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What the Conventions Told Us
Sean Evans, Chair and Professor of Political Science
Sep 8, 2012
Just as one's character gives insight into the kind of person one is, the political conventions provide insight into our politics. The conventions over the past two weeks tells us three things: these were tofu conventions, character is king, and this is a base election.
First, we witnessed the first tofu conventions as the past two weeks were devoid of policy. Watching the two conventions, I was reminded of the old Wendy's commercial when the old lady orders a hamburger, is given a huge bun with a small hamburger and asks "where's the beef?" Well, policy is the "beef" of American politics. It is what we chew over and digest before we decide how to solve our problems. Yet, the conventions and primtetime speeches were largely silent on how to solve our problems. Watching these conventions, you might think that the economy is not struggling, the deficit and debt are not weighing down our future, entitlements are not bankrupting the nation, our schools are not teaching our students the skills they need, and social mobility is become more difficult.
I, and I guess many others, think that conventions are important in introducing the candidates and providing a vision but those biographies and visions are meaningless if you do not have policies to achieve your goals. At the Republican convention, Mitt Romney mentioned a five point plan to create 5 million new jobs with very little mention of how to do it. At the Democratic Convention, President Obama mentioned six goals for his second term with very little about how to do it. If you can go to their websites, you can find the same general pledges with very little specifics.
Now some may argue that speeches are not the place to lay out your policies and explain why they would work. But past acceptance speeches tell a different story. In 2008, Obama made 12 policy pledges and McCain 11 pledges. While they did not go into great depth, they did attempt to explain how they would make our lives better and they were backed up with policies on websites and many times books. In 2004, President Bush and John Kerry made 18 policy pledges. President Bush even referred people to his website for more information.
What makes this even more problematic is that the parties actually know what they would do if elected. Neither party will tell you because they do not want to be attacked for their plans. Therefore, they continue to convince you that there will be easy choices by not telling us the real truth. Leadership requires politicians to lay out the stakes, the options, and the consequences so voters can realize the costs, weigh the evidence, and be prepared to make the difficult decisions. Our leaders have failed us in this regard in both parties.
Second, the conventions tell us character is king. In the 1990s during the Lewinsky affair, many people said that personal character does not matter in evaluating politicians. This belief was readily summed up with it's "Dow Jones not Paula Jones" that matters. These conventions and this campaign says otherwise. For the past few months, Democrats have run ads saying that Romney is a heartless businessman who cannot be trusted with power in government. As a result, most of the GOP convention was meant to tell a story of a caring, empathatic Romney. Ann and Mitt Romney's speeches did this especially well. Even in the Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama and Joe Biden testified to Obama's character in the decisions that he made and that we should trust him.
Character is important for several reasons. First, we give tremendous power to presidents because of their power to send people to war and because of the impact their policies will have to hurt all of us, especially the disadvantaged. We do not want them to abuse their power or choose to benefit privaste interests over the public interest. With a large deficit and debt that must be reigned in and an economy struggling, the next president will make decisions regarding Medicare, Medicaid, defense, and who wins and loses in the economy and as a result of government policy. Because they know this, and we know it implicitly, they try to convince us that they are like us and understand us so we will trust them to make these difficult decisions.
Second, we are in the midst of what Mark Halperin calls the "freak show." In this polarized age, we do not say that our opponent's policies are wrong but that they are wrong due to a moral defect. We see this with attacks on Clinton's character, assertions that Bush invaded Iraq to get their oil or avenge possible attacks on his dad, and claims that Obama was not born in the U.S. and is a muslim. The politics of personal destruction is meant not just to tar a person but their belief system. Consequently, politicians must spend substantial time defending their character to ward off attacks. The focus on attacks also means that politicians can put off the hard choices of their inaction.
Third, the conventions demonstrated that this is a base election. The old adage is that candidates run for the ideological extremes in the primary and then move to the center in the general election. These conventions have appealed very little to the independent voter but instead have been aimed at mobilizing the base. If you are wondering where the beef is, it is in the red meat that the convention speakers gave their base. Both sides contrasted their visions and candidates with each other and made straw man arguments to show the other side is wrong. The issues that they did bring up and designed to motivate their base. Anyone who watched the non-network televised sessions of the conventions could see this. Just this past week, you saw the Democrats use abortion, voter identification, gay rights, health care, attacks on the wealthy, etc. to fire up their base. If most centrists saw that, they would have been repelled by the convention.
The truth is that there are very few independents left. Most independents lean toward one party or the other and those independent leaners vote in very partisan manners. Therefore, both parties can win if they get more of their voters to the polls than the other party. This strategy leads campaigns to give their voters red meat to drive out their base. And as research shows, negative ads motivate partisans to vote. With so few true independent who actually vote, the incentive is to tear down the opposition so your people vote against the opponent rather than for you.
The bad news for the Republicans is that Democrats seemed more fired up at their convention.The Republicans just seemed to be excited during the primetime hour shown on tv. The Democrats were excited throughout the entire evening schedule. Whether this is because Republicans are more reserved than Democrats or because Democrats love Obama and Republicans accept Romney, it seems clear that Democrats in the convention hall were more excited. If we extrapolate this to Democratic activists, then they may be more motivated to go out and work hard to elect Democrats. If this is a truly "base" election, Democrats have the advantage.


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The Best, Worst and Weirdest Alternate Universe Superhero Deaths In Comics
For the past few months, Marvel's advertising department has been doing their level best to get readers psyched up about the impending "Death of Spider-Man" (buy digital) in various Ultimate comics, and if you ask me, it's working: The death of an alternate universe version of a character? Who wouldn't be excited about that?
But really, killing off characters left and right is exactly what Alternate Universes are for. Creators might not be able to ever really off any heroes in the main-line stories of serialized fiction, and even if they do, it doesn't tend to stick — just ask Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — but in alternate universes, you can go for a full-on slaughter. That's why today, in honor of the Ultimate Death of Ultimate Spider-Man, I've sifted through a stack of What Ifs, Elseworlds and time-travel tales to bring you The Best, Worst and Weirdest Alternate Universe Deaths!
When your talking about characters getting killed in alternate universes, there's one that's at the top of everybody's list that pretty much defined the surprisingly popular sub-genre of parallel-universe murder stories: Wolverine getting vaporized by a Sentinel in "Days of Future Past," from Uncanny X-Men #141 by the legendary team of Chris Claremont and John Byrne.
