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MONTREAL - A two-week period marked by burgeoning protest and bitter recrimination has now entered a new phase, with Quebec student leaders back at the negotiating table with the provincial government Monday.
Student representatives arrived in Quebec City for their first face-to-face meeting with government officials since mid-May. Eight hours later, they quietly ended for the night and will resume at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The head of the group representing college students left the meeting unwilling to comment or provide any indication if progress had been made.
Leo Bureau-Blouin later urged about 200 protesters who gathered outside the building to disperse and avoid arrest.
"We have a chance to avoid that things degenerate tonight," he said. "You know that the climate is fragile with the government, if we can avoid things going badly tonight I think it's in everybody's interest."
But riot police deployed in the provincial capital moved in and removed 84 people to waiting buses. Among those reportedly stopped were Philippe Lapointe and Justin Arcand, negotiators for hardline student group CLASSE.
The group said Arcand hadn't been released from custody, but a source said only one negotiator was held and later released.
Also among those reportedly arrested was a protest mascot in a banana costume who waved to the applauding crowd as he was dragged away by two officers. Each of those arrested was fined nearly $500.
Talks broke off two weeks ago when the government tabled emergency legislation aimed at controlling the protests. The move appears to have backfired, however. Festive and largely peaceful demonstrations have spread to other cities — in some cases even outside Quebec and Canada.
As they entered the meeting, students said they expected the government to compromise on the key issue of tuition increases that sparked their movement in the first place. They said any solution would include two elements: a retreat on tuition fees and on the emergency law, Bill 78.
The student leaders also warned that they won't be pressured into hastily accepting a deal this time. A few weeks ago, the sides emerged from an all-night negotiating session with an agreement that was ultimately rejected by voters at student assemblies.
The students are now saying they have more leverage, and less pressure, than they did the last time. At the time, school semesters had been at risk of being cancelled but they have since been paused and will resume in mid-August.
The government, on the other hand, has a more immediate worry: that a prolonged dispute will cause chaos for tourists heading to take in Montreal's big summer festivals.
"What's changed? Now the pressure is on the government," Martine Desjardins, one of the student leaders, said on her way into the meeting.
"All the students have their session suspended... and they can wait until autumn. But the government, they have pressure."
She said her group, the more moderate university students' federation, was willing to spend all week negotiating in Quebec City.
A representative of the more hardline CLASSE group offered a similar take.
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, a co-spokesman for the group, quipped that there would be no repeat of what happened earlier this month; back then, students were told during an evening, night and morning of talks that nobody could leave until there was a deal.
"We will certainly refuse to have negotiations all night long. We will ask — and we will take — breaks to eat and sleep if it's necessary," Nadeau-Dubois said.
"I mean, after 106 days of strikes it's not a question of minutes. I think we can do a little nap."
He said students hoped the renewed talks would be more than a public-relations exercise. A common accusation opponents have levelled at the Charest government is that it has allowed the dispute to fester for its own political gain.
Polls in recent months had repeatedly suggested that most Quebecers support the fee hikes. Those same polls suggest, however, that Quebecers also want to see the sides negotiate. So there have been several negotiating sessions this spring, without any hint of a climbdown on tuition fees.
The government says it has acted in good faith, and cites several examples.
Over the last few months it has moved to slow the implementation of fee hikes; strengthen loans and bursaries; involve students in a new body to monitor university spending; and reduce school fees outside of tuition.
Monday's meeting comes at a critical time.
Montreal's peak tourist season is fast approaching and there are hints that a faction of the protest movement will seek to disrupt the Formula One Grand Prix.
That car race, in two weekends, is the first of several big events that usually fuel the local economy in the summer, followed by the comedy, jazz and francophonie festivals.
More protests took place in different parts of Quebec including Montreal, which hosted its 35th consecutive night of demonstrations.
Lawyers dressed in their courtroom gowns paraded in silence from the city's main courthouse through the streets of Old Montreal to join the nightly march.
"It is one of the first times I've seen lawyers protest in public like this...and I've been practising for almost 30 years," Bruno Grenier said outside the building surrounded by about 250 people, some carrying copies of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The lawyer said his colleagues wanted to show the public that they oppose a law they "find unjust and which is probably unconstitutional."
Along the route they were greeted by claps of support and people shouting "merci."
As they arrived at a downtown park, bystanders surged to shake their hands. Organizer Remi Bourget addressed the crowd using a loud speaker before the legal protest ended.
Bourget told reporters he felt good about the reception to the march that was spontaneously planned by a few lawyers who are concerned about the provincial law.
"Now to see the support we received from our fellow citizens is really appreciated," he said.
The nightly demonstration then began with people walking through the streets banging pots and pans. The Montreal police quickly declared the march illegal, prompting a big cheer from the crowd. Police said the march could continue as long as no criminal acts are committed.
It grew to number several thousand people, sometimes travelling with the flow of automobile traffic, sometimes facing it. Several other marches took place in other parts of the city, including one in front of Premier Jean Charest's Westmount home.
At the end of the night, none of those protesters were arrested.
Note to readers: The story corrects an earlier version that said both CLASSE negotiators were released from custody.
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With UFC bantamweight Erik Perez, though, UFC President Dana White drew the line at a luchador mask.
The headgear has long been tied to professional wrestling in Perez's home country of Mexico, but White initially nixed the 23-year-old plan's to don such a mask this weekend at UFC 155.
But after the fighter's pleas, White finally relented. And he said he learned a little something about the masks' history in the process.
"Those masks, Mexican wrestlers used to wear them, but it's a warrior thing, and they explained it to me," he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "I can live with that.
"If it makes sense to me – and you're just not acting like an idiot trying to come up with a different spiel every time you walk, and that's your thing – I'm cool with that."
Perez (12-4 MMA, 2-0 UFC) is the only Mexican-born fighter on the UFC roster. On Saturday, he meets Byron Bloodworth (6-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) in an FX-televised preliminary-card bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Perez looks for his eighth consecutive win, including his third straight in the UFC. But the Greg Jackson-trained fighter is a bit of an unknown. With a prime TV spot on Saturday's card and the green light to don a custom luchador mask, which to him represents the warrior mentality, it could be a coming-out party of sorts.
