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March 2013 | Jeremy Dibbell
Auction Report: February Recap / March Preview
First, let's get February's sales recapped, then we'll take a look at March.
- Bonhams sold Fine Books & Manuscripts on 17 February, in 300 lots (results). A 1619 Mercator atlas sold for $27,500, and an inscribed original "Peanuts" strip fetched $25,000. The copy of Bien's Audubon failed to sell.
- PBA Galleries sold Rare Books & Manuscripts on 18 February, in 225 lots (results). The top lot was a copy of the second volume (only) of the first book edition of The Federalist, which sold for $16,800. The collection of all sixteen printings of the first edition of the Alcoholic Anonymous Big Book and the first issue King James Bible didn't sell.
- At Bonhams on 18 February, Printed Books and Maps, in 436 lots (results). A collection of ~70 maps of Germany and Eastern Europe (mostly C16-18) made £16,875.
- Bloomsbury sold the Beatrix Potter Collection of Mark Ottignon on 27 February, in 307 lots (results). A first issue of The Tale of Peter Rabbit sold for £20,000.
- Also at Bloomsbury, on 28 February, Literature, Manuscripts & Modern First Editions, in 386 lots (results). The two lots of Hester Thrale Piozzi letters were the main attraction, selling for £26,000 and £15,000.
- On 28 February at PBA Galleries, Rare Golf Books, Clubs & Memorabilia from the collection of Georgia Dyer Burnett, in 391 lots (results). A copy of History of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society was the top lot, at $8,400.
And here's what's coming up for the rest of March:
- On 11 March, ALDE sells the Bibliothèque du Chateau de La Plagne, in 331 lots.
- PBA Galleries sells Fine Literature, Children's Books, &c. on 14 March, in 621 lots. A Hemingway family photo album and a first printer Tender is the Night with later jacket are each estimated at $10,000-15,000.
- There will be a Bibliophile sale at Bloomsbury on 14 March, in 579 lots.
- Bonhams sells Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs on 19 March, in 235 lots.
- Also at Bonhams, on 20 March, The Xi'an Incident: The Papers of Hyland "Bud" Lyon, in just eight lots.
- At Christie's London on 20 March, The Library of a Spanish Bibliophile, in 427 lots.
- Bloomsbury sells Travel, Topographical, Sporting and Natural History Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs on 21 March, in 366 lots.
- No preview yet for the PBA sale of Rare Americana and African American History on 28 March.


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ADHD may lead to higher risk of Parkinson's disease
September 15, 2018 - 16:53 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - An early onset form of Parkinson's disease may be more likely to develop in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, Newsweek reports.
A team of researchers from the University of Utah studied how the two conditions might be linked. Published in Nature Neuropsychopharmacology on Wednesday, the study found that the link is even more pronounced in patients who were treated with certain drugs, such as amphetamines and psychostimulants like Ritalin.
"In individuals who were diagnosed with ADHD and weren't treated with any stimulant, there was about a two and a half fold increased in the likelihood that they would develop Parkinson's or Parkinson's related disorders," Dr. Glen Hanson, a professor of pharmacology and vice dean of the University of Utah School of Dentistry, who led the study, said
"If they were treated with Ritalin or other amphetamines, that increased from 2.4 to 8.6-fold. There was this dramatic jump in the likelihood that they would develop a Parkinson's-like disorder."
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease whose symptoms include rigidity, tremors and difficulty walking, and then cognitive issues at later stages of the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Scientists haven't determined the exact causes of Parkinson's but believe it could be a combination of genetic and environmental factors. In the United States each year, about 50,000 people are diagnosed with the disease.
Newsweek. ADHD MAY LEAD TO INCREASED RISK OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Turkish philanthropist who tried to reach out to Armenia goes on trial
A group of leading Turkish businessmen, academics and artists, including Osman Kavala, will go on trial.
Bus carrying tourists overturns in Italy; Armenians among passengers
Citizens of Armenia, Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan were among the 60 travelers inside the bus that overturned not far from Siena.
Nicosia youth rally to mark Armenian Genocide anniversary
The group announced that it will commemorate the 104th anniversary of the Armenian genocide with a youth march on April 24 in Nicosia.
Mass casualties after Sri Lanka bombings in churches and hotels
The first explosion was reported in a church located in the capital. The other blasts followed within half an hour.
The Queen of Thieves
New York's first female crime boss
Scientists discover baldness solution "breakthrough"
Pashinyan invites Vietnam parliament speaker to Armenia
Brain imaging could help identify teens at risk of increasing alcohol use
Living in view of park "reduces for chocolate, alcohol cravings"
Overview: World
Lavrov: Armenia is Russia's key partner in South Caucasus Armenia is Russia's key partner in the South Caucasus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Azerbaijan opens fire towards Armenian border village Azerbaijani troops stationed in Nakhijevan opened fire towards the Armenian village of Yelpin on July 17 morning.

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40000000.img is a huge topo map that I don't turn on until I need it.
In my Map76cs all four maps showed up as individual maps and I can uncheck a box to turn each one on and off.
I just got an Oregon 450 yesterday.
I loaded all 4 custom maps using the exact same method I use on the Map76cs.
The problem is that in the map setup screen, it only shows one big map, not 4 maps.
All four are always on in the Oregon.
Below you can see a screenshot of just one custom amp, even though I loaded 4 at the same time.
How do you load the maps so that they all show up as individual maps on the map setup screen?


All of them, and many more, experienced crew will sail with and support the young skippers, but some of the entries are not new to the class at all. Like Daniel Cayard (USA), who was born among Star sailors with both his father, Paul, and his grandfather, Pelle Peterson (SWE), Star World Champions – his grandfather also won the Silver medal in Kiel in 1972 – or Robert O'Leary (IRL), normally crewing for his older brother Peter(twice at the Olympics for Ireland), will helm with Peter crewing, or American Joshua Revkin (USA), who won the Star Worlds in 2017 crewing for Eivind Melleby (NOR), will helm with Arthur Anosov (USA), and again Dutch skipper Thomas Allart (NED) sailing with Kilian Weise (GER) with whom he finished third at the Eastern European Championship in Trieste 2018. There is even an under 30 girl helming at the Junior Worlds, Chloe Holder, from San Francisco, who will take some time of her 420 junior program. Too bad the Star World Champion and SSL Finals 2018 winner, Jorge Zarif (BRA), won't be able to attend due to his Finn Olympic campaign commitment.
