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Larue is charged with armed sexual battery by a law enforcement officer and faces life in prison if convicted.
The time stamp at the bottom of the video from the police department shows 2:02 am.
After the victim leaves the department in a patrol car with Larue, she testified Tuesday that Larue pulled into an alley and forced her to perform a sex act.
There is also surveillance video from Belton Bell Bonds that shows Larue's patrol car as it pulls into the Lake County jail after the alleged crime.
At issue, is how long it took him to get from the police department to the jail.
It should be an easy calculation, however both security system clocks were off between 12 and 16 minutes which witnesses testified to.
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- Windows live essential is no longer in beta and now comes a bit more synchronized with Facebook allowing users to automatically post photos on Microsoft Live from posting on Facebook. That's nice.
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Everything else was a bit of old news. No expected mention of the Zune. No real excitement here.
An Australian musical comedy group called Tripod performed to poke light at the gaming lifestyle…sounding strikingly like the Flight of the Conchords, a New Zealand music improve group on HBO currently in season 2. They should have some falsetto wars. One performed last year during the Comcast keynote. The other performed this year during the Microsoft keynote. Flight would kill it in a deathmatch…
Robbie Bach then took the stage to note how men really are from Mars, women from Venus…somehow ignoring the building female gamer market. Hey Bach, ever heard of the Wii or Guitar Hero on your own gaming console platform? Guess not.


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Topic Title: 'Management Speak' - has business language gone mad?
Topic Summary: or, How Managers mutilate the English language... your best examples please
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19 June 2008 09:02 AM
My point was "attention to detail". I think it should read 'Select Emoticon'!
Edited: 19 June 2008 at 09:04 AM by RogerJSmith
19 June 2008 02:24 PM
Inspired by the original article, I started collecting some of these words and phrases in preparation for BS Bingo at our Strategic Buisiness Unit Global Teleconference. (Which in itself is a bit of a mouthful!)
Buzz words are very useful. Those using them can never be accused of unambiguously letting us know anything, whilst simultaneously appearing to do so. This doesn't escape the attention of Engineers 'attending' the above event, who determine the level of deceit from the number of buzz words used!
Anyway, the real question that I have is, can anyone out there offer translation services? For example deep dive, fenestration, and to pulse, all appear in this thread and I have no idea what they mean. Others that I find equally confusing are 'to staircase', 'to auspice', '360-degree thinking', 'living the values'.
Following Vikki's first comment, we have words that I believe are peculiar to our organisation, for example 'bucket' - used to describe a manager's area of control, (A N Engineer is in A Manager's bucket), the manager's name could equally be replaced with the title of his department, so Joe Smith could be in the Research bucket. This really does arouse some interesting images!
The other area that seems to have spawned a shoal of buzz words is the area of buisiness misdemeanors. I had certainly never heard the words corporate governance, and global ethical compliance until the recent cases of Chief Executive embezzlement and tax fraud. It got to the point that there was even an executive of corporate ethical compliance appointed, but he was 'let go' once a sufficient level of global ethical governance was reached -Which seemed to me as revealing as the Emperor's new clothes when it came to seeing the substance behind these new words
By the way has anyone else noticed that the word 'global' seems to have taken on a new meaning recently? As far as I can make out it appears to mean, 'almost restricted to the East Coast of the US.'
EurIng Stephen Penney
Steve Penney
19 June 2008 03:10 PM
The use of Fenestration is probably a sardonic reference to the software product otherwise known as "Windows"! It could also be used in the sense of opening a discussion, I suppose. In my mind it always reminds me of the "Defenestration of Prague" when several councillors were thrown out of the windows of the town hall by a mob in 1419 repeated some time later during another dispute. Wikipedia (!) has an articleon the subject, including reference to Jan Masaryck found beneath a window in 1948. More recently, in Milan in 1969, similar events form the background to Daniel Fo's play, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist". Perhaps we could promote defenestration as the means of rejecting ideas with which we disagreed! Can we introduce this as a new management speak term? For those of you in larger companies, it would be a good trick to try - but remember where you saw it suggested ...
Hamish V Bell, BSc, CEng, FIET, FCQI, CQP
2013 - 2016 Elected Council Member
2007 - 2010, Vice President and Trustee
19 June 2008 05:15 PM
Hear, hear, Hamish
I'm not sure about fenestration, but have always felt that I could put defenestration to good use.
Katy Turff
Programme Manager
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
20 June 2008 09:06 AM
Until recently I had the pleasure (?) of working for an American company for a good few years, where I became convinced that the suits had long since given up trying to communicate, instead reverting to a sort of introverted meaningless babble, on the grounds I think that if nobody understood them they couldn't be criticised. A good defensive tactic, I often thought.
However I got truly fed up with hearing about how things were to be "leveraged". Taking over Joe's work was "leveraging Joe's output", sacking people in the UK in favour of US staff was "leveraging our synergy", and so on. So I started thinking - if something can be leveraged, it must have "leveragability". The act of developing or changing something to give it "leveragability" must surely be "leveragabilitisation", so it follows that a measure of how much leveragibilitisation something can accomodate is its "leveragibilitisationness". So one day in conversation with an American colleague about improving some software I mischievously dropped this term (leveragibilitisationness) into the flow, and it barely raised an eyebrow. Much to my astonishment a little while later I saw it repeated in emails, quite seriously ("...reports on the leveragibilitisationness of project 'X' suggest that...").
So if by deep diving into a bit of blue sky thinking I have inadvertently started a plague of irritation, mea culpa I'm afraid.
