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:thumbup: Yes I sure do, look in the baby clothing in the op shops, I have picked up some little cotton dresses there to use.
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:thumbup: Yes I sure do, look in the baby clothing in the op shops, I have picked up some little cotton dresses there to use.
I picked up a sheet today, looked like one custom made, that I am going to use to make new beds for my dogs. What caught my eye was the wide boarder at the bottom. It reads, No PLACE LIKE HOME, NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
There sure isn't, lol.
Yes, I do but does someone have a quick pattern for salvaging shirts?
I do this as well. I am also the one who ends up with other people's scraps. I love Bonnie Hunter's site and am going through, trying to organize my fabrics. I am making quilts for family members this year, and every one of them is coming from my stash. I don't use sheets for backing, as I get my backing fabric (really wide, can't remember the width) for 5.99 or 6.99 a yard.
Yes, I do recycle fabric. I also get some great finds on fabric at yard sales thrift stores and various resale shops. I hope you get the sales position. It sounds like fun.
Fabric is like money, no matter how much you have it's never enough.
Our local salvation Army store has men's shirts for $2.00, (only $1.00 apiece when they have their half price sale.) Some of these shirts have such very nice sturdy fabric! (Sometimes the shirt has been washed so many times that the fabric content/size/etc. tag no longer has any ink left on it, but the fabric is just as nice as can be. I know which brands are almost always 100% cotton. I've been doing this "awhile.") I find a large variety of plaids, and all different colors of solid shirts, too, (so that in your quilt, "the eye can rest." I look at the largest of sizes first! Sometimes I score a XXX- lots of fabric in these! One of my best finds was a $1.00 yard sale all cotton queen duvet cover...had a little bit of mildewing at the bottom on one side, but 95% of the thing was usable. (Base for strip quilt blocks.) Duvet covers are quite a score! Just check the tag inside to determine the fabric content, if you want it to be 100% cotton. I gotta look around my sewing area and made a list of all my sewing treasures "found." LOVE the thrill of the chase!
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I bought anything made out of soft velour from our Good Will shop and from yard sales for 2 years and then made myself a beautiful quilt/shams using the crazy quilt pattern. I went back over each seam with a bright gold embroidery thread when I was quilting it. My top binding is gold braid.
Sometimes I'll get sheets to reuse. I've put things aside (clothes, tableclothes, etc) because I've loved the pattern but they'll mostly stay on my shelf for years because I can't find anything to do with them so then they just get thrown away. I work the opposite now. I buy bolts of fabric for decorating (mostly Halloween stuff) and then reuse for quilts!


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1) As was said, you have to use the AC Delco connector that comes with the car. It incorporates some electronics that allows the V to control the iPhone. If you use a regular iPhone charging/sync cable, you just get power and the car won't recognize the iPhone for other control.
2) The AC Delco cable is the perfect length to have it directly under where the arm rest will fall on the connector portion that houses the electronics. Let the armrest fall on it once, and it won't work anymore. Don't ask me how I know.
I found it pretty easy to cut the 3.5mm and USB connectors off the AC Delco cable and splice in some longer wires. Then I ran the wires from inside the glove box, under the center console trim and right out by where I mount the iPhone on the passenger side of the center console. Now it's easy to plug in, have full, control, and not need to fish around in the armrest all the time.
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I had the proclip mount in my previous car (lexus GS) and the phone was mounted let's say near the passenger a/c controls, which was great as I could see it while driving and operate it no problem. In the CTS their website shows it to be installed parallel with the ground near the shifter, if that's the only mounting point that's pretty useless for me having a manual as I can't mount it on my side as I'd hit it, and if I mount it on the passenger side, it seems I wouldn't be able to see it, let me know your feedback.
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Yoga for Losers Part 1
The following is the first of two parts of a keynote I gave at the Advancing Feminist Poetics Conference at CUNY last week…
I have a bunch of things I've been reflecting on lately and I wonder what kind of keynote they'll make. Generally I'm happiest with the off the cuff remarks which are so often planned. I have a number of things and I'll jot them on an index card which seems a blank postcard to myself perfect little luggage with several of these I sit down and then the utter formality of the poetry world always feeds me. I feel like a predator.
The formal aspect of our world is never the party any of us came for. I've been trained through performance and an aspect of my private life to speak extemporaneously (which is actually the thing that is most repressed in the confererence settings except for the person who is getting to speak which is why not getting invited makes us mad – uninvited you're squashed back down into the public silence of the gathering) and we all teach that way don't we – a lot. You can always recognize a person who teaches by their unabashed capacity to talk to themselves in front of others – for hours. There's a kind of oblivious surface they excrete. It's palpable, you can feel it. Of course you can never more feel it with a high school teacher but people who teach poetry in college are really good at blah blah blah. But somehow when we give papers or keynotes or panels we want to get it right nail it so we tend to write it down.
Jim Carroll just died which is one thing on my mind. He was an exceptional poet performer and he had one trick which I've thought about for years which was to look up from the text he was reading from and spontaneously fill you in a little more. To explore in some detail what he had been reading about. It made the audience cheer that they had come because Jim live gave even more than Jim on the page. But if you happily bought his book you would discover that Jim was merely delivering direct to the audience a part of the text but acting as if it were off the cuff. He was spontaneously doing himself. He never said it; it was all delivered in tone. There's a kind of genius in this, to almost appropriate your own work to your own ends, it's a joke that you rope the audience into. It's a con.
Patti Smith, is another poet performer who started hanging around in the late sixties in New York and hit her public stride in the mid seventies. Patti would organize the chaos of her patter into an art. If you listen to her early recordings you'll hear her babbling about Arthur Rimbaud or Gerard De Nerval and then the babble becomes percussive which releases the poem that is essentially a chant and then it was just bringing the band in but they were already there. She created room for them in the poem. And Patti always came with an entourage to her early performances and her friends would chat with her onstage and she sounded and looked scared and that look evoked a kind of protective fan ship from the crowd both her friends and everyone else. It was Patti's vulnerability when she performed that was her performance's single most compelling note. It was a collective inside. It was breathing. She was Patti to an audience of Patti's somehow. One felt the triumph of us in her earliest performances. Like Yoga for losers.
