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News Corp. Names Thomson to Run Spinoff
News Corp. appointed Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson as chief executive of its soon-to-be independent publishing company, which will retain the News Corp. name. John Jannarone reports on Lunch Break.
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Telent's Rail Business decided to implement a Webfleet solution consisting of a LINK 300 GPS tracking box with 10-second positioning, paired with a GO 7000 navigation device with 2-way messaging and LIVE services including TomTom's unique TomTom Traffic into 91 of their vehicles. This is due to increase to a total of 150 vehicles.
The company has been suitably impressed with the immediate improvements in day to day business, most noticeably the incredible reduction in the time taken to allocate jobs to the right team, which has been reduced by an amazing 80% from 75 minutes to just 15 minutes.
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DuPont Pharmaceutical's new drug efavirenz (Sustiva) has enjoyed a favored position among treatment activists, offering both high levels of antiviral activity and a simplified dosing regimen. The company has worked to build a harmonious relationship with the community by being responsive to community concerns and agreeing to a generous expanded access program. Just days before the drug's expected approval by the FDA, however, that honeymoon quickly soured and a contentious battle over pricing began. The company launched the product at a price far exceeding the others in its NNRTI class (nevirapine and delavirdine), a price that approached the cost of protease inhibitors (at least $5,000 per year retail).
The first hint of these changing attitudes came when the DuPont PR machine cranked into high gear in the weeks preceding the World AIDS Conference in Geneva. A week prior to the conference, treatment activists were invited to the company's headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, for a sneak preview of the "exciting" 24-week Study 006 data. This trial compared efavirenz/AZT/3TC, indinavir/AZT/3TC and efavirenz/indinavir. The preliminary data from the efavirenz/AZT/3TC arm seemed impressive in this nearly treatment-naïve population, equal to, or slightly better than, the other two arms using indinavir. Such results prompted the company to herald a new era of "protease-sparing" treatment regimens. But questions of durability of response and whether this protease-sparing regimen will be effective in treatment-experienced populations remain unanswered (see article, "An Even Dozen: Another Expensive Drug for Your Cocktail"). DuPont also avoided comparing efavirenz directly to others in its own class, obscuring its relative worth.
Nonetheless, "protease-sparing regimens" and "once-daily dosing" became media buzzwords in Geneva, fueled by a slick promotional campaign, press releases, dazzling exhibits, and wining and dining U.S. attendees at five-star restaurants. The timing was propitious: conference presentations on increased protease inhibitor failures, due to noncompliance and drug-resistant HIV, and on such side effects as fat redistribution ("buffalo humps" and "protease paunch") raised serious doubts about the wisdom of protease inhibitor therapy.
Back on the home front, a marketing research firm had begun testing the waters of higher pricing, surveying people with HIV and posing such pointed questions as, "If you could take a once-a-day dosing regimen, without a protease inhibitor, would you be willing to pay $3,770 per year?" Inquiries were also made to state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) and Medicaid programs to assess how high a price the market would be willing to bear.
No matter how desirable the drug looks based on interim data, activists were adamant that such results cannot justify another increase in the total cost of therapy. Although the overall cost when using the drug in the proposed "protease-sparing" regimen promoted by the company may approximate the price of similar protease-containing regimens, this proposed use likely represents a minority of the drug's sales. For people with prior therapy, efavirenz most likely will be used in conjunction with, rather than as a replacement for, a protease inhibitor. Many researchers believe such a combination would be better even in drug-naïve patients. Thus, the high premium DuPont is charging for efavirenz as compared to other drugs in its class will represent a major increase in the total cost of therapy.
The exceptionally high price sets a new standard for HIV drug pricing if left unchallenged. It signals to other companies that they may charge more for new and existing HIV drugs. This sort of inflationary pressure would put an enormous strain on ADAP, Medicaid programs and private insurance plans. Privately insured individuals also would face increased financial pressure since they would have to spend more to meet copayment requirements and may risk maxing out on their insurance drug coverage.
When rumors began circulating of an impending high price, a community working group issued a "Fair Price Consensus Statement" that has now been endorsed by over 100 organizations worldwide. The statement demands that both efavirenz as well as the new nucleoside analog expected shortly from Glaxo, abacavir (also known as Ziagen) be priced no higher than similar drugs in their respective classes. On September 10, activists met with DuPont officials in Wilmington, but both the consensus statement and their impassioned speeches fell on deaf ears. Even though it was obvious that activists had come to Wilmington primarily to discuss price, and not just trial data, not one person from DuPont with authority over pricing was in attendance. The meeting ended with a demand to meet with Nicholas Teti, DuPont Pharmaceuticals' president, but arrangements for the encounter broke down as DuPont rapidly moved toward launching its new product.
Community action on pricing is, if anything, long overdue. Despite sporadic protests from individual groups, the community has not taken coordinated action against unfair pricing for several years. The effort around efavirenz should provide the impetus for people with HIV, activists and AIDS service organizations to confront the exceptionally high cost of antiviral therapy. The prices established in the U.S. have an enormous worldwide impact. HIV treatment is almost completely out of reach for the vast majority of infected people in developing countries -- who make up 90% of the global total. Unaffordable drugs are essentially ineffective, no matter how good they look in clinical trials.


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My Rode Rockumentary Entry, part 1
The good news is that this video got the 3rd prize in this great competition engaged by respected worldwide manufacturer Rode.
I guess it cannot be called "news" anymore as it was awarded a month ago, but I have been shooting something else, I had little time to write this behind the scenes (BTS) post.
I saw this opportunity on Philip Bloom's website http://www.philipbloom.net just a month before the actual competition deadline and the main idea behind it came to me pretty quickly, while I was driving along the motorway.
I tried very hard to have other people on board to help out, but for whatever reason they had, no one was able to make it.
In end I was on my own expect some little extra help I had in the final scene of the short movie, in which a baby is featured.
I thought I should have dropped it, at first. Too much to shoot, too little time and a one man band, tough I felt the idea was great, I really wanted to shoot this and what the hell I already shot something all by myself.
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A bantamweight fight between Chris Pham (2-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and Jason Sampson (9-1 MMA, 1-0 BFC) has found its way onto Thursday's Bellator 86 show and has bumped a tournament fight up to the main card.
With the addition of Pham-Sampson, announced late Monday by Bellator officials, the welterweight tournament quarterfinal fight between Brent Weedman (20-8-1 MMA, 6-3 BFC) and Marius Zaromskis (19-7 MMA, 3-1 BFC) will move up, giving the main card five fights – four opening-round tournament bouts, plus a title fight.
"Bellator 86: Askren vs. Amoussou" takes place at WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla. The event's main card airs on Spike TV following prelims on Spike.com. The main event is a welterweight title fight between champion Ben Askren (10-0 MMA, 7-0 BFC) and Karl Amoussou (16-4-2 MMA, 4-1 BFC). Also on the main card, Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal (8-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) makes his highly anticipated Bellator debut in a light heavyweight tournament opening-round fight against Przemyslaw Mysiala (16-7 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
Rounding out the main card are three welterweight tournament opening-round fights between Douglas Lima (22-5 MMA, 4-1 BFC)-Michail Tsarev (24-3 MMA, 1-1 BFC), Koffi Adzisto (18-9 MMA, 0-0 BFC)-Ben Saunders (14-5-2 MMA, 5-2 BFC) and Weedman-Zaromskis. A fourth 170-pound tourney fight between Raul Amaya (10-1 MMA, 1-1 BFC) and Jose Gomes (32-8 MMA, 0-0 BFC) closes out the prelims on Spike.com.
