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by Jane (August 1973) Parts 1
2 3 4
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Part III
knowledge gap between older and newer counselors was a continuing
internal problem, one that was hard to bridge in such a high pressure
and emotionally contradictory underground organization. There were
so many things that could not be spelled out to newcomers for security
reasons and so many other things that could be learned only by experience.
At any rate one day a newer counselor became convinced for her
own reasons that Dr. C was not a doctor.
She raised the question angrily at the next meeting of the service
and added that she didnt want to work with the service if it
didnt use legitimate medical people.
Several other counselors echoed her concerns. They felt they had
been misled by elitists in the service who had full knowledge
they didnt and as a result new counselors passed on misinformation
to the women they counseled.
The elitists said that they actually did not know the
answer. But they agreed to talk with Dr. C. and report back at the
next meeting.
Doctor C was totally opposed to our breaking the news that he was
not an M.D.
He said it would destroy the confidence of the counselors in him
and jeopardize his job. Patients who believed in the infallibility
of doctors would have less confidence and more problems if they knew
the truth. Also if some disillusioned counselor or patient turned
him in, the police would be harsher on a paramedic, and he felt be
would no longer be treated by counselors or patients with the respect
he deserved.
But one old-time counselor was as insistent about telling the truth
as Dr. C was about maintaining the myth. And although the repercussions
of their clash echoed for years. the political consequences of her
unbending position were momentous.
At the next meeting we laid out the a factsour abortionist was
not a doctor and the nurse was not a real nurse. They were lay people
who had extensive training and experience doing abortions.
We told the new counselors how we had searched among available
abortionists and felt that their person was the best available.
Two counselors quit our the spot.
But most of the 20 counselors were fascinated rather than shocked.
They spent hours that night exploring the doctor mystique and the
concept of paramedics.
They compared feedback from the women they had counseled and became
more convinced more than ever that the service was providing an essential
alternative and was providing it with more humanity, efficiency
and competence than was available anywhere else.
In addition we were now providing abortions for women who simply
afford to obtain them elsewhere. The basic price was down to $400
plus an increasing number of free and low-cost abortions.
While money was a constant source of conflict between the service
and the abortionists, the increased volume of cases and our assumption
of many of the risks and responsibilities made the weekly payment
satisfactory to them.
The service decided to drop the word doctor from counseling
sessions and instead to stress to the women that they would be done
by a competent paramedic who had been specially trained to do abortions.
To our surprise found that most of the women we counseled were
not the slightest bit disturbed. Their prevailing concerns were Can
he do the job? and Do you counselors trust him?
They had been burdened long enough with their unwanted pregnancy,
and had been unable to find help through the legitimate medical profession.
They just wanted to turn the responsibility over to someone they
could trust.
we had discovered and dealt with the matter of paramedic abortionist
it was a short step the question If he can do it then why
not me?
But by the time we integrated the concept of the paramedic intellectually
and politically, we had already had significant paramedic experience
of a different type in our dealing with long-term pregnancies.
The search for a way to handle long-term pregnancies led us into
totally unforeseen activities into new political perspectives and
into more trouble. frustration and pure exhaustion than any other
At some magical mark in her pregnancyranging anywhere from eight
weeks to fourteen weeks depending upon the place and the abortionist
a woman suddenly lost all options except the choice whether to raise
the baby herself or give it up adoption.
Her chances of obtaining an abortion either legally or illegallywere
almost nil, and when one could be obtained it was financially prohibitive
for most women ..upwards of $800. The problem was complicated by the
increased pain, risk and time commitment of an induced miscarriage
and the decreased chances for sympathetic port-abortion medical care.
To complete the womans trauma there was an implicit attitude
of contempt and distaste for her. How could she be dumb enough
to wait this long? and If shes waited this long,
she might as well go ahead and have the baby, were the prevailing
In fact many of these women had already been through weeks of red
tape to wind up at a dead end. Others waited weeks crucial weeks
while getting a series of shots to bring down a period from
their private doctors or one of several local gynecologists who profited
from the business.
Others wasted weeks trying to get the money but were short on money,
but still long on pregnancy. Women in their forties who thought they
were going through the a change when they missed several
periods in a row suddenly learned they were four months pregnant.
And then there were the young girls who totally denied the condition
in the hope that if they ignored it, it would go away. Finally a
friend or relative noticed their enlarged abdomens and make them
face up to the problem.
reasons were many, and by the time many of these women reached Jane,
their situations were desperate. The first thing Jane did was to
rush all women who were 11 to 13 weeks pregnant to the front of the
line, postponing money problems and setting up emergency counseling
sessions, so that these women could still obtain a D&C if possible.
For the increasing number of unmistakable long terms-14 weeks and
morewe had to find a method and a system for taking care of
today, after more than four years experience with various methods
for inducing long-term miscarriages we still find it hard to evaluate
which methods are best. Each seems to have its advantages and its
are more practical in an illegal setting there others. Perhaps we
should unanimously condemn the catheter as a method for inducing
a miscarriage, but then it sure beats a rusty coathanger.
Our first experience with a long-term was a 19-year-old who drove
down from Minneapolis about six weeks after the service opened. She
was six months pregnant and Catholic, and she insisted that her father
would have a heart attack if he found out she was pregnant.
The abortionist met with us and explained in detail the method
he used to induce a miscarriage: break the water bag, extract all
the water, and wait for labor to begin. In addition, he used antibiotics
to fight infection, oxtoxins (pitosin) to induce the labor, and ergotrate
to control bleeding.
The labor would be the same as for having a baby, beginning with
mild cramps and progressing to heavy rhythmic contractions. Then,
in a heavy contraction. the woman would pass the fetus. After a short
while, the contractions would begin again, and she would pass the
She would have to be attended constantly during labor, and then
watched carefully after she miscarried. The fetus would have to be
disposed of.
In the next day or so she would receive a D&C to make sure her
uterus was clean because retained placenta was a major cause of complication.
The cost for the induced miscarriage and the follow-up D&C were
usually $1,000, but since this was the first care, he would do it
for only $600.
Its nothing to worry about, he assured us. Women
go through it alone all the time. Miscarriages are common. The most
important thing is to keep the women calm and in self-control.
But we were staggered by the medical implications and the responsibility,
and we felt (rightfully) that he was oversimplifying.
We met with the woman, explained the entire procedure and emphasized
our uncertainty.
She reluctantly decided to have the baby, and returned home to
tell her parents. Her father had the predicted heart attack and she
had the baby and gave it up for adoption.
The only positive note the whole story was that her sister became
active in abortion counseling end set up a service modeled after
ours in Minneapolis
Clearly the way to deal with long-term pregnancies was not to avoid
next longterm pregnancy was an 18-year-old Puerto Rican woman, four
and one-half months pregnant and determined to have an abortion.
We made arrangements for her to stay at a counselors house during
labor, and to be in constant telephone contact with the abortionist
in case of an emergency.
She was induced in the morningwith no problems.
That night our abortionist left town under threat by the Mafia
for refusing to pay protection.
Two days later, the woman was in heavy labor, and as her pains
got heavier, her temperature fluctuated between 99 and 102. The counselor
had no one to call for advice, and finally in desperation called
her own gynecologist and lied to him that her friend seemed to be
having a miscarriage.
He arranged to meet them at the hospital, where things went as
smoothly as a prepared script. The gynecologist examined her, said
a few words to emergency admissions, and had her sent up to gynecology.
They gave her some antibiotics and some pitocin, and she miscarried
without problem in two hours.
The next day, the counselor caught hell from her gynecologist,
who had learned about the abortion from the patient.
This was typical of the response that we got from most doctors
when we asked them for help with induced miscarriages. Although providing
post-abortion help was not illegal, they felt that admitting such
cases to the hospital was a nuisance and jeopardized their reputations.
