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Every Person an Artist
Sagmeister and Gondry at Deitch
Etapes (European design magazine published in Paris)
May 2008
IS IT PERFORMANCE ART, conceptual art, installation art, or something new entirely? Maybe it could be called participation art. Two recent installations at Deitch Projects in New York's SoHo district let visitors become part of the process—and the art itself.
Stefan Sagmeister's "Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far," at the 76 Grand Street space coincided with the January 31 launch of his book of the same name. It combined message-making, poster design, photography, sculpture, and video with opportunities for visitors to do things like scribble mash notes in little notebooks and finger-write aphorisms in steam on the front window.
Michel Gondry's "Be Kind Rewind" in the 18 Wooster Street performance space promoted the February 22 theatrical release of his feature film about a video store clerk and friend who gain fame and fortune by making cheapie remakes of popular movies. The film opened to mixed reviews, but the exhibit—a place to write and star in your own movie—was one of the most successful in NYC's indie-gallery history.
"Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far"
"How many surfaces can I put a message on, with how many different substances?" Those are questions Stefan Sagmeister has been asking himself for the past seven years as he traveled the world and crafted maxims like "WORRYING SOLVES NOTHING," on everything from Petri dishes to the Empire State Building, using materials from the microscopic to the massive: pollen, sperm, sugar, urine, twigs, clothes hangers, furniture.
The 20 projects in the show blew away or at least blurred the boundaries between graphic design and fine art. "It's all graphic design," Stefan claims, noting that the work was done for such clients as a café-bookstore in his native Austria, a municipality in France, a Portuguese beer company.
The show began on the street. Straddling the roof of the gallery, a storefront wedged between two taller buildings, was a 30-foot, white, black-faced, blow-up vinyl monkey. Below it, painted in black block letters on the white brick façade, were the words "EVERYBODY THINKS." Inside, the main room was dominated by another giant monkey with the words "THEY ARE RIGHT" painted on the wall behind it. The overwhelming sensation upon entering the space was the odor of rotting bananas. The day before the opening, Stefan spelled "SELF-CONFIDENCE PRODUCES FINE RESULTS" in 1,000 green bananas against a field of 9,000 yellow bananas. Over the three weeks of the exhibit the banana-wall slowly turned a uniform ochre-brown and the message faded away. But the smell kept ripening. "It's a very pleasant smell," was Stefan's comment. Not all visitors agreed. But whoa, black-faced, white monkey in a room with bananas? Who else would have the guts to do that and risk being labeled a racist, or worse?
Stefan Sagmeister is what every graphic designer would like to be: influential, in demand, and fearless. He got famous by designing intricate, Grammy-winning CD packaging—and by doing things like carving words into his own body and posing for the camera wearing nothing but ratty old underwear. "A joke is no good without a surprise," he maintains.
Now, clients around the world—from real estate developers to museum directors—who want to garner attention in non-conventional ways call on the guy who, as his name indicates, is the "master of speaking." These are the few-and-far-between, fearless clients who, in Stefan's words, "understand the language of design, the power of words and images in public spaces." Like Scotland's former prime minister Jack O'Connell, who launched the Six-City Design Festival for which the giant monkeys were created, they set no limits. An open-ended design brief, Stefan has learned, can be much more difficult than doing a traditional marketing campaign. "It sounds great, but to figure it out, with no restrictions, so endless, is actually very difficult and takes a lot of time," he says.
At a moment in design history when just about anybody can set type and make a book or an ad, Stefan's virtuosity and wit continue to inspire. The piece that most touched my heart is "KEEPING A DIARY SUPPORTS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT," a short film shot in an abandoned amusement park in Singapore, during which the word "DEVELOPMENT," crafted from bamboo scaffolding rods, glides along a waterway, then goes up in flames.
Time is a key element in Sagmeister's art—time for the bananas to ripen, for the sugar-script to collapse, the steam on the plate-glass window to collect and dissipate, the bamboo to burn. Time to engineer the work, which has exceptionally high production values. The book itself, a collection of 16-page signatures in an die-cut slipcase, may be one of the most elaborate design objects ever printed on paper. Shuffling the covers of the 15 signatures makes 15 different author portraits, each of which could be seen as a mask or disguise.
