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NEW ORLEANS - In the end, it wasn't regular-season MVP quarterback Kurt Warner who seized the moment, but second-year miracle worker Tom Brady.
When the confetti finally flew, it wasn't the high-powered St. Louis Rams offense that celebrated, but the gritty New England Patriots defense.
In a game worthy of sports' biggest stage, the Patriots rode that tenacious defense and a kick for the ages by Adam Vinatieri to a stunning 20-17 upset of the Rams last night in the 36th Super Bowl.
Vinatieri's 48-yard field goal as time expired supplied a fitting ending to an NFL season filled with patriotic fervor - a season when the Patriots came back from a 1-3 start to win their first world championship.
The Rams had the NFL's best record (16-3) this season and were 14-point favorites, but it was the Patriots (14-5) who dictated terms at the Superdome with their opportunistic defense.
"If we're playing next week, we're probably [still] underdogs," said New England coach Bill Belichick, whose defensive strategy blunted the Rams' prolific offensive machine. "But that's OK."
Belichick's defense squeezed three crucial turnovers out of the Rams and cashed in 17 huge points, taking a 17-3 lead into the fourth quarter. After blitzing Warner in a Nov. 18 loss, the Patriots opted this time to drop six and seven backs into coverage and disrupt the Rams' passing game in the secondary.
It worked beyond their wildest dreams.
Warner threw for 365 yards, hitting 28 of 44 passes. But he also threw two interceptions, one of them returned by cornerback Ty Law for a game-turning 47-yard touchdown in the second quarter. That gave New England a 7-3 lead.
An offense that has produced more than 500 points in each of the past three seasons was held to three points through three quarters.
"I think a lot of people did not think we could match up with the Rams from a speed standpoint," said Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson. "We hit them hard today, and I think our style of defense made them think a little more. I think that may have slowed them down.
"Ultimately, it comes down to execution, though, and I think today we just played better than the Rams. This is what happens when everyone comes together."
As valiantly as the Patriots' defense played, the offense had its moments, too, including the dramatic finish. Brady hit wide receiver David Patten for an 8-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter after the second St. Louis turnover, capping a 40-yard scoring drive.
And when the Rams' fourth-quarter rally produced two touchdowns and a 17-17 tie, it was Brady's nine-play, 53-yard drive that set up Vinatieri's game-winning field goal and earned Brady the game's MVP award.
Brady completed 16 of 27 passes for 145 yards, modest figures compared to Warner's, but he once again demonstrated that leadership is bigger than statistics.
At 24, he was the third-youngest quarterback to start a Super Bowl, joining Dan Marino and David Woodley. Because Marino and Woodley both lost, Brady became the youngest to win one.
"You can't say enough about that kid," said Patten, whose touchdown reception opened a 14-3 New England lead. "He has a tremendous amount of confidence - he has led this team.
"Maybe he doesn't have the most impressive statistics, but it doesn't matter. The kid knows how to win, he knows how to motivate other players. My hat is off to the guy."
The Rams had staged a near-miraculous comeback of their own in the fourth quarter. Warner finished a 77-yard scoring drive with a 2-yard touchdown run that was aided by a costly holding penalty against Patriots linebacker Willie McGinest. That penalty negated a fourth-down Warner fumble - and seeming touchdown return by Tebucky Jones- and gave the Rams a first down at the 1.
After St. Louis stopped New England on the ensuing series, it took the Rams three plays and 21 seconds to get a 17-17 tie.
Warner hit Az-Zahir Hakim and Yo Murphy for passes covering 29 yards, then worked a pick play to get Ricky Proehl into the end zone for a 26-yard touchdown. Proehl ran an out pattern behind wide receiver Isaac Bruce.
Brady got the ball back with 1:21 left on his own 17. Instead of running out the clock and playing for overtime, the Patriots went for the win.
His first three completions went to J.R. Redmond for short gains, but the big play in the drive was a 23-yard pass to wide receiver Troy Brown. That put the Patriots barely in Vinatieri's range at the Rams' 36 with 21 seconds left.
Brady's next pass put Vinatieri in good position. It was a 6-yard toss to tight end Jermaine Wiggins, carrying to the 30.
Brady spiked the ball with seven seconds left.
"I was just so happy that the guys moved the ball down and gave me an opportunity," Vinatieri said. "It was great. The guys did such a great job all day today. They blocked great up front. The snap and the hold were great.
"Once I kicked it, I knew it was good. I looked up and it was just time to celebrate. It was unbelievable."
There was actually one second still on the clock when Vinatieri's kick sailed through, and it was allowed to tick off.
The Rams owned a huge advantage in total yards (427-267), but couldn't get closer to the end zone than the Patriots' 30 in the first half. Even at that, they had to settle for a 50-yard field goal by Jeff Wilkins, who later was wide left from 52 yards.
Instead of blitzing, the Patriots dropped into coverage and took away Warner's options. The Rams' third turnover came when wide receiver Torry Holt slipped to one knee in the third quarter, cornerback Otis Smith picked off a Warner pass and returned it 30 yards to the St. Louis 33.
Five plays later, Vinatieri hit a 37-yard field goal to make it 17-3.
"They [the Rams] did such a great job picking up the blitz in the first game [in November], so we covered a little more this game," Belichick said. "I thought we had to cover more than rush because he [Warner] gets it out there so quick."
The Patriots didn't unleash their first blitz until six minutes into the second quarter. Then, linebacker Mike Vrabel caught Warner with a blow to the head - there was no penalty - and Warner's pass, intended for Bruce, was off the mark.
Law scooted 47 yards untouched, setting the tone for the night.
The Patriots tried to be physical with the Rams' receivers, as well. "We used the slogan, if you want war, we're going to take you to war," Law said. "We went out and proved we were the more physical team."
The Patriots didn't panic when the Rams came back to get the 17-17 tie, either.
"I certainly didn't like the score at that point," Brady said. "They ran a nice wheel route on the play that tied the game. That's what great teams do.
"They are as talented as any team in the league. We beat them today. And that is what is important - to go out there and play your best football when the stakes are the highest. No one gave us a shot, and that is a dangerous thing when people don't give people a shot in this league."


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We invite proposals for the following roundtable discussion at the Third International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), to take place in Turin, June 19-21 2014
During the past decade, while a significant amount of literature has been generated regarding new readings of classical monuments and ancient town plans, much less attention has been paid to disseminating and sharing advances in research methods and new techniques for documenting classical architecture and urbanism. The objective of this roundtable is to begin a collaborative discussion on the way architectural historians have harnessed pioneering strategies in the field, laboratory or within library and archival contexts. This roundtable invites panelists who situate innovative techniques and cutting edge practices at the core of their architectural research. For example, studies that address the application of remote sensing in the development of excavation strategies would be especially welcome. Likewise, digital modeling, mapping and virtual reality (VR) have the capacity to revolutionize the way we represent and visualize ancient architecture, but how can we successfully deploy these tools as pedagogical aids? An equally significant topic for discussion is how traditional archival material has, over the past decade, been morphed into 'new' sets of data that can reveal information otherwise invisible to researchers in ancient architectural history.
Please send a CV and an abstract of no more than 300 words by September 30, 2013 to BOTH round table chairs:
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'Like a Jam Session:' Tf3 to Perform Monday
March 31, 2011
The Wabash College Visiting Artists Series is pleased to welcome
Time for Three
for an 8:00 p.m. performance on Monday, April 4 in Salter Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Center. Tickets are free, but should be reserved in advance through the box office.
