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The equipment, support materials, internal communications and other resources which your staff and service users need should be:
- Easily readable. Printed materials should be large type and have good contrast. Braille or audiotape translations may be needed (many libraries and colleges offer a Braille translation service);
- Easily seen and reached. Don't keep important files on high shelves, never place notices seven feet up a wall or store stationery in the cellar;
- Easily used. Obviously it may not be possible to have all your studio equipment redesigned and rebuilt to allow perfect access, but be prepared to make whatever efforts you can or whatever changes become necessary due to the needs of a disabled volunteer. Some changes – such as adjustable computer desks for wheelchair users – are relatively straightforward but make a huge difference to your usability.
Adapting to individual needs
The money and effort which can be spent on improving access and usability is endless. However much you might want to, you will not be able to do everything. There are some issues, such as wheelchair access, which are almost certain to arise sooner or later and should be considered as absolutely fundamental to your function as a community radio station. Others – for example translating learning materials into Braille or onto audiotape – may arise but you will probably want to wait until they do so before investing in them, otherwise you may find they are out of date and need changing before you have used them. Often the changes needed might be less predictable. We know of a community group who once needed to black out windows to allow access to a user with the light-sensitive skin condition porphyria, which is not something you can reasonably plan for. What is crucial is that you are prepared to make whatever changes are necessary to make your station accessible to anyone.
Communication and personal support
There is no point in having the most accessible facilities if the human touch is not there. Treating people with respect, understanding and compassion is an essential component of your access policies. The way station staff and volunteers talk and relate to each other, regardless of their health or impairment, will go a long way to establishing how welcoming and attractive your station will be for people with disabilities. There are no hard and fast rules as to the language you use – tone of voice is often a bigger factor than the words used – but here are some guiding principles:
- People are described by their disabilities, not defined by them. So it is more respectful to talk about 'people with disabilities' or 'disabled people' than it is to talk about 'the disabled.' And you don't provide access to wheelchairs and guide dogs, you provide access to wheelchair users and blind people.
- Avoid pity or excessive admiration. The phrase 'aren't you brave?' won't go down too well.
- Don't go to extremes. Many disabled people find nothing more annoying than being told they're 'just differently abled' or talking to someone who delicately skips around the issue or refuses to acknowledge that they have disabilities at all. Impairments are a fact of life and should be treated as such.
- Clarify the preferred means of communication. If someone has problems with hearing or speech, find out if they'd prefer to use a notepad or a sign interpreter, for example.
- Avoid disempowering terms. Words such as 'cripple', 'handicapped,' and 'spastic' have hopefully been consigned to history, but at a more subtle level, phrases like 'confined to a wheelchair' should be avoided.
- Don't avoid talking altogether. It is better to risk saying the wrong thing than to say nothing at all.
If people have mobility impairments:
- Sit down before talking to a wheelchair user so you are at eye level;
- Never touch a wheelchair without asking the user first;
- Never tidy or move crutches, frames or sticks.
If people have visual impairments:
- Introduce yourself when you speak;
- Say when you are ending a conversation or leaving a room;
- Be prepared to offer a guiding arm (not hand) when walking;
- Never interact with a guide dog without asking the owner first.
If people have hearing or speech impairments:
- Find quiet places to talk;
- Look the person straight in the face and talk clearly;
- If a sign interpreter is involved, talk to the person not the signer.
Support workers
In most cases a disabled volunteer will want to do as much as possible himself, but there will be times when this is simply not practical and a helping or guiding hand is required. In some cases the volunteer will have their own support worker (either a personal assistant or a professional case-worker such as a community nurse) in which case there should be no problem. However, it may be necessary for the station to provide such personal assistance whenever the volunteer is at the station. It is the role of this support worker to provide as much or as little input as is needed or wanted to allow the volunteer to achieve as much as he wants to. Let's take the example of a blind volunteer hosting a show. He may want to plan the programme, invite guests, and speak on air – a worthwhile challenge in itself. A support worker or team would be needed to prepare the show, change records, drive the desk etc. Or he may want to learn how to operate the desk by touch, use a voice activated computer to create his own jingles and pre-records, and have total autonomy over the creation and delivery of the show. Be prepared to go as far as you need to if you are going to help your volunteers meet their ambitions and fulfil their potential.
Fair employment practices
As we noted earlier if you employ people you are bound by the DDA and must not discriminate against employees or potential employees on the grounds of disability. And as we said above, this should be considered the absolute bare minimum requirement of a community radio station. Your station should:
- Consider disability in every aspect of employment. Your equal opportunities policy should commit you to fair practice in recruitment, retention, training, appraisals, grievance procedures and career development.
