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Seminole County Pet Adopt-a-thon – This is Seminole County Animal Services 14th Annual Pet Adop-a-thon on March 25th, 2017 from 10am-3pm at 101 Eslinger Way, Sanford
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James Dillon describes his childhood as a contradiction.
"I was a Mod teenager who was obsessed with Delta blues. I discovered the Stones when I was 12 and found this name Muddy Waters on the back of their LPs. It took me ages to figure out he was actually a person. Nobody was called Muddy Waters in Glasgow."
Now 61 and arguably the most singular and innovative Scottish composer of his generation, Dillon is four years into a professorship at the University of Minnesota. This too is a bit of a contradiction; he is largely self-taught and by his own admission is "not made for institutions". He started a foundation year at the Glasgow School of Art when he was 18 but dropped out before his exams. He's no diplomat, either; he speaks his mind and seems prone to making instant enemies of bureaucrats. He has a reputation for difficulty, both musically and temperamentally. The image of him coaching college students in the heartland of "Minnesota Nic" is baffling.
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"It does make me a little schizophrenic," he explains as he ushers me into his West London home. "When you teach, you start taking on problems that aren't yours. I can't seem to let go." He's just back from the US, on his way to Norway to oversee rehearsals for a new work to be premiered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on Saturday.
When he arrived in Minnesota the university had no ensemble to perform student works or contemporary repertoire, so he set one up. He refuses to use the university concert hall because it's ugly, and banned American music for the first two years. "There was a mass intake of breath around the room when I announced that one… In the third year I allowed some Morton Feldman."
"So many professors just pick up their salary while the kids rack up enormous debts. If there's anything I can offer, I'd like them to leave school more open-minded than if they hadn't met me." The alternate persona he adopts in the US seems to bemuse him. "There probably is a gregarious side to me. I probably enjoy it. I'm probably okay at it."
More of a concern is that he can't compose there. It's not the time spent teaching, but the mental space it occupies. He returns to London whenever he can, to the brick terrace house by Queen's Park where he has lived for 25 years. "The minute I walk in here I start to compose," he says.
Dillon first came to London as a retreat. He needed to get away from a communal house in Cornwall he says was killing him. "Everyone was into psychedelia and there was a lot of acid around. My body wasn't made to cope with that kind of abuse. I ended up with TB in hospital. Then I met a girl – I was 19 and she saved me. Together we escaped to London."
He had moved to Cornwall to escape the vices of another scene – Glasgow's folk clubs in the late 1960s. He'd signed up for the art school but learned how to drink instead. He bought a guitar in a junk shop on Great Western Road and started strumming along at pub sessions.
He enjoyed the authenticity of the folk music ("or at least, the authenticity of its delivery"), but felt burnt out and claustrophobic so headed south – for the second time. Aged 10 his family moved to Huddersfield – "of all places!" There he battled through high school with a funny accent and supporting the other team at football. His Scottish identity "was honed by going to school in England; I'm no nationalist, no flag-waver or kiltie, but I am Scottish." Now his accent speaks like an audio biography: Glasgow solidly at its core, softened by Yorkshire and London and even mid-west America.
He offers various guesses at why he's found his relationship with Scotland strained. "Maybe it's because I've chosen not to live there and people resent that. Or maybe because I'm seen – simplistically – as an arch-Modernist. If Britain has struggled with so-called Modernism, Scotland really has." As he mulls over the "idiotic" labels that have been attached to his work, it is the only point in the conversation when Dillon comes close to irritable.
His new piece for Huddersfield is the second of three triptychs, each named after its commissioning city; 2009's Leuven Triptych is an extraordinary response to the art of Rogier van der Weydan, and next summer a New York Triptych is due for premiere at Darmstadt. The current preoccupation, though, is Oslo. "I've given the musicians cheap voice transformers to play with," he says; they sound "nasty and interesting" but are temperamental. "If the performers get it wrong I look like an idiot! Which is why at the last minute I've decided to go over to Norway…"
Dillon's music is notoriously challenging. That's mostly because he's after particular sounds, he says, which are only attainable at extreme ends of instruments. But he admits there's an element of provocation, too. "It's about concentration and engagement. Players are so highly trained today that they easily drift into a comfort zone."
At the heart of his polemic is concern with performance experience. Going into a concert should be like "stepping into a magic circle," he says, and much of his work explores ways of finding that. Nine Rivers, staged by the BBC SSO last year, tried vast proportions. The current triptychs retreat to a more pragmatic scale, but continue the search.
Cikada perform Oslo/Triptych on Saturday afternoon in St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield.


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Should lawmakers be allowed to smoke in the capitol?
Tue, 10 May 2011 02:02:03 GMT —
Smoking is not allowed in any public building in Jefferson City, including restaurants, bars and all state office buildings.
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Some viewers think so, because lawmakers can still smoke inside their offices in the capitol.
"We elect these people to be leaders in our state. The leaders are sending the wrong message of smoking in a state building when nobody else is allowed to smoke in any state building, Cole County Resident Mike Singer said.
In January state lawmakers passed a rule that no one can smoke in the gallery, which is in the back of the chamber.
But they can still smoke behind closed doors in their offices.
Why is that?
One lawmaker, who doesn't agree with the rule, explains that the offices are considered private.
"My office is considered a private space for a legislator and therefore I can choose to smoke in this space if I want to, State Representative District 59 Jeanette Mott Oxford said.
But not everyone buys that argument.
"We have people that have private offices in other state maintained buildings, are they allowed to smoke in their offices, no. So why should the legislators be allowed to, I don't see that they're better than anybody else, Singer said.
Not all lawmakers think it's fine to smoke in the capitol. Some think they should do away with it.
"I don't really see the point of letting representatives smoke in their office, State Representative District 113 Mike Bernskoetter said.
Bernskoetter said if it comes back up for a vote, he'll try to snuff out all the smoking in the capitol. Mott Oxford told me she wants all smoking banned from the capitol because it sets a bad example for children.
"Every day hundreds if not thousands of school children tour this building. We tell them in their health classes don't smoke, but they come to the seat of power in state and they find a building with smoke in it. That TMs really an issue of hypocrisy for me and I think we ought to change it, Mott Oxford said.
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MADISON - Best case scenario? Wisconsin sophomore quarterback Jon Budmayr will only be sidelined for the Badgers season opener against UNLV.
The worst case is pretty self-explanatory in regards to Budmayr who has been held out of practice for most of fall camp with an injury to his throwing elbow.
"They went to a hand, arm and elbow specialist," UW head coach Bret Bielema said during his Saturday press conference. "He basically had irritated a nerve that has swelled up to the point that it has caused numbness in two fingers of his throwing hand. Until that comes back he can't really grip a football or do anything with the throwing motion. Only time will tell how fast that comes back or if surgery is needed.
