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Every employer must put certain staff into a workplace pension and pay into it. This is called automatic enrolment.

Your duties begin on your staging date, but you can delay working out who to put into a pension scheme for up to three months. This is known as postponement.

Postponement doesn’t change your staging date. [Screen text shows: Staging dates can't be delayed] But it may save you time and effort if:

  • You have staff who are on short term contracts that may end within three months.
  • Or you have staff who begin work on a probationary period.
  • Or you want to align automatic enrolment with other business processes like monthly payroll or tax returns.

As you will only need to work out who to put into a pension scheme from staff who are working for you at the end of postponement.

You can use postponement for a single staff member, a group or all of your staff.

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You need to be aware that you can only use postponement.

  • On your staging date.
  • On a new member of staff's first day. [Screen text shows: first day of employment]
  • When an existing staff member meets the age and earnings thresholds for automatic enrolment.

You will still have duties during the postponement period, such as writing to those staff affected.

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Key points

  • Make sure you have people, structures and processes in place that work well for your particular scheme. These will help you to make decisions effectively, manage risks to the scheme and members, seize opportunities and set appropriate long-term objectives.
  • Get the basics right first. This includes making sure we have up-to-date information about your scheme, completing your scheme return on time and getting annual benefit statements to members on time.
  • We already take action against breaches of the basics and we will increasingly focus on schemes with wider governance issues.

Good governance

Good governance is the bedrock of a well-run pension scheme. There is a clear link between good governance and good fund performance so it is an essential part of effective scheme management. Without good governance, you are unlikely to achieve good outcomes for members.

Good governance is about having motivated, knowledgeable and skilled people involved with running the scheme. It’s also about having the right structures and processes to enable effective, timely decisions and risk management, and to provide clear scheme objectives. It helps you to effectively oversee:

  • administration and record-keeping
  • investment and funding (in local government schemes)
  • communications with members

You should spend time and resources getting your scheme governance right. This will help you to minimise risk and maximise opportunities for your scheme and your members. Investing in good governance is likely to save you in the long run, delivering good value for members and employers, and improving member outcomes.

Check your governance: the basics

Consider the questions below to check your scheme’s governance of the basics. These are all things that we expect you to be doing. Make sure someone is responsible for each task.

If you fail to do the basics we will take action.

Failing to get the basic legal duties right is likely to be a sign of wider failings. We pay closer attention to schemes that we believe pose a greater risk.

Read about enforcement action we have taken:

Use your business plan

Setting a clear purpose and strategy is essential to managing your scheme effectively and getting good outcomes for members.

Having a business plan will enable you to plan ahead and improve your ability to comply with legal requirements at all times. Use your business plan to help you to:

  • set out strategic goals for your scheme
  • check your progress using short-term and medium-term objectives
  • take action effectively if objectives are not being met
  • prioritise scheme business and board agenda items
  • plan training and other activities to develop the skills of the board
  • co-ordinate activities of advisers and those providing services to your scheme
  • engage with employers
  • manage risks effectively

Your scheme’s business plan needs to cover:

  • clear, long-term goals for your scheme and interim objectives around key areas of focus including governance, investments (for local government schemes), administration and communications
  • how you propose to meet these objectives and goals
  • how you will measure and monitor progress towards them

You should review your scheme’s business plan and goals regularly.

We've produced a sample business plan and annual planner for trustees that you may find useful:

Case study on the value of good governance

Costs of poor record-keeping

We reviewed scheme record-keeping in 2013/14. In two cases relating to schemes linked to the same employer, the trustees didn’t have sufficient oversight of the quality of their scheme data, which in turn meant that sufficient processes were not in place. The trustees carried out a full data cleanse to address our specific concerns. These included missing addresses and postcodes for deferred members.

As part of the data cleansing process the trustees also identified that a number of deferred members had died and arranged for their benefits to be settled. These schemes had been funding liabilities for deceased members, leading to extra costs for the schemes and sponsoring employer.

We were able to close our cases after the trustees showed their processes now trace members on an ongoing basis rather than waiting until shortly before they reach their normal retirement date, and the governance and oversight of the scheme’s administration processes had improved. By keeping records up to date, the schemes improved their efficiency and could accurately establish their liabilities.

You should consider similar issues to the trustees in this example. Poor data quality can lead to extra costs and can negatively affect members. Invest in good record-keeping and make sure oversight processes are robust to avoid extra costs in the future.

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Manipur HC gets first woman CJ

IMPHAL, 9th Feb:
Judge of High Court of Gujarat Abhilasha Kumari was sworn in as the Chief Justice of High Court of Manipur on Friday. Governor Dr Najma Heptulla administered the oath of office and secrecy to Abhilasha Kumari during a ceremony held at Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan, here.

With this, Abhilasha Kumari has become first woman Chief Justice of High Court of Manipur.

She was appointed as the Chief Justice of High Court of Manipur by the President of India on February 6. Justice Abhilasha is a native of Himachal Pradesh. After graduating from Delhi University, she obtained a law degree from Himachal Pradesh University. She joined the Bar in 1984 and practiced in High Court of Himachal Pradesh before attending High Court of Gujarat.

The swearing–in-ceremony was also attended by Abhilasha Kumari's father Virbhadra Singh, former chief minister of Himachal Pradesh.

Others who were present at the ceremony included Chief Minister N Biren Singh, deputy CM Y Joykumar, Speaker Y Khemchand, Deputy Speaker K Robindro, council of ministers, MLA and opposition leader Okram Ibobi Singh, former CM Radhabinod Koijam, Chief Secretary, Director General of Police and senior civil and security officials and Bar members.

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5 exercises to help lower back pain

Author: Menna Saeed

Second: Cat and Camel

Start by getting down on your hands and knees. Your hands should be shoulder-width apart and knees should be hips-width apart. Suck your stomach in and arch your back. Rest your neck between your shoulders and hold it for 3 seconds then sag your lower back. Do this for 10 reps.

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From Wolf Eyes To Caretaker: A New Column Exploring Musical Extremes
Frances Morgan , October 12th, 2009 08:47

Frances Morgan starts her new column today, delving into the world of noise, drone, jazz and whatever else takes her fancy. Photograph courtesy Maria Jefferis/

Wolf Eyes live in 2006

So there are these two rules I decide to try to stick to. One is not to let one release overshadow the rest in the pile; the second is to avoid getting too allusive about autumn. Perhaps this last is a hangover from editing a print monthly, in which your elegant prose about snow reads a bit funny when it hits the shelves four weeks into spring sunshine. But it's also a sense that this season of restless ghosts and darkening days is too easy to pattern certain sounds onto, especially those of drone, flutter, scrape and scream.

I don't know. I am watching glass/mouth/electronics artist Justice Yeldham when I decide this and he makes me feel perverse. It is a brilliantly immediate performance, galvanising and alien and funny, and free of safe gestures and easy comparisons. I decide I want everything to feel like that this month: fuck yr ghosts.

But ghosts don't listen. James Leyland Kirby, aka noise absurdist V/VM, aka Quietus favourite The Caretaker, surfaces with Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was, a sprawling ambient work that demands your extended attention, and that seems saturated with the long-shadow sadness and stark, sweet chill of the year's slowing down – so both rules fly out the window and into blustery skies. This is heavy weather indeed: released as a three-CD set under the moniker of History Always Favours The Winners, the albums are also available as double LPs, both formats with sleeves featuring the heavily textured, melancholy paintings of Ivan Seal. The dimensions and design of this project are integral to its impact – if Kirby had released, as originally intended, a single-CD album, its affect would be very different. For one thing, a large-scale piece is in itself a statement of intent in our supposedly accelerated listening culture, upon which Kirby takes a dystopian, regretful stance. For another, it's near-impossible to conceive of the hours of music as a sequential whole; instead, we focus on aspects, moods and fragments, mapping and interpreting multiple versions. Not only does this simulate memory itself – that constantly mutating, murky expanse we carry within us collectively and individually, with which Kirby has long demonstrated a fascination via his Caretaker releases – but it also makes the palette of slow keyboard melody, subliminal bass, washes of noise and skilfully layered samples more meaningful than it might be otherwise.