- Offer disability awareness training to staff (see below).
- Involve staff with disabilities in all staff activities, professional or social.
- Be aware of schemes and programmes providing funding and assistance for workers with disabilities such as the Government's 'Access to Work' scheme.
- Bear in mind that employees may develop disabilities after they begin working for you. Stations may have to adapt their practices or facilities when needed.
- Have Health and Safety procedures that take account of staff with disabilities.
- Remember that addressing the access and usability issues mentioned above should also ease the day-to-day workload of staff members in supporting people with disabilities.
External support and advice
Disability awareness training
There are many agencies, voluntary groups and other organisations who will offer disability awareness training, either on general issues or on specific disabilities. These are often free or offered at discount rates to not-for-profit organisations. Your local voluntary services umbrella group should be able to put you in touch. Ideally all members of staff and senior volunteers should be offered (and in some cases instructed to take) such courses, but as a bare minimum there should be at least one person at each level of management who is fully trained and aware of all the issues.
Access audit
Since the 'reasonable adjustments' section of the DDA came into effect there has been a rapid expansion of commercial firms offering access audits to businesses. These identify shortfalls and problems with your access policies and offer advice for improvements, which can be extremely useful, but also rather costly. As with disability awareness training, if you look around you may find agencies and organisations that can provide a similar service at minimal or no cost. Either way it can be useful to get an external assessment of your facilities and policies since this may spot potential problems and solutions that you have missed.
Other local groups and partner organisations Within your community there will be disability charities, rights and awareness campaigns, support groups and other organisations that should already be involved to some extent at your station. These groups can offer you valuable feedback on the services you offer, ways in which you could help local people with disabilities, and other help and advice. Make sure groups with involvement in disability issues are at the heart of your station and then use them as a resource once they are.
There are usually grants available for statutory adjustments and improvements to your levels of access from the local government, national government and charitable sectors. There is also a lot of funding available for projects involving people with disabilities, some of which may include money for equipment and resources. If your access is not as good as it might be, make extra efforts to seek out such funding.
"I think of my show as being about real people, giving a voice to people who haven't got one – sometimes quite literally. I've done shows with people using Liberator machines – the kind of thing Stephen Hawking uses – giving them the chance to make their opinions heard on the radio, which they would never get otherwise. I've done shows with sign translators. You have to explain what's going on because it's a bit like ventriloquism on the radio, you get these long pauses, but that's OK. It was really inspiring stuff." Vicky Richardson, presenter 'Access All Areas', ALL FM, Manchester
A community radio station has two responsibilities towards people with disabilities in your community:
- To involve them in making programmes
- To make programmes which serve their interests The two should not be considered interchangeable.
Don't assume that because someone uses a wheelchair or has a visual impairment they will only be interested in making programmes about disability. They may well want to play hip hop or act in a drama. Equally someone who has no impairments may wish to be involved in making a disabilities action show – although it is always advisable to have at least partial input from people with disabilities into such shows.
The extent of your programming which is targeted at members of your community with disabilities is obviously up to you. We would suggest that one show per week is the bare minimum. At the opposite extreme is Glasgow's VIP On Air, an on-line station which has won a five year licence. This is made by and for people who are blind or partially-sighted, and all programming is aimed specifically at them (see Voxbox 11.02). Most community radio stations find a balance between those poles. The content of your disability community shows might include:
- Welfare and services advice and news
- Listings and previews of special events and social occasions
- Feature programming about particular disabilities, campaigns, current affairs etc.
- Real stories from real people (see Box **)
- Issues surrounding caring and disabilities in the family
- Humour and comedy created by people with disabilities
- Involvement of special guests and celebrities with relevant experiences
- Talking newspapers and books for the visually impaired
Above all, your programming should be led by disabled people themselves. They know better than you what their needs and wishes are and where you can best help.
"Our station has had a huge impact in ways that we maybe didn't think about in the beginning. Just simple things like blind people being able to access the daily newspapers at more or less the same time as everyone else means a huge amount to our listeners. Blind and visually impaired people have real problems finding employment – across the UK about 80% of adults of working age are unemployed. In a relatively short period of time we have helped 15 different people move on from the station into full-time employment or training which for us is a phenomenal achievement. We have broadcast from the Vision 2005 conference, which is the world's leading conference on blind issues. We brought that conference directly to our listeners who could never have accessed that any other way. We even had a reporter accredited at the Gleneagles G8 Conference this year. Gill was the only blind reporter in the whole of the world's press pack." Kerryn Krige, Station Manager, VIP On Air
Further reading and links
- www.ddaguidelines.com/
- www.disability.gov.uk/
- www.radar.org.uk
- www.access-association.org.uk/
- www.mind.org.uk/Information/
- www.rnib.org.uk
- www.helpisathand.gov.uk


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By Maggie Fox
When her aunt died of breast cancer, Mari-Anne Pisarri had no doubts about what caused it. She was certain it was estrogen pills. "So when the Women's Health Initiative released their findings, I thought, 'Well, of course, Aunt Betty could have told them that years ago'," said Pisarri, a 56-year-old partner at a Washington, D.C. law firm.
