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FORT PIERCE, Fla. — An entomologist recognized internationally as a specialist in biological control of insect pests has been named interim director of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Indian River Research and Education Center.
Ronald Cave will serve as the sixth leader of the Indian River REC.
From the Indian River REC's 1947 start as the Indian River Field Laboratory, it has served agricultural and natural resources interests with research, Extension and education programs.
Cave was appointed to his new position by Jack Payne, UF senior vice president of agriculture and natural resources.
"In this challenging time for the citrus industry and for other agricultural commodities, we cannot afford a leadership gap even for a few months," Payne said. "Ron Cave is the right leader for this transition because of his accomplishments as a scientist, his dedication as a mentor and his familiarity with the center. It's this combination of excellence and stability that makes him an ideal choice for this important role."


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Very nice shot !! that lady is like haha how to get over there from where i am with out the birds all flying after or hitting me haha ! very very well captured ^^ *wags*
E a senhora na foto está com uma cara de espanto impagável. XD belo trabalho.
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this is a great shot! the steps and the railing and the birds lead your eye all around the shot
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Meteorologists, storm chasers and weather enthusiasts gathered in the Heritage Room of the Amarillo Civic Center, 401 S. Buchanan St., Saturday for the 2013 Severe Weather Workshop.
The biennial workshop is a joint presentation by the National Weather Service and the Amarillo/Potter/Randall Office of Emergency Management that is free and open to the public.
Jose Garcia, meteorologist in charge at Amarillo NWS, said the workshop has been offered for close to 20 years. He oversees NWS operations for the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.
"It's part of our educational outreach," Garcia said. "To educate people about the weather about the severity of the weather, the types of severe weather we can have here in the panhandles, and they can actually then take action when we do issue a tornado warning or a severe thunderstorm warning."
The doors opened at 9 a.m. with a booth fair featuring the Coast Guard, Amarillo Fire Department, NWS, Amarillo/Potter/Randall Office of Emergency Management, Don Harrington Discovery Center and Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.
Capt. Jacob Oehlert manned the AFD's table.
"We come out here and set up exhibits and help get people information, stuff they can actually take home with them, and help prepare for the upcoming changes in season," he said.
Maribel Martinez with the Amarillo/Potter/Randall Office of Emergency Management said, "It allows us to get all the different agencies together — the weather service, our office, fire, all our news agencies — and allows us to get information out to the public, so they can prepare for the severe weather season," she said.
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Port Townsend proposal for parks, recreation funding includes tax increases
Attendees at Monday nights Port Townsend City Council meeting include, from left, parents Shelley Randall and Lelah Wright, former Metropolitan Parks District Steering Committee co-chair Kathleen Kler, County Administrator Philip Morley and Commissioner Phil Johnson. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News
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The plan submitted by City Manager David Timmons to the City Council on Monday aims to provide ongoing funding for recreational facilities.
Options for continued funding include the creation of a special purpose parks and facilities district, a 0.02 percent sales tax increase and a 10-cent special purpose levy, all of which would require voter approval.
The plan also asks Jefferson County to fund the $5 million repair of the Mountain View Campus through a bond, which the city cannot do because its bond capacity will not accommodate that amount.
"We've seen this coming for years," Council member Michelle Sandoval said of the recreation funds shortfall.
"We've had packets of information about solutions but we can't seem to get off the dime.
"We can not act, but no action is not leadership and we need to get this done."
One of the components of Timmons' plan is a "dashboard" offering a one-stop online location where recreation providers can list their services and what they cost, giving the public a single source for recreation options.
"The idea of the dashboard is fabulous," said Shelley Randall, a parent who has helped to form Parents (and the Public) Loudly Advocating for Youth, or PLAY, that is also seeking funding solutions.
"Right now, parents need to go to five websites to see what is going on," Randall said.
"We need to have a place where we can pull together, and a little bit of money can go a long way."
Timmons proposes that the programs operate on a fee basis, with funding to provide equal access would come from a county-wide special purpose levy of 10 cents.
