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Quatra Duo:
Painted Music
This album of works for flute and guitar by four heralded contemporary composers unlocks the imaginative, expressive power of these beloved instruments
PAINTED MUSIC, as its name suggests, utilizes these two instruments to imprint a gallery of images onto the canvas of the mind. Far from being limited by the duo format, here Quatra Duo seems to relish the challenge. The listener is left with a new sense of what can be accomplished with merely two instruments — in the hands of the right musicians, that is.
"The performances throughout are immaculate - LaQuatra and Stanley are first-rate players individually but have great ensemble and mutual understanding. A rewarding listen." - Gramophone
"It is a wonderful recording from start to finish. Every piece is strong and the playing is superb throughout." - Bryan Johanson, composer
"These are brilliant performances of this music. They have to be the finest flute/guitar duo on the planet!" - James McGuire, composer
Painted Music is available for purchase here:
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Jeff LaQuatra:
TWILIGHT: Guitar Music At The End Of The Century
In 2002, Iznaola Guitar Works released Jeff's debut solo recording entitled Twilight: Guitar Music at the End of the Century, which includes world-premiere recordings of works by Ricardo Iznaola, James McGuire and Štěpán Rak. In a review of Twilight, Classical Guitar Magazine's Steve Marsh stated, "his technical abilities [are] strong enough for him to control every nuance and phrase to perfection. This is a first-class debut album and a name to watch out for." In 2014, Twilight was included in Enrique Robichaud's publication Guitar's Top 100 – A Guide to Classical Guitar's Most Recorded Music.
Suite No. 2 - Prelude
Hommage Á Maurice Ravel - Lento E Molto Inspirato
Jaime Zenamon
Suite No. 1 - Vals Latino
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Michelle Stanley:
Chamber Music for Flute
Jeff was a performer on the 2007 release of Michelle Stanley's debut CD of chamber music for flute. He can be heard on works by James McGuire and Cherise Leiter.
Elegy (In Memory of Mary Gray)
Prelude (LaQuintra)
'Etude' from Musique de Salon by Ricardo Iznaola
'Prelude' from Musique de Salon by Ricardo Iznaola


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Stonehill Trio Earns Capital One Academic All-District Honors
LaRegina
Anderson, LaRegina, and Pierson recognized for academic and athletic excellence
EASTON, Mass. (June 3, 2014) – Three members of the Stonehill College women's track & field and cross country teams have earned Capital One Academic All-District honors, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Senior Elizabeth LaRegina (New Fairfield, Connecticut/New Fairfield), junior Emily Anderson (Manchester, Connecticut/Manchester), and sophomore Trisha Pierson (East Hanover, New Jersey/Hanover Park) collected Division II first team accolades for District 1, which is comprised of institutions from the Northeast-10 Conference, East Coast Conference, and the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. With their selections to the All-District team, LaRegina, Anderson, and Pierson are now eligible for the Capital One Academic All-America ballot which will be released later this month.
LaRegina, a senior psychology major, wrapped up her collegiate career by helping lead Stonehill to a rare sweep of the Northeast-10 Conference cross country, indoor, and outdoor track & field championships during the 2013-14 academic year. Stonehill captured its fifth consecutive NE-10 Cross Country Championship last October, before claiming the first indoor and outdoor track and field titles in program history in February and May, respectively.
LaRegina opened the 2013 cross country season by winning the Shacklette Invitational, and her 14th place finish in 23:13.8 at the East Region Championship was good enough to earn All-East Region accolades. LaRegina's success carried into the indoor track & field season, as she collected a team-leading three All-East Region awards before competing at the NCAA DII Indoor Championships with Stonehill's 4000-Meter Distance Medley Relay.
LaRegina earns Capital One Academic All-District honors for the second consecutive year. (PHOTO BY SportsPix)
LaRegina picked up two more All-East Region honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for posting top-5 regional performances in the 800-Meter Run and the 1500-Meter Run this outdoor season. She turned in a time of 2:15.75 in the 800 at the NE-10 Championships on May 3rd before placing fifth and clocking in at 4:34.38 in the 1500 at the New England Championships on May 10th. LaRegina finishes her career with six All-Region awards for indoor and outdoor track & field after collecting one during the 2012-13 indoor season and three this past indoor campaign.
The New Fairfield, Connecticut native recently graduated with a 3.84 cumulative grade point average and has been named to both the NE-10 and Athletic Director's Honor Rolls in each of her semesters at Stonehill. LaRegina is a five-time NE-10 Academic All-Conference performer, and a two-time Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award winner. The Lambda Epsilon Sigma and Psi Chi National Honor Society member received the St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal for having the highest cumulative GPA on the women's track & field team in 2013 and the women's cross country team in 2014. LaRegina has now earned Capital One Academic All-District honors for the second consecutive year following her selection in 2013.
Anderson earns Academic All-District honors for the first time. (PHOTO BY SportsPix)
Anderson joins LaRegina as an All-District honoree after posting one All-East Region performance each for indoor and outdoor track & field this year. The junior was recognized during the indoor season as part of Stonehill's NCAA Championship qualifying distance medley relay team, before registering a time of 4:37.36 in the 1500-Meter Run during the outdoor season, good for the third All-Region effort of her career. Anderson also earned All-NE-10 accolades in the 1500, as she finished second to LaRegina after crossing the finish line in 4:39.32.
Anderson played an important role in Stonehill's fifth consecutive NE-10 and East Region cross country championships last fall. Her best finish of the season came at the Codfish Bowl on September 28th, as she placed sixth with a time of 19:22. Anderson narrowly missed All-NE-10 honors after placing 22nd in 19:17, and she wrapped up her season by finishing 172nd in 23:20.3 at the NCAA Championships in Spokane, Washington.
Anderson, who has earned a 3.58 cumulative grade point average as an early childhood education major, has been named to five NE-10 Commissioner's Honor Rolls and four Athletic Director's Honor Rolls, and she was the recipient of a DII ADA Academic Achievement Award in 2012-13.
Pierson rounds out Stonehill's Capital One Academic All-District selections with the first nod of her career. The sophomore thrower has posted a 3.98 cumulative GPA as a criminology/accounting double major, and she has been named to both the NE-10 and Athletic Director's Honor Rolls in each of her three semesters. Pierson also earned the Saint Thomas Aquinas Medal earlier this spring for posting the highest GPA on the track & field team.
Pierson registered the first All-East Region performance of her career during the outdoor season, as her 131-foot, 11-inch discus throw at the Holy Cross Invitational on April 19th was good enough for top-5 in the region. Pierson set a school record and placed third in the shot put with her toss of 39 feet, 9.75 inches at the NE-10 Indoor Championships, before winning the discus throw at the NE-10 Outdoor Championships with her heave of 130 feet, three inches.
For the latest on Stonehill Athletics, follow the Skyhawks via social media on Twitter and Facebook. Fans can also download the Stonehill Skyhawks mobile app on iTunes and the Android Market.
June 3, 2014 Stonehill Trio Earns Capital One Academic All-District Honors
February 14, 2014 Stonehill Earns USTFCCCA All-Academic Team Award
January 31, 2014 LaRegina Earns NE-10 Academic All-Conference Honors
November 23, 2013 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: #20 Stonehill Places 25th In Spokane
November 21, 2013 #20 Stonehill Heads West For 14th Consecutive NCAA Championship
November 12, 2013 Borofski Named NE-10 Rookie of the Week
November 10, 2013 #22 Stonehill Claims Fifth Straight East Region Title
November 8, 2013 #22 Stonehill Has Sights Set On 5th Straight Regional Title
October 29, 2013 McAdams Tabbed As NE-10 Rookie of the Week
October 28, 2013 Boen Named NE-10 Men's, Women's Coach of the Year
October 28, 2013 Borofski Selected As NE-10 Rookie of the Year
October 27, 2013 #22 Stonehill Cruises To Fifth Consecutive NE-10 Title
October 23, 2013 #22 Stonehill Aims For Fifth Consecutive NE-10 Title
October 12, 2013 #21 Stonehill Places 15th At New England Championships
October 1, 2013 Bishop Earns First Career NE-10 Athlete Of The Week Award
September 28, 2013 #21 Stonehill Runs Away With Codfish Bowl
September 14, 2013 Stonehill Places Second at DII Challenge
September 10, 2013 LaRegina Selected as NE-10 Cross Country Women's Athlete Of The Week
September 7, 2013 Stonehill Places Six in Top 10, Wins Shacklette Invitational

