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+that everyone's rights will be protected is when everyone respects the equality
+of the sovereignty of the individual person.
+In
+a government of individual sovereigns where everyone is responsible for
+upholding each other's rights, when the individual has full control over one's
+own life and the power to make free choices in all that one enters, then the
+government will become the servant and not the master, because only a consensual
+government is truly government of, by and for the people; all of the people as
+individuals.
+Either
+government belongs to the people under natural law and with it the right to make
+consensual laws to which they voluntarily commit themselves or "law" ( i.e.;
+political violence) remains the property of the few who seize power to be used
+as a weapon against the people in order for The State to protect itself and
+control peoples' lives. Sovereign individuals must join together to lay down the
+law to The State and other criminal organizations that seek to impose tyranny on
+sovereign humanity.
+Rulers
+and the special interest groups are after power and wealth, they have their own
+agenda, not the fulfillment of universal human liberty. Business people are
+essentially trapped in a system were they have to engage in political corruption
+to protect their business, this may mean bribery or buying the kind of
+legislation they want. In a system like this if a special interest
+has
+enough
+money and influence they can get just about anything they want; all they have to
+do is pay the money to the candidate who agrees to support their position, the
+big money almost always wins the election. And after the legislator is in office
+the pressure is really turned up on that person, with lobbying and the very
+heavy influence of contributions made to future campaigns, the legislator knows
+that if he is going to get re-elected then he had better play the tune the
+customer has paid for or his political career will be a short
+one.
+States
+presume to license out rights to individuals as a way to control their behavior
+in order to serve those in power. No one has the right to tell others what kind
+of rights they can or can't have. All human rights are based on the sovereignty
+of the individual and are clearly understood through reason as natural rights
+that are inherently a part of being human. An individual must further define
+one's rights in relation to others in consensual contractual government and
+societies in accordance with the equal right of all people to the same liberty.
+The State presumes to claim the ultimate right for themselves, to change the way
+individual rights are interpreted, to take away the rights of some individuals
+who threaten to claim their full right to be free. This makes the concept of
+rights and human life itself nothing more than the property of The State. If one
+allows others to define and set limits on the kind of rights that one has, they
+will inevitably design a society that serves their own interests while denying
+those of others. The only equal and absolute right is individual sovereignty,
+all other rights are defined by this and measured against it. The reasoning
+process of determining natural human rights uses the law of individual
+sovereignty to test the soundness of all concepts of rights. Any right claimed
+by an individual that is consistent with individual sovereignty is a right.
+Meaning that a person has the right to anything that doesn't deny the equal
+right of others to the same liberty.
+Your
+rights do not come from any government, The State can't give you your rights and
+they can't take them away, they violate them, but they can't take something that
+is an intrinsic part of a human being. The State's system is based on
+deception; it only works as long as people remain ignorant about their rights,
+and because of that deception people surrender their rights.
+Supporting
+The State is absolutely morally wrong, paying taxes to it, or even making
+excuses for it or tolerating its existence is wrong.
+People have a duty to live by sovereign self-government by respecting each
+other's natural rights and interacting through consensual contracts with only
+justifiable force used as a defense against those who would violate individual
+rights.
+LawThe
+State's "law" is not about right or wrong, its about the application of
+political power to control their subjects and get them to perform in ways which
+serve political interests. As all law begins with the sovereign rights of the
+individual where all interactions are formed through consensual contracts, other
+laws proceed from this, there may be civil law-- laws formed by consensual
+governments, contract law or the laws or rules of a private club, all of them
+are legitimate laws because they are consistent with individual sovereignty and
+no matter what arbitrary rules under which people may choose to live, as long as
+it is entered into voluntarily it is legitimate law. Legitimate government is
+that which respects the natural laws, an individual lives in a state of natural
+freedom which comes with it the responsibility to govern oneself and one's
+interactions with others, as a person interacts with other sovereign individuals
+in society, there is a need for them to govern their behaviors toward each other
+and in relation to other people. This can only be justly accomplished through
+consensual governments which are formed by freely accepted contracts. Any type
+of organization which would confiscate people's property, rob them of their
+money, take over their business with invasive regulations, claim human
+beings as citizen slaves to be used to commit the evils of murderous
+terrorist war is an enemy of humanity and by clear and absolute definition the
+Political State is a criminal organization that violates the natural law of
+sovereign human rights.
