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Already the Guardian is saying that Sex and the City 2 is on its way to becoming one of the most critically derided films of all time. Here are a few examples:
The transformation of the girls from winsome wisecrackers into whiny bling-obsessed chuckleheads is complete.
But the ugly smell of unexamined privilege hangs over this film like the smoke from cheap incense. Over cosmos in their private bar, Charlotte and Miranda commiserate about the hardships of motherhood and then raise their glasses to moms who "don't have help," by which they mean paid servants.
Not since 1942's Arabian Nights has orientalism been portrayed so unironically. All Middle Eastern men are shot in a sparkly light with jingly jangly music just in case you didn't get that these dusky people are exotic and different. Even leaving aside the question of why anyone would go on holiday to Abu Dhabi, everyone who has ever watched a TV show knows that the first rule is: don't take characters out of their usual environment.
Last night, two friends and I went to see it. We saw it in the Geneva, NY movieplex. It wasn't sold out, but it was full and, yes, women outnumbered the men by at least 12:1. The crowd was appreciative and enthusiastic. Both my friends liked it--and one had hated SATC 1. A bit more background--all 3 of us are over 40, have been married, have had kids. From here on in, there will be a lot of spoilers, so if you want surprises and plan on seeing the movie, stop reading now.
The movie explores fantasy and disappointment (I wonder if the critics saw the movie or even recognize the fantasy components; my god, one of the framing devices is old black and white movies, the first with Clark Gable--It Happened One Night--and the second with Cary Grant--I didn't recognize it; if those don't signal Depression-era escapism, what does?). The television series always had a fantastic element--fantasies of great clothes and apartments on a writer's income, of fulfilling careers, of complete sexual enjoyment. So not only did the series actively invite women to imagine themselves as one of the 4 characters, but it also staged fantasies of fashion, success, romance, and sex. The best episodes pressed the limits of fantasy. Particularly after 9/11 there was increasing pressure to wake up from the dream. One could almost say that the failure of the first film was its inability to resolve or represent the tension between the fantasy of the wedding and the reality of the end of Carrie's life as a single woman.
The two primary sites of fantastic investment in SATC2 are homosexuality and a mythical Middle East. Since 3 of the 4 women are married and Samantha is having a hard time holding onto her mojo (her fight is admirable, making me wonder why fighting cancer is glorified and fighting menopause is roundly condemned; misogyny anyone?), straight love has lost its allure and become a lot of work. Marriage and babies, marriage without babies--not what it was cracked up to be, a giant pain, and not the source of completeness at the heart of their fantasies. With straight marriage on the decline, who can believe in it anymore? Who really wants it, anyway? The gays!!
Gay marriage is the one cultural site where marriage means something. Weddings can be over the top (there really is something to celebrate) and maybe the rules are different, easier to renegotiate. The guys' solution to pressure for monogamy--infidelity is only allowed in states that won't recognize their marriage--at first seems a gesture to the fantasy of fabulous, frequent, promiscuous sex in which gay men are often cast, yet the explanation--it's not because he's gay, it's because he's Italian--situates the solution back within one of the main issues of the movie, how will the women deal with being with the same person, in the same bed, most every night, FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. It's like a prison sentence, a kind of capture, maybe even a form of cultural silencing.
So, the wedding is totally over the top--more perfect than any wedding ever, complete with swans, a gorgeous men's chorus in white, and Liza. Liza's rendition of "Single Ladies" was unlike anything I've ever seen. The closest I can come up with is Tom Delay on Dancing with the Stars.
So, Liza does Beyonce, Carries wears a Tux, and a cute man flirts with Big. Safely enveloped in gay fabulousity, even the most stilted interactions can be a little wonderful. But life isn't a great big gay wedding. Miranda has an asshole of a boss who makes her life miserable. Charlotte is cracking under the pressure of cheerfully acting like some Betty Crocker ideal of total mommy completion. Carrie is frustrated by the everyday-ness of married life: after the apartment is decorated, then what? And, as mentioned, Samantha is courageously pursuing experimental vitamin treatments for menopause.
This is one of the first places where the reviews miss. Critics say the women are bling obsessed--false. There is no bling obsession, if bling means jewelry. Carrie says that Big could have gotten her a ring as an anniversary present, but that's as a counter to the television in the bedroom, not a statement about jewelry. Charlotte gets upset because her daughter apparently ruins a vintage designer skirt, but, again, this isn't about the clothes per se--it's about Charlotte's stressed out enfrazzlement with cupcakes, a screaming baby, and another kid insisting on attention at exactly that moment. Critics say that the women's careers have been sidelined: wrong again. Miranda doesn't quit her job to stay at home and be a mom--she quits because her boss is a jerk and she can find something better. Carrie goes to her old apartment to work on her writing, has a book come out, and stresses over a bad review. Work matters--to them. And the whole trip to Abu Dhabi is connected to Samantha's job as a publicist.
The second site of fantastic investment is Abu Dhabi. It's not portrayed ironically because it is portrayed fantastically. It relies on Orientalist fantasies stretched into camp. The shift in setting works because it enacts the change in NYC as a figure for fantasy: NYC can't or doesn't function in the same way it used to (in the show, perhaps in the world). It's not invincible; it's not ideal. It doesn't welcome anyone from anywhere. It's harder to make it. But the Middle East, in this fantasy, has unfathomably rich sheiks; they build new sparkling cities; they attract money, fame, luster. Just like the women's old dreams of romance, sex, fashion, and success don't fit the realities of their lives as straight middle aged women, NY has lots it magical allure.
So, enter Lawrence of Arabia style fantasy, complete Orientalist escapism (including camels, a gorgeous man riding a jeep over sand dunes, World Cup finalists showing off their abs in the pool). Everything is completely over the top--and we know from the beginning that they don't have to pay for it (even their 13 hour plane trip is the fantastic air travel promised in the 60s and now the privilege of our global financial overlords). They are guests. They get 4 cars, 4 butlers (completely hot and also continuing the fantastic element of hot gay men). The hotel and their suite was so over the top that it made me think of old Marx brothers films where the guys find themselves in luxurious environments that will ultimately become the setting for mad cap adventures.
Of course, the fantasy can't hold up under any scrutiny. We learn that one of the butlers is Indian and has to work months at a time to save money to go home to see his wife. I guess the reviewer who mentioned unexamined privilege was in the bathroom during that scene.