Edited: 20 June 2008 at 11:14 AM by nhaughton
23 June 2008 10:07 AM
Yes, it is a bit irritating that the BBC has done something similar to this, because in part, it is the BBC we are reacting to (the quality of English in the news, for example is excruciatingly bad). Remember this thread kicked off as a result of the George Orwell edition of E&T magazine. Orwell worked for the BBC in London where he routinely sat through meetings in Room 101. He found the process to be tedious and pointless (much like most of the BBC television programming). The difference however is that unlike the BBC list (that simply points at stuff and gloats), the IET community is entering into an informed debate
One I read this morning is 'we are a customer-facing organisation'
I think I know what this means, and if it means what I think it means, the organisation is simply lying through its teeth...
Have a nice week..
25 June 2008 08:51 PM
I notice another contributor has commented on "at this point in time". But one often notes "the length of time needed" or "a long period of time". Not being strong on English myself I'm not sure whether they are strictly correct - certainly in terms of dimensional analysis (which I was taught when I did my degree) they are meaningless!
30 June 2008 09:24 AM
30 June 2008 09:28 AM
(What is this 'emotion' nonsense?)
Not so much buzz word, but profoundly irritating to me in all printed matter, is the use of 'comprising of'. Things either comprise, or they 'consist of'. Your earlier response by another retired engineer has the key - lack of Latin - amongst other elements of education
30 June 2008 12:44 PM
Although we're drifting away from the original topic a bit, I think it's an important point: has the standard of written English in business gone down? Possibly controversially I would suggest that, per person, on average it has actually gone up - but that what we are seeing now is far more people having their written words 'published' than ever before. You don't have to go back very far - 30 years or so - to find staggeringly high levels of complete illiteracy in the UK, let alone poor literacy. Yes, those who did have their words published were above today's average, but most of those who didn't were a long way below it. Technical authors and secretaries got around this problem, but with the expense of employing extra staff.
Nowadays everyone is expected to write their own words, plus the opportunity to rise within organisations is probably open to people of a wider variety of backgrounds than ever before. I believe that both of these opportunities should be celebrated, but we need to accept that it will mean that more will be written by people who do not neccesarily have a strong interest in language for its own sake.
Now, I'm not saying at all that we shouldn't continue to push for improvements in both industry and education; clear and correct use of language is vital for succesful business communications. But to work out how to make this happen I think we need to start by accepting that we are not seeing a decline in standards amongst Oxbridge educated Grammar school kids, rather a vast increase in the written output of the rest of us poor beggars!
I always remember arguing with our 90 year old neighbour about this. His stance was that illiteracy did not exist in his day: "every boy in my school could read and write". I did try explaining that he went to a Grammar school, and that maybe his friends were not - particularly at that time - representative of the population at large...
Andy Millar CEng MIET CMgr MCMI
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." Joseph Joubert
Edited: 30 June 2008 at 12:47 PM by amillar
02 July 2008 04:47 PM
What about this one then: "where's that to?"
It threw me totally when I first moved down here, in fact only today I saw someone confused by it. It's Devonish/Cornish for "where is it?"
Now, when does sloppy language become an endearing regional dialect?
Andy Millar CEng MIET CMgr MCMI
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." Joseph Joubert
02 July 2008 04:50 PM
"I know where you are coming from" is that because I am holding my train ticket in my hand?
"I hear you" being freely translated means "I heard you speak but do not expect me to understand, or consider your words"
Actually these are code words for "I've been on a course where we were told that we must appear to be listening to our customers/suppliers/staff, but I don't really believe in it."
Andy Millar CEng MIET CMgr MCMI
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." Joseph Joubert
03 July 2008 05:44 PM
Yesterday, during the lunchtime news on Radio 4, an interviewee was asked why his opinion contradicted that of a Government spokesman. He replied that the Government spokesman was being "economical with the actuality"!
03 July 2008 06:10 PM
I was in the RAF a few years ago when we changed the names of our maintenance operations from 'first line' and 'second line' to 'Forward' and 'Depth'. At the same time, we were planning to apply 'LEAN' principles to our first-line operations. At the planning meeting, 'LEAN' was used as a verb. Consequently, the discussion at the meeting was about:
'how we were going to lean forward',
'when we were going to lean forward' and
'what would be the benefits of leaning forward'.
I still find it odd that a room full of adults spent all afternoon talking about 'leaning forward'!
04 July 2008 11:35 PM
I still find it odd that a room full of adults spent all afternoon talking about 'leaning forward'!
Sorry to keep on about this, but spending a fair bit of my spare time working with primary school children I find that many phrases I use strike them as laughable or bewildering, because I will (quite deliberately) try to use proper engineering terms where possible. So I'm sure they would find me talking about 'greasing nipples' just as entertaining as - in fact far more so than - 'leaning forward'! My feeling is that as long as everybody in the room understands it, then why not invent a new phrase?
For some reason, that has just reminded me about my mother working as a secretary at a builder's merchants in the 1930s, who was really embarrased about having to refer to male and female pipe fittings! Sorry, bit off the subject there...
Back to the point, I think the issue with management jargon is where rather than if it's used. Used between managers it's fine, the same words used against staff, customers or suppliers to try to belittle them is not.
I'm finding more and more that the language I use when (say) negotiating a contract is totally different to that which I use to talk to engineers. And yes, in the first case I can certainly remember using
'think outside the box' (although slightly tongue in cheek);
'getting our ducks in a row';
'all singing from the same hymmn sheet';
'I know where you are coming from' (sorry Alan! And it is in the sense of '...coming from conceptually');
even 'economical with the actualite' (although that one is more of an in-joke really);
and probably others given above. I do draw the line at 'to leverage'. But to be honest, when you're using these phrases with other people who use them it's just a bit of a game. And since management is so incredibly dull, please let us have a bit of fun somewhere.
But, again, when any of these are used just to give the impression that management is exciting and important then they deserve to be jumped on.