The regatta will officially begin tomorrow with the first warning signal at 12.00 (EST)on Biscayne Bay, two races per day are scheduled each day from Monday to Wednesday with no races starting later than 2.00 pm. The 2019 Junior Star World Championship features a comprehensive media plan that includes social media coverage on Facebook and Instagram. Daily highlight videos and photo albums will be distributed at the end of racing with each day's press release as well as published on social media.


Yes, there is some history to the Chrome Ribbon Campaign.
just have no business using a computer. What is SWB's scheme? "If you're not a computer geek, you don't have to be to use our service"
---something like that. Well, that's great, let THEM deal with the people that when you tell them to go to the desktop say "HUH? Well my computer's on the desk..."
Am I making myself clear? Anyway, after nearly every call we get from a customer, we tell the whole office, just what the problem was, and how simple it was to solve it, and well, just how stupid they were. Sometimes the whole office breaks out in laughter. Even billing calls are fun. "What's that? Your account has been suspended, and you don't know why?"
Just once, I'd like to ask them "Gee whiz, did you pay your bill?"
Mechanics do the same thing to those of us that need a tune-up and they charge us $200-$500 to do something that we could've done ourselves.
You don't need to be a computer geek. All you have to do, is, read, just a little. Maybe spend some time learning what your computer is, what it can and can't do, and how to fix it.
Not all that hard do you think?
yet, still be attractive to all the idiots, and as they flock to America On Hold, we WILL gain our bandwidth back.


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A Non-partisan Political Commentary for Those Who Think for Themselves
Do You Trust the Government?
With the Presidential election cycle, among others, starting to heat up, now would be a good to time to ask yourself, "do you trust the government?". As we all know, we're no longer a democratic Republic as originally intended by our Founding Fathers. Instead, we've become a defacto Oligarchy whereby government and the super-wealthy (along with their global corporations) work in tandem to the point where are interests are overlooked (or better, ignored) approximately 99% of time according to some surveys (at best, our interests are addressed only about 10% of the time). So, what do you think, how much faith do you have in government?
According to a recent Gallup Poll, the overwhelming majority of Americans have little or no faith in government regardless of which of the two corporate owned party holds sway. As of late January 2019, only 10% of those polled indicated that they had faith in government. 31% said they had a "fair amount" while 57% had little or no confidence whatsoever.
Let me tell you, in practically every other country on this planet those numbers would be a near guaranteed that a massive revolt or revolution was about to happen. These type of results would have most government leaders shopping around for a nice place to spend in exile somewhere.
In terms of domestic policy, 63% of the population believes government can't be trusted to get it right. Think about for a minute. 63% of Americans, regardless of party, ideology, gender, age, religion or whatever have no faith in Washington's ability to deal with the issues which directly affects us each and every day. Yet, for some mysterious reason we keep falling for their same old repackaged ideas and "solutions".
In looking specifically at the different branches of government, we find that as of the end of 2018 (the most recent result) there's not much difference. 59% of the American People have little or no confidence in Congress. Of course, the approval rating for Congress has been dismal for decades; sometimes barely making it out of single digits! As for the Judicial Branch, which includes not just the federal courts, but the "unSupreme" Court as well, it's much better. 68% actually trust either a lot or a fair amount the Judicial Courts.
To get a balance perspective, I checked with Pew Research to see what they showed. The poll I looked at was the most comprehensive on trust in government from 1958 through 2015. According to them, just 19% of citizens have any trust in government. Yikes! By comparison, they number was 80% in 1963 under President John Kennedy's Administration. My how things have changed.
Pew also broke the trust factor down by party. It found that just 26% of the Democrats and Republicans trust the federal government. Given that it's largely a problem of partisan making, it's a little surprising that the figure was so low. As an aside Independents distrust the government about 70% of the time (conservative leaning is about 71% while liberal leaning is roughly 67%).
If we look at other factors like age or race, we find that younger voters (mainly Millennials and Gen Z, both of which having shown support for socialism) trust the federal more than older voters---27% among 30 and under; 19% for those 31 to 49; and 15% for those 50 and over. So while the younger generation trusts government more, the numbers are far from stellar.
Among whites in general, a mind-boggling 84% either have little to no trust in Washington. Blacks distrust the federal government by a margin of 77% to 23%. For Hispanics (many of whom having come from totalitarian regimes) 69% have little or no faith in government. These are staggering numbers; the kind of which that indicate a fundamentally flawed societal foundation of the kind you would expect to see of a nation in a "death spiral". Historically speaking, few countries have been able to survive numbers like these and emerge unchanged to their core.
As an interesting aside, those with a post-graduate degree have any trust in the government about 23% of the time. That means among the academic professionals (professors, doctors, lawyers, etc) 76% have little or no faith in Washington. Those with a Bachelor or Masters degree have an even lower opinion. 80% of them keep their hand on their wallet when Washington comes knocking. Finally, individuals with a High School diploma, GED, or less trust government just 19% said they had any faith in the federal government.
Finally, I wanted to look at the approval rating of each of the institutions I mentioned starting with President Trump. As of the first two weeks of July 2019, Trump's approval rating stood at 44%. Obama's average for his first term was 49%, so despite all the "fake news" being manufactured by the corporate owned media, Trump isn't doing too bad (the average for all Presidents is 53%).
As for Congress, through the first two weeks of July 2019, their disapproval rating stood at 76%. Lastly, the Supreme Court. Rasmussen, which had the latest polling results of the high court, found that 60% of those surveyed approval of their decisions. Meanwhile, 40% said that the ideological balance was about right with 24% saying it's too liberal and 36% saying it was too conservative.
The poll also broke down the responses by political affiliation and race as well. It found that 77% of Republicans approved of the Supreme Court's decisions along with 57% of Democrats and 50% of Independents. 64% of whites agreed as well as 52% of Hispanics and 51% of blacks. Interestingly, the poll also revealed that Justice Ruth Ginsberg was the most popular member of the court while Justice Brett Kavanaugh had a higher name recognition, albeit only slightly.
Einstein once famously remarked that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Are the American People insane or are we just that easily duped by propaganda. Maybe we're just lazy. The US Office of Strategic Services made the following observation about Adolf Hitler their psychological profile of the Nazi leader, "His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it". You could apply that same description to describe how both of the political parties as well as the corporate media acts vis-à-vis it relationship with the American People. I guess someone was paying attention after all.
So what do you think? With numbers like these (which, by the way, have been long trending), why do we keep voting in the same crooks and charlatans time and again? We know they are lying just as we know they have no intention of representing us. We know or should know that it was our actions (or inactions as the case may be) has led to the loss of our Republic.
