospitals board of managers has already decided that becoming a nonprofit would open up more financial avenues for the hospital and stave off that impending bankruptcy. The board has forwarded that recommendation to the Town Council for its review and action. The town board has the ultimate say in the hospitals status.
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