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When the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto decided to fly in weirdo performance artist Bennett Miller to show the city his piece, The Dachsund UN, we had to send a film crew. Dogs acting like people is an online video goldmine. Amazingly enough, it's exactly what it sounds like: a bunch of wiener dogs hanging out on a stage meant to resemble the UN Human Rights Commission. We're pretty sure they're saying, "Woof woof, I'ma invade you if you don't lift that embargo!" Or whatever it is human UN delegates talk about all day.
More about dogs from VICE:
Wool of the Dog
The Cute Show - Dog Circus!
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0.020127 | <urn:uuid:ce1f2c58-7665-44b3-8b6c-7c2275ae16b2> | en | 0.969455 | Belgian Yanina Wickmayer has booked her spot in the Auckland Classic tennis semi-finals with a controversial win over compatriot Kirsten Flipkens.
Wickmayer, the No.3 seed and the 2010 Auckland champion, won 6-3 6-4 to set up a meeting with German eighth seed Mona Barthel.
On match point, the line umpire called a Wickmayer cross-court backhand wide, but was overruled the chair umpire.
The match was also punctuated by a series of frustrating stoppages midway through the second set because of repeated light drizzle.
Flipkens was unwilling to continue each time the drizzle came back and sat down courtside.
But Wickmayer paced the area behind the baseline impatiently as proceedings were stopped four times in the space of 10 points.
Wickmayer's desire to keep playing turned her into the crowd favourite.
When the match resumed for the last time, she won the last three games to reach the Auckland semi-finals for the third time - having been runner-up in 2011.
Earlier on Thursday, Barthel took just 44 minutes to down unseeded Swede Johanna Larsson 6-2 6-1.
Larsson, who put out German No.2 Julia Goerges in the previous round, took a 2-0 lead in the first set on the back of some unforced errors from her opponent.
But the 22-year-old Barthel, who is ranked a career-high 39, found her groove to produce winner after winner on the way to taking the next nine games.
Barthel's one victory was a significant one. It came last January in the Hobart final, which she reached as a qualifier, and it gave her a first WTA title. | http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/tennis/wickmayer-into-auckland-semis-20130103-2c6p1.html | dclm-gs1-252740002 | false | false | {
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Credit: Stephen Smith/Imaginare NYC
It's not always glamorous to be the Bachelor. The guys may be super-studs but they're human like the rest of us. Not only do they have to deal with, um, normal human bodily functions, they sometimes feel compelled to answer fan tweets on the subject.
Season 17 Bachelor Sean Lowe is an open guy with a great sense of humor, so he was up for some TMI tweeting with a fan who asked a very personal — and very bizarre — question in what appeared to be an alien language.
Bachelor/ette contestants get odd tweets all the time, and we never would’ve seen this one if Sean hadn’t shared it with the class, posting, “Best tweet ever. ‘@BtbBby: hallo, i have a Q. In BachelorHouse, I nevr c U poo or P, and im lik, how can U live?? Do u stor it inside of U?’”
Sean probably didn’t think it was really the best tweet ever, but his fan was heartened, replying with “thnx BB, wat a compliment! Now If UR UnComFortable answering my Q(IK its hrd) tel me Ur Secret 2 bein the most f-a-b bachelOr!!” Sean was game, so he wrote back, “Q1: I store it up until the season is over. Q2: don't know how.”
It's possible this fan's query is exactly the kind of thing many Bachelor viewers have been wondering for years, but never dared to ask. (They should ask host Chris Harrison for an equally pithy answer.)
While at least one follower admitted to wondering the same thing, a less impressed fan asked Sean, "do I have to think of something stupid for me to say for you to notice me?" His simple reply: "yes."
So now we know. If you want Sean's attention, you have to ask him a "stupid," very personal question, preferably including the word “poo.” Catherine Giudici, was this your secret to getting his undivided attention all along? Genius.
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0.034165 | <urn:uuid:b2b7320e-3368-47ca-b012-f8112ba2fe01> | en | 0.941614 | We welcome applications for Fellowships. In selecting Press Fellows we apply two main criteria:
• The intellectual and personal qualities of the candidate, including his or her potential for leadership in the profession of journalism; and
• The Project proposal.
• The changing role of media in a networked world
• The role of free media in democratic governance
As far as the third theme is concerned, we are keen that the Programme should contribute to 'capacity building' in countries which are emerging from authoritarian regimes and moving (at varying speeds) towards liberal democracy. Journalistic cultures which were shaped under authoritarian conditions do not necessarily adapt well to more open conditions. Yet functioning democracies need free and vibrant media – staffed by journalists who understand their responsibilities and roles under these new conditions.
The selection process
We operate a two-stage selection process.
• Applicants submit an Application Form. This is obtainable for download as a pdf file or a Microsoft Word file. The form should then be submitted directly to us in Cambridge. (For addresses and fax details see here.) In addition to the usual personal details, candidates are asked to nominate two referees who are familiar with their work and to provide a one-page summary of their Project Proposal.
• Each application is scrutinised by a Selection Panel comprised of Programme staff, representatives of the College and external advisers. If the application is approved, then the candidate is offered a place on the Press Fellowship Programme, subject to the necessary sponsorship being found to support the Fellowship.
Project proposals
In drawing up a proposal, we ask candidates to consider the following four questions:
1. What exactly do you propose to investigate?
2. Why is this worth doing?
3. How exactly do you propose to go about your investigation?
4. How will you know when you have (a) finished, and (b) succeeded?
The process of answering these questions can be useful in focussing a proposal. It's also important that the proposed project should be on a topic that can usefully be investigated in Cambridge or, failing that, the UK. | http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/applying/press/applications | dclm-gs1-252860002 | false | false | {
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0.039172 | <urn:uuid:45d99439-fd31-4ebb-a3a2-1c248eed628e> | en | 0.950409 | Nokia tablet sails through FCC, with support for AT&T and Verizon LTE
Nokia Tablet FCC
Nokia has a strong following who still look forward to a Windows tablet. Speculation and rumours have been in the spotlight since the company started making Windows Phones and Microsoft released Windows 8 to the world. Currently being purchased by Microsoft, should the deal go through, we'll see future handsets be released by Redmond, but that doesn't stop Nokia from innovating and launching new hardware in the mean time.
The FCC has now approved a mysterious device, the RX-114. Require some proof that this is indeed a Nokia tablet? Feast your eyes on the above image pulled from the documentation, courtesy of Engadget. While the details are rather pixelated, it's clear to see exactly what we're looking at with multiple references to "tablet" alone. This could well be the tablet we've been covering the past months.
So what else is included in the documentation along with the diagrams at slate references? We're also able to confirm that the tablet will support LTE with bands 2, 4, 5, 13 and 17, as well as HSPA+ and GSM / EDGE, as one would expect. This means the tablet will technically support Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in the US.
Nokia Sirius
There are currently no details pointing to exactly which mobile operators would carry such a device from Nokia, though there have been multiple hints in the past with both AT&T and Verizon mentioned. Paul Thurrott has shared specifications and renders, while we were informed the tablet would be part of a limited-exclusive deal with AT&T (released in "early November") and then head to Verizon. This matches the technical specifications and support detailed in this FCC ruling.
We could well catch more details and possibly event a sighting of the tablet at the upcoming Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi next month. Stay tuned.
Source: FCC, via: Engadget; thanks, houtex2380, for the tip!
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Montpbm says:
What about for T-Mobile.
carlosrdd says:
TMobile sucks get over it....
jamzc92 says:
Not in the UK it doesn't.
Zulfigar says:
I don't agree, T-Mobile doesn't double-charge you for your phone like AT&T and Verizon do, and they actually support unilited data plans, while Verizon is trying to get rid of their's and AT&T has never had one.
Im not tying to defend ATT but get your facts straight. ATT also had unlimited data plans, but like Verizon, they no longer offer it to new customers. On ATT I am still allowed to upgrade my phone and keep my unlimited data. With Verizon, if you want to keep unlimited you have to buy the phones off contract.
The only thing that bugs me about at&t is their lack of update support ie. Amber/GDR2
Quin 2013 says:
Amen. One day left before Nokia's promise to make att follow through on releasing gdr2.
Not happening.
pallentx says:
How great would it be for Nokia to announce that there will not be an ATT exclusive and the new tablet will go to Verizon first instead because ATT failed to deliver updates on previous products in a timely maner.
Ok, I can dream...
cesar ruiz1 says:
My options are limited in Puerto Rico cause where I live if you want high rate dropped called or no service weekends you go to T-mobile or Claro. if you receive 30 calls a day and are annoyed by that go to Open mobile and your guaranteed to receive less then 10. Sprint is very slow and unreliable. I've been with At&t since 2005 and I can't complain I got 4 lines and pay 226 a month on a family plan and my line has unlimited data no throttling, we all have LTE and over 25 Mb download 17upload. I prefer to pay more for excellent service.
Montpbm says:
Man you suck get over that!
raul_junior says:
Did you not read the article...
Montpbm says:
Did you not take a di#$ to the face.
tfc ninja says:
..pro maybe ? no ok :(
Jazmac says:
Seems it gets through but the 920 Amber update for whatever reason, cannot.
Micah Dawson says:
Wow that escalated quickly.
kwajr says:
As does every damn article the could write an article about the Smurfs and there would be folks talking about the amber update for att
kwajr says:
Its funny how all those people hate att yet they pay more get less and never switch
MrSimmix says:
As I said earlier, such a loving community.
Suck my dick ! You cunt
MrSimmix says:
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Lol i just had too :p
Lol all of you people name-calling are dicks
I was making a joke relax. I thought you were some genius?? :P
Jazmac says:
Exact words your daddy used when he sired your momma and had you.
kwajr says:
Well that took a while
baron1996 says:
I still dont think an rt tablet can force me to spend$499
txDrum says:
Yeah. MS design with surface is just as good as Nokia can do but using RT was just a bad idea. I would have recommended it almost instantly if we had seen, compared with the $350 Asus t100, 1080p (+$50), bay trail (MAYBE +$20) and a battery in the dock (+50) for $500. If Asus can do it, Nokia can too.
Ultimateone says:
Makes me slightly rethink my surface 2 preorder, but I think I'll stick with the surface. Don't really want another data plan anyway.
Micah Dawson says:
I was waiting for a Nokia tablet but all the extra stuff Microsoft is throwing in with the surface I can't really justify myself getting a Nokia tbh.
blackhawk556 says:
What extra stuff and at what price??
Lumia 8x says:
Unlimited Skype call minutes, full office, and 200gb of skydrive
Bloobed says:
Every RT device gets full Office.
Lumia 8x says:
Ok picky mom.
_Emi_ says:
ehmmm what about free calling to landlines and unlimited Skype Wifi for one year and 200gb of skydrive for 2 years?
also it has touch keyboard, type keyboard, power cover, car charger, wireless adapter... touch cover and type cover have backlit, and also the mixer music surface kit thing. what does this tablet have? Im sure nothing compared with surface 2.
the only apparent thing missing would be LTE, but its supposed to come next year.
lancepr says:
With Ms buying Nokia they might extend those offers to Nokia tablets too
Lee Juhan says:
Any article that has "ATT" somehow pisses me off. I dont know why. Maybe its because i have 920.
That's because AT&T sucks, but to be honest, so do all mobile operators.
T Moore says:
You and a lot of other people. Just sell unbranded devices and get away from the current marketing scheme. AT&T gives no support for Windows devices.
Lumia 900, Titan, Titan II, Focus S Update provided to AT&T but not passed on to users. What a partner.
Lumia 920 on AT&T, waiting, not patiently.
Bloobed says:
I'd be content with WiFI only.
Idan Cohen says:
Another sheep to the (updates)-slaughter house.
yep. another one that att will forget about soon and wont release updates for and have , yet again , crummy support. i'm having a hard time coping with the fact I got an at&t unlocked phone and not an unbranded one.
Nik Rolls says:
Not sure if the updates will be held back by the operators on this one. It's different than with Windows Phone.
Kwanton81 says:
I love Nokia phones and am happy with their ideas; but I think I'll prefer a Surface 2 than this.
I could use one with W8.1
kwajr says:
This is literally the Engadget article verbatim
That's why it states"via Engadget" at the bottom.
Um. Correct, check the source at the bottom.
DJCBS says:
By now I think everyone knows that I take Nokia over Microsoft any day.
HOWEVER I have to say, I'm not thrilled with what transpires from the above plans, with regards to the design. It seems they're going for a curved back, like an oversized Lumia 920. Honestly, on a tablet, I don't like it. I don't think it works.
So I'll have to think well about this. I don't intend to buy a new Surface (unless MS takes by old one in exchange for a discount on a new one) but now I'm not sure I'll want to buy the Nokia one either...
Bloobed says:
Seems flat with tapered edges to me. Makes it easier to grab fron flat surfaces.
Anyway, this will be a beautiful tablet to show off to my Apple-fanboy pals ;-)
T Moore says:
Until AT&T shows some real support for Windows 8 devices pull them out of the loop and sell unbranded devices for use on their network.
I bet that happens once and if the acquisition goes through, unbranded through Microsoft stores and online? Sweet.
AR2186 says:
Pretty sure the tablets are unbranded, but will support connections to each network. You will get updates through Windows Update from Microsoft and Nokia like a regular computer
sumothong01 says:
So if I'm reading this correctly. I won't be able to purchase without going through a carrier? I would really like a WiFi only version.
bjax says:
Yeah, I'd seriously consider picking up a WiFi version.
sumothong01 says:
Thats the only way Id buy one. I can turn my 928 in to a hotspot so why would I want another data plan. If they dont have a WiFi only one I can buy when released I guess ill go with the surface 2.
saulgould13 says:
I'll wait until its released and tested before making a decision.. By then we'll all be speculating the next big thing that's going to improve our productive lives.. Lol!
Kyle Moreno1 says:
AT&T last day of September is tomorrow! Where in the world is the Amber update!
blackhawk556 says:
You'll finally get it one day and 15 minutes later you'll realize it didn't offer anything major. You're getting angry over an update that's not worth getting high blood pressure.
cesar ruiz1 says:
Update might be crappy but to run smart cam and pro cam which are great you need the update.
poddie says:
That's exactly why I want it.
revolvet says:
= exclusively delayed update
aitt says:
I'll be disappointed if they don't make a WiFi only version. I'll never pay for a data Tablet when I got tether option.
terrokkinit says:
I want one!! Go VZW and Nokia! If this serves true, no question I WILL add a line for this tablet. ;)
John20212 says:
If the Nokia tablet is not operator free, Nokia can keep it. Having a phone locked to a damn operator is one thing, but I am not interested in an operator crippled tablet.
nola75 says:
If Nokia intends to offer a 64 GB version of this tablet they should be "leaking" that information now along with all of the other stage-mamaged leaks on this tablet. Othewise those that don't care about anything but wifi connectivity have no reason to wait on ordering the microsoft RT if they want an RT tablet with adequate memory. Any Nokia proprietary apps should be available to Surface owners soon after the microsoft deal closes early next year on the current schedule. I am not the only one who has no interest in a memory crippled device if I go the RT route. The fact that this product involves negotiation with carriers who seem to like products with limited memory means that the crickets we are hearing when it comes to a 64 GB version of the 2520 do NOT bode well. If I decide to get an RT tablet soon I will probably not wait for the Nokia announcement since I think we would have already heard if a 64 GB device was in the works.
enthuz says:
If it isn't a small screen version, I would be very interested in it with built-in LTE. I see the coming months are going to be an enthusiast's dream with all of the Windows 8.1 tech being released.
nez99 says:
You americans sure love your carriers, everything is about whether your carrier will stock it or sell it. The rest of the world just buys stuff from shops :P
darkoman4 says:
So? What's your point? I can name probably 100 things we have it here better then you, but what is th fricking point?
cesar ruiz1 says:
C'mon leave him alone he is probably 30+ years old and asks his mom / dad crying every 6 months that he needs a new phone and they go running to buy him he's new phone cause he won't stop crying until he gets it.
C'mon America is not the center of the world. And nowadays one can buy anything from anywhere so that claim "better" doesn't hold true anymore. Something may be cheaper, yet something will ask you to cash out more.
And name-calling is bad, very bad.
Zeroplanetz says:
For you peoples that want an lte version of a tablet, what's faster WiFi speeds or lte/4g? And does it really make that much sense to have an additional contract with shared data? Other than getting the tablet for cheap or free what are the benefits of having it contract based versus using hotspot on your phone? Serious question. Thanks for any thoughts.
jehugo says:
DO WANT. Don't care if its rt gimme
ejlee072006 says:
I hope the price is right
wpdude says:
I hope the price is wrong. Why is everyone stuck on $599? If Nokia really wanted to make waves they should price at 250 to 350. If it is a RT device it would a better price. | http://www.wpcentral.com/comment/567299 | dclm-gs1-252890002 | false | false | {
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Lectures in higher education correspond to that old Churchill chestnut about democracy: they are the worst of all mass teaching methods, except all the others that have been tried. The criticisms are simple: they are too passive, too monotonous, and students don’t gain much from being there. Various solutions have been proposed from closing all the universities and switching to MOOCs (with, erm, online lectures?) to flipping the classroom and more besides. One early flipped-classroom-style proposal (in the 90s) was Peer Instruction, put forward by Eric Mazur, which I will describe in this post.
Peer Instruction
Mazur was teaching Physics at Harvard. He saw research showing that students’ wrong preconceptions about how the physical world works (along the lines of heavier things fall faster) were persisting despite studying high school physics and university physics. The solution was centred around drawing out and challenging the students’ misconceptions. I’ve previously discussed how to do this in online videos, but Mazur came up with changes to the lecture format to enable this to be done effectively in a lecture theatre.
The basics of Peer Instruction are:
• Set reading before the class
• Discuss a topic briefly (say, for ten minutes) in the lecture
• Propose a conceptual question on the topic, with a right answer, and several answers corresponding to common misconceptions
• Get the students to answer the question by themselves (e.g. with “clicker” devices or equivalent smartphone apps)
• Get the students to engage in small group discussions with their neighbours about the answer they gave
• Get the students to answer the question again via their clicker
• The lecturer then takes questions from the audience, or clears up misconceptions he/she overhead during the small group discussion
There’s presumably various forces at work here. The question followed by discussion helps students realise when they are wrong (the first step in the battle!) and then students can convince each other of the right answer. Mazur makes the point that students can often provide a well-tailored explanation to each other because they share a novice viewpoint, although presumably you also run the danger of the blind leading the blind. Advocates of Peer Instruction are keen to point out that it’s not just about adding clickers to ordinary lectures. It’s not the technology by itself that makes a difference, it’s the whole protocol.
Concept not calculations
One central argument in the Peer Instruction book is about solidifying concepts, not calculations. Mazur shows that conceptual understanding is relatively orthogonal to the ability to calculate the correct answer on standard textbook/exam questions. This chimed a little with me: I recall drawing lots of force diagrams in mechanics (the physics end of maths) involving a normal force. I was never happy with the concept: the idea of the ground exerting an upwards force was baffling to me. Is the ground really pushing upwards? What would happen if you turned gravity off — would everything fly upwards with the power of the normal force? However, these questions never mattered to my progress: I knew how and where to add the force on the diagram such that the forces would balance and I could get the correct answer. I got through the course successfully despite not understanding many of the central concepts, and Mazur suggests that many physics students are the same. Based on the evidence he provides in his book, Mazur’s Peer Instruction seems to greatly increase conceptual understanding.
The question is the questions
One aspect that seems to be key to peer instruction is picking the right questions. Peter Newbury discusses the issue in a post here — broadly, you need a question that illuminates misconceptions and provokes discussion. All of Mazur’s questions are in physics, so to apply peer instruction to computing, someone needs to develop a bank of computing questions. Enter Beth Simon at UC San Diego, who has been applying peer instruction in huge lectures, with sparkling results (see links to papers at the end of the post). You can get access to questions at the research group’s Peer Instruction 4 CS site.
Here’s an example question, about recursion:
Consider the following code.
void recur (int i) {
if (i == 0) {
printf ("%d ", i);
recur (i - 1);
What is printed by the call recur (1)?
A. 0
B. 0 0
C. 0 0 0 … infinitely
D. 0 1
E. None of the above
The idea is that each answer to the question traps a different misunderstanding of the code (e.g. confusing i and j, not understanding that two recursive calls will occur, or that the recursion will end).
Picking Groups
I recently had the chance to hear Quintin Cutts (who’s been applying these ideas at the University of Glasgow) and Beth Simon talking about the methodology during this year’s ICER conference. One question that came up was the effect of these small groups: computing tends to have a problem with a wide variance in prior knowledge (and a glut of show-off know-it-alls). Simon teaches primarily non-majors, so tends to have a more even distribution of ability; she assigns groups randomly. Cutts has a more traditional computing intake, and said that he deliberately groups people by ability level. If there is a wide disparity, he said, you lose the peer aspect and it just becomes one student forever teaching another. Equalising the ability level allows for better discussions.
Summary and Further Reading
I find Peer Instruction an interesting methodology and the results seem positive. It’s a teaching method that’s intended for university; I haven’t looked to see if there has been work on applying this pre-university in schools, although there have been questions developed for Alice. I am conscious of the stress that the proponents place on following the protocol closely and accurately. I’m reminded of Coe’s talk from ResearchEd at the weekend where he mentioned findings that worked well in research not necessarily transferring into widespread practice. Certainly there seem to have been several educators who took the message “use clickers” from this work, without achieving any of the benefits because they dispensed with the important other aspects of the protocol.
There are many papers about Peer Instruction in computing. Rather than list individual papers, here’s some links to lists of relevant papers (almost all publicly available): one list here, and another list here.
Also, more material from Peter Newbury about using Peer Instruction and designing questions.
Edit: I see that I forgot to mention explicitly that there is a Peer Instruction book written by Mazur. However, it’s only about 40 pages on Peer Instruction in general, and the rest is a vast collection of physics Peer Instruction book. So if you’re interested in Peer Instruction for other subjects, you may find yourself a little disappointed with how slim the book effectively is.
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Shade of the evening is a thick, blue liquid made from the leaves of trees that sit outside the House of the Undying in Qarth.[1] The trees are black-barked with inky blue leaves.
It is a sorcerous drink drunk by those who enter the House of the Undying and the warlocks of Qarth, so that they may "hear and see the truths" that will be laid before them. It does not turn lips blue with just one dose; many must be taken.
It smells like rotted flesh and has a thick oily texture and tastes like all the tastes a person has ever tasted, and some that a person hasn't. [2] To Victarion Greyjoy it looks like strange black wine that flows as thick as honey when poured. [3] When he sees it up close it looks more blue than black. Travelling warlocks have been known to take a cask of shade of the evening with them.
There is a potent magical elixir made of virgin’s milk and shade of the evening sold at the Port of Qarth, the name of the elixir is not mentioned.
Those known to drink shade of the evening
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
In Qarth, when Pyat Pree and Daenerys reach the door to the entrance of the House of the Undying the smallest dwarf Daenerys has ever seen is waiting on the threshold. He stands no higher than her knee, his face is pinched and pointed, snoutish, but he is dressed in delicate livery of purple and blue, and his tiny pink hands hold a silver tray. Upon it rests a slender crystal glass filled with thick blue liquid: shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks.[1] When Daenerys asks if the wine will turn her lips blue Pyat Pree answers:
One flute will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you.[1]
The first sip tastes like ink and spoiled meat, foul, but when she swallows it seems to come to life within her. She can feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue is a taste like honey and anise and cream, like mother’s milk, and Drogo’s seed, like red meat and hot blood and molten gold. It is all the tastes she had ever known, and none of them … and then the glass is empty. [1]
Pyat Pree tells her she may now enter. Dany puts the glass back on the servitor’s tray and goes inside the House of the Undying.
A Feast for Crows
Euron Greyjoy came across four warlocks (one of whom may be Pyat Pree} when he captured a certain galleas out of Qarth. They had with them a cask of shade-of-the-evening which he claims as his own ang begins drinking from it.
Later, in Lord Hewett's bedchamber, Euron Greyjoy pours two cups of shade-of-the-evening and offers one to his brother Victarion Greyjoy. Victarion takes a small sip and rejects it. Euron drinks deeply from his own cup, and smiles.
“Foul stuff.” [4]
Victarion Greyjoy
References and Notes
1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 48, Daenerys.
3. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver, p 549.
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Oscar De La Hoya, the legion of fans, the screaming young and middle-aged women, the money, the fame, the Hollywood-like ambiance, the good-looks, the Glamour, the charisma...It's all still in there, but the Golden boy's image has been tarnished night-in, night-out.
He no longer displays the brilliance that earned him the gold in Barcelona. He doesn't hit the way he hit, the speeds not there, and the left-hook is missing.
He is a full-time promoter.
His last seven fights gave him two thirds of his losses. He couldn't figure out the Shane Mosley puzzle, he received his first date with the canvass courtesy of Bernard Hopkins. Floyd Mayweather toyed with him, and the most recent, Manny Pacquiao, gave him the beating of his life.
Let's make it clear. I was, I am, and will always be a De La Hoya fan, and I know that there's still one good fight left in him.
Some might react negatively with what I've said. After the Pacquiao fight, many observers suggest that it's about time to hang up the gloves but I don't think so; a champion cannot go down like that.
I'm thinking of cinco de mayo, batalla de pueblo, el ultimo vuelo de Oscar De La Hoya.
Perfect script, Perfect exit strategy,
Any tough welterweight or super welterweight fighter can do: Paul Williams, Antonio Margarito, or Miguel Cotto (Don't dare mention JC Chavez Jr.).
It's about time for De La Hoya to once and for all cement his legacy as one of boxing's premier talents. Enough of the old and washed up excuse of being old and washed up, forget about the "can't pull the trigger" punchline.
Some might claim that there's nothing left in De La Hoya. He'll just be over-powered, he'll get another beating or he's not fit to fight. Others will say that it'll be another loss for him.
If he loses, so be it.
Winning isn't everything...
All he needs to do is to put on a performance, Don't just roll over and die!!
It's time to give back something to the fans. It's to boxing that he owes his wealth. He's a champion all his life so he must retire as one, at least a champion in the people's eyes.
Lastly, Remember the Spartan code: Die with honor rather than live with dishonor.
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Walk-on is the term used in college football to describe a player who doesn't have a scholarship. However, things are a bit different at Penn state.
Head coach Bill O'Brien prefers to use the term "run-on" to describe the non-scholarship players. According to Bob Flounders of, O'Brien said,
While non-scholarship players are often not expected to be key contributors, that may not be the case at Penn State. Starting in 2014, the Nittany Lions will be limited to just 65 scholarship players, causing depth issues on the roster.
Injuries always creep up throughout a season, so having enough bodies in reserve is imperative.
Linebacker and quarterback are two positions that Penn State is already thin at heading into 2013. If injuries hit, freshmen and "run-ons" could be needed.
With the departure of Steven Bench, the Nittany Lions will have either Austin Whipple or D.J. Crook, both "run-ons", as the third string quarterback. Though it's rare a team gets that far down on the depth chart, those players need to be ready.
Recent history has shown that "run-ons" can shine at Penn State. Last season, quarterback Matt McGloin led the Big Ten in passing and was key to the Nittany Lions' success. McGloin started his career in Happy Valley without a scholarship.
There's no doubt that O'Brien is going to have to get creative with his roster moving forward. He's already hinted that some "run-ons" may be asked to play more than one position.
According to Audrey Snyder on, O'Brien is planning to have some guys play on both sides of the ball.
"They have their main position so maybe you’re going to be a corner but maybe if you can do some things as a slot receiver or as a running back or maybe you can run a few reverses? If you can throw the ball maybe we can toss it to you or something like that? … I definitely see that for us going forward."
While losing scholarships is tough for a team to overcome, it's not impossible. It just means that under-the-radar guys have to step up and every man on the roster will be needed to ensure success.
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Daniel Schneider, in a must-read piece:
If this piece were only about the implementation of standards-based grading, it'd be indispensable. If you're thinking about making a constructive change to how you grade and treat your students, you should read the Schneider's how-to guide.
But it's also about changes Schneider made from year one to year two in that implementation, which makes it rarer and more valuable among all the SBG literature you can find.
But he also diagnoses how this one change to assessment then rolls along and affects every other aspect of his classroom. Curriculum, homework, relationships, the definition of math itself — nothing is spared. Assessment is only the first domino.
It's the best examination of the classroom as a thriving, codependent ecosystem I've read in a long while.
Tom Hoffman's perspective on Rhode Island's summative graduation exam is worth your time:
Another question I thought was typical showed two spinners that would give you random numbers from 1 to four. It wanted to know the probability that the sum of the two would be a prime number. I drew a complete blank, until I realized I could easily write out all 16 combinations and just circle the ones that resulted in a prime number. That more clearly took mathematical reasoning, problem solving and content knowledge.
I like the question, and I like the direction it should push math curriculum. But I'm also aware that if even if kids have been taught probability, if they haven't been taught it in a way that encourages flexible and resourceful problem solving — rather than pulling numbers out of stereotypical word problems and following procedures — they will be completely screwed.
I'm glad parents, policymakers, and stakeholders are taking these exams (or shortened versions of them) and reflecting on their results. But again we should be careful not to write expansive prescriptions for what we teach kids based on the test results of grownups. The proposition, "A middle-aged bureaucrat hasn't used algebraic expressions in three decades and turned out fine therefore we shouldn't teach algebraic expressions to fourteen year-olds" has yet to be nailed down for me.
The Smarter, Balanced Assessment Consortium:
You should take a tour through the Smarter, Balanced Assessment Consortium's released items, make an opinion about them, and share it here. California is a member state of SBAC, one of two consortia charged with assessing the Common Core State Standards, so I'm comparing these against our current assessments. Without getting into how these assessments should be used (eg. for merit pay, teacher evaluation, etc.) they compare extremely favorably to California's current assessment portfolio. If assessment drives instruction, these assessments should drive California's math instruction in a positive direction.
The assessment item above uses an animation to drive down its word count and language demand. It's followed by an expansive text field where students are asked to explain their reasoning. That stands up very well next to California's comparable grade five assessment [pdf]:
• Elsewhere, we find number sense prized alongside calculation (here also) which is a step in a very positive direction. (ie. Our students should know that $14.37 split between three people is between $4 and $5 but it's a waste of our time to teach that division longhand.)
• I've been assuming the assessment consortia would run roughshod over the CCSS modeling practice but on the very limited evidence of the sample items, we're in good shape.
• The assessments do a lot of interesting and useful things with technology. (Reducing word count, at the very least.) I only found one instance where the technology seemed to get in the way of a student's expression of her mathematical understanding.
I can't really make an apples-to-apples comparison between these items and California's current assessments because California currently has nothing like this. No constructed responses. No free responses. No explanation. It's like comparing apples to an apple-flavored Home Run pie.
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Next thing to explore: Technology Enhanced Item Supporting Materials [zip]. [The "Movie Files" folder is extremely interesting. -dm]
Shawn Cornally coins the term FeedThresh (short for "Feedback Threshold") and gives it a definition that feels exactly right:
1. The student knows that first attempts are rarely perfect, and often require serious revising.
2. The student wants expert feedback on work that is established and based on research and the literature.
3. The student knows that his learning is not tied to class time or any other arbitrary unit of time or space.
Assessment is too complicated for any of us to do any more than say, "We're trying to optimize for a certain set of values," and then make those values explicit. Standards-based grading involves some compromise, but I don't know of another assessment strategy that optimizes the values that Shawn's made so explicit here.
He gave me permission to share with you three versions of the same assessment of a student's understanding of the impulse-momentum theorem. Let me invite you to assess the assessments in the comments. List some advantages and disadvantages. Ask yourself, "What is each option really assessing?" Greg will be along shortly to offer his own commentary and to assess your assessment of the assessments.
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Posted 01/21/2013
that's really all there is to diagnosing. Diagnosis ADHD is not comlicated or hard to do. The paper asks a lot of questions and what the doctor is looking for is high indication of ADHD behavior in both school and home (that's why you and the teacher fill it out) .... if just YOU say there's a problem, then it's likely just a behavior issue that you are experiencing. If just the teacher (and just this one teacher) is seeing it, then it's something going on at school. But if BOTH of you are seeing it, then the doctor should do a quick assessment to rule out learning disabiity or physical reasons and the diagnosis can be made. Brain scans and all that are impressive but unecessary and not actually a recommended diagnostic tool - it's just cool to see.
^^^^Agreed! Even with my middle son's EXTREME behaviors (the type that has landed him in a psychiatric hospital recently), they don't want to expose him to the radiation that a CT scan would expose him to or put him under sedation to do an MRI. I do, however, recommend that kids having extreme behaviors have an EEG done. And that's only b/c some frontal lobe and temporal lobe epilepsies can present as behavior problems.
If it's not adversely affecting her in home or at school then I wouldn't be in a hurry to get a dx as there is only so much that they can do.
^^^^I agree with this, too! We chose not to medicate my oldest until it was affecting his grades in school.
I agree with your pediatrician's assessment at this point. Wait til she's in Kindergarten and see how she's doing then. There's no need for a diagnosis at this point if she's not having issues at school. You may be right in that she may just like the activities she gets to do at preschool but there's no way to definitively say that right now. Until then, the book Karen_Elyse (1-2-3 Magic by Thomas Phelan) suggested is a great resource. If you don't want to read a book, there are DVD's. Our library in town has both (I know b/c I send clients at work there to check it out). But the key is you have to be consistent. You can't do it sometimes and not other's. A lot of times I'll have parents tell me that it's not working but when we discuss it, they're not doing it all the time. And also, it's very likely you'll see behavior worsen at first - this is because she's testing you to see whether you'll stick to your guns.
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Posted 01/21/2013
Thanks ladies..i really appreciate all the advice !!
Posted 01/22/2013
I'm having the same problem!! My daughter is super hyperactive at home, but the only thing her teacher has said is that she asks a lot of questions. She always has. She asks questions that she knows the answer to.
Posted 01/22/2013
I am sure I have it, as my 2 children do and my brother did as well. My 7 yr old daughter is not hyper, so we almost missed it and is generally a well behaved child. She started struggling and could not finish any of her work or stay focused in class and started falling behind in 2nd grade. She has never been able to finish small tasks/chores at home and has always struggled with control over emotions so I suspected it. I was the same way...and I was never diagnosed, medicated, and graduated magna cum laude and have a great life. She was diagnosed ADHD- predominantly inattentive (previously just ADD). We did go to a very respected child psychologists who works with Texas Children's Hospital and the evaluation was not fast but very slow and thorough. She is now on the patch (daytrana) and this is new to us so we are hoping it really helps. We have tried everything natural/diet/behavioral and nothing was making a difference. If this doesn't work, we will try something else because we love her and is generally a great kid. Either way, I know she will turn out great!
My son is a bit hyper and can't sit still long, very impulsive, gets hurt a lot. He has been getting in trouble in Kinder all year so I am concerned, but I know I have the resources to help him. He doesn't have to be the "bad kid" in class as my brother totally was before adhd was treated. He is extremely smart and reading and doing math at a 1st grade level. Yes, it's more diagnosed but I think it's because we are more aware, more educated, and parents generally want to help their children be successful. If your child has it, it will be OK I promise! If we can't get my son's behavior under control with the modifications we are doing with his teacher, and it starts to affect his grades we may have to go the meds route with him. However, if it does not affect him academically we won't, and we will continue the behavior charts/rewards/etc until we can control it. Routines and parent education is helpful. I do believe lots of us had this growing up...and we all turned out fine! You will want to help your child as it makes a big difference when they are successful in school.
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Posted 01/22/2013
It seems like there are so many different " versions" of ADHD..
Posted 01/22/2013
Oh, yes there are! There are a few types but each situation is so different. Then you have many, many children with dual diagnoses. It is very common to have something in addition to the ADHD. My son is a bit OCD and has pretty bad anxiety.
Posted 01/22/2013
My kids are about the same ages as yours- 7,6, and a 7 month old. My oldest, a girl was just diagnosed with ADD (not hyperactive but inattentive). Her behavior is great at school, but her work is suffering as she can't stay focused to finish it. She has dyslexia as well which only makes her reading and writing that much worse....we had to do something and saw a child psychologist who did her evaluation along with 2 teachers, parents, and her dyslexia therapist. It took a few months. We have tried every behavior modification/therapy in the book and did not help.
Once I had the diagnosis, now I know what to do to help her and it's going to get so much better.
My daughter does misbehave at home- hard for her to control her emotions and has a hard time with transitions. Cries alot and the list goes on, but she is fine at school (especially compared with the hyperactive boys in her class). We are trying the daytrana patch and I will let you know how it goes.
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Posted 01/23/2013
My son is the opposite hes very good at home but hes an only child and we have a very calm house we are a pretty quite family and I think he just trust that what we say or what we do is inhis best interest and regardless hes truly cared for so he feels safe to be himself which is a very sweet boy really but school is a nightmare he has issues with transitioning teacher get pissy he feels like teacher embarrass him or make him feel like there is something wrong with him his behaviors get out of control I have talked to his doctor and he did assure me that ADHD behaviors def can become more pronounced in different environments .So for you DD at school might be just what she needs to stimulate her a routine, fun projects, other kids whatever it is plus she may just have a really great teacher that isnt concerned with the small stuff I would wait it out try the 123 thast very helpful I also read a book called strong willed child but Roy Dobs I think it was great .I have had teachers that my son responded to amazingly and they just loved him and liek this yr I feel like he has a teacher that just has no idea what to do with him how to help him or even how to treat him with respect it can be very fustrating
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Bad things will happen, but the consequences of a 'predictable emergency' can be managed.
Published on: Jun 19, 2013
By John Shutske
Farming is chock-full of risk. Storms, fires, floods, droughts, and injuries fill newspapers every week and cost hundreds of millions in damage. While I worked on this article, I had a dairy farmer friend who experienced major damage from violent winds, and a big fire damaged two-thirds of a large Wisconsin organic milk cooperative.
What should we do? Should we chalk it up to bum luck and resign ourselves to the phenomenon that "bad stuff just happens?"
Bad things will happen – but the consequences of a "predictable emergency" can be managed. We often talk about disasters. But, disasters are usually the result of a predictable emergency gone awry. And, the biggest factor that determines whether or not an emergency becomes a disaster is a speedy response. On a farm, a response that occurs in minutes or hours versus days (or weeks) will mean the difference between a recoverable event, and a disaster that brings ruin.
Farm Disasters Are Predictable Emergencies
Farm Disasters Are Predictable Emergencies
How do you prepare?
How can you insure that you have done everything in your power to save precious time after something unexpected strikes? Here are steps that can make a huge difference.
1. Make a list of events that could cause harm to your faming business. This is a great exercise to engage family members or employees. Which are most likely? Which would cause the greatest damage? In Wisconsin, we often see floods, windstorms, fires, and other naturally-occurring and manmade events.
2. Pick one of these and talk through what an event might look like. Wind storms often cause a power outage. How would that affect your operation? How about the well-being of animals? Perhaps you would have damage to feed storage structures or animal housing. Maybe your house would be unlivable, though you'd still need a place to rest as you keep the farm going. Perhaps your computer system and financial records would be damaged or lost. Again, it's important to step through and imagine the consequences. These things do happen, and you'll want to be creative as you prepare.
3. Based on the outcomes you've imagined, make a list of the supplies needed immediately to recover and keep things operating. Examples include a generator, extra tools, fire extinguishers, gasoline, a backup feed and water supply, a small stockpile of building supplies, etc. As you think about supplies, consider items your family would need to survive for three days. It's hard to recover and get back on your feet without food, water, cooking supplies, lighting, and a source of heat. Even people in the city are encouraged to keep supplies on hand to be self-sufficient for 72 hours if they encounter an unexpected disaster! Your employees should be encouraged to do the same.
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Automated teller machines, more commonly known as ATMs, are computerised machine that can be used to complete monetary transactions such as balance check or withdrawal. It has appeared in two games so far: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV.
GTA San Andreas
The ATM
The ATM sign, with logos for PISN, Master B8tr and Pla$tic.
is a non-interactive device. It features heavily in the mission Small Town Bank for Catalina, where the player must destroy some ATMs and retrieve the money inside. Even if the player can't use the ATM, it is implied that the machine accepts PISN, Master B8tr and Pla$tic cards, and is available for 24 hours.
GTA IV
In GTA IV, ATMs are interactive devices, but only serve as a means to show the player how much money Niko has - despite the fact that the player's money is already displayed in the game's HUD. ATMs in GTA IV can be found in various locations throughout Liberty City, and are implied to be operated by the Bank of Liberty.
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Occasionally, if the player kills a pedestrian who just used an ATM, massive amounts of money will spawn repeatedly on the ground. This will happen even with cops, who normally only drop their pistol.
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Montana Svoboda "I've got loneliness subdued with cheesy porn and bad movies"
I'll try and hold my liquor tonight
If you wanna stop by
I'll hide the bottle, clean the table and dump the ash tray
If you wanna say "Hi" for old times sake, see if I've been okay
It's been a while since I saw your smile
Won't you stop by my old house tonight?
"Where have you been?"
You'll ask me
And I'll ask myself too
Truth be told I miss placed my body under the rug years ago
I've missed you so much my drinking's making up for it
So don't you worry about me
I've got loneliness subdued with cheesy porn and bad movies
I got my life in the gutter, sharing space with cigarette asses
I looked in the mirror; it's still telling me I'm faceless
But I don't like seeing myself this way
So I don't look in the mirror much anymore
Could you stop by and see if I'm okay?
Because I'm tired of not feeling any remorse these days
Georgia Marginson-Swart "There is a solitary loneliness"
There is a solitary loneliness
to every burning star
and the sky can only ever truly illuminate
when they come together in their solitude
every black hole, every meteorite,
all the discarded planets, and all
of the burning stars
together, in complete unison
with the cosmos, and all it's galaxies
Universes within universes
all working together
the sun and the moons and every lonely comet
turning and clashing in complete order
that is when the night sky
looks brighter than ever
that is when the stars
shine their brightest.
Lawrence "For The Public Awareness of 3rd Stage Loneliness"
I've recently fallen into an elite group of individuals: youth diagnosed with depression by their mothers.
I can't argue with her; she is licensed.
But I can't help but feel that my case is different, minor in comparison. I'd like to call it loneliness but it's more developed than that.
It's like a cancer that started in my fingertips when they realized there was nothing to hold on to, and has since spread to my heart or my brain, whichever is responsible for the distribution of numbness to my bones and vital organs.. I'll call it 3rd stage loneliness. I'm saving calling it the 4th stage for when it starts to feel terminal.
"Lonely" is kind of a slut of a word, like "love," or "beautiful." I think people like to use "lonely" like teens use cigarettes. It taste good when it falls off the tongue. And by my observation, they both cause cancer.
Everyone wants to be "lonely" but no one wants to be alone.
So I've put it upon myself to separate loneliness into subcategories, based on mortality rate.
If you're wondering why I'm lonely, don't bother. I'm wondering the same. I have friends a family that loves me, and the rest of the chemo-esque shit that's suppose to nurture you back to health. But
I've still got that tumor buried under my skin where no one cares to look.
I ain't got many friends I can talk to.
I've concocted a list of side effects of 3rd stage loneliness, if you're interested:
1.) Insomnia - the inability to completely shut the third eye on your skull because it persists on looking to the future.
2.) Selective Hearing - the inability to listen to supposedly happy music and instead sulk with the sounds of Bon Iver or Bright Eyes ricocheting through the canals of your brain. Music your friends "probably haven't heard of"
3.) Loss of Appetite - Don't worry, you still crave food and other survival necessities. You simply lose the appetite to expand through the universe. Loss of Ambition, as the form would say.
4.) Improved Acting Skills - You'll eventually learn to manipulate the stringy muscles in your face to pull up the corners of your lips when you feel you are expected to. Not all side effects are bad.
I am not one of those darkly dressing teenagers that complains with visible angst about being misunderstood. But I do have the hair for it.
I am not suicidal. Maybe I would be, but I seem to have been struck particularly hard by Side Effect #3.
But at first mention of depression you can see their faces squirm and contort to resemble a clumsy soldier tap-dancing through a minefield, while simultaneously conducting open-heart surgery on himself.
5.) Exaggeration.
This poem is not meant to sadden, to depress. It is simply for the public awareness of 3rd stage loneliness. If you know someone suffering from this disease, please call this hotline:
The more you know...
Natalie Wood "of emptiness, and loneliness and lowliness"
I see your words
but they swim past my eyes
and dart past meaning,
a fleeting fish from the abyss
of a mind.
A mind that has alway been kind,
That has always been softly spoken,
a mind awoken from a slumber of slurs,
and artificial words,
that created artificial worlds.
Yet even when our worlds collapse,
You insist on the playful insult,
and the teasing tone we take,
it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts.
But we don’t care,
You scream out a name unknown as I whisper,
“This is unfair.”
And we hear your silence like the echo of a drum
with its constant ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum
of emptiness, and loneliness and lowliness
along with every bad emotion that has ever been felt
by a teenager going through her faze of
hatred and self inflicted torture of the mind.
But through the dark of universes,
I hear your speech,
with words that shoot past my ears like stars
leaving a trail of chalky stardust
and dusty letters
to be unremembered by.
Galaxies glide by in this suspended time
and I realize that the words on your lips are not ours,
But mine.
Nikki Lea "burden I can no longer bear, a sense of loneliness that's always been there."
No longer wearing my heart on my sleeve, it gives me nothing but an infectious disease.
A disease called caring and giving a shit, something I can’t do anymore, I’m not fit.
Back in the shell I created long ago, don’t expect a smile; I’ll never let it show.
I burden I can no longer bear, a sense of loneliness that’s always been there.
I just want to be loved and thought about, but this is my punishment, no doubt.
This feeling of being hated I can’t shake, I don’t know how much more I can take.
You’re being so cold, so distant, why should I try if you’re not going to listen.
I want the throw in the towel, just give up, but I love you too much.
But love isn’t a one way street, and I’m the only one on it, where are we supposed to meet?
Or are you not here, are you far away? Waiting for me to die and decay.
opium district "*what loneliness could do?*"
A feeling of glass shards running deep through your veins;
A Metaphor For Love
when my words come together like glue on paper it is razors cutting my tongue
it is blood trailing these ceramic floors
and i must apologize,
for my mind is coming undone and I know
how silly these things can be,
how love can make you teach a grown man about the way his eyes stump you every single time with a feeling running so deep you felt every bone in your body ignite before they broke into infinite little pieces
And did you know dear
That I loved you
did you know
what loneliness could do?
And you aren't here anymore dear
you left you sweater on the kitchen table and went straight for the door that day
I shut the blinds and shed my skin and waited for the end of May
and i only wish that by August
I'll be able to wake up
to the sun shining a warmth that only you could have given me
that you never gave me
and If you only knew
how I attempted to steal that warmth
when I tried to tear out the thorns in your side
and wear them as my own
even though I knew better
than to walk around bearing someone elses pain
I could not help but think-
it must be terribly unnerving to be cared for by a poet, to think of all the times they stay up late writing metaphors for your skin and how Words Aren't Enough
How I wasn't enough
M Clement "The only difference is sharing loneliness with another"
Home screams "42!" in red and white
Push it to the side
I have no time tonight
We are all separate, but wholly one
They are all separate, but wholly one
Father, Ghost, and the Son
Strange meetings in the middle of everything
Stare at the ground,
while your gaze starts to sting
How old are you?
How old am I?
Why did you grab my leg?
How did you notice my movements?
Where are you?
I want nothing to do with tomorrow.
Because self pity of today is overwhelming.
Knowing better doesn't change the actions
And my hip wants to pop out of its socket
On the streets of whe'ever the fuck in Oregon
Loss and gain
Measure the same, but one feels so much
heavier than the other.
Push beads back
Hold her hair back
The only difference is sharing loneliness with another
I'm not saying that I understand, fully what's happening here.
[Soul searching, or so I've been told]
But I know that you and I are worlds apart.
Is there this great of a disconnect between the rest of the world and I?
Because the Internet
Lots on my mind, and I intentionally stayed up to let it spill out. Sorry for the language, but it felt proper here. Also, if you like the varied tonalities that I feel, check out "Because the Internet" by Childish Gambino. It's a fascinating record.
Jerome Manzano "and make loneliness be just a word."
Will you sing me another song?
let you voice cradle me the whole night
and make loneliness be just a word.
let your lullabye calm me
and your whisper tickle my ears.
will you sing me another song?
till I fall into slumber
and hopefully dream of you.
O please, will you do?
Alicia Major "y maturity would choose starvation over loneliness anyday."
To my first love:
& you were just that. You were the steps that taught me how to walk, but the same ones that taught me how to fall. You were my first kiss, my first shared breath, and my first broken heart. See, you were full of firsts and experiments,but that's all you were , an experiment.
