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Could the whole "Dumb Starbucks" thing just be an elaborate publicity grab? The man behind the Los Angeles sensation that is "Dumb Starbucks" revealed himself on Monday as the star of a Comedy Central show who insists he is committed to his bizarre parody business model.
Nathan Fielder, star of "Nathan For You," stepped out as the CEO of the coffee shop and addressed camera crews and curious Angelenos Monday afternoon outside his uber-popular storefront dubbed "Dumb Starbucks."
But the limelight might be fading for the parody shop now that the LA County Department of Health Services has slapped the store with a notice of closure for operating without a valid public health permit.
The store popped up seemingly out of nowhere in a Los Feliz strip center Feb. 7 in the storefront that once housed the now-defunct Gastronomico.
#DumbStarbucks was the top trending hashtag on Twitter in Los Angeles. The pop-up coffee shop took social media by storm as hundreds of Angelenos tweeted about their fascination with the "dumb" business, including some who waited in line for hours just to get a peek.
"As long as we're making fun of Starbucks, we're allowed to use their corporate identity," Fielder told the crowd.
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Fielder's show, "Nathan For You," is a docu-reality comedy show in which Fielder uses his background in business to offer up new, non-traditional business strategies.
Despite the revelation of the Dumb Starbucks owner's comedy background, Fielder would not say whether the store was part of his show.
The show's slogan, "Real People. Real Business. Results Not Guaranteed" is in line with Dumb Starbucks' online fact sheet that maintains the store is, in fact, a real business.
But Fielder has been known to stage elaborate hoaxes, including a YouTube video showing a pig rescuing a baby goat -- which was actually staged with animal trainers and crew members. The video had more than 8 million views as of Monday.
The logo adorning the Dumb Starbucks storefront and coffee cups is that of the actual Starbucks, but with the word "dumb." The same protocol applies to the entire menu, down to the "dumb" tall, grande and venti sizes.
The imitation coffee chain, aware of its mind-boggling business model, claims its existence at 1802 Hillhurst Avenue is allowed thanks to "parody law" in a Frequently Asked Questions list posted via Twitter.
"By adding the word 'dumb,' we are technically 'making fun of Starbucks, which allows us to use their trademarks under a law known as 'fair use.'"
The FAQ goes on to explain, "Although we are a fully functioning coffee shop, for legal reasons, Dumb Starbucks needs to be categorized as a work of parody art ... But that's for our lawyers to worry about. All you need to do is enjoy our delicious coffee!"
Confused yet curious consumers took to Twitter as they lined up outside the coffee shop in question on Saturday and Sunday.
"Are your dumb coffees still free today?" @LukeOneil47 asked.
"That does it, I'm opening a parody coffee shop called 'Not Dumb Starbucks," @Abobrow said.
"'It may be fake but the work is real' (overheard from the dumb Starbucks baristas),'" @TheBrockyRoad tweeted with a picture of an employee complete with a green apron and black hat with the logos for - you guessed it - Dumb Starbucks.
Fielder <a target="_blank" href="http://">explains in a YouTube video how he was able to market "Dumb Starbucks," and describes the stunt as "a real business I plan to get rich from." Watch below:


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Police: Facebook complaint leads to arrest of convicted sex offender
A Facebook complaint led to the arrest of a convicted sex offender in Shelbyville.
Anthony Bradford, 41, faces several felony and misdemeanor charges.
Kentucky State Police began investigating last week after receiving a complaint of a sexual nature involving an underage girl.
Bradford was arrested Monday afternoon at his home.
He was required to sign up for the sex offender registry after being convicted of third-degree rape involving a 13-year-old.
Bradford is charged with registrant prohibited from using social networking web site, Internet messaging or chat room program by minor, distributing obscene matter to minor first-offense, prohibited use of electronic communication to procure a minor, possession of handgun by convicted felon and possession of firearm by convicted felon.


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Over a week has passed since Undercover Porcupine broke the news on a major issue within the Maine Republican Party, and a bit has changed. The answer is in on Ken Anderson's appeal regarding the Penobscot election, although nobody had the decency to send Anderson the verdict. As was the trend all along, they refused to communicate with him.
In the end, he was declared "not an affected person," and thus his appeal is invalid.
After a year of chaos ended in massive failure for the Republican Party, it appears that lessons have not been learned. The legacy of coverups and corruption appears not to be restricted to just the Charlie Webster era. After calling in the legal cavalry, the leadership acted more like a dictatorship silencing dissent.
Such a power grab is, however, a dangerous gamble with Governor LePage's re-election on the line. But perhaps the Governor will be a price the Maine Republican Party is willing to pay to protect the country club.
The election, as noted in "The Penobscot Heist: When Republicans Play Like Democrats", was about as rigged as carnival game booth. To clarify the title, it was indeed a heist. The Republican establishment utilized the tactics of ACORN to turn out illegal votes by non-voting members in order to steal the election. For all the accusations made about Democrats turning out illegal voters and the jokes about voting early and often, the Republicans have become the embodiment of such statements.
It is not clear whether Bryan Daugherty may have won had the election been fair, given the wide range of irregularities. The situation is that uncertain. Regardless, it is unfair to not only Daugherty, but all Penobscot Republicans to disallow a fair election for leadership positions.
It was also clear to every legal member who showed up that evening that something was not right.
Maine Republican Party Chairman Rich Cebra was present for the meeting prior to the election to deliver his unity speech. After he was done, he took off for the door. Penobscot County Committeewoman Michelle Anderson had called Cebra days before the election and pleaded with him to remain for the election, making him aware that the bylaws were going to be ignored and that non-voting members would be attempting to vote.
He didn't want to hear it. He asked her not to involve him. Cebra finished his speech and headed for the door, much the way he later did with the appeal itself, wanting to avoid controversy and pretend it didn't exist.
After the leader of the Maine Republican Party made a successful escape, the scam went live. Illegal votes were being cast and proxies were being mishandled, amounting to total chaos. It was a shame that the State Party didn't station any ballot challengers in Penobscot like they did across the state in November.
As noted in Ken Anderson's appeal, legal Penobscot County Committee voting member Republican Maria Hodge attempted to monitor the vote count. The request was repeatedly denied. According to Hodge, she was told that the situation was under control.
Well, the Penobscot County Republican elections were about as "under control" as an Iranian presidential election. If your name is Ahmadinejad, then you agree that nothing wrong happened there that day. But Republicans have all been led to believe that the Iranian President is evil and that this issue is of the many reasons why Iran is bad.
The day after the election, Julie Morgan resigned from the State Committee over the situation. At least three others have indicated privately that they are considering doing the same, as the party that claims to be that of integrity, is proving to be anything but.
One cannot be sure what the intent was behind the Maine Republican Party refusing to even acknowledge that something went wrong. Credit has to be given to the top for delaying a response until the last possible minute, however, preventing anyone from filing another appeal.
The issue must be dead. Chalk up a victory for top-down rule.
Surely, everyone knows the "unaffected" better than that.
Despite the cancellation of the March State Committee meeting, word started to spread. The world of social media helped the word spread and members became informed that something was wrong. After all, you can't mask a bad smell.
When word got out to those on State Committee, who would not be seeing each other for two months, it became increasingly clear that transparency was still an issue within the Maine Republican Party.