Anyway I'll try to stop interrupting this thread with my pedantry (or anti-pedantry?)
Andy Millar CEng MIET CMgr MCMI
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." Joseph Joubert
08 July 2008 04:41 PM
Dialog or is it dialogue? Either way, I've heard it a thousand and one times in a day when I was in the employ of one large american pharamaceutical organsiation.
I attended meetings, whereupon it was prosposed that the next meeting would be arranged to include an 'exchange of dialog/ue'.
Another one is the word, "so". This isn't necessarily management speak but is used in the wrong text by just about everyone and their granny. I'm told it has its roots in the american(!) TV programme, "Freinds". I'm just so not impressed with the way its being used!
09 July 2008 12:31 PM
Hi Andy. Were you being uneconomical with the actuality when you said that 'management is so incredibly dull'?
Edited: 09 July 2008 at 12:33 PM by colinchilds
09 July 2008 12:50 PM
I think you are conflating two things:
1 Management speak: all us engineers laugh at those who run things up flag poles to see who salutes them and it is a good laugh collecting similar examples.
2 General decline in English: if you found out how language actually works, you'd find there is little to worry about. I would recommend "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker, as a good beginners' guide to linguistics. Prepare (a) to be awestruck and (b) to realise that people who moan about how language is used are nearly always mistaken. Examples:
(1) the first dictionary I laid my hands on gave three definitions for "revolutionary", none of which involved rotation.
(2) the word "mentee" does exist - I can give 2 citations (your article and a recent IET publication about mentoring called "Lead the Way" ). Google gives 457,000 hits.
(3) An "ideolect" is the language of an individual, not a group.
(4) I'm not a linguist, so cannot be absolutely sure, but I am pretty sure that "how many mentees are you prepared to assist at any one time?" is a sentence.
09 July 2008 04:36 PM
Hi Andy. Were you being uneconomical with the actuality when you said that 'management is so incredibly dull'?
Maybe 'dull' was the wrong word, perhaps uninspiring would be a better word? It has its moments of course, but sometimes these seem few and far between. But then I can always relieve the frustration by having a good crack on these forums. (I originally wrote 'craic' but have just found out that that is just as phony as 'leveraging'.)
The best book on English I know is "Troublesome Words" by Bill Bryson, he has lovely examples of how even the most pedantic grammarians still make wonderful mistakes in their language. His basic principle is that good English is essential for accurate communication, but that's not always the same as blindly following rules. (His section on split infinitives, and how people get riduculously overconcerned about them, is a classic.)
The other way you can attempt to keep your language up to scratch, as I know only too well, is to marry an ex sub-editor...particularly one who then goes on to become a professional writer. I don't dare let my wife see what I post here, let alone hear the language I use at work!
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11 July 2008 06:06 PM
Dear Nick
I try not to write short-hand emails but to write them as I would letters. The E&T June - July issue spoke to the converted on the subject of Management Speak, which is of course one aspect of the deterioration in of our language, which has long been a hobby-horse of mine.
Many years ago I was inspired by Sir Ernest Gowers' "The Complete Plain Words", a very readable book that, in my opinion, should be a school textbook or, at least, a book that all teachers should study. It is in schools that the damage starts; when teachers cannot speak and write good English, what chances have the pupils of doing so? The schools in the UK ceased to teach grammar. Teachers who are not English teachers do not see the necessity to correct poor English, for example in a science subject, that is if they are capable of doing so.
In the E&T article I can only concur that We Are All Guilty. Who are the most guilty? The USA has introduced many expressions of management speak. Management consultants have promoted supposedly innovative systems of business analysis that need an impressive-sounding title. Those who write about specialised subjects - in all fields - are driven to abbreviation to avoid repetition of long titles and it is a short step to the use of jargon. However, as was written, the incorrect use of English words is a common thread. For example, I have noticed the frequency of use of the word "less" when the correct word would have been "fewer". The article gives other examples.
I am pessimistic about any improvement to current English usage; I fear it is like urinating into the wind.
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Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower
|Emerson Tower
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|Bromo-Seltzer Tower
Baltimore Arts Tower
|General information
|Commercial offices
|Architectural style
|Renaissance Revival
|312 West Lombard Street
Baltimore, Maryland
|39°17′15″N 76°37′15″W / 39.2875°N 76.620833°WCoordinates: 39°17′15″N 76°37′15″W / 39.2875°N 76.620833°W
|Construction started
|88 m (289 ft)
|Technical details
|Floor count
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Joseph Evans Sperry
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Emerson Tower often referenced as Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower is a 15-story, 88 m (289 ft) skyscraper erected in 1911 at the corner of Eutaw and Lombard Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, designed by Joseph Evans Sperry for Bromo-Seltzer inventor "Captain" Isaac E. Emerson.[5]
It was the tallest building in Baltimore from 1911 until 1923.[6] The design of the tower along with the original factory building at its base was inspired by the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, which was seen by Emerson during a tour of Europe in 1900.[7] Systems engineering for the building's original design was completed by Henry Adams. The factory was demolished in 1969 and replaced with a firehouse.[6]
The building features four clock faces adorning the tower's 15th floor on the North, South, East and West sides. Installed by the Seth Thomas Clock Company at an original cost of US$3,965, they are made of translucent white glass and feature the letters B-R-O-M-O S-E-L-T-Z-E-R, with the Roman numerals being less prominent. The dials, which are illuminated at night with mercury-vapor lamps, are 24 feet (7.3 metres) in diameter, and the minute and hour hands approximately 12 and 10 feet (3.7 and 3.0 metres) in length respectively. Originally driven by weights, the moving parts are now electrically powered.[6]
The tower originally had a 51 ft (16 m) Bromo-Seltzer bottle,[8][9] glowing blue and rotating. Weighing 20 tons (18.1 tonnes), it was lined with 314 incandescent light bulbs and topped with a crown on a clear night it could be seen from 20 miles away.[6][10] The bottle was removed in 1936 because of structural concerns.