I wonder if that same reviewer is over 25--I doubt it. She didn't get at all the scene between Miranda and Charlotte where they talk about how much it sucks to be a mom. Do reviewers not want to hear this? Do they want to think that it's really fulfilling to spend hours on end with crying kids? In the scene, Miranda helps Charlotte to be more honest with herself, to let go of the fantasy that motherhood provides serenity and completeness. Before each hard admission, they take another drink. And they let go of the guilt and the pressure and the illusion. Really this is the ideal drinking game and the mommies in my small town multiplex loved it (Miranda was my hero throughout the whole thing). The reviewer slams the film for an implicit elitism when they raise their glasses to women without help. The moms of Geneva, NY--most of us who get help where we can find it, from friends, from neighbors, from relatives, from paid day care providers when we can afford it and when there are openings in the few available places--raised our imaginary cosmopolitans and toasted right back.
The fantasy also can't bear up under the tensions over the veil--choice? tradition? custom? oppression? In fact, grappling with restrictions around dress and sexuality becomes one of the central problems the 4 women encounter during their visit. While the other 3 seem to want to 'respect local customs,' Samantha is having none of it. She's not a good girl in the US and she isn't going to be one here. And, as usual, she pays a price for her sexuality: the scene where she is on the ground in shorts and a tank top, her purse broken and her condoms and other belongings strewn all about, sweaty with messy hair, messy make up, exhausted, hungry, menopausal, furious and surrounded by robed men (they looked like sheiks to me) yelling and condemning her seemed one moment before a public stoning. She was close to humiliation, but fighting it, not giving in.
In fact, Samantha's sexuality, her fierce commitment to her own enjoyment, ruptures the fantasy Abu Dhabi and opens their way back home: because she is charged with open displays of sexuality, she loses the business opportunity and the women have to either pay for the hotel themselves or leave; at 22 k a night, they have to leave (of course they can't afford this!); and now instead of 4 nice cars, they have trouble getting even a couple of pretty crappy taxis. They don't look particularly glamorous, either.
Some might say the movie tries to make Samantha stand in for all women, for the true woman behind the veil, and thus for a universal feminine against patriarchal sexual oppression. Such a reading makes a kind of liberal capitalist subject into the universal subject. It makes sense given the scene that follows: a group of women in abayas rescue Samantha et al. Of course they are all wearing cutting edge designer clothes under their abayas. And, like Samantha, they are reading Suzanne Sommer's book on dealing with menopause. Women across the world are united in their love of shopping, good clothes, and courageous battle over hormones. Unsurprisingly, the four heroines themselves have to put on the robes in order to escape from their predicament and get their first class seats for the flight home. The veil is a vehicle for escape as well as capture.
The fantasy of underneath it all women are basically the same, the liberal feminist message, also drives one of the most difficult scenes: the four heroines karaoke performance of "I am Woman." It's a nice parallel to Liza's "Single Ladies." On the one hand, the cringe factor is nearly as strong. On the other, the almost unbearable cheesiness and absence of irony actually lets a sincere aspiration shine through. The camera moves to the different faces of the women in the audience--heavy, older, global (although clearly all wealthy), to the heroines, to the belly dancers now doing some kind of weird muscle man dance, to the soccer players flaunting their 12 packs. It's too strained to be joyous or even emancipatory. But they persevere, nonetheless. They don't flee into the safety of irony but actually persist in a kind of stand, a kind of fierce insistence --"I am woman." The truth of the anthem is realized in its liberal capitalist form, but that doesn't make it less of a truth (ideology always has to include an element of truth).
The film wakes up from its Middle Eastern fantasy into the fantasy of liberal feminism (gay salvation remains: Charlotte is saved from her fear that her husband might have an affair with her buxom Irish nanny by the nanny's lesbianism). It's still a fantasy and maybe even the notion that this the biggest thing the women have to deal with is the biggest fantasy of all. But it rattles the supposition that having it all is possible, it addresses disappointments and pressures, and it guarantees that finding a straight man and settling into straight domesticity is not a sure path to happiness. Since that fantasy is the primary motor of the chic flick, disrupting it is pretty satisfying. Friendship, connection with other women, is a much better fantasy.
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How can gaps become manifest without white noise? When it's all filled in, when there are no more 404s, when the links loop us back or just repeat, when the wait time is nil, when Amazon and You Tube and iTunes knows what we want before we do, how can the gap introduce itself?
Mediation is not the problem. Representation is not the problem. Rather, media is immediate, reactions proceed actions. Someone's always there--Facebook, Twitter, somewhere.
One way: the stutter, the glitch (like in the Matrix), the unexpected repetition, the double take. And the thing is, the gap or obstacle has to be more than that which catches us in our looking: we are already mesmerized by our spectatorship. We already think that we are active spectators, creative speakers, political spectators, hence we mistake looking for making, seeing something happen with making something happen.
The mashed-up recombinant field depoliticizes juxtaposition, irony, satire, gesture, bricolage, montage. The fact of fragmentation--nose job, implants, great legs!, partial objects--already means that the problem isn't naturalized wholes, the constraint of narrative, the givenness of relations that present themselves as logical. Fragments, segments, samples, pieces--parts without sums. Recombination: just another option or opinion. What else is out there?
Breaking out of the drive that captures us in our self-reflection--that's the challenge,
Posted at 02:19 PM in Film, political theory, Politics and new media, psychoanalysis, Zizek | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
I saw this in the NYT yesterday: www.nytimes.com
Mr. Walk's team meets weekly to discuss tweaks to YouTube's software. During a recent meeting, a small group of engineers and user interface designers were brainstorming what might be the next big step in the site's evolution: pages that would immediately begin playing a stream of clips tailored for a user, instead of offering lists of suggested videos. The idea is to push more videos at users in the hope of allowing them to abandon the keyboard and increasingly experience YouTube from the couch.
"On YouTube, every 45 seconds, you are stuck at a decision point," Mr. Davidson said. "Any time there is a decision point, people may leave. We don't want to take out the interactivity, but the default user experience should be a lot easier."
We are used to thinking about consumerism in terms of the multiplication of choices. Communicative capitalism likewise relies on the equation of political choices with consumer choices via entertainment (opinion, interests, sports, betting, gambling, politics qua spectator sport on which we bet). Numerous critics (appearing as early as Thucydides) lament the sporting, speculative approach to politics, the sense that politics is a primarily a game, and a game that is fixed (what matters is behind the scenes). Debord attuned us to thinking in terms of the spectacle (and the conspiracy underlying it). The multiple choices are an illusion masking an underlying fixity: the fix is in, the game is up, or, its played between opponents for whom the rest of us are no more than pawns, food, feed.