Although this is a one-man show, and book, credit is given to many collaborators, including co-workers at Sagmeister Inc., students at the School of Visual Arts, and an international cast of designers, photographers, illustrators, and fabricators. Thirty New York designers, including Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Bob Gill, and Paula Scher contributed by finger-writing their own aphorisms in the front-window vapors. On the afternoon I visited, Ken Carbone, designer of the Louvre sign program, was trying to make his steamy words, "Complaining is silly, either act or forget" look like Bodoni Bold while a small crowd gathered on the sidewalk to watch.
"HAVING GUTS ALWAYS WORKS FOR ME" is the lesson that the multitudes of designers, students, and tourists who visited the exhibit may most want to emulate. Cynics might be tempted to write, "This is All About Ego" in ears of corn, but perhaps after reading the book, they will change their minds. In "DRUGS ARE FUN IN THE BEGINNING BUT BECOME A DRAG LATER ON," Stefan admits to an "addictive personality" and former drinking problem. Even "HELPING OTHER PEOPLE HELPS ME" rings true. He writes that he's pledged an hour a day to helping people, a commitment kept by doing things like packing bags of socks and toiletries for the homeless.
Affixed to a gallery wall were 18 rows of 30 little blank notebooks, some with pencils hanging from strings, which invited visitors to leave their own messages. Some people wrote things like: "I want you, you want me." Others left e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
The words "I could have done that" are often overheard in museums and galleries. When I hear them, I always think, "But you didn't." Here, most visitors realized that they could not have done it. Yet they became part of it. And continue to do so on the thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com Web site, on which Stefan invites people to answer the question, "What have you learned in your life?" He requests: "Please do write it down beautifully. Design it digitally, photograph it, draw it, scan it, and upload it." Today, the newest image is by Los Angeles art director Tony Pinto, who has written, "SHARE THE GOOD THINGS" in pennies, jelly beans, and chocolate.
"Be Kind Rewind"
Performance art used to be limited to watching other people perform. Before YouTube, if you were lucky and persistent, maybe you could get your stuff on "America's Funniest Home Videos."
Now, Academy-Award-winning French filmmaker Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") has created an exhibit in which the home movie becomes art, and you, the gallery visitor, are writer, director, actor.
The gallery exterior on Wooster Street replicated the sorry-looking Passaic, New Jersey, video store in Gondry's newest feature, "Be Kind Rewind." Starring Jack Black, the movie follows the adventures of Jerry, a nuclear power plant worker who gets "magnetized" and inadvertently erases all the tapes in a failing video store managed by his friend Mike (Mos Def) while owner Danny Glover is on vacation. When the last loyal customer, a senile Mia Farrow, comes in to rent "Ghostbusters," Jerry and Mike create a 20-minute remake using an old VHS camcorder. Its popularity revives the store, and the two friends develop "sweding," a "Swedish" process by which popular films are cheaply remade. Their movies are more popular than the originals, making the two friends local celebrities.
Although critics praised "Be Kind Rewind" for its "playful vibe," "riffs on topical themes," and "priceless comic moments," Deitch Projects offered the public more personal filmic moments. Inside the gallery, Gondry and his crew had recreated the whole video store, complete with junkyard back lot. The 4,000-square-foot space was divided into sets, including a garage, kitchen, bedroom, police station, doctor's waiting room and office, café, and city street. Patrons—70 groups of five to 15 people booked two-hour sessions—had the opportunity to "swede" their own movies. Under the direction of documentary filmmaker Jordan Kanley, from February 16 to March 22, more than 1,000 amateur filmmaker-performers availed themselves of the costume and prop rooms and learned to develop a storyboard, shoot, and edit short subjects. The films they made were set up on shelves for viewing by other gallery-goers.
"I don't intend nor have the pretension to teach how to make film," Gondry commented. "I'm trying to create a network of creativity and communication that is guaranteed to be free and independent from any commercial institution."
I'll leave to the critics whether he succeeded at that. But in New York City, where most everyone loves to practice performance art of one kind or another, the exhibit was a bigger hit than the movie.
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Cut spareribs into 2-rib sections. Arrange in a single layer in shallow baking pan. Pour on barbeque sauce. Cover and bake for 45 minutes. Skim fat from pan drippings. Turn ribs and baste with drippings. Bake, uncovered, about 1 hour, or until tender, turning and basting ribs about 4 times to glaze well.