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Some time ago an investigation by CBC News apparently found out that CN Rail failed to report 1,800 derailments and accidents across Canada. This total included 44 incidents on their main line. 1,800 seems to be an extremely high number to cover up. One would think a lot of these occurrences would be noticed by and reported at least by CN Rail management. To have this reported by outside sources would seem to have put eggs on the faces of CN Rail officials. I would think they would have more to gain by being honest and upfront than hide the facts.
Things came to light when the Transportation Safety Board's directors saw a significant difference in CN Rails accident numbers compared to what other rail company operators reported. In June 2006 a statutory summons required CN Rail to turn over all of its safety records. The TSA apparently found numerous unreported issues over a six year period including a good number of main track derailments, collisions, fire, explosions, crossing accidents and other incidents.
I began thinking to a small degree on the priorities CN Rail may have. How much Hunter Harrison, former CEO of CN Rail, had to do with it remains to be seen but in the last few years CN Rail has had a large number of derailments. Under the Harrison management I heard rumours that track maintenance went through several cost cutting manuveours among other essential services facing the axe. A few years ago I saw a 171 general freight train go by me near Saskatoon with just two 4300 horsepower engines at the front point. I thought an extra unit or two towards the end of the train would have helped stabilize the back loads.
If there is nothing to hide then why conceal the number of derailments? Especially if it involves tanker cars filled with hazardous materials. Plus if track maintenance is an issue to any degree it doesn't do anything for me to travel by passenger train especially on any of CN's rail lines. When CP Rail went on strike in 2013, one of the issues was safety. Tanker cars make up a good part of general freights so you can imagine the effects that a derailment has on the environment when the toxic chemicals spill out from the tanker cars.
I don't think much of a reward system that states the less accidents reported the better. I can only hope there is a change in the reward system before the general public, rail customers and shareholders find out exactly what is going on. It has me wondering if CN Rail will ever get around to reporting all accidents. Just how much pressure will it take.


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Q: Memory Access Exception at Read, "0xFEEFEE{value=???}"
Possible Duplicate:
In Visual Studio C++, what are the memory allocation representations?

Sorry about the Title but i realy dont know how i handle this "value=???"
got a simple binary tree with a treeIterator. The iterator can go up and down with ++ or --
It contains a value and a key also the root node, left node, right node.
if i start a iterator on a tree
for (Map::TreeIterator i=tree.begin(); i != tree.end(); i++) {
    std::cout << i.key() << ": " << i.value() << std::endl;
}

the iterator calls begin()
TreeIterator Tree::begin() {
    return TreeIterator(m_root->findFirst());
}

calls findFirst()
TreeNode* TreeNode::findFirst() {
    if (m_left != NULL) {
        return m_left->findFirst();
    } else {
        return this;
    }
}

all right if the tree contains a lot of values.
Now I clear the tree, print out the Count and try to start a iterator to look if there are items show them, anyways...
try to debug shows the iterator goes into the propably empty tree and looks for elements. he got the root Node from the tree, which is a Zero Node, take the left Node (also a Zero Node) and run findFirst on the left Node.
Here we go, the left Node (Zero Node) of the root (Zero Node) has no left Node.
m_left=??? m_right=??? m_up=???

so i have default contructor, which will set all nodes to a Zero Node (should i need this? it's allways the default contructor, right?)
Finaly, my problem is how can i handle this problem? maybe catch a exception? the whole thing throws a unhandled exception at memory xxx
Thanks for answers

A:
google query no results

Type "0xfeeefeee" in the query.  The first and third hits are very good.  I'll copy the table shown in the 3rd hit, it shows the magic values that the debug allocator writes to the heap:

Note how the 0xFEEEFEEE value appears in the "After HeapFree()" column.  Which tells you what is wrong with your code, it is accessing memory after it was released by free() or the delete operator.  Pretty classic pointer bug.

