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by default for now. Hopefully Pugh can have a better showing then DD....OR.......DD steps up his performance and has a good season.
"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
They have a lot of confidence in David Diehl huh? Does ANYONE on this board? He took a pay cut from 4 mil. to 1 mil. because he has a lot of confidence in himself as well. He knew no one else would give him a dime and so did the Giants. Yeah, they're full of confidence in a scrub no one else in the league wants.
ok. appreciate it flaherty. my RT is Pugh. Wonder whose TC's RT is? guess thats the ultimate one of importance
Jerry Reese. The Adrien Robinson of GM's.
i never wish injuries upon nobody , but in some cases they do help a team as it gives opportunity to the next man to step up and sometimes thats what it takes for TC to start a rookie.. i hope it doesnt happen as i would love to see actual real competition and let the the best man win , but i think thats the only way we will see pugh start this season , is if we have a injury
What is he supposed to say? you have a guy that when healthy is a good RT up against an unproven rookie. I still stand my prediction however that Pugh will be RT and Diehl will be 6th lineman because of his versatility. It may not happen game 1 but sometime this season if both stay healthy I believe the switch will take place.


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HP Discover 2012 conference will be held in Frankfurt, Germany through December 4-6. The event is the vendor's biannual opportunity to showcase its achievements from the past six months, and strengthen its ties with its massive ecosystem of partners and client organizations.
Chief executive Meg Whitman will be clearing her schedule to speak at the event, along with other senior HP executives and high ranking techies who will be showcasing their company's products.
One of the solutions that will be exhibited at the event will be HP Service Anywhere, the IT management-as-a-service platform that the consumer electronics giant unveiled last month. The offering brings together configuration management and other similar functionality under a single pane of glass to help IT departments streamline operations and boost employees' productivity.
Another company that's attending Discover is Grid Tools, the maker of the Datamaker test management and masking software.
Huw Price, Managing Director of Grid-Tools said in a statement that "as testing now accounts for up to 60 per cent of the development lifecycle of an application, selecting the right test data engineering tools and processes is a significant issue," and that his firm is "delighted that HP identified the advantages that Datamaker."
Intel, the event's largest third party sponsor and one of HP's biggest partners, will also be in Frankfurt next month. The chipmaker scheduled a dozen sessions for Discover, covering everything from the two firms' collaboration in the PC market to case studies and topics such as virtualization, cloud and big data. Analytics was a major highlight of the company's Las Vegas gathering in June, where Intel GM Paulina Nist talked about how more data could mean a slower connection a few years down the road.

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Striker backed to succeed
Head Coach Kenny Jackett believes Leigh Griffiths has the potential to make a positive impression at Wolves next season.
Jackett spoke to Griffiths shortly after taking the helm at Molineux and before the striker made his first senior start for Scotland against Croatia, telling him he was part of his plans and that he was looking forward to working with him.
And he has backed up quotes from the player himself that he is feeling positive about hopefully making a sustained impact with Wolves after successful loan spells with Hibernian, which included scooping a series of awards at the end of last season.
"Like most players he wants a chance and he's positive towards that," said Jackett.
"I told him I was impressed by what he did last season so well done, congratulations and I see his future at Wolves, and I'll be looking forward to working with him.
"I hope he will have a good break because his season was extended, and that he comes back with a positive attitude, working hard to earn an opportunity here.
"He was very positive to that and to the call and felt that he has the ability to come here and score goals.
"And it's not just the amount of goals he has scored but the type of goals he scores.
"People talk about free kicks, well it's important to have a free-kick specialist in your club and it seems to me that he has the ability to take free kicks around the box.
"He takes corners and has a confidence level to do it but whoever he's been playing for and been coached by has the confidence in him to do that.
"If you're talking about a set-piece specialist, you do need one in the club.
"Whether you like it or not, a third of all goals for and against are scored from set-pieces at any level – World Cup tournaments or the Conference.
"A set-piece specialist - someone who can score from free kicks and have the confidence to hit good balls from around the box - is an important thing."
Jackett also says every support needed will also be given to Griffiths as he looks to settle back in the area having not spent much time at the club since signing two-and-a-half years ago.
He added: "We hope as a club we can not necessarily mollycoddle him, or interfere, but help and support him to make the transition to England from Scotland.
"He has a lot of family and support structure up in Scotland which made it easy for him to go to Hibs and step straight in.
"That's not necessarily here for him at Wolves but we think as a club we can help him in that direction and he can concentrate on his football and do what he does best which is play, and play impressively."
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The "Before I Die" wall is located on the side of 505 Bazaar, facing Ryan Street (Alex Onken / American Press)
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Venues in Lake Charles and Sulphur will open their doors to the public to feature local artists' work in a variety of media for the 17th annual Gallery Promenade on Friday, Sept. 27.
"It runs the gamut: painting, photography, print making, sculpture, pottery and installation artwork," said Amie Herbert, community development coordinator for the Arts and Humanities Council.
Different locations will feature open receptions with finger foods and drinks. Some will offer door prizes as well. Venues are in downtown Lake Charles, the Henning Cultural Center in Sulphur, and From the Attic on Country Club Road.
"There will be some presentations — gallery talks, presentations, dancing demonstrations, art demonstrations," Herbert said. "There will be a theater demonstration that will be going on."
Itinerant Theatre will perform live rehearsals as a part of Gallery Promenade.
One installation piece, the interactive"Before I Die" project, is at 314 Broad St., on the side of 505 Bazaar. It allows for people to write in chalk an aspiration before they die.
"It's only been up for eight or nine days," said Lauren Miller, a sales associate at 505 Bazaar. "All the writing that's on it now is probably the fourth full wall. It was almost full within the first two days. We've had a really good response to it."
Across the street at Dharma, the McNeese Student Art Association will exhibit works. "It fits our personalities," Anna Sprigg said of Dharma. "We're trying to get more people involved to show them (other students) how important it is to put your work out there. You have to get used to it."
"We have 12 or 13 artists signed up, and that's not counting people that we're trying to get into it," said Alex Hoffpauir, a member of the McNeese Student Art Association.
Another popular location, Candice Alexander Art Studio, will be open, but for Gallery Promenade she will host other artists' work in the Charleston Hotel. Alexander will also do a show in Lafayette the same night.
"The big thing to me is seeing the collaborations between visual artists and other businesses in town," Herbert said. "We're seeing that really grow bigger and bigger, and Gallery Promenade will be a reflection of that in the area."


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Similar to a winery, a leafery is a building or property that produces cannabis or is involved in the business of the production of cannabis for medical marijuana use.
Located just minutes from beautiful downtown Boulder, Colorado, our leafery is an estate style facility that specializes in growing premium quality cannabis using seeds and plants sourced from throughout the world. We are open seven days a week and offer tours of the leafery and onsite plantyards by appointment only.
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What kind of protective equipment do you use? I wear just the jacket/veil combo and gloves. I have been stung around 15 times this year, once in the stomach, once in the forehead, once on the hand and 12 times on my ankles when I decided to tuck my pants into my socks.........won't do that again!
The ankles and the stomach had reaction of a mosquito bite and not much pain at all, the fore head had minor pain and some swelling but not enough to swell an eye shut or anything. Seems each time I get stung the reaction is lessening. Last year I got stung 12 times on the hands from one frame of bees and my left hand hurt but not much swelling, my right hand however swelled up so bad I couldn't close it, looked like I had a baseball glove on!
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CU-Boulder's Study Abroad program aims to debunk common myths about study abroad at its Feb. 7 spring fair to be held in UMC room 235, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The fair includes presentations that focus on using financial aid and picking a program that fits your budget, boosting career opportunities and more.