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Cooking with Linux - Mirror, Mirror, of It All
François, what are you doing? When I asked you to mirror our Web sites, I did not mean that you should hold a mirror up to the screen. You can be very silly, mon ami. What I meant was that you should make a copy of our Web sites onto that other machine. François, what are you looking at? Ah, our guests have arrived! Why did you not tell me? Welcome, mes amis, to Chez Marcel, home of fine Linux fare and exceptional wines.
Speaking of wine, François! To the wine cellar, immédiatement. Please bring back the 1999 California Stag's Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon. This bold, smooth wine is the perfect mirror to today's menu. As you know, mes amis, the theme of this issue is system administration. On today's menu, we are going to sample a number of alternatives for mirroring data. The reasons for mirroring data are many. The obvious first reason is the not altogether sexy but extremely important subject of backups. Other reasons include creating mirrors of FTP sites for local network updates, such as your own RPM update repository, or mirroring Web sites for fast, off-line reading.
Many people who do regular backups are doing them to a disk on one of their other machines. Others still are backing up to a second disk on the same machine. Given that an extra hard drive added to a system is extremely inexpensive these days and high-capacity tape drives can cost substantially more, it isn't that unusual to find this kind of solution being used.
Backing up from one disk to the other, or creating a mirror of your data, can be as simple as doing a recursive copy using cp. For instance, if I wanted to copy everything in my home directory to a second disk with a lot of space, I might do the following:
cp -rfupv /home/mgagne /disk2/
As you probably expect, the -r option indicates a recursive copy (all the subdirectories), and the -v tells the command to be verbose. Because I don't want to be warned about each file being overwritten, I add -f to force the copy; the -p ensures that permissions are saved properly as well. Finally, the -u option tells the cp command to copy only files that have been updated. This speeds up the process on subsequent copies.
It all works very well, but copying from machine to machine requires a few extra steps. With your Linux system, you actually have a lot of tools at your disposal beyond the humble cp. For starters, if you want to copy or back up an entire Web site, try the wget command, originally written by Hrvoje Niksic:
wget -m http://www.websitename.dom
Starting at the top of your chosen Web site, wget walks through the entire site, saving all appropriate HTML files and images. The -m in this case means mirror, but it also encompasses several other options, specifically -r, -N, -l inf and -nr. These options tell wget to do a recursive fetch, turn on timestamps, allow for an infinite number of levels and not to remove the FTP directory .listing files, respectively.
All files on the Web site are saved in a local directory with the same name as the Web site. In the example above, that would be www.websitename.dom. Add a new file to your Web server, run the command again and only that new file is transferred, thus making the job of keeping things up to date that much faster.
This is a great tool for its intended purpose, but its primary function is to deal with Web sites. It is possible, however, to use wget to download from FTP servers as well. If you are transferring from anonymous sites, the format is almost identical to the one used to mirror a Web site:
wget -m ftp://ftp.ftpsitename.dom
If, on the other hand, you want to back up a user directory where a user name and password are required, you need to be a little fancier:
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This approach has a couple downsides. First, your password is sent across the network in plain text, which may not be a big deal depending on how much you trust your network. In a pinch, you could do a recursive secure copy with the scp command. Because scp is part of OpenSSH, you have the advantage of knowing that you are using secure, encrypted file transfers. Pretend that you want to copy your whole Web site, starting from the Apache server root. It would look something like this:
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> As it copies, it maintains permissions and modification dates and times, and it does it fast.
I do not see any way to have ftpcopy to keep file mode; all mirrored files are 0644. How do you made that working?
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How Cautionary is Erickson v. Pardus? (with an excursus on Commerce Clause disillusionment)
posted by Mike O'Shea
For civil procedure mavens, the clear Big SCOTUS Case of the Term is Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (May 21, 2007), which dismissed antitrust conspiracy claims brought by a humongous class of consumers against the regional telecoms. The seven-Justice majority in Twombly held that the plaintiffs' complaint failed to state a claim for relief. The Court banished into outer darkness (or as Justice Souter put it, "retired") the famous liberal-pleading mantra from Conley v. Gibson (1957) that a motion to dismiss should be denied unless plaintiff can prove "no set of facts" consistent with her allegations that would support relief. Further, the Court applied what seemed a fairly demanding "plausibility" requirement to the plaintiffs' allegations — viz., it's not enough that the defendants' alleged parallel conduct could have reflected an illegal agreement to restrain trade; instead, the allegations had to "nudge th[e] claims across the line from conceivable to plausible." Finally, the majority served up a thick slice of policy reasoning: due to the massive costs of discovery to defendants in major civil antitrust suits (in a cynical moment I described this to a friend as the "Sullivan & Cromwell client pleading standard"), weak complaints must be weeded out prior to discovery using something stricter than the Conley "no set of facts" standard.