The American People should understand by now that we need term limits; that we must end political gerrymandering; that at least at the state level, we need voter ballot initiatives and referendums and that we, the taxpayers, should have the final say on rate, tax, and salaries increases. It's our money and Lord knows that politicians can't be trusted with money. We also must remove Citizens United and get unlimited corporate money out of politics as well as end the revolving door between government, Wall Street, and E Street where is the lair for lobbyists. By the way, 80% of voters oppose Citizens United.
Until we do these things, we will continue to become bystanders to a government which was supposed to represent you and I regardless of our political leanings. In the absence of action by us, the voters and citizens of this country, money will fill the void. Lastly, if you have any doubts, I encourage you to check out the links below. We have to act.
Politicians Don't Actually Care What Voters Want
Trust in Government
Trust in government: 1958 - 2015
Presidential Approval Ratings--Donald Trump
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?
0% Approve of Supreme Court Performance; Plurality Believes Ideological Balance About Right
Citizens United Poll: 80 Percent of Americans Oppose Supreme Court Decision
Posted by Paul Hosse at 8/03/2019 12:08:00 PM
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A new analysis identified hundreds of HIV organizations in scores of nations that could be affected.
Donald Trump's January 2017 reinstatement of the so-called Mexico City Policy, or "global gag rule," poses a threat to organizations around the world that are fighting the HIV epidemic, aidsmap reports.
The policy was first implemented by Ronald Reagan and then rescinded and reinstated by every subsequent Democratic and Republican president, respectively. It forbids U.S. aid to support organizations that provide information about or referrals to legal abortion or that provide abortion services.
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief's (PEPFAR) spending is subject to this policy. Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation sought to determine the scope of global organizations that receive PEPFAR money and that would be compromised by the global gag rule. They presented their findings at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam (AIDS 2018).
The researchers analyzed data from the United States Agency for International Development covering 2013 to 2015. They identified 470 foreign nongovernment organizations (NGOs) that receive $873 million from PEPFAR that would be affected by the global gag rule as well as 274 U.S. NGOs that receive $5.5 billion from the program.
PEPFAR supports programs in 61 nations, including 36 that have laws supporting abortion that conflict with the gag rule in at least one way.
It remains unclear at this time exactly how many foreign NGOs provide services that would subject them to the Mexico City Policy and prompt them to discontinue such efforts in order to become compliant.


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Deconstructing disability: Role perceptions/object of ridicule
In 1972, Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, wrote about what he called deviant role perceptions. These were ways in which persons with disability were sometimes perceived. The word "deviant" should be thought of in terms of differing from the norm (American Heritage dictionary). The word deviant itself can be very charged in its connotations. I thought it might be interesting to examine each of these role perceptions briefly and think about the applications for today. The following role perceptions are from Wolfensberger.
5. The deviant as an object of ridicule
Elsewhere in this blog, we have discussed the film Freaks. This film used sideshow performers as the actors. It was taking these individuals who for whatever reason chose this means of livelihood and put them on the big screen. The reaction of the "normal" people attending the side show in the film provide the true indication of how these persons were portrayed. One woman screams and faints. Hardly the response one would have when visiting other parts of the circus.
The "freak show," however, was not something new even in the 1930's. Wolfensberger speaks of medieval society, or the court of Montezuma as being populated with persons with characteristics different from the norm, with these same individuals "housed after the manner of a modern park z00" (p 23).
I can remember when imbecile, moron and idiot, terms I had come to laugh at when uttered by Moe, Larry or Curly, took on a different meaning. They were actually the labels for persons with mental retardation at the time the Three Stooges films were made. Now I still love the Three Stooges, but I tend to cringe when one calls another an imbecile as I consider the use of the term in the time that those films were made. It would be like me saying, "You profoundly mentally retarded person" to someone I was upset with. Wolfensberger speaks of the "moron" jokes that were prevalent around the time of the writing of Normalization. Take your most offensive racial slur and come up with a series of jokes using that term, and you get a feel for the inappropriateness of that term to those experiencing cognitive disability.
I can remember a time when I read a newspaper article to the group of cognitively disabled friends I meet with each Sunday. We call our group the "Light and Power Company." Anyway, the article spoke of how someone referred to a member of our group (that was why I was reading the article, to help them through the offensive nature of the article) as a "retard." I was struck by how the person to whom the label was referring, said, "They shouldn't use that kind of language in the newspaper."
So chide someone if they say someone else is retarded, or is a retard. That word takes a group of wonderful people and stigmatizes them indirectly. It supports negative aspects of the social construction of who persons with disability are.
Christian societal constructions of disability
Christian societal constructions of disability . . . what the heck could that mean? Well, it has to do with the way that the concept of disability has come to be understood within Christian environments.
What does it mean for a Christian family to have a child with a disability?
What do people think when they see this family with a disabled family member?
What have Christians come to understand is the reason a particular family has a family member with a disability?
What does it mean to a person to have a disabilty, whether they acquired it or were born with it?
Are there common perceptions which have been taught or at least sufficiently supported that they have become a part of the way Christians think about disabilty?
What is mental retardation, from a Christian perspective?
What societal constructions, that is, what commonly accepted notions accompany disability in Christian settings?
Why does a person have a disability?
Where did the disability come from?
What does disability imply about God?
Does God cause disability?
What does disability imply about people?
What is the responsibility of people in the etiology of disability?
What is the responsibility of people in the life of a person, either for a Christian or a non-Christian with a disability?
What does disability imply about the church?
What is the responsibility of the church in the life of a person, either for a Christian or a non-Christian with a disability?
Does the Bible have anything to say about disability?
The way these kinds questions would typically be answered by an average Christian would give an indication of what the Christian societal construction of disability is. the answers would indicate how Christians understand disabilty, and the degree to which a Christian perception might be similar or different from the perception of a non-Christian.
For example, in some societies, the societal construction of women is that they are below men. In some societies, the societal construction is that some ethnic groups are below others. People might give reasons for the societal constructions they have come to accept, overtly or otherwise. If I perceive persons of a different ethnicity as somehow less than myself, I provide a glimpse into my belief system, and depending upon the basis for my perceptions, I will be considered rational or irrational.
The Christian societal construction of disability provides a glimpse into the Christian belief system for those inside or outside of the faith, and the basis for Christian perceptions will also come under scrutiny to determine whether they are rational or not. I have experienced aspects of the Christian societal construction which leave me wanting and wondering. As a lifelong Christian, I see people with disability, people without disability and the Christian scriptures and want to find some consistency in it all. I want the practice of people to reflect the consistency of the scriptures, but somehow along the way, the Christian societal construction has strayed, almost into some form of fairytale fabrication. It has enough truth to feign believability, but little enough falacy that you could overlook it (if you didn't know any better) and begin the walk down a path leading to nonsense. Nonsense projected upon people with disability is what I often see in people, in churches, in Christians even. It is the Christian imagination gotten lost.