After it was revealed a prior to the article going live that Undercover Porcupine would be addressing this issue, it was pointed out that pursuant to Maine Republican Party bylaws, Chairman Cebra still had time to act. This was a few weeks after the filing.
Just how much time does one need to do the honorable thing and make the right call, by assembling a five person panel to properly address the situation with a thorough investigation?
The question is void if your intent is to assemble a shield of lawyers and hide from the situation, which is exactly what happened.
Since day one, the response from the Maine Republican Party has been insulting. When word went public that "The Penobscot Heist" was coming, Chairman Richard Cebra wasted no time axing a number of people, including myself, from his "friends list" on Facebook. Despite Undercover Porcupine heavily promoting the former State Representative's campaign for the chairmanship, the deleting began.
It didn't stop there however. Ken Anderson was deleted as a Facebook friend, as was his wife and Penobscot County State Committeewoman Michelle Anderson. The State Chairman began cutting people off, including members of the State Committee.
Such a thin skin for a tough game like politics.
Outrage began to brew, and the excuse began to circulate straight from the top that this was a part of the social media strategy and that a new fan page had been created for the Chairman and he would begin removing friends to convert his page to a personal account.
The timing was interesting. Although two hundred people were removed, several hundred still remained, many of which were political friends. Even Eric Brakey, the Defense of Liberty PAC chairman and former Ron Paul Presidential Campaign State Director who angered Cebra for the rumors spread about him, still remains a friend.
This, along with many other examples, contradict the official damage control attempt by the Maine Republican Party.
It was clear before "The Penobscot Heist" was even written that there would be no negotiation, no steps toward a peaceful conclusion. There would be no resolution. Everything would be done with aggression.
Even though the regime changed, the form of governance still hadn't.
A leader's role is to unite and move forward. The major selling point of Rich Cebra's campaign for the chairmanship was his ability to unite. His proven leadership capabilities in the Legislature had made the case easily. Many people, after the divisive reign of Charlie Webster, were sold.
But there is no unity here.
Ken Anderson's appeal was an honest attempt to handle the situation internally, without publicly making a scene, and to do so through the proper channels. The Maine Republican Party leadership was not interested.
Given the fact that the party is full of independent-minded conservatives and libertarians, it was quite naive for the party leadership to believe this problem would go away. Now it's out of control, in the public eye, and dividing the party.
People are outraged by the Chairman and are unenrolling, further hurting the party going into 2014. With Governor LePage's re-election on the line, the Maine Republican Party is sabotaging the last thing it has left to hang onto.
Social media is the great political tool which has enabled a greater networking of activists and flow of information. It also scares people who have secrets to keep.
Facebook ignited an interesting and revealing conversation, which started with the Albert Einstein quote, "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
Merely six comments into the conversation, State Senator Andre Cushing took a cheap shot at a private citizen, one who is a registered Republican, by saying, "Interesting quote considering the poster." Despite a number of individuals requesting he clarify his statement and explain himself, a response was never offered.
Moving forward, the conversation got interesting. Ryan McCabe, a self-described party insider who boasts insider connections, took issue with the hype behind the Penobscot controversy. Stating his belief that the issue was not that big a deal, he said it's time for Republicans "to move on." He said leadership had reviewed the issue and Chairman Rich Cebra believes the issue is done. The name dropped next in defense of Cebra was interesting: Governor Paul LePage.
Immediately, people jumped to question McCabe. Instead of a response, McCabe asked me to verify his credibility and record. Although out of respect to him the information offered will not be detailed from the last few months, it can be confirmed he has a significant level of credibility. His words could carry significant truth.
So when the words "The Governor has called for an end to this type of non sense" are written by McCabe, who is making the case that this is a non-issue and it's time for people to forget it, it can only be assumed he's implying Governor LePage stands by the wrong.
What does this mean for the Maine Republican Party?
U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe is gone, and both majorities in the State Legislature are lost. All that is left is Governor Paul LePage, who is up for re-election next year.
And McCabe tells us that Governor LePage says move on. Forget it.
Why would a man who rose as the anti-establishment candidate in 2010 be surrounding himself with the corruption in Augusta? What is going on? The uncertainty in the hearts of honest Republicans is growing as they look to the leadership, who is betraying them.
Let's hope this is not true and that Maine Republicans can rely on their Governor to remain strong on his principles, and that he will deny this report and assure us that he will urge Chairman Rich Cebra to assemble a five-person panel to move forward on an investigation.
Another interesting point from McCabe, who claims direct connections to Cebra himself, is that an investigation has occurred. In this conversation, McCabe has indicated that the Chairman has investigated the matter.
There was an investigation? But there was no five-person panel, as required by the Maine Republican Party bylaws, assembled. No one asked Ken Anderson or any of the Penobscot County State Committee members for evidence or testimony.
Did he take things into his own hands? It would appear, if McCabe's past record is any indication of his credibility, that an executive decision was made at the very top, without the State Committee.
That is, if this all is true, then there is something very corrupt occurring in the Maine Republican Party. It's a situation all Republicans need to seriously evaluate going into 2014.
Although those deemed unaffected have been silenced within their own party, they still speak. Hard-working Republicans and passionate human beings, they feel betrayed by their own leadership.
"It saddens me; no, it disgusts me, to find that the Maine Republican Party does not consider its membership to be 'affected' by an obviously illegal election of officers within the party," Ken Anderson, the individual who filed the appeal with the party, told Undercover Porcupine. "To say that a voting member of the Penobscot County is 'not affected' by having his vote discounted by several non-voting members who were nevertheless encouraged and allowed to vote, I don't even know what to say about that."
Who could blame Anderson for being at a loss for words? Nobody expected anyone to want to carry on the legacy of Charlie Webster.
"If I am 'not affected' by the outcome of an election, then why should I bother voting at all?" Anderson continued, posing an important question for all Republicans to consider. All Maine Republicans need to consider what kind of leadership it has, if said leadership is telling the average voter they don't matter.
Ken Anderson finally noted: "If the rule of law means anything at all, then everyone is affected when these rules are tossed to the floor." Unless you're in Iran. And maybe someone should have told those protesting the rigged 2009 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to go home, as they were "unaffected" by the corruption.
"If a legal voting member of the county committee is not an 'affected person' when his vote is drowned out by more than 20 members who were not entitled to vote per the bylaws, then I don't know who would be considered an 'affected person'," Penobscot County State Committeewoman Michelle Anderson, also wife of Ken Anderson, told Undercover Porcupine. "I contend that every member of the party is 'affected' by the fact that the rules are enforced selectively."
The Andersons must be unreasonable people to demand fairness in their elections and an equal application of the rules. Why should anyone take issue with Republican leadership being aspiring Democrats?
"Throughout the process, I have been very quiet hoping that the procedures within our state party bylaws would bring this complaint to a fair solution," Penobscot County State Committeeman Bryan Daugherty told Undercover Porcupine. "Perhaps I should have filed the complaint, but it never occurred to me that the Party would assert that I was the only one involved who was an 'affected person'."
Daugherty continued: "I personally feel that the decision that was made was extremely disingenuous to the core issues that were addressed in the complaint by Mr. Anderson. The ruling puts forth yet another paradigm of governance from the top down, which is supposed to be the opposite of what we, as a party, believe in."