"Right now it looks like he's going to be out a prolonged time."
Redshirt freshman Joe Brennan will be Russell Wilson's immediate backup for the foreseeable future. True freshman Joel Stave has also been put on notice.
"Both of those guys know that they're kind of in the mix if called upon," Bielema said. "Obviously Nate Tice is there to help get us out of a game as well."
The bigger news, other than the immediate lack of depth at the position, is what happens to Budmayr. Considering the swelling has failed to recede over the course of the past handful of weeks and considering the coaching staff and trainers aren't entirely sure what the prognosis is, it seems as though Budmayr could be put on the shelf for quite some time.
Should surgery need to happen, Bielema was confident Budmayr would be healed and ready for spring camp, one where an interesting positional battle would see its genesis.
"We're still kind of getting some new information," Bielema said. "When you're dealing with a nerve it's very independent upon the body and how you react. Not one scenario can be forecasted for another guy in the same situation. There's a lot of uncertainty right now, but I really do believe that come next spring he's be ready to fully compete for the job."
Injury report:
The injury news outside of Budmayr seemed to be pretty encouraging. Aaron Henry (sprained ankle) has been completely cleared and will practice moving forward.
Freshman running back Jeff Lewis (hand) practiced Friday night and is good to go. Freshman tight end/fullback Sherard Cadogan (high ankle sprain) is expected back at any time. Kicker Philip Welch will kick Saturday afternoon and has been kicking during a couple different occasions throughout the past week.
Bielema also mentioned that there is an outside chance sophomore wide receiver Manasseh Garner will be ready and available for week one of the season. Originally it was thought that Garner wouldn't be able to participate until week two of the regular season.
"We're getting a lot of guys healthy," Bielema said.
Kicking competition:
The initial depth chart released earlier in the week has Alec Lerner handling kickoffs and Philip Welch taking care of field goal opportunities. In the meantime, though, Kyle French has continued to impress and hasn't quite thrown in the towel in regards to that ongoing kicking competition.
"I've really been happy with Kyle's progress," Bielema said. "I tried to put as much pressure as I could on the kickers and see them perform under as much pressure as we could. Both Alec and Kyle responded very, very positively. Phil, as we know, has been able to kick in pressure situations.
"If he shows me during the course of the week, more importantly coach Charlie Partridge, we'll make the ultimate call on that. But I really believe Phil, because he's been there and done that, can kind of slip back in this week.
"I could see Phil being our field goal kicker if he shows it this week."
Starters and special teams:
Look back to a season ago and it won't take long to see the impact several starters made during special team situation. Whether Lance Kendricks was demolishing opponents during kickoffs or David Gilreath returning punts and kicks, there were plenty of regular contributors handling special teams duties.
Expect that trend to continue in 2011.
"We probably will limit guys so that they're a part of only two units," Bielema said. "Not just Jared Abbrederis, but a guy like David Gilbert, Dezmen Southward, Antonio Fenelus and Devin Smith. We've got to make sure we're not taxing them during game time, but with as hard as we practice and as hard as we rep we've got to be smart about how much work we're giving them during the week as well.
"Naturally it will be a little bit of a concern, but it's not going to affect whether they're back there or not."
Oh captain my captain:
Bielema insists he didn't fudge the numbers when he sat down with Mark Taurisani (Director of Football Operation) and counted the votes coming in for captain. Though two players from both sides of the ball were picked, Bielema had nothing to do with it.
"You pretty much just kept marking the same four guys," Bielema said of the process. "It is a unique mix and it is blended perfectly with offense and defense. They're very dynamic."
Bradie Ewing and Patrick Butrym are two Wisconsin kids. They grew up within its borders and proved to be lifelong Badger fans throughout their entire childhood.
"They both made a reference about being a captain for the school they idolized growing up," Bielema said. "And how that came full circle when they were standing up there."
Aaron Henry and Russell Wilson are two players that never really anticipated being a part of the Badger family until circumstances outside of their control eventually led them to Madison.
It's an interesting gel of background stories and personalities.
"Aaron Henry is a guy that turned down Florida and a national championship team for a scholarship to come play at Wisconsin," Bielema said. "He talked about that. Then Russell just made reference to the fact that he's never been a part of anything like this. He really truly loved everybody in the room and he felt accepted when he came it.
"He said it was nowhere close to where we were going to go, but he was generally excited to be here. I think that's the culture that we have. Everybody has a little different story but they all come together as one."
Bielema on his philosophy toward Twitter:
"We've basically always had the premise to not put anything out there you wouldn't want your mother to read or anything out there that could motivate our opponents. A team that has a bunch of rules (will have) a bunch of rules that are going to get broken or violated. So I haven't banned it. I will, case-by-case, ban someone if I find them to be really, really inappropriate with what they're Facebooking or Tweeting, but on the same account I think it's a freedom of expression."


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As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center will consider, from the perspective of the humanities, the impact of war upon individuals, cultures, institutions and societies. Throughout the 2012-13 academic year, scholars, public intellectuals, journalists and social workers will explore topics such as the psychological and social challenges confronting veterans and their communities, the diverse narratives and commentaries that circulate about war, the place of war in the social imaginary, and the manifold forms of human aggression. Art installations, film screenings, creative performances and literary readings will give voice to the experiences of those whose lives have been affected by war.
Click here to listen to podcasts from the 2012-13 IHC series: Fallout: In the Aftermath of War on SoundCloud.
Past Events
2012 - 2013
THE NINTH ARTHUR N. RUPE GREAT DEBATE: Drone Warfare: Prospects and Dangers
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 / 8:00 PM
Campbell Hall – FREE
Debate participants:
David Cole (Law, Georgetown University)
Mary Ellen O'Connell (Law, University of Notre Dame)
Avery Plaw (Political Science, Dartmouth University)
Moderator:Jeff Greenfield
The use of militarized drones – flying unmanned aircraft equipped with weaponry – represents a major shift in the calculus of war and combat. Three leading thinkers debate the perils and promises of drone warfare. David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism. Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law at University of Notre Dame, research professor of international dispute resolution and an expert on the international law of armed conflict. Avery Plaw is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, specializing in political theory and international relations, and author of Targeting Terrorists: a License to Kill? Jeff Greenfield, who for 30 plus years served as correspondent, analyst and anchor for CBS, ABC and CNN, will moderate.
Click here to watch a video of the debate from the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series.
Presented by the College of Letters & Science at UC Santa Barbara and made possible by an endowment from the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation. Co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series and UCSB Arts & Lectures.