Sampson gets his second Bellator fight after a third-round rear-naked choke win over Jeremy Myers in March 2012 at Bellator 61. But that was his most recent action. That fight got him back in the win column following his first pro loss, a split-decision setback to Joshua Montoya in a rematch from a fight he won four months prior by first-round armbar. According to Sampson's Facebook page, Pham is his third opponent after a fight with Joseph Sandoval was changed to Casey Johnson and Johnson to Pham.
Pham has two submissions in his two pro fights. But his pro debut came more than three and a half years ago. He returned this past June and picked up a first-round submission in regional action.
The full Bellator 86 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (Spike TV, 10 p.m. ET)
- Ben Askren vs. Karl Amoussou – for welterweight title
- Muhammed Lawal vs. Przemyslaw Mysiala – light-heavyweight-tournament opening round
- Douglas Lima vs. Michail Tsarev – welterweight-tournament opening round
- Ben Saunders vs. Koffi Adzitso – welterweight-tournament opening round
- Brent Weedman vs. Marius Zaromskis – welterweight-tournament opening round
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com, 8 p.m. ET)
- Raul Amaya vs. Jose Gomes – welterweight-tournament opening round
- Cortez Coleman vs. Matt Jones
- Chris Pham vs. Jason Sampson
- Zach Church vs. Damon Jackson
- Mike Maldonado vs. Joseph Salas
- Javier Obregon vs. Hunter Tucker
For more on Bellator 86, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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Where to Buy Beer in Portland: The Best Bottle Shops
There's a reason why beer lovers call Portland, Oregon 'Beervana'. Fifty-two breweries and counting—even more if you include the entire metro area—leave citizens of this fair (ok, sometimes rainy) city happily in their cups with options galore.
The fun doesn't stop at the taps; Portland also happens to have some of the best bottle shops in the country. No matter what part of town you're in, there is good bottled beer to be found, and plenty of it. While just about every corner market and gas station carries at least a few quality craft beers, these are our picks for the very best bottle shops in Portland. Hope you're thirsty!
John's Marketplace
What, exactly, do 1,300 beers look like? Take a drive to John's Marketplace deep in Southwest Portland and you'll see firsthand, although you'd never know it to look at the place. Resembling nothing so much as a rundown liquor store with an ancient sign badly in need of a paint job, John's Marketplace isn't interested in outward appearances so much as it is cramming this former convenience store with as many different beers as will fit. Row upon row, shelf upon shelf, cooler upon cooler, it's beer in every direction, a veritable library of ales and lagers numbering far more than the out-of-date website touts.
Expect to find everything from mass-market brands to Oregon favorites to international curios you'll be hard-pressed to find in many other shops (Dragon Lady Doppelbock from Lithuania's Rinkuskiai Brewery, anyone?). Beer geeks who step through these doors can expect to have their wallets and purses lightened considerably by the time they stumble back outside, dazed and giddy with excitement at the treasures they've uncovered.
John's Marketplace 3535 SW Multnomah Boulevard, Portland, OR 97219 (map) 503-244-2617; johnsmarketplace.com
Belmont Station
When it comes to bottles, Belmont Station features the second-largest selection of any shop in Portland with over 1,200 beers, ciders, and meads to salivate over. But not only is it a fantastic bottle shop spanning every style you can think of, it's also one of the best beer bars in the city. 20 taps dispense an always-changing variety of beers and ciders, many of them rare for Oregon, and there's even a covered back patio for additional seating sheltered from the inevitable rain.
Free tastings are held almost every week with breweries large and small. Owner Carl Singmaster recently brought on popular beer writer Lisa "Beer Goddess" Morrison as co-owner, further upping the shop's considerable street cred. When beer geeks go to bed at night, they dream of places like Belmont Station.
Belmont Station 4500 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR 97215 (map) 503-232-8538; belmont-station.com
The BeerMongers
Sure, they've got a great selection of over 500 carefully selected bottles in stock at all times. And yes, they've got 8 rotating taps of well-chosen ales and lagers to quaff—many of them tucked away in a back room for months or years before they're deemed ready to present—while you mull over which bottles to take home with you. But what's really impressive about SE Portland's The Beer Mongers is the extraordinary zymological knowledge these guys have to offer. Owner Sean Campbell finds his role akin to a fishmonger's, presenting only the very best of each beer style to his customers with the hope of broadening their palates and getting them to try something new. The members of The Beer Mongers staff (including Serious Eats writer Jim Bonomo) are connoisseurs of the highest order, so if you're just starting out in the world of craft beer and need recommendations on where to go next, these are the people to turn to.
The Beer Mongers 1125 SE Division Street, Portland, OR 97202 (map) 503-234-6012; thebeermongers.com
Cheese Bar
Ostensibly, your primary impetus for a visit to Cheese Bar is to purchase—what else?—some of the world's finest cheeses from expert Steve Jones. But look beyond the dazzling case of funky local blues and soft-ripened goat wheels and you'll find around 60 bottled beers, mostly Belgian in style, that pair exquisitely with the shop's specialty product.
You'll be hard-pressed to find some of these from your average beer supplier; you'll find picks from Oklahoma's Prairie Artisan Ales, a few rare brews from Logdson Farmhouse Ales, and maybe even Mother of all Storms from Pelican Pub on the coast on the well-curated bottle list. No need to guess which beer goes well with which cheese—the shop's knowledgeable staff won't lead you astray.
Cheese Bar 6031 SE Belmont Street, Portland, OR 97217 (map) 503-222-6014; cheese-bar.com
Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom
Amidst the current explosion of new restaurants along Southeast Division, a new bottle shop was inevitable. Lucky then that it's as good as Imperial. Owners Alex Kurnellas and Shawn Stackpoole stock their coolers and shelves with around 250 different beers, each paired with a helpful description for a little background info on what you're buying.
Imperial also offers something rare: 16-ounce bottle fills of any beer on tap. The Blichmann beer guns serving as pour spouts expel air from the bottle and keep its contents fresh and carbonated once capped, a great idea if you want a rare draft beer to go but don't want to commit to a full growler. A buck gets you the bottle; return it to get your dollar back, or swap it for a sanitized one and get another fill.
Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom 3090 SE Division Street, Portland, OR 97202 (map) 971-302-6899; imperialbottleshop.com
In a section of town where craft beer is a scarcity, N.W.I.P.A. is a godsend. Owners Jackson Wyatt and Daniel Huish looked all over Portland for an appropriate location for their bottle shop/taproom before taking over a long, airy space that formerly housed a coffee shop, finally giving deep-Southeast residents a place to pick up quality beers without having to drive halfway across town.