That would generate about $450,000 per year so that children who can't afford the services can get them.
The plan aims to both repair Mountain View Commons and fulfill "the long-term commitment to offering a long-term solution for the funding of Parks and Recreation that was made to Jefferson County taxpayers when they passed the Proposition 1 sales tax increase in 2010," according to Timmons' memo in the City Council packet.
The continued funding of parks and recreation has been an issue since the late 1990s.
In 2010, voters approved a sales tax increase of 0.03 percent to support Memorial Field and the Port Townsend Recreation Center — county-owned properties within the city limit.
Port Townsend has a commitment to provide money to those properties, an estimated $240,000 a year. That commitment expires May 2015.
An agreement in February expanded the revenue use of the sales tax hike to include developing a joint city-county metropolitan park district, an idea now not being pursued, and emergency repair of the municipal pool if needed.
The city since has examined now much it will cost to repair the Mountain View Commons, which houses the pool as well as several city services including a police substation and the Jefferson YMCA and Port Townsend Food Bank.
Repairs to the Mountain View Commons will cost an estimated $5 million.
City officials will not enter into a long-term lease with the Port Townsend School District, which owns Mountain View, until the funds for the repairs have been secured.
"We need to fix Mountain View but all these properties are connected," Timmons said.
"We should find a way to deal with all of them together."
If a plan to coordinate funding between the three properties is not developed, city officials would concentrate on Mountain View while the county would be responsible for Memorial Field and the recreation center without city support, Timmons said.
Prior to the passage of Proposition 1, county representatives said the county lacked the money to support the facilities and they would have to close.
Timmons plan requires the county's help in raising the money to repair Mountain View through its bonding availability, resulting in a 20-year commitment of about $370,000.
The city has committed its Proposition 1 funding through 2017 for fire equipment, after that time it would take over responsibility for the debt service for the remainder of the bond period.
Timmons said he is confident that the city can make up the difference between $240,000 and $370,000, but Jefferson County Adminstrator Philip Morley is skeptical that can be achieved.
"We need more information about what funding sources will be used to satisfy the debt service," Morley said.
"If they cannot serve the debt, then it becomes the county's responsibility and we don't have the revenue to support that."
Timmons' plan is to eventually transfer ownership of Memorial Field and the Rec Center to the city, something Morley said the county has proposed several times.
"A lot of these repairs don't need to be done right now," Morley said.
"If the roof comes down at Memorial Field, it will still continue to be used in some fashion," he said.
"If the gymnasium at the Rec center becomes further structurally compromised between now and when we are able to fund repairs, we can simply close the gymnasium," Morley continued.
"These are things that we have some time to solve. It would be lovely to solve them now but we don't have the dollars in hand today to do that."
The matter will be discussed at a meeting today between Morley, Timmons and their respective staffs.
"Since the memo came out, we haven't had any discussions so it's not clear what happens," Morley said.
"We are looking forward to meeting with the city to help them solve the issue, to keep Mountain View going and plan how to find long-term solutions that are practical and responsible for both jurisdictions."
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Wedbush reiterated its Underperform rating on Waste Management (NYSE: WM) but raised its price target from $29 to $30.
Wedbush commented, "We are maintaining our negative stance on shares of Waste Management (WM). Despite well-known headwinds from lower prices expected from the sale of recycled fibers, the benefits from recent headcount reduction and organizational realignment are expected to be partially offset by inflationary costs, suggesting 80-90 bp improvement in 2013 versus 2012. … In the interim, the headwinds from recycled fiber prices, mix of revenues (less franchise and more open market) and capital return projects are more favorable."
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SDCC: Marvel Studios Reveals Latest Phase 3 Secrets
Harley Quinn #0, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner and drawn by more than a dozen artists, arrives today in stores and contains the winning entry from the DC Entertainment Open Talent Search. The page, by Jeremy Roberts, is notable in that it is significantly toned down from the controversial script released in September.