The tower was virtually abandoned in 2002, but in early 2007 the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts began renovations to transform the building into 33 artists' studios. The Baltimore Fire Department's John F. Steadman Fire Station, which opened in 1973 and is situated at the tower's base, houses BCFD Hazmat 1, Airflex 1, Medic1, Medic 23, MAC23, Engine 23, Rescue 1, and formerly Truck 2.[9][11]
The Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1] It is included within the Baltimore National Heritage Area.[12]
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- ^ a b "National Register of Historical Places - Maryland (MD), Essex County". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-02-07. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower at Emporis
- ^ Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower at SkyscraperPage
- ^ Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower at Structurae
- ^ Baltimore: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
- ^ a b c d Kelly, Jacques. "Bromo Seltzer Tower celebrates 100 years," The Baltimore Sun, Friday, June 3, 2011.
- ^ Dorsey, John & Dilts, James D., A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (1997) p. 172. Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Maryland ISBN 0-87033-477-8
- ^ "Historic Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Clock Tower in Baltimore". spearsvotta.com. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ a b "Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower". bromoseltzertower.com. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/poesbalto_popup_bromo.asp
- ^ Frederick N. Rasmussen (October 2, 2004). Rasmussen "John Steadman, `Fireman's Fireman'" Check
|url=scheme (help). The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
- ^ "Baltimore National Heritage Area Map" (PDF). City of Baltimore. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
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And then there were two. "The Grove" offered the most intensely emotional episode of season 4. But it also could have been even more intense had The Walking Dead plotted out these characters throughout the season a little better. Regardless of what was not done prior to "The Grove," it is far and away the best episode since the midseason break.
The episode actually opened up with some of the finest directing the show has seen in a while, as a camera pans through a kitchen with a kettle boiling towards a window in which two blurry images, one a zombie and another a human, seem to be playing. It offered up some intrigue as to where and when the opening was taking place and also was a quiet but intense moment the show has been lacking lately.
"The Grove" revolved around the grouping of Tyreese, Carol, Liz, Mika, and Judith – characters we haven't seen in quite some time – as they make their trek towards Terminus. After Liz and Carol bond a bit in the middle of the night, Carol informs Tyreese that Liz is confused about what the walkers really are. This isn't anything new as earlier in the season – what now seems like eons ago – Liz and Mika had named a few walkers outside the prison and were given a stern talking to by Carol about that. Carol's thoughts are immediately reinforced when Liz begs Tyreese not to kill a zombie that has just trapped itself in a hole in the ground on the railroad tracks, telling him that there are some zombies that need to be killed and some that don't. The group soon finds an abandoned house and hole up there.
Much of the rest of the episode revolves around Liz and her confounding behavior. She has always maintained that the walkers are still people, just transformed, but her behavior in the episode makes no sense. Liz seemed to comprehend Carol's lesson back at the prison about walkers and surviving them but her actions in "The Grove" make almost no sense.
First, it is revealed that the opening shot of the episode is actually Liz playing with a zombie, letting it chase her. Carol kills the zombie and Liz completely loses it as she goes on a tirade telling Carol that the walker was her friend and that it was just looking for a friend. While what she was saying did make some sense for her character, her level of anger was completely shocking. Later on, she feeds a mouse to the zombie she told Tyreese not to kill on the train tracks. Mika follows her and tries to convince Liz that zombies are bad – after Carol gave her a talking to earlier in the episode. Liz starts talking a little crazy about how she just wants everyone to see that she's right and that walkers are still people as she slowly reaches her hand toward the trapped zombie's hand.
Then, some recently burnt zombies emerge from the woods and frighten Mika and Liz back to the house where everyone uses the onrushing zombies as target practice. But why is Liz frightened by the zombies? How does she distinguish between the zombies that need to be killed and the ones that don't? Just a moment ago she was willing to "show everyone" that zombies are still people, but, when the burnt ones come out of the woods, she all of a sudden is horrified and quickly kills them all? Anyway, after the burnt zombies have been dispatched of, it seems Liz has come to a realization that zombies aren't good after all.
Or so the viewer thinks. After Carol and Tyreese do a little awkward bonding, where Carol can't quite reveal to Tyreese that she was the one who killed his girlfriend at the prison, they return to the house to find Liz covered in blood and Mika sliced from waist to chest. It was a shocking moment that filled the viewer with dread, especially when Liz told Carol that she wanted to show her that Mika would still be herself when she came back and that she was just about to do the same to Judith.
Again, this felt like a ridiculously drastic measure – especially after Liz seemed to understand walkers were not good. It was shocking but it seemed to speed up Liz's character arc far too quickly. Back at the prison, it seemed like they were naïve but at least understood that walkers were dangerous, despite believing that there was still something human about them. And even with the events of the episode up until this moment, it didn't seem that Liz was so "confused" about the walkers that she would go to this extreme.
Her character lacked a natural progression. Instead of being introduced gradually to Liz's beliefs and what she was truly capable of, it all happened within the first ¾ of this episode. Even the reveal that Liz was the one who dissected the rat back at the prison came directly before the scene showing Liz had killed Mika. It was clear that the show wanted to fast forward to the end of her arc instead of letting it build to the point where she killed Mika. The lack of time spent with Liz and Mika also made the moment a little less poignant as there was little to no connection between the audience and Mika.
Carol decides she must put Liz to rest because they aren't with her anymore and tells her to keep looking at the flowers as she aims to shoot her. The hope that Mika and Tyreese had earlier in the episode that this house could become their new home was quickly dashed by Liz's action and Carol's justified reaction. Afterwards, Carol admits to killing Karen and Tyreese spares her life, telling her that he forgives her and that her actions were who she was and he understood that. With Judith, the two set off into the woods.
