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Monday, Aug 21, 2017, 5:04 pm · By Michael Arria
Why Defending Workers' Rights Means Fighting ICE's Deportation Machine
Last month, California Labor Commissioner Julie Su distributed a memo instructing her staff to turn away any Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who show up at labor offices without a federal warrant. This action came in response to three recent cases in which ICE sought workers' information shortly after they filed claims against their employers. Su told The Los Angeles Times that, in two of these cases, ICE officials showed up at the employees' labor hearing. In case ICE continues to show up at such hearings, Su provided suggested scripts to guide the interaction. "Would you please leave our office? The Labor Commissioner does not consent to your entry or search of any part of our office," reads one portion of the text.
ICE's targeting of labor hearings falls into a much broader pattern of workplace immigration raids. The second term of the George W. Bush administration saw a boom in such policies, with authorities carrying out hundreds of sweeps targeting workers. In May of 2008, hundreds of Homeland Security agents swooped into Postville, Iowa and arrested 389 employees at a kosher meatpacking plant. Nearly 300 of those workers spent five months in jail before being deported. In a town with a population of just 2,300 people, this meant that more than 10 percent of all residents were incarcerated as the result of one raid. "They don't go after employers. They don't put CEOs in jail," said Postville Community Schools superintendent David Strudthoff at the time. "[This] is like a natural disaster—only this one is man-made. In the end, it is the greater population that will suffer and the workforce that will be held accountable."
Friday, Aug 18, 2017, 1:50 pm · By Jeff Schuhrke
Workers May Have Just Killed Missouri's Right to Work Law
In a badly needed victory for organized labor, a coalition of workers' rights groups in Missouri is poised to halt a devastating new anti-union law from taking effect later this month.
The deceptively named "right-to-work" (RTW) legislation—quickly passed and signed into law this February by Missouri's new Republican governor, Eric Greitens—would prohibit unions in private sector workplaces from automatically collecting dues from the workers they are legally required to represent. Designed to decimate unions by cutting off their financial resources, RTW laws are currently in place in 27 other states.
Though the law is set to take effect on August 28, the pro-union We Are Missouri coalition, led by the Missouri AFL-CIO, says it has collected enough signatures from voters to call for a state-wide referendum in November 2018 that could nullify the legislation. Implementation of the RTW law would be put on hold at least until next year's referendum results are known.
Thursday, Aug 17, 2017, 10:36 am · By Michelle Chen
The Philippine Labor Movement Is Beginning to Turn Against Authoritarian Rule
The people of Manila have always struggled to survive day to day, but now they're cheating death every night. The vices and bandits that usually roam the streets are being eclipsed by a crueler menace: the foot soldiers of President Rodrigo Duterte's authoritarian regime.
This week, Duterte brought another summer nightmare to the region, with 32 "drug personalities" slaughtered in 67 police operations, deployed in a series of raids on the provincial outskirts of the city. The massacre capped a year of thousands of killings in a hyper-militarized drug war, which seems to be growing bolder following Duterte's recent expansion of military rule.
Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017, 7:16 pm · By Russell Rickford
Heather Heyer Picked Her Side
The tragic death of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old paralegal who was killed when a motorist plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters who had gathered to oppose a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., may, in its own way, help prefigure the rebuilding of a more genuinely transformative Left in the United States.
Don't get me wrong; there is little to celebrate in the bloody onslaught in Charlottesville. Still, the passing of Heyer, who was reportedly a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), reminds us that a segment of egalitarian-minded, white anticapitalists remain among the ardent foes of racism in American life. Amid the "race versus class" debates currently dividing progressives, it is refreshing to note that some young leftists still believe that the transition to a more humane economy requires a frontal assault on white supremacy.
Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017, 1:46 pm · By Max Zahn
The Future of the Low-Wage Worker Movement May Depend on a Little-Known New York Law
This article first appeared in Waging Nonviolence.
Flavia Cabral doesn't equivocate. She joined the fast food worker movement, she said, for a single reason: to put her daughter through college.
Cabral, 53, of the Bronx, earned $7.25 per hour at McDonald's when she stood alongside coworkers in her first single-day strike four years ago. Over 10 strikes later, she makes $12 per hour, thanks to a statewide minimum wage hike that will gradually elevate her pay to $15 by the end of 2018.
Still, her goal remains out of reach.
"I don't have enough savings for my daughter to finish college," she said. "I want her to graduate."
Cabral's predicament is emblematic of one facing the Fight for $15: how to move beyond its titular demand to address other barriers that are keeping fast food workers from a middle class life. These obstacles include insufficient hours, non-union workplaces and crippling expenses like housing, health insurance and college education.
Fight for $15 won an important victory on one of these fronts in late-May when the New York City Council passed a bundle of laws that guarantee predictable schedules and require restaurants to offer additional hours to current workers before hiring new employees. Similar laws have been passed in cities like Seattle and San Francisco.
A less heralded law within the package of New York City reforms, however, may hold the future of the fast food movement — and, if successful, will offer an inroad to unionizing the 42 percent of American workers who make less than $15 per hour.