A: Is it possible for the m_root to be null in the following code?
TreeIterator Tree::begin() {
    return TreeIterator(m_root->findFirst());
}

If so try
TreeIterator Tree::begin() {
    if (m_root != NULL)
        return TreeIterator(m_root->findFirst());
    else
        return TreeIterator::end;
}

However if "Hans Passant" is right (below)

You are missing a couple of E's, it is 0xFEEEFEEE. feefee is an excellent debug diagnostic, just type it in a google query. – Hans Passant

then the error could be elsewhere...

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Microsoft's Xbox Live chief on banning modders and browsing Facebook photos on TV
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Microsoft launched Xbox Live as an online gaming service in 2002 amid great skepticism. It didn't really take off until Halo 2 launched in 2004, but now the service is huge.
There are now more than 20 million active Xbox Live subscribers (both free users and those who pay $50 a year for multiplayer gaming). That means that more than two out of three Xbox 360 owners use the service. The company has added popular new video services such as Netflix videos and this week it debuted integration with Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm.
Microsoft also knocked out a bunch of users from the service who were using "modded" Xbox 360s, which have been modified to play pirated games. We sat down this week with Marc Whitten, the general manager of Xbox Live, to catch up on the latest with the service at the Streaming Media West show.
VentureBeat: You've got more than 20 million subscribers now. Tell us more about the numbers.
Marc Whitten: We hit two million concurrent users (meaning they were logged in at the same time) last week. That was a big milestone for us. It wasn't all that long ago that we announced 1 million concurrent users. That's been great to see. I am excited about the usage of a bunch of the stuff we've unveiled, which includes Netflix movies and the Sky Broadcasting service in the United Kingdom. (The Xbox 360 serves as a set-top box for Sky's Internet TV service.) The usage of these non-game services ranks as high as the game usage. We have high expectations for the usage of Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm too. People are really loving these experiences.
VB: So the Nov. 10 release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 pushed the service into its record numbers?
MW: Modern Warfare 2 was phenomenal. Those guys at Infinity Ward are amazing. It pushed us into the record.
VB: It seems like a lot of people skipped the single-player game altogether and just started playing multiplayer on Xbox Live?
MW: We had a mix. That had a great single player experience, but the community play for Modern Warfare has always been so great that a lot of people moved right into multiplayer. We have seen that before, though it depends on how well the multiplayer experience is. On day one of a launch, we see a big surge of multiplayer with almost any game. Halo Wars saw a spike in multiplayer on its first day.
VB: So Modern Warfare 2 beat out Halo 3: ODST in multiplayer numbers?
MW: Yes, Modern Warfare 2 broke the records.
VB: When you started thinking about adding Facebook functions into Xbox Live, how did you approach it?
MW: When we launched the New Xbox Experience on Xbox Live a year ago with Netflix, part of the goal was to create a platform that let us change and modify and launch things right away. It wasn't just about doing better graphics. You recall that for a long time we would update the service just twice a year and figure out how to add a new blade into the user interface. That work made it easy to figure out how we could layer in this new stuff.
We worked on Facebook for less than a year. It was not a difficult project. The fundamental thing you ask when you're designing something like this is 'what can be done better?' To us, that was clearly adding better photo viewing. It's a better social environment in front of the big screen. You can all be comfortable and look at the pictures from Facebook more easily than crowding around a computer. It has been way too hard to get photos on your TV. Building something that makes that easy was what we wanted to do.
The beauty of Facebook to me is that people will link their Xbox Live accounts to their Facebook accounts. Then the next new people who sign up for Xbox Live will find they already have a lot of friends on it. They can get 30 friends a lot faster.
VB: I suppose people have a lot more friends on Facebook.
MW: We had a 100-friend limit on Xbox Live. Mixing these experiences together will get us to the best of what we want. The rate of adding friends has to do with who you already know on the service and finding experiences together that you like. With Sky, you can do party mode viewing. You can all watch a movie together and comment on it.
VB: There were stories that talked about how Microsoft knocked out a lot of modders from Xbox Live. I recall that early on there were maybe 1 or 2 percent of the people who were using modded machines. Why would there be such a large number now? One report said it was a million modders knocked out.
MW: It's a cat and mouse game. These were people that were pirating software. We try to keep sanctity of life from a safety and anti-cheating perspective and we protect our partners. We didn't release the number. I cannot explain to you why people would think it was a million people. It wasn't a million people. Check the veracity of that claim. It was one news source. I think we do a really good job understanding what people are doing on the system. That applies to intellectual property (piracy) and how we treat the community in terms of harassment. We are committed to making it better and better.
VB: With the social networks, you will bring in a lot of user-generated content. Is that a security risk?
MW: No. Where we have introduced user-generated content, we have been careful to create community tools that help us in the policing and to make sure we can maintain a safe environment. With indie games, anyone can submit a game for our community games section. That runs in a sandbox so that we can test if the game operates correctly in the environment. We also have community ratings so they can rate it and filter out inappropriate content. They serve as the first filter for us.
VB: How are the indie games doing now?
MW: It's going well. One of the games I'm playing the most now is an indie game called Avatar Drop. You drop your avatars through hoops and watch the ragdoll physics (where the bodies bounce around with realistic physical effects). Indie is great because it brings you interesting services.
VB: Will you be able to do a lot more with the social networks, like playing Facebook games?
MW: Bringing social networks and content together creates a different experience. Social has been different in the past. Can you play a game that is on the social network? In the future, they will move much closer together. With Sky, you can see how they mingle together. We can just start mingling things. Social will remake entertainment. A lot of stuff happens because the tools are created. I take a lot of pictures with my cell phone camera. They get on Facebook and suddenly they can show up on the television now with Xbox Live. If you have a party at your house, you can put up a Facebook page. You can take pictures and see them constantly update on the TV. That's a cool experience. It will get more interesting as creators use the tools to create new experiences.
VB: A lot of the observation of games this year has been about the rapid growth of free Facebook games, at the same time that console games have been shrinking because of the recession. At some point, it looks like you might embrace that. But it could be bad for your business if people play free games instead of paid console games.
MW: It's been a great year on Xbox Live. If you recall, we went from a million concurrent users to two million, that's great growth. It's been an uptime for us. Live continues to be an incredibly relevant experience in terms of digital downloads and the growth of our Xbox Live Arcade games. Some of those download games are 100 percent higher than a year before.
The other point is that we are going to continue to see social and games come together in interesting ways on a variety of platforms. I am passionate about this — entertainment you want, with the people you are about, wherever you are. A lot will happen in the living room. There is also a lot that will happen on the PC, the web, and mobile platforms. We need to make sure we are building the right experiences. We are very excited about the growth of games for everyone. It just brings more players into the category.