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As someone who spends, and has always spent, a great deal of time in record stores, I have not been able to avoid hearing about the fast approaching "death of the record store" after a long and heroic battle with the Internet. There are now documentaries on the subject and an international Record Store Day to which several musicians and record labels lent their support. Nevertheless, in much of what is said or written on the subject, it is taken as sadly apparent that these shops are doomed if we just take current consumption patterns and project them into the future. Young people can buy music online, and that's where they live now, so they will keep doing so into the future, which by the way will be exactly like today, only more so.
This argument becomes somewhat contradictory when it comes packaged in laments about the vanishing record store: to wit, record stores are doomed because music can be purchased easily elsewhere; but record stores, it is argued, offer consumers many benefits and meet many needs aside from mere music distribution. So, either future generations will lack those needs for no clear reason, or simply not recognize an obvious resource for meeting them. This shift in consciousness will either be universal or so widespread as to make the stores untenable and quixotic. It's worth looking at the needs that record stores are supposed to meet.
The first such need is social: record store devotees describe the convivial pleasures of hanging out in record shops talking about music. Here we should note they're clearly talking about independent record stores since the mall chain stores tend to actively discourage consumers from hanging out. They're also oddly overlooking music related message boards where people can discuss music for hours. Perhaps though they are touching on the very different nature of face-to-face socializing from what we do here online- its off the cuff spontaneity, awkward pauses, body language, moments of boredom, funny off-hand comments, flirtations, and natural brainstorms. Possibly, the underlying fear is that socializing itself will die out. However, it seems highly unlikely that man will cease to be the social animal in the future; and certainly young people seem not to have lost any taste for hanging out together.
A secondary concern is that there is some sort of decline in music fandom going on. Record stores serve as a meeting place for the sorts of music fans that obsess over their favorite bands with a devotion bordering on cultishness. The era of groupies, magazines like Rock Scene, Deadheads and the like, and music appreciation as a lifestyle might be ending. And maybe the music just doesn't demand that sort of devotion now. For all of the industry hype about artists like Lady Gaga and Kanye West as pivotal and their albums as epochal, it's hard to imagine any of those albums as really being the Metaphysical Graffiti, Sgt Pepper's, Exile on Main Street, Pet Sounds, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, or, hell, even the Rocket to Russia or Appetite for Destruction of 2011. Bands and labels now think primarily in terms of singles instead of albums, a trend reflecting how music is bought online, but strangely bringing us back to a 1950s style of marketing music. What this means is that many, if not most music fans are content to pick out those great songs if the band is not concerned with making a great album. Bands like the White Stripes recorded some excellent songs, but never really made a great album without filler. The people who bought only those songs were probably right.
In fact, it's become a bit of a lame game among music snobs to ask what was the last great album. Nevermind? OK Computer? Back to Black? It's a bit of a meaningless exercise, especially since we could probably think of a great album from the last few years; but certainly the old process of recording that reached its nadir in the 14 years and over $13 million to finish Chinese Democracy will most likely never be repeated. A scenario like Brian Wilson going mad trying to perfect Smile is one it's hard to imagine anyone actually wanting to repeat, but the desire to create a monumental and lasting work of art in a recording studio is one that nobody has the time or money to peruse anymore. It is worth asking if the quality of pop music hasn't declined in general and whether musicianship hasn't been replaced in many cases with slick overproduction. But, contrary to the assumption, there still are plenty of music fanatics left and they would likely disagree with the question.
Finally, it's often suggested that record stores offer the benefit of expertise, which might be devalued in the age of Wikipedia. A good record store clerk can point you in the direction of great music you've never heard of and away from junk. Expertise is increasingly taken as "elitist" (along with many other things that threaten an individual's inflated sense of self-importance). "Why should anyone tell me what to like?" Regardless, wide, repeated, thoughtful, and extensive exposure to any art form will cultivate expertise over time. A music fan of thirty years will have better informed tastes than a newcomer, even if their tastes might lack the freshness of the newcomer. What is elitist is instead how they express those tastes. While the "stuck up record clerk" is nowhere near as widespread as rumored, I've certainly met some music fans who dismissed me as a "poseur" for expressing enthusiasm about the same music I've been listening to enthusiastically for the last twenty-two years. With so many independent record stores closing though one would imagine that store owners would discourage such behavior. (Also, I've yet to meet an aloof record clerk who didn't brighten when I either expressed enthusiasm about the music they were playing or just asked if they had anything by the Pretty Things.) Besides, the flip side of the surly record store snob is the cute store clerk who gushes about the record you're thinking of picking up that she just loves. Little can top that.
What seems more likely to happen than a total extinction of record stores is an end to the widespread local stores but plenty of stores surviving in more dispersed locations as specialty shops; more a winnowing down than the shopocalypse. I'm also curious to see if independent shops will start selling books, music, magazines, and DVD rentals in the same location. A friend's weird little DVD rental place has actually morphed into a movie rental/antiques/records/books/fine hats store! Buying music online is certainly convenient and many of the benefits of hanging out in a record store can be obtained elsewhere. But a point I've not heard made yet is that a world in which music (not to mention movies and books) could only be purchased online would be briefly novel and eventually very boring. It's not that a good number of half-assed local record shops won't close, but the shopocalypse argument rests heavily on the idea that whatever a lot of people are doing right now is what they'll all be doing in the future and nothing else. Record stores will thus go the way of burlesque dancing, roller derby, and records themselves, all of which vanished as expected and no longer exist. As someone who has been buying vinyl records for about twenty-six years, and had people much hipper than me tell me for twenty-six years that nobody would be manufacturing records by the following year, I'm skeptical.
Or, perhaps, human beings, particularly the young ones, will continue to seek out novelty, variety, new experiences, and kicks– what leads young people to music in the first place. You never can predict what teenagers and music fans will do next year- Rolling Stone has consistently embarrassed itself by trying to make such predictions. For all we know the next generation might even go so far as to "tune out" from the internet- just to piss off their parents!


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No ordinary cab
The ceiling was wallpapered with a gaudy but cute flower scheme. There were little bunches of Christmas lights under the driver's seat and I could hear a steady trickle of running water.
I looked down. The pleasant gurgling was coming from a mini-fountain next to my feet. The fountain had a turning water wheel and … live goldfish?
A sign anticipated the question forming in my mind: "Massages are free."
Taped above it were newspaper articles about the cab, with photographs of the driver with Korean politicians and television personalities.