Despite the name, the obvious favoritism on the taps, and a cooler entirely dedicated to the style, this is by no means a strictly IPA-only shop. You'll always find a cider on draft, and the coolers are stocked with an ever-shifting rotation of styles and breweries, with ample seasonal offerings. Currently, N.W.I.P.A. carries around 150 different bottled beers, but expect that number to grow as more and more beer aficionados in the neighborhood discover this fine little shop.
N.W.I.P.A. 6350 SE Foster Road, Portland, OR 97206 (map) 971-279-5876; nwipapdx.com
Beer Bunker
Some might call opening a bottle shop and taproom a mere 34 blocks from the well-established and much-loved Belmont Station a risky move, and on paper, it is. But throw in the fact that a dormant volcano separates them and suddenly you have two distinct neighborhoods easily capable of sustaining their own beer suppliers. Montavilla's Beer Bunker is open, bright, and good for large groups, with a 12-tap bar on one side and a line of coolers holding around 250 bottles on the other. The owner continually seeks out small batch and unique beers, so expect to find bottles from folks like The Commons alongside the usual Oregon standbys.
Beer Bunker 7918 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR 97215 (map) 503-254-8200; facebook.com/beerbunker
With a well-curated assortment of around 250 bottles, 10 rotating taps, and great bar food in the form of the homemade pasties (get the one stuffed with beef and potatoes), Saraveza is a pub among pubs. You know you'll drink well here: a recent pumpkin-ale themed night included Midnight Sun's Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter, two vintages of Southern Tier's Pumking, and Elysian's rare and coveted 'Mr. Yuck' pumpkin sour. Add in a great atmosphere from the vintage beer signs (skewed heavily on Schlitz, Miller, and Old Milwaukee—owner Sarah Pederson hails from the Midwest) and the coolers from an era long since passed and you have one of the best places in all of Portland to spend your hard-earned beer dollars.
Even if you're only swinging by to restock your fridge, come by on the second Monday of every month for Free Bacon Night, and bring your mass-market-lager-drinking buddies along for a pint or six of Hamm's whenever the Packers are playing. Maybe you'll coax them into going home with something a little higher quality.
Saraveza 1004 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR 97217 (map) 503-206-4252; saraveza.com
If the mouthwatering aroma of slow-cooked pork wafting from the smoker next to the front door don't lure you into Bottles, perhaps the rotating selection of over 450 bottles and 8 taps will. With ample seating inside and on the wraparound patio, Bottles is perfect for rounding up some friends for an afternoon or evening of quaffing quality tipples in a casual setting. Unlike just about every other bottle shop, the coolers here are not all in one location, but spread throughout the building, encouraging you to wander about and peruse the inventory. Owners Shawn Meyer and Brant Kunze prefer to tailor their stock to the current season, so expect lots of pilsners in summer and hearty stouts in winter.
Bottles 5015 NE Fremont Street, Portland, OR 97213 (map) 503-287-7022; bottlesnw.com
Five owners (including Hop & Vine's Yetta Vorobik) might sound like too many cooks in the kitchen, but if the result is a bottle shop of the 1856's quality then we say bring 'em on! Opening just over a year ago, 1856 has become perhaps Portland's most stylish bottle shop, with around 300 bottles of prime Pacific Northwest beers from the likes of Bend's Ale Apothecary and Port Townsend's young Propolis Brewing sharing shelf space with handmade wines and designer bitters. Co-owner Matt Genz handles the beer side of the business and knows his stuff, devoting the majority of 1856's seven taps to mostly local ales.
One of the major perks of buying your beer at 1856: no corkage fee, so feel free to pull something you like from the coolers and have them pop it open right there. Don't feel like a beer at the moment? Try one of the six or seven wines by the glass or the daily sake pour.
1856 1465 NE Prescott Street, Portland, OR 97211 (map) 503-954-1104; beerwinecider.tumbler.com
Tin Bucket
Before Tin Bucket, Portland's outpost of the growing nationwide Growler Station chain, a growler was a dicey proposition that usually translated to flat, oxidized beer if you didn't drink it within a day or two after filling. With Tin Bucket's Pegas CrafTap growler filling stations, futuristic chambers that purge the vessel with carbon dioxide to prevent any chance of lingering oxygen, the beer in your growler will keep as long as you need it to. I once kept one sealed for over two weeks before cracking it open, and the beer tasted as fresh as the day it was poured.
If you're not interested in bottling one of the 40 beers on tap, a line of coolers along one wall stock over 250 bottles, mostly local selections and a few good imports. You'll often find congenial co-owner Jason Monge behind the bar, and he's keen to offer a sample or suggest a beer based on your preferences, so there's no reason not to walk out of this shop happy.
Tin Bucket 3520 N Williams Avenue, Portland, OR 97227 (map) 503-477-7689; growler-station.com/tinbucket
The Hop & Vine
As the name suggests, you'll find both beer and wine at Yetta Vorobik's Hop & Vine, as well as ciders and meads. The adjoining pub hosts eight rotating taps, but the bottle shop's smartly curated roster of around 300 cans, 22s, and 6-packs makes every visit here worthwhile. Hop & Vine has an impressive lineup of Belgian, Belgian-style, and sour beers, many from local breweries like Upright, Logsdon, and Cascade. Recently the shop expanded its gluten-free options, a market few other bottle shops have capitalized on. They do a pretty good job of updating their website to let you know about upcoming free Wednesday evening tastings in the shop and new beers they've brought in.
The Hop & Vine 1914 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR 97217 (map) 503-954-3322; thehopandvine.com
Bridgetown Beerhouse
Just off the heavily beaten path that is North Mississippi Avenue is a small, dimly lit, terrific bottle shop that has grown in size over the past five years to its current capacity of around 400 different beers. Like The Beer Mongers and Saraveza, every bottle sold here rests inside a cooler, so no need to worry about having to wait a few hours while your beverage chills in your fridge back home. Any bottle can be drunk on premises for an extra buck, but the shop also offers five rotating but always interesting beers on draft. Recent pours include the Stone / 10 Barrel Brewing collaboration Suede Imperial Porter and Crux Fermentation Project's Crystal Zwickel Pale. Look for even more coolers and a larger bar in the coming months as owners Mike Waite and Mychal Hoffman continue the expansions.
Bridgetown Beerhouse 915 N Shaver Street, Portland, OR 97227 (map) 503-477-8763; facebook.com/bridgetownbeerhouse
Pearl Specialty Market
Burnside Whole Foods isn't a terrible place to buy craft beer, but if you're in the Pearl District, Pearl Specialty Market is the place to check out. The spotless, stylish, painstakingly arranged shop sits in stark contrast to the majority of its grubbier competitors across the Willamette, but it takes its beer just as seriously. There's a tremendous selection of liquor, and a decent number of wines, but the 500+ bottles of beer take up nearly the entire western half of the space. Most if not all of the great local breweries are represented, but check the back of the westernmost shelf for a nice assortment of German beers.
