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Thursday, 11 February 2016

New Left v Old Left

The rise of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders seems to pit Old Left against New Left, some say. But are there any real differences between the two ideologies? And are either New Left or Old Left actually even ideologies at all?

Philosopher Greg Salmieri answers the question in talking about the similarities and differences between the so-called “Free Speech movement and the campus riots of the 60s, and the “Occupy” movement and its “safe spaces” of today.

Asked by The Undercurrent what Ayn Rand took to be the essence of that earlier movement, he answers:

Dr. Salmieri: She saw the events at Berkeley and, later, on other campuses, as an attempt to erase the distinction between speech and action and to intimidate others into adopting their political positions. The students objected to Berkeley’s policies concerning what political activities were permitted on parts of the campus, so they seized control of the campus and did things like turning over police cars and using them as rostrums. The students could have worked to persuade the administration that their preferred policies were right. If that didn’t work, they could have withdrawn and gone to another school—or, since Berkeley is a public university, they could have attempted to persuade the legislators or the voters who elected them. This is the peaceful, civilized way to settle disputes. Instead, the students resorted to force. In effect, they said: “You must grant our demands, because we’re a big gang who can physically bar your way, disrupt campus life, and destroy property.” We’ve seen a reprise of this in the “Occupy” movement, and more recently in the spectacle of student groups occupying quads and administrators’ offices and seizing control of forums to read lists of demands.
    The students at Berkeley were outraged that the existing policy prohibited certain sorts of speech on campus property, and some of the current student groups are outraged that campus policies don’t prohibit certain types of speech that they think is offensive. So in this narrow respect they could be seen as opposite, but the groups are the same in that they are trying to impose their preferred policies by physical force and intimidation, rather than by persuasion. The recent groups are more consistent, because the whole idea of free speech, which the ‘60’s students claimed to be for, rests on the distinction between speech and action. If “speech” extends to trespass and physical intimidation, then of course it cannot be free, since the “speech” of some will amount to violence against others.
Capture    This blurring of the line between speech and action was part of a broader development that Rand thought was going on in the 1960’s. She called it “anti-ideology”—the attempt to undermine the concepts and principles that people need to think rationally about political issues. Without such concepts, a nation is reduced to the status of warring gangs each of which is united, not by any shared convictions, but by factors such as race, locality, profession, or income. Anti-ideology is popular when people are acting on motives that they are unwilling to admit (to themselves or others), and Rand thought that this was the case across the political spectrum in the ‘60’s.
    For decades, the political left had been pushing for ever greater government control over individuals’ lives. The only consistent implementation of their ideas is totalitarianism, of which communism and fascism are both variants, and the horrors of that system were obvious to any honest observer in the aftermath of World War II. So the leftists didn’t want to admit what they stood for. But their opponents on the political right were unwilling to embrace the opposite system, capitalism, because it was seen as “selfish” and “materialistic.” So both sides sought to evade the fundamental issue at stake between them and to focus on narrow policy questions, without reference to the principles needed to understand them or rationally evaluate them.
    As a result, American politics was reduced to pressure group warfare. Without recourse to the principle of individual rights, which enables people to live together in non-sacrificial harmony, factions multiplied and formed uneasy alliances that enabled momentary majorities to use elections as an opportunity to sacrifice minorities. Rand saw what the students at Berkeley were doing as a more naked version of this same pressure group warfare. Instead of imposing mob power at the ballot box, as their parents were doing, the students were trying to impose it in crudely physical terms, out on the streets.
    The source of the anti-ideology, in Rand’s view, was intellectuals—especially professors of philosophy and the humanities—and it seeped out into the culture from the universities. So she didn’t see it as any surprise that violence erupted first on campuses. That’s where young people go to find the ideas that will enable them to make sense of the world and chart their course through life. Instead, their professors gave them an anti-ideology that was a rationalization for imposing their whims by brute force. Of course, the professors of today include many members of the ‘60’s student movement, many of whom are teaching variants of these same doctrines. We can see their influence in some of the current groups occupying campuses. . .

… and also podiums and voting booths.

  1. I studied Evolution and Socio-biology at a reading level in the 1980's. These were the days when it was de rigeur to believe that any difference between men and women was purely indoctrination and socialised but not genetic. Hard to believe isn't it. The idea that there were relentless and undesirable traits in Society which could not be treated by advanced and correct thinking was unacceptable to many academics , especially at Harvard.

