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This is a response to the 2002 UK Cabinet Office consultation entitled "In the service of democracy"
We are concerned that the separation of the policy into the two issues inevitably means possibilities for direct democracy are overlooked.
Broadening participation is a laudable aim which we wholeheartedly support. We are, however, deeply concerned that ICTs will make participation easier for those who already are disproportionately represented in participation, while doing little to make participation easier for the bulk of the population. It appears to us that if ICTs have a role in enabling participation, iDTV will have a crucial part to play, and that materials should be designed with iDTV presentation as the expected norm. The style and language of consultations should assume a much lower reading age than is currently normally required, with non-written presentation (video, graphical and audio) being a technique frequently used.
Thinking in terms of the Internet, in the way the consultation does, risks the design of materials that are most suitable for presentation on PCs or printing on home- or office-printers. Such materials are much less likely to take a style and use language in a way that enables broader participation.
The Internet offers very few advantages in broadening participation over traditional methods of consultation: Internet access is disproportionately skewed to the wealthier who are also those most able to make use of traditional consultation methods. Since travel is rarely required by traditional methods of consultation, beyond getting letters to a post box, people with "disabilities that make travel difficult" are hardly likely to find the process significantly easier to access than previously.
While it is logically possible that "Online channels may also enable participation from people who face social or economic exclusion", a system designed around the use of the Internet is most unlikely to do so. While there are an increasing number of public access terminals in public libraries and similar locations, the degree of convenience of such terminals is easy to over-state. A relatively small proportion of the population makes use of the venues where the terminals are located, and many again, will be those who are not socially or economically excluded. Parents with childcare responsibilities are relatively unlikely to have the time available to read documents and make anything other than superficial responses, except possibly in the evenings after children have gone to bed, by which time such facilities are likely to be closed.
It is true that "young people are … among those most likely to be competent in ICT". The mere use of ICT does not, however, make politics relevant to young people. Methods for making politics relevant to young people that are more likely to prove fruitful include:
giving young people a chance to vote for an MP within a few weeks of turning 18, by having a national bye-election for all those newly qualified to vote every few weeks
changes to the presentation of politics
changes to the media that young people view and listen to.
Deepening participation requires that those involved in participation exercises have a well-founded belief that policies might be changed as a result of the consultation, that they are not mere window-dressing prior to the pursuit of policies that have already been decided on, and that policies that were rejected by the consultation will not be re-introduced within a few years if they are still favoured by the Government despite the rejection in consultation.
If, and only if, participants have such a well-founded belief, the sorts of interaction described might be appropriate.
Given the Government policy of conversion to digital TV within the next ten years or so, we believe the Government's strategy should be based around iDTV, which could give access to the vast majority of families within the home, rather than enabling watered-down access to PCs in UK Online centres which will not necessarily be available when people have free time, or be in a location they can get to when they have free time.
We firmly welcome the interest in the inclusion of people whose first language is not English or who are functionally illiterate. We would recommend that it is extended to include questions about the inclusion of those with low reading ages within consultation processes. It is, however, paradoxical that a report on how to broaden inclusion in consultation is not included within the consultation proper, but will only be available after the consultation has finished.
In our opinion, the restrictions on the availability of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are broadly appropriate, although we are concerned that in some circumstances greater openness than is required by FoI Act 2000 would be appropriate.
We wholeheartedly support the proposal that "an electronic voting system should be established only when it has been shown that it is at least as secure as existing electoral practice". We are, however, deeply concerned that an incorrect judgement may be made, and about the consequences of such an incorrect judgement.
We also are deeply concerned about the proposal that "The security of online voting will be … demonstrated through extensive piloting", since the security threats associated with extensive use in a General Election are out of all proportion to the threats associated with pilots in which the political composition of the Government is not in question. While extensive piloting is appropriate, it is logically impossible for such piloting to demonstrate the security of online voting.
It is, entirely appropriate, in our opinion for the Government to provide an online forum for debate and deliberation. It appears to us that such provision would be an essential ingredient of a healthy democracy in the information age. While we do not consider it to be essential that such a forum is provided by Central Government, few other bodies have the inclination and resources to provide such a forum with an adequate level of trained moderation.
An e-democracy charter may be appropriate to help encourage trust in deliberative participation. In our opinion such a charter is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether electronic voting can, or should, be trusted.
We welcome the proposal for there to be principles related to openness/privacy, responsiveness and deliberation/moderation, but would urge that equality is given prominence as a fourth principle.