Sure, Superman may have died a few times in clearly labeled "Imaginary Stories" in the '60s and Batman once hallucinated that Robin bit the dust in a story that would surprise everybody by actually turning out to matter 50 years later, but it's impossible to overstate the importance of this scene to the modern age of Marvel comics. Just look at how it gets brought up again and again and again and again and again, with Wolverine's bomber jacket getting more hilarious each time.
Really, though, it's easy to see why it's such a cornerstone. While he wasn't exactly the unstoppably popular character that he would later become, Wolverine had been certified as one of comics' ultimate badasses less than a year earlier with his famous "You had your chance, now it's my turn" comeback in battle against the Hellfire Club. Here, though, he was getting brutally and effortlessly obliterated by the Sentinels in the middle of his trademark Fastball special — with Byrne's unforgettable depiction of the flesh being blown off of his unbreakable skeleton — putting a fine point on just what the X-Men were up against. If they failed today, there was no one who could stop this from happening, not just to them, but to everyone. Years later, it's still an incredible piece of comics.
Now can we please never, ever see it referenced again?
Speaking of dystopian futures things don't get much grimmer than the future depicted in Grant Morrison and Howard Porter's "Rock of Ages" from the pages of JLA. In a world where Darkseid, the New Gods' embodiment of evil, has finally achieved his goal of taking over as absolute master of the Earth, most of the Justice League has been killed, including both Superman and the Martian Manhunter, who was murdered one atom at a time as fuel in one of Darkseid's power plants.
Batman, however, was taken alive so that he can be tortured, which as anyone with even a passing knowledge of Batman knows is an absolutely terrible idea. Sure enough, even though it takes him eight years to manage it, Batman escapes…
…and then blows up the moon.
Or at least, a chunk of the mood housing Darkseid's zombie factory so massive that the explosion is visible from space, but c'mon, that's just semantics. Also, he calls Darksied ugly. Dude is harsh.
In retribution, Batman gets Omega Beamed out of existence — not the last time Morrison would write a scene with that happening — but it provides enough of a distraction that Green Arrow and the Atom can finish him off. Darkseid's protected by a force field, but since he can see (and shoot laser beams out of his eyes), they figure out that the one thing that can get through is light. Pretty handy knowledge when you've got a guy who can shrink down and ride a photon straight into a guy's brain.
Thus, the God of Evil becomes one of the only villains to ever get taken out by a flare arrow. Think about that next time you call the trick arrows lame.
If "Days of Future Past" is the most influential alternate universe story for Marvel, then Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns has a good shot at being the most influential alternate universe story in comics, period. Even though the Batman that returns to action in the story is an older, meaner version that'll kick you in the stomach hard enough to break your back and break your legs in an operating table a mud pit, he still doesn't kill the Joker, even though the Clown Prince of Crime has just murdered hundreds of people. Instead, he stops just short, snapping his neck and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.
Unfortunately, the Joker's plan hinged on driving Batman over the edge to killing and forcing the police to hunt him down as a maniac, so he has to get things done himself.
Seeing the Joker laughing while snapping his own neck in order to frame Batman for his murder isn't just monumentally creepy, it's one of the best examples of how far he's willing to go to ruin Batman in every way he can, a characterization that has bled over into almost every portrayal of the character since.
Of course, mixing the elements of an alternate universe into regular continuity isn't always a good idea, as we all learned in the pages of Infinite Crisis, which unfortunately wasn't an alternate universe itself. The setup here goes back to 1961, but since I don't get paid by the word, the short version is that in order to explain why their heroes didn't age and why there were guys named Flash and Green Lantern in the '50s who didn't have anything at all to do with the ones that were running around in the '40s.
Thus, DC decided that all the original versions were from different dimension called Earth-2, part of an infinite multiverse of worlds. Then 25 years later they decided that was dumb and got rid of it. Then, 20 years after that, they decided it wasn't a dumb idea, it just had too many worlds and they should bring them back, but only have a completely arbitrary number of them, except that all the heroes who were originally from Earth-2 were still from Earth-1, except Power Girl.
Anyway, in the process of the multiverse coming back — in a comic that featured the severed arms and gouged-out eyes that The Fans demanded — Superman and Earth-2 Superman teamed up to fight yet another version of Superman, and as ComicsAlliance's David Uzumeri put it, the original version of the very first super-hero was punched to death by a dude created in the '80s who had appeared in ten comics and would go on to be the personification of Internet comment threads:
Not exactly a great finish for the original Superman, but hey, at least it cleared up all that confusion about parallel universes! Now who says super-hero comics aren't accessible?
While we're on the subject of pointless, blood-soaked crossovers, I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up Jeph Loeb and David Finch's Ultimatum. This thing is a snuff film with super-heroes.
Even just listing off everyone who dies in this thing takes forever: Nightcrawler, Beast, Valkyrie and Dazzler drown, Professor X gets his neck snapped by Magneto (who just walks in and kills him while Professor X waits like he's read the script), Hank Pym is blown up by the suicide bomber Mulitiple Man dupes who don't get shot in the face, Dr. Strange is squeezed until his head pops, Angel's wings are chewed off and his neck is stomped on by Sabretooth, Wolverine gets burned to death explodes for some reason, Magneto is decapitated by Cyclops, Cyclops is shot in the face by some other dude, Dr. Doom gets his head crushed by the Thing, and for all I know, there's more people who die in this thing that I missed. Hell, I've had to read this dumb comic four times for my job, and I didn't know Dr. Strange got killed in it until just now.
The most famous death in this book, however, is one that's been accurately described as the most f—ed up panel in Marvel history:
There's really nothing to add to that. The wasp is killed off-panel and then her corpse — positioned even in death so that she's arching her back to show off her rack — is eaten by the Blob. There it is.
And then, just to dot the exclamation point on how godawful this mess is, this happens:
I'd call it gore-porn masquerading as a story, but there's not enough effort put into it to qualify as a masquerade. I've got to hand it to 'em, though, it's one of the few comics that really lives up to the hype.