There's also an effective dissent by Justice Stevens, who recognizes that this is all going straight into forty thousand Civ Pro casebooks. (Indeed, I doubt Twombly can be cut down much for classroom use. Some string cites and footnotes look shaveable, but students are basically going to need the whole thing.)
Heady stuff. Twombly clearly does two big things: (1) It scraps the Conley "no set of facts" language. This part of Twombly is straight construction of Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) and I have no doubt it applies across the board. Plaintiffs opposing a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss just can't quote that part of Justice Black's Conley opinion any more. (2) It applies a standard of meaningful "plausiblity" scrutiny to allegations in Sherman Act section 1 (antitrust conspiracy) cases.
After that, it gets fuzzy. Does the tough "plausibility" pleading requirement also extend to all civil complaints? Or was it just about antitrust claims, where defendants are often huge entities engaged in complex activity, and the line separating lawful from actionable conduct can be quite abstract (e.g., "tacit agreement" vs. mere "conscious parallelism")? Or was the line between "big" and "small" civil cases? For what it's worth, I think the Twombly opinion is neutral to hostile on the validity of extending tough plausibility scrutiny much outside the antitrust or "big civil case" context. Reading the opinion with the eyes of a former defense litigator, it seemed to be deliberately hard to extract a "plausiibility" soundbite that isn't closely linked to a claim-specific mention of "the antitrust context," "Sherman act claims," "antitrust complaints," consistently citing to antitrust precedents (rather than other types of cases) for points about pleading, etc.
Several federal district court judges disagree with me. They have already rendered pleading opinions applying the Twombly "plausible claim" language to claims quite different from Twombly. See, e.g., Hicks v. Ass'n of Am. Med. Coll., 2007 WL 1577841 (D.D.C. May 31, 2007) (wrongful discharge); Horton v. Williams, 2007 WL 1575974 (M.D. Ala. May 30, 2007) (constitutional civil rights case).
But the Twombly opinion is no longer the whole story.
The Supreme Court sometimes releases an opinion with vast potential consequences — a "landmark" like Twombly — and then follows it up almost immediately with a short, low-key, often per curiam opinion in another case involving the same area of law, but reaching a different outcome. When this happens it is tempting to think the Court is cautioning lower courts not to over-read the significance of the first opinion. If we stipulate that sometimes this is indeed what the Court is doing, we might dub such perfomances "Don't Get Carried Away" (DGCA) opinions. I digress to offer an illustration (block quote).
Here's an example near to my heart: In U.S. v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), the Court invalidated a federal statute for exceeding Congress's enumerated powers under the Commerce Clause, the first such holding in sixty years. Lopez was a thunderclap; a potential revolution (the HLR ran a Supreme Court Foreword titled "Revolutions?"); the Fuller Court had risen again from the 1890s to walk among the living. Except that just six days later, the Court released United States v. Robertson, 514 U.S. 669 (1995) (per curiam), unanimously upholding a RICO conviction (for in-state criminal activity) against Commerce Clause challenge in a brief, casual opinion that sounded like all the other post-New Deal commerce power cases except Lopez. Some of us enumerated-powers fans got much too excited over the next decade by Lopez progeny like U.S. v. Morrison (2000) and Solid Waste Agency of N. Cook County v. Corps of Engineers (2001). Some of us hoped the Court might be working up the courage to try some "Real Federalism," as Michael Greve put it.
But not so much. As everyone knows, when given the chance to enter a Commerce Clause ruling with some real "bite" in the drug case of Gonzales v. Raich (2005), the Court instead reaffirmed the received Wickard wisdom in a 6-3 decision. Maybe we should have paid more attention to the timing of the little Robertson opinion back in '95, telling us "Don't Get Carried Away."