The principle of equality should ensure that the views of people who are less computer literate, less fluent in English, or have more difficult, or less, or no effective access to information and communications technologies, carry as much weight as the views of those with easy access and high levels of computer and English literacy. It is crucial in this that the relative importance given to the opinions of business lobbies as against the views of the general public is reduced. In our opinion, business lobbies can usefully help shape the detail of legislation, regulation and Government policies, but should not be allowed to shape the overall direction of policies (either directly or by the combined effect of apparently reasonable influence over very many details).
We fear that unless a conscious effort is made, moving deliberative participation into the electronic sphere will increase, rather than reduce, inequality, since effective access to relevant technologies is correlated with other inequalities.
In our opinion the measure of the success of an e-democracy policy would be the extent to which views that are currently marginalised are heard. This might include the views of young people, but care should be taken to ensure that the views of marginalised people over 30 are not drowned out by the views of young people from otherwise well-represented backgrounds that are newly encouraged to participate.
As outlined in our report to the Government (Fairweather and Rogerson, 2002), we do not believe it is either necessary or desirable for remote voting to be coupled with a national database of voters and central counting facilities. We believe the security risks involved would be excessive, while the data transmitted to the voter to enable them to vote (through a poll card or equivalent) could include data to enable them to contact the correct local database and counting facility to cast their vote, even if they were outside the locality of that facility when casting their vote.
We concur with the CESG (2002) conclusion that "there is currently no way of implementing feasible authentication mechanisms" for online registration, and we cannot foresee a method of implementation for the foreseeable future.
We do not believe that there is any method available for suitably secure text (SMS) voting that meets the other requirements of voting systems. While the CESG (2002) proposal appears to have the potential for being suitably secure in many ways, its reliance on response IDs that voters should check makes it excessively open to coercion of voters and vote selling.
We also concur with Schneier's view that "A secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers."
We do not believe that any reduction in the number of polling stations can be justified until long after 2006, since no matter how simple an electronic voting technique is devised, a significant proportion of voters will wish to use traditional polling stations for the foreseeable future, since a significant proportion of the electorate is technology-averse (these will be disproportionately elderly voters). As computer consultant Robert Logan puts it (2002) " there is an enormous fear of technology in the part of the population that has no qualms about voting - the over 50s really do not trust technology in the same way as the young." If a smaller-than-usual number of physical polling stations is provided, the distances such voters will have to travel to get to these polling stations will be increased, and this can be expected to have an adverse effect on turnout, especially since elderly voters are disproportionately likely to vote at present, and are also disproportionately likely to have mobility difficulties. Even if it does not affect turnout, any such reduction in the number of polling stations will constitute discrimination against voters with disabilities who are unable to use the electronic voting techniques and against voters who are technology-averse.
It is particularly gladdening to see recognition of the checks and balances of our current voting system, and that equivalent checks and balances will have to be designed into any electronic voting system. We are deeply concerned that the electronic voting pilots that have taken place thus far have not had equivalent checks and balances, and have been characterised by secrecy about software and about other aspects of the technology. We look forward to this situation being rectified.
The CESG report (2002) mentions a number of essential security requirements (at paragraph 95) that appear to have no equivalent in the security requirements at 4.2.1. In particular we are concerned about the lack of consideration of issues surrounding accurate counting of votes, of personnel integrity and of system disclosability (which is essential to provide the checks and balances mentioned in 4.2). Overall, we are concerned and surprised that there is no mention of meeting BS7799.
We welcome the recognition that matching individual identities with votes is labour intensive under present arrangements, and that being labour intensive provides an essential degree of protection
We note with alarm that the Electoral Commission (2002) concluded about the 2002 pilots that "The primary aim of the e-pilots was to establish the security and reliability of the voting mechanisms and to start to build public confidence; this was achieved."
We concur with Lorrie Cranor of AT&T research laboratories (2002) that "The fact that there were no security problems in a pilot demonstrates nothing. There was not enough incentive for anyone to bother making the effort to break the security".
We are also aware that most of the electronic voting pilots either used Internet Explorer, or enabled its use by Internet voters. As computer consultant Joe Otten of Datator Ltd explains (2002), this is deeply problematic, since Internet Explorer "is designed to be extendable, and therefore to welcome malware with open arms. It is not a question of security oversights that can be fixed."