The groundbreaking, category-shattering trio
Time for Three
transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy, and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own.
"It's like a jam session," said Melia Tourangeau of the Utah Symphony. The members — Zach De Pue, and Nick Kendall on violin and Ranaan Meyer on double bass — carry a passion for improvisation, composing, and arranging, all prime elements of the ensemble's playing. "They are really young, and so much energy exudes from them. It makes you want to smile just watching," said Tourangeau.
What started as a trio of musicians who played together for fun while students at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute for Music evolved into
Time for Three
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for short — a charismatic ensemble with a reputation for limitless enthusiasm and no musical boundaries.
De Pue and Kendall first discovered their mutual love of fiddling in the country western and bluegrass styles. Then Meyer introduced them to his deep roots in jazz and improvisation. After considerable experimentation, the three officially formed
The ensemble gained instant attention in July 2003, during a lightning-induced power failure at Philadelphia's Mann Center for the Performing Arts. While technicians attempted to restore onstage lighting, Ranaan and Zach, who were both performing as members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, obliged with an impromptu jam session that included works as far afield from the originally scheduled symphony as "Jerusalem's Ridge," "Ragtime Annie," and "The Orange Blossom Special." The crowd went wild.
"Loaded with drive and ambition, the concerto's first movement showcased the trio's superb musicianship and uncanny ability to blend a variety of influences into a uniquely modern sound," wrote T.L. Ponick of the
The Washington Times.
To date, the group has performed more than 200 engagements as diverse as its music: from featured guest soloists with The Philadelphia Orchestra to opening for K.D. Lang at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center.
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Exploring Uncharted Land in Kerala
Kerala House Boat
Come January, and I arrived at Mangalore airport (Karnataka). This trip of mine was especially organized to explore lively Kerala backwaters, heavenly greenery, interesting wildlife and multi-coloured festivities. I hired a taxi to Kasargod (50 km) and headed to the northern Kerala. As I had observed in Kerala travel guide, the local people were busy with the celebration of Kerala Gramam. After a quick shower, I headed for the fair, where I came across traditional houses, bright & colourful attires, traditional cuisine, superb handicrafts and many such items.
The best part with my stay at Kasargod was backwater cruise. Being a history buff, I also visited sites like Bekal Fort, Madiyan Kulom temple, Ananthapura Lake Temple, Chandragiri Fort etc and captured them in my camera for a lifetime. While enjoying my backwater cruise, I also had a closer look at the dense greens of Kasargod, which provide a home to about 24 species of the rarest of mammals, 200 species of birds and about 100 species of butterflies. While leaving Kasargod, I visited the market area with my guide and bought a few coir products, handlooms and tobacco products for my friends.
My next halt was Cochin, but en route I spent a relaxing day at Wayanad –the land of Spicy Hills. Though I paid a short visit to the famous Edakkal Caves and Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary and clicked a few bisons, elephants and deer playing near the lake, but rest of the day was at leisure. My hotel was at close proximity to the tea / coffee & spice plantations, there fore the air was filled with refreshing fragrance.
The next morning, I reached Cochin – the Queen of the Arabian Sea by train. Located between the Western Ghats and Arabian Sea, the city is blessed with spotless natural beauty and serves as an important trade centre too. I was booked in a luxurious houseboat (traditional Kettuvallom). Apart from exploring the best of aquatic life and living of villagers along side the serene waters, I also relished various traditional dance forms, music and the sweet dish 'Payasam'. I spent a couple of hours at an ancient Ayurveda & Yoga resort to rejuvenate my senses. During my entire tour, I found the coastline of Kerala dotted with canopies of coconuts, gorgeous greens, balmy beaches and the breathtakingly beautiful backwaters.


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"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me." - Philippians 4:13Pat Warren, 71, of Borger, Texas, was often heard quoting this verse to her family and friends. It was her favorite Scripture. Known as a generous woman who always had a listening ear for her family and friends (and the occasional stranger in the grocery store or airport), Pat was also a hard-working businesswoman. She spent her life working in insurance, including the last eight years as co-owner of Legacy Insurance Agency in Pampa, Texas.On her own, Pat raised her two daughters, Lindy Warren Lowry (of San Diego) and Jami Warren McClellan (of Borger). At the center ofher life were her granddaughters, Lexi, 18, Mattie, 16, and Emme McClellan, 12; and her grandson, Ty Lowry, 6.She was born on April 20, 1942 in Wheeler, Texas, to parents N.P. and Mattie Woosley, and died Tuesday, July 2, in Golden Plains Hospital surrounded by her family and friends in the care of Hospice Care of the Southwest. Pat is survived by her brothers, James Woosley and Richard Woosley, and sisters-in-law Pat Woosley and Debbie Woosley.Services will be at 2 p.m., Friday, July 5, at the First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jerry Lane, of White Deer officiating. Services are under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors. Pat/Mom/Nanny Pat will be deeply missed by all who knew her. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice Care of the Southwest.


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reports on a pro-choice counterdemonstration in Poughkeepsie, New York, that challenged the right wing's "40 Days for Life."
AS A part of the ongoing anti-choice "40 Days for Life" campaign, opponents of women's reproductive rights organized a rally outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Poughkeepsie, New York, on October 21.
But the bigots weren't the only voices heard that day with their anti-abortion message--and they certainly weren't the loudest.
The International Socialist Organization (ISO) organized a mobilization of pro-choice supporters to defend the clinic, in collaboration with other local activists. In the weeks leading up to the event, members of the Poughkeepsie community and students at the State University of New York at New Paltz collaborated to plan and advertise our counterprotest.
Due to the national Planned Parenthood's policy of non-engagement with anti-choice protesters and a directive against clinic defense, the Poughkeepsie clinic couldn't organize, endorse or assist in the defense. But the clinic itself wasn't opposed to the counterprotest.
Abortion rights supporters from the ISO, March on Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley Antifa and other individuals--including people who also volunteer as escorts for the Planned Parenthood--turned out to the clinic at 7 a.m. to ensure that the anti-choice bigots, whose rosary prayer circle was scheduled for 8 a.m. to 12 noon, wouldn't show up unchallenged and to prevent them from gathering immediately outside the clinic.
Instead, that space was occupied by nearly 30 activists standing in solidarity with Planned Parenthood and its patients, forcing the antis to gather on the other side of the street.
The antis were unable to gain any momentum or support throughout the demonstration. Initially, only three antis gathered, and one left after less than an hour. Various anti-choice protesters showed up and left, but at the most, seven people were there at the same time from their side.
When their prayers were loud enough to be heard, they were quickly drowned out with chants in solidarity with women, such as "Abortion is health care; health care is a right" and "Keep your rosaries off my ovaries." Throughout the demonstration, passersby showed their support for clinic defenders, and staff members expressed gratitude for our demonstration.
THE POUGHKEEPSIE Planned Parenthood is constantly under attack from anti-choicers. Throughout the 40 Days for Life, antis come out to protest the clinic on Saturdays and the headquarters on Sunday.
Because their Sunday actions are at the headquarters and not the clinic, Planned Parenthood has organized successful counterprotests on those days, occupying both sides of the block and regularly outnumbering the anti-choicers.
The October 21 action was the first time a clinic defense has taken place. The clinic is also protested every Wednesday, the day that abortions are performed. The anti-abortion protesters who show up that day are more militant and gather right in front of the clinic with cameras to harass and threaten patients. Until now, these demonstrations have gone unchallenged.
