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November 8, 2022 NWSidebar
Back By Dinner: Finding Work-Life Balance in a Rural Law Firm
Dayton, Columbia County
Ryan Ortuno and Kim Boggs.
BY COLIN RIGLEY
If you ignore the weekly migraines, the debt, the stupidly high cost of living, and the fact that he barely saw his family, you could say that Ryan Ortuno had it all.
In many ways—or at least in the ways you learn in law school, Ortuno explained—he had found success. Except the reality, that most of his clients were insurance reps and business execs, fell short of the idealistic image Ortuno had of being a lawyer who helps real people.
Ortuno was heading toward the partner track at a major firm in Los Angeles, and the job allowed him to purchase a home in Southern California with his wife and three kids. He had to take out three loans to cover living expenses and repay law school tuition, though, which necessitated so many working hours that he barely saw his kids.
"If I was lucky, I'd maybe give the oldest one a bath and read a book to the second one," he said of his typical workdays.
In law school, Ortuno remembers being trained to strive for a specific type of success: Go to a major city, get a job at a large firm, make partner, partake in the luxuries that come with such a lifestyle. In that sense, he'd achieved the law school goal.
"Until you and your wife are going, 'What the heck are we doing? This is silly,'" he said.
So they did something else. Ortuno and his family said goodbye to their Orange County home and the frantic lifestyle of a big-firm lawyer. In 2017, they packed up and headed to his wife's old hometown of Dayton, Washington, a city of about 2,500 people in Columbia County, burrowed in the southeastern corner of the state about 30 minutes from Walla Walla.
It wasn't the image of success that had been painted for Ortuno in school, but it turned out to be exactly the right decision to experience a different type of success.
"The good thing here … most of the time when I'm completely underwater, I enjoy what I do," Ortuno said while sitting on the edge of a desk in his downtown Dayton office. "And I could not say that about my previous legal life."
As a long-standing piece of the Dayton community, Boggs Ortuno PLLC also functions as a title company with records dating back many decades.
Downtown Dayton oozes small-town charm. If you're coming from the west on Highway 12 you'll pass the fading illustration of the Jolly Green Giant, etched into the hillside as an homage to the now-defunct Green Giant cannery, which shut down in 2005. Keep driving until the highway transitions to Main Street and you'll see a hand-painted sign that reads, "I've got worms." Across the Touchet River, which bisects the city, you'll encounter a mélange of quintessential americana businesses like Dingle's Hardware and Suffield Furniture. Not far from the furniture store, sandwiched between a bakery and single-screen movie theater, is the office of Boggs Ortuno PLLC (formerly Nealey & Marinella).
On an unusually wet and windy spring morning, James Taylor's "Fire and Rain" was playing in the lobby as Ortuno emerged from his office wearing jeans and a blue-checkered shirt. One of the first things I learned about the firm is that they were involved in a lawsuit against the motel where I was staying. Given my experience checking into the place, I said I wasn't surprised, which Ortuno thought was funny as hell. The next thing I learned is that Ortuno likes to joke around. His experience before Dayton was plagued with stress and jockeying for an opportunity to rise through the ranks, but the Ortuno who now lives in Dayton has different, more grounded problems.
For example, when talking about the shortage of lawyers in rural areas like Dayton, he joked, "Every time a new person gets admitted to the bar around here [we] have a celebration."
If Ortuno has one regret, it's probably the relative lack of food options compared to LA. Throughout my visit, Ortuno repeatedly talked about a restaurant that a former Portland chef opened, and how much he mourned its loss when the restaurant went belly up during the pandemic.
Food options aside, Ortuno has gained far more than he's lost. To borrow the cliché: Ortuno found balance—except neither Ortuno nor his law partner in Dayton, Kim Boggs, like that word.
"Balance is an overused word, but the idea is we're striving for balance," Boggs said.
Boggs' path to the law and Dayton began at the University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University) School of Law. Her parents lived in Dayton and during her 2L year she became a Rule-9 Licensed Intern with Nealey & Marinella. After graduating, she made an exceedingly brief stop in the Bay Area before realizing it wasn't for her. Boggs quickly returned to Dayton to work at the firm full-time. Back then, it also served as a title company and the prosecutor's office.
"For years this office was the law firm for Dayton," Ortuno said.
Originally Nealey & Marinella, then Marinella & Boggs, the firm became Boggs Ortuno PLLC when Ortuno became partner in 2021. Boggs knew Ortuno through her husband, who is friends with Ortuno's father-in-law. Ortuno joined the firm in 2017 as an associate and, together with Boggs, they continue the tradition the firm was built upon: serving as lawyers who become generational staples for local families. In addition to the title business, the firm focuses on estate planning, real property, land use, and business law. And they've had little trouble staying busy.
"There's way more work than you would think," Ortuno said. "I was surprised. I was nervous when I came here, but I trusted Kim."
In addition to being a partner with the firm and title company, Boggs also serves as a district court judge for Columbia County. On the morning I visited, Boggs grabbed her things to head to court. She yelled to one of the firm's staff on her way out to remind them not to lock her out because she didn't have her keys, walked outside and braced against wind ripping down Main Street, and made a quick jaunt across the street to the courthouse.
The entrance of the Columbia County Courthouse opens into twin spiraling staircases of dark oak. The inside of the courtroom where Boggs was presiding has galleries on either side and a ceiling that looms high overhead. There was a bust of Abraham Lincoln behind the bench and a large grandfather clock to the side of the room. I scribbled on my notepad, "very Atticus Finch."
There was just one hearing that day, which Boggs said was unusual, as there had been an uptick in cases recently. When I asked if it was hard juggling the firm's usual legal clients, plus the title business, and also a part-time judicial role, she said, "It requires a lot of help, and I have good help."
In Dayton, good help really is hard to find.
Above: The combined Dayton City Hall and Fire Station. At left: The Columbia County Courthouse in Dayton.
"It's challenging running a business out here," Ortuno explained. Not challenging because of a lack of work. In fact, Boggs and Ortuno are awash in work, so much so that they have to turn some clients away. The problem is that there aren't enough lawyers in the area to handle the workload, so they can't refer out matters they can't handle. Additionally, it's difficult to find support staff. Boggs Ortuno PLLC recently lost its longtime paralegal, who was commuting about an hour each way from nearby Pasco. She was eventually lured to a job at an Amazon warehouse closer to her home.
"To lose that around here is like having your heart ripped out of you," Ortuno said.
Boggs and Ortuno explained that few new lawyers are willing to work in a small community like Dayton. "They're applying in Spokane, they're applying in Seattle, because that's what they're taught to do," Ortuno said.
The case for practicing law in Dayton requires nuance, which doesn't make for a good elevator pitch. Boggs and Ortuno can't offer more money than a large Seattle firm, but the cost of living in Dayton is significantly lower, and a lawyer can do quite well financially. They can't promise large, complex cases, but they can offer the chance to engage with real people and gain practical experience taking depositions and performing other substantive legal work that junior associates almost never get to perform in large firms. Most of all, they can promise a balanced lifestyle where there is plenty of work but also the ability to leave the office while it's still light outside. And Ortuno said he's paid off more law school debt in the last two years in Dayton than he did after a decade in Southern California.
Working in a rural area also means being more than a lawyer, Ortuno and Boggs said. People in Dayton view their lawyer more like a family doctor. Lawyers become de facto grief counselors and confidants for clients, who need empathy as much as legal advice.
"What we're doing here is serving our community," Boggs said. "We're trying to make money serving our community, but we're not winning the lottery … . My actual job is also a service act."
As if to prove the point that it's a small community, in the late afternoon, a staff member poked her head into Boggs' office with a cryptic message.
"We got some new wall art," she said.
By wall art, she meant that one of the local realtors, with whom Boggs and Ortuno regularly work through their title business, had as a joke printed a few pictures of himself and taped them to the wall out front, among the framed pictures of Boggs and Ortuno and testimonials from happy clients. The law partners laughed about it and shared stories about working with the realtor—in both a professional capacity and personally.
Finding success as a lawyer is about making choices, Ortuno said. His was a choice between having a life with family and friends and chasing a version of success that did not allow for such a life.
In California, Ortuno "never even saw my kids." Now in Dayton, he coaches his kids' sports teams—one of his kids plays little league with the grandson of the local bailiff. Outside of work, he and Boggs were planning for a murder mystery dinner with a few friends. Sometimes they spend late nights catching up on work; sometimes they head home early.
In Los Angeles, Ortuno barely got to see his kids when they were awake, but on that day in Dayton he got to leave the office to pick them up from school—and the sun was still out.
County seat and largest city: Dayton
The county is part of the Palouse Prairie, a major agricultural area, primarily producing wheat and legumes, on the Columbia Plateau in southeastern Washington.
Colin Rigley is a communications specialist with the WSBA. He has nearly 15 years of experience in journalism and communications. He can be reached at:
colinr@wsba.org
Free Career Center listings for law jobs in rural areas
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Who is the captain of the New Jersey Devils 2021?
2021-06-23 By Jason Wilson Blog
Who are the alternate captains of the NJ Devils?
Who are the alternate captains of the Bruins?
Who is the best player on the New Jersey Devils 2021?
Do the Rangers have a captain?
What happened to the New Jersey Devils?
What channel does the New Jersey Devils play on?
center Nico Hischier
The New Jersey Devils today named center Nico Hischier the 12th captain in team history.
Alternate captains
Alternate captain(s)
Dougie Hamilton 2021–22 D
Damon Severson 2020–21 D
Miles Wood 2020–21 LW
Nico Hischier
NJ Devils name Nico Hischier as the 12th captain in team history. Nico Hischier is finally back, and with a new title. The Devils center was named the new team captain on Saturday when he made his season debut.
Who is the best player on the New Jersey Devils?
1: Martin Brodeur Not only is he the greatest Devil, he could arguably considered the greatest goaltender to ever play the game. Brodeur officially started his career in New Jersey during the 1993-94 campaign.
Who is the Seattle Kraken captain?
Mark Giordano was named the first captain of the Seattle Kraken on Monday. The 38-year-old defenseman will be Seattle's on-ice leader when it begins its inaugural season at the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday (10 p.m. ET; ESPN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS).
Brad Marchand of course will retain the other 'A' and Patrice Bergeron is entering his second season as captain of the Boston Bruins after replacing longtime Bruins captain Zdeno Chara who departed via free agency prior to last season.
Pavel Zacha
New Jersey Devils @ NHL – 2020‑2021 Stats
per 60 Power-Play
PPG/60
1 Pavel Zacha 2.245
2 Jack Hughes 0.362
3 Yegor Sharangovich 2.218
The Rangers haven't had a captain since Ryan McDonagh was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in February 2018. Now we know that drought will continue for what could be a fourth full season.
Do the New Jersey Devils have a faceoff problem?
Win the First It hasn't been a problem this but the Devils have won seven of the last 11 games in New Jersey. … Jordan Staal ranks second in the NHL in faceoff win percentage (63.3 percent
How many championships have the New Jersey Devils won?
New Jersey Devils; New York Islanders; New York Rangers The highest level of competition the team had ever seen was Division I Pool A in the 2007 World Championships, where they went winless
Steve Cangialosi – play-by-play
Ken Daneyko – color commentator
Bryce Salvador – color commentator/studio analyst
Erika Wachter – TV studio host
Stan Fischler – TV studio analyst
The New Jersey Devils play most of their games on MSG Plus, a regional sports network. Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) are not common on streaming services, but when they do exist they are usually only available for an additional fee. Here are the live streaming services that carry MSG Plus †: Hulu Live. YouTube TV.
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Q: How can I prove that $u$ is defined for all $x \in \mathbb{R}$? Problem: Suppose $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is defined as follow: $f(t)=\frac{1}{1+t^4}-t^3$.
How can I prove that for all $y_0,y_1 \in \mathbb{R}$ the problem:
$$\begin{cases}
y''(x)=f(y(x))\\
y(0)=y_0 \\
y'(0)=y_1
\end{cases}$$
has a solution $y$ defined for all $x \in \mathbb{R}$?
Attempt: I tried to reduce to the following:
$$\begin{cases}
v'=f(y) \\
y'=v
\end{cases}$$
but I cannot go further because I would like to estimate $|f(y_1)-f(y_2)|$ but the term $t^3$ gives me problems.