It's rather different, I think, to find explicit emphasis on attempts to eliminate decisions, to wipe it out, to enrapture spectators so that we forget that we can just walk away (one reason why political strategies of refusal are not nothing). We are used to be told that freedom is choice, not that our decisions should be hidden from us, displaced from view.
On the phone in a hideous computer tree we keep answering, waiting, choosing options (last year I wasted 90 minutes for a free phone). It's hard to hang up. Once we are in, our inertial tendency is to stay in.
Decision points: in writing--ends of sentences, ends of paragraphs, ends of pages, ends of scenes, ends of arguments, ends of chapters. Both narrative and visual convention keeps us going, keeps us engaged, prevents us from thinking in terms of decision points (that's also part of the pleasure, the book that we can't put down). In film: primarily scenes but also angles--we can cut out when there's a cut. In formulaic films, we can guess that the beginning of a battle scene is a good time to go to the bathroom. Television: commercials. That's when we can leave; that's our decision point. That's when there are options.
When I was kid, our television only picked up three channels (although I loved playing with the antenna and the uhf dial, wondering if I could find secret messages). In between: white noise, dead air, static--it looked like the inside of a car in a snow storm. Turning from one network to another we passed through the white noise, the space where we were momentarily free from interpellation. No one was trying to sell us something, tell us something.
White noise was frightening, don't get me wrong. Poltergeist captured that to good effect (although if memory serves the effect is derivative of the Outer Limits). Were there subliminal messages? A pattern? It's as if from the beginning we had a hard time imaging a space free from messages, a space that wasn't telling us anything at all.
Perhaps because of our fear of noise, our fear of non-meaning, our fear of what it could mean to be a spectator with nothing to see or a being outside of interpellation, we stopped imagining dead air--remote controllers let us zap right past it. We could avoid messages we didn't want and dead air and quickly look for something that might detract us. We could easily find our own capture, that is, our own opportunity to be liberated once more from the dilemma of a decision. Remotes let us both convince ourselves of a kind of agency--we don't have to make ourselves available to every advertisement--and let us avoid the white noise of empty space, a space where we might have to let our minds rest, drift, or think.
VCR's: even better. No more white noise at all. Just the messages we wanted, when we wanted. But, when there isn't much to see, much worth recording, then we risk confronting decisions again. 800 channel cable and satellite tv helped. Digital eliminate even more of the empty, wasted space, the spaces where we might as little questions, reflect, or decide.
The promise of user generated content: we are all so creative, so empowered, so connected. It's all there--if you want it. The thing is, we lose the sense of wanting, of desire, because it's already there, filled in, no gap.
YouTube, though, thinks we are still at risk of deciding, thinking. The very abundance of options, of messages, of voices, has come through to the other side: excess and lack, two sides of the same phenomenon. So, now more than we can want will still be there, but now we won't have to think about what this might mean, we won't have to figure it out, think about it, or decide.
A kinder, simpler You Tube.
Ideal of the post-democratic multitude.
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I've been in California. A student challenged me on one of my typical appropriations of Zizek, this time the one that says something to the effect that we have to reinvent our modes of dreaming.
Leaving aside the unfortunate evocation of Clinton era politics (reinventing government)--which could be mine, but I'm too tired after the red eye back to look it up--there is something impossible (but necessary) about an injunction to dream differently. But maybe that's the point.
Wake up.
Dream again.
Dream better.
Our mistake in emphasizing either dreaming or waking is forgetting the connections between the two, their imbrications and links, the way each persists as a gap in the other, and even the way that there are moments when they blur such that we can't tell whether are asleep or awake (then again, this could be simply my extension of the early hours waiting this morning at JFK, neither awake nor asleep).
The nihilism of misplaced realism is the way it remains stuck in wakefulness, as if dreaming were a retreat (Lacan points to how in waking we flee the Real of the dream). Frequently, and with increasing intensity, perhaps as we approach the Real of Capital in today's continued condition of undeniable, unavoidable, crisis and excess, some on the left, hands over their ears and screaming, repeat, repeat, repeat that we've learned that socialism is a dead exercise, that communism is no ideal, that any, any, any evocations of a Party, or discipline, or--heaven forbid--taking over the state and having the state take over the economy are, slap/slam, slap/slam, slap/slam, misplaced dreams.
But maybe that's the point. To place the dreams of communism again in our setting, to reset them, to occupy them and extend them and use them to change and distort what we've woken up to. The same dream in a new setting is not the same dream.
Since I was young, I've dreamt versions of the same dream. It usually involves exploring a house or houses. And in each dream, I remember the previous ones. I know where the rooms lead, where the hidden staircase is, where the scary places are. Each new dream adds something else or each of my wakings is different and so what I recall or accent is different.
In State and Revolution, Lenin makes the withering away of the state depend on the spread of accounting, surveillance, and discipline throughout the population. When society becomes a factory and an office, when the tasks are so simple that anyone can do them, the parascitic elements of the bourgeois-military state are no longer necessary (of course, it goes without saying that this aspect of withering away is only possible after the revolutionary overthrow of the bourgeois state and the establishment of a proletarian state). Too many so-called leftists write today as if we can have the withering away without the revolution, as if the withering away would necessarily be a human withering (or maybe this is why they are so keen on animals and objects; they know full well that this is no human withering at all, that the fundamental edifice of police power protecting the finance sector doesn't and hasn't wither away at all, that humans persist as so much refuse, accumulating as themselves as the new surplus). It's the way that they deny antagonism.
They should go back to sleep.
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White noise. Signal to noise. The setting, the manifold.
And, the between signals: a space/time that has diminished so as to be barely perceptible. White noise has been cultivated, taken over, colonized, developed, made useful.
But could the becoming useful of noise, the development of white noise and occupation of what were spaces between, could this also be a becoming noise of the background? So that the fact of noise persists as an artifact of the limits of our attention and focus. By virtue of focus, components and blocks of noise become signals. They become for us. Our excision of them from the manifold, like a framing or sampling or remixing or collecting or archiving, is what distinguishes signal from noise.
The mistake we make is to think that their meaning is prior to this excision rather than a result of it.
But what about their truth?
If the symbolic always necessarily involves bracketing and exclusion, this not that, then what does this mean for the truth of what is included and what is left out? Currents in late 20th thought proceeded as if what were left behind had a more compelling truth, a truth that was more than a shaping and more than a necessary condition (a difference, then, between a fundamental fantasy which is Real because it insists rather than exists). So anything that was other to mainstream science, mainstream medicine, or mainstream politics was not just excluded in the production of the mainstream but true by virtue of this exclusion. It's as if a claim to truth somehow came to accompany critiques of exclusion, as if establishing the fact (and then the illegitimacy) of an exclusion depended on establishing the truth-value of the excluded.