Wolfensberger on social integration
One of my favorite books on social integration, is "Normalization, social integration, and community sevices" edited by Robert Flynn and Kathleen Nitsch (1980). In an article by Wolfensberger (The definition of normalization: Update, problems, disagreements, and misunderstandings), he makes the following comments.
" . . . in the long run, no good can come of any program, including normalization, that is not based on intimate, positive one-to-one relationships between ordinary (unpaid) citizens and those who are handicapped and who would otherwise be devalued."
One on one contact is reminiscent of the idea of matching families in churches with persons with disability within churches in a life partner kind of arrangement.
"Indeed, there is little within the implication of the Wolfensberger definition of normalization that is not empirically supportable, and one would almost have to go to metaphysical systems for more broadly applicable concepts. One such system might be radical Christianity, which would subsume much of normalization, but which would also reject some(not many) of its implications."
Interesting that Wolfensberger suggests "radical Christianity." I am unsure what he means by the term radical, but I suspect the implication is something other than what is typically observed in churches.
In a second article in the same book (Research, empiricism, and the principle of normalization), Wolfensberger states
"Thus, when devalued people are served in valued settings, where familiar and valued methods are used, and together with other valued people (i.e., associated with positive images), their social desirability in the eyes of others (i.e., the potential assimilators) will be increased.
The findings also imply that the development of highly valued personal traits, such as courtesy, friendliness, generosity, hospitality, sociability, and attractive appearance, in devalued persons is extremely important in moving them toward acceptance by members of society and therefore toward the integration onto the community."
This is similar to Berger and Neuhaus' 1977 article, "To empower people: The role of mediating structures in public policy" who define the concept "mediating structures." Mediating structures being people who help a devalued group by introducing them to those who can help them, or by helping them themselves. This is the track the church should be on. By our involvement, our service, our work, we validate the lives of persons with disability and in some ways make it "cool" to serve them. The more we embrace this notion as the church the better for persons with disability and the church.
Broaden your mind, Malcolm, broaden your mind!
I was reading C.S. Lewis', Letters to Malcolm, chiefly on prayer and was struck with something Lewis wrote. Although the comment was made in reference to liturgy/worship, I thought about it in terms of disability. Lewis says,
"Broaden your mind, Malcolm, broaden your mind! It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and heaven will display far more variety than hell. "
Grace perfects nature. That is an interesting concept. More perfection needed, more grace dispensed. God shows grace to all people, sometimes I think me above all. God shows grace to perfect our nature. The church is God's agent on Earth. How does the church fare in dispensing grace for the perfection of nature? In order to include me, God needs to dispense grace. I accept His grace but he gives it.
There are those who need grace from the church. It is their role to receive it, however, it is the church's, our role, to dispense it such that we can perfect their nature insofar as we connect them with God, with the Body of Christ.
Later in the same letter, he writes,
"My grandfather, I'm told, used to say that he 'looked foward to having some very interesting conversations with St. Paul when he got to heaven.' Two clerical gentlemen talking at ease in a club! It never seemed to cross his mind that an ecnounter with St. Paul might be rather an overwhelming experience even for an Evangelical clergyman of good family. But when Dante saw the great apostles in heaven they affected him like mountains. There's lots to be said against devotions to saints; but at least they keep on reminding us that we are very small people compared with them. How much smaller before their Master."
I, like C.S. Lewis' grandfather, in my pride and vanity tend to have an inflated view of who I am, and therefore of my arrival in heaven. Do I actually think everything will stop and St. Paul will be looking for me to have a cup of coffee and discuss some fine point that I think I have a handle on. This is the same Saul who met Jesus and became Paul who has been with the Lord for a couple thousand years. I agree with Lewis in agreeing with Dante, that encountering the greats of the faith will be like encountering mountains, and how does one interact with a mountain.
Actually I think I might have more of a chance of coffee with my mentally handicapped friends, assuming the elect do such things like coffee in heaven. If God allows us to keep memories of life in heaven (some He couldn't I would suspect in order to make heaven truly blissful), but if He does, I would love to have a conversation reminiscent of what one finds in Keyes' Flowers for Algernon.
Deconstructing disability: Role perceptions/sick
4. The deviant as sick
Another role perception described by Wolfensberger, is the disabled person as "sick." They are a diseased organism. As stated previously, that is why a medical model was adopted to treat them. People with disability are patients, not students or residents. Decisions are often made by medical personnel. It is true that there are many areas in which medical personnel are the best to make a particular decision, however, often they are not.
I once had the opportunity to work with Dr. Richard Koch. Dr. Koch at that time, was the director of the national collaborative PKU study(phenylketonuria, an inborn error of metabolism which without treatment can result in severe mental retardation). Even in the midst of the powerful research he was doing which ultimately affected the lives of thousands of persons experiencing this genetic disorder, his perspective was that the medical profession had very little to offer most people with disability. They could provide a diagnosis most of the time, but beyond that, it was the job of educators to improve the lives of the persons with disability.
Educators have at times adopted this same perspective, referring to their services not as education, but as "educational therapy."
The take home lesson of this particular role perception is that people with cerebral palsy are not contagious and neither are persons with down syndrome. The appearance of having a cold has to do with aspects of their disabilities (although I guess they could at times also have a cold). People do not "suffer" from down syndrome in the same way that someone suffers from the flu.
Additonally, there isn't a medication, for persons with down syndrome or cerebral palsy or most other forms of disability that makes it go away.
The life experience as persons with down syndrome is their life experience. How could a person with down syndrome, a congenital genetic syndrome, know an existence other than that which they were born with? Those who are less disabled cognitively, might realize they are different, but I suspect such thoughts are atypical.
Personally, I can imagine what it might be like to be blind or regularly use a wheel chair, but I really don't know. I do have some experience of feeling different because of a lack of math ability. Such a problem is hardly comparable to blindness or other disabilities, however, it can be used for a point of discussion. I am amazed at people around who understand things which I don't, but I really don't know what it is like to understand those things. My son, for example, was doing advanced calculus as a high school senior. I don't know what it is like to have that level of math ability. I guess I can imagine being able to understand something that I don't understand, but that is about the limit for me. As a medical student, I could imagine being able to take in all of the information provided, commit it to memory, and then retrieve it as necessary to answer questions on a test or from an instructor. However, the fact that I flunked out of medical school indicates that I was in a place that was beyond my ability to do those things. I know that I largely only think of myself as different when the environment that I am in makes me feel that way (e.g. medical school). In other environments, I appear to have a level of understanding beyond many of those who are in the environment with me. In those environments, I have the ability to either accentuate my strengths in comparison to another's weaknesses, or attempt to integrate them with myself and myself with them. I have a notion of what it is like to be them and they have a notion of what it is like to be me, but we really don't know.