DC came under fire from readers and advocacy groups alike for the original tryout page, which directed artists to depict the fan-favorite character naked in a bathtub, seemingly about to commit suicide, a scene Palmiotti explained was merely a surreal dream sequence.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Psychiatric Association and National Alliance on Mental Illness called the contest "extremely insensitive" and "potentially dangerous," leading the publisher to apologize to anyone who may have been offended by the script while reiterating its intended "cartoony and over-the-top in tone."
The original script described the fourth panel as, "Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are watching the moment before the inevitable death. Her expression is one of 'oh well, guess that's it for me' and she has resigned herself to the moment that is going to happen."
But in the published Harley Quinn #0, the first three panels remain the same — Harley holding onto a cell tower during a thunderstorm, feeding alligators and tickling the roof of a whale's mouth — but the final one has been drastically changed: Instead of contemplating suicide in her bathtub, the character is shown riding a missile, Dr. Strangelove-style, high above the Earth.
Although the tryout script didn't include dialogue, the overall tone of the page seems to lack the "Mad magazine/Looney Tunes approach" Palmiotti said that he and Conner intended.
Harley Quinn #0 is in stores now.
We might offend someone, lets censor ourselves!
Uhm… WHAT? They're against the bath thing, but the other forms of suicide are fine?
They're against /naked/ bath suicide!
I assume the issue with the bathtub is that that is something the average person actually might use to commit suicide. Most don't have alligators or whales around.
Nevermind that–they put an Art Baltazar Tiny Titans page in the comic. I'll buy it just for that.
All that fuss and crap for nothing.
Why does New 52 Harley have white skin all over her body? Did I miss something? Please tell me she doesn't have the time to paint her entire body before each mission.
@Stephen, she was pushed into a pit of acid by the Joker.
See, there's some value in raising your voice. The scene was so widely criticized because it, unlike the others on this page, showed a common and easily available form of suicide, and lacked the over-the-topness needed to make the distinction.
And this guy has very attractive pencils! Although Harley's expression in the last two panels looks much more gleeful than her dialogue suggests. Is the whole book told this way? I'm glad I skipped this — this character doesn't really seem to share the qualities that made me like her so much in the DCAU and the pre-52.
Congrats to Jeremy Roberts. That's a really nice page.
I think the page could have been included in the book as is, but releasing that particular page for an open contest was just dumb decision making.
Your last couple of paragraphs in this article are way off…
#1. Harley was never contemplating suicide. As depicted in all these panels Harley is being put in dangerous situations by the writer/artist. She is aware of this. She is like Deadpool almost here, sentient of the fact that somebody is controlling her actions, that the panels aren't matching up, etc. The original final panel was intended to be a "Well, there's no way you're getting out of this one." I think riding a giant missile into Earth still seems to be pretty "dire", but not as insensitively dark comedy as the bath tub electrocution. It looked like suicide without context, but it was NEVER actually suicide by the character's will, it was murder by the artist/writer.
#2. This is entirely Looney Toons, have you never heard of Duck A Muck? Bugs Bunny at the end going "Ain't I a stinker?" as Daffy walks around dressed as a polka-dotted Goofball Flower monster in his own cartoon?
Censored, huh?
This is why we can't have good comics.
The ghost of Fredric Wertham is happy today …
@Rob S. and @Trevor: agreed. @Jimmy Palmiotti: your writing sucks. I mean in general. @Harley Quinn: you deserve better than the New 52. Or should I say the 'New Fifty-Boo'.
Those above questioning why the page is largely unchanged but the bath panel altered? Well, there were multiple groups complaining about multiple aspects of the page, and the bath panel was a flashpoint because there was the suicide element AND a perceived objectification of Harley going on. Probably they just decided that since altering the means of suicide didn't alter anything else in the story, it was easy enough to fix, whereas the suicide concerns themselves would have required a teardown and rewrite of the whole page and subsequently the contest.
Link gets it. Well said.
Thank god! I'm sure a bunch of people would have committed suicide after seeing this "widely available" method that never would have dawned on anyone before!