What is the effect, then, of the setting of the decline of symbolic efficiency? A flattening and extension and re-manifold-ing (non-all) that occasions the end of games and procedures of truth and falsity and the proliferation of the neither true nor false.
One might think that the results are the possible and the credible, but these float away as well (or only flourish in the hothouses of insular communities of discourse, communities ever more porous even as they are ever more defended). Without conditions to determine the parameters of credibility and possibility, in fact, in the face of outright disbelief in the face of the actuality of the unlikely, anything is possible.
But if anything is possible, nothing is (as well).
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Zizek argues that the little piece of the real that supports our fragile symbolic reality must appear to be found rather than produced. Yes, any old object can serve. But we have to think that its fascinating power comes from it rather than from its place in the structure.
Is not this part of the appeal of found footage and outsider art? We think that we have come across something that is Real, appealing because it is not part of the established system, not produced for us and our consumption.
So how does this work with You Tube? Are we finding pieces of the Real or are they produced for us? The fissure or gap here is irreducible. The answer to both questions is yes and no. The experience of the gap is what drives us.
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While I was in Belgium last week, I went to an exhibit at the Strombeek gallery in Brussels that highlighted work by Johan Grimonprez (director of Double Take). One of the pieces was a sound piece, an interview with Karen Black. One doesn't listen to the interview with headphones but in a small, round room with a platform in the middle. The room is dimly lit, with a paraphrase of a line from the interview (about Alfred Hitchcock not having a belly button) written in white on one of the dark blue walls. One can sit or lie down on the platform--I bet 4-5 people could lie on it without crowding each other. Most of the interview involves Karen Black's recollecting working with Hitchcock on Family Plot.
The piece feels intimate, maybe too intimate (I wonder if it feels the same to people who have never seen Karen Black). It feels more intimate than it would if one were reading it or even than it would if one saw the interview on television. The dark space, the enveloping sound, the vulnerability of lying down in a public space all amplify the intimacy, the intrusion. One gets absorbed in or enveloped by her voice, caught up in it, at risk of giving over to it. Her voice feels more intimate than it would if one were listening to it with headphones or earbuds or on a laptop in an office--with all those versions of personal media we are less exposed in our hearing, less vulnerable to others' seeing us and maybe hearing us hearing (hearing us hearing could be linked to a version of a primal scene or to hearing ourselves being heard).
She does impressions--of Hitchcock, of different accents. These seem risky, outrageous--why is she performing so much, why is she so over the top--but even quick attempts to dismiss them--well, she is an actress, after all--can't bracket the excess and intensity of her enveloping voice.
It's her voice, in all those impression; her voice, pretending to be Hitchcock.
And how is it, then, that with vocal doubles we experience two people but one voice? The pleasure is the imitation, the impersonation, the slight exaggeration and bringing to our attention the eccentricity or uniqueness of what now echoes as an original. But the uniqueness only resounds as 're', as a repetition, as the approach to the original that isn't. With the vocal double, we hear the one who is speaking and know that it is him, but we also hear another--only rarely do we mistake one for the other, we know the difference (and that knowledge is a component of the very possibility of impersonation, of a vocal double--we could compare the vocal double, then, with the voice-over or the voice of an animated character).
I don't like hearing my voice. I don't listen to interviews or podcasts that I've done. I loathe listening to answering machines or voice mail when I have to hear my voice (although I should confess that this sometimes reverses itself as I listen over and over again to my greeting, somewhat repulsed, but still unable to stop listening and re-recording, perhaps in an attempt to eliminate the excessive part, the part that I can't quite control--and, no, it's not just the southern accent, although it could be related to the oddness I hear in the attempts to displace it).
Even doubled or impersonated, the voice is Real. Even recorded voices, taped voices, are Real--we can tell the difference. On the phone, we can hear if something is wrong--sometimes it's easier to hear that something is wrong than to see it--appearances can be deceiving. I don't like talking on the phone very much, either, wary of the exposure that is more intense than a face to face encounter, likely because face to face we see the reactions of the other.
Surrounded by music and noise, do we lose voice(s)? Or are we protecting ourselves from their intensity? Are we, vulnerable bare lives, barely subjects, whatever beings, at the mercy of the imaginary and the Real and denuded of Symbolic protections, do we need the noise to avoid the voice (and might schizoanalysis fail insofar as it risks trivializing the intrusion of voices without bodies)? And how has contemporary pseudo-politics worked to block from us the radicality of the Real voice, inducing us to refer to any misrepresentation or exclusion as a loss of voice or a denial of voice when really adding to the cacophony is the surest way for the voice not to be heard?
The voice is singular.
Can there be a Real voice of the people?
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When we say that someone did a double take, we are saying that they looked again, looked back. They saw something and rather than assimilating what they saw into the manifold of impressions, they were pushed, impelled, to look at it again. With a double take, it's not that the person chooses or decides to look again, to look back; rather, they find themselves already looking back.
What makes one look again?
A rupture or a glitch, a disconnection or seam, a fault line in the manifold of impressions that, somehow, is more than that manifold. The plenitude of sensory impressions, the multiplicty in which one persists, at that moment exceeds itself. Some kind of excess in the field calls attention to the field.
The Lacanian term for that excess rupturing the field is the gaze. The gaze, then, isn't what the viewer sees; it's what makes her look and become aware that she is looking. The gaze confronts the viewer in her viewing, disturbing it, denaturalizing it, making what was formerly seamless appear with seams, with cuts, with splices.
In a media setting filled with interruptions, with cuts and splices, segments and seques, the gaze, rather than becoming more apparent, retreats. The field itself seems comprised of bits of footage, multiple layers of impressions impressing themselves into layers. Interrupting this field of interruptions thus becomes a challenge: what makes one interruption different from another, what lets it rupture the field of interruptions, what lets it become an opportunity for an encounter with the Real of the gaze rather than simply another moment in the imaginary?
Perhaps because I've been teaching the Republic, perhaps because my thinking looks back more easily than forward (or even around), I wonder if the interruption of the gaze in a field of interruptions depends on something like what Plato describes as a summons--a sensory impression that extends in opposing directions, that impresses a contradiction on the senses, calling forth some need to understand. On the one hand, we could describe this as a lack, insofar as their is a lack of understanding. On the other, it is just as easy to think of the situation as one of surplus, an abundance which pushes the one who senses in conflicting directions.
And the summons can only summon so long as it remains in conflict, opposed. If there is a resolution, the conflict or opposition becomes only apparent, imaginary, and not Real.