I can remember my father used to talk with frustration about a comment my grandmother would make when she was feeling depressed. She would say, "Nobody knows how I feel." My father, a person with severe diabetes, chafed at that statement, saying, "Well, nobody knows how I feel." Which really didn't help my grandmother.
I believe this is the same for most persons with cognitive disability. They don't know how I feel and I don't know how they feel.
One thing I have to get through my head, however, is that their disability is their life experience. They are not sick, they have a different life experience. If I treat them as if they are sick, I project on them something which they are not feeling and I illustrate my own ignorance about what their life experience actually is.
Deconstructing disability: Role perceptions/object of pity
3. The deviant as an object of pity
Once it was understood that persons with cognitive disability were not actually a menace, their perception largely changed from a menace to an object of pity. They needed to be placed in environments where they might be protected. A medical model replaced the educational model. So health became the primary concern, not education.
I can remember working at an intermediate care facility for kids with severe to profound mental retardation, where one of the children was given a new pair of tennis shoes. As with anyone, after a few hours, the student developed a blister on his heal, which then began to bleed a bit. Once this came to the attention of the nursing staff, all educational programming was canceled for that student indefinitely into the future till the blister healed. After all, you couldn't expect the poor child who has already experienced so much to have to endure going to school.
This experience illustrates this perception. There are few demands for growth, no "risks" are taken, and the person is infantilized. This is a demeaning position for one to be in. Later in the development of the disability movement, one of the rallying cries was that people need to be afforded the "dignity of risk." That is, that if someone is constantly protected, he will never grow. Risk is not ambraced in a cavalier fashion, like life is some extreme sport, however, dignity does come with risk. It's like the first time your parents gave you the car keys. Risk was involved but it was a calculated risk, an informed risk which moved you to a new level of responsibility. Imagine if you were 25 and were still waiting for your parents to trust you with the car keys. You would feel angry and humiliated at the paternalistic protective environment you would have to endure.
Christians often will, with the best intentions, make comments which illustrate this perspective. We see a person with disability acting in an inappropriate fashion, and someone says, "He can't help the way he is." Well, nine times out of ten he probably can help the way he is, and needs to be told to "cut it the heck out!" I remember a great scene in the movie "Almost an Angel" where a guy in a wheel chair, upset about the fact that he is disabled, acts obnoxioulsy in a bar. A character played by Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) tells him to quit acting like a jerk. The guy doesn't act right, so Paul Hogan sits in a chair, so he is at the guy's level, and punches him in the nose. That is so refreshing in that Hogan sees the man in the chair as a man, not as a disabled man, and treats him like a man.
Another comment sometimes made is that the person with disability is "suffering from his condition." Now there are people who actually suffer from disabling conditions, and I would in no way belittle that. However, to many persons with disability, their condition is the only experience they have in life, so they don't suffer from the loss of some capacity as a person who might have acquired a disability later in life would. If I project suffering on another person, I will either inappropriately see him as some sort of hero, or an object of pity. Neither of these characterizations apply to the average person born with a disability and do little to normalize them to the general society.
And then my personal unfavorite, "There but for the grace of God go I." So, the obvious conclusion is that you have experienced the grace of God, she didn't. The sentiment I understand. Yes, perhaps I should be grateful that my life experience is what it is. But I do little for the person with disability or myself for that matter in just celebrating that I am not disabled. A better reaction would be to celebrate the grace of God to you by doing something to help, befriend, support, or do something positive with the life you have received.
It is also interesting to contrast this statement, however, with the response which Paul relates when he asks God to take away his "thorn." Paul says that God relates to him that, "My grace is sufficient for you." If that is indeed the case, Paul might be able to say, "Here by the grace of God go I" as he carries his disability.
Somehow there is something which is not entirely negative about disability that we as people just don't appear to get.
Deconstructing disability: role perceptions/menace
In 1972, Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, wrote about what he called deviant role perceptions. These were ways in which persons with disability were sometimes perceived. The word "deviant" should be thought of in terms of differing from the norm (American Heritage dictionary). The word deviant itself can be very charged in its connotations. I thought it might be interesting to examine each of these role perceptions briefly and think about the applications for today. The following are from Wolfensberger.
2. The deviant as a menace
At the turn of the 18th to 19th century, a variety of things happened relative to persons with disability. The birth of institutions 50 years prior (a very positive thing at that time) caused parents to come forward with their children with disability so they might be served by these, "palaces . . . for the indigent and infirm, the chosen friends of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Edouard Seguin, 1854). People at the time began to wonder at all those who came forward. Then there was the urbanization of America where persons who were successful in an agrarian society were not in the cities. The IQ test identified even more with low IQ's. Although these people had always been in the community, they were somewhat hidden. However, this growth in the numbers of persons with disability appeard to be a real growth, an epidemic. At that time, the public was aroused to fear.
Persons with disability became associated with the social problems of the day (crime, degeneracy, poverty, etc.). and were vilified. The insitituions changed becoming places of segregation from the community, for protection of the community, and segregation of the sexes of those with disability, to stop their out of control reproduction.
It is important to note that there is often evil perceived in what is not understood. Evil has been perceived in persons with disability through the centuries. Earlier in this blog, we noted how the disciples of Christ asked who sinned that a particular child was born with disability. Jesus refutes this notion, however, sins of parents or of the disabled individuals themselves as the cause of disability is a wrong notion which lingers in the church today. If I feel that a person who is dysmorphic in appearance is that way as a result of sin/evil, to some degree I will treat that person as a menace.
The proof that these attitudes pervade can be seen when someone attempts to place a group home for adults with mental retardation in the community. Although these homes tend to be better maintained than the community average, fears of violence or sexual perversion on the part of the persons with mental retardation enrage the community and people attempt to keep the homes out. The thing that always amazes me, is how these perceptions of persons with disability as menace, are so close to the surface in society's thinking, and how quickly they are verbalized with little evidence to support them. People suspect that this is the way these different looking people are, and when someone mentions their irrational fear, they just pile on.
People truly do see evil in what they do not understand.
Freaks (continued)
Five years before the release of the movie "Freaks," Supreme Court Justice Holmes stated the following in relation to imposed sterilization of persons with severe disability.
