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Opinion: October 24, 2018
Plus letters to the editor
A snapshot of a Cabrillo Stage production of 'West Side Story' directed by Lile O. Cruse
By Steve Palopoli
For this week's cover story, I interviewed Lile O. Cruse's wife Michele Rivard while she was driving to a family wedding. She had her GPS directions on, and every once in a while the voice of Google Maps would startle us both, suddenly filling my phone speaker.
"So what do you think Lile's legacy should be?" I asked her at one point about her husband, who defined a generation of music and theater at Cabrillo College before passing away on Aug. 23.
"FINDING A NEW ROUTE," came the loud, monotone answer.
"That wasn't me," said Rivard. "That was the car."
"'Finding a new route is a pretty good answer though," I said, as we both chuckled.
"Yeah," she said thoughtfully. "It actually is."
Rivard's real answer was much more moving, and you'll find it in the story. But for some reason, I keep thinking about the wisdom of the GPS. Cruse certainly did forge a new path for Cabrillo College, both in music and theater. And the bottom line is that he changed many lives, launched many careers and just made people feel lucky that he was in their lives. That so many of those people have come together to produce and perform in the show celebrating his life this weekend is perhaps the ultimate testament to that. His legacy will live on.
STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Re: "Up in Smoke" (GT, Oct. 3):
I was just reading the e-cigarette article in the latest issue, and I had to come write immediately to ask how it's possible that GT could publish such a biased piece? How could Hugh McCormick not even touch on the great numbers of teens who are addicted to e-cigs, and the egregious fruity-flavor marketing campaigns of the manufacturers? Well, he did touch on "scary stories about … grade schoolers getting hooked," but in a brushing-off way. If Hugh wants to enlighten the public on their smoking cessation benefits, he needs to tell the whole story about e-cigs. Hugh just gave an endorsement of e-cigs, and now people can feel good about their vaping choices since they read about their safety and benefits in the Wellness section of the local free paper.
Bicycle-Friendly Vision
In last week's Good Times, Greenway took issue with Bike Santa Cruz County's vision statement: "Bicycling in Santa Cruz County is a safe, respected, convenient, and enjoyable form of transportation and recreation for people of all ages and abilities."
Bike Santa Cruz County stands firmly behind that vision, working every day for the past 27 years toward that future through advocacy, education, and community-building. We do this because we strongly believe that our county can become a top-tier bicycling environment that is safe and comfortable for all.
We certainly don't believe that we have achieved this vision, as Greenway seems to suggest. However, we do take great pride in what we have been able to accomplish as a community working toward a common goal. We are proud to have had a significant role in a long list of infrastructure improvements for cyclists: the Arana Gulch bicycle/pedestrian trail; the UCSC bicycle trail; bike racks on Metro buses; bike lanes and green lanes on Beach, High, Front and Bay Streets, as well as Soquel Avenue; green lanes at highway overcrossings; the Highway 1 bike and pedestrian bridge at High Street; the Pacific Avenue contraflow bike lane; and $86 million in Measure D funding for the Coastal Rail Trail.
We further recognize the need to invest in people and programs, not just in paint and asphalt. We take great pride in our programmatic work which includes our Earn-a-Bike program that delivers bikes to Watsonville, Live Oak, and Santa Cruz youth-in-need; Open Streets events in Watsonville and Santa Cruz; support for Vision Zero across Santa Cruz County; and more than 200 community events and bike rides in the past 10 years.
Building support for bike infrastructure is challenging. To build that support, we work closely with other organizations, bike advocates, pedestrians, motorists, and community leaders. To be effective, we find that we must listen to these stakeholders, respect their work and opinions, and find ways to support each other to achieve common goals. In that spirit, we remain open to working with Greenway in order to advance the vision of better cycling for everyone in Santa Cruz County.
Janneke Strause
Executive Director, Bike Santa Cruz County
Value Voiced
Congratulations to the real community servants who vocalized the value of the Second Story Respite House and financially gifted the continuity of its operation. The community spoke with one voice and acted at all levels to maintain this gem of behavioral health care. The community now should come forward with oversight support to polish and multiply this respite house gem. Do not let its fate fall back into the abyss of uninformed senior county and Encompass management decisions that occur in the darkness of secrecy.
John P. Dietz
Photo Contest Winner
Two female elephant seals bask in the sand at Año Nuevo State Park on a sunny day. Photograph by Kai Tran.
Submit to [email protected]. Include information (location, etc.) and your name. Photos may be cropped. Preferably, photos should be 4 inches by 4 inches and minimum 250dpi.
The Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education's Northern California branch awarded Nick Bischoff of the Ramblin' Adventure Club its 2018 Environmental Educator of the Year award this past weekend. Bischoff is a certified California naturalist and a three-year employee at Ramblin'. The after-school program and hiking club has its own unique curriculum, providing a safe learning experience throughout Santa Cruz County's wide-ranging wilderness.
A state grant has allowed Santa Cruz County mental health workers to double down on prevention and diversion services with a program that includes additional staff, downtown outreach, pre-trial and in-custody programs, and mental health liaison workers. A recent third-party evaluation showed a 79 percent increase in contacts with program participants. That resulted in a 74 percent reduction in jail bookings and a 90 percent reduction in convictions. For the 160 participants, this represents a savings in excess of $2 million in jail costs alone.
"There's a place for us, somewhere a place for us. Peace and quiet and open air wait for us."
— Stephen Sondheim, 'West Side Story'
Steve Palopoli
Editor-at-Large at Good Times | Blog
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We're calling this 2017 trend early: Celebrities and paint colors mix better than you'd think. Selena Gomez has confirmed that once again with her latest venture, which is only tangentially related to her music. Like her peer Kendall Jenner, Gomez has a distinct vision for walls, and she's collaborated with Portola Paints & Glazes to create her very own shade.
Perhaps surprisingly, the paint shade isn't in her favorite color, green, which she revealed a few years ago. Instead, it's a purple that's closer to the color of eggplant, as evidenced by the first swirly look at it shared on Instagram by the Los Angeles–based high-end paint brand. The name, Revival, nods to Gomez's 2015 album of the same title, her second number one album.
If you're left questioning the connection between the pop star and Portola paint, Gomez's recent Instagram will clear up any confusion. As it turns out, the cofounder Jamie Davis is married to Gomez's trainer, Amy Rosoff Davis, which the singer explained in her shout-out to Portola. "Proud of my trainers husband cause he's goals for real @amyrosoffdavis @portolapaints," she wrote.
It's Gomez, though, who has redefined what "goals" are for celebrities—as that usually means an empire consisting of tour merch, endorsements, and campaigns. Home decor isn't exactly the norm. Now that Gomez is raising the bar, maybe it's time for more stars to follow suit. Soon, gone will be the days of teens plastering their walls with posters—instead, they can just deck them out with their favorite artists' shade of paint.