With a few significant exceptions they not only refused to help
but condemned others who tried to fill the medical void. Abortion
was illegal. If women were using quinine and coathangers on themselves
in desperation that was a situation most gynecologists choose to
Hospital emergency rooms were no better. If they suspected an
abortion. they often called the police before they even examined
the woman in labor. Sometimes they would admit a woman and then withhold
drugs from her unless she talked. Sometimes they flatly refused to
admit her, even though she was in heavy labor.
After several such experiences, the service decided that more than
ever it wanted to take care of long-term pregnancies, and that it
would simply have to figure out ways to manage without help from
the medical profession.
That decision initiated a year during which we expanded
our activities with Dr. C and simultaneously set up a system
that induced, midwifed and arranged post-abortion care for more than
200 long-term women.
Our first breakthrough came when Jane received a call from a doctor
in Detroit who was soliciting abortion business.
He told Jane he would do D&C's up to 12 weeks- in his Detroit
clinic for $400 but long-terms would cost $250 just to be induced,
and $600 if the miscarriage took place in the clinic.
The abortionist (whom we came to call Nathan Detroit) described
a method for inducing an abortion called Leunbach that be
said was widely used in Scandinavian countries. A sterile oxytoxin
paste was introduced into the uterus through a hollow cannula, which
is inserted barely through the cervix.
paste or jelly he said, separates the placenta from the wall of the
uterus and caused a miscarriage. He said the method was painless
and required no dilation or drugs at the time of insertion the paste.
Labor would follow within 4 hours. The method could be used to introduce
miscarriage at any time in the pregnancy.
bonus feature was that this method looked like a normal miscarriage.
A woman went to the hospital in labor there would be no way to tell
she had been artificially induced.
invited Jane to visit his clinic in get first-hand information. She
accepted for the next week. In the meantime, the counselor who volunteered
to make the visit spent several days in the library trying to research
Leunbach paste.
It was mentioned in a number of medical publications, but about
as briefly as Nathans description of it. We found this to be true
whenever we researched methods of abortion. In a country when abortions
are illegal, there are no text hooks on how to do them.
The counselor was duly impressed with the clinic, which was set
up in the upstairs of a big old Detroit house. She observed one D&C
and one Leunbach paste insertion. It really was painless. She also
talked with one post-miscarriage patient who was awaiting a follow-up
D&C. The patient described the labor a just like having
a baby.
Nathan said that the follow-up D&C was done in the clinic as an
added precaution, it was unnecessary most cases. In fact, he said,
even a lay person could tell if the miscarriage was complete by looking
at the miscarriage placenta and observing whether it was intact or
there were pieces missing.
knew of the volume of calls Jane was receiving, and was apparently
anxious to get a piece of them, for he volunteered to come to Chicago
the next week to help us out. If we arranged the places he would
put the paste in as many long-term women as we could set up in one
day and would charge us only $1000 for the day But from that time
on he added, the charge would be the regular $200 each.
He arrived at the airport the next week with all of this equipment
in one tiny briefcase. Six women, ranging from 10 to 18 weeks pregnant
had been counseled, had paid Jane $175 each, and were awaiting to
be induced, four at their own homes, two at a counselors house, where
they would stay during labor.
If the day hadnt been so exhausting it would have been comical.
Every one was in a third floor apartment and Nathan was terribly out
of condition. He insisted that the kitchen table was the only place
to start the abortion and in each case took on the ludicrous atmosphere
of the kitchen it took place in. A small flashlight provided illumination.
Nathan took for granted that the counselor with him was experienced
in medical matters (she had in fact seen her first abortion at his
clinic the week before), and he barked orders at her all day. But
the cases were started without problem, and he left that evening
with $1000 in his pocket.
The same night we got a call from one of the patients who was having
labor pains. She had several children and a previous miscarriage
and said she and her sister could handle the whole thing by themselves.
The anxious counselor kept in close phone contact with the woman
and by 3 am, she had passed both the fetus and the placenta and was
in bed asleep.
Two of the women decided to go to the hospital when their labor
pains began. They were both coached to stick to their story, no matter
what the hospital said: that they were pregnant and suddenly that
day they had begun having cramps and bleeding.
One other woman miscarried at home after a ten hour labor. and
two others miscarried at a counselors home, with several extremely
apprehensive counselors present.
It is impossible to describe to someone who hasnt experienced
or been present during a labor the trauma a woman goes through. The
pains gradually get bad, then they get worse, then they get totally
unbearable, and then they get still worse before the baby/fetus is
Although both miscarriages were normal, the counselors (one of
whom had no children) were astonished at the strength and intensity
of the labor pains, and with the gush of blood that came with the
passage of the fetus. They were also amazed at the total relief from
pain both women felt as soon as the fetus was passed.
In both cases the women were remarkably strong during labor. Shortly
after the miscarriage, the placenta was passed and the bleeding stopped
almost entirely.
After witnessing the pain of an induced miscarriage, one counselor
experienced in the use of LaMaze (natural childbirth techniques)
taught the basis of those techniques to all counselors who attended
longterm miscarriages. The effect of even brief counseling in LaMaze
upon women in labor were amazing. Armed with the technique, they
could deal with even the most severe labor pains without drugs.
Seeing her first fetus was a totally shocking entry into reality
for every counselor who attended a long term miscarriage. A 16 week
fetus is a fully formed human being with fingernails and sex organs.
Few counselors could maintain such emotional distance that they
did not spend sleepless nights wondering about life and death, about
freedom of choice,about killing, about the end justifying the means.
But seeing the relief of the womenyoung, old, rich, poor
after the miscarriage was the overriding experience. These women had
been carrying an unwanted body in their own bodies for months, trying
to get rid of it in that time, and suddenly they were free. They had
a new lease on life.
But in the case of the women who had miscarried outside the hospital,
the new lease was short. Within several days, they each had severe
cramps and intermittent bleeding.
Each had to go to the hospital, where the problem was diagnosed
as a retained placenta and treated with a cleanup D&C. The hospital
charges for the D&C plus drugs and extras ranged from $250 to
$450, taking the total cost of the abortion well out of the bargain
range we had hoped for.
When we complained to Nathan, he insisted that the incomplete cases
were coincidences, but he offered us an alternative plan for saving
money. We could buy tubes of Leunbach paste from him for $50 each,
he would throw in a cannula and we could administer the paste ourselves.That
way, even if the woman had to pay for a cleanup D&C, the total
cost would be under $350.
The suggestion astounded us- we are simply not yet bold enough
to perform a major medical procedure ourselves. But we bought a dozen
tubes of the paste and stored them in the refrigerator as directed.
(Editor's Note: The paragraph that goes here was indecipherable in
the copy we have, but involves how the service could use Dr.
were saved from the immediate dilemma of whether to insert the paste
ourselves when were approached by a group of Northside abortionists
who agreed to insert the paste (their own) and do a followup D&C
in their Northside office for $400. They would also help care for
women in labor if we provided a place. As part of the bargain, we
would have to throw in a few short-terms each week for the same price.
This group of abortionists came recommended by several local MDs,
but in a system that turned on payoffs and kickbacks, references were
In desperation for a way to take care of longterms, we decided
to give them a try. Two short-term patients volunteered, and their
reports were tolerable, if not enthusiastic. They said that only
men were present during the abortion, and that their manner was cold
and secretive, but the place was clean and the medical results were
We decided to use them for longterm miscarriages, and to keep the
number of short-term cases we sent them to the absolute minimum.
In anticipation of the induced miscarriages, a counselor volunteered
her large apartment for the women in labor. She and another counselor
(who had joined the service after a horrendous experience with a
catheter induced abortion) also volunteered to study midwife techniques
and to sit with women in labor.