Similarly, reports of the pilots claimed that security was ensured by password/pin combinations of about 19 digits yet according to Peter Neumann of SRI International, and moderator of the ACM's 'Forum On Risks To The Public' (2002) "Such authentication is more or less irrelevant if the computer systems are as vulnerable to fraud and misuse as they are today." Even if the underlying systems are made secure, password/pin combinations of about 19 digits without use of alphabetical characters are likely to be insufficient, according to computer security consultant Robert Logan (2002).
Similarly, Otten warns (2002) that telephone and text message voting "introduce risks of systematic attack. For example, a simple device attached to a telephone line could alter the pitch of tones representing numbers pressed on the keypad at critical points to change the meaning of a vote."
Overall we can draw no conclusion other than that the security of the voting mechanisms was not established. We are deeply concerned that future pilots will have more thorough security analysis by people who are competent and inclined to perform such an analysis.
The priority for the new pilot schemes should be the implementation of an electoral system that meets the requirements for equality of access and use, ease of use, prevention of coercion and vote-selling; as well as the requirements identified in the e-Voting Security Study (CESG 2002) for voter authentication, voter anonymity, data confidentiality, data integrity, system accountability, system integrity, system disclosability, system availability, system reliability, personnel integrity and operator authentication and control. In doing so, maintenance of checks and balances is a prime requirement, and no supplier should be used that requires secrecy of sorts that cannot allow such checks and balances. Prioritising particular technical solutions (such as 'online voting') is inappropriate on any basis other than their ability to meet these requirements. If, as we suspect, it is impossible to pilot a system that meets these requirements, priority should be given to systems that have the potential to move towards meeting these requirements, rather than further piloting of proprietary systems for which it will never be possible to achieve the degree of openness required, or systems which cannot be further developed into suitable systems, such as those that use insecure web browsers as an essential element. "Using a proprietary system would deny basic rights within the context of the current voting system - openness and accountability." (Logan, 2002)
2002) e-Voting Security Study online at http://www.edemocracy.gov.uk/library/papers/study.pdf (
Cranor, L.F. (2002) Personal Email, 23 Oct 2002.
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/files/dms/Modernising_elections_6574-6170__E__N__S__W__.pdf (2002) Modernising Elections
Fairweather, N.B. and Rogerson, S (2002) Technical Options Report online at http://www.local-regions.odpm.gov.uk/egov/e-voting/02/index.htm
Logan, R (2002) Personal Email, 31 Oct 2002.
Neumann, P (2002) Personal Email, 23 Oct 2002.
Otten, J (2002) Personal Email, 23 Oct 2002.


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Hardenberg, A. v. and Gonzalez-Voyer, A. (2013), DISENTANGLING EVOLUTIONARY CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHYLOGENETIC CONFIRMATORY PATH ANALYSIS. Evolution, 67: 378–387. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01790.x
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Confirmatory path analysis is a statistical technique to build models of causal hypotheses among variables and test if the data conform with the causal model. However, classical path analysis techniques ignore the nonindependence of observations due to phylogenetic relatedness among species, possibly leading to spurious results. Here, we present a simple method to perform phylogenetic confirmatory path analysis (PPA). We analyzed simulated datasets with varying amounts of phylogenetic signal in the data and a known underlying causal structure linking the traits to estimate Type I error and power. Results show that Type I error for PPA appeared to be slightly anticonservative (range: 0.047–0.072) but path analysis models ignoring phylogenetic signal resulted in much higher Type I error rates, which were positively related to the amount of phylogenetic signal (range: 0.051 for λ= 0 to 0.916 for λ= 1). Further, the power of the test was not compromised when accounting for phylogeny. As an example of the application of PPA, we revisit a study on the correlates of aggressive broodmate competition across seven avian families. The use of PPA allowed us to gain greater insight into the plausible causal paths linking species traits to aggressive broodmate competition.


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This has two parts.
The first part is that assuming the axiom of choice holds, one can prove that there is a set of $\aleph_1$ many real numbers. This is not the same as saying that the real numbers themselves have size $\aleph_1$. This assertion itself is unprovable from the usual axioms of set theory and known as the Continuum Hypothesis.
On the other hand, if one is willing to drop the axiom of choice then it is conistent that there are no subset of the real numbers which has size $\aleph_1$. Namely, not only the real numbers are not of size $\aleph_1$, but there is no subset of them which has this property. It follows that the real numbers cannot be well-ordered in such model, which makes them quite peculiar as a set.
However, regardless to the assumptions about the exact size of the continuum or the axiom of choice, Cantor's theorem (which is provable without the axiom of choice) tells us that the real numbers are always uncountable.