The ordinance allows fast food workers to join a new type of labor organization, which will advocate for workers throughout the industry and sustain itself through dues deducted voluntarily from workers' paychecks.
It is, some say, the kernel of what could become a sector-wide fast food union—the movement's holy grail.
In order to begin deducting dues from workers' paychecks, the new organization, Fast Food Justice, needs to sign up at least 500 workers and it aims to do so by the time the law goes into effect at the end of November. Labor leaders in other cities and low-wage sectors are watching closely to find out if the model is worth replicating.
"There is a lot riding on this experiment," said Janice Fine, a professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. "It's incredibly important but we don't know if it will work."
Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017, 8:25 am · By Julianne Tveten
Silicon Valley's Techno-Capitalists Have a Low-Wage Worker Revolt on Their Hands
In one of the nation's most economically disparate enclaves, the tide of organized labor is rising. Last month, more than 500 Facebook cafeteria workers in Silicon Valley voted to unionize in a move for higher wages, fair hours and secure benefits. Days later, Tesla factory workers demonstrated similar intentions, sending a list of demands to the electric automaker's board—a product of recent talks with one of labor's most storied forces, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW).
Unionization is a momentous feat for any labor sector, and in Silicon Valley it's downright Herculean. California's hotbed of technological production is notorious for its antipathy to labor rights—a stance that dates back decades. Couched in an ethos of "utopian" futurism, many of the tech industry's postwar progenitors positioned their enterprises as avant-garde rejections of the union-oriented labor models of the East Coast and Midwest. They claimed their vision of a post-union future, free of the costs and constraints of formal labor-rights structures, would afford them the ability to innovate at breakneck speed. In the early 1960s, Intel co-founder Robert Noyce famously declared, "remaining non-union is essential for survival for most of our companies. If we had the work rules that unionized companies have, we'd all go out of business."
Thursday, Aug 10, 2017, 9:28 am · By Michael Arria
Elon Musk May Be a "Visionary," But His Vision Doesn't Seem To Include Unions
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been making more headlines than usual lately. Shortly after the business magnate claimed he had received governmental approval to build a hyperloop from New York to Washington, D.C., he got into a public argument with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the future of artificial intelligence. Musk also recently made comments regarding the production of Tesla's new Model 3, a battery-electric sedan. "We're going to go through at least six months of manufacturing hell," he told journalists.
It's hard to know exactly what constitutes "manufacturing hell," but it might also be difficult to ever find out. That's because, since last November, Tesla has required employees to sign confidentiality agreements which prevent them from discussing workplace conditions. This policy has faced increased criticism since February, as workers at Tesla's Fremont, Calif. plant have expressed concern over wages, safety and their right to unionize. They have reached out to the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) union, which is now intervening.
Thursday, Aug 10, 2017, 8:42 am · By Gabriel Kristal
A Working-Class Strategy for Defeating White Supremacy
Ever since the earth-shaking election of Donald Trump, there have been innumerable articles arguing that Democrats brought this upon themselves by losing white, working-class voters in the Midwest. These articles have been met with a torrent of essays urging Democrats to focus on becoming the party of diversity. And, coming back from the dead like a bloated zombie corpse is Mark Penn and Andrew Stein's New York Times piece calling for a return to Clintonian centrism.
All of these discussions imply that progressives can either fight for voters from the working class or communities of color—but not both at once. This line of thinking demonstrates a profound lack of faith in democracy and the electorate's ability to smell bullshit.
Wednesday, Aug 9, 2017, 9:30 am · By Melissa Sanchez and Matt Kiefer
Investigation: Illinois' Wage Theft Bill Actually Made Things Worse
This piece first appeared in the Chicago Reporter.
Most victims of wage theft in Illinois never see a dime because the system meant to help them isn't working.
That's not what labor advocates envisioned in 2010, when the state passed a bill meant to give employees a better chance of recouping stolen wages and to toughen penalties against the employers who stiff them.
The situation, however, has gone from bad to worse for the thousands of mostly low-wage workers who have filed roughly $50 million in wage claims with the state since the measure took full effect in 2014.
Workers who report wage theft now face longer wait times, higher dismissal rates and more red tape, according to a Chicago Reporter review of complaint records and enforcement procedures at the Illinois Department of Labor.
Tuesday, Aug 8, 2017, 12:27 pm · By Richard D. Wolff
Raising the Minimum Wage Is Not the End Goal—We Need to Challenge Capital Itself
This article first appeared on Truthout.
Once more with feeling, the old debate rises into the headlines and the talk show circuit: Should governments — state, federal or local — raise the minimum wage or not? Employers of minimum-wage workers weigh in to say "no." But that raises a PR problem: It looks bad to advocate keeping workers' wages so low. So, they make a better-looking claim: that raising minimum wages causes some employers to fire low-paid workers rather than pay them more. Their opposition to raising minimum wages then morphs into an advocacy for low-paid workers to keep their jobs.
Workers and their allies mostly take the bait. They weigh in with counterarguments. These mostly respond directly, claiming that raising minimum wages does not lead to significant job losses.