The anticipated expansion also meant that we had to drop our 16
hour answering service for a system that could receive messages any
hour of the day or night.
We mentioned the problem to "Dr." C one morning and mere
hours later, a fancy tape arrived at Janes home, complete with
a portable beeper that enabled her to pick up tape messages from any
phone. The new system greatly increased Janes flexibility and
unquestionably built up credits for Dr. C
The Northside abortionists were to distinguish themselves during
the next few months we worked with them by sending away women who
were a little short of funds, by being awed and incompetent in the
presence of women in labor, and by somehow dodging most cleanup D&Cs,
so that cases with retained placentas ended up in the hospital anyway.
We soon learned that they were one of the biggest abortion outfits
in the city and that they paid protection to the Mafia, and that
they were unscrupulous in their pursuit of money.
Apparently their protection was not sufficient, for two months
after our first contact with them, they were arrested with two of
our patients in their apartment, making front page headlines in all
four dailies.
Ultimately they got off the bust by paying the police and the court
about $30,000. Before the settlement, the states attorney called
and questioned Jane several times...without success. After the settlement
we heard from him no more.
The Northside group was soon back in business, but we refused to
have any further dealings with them.
On the
whole, our generally negative experience with them proved valuable.
In the face of their incompetence, several counselors became very
competent in attending women in labor. We attended about 18 miscarriages
in this period, and sometimes had as many as 4 patients in the apartment
at one time in various stages between induction and followup D&C.
We learned to speed up sluggish labor with special exercises (old
wives remedies that really worked), we learned to ease the pain
of harsh labors with Lamaze breathing and sympathetic care, we learned
to control post miscarriage bleeding with shots of ergotrate, icepacks
and gentle massage of the abdomen.
We also learned when a situation was beyond our competence, and
we had to take a woman to the hospital. Fortunately, for the first
few months, these situations were limited to excessively long labors,
to cases where the placenta did not pass and to cases of mild but
continual bleeding.
Facing hospital staffs in such situations continued to be a frightening,
humiliating and often legally threatening experience but unavoidable.
Most importantly, our experience with the Northside Group convinced
us that if these incompetent, inhumane men could clear $400 for simply
administering the paste, we could also do it...for our cost alone.
So that fall, one full year after the service began, we finally
took speculum, flashlight and cannula in hand and induced our first
hands shook so bad that we could not even put the speculum in straight,
and we emptied the first tube of Leunbach paste ($50 worth) onto
the floor. But our two young volunteer patients were good humored
and encouraging, and the job was finally done.
And it was so simple! So damn simple, after avoiding it all these
months. Just slip the tip of the cannula through the opening of the
cervix and gently squeeze the paste in. No pain, no blood, no problems.
And a happy, friendly, less costly experience for the women.
The two women went to a counselors apartment where they were
closely attended. We somehow expected special problems because we
had overstepped our bounds by performing a medical procedure.
But both miscarried within three days. One required no cleanup
and the other relieved a D&C from "Dr." C. Total cost:
$400 for both, which they split.
We were excited, of course. Putting in Leunbach paste through a
cannula was hardly a complicated medical procedure, but it was still
an abortion...and we did it ourselves.
Armed with our new techniques, we began to take on more long-terms
and to intensify our training and organization for midwiving women
in labor.
the Northside bust, we had to abandon the midwife apartment, which
was being watched by the police. Instead the counselors who chose
to counsel for long-term miscarriages arranged a place for each of
their patients. Sometimes it was their own or another counselors
apartment, sometimes the home of the patient.
To each long-term was offered the following alternatives: to be
induced by a woman from the service by Leunbach paste or to have
their water bag broken by Dr. C, to go through labor at a counselors
house or at their own home under the care of a counselor or to go
directly to the hospital when their labor began; and finally, to go
to the hospital for a cleanup D&C or to come back through the
service and have it done by Dr. C.
About three women a week chose to be induced by us for a charge
of $50 plus the $250 by Dr. C. or a hospital D&C. An
equal number chose to be induced by Dr. C. who now agreed
to break the water bag and later do a followup D&C for the regular
short-term charge of $400.....if we took responsibility for the labor
and miscarriage.
Of these five or six anticipated long-terms at least two each week
had insurance or a welfare green card and chose to go the hospital
for the miscarriage...sticking to the well-rehearsed story that it
was spontaneous.
other women were our responsibility. and each made details plans
with her counselor about what to do and where to go when the labor
pains began.
two women a week went through the service for a D&C, but turned
out to be more than 14 weeks pregnant.
These women had not been counseled for an induced miscarriage.
and they often had to make a last minute decision whether to go ahead
with the abortion. Worse, sometimes only after the abortion was started
did we discover that the woman was too far along to be done by D&C.
to Part IV


text: This is my second work submitted to Cartographer's Guild. Done primarily in photoshop, I began the layout on pen and paper, then fleshed out areas in Dungeonographer. I took that base to PS and then painted and textured my way to this point. Pretty far in the process and pretty happy with what I've created, but I am always open the the great criticism available here. Thanks and Enjoy!This long forgotten shrine rests deep in the swamp, far from the civilization that left it behind eons ago. Although much of the stonework and structure show signs of wear, the spirits of the forest infuse the surroundings and keep the Shrine from decaying into oblivion.

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There's the paperwork of the dead and then, there's the paperwork of the living.
Yesterday I was on a roll with The Action Machine and the READ ME files, going into the second hour, just beetling along feeling confident to get through another two hours of other tasks. I had just finished a long document, was in the middle of printing out two pages when my 7-year old printer decided to die. I only print a few pages per year so I don't know what its problem was all of a sudden.
A long time ago, a lamp fell off the bookcase and a light bulb shattered sending glass shards for miles. It's possible a piece was floating around in the back of the printer and finally worked its way into the innards. I suppose. Or maybe it just died of old age.
Once again, something technological eats into my day. Not something useful but something that requires me to go downtown and spend more money and more time.
This is not going to cause me to have a breakdown. I'm just shining a light of Awareness on how this type of thing goes on chronically and relentlessly.
Today I finally received a letter from the Canadian government I've been waiting over 8 months for, a copy of my Landed Immigrant document. Which I need in order to get back into Canada anytime I leave. This, I was told, would suffice as an alternative to a Permanent Resident's Card.
I've lived in Canada full-time since 1967. The Canadian government knows all kinds of things about who I am. I am not a mystery. I think, after 43 years, they could just put my photo in their computer and whenever they see me they could smile and wave and say, "Hey, fellow-Canadian!, How's it going? Been across the border for a day or two? Give us a second here to look up your Non-Existent Criminal Record again and Welcome Home!"
In order to get a Permanent Resident's Card there are reams of forms to fill out, photos to be taken in a specified size, money to be sent. It's a daunting process that goes on and on and on. Nevertheless, I was psyching myself up for this.
Until I got to the last page of requirements. After the card is finally produced it can only be picked up in person. For me that means a minimum of 5 days of traveling to validate myself, by my physical presence, at the nearest specified government office. I might as well go by dog-sled and enjoy the great outdoors while I'm at it.
I got on the phone and was immediately reassured by an Immigration Official that I did not have to go through that; Canada is a very big place and not everyone lives a short hop away from a CIC office. (No kidding.) All I had to do was get a copy of my Landed Immigrant Record and I was good to go.
I gathered up the paperwork, printed it all out, read the instructions, sweated over getting every detail correct and sent it off with my money. And today, eight and half months later, the precious document arrived. A one-page bad photocopy and a page of instructions. On the instructions, it clearly states:
"This document can not be used to travel.
Only the permanent resident card (PR card) can be used to travel. It is a wallet-sized, plastic status card that replaces the …."
Just a moment, please, to compose myself. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!


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North Korea vows to restart nuclear facilities
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Tuesday it will restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material, in what outsiders see as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war.