Now if only we can get DC to ban all handguns in their comics, then our great and degenerating society might really be safe!
I would've pulled back on the last panel, silhouetting Harley on the missile heading TOWARD Earth; here, it looks like it's just in orbit for some reason. That would've contrasting the enormity of that moment in contrast with the tight shot of the others. Still, the art is super sharp and definitely falls into the "house style" of DC. If I were Jeremy Roberts, I'd be super stoked and hosting a signing at my local shop today!
@Russ – IMPOSTOR!…Sorry, I had to.
And once again, the whiners win. Stupid. I want to send all the people at those organizations with nothing better to worry about copies of the "Bunny Suicides" books, which also contain fictional characters which have been put in suicide-scenarios by their creators, and tell them to read, laugh and unclench.
Jeremy Roberts has been a professional colorist for DC and Marvel for 15 years. I wished they would have chosen someone who has not worked for the big 2. Just sayin'…. The page looks great though.
Man, there sure are a lot of smug, entitled jackasses reading DC comics and complaining their woman-committing-suicide panel got changed. Maybe they should go reread the rape pages in Identity Crisis to make themselves feel better.
Well, there ya go, crybaby fans.
@Irwin Schwab
It's satire.
Get over yourself.
So, this guy already worked
for Marvel and DC. Wow.
The guy can draw, but he seems
more like a Jim Lee clone to me.
They shouldn't allow people already
in the industry to enter these contests'.
That sucks.
What, no fridge?
Meh, I think a lot of people were just milking this for attention in the first place. One of the artists who made a big stink about it and drew her own cartoon was on twitter was on there a week later mocking a suicidal neighbor. The imaginary suicide in a comic script was worse than a suicidal person in real life, I guess. At least it all gave me one less person to follow.
the overall tone of the page seems to lack the "Mad magazine/Looney Tunes approach" Palmiotti said that he and Conner intended.
Totally lacking it. Unless you read the page, at which point it's blatantly obvious…
Pretty sad that this is what fiction has come to. Grow some balls artists and writers.
It looks strange. Great artwork, but just totally not the style I think most Harley/Joker fans would want from a book. Are there no skilled art directors at DC?
The winning page seems quite lacking IMO, but makes sense that dc would want to hire an old buddy instead of giving a chance to a fresh new artist.
No balls indeed. Sad day for America…
Good. DC listens after all.
The contest was "Break into comics with DC"… the guy already was broken into comics lol.
Regardless of how the contest turned out to be, this is still one of the "must haves" for comic book enthusiasts. (Well aside from the fact that it's a dollar cheaper) Harley Quinn is and will forever be the face of the New 52. They should be making a movie out of her twisted story line. can't waqit for it. 'nuff said.
Dc Comics shitted on their fans with that contest by selecting an already established artist within the industry, and changing the last panel, Was that your call Mr. Lee? ><


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throw, shake, unnerve, disconcert, discompose, bewilder;
take someone's breath away, take by surprise, take aback, shake up, stop someone in their tracks, strike dumb, leave open-mouthed, leave aghast, catch off balance
informal flabbergast, floor, knock for six, knock someone sideways, knock out, knock the stuffing out of, bowl over, blow someone's mind, blow away
Middle English (as an adjective in the sense 'stunned'): from astoned, past participle of obsolete astone (see astonish).
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An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Culturesby Ann Cvetkovich
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In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing—and archiving—accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Rejecting the pathologizing understandings of trauma that permeate medical and clinical discourses on the subject, Cvetkovich develops instead a sex-positive approach missing even from most feminist work on trauma. She challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking.
An Archive of Feelings brings together oral histories from lesbian activists involved in act up/New York; readings of literature by Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Cherríe Moraga, and Shani Mootoo; videos by Jean Carlomusto and Pratibha Parmar; and performances by Lisa Kron, Carmelita Tropicana, and the bands Le Tigre and Tribe 8. Cvetkovich reveals how activism, performance, and literature give rise to public cultures that work through trauma and transform the conditions producing it. By looking closely at connections between sexuality, trauma, and the creation of lesbian public cultures, Cvetkovich makes those experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of trauma culture the defining principles of a new construction of sexual trauma—one in which trauma catalyzes the creation of cultural archives and political communities.