Pisarri is one of tens of millions of U.S women who have no intention of taking hormone replacement therapy to ease the symptoms of menopause. "I am just not willing to take the risk," she said.
Like so many women in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Pisarri's aunt got estrogen as a matter of course when she entered menopause. Doctors routinely prescribed hormones in the belief that HRT prevented heart disease, cancer and the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
The federal government decided to check out these assumptions, and commissioned the Women's Health Initiative – a giant study of 161,000 women. In 2002, regulators stopped the study when it became startlingly clear that HRT did not lower the risk of heart disease or cancer in the women taking part in the study. In fact, it raised the risk of stroke, heart attacks and breast cancer, they reported in a paper published 10 years ago Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Women stopped taking the pills in droves. While as many as 17 million women used HRT in 2001, by 2009 just about 8 million did. A decade after the Women's Health Initiative report was released, women are still confused and so are many doctors.
It would be impossible to say for sure that Pisarri's aunt got cancer because she took HRT. But the giant drug company Pfizer said last month it has paid $896 million so far to settle lawsuits alleging the pills made women sick without warning them of the risks. Pfizer owns Wyeth, the company that made the most popular HRT drugs Premarin and Prempro.
Swinging pendulum
Dr. JoAnn Manson, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who helped conduct the study, says people overreacted to its findings. "The pendulum has swung from 'hormone therapy is good for all women' to 'hormone therapy is bad for all women' after the Women's Health Initiative," Manson said in a telephone interview. "What the WHI showed us is that hormone therapy is appropriate for some, but not all, women."
The problem was that doctors were in the habit of prescribing HRT to protect women's health, instead of treating it as any other drug that should be used only when the benefits outweigh the risks. "At the time the WHI began in the early 1990s it was becoming an increasingly common practice for hormone therapy to be prescribed for women who were in their 70s and 80s and women at very high risk of cardiovascular disease," Manson says. The study made it clear just how misguided this was. "Those practices came to a screeching halt," Manson said.
But the younger women who could more safely take HRT became afraid to ask for it and, often, their doctors were afraid to prescribe it. This has made for a perfect storm for women in their 40s and 50s who are often approaching the peak of their careers and have more flexibility since their children are grown. Then menopause hits, with no easy answer to managing the symptoms.
"I do have trouble sleeping," says Bev, a 54-year-old neuroscientist living in Silver Spring, Maryland, who asked for her last name to be withheld because she was discussing personal health. "But I don't really know what to do about that. I tried exercising more to try and wear myself out. I don't even know if it's actually a sign of menopause or perimenopause."
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Part of this lack of information is because drugmakers have, for obvious reasons, stopped advertising HRT. But menopause is itself often a taboo subject that involves not only women's reproductive health but also another subject that U.S. society finds embarrassing – aging.
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Ingrid Gorman, a senior vice president at Discovery Communications, wonders if women fear a return to the arguments that they are untrustworthy in the workplace because they are ruled by their hormones. Remember premenstrual syndrome?
"It used to be when I was growing up … PMS (was) talked about all the time. You would blame a lot of women's moods on that," says Gorman, 48.
"I don't really hear it talked about any more," she added. "I wonder if it's because these are different generations, or if as a group we really didn't want that to be something that people could use against us. … We just don't want to call that out about ourselves."
Rachel Pentlarge, a 48-year university grant manager in Washington, D.C., says a little wishful thinking may be going on. "We are all hoping that menopause will never hit us, or that no one will notice," she says.
"There is so much discomfort with women's health issues and also with aging -- and the way that sexism and age discrimination come together on this. The silence is stultifying."
Pisarri is more hopeful about why menopause isn't a big point of discussion. "It's a benefit of being in the baby boomer generation. There are just too many menopausal women. Have there ever been this many hot flashes going on at the same time?" she asked. "When there are so many of us doing the same thing … I don't think it is something that is quite unusual."
But now, thanks to the publicity surrounding the WHI, women often think they must tough it out, even as they joke about hot flashes with friends and even with colleagues.
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"About 15 to 20 percent of women have significant symptoms that interfere with sleep and can impair quality of life and that certainly can have adverse effects in the workplace as well," Manson says. These include problems sleeping, hot flashes and vaginal dryness. For these women, the benefits of HRT can outweigh the risks.