As for the "proof" linked, there is no place where the assertion $n(B)=\aleph_1$ is explained. Instead this is just taken as an assumption, which makes the question circular -- you assume the conclusion you wish to derive.
What is true is that if $|\mathbb N\times(0,1)|=|\mathbb R|$.
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There are a few "correctable" errors that aren't really important, but there is only one fatal error: you are working from the unjustified assumption that $n([0,1]) = \aleph_1$.
Since you are writing this in the first place, clearly you know it is not known (in fact not decidable) whether $n(\mathbb{R}) = \aleph_1$. But it appears you don't realize it is also not known whether $n([0,1]) = \aleph_1$ or whether $n(\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N})) = \aleph_1$. In fact, as you have rediscovered in two different ways, these three sets are all the same cardinality, so the questions are equivalent.
In general, if you want to prove a specific set has cardinality $\aleph_1$, you have your work cut out for you. The most generally-referenced set that definitely has cardinality $\aleph_1$ is the set of countable ordinal numbers (though this is kind of a cop-out since by most definitions that set is $\aleph_1$). In fact, offhand I can't think of a way to construct a set with cardinality $\aleph_1$, without referring back to $\aleph_1$ as part of the construction. So probably the only proof strategy available is to demonstrate existence of a well-order on your set with order type $\omega_1$.


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ASHWAUBENON, Wis. — It was another case of Wisconsin-Superior postseason magic.
Down 3-2 after two periods to a team that hadn't lost this season in such a situation, the defending national champion Yellowjackets rallied for four third-period goals in a 6-3 victory over Wisconsin-River Falls in the semifinals of the NCHA Peters Cup Championship on Friday at the Cornerstone Community Ice Center.
Beau Moyer evened things at 3 and sophomore forward Randall Smisko broke the tie with his second goal of the game for Superior, which will play St. Norbert on Saturday night for its fourth straight NCHA playoff title.
River Falls was 18-0 when leading after two periods entering the game. Its loss was the first for the NCHA's final four teams this season in that situation — they're now 65-1.
Ryan Kalbrener scored with 3 minutes, 15 seconds left and Reed Larson added the final blow for Superior (21-5-2), which is unbeaten in its last 13 playoff games (11-0-2), with an empty-net goal with 56.7 seconds left.
"We didn't want to go in there and raise our voice [after the second period]," said third-year Superior coach Dan Stauber, who is 18-1-3 in the postseason. "It was a good game at that point. … We just wanted to stick with our game plan and keep working hard in keeping the puck down low. And that's what we did."
River Falls (22-5-1) fell to 0-6 at the Cornerstone. Any hope the Falcons have of an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament is predicated on a win in Saturday's third-place game against Stevens Point.
"We ran out of gas, it seemed to me a little bit," River Falls coach Steve Freeman said. "They just came at us and we were on our heels. Halfway through that game, we had so many good chances — open nets, hit the post and all that kind of stuff — and could have blown the game open. We didn't, and those things come back to haunt you."
Moyer's tying goal came at 6:30 of the third period. Just past the halfway point of the period, Smisko tapped in a Kyle Nosan wraparound pass. The officials discussed the play with the goal judge before awarding Superior the goal.
The teams traded goals in the first two periods, with River Falls grabbing a one-goal lead three times. Aaron Degerness, Jamie Steinert and Matt Elsen gave the Falcons 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 leads, respectively.
Superior's first two answers were on the power play. Smisko scored on UWS' first power-play chance, and Chris Hackett scored on the second.
Nathan Ziemski made 18 saves for Superior. Jacque Vezina stopped 21 shots for River Falls.
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I sold my SMEV/10 last month after living with it for over a year. Great sound, great look, faultless operation and exemplary speed stability. But I always had the nagging doubt that it wasn't quite as lively and projected I wanted. Having used my BENZ LP in another deck previously I knew it wasn't delivering all that it could so I wanted to try another deck that would let it cast off its shackles and give it free reign to dig up the dynamic and projection that i knew it to be capable of delivering. I know the SME's are judged to be the pinnacle of neutrality but as we all know one mans neutral is another mans dull, and for me the combo just verged on the edge of bland, i just wanted a little more- impact.
I trawled around the various forums and dealers seeing what was available and highly regarded by those who's opinions I hold in high regard, punters with a good set of ears who have settled on a system and enjoyed it 'intacto' for years or cautiously work through the upgrade ladder in search of perfection. Suggestions came thick and fast and I weighed them all up, considered the pros and cons- and then ignored them and bought the deck and tonearm that best matched the colour of my cartridge and made me feel like I had a 12" dick. It's not like we buy hifi to please our friends right?