Unfortunately, this was the hype:
As hard as it might be to believe after reading the above, it actually is possible to do a story where characters are massacred all over the place that actually has some character and very, very dark humor to it. Such is the case with Garth Ennis and Doug Braithwaite's Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, in which… well, you can probably figure that one out from the title.
Set in a world where Frank Castle's family is killed in a crossfire between super-heroes and villains, the story's packed wall-to-wall with super-heroes getting murdered, and while most of them just get a simple bullet to the dome, there are a couple of really memorable ones. The X-Men and all of their villains, for instance, are duped into going up to the moon to fight each other with the old "but I thought you sent that note!" trick and then immediately blown up with a nuclear warhead. For my money, though, the best physical comedy comes from the Punisher's battle with Dr. Doom:
It's not just the typical Garth Ennis tactic of lampooning the overblown hubris of super-heroes that sells this one, it's the "KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG squitch" sound of Castle finally breaking through Dr. Doom's armor with a sledgehammer.
C'mon. You laughed.
You wouldn't know it from reading most of the entries on this list, but death scenes in comics don't always have to be quite so dark, as Alan Davis proved in JLA: Another Nail. Based on the premise that a flat tire caused by a nail kept Jon and Martha Kent at home on the day that they would've found Superman's rocket, the story's got its fair share of pretty grim moments — like the Joker's drawn-out murder of Robin and Batgirl — but there's one that's just plain awesome.
It starts with its fair share of darkness: Mr. Miracle and Big Barda have been taken prisoner by the forces of Apokolips, with Barda chained up and forced to watch while their captures torture her husband until he suddenly dies. Before they can turn to her, though, the entirety of the Green Lantern Corps attacks Apokolips to put an end to Darkseid's evil once and for all.
It goes about as well as you'd expect, but when one of the Green Lanterns is killed, his ring seeks out a replacement, and the only person worthy of the ring's power on the entire planet… is Big Barda.
That is awesome, but it's about to get even better: It turns out that Mr. Miracle, the Ultimate Escape Artist, didn't just die while being tortured, he escaped his own body and bonded his consciousness with something that could respond to his limitless willpower: Barda's Green Lantern ring:
It's an incredibly creative blend of two different pieces of the DC Universe into a great moment. And as an added bonus, Davis doesn't drop the "wedding ring" puns that everyone expected.
We've taken a look at the best and the worst of alternte universe deaths, and now it's time for what might be the craziest, from the pages of — where else? — What If. Considering that it was a comic devoted entirely to showing how stories could've gone horribly wrong — except the one where Conan the Barbarian gets stranded in the 20th century and dresses like a pimp with a pet leopard, which is horribly right — it shouldn't come as a surprise that it delivered way more than its fair share of alternate versions of characters getting killed.
And in the story of what would happen if the heroes had lost in "Atlantis Attacks," they go all out and kill everybody in a way best described as completely nuts. Mostly because it was based on "Atlantis Attacks."
If you're not up on your late-80s Marvel crossovers, I'll try to sum up: Basically, a bunch of cultists get together to free the seven-headed serpent god Set from an interdimensional prison by giving a bunch of drug addicts a drug that they say will cure their addictions but will really just turn them into snake men, and then kidnap Andromeda, Storm, Dagger, Jean Grey, Sue Storm, the Scarlet Witch and She-Hulk so that Set can impregnate them with his giant snake babies.
I'm not kidding. This was actually published.
Fortunately the heroes managed to prevent this and outside of this What If, it was wisely never spoken of again. So how could they have possibly failed? Turns out it's all Punisher and Moon Knight's fault.
That's right, everybody: Forget about Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, the Silver Surfer, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers: Without Punisher and Moon Knight, nobody can stop this sinister plot.
Basically, their screw-up leads to a bunch of heroes being turned into snake-men, and that's when the killin' starts.
You get the idea.
The best bit, though, is at the end, when — in the grand What If tradition — the heroes have been completely defeated and the earth has been overrun by the forces of evil, which in this case are the gigantic snake babies that the heroines give birth to, that then eat their mothers.
Yes: Those are She-Hulk's legs sticking out of the gigantic evil snake baby she just gave birth to that is eating her.
Comics, everybody!
Now, I know there are those of you out there who are thinking "hey, c'mon, alternate universe stories have value beyond just being places where creators can slaughter characters with impunity! Sometimes it's nice to see a different take on things, and it's not like they're completely obsessed with death!"
And you are wrong. And I know this because I've read my all-time favorite alternate universe story, What If #10: "What If The Punisher's Family Hadn't Been Killed."
So, what would happen if the Punisher's familly hadn't been killed? Well, as it turns out…
…if the Punisher's family hadn't been killed, The Punisher's family would still be killed.
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By Lexington Legends | February 25, 2014 5:13 PM ET
(WHITAKER BANK BALLPARK, Lexington, Ky.) Former major leaguer Jeff Parrett and longtime Legends pitching coach Charley Taylor will be special guests as the Lexington Legends wrap up their pre-season caravan with an event at Whitaker Bank Ballpark Wednesday, February 26 from 5-7 p.m.
The caravan gives the Legends an opportunity to express thanks to fans and media around the region, and to promote the 2014 season.
The Lexington stop is the 10th in the series for 2014. The Legends have previously visited Cynthiana, Richmond, Somerset, Jackson, Danville, Campbellsville, Columbia, Frankfort and Mt. Sterling. Radio broadcasts have been a part of each stop. Wednesday night, the Sports Huddle program on the radio home of Legends baseball, ESPN Sports Radio 1300 WLXG, will be broadcast live from the Kentucky Ale Taproom at the ballpark. Fans are invited to stop by, meet Parrett and Taylor, and sign up for an opportunity to win tickets to the Legends' opening night game Thursday, April 3. Some Legends items also will be given away, and light refreshments will be available. The Legends' Big L will also be on hand.
Parrett was a pitching star at Lafayette High School and the University of Kentucky before going on to a 10-year career in the major leagues. A ninth round draft choice of the Milwaukee Brewers in 1983, he compiled a 56-43 record in the majors, including a 12-4 mark and a 2.65 earned run average with Montreal in 1988. He was 9-1 with a 3.02 ERA with Oakland in 1992. Parrett also coached Woodford County High School to a state baseball championship in 2012.