I'd been weary minutes before, but with the massage and this bizarre cab, I felt wonderful.
Who was this driver and why couldn't all the cabs in the world be like this?
I knew we had to talk.
Man with a plan
Drawing on an extensive background in mechanical engineering and management, taxi driver Chung Nok-hyun, 66, has a grand proposal.
If he has his way, all the taxis in Seoul would become what he calls "garden taxis."
Following his own cab, the city's taxis would be outfitted with flowers, grass, live goldfish, massage seats and a mini-karaoke machine (he does the singing in his own cab, upon request).
After retiring seven years ago from a career as director of a local electronics company, Chung began driving a taxi. He bought a massage device online for US$200, cut a large hole in the backseat and installed the device by hooking it up to the car's electrical system.
"It was quite easy for me because I am comfortable with electronics and machines," Chung says. "My passengers are always enthralled and I've had many people tell me it would be a wonderful tourism draw to change all the cabs in Seoul to be like mine."
One passenger wrote to the Seoul government telling them about the cab, suggesting they work with Chung on developing a venture.
"I hope the Seoul mayor will hear my idea," says Chung. "This will make Seoul taxis famous in the eyes of the world."
Chung has already filed for an international patent, which his lawyer says will come through around May.
Chung's vision doesn't stop at just taxis.
"I want to work with Hyundai and Kia," he says. "I think it would help cars sell more if they were like mine."
What's the next addition for his "garden taxi"?
"I'm installing a laptop so that my passengers can have Internet," says Chung. "People wonder if having so many electronic devices installed in the car uses up more gas, but the electrical system is completely separate. The gas bill isn't affected."


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The President with his Team
Luca Jahier and his Head of Cabinet
The President's team
Alicja Magdalena HERBOWSKA
Tel: +32-2-546 9764
Head of Cabinet
Ms Herbowska started her career in the European Institutions in 2005, in the Secretariat General of the European Commission. She then held the post of Coordinator for European Parliament at the Commission's DG JUST.
She went on to work for the European Parliament, where she coordinated the parliamentary hearings of new Commissioners in 2014 and where she was also responsible for the European Citizens' Initiative.
In 2015, Ms Herbowska returned to the European Commission to take up the post of Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics and later to deal with Knowledge Management as a Deputy Head of Unit at the Commission's Joint Research Centre.
In 2018, she joined the EESC as the President's Head of Cabinet.
Ms Herbowska was educated at the Poznan University of Economics and Exeter University (Erasmus Double MA degree) and the European University Institute in Florence.
In her free time she enjoys dancing tango argentino, practicing yoga and meditation.
Stefano MARTINELLI
Tel: +32-2-546 8265
Deputy Head of Cabinet in charge of Sustainable Development
Mr Martinelli worked as adviser to the Confindustria's Delegation in Brussels in 1989, where he was responsible for social policy, the Social dialogue and the relations with BusinessEurope.
He joined the European Commission in 2000, where he started in Directorate General Employment and social affairs (DG EMPL). He has held different positions in DG EMPL, in Directorate General Justice and in the Secretariat General, including a short spell in Commissioner Vladimir Spidla's cabinet, where he was responsible for the social dialogue. His last post in the Commission was in the Social dialogue Unit, where he was responsible for some sectoral social dialogue committees. Mr Martinelli has also advised specific member states on the European semester strategy.
He holds a graduate degree in Economy from Milan's Catholic University.
Daniela VINCENTI
Tel: +32-2-546 8262
Spokesperson and Strategic Communication Adviser to the President
Mrs Vincenti has led the pan-European media network EURACTIV as editor-in-chief for 10 years. She joined EURACTIV in 2008 as parliamentary editor, leading the coverage of the European elections and managing 33 professionals across Europe.
She worked as a journalist for more than 25 years in Italy, the United States and Germany, where she was the financial correspondent for Italian daily Il Messaggero.
Upon her arrival in Brussels in 2002, she developed the communication activities of the Platform of European social NGOs (Social Platform) and in 2007 joined the Paris-based think-tank Jacques Delors Institute to promote the first pan-European deliberative poll (Tomorrow's Europe).
She was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
Katherine HEID
Tel: +32-2-546 8096
Cabinet Member in charge of Culture and Youth
After an initial post as an intercultural consultant for a research project in the Apuseni-mountains of Romania, Mrs Heid began her career at the Franco-German Youth Office in Paris.
She then worked for the German Youth Ministry's Department for International Youth Policy, for IJAB, the International Youth Service of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as for the Council of Europe. At the Council of Europe's Youth Directorate, Mrs Heid was responsible for "all different – all equal" campaign activities, in addition to organising conferences and workshops on refugees, diversity issues and inter-religious dialogue.
She then spent six years as co-director of RESEO, the European Network for Opera and Dance Education. Formerly an elected member of Culture Action Europe's Executive Committee, Katherine joined Culture Action Europe's team in 2015 as Head of political development and then became Acting Secretary General. In 2018, she joined the European Economic and Social Committee as Member of Cabinet.
A German and British national, Mrs Heid holds a graduate degree in psychology and political sciences, specialising in intercultural and neuropsychology. She is a former professional dancer and her passion for culture and for re-thinking communities has driven her career in the arts, intercultural exchange, youth and European politics.
Cinzia SECHI
Tel: +32-2-546 9788
Cinzia [dot] Sechieesc [dot] europa [dot] eu (email)
Cabinet Member in charge of International Relations
With over 15 years of experience in EU affairs, Ms Cinzia Sechi joined the cabinet in July 2019.
She worked as Senior Policy Advisor at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), where she was responsible for the EU social dialogue, migration, vocational education and training, gender equality. She coordinated related ETUC activities and committees in these fields.
Ms Sechi represented trade unions in several negotiations with EU-level employers, including EU Social Dialogue work programmes, framework agreements and joint European projects.
Prior to working at the ETUC, she worked as policy analyst and expert for various civil society organisations (e.g. Social Development Agency), public bodies (e.g. Italia Lavoro) and universities (e.g. College of Bruges).
Ms Sechi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Sciences from the University of Sassari and a Master's Degree in European Employment Relations from the Milan Statale University.