Over the decades, professional economists and statisticians (increasingly overlapping sets) have entered the debate. Their entry resolved nothing. Every few years, the debate has flared up again. The economists write articles and books that enrich their resumes. Some score research grants from foundations, business lobbies and labor groups to prepare shiny new versions of the old arguments.


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Shares of Dollar Tree (DLTR) , Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Burlington Stores (BURL) soared Tuesday after the three companies reported quarterly results.
Major indices also rose Tuesday, but their gains were much more modest. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 67 points, or 0.4%, on Tuesday, while the S&P 500 rose 4.8 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq added 17.49 points, or 0.3%. Trading volumes and economic news were light on Tuesday, but as we near the end of earnings season those few retailers reporting late have impressed investors.
Dollar Tree saw its shares rise 8.2% Tuesday after posting better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter profit. Analysts had been expecting adjusted earnings per share of 78 cents, but Dollar Tree posted adjusted EPS of 81 cents. That came on $5.00 billion in sales, just below estimates of $5.07 billion but still a 1.1% year-over-year increase. Same-store-sales rose 1.7%, better than the 1.4% expected. Dollar Tree is now the largest U.S. dollar-store chain after completing its acquisition of Family Dollar.
This has helped the company continue to put pressure on big-box discount retailers such as Walmart. Dollar Tree's smaller footprint and low prices starting at $1 continue to be a winning combination even though the economy is improving and more Americans are working. The fact that consumers haven't gone back up market to higher-priced stores is a sign Dollar Tree may be a recession-proof business that can still post strong figures in a healthy economy -- a very strong and sought-after combination.
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Just like every other brand spanking new paramedic student just the word pharmacology fills me with a sense of dread. My expectations of myself, as well as, the path to the type of medic I want to be makes learning it a little more challenging. I'm not interested in merely memorizing the drugs on the National Registry sheets and plugging them into the appropriate algorithm or protocol. Knowing what the drugs do isn't enough for me, I want to understand the pharmacokinetics and the pharmacodynamics of them as well. I want to know what they do and how they do it and how they get where they need to work… I suppose my point is I want to truly understand the medications not just memorize them.
What makes me different from every other brand spanking new paramedic student is that I am going to try to learn this stuff by teaching it. I am a firm believer in "see one, do one, teach one" As we go thru Pharm I see it in class, do the assignments myself and then reinforce that by posting about it here and "teaching you".
Hopefully I will be able to break things down in simple enough terms that these posts will help other students out there understand the complexities of pharmacology, and help some ambitious basics out there prepare for the challenges they will face should they decide to give a run at P-school.
I'm going to give a shot to explaining one of the things most students struggle with – Medical Math, paramedic math, dosage calculations whatever you want to call it.
I know just hearing the words sends a cold chill down your spine… It can be a little confusing at first, but with a little practice it starts to make sense. We really are only talking about like 5th or 6th grade math – multiplication and division, simple fractions… Forget that you are calculating dosages and you can work the math pretty easily.
Today's post will be the "formal" way – there are many trips, tips and short cuts to make figuring these easy… but for now let's learn the proper and most accurate way to calculate these – we need to know how to do them correctly before we start taking short cuts.
I've broken the subject down into several smaller categories in order from the basic up to short cuts – if you are new to this or struggling with something I suggest starting at the top and working thru as I'll define the variables I use and how to get them early.
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She will take him beyond his wildest dreams. As Demon King, Noah is dedicated to protecting his kind from their human and Nightwalker enemies. Yet for six months he has struggled with vivid dreams that threaten his very sanity. Every night he's tormented by images of a woman both achingly real and tantalizingly beyond his grasp. And his bone-deep need leaves him no choice but to force her to leave the life she's known and enter a world beyond her imagining...
Every day, Kestra risks her life in perilous missions that veer just shy of the law, but she instinctively knows that the imposingly sensual figure before her is a danger unlike any she's ever faced. Kestra has sworn never to trust or need another man, but Noah's lightest touch scorches her with fevered desire, branding her as his mate, blinding them both to the terrifying truth. For within the ranks of their own people lies an adversary growing in number and power. And nothing and no one will be safe again...
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This is Noah's story (obviously, right?) So we have to take all the things that we have learned about Noah in the last 4 books and apply them to his story. He is a diplomat, a brother, an Uncle, a friend, and a king. What we haven't seen yet is Noah in love. We have seen the brotherly love he has shown for his sisters, but not the real pull at your heart strings, can't get enough of her, on my mind every waking moment type love. But one other thing we mustn't forget about Noah is that he is a demon and as a demon he is susceptible to the madness that the call of the moon at Beltane and Samhain can bring. In this story, Jacquelyn Frank shows us how the pull of the moon can drive a man do things he would never do if he were in his right mind. It will be the enforcers, Jacob and Isabella, that will have to dole out Noah's punishment for his little indiscretion. Kestra is the one that is meant for Noah and she is a strong woman. She is tuff and doesn't take crap from anybody. She has dreams about a mystery man for several months, but when some guy just shows up and tells her that she is his soulmate and now they will be together forever … well, he has another thing coming! She is not just going to roll over and act all submissive and let him dominate her. She doesn't care who he is. As far as she is concerned all that soulmate stuff is a bunch of crap. This story was a great addition to the series. I loved the dynamic between Noah and Kestra. I enjoyed that they didn't just meet and fall love and live happily ever after. I also enjoyed how Kestra was not a girly, girly but more of a tuff warrior babe type person and she stayed true to form right to the end. When this story ended, there were a lot of unanswered questions but I don't feel like I was left hanging. We now have quite a few mixtures of races and we don't know what all the different new guys (and gals) can do. I will be looking forward to the next in the series.