"We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetents. It is better for the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover the cutting of Fallopian tubes . . .Three generations of idiots are enough"(May 2, 1927).
This is just an example of the ignorance and fear that swirled around persons with disability at that time. The thinking was that they were breeding almost uncontrollably, and the only way to stop their growth in numbers was through their sterilization. But needless to day, sterilization would have had little or no effect as most persons with disability are born to nondisabled parents.
The above quote, which I shared last night in a Cal Baptist class I am teaching, illustrates how "Freaks" took people who were misunderstood and feared (when in reality they were just people, and in some cases cogntiviely disabled people) and via a horror movie biased an already discriminatory public towards them. A modern equivalent does not come to mind. But you have a somewhat helpless group, many of whom cannot even understand the most basic of things occurring around themselves, who are hated and feared for totally irrational reasons, and a film maker plays on those stereotypical attitudes by portraying them in a manner which supports the destructive perceptions. Now I am sure that as a result of the film people didn't go out and kill masses of disabled people (at least not in the US, as part of the eugenic movement it did occur in Germany, although I suspect the film had little to do with that), but it surely supported the attitudes under the surface which were governing the inappropriate treatment of those persons which continued on for another 30 years. Vestiges of those attitudes persist today.
Deconstructing disability: role perceptions/subhuman animal
1. The deviant as sub-human animal
Considering the perceptions of persons wtih disability in the past, particularly during the time when institutionalization was prevalent, persons with severe disability appeared to be being perceived as animals. Some of the evidence included abuse resistant environments, easily cleaned environments (even to the point of being hosed down), extensive soundproofing, objects placed out of reach, and many locked areas. The types of foods served seemed to imply a lack of discrimination in those who were eating them. Similarly, rooms were without windows or windows were highly placed and those living in the institutions would be unable to see out of them.
People spoke of keeping clients, rather than interacting with people. We see protected nurses' stations reminescent of a scene out of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Residents are not expected to learn or develop appreciably. People also spoke of "garden variety mental retardation" or even referred to a person who was profoundly disabled as a "vegetable."
There was the abrogation of human emotions or sensibilities such as shame, or modesty. Even as late as the 1970's severe aversive stimulation was used as a "training" technique, in particular with people with autism. The implication was that such severe aversives were necessary as the trainees had no feeling of pain or sensations were diminished in comparison with non disabled persons.
How do these perceptions persist today? I honestly think that the situation has improved for persons with more mild disability. However, this perception lingers in the perceptions of persons with more severe types of disability. I have been in situations where a young woman with profound retardation had her diaper changed by an open door during the passing period at a junior high school (that is, untill I shouted at the teacher to "Shut the door!"). I have been in other situations were private student information was posted on the wall of the classroom, or the students' privacy was not protected in other ways. I have heard teachers speak about students in negative ways in front of the students because "he can't understand what I am saying anyway."
One of the first things one should do in visiting an environment populated with persons with disability is to look carefully at that environment. The appearance of the environment will provide an indication of what those who are managing the environment think of those who populate it. You will learn whether those in charge think those in the environment are safe or dangerous, are in control or out of control, should be treated according to their age, are learning or are being maintained, are sick or healthy, are people or otherwise.
I had been reading the reviews of the release to DVD of a film made in 1932 entitled Freaks. The critics have acclaimed the picture as one which places people with physical disabilities (mostly) in a positive light in comparison to the evil of those who are not disabled. The first day that the DVD was available I bought one, but hadn't had the opportunity to watch it till last evening.
My first impression is as a historical piece which provides insight into perceptions of persons with disability at that time in American history. Many of the stereotypes are supported in the film.
I must state that the film by design is a horror film, and the disabled actors (at least those with normal intelligence, there were some who were severely cognitively disabled), must have been aware of how they were being portrayed. In spite of this, additional material provided on the DVD indicates only one actor appears to have felt the experience was a positive one. The film's disabled actors were largely carnival side show "performers" so the opportunity to appear in a film was likely seen as a positive carreer move. Several of the "little people" or actors with short stature disabilities appeared in other films including "The Wizard of Oz" and apparently had relativly successful careers.
In the additional material, each of the actors in the film, disabled or otherwise, are discussed briefly. It is noteworthy to consider the careers of the disabled actors. To the DVD's credit, side show performance is treated with some degree of respect, but the comparison made between a singer with an unusually good voice and a person with a particularly aberrant disability is a stretch. Still each actor's career was discussed, including films and other work performed as well as some information about their personal life.
It is true that in the film itself, the beautiful trapeze artist and the handsome strong man are the evil characters who attempt to take advantage of one of the "disabled" members of the side show. In the climactic scene the side show performers are going after the two. The side show performers are portrayed as a disabled gang on an evil hunt. Even the character with no arms or legs attempts to move across the muddy ground with a knife in his mouth. But the thing which really disturbed me, was the poor severely mentally handicapped fellow (a "performer" who most of his working life wore a dress), who was also crawling across the muddy ground with a knife in his mouth. This idea of persons with mental and other disability as being evil was actually pervasive in the early 1900's and even today might cause someone who doesn't know better to pause and wonder if such people are really capable of such violence .
At the time of its release, the film took an already devalued group who were feared for no reason other then that they were misunderstood (largely on the basis of appearance), and puts afinger on this irrational fear, not to squelch it, but rather to inflame it. The film was probably deserving of censorship in received at the time of its release (in hindsight) although the issues causing it to receive the thorough examination it did, were probably unrelated to my concerns.
It provides some insight as a historical piece, but not for the average viewer. One wonders how much actual change has occured in the minds of the regular viewers of the 1930's as compared with those today. Many stereotypes still persist, 72 years later.
Deconstructing disability: New feet
As I was driving into work today, I heard a commercial for a place called "New feet." Apparently at New feet, you can have a model of your foot made, and they then design foot supports that you can put into your shoes that according to their claims cure just about any back or leg problem you might have (by the way, the supports can fit in any shoe!). Anyway it brought me back once again to the notion of prefall versus postfall in relation to disability. Did feet naturally degrade over time before the fall? To ask in another way, did feet degrade (fallen arches, etc,) as a result of the fall, or were they degradable prior to the fall. This is important as it once again gives an indication of how disability fits into the scheme of God's creative design. Would people have foot problems prior to the fall or did our feet undergo a change as a result of the fall.
It is a principle that creation is degrading, as the Bible says, it's groaning.