In a field of interruptions the gaze manifests itself as an interruption of the interruptions, perhaps as a bracketing that makes us say, 'but wait! there's more' and that in so doing calls us to look back on our looking. What makes this interruption the work of the drive is that we find ourself already lost in it, already having turned.
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We all thought that the hot chick sitting on Ryan Lochte's lap in the back of a cab in London was, well, just that. But turns out that it was his sister Megan who we now know is a big ol' racist. And while we're well aware this story has has no style aspect whatsoever, we write unabashedly about all things Lochte — and this recently unearthed 2008 video of Megan on Baltimore late night comedy show Closing Time warrants a discussion.
Dressed in a black top, white pants (Ryan's second sexiest piece of clothing), a totally unnecessary hat, and flip-flops, Megan chatted with host Mickey Cucchiella about her then-recent trip to China to see her brother in the Beijing Olympics. The first thing out of Megan's mouth? "China was chinked out." It's only downhill from there.
While Cucchiella tries to keep a straight face at Megan's use of the word "chink", he also encourages her to maybe replace it with the more more palatable descriptor, "Chinese". But nope, she keeps right on truckin'. She continues to make fun of Chinese people for "stereotypically" taking photos of everything and for being a passive people, and recounts a story in which someone who was trying to close off an area kindly asked her to move several times. She took pride in her refusal: "Fuck, no."
The entire clip is one long string of racist insult after racist insult, except for the part where she notes that Great Wall was awesome! Though she promptly followed that with: "The Great Wall is misnamed. [It should be called] like, fucking huge OCD fence."
This video could have been slightly less offensive had Megan not used such a condescending and disdainful tone throughout her interview. She drops "chink" after "chink" with sheer indifference — as if it was okay to make fun of 1.3 billion Chinese people on television. It's not okay. And now everyone is going to remember Megan as "Ryan Lochte's racist sister".
But here's a bit of irony: according to Ryan Lochte's racist sister's Facebook page, she has a degree in multicultural marketing.
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I've had my '05 F350 for almost 2 years now. Since buying it, we've put almost 40,000 miles on it. I talked with the previous owner and he confirmed that at around 100k, the head gaskets were changed (w/ TTY bolts), EGR was deleted, oil cooler was replaced, etc.
Before buying the truck, I rigged up a cooling system pressure test and confirmed that the truck did not have any typical 6.0 issues. Shortly after buying the truck, I added gauges to monitor everything and have never had any signs of any problems; also no puking from the degas either. Well, that has now changed. We went to SC for Christmas and took the truck. Upon returning home I smelled coolant when we parked and popped the hood and saw that the degas bottle cap had let some coolant out. Since then, I've seen it wet around the cap fairly consistently. I've also heard air bubbles moving around the cooling system once after shutting it down.
Today, I picked up a combustion gas detector and ran the test. Of course, the fluid turned green/yellow, confirming combustion gases in the cooling system.
Interestingly enough, the truck runs fine, starts fine, has great power and is still getting ~20mpg at 65mph. There is no change in temperatures, nothing out of the ordinary - The degas puking was the ONLY symptom that anything was up.
From the reading that I've done, I'm preparing to do this job myself. I'm fully capable of doing it, I'm just a little fuzzy on exactly which parts I need. I'm trying to put together a parts total so that I can figure out exactly how much this is all going to cost...
Here's my parts list so far:
OEM Gaskets (which size 18 or 20?)
ARP head studs
Oil cooler
HPOP screen (since we're in there anyway)
Standpipes and dummy plugs (to ensure they're in good shape and newer style)
Obviously, I'll have the heads checked out for cracks, etc.
Can someone give me an idea of things I'm missing? Also, best place for prices?
Last edited by Dante04SRT; 01-13-2013 at 09:41 AM.
well your 05 was originally equipped with 18mm heads but if the heads were off once is there a chance one was changed? If you are certain no heads were changed you'll need 18mm headgaskets.
As for the oil cooler screen it comes with the oil cooler kit. Standpipes come with a ford headgasket kit but you'll have to get dummy plugs on your own.
pick up a turbo drain tube, egr cooler gasket kit, intake gaskets, rocker box gaskets, glow plug harnesses(if your sending the heads out they'll want everything removed), 8 injector o-ring kits.
it would be a good idea to change all of your exhaust manifold bolts and add gaskets there too. also the dipstick needs removed and there is an o-ring on that.
Thanks reliob lol.
Well since I always get asked what parts I would recommend and where to get them as well as prices and part numbers I figured I would compile a list of parts for people to choose from for their head gasket and stud jobs.
ARP Head Studs: 250-4202 - Let me know if I can help you out with these, stealth automotive $439
OEM Oil Cooler Rebuild kit: 3C3Z 6A642 CA- Order from sunrisefordparts.com $269.43 shipped
BPD Remote Oil Cooler Kit - Price varies depending on what options you choose.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THE IPR Gen 2 EGR delete is NOT compatible with the BPD oil cooler kit.
IPR Gen 2 EGR delete kit: SKU: EGD-60GEN2B- iprresearch.com $259.99 + shipping
IPR High Flow Coolant Filter: iprresearch.com $249.00 + shipping
2003 Glow Plugs (SHORT) need 8: 3C3Z 12A342 AA - sunrisefordparts.com $13.20 ea. $105.60 total
2004-2007 Glow Plugs (LONG) need 8: 4C3Z 12A342 AA - sunrisefordparts.com $11.27 ea. $90.16 total
2003 - 2004
Glowplug buss bar right side: 3C3Z 12A690 BA - sunrisefordparts.com $40.80
Glowplug buss bar left side: 3C3Z 12A690 AA - sunrisefordparts.com $40.80
2004.5 - 2007
Glowplug harness left side: 4C2Z 12A690 BA- sunrisefordparts.com $40.80
Glowplug harness right side: 4C2Z 12A690 AB- sunrisefordparts.com $40.80
Updated Turbo drain tube: 6C3Z 9T515 A - sunrisefordparts.com $24.37
Updated Turbo Oil feed: 3C3Z 9T516 A - sunrisefordparts.com $87.50
Thermostat: 4C4Z 8575 AA - sunrisefordparts.com $28.60
6.4 Banjo bolts: w302472 Need 2 - sunrisefordparts.com $10.50
6.4 banjo bolt washers: w303659 need 4 - sunrisefordparts.com $3.60
Main drive belt: jk8 1331 a - sunrisefordparts.com $49.82
Secondary drive belt: jk6 664 a - sunrisefordparts.com $25.34
Updated dummy plugs need 2: w302908 - sunrisefordparts.com $12.30 ea $24.60 total.