He described well how all those "unaffected" feel. This is not what our party stands for.
Julie Morgan, who resigned from the State Committee in response to this controversy, actually made note that this has been going on far longer than most know. In fact, it has been going on since the State Convention last May.
In a statement to Undercover Porcupine, she notes that pursuant to Robert's Rules of Order, Secretary Wanda Lincoln has certain responsibilities required of her position. Secretary Lincoln is to bring the official membership roll, a list of existing committees and members, bylaws, special rules of order, standing rules, and recent minutes.
Back in June, Morgan requested both the membership roll and county bylaws from Lincoln. The Secretary had neither.
She then took this issue to the Maine Republican Party office, requesting both of these. She did receive a copy of the Penobscot County bylaws, but only a caucus attendee list from February (which is not a membership roll).
Morgan would finally receive the membership roll, but not until January, five days before the officer elections.
"In the seven months that I was active as Committeewoman of Penobscot, not once did we have a membership roll call or a quorum call, and the minutes for the December meeting were never presented or voted on," Julie Morgan further stated.
The December meeting she is referring to, is the meeting in which the bylaws were illegally suspended.
"I am left to conclude that the secretary, Wanda Lincoln, is either totally incompetent or that the County Committee was deliberately corrupted."
There indeed is a lot of corruption around. There can't be this many incompetent people in leadership positions within the Maine Republican Party.
It is not just the opinion of those "unaffected" in Penobscot that this issue needs to be addressed. Russell Montgomery, State Committeeman from Knox County, also weighed in.
"I believe that election corruption at the county level does affect the State Committee as we are made up of elected County members," Montgomery said to Undercover Porcupine. "I think the State Committee leaders have a duty to investigate county elections if the members witness fraud. The State Committee is the only place the witness can go if his county Chair will not correct the corruption or is the problem."
Fairness and due process are radical ideas, but it's clear that it's not just those "unaffected" in Penobscot who believe it should be addressed, so we can properly move forward.
Why does it matter? The truth is, at this point, the issue has become larger than Penobscot. Penobscot's irregularity-filled, yet officially sanctioned election has only revealed to Republicans that their party still has much changing to do. While many conservatives and libertarians stay true to their principles, the leadership seems to have questionable motives and fails to enact an honest approach to governance.
This is a battle for principles.
In Maine, the Republican Party has made a name for itself with public crusades against voter fraud. With pushes for identification requirements and deploying challengers to ballot boxes, the party has made it clear that it will stop at nothing to cure the problem.
Of course, voter fraud is allowed when it results in a convenient election result.
The Maine Republican Party is doing its best impression of Democratic President Barack Obama. To secure its own elite interests, it is resorting to allowing illegal votes and refusing to address the situation. It's strangely reminiscent of President Obama's hypocritical style of aiming to spread democracy abroad, while quickly turning the United States of America into a dictatorship.
Most Republicans don't approve of President Obama, his totalitarian style, or the idea of becoming just like him. Thus, the power struggle between the top-down elite and the principled grassroots continues.
It's time for principled Republicans to fix their leadership. Penobscotgate has shown us there is something seriously wrong.
Certainly, this story still has no ending. More will be told with time.


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British Abstract Painting in the Seventies: Stagnation or New Possibilities?
In the seventies abstract painting in Britain was in crisis. At least that's how it seemed to some. If during the sixties it had become hegemonic that privileged position was on the wane. Peter Fuller would shortly declare American abstraction to be not much more than a CIA plot, within the discipline of painting figuration was in resurgence, whilst outside it performance art and conceptualism were fast becoming the dominant art forms, leading to the stagnation of abstract painting. The exhibition New Possibilities, Abstract Painting from the Seventies, a show of fourteen painters from the period (all still painting today), at the Piper Gallery counters this viewpoint, demonstrating that instead abstraction in this decade was vibrant and varied.
In her gallery talk co curator Sandra Higgins introduces Gary Wragg's Carnival (1977-79) as the show's opening statement, as if it were shouting "this is abstraction!" not a representation of the world, rather a celebration within in it, the gestures and colours resonant of graffiti and the detritus of building sites, brimming with the energy and excitement of the city, simultaneous with its squalor and vulnerability.
And if the opening statement is a shout, the next is almost a whisper: Trevor Sutton's That Swing.4.K (1979), five foot square, bisected by an off vertical line achieved by joining two canvases black to the left and blue to the right, with the green of the painted edge just showing as a narrow line down the (off) centre.
Turning to the Untitled (1973) geometric painting on paper by Patricia Poullain, Higgins tells the story of her continuing to paint every day in her summer-house, facing the countryside, whilst making 'pure painting', both "in nature" and "against nature" at the same time.
In Alice Sielle's 3D Blue and Gold Segments (1978), drawing, within a shallow illusionistic space is more prominent. Approaching Op Art, carefully rendered three-dimensional abstract objects (segments) combine together on a grey ground to make an image that is more than the sum of its parts, appearing to generate light as much as reflect it. Sandra Higgins recalls asking her how she managed to paint it with such precision, and receiving the answer "I don't know".
The one painting I came here specifically to see was Purple Heart (1979) by Mali Morris. If Carnival is a shout and That Swing.4.K is a whisper then this is a song.
The purple heart shape of the title takes up nearly half of the canvas, and around it smaller, colour/forms harmonize, mediating, for me, a set of binary oppositions like hard and soft, head and heart, colour and line, form and content, object and image, words and music.
In Graham Boyd's Descender (1976) the large canvas has undergone a process of masking and spray painting resulting in a series of subtly gradated narrow bands of rich colour creating an undulating optical space.
The earliest painting in the show, Albert Irvin's Glow (1971) has decorative colours that echo the lines of the support whilst also looking virtually formless, the liquid paint poured, sprayed, splattered and at times approaching the condition of a gas.
William Henderson's marvelous Funky Black and Catch Me (1978) is as much built as painted. Rainbow bands on a black ground multiplying from left to right, until at the right hand third the space is completely filled, and the space itself seems to bend and deepen towards that side. It is an exciting painting, the visual equivalent of jazz ( be-bop rather than cool). Looking at the painting with me he explains how he achieved the rainbow stripes by loading a brush with contrasting colours and drawing it across the canvas. Either it worked or it didn't and he would have to do it again.
Perfectly situated at the end of the gallery so it can be seen from many distances is Barrie Cook's spray painted Blue, Red and Yellow Grid (1977). As I journey towards it I am unsure how much of what's happening is optical and how much is physically there.
Black vertical stripes are flanked by blue and violet creating an optical central horizontal light blue line – I think.
There's opticality even in Jeanne Masoero's Basis for Light, Series II, no. 7 (1977) the nearest work in the exhibition to 'systems art'. Comprising built up layers of torn white paper and PVA glue in loosely alternating rectangles of horizontal and vertical lines and resembling ploughed fields seen from the air, the structure is both accentuated and denied by the way the light and shadow is distributed over the uneven surface. Momentarily, I feel sure I see colours on that surface …and then I'm less sure.
Tess Jaray's Petros (1979) indices a different kind of uncertainty, the muted colours at times only just distinguishing the repeated architecture based motifs from the ground on which they seem to hover.
