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Let's go back to 2001 and do a little math:
Huge IT contract + Politicians + Lobbyists + Soft IT market + Legions of government contractors + Newly created government agency + More politicians + Career civil servants
What does that make? A hugely expensive, difficult, political and organizational undertaking, and plenty of scope for fingerpointing -- and that's what we've got.
Full disclosure here: I was working for Unisys for the first three years of this contract, and only a non-US passport kept me from working on this engagement (and believe me I thanked my lucky stars every morning when I woke up that I wasn't).
I'm not a huge Unisys defender in general -- I saw plenty of gaffes from the sidelines, and like any large systems integrator Unisys has its fair share of inefficiencies and dead wood -- but Unisys is being accused of everything under the sun, from covering up the problems, to kicking puppies and being mean to its gradmother. I'm just not convinced anyone else would've done much better -- and has anyone noticed the alarming regularity with which government agencies blame their contractors compared to their commercial counterparts?
Let's just point out a couple of things from the Washington Post article, in 2005, "[Unisys] said, under the follow-on contract, 'DHS, citing lack of funding, elected to stop paying for security monitoring services,' but that the firm continued to provide the monitoring anyway."
Also, it states -- "The contractor also allegedly falsely certified that the network had been protected to cover up its lax oversight, according to the committee." So you're telling me Unisys said the network was completely secure? I doubt that very much.
Let's not get too excited here, we're talking about a sophisticated hack on unclassified data, yet we're told "senior DHS officials failed to recognize the situation's gravity" -- or did they just treat it with the risk level it warranted?
Seems to me like some politician has got wind of a storm in a teacup, and everyone has had to jump to attention.
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The first floor rooms situated around the Court of Honour will house the end of the Toulouse-Lautrec tour. Level 2 will receive the modern art collections.
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L'aile Stainville (A) abritera le cabinet des dessins. La galerie Daillon du Lude (B) et la chambre de l'Archevêque (C) seront restaurées. Les salles d'expositions temporaires, au sous-sol, permettront de recevoir des expositions de grande envergure.


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ABS problem - making sure I have this right
99 540it sport - I too have abs/dsc/brake issue.
I am dizzy from reading the amazing array of ABS/DSC wheel sensor, etc. issues. I am reading of course because I share the problem of the tri warning lights (triangle, brakes, abs). I just want to make sure I am understanding the basics of this wonderfully erratic system. My mechanic diagnosed (GT-1) right rear abs wheel sensor failure and offered to replace for $285. He has previously replaced the same sensors on two or three other wheels over the past couple years and so I decided I needed to try fixing this one myself. Was excited to get it done after reading how easy it is and seeing how much cheaper the parts can be had direct rather than through my mechanic. Then I got engulfed in the web of info on this site about this problem, and the amazing draft DIY piece by Bluebee on the topic. My understanding is that if my right rear sensor was bad my cruise control would not work. Is that right? Well tried it out tonight and to my dismay, the cruise control seems to be working spot on. Is this an absolute? If the cruise control works than the right rear sensor must be OK? Does this mean then that the most probable culprit is my ABS module?
I am sorry for starting a new thread on this topic, but I just wasn't sure how else to ask. And I definitely felt a huge information overload so just looking to get confirmation and then I will probalby go for an ABS module rebuild (which of course will mean lengthy evaluation of the rebuild alternatives available). Thanks for all your help.
Well, this is pretty tough to determine, in all honesty.
You can replace the sensor, without the anal rape, for around CAD70 and 1/2 hr to 1 hr time if you're moving slow (like me-either too little force or wayyyyyy too much it seems, so I take it slow).
If this doesn't solve the problem, you can have the car diagnosed again or you can have the module sent out. As Bluebee says, most people advocate this as the module is almost guaranteed to go at some point in the car's life. If the problem is still not dealt with even after a replacement module, you'll have to get the codes read; I believe that the better rebuilders thoroughly test the module before sending them back.
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Anyone have a better understanding of the relationship of the various wheel sensors to the various related systems failures? I don't want to needlessly replace sensors if I still have to do the ABS module. Is it possible for right rear sensor to be bad and still have cruise control work?
You probably went over this excellent DIY by bluebee, read post #48 carefully:
Then read a bit on how Bosch ABS, DSC works. It is not that hard to understand in layman's language.
- The Bosch (or Siemens) computer is the Brain.
- Speed sensors count the number of revolutions on each wheel. Inisde each wheel sensor there is magnetic winding, similar to a transformer.
On the driveshaft (or hub if not the drive wheel) there are splines, or teeth, that the sensors read off.
Whenever the wheel is rotating, the sensor reads the number of teeth counted per second and convert that into a digital square signals (it looks like sine waves but it is square instead of waves) that only the ABS Brain understands and then executes appropriate reaction such as reducing braking effect on the wheel that slips on ice/snow etc.
You likely has 4 sensors, the number of sensors depend on the models and year of production.
So the possibilities are:
1. Bad ABS Module
2. Bad wiring from sensors
3. Bad sensors themselves.
My suggestion:
1. If you have a buddy with the similar car, then swap part to see if it solves the problem.
2. Proper diagnosis = proper solution
3. Or trust your mechanic computer and replace the rear sensor as suggested. If it fixes the problem, great.
If not, then the bad news is that you just spent $83 (or more) for a new part that was not your problem, the good news is that the part is likely to fail soon, so the money is not all that wasted anyway and also if future issues show up, the part you just replaced is the LEAST likely to be suspect...!
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34-52-6-756-375 ABS Sensor Front Left/Right (2 Per Car) 540i 0i from 09/98 E39....$66.
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It most likely is the abs unit, have it rebuilt and be done.
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+1 If you look, you will see that BlueBee and I collaborated a lot of this subject. Even a GT-1 can be fooled to diagnose a bad Module as a bad sensor. There is NO machine made that can diagnose a bad sensor 100% as the problem can, and often is, the input circuit for that sensor inside the module. The Gt-1 or any other machine can not tell the difference. Only if the module is disconnected from all sensors can you determine 100%. Unless you are handy with a VOM, the just replace the module and be done with it. If you are handy with a VOM, using the diode check feature of the VOM, you can do an incredible job of diagnosing the speed sensors. If I had to do all over again, I would test all four sensors and if all good, change the module. You can also swap rear sensor left to right and vice verse and see if the car acts any different in any way. Speedo, cruise, anything changes. If it does, but one rear speed sensor and try it at both positions. Rears are the same and fronts are the same.