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Home › News + Events › We Wandered as a Cloud: Collaborative Poetry for a Digital Age
By Jonathan Hiskes
For William Wordsworth, clouds represented the solitude of the poet: "I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills."
The leader of the English Romantic movement contributed to our conventional view of poets. Picture the aloof figure strolling the countryside, plucking images from nature to describe his inner state. Something triggers an epiphany and he goes home to reflect on it, lonely as a cloud. In Wordsworth's famous formulation, poetry is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
But the meaning of "cloud" has changed in the digital age. Rather than solitude, it suggests the interconnected nature of data and people. With that shift, the possibilities of poetry are changing too.
That's the premise behind Affect & Audience in the Digital Age, a research project at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. It's led by Sarah Dowling and Amaranth Borsuk, two assistant professors in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell who teach in an innovative Master of Fine Arts program. They're joined by Brian Reed, Chair and Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at UW Seattle, and Gregory Laynor, Doctoral Candidate in English.
The project is part of a larger constellation of creative projects by poets and scholars taking a distinctly collaborative approach for rethinking poetry in the digital age. That approach shows that the artist's life doesn't have to be anti-social, says Dowling.
"One thing that often turns people off from wanting to be involved in the arts is the sense that you're stuck by yourself in a garret starving and sweating over a project that nobody but you cares about," she said. "It's not a very attractive view. Thinking about methods of creation that are more social and socially engaged is a much nicer way to imagine what your life is going to be like."
Intensities of Emotion
The name Affect & Audience is a response to the idea that avant-garde art is somehow cold or unfeeling, a stereotype the group wanted to explore. Instead of focusing on personal feelings alone, the group examines the concept of affect—outward manifestations of feelings or emotions. Where a feeling belongs to an individual, affect can be communal: the palpable tension in a room or the shared excitement at a wedding.
"That's where our interests converged," Dowling said. "There is this sense that experimental arts are about flattening out feeling and achieving a degree of distance or coolness. Even though that idea is as old as Immanuel Kant and has been critiqued a lot, it still has a lot of sway."
Reed traces the need for affect studies back to the rise of modernism in the 1920s. Modernist scholars distrusted emotional responses to art as too personal and subjective (and perhaps too feminine) to study rigorously. Critics like T.S. Eliot looked for objective methods to study the form and structure of a text. How readers feel about a work of art didn't interest formalist critics, says Reed.
Over the last several decades, that has changed.
"What we've seen, slowly, is a recognition that the reason people go to movies and read books is all about experiencing intensities of emotion," said Reed. "Scholars have realized they need to have a theory of emotion in order to talk about how texts move people and change people. Minus emotion, you can talk about those things, but you don't get very far."
So the group hosts writers like Kate Durbin, whose book E! Entertainment (Wonder, 2014) reads like a series of recaps of "Real Housewives" style TV shows. Her vignettes are packed with group emotion and drama, says Dowling. It was fitting that her reading wasn't a solitary performance but a group reading, with audience members cast as reality-show stars.
"Maybe we haven't seen this an appropriate subject for poetry because it seems coarse or ridiculous, but this is what people like," said Dowling. "People really connect with it and get pleasure from it. So I think it's very interesting to look at that through a different lens."
The group behind Affect & Audience in the Digital Age recently published an e-book by the same name, curated by Borsuk, that captures discussions about the future of poetry from a 2013 colloquium at the Simpson Center. Presented as a series of two-person dialogues, the book represents the conversational nature of the group's inquiry.
"Since the work we're talking about is about breaking boundaries and opening conversations, we wanted to create something in the spirit of what we had done," said Reed. "The book is a joint statement, but it's a joint statement in different directions. We did not force conformity."
Sculptors of Language
The conversations in the book test the idea that poetry can be more than solitary thinkers dwelling on their inner thoughts (although there's a place for that too!).
For Dowling, that conviction guides how she teaches her students, who typically include speakers of multiple languages. Together they manipulate text through Google Translate and other online translators, including deliberately "bad" ones. Running text through several languages and back to English yields up delightfully weird results that reveal both the limits of auto-translation and the essential strangeness of language.
"That has been quite productive for me not just in teaching but in my own work too," Dowling said. "It's a way of making my relationship with language a little more strange."
Another speaker at the 2013 event, Canadian poet Rachel Zolf, works with optical character recognition (OCR) technology that can digitize vast amounts of historic documents—albeit with occasional errors. In her book Janey's Arcadia (Coach House, 2014), Zolf examines historical records from European settlers colonizing First Nations people in what is now Canada. OCR serves as both a useful tool and a metaphor: like colonists, it brings unprecedented power but also great potential for error and misunderstanding.
The Affect & Audience group draws inspiration from Claudia Rankine, whose Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf, 2014), a National Book Award finalist, compiles micro-aggressions experienced by Rankine's friends and colleagues. Rankine tells stories in the second person, so that "you," the reader, gain a sense of the insults felt by racial minorities in the United States.
Dowling also cites flarf poetry that gathers unconventional material, such as search-engine queries or online hate speech, and arranges it into poems that would be considered ugly or inelegant by conventional standards. What these diverse works have in common is the way poets function as sculptors of language, finding promising new materials to manipulate and shape.
The Crowdsourced MFA
Of course, poetry hasn't stood still since the Romantic period. Poets and artists for centuries have experimented with new media and responded to both high-brow and low-brow culture. Wordsworth himself was a collaborator, working with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to reflect the language of everyday people in Lyrical Ballads (1798).
As the Affect & Audience group continues, they join a long conversation about experimentalism and tradition, and solitary and communal creation. On Friday, May 22, they host multi-genre writers Joyelle McSweeney and Don Mee Choi for a discussion about writing across languages.
Another creation the group has celebrated, The Tolerance Project by Rachel Zolf, solicited contributions for a large online document exploring the value of tolerance. Zolf calls it her "crowdsourced MFA." Her method suggests that even old-fashioned notions like wisdom belong to the collective and not just the individual.
Said Dowling, "It critiques the sense that MFA programs at times reinforce the notion of 'individual genius,' which isn't always helpful."
"It takes a community to sustain a creative practice."
Get the free e-book Affect & Audience in the Digital Age from Essay Press.
Hand image from e-book cover courtesy Courtney Mandryk.
About the Author: Jonathan Hiskes
Jon Hiskes leads communications at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. A lifelong lover of language and literature, he publishes personal and critical essays in a variety of publications. He holds an MA in Journalism from Indiana University and a BA in English from Calvin College. Read more