Piano features heavily, and at times feels a little too refined and meandering. Yet it is always part of a larger picture, an eternity of vinyl crackle, tape wobble, quiet shrieks of feedback and suggested strings, EVP and Earth hum, reminiscent of the hidden audio worlds created by by Philip Jeck. Elsewhere the melodies drift from theremin and what sounds to be a music box or celeste, and from unsteady, pitch-bent synths from phantom raves. All are effective at conveying the loss and grief that Kirby makes clear in his titles and accompanying notes were the driving forces behind the albums. Kirby's honesty in verbalising his emotions and process is brave and provocative, in the field in which he works, and the slight stiltedness makes it all the more moving (the 'sadly' – plus comma – in the albums' collective title is weirdly formal and resigned, like a late train announcement). But this music hints at the enormity of both personal and universal solitude, endurance and decay without any verbal prompting whatsoever. I have written way too much about it, and its entropic atmosphere chimes perfectly with the year's demise, but this is a box-set to break rules for.

An odd CDR I pick up at a small press fair comes with the opposite amount of information, i.e. almost none, and the internet seems to have nothing to say on it either. It's only by chance that I bump into the guy who sold it to me in the pub a week later, who offers to put me in touch with his friend Bryan in Leeds, the instigator of Din Of Rotting Hermits, who are credited with these four untitled noise improvisations. The recording sets percussion and trumpet, maybe sax also, in some very resonant, I'd guess derelict space – credited on the sleeve as “the glass church factory” – which is itself played: metallic scrapes, shrieks and crashes point to some large-scale vandalism. These flinty, inhuman gamelan textures are, of course, common in experimental music from AMM to Z'ev, but here they sound wonderfully fresh and mobile, and the ritualistic, Boredoms-ish rhythmic passages point to an allegiance with DIY rather than classic improv. The whole thing is pretty blistering; I'm hoping to hear more soon from the mythical Bryan.

Excellent US noise/metal label Utech celebrates its fifth anniversary this month with an exclusive CD by Norwegian noise stalwart Lasse Marhaug free with every order, and new releases including Ural Umbo's S/T, which has some of the weighty, filmic drift of Bohren and Club der Gore, and Dark As The Sea by Italian artist Architeuthis Rex, a thrummy, hypnotic, bliss-noise oddity. Utech's birthday is an excuse to dig out some of their best releases from earlier this year, and to find that they soundtrack this month perfectly, not least Aluk Todolo's Finisternis. A French trio that sprang from black metal group Diamatregon, Aluk Todolo have been getting progressively further away from their roots: 2007's Descension was a bleak, psychedelic sprawl with Krautrock rhythms spliced to guttural riffing and impressively spooked atmospherics. Finsternis sees them stripping back still further, with five angular instrumentals on which cyclical, plodding basslines trace sinister shapes around a dissonant and minimal guitar and undercurrents of feedback and oscillation. The rhythm section marches throughout like zombies in a high wind. It's just one standout release in a pretty unrelenting roster that includes Final, James Plotkin, Skullflower, Zaimph, Thor's Hammer vocalist Runhild Gammelsaeter and far lesser known artists such as superb Dijon-based guitar/tape texturalist Olivier Dumont.

It seems odd to describe Wolf Eyes' confrontational music as 'a grower', but actually it often is just that, and Always Wrong (Hospital Productions) reveals itself slowly, digging dirty hooks into the listener with each monotonous intonation and slithering, sucking oscillation of 'Living Stone'. Whispers and slow-paced drones – especially on haunting closer 'Droll/Cut The Dog' – lurk alongside the barrages of chaotic rhythm, and that sense of being dragged backwards and downwards by sound that often hits you about halfway through a Wolf Eyes album is met with some simmering, shivering high-end twists and echoes of antique blues. Vocals are left almost untreated, which creates an unexpected tension: it takes repeated listens to feel comfortable with the presence of lyrics, directions, verbal intent within the sound, when they do not sound quite fully comfortable themselves. But when Always Wrong meshes, it does so like a spiderweb, and at only 31 minutes it doesn't take long for it to do so.

Vocal restraint is not a concept Gentry Densley, formerly of Iceburn and most recently of Ascend with Greg Anderson, has a lot of time for on his debut album as Eagle Twin. The Unkindness Of Crows (Southern Lord) is shaped by his stentorian preacher's burr and roar as much as it is by his darkly ornate, characterful guitar. With drummer Tyler Smith providing a brutal but fluid counterpoint, the duo alternate between widescreen doom and some inspired prog flourishes over an hour of tightly constructed, carrion-themed mini-epics. The pared-down lineup works in Eagle Twin's favour, illuminating muscular playing and songwriting that might, in other settings, be swamped by feedback and layering, and the thunderous delivery of the closing refrain means that “Birds ascending to battle the burning sun/Fall back to earth” sounds far less like an Om cover than you might think. Use this and the new Shrinebuilder album to do battle with the season's dark forces, and next month we can drift into hibernation with the new Oneohtrix Point Never album, out on No Fun Productions in November and already calming lost souls round these parts.

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Joining the Documented Life Project ..

It's the start of a new year and I am joining The Documented Life Project with Roben-Marie Smith Lorraine Bell , Rae MissigmanSandi Keene , and 100's of other creative folks who will be documenting, photographing, painting, collaging,  journaling, and planning their creative year.

I started journaling weekly last year so this year will be fun to do my journaling with a group and focusing on particular themes each week.

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The Revit Saver's Compiled List of Dynamo Learning Resources

I happened to stumble upon this exceptional list of learning resources for Dynamo. I am currently in the process of learning it myself, and finding resources to further my knowledge on it has been slim pickings. Thanks to amoursol on this may be one of the more complete lists of resources available on the web. None of the links are transferable from the post, so below the post is strictly an overview of his post; however, the link to where the links are actually available is available below.

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Dynamo Learning Resources

This post is intended to be a learning resource that simply links to external blogs/websites and Youtube channels on the subject of Dynamo.

Note: As of release 0.8.0 and Dynamo Studio, Dynamo is in a reasonably stable state and the node nomenclature should remain consistent. However, please bear in mind that they are still subject to change as it's a constantly evolving program.

Note: When following older tutorials, nodes will exist in different forms and/or names but should be relatively logical to search. Dynamo has undergone a an entire rebuild more than once in it's short lifetime.

Websites/Blogs: - Forums containing very knowledgeable people on the subject of Dynamo. Dynamo developers frequent this forum.
Github - Github is where the development team are hosting all of the open source code for Dynamo.
Dynamo Primer - A comprehensive guide to visual programming, covering best practices, cross-disciplinary programming applications, computational geometry and many more topics.

The Simply Complex - Marcello Sgambelluri's blog about all things Revit/Dynamo. He frequents this forum too!
The Proving Grounds - A website from Case's Nathan Miller (Author of the Rhynamo and Lunchbox Dynamo nodes). - Konrad Sobon's website about practical Dynamo workflows and Python development (Author of the Grimshaw and Archi-Lab nodes as well as Mantis Shrimp).
Enjoy Revit - HyunWoo Kim's website for Revit and Dynamo. He frequents this forum too!
SixtySecond Revit - John P's website (Author of the Rhythm Dynamo nodes) with 60 second tidbits on all things Revit and Dynamo
AEC, You and ME - Julien Benoit's blog, author of the Steam Nodes, with an RTC presentation and various thoughts on the Construction industry.
What Revit Wants - Luke Johnson's all things Revit blog including a comprehensive post on 15 Practical uses of Dynamo.
Revit Dynamite and Ammo - Jostein Olsen's Dynamo blog (Author of a few custom nodes) including some nifty tips and tricks, python code and his thoughts on the world of Dynamo.
Revit Beyond BIM - Dieter Vermeulen's blog with a focus on the structural engineering side of Dynamo.
EMADALQATTAN Parametric Modelling - Emal Al-Qattan's blog post about the modelling of the Yas Viceroy Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

DynamoBIM's Learning Videos - A series of Videos from the DynamoBIM website. They are under the process of being revamped but are still very useful.
Structural Computational Logic by Håvard Vasshaug - A tutorial that runs through the creation of an Adaptive Component, then uses Dynamo to place said component.
Case's Door Renumbering - A door re-numbering tutorial by William Wong from Case Inc.
Håvard Vasshaug's Random Parameter Values - A tutorial that showcases using Dynamo to sporadically resize tree families.
BIMTecnicheParametrichediProgettazione - Claudio Vittori's Adaptive Component placement tutorial.
Getting Bottom of Pipe (MEP) - Mohammed Mahboob's simple tutorial on a difficult OOTB Revit problem.