1. REGISTER your child to receive a free Bike Month t-shirt (until supplies run out).
2. CHECK OUT some great resources for parents on the National Center for Safe Routes to School website. Bike safety resources for parents are available here. Check out our special safety page geared for kids here.
3. VISIT the CU Bike Month page to stay up to date on all the 'CU Bike Happenings' this April and May.
4. ATTEND one of our bike rodeos with your child where he or she can practice important skills such as stopping, signaling, turning, and yielding! Bike rodeos are for children ages 5-14.


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home window security film Archives - Norman Window Film
Top 10 Applications for Privacy Window Film in Your Home
By Jill Splitt Blog, Security Window Film
Privacy window films provide a lot of benefits, especially for renters and homeowners. These types of window films can provide privacy and security for your home. It is an effective alternative to blinds and curtains. But the benefits don't end there. A home window security film can also be used to create attractive, easily managed spaces for your home.
Here are 10 applications for privacy window film in your home.
Add a Frosted View for Bathroom Privacy
You can easily add privacy to your bathroom window with the help of privacy film. This will give you the feel of privacy and solitude when you step into the bathtub.
Prevent Strangers from Seeing Through Front-Door
If you have a glass front door, things inside your home can easily be seen in full view if you don't have some sort of curtain or blinds in it. A residential security window film can be a perfect tool to keep unwanted strangers away from your front door.
Use frosted glass films on the balcony balustrade for privacy.
Balconies are usually public spaces that are visible from afar. This allows strangers to steal a peek into your space. You can prevent this by adding a frosted glass film to your balcony balustrade for more privacy.
There are many decorative options for adding privacy to an area using privacy window films. You can choose from frosted glass, stone, wood grain, faux stained glass, and many other patterns.
Hide kitchenware
Privacy film is also ideal for kitchen glass cabinets, especially if you want certain kitchenware to be hidden. If you have mismatched mugs or colored plates that don't blend into your kitchen interior, having a privacy film installed in your kitchen cabinets is the answer.
Provide shade for windows and doors
Privacy window film not only offers privacy but also reduces the amount of heat entering and escaping from your home. This can make a difference in the amount of heat your home releases. It's also one of the most cost-effective and passive ways to conserve energy in your home.
Turn a surface into a one-way mirror.
You can also use frosted glass window film to turn any surface into a one-way mirror. This is especially useful if you have an empty room and want the viewer to see only their reflection.
Cover half a window or door.
If you have a space where you want to be subtly covered, you can also do it with a privacy film.
Add architectural elements to plain-looking interior windows or glass walls.
Privacy films can be used to add architectural elements to plain-looking interior windows and glass walls.
Block out UV rays
Privacy glass is a great solution for those who are concerned about the harmful effects of UV rays from the sun. If you want to block out UV rays from entering your home, you can use privacy glass to separate your living room from your backyard.
Whether it's for privacy or decorative purposes, a privacy window film will not disappoint. If you'd like to have privacy window films fitted for your home, make sure to contact a residential security window film professional who can ensure expert home window security film installation.
Are window films permanent? A simple guide to finding out
Homeowners frequently use blinds, curtains, shutters, and other window coverings to decrease heat penetration and glare in their houses, but there's a better alternative. Residential security window film, as well as other types, is an energy-efficient choice with a variety of advantages, including protection, safety, and aesthetics, that may help you save money on your energy costs while also making your house more pleasant. But, is window film permanent? Let's find out!
Is Window Film Permanent?
Keep in mind that window film isn't a permanent solution. Even if you don't attempt to eliminate it and just lay it on your windows, it won't stay permanently. Depending on their quality, most films such as home window security film have a longevity of 10-20 years.
Is it possible to remove and reapply window film?
It is possible to remove all home window security films and other sorts, but not all of them can be reinstalled. It depends on the type of film and how it's made to adhere to glass and remain intact. If the ability to eliminate and reinstall the film is an issue, make sure to tell your tinting firm about it at the start of the installation procedure. Window film can be removed in one of two methods, depending on whether you plan to reuse it. You have the means of doing it yourself or getting an expert to do it for you.
Window Film Removal both Residential and Commercial Buildings
Window films for households and workplaces provide a variety of benefits. A shaded window film provides security and blinding control while also conserving money on energy bills.
To boost their outward look, company owners could blend a window film with an advert or branding. Window films come in all sorts of hues and shades, allowing residents to accentuate the aesthetic appeal of their homes.
Slowly remove the film off the window. Start by grabbing a corner of the window film and slowly pulling it away from the window when removing it from a residential or commercial window. The less adhesive residue remains on the glass, the more gently you pull on the film.
Adhesive Residue Have To Be Removed. Start by washing the window down with water to eliminate any residual adhesive residue. Wetting the sticky glue makes the removal process a lot easier. Next, scrape upward in a vertical motion with a razor blade. Continue to moisten the window as needed until there is no residue left.
Dry Adhesive Film Should Be Removed. Oftentimes, you'll come across a dried adhesive film. You'll need to have a four-inch heavy-duty scraper for this sort of film, which will enable you to eliminate the obstinate film that you can't take off by hand. Swipe over the pane in a horizontal movement until all of the film has already been cleared.
Safety and Security Window Film Removal
We at Norman Window Film understand how uncertain reality can really be. From break-ins to natural calamities, safeguarding your windows is an important concern. Norman Window Film's residential security window film will help shield your windows and glass from unforeseen mishaps while also providing you with a much-needed sense of security.
Safety and security film is designed to be removed. The film is a protective barrier between the outside world and your window, not a permanent solution. If your windows are spray-painted, for example, you may remove the film and replace it rather than having to replace the entire window.
Using a sharp blade to cut the film into strips is the most effective technique to remove safety and security film. If you cut the film too firmly, your window glass may be damaged.
Peel each strip individually once you've cut your film into strips. Slowly peel the strips to remove as much adhesive as possible, as you would with other film removals. Lastly, apply fresh window film after properly removing the old adhesive to guarantee that your window is protected from exterior factors and dangers.
The best way to find out whether window tinting is permanent or not is to visit a local installer and get the advice of an expert. Most experts will tell you that window tints are a long-term investment, but they can be removed if you're unsatisfied with them. If you'd like to learn more about how we can help you reduce energy costs, contact us today!

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Welcome to the Spring issue!
Happy Spring! With this installment, the newsletter officially goes from monthly to quarterly, due to the demands of our legacy video production schedule. This season, you'll learn about a new addition to our sample clips page, as well as our philosophy regarding "touching up" family photos.
I hope you enjoy this issue of the Family Legacy Video® e-Newsletter. Please e-mail me at steve@familylegacyvideo.com or phone toll-free (888.662.1294) with any questions or comments you have.
Our legacy video shoot in southern Italy was certainly the highlight for Family Legacy Video® in 2018. The resulting video was fabulous, and our client has generously allowed us to post an excerpt from it. In A Pilgrimage To Italy, you'll see our client negotiate medieval town streets only inches wider than his SUV while on his way to visit the church where his parents were married. Enjoy!
