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Touch of the Rare is an album by American jazz vocalist Lisa Rich, backed by a quartet led by pianist/composer/arranger Clare Fischer, who also wrote or co-wrote six of its 11 tracks. Released by Trend Records in 1985 as TR 541, and reissued the following year on CD, Touch of the Rare was the second album released by Rich.  Her first album was Listen Here.

Reception
Beginning with his own tongue planted firmly in cheek ("Rich sings in tongues: English, Spanish, Portuguese and vocalese"), noted freelance jazz writer and Los Angeles Times jazz critic Leonard Feather fleshes out his 3½-star capsule review as follows:
Backed by Clare Fischer's efficient keyboards and percussion-oriented quartet, she tackles fearlessly such odd melodies as the title tune and "Ornithardy," takes full advantage of Bronislau Kaper's durable "Invitation" and deals handily with "Love for Sale" converted into a long-meter Latin disguise. A thoroughly professional, jazz-influenced artist.
The Ottawa Citizen's Lois Moody elaborates:
There's a strong Latin-jazz feeling to many of the 11 tracks, with support coming from the quintet of pianist Clare Fischer, an imaginative and sensitive composer-arranger who had a hand in six of the pieces. Rich's voice is in the same mellow range and she has a similar approach to songs as Meredith D'Ambrosio and the late Irene Kral...The warm-voiced singer seems equally at home with strange interval leaps, odd harmonic twists and languid phrases. The sometimes-dry, mostly vibratoless style makes one recall the late alto saxophonist Paul Desmond... The program choices make good use of her best qualities.

Track listing
 "Touch of the Rare" (Stephen Paul Evans-June Bisantz Evans) - 3:20
 "Invitation" (Bronislau Kaper) - 4:24
 "Novios" (Clare Fischer-Barbara Ransom) - 5:07
 "Minor Sights" (Fischer)  - 3:38
 "Ornithardy" (Lee Lally Hughes-Fischer) - 2:47
 "Pensativa" (Fischer) - 4:53
 "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter)  - 4:48
 "Gaviota" (Weaver Copeland-Fischer) - 5:38
 "Better Than Anything" (David Wheat-Bill Loughborough) - 2:23
 "Serenidade" (Daniel Cytrynowicz-Fischer) - 3:55
 "Some Other Time" (Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green) - (3:51

Personnel
All personnel information derived from WorldCat.
Lisa Rich - vocals
Clare Fischer - piano, keyboards,
Brent Fischer - bass guitar
Michito Sanchez - conga, bongos
Walfredo Reyes - drums, percussion
Ron Powell - percussion

References

1985 albums
Vocal jazz albums
Latin jazz albums by American artists


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gasche, can you please apply the trivial fix contained in this issue?
Attached patch properly checks -use-ocamlfind.
Merged in 4.02 and trunk.
Do you know about ocamlbuild/testsuite? It is really convenient to write test against in my experience. For using it, my workflow is to "opam compiler-conf reinstall" and then run the tests from the toplevel. I hope you keep contributing features to ocamlbuild lately; you should consider writing small tests to validate that they work as expected.


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Fender's new in-ear headphones aren't just for stage musicians
The Fender Pro In-Ear Monitors pair great sound with rock-solid fit
By Dan Seifert@dcseifert May 12, 2016, 9:00am EDT
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Earlier this year, Fender announced a new line of in-ear headphones, marking its first entry into the consumer electronics world. The company is best known for its classic guitars and amps, which were key to the rock and roll revolution some 60-odd years ago, but it's never dabbled in the electronics world like this before. The line of headphones were developed in-house using technology from Aurisonics, which Fender acquired for this purpose. The new Fender Pro In-Ear Monitor line, which ranges in price from $99 to $499 and caters to both casual listeners and audiophiles and musicians, is available for purchase from Fender and other music retailers starting today.
The new headphones were developed in Nashville, Tennessee, which is also where they are hand-assembled before shipping to customers. The design of the line is heavily influenced by the custom in-ear monitors that stage musicians have worn for years: they are large and designed to stay put in your ear, even though they have a universal fit. All of the models, save for the entry-level DXA1, feature 3D-printed housings that Fender says will fit 95 percent of ears and provide a similar fit to custom monitors. The entire line has tacky polyurethane tips in a variety of sizes, which grip the ear canal to hold the headphone in place, and the lightweight, detachable cables wrap behind the ear to help prevent pulling them out.
The design brings custom features to the masses
In addition to their unique design characteristics, the Fender headphones have proprietary drivers tuned for audio quality. The high-end FXA6 and FXA7, which sell for $399 and $499, respectively, have both balanced armature and dynamic drivers for strong bass response and crisp highs.
I've had a chance to demo the FXA6 for the past week and I've been impressed with both the fit and sound quality from them. I've long had issues getting in-ear headphones to stay in my ears, but the combination of the FXA6's unique shape and grippy ear tips works well.
Here's a list of things I like about the Fenders and a couple of things I don't:
Sound quality: the FXA6s sound incredible. The bass is punchy, the highs are crisp, and the mids are pleasant. I listened to a variety of music and podcasts with them and have been very impressed.
Noise isolation: the FXA6 do not have active noise cancellation, but their fit provides up to 22 decibels of noise reduction. They block out noise exceptionally well, making my commute pleasant, and they don't color the sound the same way that active noise cancellation systems do.
Fit: the FXA6s are the only in-ear headphones I've used that reliably stay in my ears for long periods of time. I can move around, yawn, chew gum, or carry on a conversation without them falling out or losing their seal. They are also comfortable to wear for long periods of time.
Size: the FXA6s are big. Bigger than typical consumer headphones and big enough that you never forget you're wearing them. I appreciate the fit and sound quality afforded by their size, but if you don't like things in your ears, you're really going to hate these.
No microphone or remote: the twisted, detachable cable is lightweight, but it lacks an in-line remote or microphone. That's fine if you're a musician using them on stage, but it's annoying when you are using them with a phone and a call comes in. Fender says that it is planning to introduce accessory cables that have remotes and microphones in the future. No word on when that is or how much they will cost, however.
Cost: at $399, the FXA6 are a serious investment for the casual listener. Stage musicians might not balk at the price, but I'd have a hard time dropping that much on wired headphones.
Fender says that this line of headphones is just the first in its efforts to branch into new product categories. If the rest of the stuff Fender has planned is as good as these, our ears are open to hear more.
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How will adland function if all staff have to work from home?
by Jennifer Small March 11, 2020
Work from home: pyjamas optional
Is the industry capable of serving clients effectively while working from home?
In China, millions of people have been working from home since 3 February amid coronavirus quarantines. Now, Italy faces the same restrictions, with cases having been confirmed in all 20 of its regions. In the UK, a leading health official has said that all staff who can work from home should be advised to do so to reduce their risk of contracting the virus and spreading it to others.