Youtube: - A Facade Surface tutorial series by Andrzej Samsonowicz.
HyunWoo Kim's Channel - A notable collection of Revit and Dynamo resources.
Zach Kron's Channel - One of the Dynamo developers. Most of his content is with previous releases but it is an invaluable learning resource.
Håvard Vasshaug's Channel - More examples of what he's done than tutorials but totally inspiring. Has a structural bent.
Jeremy Roh's Channel - An in-depth collection of tutorials that use the his website for additional tutorial resources.
Konrad Sobon's Channel - The creator of Channel consists of in-depth tutorials with a particular focus on his own Python node development.
BIMtopia - The youtube channel of Glenn Katz from Stanford University. He has a structural Engineering focus and some very in-depth tutorial sessions on Dynamo.

Twitter: A lot of people doing exciting things in the Dynamo world use Twitter to post their Dynamo thoughts and visuals.

Below are a list of people worth following:

@DynamoBIM - Dynamo itself (Of course!)
@marcellosgamb - Marcello Sgambelluri
@ZachKron - Zach Kron (Dynamo developer)
@elayabharath - Elayabharath
@MattJezyk - Matt Jezyk (Dynamo Developer)
@a_dieckmann - Andreas Dieckmann
@arch_laboratory - Konrad Sobon
@ColinMcCrone - Colin McCrone (Dynamo Developer)
@BigBadBIM - Eric Lewis
@archinate - Nathan Miller
@BIM4Struc - Dieter Vermeulen
@solamour - This is my own twitter feed. I post about Dynamo among other things - almost all Architecturally related.

Python: is the Code Language used by Dynamo
Python Migration - This is a Wiki page on the Github talking about Python code migration between releases and how to start creation of Python Nodes.
MITOpenCourseWare - This is an Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python (Not Dynamo specific) from MIT under their edX platform. It goes over the basics of Python though to deeper concepts and covers common pitfalls when using the language.

Other: is a few websites that will help you with your Dynamo exploration

Wolfram Mathworld - A preeminent mathematics resource that will help you understand mathematical concepts for use in formulaic Dynamo data control and manipulation.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rob Roberge

Rob Roberge is an indie raconteur, best known for his portrayals of down and out characters on the quest for a better life. It’s a motley crew, one that he has built and dissected over four books. His work has also appeared in dozens of publications, mining themes of desire, anxiety, identity, and despair.

There is a thin line between the themes and characters of Rob Roberge’s most recent work of fiction, The Cost of Living, and those we find in the pages of his recently released memoir, Liar. With the startling revelation that he may have a progressive, memory-deteriorating disease caused by a series of concussions and a long history of substance abuse, Roberge takes to the memoir form to recount his memories of addiction, catharsis, success, and defeat in honest and raw detail—before it all disappears.

It’s a striking portrait of a conflicted former addict, as well as a story of the importance of memory. Our conversation took place over email, with Rob kindly finding the time in between appearances on his jam-packed book tour to answer my questions.

The Rumpus: As well as being a novelist and short story writer, you’re also a musician. You once opened for Yo La Tengo (which, I have to admit, makes me incredibly jealous). The musician lifestyle often plays a large role in your fictional work, as well as here in Liar. I’m interested in whether or not you feel music influences your writing on a global level, or whether your writing style infiltrates your music?

Rob Roberge: I don’t think there’s that much crossover. I’d say the music influences the writing—the music and rhythm of the prose—much more than the writing influences the music.

Rumpus: Well, you do write in Liar about your time as a musician and the subsequent nuclear fallout of involving yourself in its hard-partying lifestyle. You also write about attempting to write while under the influence. Were you writing and submitting when you were abusing drugs and alcohol? Or did your career only take off once you found sobriety?

LIAR COVERRoberge: What career I have took off (rather slowly at first) after I got sober. I wasn’t doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn’t one of those people. The rest of my career? It has a pretty slow arc, as I said. It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years. Then my first novel came out on an indie, and most of my books have been on indies, until Liar, but I still kind of consider myself an indie writer. Just one who got very lucky that Crown took to the memoir and it went from there.

Rumpus: When did you first get sober?

Roberge: 1993 was the first time.

Rumpus: Did you study writing formally?

Roberge: I did. I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

Rumpus: I’m currently studying for my MFA and I personally find it useful, but I can see why some might find the experience less than informative. It’s all about finding the right mentor, as you say. You are also a teacher. Do you enjoy it? How did your teaching career begin? You used to teach narrative theory, correct?

Roberge: I teach at UCR/Palm Desert’s MFA in Writing Program (and, at times, a few other places). I love it—it’s the first job I’ve ever had (teaching writing) that I haven’t hated. So, it’s a pretty special gig. My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me. But I learned on the job, and eventually, at least by the time I started teaching creative writing, I had some idea of what I was doing. I hope, at any rate. I don’t teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.

Rumpus: Any notable students?

Roberge: A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense—people who have changed my life—and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I’m very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map.

Rumpus: It’s rather amazing what you’ve been able to accomplish, especially considering the story we are given in Liar. Your addiction narrative is full of a lot of hard turns. I got the idea, reading your book, that you’re trying to remember your history before it all fades away. Is that why you started this memoir?

Roberge: Not exactly. Though that did come up after I had started the book. The desire to get things down while they still had some degree of freshness in my mind was what started the process.

Rumpus: The memoir form seems like such a tricky genre to tame. Specifically, getting the tension between cutting honesty, which can get quite purple, and writerly craft, which can sometimes obscure raw emotion under ostentation. It all seems like an incredible tight wire act. How did you approach writing memoir versus writing fiction? What were the challenges you faced?

website.drivehardvover1Roberge: When I started, I really didn’t think there would be that much of a difference. Both are long-form narratives that pose some of the same difficulties (sustaining narrative tension, having an interesting protagonist who deals with trouble in the text, keeping a balance between scenes and exposition, and so on). I really thought they wouldn’t be that different from one another. But—early on—I realized I’d been, at best, naïve and, at worst, clueless. They proved to be enormously different. The most obvious difference is that you can’t hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader—in protecting yourself—that you made it up. That option’s really not there for a memoirist. You aren’t, knowingly, lying. It’s in the tacit contract with the reader when they see the word “memoir” on the book. That what happens within the pages actually happened.

So there’s that. But some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. Even though there is always a narrative persona, whether it’s fiction or memoir (a memoir is a shaped piece of art, after all—not a diary), in memoir, you are revealing (if you’re doing your job) some of the rawest, and most intimate, details of your life. And that was difficult. To have to stand by many of these scenes, no matter how embarrassing or humiliating or difficult they were to tell. That’s a big difference (for me) between memoir and fiction.

Rumpus: Do you think that lying and the act of writing a memoir can be separated?

Roberge: Yes, I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

Rumpus: I think also that some readers forget that there’s a difference between willfully lying and not getting the facts straight, or remembering something in a different way than the reality of the situation. You talk about fallibility a lot in the book, specifically the unreliable nature of your memory—

Roberge: There’s something known as “memory conformity,” also known as “social contagion of memory,” which refers to a situation where one person’s telling of a memory influences another person’s account of that same experience. So, while we know perspective is highly subjective, and we know memory is highly subjective, our memories are even being worked on by other people’s memories.