A spokesman for the North's General Department of Atomic Energy said scientists will quickly begin "readjusting and restarting" the facilities at its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex, including the plutonium reactor and a uranium enrichment plant. Both could produce fuel for nuclear weapons.
The reactor began operations in 1986 but was shut down as part of international nuclear disarmament talks in 2007 that have since stalled. North Korea said work to restart the facilities would begin "without delay." Experts estimate it could take anywhere from three months to a year to reactivate the reactor.
The nuclear vows and a rising tide of threats in recent weeks are seen as efforts by the North to force disarmament-for-aid talks with Washington and to increase domestic loyalty to young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by portraying him as a powerful military commander.
Tuesday's announcement underscores concerns about North Korea's timetable for building a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach the United States, although it is still believed to be years away from developing that technology.
The U.S. called for North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, saying it would be "extremely alarming" if Pyongyang follows through on a vow to restart its plutonium reactor.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. is taking steps to ensure it has the capacity to defend itself and its allies, and that President Barack Obama is being updated regularly. "The entire national security team is focused on it," Carney said.
But Carney noted that a string of threats from North Korea toward the U.S. and South Korea so far have not been backed up by action, calling the threats part of a counterproductive pattern. He called on Russia and China, two countries he said have influence on North Korea, to use that influence to persuade the North to change course.
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Published on February 6th, 2012 | by Ernie Estrella2
Movie Review: Chronicle – Found Footage Film Ups The Super-Hero Ante
Chronicle gives the "realistic" superhero movie a +1 level up from Unbreakable, giving us a step closer to believing "what it would look like if superheroes existed in our world," but it also a hybrid of a few other types of films. It takes the "found footage" concept film past what we were introduced to in The Blair Witch Project, and expanded to in Cloverfield (with a much steadier camera hand), and combines it with an autobiographical documentary like Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation.
Over 90% of the "footage" belongs to Andrew (Dane DeHaan, In Treatment) the high school social pariah who buys a high-end (and large) video camera to record his adolescent years, good experiences or bad. We're not given a reason why he chooses to document his life in this manner. Maybe he hopes to capture the varied high school experience, or his own coming of age; what he gets is a transformation of another kind.
His cousin Matt (Alex Russell) is the only one friendly towards him, but begrudgingly, because they are related. Matt admits to Andrew that he does not do himself any favors with his shyness and sticking a camera in front of everyone further alienates him. The third musketeer is Steve (Michael B. Jordan, The Wire), a smooth-talking charismatic candidate for class president.
On one fateful night, these three high school boys, who would not ordinarily associate with each other, found themselves exploring a giant hole in the ground while attending a giant rave in the woods. For every practical reason they should have been scared away, they were drawn in that much stronger. When they came out, they each gained similar telekinetic powers. They could move objects with their mind, they could stop them in mid-flight. They could even fly. They bonded instantly over their amazing new abilities. All seemed right in the world. Remember, though, it's all fun until someone gets hurt.
Chronicle is the brainchild of director-writer Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis and proves that it's not how much you spend on making a film, but how you spend it. What I liked most about Chronicle was that despite this amazing discovery, there was never a point at which the leads ceased being teenagers or fell into typical superhero affairs. They didn't create garish super uniforms, they didn't dig out comic books to find inspiration or accept some greater responsibility to the human race and build a secret hangout. They used their powers, as I would expect teenagers to. They messed with people at Wal-Mart, they cleverly used their powers to gain more popularity at school to score girls, they made mistakes and they were reckless. They were the heroes… and the villains as well and we are quickly reminded that man is still his own worst enemy no matter how extraordinary he becomes.
The extent of danger in having telekinetic powers, like any weapon, is controlled by who wields them. We learn early on (mostly because of his cataloging) that Andrew is the only one out of the three that is stressed as much at home as he is in attending school. Perhaps that's why Andrew is able to develop his powers so much sooner than the others. He has the most to gain as well as the most to lose. Chronicle would have you believe halfway through that it's the making of a rags-to-riches story. It is anything but.
Chronicle's riveting third act is one part Shakespearean tragedy and another part Toho Godzilla flick, turning the city of Seattle into a giant piñata. The tone crescendos from children playing with new toys and at which we begin to wonder where this is all headed, to a point of no return and thunderous tempest builds; the ending has an undeniable similar tune of supers gone awry like the timeless Anime classic Akira.
The action and flight scenes raise the ante for the Superman: Man of Steel film, which will most likely be made with a much, much larger budget. Will it have this kind of resonance? We'll find out next year. Chronicle makes the most of smart filmmaking and extremely effective visual effects by Simon Hansen (second unit director on District 9); Trank will most certainly be a filmmaker to watch as he is currently being courted by Fox to direct the Fantastic Four reboot.
Not to be outdone, the relatively unknown cast rewards invested viewers who think beyond what the footage shows. They give the story something tangible while their naivety and the uncertainty of their actions is where Chronicle will catch you off-guard. It may even confront each viewer to pause and think, 'Would I handle this situation the same way?' and 'What would super powers exploit about my life and my personality?'
While real documentaries can appear to be "truthful," there is still an editor at the end of the day. Chronicle rectifies this problem by revealing different points of view–while still following the rules of found footage–and allowing those different angles such as security cameras, news footage, and by another hand-held camera of ultra-cute school blogger Casey Letter (Ashley Hinshaw) to show just how dark and destructive they truly were. The film does slip a few times and viewers can be taken out of the moment, 'who's camera are we seeing all three boys from?'
Viewers are invited to connect the dots–to draw their own conclusions of what happened off-camera, but as far as what was "caught" on film, Chronicle is a satisfying and surprising trip even at a briskly-paced 83-minute run time. Still, it's hard not to feel origin stories are familiar ground and Chronicle may be categorized as a gimmicky film, but there is more to it that could lead to a second or third viewing because it's so unconventional. Chronicle re-imagines the found footage concept and elevates it to a sensible storytelling method, but more importantly raises the expectations of where super-hero films go from here.
Directed by: Josh Trank
Screenplay by: Josh Trank and Matt Landis
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: February 3, 2012
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The Vikings? A division rival of the Packers? Brett Favre makes Benedict Arnold look like Audie Murphy. I feel bad for the Vikings and I'm not even a fan. Ahhh, but on the bright side, football season is just around the corner (preseason doesn't count). It's great to be drawing a sports cartoon. What a relief from health care premium reform, public options, Blue Dogs and death panels.
Full disclosure: I'm a Chicago Bears fan. That's right, da Bears. I became a fan back in the mid-1960s when I was an art student at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Da Bears had some great players such as Dick Butkus, Mike Ditka, Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. Unfortunately, the quarterbacks were Billy Wade, Jack Concannon and Bobby Douglass.
In the beginning I followed the team on TV. I couldn't afford to go to a game until the early '70s. When I first went to the old Soldier Field, I was amazed. I'd never been in a place so enormous. I wouldn't have that sense of awe again until many years later when I went to Notre Dame's legendary stadium in South Bend, Ind.
As an additional subtle dig in my cartoon, I drew Favre as having black shoes and dress socks to go with his shorts. This old geezer (he'll be 40 in October) is going to play until he breaks something that won't heal, or teams politely turn him down. He should have a bumper sticker on his car. "I'll give up my football when it's pried from my cold, dead hands."


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The Good Old Days? Women's Daily Lives Historic Sites In The Washington, DC Area
Washington, DC Museums:
1) Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
Location: 1776 D Street, NW , Washington , D.C.