But can working from home shed its image of pyjama-wearing shirkers to become an acceptable solution to the current crisis? And perhaps, if proven through emergency measures, home working can gain credence as a way forward beyond the coronavirus.
While some employees may feel pressured by intrusive bosses who do not believe the same level of productivity will be achieved away from the office and some could be distracted by family members or find it difficult to focus, others might embrace the experience, perhaps enjoying improved productivity.
With agencies such as Amplify shifting to flexible working hours to avoid rush-hour travel, others such as Group M are testing business-continuity practices by having all staff work from home this Friday.
Of course, the crux of the matter is having the tools, technology and systems in place to make it work. If all staff do not have laptops, access to work servers and Wi-Fi for remote meetings, real productivity could become impossible. However, if proven to run smoothly, predictions are that these emergency measures could herald increased vigour behind new working patterns for the future.
So could adland continue to function – and serve clients – if all staff have to work from home?
Vice-chairman, Ogilvy
David Ogilvy never wrote anything in the office. "Too many distractions," he explained. And David actually had an office. With a door and that. If you want to understand this point, Google a paper by Paul Graham entitled Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule. It explains something very simple but very important: people who actually create things don't only need time in which to do it. They need long, continuous swathes of uninterrupted, discretionary time.
Isaac Newton did all his best work when forced to leave Cambridge because of a plague. George Harrison wrote Here Comes the Sun when he got sick of attending Apple Corp planning meetings and bunked off to Eric Clapton's house in the country.
In our business, the value is created by makers. But the pace is set by managers. I strongly suspect that, with reasonable use of technology, this business will be far more productive under conditions of enforced isolation. In fact, it will be working the way it would work naturally, were it not dominated by some of neediest and most obsessive extroverts on the planet.
Nadine Young
Managing director, Starcom
It depends on how long it goes on. If only a few weeks, adland would function just fine. We'd have extended time to devote to all the things we love about flexi-working: the headspace to think strategically or to work uninterrupted on complex projects. We might even find ourselves in a rhythm that untaps our most productive selves.
But if a "lockdown" does come, hopefully it won't last too long because, despite remote working technology having its benefits, it can't replace what's best about our industry: the brilliant work that happens when great people come together.
Sam Hawkey
Chief operating officer, Saatchi & Saatchi London
As the old adage says: in the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. While our industry often says it is looking at ways for people to work more flexibly and remotely, they rarely deliver on it. Not only that, but you can't originate, develop and deliver great ideas without one-to-one interaction, right? Maybe. But what a great opportunity to test the theory and maybe change the way we work going forward. What it will shine a light on is who has the collaborative technologies in place, the talent who knows how to navigate it and the smart clients happy to find a different way. If not, if might be two weeks off, not two weeks WFH.
Claire Hynes
Chief executive, Mr President
For us, our relatively small size and agile structure is an advantage. We're built to move fast, be flexible and change – it's how we've always done things. Just recently, we rolled out flexible working for all staff. Our operations are cloud-based, so our team is already brilliant at being together in spirit, even when physically apart. We'll come together online for key meetings and trust each other to get the work done, as we always do. This is a very unsettling time for everyone, but let's support each other through it and hope the virus leaves us as quickly as it arrived.
Chief executive, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO
All that matters right now is that we take care of our people. Ultimately, the Covid-19 response is an accelerant to some of the issues we have been grappling with as an industry and, indeed, a modern world. The technological revolution promised to fundamentally change how we work. It didn't – because we constrained new methodologies with old habits. The modern mandate requires a new mindset. We must wholly equip people to work from anywhere and then we must measure contribution, not swipe data. Creativity doesn't live in buildings; it lives in humans and my humans can be brilliant anywhere.
Anna Panczyk
Chief executive, Grey London
Yes, adland will function, but expectations will need to shift should all industries be restricted on a global scale. We have always welcomed flexible working and have well-established protocols and tools in place to ensure efficiency. Working for global clients means that we're already structured to work seamlessly from different corners of the world and deliver brilliant creative, but it's the inevitable mandate to work in isolation that will pose obvious problems for shoots and subsequent delivery. However, we're in the business of creative thinking and problem-solving, and I don't doubt that we will adapt as an industry to get through this uniquely challenging chapter.
Marc Nohr
Group chief executive, Miroma Agencies; chairman, Fold7
Our primary concern is the safety of our people around the world. But as a client-oriented business, we also need to be thinking about our clients' businesses (as well as our own). Which means needing to be at our most agile, inventive and entrepreneurial when it comes to the challenges presented by the coronavirus.
On the safety topic – we're following World Health Organization and government guidance. And we're also testing different practical options, like doing a dry run working from home en masse and introducing ultra-flexible hours to help avoid the rush hour.
With home-working comes the imperative of talking regularly (not leaving it all to email and Slack). Human contact, even if remote, is essential. As well as looking after less experienced staff, who may feel especially disconnected and disrupted, and making the best use of technology to deliver work.
But there's something else worth paying attention to. Very soon, we could all be participating in a mass sociological experiment, which will help us understand which aspects of office life we really miss and which we can live without. We'll be watching to see how this plays out in terms of the energy, well-being and productivity of our teams.
There's the time spent commuting, waiting for the lift, booking a meeting room, waiting for a meeting to start, going to see a client, queuing for the coffee machine… all of which we can reclaim. But maybe, when it's all done, we'll find it's the moments of serendipity when we're commuting, waiting for the lift, queuing for the coffee machine, waiting for a colleague that'll we'll miss the most.
If we take care of our people, our clients and our communities, we might discover some positive consequences of working differently.
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$2.5bn worth of new business called into question
Watch: Adam & Eve/DDB takes sixth Advertising Agency of the Year crown
Holding companies look vulnerable amid coronavirus outbreak
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Unilever upped marketing spend to €7.27bn in 2019
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Sorry, Fam: 'Fast and Furious 9' Was Just Pushed Back a Whole Year to 2020
You might need a Corona (or six) to deal with this news, fam. Universal has pushed the release of Fast and Furious 9 (or whatever they end up calling it) back from 2019 to 2020 — meaning you'll now have to wait an extra, whole year to see the continuation of Dom & Co.'s epic automotive action soap opera. Although no reason for the delay was given, I have to assume Universal needs more time to come up with a title, and "9" isn't exactly the most generous number to work with. Fast 9 Furious? Fast 9? The 9 Lives of the Furious? It's kind of a Problem.