The parallel between Carol and Liz that the episode drew was interesting. Liz was basically the inverse of Carol, believing the zombies could be saved and not wanting to kill them, as much as Carol, wanting to save the group back at the prison, took the extreme measures of killing Karen and David when they were sick. Carol killing Liz was also a reminder of how surviving in this world slowly made you a monster, even if you never turn.
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Yoga Is My Drug of Choice. ~ Stephanie Kohler
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Altered States of Consciousness
Living in a city that is not permeated by yoga, I maintain a schedule and lifestyle notably removed from the mainstream. Socially, I am frequently in the company of people who do not practice yoga. In those instances, I am often the only person not drinking or imbibing some mind-altering chemical. So I'm often in the company of people stoned or high.
Typically, the stoned/high/drunk people interpret my behavior in two ways: either as disapproval of their consumption (not true) and/or my own love of sobriety. In their words, they enjoy "altered" consciousness—insinuating that sobriety is "unaltered," and thus boring. It's as if they're meaning to say, "You're such a square, Stephanie." I respect both their opinion and their expression of it, though I disagree with their definition.
My reasons are not what people imagine. Though I value shaucha (purity), my abstention is less for the sake of a limb of yoga and ultimately because I prefer mindfulness. So I tend to avoid situations that draw me away from it. I drink champagne toasts at weddings sometimes, but don't feel compelled to drink on New Year's Eve, for example.
Sobriety, as in non-drunk, un-stoned, dis-high, should not be synonymous with "unaltered" consciousness. Though I have used drugs recreationally in the past, my consciousness now is far more altered than any of the times I had those substances in my body. The practice of multiple limbs of yoga (including breath work and meditation) keeps my consciousness altered, at least in comparison to its state before I practice yoga.
Acknowledging the range of altered consciousnesses, what then, is "unaltered" consciousness? If I consider heightened awareness as different (altered), then the opposite (unaltered) becomes some distracted state. By that rationale, altered consciousness is a paradox, given that behaviors and consumption always change consciousness.
In fact, I mostly exist in altered consciousness, in this sense of un-normal. Like many, I have "seen" profound visions underneath closed eyelids during meditation. In savasana (corpse/rest pose) and yoga nidra (yoga "sleep," as in supine meditation), I often feel as though I'm levitating. Those experiences, from what my friends claim (and I still remember from my own past), are not so profoundly different from their altered states of consciousness.
Regardless of labels, what I share with people who partake of intoxicants is an appreciation of enhanced mindfulness, of heightened sensation. And when we're present, there's expansion.
Stephanie Kohler lives a life of eclectic and ecstatic passion. In no particular order, she is a writer, yogini, musician, teacher, nomad, lover, thinker, reader, dancer. She strives to balance effort with surrender, precision with laughter. Live life, love life, live love. Read more: southernwithasmalls.com
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My husband and I are both yoga practitioners and yoga teachers. We have a 14 year old daughter who became intrigued with getting high last year as many of her friends were experimenting with weed and drinking. She had not yet tried these substances but she was definitely curious and leaning towards trying it. Although we do not condone her experimenting with drugs at such a young age, we also know that if she really wants to check this stuff out, she will find a way. In addition to openly speaking with her about our own experiences (good and bad) with drugs and alcohol when we were younger we also shared with her how we get into our own altered states during yoga and how we open up instead of shut down. I think alot of younger people are looking for ways to feel more alive. Not necessarily more numb. Our yoga talk seemed to resonate with her and she asked us to teach her some pranayama and asana. Thanks for the posting.
Maureen & Anne, thanks for your feedback. Really interesting to think about this issue in the context of teenage drug use — Anne, you have amazing perspective on that situation! I love the idea that altered states from yoga help us "open up instead of shut down." Ultimately, I think all humans want to feel more alive. My first yoga teacher said that a single life, in the grand scheme of time, is a spark, but that yoga intensifies that spark. Here's to altered and intensified states for all of us!
Stephanie, this was an absolutely lovely, succinct, and conscious serving of your perspectives on the topic. …and yoga nidra(even if I didn't call it that) was my levitation of choice only a couple of nights ago (whoaa was that amazing)! I find myself drifting further and further away from the social and casualness of insobriety. Not entirely, to be fair, but it becomes less and less alluring, and for just the reasons you briefed. As "awareness" continues to upstage and hold supreme presence in daily life, more and more do I generally feel uncomfortable in a state which inhibits that clarity and equanimity. I don't suppose a disposition that DIScludes me from appreciating the temporary suspension of my "work" here (Here, as in Spirit, and Work as in Inward Development), no. You will find me exploring the curiosities of the spectrum from time to time. But the value of all and in between resonate deeply. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, Meadow, thanks for sharing. I've often felt the same about the "casualness of insobriety," so I appreciate people that can hold a space for everyone's state of consciousness. Maybe a better distinction is consciousness (via whatever practice or substances) and unconsciousness?
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NAPLES - For young, violent, mentally ill inmates, Florida…s prisons can be unforgiving.
Alex Crain might soon find this out.
The 15-year-old, who is expected to accept a plea agreement this week for shooting and killing his parents, faces up to 60 years in prison — a place ill-equipped to deal with his psychological issues.
Mental health care is sparse for teens in prison, making it unlikely Crain could be rehabilitated if sentenced to a lengthy term, juvenile advocates said.
"Those kids tend to go further and deeper into the system," said Andrea Costello, an attorney with the nonprofit Florida Institutional Legal Services who focuses on juvenile cases. "For children that have more severe mental health needs, once they go into the Department of Corrections, unfortunately a lot of them tend to end up in the most restrictive prison settings."