Taylor, who served as a coach in professional baseball for 31 years, was the Legends pitching coach from 2001-2009. He is now retired from baseball and living in Northern Kentucky. As a player, Taylor pitched at Eastern Kentucky University before being drafted in the 24th round in 1969 by the Houston Astros. He reached the triple-A level with Denver in 1974. After retiring as a player following the 1975 season, Taylor worked in the front office for the Cincinnati Reds for five years and occasionally served as a batting practice pitcher for the Reds before beginning his long coaching career in the Houston organization. He was elected to the Legends Hall of Fame in 2005.
"This should be a fun event that will put the finishing touches on our 2014 caravan," said Legends President/COO Andy Shea. "We're excited about having Jeff Parrett and Charley Taylor with us. Jeff has been great for baseball in our area at every level, and I know our fans will be glad to welcome Charley back to Lexington."
In the April 3 opener, the Legends, an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, will take on the West Virginia Power, an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. For more information, call 859 422-7867 or visit www.lexingtonlegends.com.
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Profile: Amyre Makupson
Former TV news anchor rekindles love of theater, stars in world premiere at Detroit Rep
By Donald V. Calamia
Originally printed 11/13/03 (Issue 1146 - Between The Lines News)
Life has come full circle for Amyre Makupson, and the recently retired Emmy Award-winning television news anchor couldn't be happier.
"I'm having the time of my life," Makupson said of her latest gig - starring in the world premiere of the comedy "Here and There" at the Detroit Repertory Theatre.
A native Detroiter who now resides in Southfield, Makeupson lived for most of the first 30 years of her life on the corner of Boston and Woodrow Wilson, right down the street from the venerable theater company. And although she hadn't attended the Rep for many years, an invitation this past January from a friend to see the production "No Niggers, No Dogs, No Jews" rekindled her relationship with the 46-year-old neighborhood institution and its Artistic Director, Bruce E. Millan.
It also reignited her passion for the stage.
"I was so impressed by [the show]," Makeupson recalled. "I saw Bruce there, and talked for a minute, and I said 'I really liked this, and I'd like to help you.' So I became a supporter of the theater. And then I said, 'Anytime you have auditions, let me know. Maybe I might try out for something.'"
So when an audition notice arrived in the mail a few months back, Makupson decided to give it a shot.
"You know what? I could do this," Makupson told herself, never thinking she would get into the show. "I honestly did not. And so I was surprised and so thrilled when they called and asked me if I would take this role - which is the lead role."
Although she is best known for anchoring the WKBD-TV "Ten O'Clock News" - and later, the 11 o'clock news on sister station WWJ-TV - and hosting the station's "Straight Talk" series, Makupson earned a bachelor's degree in speech and dramatics from Fisk University in Nashville and a master's in speech arts from the American University in Washington, D.C.
"I was always interested in drama," Makupson said. "I think I was in every school play from second grade through college, but I also always had an eye on television. And when I got out of school, it just seemed to me that television was the more reasonable thing to do."
A 25-year career as a television journalist - and two children to raise - kept Makupson off the legitimate stage, however, until her life took an unexpected twist late last year: WKBD went out of the news business, and Makupson's evenings suddenly became much more flexible!
"If they hadn't gone out of the news business, I'd still be there. Sometimes maybe you don't make a decision and it's made for you, and it winds up being the best decision," she reflected. "I don't mean to sound hokey, honest to God, but it's like a life moment!"
Whether you call it fate, karma or kismet, Makupson is relishing the chance to once again share the stage with fellow thespians; it hasn't been an easy transition, however.
"This is one demanding, consuming, but exciting adventure. If I had thrown myself into my schoolwork like this, I'd be president of the U.S.A. by now," she laughed.
Used to working with a teleprompter, Makupson has found learning her lines to be the most difficult part of the process.
"I've been eating, drinking and sleeping with my book. Television is different. It's very controlled. And you don't have to memorize a book! I had some serious doubts, but I kept working on it," she chuckled.
"It's a lot of fun, and I'm loving every second of it. [The Rep] is a beautiful place, a beautiful theater. It's another of Detroit's hidden jewels."
Makupson portrays a widow who very much misses her husband.
"It's about how to deal with grief, how to let go and how to move on."
In yet another twist, it's also similar to an unrelated project of hers that's nearing completion.
"It's funny how art imitates life. I was trying to finish this book I've been working on for two years, and it's about life after death. It just amazes me!"
With the show's opening weekend - and demanding rehearsal schedule - now behind her, Makupson will fill her days with numerous speaking engagements and projects with the many boards and committees with which she's heavily involved.
She is also encouraging those who haven't sampled live theater in a while - especially those who don't venture south of Eight Mile Road - to give "Here and There" a try.
"Theater is a nice outlet. It's fun. It's a mind expanding thing. So do yourself a favor and come visit the Detroit Rep," she said.
Makupson might even entertain yet another shot at fame and fortune under the spotlight.
"Unless I just fall on my face and have to jump off a bridge, I want to go back, you know?"
"Here and There" An unsentimental comedy about love, decency and undying friendship that proves humor is a potent tool for coping with lifeÉand death! Presented Thursday through Sunday at Detroit Repertory Theatre, 13103 Woodrow Wilson, Detroit, through Dec. 28. Tickets: $17. 313-868-1347. www.detroitreptheatre.com. See Curtain Calls XTRA for a review of this show.
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Dr. Aaron Mason, associate professor of political science, and Dr. Eric Schmaltz, associate professor of history at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, are pleased to announce the publication of the first annual volume of "Civitas: Journal of Citizenship Studies" through the Northwestern Institute for Citizenship Studies and the Department of Social Sciences.
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Negative taken for May 9, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Prairie Grove Has New Monument," E5:2. The new Hindman Memorial Hall at the Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park in Washington County, Arkansas. The Hall was erected in remembrance of Confederate Major General Thomas Carmichael Hindman, who fought at the Battle of Prairie Grove during the Civil War.