Per Variety, Universal has shifted the release of Fast and Furious 9 to April 10, 2020. That's almost a full year after its intended release date of April 19, 2019. The studio had previously set aside that April 2020 date for Trolls 2, which will now hit theaters a few months earlier on February 14, 2020 — because nothing says romance like digitally rendered versions of those weird naked dolls with colorful hair and matching gemstones embedded in their bellies. (Come to think of it, Trolls are basically like David Cronenberg's version of the Care Bears.)
Universal is also developing a Fast and Furious spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. That project arose in the wake of the highly-publicized beef between Johnson and Vin Diesel, and it seems as though some of their co-stars aren't too happy about it. Just last month, Tyrese Gibson posted — and deleted — a series of messages directed at Johnson, in which he essentially begged his co-star to remain in the core franchise and not move forward with the spinoff.
The spinoff is not yet in production, and it's unclear if Universal hopes to release it before the ninth Fast and Furious film, which has not yet secured a director.
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Today, after finishing with my bonsai trees for now, I got an hour or so to use and get a shot at hardening the blade.
I was so stressed from working almost non-stop the whole weekend and trying to manage to replant all my outdoor bonsai trees that I forgot to take pictures of the process and only could take pictures afterwards. So here is a picture of my setup. I was hardening two blades.
Slight contrast with Marcus's fully equipped workshop I guess :-). On the right is gas mini-forge where a future kitchen knife was heated up most of the time, on the left is a charcoal fire between fireclay bricks for the dagger and in the middle is quenching oil. This is the main reason why I cannot harden blades in bad weather – I have to go outside to do it.
And here are the blades after hardening and before tempering, covered in burned oil and, in the case of the dagger, slag and scale.
I am not all together sure It was a complete success. I am sure it was a 50% success. I definitively successfully hardened the kitchen knife. Which is slightly strange, because the kitchen knife is made from N690 steel that is allegedly difficult to harden in impromptu settings, whereas the dagger is simple carbon steel that should have been easy-peasy. The kitchen knife is completely without deformation, the dagger got a very slight bend that I was able to correct after tempering the blades in kitchen oven at 150°C for an hour. In fact, it was maybe too easy to correct. File skids on the kitchen blade like on glass, but it is possible to make a shallow bite with it into the dagger.
The problem might be that I tried to coat the dagger with an experimental anti-scaling solution that unfortunately did not work as intended. Back to the drawing board there I guess. So it might be that the blade is hardened, but a few tenths of a mm on the surface have slightly lowered carbon content due to decarburization. The N690 steel blade was not covered in the solution, but was covered with stainless steel foil that burned through towards the end.
I have no way to measure the hardness of the steel, and I am probably not going and try to re-harden the blade. I will proceed and we will see what comes out of it.
Hoping that the dagger did harden inside.
The black blades look somehow "Iron Age". In a good way.
I think it's a great contrast, frankly! You're making knives on minimal gear while I am still spending a huge amount of time experimenting with all the machinery I've got -- all that stuff equates to prep-work. In principle once I have it all dialed in I'll be able to do larger productions and more complex welding. But, maybe not!
A little bit of stuff on the outside of a blade during quench can make a big difference.
Very interesting Charly. I really like your "make do" approach.
I think Marcus's Badger Forge is great, but I too really appreciate the way you've done things, because you show that you can still really enjoy yourself, learn, and create beautiful blades on a tight budget. That's priceless.


I'm originally from Connecticut, where I grew up learning about art in my mother's studio and exploring architectural models at my father's firm. My early interest in painting, graphic design, and photography has been a strong foundation on which to build my understanding of light and contrast, while my initial architectural curiosity has developed into an awareness of form and space that underpins my sense of composition.
I continued my pursuit of the arts throughout my education, taking classes and workshops in various media, learning music performance and theory through band and choir, attending writing courses and literary lectures, participating in theatrical productions, and studying art history and the history of photography. I had learned to use my father's camera as a child, but it wasn't until high school that I seriously began to pursue photography. I soon learned that my background in visual, musical, and performing arts afforded me a valuable understanding of my fellow creatives' photographic needs.
I studied photography and cinema production in college, spending my summers assisting commercial and portrait photographers in order to learn professional lighting in a more hands-on environment. Near the end of my collegiate career, I spent a semester immersed in the culture of Southern France and was fortunate to form deep connections with the wonderful people that I met there. It is this same connection with my photographic subjects that inspires my photography today.
Continuing to build my photography career after college, I fully immersed myself in the worlds of architecture and architectural photography while employed as a Marketing Coordinator for firms in New York City and Connecticut. Working alongside numerous architects and photographers, I produced and directed photoshoots that faithfully reflected the architects' designs. These years taught me how best to fulfill the photographic and marketing needs of architecture, engineering, and exhibition design firms.
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Looking for a way to make a positive impact right here in our community?
Ozark UMC will have a workday at local mission partner the "Least of These" food pantry on Saturday, September 22, from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.
The Ozark UMC team will be cleaning and working on other needed projects at the new "Least of These" food pantry facility (1720 James River Road, Ozark).
For more information, please contact Patty Tapp at patty8318@totalhighspeed.com.


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Cher themed drag show coming to downtown Kamloops' Night Shift on Fifth
It's Cher! at Night Shift
Kristen Holliday - Jan 27, 2023 / 6:00 pm | Story: 408451
Photo: Kristen Holliday
A Cher themed drag show is coming to Night Shift on Fifth next week.
A Cher themed drag show is coming to Night Shift on Fifth.
According to a statement from production company Rebellious Unicorns, It's Cher! will feature performances from headliner Jaylene Tyme, billed as one of Canada's premiere celebrity impersonators, alongside Farrah Nuff and Ella Lamoureaux.
"All three artists have reached deep into their costume bags and have picked a variety of Cher-inspired song and dance numbers to perform for the show," the statement said.
The Cher tribute show will take place on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.
Tickets for the show are $25, and include cover charge for Night Shift on Fifth.
Tickets can be purchased through Rebellious Unicorn's website.
Merritt's Rockin' River Music Fest announces cancellation due to financial struggles
Cash flow cancels festival
Casey Richardson - Jan 27, 2023 / 5:35 pm | Story: 408659
Photo: Rockin' River Music Fest
Another BC music festival has announced that it is cancelling its event for 2023, facing financial struggles.
Rockin' River Music Fest in Merritt announced on social media Friday afternoon that they have been "met with a series of economic obstacles that we tried our best to overcome, but in the end, we have made the decision not to move forward with the festival in 2023."
They thanked the City of Merritt for their support, along with the artists, staff and fans who have come to the event.
"Many of whom have been loyal since year one," they wrote. "We hope to see you again soon."
Their announcement followed two West Coast music festivals stating their future was in doubt as soaring costs and uncertain ticket sales make it impossible to plan and stage their events.
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival announced last week it had decided to cancel its 2023 edition due to rising production costs.