If car acts the same, you can chance a rebuild (BBa or Module masters) or buy a new one from Jared, get it coded, and go from there.
Or as I mentioned, if you have a buddy then swap to make diagnosis.
This way the diagnosis is correct and in fact saves you money.
Can't definitively answer your question about cruise. However, the percentages say module, not sensor. And as said, you can get a false reading. My indie showed that the problem for me was left front, and it wasn't.
So go ahead and repair module -- it will cost less than the sensor quote! I used BBA-Reman. Here's a post I wrote on it, very easy to do:
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Thanks everyone for good thoughts and suggestions on the situation. Sorry so slow on a reply - I wish this site would send me an e-mail when there was a response to my post. No change in the status. I have been too busy to do anything yet. I think I will do the ABS module rebuild - now to pick which one. The ATE (www.autoecu.com) $105 price is hard to resist. I saw a few good references on this company. Anyone have an horror stories to report?
The ABS Module is a very easy swap. Do you have a friend or another car somewhere you can do the quick swap?
Afraid I do not have any friends with same car so not able to try swapping the module. Not sure it would work anyways because it sounds like the module is coded to the particular car it is installed in - I suppose I could try swapping out speed sensors, but the whole problem is so intermittent that I think that approach could be maddening. At this point I am planning to do the module rebuild and probably will try the bargain basement ATE outfit (unless I hear any scary stories about this firm). Thanks,
A new module would have to be coded but I wonder what happens if you swap a donor module with the original module just to see if the three lights go out on the instrument cluster ... and then swap 'em back.
The hope is this quick-swap would NOT need any encoding and, I hope, it wouldn't destroy the coding in the donor ABS module.
But who wants to risk the donor module w/o knowing whether or not it will destroy the existing encoding. Does anyone know?
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I sent my ABS module to BBA to be rebuilt. The process took less than 1 week. Cost was $155 (e-bay auction). With the rebuilt abs unit installed all dashboard warning lights have gone out (ABS, Brake, DSC triangle, check engine). The process was very simple. I am a very satisfied BBA customer.
Typically a failed wheel speed sensor will be an open circuit. Check with an ohm meter. A service manual will give the correct impedance a good sensor should have.
Take my advice, I'm not using it.
had the same prob of tri warning lights after car came back from the garage ,looked under the bonnet and the small two pin plug on the back of the abs unit was loose pluged it back in and haypresto lights went off ,not sure what plug this is but its worth checkin the easy fixes first
I tried to clean my drivers side (LHD) sensor and broke it. For the two days I waited for a new one I had the 3 lights on, no fuel consumption reading, no speedo and of course no cruise. That sensor is obviously the speed sensor as well as ABS. I don't think the RH Rear one would affect the cruise.
I cannot recommend ATE as a rebuilder of modules. I would rather not go into the details, but I have first hand knowledge. I would trust BBA or module masters except that I feel they are way over-priced. To answer bluebees question, if you swap in a module from another car regardless of the similarity or the year, it will not work without being recoded. The module, for whatever reason only BMW can speak to, must be linked to the car's vin. I would think it was done just to encourage the sale of new modules, but in fairness it could be due to the safety and liability issues of someone installing a similar, but slightly different module coded for a heavier or lighter car. The response of the module must be appropriate for the suspension, weight, and so forth of the vehicle it is in. The only way to change the module to be 100% sure it is matched in terms of gain, dampening, and so forth is to know the vehicles vin#. The module checks the vin coding every time the car is started. You can't get around this. Swap modules left rear to right rear and if you lose or gain any functions ie. speedo, cruise, etc. then you have a bad sensor. No change and you are barking up the wrong tree.
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In underground car parks with cars parked around shining headlights into the middle to the death matches I am undefeated.
I dont walk dogs, like Ubereem, I eat em! You are such noobs. Though I agree Leon has got a cock stuck in his mouth, apparently he paid good money for it to be surgically implanted, he also has balls on chin, balls on forehead and balls on back of neck I believe.
Just to let u know,Never back down is a toned down film about my life!!!im warning u mate!!!
Well just so you know, the start of Saving Private Ryan with all those fella's doing the beach landing and kicking the huns arse, thats loosely based on what I do when I go on holiday to Germany on my own.


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Friday, February 27, 2015
j2 Global Extends Offer For Carbonite, Again
Los Angeles-based j2 Global said this morning that it has again extended its tender offer for all of the shares of Carbonite, until March 30th. j2 Global--which launched a hostile bid for Carbonite in December, said that so far, 5,602,174 shares of Carbonite's shares have been tendered. j2 said it is awaiting a move from Carbonite's board of directors, to avoid triggering a recently adopted preferred share rights agreement (aka "poison pill"), and is in discussions with Carbonite over involvement in that company's potential sale process. Carbonite's board rejected j2's unsolicited takeover offer in January, adopted the poison pill, and launched its own efforts to find a buyer under its own terms. Carbonite is a developer of an online backup service; j2 Global owns a very large portfolio of cloud based services, including in the backup area.


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The older folks are most definitely not hanging around the rocking chairs these days. Life expectancy has been extended greatly over the last 30 years. Those that are living longer are enjoying it more. This is a generation that started going to the gym in their 20's and have been on diets for forty years. They know about their hearts and blood pressure and what to do to stay healthy. These are the boomers. People born after the late 1940's.
The knees are a little weak and the breath a little short but that isn't keeping them from doing just about everything they ever did in the exercise department. They ski, their rides are big motorcycles, and they sail and surf. And they break more bones than any other segment of the population because of it.
They also go back to school, take up new careers and travel extensively and not always on a leisurely cruise. A sense of social responsibility left over from their lives in the 1960/70's causes the Boomers to seek eco-vacations or educational forays. And most of all you'll find them still working well past the classic retirement age of 65.
This is a generation that has always had it their way. They seem to think that they can control time as well thanks to advances in cosmetic surgery.