Rumpus: It’s interesting that there’s this notion among some readers that a writer’s memory is somehow purer, that a writer should have perfect recall, making mistakes impossible. That’s a broad statement, but I think its true of many memoir readers. They want the facts to be facts. Since you’re open about your possible inadequacies as a narrator for your own story, do you see yourself as an unreliable narrator? Or have these stories, in fact, become a new kind of truth?

CoverRoberge: I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition—an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don’t know themselves to be revealing. We all do that. And then, there’s memory. I use the quotation in the book where Nabokov said that memory itself is a revision. So, even if we are trying our best, we are at least slightly unreliable narrators of the facts.

But that’s not the same as lying. That’s a story being changed through the innocent nature of subjectivity. The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that’s not the same as knowingly lying.

Rumpus: Do you feel any pressure to let your audience in on the lies?

Roberge: In Liar, I had the text call out every lie. If there was a lie, I said it was a lie later in the book.

Rumpus: Did you feel any pressure to let your audience in on those secrets? And, does that pressure stem from the way certain memoir authors have been attacked for misrepresenting their story as hard truth?

Roberge: I’m not sure I felt it as pressure. I just thought to write an honest book, I had to cop to my lies. I didn’t feel a lot of the pressure from some of the memoir writers who have lied because, for one thing, my book is, in a way, an interrogation of memory itself. And at the same time, I told the story to the best of my ability. I was as true to my memory as I could be.

Rumpus: I’m very interested in your use of the second person. It’s a pretty bold choice and one I would have been a little frightened to try. What led you to choose that perspective? Was there a necessity for you to step back from yourself to tell this story?

Roberge: At first, I didn’t give it a whole lot of thought. I’ve always liked second person, and I thought it would be an interesting way to tell a memoir. Actually, when I started, I didn’t know I had a memoir. I was just doing some short autobiographical sketches in second person. But as I started to see it as a book, I did notice that second person was allowing me to get even more intimate and personal with my own life’s details than first person had (I had once tried to write a memoir in first person).

Rumpus: It’s like you’re having a conversation with yourself.

Roberge: Yes. I also like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action. Lastly, one of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn’t allow them to drift into the story and not notice that they are reading a book—a book that has an author. Second person shows its architecture more than first person and third person do. I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

But, yes—the biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to get closer to the action and emotions, if that makes sense.

website.workingRumpus: There were quite a few times while reading Liar that I felt uncomfortable. Not because of the subject matter so much, but because of the empathy I felt for those around you. I imagined myself as a friend of yours, reading this book. As a writer, I don’t know how I would be able to be so honest. Did the second person distance make it easier to write about those close to you? Specifically, your wife and family?

Roberge: No. Not at all. It may have helped me write about me, but it certainly didn’t help in any other way. Writing about my wife and my family was enormously difficult, and I don’t think first or second person could have helped in that case.

Rumpus: Addiction can sometimes involve a bit of world-building—telling oneself that everything is okay, that there is no problem, etc. You didn’t seem to have that problem as much as you were highly aware of your reality.

Roberge: For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them. This was years before I was able to quit. But, long before I quit, I knew I was in trouble and out of control. But it was okay, because I didn’t plan on living to be thirty, anyway. But that, of course, changed when I cleaned up and decided I wanted to live. Then things got harder to deal with.

Rumpus: Do you see this memoir as a way to engage with those demons? Or as a way to exorcise them?

Roberge: I guess the memoir was more about engaging with demons than exorcising them. I had a lot of trouble writing a lot of the scenes about the days of my using and drinking. A lot of them were very hard to write. But, as far as exorcising them? No. They stayed as vivid and sharp as always. If anything, they were more alive and present in the writing of the book—because I had to write about those days. And writing about them didn’t make them any easier to deal with, no. If anything, they came closer to the surface.

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Daniel J Cecil is a writer and editor living in Seattle. His fiction and nonfiction work have appeared in The Heavy Feather Review, HTML Giant, Bookslut, The Review Review, Knee Jerk, The Plant, and The Pavilion. When not writing, Daniel acts as a fiction editor for Versal, the literary & arts journal from Amsterdam. Daniel is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Washington, where he also teaches. More from this author →


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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The New President's Advisers

Beyond the rhetoric, disturbing news emerging over the weekend about substance of McCain‘s approach to foreign policy and whether it might actually benefit those who wish harm to us and to Israel. At the heart of it, McCain‘s top economic adviser, former Texas Senator Phil Gramm. As we revealed here on COUNTDOWN last week, Gramm on the payroll of the giant Swiss bank UBS, helping to defeat US legislation that would give relief to Americans facing foreclosure and at the same time writing McCain‘s economic policies.

Now, “Newsweek Magazine” reporting that Gramm‘s bank is under investigation for alleged use of overseas tax havens to hide assets of the wealthy from U.S. authorities. On September 20th, 2001, the “New York Times” reported that a single senator had blocked legislation that would have helped the U.S. investigators track Osama bin Laden‘s financial network before 9/11. It was Phil Gramm, who still defended these tax havens after 9/11, whose bank was still lobbying Congress on behalf of tax havens as recently as last year, including lobbying done by this man, UBS senior lobbyist John Savercool, formerly a legislative assistant to Senator Phil Gramm.

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I thought you might be interested in a story in the new issue of the SPLC’s quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report, which was released today.

The story is about white power activist Preston Wiginton and his quick rise to prominence in both the United States and Russia. It includes evidence of his alliances with hate groups such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, Young Americans for Freedom, and others.

You can read this story and the rest of the publication at:

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Left Behind

She said:
I was standing outside the door, hoping whoever was taking so long in the bathroom wasn't busily leaving skid marks for my viewing pleasure on the sides of the pristine toilet bowl. She came in, all lipstick and leg, French braid done up tight enough to make you think about what you could loosen. She looked at me, then the mirror. Then me again.

She was chewing her gum, slowly.

'Is he your boyfriend?'

Her and her date were sitting two tables away, across from me and Jack. She had a clear view of his shoulders and face, and me texting all through dinner.

I looked down, uncomfortable. Intrigued. Torn by childhood upbringing that said that if an adult asks you a question you should always answer it. But why did she want to know?

I shrugged.

'I could tell.'
Could she?
'You are fighting?'
She could.

Her words had the lilt of a distracted yet prolific storyteller. She didn't really care to ask because she knew she was right; the conversation had a point clear to her. She had the audience and the tale. This was about the affirmation.

So I gave it to her. She nodded.
'Maybe if you stop facebooking, you won't fight.'
I shook my head. 'Why do you care?'
Her turn to shrug. 'I don't. But he does. And facebooking your friends won't save you and him.'

She leaned in. It would have been perfect if she had a cigarette dangling lazily from her ruby red lips, but my imagination was going to have to do the trick.

'Men aren't as stupid as they look. I know it's  hard to believe' - the toilet flushed - 'but it's true.'

She straightened her skirt and herself as the door opened into the loo - lobby? 'If you're going to go to dinner, go to dinner. Commit. Or don't bother.' Commitment has always been a problem for me. This woman was psychic. She started to fix her hair as the other one left the building. I was already forgotten. I went into the bathroom.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Let the Adventure Begin, June 2, 1995

Springer Mt - Neels Gap
38.8 miles

This trip was first inspired in 1980. We had been to a John Denver concert the day before in Columbia SC, then we headed off on a camping trip in the Smokies. It started to rain and we were looking through a newspaper we saw that John Denver was on his way to Atlanta to do another concert so we decided to head out and go see another concert. We drove through the Smokies and along the way we stopped at Walasi-Yi Center on the Appalachain Trail...we voiced the opinion that we would eventually like to hike on this trail.....14 years later we DID... so your dreams are on the way to being fulfilled-- just give it a little time

Sondra Hickman June 17, 1995

June 2, 1995 Friday

The Trip is almost at hand. My pack is 28 pounds and feels heavier. ITS great to have 3 of us going we can share the weight in our packs. We've been having lots of rain and thunder storms. It's very scary. I think about Mom being left behind and I know that she wants to go. Age has stopped her body, but not her spirit.
Marsha arrives tomorrow at noon. Emma flew in and has been here since Wednesday and we leave on Sunday morning the 4th. An air of excitement is in the pit of my stomach. Im frightened of the unknown thats waiting. Its going to be a physical challenge and I wonder if Im ready.