A: We have
$$y^{\prime \prime}(x)y^\prime(x) = f(y(x)) y^\prime(x)$$ and therefore
$$\frac{1}{2}\left(y^\prime(x)\right)^2-\frac{1}{2}y_1^2 = \int_{y_0}^{y(x)}f(t) \ dt=\int_{y_0}^{y(x)}\left(\frac{1}{1+t^4}-t^3\right) \ dt. \text{(E)}$$
Suppose that the solution exists only on the right in a bounded interval $[0, a)$ with $a \gt 0$. The limit $\lim\limits_{x \to a^-} y(x)$ if it exists can't be finite as otherwise, $\lim\limits_{x \to a^-} y^\prime(x)$ would also exists according to the equation (E) and we could extend the solution $y$ beyond $a$. If $\lim\limits_{x \to a^-} y(x) \neq \pm \infty$, then it exists an increasing sequence $\{a_n\}$ converging to $a$ such that $\lim\limits_{x \to a^-} y^\prime(x) =\infty$. A contradiction with the equation (E) if $\{y(a_n)\}$ can also be chosen to be bounded. Therefore we have $\lim\limits_{x \to a^-} y(x) \in \{\infty, - \infty\}$.
We then get a contradiction with equation (E) making $x \to a^-$. Namely that the RHS moves towards $-\infty$ while the LHS is bounded below by $-\frac{1}{2}y_1^2 $.
Therefore the solution exists in $[0, \infty)$. We can have similar arguments to prove that the solution exists on the left in the interval $(-\infty,0]$ to get the desired conclusion.