Pearl Specialty Market 900 NW Lovejoy Street, Portland, OR 97209 (map) 503-477-8604; pearlspecialty.com
39th Mini Mart
Mini marts selling microbrews are de rigueur in Portland, but a mini mart with over 400 bottles and cans and a growler station where all fills are $9.99? That's something special.
Rotating above a busy stretch of Southeast 39th Avenue—er...Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard—39th Mini Mart's signage offers none of the usual siren's calls to draw the consummate beer enthusiast inside, unless the juxtaposition of the words "specialty beer" and "cigarette special" drive you mad with desire for barrel-aged barleywines and fresh-hopped IPAs. Look more closely and you'll spot a "Growlers Here" sandwich board or a banner from a local brewery, albeit in type about half the size of the current Marlboro carton prices. Marketing aside, where else are you going to grab a growler of Hopworks Abominable Ale, a Snickers bar, a bomber of Gigantic IPA, and a lotto ticket in one location?
39th Mini Mart 935 SE Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard, Portland, OR 97214 (map) 503-234-1411; 39th Mini Mart on Facebook
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Guest post: Coming home
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I could have written this one! I've finally learned the value of finding joy in all the moments and appreciating the support I have which allows me to do the work I love!ReplyDelete
A good lesson, whomever the caretaker is…as long as your child is healthy and happy with them, its best to let go our needs for perfection (not a surgeon, but I've got a mile-long perfectionist and control streak myself)ReplyDelete
I am an OB/GYN resident, type A, perfectionist and Mother of 3. I loved reading this because I often have a VERY hard time holding my tongue when it comes to my perfectionist preferences. Hopefully, I can channel some of your patient and let me free spirited husband have more freedom, (and my kids for that matter)!ReplyDelete
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Puig given night off, expected back Sunday
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was thinking about resting Yasiel Puig on Saturday, and that decision became easier when the outfielder twice fouled pitches off his left shin in Friday's game.
Puig was not in Saturday's starting lineup against the Rockies but made a pinch-hit appearance, and the rookie is expected back in the lineup for Sunday's regular-season finale.
"He was fine today," Mattingly said. "It's really just me being precautionary with him. We talked yesterday about possibly giving him the day anyway. I want him to play [Sunday]. It's really just being safe with him."
Mattingly is also being cautious with infielder Nick Punto, who was scratched from Friday's lineup due to an in-grown toenail on his right foot.
"We're going to be careful with him, too," Mattingly said. "There's no reason to have to run him out there."
Punto felt well enough to field ground balls and take batting practice before Saturday's game, though.
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You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Part 3
This is Part Three of a three part series trying to make sense of the Crisis period we entered in 2008. Click here to read: PART ONE or PART TWO
Seeking Regeneracy
"Soon after the catalyst, a national election will produce a sweeping political realignment, as one faction or coalition capitalizes on a new public demand for decisive action. Republicans, Democrats, or perhaps a new party will decisively win the long partisan tug of war. This new regime will enthrone itself for the duration of the Crisis. Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Where leaders had once been inclined to alleviate societal pressures, they will now aggravate them to command the nation's attention. The regeneracy will be solidly under way." – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
The 2008 election happened in the midst of the catalyst events. A sweeping political realignment did not occur. In fact, the 2010 mid-term elections produced a result which has essentially gridlocked the political process in Washington D.C. The reunification and reenergizing of society has yet to occur. Neil Howe in his recent article pondered the question of regeneracy:
"We may like to imagine that there is a definable day and hour when America, faced by growing danger and adversity, explicitly decides to patch over its differences, band together, and build something new. But maybe what really happens is that everyone feels so numb that they let somebody in charge just go ahead and do whatever he's got to do. I'm thinking of how America felt during the bleak years of FDR's first term, or during Lincoln's assumption of vast war powers after his repeated initial defeats on the battlefield.
The regeneracy cannot always be identified with a single news event. But it does have to mark the beginning of a growth in centralized authority and decisive leadership at a time of great peril and urgency. Typically, the catalyst itself doesn't lead directly to a regeneracy. There has to be a second or third blow, something that seems a lot more perilous than just the election of third-party candidate (Civil War catalyst) or a very bad month in the stock market (Great Power catalyst). We are still due for such a moment. We have not yet reached our regeneracy. When it happens, I strongly suspect it will be in response to an adverse financial event. It may also happen in response to a geopolitical event. It may well happen over the next year or two." – Neil Howe – Dating the Fourth Turning
Regeneracy occurred within five years of the outset of the three previous Crisis periods in U.S. history. The historic year of 1776 saw the colonies come together and declare independence from Great Britain. Group solidarity and willingness to die for their cause launched an eight year war and ultimately the formation of a new republic. The Civil War regeneracy occurred after the Union debacle at Bull Run in 1861. The Washington aristocrats had treated the battle like a show, where they could bring a picnic lunch and be entertained by an entertaining skirmish between two armies. After the resounding bloody defeat Abraham Lincoln assumed dictatorial like powers over the North and ordered the immediate enlistment of a half a million soldiers. He assumed unprecedented powers of taxation, forced conscription, suspension of due process and showed a willingness to administer maximum destruction to his foes. This would be no picnic in the park, as 700,000 men died in the next three years. The regeneracy during the Great Depression/WWII Crisis occurred in 1933 with the election of Franklin Roosevelt. He immediately declared a bank holiday and confiscated all the gold in the country. In a flurry of executive orders and bills sent to Congress he rammed through his New Deal, assuming new and broader powers for the Federal government and Executive branch.
Based on these examples in American history it is clear we have not entered the regeneracy stage of this Crisis. Also based on history, it is likely to occur by the end of 2013. A second blow to our nation and our psyches is the only thing that could possibly bring together a deeply divided nation. The country was struck by a category 3 hurricane in 2008. We have been in the eye of the hurricane for the last two years and have grown complacent. The eye will pass over us in the next year and we will again be buffeted by hurricane force winds – except the hurricane has strengthened to a category 5 as the "solutions" to the storm will make part two far worse. Those with a libertarian mindset are not likely to be happy with the Federal government and President taking on even greater powers in the coming years. The usurpation of more control over the citizens of this country in the last decade has been one of the major reasons for the ratcheting down of trust in our leaders. The upcoming presidential election will likely create the dynamic that propels the country into its regeneracy. If the next downward blow can be averted before the election, the country will end up with four more years of Obama. If the Crisis suddenly worsens before November, Romney assumes the mantle of Prophet Leader in January 2013.
I agree with Neil Howe that the country's reaction to an adverse financial event will be the likely regeneracy moment. The explosive mixture of the five D's will provide the spark for the next phase: Debt; Derivatives; Default; Devaluation; and ultimately Depression. There is no way to deny the $15.6 trillion of debt this country has accumulated, with $10 trillion of it added since 2000. The debt ceiling of $16.4 trillion will be breached in October 2012 at the current rate of extreme spending. This should set up an interesting dynamic just prior to the November elections. A replay of the August 2011 showdown could be disastrous for Obama if the stock market were to crater again.