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I've recently realized that, thanks to my current line of work, I'm one of those people who actually uses a lot of outdoor gear enough to get a good sense of what works well, what doesn't, and, most importantly, what lasts. Hopefully, it will be a public service of some kind to share some of these experiences and note which pieces of equipment I can and cannot recommend based on fairly heavy use.
I use plenty of gear, and am selecting a few stand-out specimens to mention here. Some of them are well-known for their quality, but I have tried to highlight a few which may not have so much name recognition.
I've grouped it, generally, into Winners and Duds. Further comments (including qualifications such as my not having used the item all that much, really) will provide important elaboration. Items are not grouped in any particular order.
Light weight: to my knowledge, the lightest free-standing tent on the market outside of cuben fiber.
Easy setup: though if you had to do it in rain, there'd be no way to avoid getting the interior wet.
Pretty decent in storms: I've had it in some quite fierce winds and rains and been perfectly happy. You do need to make sure you've tightened down the rain fly, otherwise it can flap something fierce, but that's the case with any tent. I have encountered some winds so strong that it became a bit worryingly unstable, though.
Durable: an important criterion. I've been careful not to leave it out in sunlight and to let it air-dry after trips when needed. I also try to keep the zippers clean on a regular basis, as they are always the first thing to fail.
Excellent customer service: I actually bought the thing heavily used, its seller having completed an Appalachian Trail through-hike. When the tent body's zipper failed and I sent it in for repair, Big Agnes sent me a new tent body free of charge. The same thing happened when the rain fly's zipper failed. This makes me willing to pay the otherwise disturbing price tag, when the time comes that I need another big-ticket item and Big Agnes is in the running.
Cramped inside: I'm 5'9" and my head brushes the top of the tent body when I sit up. There's very little space to spread out when you're inside. It's the price you pay for the low weight.
Incomplete protection from rain-splashes, which is not so much a problem unless you're using the footprint-and-fly-only setup option to save weight. The rain fly does not come near the ground, and heavy rains will leave the side of the tent very mud-spattered. If you used the minimalist setup during a rainstorm, you and your things would be covered in mud instead. Reserve this setup mode for desert nights when you want to block some wind.
Price tag: As noted above, the manufacturer's above-and-beyond support mitigates this considerably (especially given that I got the tent used for $100 and they've never even seen a penny of my money), but it may put the tent sadly out of the reach of many a backpacker.
Zippers are flimsy: These are the weakest point on any item that has them, but given the rest of the tent is so sturdy (and so expensive), I wish they'd have gone with a beefier zipper that's less likely to break after becoming clogged with desert dust. I really wouldn't begrudge the extra grams.
Comfortable: I'm a real princess when it comes to sleeping surfaces, and I'm nearly always happy on this thing.
Light: There are lighter sleeping pads, but for what it is, it's still remarkably bearable.
Warm: It's advertised as 4-season and has quite a high R-value, and I've endured some quite bitter nights with ease. Pads make less perceptible difference in warmth than sleeping bags do, but it's very nice to have.
Durable: I went with this one after having puncture problems with its relative, the XLite (which therefore appears under "Duds" below). No such issues with this one. I do protect it, when possible, with up to two silnylon layers and a foam pad, but I've laid it straight on top of a tent footprint plenty of times too, and no holes yet.
Noisy: It's actually not too bad as Thermarest pads go. I've never heard any complains from fellow campers, and the crinkling sounds don't bother me - a very light sleeper.
Price: This was a serious splurge item for me, but I am glad I have it.
I hike almost exclusively in their ankle socks (meanwhile, I use a pair of extra-thick mountaineering socks from SmartWool as my feetie-heaties for nighttime). They're comfortable, by far the most durable I've found, and come with a lifetime warranty. The price seems high for socks, but for what you're getting, it's really unreasonable to count that as a "con."
Camping hammocks were a revolutionary discovery for me, and this one was the most affordable option on the market back when I was broke and wanting to get hanging. It probably still is, but I wouldn't know - this hammock has been serving me well for the five years since I bought it. It lacks a lot of fancier features and cottage-manufacturer cred that some higher-end brands have, but in terms of bang for your buck, you can't do better.
Its system for suspending the mosquito net could be better; when combined with a tarp, it can sag down onto you, which of course would negate the bite-repelling capabilities of the mesh. Its stock suspension, as with most hammocks, is also terrible, and the $30 upgrade to "whoopie slings" is pretty much required. And, of course, hammocks are far more fiddly than tents, so you've got to be a bit involved in your camping setup to get it working properly for you. Overall, though, it's by far the cheapest bug-netted hammock around, and anybody camping in a forested biome should give it a try.
I haven't gone out of my way to try, but I'm not convinced it's possible to kill this thing. It's certainly been dropped enough times, especially before I realized there was a cheap clip attachment to fasten it much more securely to my backpack's shoulder straps. My ETrex has scouted just about the entire Abraham Path through five countries, plus plenty more escapades across two continents, and shows no signs of slowing. Granted, its speed of function is pretty sluggish to begin with, and the molasses-slow interface is almost physically painful to use if what you're trying to do is examine a topo map. However, you couldn't ask for a more reliable workhorse for collecting data, locating points and following routes, and heavily abusing it the whole time.
I've gotten nowhere near the advertised million-gallon lifetime of this filter, needless to say. Of course, it could be a fifth of that, and it would still be far more durable than all the pump filters on the market, and at a fraction of the weight and cost. Assuming you're willing to put up with some added inconvenience, this filter is a no-brainer.
As mentioned in almost every other review, the "dirty" water bags that come with it can't be trusted not to spring leaks. Luckily, in my experience, these aren't catastrophic, but rather annoying, and the bags can be replaced with a standard Platypus bladder.
The elbow grease/time-and-frustration factor is substantially more than with a pump filter; you must still manually push water through the filter, but you also have to get the water bag filled from your natural source before you can even start. In some disappointingly rare water sources (waterfalls of more than 8 inches' height, for example) this is the work of an instant. Otherwise, it takes some finagling. If your source is very shallow, such as a certain spring I camped near in Zion National Park, you'll need a cup or other vessel to transfer any water into the dirty bag at all.
The squeezing action is no more laborious than the pumping work of a conventional filter, but you also have to deal with keeping the outlet end aligned with your clean-water receptacle, which can be extremely irritating (especially with water bladders, as opposed to hard bottles) without a partner. But with a group, the weight of pump filters becomes less of an obstacle, while their efficiency begins to yield greater benefits.
Still - who wouldn't prefer a 3oz filter over the 12oz+ alternatives, and at less than half the price?
I have a frame pack, gas tank, and saddlebag made by Greg Wheelwright of Boulder. As far as I know, the design of these is not radically different from the mainstream, which features dozens of manufacturers these days - all using essentially the same design specs, with a few exceptions. However, it's worth mentioning, since Greg has provided excellent service (including free zipper repairs when I managed to break one on the frame pack by abusing it and neglecting maintenance, and free replacement of an item when it was apparently stolen from my porch after delivery). Moreover, the bags are very solid (the zipper breakage was the only issue, and that was my fault for severely overstuffing the bag). Customers choosing bikepacking gear now are already spoiled for choice, despite how new and niche the hobby still is, and just about all the options seem to be great. But I thought I should give credit to the one I've chosen.
I could not ride long distances without these. I have read blog posts in which long-distance bike tourists have worn them out, but I've put plenty of miles on mine, and I'm nowhere close to that point. I think the number of miles needed to destroy a pair is in the high thousands.
Supremely comfortable. This is why I kept buying them, up until I decided it just didn't make economic sense. I have never found any other shoes as cushy and consistently comfy as the several pairs of Merrells I've gone through. I've hiked a heck of lot in them and, to the extent that deathly-tired feet can be always happy, mine have been.
They don't last. If I'm buying expensive hiking footwear, I expect it to have a reasonably long lifetime. In the past year (during which I hiked a lot, but not really that much, considering what my job is; certainly nowhere close to a through-hiker's mileage), I ran a pair of Moabs down to the point where the soles were coming unglued all over the place, and one of them was taking on water from below, just from walking across a sidewalk in the rain. I had the same experience with a previous pair of boots, which lasted longer only because I started my hiking-heavy job two years after buying them. An REI employee classified them as great for occasional hikers with fragile feet (though of course, my trail-hardened feet still love them), but not for anybody doing significant amounts of hiking, and I'd have to agree.
Some might be surprised to find this popular product under the "Duds" heading. One factor got it there - durability. Yes, the pad is extremely light, and relatively affordable. No, the insulation level ("R-value") is not high, but that isn't what counts against it. The problem is, the pad got so light by being made of thin and relatively flimsy material, which I discovered over the course of several afflicted backpacking trips in the desert. I'm fairly attentive to ground conditions at camp, and not prone to let stray thorns stay in my sleeping area, but on too many occasions, I woke up halfway through the night to a deflated pad, and had to re-inflate - an unhappy process which of course had to be repeated throughout not only the night, but the rest of the trip.
Punctures in the pad are repairable, of course - but not field-repairable, in my experience. If the hole is too small (which all of mine were), you need a tub or other large volume of water to dip it into, just to locate the leak. So any puncture means the rest of the trip spent fitfully rolling off your pad, blowing air back into it, then gloomily drifting off to sleep in anticipation of the next iteration.
I suppose if you're in a place with lots of still water, you might find it easier to do the hole-hunting required for a field repair. In the desert, forget about it. Even a rushing stream probably wouldn't work - you're looking for a tiny stream of bubbles that would be washed away by water flow.
I ultimately replaced this pad with its relative, the XTherm, and haven't had a puncture yet (two years later as of this writing). The extra dollars (though they are many) and few extra ounces are easily worth the durability you get out of the deal; the far higher R-value is just a bonus.


