![]() ![]() In its first hundred pages, Lucky succeeds as a first-person chronicle of brutality and its aftermath. True crime memoirs take this idea to a greater extreme, as writing about the worst thing that has happened to you-rape, the murder of a loved one, or some other horrific type of violence-offers broader meaning for those who have survived similar events, and those wishing to understand how it’s possible to survive them. Memoirs are governed by the idea that subjective truths can stand in for more universal perspectives. Sebold recently apologized to the man wrongly convicted of raping her in 1982. (Mucciante, for his part, is at work on Unlucky, a documentary about the Broadwater case.) What happens when one sets out, as Sebold did, to transform trauma into literature-and the foundation turns out to be utterly wrong? I accept her apology.”Īpologies, however, merely begin a new chapter of a story that encompasses a brutal rape, a mistaken eyewitness identification, unconscious racial bias, a best-selling memoir, and now, a wrongful conviction. Broadwater, who burst into tears upon seeing the statement, told the Syracuse Post-Standard: “It comes sincerely from her heart. “I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you, and I know that no apology can change what happened to you and never will,” Sebold writes. 30 statement, seems to inhabit both states, owing perhaps to extensive legal vetting before its release. ![]() Sebold’s most recent apology, given in a Nov. Some of the apologies in the book (recently pulled from circulation by its publisher, Scribner) are genuine. The result probably never would have happened if Timothy Mucciante, a one-time executive producer of a since-abandoned film adaptation of Lucky, had not begun his own independent investigation. This shocking turn came about after the court reconsidered Sebold’s eyewitness account, which initially identified a different man, and a now-discredited hair analysis linking Broadwater to the crime. ![]() And in other instances in the book-when she identifies the wrong man in a lineup, or gets tripped up in cross-examination-Sebold seems set upon apologizing to those she feels she let down.Īs we now know, the person most let down was Anthony Broadwater, the man whose conviction for Sebold’s May 1981 rape was overturned in late November, more than 20 years after the end of his prison sentence. Earlier, Sebold had been the one who “never stopped apologizing,” saying whatever it would take for her to survive the attack. You’re a good girl,” repeats the man, sometimes in tears, after brutally raping and beating her in a park near Syracuse University. While reading Alice Sebold’s 1999 memoir Lucky for the first time in about two decades, I was struck by the prevalence of apologies in the narrative. ![]()
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DIELECTRIC GREASE 85 g A non-curing silicone compound for sealing, protecting and insulating electrical components and connectors. Super Lube® Silicone Dielectric Grease is waterproof, compatible with most plastics, and protects against moisture and other contaminants in electrical connections. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, I believe what you are looking for is simply something akin to the following example: # Random SLURM_JOBID valueĮxport SLURM_JOBID=$(python3 -c "import random print(random.randint(0, 1_000_000))") the command will have to complete until your prompt is returned to you. Using will not work either as that is simply a command separator, i.e. You cannot use wait in this particular way, as wait requires parent-child relationship between processes. Related: How does one authenticate with a command that requires your password in linux? But that is just to add context to the final part of my script. Instead what I want is to run that wait command inside of tmux (to not block me) and once the python script is done to kill the tmux session entirely. command outside of tmux and block my main terminal. I think it won't work because once it runs tmux detach & it will go out of the tmux session and run the wait. I tried that at the end but I suspect it won't work. "īut the above won't work because: once the python script is running and been dispatched with &, what I want is to kill the tmux session when that job is done. # - wait for pid from python to be done, if done kill this tmux sessĮcho "Done with bash script (experiment or dispatched daemon experiments). Python -u ~/diversity-for-predictive-success-of-meta-learning/div_src/diversity_src/experiment_mains/main_sl_with_ddp.py -manual_loads_name sl_hdb1_5cnn_adam_cl_filter_size -filter_size 4 > $OUT_FILE 2> $ERR_FILE & # echo 'totally secret password' | kinit to see reauth running # echo 'Secret' | /afs/cs/software/bin/reauth # /afs/cs/software/bin/krbtmux new -s $SLURM_JOBIDĮcho $SU_PASSWORD | /afs/cs/software/bin/reauth # - CAREFUL, if a job is already running it could do damage to it, rm reauth process, qian doesn't do it so skip it This is my full attempt: # - get a job id for this tmux sessionĮxport SLURM_JOBID=$(python -c "import random print(random.randint(0, 1_000_000))")Įxport OUT_FILE=$PWD/main.sh.o$SLURM_JOBIDĮxport ERR_FILE=$PWD/main.sh.e$SLURM_JOBID My main issue right now is that I want to kill the tmux session once my real python script running in the background is done. My attempt is here (and it has several issues as outlined the beginning of it won't work but it's a seperate question, this question is about the last part of the script). I am trying to "re-implement" nohup inside of tmux (so dispatching a job without blocking me and then killing the tmux command acting as nohup). ![]() ![]() But not doing what he said he was going to do is his problem. Remember, he doesn't have a problem getting along with them, they have the problem. It makes me think about firing you." But see how much more powerful that is if you have step 4 in from before? If you just tell him "If you don't get along with everyone, I'm going to fire you" that's so much less. "When you don't do the things you say you're going to do it makes me think you're not interested in keeping this job. You get the idea.įinally, if you're giving feedback and he's not adjusting, that's feedback too. Tell him it makes other people not want to work with him. Tell him that it makes other people not listen to him. Other people's feelings are their problems. Don't tell him it hurts other people's feelings when he does that. You should give them another listen, the information will be more complete.)Īgain from the casts, don't forget to adjust the impact message (step 3) based on his personality type. (I'm really just summarizing the great material M&M have in the feedback casts. It's just one piece of feedback among many. You might not get this with a "shot across the bow," but you can get it the next time. That way if the behavior is repeated you can give him feedback on not doing what he said he was going to do. You have to wait for him to come up with something that addresses the issue to your satisfaction, and he has to say it. ![]() When you use the feedback model step 4 asks the recipient what he can do differently next time. If the behavior is repeated, you have a historical standard to fall back upon. Whether he admits he did that or not doesn't matter, you're setting a standard. ![]() The first time, your goal is simply to let him know what behavior is unacceptable. Have you given him feedback before? I was making the assumption that this was the first "shot across the bow." If this isn't the first time you are giving him feedback on this topic, then it's no longer a shot across the bow. Since his behavior was noticed by many people and was demonstrated in public, is there still any point to allowing him to deny it happened and "believing" him? Why wouldn't I just move forward with next level of feedback - essentially that not taking action on feedback is not acceptable? Turning this into a bit more of a hypotetical case now to make sure I fully understand. Cursing, raising your voice, or flatlt refusing to take action on feedback from your management team are behaviors that can be addressed. But his delivery technique was so alienating that rather than making any progress on fixing them, he just further dug himself into a hole.īut I get your point. The sad thing was, in many cases, his end points were often valid. And then when asked to be part of the solution, he's say "not my problem - that's your problem". Mind you, these were all people with much more experience and perspective than he had. ![]() He was alienating his peers and his management chain on a daily basis by telling them bluntly and in public forums their plans were stupid, they had no sense of what they were doing, they weren't inspiring to him in the least, he didn't value their opinions or feedback, etc. ![]() ![]()
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