In a recent update, however, the team is now re-thinking whether to cancel after several parties have offered possible solutions for funding and support.
And the Squamish Constellation Festival is working out whether to scrap this year's edition and posted that they are seeking investors to make the 2023 festival viable.
- With files from The Canadian Press
TRU partners with Shad Canada to offer program for high school students
New TRU program for youth
Josh Dawson - Jan 27, 2023 / 4:08 pm | Story: 408575
Photo: Contributed
Thompson Rivers University has partnered with Shad Canada to run a program which gives high school students from across Canada a unique, hands-on educational experience.
Shad Canada provides educational programs for high school students which have been offered on university campuses nationwide for decades. Shad has partnerships with 22 campuses and a network of more than 20,000 program graduates.
"This partnership between TRU and Shad Canada will create amazing opportunities for more than 40 exceptional students from across Canada to experience our part of the world and to learn more about the place that we call home," said Tom Dickinson, a retired TRU science dean who is working with Shad as the program's first director at the university.
In a news release, TRU announced it will be running Shad's STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) and entrepreneurship programs for students in grades 10 and 11 over a 27-day period this July.
The agreement between Shad and TRU is for five years, with the possibility of further extension.
As part of the program, Shad participants work in small groups to design a solution to real-world problems like food security, water management and improving population well being.
TRU will provide access to mentors, including graduate students and faculty.
"Our activities will focus on the different components of livability in today's world, but we also want to get (students) hands-on experience with the history of this area, which has such a profound influence on our current community," Dickinson said.
Greg Anderson, TRU dean of science, said the university is excited to join Shad to deliver a program which will "help youth take on social and economic challenges through the lens of STEAM."
"This is a fabulous opportunity for both the student participants to learn and grow, and our university to enhance its reputation as a world class educational institution delivering impactful learning opportunities," Anderson said.
At the end of the program in July, TRU will host a public open house for student participants to share their results with the community.
KFR says smoke may be visible from fuel reduction burns in Kenna Cartwright Park
Controlled burns in park
Kristen Holliday - Jan 27, 2023 / 12:07 pm | Story: 408594
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Residents can expect to see some smoke coming from Kenna Cartwright Park over the next couple of days as crews complete fuel reduction burns in the area.
According to a social media post from Kamloops Fire Rescue, the burns will take place on Friday and Saturday.
"Expect to see some smoke in the park — if all goes well, this will complete the project in the area," KFR said.
Crews will be conducting fuel reduction burns in Kenna Cartwright Park on Friday and Saturday, January 27th & 28th. Expect to see some smoke in the park- if all goes well, this will complete the project in this area. pic.twitter.com/G2Nj0J8bVI
— Kamloops Fire Rescue (@KamFire) January 27, 2023
Hwy 5 north of Kamloops reopened after earlier semi rollover
Hwy 5 reopened
Jon Manchester - Jan 27, 2023 / 11:43 am | Story: 408532
Photo: DriveBC
UPDATE: 11:43 a.m.
Highway 5 north of Kamloops has been reopened after an earlier vehicle incident involving a semi, according to DriveBC.
The route had been closed between Old Highway 5 and Station Road after a semi rollover.
While the rollover has been cleared and the highway reopened, DriveBC advised drivers it had received reports of another crash on Highway 5 north of Paul Lake Road.
? CLEAR - #BCHwy5 is OPEN at Old Hwy 5 north of #KamloopsBC after previously being closed due to a semi rollover. #HeffleyCreekBC
Reports of a separate vehicle incident on Hwy 5 north of Paul Lake Rd.
— DriveBC (@DriveBC) January 27, 2023
ORIGINAL: 7:47 a.m.
A vehicle incident has closed Highway 5 north of Kamloops.
DriveBC reports the route is closed in both directions between Old Highway 5 and Station Road.
The closure spans a 3.1-kilometre distance, however a detour is in place.
The nature of the incident and any injuries involved is not yet known.
Bones found near Peterson Creek last week identified as those of missing Kelowna man
Bones ID'd as missing man
Kristen Holliday - Jan 27, 2023 / 10:55 am | Story: 408574
Photo: RCMP
Kamloops RCMP say human bones found near Peterson Creek belong to Joseph Driscoll, who had been missing since November 2022.
Bones discovered last week near Peterson Creek have been identified as belonging to a Kelowna man who went missing in November, according to Kamloops police.
Joseph Driscoll, 42, was last seen in the Valleyview area on Nov. 12. His family had been travelling to Kamloops from Kelowna on a frequent basis to search the area for the missing man.
On Thursday, Jan. 19, police received a report of suspected human bones discovered east of Peterson Creek and west of Rose Hill, above the 700-block of East Trans-Canada Highway.
"In working with the BC Coroners Service and with the Driscoll family, police can now confirm the bones did in fact belong to Joseph, and that he is deceased," said Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Crystal Evelyn in a statement.
"We do not suspect criminality in his disappearance at this time. Our thoughts go out to the Driscoll family."
Evelyn said police and the BC Coroners Service continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the discovery of Driscoll's remains.
Anyone who may have come across any other bones in the area, or who has other information regarding the investigation, is asked to contact Kamloops RCMP.
Police said the Driscoll family has requested privacy.
Jury returns guilty verdict on lesser charge of manslaughter following motel murder trial
Jury finds attacker guilty
Tim Petruk - Jan 27, 2023 / 4:00 am | Story: 408455
Police parked outside the Acadian Inn on Columbia Street on Sept. 12, 2020, the day Daniel Myles was fatally stabbed nearby.
A Kamloops man charged with second-degree murder following a fatal stabbing outside a downtown motel was found guilty Thursday of the lesser included offence of manslaughter.
James Sanford's B.C. Supreme Court jury returned with a verdict at about 4 p.m. on Thursday, following a little more than two days of deliberations.
Sanford, 33, was charged after he stabbed 34-year-old Daniel Thomas Myles once in the back outside the Acadian Inn on Sept. 12, 2020. Myles died from his injuries.
During a two-week trial, jurors heard Sanford and Myles were involved in a protracted conflict dating back more than three months before the stabbing. Myles had threatened to kill Sanford more than once. He also smashed one of the windows at Sanford's suite in the Acadian Inn and sprayed bear spray inside.
Court heard Sanford believed Myles smashed his window again a few hours before the stabbing. He also believed Myles doused his patio with gasoline.
Sanford told police he was scared Sanford would set fire to his suite.
Defence lawyer Jay Michi urged jurors to acquit Sanford, telling them he was acting in self-defence.
Crown prosecutor Alison Buchanan, meanwhile, said Sanford armed himself and went out looking for Myles — showing he was acting with intent.