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Wouldn't this fit better as a transformational rule, since it changes the way the rules work as written, rather than adding something new on top? --Ghostwheel 13:37, January 8, 2010 (UTC)
- Maybe. It looked more like it was just addressing an unaddressed issue in core rather than actually changing anything fundamental. I don't see this altering how the game is played, so I tossed it into supplementals. I think it has a much smaller impact than Taking Stock, for example. - TarkisFlux 17:40, January 8, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think the impact matters as much as whether it changes existing rules, or adds things that one could effectively never be aware of and still play "by the rules". I think if there's any chance to the system it's "transformational", and if it adds anything new without changing things as-is it's "supplemental". --Ghostwheel 02:24, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Then I think you need to go read the descriptions on the variant rules page again. They make multiple references to core dynamics, and place a higher emphasis on that than actual changing of existing rules. The implication is that the impact on how the game is played is more important in categorization than whether it changes the rules or not (though large scale rules changes are likely to coincide with large scale dynamics changes, and thus be transformational anyway). Since I don't care about whether a rule scraps an existing piece of rules legislation anywhere near as much as I do about what adoption of that rule will do to how my game is played, I think that's a better measure of a variant rule. Further, the supplemental rules description allows for "little or no change in the core dynamics"', making your argument that any rules change is a transformational one invalid. If you don't like this placement you're going to need to address why this is a substantial change to the core dynamics of the game (or the skill system in this case) or suggest that we rethink the variant rule categorizations in general to support the organization you seem to want. - TarkisFlux 20:12, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
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|Timing Driven Physical Synthesis and Clock Network Synthesis in IBM
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IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Austin, Texas
In order to continue the Moore's law, VLSI technology is scaling down into 45nm/32nm/22nm regime and scaling out to multi-core architectures. Global and local wire delays become the dominant factor in delay optimization and create new challenges for existing physical synthesis tools. Coupled with conflicting optimization objectives such as delay, area, power and wireability, the timing closure problem of complex VLSI design becomes almost intractable and leads to severe time-to-market problems. In this presentation, we will go over IBM fast timing closure flow which has shown success in this area. If time permits, the topics would includes wire Synthesis, buffer insertion, gate cloning, local placement refinement, congestion reduction, all of which has been proved to be very effective for IBM timing closure flow.
The talk would also include a brief introduction on different EDA research in IBM Austin Research Laboratory and the clock network synthesis contest which is organized by International Symposium on Physical Design sponsored by ACM/SIGDA and IEEE/CAS.
Cliff Sze received the B.Eng. and M.Phil. degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University. Since 2005, he has been with IBM Austin Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas, where he focuses on integrated placement and timing optimization for ASIC and microprocessor designs. Cliff has contributed to several IBM ASIC designs, as well as POWER 6, POWER 7, Xbox 360 and the Sony/Toshiba/IBM CELL processors. He received several IBM technical/invention awards, filed 13 patents applications and was granted 2 patents. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, computer-aided design technique for very large scale integration, physical design, and performance-driven interconnect synthesis.
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It's no secret that there's plenty of bad blood between them and LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian seem to take great pleasure in dissing Cibrian's ex-wife Brandi Glanville in their new promo for their upcoming reality show "LeAnn and Eddie."
The video makes note of the unconventional start to LeAnn and Eddie's romance before poking fun at the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" starlet.
They have a new reality series called "Eddie & LeAnn" slated to debut on VH1 on July 17th and LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are excited for fans to see what they're really like, apart from the silly tabloid reports.
Celebrating Cuban Independence Day, a host of big-name stars turned out for Bacardi's Loud & Untameable Live on Tuesday (May 20).
"Can't Fight the Moonlight" singer LeAnn Rimes brought her handsome husband Eddie Cibrian to Weylin B. Seymour's in Brooklyn, NYC for the fancy fete, hosted by Bacardi rum and VICE.
Treating herself to a round of retail therapy, LeAnn Rimes headed to The Commons shopping plaza in Calabasas, CA on Thursday (March 13).
The "Can't Fight the Moonlight" songstress donned a super cute black sweater with white stars and a pair of jeans as she made her way from store to store.
Stepping out for some delicious eats, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian headed over to a local restaurant in Calabasas, California on Thursday afternoon (February 20).
Sporting a supermodel-printed t-shirt with yellow shorts, wedge shoes and aviator sunglasses, the "How Do I Live" singer seemed to be in good spirits as she chatted with a pal on her way out of the establishment.
Their divorce was very brutal and very public, and that latest turn in the drama-filled relationship between Brandi Glanville and Eddie Cibrian involved child support.
On Tuesday (February 18), the "Real Housewives" star took to Twitter to express her frustrations about Eddie's request for child support to raise their two sons, Mason, 10, and Jake, 6.
Kicking off another day of fun in the sun, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian met up with some friends on the beach in Oahu, Hawaii on Thursday (February 6).
Still suffering from a sore foot, the "Can't Fight the Moonlight" singer made a few painful faces as she pranced around in a patterned Missoni bikini with Ray Ban sunglasses.
They've been having a blast in Hawaii as of late, and LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian showed up at Haleiwa Joe's restaurant for some lunch on Tuesday (February 4).
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Cities Ranked & Rated (Wiley, $24.99) gives high marks to several other college towns, including Ann Arbor, Mich. (No. 6) and Corvallis, Ore. (No. 10).
At the bottom of the rankings of 331 metropolitan areas are Laredo, Texas (No. 331), Stockton, Calif. (No. 330) and Newburgh, N.Y. (329).
The 820-page book by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander rates cities in 10 categories but give the most weight to three categories they say most affect daily life: cost of living, climate and one subjective measure: quality of life.
The book says Charlottesville's high housing prices are the only "negative and directly reflect the quality of life and resistance to sprawl. ... Mr. Jefferson would be proud."
Cities Ranked & Rated's top 10 cities and metropolitan areas:
1. Charlottesville, Va. 2. Santa Fe 3. San Luis Obispo, Calif. 4. Santa Barbara, Calif. 5. Honolulu 6. Ann Arbor, Mich. 7. Atlanta 8. Asheville, N.C. 9. Reno 10. Corvallis, Ore.
But Laredo's "bustle, lack of intellectual stimulation, poverty, high crime rate and heat will try anyone's patience."
Sander, who lives in a suburb of Sacramento (No. 85) says statistics alone can't measure "good planning and livable infrastructure. A good place is not only pedestrian-friendly but has something worth walking to."
Sperling, who lives in Portland, Ore., (No. 12), notes that cities with the most resources, such as New York (No. 40), Los Angeles (No. 54) and Chicago (No. 155) don't top the list. The high ratings of smaller cities such as Santa Fe (No. 2), Asheville, N.C. (No. 8) and Reno (No. 9) reflect "an increasing trend of people searching for alternatives to the big-city lifestyle."