Xe Sands was the narrator for this book as well as for the other four in the series. As always, she uses her rich sultry voice to immediately draw you into the story and keep you listening well into the night. She really captures the essence of the love and romance that goes on in these books.
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Is Israel Indiscriminately Killing in Gaza? Data says No
JERUSALEM (Worthy News)-- While protests around the world condemned Israel's "indiscriminate" killing of civilians, the hard data does not support their assessment. In the latest figures coming from Gaza, a disproportionate number of men ages 20 to 29 -- which represent a mere 9 percent of the population, represented nearly 35 percent of those killed in the Gaza Strip over the past month. At the same time, 725 men were killed compared to 214 women.
Citing figures released by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the BBC's head of statistics Anthony Reuben found that the number of civilian men killed in the fighting outnumbered the number of women by a factor of nearly 3.5:1.
According to the UN, 725 men were killed in the conflict as opposed to 214 women. When the 216 confirmed "members of armed groups" were included in the figures, the disparity grew even larger. Israeli military officials said 750-1,000 Hamas and other gunmen had been killed in the fighting as of Tuesday, August 5.
"If the Israeli attacks have been 'indiscriminate,' as the UN Human Rights Council says, it is hard to work out why they have killed so many more civilian men than women," Reuben noted dryly.
The question echoes a New York Times analysis from earlier this week, which showed "that the population most likely to be militants, men ages 20 to 29, is also the most overrepresented in the death toll: They are 9 percent of Gaza's 1.7 million residents, but 34 percent of those killed whose ages were provided. At the same time, women and children under 15, the least likely to be legitimate targets, were the most underrepresented, making up 71 percent of the population and 33 percent of the known-age casualties." -- Source


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Hi I'm Steph. I'm a young, fun, mature marketing professional who moved to the UK last year from Australia. I love dogs and have been missing my little one who is still back in Aus so hoping to get some temporary doggy love and in the process assist other like-minded dog lovers :)
I have 2 years of dog sitting experience prior to getting my current dog, who is now four years old. I've got experience with large dogs up to 100lbs but would prefer look after small to medium size dogs who love to have an active evening walk or play at the park and then cuddle up on the couch at night.
Missing my Toy Poodle x Pomeranian who is still in Australia so doing this out of my genuine love for dogs and hoping to get some doggy interaction and love until I can get my own dog over here.
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Malinda Reich Small Vase no. 022
A small vase with hand-carved oval indentations and decorative lines at the neck and base. In a pale grey-white glaze, with bare clay showing through on some raised areas. The perfect size for a single bud or a few wildflowers.
Friend and neighbor Malinda Reich's wheel-thrown serving pieces are beloved for being functional as well as decorative. Many of her bowls and vases feature hand-carvings inspired by her Scandinavian roots and her love of good food and cooking.
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More number of Americans have a favorable view of the nation's largest gun lobby, National Rifle Association, than unfavorable, according to a poll.
According to Gallup poll, 54 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of the group, while 38 percent said they have an unfavorable opinion.
Gallup said the poll, covering 1,038 adults, came the same time Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, publicly advocated for placing guards with guns at every school as a response to the Newtown, Politico reports.
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Larp. Finnskogen, Norway, July 1-5, 2014.
Organizers: Eirik Fatland, Tor Kjetil Edland, Margrethe Raaum, Martin Knutsen, Trine Lise Lindahl, Elin Nilsen, and Jørn Slemdal.
80(?) players.
After KoiKoi, the organizers asked us to postpone analysis and dissection of the larp design for a week, and instead share stories and personal reflections. This text is a slightly edited version of a "letter" I wrote to the organizers the day after the larp. It's meandering, subjective and personal.
If you'd rather read a more analytical approach, please see the links at the end of this post.
KoiKoi was set in a hunter-gatherer society; maybe in our world, maybe elsewhere. Maybe the present era, maybe the future. Every second year this nomadic people gathered for feasts and rituals at their sacred home in Koi valley, and the larp was set during such a gathering. In "reality", we were in the woods, somewhere in the east of Norway.
I'm Laughter
My character, Laughter, was also aldnuk at Koi. The nuk were sort of a "third gender" at the larp: hermaphrodites, outcasts, transsexuals, queers, shamans, "sensitives", or crazy people. These kinds of people would often end up with this gender. Ald was the prefix given to the elders. They lived at Koi, where they were taken care of by the nuk. The larp used the gender-neutral (Swedish) pronoun "hen" to refer to nuks. In this translation, I've tried to use the form "singular they".