No, don't touch them, say folks at one end of the spectrum. They argue that trying to improve a damaged or degraded archival photo somehow makes it less genuine and authentic. The way a photo currently exists is the way it should be presented. Plus, correcting photos is time-consuming and rarely, if ever, worth the time.
While I understand the opinions of the "Leave 'Em Be" crowd, I don't agree with them. Quite frankly, I think we do more honor to photos, and to the people and places they depict, by returning them as close to their original conditions as possible. So I think it's well worth the time to remove excess dust, add contrast to bring out detail, and adust hues to produce more realistic colors. When it comes to digitally repairing more extensive damage, like rips, it becomes a balancing act; is the fix worth the time? If the damage mars a family ancestor's face, I generally go ahead and fix it. If the defect is in the background of the shot or at the edge of the photo, I may leave it untouched, or perhaps blur it just a bit to make it less noticeable.
That being said, we do have to be mindful of a project's budget and the time it allows for Photoshop work. Sometimes budgets limit us to the basics, like removing or minimizing dust and adding some contrast. Larger budgets naturally allow us to do more. But whatever our constraints, we always do our best to make family photos look as good as they possibly can on screen.
When it comes to dust, I found a more practical reason for removing and/or minimizing it as much as possible: The first time I added motion to an "undusted" photo, the white dust particles twinkled like stars. I found this very distracting and annoying. So I've been correcting for dust ever since.
One thing that's off limits: Altering the reality of a person or a scene depicted in a photograph. This means never adding items that weren't there to begin with or removing objects or people that were in the original shot.


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Weir Puts NASA's Mars Colonization Contest to Challenge
May 8, 2015 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment
Famous SF writer Andy Weir puts NASA's Mars colonization contest to challenge by saying the red planet cannot be populated sooner than 2050.
Andy Weir, a well-known American writer has made public on Thursday afternoon his disbelief in NASA's ability to populate planet Mars. The space authority is going great lengths at present to discover new methods to make Mars' colonization possible around the years 2030. The initial deadline was set to 2020, but recent changes have prolonged the term until 2030.
Given the recent delay, Andy Weir has quickly jumped into conclusions that NASA will not be able to send people to actually live on Mars sooner than 2050. These ideas were expressed in a recent Skype conference held at the George Washington University. The event was meant to promote Weir's latest book "The Martian", a novel about the first human colony populating the red planet.
The author stated during the conference that he has very little confidence in NASA's colonization program. He believes the financial and human resources are too insufficient for NASA to actually manage to send a team of astronauts on Mars earlier than 2050.
Weir's declaration comes to contradict the recent declaration of the NASA administrator Charles Bolden. He has announced this week that the aeronautics administration has enough resources to reach Mars in less than 20 years.
Moreover, the agency has further disclosed this week that the first test flight of the Orion spacecraft was completed in December 2014. Orion is the spaceship that NASA plans to use in order to send humans on Mars, when the time comes.
Although Weir's statement is rather plausible, scientists claim he does not have sufficient evidence to support his arguments. At the opposite pole, lies NASA's point of view, based on numerous scientific data, studies and researches.
Aeronautics experts at NASA did not pay too much attention to Weir's declaration as the administration is currently raising awareness for their colonization plans.
The administration has recently announced a contest inviting people to make suggestions for the colonization program. Participants can win $5,000 if they come up with significant ideas NASA could use to help people adapt on Mars.
Proposals have to contain technological, feasible and economic ideas for the preservation of human life on the red planet.
The lay public is free to make as many suggestions as possible related to shelter construction ideas, food, air and water supply. Ideas encouraging humans' interaction, communications and exercises are highly welcomed, as well.
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About Janet Vasquez
Janet hasn't had the happiest of childhoods. Her parents shipped her off to a girl-only boarding school when she was merely a child. After a few years spent with the nuns she unexpectedly remained pregnant and was kicked from the school. But this didn't hinder her.


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Resinoids are extracts of resinous plant exudates (balsams, oleo gum resins, and natural oleoresins).

Production
Resinous plant exudates (balsams, oleo gum resins, and natural oleoresins) and animal secretions (ambergris, castoreum, musk, and civet) are extracted with solvents such as methanol, ethanol, toluene, or acetone. Yields range from 50 to 95%. The products mainly consist of nonvolatile, resinous compounds. They are usually highly viscous and are sometimes diluted (e.g., with phthalates or benzyl benzoate) to improve their flow and processing properties.

Uses
Resinoids are mainly used as perfume fixatives.

Oleoresins
The resinoids described above should be distinguished from prepared oleoresins (e.g., pepper, ginger, vanilla oleoresins), which are concentrates prepared from spices by solvent extraction. The solvent that is used depends on the spice; currently, these products are often obtained by extraction with supercritical carbon dioxide. Pepper and ginger oleoresins contain not only volatile aroma compounds, but also substances responsible for pungency.

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"The Bridal Party" (which was featured in the Saturday Evening Post, August 9, 1930) is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Based on Ludlow Fowler's brother's, Powell Fowler, May 1930 Paris wedding, it is Fitzgerald's first story dealing with the stock market crash, and celebrates the end of the period when wealthy Americans colonized Paris.1
The story begins in Paris, sometime around May. The main character, Michael Curly, is introduced, along with the news that his ex-girlfriend, Caroline Dandy, who he dated for two years, is engaged and will be getting married in Paris. It explains that the two broke up because of Michael's lack of money. He was devastated and could not let go, evident by his insecurity and the fact that he carried around photographs of her. He also stayed away from other girls, hoping that she would do the same with men. One day outside of a shop, he encounters Caroline and her fiancé, Hamilton Rutherford. Rutherford invites Michael to a string of events, including his bachelor dinner, a party and tea. As they talk, his feelings for her resurge. As they parted ways, Michael feels he will never be happy again. At his hotel, the concierge delivers a telegram, which states that his grandfather passed away, and that he would be inheriting a quarter of a million dollars. Because of his newly found fortune, he decides he will try to win Caroline back.
When he attends one of the parties, he meets Hamilton's father, and as more people arrive, he feels increasingly inadequate. When he finds Caroline, he is reluctant to tell her about his inheritance. They eventually dance together, and she explains how she is over him and that he should do the same. She says she feels sorry for him, and that she needs someone like Hamilton to make all the decisions. Gathering enough nerve, Michael writes to Hamilton to confront him about his intentions and asks him to meet in the bar of a hotel. Michael arrives and overhears Hamilton talking to another man about how easy it is to control a woman, and that you cannot stand for any nonsense—adding, there are hardly any men who possess their wives anymore and that he is going to be one of them. Michael becomes outraged and questions his out of date attitude. Hamilton strikes back, saying that Michael is too sensitive. Eventually Hamilton leaves.