To my next love:
You were the summer sun, and I was a naive daisy that was star struck by your rays that made me feel alive. Because you, love number two, made our age difference, make me feel like I was on top of the world. With each 'c'mon baby' or 'why not' I fell deeper and deeper into your persistent persuasion. I was not yet blossomed to my full potential, yet you insisted perfection. And a girl of my maturity would choose starvation over loneliness anyday.
To "Lucky" number three:
I mean, 3rd times a charm right? That's what I thought too. I thought you were my super hero that was going to heal my bruises (Inside & Out). Don't get me wrong, you did for a while, with your sweet words and innocent looks. But my broken eyes didn't let me see that same look, wasn't just for me. I wasn't enough, I never was. I was enough to quench your thirst, but soon enough my taste became too bland. I mean, who in their right mind would want someone so damaged. Not before long you tossed me like a broken toy, considering that's all I ever really was to you.
To my current love:
I don't want you to be just my current love, I want you to be my forever love. I want you to adore my corny idea of love and my dark realizations of life.It's not even that I want you to love me, it's that I need you to love me. I need a security guard to save me from my worst enemy, myself. So to my current love, hold my hand when you see my empty stare and my empty tummy, and tell me it's going to be okay. Make me feel beautiful, forever, because I can't do it on my own.
Kristofer Von Coons "in rhythm with. His soul is aching from loneliness and desire. His feet lifelessly surrend"
Through the years of transparent existence, a void of illusion becomes apparent and slowly becomes nothing more than a side-show. The dribbling glimpses of truth fade like the bones of old. No man can create such an indentation in the mold of space and time that the observers at the end of eternity will render their imprint upon the infinite gaian consciousness and body of universal proportions of any significance. Even the earth laughs at such ridiculousness. The ego is a strong bind - it can create maya and attachment to such fantasies easier than a bear can find it's ideal location for a winter hibernation. It's a world of craziness, where nobody knows whats going on.
The man woke up from his deep slumber. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes. Squinting, he looked around, studying his surroundings and taking mental notes. His thoughts are dirty scribblings on a subway wall. His heart is beating, searching for a band to play in rhythm with. His soul is aching from loneliness and desire. His feet lifelessly surrender their position up on the couch and find the floor, shrieking from the cold of the linoleum. His presence is that of a bird with a broken wing still attempting to fly. He stands up and stares at the ceiling.
The room is small. Four walls of white, one window and one door. The window looks out over the grey city. The door leads into another room - the room most would call a kitchen. In the small room before the kitchen, there is only a couch and a blanket. No lamp. No television. No electricity. No electricity in the entire apartment. The kitchen holds no refrigerator, no oven, no toaster, no pantry. It's called a kitchen because that's what it would be if somebody else was living in the apartment. There are two bananas on the floor along with a box of wheat flake cereal. No milk, no bowl, no spoon. The bananas are almost entirely rotten. The box of cereal is on its side, leaking bits of wheat flake, resembling a dying soldier on a battlefield who's losing all his blood through the wound on his neck rather than a box of the West's favorite morning go-to breakfast.
The man is observing the cracks on the ceiling, along with various stains with no known origin to him. His eyes dart from one corner of the room to another to another to another and back to the first. Spiderwebs. Dust. Decay. A perfect example of life's ability to take care of itself. Biodecomposition. When no one is around to look after a house, over time, Nature will take over it. Vines will grow and overcome the walls. Rain will fall and wear away the roof and general structure. Winds will blow, taking blindshots at the weakened building, eventually cause it to fall. Nothing lasts forever. Everything goes back to where it came from.
The man now steps into the "kitchen", where he begins to study the stains on the ceiling in this room as well. His mind is electric, with no thoughts in the usual sense, but rather just a vague presence of void to help the ceiling stains feel important. He is the space through which everything around him can exist to their fullest potential. After a measureless amount of time, the man walks over to the sad bits of food on the far side of the small room. He picks up one of he bananas and studies it. He feels where it came from. The tropical skies and smells and earth of Costa Rica. There's a little sticker on the banana that says so. Each bit of fruit in the markets nowadays are individually stickered...for prosperity, one can only assume. Though it's best to never assume anything, and instead be open to everything - afterall, anything is possible, at any time. Likelihood and probability are also important factors in the universal constitution of existence. What was the likelihood that this man, when he was a little child, figured he'd be holding a rotten banana from Costa Rica in his hand inside of a kitchenless kitchen? Who knows? The man wouldn't be able to recall his thoughts from early childhood - he barely remembers waking up and experiencing the chilling sensation of early morning linoleum. In any case, everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be, for it wouldn't be if it wasn't meant to be.
He slowly peels open the banana peel to reveal this brown, soft mush of tropical fruit. Just the way he likes it - soft enough to chew with his toothless mouth. He takes his time consuming the fruit, savoring every particle. After a good bit of time, the fruit is gone and all the man is left with is the peel. He takes another good look at the peel, once again imagining where this particular banana came from. Then, in two swift bites, he devours the entire peel - sticker included. He figures the sticker came from Costa Rica as well, and thus must carry that Costa Rican tropical vibe of health and longevity. His eyes then focus on the wheat flake cereal lying next to the other rotting banana. He bends down and picks up the box. The box is upside down when he picks it up and so the cereal spills out all over the area of the "kitchen" floor that seems to be dedicated to eating food. The remaining banana is now covered in wheat cereal.
The man drops the box back onto the floor and takes a seat alongside of it. His fingers hold his face from drooping onto his knees. His knees are keeping his torso from melting onto the floor. He screams with no sound. The pains of existence seep through his hollow eyes and into the receptors of his soul. He screams with no sound. He’s as empty as the American Dream.
The cobwebs are spreading from the corners of the room and are aimed for the human form sitting in the “kitchen” screaming silence with all his might. The cobwebs grow. The commuters of the city highway are commuting. A thousand birthday celebrations are being had. A thousand people sexually uninhibited, joyously seizing the moment in disgusting miraculous unity of mortal physical desire. Junkies are roaming the street for their morning fix. Teaching are teaching their students absolute lies. Governments are stealing the lives of billions and counting. And the cobwebs are growing, encompassing entire walls. The the ceiling. Then the floor. Then they crawl up the lifeless legs of the man who sits screaming in silence and the spiders overtake his body. They stitch his mouth shut and close his eyes with their spun proteinaceous spider silk. The man withers into the wind of time and vanishes from the world without a single soul taking notice. Leaving nothing behind except an empty apartment, overdue rent, and a number in the system of Western Society. His spirit cries sorrowfully as it flees the clutches of molecular existence into the realm of eternity and space. Heaven. He made it. He looks down at the people of the world he just left and sings a pitiful song for them. He’ll see them again. Afterall, they are Him. And He is Them. His Heart, the Sun, burns as the world he left turns. The lessons He left are slowly being learned. One by one. But still, there’s a space between the atoms, between the cells. And that space can never disappear. Without it, there would be no point to the story. All would be one, as it is, and there’s be nothing to overcome. No triumph. Just an endless loop of bizarre beautiful experience and pattern.
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I am planning on purchasing another sailboat as part of my preparations. But one of my concerns was could it be confiscated by local law enforcement personnel for "public use"? I had a thought about how one might avoid having a valuable (for fishing, etc.) sailboat confiscated by local authorities.
(1) Join the Coast Guard Auxiliary. This is a strictly volunteer organization that cannot be "called up." They also cannot be used for law enforcement or military actions (Most people are unaware of this).
(2) Dedicate your boat as a "facility". This allows it to be used by the USCGA on patrols, etc. However, only if you, the owner, allow it to be used.
(3) Become a coxswain, so that you can do any patrols on your boat. It requires a minimum of 8 hours on patrols/training to become a crew member; another 30+ to become a coxswain. This allows you to be in charge while on patrol in your boat.
(4) As I understand it, the boat's legal status becomes that of a "government vessel", even though you control it. I believe that you can revoke the offer to be a facility at any time.
-- Mad Monk (, June 05, 1999
1) Make very certain you read the fine print!! LOL
2) There will be FEW ways to avoid confiscation of anything if we get to that point.
Mind you, I do NOT expect to GET to that point, but
-- Chuck, a night driver (, June 05, 1999.
Maybe a nice surplus deisel submarine would do the trick. Then when the black helicopters come you can just submerge and laugh as you sail away knowing you are safe from danger. Remember....Run silent....Run deep.....
-- steve beynon (, June 05, 1999.
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How can Katie Couric be such an outstanding journalist that she won a peer award by interviewing Sarah Palin, and now this? Either she's an outstanding journalist, or she's a dud. Maybe she won that award for her interview for other reasons than being a good journalist? Hmmmm!
I hope CBS finds someone without a screaming lefwing bias this time around. It would be a first.
Until they start reporting truth instead of their liberal fiction, I will never watch any of them anyway! Couric was awful!
since she displayed she is a blazing liberal with bias reporting, lots of people have turned away from her. network news is a dinosaur.
NO ONE from The Today Show ever made it anywhere else! HOwever, she got the $$$$, so she does not care that she was a failure! but, good ridence. The viewers have learned how fake and bias these progressive talking heads really have become! Good, put them all out of business.
Hire Sarah Palin!!! First telecast show complete unedited interview from '08 to expose the fraud that is Couric! That would eclipse the fraudulent memo story that brought down Rather.
It's pathetic how these suits don't get it. Go on cbsnews.com and all you see, no matter which story, is a picture of Kouric standing there, arms folded, looking back at you. She's the news mascot, and we're supposed to be impressed. America has done some growing up since the halcyon Cronkite days, and even Rather's bias was an open sick joke. It's no wonder Fox is eating their lunch.
Katie Couric exposed Sarah Palin for the fraud that she is, for that this nation should be forever grateful! - booch221
Fraud? Good think your life doesn't depending on proving that statement with a few facts!
CBS with Her Perkiness is NO Longer NEWS...it's just more Liberal drivel, insulting, obnoxious, biased, and sometimes downright HATEFUL....as her trashing of Palin. I won't watch it anymore, just like I don't read the NYT, or watch NBC, Abc, Cnn, Pbs...If I want news, I will decide what the news MEANS, don't need KaKaKatie "s'plaining" to me, or mostly giving me HER Liberal OPINIONs.
@ booch221
Too bad she wasnt as eager to expose Obummer for the fraud that he is also.
"The media seemed more obsessed than viewers about her role as CBS News anchor."
Absolutely correct. She is one among a pantheon of shockingly overpaid and over-rated personalities. She has been made a success by an extremely liberal and myopic industry which refuses to admit that people like her are failures because of their transparent bias. They blindly pass pass $15 million a year which feeds Katies delusion that she is successful.
Did not increase ratings "as they had hoped?" She lost 3 Million viewers! How about, "consistently lost viewers year after year."
CBS just needs to find another person that can read a teleprompter....sounds like a gig for Obama! just don't give him a credit card!
booch221: If couric were a journalist it would expose obama for being the fraud it is.
There was:
Boy thats progress, no wonder liberal media is failing.
ONE thing, we did get to look up her Axx.
Scott Pelley? Why not just bring back Dan Rather and have him
team with Morley Safer? (shuddering)
Erin Burnett of CNBC - the perfect choice.
Let's see...I spent 36 years as an anchor at a CBS affiliate in San Antonio, so I will respond to some of these comments.
1. Walter Cronkite was as big a liberal as the rest, maybe bigger, but the public didn't know about media bias in the 60s and 70s.
2. Dan Rather was a chameleon who would be whatever the execs wanted him to be; he knew they were liberals and rode it as long as he could...but in Texas he'd try to convince you he was a good old boy. He wasn't.
3. Katie is not a reporter; reporters actually can go out and get stories.
4. Networks hire people who do good lunch; competence is irrelevant.
5. Almost anybody has been put in front of a teleprompter and made an anchor, but that doesn't make them good anchors. Good anchors understand the subject and what makes the story important.
6. The day of TV news is not dead - but doing TV news the same way for 30 years has killed most newscasts.
7. What people in the business have forgotten is that TV news was the first reality programming; it can be a lot more than a list of stories.
So....Veronica Corningstone was NOT a viable replacement for Ron Burgundy.
Champ Kind: "It is anchor*man*, not anchor*lady*. And that is a scientific fact."
Who cares? Who watches this stuff. These people just read the news.
The era of bias slant news from Big Media is falling fast and Couric is Exhibit A. When it's hard to report the truth in news because of leftist agendas, viewers smell it out like the sack of soot that it is. Hence, their brick dropping ratings.
The Three Stooges of Big Media anchors have achieved career insignificance---Couric, Williams and whoever the flavor of the month is at ABC. Goodbye, get lost, get out.
Maybe she can get a job with Keith Olbermann at Current TV.....LOL
What so great about her anyway????
Scott Pelley might be a good choice.
However, Harry Smith would be a GREAT choice... If given the chance, midwesterner Harry Smith would soon remind people of how it was in the golden age of CBS when an honest face reported the news without an agenda
So? (pause) And so?
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I am doing some nasty integrals trying to fill in a matrix, and to save computation time, I set my hbar to be a constant of undefined value, so the answer it spits out consists of a real number plus some number times the square of hbar, which means I should be able to ignore it and chop it off since hbar squared is very small. Essentially I want to tell mathematica to apply to the answer the value of hbar. To clarify, I don't want to define hbar and have it do the integration again because that would make the computation time too long. I want the value of hbar to be defined only on the answer I get from the integration, not during the integration.
Thank you!
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I took at shot at answering this. If you mean something other than how I interpreted it please clarify and I'll try again. – Mr.Wizard Feb 20 at 1:21
why not use dimensionless units? this is usually the way to go with numerical calculations. – acl Feb 20 at 2:22
@acl We were told not to use all physical constants equal to one. I tried it too and the integration takes a long time surprisingly. – user17338 Feb 20 at 5:02
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I'm not sure what you are describing is well advised but it sounds like you just want the function of $PrePrint:
$PrePrint = # /. {HoldPattern[\[HBar]] -> 0} &;
17 a + b \[HBar]^2
17 a
If you don't want to apply this every time you can just do the replacement manually:
17 a + b \[HBar]^2 /. HoldPattern[\[HBar]] -> 0
17 a
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I just ran across some of your code on Project Euler that greatly intrigues me. Love to have you explain it some time. – kale Feb 20 at 4:04
Is HoldPattern really necessary in the second example? – Ajasja Feb 20 at 10:15
@Ajasja I was waiting for someone to ask that. Normally I would not use it, but it occurred to me that it might be useful to a beginner. You see if Hbar was also assigned a value then the LHS of the pattern would evaluate to this value, and you might replace more than just Hbar in an expression. For example, if you do a^(1/3) + h^2 /. h -> 0 you get a^(1/3) as expected, but if you first set h = 1/3 you get 10/9 which might be quite unexpected to a new user. Of course this situation would be avoided by a more experienced user but I thought it best to include this safeguard. – Mr.Wizard Feb 20 at 21:02
Aha, good point. – Ajasja Feb 21 at 8:27
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I got an email from my sis. Reem with amazing pictures
of King Farouq's Palace and behind the scene
preperation of banquets!
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1. Eeeee sheftee his stuff?! el glasat wel s7oon o il sofrajyaaa... shay shay!
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Government could never have invented something like social media. Yet, more than anyone else, politicians are expected to be accountable to the public when using it.
Ottawa Citizen reporter Glen McGregor was recently inspired — by a similar Slate monitor of Sarah Palin — to track potential Facebook comment deletions on the part of Stephen Harper's squad. And he was rewarded with evidence that many comments critical of the prime minister didn't last long — although some remained.
Should there be a federal standard for which responses are considered acceptable? What if they're attached to a page that fully verified where the commenter was coming from?
Curiously, there are two different official Facebook pages for Harper. The more popular one — with over 67,000 followers — is run by the Conservative party, while a more obscure one is maintained by the Prime Minister's Office, even though their content has been nearly identical. So, the lack of civility might have something to do with its assertively partisan origins.
These issues related to effective communication have now become an inextricable part of the discussion surrounding Government 2.0.
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The official explanation for the venture, though, is a relatively nonsensical reflection of how cautious many are about stepping into this arena.
Presumably, the company was inspired to link itself to independent home recording artists after being approached by rapper Ish Morris to use the vintage 1960s "Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp" jingle in a harmless ditty that itself sounds like a commercial that would air between Saturday morning cartoons circa 1989.
No doubt it would've been easier to just exploit the association with a viral video aimed at kids. So, why go through the hassle of trying lure musicians to upload their own tune?
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"The track is allowed to incorporate the Sugar Bear jingle," stipulate the rules, "but this isn't required."
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Calgary.ca earned some attention this week for being transformed into what a press release deigned to claim is the "first search-based website in Canada."
The venture is powered by Google Search Appliance, even though the home page looks more like rival engine Bing, with the search bar augmented with large photos of the resurgent city.
Indeed, the effort combined Microsoft Share Point software with other Google tools, and was highlighted on the promotional blog for the Search Appliance. Predictably, the new format was motivated by complaints that would be familiar to anyone who ever wrestled with a government website.
While the launch fit into the outreach narrative threaded by Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, his Toronto counterpart was exposed for being trigger-happy on Facebook — even if Rob Ford has delegated social media management to others in his office.
Questioning the fact that Ford showed up to dance in his dress pants at the Caribbean Carnival, while steering clear of anything to do with Pride week, was not welcome on the wall. Asking for answers about his behaviour is apparently enough to have your "like" undone.
Amidst the other communication-related shenanigans surrounding Toronto City Hall, though — including a Ford administration support group on Facebook where the administrator, city councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, promised to block the input of any communist he could smell — the idea that the elected leader of the city would stifle discussion from citizens couldn't stir up any new outrage.
Rage against the dying of the Facebook protest
Facebook came up in conversation over dinner with a group of friends from university. We all attended McGill between 2004 and 2008, and we entered university at exactly the same time that Facebook began to be available outside of those first Ivy League schools, the first Canadian school they expanded to being McGill.
In a sense, we're Facebook veterans. We remember before liking, before fan pages, before grown-ups or high school kids could have profiles. We remember when the Wall was anonymous, when you logged in at http://www.thefacebook.com and all the many upsets of Facebook design changes.
And so it's now that I am beginning to worry, now when the flames of fury that we felt about every minute change have finally died down. Resignedly, we discussed the new features of the site ("why can't they stay the same? it worked fine!"), and trotted out the same tired "I'm seriously thinking of committing Facebook suicide." lines. But whereas we once complained about the privacy policy and the Beacon advertising system, we now bemoan the sorting of the News Feed or the 'comment by hitting enter' aspect.
Similarly, this Techcrunch article outlines a handful of concerns Orli Yakuel has with Facebook redesigns, but, as with my friends, the concerns are with cosmetic changes, not the privacy issues or data-mining tactics Facebook is angling to implement. There's a reason for this:
Gen Y's love for Facebook
This talk Danah Boyd gave distills the reasons why we see a generation divide within Twitter users, and why the most active people on social networking sites (those with the most friends or the most avidly involved in apps) are middle-aged folks, not the youngsters assumed to be early adopters. | http://metaviews.ca/category/blog-topics/facebook | dclm-gs1-253550002 | false | false | {
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The remaining bits of Three Cards applications, are now passed to another groups or open sourced. To be precise; Faktura (the Norwegian invoice application) is handed over to our past project leader, Jakob Englund. Redaktøren (the Norwegian news application) and Grades is now open sourced (you can do whatever you want with them, even redistribute them). They live happily on our CEO’s Bitbucket.
When talking about Pixl’s future, it’s kinda boring; we have been in the iOS circus for quite some time now, and we want to take a step back and develop on something completely different. We have therefore begun planning a long-term project. This means that you most likely won’t get so many updates from us in a while.
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is a derivative, uninteresting, and sloppy beat-'em-up.
Games that are based on comic books are rarely notable beyond the licenses they carry. Unfortunately, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance for the Game Boy Advance isn't going to do anything to change that perception. This Final Fight wannabe may let you take control of your favorite Marvel superhero, but it is so sloppy and derivative that it's impossible to enjoy.
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Ten different Marvel superheroes star in this crummy beat-'em-up.
The long and the short of it is that this game is just a generic isometric beat-'em-up, with some Marvel comics characters pasted into it. You are asked to endure 12 short, visually bland levels that are filled with the same half-dozen carbon-copied enemies. You have to punch and kick your way past these enemies countless times per level and then outlast the boss waiting at the end of each level. Apart from collecting a key here and there, there's nothing more to it. Combat is all about mindlessly mashing the attack buttons, and the attacks are little better than badly animated renditions of stereotypical uppercuts and slashes. You have your pick of 10 different Marvel characters and get to swap use of three of them at each level, but the characters all function in the same way. On top of all that, the programming is sloppy because the hits don't always register and the controls frequently ignore input.
The overall presentation isn't any better. Visually, the backgrounds range from ugly to merely tolerable. The characters move in stops and starts, and it's nearly impossible to keep track of what's going on because the animation is so jerky. The six or so generic enemies in the game look like the orcs and trolls from The Lord of the Rings. At least the bosses are from the Marvel universe. However, they're mostly the B-list villains like Fin Fang Foom and Mandarin. As for the remainder of the presentation, it's the very definition of "lazy." The story scenes are made up entirely of character sprites and text boxes. And the accompanying audio consists of quiet incidental music along with some scratchy punches and yells.
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• Release date10/24/06
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Prophecy in Mosiah
1. Mosiah tells us one more time about Jesus, who will be born in another 120 years or so. This is the umpteenth time Jesus is prophesied in great detail in the Book of Mormon. It's almost as though the whole thing was written using language that mimicked the King James Version of the Bible by someone living in nineteenth century America. 3:1-27
2. Devils dwell in the hearts of the children of men. But Jesus will cast them out when he comes. 3:6
3. When Jesus dies, 150 or so years later, blood will come from every pore. 3:7
4. Jesus, who wouldn't be born for another 120 years or so, will be both the Son of God and the Father of heaven and earth. 3:8
5. The Lord says that this (which?) generation will be slain and their bodies will be eaten by vultures, dogs, and wild beasts. 12:2
6. God will smite his people with sore afflictions, famine, pestilence, and will cause them to howl all the day long. 12:4
7. Book of Mormon characters love to quote Isaiah using the King James Version of the Bible. So it's not surprising that King Noah's priests test Abinabi by quoting Isaiah 52:7-10 and asking him to explain the passage to them. (Nobody knows what the hell Isaiah means!) 12:20-24 | http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/bom/mosiah/pr_list.html | dclm-gs1-253860002 | false | false | {
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English 200 Level Courses
The numbers in parenthesis after courses indicate the term in which the course is normally offered: (Fall = 1, Spring = 2, Summer I = 3, Summer II = 4). These are subject to change.
201. Introduction to Literature. Three semester hours. (1, 2, 3 or 4)
An introduction to the three major genres of literature: poetry, drama, and fiction. The course is designed to develop discriminating reading habits, and the student may be required to make analyses and value judgments based on critical thought. Prerequisites: English 101, 102.
202. Multi-Ethnic American Literature. Three semester hours. (1, 2)
This course is designed to give students knowledge of the ethnic diversity of American literature at the same time that they improve their skills in reading and interpreting literature and in writing. The course covers material from at least three of the following ethnic groups: Native American, African American, Hispanic American, and American Eskimo. Other ethnic groups may also be included. Prerequisite: English 102.
203. Literature of the Western World. Three semester hours.
A study of selected works of fiction, poetry, and drama in the literature of western civilization from classical times to the present. Authors covered may include Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Voltaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Mann, and Eliot. Prerequisite: Eng 102. | http://tamu-commerce.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/literatureLanguages/undergraduate/generalInfo/englishCourses/200LevelCourses.aspx | dclm-gs1-253920002 | false | false | {
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If you’re looking for a job why not look for something that you enjoy and love doing? For others it may be something related to working with flowers, cooking, baking, dancing, and eating - for some it would be playing. Yes, getting paid to play is definitely a popular job these days and many people are actually making a considerable amount of money out of it. So how can you get paid to play games and where can you find jobs like these?
Playing online games and other games have been a common trend these days. More and more people are into having fun playing games with other gamers and with their friends and families. It’s a good way to have fun and at the same time socialize with other people. It is even made more in demand with the fact that gaming companies and developers would actually pay a fortune to people who are willing to test and play their games before selling it out in the market.
With the increasing number of game lovers game developers and gaming companies battle it out with other game companies and developers to come up with the best games that game lovers will surely adore. The competition for the best games is actually tough for these game owners so they try everything they could to actually go on top of the competition. One of their strategies on how to create the best game is to hire gamers to test and play their games. By letting players test their games they are able to trace out all errors in the game as well as tweaks and revisions that need to be done. Developers are also able to know if the game is marketable or if people would actually but it or not. The hired gamers or testers on the other hand should have impeccable skills on playing any game. He or she should have a good sense of observation and should be able to formulate conclusions on how the over-all performance of the game. A gamer should be able to bring about any criticisms for the game that would lead to its improvement.
Many people actually do not know that being paid to play games from home is definitely real. Also, if you’re a player with mad playing skills you’ll definitely get paid even better. Pay for these game testers can range from $10 to $50 an hour depending on the gaming company you are playing for and the game console. Work or play schedules can depend solely on the player which is a good advantage since the player can do it whenever and wherever he or she likes. The tester can also take breaks and can just resume anytime. Getting paid to play games is surely one of the best jobs these days because of the time and location advantage. However, the main question lies on where to find websites that actually pay people to test their games. well, in order to trace the best sources for these kinds of jobs you’ll need to find reliable sources over the internet – you’ll want to check for reviews, comments, blogs and make further researches about the site.
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I made the mistake of reading the comments on a couple of stories about Danny Brown’s sexual assault. And I’m really troubled. In fact, if you’re ever sitting around wondering “How easy do female rapists have it?” I invite you to peruse the comments on a story about what happened to Danny Brown. What happened was basically his fault because of how he was dressed or because he was flirting with the women in the front rows or because of his persona. Or it wasn’t really rape because how can a woman rape a man? Or why would a man not love it? Or, even if it was rape and wasn’t his fault, he’s a pussy for being all weird about it.
Here’s what it made me think–rapes by women where men are the victims are probably way under-reported. If this is the cultural message–that it basically can’t happen and, if it does, how can you even want to complain about it–female sexual predators have a lot of cover.
I know we talked before about how our society teaches men that having control of your body is a matter of social status and that low status men both don’t have a lot of control over what happens to their bodies and are taught that the way to rise in status is by asserting control over other bodies and how this feeds into rape culture because it reinforces for rapists that society approves of dominating someone in order to gain status, so it’s cool if your dominance of choice is rape.
But I’m starting to think, too, that a lot of weird, unacceptable shit must happen to men all the time and they just never talk about it, so that when something, like this sexual assault, happen out in front of everyone, the response isn’t “What the fuck? I’ve never heard of such a thing,” but “Well, it’s his own fault.”
I know this goes without saying but it’s not his fault. Like all sexual assaults, his attacker decided to attack him and, like many, many sexual assaults, she decided to attack him under circumstances where he was vulnerable and easy to get to and under circumstances where she thought people would be unlikely to call it sexual assault because they’d want to spread some blame to the victim. Or all the blame.
Judging by the comments… hell, judging by the fat that this was a story on NPR called “Was Rapper Danny Brown Sexually Assaulted?” as if National Public Radio should weigh in on whether a sex act a dude didn’t consent to really counts as sexual assault… we have a really hard time accepting the idea that there’s never some kind of extenuating circumstances that might make it okay to rape someone.
I find that distressing.
I love the word “cross.” Not the object, but the feeling. As in, “I’m feeling cross today.” Feeling cross implies that your brows are knit and that you, while not looking for a fight, will happily get in one if one should cross my… I mean your path.
I’m feeling cross today, mostly because I have a doctor’s appointment on Thursday and managed to lose my insurance card but BCBS’s website is down, so I can’t print out something to take with me. Even though I will be able to do so long before Thursday. It just set a tone for the day. Because it took twenty minutes to navigate the website and then the phone tree to finally get to someone who could help me. Ugh.
Also, I feel like I write the same story over and over again.
Which ugh.
Also, this morning I read some bullshit about how women just naturally love their children more than men do and it irks me. Not just because “naturally” is such a bullshit word, but because there are two things hidden in it.
One is the idea that if a man doesn’t show his love for his children exactly how a woman would, she then feels free to diagnose him as not having the same strong feelings for their children. No, actually, all we can tell is not that you love the kids more, but that you have this weird expectation that love and concern must look just like what you do in order to count.
The other is this idea that there’s always been mothers and children in one pile and men out in the world in a separate pile and men were just never a part of the household the same way women were, so there’s something more tragic–if necessary–about women’s lives changing so that we have to work outside the home and can’t be with our kids. But having the majority of men working outside the home is less than 150 years old. And even when men had careers that kept them away from home for long periods of time–like say fishing or whaling–they often brought a kid or two in order to teach them the trade.
I mean, my god, what the fuck do people think this ongoing nostalgia for rural life is rooted in? It’s not that the country is that great in reality–we all do drugs and get pregnant and cheat welfare and beat our kids and carry on like life is short, brutal, and stupid. But farming used to involve the whole family. Fathers spent a tremendous amount of time with their children because they all worked together to have enough to eat and to sell.
I mean, hell yes, being a mom is important. But it’s weird how often it gets framed as a matter of men just naturally not really being that into being parents.
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You Should Absolutely Not Have John Ragan over to Dinner
I read this post today and by the end of it, my all-consuming thought was that no, Johnson should NOT be inviting Representative Ragan over to dinner because, clearly, there is not much keeping Ragan from being a danger to himself or others. Holy shit. Look at this part of the letter he wrote her:
Given that you identified yourself as a college student in political science preparing for law school, I am sure your instructors have emphasized that logic, as a decision methodology, is a far superior all others. Therefore, let’s examine some issues you raised with logic. Additionally, please attempt not to “read anything into my remarks or questions” as being my positions or thoughts beyond that which I explicitly identify as such.
Logically, homosexuality is defined by behavior, i.e., unless one engages in sexual activity with a member of the same sex, he, or she, is not a homosexual. (The term sexual orientation is a description of feelings.) Feelings do not control the behavior of a mentally healthy adult human being.
By way of emphasis, let’s examine a few questions: If a person “feels” so angry with another that he or she “feels” like killing the object of their anger, is that person “controlled” by that “feeling?” Alternatively, can the possessor of that “feeling” choose not to act on it? If that person fails to act on that “feeling,” is he or she still referred to as a “murder?”
Can a person feel so much lust toward another that he “feels” like committing rape? If such is a possibility, is that person “controlled” by that “feeling” or can he choose not to engage in that action? If that person fails to act on that “feeling,” is he still referred to as a “rapist?”
Can a slender person “feel” like overeating, but choose not to do so? Is that person still called “fatty?” Can someone “feel” like not going to work, but get up and go anyway? Is that person still called “lazy?” Can a nun “feel” like engaging in sexual relations, but choose to remain celibate? Is she called a “whore?” Can someone “feel” like committing adultery, but choose not to do so? Is that person still called an “adulterer?”
Can a parent feel so upset with the misbehavior of a child, that he or she “feels” like “beating” that child? Alternately, can a distraught parent choose to merely “discipline” a child with a lecture, a “time-out” or a “grounding” (dependent upon age) to reinforce a prohibition against poor, or dangerous, behavior.
The list of questions about “feelings” that do not control people could go on and on. However, the point is sufficiently made. Mentally healthy adult human beings are not “controlled” by their “feelings.”
Let me just say that I can see why he’d add the “Additionally, please attempt not to ‘read anything into my remarks or questions’ as being my positions or thoughts beyond that which I explicitly identify as such,” because dude has issues.
And let me also just say that this is one way in which I feel really bad for men. Most men don’t rape women or children. They don’t beat their loved ones or seriously entertain the idea of killing people. But the men who do seriously entertain these ideas–who sit around asking things like “but what if she was really drunk, then would it be okay?” or “but what if he said something that made me really mad, then could I hit him?”–as if identifying some circumstances in which any man might be backed into doing what the serious entertainers want too do all the time reaffirms for the serious entertainer of these vile ideas that they have wide-reaching community support, even when they don’t.
You see what I’m saying? With rape, this is really obvious how this dynamic works. A guy whose m.o. is to get women too drunk to fight him off and isolated so that he can do what he wants to those women without being stopped hears discussions about guys who are concerned about times when both people are really drunk and maybe the guy didn’t get an explicit yes, but she seemed into it, as being not about miscommunications between sex partners and a true hope that one’s partner is having a good time, but about reaffirming that all men will have sex with women without caring if the women want to have sex.
But you also see it in discussions about spanking (though theses become fraught enough quickly enough that you see it less than you used to), where people who are having a discussion about a swift swat to a kid’s backside made from a place of fear and panic are joined by someone who believes in blanket-training small infants or hitting children with plumbing equipment. To the people who physically punish their kids every day, talk of the time you just lost control and spanked your kid who tried to, say, kick you in the head in Kroger, it just sounds like they are doing what’s normal because you’re doing it sort of, too.
But I read Ragan’s letter and I think, you know, even if a nun were having sex with sixty guys, I wouldn’t call her a whore. I wouldn’t think to call her a whore. For me, there’s no hypothetical situation I’d recount where I’d call a nun a whore, even in the furtherance of “logic!”
It would also never occur to me that any man might look at a woman with lust and decide to rape her, because most men I know, even if they felt lust toward someone, would not enjoy having sex with someone who didn’t want to have sex with them. The fear and hatred, possibly sobbing, would be a turn-off.
Likewise with murder. Yes, I have, as everyone has, joked about wanting to kill so-and-so. But even feeling enraged at someone would never make me seriously consider killing someone. And, if it ever happened that I had to kill someone, I know I would find that momentously traumatic. I knew a woman once who was in a car accident, which was not her fault, and the other driver died. Not her fault. Couldn’t have done anything to prevent his death. And she still struggled tremendously from the guilt.
So, I have my sincere doubts about the kind of person who could even hypothetically envision that all that’s holding most people back from doing these things is that they don’t act on their feelings.
No, dude, honestly. Most people don’t have the urge to hurt other people.
It’s not to say that people don’t hurt other people. People are jackasses. But if you’re operating from a paradigm in which everyone is vile and depraved and it’s only “logic” or “reason” that prevents us from acting on it, I think you have both those things wrong. And I am a little afraid of you.
I’m also struck by again the lesbian loophole. Everything that he says is wrong with being gay is wrong with being a gay man. It’s as if lesbians don’t exist. But honestly, in all his descriptions, there are some really problematic things about female desire. I’m not sure he even realizes that it’s a thing.
Plus, since he doesn’t believe in homosexuality as a state of being, but only of acting–”Logically, homosexuality is defined by behavior, i.e., unless one engages in sexual activity with a member of the same sex, he, or she, is not a homosexual. “–it can’t be just gay men who have such high rates of AIDS and suicide and such. Following his own statement, there is no such thing as sexual orientation, just sexual action. So, Ragan’s defining certain behaviors and traits as more prevalent among “gay” men fails under his own logical framework, in which there are no such thing as inherently gay men. So, those behaviors and traits can’t be limited to the “imaginary” group of “gay” men, but must be assumed to be traits all men have. But I notice Ragan isn’t volunteering to quit life and go down and sit at the police station where he can be constantly monitored just in case he ever loses control.
So, while he argues for a world view in which we are all just monsters tightly-reigned in, he seems pretty confident in his reigning-in abilities. I find that perplexing.
Honestly, this is one reason I wish my dad weren’t so homophobic. Because I’d like to have a better idea of how Middle America white guys born in the 40s were socialized. Was the pressure to get married so enormous for so much of your life that you literally never had to confront or consider whether you were sexually attracted to women, because, even if you weren’t, it didn’t change the trajectory of your life (unless it just completely obliterated your whole life)? So, if you couldn’t imagine moving away and losing all contact with and support from your family, you couldn’t imagine a deliberately non-married life?
I mean, I’m trying to understand what it means when someone argues that just feeling like you’re gay doesn’t mean anything unless you act on it.
Does it mean that, within their own understanding of their sexuality, they do what they were told to do, whether it’s what they want or not? I mean, I don’t think that everyone who has these ideas is secretly gay.
But I do wonder if they’re all married to the people they want to be married to, frankly.
I’m going on way too long–I’m drinking a lot of Diet Dr Pepper because it makes my throat feel better and it’s got me a little wired–but, when I look at Ragan’s letter, I do see a guy for whom gay marriage is a threat.
Because getting gay married means, at core, choosing to marry the person who you want to marry, even if the state refuses to recognize it, even if it breaks your families’ hearts.
It means putting your feelings ahead of logic and reason.
And I imagine, for a lot of people who set aside their feelings to do the “right” thing, the discomfort and jealousy from seeing people who took another way can feel like a threat.
It’s one thing to do the “right” thing, even at great sacrifice, if it’s recognized by society as being good. But when you are in the middle of your difficult, “right” thing that has caused you to make great sacrifices and society turns away from your performance and goes to celebrate with the folks who are throwing their lot in with foolish feelings like “love,” that’s got to burn.
What I’m saying is that I respect that it feels like a loss to you.
But it is not even in the same ballpark of loss as what Phillip Parker’s family, for instance, is going through this week.
You should have been able to marry who you wanted, or not marry at all. You deserved real, open love with a person who saw you as a partner, not a bully or a burden. You deserved to not have to contort yourself into someone who thinks his own gender makes him vile in order to fit your community.
And I am genuinely sorry that your own writing seems to show that you did not get that.
But not sorry enough to let you carry on without noting how fucked up it is.
Why I Think all these “Concerns” about Christie’s Health are in fact Just Bigotry
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Chris Christie is fat and this should disqualify him from being president at least until he’s thinner because everyone knows that being fat is unhealthy. Some people wonder if being fat is more of a disqualification than being depressed.
Here’s why I think it is just bullshit “I’m grossed out by your body” disguised as “But I really care about your health.”
Because being fat is not the most telling physical sign that your health is shitty. No, there is in fact a bodily indicator that predicts far better than a person’s weight whether that person will live to adulthood, die early, and suffer from poor health outcomes all along the way. This physical trait correlates to higher suicide rates, more violence, even higher accident rates.
And, it is even possible to mitigate some of the effects of this physical trait through medication or, in some cases, when necessary, surgery.
Medication and surgery to deal with this condition are common enough that, even if you don’t know someone who’s taken those steps, you know of someone who’s taken those steps, and heard rumors of others who have taken those steps.
And yet, no one looks at that physical trait and says that everyone who has it should be making efforts to mitigate it and that the success of their mitigation attempts should determine whether they’re qualified for public office.
People with this condition have worse health outcomes across the board than the rest of the population. And yet, if I were to argue that I wasn’t disgusted by this condition, I merely couldn’t help but notice the person’s body and the physical indicators of this condition, which are so closely correlated with such terrible health outcomes, and, out of concern for that person’s health, I am saying they must change, even if it means pills and surgery, there is not a single person reading this blog who wouldn’t say to themselves, “Wow, Betsy has some real deep issues with men.”
None of you would say “Oh, yeah, totally. We should start when they’re children.”
Because people aren’t grossed out by men’s bodies. So men can be as unhealthy as they want and no one starts talking about the correlation between being men and being unhealthy as something to be solved by trying to change what they look like. But fat people? Oh, that’s apparently a great excuse to let your disgust about a type of bodily appearance have free reign.
And everyone’s just supposed to accept that this prejudice against a type of appearance is different than every other prejudice rooted in a type of appearance, because this time, you have what “everybody knows” and “what science says” on your side. Unlike all those other times before.
This story could not be more bullshitty, at every level, from calling a transgender woman a “cross-dresser” to misrepresenting her gender and so on. But I’ve been thinking about this story since I read it this morning. Often, when transgender women who are working as prostitutes are killed, there’s a kind of “gay panic” defense–”I didn’t know ‘he’ was really a dude and when I find out I freaked out and shot ‘him.’” And it works, because the “gay panic” defense still works.
I’m Feeling a Little Cheated by the Bordeaux Library
It’s just a cultural recipe for sexy.
Traditional Men Via Men Who Wouldn’t Fare Well
One thing that kind of still nags at me about Professional Busybody David Fowler is that his organization is all about “real” family values–basically male-lead married Christian households arranged out of a mixture of love and duty. Here’s what I don’t get. And I’m not trying to be snarky. I genuinely don’t get it. If I were a father and my daughter came home and said “Daddy, I think David Fowler’s going to ask me to marry him.” and I bought into this family values crap, I couldn’t give my blessing to that marriage. When Fowler came to ask me for my daughter’s hand, I’d have to tell him no.
Now, I admit, there may be some cultural differences which need to be accounted for, but hell, even in a fully realized Christian theocratic patriarchy, there’d be some cultural differences. But here’s the thing. If I were a Christian head-of-householder patriarch, my definitions of manly behavior–of behavior fitting of the person who I was handing my beloved daughter over to and saying, yes, submit to him–would not include gossiping or sneaking around, even in furtherance of causes I believed in. I would take someone sneaking around and sticking his nose into other people’s business as a sign of weakness. Depending on the kind of patriarch I might be, and let’s assume I’d be pretty hardcore, I’d see it as womanly.
A man who can’t face the people he disagrees with and who is constantly in his neighbors’ business would, to me, read at the least as someone who is not yet mature enough to have a wife. And maybe someone who’s not spending enough time in manly pursuits.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to this, probably more than in healthy, but I don’t think I’m wrong. I think that most of the men who sit around and push for a “return” to a time when men were men would not actually fair that well. They wouldn’t read as “manly.” Maybe with Trace Adkins as the exception.
Otherwise, if you are indeed secure in yourself and what you need to be happy in the world, you make the arrangements you need to make with your loved ones and you get on with it. If you want to be the head of your household, you make sure any potential spouses know that and you find someone who’s like “Yeah, that’s what I want in a spouse, too.” If you want an egalitarian household where you switch who even gets called the husband every other week, find, search that out. Whatever. It’s all good.
I believe we are going through a real upheaval in what it means to be a man, and I don’t envy men who find their ideas about what being a man means challenged not only from all sides, but internally, from what they want for their sons.
But I don’t know if it’s just that I have really cool friends–I do, of course–or what, but I don’t really know anyone who’s like “You must do and be this certain way, B., for the sake of my manhood.” Not literally, not even metaphorically. Whatever upheavals they’re feeling, it doesn’t require me to pretend to be smaller or weaker or needier than I am for their benefit.
And, color me silly, but I find that really manly (heck, I find it a nice trait in everyone)–to be strong enough in yourself to let me be strong enough in mine.
I just don’t experience how David Fowler goes through the world as being very secure or as him being very strong. And I feel like I can’t be alone in noticing this, so I’m still baffled as to how he has so much power in this state. Can it really be the specter of He-Man Jesus which skulks behind David Fowler giving him an aura of masculinity he otherwise wouldn’t have?
But again, if Fowler got his way and everyone was a good Christian according to his definition, that threat would be gone. No one would think Fowler had some inside track on what Jesus wants, because everyone would be on the same track.
I don’t know. The whole thing is weird.
And I wonder if I just have kind of sexist notions of what manliness is that I’m unfairly projecting onto that asshat. But I don’t think so. I think that, if your whole public shtick is about returning Tennessee, if not the nation, to a time when men ruled, you’d better demonstrate traits that would make people think it was a good idea for men like you to be in charge.
And I’m just not seeing it. Even if I were a Christianist asshole, I’d find him off-putting (though for different reasons). He’s just a terrible advertisement for the way of life he’s advocating.
This is the Thought that Scares Me
Okay, we won’t speculate. Who knows what happened? But let’s just throw one more possibility out there. Not saying it’s what happened. Not saying that it’s not. It’s now pretty widely known that you don’t have to have concussions to suffer from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, even mild, but repeated brain injuries can cause it.
So, here’s my question. Do you know who Chris Benoit was? Do you think most people, say most men or most Canadians, know who he was?
If you got the slightest inkling that something in your head could make you do that… You know what I’m saying? Who could blame you for making a preemptive strike?
Obviously, no one can know if that’s the case here, but I hope they check for CTE.
I have to say, as a sports fan, I hope it’s not the cause, because I tell you, it’s ruined wrestling for me. I can’t watch it. I feel like I’m watching men kill themselves in slow motion. And there was a camera angle on a football game the other day that made me worry it’s going to ruin football for me, too. Far enough above them, it still fools my brain into not quite seeing them as human. Too close in, though, and I feel like maybe I shouldn’t be supporting this with my attention.
How could you watch hockey knowing those men are risking their lives and the lives of their children for you?
You can see why I turn the channel past wrestling as quickly as possible.
Same Thing, Different Words
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This Should Be Interesting
Remember how there was all that brouhaha about how making the HPV vaccination mandatory for girls would turn girls into giant Slutty McSluttersons? Well, guess who’s getting oral cancer like we’ve returned to the halcyon days of everybody smoking?
I bet the “controversy” over vaccinating kids against HPV quickly and quietly goes away.
The Penis Problem
One thing I want to suss out in this whole “But what if our women have to use the bathroom with someone who had a penis?!” hysteria (ha!) is that there are a couple of underlying assumptions we should really ask ourselves if we are okay with. One is pretty basic–do we want a small, secretive group of men meeting outside of the purview of the media and then attempting to enact their agenda on the city using the excuse “But what about the women?!”
I, for one, am not that excite about a secretive group of men plotting behind my back, without my input, and deciding for me and all the rest of the women in Nashville policy that directly affects the women of Nashville. Could the Southern Baptist leaders not appeal to even one of their wives to put their names on that piece of shit editorial to make it look like they had even one woman who was directly concerned about this, instead of continuing to give the impression that they, secretive group of religious men, had decided it would be a problem for women?
And then, what, exactly, is the nature of the problem we cis women would face?
And that leads me in to the second point I have. These religious leaders believe that anyone born with a penis is a man and that men, when given unmediated access to women, will be a danger to those women. Like I said, I often have used the same restrooms as men –cis men, transgender men–and women these leaders would like to classify as men. And I have never once felt in danger from the close proximity of those penises.
And I’m supposed to be the man-hating feminist!
Why do we have to act like it’s a given that anyone with a penis is a danger at all times to anyone who doesn’t have a penis? Why do we have to accept the cultural narrative that all men (meaning in this case “people born with penises”) are monsters? Especially when we all know many, many decent people born with penises?
Why do we continue to let men in power lie to us (they can lie to themselves all they want, I guess) about how vile men are and how the mere possession, therefore, of a penis would taint a woman so irrevocably that she would be a danger to other women?
I think it’s sad that they understand themselves and other bepenised people to be monsters, but I think it’s a tragedy if we just accept that as the truth, unquestioning.
Walking with Mrs. Wigglebottom
The other day we were yet again talking about the difference, broadly speaking, between the position straight men are in when they first meet a woman and the position women are in when they first meet a man. Most women, when we first meet a man, start a running tab of “Things he does or doesn’t do that might indicate whether he’s going to fuck me up and/or kill me.” Most women I know talk about how difficult it is, when that’s what’s going on in the back of your mind, to be at ease around a guy you’ve just met and not come off just a hair stand-off-ish.
My straight guy friends, needless to say, don’t meet new women and start thinking “What are the chances this woman will fuck me up and/or kill me?”
Anyway, one of the things that I love about my dog is that I feel like she changes the equation. I notice this a lot when we’re out walking in the morning, because it’s imperative for me to check the faces of the people in the passing cars to make sure that they see me and are going to get over.
And I would say that 80% of the men that pass us either make little acknowledgment of us or they wave because they see us every day. And of the 20% who seem to register “Oh, that’s a woman,” half of them smile nicely or look a little sheepish and that’s it. But on our walks, there’s always at least one jackass who slows way down, as if to sum up the situation.
Yesterday, there was a Jeep full and they all slowed down and stared and then, after the passed, they all war-whooped. Now, clearly, this isn’t about how hot I look at 6:30 in the morning. It’s about them needing to feel a little rush at being a jackass. Fine. But then I have to judge the chances of that escalating into something that’s going to go unpleasantly for me.
And the thing is, with these types of guys, if you seem too “please don’t fuck with me,” that encourages them and if you seem too “don’t even try to fuck with me” that encourages them–I should stop this sentence now just to point out that there is no right way for a woman to navigate these situations. You never know what’s going to come across as daring them more than dissuading. I don’t need guidance in how to better judge fuckers; those fuckers need to behave.–you need to strike the right note of “it’s not worth the effort to fuck with me.”
I believe it’s very hard for a woman alone to carry herself in such a way that strikes that note. But a woman with a pit bull?
We strike that note, I think.
I was thinking about that this morning, as Mrs. Wigglebottom and I were headed out, because I needed to clear the rattle the guys in the Jeep had put in me.
And today, for the first time in ages, we saw someone else on our walk–a woman, jogging, carrying a large, narrow, wooden club.
And I smiled when I saw her, because I recognized that club for what it was, a signal that it’s not worth it to fuck with her.