I'm always thinking another name for poetry would help out at this point and also another name for feminism. Isn't that the impulse to make schools. I'm hoping in this conference someone will explain it to me. I mean if you're using something everybody already knows (Language, Conceptual) and putting things in it that everybody already does then I think it's a store, not a school. Maybe even a chain. It contributes to the history of branding not aesthetics. Poetry just seems like a handful of things and the spark part is how they are connected. I'd like to write about that spark but maybe that is what I'm doing. I've been noticing lately after taking yoga classes erratically for about ten years and mostly feeling rage through them as the person is telling me how to breathe and move and I'm freaked out by the intimacy and my inability to pay attention and then how rigid I am in some places. I'm stuck. The teacher gives you little tips. You're doing something where you hold your knees to your chest and she advises that you stretch your back out and put your tailbone on the floor or spread your shoulders feel it open your chest. These are the things I rarely hear in the present maybe in about one class in ten but years later doing the stretch on my own on the floor the idea comes unbidden and the posture changes and I swiftly move to the next.
When we do a poetry reading we act as if we are unaware of the silence between the poems or that we never expected it would be there when we know perfectly well how long each poem is and when we are moving from one to the next especially if you look at all the post its flapping out of your book. You knew you'd be standing there drinking water leaving us awkward and thirsty. I love that Jim and Patti made those synapses be the life of the show. Jim's interruptions of the text itself made the moments in between texts be invisible. We know he is our friend. He has opened up to us now and so we're comfortable sitting here waiting together in time till Jim sees what's next. I remember that he was a bartender's son. He knew you were watching.
I remember watching Robert Pinsky give a reading many years ago; pre poet Laureate Pinsky and he wore a beautiful striped shirt that he read a poem about. His entire delivery was smug and well honed; each little anecdote between the poems was planned and had obviously been work shopped through multiple test audiences to see what pleased us and what we could stand. This was not a spontaneous poet. Not even trying to look that way. Tight as a bandbox, kind of a hale and hearty fellow for librarians I thought. He was reading with a friend of mine. He's horrible I whispered and she got mad that I would say this while he was in the room. But the room was where I was offended. The interregnum remarks of the poet tell us whom he or she is speaking to. If you are uncomfortable with their description of reality you don't have to stay. They inform us of the nature of the whole production. Is this an intellectual exercise, is entertainment part of it now, maybe it will be, was it ever. Often people think 'I hate poetry' in response to these moments. It may be an appropriate response. But poets are the people who enjoy passing through these changes. Again I say Yoga for Losers.
In my Iceland book one of the things I say all the time when I read from it is that its one of the most lesbian books of art writing that doesn't call itself that. I mean the book was written in bits and pieces over the years assembled I think much like a poetry reading. A reading I think considers the effect of the last piece listens and drops another one into that opening that will address or attenuate or alter the affect that continues to rumble in the reader and the audience's minds and bodies. It's an accumulation of things. Yoga for losers, so to speak. I say the lesbian thing because I'm continually (since I wrote the pieces separately) announcing my lesbianity in individual pieces because it was always an opportunity in public to stick that word in the unlikely place in the world when I'm writing an art review or a personal column or an essay. I kept seizing this opportunity to out myself and now I have the problem of putting these pieces together and wondering if I've said the word lesbian thirty-eight times or two hundred and fifty times or ninety-seven. Then I realize I can search and I have. I think it's similar with the phrase language poet. (More tomorrow….)
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I like this & I don't like this. That's how it is; this is my reaction; this is my riff. Don't ask, don't tell. Whatever. I like this because it sings along so effectively, like a jazz drummer who knows every touch on the syllable-skin;
I DON'T like this, because, logically, my thought is that free extempore self-improvisation IS the CANONICAL FORMALIST STYLE of AMERICA TODAY – so that Eileen Myles's persona of jammin'-kool rebel is in that (& only that) specific-particular sense an example of bad faith – because deep down she's a Formalist of the reigning American Style – deep down she's a lost American Prodigal Patriot of the Popular-Projectile Style –
duplex, divided –
I can identify, sort of – I have mixed feelings about it –
just sayin' –
Mostly the address strikes me. Its motif, poetry as yoga for losers, is well developed and I think I get it. Mind you, it is not something I can subscribe to, since, for me, and at its best, poetry is a shake down, a take down, a shiver and a seizure. Still, it is nicely threaded through and with merit of its own.
At the risk of being impolite where the address fails for me is when it expresses the writer's animus against another poet, an animus expressed elsewhere I think, even if I can't remember where. This strikes me as mean spirited, a cheap and unnecessary shot actually, causing a diminishment in what I think the writing wants to effect: an abolition of words that categorize and, therefore, keep people strangers to each other. Just my take. I hope the piece was well received.
Way past time to get over yourself, isn't it, Myles?
"and we all teach that way don't we – a lot."
Is this true? I wonder.
"You can always recognize a person who teaches by their unabashed capacity to talk to themselves in front of others – for hours. There's a kind of oblivious surface they excrete. It's palpable, you can feel it. Of course you can never more feel it with a high school teacher but people who teach poetry in college are really good at blah blah blah."
Maybe. Or maybe not. Again, I wonder.
What I mean by this is why do you have to wear your homosexuality on your sleeve like it's…I don't know…the Medal of Honor or a big red 'A' or something? What do these personal details contribute to poetry, after all? I think most people are sick and tired of this 'us and them' bullshit: gay and straight, black and white, liberal and conservative, rich and poor, cool and uncool. Why would any poet want to compartmentalize and limit themselves like that? 'Gay' poet, 'Feminist poet', 'Latino' poet, 'Political' poet. Can't we just be poets? Jeez, get over it.
I say the lesbian thing because I'm continually (since I wrote the pieces separately) announcing my lesbianity in individual pieces because it was always an opportunity in public to stick that word in the unlikely place in the world when I'm writing an art review or a personal column or an essay. I kept seizing this opportunity to out myself and now I have the problem of putting these pieces together and wondering if I've said the word lesbian thirty-eight times or two hundred and fifty times or ninety-seven.
Yay for you, Eileen!! Thanks!!! Cheers and whistles from the peanut gallery!!!
While there is certainly a fair amount of overlap, I believe there is a significant difference between being a "Lesbian Poet" and a poet who is a lesbian. The former is a niche (and a politically important one) detailing and dissecting the experience of being an "other" in society. Someone mentioned "don't ask, don't tell" earlier, and saying these distinctions do not matter, should be ignored, is dangerously close to that process of institutional discrimination.
As for the latter, of which I think Eileen's work is a good example, her mentions of lesbianism in her essays seem to me more of an aside to the subjects. A qualifier for her point of view. When writing about art, this distinction is valuable and necessary for the reader. It lets us know what we are getting ourselves into. Any irritation it provokes seems to me a reaction of some sort of discomfort in the reader, and whose fault is that?
Would you say the same thing about Lucille Clifton writing about African women? Should she have gotten over it?