Rush Green (1977) by Frank Bowling is arrived at through the pouring of paint, more gravitational than gestural, the flow of paint looking gentle and slow. The verticality of the image elicits figure associations, and the richness of colour leads me to relate to it as if it were a mummy or possibly even the Turin Shroud.
Whilst Bowling achieves an 'all-over' anti-composition, by contrast C. Morey de Morand's masking tape rectangles in There is Always More (1978) are deliberately placed in four colour groups against a shifting red ground.
Finally, six Desmond Rayner gouaches offer yet another version of abstract painting: Art Deco inspired geometric patterns that could be mistaken for screen prints if it weren't for the uniqueness of the colour mixes. Interested in invention rather than personal expression he sees the works as entertainment, encouraging us to "relax and enjoy (them) at surface level".
Seeing the diversity of these works I find agree with Sam Cornish who, in the catalogue essay, argues that this exhibition shows that
The break up of the Modernist consensus and the rise of the expanded field did not result in abstraction stagnating but rather in a period of complex, even frenetic experimentation, of new possibilities.
But what of continuing relevance? In the same essay Cornish brings attention to Mali Morris's "materiality and touch", which reminds me of the recent article by David Sweet at Abstract Critical where, questioning the relevance of "the kind of average lyrical abstraction of the late colour field period" and highlighting the importance of detail in the era of high-definition he partially equates touch with detail. Commenting on a 2012 painting by Morris he describes her intelligent handling of the "resolution that detail brings".
And glancing up at my HD TV whilst writing this, I am distracted by a programme about the popular singer Tony Bennett, suggesting that his refusal to update his material was later interpreted by younger audiences as "cool" leading to his recent return to popularity. Could it be that Patricia Poullain also remains relevant but this time through her persistence, doggedly following her very specific, repetitive, line of enquiry?
In suggesting that Morris's work stays relevant by updating itself and Poullain's by staying the same I am no doubt having my cake and eating it, so let me suggest a third way in which these abstract painters may continue to be relevant. Advances in the field of cognitive science made since the seventies could make some of these paintings more contemporary now than they were then. Barrie Cook's work for example has affinity with experimental findings made recently into how we construct colour, findings that challenge some of what we thought we knew from Sir Isaac Newton, the philosophical implications of which are explored by Donald D. Hoffman in his book Visual Intelligence, How We Create What We See.
Indulging in these closing speculations I find that I am making a claim not only for the vitality of abstract painting in the seventies but also for the new possibilities abstraction may yet have in store.
New Possibilities: Abstract Painting From The Seventies is on at The Piper Gallery, 18 Newman Street, London until 21 December 2012.
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Great review Andy…it's good to see you tracking down all these shows…but isn't it a pity that very few of our major 'flagship' regional galleries ever show work with this kind of historical perspective? I'm struggling to think of a decent abstract painting survey show (from any period) outside London since the 'Indiscipline of Painting' at Warwick. It's odd really that spaces such as Nottingham Contemporary/MK Gallery/Walsall etc. that are ideal for displaying such material are much more often contorted by the demands of video/installation/photoworks etc. but I guess that's the 'zeitgist' at work. I'm always reminded (when getting onto the subject of abstract painting…is it dead etc.) of the great Dave Hickey's quote about non-representational painting being rather like Jazz "The people who are interested in it know where to find it – no-one else gives a shit about it"!
Love the post. Thanks for allowing me to view the show here!
[…] ongoing exploration. Remembering that I saw a remarkable painting by Sutton in a show last year, Abstract Painting in the Seventies, higher in colour than these at HMS, I make comparisons in my head and note the "continued […]


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Two journalists of the newly launched (and rather awkwardly named) northeast daily, Seven Sister's Post, are missing after they went into Burma on a story and one of their colleagues reportedly put up a Facebook status update that they had gone in search of the ULFA founder Paresh Baruah.
What initially seemed like good publicity for the paper launched on 11/11/11 and edited by Subir Bhaumik, formerly of the BBC, has quickly become a diplomatic headache for India, not to mention the anxiety for the families of the two detained journalists.
Now journalists from Assam have shot off a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh (who incidentally represents Assam in the upper house of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha) expressing concern and urging the government to step in. Below is the full text of the letter.
Guwahati, December 6, 2011
Respected Sir
Namaskar. Hope this letter finds you in fine spirits and health.
We, on behalf of Journalists' Forum Assam (JFA), would like to inform you that two Assamese journalists remain untraced since their detention in Myanmar (also known as Brahmadesh) on December 3 last. Both the journalists had reportedly gone inside the country for interviewing Paresh Baruah, the self-styled military chief of banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
The news broke on December 4, 2011, when the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) reported about their detention somewhere in Myanmar-China border areas. The PTI quoted R.K. Singh, Union home secretary for the information. While Singh denied the detention of Paresh Baruah who is at large after fleeing from Bangladesh, he informed that 'ULFA leader Jivan Moran and an Indian journalist were detained in Myanmar'
Later it was revealed that two journalists (namely Rajib Bhattacharya who works for a newly launched English daily Seven Sister's Post from Guwahati and a photo-journalist Pradip Gogoi) were detained inside Myanmar.
The chief editor of the newspaper, Subir Bhaumik, who used to work for BBC as East India Correspondent till last year, said in a television interview that his colleague (Rajib Bhattacharya) went to Myanmar in the middle of October last. "It was his project and he was determined to take the assignment," Subir Bhaumik said adding that he had no
contacts with Rajib Bhattacharya since then.
Rajib's wife Rashmi Sharma, also a journalist, said in a television bite that she received an SMS weeks ago, where the journalist only said that he was fine and waiting for the interview.
Hiranya Bhattacharya, Rajib's father and a former DGP of Assam, said in a television bite that he has no information about Rajib going inside Myanmar. "I only knew that Rajib went to Imphal (capital of Manipur) and later he was supposed to move to Aizawl (capital of Mizoram)," Hiranya Bhattacharya said.
The duo (Rajib Bhattacharya and Pradip Gogoi) were reportedly detained in the north-eastern part of Myanmar bordering China and later the Myanmarese authority released both of them after confiscating their laptop, camera and cell phones . Both the journalists were supposed to arrive in Tamu-Moreh (Myanmar-India border point) by the evening of December 4. Rajib's wife in Guwahati was contacted by some officials in the Union Home Ministry and assured that Rajib was released by the Myanmarese authority and he will soon enter Indian side (by December 4 itself).
But till this moment, both the journalists have not returned to Assam. No information is available with the family about their whereabouts. The Guwahati based journalists contacted the India Embassy in Yangon where the office of the Ambassador denied having any information (about the detention of Indian journalists and subsequent release inside Myanmar).
We have not seen any statement about the incident from the Myanmarese government. Unfortunately the Assam government led by Tarun Gogoi and even the Union Home Ministry have not issued any statement about the incident till date.
We are really worried about the confusing reports regarding the fate of the two journalists, who have neither come back, nor have been traced by any agency. So we would like to make a formal request to you for taking personal interest in this matter, so that journalists Rajib Bhattacharya and Pradip Gogoi are traced and their return to India is ensured at the earliest. The Myanmarese government may also be approached by the PMO for relevant information about the two journalists.
We would be grateful for your kind initiative.