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I went in expecting to be turned down for a loan. Mark was fantastic, along with everone else who helped me. I left with the perfect car, far above what I had expected, at a price I can afford. This is my 2nd Hyundai and I will never drive anything else. Amazing experience, Mark was informative, patient, kind and so helpful. I will recommend you guys to everyone!
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Q: I merged a branch with an out of date local master branch, and pushed. How can I undo? I have been working on a branch for a project that was 100+ commits ahead of master. A colleague pushed some changes to master in the past few days, and I never pulled the new changes onto my local environment.
In my haste to get my work deployed, I forgot to pull from origin/master first, and I merged my big branch with my local master and pushed to the remote repository.
Now all my colleague's changes have been erased, and I can't seem to find a way of reverting these changes.
What options do I have?

A: DON'T PANIC. It can all be restored.
Above all do not do any more pushes without first understanding exactly what they're doing. Perhaps wait until Monday for your colleagues to return.

You never should have been able to push without --force. Something else happened. Let's graph this out.

I have been working on a branch for a project that was 100+ commits ahead of master. A colleague pushed some changes to master in the past few days, and I never pulled the new changes onto my local environment.

Let's call it 3 commits ahead. Your local repo looks like this.
          [origin/master]
A - B - C [master]
         \
          D - E - F [feature]

And the remote looks like this.
A - B - C - G - H - I [master]

In my haste to get my work deployed, I forgot to pull from origin/master first, and I merged my big branch with my local master...

After that merge, your repo would look like this:
          [origin/master]
A - B - C --------- M [master]
         \         /
          D - E - F [feature]

...and pushed to the remote repository.

You could not have without --force because your local master and origin's master have diverged. It will become more clear if we look at your repo after a git fetch.
          G - H - I [origin/master]
         /
A - B - C --------- M [master]
         \         /
          D - E - F [feature]

Your master cannot be applied by simply adding commits to origin/master. git push will not work.
Something is missing here. It could be that...

*

*You used git push --force.

*Your colleague never pushed to master.

*???

Either way, here's how you fix it.

*

*Get your colleague to git push --force their master branch.

This restores their version of master.

*If you deleted your branch, recreate it just before the merge.

You'll need it to redo the merge. In the example above that would be git branch feature F.

*git fetch
This will update your idea of origin. origin/master should now be on your colleague's work.
$ git fetch

          G - H - I [origin/master]
         /
A - B - C --------- M [master]
         \         /
          D - E - F [feature]

*Checkout master and git reset --hard origin/master.

This will wipe out your local changes to master and restore it to origin/master, effectively undoing the merge. It simply moves your master label to where origin/master is.
$ git checkout master
$ git reset --hard origin/master

                      [origin/master]
A - B - C - G - H - I [master]
         \
          D - E - F [feature]

*Redo the merge.

$ git merge feature

                    [origin/master]
A - B - C - G - H - I - M [master]
         \             /
          D - E ----- F [feature]

*git push.

$ git push

                          [origin/master]
A - B - C - G - H - I - M [master]
         \             /
          D - E ----- F [feature]

Once this is all resolved, consider making master a protected branch which cannot be directly pushed to; all changes to master must go through an integration step such as a pull or merge request. GitLab and Github offer protected branches. Or it can be done with hooks.
This avoids goofs, and ensures master is a stable code base to work from.


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Explore Fort Wayne
By KEVIN LEININGER
from the archives of The News-Sentinel
If you're a baseball fan, you owe a tip of the cap to an early Fort Wayne industry with the unlikely name of the Jenney Electric Co. In June 1883 - about two years after the company was formed - Jenney Electric attached 17 electric arc lamps to the outfield fences of a Fort Wayne baseball field. Night baseball was born, and the game was apparently a big hit with Fort Wayne fans. The contest attracted an overflow crowd.
The rest of Jenney's brief history is not quite as colorful, but it is interesting nevertheless. James A. Jenney came to town in 1881 to manufacture an arc lamp and small electric dynamo he had invented. He set up shop in a cramped brick building at Wells and Superior street, but by 1886 his company had grown enough to move to a new site on Broadway near the tracks of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad.
Just two weeks after Jenney arrived in Fort Wayne, he attracted 2,000 people to a public display of his new arc lights. It was the first time the dim glare of electric lamps was seen in the Summit City. Jenney lamps were soon used commercially; the first being installed in the Home Billiard Parlor. Jenney's products were beginning to get rave reviews throughout the country.
In 1884 the company lighted the New Orleans World's Fair. A year later, Jenney lamps were the first ever to light the Statue of Liberty. An 1887 advertisement duly noted Jenney products had received top honors at the 1883 Great Southern Exposition in Louisville. The Jenney system, according to the advertisement, ``has no equal for simplicity, durability and strength of light.''
Despite the company's glowing reputation, however, it was in financial trouble by 1888. In that year, it was purchased by the Thomson-Houston Co. and renamed the Fort Wayne Electric Light Co. In December 1890, James J. Wood came to Fort Wayne to serve as the company's chief electrician. Wood had earlier invented a sparkfree dynamo and arc lamp, and after the company again reorganized in 1894 it marketed its products under the ``Wood Systems'' trademark. (Wood, by the way, invented the stationary and revolving fans in 1902.)
In January 1899, the Fort Wayne Electric Corp. (as it was then called) was officially absorbed by the General Electric Co., which itself had been born in 1892 through a merger of Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric. By 1916, Fort Wayne's electric works had become officially known as the General Electric Co., which still occupies some of the original Jenney buildings at its Broadway plant.
So, just like the Dudlo Manufacturing Co., Jenney Electric was a large, early Fort Wayne industry later consumed by another company still active in Fort Wayne today. Dudlo facilities are now occupied by Essex Wire. An interesting final note: Fort Wayne's first electric streetcar was developed in 1891 by Jenney chief engineer Marmaduke Slattery. Slattery's trolley was considered too expensive and unreliable, though, and the transit system returned to horses - for a year, at least. The city's streetcar system was finally electrified by Fort Wayne Electric in July 1892 at a cost of $100,000.
--Dec. 19, 1982
The Public Record
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Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29. března 1940 Essen – 1. listopadu 2011 Göttingen) byl německý publicista a významný zprostředkovatel současné literatury.

Studoval na univerzitě v Göttingenu. Byl vydavatelem časopisu TEXT+KRITIK, založeného roku 1963. Roku 1978 vydal slovník Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG), který je neustále doplňován. Roku 1983 také vydal Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLfG). Je čestným profesorem na univerzitě v Göttingenu. V letech 1995–2000 vydával 11svazkovou antologii německé literatury: Die deutsche Literatur seit 1945.

Další publikace

 Grundzüge der Literaturwissenschaft, 1999, spolu s Heinrichem Deteringem,

Reference

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Absolventi Univerzity v Göttingenu
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Q: Perl - Help reading xml string through CMD line The place I work has a piece of code we use when we need to interact with Perl.  Basically we call a function and it passes through a series of strings - via the command line - into Perl as an array.  This works fine for most things.
However I now need to pass through a string of XML data.  I normally extract the items from the array using the shift keyword.  However, because there are multiple spaces within the xml string then this does not work.
I have tried writing it as such:
while(shift)
{
   my $temp = shift;
   $animalXML = $animalXML.$temp;

}

But it doesn't really deal well with the xml tags.  For example, this section:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><ToggleExclusion   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

Is read and stored as :
version="1.0"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

Does anybody know how I can deal with this?
Thanks.