Eileen, you can't seriously be trying to use these tired old arguments from the 70's to justify your current verbal exhibitionism. I don't know where you live, but you should move right away. Where I live, the significance of the difference between gay and straight and black and white and Hispanic and Asian went away decades ago. I work in a company with all of these types of people, and more, and we not only work together but socialize together and nobody really gives a rodent's rectum about sexual orientation anymore. The only value this knowledge has in general society is knowing who not to hit on. 🙂
Maybe it's you that should take 21st C 101. Welcome to it.
I also can't help but wonder, based on my earlier comment, how you would even know whether I'm not gay or TG. A little (arrogantly) presumptuous of you, isn't it?
Oh, and Zach:
"…saying these distinctions do not matter, …is dangerously close to that process of institutional discrimination."
This is a classic oxymoron, isn't it? I always though discrimination WAS the identification of distinctions.
dis•crim•i•na•tion (dĭ-skrĭm'ə-nā'shən)
1.The act of discriminating.
2. The ability or power to see or make fine distinctions; discernment.
3. Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice: racial discrimination; discrimination against foreigners.
While I enjoy splitting hairs just as much as the next person, I believe the intent of the statement was clear enough.
I think it's great that you work in such an eclectic and accepting environment, but I find it narrow-minded to assume that the general mindset of our culture (assuming you are American) functions in that way.
I live and work in New York City, a supposed Mecca of acceptance for queer-identified people, as well as countless other groups of societies "others," and I see shit on the street every day that informs me that quite a large number of people are not, in fact, "over it."
I'm originally from New York. I graduated from High School on Long Island and went to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I see things haven't changed much in 40 years.
All I can say is: "Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes."
Yeah, Eileen, Gary's a lesbian, don't you know? That's why he's an expert on lesbians. He has all the qualifications to speak for lesbians, because he is one, see. Get with the program!
A) That was mean, Mary.
B) My point is that people are people, gay or not.
C) I am probably personally acquainted with more lesbians than you are AS a lesbian.
D) Get with the program. You are actually discriminating against yourselves simply by DEMANDING to be considered different. In everything that counts, you aren't at all.
It always pains me when the conversation among poets becomes a fractured fairy tale.
~You can't know what I feel. I am a lesbian and you are not.
~You can't imagine what I've experienced. I am african-american and you are a cracker.
~You can't understand me. I am the product of poverty and domestic abuse. You are the product of privelige.
The fracturing list goes on. Then I think of things like this. Hands down Russia's greatest poet was Pushkin. (in a whisper I point out that his great grandfather was an Egyptian (black) slave who happened to find favor with his Czar.) Jean Toomer, sort of associated with the Harlem renaissance, was taken to task for his lack of "negro" consciousness. To which he responded that he was a writer first, a black man second. Victor Hugo, France's greatest Romantic poet, had African in his blood. Sappho's poetry was less devoted to the women she loved, including her daughter, than it was to Aphrodite, the Goddess of love itself. And who ever thinks to remember that Whitman was a pedophile or that Melville was so in love with Hawthorn Hawthorn's wife had to insist upon no more visits?
I read you people, with your biases and agendas, and I get again something Yeats said in a late journal entry. From memory, the Moderns speak to the partial person, the Ancients speak to the whole. I kind of want the whole of the human condition back in poetry. I understand that for centuries poetry's universals have been defined by men and by the ruling classes. I get it. Now give me the new universals and no more of this fractured, fracturing fairy tale.
"I say the lesbian thing because I'm continually (since I wrote the pieces separately) announcing my lesbianity in individual pieces because it was always an opportunity in public to stick that word in the unlikely place in the world when I'm writing an art review or a personal column or an essay. I kept seizing this opportunity to out myself and now I have the problem of putting these pieces together and wondering if I've said the word lesbian thirty-eight times or two hundred and fifty times or ninety-seven."
At what point, if ever, does this approach become the equivalent of Pinsky's well honed, striped shirt? I don't know the answer, but I think it's a legitimate question one might ask of oneself or of someone else.
"From memory, the Moderns speak to the partial person, the Ancients speak to the whole. I kind of want the whole of the human condition back in poetry."
I think Eileen said it best in the Yoga for Losers II thread when she wrote (about being sick of the word feminism): "Don't we ever just get to be." [Whole, human, universal.]
I very much agree with Eileen: heterosexuality is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo present in this world in a strong but also unconsciously marked way, that there's nothing behind the times about continually calling attention to one's homosexuality. Every time I drive anyplace, I'm swamped by heterosexuality! It's the audience for, for example, every billboard or advertising sign which doesn't have to do with food (tho surely some food adds feature hetersex couples); the number of–in public spaces–clearly homosexualized visual markers is rather scanty, I'd argue, to the point where one, except in certain communities, might be pursuaded to believe that non-hetersexsers don't exist! Oh yah, the radio is mostly rather heterosexy too…but I'll gladly admit that I ADORE the radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, Adam, it is difficult to be a minority in this society.
You should try being a poet!
And now, as everybody who knows me here expects, since I have survived another stressful Monday at work (and have gotten totally loaded to compensate), I just can't resist posting a poem.
Eileen said:
"Silent like every valentines day commercially silently being about you. What a world."
I think this poem might speak to all 'preferences'.
Valentine + 30
Wow! All these years and
such an ass, so many bad decisions
but still you never left me.
So inconsiderate, so often crass,
but you're still here beside me.
You still make my dinner,
pick up my clothes (carelessly tossed
despite all admonitions)
and still each year you happily accept
my guilty February rose.
Have I thanked you even half as often
as all the things you've done for me?
Copyright 2008 – SOFTWOOD 2008, Gary B. Fitzgerald
Fooked up me own book title, I did. I think I'll split before Travis beats me up.
Did you know that the Harriet staff sent me a personal letter advising me that I would be cut off after 12 beers or three poems, whichever came first?
For GS:
I could qualify for that identity, if it counts that
I read poems for at-least 4 hours each week, that I write
poems for, usually, at-least ten hours each week, and that I send submissions of poems out frequently…but, and this is a personal preference, not a critique, I don't consider myself a poet: I prefer human or, maybe even better, just
plain living; poetry is very important to me, but it can hardly account for all that living entails, so it seems a bit reductive. I hope all's well!
Terreson and Gary: A multicultural society isn't one in which everyone is at the office or the poetry reading pretending to be the same. A multicultural society is one in which differences are acknowledged and accepted as such. The dominant culture in poetry and outside doesn't need to pat the different folks on the head and say, I knew we were all the same! We're not all the same. Respect that.
Point taken and well put. The issue Eileen brought up, of course, is basically social acceptance of differences in sexual orientation, but what I was trying to address is a deeper level of 'sameness'. What I said above (before my little snit) was that we are all the same "in everything that counts", i.e., fear, pain, love, anger, happiness and mortality. Ultimately, we're all on the same boat. They say there are no Atheists in foxholes. I say that death does not discriminate. This sounds so obvious and banal that we never really think about it. Think about it! In the face of these overarching realities the differences between us seem silly and melt away.