With regards,
Rupam Baruah,
President, Journalists' Forum Assam
For the record, Subir Bhaumik had claimed to have played a key role in securing the release of a policeman abducted by Naxals in West Bengal two years ago.
Also read: How mainstream media has neglected Manipur


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Colin Powell made news last week with his endorsement of Barack Obama for President. The idea, I guess, is that Colin Powell is a great and objective judge of character and we should all listen to him when he says that Obama will do a great job as President. There's no evidence that he's ever done anything that would constitute evidence that he will be a competent chief executive for the country and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, you understand, this is one of those Powell-looked-into-his-soul-and-so-please-trust-his-judgment things.
Here's Colin Powell two and a half weeks ago displaying that same astute judgment of character at Ted Stevens' trial for corruption:
WASHINGTON – One of the nation's best-known retired Army generals, Colin Powell, described Sen. Ted Stevens in court today as a "trusted individual" and a man with a "sterling" reputation."He was someone whose word you could rely on," said Powell, secretary of state in President Bush's first term, who self-deprecatingly described himself as someone who retired as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then "dabbled a bit in diplomacy."***The former secretary of state said he had known Stevens for 25 years, mostly in the senator's role as the top defense appropriator on a Senate defense appropriations committee. In Stevens, "I had a guy who would tell me when I was off base, he would tell me when I had no clothes on, figuratively, that is, and would tell me when I was right and go for it," Powell said. "He's a guy who, as we said in the infantry, we would take on a long patrol."When asked outside of the courtroom after his testimony whether Stevens asked him personally to testify to his character, Powell said he couldn't recall if it was the senator or one of his lawyers. But he didn't think twice about testifying, Powell said."Not at all," he said, snapping his fingers to signify it was a snap decision.
That's right, folks, Obama supporter Colin Powell vouched for the character for truthfulness of a man, less than three weeks before he was convicted of multiple counts of being a criminal liar.
To me, nothing says "trustworthy" and "reliable" like being convicted of seven felony counts of making false statements. It's very strange to me: it appears that 12 jurors heard Colin Powell's testimony about his judgment of Ted Stevens's character and unanimously disregarded it and convicted the guy about whom Powell was testifying of repeatedly lying. In light of this, one wonders why Powell's judgment about Obama's character is worth any of the air time it has been given.


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Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, a major figure in 20th-century classical music, was a more adamant Nazi supporter than previously believed, according to a historian who has unearthed previously unseen documents.
"It is time to probe scientifically the claims that Karajan constructed and cobbled together... and which in the end he really believed himself," said Oliver Rathkolb from Vienna University, according to AFP.
Presenting his findings at a seminar on Friday, Rathkolb cited anti-Semitic comments from letters written by Karajan (1908-1989) in his youth and said that at school the legendary maestro had belonged to an ultra-nationalist, pan-German youth group in Salzburg.
Rathkolb also questioned Karajan's claims after World War II that he only joined the Nazi party in order to be able to pursue his musical career, citing his application to join in April 1933, five years before the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.
According to AFP, the historian also said that Karajan's 1942 marriage to the "quarter-Jewish" Anita Guetermann, which the composer cited in his defense after 1945, "was more useful to him than harmful" in the Nazi period.
Her industrialist father divorced his Jewish wife and enjoyed close commercial ties with the Nazis, and propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels intervened personally to stop a probe into Anita Guetermann's Jewish origins in order to clear the way for her marriage to Karajan, Rathkolb said.
Karajan was chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and artistic director at both the Vienna State Opera and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.


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Balfour, Sir James, d. 1583, Scottish judge and politician. Captured (1547) at St. Andrews after the murder of Cardinal Beaton, he served a sentence in the French galleys and on his release (1549) abjured Protestantism. He became an adviser to Mary Queen of Scots and was involved in the murder of Lord Darnley. He was made governor of Edinburgh Castle, but when the Scottish lords rose against the queen, he surrendered it to them. Balfour repeatedly changed his political allegiance in succeeding conflicts. Eventually he withdrew to France, but he returned to Scotland (1580) to help secure the conviction of the earl of Morton for Darnley's murder. He was long a jurist, but, despite its name, the early law text, Balfour's Practicks of Scots Law, is only partially of his authorship.
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My LAST POST showed what the hand plane looked like out of the box. This post shows what the plane was able to do.
While setting up the plane, I took note of the slop in the lateral- and depth-adjusters. The depth adjuster had 3/4 of a turn of slop and the lateral adjuster had a little side-to-side play.
I honed the bevel up to 15,000-grit on a Shapton stone. This process took about two minutes. I then reassembled the plane and surfaced a board of beech. This was the reflection I saw when I looked down the board's length.
The plane made shavings like these.
To further increase the performance of the plane, I then lapped the back of the blade. It took 12 minutes to bring the blade to this degree of flatness. At this stage, the blade was flat enough to be usable, but there was still a large hollow in the center.
Six more minutes of lapping erased the hollow and I was able to bring up the polish.
I then reinstalled the blade and surfaced the beech board once again. The polish of the planed board after having lapped the back was noticeably better.
I took this shot for fun.
Remember the grease I wiped off as soon as I got the plane? Within a week of returning home to the Westcoast, I found that the sole already had rust spots. I cleaned the rust off and applied a coat of Boeshield, something I should have done right away.


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The Board of Studies for the EMBA (Petroleum) program constitutes the examining body for all courses in this program and shall assess the standing of every student in accordance with the requirements outlined in all the Clauses below.
Credit towards the EMBA (Petroleum) Degree will be granted only for those courses which have been approved as constituting part of the student's program of study and in which the candidate has obtained a mark of 65% or higher.
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a final grade of 'D' or 'F' is obtained in two courses, or
a final grade of 'C' or less is obtained in three courses, or
a final grade of 'C' or less is obtained in a repeated course.
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to remain in the program, a candidate who obtains a final grade of 'C' or less in any course must normally repeat that course when next offered, and is permitted to repeat that course only once.
in some instances, at the discretion of the course instructor, and with the approval of the Board of Studies, a student who has received a grade of 'C' or less in any course may be permitted to complete remedial work and may be re-examined. A student who passes after re-examination will have "passed on the basis of a re-examination" recorded on his/her transcript and the original grade will remain. A student who receives a grade of 'C' or less after re-examination will be required to withdraw from the program. The original grade will count as part of the total number of final grades of 'C' or less permitted before a student is required to withdraw as specified above. The pursuit of remedial work may not be offered more than twice to an individual student.


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Year after year, the Internet continues to grow, and connection speeds continue to get faster.
Just out, Akamai's fourth-quarter 2012 State of the Internet (SOTI) report shows significant speed gains around the world as broadband connectivity accelerates.
In the fourth quarter of 2012, Akamai reported the global average connection speed at 2.9 Mbps, a twenty-three percent year-over-year gain. Global average peak connection speeds rose by thirty-five percent, to 16.6 Mbps.
David Belson, author of the SOTI report, told Enterprise Networking Planet that several factors drive the global growth of Internet speeds.
"One is the continued deployment of high-speed Internet connectivity around the world, as countries execute on their national broadband plans," Belson said. "Another is competitive pressure – in those areas with multiple providers, there can be a limited arms race of speed increases, where providers may raise the speeds associated with their subscriber packages as a means of retention and to remain competitive."