Alessandra SPALLETTA
Tel: +32-2-546 8409
Personal Assistant to the President
Urszula SOFIDIS
Tel: +32-2-546 8171
Personal Assistant to the Head of Cabinet
Gabriela HAUSMANN
Tel: +32-2-546 8305
Assistant to Vice-President Milena Angelova and Cabinet Member Daniela Vincenti
Ulrika ARVIDSSON VELASQUEZ
Tel: +32-2-546 9831
Assistant to Vice-President Isabel Caño Aguilar and Cabinet Member Cinzia Sechi
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The Congress makes the following findings and declarations:
(1) The Congress recognizes that under the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration:
(A) The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have agreed that the People's Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997. Until that time, the United Kingdom will be responsible for the administration of Hong Kong.
(B) The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, beginning on July 1, 1997, will continue to enjoy a high degree of autonomy on all matters other than defense and foreign affairs.
(C) There is provision for implementation of a "one country, two systems" policy, under which Hong Kong will retain its current lifestyle and legal, social, and economic systems until at least the year 2047.
(D) The legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will be constituted by elections, and the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as applied to Hong Kong, shall remain in force.
(E) Provision is made for the continuation in force of agreements implemented as of June 30, 1997, and for the ability of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to conclude new agreements either on its own or with the assistance of the Government of the People's Republic of China.
(2) The Congress declares its wish to see full implementation of the provisions of the Joint Declaration.
(3) The President has announced his support for the policies and decisions reflected in the Joint Declaration.
(4) Hong Kong plays an important role in today's regional and world economy. This role is reflected in strong economic, cultural, and other ties with the United States that give the United States a strong interest in the continued vitality, prosperity, and stability of Hong Kong.
(5) Support for democratization is a fundamental principle of United States foreign policy. As such, it naturally applies to United States policy toward Hong Kong. This will remain equally true after June 30, 1997.
(6) The human rights of the people of Hong Kong are of great importance to the United States and are directly relevant to United States interests in Hong Kong. A fully successful transition in the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong must safeguard human rights in and of themselves. Human rights also serve as a basis for Hong Kong's continued economic prosperity.
(Pub. L. 102–383, §2, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1448.)
Section 1 of Pub. L. 102–383 provided that: "This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the 'United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992'."


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BWW TV: 'Behind the Screams' of Goodspeed's SOMETHING'S AFOOT - Video Blog #2
Find out if the butler did it when Goodspeed Musicals brings intrigue and amusement to the Opera House stage with its production of the musical whodunit Something's Afoot. This hilarious musical send-up of Agatha Christie-style stumpers will complete Goodspeed's 2012 season, now running through December 9 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. Something's Afoot will be sponsored by Webster Bank and Connecticut Light and Power.
BroadwayWorld has another video diary capturing some of the fun and unexpected momentsbehind the "screams" at Goodspeed. Check it out below!
Something's Afoot features a book, music, and lyrics by James McDonald, David Vos, and Robert Gerlach with additional music by Ed Linderman.
The killer cast will feature Liz Pearce as Lettie. Ms. Pearce's Broadway credits include Billy Elliot: The Musical and her Goodspeed credits include City of Angels, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and George M!. Flint will be played by Khris Lewin who appeared in Goodspeed's My One And Only. Clive will be played by Ron Wisniski of Goodspeed's A Funny Thing…Forum, Me and My Girl, Finian's Rainbow, Gotham!, andAnnie. Hope Langdon will be played by Julia Osborne who appeared in Goodspeed's Half a Sixpence and The Pirates of Penzance. Dr. Grayburn will be played by Peter Van Wagner of television's "Boardwalk Empire" and Goodspeed's Road to Hollywood and On The Twentieth Century. Nigel Rancour will be played by Benjamin Eakeley of Broadway's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Sweeney Todd. The role of Lady Manley-Prowe will be played by Drama Desk nominated actressLynne Wintersteller whose credits include Broadway's A Grand Night for Singing and the National Tours of Company andAnnie.
Goodspeed audience favorite Ed Dixon will play Colonel Gillweather. Miss Tweed will be played by Audrie Neenan of Broadway's Sister Act, Oklahoma!, Picnic, The Odd Couple, and The Curse of an Aching Heart. Geoffrey will be played by Hunter Ryan Herdlicka of Broadway's A Little Night Music. The understudies will be Madeleine Doherty, Alyssa Gagarin, and Bronson Norris Murphy.
Something's Afoot will be directed by Casey Hushion. Choreography will be by Vince Pesce. Scenic designs will be by Adrian W. Jones. Costumes will be designed by Tracy Christensen. Lighting design will be by Jason Lyons. Sound design will be by Jay Hilton. The Music Director for Something's Afoot will be Michael O'Flaherty who is in his 21st season as Goodspeed's Resident Music Director. William J. Thomas will be Assistant Music Director. Orchestrations will be provided by Dan DeLange.
Something's Afoot is produced for Goodspeed Musicals by Michael P. Price.
Something's Afoot will run October 5 through December 9, 2012 [Official Press Opening October 24, 2012]. Curtain times are Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m. (with select performances at 2:00 p.m.), Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. (with select performances at 6:30 p.m.).
Tickets are available through the Box Office (860.873.8668), open seven days a week, or on-line at goodspeed.org.
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The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, located in Williamstown, Mass, will inaugurate new and expanded facilities on its 140-acre campus on July 4, 2014. The project, which reconceptualizes the visitor's experience of the Clark, culminates a decade-long expansion program and represents the most significant transformation of the Institute since its first building opened to the public in 1955.??
Combining the talents of three noted architects, the project unites a new Visitor Center designed by Tadao Ando Architects, Osaka, Japan, with an expanded Museum Building and the renovated Manton Research Center, both designed by Selldorf Architects, New York. These buildings surround a new one-acre reflecting pool, the highlight of a dramatic rethinking of the Clark's landscape designed by Reed Hilderbrand, Watertown, Massachusetts. The expansion project adds more than 16,000 square feet of gallery space, supporting the Clark's expanded collection and exhibition programs, and establishes the Institute as a leader in best practices for sustainability and energy efficiency.??
"The expansion project advances the Clark's dual mission as both an art museum and a center for research and higher education," said Director Michael Conforti. "Since developing our master plan more than ten years ago, we have worked diligently to connect our program and support spaces with our extraordinary landscape, all with the goal of best serving the thousands of people who come from all over the world to visit the Clark each year. What now looks simple, and so logical, has been achieved through a complex and environmentally sensitive design and construction program that unites many disparate parts." ??
