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The Costume Institute Has No Clothes

The Met's much-hyped "Model as Muse" exhibit opens with a life-sized mannequin in Dior holding Dovima's place in front of two posterboard elephants. It's fashion as ticky-tacky natural history diorama. And it only gets worse.

I so wanted to love this exhibit. I'll admit that bias right from the start. I know first-hand what goes into a shoot, and the crucial animating energy of modeling — the performance that is part mute, still-frame acting, part own-stunt cojones (who do you think climbs South American rock faces without ropes, in couture? Lily Donaldson's double?), part pure, inexplicable presence — and I feel, frankly, that our contributions to the fashion industry and the discourse of images that the industry uses to represent itself to the world are often underreported and undersold. Getting up in the morning and transforming, convincingly, into the apotheosis of a photographer, designer, and stylist's only partly shared creative vision isn't easy.

And just now, after season upon season of most designers choosing to make their models look as inconspicuous, anonymous, and blandly interchangeable as possible on the runway and in advertising, after years in which the model has shrunk before our very eyes, the culture seems ripe for some kind of redress: a resurgence of individuality, a reassertion of personality. A return to the days when the casual fashionista — as opposed to only the dedicated indexer of Internet-derived fashion arcana — could at least tell us all apart. The theme of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's brand-new and infinitely hyped "Model as Muse" exhibit, with its privileged understanding of the lowly clotheshorse's role in advancing fashion, seemed to promise a move in that direction.

What a terrible disappointment, then, to walk through the Tisch gallery on opening day and find an exhibit that was seemingly laid out with the goal of inspiring the utmost tedium in the viewer. I should have known as soon as I passed that terrible bit of tat with creepy Robo-Dovima in the entryway: the first corridor of photographs is lit with softboxes suspended from the ceiling. Softboxes. Photographic equipment illuminating exemplars of fashion photography! The single-entendre curation never lets up; the viewer is also subjected to such cheesy gestures as stepping literally through a velvet rope in order to enter the 1970s gallery. (Done up, naturally, to look like the basement of Studio 54, complete with unlit cigarettes.) It is difficult to concentrate on the beauty that surrounds when your ears are being assaulted with Alicia Bridges' "I Love The Nightlife" and your eyes with a tawdry-looking spread of yet more blank-faced mannequins, all decked out in truly atrocious wigs by fashion hairstylist Julien d'Ys.

I suspect even the curators, led by Costume Institute head Harold Koda, found their vision a little less than compelling: the exhibit often seems like the product of minds that occasionally wandered. In the wall copy, I spied the former model Anjelica Huston's name mis-spelled with a 'g', and I read twice within 30 seconds the phrase "attenuated limbs." (British model Karen Elson, in the 90s room, has "elegantly attenuated limbs," while American Stephanie Seymour, who closes out the 80s gallery, has "gracefully attenuated limbs.")

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This Avedon photo of Lauren Hutton is what every American Apparel ad wants to be. And never will.

The exhibit proceeds dully, chronologically, through roughly the past 60 years of fashion history. The galleries dealing with each decade are separated by lines as clear as they are arbitrary; the Fifties, you see, was the decade of the Continent and Dior and Balenciaga, but then once the clock struck 12:01 on January 1, 1960, nobody made couture anymore, and Rudi Gernreich immediately put the obliging Peggy Moffitt in his monokini. Cue mod! (Cue the Who! On repeat!)

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Veruschka, shot here for the August, 1968, issue of French Vogue by her then-lover, Franco Rubartelli, played a role in her shoots that today would be highly unusual for a model. She had significant input into, or sometimes even sole control, of the styling, the makeup, and the hair, and the images produced were generally collaborations between herself and the photographer.

It's hard to screw up showing quality fashion photography, framed on a wall. (Even the various viewer-insulting "contextual" gestures, like blaring pop music and the intrusive graffiti in the 90s room — perpetrated by hairdresser d'Ys, at Anna Wintour's instruction, which goes to show just how much control the noted museum patron has over the arts on display — do not entirely manage to quash the timeless beauty of, for example, Irving Penn's June 1950 Vogue cover shot of Jean Patchett. The presentation of the artifacts on the walls is fine. What I am still unclear about is the value of seeing the mannequin'd tableaux-morts featuring the actual designer clothes; if the point of this show is to celebrate models and their animating contributions to fashion and fashion photography, then, after seeing Veruschka in Yves Saint Laurent's safari collection, or Bert Stern's astonishing studio shot of Twiggy in the same designer's beaded midriff-dress, what end is served by seeing these same garments presented in dim exhibition suites, too far away to make out any detail of stitching or cut, on lifeless dummies that bear no resemblance to the women who once illuminated their beauty as articles of clothing? The safari dress as it hangs in the show isn't even styled properly. It lacks, in addition to Veruschka's firepower, its ring belt.

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Even back in 1967, sample shoes didn't fit. Twiggy poses here, on her first trip to the U.S., for Vogue photographer Bert Stern.

If "Model as Muse" serves any useful purpose, it is to remind the viewer of fashion's headwaters, and of just how derivative fashion photography has become. In the first hall of the exhibit is Richard Avedon's iconic image of Sunny Harnett at the roulette table; in the last, is Stephen Meisel's 1998 version, with Carolyn Murphy. The elements are so much the same — blonde, cream dress, tuxedo'd gent, roulette — that the latter scrambles to rise to meet the criteria of "homage."

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Sunny Harnett by Richard Avedon, for U.S. Harper's Bazaar, September, 1954.

In the 1960s suite, somewhere under the blaring of "My Generation" and the projected Qui Etes-Vous, Polly Magoo clip on repeat that overwhelms the room, there's a single page from the September, 1965 Harper's Bazaar.

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Jean Shrimpton, by Richard Avedon.

It served to remind me of nothing so much as this Patrick Demarchelier image from last September's Vogue.

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Catherine McNeil, by Patrick Demarchelier.

A picture of Lisa Taylor wearing Calvin Klein, by Helmut Newton for the May, 1975 issue of Vogue, hangs in the 1970s hall, near some mealy wall copy about 1970s gender roles. (A subject which any viewer would learn more about simply by pondering the viewer-viewed dynamic here between the languid, powerful-looking Taylor and the foregrounded male model, whose ass looks so unusually objectified.)

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Lisa Taylor, by Helmut Newton.

Of course, as commenter LittleNemo pointed out last year when I posted a spread, Glen Luchford's September, 2008, Harper's Bazaar photo of Freja Beha Erichsen owes a debt to Newton.

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Freja Beha Erichsen, by Glen Luchford.