There are new formulations of HRT as well, which give far lower doses of hormones than the pills used in the WHI study. Women can use ultra-low-dose skin patches and creams and they can use targeted delivery systems such as vaginal inserts to address their particular symptoms.
Other studies done since the WHI have also shed more light on who might be harmed by HRT. Manson worked on one that showed if women take HRT when they first begin menopause, they significantly lower their risk of heart disease. And Manson points out that even doubling a very small risk, such as the risk of stroke, still leaves a woman with a very small risk.
The answer, as with so many health issues, is for women to talk to their doctors.
Doctors often determine whether a woman is going through menopause based on symptoms, such as whether she's stopped having a menstrual period, but in some cases, may do blood tests to measure hormone levels. Some of the women interviewed for this story said they were still taking birth control pills and weren't sure if that was masking other symptoms.
Physicians need to be more open to talking about menopause with women, said Manson, who is president of the North American Menopause Society. "Not just gynecologists but internal medicine (specialists) and family practice (physicians) often have to be discussing these issues with women," she said. "I think it has been confusing for clinicians and, unfortunately, many clinicians have stopped prescribing hormone therapy. It is a very, very difficult situation for women who have menopausal symptoms and are trying to find a clinician who can help them make an informed decision."
NAMS has a website at www.menopause.org that can help, Manson says.
When the time comes, Pentlarge says, she trusts her gynecologist to help her make the right decision. "So much unnecessary and totally avoidable anxiety is attached to menopause that if you can figure out a way to feel positive about yourself, it could be a much less traumatic experience," she says.
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I'd like to join because i really like the pokemon that tend to be disliked. most of the Pokemon are my favorites are usually either ignore or hated. Such as wobbuffet,Exeggutor and Mr. mime.
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Le me claiming Wobbuffet
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Banner done by me. I do not do requests. The Shinies are not up for trade.
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Hi. Id like to join this club, if it's not too late. One of my favorite starter evolutions, Meganium, is arguably the weakest final starter evolution yet, but I still love my Petal-dancing Solar Beam-shooting flower dino!
My claim: Meganium/ga'hoolefan/10/5/12
I've got two other things to say:
Remoraid was brought up recently. I think it is relatively undrappreciated, as it and Octillery are just being put in Pokedexes to evolve Mantyke. A few months ago, while onvacation, I took a look at a Remoraid in a book and suddenly realized: Holy moley! Remoraid has a really unique design!
2. Has anyone thought of Tangela or Venomoth lately? I've heard one of the game designers (can't remember who) thinks that Tangela is the most underappreciated monster.
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Claims: Rampardos, Rival Silver, and Zoo Tycoon 2
Competitive Pokemon (in training): (etc.)
I would love to join this group
I love Qwilfish, Shelgon, Dunsparce and so on!
Can I claim Dunsparce? Dunsparce/TherianForm/10/5/12
Oh and has any seen this yet....http://www.serebii.net/dungeoninfinity/
Look it has Dunsparce on? Don't you think this is a bit weird? Having all 5th gen Pokemon (not including Pikachu) and then having Dunsparce on
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Hey there!
I would like to join the club, since the unloved Kricketune is one of my favorite Pokémon.
I would like to join this club, since I dislike the overused and well-kown poks.
In fact I even give thought towards this when creating competive team.
One of my team holds an Aipom with Switcheroo and counter. my little monkey killed once an dragonite xD
Now working with an Girafarig, and well.. all unevolved poks do I favor to battle with, I like a challange.
Let me mention other unloved Pokémon I appreciate:
Heatmor: People mistreat it because its stats aren't that good.
Klinklang: Kling is cuuute <3 Klinklang is a beast, it helped me a lot in my first Black 2 playthrough.
Garbodor: I am probably the only person in the world to find Garbodor cute. That cute little ears <3
Pansear: The cutest monkey in the game, hands down. I don't like its evolution that much, though.
Clamperl: Gosh, I can't hold all of its cuteness. And it is quite decent now thanks to eviolite.
Surskit: Epic type combination and it is cute. Yeah, the cuteness factor is very important to me :c
Moltres: Probably one of the most unloved legendary of all time.
Others: Mienshao, Swoobat, Mime Jr, Roserade, Swalot, Illumise, Mawile, Beautifly, Medicham, Mantine, Shuckle, Dunsparce, Girafarig, Venomoth and Butterfree.
In fact, with a few exceptions, I am like Azulart.
I tend to like the unloved ones and dislike the overused and overhyped ones.