We are accumulating debt at a rate of $3.7 billion per day, or $154 million per hour. No politician of either party, other than Ron Paul, has any plan to even moderate the spending, let alone make actual cuts. The CBO projections rolled out by these congressional weasels aren't worth the paper they are printed on. The National Debt is on track to surpass $20 trillion in 2015 and $25 trillion by 2018. And this is before the Medicare and Social Security costs blast into orbit in 2020. Kicking the can down the road works until math catches up with you. It is insane to believe we can dig ourselves out of this debt induced mess with more debt, but empires tend to act insanely in their death throes.
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." – Friedrich Nietzsche
Strauss & Howe made preparation recommendations back in 1997 that would have lessened the impact of this Crisis, but they fell on deaf ears. Their common sense suggestions included:
- Work to elevate moral and cultural standards. Toddlers with Tiaras and The Kardashians were not an elevation.
- Shed and simplify the federal government by cutting back sharply on its size and scope.
- All levels of government should prune legal, regulatory and professional thickets.
- Politicians should define our challenges bluntly and stress duties over rights.
- Require community teamwork to solve local problems without federal government intervention.
- Treat children as the nation's highest priority.
- Tell future elders they will need to be more self-sufficient, save more, and expect fewer entitlements.
- Shift government pension plans from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans.
- Begin to trim Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits.
- Raise the national savings rate, reduce consumption and work towards federal budget surpluses.
- Expect the worst, conserve our forces, and be prepared for an epic struggle down the road.
I would reckon we went 0 for 11 on the preparation front. We took the exact opposite course in most cases. Each generation has their own crosses to bear. No one will escape the bitter gale force winds of this Crisis. Strauss and Howe must have had a crystal ball looking fifteen years into the future when they made this supposition:
"The Boomers' old age will loom, exposing the thinness in private savings and the unsustainability of public promises. The 13ers will reach their make or break peak earning years, realizing at last that they can't all be lucky exceptions to their stagnating average income. Millenials will come of age facing debts, tax burdens, and two tier wage structures that older generations will now declare intolerable."
Thus far the older generations have refused to yield. They demand promises made be promises kept. The Boomers did not save enough to sustain themselves during their retirement. Many are entirely reliant upon Social Security and Medicare as their only savings and health insurance. Generation X is caught between aging parents and indebted jobless children. The Millenials are saddled with $1 trillion of student loan debt and few decent job opportunities. In prior Fourth Turnings the Prophet generation led and the Hero generation followed, doing the heavy lifting. This dynamic is yet to be realized during this Crisis. Maybe the regeneracy event will create this dynamic.
That event will likely be triggered by another debt crisis. Rogoff and Reinhart studied 44 countries over 200 years and concluded that once government debt exceeded 90% of GDP economic growth slowed and the likelihood of disaster rose dramatically.
"Those who remain unconvinced that rising debt levels pose a risk to growth should ask themselves why, historically, levels of debt of more than 90% of GDP are relatively rare and those exceeding 120% are extremely rare. Is it because generations of politicians failed to realize that they could have kept spending without risk? Or, more likely, is it because at some point, even advanced economies hit a ceiling where the pressure of rising borrowing costs forces policy makers to increase tax rates and cut government spending, sometimes precipitously, and sometimes in conjunction with inflation and financial repression (which is also a tax)? Historical experience and early examination of new data suggest the need to be cautious about surrendering to "this-time-is-different" syndrome and decreeing that surging government debt isn't as significant a problem in the present as it was in the past."
On this date the U.S. debt to GDP ratio is 102%. Our debt accumulation is on automatic pilot and the national GDP is incapable of growing above 3%. Anyone with the most basic math skills (this excludes Wall Street economists, CNBC bimbo anchors, and Bernanke) can determine the ratio will pass 120% in 2015. This doesn't even include the Fannie, Freddie, and Student Loan debt that are guaranteed by the Federal government, along with trillions of unfunded social program liabilities and state and local debts. In reality the true debt obligations of this country exceed 500% of GDP, as no politician plans to willingly renege on Medicare and Social Security promises made to voters who would boot them if they voted to cut these entitlements.
The linear thinking deniers of reality (Krugman) will use Japan as their example of a country whose debt ratio is above 200%, without disastrous consequences. I guess a 22 year recession is not considered disastrous. Japan has been able to fund themselves internally because their citizens had a 15% savings rate in and they have run gigantic trade surpluses for decades. That game is over and they will hit the wall in the near future. The savings rate in the U.S. is 3.7% and we run $550 billion trade deficits, or 3.7% of GDP. The United States has no advantages other than the U.S. dollar currently being regarded as the worldwide reserve currency. We are hanging our hat on being the best looking horse in the glue factory.
The cracks in the façade are already painfully visible. The U.S. ran a $1.4 trillion deficit in 2009; $1.3 trillion in 2010; and $1.3 trillion in 2011. In the chart below you can see foreigners' appetite for U.S. debt since 2007 has plunged. Maybe it has something to do with getting a negative real return by investing in U.S. Treasuries paying 2%. Maybe it has something to do with Ben Bernanke attempting to inflate away our debt burden. Maybe it has something to do with Congress and the President accelerating spending and creating massive deficits for as far as the eye can see. Maybe they are losing trust and confidence in the American Empire.
In the last three years we have run $4 trillion in deficits and foreigners have only funded $1.4 trillion of that debt. That means someone else had to buy $2.6 trillion of our long term Treasuries. Some of it was funded by little old ladies and pension funds that are setting themselves up for enormous losses. The vast swath was purchased by Ben Bernanke with his QE for eternity programs. As foreigners rationally reduce their Treasury holdings and we continue to run $1.3 trillion deficits, Bernanke must keep buying the debt. This cycle will continue until we reach our Minsky Moment, then Strauss & Howe's forecast will be realized:
"This might result in a Great Devaluation, a severe drop in the market price of most financial and real assets. This devaluation could be a short but horrific panic, a free-falling price in a market with no buyers. Or it could be a series of downward ratchets linked to political events that sequentially knock the supports out from under the residual popular trust in the system. As assets devalue, trust will further disintegrate, which will cause assets to devalue further, and so on." - Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
Who will buy our debt in the coming months and years? Europe is saturated with debt and doesn't have the means to purchase our debt. Japan is a train wreck waiting to happen. China's customers aren't buying their crap, so their economic miracle is about to go in reverse. The Federal Reserve cannot buy $1 trillion of Treasury bonds per year forever without creating more speculative bubbles and raging inflation in the things people need to live. The Minsky Moment will be the point when the U.S. Treasury begins having funding problems due to the spiraling debt incurred in financing perpetual government deficits. At this point no buyer will be found to bid at 2% to 3% yields for U.S. Treasuries; consequently, a major sell-off will ensue leading to a sudden and precipitous collapse in market clearing asset prices and a sharp drop in market liquidity. In layman terms that means – the shit will hit the fan. The Federal Reserve and Treasury will be caught in their own web of lies. The only way to attract buyers will be to dramatically increase interest rates. Doing this in a country up to its eyeballs in debt will be suicide. We will abruptly know how it feels to be Greek.