When I first heard about the larp a year ago, I immediately knew that I wanted to play a nuk. But I didn't realize until quite shortly before the larp was to begin that I was to portray a sort of Übernuk, with a lot of responsibility for several of the communal rituals that made up the framework of the larp. I was a bit nervous in the face of this task, as leading so many people in ritual improvisation is something I'd never done before. But I received good help from the organizers, and when I called my co-player Gustav I was assured that this would work out just fine. Gustav played my aldnuk-colleague Fog. In real life, he's a full-time nuk: he makes a living as a travelling storyteller at various Viking and medieval markets, and has a lot of "nukish" knowledge of the forest, stories, religion and rituals. With the player Fabe as aldnuk Storm, our trio of elders was complete.
Memories, moments and thoughts
After the main Koi Ritual, there's always a feast at Koi. People sang and danced. I'm often uncomfortable with dancing (even though it's become better over the years), but Laughter entered the dance floor shirtless.
I didn't know I could chant and make didgeridoo-like sounds with my mouth. I learned it at Koi. It's not often I scream and sing and hum until I'm hoarse in my daily life. I did at Koi.
I never got around to reading all the stories the organizers had provided in advance of the larp, but I wanted Laughter to tell stories. So I just improvised based on what happened at the larp, plus fragments from the cultural compendium and other stuff that came to mind.
Laughter told the story about the nuk who let everyone steal their face: children, women, men. But when they had taken off the face and put it on their pillow and thought they could safely go to sleep, the face pulled a terrible grimace.
Laughter told the story about the KoiKoi where everyone was so horny. Woman lay in her bed, and made horny woman sounds (the others in the circle made the sound womanwoman makes when she's horny). Man lay in his bed and made horny man sounds. And nuknuk, what sounds did they make? They made a ritual for HornyKwath, and Laughter spoke with HornyKwath using an effeminate, strange voice as they walked around the circle.
Laughter spoke of the two foreigners who were so afraid. They were at the mountain by Koi and tried to talk to each other, but they didn't have language. Aldnuk Gust came and held the Language rite for them, so that they learned words.
During the rite of remembrance, Laughter told the others about Gust, aldnuk at Koi. They never really liked Gust. After many somber and sad stories of death, I, speaking as a player, wanted to tell a story that would be fun to listen to. It was amusing to see how Gust took on a life of their own after this ritual. Several people spoke of them, and anecdotes were told about how strict and angry they were.
The flow
After Nuk rite I got into character. From there on out the larp proceeded more or less by itself for me, just the way I like: flow, immersion, channeling. Call it what you like. Ideas, stories, sounds and sentences came on their own, and I think a lot of it came out exactly the way Laughter would have said and done things. We had a framework, created by the organizers in the compendium; we had the actions of the other players, and we had the physical limitations and possibilities of the setting. Into this framework we poured chaos, and new things arose. As it happens.
I asked one of the organizers at our two-man workshop before the larp whether our Death rite was in fact a ritual murder, and he confirmed this. During the larp, Gustav, Fabe and I concluded that Laughter would lead the ritual. Thus, they were the only person in the ankoi people who could kill other people (at least in a ritual context). I think the Death rite as a whole worked, at least for the main characters affected – the elders who were to die. Some parts obviously worked better than others. But as the time for the killings approached, I felt the atmosphere grow tense. I think the ritual provided interesting contrast, both personally, for my character, who was often a light-hearted, silly person, but also for the whole culture. Ankoi were not only peace-loving hippies who drummed and sang by the campfire. Their culture also had dark, brutal aspects.
After the Death rite, I was uncertain how Laughter would act for the rest of the evening. We solved it by having the three elder nuks return to Koi with two white ribbons from the place of the ancestor spirits. There was singing. The nuk Breeze, who lived at Koi, opened the doors wide. The three elder nuks entered the ceremonial hall. Fog had the white ribbons tied to their staff. They danced around the fire, chanted. Laid the ribbons down by the fireplace. Laughter got down on their knees. Sometimes, they'd burst into sorrowful moans. The song in the room continued, but changed character. After a while the circle (on its own?) started chanting the names of the deceased: Ebb, Dew, Ebb, Dew, Ebb, Dew… The names of the two aldmen became a melody. Laughter, the only ankoi who takes human lives, crept towards the fire on all fours. Screamed, and left.
Later that night, they sat by the fire at Boarfam. Told lighter stories. Were comforted by their old friend and lover, Wave. Joked. Laughed. Their face still painted with the death mask.
Sometimes I was Laughter. Sometimes I was Ole Peder, observing. That's the way larps are, at least for me. The illusion is never constant; the most intense immersion comes and goes. Ole Peder saw his friends from all the Nordic countries. Skilled, experienced role players, alongside younger larpers. Grown-ups and youth in somewhat comical costumes, playing with seriousness. I liked what I saw. A lot of good play. Many good "scenes", as we sometimes say.
I didn't have much plot to speak of; more like "tasks" to be performed. I often find that to be a good base for a larp, as I would still be embroiled in the plots of others.
I thought NukRite was nice. To me it was the first rite that "really worked". I hope we who were there (the elder nuks, the travelling nuks and the nuk who lived at Koi) gave a good (and maybe a little scary) ritual to the "children". We mostly followed the instructions in the ritual compendium, but added a few details of our own. Amongst other things, there was a round of somewhat impossible questions, like "who would you choose, your father or your mother?" When the ancestor-spirits were called upon and one of the organizers appeared with the large clay mask, the children had to approach Storm, who whispered two questions: "Did you hear Kwath?" and "What did Kwath say?"