Updated standpipes need 2 (2003-2004.25): 3C3Z 6N853 BA - sunrisefordparts.com $51.60 ec $103.20 total. Not sure if headgaskets for the 03 come with the standpipe or not?? Checking on this and will update when I get the proper information.
Updated Standpipes need 2 (2004.5-2007): 6E7Z 9A332 A - sunrisefordparts.com $45.60 ea $91.20 total. Keep in mind new head gaskets come with 1 standpipe with each head gasket.
There is also a "kit" that has both updated dummy plugs (2) and both updated standpipes (2): 6E7Z 9A332 B - sunrisefordparts.com $111.60
18mm OEM Head Gaskets: 3C3Z 6051 CB need 2 - sunrisefordparts.com $147.60 each, $295.20 total for both. Comes with new updated standpipe, new gasket and head locating dowels (each gasket has one of each and 10 TTY bolts).
20mm OEM Head gaskets: 6C3Z 6051 AA need 2 - sunrisefordparts.com $271.20, Comes with new updated standpipe, gasket TTY headbolts and head locating dowels. Sunrisefordparts.com*
DEPENDING on the MY of your truck you will either have 18mm or 20mm heads.
Build date before Jan 17, 2006 you have an uncommonized engine with 18mm heads and dowels.
Build date after Jan 17, 2006 you have a commonized engine with 20mm heads and dowels.
Water separator updated drain kit: 6e7z 9c082 a - sunrisefordparts.com $12.50
OEM Oil Filter: FL 2016 - sunrisefordparts.com $19.50
OEM Fuel Filter Kit: 3c3z 9n184 cb - sunrisefordparts.com $49.95
Exhaust manifold gaskets: 6c3z 9448 a need 2 - sunrisefordparts.com $21.22
CAC boots both hot and cold side. RIFFRAFFDIESEL.com I paid $140 shipped. If your cold side CAC (intercooler tube) is black plastic than upgrade to the metal one. 6c3z 6c640 aa sunrisefordparts.com $115.08
Injector o-ring kit: 3C3Z 9229 AA need 8 - sunrisefordparts.com $31.68 (if you send injectors to Jesse Warren you don't need this part)*
Fleetgaurd Restore and Fleetgaurd Restore + cooling system chemical flushes. Can get at local big rig truck dealers (they can order it) usually around $23-$30 a gallon, need one gallon of each.
Zerex EC-1 Rated ELC fully formulated coolant, 1 case* buy it at NAPA Part number is ZXED-1 usually between $13-$20 a gallon times 6 in a case.
Rotella T6 full synthetic oil
I would also suggest updated ported rockers OR at the very least new plastic fulcrums for them.
For the rockers here is the Part numbers and prices.
Combination need 6 of these, 4C3Z 6564 AA - $52.80 each $316.80 total for all 6 @ sunrisefordparts.com
Single Intake rocker need 2 of these, 3C3Z 6564 BA - $44.40 each $88.80 total for both @ sunrisefordparts.com
Single Exhaust rocker need 2 of these, 3C3Z 6564 AB - $44.40 each $88.80 total for both @ sunrisefordparts.com
I would suggest push rods since it's apart. 8c3z 6565 b need 16- sunrisefordparts.com $64.80
Depending on mileage it may be a good idea to replace the Roller Lifters.
Roller lifters with plastic guide and 4 lifters, need 4 of these sets: 8C3Z 6C329 A - sunrisefordparts.com $52.80 a set, $211.20 total
ARP Ultra Torque Lube 10oz bottle with brush*
Fumoto quick drain valve for the oil pan F-111n
Fumoto quick drain valves for the block plugs F-108N*
Snap-on torque adapter tool for rear head bolt on driver side. SRD35 $55 + shipping
11/16 12pt 1/2" drive short socket for head stud nuts.
18mm 1/2" drive 6pt socket to remove head bolts.
Blue spring fuel pressure update: 3C3Z 9T517 AG - sunrisefordparts.com $57.60
Updated STC fitting for 2005-2007 trucks: 4C3Z 9B246 F $42 at sunrisefordparts.com
HPOP cover gasket: 3C3Z 6619 EA - sunrisefordparts.com $13.20
IPR screen update: 3C3Z 9H529 A - sunrisefordparts.com $30.00
IPR valve (2003-2004): 3C3Z 9C968 AA - sunrisefordparts.com $195.60
IPR valve if it needs replaced (2005-2007): 5C3Z 9C968 CA - sunrisefordparts.com $186.00 (can be found cheaper)
If doing head gaskets on a 2003 - 2004.25 I would suggest replacing the ICP sensor and pigtail as well while it is apart as it is buried under the turbo and it would be a quick swap while it is all apart. That and they are known to fail on these MY's.
ICP sensor (2003-2004): 3C3Z 9F838 EA - sunrisefordparts.com $114.00
ICP sensor (2004.5-2007): 4C3Z 9F838 A - sunrisefordparts.com $114.00
ICP sensor pigtail (also the same pigtail for the EBP sensor): 5C3Z 12224 A - sunrisefordparts.com $60.00
If you decide to replace the HPOP this is where I would get it (I got mine from here) it comes with the updated STC fitting as well as a new IPR valve and the HPOP (2005-2007 models come with IPR and STC fitting 2003-2004 only come with the pump).
2003-2004.5 HPOP: 3C3Z 9A543 AARM - sunrisefordparts.com has it for $564 +$150 core. Injectorwarehouse.com is $579.95 + $200 core charge.
HPOP-123X Ford Power Stroke High Pressure Oil Pump - Injector Warehouse
2005-2007 HPOP: 5C4Z 9A543 A - sunrisefordparts.com has it for $666.00 +$150 core for the pump only this place is $599.95 + $75 core charge and includes the updated STC fitting and new IPR valve with updated screen.
HPOP-122X Ford Power Stroke High Pressure Oil Pump - Injector Warehouse
If I forgot anything I will add it later lol.
Also here is a link to most of the parts/numbers anyone would ever need for their 6.0L incase I missed something that someone might need or want.
6.0 Parts List By FORD?INTERNATIONAL
And here is a link to my build thread showing how it is possible for one person to tackle this job in their driveway, by themselves, with limited tools AND wearing only FILPPY FLOPPIES, shorts and a tee shirt!
She's under the knife, My build thread. Lots' Pics.
Excellent list; I hadn't seen that before!
My original plan (cost related) was to use an OEM oil cooler - Realizing of course that the best option is the BPD kit, is it foolish to use the OEM cooler?
Do you plan on keeping the truck for a LONG time?? If so then yes spend the money now and get the BPD kit.