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Study Abroad 101: Your First Step – Study Abroad 101 is your first advising session: learn about housing options, earning major/minor and A&S core credit abroad, program costs, financial aid and all the essentials of studying abroad as a CU-Boulder student. Study Abroad 101 will be offered during the fair in the UMC Gallery three times: 11:15 – 11:45 a.m., 12:45 - 1:15 p.m., and 2:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Experiential Bonuses – Go beyond the classroom and learn about the other opportunities that study abroad has to offer including internships, volunteer opportunities, excursions and opportunities to conduct your own research: 11- 11:30 a.m. in UMC 245.
Underrepresented student alumni panel – Are you a first-generation college student? A student of color? Historically these groups are underrepresented in study abroad, but that is changing. Hear from students who have done it before and why you should study abroad. Join us from 12 - 12:30 p.m. in UMC 245.
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[quote user="mjg407"]Got to catch the 3rd quarter during breakfast at the chow hall (DFAC to you Army types). Why why why do we insist on 3rd and short going for the deep pass? Please why?
On a side note, on the cusp of 42 and 10 days to go.....
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Can we use 2 feeding patties, one in between 1st and 2nd brood box (for convenient access for bees in 1st brood box) and one on top of 2nd brood box?
Can we use 2 feeding patties, one in between 1st and 2nd brood box (for convenient access for bees in 1st brood box) and one on top of 2nd brood box?
By all means, YES
Unless you have a dearth of pollen, I wouldn't feed pollen. Is that the kind of "patties" you mean?
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I would think that a second patty if needed would be just as good with the first one between the brood chambers. On top, it may collect moisture, and may also be out of reach from the bees that need it, on top of a barrier of honey. They will eat it just as well in the middle of the brood chamber as they would anywhere else. And it probably will not dry out or become moldy as quick compared to it sitting on top of the bars. If you want to feed the hive two patties, why separate them? I see no advantage.
some food for thought,
While it is warm you can get away with putting patties on top or on the bottom.
As the wheather begins to change you will need to hone in on the brood nest area for your pollen sub..
Thank you all for your input.
@BjornBee- this is stuff I bought from you. Bees love it.
I started with 4 frame nucs in the beginning of June. Now I have added 2nd deep brood box. I want bees, bees, and more bees, before weather cools down in Western NY area. I am not interested in harvesting the 1st year. I want (hopefully) STRONG colony for the second year. So I want brood, brood and more brood, and, at the same time, I want to ease the trips for the girls. THAT was the reason why I asked my question.
@Michael Bush- Yes I mean pollen substitute. So my idea is to fill up my behive with maximum number of bees for the long WNY winter.
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Cement smothers Prineville zirconium fire
Shovel sparks fierce fire; firm learned from previous blaze
PRINEVILLE, Ore. - A spark from a shovel ignited a fierce fire in a pit of flammable zirconium in an industrial area west of Prineville late Tuesday morning, officials said. The blaze sent up a tall smoke plume for hours, prompting authorities to keep students in doors and urge that anyone with respiratory problems do so as well, and report any symptoms to 911.
Matt Smith, chief of Crook County Fire and Rescue, said the fire was reported around 11:20 a.m. at EnviroTech Services, a business at the Prineville Freight Depot about three miles west of town. The 2-year-old facility makes road de-icer and dust control products, according to a 2010 article on its Website.
A hazardous materials team from SMAF Environmental was called in and began pouring dry cement onto the fire to smother it.
The smoke was called an "irritant" and not a significant health threat, though officials were advising people with breathing problems to stay indoors as a precaution.
Fire Marshal Casey Kump later said a spark from a shovel or scoop on a machine (not a hand shovel) ignited the pile of metal filings, sparking the fire and smoke that "drew a great deal of concern in town," but had begun to dissipate by late afternoon.
Kump said the fire department worked in close coordination with Crook County Emergency Management Director Dave Dethman, as well as the sheriff's office, health department, Pioneer Memorial Hospital and area schools, which kept students indoors.
No evacuations were enacted, he said, and no injuries reported.
The company makes de-icer, and "zirconium is a byproduct of their process," Smith said. "Zirconium, when it's dried in a form of metal filings, is highly flammable. If a spark or something is near it, it can catch fire."
The material is located in a "not incredibly deep" containment pit, the fire chief said, adding that "everything worked as it should have," in terms of isolating the fire in the pit and preventing more problems.
"We have had, in the last year, one other fire regarding zirconium, and we have had a fire involving an excavator," Smith said.
Fire officials say the company learned from a similar fire a year ago. After that incident, a pit was dug to hold the metal shavings of zirconium.
"The containment pit worked as it was supposed to, and the fire was contained to that," Smith said.
An Oregon OSHA official said they agency had not inspected the facility but will be looking into what happened, though a representative did not classify it as a formal investigation.
Smoke from the fire drifted toward Prineville, and an inversion also was in place Tuesday, so Smith said "what is wood smoke, what is this smoke and what's fog is hard to say."
Kump said, "If residents in the area feel that the smoke is causing medical or respiratory problems, they should call 911."


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Very happy and excited to be a member of Bee Source.
I've never had bees in my life but I've always been attracted to them; watch them work outside and inside their hive is just amazing! I guess that runs in my DNA: my father is an agronomy engineer from El Zamorano, Honduras and I just inherited his love to work with nature.
I am currently living in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. but will soon move back to my native Honduras in Central America. I've read that Tomas lives in Honduras and that he keeps bees down there. I hope I can visit him before starting my hives. He would be a source of valuable info. on TBH in the tropics.
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New 'highway' puts pedal to metal for electric cars
Charging stations span West Coast Electric Hwy.
SISTERS, Ore. - According to Inside EV, sales for plug-in electric vehicles hit an all-time high in December. But EV drivers encounter one big roadblock in their electric travels -- the high-tech equivalent of a fill-up.
"Our collective dilemma when it comes to electric cars it how far you can get on one charge," said Peter Murphy, spokesman in Bend for the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Unlike hybrids, EVs rely solely on charges from stations to get from Point A to Point B.
"But the whole system of where drivers want to go doesn't stop at B, they want to get to Point Z," Murphy said.
Fueled mainly by federal tax dollars, the West Coast Electric Highway was developed. It's a stretch of quick-charge stations along Interstate 5 from Washington to California.
The executive director for Drive Oregon, Jeff Allen, says it's a step in the right direction for EV drivers.
"So just like people are used to knowing if you're running low on gas, you can pull off at the next exit and fill up -- this is the same idea," Allen said.
Oregon just recently finished installing its portion of the route. For now, most of the stations are free to use, but Allen says that could change.
"Over the next 6 to 12 months, many of them will begin charging," said Allen. "There's different networks and pricing plans out there that are still being tested."
I-5 is considered the main artery of the West Coast Electric Highway. But it does branch off into some less-traveled areas.
"You had to start somewhere in the (Portland) metro, you had to start somewhere on the Interstate 5 corridor, and you have to start somewhere in Central Oregon," said Murphy.
That place was Sisters. This quick-charge station was installed about a year ago. ODOT stats show it has not had much use, but officials believe it's only a matter of time until the stations are just as mainstream as their gas counterparts.
Most electric cars can keep a charge for around 60 to 80 miles. Once the West Coast Electric Highway is complete, there will be a station every 25 to 60 miles. The quick-charge stations only take 30 minutes before drivers are good to go.