A: That's not a Perl problem, that's a command line quoting problem. If you quote the string properly, it'll come into the Perl script as a single ARGV item and you won't have to do any manipulation.

A: You are composing a single string and passing it to Run, which then apparently (which language and platform is this?) feeds it to a command line interpreter (cmd? /bin/sh?) that parses that command line, interprets it as the name and arguments of a command, and invokes the command with the arguments.
The command line interpreter has its own special characters with special meanings, such as <, so all occurrences of such characters will need to be properly escaped or quoted using whatever method the command line interpreter supports, in order to be passed through to the command unharmed.  Furthermore, the command line interpreter will have certain expectations of the character set being used that are probably not going to hold for input strings that are all UTF-16, or worse, a mixture of UTF-16 and something else.
If you can't change the Perl script: cut out the command line interpreter, by using a multi-argument variant of Run that directly invokes a command with arguments.
If you can change the Perl script: do as the pros do, and make it read its input from standard input instead of from command line arguments.
Another idea is not to mix XML with non-XML so you can use a proper XML library such as XML::LibXML to parse the input, which will take care of any further quoting/escaping issues for the XML contents.

A: Read the documentation for task.Run. The problem stems from there. You are looking for a way

*

*either to by-pass the shell

*or to quote arguments for the shell.


Planted over 35 years ago on the roof of the vineyard's underground cave, this classic French garden is a perfectly geometric maze of planter beds, intricately-cut hedges, shrubs, and spiraled trees. Surrounded by stunning vistas on all sides, it feels on top of the world.
But this enchanting oasis is just one chapter of the Newton Vineyard fairytale. The property actually has 11 gardens total, including a pagoda and an Asian red gate; unparalleled 360-degree views, and of course killer wines.
Founder Peter Newton had a fascinating history. Born and raised in England, he was a dispatcher in Palestine during WWII and an Oxford graduate. He came to the United States to work as a political journalist on Capitol Hill, before later making his fortune in San Francisco as a paper mogul.
In the 1960s, Newton began purchasing land in Napa Valley and planting grapes, selling some to none other than the Mondavis. He was the visionary behind the acclaimed Sterling Vineyards in Calistoga (the white-washed one with the gondola), before selling the property in 1976 to start a new winery atop Napa Valley's Spring Mountain.
Caves and an underground cellar were also dug into the hillsides and the winery itself was designed to blend into the surroundings. Leaving as small a footprint on nature as possible, one might argue it's been a little too well hidden all of these years. Newton's winemaking practices continue on this theme; the winery specializes in natural, unfiltered wines, allowing nature to do the talking. While natural wines can get a bad rap, Newton's premium, single-vineyard, mountain cabernets and chardonnays have proven that natural doesn't necessarily mean a compromise on quality.
"For us, unfiltered means respect for time and nature. In order to fashion our unfiltered wines, we need to acknowledge what nature gives us. It's our way of maintaining the integrity of our wines, from the vineyard to the bottle," says winemaker Alberto Bianchi.
It wasn't until 1982 that Newton finally had time to start creating his gardens. In his own words, gardening (also an addiction of his mother's), was in his English blood. From a Chinese garden to a rose garden, each one he planted is completely unique, but it's the magical French garden that has turned Newton Vineyard into one of Napa Valley's best kept secrets.


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Writer Wil Haygood Finds Hope in a New Generation
What the forgotten athletes of the acclaimed author's "Tigerland" have taught young people
Kids often gravitate toward heroes. It does not seem to matter if those heroes are mythical or mortal. They fly and soar; they go off on quests and return victorious, having defeated unimaginable odds. Growing up in Columbus, I watched Batman and Superman on television, but other heroes of mine had their feet on the ground. They were basketball and football players.
If you were a Black kid living in Columbus in the 1960s, and if you were wild about basketball, as I happened to be, you found your heroes among the East High Tigers, the all-Black school on the east side of town. I lived on the north side and had never laid eyes on East High, but I knew when East's basketball team came to play a game at the Fairgrounds Coliseum—within walking distance of my home—I just had to be there. The Tigers were Black pride and Black power and Black-is-beautiful avatars; they were the whole song.
I was 14 years old when the East High basketball season began in 1968. I squirmed in my fairgrounds seat watching the likes of Eddie Ratleff, Nick Conner, Dwight "Bo-Pete" Lamar and Roy Hickman take the court for their first game of that season. It was played at the Coliseum because East High's auditorium wasn't big enough to accommodate the East followers. East would go on to win the 1968-69 state basketball championship. They also would win the state baseball championship that year, the first all-Black baseball team in Ohio history to do so. The Tigers seemed better than any Friday-night-light football mania.
Years passed in my writing life, and after a book about Thurgood Marshall, I began to cast about for my next topic. That 1968–69 year of East High glory had long anchored inside of me. So I returned to Columbus in 2014 to do research and interview those players. It was a story that seemed lost, even forgotten. My book, "Tigerland: 1968–1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing," was published in 2018. Aside from the sports dimension, it also told the story of public school segregation, resilient schoolteachers and talent being exercised in unselfish ways.
Sharon Rab, founder of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, arranged for me to speak to groups of students from Dayton-area high schools. In Columbus, East High School students invited Big Walnut High students to join them for lunch and a discussion about "Tigerland." The students came from a variety of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
"Tigerland," they told me, made them want to talk about the quest for equality on American streets. It made them want to talk about the social justice movement begun by professional athletes who kneeled on the playing field in honor of the drive for equality. They talked about wanting to spend more time with other students from different racial backgrounds. They talked about the challenges that Black athletes continue to face today. And they talked about how a group of Black athletes from East High School had inspired them because they had done something remarkable all those years ago while staring down great odds. Their conversations left me with a feeling that there is hope for this world of ours.


The ongoing production of Angels & Demons, the prequel to Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code," was not granted permission by the diocese of Rome to film in two churches. The novel drew anger and protest from church leaders worldwide because of the idea that Jesus married and fathered children. The story likewise depicted the conservative Catholic Movement "Opus Dei" as a murderous cult.
The crew requested filming in the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria. It would have been the perfect setting for the story with the churches which would include paintings by Caravaggio, sculptures by Bernini and a chapel designed by Raphael.
According to Monsignor Fibbi of the diocese, "the film treats religious issues in a way that contrasts with common religious sentiment." Although they might be assisting in creating a work of art, it does not conform to their views. Nevertheless, he mentioned that the crew will not be banned from filming the exterior of the churches.
The second movie from Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series is was delayed due to the writer's strike in the US that started late last year. Now that the film has commenced production, screening is targeted by May 2009. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Langdon and the film is directed by Ron Howard.