What's New at The Clark
The final phase of the project includes:
"The addition of special exhibition and education space in the new Visitor Center, coupled with the renovation of our Museum Building, enables us to present our collection and expand the provocative exhibitions for which the Clark is noted in new and interesting ways," Conforti said.
"In the Manton Research Center we have created an environment that provides greater public access to our research and academic mission by enhancing our library facilities and creating a dedicated study center and gallery for our growing collection of works on paper. On the campus, Reed Hilderbrand's work has brought renewed ecological health to the land, helping to improve our significant natural assets."
At the time of the opening, the Clark will present four inaugural special exhibitions and the reinstallation of its extraordinary art collections, demonstrating both the depth and breadth of the Clark's holdings, and integrating new scholarship in its interpretation of these works. The exhibitions include Make It New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975; Cast for Eternity: Ancient Ritual Bronzes from the Shanghai Museum; Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith, and Photography and Discovery.??
The reinstallation of the permanent collection also marks the return of seventy-three works from the Clark's collection of 19th century French paintings after a three-year world tour. Some two million people have seen the collection at ten venues, from the Museo del Prado in Madrid to its most recent presentation at the Shanghai Museum.
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What Is The Difference Between 'Stress' And 'Frustration,' And What Kind Of 'Stress' Is Bad For My Heart?
Dr. Williams answers the question: 'What Kind Of Stress Is Bad For My Heart?'
-- Question: What is the difference between 'stress' and 'frustration,' and what kind of 'stress' is bad for my heart?
Answer: Stress is when bad things happen to you -- whether it's a stressful life event, like somebody dying, in the extreme, or a situation at work, where you're not getting the reward you feel you deserve, or the demands of your job are too high and you don't have much control over how you meet those demands. Lack of social support in your family and circle of friends. These are all things that happen to you that make you have a reaction, like frustration.
Frustration, anger, sadness, anxiety -- these psychological responses to stress are accompanied by biological changes inside your body. Adrenaline, stress hormones. Also, people who are under stress, and feeling frustrated or depressed or anxious or angry, are more likely to engage in coping behaviors to help reduce the distress they feel. But sometimes these coping behaviors, like smoking, eating too much, drinking too much, can be bad for your heart.
So, between them, the biological responses to stress, and the behavioral responses, lead to -- in healthy people, the development of heart disease -- and in people who already have heart disease, they can make your heart disease worse, and make you more likely to have another heart attack or even die from it.
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The Carpenters
The Carpenters are an experimental, avant-garde performance group. They are notable for being the largest, longest living experimental musical act in history dating back almost two-hundred-thousand years and comprised of innumerable musicians from across the world. Their performances are staged on "work sites" in which a single performance can last anywhere from one or two hours to weeks, months or even years. The Carpenters are usually paid by a carpenters union, but many are freelance "sit-in" performers. Millions, perhaps billions of recordings of performances exist but are hidden from the public eye using a sly linguistic trick.
- 1 Early Career
- 2 Early Public Performances
- 3 Middle Career
- 4 Early Fame And Tragedy
- 5 Later Years And Genrefication of The Carpenter's Music
- 6 The Twenty First Century and Beyond
- 7 Long-running dispute with AT&T
Early Career[edit]
To chart the entire career span of The Carpenters is nearly impossible. We do know that early performances were usually held during the day and that the timbre of the music performed was quite different than it is today. Early instruments were made of stone or bone and the early sound was very much more percussive than the later scratchy sounds developed in the Middle East and finally "The Whine" perfected in North America and Japan. Early performances were much better attended and music historians suspect that indeed the early performances were much "more pure" without interest in high-tech gear and flashy stage effects.
Early Public Performances[edit]
Public performances of carpentry had been forbidden since late prehistory when prehistoric Jesus walked from hut to hut passing out pieces of bark and leaves with shoddily drawn pictures trying to gather people to watch him build a wooden marijuana pipe. This act of promotion was met with great anger from fellow members of The Carpenters who quickly formed a mob and attempted to fasten Prehistoric Jesus to a rock. As there was no method of doing this yet invented, Prehistoric Jesus survived, but was cast out of The Carpenters.
Structural Performance and The Birth Of The Avant Garde[edit]
It is postulated that during early performances, a byproduct of music was discovered- structural performance, as it is called in critical circles, was discovered soon after the group formed and quickly became integrated into their performances. After the discovery of structural performance, where two byproducts are left behind after each performance- waste, also known as "scrap" and a product, often called a "building" or "furniture". This byproduct became very valuable for The Carpenters, providing them with something to sell at the end of each performance. Since the development of structural performance, The Carpenters rarely charge for their performances, and in fact, rarely perform in front of audiences- the "building" or "furniture" is sold and the performers paid either by a manager or a union. It was the development of "buildings" and "furniture" that created one of the principle schizms in The Carpenter's career and art; since prehistoric times the music of The Carpenters is not performed for an audience but for the byproducts. This single fact makes The Carpenters the longest, most prolific and enduring avant-garde musical group in history.
Middle Career[edit]
The "middle era" of The Carpenters career, and indeed their career as a whole, can be defined along with the technology that accompianies them. In the early 4th century AD, Japanese musicians developed an instrument composed of a "blade" with a serrated edge that when dragged upon wood created a scraping sustained tone. The act of "saw music" also had the added benefit of cutting the wood in two which aided in the "structural performance" of the carpenters art.
The Carpenters were most prolific in their middle career on the Asian Continent performing thousands of shows every year. Byproducts of these performances can still be experienced today across the Asian continents.
Early Fame And Tragedy[edit]
In the middle-east, Harvey Christ, (see Famous Ray's Original Jesus), a solo saw-and-nail man from Nazareth Kentuckistan, in the first documented act of showboating in The Carpenters, had himself nailed to a piece of wood as an pre-historical satire with several people watching, forming an audience. As public performances in front of intentional live audiences had been forbidden for The Carpenters since 129,000, The Carpenters elected to kick Harvey out of the group and supposedly gave him the name Jesus, after the original showboater and outcast band-member, Prehistoric Jesus. This single act of showboating threatened to tear the band apart. Civilization's growing dependence on The Carpenter's musical byproducts however were such that the band was forced to remain together. Not until recent history and the creation of the easy listening group The Carpenters, will the band ever meet such fame and utter tragedy.