It's kind of weird to get critiqued on my style. You mean if I wrote in a conventional expository format that wouldn't be worthy of comment. What about your speak. I think your comment goes into the same difference argument that for some reason my post provoked which is that there's something troubling about claiming a difference in your writing style or your content. Especially in your case because my difference in your head is reigning and I can tell you from my years as a poet journalist it's an argument every time. One gets aloud to write "like that" or "this" in quirky little poetry journals and cultural mags but to try and use the vernacular you've arrived on in a more mainstream journal and all you get is editors trying to fix you. I've had some success in bucking this but you can't tell me I am canonical. That just isn't true.
I did make a pot shot at another poet and it had happened here, earlier in my blogging life. My take is we can write publicly about someone who is "big" and rewarded because they can take it. Some of the names of the awards poets get beg it, really. I also think we can lambast younger less experienced writers if they are pontificating, making large claims as if from a acceptable position of power – we all know that soldiers are political or some other weird proposition. Or if the younger writer cites ludicrous claims by older writer as if that assures him credibility. I guess what I'm saying is the world is more interesting if we write what we want and I try not to be a bully unless I think someone else is being a fool. Is that ethics or aesthetics. I dunno.
This is so good. Thanks Zach…
Of all the mysterious things you said this is the most mysterious. I will respond to your larger claims like I said in a bigger post not to you but the I think larger issue of privilege blindness. But I saw your latest post and do recognize I think you are finding a less combative ground to consider it all from and I am glad to hear that…
I think the idea is that we don't replace our lost universals with new ones. We reconstruct the whole idea of what a culture is. We don't have a handy center anymore cause centers and universals do the work of silencing. Our links for instance tell another story…
I think when I anyone does it badly, when the response to the patter is a kind of dullness, a sense that we're being talked down to or patronized or preached to. Different work has different audiences. I was certain Pinksky was not speaking to or for me. I think (and this was the point of my piece in many ways) there's as many responses to what a person puts out (obviously) as there are pieces. So maybe you are in a sneaky way saying that I am as bad as Pinksy (but do you think Pinsky is bad – did you hear his performance, do you trust my account?) but are not willing to say that. Not so sly, Rachel. Actually your indirect question felt dull to me.
No, I wasn't saying you are dull. My question may have been dull, but it wasn't meant to be indirect.
Of Pinsky you wrote: "This was not a spontaneous poet. Not even trying to look that way." I had at the back of my mind this quote from Rich: "We see despair in the political activist who doggedly goes on and on, turning in the ashes of the same burnt-out rhetoric, the same gestures, all imagination spent." I'm not saying, if you use "the word lesbian thirty-eight times or two hundred and fifty times or ninety-seven," it automatically becomes a burnt-out gesture. I'm also not saying I think the world is an enlightened place as Gary finds it to be.
For the sake of this discussion, I was accepting your evaluation of Pinsky (who I have never heard read), and my question really was: How do you avoid following into the same trap? How do any of us? Political activist, political poet, non-political poet, how do we avoid the same old ashy gestures? How do we avoid becoming caricatures of ourselves? I'm not implying you have fallen into this trap; I'm asking you how you avoid it.
I understand the point you are making, Gary, and I agree with it. Those deep universals, the ones that unite, are the ones I think Terreson was referring to as well.
I'd argue that the world's not a case of "in the face of these overarching realities the differences between us seem silly and melt away"–I don't think the difference Eileen is addressing is silly, and I'd be rather surprised if it melts away (and if it does, hurray, as the world GS is describing could–not always, sometimes–be read as the closet). Just because there are differences does not, however, mean that common elements of existence should be overlooked, that difference should always, with no critical consciousness, be be priviliged.
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Barone, Michael. Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs.
Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future. New York, Crown
Forum, 2004. 188p.
Book call no.: 361.610973 B265h
Callahan, David. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are
Doing Wrong to Get Ahead. Orlando, FL, Harcourt, 2004. 353p.
Book call no.: 174 C156c
Christopher, Paul. The Ethics of War and Peace: An
Introduction to Legal and Moral Issues. Upper Saddle River, NJ,
Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. 278p.
Book call no.: 172.42 C556e 2004
Ciulla, Joanne B. Ethics, the Heart of Leadership.
Westport, CT, Praeger, 2004. 205p.
Book call no.: 174.4 E842 2004
Cook, Martin L. The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the
U.S. Military. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 2004.
Book call no.: 172.42 C771m
Cornell, Drucilla. Defending Ideals: War, Democracy, and
Political Struggles. New York, Routledge, 2004. 157p.
Book call no.: 320 C814d
Ficarrotta, J. Carl. The Leader's Imperative: Ethics,
Integrity, and Responsibility. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University
Press, 2001. 313p.
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Fuller, Timothy. Leading and Leadership. Notre Dame, IN,
University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. 250p.
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Gibney, Mark. Five Uneasy Pieces: American Ethics in a
Globalized World. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
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Hartle, Anthony E. Moral Issues in Military Decision Making.
Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, 2004. 271p.
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Hunter, James C. The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle:
How to Become a Servant Leader. New York, Crown Business, 2004.
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Ignatieff, Michael. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an
Age of Terror. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 2004.
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Johnson, Craig E. Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership:
Casting Light or Shadow. Thousand Oaks, CA Sage, 2001. 260p.
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Keating, Thomas F. and Andy W. Knight. Building Sustainable
Peace. New York, NY, United Nations University Press, 2004.
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Kessler, Ronald. A Matter of Character: Inside the White House
of George W. Bush. New York, Sentinel, 2004. 306p.
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Lang, Anthony F., Albert C. Pierce and Joel H. Rosenthal. Ethics and
the Future of Conflict: Lessons from the 1990s. Upper Saddle
River, NJ, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. 192p.
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Mileham, Patrick. Military Ethics for the Expeditionary Era.
London, Royal Institute of International Affairs; Washington, DC,
Distributed by the Brookings Institution, 2001. 106p.
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Singer, Peter. The President of Good & Evil: The Ethics of
George W. Bush. New York, Dutton, 2004. 280p.
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Wakin, Malham M. Integrity First: Reflections of a Military
Philosopher. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2000. 183p.
Book call no.: 172.42 W149i
Walzer, Michael. Arguing about War. New Haven, Yale
University Press, 2004. 208p.
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Wellman, David J. Sustainable Diplomacy: Ecology, Religion,
and Ethics in Muslim-Christian Relations. New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004. 250p.