Open: Mon-Fri: 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sat: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.*
Admission is free
For more information, visit: http://www.dar.org/museum
Inside this museum honoring American women, visitors walk through thirty-one furnished period rooms and one gallery, witnessing snapshots of American history from women's points of view. Each room is sponsored by a different state and reflects various time periods, geographical locations, and cultures. The New Jersey Room, formerly a seventeenth-century council chamber, was the first installed period room in 1910. Examples of other rooms are the Wisconsin Room which reproduces a Pilgrim dwelling; the Missouri Room which shows a Victorian parlor; the Delaware Room, an 18 th century study; and the California Room, which shows an 1860's parlor. Items like furniture, quilts, paintings, and clothing in the various rooms help visitors learn about and imagine women's lives across four hundred years.
*Groups of ten or more should make arrangements at least four weeks in advance by calling 202-879-3241.
2) National Museum of American History
Location: On the National Mall at 14 th St. and Constitution Ave, N.W. , Washington , D.C.
Currently closed for renovation!
For more information, visit: http://americanhistory.si.edu
Although there are several exhibitions in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History that shed light on the lives of American women from all walks of life, the "Within These Walls" exhibit particularly allows visitors to imagine ordinary women's daily routine, such as doing laundry without washing machines and cooking meals without modern appliances. The focus of the exhibit is a transplanted two-and-a-half-story wood-framed house from Massachusetts . Five ordinary families lived in the house from the late eighteenth century through the mid-1960s. As visitors peer through the walls they get glimpses into the lives of every member of the families.
Historic Homes in Washington, D.C.
1) Decatur House
Location: 748 Jackson Place N.W. , Washington , D.C.
Open: Tues. - Sat: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sun: noon – 4 p.m.
Admission is free, a donation is encouraged
For more information, visit: http://www.decaturhouse.org
Built in 1818 for America 's greatest 19 th century naval hero, Stephen Decatur and his wife Susan, visitors to the Decatur House will learn about its illustrious owners and gather clues into their lives from the eight furnished period rooms. Museum workers take visitors on a guided tour of the home, providing anecdotes about the various politically powerful owners and pointing out interesting architecture, furniture, textiles, and ceramics. Among the many residents were a Russian Ambassador, French Ambassador, two Secretaries of State, five members of Congress, and an Ambassador to Persia . The last resident, Marie Beale, was very interested in the history of the Decatur House. She wrote three books, including one entitled Decatur House and Its Inhabitants and funded a preservation project to return the outer façade to its original 1818 appearance. Most importantly, Beale donated the Decatur House to the National Trust for Historic Preservation when she died in 1956.
2) Dumbarton House and Museum
Location: 2715 Q Street N.W. , Washington , D.C.
Open: Tues. -Sat: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.. All tours are guided and start at: 10:15 a.m. , 11:15 a.m. , 12:15 p.m. , and 1:15 p.m. , with each touring lasting 45 minutes
Admission: Adults $5.00, Students with ID are free
For more information, visit: http://www.dumbartonhouse.org
The Dumbarton House was built in the eighteenth century and retains the original architectural design from that period, providing visitors with a fine example of a Federal Period (1790-1830) home. Through the short introductory video and information given by the tour guide, guests will learn about the former inhabitants of the home and what life was like in Georgetown two centuries ago. From objects such as furniture, paintings, textiles, silver, and ceramics, visitors will be able to better imagine women's daily life in the early days of the nation. All seven rooms are open to the public, and include a library, dining room, music room, parlor, and bedrooms. There is also a gallery for temporary exhibits within the home.
3) Hillwood Museum & Gardens
Location: 4155 Linnean Ave. N.W., Washington , D.C.
Open: Tues. - Sat: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., reservation is required - call 202-686-5807
Admission: Adults $12, Seniors $10, College Students $7, Children (ages 6-18) $5
For more information visit: http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org
Visitors to Hillwood will enjoy an elaborately furnished mansion containing an extensive French and Russian based-art collection. The home will give guests an idea of what life was like for a wealthy woman in the early to mid 20 th century. There are several ornately themed gardens and fine grounds around the home that visitors can also enjoy.
Hillwood was founded and opened by Majorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973). She was the sole heir to her father's Post cereal company and fortune and he trained her in every aspect of running the company so that when he died, she could take over. With her second husband, a Wall Street financier, Post merged her company with General Foods, increasing business and profits. She spent much of her fortune collecting decorative arts and funding various charities. In the late 1930s, Post accompanied her third husband to the Soviet Union when he served as American Ambassador. While there, she added a vast number of Russian items to her collection, which remains one of the most important assemblages of Russian imperial art outside of Russia . In 1955, Post bought Hillwood to serve as her residence and the site of a future museum. At her death in 1973, the mansion was bequeathed to the public and soon opened as a museum.
4) The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
Location: 1318 Vermont Ave. N.W. , Washington , D.C.
Open: Mon –Sat: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Admission is free
For more information, visit: http://www.nps.gov/mamc/
Mary McLeod Bethune, an impressive woman from the early 20 th century, lived in this home for several years. It was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women, an organization she founded. Before coming to Washington , D.C. , Bethune founded Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach , Florida , and then served as an advisor on African American affairs to four presidents in D.C. She was appointed Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration by President Roosevelt, making her the highest ranking African American woman in the federal government. In her position, Bethune worked tirelessly to influence legislation affecting African Americans and women. She continued to be an important voice for human rights until her death in 1955.
Visitors will enjoy walking through her three-story Victorian townhouse to learn more about her life. The National Park Services have recreated the Council House as it was when Bethune lived there by using her furniture and photographs. Guests can also visit the carriage house, where the National Archives for Black Women's History is located.
5) The Octagon
Location: 1799 New York Ave, NW
Open: Tues. – Sat: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Admission: Adults $5, Senior Citizens and Children $3
For more information visit: http://www.archfoundation.org/octagon
Built in 1800 by the architect of the U.S. Capitol, William Thornton, the Octagon's first owners were the Colonel John Tayloe and his wife Ann Ogle. Until 1817, the Tayloes used the Octagon as a winter home before permanently moving in. Ann and John raised fifteen children in the Octagon and were both prominent in the rapidly growing community. When the White House (then known as the President's House) burned in 1814, President James and First Lady Dolley Madison temporarily lived at the Octagon. After John's death in 1828, Ann continued to live in the Octagon until her death in 1855. For the next fifty years the home was rented out to various organizations and tenants. Since 1902, the American Architecture Foundation has owned the Octagon. The building was opened to the public as a museum in 1970.
Restoration workers have made the exterior and interior of the house look the way the Tayloes knew it in the early 1800s. Items donated by the Tayloe family's descendents include furniture, paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, silver, china, and a special collection of books on racing and breeding horse. There is an archaeological collection that contains 9,300 artifacts, ranging from thimbles and buttons to pottery fragments and animal bones. From all of these items, visitors will be able to experience the home as Ann Ogle did and glance at what her life must have been like as a wealthy woman in the early 19 th century, running a household that included fifteen children and was blocks away from the headquarters of a brand new nation.
6) The Old Stone House
Location: 3051 M Street, N.W., Washington , D.C.
Open: Wed. - Sun: noon – 5 p.m., tours are by reservation only, call 202-895-6070.
Admission is free
For more information, visit: http://www.nps.gov/rocr/olst/history.htm
Built in 1765, the Old Stone House is one of the oldest remaining structures in the Washington , D.C. area. Originally built as a one-room, modest structure for lower-middle class Rachel and Christopher Layman and their two sons, the Old Stone House was later owned by wealthier people who added to the building. After being widowed and then remarrying, Rachel Layman sold the home to a wealthy widow, Cassandra Chew. Cassandra added features like the second floor and a kitchen to make the home more to the standard of living she enjoyed. She also filled the home with fancy furniture. After Cassandra's death, one of her daughters owned it for many years. A succession of owners followed, many of whom added different features and rooms to the house and ran shops out of the first floor.