~I have claimed Clauncher because I'm better than you~
Spoiler:- My B2 Nuzlocke none of you care about:
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Claims: Rampardos, Rival Silver, and Zoo Tycoon 2
Competitive Pokemon (in training): (etc.)
I'd like to join the club because I love all those unloved Pokemon! My favorites are Kyurem, which was unloved before it became the cover Pokemon of B2/W2. I loved it then and love it now I also like Dunsparce and Stunfisk! I don't know why people hate those derpy Pokemon...
I'd also like to claim a Pokemon if that's okay... Kyurem/ *Kyurem*/ 11/4/2012
Last edited by *Kyurem*; 5th November 2012 at 12:56 AM.
This club is so... dead. And the owner still didn't put me on the member list.
Anyway... Allow me to make a claim:
Unfezant, Nyarlathotep, 04/11/2012.
Can I join? As you can see, I am a delibird fan. I hate how people overlook the cute thing!
-Azealia BanksRelationships are like farts; if you push too hard, you just end up with s***.
Dude you gotta feel bad for maigkarp I mean if you read his pokedex entries it's like the developers
I was part of v.1 ah, memories...
I'll join!
I'll also like to claim
Sawsbuck-Winter, StonE EdgE, 8/16/13
And a topic to try and revive this club...
Do you use your unloved Pokemon on your teams?
And if anyone wants ULPC art, heres a link to the old club that has art in the OP.
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For since when were Watt's concerns with what things were, in reality?
Samuel Beckett, Watt
So far the picture I have given of Beckett is that of a young critic committed to the defense and legitimation of high modernist writing in the tradition of Conrad, Joyce, Proust, Eliot, and others. Yet this image refers primarily to his criticism, which is also to say, to his role as a reviewer and commentator within the Irish literary context. Recent investigations of both genre and nationality, however, should alert us to possible differences between and within genres of cultural production, especially as these genetic distinctions intersect with national ones (the "French novel," the "English novel," etc.). To take a simple example, thus, "modernism" may look quite different in a particular span of years depending on whether one is examining the English, the Russian, the German, or the Argentine context. Similarly, within the limited context of "Anglo-American writers in Paris in the 1920s," there may be
relevant distinctions between developments in the novel, in lyric poetry, and in the singular invented genres of a writer like Gertrude Stein.
Accordingly, distinctions between criticism and other literary genres and between the Irish setting and the Parisian environment may prove to be decisively relevant to reading Beckett's work historically.[11] It is easy enough to understand how an artist working in several genres or media might have advanced at a different pace in one than in another. To take an extraliterary case, it was often remarked that John Coltrane's soprano saxophone playing always seemed to be about six months behind his pathbreaking tenor work. Yet if this is intuitively easy to grasp, such an observation has nevertheless left surprisingly little mark on the historical frameworks of literary study, which deal uneasily with multiple contexts and untidy careers. In the fascinating case of Beckett, a writer who worked in multiple genres and wrote within an intricate national-linguistic complex (Irish/English/French), the interplay of various contexts makes for a particularly complicated picture, in which many different rhythms of development can be observed within a single author's corpus.[12] I want to trace out one part of this picture, and in turn, account for the challenge Beckett as a late modernist poses for literary history and criticism, precisely because of the resistance his writing mounts against the schemes for situating his works and, through critical interpretation, rendering them meaningful.
Insofar as Beckett presented himself as a critic in the arena of Irish cultural politics, I suggest, he adopted a high modernist stance, with its cosmopolitan emphases on consciousness, epistemological concerns, and the refinements of an autonomous literary writing. His early fictions More Pricks Than Kicks and Murphy , however, addressed a different audience, an international community reading Anglo-American and continental modernist writing, even as these works still present recognizably Irish contents and characters. In composing and trying to publish these books, the Irish tyro had to confront the "actuality" of the small but sophisticated community within which modernist fiction was written and read. In this process, Beckett began to subject the high modernist stance—his own, with regard to the narrow horizons of his native Ireland—to a withering reexamination. Precisely at the moment, then, that he is articulating a coherent modernist critical position, advocating the modernism he discerns in the fiction and poetry of other writers, he is also working to sabotage its functioning in his own fiction. Perceptible already in More Pricks Than Kicks and even in parts of the Proust essay, Beckett's unease with the modernist posture plays a deter-
mining role in the tone, characters, and action of Murphy and Watt . Along with his divided position with respect to audience and context, the functional distinction between criticism and fiction as modes of writing shaped Beckett's ambivalent modernism. Whereas the young critic felt it necessary, on the whole, to defend the modernist tendency within which he wished to situate his own work, Beckett's stance became far more vexed and agonistic when it came to applying his critical positions to the writing of fiction. Perhaps at first defensively and only later as a "positive" strategy, Beckett would turn to parody and self-ridicule to call in question a number of modernist authorship's basic assumptions.