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"Avoiding bullshit moralism and sentimentality, Ann Cvetkovich breathes new life into the study of trauma. This is the book I looked for in so many libraries and bookstores and never found. It is not only brilliant but totally necessary."—Kathleen Hanna of the band Le Tigre
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An Archive of FeelingsTrauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
By ANN CVETKOVICH
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Chapter OneThe Everyday Life of Queer Trauma
Sometimes people say we're living in a trauma culture-that it's a time of crisis, and that the crisis is manifest in people's feelings, whether numbness or anxiety, lack of feeling or too much feeling. And sometimes they say that calling it a trauma culture is a symptom rather than a diagnosis, a quick-fix naming of the zeitgeist that misrecognizes a structural condition as a feeling. A significant body of work within American studies has recently mounted a critique of U.S. culture by describing it as a trauma culture. Wendy Brown speaks about identity politics as a politics of ressentiment in which claims on the state are made by individuals and groups who constitute themselves as injured victims whose grievances demand redress. Mark Seltzer writes about a wound culture, describing the cultural obsession with serial killings and other sites of violence that produces a "pathological public sphere." Lauren Berlant develops the notion of an "intimate public sphere," the result of a process whereby "a citizen is defined as a person traumatized by some aspect of life in the United States." In these analyses, U.S. culture's transformation into a trauma culture is a problem,representing the failure of political culture and its displacement by a sentimental culture of feeling or voyeuristic culture of spectacle.
While such critiques of trauma culture have been indispensable for my thinking about trauma as a category of national, and particularly U.S., public culture, I take them in a different direction by exploring how trauma can be a foundation for creating counterpublic spheres rather than evacuating them. I share these critics' concern with the problem of what Lisa Duggan calls the "incredible shrinking public" where attacks on public institutions, ranging from the arts to education to welfare, along with the effects of privatization and globalization have led to severely diminished resources and arenas for public and democratic debate. But I also want to hold out for the presence and promise of cultural formations that bring traumatic histories into the public sphere and use accounts of affective experience to transform our sense of what constitutes a public sphere. As Berlant suggests, "In the patriotically permeated pseudopublic sphere of the present tense, national politics does not involve starting with a view of the nation as a space of struggle violently separated by racial, sexual, and economic inequalities that cut across every imaginable kind of social location." By contrast, this book and the public cultures it documents do take as a starting point "the nation as a space of struggle," seeking to illuminate the forms of violence that are forgotten or covered over by the amnesiac powers of national culture, which is adept at using one trauma story to suppress another. This version of national trauma doesn't always lend itself to media spectacle since it frequently operates in the less dramatic terrain of everyday experience and involves groups of people who make no claim to being representative citizens. Douglas Crimp, for example, writes about the trauma of AIDS for gay men as residing partly in its invisibility as such to the national culture. Even though aids has ultimately received considerable attention in the national public sphere, many of its losses, such as unprotected sex, remain unacknowledged or scorned.
Here, lesbian sites of trauma often fly under the radar screen of national public culture. I don't look to Hollywood blockbusters, media events, or national crises such as the Vietnam War or Kennedy assassination; in fact, I resist the way that trauma can be used to reinforce nationalism when constructed as a wound that must be healed in the name of unity. As Kathleen Stewart does in her exploration of Appalachian culture, I focus on a "a space on the side of the road"-locations of culture that often seem too local or specific to represent the nation; as well, I am alert to the way that transnational perspectives challenge the boundaries of the nation as both geographic and conceptual category. In focusing in particular on lesbian public cultures and other related queer sites, I invoke the categories of identity politics that Wendy Brown critiques, but explore public articulations of trauma that don't look to either identity or the state as a means for the resolution of trauma. Refusing any quick-fix solution to trauma, such as telling the story as a mode of declaring an identity or seeking legal redress, the cases that interest me offer the unpredictable forms of politics that emerge when trauma is kept unrelentingly in view rather than contained within an institutional project. I keep open the question of how affective experience gives rise to public culture rather than operating with any presumptions about what constitutes culture or politics, or their conjunction. My investigation of trauma thus becomes an inquiry into how affective experience that falls outside of institutionalized or stable forms of identity or politics can form the basis for public culture.