Lawyers will return to court on Feb. 6 to set a date for sentencing.
Sanford remains free on bail.
IH CEO says childcare, parking solutions eyed as morale boosters for RIH staff
Childcare eyed for RIH staff
Kristen Holliday - Jan 27, 2023 / 4:00 am | Story: 408429
IH CEO Susan Brown said the health authority is looking at securing childcare arrangements and improving parking to bolster staff morale at RIH.
The head of Interior Health says the health authority is looking at securing a childcare arrangement for healthcare workers at Royal Inland Hospital in a bid to improve staff morale.
Healthcare workers at the Kamloops hospital have shared stories in recent years about understaffing and unsupportive work environments leading to burnout.
IH CEO Susan Brown said Thursday the health authority is focusing on recruitment and retention efforts and is taking steps to alleviate "the little things" that can cause persistent stress.
Brown said part of this includes childcare.
"We are focusing in on a provider with trying to work on a deal with childcare, which would be as close proximity to the hospital as possible," she said.
"Those things are really important to people and it takes away worry for people when they're at work."
Brown said the health authority is also looking at parking solutions for healthcare workers.
"If you're having to park kilometres away after a 12-hour shift, that's just another burden," she said.
"So [we're] really focusing in on that parking, and we know that there'll be some additional parking stalls at the site in March."
According to Brown, ongoing renovations at the Royal Inland Hospital emergency department have created a difficult work environment for staff.
"It's a very challenging physical environment while we go through renovations, the team are doing tremendous work there, they're very dedicated," she said.
"And we know there's light at the end of the tunnel, but it's trying to provide them with any support we can in this interim state."
She said she spent a lot of time at the emergency department during her visit to Royal Inland Hospital on Thursday and is "taking away some thoughts on how we can help them with the physical environment there."
When it comes to hiring, Brown said IH is still working to recruit more healthcare workers to the Kamloops hospital, including graduating students.
She noted this can include letting prospective employees know what Kamloops can offer for their families, and incentivizing students who have worked in the community already to stay.
"We have worked tremendously with the ministry to help them understand the challenges here at Royal Inland, and they've been incredibly supportive of giving us a suite of tools to incentivize people to stay or to bring them to this community," Brown said.
"When people get offers, they'll be able to weigh them against other areas in the province but I would say that Royal Inland, our incentives here should be substantial compared to other areas at this point in time."
Brown said while there are still staffing vacancies to fill, there have been staff retained, and Royal Inland is seeing some healthcare workers return to the site who had previously left.
"[We] still have vacancies as you've noticed, but still continuing every effort to provide incentives for the staff here, and trying to address what is important to the staff," she said.
"They've heard they want to have better connection with our senior executive team. We were here two weeks ago, and the whole team did tours of the site. We heard from the mental health team here and in the community about some tremendous work they're doing and they're proud of. So trying to just have a presence at the site and support the staff."
Tk'emlups unveils Tesla supercharger stalls on Shuswap Road
Tk'emlups opens Tesla stalls
Tim Petruk - Jan 26, 2023 / 6:00 pm | Story: 408415
Photo: Tk'emlups te Secwepemc
Tk'emlups te Secwepemc's new eight-stall Tesla supercharger station is now open in the parking lot of the Petro Canada on Shuswap Road.
The band cut the ribbon on the project last weekend, though it has been operational since last month.
There are now three supercharger stations in the Kamloops area — the Tk'emlups Petro Canada, on Notre Dame Drive near the former Toys R Us and at the Kamloops Visitor Centre near Aberdeen Mall.
Other Tesla chargers are located throughout the city.
According to Tk'emlups te Secwepemc, more supercharger stalls will be built into the parking lot at the Swelaps Market grocery store, which is under construction across the street from the band's Petro Canada.
IH CEO says health authority would 'embrace' unvaccinated staff if mandate lifted
IH CEO talks vax mandates
IH CEO Susan Brown takes questions from reporters at Royal Inland Hospital on Thursday.
The head of Interior Health says the health authority would welcome back unvaccinated staff if the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers is lifted by the province.
The mayor for the City of Merritt recently called on the provincial government to abolish the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, with the city hospital facing frequent closures due to staffing issues.
Speaking with reporters during a visit to Royal Inland Hospital on Thursday, IH CEO Susan Brown said all health authorities, including Interior Health, lost staff when the public health order came forward.
In early 2022, Interior Health reported 895 employees — about 4 per cent of all IH staff — were fired for not getting the vaccine.
"The only message I could say, if that order changes, we would embrace any staff member to come back," Brown said.
Brown said the provincial public health office has "tried to follow the science" while determining its response to COVID-19, including the vaccine mandates.
"They've looked at countries that are maybe ahead of us in different ways, so I know Dr. Bonnie Henry has brought that science to the thinking in B.C.," Brown said.
"I would say there are so many researchers and scientists working on this. It would be hard to believe the science was that inaccurate."
Brown said she believes that same process will be followed when it comes to evaluating vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.
"I would say that if evidence and science shows that over time, that that's a safe thing to do. I would assume that we'd go there," Brown said, referring to lifting the mandates.
"If it's not safe, then I'm assuming as a province, we won't go there."
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix told the Vancouver Sun this week the province won't consider lifting the vaccine mandate.
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The Advantages of Blogging In Spreading News Online
Posted on August 21, 2021 December 11, 2021 by Daniella Leon
Web logs, also known as blogs for short, have been one of the most consumed types of content on the internet for years and it has been continually growing. That is why it is not a surprise that web logs like Newtoki News are popularly used to spread news online. Before the rise of social media, blogging has been the bread and butter for news organizations to boost their news consumption.
Below are some reasons why blogging is ideal for spreading news.
Pushing the envelope
Web logs are helping to expand the boundaries of experimental kinds of transaction journalism. Some 320 people donated over $14,000 and helped him launch Back-to-Iraq.com.
Influencing at the perimeters
We see sentiments first expressed on Web logs intumesce into the mainstream media days or weeks after the first surface within the blogosphere. Similarly, only too often the mainstream media tend to get rid of stories during a fast-paced news cycle, with even important news events deterioration their radar screen after 48 hours. Bloggers say, hold the phone, we're not through with this yet. Web logs were credited with helping to induce the mainstream fourth estate inquisitive about the racially insensitive remarks by Senator Trent Lott that led to his resignation as Senate legislator.
It's about much more: passion, genuineness, integrity." Web logs and a commitment to open dialogue instill trust within the relationship between the fourth estate and the audience.
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Web logs present a vehicle for expressing thoughts and reportage that doesn't always fit the contours of a conventional story. Television reviewers have begun blogging their experiences with network executives and Hollywood stars during the annual summer Television Critics Association press tour in la. More important, blogs offer a chance for readers to listen to a journalist's voice and personality. Newsroom-sanctioned Web logs promise to indicate journalists as folks with opinions, emotions, and private lives—and yes, with warts and foibles.