Two Reviews
1. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross. I thought it was very well written, but I hated it. Sometimes things just strike me as implausible when I’m reading and I can’t get past it to enjoy the book. Like A Map of the World revolves around the conceit that a Midwestern woman with small children and a screen door that doesn’t latch properly wouldn’t automatically slip the hook lock the second she shut the door behind whoever was out it last. I have known Midwestern women my whole life, been in many, many houses with screen doors that only stay shut if you slip the hook into the eye, and I never have seen them not lock that door when there are children. And I have known some fucked up, dumbass women. If the book had had the child push through the screen or a dog rip through the screen or something so that the child could have gotten out, I would have bought the whole rest of the book. But that one moment just seemed so implausible that I never could buy the rest of the book.
And it’s that way with Mr. Peanut, the central conceit of which is that the main character has an obese wife who dies. And yet, I never bought, for a second, that Adam Ross has any actual experience with fat women. People, she’s 5’9″, built like a softball player, and Ross posits that, when she gets up to 288, that would be so fat that people would gawk at her. Not just the occasional person, but lots and lots of people would turn to stare at her.
He doesn’t establish that she’s become less active. They live in New York City and she’s constantly flitting about. So, 288 lbs on a stocky, athletic 5’9″ frame? I’m not saying she wouldn’t be fat, but she wouldn’t be as large as Ross thinks she’d be. And then, at the end, Ross has the husband imagining her weight stabilizing at 133. On soft-ball player athletic 5’9″ frame. And that this would be beautiful and not sickly looking.
I know it’s a minor thing, and I know it’s not like women go around announcing our weights, so I’m sure it can be very difficult for men to actually know what 288 lbs. would look like on a 5’9″ woman. So, he wants a way to signal that she was so fat, the kind of fat that everyone notices, and he pulled a number out of his butt. Fine.
But it made me feel that I had two choices in reading the book. Either this is a book for men about women and marriage, so I’m not the main audience, so my inability to overcome that detail isn’t a problem (though bleh, for that not being a problem), because it only needs to seem plausible to men, which, I imagine, it will, at least to a great many, or the book just has this one huge fundamental flaw, in that Ross is writing about something he apparently doesn’t know much about–women and our bodies–and it just gets in the way of me being able to enjoy the book.
Plus, at one point, he talks about the folds of a woman’s vagina, and I think he means vulva, which is weird. Are we just losing the linguistic fight to have “vagina” mean “the inside part” and “vulva” mean “the outside part.”
2. The bookshelves I’m staining. I suck at staining bookshelves. Also, as the finish dries, it’s like the wood is somehow becoming rougher. And it hurts my back, so I have to make myself stop every twenty minutes and stretch it out. Because I am old. Also, there are a fuck-ton of depressing country music songs out right now, but that’s all the radio in the garage gets.
I would just like to once again reiterate my offer. I will marry a handyman who will give me free labor in exchange for health insurance. Start by figuring out how I fucked up the bookshelves and fix it, please, dear.
Usually, It’s Not So Obvious
So, they’ve got this show on Discovery in which they have a set of hip scientists whose job it is is to build working prototypes of something in two weeks, called, appropriately enough, Prototype This. I’ve seen a few episodes and they do things like build robot ways of delivering pizzas or a waterslide that’s just a big circle or a six legged all-terrain vehicle.
Yesterday, I saw this episode where they built robots that would box each other.
And here’s how it went. These cute, sweet, male scientists had a task–built robots that would fight each other. So, they went to a gym to get “data” on how actual boxers box. And they met with a golden glove boxer who was a woman, who fought one of them and kicked his ass. Not even in a beat-down way, just in the way that you’re going to kick someone’s ass when you have more talent and skill than they do at something.
And so the very sweet, charming, quirky male scientist told her that he would challenge her to a rematch and beat her when it was robots boxing.
Which he did.
Because the robots were hooked up to each of them, to monitor their moves, and her moves were so complex that she was overloading her computer with data that they hadn’t even begun to design their robots to replicate. Like their robots could accommodate punches and body turns, but it couldn’t accommodate a punch and a turn at the same time or something. In other words, it ended up being weighted in favor of the crappy boxer who had designed it, because it was too slow to really capture the speed and skill of the real boxer.
And yet, when he “won,” they treated it like a real victory, like it’s any surprise that the guy who designs something that he tests and that is programmed to respond to his movements is going to win over the girl he just straps into the machine and says, “Do what you always do”?
Like I said, I’d watched the show a few times, but it wasn’t until that moment that I realized I was watching a show that only featured men.
Return to the High John the Conqueror Root–High John’s True Identity
I have a new theory about what plant has the High John the Conqueror Root as its root. I think i. jalapa is wrong, though even cat yronwode says it is and she knows her shit. But in this case, I just don’t think she’s right. I. jalapa works because it sure looks like a High John the Conqueror Root and i. jalapa has magical and medicinal properties and has spread all over the world for those properties.
But when we’re talking hoodoo and rootwork, we’re talking a magic practiced for most of its history by rural enslaved Black southerners. Yes, there were extensive trading networks going on under the noses of the whites in the area. But at some point we have to wield Occam’s razor and assume that the likely truth is that they High John wasn’t imported from Mexico but was a plant already here and possibly already in use by the people already here.
We know High John is used extensively in men’s magic and is said to resemble a man’s testicle. It has to be big enough to hold up under being “dressed” and rubbed and carried in a pocket. We know that there’s some ongoing confusion, even among knowledgeable hoodoo folks, about whether it’s i. jalapa. But the important component to trying to identify it is, I believe, that it has to be a plant that grows and is common in the South. If there’s such a strong belief that i. jalapa is the candidate, even though it doesn’t grow widely in the U.S. southeast, then I think we might safely infer that High John might be some other kind of Ipomoea.
Okay then, which?
And, fellow gardeners, I am about to present you with a time-suck so exquisite it will make the soil site from the other week look like child’s play. Are you ready?
I present you the USDA plant database!
And what ipomoea do we find throughout the southeast? Ipomoea pandurata, or manroot or man-of-the-earth. Used by locals already for magical and medicinal purposes by indiginous locals.
And hairy. Which tickles me to no end.
ippa_005_lhp (image taken from the USDA site linked above.)
What do y’all think?
This Idea that You Don’t Have to Do Anything and Things Go Your Way
I’ve been thinking a lot about the whole slew of “protect us from the women” bills before the state legislature, everything from “presumption of joint custody” to “manditory DNA testing before a birth certificate is signed.” And I still remain somewhat baffled by all this because nothing is stopping men now from doing these things. You can right now petition the court for joint custody. You can right now demand a DNA test before you agree to be placed on a birth certificate. You can right now terminate your parental rights and let some other guy (who may even be the biological father) adopt your children.
So why do there need to be laws?
It would seem like the answer might be “Because most men don’t do these things and they should.” But, most men don’t do these things and most men don’t need to. Most men are actually raising kids that are theirs. And so forth. So the “and they should” part isn’t really true. Most men don’t need the State to force this stuff. In fact, almost all men don’t need the State to force this stuff, if they’re willing to push the issue.
And that’s what I’m hung up on–you can do all this stuff now, if you’re willing to make some effort.
Now, some guys do get dicked over by the system. But none of this legislation seems to me to actually be geniuinely helpful to the truly dicked over. Even Campfield’s legislation that gets men out of paying child support on kids that aren’t biologically theirs only seems to take effect if there’s some other man already in the picture willing to support the child. So, it does nothing for the guy who’s been lied to if there’s no other guy to step up.
So, if this isn’t about helping the truly dicked over, one wonders, “What is it for?”
And, frankly, I think it’s for codifying male privilege. Yes, I’m doing that crazy feminist talk again. But what I mean is that some guys seem to have this idea that they get to move through life with things magically happening to their benefit. It doesn’t matter that they make unwise choices about who they get into relationships with, it will never come back to bite them in the butt. It doesn’t matter that they don’t bother to make an effort to secure their rights to their children, their children will always be available to them. Etc. Etc. Etc. The world is theirs to glide through.
And this legislation all seems designed to preserve that illusion. You can continue to make no real effort. You don’t have to get to know the women you sleep with in order to figure out if they’re lying, scheming gold-diggers who are sleeping with your best friend behind your back, because, if they are, the State will catch them. You don’t have to say to your lawyer or stand up in front of a judge and say “I want joint custody of my kids” because the State will smooth the way for you. You don’t have to say to your wife “I don’t trust you and I refuse to let you put my name on that birth certificate until I have some genetic proof that kid is mine,” because the State will just treat all women like liars.
The truth is that this model of manhood treats men like they’re emotionally stunted idiots who need the State to preserve their manhood. You would think that most men, especially most conservative men, would find this kind of legislation insulting–like you aren’t man enough to step up and do what needs to be done. But I think that men in our society get conditioned from the time they’re very young to believe that they and other men are emotionally stunted idiots who must always get their way but who can’t be seen actually working or struggling at making their way in the world, lest they be seen as losers and pussies. Rather than being seen as losers or pussies who express needs and get them filled, they need the State to move behind the scenes to make this stuff happen for them so that they can have it without seeming to exert any effort.
It’s a strange situation, where men must be constantly presumed to be manly above all else, in a cool and effortless way, able to bring things together for themselves while they are treated like feral children.
Someday, I hope, this is rightfully seen as the insult it is.
The Patriarchy Sucks for Conservative Men, Too
I don’t get paid enough to contemplate Stacey Campfield’s penis. I’m not sure how much would be enough to make me willing to contemplate Stacey Campfield’s penis, but believe me, if I were paid to contemplate Campfield’s penis, I would go all in, with some kind of disguise and a fake penis myself and I would follow him into the bathroom and to local watering holes. I would take pictures. I would track down other people who had seen it and interview them about their feelings about it. I would draw pictures of it and hang those pictures in the Frist Museum, while dodging the security guards.
I’m just saying, in general, that, I don’t want to contemplate Campfield’s penis, but, if I were paid to do it, I would go about it thoroughly and professionally and I would share my findings with the world.
Not being paid, though, and not wanting to contemplate Campfield’s penis, I’m stuck in the unpleasant position of having to consider Stacey Campfield having sex. Which, as you may know, often invoves his penis.
And yet, as long as Campfield’s talking about having sex, I have to think about him having sex and… well… here we are. I’m thinking about Campfield’s penis.
Via Tom Humphrey:
A review of a video recording of the committee session shows the exchange followed Richardson’s declaration that men who have sex with a woman have put themselves in a position of becoming a father.
“We need to be honest here. We’re not walking out on a street and picking men willy-nilly to be someone’s father,” said Richardson. “These are men who had sexual intercourse with this woman… men where there is a very good biological reason (to suspect paternity).”
Interjected Campfield: “Sherry, if I had sex with you, I wouldn’t want to pay for your children.”
“What did you say?” said Richardson. (Note: Rep. Sherry Jones is another member of the committee who had spoken against the bill and who also ultimately voted no.)
“If I had sex with you, I wouldn’t necessarily want to have to pay for your children,” replied Campfield. “If I were not the father, I don’t think that would be appropriate.”
So, here we are, forced to think about Campfield having sex. And I’m going to be honest, my first thought was that no conservative Christian woman are going to have sex with Campfield because they don’t have sex with men they aren’t married to and no libertarians are going to have sex with Campfield without him using a condom and them being on some form of birth control and no liberal woman who knows him is going to be able to have sex with him since his antics cause arid tightening in Democrats, so Campfield talking about potential kids he might or might not have is a little beside the point.
But my second thought is about how classy it is of Campfield to insinuate that the women on the other side of the discussion were sluts, that, if they were willing to fuck him, of course he couldn’t be sure they weren’t fucking other guys.
And, yeah, that’s kind of insulting.
But, then, I have to wonder–what if that is actually what Campfield has to face? That he can’t take for granted that any woman who would be willing to have sex with him would be willing to have sex with him exclusively?
And, frankly, that makes me kind of sad.
If you practice monogamy, it’s not too much to to expect a partner who does as well. Many, many people have monogamous relationships; it’s completely workable and something that can happen for anyone who wants one.
BUT (and of course there’s a ‘but’), you have to look for it and work at it. You can’t just say “I want to be able to have sex with whomever I want, and I want her to only have sex with me.” You have to be thoughtful and discerning. And yes, even then, you might get metaphorically screwed while you’re getting literally screwed, but still, not every woman is going to fuck you over and if you keep ending up sleeping with women you can’t trust, at some point, you need to step back and take a hard look at why you continue to sleep with women you can’t trust.
But this is another way that the current arrangement (yes, the “patriarchy”) sucks for conservative men, too. Sure, on the surface, it seems great that there are girls you marry and girls you fuck, because you get to fuck girls, but buying into this idea that girls who fuck outside of marriage are bad girls means that, if you are fucking outside of marriage, you are fucking bad girls who may lie to you and scam you and trick you.
And, when faced with scheming women out to do you wrong, you have two choices. You can either work harder to keep the current arrangment in place–”Hmm, I want to fuck bad girls, but I don’t want to get conned into paying for kids that aren’t biologically mine, so I will ask the State Legislature to pass laws that will protect me from getting conned like that, even if it means treating all women like they’re lying con-artists.”–or you can make some other arrangement–”Hmm. Maybe I should let go of this crazy idea that only bad girls want to fuck outside of marriage and look for girls who won’t do me wrong to fuck. And, if I’m worried about being scammed, I could use a condom when I have sex. And treating women like human beings with sexual desires and not just monitary desires would make me less of a douchebag, which would also increase my chances of getting laid! Hurray!”
I’m just saying, if you’re Campfield or like Campfield, maybe you try the second thing first.
So, I had lunch with the Gentlemen from Louisiana, though we never did get around to talking about Nat King Cole. We did talk about New Orleans, photography, and ghosts. One Gentleman was a firm unbeliever and the other was in my camp, which is mostly disbelief except when weird shit happens.
But interestingly enough, both men were convinced that, if a ghost could exist, it would, clearly, either haunt where it was improperly buried or haunt a person–that a ghost has to have a reason for being here. He’s not just hanging out. And, once he’s achieved whatever he needs to achieve, he can go on to the afterworld.
So, they seemed to be of the opinion that the backyard could not be haunted unless the old man was buried there.
But I’m fairly certain that the only things buried in my back yard are a few housepets and the dead cat the Butcher found a couple of months ago.
I also, obviously, talked to my dad. It’s been a year ago this month that he had his bypass surgery, so he’s going in for a lot of check-ups with a lot of different doctors. I have my concerns, obviously, that he’s not doing as well as he pretends to be. But lately he seems better, so maybe January was just a bad month for him.
He’s really frustrated because, even though he goes to the gym every day and is following the nutritionist’s guidelines, he has ceased losing weight and is, in fact, gaining it. He thinks he needs to start walking in the mornings again. This will be, then, about three hours a day that he exercises (right now, he’s spending between an hour and two hours a day at the gym).
I am of two minds on this. On the one hand, I about want to strap him down and force him to read some Shapely Prose and to learn to just have some mercy on himself. If he’s able to exercise as much as the doctors want him to and his health metrics otherwise look good, well, we come from fat people. He is a fat person. Being fat is not some great failing. It just is what it is. On the other hand, though I thoroughly reject the weight gain or loss as a cause of or solution to problems stuff, I do think that it’s obvious that weight gain or loss can be a symptom of some problem or problems. Granted, I’m biased because my whole life I’ve been just an uncontrollable glutton who refuses to exercise and eat right and that’s why I’m so fat and no one will ever love me, when really, when I completely revamped my diet and got a dog and walked every day, I still gained weight because I had a medical condition it would have been nice if someone had picked up on instead of seeing my fat as proof of my shittiness as a person. Not that I have a soapbox about that or anything.
So, my point is that, if he’s eating the same stuff he ate when he was losing weight and he’s exercising the same amount as when he was losing weight and he’s gaining weight, there may be a problem. And I hope he doesn’t get all caught up in the “I’m just not trying hard enough” bullshit and has the doctors view it as a possible symptom of some other problem.
You know what I’m saying?
And the Butcher is bummed and I don’t know what to do for him. I don’t know that there’s anything I can do for him. Still, I worry.
Tennessee: Protecting You from Lying Bitches
There’s a whole swath of legislation this year designed to prortect you from lying bitches, but the best is Representative Hardaway’s return effort to require genetic testing (which you would pay for) before a father is placed on a child’s birth certificate (HB0025).
Oh, I know, many of you think this is a great idea. Why shouldn’t a man know up-front if a kid is his before he expends all that time, love, energy, and money on it.
But I have read the bill and slept on it and there are still many, many unanswered questions I have, and I’m not even a dude.
1. We are aware that genetic testing isn’t like on CSI. There’s no cute labworker in the hospital who will take the results and whoop you up an answer in an afternoon. We all know this, right? That stuff will have to be sent away for processing. Is it okay that the birth certificate of a person is not completed for weeks or months after it’s born?
2. This test is going to establish a legal relationship between that man and that child. So, are we making provisions to store the results of those tests?
3. And more importantly, who will have access to them?
4. Just think on that some. The implication of Hardaway’s bill here is that somewhere there’s going to be a massive database of the DNA of every man who fathers a child that is born from 2010 on and every child born here from 2010 on. It has to happen. A legal relationship has been developed because of those tests. The state would be stupid to not keep those tests to assure that no fraud has occured. So, now the state has a huge DNA database. You’re really going to tell me that you trust Tennessee to keep its nose out of that database?
5. Will your DNA be considered medical information–since it shows genetic predispositions to various disorders and illnesses–and thus covered by HIPAA or will it be considered a public record, like someone’s fingerprints, which are kept on file and available to whoever wants to sort through them?
6. Even without your name attached to it, your genetic information has monitary value. Researchers of all stripes would love to have a wide random sample of a population to look at. And our state is strapped for cash. Who owns your genetic sequence? If not you, could the State sell access to it to raise funds?
7. What happens if the test is wrong? The bill says a lot about who pays for the test, but it doesn’t say anything about where the test gets done or who’s responsible for making it happen. Will it be someone from the hospital? Random nurse is now going to be making legal determinations about your obligations to another person? Someone from the health department? And what lab(s) are going to process this information? Ones chosen by the patients? Ones chosen by the hospital? OR ones determined by the state? Which brings us back to my original question. What if the test is wrong. Say the father really was the dude’s brother and the test not thorough enough to catch it. Say the lab is sloppy. We’ve now set the precident that the person whose DNA is a match is responsible for the baby; what if we’re wrong? Can the dude sue the state?
I don’t know. I’m tempted to say, “Ha ha.” but some part of me really is curious as to how this is going to work and how it’s not going to be open to rampant corruption.
I’m Starting to Suspect I’m Not Going to Get My Donuts
I remind you how this went. I said “I bet you dollars to donuts this has something to do with the Adelicia v. South Street fight.” S-town Mike said, “I think you’d lose that bet because this doesn’t even have anything at all to do with midtown.” I prove that it does indeed have to do with midtown by using my mad reading skills and now S-town Mike is trying to prove that all this started before the Adelicia v. South Street fight.
So, you can see, there are no donuts coming for me.
I have noticed this in arguing, that there are marked differences in arguing styles. See, I feel like this argument had two parts. A. Whether this had to do with Adelicia v. South Street and then B. Whether it had anything to do with midtown at all. And I think it’s clear that Mike moved us from argument A. to argument B.
I clearly won argument B. It does indeed have to do with midtown.
But rather than concede, and bring me donuts (which is the important part), he’s now acting like we’re back to a.
Fine. You bring me donuts, I’ll give you a dollar. You keep your donuts, I’ll keep my dollar. The world is righted once again.
But I’m still pondering the exchange. Why is it that, when Tobia said in the first place that such an ordinance was stupid, the thrust of the conversation wasn’t, “No, here’s why it’s necessary,” but “No, here’s why it’s not stupid.” So, instead of being a discussion (which Mike now wants to get to) about actual noise levels and offending clubs and whether they’ve been responsive to people’s needs, it’s a discussion about what Austin is doing or Atlanta or what-have-you.
It’s not a discussion about actual problems in our community and how best to address them, but some lofty discussion about the proper role of government and moderation as a virtue and bringing ourselves in line with other communities.
I know I’ve pointed this out before, but a lot of times, when you’re trying to have a discussion with men, especially men who think other men are watching or participating, you have to go through this metaphorical dick-waving before you can get down to the meat of the issue. Everyone has to prove that they have the “right equipment” to be in the conversation and that the pecking order has been established.
This is not at all how I’ve been socialize–I assume as a white upper-working class midwestern woman–to converse. I’m supposed to be seeing everyone’s side and building consensus and helping the man feel like he’s won, even as I manipulate him to get my own way. If that doesn’t work, I go in the kitchen, reach consensus among the woman, and do what I damn well please.
But that kind of rhetorical strategy–find a way to seem to acquiesce while secretly maintaining that you were right and, if no way to seem to acquiesce can be found, withdraw from the conversation–works very poorly on blogs. Well, in public life in general.
How can women who are trained to go along with what the men say or leave the room if they can’t, have any kinds of effective public discussion?
We joke, my friends and I, that it would be awesome to carry a dildo around in your purse, so that when it’s dick-waving time, you can reach down, pull yours out, set it on the table and be heard and treated as a voice with the authority to speak.
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Singer/songwriter Steve Almaas rose from New York City punk of the late '70s into a well-respected artist during the '80s and '90s. Almaas wasn't a part of the whole corporate scheme of things, having played in various bands during the decade of big-hair metal and warming synth pop. Born to Scandina...
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0.165488 | <urn:uuid:13df3595-8515-41bc-8416-457feef6b41f> | en | 0.969811 | BBC News Analysis: A cure for HIV? James Gallagher March 4, 2013 A baby girl has been "functionally cured" of HIV in the US. The difference it will make to her life could be huge - avoiding a lifetime of medication, social stigma and worries about whether to tell friends and family.But beyond the personal story, there is a huge question - does this bring us any closer to an HIV cure?There are very special circumstances involved in the US case. Doctors were able to hit the virus hard and early. This is not possible in adults, who will acquire HIV months if not years before they find out.Even in the UK, where at-risk groups are offered free regular testing - one in four people with HIV is unaware they have the virus. By the time they find out, it will be fully established - hiding away in reservoirs in the immune system that no therapy around can touch.It is also unclear how a newborn's immune system, babies still get much of their protection from their mother through breast milk, may affect treatment.One thing is certain - this approach is not going to provide a cure for the vast majority of people with HIV.So what about about somebody who has been living with HIV for a decade? Any hope of a cure for them?The first thing to note is that HIV is not the killer it used to be.It first emerged in Africa in the early 20th Century and became a global health problem by the 1980s. In the early days, there was no treatment, never mind talk of a cure.The virus claimed the lives of more than 25 million people in the past three decades, according to the World Health Organization.Then, good antiretroviral therapies emerged in the mid-1990s and the impact it had on the number of deaths was dramatic.People infected with HIV should have a near normal lifespan if they have access to treatment. Of course this is a big "if". Nearly 70% of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, where access to drugs is relatively poor.'Weak spot'The hunt is on for a cure."We had always assumed that it was impossible, but we've started to discover things we didn't know before and it's opening up a chink in the armour," Dr John Frater, from the University of Oxford, told the BBC."A cure is something we can no longer write off as impossible."After HIV first infects the patient, the virus spreads rapidly, infecting cells all over the body.Then, the virus hides inside DNA where it is untouchable.But there are now experimental cancer drugs that might be able to flush the virus out and make it vulnerable.Dr Frater said: "It turns on a virus inside a cell and it becomes visible to the immune system and we can target it with a vaccine."However, this approach requires drugs to make the virus active and a vaccine to train the immune system to finish it off - this is not just round the corner."We are a long, long way away, in truth," said Dr Frater.There is another route being considered - involving a rare mutation that leaves people resistant to HIV infection.In 2007, Timothy Ray Brown became the first patient believed to have recovered from HIV. His immune system was destroyed as part of leukaemia treatment. It was then restored with a stem-cell transplant from a patient with the mutation.A little bit of genetic engineering may also help to modify a patient's own immune system so that it has the protective mutation. Once again this is a distant prospect.'Uncertain'Chairman of the UK-wide Aids vaccine programme Prof Jonathan Weber, from Imperial College, said: "For established infection we have some ideas, but it is all in the realms of experimental medicine."There is no consensus and no clear way forward."Is a world without Aids possible?He added a cure would be very cost-effective, as giving people drugs every day of their life was expensive.Prof Jane Anderson, consultant at Homerton hospital in London, expressed caution about expecting a cure after the case in the US."This is a very exciting moment, but it is not the answer in today's world."I'm worried that we so desperately want a cure that we forget the cost-effective stuff that does make a difference."Nearly every case of mother-to-child transmission can be prevented by drugs, caesarean section and not breastfeeding. And in adults, most cases are as a result of unsafe sex.HIV really is an infection where prevention is much easier than cure. | http://www.aegis.org/DisplayContent/download.aspx?type=txt§ionID=377785 | dclm-gs1-254080002 | false | true | {
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The year in Arrowhead Pride, with our top 10 most-trafficked posts.
1. Eric Winston: Fans cheering Matt Cassel's injury are 'sickening' (October 7)
You all know this one. I heard what Winston had to say about Chiefs fans in the locker room after the game and then quickly ran upstairs to transcribe the whole thing, knowing this would be a big deal (for at least a week).
ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted this story out, which contributed to a lot of the attention. Oh, yeah, we landed on Outside The Lines after this, too (as the most handsome KC media member ... take that, Mellinger).
2. Chiefs LB Jovan Belcher dead after murder-suicide at Arrowhead Stadium (December 1)
This story appears on here a number of times, unfortunately. This link goes to our StoryStream, which includes complete coverage of that unforgettable day and all of the aftermath.
3. The case for Geno Smith: This is why the Chiefs will select him No. 1 overall (December 21)
This was posted by BJ Kissel just last week. Great feature with great visuals at a great time. It was great!
4. Arrowhead Stadium shooting: Facility on lockdown (December 1)
This was our very first story posted when we didn't know any details.
5. Man dies of 'heartbreaking disappointment caused by the Kansas City Chiefs football team' (November 18)
It's weird what gets a lot of traffic and what doesn't. This post was just something quick that I put up because it was unique. Twitter and Facebook kinda change the game on what gets viewed a lot and what doesn't.
6. 'Who knew Kansas City was in Missouri?' and other tweets from the HR derby (July 10)
Ha. I thought this one was pretty good myself. The KCK-KCMO thing always bugged me (yeah, I rep KCMO).
7. Dexter McCluster injury updates: here's what we know (September 23)
Anyone remember McCluster hurting his elbow in Week 3? It looked like it was going to be serious, even season-ending, but then he ended up being OK. A lot of people (read: fantasy football) cared about it at the time. This link is to our StoryStream on McCluster's injury.
8. Reports: Shooting at Arrowhead stadium is a murder-suicide; Chiefs player involved (December 1)
This is when we initially learned that a Chiefs player, who we would later learn was Jovan Belcher, was involved with the tragedy.
9. Dexter McCluster's ugly injury is the only downside to Chiefs' upset over Saints (September 23)
Our post with the actual video and picture -- warning: it's queasy to see -- of McCluster's elbow injury. Again, fantasy football people are crazy.
10. NFL playoff schedule is officially set (January 2)
This is the same post I'll be writing on Monday morning, after the playoff schedule is set.
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Differentiated Classroom
by Carol Ann Tomlinson
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What Is a Differentiated Classroom?
A different way to learn is what the kids are calling for . . . . All of them are talking about how our one-size-fits-all delivery system—which mandates that everyone learn the same thing at the same time, no matter what their individual needs—has failed them.
Seymour Sarason, The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform
In the United States more than a century ago, the teacher in a one-room prairie schoolhouse faced a challenging task. She had to divide her time and energy between teaching young children who had never held a book and could not read or write and teaching older, more advanced students with little interest in what the young ones were doing. Today's teachers still contend with the essential challenge of the one-room schoolhouse: how to reach out effectively to students who span the spectrum of learning readiness, personal interests, culturally shaped ways of seeing and speaking of the world, and experiences in that world.
Though today's teachers generally work with single classes with students of nearly the same age, these children have an array of needs as great as those among the children of the one-room school. Thus, a teacher's question remains much the same as it was 100 years ago: “How do I divide time, resources, and myself so that I am an effective catalyst for maximizing talent in all my students?” Consider how these teachers answer that question.
• Mrs. Wiggins assigns students to spelling lists based on a pretest, not the assumption that all 3rd graders should work on List Three.
• Mr. Owen matches homework to student need whenever possible, trying to ensure that practice is meaningful for everyone.
• Ms. Jernigan only occasionally teaches math to the whole class at once. More often, she uses a series of direct instruction, practice, and application groups. She works hard to give everyone “equal time” at an appropriate entry point of instruction, matching practice work to student need. She also regroups students for real-world math applications so they hear a variety of voices in their journey to think mathematically.
• Ms. Enrico offers students a variety of options when it's time to create the final product for a unit. She bases the options on students' interests so they have the chance to link what they've learned with something that matters to them as individuals.
All of these teachers are differentiating instruction. Perhaps they practiced differentiating instruction before it had a name, or without even knowing its name. They are teachers who strive to do whatever it takes to ensure that struggling and advanced learners, students with varied cultural heritages, and children with different background experiences all grow as much as they possibly can each day, each week, and throughout the year.
Hallmarks of Differentiated Classrooms
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide. They accept and build upon the premise that learners differ in important ways. Thus, they also accept and act on the premise that teachers must be ready to engage students in instruction through different learning modalities, by appealing to differing interests, and by using varied rates of instruction along with varied degrees of complexity. In differentiated classrooms, teachers ensure that a student competes against himself as he grows and develops more than he competes against other students.
In differentiated classrooms, teachers provide specific ways for each individual to learn as deeply as possible and as quickly as possible, without assuming one student's road map for learning is identical to anyone else's. These teachers believe that students should be held to high standards. They work diligently to ensure that struggling, advanced, and in-between students think and work harder than they meant to; achieve more than they thought they could; and come to believe that learning involves effort, risk, and personal triumph. These teachers also work to ensure that each student consistently experiences the reality that success is likely to follow hard work.
Teachers in differentiated classes use time flexibly, call upon a range of instructional strategies, and become partners with their students to see that both what is learned and the learning environment are shaped to the learner. They do not force-fit learners into a standard mold. You might say these teachers are students of their students. They are diagnosticians, prescribing the best possible instruction for their students. These teachers also are artists who use the tools of their craft to address student's needs. They do not reach for standardized, mass-produced instruction assumed to be a good fit for all students because they recognize that students are individuals.
Teachers in differentiated classrooms begin with a clear and solid sense of what constitutes powerful curriculum and engaging instruction. Then they ask what it will take to modify that instruction so that each learner comes away with understandings and skills that offer guidance to the next phase of learning. Essentially, teachers in differentiated classrooms accept, embrace, and plan for the fact that learners bring many commonalities to school, but that learners also bring the essential differences that make them individuals. Teachers can allow for this reality in many ways to make classrooms a good fit for each individual.
Although differentiated classrooms embody common sense, they still can be difficult to achieve. In part, it is difficult to achieve a differentiated classroom because we see few examples of them. The examples that are out there, however, offer a productive way to start exploring differentiated instruction.
Portraits from Schools
Teachers work daily to find ways to reach out to individual learners at their varied points of readiness, interest, and learning preference. There is no one “right way” to create an effectively differentiated classroom; teachers craft responsive learning places in ways that are a good match for their teaching styles, as well as for learners' needs. Following are samples from classrooms in which teachers differentiate instruction. Some are lifted directly from an observation in a classroom. Some are composites of several classrooms, or extensions of conversations with teachers. All are intended to help in forming images of what it looks like and feels like in a differentiated classroom.
Snapshots from Two Primary Classrooms
For a part of each day in Mrs. Jasper's 1st grade class, students rotate among learning centers. Mrs.Jasper has worked hard for several years to provide a variety of learning centers related to several subject areas. All students go to all learning centers because Mrs. Jasper says they feel it's unfair if they don't all do the same thing. Students enjoy the movement and the independence the learning centers provide.
Many times, Isabel breezes through the center work. Just as frequently, Jamie is confused about how to do the work. Mrs. Jasper tries to help Jamie as often as she can, but she doesn't worry so much about Isabel because her skills are well beyond those expected of a 1st grader.
Today, all students in Mrs. Jasper's class will work in a learning center on compound words. From a list of 10 compound words, they will select and illustrate 5. Later, Mrs. Jasper will ask for volunteers to show their illustrations. She will do this until the students share illustrations for all 10 words.
Down the hall, Ms. Cunningham also uses learning centers in her 1st grade classroom. She, too, has invested considerable time in developing interesting centers on a variety of subjects. Ms. Cunningham's centers, however, draw upon some of the principles of differentiated classrooms. Sometimes all students work in a particular learning center if it introduces an idea or skill new to everyone. More often, Ms. Cunningham assigns students to a specific learning center, or to a particular task at a certain learning center, based on her continually developing sense of their individual readiness.
Today, her students also will work at a learning center on compound words. Students' names are listed at the center; one of four colors is beside each name. Each student works with the folder that matches the color beside his or her name. For example, Sam has the color red next to his name. Using the materials in the red folder, Sam must decide the correct order of pairs of words to make familiar compound words. He also will make a poster that illustrates each simple word and the new compound word they form. Using materials in the blue folder, Jenna will look around the classroom and in books to find examples of compound words. She will write them out and illustrate them in a booklet. Using materials in the purple folder, Tjuana will write a poem or a story that uses compound words she generates and that make the story or poem interesting. She then can illustrate the compound words to make the story or poem interesting to look at as well as to read. In the green folder, Dillon will find a story the teacher has written. It contains correct and incorrect compound words. Dillon will be a word detective, looking for “villains” and “good guys” among the compound words. He will create a chart to list the good guys (correct compound words) and the villains (incorrect compound words) in the story. He will illustrate the good guys and list the villains as they are in the story, and then write them correctly.
Tomorrow during circle time, all students may share what they did with their compound words. As students listen, they are encouraged to say the thing they like best about each presenter's work. Ms. Cunningham also will call on a few students who may be reticent to volunteer, asking them if they'd be willing to share what they did at the center.
Examples from Two Elementary Classrooms
In 5th grade, students at Sullins Elementary work with the concept of “famous people” to make connections between social studies and language arts. All students are expected to hone and apply research skills, to write effectively, and to share with an audience what they have learned as a result of the unit.
Mr. Elliott asks all his students to select and read a biography of a famous person from the literature or history they have studied. Students then use encyclopedias and the Internet to find out more about the person they have chosen. Each student writes a report about a famous person, describing the person's culture, childhood, education, challenges, and contributions to the world. Students are encouraged to use both original and “found” illustrations in their reports. Mr. Elliott gives a rubric to the whole class to coach students in areas such as use of research resources, organization, and quality of language.
In her 5th grade class, Mrs. May gives her students interest inventories to help them find areas where they may have a special talent or fascination, such as sports, art, medicine, the outdoors, writing, or helping others. Ultimately, each student selects an area of special interest or curiosity. The students and teacher talk about the fact that in all areas of human endeavor, famous people have shaped our understanding and practice of the field. She reads them a biographical sketch of a statesman, a musician, and an astronaut. Together, students and teacher describe principles about these famous people.
For example, famous people often are creative, they take risks to make advances in their fields, they frequently are rejected before they are admired, they sometimes fail, they sometimes succeed, and they are persistent. Students test the principles as they discuss historic figures, authors, and people in the news today. In the end, students conclude that people can be famous “for the right reasons” or “for the wrong reasons.” They decide to research people who become famous by having a positive impact on the world.
The school media specialist helps each student to generate lists of “positive” famous people in that student's particular categories of interest. She also helps them learn how to locate a variety of resources that can help them research famous individuals. This includes brainstorming possible interview sources. She talks with them about the importance of selecting research materials they can read and understand clearly. She also offers to help them look for alternatives if they find materials that seem too easy or too hard for them.
Mrs. May and her students talk about how to take notes and try various ways to take notes during their research. They also consider different methods of organizing their information, such as webs, outlines, story boards, and matrices. They talk about all the ways they can express their understandings: through essays, historical fiction, monologues, poems, caricatures, or character sketches. Mrs. May provides students with a rubric that guides them on the content, research, planning, and outcome of their work. Students also work with Mrs. May individually to set their own goals for understandings, working processes, and final products.
As the assignment continues, Mrs. May works with individuals and small groups to assess their understanding and progress and to coach them for quality. Students also assess each other's work according to the rubrics and individual goals. They ensure that each report shows someone who has made a “positive” contribution to the world. In the end, the whole class completes a mural in the cafeteria that lists the principles of fame in the shape of puzzle pieces. On each puzzle piece, students write or illustrate examples of the principle from their famous person's life. They then add ways in which they believe the principles are or will be important in their own lives. Students also share their final products with an adult who knows something about, or is interested in learning about, the person they researched.
Comparisons from the Middle Grades
In Mr. Cornell's science class, students work in a specific cycle: read the text chapter, answer questions at the end of the chapter, discuss what they have read, complete a lab, and take a quiz. Students do the labs and complete their reports in groups of four. Sometimes Mr. Cornell assigns students to a lab group as a way of managing behavior problems. Often, students select their own lab groups. They read the text and answer the questions individually. Mr. Cornell typically conducts two or three whole-class discussions during a chapter. All students enter the science fair in the spring, with a project based on a topic studied in the fall or winter.
Mrs. Santos often assigns students in her science class to reading squads when they work with text materials. At this stage, group assignments usually are made so students of similar reading levels work together. She varies graphic organizers and learning log prompts according to the amount of structure and concreteness the various groups need to grasp essential understandings from the chapter. She also makes it possible for students to read aloud in their groups or to read silently. Then they complete organizers and prompts together. As students read, Mrs. Santos moves among groups. Sometimes she reads key passages to them, sometimes she asks them to read to her, but she always probes for deeper understanding and helps to clarify their thinking.
Sometimes Mrs. Santos asks students to complete labs, watch videos, or work with supplementary materials before they read the chapter so they have a clear sense of guiding principles before they work with the text. Sometimes they read the text for awhile, do a lab, and go back to the text. Sometimes labs and supplementary materials follow text exploration. Frequently, she will have two versions of a lab going simultaneously: one for students who need concrete experiences to understand essential principles and one for students who already grasp the important principles and can deal with them in complex and uncertain contexts.
Mrs. Santos gives quizzes and diagnostic learning log entries several times in the course of a unit. Thus, she is aware of which students need additional instruction with key understandings and skills and which students need more advanced applications early in the unit. Students have several choices for a major science project:
• Work alone or with peers to investigate and address a problem in the community that relates to the science they are studying.
• Work in a mentorship role with a person or group in the community using science to address a local problem.
• Study scientists past and present who have positively influenced the practice of science in an area they have studied.
• Write a science fiction story based on the science they have studied with the goal of submitting the story to the school's literary arts anthology.
• Use classroom cameras to create a narrated photo essay that would help a younger student understand how some facet of the science they have studied works in the world.
• Propose another option to the teacher and work with her to shape a project that demonstrates understanding and skill in science.
In Mr. O'Reillys 8th grade English class, students read the same novels and have whole-class discussions on them. Students complete journal entries on their readings.
In Mrs. Wilkerson's 8th grade English class, students often read novels around a common theme, such as courage or conflict resolution. Students select from a group of four or five novels on the same concept, and Mrs. Wilkerson provides classroom sets of the books. Mrs. Wilkerson also makes sure the novels span a considerable reading range and tap into several interests.
Mrs. Wilkerson's 8th graders meet frequently in literature circles with students reading the same novel. There they discuss what they are reading. Although the various literature circles reflect different degrees of reading proficiency, students in each group take turns serving in one of five leadership roles: discussion director, graphic illustrator, historical investigator, literary luminary, and vocabulary enricher. There are printed guides for each role to help students fulfill them well. Mrs. Wilkerson also varies journal prompts, sometimes assigning different prompts to different students. Often, she encourages students to select a prompt that interests them. There also are many opportunities for whole-class discussion on the theme that all the novels share, allowing all students to contribute to an understanding of how the theme “plays out” in the book they are reading and in life.
Samples from High School
In Spanish I, Mrs. Horton's students complete the same language pattern drills, work on the same oral exercises, read the same passages, and take the same quizzes.
In French I, Mr. Adams's students often work with written drills at differing levels of complexity and with different amounts of teacher support. Their oral exercises focus on the same basic structures, but completion requires different levels of sophistication with the language. Sometimes students can “opt out” of review sessions to create their own French dialogue or to read a French language magazine. Students often work in teacher-assigned, mixed-readiness pairs to prepare for what the teacher calls “fundamentals quizzes.” Students who wish to do so can, from time to time, select a partner to prepare for a “challenge quiz.” Success on a challenge quiz nets students “homework passes” they can use to be excused from homework assignments when their work on the quiz indicates they have mastered the homework material.
In Mr. Matheson's Algebra II class, students typically complete the same homework, work independently on in-class drills, and take the same tests.
In her Algebra II class, Mrs. Wang helps students identify key concepts and skills in a given chapter. After various chapter assessments, students are encouraged to look at their own assessment results and select homework assignments and in-class miniworkshops that will help them clarify areas of confusion. She encourages students to decide whether they work most effectively alone or with a partner and to make that choice when there are opportunities to do so. Toward the end of a chapter, Mrs. Wang also gives students individual “challenge problems,” which they can tackle alone or with a classmate. She designs the problems to be a mental reach. On end-of-chapter tests, students find challenge problems similar but not identical to the ones Mrs. Wang gave them earlier. There may be five or six different challenge problems distributed among the tests of 30 students.
In physical education, Mrs. Bowen's students usually all work with the same exercises and basketball drills. Mr. Wharton helps his students diagnose their starting points with various exercises and basketball skills, set challenging goals for personal improvement, and chart their personal progress. He particularly stresses growth in two areas: a student's best and weakest area.
In U.S. History, Miss Roberson and her students cover the information in the text sequentially. She lectures to supplement information in the text. Miss Roberson includes a special emphasis on women's history and African American history during the months designated by the school for those emphases.
Mrs. Washington's U.S. History students look for key concepts and generalizations that recur in each period of history they study. They also look for concepts and generalizations unique to each period. They study various points of view and the experiences shared by various cultural, economic, and gender groups. They use a variety of text, video, and taped materials of varying degrees of difficulty. Mrs. Washington sometimes lectures, but she always uses overhead transparencies that provide key points of her lecture to help visual learners. She also stops throughout the lecture to encourage students to talk about key ideas in the lecture and to ensure their grasp of those ideas. Essays and projects often ask students to take their understanding of a period in U.S. history and contrast it with what was going on in another culture and in another geographical area during the same period. Project assignments always offer several options for how a student can express his or her understanding. At the end of each quarter, students have the option of taking their whole grade from an exam, or they can take half of it from an alternative assessment proposed by the teacher and modified by the student with teacher guidance and approval.
Differentiated classrooms feel right to students who learn in different ways and at different rates and who bring to school different talents and interests. More significantly, such classrooms work better for a full range of students than do one-size-fits-all settings. Teachers in differentiated classrooms are more in touch with their students and approach teaching more as an art than as a mechanical exercise.
Developing classrooms that actively attend to both student similarities and student differences is anything but simple. The chapters that follow describe classrooms with differentiated, or responsive, instruction, and they offer guidance on how you can, over time, make such classrooms a reality for your class or school.
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NAU researchers find possible caves on Mars
Researchers propose these images of seven black spots near a massive Martian volcano may actually be caves rather than impact craters. The images were taken from the Thermal Emission Imaging System aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
Applying techniques used to scope out caves on Earth to probe the possibility of caves on Mars is paying off.
NAU researchers Glen Cushing and J. Judson Wynne, working at the U.S. Geological Survey, propose that photos from the Mars Odyssey mission reveal football-field size holes that could be entrances to caves.
"If there is life on Mars, there is a good chance you'd find it in caves," said Wynne, an NAU graduate student in biological sciences and project leader for the USGS Earth-Mars Cave Detection Program.
He said the possible discovery could lead to more focused Mars explorations.
Martian caves are considered the "best potential havens for life" because they would be protected from surface radiation and other factors, he said.
Caves on Mars could provide human explorers with access to water reserves because the caves themselves might serve as locations for long-term ice accumulation.
Credit: NASA
"The Martian surface is an extremely harsh environment, so the significance of caves is in their protective nature," said Cushing, a graduate teaching assistant in NAU's Department of Physics and Astronomy, who was the first to spot the black areas on the photographs. "Caves on Mars could become habitats for future explorers, or could be the only structures that preserve evidence of past or present microbial life."
Cushing and Wynne, along with Tim Titus, an astrophysicist with USGS, and Phil Christensen, the chief scientist for the NASA imaging instrument and a researcher from Arizona State University, recently submitted their findings in a research paper at the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
The claim for caves is based on an analysis of photographs from the Thermal Emission Imaging System aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, which revealed seven black spots near a massive Martian volcano, Arsia Mons. Although this area of Mars is known for geological occurrences, the researchers said the dark spots do not look like impact craters because they don't have raised rims or blast patterns.
NASA's Mars Odyssey reached Mars in October of 2001 and has since been collecting data in order to help scientists determine if the environment of Mars was, or is, conducive to life.
Credit: NASA
"This is a very interesting discovery with positive implications," said Nadine Barlow, an associate professor in physics and astronomy at NAU and expert on Martian impact craters. "Caves on Mars could be good places for long-term ice accumulation and that would make them ideal locations to look for life on Mars as well as valuable reservoirs for water to support future human exploration of the planet."
The Earth-Mars Cave Detection Program's overall objective is to develop techniques for systemically detecting caves on Earth in the thermal infrared and then applying these techniques to searching for caves on Mars, Wynne explained.
The team reported possible caverns ranging from 330 to 825 feet wide and 425 feet deep They've been named after loved ones of the researchers: Dena, Chloe, Wendy, Annie, Abbey, Nikki and Jeanne.
Christensen said the first avenue for further observations could be provided by NASA's latest Red Planet probe, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Your eyes constantly produce tears at a slow and steady rate so that they stay moist and comfortable. Some people are not able to produce enough tears or the appropriate quality of tears to keep their eyes healthy or comfortable. This condition is known as dry eye.
Symptoms of dry eye include scratchiness, stinging, stringy mucus in or around the eyes, and blurry vision.
Sometimes people with dry eye will experience excess tearing. This is the eye’s response to the discomfort from dry eye. When the eyes get irritated, the gland that makes tears releases a larger than usual volume of tears, which overwhelm the tear drainage system. These excess tears then overflow from your eyes.
Dry Eye Causes
Dry eye often increases with age as tear production slows. For women, this is especially true after menopause. Dry eye can be associated with other problems like Sjögren’s syndrome, which can cause dry eyes along with dry mouth and arthritis.
Your ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) can usually diagnose dry eye by examining your eyes. Sometimes tests that measure tear production are necessary. The Schirmer tear test measures tear production by placing filter-paper strips between your eyeball and your lower lid. Your ophthalmologist might also test you for dry eye using diagnostic drops to check for patterns of dryness on the eye’s surface.
Dry Eye Treatement
Treatments for dry eye include eyedrops called artificial tears to lubricate the eyes and help maintain moisture. Your ophthalmologist may conserve your tears by closing the channels through which your tears drain. You can also try to prevent tears from evaporating by avoiding wind and dry air from overheated rooms and hair dryers. Smoking irritates dry eyes and should be avoided.
In less developed countries, dry eye due to a lack of vitamin A in the diet is not uncommon. Ointments with vitamin A can help dry eye caused by unusual conditions like Stevens-Johnson syndrome or pemphigoid.
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Whooping cough (pertussis)
whoop; whooping; cough; pertussis; immunisation; immunization; vaccine; vaccination; mucous; erythromycin; infection; Bordetella;
Whooping cough (also called pertussis) is an infection of the nose, throat and lungs which causes long bursts of coughing (up to several minutes long). In young children the coughing spell often ends in a 'whooping' noise when the child can finally take a breath in.
Children can have several coughing spells each hour, including while they are sleeping. They can also go on having coughing spells for many weeks (up to about 3 months for some).
Older children and adults can have whooping cough without the 'whooping' sound. They have coughing spells lasting a minute or more, followed by several minutes of not coughing.
Whooping cough can be life threatening for babies. Newborns are not immune and they often get extremely sick. Babies who get whooping cough often get it from others in their family, including their parents.
It is now recommended that parents and others who will be close to a baby get a whooping cough booster even if they have been immunised before. This includes grandparents, older children in the family, other adults who live in the house, child care workers and health care workers. Women can get the booster when they are planning a pregnancy or as soon as their baby is born. Other family members can be immunised during the pregnancy.
What is whooping cough?
Whooping cough is an infection caused by a bacterium, Bordetella pertussis. Outbreaks of whooping cough were first described in the 16th Century.
Pertussis kills about 250,000 children worldwide each year. 18 deaths were recorded in Australia between 1993 and 2004, of whom all but 2 were children under 12 months old.