    This piece below from Michael Shermer about Stephen Jay Gould [ PC thinker on correct thinking ] and E.O Wilson [ rational Socio-Biologist .

    quote "" The evolution wars began in 1859 with the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. But they heated up in 1975 with the release of entomologist E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology and have not let up since, as evidenced by the controversies generated by sociobiology's doppelganger--evolutionary psychology--and its attempt to account for human behavior in terms of evolutionary adaptations (for example, the recent attempt to explain rape as an adaptive strategy by males who could not pass on their genes by non-forceful sex). [See E.O. Wilson's "Writing Life" on pages 6-7.] The modern evolution wars now have their chronicler in sociologist Ullica Segerstrale, whose masterfully comprehensive Defenders of the Truth was 25 years in the making.
    At stake in this battle are nothing less than how human societies should be structured, the nature of human nature and, as Segerstrale notes, "the soul of science." How an academic textbook by an entomologist could result in one of the most rancorous debates in all of science is marvelously explained in intricate detail, beginning with the reactions to Wilson by his Harvard colleagues Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin. Their Sociobiology Study Group, along with the politically charged Science for the People--a group of Harvard-based academics, such as Gould and Lewontin, for the diffusion of scientific knowledge to the general population--set the stage for a now-famous incident at the 1978 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Demonstrators chanted "Racist Wilson, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!", followed by someone pouring a jug of ice-water over his head and shouting "Wilson, you are all wet!"
    Why, Wilson wondered two decades later in his autobiographical book Naturalist, didn't Gould and Lewontin just come up to his office from theirs one floor below in the same Harvard building to discuss their concerns? Why attack him in the very public pages of the New York Review of Books when this all could have been handled in private? The reason, as Segerstrale so brilliantly shows, is that science is not the private and always rational enterprise it is often made out to be. Why, Gould and Lewontin could just as easily have asked, didn't Wilson come down one floor to their offices to discuss with them in private his ideas about applying principles of animal behavior to human societies?
    "" unquote

  2. The terms "new" and "old" may be misapplied.

    The left started out as a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment, to the enlightenment values of reason, science, technology, capitalism, abundance. Led by the likes of Rousseau, they held that science was bad, that technology was bad and that civilization per se is corrupt and that innocence was to be found in primitive existence.

    Marx managed to create a Hegelian type synthesis between the Rousseau type left and enlightenment. Instead of denouncing science, he claimed to stand for science, that his belief system resulted from the application of science, as in scientific socialism.

    What has been styled as the "new left" is in fact an unraveling of the synthesis and the reemergence of the original Rousseauian left, a left that resents rationality and science and champions the primitive existence, that finds its expression with the environmental movement. The new left is the old, original left.

    With the collapse of communism, the synthesis seemed to unravel, but it has reemerged with the various occupy movements.

  3. By coincidence I’ve just finished reading Hunter S Thompson’s Hell’s Angels, and one of the things that stood out for me was the similarity between the Hell's Angels and the 1960s Berkeley radicals that Thompson discussed near the end of the book.

    It seems that for a period in the ‘60s some of the Berkeley radicals thought it was cool to hang out with the Angels, and even looked up to them to some extent. The Angels did things many radicals wanted to do, but didn’t have the nerve to try. The radicals Thompson described were more pretentious and far better educated than the Angels, but just as angry and resentful in their own way. Like the Angels, they had nothing constructive to contribute and they expressed their resentment through violence.

    Once we consider the concept of anti-ideology it’s no surprise that the Angels and the Berkeley radicals had some things in common, or that the radicals found the Angels attractive.

  4. They sucked then, they suck now.

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The Wrong Career Track ~ and what I did next…

Morning SunriseDid you ever find yourself ~ in the wrong place, at the right time? I offer this slightly altered phrase ~ as a way to suggest that perhaps the transition that has occurred (or is occurring) ~ for whatever reason, is awakening your inner self and guiding you towards a greater purpose for your life, and is not really a mistake.

Intrigued by LinkedIn’s outreach, to talk about our ‘mistakes,’ I decided to step up to the challenge by reaching into my memory-bank ~ to share one of my earliest career transitions.  Although many years have passed, the feelings and emotions from my twenties ~ remain etched in my heart and in my mind. I often refer to that time period ~ as ‘the defining moment’ in my life, as I like to think it shaped future decisions and transitions. I now believe, there were much earlier life events that provided the will and the courage to make the course correction for my career ‘mistakes.’ (What experience stirs up similar emotions for you?)