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Howell, Abigail S. Operational Ethics in Coalition Warfare:
Whose Ethics Will Prevail? a Philosophical / Theological Conundrum.
Newport, RI, Naval War College, 2002.
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Johnson, Ronald D. Leadership. Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S.
Army War College, 2003. 22p.
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Kay, Ronald E. Strategic Leadership: It Doesn't Take a Bully.
Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, 1998. 29p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 39080-537 K23s
Keithley, Blair A. Dimensions of Professional Ethics for the Modern
United States Military. Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, 2002.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA406901
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Kersh, Kevin G. Fired Up by Commitment, Example, and Values:
How High-Performance Organizations Develop Leadership. Monterey, CA,
Naval Postgraduate School; Maxwell AFB, AL, Air University, 2002. 64p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA420594
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Sando, Donald M. Band of Brothers: Warrior Ethos, Unit
Effectiveness and the Role of Initial Entry Training. Carlisle
Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, 2004. 20p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA424011
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Stafford, Charles A. Building on the Vision. Carlisle
Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, 2004. 26p.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA424105
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Cook, Martin L. The Proper Role of Professional Military Advice in
Contemporary Uses of Force. Parameters 32:21-33 Winter
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Da Rocha, Alexandre S. The Ethical Problem in Pluralistic Societies
and Dr. Toner's "Mistakes". Aerospace Power Journal
15:81-94 Spring 2001.
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Foster, Gregory D. Civil-Military Gap: What are the Ethics? U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 126:82-84 April 2000.
Franke, Volker C. and Lindy Heinecken. Adjusting to Peace:
Military Values in a Cross-National Comparison. Armed Forces &
Society 27:567-595 Summer 2001.
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Gentry, John A. Military Leadership and the Emperor's new Clothes. National Security Studies Quarterly 6:59-71 Spring 2000.
Ignatieff, Michael. Ethics and the New War: Delivered by Dr.
Ignatieff at Royal Military College, 25 Oct 2001. Canadian Military
Journal 2:5-10 Winter 2001-2002.
Also available online at: http://www.journal.dnd.ca/engraph/Vol2/no4/pdf/5-10_e.pdf
Kilner, Peter. Military Leaders' Obligation to Justify Killing in
War. Military Review 82:24-31 March-April 2002.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,uid&db=aph&an=6746543
Neill, Donald A. Ethics and the Military Corporation
Canadian Military Journal 1:27-40 Spring 2000.
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Pfaff, Charles A. Officership: Character, Leadership, and
Ethical Decisionmaking. Military Review 83:66-71
March-April 2003.
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Tarcza, Kenneth. The Army Values Challenge Military
Review 81:77-83 January-February 2001.
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Toner, James H. Military Or Ethics. Air & Space Power
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Wisyanski, David D. Restoring Duty and Honor to the Officer Corps.
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Sorry ladies, crosscode superstar Sonny Bill Williams is off the market.
Williams revealed on Instagram this week that he's in a relationship with aspiring model Alana Raffie, a Sydneysider of South African descent.
He posted a photo of the happy couple, simply captioned "Life", and another a short time later of the same woman on a beach with his nephew Malik.
By Friday, the photos had attracted more than 1,000 comments - many from heartbroken followers.
Williams' sister Niall took to Instagram to defend the couple as some of the comments turned nasty. A relative of Raffie described them as "an amazing couple" and welcomed Williams to the family. Another friend described Raffie as "a beautiful soul".
"People say that she is lucky to have him, but really, he is the lucky one."
Williams' agent, Khoder Nasser, declined to comment on the relationship.
"Mate, I don't get into his personal 'how ya going who's he seeing who's he not seeing'. I wouldn't even put it to him," he said.
Famous for his offloads on the field, Williams, 28, has had his share away from the sports field as well.
He was caught on camera in a drunken tryst with a woman while he was in a long-term relationship with Kiwi Genna Shaw.
His last high profile relationship was with socialite Jaime Ridge, whom he dated briefly last year.
Williams scored three tries for the Kiwis yesterday in their 56-10 win over Papua New Guinea in the Rugby League World Cup.


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I. XENOCRATES was the son of Agathenor, and a native of Chalcedon. From his early youth he was a pupil of Plato, and also accompanied him in his voyages to Sicily.
II. He was by nature of a lazy disposition, so that they say that Plato said once, when comparing him to Aristotle,-- "The one requires the spur, and the other the bridle." And on another occasion, he said, "What a horse and what an ass am I dressing opposite to one another!"
III. In other respects Xenocrates was always of a solemn and grave character, so that Plato was continually saying to him,--"Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces." And he spent the greater part of his time in the Academy, and whenever he was about to go into the city, they say all the turbulent and quarrelsome rabble in the city used to make way for him to pass by. And once, Phryne the courtesan wished to try him and pretending that she was pursued by some people, she fled and took refuge in his house; and he admitted her indeed, because of what was due to humanity; and as there was but one bed in the room, he, at her entreaty, allowed her to share it with him; but at last, in spite of all her entreaties, she got up and went away, without having been able to succeed in her purpose; and told those who asked her, that she had quitted a statue and not a man. But some say that the real story is, that his pupils put Lais into his bed, and that he was so continent, that he submitted to some severe operations of excision and cautery.
IV. And he was a very trustworthy man; so that, though it was not lawful for men to give evidence except on oath, the Athenians made an exception in his favour alone.
V. He was also a man of the most contented disposition; accordingly they say that when Alexander sent him a large sum of money, he took three thousand Attic drachmas, and sent back the rest, saying, that Alexander wanted most, as he had the greatest number of mouths to feed. And when some was sent him by Antipater, he would not accept any of it, as Myornianus tells us in his Similitudes. And once, when he gained a golden crown, in a contest as to who could drink most, which was offered in the yearly festival of the Choes by Dionysius, he went out and placed the crown at the feet of the statue of Mercury, which was at the gate, where he was also accustomed to deposit his garlands of flowers. It is said also, that he was once sent with some colleagues as an ambassador to Philip; and that they were won over by gifts, and went to his banquets and conversed with Philip; but that he would do none of these things, nor could Philip propitiate him by these means; on which account, when the other ambassadors arrived in Athens, they said that Xenocrates had gone with them to no purpose; and the people were ready to punish him; but when they had learnt from him that they had now more need than ever to look to the welfare of their city, for that Philip had already bribed all their counsellors, but that he had been unable to win him over by any means, then they say that the people honoured him with redoubled honour. They add also, that Philip said afterwards, that Xenocrates was the only one of those who had come to him who was incorruptible. And when he went as ambassador to Antipater on the subject of the Athenian captives at the time of the Samian war, and was invited by him to a banquet, he addressed him in the following lines :
I answer, Goddess human, is thy breast
And Antipater, admiring the appropriateness of the quotation, immediately released them.