Here's the deal Brian. I just did my head gaskets and studs myself in my driveway in September only to have what was a good oil cooler with delta's of 3-5* max spike to over 17* when I reassembled and added coolant. I decided at that point that if I had to tear back into the truck again that I didn't want it to be for a stupid azz oil cooler failure. I also plan on driving my truck til the wheels fall off of it and I also just want to enjoy my truck now. So after having done all that work only to find out I needed to do ANOTHER oil cooler swap I had enough and did what I said I would never do lol. I bought the BPD kit.
Did you replace your cooler when you did your head gaskets?
I did a coolant flush in June 2011 and delta was around 10* afterwards. My current delta (18 months; 35,000 miles later) is around 16-18* so either way, I'd be replacing the cooler. I just don't know if I could justify the $2000+ cost for a BPD one right now.
Last edited by Dante04SRT; 01-13-2013 at 12:55 PM.
No I had a ruptured oil cooler in July of 2011 and I replaced it then chemical flushed the chit out of it with Restore and VC-9. Installed my coolant filter and Cat EC-1 rated ELC and called it good. Then my head gaskets blew in February of 2012 and kept puking coolant out of the degas bottle like it was it's job and I got tired of spending $15-$20 on a gallon of coolant each time so I filled it up with water and just plugged it in at night during the rest of the Winter.
Come May I flushed the cooling system with Restore and VC-9 again and added 3 gallons of Zerex EC-1 rated ELC and topped off with tap water. Monitored my deltas and never saw a rise more than 5* EVER. So I wasn't worried about changing the cooler when I did studs and gaskets. So I did all the work and filled it up with tap water for the initial start and test drive and all was still good with 3-5* spreads. I then drained and just flushed a couple of times with distilled water and then added my coolant and called it a night (also note that while it was apart I had cleaned the heater core and back flushed it as well then sucked it out with a shop vac). Got in the truck the next morning and left and was monitoring my deltas and what do you know?? 17-19* spread. At that point I was pissed so I got on the phone with BPD and started making arrangements to purchase their kit. I still haven't installed it lol it's sitting in my bedroom right now but I will install it when the weather breaks and then I will forever be done with OEM oil cooler problems on my truck.
Also note that this would be the 4th OEM oil cooler failure in my truck. So I enough is enough.
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Good sound from the ear buds, if they fit your ear, ours can fall out during a performance,replaced them with custom fit buds .Came with a rack mount,which is great, but I had to buy the coaxl and fitting from Galaxy to move the antenna to the front of the rack. We use rechargeable battery's . Doesn't come with a case, if you do not mount it in a rack. What the picture shows is what you get.
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This is good starter for band.ALL THE BAND MENBERS LOVE IT.
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These things are -almost- the ultimate stage monitor! We got these to use onstage during live performances, and they deliver the goods cleanly. In fact, they work so well that we're eliminating the front wedges. The 5-hour battery life seems a bit short, but with good batteries, these will go much longer than 5 hrs. continuous. Having their own volume control per pack makes things a whole bunch better too. Plus, they're stereo- use one bud or both, mix vocs in one side, and critical instruments in the other, or literally whatever you need! Range is excellent, too- I got over 100' away from the receiver and was outside with a brick wall between, and the signal didn't drop at all.
Only two drawbacks-
1. the earbuds. And that's only because they're earbuds, and because I have a hard time with most earbuds, I have to get choosy. That's not to say these buds aren't any good, I just used my own custom-fit earbuds.
2. If you get the earbuds/headphones that are right for you, you'll hear how off-key your singing really is. Fortunately, these help correct that. (Yeah- the AS-900 sounds THAT clear!)
Also- If you use buds with the 1/8" T-R-R-S jack, you might have problems with distorted sound. Easy fix- just don't plug that jack in so far, and it'll work just fine.
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College Commencement Information and Services
- Where to Eat
- Bookstores
- UR Tech Store
- Memorial Art Gallery
- Senior Week Tickets
- Assistance to the Disabled
- Parking
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- Emergencies
- Where to Stay
- Yearbook & Flower Sale
Danforth Dining in Susan B. Anthony Hall
Sunday, May 17, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
The Danforth Commencement Brunch will be available to presale ticket holders only, from 10:30 a.m.–2:00p.m. Tickets are $18.25 for adults and $9.25 for children 4–10 years of age.
Students can purchase advanced tickets beginning in April from Danforth Dining Center and The Commons in Wilson Commons. Declining, cash, Uros and credit card welcome.
Tickets can be ordered through Meliora Catering for purchase with credit cards. Please call (585) 275-7687 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Ticket sales will be available in Danforth Dining Center through Monday, May 11 and in The Commons in Wilson Commons and Meliora Catering through Wednesday, May 13.
The Commons in Wilson Commons
Friday, May 15, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Starbucks in Wilson Commons
Friday, May 15, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
Connections in Rush Rhees Library
Sunday, May 17, 7 a.m.-3.p.m.
Pura Vida in Lobby of Goergen Hall (BME/Optics Building)
Friday, May 15, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Hillside POD in Susan B. Anthony Hall
Friday, May 15, 12 p.m.-10 p.m..
Saturday, May 16, 12 p.m.-10 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Max at the Gallery (located at the Memorial Art Gallery)
Please call (585) 473-6629 for hours and reservations.
Barnes and Noble at University of Rochester; (585) 275-4012
Friday, May 15, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Pop up location: TBD
Eastman School of Music; (585) 274-1399
Friday, May 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
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Rush Rhees Library, River Campus; (585) 275-8353, Option 6
Friday, May 15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, Closed
Medical Center; (585) 275-8353, Option 7
Friday, May 15, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, Closed
Sunday, May 17, Closed
Friday, May 15, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Senior Week tickets will go on sale May 2015.
College Commencement Ceremony: Limited seating is available in a Reserved Area for guests that require wheelchair access. A drop off area is provided at the Meliora Parking Lot and golf carts will be available to bring guests to the Quad entrance. Students may request up to 3 tickets for this Reserved Area (one wheelchair guest with up to two accompanying guests) by contacting the Conference and Events Office at (585) 275-4111 or by sending an e-mail. (The deadline to request tickets in the wheelchair access area is Friday, April 17.)
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre Commencement Ceremonies: Handicapped seating is available in the theatre, ushers will be on hand to direct people to the designated seating areas.
Parking for the Doctoral Degree Commencement and the Warner School Commencement: Parking for the Saturday Commencement for the Doctoral Degrees and the Warner School will be available for a fee in the East End Garage on East Main Street between Swan and Scio streets, or in the Allpro Parking Lot on the corner of Gibbs and East Main streets.