Upon reflection, what becomes obvious is that during my college years and the decade following ~ many of my decisions were ones that were made on the basis of what I didn’t want to do for a career, given what I perceived were limited opportunities at the college I was attending. I guess I could have changed schools – but at the time, I really felt that that wasn’t a financial option for me.  Is that perhaps ~ my first ‘mistake’ in this particular story? (What would you have done?)

The direction I chose was to be a Speech Pathologist, as I didn’t want to be a teacher. Did that for a couple years ~ decided Speech Therapy was not ‘the’ career, so I decided to become an Audiologist (the other half of the field) and to begin my graduate studies ultimately working towards my Ph.D. Another in a series of ‘mistakes’ ~ perhaps. (Curious, do you see these as mistakes?)

I remember the ever-growing build-up of unhappiness and dissatisfaction for my profession, and yet, I continued growing my investment via my graduate work, making it even more difficult to just walk away.  I don’t recall ‘the moment,’ but while I was preparing for my doctoral dissertation and struggling with a vision that others held for me ~ I finally had the courage to admit to myself ~ I am NOT a researcher, I am NOT happy, I don’t need a Ph.D., I am Not, I am Not! And, I am going to stop this series of ‘mistakes’ and take charge of my life. (Do you relate?)

I like to think I had courage…or was risk-adverse…and perhaps, I did hold those strengths. Quite frankly though, I was miserable and simply recognized that something needed to change my career direction…that was the easy part.  The hard part came when I recognized that I was the protagonist in this story and that it was up to me to affect my transition. (Is this you, as you struggle in yet another transition?)

Most likely, folks reading my story ~ can relate in some fashion to the internal struggles that occur when we recognize we are living an unhappy chapter of our lives. While, it would be nice to say I stepped out of one career and quickly found what I wanted…well, ultimately I did find ‘it’ ~ but it took a couple more years to walk ~ yet again ~ a rocky and winding road, but this time with greater courage.

I recently read a wonderful book titled, Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer, who asks “Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?” With great wisdom and compassion, Parker draws from his life’s journey while imparting the following…”Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.”

Thank you for ‘listening’ to a chapter in the story of my life ~ Paulette

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The Portlandian, the Internet's premier source of Tonya News

July 27, 2000 Edition
(C) 2000 Portland Ice Skating Society

A big issue this month. To kick off, Tonya's godmother, Linda
Lewis, has sent us an update about a couple of TV appearances
that Tonya will be doing soon. And we've the second installment
of Joe Haran's account of his time with the Tonya Harding Fan

The first appearance is an interview with a fellow from Australia
named John Laws, most likely August 1st, satellite feed from
Portland. Although probably unknown to most Americans, Laws is a
media heavyweight in Australia who interviews plenty of political
big shots, so his interview with Tonya will hopefully get good
ratings. Broadcast details are not known at present, or if the
interview will ever be seen in the States, but if you've access
to Australian TV channels you may want to see if you can find out
more. With luck, maybe this could even lead to Tonya skating
"down under", certainly something we here in New Zealand would be
keen to see.

In addition, Tonya will also be making several appearances on TNN
from the 14th to 18th of August. Linda takes up the story:

  Dear Tonya fans and supporters:

  Well, things are picking up for your favorite ice skater. By
  now, I'm certain that you've heard that Tonya will be hosting a
  whole week of programs for TNN in August. Contrary to what is
  being bantered about on a certain news group, Tonya is hosting
  several shows.

  It was quite a big production. TNN asked Tonya to do what are
  called wraparounds. She's hosting "Bad Boys" week, starting mid
  August. She's introducing such shows as Dallas, Dukes of
  Hazzard, Cagney and Lacey, The Waltons, Matt Houston, and many,
  many more. I wanted to wait to let you know after I got the OK
  from TNN. From what I understand, she was chosen over several
  other celebrities.

  She looks absolutely beautiful, and was very professional. She
  got to show her humor, which she hasn't had a chance to show in
  so many of the interviews she's done. Everyone that was
  involved in the production was very impressed with her.

  Also, there are several other things pending at this time. I
  have taken over the role of manager/publicist for Tonya. I know
  her so well, and I will most definitely look out for her best
  interest. I want to see her succeed, and I know she will!