VI. On one occasion, when a sparrow was pursued by a hawk, and flew into his bosom, he caressed it, and let it go again, saying that we ought not to betray a suppliant. And being ridiculed by Bion, he said that he would not answer him, for that tragedy, when ridiculed by comedy, did not condescend to make a reply. To one who had never learnt music, or geometry, or astronomy, but who wished to become his disciple, he said, "Be gone, for you have not yet the handles of philosophy." But some say that he said, "Be gone, for I do not card wool here." And when Dionysius said to Plato that some one would cut off his head, he, being present, showed his own, and said, "Not before they have cut off mine."
VII. They say too that once, when Antipater had come to Athens and saluted him, he would not make him any reply before he had finished quietly the discourse which he was delivering.
VIII. Being exceedingly devoid of every kind of pride, he often used to meditate with himself several times a day; and always allotted one hour of each day, it is said, to silence.
IX. And he left behind him a great number of writings, and books of recommendation, and verses, which are these,--six books on Natural Philosophy; six on Wisdom; one on Riches, the Arcadian; one volume on the Indefinite; one on a Child; one on Temperance; one on the Useful; one on the Free; one on Death; one on the Voluntary; two on Friendship; one on Courtesy; two on Contraries; two on Happiness; one on Writing; one on Memory; one on Falsehood; the Callicles one; two on Prudence; one on Oeconomy; one on Temperance; one on the Power of Law; one on Political Constitutions; one on Piety; one to show that Virtue may be transmitted; one about the Existent; one on Fate; one on the Passions; one on Lives; one on Unanimity; two on Pupils; one on Justice; two on Virtue; one on Species; two on Pleasure; one on Life; one on Manly Courage; one on The One; one on Ideas; one on Art; two on the Gods; two on the Soul; one on Knowledge; one on the Statesman; one on Science; one on Philosophy; one on the School of Parmenides; one the Archidemus, or an essay on Justice; one on the Good; eight of those things which concern the Intellect; ten essays in solution of the difficulties which occur respecting Orations; six books on the study of Natural Philosophy; the Principal, one; one treatise on Genus and Species; one on the doctrines of the Pythagoreans; two books of Solutions; seven of Divisions; several volumes of Propositions; several also about the method of conducting Discussions. Besides all this, there are one set of fifteen volumes, and another of sixteen, on the subject of those studies which relate to Speaking; nine more which treat of Ratiocination; six books on Mathematics; two more books on subjects connected with the Intellect; five books on Geometry; one book of Reminiscences; one of Contraries; one on Arithmetic; one on the Contemplation of Numbers; one on Intervals; six on Astronomy; four of elementary suggestions to Alexander, on the subject of Royal Power; one addressed to Arybas; one addressed to Hephaestion; two on Geometry; seven books of Verses.
X. But the Athenians, though he was such a great man, once sold him, because he was unable to pay the tax to which the metics were liable. And Demetrius Phalereus purchased him, and so assisted both parties, Xenocrates by giving him his freedom, and the Athenians in respect of the tax upon metics. This circumstance is mentioned by Myronianus of Amastra, in the first book of his chapters of Historical Coincidences.
XI. He succeeded Speusippus, and presided over the school for twenty-five years, beginning at the archonship of Lysimachides, in the second year of the hundred and tenth olympiad.
XII. And he died in consequence of stumbling by night against a dish, being more than eighty-two years of age. And in one of our epigrams we speak thus of him:
He struck against a brazen pot,
XIII. And there were five other people of the name of Xenocrates. One was an ancient tactician, a fellow citizen, and very near relation of the philosopher of whom we have been speaking; and there is extant an oration of his which is scribed, On Arsinoe, and which was written on the death of Arsinoe. A third was a philosopher who wrote some very indifferent elegiac poetry; and that is not strange, for when poets take to writing in prose, they succeed pretty well; but when prose writers try their hand at poetry, they fail; from which it is plain, that the one is a gift of nature, and the other a work of art. The fourth was a statuary; the fifth a writer of songs, as we are told by Aristoxenus.
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text: Hey guys there is a local landscaper who is under cutting everyone and its pisson people off really bad. For example there is a landscaper who is a friend (doug) of mine and he is doin a yard and he does it for $45.00 and its worth every penny of it just becouse the old man will come out and watch you the WHOLE TIME and its a pretty decent sized yard. well any way the landscaper who is under cuttin everyone goes up there and says i will give you a senior discount and will mow weed eat and blow for $20.00 luckily the guys said the hell with that i like my guy and then any yard that looks to have stripes he will go up and under cut it ATLEAST 5-10 $$. Another LCO (allen) was working and he stopped and he was sayin how he was tryin to get all the accounts he could and under cuttin every one. And he even threatin to take jobs from the other lco (doug) this guy is really pissin people off. What would you all do to get this bastard to stop its not threatining any of our buissnesses its just pissin us off becouse of his BS. Another thing is he has one guy weed eat while he mows and he has a WB and a Z and a decents truck HOW DOES THIS GUY MAKE MONEY after he pays his helper and pays the truck payment and gas and up keep on everything how is he making any kind of profit at all LOL Sorry i just had to get it out. sorry about the spelling.


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How much stock can you put into stats from the Dominican Summer League? In a few years, we might just find out. The man pictured above is none other than Vicente Lupo, a highly-touted international prospect that signed on with the Mets in July of 2010. I have never seen anything along the lines of footage from Vicente Lupo, so all I have to work with are the numbers that he put up and his scouting reports. When Lupo signed on with the Mets, he was ranked #25 on BA's list of International Prospects, and he was garnering attention for one reason: his offensive capabilities. Lupo is only 19 and has played two seasons in the DSL so far, standing at 6'0 and 180 lbs. The Mets signed him for a low to mid six figure bonus believed to be about $400,000. He has some time to fill out his frame, and his power was listed as "plus-plus" at the time of his signing. If he follows up with numbers similar to what he posted in his second season, he will be on the fast track to success in no time. His ...
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Between 2006 and 2010, institutions and individuals in Massachusetts received $43 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mass Humanities for projects that explore the human endeavor and preserve our cultural heritage. Below are some examples.
- Prof. Pauline Maier of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, received a $40,000 fellowship to work on Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 (Simon & Schuster, 2010), which uses the NEH-supported a Documentary History of the Ratification to follow the controversy over the Constitution from state to state.
- A famous whaling town, New Bedford was also a hub of antislavery sentiment. Eighty teachers explored the port's abolitionist past in Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad. The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, received $178,000 for this one-week workshop.