In Australia, there are epidemics of whooping cough about every 3 to 5 years, with the most recent peaks in South Australia in 2009 and 2010.
How does it spread?
The infection spreads by droplets that are coughed or sneezed out during the first 3 weeks of the illness. These droplets can be breathed in or they can be carried to the nose by hands which come in contact with the droplets (eg through handling used tissues or by touching surfaces which have the droplets on them).
Whooping cough is very easy to catch. 70% to 100% of people living in the same house as someone with whooping cough will get the infection unless they have been immunised in the last 11 years, or have had the infection.
Who is most at risk?
Any one who is not protected (by recent immunisation or by having had the infection before) can get whooping cough, including older children and adults. Most people who get the infection in Australia are adults or young people over about 11 years of age - even if they have been immunised as a baby.
Babies are at most risk of having severe health problems from whooping cough. About 1 in 200 babies who get whooping cough before they are 6 months old will die from the infection.
How long does it take to develop?
A child or adult who catches whooping cough will usually start to be unwell about 7 to 10 days after being exposed to the infection.
How long is it infectious?
A person with whooping cough is highly infectious in the first few days (when they seem to only have a 'cold').
Without treatment with an effective antibiotic, a person will go on being infectious for about 3 weeks.
If the illness is treated with an effective antibiotic (often erythromycin), a person will usually stop being infectious within 5 days.
It can take a while for adults with whooping cough to be diagnosed correctly, because they usually do not whoop. If their cough is treated with some common antibiotics the bacteria may not be killed, and they can go on being infectious for about 3 weeks.
Signs and symptoms of whooping cough
The illness usually starts like a 'cold' with runny nose and a cough which is not like the spells of coughing later in the illness.
After several days the long spells of coughing start, causing difficulty breathing during the spells. The child will have many quick coughs in one spell. There can be several spells of coughing each hour.
Young children often have a whoop after the coughing spell (when they can finally breathe in). During the cough or soon afterwards they might vomit any food or drink that they have recently swallowed.
Very young babies may not cough, but they may just stop breathing for a minute or longer many times per day. If they cough there might not be the whoop.
Adults and older children may not whoop, but they will have coughing spells and they may feel tired (the coughing can interfere with sleeping), and generally unwell. Also the coughing can cause muscle pain in chest and abdomen (tummy).
It can be many weeks before it is recognised that the older child or adult has whooping cough.
Finally, after several weeks or more, the coughing spells start happening less often and they stop happening about 2 to 3 weeks after this. If the person gets a cold soon after having whooping cough, the coughing can start again for a while (much shorter than the original illness).
Diagnosis of whooping cough
During an outbreak of whooping cough it is usually possible to diagnose whooping cough from the symptoms.
Blood tests and tests on mucous from the nose or throat can be done to confirm that the illness is whooping cough. Xrays may be done to check how well the lungs are working.
If your child has been exposed to whooping cough, see your doctor, as your child might need an antibiotic to protect him from becoming infected.
When it is recognised that a child or adult has whooping cough, an antibiotic, (often erythromycin), is prescribed. It will kill the bacteria but it does not stop the coughing which may go on for many weeks, unless the antibiotic is given very early in the illness.
Young babies with whooping cough are often so ill that they need hospital treatment. Feeding can be a problem because they often vomit after coughing. A baby may need tube feeding. Some babies need intensive care including ventilation.
Cough suppressing medicines may be helpful for adults but should not be used for young children unless you have been advised to use them by a doctor. Part of the reason for coughing is that there is sticky mucous in the airways which needs to be coughed up. Always check with your doctor before giving a child a cough suppressing medicine.
What you can do
It is important to check often that the child is eating and drinking enough.
It seems that feeding a young child immediately after a coughing spell may mean the food and drink stays down. Feeding seems to trigger a coughing spell if the child has not coughed recently, but soon after a coughing spell, food and drink usually do not trigger another coughing spell.
Children who are coughing often will be tired and uncomfortable (coughing can cause tummy pain from overused muscles). Some paracetamol or ibuprofen may help with aching muscles.
The topic 'Feeling sick' has more ideas.
Immunisation of babies against whooping cough protects most children completely, although a small number of immunised children may have a milder illness with whooping cough.
The immunisation is given at the same time as immunising them against tetanus, diphtheria and polio (at 2, 4 and 6 months and 4 years). It is very important for protecting babies against whooping cough that they are immunised as soon as possible according to the immunisation schedule.
Immunisation of older children also protects babies under 2 months (when whooping cough can be very severe) because there will be fewer children in the community who can spread the infection to babies (babies are not protected by antibodies from their mother).
There is now a vaccine to protect children over 10 years and adults. This booster works if the person had a full set of immunisation as a baby.
Immunisation is recommended to be given with tetanus and diphtheria at the age of 15-17 years (one injection with three vaccines). This immunisation is provided free in Australia.
Immunisation is also recommended for
• adults before planning a pregnancy
• parents of newborn babies
• adults working with young children
• adults at age 50 years (when combined tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis [whooping cough] vaccine can be used instead of diphtheria-tetanus).
However - the vaccine is not free at these times.
Preventing the spread of whooping cough
Any person with whooping cough should be excluded from child care, kindergarten and school until 5 days after starting treatment, or if not treated, for 3 weeks from the start of symptoms.
Children who are unwell should not be at child care, kindergarten or school even if they are no longer infectious. The teachers are not able to provide the care that sick children need.
Any children under the age of 7 years who have not been immunised and have been in contact with someone with whooping cough should be excluded from child care, kindergarten or school for 14 days after the contact, or until they have been on antibiotic treatment for at least 5 days.
The National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia recommends that anyone who has been exposed to whooping cough in the household or other close contacts (such as child care) should receive antibiotics for 10 days even if they have been immunised (see your doctor).
Whooping cough is a notifiable disease in Australia. The State Government health service will be notified of proven cases of whooping cough so that they can assist in stopping the spread of the infection.
Questions often asked about immunisation against pertussis
Q: Does pertussis immunisation cause permanent brain damage?
A: No, it does not, and many studies have been done to show that there is no risk. A few babies become "floppy" for several hours after the injection. They always recover fully. However children who get ill with pertussis (especially babies) can have brain damage, and might die.
Q: Does the pertussis part of the vaccine (combined with tetanus, diphtheria, and in South Australia Hepatitis B vaccines) cause reactions such as fever and a sore spot where the injection was given?
A: The type of pertussis vaccine has been changed. Since this new vaccine (a-cellular pertussis) has been used, there have been many fewer children who get a fever or sore injection sites, but they get the same amount of protection.
Q: Do children still need to be immunised against whooping cough?
A: Yes, there have been regular outbreaks of whooping cough in Australia even in the last few years, and babies in Australia still die from whooping cough. In some countries where many children are not immunised against whooping cough, the numbers of children getting sick (and dying) with whooping cough is much higher than in Australia.
Q: How long does the protection from whooping cough last after immunisation?
A: For some people, the protection against whooping cough starts to get lower around the age of 12 years. A booster at 15 to 17 years is recommended and provided free of charge in Australia.
Q: Is it better to wait until my child is a bit older before having the whooping cough immunisation?
A: No. Waiting until your child is older is not recommended because it is when they are less than 12 months old that babies are most at risk. Many of the children over 5 months old who get whooping cough have either not been immunised or the immunisations have not been given at the recommended time.
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Glen Stickley, Brisbane AU
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20090033556SYNTHETIC APERTURE PERIMETER ARRAY RADAR - A perimeter antenna array for a radar, in particular a slope monitoring radar, formed from a pair of parallel linear arrays of receiver elements and a pair of parallel linear arrays of receiver elements, together forming a rectangle of receiver and transmitter elements. Signals are switched to the transmitter elements and received by the receiving elements. The signals are processed to obtain signals for virtual elements located equidistant between transmitting and receiving elements. The signals from the virtual elements are analysed to produce a radar image.02-05-2009
20090121921Interferometric Signal Processing - A method of error handling in a slope monitoring system that generates slope movement data from interferometric signal processing of radar images of the slope monitoring system. The error handling occurs in two steps. The movement data is corrected for changes in atmospheric conditions and disturbances are identified. It is convenient to mask the regions identified as disturbed in the display of the corrected movement data. Typical disturbances include short term disturbances, such as trucks, and long term disturbances, such as vegetation.05-14-2009
20100289693INTERFEROMETRIC SIGNAL PROCESSING - Systems and methods of error handling in interferometric signal processing for a ground based slope monitoring system are described. Uncorrected movement data is extracted from interferometric radar measurements of a relatively stable reference. The movement data is corrected for changes in atmospheric conditions as a function of changes in a refractive index of the air and an offset induced at zero range.11-18-2010
James N. Stickley, La Mesa, CA US
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20080262863Integrated, Rules-Based Security Compliance And Gateway System - Processes which enable regulated enterprises to efficiently manage regulatory compliance of computer networks and their users. One computer-implemented process involves providing a query database having information representing a plurality of queries, each query being associated in the query database with one or more of a plurality of specific industry regulations; receiving a selection of one or more of the plurality of specific industry regulations and displaying one or more of the queries associated with the selected industry regulations to a user of a computer network under the control of a regulated enterprise; receiving and storing one or more answers provided by the user to the one or more queries displayed; providing a report-writing database having information indicative of one or more statements, each of the statements being associated in the report-writing database with at least one answer provided by the user to at least one query displayed to the user; and generating from the report-writing database a compliance report with one or more of the statements associated with the stored answers.10-23-2008
John Stickley, Walnut Creek, CA US
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20120089486MANAGING PROCESS REQUESTS IN A DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM - A fulfillment workbench of a distributed order orchestration system is provided. A distributed order orchestration system can include a fulfillment workbench that provides a user interface for order fulfillment administrators, users and supervisors to monitor and manage order fulfillment processes through the distributed order orchestration system. The fulfillment workbench can receive a process request from a user to modify an ongoing order fulfillment process, where the process request includes one or more line requests, transmit the process request to one or more fulfillment systems, and provide a process request status to the user. The fulfillment workbench can provide a process request status to the user even though the process request interacts with one or more fulfillment systems, and the timing of the response to the process request may not be known.04-12-2012
Keith Stickley, Frederick, MD US
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20130063026Towed Vehicle Light-Sensitive External Lighting Control Device - Disclosed is a towed vehicle electrical connector that operably routes onboard battery power within the vehicle to exterior lighting when disconnected from a towing vehicle and when ambient light conditions drop below a given threshold. The device comprises an electrical module connectable to a trailer lead vehicle electrical connector, wherein the module includes an electrical circuit to route onboard battery power into a relay and through the exterior lights and to ground. The relay is controlled by a light sensitive switch, which monitors ambient light and allows the battery to energize the trailer exterior lights. The device provides a trailer user with a twilight lighting system, which illuminates an area about the vehicle for increased security and low light visibility.03-14-2013
Patricia W. Stickley, Goshen, NY US
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20120310724SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GIFT CARD WHICH AFFORDS BENEFITS BEYOND WHAT IS PURCHASED - A system, computer product and method are provided for a card issuer providing a prepaid gift card to a purchaser, the gift card usable by a recipient of the card to pay merchants who participate in a financial network. The method includes receiving a payment of a predetermined amount, and loading the predetermined amount received from the purchaser into the prepaid gift card. The method further includes activating the loaded prepaid gift card, the activated prepaid gift card being usable by the recipient for paying any of the merchants in the financial network until the predetermined amount loaded in the prepaid gift card is exhausted, and being usable by the recipient to obtain a benefit beyond what is purchased from at least some of the merchants in the financial network.12-06-2012
Stephen D. Stickley, Midlothian, VA US
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20080235925Gem setting having grooved channel walls and methods of setting gems - A gem setting for gemstones includes a channel with walls having grooves for holding a portion of a gem girdle, such that when a gem having a crown is set into the channel, the upper portion of the groove extends over the crown of the gem. The upper part of the channel above the groove can be permanently bent or rolled over the crown of the gem to secure the gem in the ring channel. A method of setting a gem in the channel includes inserting the gem girdle in the grooves, without permanently bending the channel walls, until the gem is positioned within the channel such that if the gem and ring together are placed in an upside down position, the gem will not fall out of the channel. Next, the upper part of each channel is permanently bent over the crown of the gem, to thereby secure the gem in the channel.10-02-2008 | http://www.faqs.org/patents/inventor/stickley-6/ | dclm-gs1-254660002 | false | false | {
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1. Having grown up in Chicago, I'm glad the Olympics won't be held there. The Olympics remind me of how the King of Siam (Thailand) would give a white elephant as a gift to those he wished to destroy, because a white elephant was considered too sacred to kill or give away to someone else. That's what the Olympics would be if brought to Chicago (or for that matter my current home town): an expensive white elephant that would tie up traffic and create all kinds of other expenses.
2. Not to mention that the speech she made was totally self-centered, rather than centered on selling Chicago. Witness George Will's word count analysis of her speech and her husband's.
Not to mention the fact that she told the audience that she was sitting on her father's lap, at age 20-21 watching Carl Lewis run sprints. I guess she forgot how old she was when Lewis was running in his first games.
3. Maybe her father had a Roman Polanski-like gift with young girls and Michelle kept coming back for more?
4. ostap_bulba says:
She has a gift for nothing. That her speeches have ever persuaded anybody over 13 of anything, is frankly inconceivable.
5. every word had been designed as a final touch for “after” their “victory” on Olympics….
Then came a thunderous smack on their arrogant faces!!!
Children as a ruling class….scarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry.
6. 2maxpower says:
Love your writting Michelle Malkin. Keep up the heat.
…the flotus is just an example of victim mentality.
7. Actually, a speech she gave during the '08 campaign was rather telling. She spoke of the coming Obama-led “transformation” to our country. She spoke of the demands Obama would put on us to participate in the transformation.
She persuaded me to be very concerned for our country's future.
8. And people wonder why the libs are so disrespectful to Sarah Palin. I think y'all are just envious of Michelle Obama. It's easy for some vindictive, disgruntled coworker to sit there and feed drivel to Michelle Malkin for whatEVER reason twenty years after the fact. I'm sure that person is pushing paperclips in some ignominious office while Michelle Obama travels on Air Force One.
9. I remember that, it sounded like a threat, one of those chicago wiseguy offers you can't refuse.
10. It's about time someone went after her. She got a free ride on her hate-filled, KKK-like senior thesis calling for racial segregation at Princeton. No one called her out when she griped that her $600 stimulus check “barely paid for a pair of earrings,” if I remember the quote. She's an affirmative action baby who, like her husband, is an unrepentant narcissist who is dishonest, classless, arrogant and entitled to everything and anytime they want. “Boorish” doesn't begin to describe them. “Golden-tongued street trash” is a lot closer.
11. And when they were told “NO” by the IOC, her bad attitude was nothing less than good sportsmanship, right? Was she proud of her country then?
12. Jim_SE_Texas says:
Why is she getting off my aircraft wearing a bathrobe?
13. Oh Michelle…you're such a wretched creature.
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Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: AArrow Advertising
How an 18-year-old kid took $500 and built a guerilla marketing agency with franchises in 30 cities and $4.5 million in revenue.
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A lot of businesses shell out for high-priced consultants, but when Max Durovic started AArow Advertising in 2002, he had a wealth of free advice at his fingertips. That's because the San Diego native was still an undergraduate studying business at Georgetown in Washington D.C. "The professors acted like free consultants and I could go in there and ask them for strategies and recommendations," he recalls.
The idea to launch the agency came to Durovic in high school while he was working as a sign holder with a bunch of friends. The X Games were becoming popular and Durovic began experimenting with something he called "sign spinning," performing tricks and moves using the advertisers' signs. His boss didn't like it because he was worried that customers wouldn't be able to read the signs, so Durovic left to start his own company.
Not content to invent a subcategory of guerilla marketing, Durovic is also aiming to turn sign spinning into a competitive sport. His company employs over 1,000 spinners in 30 U.S. cities as well as Canada, Puerto Rico, and South Korea and the spinners, most of whom are between the ages of 16 and 24, will gather at regional and national competitions to strut their stuff. Sometimes, even Durovic himself can still be found on street corners spinning for clients or competing in spin offs.
Durovic attributes his success partly to the fragmentation of the advertising industry and partly to the talent and dedication of his employees, but it's also largely due to his forethought and the company's method of expansion. Durovic was preparing for his brand to break boundaries when he gave the company its name. "No matter where you go, an arrow means the same thing to all people," he says, "it means 'go here, do this,' and as an advertising company that's a very powerful message to send." Being first in the phone book doesn't hurt either.
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spokeswoman [the ~] noun
1. the spokeswoman (spokesperson; mouthpiece; speaker)
la portavoz; el intérprete
2. the spokeswoman (spokesman; representative; spokesperson; )
el portavoz
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intérprete mouthpiece; speaker; spokesperson; spokeswoman commentator; declarer; explainer; exponent; expounder; impersonatress; interpreter; interpretress; translator
portavoz Speaker; informant; informer; mouthpiece; rapporteur; representative; speaker; spokesman; spokesperson; spokeswoman commentator; informant; informer; mouth-piece; mouthpiece; publicist; rapporteur; reporter; speaking-tube
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Herb why did you not take time to read the bills he voted no on? If you had you would know the Dems once again loaded them up with earmarks and pork knowing fools like you would swollow the whole lie. They knew that the Republicans would not vote for it so they could blame it not passing on the GOP. Funny how they had enough Dem votes to pass all the other Socialistic bills but not this VA bill. How does it feel being used as a fool? This is not the first time they used this tactic in recent weeks. Remember Weiners rant? They had enough votes to pass the bill but raised the requirement so it could not possibly pass without the GOP voting yes. It is all about power and politics but so many get sucked in by the political manuvering.
What pork and earmarks are you speaking of? Do you have specifics, or are you just spouting the same old tired nonsense that the repugnicans use to just say no?
And since when is a Veteran's bill a socialistic bill?
As far as the bill that the repugnicans voted no on and caused Wiener's rant; it was a bill to extend medical benefits to 9/11 first responders and clean up workers. Your repugnicans voted no because it would have been funded by taxing foreign corporations on earnings in the U.S. And God knows, no self-righteous right winger would ever vote to tax their holy coporations even if they are foreign owned and operated.
Lock-step, non-thinking, rhetoric spouting, devoid of ideas and completely obstructionist. That's your GOP.
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Thanks for this article - very timely as far as I'm concerned as I'm about to put a MySQL-based app live :-)
What sort of performance does the replica server need relative to the master? It looks like the updates to the replica DB can happen asynchronously as another thread is polling the logfile, so perhaps it doesn't need to be an identical box to the master. But where does the point come that the backup is compromised because the replicant can't keep up?
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Some things I've learned:
By David R. Fairbaugh
* Everyone thinks they have a right to free parking.
* No one ever got a parking ticket they deserved.
* Every woman whose car is "booted" is a single mother late to pick up her child and has no money.
* I have never been able to adequately define what the media refer to when they cite the dreaded "parking hassles."
* Parking is the only business I can think of where cities openly compete with the private sector.
* In most small and mid-size cities, you could rename "on-street" parking to "restaurant server" parking.
* City-hired parking consultants are often no more than well-paid researchers who provide data to support the desired conclusion.
* The better the marketing, the larger the operator.
* If colleges didn't subsidize parking, they could cut the number of vehicles on-campus by half.
* The same thing is true for hospitals.
* It is impossible for the owner of a Corvette (or Porsche) to park in one parking space.
* Poorly paid parking attendants can make great money.
* Anyone who tows a trailer into a parking garage should be checked for the common-sense gene.
* Car dealers never tell their customers that the brand-new mega-SUV they just bought will not fit into a normal parking garage.
* There is no such thing as a "garage-stretcher"-- for above-noted irate mega-SUV customer.
* After installing a new maximum-height clearance bar, you will receive at least a dozen phone calls for you to raise it "because it hit my vehicle."
* A Ford Expedition is considered by its owner a "compact car" when jammed into a compact parking space.
* Access cards make lousy pacifiers, dog chew toys, ice scrapers, etc.
* There is no such thing as "Free Parking."
David R. Fairbaugh of Preferred Parking Service, Charlotte, NC, is Parking Manager for Lowe's Motor Speedway. An IPI award winner and NPA CPFM, he has a patent pending for CyberPark, the industry's first interactive parking selection and enrollment Web site.
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Online Focus
August 6, 1999
Political Wrap
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot access the politicals behind new bi-partisan patients' bill of rights legislation and the GOP's $792 billion tax cut plan.
RealAudio report on Congress
NewsHour Links
Online Forum: What issues do you think should shape Election 2000?
A NewsHour special emphasis on the Election 2000 issues.
Aug. 5, 1999:
An update on the tax debate
Aug. 4, 1999:
Lame duck phenomenon in presidencies.
July 28, 1999:
The Senate debates a Republican $792 million tax cut proposal.
July 21, 1999:
The House passes a bill authorizing nearly $800 billion in tax cuts.
March 3, 1999:
Putting Social Security money in the stock market.
Feb. 16, 1999:
Republicans propose a 10% tax cut.
Feb. 1, 1999:
President Clinton sends his budget to Congress.
July 29, 1999:
Weekly newspaper editors discuss Agenda 2000.
July 13, 1999:
Four White House science advisors discuss Agenda 2000.
July 9, 1999:
NewsHour viewers' e-mail on election 2000.
July 6, 1999:
"Genius Grant" winners discuss their views on the upcoming elections.
June 29, 1999:
Regional editorial page editors discuss the election.
June 28, 1999:
Four lawyers look at the election's impact on the Supreme Court.
June 24, 1999:
Historians reflect on the needed debates.
June 17, 1999:
Vice President Gore kicks off his presidential campaign.
June 14, 1999:
The media phenomenon surrounding George W. Bush.
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Browse the NewsHour's Shields & Gigot index.
MARGARET WARNER: And for that analysis, we turn to Shields and Gigot-- syndicated columnist Mark Shields, and Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot.
A reborn patients' bill of rights?
Mark, explain the politics of what happened here. I mean, a week ago any kind of patient's bill of rights bill in the House looked dead and buried.
MARK SHIELDS: Well, until 21 Republicans showed up having worked and collaborated with the enemy, namely the Democrats. And when you've only got a five-seat edge, as Speaker Hastert has, the loss of 21 is worse than a hemorrhage. It's like losing a limb. And you heard Congressman Norwood in his interview with Kwame acknowledge that he's been active in it. They've got a bill. So after yesterday, after the dramatic day-- vote on taxes,vote on appropriations until early in the morning -- at 2 o'clock in the morning, the Republican leadership is gathered and the speaker's office where, lo and behold, they come up with a bill, a bill that is still in formation. It's not to be written, but they got rival -- this is perhaps the one strong argument.
I'll give this to Paul, for citizen legislators. We now have in the Congress as a result of term limits imposed, self-imposed in the case of Tom Coburn, he's a doctor. And he's Speaker Hastert's guy in the fight. Charlie Norwood is a dentist from Georgia. It's his fight. Greg Ganske is another doctor. He's not on the speaker's side in this, but it is interesting and it is intriguing but there's no question the speaker now has pledged to have a vote in the fall and, Margaret, it all goes back to one thing: A movie called "As Good As It Gets" starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in which she does a brief screed against HMO's. They are the most -- according to Paul's paper's poll -- the most unpopular institution surveyed in the United States. By a five to one margin Americans don't like -- have a very negative versus very positive feelings against HMO's.
MARGARET WARNER: So, is that what is driving these Republican defectors -- dissidents?
PAUL GIGOT: A movie? I don't think so.
MARGARET WARNER: No, the unpopularity.
PAUL GIGOT: I don't think it is citizen legislators. I think it goes back to a decision that Newt Gingrich made in 1995, he said let's put some doctors on the Commerce Committee; we've got these doctors, let's put them on it. This is the revenge of the doctors. Doctors hate HMO's because HMO's are the agent of cost containment. Congress liked the idea of HMO's coming in and saying, costs are exploding. We subsidized medical care. We don't have a lot of constraints. Let's have HMO's, other people, constrain them. Now they come in and say, wait a minute; we don't like what's going on. And particularly doctors don't because HMO's do interfere with medical decisions. And you have got three very well placed Republicans who are medical doctors or dentists. Charlie Norwood is a dentist on the Commerce Committee. And they basically have rallied enough Republicans including three on the Ways and Means Committee, which is one of the most partisan committees. And I think it's going to take everything the leadership has to stop what will be passing a Democratic bill.
MARGARET WARNER: Do you agree?
MARK SHIELDS: I do. I do. And I think one of the dirty little secrets of this whole town is that nobody on Capitol Hill has ever dealt with an HMO. They have on Capitol Hill the best care available, and if you don't like the doctor, you go to the next doctor and nobody ever says no. I'd like to have the House and the Senate under an HMO for six months and this legislation would be written in a week.
MARGARET WARNER: But then this - on the Senate side they passed a much more restrictive bill -- in other words, one that the President doesn't like and won't sign, so where are we headed here?
PAUL GIGOT: I think we're still probably headed for a bill. If something passes in the House along the lines of Dingell, John Dingell, the Democrat, and Norwood, it is going to be very hard for the Republican Senate to go to conference but very hard, I think, to resist some kind of bill particularly with the president beating up on them. The big difference though is lawsuits. The Republicans' bill in the Senate does not allow suits against HMO's and employers, the doctors. This is the other thing about the doctors. They're the deep pockets now on malpractice suits. They love the idea of spreading it to employers and insurers and HMO's. And that will be one of the fault lines in the debate.
MARGARET WARNER: So you think, too, that a patient's bill of rights bill could get to the President's desk, one that he might be willing to sign?
MARK SHIELDS: I think it's a terrible situation for the speaker to be in. He's pledged to a vote with the House -- very potentially being out of his control, with a Democratic and a rump Republican group taking over this issue. If that's the case and they pass it in the House, I don't think the Senate -- I think it can build up some momentum. I mean, Trent Lott makes the case and his supporters say, hey, we stopped it in the Senate. I guess them can't do it in the House. So, there's a little bit of intramural Republican tention on this issue.
Tax cut legislation: headed towards a veto?
MARGARET WARNER: All right. Now the tax cut bill. Tell me what you think is going to happen there. The Republicans say they're going to home over the recess and drum up all this support. Do they really think they can do this, that they can create enough pressure?
PAUL GIGOT: I don't think they think they can put enough pressure on Bill Clinton. I think he's determined. They think he's determined. I've been the optimist the last couple of weeks here of thinking there could be a compromise particularly because of Democratic support in the Senate but Trent Lott went up to the White House this week, met with the president for, I'm told, 90 minutes. The President even followed him out to the parking lot and the car but Lott came away saying, "He's not serious. He doesn't want to engage. He's adamant. He doesn't want a deal. He wants surrender. If that's the way he wants it we won't give him another bill to sign after he vetoes this one. We'll take the issue to the campaign and we'll make him look as if he's opposed to tax cuts."
MARGARET WARNER: What do you think is going to happen?
MARK SHIELDS: I think the Republicans are playing a losing hand in this one, Margaret. I don't think there's any question about it. Bill Clinton has come back again quoting the Wall Street Journal poll, I mean to the point where his greatest polarity both personally and professionally since that terrible last August when he had that appearance before the grand jury and the subject of admission to the American people. And he's back -- he's very much in the saddle. He's very much the dominant figure. The Republicans aren't going to change anything. If they thought they would change anything, they would have sent the bill to him.
MARGARET WARNER: Set up the confrontation now.
MARK SHIELDS: Set up the confrontation now and take it home and say look we're on one side, he's on the other. Now they're going to go home. This is a campaign document as passed. And when you pass a -- when you're the majority party and you pass a bill of this magnitude by one vote, it doesn't mean that you're serious about legislating. If they want to make a statement, that's fine. What is intriguing to me is how little traction tax cuts have as an issue. The Democrats were able to hold -- I mean voting for tax cuts is like voting for free ice cream and free beer and everything else. It is an easy vote, but the Democrats were able to hold 98 percent of the people against the tax cuts. Does that means the Democrats are profiles encouraging greater patriotic? Not necessarily. But it does mean that they don't think - even those that are worried - that this is a big issue that is going to come back and bite them.
PAUL GIGOT: Well, some of them do. Some of them would like it off the table. I mean a lot of Democrats would like to vote for a bill of some kind, particularly Bob Kerrey.
MARK SHIELDS: They weren't scared to yesterday.
PAUL GIGOT: Well, no, they didn't vote against that one. They voted against that one because they could say -- the senators could say well that's like the House bill. But some of them in the Senate do want to vote for a tax cut. And the president and Al Gore have endorsed $300 billion tax cuts. So they want to inoculate themselves on this issue. I don't think this is a freebie necessarily for Democrats. If Republicans can make this a debate between tax cuts and more government spending, I think they can win. If Democrats make this a debate between tax cuts and, say, more Medicare spending, then the Democrats have the better argument.
MARK SHIELDS: Paul is right. I mean quite frankly the Pew Research folks did a great question: 3 to 1 are you for a tax cut, or more government spending - 3 to 1 for a tax cut. Are you for spending more on Medicare, education, the environment, the patient's bill of rights, or for a tax cut -- 3 to 1 the other way.
MARGARET WARNER: It's all how it's framed in the election context.
PAUL GIGOT: The real debate here too is internal or Republican because Trent Lott thinks he doesn't want to go into negotiation with the President right now because he doesn't think he's serious, but Dennis Hastert, the speaker, and a lot of House members do. And they think they'd like to get some kind of achievement out of this. And their model is welfare reform from 1996. They sent three different bills to the President. Finally he signed one. Trent Lott thinks, wait a minute, it's going to be so watered down let's wait for President Bush to get us a decent tax cut.
Hillary Clinton's Talk interview
MARGARET WARNER: All right. Now, before we go, let's talk about the most talked about political story this week, which is Hillary Clinton's interview with Talk Magazine about her husband's infidelities. What did you make of that, Mark, and do you think - how do you think it's going to cut politically for her?
MARK SHIELDS: Well, all I was reminded of, Margaret, was another rookie candidate in 1966 by the name of Ronald Reagan who was running for governor for the first time in California, rookie candidate. And they asked him about the John Birch Society and whether he would accept their support. It was an anti-Communist group. And Reagan had a two-sentence answer that he gave and didn't deviate from. "If they endorse me that's fine. That doesn't mean I endorse them." Hillary Clinton needs a two-sentence answer on her personal relationship. I thought what she gave didn't work at all. She thought she was doing it in a friendly venue. It didn't work. It kept the story -- instead of putting it away -- after Reagan gave the same answer 200 times people stopped asking him, and people would stop asking her.
MARGARET WARNER: Even the press stopped asking him.
MARK SHIELDS: We're slow learners but we do pick it up eventually.
PAUL GIGOT: He gave that answer to a lot of questions. (laughter)
MARGARET WARNER: So do you think that's the same, it kept it alive, rather than - that it was a mistake for her?
PAUL GIGOT: It sure seems like it. She was most sympathetic and most popular - which she was frankly in the role she hated -- the Tammy Wynette role as the woman wronged, as the victim, stoic, noble with some dignity. She's not as popular when she is trying to explain it away, seems to try to excuse the behavior or explain it in some way that isn't very credible with most people. And that's what she did in this case. The other problem is that the whole impeachment problem, it reminds people of all of that, that is the part of the psychodrama, the White House soap opera, all of that which is what they don't like and don't want to continue in the new administration. So that is something that hurts her, and I think potentially does hurt Al Gore and all Democrats as people are reminded of that again and again.
MARGARET WARNER: Mark, she was pilloried for seeming or at least the account said she blamed her husband's infidelities somehow on his childhood. Her supporters say she never made that connection, the reporter did, and even the reporter said that wasn't true. Did the press go overboard here?
MARK SHIELDS: I think the press may have gone - but, again it comes back, Margaret, to her. She was controlling the situation. She had to give her answer. Her answer ought to be, when my husband and I got married it was for better or worse, I took it seriously. We are committed to the raising of our daughter whom we love dearly. We're committed to each other. I love my husband. There will be no other questions. And that ought to be it. And if you're asked about Vince Foster or anybody else, just say that's the statement and that's all you're going to get out of me and I'm running for the Senate from New York.
MARGARET WARNER: Because you don't get to footnote these things.
PAUL GIGOT: No, you sure don't. I agree with that strategy -- particularly since the Republicans look like they're going to get over some of their natural suicidal impulses and maybe even agree on a candidate in Rudy Guiliani, instead of having an internecine blood bath of a primary. That will make it tougher for Hillary Clinton.
MARGARET WARNER: Thank you both very much. Have a great weekend.
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>Based upon that general scenerio, what bandwidth scope should be adequate
>for doing SI analysis on our board?
Sometimes you can never get enough bandwidth.
> We are currently looking at a scope
>with a 1.5GHz bandwidth (8GHz sampling rate).
What is the bandwidth when probing two signals? Three signals?
Probing one signal at a time covers about 75% of your SI needs, but you may
also need to check timing between signals.
Consider your fastest signal risetimes, not frequencies.
What usable bandwidth do you get when capturing a long trace; what memory
depth does it have? If you use a slower sweep rate, and blow up a small
portion of it to full-screen, you may not get the full sampling rate.
How about the processor speed of your NEXT product, and the one after that?
You may want to be able to display its 3rd, 5th, or higher harmonics.
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Published: February 2013
No. of Pages: 49
This report provides an in-depth understanding of how consumers behaved over Valentines 2013: what did they buy, why did they buy it and where did they shop, are all examined. In addition, the report examines people's opinions of retailers and of what they are looking for when buying Valentine's products. The report is driven by unique consumer data and interviews.
Introduction and Landscape
Conlumino's Retail Occasions series helps you to understand how consumers are shopping across the various events and occasions in the retail calendar. For each occasion we analyze the results of a large consumer survey to understand what's happening and what it means for you.
Key Market Issues
1. Understand what's being purchased
We explore what products people are purchasing for each of the key occasions and analyze the penetration rates for key categories. A wide range of products are covered including food, gifts, clothing and goods for the home.
2. Understand where it's being purchased
We monitor which retailers consumers have visited for each of the occasions, what they have used those retailers for and what they thought of them. We analyze retailer customer share both overall and by product category.
3. Explore what's being spent
We examine how much people are spending and intend to spend across the various categories and products and how this differs to previous years. We also look at total household budgets for the various occasions.
4. Understand how people are celebrating
We take a broad look at what people are doing for the various occasions, how they intend to celebrate them and how these things are influencing and affecting their retail and buying behavior.
5. Explore key issues by demographics
We analyze all of the above at an overall level but also provide a breakdown by key demographics as well as by region. On a bespoke basis we can also isolate and explore specific consumer segmentations.
Key Highlights
Rising Cynicism Towards Valentines
Almost a third of consumers said that they spent less this Valentine's than the year previous. Linked-to - and perhaps a by-product of - much more constrained financial circumstances is a rising sense of cynicism surrounding the occasion. A high proportion of consumers place very little personal importance to the occasion, with the majority believing it to be a waste of money.
A Sense Of Social Obligation For The Occasion
Despite a high level of cynicism, over half of shoppers purchased at least one product for Valentine's. The occasion has evolved to the extent that consumers feel a sense of obligation to purchase products, regardless of their personal level of apathy. This provides potential opportunities for retailers that can successfully tap into these feelings; for example through taking a different approach in marketing and fostering greater inclusion.
Guiding Purchasing Is Important
With traditional last-minute purchasing remaining a key characteristic of Valentine's purchasing, successfully driving impulse purchasing through innovative, interesting ranges can make all the difference. Almost one in five consumers feel under pressure to buy the right thing yet almost a quarter find it difficult to purchase the right products.
UK Retail Occasions: Valentines 2013
Table Of Contents
1. Overview and summary of findings,
2. Consumer attitudes to Valentine's,
3. Purchasing for the Valentine's meal,
4. Gift purchasing,
5. Technical appendix
List Of Tables
1. What's driving store selection: food
2. Average spending on Valentine's Day food, overall and by retailer
3. Detailed drivers of store selection: food
4. What's driving store selection: gifts
5. Retailers used: food and drink gifts
6. Buying penentration and spend by product: food and drink gifts
7. Retailers used: soft toys
8. Buying penentration and spend by product: soft toys
9. Retailers used: jewllery
10. Buying penentration and spend by product: jewellery
11. Retailers used: clothing
12. Buying penentration and spend by product: clothing
13. Retailers used: accessories
14. Buying penentration and spend by product: accessories
15. Retailers used: entertainment
16. Buying penentration and spend by product: entertainment
17. Retailers used: flowers and plants
18. Buying penentration and spend by product: flowers and plants
19. Retailers used: beauty
20. Buying penentration and spend by product: beauty
21. Retailers used: electricals
22. Buying penentration and spend by product: electricals
23. Retailers used: home wares
24. Buying penentration and spend by product: home wares
25. Buying penentration and spend by product: vouchers and money
26. Buying penentration and spend by product: experience
27. Retailers used: cards
28. Buying penentration and spend by product: cards
29. Retailers used: gift wrap items
30. Buying penentration and spend by product: gift wrap items
List Of Figures
1. How consumers feel in financial terms compared to last Valentine's Day
2. How Valentine's spending this year compares to last year
3. Percentage of consumers partaking in Valentine's Day
4. Ways consumers paid for Valentine's spending this year
5. What people did to celebrate Valentine's
6. Where people went to eat for the Valentine's Day meal
7. Which retailers were best at promoting Valentine's Day?
8. Consumer attitudes towards Valentine's
9. Retailer ratings for Valentine's: price
10. Retailer ratings for Valentine's: quality
11. Retailer ratings for Valentine's: range
12. Retailer ratings for Valentine's: display
13. Retailer ratings for Valentine's: products
14. Retailers used for Valentine's food and drinks
15. Retailers most used for Valentine's food and drinks
16. How consumers prepared meals at home
17. Supermarkets used for a Valentine's ready meal or meal deal
18. Buying dynamics: fresh meat
19. Buying dynamics: fresh vegetables
20. Buying dynamics: fish
21. Buying dynamics: meal deals and ready meals
22. Buying dynamics: chocolates and sweets
23. Buying dynamics: biscuits and cakes
24. Buying dynamics: desserts and puddings
25. Buying dynamics: wine
26. Buying dynamics: champagne
27. Buying dynamics: other alcohol
28. Buying dynamics: Soft drinks
29. Buying dynamics: tea and coffee
30. Average gift spend by category
31. Buying penetration: food and drink gifts
32. Buying penetration by demographic: food and drink gifts
33. Buying penetration: soft toys
34. Buying penetration by demographic: soft toys
35. Buying penetration: jewellery
36. Buying penetration by demographic: jewellery
37. Buying penetration: clothing
38. Buying penetration by demographic: clothing
39. Buying penetration: accessories
40. Buying penetration by demographic: accessories
41. Buying penetration: entertainment
42. Buying penetration by demographic: entertainment
43. Buying penetration: flowers and plants
44. Buying penetration by demographic: flowers and plants
45. Buying penetration: beauty
46. Buying penetration by demographic: beauty
47. Buying penetration: electricals
48. Buying penetration by demographic: electricals
49. Buying penetration: home wares
50. Buying penetration by demographic: home wares
51. Buying penetration: vouchers and money
52. Buying penetration by demographic: vouchers and money
53. Buying penetration: experience
54. Buying penetration by demographic: experience
55. Buying penetration: cards
56. Buying penetration by demographic: cards
57. Buying penetration: gift wrap
58. Buying penetration by demographic: gift wrap
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Friday, March 23, 2012
The army is the epitome of the modern state’s drive to homogenize men, to render them uniform by clothing them in uniforms. From the late 18th through mid-20th centuries, literally millions of Jews served in diaspora armies. Jewish soldiers faced challenges to religious observance and antisemitism from fellow soldiers and officers, but also opportunities for integration and for the display of masculine honor. Jews were often unable to obtain kosher food or observe Sabbath rest, but they were permitted to pray, carrying their own or government-issue prayer books into the barracks and the battlefield.
There was a great symbolic meaning in praying in uniform in camp, as it made Jewish soldiers both distinct from yet of a kind with non-Jewish soldiers. Prayer in uniform has been a simultaneous performance of assimilation and difference: the antiquity of the service, the formality of its language and its call for a discipline of the self to God assert a particular Jewish identity, a religious tradition no less respectable and generative of manly virtue than Christianity. Long before the praying Israeli soldier at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, became a beacon of psychic energy for diaspora Jews, the uniformed Jew in the act of worship testified to the symbiotic relationship between religious and martial sentiment in modern Jewish culture.
The German-Jewish artist Moritz Oppenheim (1800-1882) captured this spirit in his painting of 1868, The Prayers for the Memory of the Dead. In the painting, a quorum of Jewish soldiers is gathered in a building that has been damaged, most likely in war. (The Austro-Prussian war had occurred just two years previously.) While they recite the kaddish prayer for fallen comrades, two Christian women look curiously on. This element of public performance of private sentiment was even more visible in representations of prayers by Jewish soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War, on the outskirts of besieged Metz during the autumn of 1870.
Shortly before the High Holidays of 1870, Isaak Blumenstein, a rabbi from Mannheim, came to the Prussian army encampment with a proposal to organize a large, open-air prayer service. A plan was approved for the service to take place, and leave was granted to 1,147 Jewish worshippers, who were to be guarded by their fellow Christian soldiers. This did not happen, however. A division was called into battle shortly before the ceremony, and only about 60 Jewish soldiers went off to hold impromptu services, without a rabbi or torah scroll, in a couple of abandoned buildings. Rabbi Blumenstein was pleased that the commanding officer, Edwin von Manteuffel, had received him with respect and allowed the Jews a few hours to recite the prayers. (He had refused a similar request for Rosh Hashanah.) The rabbi’s thrill over this experience was shared by the artist Hermann Junker, whose painting of a throng of uniformed Jews praying in a dingy farmhouse was reproduced as a popular postcard. The prayer service also inspired the creation of an even more popular tapestry depicting the planned yet abortive prayer service as if it had actually taken place. The tapestry depicts Jews gathered en masse in a valley outside of Metz, in full uniform and prayer shawls, facing an impressive ark, their heads covered by spiked helmets. As they pray, Christian soldiers guard them from distant hilltops. A poem in the corners of the tapestry claims that the Jews numbered 1,200—a number that was not only impressive but also symbolic of Jewish particularity, as it subtly invoked the 12 tribes of Israel.
For anyone viewing this tapestry after the Holocaust, the image of Jews huddled together in prayer shawls in a valley surrounded by armed Germans evokes terrifying associations. At the time, however, this image connoted Jewish religious solidarity, patriotism, gratitude towards the German Emperor for the opportunity to serve the fatherland, and a thinly-veiled acknowledgment of Jewish subservience. As the tapestry was produced and reproduced, the press was filled with reports by soldiers in the field as well as by Rabbi Blumenstein about what really happened, but the legend proved more powerful and durable than reality.
At the center of the tapestry is an ark and a uniformed prayer leader, a projection of Jewish desires for military chaplains like those who ministered unto Catholic and Protestant soldiers. Unlike Catholics, Jewish soldiers did not need a religious official to officiate at their prayers. Yet the comforting presence of a rabbi could boost the morale and religious consciousness of a Jewish soldier on the major holidays, or recovering in a field hospital, or perplexed by a legal or moral issue that arose in the course of carrying out his duties. In World War I, all combatant countries allowed rabbis to officiate in the field, at times as salaried chaplains, often as volunteers without military uniform or rank.
For Jewish soldiers from even assimilated backgrounds, attending a Shabbat or holiday prayer service while in the field has often been an intensely moving experience. It has also at times been an awkward one, drawing the gaze—whether admiring, curious or hostile—of one’s Gentile comrades in arms. Yet prayer, whether individual or collective, has been for Jewish soldiers the most easily observed of the commandments. It has asserted a specific identity—as much ethnic as religious—in a manner that connotes dignity, honor and self-worth. It is, as the artworks reproduced here demonstrate, a performance of both difference and commonality.
1 Sources on the tapestry and other Jewish art from the Franco-Prussian War include Erik Lindner, Patriotismus deutscher Juden von der napoleonischen Ära bis zum Kaiserreich. Zwischen korporativem Loyalismus und individueller deutsch-jüdischer Identität. Frankfurt am Main, 1997; Ismar Schorsch, “Art as Social History: Moritz Oppenheim and the German-Jewish Vision of Emancipation,” From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism. Hanover, New Hampshire: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 1994; and Christine G. Krüger, “Sind wir denn nicht Brüder? Deutsche Juden in nationalen Krieg 1870/71. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöning, 2006.
2 I develop these themes further in my current book project, Uniform Identities: Jews, War and the Military in Modern History.
Derek Jonathan Penslar, Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History, University of Toronto; Co-Chair of the Academic Advisory Council, Center for Jewish History.
Postcard (reproduction of Kol Nidre...). Hermann Junker. 1870. Leo Baeck Institute
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in response to JustKaySee:
Honestly, was this really truly a problem that needed a very expensive solution mandated by the federal government?
It's very simple for a disabled person to go swimming. Their family member, friend, caregiver, or helper at the facility can help them in and out of the pool. It's been done that way for thousands of years.
Let me guess - Obama has a corporate cronie that owns a lift company?
In a time when the economy is in shambles, the federal debt has exploded, the federal deficit has exploded, and the overreaching nature of the federal bureaucracy is at an all-time high, what kind of person really thinks its a good idea to force THOUSANDS of public entities and small business operations to spend THOUSANDS of dollars each to put a lift in the pool (THAT WILL ALMOST NEVER BE USED)
Do you realize how many small hotels have pools with NO LIFEGUARD. So who the heck is going to lift the person in and out of the pool? The one person working the front desk? No.
This is a perfect example of the mental illness that is liberalism.
You can't blame this on Obama or Bush. It started with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and has evolved through the American With Disability Act of 1990 modified in 1999. It is an act based on good intentions but sometimes extended to an illogical extreme.
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Glossary: R
A software technique to simulate the effects of light diffusion and add shading to objects in computer graphic images that seem sharper than reality.
random access memory (RAM)
The primary internal storage device of a personal computer, where programs and data are kept during processing.
A set of adjacent row or column cells treated as a unit, for example, to be placed in a function to get a sum of cell values in a column. Specifying a range of cells eliminates the need to list all of them individually.
rapid applications development (RAD) tools
Programming environments with objects, graphical interfaces, and superior debugging features for rapid prototyping of applications. Both Delphi and Visual BASIC fall into this category.
A term for the horizontal lines of pixels on a TV or CRT screen, refreshed at a rate of 30 times a second to display an image on the screen.
raster graphics
A common method of presenting computer graphic images on a CRT, based on the technology of television, that uses an electron beam to excite phosphor dots (pixels) inside the CRT screen and make them glow.
ray tracing
An enhancement technique for computer graphics that simulates the effect of reflected light rays in a three-dimensional scene on a two-dimensional computer screen.
read-only memory (ROM)
Memory chip that permanently stores instructions and data. Because it can be read from but cannot have new information put into it, manufacturers store important control programs in ROM chips.
real number
A positive or negative number, including zero, that can be expressed with fractions, called floating point in computers because they are represented with a floating binary point similar to a decimal point.
real time
A term used to describe a computer application in which the delay between input of data and completed processing is negligible. When a computer presents results as soon as the data have been received, the process is called a real-time application.
A collection of related fields comprising one item in a data file, such as a complete book record in an on-line catalog.
refresh buffer
In vector graphics, hardware that renews a phosphor-coated display screen with an electron beam to maintain information that would otherwise flicker.
relational (tabular) model
A design used in database systems in which relationships are created between one or more flat files or tables based on the idea that each pair of tables has a field in common.
A general term for creating a ray-traced image.
repetitive stress injury (RSI)
A medical condition resulting in severe arm pain, thought to be caused by sitting long hours at computer keyboards.
The process of printing or displaying information contained in a database, often the last step in database management.
A term referring to the number of pixels on a computer screen. The higher the resolution, the better the characters or images on the screen appear.
RGB (red-green-blue) monitor
A term for a color monitor, with the letters of the name standing for the three primary additive colors that combine to make color images on the screen.
RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chip
A microprocessor chip with fewer and simpler instructions capable of performing complex tasks by combining simple instructions and reducing processing time.
robotic machine
A robot typically engineered with sensors and a gripper arm to carry out an automated industrial process.
ruler line
A section of some word processor screens for setting options such as margins, tabs, and spacing between lines of text, resembling a ruler in inches or centimeters.
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0.028528 | <urn:uuid:0539ddb1-8ee5-41ed-a205-869437c22f4f> | en | 0.948746 | • Study: Brain computes genders of faces differently depending on their location
Study: Brain computes genders of faces differently depending on their location
The brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one part of a person's field of view and female when they appear in a different location, according to a discovery by neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard.