Later Years And Genrefication of The Carpenter's Music[edit]
It wasn't until much later in history that the music and performances of The Carpenters became divided into specific sub-groups or genres of musical performance. To this date The Carpenters perform roughly 10 genres of music including:
Genres Performed By The Carpenters[edit]
- Rough Framing Often characterized by heavy loud percussion, futuristic short staccato punctuations of air-powered pneumatic instruments, extended periods of glissandos with varying durations and pitches performed by modern "saw-men" and "drillers" and occasional steel on steel percussion. Rough Framing performances tend to last from one to two months and generally result in a building, typically a "house" or "office". The duration of rough framing music is often affected by conductors called "building inspectors" who often like to extend the period of the music even if it requires use of the "stop-work-rest" (also known as the "week rest" rest) that can result in periods of avant-garde silence of days, weeks or even months.
- Trim Often characterized by occasional percussion from pneumatic punctuations, the quiet more percussive sawing sound produced using the technique called "coping", and rhythmic interludes, usually performed at the end of the work, called "sanding".
- Other Genres Include...
- Cabinet Performed nearly always in specialized studios containing specialized instruments and "recording equipment", cabinetmusik is characterized by detail-oriented short duration notes with the smell of glue and often the bass/noise tones of large vacuum machines. Cabinetmusik uses such techniques as "the dado", "the dovetail" and "the rabbit", clearly references to animals and ancient royalty suggesting that cabinetmusik is indeed the oldest musical form performed by The Carpenters and, in fact the oldest form of any music.
- Joisting
- Finish
- Theater
- Roofing
- Siding
The Twenty First Century and Beyond[edit]
Only now are the struggles of the late twenieth century calming down and the wounds of the last forty years being healed. A renewed disinterest in high-art, experimental music, and culture has afforded a newfound anonymity to The Carpenters allowing them once again to move into the shadows where they have performed their special brand of intense performance art since the dawn of time.
Leading members of The Carpenters are currently developing performance styles to lead the group into the 21st century and beyond. These new developments include the addition of highly-intelligent robots to take the place of the rather monotonous job of the "saw-man". Changes are also being made in so-called "building materials" that will change the timbre of the music as well as advances in "adhesives" and the once frowned-upon act of "measuring", also known as "the silent music". When asked about the future of the music, Andre Goporcu, critic for The Journal of New Sounds has commented that "The Carpenters will be showing us some very new, cutting edge performance techniques over the next thirty years. Too bad most of us will never see or hear them."
Long-running dispute with AT&T[edit]
The carpenters had an 18-month struggle with the telephone provider over their efforts to call interplanetary craft, stretching to 14 visits from engineering personnel, who consistently would say that their broadband equipment must be malfunctioning. Eventually, a passing telecomms engineer noticed a frequency-suppressor on their line and they have been able to get through just fine since then, although the aliens are threatening a lawsuit and they are having problems with communing with the dead.


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A CT image processing technique quantifies the mix of small airway disease and emphysema, thus mapping the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers found.
The technique, which relies on post-processing software to separate normal from diseased tissue, was able to quantify the extent of functional small airway disease (fSAD) separate from COPD, a distinction that cannot be made from conventional analysis of scans, wrote Brian D. Ross, PhD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues.
The voxel-wise image analysis technique, called parametric response mapping (PRM), involves the use of inspiratory and expiratory CT scans, researchers reported online in Nature Medicine.
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- A CT image processing technique quantifies the mix of small airway disease and emphysema, thus mapping the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Point out that the technique, which relies on post-processing software to separate normal from diseased tissue, was able to quantify the extent of functional small airway disease (fSAD) separate from COPD, a distinction that cannot be made from conventional analysis of CT scans.
Pulmonary specialists have recognized fSAD and emphysema as principal components of COPD. Moreover, a spectrum of COPD phenotypes exists, reflecting varying contributions of fSAD and emphysema. The ability to identify and diagnose individual COPD phenotypes might improvement management of patients affected by COPD, the authors noted in their introduction.
But researchers went a step further than merely identifying COPD phenotypes. This mapping technique provided objective, image-based evidence to support a long-held, but unproven, belief about COPD.
"We observed a pattern suggestive of COPD progression that, to our knowledge, has never been demonstrated by CT-based measures," namely that "fSAD precedes emphysema in the progression of COPD," the authors wrote.
The technique relies on differences in voxel-distribution patterns, or PRM signatures, that change with progression of fSAD and correlate with attenuation patterns on CT images.
CT has proven useful for evaluation of COPD, primarily from qualitative visual analysis. However, applications of quantitative techniques to CT data sets have been studied extensively in an effort to translate images into clinically useful representations of COPD structural abnormalities and disease severity.
An accepted method for determining the emphysema component of COPD is emphysema percentage, derived from an attenuation-based method that normalizes the sum of all image voxels less than -950 Hounsfield units (HUs) by total lung volume on the CT inspiratory scan, the authors continued.
But emphysema percentage provides no information about fSAD, a limitation of CT owing to the complex histopathology of COPD-affected lung tissue.
PRM is a voxel-based method initially developed by the authors to improve the sensitivity of diffusion MRI data for therapeutic response in glioma. The technique also has been validated as an early marker for survival in several types of cancer. Moreover, the authors have shown that PRM is a generalized method, not restricted to one type of image analysis.
For evaluation of CT scans in patients with COPD, Ross and colleagues modified PRM methods to take advantage of the approach's strengths in pairwise analysis of inspiratory and expiratory CT scans.
As described in the article, the application of PRM to quantification of fSAD separately from emphysema involves three steps: image acquisition, image processing (including segmentation and co-registration), and classification of voxels with HU values characteristic of normal and diseased lung parenchyma.
The resulting maps represent COPD phenotypes. In the image provided by the authors, for example, emphysema (red 16%) has progressed throughout the upper right lung, fSAD (yellow 22%) is seen primarily in the upper left lung, with both lower lungs primarily healthy (green 54%) based on PRM.
The images used to develop maps were of a subset of 10,000 participants in a study of COPD genetics that required paired CT scans. The 194 patients included in the study by Ross and colleagues represented a wide spectrum of GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) status.