  She's still working on her book, with Linda Prouse (and we're
  looking for a publisher). And don't think she's given up
  skating, because she's still one of the best. She had been
  invited to teach a skating camp as part of a festival in
  Maryland, but the promoters at the event felt that she wasn't
  right for their festival and wouldn't draw a crowd. Also, I
  wish to set the record straight about her appearance fee for
  that event. The fee was never decided upon, but they offered
  her $6700 to appear, that was their offer, which she was more
  than willing to accept. Again, the offer of that amount came
  from them. So the quote in the Washington Post was wrong. I
  found out who it came from, and already have had a conversation
  with that person. It's a shame, because Tonya was really
  looking forward to appearing there. She would have skated an
  exhibition, and taught up to 3 skate camps. She was also
  willing to skate with the children, and give a speech about
  staying out of trouble. But we harbor no hard feelings, and
  will just keep going forward. There are new offers coming in
  every week.

  How would you all feel about a skating video of Tonya? We're
  going to her fans to see what kind of response we get. If it's
  good, then that may be a possibility in the near future. Please
  e-mail and let me know. It would take some backing, but we're
  exploring that idea.

  Tonya sends her love and warmest regards to all of you, as do
  I. I will keep you updated as things progress.

  Best regards to all,
  Linda Lewis
  Manager/Publicist for Tonya Harding

And while on the subject of Tonya on TV, David House tells us
that CNN have sent him a tape of Tonya's recent Larry King
appearance and plans to have scenes on line after next weekend.

A couple of issues ago saw us begin the first in our series in
which former "Skater" editor Joe Haran tells us about his
experiences with the Tonya Harding Fan Club back in the mid
'90's. Today he continues his story with some info about Tonya's
early skating successes, his initial encounter with Shawn
Eckardt, Portland's portly James Bond wannabe, and the first time
Jeff Gillooly hinted that something strange might be scheduled to
happen at the 1994 Nationals:

6 December 1999

"The Portlandian"
Portland Ice Skating Society
New Zealand

To whom it may concern:

Having now read the material available through the Portland Ice
Skating Society (PISS) home page, I salute all involved for your
excellent perception and research. "The Portlandian" is surely
the best publication about Tonya M. Harding since "The Skater"
from days of yore. So that you may have more information from
which to work, if in fact you can find any useful information
in this series of letters from me, I would like to make comments
inspired by data in the various PISS documents you make available
to the public. These comments are in no particular order, neither
by traditional chronology nor by subject matter. It's all stream-
of-consciousness stuff, so you'll have to figure out where one
thought stops and the next one begins. Good luck!

And now, on with it! Tonya was born at the University of Oregon
Medical School in Portland, which institution is now called the
Oregon Health Sciences University. Although Tonya did not
graduate from Milwaukie High School (MHS, at the City of
Milwaukie in Oregon), she is nevertheless honored with a space
in/on that school's Hall/Wall of Honor -- as are other
outstanding athletes who, like Tonya, attended MHS. She dropped
out of high school, partly because the MHS administration would
not allow her to come late to school after her early-morning
figure-skating practices. Many other students were, however,
given substantial time off in order to go hunting. MHS people in
positions of responsibility apparently told her she'd never
amount to anything in figure skating anyway. So who did she think
she was, to want time off in such a futile pursuit? Tonya did,
however, earn her general-equivalency diploma (GED) later. The
medical-insurance corporation, Blue Cross of Oregon, sponsored a
state-wide tour for Tonya the year prior to the 1988 Winter
Olympic Games. That company backed Tonya because they considered
her an Olympic "hopeful," since the figure-skating cognoscenti
believed she'd definitely make the Olympic team. The Blue Cross
of Oregon executive who "supervised" Tonya told me everyone
really liked her; and he encouraged her to finish her high-school
education. Just before he and Tonya learned that the company was
terminating its financial aid to our buddy, Tonya got her GED and
proudly displayed it at a meeting with company officials.

As you may know, United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA)
and United States Olympic Committee (USOC) decision-makers
weren't interested in Tonya upstaging the politically-correct
and/or wealthy skaters: at the qualifying event, the United
States Figure Skating Championships, Tonya outperformed everyone
else in the technical program; but a sudden respiratory illness
prevented her from skating aggressively in the long program; then
she was given unfairly-low marks which baffled even the
journalists -- so she ended up as first alternate to the team.
While Tonya waited at home, one of the team members became
ill/injured and would not be able to perform at the Olympics
venue. What did the politicians do? They ordered the unfit skater
to participate in the then-compulsory figures and withdraw,
making her an official entrant, so that Tonya could not replace

An acquaintance of mine, whose daughter was taking figure-skating
lessons with Tonya in the late 1970s at a long-since demolished
ice arena in Portland, told me that she and other parents
telephoned police and social-service agencies on several
occasions to report the physical abuse Tonya publicly endured
from her mother. According to my acquaintance, on one occasion
Tonya was ordered by her mother to remain on the ice even though
she had an immediate need to relieve herself; so she ended up
wetting herself on the ice amidst all the other skaters.