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When journalism becomes a process and not a static product, audiences discard their traditional role as passive consumers of stories and become empowered partners with a shared stake within the conclusion. Web logs offer a way to push that sort of interactivity.
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'Climate Change Is Supercharging Australian Bushfires' Say Fire Bosses
There is mounting anger in Australia over the Conservative government's failure to tackle the impending climate crisis in some quarters
by Maria Chiorando 14th November 2019 Updated 28th September 2020
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bushfires have been raging up and down Australia's east coast (Photo: Adobe. Do not use without permission)
Climate change is 'supercharging' bushfires in Australia, a group of ex-fire chiefs has warned.
The fires have been blazing along the east coast – killing at least four people, and affecting millions of others. Many animals have been killed by the flames, which have destroyed about 2.5 million acres of farmland and bush, exacerbated by dry conditions and high winds.
Now the ex-fire chiefs have challenged prime minister Scott Morrison over his lack of action over the issue.
'Unprecendented'
"I am fundamentally concerned about the impact and the damage coming from climate change," said former fire chief Lee Johnson.
"The word 'unprecedented' has been used a lot, but it's correct."
'City greenies'
The Australian Greens have also questioned the government's reaction to the fires this week – prompting outrage from deputy prime minister Michael McCormack.
He said: "We don't need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital cities greenies at this time, when (people) are trying to save their homes."
Bushfires and climate change
Scientists believe there is a link between bushfires and the climate breakdown, with Janet Stanley of the University of Melbourne saying: "Bushfires are not directly attributable to climate change.
"However, the fast-warming climate is making bushfires more frequent and intense.
"The mountain of irrefutable evidence linking global warming to bushfires makes the federal government's failure to act – or even talk about the problem – extremely hard to explain."
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Chorus receives Gender Tick, moves toward greater pay equity
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Chorus has been awarded the Gender Tick, becoming the first telecommunications firm in New Zealand to pass the assessment criteria required to receive the accreditation.
The Gender Tick is an accreditation for businesses that show commitment to providing a fair workplace for all employees regardless of gender.
"We are very pleased to award the Gender Tick to Chorus," says Dr Kaisa Wilson, director at Gender Tick.
"It is one of the NZX Top 50 companies and is the first telco to achieve Gender Tick certification in New Zealand," Wilson says.
Shaun Philp, Chorus' general manager of people and culture, says the company has introduced policies focussed on gender and pay equity and the development of female leadership.
Philp says Chorus is committed to closing its gender pay gap by 2022 and has reduced it from 17% in 2017 to 11.6% this year.
At equivalent levels in the organisation, there is no gap greater than 3.9%. Chorus will continue to publish progress made in its annual report.
"We are delighted to have been awarded the Gender Tick and couldn't have done it without the support of our board and executive team who truly believe in the importance of equality in the workplace," Philp says.
"Chorus is creating an environment where everyone has equal opportunity and feels they belong regardless of gender, sexuality, religion, race or background," he says.
"Equality is integral to culture and the Gender Tick is symbolic of that. We'll continue to champion diversity, inclusion and equality at Chorus," says Philp.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein is on the warpath again. Her target, once again, is certain guns, and their owners. She is not, as many politicians are, taking advantage of a bad situation (the school shooting on Friday): this is one of her lifelong major legislative efforts. She wrote the first Assault Weapons Ban and wants to bring it back, and has said so often over the years. She said it before this shooting, and is saying it again.
I do not doubt her honest zeal. I doubt her intelligence, knowledge, and ability to reason.
There is no correlation between the ban of the manufacture of these guns, and gun violence. None. Zero. And there's multiple reasons for that, but the most important one is that her law doesn't actually take away, or prevent the manufacture of, any dangerous weapons used in any crimes.
These weapons are called "assault weapons," but literally, they are just normal civilian rifles. Feinstein said on NewsHour, "I don't see how Americans can want, you know, a situation where a 20-year-old gets a gun from his mother, kills his mother, goes into a school, shoots his way through the glass, goes in and puts three to 11 bullets in 6-year-olds, 20 of them."
She continues: "... small children have a basic right to go to a school and feel safe. And these guns, because they kill large numbers of people very quickly, they aren't used for hunting, they aren't hunting weapons. You don't need them for defense. They are military-style weapons. And they don't belong in the streets of our cities or our towns."
Feinstein is, of course, being incredibly stupid and dishonest here. Of course no one "wants" that, but it is dishonest to imply that if I oppose banning those weapons then, therefore, I want that. And it is stupid or dishonest -- hard to tell which -- to imply that her proposed ban of certain firearms would do anything to prevent this. Even if it were true that these are not hunting weapons -- which is absolutely and uneuivocally false, as they are used very widely as hunting weapons -- the simple fact is that almost any hunting rifle could have been used to precisely the same effect as the one used in the school shooting.
It is completely indefensible to say the type of rifle had anything significant to do with this. Logic and reason and fact disallow that conclusion.
Whether or not it is a hunting weapon is pretty irrelevant, of course. Whether she thinks I "need" it for home defense is irrelevant. If I think I need it, that is all that is sufficient in a free society. I do not need to justify my personal decisions to anyone, least of all the government, in a free society. But again, she is completely wrong. I see hunters walking down the streets near my house with AR-15s. I was talking to a guy last night who uses one -- also chambered in .223, the same as used in the Connecticut shooting -- for hunting. They are excellent, versatile, accurate, efficient, economical, and reliable guns that are every bit as good for hunting as most hunting rifles, so much so that major manufacturers like Remington now make hunting rifles built on the AR-15 platform.
Now granted, the R-15 doesn't fall into the previous legal description of an assault rifle, because it doesn't have a folding stock or bayonet mount or flash suppressor or grenade launcher. It does have a pistol grip, but it needs two of those five features, and is legal under the Ban if it has only one. But here's the thing: Adam Lanza didn't use a flash suppressor or bayonet mount or grenade launcher or folding stock to kill all those people. And this R-15, which would likely remain legal under the proposed ban, could have done precisely the same amount of damage as the AR-15 he used.
So Feinstein is pushing a restriction on guns that literally does nothing to stop crime. And the stats bear this out: we have great numbers on what happened before the law, during the law, and after the law expired, and there's no data supporting the ban, as one would expect if they actually understood how it worked.
The AWB is not an affront to most gun owners because it disallows us from having guns that can do certain amounts of damage, but because it unreasonably disallows us the choice, putting up useless restrictions while preventing not a single death.
Moms and dads and politicians ignorantly shout to the sky that we need to ban these guns, but no one has put up an even remotely reasonable proposal that would have prevented this, or any other, shooting death.