Crain's lawyer, Brian Bieber, said he expects Crain to be sentenced to prison Thursday after his acceptance of a plea agreement. Crain is charged with two counts of manslaughter, accused of killing his parents, Kelly and Thomas Crain, at their Golden Gate Estates home in December 2010.
Bieber has previously said the "mental health aspect in his case is of epic proportion."
Bieber said he expects Crain family members to speak at Thursday's hearing.
Details of the plea agreement haven't been made public, though Collier Circuit Judge Fred Hardt has a sentencing scoresheet and psychological evaluation report in his hands. Bieber said he expects Crain will enter the Department of Corrections system, which houses about 200 juveniles.
"The judge has the full range of latitude and discretion to sentence Alex as he deems appropriate," Bieber said.
If he's sentenced to prison, Crain will be transferred from Naples Jail Center, where he's being held on $1 million bond, to an undetermined facility.
"We're trying to get them to mature, to accept responsibility for their actions," said Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections.
Before juveniles are assigned to a prison, corrections officials test their mental health and educational skills, in addition to teaching him about prison rules and expectations. In some cases, violent juveniles are placed in protective confinement. The same goes for vulnerable juveniles who are likely to be harmed by other inmates.
Where Crain would end up remains unknown. No juvenile is currently in the prison system on manslaughter charges. Five of the 12 juveniles incarcerated on murder or attempted murder charges are at Indian River Correctional Institution in Vero Beach, which will be closed by July 1. They are scheduled to be moved to Sumter Correctional Institution, located about 50 miles north of Tampa.
The availability of mental health care also remains unknown, but it's limited at the budget-strapped corrections department. Crain would, however, be able to work toward obtaining a General Educational Development diploma.
Bieber said Crain likely wouldn't receive youthful offender status, a designation typically reserved for juveniles who are first-time offenders with prison sentences of 10 years or fewer. The tag would give Crain better access to rehabilitation services.
"The mental health treatment in the adult system is minimal to nonexistent, which is less than he would have been getting in the juvenile system," Bieber said.
As a result, juveniles with deep mental health issues tend to emerge from the prison system unchanged, said three juvenile advocates. They were not familiar with Crain's case or mental health history.
The advocates said research shows prison settings tend to push juveniles into deeper depression and exacerbate their mental health issues.
"It's bad public policy," said David Utter, director of policy for the Southern Povery Law Center's Florida office. "The goal here is to make sure the public is safe, and what we can say without any question is that putting any kid in the adult system makes for less public safety, not more."
Ilona Vila, director of the Orlando-based Juvenile Life Without Parole Defense Resource Center, said long prison sentences for juveniles often make the youth despondent, reducing the chance of rehabilitation.
"There's a lot of research that doesn't surprise anyone that shows kids will actually withdraw because their sense of time is very different," Vila said. "Five years could seem like a very distant time for a child. A young person going into the system having no hope, they really have no incentive to do anything well."
The downside of placing an inmate in the juvenile justice system, where mental health and educational help is more readily available, is that inmates can only be held until age 21. As a result, prosecutors must consider the possibility of a convict being released — and possibly committing another violent crime — so soon after his or her initial charge.
Those not placed in the juvenile system, however, face long odds of recovery while serving sentences for violent crimes.
"I don't know if you can prepare any 15-year-old for going into the adult prison system," Costello, the nonprofit lawyer, said. "They're going to come out much worse off than when they started."
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Amazon | Goodreads | Author Website | Author TwitterThe day Brigitta accidentally flings herself into the lap of a guy she's never met, her friend Natalie is convinced he's Trent Yves, egotistical heartthrob-in-hiding. When the boy, who calls himself Luke, is nearly eaten by a cougar, Brigitta finds herself saving his life, being swept into his spectacular embrace and wondering if she wants Natalie's fantasy to be true.
As the two spend the summer together raising orphaned cougar cubs, Brigitta still can't be sure of his true identity. But then again, since her grandparents' death, her father's sudden urge to give away all their possessions and become a shaman, and her own awkward transition from girlhood into a young woman, she isn't sure of anything. What is the truth? More importantly, can she accept it? – Goodreads
How (and Why) to Be an Outsider by Katherine Grace Bond
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I like to be indoors. Indoors has my computer and my books and my sofa and Doctor Who. Indoors is dry and temperature-controlled and free of bugs. I haven't always been this way. When I was growing up in Seattle, I was always on my bike or roller skates or screaming through the yard being chased by a giant mouse (I had a bizarre imagination even then). Or I'd read for hours under a tree. Outdoors was an escape, too from Mom and Dad's regular Saturday screaming match. Even if I could still hear it (along with the opera music), somehow not being trapped with walls around me felt better.
And then there was my grandparents' place, "Cherrywood," in Indiana, where I spent my days among the oaks or on the screened-in porch. I loved it there—the warm, spicy air filled with birdsong. It was my haven.
But, I'm an adult now with task lists and deadlines and Important Things To Do—indoors, of course.
So when I wrote The Summer of No Regrets, whose main character, Brigitta, practically lives outdoors, I was stuck. I stared at the screen, trying to imagine what trees were like.
It was kind of stupid.
Finally, I had no choice but to take the computer into the woods and find a stump to sit on. It was often wet, and I had to commune with the insect world, but I wrote some of my best scenes out there. And the earth began to teach me things:
1) Nature surprises. That "ptchioo" sound I kept hearing was not a bird; it was a squirrel called a chickaree. One morning, I lay on a nurse log watched as two of them conversed from different trees. Their bodies would go rigid with each call. After a while, a third squirrel appeared and then a fourth. They called back and forth in rhythm, perfectly timed, as if they had sheet music. Pretty cool.