Inside the original room, visitors can imagine what life must have been like for the first owners who lived very simply and had few luxuries; they did not even have a real floor, only dirt. As visitors wander through the other rooms, they can see how the successive wealthier inhabitants lived and especially see into the lives of the different women who owned the home themselves.
7) Tudor House Historic House and Gardens
Location: 1644 31st Street , Washington , D.C.
Open: Tues. – Sat: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sun: noon – 4 p.m. Tours are 45 minutes and docent-led, Tues-Sat: 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2:30 p.m., Sun: noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m.; no reservation is needed for groups of 10 or less.
Admission to house: Adults $6, Seniors $5, Children $3; Garden is $2 per person
For more information, visit: http://www.tudorplace.org
Martha Curtis Peter, granddaughter of Martha Washington, built Tudor House in 1816 with a legacy left to her by her step-grandfather George Washington. Six generations of Peters lived in the home until 1983. It became an historic site open to the public in 1988.
Visitors are able to experience the Peter's rich family history at the Tudor House as they walk through the many rooms and view over 8,000 family household objects such as furniture, silver, ceramics and glass, jewelry, textiles, paintings and drawings, sculptures, portraits, photographs, books and manuscripts. There are also family items from Mount Vernon on display. Visitors may also look through hundred of photographs, journals and documents, like bills and ledgers, in the Archives. From the journals, guests can especially learn about what daily life was like for the female members of the family.
8) Woodrow Wilson House
Location: 2340 S Street, NW
Open: Tues. - Sun: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Admission: Adults $5, Seniors $4, Students $2.50, Children under 7 are free
For more information, visit: http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org President Woodrow Wilson, his wife and three daughters moved to this home after his term as president ended in 1921. The home was built in 1915, and currently looks as it did when the Wilsons resided there. Visitors can experience an American 1920s home as they walk through the furnished rooms that reflect the post World War I era, including sound recordings, clips of silent films, and flapper dresses. Also on display are items from the White House, family memorabilia, and gifts from dignitaries around the world. Additionally, visitors can enjoy special exhibits. The most recent exhibit focused on President Wilson's three daughters, Meg, Jesse and Nell, who devoted their lives to the betterment of their country, the world, and women. As supporters of woman suffrage, they were influential in urging their father to approve the 19 th Amendment. The exhibit showed newspaper articles, photographs, paintings, sculptures, recordings, schoolbooks, and other personal items belonging to the women.


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The Charleston County coroner's office said 19-year-old Dontaye Reed of Ravenel died in the shooting.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that a gunman outside a West Ashley Waffle House restaurant traded shots with people inside the building around 4 a.m. Sunday.
Charleston County Sheriff's Maj. Jim Brady says deputies found two men lying in the parking lot, one dead and the other suffering life-threatening injuries.
The wounded man was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina Hospital by Charleston County EMS. His name has not been released.
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SaaS as a competitive advantage? The proof is in the numbers.
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Do companies deploy Software as a Service to reduce cost? Well yes, some do. But what we have found, from a recent Global SaaS study conducted by the IBM Center for Applied Insights, is that nearly half of the businesses are actually achieving a competitive advantage through their investments in SaaS. Leading enterprises – those gaining competitive advantage through broad SaaS adoption – are collaborating more effectively through social business tools, improving the customer experience, and accelerating time to market through their SaaS initiatives.
So what does that mean for organizations? The study reveals that Pacesetters – enterprises that have the highest level of SaaS adoption – are gaining competitive advantage by aligning their organizations around a cohesive, enterprise-wide SaaS strategy, as well as fostering a strong IT and Line of Business (LOB) collaboration.
Take a look at some of the SaaS benefits highlighted in IBM customer case studies. The numbers speak for themselves:
20% - SafeGuard World International saw a 20% reduction in implementation time in many projects. Why? Because SaaS enabled them to increase collaboration internally and externally.
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So what does this mean for you? As an organization the value of SaaS extends beyond driving down TCO; SaaS can help further differentiate your business in the marketplace and offers a competitive advantage. Second, the benefit of IT and LOB collaborating on a broad SaaS strategy is an essential ingredient, so lean in and embrace collaboration.
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Cove city councilors approved a $2.8 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year Tuesday.
The councilors did so after last-minute adjustments to Cove's cash-on-hand categories to pay out a mediation settlement of $75,000 to Tom Bowman, who had a long-running disagreement with the city over documents he had alleging water irrigation rights to run-off water at the lagoon site.
The city is moving forward on a project to add a second sewage treatment lagoon because of oversaturation of the current lagoon that was cited by the Department of Environmental Quality.
Lawyers for the city and for Bowman had been negotiating for more than two years concerning Bowman's claims.
City councilors feared the litigation could delay the lagoon expansion project on land donated to the city by Sonny Johnson. Bowman owns land near the lagoon.
Councilors decreased the upcoming cash-on-hand amounts by $37,500 for both the hydro plant and sewer operations.
Councilor Lyndon Rose urged councilors to call the removal of the funds from the hydro plant a loan because a pipe replacement may be necessary on the Bridge Creek segment of the pipeline that feeds into the diversion and the hydro plant.
Pipe replacement from the Mill Creek span two years ago led to less water loss and dramatically increased revenue for the plant.
Councilors agreed to call the funds coming from the hydro fund a "loan" rather than a "transfer." Revenue from the hydro plant, Rose pointed out, is the reason for the relatively low tax base in Cove.
Brad Baird of Anderson Perry reported to the councilors that the sewer project funding application is in the final stages of approval.
The council hopes the lagoon expansion project can begin this summer and be completed before a hard freeze to prevent further oversaturation with the next spring thaw and any DEQ fines.
In other business, Councilor Bob Rhinevault shared with the council a letter from the Oregon Department of Transportation he received saying ODOT would be "reluctant to approve" the city's proposal to move the crosswalk near the school on Route 237 at Mill and Orchard streets to what some in Cove felt would be a safer location near the post office.
The letter said, "ODOT is usually reluctant to approve marking crosswalks at such locations, since they can end up actually being less safe than if they were left unmarked."
The council indicated it would not pursue the matter at this time.
The city also heard from Patty McClure and took her advice and signed a letter of intent to apply for a grant to create a multi-purpose lane that would run from the school to Conklin Lane. If approved, the grant could lead to a bicycle and pedestrian project beginning next summer.
City Recorder Donna Lewis said she would have candidate packets ready for the fall election by the July meeting. Three council seats and the mayor's seat are up for election. Mayor Jim Lundy has indicated he may not be running for re-election.
Councilor Rose has stated he will seek re-election, and Councilor Bob Rhinevault has not indicated yet whether he will run again. The other council seat is currently open.
Councilors said goodbye and congratulations on graduation to Brittany Hargrove, current student councilor. Mikayla Murchison will be sworn in as the new student councilor at the next meeting.


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December 6, 2012
Merkel, Netanyahu Play Down Differences
Severin Weiland, Der Spiegel
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Despite recent differences between Germany and Israel over settlement construction plans on the West Bank, Angela Merkel and Benjamin Netanyahu pledged friendship on Thursday in Berlin. They have, said the chancellor, agreed to disagree.
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Minutes of Proceedings
Session: 2011/2012
Date: 15 December 2011
Venue: Room 21, Parliament Buildings
The meeting opened in public session at 10.42am.
1. Apologies
The apologies are noted above.
2. Draft Minutes of Meetings Held on 6 December 2011 and 8 December 2011.
The Committee agreed the minutes of 6 December 2011 and 8 December 2011.
3. Matters Arising
The Committee noted the Minister's response to the Committee's queries on the PEDU report on Benchmarking of Retained Corporate Functions across NI Departments.
The Committee noted Sport NI's response to the Committee's follow-up queries on the Award for Sport programme.