+In
+a free society of sovereign individuals, your word is your bond, your contract.
+It's the only way that society can function freely. A free society depends on
+persons being responsible for themselves, making their own choices, choosing
+their own
+civilzenship,
+nationally and forming their own contracts. To be able to operate the government
+or to do business or have a peaceful society where everyone's rights are
+respected depends on others living up to their choices according to their
+consensual agreements. In a free society, individuals are judged to be honest,
+innocent and capable of being responsible for themselves and to others.
+The
+State tries to take away individual's right to control their own lives, persons
+are judged to be incapable of being responsible enough to control their own
+behavior, property or run their own business, so The State makes decisions for
+them. This kind of society encourages lying, cheating, theft, fraud as well as
+other
+immorality
+and crimes, because the political cartel undermines personal responsibility.
+This
+system has a general effect of undermining other social institutions
+such
+as marriage, family and the personal respect civilized people should pay to each
+other. In a free society other people count on you to do as you promise, to live
+up to your marriage vows, to keep promises to your children, all business is
+conducted by contract, upon which others depend on you to abide, social rules
+are by choice, the government you enter into that allows people to organize all
+of these complex activities must be by choice.
+The
+evils of The State are so extreme that they actually assume that people have no
+rights at all by their
+licensing
+out what they call the "right" to do things, such as, to start a business,
+engage in a profession or get married.
+Citizens
+are nothing but pieces of property to The State, which claims total ownership of
+all land and the people who belong to it, citizens don't really own their land,
+the proof in this is that they have to pay extortion in the form of property
+taxes and that The State claims eminent domain, which means that it's their
+property and they can take it at any time and for any reason they want, even if
+you do pay the extortion they can still take it away. Even when you have
+possession of what is supposed to be your property the political mob still
+claims the authority to regulate how you use your property and even what you do
+on it, violating your privacy and your property rights, so there is no real
+private property ownership within a State.
+Being
+a citizen of the state is synonymous with being a slave, an entity that claims
+ownership of you at birth, they control you throughout your life, they tell you
+what you may and may not put into your own body, censor your speech, they
+regulate private sexual activity as though humans are barnyard animals, they
+decide what kind of education you will receive, how you run your business, they
+steal your money and force you to support things that are against your most
+basic moral and religious beliefs. They keep people from founding consensual
+governments and their own civil societies which must be freely chosen
+associations to be just and in living by their own chosen nationality which is a
+private cultural matter just as is their religion; and by denying people the
+liberty to form and support their own police and defense that actually defends
+their rights and not some cartel of gangsters. The subject-slaves are forced
+to support the mercenary terrorists who are their jailers and most evil of all
+is the slavery of conscription. Citizenship in The State is only a pseudonym for
+a slave, property owned by The State in order to serve it.
+Most
+contemptible is declaring that the only crimes are an offense against The State,
+(the only real crimes are against
+persons, for there to be a crime there must be victim). By assuming that
+all crimes are against The State it degrades human beings to the level of
+property, that a crime against a human life isn't a crime against a human being
+but it's considered a crime against The State because someone dared to damage
+their property. That's why they don't care about restitution to the victim,
+instead The State just uses the crime to further rob the victim of more tax
+money to pay for the crimes of the guilty; in a just government the entitlement
+to restitution belongs to the victim. When a person is the victim of a crime the
+criminal isn't made to pay for the crime, the victim is. In fact, the victim
+pays over and over many times, first in being forced to pay to support a
+government that is imposed on them and being forced to pay for the bill to the
+police for the actions of criminals and in having to pay for the criminals court
+costs and incarceration and on top of all of that the victim is denied the
+ability to get restitution from the criminal. This racket has the affect of
+denying people legitimate government and responsible police who protect peoples'
+rights without stealing from them and who collect their incomes from the
+criminals they catch and force to pay restitution as well as fines and from
+security insurance and security investments.
+It's
+the conceit of The State claiming ownership of people's lives that makes it
+evil, that claim extends to the ownership of the person, they claim ownership of
+your body, you're judged to be incapable of deciding what to put into your own
+body, they presume you're not responsible enough to run your own business
+yourself so they tell you how to do it. Your money is not really your own, as a
+subject you are a serf who has to hand over whatever The State wants and are
+allowed to keep only whatever The State thinks you need to have to be productive
+and contented enough not to revolt. Their proprietary claims extend to ownership
+of society; with whom you associate, by what values you live; this can't
+continue, either The State must be destroyed or it will destroy the ability of
+humans to function as freely thinking personally responsible
+beings.