I was happy with my "family": the elders and nuks who lived permanently at Koi. We had no bigger inner conflict or drama. We were the eye of the storm. It gave me a feeling of great calm to play with them, a calm that has yet to evaporate as I'm typing this.
The weather was good, thankfully. Three days of rain would have changed the experience a lot. It's good to be in nature. I forget how good until every time I'm out there. Maybe it's what we're really meant to do? Us people, I mean?
During the "debrief", we were separated into groups of three and told to talk things over. I got together with two larpers I've known for a long time. Nice things were said. One of the players talked about how the larp had dealt with fundamental human themes. Gender. Death. Change. Growth. It's true.
Sometimes, there was too little time. Many rituals were to be held before KoiKoi was over. The nuks had to remind the others to attend. Pestering other players doesn't feel good, but timing can be hard in a game based on improvisation.
The cheers and thank you rituals straight after a larp can be hard. It's easy to feel left out. This time I had the energy for it. I felt included.
We're not actors, most of us. We can't do another take. What happens, happens. Larp isn't perfect. One of the organizers talked about this before the game. "Dare to fail", they said. "Give the character time, a chance". Sometimes I failed; some things I did wrong. The character came to me in the end.
I was impressed with how well the techniques for ritual improvisation worked, especially the wall of sound we created together. To dare to take part in it made me proud. I'm not a singer. But it seems I can make a lot of sound! Exciting.
I saw a lot of good play. I was happy that there were some relatively new players; fun with some new faces. Many participants were internationals, mainly from the Nordic countries. I knew many from Knutepunkt and other festivals, but it was my first time playing a longer larp with many of them.
KoiKoi (analysis/blog post by Danish Peter Munthe-Kaas)
Experimental anthropology at KoiKoi (by Finnish Kaisa Kangas)
The larp's homepage (in Norwegian)
Selected photos (by Li Xin)


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'Kaveri' features up to four 'Steamroller' x86 cores, major heterogeneous computing enhancements, and a discrete-level Graphics Core Next (GCN) implementation – AMD's first high-performance APU to offer GCN. 'Kaveri' will be initially offered in the FM2+ package for desktop PCs."
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Physicians' Nonverbal Rapport Building and Patients' Talk About the Subjective Component of Illness
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Human Communication Research 2001 April; 27(2): 299-311
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Alfred's reopens, upper Fillmore gets some action, and a summer beer garden
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High-Power Nd-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Coherent Intersatellite Links
Intersatellite optical communication links require laser beams of at least 1 W of power modulated at gigahertz frequencies. They can be delivered by a master oscillator power amplifier system which consists of a stable single-frequency Nd:YAG laser, a high-speed phase modulator, and an optical amplifier. To allow coherent detection, the polarization state must be stable and controllable at the amplifier output and the phase noise must be kept low. We report here the design and the experimental results of a diode-laser-pumped double-clad Nd-doped fiber amplifier with polarization control, 30-dB gain, and about 1.3 W of output power.
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Chris Morgan urges his team mates to keep calm in the FA Cup clash with Arsenal.Sheffield United captain Chris Morgan has urged his team-mates to keep calm ahead of the FA Cup clash with Arsenal.
The Gunners visit Bramall Lane for the replay after a 1-1 draw at Highbury that was marred by disciplinary issues.
Dutch legend Dennis Bergkamp was dismissed after an angry confrontation with Blades defender Danny Cullip, whilst post-match video evidence saw Jose Antonio Reyes also landed with a three-match ban.
Whilst none of the players most involved in the incident are available for selection, Morgan believes that there is still potential for trouble to occur.
"We've got to be totally focused on what we are doing and be professional, have cool heads," Morgan told Sky Sports News.
"There might be chances for things to spill over but if it does you've just got to walk away from things."
Morgan also backed Arsene Wenger's side to put up a fight in their UEFA Champions League second leg with Bayern Munich, and recognised that the Premiership outfit will be viewing the FA Cup as potential silverware for the season.
"They got a defeat out in Germany 3-1, they've got the away goal so I'm sure Arsenal will fancy scoring two goals at Highbury.
"But on the other hand they'll look at the FA Cup as a massive chance for them to go on and win something but we will obviously try and make it as tough as we can for them."
However manager Neil Warnock somewhat downplayed the importance of the tie, suggesting that the campaign for a play-off spot was higher on his agenda.
"It's a fantastic night for us but we've had a great cup run and we've earned a lot of money now, the games have all been televised," said Warnock.
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I have a Win 08 server that I'm trying to use as a file server. Attached to it is an EMC iSCSI storage device. I have separate networks for the LAN and the iSCSI LAN (separate switches).
Everything's great except that every once in a while the server stops responding to file sharing requests -- sometimes for just some files and directories, sometimes for just some people and sometimes for everyone. Meanwhile network connectivity is still fine.