Closing Talk and Reception: Remembering War, Looking Forward
John W.I. Lee (History, UCSB)
with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin
Thursday, May 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Historian John Lee offers closing reflections on the year's IHC program, Fallout. Using as a starting point the war memoirs of Xenophon (ca. 427-355 BC), Lee considers our changing visions of war, memory and trauma, war memoirs, and the relationship between war and the humanities. Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Click here to listen to a recording of John Lee's talk for the IHC's Fallout series.
Talk: The Last Guardian of the Earth
Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies)
Thursday, May 2, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Carl Schmitt, in his book Theory of the Partisan, makes a fundamental distinction between wars that are fought in defense of a specific territory and wars that are fought in the name of a specific ideology; for instance, international communism and global guerrilla wars. The automation of warfare which we have been experiencing within the last two decades, an effect of digital techniques, adds a new component. What happens when the transgression of boundaries can be done at no risk to the lives of a nation's soldiers, or a group of guerrilleros or international terrorists? What will define the end of such "no-risk" wars?
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In The Aftermath of War.
Click here to listen to a recording of Wolf Kittler's talk from the IHC's Fallout series.
Conference: Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center – UC Santa Barbara
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
"Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War" will focus on the capacity of narrative-making to help returning service members deal with the after-effects of war and reintegrate into their communities. This conference is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) of the University of California, Santa Barbara as part of its 2012-2013 program "Fallout," a year-long series of events dedicated to examining the impact of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan upon the soldiers who have fought in these wars.
Please click here for more information about the conference participants.
Thursday, April 25
9:00 AM Coffee and pastries
9:15 AM Opening remarks and introductions:
David Marshall, Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts
Susan Derwin, Director, IHC
9:30 AM Panel #1
Chair: Wolf Kittler, German, Slavic and Semitic Studies, UCSB
Liam Corley, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona: "Wounded Narratives and Amputation"
Farzana Marie, School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, University of Arizona: "Poetic Narratives of Conflict in Afghanistan"
Anne Shea, California College of the Arts, "'Writing Ourselves Into Being': 9 Scripts from a Nation at War"
10:45 AM Keynote address: Judith Broder and Carol Tanenbaum, The Soldiers Project: "Who are you now, where did we meet before? Reconnection in Family Life Through Shared Narratives"
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Panel #2
Chair: John Talbott, History, UCSB
Jacqueline Genovese, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas: "Post-Traumatic Story Disorder: Using the Power of Narrative to Heal the Invisible Wounds of War"
Dale Flynn, University Writing Program, UC Davis: "A Literature & Medicine Program at a VA Hospital"
2:15 PM Coffee break
2:30 PM Keynote address: Helene Moglen, UC Santa Cruz, and Sheila Namir, Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist, Santa Cruz: "'Fighting for Words': A Creative Writing Workshop for Veterans"
4:00 PM Readings by UCSB student veterans:
Steve Gunderman, U.S. Marine Corps veteran
Ben Hatcher, U.S. Coast Guard veteran
Paul Malone, U.S Army veteran
Lola Mondragὀn, U.S. Navy veteran
Raymond Morua, U.S. Army veteran
Victor Orta, U.S. Army veteran
Jose D. Perez, U.S. Navy veteran
5:00 PM Reception
Friday, April 26
9:00 AM Coffee and pastries
9:15 AM Panel #3
Chair: John W.I. Lee, History, UCSB
Tim Wood, SUNY Nassau Community College: "How to Hear a True War Story: Using Literature to Bridge the Experiential Divide between Veterans and Civilians"
Allen Redmon, Texas A&M University: "Reading War with Soldiers and their Spouses"
Susan Derwin, UC Santa Barbara: "Learning from Veterans' Writing"
10:45 AM Reading: "Ghosts": Shannon Camlin Ward, Methodist University
11:00 AM Readings by UCSB military loved ones:
Erin Anding, military dependent
Lyanne Garcia, military spouse
Lola Mondragὀn, military spouse
Brent Snyder, military dependent
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Panel #4
Chair: Brian Donnelly, English, UCSB
Frank Usbeck, University of Dresden: "Storytelling from the Front: American Milblogging as non-Native Warrior Ceremonies"
Lawrence Acker, Lindenwood University: "Not Technically a Veteran: The Impact of Working in a Combat Theatre for an Army Civilian"
John Becknell, Pacifica Graduate Institute: "When Civilians Listen to Veterans' Narratives of War"
2:30 PM Plenary discussion and closing remarks
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Talk: Seeing War: Identity, Purpose and Play
Nina Berman (documentary photographer, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia University)
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
War is both everywhere and invisible. It's there when we shop, when we socialize. We are reminded of it and yet distracted from its effects. In our culture we conflate war and play. We are attracted to weapons of war, in part, because they give us the promise of power and inspire heroic fantasies, at a time when many aspects of life feel small and without purpose. In the words of Chris Hedges, "war is a force that gives us meaning." Photographic artist Nina Berman will present examples from three bodies of work – Purple Hearts, Marine Wedding, and Homeland – which explore the consequences and allure of war and militarism in post-September 11 America.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Click here to listen to a recording of Nina Berman's talk form the IHC's Fallout series.
Symposium: The Legacy of Abu Ghraib
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB)
Joshua Phillips (author of None of Us Were Like This Before)
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Nearly a decade after the exposure of prisoner abuse perpetrated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the IHC will host a symposium to consider the long-term impact of the violations upon human rights policy and upon the United States' war on terror. Featured speakers will be Professor Lisa Hajjar, author of Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights, and award-winning print and broadcast journalist Joshua Phillips, author of None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Click here to listen to a recording of Lisa Hajjar and Joshua Phillips' symposium from the IHC's Fallout series.
Talk: Fictions of Friction: Narratives of War and "Post-War" in Contemporary Afghan Literature
Wali Ahmadi (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley)
Thursday, March 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
This talk will focus on how the wars of the last three decades have been represented in contemporary fiction in Afghanistan. It argues that the war against the Soviets concretized a sense of cohesiveness and national identity. The subsequent Civil War then created a critical juncture for writers to question the validity of a superficial national narrative and pinpoint the fault-lines of a sweeping Afghan nationalism. The talk will show how writers offer a critical evaluation of nationalism, and yet insist on the need for a grand national narrative in Afghanistan. Finally, the talk will address how the US intervention, especially Bush's mission civilisantrice that insisted on "nation-building" in Afghanistan actually led to furthering of hostilities among various "ethnic" groups inside Afghanistan. In a crucial sense, the "nation-building" scheme actually proved a disastrous experiment in "nation-wrecking."