Sat June 3, 1995

We have been packing and repacking our packs. They are heavy no matter how we pack them! We go over everything again and again to make sure we're not forgetting anything or bringing something we dont really need.
(Some things are being brought that we really dont need, but we dont know this yet. things are being left behind that we will wish for later!)

Sun June 4, 1995

We are ready to leave about 20 minutes past 9 in the morn. The family we are leaving behind are wondering why we are doing this. They are glad we are going and wondering what in the hell for? They help us to load our packs in the Bronco and we wave BYE. Mom swiftly leaves and i know she is crying, just becasue I know.
We are hoping that we havent forgotten something important. I have left my cheese in the fridge, but I dont know this yet. I will find this out 2 days later. The drive is exciting and we chatter and laugh. We start to talk about Mom and marsha cires silently, but I know what she is feeling, becuase I feel it too. I cry, also silently.
We made a deviation from our original travel route to one that worked out to be much better for making our 3 o'clock appointment with Wes at Bryon Reece Memorial parking area.
When we arrived at the Walasi-Yi cneter we realized this was theplace we had seen 14 years earlier which had inspired this trip. We pulled in and looked at it then porceeded. the parking area was just down the road.

We arrived at exactly 3 pm. Wes was not there, but arrived a few minutes later as pormised. HE intorduced himself and his wife Dixie. They were a very friendly couple and let me sit in front to avoid car sickness, which I really appreciated.

Emma asked for a bathroom stop if possible and Wes said that we could stop at Walasi-Yi Center. We drove there and it was then I realized I had left my money pouch in the Bronco back at the parking area. When we got back in Wes's van I asked him if he would kill me if I said i had to go back to the car. He said it depended on what I had left behind. I replied that it was my money. He smiled very big and said yes we will go back for that. I joked and asked if he would charge me more for that. So we went back for my money. I had also left my Mt. Dew which I had planned to drink at the lodge, but i didnt know this till later!

OUR adventure is only beginning, before we make it to the trail head....we have to save someone's life-our story continues on tab marked:

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Love In Times Of Repetition - Asonat

Love In Times Of Repetition

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It’s a testament to the likability of The Postal Service that even a decade after Give Up upgraded electro-pop to the forefront of Western hipsterdom – and with thousands of copycat acts dumped unmercifully by the wayside – music-lovers remain breathless for the duo to reemerge. At the expense of Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard, both highly engaging artists in their own rights, what people want isn’t necessarily another Postal Service record so much as another idyllic marriage; timeless songwriting and left-field progression gelling into one accessible, groundbreaking sound.

Over their debut full-length, Asonat (Fannar Asgrimsson and Jonas Thor Guomundsson) seek to reassemble the electro-pop rules with an icy, Scandinavian flair. It’s an ideal partnership to attempt such a task, not only since both songwriters hail from Iceland but because each already possesses hard credentials on the slippery genre. Asgrimsson released one of recent memory’s finest folktronica records with 3:03 (courtesy of his other project, Plastik Joy) while Guomundsson has been channeling airy electronic melodies under the Ruxpin moniker for years. The sleek machinations of Love In Times Of Repetition feel empowered by the Ruxpin mastermind (particularly on an oscillating instrumental like “We Have Come So Far Again”) but stick to the wall thanks to Asgrimsson’s footing (which gives "On the Other Side" a hand-crafted, organic focus).

Besides collaborators offering complimentary talents, Love In Times Of Repetition thrives on ample doses of variety that keep listeners unsure what’s around the corner. Guest-vocalists dabble into the mix, intoning over the intimate “Where the Heart Lives” with heavy accent and questioning the state of romantic affairs in “Expectations”. Likewise, the mood flips with the flexibility of a full day’s soundtrack; “Part Of Your Plan” eases its tension stealthily over one’s morning coffee whereas “What Have We Done (Silence Is Golden)” shimmers with the urgency of streetlights caressing a darkened car. Orbiting the pristine heart of Give Up with a wide, off-axis trajectory, Asonat beckon electro-pop’s youthful heart to inch increasingly toward the left, resulting in an inviting and artfully progressive pop album.

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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Scrooch Gun Part 3..... It's Completed!

I am happy to report that I was able to put the finishing touches to my Scrooch gun project this morning.  Not a terribly difficult project with only a few modifications to get the kinks worked out here and there on the design. So let me show you how it all turned out.
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As I stated in my last post about this project I was not able to get the word "Scrooch" put on the side of the gun.  Simply because the lettering was way to small to get it to work out. I would have needed an electron microscope to get it cut out and then laid down the way I wanted.  At least that's the way it seemed at the time. So I opted for a simple lightning bolt in bright yellow instead. It looks to be a good choice for this 50's style space gun.

The details that show up in the photos of the gun turned out very well. I was a bit worried about the red trigger being as smooth as I wanted it to be and am happy with my efforts on that detail and it's installation.  Very clean all the way around.

The pistol stands 7" tall and is 10 3/4" long from front to rear.  Overall weight of the Scrooch gun came in at exactly 12.5 oz.  So it has a nice solid feel to it when you pick it up.  There are only two bolts that hold the pistol grip to the body of the Scrooch gun and a threaded rod that runs through the entire length of the body to hold the canister (shaving cream can), 3D printed parts, red discs, and clear dome nozzle all together.

The rear of the gun worked out very well also.  I like the digital display along with the red on/off switch. It gives me ideas for another pistol but next time make it actually functional. Not as a real weapon of course but as having a real digital display with a trigger that when pressed would make a space gun sound.  Then add in LED lights that flash at the front of the gun to top it all off.   All of the electronics to make it all work could be housed in the large canister that you see here or something like it.   Something to think about for sure.

I took a load of photos this morning to get various angles of the Scrooch gun shot for this post. Out 45 photos the ones you see here are what I felt were the best of the lot.  They give you a good idea of the overall look and detail of the pistol.

Here's another good shot of the rear of the pistol with the digital display and the on/off switch.  The digital display was simply printed on my computer printer and then covered with clear packaging tape to waterproof it.  I then glued it into the cavity you see here. Turned out better than I had hoped.  The red on/off switch I 3D printed and then sprayed gloss red. The black inset to make the on/off emblem on the switch was designed into the part and with the part being black to start I was lucky enough to have still stand out after I painted it red.
Lastly I wanted to show off just the display stand itself that I put together for the project.  The base is nothing more than a well sanded piece of plywood that I primed and painted gloss black. The vertical and horizontal pieces that make of the support arms for the display are 1/4 aluminum rods and the black connecting parts on the support arms are 3D printed parts that I designed and made with my 3D printer. The base only needed to be drilled to receive the support arms and the arms themselves were simply super glued together. A very solid and clean looking display stand.

That's about it for this project.  Now I will have to find nice little corner of my workroom or living room to display my latest creation.  Enjoy the photos and have a good day on your latest project.

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Shannen Doherty Opens Up About Cancer Remission

Shannen Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer nearly three years ago, and the actress says she has had to work hard every day to maintain a positive attitude.

“The thing about cancer is that you have to just keep plowing through because it can really sort of overtake you.”

Doherty, 46, completed 8 rounds of chemotherapy and radiation and underwent a single mastectomy before getting a clear scan this past April. Though her cancer could come back, she is getting on with her life and has begun acting once again.

“It’s just always important to believe there is a rainbow on the other side,” she says of her journey.

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Moonlight Magic

I've been spending many of these delicious autumn afternoons playing in the studio lately - inspired by the cool and crisp air, how nightfall has been arriving earlier and earlier these days, and by the moon. <3

This is what I've been working on!
It measures 6" x 6", and reads:
the moonlight helped her remember the magic within her soul.
(available here!)