Now the big question in Civ Pro Land is whether Monday's brief per curiam opinion in Erickson v. Pardus is a DGCA opinion meant to caution lower courts from over-reading Twombly, released two weeks earlier. Erickson summarily reverses a 10th Circuit opinion that had dismissed a prisoner's Section 1983 civil rights complaint for failure to state a claim. Mr. Erickson claimed that prison officials were violating his constitutional rights by withholding medicine injections that he needed as part of an ongoing treatment for hepatitis C. The 10th Circuit had held that Erickson's allegations of harm from withholding treatment were fatally "conclusory." The Supremes sharply rejected the 10th Circuit's holding, stating that it "depart[ed] in so stark a manner from the pleading standard mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure" that SCOTUS intervention was appropriate. Interestingly, Erickson cites Twombly for the proposition that a complaint need only "give the defendant fair notice of what the claim is and the grounds upon which it rests." And it nowhere cites the 'plausibility of claim' language from Twombly.
Most commentators are indeed reading Erickson as a DGCA opinion that reins in Twombly. That was my own early reaction in Doug Berman's comments box. The best such comment I've read is from Amy Howe at SCOTUSBlog (concluding that the Court probably "decided to summarily reverse in Erickson . . . in order to counteract any impression that could arise that Twombly was intended to set a particularly high pleading standard.").
And that's probably right. But I'm no longer as gung-ho about Erickson-as-DGCA-opinion as I was at first. Let me close this too-long post by offering two considerations that counsel "caution about caution" (!!) — i.e., against overreading the extent to which Erickson limits Twombly.
1. The real wild card after Twombly is how far and how seriously the emphasis on "plausibility" will extend beyond antitrust. Erickson, a civil rights case, doesn't cite that language — but Erickson also makes crystal clear that this question is not at issue in the decision. Twombly says Rule 8 requires a federal complaint to do two things; it must both give sufficient notice to D of what plaintiff's claim is; and it must "show" that "the pleader is entitled to relief." Twombly carefully specified that the Court was talking there about the second, plausibility requirement, not notice. See Twombly, slip op. at n.5. And Erickson makes equally clear that it is talking about the notice requirement. Cf. Erickson, slip op. at 5 (observing that "[i]t may in the final analysis be shown that the District Court was correct to grant respondents' motion to dismiss" on some other basis). So perhaps the absence of a "plausibility" discussion from Erickson is not so signficant as it first seemed to me.
2. There is a whole lot of daylight between the facts in Erickson (pleading held sufficient) and those of Twombly (insufficient pleading). Dismissal in Erickson was pretty egregious: Erickson pleaded that he had hepatitis C, that he was on a one-year treatment program for it, that shortly after the program began the prison officials started withholding the treatment, and that his life was in danger. Surely, unless we are returning to the Field Code, that is a sufficient allegation of substantial harm to satisfy Rule 8(a)(2), and the Supreme Court's conclusion isn't surprising.
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Howard Wasserman - June 7, 2007
I immediately thought back to U.S. v. Robertson as soon as I saw the order in Erickson and had the same view that both are signals to lower courts and litigants that the Court did not mean to change things so dramatically and that they should not go crazy.
Lopez (and then Morrison) did have an important effect on the jurisprudence–Even if later cases such as Raich did not strike down federal laws, Lopez/Morrison at least force the courts to take a hard(er) look at the question. That could be part of Twombley's impact–making sure lower courts take a close look at 12(b)(6) motions that challenge factual sufficiency even in non-Rule 9 cases, rather than simply falling back on Conley's "no set of facts" language. In truth, of course, lower courts generally were taking that close a look.
Twombley also could be what I call a "pendulum" case, only in reverse. The historic trend has been that SCOTUS insists on liberal notice pleading, lower courts require a bit more factual detail (as discussed in Christopher Fairman's work), then SCOTUS pulls the pendulum back, reminding us that it is notice pleading (Leatherman, Swierkiewicz). Twombley and Erickson together can be seen as SCOTUS trying to set the pendulum of factual detail into some explicit range.