I was fortunate enough that the importer, Branko at Audiofreaks, actually had part of what I wanted already in stock in his demo list, the rest was ordered directly from the manufacturer. I had my DPD delivery notification in my inbox on Thursday and I've been tracking the item ever since. Sophia, Munich, Oldbury, North Sheffield and today landing on my door step around noon. A massive bloody box containing my new deck to go along with my arm, a Kuzma Stabi S long-wheelbase in black to match the Stogi S 12".
There's a fair bit of unpacking to do with the deck and the boxes are bloody massive, no doubt they ship the XL in the same box. For reference that is an 82mm lens cap on that box, I could hide in there.
What's inside, more boxes of course.
With the box open it's time to get the parts out. First up is the solid brass T-Bar that constitutes the main frame.
You wouldn't want to drop this hunk of metal.
In the middle you can see the main bearing housing which is of an impregnated Tufnel construction with a slightly domed thrust plate and oil bath at the bottom. You fill this up pretty much to the top and it vents excess via a small blow hole at the top.
Next out of the box is the sub-platter.
A drop of oil on the point and in it slips into the bearing.. I wait for it to settle down and a single bubble of oil escapes through the vent hole- perfectly filled with no overspill. Result.
The finish quality of the alloy machining is excellent, every bit as good as the SME that it has replaced and improved upon.
Sadly these pictures do not do the machining justice the finish is so flat.
Once in place and settled I quickly position the motor and spin the sub-platter up just to get a rough handle on the motor pod location before I fit the arm.
I've only got the standard motor kit at the minute and as you can see it's just a simple AC motor with no fancy power supply, in fact it's just a simple capacitor phasing supply, it couldn't be any simpler. it's pretty damn stable though with just the slightest hint of kickback every now and again. A first rate effort for such a simple supply which points to careful motor selection and grading at the factory- or maybe just my blind luck in getting a goodun. I already have a DC motor supply built up I'm just deciding on whether to try the Kuzma Digital Ac supply before spunking a coupe of hundred quid on Maxon's best. Decisions, decisions, I'll have to measure this unit first and hand the sample off to Paulr on PFM to demodulate the speed. (Honestly if you can rip a sample from a test record do it, this will tell you more about your deck than you'll ever learn any other way).
Next out of the box comes the tonearm, a 12" slice of manhood .
And of course some accessories for this behemoth. Quite a decent manual, 12" alignment protractor and the mounting template, (for the 9" version- numpties).
Here's the arm fitted, but not yet set up in any parameter. Obviously i was joking about the 12" dick bit, but I was deadly serious about the colour of the cart and the deck and arm, what's the point in having a deck that looks like it was thrown together by a colourblind idiot. (Ortofon Samba users take note, you know who you are!)
I should mention at this point that Mark, (Ynwoan ) has been dutifully helping me extract the parts from boxes and provide an additional steady hand and straight pair of eyes for sanity checking my rash set-up choices. There's something quite worrying about the way the 12" cranes out towards you begging you to write of the cantilever with the merest brush of fluffy jumper sleeve.
If ever there was an arm and cart combo that needed a stylus guard it's this one. it just hangs out there so blatantly.
As mentioned earlier the build quality is something to behold, the metal work makes all rega arms bar the polished RB1000 like quite agricultural. it exudes an air of purposeful solidity from front to back. It's the little details that make it. The headshell machined from solid and butt welded to the arm tube, not pinned. The bias weight is attached directly to the body of the tonearm with its actuation centre being exactly in line with the point of the unipivot.
Graphic details are laser etched into the metal, eroding the hard anodised finish on the arm rather than simply screening or sticking less permanent graphics in place.
The tonearm wire is Cardas best, double screened with foil and braid in the external wire and terminated with a pair of Eichmann Tellurium Copper bullet plugs.
Of course none of this matters if it doesn't sound any good and fortunately as far as i'm concerned it sounds very good indeed. While it might not yet have the absolute rock solid speed stability afforded by the 3-pahse digital PLL supply used in my SME it's as good as any simple AC motor supply I've experienced and considerably better than provided by many suspended decks.
Bass is full and nuanced with detail that reaches down deep enough to match what i hear from my MAC-DAC front end yet provides greater air and space around performers in the way that great vinyl can. Tracing error seems to be greatly reduced. I have a couple of albums where the tracks extend well past the inner null position yet they replay without the expected additional sizzle.