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When a nosy neighbor becomes curious about the strange incidents that go on at the house next door, she sends her son over to investigate. He soon discovers a parallel universe within its walls and solves the mystery.
First Run - April 4, 1979
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This episode was my introduction to this radio series. I received it on WTVY-FM 95.5, Dothan, Alabama. I just happen to tune in and it was about half over, but I enjoy it and this program would turn me on to the world of radio drama.
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Great episode! This one is a fun listen in this day because it is reminiscent of various cults and other sects which have formed and fallen over the years. Excellent acting and well written story make for a very fun listening experience.
After listening to it, I immediately googled up "Hollow earth society" for a bit of amusement after this serious RMT. Kristoffer Tabori plays a young man who lives with his mother, who in turn reminds me of the "Mrs. Kravitz" (sic?) character from the old "Bewitched" TV series. (The lady who was always seeing strange things happening at the home of Darren and Samantha Stephens, and whose husband always shrugged off her hysterical reports.) Mom sees people go into the house of a "Mr. Bolivar" (played by John Beal) but never come out. Tabori's character decides to go visit and determine what's going on, and finds himself in Bolivar's den, where, to the former's surprise, there's a secret trapdoor going to a network of caves which lead to the land of..."Hollow earth"? And the woman, who's apparently had a rough life, is tortured and foolish enough to be ready to go down there (just like the others in Bolivar's "Hollow Earth" club have been doing) even though he who goes in never seems to come out again. Bolivar's convinced that it's just because it's such a grand place down there, according to explorers who've supposedly discovered it.
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There really is hollow earth people.
One of my favorite CBSRMT eps ever. Joan Shay is hilarious as Allan's nosey mom. This had me checking hollow earth, and it's interesting stuff.
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Calls for drinking age to be raised to 21
TVNZ / NZ Herald / TV3 News / Stuff February 07, 2011
Lobby group Family First is calling for the drinking age to be raised to 21 and has commissioned a report by a British expert to support its case. Family First plans to submit the report by British psychologist and biologist Dr Aric Sigman as part of their submission to the justice select committee, which is considering the Government's Alcohol Reform Bill. The committee is due to report back by May on the bill which covers a raft of law changes affecting the sale and supply of liquor. In Sigman's report for Family First, published this year, he said New Zealand would benefit from having the drinking age at 21 even if it was difficult to enforce. It would be ideal if a person did not drink until at least 24-and-a-half, as the brain did not fully develop until nearly 25, he said. "New medical evidence on accident probability, disease and brain development makes it absolutely clear that delaying the age at which teenagers and young people have easy access to alcohol will reduce the level of damage they and society suffer at the moment as well as contributing to their future health and well-being."
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/calls-drinking-age-raised-21-4014322
http://www.3news.co.nz/Calls-for-drinking-age-to-be-raised-to-21/tabid/423/articleID/197333/Default.aspx
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Ryanair launched flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg
Irish carrier may follow other budgets already blazing trail in Russian airspace. It is cleared for take off to Russia.
Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, looks set to follow other low-cost carriers into Russian airspace by launching flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg early next year.
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Russia's aviation authority has granted the Irish carrier permission to fly from Dublin to Russia beginning in March 2014, Bloomberg reports.
However, the airline was still in negotiations over which airports it could potentially use in Russia, Ryanair said.
"Ryanair has had discussions with a number of Russian airports, but they are purely exploratory at this time," the airline's spokesman, Robin Kiely, said in a brief statement.
Domodedovo Airport, to which Ryanair's competitor easyJet currently flies, was the most likely candidate for the Russian capital, The Moscow Times said.
Third low-cost carrier to Russia
Ryanair would be the third low-cost carrier to launch flights from Europe to Russia.
In March, easyJet began flying to Moscow from London and Manchester.
Hungarian carrier Wizz Air launched flights to the Russian capital in September.
Two Russian operators, the once-derided Aeroflot and Utair, also recently announced plans to launch budget subsidiaries flying within Russia.
'No open-skies policy'
At present, Ryanair is restricted to flying to Russia from one city only -- Dublin.
"This is a bilateral agreement between Ireland and Russia so it's no open-skies policy," Alexander Kazbegi, a transport analyst, told Bloomberg.
"If Ryanair wants to fly from other European locations, they need to approach governments there to do a deal with Russia."
The airline's entry into the budget Russian club will be taken as good news by travellers who have been discouraged from visiting the country by air fares that have long been relatively expensive.
Travellers to Russia will still have to contend with a famously headache inducing visa-application process, which can take up to a month, requires an invitation from a Russian "host" and includes fees of up to $450.
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Kings hold off Stamps' and advance to second round
The Dauphin Kings have advanced to the second round of the 2022 MJHL Playoffs.
While it looked like the Kings were poised to sweep this first round series over the Stampeders, the lowest ranked team in the postseason put up a big fight and managed to extend the series to six games but it was the Kings who came out on top in the end, taking a 4-2 series win.
Kings (1) vs Stampeders (4)
Game 1: Swan Valley (1) @ Dauphin (5)
Game 3: Dauphin (6) @ Swan Valley (1)
Game 5: Swan Valley (5) @ Dauphin (4) F/2OT
Game 6: Dauphin (3) @ Swan Valley (2) F/2OT
With the Kings in full control of the series at 3-0, the Stampeders were able to pick up a crucial win on home ice in game four on the heels of a big performance from a pair of hometown boys in Carter Cockburn and Trey Sauder who each scored a pair of goals. The Stamps' held a 4-2 lead in the second period of game five before the Kings turned on the offense and scored a pair of powerplay goals in the third to send the game into overtime. After a scoreless first overtime, Carter Cockburn stole the puck behind the net and scored on the wrap-around 32 seconds into double overtime to send the series back to Swan River. In game six, the Kings held a 2-1 lead until late in the third when Trey Sauder beat Carson Cherepak to extend the game into overtime for the second straight game. After another scoreless first overtime, Kaden Bryant skated down the right wing and fired a shot that squeaked through Kobe Grant. Bryant stuffed home the rebound behind Grant and lifted the Kings into round two.
The Kings are now set to meet the Winkler Flyers in round two.
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Maddie Ford named Academic All-American
Maddie Ford '21 named CoSIDA Academic All-American as swim teams rack up academic honors
Maddie Ford '21 has been named a CoSIDA Academic All-American.
Leading a women's swimming and diving program that finished the academic year with an impressive 3.91 team GPA, Maddie Ford '21 has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Division III Women's At-Large Team. The women's swimming standout, who is double majoring in computer science and art, was chosen to the second team.
With six members of the team registering a perfect 4.0 GPA, the Camels women's swimming program was recognized as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. To earn the distinction, a team needed to maintain a grade point average above a 3.0 during the 2020 spring semester; the Camels far surpassed that goal with their 3.91 team GPA.
In addition to the swimmers with 4.0 GPAs—which included every senior swimmer—12 student-athletes had a 3.9 or above and 14 were above a 3.8. Every Camel finished the semester with a 3.6 GPA or better.
Ford is the fourth women's swimmer in program history to earn CoSIDA Academic All-America recognition and one of just 16 women's swimmers in the country to receive the prestigious award this year. She has qualified for the NCAA Championships every year as a freestyle specialist, and was most recently recognized as a 2020 CSCAA All-American in the 200-yard freestyle and the 400 free. Ford was also a two-time NCAA All-American as a sophomore after finishing fifth in the 800 free relay, seventh in the 400 free relay, and helping to lead the Camels to a 15th-place standing nationally at the NCAA Championships that year. She is a six-time All-NESCAC honoree and a member of the school-record 400 and 800 free relay.
Outside of the pool, Ford is a scholar in the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, a Computer Science leader, and a member of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on campus. She was recently honored with the Sally Liebig '70 Prize, an award chosen by the Connecticut College Art Department. She is spending the summer working as an engineering intern at Beamable, a company that builds tools and a software development kit for game developers.
All six members of the women's swim team who qualified for the 2020 NCAA Division III Championships, including Ford, garnered CSCAA Scholar All-America recognition. The award recognizes students from all divisions who achieved a grade point average of a 3.50 or higher and were invited to compete at their respective national championship. In addition to Ford, the awardees include Vaughn Ammon '22, Brynn Campbell '21, Tiernan Shea '23, Anika Svoboda '23 and Andrea Higgins '21.
The women are just as impressive in the pool as they are in the classroom. The program has recorded four straight top-16 finishes at the NCAA Championships, and with six individual qualifiers for the annual national championship event in 2020, the team was poised to again finish in the top 16 before the event was canceled due to the pandemic.
With two student-athletes registering a perfect 4.0 GPA, the men's swimming and diving program was also recognized as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America.
To earn the distinction, a team needed to maintain a grade point average above a 3.0 during the 2020 spring semester; the Camel men finished with a 3.53 team GPA.
The men's team recently placed sixth at the 2020 NESCAC Championships. The program has recorded eight top-five finishes, including six top-four finishes, at the league's annual championship event over the last decade.
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they ignorance is bliss and and in my case i think that was very true becuase now i'm too scared to download anything, as everytime i start to download a torrent i begin to see connections from all sorts of scary sounding institutions... for example a few minutes ago i started to see connections from; "Sony Network Taiwan Limited" from 219.85.184.103 and "European Parliment" from 136.173.180.67 to my PC on my torrent port. Even one connection from my own PC to "Phillipine National Police" on 124.107.99.157 !!
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Overall good meal at restaurant. Food is served quick. Quiet on Sunday lunch. Leisure and relax lunch. Food is good. Will return again. 4 pax abt $85.
Restaurant was under staff . It took a few times to get their attention for my meal ordering . I ordered 2 sets but they left out my chawanmushi , I had to highlight it to them . My drinks didn't came , waitress retook my drink order 2nd time & asked what was my initial drink order . I ordered for Bonito salad , they served me a potato salad . I wanted a refill of my hot green tea , it took a long while again to get their attention as there wasn't enough servers . During my time in restaurant , i saw the table next to me raised their hands 5 times to get their attention for meal ordering , each time the server would tell them to hang on but none came back to them . The gentleman from that table had to eventually stand up , take the menu to the servers at the kitchen counter to placed his orders . Other than being under staff , mixed up & missing of my orders , food tasted great . Meats were succulent & tasty .
We ordered the misoton & kasan for mains, zenzai milk glutinous rice dumpling with vanilla ice cream & red beans for desert & soya bean milk for drink. The food quality is generally consistent with other visits. I like that they are now offering more rice options such as rice with vege for a healthier option. Service was slower but perhaps because it was peak timing.
I was quite disappointed with my experience at the Orchard Central outlet. I have been to other outlets before and service was excellent. The restaurant seemed quite quiet during lunch service yesterday. Still the kitchen forgot about my sashimi order. Only when I asked about it, towards the end of my meal, did the server check again. Even then, she brought out the wrong order of sashimi! Since it was already prepared, I accepted it. My set meal was brought out first. My lunch partner's meal was brought out almost 15 min later. It would have been nice for both meals to be served together so we could start eating together. By the time my lunch partner's meal arrived, my meal had turned cold. The quality of food was good. Sadly the dining experience was not up to par.
Good family option for an authentic Japanese meal at good value. A little hard getting service staff attention if you're sitting in a corner so be prepared to wait for service or work to get attention. Misoton is my all time favorite although food quality seems a tad better at Changi outlet.
This was my 3rd visit to this relatively small restaurant tucked away on the 8th level of quiet Orchard Central. However, I love the food including the portion sizes served. Good place to have a casual time with friends who are not loud/noisy as the place is really not big.