The national Planned Parenthood has the non-engagement attitude of "ignore the right and they'll go away," but this tactic does nothing but embolden their side. Over the last four decades, abortion rights have been chipped away. There are currently seven states that only have one abortion clinic.
And the onslaught continues. In September, the Department of Health recently released a draft of its "strategic plan for 2018 to 2022" that claims that life begins at conception.
These are all things that happened because there was no consistent action against the right.
The effects of clinic defenses and protests against the right in general can be seen on the ground. When the anti-choicers demonstrate on Wednesdays unopposed, they are militant, in an ideal position to harass patients, and emboldened enough to come back the next week.
When they were countered on October 21, they slinked away from the clinic, ineffective and lacked momentum.
Our response to the right can't be to do nothing. We've watched our rights be stripped away over the past few decades precisely because of this "tactic."
Mass mobilization is the only way to truly defend our rights and create positive change. This sentiment was echoed in the words of one demonstrator who said, "Under Trump's administration they [the right] are feeling emboldened, but they've been out here for a while so it's important for us to start pushing back."


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Debut solo exhibition of photographic work
All that is solid melts into air. Marx
A Fish Out of Water is the debut solo exhibition of a 2 year photographic project documenting the end-of-life recycling of a 5000 ton Royal Navy Tanker, commissioned by Arts Council England and the National Glass Centre.
Ships are the workhorses of globalisation, slowly but surely transporting materials, influence and power across the globe. Built to last and to survive the rigors of a life at sea, they require huge amounts of energy and force to be dismantled at the end of their working lives.
Their structures contain vast quantities of hazardous materials that during the ship's working life are safely contained within its walls; there to propel the ship and to protect its inhabitants. At the end of the ship's life, these materials become reanimated, problematic and dangerous. Once disturbed, the very materials that protected the lives of those at sea now become a threat to life.
Working in Collaboration with social scientist, Professor Nicky Gregson, Tim Mitchell spent 2 years observing and documenting the rigorous and problematic physical process of 'breaking' a ship in a country where health & safety and environmental protection are paramount. Currently, through loopholes in the law, most EU ships are broken up on the beaches of Asia at huge cost to life and surrounding environment. Why are more of our own ships not broken here in the EU? Is this even feasible?
Today, 90% of all imports are shipped, but shipping itself, like industry, has become invisible. There is a palpable and political relationship between 'Fish Out of Water' and the North East of England – in the UK's 21st century economic order, where once there was manual labour, are the remaining options now recycling or redundancy, rather than new material production?
These and other questions will be raised and explored against the resonant backdrop of the River Wear, with it's impressive cultural history still capable of influencing the present.
The exhibition here will bring together a mixture of large-scale contemporary and traditional photographic prints, physical evidence from the ship itself and an accompanying publication, together creating a broad document made up of contrasting forms and perspectives, with the intention of sparking debate and reflection upon Sunderland and the North East's past, present and future relationship with a globalised shipping industry.
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It was a gruesome, entirely telegraphed one-two punch this week in the Penny Press: first, Esquire had a "How To Be a Man – The Fatherhood Edition," and then The New Yorker had a double-sized science fiction issue. As the cognoscenti might put it, oy.
Horrified – as pretty much anybody would be – by the prospect of a New Yorker science fiction issue, I tackled the Esquire first. I nibbled around the articles at the peripheries, the ones not necessarily about fatherhood, although even most of those outlying districts were pretty gawd-awful. The slogans for the "Fiction for Men" section, for instance: "Outlaws. Cigarette punches. Sex. Blood. Bank robbers. Revenge. Fear. Lust. Greed. These are stories for men, by the biggest writers in America." The sensible part of me was immediately warning me that the entire section would be an angering waste of time – after all, the reading demographic that's so confidently summoned by those word-blurbs isn't "men" … it's "teenage boys." And that sensible part was right: the short stories that followed were hideously awful. Stephen King and his son Joe Hill team up to provide something called "In the Tall Grass," which consequently has twice the genetic defects found in either man's prose alone … both inbred and sterile. Colum McCann turns in a Civil War story that's as bloated and sold on itself as his wretched novel Let the Great World Spin. Lee Child presents a new Jack Reacher short story that's so bad the second half doesn't even bother to check in and see what happened in the first half. After that, as if sensing how tired their teenage-boy readers must be going this long without a picture of a scantily-clad woman or a full-color ad for cigars, the editors give us "short short" fiction – several writers turn in one 79-word paragraph apiece, apparently under the impression that a 79-word paragraph can do stand-in duty for an entire story. Since it can't, all of these blue-book exercises fail to be much of anything at all – with the single and hilariously ironic exception of the only one written by a woman. Tea Obreht's entry is at least intriguing:
At dawn, he found that several young women had appeared, without any warning or clothes, in the millpond by which he had concealed himself overnight. Rather than risk capture attempting to explain that it was they, not he, who had intruded, he was obliged to flee with the stolen bicycle under his arm. Years later, court martial revoked, he would meet her again, marry her, the only girl among them who had thrown a book at his retreating back.
But there it was, waiting patiently for me: "Fatherhood for Real Dads," and it was just as pandering and pea-brained as I'd feared, absolutely full of advice and tips that wouldn't have looked one bit out of place in 1959. It's full of pointers on how to teach your kid (it's not stated, but the strong implication of every word is that 'your kid' will be a boy) how to be responsible, how to stand up to bullies, ease into smoking those cigars (not optimal, maybe, but as our editors put it, "you can only do what you can do"), and all the rest. The lock-step conformity being tacitly praised in every word of the feature would have made Hitler's heart beam with pride. And as for tolerance – in "Tips and Tricks for Real Dads," along with things like "Eczema: Stelatopia moisturizer; banana peels," or "The kid keeps accidentally kicking you in the nuts: Protect your nuts. It's gonna happen," I fully expected to read something like, "Gay? wrap the kid up, walk down to the basement, and throw him in the furnace." Maybe it got cut for space reasons.
I wasn't expecting any relief, but it came just the same – and from a very unlikely source: Scott Raab interviewing Bill Murray. Not that either isn't always a relief from any kind of tedium – it's just that both are that dreaded sub-species of guy's guy: Chicago men. And as our sainted former president Jed Bartlet once observed, when you put two Chicago men together, you suddenly realize why they call it the Windy City. To compensate for the fact that Chicago is hands-down the major city with the least noticeable indigenous personality, Chicago men always immediately set in with the grandiose crapola about how tough guys do things, about the Chicago way … about, gawd help us all, respect.
So there I was braced for it, but instead, the interview was great – Raab mainly got out of the way of his subject (this isn't one of those jobs where he's sent to interview the latest young unshaven Hollywood thing and has to do most of the being-interesting himself)(although those pieces can be mighty fun to read, mainly because Raab is mighty interesting and could probably just free-associated for 1000 words and keep my attention), and he and Murray have a written chemistry I could read for pages and pages. At one point Raab asks Murray if he ever thought about doing stand-up:
Murray: No. I saw them work, and they seemed so unhappy. If an audience didn't like them, they'd get so miserable about it. It looked too miserable. I did it once and it was fun. But I only had to do it once to realize I could do it, but I don't want to do it. I've done it a little bit lately – I'll emcee a concert, something like that.
Raab: It's no surprise you can do it. You're Bill Murray.