2) Nature heals. After learning that someone dear to me had attempted suicide, I couldn't sleep. Sometime after midnight I took a sleeping bag and went outside, where I lay under the stars. When you are sorrowing, look at the sky! You feel your smallness in the midst of something vast and unfathomable. We are accustomed to thinking we can know everything, given enough study. The sky gives me hope that we can't—that there will always be things we don't know and will never understand. I want to live in a universe like that.
3) Nature reconnects us. Because we are made of star stuff and nourished by the atmosphere of this planet, we suffer from the layers that separate us from the earth—roof, walls, foundation, floorboards, carpet, shoes, socks. To step barefoot out the door and into the dirt is to find ourselves once more. Try it!
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What sound can take you back in time in Tampa?
Sure, you could say cigar puffs. Or maybe Gasparilla guns. But for generations in this city, the clackety clack ofthe streetcar was the sound of daily life here.
The open-air electric railcars cruised on tracks running down the center of many of Tampa's main roads, knitting together the growing city through affordable, reliable transportation.
For 54 years, to work, to play -- to get almost anywhere in town -- you didn't need a car, you just needed a nickel!
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"We designed these cars after the cars that were here in Tampa" almost 60 years ago, said Peter Mikos, who runs Tampa's resurrected streetcar system.
"The last car number in the Tampa system was 427. Our first car was numbered 428." The new streetcars are operated by HART and funded by the City of Tampa and a nonprofit, Tampa Historic Streetcar, Inc.
"It's very energy efficient," Mikos said. "To go from one end of the line to the other end of the line, it's about $1.67 in electricity."
The classic streetcars were returned with rich wooden-interiored, yellow-painted replicas that embrace the spirit of the past -- but thankfully also embrace air conditioning.
"Everything that you see here is all brand new," Mikos said, sitting on a streetcar moving through the Channelside area.
"But the trucks underneath, where the wheels are, they are from the '20s and '30s. And that's how we get the sensation with the suspension of riding on a heritage streetcar."
In terms of size, the new streetcar system is a shadow of the original one. The new line is about 2 1/2 miles long. At its peak, the old system had 53 miles of track.
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Sting is hoping to attract new fans to opera with his latest release, a film in which he and wife Trudie Styler tell the story of composer Robert Schumann. [BBC News]
Sting is hoping to attract new fans to opera with his latest release, a film in which he and wife Trudie Styler tell the story of composer Robert Schumann. [BBC News]
I went to the dress rehearsal for Aida last night and just spent the whole evening thinking……"What would Luc Bondy do with THIS production! LOL
So, fidelio 101, how was the singing? Loud and unnuanced, on assumes? Does Urmana manage the Nile C well? Does she make any impact dramatically?
Well lets see. I was never a fan of Botha and last night didn't change it.Zajick who I usually love, sounded tired and Urmana is better on the Scala DVD. At least on that you get Roberto Bolle dancing, which is worth the purchase price alone. We left before the Nile but also went to Barbiere today. I had never heard Barry Banks before. I kept waiting for him to break out into "My Wild Irish Rose". I've heard of singers not having an Italianette sound, but he brings new meaning to the phrase.
I have to say I went wanting to love Di Donato but last season Garancia
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"Zajick who [sic] I usually love, sounded tired …"
Give the woman a break. She was at the TOSCA prima, and that takes some recovery time.
Many blogs (especially, it seems, homophilic blogs) have in-joke expressions. I think we here at the Box — craving La Cieca's indugence — should keep this one in:
"I've heard of singers not having an Italianette sound …"
Did Garanca spoil you via her complete inability to bring sung Italian words to life?
She might have been singing the Riga phone book…
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The findings suggest that fully hydroxylated six-carbon sugars probably would not have produced a stable base-pairing system capable of carrying genetic information as efficiently as DNA.
"The structure now provides insight of a chemical nature that (the six-carbon sugar) is just too 'bulky.' It has too many atoms," Egli said.
The new insights provided by this structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental of scientific inquiries - the origin of life on Earth. If the pieces of DNA and RNA hadn't come together just so, life as we knowit would not exist.
Although Egli's structure has ruled out six-carbon sugars as viable alternatives for the sugar backbone of DNA, the existence of a plethora of sugars - as well as alternative bases - make for an almost endless number of possibilities from which nature selected the winning DNA combination.
"Homo-DNA is just one alternative system. There are hundreds of sugars, as many as you can think of. It will be almost impossible to look at all of them," Egli said.
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Susanna Wiggins is crowned Miss Coronado by her predecessor Dana Hutchison.
Saturday, March 15 the Miss Coronado pageant was held at the CHS Performing Arts Center. Friends and family filled the theatre in anticipation of the event. In the end, Susanna Wiggins was crowned Miss Coronado 2014 and Katie Hearther was crowned Miss Teen Coronado 2014. Susanna and Katie have the honor, privilege and responsibility to act as goodwill ambassadors for the City of Coronado for the next year. Both young women will also be competing in the Miss California USA/Miss California Teen USA pageant in January 2015.
Katie Hearther receives her sash before being crowned Miss Teen Coronado by Taylor Nelson.
The Miss and Teen competition consisted of an interview with the panel of judges, swimsuit, evening gown and onstage questions.
Miss Congeniality Carter Graves Miss Photogenic Leah Hatheway
Carter Graves was voted Miss Congeniality by the Miss contestants and Leah Hatheway, Miss Photogenic. The Director's award for overcoming adversity was given to Ashley Russell. Teen contestants voted Katie Hearther Miss Congeniality and Dalen Dull received the Miss Photogenic award. Katie Hearther also earned a new bike from Cruiser King for selling the most tickets to the pageant.