Hope you're all having a wonderful October, friends.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The Awkward Silence

Awkward Silence. The brief suspension of sound brought about by uncomfortable situations. (Definition by me)

For me, stepping inside a lift is a peaceful experience because I know that I am a few floors away from home. Boarding with other people is a different story. There are 3 situations: you are the speaker, you are the listener or you are alone and you don't to talk and the other one does the same.

If you are the speaker, obviously you have someone with you that you are talking with and other people are just strangers. Even if you talk in a small voice, anyone can hear it unless you whisper like a ghost. Whatever the strangers hear, they will listen and most probably you will be judged or laughed at after the ride.

The situation is vice versa for listeners. I am guilty with this because even if I refuse to listen, I can not refuse to hear. In moments like this my brain is on a rampage. My thoughts become active, it may be thinking something mean, but wait till the door closes before you let it out.

I hate it when there are only two people inside. One is you and the other is a stranger. That is when the most awkward silence kicks in. All I wish for when it happens is I want myself out.

Remember, one does not simply talk altogether inside the elevator shaft. Whoever is talking loudly is allowed to and other has to whisper to another.

A health reminder that I found in 9gag which suit the topic of this blog well.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

A Dress for Lily

A few days ago Lily insisted on wearing my apron. It looked so cute on her I decided I would have to make her a few but never got around to it.

 Then as I was folding my mountains of laundry I came across a white onesie with a stain on the tummy. Then it came to me. Lily loves it when I wear "long dress Momma? Pretty." I had to make Lily a Maxie dress of her own.

I took the kids down to the basement and unboxed some of my fabric to let Lily choose. She started screaming in her high pitched squeal, "That one, I like that pink on Momma!" We bought the fabric upstairs and each kiddo got to help make a dress for Lily. They love sewing on the "robot machine" and this was a pretty simple project for them to help with. Plus I love that they keep saying, "We just made Lily a dress huh."

Look for a bunch more of these to come she is a dress girl! And maybe a few in my shop later in the week.

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Behind This Wall: 1970s-Emulated Punk Rock Posters

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Behind This Wall is a London based destination for record collectors, music lovers, DJs, and all those eclectic oddities who stand to resist the digital age with black wax running through their veins. This is a series of posters for their events at Plastic People. David Matos, the designer, mentioned to me that they’re based off of 1970s punk poster designs, especially those of Jamie Reid. David works with a small list of cultural agents, clients and companies worldwide, providing art direction, design and production management. David runs a design studio called Shutupandance. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Berlin. Take a look at these posters below!

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

The Battle At Omicron Theta Results!

SeerK here.  This past weekend The Waygate Staff invaded UCON in Ann Arbor Michigan.  The 2nd Annual Storm Zone Brawl: The Battle At Omicron Theta went down on Saturday the 15th.  We had 10 participants fighting for the great prizes provided by Spartan Games and Evolution Games of Lansing Michigan.  When the guns were finally powered down and the fleets scarred and battered the fate of Omicron Theta was decided.  Victory went to the Zenian League.  Omicron Theta was taken.

The Battles were brutal and we had a pretty decent mix of Kurak Alliance and Zenian League member fleets.  After 4 rounds of brutal combat we had a clear victor.  In fact our winner went undefeated and ended the tournament 47 points ahead of our 2nd place winner.  Just three points shy of a perfect score.  On that note lets take a look at our winners.

1st place  Dave Wangen  Works Raptor / OSO Corsairs

2nd Place  Matt Johnson  Sorylians / Veydreth

3rd Place Steve Krohn  Hawker Industries

Congratulations to our winners and our Battle Station Drawing Winners John Miles and Mike Aguilera.  UCON was fun this year.  The missions seemed to be very well received and our players got a taste of what we will be running at Adepticon in March.  Now that Omicron Theta has fallen the Zenian League Fleets will now press to Schaumberg Prime.

Adepticon has announced Pre Registration will begin on November 24th, which is a Monday, at 8 p.m. central time.  They have the web cart up now so you can preview events and plan your trip.  I encourage everybody to pre register as soon as possible as we expect the event to fill up quick and it is currently limited to 20 spots.  Spartan Games is supporting the event as well as the good folks at Adepticon.  So stay tuned for what we have in store for you!

Thats all for now, But I will leave you with some pictures of the event.

Works Raptor Making some new "Friends"

Hawker Battlship dealing with a Kedorian Battleship
An epic 20 inch battle shunt move
The Sorylians holding the line

Steve enjoying dinner after a bad loss

Until next time crush the Alliance and as always

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Jeep Diagnostic Error Codes

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No matter how many diagnostic. kept spitting out codes that led Manhattan Jeep down that line of diagnostics. Hopefully, they’ll know better next time. True, we’re not strapped for a daily driver the way the typical Jeep Liberty.

Another plug. OBDII Shorthand List. AFC – Air Flow Control. ALDL – Assembly Line Diagnostic Link. Former name for GM (only) Data Link Connector, the connector.

More than just a list of Jeep Check Engine Light Codes!. Refer to our Generic OBD II code list for definitions on all other Jeep diagnostic trouble codes.

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"Collateral Damage" is the second episode of the second season. The episode was written by David Simon from a story he co-wrote with Ed Burns and it was directed by Ed Bianchi. It originally aired on June 8, 2003.

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Despite being credited, Sonja Sohn does not appear in this episode.

Episode recapEdit

The Jane DoesEdit

Officer Beadie Russell deals with various agencies trying to decide who has to take responsibility for investigating the deaths of the thirteen women in a cargo container. Coroner Randall Frazier establishes the cause of death as suffocation because of a crushed air pipe on the top of the container. The damage to the air supply is deemed accidental due to cargo moving. The case is handed back to Beadie because the deaths are considered accidental.

Detectives Bunk Moreland and Jimmy McNulty enjoy some crabs, a perk of McNulty's new assignment. McNulty insists the door stay shut, as he is avoiding Colonel Rawls. Bunk learns that McNulty spent three hours working out where a floating body was dumped in order to establish that it fell under Rawls' jurisdiction. Bunk chastises him for dumping the case on Detective Ray Cole, but McNulty dismisses Cole's troubles as collateral damage. McNulty leaves his shift on the boat early, using poorly-tied knots to moor the boat. His partner Claude Diggins chastises him for his poor seaman skills. He visits the container and discusses the case with Beadie Russell. He thinks there may be a link between the girls in the container and his floater, and Beadie tells him about an extra bedroll in the container. McNulty checks the crushed air pipe and notes that it appears to have been crushed deliberately. Beadie and McNulty meet with the coroner, who agrees that this is grounds to consider the girls murdered.

Rawls meets with Ronnie, the commander of the port police, and resists an attempt to hand off the thirteen murders. Landsman's homicide squad, now including Lester Freamon, watches Rawls with palpable anticipation as he leaves the meeting; he announces his success with a raised fist as he returns to his office. Meanwhile, McNulty convinces the coroner to estimate time of death based on the amount of air in the container to see if it matches when the other girl was dumped in the water. Rawls later meets with the commanders of all the other jurisdictions involved with the bodies. Despite his protestations, they insist that the murders occurred in his jurisdiction. The cases are assigned to Landsman's squad, who can only look on crestfallen as 14 Jane Doe names are written in red in a single column on the board.

Freamon, Bunk, and McNulty drink themselves into a state at their regular bar. The homicide detectives have bought fourteen shots for McNulty to mark the cases he brought to them. They have several laughs at Burrell, Rawls, Landsman, and Cole's expense. When they return to the detail, Landsman tells them Cole is working their cases while the Jane Does from the port are reassigned to them. Landsman tells them he needs the cases solved and they are his best detectives, so they get them. Cole delights in handing over his work so far. Freamon and Bunk later travel to the Port Authority police department and meet with Beadie. When she asks if they know McNulty, Bunk's reply is a deadpan "He's dead to us." They begin to interrogate the crew of the ship.