Tonya endured considerable ridicule and social discrimination as
a schoolgirl: older girls beat her up; foreign objects were put
in her food at the school cafeteria by hateful schoolmates; et
cetera. Before the MHS Junior Prom, a fellow whom Tonya knew only
slightly requested that she accompany him to that event. She
agreed, since she wanted to go but no one else had asked her.
Tonya was all dressed up and waiting for her date to pick her up,
but he never came. It had been a prank.

Tonya went to court in 1993, represented by an attorney-at-law
who was a member of The Tonya Harding Fan Club (THFC), to
petition for a divorce from Jeffrey S. Gillooly. In order to
preclude Gillooly or media-of-communication scrutiny, the divorce
was filed in another county and under the name "T. Gillooly." The
divorce did become official, at the expiration of the required
waiting period. During this period of time, Tonya asked the THFC
for help in stopping Gillooly from incorporating a business using
her name. For reasons I don't know, the asked-for help was not
forthcoming in time to stop Gillooly incorporating a business
called The THG Corporation -- with Tonya Harding-Gillooly listed
as "president" on the subsequently-produced business/visiting
cards. This was a move by Gillooly to cash in on Tonya's name, by
holding the reins of control over anything involving her.

I did witness Tonya with bruises on her face rinkside at
Clackamas Town Center during the latter half of 1993, after she
and Gillooly got back together. Reportedly, Tonya and/or her
coach Diane Rawlinson stated the Tonya-Gillooly reunion was
prompted in part by suggestions from officials of the USFSA who
let it be known that divorce was a "scandal" which would not be

When I first saw Tonya and Gillooly together, which was at the
skating rink in June of 1993 and prior to her appearance with the
Campbell's Soups Tour of World and Olympic Figure Skating
Champions (The Tour), Tonya approached me and privately told me
that she had decided to re-unite with Gillooly and she hoped
I would be understanding and support her in that decision. Of
course, I said I would.

By the way, it was pressure from the THFC which prompted Tom
Collins to include Tonya in The Tour's Portland and State of
Washington appearances. I told Collins that there would be a
demonstration in front of the venue, Memorial Coliseum, should
Tonya not be allowed to skate with The Tour (all the pre-tour
publicity had shown Tonya skating, then right before The Tour
commenced she was dumped and replaced with Oksana Baiul). Prior
to her performance on The Tour in Portland, Tonya had told
several of us THFC types that she would provide us with back-
stage passes which would be left in our names at the back-stage
entrance. Yet when we went to pick them up, there were no such
passes to be found; but we went back stage anyway; and we were
ejected from there by really-pushy security officers, who waded
through the performers and well-wishers while hollering: "Nobody
without a pass is to be here! Leave now!" Gillooly was back
stage, watching yet well clear of us THFC people. I saw Tonya
briefly and told her we were being thrown out, to which news she
reacted dejectedly and said: "You mean you didn't get the
passes?" Anyway, she had to quickly go to an office with a couple
of adoring children to whom she'd promised programs; and even
though she was out of costume at that point, she was absolutely
stunning in her appearance! Subsequently, a few days later at
Clackamas Town Center, I was told by Gillooly that he had the
passes all along. "I figured you would have known that," he told
me, adding: "I thought you were smarter than that." Tonya stood
by looking downcast, as she knew Gillooly had watched us being
given the heave-ho by security officers.

The whole gun-firing episode was sad: Gillooly had apparently
devised a public version of the incident, telling me that Tonya
had accidentally fired the pistol into the ground when she was
checking its chamber to make sure there wasn't a bullet already
loaded. In truth, witnesses saw Gillooly manhandling a struggling
Tonya into a motor vehicle. Nevertheless, in spite of that
testimony to arriving police officers, Tonya was handcuffed to
the bumper of a police vehicle (it's against the law to discharge
fire-arms inside city limits), whereas Gillooly was given his
liberty. This is an indication of how the justice system works in
my country: in any female/male domestic situation, if the two
people are married to one another the benefit of any doubt is by
law always given the male. And as I recall, the Marriage Made in
Hell was still in effect -- as the divorce-proceeding waiting
period hadn't yet expired. As you may know, during the time in
1993 when Tonya and Gillooly were apart, that confidence artist
who held a Rasputin-like hold over her followed Tonya around as
if he were keeping a "tail" on her. You may know about the
trashing of Tonya's apartment during that time, which included a
burning of irreplaceable documents and photographs pertaining to
her career. Gee, I wonder who pulled off that break-in?