As for Laredo, he hopes residents realize that "the conditions which contributed to this ranking are not permanent."
In 1986, Sperling created Money magazine's first Best Places to Live list, which ranked Flint, Mich., as the worst place to live. That became fodder for Michael Moore's film Roger & Me, but Sperling says Moore recently told him, "It was the best thing that could have happened. That was exactly what I had been trying to tell people: that Flint had become a wasteland."
In the new book, Flint is ranked No. 234 and praised for creating a broader economy and cultural attractions.


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I'm using actually m0n0wall pb15r486 on Soekris 4501.
It runs great for a long time!
Now, I will update on net45xx-1.11.img but the there is
any problems.
What I have putting:
1) download net45xx-1.11.img
2) enable firmware update in the GUI
3) upload the image(unter a linux box) to o4501
ftp says upload OK
4) clikc on upgrade firmware
5) save existing configuration file
That's it. The 4501 is rebooting with the old Image :-(
What's wrong?
I've no informatipn found on the documentaton sites.
Or is the meantime the only way to update write the image directly
via dd ?
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I have been to so many of these it's not funny, but I always go because I can't stop. The food is good and while it's not really cheap, it's not a complete ripoff like a lot of places with the same theme.
Posted on Citysearch: 12/14/2011
I just love the idea of Hooters in Vegas. We almost made reservations to stay at this casino, but after reading reviews, decided that we would take a pass. Reviews said the hotel was ancient and dirty and the casino was a joke. Well, we still wanted to visit so we had lunch there the first day. Lunch was AMAZING with such a good atmosphere. The slot machines going off in the background was awesome. Though we didn't gamble, I have to say the place was more like a restaurant with some machines and tables in it than a casino with a hooters in it. It is small scale and doesn't strike that WOW response you get at a lot of the main casinos on the strip. We didn't see the show or the casino part, but based on what we saw in the lobby, I don't think we were missing anything. Restaurant is a must do in Vegas.
Posted on Citysearch: 12/01/2011
We like the casino it was clean and newly redone. However we did have a problem with the elavator to the parking garage and go stuck for a while.
Posted: 6/11/2008 • Last edited: 6/13/2008 • Link to this review
We always go to Hooters for the wings. The casino was busy and the service took a little while. But we always enjoy Hooters
Posted: 6/10/2008 • Last edited: 6/12/2008 • Link to this review
This is a small casino but lots of fun. always a spot at a table. They keep the most current slots as well.
Posted: 6/05/2008 • Link to this review
Reviews: 119
Sign up for their players card and get a few perks such as 100 free on the slots(cant walk away with it have to play on special slots but still free).
Posted: 4/22/2008 • Link to this review
The hotel itself is looking old tired and run down already. But you can never go wrong with the wings. Hooters has the best wings.
Posted: 10/30/2007 • Last edited: 1/02/2008 • Link to this review
I have been here 3 times and each time to food was awful. 1st trip-The crab legs were rubbery, 2nd trip-the nachos were mostly chips and had no real flavor and 3rd trip- the shrimp cocktail looks nothing like the picture advertised-this had a couple pieces of shrimp that smelled fishy and avocado and was just nasty tasting-it was inediable. The service was slow and the wait staff looked liked they didn't want to be bothered. I learned my lesson and will never step foot in that restaurant again.
Posted: 9/27/2007 • Last edited: 1/02/2008 • Link to this review
I've been a fan of hooters. This casino is lacking for my taste. Although hooters is very cheesy the rooms look like they are from a cheap motel with the color/styling. They are clean though. In the casino its full of very drunk folks. The casino is small in itself. And when I went to sit down the dealer told me i should go to a different table. Yes I found out when when the player next to me started playing with my chips. .. .. . .
Posted: 4/23/2007 • Last edited: 1/02/2008 • Link to this review


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Surging South Fayette boys soccer squad playing for lofty goals
After a resurgence in 2012, the South Fayette boys soccer team is aiming for the stars this season.
"We set a couple of bench mark goals," coach Rob Eldridge said. "We wanted to win our (season-opening) tournament, which we were able to do. The next step is to win the section and WPIAL and make an appearance in Hershey. Those are goals you have to strive for. If you don't, you are selling yourself short."
South Fayette won 14 games last season – a turn around from three wins in 2011 – and made a run to the WPIAL Class AA consolation game where it fell to Belle Vernon, 1-0. The Lions return seven players from that squad.
"That is a pretty substantial number no matter if it is soccer or football or whatever sport," Eldridge said. "Whenever you return seven experienced guys, it is much easier to move forward with the program."
Junior Brian Coyne is leading the offensive attack – he scored four goals in the Lions' first three games – that also features senior midfielders Danny Pruss and Travis Revay and sophomore forward Jordan Smith.
The defense will be boosted by the return of seniors Dan Pruss and Evan Yee and juniors Nick McKee and George Slater.
The team is in a unique situation as it has split time between two goalkeepers in senior Alex Gedrys and junior Andrew Pine. While Gedrys was an All-WPIAL selection in 2012 and recorded double-digit shutouts, being able to build depth in front of the net has led to the split time.
"If something physical happens, you want a contingency plan in place," Eldridge said. "I would hate to be in a position where (Gedrys) plays all the games and suffers an injury. We are kind of investing in our security."
The plan has worked as the Lions opened the season 4-0, including Section 5-AA wins over Keystone Oaks and Montour. South Fayette's defense has been strong as the team has outscored opponents 11-0.
The Lions know things will get tougher against the top squads of Section 5-AA – the section Eldridge called the best in Class AA.
The section features defending WPIAL Class AA champion Quaker Valley, not to mention a West Allegheny team that has outscored its first five opponents 20-2 and an upstart Montour squad. Despite the challenge, seeing these team on a weekly basis and going into hostile environments should prepare a team for the postseason.
"If you can make it through," Eldridge said.
The Lions return to the field Saturday at they travel to Waynesburg Central for a 7:30 p.m. start.
Nathan Smith is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-388-5813.


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Freytag's Pyramid – a diagram of plot that shows how the reader's tension level typically rises and falls while reading a story.