If you have an attractive model in the age group 50-70 that is physically fit, you'll want to get them out doing what ever they do best: running, climbing, surfing or working out. Remember the standards of beauty don't just fly out the window when a man or woman reaches the golden years. If you want your images to land on websites geared to the boomers, don't go just for the "woe is me, I am old now" photo. The uncertainty of retirement age is a worthy subject but toss in the optimistic looks as well.
It used to be that the preferred images of retired people were models in their late 30's with white hair. But this generation isn't buying it. They still think they look great and many do. The use of young models used to depict boomers is patronizing to the "new" old.
All is not as advertised, however. The happy go lucky view that you want to show in your images also needs to address with the judicious use of props concerns about money, health care and other medical issues. These images don't need to be depressing but instead, serious.
Instead of the old folks at home with their adoring grandchildren at their feet, go for grandpa teaching his grandson how to fish or play soccer. In addition of a grandchild baking cookies with a traditional grandmother, have them outside working in the garden or another more active activity.
•http://www.aarpmagazine.org Everyone in the US gets a subscription to the print edition of this magazine at his or her fiftieth birthday-like it or not. It is a great research tool for shot ideas targeting the boomer and plus generations.
•Allstate has listed the top boomer retirement activities and the annual expenditures per person. Lists like these tell you where to put your efforts when that groovy grandma shows up for her close-up. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-20-2002/0001672539&EDATE
•Use age appropriate models but they still need to be attractive
•Family interaction shots are always needed
•One of the best selling images I ever handled was of an older couple on a park bench with the man kissing his wife on the cheek. Durability of relationships is a good concept for the boomer generation.
Ellen Boughn
Bainbridge Island, US
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We offer observations on the human condition from a 23 year old mind trapped in an 83 year old body.
Some wear natural look of anger on face.
I wonder if there really was a FIRST human.
There are cracks of time through which our lives slip
We cannot escape our genetic heritage.
These are the days of daily nonsense.
Some lean on hand to speak.
For some, love is their captor.
A McDonald employee is allowed to rub the shoulder of an elderly woman.
Blacks and Hispanics do the dirty work of society.
Some think from guts, some are simply gutless.
Some place hand over mouth when talking.
I enjoy songs of the road.
I am a student of thinking.
Most are interested in responding to thinking rather than to thinking.
Study the patterns of life.
As we grow older we bend over more slowly.
Some shake head in doubt, some in agreement.
Long time since heard, "shake a leg."


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Brothers Talmadge and Charlie Carruth changed the way they live and found a sense of independence through Fine Finish, a Madison County program for the developmentally disabled run by Advantage Behavioral Health Systems.
Fine Finish provides its clients with training in basic life skills and helps them find jobs. The janitorial jobs the Carruth brothers have worked for 20 years have enabled them to stop taking federal disability checks and to pay their own way, said Judy Vaughn, a social service worker with Advantage Behavioral.
"It changed their whole lifestyle around by working and earning money so they were able to rent their own mobile home that they share and to have their own belongings," Vaughn said. "Before, they were living with different family members."
Fine Finish is one of 29 programs or agencies supported financially by the United Way of Northeast Georgia, which kicked off its annual fundraising campaign Wednesday morning at the Classic Center. The organization wants to raise $2.175 million this year to support charitable organizations in eight counties - Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Stephens. Last year's campaign surpassed its goal of $2.075 million.
The Carruth brothers still need help to keep their financial records, but otherwise, have made great strides living independently in their own home, said Bailey Grimes, a Fine Finish program supervisor.
"At least they are getting out there in the mainstream with other people, getting jobs and paying taxes which makes them feel like they are contributing, which they are," Grimes said about the Carruths and other Fine Finish clients.
Nearly 200 people gathered for Wednesday's campaign kickoff, which featured University of Georgia baseball coach David Perno as honorary chairman.
During the morning event, special United Way grants were awarded to three local charities - Athens Tutorial Program, $4,500; Gentlemen on the Move, $2,000; and Family for Change, $5,000.
Following the kickoff breakfast, more than 400 volunteers fanned out for the Day of Caring, in which they tackled 31 work projects at 16 United Way agencies in five Athens-area counties.
One of those projects involved landscaping at Advantage's Fine Finish offices in Madison County.
Without the United Way funding, programs like Fine Finish would lose staff and couldn't serve clients who benefit from the services, Grimes said.
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Facing the fact that no helmet available at ebay will ever be authentic to the real thing - I am planning to build my bucket from scratch.
Has anybody got experience with scratchbuilding a bucket?
Does anybody know which normal-life-helmet might be suitable for starting off with as a basis? I am looking for a biker's helmet or something like that, around which I could add all the other parts of the mask.
Anybody an idea?


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I had the treatment in June 2011 on the abdominal area. The sub-areas identified were 3: lower abdomen, left and right middle abdomen. I was told that the expected result was in the region of 20% reduction within 4 months. Now at the beginning of December 2011, more than 4 months are passed and visually and by measure the area there has been absolutely no difference. I must add that I haven't changed my eating or exercising routines and my weight is exactly the same as in June. Therefore the reason for this lack of result cannot be in weight or muscle gain. I'm afraid that it's because the technique does not work. Don't waste your time or money!
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I had the treatment in June 2011 on the abdominal...
I was told that after 4 months there would be a follow up appointment. In Switzerland this is typically arranged directly by the doctor. In this case, there has been absolute silence from the doctor. Clearly a sign that he was not expecting good news and therefore avoids scheduling any follow up checkups. However, the payment for the treatment was charged on my credit card straight away!
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I certainly respect Bill Balint's two-decade-plus service to the district as a school board director but the times they are a-changing.
We can no longer consider closing a school building, as he did in a letter to the editor published Sunday, Nov. 17, in Gazette, without considering a building program. The district has added 150 students in kindergarten through fifth grade since 2007. That is an additional classroom each year for the last six years. The projections by Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), our internal projections and then verified with the 2010 census all point to this trend continuing. This one fact, of increasing enrollment, makes mothballing a school without replacing the lost classrooms inconceivable.
To close Horace Mann and lose its 18 classrooms means that we will initially have to build a dozen more classrooms with support spaces, taking on additional debt and long-term expense. The current debt will be retired in less than 15 years, giving that board tremendous flexibility to meet the demands of 2025. I do not think it prudent to spend 10 million dollars to save one.