"The ability of PRM to identify and track individual voxels from inspiratory and expiratory scans allows for the individual components of COPD to be quantified and monitored," the authors wrote of their findings.
"In addition, PRM provided unique information on the contribution of fSAD and emphysema in a variety of clinical tests that have been identified as being prognostic of COPD."
The technique also has potential to be used in drug trials as a secondary biomarker of therapeutic effect, according to the investigators.
The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Ross and several coauthors disclosed a financial interest in the underlying technology used in the study and with the company to which the technology has been licensed.
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Source Reference: Galban CJ, et al "Computed tomography-based biomarker provides unique signature for diagnosis of COPD phenotypes and disease progression" Nat Med 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nm.2971.


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February has seen more than its fair share of price drops...
but they appear to be strangely collected in a brief four hour window at the start of the day... the black line is the average of the day's performance in February across the dates selected.
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Constructed Realities and Caricatures
If we are to believe what was published in Germany's Spiegel and Focus magazines last week, we would conclude not only that "the multicultural society been a failure," but also that the quintessence of a parallel society is a belief in Islam – in other words, it is Islam that hinders integration.
While we can certainly give credence to various depictions of the plight of "the Muslim woman," the impression they leave behind is deceiving, because here – as always – a generalization is being made that holds certain facts to be representative of the whole story.
It is fully justifiable to criticize the misery of some Muslim women and to want to do something about the crimes perpetrated against them – but the choice of Islam as reference point is completely misguided. Or how shall we attempt to explain similar behavior in Latin America, as well as the fact that the Chinese living in a parallel society in Germany favor arranged marriages?
The escalation in the Netherlands has shown us that confusing the act of an individual with his group affiliation is always a possibility – especially in a context where as long as anyone can remember the category of "Islamic" has been filled with the most horrible associations.
These of course include things that do exist in the wider Islamic world – just as they do in the rest of the world – but that are habitually picked out, generalized and repeated ad nauseum, until they have finally mutated into the one true "reality."
Phenomena for meaning induction
Since 9/11 we have seen a marked increase in the habit of explicitly blaming Muslims for a wide variety of misdeeds. These accusations are no different in quality, however, from the negative insinuations made on a subliminal level that could already be discerned long before. It is for precisely this reason that the many allegations being made today look to us like plausible evidence.
One effective technique for linking the most divergent areas is the so-called "meaning-induction cut" used in film, which we find not only in the documentaries of Peter Scholl-Latour, for instance in the program titled "The Battlefield of the Future," which takes us on a tour of the far-flung capitals of southern Soviet republics, climaxing in an "explosion in a Russian soldiers' camp in Kaspisk."
We are shown images of destroyed houses and bulldozers plowing through the rubble. Then a cut: "And now we are looking at a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, based on a Turkish model…" And the dome of the mosque with its half-moon comes into view, the architectonic origins of which are then explained. Is there any connection between the mosque and the explosion? No explicit reason is given why the themes of BOMBING and ISLAM are implicitly linked here with an uncommented swiftness. So, we still do not know today what caused that explosion?
But if we were of the opinion that the explosion must have something to do with so-called Islamist terrorism, then we would actually have to back up this assumption with a cogent argument. Besides, in this case the mosque as symbol for Islamism would have been a very poor choice, because what do we have left as a symbol for Islam when mosques, prayers, headscarves, and beards have to do double duty as signs of Islamism?
The headscarf in particular has proven to be a powerfully persuasive image. By now it's enough just to have a headscarf wearer scurry across the screen, and the case appears to be closed. A firmly established chain of associations is being exploited here, with methods ranging from repression to infiltration, which explains why the veil worn by Muslim women is the subject of so much vehement debate these days.
Meaning induction as device also lends itself well to print media. There as well, images, texts combined with images, or even disparate text passages can be juxtaposed without an explicit justification and with the same potential for suggestiveness.
For example, in the October 16, 2000 issue of Der Spiegel magazine there is a photo montage illustrating an article on Israel/Palestine. A comparatively large picture on the left shows Palestinian youths throwing Molotov cocktails. The key features here are flames, an aggressive mood, and hostility. Directly adjacent on the right is a picture about 1/3 the size showing an Israeli settler carrying a baby dressed all in white, turning in the direction of the "attackers" and seeming presenting the baby to them. The Kalashnikov he is carrying in his shoulder harness is partly concealed by the baby.
The subject of this picture seems to be the theme of innocent (settler) children. These images thus perceived together send out a message in advance of the text, if anyone ever actually reads it at all, saying something like "aggressive Palestinians attack innocent Israelis/settlers."
A clear allocation of blame has thus already taken place, no matter how the article may try to present a carefully balanced assessment of the situation.
A purely text-based induction of meaning is apparent in the following example taken from a German magazine called Frau im Leben, issue 7/93, where the subject is the genital mutilation of girls in Egypt.
"In order to launch a campaign in Egypt against female circumcision, the religious leaders there would first have to be convinced of its pointlessness. Islam is the state religion. 93% of the population is of the Muslim faith."
Female circumcision is an ancient African tradition
This all happens to be true - and that is bad enough – but this tradition has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, as a look at the countries where the practice is widespread soon shows. Female circumcision is an ancient African tradition, which indeed is practiced in some of the Islamic countries of Africa, but is found in the non-Islamic areas as well.
The fact alone that some influential religious figures are trying to make this practice seem like an "Islamic" tradition does not prove the accuracy of this allegation. We would normally be better able to see through such strategies and not let ourselves be taken in by them, if the subject matter were closer to home.
One last example from an endless repertoire: when in fall 2002 a sniper cast a pall of fear and horror over Washington, we often heard, for example on the BR 5 (Bavarian Broadcasting) radio station: "John Allan Muhammad, a convert to Islam …"
This is a clear infringement of the German Press Board Guideline Number 12.1, which prohibits the naming of group affiliations, such as nationality, religion, etc. in the context of crime reporting. The necessity for such a guideline attests to just this danger of perceiving individual acts as group phenomena.
Even today, we still know nothing about the motives of the Washington sniper and his stepson, but an implied association between the violence against other human beings and the religion of the offender remains at the back of our minds.