Usually, the conflict and the rising action make up most of the story, taking up at least 3/4 of the space. The climax is, in itself, very, very short, and it happens very close to the end of the story; the shorter the piece of writing, the closer to the end the climax is. The falling action and the resolution are usually longer than the climax, but still very short; they tie up any loose ends of the plot.
In actuality, most stories have several smaller conflicts, climaxes, and resolutions going on at the same time, each of which is a part of the larger, main conflict.
During the main conflict, each smaller conflict, with a climax and resolution, may help build toward the suspenseful main climax and main resolution.
Or, each smaller conflict may arise, but not have the climax or resolution until the main climax and main resolution.


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Making a World of Difference
Now is an especially exciting and rewarding time to enter the civil engineering profession. Population and economic growth in rapidly developing countries such as China and India necessitates explosive growth in supporting infrastructure- roads, water supply and treatment, sanitation, environmental controls, and building construction-all of which place enormous pressure on the globe's natural resources. Here in the U.S., we face aging infrastructures, overdrawn groundwater aquifers, rapid development in some parts of the country, and redevelopment projects in many cities. In addition, global climate change has mobilized interest and investment in various forms of renewable energy and in projects to reduce carbon emissions.
Joan Miller (BSCE '79), is senior vice president of CH2M HILL
When I entered the civil engineering field 26 years ago, in all honesty I didn't know much about it. I also didn't appreciate how integral the civil engineer's role is to the overall success of any given project. When I chose my field of study, I was drawn to civil engineering because I wanted to take a project from concept through design and construction, and then see the completed project come to life. I had the good fortune to join CH2M HILL, where experience soon revealed that my education put me squarely in the middle of the action on our projects;I often served as the project or program manager. After all, the civil engineer's role as the integrator of all engineering disciplines gives us an intrinsic vantage point for understanding the project as a whole. As project managers, civil engineers can lead the integration of global development needs with the protection of our natural systems and resources. Sustainable solutions-where engineers balance environmental, social, and developmental needs-are our future, because the health and wealth of our societies depend on them. Sustainable solutions ask us to think big and bold. They ask us to develop new technologies and solutions. And across the board, the special analytical skills of engineers will be critical in shaping a sustainable world.
We can no longer view natural systems as an endless source of raw materials or a bottomless sink for waste products. Although environmental regulations are still a strong driver for mitigating the environmental impacts associated with projects we design and build, our clients increasingly want to go beyond environmental compliance. Why? Because sustainable solutions can reduce their costs as well as enhance the reputation of their businesses with the public, investors, and other stakeholders. I see examples at CH2M HILL every day:
- Throughout the U.S., green buildings are being designed and constructed under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEEDTM green building rating system.
- In multiple locations, natural water treatment systems such as constructed wetlands are being using to treat wastewater.
- In the Nevada desert, a new power station uses an air-cooled condenser that consumes 90 percent less cooling water than a conventionally designed plant.
- In Vietnam, a shoe manufacturing facility uses sustainable architectural elements to help cool and light the interior of a 101,200-square-foot factory.
- In Singapore, reclaimed municipal wastewater is treated for reuse as ultrapure water by the nation's high-tech manufacturing industry.
- A Canadian oil and gas company is improving its greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement and reporting practices and exploring comprehensive ways to prevent global warming.
- In California, treated municipal wastewater is piped 40 miles away, where it is injected into an aquifer to recharge a geyser basin. The resulting steam is used to generate electricity.
Today's issues have generated research and investment in a broad range of new technologies, all of which have expanded the civil engineering field. In storm-water management, for example, the new tenets of low-impact development (to reduce flows and increase infiltration) have created myriad new building products and design methodologies, such as porous pavements, bioswales, and green roofs. On the renewable energy front, civil engineers now design and construct sustainable systems ranging from wind turbines and solar installations to biofuel plants and landfill gas-to-energy systems. The watersupply field is also active, with highly developed filtration systems creating newly available sources of water through desalination and wastewater reuse. And transportation engineers more frequently consider "context-sensitive" options in roadway design to promote community safety, identity, and walkability.
It's easy to see that civil engineers play an important role in building a better world. At Purdue, students continue to build an exceptionally strong foundation in civil engineering and they're developing the creativity and capabilities required to look beyond traditional outcomes for inspired solutions. When these students take full advantage of their opportunities they'll make the world a better place.


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Anish Daryani, who was General Manager at Ogilvy Africa, has joined Orchard Advertising as Vice President and Branch Head at the agency's headquarters in Bangalore.
Commenting on Daryani's appointment, Kaushik Mitra, Senior Vice President, Orchard India, said, "Anish is very driven, hungry and passionate about the business. His key responsibility will be to strengthen and grow existing client businesses, cement relationships and look to grow Orchard Bangalore in the South market. Having diverse experience in categories such as FMCG, telecom, durables, automotive, healthcare, rural, Anish will strengthen Orchard's position in the market."
On his new role, Daryani said, "I have always admired the Leo Burnett Group for the thinking agency they've been, since I started my advertising career. So when I got an opportunity to join Orchard, one of the three agency brands from Leo Burnett's stable, taking it forward came very naturally to me."
Daryani has a decade's experience in advertising and has done two stints each with Ogilvy and the Rediffusion Y&R. Some of the brands he has worked on include Tata Motors, Tata Nano, Tata Steel, Hutch (now Vodafone), Airtel, Kingfisher Airlines, Danone, Brooke Bond Red Label, The Economic Times, The Times of India, Colors, Linc Pens and The Statesman, among others.
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One of my favorite menswear trends this season is the tailored, layered look. Not only is it easy to achieve, but if you layer correctly, you can appear to have spent hours putting your outfit together. This Fashionisto's outfit is extremely sleek and polished. He is wearing a black V-neck sweater layered on top of a sapphire blue button-down shirt. He harmonized his layers with a pair of white denim pants and a brown pair of the infamous boating shoes. For accessories, this Fashionisto kept it clean and simple with a stylish Fossil timepiece.
When layering shirts, the color selection is essential to mastering the look. You don't want to layer colors that are too similar because everything will blend together, which will defeat the purpose of the layering trend. Instead you want to layer complementary colors, or colors that off-set each other so the colors will really pop. As college students, we are always looking for ways to get more bang for our buck. This look can serve a number of purposes, so I would consider it versatile and thus a great way to save some money. You can dress this look up for business casual purposes by substituting dress pants for the white denim pants. To make the look more casual, swap out the white denim for blue jeans. By manipulating the colors and textures in this look, you can create a few more outfits rather than just have one.