This Demarchelier and the Luchford were not in the Met's show — the post-grunge years seem to be a curatorial afterthought, as they are represented in main by two outfits from a recent Louis Vuitton collection by principal exhibit sponsor Marc Jacobs and a bunch of pictures of Gisele Bundchen. But, whether all these archetypal images' latter-day derivations are physically present or not, you can only wander through these corridors for a matter of seconds before phrases like "anxiety of influence" come irrepressibly to mind.

It is, I am sure, not the reaction Koda, Wintour, Jacobs, and d'Ys would want. But these eminent lightweights, with their spraycans, their predilection for references to fictional movies about the industry, their ugly wigs and their uglier Nirvana soundtrack, their mis-spellings and their children's book fashion history — not to mention their craven elision of designer Azzedine Alaïa — did more than enough to earn it.

Perhaps someday a museum will be equal to mounting an intelligent investigation of the changing roles of fashion models, and fashion photography's relationship to the wider culture — its uneasily shifting placement on the continuum between high art and low commerce, between editorial content in magazines and clothes and makeup as we do them in everyday life. Perhaps someday, we'll see the model as muse. But that museum is not the Met, and that exhibition is not yet come.

The Model As Muse [Metropolitan Museum of Art]

Related: Alaïa Pulls His Dresses From The Met Gala [On The Runway]
Model As Veteran [NY Times]


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15 Year Old Becomes The Youngest African-American Female Pilot To Fly Across The Country

15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike became the youngest African-American female pilot to ever fly across the United States, finishing a 13 day flight with the help of her safety pilot, 87 year old Tuskegee Airman, Levi Thornhill.

Anyadike, who met over 50 Tuskegee Airmen during her trip, says she "wanted to inspire other kids to really believe in themselves," and that she wanted to pay tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen along the way, as "They left such a great legacy. I had big shoes to fill. All they wanted to do was to be patriots for this country. They were told no, that they were stupid, that they didn't have cognitive development to fly planes. They didn't listen. They just did what they wanted to do." A clip of the pilot, below:

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The Perfect Outfit For Dancing

I love it when people send in unexpected questions, like, "what should I wear dancing?"

You may want to evoke Ginger Rogers dancing in "Cheek to Cheek" — but keep in mind that at the end of every day, she apparently dumped the blood out of her shoes and he spent the rehearsals choking on the feathers from her gown. Comfort is important, too. I'm assuming no one's asking about what to wear for, like a ballet or zumba class: that's specialized stuff. That said, I recently started an 80's-aerobics class and had to think about this question. Now, say what one will about American Apparel, one thing no one can accuse them of is not having ironic areobics wear. But if you're not so hot on supporting them, you have to get creative. I took inspiration from this awesome pic of Elizabeth Taylor.

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Not having an unlimited clothing budget and not being Rihanna, I couldn't get this one, but a leotard and a scarf made me feel super-glam and only got me a few weird looks.

But I digress. What you asked was, "what do you recommend wearing to a dance situation? Not a "club" necessarily, but a party or event where dancing goes down."

Obviously, I'd recommend some bizarre leotard-scarf combo, but let's assume you don't want to do that. So, having consulted with a bunch of women who either dance professionally or just dance a lot, here are a few things to keep in mind:

  • Comfort is key. Obvious, but true. Even if you're going fitted or salsa-sexy, make sure you can (duh) move.
  • Move in it. Make sure the skirt doesn't ride up and he pants don't cut into your waist. You don't want to be tugging. Can you throw your hands in the air? Do you care if your midriff shows? Ok, then. Personally, I don't like a short, straight skirt, (but then my moves are kind of Ian Curtis-esque.)

    The Perfect Outfit For Dancing

  • If you're a serious salsa or ballroom dancer, you've probably invested in specialized shoes, but no matter what we're talking about, you want a shoe that doesn't slip, doesn't pinch, doesn't cut into your heel. This is the moment for gel insoles. And there's a reason professional dance shoes all have ankle-straps. Also: just remember that on a crowded dance floor, an open toe can be a dangerous proposition for all but the most nimble.
  • Think layers. Like a boyscout, you want to be able to control your heat quotient easily.
  • You want fabrics that breathe. John Travolta may have won a trophy in pure poly, but trust: you won't be a happy camper by evening's end. The fabric of our lives is your friend.

    The Perfect Outfit For Dancing

  • If you're wearing a skirt that swirls, consider the panty situation. In fact, consider the panty situation regardless: you want comfort. For my money, nothing beats hanky-panky, but obviously this is a matter of personal choice. I have one friend who loves a lacy panty for just these occasions, but she also does a lot of swing-dancing, so. (Incidentally, for any such retro-undies need, I recommend this site.)

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Notre Dame Says Manti Te'o Is a Victim. That's Rich, Considering Their History of Ignoring Actual Victims.

Notre Dame is notorious for covering up sexual assault allegations involving its football players, but the school declared star linebacker Manti Te'o a "victim" within mere hours after the news broke that his saintlike dead girlfriend never actually existed. Why is Notre Dame in such a rush to assert Te'o's victimhood while the investigation is still proceeding? Easy: because it strengthens the hero narrative the school relies on for profit and glory. Acknowledging the real victims of jock culture only hurts that narrative.

Did Te'o make up Lennay Kekua, his fake girlfriend who, he told multiple reporters, died of cancer on the same day his grandmother passed away and hours before he led his team to an epic (and selfless) victory against Michigan State last fall, or did he fall for an outlandishly cruel and convoluted internet hoax? His university claims the latter, and says Te'o is an even more inspirational hero for grappling with the soul-crushing trauma of realizing the deceased love of your life was never actually alive. Here's an official statement:

On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te'o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. The University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.

Jack Swarbrick, the school's athletic director, actually broke down and cried while discussing Te'os victimhood during a 40-minute press conference last night. "Every single thing about this was real to Manti," said Swarbrick. "There was no suspicion. The grief was real, the affection was real, and that's the sad nature of this cruel game."

Compare Notre Dame's reaction — the immediate and immense support, the resources (they hired private investigators!), the positive PR — with that of Notre Dame's head football coach, Brian Kelley, when a 19-year-old student named Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg killed herself nine days after accusing a football player of sexually assaulting her in a dorm room:

"I am not going to get into the specifics. I can tell you this. From my standpoint as the head football coach, I think it was made clear that the university is going to deal with any matters of this nature. And that for me... one of the reasons I came to Notre Dame is that I have the same standards that our University does. We are in lock-step relative to the standards that we hold her at the university of Notre Dame. That's really for me all I can give you relative to the specifics."

Seeberg died in 2010. The player she accused — whom Notre Dame investigators failed to interview until 15 days after Seeberg reported the attack and five days after she killed herself — was found "not responsible" and didn't miss a day of football practice. In fact, he played in the BCS National Championship game last week.

There isn't much use bemoaning how the Deadspin story on Te'o's fabricated love racked up millions of pageviews in hours while relatively few people know, or care, about Seeberg, who is actually a real woman — and not the only woman we know of who was too intimidated by the Notre Dame football team to report being sexual assaulted by one of their own.