The only way to avoid a major building program is to move the fifth grade to the junior high school. Absolutely no academic advantage devolves to our students to support this move. It will certainly have a measurable negative academic impact on the fifth grade and will devastate the middle school teaming approach that was piloted while you were on the board. There is not room to do both, maintain the teaming middle school approach and move the fifth grade. Since its inception the team teaching concept has proven to be academically successful and must not be dismantled.
Reducing kindergarten to a half day will save less than 1 percent of our current budget. This move will adversely affect our most vulnerable students when they are in the greatest need for educational and emotional support. This early education allows for early intervention, which is a proven method of ultimately achieving success. This is especially important for our economically disadvantaged students who have done so poorly on the state testing. Furthermore, in-depth longitudinal studies show that children from these types of programs are more likely to graduate from both high school and college and go on to earn substantially more income over their lifetimes, stay out of jail while avoiding drugs and alcohol problems, than children that were denied this opportunity.
You are quite correct in that this school board and all school boards across the commonwealth face dire financial straits. The retirement funding fiasco, compounded by the crisis in health care, multiplied by ineffective state and federal funding, reduced by more and more unfunded mandates makes all of our decisions particularly difficult. There will be no white knight, no cavalry charge to save the day; we are on our own. However, we cannot ask our children to wait while we get our house in order. These children deserve the very best education we can give them within our financial capacities.
The proposed grade realignment has much to recommend it. First and foremost is that class size will be equalized across the district. We currently have classes ranging in size from 15 to 28. Guess which ones are doing better on all measurements? Twenty-five percent of our classes are above our current class size guidelines. The proposed grade realignment will allow us to equalize this class size with the current staffing. In short, we get to lower our classroom populations, reduce costs and add robust intervention all at the same time. This will result in a much-improved educational situation for all of our students at lower expenses for the taxpayers.
We will also be able to focus grade-appropriate resources to fit the needs of those particular students. This focus will extend to staff as well as facilities. We will be able to offer a robust intervention program and staff it with specialists in behavior, speech, reading and math. This intervention means that no longer will we just pass kids onto the next the level because they age-out of a grade but because they actually achieve academic success at an early age. This robust intervention means that the goal of having every child reading at grade level by the third grade is absolutely achievable.
The board has begun reviewing the graduation requirements, as it should do on a regular basis. I resent the assumption by you and others that this board is set upon a path of academic destruction.
I have several basic questions about the curriculum that I'd like answered. Why do we wait until junior high to begin to study a foreign language? Why, if we are preparing students for "an ever changing global society," do we not require a foreign language for graduation? Why do we require four years of physical education and only three of math and science? Why is biology not a laboratory course? How can we incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) into our curriculum?
The current requirements are mute on distance learning, discourage early graduation and dual enrollment, and allow little flexibility to meet individual needs. The current graduation requirements were written well before the public schools competed for students with cyber schools, home schooling and charter schools.
It is time that we investigated the possibility of awarding our students a high school diploma along with a two-year college degree like some districts are doing. How do we best prepare our students for the 21st century? This entire conversation is about actually achieving academic excellence and has nothing to do with saving money.
By the way, I know how well the majority of the IASD students would do on your quiz: excellent. On state tests they regularly achieve 90-plus in English and social studies, and they score threes and fours on the AP tests. The vast majority are unbelievably great students, who are smart, polite, honest, moral, hard working and enthusiastic.
In short these are the people that you want in charge of your future. They are certainly our future and we had better do right by them.
Tom Harley
Indiana school board


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Carver's own life paralleled that of one of his characters. Born in an Oregon logging town, the author was married and the father of two before he was twenty years old. Also like his characters, Carver worked at a series of low paying jobs: he "picked tulips, pumped gas, swept hospital corridors, swabbed toilets, [and] managed an apartment complex," according to Bruce Weber in a New York Times Magazine profile of the author. Carver's wife at the time, continues Weber, "worked for the phone company, waited tables, [and] sold a series of book digests door-to-door." Not coincidentally, "of all the writers at work today, Carver may have [had] the most distinct vision of the working class," as Ray Anello observes in a Newsweek article. Carver taught creative writing in California and produced two books of poetry before his first book of short stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, was published in 1976.
In introducing readers to his world of the desperation of ordinary people, Carver created tales that are "brief . . . but by no means stark," notes Geoffrey Wolff in his New York Times Book Review piece on Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Continues the critic: "They imply complexities of action and motive and they are especially artful in their suggestion of repressed violence. No human blood is shed in any of these stories, yet almost all of them hold a promise of mayhem of some final, awful breaking from confines, and breaking through to liberty." The theme of breaking from confines is central to one of the stories, "Neighbors," in which Bill and Arlene Miller agree to feed their neighbors' cat while the neighbors, the Stones, are on vacation. With access to the Stones' home, the Millers find themselves increasingly taken with their friends' clothes, furniture, and other belongings. Bill and Arlene, in fact, begin to assume the identities of the Stones; "each finds this strangely stimulating, and their sex life prospers, though neither can find anything much to say about it at all," reports Edwards. The end of the story finds the Millers clinging to the Stones' door as their neighbors return, knowing that their rich fantasy life will soon end.
The author's "first book of stories explored a common plight rather than a common subject," notes New York Times Book Review critic Michael Wood. "His characters were lost or diminished in their own different ways. The 17 stories in [Carver's third collection, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love], make up a more concentrated volume, less a collection than a set of variations on the themes of marriage, infidelity and the disquieting tricks of human affection." "The first few pieces seem thin and perfunctory," Adam Mars-Jones writes in the Times Literary Supplement, "and there is a recurring pattern . . . of endings which lurch suddenly sideways, moving off in a direction that seems almost random." Anatole Broyard finds such endings frustrating. In his New York Times review of What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, Broyard criticizes what he calls "the most flagrant and common imposition in current fiction, to end a story with a sententious ambiguity that leaves the reader holding the bag."