Drive Oregon and the Portland Development Commission recently commissioned a survey that found the electric vehicle industry is growing and represents about $266 million in Oregon, including the companies that make them and which serve their owners with parts and other expertise.
Portland State University's Northwest Economic Research Center conducted the $50,000 survey and found the industry at present provides 400 full-time jobs in Oregon, thanks largely to tax incentives an the state's "green sensibility."
Those are among the numbers industry officials will be telling the public and lawmakers at the state Capitol on Wednesday.


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VIDEO: The trailer for Frost/Nixon
That said, Frost/Nixon, like many Ron Howard movies, can be amusing when it doesn't exasperate. Since the film ranges in style from stagy to sit-com, the performances and the dialogue do most of the work. Michael Sheen's David Frost conveys some of the smarmy sardonic wit that gave '60s American TV audiences a taste of pre-Pythonite British snark. For years he's been a star, but by 1974 Frost is reduced to covering wacky stunts. Then he spots Nixon's resignation speech on TV. Four hundred million others are watching too. If Frost can get that man in a televised one-on-one, his glory days will return.
The grumpy ex-president (Frank Langella), meanwhile, is basking in San Clemente and working with his agent, Swifty Lazar (Toby Jones), to get the best deal for his memoirs. When in 1977 the Frost offer comes through, the Tricky One sees an opportunity to reinvent himself once again.
As for Frost and his team, they spend a lot of energy soliciting sponsors and a network. It seems that in these innocent days universal notoriety was not necessarily a selling point. More important, they're divided on the focus of the interviews. Young hotheads like researcher James Reston (Sam Rockwell) want to nail Nixon to the wall and give the world the trial it was denied by Ford's pardon. Frost, on the other hand, is the voice of moderation. Let's not sour the deal, he advises — after all, this is about my career, not historical justice.
Okay, so he doesn't say that — but maybe if Martin Scorsese had directed and not Ron Howard, he might have and the story might been pitched more as about weasels fighting in a hole than as an epic combat between battered titans. Either way, it comes down to Langella's performance. Although he doesn't sound like Nixon, he awkwardly inhabits his body in the same way as the original. But unlike the gargoyle I remember, Langella's Nixon exudes a seductive charm and vulnerability. He's the film's chief virtue, and its biggest flaw.
Near the end, in a boozy wee-hour phone call on the eve of the last and most crucial interview, Nixon confides to Frost that, yes, we are the same, you and I. Although only one of us can win, we are both despised underdogs treacherously destroyed by elite phonies.
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I think TT deserves another shot. However, I remember him when healthy as being pretty good but nothing really special. Maybe I am wrong but I don't know why folks are thinking he is the answer to our problems if he comes back healthy. Regardless, I think he deserves a shot.
The man has 2 choices... retire to a 9-5 job and wonder if he could have come back, or give it his best shot now.
I appreciate a man who busts his butt to get better
I don't think he can play at the pro level after 3 ACL's, but he sure deserves a chance to prove otherwise. No, he is not the answer, but if his knee can hold up he is at least better depth than anything we have now.
I give Thomas a lot of credit for fighting to get back on the field. But saying that this is the NFL, not Goodwill. It may be best for both parties to part ways and move on.


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Auckland technology firm Orion Healthcare has launched an initiative aimed at changing the perception of computer science in schools and building the pool of talent the ICT industry needs.
Named Codeworx, the initiative gathers industry experts, teachers and secondary school students in an online forum where "tools and incentives" aim to encourage students to take on the subject, the company announced yesterday.
Orion Health chief executive Ian McRae said coding was the platform that teaches interactive computer science.
"We believe if more students are bitten by the coding bug then they will ultimately become the engine room of a revitalised New Zealand economy and Codeworx is an enabler for this," McRae said.
Codeworx will be kick-started by the 2013 Codeworx Challenge, which runs from the end of this month until late September. The competition will require entrants to come up with an innovative programming solution using a Raspberry Pi computer, a credit-card sized computer that plugs into a television.
According to a Business Herald report last week, a chronic shortage of ICT skills is forcing software companies to carry out development overseas because they can't find local programmers to do the work. One website was showing 1300 ICT vacancies in Auckland alone with pay rates of up to $1500 a day being offered for some roles.
Orion Health announced last month that it was investing $100,000 to provide five university scholarships to information science students.


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Original post made by Concerned Parent, Los Altos, on Aug 8, 2013
August 08, 2013 07:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Parents of Bullis Charter School Stage Protest at School District Offices in Response to Its Teachers Being Locked Out
District Changes Locks Preventing Teachers from Accessing Classrooms
LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than 20 parents from Bullis Charter School (BCS) representing each grade level (K-8) staged a peaceful protest outside the District offices Thursday morning to express their outrage and frustration over the Los Altos School District's (LASD) decision to lock teachers out of their classrooms just days away from the start of the school year.
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a resident of Los Altos
on Aug 9, 2013 at 12:08 am
Very sad this is happening. Wish LASD offered choices in education. Sad to see kids suffer. Really poor form by Doug Smith and the rest of the Los Altos School Board.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 9, 2013 at 9:34 am
Well, you have to be careful with public education to not create a two-tier system: I thought Bullis parents were making enormous financial contributions such to the extent Bullis students were receiving a different, select educational experience. I gather that doesn't extend to the facilities, where the argument lies; but in terms of the education, they are in the elite of the elite!
a resident of Mountain View
on Aug 9, 2013 at 10:47 am
Bullis Charter was locked out of Blach because they refused to sign the occupancy agreement with LASD (even though they knew since April that it needed to be signed). This demonstration is yet another PR stunt from BCS- they even had their PR representative tweeting from the "protest". Which other public school in the area has a budget to pay for PR and full blown print ads/mailer marketing campaigns? Lawsuits and marketing shenanigans are all this school is contributing to our community.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 9, 2013 at 12:15 pm
What a burn. Good job, LASD. Bullis parents have gotten out of control.
a resident of Mayfield
on Aug 9, 2013 at 6:14 pm
I agree 100% with the post above. Bullis parents are out of control. I support LASD!
a resident of Mountain View
on Aug 9, 2013 at 8:44 pm
Another day, and the lock out continues. While it is great to see a lot of dialog regarding agreements, deadlines, and signatures, these topics are the realm of the policy makers and school board members. By focusing on process details, it is easy to lose the big picture.
Why is the lock out a big deal? Put yourself in the BCS teachers' shoes - imagine this was _your_ school, _your_ child's classroom, _your_ favorite teacher. Imagine 6-8 classrooms selected at random at your school. Empty them completely - no desks, no chairs, no shelves or cabinets. Take out the phone, the maps and colorful displays off of the walls. Remove the American flag. You've got nothing, 4 walls, a floor and a door. You can't even look in to see the state of the space.
Now imagine you are the teacher and that's YOUR room. Right now, you should be decorating the walls, organizing your materials, arranging the desks. Working at your desk as you create lesson plans and develop your strategy for the coming year. But, you are locked out. How much can you prepare without access to and control of your space? How is the extra stress and forcibly crushed schedule affecting your plans?
This is the state of the lockout today. Teachers and staff ARE LOCKED OUT. Needless damage has already been done to the staff.
Now, let's consider one possible scenario. The students and teacher are allowed to occupy those rooms, on the first day of school. Your kid arrives that day, with all of the eagerness and excitement and wonder of that first day. You hold your child's hand, and look for his/her classroom. What do you see? No hook to hang a backpack, no desk with your child's name on it, no learning materials on the walls. How will your child sit down and begin to learn? How long will it take for their classroom to settle and the learning begin? You can't get this lost time back.