The fourth-quarter SOTI speed gains follow the third quarter report, which showed some sequential quarter-to-quarter declines. Belson said that quarterly fluctuations aren't unexpected.
"It appears that in Q3, there were a few larger countries that saw declines, while in Q4, they saw increases," Belson said. "In addition, several larger countries saw much more significant increases in Q4 than in Q3, which likely helped to pull the quarterly change back to the positive side."
In the U.S., the average connection speed hit 7.4 Mbps during the fourth quarter of 2012, which is a twenty-eight percent year-over-year gain. Average peak connection speed in the U.S hit 31.5 Mbps in the fourth quarter, for a twenty-five percent year-over-year gain.
While U.S. broadband speed gains were positive, America still trails other nations for both peak and average connection speeds. The U.S placed 13th. Hong Kong ranks at number one, with an average peak connection speed of 57.5 Mbps. The U.S ranks a bit better when it comes to average measured connection speed, coming in 8th. South Korea holds the top spot globally, with an average speed of 14.0 Mbps.
Looking inside the U.S, the state of Vermont had the highest average measured connection speed, 10.8 Mbps, during the fourth quarter. When it comes to average peak connection speed, Vermont falls to second, at 40.4 Mbps, behind the District of Columbia's 43.1 Mbps.
The state of California, home to Silicon Valley and its myriad tech giants, ranks 16th in the nation, with an average connection speed of 8.1 Mbps. California ranks 13th for average peak connection speed, at 34.8 Mbps.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at Enterprise Networking Planet and InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.


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Olympia, Wash. - The Evergreen State College has received an award from the Washington Department of Transportation for the Evergreen Parkway road modernization project.
The project is named as a 2005 Outstanding Bicycle and Pedestrian Project for its enhancement of bicycle and pedestrian safety. The award was presented to Paul Smith, Evergreen's director of Facilities Services at a November awards luncheon in Tacoma.
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My dog has Chronic Kidney Disease.
Okay, I need to know what to expect now.
A year ago on August 15, 2012, I lost one of my shih tzus to kidney failure.she was 12 years old at the time. Not much meds were given to her because when we had her checked to the vet, they said she needs 3days IV fluids. It was that severe. She had to be confined in the hospital. So we made the decision to allow it, could have probably been the worst decision I have made since it made her sad. And the 3rd day when I was allowed to take her home, on my way to the vet, the hospital told me she went unconscious. After minutes of trying to bring her back, she passed. And it broke my heart, because she died without me beside her.
So the real purpose of this thread though is because of my other shih tzu dog, he was the mate of the one that passed a year ago. Last August, he showed signs of stiffness and could not move for days and we sent him to the hospital. The vet said he'll be fine, but in between the bones of his spine, the fluids are depleting, due to old age. They could not give him steriods because of a problem with his heart. The vet suggested therapy. We did not go through with that because his spine healed by itself. He can now run around the house!
Along with the xray, he had an echocardiogram to get his heart checked, it was because his heart had murmurs and it had an abnormal shape from the xray. He had findings there of a heart disease, something with an enlarged ventricle. And he is not allowed to get tired, the vet suggested that his heart problem is still manageable without the medicine. So, he will not prescribe any at that point.
The vet also carried out a blood test. Unknown to us all, the blood test came out fine except for that one thing, his kidney was below normal, and the vet suggested to let him drink more water. 2 weeks after, his kidney function starts falling exponentially, he had to be given nefrotec. 4 weeks after that, he had to be given subcutaneous fluids every other day, unfortunately though, 2 weeks after that, the vet said his kidney is failing and one of the things they suggested is to have him on IV fluids for 3 days just like our previous shih tzu, but they wont do it because he has heart problems which might cause even bigger problems. So subqs were prescribed on a daily basis instead. He is also on a renal diet. Along with a prescription of an antacid and nefrotec.
by the way, he is being taken care of by a group of 3 doctors.
Earlier, I had problem administering the subq fluids. And it broke my heart because before, i would not have problems with giving him the shots. Right now it seems that he does not want to get better anymore. He ate very little, but would still take his meds. I have read around the internet that he might already be on a stage 4, ending stage and we cant do much about it anymore.
I have accepted that he wont be with us for long. he has the same situation as our previous shih tzu. And she died without any signs of pain, she just dropped dead. I am afraid he might just do the same for the next few days. 12 years of my life was full of love from them afterall.
So I was thinking earlier, are subqs really helpful for them? Am I right into thinking that he might not live long enough? Should I stop the subqs instead because it is stressing him out? Would it be more comfortable for him? I want him to live the rest of his remaining life without the thought of hospital and needles, and stress. I want him to play around the house instead. i just want to know how you guys, vets and dog owners alike, would handle this situation. sorry for the long post, i just thought maybe you guys should know the entire story.
Sorry about the kidney disease. I know how you feel as my cat has had ailing kidneys for over 3 years now.
Good luck! Whatever happens, your dog knows you love him with all your heart.
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
Thanks for the response. I did ask our vet if he could use the smaller needle, he prescribed the gauge 21 we were using a 19 before. We tried it; we successfully placed the needle, but as we open the fluid flow, he went crazy and cried all over the place. Which was odd because he didnt have a problem with the fluid before, just the pricking. We couldn't do it then, and our vet told us to take a break from injecting the fluids and just make sure he drinks a lot of water.
It was a problem, because now, not only does he not eat his renal diet anymore, he is also a bit lifeless, unlike before when he sees us, he will jump up and down, now he just stares at us.
Any suggestions as to how we can encourage him to drink more water? I placed chicken broth on his renal diet and he does eat it. But he doesnt eat the entire bowl. I place clean fresh filtered water on his water bowl but he does not drink that often anymore. As of now, i am trying the ice, and he loves it. pretty much everybody here in the house have been giving him extra attention because we think he would give up soon.
As for the renal diet, I personally think it's totally the wrong thing to feed an ailing animal and probably makes kidney disease worse. Lack of appetite can be a huge problem for pets in renal failure, so feeding them a largely unpalatable low-protein food doesn't help. The most important thing is that they eat! My cat with CKD eats a mostly raw diet augmented with high quality (ie NOT prescription) canned. He hasn't lost any weight and always eats with gusto. The key is that the protein source be highly digestible (which automatically excludes plant-based protein, which is what's found in renal diets). Here is a link worth checking out: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites...and-liver.aspx
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
SubQ;s are very helpful for kidney disease, but can be bad for heart disease, which makes it a difficult situation
Have they made sure that there is no tick disease, like lyme disease?
Diet is huge, and I would recommend a home prepared diet. Because of the kidney disease, I would use one put together by a nutritionist, like Sabine Contreras (that is who I use).
I am sorry that you are facing this, it is so difficult
Thanks guys for replying and offering advice. Our vet has advised us to stop the subqs for the meantime as it is stressing him out. We also stopped with his renal diet because he went on a hungerstrike for 2 days. He did not eat anything just drank water. And he shrunk immediately. We got scared and so we stopped his royal canin renal diet and gave him pure, unprocessed, unsalted, cooked organic ground sirloin instead. He even eats better than me now! Haha. he ate up two bowls once we gave it to him the first time, he must have been so hungry!