Agreed: The Committee agreed to forward the response from Sport NI on the dual use of schools to the Committee for Education.
Agreed: The Committee agreed to write to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to ascertain the rationale behind the qualifying criteria for concessionary TV Licences and to ask whether there are any plans to address the apparent anomalies in the legislation; and to forward TV Licensing's response to Oaklee Housing Association and inform them of the Committee's further action on this matter.
4. Briefing from Arts Council on the Intercultural Arts Strategy
The following officials joined the meeting at 10.45am:
Chief Executive, Ms Roisín McDonough; and
Director of Strategic Development, Mr Nick Livingston.
The officials briefed the Committee.
A question and answer session followed.
Mr Michael McGimspey joined the meeting at 10.55am.
Mrs Brenda Hale left the meeting at 10.57am.
Mrs Brenda Hale rejoined the meeting at 11.05am.
Mrs Brenda Hale left the meeting at 11.13am.
The officials left the meeting at 11.23am.
Agreed: The Committee agreed to write to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland expressing its support for the Re-imaging Communities Programme and to ask for further updates in relation to the Programme as it progresses.
5. Briefing from Assembly Research and Information Service on Archaeological Archives in Northern Ireland
Dr Dan Hull joined the meeting at 11.25am and briefed the Committee.
A question and answer session followed.
Mr David Hilditch left the meeting at 11.30am.
Mr David Hilditch rejoined the meeting at 11.40am.
Dr Dan Hull left the meeting at 11.49am.
6. Briefing from the Northern Ireland Archaeological Forum
The following officials joined the meeting at 11.49am:
Chairperson of the NI Archaeological Forum, Mr Malachy Conway;
Director of Institute of Field Archaeologists, Mr Peter Hinton; and
Fieldwork Director at Queen's University, Mr Philip MacDonald.
The officials briefed the Committee.
Mr Cathal Ó hOisín left the meeting at 11.56am.
A question and answer session followed.
The officials left the meeting at 12.28pm.
Agreed: The Committee agreed: to write to the Committee for the Environment and to the Minister of the Environment regarding the issues on storage and curation of archaeological archives in Northern Ireland and to forward copies of Dr Hull's research paper and the NI Archaeological Forum paper to both; and to consider tabling a Committee Motion on this matter in early 2012 when more information about the issues is available to the Committee.
Mr Michael McGimpsey left the meeting at 12.29pm.
7. Committee Response to BBC Trust Consultation "Delivering Quality First"
Agreed: The Committee agreed the draft response to BBC Trust's consultation Delivering Quality First.
Mr William Irwin left the meeting at 12.31pm.
8. Correspondence
The Committee noted the correspondence from the OFMDFM Committee on the Programme for Government.
Agreed: The Committee agreed to request a briefing from the Department on DETI's Economic Strategy and Action Plan at the meeting on 19 January when the draft Programme for Government is being discussed.
9. Chairperson's Business
Agreed: The Committee agreed to schedule a short briefing from the Newry – Portadown branch of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland on 19 January 2012.
The Committee noted that the Joint Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture, and the Gaeltacht of the Oireachtas has requested an informal meeting with the Members of the CAL Committee to discuss matters of mutual interest on Thursday 26 January 2012 at approx. 4.30pm.
Agreed: The Committee agreed to issue a press release on Wednesday 21 December 2011 following Libraries NI's decision on its review of library opening hours.
10. Forward Work Programme
Agreed: The Committee agreed the draft Forward Work Programme for January to March 2012.
11. Any other business
There was no other business.
12. Date and Time of Next Meeting
The next meeting of the Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure will take place on Thursday 12 January 2012 at 10.30am in Room 21, Parliament Buildings.
The Chairperson adjourned the meeting at 12.33pm
Miss Michelle McIlveen MLA
Chairperson, Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure
12 January 2012


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This week on The Square, Stan leaves The Vic after another family row, while Ian worries when Lucy doesn't come home.
Ian is worried as Lucy didn't come home last night, and he confides in Jane about his fears. At the same time, Lucy and Lee wake up at the restaurant after spending the night together. They're soon discovered by Ian, Fatboy and Jane but they make a run for it.
Meanwhile, Lucy and Lauren hold their open day at the Walford Common flats and everything goes well. Lucy isn't pleased when a jealous Max shows up for the event, but she eventually gives into his charms. Soon afterwards, Lee invites Lucy out for a drink and she decides to take a chance on him - but when she eventually arrives at The Vic, she is heartbroken to find Lee kissing Whitney.
Elsewhere, a reporter mistakenly assumes that Ian and Jane are still married. This proves to be a wake-up call for them and they decide to make more effort with their current relationships. Ian apologises to Denise for his previous behaviour, while Jane plans an Easter holiday with Masood.
Later in the week, Denise visits Libby in Oxford alone as Ian has cancelled to deal with his family problems. She can't hide her true feelings and decides to end things with Ian. As Denise arrives home, Ian is nowhere to be found and she removes her engagement ring.


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Whoa, Google! TMI! (Transcript)
Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Should you reveal that you learned something very personal about friends after Googling them?
Emily Yoffe: "Oh Google, TMI!"
Farhad Manjoo: I'm Slate's technology columnist, Farhad Manjoo.
Emily: I'm Emily Yoffee, Slate's Dear Prudence advice columnist, and this is Manners for the Digital Age.
Farhad: Today's question is from a listener who wonders if she should tell a colleague that a quick search on the Internet yields some very personal information about them. The listener writes, "Dear Emily and Farhad, a couple times in the last year I've found out things about people that I never really wanted to know. In both cases, I Googled someone's name to find their phone number, and instead discovered very revealing and sad things. My question for you is when is it appropriate to reveal that you know this stuff? I'm clearly not going to mention to my real estate agent that I saw on the Internet that she cheated on her husband. But does she know that it comes up as the first search result? Should she be told that? And then, do I give condolences to the colleague whose son was killed? I wish I knew none of this." Signed, Scarred by Google.
Okay Emily, have you ever discovered something about someone on the Internet that you wish you never knew, and what do you do about it?
Emily: Well, I do have a friend who actually sent me to the Internet who said, "Oh, do you know if you Google my name, the first thing is some bizarre site a guy who has become an enemy of mine created, and it's all about how I'm a pervert?" So, sure enough, I went and found it, but she knows all about it. So before we go and answer these questions, I have a question for you Farhad.
Farhad: Yes.
Emily: You've looked in to these reputation, defender, corrector sites. Do they work? Can you get this fixed if the first thing that comes up is some horribly embarrassing information?
Farhad: From what I can tell, they may work for some people. It depends on how common your name is, it depends on various other factors about the content that you're trying to eradicate. What they can't do is pull down that information, but one of the things they try to do is put more information up about you, try to help you make your blog more prominent to sort of change the ranking. And then they alert you to any new stuff that might come up on the Internet about you. But, I think it totally depends on the case, whether it works or not.
Emily: Well, in response to this letter, I think if there was ever a situation that calls for a case-by-case handling, it's this. The technology is presenting you with information, but then you have to decide, in each case, whether this is something you in fact should acknowledge somehow you missed that a colleague's child was killed. Well, that's something you would want to express your condolences about.
On the other hand, if you're finding something that happened years ago and this has never been mentioned to you, well then, you wouldn't know. So, I think context is everything here on the personal stuff. You really can't go wrong by pretending Google doesn't exist if you come across these things.
However, the real estate agent… I might be inclined at the end of the whole relationship when you've bought the house or you haven't bought the house to say, "Diane, you need to Google your name and see what comes up first. I think you want to know."
Farhad: Yeah. Although, I bet Diane knows. Especially if you're in a business like real estate where you might get a lot of your business from the Internet – I assume that Diane has done this search about herself and must know what comes up.