These findings go against a long-held theory of neuroscience that how the brain sees an object should not depend on where that object is located relative to the observer, says postdoctoral associate at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research Arash Afraz. Continue reading
• Dinosaur extinction led to massive mammals
Dinosaur extinction led to massive mammals
• Cassini finds oxygen atmosphere on Saturn's moon Rhea
Cassini finds oxygen atmosphere on Saturn's moon Rhea
For the first time, a NASA probe has captured direct evidence of an oxygen atmosphere on a world other than Earth. The Cassini-Huygens mission, which is whizzing past Saturn, has found that the ringed planet's moon Rhea has an extremely thin atmosphere of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
It's thought that the atmosphere is sustained not by life, as on Earth, but by high energy particles bombarding the icy surface of the moon and kicking up particles. The density of oxygen is about 5 trillion times less dense than Earth's atmosphere, but the discovery is significant nonetheless, because if it's happening on Rhea, then it's likely to be happening elsewhere. Continue reading
• How to forecast snow
How to forecast snow
One of the trickiest challenges facing an enthusiastic young meteorologist is forecasting snow. It's also one of the most crucial, because of the disruption it causes -- a snow forecast that doesn't come through means money wasted on prevention, but an unexpected snow shower often means travel chaos.
So how do you get the white stuff right? Here's Wired's guide to forecasting snow at home, without a supercomputer to help you. Continue reading
• Barcodes attached to mouse embryos
Barcodes attached to mouse embryos
A team working at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with help from the Spanish National Research Council, tagged embryos and oocytes (egg cells) with microscopic barcodes made out of silicon. The labels were injected into the space between the cell wall and the zona pullucide -- a membrane that surrounds an oocyte's plasma and binds spermatozoa to the cell. During normal reproduction, the fertilised embryo sheds this outer layer before entering the uterus, so the barcode would only last until this point. Continue reading
• How to catch microbial stowaways
How to catch microbial stowaways
Microbial stowaways on Mars rovers could raise false alarms for astrobiologists hoping to find evidence of life -- or worse, could wipe out native Martians waiting in the soil. A new study suggests that current techniques for cleaning Mars rovers could let some of the hardiest life forms, single-celled salt-lovers and tiny animals called tardigrades, slip through.
"We might actually select for these organisms," said Adam Johnson, a graduate student at Indiana University and lead author of a paper to be published in the journal Icarus. "They would be the most likely thing to be able to survive." Continue reading
• Any paper could become e-paper
Any paper could become e-paper
"Nothing looks better than paper for reading," says research leader Andrew Steckl. "We hope to have something that would actually look like paper but behave like a computer monitor in terms of its ability to store information. We would have something that is very cheap, very fast, full-colour and at the end of the day or the end of the week, you could pitch it into the trash." Continue reading
• United States launches largest ever unmanned satellite
United States launches largest ever unmanned satellite
A rocket carrying what one official has described as "the largest satellite in the world" has blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in the US. The satellite's purpose, however, is a closely-guarded secret.
The launch of the spy satellite, named NROL-32, has been delayed a number of times due to technical problems but finally made it into orbit on 21 November. It was carried aboard a Delta 4 Heavy rocket, which is the largest unmanned rocket that the US currently has in service, packing 907,000kg of thrust from its three boosters and standing 72 metres tall. The largest commercial satellite in orbit is the TerreStar-1, which launched in July 2009, weighing nearly 7,000kg. Continue reading
• CO2 emissions predicted to reach record levels in 2010
CO2 emissions predicted to reach record levels in 2010
A study at the University of Exeter has predicted that 2010's carbon dioxide emissions may hit record levels, chiefly thanks to the recovery of the global economy.
Earlier in the year, it was reported that emissions fell 1.3 percent between 2008 to 2009, but we cautioned at the time that this was likely due to economic slowdown, rather than any real commitment to cutting CO2 output from governments. That seems to very much be the case, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience. Continue reading
• North Korea admits massive uranium plant
North Korea admits massive uranium plant
Earlier this month, North Korean officials invited a former Los Alamos National Laboratories director, Siegfried S. Hecker, to its Yongbyon nuclear complex, the major installation in the north's nuclear apparatus. They were eager to show him an "ultra-modern and clean" uranium-enrichment facility with "2,000 centrifuges... said to be producing low enriched uranium" for a new, 25 to 30 megawatt-electric light-water reactor. Those facilities "could be readily converted to produce highly-enriched uranium (HEU) bomb fuel (or parallel facilities could exist elsewhere)."
The United States has known about North Korea's switch from plutonium bombs to an effort at producing weapons from highly-enriched uranium since 2002. But over the past several years, US intelligence has cast doubt on the North's ability to successfully enrich uranium, as Pyongyang's bombs have relied on old-school, less-powerful plutonium for their potency. "The 2,000-centrifuge capability significantly exceeds my estimates and that of most other analysts," Hecker writes. Suddenly the North may have a viable option to a second type of nuke. Continue reading | http://www.wired.co.uk/broad-topics/science?page=265 | dclm-gs1-255720002 | false | true | {
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0.038634 | <urn:uuid:85834450-a065-4642-92c8-967f4693bac5> | en | 0.920455 | scouts-l Mail Archive for March of 2000: OA at Roundtables From: EC92@AOL.COM
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 11:25:08 CST
OK, the district ops isn't printed yet (I do not believe) but heres the
things I know of that are ALREADY suggested should occur at Roundtables that
means OA should back away:
1. Cub, Boy Scout, and Venturing Roundtables in the same location on the same
2. Whatever the final term for it will be, the youth group, which will be
Venturing, Venture, and Exploring meeting at the same time.
If you add OA, which so far as I know IS NOT suggested for the RT list, you
now have five different events in one location at the same time, some of
which will drag adults one of three different ways depending on their
affiliations and experience and personal opinions.
RT is supposed to be an adult training event, not an asy chance to drag all
the possible people together for a meeting at one time some people are trying
to make it into.
Tom Petrik | http://archives.scouter.com/Archives/Scouts-L/200003/1158.html | dclm-gs1-255840002 | false | false | {
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Financial controls in Dixon were the 'perfect storm of embezzlement,' an expert says
Treasurer, comptroller allegedly stole $30 million from city coffers
April 27, 2012|By Melissa Jenco and Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune reporters
To some, Crundwell's horse farms, vehicles and jewelry should have been tipoffs that she was living well beyond her $80,000 salary. But residents have said they either didn't notice any ostentatious lifestyle or thought her wealth came from horse breeding.
"Most folks just assumed she was a successful businesswoman," said Dixon, the former mayor. "The culture around here is if you have money, you don't flaunt it. Those that do, they don't have many friends."
Those in the industry say breeding and showing horses can be extremely expensive and not a major moneymaker. Its wealthy practitioners typically had money before they started, they said.
"The thing that jolts me is when people are living way beyond their means and nobody says anything," said Sinason, the NIU professor. "Even if she said she was making millions in her horse business, then you've got to ask, why is someone who's making millions of dollars doing something else working for the city for $80,000 a year? And if she was a millionaire who just loved working for the city, why was she taking a paycheck?
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0.024822 | <urn:uuid:2936b247-a7d2-4645-abc3-b72c08e9c490> | en | 0.975488 | As suggested by NHL co-community leader, Ken Armer, I am going to start a new series on the New York Rangers.
My first series this summer was a ten-part series detailing the "Top Ten Most Important People in Franchise History."
It went over pretty well so I'm going to continue with this.
This nine-part series will cover every decade of New York Rangers' hockey, giving you as many details and stats as I can without dragging things out and making it boring.
The first part of the series starts when the franchise was first born; in the 1920's.
I hope you enjoy the history of the New York Rangers!
1926/27: 25-13-6
1927/28: 19-16-9
1928/29: 21-13-10
1929/30: 17-17-10
Playoff Appearances
1927, 1928, 1929
Stanley Cup Finals Appearances
1927, 1928
Stanley Cup Championships
Bill Cook (1926-1937)
Lester Patrick (1926-1939)
Award Winners
Frank Boucher (Lady Byng; 1928, 1929)
Team History
Madison Square Garden and owner Tex Rickard were finally granted the right to have an NHL franchise in 1926.
Without having a name for the team, they went with the nickname of "Tex's Rangers" and the team was born.
Rickard would hire the legendary Conn Smythe to be the general manager while hiring another hockey legend, Lester Patrick, to do the coaching.
The Rangers played their first game on November 16, 1926 in front of a packed Madison Square Garden against the Montreal Maroons who they would go on to defeat 1-0.
The Rangers would have success in their innaugural season as they won the American Division before being swept in the playoffs.
In their second season, they finished at an even .500 but it was good enough for a playoff berth.
The Rangers would storm to the Stanley Cup finals where perhaps the most legendary event in hockey would take place.
With the Rangers trailing in the finals after losing game one, their goaltender Lorne Cabot was injured mid way through game two.
That's when forty eight year old coach, Lester Patrick took over and led the Rangers to a win.
Following the game, the Rangers would get a new backup goalie and they would win the Stanley Cup. In doing so they became only the second American team to win while becoming the first team to win the Cup in as early as their second season.
In their final two seasons closing out the 1920's, the Rangers would continue to play inspired hockey and not miss out on the playoffs. They would earn the nickname of, "The Classiest Team in Hockey" because of their fast-paced and clean style of play.
Frank Boucher would go on to win two of his seven Lady Byng trophies in the 1920's, awarded for gentlemanly conduct while playing.
He would win the award so many times that the NHL front office would allow him to keep the silverware.
Thus ended a magnificent decade for the New York Rangers. Make sure to stay tuned for part two, which will be published in the next few days! | http://bleacherreport.com/articles/32576-history-of-the-new-york-rangers-part-one-the-1920s | dclm-gs1-255940002 | false | false | {
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0.018587 | <urn:uuid:2aac2ac7-7456-41e6-998f-6cdd6e003e54> | en | 0.947695 | Jonathan Sanchez Trade: What It Means for the Giants
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In case you hadn't heard, the San Francisco Giants traded SP Jonathan Sanchez to the Kansas City Royals for OF Melky Cabrera today. The Giants have had a lot of speculation regarding Sanchez's future with the team for quite some time, and now we know it is over. The big question is, what does Melky Cabrera's acquisition mean for the rest of the Giants' offseason goals? Let's find out.
Melky Cabrera
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Melky Cabrera originally came up with the Yankees and was meant to be stud prospect, holding down the outfield in The Bronx for the foreseeable future. Although he put up some respectable numbers while there, he was eventually traded to Atlanta and then to Kansas City, where he played his 2011 season.
2011 was, statistically, the best of his career, as he hit .305 with 18 HR and 87 RBI, while also racking up 44 doubles. Also, Cabrera has played all three OF positions in his career, but spent the majority of last season in CF, a position of great need for the Giants. The "Melk Man" is also a switch hitter, which gives the Giants even more offensive flexibility. If Cabrera can replicate his 2011 production, the Giants may have made a very good move here.
Coco Crisp/Grady Sizemore
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The Giants have been linked to both of these center fielders for much of the off-season. But, with Cabrera now patrolling CF for the Giants, the likelihood of acquiring either of these players has taken a huge hit. While Cabrera could potentially move to LF or RF in order to make room for one of these guys, I just do not see it happening. The Giants would like to have Schierholtz and Belt in the lineup, and the only way that would happen is if they are in RF and LF, respectively.
Carlos Beltran
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Carlos Beltran is no longer a CF, and the Giants know that. Therefore, the trade for Cabrera does not necessarily spell the end of Beltran's tenure as a Giant, but it may lessen the chances of a continuance.
Re-signing the recently Scott Boras-less and, possibly more affordable, Beltran would mean two things: Either Belt or Schierholtz would be on the bench on a daily basis, but also the Giants' lineup would have two solid additions in the middle to go along with Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval.
Imagine these three through seven hitters everyday for the Giants: Beltran, Posey, Sandoval, Cabrera and Belt, with Aubrey Huff falling in line somewhere. There is a lot of potential there, including five players who could easily hit 20+ HRs.
Cody Ross/Andres Torres
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Sadly (or not so sadly), this likely spells the end of both of these players as Giants.
Ross and Torres struggled mightily in 2011, as both battled injuries and the incredibly difficult task of batting over .250. Ross ended up hitting .240 while Torres batted an embarrassing .221. The sparks they provided during the Giants' 2010 World Series winning run had clearly been extinguished, and Torres showed his doubters why, up until 2010, he had been the quintessential AAA player.
The Pitching Staff
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So, now the Giants will be starting 2012 the way they ended 2011, without Jonathan Sanchez slotted in the middle of their rotation. This will most likely mean Bumgarner will hold down the No. 3 spot in the rotation so that he can break up the string of right handers. Vogelsong will likely fill out the No. 4 spot, with Lincecum and Cain obviously being No. 1 and No. 2. The question is, who will represent the back end?
Zito is still on the roster and will definitely be closely evaluated during spring training. Eric Surkamp was promoted last season after putting up a ridiculous ERA at AA Richmond to go along with more than impressive strikeout numbers. The problem is, these numbers did not translate to the his starts with the Giants, as he often looked overmatched and consistently threw too many pitches.
There is also the chance the Giants could go externally to acquire a fifth starter.
Patrick McDermott/Getty Images
Most people felt that the Giants' two main priorities this off-season were center field and shortstop. Now that one of these is essentially filled, where does that leave us on the other priority?
The Giants have been linked (fairly or not) to both Jose Reyes and Jimmy Rollins all off-season, and now that they have filled their other main void without adding a new contract or significant raise in salary (Melky Cabrera made $1.25 MM in 2011 but is arbitration eligible before the 2012 season), it is fair to wonder whether San Francisco will pursue either of these hot commodities.
My gut still says no, but it is awfully intriguing that they have traded away Sanchez for an everyday player that fills a void, while still not having signed anyone as of yet. Needless to say, our lineup would be more than solid with Reyes or Rollins.
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0.094227 | <urn:uuid:cc803992-cc65-44c8-8429-d825a0cd90d2> | en | 0.90688 | A reoccurring post I keep seeing on the newsgroups is people asking if they can upgrade the version of IIS on operating systems such as Windows XP.
Since windows 2000 every version of the operating system has had its own version of IIS. For example:
Windows 2000: IIS 5
Windows XP: IIS 5.1
Windows server 2003: IIS 6
Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP have a very similar architecture, but windows XP is limited to only 1 website.
You cannot run IIS 6 on Windows XP as IIS 6 only ships with Windows server 2003.
If you require the functionality of IIS 6 you must install a copy of Windows Server 2003.
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T-VIPS is providing the station with a backhaul solution for its primary digital electronic newsgathering (ENG) link over the station’s IP-based spread-spectrum microwave system, said WFTV director of engineering John Demshock.
Because WFTV encapsulates an ASI stream using the TVG420, it has an agnostic link between its truck-mounted encoders and studio decode system, he said; therefore, the station can take advantage of encoder advancements without concern for the backhaul, allowing the station to build an IP-based distribution system using an IP/ASI infrastructure, he added.
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Friday, May 4, 2012 HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT by Burt Harding " of the most powerful books on the planet in contemporary form for awakening human consciousness."~ Christine Horner, What Would Love Do Int'l "I feel I understand more and ever new things are dawning in me about ‘Being’ and how living in pure Awareness is the only real way to live! " ~ Karen Butler "I started to see clearly how you can’t escape this moment and to just receive what is given, knew it in my heart; everything was allowed without any effort on my part and really felt all the past pain starting to diminish. Thank you so much...” ~ James Ngo Book Excerpt: ..."When I get e-mail questions such as… “Why do I often feel so bad?” “Why do so many negative thoughts torment me?” “Why do I often feel so awful and empty?” The answer is simple. You are feeding the human while ignoring the Being. It is all about BEING. To ignore BEING is to be controlling, desiring to get your own way, selfish, demanding, angry, intolerant. In other words, feeling separate from Being! BEING is the truth of you and it means simply TO BE! TO BE means to be here and now without past (which is gone anyway) and without future (which can never be here). Why do we feed the human and forget the Being? Isn’t it because we believe we are our past experiences, our conditioning? It is true that we can’t help identifying with the past, but one moment of honest looking and asking, “What am I right now?” will reveal that you are nothing but BEING. This is scary to the human because it wants to be “somebody.” It wants to be special because it wants to be loved. Here is the crux of the matter – BEING is LOVE itself and therefore, can never be experienced by the human who craves and needs love. LOVE is not “something.” LOVE is the recognition that you are BEING itself…oneness with all…no separation whatsoever! All there is, is this Being appearing as a human. And since you are a human being then you seem to live in duality. Being is nothingness, known also as Spirit, and it appears as everything. Being is the absolute, appearing as the relative. Being is the emptiness we misinterpret, which in truth, is fullness. Being is the uncaused and timeless essence, yet appearing as the caused and humans. Being is Oneness appearing as separation. Being is the real subject appearing as object. Thus the singular BEING appears as the plural “we” and “us” and “them”. Being is impersonal, but appears as seeming personal while it inhabits a form…role-playing form. Being is regarded as the unknown and appears as the known. These explanations of duality appear as if they are real knowledge, but they are words pointing to the wordless that your intuitive heart can “hear” when it awakens to listening. Here’s the punch line. There is nothing happening, but only seems to happen. All this you will understand through your intuitive heart when the “human being” in you is finally seen clearly. The hope of this book is to bring you to that seeing." ORDER NOW» Burt Harding, Author
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
I had a question that I was hoping you could answer about life-script. When you say that we are repeating our lives in a cycle and that past-present-future are one, do you mean to say that we are repeating are lives precisely as we have repeated them in the past until we learn what we have not learned or that each time we repeat our lives slightly differently learning something new? I am not sure I understand this concept.
Whenever a question is asked always go back to simplicity which is this NOW-Moment itself. You are this NOW eternally without an exit. Feel this out first -- can anything ever happen outside of this moment? Here is another mind-boggling fact, there is no other moment because there is no exit to NOW!! If this is clear then we can go on...
When 'you' make something real in the moment such as a negative thought, emotion, situation, problem and so on, 'you' have actually created your own individual reality. Since the individualized mind is a creator and perceiver of its own created reality, it keeps repeating until it is forgiven (fore-given -- given away as the illusion it is). Therefore, since NOW is eternal and the body keeps recycling every so many years, we find that we are embodying dfferent bodies but repeating the same patterns that we made real. For example, let's say you felt abandoned as a child, yet you took on a different body when you became a teen still carrying the belief you were abandoned, then you took on a mature body but still carrying on the belief you were abandoned which formed your belief systems, your ideas about life and yourself which are all based on the initial illusion. This 'suffering' will continue until you forgive it, which means seeing it as it actually is -- an illusion created by your mind which feels very real to you. This keeps repeating until you wake up that nothing is real except spirit. Everything came from Source spirit but even though the world and people appear real, it is still spirit in manifestation. You will keep repeating the same patterns and mistakes until you wake up through forgiveness. If your present body drops and you have NOT realized your true nature as spirit yet then you have to do it next time (which is NOT a next time but NOW ever-changing in its form. Are you with me on this?
I hope that this was clear to you. If it is then congratulations for you are quite intuitive.
Watch this video several times until you fully grasp the meaning behind it...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
It's all a dream!!
(a whimsical but direct approach to Truth)
Let me introduce myself -- My name is nobody! I am proud of my name because there is nobody to be concerned. What you are about to read might not make sense to you, but it is all true as far as what we call ‘real’ is true. You will find as I did that nonfiction is often fiction covered up to look nonfiction, but in truth it is all made up. Can you tell what is true from what is false? I see people suffering from nightmares or rage and believe it to be true but yet is it except in their mind?
The funny thing about death, which is our greatest fear, is that we take it seriously as if we are alive in some world we created. Imagine the average person going to work 9 to 5 and on the way to work reads the newspaper about the sordid news of the day as if it was real. By the time he starts ‘work, he is already living in his dream believing it to be real and acts accordingly. He unconsciously carries himself throughout the day doing his ‘thing’ and then goes home and watches TV for some relaxation. What was real about that day? In fact, what is real in this world, period? This sounds as if I am being cynical or skeptical, but it is the other way around. I am real because I know it is all a dream. You see, what we take to be real, isn’t. What we take to be unreal such as nothingness, is the only real ‘thing’ there is.
Are you with me so far? Well, if you are, are you making sense of what I am saying. As far as I am concerned I am making sense simply because nothing I experience is real and that, paradoxically, is my freedom. Freedom makes great sense to me. That is, freedom from fear, anxiety, self-concern. “Freedom?!!” you gasp, “how can seeing the world as a dream be freedom? Oh my friend, can’t you see that when we take anything to be real it becomes our cross, our pain and our hell? Did you ever notice how all the things that brought pain it was because you made it real? For example, people worry and they believe in their worry and that’s why they worry – got it? If they knew it wasn’t real, where’s the worry? Many people get up in the morning feeling the dread of facing the day and yet what they are fearing is the dream made real. You can see that, can’t you? My freedom emerged when I saw the truth and that is – everything is a dream, an illusion and nothing is serious! The one who is watching the dream is not the dream, just like watching change happens to be the changeless that is watching. We dream at night but when we get up we continue the dream, however, we see it as reality and that becomes our cross, our horrendous pain.
So what is real then? Here is the paradox my friend – nothing is real! Did you hear that clearly? Did you understand it? Nothing is real. So, we can deduce that only the ‘nothing’ is real. How glorious, how liberating, and how explosive it all is. The ‘nothing’ that we fear also known as spirit or essence or source is the only ‘thing’ that is real. It had no beginning and it has no end and yet all seeming reality emerges from it. However, what you see and sense is merely the effect of the cause which is Nothingness.
So many people fear nothingness but the moment it is embraced we call it ‘awakening.’ Do you see the kick in the pants? Why!!? You may ask? -- the answer is so simple and so obvious that it escapes the complicated mind. Let me ask you this? When were you the happiest? Wasn’t it when you were nothing such as not having any identity; not being this or that; not concerned about your body and personality; simply when you were absent to yourself – wasn’t that your highest moment of aliveness? Feel it right now! The first glimpse was many years ago during sexual orgasm and I felt ecstatic and yet there was no one having that orgasm but that momentary ‘fullness’ of absence of self. It is like the guy taking a free-fall from a plane before opening his parachute and enjoy that ‘kick’ of just being nothing swirling in space. It is that rush that momentarily takes your mind away from self-concern. It is this nothingness that is real simply because it is the only ‘thing’ that was never born and will not know death. After all, how can nothing be born or die? It was when I discovered this ‘nothing’ to be everything that I experienced my true aliveness and saw everything else as a dream. Now I see myself as nothing and it is wonder-FULL!
By now you have gathered that I am writing about nothing – there is no plot, no story, no structure and yet this nonsense from ‘nobody’ makes more ‘sense’ than the so-called real. There is a part in you that reads this with curiosity or intrique hoping to get some meaning, while at the same time you are getting the meaning hidden between the words. It is all a dream and its realization didn’t come suddenly but gradually through a period of observation of my own thinking processes.
As a child I was often dreaming, as most children dream, however my problem was that I took the dream seriously and so I suffered. Many things happened in my life that brought suffering but in retrospect nothing happened for here I am…it was all a dream and still IS!!
We like to pat ourselves on the back for being realists and even become skeptical, questioning and agreeing or disagreeing and enjoy the arguments…but it is all a dream of the mind! Nothing is real and that’s paradoxically is waking up from the dream while seemingly in the dream. Oh how we judge right and wrong, good or bad, should or shouldn’t wasting precious time when this ‘now’ is so enjoyable and exhilarating and filled with fantasy and dreams that are not real. The greatest joy is having illusions and seeing the illusion of it all and then you are truly free. Why do we enjoy the theatre or our dreams at night or movies and TV. Aren’t they all made up. The ‘real’ which is nothing is the most glorious adventure of them all. It is the greatest fear of the illusory ego that makes the world real, and yet when fully faced it is so immensely and absolutely wonder-full that it takes direct experience of nothing to see how enjoyable and ecstatic it is.
How can you fear nothing? How can you worry when it is all a dream? How can you even experience stress or discomfort when it is all a play of consciousness?
Did you know that happiness is nothingness? Did you know that love, true love, is not emotional but nothingness embracing nothingness as itself. There is no one to own or possess or even have a relationship with – there is only nothing with nothing making nothingness known as Oneness of IS!!
Have you ever known of a marriage or relationship that was really happy? The only relationship tha works is when two nothings merge as Oneness. You cannot own another or make them your own. Our attempt alone brings misery and pain. Love is nothingness and that’s its beauty and unconditional nature.
How we crave for peace. What is peace but nothingness known as a tranquil mind?
When you see this clearly you’ll start playing like my cat does and purrs so loudly with true enjoyment. I pull his legs or arms and he purrs; I jump with him in my arms and he purrs; I swing him around and he purrs – why? -- simply because he knows it is all a play!
Our biggest concerns are about our body, self-image and identity – but truly now, let’s stop kidding ourselves, where the hell are these items? Aren’t they all a dream? Did you know that your identity is but a self-image. Did you know that self-image is just an image, imagination? Is it scary or liberating? I leave that up to you to consider.
Come on now, see it for yourself. And if you fear nothingness then stop and see – how can you fear nothingness when there is nothing to fear? And that, my friend, is the absolute truth and it is all here-now itself called heaven. Believe it or not, it is the only Truth!! Buddha called it Nirvana. Jesus called it 'The Kingdom of God within' and said, "I am in the world but I am NOT of this world!"
Monday, July 25, 2011
What is Truth, really!!?
If you are truly interested in knowing, beyond even the slightest doubt, a peace that has no conditions or limits, if you are truly interested in knowing a freedom that has absolutely no boundaries at all, if you are truly interested in coming to the end of all seeking, then please consider, very slowly and carefully, the following: (take as long as you need.)
Awareness is everywhere and always.
It is always here. It is always now.
You are this NOW itself!
Someone asked me, ”If it is being which is doing everything because everything is being then isn't that total free-will but on a much deeper more encompassing level? Or am I right off track?? It doesn;t feel to me like free-will is a construct of the ego, it feels natural.”
(His email was longer than the above stating that in his experience he has complete free-will.”)
Yes you are absolutely right. However, understand that ‘you’ himself just like Burt himself is a Oneness. In this seeming individual called Burt or ‘you’ there is no true choice or freedom because these individuals are conditioned concepts just like the waves of the ocean seem separate and individual and unique and yet they are the product and action of the ocean (Oneness). For 27 years I played teacher and even had my own TV show and wrote a book that sold well. Yet in the year 2000 I 'woke up' and realized that Burt was just another concept I created. Waking up is not an attainment nor an accomplishment but the beginning of seeing clearly -- yes my friend, just the beginning -- and this seeing is this -- there is only NOW eternally and you are THAT!! With "THAT" you have freedom, choice and complete control but it is not individual control. It is at this stage that one begins to understand what could never have been understood. It is this realization of Oneness (NOW) that we know how to laugh, how to enjoy, how to love, how to cry, how to be free. You are a human being, a duality creature made up of two opposing forces. These forces are totally opposite...the human is after "ADDITION" and the BEING is all about SUBTRACTION. Thus when all has been subtracted such as fear, guilt, suffering, ego and false ideas and beliefs, what will stand out is BEING that which has always been there before time itself. This is the real freedom, joy and happiness beyond imagination. Most people who strive towards awakening have no idea what it means. Awakening means there is no such thing as getting anywhere, getting anything or accomplishing anything but seeing that you are NOTHING. When you finally see that you are NOTHING (awakening) then you also see that you are everything. If you have understood this then I truly congratulate you my friend.
Perhaps the most difficult thing for most of us to understand is the simple, and if you examine it directly, most obvious fact that there is no such thing as a solid, separate, stable entity that I can call “myself.”
Nouns (labels like teacher, writer, doctor, lawyer, man, woman, human being, body and so on), proper nouns (my name, your name, personal pronouns like ‘me’ ‘mine’ ‘myself’ and ‘my life.’ Often combined with mental images of your face and body at various ages, morphed together with various role models and anchored by muscular contraction and other physical, mental and emotional sensations such as self-defense, self-protection work collectively to create a fictitious life. It may be convincing on the surface, and there may be the security and comfort of habitual perception, but if you investigate carefully and directly, you will find nothing but unsubstantial memory and fantasy edited by a motive and attitude. Nowhere in any of that is there a real, verifiable “you” or “me.”
This is what waking up means – it is seeing the truth for the first time and it is usually a shock and often results from a situation of suffering that has no ‘way out.’
Waking up to the Truth as it is, is no picnic. However, in seeing the truth, which is true, you are faced with NOTHING. You are nothing. But then something else happens – you see clearly you are everything because you are the NOW (Oneness) itself. You have had many changes of being a baby body, a child learning to walk and talk, a teenager who thinks he/she knows, a young adult, a mature body with accompanying personality, beliefs and ideas based on conditioning and finally seeing that it is ALL an illusion. So what happens faced with this predicament – you are the very BEING you have been chasing after all your life wanting to be special, different and to be ‘somebody’ and when finally woke up discovering your true essence you will see that it has all been an evolution towards subtraction and NOT addition. It is in this subtraction that you discover you are everything you ever really wanted – freedom, love, joy, peace and above all, Oneness (Now) itself.
The most fearful question is this initially, “If there is no separate me and no separate you, then what is left?”
My dear everything is left. You look around: in the absence of mental and emotional editing, there is nothing but awareness and everything that arises in it. Everything that you can see and hear and smell and taste and FEEL and think and otherwise experience. There is nothing but this NOW, this whole, infinite, everything.
Someone complains, “But this scares me!!” -- yes, and just imagine being without any fear whatever? Imagine that death is not possible? Imagine that misery, suffering and all bondage was your creation as it never existed?
The self you thought you were was a deception, a habitual unconscious guilt filled with judgments, gossip, pettiness, cruelty, fear, self-centredness, loneliness, sorrow, worry, stress, anger and find all that subtracted from you. Then what is left is laughter, joy, freedom and a life that is aligned with God (Oneness).
After writing the above it occurred to me why the video #5 was so popular…
It is because the people who are awakening are seeing thatTruth is simple, obvious and liberating, it is subtracting and not adding and the way to that subtraction is through forgiveness. When the word, most powerful word for healing, is discovered to be ‘forgiveness’ then we understand what it really means – there is nothing to forgive – everything is divine and okay!!
The Course says:
“All the vestiges of hell, the secret sins and hidden hates be gone through forgiveness. And all the loveliness which they concealed appear like lawns of Heaven to our sight, to lift us high above the thorny roads we travelled on before the Christ (Being) appeared.”
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The Three Laws of NOW!
You say 'now' is perfect but all problems whether past, present or future all happen now. So what is so perfect about 'Now'?
You are confusing 'NOW' with the 'present time.' The present time is where everything happens whether recollection of a past hurt or the anxiety of a future condition. The 'NOW' itself is timeless. It is a Silence like the center of a bicycle wheel that supports the spokes of the wheel and its motion while the center remains still. In the fury of a storm upon the ocean surface lashing it about there is still the Silence of its depth. Similarly, within the present time of frenzied activity lies the quietness of the timeless NOW!
The 'NOW' is a stillness beyond time and space and within lie the two most powerful laws of human experience -- Self-recognition and Self-organization. The Awareness of Self-recognition helps us realize our Oneness since every human on earth knows that he/she exists as awareness itself. Yet, awareness does not belong to anyone. From this Self-recognition emerges Self-organization where the law of synchronicity plays its glorious part.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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The triumph and tragedy of the Cabbagetown sound: Benjamin and Smoke
Part 2 of 2: Heaven on a Popsicle Stick
Spirit of Cabbagetown: Benjamin, with Chris the pig, at the Jody Grind parade following the tragic car accident in 1992.
Read the first part of this story and view our Cabbagetown photo gallery. Watch our YouTube gallery featuring footage and recordings of Cabbagetown artists.
When Smoke's debut album, Heaven on a Popsicle Stick was released on Long Play Records in 1994, it prompted a bold declaration from CL: "This won't put Atlanta on the map, this is the fuckin' map." A second album, Another Reason to Fast, came out a year later. And if it seemed Benjamin was writing and recording as though he was racing against time, he was. Few people knew, but Benjamin had contracted a deadly combination of HIV and Hepatitis C.
The critical acclaim for the albums enabled Smoke to tour up and down the East Coast. They also toured the West Coast opening for Chan Marshall who, by that time, was gaining a national audience under her moniker of Cat Power with a sound that was very much influenced by Smoke. (Marshall's publicist declined an interview request from CL for this story.)
In addition, Benjamin had attracted the attention of filmmakers Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, who began to film a documentary about him that would be released in 2000 to rave reviews, including the New York Times and the Village Voice. And the filmmakers helped facilitate a meeting in New York City between Benjamin and the singer who had inspired him to make music, Patti Smith.
Bill Taft: They knew he loved Patti Smith, so they got Patti to come out to a Smoke show at the Cooler to meet Benjamin. Benjamin was really proud and humbled and feeling silly that Patti Smith was in the audience.
Roger Ruzow (Gold Sparkle Band, 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra): In 1996, Chan Marshall put together an Atlanta expatriate show in New York at the Cooler. A bunch of us were fleeing Atlanta because of the Olympics. It was Smoke, Cat Power, the Gold Sparkle Band, the Rock*A*Teens and Seely. It was a blowout, a great show and we stayed up all night. We were all sitting at a table at a coffee shop really early in the morning and someone asked, "Hey, what happened to Benjamin?" No one could remember the last time they saw him. Then, at like 6 in the morning, this guy appeared from out of nowhere, dancing down the street, twirling around in circles and singing to himself, and someone said, "Benjamin!" He stopped for a second and said, "Yes?" in his raspy voice, then went on his way, dancing down the street.
Coleman Lewis: Me and Ben were roommates in Cabbagetown on Gaskill Street. The way he was when he was out and about was the same way he was at the house. It was kind of like living inside a circus. It was just very humorous and fun to watch. He'd run off a bunch of roommates but for some reason, he and I just kind of hit it off. It was easy for us to live together. I could put up with his hijinks and he could put up with mine.
On Saturday, Dec. 20, 1997, Patti Smith came to Atlanta and performed at the Variety Playhouse, and Smoke opened the show. Backstage, Benjamin looked wane and frail; but the group put on a remarkable performance that was punctuated when Smith invited them back on stage at the end of her show for the song, "Rock â ~n' Roll Nigger." Smoke's Coleman Lewis and others ran around the stage like kids on a playground, almost knocking over Bill Taft as he tried to play the cornet.
That show marked Smoke's apex; Benjamin just wasn't strong enough physically to go any farther.
Bill Taft: Overall, the reception the band received was really good. The biggest problem was Benjamin's health began to deteriorate. As the opportunities kept expanding, the limitations and constraints of his health began to pull us in the opposite direction. The enthusiasm for the music was there. But Benjamin didn't have the strength to follow through.
Brian Halloran: I didn't know he was sick. I actually found out because somebody asked me, "Does Benjamin have AIDS?" And I said, "I think he would've told me if he did." And that just didn't turn out to be the case. It was when Jem and Pete were filming, and I asked him about it and he explained to me that it was true. It was a real shocker.
It's kind of like the way Benjamin explains it in that movie. He wasn't trying to be the spokesperson for AIDS or anything. But he would talk about it to people one on one if they asked him about it.
Bill Taft: It was pretty hard. Your friend is dying. He didn't want to be a poster boy for AIDS. He didn't want his dying to be an issue, which is kind of naïve if you're losing a lot of weight and have open sores and you're a performer. People are going to want to know why you're dying. You're going to have to deal with that issue.
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speaker 1: Hey, I'm Donald Bell here at CES 2012. LL Cool J is joining me talking about Boomdizzle. Tell me about Boomdizzle. Speaker 2: Boomdizzle is a site that we created and actually a company that we created where we design this virtual studio and basically making it possible for a kid in New York and a kid in LA for example to record in real time and collaborate and make music in real time, you know online. So it's kind of just changing the world of recording forever. It's pretty much revolutionizing recording. Speaker 1: Now it's a piece of software that you're downloading or is it the web page. Speaker 2: It is a piece of soft... it's a piece of... it's web based and there's a piece of software that you do some links that you'll download. Right now, we have you know, we're sending out invites. But the technology will be out there and available to everybody. Speaker 1: How did the idea come to your light? I mean what was the problem that you're up against there like no, I need (??) help create this thing. Speaker 2: let's say the producers in New York and I'm in LA, you know, either way. I can't record in real time. I would have to make my... create my vocals, e-mail the vocals to him and he'd have to you know, do something to it, e-mail it back to me. But that's not a collaborative process. I wanted to create the studio environment, that collaborative environment online. And that was the problem but we solved it. Speaker 1: Boomdizzle, the site is also... add more to it. Speaker 2: Boomdizzle, well the Boomdizzle has a site with aggregating thousands upon thousands of upcoming artists and (??) demos because this is a community that is actually unreserved and I wanted to give them an opportunity to kind of mingle with each other and get to know each other as we were developing this technology. Now, we've added this technology to the mix and what that's gonna do is there's gonna be a bridge or tunnel for all of them to get together and just connect. We actually have a distribution deal with itunes so you know you'll be able to, you know, record with your friend in LA and you know, mix and then shoot it over to itunes and get the ball rolling. I mean, you know, it's pretty... it's pretty sophisticated. Speaker 1: And then is it just all in one sand box. I think you're telling me earlier that other applications been plugged in (??). Speaker 2: We wanted to have maximum flexibility because there are a lot of producers out there. Their concern is okay but I have other programs I like. I like you know, (??) I like (??) I like this one. I like that one. Well, we're gonna make sure that all of those doorways are there so that people can come in, be involved, use whatever phone, you know (??) you wanna use to make this thing worked. Speaker 3: The Interface itself, when you're looking at the recording interface, you're looking at like the multi track lay out. Speaker 2: You have the multi track lay out. You have a (grade?). You have you know, obviously all the vocals . You have your EQs you have all the different pieces that you need not unlike some other programs that give you you know, interface that you can actually understand. Speaker 1: Yeah. It kind of looks like a mixing (??) analogs (??). Speaker 2: Absolutely, it gives you that... it has an analog feel because that's traditional and that's where I'm from. (??) from recording on Analog but it just has that feel. But it feels good. It's right. Speaker 1: You got me excited now. You got to come out with this so when is this gonna be hit? Did you know> speaker 2: Real soon. Real soon. Real soon. We're ready. We are already testing. We already have people. Lots of user signed up. They're using it. They're giving us feedback. You know they're gonna tell us you know what they hate, what they love and we'll incorporate those learnings and we got to bring it out tomorrow. Speaker 1: all right, for CES 2012. I'm Donald Bell here at LL Cool J . We'll see you next time.
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The idea of Christmas caroling brings to mind a jolly band of churchgoers, dressed in shawls and top hats, going door-to-door spreading the spirit of Christmas through hymns. Whether it's "Deck the Halls", "Joy to the World" or "Silent Night", Christmas Carolers have been known to travel on foot, by truck or on horseback. Despite a recent re-examining of caroling's political correctness, including one incident where carolers were banned from marching in a prominent parade in Denver. It remains a popular Christmas tradition. But how exactly did this tradition begin? Who wrote the carols? And why do we feel compelled to sing them on the front porch of a total stranger's home?
The root of the word "carol" lies not in song, but in dance. In Old French, "carole" means "kind of dance". In Latin "choraula" means "a dance to the flute", and in Greek, "choraules" means "flute player who accompanies the choral dance". Although there are some carols centering around religion, the songs were originally secular--up-tempo melodies with alternating choruses and verses associated with traditional dances. Like many other Christmas traditions, caroling is also thought to have its roots in the pre-Christian celebration of the Festival of Yule, when Northern Europeans would come together to sing and dance to honor the Winter Solstice. As carols evolved into a Christian tradition, they became hymns, having little relation to any type of dance.
History of Caroling
There's no definitive history behind Christmas caroling. Where they originated, who wrote them and how the evolved is unclear. Caroling is an oral tradition, passed down from genteraiton to generation.
Carols commemorating the nativity, or birth of Jesus Christ, were purportedly first written in Latin in the 4th and 5th centuries, but they didn't become associated with Christmas until the 13th century. Saint Francis of Assisi, the Roman Catholic saint of animals and the environment, is often credited with incorporating upbeat Latin hymns into Christmas services. The energetic, joyful carols were sung in sharp contrast to the somber Christmas music of the day. The concept of Christmas carols, and spreading them to the community to celebrate Christ's birth, is thought to have spread across Europe.
Today, many caroling groups sing for charity in churches and neighborhoods; some historical accounts claim this is rooted in fuedal societies, when poor citizens would "sing for their supper" in exchange for food or drink. Another theory is that carolers traveled door-to-door because they were not originally allowed to perform in churches. Other's say this idea didn't until the 16th century, when Anglo-Saxon peasants adapted these pagan customs, when they went wassailing, requesting nourishment from their superiors in exchange for singing good tidings.
Wassail was a thick, hot spiced beverage that helped keep the traveling well-wisher warm; in its heyday, the drink was just as much a holiday tradition as eggnog in modern times. As wassailing evolved, with children often going door-to-door, it became more associated with Christmas and caroling. Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas celebrations in England from 1649 to 1660 ( he believed Christmas should be a serious holiday, and celebrated accordingly), and caroling did not experience a surge in popularity until the 19th century, when it's thought that the joyful, expressive hymns were well-received in the Victorian Era.
A common legend says that Christmas carols were named after Carol Poles, a little English girl who supposedly went missing in London during the holiday season in the late 19th century. People supposedly searched for her by going door-to-door, singing to declare their good intentions. although it may be a nice story, it has no factual basis.
1931 Coke Santa Ad
Santa Claus, 1936
Santa, 1937
Santa, 1938
Haddon Sundblom, 1931
Haddon Sundblom, some 30 years later
Santa, 1941
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[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 1124 points1125 points ago
[–]negro-unchained 803 points804 points ago
yeah, I'm gonna need you to quit your job and make these full time.
[–]dayngerzone 105 points106 points ago
I think that's a great idea!
[–]WhatDidYouJustType 92 points93 points ago
We'll pay him in BITCOIN!! What could go wrong?
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[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 143 points144 points ago
this please
[–]moparornocar 35 points36 points ago
[–]oow2 3 points4 points ago
:O Who is that and where can I find more?
[–]garbonzo607 1 point2 points ago
Is it really NSFW?
[–]moparornocar 6 points7 points ago
Only one way to find out.
[–]stferago 15 points16 points ago
Open it and tell us if you lose your job.
[–]Gary5 3 points4 points ago
Do... Do you have more of these?
[–]Ceks41 36 points37 points ago
I agree. Shall we start a kickstarter to begin building his salary?
[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 82 points83 points ago
just some pics of chunky chicks is all i need
[–]disasterpiec3 42 points43 points ago
Risky click. Worth it!
[–]PaperJamDipper7 9 points10 points ago
I wasn't planning to masturbate to this post...
[–]Sixxtwo 2 points3 points ago
Instructions completely clear this time: Dick stuck in can.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago
instructions slightly unclear, dick stuck in can opener.
[–]dubmilam 5 points6 points ago
more cushion for the pushin!
[–]mayormcsleaze 2 points3 points ago
If just half of the over 12,000 people who've upvoted this submission as of right now contribute just $0.05 per day (less than you spend on your morning newspaper...just kidding, nobody reads newspapers), 5 days a week...
We could have guniea pig pics every weekday, OP would be making a cool $78,000 yearly, and the guniea pigs would gain valuable experience through their unpaid modelling internship. It's win-win-win.
[–]lexm 197 points198 points ago
The earmuffs on the lawn mower... so funny!
[–]Kleeprs 81 points82 points ago
They were on the guinea pig too!
[–]polycephalum 18 points19 points ago
[–]SquishBrainSoup 9 points10 points ago
Chinchillas are like obese squirrels.
brace for downvotes
[–]LascielCoin 25 points26 points ago
They only look obese because of the fur, they're quite skinny underneath. And have you ever touched a chinchilla? It's like dipping your hand into the fluffiest cloud in the sky.
[–]Dlgredael 10 points11 points ago
Best chinchillaphor I've ever heard, might have to nick this one.
[–]LtMcGraw 1 point2 points ago
I need to incorporate "chinchillaphor" into my vocabulary.
[–]tahrox 1 point2 points ago
Ain't that the thingmajig that "improves" your brain and shit?
[–]skepticaljesus 1 point2 points ago
[–]ra4king 11 points12 points ago
That's a fucking gorgeous guinea pig.
[–]JusticeServd 5 points6 points ago
[–]ALLCAPSUSERNAME 36 points37 points ago
#4 Obligatory "robe and wizard hat".
[–]Windows_97 26 points27 points ago
So I'm going to submit #4 to /r/photoshopbattles because it needs to be done. I cannot wait to see what people do with it :P
[–]j8048188 4 points5 points ago
Thank you!
[–]Chimney-Rexxar 22 points23 points ago
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[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 118 points119 points ago
[–]moon9311 75 points76 points ago
Did you just reply to yourself? did I miss something?
Also these are adorable. Do more! Do more!
[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 63 points64 points ago
[–]CommanderpKeen 17 points18 points ago
What's happening here?
[–]WhatDidYouJustType 54 points55 points ago
I believe we are witnessing either:
A) a split personality duel on the internet
B) an account hijacking of some sort
C) a stroke
[–]CommanderpKeen 5 points6 points ago
I was gonna guess a stroke, so option C for me please!
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[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 50 points51 points ago
what's going on, guys.
[–]imlost19 63 points64 points ago
you have smoked yourself retarded
[–]DCMOFO 2 points3 points ago
He may have browned out.
[–]clicktoaddtitle 2 points3 points ago
I invite you to /r/I_Talk_to_Myself. I'm freaking loving these pics by the way. I used to have a guinea pig, but I would never be able to take that walking the dog shot without him getting eaten.
[–]TheAdAgency 13 points14 points ago
Are you battling your guinea pig for control of the keyboard?
[–]BlueberryJamOnToast 8 points9 points ago
what's going on, guys.
[–]Nicshift 13 points14 points ago
I can't stop laughing. Thank you, these are hilarious.
[–]subtracterall 10 points11 points ago
Is your username a request or a statement?
[–]trampus1 2 points3 points ago
That pig has great taste in ice cream.
[–]skylla05 2 points3 points ago
Holy shit, I want your backyard.
[–]mattbluesman 2 points3 points ago
those earmuffs made me squeal like a little girl. I'm glad my gf didn't hear me.
[–]Aero93 2 points3 points ago
I honestly don't know what to say. This put the biggest smile on my face today. Its like being a pothead and getting a free 5lb bag of nugs.
[–]Unlucky_Rider 2 points3 points ago
Thanks for showing me something I didn't even know I wanted.
[–]downvoted_for_TRUTH 1 point2 points ago
riding a cock
[–]Tective 1 point2 points ago
It's got ear muffs on!!!
[–]polyphenus 272 points273 points ago
How to Cook Your Friends
by Ginn E. Pigg
[–]Zokusho 12 points13 points ago
When I was a kid and had a guinea pig, my uncle and dad would joke about making guinea pig stew.
Seeing this makes me wonder if that really is a thing.
[–]threeminus 35 points36 points ago
Peruvians eat somewhere around 65 million guinea pigs a year. I'll bet you a dollar at least one of 'em went in a stew.
[–]IAMBollock 13 points14 points ago
Only a dollar? I'd mortgage my house for that bet.
[–]YO_DAT_SHIT_CRAY 8 points9 points ago
Have to mortgage the house to cover a $1 bet? We are the 99%.
[–]WhatDidYouJustType 4 points5 points ago
Do Guinea Pigs live anywhere else naturally? It always seems to be Peru...
[–]threeminus 5 points6 points ago
Well, they don't live in the wild anywhere really. But they are originally from the Andes, or at least the animal that was domesticated into guinea pigs was.
[–]BigBadMrBitches 6 points7 points ago
New Guinea.
[–]bub2000 2 points3 points ago
It's a thing.
A delicious thing.
[–]Renatooo0 14 points15 points ago
Actually in Peru we have the "Cuy" and they look a lot like Guinea Pigs. And I can proudly say they are exquisite!
[–]willendorfVenus 24 points25 points ago
Oh, man. I thought it would be a picture of a cute, furry rodent. :(
[–]OutOfTheAsh 18 points19 points ago
This is 100% not a coincidence.
[–][deleted] 8 points9 points ago
I ate one of those on a family trip to Peru. I consider it a traumatic childhood experience. The Peruvian dudes in the restaurant were laughing that I couldn't eat it.
[–]Renatooo0 6 points7 points ago
Trust me. I was a kid too, and my childhood ended when i was in first grade. You see, my family had a shitload of guinea pigs (cuy) and i had always wondered why we had so many. Anyways... Out of all the "cuy" shitload, there was this fat one, i had grown up with and loved and even had named him! His name was Chester. One day coming from school, i went directly to greet Chester. I had also noticed the great smell of lunch my mom had made, but decided to ignore it. When i got to the top floor (where all the cuys were) i could not spot Chester anywhere! His fluffyness mixed with beautiful colors were hard to miss! You might guess what happened next... My week was full of tears and from that moment on i learned that guinea pigs were not to love but eat. It changed my life completely.