I have noted that Beckett's explicit aesthetic—like that of earlier modernists and of the early "modernistic" Foucault—emphasizes epistemological problems and the concomitant value of "awareness" as a response to these problems. The primary evidence of this epistemological awareness is the writer's self-conscious handling of literary point of view and other formal and discursive aspects of the text. These formal aspects, skillfully manipulated, create the impression of a particular mind struggling within itself to lend order to the phenomena it confronts. This struggle is often a defensive one, a struggle to maintain autonomy against overpowering external forces, and it in turn frequently constitutes a self-reflexive figure of the author's struggle to master discursively the recalcitrant matter of the modern world. This battle for autonomy, moreover, may exact a high price on the struggling consciousness dramatized in the modernist work. As Patricia Waugh notes, "In modernist fiction the struggle for personal autonomy can be continued only through opposition to existing social institutions and conventions. This struggle necessarily involves individual alienation and often ends with mental dissolution."[13]
The status of consciousness in Beckett's fiction has from very early on occupied his critics. Jacqueline Hoofer, in her 1959 article on Watt , suggested that Watt could be read as a "philosophical satire" on logical positivism and related Beckett's fiction to Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus .[14] Hugh Kenner, in his classic Samuel Beckett: A Critical Stud), , read Beckett's trilogy as a reductio ad absurdum of Cartesian and post-Cartesian philosophy in its "fatal dream of being, knowing, and moving like a god."[15] In the wake of these early studies, numerous articles and books relating Beckett to existentialism, phenomenology, Jungian psychology,, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and deconstruction have appeared, becoming mainstays of the criticism. In
introducing his own reading of Beckett, Eric P. Levy gives an apt summary of this tendency:
The aspect of Beckett's fiction exciting the most controversy is the preoccupation with self-consciousness. Critics have had great difficulty determining the appropriate frame of reference in which to understand the introspection of the Beckettian narrator. Is this self-consciousness primarily that of the artist trying to grasp his own creative act or is it that of a person withdrawing from the world of others either through insanity or sheer impotence? In contrast, does this self-consciousness involve something more basic—an exploration of the very nature of the self?. If so, is this self to be construed in Cartesian, Hegelian, Kierkegaardian, Sartrian, or neo-Freudian terms, to list just a few explanations attempted?[16]
Levy goes on to offer another interpretation of this self-consciousness, in terms of Beckett's supposed epistemological concern: "Beckett's fiction no longer concerns merely the objective pole of experience . . . but now addresses the very process of structuring experience into the poles of subject and object" (4).
I do not wish to discount the value of this body of criticism, which has provided many important insights into Beckett's work. Nevertheless, by recontextualizing Beckett as a late modernist who puts in doubt the presuppositions of modernist writing, I must reopen the question of how important epistemological problems really are to Beckett, as well as question the "epistemological bias" of the criticism. Provisionally, I would claim that epistemology—that corpus of issues about how the mind may connect with the world "outside," about the nature of consciousness and its problems in knowing the world—is largely without consequence for Beckett. I am not just suggesting that an essentially modernist Beckett can be read against the grain "without epistemology" (as Gerald L. Bruns has done brilliantly with Wallace Stevens).[17] I am making the more sweeping claim that Beckett—in his early fiction at least—has little interest in the mind and its vicissitudes as such. From her correspondence with Beckett about his reading (in 1929 or 1930) of the Austrian philosopher of language Fritz Mauthner, Linda Ben-Zvi cites the following significant verse:
For me it came down to:
Thought words
Words inane
Thought inane
Such was my levity.[18]
Nor is this just retrospective revision on the part of a writer no longer taking seriously the philosophical enthusiasms of his youth. In a letter of July 1930 to his close friend Thomas MacGreevy, Beckett discussed his recent reading of Arthur Schopenhauer: "I am reading Schopenhauer. Everyone laughs at that. . . . But I am not reading philosophy, nor caring whether he is right or wrong or a good or worthless metaphysician."[19] Having returned to Schopenhauer in September 1937 during a bout of illness, Beckett once again writes to MacGreevy: "it is a pleasure also to find a philosopher that can be read like a poet?"[20]
It is my contention in what follows that Beckett's repeatedly asserted "levity" about philosophical thought should be taken seriously. One can, I am furthermore arguing, track Beckett's turn from modernism along the lines of escape marked out by this unburdening of epistemology, this uncoupling of rhetoric from questions of truth, this vaporization of weight into lightness, unbearable as it might later prove to be. Insofar as epistemological questions appear in Beckett's early work, it is by way of parodic reference to a modernist stance from which he is taking leave. Or as Beckett himself wrote in a review published in 1945, "There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind" (Disjecta , 95). Accordingly, in his confrontation with earlier modernist paradigms, Beckett debunks modernism's epistemological concerns and depicts the mind's autonomy as hopelessly vulnerable to the extramental and excremental contingencies of the body as the object of pleasure, pain, social power, and death.[21] As Charles R. Lyons has suggested, comparing the implicit concerns of Beckett's plays with Foucault's late investigations of self-formation, Beckett abandons the (typically modernist) focus on subjectivity and the question of knowing in favor of "exploring" (a trope often literalized by his nomadic characters) the conditions that inform and infirm the subject.[22] Beckett declines problems of consciousness into matters of suffering and solace, domination and servitude, while exposing how social relations like mastery, solidarity, and free encounter depend little or not at all on their "groundability" in knowledge.[23]


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Nandina Organics
Heirloom Towels $20-120
A deliciously super-plush collection of organic luxury towels made of natural fibers and materials from Nandina Organics, a company that utilizes a sustainable business model. Bonus: even delicate hand-made elements such as on the Tassel towel promise to machine-wash like a dream on the gentle cycle.