The Deadspin story is fascinating on so many levels: it's a tale of a renowned hero who is either inconceivably naive or narcissistic, who either bought into or propagated a lie about a girlfriend dying of cancer months after living through a horrible car accident on the same day as his beloved grandmother right before the most important game of his life; Lifetime movies are made out of significantly less dramatic fodder. It makes sense that people are now obsessed with searching through thousands of Tweets and Instagram photos to figure out who was in on it and who knew what at what point and when, exactly, it all started to unravel. It makes sense, but it's also depressing.

Te'o's story is unmistakably bizarre, but he's not a horrible person. He deserves pity if he was so incapable of making a real connection that he fell for a woman he met on Twitter who he purportedly loved but didn't know enough about to make sure she actually existed, and he's probably somewhat mentally disturbed if he was in on it — why else would a guy who is already considered inspirational due to his athletic prowess feel the need to make up such a detailed backstory, and what does that say about the pressure young athletes face to be role models? — but, either way, he's not a monster. There are way worse things a football player can do to a woman than pretend she exists.

Melinda Henneberger, the reporter who has doggedly pursued Seeberg's story, wrote an article for the Washington Post last month explaining why she wouldn't be cheering for her alma mater, Notre Dame:

What's really surprising me are those who believe as I do that two players on the team have committed serious criminal acts – sexual assault in one case, and rape in another - but assumed that I'd support the team anyway, just as they are.

"Aren't you just a little bit excited?" one asked the other day. There are plenty of good guys on the team, too, I'm repeatedly told. And oh, that Manti Te'o is inspiring. I don't doubt it. But as a thought exercise, how many predators would have to be on the team before you'd no longer feel like cheering?

It doesn't surprise me that more people know and care about Te'o than Seeberg. She's just another victim of sexual assault — one who, according to Henneberger, some officials still allege was "asking for it," because we don't like to admit that college athletes can be rapists — but Notre Dame's repeated and ready use of the term "victim" when referring to Te'o but not to Seeberg is awful.

We're still not sure what exactly went down, but we know that Te'o definitely did not miss Kekua's funeral to record 12 tackles and beat Michigan State. He never sent her white roses — her sole and simple request — and she never told him, "Babe, if anything happens to me, you promise that you'll stay there and you'll play and you'll honor me through the way you play." But, again: is falling for — or even completely making up — a fake girlfriend really the worst act a football player has ever committed against a woman? No way. Just ask Notre Dame.


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UC Berkeley's Black Student Union want to rename a campus building after Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther who was framed, convicted and jailed for killing a New Jersey cop until she fled and found asylum in Cuba in the 1970s. Naturally, Fox News is confused, but mostly upset. As Fox News usually is. » 3/20/15 11:10am 3/20/15 11:10am

UC Berkeley Students Hold Teach-In for Their Racist Professor

At UC Berkeley, a tenured mental health policy professor named Steven Segal has found himself in a bit of trouble, thanks to his conflation of black-on-black crime with the Black Lives Matter movement, and his eagerness to blame victims of oppression for their oppression—which is probably easy when you're not… » 3/04/15 1:50pm 3/04/15 1:50pm

UC Berkeley Sex Columnist: Have Sex in the Library, UC Berkeley Librarian: Please Don't Have Sex in the Library

Katie already reported on the phenomenon of library sex — please sing that in your heads to the tune of Birthday Sex and later let's rewrite the words, OK? — but just to recap, Nadine Cho, the sex columnist for UC Berkeley's student paper The Daily Californian, encouraged students to get down and dirty in the stacks.… » 12/16/12 11:00pm 12/16/12 11:00pm


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Jews For Justice For Palestinians (the largest alternative voice of Jews in the UK or Europe) utterly condemns Israel’s aggressive military interception of the peaceful Free Gaza aid flotilla. We hold Israel responsible for the tragic deaths and injuries which this action caused.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Special meeting sparsely attended

One more point worth making about the City Council's special meeting decision to green-light a business incentive program: lack of public involvement.

As noted in today's Tracy Press story, only four people attended the meeting, which was called Monday, publicized Tuesday and held Wednesday, at a time two hours earlier than normal because of the normally scheduled Planning Commission meeting. Also, three of the four people in the audience were members of the Press.

The city manager suggested that the special meeting was necessary because the opportunity presented to the city might slip away if the council waited until the regularly scheduled Jan. 1 meeting.

Still, the timing of the meeting -- one day after the canceled regularly scheduled council meeting - was curious, and its last-minute nature contributed to the lack of public scrutiny on what could prove to be a huge deal for the city of Tracy.

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unless you read the weekly hard copy (provided it's not delivered on the wet lawn) or go on-line to read the Press, communication is lacking. It seems easier to find out after the fact the before

A. Seput said...

I am not educated person but person does not need education to have common sense. Meeting was piblicized on Tuesday to take place on Wednesday that tells me that Tracy have scum bags in Government like Washington. If you are person with ethical moral people would have being giving one week notice. Your purpose of overnight notice is that you did not want anyone attending meeting!!!


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Five Resume Tips for Creative Jobs

For most job seekers, there are basic rules to follow when writing a resume: Focus on accomplishments, incorporate important keywords, print on professional paper and use black ink. But for those applying for jobs in more creative fields, is it necessary to break from tradition and design a creative and provocative resume to get an employer's attention?

In most cases, the answer is no. In fact, even designers, art directors, web developers and other creative professionals need to have resumes that present information clearly, concisely, and in a manner that is easy to read. Corey Schaaf, a graphics and Web designer based in St. Louis, says that the content of a person's resume is more important than the resume's look and feel. "When I'm hiring someone, their resume doesn't exactly have to have a design quality to it," he says. "What I look for is experience and technical knowledge of software applications."

So how do you best showcase your creative talent? Here are five tips to follow:

1. Consider the environment.

Susan Kuehnhold, a graphic designer based in Indianapolis, says that one of the most important things to think about is the environment of the company to which you are applying. She points out that many designers end up working and gaining most of their experience not in creative agencies, but rather in corporations as in-house designers. Kuehnhold says that for most positions and companies, a professional, well-laid-out resume is the most appropriate course to take. If, however, you are applying for a position in an extremely cutting-edge environment or an agency that gets thousands of resumes, a more creative approach can help. Create a clever teaser ad, inviting packaging or an attractive format that demonstrates your creativity or eye for design and draws your prospective employer into your resume.

2. Don't ignore the style of your resume.

Professionals in creative fields should give some thought to the design of their resumes, According to AIGA, the professional association for communication design. Your choice of typefaces, layout, paper stock and other factors contribute to the employer's overall perception of you, and exhibits what you can do with one piece of paper. But, the AIGA warns, don't go overboard. In the end, a resume needs to be readable. Schaaf agrees, and says that when he sifts through resumes, he does not want to see design work at this point, because he is first looking for technical capabilities. Once he finds candidates who offer the right technical abilities, he reviews their creative skills.