"Perhaps there is a reason for this," says Mars-Jones. "Endings and titles are bound to be a problem for a writer like Carver, since readers and reviewers so habitually use them as keys to interpret everything else in a story. So he must make his endings enigmatic and even mildly surrealist, and his titles for the most part oblique. Sometimes he over-compensates." And Newsweek's Peter S. Prescott feels that all seventeen stories in Carver's third collection "are excellent, and each gives the impression that it could not have been written more forcefully, or in fewer words."
Prescott also notes that the author was concerned "with the collapse of human relationships. Some of his stories take place at the moment things fall apart; others, after the damage has been done, while the shock waves still reverberate. Alcohol and violence are rarely far removed from what happens, but sometimes, in another characteristic maneuver, Carver will nudge the drama that triggers a crisis aside to show that his story has really been about something else all along." "Carver's is not a particularly lyrical prose," says Weber in his New York Times Magazine article: "A typical sentence is blunt and uncomplicated, eschewing the ornaments of descriptive adverbs and parenthetical phrases. His rhythms are often repetitive or brusque, as if to suggest the strain of people learning to express newly felt things, fresh emotions. Time passes in agonizingly linear fashion, the chronology of a given scene marked by one fraught and simple gesture after another. Dialogue is usually clipped, and it is studded with commonplace observations of the concrete objects on the table or on the wall rather than the elusive, important issues in the air."
Of Carver's 1984 short fiction collection, Cathedral, "it would be hard to imagine a more dispirited assortment of figures," declares David Lehman in a Newsweek review. In each story, a "note of transcendent indifference, beyond resignation or fatigue, is sounded," adds Lehman, cautioning, "fun to read they're not." But, the critic stresses, "it's impossible to ignore Carver's immense talent." In Cathedral, Carver rewrites the ending of one of his most acclaimed stories from What We Talk about When We Talk about Love. The original story, "The Bath," is about a mother who orders a special cake for her eight-year-old son's birthday—but the boy is hit by a car on that day and is rushed to the hospital, where he lingers in a coma. The baker, aware only that the parents haven't picked up their expensive cake, badgers them with endless calls demanding his money. As the story ends, the boy's fate is still unknown, and the desperate parents hear the phone ring again. In Cathedral, the author retells this story (now titled "A Small, Good Thing") up to the final phone ring. At this point, ambiguity vanishes; Carver reveals that the boy has died, and the call is from the irate baker. But this time the parents confront the baker with the circumstances, and the apologetic man invites them over to his bakery. There he tells the parents his own sad story of loneliness and despair and feeds them fresh coffee and warm rolls, because "eating is a small, good thing in a time like this."
"In revising 'The Bath' into 'A Small, Good Thing,' Carver has indeed gone into [what he describes as] 'the heart of what the story is about,' and in the process has written an entirely new story—has created, if you will, a completely new world," declares Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post Book World. "The first version is beautifully crafted and admirably concise, but lacking in genuine compassion; the mysterious caller is not so much a human being as a mere voice, malign and characterless. But in the second version that voice becomes a person, one whose own losses are, in different ways, as crippling and heartbreaking as the one suffered by the grieving parents." As Broyard writes in a New York Times review of Cathedral, "It is typical of Mr. Carver's stories that comfort against adversity is found in incongruous places, that people find improbable solace. The improbable and the homely are [the author's] territory. He works in the bargain basement of the soul." Yardley maintains that "'The Bath' is a good short story," while "'A Small, Good Thing' comes breathtakingly close to perfection."
New Republic reviewer Dorothy Wickenden agrees that "A Small, Good Thing" and the story "Cathedral" "are astute, even complex, psychological dramas," but remarks that "a touch of sentimentality, an element previously foreign to Carver's work, has crept into these stories. Perhaps because he doesn't quite trust the sense of hope with which he leaves his characters, the writing at the end becomes self-consciously simple and the scenes of resolution contrived." Yet "compared with his previous two collections of stories," Broyard concludes, "[ Cathedral] shows an increase in vitality. Like a missionary, Mr. Carver seems to be gradually reclaiming or redeeming his characters."
According to New York Times Book Review critic Irving Howe, Carver's stories evoke "strong American literary traditions. Formally, they summon remembrances of Hemingway and perhaps Stephen Crane, masters of tightly packed fiction. In subject matter they draw upon the American voice of loneliness and stoicism, the native soul locked in this continent's space. [The author's] characters, like those of many earlier American writers, lack a vocabulary that can release their feelings, so they must express themselves mainly through obscure gesture and berserk display." And Paul Gray, writing about Cathedral in Time, says that "Carver's art masquerades as accident, scraps of information that might have been overheard at the supermarket check-out or local beer joint. His most memorable people live on the edge: of poverty, alcoholic self-destruction, loneliness. Something in their lives denies them a sense of community. They feel this lack intensely, yet are too wary of intimacy to touch other people, even with language."
Such appraisals of his writing left Carver himself a little wary. He told Weber: "Until I started reading these reviews of my work, praising me, I never felt the people I was writing about were so bad. . . . The waitress, the bus driver, the mechanic, the hotel keeper. God, the country is filled with these people. They're good people. People doing the best they could."
Carver's 1988 short fiction collection Where I'm Calling From, released shortly before his death, combines new and previously published stories. The entire volume is colored by Carver's standard themes of alienation, failed relationships, and death, but critics generally considered the newer contributions softer and more rambling than the author's earlier, more intense pieces. Where I'm Calling From was nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Carver also wrote extensively as a poet. A collection of his poetry, including some works being written shortly before his death, was published in A New Path to the Waterfall. Although he had already released a volume of his collected verse, the diagnosis of lung cancer inspired him to write another volume. These poems are characterized by a reliance on sentence-sounds and a structure steeped in storytelling. Edna Longley comments in the London Review of Books that "all his writing tends toward dramatic monologue, present-tense soliloquy that wears the past like a hairshirt." He explores tortured marriages and strained familial relationships, all of which lead him bravely into discussing his own terminal illness. Longley praises Carver for his ability to forge solid beginnings and endings: "A Carver poem instantly establishes its presence." Fred Chappell, writing in the Kenyon Review, takes a much different view of the book. He admits that he had reservations in reviewing it: "My personal impression has been that Carver desiccated the short story and that his effort to trivialize the form has been as irrelevant as it was unsuccessful. . . . the poems here are pretty bad. In fact, it is difficult to think of these productions as poems; they stand in relation to poetry rather as iron ore does to Giacometti sculpture."