Regarding the 1993 Skate America International tournament: I
thought Tonya did quite well, considering that she defeated the
defending world champion (Baiul) in the technical program --
becoming the only United States of America skater up to that time
to beat Baiul in any aspect of competition. Later, the authors of
"Fire on Ice," two Tonya-bashers from "The Oregonian," wrote in
that book that I was wrong when I pointed out that fact in "The
Skater"; but I was right, a fact I carefully explained to Abbey
Haight at rinkside when she approached me with questions about
that article in "The Skater" just before the hastily-written book
was published -- although at the time I had no idea I was to be
mentioned in any book. In that book, I was mentioned several
times in different contexts; yet at no time did either of the
authors (or anyone else, for that matter) contact me to tell me I
was to be mentioned and allow me to comment upon their assertions
and thus enable me to state my own case in the book.

Yes, it was too bad that Tonya experienced a loose skate-blade in
the long program. And it was too bad that her "most favorite" red
costume came undone during the technical program at the United
States Figure Skating Championships (Nationals) earlier that
year. (You may know about the USFSA referee's arbitrarily
nullifying Tonya's highest marks at that Nationals -- via a
regulation adopted just before that event, which gave that
official the right to do so -- in order that she would not be on
the team going to the World Figure Skating Championships
[Worlds]. USFSA officials were heard to say that Tonya had her
chance before; and it was the other skaters' "turn" to go to
Worlds.) Of course, neither equipment-failure contingency could
have been predicted.

Having recently seen brief news-videos of Tonya practicing for
the ESPN tournament (I haven't "cable" access, so I wasn't able
to watch her programs), I would say she is as beautiful and fit
as at any time in the past; and probably more than ever. There
were a few times during the past decade when Tonya didn't
maintain a physical-fitness schedule; and so she was fat and
out of shape during those intervals (times spent with Gillooly).
Provided she constantly keeps to a rigorous fitness and training
schedule, I see no reason why Tonya should not be in world-class
shape for decades to come. Of course, no one knows all this
better than Tonya herself. She is her own best friend; so as long
as she takes care of her body and mind, she'll have nothing to
fear. She should be very proud of herself now. I am very proud of

I first met Shawn E. Eckardt during the summer of 1993, when
Tonya invited me to her home for a party. Attending that function
-- apart from Tonya, Gillooly and myself -- were a couple of
young female skating friends of Tonya and several long-time
friends of Gillooly, in the latter group being Eckardt. He was
introduced to me as a former national or world champion weight-
lifter. The social dynamics of that party were disconcerting:
Tonya was totally ignored by Gillooly and his friends; and she
sat at a small corner table with her skater buddies. Even when
she was surely within earshot, Gillooly's friends made derogatory
remarks about her; and when she was out of the room, taking her
skater pals for rides in her older-model Chevrolet Corvette,
those friends of Gillooly had great fun ridiculing Tonya.
Gillooly just smiled at all this, offering no objections. Later,
when people were milling about more freely, Eckardt began telling
me about all his covert-action and military-intelligence work --
which I knew from the get-go was a lot of nonsense. After
listening for a while to how clever and talented he was, I told
him I'd worked in military intelligence myself (the United States
Air Force Security Service, now called the Air Intelligence
Agency). That stopped his James Bond stories. Then, he began to
denigrate Tonya: she was this and she was that and every problem
in the universe was due to her, et cetera. I held up my hand and
stopped him in mid-sentence, saying: "I've heard all this kind of
crap before. It's all bullshit. Tonya is a decent person and I'm
not interested in hearing any more negative stuff about her, from
you or anyone else. Tonya is my friend. Do you hear what I'm
saying?" I was in his face. Mind, I'm 5'8" in height and was 48
years old at the time. (I still remember what I said to Eckardt
that night, as it was my first opportunity to stand up to someone
in defense of Tonya's honor.) Thus ended my first meeting with
Fat Boy, who shut up about Tonya for the duration of the party.

It was while Tonya was at Japan skating in the NHK tournament in
1993 that I first heard information indicating Gillooly was doing
something about the upcoming Nationals. When Tonya left for
Japan, Gillooly brought her truck to a garage for some sort of
repairs on the engine. He had a rental car and I rode with him to
the garage. He wanted to check on the progress of the repairs and
also visit someone who lived near there. As this garage was a
ways out of town, there was plenty of time to talk. He told me:
"Some of us are doing some things to level the playing field for
Tonya at Nationals. But don't tell Tonya, as she'd be madder than
hell if she knew." At the time I heard this, I never imagined
those "things" involved commission of crimes. I thought he meant
by his remark that he'd convinced some Tonya sympathizers, such
as Vera Marano and George Steinbrenner, to twist some USFSA arms
in an attempt to forestall mendacity by the judges. Well, in
20/20 hindsight I wish I'd have asked him questions about just
what he was doing regarding the Nationals. But I let it drop.