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Symposium: Life in the Age of Drones
Thursday, February 28, 2013 / 2:00 – 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Casey Cooper Johnson (filmmaker, "UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey")
Arthur Kroker (Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the University of Victoria in British Columbia)
Nancy Mancias (CODEPINK, Coordinator of the Ground the Drones and War Criminals campaigns)
Lisa Parks (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Marko Peljhan (MAT, UCSB)
Life in the Age of Drones brings together a philosopher, activists, and artists to speak about the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles or "drones" in the world over the past decade. Panelists will present an array of research, art, and activist projects exploring how life has changed in age of drone warfare. Topics to be addressed include: the US drone war in Pakistan and practices of targeted killing; anti-drone protest movements; artistic interventions using drones; filmmaking and drone warfare; and DIY drones. Speakers' presentations will be followed by discussion with audience members.
Sponsored by CITS, the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War, the Dept. of Art, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, the Dept. of Film and Media Studies, the Global Studies Program and the Dept. of Sociology.
Symposium Schedule
2:00 PM Welcome
2:15 PM Keynote address
Arthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory at the University of Victoria, British Columbia: "After the Drones" (featuring video by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker and Jackson 2bears)
3:00 PM Panel 1
Marko Peljhan, MAT, UCSB, UCIRA Co-director: "The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems – A Brief History"
Casey Cooper Johnson, Independent Filmmaker, MFA, American Film Institute
"UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey"
4:00 PM Panel 2
Nancy Mancias, CODEPINK campaign organizer
"Much Ado About Drones: New Media to New War"
Lisa Parks, Film & Media Studies, UCSB, CITS Director
"Targeted Homelands: Networked Visions of the US Drone War in Pakistan"
5:00 PM Reception
Participant Bios:
Casey Cooper Johnson – Before completing his MFA at the American Film Institute, Casey spent ten years working in post-war Kosovo as a documentary filmmaker and political satirist. While there, he produced dozens of docs and an internationally syndicated current affairs program, LIFE IN KOSOVO. Casey is best known in the region for his satirical TV sketches, "KOSOVA'S SON IN LAW". After a decade of covering issues of conflict in the Balkans, he moved to Los Angeles for film studies and grew fascinated with the new ways that his own nation fights wars today. While at AFI, Johnson wrote and directed his first fiction film, UNMANNED, a short about the surreal life of a commuter drone operator, which screened at AFI Fest and Tribeca Film Festival. He currently produces non-fiction content for WIGS, a new digital channel created by Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia, while developing UNMANNED into a feature length movie, scheduled for release in 2014. For more info about UNMANNED,visit: www.unmannedthemovie.com
Arthur Kroker is the author, among others, of _Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway_, _The Will to Technology: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche_ and _Born Again Ideology_. Co-editor with Marilouise Kroker of the acclaimed online scholarly journal, CTheory.net, he is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory at the University of Victoria,Canada.
Nancy L. Mancias is a campaign organizer for CODEPINK. An anti-war, gay and women's rights advocate, Mancias has been actively trying to bring the troops home from their overseas misadventures and waging peace and equality across the country. She has also been part of the movement against torture and a proponent of closing the prison in Guantánamo. Like many in the anti-war movement, Mancias views her work against drone warfare as a natural extension of her peace efforts. She is a contributing writer to "Beautiful Trouble: A toolbox for revolution", a book that puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of change-makers.
Lisa Parks is a Professor and former Department Chair of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara, and an affiliate of the Department of Feminist Studies. She also currently serves as the Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara). Parks has conducted research on the uses of satellite, computer, and television technologies in different national contexts. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and engages with fields such as geography, art, international relations, and communication studies. She has published on topics ranging from secret satellites to drones, from the mapping of orbital space to political uses of Google Earth, from mobile phone use in post-communist countries to the visualization of communication infrastructures.
Marko Peljhan founded the arts and technology organization Projekt Atol in the early 90's and cofounded one of the first media labs in Eastern Europe, LJUDMILA in 1995. In the same year, the founded the technology branch of Projekt Atol called PACT SYSTEMS where he developed the Global Positioning System based participatory networked mapping project, the Urban Colonisation and Orientation Gear 144, one of the first works in the s.c. "locative media" genre. He has been working on the Makrolab, a project that focuses on telecommunications, migrations and weather systems research in an intersection of art and science from 1997-2007, the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation during the International Polar Year (project 417) and is currently, together with Matthew Biederman, coordinating the Arctic Perspective Initiative art/science/tactical media project focused on the global significance of the Arctic geopolitical, natural and cultural spheres.
Talk: Ontologies of Aerial Observation: Panoramic Reconnaissance and the Pre-History of Air War
Caren Kaplan (American Studies, UC Davis)
Friday, February 22, 2013 / 1:00 PM
Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that most analysis of the imagery of air power–reconnaissance analog and digital photography–situates this kind of visual data as universalized panopticism; total, rational, and complete. According to this approach, reconnaissance imagery can reveal meanings which are always already there waiting to be read. Yet, instances of aerial or elevated viewing before the invention of the airplane suggest a more ontological approach to perception; one that requires habits of observation over time to assemble things like "views." The strange perspective of vertical views from balloons, the dizzying "pirouette" of the oblique panorama, and the triangulated precision of the ordnance survey–these diverse instances demonstrate the uneven nature of representations of terrain that required the development of new habits of visual expertise. In the effort to make sense, to make "something," out of numerous sights, sounds, and sensations, aerial observation offered neither rational panopticism nor irrational multiplicity. Instead, these technologies of vision and representation were "put together" by viewers who sought to repeat the experiences of aerial and elevated observation for pleasure, knowledge, and also, for war.
Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Cinema & Technocultural Studies at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke, 1996) and the co-author and co-editor of Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill 2001/2005), Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke 1999), and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota 1994) as well as two digital multi-media scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. Her current research focuses on aerial views and militarized visual culture.
Sponsored by the Center for Information Technology and Society, the Department of Film and Media, and the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Talk: When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
Laura Browder (American Studies, University of Richmond)
Thursday, February 21, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February 21, Laura Browder will discuss her book and exhibit (with photographs by Sascha Pflaeging) When Janey Comes Marching Home, which gives a presence and a voice to American women returning from service in a war zone. Watching and listening to these women will unsettle our fixed ideas about Americans at war and add dimension to the often flawed or fragmentary pop culture depictions of women in the military: as novelties, but not as real soldiers. It will also undermine stereotypes and preconceptions about women in war. These stories tell us things we never knew about the experiences of women in combat: not just what it's like to be under fire, but also how women deployed to Iraq cope with motherhood, marriage, duty, and sexism. We hope that by seeing the faces of women who have deployed, and hearing their stories, we can begin to get a sense of all the ways women are experiencing this long war.
Read Laura Browder's "Revisions in Red" in The Chronicle Review.