In 1992 a collection of Carver's early works was published. No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings contains poems, essays, book reviews, and other pieces that Carver had chosen not to include in any of his other collected work. Several of the short stories included had only been published before in student literary magazines. Of interest was the fact that in these stories Carver uses literary devises such as flashbacks and experimentation with verb tenses—techniques he shunned in his later work. Alan Davis comments in the Hudson Review that "the artfulness of Carver, the way he consciously chisels a world out of workaday detail, becomes quickly apparent after perusing his earliest stories."
Several of Carver's previously published short stories received attention when acclaimed film director Robert Altman turned them into a motion picture. Although Altman took some liberties in adapting these stories for the screen, they remained essentially true to Carver's ideas. The stories were collected into the book Short Cuts, which bears the same name as the movie. In one story, a couple becomes entranced with their neighbor's life when they are left to cat-sit for a weekend. In "So Much Water So Close to Home," a wife learns that the source of her marital disharmony is the fact that her husband found a drowned woman while on a fishing trip and took days before reporting his find to the police. "Jerry and Molly and Sam" chronicles the life of a disgruntled husband and father who thinks ditching the family pet will relieve some of his stress.
"I never figured I'd make a living writing short stories," Carver told Penelope Moffet in a Publishers Weekly interview only a few months before he died. "How far in this world are you going to get writing short stories? I never had stars in my eyes. I never had the big-score mentality." Astonished by his literary prominence, Carver told Moffet that fame "never ceases to amaze me. And that's not false modesty, either. I'm pleased and happy with the way things have turned out. But I was surprised."
- Near Klamath (poems), Sacramento State College, 1968.
- Winter Insomnia (poems), Kayak, 1970.
- Put Yourself in My Shoes (short stories), Capra, 1974.
- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (short stories), McGraw, 1976.
- At Night the Salmon Move (poems), Capra, 1976.
- Furious Seasons (short stories), Capra, 1977.
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (short stories), Knopf, 1981.
- Two Poems, Scarab Press, 1982.
- The Pheasant (short stories), Metacom, 1982
- Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories, 1966-1982, Capra, 1983.
- (Author of foreword) John Gardner, On Becoming a Novelist, Harper, 1983.
- "A Small, Good Thing," Doubleday, 1983.
- (Author of introduction) William Kittredge, We Are Not in This Together, Greywolf Press, 1984.
- Cathedral (short stories), Knopf, 1984.
- If It Please You (short stories), Lord John, 1984.
- Cathedral: Stories, Vintage Books, 1984.
- (Editor and author of foreword) We Are Not in This Together: Stories, Graywolf Press, 1984.
- For Tess, William B. Ewert, 1984.
- Dostoevsky: The Screenplay, Capra, 1985.
- The Stories of Raymond Carver, Picador, 1985.
- Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (poems), Random House, 1985.
- This Water (poems), Ewert, 1985.
- Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems, Random House, 1985.
- Ultramarine (poems), Random House, 1986.
- (Editor with Shannon Ravenel) The Best American Short Stories 1986, Houghton, 1986.
- My Father's Life, Babcock and Koontz, 1986.
- In a Marine Light: Selected Poems, Harvill, 1987.
- Saints, Random House, 1987.
- Those Days: Early Writings by Raymond Carver: Eleven Poems and a Story, Edited by William L. Stull, Raven Editions, 1987.
- (Editor with Tom Jenks) American Short Story Masterpieces, Delacorte, 1987.
- Elephant, and Other Stories, Harvill, 1988.
- Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
- A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems, Introduction by Tess Gallagher, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.
- Katedrala/Reimund Karvur; Prevod ot angliiski, Sofia: Nar Kultura, 1989.
- Carver Country, Scribner (New York, NY), 1990.
- Conversations With Raymond Carver, Edited by Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L. Stull, University Press of Missippi, 1990.
- No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings, Edited by William L. Stull, Random House, 1992.
- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories, Vintage Books, 1992.
- Short Cuts: Selected Stories, Vintage, 1993.
- All of Us: The Collected Poems, Harvill, 1997.
- Elephant and Other Stories, Harvill Press, 1998.
- Call if You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose, edited by William L. Stull, Vintage Books, 2001.
Further Readings
- Carver, Raymond, Cathedral, Knopf, 1984.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 22, 1982, Volume 26, 1983, Volume 53, 1989, Volume 55, 1989.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1984, Gale, 1985, Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1988, 1989.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 130: American Short-Story Writers since World War II, Gale, 1993.
- Gentry, Marshall Bruce, and Stull, William L., editors, Conversations with Raymond Carver, University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
- Halpert, Sam, Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography, University of Iowa Press (Iowa City), 1995.
- Lohafer, Susan, Coming to Terms with the Short Story, Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
- Meyer, Adam, Raymond Carver, Twayne (New York, NY), 1994.
- Nesset, Kirk, The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study, Ohio University Press (Athens), 1995.
- Short Story Criticism, Gale, Volume 8, 1991.
- Weaver, Gordon, editor, The American Short Story, 1945-1980, Twayne, 1983.
- Akros Review, spring, 1984.
- Antioch Review, spring, 1984.
- Atlantic, June, 1981.
- Booklist, June 1, 1994, p. 1775.
- Books, March, 1994, p. 13.
- Boston Globe, July 17, 1983.
- Canto, Volume 2, number 2, 1978.
- Chariton Review, spring, 1984.
- Chicago Tribune, October 28, 1986.
- Chicago Tribune Book World, October 2, 1983.
- Commonweal, December 1, 1989.
- Contemporary Literature, winter, 1982.
- Detroit News, October 2, 1983.
- Economist, January 4, 1992.
- Eureka Times-Standard (Eureka, CA), June 24, 1977.
- Georgia Review, fall, 1982; winter, 1993, pp. 820-21.
- Globe and Mail (Toronto), November 24, 1984; July 2, 1988.
- Harper's Bookletter, April 26, 1976.
- Hollins Critic, December, 1987.
- Hudson Review, summer, 1976; autumn, 1981; spring, 1984; winter, 1993, pp. 653-8.