Linear thinkers like Krugman and most of the mainstream media opinion leaders can't fathom the possibility of a complete collapse of our economic system. Most of their little models and economic data points don't even go back to the last Fourth Turning period. They make projections about a housing recovery based on historical data that starts in 1962. Housing sales linger at historical lows with mortgage rates at 4%. The entire housing market would cave in if mortgage rates reached 6%, where they were in 2008. The forty year average mortgage rate has been 9%. Everything about our economic system is abnormal. Even reversion to the mean would be disastrous. The Minsky Moment headed our way will not be a single uncorrelated event. The entire financial world is hopelessly entangled by the $700 trillion of derivatives that ensure mass destruction if one of the dominoes falls. This is the reason an otherwise inconsequential country like Greece had to be "saved".
Everyone knows Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy are broke. One or more will eventually default on their debt. It is highly likely that a butterfly will flap its wings in Europe and cause a hurricane in the U.S. The default will spark a worldwide contagion as trust in a system of false promises disintegrates. China's already crumbling real estate market will implode. As interest rates soar and stock markets plunge, global tensions will intensify. Continued oil supply constraints will be the cherry on top. Based on historical precedent, this is likely to strike before 2014 arrives. The wealth destruction and pain will be so intense a regeneracy will be at hand. Our very survival will feel at stake.
"Eventually, all of America's lesser problems will combine into one giant problem. The very survival of the society will feel at stake, as leaders lead and people follow. The emergent society may be something better, a nation that sustains its Framers' visions with a robust new pride. Or it may be something unspeakably worse. The Fourth Turning will be a time of glory or ruin." - Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
And here is the rub for those who argue for less government intervention in our lives. Which leaders will lead and who will follow? The actual events do not matter as much as how the people react to the events. Fourth Turnings are always chaotic and tumultuous. In the frenzied period during the next leg down, people will demand order. They will call for the government to do something. Obama or Romney will use the fear and uncertainty to assume more power over our lives. Executive orders, new legislation, and another stripping of our liberties will be attempted. How the generational cohorts react to these deeds will determine what happens next. There are 97 million Millenials, 83 million Generation X and 73 million Boomers. The Boomers hold most of the positions of power, but their credibility as leaders has been damaged by their actions over the last two decades.
How the Millenials react to Boomer commands will determine the course of this Fourth Turning. The great devaluation will provide our leaders the opportunity to address the structural imbalances that haunt our nation. They could force Wall Street bankers, shareholders and bondholders assume their losses. They could rewrite the social contract with all generations, balancing the needs of elders with the futures of our youth. They could dramatically scale back the military industrial complex. They could completely scrap the ridiculous tax code and shift from taxing income to taxing consumption. They could revamp our political system and remove money from the political process. They could choose to balance budgets and reduce the size of government. They could ask for proportional sacrifice from everyone in order to keep this ship from sinking. If you believe this will happen, I have nice home near an Iranian nuclear power plant I'd like to sell you.
The regeneracy does not mean the actions taken by our leaders will be wise, well thought out, rational or beneficial to all people. Many believe the actions taken by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt during the previous Fourth Turning Crisis periods were detrimental, foolish, and enhanced the power of the state at the expense of liberty for the people. The leader when the regeneracy events strike is more likely to respond with more government control as the solution. He will invoke executive orders giving government control over important industries and crucial institutions. The government politician leaders will pick the winners and losers, with their cronies and contributors winning again. Dissent will not be acceptable. The NDAA will be invoked to imprison those who disagree with the mandates handed down by those in power. Congress would pass SOPA and lock down the internet and shutdown any websites they consider dangerous to their central authority. Lastly, with the biggest and baddest military machine on earth, the leader will attempt to rally the masses and distract them from our dire economic situation by seeking an external threat to confront. It just so happens that China is also in the midst of their own Fourth Turning. History has shown that armed confrontation is likely around the climax of the Crisis:
"History offers even more sobering warnings: Armed confrontation usually occurs around the climax of Crisis. If there is confrontation, it is likely to lead to war. This could be any kind of war – class war, sectional war, war against global anarchists or terrorists, or superpower war. If there is war, it is likely to culminate in total war, fought until the losing side has been rendered nil – its will broken, territory taken, and leaders captured." - Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
No one knows the exact events that will mark this Crisis period in our history. But there is no turning back. We've entered the Winter season and the beautiful calm days of autumn are long past. Nothing but turmoil, bitterness and sacrifice lie ahead. We entered this Winter of our discontent unprepared like the grasshopper in the fable. This has insured this Crisis will be far worse than it needed to be. The grasshoppers want solutions and easy answers to problems created over decades of ignorance, sloth, greed and stupidity. It's too late. There are no easy answers and the solutions are all painful and bitter. This is not some theoretical exercise. This is the reality of our situation. I have three teenage sons and their futures depend on the outcome of this Crisis. I will do whatever it takes to support them. I will not allow them to be cannon fodder in some war for oil in the Middle East. If their future requires me to oppose a tyrannical government, so be it. If their future requires me to give up my Social Security and Medicare security blanket, so be it. If I have to die so they may live, so be it. There are no guarantees in this life. We get about 80 years on this planet to make a difference. The choices we make in the next few years will matter. Are you ready? I am.
"The seasons of time offer no guarantees. For modern societies, no less than for all forms of life, transformative change is discontinuous. For what seems an eternity, history goes nowhere – and then it suddenly flings us forward across some vast chaos that defies any mortal effort to plan our way there. The Fourth Turning will try our souls – and the saecular rhythm tells us much will depend on how we face up to that trial. The saeculum does not reveal whether the story will have a happy ending, but it does tell us how and when our choices will make a difference." - Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning


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If I remember correctly, if you are coming from Tredevi Marg passing Fire and Ice on your left, turn first left as you enter Thamel and it is a few hundred yards along on your right. I might be wrong though! I always have trouble finding it myself!
Good luck
Hi Escher
Sorry to bother you, but I have been following the forum for years and you are obviously very experienced. I was just wondering if you are able to direct me to this shop (Shona's) that you mention in one of your latest posts. I assume it is somewhere in Thamel. I am quite familiar with Thamel so hopefully will be able to follow any instructions.
Thank you and Regards
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Hm... that guys Keith is very persistant... How are you by the way? What's new in the UK?
Yesterday I posted a message which was based upon our recent trip in Nepal and it was about a guide recommendation. But so far it has not appeared in the forum. Can you kindly let me know if I need to do anything else? This is my first post so I am not sure if I did everything correct.
Thanking you and with best regards,
Very odd thing going on here
Hi Escher,
Thank you for taking the time and your reply!
Hi Dakota,
Although I have been to the Khumbu several times I have never trekked from Jiri. I have always flown to Lukla. You'd be better off asking in the forums, that way you will get a variety of responses and also some up to date information. I gather that you can drive further up the road now and start further on from Jiri. Some up to date information from someone who has done it recently will be realy useful for you.
Good luck.
Hi Escher,
I read many of your posts / replies to posts on different forums.
As you are a very experienced trekker, I hope you don't mind I ask you for information on trekking times (if you have them in your notes from your treks).