Murray: But you still have to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's "Guess who's not funny?"
So then, a bit of relief before the real plunge. Into the New Yorker science fiction issue.
The problem with such a thing manifests before you've passed the cover – in fact, in this case, it's summarized by the cover, a Daniel Clowes cartoon called "Crashing the Gate" that doesn't show anybody crashing a gate … instead, it shows three science fiction cliches, a raygun-toting space cadet, a robot, and a bug-eyed monster, blasting through a book-lined living room wall to interrupt an Upper West Side literary cocktail party. I'm sure the magazine's editors – and maybe Clowes too – would say the whole thing is batter-dipped in irony, but I'm not buying it: this is meant to reinforce the ghetto walls, not tear them down. The problem with a New Yorker science fiction issue is that The New Yorker thinks science fiction is ridiculous, and The New Yorker is completely convinced – and rightly so – that most of its readers think so too. So the issue can't help but be one protracted exercise in condescension.
That's exactly what it is, but oh, it was so much worse than I expected. There are numerous one-page pieces where some big names in the despised sub-genre – Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Karen Russell, China Mieville, Margaret Atwood, and the mighty Ursula Le Guin – toss off quick reflections on What Sci-Fi Has Meant To Me, and although there's nothing worthwhile in any of these pieces (indeed, only more condescension: by having a bunch of authors mistily reflect on their childhood memories of sci-fi reading, you quietly stress the idea that science fiction is mostly for children)(to have an entire science fiction issue in which not one adult talks about currently reading science fiction is … well, I'd call it a travesty, but I'm pretty sure that's the whole point), there are some bizarrities: Mieville referring to The Stars My Destination as Alfred Bester's recognized masterpiece, for instance, or Le Guin implying that the only reason science fiction stories are disparaged by the mainstream is because of their unusual trappings … not because genres – all genres – can inspire lazy, bad prose (also – she writes an entire piece on the 'boy's club' nature of science fiction without once mentioning her friend James Tiptree? Like I said – bizarre).
And the main attractions weren't any better. There are short stories by Sam Lipsyte, Jonathan Lethem, and Junot Diaz (the Table of Contents also lists a short story by Jennifer Egan, but her contribution, "Black Box," turns out to be a collection of miscellaneous Twitter-posts of no discernible content – perhaps an editorial error?), and although Lethem is a perennial disappointer, even the Lipsyte and Diaz are just plain bad: lazy, undercooked slumming, virtually designed (or maybe explicitly designed), again, to reinforce for snobby, hidebound readers that science fiction above all isn't all that good. And the feature rounds off all these little outrages with one last little outrage: Emily Nussbaum's piece on "Doctor Who" is not only distracted (half of it is devoted to something called "Community," apparently because the world's longest-running science fiction show just doesn't merit a whole essay of its own), but because Nussbaum very obviously isn't a long-time Doctor Who fan. She tries gamely enough, but the gaps are glaring – and so, again, is the condescension: why give the assignment to any of the thousand long-time Doctor Who fans who could have done it with not only rhetorical skill (which Nussbaum has in abundance) but also a fan's … er, respect?
That's not, alas, a rhetorical question. The answer is: because if The New Yorker did that, it would lose all those 'cool points' it's racked up with the hipster-literary crowed pictured on Clowes' cover. If it turned over any of these piece supposedly appreciating the living, breathing genre of science fiction to people who are actively, fiercely in love with that genre (instead of a handful of 'old masters,' two-thirds of whom haven't written a sci-fi novel in years and one of whom … coughAtwoodcough … has, no matter what you might think, never actually written a science fiction novel at all), you'd lose the ability to write the whole two-week exercise off as a pleasing-the-nerds piece of irony.
And unlike in Esquire, this time there was no relief. Reading Anthony Lane on Wes Anderson – a twee reviewer writing about a twee director – doesn't exactly count, nor does a posthumous essay by Anthony Burgess. No, unlike Esquire, this whole thing is a wash. Time to turn to Outside and read about bear attacks (and picture the victims as New Yorker editors, or else pansy-punching Esquire dads) …


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Friday Link Round-Up: Weakness Edition
Whether you've faced the question in an interview or have been provoked to do some soul-searching on your own, there's something to be said for knowing your weaknesses and how to deal with them. Reviewing Steve Jobs' biography earlier this week got me thinking about strengths & weaknesses and how we manage them.
Thought-Provoker of the Week
The first step to dealing with your weaknesses is learning what they are and how to talk about them. Penelope Trunk talks about how to do both.
Lesson of the Week
Once we've identified and come to terms with our weaknesses, we can then focus on turning the into strengths. ZenHabits talks about how to do just that.
Recipe of the Week
This Men's Health article suggests that the problem with most of our restaurant comfort foods is cheap, poor-quality, artificial ingredients. By using high-quality, real foods, we can take our favorite comfort foods into something that, if not exactly healthy, at least isn't detrimental to our health.
Product of the Week
Coffee is definitely one of my weaknesses, and while I adore my Starbucks baristas, I'm trying to be more responsible with how much money I spend there.
To help in this endeavor, in addition to my pour-over coffee, we recently spent a grand total of less than $40 on a Bialetti espresso maker and a milk frother to use at home. So far, we're very impressed with the simplicity and quality of both, and it's nice being able to have what feels like a little bit of luxury at home.
Laugh of the Week
Sometimes the best way to face a weakness is simply to embrace it, just like Loca, the dog who can't run.


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Last week, Hurricane Marie generated huge surf along Southern California, and now forecasters are predicting more big waves into the weekend with the arrival of a Southern Hemisphere swell, as well as swells from Hurricane Norbert off Mexico.
The National Weather Service said the long-period Southern Hemisphere swell, which arrived Thursday afternoon, will build slowly today through Sunday, and a shorter-period but potentially larger swell may arrive Sunday and Monday from Norbert.
The hurricane is approaching the southern tip of Baja California and is expected to move northwest, nearly paralleling the peninsula.
South-facing Southern California beaches should get the largest surf late today through Monday, with breakers up to 7 feet in some areas, meteorologists said.
While not as powerful as the surf generated by Marie, authorities warn of possible minor coastal flooding and rip currents.


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The Archives Collections Listing includes all of the archival collections in SC&A, providing information about their size, whether there is a finding aid or preliminary inventory, and any restrictions. Those collections that have a finding aid will be listed in Archival Finding Aids. A finding aid is a detailed guide to an archival collection, including the history of the person or group that created the records; the way the collection is organized; the contents of boxes and folders; and related materials about the topic. A finding aid is not digitized papers, but it provides information about the scope and depth of a collection. The search box on the SC&A homepage can be used to search through the collections listing and finding aids (as well as the rest of the SC&A webpages). Within an individual finding aid, the command "control-f" will allow for word or phrase searching.
About 90% of Wesleyan's rare books are represented in Wesleyan's online library catalog. To search specifically for items in SC&A, use the catalog's "Advanced Search," and under "Location," select "Special Collections & Archives." Many rare book catalog records describe unique characteristics of the books, including provenance (bookplates, inscriptions, former owners), physical characteristics (vellum bindings, limited edition bindings), and so forth. Books that are part of a specific collection can often be searched by the collection name, for example, the "Kallir Family Collection," or the "Nathan Comfort Starr Collection of Arthuriana." Simply type the phrase, including the quotation marks, as a keyword search. For more detailed tips and instructions on searching for Special Collections items in the online catalog, click here.