[–]CatzPwn 4 points5 points ago
[–]TheAdAgency 2 points3 points ago
A pet that is fun and delicious!
[–]RashaGirl 2 points3 points ago
I once opened the freezer at my friend's house (she's from Peru) and staring at me were two frozen mice, just standing there, frozen.....frozen....I still have nightmares.
[–]Surferbum08 37 points38 points ago
[–]Surferbum08 12 points13 points ago
MOM!! MORE PROTEIN!!
[–]Systemstatic 1 point2 points ago
We used to have rats in our garage, but this was before we started using lethal traps. We used cages and caught them alive. Normally we would get the little rats, just your standard size. But one morning I woke up, to find this one HUGE rat taking up the entirety of the cage. I'm talking, from my fingertips to my elbow, this enormous rat. We released it in a field area about a mile away from our house. We thought it was mama rat.
[–]dancingwithcats 2 points3 points ago
TIL that Guinea Pigs are cannibals.
[–]mineofgod 158 points159 points ago
I love the look he gives when he's sharpening that pencil.
"Yes, just getting ready for our weekly meeting, Jim. How has your Monday been so far? ...Why the camera?"
[–]cj5rox 28 points29 points ago
That why the camera cracked me up. Well done
[–]MangoMambo 4 points5 points ago
"We have business to take care of, Jim. Stop playing around and put the camera down. We're on a deadline."
[–]cvillano 3 points4 points ago
[–]OrangeAmpersand 56 points57 points ago
The guinea pig attached to the dog makes me nervous...
[–]Electric_Warrior_ 45 points46 points ago
Seriously. That guinea pig needs to get his dog out of the middle of the street.
[–]CajunTurkey 26 points27 points ago
I can see the dog running away with the guinea pig dangling at the leash.
[–]Rassenschande 8 points9 points ago
The dog knows. It's staying behind like "What the Fuck is going on? I don't heel to guinea pigs."
[–]mbortman 28 points29 points ago
This makes me miss my guinea pig so much. She died about a year ago.
[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 50 points51 points ago
:( Guinea pigs are the tits
[–]stewie650 30 points31 points ago
They feel like a bag of sand.
[–]valivergara 2 points3 points ago
Same feel here...mine passed away a couple of years ago, still miss him =(
[–]greedy_boy 55 points56 points ago
[–]shortdork27 49 points50 points ago
And then they eat them...
[–]HurricaneSandyHook 7 points8 points ago
i've seen a couple episodes of food shows where they go to peru and eat cuy. they must fatten them up because a couple of the fuckers looked the size of a groundhogs.
[–]TheSuicideSiren 5 points6 points ago
Working in pet stores for almost a decade, I used to sell guinea pigs to people with kids. I would tell them that guinea pigs love to be dressed up in clothes and pushed around in a stroller. Great pets for kids.
Source: I've seen it myself.
[–]suelinaa 24 points25 points ago
Curious.. How are Guinea Pigs as pets? Are they comparable to owning like a rabbit or something? Are they smart? Affectionate? Trainable?
They are so cute and I wouldn't be opposed to owning one but I have no idea what caring for one entails
[–]TwoYaks 64 points65 points ago
They're pretty dumb. The reason you can pose them like they are in these photos is they just stand there going 'wut?' Training them takes a heck of a lot of time. They are very affectionate, though, and make all sorts of noises when you pet them. They're pretty low maintenance, though if you don't give them something to wear their claws down on, trimming them is a PITA.
They love cardboard. Dear god they love cardboard.
Downsides: They make a noise when you open the fridge, screaming like they've never been fed in their lives. Whether you find this cute or annoying is a function of how long you've owned them. They can hear the fridge open from over a mile away.
They're also very brick like in shape, and eat more food than should be rodently possible. Occasionally, they jump out of your hands from a high height and injure themselves, especially if there's something that can be mistaken for food on the floor. They need buddies (because they're social critters), but periodically kick the living crap out of each other if you don't give them lots of room.
[–]aquamarinewalrus 8 points9 points ago
I disagree with you that they are dumb, although they tend to choose to not move unless they have a good reason. Mine were quite aware, and one of my younger ones seemed to have learned by watching our older ones.
[–]153543 7 points8 points ago
They're not dumb at all. Potty training them is incredibly fast and easy. You just need to be an attentive owner who the guinea pig cares enough to obey.
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago
They're pretty dumb.
They're playing dumb. They're quite smart but lazy; they pretend to be un-trainable or remain in all sorts of poses for you just to get their treats/food. I wish I was that fucking smart when I was a kid.
[–]Windows_97 9 points10 points ago
TIL guinea pigs remind me of Ed from Ed Edd 'n Eddy
[–]SexLiesAndExercise 13 points14 points ago
They're closer to plank.
[–]xfirefly 7 points8 points ago
Well, I wouldn't say they are smart, but I have seen a few videos on YouTube where they have been trained.
Piggies are super affectionate and they make very cute noises (including purring).
If you're going to get one, I would recommend getting him/her a friend. They are herd animals and have been known to get depressed if they are alone.
[–]aquamarinewalrus 3 points4 points ago
Guinea pigs are awesome pets. They can be really cuddly and interactive and they are low maintenance compared to larger pets like dogs. It's better for them to live inside, though and you will need quite a bit of space to put a cage in. But please, if you get guinea pigs, consider getting them from a shelter. Guinea pigs get a lot less attention from people wanting to rescue.
[–]RashaGirl 2 points3 points ago
I've had guinea pigs all my life. As long as you research how to take care of them, you will be fine. They are fairly low maintenance. They are also very affectionate. When I was young, I would lay on the floor or bed and my baby would craw all over my tummy or back. Or they would just chill with me on the couch. They did leave little surprises everywhere they went, but those surprises were in the shape of little pellets that were easy to pick up and toss in the trash. Oh and they love dandelions.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago
I've had 4 of them in my life and they are honestly as awesome as a pet can get that fits in your palm. I've seen hamsters and they are much funner. Hamsters don't let you play with them much and bite. Guinea pigs are super smart and will recognize you from afar. I've taken them to parks and even to school for show on tell when I was a kid and they followed me on the ground staying close. They won't escape as they will get afraid and come back to you outside. Even at home they will eventually come back to their cage to sleep if you leave it open. They can be potty trained as well. They are social animals and I'd recommend getting 2 females to avoid possible fighting between males. But by all means, please look in any animal shelter. There are literally dozens awaiting a new home else they'll get put down. Most are flexible and will accustom to their new owner.
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[–]eldowns 27 points28 points ago
Is this account seriously 4 hours old? And does it seriously have 17K followers?
[–]notnotcitricsquid 22 points23 points ago
The account is part of a network of accounts ran by "InfluencedMedia". They use their other accounts that have large numbers of followers to get their new accounts in front of a large audience, giving themselves an easy way to launch a new Twitter account.
For example InfluencedMedia has a couple of accounts each with >100k followers, each account can be used to retweet the new account. You can find a list of their accounts in the bio of @InfluencedMedia and check to see.
[–]eddiemon 15 points16 points ago
Wow. That's incredibly lame.
[–]Jerglings 2 points3 points ago
Here is (what I think to be) the original twitter where OP got all the pics from. Active since 15 April. Even looks like OP forgot to switch accounts when replying to himself...
[–]notnotcitricsquid 4 points5 points ago
Looks like you're right, the OP is the person that created the twitter account and is using this post (and reddit) to fund his supposed multi-million social marketing business. I've reported the post to the r/aww moderators!
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago
MIND = BLOWN
[–]natester 6 points7 points ago
Is it on instagram?
[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 6 points7 points ago
just searched for it and couldn't find it
[–]susurro_del_oceano 8 points9 points ago
You think? Are these actually your pictures? And why do you keep replying to yourself?
[–]sexbobomb91 70 points71 points ago
[–]xfirefly 10 points11 points ago
My favorite!
[–]Struwwl 24 points25 points ago
[–]Skeetr 5 points6 points ago
that feel when that little guy is lifting more than I am.
What the fuck am I doing with my life?
[–]Gebbeth 1 point2 points ago
I bet he's not natty, bro.
[–]UntrueStatementBelow 92 points93 points ago
Recent findings have shown that guinea pigs actually have the potential to surpass brain capacity of humans. When a particular protein (hypothalimate) is inserted into the cortex of the guinea pig, they have been known to perform complicated tasks ranging from comprehending human facial expressions, to sewing guinea pig sized gloves. Truly fascinating stuff.
[–]lamblikeawolf 67 points68 points ago
I was very skeptical about this, and was going to ask how on earth guinea pigs could even remotely sew anything. And then I looked at your username. Well done.
[–]cj5rox 49 points50 points ago
I'm glad you said that. Saved me from saying some truly idiotic shit to my roommate.
[–]willendorfVenus 5 points6 points ago
Actually they knit. Mittens.
[–]fiach 12 points13 points ago
I was so very excited for a moment
[–][deleted] 15 points16 points ago
Why is he a cannibal?
...and how many BBW pictures have been PM'd to you so far?
[–]rburp 9 points10 points ago
We need to know!
[–]Half-Jackel 6 points7 points ago
that dog is just thinking, i cant believe you are degrading me like this
[–]SolidCake 6 points7 points ago
he's sharpening the pencil eraser.
[–]gizpoomoepoo 17 points18 points ago
Guinea pig, does in fact, lift.
[–]Go_Home_Please 4 points5 points ago
That dog looks so bummed. "No, don't leave him in charge!"
[–]djuhnk 5 points6 points ago
that dog is not amused.
[–]Akiba89 7 points8 points ago
"Go faster, i have to pee on things!"
[–]francis55578 2 points3 points ago
Random person: "what are you doing" Guinea pig: "stuff and thaangs"
[–]this-username 4 points5 points ago
is the other guinea pig's name Stew? because that would make my day
[–]asshat_backwards 2 points3 points ago
That's one charming motherfucking guinea pig...
[–]StaticDude 2 points3 points ago
I hate to be this guy. But don't use the smith machine. Never use the smith machine.
[–]CoogleGhrome 1 point2 points ago
OP is only using the smith machine until he trains his guinea pigs to spot him.
[–]oilybchgrl 2 points3 points ago
hide your car keys dude!
[–]Sinnedangel8027 2 points3 points ago
TIL: Guinea Pigs do in fact lift
[–]skriders 2 points3 points ago
Call me a softy, but as a 25 male, this makes me reallllly miss my Guinea Pig that died a few years ago.....
[–]zfiregodz 2 points3 points ago
Now go buy that cute lil guy some Guinea Pig Armor.
[–]amyneko 1 point2 points ago
So your guinea pig is a cannibal?
[–]wheneveryouwant 1 point2 points ago
Upvotes for guinea pigs!!!!!!!!!
[–]redfiz 1 point2 points ago
Hell yes. I logged in just to upvote this. Finally some "original" content on reddit. Thank you for the laugh.
[–]Work_Account_13 1 point2 points ago
Please post more of these!!!
[–]dominatordan 1 point2 points ago
Guinea pig mowing the lawn seriously made me disturb my office mates with an outburst of laughter. Nice
[–]lexm 1 point2 points ago
Now I know who broke the smith machine at the gym...
[–]probo1 1 point2 points ago
I... I... forgot to read the last word in title. Thougght it was something else.
[–]hardtobeuniqueuser 1 point2 points ago
Seriously, make more of these. A lot more.
[–]bigtippers 1 point2 points ago
[–]skaterjoe22 1 point2 points ago
I find it odd that I had to scroll down really far do even a mention of the fact that this guys name is "fatgirlsendmenues"
[–]klausterfukken 1 point2 points ago
I'm so Startled...
[–]Redditor429 1 point2 points ago
This seriously just made my day a million times better.
[–]ash347 1 point2 points ago
"What the fuck am I doing?"
[–]eyesofthesouth2 1 point2 points ago
I should buy a guinea pig.
[–]jetstorm369 1 point2 points ago
Your guinea pig is way more productive than I am.
[–]unarmed_walrus 1 point2 points ago
I was having a bad day and this instantly cheered me up. Thank you.
[–]Zookeeper_II 1 point2 points ago
even if I'm not the author, have a nice day mate :)
[–]ThatDuckSnipes 1 point2 points ago
Fuck my life, Imagine if that dog started running!
[–]csupernova 1 point2 points ago
Looks like he skips leg day, though.
[–]littleluckyducky 1 point2 points ago
How neat! All my guinea pig ever did was squeal and hide in her igloo. RIP Sugar
[–]wolfincommand -2 points-1 points ago
I think, more concerning than the guinea pig cannibalism, is the terrible predicament your username suggests you are in. I sympathize with your pain.
[–]FatGirlsSendMeNudes[S] 25 points26 points ago
i like them.
[–]wolfincommand 1 point2 points ago
It's Stockholm Syndrome.
[–]bouchard 7 points8 points ago
Looks more like a request than a complaint.
[–]wolfincommand 3 points4 points ago
Ahh, so more like, "Fat Girls, send me nudes."
[–]StopItYouHipsters 0 points1 point ago
This is amazing!
[–]dabornz 0 points1 point ago
He's just cooking up a nice meal for some post-workout protein.
[–]LeSpy97 0 points1 point ago
He's so skinny, mine is a fat ass.
[–]md7 4 points5 points ago
Bro does your guinea pig even lift?
[–]LeSpy97 1 point2 points ago
Nah, just eats... a lot. :)
[–]6tacocat9 0 points1 point ago
You remind me of Steve Carell from that movie.
[–]opendoor125 0 points1 point ago
[–]Bunnies_Ushanka 0 points1 point ago
My guinea died yesterday, after 3 whole years..
[–]burnSMACKER 0 points1 point ago
Well that escalated quickly.
[–]i_am_a_mole 0 points1 point ago
[–]Kranthiv 0 points1 point ago
he is lifting the wrong weights.
[–]Iamnotanacrobat 0 points1 point ago
I didn't even notice the second guinea pig in the pan at first! I want to steal them.
[–]test4echo 0 points1 point ago
Does he balance a pancake on his head?
[–]Pace23 0 points1 point ago
[–]TheAtomicLemonade 0 points1 point ago
The one with him cooking his brother is a page taken out of Peru where they do eat guinea pigs for meat...I have heard guinea pigs are quite delicious.
[–]smallsketch 0 points1 point ago
His buddy Stu spells his name weird
[–]Stickel 0 points1 point ago
cannibalistic Guinea Pig? That sick-o!!!!!
[–]SirSandGoblin 0 points1 point ago
i can imagine that walking the dog one could go very wrong very quickly. but then my dog gets distracted far too easily, yours looks like it behaves
[–]MrDoctorSmartyPants 0 points1 point ago
Your Guinea pig lifts, bro?
[–]mattsprofile 0 points1 point ago
Is that a home gym?
[–]Byahhhhh 0 points1 point ago
is that a Sheltie? Its cute!!
[–]Thugnaught 0 points1 point ago
He's sharpening a pencil in one photo and using a pen in another?!
These photos must have been staged, this guinea pig is a karma whore.
[–]SuppA-SnipA 0 points1 point ago
Fuck - now i want one.
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An important characteristic of an aspirational product is that the part of its exposure audience that is at present economically unable to purchase it, thinks of itself as having a fair probability of at a certain point in the future being able to do so. This part of the exposure audience is referred to as the aspirational audience, whereas the part of the exposure audience that already can afford the product is called the consumption audience. Consumption audience and aspirational audience together form the aspirational product's target audience, which typically represents 30%-60% of the exposure audience
Weak aspirational brands have target audiences that are almost as large as their exposure audiences (e.g. mp3 player brands), and are therefore slowly becoming commodity brands, e.g. brands with consumption audiences that coincide with the exposure audience (and therefore, brands without an aspiring audience).
As a general rule, an aspirational brand and its products can command a price premium in the marketplace over a commodity brand. This ability can to a large extent be explained by the consumer's need for invidious consumption for which he is willing to pay a premium. The smaller the size of the product's target audience compared to the exposure audience, the more the product satisfies this need, and the higher the premium that such a consumer is prepared to pay.
The larger the ratio of aspirational to consumption consumers in the target audience, the higher the brand's premium, e.g. Maybach cars. To keep the premium level of a brand high, the consumption portion of the audience should not exceed 30% of the aspirational audience.
Aspirational brand or model: fashion magazines[edit]
In the context of fashion magazines, the "aspirational model" offers readers continuing (and continually changing) fashion, beauty, and physical ideals to which they can aspire but, perhaps, never actually achieve. Criticized for this approach, magazine editors have claimed that their readers do not want to see "real-life" models or the way that beauty products and clothes look on "real women"; that they buy the magazines in the first place because they prefer the aspirational fantasies, and in the second, because they continually hope that by following the advice or buying the products, they will achieve the ever-changing looks that the magazine promotes via the models and photographic/technological wizardry.
Aspirational brand strategy[edit]
Aspirational brand strategies are strategies designed to reposition a brand within a marketplace. The idea is that brand can lead organizational change and lead consumer opinion about a brand. Aspirational brand strategies are used when the current image of the brand is either negative or no longer relevant to the company.
Companies should use great care in employing an aspirational brand strategy. The company needs to be structured around truly delivering on the promise and must have employees who understand the brand goals and actively and daily work to achieve them. BP learned the dangers of aspirational branding during the summer of 2010 during the BP/Deepwater Oil Spill disaster. As the article BP: Disingenuously Branding explains, the aspiration of the company to be environmentally friendly and "Beyond Petroleum" backfired in a big way.[1]
Specialty goods vs. aspirational brand[edit]
aspirational brand audience vs. specialty good buyer
A specialty good could have been an aspirational good at one point of time, but this is not always true. In buying of a specialty good, very high involvement comes in. An aspirational good is a good that covers a large segment of its exposure audience who wishes to own it, but for economical reasons cannot and thinks of itself as having a probability of buying it at a certain point in the future. The aspirational audience is always a super set of actual consumption audience. A consumer of specialty good is exposed to market and is the actual user of that special product. He might be or not had been ever aspired for that product. Hence, speciality good becomes the subset of aspiration good. Whether a good is a shopping good or a specialty depends on the consumer background of his/her socio-economic background he/she comes from. For a daily wage earner at a construction site, a packet of cigarette or a water cooler at home in summers will be a specialty good, whereas for a rich businessman, who has the purchasing power, a luxurious car will be a specialty good as he/she will go any length to buy that particular car, not bothering about the location of the car showroom. A specialty good entails a high degree of customer loyalty; the effort at shopping, therefore, does not involve comparing one brand against another but finding a store that carries the item in question. Buyer invests time in reaching the dealer and ultimately buying that car of his choice and hence, these dealers need not be conveniently located. An aspiration good has a brand associated with it whereas, a speciality good will can have only the characteristics of a certain product a consumer has in his/her mind. For an instance, A consumer wants to own a SUV, then that SUV is a speciality good if he has the power to buy that car and if he/she only wants to buy an SUV by Mercedes, which he cannot afford, then that becomes an aspirational good.Examples of a specialty goods can be designer clothes, high-end cars, exotic perfumes, famous paintings, certain types of sporting equipment, photographic equipment, whereas aspirational goods are the ones which the consumer wants to own but is not able to do the same due to very high prices with respect to his socio- economic background he/she belongs to.
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An Austrian wine made from Grüner Veltliner, by far the most grown variety in Austria.
The Austrian wine seal is used on all wines at Qualitätswein level
Austrian wines are mostly dry white wines (often made from the Grüner Veltliner grape), though some sweeter white wines (such as dessert wines made around the Neusiedler See) are also produced. About 30% of the wines are red, made from Blaufränkisch (also known as Lemberger, or as Kékfrankos in neighbouring Hungary), Pinot noir and locally bred varieties such as Zweigelt.[1] Four thousand years of winemaking history counted for little after the "antifreeze scandal" of 1985, when it was revealed that some wine brokers had been adulterating their wines with diethylene glycol. The scandal destroyed the market for Austrian wine and compelled Austria to tackle low standards of bulk wine production, and reposition itself as a producer of quality wines. The country is also home to Riedel, makers of some of the most expensive wine glasses in the world. Some of the best producers of Austria include Weingut F.X. Pichler and Weingut Franz Hirtzberger.
There is archaeological evidence of grape growing in Traisental 4000 years ago. Grape seeds have been found in urns dating back to 700 BC in Zagersdorf,[2] whilst bronze wine flagons of the Celtic La Tène culture dating to the 5th century BC have been found at Dürrnberg in Salzburg state.[3] Viticulture thrived under the Romans, once Marcus Aurelius Probus (Roman emperor 276–282) had overturned the ban on growing grapes north of the Alps. Both Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling appear to have been grown around the Danube since Roman times.[4]
Viticulture suffered with the invasions of Bavarians, Slavs and Avars after the fall of the Roman Empire, but from 788 the rule of Charlemagne saw considerable reconstruction of vineyards and introduction of new grape presses. Once Otto the Great had seen off the threat from Magyar incursions in 955, Austrian viticulture was nurtured by the Church and encouraged among the populace at large.[2] The first vineyard names recorded are Kremser Sandgrube in 1208, and Steiner Pfaffenberg in 1230.[2] Rudolf IV introduced the first wine tax, Ungeld, in 1359, as Vienna established itself as a centre for wine trading on the Danube.[2]
The wine business boomed in the 16th century, but the Thirty Years War and others of the 17th century took their toll, as much due to the heavy taxation of the period as the direct disruption of war. Various drink taxes were unified in 1780, as part of a drive by Maria Theresa and Joseph II to encourage viticulture. An imperial decree of 17 August 1784 gave birth to the distinctive Austrian tradition of inns called Heurigen. Derived from the German for "new wine", the decree allowed all winemakers to sell home-grown food with their wine all year round.[2] Fir trees hung above the door alerted customers to the arrival of the new season's wine.
The 19th century saw the arrival of all sorts of biological invaders. First there was powdery mildew (Uncinula necator) and downy mildew (Peronospora). One response to these fungal diseases from North America was the founding in 1860 of what became the Federal Institute for Viticulture and Pomology at Klosterneuburg. Then the phylloxera root aphid arrived in 1872 and wiped out most of the vineyards of central Europe. Although it took several decades for the industry to recover, it allowed lower quality grapes to be replaced with better varieties, particularly Grüner Veltliner. After World War I, Austria was the third biggest wine producer in the world,[2] much being exported in bulk for blending with wine from Germany and other countries.
However that intensification of viticulture sowed the seeds of its own destruction. During the twentieth century Austrian wine became a high-volume, industrialised business, with much of it being sold in bulk to Germany. A run of favourable years in the early 1980s saw massive yields of wines that were light, dilute and acidic, that nobody wanted. Wine brokers discovered that these wines could be made saleable by the addition of a little diethylene glycol, more commonly found in antifreeze, which imparted sweetness and body to the wine.[5] The adulteration was difficult to detect chemically—the 'antifreeze scandal' broke when one of them tried to claim for the cost of the chemical on his tax return.[6] Although the amounts of glycol were less dangerous than the alcohol in the wine, and only a few middlemen were involved, exports collapsed and some countries banned Austrian wine altogether. The antifreeze jokes persist, but in fact the scandal was the saviour of the industry in Austria. Strict new regulations restricted yields among other things, producers moved towards more red wine and a dry style of white wine that was what the 1990s market would demand, and the middlemen went bust forcing producers to sell direct and encouraging the expression of local terroir.[7] Perhaps most importantly, there was a massive change in the culture of wine production in Austria towards an emphasis on quality, as opposed to the low standards that permitted the scandal to happen in the first place.
The Austrian Wine Marketing Board was created in 1986 as a response to the scandal, and Austria's membership of the European Union has prompted further revisions of her wine laws, notably the new DAC system of geographical appellations launched in 2002 (see Classification section below). Today Austria lies 18th in the list of wine producing countries by volume (2010), but the wines are now of a quality that can take on—and beat—the best in the world.[8][9]
Grape varieties[edit]
Grape[10] Vineyards
Grüner Veltliner
36 .0%
Other white (<2%)
11 .1%
9 .0%
8 .9%
Other red (<2%)
8 .9%
6 .8%
Pinot blanc + Chardonnay
6 .1%
5 .5%
Blauer Portugieser
4 .9%
3 .4%
2 .3%
As can be seen from the table, Grüner Veltliner is the dominant white grape in Austria, producing generally dry wines ranging from short-lived Heuriger wines to Spätleses capable of long life. The ancient Welschriesling variety is used in the noble rot dessert wines of the Neusiedlersee; it also makes undistinguished dry wines for drinking young, as does Müller-Thurgau (Rivaner). Neuburger was supposedly found as flotsam in the Danube in the 1850s, but is now known to be a cross between Silvaner and the ancient Roter Veltliner. Frühroter Veltliner is also known as Malvasier, suggesting a link to the Malvasia grape family of the Eastern Mediterranean. Muscat Ottonel is used in dessert wines from the Neusiedlersee, as is Bouvier, which is related to the muscat family and is a parent of the Orémus (Zéta) grape used in Tokaji. There were high hopes for Goldburger, a cross between Welschriesling and Orangetraube bred in Klosterneuburg, but after an initial wave of planting, enthusiasm has dimmed. Zierfandler (Spätrot) and Rotgipfler are local grapes of the Thermenregion, and are often blended together as Spätrot-Rotgipfler. It is worth noting that Pinot gris is known as Ruländer in Austria, and sometimes as Grauburgunder; Pinot blanc is known as Weißburgunder or Weissburgunder, and Sauvignon blanc is called Muskat Sylvaner.[10] Riesling plays a much smaller role than in Germany, but the relatively small amount grown is used for some of Austria's most appreciated dry white wines.
Zweigelt (sometimes called Zweigeltblau, a Blaufränkisch × St. Laurent cross) and Blauburger (Blaufränkisch × BlauerPortugieser) were bred at Klosterneuburg in the 1920s and now account for nearly half of Austria's red wine. The former can be made into powerful wines for ageing, the latter is easier to grow and is generally blended; both are also made into a lighter style for drinking young.[10]
Blaufränkisch and Blauer Portugieser are the traditional red grapes of the region, being part of the blend of Hungary's Egri Bikavér. The former is the more "serious" variety, Blauer Portugieser produces fresh, fruity red wines for drinking young. Saint Laurent came from France in the mid-19th century, and seems to have substantial Pinot noir (Blauerburgunder) parentage; St Laurent has a reputation for being problematic to grow, but can produce good quality wine. Blauer Wildbacher is probably an indigenous wild grape variety, used to make a cult rosé called Schilcher in western Styria. Rössler is the latest variety to be bred at Klosterneuburg.[10]
Since joining the EU the Austrians have made real efforts to improve matters. At present there are three systems—the traditional system based on the German scheme, a different classification used only in the Wachau, and a new system of regional appellations called DACs that is being trialled in the Weinviertel.[7]
National Classification[edit]
The Smaragd, Lacerta viridis, which gives its name to the highest level of the Wachau wine classification.
The existing system was based on the German system during World War II, but was modified after 1985. It is based on the Klosterneuberger Mostwaage (KMW), which measures the sugar content of the grapes at harvest in a way similar to the Öchsle scale, where 1°KMW is ~5°Oe.[7]
• Tafelwein: >10.7°KMW, can come from more than one region
• Landwein: >14°KMW, >17 g/litre dry extract, <11.5% alcohol, <6 g/l residual sugar. A Tafelwein that comes from just one region.
• Qualitätswein: >15°KMW (can be chaptalised to 19°KMW for whites, 20°KMW for reds), >9% alcohol. Comes from a single wine district.
• Kabinett: >17°KMW Qualitätswein with no chaptalisation, residual sugar <9 g/litre, alcohol <12.7%.
• Prädikatswein : covers the range from Spätlese to Eiswein, to which nothing can be added—no must, no chaptalisation. Most of the wines may not be released until the 1st May after harvest.[7]
Wachau Classification[edit]
The "Vinea Wachau Nobilis Districtus" has three categories, all for dry wines:
• Steinfeder ("Stone feather"—named after a grass, Stipa pinnata, that grows in the vineyards): maximum 11.5% alcohol, mostly for local quaffing.[11]
• Federspiel (named after a falconry device): 11.5% to 12.5% alcohol and a minimum must weight of 17° KMW, roughly equivalent to Kabinett.[12]
• Smaragd (named after an 'emerald' lizard that lives in the vineyards): minimum 12.5% alcohol, with a maximum 9 g/litre residual sugar; some of the best dry whites in Austria.[13]
Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC)[edit]
Districtus Austriae Controllatus, Latin for "Controlled District of Austria", is the new geographical appellation, similar to the French AOC or the Italian DOCG. Regional wine committees award the DAC to wines typical of their region. There are now seven DACs:
1. Weinviertel DAC (for Grüner Veltliner)
2. Mittelburgenland DAC (for Blaufränkisch)
3. Traisental DAC (for both Riesling and Grüner Veltliner)
4. Kremstal DAC (for both Riesling and Grüner Veltliner)
5. Kamptal DAC (for both Riesling and Grüner Veltliner)
6. Leithaberg DAC (for Grüner Veltliner, Weißburgunder, Chardonnay, Neuburger and Blaufränkisch, beginning September 2010)
7. Eisenberg DAC (for Blaufränkisch, beginning September 2010)
8. Neusiedlersee DAC (100% Zwiegelt for Klassik and min 60% Zwiegelt for Reserve Cuvée Blend)
Wine regions[edit]
Austrian regions
In 2005 Austria had 51,213 hectares of vineyard, almost all of it in the east of the country. Of these 31,425 ha are in the state of Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) and 15,386 ha in Burgenland[10] which together make up Weinland Österreich. Steierland (Styria) accounts for 3,749 ha, Wien (Vienna) 621 ha and there are 32 ha in "the Austrian Mountains" (Bergland Österreich), which covers the rest of the country. The four main wine regions are split into 16 districts.
Lower Austria[edit]
This narrow valley of the Danube around Melk[14] is reminiscent of the great wine areas of the Rhine, with steep terraces that produce world-class Grüner Veltliner and Riesling wines. Climatically and geologically it marks the transition from the Alps to the Hungarian plains, leading to a diverse array of microclimates and terroir, with the river moderating the effects of the cold Alpine winds. As mentioned above, the Vinea Wachau Nobilis Districtus still clings to its own classification of Steinfeder, Federspiel and Smaragd, reserved for wines that are made 100% from Wachau grapes.
Downstream of the Wachau lies the Kremstal region, centred on the town of Krems.[15] The valley opens out a little, the climate is a little warmer allowing more red wine to be produced, but otherwise Kremstal is quite similar to the Wachau.
To the north of Krems lies Langenlois, which is the main town of Kamptal, the valley of the river Kamp.[16] The sandstone slopes are so steep that only a thin layer of soil is retained, and exposure to the sun is high. Riesling thrives on these steep slopes; closer to the Danube the valley broadens and more red grapes are grown.
To the south of Krems lies Herzogenburg, at the centre of Traisental,[17] which was only designated as a wine district in 1995. Mostly Grüner Veltliner is grown here, which is made into a fresh style for drinking young.
Wagram (formerly Donauland)[edit]
Between Krems and Vienna lies the Donauland, which covers two very different areas. North of the Danube is the plateau of Wagram, where the Grüner Veltliner is a bit more full-bodied and aromatic, and Roter Veltliner is something of a local speciality. Blauer Zweigelt and Pinot noir wines are also made here, as well as a little Eiswein.
Further downstream, just outside Vienna lies Klosterneuburg. As the biggest private wine estate in the country, the abbey has played a formative role in Austrian wine for the last 900 years. The Federal Institute for Viticulture and Pomology was the world's first college of viticulture and continues to play an important part in the development of wine in Austria.
The Weinviertel lies in the northeast corner of Austria, between the Danube and the Czech and Slovak borders.[18] The biggest single wine region in Austria is home to half the Grüner Veltliner in the country (subject of the first DAC), and considerable amounts of Welschriesling, but most of Austria's varieties can be found here. Even sparkling wine is made from Riesling and Grüner Veltliner in the far northeast around Poysdorf, a particularly picturesque town in a country with more than her fair share of pretty wine country.
The deep soils between Vienna and the Neusiedlersee are rapidly establishing a reputation for well-balanced red wines made from Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch. Being close to Vienna and full of history, the area[19] is a popular area to visit.
The spa region south of Vienna saw two wine regions, Gumpoldskirchen and Bad Vöslau,[20] merged in 1985. Climatically similar to Burgundy, with a wide variation in soils, all kinds of grape varieties are made here, many being made into heurigen wines. Perhaps the most interesting wines are the Spätrot-Rotgipflers, made from a blend of the local varieties Zierfandler (Spätrot) and Rotgipfler, both of which are white grapes despite their names.
The east side of the Neusiedler See[21] is also known as Seewinkel, "corner of the lake". The shallow Neusiedler See (Lake Neusiedl) is one of the few places on earth where noble rot attacks grapes reliably every year. This means that botrytised dessert wines can be made more easily, and hence sold more cheaply, than in other areas famous for this style of wine. Increasingly, red wine is also being made in this region.
The "hill country" to the west of the lake[22] offers a diversity of terrain that is reflected in the number of grape varieties and styles of wine made here. Perhaps the most famous is the Ruster Ausbruch dessert wine from the western shore of the lake.
The Mittelburgenland is a southern continuation of the forested hills to the west of the Neusiedlersee.[23] The nickname "Blaufränkischland" reflects the dominant variety here, which is the subject of the only red wine DAC and can be very good, the Bordeaux varieties also do well here.
The most famous vineyard of the South Burgenland, Eisenberg[24] reflects the red, iron-rich soil which imparts a distinct spiciness to the Blaufränkisch grown here. A speciality here is Uhudler wine, made from hybrids with North American species such as Isabella, Concord, Delaware, Noah, Elvira and Ripadella, which was banned for a while after the 1985 scandal.
Vienna (Wien)[edit]
There are 621 ha of vineyards within the city limits of the Austrian capital.[25] Vines were grown within the city walls of Vienna in the Middle Ages, although they have now been pushed into the outskirts. Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot blanc are grown on the limestone soils towards Klosterneuburg, whereas red grapes do better on the rich soil to the south of the city. Field blends known as Gemischter Satz are common here, and most wine is drunk young in the city's heurigen.
Under a 2002 amendment to the wine laws, Steirerland (the modern Austrian state) replaced Steiermark (the old duchy, which included the eastern half of modern Slovenia) as the name for Styria on wine.
The many extinct volcanoes east of Graz give a rich soil which imparts a spiciness to the variety of grapes grown in Southeast Styria. The climate is a little cooler here, especially at night, giving a long growing season resulting in wines that are crisp, aromatic and full bodied.
Thirteen hundred hectares of vineyards are cultivated—all located around Klöch, Sankt Anna am Aigen and Straden and situated primarily on the slopes of the extinct volcanoes which characterize the landscape.[26] Some vineyards are up to 650 m above sea level.
The main grape varieties grown in this region are Welschriesling, Chardonnay (called Morillon), Weißburgunder (Pinot blanc) and Grauburgunder (Pinot gris), Gelber Muskateller, the Traminer family, Sauvignon blanc and Riesling; red wines feature Zweigelt as well as other grapes, including St. Laurent or Blauburgunder (Pinot noir).
Viticulture is generally a part-time job for wine-growers; their produce is sold mainly in the numerous Heurigen.
Südsteiermark (South Styria), near the Slovenian border,[26] is mainly Sauvignon blanc country—however, the 1,950 hectares of vineyards also include Welschriesling, Morillon, Muskateller and Traminer.
Soil types include sandstone, shale, clay and shelly limestone. The combination of warm days and cool nights gives a long growing season, resulting in crisp, aromatic and full-bodied wines. The region also produces “Junker”—fruity, young wines.
Prominent producers include: Erich & Walter Polz, Gross,[27] Erwin Sabathi, Tement and Sattlerhof.
The warm humid climate and steep hills make this one of the toughest places in Austria to be a vigneron.
Southwest of Graz[28] lie ancient vineyards which mainly produce a cult rosé called Schilcher. Made from the indigenous Blauer Wildbacher grape, genuine Schilcher carries a mark with a white horse, after the Lipizzaners bred in Piber for the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Facts & Figures: Viniculture in Austria". Wines from Austria. Archived from the original on 4 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
2. ^ a b c d e f "Viticulture in Austria – a journey in fast motion". Wines from Austria. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
3. ^ The conventional history of the Celts
4. ^ Blom, Philipp (2000) The Wines of Austria Faber & Faber ISBN 0-571-19533-4
5. ^ "Some wine to break the ice". Lancet 2 (8449): 254. 1985. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(85)90300-9. PMID 2862427.
6. ^ Schamberg, Anne (1998-07-05). "Austrian wines pour a rich heritage all their own". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
7. ^ a b c d e Dobson, Nick. "Austrian Wine - an Overview". Nick Dobson Wines. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
9. ^ Robinson, Jancis (2004-10-23). "World Dry Riesling Championship". Retrieved 2007-04-26.
10. ^ a b c d e "Austria The Wine Country" (PDF). (includes vintage guide). Austrian Wine Marketing Board. 2005. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
11. ^ Vinea Wachau: Steinfeder, accessed on May 15, 2008
12. ^ Vinea Wachau: Federspiel, accessed on May 15, 2008
13. ^ Vinea Wachau: Smaragd, accessed on May 15, 2008
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27. ^ Austrian Wine: Weingut Gross, accessed on July 18, 2011
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Benito Mussolini
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Head of Government of Italy and
Duce of
In office
24 December 1925 – 25 July 1943
Monarch Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Office abolished
27th Prime Minister of Italy
In office
31 October 1922 – 25 July 1943
Monarch Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded by Luigi Facta
Succeeded by Pietro Badoglio
Duce of the Italian Social Republic
In office
23 September 1943 – 25 April 1945
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Office abolished
First Marshal of the Empire
In office
30 March 1938 – 25 July 1943
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Office abolished
Personal details
Born Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
(1883-07-29)29 July 1883
Predappio, Forlì
Kingdom of Italy
Died 28 April 1945(1945-04-28) (aged 61)
Giulino di Mezzegra, Como
Kingdom of Italy
Resting place San Cassiano cemetery, Predappio, Forlì, Italian Republic
Nationality Italian
Political party Republican Fascist Party
National Fascist Party
Italian Fasci of Combat
Fasci of Revolutionary Action
Autonomous Fasci of Revolutionary Action
Italian Socialist Party
Spouse(s) Rachele Mussolini
Relations Ida Dalser
Margherita Sarfatti
Clara Petacci
Children Benito Albino Mussolini
Edda Mussolini
Vittorio Mussolini
Bruno Mussolini
Romano Mussolini
Anna Maria Mussolini
Profession Dictator, politician, journalist, novelist, teacher
Religion None (atheist)
(See this section for details.)
Military service
Allegiance Kingdom of Italy
Italian Social Republic
Service/branch Royal Italian Army
Years of service active: 1915–1917
Rank First Marshal of the Empire
Unit 11th Bersaglieri Regiment
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (Italian pronunciation: [beˈnito mussoˈlini]; 29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce ("the leader"), Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism.[1]
Early life
Mussolini was born in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì in Emilia-Romagna on 29 July 1883. In the Fascist era, Predappio was dubbed "Duce's town", and Forlì was "Duce's city". Pilgrims went to Predappio and Forlì, to see the birthplace of Mussolini. His father Alessandro Mussolini was a blacksmith and a socialist,[8] while his mother Rosa Mussolini (née Maltoni) was a devoutly Catholic schoolteacher.[9] Owing to his father's political leanings, Mussolini was named Benito after Mexican reformist President Benito Juárez, while his middle names Andrea and Amilcare were from Italian socialists Andrea Costa and Amilcare Cipriani.[10] Benito was the eldest of his parents' three children. His siblings Arnaldo and Edvige followed.[11]
As a young boy, Mussolini would spend some time helping his father in his smithy.[12] Mussolini's early political views were heavily influenced by his father, Alessandro Mussolini, a revolutionary socialist who idolized 19th century Italian nationalist figures with humanist tendencies such as Carlo Pisacane, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Giuseppe Garibaldi.[13] His father's political outlook combined views of anarchist figures like Carlo Cafiero and Mikhail Bakunin, the military authoritarianism of Garibaldi, and the nationalism of Mazzini.[14] In 1902, at the anniversary of Garibaldi's death, Benito Mussolini made a public speech in praise of the republican nationalist.[14] The conflict between his parents about religion meant that, unlike most Italians, Mussolini was not baptized at birth and would not be until much later in life. As a compromise with his mother, Mussolini was sent to a boarding school run by Salesian monks. After joining a new school, Mussolini achieved good grades, and qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901.[9]
Emigration to Switzerland and military service
Mussolini's booking photograph following his arrest by Swiss police, 1903
In 1902, Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland, partly to avoid military service.[8] He worked briefly as a stonemason in Geneva, Fribourg and Bern, but was unable to find a permanent job.
During this time he studied the ideas of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, and the syndicalist Georges Sorel. Mussolini also later credited the Marxist Charles Péguy and the syndicalist Hubert Lagardelle as some of his influences.[15] Sorel's emphasis on the need for overthrowing decadent liberal democracy and capitalism by the use of violence, direct action, the general strike, and the use of neo-Machiavellian appeals to emotion, impressed Mussolini deeply.[8]
Mussolini became active in the Italian socialist movement in Switzerland, working for the paper L'Avvenire del Lavoratore, organizing meetings, giving speeches to workers and serving as secretary of the Italian workers' union in Lausanne.[16] In 1903, he was arrested by the Bernese police because of his advocacy of a violent general strike, spent two weeks in jail, was deported to Italy, set free there, and returned to Switzerland.[17] In 1904, after having been arrested again in Geneva and expelled for falsifying his papers, he returned to Lausanne, where he attended the University of Lausanne's Department of Social Science, following the lessons of Vilfredo Pareto.[18] In December 1904, he returned to Italy to take advantage of an amnesty for desertion, for which he had been convicted in absentia.[19]
Since condition for being pardoned was serving in the army, on 30 December 1904, he joined the corps of the Bersaglieri in Forlì.[20] After serving for two years in the military (from January 1905 until September 1906), he returned to teaching.[21]
Political journalist and socialist
During this time, he published Il Trentino veduto da un Socialista (Trentino as seen by a Socialist) in the radical periodical La Voce.[23] He also wrote several essays about German literature, some stories, and one novel: L'amante del Cardinale: Claudia Particella, romanzo storico (The Cardinal's Mistress). This novel he co-wrote with Santi Corvaja, and was published as a serial book in the Trento newspaper Il Popolo. It was released in installments from 20 January to 11 May 1910[24] The novel was bitterly anticlerical, and years later was withdrawn from circulation after Mussolini made a truce with the Vatican.[8]
While Mussolini was associated with socialism, he also was supportive of figures who opposed egalitarianism. For instance Mussolini was influenced by Nietszche's anti-Christian ideas and negation of God's existence.[27] Mussolini saw Nietzsche as similar to Jean-Marie Guyau, who advocated a philosophy of action.[27] Mussolini's use of Nietzsche made him a highly unorthodox socialist, due to Nietzsche's promotion of elitism and anti-egalitarian views.[27] Mussolini felt that socialism had faltered due to the failures of Marxist determinism and social democratic reformism, and believed that Nietzsche's ideas would strengthen socialism.[27] While associated with socialism, Mussolini's writings eventually indicated that he had abandoned Marxism and egalitarianism in favor of Nietzsche's übermensch concept and anti-egalitarianism.[27]
Expulsion from the Italian Socialist Party
With the outbreak of World War I a number of socialist parties initially supported the war when it began in August 1914.[28] Once the war began, Austrian, British, French, German, and Russian socialists followed the rising nationalist current by supporting their country's intervention in the war.[29] The outbreak of the war had resulted in a surge of Italian nationalism and the war was supported by a variety of political factions. One of the most prominent and popular Italian nationalist supporters of the war was Gabriele d'Annunzio who promoted Italian irredentism and helped sway the Italian public to support intervention in the war.[30] The Italian Liberal Party under the leadership of Paolo Boselli promoted intervention in the war on the side of the Allies and utilized the Società Dante Alighieri to promote Italian nationalism.[31][32] Italian socialists were divided on whether to support the war or oppose it.[33] Prior to Mussolini taking a position on the war, a number of revolutionary syndicalists had announced their support of intervention, including Alceste De Ambris, Filippo Corridoni, and Angelo Oliviero Olivetti.[34] The Italian Socialist Party decided to oppose the war after anti-militarist protestors had been killed, resulting in a general strike called Red Week.[35]
Mussolini initially held official support for the party's decision and, in an August 1914 article, Mussolini wrote "Down with the War. We remain neutral."[36] He saw the war as an opportunity, both for his own ambitions as well as those of socialists and Italians.[36] He was influenced by anti-Austrian Italian nationalist sentiments, believing that the war offered Italians in Austria-Hungary the chance to liberate themselves from rule of the Habsburgs.[36] He eventually decided to declare support for the war by appealing to the need for socialists to overthrow the Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies in Germany and Austria-Hungary whom he claimed had consistently repressed socialism.[36] He further justified his position by denouncing the Central Powers for being reactionary powers; for pursuing imperialist designs against Belgium and Serbia as well as historically against Denmark, France, and against Italians, since hundreds of thousands of Italians were under Habsburg rule.[34] He claimed that the fall of Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies and the repression of "reactionary" Turkey would create conditions beneficial for the working class.[34] While he was supportive of the Entente powers, Mussolini responded to the conservative nature of Tsarist Russia by claiming that the mobilization required for the war would undermine Russia's reactionary authoritarianism and the war would bring Russia to social revolution.[34] He claimed that for Italy the war would complete the process of Risorgimento by uniting the Italians in Austria-Hungary into Italy and by allowing the common people of Italy to be participating members of the Italian nation in what would be Italy's first national war.[34] Thus he claimed that the vast social changes that the war could offer meant that it should be supported as a revolutionary war.[34]
As Mussolini's support for the intervention solidified, he came into conflict with socialists who opposed the war. He attacked the opponents of the war and claimed that those proletarians who supported pacifism were out of step with the proletarians who had joined the rising interventionist vanguard that was preparing Italy for a revolutionary war.[37] He began to criticize the Italian Socialist Party and socialism itself for having failed to recognize the national problems that had led to the outbreak of the war.[37] He was expelled from the party due to his support of intervention.
The Inspector General wrote:
Regarding Mussolini
In his summary, the Inspector also notes:
Beginning of Fascism and service in World War I
After being ousted by the Italian Socialist Party for his support of Italian intervention, Mussolini made a radical transformation, ending his support for class conflict and joining in support of revolutionary nationalism transcending class lines.[37] He formed the interventionist newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia and the Fasci Rivoluzionari d'Azione Internazionalista ("Revolutionary Fasci for International Action") in October 1914.[32] His nationalist support of intervention enabled him to raise funds from Ansaldo (an armaments firm) and other companies to create Il Popolo d'Italia to convince socialists and revolutionaries to support the war.[39] Further funding for Mussolini's Fascists during the war came from French sources, beginning in May 1915.[40] A major source of this funding from France is believed to have been from French socialists who sent support to dissident socialists who wanted Italian intervention on France's side.[40]
On 5 December 1914, Mussolini denounced orthodox socialism for failing to recognize that the war had made national identity and loyalty more significant than class distinction.[37] He fully demonstrated his transformation in a speech that acknowledged the nation as an entity, a notion he had rejected prior to the war, saying:
Mussolini continued to promote the need of a revolutionary vanguard elite to lead society. He no longer advocated a proletarian vanguard, but instead a vanguard led by dynamic and revolutionary people of any social class.[42] Though he denounced orthodox socialism and class conflict, he maintained at the time that he was a nationalist socialist and a supporter of the legacy of nationalist socialists in Italy's history, such as Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Carlo Pisacane.[43] As for the Italian Socialist Party and its support of orthodox socialism, he claimed that his failure as a member of the party to revitalize and transform it to recognize the contemporary reality revealed the hopelessness of orthodox socialism as outdated and a failure.[43] This perception of the failure of orthodox socialism in the light of the outbreak of World War I was not solely held by Mussolini, other pro-interventionist Italian socialists such as Filippo Corridoni and Sergio Panunzio had also denounced classical Marxism in favor of intervention.[44]
These basic political views and principles formed the basis of Mussolini's newly formed political movement, the Fasci Rivoluzionari d'Azione Internazionalista in 1914, who called themselves Fascisti (Fascists).[45] At this time, the Fascists did not have an integrated set of policies and the movement was small, ineffective in its attempts to hold mass meetings, and was regularly harassed by government authorities and orthodox socialists.[46] Antagonism between the interventionists, including the Fascists, versus the anti-interventionist orthodox socialists resulted in violence between the Fascists and socialists.[47] The opposition and attacks by the anti-interventionist revolutionary socialists against the Fascists and other interventionists were so violent that even democratic socialists who opposed the war such as Anna Kuliscioff said that the Italian Socialist Party had gone too far in a campaign of silencing the freedom of speech of supporters of the war.[47] These early hostilities between the Fascists and the revolutionary socialists shaped Mussolini's conception of the nature of Fascism in its support of political violence.[47]
Mussolini as an Italian soldier, 1917.