As part of Endangered Data Week, the Brooklyn Collection will host a panel discussion on the topic of Saving Local News on the Web. Brooklyn Public Library's Archivist Diana Bowers-Smith will lead the discussion, and panelists will include Brownstoner's Cate Corcoran and John Del Signore, former Editor-in-Chief of Gothamist.
The Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library's local history division, has been awarded a place in the Internet Archive's Community Webs program, a grant-funded initiative to help public libraries start or expand their web archiving activities. Through this initiative, the Brooklyn Collection is starting an archive of local Brooklyn web content. Local news is a focus of this effort.
As the keepers of the records of the original Brooklyn Daily Eagle, as well as materials from many other local news sources, the Brooklyn Collection is experienced at preserving these resources in various analog formats. Born-digital news content, however, is a new frontier for Brooklyn Public Library and many other institutions, and such content is also in far more imminent danger of being lost, as was made painfully clear with the recent demise of Gothamist and DNA Info.
Through the lens of the panelists' personal experiences in this arena, this panel will address the challenges of and strategies for preserving these rich sources of local information and history.


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The company has issued a public apology in an attempt to stem the flood of complaints.
In education, STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You can read more about STEM here.
Stem cells are simple biological cells that have the potential to develop into any particular kind of cell. They exist in early-stage embryos (embryonic stem cells), where they continually divide and become more specialized, developing into specific cells like skin cells or blood cells. They also exist after birth, at which point they are known as adult stem cells (even in children) and they repair the tissues in which they are found.
Stem dates back to before the year 900. The Old English noun stemn or stefn (by Middle English it had settled on stemn) was used to mean both 'the stem of a plant' and 'the trunk of a tree,' and figuratively for 'the end-post of a ship.' It can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic stamniz and the Proto-Indo-European root sta– 'to stand' or 'to make or be firm.' It is related to the Old Saxon stamm and the Old Norse stafn (stem of a ship), the Danish stamme and the Swedish stam (trunk of a tree), and the Old High German stam and German Stamm (stem), as well as many modern English words, including consist, constant, contrast, cost, destination, distance, ecstasy existence, insist, obstacle, post, press, resist, rest, stable, stage, stale, state, stay, steer, store and understand, and even country names like Pakistan and Afghanistan. The meanings 'thin part of a wineglass' and 'the unchanging part of a word' both appeared in the early 19th century. Stem cell is from the late 19th century. The nautical sense fell out of use in the noun, but remains in some expressions. The verb, meaning 'to hold back,' dates back to the early 15th century, as the Middle English stemmen. It is unrelated to the noun (although there was once a verb related to the nautical sense of the noun, which meant 'to sail in a certain course or make headway'). It came into English from a Scandinavian source, probably the Old Norse stemma (to stop, dam up or abate), and can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic stamjan and the Proto-Indo-European root stem (to strike against something). It is related to the Swedish stämma, Old Saxon stemmian, Middle Dutch stemon and German stemmen (to stop, resist or oppose), as well as the Lithuanian stumiu (to thrust or push). The verbal phrase stem from was first used in the US in the 1930s, and may have come from the noun stem, or from a borrowing of the German phrase stammen aus (stem from).