- Iowa Review, summer, 1979.
- Kenyon Review, summer, 1990, pp. 168-79.
- London Review of Books, February 2-l5, 1984; March 22, 1990, pp. 22-3; March 10, 1994, p. 19.
- Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1988.
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 24, 1981; October 2, 1983; July 28, 1985; October 26, 1986; December 28, 1986; January 31, 1988; June 26, 1988; July 19, 1992, p. 1.
- Nation, July, 1981.
- New Republic, April 25, 1981; November 14, 1983.
- New Statesman & Society, August 19, 1988; February 16, 1990; December 6, 1991.
- Newsweek, April 27, 1981; September 5, 1983.
- New York, April 20, 1981.
- New York Review of Books, November 24, 1983; November 18, 1993, p. 66.
- New York Times, April 15, 1981; September 5, 1983; May 11, 1988; May 31, 1988.
- New York Times Book Review, March 7, 1976; April 26, 1981; February 9, 1986; June 7, 1987; May 15, 1988; July 19, 1992.
- New York Times Magazine, June 24, 1984.
- Paris Review, summer, 1983.
- People, November 23, 1987.
- Philological Quarterly, winter, 1985.
- Publishers Weekly, May 27, 1988; April 20, 1990, p. 70; August 16, 1993, p. 100.
- Saturday Review, April, 1981; October, 1983.
- Studies in Short Fiction, winter, 1984; summer, 1985; summer, 1986.
- Time, April 6, 1981; September 19, 1983.
- Times (London), January 21, 1982; April 17, 1985; May 16, 1985.
- Times Literary Supplement, January 22, 1982; February 17, 1984; May 24, 1985; September 15, 1989; February 28, 1992, p. 16; January 24, 1997.
- Tribune Books (Chicago), November 9, 1986; May 8, 1988; September 4, 1994, p. 12.
- Village Voice, September 18, 1978.
- Washington Post, August 4, 1988.
- Washington Post Book World, May 3, 1981; September 4, 1983; May 15, 1988; July 9, 1989; January 27, 1991, p. 15.
- Chicago Tribune, August 3, 1988; August 7, 1988.
- Los Angeles Times, August 4, 1988.
- New York Times, August 3, 1988.
- Times (London), August 4, 1988.
- Washington Post, August 4, 1988.
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good choice ! congrats !
This is a discussion on Got A New Gun Today within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Hi, Some of you may remember that I bought an HK USPc 9mm about 2 weeks ago. Well, I finally had a chance to go ...
Some of you may remember that I bought an HK USPc 9mm about 2 weeks ago. Well, I finally had a chance to go shoot it today and was NOT impressed. It was not simple to operate and I thought I gripped it just perfect, but for some reason, the way it fit my hand, I limped wristed just about every time I shot it, and stove piped most of the rounds I put through it. Now I am new to guns, but that was just ridiculous. I bought this gun for home defense/conceal carry and if it is going to be that much trouble for me to shoot, then this gun isn't going to work.
So I had only put about 10 rounds through the hk and decided to put it away and go rent the glock 19 again, the very first gun I ever shot and loved. I put about 90 rounds through the glock, with no issues, and decided that was the gun for me.
Longs story short, I now own a glock 19 w/ trijicon night sights. Got it on sale w/ trijicon night sights at Cabela's for $539. I am sooooo happy with it. I am absolutely in love with this gun. It is so simple to operate and shoots very smoothly and accurately. I feel very confident shooting this gun vs. that HK.
Black Hawk Serpa Level II & Black Hawk Double Magazine Cases w/ Dual Accessory Rail.
Glock 19
good choice ! congrats !
" Refuse to be a victim, make sure there is a round chambered ! "
Just call me a pessimistic optimist !
U.S. Navy vet 1981-1992
You have got to carry what works for you. Sounds like you made the right choice. Glocks are good guns. Enjoy.
eschew obfuscation
The only thing that stops bad guys with guns is good guys with guns. SgtD
I'm not a fan of Glocks, but on making a choice that works for you. That's the only thing that matters.
As much as any of us can type on an internet forum, if you ever have to use a firearm for self defense, you are going to be about as alone as you could possibly be. Unfortunately, there won't be time to run to the computer and post a thread to ask what you should do...although, knowing some of the members here, if your door was reinforced, you might have time to start a thread and get a response in time...
In any case, I'm sorry the HK did not work for you. It seems most people are very satisfied with theirs, but if it won't work for you, it won't work for you...period.
I am, however, curious. Did you allow anybody else to try the HK? Did it jam for them, also? How are you doing in accuracy as far as the Glock?
I'm just trying to figure out if you have a fundamental flaw(you mentioned that you were new to pistols, and I'm not trying to insult you, I'm just curious), or if you just got a lemon? It happens. When you produce as much merchandise as the top sellers of firearms, there are bound to be a small percentage that just don't work right.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Who is John Galt?
I'm not sure why I limp wristed so bad on the hk though, and not at all on the glock. Maybe the glock is just a bit more forgiving?
Anyways, I've got a lot of learning and practicing to do, but honestly I was not confident and a little frightened by how the HK handled for me. I had to go rent the glock again just to make sure I wasn't crazy or having a bad day. I'm so new to guns and still a bit frightened by them, so perhaps the HK was just not a good first handgun choice. I am very happy with the glock 19 and how simple it is to use.
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Congrats on your new Glock. You just have to go with what works for you.
John Steinbeck: Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he's too old to fight, he'll just kill you.
Most excellent choice.
"Just blame Sixto"
I reserve the right to make fun, point and laugh etc.
For example, try this experiment like this guy in this video:
YouTube - testing several handguns for "limp wristing"
I figured you actually shot a range gun before you purchased that HK, there is NO way I would buy a CCW without range work with it, that's risky business... you can't be walking around with a gun that you have no real idea about and expect to be competent when you need it.
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I just love new toys!
ALWAYS carry! - NEVER tell!
"A superior Operator is best defined as someone who uses his superior
judgement to keep himself out of situations that would require a display of his
superior skills."
Congrats on your choice...
I used to hate Glocks...I now own two...
Stay armed...stay safe!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Not all guns work out perfectly for all shooters.
Luckily we have many to choose from.