3. Consider sending a portfolio "teaser."

Kuehnhold says it is a good idea to send something with your resume that demonstrates your abilities. For example, you can send a CD, a link to a personal portfolio Web site or a few hard copies of your work. Do not expect to get these pieces back, and don't overwhelm the company with examples. Your real opportunity to wow them will come when you show up with your full portfolio.

4. Remember that a resume just gets you in the door.

For those applying for creative positions, the portfolio is a vital job searching tool. According to the AIGA, a portfolio is "portable proof of your design education and a document of your work." It should be professional, have a thoughtful and creative layout, and speak to who you are as a designer. Pieces within the portfolio should be removable and the work should be labeled with descriptions in case you are asked to leave it behind for review and do not have the chance to narrate. Some hiring managers, however, will want you to walk them through your portfolio. "I usually only like looking at portfolio work during the interview because there are so many questions I usually have," Schaaf says.

5. Professionalism counts no matter what the field.

If you want to get noticed by a big advertising firm and are designing an eye-catching, out-of-the-ordinary resume, you still need to follow the same standard rules of professionalism. Typos and grammatical errors are deal breakers, no matter what the field. Follow-up calls and thank-you letters are necessities, not just nice things to do. And, regardless of your creativity, you will get nowhere if you do not do your homework. Know the companies you are approaching, and you will have a better chance of letting your creativity shine.

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This is the first English translation of two poem cycles that have become part of the classic repertory of modern Lithuanian literature. The translation is by Vyt Bakaitis.

Although Idylls of Semeniskiai was acclaimed under the Soviet regime as a classic for its depiction of rural life and the richness of its language, Reminiscences was banned for its "romanticizing" of the life of Lithuanian exiles.

"How many Europeans have lost their homelands in this turbulent twentieth century? Millions, and there seems to be no end to the condition of uprootedness, as the fate of Bosnia testifies. Those who become exiles lose not only their possessions. Trees, meadows, fields as seen in their childhood are taken from them. And yet, if they write about their lost countries, they are, in a way, privileged, and I am going to explain why, upon the example of Jonas Mekas' poems.

"Mekas found himself during the Second World War as a slave laborer in Germany. He was young, he survived. After the war, he shared the fate of many Displaced Persons who continued to live in Germany because their countries were overrun by the Red Army. In a Displaced Persons' camp he was writing poems about his lost Lithuania. His native village and four seasons, each with its labors in the fields and joys were his subject. Here we come to a secret of poetry written in exile. To be good, it has to make use of something going deeper than nostalgia. And that something is the power of distance.

" 'Distance is the soul of beauty.' This sentence of Simone Weil expresses an old truth: only through a distance, in space or in time, does reality undergo purification. Our immediate concerns which were blinding us to the grace of ordinary things disappear and a look backward reveals them in their every minutest detail. Distance engendered by the passing of time is at the core of the oeuvre of Marcel Proust. Distance in space and awareness that borders with their barbed wire separated him from his country allowed a young Lithuanian to write his Idylls. In a way his poems follow the model of a poem on the four seasons, The Year, by an eighteenth century Lithuanian poet, Kristijonas Donelaitis. Yet they have the warmth of the direct recollections of the author's childhood and adolescence in the house of his parents. It is good that Idylls, called by historians of Lithuanian poetry the best poetic work by Jonas Mekas, appear now in English translation. Mekas has been recently honored in America and France as a promoter of avant-garde cinema, of a movement created by independent film-makers, which, though marginal as compared with Hollywood, is seminal for the future of film art. His sensitivity to unrepeatable light, color, scents of his native region, in the north of Lithuania, as shown in Idylls is that of a visionary who lifts the most earthly details of reality to a higher level of intensity: this explains why he is both a poet and a poet of things observed and preserved on the film reel."

-- Czeslaw Milosz, from the Foreword of There is No Ithaca

"As I opened this book, I found myself wondering: What if Mekas weren't a great film maker? What if he hadn't worked and shown and clarified and prophesied the New American Cinema into the rich potential of art? What if he weren't friend of every friend, and the kindest man in Manhattan? What if he weren't even Lithuanian, sprig of a small elegant tree whose peasants speak like noblemen and laugh like sea-birds at the way history seems to have swamped them for a season? What if here were just some guy who wrote these poems, in 1947, nothing was happening to America then, Patchen and Vazakas and nobody paid attention to Williams, and here was young Mekas with his

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-- could I fault that, such sense for things held carefully between the lips, his deft echo of an epic line way back on the other side of time's caesura? What else could this be but poetry, the strict dance of mind speaking? There's a lot of country in these poems, a prisoner's nose for fresh air so seldom breathed, an exile's feel for mud and stubble that his feet understand. These poems are what an honest young man answered when the world was shouting louder than most of us have heard. He knew even then to judge the weight of words, the light and dark of them."

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a1 Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, England
a2 Department of Music, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England
a3 Department of Psychology, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England

Talents that selectively facilitate the acquisition of high levels of skill are said to be present in some children but not others. The evidence for this includes biological correlates of specific abilities, certain rare abilities in autistic savants, and the seemingly spontaneous emergence of exceptional abilities in young children, but there is also contrary evidence indicating an absence of early precursors of high skill levels. An analysis of positive and negative evidence and arguments suggests that differences in early experiences, preferences, opportunities, habits, training, and practice are the real determinants of excellence.

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Lydia Bourouibaa1a2 c1, Eline Dehandschoewerckera3 and John W. M. Busha1

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Violent respiratory events such as coughs and sneezes play a key role in transferring respiratory diseases between infectious and susceptible individuals. We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the fluid dynamics of such violent expiratory events. Direct observation of sneezing and coughing events reveals that such flows are multiphase turbulent buoyant clouds with suspended droplets of various sizes. Our observations guide the development of an accompanying theoretical model of pathogen-bearing droplets interacting with a turbulent buoyant momentum puff. We develop in turn discrete and continuous models of droplet fallout from the cloud in order to predict the range of pathogens. According to the discrete fallout model droplets remain suspended in the cloud until their settling speed matches that of the decelerating cloud. A continuous fallout model is developed by adapting models of sedimentation from turbulent fluids. The predictions of our theoretical models are tested against data gathered from a series of analogue experiments in which a particle-laden cloud is ejected into a relatively dense ambient. Our study highlights the importance of the multiphase nature of respiratory clouds, specifically the suspension of the smallest drops by circulation within the cloud, in extending the range of respiratory pathogens.

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If someone is giving Shiur in the same room as people Davening, do the people learning answer Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo and Amen to the Hazarat HaShatz?