Mike O'Shea - June 7, 2007
I will be especially interested to see how the Seventh Circuit interprets and applies Twombly and Erickson. It is a smart court with a history of making important procedural rulings, and (as I'm not the first to observe) Judge Easterbrook, in particular, has been a diligent enforcer of liberal notice pleading against the district courts' attempts start to try to require more detail. I assign one of his opinions (Kolupa) as an exemplar of the straight-up, "no set of facts" Conley approach to pleading. But that approach has now been rejected, to at least some degree, in at least some cases.


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This coming CentreTerm, Dr. David Hall, NEH Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, is teaching his signature "Basketball as Religion" course. He first taught the class during CentreTerm 2004 and did so to much fanfare from the media, attracting attention from The Paul Harvey radio show, the Associated Press, the Chronicle of Higher Education and NPR.
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As the shambles on the tracks continues the focus of attention within the media and politicians is turning to how the railway should be reorganised if it is to recover its equilibrium. Alas, this grand strategy can only be a displacement activity. It misses the point that you can't reorganise until you have a stable organisation on which to work.
Stability is, of course, relative and depends on the position of the centre of gravity of an object or an organisation. In an industry the centre of gravity is determined by the location of its managerial and technical expertise.
Those children's dolls with a rounded base, which when you push them over bob back to the vertical, are a simple paradigm for a resilient organisation. When the railway, for example, is perturbed by events, whether an accident, flooding or technical problems, provided the centre of gravity is in the right place it should ride with the blow and recover rapidly. But it can do this only if the managerial centre of gravity is down at the operational level.
And that was what used to happen. But while the Conservatives did a brilliant job in making rail privatisation irreversible, the process did have the undesirable side effect of creating a fatally flawed structure. Just how flawed even we may not have realised at the time, but to bring a world class railway to its knees in just over five years was no mean achievement for John MacGregor and his civil servants.
What privatisation did was effectively raise the centre of gravity of the industry towards the board room. Many of the heavyweight managers either left in disgust or were let go on the false premise that the new private sector owners would put in new people to do a better job.
Of those who stayed, the most competent and driven stayed in the TOCs because running a railway was what they liked doing. Those who wanted something different but demanding went to work for OPRAF, now the Strategic Rail Authority, and those seeking a quiet life chose Railtrack.
In what had been the Chief Civil Engineer's Department, two swathes of cost cutting, first by British Rail in preparation for sale, then by the new owners in a vain attempt to meet Railtrack's unrealistic cost expectations cut a swathe through the middle managers whose presence kept the centre of gravity low.
On the East Coast Main Line for example, two track maintenance managers, one for the Southern end based at Doncaster the other for the north at Newcastle had been replaced by a single manager. Thus the centre of gravity rose a little more.
Railtrack, saw itself reflected in the City's mirror as a money machine and believed that the railway would engineer and run itself just as it had always done.
So now, while political attention focuses on the Railtrack board, our concern lies in the denuded executive and management ranks because when things go wrong it is executives and managers who do the dirty work on the ground and achieve exceptional results from ordinary people or used to. Since Hatfield we have had our ears bashed by any number of managers appalled at the time taken to reopen the track through accident sites.
Thus, to buy the stability needed to repair the faults in the current railway structure the corporate centre of gravity at Railtrack has to be lowered and fast. But how?
Quite simply, the grey tigers, all those managers now coasting along in consultancies or pruning the roses or travelling the world on their retirement handouts have to be lured back to run the railway. Railtrack has reordered its priorities by transferring Richard Middleton and Andrew McNaughton back to real jobs as Technical Director and Chief Engineer respectively. Now they need to be joined by a grim booted black macintoshed old-school no nonsense operator and a heavy duty civil engineering manager able to forge links with contractors.
Next McNaughton needs to empire build fast, setting up chief engineers in each zone, encouraged and backed to go out and make things happen including a duty to walk all their track once a year. The nonsense of engineers reporting to contract managers must stop.
Quite simply, it is time to take back the railway, which means encouraging the defectors and dispossessed to return. True it is a dysfunctional railway structured to implode, but there is a chance that bloody minded professional railwaymen and women could make it work until remedial action can be taken.
Meanwhile distractions must stop, and that includes franchise renewal, until the SRA knows what it wants, and the Regulator's search & destroy sweeps through the contractual jungle. For the next year the whole industry should get on with trying to run a railway.