Michael attends the next party with nice, new clothes. A woman, Marjorie Collins, shows up and demands to speak to Hamilton, threatening to cause a scene. Michael avoids the drama and goes to see Caroline at her hotel. They argue about how Hamilton treats her, and Michael eventually confesses his love for her. Caroline does not seem to care, as she notices he has new, expensive clothes, at which point, Michael tells her about his inheritance.
Hamilton returns from the party and explains that the woman tried to blackmail him. As he opens a telegram, he discovers that all of his fortunes are gone, because he had stuck with a mistake for too long. At the point when Caroline could decide to stay with Hamilton, or leave him for a newly rich Michael, she surprisingly chooses Hamilton. Michael attends the ceremony, and he learns from an acquaintance, George Packman, that a man had offered Hamilton a substantial salaried job right before the wedding. As the reception carries on, Michael realizes that he has not thought of Caroline for hours, and that he was cured from his inability to move on. He is no longer bitter, and the story concludes with him wondering which bridesmaid he should have dinner with that night.
The Jazz Age represented a break with tradition, due to the feeling of disconnect created by modernity. It was the "decade of prosperity, excess and abandon, which began after the end of World War I and ended with the 1929 stock market crash."2 Fitzgerald was included in the Lost Generation, a group of U.S. writers who grew up during the war and created their literary reputations in the 1920s. They were "lost" because in the postwar world, the values that were passed on to them seemed irrelevant. They possessed a spiritual alienation from a country that appeared to be "provincial, materialistic and emotionally barren."3 As James L. West, Penn State Fitzgerald scholar, said, "He [Fitzgerald] saw with considerable accuracy, the excesses and gaudiness of American society in the modern era—but he saw the great willingness of the heart that's also deeply American."4
Critical Theories
Biographical Criticism
If readers understand an author's life, it can help them better comprehend the work. More often than not, an author's experience influences what he or she creates. This is no different for F. Scott Fitzgerald. Though highly acclaimed, he has been criticized for being too "unimaginative" because his fictional stories were written from real-life characters and events. In The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, John B. Chambers argued that previous Fitzgerald criticism had almost unanimously regarded the young Fitzgerald as an "emotional rather than a conceptual thinker" who "could write movingly of experiences…without possessing an intellectual understanding of them." Chambers believed that consistent ideas were apparent in all of Fitzgerald's novels, and that the ideas could only be appreciated if we cast aside false biographical explanations and make an "objective study" of the content and technique in the novels themselves.5 While one could agree, one cannot disregard the impact Fitzgerald's life has had on his novels.
It seems writers today could only hope for as much inspiring writing material as Fitzgerald was able to derive from his life. One life event relatable to his work, The Bridal Party, occurred when his then-fiancée, Zelda Sayre, broke off their engagement because of Fitzgerald's poor economic status.6 However, after his novel This Side of Paradise was published, it provided him with almost instant success, and a week later he married Zelda. Around 1930, he was drinking "heavily, when Powell Fowler was married in Paris—there was a round of parties from which he never sobered up."7 Like his life at that time, The Bridal Party focuses on themes such as the Great Depression, and whether one should marry for love or money. Although this was one of the earliest examples of biographical correlations found in Fitzgerald's work, his novels This Side of Paradise, Tender is The Night, and many others contain more similarities to his life—particularly the tumultuous relationship he had with his schizophrenic wife Zelda.
For instance, in Tender is The Night, Dick Diver, the main character, and Fitzgerald used their wives' vulnerabilities for monetary and career purposes (as both women were affluent schizophrenics). Fitzgerald even plagiarized some of his wife's private letters to him for the story and publicly exposed her sickness, with little concern of how she might have reacted. In a 1936 letter to their fellow expatriate friends, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Fitzgerald described Zelda, "She was always my child…I was her great reality, often the only liaison agent who could make the world tangible to her."8
Like Dick, Fitzgerald increasingly turned to alcohol to escape his problems. Furthermore, Fitzgerald's father died in 1931, and he returned to America for the funeral.9 Dick experienced a similar situation in the novel as well. Realizing his world was collapsing, Dick got into a fight and was imprisoned; much like Fitzgerald was in 1924 after he fought with a taxi driver and policeman.10 These are only a few examples. While some readers and critics do not appreciate Fitzgerald's redundant, life-based stories, it cannot be denied that his eventful life has had a profound effect on his subject matter. To some it adds realism and emotional intensity to his fictional characters.
Gender and Sociological Criticism
Like biographical critics, it is not difficult for gender and sociological critics to find passages to analyze in The Bridal Party either. In fact, many of the stories that Fitzgerald has written emasculate women, and cause them to look weak and dependent or crazy, even if they triumph such obstacles in the end. This story presents a range of issues, from the attitudes and reasons for marriage, to the relationship between men and women in general. The Bridal Party may have been more relevant to people of Fitzgerald's time, the Jazz Age, because women were becoming increasingly independent and "masculine" by cutting their hair, drinking during Prohibition, and wearing short skirts whereas now, it is not so avant-garde or shocking. Before the roaring twenties, women, for the most part, were expected to stay home and raise the children. Though one could argue this still occurs today, many women married men for financial stability. Men control many of Fitzgerald's female characters in a paternal way, reminiscent of Ibsen's "A Doll's House."11
For example, on page 58 of Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald described Rosemary, "like most women she liked to be told how she should feel and she liked Dick telling her what is sad or ludicrous." He demonstrates though, that some women have more control over their own lives than the reader might think. In The Bridal Party, Hamilton says, "I saw what happened to most of my friends, and I decided it wasn't going to happen to me. It isn't so difficult; if you take a girl with common sense, and tell her what's what, and do your stuff damn well, and play decently square with her, it's a marriage. If you stand for any nonsense at the beginning, it's one of these arrangements—within five years the man gets out, or else the girl gobbles him up and you have the usual mess." Then to Michael he says, "Women aren't so darn sensitive. It's fellows like you who are sensitive; it's fellows like you they exploit—all your devotion and kindness and all that."12 In previous times, men probably were not worried about such a situation because women were more likely to keep quiet and "obey" their husbands. During this time period though, there is obviously a type of role reversal taking place, like many people feel there is now. Men are becoming more empathetic and willing to become stay at home dads with verbally abusive wives, and women can practically wear whatever they want, date or marry whomever they want, go to work, drive automobiles, smoke, and whatever else they put their minds to. Though sexism and discrimination are still present, they are much less of a problem than they were seventy years ago. Ultimately, Caroline chooses Hamilton even though she knows he has no more money, proving that she is not marrying for money like one expected.