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related: judaism.stackexchange.com/q/3974/759 –  Double AA Feb 7 '12 at 5:58

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Answering to the Shaliach Tzibur is a sign of loyalty to Hashem and the Klal. You affirm that what they are saying is true, and that what they are doing is valid. You even attach yourself to their prayers, benefiting both you and the people praying.

By not responding, you are in affect saying that really you don't care about the klal, and only care about yourself.

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I'm pretty sure the question asked about a shiur. That seems to imply a group of people of its own, not just one's self. Why is one tzibbur better than the other? –  Double AA Jan 4 '12 at 14:18
Isn't Talmud Torah a sign of loyalty to Hashem also? –  Double AA Jan 4 '12 at 14:22
+1 I appreciate this answer. –  Hacham Gabriel Jan 4 '12 at 15:25
Do you even have any sources to back you up before you start calling Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurbach self absorbed? You haven't quoted one in your answer. –  Double AA Jan 4 '12 at 17:24
@avi Also, what do you mean 'it serves no other purpose'? Are you telling me that you think Talmud Torah is just a means of learning halacha (in the sense of 'way to act')? Would such a rule really be Keneged Kullam? What do you make of the notion of Torah LishmaH? What do you make of the gemara Menachot 99b that you have to keep learning even if you know all of Torah? Clearly there's more to Talmud Torah than preparing yourself with the halachot. It is an avoda of its own. –  Double AA Jan 5 '12 at 0:51

I once asked a Rov regarding the Halacha of what to do in 770. There is one official Shacharis/Mincha/Maariv minyan ("the main minyan") and there are also side minyanim taking place under the Woman's section throughout the day. Between the "side" minyanim and the "main" Beis Medrash are mechitzos to avoid this issue

However, there are times when people (inappropriately) make their minyan in the "main" Beis Medrash.

My question to him was if I have to answer Amen/Barchu/Kdusha. He said that one really should if possible.

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Shouldn't be necessary. Better to focus on Talmud Torah.

For those who can't listen to the shiur, you should know that Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurbach rules in Halichot Shelomo 9:6 that one does not even need to stop to answer kaddish or kedusha when learning by one's self, let alone when participating in a shiur!

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And when you come out of a cave after learning, be sure to use lazer beam eyes on anyone farming. –  avi Jan 4 '12 at 6:23
@avi Are you implying that avoiding distractions while studying is bad? –  Double AA Jan 4 '12 at 14:27
I heard the Shiur, and it is a Mahloket Sefard and Ashkenaz. –  Hacham Gabriel Jan 4 '12 at 15:22
If praising hashem is a "distraction" from your learning, then you have other issues. But if you want to avoid distractions, don't learn in a place where people pray! –  avi Jan 4 '12 at 16:26
@avi You most certainly do not! Someone who is learning is patur from tefillah and possibly even kriat shema according to the gemara. Rebbi Yehuda HaNassi would say an abridged form of kriat shema during his shiur to avoid stopping shiur. In shamayim, they ask you about kavata ittim letorah not letefillah. The gemara in megillah says that a beit midrash has more kedusha than a beit kenesset. The shulchan aruch only mentions davening with the tzibbur to avoid looking like a poresh in the context of the first pasuk of kriat shema only. Talmud Torah is avoda too you know. Lakol zeman ve'eit... –  Double AA Jan 4 '12 at 16:35

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Drop the act, and get Dropbox

Luckily, there are plenty of schools around the globe that are ‘up to speed’ with technology change, with good folk who share their knowledge and experiences.

Hello Dropbox – here I come :-)

What is Dropbox?

Put away your flash drive, and stop emailing yourself files, because once you get Dropbox, the ways you deal with moving, sharing and backing up your files will change forever.  Whether you are sharing things with your family, working on school projects, collaborating with colleagues, or just securing your own work, Dropbox is an amazing tool.

Drop Box it is a service that provides 2GB of free online file storage (with paid upgrades possible for heavy users).

What impresses me the most is the speed at which it backs things up.

Dropbox for Teachers

Jonathan Wylie has put together a Top Tips for Using Dropbox at School, explaining how it works for a busy teacher, expanding on the advantages for teachers. Did you know this includes being able to run a drop box for your students? DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Drop Box to allow people to upload files to your Drop Box account without giving them access to the contents of your Drop Box account.

Essentially though:

  • It’s free
  • It’s convenient
  • It saves you time
  • It synchronises your files across all your computers and devices.

Would you like to quickly access your Dropbox files while you’re browsing or using web apps in Chrome? You’ll need to head over to the DropBox extension page and add Dropbox to your Chrome browser.  You can pick up instructions on how to do this  by reading Access your Dropbox quickly in Google Chrome.

With the ‘Dropbox for Chrome’ extension, you can:

  • Browse all files in your DropBox account
  • Instantly download files from your account
  • View recent events (uploads, downloads, and file modifications)

But essentially, this extension allows you to peek into your dropbox on the fly, without further ado!  Neat!

If you are already using Dropbox, and are wondering what else you could be using it for, here are a few additional reads:

Is Dropbox and Google Docs Integration on the Way? That would be grand – but it seems that we’ll see Dropbox Rewind first. This will let you “hop to your Dropbox at any point in the past.” For its users, this could be the perfect defense against deleting files by accident and never remembering to make backups. Dropbox users can also expect to see file system usage analytics.

If you’re still on holidays and want a challenge – why not take part in the The Inaugural Dropbox Dropquest and win nice things like 50 Gb storage for life!

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Judge denies 2nd motion to acquit shooter

Jury today to consider Kenneth Nalan assault case in Superior Court

Posted: April 11, 2012 - 12:04am

A jury will consider whether a Juneau man who shot his brother-in-law’s friend in the face should be convicted of felony assault on Wednesday after closing arguments.

The jury of 12 will have to decide beyond a reasonable doubt that Kenneth E. Nalan, 36, did not shoot John “J.D.” Duran in self defense.

Duran was shot the night of Dec. 20 at Nalan’s house on Glacierwood Drive after a night of drinking with Nalan and Nalan’s brother-in-law. Duran survived, but required facial reconstructive surgery.

The jury has already heard five and a half days worth of police and witness testimony. Attorneys will make their closing arguments Wednesday morning.

Juneau Superior Court Judge Louis Menendez Tuesday once again denied a motion to acquit Nalan. Nalan’s attorney Eric Hedland made the motion a second time Tuesday after the state finished cross examining Nalan, who took the stand to tell his side of the story.

“I remain convinced this is a case that must go before a jury based on the law and based on the facts in this case,” Menendez ruled.

Hedland again claimed the state hasn’t proved its case, or has even made a clear argument.