Emily: Well then, she needs to try to do something about it, because there are a lot of real estate agents out there and there's just something kind of creepy if not "number one sales agent in the region" but "I've had 24 boyfriends" comes up.


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Saturday Sep 08 2012
Rocklin prevails in defensive Quarry Bowl to claim granite trophy
By: Jim Linsdau Placer Herald Sports Editor
Single touchdown decides contest
With Whitney High coming into Rocklin Stadium at 2-0 Friday night, and scoring nearly 50 points a game it appeared the Quarry Bowl might be lightning in a bottle, but it turned out to be Thunder Road. Adding to Rocklin's offensive troubles, starting quarterback Daniel Kniffin separated his shoulder in last week's game and is out until probably mid-season. Kniffin had been a huge part of what little offense Rocklin had. But backup quarterback Logan Webb would come through in a big way to help give his club a 6-0 victory over the Wildcats. "He did a great job," Thunder head coach Greg Benzel said. Rocklin's winning score came on a 17-yard Webb to Spencer Gregg pass. Webb also picked up a huge first down in the fourth quarter that virtually sealed Whitney's fate. On a fourth-and-two from the Thunder's 25-yard line, Webb made good on his word that he could make the first down. Benzel said the coaches had already made the decision to punt when Webb assured Benzel he could do it. "The momentum and mental part of the game is huge," Benzel said of that crucial first down. "It was a big momentum shift. They were stopping our run game and as soon as we get that first down, whoosh, the winds out and now we come all the way down into our red zone. Rocklin went on a sustained drive to the Wildcats' 10-yard line. They would miss a field goal from there, but at that point the defense put their final stamp of dominance on the game with just over 2 minutes remaining in the game. "We're not a first half team, we're not a second half team," said senior defensive lineman Sam Woods. "We're 48 minutes. That's just our defense; we never stop." In the third quarter, Whitney appeared they would swing the momentum their way pinning the Thunder deep in their territory. Twice they penetrated inside Rocklin's 15-yard line only to be denied a score. Wildcats head coach Michael Gimenez said on hindsight he could have gone for field goals, but the 'Cats felt they were destined to score touchdowns. The Rocklin defense rose up for five sacks on Whitney quarterback Drew Romo, keeping him from breaking things open. Romo was 8-for-23 for 102 yards. However, in the second half he connected on only three aerials. Both clubs hammered the lines with strong running attacks, but the longest run of the night was 18 yards by the Wildcats' Sutter Choisser. He also received the Quarry Bowl sportsmanship trophy for 2012. Rocklin senior running back returned to the lineup and made up for his absence by carrying the ball 24 times. He gained 67 yards on the night, Choisser 66 on 15 totes. Whitney hosts 2-0 Christian Brothers next week. The Falcons were scheduled to play McClatchy Saturday. The Thunder, finally on the winning side of the ledger, travel to Del Campo. Also at 1-2, the Cougars were defeated by Elk Grove Friday, 20-16. Rocklin 6, Whitney 0 Wildcats 0 0 0 0 – 0 Thunder 0 6 0 0 – 6 2nd Quarter Webb 17 pass to Spencer Gregg (kick failed) TEAM LEADERS PASSING _ Whitney, Drew Romo 8-23-102. Rocklin, Logan Webb 5-11-97, TD. RUSHING – Whitney, Sutter Choiser 15-66. Rocklin, Raymon Kendall 24-67. RECEIVING – Whitney, Cody Moffitt 3-45. Rocklin, Spencer Gregg, 2-48, TD. Penalties – Whitney 6-55. Rocklin 6-63 (one player ejection). First Downs – Whitney 13. Rocklin 11. Team Totals - Whitney 187. Rocklin 176.


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Each week we meet via Twitter for #IOLchat to discuss current issues related to online learning. Participants include students, instructors, advisors, counselors, eLearning companies, schools, publishers, and instructional designers.
How can online students overcome the potential isolation of learning at a distance? Many students are finding ways to meet with each other, as well as connect with professionals in their fields, both on- and off-line. This week we talked about mentorship roles and resources for finding guidance. Here's a summary of the discussion:
What should online students look for in a mentoring relationship?
- Encouragement "through email, feedback, etc."
- "Connecting students to resources they need: counseling, online tutoring, textbooks, career advising, etc."
- Informal options "can just be through example and leadership."
- Accountability – "students in online programs can feel detached from the university."
- Mentorship can provide the "extra push" to use existing resources and to complete their academic work.
- "You have to seek out mentors, people that are doing what you want or aspire to do."
Benefits and Challenges of Mentoring
- "Especially in virtual settings, just having a real person for support that cares about your entire education is invaluable."
- Mentoring tasks and roles could play a huge role in improving student success rates – instructors "may not see that students are behind until it's too late," especially in accelerated online classes and programs.
- "Finding good mentors has been hard … finding people that you want to be like and observing/emulating has been good."
- Matching mentors with mentees can present multiple challenges – including recruiting.
Who does (and could) mentor online students?
- Formal programs, like the one in place at Western Governors University, can positively impact student retention.
- Guidance counselors in some environments, including K-12, may take on the role as similar to that of a college advisor.
- "Instructors have limited time to be mentors. Easier if trained mentors take on advising, etc."
- Mentors can "fill a gap in student services" but it's often an additional duty for instructors and other personnel such as academic advisors.
- "Current and past [online] students could 'work' as mentors to reduce their tuition costs, much like residence assistants, tutors, [and teaching assistants] at traditional colleges." Online student clubs are also finding success, providing peer mentors to new students.
- "Instructors shouldn't mentor; they should teach. Mentors should be dedicated to looking at whole picture of student's career path."
- Retirees, and retired alumni, may be untapped resources of potential mentors. They could support students in their academic goals, as well as provide career and professional networking guidance.
- Programs like Persistence Plus and StudentMentor.org provide some alternatives outside of their schools.
- It may be helpful to explore existing resources before developing new programs and initiatives.
What kinds of support do mentors need?
- "Freeing up instructors through technology, teaching assistants, and course support gives extra time for them to take on a mentoring role."
- "It could be useful to create a training program or mini-course similar to student orientations," which includes how to identify at-risk behaviors.
Thanks to @AchieveVirtual, @jshamsy, @MandyZatynski, @ifrank, and @TcWhite1, for participating in the live event!
For more from the most recent live session, review the chat feed below. Our past chats can be found on the archives page.
Follow us (@OC_org) and plan to attend our next chat. We meet on Wednesdays at 12pm ET and look forward to hearing your perspective.
This week's read-aheads:
Best Practices in Mentoring Online Students [presentation] from Western Governors University, Sloan Consortium Conference
Developing Online Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Programs for Distance Degree Programs [PDF] from Park University, TCC Conference
Calling for Success: Online Retention Rates Get Boost from Personal Outreach, from Mandy Zatynski, EducationSector
Staying the (Online) Course from Inside Online Learning, OnlineCollege.org
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Hey guys. My dad got his Bridgestone Kabuki Submariner in about 1968, 1969. Over the past 5 years I have been using it, and somewhat heavily lately. Over the years the bike has gotten fairly dirty (but not rusty, its stainless steel ), and things just arent as smooth as they used to be. My goal now is too change all the cables, brake pads, and the chain. Take apart the headset and crankset (and also the fork, beacuse I noticed that where the fork goes into the frame it has gotten very dirty) , and clean and grease them. And also clean all the gears, and adjust and fine tune the deraileurs.
My question to you guys is this. I have some light chain oil, will this suffice as as a lube for all the parts? Also what can I use to clean the gears and deraileurs, can i just spay them with WD 40?? One more thing, I have never taken a chain off a bike, whats the proper way to do it, and what tools are required?
Thx a lot, and I apologize if this posting is not the most grammatically piece of literature on the forums.


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