Miss Teen Photogenic Dalen Dull Miss Teen Congeniality Katie Hearther
Miss Coronado contestant Ashley Russell receives the Director's Award for overcoming adversity.
In addition to the Miss and Miss Teen competition, there were over two dozen young people competing for several titles, judged on their patriotic attire and stage presence. Each young man or lady shared their name with the crowd and answered the question, "What do you like best about Coronado?"
Young Miss Coronado Zoe Hunt with Petite Miss Coronado Carly Ogden.
One of the most memorable answers was from the winner of the Young Mister Coronado title, Tylor Johnson who exclaimed, "My favorite thing about Coronado is…no beach out of reach!"
Young Mister Coronado Tylor Johnson tells Dana Hutchison that the best thing about Coronado is "no beach out of reach!"
Winners are as follows:
Young Miss Coronado—Zoe Hunt
Young Mister Coronado Tylor Johnson
Petite Miss Coronado—Carly Ogden
Little Miss Coronado—Avia Marusich
Little Mister Coronado—Sebastian Tucker
Miss Pixie Coronado—Sophia Azzopardi
Little Mister Coronado Sebastian Tucker.
Each of the winners will have the opportunity to ride in the Independence Day parade with Miss Coronado Susanna Wiggins and Miss Teen Coronado Katie Hearther.
The panel of judges for the event included Allison Andrews of Fashion Week San Diego, Michael Osbourne (Director, producer, judge and MC for multiple pageants), Tan Huynh (math and art teacher),
Patricia Ross (mentor and former flight attendant), Nan Sandhaus (fashion model and jewelry designer), and Grace Alanis (special education teacher). The young contestants were judged by a very talented Cecilia Sorini posing as the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz and Alexis Reitmeyer appearing as Marilyn Monroe.
Miss Coronado 2013 Dana Hutchison and Miss Teen Coronado 2013 Taylor Nelson hosted the event and looked stunning. They ended their reign with a final walk, each accompanied by her father. Mayor Casey Tanaka was in the audience and Police Chief John Froomin escorted the newly crowned queens across the stage.
Miss Teen Coronado 2013 is escorted by her father on her final walk as goodwill ambassador for Coronado.
The Miss Coronado pageant has a long history and is enjoying success under second year director Marty Brooks. Marty has extensive experience in the pageant world as a former Miss Norco and as a director and pageant planner.
Miss Teen Coronado 2014 Katie Hearther, Pageant Director Marty Brooks and Miss Coronado 2014 Susanna Wiggins
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Congratulations to all the winners!!!
Looks like it was an amazing night. Great to see some boys getting in on the action. Fabulous photos!
Thank you Chief of Police John Froomin and Mayor Casey Tanaka for supporting our 'Coronado Goodwill Ambassadors'. Thank you to our sponsors, judges, parents and contestants for making this a special community event. Can't wait to see our group in the parade!
Thank you for helping to put on a first rate pageant!!
We had so much fun! thanks for making it all so special!
We have a great committee of Miss & Teen Coronados~Katie, Taylor, Dana and Candy. Nevi and Rory, the queen mothers and businesswomen like Rita at Rite Aid and Natalie from Pretty Please. And Tim, who builds and carries everything! It was great fun, I can't wait to do it again next year on March 28th 2015 (tentative date)!
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Open standards for a smart electric grid
How would you feel if your gas station taped over the meters on the gas pump, preventing you from seeing how much gasoline you had just bought or how much you had to pay? What if you ran your credit card through but didn't see a receipt -- or at least not until the end of the month? This is how we buy electricity today.
But there's good news: Congress recently provided $4.5 billion to build a smarter electricity grid that can empower consumers with information about their electricity consumption. Studies have shown that having such consumer energy information in real-time can reduce energy use by 5 to 15 percent.
Edward Lu, Google's Program Manager for Advanced Projects and a former astronaut, testified today on this topic before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Check out Ed's full testimony and a video recording of the hearing. Also, check out Google PowerMeter to get a preview of the sorts of consumer applications that could be built around a smart grid.
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I agree 100%. Not only is this important from an open innovation perspective, it's also a civil liberties/personal privacy issue. Some utilities have already begun asserting control/ownership of an individual's data. If consumers don't speak up now, during the standards creation phase, the utilities will get their way and the smart grid will be closed to open innovation for years, if not decades.ReplyDelete
See the discussion in my post Get your grubby hands off of my HAN at Grid Insight.
This power usage information has ALWAYS been available to the homeowner. The problem has always been there has been no product justification. You can easily monitor your usage with simple electrical supply equipment, and a few hours of licensed electrical work. Just because the utility company doesn't provide it to you doesn't mean it is not there. Here is what we are asking for when we want the utility company to provide this data: Please charge us extra every month because I am told it will help me use less, of course the extra cost they will charge will probably offset the savings per month for many years. I applaud and encourage the use of home power monitoring equipment, but lets keep utility companies, and thier shareholders needs, out of the discussions. We can create an open standard for power data communications without thier input.ReplyDelete
I would love to get a bill from the electric company that was as detailed as my cell phone bill. I would even love to have the option to go online and see exactly what my usage was during a certain day and time even if the bill at the end of the month was a lump sum. I have seen a couple of solutions and the affordable products (under a couple of hundred dollars) as so basic it take a lot of time to factor in. Then there is the other end of the spectrum where the product that is the best, like the "Building Dashboard" cost $10,000. I mean come on the only way people are going to take more ownership and try to reduce costs is if they feel it is mainstream and not something that is only for the elite or super wealthy. I think what Google.org is doing is fantastic and I wish I was a part of. I think I got a smart meter on my house since it was built just a few months ago and I would even pay them to be in the beta program (a reasonable fee not some uberexpensive fee) to help do my part in reducing my carbon footprint. Go Google.ReplyDelete
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