Glad that you found a firearm that is working out for you.
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At least I can mark the glock 19 off my wish list.
Also, I finally found a walther pps today. Glad I didn't hold my breath for that, cuz it was the most awkward feeling gun I've held yet. It was so short and thin that it felt like there was nothing to grab.
I guess that just leaves the glock 26 on my wish list
Or maybe I'll up the anty next time and go w/ a .40 or .45 glock
Glock 19
I love these tritium night sights. I'd love to get a lazermax, but $$$.
Glock 19
Our local gun shop said they quit carrying lasermax because they would simply break all the time and they were tired of getting returns. Anyone completely think that's crap?
Congrats on the gun -- great feeling when you find a match.
It is utterly illogical to believe that passing laws to reduce gun violence will be successful when those who are commiting the gun violence do not obey the law.


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A special needs trust or supplemental needs trust can protect benefits that are based on need, especially Medicaid and SSI. Medicare and SSD are not based on need. Medicare does require medical expenses that it paid to be paid back from the settlement if they are related to the injury involved in the lawsuit. There is an ongoing discussion to what extent Medicare may require some settlement funds to be set aside to repay it for future medical expenses it may have to pay. That issue is not yet resolved, but it is a concern. For these reasons, before settling any personal injury case (and a medical malpractice case is one) it is part of your lawyer's job to protect your settlement as much as possible from claims and setoffs, and to protect whatever benefits you are receiving or might expect to receive in the future. It is not easy to do because the law in this area is complex and changing fast.Ask a similar question
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Which Star Trek Series Would You Like to Guest On?
In one of those increasingly popular polls on Facebook, my friend Tim, of StarshipTim, who was also Captain of the U.S.S. Brock during that big Romulan-Borg hullabaloo, answered the question "What [Star Trek] series would you like to guest on?" with "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." No surprise. He's been big on that series for a while.
I answered the original series, the one with Kirk, Spock and McCoy, TOS to fans, and relayed my reasoning to Tim in a series of posts:
- The miniskirts alone answer that question for me.
- Plus I want the pointy sideburns, the boots, and my shirt torn and the trickle of blood during a fight. Hopefully with Finnegan.
- Plus I want to ignore the Prime Directive at my discretion.
- But it's mostly the miniskirts.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be dangerous...
"Klingons? Attacking? What?"
Tim wrote:
The JJ Abrams movie missed the boat not giving the guys pointy sideburns. Bring back the Academy Points, JJ!
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Now that I've seen TNG, DS9, VGER and ENT, choosing TOS — to me, anyway — would be like saying my favorite century of the second millennium is the 19th. :)
Not only would I choose TNG, but I would choose the episode "All Good Things" because that's as far into the future as Star Trek goes — on-screen, anyway...I think. We don't know what's next, but the future looks okay. :)
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Mr. B: miniskirts. Plus I don't need no fucking empath on the bridge. "I sense ... confusion."
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Posted by Sunny Bjerk , October 17, 2012
Last night, four buses carrying activists from Housing Works, Occupy Wall Street, ACT-UP, and Queerocracy descended on Hofstra University to protest the criminalization of HIV as the second Presidential debate got underway.
The activists were joined by members of the Occupy Wall Street Long Island contingent, and nearly two-hundred strong, took to Hofstra's campus to highlight current discriminatory practices that criminalize people based on their HIV status and draw the Presidential candidates' attention to the issue.
A dozen or so activists donned orange prison jumpsuits and carried signs that read "HIV is not a crime, criminalizing it is," and called on President Obama and other political leaders to support Congressional Bill H.R. 3053, called the "REPEAL Act," which would eliminate discrimination based on HIV status and HIV testing results. The bill was introduced last year by Congressional Representative Barbara Lee but has yet to gain any traction.
The protestors collected in what was dubbed the "Freedom Cage," located at Uniondale Avenue and the Hempstead Turnspike, where a number of other groups were protesting other political issues such as drone strikes, the war on women, Zionism, and the always present "Jesus Saves" troupe. (To see photos of the collection of people at the Freedom Cage, visit our Facebook page). Despite the disparate interests, however, it was the activists dressed as prisoners that stole the show, with people stopping to join the catchy chants—"HIV is not a crime: act-up, fight back, decriminalize!"—and to learn more about how people living with HIV/AIDS are treated as criminals rather than people living with a chronic illness.
As Andy Velez of ACT-UP New York stated, "HIV is a virus. It is not evidence of a crime. Until we stop dealing with it as a crime and address it as a health issue people are going to be afraid to get tested or treated. But treatment is what gets viral loads to an undetectable level and what reduces the likelihood of transmission by 96%."
While the protest certainly caught the attention of the Hofstra University and Hempstead communities, it remains to be seen if it will rupture the trend of silence that has permeated the Presidential political season thus far. Aside from a brief reference from former President Clinton at the Democratic National Convention, neither President Obama or hopeful Romney have addressed HIV/AIDS issues thus far during the race, let alone its criminalization or stigma.
Despite their reticence, however, we will continue to fight for the respect and rights of all people living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions that continue to be marginalized in today's political climate.
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Don't pass on this club just because it is several model years old- Big Bertha Titanium delivers distance. I don't understand why more modern fairway woods are all stainless steel. I have an 18 degree 5 wood that is easy to hit from the fairway or light rough. The head size is similar to modern hybrids but the extra inch or two in shaft length delivers much more distance.
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- Ceremony: Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University
- Reception: Elizabeth's on L
Celebrated String Quartet9012A Old Dominion Dr
Mc Lean, VA, United States
"This very professional 4-piece string quartet with a vocalist played at our ceremony. They selected most of the music and did a great job!"
Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown UniversityGeorgetown University
37th & O St NW
Washington, DC
"Dahlgren Chapel is a beautiful site for a small wedding. However, we found the cost ($900 in fees), required paperwork and logistics a bit overwhelming, especially since the wedding office was understaffed and unresponsive."
Elizabeth's on L1341 L St NW
Washington, DC 20005, US
"We highly recommend the Catering Company of Washington, and suggest holding an event in their rowhouse. The food was delicious & the venue is beautiful. Plus, Kiley (a manager) was our best, most responsive vendor!"