Soured relationshipsEdit

Rhonda Pearlman and McNulty continue their casual relationship despite his drunken stupor. She questions their relationship's direction and tells him not to come to her house again. He admits he still hopes to reconcile with his wife for his children's sake, which prompts her to walk away from him.

Lieutenant Cedric Daniels walks with his wife Marla after a restaurant meal and she apologises for bringing up his career. He agrees to hand in his resignation papers.

Polish warEdit

Stevedore union leader Frank Sobotka has an angry meeting with his smuggling contact Spiros Vondas in The Greek's cafe regarding the dead girls on his docks. His nephew Nick Sobotka tries to talk him down before the meeting, but Frank will not be swayed. Frank is primarily concerned that if the deaths were deliberate, then that he could have prevented them if he had known there were girls in the container. Vondas reassures him that the deaths were accidental and explains that their driver Sergei "Serge" Malatov was waiting for a contact to come off the ship and signal him that it was safe to take the container. Frank asks to be informed next time human cargo moves through the docks despite Vondas' assurance that he does not want to know. After the meeting, Vondas speaks to another man in the cafe, who happens to be The Greek himself.

Back at the union house, Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa complains to Frank that the port police are hassling him over some missing cases of vodka. He admits taking four cases, but denies breaking the seal; Frank is unconcerned. Ott then comes in complaining that the police are ticketing their cars. Frank approaches an officer who turns out to be Sergeant Ellis Carver, back in uniform. Frank sees they are being ticketed on frivolous charges ("License plate not entirely visible") and complains accordingly. Carver reveals that the ticketing is not his idea, he has been ordered to ticket the dock workers' vehicles twice a day from his shift lieutenant who passed the orders down from their district Major Stan Valchek, whom Frank knows and refers to as a "gaping asshole." Carver then states that he personally disagrees with ticketing their cars but is doing so understanding the chain of command in his district claiming that he is not interested in upsetting his boss. As Frank states the union is going to city hall to fight the ticketing, Carver does not disagree with their decision and pleads for the union to only go after Valchek as he is the one who ordered the ticketing.

The next day, Valchek comes to the union hall where he angrily accuses Frank of illegally funding the stained glass window that is present in their church. Frank dismisses Valchek's threats and reminds him that they came from the same neighbourhood and people still talk about Valchek's shortcomings. After his disappointing confrontation, Valchek visits a property developer friend, Andy Krawczyk, to discuss trying to reclaim his donation from the church. He learns that Frank Sobotka's union have been making political contributions, hired a lobbyist, and generally show a lot of cash for a failing industrial organization. Krawczyk then comments about Burrell's nomination for commissioner in which Valchek claims "I've seen worse." Valchek then meets with Deputy Commissioner Burrell and talks about his nomination for police commissioner. Valchek has noticed that Burrell has a political nomination from the mayor and almost every city council district except for those in the Valchek's first district, a district comprised of white ethnics who have a history for not supporting the city's African American political and police figures such as Burrell. Valchek then suggests he can use his political influence to get the first district to vote Burrell in and realizing Valchek's nature, Burrell then asks what Valchek wants in return. Feigning surprise, Valchek then request a detail for the investigation of Frank Sobotka's union. Valchek claims that their union is probably involved in thieving or smuggling at the port and then states his personal dislike for Sobotka. Burrell agrees to have Rawls organize a squad of six men for six weeks.

Nick, Ziggy Sobotka and the other stevedores drink at Delores' bar at breakfast time. Ziggy discusses a connection named "White Mike" who can supply them with drugs. He wants Nick to partner with him in buying the package and selling it off, but Nick refuses his offer. Ott announces that a ship is in and gives Nick a ride. The dock workers are stopped on the way by patrol officers led by Carver who have established a D.W.I. checkpoint courtesy of Valchek. As they step out of the car, Ott claims that a breathalyzer at 8 in the morning is unheard of. Ziggy meets White Mike alone and asks him to give him the package with payment to follow. Ziggy has messed up his last two attempts, so Mike refuses to trust him again. After being released from Central Booking on D.U.I. charges, the stevedores, particularly Ott, complain to Frank about the police activity. Frank admits to his rivalry with Valchek. They insist he deal with the problem and Frank tells Nick that if Valchek wants a war he will have one. Horseface later infiltrates Valchek's district's parking lot and steals a surveillance van filled with high-tech, expensive equipment. He drives it to the docks and La La, Frank, and Nick help him load it into a container. They put a Union bumper sticker on the rear door, take a photo of the rear end with the license plate visible and seal it up, putting it in with the next group of containers to be shipped out of port.

Prison BluesEdit

Brianna Barksdale visits her brother Avon in prison and pleads with him to look out for her son D'Angelo, as he took a 20 year sentence for their family. They also discuss the loss of their New York connection, Roberto. Brianna tells him their money has been returned and that Stringer Bell had to deal with the Dominicans' lawyer because they fear it is unsafe to deal with the Barksdale organization with Avon imprisoned. Avon recommends a contact named Vargas, who owns a wheel rim shop in Atlanta. Brianna also tells Avon that D'Angelo's girlfriend Donette has been out of touch, and Avon has also noticed that she has not visited D'Angelo.

Wee-Bey Brice's cell is later searched by a guard named Tilghman who is physically aggressive toward him, takes his magazines, upends his fish tank (filled with fake plastic fish), and tears down his posters. Wee-Bey complains to Avon that Tilghman is deliberately targeting him because he is the cousin of one of the victims he was convicted of murdering. Avon agrees to meet with Tilghman, but is almost instantly rebuffed when he approaches him.

Stringer later visits Avon at the prison and tells him that the Atlanta contact has been put into play. Avon tells Stringer he needs to help him deal with Tilghman and also find Donette and ensure she visits D'Angelo regularly. Stringer checks with Avon about D'Angelo's loyalty and Avon insists that D can be trusted to handle his burden, as he is family.

Avon finds D'Angelo is taking cocaine in his cell with another inmate. He asks D'Angelo how he is getting on and tells him they need to talk.

Sobotka DetailEdit

Valchek assembles and briefs his new detail in their port side offices. He tells them that his son-in-law Prez is a prodigy of his and lead investigator. Valchek does not realize that Burrell has pulled the same stunt as he had with Lieutenant Daniels in Season 1; Burrell has sent Valchek the most incompetent officers in the department who are dead weight in their respective units. This is proven by the alcoholic Detective Polk whose only concern is who signs off on their overtime.

Loose ends for The GreekEdit

Sergei "Serge" Malatov travels out of town with a taciturn associate and they infiltrate another port in Philadelphia using fake Coast Guard IDs. He orders the ship held in port, which prompts one of the crew to come ashore. They chase a crewman down with their car, beat him up, and bundle him into the backseat.

Sergei and his associate violently interrogate the now-naked crewman, Sam, and ask him why he fled the Atlantic Light. The Greek and Spiros Vondas arrive and The Greek initially appears to have a more generous disposition. He notices Sam's tattoos and identifies him as Turkish. Sam admits that he let his crew have sex with the girls in exchange for money after he let them out of the container. One of his men killed the girl who was dumped overboard and the other girls saw, so he had them all killed. Once Sam's tale is finished, Spiros slowly cuts his throat. The Greek orders Sergei to ensure that there are no finger prints or face on the corpse.[1][2][3]

First AppearancesEdit

  • Sam: The crewman from the Atlantic Light responsible for the murder of the 14 girls found in the Baltimore Port. Killed by Vondas after his capture by Sergei and interrogation by "The Greek" himself.

Title ReferenceEdit

The title is a quote from McNulty in reference to hapless detective Ray Cole being assigned the murder that he worked to have handed to Rawls division. It can also be considered to refer to the girls killed as part of the Greek's smuggling operation and the problems created for the dock workers as part of Sobotka and Valchek's rivalry.

"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out." - McNulty

McNulty uses this common phrase in conversation with Bunk and Freamon in reference to his punishment of being sent to the docks, meaning that eventually it has to come to an end.