How about another scenario. Sorry, but those 6-8 classrooms are still inaccessible. Your school now has ~150 children with no available classrooms. What do your teacher and principal do? Do you have overcrowded classrooms? Do they teach outside? How do they handle the chaos? At this point, the entire school is disrupted, and no teachers can teach and no kids can learn.
As a community, we are deeply committed to excellent education, and are graced with fantastic public schools. How can any of us stand by and allow this to happen to kids in OUR community? How can elected School Board Trustees CREATE such a situation by changing the locks?
How do you explain to your kid, on the first day of school, why they are locked out? Look into their eyes and tell them about facilities process details. I'm sure that will work.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Aug 9, 2013 at 8:52 pm
@Tanya - maybe you explain to your kid that the parents got out of control and so are getting a time out!
a resident of another community
on Aug 9, 2013 at 8:59 pm
@Fred - So you punish a bunch of kids for your own or others' shortcomings? .....Nice.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 9, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Oh, please. I'm not buying this "innocent children and teachers" B.S. Bullis administration should have signed the agreement and they are the ones who should be blamed, not LASD. Misguided blame game. The children should simply be told the truth, that administration did not follow the rules and there are consequences.
a resident of Los Altos
on Aug 9, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Maybe instead of paying over $100k in focus groups, another $50k-$100k in newspaper marketing and $300k in makerbot & 3d graphics displays for their new FabLab, they could have used some of that money to invest in upgrading Blach facilities to be suitable for the lower grades to desire to have there. As it is now LASD provided facilities in a configuration that is "reasonably equivalent" to their own, which is Jr Highs not on the same campus as elementary. As such, the Blach facilities are not designed for young students, with their safety not gaurunteed. Nothing stopping BCS from being an active financial partner in the facilities allocation. They are so willing to invest half a million $ in marketing and high tech equipment but won't contribute anything remotely comparable to their facilities!
Btw, I don't like the fact that teachers are locked out in the most crucial month of the summer for them to class prep. Not the best move, but both sides have some blame here.
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I made the split about two weeks ago. I don't know if the queen ended up in the original hive or in this new one, which was placed about 15' away from the original. Today they swarmed and I caught it, and placed it elsewhere. At the time I was not sure were the swarm had come from. But my question in this post is about the hive were the swarm actually came from. What do I do next. Possibly there are a few queen cells about to hatch. Perhaps some already did... and there might be virgin queens fighting for their lifes and the reign of the hive. Or perhaps I will loose more bees in secondary swarms. How do I prevent that? Should I go and destroy all the queen cells I see, then wait for a few days (how many?) to make sure no virgin queen was left behind, ready to mate, and then put a nice nuc I have on top with the newspaper method? This hive (remember it's a recent split) is in two deep supers, but the top super was just starting to get drawn out. This queen makes mean bees I don't particularly care for, though they overwintered without any medication other that menthol and cords. Or should I just forget about this hive, let them do what they want to do, and use my nice nuc elsewhere...?
If I were to use the nuc here how and when could I put this nuc I have with a brand new queen already laying, without risking the nice queen?
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Between Gardens and historic monuments, you will be there in the smartest and styliest Paris. Five minutes walking distancefrom Rue de Rivoli, the subway Saint Paul and thus the line 1 of the subway takes you to the main monuments of the capital (Louvre, Concorde, Champs Elysées, Arc de Triomphe etc.)
The apartment overlooks a courtyard and will charm you by its peace and its exposure.
Furnished in a cosy and modern style you will pleasantly be surprised by the volume of the apartment and the light brought by two big windows. Very functional, its offers an Italian-style shower, a fully fitted kitchen, a large flat screen television. On the bedroom a king size bed will allow you to take advantage of an undeniable comfort.
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The apartment was perfect, very central, comfortable, clean and super comfortable,
the wifi worked. A few steps a street filled with restaurants and supermarkets.
No problem for the keys.
L'appartamento era perfetto, centralissimo, comodo, pulito e super accessoriato,
il wifi funzionava. A pochi passi una via piena di negozi supermercati e ristoranti.
Nessun problema per le chiavi.
We felt very comfortable in the apartment. The handover was very straightforward and friendly. The apartment is clean and cozy.
Wir haben uns in der Wohnung sehr wohl gefühlt. Die Übergabe war sehr unkompliziert und freundlich. Die Wohnung ist sauber und gemütlich.
The apartment is smaller than the pictures, and is no so beauty as the pictures.
Actually this is not a recommendable place.
When we arrived we think "We should have gone to an hotel".
A small apartment, though. A pleasure !!!
Un pequeńo apartamento muy bien ubicado. Un placer!!!
The studio in the Rue Greneta is very originel and we stayed there for a very nice holiday week. Within a radius of 200 meters all necessary shops can be reached; next to normal supermarkets very nice bakeries, cheese and fruit shops and a very appealing Italian tort food store and several wine shops. Also nice restaurants and cafes are available in the immediate vicinity. The studio is very central. Many attractions are within walking distance. Metro and bus station are 5 minutes away.
Das Studio in der Rue Greneta ist sehr originel und wir haben dort eine sehr schöne Urlaubswoche verbracht. Im Umkreis von 200 Metern sind alle notwendigen Geschäfte zu erreichen; neben normalen Supermärkten sehr schöne Bäckereien, Käse- und Obstgeschäfte und ein sehr ansprechender italienischer Deliktessenladen sowie mehrere Weingeschäfte. Auch hübsche Restaurants und Cafes sind in nächster Umgebung vorhanden. Das Studio liegt sehr zentral. Viele Sehenswürdigkeiten sind fußläufig zu erreichen. Metro- und Busstation sind keine 5 Minuten entfernt.
The small but very cozy apartment is ideal for spending a few days in Paris. Romantic and well structured has everything you need and also located in a neighborhood full of shops and live typical of the place.
It has two metro stations very close.
I recommend the place for a couple!
L'appartamento piccolo ma molto accogliente è l'ideale per passare qualche giorno a Parigi. Romantico e ben strutturato ha tutto ciò che serve ed inoltre si trova in un quartiere vivo e ricco di negozi tipici del luogo.
Ha due fermate metro molto vicine.
Consiglio il luogo ad una coppia!
The apartment is in a very good area full of bars and very close to all the attractions and is equipped so that nothing is missing in the stay
El departamento esta en una muy buena zona, llena de bares y muy cerca de todas las atracciones y esta equipado para que no falte nada en la estadia
Everything TipTop, gladly again. Very friendly and reliable supplier!
Alles TipTop, gerne wieder. Sehr freundliche und zuverlässige Anbieter!
There were three in the rather small but very cozy and clean apartment. A small drawback is that there are only two persons dishes, two cups, etc. In an otherwise good facilities. The handover was very straightforward that the deposit was not at all necessary, and we would be taken very friendly in reception. The location is perfect and is only a short time to many important places.
Wir waren zu dritt in dem recht kleinen aber sehr gemütlich eingerichteten und sauberen Appartement. Ein kleines Manko ist, dass es nur für zwei Personen Geschirr gibt, zwei Tassen, usw. Bei einer ansonsten guten Ausstattung. Die Übergabe lief völlig unkompliziert, die Hinterlegung der Kaution war garnicht nötig und wir würden sehr freundlich in Empfang genommen. Die Lage ist perfekt und man ist in kürzester Zeit an vielen wichtigen Orten.
We never met John as from what I understand this is a company of various apartments in Paris, so we were greeted by Guillermo (I presume an employee) a very pleasant guy who was happy to give us some tips on the Area but as he had to shoot off to another apartment could not stay to long and chat.