He has been eating beef for a week and a half now, but he started to not eat again. I think he is just too picky and he just got fed up with it. I honestly dont know what to feed him next. I thouht he would stick to beef forever. But I guess I was wrong.
To know that sugarcatmom's cat has had ckd for 3 years and still surviving is giving me hope. Thanks. We did warm the subqs before. I think he is just too stubborn now. That he doesnt want anything to do with his meds or maintenance.
To MaxaLisa, in his most recent general checkup which was a week ago, the vet did not diagnose any tick disease.
Kidney disease can cause stomach upset, which will frequently cause the dog to not want to eat.
Beef I'm guessing is high in phosphorous, which may speed the disease process - hard to tell without numbers and knowing all of the diet, which is what I use a nutritionist for.
The yahoo groups, K9 Kidney Disease, and another one K9 Kidney Diet, may be helpful.
Good luck!
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Three projects from the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) have been nominated for top international awards.
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Harassment Policies for Theory Conferences
Following offline conversations and recent discussions on other blogs (hat-tip to Anna and David), I want to promote the Geek Feminism Blog initiative asking computing conferences to adopt explicit policies against sexual harassment. Bringing such policies to theory conferences that don't yet have them is an important step. (Note that this would mean putting them on conference websites and preparing conference staff. Just having some boilerplate document hidden somewhere on the IEEE or ACM websites is not enough.)
What is the value of such a policy? Geek Feminism provides a policy template whose intro spells it out well. Such a policy
"sets expectations for behavior at the conference. Simply having an anti-harassment policy can prevent harassment all by itself...
"...it encourages people to attend who have had bad experiences at other conferences...
"...it gives conference staff instructions on how to handle harassment quickly, with the minimum amount of disruption or bad press for your conference."
Stating such a policy would cost nothing, and local conference staff could prepare for their roles using anti-harassment training materials, which abound on the web -- I invite others to suggest good ones.
So why would we hesitate to adopt such policies? I will suggest three possible reasons, and explain why they're unconvincing.
First, there is a certain tendency to deride anti-harassment training as "sensitivity training" and as stating the obvious. But whether or not most of us know how to treat others respectfully, responding to disrespectful treatment is another story. Conference staff need to know there are circumstances under which they can and should reprimand attendees or even eject them, and they need to mentally rehearse for these difficult tasks. Attendees need to know the staff are ready to help.
Second, some might object that while harassment may be a major problem in other parts of the computing/tech world, it's less of a problem in our mature, enlightened theory community. Of course, this would be a self-serving belief without empirical support. I'm not aware of any systematic efforts to track harassment incidents at theory conferences, although Geek Feminism maintains wiki record of incidents in computing/tech more broadly -- I hope theory conference-goers will find and use it or something similar. But if we can agree that sexual harassment is seriously wrong -- harmful to individuals and the community when it occurs -- surely we can take the time to state this publicly and prepare ourselves to deal with it, whatever its frequency.
Third, might an anti-harassment policy inhibit our freedom of expression too much or make people afraid to interact? Let me turn this question around. Almost all universities and major employers have explicit anti-harassment policies (here's MIT's, for example). Most of us support these precautions and don't feel oppressed by the policies. Why should conferences, which are outgrowths of the academic system, be different? Do we believe there is some special spirit of lawlessness that we need to protect at conferences, and only at conferences?
Of course not. So I support the harassment-policy initiative, and encourage others to do so as well.


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Posted at: 17:26 on 13 May 2009 by Muhimbi
Our support team faces different SharePoint based 'customer challenges' on a daily basis. It will comes as no surprise that no two SharePoint deployments are the same, but sometimes we are really baffled by what we encounter.
Recently we came across a SharePoint environment that had a problem with the fancy 'Browse' button that allows users to select a destination library to store documents converted by our PDF Converter for SharePoint. The thing is, this environment was running WSS and not MOSS and as WSS does not support this fancy feature we only display this button on MOSS systems.
Shiny Document Library picker
Our MOSS detection logic is based on a common pattern, which is to check for the presence of the MOSS only OssNavigation feature. As this particular WSS environment has this feature installed it was incorrectly detected as a MOSS installation, resulting in problems when someone would press the browse button.
Further investigation shows that checking for OssNavigation is not a reliable manner of detecting MOSS as this feature is also installed by the free Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which can be installed on top of WSS.
To cut a long story short, we have updated our solution to check for 2 MOSS specific features before deciding if a SharePoint installation is MOSS or WSS. The code is as follows:
/// <summary>
/// Method to find out if a SharePoint installation is MOSS or WSS 3.0
/// </summary>
public static bool IsMOSS()
SPFeatureDefinitionCollection features = SPContext.Current.Site.WebApplication.Farm.FeatureDefinitions;
if (features["OssNavigation"] != null && features["Publishing"] != null)
return true;
return false;
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Becoming soldiers again, that was the task. This time they were given almost an entire year to prepare. Desma had been telling her children for months that there might be a deployment coming, but when she said it's definite and it's Iraq and it's happening this year they were shocked. "You're just going to leave again?" Josh asked in disbelief. "It's not like I have a choice," Desma told him. "You'll understand when you're older." That fall, Alexis was going to start second grade, and Paige was going to start fourth grade, while Josh would begin his freshman year of high school. All of them were old enough to anticipate what a year's absence would be like, and they had three-quarters of a year to fret. The girls grew clingy; Josh kept his distance. He said, "I want to finish high school where I start high school. I'm not going to keep moving around." Desma said all right, he could stay with his surrogate father Keith in Gentryville during all four years of high school, although it kind of broke her heart. Then she spoke to her cousin Lesley about minding the two girls again. Lesley said she would do it if it was what Desma really needed, but she had a lot going on. Desma understood: it was too hard. So she made other arrangements. Her daughters would stay with their paternal grandparents, who lived close to the girls' father, down in Spurgeon, Indiana.
It was the same town in which Desma had been raised. The girls' grandparents lived in a house that Desma remembered being occupied by some boys who used to pick on her when they rode the school bus. Spurgeon was about an hour's drive from Rockport, where Desma lived, and she had maintained a close connection to her in‑laws even after her divorce from their son, Dennis Brooks. Like everybody in southern Indiana, it sometimes seemed, they had fallen on hard times; her father-in-law, Ray Brooks, had worked for a company that had closed, and had started over with an entry-level job at a furniture factory in Jasper. The girls had a particularly warm and affectionate relationship with their grandmother, Paula Brooks, whom they called Ma‑maw. Desma thought it would be a good arrangement. "She loved the girls," Desma would recall. "They were her pride and joy, kept her going every day. She never faulted me for our divorce, she loved me very much. And was thankful for the opportunity to spend as much time as she got with the girls."
Desma had to report to Camp Atterbury for two weeks of training each month in May, June, July, and September 2007. She tried to hang on to her full-time job at the Kentucky United Methodist Homes for Children and Youth, but eventually asked for a leave of absence. Her boss said he would keep the job open until she got back, and her coworkers made her a quilt.