Rebooting the server fixes the issues. There's nothing in the Event Log that seems to be a factor.
I believe that the iSCSI side of things is good because I can always access all files when I'm on the server.
There are no errors on the NIC's.
I'm stumped. Any thoughts out there?
Incidentally, this server was being used as a Server 2003 in a recent past life and I think it was having similar issues (which is why we reformatted and reinstalled).
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Dec 18, 2008 at 12:10 UTC
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Have you checked the switch that it is connected to or changed the network cables?
Dec 18, 2008 at 12:34 UTC
I've replaced the switch though the network cable thing is an interesting thought. I'll try that. Though you would think that there would be errors.
For example, I've looked at the port statistics on the switch and there's 1 receive error on one of the ports for a 48 hour period.
Dec 18, 2008 at 1:23 UTC
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When you have the problem, what do you have to do to get it working again? Reboot?
Dec 18, 2008 at 1:38 UTC
Yup. :-(
Tried restarting services instead... no help.
I was suspecting network card and maybe the reboot pushes some extra electrons in there or something :-o
Like I said, I'm stumped. The biggest thing is that I see no errors.
Dec 18, 2008 at 1:47 UTC
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What kind of network card is it? Does it have TOE service? If yes, try turning that off.
Can you use the performance monitor to see if your NIC is getting overloaded?
Can you put another NIC in the server and see if that works any better?
Dec 18, 2008 at 2:26 UTC
Dec 18, 2008 at 3:13 UTC
Yes, I've tried that and I still have issues even with the non iSCSI shares.
Craig, regarding the NIC's, there's no TOE but I may try pegging them to 1000Full instead of Auto. I also noticed a "let OS power management yada yada" option on... which I turned off.
So, I'll tweak the NIC settings but it's still weird that something like that would be an issue on only this server which is the same hardware as every other server.
Dec 18, 2008 at 3:17 UTC
Just to be on the safe side, if it's a managed switch, make sure your duplex settings are correct.
Dec 18, 2008 at 3:19 UTC
NIC issues notwithstanding, is there someplace else I can look in the OS to see if there may be a problem.
Or, does anyone know of a good utility to allow me to try to recreate the issue b/c part of my problem is that I can't get the problem to occur on demand; and I've used iometer and haven't been able to replicate.
Dec 18, 2008 at 3:36 UTC
When the problem occurs, are clients getting an error or does it just time out? If error, what is it?
(While the problem is occurring, can you access the servers shares from the server itself? \\servername\c$)
I'd also try running a protocol analyzer like WireShark to check for anything out of the ordinary.
Since it's a 2008 server, I'd even give Microsoft a call and see what they have to say.
Dec 19, 2008 at 2:32 UTC
I believe by your description you are dealing with some problem on the iSCSI firmware, try flushing DNS and restart the NIC and see if you can get the network to work to other machines, if it does, then you know.
On the iSCSI see the DNS- if there is a server active turn it off there are still many problems with 2008 and NAS SANS and ETC.
Other thing you can try is a managed switch to see what is going on when the lan stops.
Dec 19, 2008 at 6:23 UTC
Since you changed OS's and it followed, I would think it is a physical problem. Craig is definately on the right track here. The server is obviously not too old if you are running 2008 on it. You said you changed the switch, but you did not say how old the switch was or what type. I would change the cables, but I am leaning to a pin problem on one of the interfaces. I am guessing you already tried multiple ports on the switch. Can you try swapping in a new NIC on the server? Spend a little extra and get a good intel interface. Your cross connect to the switch is Gigabit, are there any patch panels from the server to the switch, or is it a direct connection? Are there several switches in a bank, and are the workstations having the problem possibly isolated to a different swicth in the stack? If you are going to monkey with connection speed, go slower. Try 100, and then even 10. Yes it will be slow, but it will isolate a negotiation problem which would pop you back to checking cables and switches, and the NIC. I also realized i am assuming copper vs fiber, but everything would be the same. After this, I would look at drivers, but if you do the above, and the fact that you switched OS's - I would not think it is that. The other factor here is that you isolated it from the iSCSI already with the local share. You might even want to order a brand new CAT-6 cable and do a direct run to the switch. The other thing I have seen, for example on some of the cheaper Dell switches, is the Gigabit port is not meant for anything other than switch to switch connections. In other words it is a Gigabit port on paper, but it is only meant to connect to another Dell switch of the same type. Try connecting the server directly to one of the other 10/100 ports to see if the issue goes away. Then tell us what the results were.
Dec 19, 2008 at 9:01 UTC
You can try this. Double-Check your event viewer for references to invalid shares. Use the Net Share command to compare shares listed for validity with what you know you have. If shares are listed that are no longer valid, delete with the Net Share command. I had a similar situation where shares were changed or deleted over time. After a while I could not access valid shares sometimes. Upon checking the Computer Browser and Server Service, Computer Browser was not running even though set to automatic. I could manually start it with no problem, but took a long time to start and restarting the service would fail with timeout. Event viewer clued me in to non-valid shares still listed in the registry. I used Net Share to remove them, only 3 or 4 shares. After that Computer Browser would start and restart instantly and all issues went away.
Worth a try.