What i really like about it though are the colours. I always found the SME V to be entirely reliable and neutral, but for me that verged on grey and tonally bleached, it just wasn't vibrant enough, it lacked a little sparkle and always erred on the side of dynamic restraint. The new 12" Kuzma Stabi S/Stogi S combo is by comparison a 1970's Panini football sticker album, compared to the SME's sterile newspaper shades of grey. Maybe there's a touch too much colour for it to be perfectly faithful to the source, but that's ok I want a touch of added drama and excitement and so far the Kuzma has me delving into my collection for record after record across all genres. It's good to have found my vinyl groove again.


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Suppose $p(x)\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$. How can we show that the function $b\to$ the least non-negative integer root of $p(x) - b$ is computable (if there is no such root, then the function is undefined)?
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Playwright Jake Jeppson pushes his new theatrical piece "The Clearing" close to the edge several times over the course of the work's intermissionless 100 minutes, reducing the play's credibility and making it virtually impossible to feel much sympathy for the family that lies its odd, tormented center.
It's clear that the playwright, a graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, is attempting to present a broad-based family saga in which secrets from the past threaten to jeopardize relationships in the present. On the surface, at least, "The Clearing" does offer some initial promise, but as we gradually get to know the characters a little better, some contentious plot holes begin to develop that aggravate the patience of some of the more literal-minded members of the audience.
Now playing at the Theatre at St. Clements in New York City through February 9, the plot unravels at first in reverse order, beginning at what the erstwhile narrator, Peter, refers to as "yesterday" and extends back almost a year before settling down to "today." Jeppson handles this format quite handily and, as a result, the story is quite easy to follow as many of our questions get answered as the scenes move back in time. Is it absolutely necessary for Jeppson to present his play in this manner? If presented in standard chronological order, the play would probably lack the suspense that is created by leaving the audience in the dark regarding certain situations. Otherwise, this gimmick doesn't seem justified by what subsequently happens in the play, unlike say the situation in Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" in which the reverse chronology heightens the irony within the romantic triangle at its core and sheds growing light on the relationship between the characters.
Now that we're on the subject, Jeppson's title is justifiably filled with irony. Yes, "The Clearing" does refer to an actual clearing in the woods that functions as the basic set for the play, but there's nothing clear at all about what is happening there nor have the characters been clear about what happened there some 20 years ago. Even in Daniel Zimmerman's very fine set design, the clearing atop a mountain in the woods is not what keeps drawing one's attention during the play. Instead, there's a cliff overlooking a deep gorge toward the back of the stage that offers several plays' worth of foreshadowing, along with some humor as the characters play with echoes and postulate graphically about what would happen in a person's mind should they find themselves falling from the promontory.
Jeppson has indeed adapted Anton Chekhov's admonition that if you introduce a gun early in your play it better go off by the end. In this case, it's obviously the cliff and the playwright fulfills our worst expectations.
His plot focuses on the two Ellis brother, both in their late twenties. We meet them first at the titular clearing trying to see who can throw a stone the furthest over the gorge. Their game immediately takes on ominous overtones, with one suggesting that the loser must jump from the aforementioned cliff, and other suggesting that the loser would need to tell their mother, a prospect that clearly terrifies both. Brian McManamon plays the younger brother Les as intelligent and well-spoken, yet simultaneously mousy, quiet and taciturn. Brian P. Murphy imbues older brother Chris with a sense of menace that he attempts to disguise with jocularity. As Murphy makes clear, Chris is suffering from some form of arrested development as well as being haunted by a significant, horrifying event that occurred a number of years ago, which also impacted his brother as well.
In Allison Daugherty's very brave performance, mother Ella comes across as a mournful widow who has made reluctant peace with her situation. She misses having her sons around on a regular basis and wishes they would keep in contact more frequently. She clings to personal traditions such as cooking and church, but is nonetheless very open minded about Les's new boyfriend, Peter, a freelance photographer played by Gene Gallerano, with whom she develops a close friendship. In fact, Peter eventually literally coaxes Ella out of her personal shell to pose for a series of revealing photographs, which tends to dispel at least for the audience her two sons' evaluation of her personality.
And that's where some of the more egregious plot holes come into play. Ella is not the basket case that her sons want to protect nor does she seem to be the fool who would handle an incident involving the mysteriously-referenced Daniel the way she did twenty-some odd years ago. It also strains credibility to imagine that the brothers could hide a secret for that length of time, or even to make the decision to do so, despite the fact that they were children. One can spot some of the plot developments that Jeppson has had to employ in order to accommodate his desired denouement. Making Peter a photographer, for example, assures that the character values vistas over potential obstacles, and providing Chris with an off-stage former girlfriend further undergirds the older sibling's instability.