2014 Calendar of Silly Holidays $12
Boom Box Parade Day, Haunted Refrigerator Day, and Walk on Your Wild Side Day are only a few of the festivities to look forward to in 2014, thanks the Calendar of Silly Holidays by artist Annica Lydenberg from Brooklyn based design studio Dirty Bandits. Each hilarious and very handsomely illustrated set comes with a collection of 12 postcards each digitally printed with a super silly but absoutely real holiday waiting to be celebrated.
Steve Bowkett
Archidoodle $15
Each page of "Archidoodle: The Architect's Activity Book" contains a famous architectural wonder, incomplete without your finishing touches—so be as accurate or as imaginative as you'd like. With big time structures like the Taj Mahal, Sydney Opera House and Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe, even the youngest of design dreamers can be the architect at the drafting table.
Unionmade + Baxter
CNG Bar Soap $20
Working together for the second time, men's grooming company Baxter of California again collaborates with SF's Unionmade, this time for a bar of soap. The "CNG" is an oversized bar scented with mandarin lime and balck pepper, for a nice scent that's citrusy but still masculine.
Pamphlet Notebook $8
Artists, heed legendary American realist portraitist John Singer Sargent's fine advice: "You can never do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." And what better instrument to get those creative juices a-flowin' than this elegant sketchbook from Shepherds Bookbinder. Made from the finest of paper covered in a striking avian motif, and complete with a handsomely handstitched binding, this little notebook serves as the perfect encasement for the explosion of curiosity it is sure to unleash.
Knock Knock
Kraft Journal $7
Approximately 66% of all discarded paper products are recycled each year, while the other 44% wind up in a landfill. We could say the same ratio holds true for our strokes of brilliance; all to often, bright ideas are lost before they can be recorded and developed. Make sure you never trash another genius moment again with this handy notebook from Knock Knock. This lined journal's cover highlights its own environmentally friendly composition, and reminds you that there are no new ideas, only new executions.
Ann Droyd
Goodnight iPad $27
Although research suggests that viewing screens before bedtime may tinker with chemicals in the brain that promote a good night's rest, studies also show we all regularly do this pre-slumber activity. Based on the classic, "Good Night Moon," the humorous parody "Goodnight iPad" reminds us that even if we might not live in the little farm-house utopia depicted in the original, we can still ceremoniously say goodnight to screens, the buzzes and the beeps—and go to sleep.
Nitto Ceramics
Sendan Tokusa Bowl $22
The traditional design technique, Tokusa, evolved during Japan's Edo period, which consisted of a century and a half of economic growth, environmental protection, and intellectual, cultural and artistic development in the country. Comprised of blue and white lines meant to symbolize the reeds of Tokusa grass, also called the Scouringrush Horsetail, Tokusa's radiating pattern is beautifully represented on these elegant bowls from Miya Company, and looks as modern today as it did centuries ago.
Moko Sellers
Posh Stamps $24
These Posh Stamps are exactly as advertised, and will add a major dose of formal flair and old world elegance to even the most mundane of correspondence. From Moko Sellers, the East London studio revered for rethinking antique processes through modern design techniques, these classy stamps replicate formal letter-writing traditions with a single imprint of ink.
Blades Natural Beauty
Mountain Woman Tea $15
This unique blend of lemon balm, oats, nettle, damiana, chamomile and peppermint fuse with hot water to create a soothing and tasty concotion as a great pick-me-up during a stressful day. Stocked at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Mountain Woman Tea is made by Brooklyn-based herbalist and natural beauty advocate Jessa Blades whose mission is to spread consciousness about simple and healthy living.