Because F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for writing novels concerning themes such as wealth and society in the roaring twenties, parties, and despair, one may not know that he created many less celebrated texts that stray from these themes. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a great example of one of those stories. A touching yet hilarious tale, it turns fantasy into a reality. It begins in 1860 with the birth of a man who is about eighty years old. It follows his life events as he ages in reverse, from going to war, running a business, having kids, going to college after being teased, then to kindergarten and so on. During this time period, he is able to see remarkable changes take place in society with the automobile and other modern technology created in the 1900's. He falls in love at fifty, with a woman in her thirties because they preferred each other at that age, but things are not the same once he starts to act younger, and she loses her attractiveness with time.13 This age difference provides humor in the story and parallels situations today because at one point she appears to be a gold-digger, and a "cougar" at another. Since it deals with different stages of life, it is relatable to audiences of all ages.
Mark Twain's quote in William Phelps' Autobiography with Letters, is said to have inspired the short story: "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."14 However, aging backwards is not as grand as it may seem. This notion is proven in the story by an embarrassed father who forces Benjamin to dye his hair in order to look younger, and having to call his own son "uncle" because he looks so young that his son feels like his dad when guests come over. His wife wants him to control his aging but he obviously cannot. She states with a hint of jealousy on page 175, "If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate." To which he says, "But, Hildegarde, I can't help it." And she replies, "You can too. You are simply stubborn. You think you don't want to be like any one else. You always have been that way and you always will be." On the page before that, however, one discovers Benjamin "had hoped once he reached a bodily age equivalent to his age in years, that the grotesque phenomenon which had marked his birth would cease to function"—and he shuddered because it had not.15 Many people probably shudder once they realize that they will never stop aging, and one can easily see how these progressive steps towards death could trigger a midlife crisis—complete with hair dye and a sports car.
The aspect that is slightly ironic about the whole situation is the similarity between being old and very young. For example, unfortunately, some elderly people slowly lose their memory, become bald, and in diapers with no teeth, need to be taken care of just like a child. The story implies that the middle years are when people are able to do most of the enjoyable things in life, because they are not restricted by the social norms of what is acceptable for a certain age. Fitzgerald reveals such limitations in the story, such as how one cannot smoke until he or she is of a certain age, or how it is unusual when one is mature and trying to obtain a college degree.
This short, easy read forces the reader to think about their own mortality and to appreciate the time he or she has to experience life. Mr. Button is afraid of getting too young, similar to the way in which aging people do not want to get old and decrepit. They want to be able to see what events lay ahead for their family and society. Even though the story was written in 1922, is still relevant because almost everyone is concerned with aging and with how they feel on the inside versus how he or she looks on the outside.16 All of these stories prove how most of the themes Fitzgerald writes about cross generation gaps, and reveal perpetual cycles in our society.
Historical Criticism
Growing up during the Great Depression and between world wars, Fitzgerald provides a romantic and economic parallel in The Bridal Party. Michael Curly's statement, "I don't want to live—I used to dream about our home, our children," accurately reflects the mindset of American people during and after the Stock Market crash of 1929.17 For those who lost their homes, life savings and notions of the American dream, it was hard to find a way out of their predicament. The turning point for the protagonist in this story can be seen as the sunlit door from which his newlywed ex-girlfriend exits, "forward to the future."18
F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, The Bridal Party, is his first that touches on the dramatic effects of such a devastating event as the stock market crash. Though other themes are evident throughout the story, such as the effects of wealth on society, and excessive parties set in the roaring twenties, the relationship between Mr. Curly and his ex, Caroline can easily be compared to the stock market crash. The news of her engagement delivers a sudden grim reality to Michael, much like the Great Depression itself. It is assumed that Michael and his ex-girlfriend had a great relationship before their separation, but the reader finds that he "lost her slowly, tragically, uselessly, because he had no money."19 This must have been how stock traders on Wall Street felt as they watched the value of stocks decline and tried to sell them in a panic on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929.20 When he discovers that she is going to marry another, richer, man he pessimistically thought, "I will never be happy at all any more."21 However, it is obvious that he is overreacting to horrible news and did not know what to think about the situation. Even Michael's view of Caroline's appearance as "strained and tired—shadows under her eyes" is reminiscent of Dorothea Lange's documentary photographs from the Great Depression.22 Her subjects, like those seen in Migrant Mother, are abandoned and desperate with little hope in their faces. Caroline later says that she feels sorry for the way they were, but she was over him, and he should move on as well.23 His depression was intensified by feelings of inadequacy, due to a lack of money. Seeing his ex with another man only made his misery worse. His situation is similar to that of Americans during that time because neither had experienced such widespread economic failure.24
As pompous and misogynistic as her fiancé was, he rightfully says, "your affair was founded on sorrow, it seems to me that a marriage ought to be based on hope."25 Perhaps the same hope that people needed during the thirties to recover from the Great Depression. Luckily, Franklin D. Roosevelt's plans for a New Deal and the economic resurgence provided from World War II pulled the country out of its rut. After Michael "floats in an abyss of helplessness", he finally gains the ability to let go. A simple change in his attitude causes the "bitterness to melt out of him," and he is finally able to move on.26 Though Michael is initially heartbroken, his "New Deal" is finding inner peace by realizing how happy the two are and that he would not be able to have a good future by dwelling on the negative past. While this story possesses significant ties to the stock market crash and Great Depression, it is relevant today because of the current concerns about recession.
Novel Publication: The Romantic Egotist, re-titled as This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender is the Night (1934), The Last Tycoon (published posthumously, 1941)
Story Publication: "The Ordeal," revised as "Benediction" (Nassau Literary Magazine, 1915), "Babes in the Woods" (The Smart Set, 1919), "Head and Shoulders" (Saturday Evening Post, 1919), "The Debutante," "Porcelian and Pink," "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" (The Smart Set, 1919-1920), "Myra Meets His Family," "The Camel's Back," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Ice Palace" and "The Offshore Pirate" (Saturday Evening Post, 1920), "May Day" (The Smart Set, 1920), "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (The Smart Set, 1922), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Collier's, 1922), "Winter Dreams" (Metropolitan Magazine, 1922), "How to Live on $36,000 a Year" (Saturday Evening Post, 1924), "Absolution" (The American Mercury, 1924), "The Sensible Thing" (Liberty, 1924), "The Rich Boy" (Redbook Magazine, 1926), "How to Waste Material: A Note on My Generation" (The Bookman, 1926), "The Scandal Detectives" (first of eight-story Basil Duke Lee series: Saturday Evening Post, 1928), "The Freshest Boy" (1928), "The Last of the Belles" (Saturday Evening Post, 1929), "The Bridal Party" (Saturday Evening Post, 1930), "First Blood" (first of five-story Josephine Perry series: Saturday Evening Post, 1930), "One Trip Abroad" (Saturday Evening Post, 1930), "Babylon Revisited" and "Emotional Bankruptcy" (Saturday Evening Post, 1931), "Crazy Sunday" (The American Mercury, 1932), "Ring" (The New Republic, 1933), "The Fiend" (1935), "The Crack Up" and "Afternoon of an Author" (Esquire, 1936), "Trouble" (Saturday Evening Post, 1937), and "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish" (first of seventeen-story series: Esquire, 1940).