Read Browder's "Women in Combat: Listening to Those Who Have Been There" in Time.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Talk: Combat Trauma and Moral Injury
Jonathan Shay (author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming)
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Injury of mind and spirit from war is often broader and more destructive than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as officially defined. The strict definition can be understood as the persistence, after battle, of the valid adaptations in brain and mind that kept you alive when other humans were trying to kill you. In civilian life, these adaptations are not needed and become impairments. In the '90s, Shay coined the term "moral injury" for a painfully common source of the "something more," not captured by PTSD, but supremely captured by Homer in his portrait of Achilles in the Iliad. Compared to pure PTSD, moral injury destroys the capacity for trust, increases suicidality, domestic violence, and criminality, and wrecks the capacity for a flourishing human life. Shay will explain moral injury, describe how the term is now used for two related but different damages of war, and give his view on the prevention of psychological and moral injury in military service. Shay, a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, has spent over twenty years working with veterans and military leaders. He is a passionate advocate of improved mental health treatment for soldiers and of more effective efforts to prevent PTSD and moral injury in military service.
Sponsored by the IHC's Idee Levitan Endowment and the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Click here to listen to recording of Jonathan Shay's talk from the IHC Fallout series.
Artist Talk: canceled
Wafaa Bilal (Tisch School, NYU)
Thursday, February 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Performance: Theater of War
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 / 7:00 PM
Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High School
Thursday, January 31, 2013 / 4:00 PM
Hatlen Theater, UCSB
Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the reading, a panel of veterans and community members will offer their personal responses to the play in order to initiate an audience discussion about the psychological, physical, emotional and social challenges facing veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Note: the Theater of War cast will include Evan Parke (Django Unchained, King Kong), in lieu of Keith David.
This event is supported in part by The Marjorie Luke Theatre's Dreier Family Rent Subsidy Fund.
Sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life, the Department of Theater and Dance, the IHC's Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment, and the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
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Panel: Terror's Aftermath: New Developments in America and the Middle East
Juan Campo (Religious Studies), Richard Hecht (Religious Studies), Kathleen Moore (Religious Studies), Salim Yaqub (History)
Moderator: Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies)
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Four UCSB professors join in a panel discussion to assess the effects of the war on terror and the Arab Spring on the U.S. and the Middle East. Topics addressed include U.S. policy toward the Middle East, religious freedoms in the U.S., the Arab Spring as seen from Israel and Islamic political resurgences in the Middle East.
Sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life, the Education Abroad Program and the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Talk: Knowing Terrible Things: Thinking the Unthinkable in Time of War
Martha Bragin (Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY)
Thursday, January 24, 2013 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
The discourse on psychosocial reintegration of combat veterans in the United States has largely been confined to discussions of the best treatment for those diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. This medicalization of lived experience may well be a mechanism of the social imaginary designed to defend the public against what we cannot possibly dare to know or be driven mad by: our own very real complicity as part of the polis, and the very ordinariness of so much of what goes on in everyday life whether in a war zone or out of one. Is being changed by intense experience of life and death really a disease from which we should be cured? How can it be true that the activities of war, that are so clearly known on some level by all of us, are still considered to be unknowable and unthinkable? Bragin will draw on psychoanalysis, literature and history to help us think the unthinkable in time of war.
Martha Bragin is an Associate Professor in the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY. Her areas of expertise include psychosocial programs that support resilience in women, children, youth and families affected by conflict, disaster, and adversity. For the past 25 years, she has served as consultant to governments and international organizations on demilitarization and reintegration of soldiers following war, with special attention to women and children.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
talk: Tales from the Front Lines: Reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan
Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker, author of The Forever War)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 / 8:00 PM
Campbell Hall – FREE
Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time and the Boston Globe. As part of a team of New York Times reporters, Filkins won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this lecture, he will retrace the seven years he spent covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, using vivid images by some of the best photojournalists working today. Filkins' intimate knowledge of many of the main actors – American, Iraqi and Afghan – in two of the most polarizing wars in American history gives him a unique perspective on these contemporary conflicts.
Filkins has been a member of the staff of The New Yorker since January of 2011. Before coming to The New Yorker, he was a reporter for the New York Times since 2000, reporting from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. He has also worked for the Miami Herald and the Los Angeles Times, where he was chief of the paper's New Delhi bureau. Filkins was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2006-07 and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 2007-08.
Copies of The Forever War will be available for purchase and signing at the event, courtesy of Chaucer's Books.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War and the IHC Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment.
Watch Filkins' talk below:
Screening and Q&A: The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, 2012 93 min.)
Amy Ziering (Producer)
Thursday, November 15, 2012 / 7:00 PM
UCSB Pollock Theater
The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigation about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem: a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.
Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of rape victims, The Invisible War is a moving indictment of the systemic cover-up of military sex crimes, chronicling the women's (and men's) struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. It also features hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of Congress that reveal the perfect storm of conditions that exist for rape in the military, its long-hidden history, and what can be done to bring about much-needed change.
Q&A with Producer Amy Ziering and reception to follow.
Reservations are required for this free event. Visit: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events/film-screening-invisible-war
Sponsored by UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB Rape Prevention Education Program, UCSB Veteran's Resource Team, the Claeyssens Veterans Museum and Library, and the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Talk: A Sociotheological Approach to Understanding Religious Violence
Mona Sheikh (Danish Institute of International Studies)
Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB Orfalea Center)
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 / 12:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
How do scholars make sense of acts of violence–even terrorism–that are undertaken not just for strategic political gain but to make a symbolic statement on behalf of a religious world view? Two scholars who have interviewed scores of violent activists reflect on the methodological approaches involved in their research. Mona Sheikh has interviewed leaders of the Pakistani Taliban and Mark Juergensmeyer has interviewed activists from a variety of religious backgrounds for his books on religious violence. Together they have coined the name for a cross-disciplinary analytic approach that they call "sociotheology," taking seriously both the humanistic perspective of the subject's religious world views and the social scientific analyses of their social contexts and impact.
Sponsored by Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies and the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Talk: Where Soldiers Come From
Heather Courtney (director, Where Soldiers Come From)
Dominic Fredianelli (artist, subject of Where Soldiers Come From )
Thursday, November 8, 2012 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Using clips from her Emmy award-winning film Where Soldiers Come From, director/producer Heather Courtney will discuss the struggles of today's young veterans to return to school and cope with the hidden war wounds of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and PTSD. From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war. The film follows these young men as they grow and change from reckless teenagers, to soldiers looking for roadside bombs in Afghanistan, to 23-year-old veterans dealing with the silent war wounds of TBI and PTSD.
In her presentation, Courtney will also discuss the effects of deployments on the families, spouses, and girlfriends of soldiers she filmed. She will be joined by artist Dominic Fredianelli, one of the young men and former soldiers depicted in the film. During the week preceding this event, Fredianelli will be an artist-in-residence at UCSB, where he will create a large-scale mural with UCSB student veterans and art students. The piece will reflect Fredianelli's own experiences and the experiences of UCSB student veterans. The mural will be installed in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center outside the McCune Conference Room. Fredianelli recently completed a mural at the National Veterans Art Museum.