In another NHK-related matter, I responded to an urgent plea from
Tonya: she telephoned the apartment where I was staying (her
father's apartment) and told me she'd run out of one of her
asthma medications; she was having difficulty getting it refilled
and would I contact her physician and have him help her get it
refilled somehow, since there was some question by the local
pharmacist and she's have to go to someplace in Kobe et cetera.
Well, I contacted her doctor and he contacted a USFSA physician
at Colorado Springs to find out which asthma medications were
allowed and which were banned. I telephoned Tonya and told her
whatever it was her physician had told me about allowed
medications; and, although I can't remember what happened next,
Tonya was somehow able to get the medication she needed. Of
course, she was very distraught with the outcome of the
competition there: again, her best marks were eliminated through
some sort of creative bookkeeping by the International Skating
Union (ISU) officials.

Well, this is the first of several installments. Who knows? What
if I'm hit in a crosswalk tomorrow? So you might as well get this
blah-blah-blah while the getting's good. I've got plenty more to
write; and since you're the only dumping ground for my Tonya
memories, well -- here comes chapter one.

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I studied Physiology and Psychology at the University of Sydney, and in 2011, I received my BSc (Hons 1) in the Discipline of Anatomy & Histology. In 2016 I defended my thesis on the mechanical properties of diseased heart tissue from cardiomyopathy patients carrying mutations of the sarcomere. In 2016, I moved to the University of Vermont as a Post-doctoral fellow to examine the role of skeletal Myosin Binding Protein C.

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Theodore “Ted” J. Bulik

September 8, 1930 - October 27, 2018

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Service Date: October 31, 2018

Funeral Services honoring Ted’s life will be held on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. at the Piasecki-Althaus Funeral Home, 3720 39th Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53168. Interment will follow in St. George Cemetery.

A visitation will be held at the funeral home on Wednesday , October 31st from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service.

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Theodore J. “Ted” Bulik, age 88 of Kenosha, passed away on Saturday, October 27, 2018 at Grande Prairie Health and Rehab Center, after a short illness.

Born in Kenosha on September 8, 1930, he was the son of Ignatz and Emily (Grno) Bulik.

Ted served in the United States Army for two years during the Korean War.  He was stationed in Texas where he married Jeanette Pansewicz in 1952.  Their union was later dissolved.

Following the war, Ted came home and started employment with Nash/AMC.  He was a dedicated employee for over 30 years, retiring in 1988 from their facility maintenance department.  Ted was also a cook at Freddie’s Bar.  Prior to AMC, Ted was employed at Simmons Company.

On December 28, 1972 in Waukegan, IL, he was united in marriage to Nellie Nichols.  After 22 years of marriage, Nellie preceded him in death.

He was a member of Ke-Nash-A Club #590 and U.A.W. Local #72 Retirees.  Ted enjoyed traveling the United States with his wife, Nellie.

Ted is survived by his three sons, Jeff (Beverly) Bulik, Kurt Bulik and Rick (Cynthia) Bulik; two daughters, Patricia Kennedy and Nancy Bulik; a sister, Steffie Scoville; eight grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and many loving nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Nellie Bulik; his stepson, James Hudson; his great-great granddaughter, Melissa Hudson; his former wife, Jeanette Bulik; and his brother in law, Lynn Scoville.


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Pirate Soccer Drops Season Finale 3-0

Pirate Soccer hosted CEC Tuesday evening in the Bone Yard to conclude regular season play.  Charlestown dropped their record to 5-7-1 with a 3-0 home loss Tuesday.  “Last night, we played against a really good team CEC, and we lost our last home game.  The Pirates started really slow and did not concentrate for most of the game. Also, we cannot exclude the fact that the players are not 100% physically.  However, this is not an excuse for losing this game.  The boys will rest tomorrow and we have practice on Thursday so we can focus on our sectional for next week”, summarized Pirate Head Coach Christian Martinez.

Pirate Goalie Matt Parrela had 10 saves and 3 allowed.  Charlestown had 11 shots and 5 on goal while CEC had 23 shots with 13 on goal.