Play Production: The Girl from Lazy J (1911), The Captured Shadow (1912), Coward (1913), Assorted Spirits (1914), The Vegetable (published but failed at New Jersey tryout in 1923).
Collection Publication: Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of The Jazz Age (1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926), Taps at Reveille (1935), The Crack Up and The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald (1945)27
About the Author: Timeline
September 24, 1896- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (named after distant relative Francis Scott Key, who authored The National Anthem) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
September 1911-He attended the Newman School, a Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey.
September 1913-He enrolls at Princeton as a member of the class of 1917, but was not the most dedicated student.
1917-He joined the army and received commission as infantry 2nd lieutenant.
1918- He reports to Camp Sheridan in Alabama. It was there that he fell in love with eighteen-year old Zelda Sayre, who was an Alabama Supreme Court judge's youngest daughter.
1919-Zelda did not want to live off of his meager salary, so she ended their engagement. 1920-His first novel became a success, the two married and began their life in roaring twenties fashion: drinking, parties, trips around Europe, and so on.
1921-Their daughter Frances Scott (Scottie) Fitzgerald is born October 26. His drinking increased, and he and Zelda frequently fought.
1924-Zelda became involved with a French naval aviator, and her odd behavior increased. Over the years, the two would return to, and leave, America for Paris, the French Riviera, Italy, and even northern Africa.
1930-Zelda has her first breakdown, and she was treated at various Swiss clinics. Fitzgerald was forced to sell short stories to help pay for her costly bills. She improved, but suffered yet another breakdown in 1932 and basically spent the rest of her life in sanitariums. Their daughter, Frances Scott (Scottie), stayed with a surrogate family and Fitzgerald communicated with her through mail.
July 1937-He eventually went to California to do contract work (for the third time) for Hollywood film companies. Though he occasionally visited his wife, he fell in love with movie columnist Sheilah Graham.
February 1939-Fired for drunkenness. He was hospitalized in New York.
Summer 1939-He began his last novel, The Love of The Last Tycoon.
December 21, 1940-Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in Graham's apartment.
March 1948-His wife Zelda, perished in a fire at Highland Hospital.
November 1975-Fitzgerald and Zelda finally buried together in Rockville, Maryland.28
1Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. "The Bridal Party." The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection. (New York: Scribner. 1989), 561. 2 "F. Scott Fitzgerald Criticism." http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/fitzgerald-f-scott (accessed July 24, 2008). 3 "Lost Generation." Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. 4Blackwell, Jon. "1920: Fitzgerald's Own 'Paradise'." http://www.capitalcentury.com/1920.html (accessed July 26, 2008). 5Derrick, Scott. "Review of John Chambers." American Literature. Vol. 63. No.2, June, 1991, Duke University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2927185 (accessed July 25, 2008). 6"A Brief Life of Fitzgerald." http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html (accessed July 23, 2008). 7Larson, Thomas. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited: A Long Expostulation and Explanation." http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tdlarson/fsf/babylon/chap_1.htm (accessed July 24, 2008). 8"Fitzgerald Chronology." http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/chronology/chronology.asp (accessed July 25, 2008). 9"A Fitzgerald Chronology." http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/chronology.html (accessed July 23, 2008). 10"Fitzgerald Chronology." http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/chronology/chronology.asp. 11Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing. (Pearson Longman, 2007),1054. 12Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. "The Bridal Party." 568. 13Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection. (New York: Scribner. 1989), 159. 14"Age." http://www.twainquotes.com/Age.html (accessed July 16, 2008). 15Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." 174. 16Ibid, 159. 17Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. "The Bridal Party." 571. 18Ibid, 573. 19Ibid, 561. 20 "Great Depression." Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. 21Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. "The Bridal Party." 563. 22Ibid, 565. 23Ibid, 566. 24"Great Depression." Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. 25Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. "The Bridal Party." 568. 26Ibid, 576. 27 "A Fitzgerald Chronology." http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/chronology.html 28"Fitzgerald Chronology." http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/chronology/chronology.asp
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Per Johansson, född 28 juni 1960 i Arbrå, Hälsingland, är en svensk pendeltågsförare. Johansson blev som tunnelbaneförare hos Connex i Stockholm fackligt engagerat i SEKO-klubben, Klubb 119.

Som klubbordförande var han stridbar; bland annat drev han frågor kring säkerheten för personal och passagerare i tunnelbanan. Han avskedades av Connex 6 oktober 2005 på grund av nedvärderande uttalanden och aggressivt uppträdande mot kollegor och arbetsledning. Connex menade också att Johansson varit illojal, vilket enligt kritiker syftade på att han gått ut i media med brister i säkerhet orsakade av bristande underhåll på vagnarna. Klubb 119 har även hela tiden varit emot privatiseringen av Stockholms tunnelbana. Avskedandet prövades i Arbetsdomstolen som fann att avskedandet hade saklig grund. Per Johansson arbetar numera som pendeltågsförare i Stockholm.

Per Johansson har beslutat att driva fallet till Europadomstolen för att pröva om hans yttrandefrihet har blivit kränkt.

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BusinessJun 17th 2000 edition
Japanese retailing
We've come to monitor your environmental compliance
A ROW involving the residents of a sleepy Tokyo ward and the opening hours of Don Quixote, an eclectic Japanese retailer, might seem unlikely material for a drama being played on the world stage. Yet when the 52 assembly members of Suginami ward met this week to chew over a controversial new by-law, it was not just the locals who had an eye on the outcome. Tokyo's powerful city government has taken a keen interest, as have top officials from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). Hiroshi Yamada, the youthful local mayor who has championed the new law, even reports a recent visit from the American government.
Mr Yamada owes his moment in the spotlight to a new law regulating the opening of big shops in Japan, which took effect this month. Unlike the notorious legislation it replaced, which protected Japan's myriad small-shop owners, the new rules aim to regulate not large shops in themselves but the environmental effects of their business. America has a particular interest in the new rules. It was American trade officials who, in 1990, bullied the Japanese government into a gradual easing of the old restrictions on big retailers. More than $1 billion-worth of American investment followed, disrupting cosy business practices and bringing names such as Toys "R" Us and Gap to Japanese high streets. MITI claims that the new law will open the industry to more deregulation. But the new regime may not be any more favourable to big retailers than was the old one.
The worry is that, although the new law no longer explicitly protects small-shop owners, it will still be used to shield them from the big-store chains. Under the old regime local governments, which administered the law, organised an "adjustment process" between big-store developers and local shop owners. At its most naked, this meant that big retailers gave bribes to powerful local shop-owners' associations. Often, these associations managed to block the chains altogether. Japan's big stores fear that these associations will be able to continue frustrating their expansion under the new law. Only their rhetoric will change, from protecting small shops to protecting the environment.