Dec 19, 2008 at 12:42 UTC
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Do run wireshark to make sure another machine on your network is not causing it. Other then that like people say sounds hardware related as you wiped it.
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To summarize: My date wanted to go to a local fair/festival and I agreed on it. After doing some research, I found that the festival doesn't allow people to carry anything that classifies as or could be used as a weapon for self defense. Not even a Swiss army knife. AND this festival is in a sketchy part of town, and people have had their cars broken into when literally only 1 row away from the security office.
I told my date that it was risky and I could only do so much to protect her (I am NOT a chauvinist); even less if I couldn't carry.
We are deciding on a different location for dating, but ladies, please let me know;
**Where do you draw the line between a guy doing the right / safe thing, and a guy doing the paranoid / selfish thing?**
By selfish, I mean that, since I would not be allowed to legally carry at the festival, I myself would not feel comfortable going. They have been known to use metal detectors and also frisk people if they want.
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for me I would have to feel like the guy could keep me safe. Maybe I'm old-fashioned but that's one of the reasons why I have a guy, to keep me safe and love me :)
I wouldn't feel, well confident, if my guy told me he couldn't protect me?!
like you didn't have to tell her you couldn't protect her, you could have just suggested somewhere else.
I would kind of feel like my guy is a slight wimp.
Sorry I'm not trying to judge you, I'm just giving my opinion.
At the end of the day you thought of her safety before your ego, so maybe your a keeper lol :D10|10|0
Thanks for the honesty. I am trained in American Kempo, some Judo, and some Wado-ryu Karate. We are conditioned to not seek conflict or be bold in our skills. Those who are truly dangerous don't act like it, and the only fight you will win every time is the fight you avoid.
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Like any hardware provider, Nest has faced some challenges that have alienated some customers.
Most recently, the Alphabet-owned (goog) connected thermostat company has been working through a still-unresolved internal server issue that has led to frustrations with partners in its Works with Nest program. It's known about the issue for more than a month.
One of those customers is Nick Bilton, a writer for the New York Times. Bilton is one of a select few people who experienced a software glitch that drained the battery on his Nest thermostat and left him with a cold home in the middle of the winter. (The glitch only affects second-generation Nest thermostats.) Expectedly, he wrote a story about it in the nation's paper of record.
In December, I had my own, different issue that also affected a small group of Nest customers. My second-generation thermostat would randomly crank up the heat in the middle of the night, from my 68-degrees-Fahrenheit setting to 76 degrees, my summertime air-conditioning setting.
When I tweeted about the issue, I received half a dozen or so replies from similarly affected people and an email from Nest PR and support.
After taking my Nest information, the company said it had pinpointed the problem, laying the blame on my link between the Nest and my Chamberlain MyQ garage-door opener. I had tied the two services together so that when I left my house, the garage door would tell the Nest to go into "Away" mode to reduce the A/C or heating bill.
Nest couldn't explain why my garage door was mysteriously communicating with my Nest at 4:30 a.m., let alone why it was telling it to jack up the heat when it didn't have the ability to control temperature in the first place. I disabled the link anyway.
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When I asked Chamberlain for more information about the issue, it recommended that I follow Nest's instructions while it looked into things.
A few nights later, the Nest again tried to roast my family alive. This time the company blamed the problem on the integration with my Jawbone fitness tracker and asked me to disable that. After I did so, the problem disappeared.
Charlie Wood, CEO of Numerous, an Austin, Texas company that makes a productivity app of the same name, has experienced the same sudden heating issue on some of his five Nest thermostats. He doesn't have a Chamberlain MyQ linked to any of them.
He does however, have an idea of what was going on. Wood's Numerous app can read the temperature from the Nest app and display it on a person's mobile phone or tablet. It doesn't have permission to change the temperature, only to reflect it. "I know this because I wrote that code," he says.
Around the same time I was experiencing my own Nest issues, Wood received a call from an angry customer who had been told by Nest that Wood's app was causing her thermostat to crank the heat in the middle of the night. Wood, confused, told the customer he'd figure it out. Then he called Nest.
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His Nest contact escalated the call and an engineer agreed with Wood that his app couldn't be changing the temperature. He said that he'd get back to Wood. That was about two months ago. Wood still hasn't heard back.
"That puts us in a really awkward spot," he says. "Our customers are telling us, 'This is important to me because it costs me money.' We're now in the spot where Nest is giving [our customers] incorrect information. Nest is pointing the finger at us and that is wrong."
Nest only accused Chamberlain of causing problems with its thermostat for about 48 hours. But its quick exoneration came only because I had my doubts about the technological validity of the claim and because I was pressuring Nest. Cory Sorice, a vice president of marketing with Chamberlain, confirmed that its MyQ device does not have the ability to change or set temperature control on a Nest thermostat.
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Nest said in October that one in eight homes with a Nest product also have activated a Works with Nest device. It's the only number the company shares about the size and scope of the program. Nest has many partners; most of them are likely happy, just as most of its consumer customers are likely happy. But Nest remains the poster child for the smart home, and its missteps take on outsized importance. Hopefully it can fix its issues before Nick Bilton and yours truly get wind of it.


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