On 1 May 2016, a wildfire started just south of the town of Fort McMurray, Canada. Fort McMurray is home to multiple natural resource companies who operate oil sands facilities. On 3 May, with the fire now completely out of control, Canadian authorities ordered the immediate and total evacuation of Fort McMurray's 80,000+ residents, the largest evacuation in Canadian history. Complicating the evacuation was the lack of time, the shutdown of the commercial airport, the intermittent closure of the only highway going south caused by the rapidly changing direction of the fire, and the people evacuating through burning areas.
The government focused on getting resources to bring the fire under control. Kenyon's client, a prominent natural resource company, also immediately took action focusing on the safe shutdown of their facilities, building temporary landing strips and chartering aircrafts to get people out.
The residents had only hours to leave their homes, some with only the clothing they were wearing. Some drove, some went by bus and many others made their way to a landing strip and boarded special evacuation flights to various locations, including Edmonton and Calgary.
The challenge faced once people were safely out of the danger zone, was how to provide a single point of contact for the employees (including sub contractors), their family members who were with them and the general public who had taken shelter at the company's locations and evacuated with the others.
The evacuees needed critical information such as shelter locations and addresses in destination cities, locations of missing loved ones who were evacuated on different flights or to different cities, immediate assistance getting prescriptions filled, financial assistance guidance, updates on when and where they were due to report to work, and most importantly, what was next for them. When could they go home?
On 3 May at midnight, the natural resource company called Kenyon to present their challenges with establishing a single point of contact, centralizing data, answering employee questions and quickly getting accurate information out to all those affected, along with expected updates.
Drawing on experience in previous evacuation operations (e.g., evacuations following the terrorist attack on the In Amenas production facility in Algeria and evacuations in areas of civil unrest), Kenyon recommended activating our call center, which included data management teams and notification teams to provide follow up calls to the evacuees. Using Kenyon Response, our proprietary crisis management software, we activated a toll free number and a specific (text-message accessible) email address, which were then widely publicized. We created scripts so that consistent information could be collected from all callers. Over the next 14 days, Kenyon continued this operation. This was a key period; it was a period of transition from shock to recovery. Based on practical experience, the number of agents available and the scripts being used were adjusted to help guide callers through the transitional phase.
During this operation Kenyon was able to collect identification, welfare and location information from those affected, as well as provide to them information they needed: incident details, wildfire conditions, plane information, bus route changes, shelter locations, etc. It also allowed employees to check in and provide updates on their location and welfare. Because of our systems, the client had complete visibility on the status of the employees.
Where fear and frustration could have turned a precarious situation worse, Kenyon was able to provide guidance and clarity. With Kenyon's support, the client and those affected had access to critical information needed to face the crisis and, more importantly, to facilitate a more fluid transition to their new normal.