The flat is small, smaller than the actual pictures (30 m in totall / 2 rooms ) but nice and clean. Kitchen is also smaller in real life! Bathroom is a few years old but clean. To be honest we where a bit disappointed with the size since for this price I think we could have got a larger / nicer flat but due to late booking this was one of the few available for our dates and Area,
Advantages: The area, Le Marais is one of the better spots to stay in Paris , (close to everything) and the district is quite trendy with many places to dine and wine and shops / Galeries and the Sunday market is quite an experience.
Disadvantages, the price and size of apartment, being an attic with fairly high windows does not help too much, although the flat is quite bright.
In all not sure if we got our value for money here, I have seen better flats with similar or lower prices, however the service was good and no real complains with the company or Wimdu
Would I go back to the same flat, I dont think so as next time I would book in advance just to find a better deal for my cash.
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- 10-04-05 01:19 PM #76Cadillac Owners Member
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Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
I'm helping my uncle get his 77 Eldorado (D'elegance Package w/425) up and running. He has determined the issue to the ECM needs replacing. His problem is locating the thing. Since I am new Cadillacs I have no idea where to start looking for the thing. I am 1/2 the state away from him and will visit mid October any help is greatly appreciated.
Driver Move Out, Gunner Take Over....
Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
well, I did the modified 472 intake manifold swap... but I am 1,500 miles from the car to see what kind of a difference it makes carb is awaiting to be rebuilt.
- 12-29-05 04:04 PM #78Cadillac Owners Member
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Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
i know a couple cheap improvements that work excellent for my 425 but everybody knows this..a brand new air filter,oil change,belts,oil filter,i know this works great for a fact cause i live in phoenix and i go up north quite a bit and one time a drove up north without no oil change,new airfilter,oil filter and i top'd my car off and when i got to my destination(1hour 45 min away) my caddy was already out off gas ...just on the way up their...then this christmas i went up north again got everything done and i still had 3/4 tank their and back...treat your car good and it will treat you good..thats for sure
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Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
Well... no more 425 for me.... damnit I miss that car so much now... never realize what ya have....until its gone...
Anyway, my list of, well, cheap power improvements to the 425...
- full tune up. This includes fluids changed, plugs, wires, cap and rotor, air filter, fuel filter, PCV valve etc....
- 14" open element air cleaner. Mine was made by Edelbrock, it looks really nice. Free flowing, and sounded sweet, especially when the secondaires opened . It also greatly helped to clean the engine bay up.
- drain cat. conv. If your car still has the origanal cat... its plugged. Pry out the drain cap on the bottom and drain the beads... make sure they all come out... then take it to a shop that has those plugs... when I got an inspection on the car, the guy had a bunch of them laying around (old GM part) and charged me $5.... it was loud, but got annoying fast with the plug missing.
- rebuild carburator. The Qudra-Jet is a sweet carb, don't let anyone tell you otherwise... but obvisouly a ~30 year old carburater is going to have problems. Rebuild it, and if you know about carbs, or a shop does, then dump the emmisons settings from factory and go for a little performance, a stock Q-jet can be worked over to squeeze more out of it. Keep in mind this is an 800CFM beast that fits the engine perfectally, keep it. A good book for the Q-jet is Doug Roe - Rochester Carburators.
- find a 1968 472 intake manifold. This intake manifold, stock, flows alot better then the 425 intake. The '68 dosn't have EGR either, so the 425 now dumps EGR. While I don't mind EGR, with an old valve and lines, it is more of a problem then anything. Then, take the manifold to a machine shop and have them totally cut the center section under the carb out, so it is 1 big opening. You now have an intake manifold that flows 95%+ of the Edelbrock intake, for a whole lot cheaper. Sure it still weighs 45lbs, but it looks stock. This intake manifold will flow just as well as the Edelbrock until around 5,500RPM.... seeing as how these big blocks don't rev past 4,000RPM stock, you have to do alot to really get out of the effective range of it. It is also a low-riser intake, no more hood clearance problems. Perhaps the biggest thing is, you can still use the factory AC, not so with the Edelbrock. The A-4 from the 425 has a different mounting bracket, so to correctly mount the compressor, you need the 472 AC compressor bracket. Swap that over and she bolts right in. Revs smoother, sounds more healthy at WOT and noticeable power boost. The BB Cads are so cool, there is no coolant to mess with .
Another non-engine related performance boost that really helped the car in handling and overall driving, was installing a factory rear sway bar. Mine was from a '79 Fleetwood, but I have been told 70's G-bodys use the same bar. Very nice mod.
The stock '79 DeVille with out 472 intake or rebuilt carb ran a 17.5@78mph. She was noticeably faster after words. I gotta say, the car was actually fast by the time I was done with these minor things. Floor it at 30 and she'll downshift into 1st, put you in the seat and you see the nose of the car jump up.
Other cheap things I had in mind was a shift kit for the trans... that would really help since the trans is calibrated for excessive slipping for smooth shifts.
Another thing that was going to be sweet, since the factory 2.28 gears don't offer much for performance, I was going to swap a cam in... not a hot cam, but a cam that brought the power band lower then stock... an RV cam. More low end torque at the expensive of high RPM HP. The neat thing is, the cams power band is idle-4,000RPM... well, it would shift at 3,900RPM going in to 2nd and 3,400RPM when going into 3rd, when in drive. It was perfect. The cam is the MTS #3, stock valve train is fine. It is also the gas saver cam and is very possible to get 20mpg+ on the open road... that was going to be the project. I wasn't ready to swap the rear end just yet, and so being stuck with the 2.28 gears, I was going to make a torque beast, a whole lot meaner.
Also, find the cross member from a Caprice 9C1, that way you can easily run true duals. True dual 2.25" exahust on a near stock 425 would be sweet, unleash a few ponies too, and with the MTS #3 cam, really open it up...
while on the exhaust note, the 425 manifolds are junk. Find a set of 472/500 manifolds, while not the best, they flow alot better, direct swap in for the 425, that and the true dual exhaust would be sweet.
There are all the basic plans I had for my '79... I had lots of plans. Hopefully this will help anyone else that just got a 425 and wants to bring the life back. Mileage dosn't effect the BB Cads much at all... meaning a 425/472/500 with 100k, if mainted thru its life, will show minimal wear and be ready for any plans you may have. Same goes for the Turbo 400.
- BTW from an appearance standpoint, something that REALLY helps the '77-'79 DeVille is to run a 2nd pin striping down from the fender and follow the body line that ends at the door. That right there is the missing link, without it, the car looked bland and missing something... I added that and DAMN those 2 pin stripes really set the car off like nothing else, it looked soo nice.
She will be missed....
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Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
One other performance mod, if you have your engine out for a refresh or rebuild is to have the block decked. As I understand it - at top dead center - the pistons are down in the holes a bit which could cause detonation. Besides preventing that - it should give a slight bump in compression which would be good for power.
Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
Decking the block is usually done to get a good quench distance (piston to head dist.) Depending on the crushed thickness of your headgasket, you'll usually want around zero deck for a tight quench. Or you'd want to run the pistons way down in the hole, like .120, for a very loose quench. In between has a tendency to see detonation problems.
If you want a bit more compression have the heads milled. .040" which is about all I'd be comfortable doing, should get it to about 8.75:1 by calculations (which might be wrong since it's 1am and I should get some sleep.) Still would do well on regular gas, and might net you a dozen ponies or so.
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Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
Well, the '68 intake and '78 sway bar are lying in my office floor, and a crossmember from a '96 Impala SS is on the way.
I'm gonna put Night Wolf's plan to work.
Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
Sorry, somehow I missed this question. I posted a writeup on it in the tech section. Basically it uses the EMR module to pull out 10 degrees timing by grounding a wire, unground it and it goes back to base timing again. So you can have an easy starting high compression engine and have a flatter timing curve and one that is ultimately more controllable and desirable.
It also helps you make a smogger distributor with limited mechanical advance a performance one, as the old performance distributors of yesteryear had lots of mech advance and little vacuum adv. You will likely need to watch your vacuum adv can usage, an adjustable is recommended. As the smogger ones are often 20-25 degrees, if not 30. So if you had a 25 degree initial advance, ground the wire and 15 degrees is your starting timing or nitrous timing, or turbo, etc, then when vacuum adv comes in, adding 25 to it would be too much and hitting upwards 50 degrees. I recommend not to exceed 45 degrees.
You can hook the terminal to a vacuum port with a switch, or a pressure port for boost, or even a line on a nitrous nozzle to automagically ground the distributor before pinging even starts to be an issue.
Really can be a handy dandy addition to a high compression engine or other performance uses.
Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
That is awesome... I still have my '68 intake manifold... I pulled it when the car was wrecked. You'll need to dump the EGR system though, normally I woudln't do that, but ah well.
'78 rear sway bar? you'll notice a big difference.... very good difference too, that was a really nice addition to my car.
And... cross member from the '96.... the double hump? I was looking for one of those... thats the only thing that kept me from getting a nice, new dual exhaust... the stock exhaust system is pretty bad.... some nice headers and dual 2.5" exhaust the whole way back would really wake it up too.
Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
I have a 77-96 B/D Body rear bar that will be up for sale soon if anyone is looking. Should work in the 73-77 A/G body cars too. It is the large 9C1/F41/Impala SS/FE2 Fleetwood bar.
Yes, all 94-96 (all LT1) cars are double hump.
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Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
Post pictures of the '77 somewhere!
About the 425,000 mi Deville, that's nothing. The world record for the car going the most miles without an overhaul was held until very recently by a 1979 Sedan DeVille with just over 650,000 on the clock.
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Re: cheap power improvements to the 425...
Hello i have rebuild my 425 i have put a 472 intake on it from 1976
, but i have a carb thats belong too the intake can i used that or must to buy a original 425 carb, mayby the 472 carb its too big
thanks for your opinion.
the carb its a rochester quadrayet 17056230.
I have not 425 carb but it was earlyer a injected.
thanks sleutelgek from the netherlands (europe)
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I think with a few more fabrics (maybe a mauve & a pale blue) that they'd make a great bargello, maybe something like this one:
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I think with a few more fabrics (maybe a mauve & a pale blue) that they'd make a great bargello, maybe something like this one:
i loved your previous quilt Yellow/Gray DNP
if you don't mind doing the same pattern again, i like these fabrics. it will look very soft.
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I would do a whack and stack lap quilt. I think all the colors blend well. The darker grey is good contrast.
If life gives you lemons, make a margarita.
Now this is funny! I wanted to have you look at a really pretty gray and yellow DP9 and when I went to find it, I see that you made that one! I really like your gray and yellow quilt and I think the pink and gray will finish in the same soft look. I suppose you'd like a different pattern for these, sorry I don't have any suggestions for you. Good luck.
I might add that I seem to gravitate to lower contrast quilts. Must be why I like your gray and yellow so much.
I would put them in my stash until I needed them. It's nice to have things on hand that blend in. All together in a quilt I think would be very bla.
I like your colors together. Sometimes it is nice to have a quilt that doesn't shout at you. Gentle can be very soothing. Sorry that I don't have a pattern suggestion. ..Well, Take Five would look good, but it only needs 5 fabrics...so maybe Yellow Brick Road or something similar?
I like that pattern, where might I find this pattern for Bailey's quilt?
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Of News and Pictures, Then and Now
Two years ago I offered a seminar–Readings in Postwar American Visual Culture 1945-1965. The students that time out produced some lively and fascinating research projects, formatted as online exhibitions. They're accessible here.
This time we're exploring new course material in alignment with my own recent research (both creative and historical) in visual journalism, and particularly reportage drawing. The course is called Drawing Conclusions: Illustration, Visual Journalism, and the History of the Press. We're reading some standard press histories to provide context. The visual aspects of newspapering tend to be associated with sales, not information.
Michael Schudson characterizes increasingly visual practices in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World as self-advertisement. "Self-advertisement...is anything about newspaper layout and newspaper policy, outside of basic news gathering, which is designed to attract the eye and the small change of readers." Schudson goes on to offer that "one of the most important developments of self-advertising...was the use of illustrations." (Discovering the News; a Social History of American Newspapers, 1978.)
Such analyses suggest a somewhat Puritan attitude about the use of images. The primacy of text is a given; the use of images could be justified as salesmanship, but not as an aid to understanding, excepting immigrants with poor English. It might be suggested that visual coherency and complementarity of elements (or "layout" and well-crafted text & image relationships) affect sales because they result in greater understanding and retention, but that's another discussion.
For present purposes, I'm interested in how pictures and diagrammatic materials aid in journalistic understanding. At the top of this post, a memorable image of the Costa Concordia, an ill-captained cruise ship that foundered on rocks just offshore in Italy on January 13, 2012. Here's a case in which words would fail to convey the incongruity of the scene: a massive ship tipped ludicrously on its side in shallow water, a maritime drunken uncle. It would be funny but for the loss of life. Seventeen people have been confirmed dead.
This week in class we will be using the Civil War battle of Antietam (September 1862) as a case study, drawing on contemporaneous illustrated accounts in Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, as well as the epochal photographs shot by Alexander Gardner after the battle. Epochal, because they presented images of soldiers' corpses, capturing the aftermath of battle: a litter of carnage. (As with everything, the new is framed by limitation. Gardner photographed corpses because that's the only aspect of battle he could have shot with the equipment of the era: the apparatus was bulky, and shutter speeds were interminable. Dead men don't move. Although the photographers occasionally moved them, for compositional purposes.)
There are useful notes on the Antietam National Battlefield website concerning Gardner's photographs, especially the use of stereoscopic techniques, used to produce a 3-D image when seen through a viewing device. And the Atlantic, which is publishing a special Civil War anniversary issue, presents about 20 stereoscopic images on its site here. If you click on the images they shift from one exposure to the other, creating a crazy miniature animation.
Above, Timothy O'Sullivan photograph of Alfred Waud, the Harper's illustrator (who was present at Antietam) at Gettysburg in July 1863. Specifically, Waud is sitting on a rock in Devil's Den, a particularly ghastly spot on the second day of the battle. This is a red-blue anaglyph version of the stereoscopic pair of exposures.
The ANB site does a solid though abbreviated job of presenting its material, but this sentence, concerning Gardner's work, appears without qualification: "It wasn't until September of 1862 that the first true images of war were produced. Antietam was the first battle to depict the grim and bloody truth of civil war."
The first true images of war. Yes, or no? Discuss.
I have been thinking of this in the context of a classical author who would object to such a conclusion. Plato's Republic famously seeks to define the contours of the well-ordered state. Book X addresses the role of painters and poets in such a state. The news is not good for "the creatives"; they're tossed out. Painters are defined as imitators of appearances. Plato uses the example of a bed, which exists as an ideal form, a divine bedness beyond the particulars of any one bed. A carpenter fashions a particular bed, which is once removed from the ideal bed. The painter makes an image of the carpenter's bed, now twice removed from the ideal. The painter, argues Plato, knows zip about beds. What he does know are parlor tricks, deceptions; he is several steps removed from the truth.