"Muslim profiling"
By now we are able to speak of a certain tradition of representation: if the offender is a Muslim, this will definitely be mentioned, regardless of whether it has anything to do with what has happened. We call this profiling. The same rules once applied to our Jewish fellow citizens, and that alone should be enough to give us pause.
This realization is made more complicated, however, by the fact that some perpetrators themselves invoke Islam, and it is not easy for non-Muslims to comprehend the irrelevance of Islam to their deeds. This self-profiling makes it especially difficult for those who do not belong to the group to see through this unacceptable appropriation. This phenomenon is familiar to us from the anti-Semitic discourse.
Placement and ordering
While in television the program and time slot indicate the significance and degree of attention given to an issue, in the print media placement is the decisive factor determining the apparent importance of the information provided.
A high degree of impact puts an issue on the front page, as is the case with the raids that have been conducted on mosques in the aftermath of 9/11.
What is interesting here is the following observation – described here using the example of the Nürnberger Nachrichten: by means of a representative analysis over the course of a few months in 2002, we discovered that the announcements of raids were always placed on the front page. Reports on the failure of such raids to turn up any evidence, however, were always hidden somewhere inside the newspaper or were skipped completely.
Although in most cases the suspicions turned out to be groundless, the impression was left behind that the mosques harbor a potential threat. This explains why the word 'mosque' has undergone a veritable transformation in meaning: today, instead of viewing the mosque as a place of prayer and encounter, people perceive it as the locus of conspiracy.
Metaphors and the threat scenario
Research into anti-Semitism has already shown that certain metaphors have a dehumanizing effect and can be suggestive of possible actions to take. Labeling a group of people dangerous "vermin" naturally inspires others to try to protect themselves from this menace.
If you continually call someone names coming from the pest world, then measures taken against such "pests" seem like an act of self-defense and acquire a patina of legitimacy – as demonstrated for example by Goldhagen. With regard to Muslims, one of the metaphoric realms currently in vogue is that of DISEASE.
When Islamism is referred to as a "cancerous tumor" (Der Spiegel, February 25, 2002: 172f), this fear mongering already implies the idea of eradication - or how would you treat a cancerous tumor?
One might argue here that, strictly speaking, Islamism is at issue here and not Islam. This is correct. But it is unfortunately the case that the concept of Islamism is only rarely distinguished clearly from that of Islam.
Again and again, terms such as "Islamic terror," "Moslem extremist," "Islamist suicide bomber" etc. are simply used interchangeably.
The French press as well provides plenty of provocative examples of these mix-ups, such as the oft-cited "fever of Islam" (La fièvre de l'islam, L'Express November 1, 2001: front page), which surely refers to Islamism instead and which was meant in this case to justify Putin's foreign policy.
Reshaping stereotypes
When certain aspects of reality can no longer be ignored, there often occurs a kind of mending of the established worldview. This is once again an automatism that we are subject to.
Facts that clash with our customary expectations, i.e. those that contradict the stereotypes, can in this way be quickly and conveniently brought into harmony with our cherished stereotypes. This mechanism can be illustrated using the example of Benazir Bhutto.
When Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan, this did not fit in with our conventional concept of the role of the Muslim woman. In order to avoid having to completely rethink this "truth," the following explanations were put forth for why Ms. Bhutto had been able to achieve this high office.
Reference was made to "the legacy of her father," the "illiteracy of the people," and to her "Oxford education" – all in an effort to play down her accomplishment as a Muslim woman.
There was even talk of the "election strategy of the Shiites," whose supportive behavior was apparently particularly in need of explanation.
All in all, people were able to satisfy themselves, after making a few nips and tucks to the old stereotype, that there was no need to call into question their firm conviction that a woman in this high position was antithetical to Islam.
Bhutto was the exception, and, as we know, the exceptions prove the rule – as attested to by the many heads of state in the so-called West.
This is once again only one example of many, showing clearly that it is not the facts that are crucial to our perception of a subject, but rather that our way of ordering our world always precedes our perception of information, and that it is an artificial one.
Since our benevolent or mistrusting eye always decides in advance how a subject will be perceived – i.e. interpreted – this means for our view of Muslims today that no matter what they do, it's wrong!
Our preconceived attitude is one of mistrust and this mistrust casts a pall on all of the efforts anyone can undertake to prove it wrong: If a Muslim woman insists on wearing a headscarf, for example, this can be construed as a sign of her turning away from – or even rejecting – the society of the non-Muslim majority.
If she dispenses with her headscarf, on the other hand, this can be dismissed as a clever camouflage, a disguise in an effort to infiltrate our society unrecognized.
Similar arguments could be read recently in a prominent German weekly paper: "Sleepers try particularly hard to obtain citizenship." But if the willingness to integrate is interpreted as an attempt at infiltration, which positive options for action do the Muslims have left?
Here we must carefully examine whether demands made on the Muslims and the consequences promised in return have any relationship at all – something that has been completely neglected in the debate on integration.
Conversely, we need to convey to Muslims that a fear of Islam is based more on misunderstanding than on malicious intent.
Because, from the observations we have made above, we can derive at least two points.
For one, the imagined threat scenario through Islam and its followers is a fatal mechanism that continues to be fed afresh through individual deeds and our focus on these as symptomatic of the impending menace.
And second, this means at the same time that there is no conspiracy against Islam and the Muslims.
Fact and conclusion
This information should not serve to allay our fears, for if we assume that politicians and media players are acting to the best of their knowledge and in good faith, we have to concede not only that much educational work still needs to be done, but that the ability of self-criticism must also be cultivated in order to break through this mechanism.
We have seen clearly how the seemingly innocuous stating of pure facts can lead to false conclusions.
Calling upon facts alone as a sufficient means for fighting discrimination and racism is never enough. Taking effective action against a confrontational development requires cognizance of the unfavorable interplay between fact and framing, in order to be able to work out constructive solutions.
For this we need people who are prepared to take others seriously, with their different needs, concerns, desires and ideas – no matter how these have come about – and who do not let themselves be discouraged by previous missteps.
This goes for everyone, because the mechanisms described here unfortunately work in the other direction as well, where the politics of George Bush increasingly stand for the world's view of "the West."
Sabine Schiffer
© Qantara.de 2004
Translation from German: Jennifer Taylor-Gaida
Sabine Schiffer is a lecturer in media education and communication studies at Friedrich-Alexander University, Nürnberg/Erlangen, Germany.


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