+There
+is absolutely no justification for the existence of any State or for the
+imposition of any taxes or invasive regulations. All services that are provided
+by a "government" can and must be provided voluntarily as a service to people
+who actually want them and are willing to pay for it. The usual excuse statists
+give for taxes is that they are necessary to pay for the police and defense,
+which is just another name for being forced to pay off a protection racket which
+denies a person legitimate government, security and self defense.
+Invasive
+regulations are confiscation of personal property, any need for any conceivable
+type of regulation can be provided voluntarily and internally by the business or
+industry which provides the product to the consumers as a
+service.
+For
+people who are poor, unemployed, homeless or in ill health there are better,
+more effective and most importantly, more just ways of helping them while
+respecting everyone's rights, The State uses poor people to entrap them in the
+socialist welfare system to perpetuate a dependency on The State while using
+them to steal from others. The way to help people, if you really want to help
+them, (the socialists don't want to really help them, they want to use them to
+increase the power of The State over people's lives), is to develop systems of
+opportunities that allow people to help themselves without putting a burden on
+others in a way that develops independence and puts people on the road to
+pursuing their dreams on their own.
+Just
+as The State regulates and controls property they also control social
+associations, this inevitably leads to discrimination and social manipulation
+often in the form of policies that lead to greater social dissention. Equal
+opportunity is founded firmly on individual sovereignty and is extended through
+voluntary contracts in which everyone who contributes their resources to the
+larger economy agrees, as a condition of participation, to respect equal
+opportunity for all people without discrimination. It's only through these
+contracts that true equal opportunity can be assured, because the political
+policies are constantly changing and they are sometimes used to increase
+problems within society in order to develop greater
+dependencies
+on The State.
+The
+State's education system is obviously used as an indoctrination system to
+develop obedient citizen-slaves and it refuses to even attempt to find solutions
+to the problems inherent in their system which would allow people to live freely
+in consensual government, since this would destroy the very system they want to
+perpetuate; and in what they attempt to teach they often fail and because much
+of the concentration of their system is in political indoctrination the students
+end up receiving a very poor quality education. In a good civil government
+there are guarantees that provide high quality education that allows parents and
+students to choose exactly the kind of education that they want according to
+their own values.
+Living
+under The State is intolerable and all-intrusive, the kind of society that they
+create is so immoral that you can't turn on a television or pick up a newspaper
+without hearing someone threaten your life, rights or property with the use of
+political violence to get what they want. It seems that violence, theft, force
+and coercion is a way of life, it is an obsession, people constantly think on
+how to use these tactics to gain more power over others to get what they want
+instead of thinking about how to do things honestly to accomplish goals and
+serve others while respecting people's rights. They don't think about how to
+work consensually with people to solve problems and provide what people want,
+they only seem to think of how they can use problems to gain more power. All of
+this is a culture of criminality, crimes against human rights are committed at
+all levels and at all times by politicians, business people or others who are
+involved in politics or those who simply look to and support The State to solve
+their problems and give them what they want.
+For
+The State to be able to effectively control its slaves it must be able to
+control its borders and the liberty of people to travel, this is just like a
+giant plantation were the slaves are allowed by their benevolent masters some
+limited liberty as long as they do their work, pay their taxes and do as they're
+told. A person needs a license to drive on the public roads, one needs a
+passport
+to leave the country; (a passport is permission from your owner to leave your
+own country) they use the passport to keep track of their property, so if the
+slave gets a job in another country then their masters can claim a share of the
+earnings, just like slaves who were hired out as sharecroppers. This restriction
+on travel has lead to many abuses against human rights, refugees are kept in
+areas of war were many are persecuted for their politics, ethnicity or religion;
+some are imprisoned and murdered. All Political-States who refuse to allow
+freedom of travel are accessories to these crimes against humanity. Keeping
+slaves in and the aliens out is an orderly way for the world system of
+Feudal-States to assign property rights among themselves with human beings as
+the property.