On top of this, the responsibility for drawing up the ground rules passes from MITI to Japan's prefectural and big-city governments. MITI officials say this is part of a wider pattern of devolution in Japan. But it also brings the exercise of power closer to the small-shop owners who have blocked big retailers in the past. MITI has issued, in loving detail, a set of national guidelines to cover parking regulations, traffic congestion, noise pollution and so on. But, with no obligation to adopt them, several independent-minded prefectures have already announced their own, tougher, rules.
To complicate things further, the new law covers only shops with floor space greater than 1,000 square metres. Japan's 3,300-odd municipal governments, which have been deprived of a role under the new system, have seized the chance to draft their own environmental rules to cover smaller shops. A recent survey of 117 municipalities by the Nikkei Shimbun, Japan's leading business newspaper, found that nearly half of them planned new rules. Some municipalities, such as Suginami, even have ambitions to regulate the bigger shops that fall under the national rules as well. Suginami plans to force all big retailers to conclude "environmental agreements" with local residents. If they break these agreements, says Mr Yamada, Suginami will publicise their crimes—repeatedly. Don Quixote has taken the new ordinance seriously, even offering to set aside 70 square metres in its shop as a permanent office for local citizens' groups, who can then monitor compliance with its environmental agreement from the inside.
A recurrence of Japan's old bureaucratic disease? MITI claims otherwise. Officials point out, for instance, that prefectural governments may draw up rules that are stricter than the national guidelines only if they have a "rational ground for calculating" their own rules. Yokohama's tough parking rules are rational, thinks MITI, because the city has been doing research on local traffic conditions since 1980. MITI also takes a dim view of the municipal governments' proposed regulations, arguing that they may not impose standards on small shops that are stricter than the national guidelines for bigger outlets. For those who worry that local governments will use the application process itself to delay projects interminably, MITI has passed a law requiring prefectural governments to reach a decision within eight months.
If anything, MITI is in danger of overreacting to the local diversity that has begun to emerge. The big-shop developers say they are worried about the unpredictability that will come from a patchwork of local regulatory regimes. But the pernicious effects of insensitive, over-centralised rules are everywhere to be seen in Japan, especially on the environment. Local politicians such as Mr Yamada appear genuine in their desire to reclaim their communities for the people who live in them. His methods seem spot on, too. Mr Yamada's proposed rules for big retailers include a provision to make all negotiations between local residents and retailers public, so that nobody can abuse the process for personal interests. A good idea, that one.
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TRN Top 10 high school football poll (Oct. 27)
The TRN's Top 10 poll is put together by Zach Duncan and indicative on a team's performance relative to its classification.
TRN Top 10 high school football poll (Oct. 27) The TRN's Top 10 poll is put together by Zach Duncan and indicative on a team's performance relative to its classification. Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/10/27/trn-top-10-high-school-football-poll-oct-20-holliday-hirschi-seymour-graham-crowell-windthorst/1791605002/
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Windthorst defeated Santo at home Friday night. Lauren Roberts, Times Record News
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The TRN's Top 10 poll is put together by Zach Duncan and indicative on a team's performance relative to its classification:
1. Holliday (7-1) – Gunter remains only team to score against Eagles in the first half this season. Five different Holliday ballcarriers gained at least 45 rushing yards against Callisburg.
2. Waurika (8-0) – The Eagles have now won at least eight games in three of the past four seasons. They've outscored their last three district foes 160-0.
3. Hirschi (6-2) – After forcing only five turnovers in last four games, the Huskies' defense totaled four against Burkburnett. Springtown's offense (49.5 ppg) will be Huskies' biggest test yet.
4. Seymour (7-1) – Five different Panther defenders have been responsible for three turnovers (interceptions/fumble recoveries). The 4-2A Division I favorites get Lindsay and Chico to close season.
5. Graham (5-3) – Quarterback Hunter Lanham hasn't thrown a pick during Steers' five-game winning streak. The sophomore has averaged 242.4 passing yards and thrown 18 touchdown passes since 0-3 start.
6. Crowell (7-1) – Wildcats average 14.9 yards per play against Northside with half their eight touchdowns 38 yards or longer. Win at Paducah Friday locks up 3-A Division I title.
7. Tipton (7-2) – Tigers won't take field again until playoffs because of Temple's forfeit. They haven't lost district game since 2015 against Grandfield.
8. Windthorst (5-3) – Hunter Wolf becomes Trojans' career passing leader against Santo. The senior is currently at 6,103 yards, surpassing Chandler King's 5,971.
9. Frederick (8-1) – The last time the Bombers won a district title, Seymour's Hugh Farmer was the head coach. They can accomplish that feat Friday at home against Hobart.
10. Archer City (6-2) – Of the Wildcats' 30 turnovers forced, the defense has returned six of those for touchdowns. A win at Ranger will clinch first playoff appearance since 2010.
Out: None.
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Thinking About Introducing A3 Problem-Solving? Think Twice if Leadership Isn't Engaged
By David Verble
Your organization's leadership doesn't support introducing the A3 problem-solving process, but why not introduce it into your unit or area of responsibility? Experienced lean management coach and practitioner David Verble cautions that it will be very, very hard to succeed for reasons he explains in this Q&A follow-up to a recent webinar on the A3 process.
Several hundred managers and continuous improvement professionals attended the Lean Enterprise Institute webinar Beyond Problem-Solving: Other Facets of the A3 Process You Should Know and Practice with presenter and coach David Verble. He couldn't get to a few key questions during the webinar hour, so he's tackled them in follow-up articles on the Lean Post. The final one follows with links at the end to the webinar and previous answers along with recommendations for learning more. Make sure you are subscribed to the Lean Post and our free newsletters to get the latest alerts about webinars and other content.
Q: How do you introduce A3 thinking to an organization where leaders or managers are not engaged in the A3 process and there is no culture of respect for people and their ideas?
David: You can't get there from here. If managers and leaders are not experienced and engaged, then they're going to do things that shut down problem-solvers attempting to talk about their challenges using the A3 format. They'll disrespect people by challenging them on what they say and by telling them what they should think instead. They will tend to ask leading questions that point the problem-solver toward what the leader thinks they should be doing. It doesn't sound much different from the cultures in most organizations.
If managers and leaders are not experienced and engaged, then they're going to do things that shut down problem-solvers …For example, I worked with a company that had several small plants located nearby in a small city. I was working with the plant managers, primarily, but their continuous improvement leads were also part of the program. I asked each of the managers to write on a sheet of flip chart paper what was one problem down in their organization that they really felt some urgency to solve.
Because the city was small, I gave them an hour and 15 minutes to go to their plants, go to the site of the problems they listed, spend half an hour observing what was happening, then another half hour asking questions of the people who dealt with the problems. When they came back, I asked them to write their understanding of the problem next to what they had posted originally. All the plant managers reported that the problems were different from what they had thought.