As not all items are fully cataloged or described, please contact the staff of Special Collections & Archives with specific research inquiries.


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Linda Christine Graham, 58, of Leavenworth, was called home, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at Providence Medical Center. She was born on Aug. 17, 1955, in Ada, Okla., the daughter of Tollie Gray and Izora (Clark) Alexander.
Linda is survived by her husband, Bruce Robinson. He survives at the home. She is also survived by four daughters, Mickala (Thomas Solombrino) Graham, Deitra (Reginald) Epps, Anjell (Jamar) Mitchel and Naya Robinson; two sons, Ramone (Ryia) Graham and Lorenzo Graham; her ex-husband and close friend, Edward Graham; her father; ten sisters, Debra Rodriguez, Sharon (Gerald) Brown, Brenda (Matthew) Gibson, Katina (Derick) White, Angela Vinson, Tina Gray, Gerlinda Gray, Robin Gray, Tolena Gray - Washington and Cheryl Lynn Jackson; a brother, Thurman Alexander; her in-laws, George and Ruth Robinson; two fur-children (dogs) Baby and Spirit; 23 grandchildren and two on the way; and a large extended family.
She was preceded in death by her mother and step-father, Thurman Alexander Sr.; her maternal and paternal grandparents; a sister, Glenda Marie Alexander; three brothers, Lorenzo Alexander, Kirk Gray, Tollie Gray Jr. and Gregory Gray; 3 infant siblings; and a host of aunts and uncles.
Linda was a proud owner of Graham Cakes & Café. She was also a Licensed Practical Nurse and she served in many facilities in the metro area. She was most recently employed at the Leavenworth Veterans Hospital.
Linda loved baking cakes, entertaining her family and helping people. She was most passionate about gardening. She quoted, to her family "God is so good, look how plentiful my garden is. I would love to have enough to feed the hungry. I think gardening is my calling. In one of the ways I will be serving the Lord by feeding people. Do I sound excited!!
A funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, at the R.L. Leintz Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Mount Muncie Cemetery.


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Peter Stuart Ney
Source: William E. Elmore Collection (EC Manuscript Collection #39.1.f)
Staff Person: Ralph Scott
Description: Michel Ney, 1st Duc d'Elchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, popularly known as Marshall Ney was a eighteenth and nineteenth century French military commander. After service during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, Ney fell out of favor and was arrested and condemned to death for treason in December of 1815. In January of 1816 Peter Stuart Ney arrived at Charleston, SC., where he subsequently disappeared. In 1821 he appeared in Mocksville, NC where he assumed the position of a school teacher. He also worked as a teacher in Hillsborough, Salisbury and Mecklenburg county before returning again to Mocksville. He died there on 15 November 1826 and is buried at the Third Creek Presbyterian Church. This document typed in August of 1908 at Roaring River, NC, relates the life of Peter Stuart Ney, the Great Marshall of France. In the relation Peter Stuart Ney's grandson, E. M. C. Neyman of Saltillo, IN, states that his grandfather was in fact the Michel Ney. This document is signed by James H. Foote, born 8 November 1825 and "is taken as proof that the old Tar Heel Teacher was the Great Marshall of France." At the bottom the relation is noted as being done "at the request of my friend, Judge Allen." A pencil notation on the first page states "copyied and sent to the Historical Society."


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Alumni Profile
PhD Grad to Lead Change in Colombia's Public Work Force
Professors not only impact students, sometimes their work also can make changes at a national level. Case in point: Pablo Sanabria will put his SPA education to work as he leads a team to modernize Colombia's public sector workforce.
Sanabria, SPA/PhD '12, recently won a $700,000 grant from the government of Colombia to design the framework of a comprehensive policy that promotes innovative and effective human resource management in the public sector.
"Colombia's public sector gets a mixed review, with modern HR practices in some organizations and less desirable practices such as cronyism, political patronage, and clientelism in others," explained Sanabria, a faculty member at the University de los Andes in Bogotá. "The purpose of this grant is to establish a new baseline for Colombia's public sector and help modernize its human resource management system."
SPA edge
There was strong competition in the selection process from other schools backed by seasoned researchers, but Sanabria says his doctoral studies in public administration at SPA "gave me the edge. I had state-of-the-art methods and literature at my disposal in developing our proposal." Sanabria added, "Public administration research in Colombia does not have a strong empirical base, particularly in the use of quantitative and qualitative methods, which we were able to bring to the table with this project."
"American University's ideals of serving society and putting ideas into action have shaped me personally and professionally."
After finishing his PhD in only three years last year, Sanabria joined the faculty of the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government at the University de los Andes, Colombia's top-ranked university and one of South America's top five. Sanabria's research team will include nearly 20 faculty members and student research assistants from the schools of government, business, and law to develop a comprehensive view of human resource management in the public sector.
About the project
The two-year project will start with baseline research to understand the state of Colombia's human resources in the public sector. Taking a bottom-up approach to the research, the team will work with public officials and human resources offices to document current practices and expectations in public sector employment. Simultaneously, the team will undertake a global review of best practices in both theory and practice. The research will culminate in recommendations for the design of a comprehensive human resources policy as well as evaluation methodologies that can be used to measure the policy's effectiveness in the future.
The project is a natural outgrowth of Sanabria's PhD dissertation, which analyzed the professional paths of former study-abroad students in Colombia to understand their career choices. Sanabria found that public service motivation, age, and previous experience were among the many factors playing a role in public sector career choice in Colombia.
"Younger workers are more inclined toward public sector, but that changes as people age," he said. "Many young college graduates are interested in working in the public sector, but discover there is not an easy or well-defined route to getting these kinds of jobs, and they end up finding other ways to satisfy their desire to help society."
On the other hand, Sanabria found that those who take the public service path can sometimes be demoralized by their work, feeling that their contribution is not significant enough, paid enough, or appreciated enough by society. "It's important that we make sure that policies and practices are in place to keep public sector workers motivated and feeling valued," said the researcher.
Service-driven career
Sanabria knows firsthand the lessons and challenges of a service-driven career path. After earning a master's degree at the London School of Economics, the Bogotá-born professor spent several years in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors before returning to academia, where he felt he could have the greatest impact.
"I realized that I could have a multiplying effect as an academic scholar, especially by helping educate Colombia's future leaders," said Sanabria, who is designing two new master's programs at the university and serves on the board of directors of the International Research Society for Public Management in addition to teaching and research.
Sanabria hopes to have the same impact on his students that AU had on his career trajectory and beliefs about public service.
"American University's ideals of serving society and putting ideas into action have shaped me personally and professionally," said Sanabria. "My PhD helped get me where I am today – teaching at a top university, doing research I love, and hopefully making a lasting contribution to public affairs in my country."


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Peak Oil? Include Me Out
Thoughts from a Once-Burned Y2K Activist
by Mick Winter
On December 31, 1999 when the clocks ticked for the last time in the old year and then proceeded to quite happily keep ticking their chronological way into the new, hundreds of millions of people around the world rejoiced as they welcomed the 21st millennium. At the same time, thousands of people looked at their television sets and the still-glowing lights of their homes and cities, and immediately realized that they now looked like idiots.