Where Soldiers Come From has won numerous awards, including a News and Documentary Emmy, an Independent Spirit Award, and Jury Awards at SXSW, Traverse City, and Philadelphia Film Festivals. It was broadcast nationally on the PBS program POV. More info is available at www.wheresoldierscomefrom.com.
Sponsored by the IHC's series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Click here to listen to a recording of Heather Courtney and Dominic Fredianelli's talk for the IHC's Fallout series.
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Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli
Tuesday, October 30 – Wednesday, November 8, 2012
Dominic Fredianelli is a graffiti artist from Houghton, Michigan. Dominic was one of the subjects of the Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From. His work has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. In collaboration with UCSB student veterans and UCSB art students, he created a 27-foot mural, which has been displayed on the sixth floor of UCSB's Humanities and Social Sciences Building, and at the UCSB Library. The Studio Art students who collaborated with Fredianelli are Natalia Cardenas, Ime Diaz, Jacky Martinez, and Bryan Orpinela.
Click here to view an album of photos from the residency.
Screening: Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.)
Monday, November 5, 2012 / 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM
IV Theater 2
Q&A following the 7:00 PM screening with Dominic Fredianelli (artist and subject of Where Soldiers Come From)
Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who, after graduating from high school in rural Michigan, join the National Guard, enticed by a $20,000 signing bonus and college tuition support. Called to service, the friends are sent to Afghanistan, where they spend their days sweeping for Improvised Explosive Devices. By the time their deployment ends, each of these young men has undergone profound transformation, having survived countless bomb blasts and endured the multiple stresses of insurgent warfare. The film intimately follows their struggles with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD and reveals the challenges they face upon returning to their families and communities. Dominic Fredianelli, one of the soldiers appearing in the film whose artwork has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum, will conduct a question and answer session after the 7:00 PM screening of the film.
Sponsored by Magic Lantern Films and the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Screening: Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.)
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who, after graduating from high school in rural Michigan, join the National Guard, enticed by a $20,000 signing bonus and college tuition support. Called to service, the friends are sent to Afghanistan, where they spend their days sweeping for Improvised Explosive Devices. By the time their deployment ends, each of these young men has undergone profound transformation, having survived countless bomb blasts and endured the multiple stresses of insurgent warfare. The film intimately follows their struggles with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD and reveals the challenges they face upon returning to their families and communities. Director Heather Courtney will visit UCSB on Thursday, November 8, to discuss the process of making this extraordinary documentary. Courtney will be accompanied by Dominic Fredianelli, one of the soldiers appearing in the film, whose artwork has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum. This film will also be shown on Monday, November 5 at 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM in IV Theater 2: click here for details.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Inaugural Lecture: War in History and Memory
Thursday, October 25, 2012 / 4:00 PM
John E. Talbott (History, UCSB)
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Professor John E. Talbott will inaugurate the IHC's year-long exploration of the impact of war. He will discuss the history of warfare from the Greek way of war through the asymmetric wars the United States has fought since 1945. He will consider the many forms war stories have taken–in the accounts of soldier-historians and academic historians; the fiction of soldier-novelists; the memoirs of combatants; and in ancient and modern myths, from the Iliad and the Odyssey to Hollywood. He will attend to the invisible wounds of combat stress and the world of pain they can create for veterans.
John E. Talbott is Professor of History and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel at UCSB. His books include The Politics of Educational Reform in France, 1918-1940, The War Without A Name: France in Algeria, 1954-1962, and The Pen-and-Ink Sailor: Sir Charles Middleton and the King's Navy, 1778-1813. He is currently working on a book entitled Mind Wounds: War and Psychic Injury from Bull Run to Fallujah.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
Click here to listen to a recording of John E. Talbott's inaugural talk for the IHC's Fallout series.
Screening: Persistence (Daniel Eisenberg, 1997)
Introduction by Daniel Eisenberg
Saturday, October 20, 2012 / 5:00 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
Filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg will introduce and screen his impressionistic film, which is a meditation on the fraught postwar period in Germany, examining larger questions about the continuous and discontinuous threads of history and the role of film in shaping our views of events. Persistence was shot in 1991-92 in Berlin, and edited with films by U.S. Signal Corps cameramen in 1945-46, obtained from Department of Defense archives. Interspersed through these materials are filmic quotations from Rossellini's Germany Year Zero (1946).
Sponsored by Marcia and John Mike Cohen as part of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum's exhibition, "The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art," and by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.


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Eleazer S. Potter, who is living in Plymouth, Amador County, came to the sate at an early era in its development. He is numbered among the native sons of Connecticut, his birth having occurred in Harwinton, Litchfield County, on the 16th of November, 1826. The family is of English lineage and was early founded in the New England states. Isaac Potter, the father of our subject, was born in that state and married Miss Hanna Scovill. They were farming people and staunch Presbyterians in their religious faith. The father attained the age of sixty-four years, while his wife departed this life in her sixtieth year. Three of their eight children are still living, namely: Synthia, now the wife of B. F. Wyne, a resident of Platteville, Wisconsin; Abijah, who also is living in Wisconsin; and Eleazer Scovill, of this review.
The last named was reared on his father's farm, acquired a good common school education and entered upon his business career as a peddler in his native state. In 1847 he removed to Illinois and thence to Platteville, Wisconsin, remaining in the latter place for three years. He afterward spent two years in Missouri in search of lead ore and then returned to the Badger state, where he occupied a clerkship for a time. In 1852 he paid seventy-five dollars for the privilege of coming with an ox train across the plains to California. He also worked for his passage. One boy in the train died of cholera on Big Sandy River, but with that exception all reached their destination in safety. Mr. Potter arrived at Volcano, Amador County, in the fall of 1852 and at once engaged in placer mining, making from ten to twelve dollars a day. Like others, however, he lost much that he made in mining operations and after two years went to Tuolumne County. In 1853, in Drytown, he saw the heads of Joaquin and Jack on exhibition. They were atrocious murderers and robbers who had been captured and killed. On one occasion during those early mining days Mr. Potter and two companions were engaged in placer mining when a young, green-looking fellow came along and asked them where he had better begin digging; thinking to play a joke on him, they told him to dig near a certain tree. He followed their advice, and much to their surprise, secured more gold than all the others. His findings soon enabled him to return home with a handsome competence. After a time Mr. Potter engaged in merchandising at the Arkansas diggings, purchasing his goods in Sacramento. That venture proved a profitable one, and after five years he removed to the Buckeye Valley, where he was engaged in business for four years, when he came to Plymouth. In 1866 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining the town, and has since been engaged in farming, raising grain, hay and stock. His industry has been rewarded with success and he is now one of the substantial citizens of the community.