"For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but through Him subjecting it, on hope: that also the creation will be freed from the slavery of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that all the creation groans together and travails together until now. And not only so, but also we ourselves having the firstfruit of the Spirit, also we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly expecting adoption, the redemption of our body. . ." (Romans 8: 19-23). Clearly the degredation of all creation could include the degredation of our bodies in the form of genetic changes, engineered obsolesence, etc. The degredation of of our bodies could include aspects of physical degredation, the kinds of things which could use "new feet." Yet at the same time we must factor in the body's built in means of correcting the results of infection and injury. These processes might have been the gift of God to deal with bodily degredation and injury at the time of the fall, or might reflect the creation prior to the fall.
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I like to shop. I guess I come by it naturally, because when I was a kid I can remember my Mom letting me skip school to go on shopping trips with her. I also remember cutting a day of school during my Jr. year of high school to go to the grand opening of the mall where I lived. That one, my Mom didn't know about. However, when I showed up at home wearing a "Grand-opening-of-the-mall" T-shirt, I think she began to suspect something had gone on.
Yesterday, I did some "Back to School" shopping. I suppose actually, it should be called "Going to School" shopping because my son is just starting school this year. He did attend pre-school last year, but this is his first real year of required lists of school supplies, new school clothes and shoes, figuring out bus schedules, etc… By the way, I'm having a complete meltdown over this, so you can expect a tear stained blog entry after the first day of school.
Anyway, because I fancy myself a bit of a shopping aficionado, it's taken some getting used to for me to come to the realization, that sometimes when I leave JC Penney's, there will be nothing in the bag for me. Bummer. Yesterday I had a coupon for $10 off any purchase of $10 or more. I love that coupon! How can you get any better than that? So I ran to Penney's on my lunch hour to spend my money. The coupon expires on Saturday and I won't be home, so I figured I better get spending if I'm to do any saving.
I decided I better be a good mom and look at some clothes for my son. He needs some new things for school. I wandered to the kids department at the back of the store. As I passed through the girls section, there was an ocean of girl clothes. Rack upon rack of cute little jeans, any sort of shirt you could possibly want (some I'd love to have should they make a much larger size!), there were winter coats, sweatshirts, you name it, they had it. Then I entered the boys section… There were two racks of shirts and a small shelf with some jeans in completely picked over sizes. Yes, you heard me TWO racks of shirts. What is up with that?? My choices were Lightning McQueen T-shirts (we already have an abundance of those) or polo shirts in strange colors. How am I supposed to work with that?
If I'm expected to Back to School shop for the next 12 years, the Penney's in my town is going to have to make great strides in improving their boys department…either that or I'm going to have to cut work and take a shopping trip.
I love hearing things like that! Earlier this year, I got a shirt that I'd been eyeing for about the same as you paid for your sunglasses. And men say shopping isn't fun... I can't think of very many things more fun than getting one-up on the retail world! They certainly do it to us often enough. Happy Bargain Hunting!
I probably have a coupon sitting at home. What a bummer! Oh well, the disadvantages of travelling! (I can't believe there really are some).
Glad you are reading from the road! Too bad about your coupon!


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Design and Performance of an Extended-Surface Regenerator for a Gas-Turbine Plant
Sven Holm,
Sven Holm
Air Preheater Corporation, Wellsville, N. Y.
R. L. Lyerly
Trans. ASME. Oct 1952, 74(7): 1163-1166 (4 pages)
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The Nocturne Bistro
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The Nocturne Bistro was generously donated to us recently by Nick May, one of our spectacular servers and baristas.
I always get excited when books are donated to the Raven, and it's particularly exciting when it is a special book. This is one of those special books, as it was written by Nick's grandfather, Arden R. Strother.
A bit about the book, from the jacket blurb:
"The Nocturne Bistro tells the story of a magical place of enchantment and the people whose lives it touched. Foremost among them were the young lovers: Arden and Sprite. He was a violinist and she a ballerina, who could be among the greatest the world had ever known. But the place they sealed their love, the Nocturne Bistro, was in a small town, and ambition to share their art dictated that they move on, far beyond this tiny, remote place where they discovered their love. Could they survive apart?"
Arden Strother was born in Grand Rapids in 1933. He served in the Navy in the 1950s aboard the USS Palau. He was an inventor, and held several patents through Chrysler.
There was a sequel to The Nocturne Bistro in the works, though this is the only volume that was published before his passing in 2010.
"He references many classical musicians, some film." Nick said. "All the characters are mystical creatures and he had very detailed biographies for each one. It's unique to see; I wonder if it had been published later, if it would have found a fan base. My mom always told me he said 'Read something every day, learn something new.'"
We talked a bit about how writers are generally better at showing emotion through writing rather than verbalizing their feelings.
"Reading this book, his poems, and short stories really made me understand my grandpa more, that he really had a love for music, a sensitive artistic side, and was a hopeless romantic. It's special to see that side of someone, when if he hadn't written no one would have ever known."
Like his grandpa, Nick says that he continues to write when he can.
If you would like to take a look at The Nocturne Bistro for yourself, it currently resides on one of the featured shelves upstairs.
-Jessica, your Media Specialist
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And now for a new feature: Friday Fashion Facts. Sometimes they will be useful and interesting, and sometimes they will just be nerdy and/or trivial.
Tom Ford takes 4 hot baths a day!
Oh, he must use lots of lotions as well!
I know, right? Seems like it would be bad for your skin.
Just discovered your blog, and I'm loving it and your classy style!
And, as for Tom Ford, I must say I'm a little jealous. I have lots of nice smelling bath stuff, and my tub doesn't even plug properly!
How odd! My friend's doctor says most people are TOO CLEAN which can lead to skin problems and infections. I wonder how Tom Ford even has time for that! Each one must take half an hour, right? Plus lotioning and getting dressed again, that's all he must do all day!
Cosmia, you should read the whole article. He's pretty odd, but I was a little endeared when I read the part about him hating to talk on the phone. I am the same way!
TS, I'm pretty sure that's very true! Like those anti-bacterial body soaps are really bad for you, because they kill all the good bacteria that act as a barrier against the bad bacteria. Killing it all off can lead to yeast infections of the skin and other areas :/ I swear people would Lysol themselves if Lysol said it was healthy!


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Vinyl Theatre – New Machines (New Music)
Indie rock trio Vinyl Theatre (Keegan Calmes, Chris Senner and Nick Cesarz) have been working hard on their sophomore album, Origami. On 9th February, they released FOUR tracks from Origami: "30 Seconds", "New Machines", "My Fault", and "The Island".