“The state said in its opening statement — Mr. Brower said, ‘You’re going to have to figure it out.’ That’s what he said to the jury, ‘You’re going to have to figure it out,’” Hedland argued. “That’s not even a(n) assertion by the state that it can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, or disprove self defense beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Hedland continued that Nalan’s testimony presented “uncontroverted” evidence of self defense. He added Nalan doesn’t have to prove self defense — the state has to disprove it.

“I would suggest specifically on cross examination, the state’s case got worse,” Hedland said, noting the state did not introduce any physical scientific or forensic evidence to contradict the self defense claim.

He said the state was only relying on statements made minutes after the shooting, referring to the 911 call, police audio tape while responding on scene and police interviews an hour or so after the fact.

“I would suggest to the court that’s not assisting a jury in figuring out the case,” Hedland said. “At least not if you’re trying to convict somebody ... of a very serious felony.”

District Attorney David Brower pushed back, saying the state is arguing Nalan recklessly shot Duran. Brower told the judge Nalan’s testimony on the stand directly refutes what he told police officers before he was arrested on Dec. 21.

For instance, Brower pointed out, Nalan told police during an interview at the station that ‘The first thing I did was grab a gun. I was like ‘F--- that.’

“That doesn’t show that anybody else got the gun but Ken Nalan,” Brower argued.

Nalan testified Monday that Duran grabbed Nalan’s .357 Magnum revolver out of his closet first and came at him. Nalan said there was a brief struggle, or tug-of-war with the gun before he pulled the trigger.

Brower said Nalan told police officers that “a lot of little s--- happened with my gun in the house,” whereas on the stand, Nalan said he has not seen or touched the gun since he placed it in his closet over the summer.

“Mr. Nalan’s testimony is not uncontroverted by his own inconsistent statements,” Brower said.

Various things in Nalan’s testimony just “don’t add up,” Brower said.

When pressed during cross examination, Nalan responded he doesn’t know why he told police the things he did.

“My mind was going a million miles an hours,” Nalan said, adding, “It was very, very chaotic to me.”

During cross examination, Brower asked Nalan what he meant when he told police officers that he was having a “d--- pissing contest” with Duran.

Brower asked, “Do you remember telling Detective (Elias) Joven that, ‘It was a d--- pissing contest totally. That’s the bottom line. It was a d--- pissing contest and he’s from California and the Duran family. I am in your own house and I win. You don’t win’.”

“I don’t remember saying exactly that but I’m sure if I said that, I said that,” Duran said.

Nalan also told police he told Duran where the gun was, Brower said. Nalan said that wasn’t true when he testified. Nalan testified Monday that he never shot the .357 until Dec. 20, which contradicts a statement he gave police earlier, that he took the gun to a rifle range.

“I said a lot of things I don’t know why I said, some of which that totally don’t make any sense now that I look back on it,” Nalan said.

Nalan said he went back to the police station the morning after the shooting to make a statement, but his wife, Angela, got a lawyer on phone to talk him out of it.

Nalan said he even argued with her about it while standing in the JPD parking lot. But his attorney “was insistent, insistent” that he not make a statement, Nalan said.

Brower told the judge that much of the testimony so far in the case “doesn’t compute,” and that it’s up for jury to decide the truth.

“This is a case for the jury,” Brower said. “Fair-minded jurors can find beyond a reasonable doubt that it wasn’t self defense.”

A second juror was excused from his seat Tuesday afternoon while the courtroom was sealed. A female was excused last week when she heard a passing comment that Nalan was a “hot-head.”

The case started with 14 prospective jurors, two of whom were to be chosen as alternates. Twelve remain.

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Alaska's insect inhabitants

Local experts share stories on finding, gathering and presenting information in new book

Posted: May 25, 2012 - 12:01am
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One thing is certain about the majority of Alaska’s aquatic insects: they won’t be winning any beauty contests.

These crawlers, swimmers and graspers boast characteristics such as sucking mouth parts, the ability to secrete noxious liquid from scent glands and unique adaptations perfected for Alaska’s tough climate.

Take the Giant Water Bug, for example. It has been found to live only in the southern portion of the state, near Ketchikan, and can reach up to 2.5 inches in length. That’s roughly the size of an average-size adult thumb. It could be the largest aquatic insect in the state, according to John Hudson, an entomologist with the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Service. He said they seize prey with “raptorial” hook-tipped front legs and they often feed on salmon fry.

It’s tidbits of information like this that can be found in a new book by local authors Hudson, Kathy Hocker and Bob Armstrong, that was released this spring. The book is titled “Aquatic Insects in Alaska” and it’s 140 pages of in-your-face aquatic insect information which Hudson said is geared toward readers of all ages. Hudson, an author and long-time lover of insects of all kinds, provided much of the information about the different species. Hocker, a naturalist, writer, illustrator and educator, wrote the text. And Armstrong, who is perhaps best known for his nature photography, took many of the photographs for the book.

But, as one would imagine, it’s not easy to capture these aquatic insects with a camera. Many are tiny, like the larvae of the Mountain Midge. In many cases, Armstrong said, he went so far as raising some specimens in aquariums in his home.

“I’d try to bring them home and raise them,” he said. “You know, aquariums with flowing water for the insects that lived in streams and ones with still water for the insects that lived in ponds.”

Because, he said, “what I really wanted were live insects.” And, it’s hard to photograph in the field.

“Part of the reason is because when you take stream water right how of the river and put it in an aquarium, often a lot of bubbles form which really makes photography difficult. But there’s tricks you can use at home that will eliminate the bubbles,” he said.

Armstrong said he remembers one particularly challenging subject: an emerging mosquito.

“The whole process only takes about five minutes,” he said. “Once the pupa rises to the surface, they emerge from their skin, then, they fly off. So, I had to raise them in the house. It took about three nights. They tended to emerge at night. So, I would get up periodically and look at things. Often I’d find an empty pupa skin.”

But one night he got lucky. He remembers it was around midnight and he saw one just getting ready to emerge. With the camera gear ready, he snapped the photo of the adult mosquito right before it flew from the surface of the water. In the book, it appears on page 66.

Often the trio of Hocker, Hudson and Armstrong would go collecting together.

Hocker remembers one outing, on a cold winter day, to Fish Creek, on Douglas Island, in search of the Mountain Midge larvae.

These midges, according to the text, live in extreme habitats. The larvae can be found in very steep, cold and swift-flowing mountain streams.

Hocker said they donned waders and found themselves scrubbing away at submerged rocks with toilet brushes.

“After a few hours we go lots of aquatic insects — stoneflies and mayflies — but no midges,” she said. “Later, we found out that Mountain Midges overwinter as eggs.”

When it came to the text, Hocker made sure to include what she called “stories from the field” in the book. And little bits and pieces of interesting information are scattered throughout the pages. In a way, these “interesting facts” and “how-to” sections help the book read like a magazine, but instead of features, it’s packed with the information one might find in a text book.