These "idiots" were the Y2K activists who had for several previous years been warning their families, their friends, their communities and their countries about the year-end computer problem. They knew the problem was not a computer bug, but a simple programming decision made decades earlier. And that this decision would inevitably lead to errors in computer data beginning January 1, 2000 that could, if not changed, rapidly grow and spreadâwith disastrous results. They also knew that the Y2K problem was easily fixed. It was the monumental amount of fixing required that concerned them. Many did not think it possible for adequate repair work to be completed in time.
But it was, and the world proceeded nicely into the 21st century (in the eyes of more than six billion peopleâa few purists still (accurately) refused to accept the new millennium's birth until 2001.)
Most Y2K activists had not enjoyed what they were doing while they were doing it. None of their friends and neighbors really wanted to hear a message of impending doom. The activists had long known that the best they could hope for on January 1, 2000 was that they would end up looking like fools. Fool status would indicate success. It would be proof that The End of The World As We Know It (or TEOTWAWKI in Y2K-speak) had not happened, and that computer systems and society had continued to purr along.
The systems did indeed keep purring along, largely because governments and corporations had spent hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide on programming and new computer systems. Was this expense necessary? A few states and corporations kept their old "legacy" systems running just to see what would happen after the turn of the millennium. These systems still had the old two-digit date field for the year instead of the new, Y2K-approved four-digit field. What happened to these old systems in the new year? They crashed. They choked. Or, even more insidiously, they kept going, outwardly innocent, but inwardly corrupt. And the testers looked at one another, and the CEOs and the CIOs and the CFOs looked at one another, and they saw what they had done, and they were pleased. The huge expenditures really had been worth it. Spending vast sums to cover their ass had been justified.
Did we say everything continued to purr along? Well, not exactly. There were rumors that some companies, including some very major companies, didn't get the Y2K work done, for whatever reasons. Rumor has it that the various accounting problems and other internal misadventures that lead to the fiscal demise of these companies had been caused by none other than the Y2K problem. But, as we say, these are rumors. And regardless, the planet survived quite nicely, thank you.
For the time being.
Two Digits? Big Deal
Why did Y2K activists get so excited about a little two-digit data entry field? Because of their research. Or at least because of their research into other people's research, because the panicâand probably the successful repairâof the Y2K problem would likely never have happened without the mass communication and information sharing capabilities of the Internet.
Their research made them aware of a sort of technological ecology, the interdependence of complex systems all over the planet, systems on which we rely for information exchange, financial transactions, and the movement of energy and goods from town to town, state to state, and country to country.
The Y2K folks realized that a little computer error could corrupt or bring down a computer system, and that system, whether dead or just dirty, could corrupt or bring down another computer systemâeven a "clean" oneâwith which it conducted transactions. And that those two computer systems could...well, as someone once said about history, it's "just one damn thing after another."
The activists also discovered that there is a very delicate dance between computer systems around the planet and the artifactsâboth real and virtualâwhich they help exchange. And that participants in that dance include the factories, offices and consumers who use those artifacts, whether they be dollars, euros, yen, barrels of oil, watts of electricity, bags of cement, bytes of information, vegetables, cartons of milk, bullets, or video games and Barbie dolls.
Several factors make this global dance both fascinating and perilous. One is that goods used by consumers in industrial societies canâand often have toâtravel many thousands of miles from producer to home or supermarket shelfâthe so-called "3,000 mile Caesar salad".
The other factor is that great cost-reducing achievement of inventory-free companiesâthe "Just In Time" process. Factories and supermarkets no longer need mammoth warehouses to store parts and goods as they await their appearance on the assembly line or supermarket shelf. We now have "rolling warehouses". Inventory is constantly on the road, traveling in huge tractor-trailers from port or manufacturer to the location where it's needed, arriving Just In Time for sale or use. Just In Time could not happen without global communication, scheduling and inventory-tracking, all requiring complex computer systems.
So Y2K activists understood that our societal circulatory and nervous systems are, in reality, based upon a thin and fragile network of intricate actions and relationships. And they believed that it would not take much to screw it up. The immediate threat that they saw was Y2K, but many of them also noticed other threats on the not-so-distant horizon. One of them was Peak Oil.
Peak Oil
Peak Oil. (see www.drydipstick.com) is usually spelled with initial caps to make it look more sensational. That's hardly necessary, but we'll do it to keep with tradition. Peak Oil was low on the radar in 1999, but Y2Kers had sensitive antennaâmany would say too sensitiveâand Peak Oil fit right in with their paranoia (only they preferred to call it sensible caution) about interdependence, sustainability, and complex systems.
Peak Oil simply meant that oil resources on the planet were finite and that there would come a point in time when one day less oil would be extracted than on the previous day. And the following day even less. And so on, no matter how much exploration was done, no matter how efficient the new extraction technologies developed. There would come a point when less and less oil was available for the industrialized societies of the planet. Oil production would have peaked.
This would be alarming in itself because the needs of already-industrialized countries are increasingâdramatically. Think growing populations. Think ever-increasing demand for power plants. Think SUVs. Think the production of more and more stuff.
But an even greater threat (more objectivelyâcompetition) were those previously underdeveloped countries that were now leapfrogging into the 21st century and demanding consumer equity with the long-developedâand perhaps over-developedâcountries. Think one billion Indians. Think 1.3 billion Chinese. (Even more useful, think a combined 2.3 billion Indians and Chinese with a relatively small, but by their very existence quite significant, number of nuclear weapons.)
Consumers in the west continued to act as if petroleum resources were unlimited and indeed, in the United States at least, they were assured by their government that resources were unlimited, thanks to the grace of God and the tax-deductible, off-shore wisdom of the oil companies.
However, the underlying concern of Y2Kers is that all resources are finite, and that local communities, whether Gotham City or Hog Hollow, are too dependent on outside resources, and too little dependent on their own resources.
Y2Kers had always dreamed of local sustainability. They wanted local communities to be able to provide their own basic foods, their own basic energy needs, their own basic essentials of life. Projects were proposed for the home, the neighborhood, the city. They involved home and neighborhood gardens; home, neighborhood and city power generation, and neighborhood and city-wide cooperation. In short, their goal was do everything locally that's possible to do locally, and to save the national and global activities for only those things that absolutely have to be done on national and global levels. Yes, they really did want everyone to "Think (and Communicate) Globally, Act Locally."
Activists saw Y2K as a golden opportunity for communities to become self-aware, to realize the vulnerability of long-supply chains, and to jump at the chance to work with their neighbors to create close-knit, cooperative communities that could survive on their own. Not with exuberant riches, perhaps, but the operative word here was survival. That and the very human feeling of satisfaction that comes from cooperating successfully with other humans.
Local community sustainability was a nice dream, but the golden opportunity, with few exceptions, turned to lead. Y2K turned out to be a non-event, and Y2Kers slunk offâalbeit often with heads held high, a physically challenging but not inappropriate positionâmany to endure the ridicule of their communities, the media, and, frequently, their families, including the brother-in-law who had said that Y2Kers were crackpots and nothing was ever going to bring down the good old U.S. of A.
America Means Never Having to Say You're On Empty
In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a highly-respected geophysicist in the oil industry, predicted that oil production in the "lower-48" of the United States would peak in the early 1970s. Despite his high standing in the industry, his prediction was greeted with skepticism at best, and, more commonly, with guffaws. It turned out that oil production in the United States did peakâaround 1970.
In 1974, Hubbert predicted that worldwide oil production would peak around 1995. It didn't, but many believe that was only because the oil crisis and lowered production of the 1970s slowed the process down.