Next up for Pirate Soccer is the Sectional opener on October 2nd versus Sectional host Scottsburg beginning at 6:30 pm.


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Hot Alaska, Cold Georgia: How The Shifted Polar Vortex Turned Winter Upside-Down

It’s easy to forget about other places in the world, or even in your own country, when you’re out shoveling snow, or people who are homeless suffer the worst of urban cold snaps, or harbor seals on the Hudson River ride ice floes, or your city shuts down due to a mismanaged winter storm.
The polar vortex, normally tucked away much closer to the Arctic, has swept down several times this winter, bringing cold temperatures and snow to large segments of the U.S. east of the Rockies. Many experience this and either forget or doubt what the data show: that 2013 was the fourth-hottest year on record (or second-hottest without an El Niño), that greenhouse gas emissions are causing the atmosphere to trap more heat, that climate change is a problem.
But not only is this cold not unprecedented — it’s not even happening most places.
Courtesy of Climate Central, a look at historical frigid cold periods in some of the U.S. cities that are in a deep freeze this winter shows that the number of frigid nights have seen a steady decline over the last few decades. The polar vortex pulled thermometers below zero and prompted fears that the Super Bowl would be paralyzed by snow and frigid temperatures. In the end, the game was 49 degrees at kickoff, making it only the third-coldest Super Bowl ever — Seattle and Denver were actually colder than it was in the Meadowlands. The University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer shows how this cold has moved south, leaving the Arctic much warmer than normal, and parts of North America colder than normal as of Saturday.
Why the displaced cold? The polar vortex has been pulled south by an unusually extreme jet stream, which some scientists have suggested will happen more frequently in a warming world. This leaves the far north much warmer than normal. Consider Alaska.
Richardson Highway, the only road that connects the Alaskan port town of Valdez with the rest of civilization, suffered a series of a dozen avalanches that buried the road 40 feet deep and hundreds of feet long last month (video here). Valdez City Manager John Hozey told NPR “there are slides there every year but not like this”:
What happened was we had really unusual weather. When it got really cold down there in the Lower 48, it got really warm up here and it actually started to rain. Temperatures at the tops of the mountains were approaching high 40s, even 50 degrees, and rain. That just destabilized the snowpack that’s there every year. And people who’ve lived here for 30, 40 years say they’ve never seen a slide like that.
With a road as critical as the Richardson Highway out of commission, residents had to rely on ferry or air travel as the only methods of leaving the town, or to receive fuel and supplies. It took nearly two weeks of crews working around the clock to clear the road.
At the Alaska Avalanche Information Center in Valdez, forecaster Sarah Carter said ten days of warmer-than-usual temperatures and rainfall weakened the snowpack. “This cycle is more consistent with what we see in the springtime.”
“This was an abnormal event,” Carter said. “If we do have weather patterns that produce storms with warmer temperatures, we could indeed see avalanches of this caliber more frequently.”
The warm weather that buried the road to Valdez is emblematic of the unseasonably hot weather that blanketed Alaska while cold moved down to the Lower 48 in January. Port Alsworth, Alaska hit 62°F (16.7°C) on January 27, which tied the all-time warmest January temperature for the state. Many other towns set records, as much as 40°F (22°C) above normal. Nome hit 48°F, a record high, and more likely to be seen in late May. A National Weather Service statement said that temperatures in Fairbanks fell below normal only four days in the month of January. The average high temperature at Faribanks Airport was 16.4°F — much warmer than the normal high of 1.1°F.
This map shows how much warmer different parts of Alaska were during the last week of January — red signifies 18°C warmer than the 2001-2010 average for the same week.

It wasn’t just Alaska. Greenland has been about 5°C warmer than normal in January.
The Lower 48 have not all been in a deep freeze, either. California ski resorts are hoping they can get through another winter of extremes — this year with unseasonably warm temperatures and some of the lowest snowpack levels on record as drought grips the Golden State. Many ski resorts have invested millions in snowmaking equipment and are now offering sales and deals to try to stay afloat. Snow season has shrunk in the northern hemisphere by about three weeks, leaving the people who plan Winter Olympics grappling with how to adapt. In Sochi, this has involved a year-long effort to stockpile and manufacture snow.
For people in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s easy to forget it’s summer in the Southern Hemisphere, where many countries have seen extreme heat. Sao Paolo, Brazil is running out of water as it suffered through its hottest month on record in January. The extreme heat rolling through Australia has not just caused tennis tournaments to suspend outdoor play, but also led to a spike in heat-related deaths in Victoria.

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