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THIS BLOG RETRACES THE STEPS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT STRIKE, THE LONGEST STRIKE AT A UNIVERSITY BY ITS FACULTY. I WAS INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN THIS STRIKE AND SUBSEQUENTLY LOST MY JOB, A SORE LOSS FOR ME EMOTIONALLY. THIS BLOG TO BE UPDATED DAILY. Whether you are liberal or conservative in your view of things, a close reading will help you better understand how this drama played out, what were its causes, interests, costs, and significance . The drama really begins when the schools’ administration issues an order to large percentage of its faculty who went on strike: return to teaching or be replaced. Some faculty returned, as warned; others refused, and thus faculty were pitted against fellow faculty for a very long time. Here now, it begins:

March 12, 1990. The first day after Spring Break. UB-AAUP President Alfred Gerteiny receives a call at 7:30 am from the Provost’s office, summoning him to a meeting at Bryant Hall. He is told to bring the union executive committee with him. The officers of Faculty Council are also summoned. No agenda stated.

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Folk music has a long relationship with labor struggles, and particularly labor unions. From the Baptist hymns adapted by Joe Hill, to the IWW song handbook, to the protest tunes of Billy Bragg, here's a peek at some of the most notable, most fun, and most poignant labor tunes in Folk history.

Top Ten Best Labor Songs in American Folk Music .

Welcome to inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.

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Dayton, Ohio Bertha Wright, age five, niece of the Wright brothers, daughter of Lorin Wright by the Wright brothers 1901

Dayton, Ohio Bertha Wright, age five, niece of the Wright brothers.

Photo by the Wright brothers.

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Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American Grammy Award-winning alternative rock singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist.

He is perhaps best known for his work with the hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, and for leading the Rollins Band since 1987 [more at link]

Henry Rollins:music, videos

August 1940. Pine Mountain, Kentucky. “Mountain woman by her home up Stinking Creek”; Nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott.

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In Archive and Exhibit, the Dead Live On

The Grateful Dead performed the last of their more than 2,300 concerts in 1995 and thus belong increasingly to history, not the present. Two related events make that reality clear: a new exhibition about the band that has just opened at the New-York Historical Society and the recent creation of the much larger archive, housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which it is drawn.

“The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society,” which continues through July 4, includes only a tiny part of the material that the band donated to the university in 2008. But as the first large-scale public showing of artifacts from the collection, it offers a tantalizing glimpse of material that is stirring the interest not just of hard-core Deadheads but also of scholars.

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Ektopia » Blog Archive » Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals.

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Afghan medics tie the body of a believed suicide attacker to a stretcher before putting on an ambulance at the scene of an attack in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Taliban militants struck the heart of the Afghan government in Kabul on Monday, prompting fierce gunbattles after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the presidential palace. AP

Canadian army Cpl. Melissa Gagnon pulls security in the village of Rajan Qala in the Arghandab River Valley section of the Kandahar province of Afghanistan Jan. 10, 2009, during Operation Fazilat. The operation is a coalition forces effort to clear the area of improvised explosive devices and establish a presence in the community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christine Jones/Released) Date Posted: 1/15/2010

U.S. Army Capt. Charles Day, a surgeon with 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, assists Spc. Frank Romanowski and Spc. Timothy Currie as they lift a patient before placing him on a backboard during their Emergency Medical Technician recertification training at Forward Operating Base Airborne, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rob Frazier/Released) Date Posted: 1/13/2010
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In Publishing: The Revolutionary Future, Jason Epstein posits “The resistance today by publishers to the onrushing digital future does not arise from fear of disruptive literacy, but from the understandable fear of their own obsolescence and the complexity of the digital transformation that awaits them… The unprecedented ability of this technology to offer a vast new multilingual marketplace a practically limitless choice of titles will displace the Gutenberg system with or without the cooperation of its current executives”

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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir

American Jewish writers fascinated by Marilyn Monroe included Norman Rosten, Alvah Bessie, and most notoriously Norman Mailer, who published Marilyn: A Novel Biography in 1973. A couple of years later, Mailer met Barbara Davis Norris, a woman half his age who had been raised as a Free Will Baptist in Arkansas and had previously dated another womanizer by the name of William Jefferson Clinton who was destined for national celebrity. In 1980, she married Mailer in his Brooklyn Heights home, taking on the name Norris Church Mailer and becoming his sixth wife. She describes their tumultuous lives .