It was honestly hard to choose one to focus on and share with you. But it's tough (okay, impossible) to go past a really raunchy bass and a good heavy beat, and that's what we found in "New Machines".. along with really grabbing melodies and pockets of awesomeness, such as the bridge where you can feel it build and build and build, before it drops into a sweeeeet breakdown (insert heart eyes emoji here) before the track comes to a strong close.
Aside from the musical wow factor, the song speaks about the theme of intelligence hitting its peak, unknown knowledge, where we go beyond seeming like we know all there is to know and technology's role in that. It's similar subject matter to where Avenged Sevenfold were going with The Stage. From the lyrics:
"Cause there's these infinite possibilities lost stars black holes
All a symphony unexplored
But you're just so sure you got it figured out"
We're looking forward to Origami when it's released on May 12! Check out "New Machines". 😍
Tags: Vinyl Theatre
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Grantchester 3: Interviews
"IT'S about guilt and conflict. The conflict between love and duty.
"It is shocking and it is dark but in a slightly different more personal way."
James Norton talking to me about series three of Grantchester which returns to ITV at 9pm this Sunday (April 23).
With challenges ahead for both vicar Sidney Chambers, played by James, and Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green).
The new series also seeing the return of Morven Christie as Amanda, Tessa Peake-Jones as Mrs Maguire, Al Weaver as Leonard Finch and Lorne Macfadyen as Phil Wilson.
Plus the arrival of Gary Beadle as Archdeacon Gabriel Atubo.
April 20, 2017 News
Grantchester: Interviews
"IT'S very important that Sidney has seen death. That he knows death.
"I remember my father said to me once:
'I don't suppose you've buried many of your friends?'
"Which is a very shocking sentence."
Author James Runcie, son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, talking about his creation Sidney Chambers.
Grantchester is a new six-part series starting on ITV at 9pm on Monday (October 6).
Starring James Norton as Sidney.
Totally transformed from his no doubt future award-winning role as psychopath Tommy Lee Royce in BBC1's Happy Valley.


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The video piece "100 grams blacks" refers to the Hebrew slang for sunflower seeds, a common snack in Israel sold in local kiosks. In this piece, Bartal slowly spins for a full hour, while cracking, eating and spitting the shells of 100 grams of sunflower seeds.
In so doing, Bartal creates a symbolic juxtaposition between the Levantine cultural context – the act of cracking the seeds –,and the poetic result of a perfect, materially comprised circle (made from the shells).
The act of spitting – Middle Eastern, vulgar, indecent – becomes a cultured act resulting in the creation of high, respectable and acceptable art.
The piece is in dialogue with aspects of sub-culture, abjection and proletarianism, and emphasizes connections between social opposites.
The act itself, of an hour spent solely cracking seeds, is a sort of Zen act – silent, repetitive and monotonous. The final result – a ring of shells – architecturally calls to mind a Zen garden. A spiritual act thus arises from vulgarity.


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HOME > Past issues > 2019 April 17 - 23 > Okinawa JCP protests against murder of Okinawan woman by US sailor
2019 April 17 - 23 [US FORCES]
Okinawa JCP protests against murder of Okinawan woman by US sailor
The Japanese Communist Party Okinawa Prefectural Committee on April 16 lodged with the Okinawa Defense Bureau a protest against a murder that occurred in Chatan Town three days earlier in which a U.S. sailor belonging to U.S. Marine Corps Camp Schwab committed suicide after killing an Okinawan woman.
The JCP demanded that the defense bureau revise the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement and urge the U.S. military to improve its guidelines for off-duty activities of U.S. military personnel. The bureau explained that it already requested the U.S. forces to tighten discipline and fully cooperate with police investigations, but refused to make positive responses to the JCP demand concerning off duty activity rules and the SOFA.
On the following day, JCP Dietmember Akamine Seiken took up this case at a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee meeting. In response to Akamine's question, a Foreign Affairs Ministry official said that the sailor in question was prohibited from having contact with the victim under a Military Protection Order from the commander.
MPOs are given to U.S. military personnel suspected of domestic violence or stalking.
Akamine also referred to the current guidelines in regard to off-duty activities of U.S. military personnel, which include night-time curfew. He noted that according to the guidelines, petty officers 3rd class and lower-ranking servicepersons are not allowed to go offbase between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. However, Akamine pointed out, the offender, who was a petty officer 3rd class, reportedly committed the crime between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. in the local town. He stated that the activity guidelines are full of loopholes and not effective in preventing U.S. military-related crimes. Akamine demanded a thorough investigation into the murder case and measures to prevent a recurrence.
> 1953 Japan-US secret deal condones 80% of crimes committed by US military personnel in Japan [August 9, 2018]
> Okinawans protest alleged murder of Japanese woman by ex-US marine [May 21, 2016]


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Toby Price has won the fourth stage of the 2018 Rally du Maroc with an impressive performance that saw him post a time seven minutes faster than the second-place finisher.
Stage Four of the rally completed the tough marathon stages, where riders camped overnight in a desert bivouac with no outside assistance from team mechanics. With the two stages totalling close to 600 kilometres, conservation of bikes and tyres was imperative for riders looking to successfully finish the two days and secure a strong result.
Over the course of the marathon stage riders were presented with a mixture of terrain including the fast, rocky tracks often seen during the rally so far and the soft sand dunes of the Sahara Desert. With his bike performing perfectly, Toby Price pushed hard on the rough, Moroccan ground. Setting off sixth, the Australian was able to catch and pass every rider ahead of him except for teammate Sunderland.
Following his Stage Three win, Sam Sunderland led the riders away from the bivouac this morning. The 2017 Dakar Rally Champion opened the stage from start-to-finish, never headed by the riders behind. Sunderland's finishing time placed him third, less than one-minute behind the stage runner-up.
Finishing fifth on the day's stage, Matthias Walkner now lies second in the provisional overall rally standings with one day left to race. Walkner rode a solid Stage Four, but a small error cost the Austrian rider a number of valuable minutes, ultimately dropping him down the order. Nevertheless, his fifth place start for Tuesday's final stage will be an advantage in the battle to secure a podium place.
KTM Factory Racing's Luciano Benavides continues to learn the skills required for cross-country rally racing. Despite feeling unwell right from the beginning of Stage Four, the young Argentinian made it safely to the finish in a solid 15th place. With one day of competition left, Benavides will aim for a strong end to his Rally du Maroc in preparation for the forthcoming Dakar Rally next January.
Tuesday's fifth and final stage of the Rally du Maroc, will see riders leave the Saharan town of Erfoud and head north, back to the city of Fes in northern Morocco. The long 457-kilometre stage will include two timed specials, one measuring 128 kilometres and a second at just 70 kilometres.


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