After each training session, Desma picked the children up and they all returned to Rockport. With the mandatory trainings taking her away so much, however, she found it hard to care for her children in a consistent fashion, and she did not want to disrupt the children's schooling by having them switch institutions in the middle of the year. Beginning in August 2007, she sent the children to live with the relatives she had chosen to parent them while she was gone, even though she would not go on active duty status for another four months. "You know, let's not uproot them in the middle of the school year," she said later. "Let's do it at the beginning and start off fresh." She did not make too much of the transition. "I'll see you on Friday," she told the girls casually before turning them over to their grandmother. Same with Josh. "See you at the weekend." Josh established himself at his father's house quickly. He had lived there before, and already had friends in the area. But the girls entered a household that was about to be thrown into turmoil. Their grandmother had been experiencing health problems, and within weeks, Paula got a routine scan and unexpectedly learned she had cancer. The girls gleaned that their grandmother was ill after the house filled with worry and they were brought on rushed visits to doctors. In September, while Desma was at Camp Atterbury again, her mother-in-law was briefly hospitalized. Not until the following month, however, shortly before Desma began another two-week training session, did Paula share word of her illness with Desma. She barely had a chance to assimilate the news. The 113th Support Battalion was not being deployed as a coherent entity— instead, individuals from the battalion were being distributed across the rest of the 76th Infantry Brigade, wherever there were empty slots that needed filling—and she had just been told to report for a two-week training session with the 293rd, a previously all-male infantry regiment. She would serve in Iraq alongside a group of men she had never known.The coming deployment pretty much ended Desma's relationship with Jimmy. He said he had endured one yearlong absence already and would not do it again. If she went to Iraq, she would not find him waiting for her when she got home. Jimmy said she had chosen the military over him. She said that was fine with her, he should not wait. Her lease did not run out until July 2008; she wrote enough checks to cover the rent until then, and gave them to Jimmy to mail as the months went by. She told Jimmy he could stay in the house while she was gone. All she asked was that he look after her dog, Goldie.
Desma started training with the infantry regiment's 293rd Alpha Company in October 2007. The 293rd was based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, way up north at the opposite end of the state from where she lived, and she did not know the soldiers in that regiment. The men who served in the 293rd were also National Guard, and also belonged to the 76th Brigade, but they were infantrymen. They dismissed soldiers who served in support positions and never left the safety of the military post as "Fobbits," from the acronym for forward operating base, or FOB. ("A Fobbit never leaves the wire," the saying went—it was a play on the line "A hobbit never leaves the shire.") They were better, they thought. The soldiers in the 293rd trained harder than other Guard units; they took special classes in hand-to-hand combat and martial arts. They had been to Iraq once already, four years earlier, when they had become the first Army National Guard battalion to see combat since the Korean War.
"There was a lot of animosity," she would say later. Most of the men who were serving in the 293rd had never served alongside women. Recent changes in policy allowed female soldiers to be transferred into formerly all-male regiments such as theirs, if the regiments were being deployed in a noncombat role (in this case, the 293rd was providing security to supply convoys). In October, during the first training session that she completed with the 293rd, Desma traveled to Camp Grayling, in Michigan, where she found herself part of Alpha Company, a group that consisted of about one hundred men and only a couple of women. Similar ratios prevailed in the regiment's other companies. The men made it abundantly clear that they had preferred being an all-male group.
"They wanted to push the women out, because women meant nothing but trouble."
One day, after they boarded a truck to ride back to the barracks, Desma asked the other soldiers if they had gathered up the targets they had shot. Nobody answered. She turned to a male specialist and said, "Ask them if they gathered up the targets." He repeated the question, and the men said they had. She was being shunned. Later she learned that the soldiers had been instructed to keep their distance from the female soldiers. They are not your friends, their squad leaders had supposedly told them. Don't talk to them, don't socialize with them. She rode in silence from the range to the barracks. When her squad leader ordered the soldiers to shower and report back in two hours, she started walking the wrong way.A few leaders in the 293rd treated her in a friendly fashion—among them a meticulous, thoughtful noncommissioned officer named Roy Dishner, who served as Desma's squad leader—but the rank-and-file soldiers were unwelcoming. Male soldiers kept a wide berth around her in the chow line and would not sit with her during meals. Her close friend Stacy Glory had also been attached to the 293rd, but was serving in a different company; when possible, Desma ate with Stacy. Desma had been told she would work in supply. The sergeant in charge of supply sent her down to the range. She was fluent on the military's complicated logistical software, she was a whiz with radios, and nobody in the 113th would have thought working at the range was a good use of her talents, but she spent her days making sure the infantrymen had enough ammunition and could qualify safely with their weapons.
"Brooks, showers," ordered the squad leader.
"Bullshit," she responded.
She stalked over to the command post. "Who is in charge of this motherfucker?" she asked.
"Feathers are ruffled," remarked one of the company's leaders.
"Hey, I'm supposed to be working in supply, but you got me doing range control. And I'm working with a bunch of people who won't speak to me," she announced.
"How about we have a discussion about how big of an EO complaint I have? And how I'm going to call the IG as soon as I walk out of this room?"
"It's for your safety and for the safety of my Joes," responded one of the brass.
Nobody appeared concerned that Desma was accusing the 293rd of violating the army's equal opportunity standards and threatening to report them to the inspector general's office, according to her. She did not actually call the inspector general—she decided to wait and see if things got better—but things got worse. Everybody in the 293rd had to pass a weapons qualification test. She went to the range as ordered and fired at the targets in front of her, and afterward she was told that she had not qualified. She had never gotten a perfect score at the range, but she had never failed to qualify. She had already endured a yearlong assignment overseas—which was more than some of the younger guys in the 293rd could say. Failing to qualify wounded her pride. Thinking maybe she was rusty, she returned to the range a second time, and again she was told that she had failed. Four times she tried to qualify, and four times she was rejected. She felt pretty certain that her supposed failures were a lie.
The following morning Desma tried to call her children, but nobody answered the phone at their grandparents' house. She called the fire department and found the girls there with Dennis. She heard her ex‑husband tell their children that they should go to Aunt Jo's house. Joanne was his sister; Desma wondered why the girls had to go there. Later that day, she got a phone call from Joanne's husband, Gary, who let her know that Paula had just died.
"The girls don't know yet," he said. "When will you be home?"
"I'll be home today, as a matter of fact," Desma told him.
Several weeks later, Desma reported for drill at the 293rd's regular location, the National Guard armory in Warsaw, Indiana. Warsaw lay at the far northern end of the state, close to Fort Wayne, and it took her five and a half hours to get there. While she was there, she obtained a copy of her weapons qualification results. Every time she had fired a bullet, a computer had recorded her name and her lane and whether that bullet had hit the target. "I qualified four times," she would say later. "And they were trying to tell me I didn't qualify at all. I qualified more than my fair share." It made her livid to discover her true results.At the funeral, Desma's father-in-law asked her to let the girls stay with him, as planned. That's what Paula would have wanted, he said. Desma wondered if it was a good idea—she thought maybe she should move the girls to her cousin's. But it would mean one more upheaval, and her cousin was already overwhelmed, and the girls had suffered a shock at losing their grandmother. This loss was their first experience with death, and it had come just as she was getting ready to leave for Iraq.
Before she left Warsaw, Desma printed out every score she had earned. She was going to need proof of her worth; it was going to be that kind of a deployment.
This post has been adapted from Helen Thorpe's forthcoming book, Soldier Girls.