Hocker said the trio wanted to the book to be interesting for people of all ages.

“I was hoping to touch on the kid in everybody,” she said. “The kid who liked to go scoop nets through ponds and wasn’t afraid to look at a big crawly insect to look at its eyes, for example.”

“We tried to be thorough without being complete,” Hocker said. “There’s still so much that’s not known about aquatic insects in Alaska. It’s a huge state and we’re basing our knowledge on samples. But there are always new things being discovered.”

Armstrong said completing the book was a solid two-year project.

In the end, Hudson said the book isn’t just about common aquatic insects found in Alaska. He said it’s also about illustrating connections and he hopes people will “see” more when they wander to the edge of a stream.

“(I hope) that people, the next time they walk to the edge of a river to look at salmon, or a fish in a lake, that they understand there is this whole world under the water,” he said. “It’s so neat. These insects (even in their terrestrial form) sustain all kinds of life, whether it be a mouse, a vole or a migratory bird that has just flown up from South America to raise its young.”

Aquatic insects, he said, are also important as decomposers.

“Everybody knows about decomposers on the forest floor that break down leaves so that we’re not buried in tons and tons of leaves,” he said. “The same things happen in a river. When the leaves fall down into the river, those leaves are colonized by fungi and bacteria and that makes them really nutritious for aquatic insects like stoneflies. And so they’ll actually shred those leaves, get at those fungi and bacteria and convert it into biomass.”

The salmon eat the stoneflies, the bears eat the salmon and so, in a way, Hudson said, “alder leaves eventually become bears.”

“(Aquatic insects) are really important as decomposers of that organic material that falls into stream,” he said. “They turn it into living tissue.”

Hudson said he hopes the book gets youth, in particular, excited about aquatic insects. Hocker, he said, summed it up in the introduction of the book.

“To see a child discover aquatic insects for the first time ... you get them in a stream, they’re in their Xtra-tuffs and they’re holding a net and they’re kicking the bottom around and they pull that net up and discharge the contents into a pan and all the sudden, as everything settles, it’s just crawling with life ... and you can’t teach them anything at that moment because they are not listening to you. They are just so enthralled,” he said.

He said it’s that feeling of being enthralled that he hopes to cultivate in others.

Armstrong said the book is currently available at Hearthside Books.

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Southeast military performs exercise

Posted: Friday, March 31, 2000

Northern Edge 2000 is the premier joint military training exercise held in Alaska annually and tests the metal of each service in it's respective way. Some 3,000 service personnel representing all branches of the Armed Forces participate during the two weeks of training.

Arctic soldiers training in cold weather tactics maneuver in snow-covered tundra while flyers from the Air Force, Navy and Army attempt to coordinate air attacks in defense of a simulated country in need. The Navy secured the coastal waters of Southeast Alaska, headquartered in Sitka.

It was here in Sitka that the Southeast Composite Squadron of the Alaska Wing Civil Air Patrol was employed to assist in coastal surveillance and harbor security. The Juneau Squadron deployed three aircraft from Juneau to Sitka in response to the threat to Alaska's security from a foreign power. Two CE-172's on wheels and one DHC-2 DeHavilland Beaver on floats were directed by the Navy to fly surveillance flights in the Sitka Sound area of operations. In addition to the simulated tactical mission, the Juneau CAP was used to screen the intended landing areas for any marine wildlife habitats that may be affected by maneuver damage during the exercise. During the training exercise, the herring migration of the Sitka Sound began, which drew with it a plethora of marine mammals in pursuit. Sea lions, seals, humpback whales and sea otters along with a myriad of birds all trying to find the swarms of herring to feed on.

The USS Comstoke transported tens of thousands of pounds of material and equipment for use during the exercise. Aggressors in the form of Navy Seals were used to harass and make disturbances in an attempt to disrupt communications and naval activities. Fleet security was of paramount concern when the USS Ohio, a Trident nuclear-powered submarine, surfaced. The Beaver was used as overhead watch looking for any unauthorized advance toward the submarine.

Small inflatable boats with large outboard engines were used by the bad guys as a means of fast attack. During the airborne patrols, the CAP spotted many of these small vessels and their positions relayed by radio to headquarters. Thus, the rapid reaction forces stationed ready to respond to such a threat foiled the impending attacks.

During this period of training, live ordinance from the Second World War were discovered in the waters near Ketchikan. The Naval command was tasked with rendering these very real explosives harmless and the CAP was utilized as means of transporting the Explosive Ordinance Detachment Team of four with their gear to Ketchikan. Flying the 200 nautical mile trip required the Beaver to transport the passengers and a portion of the gear, while on CE-172 was used to fly the teams remaining gear. This real world mission required two round trips of nearly 400 nautical miles and four hours flying per aircraft. After two days the EOD personnel required back haul to Sitka and again the CAP was there to accomplish the mission. The aircrews had great satisfaction after realizing they had assisted in defusing this potentially dangerous problem.

Upon returning to Sitka, it was learned that small fishing vessel had signaled distress and it was reported that a crew member was injured. Again the CAP was called into action to find this vessel and safely evacuate the crewman to medical care. Once the order was given, the medical personnel and their equipment were loaded on board the Beaver and the search began. Hand flares were used to signal the aircraft and once on the water, the rendezvous was complete with the aircraft tied alongside the small vessel. Fleet medical was out assessing the condition of the injured person, while the crew stabilized the aircraft and boat. The injured crewman's left arm and leg were placed in splints to immobilize the limbs. The crewman was lifted out of the boat and into the Beaver. Within less that an hour from the time the call for help was made, the injured person was being attended to by qualified Naval medical personnel.

Halfway through the exercise, the Navy hosted a distinguished visitor's day. On Sunday, March 4, State of Alaska Representatives Harris and Coghill needed to be transported from Juneau to Sitka. A brand new CE-172 was dispatched to accommodate the transportation needs of these two state representatives. After the fanfare and demonstrations for the state officials concluded, the CAP again was called upon to return Representatives Coghill and Harris to the state capital.

The venerable DHC-2 Beaver was nearly 50 years old, making it the oldest piece of equipment in the exercise. Yet the Beaver proved herself a valuable tool in this era of high-tech and high-speed travel. The float Beaver is one of those aircrafts that has been mainstay in Southeast and other remote areas throughout Alaska, doing only the things it's unique abilities enable it to do. During this training exercise the Juneau Squadron flew nearly 70 flight hours, 135 passengers, 63 sorties and hauled over 2,000 lbs. of cargo.

The valuable training and flight experience gained during Northern Edge has improved the proficiency of the Southeast Composite Squadron readiness and ability to perform it's real world SAR mission. Enabling it's crews to get the valuable training and hands on experience needed to be proficient and safe.