The Inspector General continues:
Mussolini's military experience is told in his work Diario Di Guerra. Overall, he totaled about nine months of active, front-line trench warfare. During this time, he contracted paratyphoid fever.[48] His military exploits ended in 1917 when he was wounded accidentally by the explosion of a mortar bomb in his trench. He was left with at least 40 shards of metal in his body[48] He was discharged from the hospital in August 1917 and resumed his editor-in-chief position at his new paper, Il Popolo d'Italia. He wrote there positive articles about Czechoslovak Legions in Italy.
On 25 December 1915, in Treviglio, he contracted a marriage with his fellow countrywoman Rachele Guidi, who had already borne him a daughter, Edda, at Forli in 1910. In 1915, he had a son with Ida Dalser, a woman born in Sopramonte, a village near Trento.[9][10][49] He legally recognized this son on 11 January 1916.
Creation of Fascism
By the time he returned from Allied service in World War I, there was very little left of Mussolini the socialist. Indeed, he was now convinced that socialism as a doctrine had largely been a failure. In 1917, Mussolini got his start in politics with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5, the British Security Service; this help was authorized by Sir Samuel Hoare.[50] In early 1918, Mussolini called for the emergence of a man "ruthless and energetic enough to make a clean sweep" to revive the Italian nation.[51] Much later in life Mussolini said he felt by 1919 "Socialism as a doctrine was already dead; it continued to exist only as a grudge".[52] On 23 March 1919, Mussolini reformed the Milan fascio as the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (Italian Combat Squad), consisting of 200 members.[51]
The basic underlying idea behind Mussolini's foreign policy was that of spazio vitale (vital space), a concept in Fascism that was analogous to lebensraum in German National Socialism.[58] The concept of spazio vitale was first announced in 1919, when the entire Mediterranean, especially so-called Julian March was redefined to make it appear a unified region that had belonged to Italy from the times of the ancient Roman province of Italia,[59][60] was claimed as Italy's exclusive sphere of influence. The right to colonize the neighboring Slovene ethnic areas and Mediterranean, being inhabited by what were alleged to be less developed peoples, was justified on the grounds that Italy was suffering from overpopulation.[61]
Borrowing the idea first developed by Enrico Corradini before 1914 of the natural conflict between "plutocratic" nations like Britain and "proletarian" nations like Italy, Mussolini claimed that Italy's principle problem was that it was "plutocratic" countries like Britain that were blocking Italy from achieving the necessary spazio vitale that would let the Italian economy grow.[62] Mussolini equated a nation's potential for economic growth with territorial size, thus in his view the problem of poverty in Italy could only be solved by winning the necessary spazio vitale.[63]
—Benito Mussolini, speech held in Pula, 20 September 1920[64][65]
Mussolini addressed the crowd in a poster promoted by the fascist propaganda.
In the same way, Mussolini argued that Italy was right to follow an imperalist policy in Africa because all black people were "inferior" to whites.[67] Mussolini claimed that the world was divided into a hierarchy of races (stirpe), though this was justified more on cultural than on biological grounds, and that history was nothing more than a Darwinian struggle for power and territory between various "racial masses".[67] The very fact that Italy was suffering from overpopulation was seen as proving the cultural and spiritual vitality of the Italians, who were thus justified in seeking to colonize lands that Mussolini argued on a historical basis belonged to Italy anyway, which was the heir to the Roman Empire.[67] In Mussolini's thinking, demography was destiny; nations with rising populations were nations destined to conquer, and nations with falling populations were decaying powers that deserved to die.[67] Hence, the importance of natalism to Mussolini, since only by increasing the birth rate could Italy ensure its future as a great power that would win its spazio vitale be assured.[67] By Mussolini's reckoning, the Italian population had to reach 60 million to enable Italy to fight a major war—hence his relentless demands for Italian women to have more children to reach that number.[67]
Mussolini and the fascists managed to be simultaneously revolutionary and traditionalist;[68][69] because this was vastly different to anything else in the political climate of the time, it is sometimes described as "The Third Way".[70] The Fascisti, led by one of Mussolini's close confidants, Dino Grandi, formed armed squads of war veterans called Blackshirts (or squadristi) with the goal of restoring order to the streets of Italy with a strong hand. The blackshirts clashed with communists, socialists, and anarchists at parades and demonstrations; all of these factions were also involved in clashes against each other. The government rarely interfered with the blackshirts' actions, owing in part to a looming threat and widespread fear of a communist revolution. The Fascisti grew so rapidly that within two years, it transformed itself into the National Fascist Party at a congress in Rome. Also in 1921, Mussolini was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time.[10] In the meantime, from about 1911 until 1938, Mussolini had various affairs with the Jewish author and academic Margherita Sarfatti, called the "Jewish Mother of Fascism" at the time.[71]
March on Rome and early years in power
Acerbo Law
In June 1923, the government passed the Acerbo Law, which transformed Italy into a single national constituency. It also granted a two-thirds majority of the seats in Parliament to the party or group of parties that received at least 25% of the votes.[citation needed] This law applied in the elections of 6 April 1924. The national alliance, consisting of Fascists, most of the old Liberals and others, won 64% of the vote.
Squadristi violence
The assassination of the socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who had requested that the elections be annulled because of the irregularities,[73] provoked a momentary crisis in the Mussolini government. Mussolini ordered a cover-up, but witnesses saw the car that transported Matteotti's body parked outside Matteotti's residence, which linked Dumini to the murder.
On 31 December 1924, MVSN consuls met with Mussolini and gave him an ultimatum—crush the opposition or they would do so without him. Fearing a revolt by his own militants, Mussolini decided to drop all trappings of democracy.[74] On 3 January 1925, Mussolini made a truculent speech before the Chamber in which he took responsibility for squadristi violence (though he did not mention the assassination of Matteotti).[75]
Building a dictatorship
Assassination attempts
Mussolini's influence in propaganda was such that he had little opposition to suppress. Nonetheless, he was "slightly wounded in the nose" when he was shot on 7 April 1926 by Violet Gibson, an Irish woman and daughter of Lord Ashbourne, who was subsequently deported after her arrest.[76] On 31 October 1926, 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni attempted to shoot Mussolini in Bologna. Zamboni was lynched on the spot.[77][78] Mussolini also survived a failed assassination attempt in Rome by anarchist Gino Lucetti,[79] and a planned attempt by the Italian anarchist Michele Schirru,[80] which ended with Schirru's capture and execution.[81]
Police state
A young Mussolini in his early years in power.
Economic policy
The inauguration of Littoria in 1932
In 1943 he proposed the theory of economic socialization.
After taking power, Mussolini was often seen in military uniform
Standard of Benito Mussolini.
The 1929 treaty included a legal provision whereby the Italian government would protect the honor and dignity of the Pope by prosecuting offenders.[86] In 1927, Mussolini was re-baptized by a Roman Catholic priest. After 1929, Mussolini, with his anti-Communist doctrines, convinced many Catholics to actively support him.
Role of education and youth organizations
Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirt youth in 1935.
Foreign policy
Conquest of Ethiopia
Il Duce standing on top of a tank.
In an effort to create an Italian Empire – or as supporters called it, the New Roman Empire[87] – Italy set its sights on Ethiopia with an invasion that was carried out rapidly. Historians are still divided about the reasons for the attack on Ethiopia in 1935. Some Italian historians such as Franco Catalano and Giorgio Rochat argue that invasion was an act of social imperialism, contending that the Great Depression had badly damaged Mussolini's prestige, and that he needed a foreign war to distract public opinion.[88] Other historians such as Pietro Pastorelli have argued that the invasion was launched as part of an expansionist program to make Italy the main power in the Red Sea area and the Middle East.[88] A middle way interpretation was offered by the American historian MacGregor Knox who argued that the war was started for both foreign and domestic reasons, being both a part of Mussolini's long-range expansionist plans and was also intended to give Mussolini a foreign policy triumph that would allow him to push the Fascist system in a more radical direction at home.[88] Italy's forces were far superior to the Abyssinian forces, especially in air power, and they were soon victorious. Emperor Haile Selassie was forced to flee the country, with Italy entering the capital Addis Ababa to proclaim an empire by May 1936, making Ethiopia part of Italian East Africa.[89]
Spanish Republican poster against "the Italian invader".
When Rodolfo Graziani, the viceroy of Ethiopia, was nearly assassinated at an official ceremony, with the guerrilla bomb exploding among the people there, a very strong-handed reaction followed against the guerrillas, including those who were prisoners according to the International Red Cross.[89] The IRC also alleged that Italy bombed their tents in areas of guerrillas' military encampment; though Italy denied it had intended to, insisting that the rebels were targeted.[89] It was not until the East African Campaign's conclusion in 1941 that Italy lost its East African territories, after taking on a fourteen-nation allied force.
Spanish Civil War
Rome-Berlin relations
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, June 1940.
The relationship between Mussolini and Adolf Hitler was a contentious one early on. While Hitler cited Mussolini as an influence and expressed privately great admiration for him,[91] Mussolini had little regard for Hitler, especially after the Nazis had assassinated his friend and ally, Engelbert Dollfuss the Austrofascist dictator of Austria in 1934.
With the assassination of Dollfuss, Mussolini attempted to distance himself from Hitler by rejecting much of the racialism (particularly Nordicism and Germanicism) and antisemitism espoused by the German radical. Mussolini during this period rejected biological racism, at least in the Nazi sense, and instead emphasized "Italianizing" the parts of the Italian Empire he had desired to build.[92] He declared that the ideas of eugenics and the racially charged concept of an Aryan nation were not possible.[92]
—Benito Mussolini, 1934.[93]
—Benito Mussolini, 1933.[94]
—Benito Mussolini, 1934.[95][96]
—Benito Mussolini, 1928.[97]
Though Italian Fascism varied its official positions on race from the 1920s to 1934, ideologically Italian fascism did not originally discriminate against the Italian Jewish community: Mussolini recognised that a small contingent had lived there "since the days of the Kings of Rome" and should "remain undisturbed".[98] There were even some Jews in the National Fascist Party, such as Ettore Ovazza who in 1935 founded the Jewish Fascist paper La Nostra Bandiera ("Our Flag").[99]
By 1938, the enormous influence Hitler now had over Mussolini became clear with the introduction of the Manifesto of Race. The Manifesto, which was closely modeled on the Nazi Nuremberg laws,[74] stripped Jews of their Italian citizenship and with it any position in the government or professions. Marriage between Jews and non-Jews was prohibited. Jews were not permitted to own or manage companies involved in military production, or factories that employed over one hundred people or exceeded a certain value. They could not own land over a certain value, serve in the armed forces, employ non-Jewish domestics, or belong to the Fascist party. Their employment in banks, insurance companies, and public schools was forbidden.[100]
The German influence on Italian policy upset the established balance in Fascist Italy and proved highly unpopular to most Italians, to the extent that Pope Pius XII sent a letter to Mussolini protesting against the new laws.[citation needed] Mussolini and the Italian Army in occupied regions openly opposed German efforts to deport Italian Jews to Nazi concentration camps.[101] Italy's refusal to comply with German demands of Jewish persecution influenced other countries.[101]
In September 1943 semi-autonomous militarized squads of Fascist fanatics sprouted up throughout the Republic of Salò. These squads spread terror among Jews and anti-Fascists for a year and a half. In the power vacuum that existed during the first three or four months of the occupation, the semi-autonomous bands were virtually uncontrollable. Many were linked to individual high-ranking Fascist politicians.[102] Italian Fascists, sometimes government employees but more often fanatic civilians or paramilitary volunteers, hastened to curry favor with the Nazis. Informers betrayed their neighbors, squadristi seized Jews and delivered them to the German SS, and Italian journalists seemed to compete in the virulence of their anti-Semitic diatribes.[103]
It has been widely speculated that Mussolini adopted the Manifesto of Race in 1938 for merely tactical reasons, to strengthen Italy's relations with Germany. Mussolini and the Italian military did not consistently apply the laws adopted in the Manifesto of Race.[101] In December 1943, Mussolini made a confession to Bruno Spampanato that seems to indicate that he regretted the Manifesto of Race, as Mussolini put it:
—Benito Mussolini, 1943.[104]
Munich Conference, war looming
By the late 1930s, Mussolini's obsession with demography led him to conclude that Britain and France were finished as powers, and that it was Germany and Italy who were destined to rule Europe if for no other reason than their demographic strength.[106] Mussolini stated his belief that declining birth rates in France were "absolutely horrifying" and that the British Empire was doomed because one-quarter of the British population was over 50.[107] As such, Mussolini believed that an alliance with Germany was preferable to an alignment with Britain and France as it was better to be allied with the strong instead of the weak.[108] The only things that held Mussolini back from full alignment with Berlin were his awareness of Italian economic and military weaknesses, which required further time to rearm, and his desire to use the Easter Accords of April 1938 as a way of splitting Britain from France.[109] A military alliance with Germany as opposed to the already existing looser political alliance with the Reich under the Anti-Comintern Pact (which had no military commitments) would end any chance of Britain implementing the Easter Accords.[110] The Easter Accords in turn were intended by Mussolini to allow Italy to take on France alone by sufficiently improving Anglo-Italian relations that London would presumably remain neutral in the event of a Franco-Italian war.[110] In turn, the Easter Accords were intended by Britain to win Italy away from Germany.
Mussolini had imperial designs on Tunisia, and had some support in that country.[111] In January 1939, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain visited Rome, during which visit, Mussolini learned that though Britain very much wanted better relations with Italy, and was prepared to make concessions, that Britain would not sever all ties with France for the sake of an improved Anglo-Italian relationship.[112] With that, Mussolini grew more interested in the German offer of a military alliance, which first been made in May 1938.[112] The new course was not without its critics. On 21 March 1939, during a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council, Italo Balbo accused Mussolini of "licking Hitler's boots", blasted the Duce's pro-German foreign policy as leading Italy to disaster, and noted that the "opening to Britain" still existed and it was not inevitable that Italy had to ally with Germany.[113] Through many gerarchi like Balbo were not keen on closer relations with Berlin, Mussolini's control of the foreign-policy machinery meant this dissidence counted for little.[113] In April 1939, Mussolini ordered the Italian invasion of Albania. Italy defeated Albania within just five days forcing king Zog to flee, setting up a period of Albania under Italy. Until May 1939, the Axis had not been entirely official, but during that month the Pact of Steel treaty was signed outlining the "friendship and alliance" between Germany and Italy, signed by each of its foreign ministers.[114] The Pact of Steel was an offensive and defensive military alliance, though Mussolini had signed the treaty only after receiving a promise from the Germans that there would be no war for the next three years. Italy's king Victor Emanuel III was also wary of the pact, favoring the more traditional Italian allies like France, and fearful of the implications of an offensive military alliance, which in effect meant surrendering control over questions of war and peace to Hitler.[115]
Hitler was intent on invading Poland, though Galeazzo Ciano warned this would likely lead to war with the Allies. Hitler dismissed Ciano's comment, predicting that instead that Britain and the other Western countries would back down, and he suggested that Italy should invade Yugoslavia.[116] The offer was tempting to Mussolini, but at that stage world war would be a disaster for Italy as the armaments situation from building the Italian Empire thus far was lean. Most significantly, Victor Emmanuel had demanded neutrality in the dispute.[116] Thus when World War II in Europe began on 1 September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland eliciting the response of the United Kingdom and France declaring war on Germany, Italy did not become involved in the conflict.[116]
War declared
Mussolini in an official portrait.
As World War II began, Ciano and Viscount Halifax were holding secret phone conversations. The British wanted Italy on their side against Germany as it had been in World War I.[116] French government opinion was more geared towards action against Italy; they were eager to attack Italy in Libya. In September 1939, France swung to the opposite extreme, offering to discuss issues with Italy, but as the French were unwilling to discuss Corsica, Nice and Savoy, Mussolini did not answer.[116] Historian Alexander Gibson stated that Allies were certain that Italy would join the war on the Axis side, and tried to provoke Italy into fighting while she was still unprepared.[117]
—Adolf Hitler, late November 1939[116]
Convinced that the war would soon be over, with a German victory looking likely at that point, Mussolini decided to enter the war on the Axis side. Accordingly, Italy declared war on Britain and France on 10 June 1940.[118] Mussolini regarded the war against Britain and France as a life-or-death struggle between opposing ideologies - Fascism and "the Masonic, democratic, capitalist world"[117] - describing the war as "the struggle of the fertile and young people against the sterile people moving to the sunset; it is the struggle between two centuries and two ideas",[119] and as a "logical development of our Revolution".[117]
Italy joined the Germans in the Battle of France, fighting the fortified Alpine Line at the border. Just eleven days later, France surrendered to the Axis powers. Included in Italian-controlled France was most of Nice and other southeastern counties.[118] Meanwhile in Africa, Mussolini's Italian East Africa forces attacked the British in their Sudan, Kenya and British Somaliland colonies, in what would become known as the East African Campaign.[120] British Somaliland was conquered and became part of Italian East Africa on 3 August 1940, and there were Italian advances in Sudan and Kenya.[121]
Eastern Front
Mussolini addressed the crowd in Rome.
With the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, Mussolini declared war on the Soviet Union in June 1941 and sent an army to fight there. Mussolini first learned of Barbarossa after it began on 22 June 1941, and was not asked by Hitler to involve himself. [127] Mussolini took the initiative in ordering an Italian Army Corps to head to the Eastern Front, where he hoped that Italy might score an easy victory to restore the Fascist regime's luster, which had been damaged by defeats in Greece and North Africa. Mussolini told the Council of Ministers of 5 July that his only worry was that Germany might defeat the Soviet Union before the Italians arrived.[128] At a meeting with Hitler in August, Mussolini offered and Hitler accepted the commitment of further Italian troops to fight the Soviet Union.[129] The heavy losses suffered by the Italians on the Eastern Front, where service was extremely unpopular owing to the widespread view that this was not Italy's fight, did much to damage Mussolini's prestige with the Italian people.[129] After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941.[130] A piece of evidence regarding Mussolini's response to the attack on Pearl Harbor comes from the diary of his Foreign Minister Ciano:
Dismissed and arrested
Marshal Pietro Badoglio succeeded Mussolini as Prime Minister.
Italian radio statement announcing the dismissal of Mussolini and appointment of Badoglio, 25 July 1943.
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By this time, discontent with Mussolini was such that when the news of his downfall was announced on the radio, there was no resistance.[133] In an effort to conceal his location from the Germans, Mussolini was moved around the country before being sent to Campo Imperatore, a mountain resort in Abruzzo where he was completely isolated.[132] Given the large Nazi presence in Italy, Badoglio announced that "the war continues at the side of our Germanic ally" in the hopes that chaos and Nazi retaliation against civilians could be avoided.[132] Even as Badoglio was keeping up the appearance of loyalty to the Axis, he dissolved the Fascist Party two days after taking over. Also, his government was negotiating an Armistice with the Allies, which was signed on 3 September 1943. Its announcement five days later threw Italy into chaos, a civil war of sorts. Badoglio and the king fled Rome, leaving the Italian Army without orders. Immediately after the Italian surrender was announced, German troops started taking over the Italian Peninsula by force as part of Operation Achse and occupied Rome on 10 September.[137] After a period of anarchy, Italy finally declared war on Nazi Germany on 13 October 1943 from Malta; thousands of troops were supplied to fight against the Germans, others refused to switch sides and had joined the Germans. The Badoglio government held a social truce with the leftist partisans for the sake of Italy and to rid the land of the Nazis.[138]
Italian Social Republic
Only two months after Mussolini had been dismissed and arrested, he was rescued from his prison at the Hotel Campo Imperatore in the Gran Sasso raid by a special Fallschirmjäger unit on 12 September 1943; present was Otto Skorzeny.[136] The rescue saved Mussolini from being turned over to the Allies, as per the armistice.[138] Hitler had made plans to arrest the king, Crown Prince Umberto, Badoglio, and the rest of the government and restore Mussolini to power in Rome, but the government's escape south likely foiled those plans.[135]
Mussolini inspecting fortifications, 1944
—Benito Mussolini, interviewed in early 1945 by Madeleine Mollier.[142]
Cross marking the place in Mezzegra where Mussolini was shot.
American newsreel coverage of the death of Mussolini in 1945
Mussolini's body
After being shot, kicked, and spat upon, the bodies were hung upside down on Meat hooks from the roof of an Esso gas station.[145] The bodies were then stoned by civilians from below. This was done both to discourage any Fascists from continuing the fight and as an act of revenge for the hanging of many partisans in the same place by Axis authorities. The corpse of the deposed leader became subject to ridicule and abuse. Fascist loyalist Achille Starace was captured and sentenced to death and then taken to the Piazzale Loreto and shown the body of Mussolini. Starace, who once said of Mussolini "He is a god,"[146] saluted what was left of his leader just before he was shot. The body of Starace was subsequently hung up next to the body of Mussolini.
Personal life
Religious beliefs
Atheism and anti-clericalism
Mussolini was raised by a devoutly Catholic mother[149] and an anti-clerical father.[150] His mother Rosa had him baptized into the Roman Catholic Church, and took her children to services every Sunday. His father never attended.[149] Mussolini regarded his time at a religious boarding school as punishment, compared the experience to hell, and "once refused to go to morning Mass and had to be dragged there by force."[151]
Mussolini was an admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche. According to Denis Mack Smith, "In Nietzsche he found justification for his crusade against the Christian virtues of humility, resignation, charity, and goodness."[152] He valued Nietzsche's concept of the superman, "The supreme egoist who defied both God and the masses, who despised egalitarianism and democracy, who believed in the weakest going to the wall and pushing them if they did not go fast enough."[152] On his 60th birthday, Mussolini received a gift from Hitler of a complete twenty-four volume set of the works of Nietzsche.[153]
Mussolini made vitriolic attacks against Christianity and the Catholic Church, which he accompanied with provocative and blasphemous remarks about the consecrated host, and about a love affair between Christ and Mary Magdalene.[154] He believed that socialists who were Christian or who accepted religious marriage should be expelled from the party. He denounced the Catholic Church for "its authoritarianism and refusal to allow freedom of thought ..." Mussolini's newspaper, La Lotta di Classe, reportedly had an anti-Christian editorial stance.[154]
Lateran Pact
Despite making such attacks, Mussolini tried to win popular support by appeasing the Catholic majority in Italy. In 1924, Mussolini saw that three of his children were given communion. In 1925, he had a priest perform a religious marriage ceremony for himself and his wife Rachele, whom he had married in a civil ceremony 10 years earlier.[155] On 11 February 1929, he signed a concordat and treaty with the Roman Catholic Church.[156] Under the Lateran Pact, Vatican City was granted independent statehood and placed under Church law—rather than Italian law—and the Catholic religion was recognized as Italy's state religion.[157] The Church also regained authority over marriage, Catholicism could be taught in all secondary schools, birth control and freemasonry were banned, and the clergy received subsidies from the state, and was exempted from taxation.[158][159] Pope Pius XI praised Mussolini, and the official Catholic newspaper pronounced "Italy has been given back to God and God to Italy."[157]
After this conciliation, he claimed the Church was subordinate to the State, and "referred to Catholicism as, in origin, a minor sect that had spread beyond Palestine only because grafted onto the organization of the Roman empire."[156] After the concordat, "he confiscated more issues of Catholic newspapers in the next three months than in the previous seven years."[156] Mussolini reportedly came close to being excommunicated from the Catholic Church around this time.[156]
Mussolini publicly reconciled with the Pope Pius XI in 1932, but "took care to exclude from the newspapers any photography of himself kneeling or showing deference to the Pope."[156] He wanted to persuade Catholics that "[f]ascism was Catholic and he himself a believer who spent some of each day in prayer ..."[156] The Pope began referring to Mussolini as "a man sent by Providence."[154][156] Despite Mussolini's efforts to appear pious, by order of his party, pronouns referring to him "had to be capitalized like those referring to God ..."[156]
After his fall from power in 1943, Mussolini began speaking "more about God and the obligations of conscience", although "he still had little use for the priests and sacraments of the Church,".[161] He also began drawing parallels between himself and Jesus Christ.[161] Mussolini's widow, Rachele, stated that her husband had remained "basically irreligious until the later years of his life.[162] Mussolini was given a Catholic funeral in 1957.[163]
In popular culture
""Il Duce" Mussolini is the protagonist of Marco Bellocchio's movie Vincere!"
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"In addition to my (...) order of the commander of the Greater German Reich in Italy and the organisation of the occupied Italian area from 10 September 1943 I determine:
The supreme commanders in the Operational Zone Adriatic Coast consisting of the provinces of Friaul, Görz, Triest, Istrien, Fiume, Quarnero, Laibach, and in the Prealpine Operations Zone consisting of the provinces of Bozen, Trient and Belluno receive the fundamental instructions for their activity from me.
Führer's headquarters, 10 September 1943.
The Führer Gen. Adolf Hitler".
See second document at
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Writings of Mussolini
• Giovanni Hus, il Veridico (Jan Hus, True Prophet), Rome (1913). Published in America as John Hus (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1929). Republished by the Italian Book Co., NY (1939) as John Hus, the Veracious.
• The Cardinal's Mistress (trans. Hiram Motherwell, New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1928).
• There is an essay on "The Doctrine of Fascism" written by Benito Mussolini that appeared in the 1932 edition of the Enciclopedia Italiana, and excerpts can be read at Doctrine of Fascism. There are also links to the complete text.
• La Mia Vita ("My Life"), Mussolini's autobiography written upon request of the American Ambassador in Rome (Child). Mussolini, at first not interested, decided to dictate the story of his life to Arnaldo Mussolini, his brother. The story covers the period up to 1929, includes Mussolini's personal thoughts on Italian politics and the reasons that motivated his new revolutionary idea. It covers the march on Rome and the beginning of the dictatorship and includes some of his most famous speeches in the Italian Parliament (Oct 1924, Jan 1925).
• Vita di Arnaldo (Life of Arnaldo), Milano, Il Popolo d'Italia, 1932.
• Scritti e discorsi di Benito Mussolini (Writings and Discourses of Mussolini), 12 volumes, Milano, Hoepli, 1934–1940.
• Parlo con Bruno (Talks with Bruno), Milano, Il Popolo d'Italia, 1941.
• Storia di un anno. Il tempo del bastone e della carota (History of a Year), Milano, Mondadori, 1944.
• From 1951 to 1962, Edoardo and Duilio Susmel worked for the publisher "La Fenice" to produce Opera Omnia (the complete works) of Mussolini in 35 volumes.
Further reading
• Hibbert, Christopher. Benito Mussolini, a Biography. London: Reprint Society, [196-]. 415 p., ill. with b&w photos.
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====A Brief Note Regarding Division by Zero====
In general, but not in all cases, should u directly substitute c for x (into f(x)) and obtain an illegal fraction with division by zero, check to see whether the numerator equals zero. In cases where such substitution results in 0 / 0, a limit probably exists; in other cases (such as 17 / 0) a limit is less likely. For instance; if f(x) = x³ + 1 / x - 1; then, if one substitutes 1 for x, one will obtain 2 / 0; the limit of f(x) (as x approaches 1) does not exist.
I can't be bothered to do the graph offhand, but there will be a limit: either + or - inf. User:Tarquin
oops Pizza Puzzle
Plus and minus infinity are not limits according to the definition in the article. Please make sure that you have some understanding of the article before you go removing bits. -- Oliver P. 15:42 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I'm not aware that infinity is a limit; because, infinity is not a real number and my understanding is that limits must be real numbers. Pizza Puzzle
Yes, that's what I just said. I said it in reply to your statement that "there will be a limit: either + or - inf". If you have changed your mind, and are retracting your previous statement, please replace what you removed from the article. -- Oliver P. 16:02 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)
No sir! I did not state that there will be a limit either + or - inf. The user who does not sign his messages stated that. I have added:
which I believe is what u are referring to above. There is now the question of, if the above user was wrong, does that mean I can reinsert my text:
or would that be a hostile revert? He had initially removed the entire paragraph, which I put most of it back in, but I didnt put the final line back since there was a debate of sorts regarding it.
Infinite limit[edit]
• As x approaches 0, F(x) = 1 / x² is not approaching a limit as it is unbounded; a function which approaches infinity is not approaching a limit. Note that as x approaches infinity, F(x) = 1 / x² does approach a limit of 0.
Pizza Puzzle
Oh, I see! In that case, I apologise unreservedly for having accused you. I'll blame Tarquin for my error, though, since he was the phantom non-signer. ;) There is a problem in that there are different ways of defining what a limit is. I'll give the article some thought, and come back to it later. I wouldn't object to you putting that example back in, although you should leave out the idea of substitution; a limit only depends on the behaviour as you appraoch the point, not at the point itself. -- Oliver P. 16:15 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)
The subsitution point is, IF you substitute, and you get division by zero, if you get 0 / 0, then there is probably a limit, otherwise there probably isn't. Pizza Puzzle
Oh, I'll think about it later. I should be doing work... -- Oliver P. 16:29 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Now here, this text says (in so many words): "The limit, L of f(x), as f(x) increases (or decreases) without bound is an infinite limit. Be sure that you see that the equal sign in "L = infinity" does not mean that the limit exists. Rather, this tells you that the limit fails to exist by being boundless."
It would appear, that it is correct to refer to "infinite limits" but one should understand that an "infinite limit" is not a limit. See also: "unbounded limit" Pizza Puzzle
Would it be too much to expect User: AxelBoldt to explain some of his more "major" changes? It appears that a great deal of information was deleted. If he had a problem with it, it would have been more appropriate to discuss it or improve it; rather than merely deleting it. Pizza Puzzle
Too many subsections before the formal definition. I don't think an encyclopedia article should go that way. I will try to rewrite this later. Wshun
I see limits in this way. If the function is continous for all R then at the limit the function will have a definte value. It doesn't matter if you are trying to find the limit at + or - infinity, or the limit of a function as it approaches a certain value c. In both cases you are dealing with an infinte number of values. If there was no definte value at the limit then limits would'nt be of much use in calculus.
The abbreviation lim[edit]
Isn't "lim" an abbreviation for limes (Latin) and not limit as the page suggests. "limit is usually abbreviated as lim"? It sounds very arrogant to write that it is a short for limit when it is clearly not. --Immunmotbluescreen (talk) 18:45, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
"Very arrogant" seems over-dramatic. If the abbreviation came into use in Latin during the appropriate era (as it probably did), then feel free to cite a source and change it. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 22:49, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
(edit)Actually, reading the statement, it's entirely correct. It simply claims that "limit" is usually abbreviated "lim". This being English Wikipedia, there's no rule that you must mention what the word translates to in Latin, Greek, or Swahili, nor the etymology of it or its abbreviations. The sentence does not imply otherwise. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 22:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Inconsistent graphic?[edit]
At Limit (mathematics) § Limit of a function, the prose discusses a single scenario, and the right side of the graphic purporting to show it almost shows a zoomed-out view of the left side, but not quite. If the two sides are meant to represent the same thing, the left side needs the vertical line intersection with the x-axis at c - δ to be labeled "S". On the right side, f(x) needs to be equal to L + ε at x = c + δ (i.e. the second hump needs to be above the green-highlighted area). —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:17, 14 June 2013 (UTC) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Limit_(mathematics) | dclm-gs1-256400002 | false | false | {
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A Mooney M20J with a retractable tricycle landing gear
Polish 3Xtrim 3X55 Trener with a fixed tricycle landing gear taxiing.
Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear, arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has one wheel in the front, called the nose wheel, and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity. Because of the ease of operating tricycle gear aircraft on the ground, the configuration is the most widely used on aircraft.[1][2]
Several early aircraft had primitive tricycle gear, notably the Curtiss Pushers of the early 1910s. Waldo Waterman's 1929 tailless Whatsit was one of the first to have a steerable nose wheel.[3]
Tricycle gear and taildraggers compared[edit]
Tricycle gear is essentially the reverse of conventional landing gear or taildragger. On the ground, tricycle aircraft have a visibility advantage for the pilot as the nose of the aircraft is level, whereas the high nose of the taildragger can block the view ahead. Tricycle gear aircraft are much less liable to 'nose over' as can happen if a taildragger hits a bump or has the brakes heavily applied. In a nose-over, the aircraft's tail rises and the propeller strikes the ground, causing damage. The tricycle layout reduces the possibility of a ground loop, because the main gear lies behind the center of mass. However, tricycle aircraft can be susceptible to wheel-barrowing. The nosewheel equipped aircraft also is easier to handle on the ground in high winds due to its wing negative angle of attack. Student pilots are able to safely master nosewheel equipped aircraft more quickly.[2]
Tricycle gear aircraft are easier to land because the attitude required to land on the main gear is the same as that required in the flare, and they are less vulnerable to crosswinds. As a result, the majority of modern aircraft are fitted with tricycle gear. Almost all jet-powered aircraft have been fitted with tricycle landing gear, to avoid the blast of hot, high-speed gases causing damage to the ground surface, in particular runways and taxiways. The few exceptions have included the Yakovlev Yak-15, the Supermarine Attacker, and prototypes such as the Heinkel He 178, the first four prototypes (V1 through V4) of the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the Nene powered version of the Vickers VC.1 Viking.
1. ^ Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition, page 524. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997. ISBN 1-56027-287-2
2. ^ a b c Aviation Publishers Co. Limited, From the Ground Up, page 11 (27th revised edition) ISBN 0-9690054-9-0
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I am trying to write a couple pixel shaders to apply to images similar to Photoshop effects. For example this effect: http://www.geeks3d.com/20110428/shader-library-swirl-post-processing-filter-in-glsl/
But I noticed there is aliasing in the resulting image. What can I do to prevent this? I couldn't find any article that explains how to solve this. I read some techniques like rendering in high res and then downsizing the image, but I need to solve this in a pixel shader capacity. But if there is something that could help, I would appreciate it.
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To do supersampling, determine 4 point coordinates in your pixel (e.g. lying in regular grid), look for 4 color samples in your texture and then compute an average. – Ivan Kuckir Mar 22 at 14:09
Thanks I did something like that but got a blurry result. Even in places where there is little effect, i.e. the center of the image. Also I am not sure how much of a bigger rectangle should I use around the pixel. I used very small and gradually increased but didn't get anti-aliasing but blurry result. – Joan Venge Mar 22 at 14:14
Blurry result means, that your 4 points are too far from each other. You should determine, how "wide" is your pixel and then your grid can look like gl_FragCoord.xy + ( one of (0,0) , (0,.5) , (.5,0) , (.5,.5) ) * pixelWidth – Ivan Kuckir Mar 22 at 14:19
Yes I tried very small values too but then I didn't get anything different than 1 sampling. I increased the values using 0.001, and they were still blurry. Is this the only way? – Joan Venge Mar 22 at 14:45
You dont use 0.001 for pixel cordinates, that is not even in the same space. you have to calculate the aspect for a pixel by doing. float pixelWidth = 1.0f / WIDTH; float pixelHeigh = 1.0f / HEIGHT; and when sampling you do, gl_FragCoord + ( pixelWidth * amountOfPixelOffset ); this should most likley reduce the bluryness. – Tordin Mar 22 at 17:22
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When we moved in to the new GenkiJACS school a year and a half ago, we gave all the classrooms numbers instead of names, to make it easier for students to find their way around. But it always felt a little boring to just refer to them by their numbers, so last week we added a Hakata-ben phrase to each room’s name. For those of you who don’t know, Hakata-ben is the local dialect of Fukuoka. Some of our students get quite good at speaking it by the time they finish (hi Frank!), so we wanted to give them a helping hand.
The picture above is an example from Room 3, 「しっとう」(“shittou”), meaning “I know”. In Hakata-ben, the present progressive verb ending ている (“te iru”, “am -ing”) is replaced with 「とう」, so for example:
知っている -> しっとう
持っている -> もっとう
食べている -> たべとう
寝ている -> ねとう
To make a question in Hakata-ben, you add 「と」 to the end of a sentence, instead of the standard 「か」. So “Do you know?” is 「しっとうと」. The most iconic example is “Have you taken one?” “Take” is 「取る」 (“toru”), so the Hakata-ben is 「とっとうと？」 (“tottouto?”). Sounds nice, right? | http://genkijacs.com/blog/index.php/item/index.php?itemid=960&catid=1 | dclm-gs1-256590002 | false | false | {
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Kim Kardashian has been an A student when it comes to following her friend Paris Hilton's tutelage on how to become famous without having a particular skill. First, she made a splash with her "private" amateur sex tape and now she's gonna have a reality show. "It's basically a reality version of The Brady Bunch," she told E! Online. The show will follow the lives of Kim and her nine brothers and sisters. (She has three full sibs, two half-sisters, three step-brothers, and one step-sister.)
Her step-brother, Brody Jenner, had a disaster of a reality show, The Princes of Malibu, that was pulled off the air after four episodes, before he managed to weasel his way into a supporting role on MTV's reality hit The Hills. Kim hasn't "revealed" which network is going to run the show (translation: she hasn't sold the damn thing yet) but promises that it'll be worth watching. "[My sister] Khloe's, like, hysterical and says these ridiculous things. [My other sister] Kourtney is such a bitch. I'm in between." So there's Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, and their mom's name is Kris. Meanwhile, her step-father Bruce has sons named Brandon and Brody. These people are like the Duggars with their alliteration and mass offspring!
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Sigh. As many know, today a Slate writer offered that someone assaulted at the age of 17 who didn't report it should never be taken seriously or, really, allowed to write about the subject. What?
Yup, Linda Hirshman's argument, which comes as part of a strange, somewhat chaotic anti-Jezebel screed, boils down to this.
• By acting or appearing sexy or sexual, women are simply providing spank-bank material for men, some of whom will eventually rape them.
• Rape results when women don't protect themselves enough.
• Sexual abuse victims should always submit to the vagaries of the criminal justice system regardless of circumstance.
• Those that do not are not real feminists.
• Having thus made that anti-feminist choice not to report a rape, they are then responsible for any rapes committed in the future by their rapist.
• Thus guilty of committing rapes by proxy, anything they write, speak or advocate for in terms of sexual assault is thus intellectually incoherent.
To wit:
As last summer's video revealed, the Jezebel editors have pretty vivid lives to share. Moe Tkacik was apparently date-raped and says she has had unprotected sex, and Tracie Egan, in her words, "decided to go home with someone I never would have, had my vision not been impaired by 14 hours of drinking." Jezebel editor Megan Carpentier was raped and did not report it to the police.
"Apparently"? I guess by that measure I got off easy.
Hirshman then, among other things, says the "risks of [sexual] liberation" include rape, as if rape is neither an act of random act of violence nor an existing problem prior to sexual liberation, adding:
Women can pretend they're female chauvinist pigs, but it's still women who are more sexually vulnerable to stronger men, due to the possibilities of physical abuse and pregnancy. These Jezebel writers are a symptom of the weaknesses in the model of perfect egalitarian sexual freedom; in fact, it's the supposed concern with feminism that makes the site so problematic.
The problem with egalitarian sexual freedom is not that women are raped because — and I can't believe I have to type this out — rape is not about sex. Rape is not equivalent to sex: it's about power and degradation and control. The responsibility for sexual assault resides utterly in the man (or woman) committing it.
More: By Hirshman's logic I'm incoherent for decrying rape, since not reporting my own assault at 17 means that I condone the actions of the man that committed it, and thus all rapes forever more.
How can writers who justify not reporting rape criticize the military for not controlling…rape? It's incoherent.
Thing is, it's only incoherent if one makes the rather large leap that choosing not to commit one's mind, body and soul to the razor teeth of the criminal "justice" system is tantamount to condoning sexual assault. That's the leap that Hirshman is making about me and every other woman who did not or does not wish to face that system, the vagaries of which I know all too well.
But let's be clear about one thing. This entire slut- and victim-shaming diatribe which Hirshman created (and her editor at XX Factor happily published) was sparked by a few specific things.
Given the high level of risk the Jezebel life involves, it is surprising that the offense that arouses the liberated Jezebels to real political fury is the suggestion that women like them might be made responsible for the consequences of their own acts, or that there might be general standards that define basic feminist behavior. Suggest that women report the men who rape them for the sake of future victims, say, or that women should be asked why they stay with the men who abuse them, or urged to leave them, and the Jezebels go ballistic. Judgmental, judgmental!
Leaving aside the irony that Hirshman spent the entire piece calling me judgmental, this is the crux of the issue. Namely, that disagreement with her demands a counterattack. In fact, this isn't the first time Hirshman has been willing to stir up shit and enact "revenge" on those who dare disagree.
Just ask author Michelle Goldberg, who Hirshman called "disgraceful", for daring to suggest that women who supported Obama over Clinton in the primaries might have legitimate reasons for doing so. Or ask Courtney E. Martin, who Hirshman called out for "effrontery." Hell, I'm sure Hirshman felt Moe had it coming for her Washington Post Op-Ed about how many Hirshman's brand of feminism didn't speak to some young feminists because many of them care about things other than themselves.
I assume that Hirshman's attack — based solely on my experience with sexual assault and my audacity to suggest that haranguing victims of violence to leave their abusive partners might not be helpful — isn't meant to show the Jezebel audience that I'm not to be trusted to speak about sexual assault in the military or anything else. I assume it is an attempt to shut me up. And as much as she throws the occasional firebomb at Ross Douthat or Chris Matthews, she seems to save her real rhetorical ire for women with opinions different than her. And, let's be clear what Hirshman's "feminist" philosophy entails:
In other words, if a woman is raped, she should accept that as a consequence of her "Jezebel" lifestyle. If she gets involved in an abusive relationship that, given the well-documented psychological effects of long-term abuse, she has difficulty leaving, any further abuse can be laid at her doorstep because she signed up for it. And if she fails to Do Her Feminist Duty by reporting a sexual assault, she's an accessory to all future assaults.
Does that sound like an older ideology to you? You know, one actual feminism was designed to combat? I have seen misogyny and, most of the time, it looks a lot like the ideology Hirshman has the audacity to call "feminism." If that's the case, she can have it.
Related: Hell Hath No Fury [The Guardian]
An Indefensible Attack (Ironic, no?) [The Guardian]
The Emotional Voter [Glamocracy]
Yo Mamma [Slate]
The Feminine Mistake [Washington Post]
Why Do They Stay? [Obsidian Wings]
Linda Hirshman [Huffington Post]
Earlier: My Sexual Assault Is Not Your Political Issue
Writer Implies We Can Collectively Guilt Rihanna Into Leaving Chris
Former Victim Counselor Takes On Assumptions That Leaving Abusers Is Easy
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How did 'The King's Speech' suddenly become heir to the Oscar throne?
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Only two weeks ago it looked like "The King's Speech" had no hope of reigning at the Oscars. It hadn't won a single major award for best picture, and "The Social Network" hadn't lost one.
Now virtually all Oscarologists believe "The King's Speech" can't lose the Oscar crown. The reason: We've seen hints of what actual academy voters think.
"The King's Speech's" recent romp through the guild awards is extremely revealing. Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences also belong to the producers', directors' and actors' guilds, where the film just won the top awards. There are only 1,200 actors in the academy compared to 120,000 who belong to the Screen Actors Guild, but that's a fairly large representational sample, statistically speaking. It's fair to say that SAG results reflect what the academy's actors think. Same can be said about parallels between the producers' and directors' guilds and those branches within the academy. Since all of them are embracing "The King's Speech" enthusiastically, it's logical to believe that other branches will probably agree.
After all, they're all film industry insiders, who are — we are learning now — very different in character makeup than film journalists.
Nearly all of the awards won by "The Social Network" this season were bestowed by journalists. Most were film critics; others were members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. (Golden Globes). That they all without exception picked the same film is probably because it looks like a superb journalistic snapshot of our time and place in history.
That's not the highest priority of film industry insiders, who are keenly interested in telling a character-driven story in the most dramatic terms. That's what great movies do, and that's why they love "The King's Speech." Its protagonist, George VI, may appear all powerful as Britain's monarch, but in actuality he can't master something his millions of subjects can do easily. It probably reflects quite profoundly what the lords of the film industry feel themselves in their glamorous jobs: like hollow kings of Hollywood.
In actuality, "The Social Network" really does a better job reflecting what Hollywood is all about every day — media moguls swindling one another — but that perhaps hits too close to home.
— Tom O'Neil
Photo: Colin Firth in "The King's Speech." Credit: Weinstein Co.
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Public debt and economic growth
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(Read caption) A clock with the current US national debt is displayed inside the House Committee on Financial Services. As we should have learned from what happened to 'FDR’s debt,' growth is the key, Reich writes.
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In the election of 1952 my father voted for Dwight Eisenhower. When I asked him why he explained that “FDR’s debt” was still burdening the economy — and that I and my children and my grandchildren would be paying it down for as long as we lived.
I was only six years old and had no idea what a “debt” was, let alone FDR’s. But I had nightmares about it for weeks.
Yet as the years went by my father stopped talking about “FDR’s debt,” and since I was old enough to know something about economics I never worried about it. My children have never once mentioned FDR’s debt. My four-year-old grandchild hasn’t uttered a single word about it.
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By the end of World War II, the national debt was 120 percent of the entire economy. But by the mid-1950s, it was half that.
Why did it shrink? Not because the nation stopped spending. We had a Korean War, a Cold War, we rebuilt Germany and Japan, sent our GI’s to college and helped them buy homes, expanded education at all levels, and began constructing the largest public-works program in the nation’s history — the interstate highway system.
“FDR’s debt” shrank in proportion to the national economy because the national economy grew so fast.
I was reminded of this by the recent commotion over an error in a research paper by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
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The two Harvard economists had analyzed a huge amount of data from the United States and other advanced economies linking levels of public debt to economic growth. They concluded that growth turns negative (that is, economies tend to collapse into recession) when public debt rises above 90 percent of GDP.
That finding, in turn, fueled austerics, who insisted that the budget deficit (and debt) had to be cut in order to revive economic growth.
But Reinhart and Rogoff’s computations were wrong, and average GDP growth in very-high-debt nations is around 2.2 percent rather than a negative 0.1 percent.
A few days ago, the two offered a defense in an oped in the New York Times, asserting “very small actual differences” between their critics’ results and their own.
Regardless, Reinhart and Rogoff seem to be correct in one basic respect: Economic growth does seem to be lower in very-high-debt countries.
But the entire debate over their paper’s flaws begs the central question of cause and effect.
Is growth lower because of the high debt? That would still make the austeric’s case, even without the magic 90 percent tipping point.
Or does cause-and-effect the other way around? Maybe slow growth makes debt burdens larger. There’s evidence to suggest this is the case.
If so, government should be fueling growth through, say, spending more — at least in the short run.
As we should have learned from what happened to “FDR’s debt,” growth is the key.
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How can I show that:
$$ a^n-1 \geq n\left(a^{\frac{n+1}{2}}-a^\frac{n-1}{2}\right)$$
$$ \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} a^k \geq na^\frac{n-1}{2}$$
$$ a>1, n\in\mathbb{N} $$
without studying the function
$$ f(x)=x^n-1 - n\left(x^{\frac{n+1}{2}}-x^\frac{n-1}{2}\right)$$?
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$$a^{n-1}+a^{n-2}+..+a+1 > na^{\frac{n-1}{2}}$$
$$a^n-1 >(a-1)na^{\frac{n-1}{2}}$$
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Thanks for noting me that. I misread the title. :) – B.S. Aug 28 '12 at 13:17
Thank you for your answer! – Chon Aug 28 '12 at 16:19
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Exotic insurance offers often aren't worth the price
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We buy auto and health insurance without thinking twice, but what about more exotic policies that insure everything from marriage to pets to travel? Consumers are usually much less familiar with these options, which makes them difficult to evaluate. In general, such elective insurance policies are expensive, since they insure a relatively small pool of people who are at high risk of needing to rely on them.
We evaluated four optional insurance programs in order to answer the question: Should you insure yourself against these risks?
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Marriage insurance. This type of policy isn't yet available, but at least one company, Safeguard Guaranty Corp., expects to start offering it early next year. The details are being worked out, but Chief Executive John Logan says the company will sell policies that pay out in the event of a divorce as well as in the event of a long-lasting marriage, which he says will provide a financial incentive for people to stay married. "It's really designed for people who plan to stay married forever," he says. But because divorce can be so financially devastating, the insurance is designed to ease that transition, too.