In opening with a discussion of trauma as a social and cultural category, this book signals its recognition that trauma is the subject of a discourse that has a history. My use of the term comes from a tradition that begins in the nineteenth century, when the term trauma, which had previously referred to a physical wound, came to be applied to mental or psychic distress. Medical anthropologist Allan Young locates the origins of trauma discourse in the phenomenon of "railway shock": the accidents that were the inevitable by-product of the new technology of the train produced in some victims symptoms of nervous distress that had no apparent physical basis. Trauma and modernity thus can be understood as mutually constitutive categories; trauma is one of the affective experiences, or to use Raymond Williams's phrase, "structures of feeling," that characterizes the lived experience of capitalism. Other Marxist theorists, most notably Walter Benjamin, have taken up the category of shock as a way of describing modern life, particularly in urban contexts, in an effort to characterize its effects on the senses.
For the most part, though, sociocultural approaches to trauma have been overshadowed by psychoanalytic and psychiatric discourse, not only in the work of Freud but also in the investigations of nineteenth-century researchers, the theories of Freud's contemporary, Pierre Janet (whose theory of dissociation constitutes an alternative to Freud's notion of repression), and more recently, the development of PTSD as a clinical diagnosis. Indeed, psychoanalysis, like trauma, is constituted by the assumption that illness can be psychic, not just physical, and the close affinity and shared history of the two concepts make it difficult to separate them. I seek to resist this tendency, however, by holding on to trauma's historical embeddedness not just in modernity but in a range of historical phenomena, including not only World War I, the Holocaust, and Vietnam but feminist discourses about sexual violence, experiences of migration, and queer activisms. The clinical definition of trauma as PTSD includes a list of symptoms (hyperarousal, numbing, repetition) and a description of the kind of event that produces trauma-"outside the range of usual human experience" in the case of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition and revised third edition (DSM-III and IIIR), or involving "actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one's physical integrity" in the case of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV). I treat trauma instead as a social and cultural discourse that emerges in response to the demands of grappling with the psychic consequences of historical events. Defined culturally rather than clinically, trauma studies becomes an interdisciplinary field for exploring the public cultures created around traumatic events. Trauma becomes a central category for looking at the intersections of emotional and social processes along with the intersections of memory and history; it gives rise to what Marita Sturken and others have called "cultural memory."
An exclusively historicist or constructivist approach to trauma will not alone exhaust its meanings or significance, however. Trauma has exerted a powerful hold over cultural theorists because it offers compelling and urgent cases of unrepresentability that confirm the fundamental assumptions of poststructuralist theory. Especially prominent in this respect is the work of Cathy Caruth, who has pointed out that trauma presents an epistemological challenge, standing at the "limits of our understanding" as well as the crossroads of the "complex relation between knowing and not knowing." Caruth's influential definition of trauma as "unclaimed experience" shifts attention away from the specificity of the traumatic event to its structural unknowability. Drawing in particular on deconstructive readings of Freud, Caruth repeatedly emphasizes trauma's paradoxes. With similar results, though using not only psychoanalytic but also Marxist approaches, Mark Seltzer notes that trauma discourse is important precisely because it challenges distinctions between the mental and physical, the psychic and social, and the internal and external as locations or sources of pain. Discourses of trauma serve as a vehicle for sorting through the relation between these categories rather than resolving them in a definition. When trauma becomes too exclusively psychologized or medicalized, its capacity to problematize conceptual schemes, the exploration of which is one of cultural theory's contributions to trauma studies, is lost.