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Remember Aero Airline, which is hitherto known for its sell of refreshment on board in Nigeria, as it turned a new leave entirely with its business class passengers now to enjoy Mexican Tortilla on air, reports NaijaAgroNet.
A tortilla, mostly refer to as flour tortilla differentiate itself from other uses of the word as a type of soft, thin flatbread made from finely ground wheat flour.
Originally derived from the corn tortilla which means a small cake in Spanish; made up of a bread of maize which predates the arrival of Europeans to the Americas' wheat flour tortilla, but made with unleavened, water based dough, pressed and cooked like corn tortillas.
Flour tortillas are known to be prepared with meat, mashed potatoes, cheese and other ingredients to make dishes which originated from northern Mexico.
Reports reaching NaijaAgroNet indicated that meals on the one-hour intercity flights across Nigeria have taken a new turn with Aero offering on its Business Class a new class of service.
These include tortilla wraps, a popular alternative to sandwiches. Quick, light and nutritious, the tortilla and wraps are surprisingly filling. Apparently, wraps of various kinds are some of the new offerings on the inflight menu of Aero Business.
Also, NaijaAgroNet gathered that there were on offer spicy chicken wraps, caesar chicken wraps as well as chicken and steak wrap.
In addition, NaijaAgroNet reports that these taste are very succulent and rich, even as Aero economy, comes as a meal pack actually better with varied pastries.
What is interesting is how Aero has experimented. It tried in the immediate period of its crisis to sell meals on-board. That did not fly with passengers particularly as there was no discernible improvement on the pre-sale offering to justify paying for inflight meals on the one-hour flight. Most passengers demurred.
Aero, NaijaAgroNet further gathered may have struck gold since last year on the Business Class with the meal wraps as well as the hot meals.
The airline, therefore advised passengers to look out for the croissant sandwich pockets or at best ask for any of the wraps when next they fly Aero Business class.


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With a Guatemala's history of social and political instability, the place of religion in public life is often fraught with tensions and ambiguities, especially with regard to the nature of morality. These issues tend to crop up when the practices of competing religious institutions exit the relatively circumscribed spaces of churches and enter into erstwhile public spaces. The following examples, drawn from my own fieldwork and that of two other ethnographers of Christianity in Guatemala, illustrate these tensions and suggest that greater attention to the sensory dimensions of public religiosity can shed light on the varying ways that religious actors imagine and engage with public spaces.
Processions and Passions
Semana Santa (Holy Week) is without a doubt the most elaborate and dramatic public display of Catholic faith in Guatemala. During that week, Catholics perform a cycle of procession in which santos —wooden or plaster images depicting the story of the Passion— wend their way through the streets of every city and town. For the occasion, streets along procession routes are closed to traffic so that they can be carpeted with dyed sawdust and flower petals carefully arranged into elaborate patterns. Men dressed in purple or white robes and head cloths, mimicking an imagined version of first-century Levantine clothing, bear the weight of the massive andas (biers) on which the santos stand, while others dressed as Roman legionnaires escort them. Funeral dirges set the lumbering pace of the procession—low brass instruments play minor-key melodies with sweeping movements while trumpets and clarinets crescendo above them before the whole piece comes precipitously crashing down in a clatter of drums and cymbals. As with many rituals in Guatemala, fireworks accompany the procession, announcing its movements with percussive blasts that leave small clouds of grey-black smoke high in the sky. The unmistakable scent of burnt gunpowder mingles with the equally distinct scent of incense. Participants alternate between carrying the santos and following the procession throughout the day, while spectators crowd the sidewalks to watch its movement. For all intents and purposes large portions of every city and town are immobilized that week. These events are spectacular.
Once, while watching a procession amble to a stop at a business owned by a prominent family in Cobán, Alta Verapaz, a group of five or six children crowded by me on the sidewalk. Drawn by the crowd and the sounds that drifted down the street, they jockeyed to get a better look at the spectacle. The bier featured an image of Jesus shouldering the cross on his way to the crucifixion. As the procession drew nearer, the details became clearer: the texture of the faux-wood cross, the sheen of Jesus's satin robe, the crown of thorns holding down a wig of chestnut hair that blew in the breeze, the painted blood trickling down his brow, the flowers at his feet, the gold and green signs with Biblical verses propped on each side of the mahogany bier, the silver censer swung by a man at the lead trailing wisps of rich smelling smoke, the music getting louder. The experience was enrapturing. And then suddenly a man in a crisp white dress shirt and black slacks ran out of the building behind us, scolding the kids and ushering them inside. "¡Métanse pa' dentro. ¡Apúrense! ¡Eso no es para ustedes!" ("Get inside! Hurry up! That isn't for you!") The building behind us was a Pentecostal church, and as the man shut its door behind him, it became clear that he had been worried about the effect of the Catholic idolatry on the children.
Though these public displays of Catholicism prompt some people to retreat into relatively more private spaces, from the Catholic perspective there is no question about the legitimacy of their own use of public spaces. Indeed the spatial arrangement of Latin American cities founded under colonial rule maximizes Catholicism's place as a central public institution. At the traditional heart of the city is an open plaza surrounded by buildings housing secular and religious authorities, including city hall, the palace of arms, the courthouse, and the Catholic Church. Easter processions are oriented towards the church on the central plaza, by starting or ending, or both, there. The fact that seats of sacred and secular authority share the plaza means that the latter are often co-opted in the performance of Catholic rituals; for example, the honor of first carrying the santos as they exit the church is borne by a number of city officials, judges, and others who work for the state.
By dramatizing the Passion in public spaces the processions link Guatemala's Catholics to Christianity's sacred history. Cobán's streets stand in for the road to Calvary, as participants ritually enact Jesus's suffering by carrying the santos. The ritual is meant to have a moral effect on participants, too. Carrying a santo is understood as an embodied technique for reflecting on the meaning of Christ's sacrifice, and of realizing, in both senses of the word, its importance in one's own spiritual life. As several Catholic scholars have suggested, it is through these embodied performances, in their full spatial, kinesthetic, and sensory dimensions, that believers come to apprehend and experience something of their religion's mysteries—a point which I take to be absolutely crucial for understanding the meaning of this particular ritual.