In particular I am interested in Jiri to EBC - Gokyo - Lukla trek, which I plan to trek in October, November this year.
I checked LP's Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya and YetiZone trekking routes, with trekking times. They differ substantially on many legs.
I would much appreciate your reply on the times.
I do understand it is highly personal though (fitness, health, ..).
Thank you and best regards,
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Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again.
James Thicke is a man whose mysterious past runs as deep as his violent streak. He's channeled the intensity of his soul into twin passions-success as a screenwriter, and marriage to movie actress Regina Baptiste. In the midst of filming his latest script, starring Regina and leading man Johnny Bergs, James receives a video of his wife caught in the most compromising of situations.
Hours later, the clip of the on-set infidelity has hit the Internet and gone viral in the blogosphere and across all channels of social media. James responds to the affront by savagely attacking Johnny Bergs, and the spectacle has both the paparazzi and the police amassing at the married couple's estate. James goes on the run, but only as far as the city of Downey, California. As James tries to protect Regina from Hollywood's underbelly, lust, blackmail, and revenge become his constant companions. Does an accidental affair spell permanent danger?


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NEWTOWN -- Since the elementary school massacre in her hometown, Sarah Findley has found herself driving by her children's schools in Newtown, checking to make sure police are still stationed outside.
The mother of three is among many people calling on school officials to keep up the police presence at schools in Newtown, which has had two officers at each of its schools since a gunman killed 20 children and six women inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14.
"I think we're all just shaken to the core," said Findley, whose children all attend schools other than Sandy Hook. "I think it made it possible for the people who were maybe wavering about sending their kids to school to actually be able to do it."
The shooting set off a debate nationwide about the appropriate level of security inside schools. In Newtown, where many parents like Findley struggled to send their children back to school after the massacre, some say that the sight of uniformed officers is a comfort to their children and for now they cannot imagine schools without police.
Newtown school officials say they've received many emails from parents voicing concern about long-term security. Schools Superintendent Janet Robinson also wants the police presence to continue, saying children have not ventured outside school for recess because of anxiety.
The Sandy Hook school remains closed. Students and staff are using a school in neighboring Monroe.
After the shooting, some school districts around the country asked police departments to increase patrols. Many districts are revisiting safety plans and looking at issues such as whether school resource officers traditionally at middle and high schools should be deployed to elementary schools, said Francisco Negron, general counsel for the National School Boards Association.
Parents asked the Police Commission and Board of Education this week to continue to provide police at the schools.
District officials say they are working up financial projections for what added security would cost.
John Bello, a real estate developer, said his 7-year-old-son, who lost two friends in the shooting at Sandy Hook, has been happy to see the police officers stationed at his Head O'Meadow Elementary School in Newtown since the tragedy.
"I said, 'Did you see the police?' and he said, 'Yeah, that's good,'" Bello said.
Bello said he believes the schools need to keep armed security officers, even if it means paying more in taxes or cutting other programs. He took issue with a speech Wednesday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in which the Democrat said more guns are not the answer.
"I wasn't satisfied with the governor last night talking armed security guards not being an option. He doesn't have a better option," Bello said.
Malloy has convened a task force to review state laws and policies affecting guns, mental health and school safety.
"Freedom is not a handgun on the hip of every teacher, and security should not mean a guard posted outside every classroom," Malloy told a joint session of the General Assembly on Wednesday during his State of the State address.
Experts recommend any armed presence in the schools should be limited to trained police officers, said Robert Rader, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.
Findley said such reforms will take time.
"Having the police there is a good thing to have in the absence of all those other things," Findley said. "This is one thing we can do."
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Rochelle Spencer on Sharing, Thinking, Connecting: Writing as Conversation
Writer and literary organizer Rochelle Spencer blogs about P&W–funded writers, Patricia Spears Jones and Tan Lin, and how they engage their audience. Rochelle teaches at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York, and is the author of the e-book Ella Jones and Her Magical Vagina.
"You can't just write for your own amusement."
One of my writing mentors gave me this advice after I'd shared with her a story that I thought was quite clever. (It really wasn't—I just thought so.) But my mentor's point—that writing should be an unselfish act, that we should seek to engage the outside world each time we pick up a pen or click on the keyboard—makes more sense to me these days. As I seek to reinvent my writing and move away from the random sexual puns and allusions that have dominated my style, I find myself drawn to hearing other writers' voices, to uncover how they've made their audiences part of their storytelling process.
Two writers whom I admire, Patricia Spears Jones, author of Painkiller (Tia Chucha Press, 2010) and three other collections of poems, and Tan Lin, author of HEATH COURSE PAK (Counterpath Press, 2012) and the recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant, have each shared their work at LaGuardia Community College, where I teach. In addition, Patricia Spears Jones has received support from the Readings/Workshops Program at Poets & Writers for many years at venues including: The Dwyer Cultural Center, Poets Out Loud, The Coney Island History Project, and the Brooklyn Public Library. Tan Lin has also been funded through the Readings/Workshops Program for his readings at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
After Patricia and Tan's reading at LaGuardia Community College, the audience flooded the writers with questions about their work.
How does a reading produce such an engaged audience?
When I spoke to Patricia, she laughed. "I'm trying to connect with as many different kinds of people and things as I can," she said. In poems like "Painkiller," Patricia shows how diverse groups are connected, how "the murderer and the martyr/the adulterer and the healer can at any moment change positions." Patricia says sometimes people are surprised by her diverse, universal themes, but they shouldn't be: "As an African American, I come from a huge, sophisticated culture, not one that has often been seen as one note or one idea. Our culture is a lot more heterogeneous than is often presented, and I feel I am part of that heterogeneity."
Tan also connects with audiences; in fact, he says that audience is so important to his work that he's uncomfortable with the term "author's readings." Embracing Roland Barthes's idea about authors and their demise, Tan argues that the reader, and not the author, performs the work and what interests him is the audience's reaction to that work.
"You try to get the audience to perform the book in as interesting ways as possible," Tan says. "At LaGuardia, I did a video presentation where you see one word and then another word over a seven-second sequence. It's reading in a way—it may not be a novel or a poem but it's how language is processed, one word at a time. I am really interested in what people may call the social production of language, language that is produced within some kind of environment."
Indeed. And, I think my old writing mentor would be delighted by both Tan and Patricia's work—writing that involves, engages, and interacts with their readers.
Photo: Patricia Spears Jones. Credit: Thomas Sayers Ellis.
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Robin Williams is dead at 63. The comedian carried insecurity and self-doubt with contagious intensity. He was so grandiose and wild that it would've irritated audiences to their cores had his eyes not betrayed an insatiable melancholy, imploring, please, I just want to be liked.
But that's the language of earnest grief, a eulogy. Williams wouldn't have taken himself so seriously. Or he would have taken himself so seriously it would have been impossible to confront. In a 2010 interview for The Guardian, Decca Aitkenhead asked Williams about what she calls the grief industry.
"In America they really do mythologize people when they die," he said, as if we were about to get Williams' earnest take on the complexities of American media, before he hung a hard right into Ronald Reagan's voice and manner, riffing in the shadows of the President's dementia: "Maybe he was kind of lovable, but you realized halfway through his administration he really didn't know where he was."