Here's how it works: Individuals will be able to purchase the lowest-cost policy for about $1 per day. The divorce benefit increases over time, so people who stay married longer and then divorce receive more than those who divorce after shorter periods. For a typical policy with a $100,000 face value, after five years, the payout if the couple divorces is $12,500, and after 24 years the payout is $64,500. But if the couple stays married and celebrates their 25th wedding anniversary, they'll receive the full $100,000. Logan says the company will make money from clients' premiums and from customers who buy policies and end up canceling.
Safeguard Guaranty may face competition in this new field. Olu O. Eniwaye, professor of human services at Daytona State College, is also speaking with insurance companies about his own marriage insurance concept. "People making movies have insurance for everything, [for example] for their voice, so I thought, 'There should be something for marriage,' " he says. While he says he has many details to work out, Eniwaye wants the insurance to encourage counseling and offer a payout for divorce only as a last resort.
Salary-gap insurance. Unlike unemployment insurance, which pays people who are temporarily out of work, salary-gap insurance would make up the difference in income for employees who are forced to take lower-paying work after losing a job. Bill Graham, the entrepreneur behind this idea, is working with insurers with the hopes of offering the product in the United States later this year. (He has already found an insurer to make such policies available in Holland.) He estimates that the premium would be about 1 percent of a customer's annual salary and the payout would make up 50 percent of the difference between the old and new salary for six months to two years, depending on which plan was purchased.
While some fields face higher rates of unemployment than others, Graham says that as of now, the rates won't differ based on profession. That means the policies could be a better deal for those facing a high risk of losing their job and needing to accept a lower-paying one.
[See: "7 Killer Insurance Mistakes You're Probably Making"]
Pet insurance. According to the American Pet Products Association, 62 percent of American families own a pet. Those furry friends tend to come with increasingly high vet bills, which lead some people to take out pet health insurance. The association estimates that Americans will spend about $12.2 billion at vets' offices this year. Treatments include cancer surgery, antianxiety drugs, and even organ transplants.
But pet health insurance doesn't come cheaply. It usually starts at about a couple of hundred dollars a year for limited coverage. Spayed and neutered pets usually receive lower rates, but older pets may not be eligible for illness insurance. Pet owners willing to spend thousands of dollars if Bubbles comes down with a fatal disease should consider taking out the policy; otherwise, it probably makes sense to save the money instead and prepare to say goodbye if a serious illness strikes.
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Call me old fashioned but I'll wager that if you ask anyone headed toward the altar if they've chosen a "quality girl/guy", the answer will be a definitive "Yes". Yet, of the millions of people that will marry this year, more than half will divorce in the next 20-25 years. Is the other half THAT much smarter? Or lucky?
And what's worse is that 44% of families in the US that suffer thru divorce will go below the poverty line for some period of time and at a 50% failure rate you're far more likely to divorce than be involved in a million dollar car accident with you at fault.
The fact is, our policies WILL be priced in such a way that every policy holder will benefit one way or the other. Just because it hasn't been done before doesn't mean it can't be done. And I'll be happy to discuss the pricing with you so that you understand why financial planners call this a "no-brainer". My contact information is on the home page of our website.
John Logan
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John Logan of NC 12:10AM August 28, 2009
that marriage insurance will never be priced in such a way that buyers actually make any money on it. That's because the combined "risk" of EITHER divorcing OR staying married (say, for 25 years) is simply too high for the insurance company.
The examples above are misleading. The cheapest policy, they say, would cost about a dollar a day. That's $9,125 paid in over 25 years. You think they're gonna give you $100,000 back for that? You'd be lucky to get $20,000. Oh, you wanna pay $5 a day?
How about just marry a quality girl/guy?
As for insurance, never buy it except on what you cannot afford to lose. Your life, your house, a million-dollar medical bill, a million-dollar car accident with you at fault. Etc.
Muser of NM 4:00PM August 26, 2009
When I think of "elective insurance policies" I think of Accident insurance or Disability insurance. And Pet insurance and Travel insurance, though maybe not as mainstream as Accident or Disability, they're certainly not what I'd call "exotic". Now Salary Gap insurance on the other hand is clearly not something that sounds like it will ever be ubiquitous, so maybe exotic is a good fit there. Marriage Insurance however, while clearly new and different sounding, doesn't appear to fit into a "small pool of people who are at high risk" since 9 out of 10 people marry in their lifetime, and according to stats I read from the US Census, more than half of marriages that happen this year will eventually fail. Considering about 44 million people will marry this year in the US alone, that's not what I call a small pool and at a more than 50% failure rate, that means people who marry today have a lot bigger chance of getting divorced in the next 20 years than they do of dying. So by that logic, Marriage insurance ought to be more important than Life insurance for newlyweds today, like it or not. I never EVER thought I'd get divorced until my lovely ex-wife decided the grass was greener somewhere else. I'll admit, I'm probably biased because I'm divorced but I know exactly how painful it was to my bank account. Where was this 10 years ago? With only so many descretionary dollars available to pay for insurance programs, I'll be interested to see if some of these insurance programs erode the market for others. Curiouser and curiouser.
Devaland of OR 4:19PM August 25, 2009
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Battlefield 3 Premium Review [GamingOwl]
"So by now, everyone’s heard of/seen Battlefield 3 Premium. What is it? It’s a similar concept to the Rockstar Season Pass for L.A.Noire or CoD Elite, in which a one time purchase is made that gifts you all expansion packs. The Premium package includes a little more than DLC though. Users are gifted a new knife, the ACB-90, which is a re-skin of the regular knife. There are also 5 assignments, each rewarding you a cool Gold and Black dog tag upon completion, making you stick out from the peasants who do not have Premium (like our site founder, Luka Anicic)." (Battlefield 3, PC, PS3, Xbox 360) 7.0/10
Rampaged Death + 551d ago
Reviewing a service that hasn't finished ? Kinda crazy.
Edit: Actually I wouldn't even call it a review.
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GamingOwl + 551d ago
We do plan on updating our reviews in the future as the service evolves. Sticking to one score would not be fair to Premium.
GamerEuphoria + 551d ago
Your title is wrong then, your reviewing two DLC map packs, not 5.
GamingOwl + 551d ago
As of now, the other DLCs are unreleased and it'll take at least 1 full year to get our hands on all of it. Providing our opinion on how the service currently stands was the point of the article.
dirthurts + 551d ago
"Reviewing a service that hasn't finished ? Kinda crazy"
This is why I'm not investing in premium. I'm dumping 50 bucks with faith that Dice will deliver 50 bucks worth of content? Hmmm. How do I know the rest of the content won't suck? I don't...hence. I wait.
pr0digyZA + 551d ago
Well that's why its for the fans who believe that Dice will come through. Its no worse than kickstarter. The next map pack is about huge open maps and new vehicles so there's no way those will suck, the ones after that is still up in the air as there's no info.
Zweihanders + 551d ago
How does price get a 1 and value a 7? That's just wrong.. while they are 2 different things they are still directly related. "The Price of a full game- not impressive" ... yes because it's basically the price of 5 DLCs which normally cost $15 dollars each. Getting these seperately would cost you either $60 or $75 depending on if you had karkand or not already. So something that is essentially worth $60-$75 is being sold for $50 and this gets a reviewed price of "1". This "1" just doesn't make any sense.
The arguement against this that I'm expecting is, "but the other DLCs aren't out yet so you're only paying for 1-2 DLCs". True, but they will be out. They have to come out, or we will be getting our money back. You might not know exactly what you're getting but that's no different to something like pre-buying a game. If you spend the standard $60 on a game you haven't played and hasn't been released yet, do you think you're paying a dumb price? Probably not, otherwise you would never do this.
And value of 7 is also a bit low for something that not only saves you ~20% but then adds extra things into the package. What more would you like, a lolly?
If you're reviewing something that is meant for diehard BF3 fans (which Premium obviously is catered for) from a casual gamers perspective (looks to me like this might be the case), then this is flawed, or at the very least should be clarified in the title or description. You can't write a good review on something not meant for you like this otherwise. It's like asking a 6 year old girl to write a comprehensive review of Counter-Strike for the masses.
Sucitta + 551d ago
playing the new maps feels like your playing call of duty. shoebox levels, spawn/die, spawn/die.
it takes less then 3 seconds on average to find a kill or be killed after spawning..
the future maps better be real battlefield maps or I'm going to feel scammed.
Zweihanders + 551d ago
Well, that's kind of the point of them really. This was to offer a change of pace to the normal games and I think it's a brilliant idea. Sure it's not for everyone, just like SQDM, but it's good to play once in awhile to try something different.
The next expansion is aimed to add mroe "real" battlefield maps, as was B2K. They're trying to cater to more than just one crowd, which is a good thing because there's a lot of people who'd like the choice to do a little of both.
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Smash Bros 3DS necessary to evolve the series
Masahiro Sakurai has said the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros was the starting point for the new games in the series. According to Sakurai, creating a handheld version of Nintendo's brawler will evolve the series as simply adding more content wouldn't be enough to differentiate it from Brawl and Melee. (3DS, Super Smash Bros., Wii U)
Xof + 174d ago
3D is a visual gimmick, it has no relevance to gameplay mechanics. So I call BS on this statement, unless it's about re-working the camera on Brawler-style games to focus more on individual player characters rather than the whole group.
PopRocks359 + 174d ago
I think it's more about making Smash Bros. on-the-go as well as on a console. And because the 3DS specs can handle a game like it, unlike previous Nintendo hardware.
STK026 + 174d ago
Did you even bother to read the article before commenting? The article makes no mention of 3D, so I'm unsure as to why you decided to bring it up and use it as an argument against Masahiro Sakurai's statement.
bullymangLer + 174d ago
go buy a 3DS with the game Super Mario 3D Land and then come back and re-read your comment (:
3-4-5 + 174d ago
This game isn't about the 3D.
It's about the cel shading. Also having a handheld version allows them to maybe experiment.
If they experiement on Wii U version and it fails, we aren't getting another SSB game for 5+ years.
If they experiement on 3DS version and it doesn't work out so hot....they still have the MAIN Wii U version.
How don't you comprehend this? Can't you think past right now?
Xof + 174d ago
3D is a visual effect.
Cel-shading is a visual effect.
Neither of these effects have any real impact on any game systems, and therefore are irrelevant in terms of innovation.
And it seems a bit silly to think of WiiU/3DS multiplatform title in terms of the 3DS being the "test" version and the WiiU version being the "real" version, simply because developers don't work that way, and also because the 3DS is a far more dominant platform than the WiiU at the moment.
o-Sunny-o + 174d ago
Most people will disable the 3D so its not going to innovate the game. It's a great game without the 3D.
MilkMan + 174d ago
Shows Nintendo thought process and I have to agree a bigger roster and more arenas is not what ALL you want. We can easily play Brawl and keep it moving.
I like that they want to innovate and look further. Otherwise whats the point?
This is yet another reason that Nintendo's name just simply = quality.
SegaSaturn669 + 174d ago
So in my mind:
WiiU: better visuals, better online, better control options(?)
3DS: no load times, portable, 3D,
I feel like I'm missing something here, it's hard to choose.
kirbyu + 174d ago
Wii U: More confirmed characters at the moment, easier local multiplayer
3DS: Cheaper
It IS hard to choose. Luckily I'm getting both.
DivineAssault + 174d ago
will the 3ds version be 60FPS? It looked to be 30 in the trailers
GraveLord + 174d ago
Translation: Wii U version will flop so we need the money.
PygmelionHunter + 174d ago
I lol at the fact that you even considered the possibility of Smash Bros flopping.
I don't see what's so bad about a 3DS version, we already know that they chose a fairly different art style for each version and even the stages are different, so the 3DS version shouldn't hold back the Wii U version.
live2play + 174d ago
You're confusing it with PoS allstars.. I know they look similar but smash bros is way better
BXbomber + 174d ago
does the 3ds version have online play?
BosSSyndrome + 174d ago
I don't think it's been confirmed either way but I don't see why not. MK7, Luigi's Mansion, and others had online.
kirbyu + 174d ago
I plan to get both the 3DS and Wii U versions, but I only want to pre-order one of them. Which one should it be?
t377y000 + 174d ago
i like smash bros in all & this one looks cool.
but if they wanted to evolve the series why not take a page from capcom? allow cross platform multiplayer local & online?
monster hunter ultimate dows it with wii u & 3ds. also dlc would be cool. also why is it that i have the feeling the newer the game the less characters it will have?
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This is the last in a series of pieces from Africa, where Andrew Walker has been travelling with IMF head Horst Koehler.
Mr Koehler went to Africa to listen, to find out how IMF and World Bank programmes to tackle poverty are working out on the ground and how they could do things differently.
It is part of a new approach that the IMF and the Bank announced in late 1999 which emphasises poverty reduction and consultation.
Mr Koehler seems to have liked most of what he heard.
He came away believing that the countries he visited are by and large on the right road for sustained economic growth and - the point of the whole exercise - reducing poverty.
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He also talked about countries finding their own route to a better economic future. There is no 'one size fits all' policy, he said.
But, even if there is room to talk about the details, the broad outlines that the IMF expects countries seeking loans to follow are a standard package.
Reducing poverty requires economic growth, good political institutions - governance is the jargon word - and macroeconomic stability, in other words moderate inflation.
The driving force of economic growth in this vision is private sector business, market economic forces and strong government finances.
This catalogue of pre-conditions doesn't come easily in many African countries.
Take good governance. It is often seen as a euphemism for tackling corruption.
Mr Koehler's calls for Africa to root out corruption were received politely.
But he had an enthusiastic response when he added that it takes two to tango - that bribery only happens if someone, often a western business, is prepared to offer a bribe.
Some of Africa's governance problems are technical.
Few countries have the wealth of well trained people to run things the way developed economies like to think they do.
During the course of the tour, Mr Koehler announced plans to open two centres for technical assistance, one in Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, and one in Abidjan in Ivory Coast.
The IMF plans to offer more. The idea behind these is a fairly cheap intervention to help countries gain the technical ability to manage their economies.
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Mr Koehler thinks that the private sector message is getting out across the continent. But he also has a wary eye out for politicians that are reluctant to let go.
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This is an area where the IMF has been accused of being obsessive.
Mr Koehler, like his predecessor Michel Camdessus, is adamant - the main victims of inflation are the poor.
The problem for Africa is how to finance the social spending - like education health and clean water - that make a big impact on the poor.
It is very hard to raise taxes. Local financial markets are not very effective means for government borrowing.
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From loping camels to scuttling crabs, animals move in a variety of ways. Centuries of research have focused on why certain styles prevail--even Aristotle took a stab at it. In the 1970s, researchers began using mathematics and computers to model locomotion. That's when they ran into a problem: models predicted that stiff legs were most efficient, but real-world animals tended toward crouched, compliant motion. The paradox was especially pronounced among small animals, like rats and chickens, for which motion is costliest. Despite having to expend more energy and take more steps to cover a given distance, they adopt a crouched, Groucho Marx-style run.
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“In the world of the Bible its essentially a top down approach. In the world of the empathic individual power is fully distributed. The Constitution attempted the latter.”
This got my attention for a number of reasons, not the least of which was my ongoing conversation with Nancy about the tyranny of the majority and our system of government. In many ways, the free market does encourage majority tyranny, so you’re right—that is a problem.
Madison’s Federalist No. 10 made the case for federalism, if I recall correctly, by emphasizing that a larger population inherently produces a greater selection of competent leaders. He also embraced the idea that such a wide multitude of interests forced to contend with each other would never produce a decisive (or at least enduring) majority, as is more likely in small republics.
Free market forces can drive something either way. It’s something of a coin toss, with the odds set firmly on the fulcrum of human nature; heads, you get tyranny of the majority, and tails, you get Madison’s ideal federalist dynamic.
I realize now that you are arguing we use outside influences to try and load the coin so it is more likely to land on one side, which is a fair point (though I will always be suspicious of second- and third-order effects when you toy with the free market). I wonder, though, are you sure on exactly which side you’d prefer the coin to land?
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I'll have to develop some of the material further later (oops, I think I just did but I'll leave it as it started) but two quick points. Federalist 51 is as or more important to the point I am trying to make; and with respect to "which side [I’d] prefer the coin to land," you keep missing what I am trying to do.
I am not trying to justify one side or the other. I am trying to understand which side it will actually land on given different values (not moral but of the properties being measured or numerical if you will) for the system variables. As to what side one would want it to land, that would depend on the objectives, overall or narrow, that you want for society. The point of my exercise is to understand how society functions given this or that set of conditions; or whether the objectives we might have are possible with the current values (again conditions, properties, numerical, not moral) of the variables and if not how one would one modify the variables to attain the objectives.
That's why I insist so much about clarity of objectives. You can argue until the cows come home about the religious code or on the secular side the civil or criminal codes, but unless you relate what you are trying to prove with your argument to a concrete objective it is all meaningless. That's why I tend to abstain except from very narrow and well defined discussions (and when I do I always worry about second and third order effects, but you guys keep changing the objective way before one reaches conclusions where one should worry about them).
Also, you guys love to tear to pieces the scriptures. Proof that it is you and not the other side that is always on the attack is that they never bring up deficiencies in the secular laws and code, yet these are full of even more seemingly nonsensical laws or regulations that made sense in their time but have never been modified or erased from the books. Have you heard of prosecutorial discretion? Believe me that if a prosecutor wanted to crucify you because he doesn't like you, he would be able to find quite a few laws, regulations or ordinances that you regularly violate, just as you accuse Christians of doing.
On Federalist 51 and the Bible, a useful way of thinking about it is a spectrum of structural forms of organization. At one end you have fairly absolute autocracy, and on the other fully distributed individual empathic power. Now, thinking in terms of structure and forgetting time periods, visualize that while in one extreme you do have a fairly autocratic top down in the Catholic Church, at the other extreme the Founding Fathers didn't want to go all the way to your model mainly because of the foibles of man that Madison explains in Federalist 51--he didn't have the faith in education and empathy that you do--so they created a structure with distinct and fairly equal units of government, not only at the federal level but also between the federal and state level. The checks-and-balances are not only horizontal but vertical to the states and outward to religions, which is why the establishment clause is the very first of the Bill of Rights.
Now, within Christianity itself there is a check of sorts in Catholicism in that each individual is responsible for his or her actions, which are ultimately what gains them entry to heaven. But clearly the Catholic structure could and was abused, therefore the Reformation. At root the Reformation is both structural plus an effort to bring even more responsibility and checks to the level of the individual. We have many Protestant sects today precisely to bring about the kind of structural changes, competitiveness, creativity and checks that the Founding Fathers looked for when they broke down government structurally, again horizontally at the federal level, vertically to the states, and outwardly to religions.
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As to the role of the Bible, in the Reformed Protestant sects this became a check on the individual by the individual himself, on the church by the individual, and by churches or their councils of elders to some extent on individuals within the bounds of the Bible. (I am still trying to understand these sets of checks, not least on the individual by himself, which has a lot to do with Sanctification and, particularly, Justification, which still escapes me.) But reading the precise meaning of each passage of the Bible outside of general guidelines like Keith has outlined, I believe is a fools errand. You can find material to make just about any point you want, good or bad, but remember there is just as much if not much more, in the many secular laws, regulations, codes, or ordinances still on the books.
Most important, as I have been saying here and before, are the assumptions one makes about man. Today the best functioning constitution in the world at a large level is the US Constitution, yet the Founding Fathers didn't dare go nearly as far as you want to take your own assumptions about man. So they built a structure with many checks, including by religions, at first implicitly and then, when the states insisted, explicitly. And consider that even that grand design has been drifting "left" at least for the last one hundred years towards more centralized power both towards the federal government and within this towards the executive. You on the other hand want to take it way beyond anything anybody has tried in the exact opposite direction.
Interestingly, about the only thing that could give you a shot at your model is a total breakdown of the current structures of government and society, and a new start from scratch. Yet you keep criticizing me for predicting such a breakdown as a possibility.
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• Zach said,
This morning I reread your post and came back again to your coin toss question. Please clarify what you are after.
If you think mankind is bad now, just see what they'll be without an ideology that preaches loving thy neighbor.
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• Greg,
In replying to your comment on the previous page, I realized that your view on reciprocal altruism comes from your belief in a harm/benefit calculator as a judge of morality. As long as there is benefit to one or more parties with no harm done, then an action is moral and intent doesn't factor in much. However, that is also to say that an action done with malicious intent that happened to produce good results would also be moral. Conversely, an action that produce bad results purely by accident is the same as producing the same results intentionally. How do you reconcile that with our perceived importance of intentions (otherwise there would be no need to differentiate manslaughter from murder, premeditated from not premeditated)?
Maybe you already addressed this in the past, but I'm not familiar with your position.
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• Interesting set of questions Tao. This seems to be the core of the whole debate here. Let me try to add my two cents worth, including what I think Greg and Zach have been saying. But let me first clarify my own position on this.
As you may know by now I am agnostic and prefer to think that if there is a God, He could have acted at the very beginning, say the Big Bang, and programmed all that was necessary into the particles and forces He created then. After that it all evolved in the manner of emergence. So yes, everything we consider good and bad, i.e. morality, is evolved. At some point at least in the West the positive and negative consequences of our learning process began to be recorded and to an extent codified, first by the Jews and then by the Christians.
Greg, and to an extent that I am not clear about since he has evolved a lot in the course of this debate Zach, believe that the process was captured, distorted, and is now being held back by those religions and particularly Christianity. Myself I don't opine on capturing and distorting because I don't consider myself sufficiently versed or endowed to be judging on what is right and wrong other than what I have picked up from my family and indeed those religions, and I don't pretend to be a philosopher. On holding back, however, I view it as an engineer-manager, believe it is happening, but also believe it is necessary as a matter of prudence, just as we are able to ease off on the accelerator and have a brake and steering wheel in a car. At the same time I believe we need a relatively fixed "anchor" to serve as a reference point that we can share with others to help us move forward together.
But look at the consequences for Greg and Zach. They dismiss the idea of right and wrong, as I explained two pages back in my three part post, and which at least Zach accepted explicitly; and what many consider "good" has been grossly distorted by Christianity.
For them good is something that is evolved and evolving, and we continuously discover and improve on. Moreover, somehow that original evolutionary process was bad, at least as practiced by Christians, and today we have more knowledge and mental capacity to fix and move happily on guided purely by science and no longer making the mistakes
of the past, apparently no longer having to learn by trial and error. As you rightly realized, the harm/benefit calculator is all that we need now. There will be no more of the mistakes that used to result when we learned by trial and error, and we no longer need any of the concepts that were distorted and corrupted by Christianity.
The other basic assumption Greg makes here is that we have always been good but Christianity messed us up. That's implicit in his concept of reciprocal altruism, but he has actually made the statement explicitly and clearly, which you probably didn't know, that man is intrinsically good but Christianity messed him up. Zach is a bit more circumspect about this so he introduces his ever evolving and improving empathy gene, and man also evolving to increasingly incorporate improving empathy in his makeup.
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• "The other basic assumption Greg makes here is that we have always been good but Christianity messed us up."
This is a pretty cartoonish synopsis of my position. Let me state my position so that you may recite it correctly. Religion, including Christianity is man made. it relies on a set of assumptions that are at a minimum unprovable. Many of the examples that Christianity in particular uses to bolster its validity are demonstrably fictional. It's principle story is a syncretic mishmash of ,mythemes that were floating around Palestine in the 1st century BCE. Christianity has many desirable moral rules that it picked up from other religions and philosophical schools. These are not original. But some of its direction is demonstrably wrong headed and should be questioned and discarded. The combination of good and not so good direction, the fictional origin of much of its foundation story allows Christians to pick and choose what rules to follow and what rules not to follow. This is really not much different than what humans do on a regular basis. However Christianity validates its direction with a supernatural fiat making it difficult to engage its adherent even on issues that it is clearly wrong .
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• Tao,
Since a good bit of moral judgement is based on intent, then I think you know my position. An action is immoral if the intent is to do harm whether or not actual harm occurs. I suppose that is where the law comes in. Wishing that you could kill someone because you don't like them is immoral. While wishing to kill someone who ask you to do so because they are in so much pain that their life is a living heII and it is a virtual certainty that they will die prematurely is not immoral. Neither of these actions are illegal and therefore not punishable.
Characterizing such judgement as a calculation is way that some have of demeaning what surely was thought about in the same fashion to come up with absolute morality. Keeping to a preset list is comforting because one doesn't have to decide. But it is also lazy and a tad bit dangerous. The list of what constitutes moral absolutes was determined a long time ago and before we knew what we know today.
In many ways moral absolutes suffer from the fallacy of antiquity. That is because they are old they are valid. But a condemnation of homosexuality was based , at least in the bible sense, on a ban on polytheistic fertility rights. Now we know there are no such thing as better crops from fertility rights (The Wicker Man anyone) , so banning or granting fertility rights makes no difference. Today I heard that the state of Washington is going after a florist who refused to sell flowers to a gay couple for their wedding. Although she had been close friends with the men, she refused because of "her relationship with jesus" .
First , Jesus (if he existed at all) never condemned homosexuality. So how could a relationship with him be the cause of this kind of attitude. Relying on any fixed list of rules that are not subject to review and if necessary change is lazy and as i said dangerous,. Yet you appear to want to mock my meager attempts to resolve moral conundrums for myself rather than relying on an old book which itself rife with errors and moral relativistic behavior. If the women had simply thought about it in terms of harm and benefit, perhaps she could have come to a different conclusion which doesn't violate the Civil Rights Act. (a law that seems to addressing the morality of treating people differently because of race, color, gender, or creed).
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• So Greg, you've said before that we were always good only Christianity messed us up, whatever it contains. You found this summary of mine, and it is not really a summary--you have said as much almost in as many words--cartoonish but you never addresed it in your more "correct" restatement of your "position," you just went off on another rant against Christianity.
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• Greg,
I’m not ridiculing your views, just bringing up some reasoned objections to them and asking pointed questions.
What you said about malicious intent being sufficient to be immoral, regardless of whether or not the intended results are realized, sounds alot like the objective moral principle I was alluding to. On that point, I think we can find consensus.
With regard to moral absolutes suffering from the fallacy of antiquity, I have a different point of view. To say that morals are evolving is to say that something that is “good” today may be “bad” tomorrow, which works for judging the outcomes of our actions against the knowledge we have. As our understanding of our world gets better, we may realize that what seemed good is actually bad and vice versa. However, that is our perception only. In truth, what we now realize was bad has always been bad, we were merely mistaken in thinking it was good before. I’m arguing that morality is an immutable truth like the laws of mathematics. If murder is morally wrong, then it has been and always will be morally wrong no matter how we evolve as a species and how our social values change. To me, that is what it means to be objectively moral.
The distinction I’m trying to make is between moral principle and practical rules (ie. codified laws). What does evolve and becomes obsolete over time are the codified rules that we created. Like the antiquated laws that were never fixed, old religions have rules in their canon that were meant to address phenomena that could not be explained by what little was known about their world or by revelation. We must continuously update our practical ruleset precisely to get closer and closer to reaching the moral truth, discarding those rules that are grounded in demonstrably false beliefs. Moral perfection is something worth striving for, even if we cannot yet properly achieve it, but we must first acknowledge that such a concept exists.
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Back at ya, Jimmy boy!...or should we just start calling you Jim Jong-Un?
Here is the nirvana you and your low-information comrades will inevitably lead us to--a capitalist hating, Dear Leader-loving Utopia...a place where Godless Secularism rules the day...and citizens are left to starve in the streets as the local currency becomes worthless and all the investment capital has fled to safer and more prosperous shores.
"Here is the nirvana..." --- LOL! Angrywhitemenistan & N. Korea will probably have a lot in common, dictatorial wise, tho don't worry Keith, your dictator has a big size advantage. But something tells me Dennis Rodman won't be as welcomed in Angrywhitemenistan. ;-) It is assumed by default that Rush will remain your Ditto Head dictator calling all the shots as he has always done, wouldn't want to go making any rash changes there. And Fox News will become the official Angrywhitemenistan ministry of propaganda, so really no changes there either, tho they will have to move their N.Y. headquarters somewhere down south. ;-)
We interrupt the post to bring you a breaking report just crossing the news wires...
This just in, we have an E.S.A. response out of N.Y. to Angrywhitemenistan's Red States separation request ;-)
Dear Red States:
We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially to the people of the new country of The Enlightened States of America (E.S.A.). To sum up briefly:
You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.
We get Intel and Microsoft and Apple. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy b@st@rds believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.
Citizens of the Enlightened States of America
Well Keith, looks like Angrywhitemenistan is a go! :-P You built it! :-PPP
Guess you'll need to choose a National Anthem? How 'bout Brad Paisley's "Accidental Racist"? ;-P
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Ok. Deal. We'll take Brad Paisley, but you have to take Dennis Coles...A.K.A "Ghostface Killah"
Seriously, let's get this done. For the signatories, I'll call Rush, you call Obama...if you call now, you just might be able to catch him before he knocks off work at 2 pm and heads to the golf course.
If we get this signed today, then we can let Everett and tens of millions of others that there is no longer an IRS to be beholden to, and he doesn't need to click "Send" on his taxes before April 15.
Oh yeah, don't forget, now that we have Texas, we would prefer that Greg hop on the next flight to L.A. He'll love it there...diminishing individual liberty, an ever-increasing government, and plenty of academics and welfare recipients to hang out with. (As a gesture of good faith, we'll let him stay in the Contstitutional U.S.A. if he forgoes receipt of the CUSA voting card (yes we will have those)).
We'll let Zach decide once and for all whether he's a progressive or a patriot...what'll it be, Mr. West? The Great State of Texas or the Enlightened Peoples' State of California?
Oh, one more thing. Can we get you to agree to take Bob Washick?
I'm pretty sure there will be many more Catholic hating bigots on your side of the border, so it's appropriate, I think, that he remain with you guys. He'll be happier that way, and so will we.
Here's one for you, Bob.
Without Catholics and their innumerable charities, a whole lot more people would be worse off, and orders of magnitude in numbers more than those sad few who were abused by the sick and despicable rogue priests.
Where the religious are concerned, there is more good done than bad, and in this regard we can more than safely say that, on the whole, Catholicism is a net benefit from a purely "helping people" perspective.
There is just no question whatsoever about this, except perhaps in the mind of a rabid anti-Catholic, and even a victim festering under the pressure of some unspeakable act at the hand of one of those sicko priests. We should feel for those victims, but we just can't overlook the massive amount of good that is and has been done by the Catholics even if there have been an evil few in their midst, and even if there are some in the leadership that have forgiven much too easily.
It's not a perfect analogy, but you can't hold all of College Football to blame for the transgressions of Jerry Sicko Sandusky. Was it fair to those players and coaches who had nothing to do with the scandal to suffer the loss of status and standing because of that sick man? Absolutely not. They had nothing to do with it. Should we blame modern people for the slavery that occurred in America over a hundred and fifty years ago? Nope. I have no problem with you getting specific and blaming the perps directly involved...but don't condemn the whole organization and all the good people in it, for the sins of a sick few.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...
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I simply could not believe that this actually happened, in California no less.
A state bill introduced by a republican. Passed unanimously in a Democratic Committee. The bill nullifies and declares a federal NDAA law unconstitutional because that law gives the executive (President Obama and all future presidents) power to detain Americans without due process and allows indefinite detentions.
So a bill in California supports the 10th Amendment and due process provisions of the Constitution, slaps down our imperial-minded president, and is actually supported by six democrats in committee. We'll see if it can get through the state legislature, another huge hurdle, but this just might be a sign that democrats can indeed support the Constitution and the rule of law. Stay tuned.
In response to your reply to me here:
"You need to get out more." --- And you need to get a better source for political talking points than & AM Talk Radio. ;-)
"There are already plenty of background checks required in every state." --- That's the whole point of the debate, they are neither universal nor consistent. I note that you quoted my question & yet completely failed to answer it. It's a pretty simple direct question Keith, cat got your tongue? :-/
"The point is that the federal government has no place in this business of setting restrictions on the second amendment, that is, unless it is prepared to amend the Constitution." --- Yet another completely irrelevant BS NRA & far-right-breitbart-wing-nut-o-sphere mindless ideological talking point on your part Keith. Any attempt at a fruitful discussion w/someone spouting such nonsense is an exorcise in futility. It's like trying to engage in a meaningful conversation w/a parrot. If you, or any other upstanding citizen, or conspiracy theory whack job(much more likely the case), tries to locate & procure an arsenal of full auto assault rifles, high capacity magazines, armor piercing ammo, or say, shoulder fired Stinger Missiles, I have no problem w/the Federal Government making it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish, or as you say, "setting restrictions on the second amendment". And Keith, when it comes to you acquiring your own personal tactical nuclear weapon in a delusional quest to fend off the black helicopters w/mutually assured destruction, forget about it! ;-)
You don't yell fire in a crowded theater & whine first amendment protection or massacre six year old school kids w/military grade weaponry & whine second amendment protection.
No idea what Pelosi & ACA have to do w/post on universal background checks, I assume it's the typical minutiae waste of time misdirection tactic that those such as yourself rely so heavily on when completely unable to answer the simple questions I posed. For instance: Do you really need more than a ten round magazine for self defense? You certainly don't need it for hunting. You can reread my prior post for the rest, if you dare, or you can continue to mindlessly parrot the typical BS NRA/Weapons Manufacturers Lobby & far-right-breitbart-wing-nut-o-sphere ideological talking points you've been fed & remain subject to ridicule that such nonsense invokes when any form of meaningful dialog is hopeless. Your call.
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Does anyone know if the gold in the Pope's Argentina church was made from the gold that Evita allowed in as payment from the Catholic Nazis who were allowed to "escape" there with the approval of the Vatican or it is just the gold squeezed from using the poor, to get it? Of course if that gold was sold, it certainly could feed the poor of Argentina for years .... actually getting the poor a job would be better ... but if there were no poor ..fundraising would be decreased! The poor are needed for fundraising.
So many Catholic clergy have procreated .... sort of secretly we know how many kids this pope had while a clergy in Argentina? Remember Pope Alexander VI, had seven kids and got his nephew and uncle to be popes. The Vatican is the highest moral authority in the entire world ... so they say, but of course it is truly meaningless. ... unless one is a devout Catholic, or a High Catholic ... Hitler was a Devout Catholic and carried out his religion to the fullest.
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What makes everyone think that the Churches are Christian?
I have had long discussions with a Catholic ( Roman ) and when he talks about religions he doesn't list Catholicism as Christian.
He is correct. The Roman Catholic Church was started by a pagan Roman ruler some 300 years after Christ.
Peter was Never in Rome-that was Paul, Peter was married, Paul wasn't- they chose the wrong one to say was the so-called founder of their religion.
If every one followed what the Bible Really says- there would be no wars, no crime, no absolute poverty as Christians are to help one another and their neighbors - all without broadcasting it as front page news.
For now it is not a reality -but one day!
• From what I have read and experienced in my 50+ years here on Earth, religions,philosophies and faiths of "light", so to speak, are all generally about making bad people good and good people better. The institutions of religion are about keeping those humanist and positive ideas alive. The institutions of religion are human and as such imperfect. From what I have read, I think you would find a consensus from left of center theologians, right of center theologians, honest secular humanist/agnostics, as well as "non-whiny negative" atheist, that we as a global people need to try and cultivate hearts of sincerity and truth and not let our hearts become hearts of maliciousness and deceit. As such I do not think our World, as a whole, will be a better place without the World religions,philosophies and faiths of "light" that have evolved over a very, very long time, along with the human spirit. The World religions,philosophies and faiths of "light" all fundamentally preach that we are all created equal and are all worthy of dignity and respect. These are important ideas and concepts that have to be cultivated through awareness of the affairs of the heart and how it is the driver of our consciousness and as such the kinds of choices we are going to make when we are tempted to be "bad" or evil ,if you will. The metaphysical aspect of some religions troubles people, scares them, fear of the unknown and all. They think it's all nonsense talk and indeed the landscape of history yesterday,today and tomorrow is and will be cluttered with all kinds of phonies and charlatans. Having said that, I believe most people intuitively know that there are other planes of existence, science can't quite explain. It is incomprehensible to me that all the stories throughout history about unexplained phenomena,ghost,spirits etc are all made up. Where does this all leave us.Do you need religion,not necessarily, but you do need knowledge and awareness and you have to consciously practice what you know and cultivate awareness. It's like a "muscle" that you have to work to keep strong and flexible and we can't always do it alone. Towards that end, religion CAN, but might NOT, aid us humans in being better human beings. We have to practice what we have learned and know, continuing to learn and try to follow and act on what the "good" side of our heart tells us is right. We will not always get it right, we are imperfect, but we can still keep trying and this will make us better human beings. This is what I have learned over the years from theologians of all religions and faiths of "light", as well as no nonsense, common sense, human beings. It's all quite simple when you boil it down, the harder part is practicing it all and living it as best we can.
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Tim said............
...........The World religions,philosophies and faiths of "light" all fundamentally preach that we are all created equal and are all worthy of dignity and respect.
Umm, does that include the Mideast Muslims that are busy blowing up people that they must not deem worthy of dignity and respect?
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The race for the Republican nomination is nearing the starting line. The green flag is about to drop in a mere two months and a few days or weeks later it will all be over. Mitt Romney, who has been running since the 1876 election, is still the presumptive nominee. The only fly in his ointment is that ¾ of his party can’t stand him. It’s kind of hard to figure out why, since any person can take any position on any issue and be secure in the knowledge that at some point, Mitt Romney agreed with him. The Republicans are like a bride walking down the aisle carrying a shotgun, desperately scanning the church for somebody, anybody at all, whom she might force to take the place of the ugly groom waiting for her at the altar.
At first the shotgun was pointed at Donald Trump. He found that his skepticism of Obama’s citizenship resonated with the right wing. Unfortunately, Obama pulled some strings and got his “long form” birth certificate” released. Then there was that little bin Laden thing. One would almost think Trump was just pretending to think about running in order to pimp his reality show. Of course, that’s only because that’s exactly what he was doing.
Then there was Michele Bachmann. The right wing flocked to her. She was far right. She wasn’t Romney. She won a big straw vote. Then two disasters- people started listening to her and Rick Perry jumped in the race.
When Rick Perry jumped in, the air went out of Bachmann’s balloon and went into his. He soared to the top of the polls. Then the debates came. After each one, people asked themselves “Holy Christ, he isn’t that stupid, is he?” only to be reassured that yes, he really is that stupid. If the debate performances weren’t bad enough, his stump speeches are all the evidence one needs to say with conviction that this guy isn’t ready for primetime, or for morning, or even for infomercials. The anti-Romney people began to get desperate.
Enter the Anti-Romney Of The Month, Herman Cain. Besides being a successful businessman, he’s valedictorian of the Clarence Thomas School of Personal Relations. His “9-9-9” platform fits on a bumper sticker. Twice. With room to spare. His candidacy has a loud and clear message for Republicans “Looky here! We got ourselves a gen-you-whine black guy!” The Teahadists can say they support Cain and gain immunity from charges of racism. The trouble is, when one looks at “9-9-9” in depth, the gut reaction is to walk away laughing and saying “Asinine-asinine-asinine.” Like all Republican plans, his plan shifts the tax burden from the wealthy to the lower and middle classes. That, plus elimination of such pesky nuisances as regulations, will allow the magic of the free market to create millions of jobs and transform the nation into the land of milk and honey. At least, that’s what the Cain economic team says. But you can’t know who they are. That’s secret. What’s really secret is that Cain has no intention of winning. He’s on a book tour. If you want to be elected president, you need to build an organization and collect metric shitloads of money. Cain has done neither. Neither has he done such rudimentary prepping as to find out what the president actually does. Cain promised he’d sign a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. Apparently he has no idea that the presidency has no role whatsoever in the amendment process. He’d build a death fence along the border to keep out those Scary Brown People. Or he was joking. Or else he wasn’t. When asked if Palestinians had the right of return, he said of course. Maybe he thought the question was about what happens if they got a bad pizza. For such an ignoramus to then accuse Obama of being a threat to Israel is the height of silliness, which makes it fit nicely into his campaign. Or any of the campaigns, for that matter.
When it comes down to it, all of the Republican candidates are interchangeable. All of them want to cut taxes on the rich and increase them on the poor and middle classes. All of them really really hate government and any kind of spending whatsoever, except that it’s really vital for the US to keep spending as much on defense as the rest of the world combined. All of them say that immigration, gay marriage, and abortion are the biggest dangers to the human species. All of them refuse to recognize global warming or evolution. When the rank and file Republicans set as criteria that the candidates must be cold-blooded AND batshit-crazy, this should come as no surprise.
Our bride is nearing the altar and she’s running out of potential suitors to point that shotgun at. Maybe she’ll wind up with that ugly dweeb at the altar after all.
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And the rank and file Republicans have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Now all we have to do is hope enough of the non-Republicans of the country realize what a bunch of horse-shit the Republicans are feeding us. If the Republicans get the White House…this country is finished.
If the Dems win...things are not going to improve significantly (we are mired in way too deeply), but if the Republicans win, this country is finished.
So romantic. Just wait 'til the honeymoon is over.
The GOP candidates could collectively write the following manual for their followers:
calm down. governor perry might hire a speech writer and lift iq and rating by 30%. it worked for bush, who was so far from being the tough marlboro man his ads said that jobs had to be found for him to keep him from playing in the street.
then you'll be sorry you didn't vote for romney when you could.
regardless who the candidates are, you won't be asked if you want single-payer, you won't be asked if you want to tax the rich to pay for national infrastructure, and you sure as hell won't be asked if munitions expenditures should be reduced to pay for education.
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How Bain Undercuts Romney's Narrative
Is Bain a problem for Mitt Romney’s narrative? Andrew Sullivan says yes:
Romney, in other words, doesn’t have a leg to stand on. He has been running a campaign against the “Obama economy” insisting that the president own every single month he has been in office in order to condemn his economic management all the more - despite at least a first year in which Obama cannot really be held responsible for the fallout of an economic collapse he inherited. So Romney insists on maximal responsibility for Obama and the economy.
Mitt Romney Is Not a Weak Candidate
Former Bush official and conservative pundit David Frum has a harsh and critical take on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign:
Will Bain Actually Matter for November?
Over the last week, Mitt Romney has struggled to deal with revelations over his tenure at Bain Capital and the extent of his involvement from 1999 to 2002. He insists he retired in 1999—and thus is not responsible for Bain’s conduct afterward—despite the fact that documents from a variety of sources show Romney as the owner, CEO, and sole shareholder, who continued to sign documents, sit on board members, and may have had a small role in managing the firm.
A Few Questions That Would Clear Up This Whole Bain Thing
What's in Mitt Romney's Tax Returns?
Nevertheless, this whole thing is only going to increase the pressure on Romney to release more tax returns. During the primaries he released one year's worth (2010), and it turned out to be quite a treasure trove for opposition researchers, over 200 pages of offshore accounts and lightly taxed income. Part of what's so weird about this question is that Romney seems actually to have believed he could get away with not releasing multiple years. Let's take a look back at what he said in a primary debate in January when he was asked whether he'd do what his father did and release multiple years of tax returns:
No, Candidates Don't Have to Lie
Lies lies lies yeah!
We reached some kind of a milestone this week when the Romney campaign decided it would use the word "lie" when complaining about criticisms the Obama campaign is making of the Republican soon-to-be-nominee. It's a word journalists almost never use, since it sounds too judgmental and they know they'll be accused of taking sides, and candidates seldom use, perhaps because it sounds too whiny, I'm not precisely sure. What we do know is that while some candidate are bigger liars than others, no presidential candidate seems capable of getting through a campaign without saying things that aren't true. Conor Friedersdorf asks, "Can anyone become president without lying? Without misrepresenting their opponent? Without using people as a means to an end? I don't think anyone can." The complaints about Barack Obama he cites are more about broken promises, which are different from lies, but I'll grant that Obama has said some things that weren't true. Yet I'd have to disagree.
Mitt Romney's Successful Speech to the NAACP
Show Us Your Papers!
Obama's Firewall in Virginia
Public Policy Polling (PPP) did an update on the state of the race in Virginia and North Carolina, and found that President Obama is in a fairly good position. In Virginia, he takes 50 percent support to Mitt Romney’s 42 percent, while in North Carolina, he takes 47 percent support to Romney’s 46 percent.
Their Mind on Mitt's Money and Mitt's Money on Their Mind
Flickr/Donkey Hotey
Instead, it's going to be all money, all the time. Or to put it another way, the Obama campaign's central message will be that Mitt Romney is an out-of-touch rich guy who spent a career screwing ordinary people in his endless lust for profits, and now wants to be president so he can continue to screw ordinary people and reward his rich friends.
Control of the Senate Depends on Obama
At The Washington Post, Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake note that the battle for control of the Senate is basically a toss-up:
Assuming King wins and picks the Democrats, Republicans would need four seats to take over the majority if former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney wins and five seats if President Obama is re-elected. (The vice president serves as President of the Senate and casts tie-breaking votes when necessary.)
Out of Touch Meets Really out of Touch
The Hamptons (Google Maps)
Mitt Romney has taken lots of abuse for being an out-of-touch rich guy whose struggles to connect to regular folks often produce comical results. But the stories coming out of Romney's one-day fundraising marathon in the Hamptons (three separate events at the no doubt spectacular vacation homes of Ronald Perelman, Clifford Sobel, and David Koch) on Saturday actually make Romney look good.
Because the thing about Mitt is this: He's trying. He may be terrible at it, but he's making an effort to connect with ordinary people. He talks to them almost every day. Yes, the encounters are awkward and superficial, but he wants to be one of the fellas, and he understands that this is something he could be a lot better at. Whereas the people who came to these fundraisers are actually as pretentious, condescending, and elitist as Democrats would like people to believe Mitt Romney is.
Voters Have Changed Their Mind about Romney—for the Worse
(Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
Methodologically, it doesn’t make much sense to do a poll of just the swing states. In presidential elections, the country moves as a whole; if President Barack Obama gains support nationally, then it will be reflected in individual states. Yes, some states will show more movement than others (Nate Silver calls these “elastic”), but there’s no real reason to focus exclusively on swing states, since you can predict the change with national polling. At most, it furthers the common but misguided notion that the election comprises 50 individual contests.
What Is Old Is New Again
(Ralph Alswang/Center for American Progress Action Fund)
In many ways, the 2012 presidential election looks a lot like the one in 2004. A divisive incumbent in a polarized electorate faces a surprisingly strong challenge from a lackluster politician against the backdrop of a stagnant economy. Like John Kerry, Mitt Romney is a Massachusetts-based candidate with a reputation for serial inconsistency, who lacks the full-throated support of his party’s base. And like George W. Bush, Barack Obama is running a campaign that highlights his strengths as a leader and portrays his opponent as untrustworthy and unprincipled. To wit, here is what Obama said in an interview with an NBC affiliate in Ohio:
Obama Gets Personal
Barack Obama prepares to feast on Mitt Romney's entrails. (Flickr/Barack Obama)
Campaigns often feature a division of labor when it comes to speaking about the candidate's opponent, one in which the candidate makes polite but firm criticism, while the surrogates (campaign staff, other elected officials) say much harsher and more personal things. A good campaign makes sure that the two proceed along the same thematic lines so they reinforce one another, but the fact that the candidate himself is more genteel in his language is supposed to preclude a backlash against him for being too "negative." Frankly, I've always thought this is overblown, particularly the strange custom whereby it's deemed a bit unseemly to refer to your opponent by name, such that saying "Mitt Romney is a jackass" would be horribly uncouth, but saying "My opponent is a jackass" is somehow more acceptable.
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10 terms · Prep. Wrld. Lit. & Comp.
zealous (ZEL us)
(adjective) extremely active, eager, devoted [SYN: enthusiastic, fanatic, intense]
candid (KAN did)
(adjective) honest, truthful, straightforward [SYN: sincere, direct, outspoken]
posthumous (POS chuh mus)
(adjective) occurring after death [SYN: after-death, post-mortem (post MOR tum)
enthrall (en THRAWL)
(verb) charm, fascinate, please greatly [SYN: thrill, enchant, captivate (KAP tuh vate)]
parasite (PAR uh site)
(noun) plant or animal that lives on or in another and feeds off this other's body; a person receiving support without without giving anything useful or meaningful in return [SYN: freeloader, deadbeat, sponger]
chagrin (shuh GRIN)
(noun) humiliation, disappointment, irritation [SYN: shame, distress, embarrassment]
cant (KANT)
(noun) insincere talk; special language of a social class, trade, or profession [SYN: insincerity, phoniness, slang]
ephemeral (ih FEM uh rul)
(adjective) short-lived, fleeting, lasting a very short time [SYN: momentary, brief, temporary]
dexterous (DEK stuh rus, DEK strus)
(adjective) skillful, clever [SYN: skilled, efficient, able]
sinister (SIN uh stur)
(adjective) threatening, wicked, evil [SYN: menacing, frightening, unfavorable]
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3 terms
countancy[1] or accounting is the system of recording, verifying, and reporting of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the books of account (ledger) to which debit and credit entries (recognizing transactions) are chronologically posted to record changes in value.
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