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Founded in 2001 as a bottle shop, homebrew supply store and tasting room, Papago Brewing Company has grown into a local landmark, serving 30 beers on tap, plus a full menu of from-scratch foods out of a stylish space inside the Papago Plaza Shopping Center (7107 E. McDowell Rd., 480-425-7439). But due to space constraints, Papago has always outsourced the brewing of its beers to local breweries, including Huss Brewing Co, which has crafted each of Papago's beers. The craft beer bar and restaurant was not part of the deal and will continue to operate and use the Papago Brewing name under license.
As far as long-term goals for the expanding company, the Husses look forward to building a legacy for their daughter, while insuring a healthy and robust company that can compete in the ever increasingly saturated craft beer market. The addition of a new taproom at Uptown Plaza announced last month is just another piece of the plan. "I don't want to be just another can on the grocery shelf, we're trying to build something for our family and employees that will last," said Leah Huss.
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Valdovinos is collaborating with Phillip Staniczenko, Research Fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and soon-to-be professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and SFI Vice President for Science Jennifer Dunne to convene the working group.
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Melanie has a slacker senior son who is adorable but lost. On her way to being an empty nester she smothers him in unwanted attention for his own good but completely misses the mark of who he actually wants to be. Beyond wealthy Sarah idolizes her perfect Ashley who got into Harvard ED, while her husband's secrets destroy their family and Will and his wife are fine as long as his affair with Lauren continues and his controlling, OCD, vice principal wife runs the ship. In this small enclave in one of California's wealthiest neighborhoods, call it "The Housewives with Highschool Seniors," these pretty horrible people learn just how horrible they really are. I love a good satire of parenting but this was too over the top ridiculous and the simplistic writing and predictable storyline just didn't grab my attention. May be a case of "it's not you it's me" but either way just not my cup of tea.