Veterinarian Passakorn Brikshavana examines he female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" in a cart after her surgery at Chulalongkorn University's veterinary faculty in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 6, 2017. Veterinarians operated Monday on "Bank," removing less than 1,000 coins from the endangered animal. Her indigestible diet was a result of many tourists seeking good fortune tossing coins into her pool over many years in the eastern town of Sri Racha.
Coins removed from the female green turtle nicknamed "Bank" are seen after her surgery at Chulalongkorn University's veterinary faculty in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 6, 2017. Veterinarians operated Monday on "Bank," removing less than 1,000 coins from the endangered animal. Her indigestible diet was a result of many tourists seeking good fortune tossing coins into her pool over many years in the eastern town of Sri Racha.
In this photo released by Chulalongkorn University's veterinary faculty, veterinarians prepare to operate the female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" at the veterinary faculty in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 6, 2017. Veterinarians operated on "Bank," removing less than 1,000 coins from the endangered animal. Her indigestible diet was a result of many tourists seeking good fortune tossing coins into her pool over many years in the eastern town of Sri Racha.
In this Friday, March 3, 2017 photo, people watch the female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" swim in a pool at Sea Turtle Conservation Center n Chonburi Province, Thailand. Veterinarians operated Monday, March 6, 2017, on "Bank," removing less than 1,000 coins from the endangered animal. Her indigestible diet was a result of many tourists seeking good fortune tossing coins into her pool over many years in the eastern town of Sri Racha.
In this Friday, March 3, 2017 photo, young visitors watch the female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" swim in a pool at Sea Turtle Conservation Center n Chonburi Province, Thailand. Veterinarians operated Monday, March 6, 2017, on "Bank," removing less than 1,000 coins from the endangered animal. Her indigestible diet was a result of many tourists seeking good fortune tossing coins into her pool over many years in the eastern town of Sri Racha.
The female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" is carried after her surgery at Chulalongkorn University's veterinary faculty in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 6, 2017. Veterinarians operated Monday on "Bank," removing less than 1,000 coins from the endangered animal. Her indigestible diet was a result of many tourists seeking good fortune tossing coins into her pool over many years in the eastern town of Sri Racha.


AFAIK, MSYSGit lacks key components for running configure scripts.
> stake is the ability of keeping a viable Windows port alive!
Yes, that's my concern too.
> always be binary distributions.
which require knowledge about the POSIX build *and* about Windows.
That's not much better than now.