In 1858 Mr. Potter married Miss Harriet Louisa Howard, of Forest Home and a native of Michigan. They have fourteen children, five of whom are now living, namely: H. E., a prominent merchant of Plymouth; F. M., who is a successful farmer; Mary, now the wife of L. G. Griffith; Kate, the wife of Dennis Madden; and Charles, who is now living with his father. Mrs. Potter, who was a true and loving wife and mother, died in 1897 and her loss was deeply mourned throughout the community.
In politics Mr. Potter has always been a stalwart Republican, and in 1883 was chosen by his party as a candidate for county supervisor. Being elected, his service was most creditable, gaining him high commendation. Since 1851 he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is now the treasurer of his lodge. His life has been characterized by unfaltering activity and by reliability in all business transactions, and all those who know him esteem him for his sterling worth.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: "A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern California", Pages 252-253. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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The real-time strategy genre is in a state of flux. The old ways - the mind-bending resource gathering, complex base-building and gargantuan army management of yesteryear - are falling out of favour with modern tastes. Replacing them are squads of units, levelling up and fast-paced, story-driven action pioneered by the likes of Relic's Company of Heroes and Dawn of War series. "The Times They Are A-Changin'."
And so is Supreme Commander, for many the last bastion of the hardcore RTS. With the upcoming sequel, due out next month on PC and Xbox 360, developer Gas Powered Games is affecting a change that should make the over-the-top sci-fi metal on metal smash-em-up more palatable to modern tastes. But, and this is an important but, Gas Powered Games is doing it without compromise.
So, while the number of units you have to play with has been reduced, the scale of Supreme Commander 2 still stands out as huge. Resource gathering - in this case extracting "mass" - is an easier process, but by virtue of it merely existing, the game differs in comparison with so many recent rivals. The same can be said for base building - again, streamlined - but at a time when so few RTSs even have base building, SupCom's spirit is still strongly felt. In short, SupCom 2 is still SupCom. There's no need to panic.
For example, SupCom's trademark "Strategic Mode" has been faithfully retained. In the game, scrolling down with the mouse wheel zooms out, as it does in all RTS games, but you can keep on going... and going... and going... until your units are mere blue blips and missiles are nothing more than slow-moving pixels. As your base and army grows and the battle expands to span multiple fronts, SupCom 2's strategic brilliance comes to the fore. At a time when the genre seems obsessed with reducing the number of units players control, Gas Powered Games has been brave enough to stick to its guns.
Really, there's nothing quite like Supreme Commander's Strategic Mode. The feeling is one of desensitisation; it's a minimalist aesthetic - certainly basic in graphical terms - that rekindles memories of Introversion's Defcon and Modern Warfare's iconic AC130 gunship level. When you zoom in for a spot of micro-management - really just to check everything's going according to plan - the destruction can shock. For some reason death doesn't seem real when you're thousands of miles up. Up in the clouds, being a supreme commander feels like you're playing a video game.
In short, SupCom 2's fundamentals mirror the first game's. You begin a skirmish or multiplayer match with an Armoured Command Unit (ACU) - basically a building-sized mech - and two engineers. You'll normally be near some "mass deposits", which provide you with mass, the game's currency. To gather the resource, all you have to do is order your ACU or one of your engineers to build a "Mass Extractor" on the deposit. Building a few "Energy Generators" then provides you with the power to keep everything up and running. In the blink of an eye, you have an economy. Simple.
From there, you have a clear choice: which of the three factories should I build? One of SupCom 2's more interesting features is that you can build all three types of units from the get-go. The Land Factory produces Rock Head Tanks and Titan Assault Bots, for example (if you're playing the United Earth Federation faction), whereas the Naval Factory produces ships (unless you're playing the Illuminate faction, which doesn't have access to sea units). Or, you could build the Air Factory, which produces flying death dealers. This early and influential choice allows you to quickly tailor your overarching strategy to combat your foe.
Perhaps the best example of how the finer details of army management have been made more comprehensible is with the improvements made to that most basic of unit: the engineer. If set on "Patrol Mode", they'll potter about repairing your units and structures as and when, and harvest scrap metal. It's all automatic, so you don't have to fumble about with micro-management. Brilliantly useful.
Layered on top of your base and army building is an upgrading system that works similarly to RPG tech trees. Here, you spend points in one of five areas: land, naval, air, ACU and structure. Advancing down these tech trees is essential to success - the most powerful units, the eye-catching "Experimentals", only become available once you've spent a considerable number of points in one of the five paths (you can pump them out half finished if you're short of time, but they're likely to malfunction). The point, again, is that it's quick and easy to see what leads to what, and what benefits your choices will have; an important mechanic made easy.
These days, a strong single-player (or indeed co-op) story campaign is key to any successful RTS, and Gas Powered Games knows it. SupCom 2 begins 25 years after the events of standalone expansion Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. Three factions are playable across the 18 missions: firstly the United Earth Federation, then the religious Illuminate, and finally the tech-obsessed Cybran Nation. The UEF campaign begins with the player in control of an ACU driven by veteran soldier Dominic Maddox. The Cybran invade, and it's your job to fend them off as you learn the game's ropes.
Eventually, you're ordered to purge an Illuminate colony. The only problem is, Maddox's wife and kid, who are Illuminate themselves, live smack bang in the middle of the UEF's targeting reticule. Cue a refusal to follow orders, a fight for survival and a three way war between enormous mechs, robot dinosaurs and teleporting UFOs.
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SupCom's sheer scale should stand it in good stead. In 2010, it feels even more unique than when the series debuted in 2007. It's an intriguing proposition: as addictive, tactical and huge as before, but more accessible. That word will no doubt give some "the fear", but really there's nothing to worry about. As the World War II poster said: "Keep calm and carry on."


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It's Music Monday!: Flying Lotus feat. Erykah Badu, 'See Thru To U'
It looks like Isaac has passed us by, for the most part, so unwind with this new cut of Flying Lotus' upcoming album, Until the Quiet Comes. A lot of folks don't like FlyLo's new stuff, but if Erykah Badu is singing, how can you complain?


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Unknown Australian Bluetongue - Sport? New Species?
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Unknown Australian Bluetongue - Sport? New Species?
Genus: Tiliqua
Species: ???
I found this species while exploring near Derby in north Western Australia
I have had a good hunt around the internet and in books but i am unable to find a bluetongue with these colours, the closest i could find was the centralian bluetongue (Tiliqua Multifasciata) and it is also the only tiliqua species that i could find recorded in that region of WA. Maybe is is an albino or i have discovered a new species? Has anyone done study into these or has seen anything like it? If you find anything your help would be greatly appreciated.