+The
+political system turns people against each other.The State steals from
+people and then uses the money and power to set different groups of people
+against each other by making them fight it out over the money and power that has
+been taken from them, this creates resentment ,distrust, hatred, belligerency
+and even violence amongst people, it makes people want to tax others because
+they think they can get advantages and power from it. It develops a warlike
+mentality in these uncivilized societies; that rights and entitlements are
+something that you have to take from others, that opportunity is something you
+have to take from others, in these systems they have no real concept of rights,
+instead rights belong to the mob and people are told that they are entitled to
+what others have. The decision on exactly what one is entitled to or how popular
+opinion will limit rights is fought over by these savages using not only a war
+of words but in every insidious manner including theft, mind control,
+confiscation of property and ultimately the use of violence where the mob of
+savages imposes its ignorant opinion on others. In these democratic and
+republican systems, which can hardly be called a government, at least not one
+that is legitimate, different groups of people are pitted against each other to
+fight over the spoils that the political mobsters take from the people. The
+young battle against the elderly over social security, the young want to keep as
+much of their money as they can right now so they can better prepare for their
+own futures, while the elderly need more money to live on now because The State
+has confiscated their money when they were younger and denied them the ability
+to effectively plan for their retirement, so they have to fight their
+grandchildren in order to take their money for survival.
+Statists
+invent perverse ideas of men's and women's rights so as to encourage a battle of
+the sexes, the insane idea that for women to have rights they must take them
+from men. The race war is an important tool for social control, the more
+dissention the politicians can create between different races the greater power
+they will have over people through their social engineering. Much of the
+affirmative action, welfare system, public housing and make-work jobs that were
+said to be for the betterment of minority groups have served to keep many of the
+people in those groups trapped in a permanent cycle of poverty.
+The
+ultimate evil of The State is summed up in the phrase that they use to justify
+the taking of power in their fraudulent justice system, it is; the standard of
+determination, that The State can assume any right or power to do anything it
+wants, if it can show a compelling State interest. "A compelling
+governmental interest", those are the magic words that allow legislators to
+violate any right, pass any legislation, enact any policy, no matter how
+outrageous and get away with it, it's like an incantation that works its spell
+on a judge who automatically disregards the constitution and abandons all reason
+and human consideration to uphold the act.The compelling interest of The
+State is unlimited, it is a mandate for the rulers to do anything they want
+without limitations if they are interested in doing it for the greater benefit
+of The State. This phrase is a declaration of war against all of humanity, I
+don't mean figuratively, I mean that we
+are in a war against the world system of Political States to the bitter
+death.
+The State has declared that it recognizes no sovereign right whatsoever that
+belongs to the individual, even the phony rights they put in their worthless
+constitutions are made null and void by the compelling interest theory. This
+declaration is one of absolute arrogance, they say that no matter what rights
+people have or what their constitution says, they will still do anything in
+which they have an interest for the greater benefit of The State. The
+Political-State and human freedom cannot coexist, either we must destroy the
+world system of Political States or it will destroy any hope for human beings
+ever living freely in consensual and just governments..
+It's
+necessary for The State to keep people down in order to justify its rule. As
+long as the political mobsters can keep people dependent on The State and deny
+the right of people to maintain legitimate self-governments and efficiently
+regulate their own businesses in the right way, through consensual contracts;
+the longer they can fool people into thinking that all of the invasive political
+regulations, programs, taxes and other usurpations are justified, there will
+persist the assumption that States are needed to govern human
+activity.
+They
+presume that the only way to get anything done is through theft, threats,
+violence and slavery.That when there is a need for some regulation or a
+community needs a park, a library, a bridge, a water treatment plant or some
+people just want to promote the performing arts, the political swindlers
+automatically say that the "government" must do it. They say that if the
+"government" doesn't do it, it won't get done. But, it is the fact that The
+State has set up a system which trains people to think in terms of looking to
+them as the first and only solution to any problem. And, they have denied people
+the opportunity to set up prior alternative forms of community organizations
+operated under a government which encourages and protects the right of people to
+operate publicly provided programs privately or through consensual civic
+organizations. In a society that has already organized ways of funding and
+developing programs or utilities that they need, there is no need for coercion
+or taxation to accomplish their goals, because such a society has learned to
+respect individual rights and accept the fact that they have to work
+consensually and raise the money for public works in the same way as any other
+business. In modern times by allowing the people to choose the masters
+who are to rule over them, the overt reality of force has been disguised, and
+the lie of "
+a
+free country" is sold in the package of "democracy", which is considered to be
+the most highly advanced form of government. So deeply ingrained is this
+superstition that the highest aspirations for human advancement are promised by
+the ideologues who rationalize or sanctify their system of parasitism;
+institutionalized robbery, slavery and murder is masked in the shroud of
+"democracy", "national interests", "public service", "welfare" and other
+euphemisms. The subjects must be kept under control, "law and order", by
+internal police and spies. With the direct State control of the media, or in
+some countries with the support of the media which is largely run by big
+corporations who are also military contractors and among the most powerful of
+special interest groups; they control and shape public opinion so that most
+people begin to think in the herd mentality under the direction of the media.