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Recording a new album really takes time. Yes, 2-3 years is quite long but i dont blame her or anyone. Artist like avril creates music base from her ideas, thoughts , emotion and personality. Those things doesn't come together all at once. It comes in different times. There might be instances that she's done but she felt that something is missing or not yet satisfiying her so she have to hold it for the mean time.
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Cheney's office cut six pages of congressional testimony -- nearly half of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's testimony -- on climate changes affects on human health.
Ah, the Prince of Darkness strikes again!
Cheny wanted deletions and pushed for them. His office had nothing to do with deletions. The deletions were made due to concerns about the science validity. In addition, when asked today, top CDC official said she has never been asked to remove one word from anything in her testomony. She related that she has never been asked to change one position. She had concerns about the science enlisted as well. Burnett, a life long democrat, resigned following disagreements with the administration. Is it possible there are sour grapes?
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kate, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Sensoring the inconvinient trues!
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The embattled Schuylkill County ambulance corps that pulled its medical technicians and drivers off the streets last month because of continual harassment of several of its members and their families has resumed service to the residents of Mahanoy City.
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April 20th, 2012
Delvoping the Chavez Ravine/Dodger Stadium Area
For almost a year now there has been talk about the Chavez Ravine/Dodger Stadium area from the Next 50 Plans to putting Condos and Parking garages there to Building a Brand New Stadium we've heard it all. The LA Times put an article out on what could happen with Chavez Ravine and the Ideas that were brought forward. I've seen a lot of Ideas and I think some of these ideas are briliant and some of them are something you should throw away. One of them that I want thrown away and others will agree is the Complete Revanping or Relocating Dodger Stadium. AEG already said that the Ideas for a new Baseball Stadium could be in works if the Football Stadium plans fall through and this is where I stop all of that. LA Times said that many people would want a new Stadium and that couldn't be any further from the Truth. The A lot of Dodger fans know why Dodger Stadium is a special place and I hope the new owners see that as well. You can make renovations to upgrade Dodger Stadium but a Downtown Stadium is the worse Idea you can have. Chavez Ravine is the perfect place for Dodger Stadium. Dodger Stadium is not falling apart and can still get renovations but nothing like the Ones Orel had in mind.
Now what can you do with the Chavez Ravine area? Clearly you need it for parking but if you really wanna redevelop it then theres Ideas for Parking Garages and Condos but I really don't know How I feel about that. Looking around I saw an Idea to develop a Train or Subway connection and while I really love this Idea The Challenges of getting a Subway or Train to connect to Dodger Stadium will be a Huge Challenge seeing the Stadium is on a hill. Many Stadiums like Oakland, San Fransico, Anaheim (Some what) and New York (Yankees and Mets) Have that benifit they don't have a Stadium on the Hill like Dodger Stadium. A Transit plan is in place with the Buses that pick you up from Union Station so that makes up for a Train/Subway conection. Another was a LA Live type of area and I'm kind've mixed about this. Having it open on Gamedays and non gamedays would be pretty cool because you can have resturants and Shops around it but my Issue is we already have LA Live/City walk close by each other. So having one that close I have no clue but Not a bad idea. Now If anything A Dodger Museum is an absolute must and I have no clue why this hasn't been done. Dodgers have a lot of history as well as Dodger Stadium and for no where to really see it in a museum is really surprising. This should be the first thing added to Dodger Stadium. Now I'm not talking about a Small put together something museum but a Museum for one of the Historic Teams in Baseball! If you're worried about this taking away from the Stadium tour then you shouldn't as this only adds to the experiance.
Outside of that maybe first thing is first and thats renovating Dodger Stadium (No Major reconstruction). Adding the Field level enterance like the Next 50 Plan and others from that plan. What they want to do with the Chavez Ravene Area is up to them but lets hope it's for the Good of the Dodgers and it's fans. One way or another it'll be interesting to see what the new Owners Do.


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Ubisoft has sent Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online into open beta. It's a Free To Play extension of the famous series.
That's all I've got I'm afraid, except to say that it's an online military shooter and I can't do my copy paste thing, 'cause their site won't let me , so go check it out yourselves for a change, link is above and sign up.
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It's about jobs and the economy, stupid.
Let me repeat that: Jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy. That sorta sums it up.