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A gossip columnist's guide to outwitting Trump, 'a narcissist beyond description' — The Guardian
2 December 2017 CalicoJack Narcissistic Personality, ReBlogged One comment
A really good column on the lying liar who is now hiring pee-hookers to piss on the Resolute Desk and everything else America stands for in the Oval Office — you know it's true, even though I just made it up. It has that illusion of truthiness to it that the Ol' Pussy Grabber don't even try to have any more.
Still, gossip columnist, Susan Mulcahy, documents her long experience with the Ol' Pussy Grabber as a pathological liar. You might be wondering, how could self-respecting professional reporters not have brought this long and scary history more to the fore during the election? I mean, it was right there in front of them. It wouldn't even've taken a pin prick to find this stuff, amirite? What the fuck is wrong with the mainstream press? I mean there were media organizations like MSNBC covering this, and there were stories on traditional news outlets like CNN and the networks, but it never dominated like it shoulda. Instead we got a lot of hand-wringing about what do we do when he lies to us? Ya fucking call him a liar! Instead, we got …er her emails and both sides do it… And the media being easily manipulated by every attempt at spin coming out of the Repubes.
He has become so used to getting away with everything that the fact that he lies about everything clearly doesn't bother him: he knows it's going to roll off his back.
— Susan Mulcahy in The Guardian
Back to the thirty-year history this woman has with the Ol' Pussy Grabber lying and the reason I posted the article to Ye Olde Blogge. She, like most people, tries to offer a reason for his pathological lying. He has become so used to getting away with everything that the fact that he lies about everything clearly doesn't bother him: he knows it's going to roll off his back.
But that's not it. He lies because he feels no compunction not to lie. When a "normal" person lies, we feel anxiety, angst, guilt, something negative, even if it is just a worry about getting caught. The Ol' Pussy Grabber feels nothing. He may not even know he's lying. He may even believe what he is saying is true at the time he's saying it.
As a narcissist he doesn't have the same relationship with his emotions as you or I have. Human beings are emotional decision makers, which includes the decision to tell a lie. If he doesn't have the same standard emotional package that the human genome produces or has an extreme variation of it, then he isn't going to be making decisions like most of us do or even making similar decisions that most of us would make in similar situations. The emotional reaction that produce our decisions don't come out the same in him.
She implies that he was trained to be a pathological liar; I'm sure he was born a pathological liar. It's in his genes. It is in the design of how his brain works. Follow these links for more of my thoughts on the importance of his diagnosis as a narcissistic personal disorder and the evidence of his diagnosis an unproductive malignant personality disorder.
A gossip columnist's guide to outwitting Trump, 'a narcissist beyond description'
The former New York Post columnist Susan Mulcahy has been dealing with Trump's lies for decades. What is her advice to the media on handling him?
Lucia Graves @lucia_graves Friday 1 December 2017
When Donald Trump became a presidential candidate, Susan Mulcahy got a call from a former colleague at New York Newsday. "You'd better stock up on valium," the ex-colleague said.
"It's because I hated him so much," said Mulcahy, the veteran gossip columnist who covered Trump for years at the New York Post, describing the call. "I would go ballistic if his name was mentioned in the office."
Trump's reputation as a liar now precedes him, but this week it reached new heights. In addition to reports that he regularly brags about winning the votes of a majority of American women – he did not – other accounts say that he has begun questioning the authenticity of the Access Hollywood tape in which he boasted about grabbing women's genitals.
It's an over-the-top falsehood (the hosts of Access Hollywood have reiterated that the tape is authentic) but to Mulcahy, it is just par for the course with Trump. "Most people have an alibi or a backup plan; Trump doesn't do that," she told the Guardian. "He just says the exact opposite of what he did five minutes ago."
Continue reading at The Guardian: A gossip columnist's guide to outwitting Trump, 'a narcissist beyond description'
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KL Rahul has made a generous contribution to fund the treatment of fellow cricketer Jacob Martin, who is on ventilator support in a Baroda Hospital.
Martin's wife Kyati has confirmed the support extended by Rahul.
With Martin in the hospital following a horrific accident, the Kings XI and India batsman made the donation for his treatment and recovery.
Rahul has made a generous donation towards the rehabilitation of Martin, who suffered a horrific road accident in December, badly injuring his lungs and leaving him on ventilator support in a hospital at Baroda, KXIP has reported on its website.
Martin's wife had written to the BCCI asking for their aid when the hospital bills started to pile on. Immediately, a donation of five lakh rupees was sanctioned by the BCCI, along with charitable endowments by his former teammates Sourav Ganguly and Zaheer Khan as well as Indian coach Ravi Shastri.
Even Indian all-rounder Krunal Pandya came to the support of the former cricketer, sending a blank cheque to the family and asking them to fill in an appropriate amount.
However, it has been learnt that Kings XI Punjab opener KL Rahul, appointed to lead India A in the second unofficial Test against England Lions next week, and his team have been the most benevolent donors towards the rehabilitation of the Baroda stalwart.
"A big thanks to Rahul and everyone who helped," said Martin from the hospital bed, as quoted by Mumbai Mirror.


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As part of its mission to minimise its impact on the environment, Paperchase has issued revised Product and Packaging Guidelines for its suppliers which covers the substrates used for the packaging (of the actual products as well as shipments) and even how samples are submitted to the buyers for consideration.
"We already only accept FSC or recycled paper and are now trying to reduce the use of plastics across our entire production process. In particular any plastic packaging or single use plastic," states Emma Clooney, Paperchase's greeting card buyer.
Under its new requirements, Paperchase states that all plastic must be recyclable. The multiple is now working towards a goal of only stocking products which include biodegradable plastic by this time next year and has asked all suppliers to confirm their compliance on this front.
Paperchase's (left-right) Emma Clooney, Lucy Sumner, Scott Corbett and Hazel Walker at The Retas at which the retailer won two awards.
Meanwhile, from immediate effect, publishers sending card samples (either pre-production of finished cards) to Paperchase's head office are being strongly urged not to use any poly bags, bubble wrap or even extra paper.
'Most items we order are made from paper, so unless you feel the product needs special protection, it shouldn't need additional packing,' states the guidance document issued by Paperchase to publishers.
One of the designs stocked by Paperchase that is made from disposable cups in the UK, comes with a recycled envelope and wrapped in 100% biodegradable compostable cello.
In a quest to minimise excessive outer packaging and eradicate unnecessary shrinkwrapping, the Paperchase guidelines urge suppliers to consider how their products are packed and shipped to the retailer such as by packing different products in one clearly marked outer.
Having set out its revised aims on the environmental front, the Paperchase team is open to suppliers coming forward with alternatives and biodegradable plastics that will help the multiple in its quest.


A private house in Douglas, outside Cork city, designed by Wain Morehead Architects, has been awarded the first gold certificate in a new Irish sustainability rating, the Home Performance Index.
Launched by the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) in 2016, the Home Performance Index (HPI) is Ireland's first national certification for quality and sustainable residential development.
It goes much further than the better known Building Energy Rating (BER) standard because as well as assessing the energy efficiency of the building, it assesses water efficiency, indoor air quality, the impact of construction materials used, the quality of daylight in the house, the ecological impact of the building and its flood risk.
Proximity on foot and by bicycle to schools, shops and access to public transport are also included in the assessment. Currently only new houses are assessed in the HPI but the IGBC hopes to extend it to existing and refurbished houses in the next 18 months.
"A Home Performance Index certified home is a good indicator of the quality of development. It adds to the home's value and generally means reduced energy, water and transport costs for the home buyer and therefore reduced risk of mortgage defaults," says Pat Barry, executive director of the Irish Green Building Council.
The Cork city house awarded the HPI gold certificate had a very high level of energy efficiency with an A1 BER and Passive House certification. But notably, it also has excellent daytime lighting, very good indoor air quality and it consumes 85 per cent less water than a standard house.
"We particularly liked working with our suppliers to understand the environmental impacts of their products. The timber, the window frames and the paints were all locally sourced," says John Morehead, managing director of Wain Morehead Architects.