The panel was recorded, edited, and posted online by the Platypus Affiliated Society (http://platypus1917.org/).
A short description of the panel, along with C. J. Pereira's talk, are posted below the jump.
Young people's heightened participation in politics in the run-up to the election of Barack Obama was crucial to his election and cannot be ignored. The burning post-election questions that the Left must answer are 1) what are the current politics of youth and student organizations and 2) how can the mobilization of youths and students be expanded and deepened? This panel aims to explore these questions by critically reflecting upon the politics of two of the largest and most successful Left student organizations of recent times: the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The panelists will engage these organizations by examining the various perspectives currently influencing them, and explore how these ideas affect their means and ends. This requires us to delve into their current politics, principles, and practice with relation to the history of Left student activism, as well as the history of the Left as a whole. We hope this panel will not only provide insight into the failures of the student Left, but also begin a serious discussion within these organizations and the Left at-large of what the revolutionary potential of such struggle can be.
Good afternoon. As Alex said in his introduction, I was an organizer with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) for two and a half years before graduating last May. I will probably resume working with USAS again as I start graduate school in Chicago in the fall. What I'd like to do today is to give a critical assessment of USAS' anti-ideological perspective. I will argue that it conceals a commitment to identity politics, and that that commitment is a limiting factor in USAS' ability to develop a progressive and critical labor politics.
Before I launch into this argument, I think it will be useful to briefly review USAS' history for those of you who may be less familiar with it. That history begins in the mid-1990's, when students across the country became increasingly aware that apparel produced by big corporations like Nike was being made in sweatshop conditions, predominantly (though not exclusively) in the third world. This prompted students to explore the conditions under which university-logoed apparel was being produced. Not surprisingly, conditions in the collegiate apparel industry were no better than those in the apparel industry overall.
Realizing that students were strategically positioned to bring about changes in this small but visible sector of the industry, in the summer of 1997 a group of interns at UNITE! formed the Sweat-Free Campus campaign. This campaign demanded that universities adopt Codes of Conduct to regulate the behavior of university apparel licensees. The next year, in 1998, USAS was formed primarily as a coordinating structure between independent student groups; it immediately launched a campaign to force universities to adopt Codes of Conduct. The Collegiate Licensing Company responded by proposing that universities adopt weak Codes of Conduct, causing an outcry from USAS chapters, and a wave of actions across campuses that resulted in stronger Codes of Conduct being adopted at some large universities. In response to these actions, the Fair Labor Association was formed by the Clinton administration; it was composed entirely of apparel corporations and non-labor NGOs. Since this organization would obviously act as a rubber stamp for factory owners and the apparel brands, USAS moved to aid the creation of an independent body, the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), whose purpose would be to investigate factories in violation of university Codes of Conduct.
Since then, weaknesses in the Code of Conduct system as originally conceived have prompted USAS to advocate a stronger system called the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP), whereby production of university apparel would be condensed into a few hundred factories, to be monitored by the WRC. These 'designated suppliers' would need to be in compliance with university Codes of Conduct before being allowed to produce for the collegiate apparel market; two additional demands are that factories respect workers' rights to organize and pay a living wage. In recent times, USAS has also broadened its focus to include the Killer Coke campaign, as well as a living wage campaign for campus service workers. Even more recently, a campaign supporting the Employee Free Choice Act was unveiled.
However, despite these recent developments, USAS remains primarily focused on the Sweat Free Campus campaign. This is why a major setback to the Designated Suppliers Program in the fall of 2007 has inaugurated a period of flux in USAS, in which many things are being questioned in terms of organization and goals. This, then, is the context in which I hope my critique can help USAS clarify its thinking and move forward.
One of the central ideas USAS advocates is the idea that ideas don't matter: campaigns that get the goods do. This position is stated explicitly in their "principles of unity," where it is written: "We do not impose a single ideological position, practice, or approach; rather, we aim to support one another in a spirit of respect for difference, shared purpose and hope." This is also a palpable feature of conferences, where any attempt to put forward issues of ideology or theory are routinely stonewalled. Furthermore, it is uncontroversial to say that USAS produces organizers who think that ideological debates are a waste of time, and that "organizing" is all that matters.
Let's get clear on what this means: it doesn't mean that USAS claims to have no principles at all. In fact, their "principles of unity" do contain political ideas. However, the point is that these ideas are stated so vaguely as to offer hardly any guidance; they amount to little more than Rorschach inkblots.
The trouble with the non-ideological or anti-ideological position is that it is incoherent. All social justice organizations are based on a certain set of ideas. Why? Well, presumably the reason for such an organization's existence is the existence of a certain social problem that the individuals who form and join that organization would like to see addressed. At the moment of the founding, and in the re-approval of the organizational structure, goals and campaigns that occurs at conventions, a certain analysis of the problem is implicitly if not explicitly endorsed. This analysis of the problem is informed by, or is itself, social theory—that is, a theory of how society, or a certain compartment thereof, works. Therefore, we see that social justice organizations presuppose ideas, at the very least in the sense that they presuppose a theoretical analysis the problems they are out to solve. Beyond this, it should be clear that they also presuppose ideas in the sense that their proposed solutions are based on a theoretical understanding of how the problems CAN be solved.
Since the anti-ideological perspective is not a position on which one can build an organization, what, then, is the specific perspective that actually informs USAS organizationally? The "principles of unity" may be a set of loosely-related, vague ideas, but their unifying theme is undoubtedly postmodern identity politics. Again, this commitment is explicitly stated: "We struggle against racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, and other forms of oppression within our society, within our organizations, and within ourselves." In a little bit we will see the seriousness with which USAS takes this claim organizationally.
You might be asking yourselves: so what? Why is postmodern identity politics problematic? To answer this, we have to look at the role this politics plays in the organization. This role could be characterized as: (1) a perspective informing the analysis of the causes of the problem of sweatshops; (2) a perspective on how to effectively organize ourselves to address the problem; and (3) some other thing entirely.
It is pretty clear that identity politics does not inform the analysis of the problem. Simply stated, the problem of sweatshops is not, primarily, a problem of discrimination on the basis of identity. It is, at the very least, a problem of inequality and exploitation, although I would argue it isn't even that. It is a phenomenon of the present stage of global capitalism: one that cannot be challenged without challenging the entire social structure. But leaving that aside, I think we could agree that sweatshops workers are not PRIMARILY victims of racism or sexism (even though most of them are in fact women of color); and they're certainly not victims of "classism," whatever that is. They are victims of neoliberal capitalism's drive to accumulate wealth by finding the cheapest possible supply of labor. In the apparel industry, the rise in sweatshop production in the third world was a direct result of the phasing out a protectionist system of quotas called the Multi Fiber Agreement throughout the 1990s and early 00's, following the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations.
So, if identity politics is not used by USAS as a way to get a clear understanding of the problem of sweatshops, then maybe its utility lies in helping students to think about how to organize themselves in order to effectively address said problem. I think this has a little bit more traction. If you're familiar with USAS, you no doubt know that integral to the organization's structure and to the structure of its conferences are what are called "anti-oppression training" and the "caucus system." I won't describe these at length because they are pretty much a staple of the Left today, but I think it is crucial to mention that about half the conference time at national conventions is devoted to anti-oppression and caucus time, and that the organizational structure includes representation of the Womyn/Gender Queer, Queer, People of Color and Working Class caucuses.
The justification for this structure that is given in the USAS' "principles of unity" is, as we saw, that each individual, and particularly each American college student, harbors racist, sexist, heterosexist, classist etc attitudes, and is privileged by the unfair outcomes these attitudes create in society. These attitudes, it is further believed, plague our organizing efforts. Presumably, by fighting the "-isms" in ourselves, we become better able to fight them in society.
Ok, so what does this all have to do with sweatshop workers hundreds of miles away, whose primary problems are extremely low wages, extremely long working hours, physical and verbal abuse, and awful working conditions? Remember, this is the specific problem USAS constituted itself to address. From the perspective of these workers, all that matters is that we act as effective "allies": namely, that we bend the arm of Nike by hitting them where it hurts (university licenses, market share, and public image) so that their efforts to organize are not undercut by capital flight. It is obvious that workers (and I have spoken with a few of them personally about this) are looking to us to play this specific role.
The question, then, is: Does anti-oppression make us any better at being good allies? I would argue that it doesn't. This is plain: the kinds of tactics USAS employs in order to pressure universities and corporations (phone and letter campaigns, mock actions, non-violent direct action, etc) are not more effective when they are executed by people with a guilty conscience about their privilege, than when they are executed by people who give no thought to this. The consciousness raised by anti-oppression simply does not enter into the strategizing for campaigns, etc. Diverse groups such as my own at Purdue University—where the majority of members were in fact women and people of color—are not necessarily more effective allies than groups such as Indiana University's, which was predominantly white and male during my period of involvement.
If it is unclear that anti-oppression makes us better allies to workers in the apparel industry, why is so much time spent on this stuff? Why hasn't it been rejected organizationally despite challenges to it at recent national conferences? This isn't very clear to me. I would suggest that perhaps the role of anti-oppression is to convince students that workers are more progressive than they themselves and their own organizations are—merely by virtue of being workers—and that therefore we ought to uncritically solidarize with their struggles. This attitude goes hand in hand with the idea that ideological debates are pointless, and that it is not our place to say—on the basis of some analysis or other of this society—what the appropriate responses ought to be.
This isn't to say that there is much to be criticized in the organizing efforts of third world sweatshop workers. There have been a couple of sporadic cases I have become aware of, in which corrupt unions were doing things that are at best counterproductive. (One that comes to mind was a union in Kenya in which the leadership, composed entirely of a certain ethnic group, systematically excluded people from another ethnic group from leadership positions). But closer to home, a recent case highlights the problematic of USAS's uncritical attitude.
Many of you may be aware of the unfolding fratricide between the UNITE! and HERE sides of UNITE! HERE, and of SEIU's ambition to absorb either one or both of the sides once the dust settles. This is a case were we might expect a student movement primarily concerned with labor issues—and not only that, but also a large recruitment ground for these very unions—to have an open discussion and maybe even formulate a position. Instead, a contact in USAS' inner circle informs me that a discussion of these issues was deliberately censured for over two weeks from the listservs of the organization, and that the top leadership are loath to take a side. In fact, only recently did an email with a few articles on the issue go out, the purpose of which seems to have been more to obfuscate than to educate.
I can't go into any more detail here, but I hope my comments have shown the way the anti-ideological attitude serves as a limiting factor to the potential USAS has to champion an independent and progressive labor politics. Instead of doing this, the organization's anti-ideological stance serves to maintain the unquestioned dominance of identity politics, to dubious ends as far the efficacy of the organization is concerned.
The recent period of flux in USAS, initiated by the DSP setback, is a good time for the organization to self-critique, and to cast away those forms of politics that do more to hinder its potential than to realize it. This question of potential should not be underestimated: consider that at least 5 former Purdue USAS organizers in the past 6 years are now with major unions. Hence, as a large recruitment ground for union organizers, USAS is also a potential source of renewal for an American labor movement that has been on the decline since the 1970s. But clearly, an uncritical workerist stance will not produce organizers capable of meeting this challenge.
If identity politics is abandoned, what is there to take its place? Well, prescribing is always harder than critiquing, of course, and I don't know that there is a politics ready-made at present that can be taken over. But I can at least say that part of the challenge will be for USAS to foment an organizational culture capable of producing such a politics by seriously engaging theoretical debates and formulating political positions. Central to this, in my view, will be the inclusion of discussions on the nature of capitalism, imperialism and neoliberalism into its conference agendas.


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