I take a certain distance from Caruth's universalizing form of theorizing about trauma. Her work is quite portable to a range of contexts because of the abstractness of her formulations. By consistently stressing questions of epistemology and trauma as structurally unknowable, she flattens out the specificities of trauma in a given historical and political context. While Caruth does not always acknowledge the historical origins of her work (and resists historicist readings of Freud, for example), her own work is rooted in the texts of Freud and has strong ties to Holocaust studies. Furthermore, Caruth focuses on trauma as catastrophic event rather than on everyday trauma. Drawing on Freud, she uses the example of the "accident" as a way of describing trauma's contingency and lack of agency-a model that may not work well for traumatic histories that emerge from systemic contexts. By contrast, I seek to remain alert to the historical locations out of which theories of trauma arise and the possible limitations of those models for other contexts. This presumption is necessary in order to make room for the category of sexual trauma and the lesbian contexts from which most of my cases are taken-instances that might otherwise seem tangential to a discussion of trauma. Without rejecting the emphasis that Caruth and others place on trauma's unrepresentability, I try to rearticulate that insight through a set of examples that are themselves the locus of new theories of trauma.
A PTSD clinical diagnosis defines trauma as an overwhelming event that produces certain kinds of symptoms in the patient. Poststructuralist theory defines it as an event that is unrepresentable. I want to think about trauma as part of the affective language that describes life under capitalism. I'm interested in how shock and injury are made socially meaningful, paradigmatic even, within cultural experience. I want to focus on how traumatic events refract outward to produce all kinds of affective responses and not just clinical symptoms. Moreover, in contrast to the individualist approaches of clinical psychology, I'm concerned with trauma as a collective experience that generates collective responses. I am compelled by historical understandings of trauma as a way of describing how we live, and especially how we live affectively.
Four theoretical allegiances-feminism, critical race theory, Marxism, and queer theory-each of which offers contributions to and problems for theories of trauma, serve as points of departure for this study. From feminism comes an interest in bridging the sometimes missing intersections between sexual and national traumas, and the sense of trauma as everyday; from critical race theory, especially African American studies, comes an understanding of trauma as foundational to national histories and passed down through multiple generations; from Marxism comes a dialectical approach to the intersection of lived experience and systemic social structures and to trauma's place in the social history of sensation; and from queer theory comes a critique of pathologizing approaches to trauma and an archive of examples from lesbian public cultures. These theoretical resources have been necessary in order to do justice to a series of cases that never seem to quite measure up to expectations that trauma be catastrophic and extreme; I'm interested instead in the way trauma digs itself in at the level of the everyday, and in the incommensurability of large-scale events and the ongoing material details of experience. Drawing on these theories, I hope to seize authority over trauma discourses from medical and scientific discourse in order to place it back in the hands of those who make culture, as well as to forge new models for how affective life can serve as the foundation for public culture.
Roller Coasters and Little Women
When my examples of lesbian trauma culture seem a little too slight or marginal, I remind myself that Lisa Kron approaches the Holocaust in her performance piece 2.5 Minute Ride by talking about roller coasters and Little Women. It's a story about visiting Auschwitz with her survivor father so that he can see the place where his parents were killed, but it's also about how much her father loves to ride the giant roller coaster at the family's annual outing to the Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. Kron talks about being overcome with horror by one of the Auschwitz displays, yet she also describes crying at her brother's wedding in a burst of emotion that reminds her of the women sobbing in the dark during a matinee screening of Little Women. 2.5 Minute Ride insists on the queerness of emotional life, documenting unpredictable surges of feeling that fall outside the terrain of the sublime horror of Holocaust testimony or the sentimentality of U.S. popular culture's women's genres.