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) corresponded with Gandhi, Einstein, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Jane Addams, and Marcus Garvey. With an award of $315,000, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will digitize and post online its collection of Du Bois's writing.
- More than $3 million in NEH support has helped the WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, produce new programs for its American Experience series, including in recent years We Shall Remain, on Native American history, Robert E. Lee, and Panama Canal. Freedom Riders, the story of the civil rights activists who challenged segregation in interstate transportation, and The Great Famine, the story of how the American Relief Administration aided millions of starving Soviet citizens in the 1920s, both aired in spring 2011. This Republic of Suffering, which explores the Civil War's unprecedented death toll, is forthcoming.
- The traveling exhibition "John Adams Unbound," created by the Boston Public Library with NEH support totaling $299,300, will visit twenty libraries nationwide. Drawing on margin notes Adams wrote in his personal library of 3,500 volumes, this exhibition reveals the second president's thoughts on fame, fortune, and country.
- Furling sails and readying cannons are part of the interactive experience at "All Hands on Deck: A Sailor's Life in 1812," an exhibition at the USS Constitution Museum, Charlestown, funded with a grant of $367,200.
- Three years after the Revolution ended, thousands of Massachusetts citizens took up arms against their new state government. Springfield Technical Community College, with an award of $240,100, tells the uprising's story on a website titled Shays' Rebellion and the Making of a Nation.
- Mass Humanities, in conjunction with the Springfield and New Bedford public libraries, is presenting Family Adventures in Reading, a humanities-based reading and discussion program for children and parents or other primary caregivers. It is based on Prime Time Family Reading Time, an acclaimed Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities program.
- Teachers, students, and history buffs of all ages enjoy Mass Moments, an electronic almanac covering three centuries of Massachusetts history. It is available via the Internet and podcast.
By 2009, nearly three hundred inner-city residents had completed the Massachusetts Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities. This rigorous, college-credit program, which is free of charge to low-income adults, has been available through Mass Humanities for more than ten years.


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The Streets of Monaco
Cruise/yacht designers and operators are trying whenever possible to deliver something different into the cruise and yacht industry. One of these new ideas is themed yachts and cruise ships. The art of producing a themed cruise ship or yacht is to seamlessly weave a story into every element of the design, and it's achieved through an extensive consultation with the client during the initial phases of the design process. This focus allows the creation of a truly unique environment from the overall exterior shape down to the smallest interior detail.
Yacht Island Design has presented its first proposal of themed yacht: a 155m SWATH vessel that takes the principality of Monaco to the ocean: The Streets of Monaco superyacht. They have selected the SWATH platform as its prime focus. Not only does this platform offer the best seakeeping ability, but the exceptionally wide beam for its length gives the maximum flexibility to achieve best utilization of space. It also allows for the exploration of bold and daring design ideas without the restrictions of a conventional hull shape. The feedback that the designer receive from the market is that yacht design is increasingly influenced by land-based architecture. The Streets of Monaco concept would seem an extreme reflection of this trend.
This 155m SWATH yacht would be built predominantly of steel with the use of aluminum in the upper superstructure. With a maximum speed of 15 knots she transports her 70 crew and 16 guests using diesel electric propulsion. This design called for a unique yacht that reflected the style and sophistication of the principality and centers around three main communal areas, 'The Streets of Monaco', 'The Oasis' and 'The Grand Atrium'. Crew can access all areas of the yacht via a network of corridors allowing for maximum guest privacy.
Other features of this floating city include:
- Two large tender garages to store all manner of launches, offshore power boats, jet skis etc.
- Dive dock and Submarine, deployed from one of the submerged hulls.
- Multi-configurable sports court sized to championship tennis regulations which also doubles as a helipad.
- Ample crew quarters including a gym and private sun terrace.
- Sea level 'Beach' decks situated aft in both struts.
Although the cost is estimated by designers around 800€m (because reproducing Monaco is expensive in itself) the use of these SWATH hull form seems to be very interesting for a possible seastead. This type of vessel offers:
- High seakeeping capability, which is important in order to offer comfort and avoid seasickness.
- A large deck area over the waterline with a small submerged hull, which is precisely the target of any seastead.
In conclusion, SWATH vessels could be good candidates for future shipsteads.
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I thought 16 guests with 70 crew was a typo, but that's really in the PDF. WTF?!
SLICE is trademark based in a type of SWATH:
Since SLICE™ is based on the principles of SWATH technology, SLICE™ possesses all of a SWATH's advantages: smaller size, better seakeeping and cheaper acquisition and operating costs.
Not seeing how Streets of Monaco is SLICE. SLICE uses multiple short hulls in the water, each on independent, short struts. Streets uses long, single, continuous hulls and singular struts like SWATH.
BTW, SWATH is overly complex, but needed if the length is significantly less than long ocean wavelengths. If the vessel is longer, then it doen't need active buoyancy mechanisms and all the attendant failure modes.
I think the comment about SLICE was not in reference to the Streets of Monaco ship but in reference to the statement "In conclusion, SWATH vessels could be good candidates for future shipsteads."
I.e. "But SLICE too." = "But SLICE vessels too could be good candidates for future shipsteads."
That was the way I interpreted it anyway.


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(Bohemia, NY) The United Service Workers, Local Union #355 JATF, will conduct a recruitment from November 12, 2013 through November 25, 2013 for three sheet metal worker apprentices, State Labor Commissioner Peter M. Rivera announced today.
Applications will be available at the office of Local Union #355, 267 Knickerbocker Avenue, Bohemia, NY from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays, during the recruitment period. All applications must be completed on site.
The Committee requires that applicants:
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- Must have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (G.E.D.) with at least one year of high school algebra.
- Must be physically able to perform the work required of an ironworker, and must sign an affidavit attesting to the same. A sheet metal worker:
- Must be able to work an eight-hour day continually on one's feet.
- Must be able to lift and carry weights in excess of 75 pounds for extended periods.
- Must be able to work through extended periods of extreme weather conditions and temperatures.
- Must be able to work in restrictive or confined spaces.
- Must be able to work at heights of 20 feet or more on ladders, scaffolds, scissor lifts, or boom lifts.
- Must be able to work in ditches or trenches up to 6 feet in depth.
- Must be able to read, hear, and understand instructions and warnings.
- Must pass a drug test, after an offer of employment, at the expense of the sponsor.
- Must have reliable transportation to and from various job sites and related instruction in and around Nassau and Suffolk counties.
- Must provide military transfer card or discharge form DD214, if applicable, upon offer or selection.
For further information, applicants should contact their nearest New York State Department of Labor office or Local Union #355 at (631) 589-5880.