+Serious dissenters against The State are censored out of any public media or
+debate and ridiculed as extremists, a wacko fringe group and are unjustly linked
+with terrorists or racists. With their heard of subjects able to exert peer
+pressure, both social and economic, there are few individuals with the strength
+and courage to stand up against such widespread oppression as is found in the
+most comprehensively tyrannical of societies, that of a democracy. For those
+individuals who would dare to live freely on one's own property and conduct true
+free enterprise business instead of submitting what they produce to overlords,
+the democratic society is just as evil as any dictatorship in imprisoning or
+murdering people who would dare to keep their own money and resist violent
+extortion. When the politicians and their lackeys, democratic or otherwise, come
+to rob and kill people who are recalcitrant, they are nothing but armed robbers
+and murderers, their office makes them no different than a street thief, except
+in the minds of the slaves who have been hypnotized by the power of The State to
+submit unquestioningly; they accept the master-slave relationship as the natural
+order of things. The State becomes dominated by subservient people who were
+attracted to the service of power.
+When
+The State speaks of freedom they mean the license for them to get away with
+anything they want, their idea of a free country means the license for a
+tyrannical mob to get away with committing crimes against natural human rights
+law. Anybody who thinks that their Nation State is a free country is a damn
+fool. Their country is an arbitrary and artificial identity, no country as an
+artificial person can be free, only individuals who exercise their inherent
+freedom are free. It could be said that a country of individuals are free where
+people live and respect individual sovereignty and self-government, but no such
+places exists today. What
+is most infuriating is when the foolish supporters of The State brag that their
+criminal cartel is a free country, damn them and their country to
+hell.
+That statement is most contemptuous of real human freedom and presumes people to
+be as stupid as they are in believing that a cartel that seizes control of
+people's lives, bodies, property and steals their money and claims the right to
+force people to do anything that is in the compelling interest of The State, is
+a free country. A statement as ignorant as that can only continue to be
+perpetuated in a society of people who have been so completely brainwashed that
+they don't understand any concept of freedom or individual rights and will
+accept whatever they are told by those who control public
+opinion.
+Their
+claiming that their artificial entity is a free country is a statement of their
+monumental arrogance, that you don't even believe in freedom or understand it;
+that they regard their freedom as a license to continue violating the natural
+rights of humanity and continue getting away with it.
+God
+save the people from the patriots and the statesman. Politicians who are merely
+after selfish interests only want to use their power to benefit themselves and
+any interest they happen to represent, but the collective idealistic, the
+patriot and the statesman, are the most dangerous, destructive and evil of all.
+It is these fools who insanely attributes virtue to serving the artificially
+personified idol of The State or nation. They think that personal rights and
+identity are bound up in the collective nation, (nations have no rights, they
+are merely an arbitrary cultural identification that some individuals choose to
+accept). Maniacs who commit mass murder and call it patriotism to serve their
+nation are mentally deranged. They are the ones who are more malleable and
+servile and have been molded through a lifetime of brainwashing to believe in
+the artificial deity of the nation-state. To these wackos, there is no atrocity
+too extreme when it is to serve the "nation", which is to serve a fantasy.
+Cultural similarities between people living in a certain area may be called a
+nation, but it is not a human being and it does not have rights. Their "nation'
+as a State is a criminal gang and it allows people of the most pernicious turn
+of character to use its power to wage wars against individual independence to
+feed their maniacal egos, because they
+get satisfaction from overcoming their weakness and inadequacy by serving this
+great and powerful entity from whom they get their only identity and
+meaning.