Proper credit must be given to the U.S. Navy for their generosity in funding the CAP's flight time, messing and lodging. Having this type of training and cooperation between the different organizations the CAP may be called on to support is invaluable and our thanks goes out to the U.S. Navy and their kind and generous support of the Juneau CAP.

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Privatizing may mean lost jobs

state may contract out telecomunnications work

Posted: Monday, May 22, 2000

The state plans to contract out more of its telecommunications needs, a move state workers say could cost more than 50 jobs, including 19 in Juneau.

State Department of Administration Commissioner Bob Poe said it's not certain yet how many state jobs, if any, will be lost. But he said companies bidding on the work have also been told they need to include plans for dealing fairly with state workers.

Chuck O'Connell, business manager for the Alaska State Employees Association, said the union representing the affected employees has a ``big problem'' with the plan as it stands now.

He would not discuss specifics of what ASEA doesn't like about the plan, he said, because the union will be pursuing action through a disputes procedure.

``We don't believe the state is going about this process correctly and we will utilize the avenues that are available to us to try and resolve the difference between the state's approach and our understanding of what they should be doing,'' he said.

Bill Beyer, a state computer help desk employee, said it appears the request for proposals is being pushed through very quickly, and employees believe their jobs are in jeopardy.

```We're toast' is the prevailing opinion,'' Beyer said.

Poe said unions have been informed about the proposal since the state began working on it last fall.

The various state departments spend about $26 million a year on telecommunications -- for items from Internet connections to maintenance of an emergency communications system, Poe said.

Already, about $20.5 million of that telecommunications service is contracted out to at least 40 different companies.

``That leads to excessive paperwork, complexity,'' Poe said, and it doesn't encourage economies of scale.

The state is looking for one ``prime contractor'' to handle all those telecommunications services that are already contracted out, plus part of the additional $5.5 million that is still done by the state.

Poe expects a consortium of companies, rather than one single company, will bid on the job, but they will be working together. ``This allows, we hope, some real efficiencies,'' he said.

``The Legislature and Alaskans have made it clear we do have to constantly look for ways to do what we do at a lower cost,'' he added.

Poe said labor contracts require the union be notified when any position ``might possibly'' be contracted out. The state initially told the union a maximum of 56 state jobs might be affected -- 29 in Anchorage, 19 in Juneau and eight in Fairbanks.

However, the proposal has been further refined since those numbers were provided, and the actual number of jobs affected will be fewer, said Karen Morgan, acting director of the Administration Department's information technology group. It's not clear yet how many fewer jobs, she said.

Whether the work actually will be contracted out depends on what kind of offer the private sector comes up with, Poe said.

The ASEA contract also requires that the union have a chance to offer its own plan to compete with any private sector proposal, Poe said.

If a private company wins the contract, some of the state employees could expect to get jobs there, he said. ``Most of them have very, very marketable skills,'' Poe said.

The actual request for proposals to do the work is scheduled to go out in mid-June. Poe said he expects responses would be back and the state would make a decision by late summer on awarding a four-year contract.

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Murkowski: Capital shouldn't be moved

Posted: Sunday, August 11, 2002

U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski, like Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, is opposed to moving the Legislature to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and also wants the capital to remain here.

Murkowski, the leading Republican gubernatorial candidate, took a strong stand against a ballot initiative that would move the Legislature to the Mat-Su or to Anchorage during a stop in Juneau on Friday.

"The bottom line is the capital should not be moved. It's not a priority, the state can't afford it, but I'm amazed at how much of it has already moved," Murkowski said.

Ulmer, Murkowski's leading Democratic opponent, is also a vocal opponent of efforts to move the Legislature and the capital. She called the ballot initiative a veiled attempt to relocate state government.

Murkowski also said Friday that too much of state government now resides outside of Juneau.

Five cabinet-level appointees under the Knowles administration make their home in or near Anchorage. They are Deborah Sedwick, Michele Brown, Phil Oates, Pat Pourchot and Wilson Condon.

"When I was a commissioner, we had all of our commissioners here," said Murkowski, who was head of the Alaska Department of Economic Development under former Gov. Walter J. Hickel's first administration.

Murkowski said he was alarmed by the extent of the so-called "capital creep," whereby state officials and services gravitate toward Anchorage. But he didn't attribute it to Knowles.

Knowles wanted his appointees to live in Juneau at the start of his administration but has no policy on the matter, said spokesman Bob King. "Over the years, in order to keep people, I think he's shown flexibility there," King said.

Ulmer says that more state jobs have come to Juneau under the Knowles administration.

"People have said, 'Well, gee, in the last eight years we've lost positions in Juneau,' " Ulmer told the Juneau Empire. "Actually it's not true. If you look at the number of state positions in Juneau in 1994 versus in 2001, which is the last year we have numbers for, there are actually more state positions in Juneau today than there were eight years ago."

She said that if elected, she would also ask her appointed commissioners to live in Juneau.

"But wherever they live they do have to spend a lot of time statewide because the state doesn't want to not see their commissioners," she said.

Capital creep is an issue that resonates in Juneau, where state government is the dominant employer. Murkowski cited it after a meeting with the Alaska Committee, a group organized in Juneau to battle attempts to move the capital.

"We're certainly disappointed with the number of commissioners that don't live here," said Win Gruening, chairman of the Alaska Committee, a Juneau organization fighting efforts to move the Legislature. "I think it's something that is an issue that needs to be addressed."

The Alaska Committee has invited both Murkowski and Ulmer to meet with its group, Gruening said. But the committee will not endorse a candidate, he said.

Ballot Measure 2, which goes to the voters during the Nov. 5 general election, calls for moving the Legislature to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. If adequate facilities can't be found there, the Legislature would meet in Anchorage.

It also repeals part of the so-called FRANK initiative, which mandates the state provide estimates of the cost of moving the Legislature and requires voter approval of those costs before a move can happen.

Supporters of the ballot initiative say it would give voters more access to their lawmakers since Juneau doesn't have a highway linking it to the rest of the state.

Empire reporter Tim Inklebarger contributed to this article.

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Sierra Leone war crimes court calls for Nigeria to detain Taylor immediately

[JURIST] The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] Sunday called on the Nigerian government to immediately detain former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor [JURIST news archive] so that he does not disappear before being handed over to the Liberian government to be tried for crimes against humanity [indictment] by the Special Court. On Saturday, the Nigerian government agreed to transfer Taylor to Liberian custody [JURIST report] but did not specify how that would take place.

Current SCSL Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva [official profile, PDF] said in an official statement [PDF]:

The watching world will wish to see Taylor held in Nigerian detention to avoid the possibility of him using his wealth and associates to slip away, with grave consequences to the stability of the region.
De Silva has asked Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to have his authorities execute the warrant for the arrest of Taylor issued by the court. BBC News has more.

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