In a subsequent almost-serious moment, Williams approached the feeling of mourning a close friend with the passing of Christopher Reeve. What was it like, Aitkenhead asked, to grieve privately for a public figure?
"Well, it's a whole different game," Williams said—but then, for his own reasons, recounted a talk show he had seen where a man confessed to adultery in front of a predominantly female studio audience. "Idiot," Williams said. "Why don't you just go bobbing for piranha? These women are screaming 'You bastard!' But the idea of being on TV overrode everything. 'Ah'm on TV, y'all.' You're a schmuck, why would you do that? 'Ah'm on tee-vee, ah'm gonna be fay-mous.' Yeah, for all of five minutes, big time."
Williams met serious questions with humor that may have seemed evasive on its face, but in fact painlessly elevated manufactured grief to the point of actual darkness. He was recurrently, proactively conscious of his fraught need for fame. Amid the 1994 Mrs. Doubtfire publicity he said, "You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'Okay, you can do more. Maybe that's what keeps you going. Maybe that's a demon. Some people say it's a muse. No, it's not a muse! It's a demon!"
But, you know, he said it in a funny voice.
In one two-year period, Williams made eight movies. "At one point the joke was, 'There's a movie out without you in it?" Williams said. "You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you."
People didn't forget.
Williams took it slowly, stopped drinking for 20 years. Until one day in Alaska. "I was in a small town where it's not the edge of the world, but you can see it from there, and then I thought: drinking. I just thought, hey, maybe drinking will help. Because I felt alone and afraid. It was that thing of working so much, and going. fuck, maybe that will help. And it was the worst thing in the world. You feel warm and kind of wonderful. And then the next thing you know, it's a problem, and you're isolated."
But near the end Williams said he was "not afraid to be unhappy," a virtue he called "the gift."
Is that manufactured sentimentality? I hope it doesn't read that way. It's real. The reaction among the deeply ironic writers of the Internet and the often numbingly trite Hollywood elite has so far been unmistakable in its earnestness and devastation. A rare moment. The Williams of endless gags and lols learned to live without irony—he made Old Dogs "just to pay the bills" and was unrepentant—and so have we tonight, if fleetingly. He took risks and said things most of us only think. For it, for taking the risks we all want to and bearing his weaknesses alongside his passion and poise, he is more than respected, he is loved.
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Thanks to a computer glitch, the Selective Service System recently reminded over 14,000 men born between the years of 1893 and 1897 to register for the draft. This was a silly thing to do since the youngest of these men is 117-years-old and surely not battlefield-ready. America!
Starting on June 30, a "computer error" caused the government to start sending out these reminder letters to men in Pennsylvania. They were meant for men born between the years of 1993 and 1997, men who are now of fighting age. "It's never happened before," Selective Service spokesman Pat Shuback told the Associated Press.
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The Consejo Nacional de Alianzas Educativas (NCCEP – Mexico), an international non-profit organization that helps maximize resources of public schools, was starting a project that would help teachers in Mexico become more familiar with computers and integrate the technology into their classrooms. Called Alianzas Educativas, the project's goal was to bring together experts at universities and companies with teachers and classrooms that needed to better understand the issues related to technology and education. As part of the project, the council wanted to host webinars in Spanish that teachers could attend, and was looking for a good web conferencing platform that could handle a large number of attendees.
Before beginning the project, the council and some of its partners started looking for an appropriate platform that could be used. However, many of the web conferencing services they found required payment for limited access. "With some of the services we looked at, we could not invite the amount of people we wanted, said Daniela Michel, Regional Coordinator, NCCEP – Mexico. "This would force us to leave out even those who had kept in touch with us from previous training sessions."
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After investigating several web conferencing services, the council tried AnyMeeting, a completely free web conferencing service. They soon found that AnyMeeting offered wide access with great connection stability. "With AnyMeeting, we had the option to record the webinars and send them to our contacts," added Daniela Michel. "We also liked that AnyMeeting, other than a small plug-in for screen sharing, did not require any software to download, which made it easy to use."
The only difficulty the organization faced was that many of their contacts do not speak English and could not understand how to gain access to the webinars. To solve this issue, the council created an easy translation on what users needed to do as attendees or account managers so they could use AnyMeeting on their own.
Recently, the council has worked with the individual states in Mexico and the Department of Education's Programa Escuelas de Calidad (PEC Program), to coordinate the project and introduce AnyMeeting as an ideal platform for providing webinars. Many have already signed up for the service and have started using AnyMeeting with schools or other states to share information.
"We are very grateful for the amount of people we have already reached who attend our webinars today using AnyMeeting, and we want you to know that AnyMeeting has a bearing on Mexico's education improvement," Daniela Michel, Regional Coordinator, NCCEP – Mexico.
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Established in 2006, the Consejo Nacional de Alianzas Educativas (NCCEP – Mexico) is an international non-profit organization that helps maximize resources of public schools through the creation and coordination of partnerships between governments, social organizations, enterprises, universities and other private and public institutions.
The council was made possible by the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the council's parent organization, the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships, located in Washington, DC.
NCCEP – Mexico has benefited from the expertise and commitment of its partners in the United States, and is implementing the best educational practices from its sister organization, based on the successful work of two initiatives: GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) and Engaging Latino Communities in Education, sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. For more information, visit www.alianzaseducativas.org.


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It is well-known that to maximize the horizontal distance traveled by a projectile fired from the ground at a given speed, one should fire it at a $45^\circ$ angle. What's less-known, though not too difficult to prove with some manipulation of derivatives, is that if one is on an incline of angle $\phi$ below the horizontal, then to maximize horizontal distance traveled, one should fire the projectile at an angle of $\frac{\pi}{4}-\frac{\phi}{2}$ above the horizontal.
To see this, suppose we fire it at an angle of $\theta$ at speed $v_0$ with gravitational constant $g$. Then the equation of the path is $(v_0 t \cos{\theta}, -gt^2+v_0 t \sin{\theta})$, so we are looking for the $t$ at which $v_0 t \cos{\theta} \sin{\phi}-gt^2 \cos{\phi}+v_0 t \sin{\theta} \cos{\phi} = 0$, or $t = \frac{v_0(\cos{\theta}\sin{\phi}+\sin{\theta}\cos{\phi})}{g} = \frac{v_0}{g} \sin(\theta+\phi)$. Then we wish to maximize $\cos{\theta} t$ at this point, or equivalently $\cos{\theta} \sin{(\theta+\phi)}$. Taking the derivative with respect to $\theta$, we find $-\sin{\theta} \sin{\theta+\phi}+\cos{\theta} \cos(\theta+\phi) = \cos{(2\theta+\phi)} = 0$. Thus $2\theta+\phi = \frac{\pi}{2}$, giving us our answer.
Since this formula looks so nice, I'm wondering whether there is a nicer proof of this fact, possibly using symmetry and/or with more physical intuition. In particular, it might involve some kind of rotation (maybe by $\frac{\phi}{2}$?).


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