Parking for Eastman Theatre Diploma Ceremonies: Parking for the Sunday Eastman Theatre Diploma ceremonies will be available for a fee in the East End Garage on East Main Street between Swan and Scio streets or in the Allpro Parking Lot on the corner of Gibbs and East Main streets.
Parking for the College Commencement: Free parking will be available Friday and Saturday in all River Campus lots. Parking on Sunday will be in Park Lot, Intercampus Drive Lot, and Crittenden Lot 1. Continuous shuttle service will be provided for all guests parking in these lots. Parking staff will be available in all lots to assist.
Guests who need more assistance because of physical limitations or disabilities may be dropped off at the Meliora Lot with golf cart service to the Eastman Quadrangle. Golf cart service is provided as a convenience to all guests on a first come, first served basis. Handicapped parking will be available in the Library Lot for vehicles with an authorized handicapped parking permit.
Free Bus Service Sunday, May 17: Continuous service between the Eastman Theatre, Eastman Student Living Center, and the River Campus (Library Road entrance, Rush Rhees Library). Buses will run continuously from 7:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Continuous service between Helen Wood Hall, Goler House, Southside/University Park and Whipple Park, Medical Center, Sarah Flaum Atrium, Park Lot, and the River Campus (Library Road entrance, Rush Rhees Library). Buses will run continuously from 7:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Continuous service for graduates residing in the Riverview Apartments to campus ceremonies from 7 a.m. to noon
Commencement Participants should board a bus no later than 7:55 a.m. to be on time for robing and assembly for the academic procession.
Buses will be scheduled to return to the Eastman School immediately following the College Commencement ceremony.
Please use the link below to view real-time maps and arrival predictions.
A number of locations around the River Campus will broadcast the College Commencement Ceremony in real time. Locations include, 101 Dewey Hall, Hoyt Auditorium, Hubbell Auditorium, the IT Center in Rush Rhees, Morey 321, and the first floor of Wilson Commons (adjacent to rooms 121 and 122).
Before Graduation Weekend
University Conference and Events Office, 575 Mt. Hope Ave., University of Rochester, P.O. Box 270041, Rochester, NY 14620; Phone: (585) 275-4111
University Registrar, 312 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, P.O. Box 270038, Rochester, NY 14627-0038; Phone: (585) 275-8131
On Graduation Weekend
Common Connection Information Center, 201 Wilson Commons; Phone (585) 275-5911; Saturday, May 16, 12 p.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, May 17, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.
Call University Security (24 hours) by dialing "13" from University phones, or use any of the direct-line Blue Light Emergency Phones, or call (585) 275-3333.
Yearbooks and flowers will be available for purchase on Hoyt Plaza prior to the morning Commencement ceremony.
After the ceremony yearbooks will be sold in Wilson Commons until 3 p.m.
Please feel free to contact the Commencement Office by phone at (585) 275-4111 or click here to send an e-mail.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — We know we shouldn't eat raw cookie dough, but sometimes it's hard to resist.
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Version: Mailings 1.8.6
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I've used this product for about 5 mailings in the trail and I will definately get it. It does EVERYTHING I need to. Most importantly, I send out a newsletter to about 400 subscribers and my server only allows me to only send a limited number per hour. The program allows me to "throttle" the setting to allow for my email and regular email biz each hour. It also import DBs and will personalize each mailing. It is well done and took me about an hour to understand the entire program. GREAT JOB!
"Works well, great price, perfectly legitimate"
Version: Mailings 1.6.3
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This program does a great job and the price is right. Even if your mailing list is small, it's worth it to send an individual email to each person instead of using BCC.
Regarding the html in email controversy, this program also allows you to send only plain text which is what I use most.
The only thing I would like to see is some improvement in the interface making the plain text only feature a little more obvious. But, as with most software, once you figure it out it works great.
Thanks to the developer for a great, affordable program.
"Works well. Developer very helpful."
Version: Mailings 1.6.1
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This product does what I want it to: basically sending a webpage via email to a group of people.
I was having a little trouble, but after a short email message to the developer later, I was able to find and troubleshoot my problem.
"Works Great"
Version: Mailings 1.5.5
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I did a mailing of about 500 from Address Book.app, and I was amazed at the simplicity and flawlessness. Very useful and dependable app.
"Excellent utility!"
Version: Mailings 1.4.4
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This is a well conceived and thoughtful application offered at a fair price.
"I needed the bug Fix, but really like the new..."
Version: Mailings 1.3
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OK, I'm impressed! The interface for this software is a hugh plus over other programs I've tried to use. Get your browser to view the html page you want to send. Launch this program. Start at the top of the page and make a few well documented choices (with popup help) and send the newsletter or whatever.
I was hoping for a bug fix to stop my crashing problem, but didn't expect the new features, like the improved methods to set the 'Sender Address' to come so quickly. My clients want the mail to appear to come from them and now this is very easy to set up.
Joe must not sleep. Tech support has been awesome.
"Forgot to give the stars ..."
Version: Mailings 1.2.9
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
when writing my feedback. So here they are ...
"Crashes when sending emails captured from Browser"
Version: Mailings 1.2.7
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I'm actually using v1.2.8 that I downloaded from the developers site. I don't have the time to figure out if earlier versions work but this one did not.
It sends local files from my hard drive fine (but you don't get any graphics). When I choose the page I built on a site just for a bulk mail test and preview with browser it looks fine. Thinking that maybe there was a problem with that page, I tried another site with the same results. When I hit the send button it crashes.
Very nice and easy to learn interface, but not ready yet. Interface gets 5 stars, but only 1 for Stability and 2 for price. I probably would still have bought it for $15 - $20
Version: Mailings 1.2.6
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Great work Joe and company.
I have used MaxBulk Mailer X for 3 years... this program beats it hands down!
"Perfection achieved"
Version: Mailings 1.2.2
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Amazing! Joe must be one of the hardest working and most responsive developers of software for the Mac. All I can say is that Mailings is now perfect, according to all of my strict standards, and I feel impressed to check out whatever other software Joe has developed.
I love this application not just for its ability to perform batch/mass mailings to other people but more importantly to send Web pages to myself and other family members, just as Windows users have been able to do with Internet Explorer for years. Saving a Web page with Safari only saves the HTML without all of the necessary images, and other applications that have the option of downloading Web archives preserve the content in a format that is not practical for most uses.
I challenge other VersionTracker visitors to find a mass/batch emailer that is better than this one, as the current offerings fall far short of Mailings' capabilities and interface.
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