Headache Relief Balm $7
Migraine be gone! From the British company whose tongue-and-cheek marketing proclaims that they "only want you for your body" and refuses to test on animals is this aromatic headache balm from Anatomicals. Made from a soothing mix of natural ingredients, including extra virgin olive oil and rose hip extract, "Oi! You Throbhead" salve is a holistic answer to reaching for the acetaminophen. Just a few dabs will vanquish the throbbing brain pain away from your cranium and back to its special place in hell.
One-Two Shave Set $12
Harry's Truman razor is the perfect item to get your guy hooked on, and the shaving company's One-Two Set will do just that. Determined to deliver the ultimate daily shave for half the price of the big brands, Harry's eschews constant refills with razors that are rough on the skin in favor of blades designed to last long and shave close. The set includes a blade, a handle and a tube of Harry's shaving cream.
Foldables $12
Who needs an imaginary friend when you can have a foldable friend? These 3D paper pals are completely customizable and take on a range of attributes to resemble their human counterparts. Great for kids and co-workers, these easy to assemble little twinsies will make spectacular desk accessories and children's toys, as they serve as a constant validation of our unique character.
Monograms and More
Personalized iPhone Decals $6
Ahhhh, the dreaded iPhone charger cord mix-up, a common occurrence in offices, share houses and even couple's living rooms. Keep track of which cord is yours with these classy decals from Monograms and More, which incorporate stylish lettering and classic designs into a supremely fashionable customization of the most easily mistaken electronic accessories.


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DarkSummer Nights (RunePunk)
DarkSummer Nights is the first RunePunk supplement and builds upon the unique setting by offering the street-level detail that the fans have demanded. Within the pages are a highly detailed gazetteer of the borough of the City's capital of DarkSummer, including dozens of new personalities, plot hooks, new groups, and opportunities for adventure. Broken Dreams forms the second half of the book and amplifies and expands the intrigues of DarkSummer with a comprehensive adventure that highlights many of the characters and groups found within the borough. Tell your jobbers to get ready, DarkSummer awaits!
Using the award winning Savage Worlds engine and building upon the unique vision that is RunePunk, Darksummer Nights is worth the wait.
Jodi's review:
When I was editing RunePunk , I couldn't breathe a word about it to my friends, even my GM, until I had the book in my hands. I immediately took it home and put it in his hands. "You want to run this," I said, and he did. In fact, he loved it so much he worked with Sean to flesh out one neighborhood in one city district and provided a series of adventures for it. Am I the luckiest gamer in the world, or what? :)
Oh, and to play this you'll need both the Savage Worlds core rulebook and the RunePunk setting book. If you're looking for further adventures in ScatterPoint this is the best option so far. I also recommend it to anyone who really wants a feel for the capital city district of GreyMesa, with everything from NPC characters populating this strange pocket world to player handouts and GM aides. In short, it's a good read!


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Both full-size airbags inflate in two stages, depending on the severity of the impact. In a low-speed collision, the airbag is only partially inflated, thereby reducing occupant discomfort.
POSIP comes as standard and consists of side impact protection beams in each of the doors and side head airbags for each front seat. In addition, thorax airbags are located in the sides of the sports seats and head airbags in the door panels. With a volume of around eight litres each, these provide a high level of protection in side impacts. Additional safety features are the headrests integrated in the backrest, a safety steering column, three-point seat belts with height adjustment, seat belt pre-tensioners and force limiters and energy-absorbing elements in the dashboard.


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Hello Marcella it's been a while since we dont hear from you.. I know I have seen you on Twitter but can't remember your name on there..I think since the Incubus HQ anniversary.. anyway I hope its all well and I was wondering if you got a hold of the Luna Magazine Brando's cover?.. it's Australian so you're the only one I know who can give us info of how to get a copy he he..have you gotten yours? ..Erika
Hi Marcella I'm well how about you? I wish there was a "LOVE" button for some of your pics they are great! Thank YOU again for sharing them :) xoxoxo
it is indeed Marcella, cant wait :)
I hope you get other pics too and I'm sure it'll be a great concert as well! If you want to change your page just click on the link below your profile picture that says "Customize your page". There are all sorts of formats you can use and ways to add your own pictures. In those different page designs there is also a music player so you can add music to your profile as well. It took me some time to get it all right and I still like to play around with it ;) Congrats again Marcella :)
Congratulations Marcella!!! So excited for you :D Can't wait to see your M&G pic and hear your story!
That's sweet of you!! Thank you Marcella! I'll be there with you in spirit ;) Yay!!
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