Apprentice programs registered with the Department of Labor must meet standards established by the Commissioner. Under state law, sponsors of programs cannot discriminate against applicants because of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, disability, or marital status. Women and minorities are encouraged to submit applications for apprenticeship programs. Sponsors of programs are required to adopt affirmative action plans for the recruitment of women and minorities.


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Page content:
-The Ministry: The purpose of this ministry
We believe
The work of this ministry
Travels, governmental policies and languages
-About the Founder: Personalia
Education and hobbies
Christian interests
Church affiliations
Present Church
The Ministry
The purpose of this ministry:
To see the practical reality of the unity of the Local Body of Christ come to fruition in all localities all over the world.
We believe:
The Local Body of Christ consists of all christians within a certain locality. We also believe that it is honoring to God when that becomes a practical reality instead of only the spiritual reality which it is already. We therefore believe that any contact and resultant fellowship between believers within a certain locality is gain and honoring to God provided that none of them is subjected to excommunication. This can be seen as the vision from the Mustard Seed which has a small and seemingly insignificant beginning but which has its inherent power to grow to fruition and become the full expression of the Local Body of Christ for the glory of Jesus Christ.
The work of this ministry:
Going door-to-door and thus come in contact with every christian within a given locality. This can only be done in those countries where the number of Christians in a given neighbourhood sufficient is to make this a practical approach (say a minimum of 5%). The next couple of steps are follow-up with those interested and ingrain in them the vision of the Local Body of Christ and be a servant in helping those christians come in contact with one another. The next step is to help the Local Church come into practical existence (ultimately the Lord's work). Another step is to encourage the Local Church to keep in touch with other christians and newcomers within their locality. The last step is to be their external worker and whereever possible to give that job to others. It is hoped that others will join this ministry as the Lord provides. Networking through existing christian groups and personal contacts, speaking at conventions and other occasions, evangelism and Public Relations like this website, a regular updated blog, media appearance (talkshows, classical guitar concerts) and business cards will be additional tools towards the goal of this ministry.
At presently (2016) our ministry is represented officially in the Netherlands only and unofficially also in Kenya, Uganda, South-Sudan, Tanzania, Dr Congo, Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana, Mali, India and a few other countries maybe as well.
Travels, governmental policies and languages:
- Travelling takes time and money depending on the method of travelling.
- There are also passport and visa regulations which needs to be taken care of. Several countries have present (as of July 2009) regulations which make this ministry to be against the law in their country.
- In order to do this ministry the local language needs to be mastered at a fairly good level. Presently the founder of this website speaks fluently Dutch and English, good French and can communicate in German, Spanish and Greek but probably not well enough yet for this task. He has done some preliminary language study in Albanian, Romanian, Portuguese, Italian and Chinese (Mandarin).
Solutions are needed for each of these three problems.
About the founder
My name is Joep de Kraker and I have been born in 1974 in a little village called Dirkshorn, 20km north from the city of Alkmaar, which is situated about 60km northwest from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. We are a happy family of four with one 6 year older brother. I have moved around quite a bit. Within the country as well as abroad. I lived in Spain for three months. Half a year in Greece/Cyprus and 2 years in Great Britain.
Education and hobbies:
Starting at primary school with international draughts I became 4th of the Netherlands at 15 years of age with blitz draughts in the age category 12-15. After finishing high school I went to college of music to study classical guitar. After many years of study I have come to the point that I sooner or later expect to start giving concerts. I have given up on international draughts already for years but in recent years I have become an enthousiastic gamer being succesfull in PC rally games namely Rally Championship 2000 and Richard Burns. In 2008 a dream came true as I became member of a tennis club.
Some miscellaneous other parts of my life include my driving licence which I only got in 2008. Two visits to China which country means a lot to me. A beautiful golden ring with a diamond at its centre which serves both as a reminder and a witness to the beauty of the Lord Jesus who lives in me. I got numerous friends throughout life so far. Many people who know me especially in The Netherlands find me a fun guy to be with. Numerous attempts at a romantic relationship but as yet (July 2010) never been succesfull in that. I have a couple of times cycled over 200km on one day with a personal record of 268km and walked once 60km on one day. Listening music (especially classical music and U2). Reading children's novels from the British author Enid Blyton and the Dutch author Willy van der Heide (Bob Evers serial). One of the most special holidays I ever had was with my brother when we crossed 30km of the Scottish Highlands on foot. We took two days for it. The first day there were no roads or public foothpaths and we struck up our tent in the middle of nowhere near to a river. We took its water to fill our bottles. It was a huge adventure and the scenery was fantastic.
Christian interests:
Several christian subjects have caught my attention over the years including (but not limited) cellchurch, gifts of the Spirit, predestination, Trinity, sexuality, endtime and theomatics (mathematical proof of the Bible and a prime exegetical tool for symbolism). Altogether in a different category are the fruits of the Spirit namely love, humbleness and suffering which have played and continue to play an important role in my life.
Church affiliations:
I have been a member of a number of Church denominations/groups including Dutch Reformed Church in all three wings(fundamental, confessional and liberal), Baptist Church, Anglican Church, Evangelical Church, Victory Outreach, Assemblies of God, Charismatic Church, a Charismatic Intergenerational Cellchurch to name the most important ones from the past. On top of that I have been a visitor to a great many kind of Churches including Roman Catholic Church, Quakers, Salvation Army, Greek Orthodox Church and the Christian sects Christian Science (that's not Scientology Church), Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon Church and The Family International (the Family) aka Children of God.
The most recent one is also the most beautiful one. It is a kind of housechurch set up through the ministry of Gene Edwards. I have been part of this Church for 6 years which is by far the longest time I have been in any Church. She (part of the Bride of Christ) closely resembles that which I believe to be the pure expression of the Local Church. She purports to be the Church in the neighbourhood and that's why She doesn't have a name and neither can She be called a housechurch. However this Church has never aimed at creating fellowship with all Christians within Her neighbourhood. That's the crucial difference which the Local Body of Christ wants to change.
Present Church:
By the end of March 2010 I started to contact all Christians within a radius of about 50 metres around my home. I found 26 Christians households and presently I have regular Christian fellowship with just one of them. A Christian family with around 7 children. I appreciate this very highly despite that this family doesn't fully agree with the vision of the Local Body of Christ. It's still a very basic but true expression of what the Local Body of Christ is all about. 7 other households have expressed an openness to be in touch with me. 1 for true Christian fellowship but the contact has been very scarce up till now. The other are Jehovah Witnesses who are very kind but don't see me as a Christian and I have reasons to discount them as Christians. The other 5 households would only get in touch with me (not me with them) but they have as yet never been in touch with me. All the other Christians weren't interested or didn't have time for it.
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