But the painter's ignorance is only part of the problem. The painter and his cousin the poet do not rely on sober judgment and reason. Rather, they play to the emotions.
Concerning the poet, Plato writes:
And now we may fairly take him and place him by the side of the painter, for he is like him in two ways: first, inasmuch as his creations have an inferior degree of truth–in this, I say, he is like him; and he is also like him in being concerned with an inferior part of the soul; and therefore we shall be right in refusing to admit him into a well-ordered State, because he awakens and nourishes and strengthens the feelings and impairs the reason. As in a city when the evil are permitted to have authority and the good are put out of the way, so in the soul of man, as we maintain, the imitative poet implants an evil constitution, for he indulges the irrational nature which has no discernment of greater and less, but thinks the same thing at one time great and at another small–he is a manufacturer of images and is very far removed from the truth.
These ideas are 1) deeply significant in western intellectual history, and 2) to blame for countless dopey allegorical paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, thanks to neoclassicism. There's much too much to cover here. But Plato raises good questions, especially for our relatively delimited discussion subject of the visual journalism of war. We can argue persuasively that there are no "ideal" soldiers; only particular soldiers die: somebody's son or brother or father (or daughter or sister or mother, nowadays). But Plato, reviewing Gardner's Antietam photographs of Civil War dead, might argue: This is a true image of war? A vast conflict is waged for complex reasons. Won't the "true" image seek to show causes and effects on a macro scale? Isn't the presentation of horrible casualties simply an appeal to feelings, and a denial of reason?
Meanwhile, history and technology have sped along undeterred. The era of the photojournalist and the filmmaker followed the heyday of the "special artist" (as people like Waud were known). Video and television came next. The consumer-grade camera enabled surreptitious eyewitness video, most significantly in the Rodney King beating (March 3, 1991) broadcast on television after the fact, leading to rioting in South Central Los Angeles. Today's handheld cameras and smartphones have democratized reporting yet again, and the distribution mechanism of broadband internet and social media have enabled nearly instantaneous worldwide distribution.
Which brings me to a contemporary echo of Gardner's Antietam pictures. Several years ago, dramatic protests broke out Iran following the announcement of widely distrusted presidential election results. Opposition rallies began on June 13, 2009 and continued through the end of that month. People around the world tracked the events on Twitter, which was used to spread word of violence and arrests. Seemingly rattled at first, the regime deployed Basij paramilitary units to suppress the protests.
On June 20, a government sniper claimed the life of a young woman named Neda Agha-Soltan.
An eyewitness wrote:
At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father [note: he turned out to be her music teacher]watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house... I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim's chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes. The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gas used among them, towards Salehi St.
We know about this event because it was videotaped by at least three people. Along with millions of other people, I saw the video that very day. At the time I wished I hadn't. As the doctor reports, she bleeds to death very rapidly. Neda's death galvanized the Green Movement instantly, and the regime was quick to isolate her family as a countermeasure.
Above is a still from the longest of the three videos capturing her death. You can view this clip here, if you decide to. But be warned: it's extremely upsetting.
The martyrdom of Neda Agha-Soltan will, like the dead of Antietam, resonate in global media history. It will also matter in the unfolding national narrative of Iran.
But what does a 40-second video clip of a dying individual on the fringes of an event tell us about complex political phenomena? Doesn't the symbolic urge–the rush to make meaning out of grievous happenstance–threaten to overcome the merely factual? And is it possible that viewers' outrage simply justifies participation in a pornography of violence? Finally, shouldn't we bring each of those questions to Gardner's photographs, 150 years after the fact?
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- Jim O'Boyle said...
I don't think the 'truth' of something is toggled on or off - it lies on a spectrum. Also, the degree to which a report is true to the actual event is something no one is really qualified to evaluate accurately (provided no part of the report is outright false). The report that feels the truest (hypothetically, to someone who experienced the actual event) is going to be the one which elicits the same emotions anyway.
The idea of a purely factual report is a figment of vanity. Even in a carefully worded, unbiased, emotionless, minute-by-minute account of an event, details will be compressed and configured so as to communicate. The report might be strictly rational, only including relevant information, but it is still curated. "Important" facts are gleaned from an infinite sea of data.
Appealing to The Republic, we might consider news-readers thrice-removed from the truth. In other words, they don't know anything. It's the artist/poet's job to bridge the gap between the particular thing and masses otherwise ignorant of the thing. Without the artists' twice-degraded simulacra of the "ideal," people without firsthand experience would have nothing.
No matter what, the information must travel through a human medium in order to be of any use. Objectivity is a myth, and Brady's or Gardner's staged photographs are like little encapsulations of that idea. The news is manufactured, so reporters, visual or otherwise aught to embrace the potential of their work to be emotionally manipulative. Sometimes a video of a woman bleeding to death is what people need to see.
- February 14, 2012 at 2:00 AM
- Jim Schiele said...
Neda's instant death by what I would describe as an errant shot by a government sniper occurred as much by accident as by design. A well-trained sniper behind a suitable barricade, be it building or stone wall, is simply not trained to take down a teenage female who is not intent on hurling a grenade or leading a column of rioters. Errors like this happen frequently when crowds are on the move and people are shifting, whether it occurs on the urban street or the live battlefield. Stonewall Jackson was shot by a well-trained sniper in his own army at Chancellorsville in May 1863. I would believe that the voice of the government, who controls the media in Iran (except for the small core of dissidents), would have made this known quickly. I doubt that Neda's tragic death affected public opinion. Public opinion in Tehran was strictly focused on a rigged election. It never makes a ruling political party or government look very good when tragedy happens. Aside from those immediately affected by her death, the interest in the incident and scene was probably more important in the aftermath to those of us outside of Tehran's sphere.
I find very little in Neda's death and the pictures that captured the event to compare with Gardner's photographs of 150 years ago at Antietam. As far as I know, few if any of the dead photographed on the field of battle 2 days after the battle were clearly identified, at least for purposes of publication. The world knew who Neda was 2 minutes after her death. It became global news and brought a wave of sympathy to her, her family, and the cause of justice in Iran. Antietam's dead opened the eyes of those who looked at the pictures in the United States as to not only the size of the war that was raging, but what it meant to Americans both North and South. The culmination of Antietam was the Emancipation Proclamation and to Lincoln, the beginning of a "new birth of freedom" and a shift in national purpose from "Union" to "Emancipation."
No such meaning has taken place in Iran. It remains a country, 3 years after the riot and deaths, still in the hands of those who have taken control since the fall of the Shah. There has been no change, no resolution, and there probably will not be for some time. We have no idea how many back the ruling regime, but it likely has a majority that support it.
- February 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- Paul Gruber said...
Plato said we should not welcome the poet into the well ordered state "because he awakens and nourishes and strengthens the feelings and impairs the reason."
It seems that he would see a photographer in a similar way because they too, as Jim said, are twice removed from the "ideal." Viewing removal from the "ideal form" as a negative could be seen a a critique against adding meaning to something you yourself do not understand. I would imagine a painter who is also a carpenter would get a pass from plato and not be labeled as an imitator of imitation.
If this is true and Plato was critiquing the artist for the act of uninformed creation then, we could say that plato would accept an artist who is trying to create reason in a forum of mostly 2nd level imitation (the art most create).
So in the case of the Neda or Journalism in a broader sense, Plato would criticize the "Factual" nature of it. In getting away from the objective we are also moving away from reason. Reason as to why these atrocities are occurring. Of course many of the enraged protesters for any cause could present a list of evil doings done by the group they rally against yet most probably could not tell you why.