A wise man once said to me:
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Only the fittest chickens cross the road.
Yes I think you are right Tiliqua multifasciata, but not albino, unusual color morph? never the less it is a nice lookin skink.
Sometimes if a certain species is left long enough to their own devices and environmental conditions change slight coloration may also occur due to natural selection, after all its how the coloration occurred in the first place of course this won't happen in 10 minutes.
I have seen some unusual color variations in the boyds forest dragon Hypsilurus boydii, don't know if that was because one population lived in a less densely canopied part of the rain forest as opposed to other populations in darker parts its all interesting stuff.
Reptiles from the hotter more arid parts of aust tend to be lighter in color than those living in cooler darker conditions being darker in color due to heat absorbsion thermoregulation etc.
Anyway hope this helps to some degree, btw it is a very nice sharp clear image.
Re: Unknown Australian Bluetongue - Sport? New Species?
Thanks, that same thought came to mind as we originally found it sunbaking on the road and it camoflaged to it very well, but this makes me wonder- you would assume that those which are not affraid to go near cars would have a lower survival rate(although there are not many cars on this road), but maybe the threat of predators(many black kites and wedgies up there) outweighs the occational splatting by a car(with the lack of a more biological term in my head).
Quite a peculiar one anyhow.
btw, i have several more images for identification if the above is not detailed enough(for scale counting or something)
Thanks again,
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"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Only the fittest chickens cross the road.
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Concerned drivers alerted the Scottish Fire Service to reports of a strong smell of gas around 1pm today.
Police and fire crews are now at the scene at the Maryville Interchange, just off Junction 1 of the M73 at Uddingston.
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A spokeswoman for Scottish Gas Networks confirmed workers are investigating but had no further details.
She said: "Teams are on site assessing the situation and we will issue an update when we have more information."
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland confirmed officers are at the scene.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said three appliances and the Environmental Protection Team from Hamilton are also at site.
The motorway is believed to be down to one lane while staff carry out an inspection of the area.
Drivers are warned to expect delays.
One motorist said a strong smell of gas was in the air as far away as Blantyre.
Police were slowing traffic at the scene, behind the Bargeddie Industrial Estate, and only allowing lines of around 20 cars to pass at any one time.
The driver said: "We were heading out from Glasgow and you could smell the gas all the way from Blantyre.
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Employee well-being
Clara Ngan
Director of group human resources and administration, The Miramar Group
As a caring company, the Miramar Group aims to provide an environment which encourages innovation and allows for work-life balance. There is an entrepreneurial spirit among employees, whom we regard as the building blocks of our success. In particular, we see the promotion of employee wellness as a key aspect of corporate social responsibility.
In recent years, we have made sustained efforts to improve various employee-benefit programmes. For example, since 2007, we have been part of the YMCA corporate membership scheme, so that everyone in our team has the chance to exercise in the sports centre during lunch breaks or after work.
At the group level, we make it a point to promote cross-departmental communication wherever possible. One way is by organising gatherings for internal award winners and people in different departments who have their birthdays that month. There are games, a lucky draw and prizes.
Within individual hotels, we have formed "play groups" to organise smaller social events such as mahjong competitions, hiking trips and singing contests.
When we started to renovate The Mira Hong Kong in 2008, we added facilities to help staff maintain their work-life balance, such as a "sleeping room" with bunk beds where they can rest during breaks and a "play room" with a pool table, internet access, television and video games.
Feedback from staff
The feedback is very positive and team members do socialise with each other outside of work. They like the facilities and definitely enjoy relaxing in the "play room". One idea we are acting on is to organise a sports tournament this year.
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"All Bar None" (ABN) is the umbrella network that UBS uses to reinforce its concept that each employee is important to the organisation. Its three primary objectives are to enhance career development and communication skills; to educate staff in maintaining a healthy work-life balance; and to support them in dealing with family responsibilities. The first ABN network in Hong Kong was set up in 2006.
Activities are in line with the three broad categories outlined above. For example, a recent event focusing on career development took the form of an exclusive dialogue with Cherie Blair, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair. She explained to employees how she strikes a balance between having a high-powered career and being a mother of four.
We also arrange an annual wellness fair designed to help employees alleviate stress, and improve their health and well-being. It includes demonstrations and advice on fitness. Experts are there to talk about alternative medicine, spiritual healing, massage therapy and the benefits of outdoor sports.
Thirdly, the aim of our family friendly series is to help employees manage the various responsibilities they have at home.
Feedback from staff
The response from employees has been universally positive. ABN initiatives not only enhance perceptions of UBS in the community, but also reinforce the firm's reputation as an employer of choice.
To complement the programme, we have an active diversity strategy. In Hong Kong, where talent is at a premium, a strong diversity strategy can help attract and retain high-quality employees.


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Oltman Middle School students get engineering lesson in bridge project
Tables at Oltman Middle School became miniature construction sites last week as eighth-grade students paired off to construct bridges from popsicle sticks and wood glue.
This was no arts and crafts class, however, but an exercise in designing a sound structure based on mathematical calculations. The students built their bridges in the school theater as an assignment for their geometry or algebra statistics class.
The workshop was supervised by Jeremy Allan, Corey Hymes and Aaron Horn, who are mechanical engineers for Northern Tier Energy.
Some students based their design on actual bridges in Hastings or Stillwater, math teacher Teresa Willkom said. Classes taught by math teachers Dan Murtha and Chris Peterson also participated.
Kylie Booth of Cottage Grove and Hailey Morseth of Newport, both 14, collaborated on a bridge that incorporated diagonal supports. Like their fellow students, they were limited to 100 popsicle sticks and one bottle of glue. The bridges had to be at least 20 inches in length.
The engineers conducted different tests with the kids that demonstrated bulking and tension on bridges.
"When we do have questions, we usually ask them because they're the ones who have done things like that," Kylie said.
Jake Downs partnered with Jaden Tufenk. Both are 13 and live in St. Paul Park.
"I thought it was very good because it taught you the mechanics of how it truly works and how it can collapse," Downs said.
While building bridges would make for an interesting career, Downs said he wants to study to become a marine biologist.
The students will test their bridges at Math and Science Night on March 20 at Oltman. The engineers from Northern Tier will be on hand to test the weight-bearing capacity of each bridge by suspending weighted buckets from the struts.
Evidently it's sound math, not glue, that holds these babies together. One year, a bridge designed by students held 166 pounds.
Math and Science Night is free and runs from 5-7 p.m. It will also feature the Park Robotics Team, a pinewood derby, rocket launching and a Fear Factor competition. It will also feature booths and games. This year's event is titled "The Big Bang Theory" and is sponsored by Northern Tier Energy and Safeway Driving School.