Hint: If a solid button-down is too plain for you, try layering with a stripe or plaid button-down instead.


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1. The three new teammates struck a pose last night for next week's cover of Sports Illustrated. Scared of a jinx? And what should the accompanying headline be?
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|SSID board considers putting local policy book up on the district's Internet Web site
|Faith Huffman | News-Telegram News Editor
July 14, 2005 -- Due to the ever-expanding size of the Sulphur Springs Independent School District's local policy book, administrators are considering joining the many school districts throughout the state that make their local policies available to the public on the Internet.
"We are investigating having all of the policies online," Superintendent Patsy Bolton advised school trustees during their regular July meeting earlier this week. "It's what many districts are doing. We don't know the cost yet, but we are looking into it."
One of those policies could be an amended extended sick leave policy for all district personnel.
Assistant Superintendent Randy Reed asked the board for its approval to continue drafting a proposed change to the district's extended leave of absence policy. The proposed change would tighten up the wording to ensure that the policy is not abused.
"Texas Association of School Boards indicated that we have probably the most lenient policy in the state," Reed said. "First, it is suggested that we give some definition to the 'extended leave' and eliminate it being used one day at a time.
"We are only talking about a few people abusing [the extended local leave of absence policy]," he added. "We are certainly not talking about 300 people."
The change would limit the number of days a person is allowed to request before being placed on temporary disability, as well as paid leave days.
The current policy allows a person to request 30 days additional leave with pay from the superintendent, and an additional 30 days can be granted by the school board. During their leave, the cost of substitute teacher pay is subtracted from their salary, according to Reed.
The proposed change would allow the employee to request a minimum of five consecutive days and a maximum of 30 consecutive days extended local sick leave with substitute pay deducted, with documentation from the person or family member's doctor. In order to request 5-30 additional consecutive extended days leave from the superintendent, the days would have to be consecutive and would need to be used for sickness, either of the employee or the employee's extended family.
The request to the superintendent could be made only after the yearly five allotted state days, plus any accumulated or carried over from a previous year, are used.
"Some teachers have a large amount of accumulated days built up," Bolton explained. "If they work for the district for a number of years, that could be 30 days, or even 60 at a time. Some might even have 100 days.
"We encourage them to be in the classroom," Bolton added. "When they get ready to retire, they are paid the number of days they have accumulated at the substitute rate."
After those consecutive 30 days were used up, any additional time needed for extended local sick leave would then reflect a legal policy which when documentation would allow the employee to be placed on "temporary disability" for up to 180 days, during which time they would lose pay but would not lose their position with the district.
"We are not trying to eliminate benefits," Reed said. "We want to be fair and reasonable. These changes are covered under the Family Leave Act, which does not require that they be granted 30 days extended leave."
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UB degrees in linguistics PhD 76, MA 74, BA 73; His dogs Ben, an English Boxer/Anatolian Shepherd mix, and Heidi, a Chow Chow/Labrador mix; Favorite language Tuscarora. Its about as different from English as a language can get in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.
You might think Blair Rudes has one of the few fail-safe careers in Hollywood. He trains directors and actors in lost, or dying, languages. Having worked on the sets of both The New World and the forthcoming The Ruins, hes coached actors in Virginia Algonquian and Yukatec Maya. It would seem that when youre translating dialogue into a moribund tongue, its hard to go wrong. First, theres not much competition. Second, whos going to fault this kind of detective work?
Believe it or not, somebody will. Rudes didnt work on Dances with Wolves, but apparently its well-known how the native dialogue took a glaring wrong turn in that film.
Theres always somebody on IMDB.com looking at a film with a microscope, he says from his home near the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, where he teaches. People have pointed out the male actors all spoke in a female Lakota dialect.
Yet Rudes has gotten only raves. He based his meticulous reconstruction on his knowledge of related languages and notes taken by a friend of Shakespeare, William Strachey, on a long stay in Virginia. Director Terrence Malick was so charmed by Rudes native dialogue for one scene in The New World, he asked him to translate lines into Algonquian for a third of the film. As Rudes modestly describes this huge vote of approval: Terry was impressed with the authenticity of the sound.
Rudes (PhD 76, MA 74, BA 73) started at the University at Buffalo in biochemistry but switched to French and then to linguistics. After hearing a Native American woman speak in her own beguiling Seneca tongue, he plunged into the study of Iroquoian languages. Yale accepted his application for graduate study, yet he stayed at UB because it allowed him the freedom to earn a highly individualized PhD as a field linguist. With it, he left school to compile an exhaustive dictionary of the Tuscarora language, just in time to interview its few remaining native speakers. His dictionary has become the authority on Tuscarora vocabulary.
Although academia remains his professional home and has earned him many honors, he loves consulting for Hollywood. In both endeavors, its a path of discovery, at once scientific and creative. As he puts it, in both fields, You have to go beyond what you know.
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What is Narrative Therapy?
Narrative Therapy is an exciting, growing body of work that offers generative ideas for effective clinical practice. It is a nonpathologizing, competency-based approach that takes into account the larger political and cultural contexts in which problems arise.
Narrative therapy is based in the notion that we make meaning of our lives through the stories we live. These stories are constructed within the larger stories that make up our social, political, and interpersonal contexts.
People often come to therapy when they experience themselves as living in stories where the narratives that dominate their local culture are restricting the possibilities in their own lives. Our work involves facilitating experience of new stories--narratives that are more empowering, more satisfying, and give hope for better futures. These stories highlight the skills and abilities that people use but may have taken for granted. They also focus on how decisions, actions, and relationships can contribute to a preferred sense of identity. Click here for a quick overview of the narrative worldview as it affects practice and ethics.
At Evanston Family Therapy Center, we offer workshops and supervision that provide experience in these new ways of thinking and working. Participants consistently describe the atmosphere of our trainings as respectful, fun, and challenging. View our current offerings for workshops and trainings, sign up to receive e-mail updates, or write us below with any questions or comments about narrative trainings you would like to see come to EFTC.


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