In the end, it's hard to believe that Les would so easily revert to an easy banter with his brother or allow Chris to remain behind with his mother. There are too many portents for someone supposedly as intelligent and caring as Les to simply ignore. Whether it was the playwright's intent or not, it's hard not to suspect that the revelation about the life-changing incident didn't exactly happen as ultimately described, that there wasn't some more active participation by one of the brothers. The playwright also seemingly wants us to be moved by the last scene which represents some sort of breakthrough between two of the characters, but since Jeppson has pulled the rug out from under the audience's sympathies by that point, that scene is more aggravating than merely disappointing. He leaves us dangling with a most horrible taste in our mouths.
The production has been directed with obvious care and respect by Josh Hecht, who has strived to keep the action as realistic as possible. He's obtained high quality performances from his cast and assured that the various characterizations continue to build despite the odd chronology of the work. In particular, he's helped Gallerano's Peter to particularly register with the audience and has allowed the audience to access Peter's emotions, something that the plot prevents happening with most of the other characters. Hecht manages to maintain a momentum even during the many location changes, accomplished by quick blackouts and the sometime difficult movement of on-stage props.
Lighting designer Gertjan Houben certainly got a work out preparing for this production, as changes in lighting are used to cue changes in location as well as depict the clearing at various times of day and night. Sam Kusnetz has provided an original score which helps cover up some of the awkward scene changes in which cast members and tech crew rearrange logs and chairs to accommodate various locations out of doors and within the Ellis household. His sound design also neatly captures the faint sounds of the forest, including the distant thud of landing rocks.
As "The Clearing" headed toward its unrewarding end, I abruptly thought of Ira Levin's play "Veronica's Room" in which some characters enact a horrifying, alienating bit of business not long before the final scene. That action had the unnerving effect of throwing off the audience, who were then left with only the ingenuity of Levin's plotting to admire, despite its dark and shocking intentions. Unfortunately, Jeppson's plotting is more transparent and not completely credible. What Jeppson does offer is a talent for creating some interesting characters, as demonstrated by the interactions between Les and Peter, the latter who remains the only truly sympathetic character by the end.
For information and tickets, visit the show's website at www.TheClearingPlayNYC.com. The box office at the Theatre at St. Clements, 423 W.46th Street, in Manhattan, is only open one hour before curtain times, which are Tuesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.
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By JAMES EIKStaff Reporter
March 7, 2013 | Vol. 116 -- No. 46
City streets in Airway Heights could see some improvement if a Transportation Benefit District is approved by the City Council.
The first of two public hearings was held at the Monday, March 4, City Council meeting where public works director Kelly Williquette outlined a preliminary plan for the project. After considering all the potential areas for tax revenues, the benefits district would pursue a .2 percent increase in sales tax, which amounts to 2 cents for every $10 spent in city limits.
The other potential areas that could have been visited included property taxes, annual vehicle fees and vehicle tolls. The City Council stated in previous discussions that increasing taxes solely on residents wasn't something to be placed on the table.
Going the sales tax route allows for revenue from those passing through the city to enter into the mix.
"This wouldn't be just Airway Heights residents, but visitors and those who pass through town," Williquette said.
Estimated revenues from an annual vehicle fee, which would have impacted only city residents, would have totaled $45,880. Sales tax revenues, however, which would share the cost between residents and visitors could bring in $276,000 each year.
Airway Heights has 21.2 miles of paved roadway in the city limits, with .59 miles of chip seal roads. Over six years, between 2006 and 2012, Williquette said pavement condition ratings have decreased by an average of 25 percent.
In addition to paved roads, the city also has 6.6 miles of gravel roads, many of which are in poor condition and require more labor hours and materials to maintain.
State laws prohibit revenues collected from items like gas, prescription medication, rent and mortgage transactions.
It costs around $268,000 to build a block of paved roads in Airway Heights.
A second public hearing will take place at the next City Council meeting, Monday, March 18 at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers.
The transportation benefit district requires at least five residents for a citizen advisory committee. Those individuals can help to shape the process along the way. Interested residents can call the public works office at 244-5429 for more information.
Also at the City Council meeting, Jim Wavada from the Department of Ecology's Eastern Regional Office spoke regarding the upcoming expiration of a solid waste disposal contract between the city and Spokane County. The decades-old document is set to end Nov. 17, 2014.