The reality is that in most cases, unit managers, department heads, senior executives, and CEOs do not really know what's going on in problem situations in the value-creating work streams in their operations. But they assume they do. What they know in most cases is based on past experience, historical information, pattern recognition, or intuition. They very likely don't know the reality of problems happening now like the people dealing with them do.
But from their assumptions, leaders and managers do things, say things, tell things, that are destructive to the problem-solving efforts of people down in the organization. They aren't intentionally disrespectful, but they end up being disrespectful. And they end up creating an environment where people down in the organization don't feel safe to share what they're seeing, what they're concerned about, or ideas about what's going on or what to do. It doesn't take much of that kind of behavior to shut down the willingness of people to do problem-solving and create A3s proposing solutions. That's why I say you can't get there from here.
Editor: David, what initiative can the person who asked this question take? If he or she has some sort of responsibility in a unit or an area, shouldn't they try to introduce A3 thinking there?
David: So, here's the complicating factor. Without individual coaching, people tend to make the same assumptions that leaders make – that they "know." There has to be a coach who can ask him or her things like, "Well, what did you see that made you think that? What do other people there say is going on?"
We think we know more than we know. The vast majority of what we think is fact is based on impressions, intuitions, or assumptions. There's nothing wrong with that but they have to be backed up by going to the gemba — to the site of the problem – observing it yourself, talking to people who deal with the problem daily, and collecting data. We don't think to do those things because we have such calm confidence in our assumptions. And that's the role of a coach.
Editor: So, you have to have that coach to introduce the A3 problem-solving process properly?
David: You have to have a coach who can recognize the need to ask those questions because we tend to tell ourselves a story about what's going on that's not necessarily what's actually going on at the problem site. It's human nature. Somebody has to poke holes in those assumptions by asking open-ended questions about, "How do you know that? What leads you to think that? What else did you hear?"
You have to have a coach who can recognize the need to ask those questions because we tend to tell ourselves a story about what's going on that's not necessarily what's actually going on at the problem site.
Questions like those make a person stop, think, and hopefully, go back to get additional and better information. The coach needs to help people frame their assumptions and intuitions as rapid learning experiments and to approach them with an open mind.
Let me add one more element about coaching. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was involved in developing education programs to introduce Toyota's problem-solving process to North American employees and leaders. In Japan, this was done through on-the-job development as described in the Managing to Learn book.
We created a series of A3 courses for North American leaders and managers. And what we found was there was a limit to what you could do with education alone in a classroom. You really did not learn how to do A3 problem-solving until you tried to apply what you learned, ideally with a coach to help you recognize where you were coming close and where you weren't.
The problem was that in North American Toyota, everybody was learning at the same time, so there was nobody to coach. In the early days, we had Japanese leaders in the plants who could do some coaching despite language differences. But after that, unfortunately, North American management was often not able to do coaching because they hadn't had enough experience with the process themselves.
Toyota introduced the Toyota Way and Toyota Business Problem Solving in 2005 as cascading training programs. North American executives went through a workshop that I helped develop based on documentation of Toyota business problem-solving in Japan. Each participant had to create an A3 and present it to a panel of senior Japanese leaders for review and coaching. They could not "graduate" until they had created an A3 that the committee of senior leaders deemed acceptable based on evaluation criteria.
After the senior North American leadership completed the workshop, their direct reports went through the program with the same requirement to produce an A3. The executives who had completed the program became the coaches and reviewers for the next level. It cascaded on down through the organization to the supervisor and specialist levels. A coach had to sign off on the A3 before the learner could present it. So, there was a bit of pressure on a leader because his or her name was on the A3 along with the person who created it. It was pretty intensive.
I believe this cascading process that Toyota established for North America and its other overseas operations demonstrates that they recognized that a hands-on, fact-based process like their Business Problem-Solving has to be learned through the help of coaches. These coaches need to have the experience to ask questions that can help learners get past our tendency to assume "we know" and seek to learn the actual conditions of problem situations.
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By age 26, Samuel R. "Chip" Delaney had won four Nebula Awards and is arguably the best science fiction writer in the world. After his seventh novel Empire Star(1966), Samuel Delany began publishing short fiction professionally with "The Star Pit." It appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow and was turned into a popular two-hour radio play, broadcast annually over WBAI-FM for more than a decade. Two tales, "Aye, and Gomorrah" and "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones," won Nebula Awards as best SF short stories of, respectively, 1967 and 1969. Aye, and Gomorrah contains all the significant short science fiction and fantasy Delany published between 1965 and 1988, excepting only those tales in his Return to Nev'r'on series. In July of 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
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A nail gun and air compressor tandem gives you more than enough power to install crown molding and baseboards, as well as framed doorways. Make sure to pick up a decent compressor package, one that has – at the very least – a 16-gauge finishing and can shoot up to two-inch nails. This will probably be your most used power tool out of everything on the list.
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Ted Cruz to object to Arizona electors, adding to fraud claims
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Sen. Ted Cruz plans to challenge the Electoral College results from Arizona on Wednesday in a push for an electoral fraud commission.
The Texas Republican isn't objecting because he wants to set aside Arizona's results, but to force a debate on setting up a commission to study possible instances of voter fraud, a source familiar with Cruz's plans told The Post.
Arizona was one of the swing states that narrowly broke for President-elect Joe Biden, who won in the Electoral College 306-232.
The news means allies of President Trump plan to object to at least three states' electors, forcing a debate of up to two hours for each state.
A group in the upper chamber led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is expected to object to Pennsylvania's electors for Biden. Hawley said last week that the state "failed to follow [its] own state election law" by accepting mail-in ballots after Election Day.
And Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) is expected to object to Georgia's electors for Biden.
Official state results indicate that Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes, Arizona by about 10,000 votes and Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes. Trump would have defeated Biden in the Electoral College if he had won the three states.
Trump says voter fraud tipped the narrow outcomes to Biden, but courts rejected his claims.
House Republicans also are interested in challenging electors from Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada — but will need a senator to join them in order to force debates and a vote.
Sen. Josh Hawley will object to Electoral College results on Jan. 6
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) strongly discouraged colleagues from objecting to any electors, saying it would trigger a "terrible" vote for Republicans because some would oppose Trump.
Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD) recently told reporters a challenge would "go down like a shot dog." And a large number of Republican senators said publicly this week they won't support the objections.
Both chambers of Congress would have to accept a challenge to overturn a state's results. The House is controlled by Democrats and will soundly defeat Republican challenges.
Trump acknowledged the long odds at a Monday night rally in Dalton, Ga., but said that Republicans who break with him would suffer consequences.
"We have good support in the Senate. I wouldn't say great, could be better. But people will remember the people that don't support us," Trump said.
In a Tuesday tweet, Trump wrote that Vice President Mike Pence, who is president of the Senate, "has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." Pence's office has given no indication that he will seek to eject any state-approved electors.
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