Well, not to the DFL and their various paid, unpaid and indirectly-paid hangers-on on the left. Over there, it's about "dirt". Because it's all Mark Dayton – bumbling underachieving trust-fund baby and former Worst Senator in America – has. He was a failure as an Economic Development director. He was non-entitity as Auditor. He was a spectacular failure as a Senator.
"Dirt" is all these hamsters have.
Now, Sally Jo Sorenson isn't one of the dumber, more venal leftybloggers in Minnesota. Indeed, in and among the various bits of moral and intellectual cat-box effluvia one meets at "Drinking Liberally", she may well be one of the better ones.
But the DFL machine needs dirt:
Last month, Sally Jo Sorensen posted on her Bluestem Prairie site that Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer had taken out seven mortgages on his Delano home since 2002.
[Yesterday], the Minnesota DFL gave that tidbit a much bigger megaphone, blasting Emmer in a press conference for unconventional borrowing that most Minnesotans wouldn't recognize.
So what exactly is the problem, here?
It appears that Emmer bought his Delano home in 2002 for $425,000 with the help of a $300,000 mortgage. He then took out a series of (very) short-term mortgages,each to pay off the previous one.
Ah. So in other words, he used the financing the market made available to handle financing his house. Just like a huge preponderance of other American home owners did, via one means or another.
At one point, he was threatened with foreclosure.
So he's unique, then?
And this is…what? Illegal?
Nothing illegal is alleged. But the DFL, and Sorenson, have pointed out that the creative financing runs counter to Emmer's sloganeering about state government having to live within its means.
And the DFL and Sorenson are wrong.
Emmer's finances are between him and his family. We the people are not paying Tom Emmer's mortgage. If Tom Emmer comes up short on his payments, it's up to him; give the house back, or solicit more business at his law firm, or get the kids out there working. It's his business.
The state budget is not a personal matter. It's all of our money. And if Emmer has had to do some juggling to make the mortgage work…
…well, he can join the damn club. Many of us are doing the same these days; working harder, scrimping, doing what we have to to keep the roof over our kids' heads. Wealthy Minnesotans, poor ones, and whole lot of us in the middle…
…who are not a bunch of trust-fund babies who inherited real estate from grampa, anyway.
Emmer spokesman Cullen Sheehan in a teleconference insisted that his boss's refinancing deals were nothing unusual for a Minnesotan and that he's paid his bills.
Unmentioned in any of Sorenson's or the City Pages' intrepid reporting: is Emmer paid up now? Has he shafted anyone?
And how is that different that what tens of thousands of Minnesotans are doing to make things work out?
And how is Brian Melendez' little scorched-earth attack anything but a finger in the eye of all of us who weren't born to the manor, like the hamster his party is stuck trying to prop up?
Has Emmer, indeed, done anything in his personal finances quite as dim and incompetent as release two consecutive budgets that on their face fail to resolve the budget issue, and have absolutely zero chance of ever passing the Legislature?
Because as near as I can tell, while his family may have had to do some mad fiscal juggling over the past eight years, just like the rest of us, Emmer's got his family's budget balanced today.
Has Dayton managed the same, even on paper?
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The biggest issue I have with the infiltrators and marksmen is that the spawn sentries can't detect them. I don't mind them running around outside, surprising everyone, but a run into the spawn area should be insta-death for everyone, or else they'll use their abilities for cheap kills and ruin the game for everyone else.
It's easy to say 'check the radar', but when you've just spawned, the time it takes to process your surroundings is more than enough time to get meleed by an infiltrator who's already well aware of his surroundings.
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I think this thread highlighted a good reason for nerfing the marksman class slightly.
Having the machine gun and cloak makes a mockery of what the class is supposed to be used for.
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I realy don't know were people are comeing from, I've seen so many enginers and medics aswell as tactitions!
Yours and the OP reasioning is... Well flawed, yes the marksman is the most popular and you get alot of them but denying people don't ballance out is stupid!
I understand you may get frustrated, but please for the love of god... Leave multiplayer alone GG !
People who were not willing to see the bigger picture were responseable for my favorite class to get nerfed in the beta, the tactition!
We don't need anything else nerfing... LEARN if I can find and aviod marksmen, and I'm not that good... Then so should other people.
A slite change to a pink floyd track... "Kids leave our game alone"
I don't have a particularly hard time with either of them, nor do I really care that much if anything is changed. I was just posting my thoughts on the situation.
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