Scientists who support Hubbert's calculations, and who have done analyses of their own, predict that global oil production will peak no later than 2015, and possibly as early as...2004. (The predictions vary, but all, even the non-doomsayers, recognize that oil is finite and its plentiful end will come.) Just as production in the U.S. peaked around 1970, and Alaska's North Slope did in the late 1990s, so is production peaking in the North Sea. In fact, oil production has already peaked in 50 oil-producing countries around the planet.
Only the Middle East has kept worldwide production figures from peaking. More than 70 percent of remaining oil reserves is in just five Middle Eastern countries: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman. (Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would give the United States only three months worth of oil, but the destruction would be forever.)
Peak Oil is not the same as running out of oil. It means the end of cheap, plentiful oil. It means there will be less and less oil available at a time when there is more and more demand. Production will be decreasing as demand is increasing.
Global oil production has not yet peaked. Probably. Maybe. Although it does seem to have plateaued in the last few years. As always, it is several years afterwards before it is clear that it has indeed peaked. However, there have been no new significant discoveries of major oil fields since the early 1960s, and discovery of smaller fields has been steadily declining. This year we will consume six times as much oil as we discover.
Interestingly, reported oil reserve capacity has risen, including a dramatic increase in the late 1980s. Skeptics point to the coincidence that those reserves increased at the same time that OPEC ruled that oil production would be limited to a percentage of known reserves. Thus: larger reserves = larger permitted oil production. Thus: six members of OPEC added 300 billion barrels of oil (with percentage increases ranging from 42% to 197%) to their reserve figures without reporting any new discoveries. Most experts agree that no scientific data have been presented to justify the claimed increases in oil reserve capacity. And then there was the Royal Dutch/Shell scandal of 2004, where the company had to admit that it had knowingly overstated its reserves by more than 20%.
Current global demand is around 80 million barrels per day, which is expected to increase by more than 2/3 by 2015. The International Energy Agency estimated that demand worldwide would grow this year by a record 2.5 million barrels per day, up 3.2 percent from last year. A third of that growth is China, whose need for oil is increasing by more than 20 percent a year. The 2004 China is consuming 830,000 barrels per day more than the 2003 China. (The United States, meanwhile, increased its oil demand by 14 percent.)
China is the second largest importer of oil in the world, followed by Japan in third place, and preceded by the United States, way in first place. China is banning bicycles in cities in favor of automobiles. In 2003 two million cars were sold in China, up 70% from the previous year. China may need 10 million barrels/day by 2025 (it's currently using about 5 million). Meanwhile, the U.S. used 7.2 billion barrels in 2002, (that's over 20 million barrels a day) and had to import more than half of it. It's estimated that the U.S. will need 50% more oil in another 20 years. Does this suggest there might be some possible disagreements between the U.S. and China in the future?
The countries of the world consume more than 1 billion barrels of oil every 11.5 days. In 2003, for the first year since the 1920s, not one megafield (500 million barrels or more) of oil was discovered. The number had been declining. There were 16 in 2000, eight in 2001, three in 2002. This is not a reassuring trend. And keep in mind that a 500 million barrel megafield is only going to provide the world with oil for less than six days.
Oil companies are raking in record profits, but are not translating that into record investment in new facilities. In fact, they haven't built a new refinery in the United States since 1976. Is this just because they're greedy and want to cut expenses so they can maximize share price and corporate officer salaries? Only partially. Perhaps they also recognize that there is no sense in spending a lot of money expanding facilities when the stuff those facilities process is just about to start contracting.
Few people believe that current supplies of oil can keep up with the projected increase in demand.. A decrease in available oil supplies most certainly could not. The result would be increased demand with decreased production. Prices would rise; the cost of fuel, petroleum-based supplies (think fertilizers and pesticides) and transportation would increase. The cycle would become vicious, as prices increased and availability of oil and its related products decreased. Advancement of many societies would come to a halt, and already advanced societies would find themselves beginning to backslide.
Do we really need as much oil as we use? Well, for openers, all commercial pesticides are made from petroleum. Almost every internal combustion engine on the planet is powered by petroleum, and that includes more than 600 million vehicles. Each one of the tires on those vehicles take an average of six gallons of oil to produce. Almost all transportation, whether vehicle, plane, ship or train, is powered by petroleum or by electricity generated by petroleum or natural gas (which is also nearing peak). All plastics are produced from petroleum. Forty percent of electricity worldwide is produced by petroleum. Americans use about 3 gallons a day per person. (Your individual needs are probably a bit higher if you drive a 10-mile per gallon Hummer). The U.S. currently uses 26% of the world's oil production every day, even though it has less than 5% of the population.
Peak Oil is not a problem that has a solution. Global society runs on oilâand natural gasâand those fuels cannot be created out of thin air. (There are, however, some who believe that oil is produced not by a long-ago process from organic matter but by a still ongoing "abiotic" process from volcanic magma). While advocates of alternative energy have proclaimed for decades that they have the solutionâor rather replacementâwith solar power, wind power, tide generators, hydro power, and the like, the reality is that our society and all its many complicated systems are powered by fossil fuel. To totally remake the global infrastructure cannot be done in many decades, let alone a few years. Even the much heralded "hydrogen economy" holds minimal short-range hope. Hydrogen has its place, but that place is not as an energy saver. Fuel cells store energy, they don't produce it. And it takes large amounts of energy to produce those cells. Currently fossil fuels are the primary source of that energy.
Well, then, what are we going to do? How does American society maintain its standard of living?
If that's your questionârather than "How does planetary society maintain (and increase) its standard of living?"âthere is a group of people in Washington, D.C. that has an answer. Not an answer that those people have actually shared with the American public, however.
IraqâDoing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reason?
Let's suppose you are a member of the Bush Administration. Let's suppose you are someone who is familiar with the oil industry. But, as Mark Twain once said about Congressmen and idiots, I repeat myself.
George W. Bush, President - Most of his business background, such as it was, is oilâTexas and Saudi. His family for decades has had close, almost familial, even almost incestuous, contact with Saudi Oil and the Saudi royal family.
Dick Cheney, Vice-President - Former CEO of Halliburton, world's largest oil-services company.
Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy - Former senator from the U.S. automobile industry state of Michigan.
Condaleeza Rice, National Security Adviser - Formerly a member of the Board of Directors of Chevron for nine years. Even had an oil tanker named in her honor. (It was renamed the Altair Voyagerâa much more politically safe nameâafter she became National Security Advisor.)
Don Evans, Secretary of Commerce - Former CEO of oil company Tom Brown, Inc. and member of the board of Sharp Drilling, an oil industry contractor.
Andrew Card, Bush's Chief of Staff - Former Vice President, Governmental Affairs for General Motors.
Do you really believe that these people don't know about Peak Oil?
Let's suppose you are president of the United States, you're well aware of Peak Oil, and you're responsible for the national security of the country, and the well being of its people. Oh, and for the well being of the boards of directors of its major corporations.
For democratic purposesâthat is, to ensure that people keep re-electing you and your friends and colleaguesâyou need to make sure that American citizensâat least those that vote, who tend to be older, whiter and better off financiallyâcan continue to enjoy their current lifestyle, excesses and all.
Basically, you have two options. Both lead to maintaining the current lifestyle of the voterâas long as possible.