Wavada said Airway Heights, and other jurisdictions in the county, could pursue one of three potential options. The city could provide its own solid waste disposal plan, write a plan to be incorporated with the county's plan or delegate the county the authority to devise a plan on the city's behalf.
"It's probably the most sensible way to go, financially," Wavada said.
Ken Gimpel from Spokane Regional Solid Waste System said the county would be lowering its tipping fee by $9 per ton after assessing some cost-saving measures throughout the organization. The most notable difference would be the decrease of hours at the Northside landfill, which would cut its hours down to one day a week, being open for only half of the day. Gimpel said, however, that the facility wasn't used enough to necessitate operating like a full-time location.
A 30 minute reduction of service time at a Waste to Energy Plant transfer station would also take effect.
The City Council approved a memorandum of agreement with Local 270-A regarding wages and benefits, the third reading of a salary ordinance creating the new Development Services Director position and the second read of an ordinance establishing the union workers' salaries. Votes for each item were 6-1 in favor, with Councilman Doyle Inman dissenting.
Health benefits for the workers increased to $852 per year, paid by the city. Any unused amount at the end of the year would be returned to the city. It also addresses a 3 percent call-back in wages dating back to January of this year and 10 additional hours of vacation.
Mayor Patrick Rushing and City Manager Albert Tripp said their trip to Washington, D.C. was successful, where they met with several Air Force and Congressional representatives. Part of their discussions included the Fairchild Preservation and Community Empowerment project, which seeks to reduce the density in land leading up to the runway of Fairchild Air Force Base.
Rushing said Fairchild lost a couple of points in its bid to receive the KC-46A replacement tanker due to mobile homes in the area. Officials were pleased, he said, to know the city and community were proactive in an attempt to resolve any potential problems.
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It's been a long hiatus from blogging for me, but I'm back! Here, I'll make some excuses:
- I usually take the summer off from blogging, and it just kind of got away from me
- I ended up suffering from a "persistent, intractable migraine" which had me cowering in a dark room for over 3 months, and even in the hospital for 5 days. I'll can now tell you what true misery is like.
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- My current work on a Sun SPOT Application Exchange marketplace -- similar to, but of course way better than -- the Apple iTunes store, right?
- Some new "Stupid Spot Tricks" with some new sensors I've gotten including a soil moisture sensor (which Roger has already blogged about better than I will, but I have a project for it so ... ), some gas-detection sensors, etc.
At least that list is longer than my list of excuses for not blogging. I might even write up the experience of the headaches, since it was an epic journey, but we'll have to see on that one.


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A favorite parlor game for people is what question would you ask your favorite actor, rock star, sex symbol, idol, musician, writer, artist (choose one) if you had the opportunity. Now you can. If you want to ask John Densmore a question he will be on Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) this Thursday, February 20th.
Audience participation was a big thing in the 60's and "Ask Me Anything" makes that a reality. Fans can interact with their favorite celebrities and be part of the show. The way it works is that you can log on to the Reddit site, John will put up a synopsis of who he is and what he's up to and people are free to ask any question they would like. You can vote on questions you would like to see answered, and John is free to pick and choose which questions he will respond to.
I'm sure fans will have a lot to talk to John about from his book "The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy on Trial" to what it was like to be in The Doors, to his producing movies. No subject would seem to be off limits. John Densmore's "Ask Me Anything" session will be February 20, at 6 pm Eastern time, 3 pm Pacific time. So log in and ask John Densmore anything!
For more information please see Reddit's FAQ on "Ask Me Anything." Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman appeared on AMA last June see related articles below.
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The production of Snow White at Lakewood Cultural Center was wonderful, especially for a kid's production. Snow White was put on by a cast of kids of various ages who rehearsed for a week. Although not a professional stage production, the sheer cuteness of the kids in their forest critters costumes make this a fun musical for families to see. Also, the fact that children rehearsed lines, songs, and dances for only a week and then performed an hour long play was incredibly impressive. Most of the performances were spot on, suggesting there might be some future actors in the mix.
The production of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs was put on by the Missoula Children's Theatre and the Lakewood Cultural Center. This production put in a few twists on the classic tale, including characters like Witless the Woodsman and the Backwards King. Then the dwarfs were given various names, including Bob. The magic mirror added a bit of cheeky humor to the mix as well. The music wasn't awe-inspiring, but the humor was fun. This is definitely a fun production for families to choose for an option for Inspire Your Heart with Art Day or just because.