The why is a much larger question that conveniently no longer gets asked. As Parker Palmer says, "Violence is what we do when we don't know what to do with our suffering" and to quote Tupac, "Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races."
- February 16, 2012 at 1:13 AM
- Paul Gruber said...
**I would imagine a painter who is also a carpenter would get a pass from plato and not be labeled as an imitator of imitation if said painter decided to paint a picture of a table or chair.
- February 16, 2012 at 1:17 AM
- Julie said...
I was struck by your phrase "pornography of violence," Professor Dowd. I'm still processing exactly what that means in the context of media(ted) images of war, protests, terrorism, etc. The term "pornography" literally refers to sexual images that are circulated and distributed for individuals' private erotic satisfaction. Pornography is almost always associated with shame and repressed desire… it's the original "guilty pleasure." So, given these associations, what exactly does "pornography of violence" mean? For me, it seems to refer to any grotesque or disturbing images that give viewers a perverse form of enjoyment. People have been making a case for a while now that this type of imagery is quite plentiful in mainstream films, video games, and TV shows. The question is, how does "news"— or information that is considered "objective"— depend on these kinds of sensational images? To what extent do we get pleasure from pain, and where can we draw the line between mere curiosity and a twisted form of intrigue?
Any discussion of extreme images in the media— whether they be violent or sexual— has to take the idea of "the spectacle" into account. I was fascinated by Trachtenberg's discussion of the stereoscope and its connection to Civil War photography. He talked about how, in the 1880s/90s, the American public suddenly became interested in seeing images of the Civil War. During this era it became "trendy" to peruse photographs of battle sites and corpses and a number of novel ways to look at war photographs emerged— the stereoscope, the photo album. (For some reason, whenever I try to imagine this, I always end up laughing, because I picture some genteel Victorian couple in their parlor sipping tea and loftily peering through stereoscope goggles.) Looking through the stereoscope was a leisure activity; it required distance, time and privilege. What is the modern version of the stereoscope? The YouTube video? And does it function in the same way?
And how does this relate back to Neda? Does the image of her death really move us, especially those of us who have never visited Tehran or personally seen someone die? Do we only care about her because she was so clearly a victim? Because blood was streaming down her face? I actually just came out of a class where we talked about Judith Butler's controversial book "Precarious Life," which raises questions about mourning and violence in the post 9/11 era. Butler is deeply troubled by inequalities in the world, and the idea that some lives are more "valuable" than others, depending on which kind of people get media attention. There are so many other Nedas, but we don't know they exist. So why do we only focus on one person's death to tell their stories?
To return to the question you asked, Professor Dowd, how can a 40 second video clip represent all there is to know about Iran, the 2009 protests, and the international climate at the time? Why is collective memory based on such small fragments of what happened? It's as if our understanding of history is dismembered and disjointed. A deeply disturbing thought, indeed.
- February 16, 2012 at 1:07 PM
- miki said...
There are so many ways to approach this discussion!
We humans build our reality moment by moment. And we weave those moments into meaning for ourselves. And we may communicate our moments and interpretations to others, who will then collect and restory them for themselves.
So what does one individual "on the fringes of an event tell us about complex political phenomena"? Neda's death is one piece, one moment, in the whole. It is as essential as every other moment. Every moment. Does an overturned grocery cart matter in the bigger picture of war? I believe so. When that event is one of many or a catalyst; that loss of food or disruption of delivery may be one moment of many that build to food shortage, malnutrition and stunted growth, changes in reproduction, the negative impact of earlier famine on the health of present generations—such a story (minus the grocery cart) was on NPR a while ago. Each moment contains a multitude of facts that are filtered subjectively. They all matter. What they tell us depends on who's doing the telling and who's listening. The distributed images of Neda's death have led to "no change, no resolution" in Iran, as Jim S. states. I suspect it has led to much change, but it may not be evident or sweeping or satisfactory, yet.
During the Civil War, the contemporary technology allowed for stereoscopic images to be seen in homes, and for cartes de visite to be widely distributed. As Jim S. points out, those who saw the images had their eyes opened, and the culmination of Antietam (incl. those images and their mass dist.) was the Emancipation Proclamation and a shift in national purpose.
I agree with Jim O'B. that "objectivity is a myth" and am intrigued by his recommendation that "reporters ought to embrace the potential of their work to be emotionally manipulative." When I think of what I see as laughable and/or appalling manipulations by reporters, I wonder if we might add a note of caution to that. Yet I agree that it is important for reporters to recognize their potential impact (and I would add responsibility).
I apologize that I don't recall his name, but I recently listened to an interview on "On Being" during which the reporter described his realization that he and his wife had been pushing forward stories about some issue in China and completely missing a different, huge issue (in this case, and very briefly, the plight of girls in China). They subsequently shifted their focus, and being influential media-makers, the focus of many others as well.
In the same interview, the journalist gave an answer to one of Julie's questions—why focus on one to tell the story of many? Our ability to engage, to be impacted by news, dwindles when we are confronted with the plight of many, whereas when we are given the story of a single individual, we are moved. Being moved is essential to caring and perhaps to creating change.
Moment by moment.
I'll stop. I could go on, but I fear this is already too disjointed and rambly. But... For instance, what about what it takes to move us these days? What kind of technology are we headed toward, and what kind of visual and emotional engagement will it "allow"? I for one don't need (and didn't watch) a video of someone dying. I was disturbed enough by 150-year-old B&W images of post-battle corpses in the woods. Seeing 3D versions did somehow take me there, though, so I can imagine how powerful the video is.
- February 19, 2012 at 11:54 AM
- Max Temescu said...
The reportage of a thing must be removed from the actual thing, that is part of it's nature. The platonic distinction of levels of truth is something that people can't really perceive without some thought in their daily lives. To tell the difference between the chair I'm sitting on and the ideal form of chair does not occur naturally.
I say this because it seems that especially now (and I expect just as much so in 1862 based on reportage I've read from that time) reportage cannot occur without some idea of author. Even if I don't know who, I know that somebody is translating an event for me. As Jim says, a human medium. In 1862 people weren't praising the event of The Battle of Antietam for demonstrating the nature of the war, they were praising Mr. Brady's photographs. Anybody looking at these images know they are looking at a thing that has been produced, but does that matter?
I begin think of J.M.W's painting of the houses of parliament burning. This is a historical event that Turner witnessed, sketched, and painted later. Obviously his painting is not a factual/photographic representation, but having seen the painting in person, I feel I have a way to come to an understanding of that event.
The same way a story must be believable when told for listeners to trust it as truth, so must an image. I trust Turner because it seems to me the personal investment in its production that seems apparent must stem from experience.
Of course we know there is a bias behind any image. But when photos demand that the viewer trust the facts they're presented with, it is much easier to find sympathies toward that depiction.
Antietam photos were made by Gardener, and I believe them. They are taken in such a way that encourages me to feel that if I had encountered a body on that field in september 1862, that is what I would had seen and how I would have seen it. That feeling is composed by the medium. It seems brutal because that is what I'm investing in it.
We feel in watching the Rodney King video that someone took that video. They focused on what they saw as most important, they wrote down what they saw as fact. And then they showed it to me and because the way they took those images seems frank to me I feel like I was there and saw it. Even though I know I didn't.
In the case of Rodney King, a lot of people got that feeling, and it was important that they did. We feel like we were there, can make judgements about it, and decide to take action based on someone else's experience of it.
- February 20, 2012 at 10:08 AM
- Max Temescu said...
- February 20, 2012 at 10:09 AM