The performance of the Semana Santa processions and the demands they place on the city's population (e.g. closing streets, suspending regular commerce, marshaling resources for the event, etc.) are a way for the Catholic Church as an institutional body to establish its ascendancy over public space. It is clear, however, that the Church's authority in Latin America has never been absolute. The way that indigenous religious practices were incorporated into the feasts in the Church's liturgical calendar in the colonial era speaks to this fact. More recently, new patterns of urban growth have displaced the symbolic importance of the town square, and with it that of the Catholic Church. Although Catholicism has retained a privileged position in public life, it is by no means hegemonic, since Guatemala has one of the highest percentages of evangélicos (a category which includes members of mainline Protestant Christian denominations as well as those of non-Catholic Pentecostal/Charismatic churches) in Latin America. Evangélicos' practice of founding churches in repurposed storefronts, warehouses, and residences has effectively meant that competing religious centers have been set up in both central and peripheral urban areas in Guatemala. Additionally, a new kind of structure—the megachurch—has more directly challenged the distinctive place of Catholic churches in the religious geography of urban spaces.
The Stone Campaign
A very different kind of ritual than the Semana Santa processions, with a very different set of spatial and aesthetic relations, is described by Kevin O'Neill in his work with the Neo-Pentecostal megachurch El Shaddai in Guatemala City. In the winter of 2006, El Shaddai's congregation was engaged in a "covert spiritual warfare campaign," which sought to "take back the streets from crime, drugs and corruption [and was] intended to prepare the ground for [its head pastor's] political campaign [for the Guatemalan presidency]." The campaign involved a peculiar plan to have congregants place seventy-two spiritually charged objects around the city. Over the course of three weeks for seven hours a day, shifts of eight people prayed in tongues, channeling the power of God with one hand outstretched towards the sky and the other over a basket full of smooth black rocks. Once fully charged through the power of prayer, the stones were to be taken to strategic points around the city including the airport, zoo, the Supreme Court building, the national palace, Catholic churches, the headquarters of the tax agency, the national defense and polices offices, and the four cardinal points of the city. On New Year's Day the stones would be "detonated" like holy improvised explosive devices. In the words of one congregant, they would be "exploding the demonic strongholds that governed the city" and thus do away with "corruption. . .violence, muggings, [and] bad ideas." In short, they would transform the moral character of the city in one fell swoop.
In some regards one would be hard pressed to find a better example of a religious institution's engagement with the public sphere. The ritual sought to intervene in the socio-political climate of a dense urban area with a population of about 2.4 million people. It drew its authority to do so from an ideology that framed social problems including crime, poverty, and an ineffective governmental infrastructure in terms of moral purity and corruption; and sought to carry out its project using methods and techniques that were decidedly spiritual in nature. Yet, what I find most striking about the campaign is that even though its effects were meant to be concrete and publicly significant, the means through which they would be achieved were silent and invisible. Everyone involved in the campaign was an insider, and care was taken to keep the ritual objects out of sight of non-believers lest they try to sabotage the plan. One congregant, for example, describes how he "quietly tuck[ed] the stone in [a] potted plant near the front of the building… an inconspicuous enough place not to be touched or moved until it was time to detonate it." The transformative shockwaves unleashed from the stones, it would seem, were to be as invisible and silent as their deployment, and their effects would only be known by the decline of immoral behavior in the city.
In contrast to the Catholic processions, which are intended to be seen, heard, smelled, and felt by as many people as possible (even if some them would prefer not to), El Shaddai's ritual was hidden from all but those performing it. The general public would never witness its performance; they would only come to see its effects after the fact. Indeed, it is tempting to say that El Shaddai's congregants feel authorized to engage in "spiritual warfare" of this kind precisely because of their status as an invisible but righteous minority that is privy to divine power not available to the corrupt majority among whom they live. The critical problem for them, in fact, might be how to address a public that is imagined as resistant to receiving the divinely inspired, morally edifying message offered. Catholics performing Semana Santa processions do not entertain such concerns about inhabiting public spaces or addressing the city's inhabitants. Indeed, those who wish to resist the Catholic spectacle must effectively remove themselves to private interior spaces, and even then sounds may render the walls of those spaces permeable.
Sakapultek Radios
A third and final example highlights the problematics of public religiosity and private space. In the Western highlands of Guatemala, Sakapultek-Maya evangélicos practice a form of proselytizing that involves tuning their home radios to a religious station, turning the volume up, and facing the speaker away from the interior of the house in the hopes that the radio preacher's speech will reach un-saved ears (I thank Robin Shoaps for sharing the details of this case with me). Thus mass mediated speech is imagined as the catalyst for the salvation of religious "others" who, though theoretically unspecified, are in all likelihood one's Catholic neighbors. This proselytization strategy is advantageous because it avoids posing a direct challenge to another person's moral standings. Evangélicos can count on sound to leak across physical and social boundaries, but simultaneously claim that they are listening to the radio for their own benefit, and thus mitigate social tensions that would arise if they directly proselytized to their neighbors.
There are several interesting points of comparison to note here. As with El Shaddai's campaign, the moral authority upon which the Sakapultek-Maya evangélicos act seems to be based on their status as a pious, invisible, but in this case audible, minority that desires to transform the public around them. Because of their social position they have had to find a means for doing so that dissimulate their purpose—the stone becomes just another bit of debris on a city street, the sounds of the radio can be explained away as being meant for one's own consumption. As with the evangélico in Cobán worrying about the effects the Catholic processions on his congregation's children, the Sakapultek case indicates the belief that certain kinds of sensory stimuli can effectively transform a person's moral character, even if he or she comes into contact with them accidentally or involuntarily. This is evident in the Catholic processions, too, in so far as they are built around the proliferation of spectacular sensory symbolism including the sights of the santos, the weight felt by those carrying them, the sounds of dirges and fireworks, and the smells of flowers, incense, and gunpowder. I think that we might also interpret the deliberate channeling of divine power into a more restricted set of sensory stimuli as being meaningful for the other congregations. The practices of materializing divine power through glossolalic prayer into smooth black stones, and of amplifying radio preaching in the hopes that it will be (over-)heard across physical and metaphysical distances, hinge on an ideology that privileges the relationship between the oral/aural and the spiritual.
My aim here has been to show that attention to sensory techniques and their attendant discourses can help us understand how religions interface with the public sphere, both individually and in relation to each other. There is a consequential relationship between the aesthetic choices that these religious groups make and the ways that they conceive of the spaces they inhabit, the kinds of subjects that they seek to produce, and the publics they engage. As Steven Feld has noted, "as places make sense, senses make place", which is to say that there is a constitutive and constituting relationship between sensory experience and the social construction of space. In creating spaces for themselves in Guatemala, evangélicos and Catholics build sensoriums that orient their adherents' actions qua religious subjects. In a context in which tensions exist among multiple religious institutions vying to regulate the public sphere's moral tone, conflicts arise not just around, but precisely because of their differing aesthetic sensibilities and the sensory experiences of belonging these entail.
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Eric Hoenes del Pinal
Eric Hoenes del Pinal is a lecturer in the Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research focuses on the role of language and non-verbal communication in driving religious and social change in Guatemala.
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