1. You appear in a televised talk before the country and inform its citizens about Peak Oil. You announce a dramatic new project to create not only a sustainable country, but sustainable cities, neighborhoods and homes. Crash programs are to be initiated with massive funding and tax-incentives to provide all homes, offices and factories with alternative, sustainable sources of energy. Automobile production will be stopped, and not allowed to proceed until vehicles meet stringent gas economy standards. Energy conservation will be mandated and all possible efforts will be made to reduce the oil, natural gas and electricity requirements of the country. You announce also that energy is a worldwide problem, not just an American one, and that you will work closely with all governments of the world to ensure that all peoples of the world have sufficient energy resources. While you're at it, you throw in programs for clean air and water as well.
2. You use your military forces to attack countries with large oil reserves, under whichever pretext seems to work at the moment, in order to gain and maintain control of those reserves to ensure that their priority customer is the United States. This includes using false threats (Weapons of mass destruction, Al Qaeda connection, nuclear weapons) as an initial cover. (When those later don't work, you can switch to the "cover within a cover", i.e., bringing The Magic of Democracy, Freedom and Free Enterprise to the Downtrodden [fill in the blank] People. This is helped by the efforts of neo-conservatives, who know nothing about Peak Oil, but think they're using you for their purposes but are in fact being used by you as cover for your own oily purposes).
Okay. You're rich, you've come out of the oil industry, you have a strong belief that the wealthy deserve their privileges and bank accounts, and you don't much care what happens to people in other countries, let alone know anything about them. You also think it wouldn't hurt to throw a few billion dollar contracts to friends and colleagues who have looked after you in the past.
You'd also like to make sure that the owner of some valuable oil real estate doesn't switch his oil sales over to euros from dollars, which could put your economy into a tailspin. And you have the certainty that whichever choice you make, God is on your side. (If you happen to believe in God. If not, it works anyway as good PR.) Which choice do you think you'll make?
Possibly you might wonder why not everyone appreciates your choice. Where are the rose petals and cheering crowds in the streets of your own country, let alone the ones you liberated from whomever was the Evildoer of the Month? But when it comes down to it, you don't much give a damn. They only have to like you once every four years.
Does the Bush Administration really think that Peak Oil is a serious threat? Think Iraq, with the second largest oil reserves in the world. Think Saudi Arabiaâright next to itâwith the largest oil reserves in the world. Think that country in-between U.S.-controlled Iraq and U.S.-controlled Afghanistan. (Hint: It used to be called Persia, has almost as much oil as Kuwait and has the third largest natural gas reserves in the world.) Think neighboring Mexico, with larger oil reserves than the U.S.. Think Venezuela, whose oil reserves place it sixth or seventh place in the world and whose natural gas reserves come in seventh. Think planned pullout of 70,00 U.S. troops from Europe. Think whether U.S. forces are closer to Venezuela and Mexico if they are based in Germany or in the United States. For that matter, think of "good neighbor" Canada, which is required by NAFTA to sell the United States oil and natural gas even if it doesn't have enough for its own use.
Of course, not everyone agrees with choice #2, particularly since the words "Peak Oil" have never been officially mentioned to the American public, let alone explained.
But many of the now-retired Y2K people do know about Peak Oil. They do know what's going on. And they do see the dangers inherent in Peak Oil. But are they going to come out of retirement, dig their soapboxes out of the attic or garage, stand tall in the public square and once again warn that their communities are imperiled? After what happened last time? How much credibility do you think they have left as apocalyptic prophets? Could they preach to the multitudes and proclaim the Second Coming of Potential Disaster? Maybe even proclaim that the Bush Administration, while it might have made the wrong choice, at least had somewhatâGod help usânoble intentions. (Or at least quasi-noble.)
Not bloody likely.
But Wouldn't It Be Fun? [sigh]
There's no doubt that for Y2Kers nostalgic for the good old days, Peak Oil does offer much of the same allure.
Peak Oil could affect the planetary infrastructure, impacting transportation, communication, and the shipment of goods, something Y2K folks are already well familiar with and for which they have long lists of preparations for Things That Could Go Wrong.
Activists would have to rely on specialized experts, rather than their own experience and knowledge, just as they had had to depend on the knowledge of experts for Y2K. It's the intellectual equivalent of "I'm only following orders".
There is still time for Y2Kers to get ahead of the pack, and become Admired Peak Oil Leaders in their communities.
Peak Oil might actually happen, giving activists the opportunity to Do Good and possibly even Save Lives.
There are qualified experts on both sides who violently disagree whether or not there is a real, immediate threat. This immediately sets up the Lying Establishment versus Truth-telling Maverick dichotomy that Y2Kers love so well.
Peak Oil has a short time frame (Sure, it's vague. "Sometime between 2004 and 2015 (or maybe 2025)" is not as precise as midnight, December 31, 1999, but it's better than "sometime in the next few centuries" which is all that global warming, or maybe even the Gulf Stream Shutdown, can offer.)
Disaster is promised, which really gets the old adrenaline going.
Preparations can be taken, which means lots of Things To Do and Buy.
Community-focused sustainability will be useful (maybe even essential)âa concept dear to the hearts of Y2Kers.
Multinational corporations could be badly hurt or even destroyed, which is always a plus.
Evil governments could be brought down. Of course good ones could too, but there are far fewer of those.
Because so many of the likely effects could be exactly the same as Y2K was supposed to have produced, Y2Kers could become Peak Oil activists with only minimal retraining.
Y2Kers can dig out all their old Y2K fact sheets, essays and manuals and, with simple Find and Replace word processing, bring them quickly up to date.
It gives them an excuse to spend lots of time on the Internet.
There is no doubt Peak Oil has a lot to offer. The downside offers far less. Unfortunately, for some it could be a show-stopper.
Who would believe a former Y2K activist about Peak Oil, when he'd already been wrong about Y2K?
Who would believe anyone about Peak Oil, when apparently almost everybody had been wrong about Y2K?
What if the experts who predict Peak Oil are wrong, just as the computer experts who said the Y2K problem couldn't be remediated in time were wrong. Why does it feel like déjà vu all over again?
Why would a former Y2K activist want to look like an idiot again?
Start (and Finish) the Party Without Me
Bummer. That downside really is a downer. So, what to do? Well, Y2K veterans could quietly move to small towns and villages in the countryside and equally quietly work with their new communities to increase local self-reliance and sustainability. Or they might move to warmer, slower, cheaper and less oil-dependent climes such as much of Mexico and Central America (see www.boomersabroad.com)âto name just a few areas close to the U.S.âwhere farmers grow crops without natural gas-based fertilizers, have no use for petroleum-based pesticides, nor need heating oil for the non-existent winters. Or they could simply stay where they are, forget they ever heard about Peak Oil, and go about their lives, just as almost everyone else did for Y2K.
These now quietly retired Y2K activists were successful fools once, but most have no particular desire to repeat the experience. They were no shepherd boys playing a prank on villagers. Their original cry of wolf was legitimate. And the villagers that mattered responded and sent the wolf packing. But few people really got the deep, underlying message of sustainability that first time, and these former activists see no chance of success from a second cry. Other, newer activists can give it a try if they wish.
Besides, crying wolf is of value only when the wolf is still in the distance and there's time for the villagers to take action.
This time, however, the wolf might be right at the door.
Mick Winter is a former Y2K community activist who currently suffers from chronic déjà vu and still hasn't figured out what to do about Peak Oil.
Copyright © 2004 by Mick Winter. Permission is given to freely distribute as long as no changes or charges are made, and this notice and website link www.drydipstick.com are included.


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