The episode had an average of 3.5 million viewers when it was first broadcast on HBO on on June 8, 2003. This was a reduction of 21% from the season premiere viewing figures.[4]

  1. Episode guide - episode 15 collateral damage. HBO (2004). Retrieved on 2006-06-22.
  2. "Collateral Damage". David Simon, Ed Burns. The Wire. HBO. 2003-06-08. No. 02, season 2.
  3. Alvarez, Rafael (2004). The Wire: Truth Be Told. New York: Pocket Books.
  4. Gary Levin (2003). Hillary and Miss Universe are ratings winners. USA Today. Retrieved on 2007-10-04.


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Friday, March 18, 2016

Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 Mixer Philippe Zdar & Boom Bass Enlist Beastie Boy Mike D & Cat Power's Chan Marshall for "Action"-packed Cassius Comeback Single (Ed Banger)

"I did bring a couple bottles of wine to the studio and then, started writing my part and went from there," Beastie Boys founding member Mike "D" Diamond recently told Pitchfork during a brief yet informative interview surrounding French Electronic duo Cassius' frantic Mike D & Cat Power-featuring apparent as-yet-unannounced album single, "Action." "The song came with this world liberation theme and then, I came with a modern-day relationship theme, and somehow the two went together. It's kind of like toast and Vegemite go together only in Australia," Diamond characteristically continued. Philippe Zdar & Boom Bass had only scheduled studio time with Cat Power frontwoman Chan Marshall during a recent visit to New York, although, after meeting up with Mike D for lunch, the "Action"-packed collaboration progressed from there like a snowball rolling downhill; "suddenly, we were having a coffee and we said, 'why don't we ask Mike if we wants to rap on the track. And then, he arrived in the studio and after one minute in the studio – and Chan was doing our vocals – he said, 'I think I like this thing.' They talked together and it was done in three hours," Zdar recounted to Pitchfork. Despite the fact that Cassius haven't released an album since 15 Again (2006), Zdar and Boom Bass have separately produced music for the likes of Phoenix, Bloc Party frontman Kele, Chromeo, The Rapture, Kindness, Two Door Cinema Club, and Drake. Philippe Zdar additionally contributed mixing work to Cat Power's Sun and what would ultimately become The Beastie Boys' final album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Cassius' "I Love U So" was prominently sampled throughout Kanye & Jay Z's ill-fated collaborative album Watch The Throne, especially across Mr. Hudson-assisted House-tinged "Why I Love You."

"Action" is "in a sense capturing that era of a Compass Point record that gets played in The Loft in New York City, but today," Mike D passionately explained to Pitchfork staff writer Marc Hogan; "I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. "There's a lot of us that are... we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily Disco. It was a promise of how creative a DJ could be with Funk, Soul, Italo to make this experience. It was the beginning of the DJ as a headliner." Not withstanding "Action"'s sheer aspect of infectiousness and likelihood of becoming an early contender for Song of Summer 2016, I've had a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around how to approach an "Action"-centric write-up for this very site (which has now come to fruition) since its initial viral release late last week. However, once Cassius suddenly unveiled their campy TOILETPAPER-directed Mike D & Cat Power-less "Action" music video Thursday afternoon, I immediately figured I would have no trouble whipping up an equally fun-loving, elaborate companion write-up of my own. With that said, I think I've done enough mindless rambling... "Action" kicks off with Philippe Zdar & Boom Bass entering what appears to be just another boardwalk arcade-mounted Smile-N-Wait photo booth, which unexpectedly transports Cassius to a volcano-laden island retreat, via a mysterious Pulp Fiction-reminiscent glowing trunk. From that point on, what ensues next, for nearly the duration of five minutes, can only be described as something akin to Channing Tatum's highly danceable unicorns and rainbows-filled "good" acid trip from 22 Jump Street. While it's currently unclear if "Action" will effectively re-appear within or when exactly it will materialize into consumable form, Cassius are apparently working on their long-awaited follow-up to 15 Again at their own Paris-based motorbass RECORDING STUDIO.

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Put the Lime in the Coconut

Had a couple of these for breakfast this morning. Lime, coconut, pineapple... they remind me of sitting on a beach, staring at blue ocean waves, sipping a margarita. Ooooh what a nice thought... just need to toss in a scantily clad hot cabana boy with a palm frond fan and that's one heck of a muffin ;)

Shelly's Margaritaville Protein Mini Muffins

3/4 cup Spelt Flour
1/2 cup Vanilla Protein Powder
1/4 cup Unsweetened Shredded Coconut
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
dash of Salt
1/2 cup Cottage Cheese (I used Pineapple Cottage Cheese)
1/2 cup Pineapple Chunks, well drained
3 Tablespoons Sugar Free Torani Syrup (I used SF Vanilla)
1 Egg, beaten

1 Tablespoon Unsweetened Shredded Coconut
1 teaspoon Sugar Free Lime Jello Powder, dry
4 Macadamia Nuts, crushed

Preheat oven to 350. Whiz in a mini food processor cottage cheese and pineapple till smooth.

Spray mini muffin tin with Pam and set aside. Mix all ingredients together till combined.

Spoon into muffin tin (a mini ice cream scoop works great) and sprinkle with a pinch of topping.

Bake at 350 for 12 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean.

Remove pans from oven. Allow to cool in the pan for 3 minutes. Transfer muffins to wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Store in a sealed container to keep them soft and moist. They freeze great too. Makes 24 mini muffins.

Gubblebum said...

MMmmmmm, I might just have to make some of these to bring to the tailgate party when DH and I see Jimmy Buffett in June! Think they'll go well with the Baja Bob's SF Margarita Mix? ;)

Anonymous said...

I just have two things to say.. YUMMY and ROFL!

altopower said...

I definitely need these!

Anonymous said...

I made some of these this morning and all I can say is.....OH YEAH, BABY!! Now that's what I'm talking about! Of all your great muffins, these are now my favorite. Now....if I could just find a way to get the liquor into them LOL

RecoveringFatty said...

Shelley, Can you come up with a concoction for a margarita flavor protein shake, pretty please?! With splenda on top?


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March 21, 2011

It's Seriously One of the Greatest Things I've Ever Heard...

It's loud. I mean, LOUD. It's loud enough to find you wherever you are hiding, flexible enough to wrap around you, and strong enough to drag you along. To the fun. Back to the person who uttered this amazing thing. Because this thing - and this person - help you to suck the marrow out of life.

What is this thing? Who is this person?

The person is J. The thing is her laugh.

Yes, it's loud. Boisterous. Not "lady-like" at all. Infectious. Silly. Generous. Childlike. All grown up. Larger than life.

Just like J (except the non-lady-like thing; she's girly - all the way down to her 4-wheel driving, power-tool owning, high-heel wearing toes...oh, and the larger than life bit was seriously metaphorical.).

Her laugh is an invitation - to let go. To forget that the world is watching, to forget that I'm supposed to act a certain way, or to "appear" to be stylish and sophisticated. Her laugh calls to the soul and yells, "Sophistication is overrated. Come LIVE."

My laugh has gotten louder over the years that I've known J. I used to be quiet, hiding my humor in a subdued chuckle or a smirk. But, just as the sun cannot escape the dawn, you can't escape from the life that reverberates around in J's laughter. And, you cannot help but join in. Laugh. Guffaw. Chortle. Even wheeze because you can't breathe anymore. (Oh, and forget about keeping on mascara or eye makeup. You're going to laugh so hard you cry...a LOT.)

J's my bestie for many reasons; I'm blessed beyond words that God decided to intersect our lives. We've gotten into scrapes, had "adventures," eaten our weight in Candy Corn, cried our eyes out at the ugliness and indecency of life; but through it all, her laugh reverberates in every corner of every memory.

I'm going to hear it even when I'm old and deaf. It's that ingrained in my soul.

Marsha @ Green Mountain said...

You're a wonderful writer, Jane. I can hear that laugh.

Kari said...

I appreciate the Thoreau allusion. :)

I also appreciate J.

Jessie said...

Oh my... I can feel the love!

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