Like a roller coaster, 2.5 Minute Ride careens, often wildly, not only between widely disparate stories but between widely disparate affects, taking the audience from humor to traumatic rupture without even pausing for a theatrical beat. Kron stresses the challenge of addressing an audience that comes already equipped with a huge repository of Holocaust representations, which are the product of successful efforts to create a culture around this historical trauma. She painstakingly attempts to avoid some of the affects frequently prompted by such representations, including empty sentimentality and its not-so-distant relation, incapacitating awe. Can a trip to Auschwitz be something other than another version of a trip to an amusement park, where history's terrors are domesticated into safely consumable artifacts and emotions? By juxtaposing stories of these two kinds of visits, Kron forces scrutiny of the limits and inadequacies of the quest for an encounter with trauma, testimony, and the Holocaust that are implicit in trips to both Auschwitz and the theater.
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Study: US travelers to Cuba continues to rise
FILE – In this July 8, 2013 file photo, fishermen cast their lines along the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. The number of U.S. visitors to Cuba continues to rise, even as the more than five-decade long embargo remains firmly in place, according to study released Monday, April 7, 2014 by the U.S.-based Havana Consulting Group. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)
MIAMI (AP) — The number of U.S. visitors to Cuba continues to rise, even as the more than five-decade long embargo remains firmly in place, according to study released Monday.
Within the first three months of 2014 alone, there were more U.S. tourists to the island than in all of 2013 from England, Germany or France, according to a report by the U.S.-based Havana Consulting Group provided to The Associated Press. Canada remains the No. 1 country of origin for travelers to Cuba, but the number of U.S. travelers to the island has been [auth] steadily increasing over the last seven years.
Some 173,550 U.S. travelers visited Cuba in January through March. That compares to 149,515 from England, 115,984 from Germany and 96,640 from France in 2013.
"The data confirms, although the Cuban government does not recognize it publicly, that the United States, even with the effect of the embargo, is the second greatest source of tourists to Cuba after Canada," Emilio Morales, the consulting group's president wrote in the report.
"The push in the first trimester has been huge," he added.
Most of the U.S. travelers are Cuban-Americans visiting family but others have no ties to the island and travel to participate in academic and cultural programs.
The continuing increase in U.S. travel to the Communist-run island comes five years after President Barack Obama loosened restrictions on travel to Cuba. In 2009, Obama lifted a limit put in place by former President George W. Bush allowing Cuban-Americans to travel to island country no more than once every three years to visit relatives. And in 2011, he reinstated the so-called "people-to-people" trips, allowing U.S. citizens to apply for a travel license to participate in educational activities that promote contact with ordinary Cubans.
Havana is the top destination for most U.S. travelers, followed by Santa Clara and Camaguey. The vast majority fly out of Miami International Airport. More than 1,000 flights have departed from Miami to Cuba so far this year, with another 109 leaving from Tampa, the report said.
Travel in the first three months of 2014 was higher than in the last trimester of 2013, when many Cuban-Americans travel to spend the holidays with their family. The number of U.S. travelers has increased steadily each year, from about 245,000 in 2007 to nearly 600,000 last year.
"We expect that 2014 will be a record year," Morales wrote.
On average, Cuban-American travelers spend about $3,238 per person during their stay, accounting for a major source of revenue for the economically-strapped island.
The study was based off data from U.S. airports and Cuba's National Statistics Office.
While the data points toward another big year for U.S. travel to the long-forbidden island, there is one ongoing hurdle: Cuba suspended consular services in February after being unable to find a new bank in the U.S. for its diplomatic accounts. While many U.S. travelers had already submitted their visa requests for spring visits to Cuba, the situation remains unresolved and charter operators say it is having an impact.
"At this point, it's just getting worse," said Armando Garcia, the owner of Marazul, one of the largest Cuba charter operators. "For Cuban-Americans born in the United States we already have serious problems because we don't have visas for them. It's affecting travel, no doubt."
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KB Promotions has supported Kye Music and Cookzee, from Lincolnshire, for a while now and these two seem to pushing on for bigger and better things with each LP and EP they release.
Kye linking up with numerous up and coming artists and releasing tracks on different labels and pushing his music further and further and then Cookzee is often in the station of BBC Lincolnshire as well as being asked to go down to the studios of the BBC in London recently.
Big things for these two and this track shows it off..
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