A Ticket to the Circus by Norris Church Mailer – Hardcover – Random House.

A candid (long) conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media.

March 1969

The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan « NextNature.net.

norma jean (MM) and sister bernice miracle

Vintage Photographs.

Chilling Aerial Photos of 9/11 Attack Released – .

8 Unconventional Ways to be Buried .

Waterboarding for dummies .

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE CIVIL WAR: MEMORIAL.

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Black Soldiers in the Civil War – Academic Info.

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ANTIQUE INDIAN BASKETS MUSEUM California Native American Basketry.

Big Generation Gaps in Work Attitudes Revealed .

Abandoned Mental Asylum Hellingly, RIP, 33 Creepy Photo Tribute .

Finnegans Wake, Chop Suey
On this day in 1923, James Joyce wrote to his patron, Harriet Weaver, that he had just begun “Work in Progress,” the book which would become Finnegans Wake sixteen years later: “Yesterday I wrote two pages — the first I have written since the final “Yes” of Ulysses. Having found a pen, with some difficulty I copied them out in a large handwriting on a double sheet of foolscap so that I could read them. . . .” Though increasingly plagued by eye problems — ten operations, and counting — Joyce’s lifestyle had improved from the Ulysses years, thanks to Weaver’s continued support, and money given by Sylvia Beach against future royalties. He and his wife, Nora, were able to get new clothes, a new flat, even new teeth: “The dentist is to make me a new set for nothing,” wrote Joyce to Miss Weaver, “as with this one I can neither sing, laugh, shave nor (what is more important to my style of writing) yawn. . . .”

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Vale, Oregon. Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.

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via Powell’s Books – Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields.

U.S. Millionaire Population Soared 16% in 2009 – The Wealth Report – WSJ.

Red Cloud – a life.

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THE BONE WARS

When most people think of the Wild West, they picture Buffalo Bill, Jesse James, and caravans of settlers in covered wagons. But for paleontologists, the American west in the late 19th century conjures up one image above all: the enduring rivalry between two of this country&apos;s greatest fossil hunters, Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. The “Bone Wars” as their feud became known, stretched from the 1870&apos;s well into the 1890&apos;s, and resulted in hundreds of new dinosaur finds (not to mention reams of bribery, trickery, and outright theft, as we’ll get to later).

via The Bone Wars – The Lifelong Feud Between Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope.

CHIEF RED CLOUD BEFRIENDS OTHNIEL C. MARSH

Rare Photograph of Red Cloud and Othniel C Marsh.

“I forgot to remember to forget” Elvis Presley sang in 1955. I know that it was 1955 because I just Googled the title and clicked on the link to the Wikipedia entry for the song.

How cool is that? Not long ago, I would have had to actually remember that Elvis recorded the song as part of his monumental Sun Records sessions that year. Then I would have had to flip through a set of histories of blues and country that sit on the shelf behind me. It might have taken five minutes to do what I did in five seconds. I almost don’t need my own memory any more.

That strikes many of us as a good thing: the costs low, the benefits high. We can be much more efficient and comprehensive now that a teeming collection of documents sits just a few keystrokes away.

But as Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argues convincingly in his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2009), the costs of such powerful collective memory are often higher than we assume.

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Our Digitally Undying Memories

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AP News: 12 centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea.

The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments .

A book that defends plagiarism, champions faked memoirs and declares fiction dead has the literary world up in arms

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RIP: The novel – Writers and Writing – Salon.com.

Morris Dickstein&apos;s Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, published last year by W.W. Norton, is one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. The author, a professor of English and theater at CUNY Graduate Center, has written and edited numerous other works of literary and cultural analysis. His explorations of American literature, films, and music of the "long decade" between 1929 and 1941 seem to be written in an almost classical mode — as if he were simultaneously channeling the major figures assayed in his Double Agent: The Critic and Society (Oxford, 1992).

My short discussion of Dancing in the Dark recently appeared at the website of the National Book Critics Circle. This was written as part of my duties as a member of the NBCC board, but doing so was no burden; this is a book to inspire enthusiasm. So without further ado, here follows the transcript of an e-mail interview with its author. The winners of the NBCC awards will be announced during a ceremony at the New School University in New York City on Thursday night.

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