+So, to them the nation-state is a cult. Statesmen
+are professional craftsmen of criminality.
+The Statists like to glorify the statesman above the mere politician who may
+only be after personal gain or to use the most expedient means to solve
+problems, as the politician is mainly concerned with popular opinion; but to
+them, the statesman deserves the greatest respect, because this person serves
+the greater glory of their artificial idol. The Statist conceitedly sneers at
+people who talk of real freedom, like libertarians, and they cynically condemn
+any idea that individuals have rights independent of The State or that the
+people are capable of being personally responsible and accountable to
+govern themselves without being coerced and forced into submitting to a gang of
+professional criminals who don't even understand the principles of natural law
+or self-government.People object to and resist thieves; but in the case
+of The State, they do not because the politicians have created a mystique of
+legitimacy about it; such patriotic concepts as; "fatherland," or the "American
+way of life", "national sovereignty" or "a free nation" create the illusion that
+cultural concepts have rights and this artificial entity, the "nation", and its
+government has the supreme jurisdiction over mere human beings. They tend to
+rouse feelings of reverence in the population. These reactions are ingeniously
+channeled to support the political cartel, and in turn help create the mystique
+of legitimacy which States need to survive. Obviously, only individuals have
+rights and any legitimate government must come from the inherent sovereignty of
+the freely thinking human mind. These jingoistic concepts are just fantasies,
+cultural associations and politics is merely opinion; people who attribute
+personage or rights to these concepts are either deceivers or crazy. Wake up and
+face reality, and the individual responsibility that goes with one's
+sovereignty.
+Anyone
+who says that it is the mandatory obligation of all citizens to do their duty in
+service to the community or nation for the collective good is declaring
+citizenship to be slavery; no community, nation or government can justify its
+own existence that uses slavery and those who promote this intolerable evil are
+at war against sovereign humanity. We must organize a universal human rights
+defense to fight and kill these enemies of humanity. We have a moral obligation
+to ourselves and humanity to go to war against the enemies of freedom, the only
+thing the Statists understand is force. These vermin like to promote State
+conscription to make other stupid automatons like themselves slaves to serve the
+hollow worthless idol of the cult of The State, which is their god, and force
+them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity. These cowardly pieces of
+garbage that are a disgrace to the human species who are supposed to be
+reasoning creatures are nothing but mindless pawns used by the evil mobsters who
+run the military-state and wage cowardly wars against mostly defenseless
+civilians for political gain and egotistical nationalistic
+glorification.It
+is wrong to contribute or leave your money to a system that claims the right to
+confiscate your property and conscript you, your children or
+grandchildren.
+Such a monumentally evil institution must be destroyed no matter what the cost;
+the future of humanity is at stake.
+The
+State projects the image of a self-perpetuating institution of indivisible
+strength, upon whose benevolence the people depend. In fact, the opposite is
+true; government rests upon the support of people. Without their support, it
+becomes fragile and will eventually disintegrate. A government is no more
+powerful than the individuals whose skills, knowledge, and collective power are
+exerted together either as a just consensual government or as a conspiratory mob
+who imposes its will on others and forces them to obey their idiotic illusionary
+concept of the nation-state. The State has no resources of its own. Every law it
+maintains is enforced by individuals. Every tax is a theft of an individual's
+private property. Their concept of the nation-state is in truth the legitimizing
+of the concept of might makes right. That the illusions of the nationality of
+the strongest group must be imposed on everyone for them to continue to live
+within the illusion. People
+must wake up to the fact that the nation-state is nothing but a group of
+individuals conspiring together to commit crimes against the basic human rights
+of other individuals who have not consented to accept what other's wish to
+impose on them.
+The tyrants who wear the uniforms and playact their rituals of nationalism are
+but individuals, who must live in a world and interact with other individuals
+and depend on others to continue to respect their right to live and function.
+Imposed government can only continue to work, not by brute force, but by fooling
+the people into accepting the illusionary concepts of those in power, for those
+individuals who rule have no more advantage over their victims than the
+acceptance by the victims of the rulers concepts, it is by this advantage that
+presumed legitimacy is given by the subjects to the rulers by which they have
+maintained the power to dominate and destroy. The State's only real resource is
+it's subjects, they are its lifeblood and since The State is only a parasite
+dependent on the productivity of others,
+all it takes to bring the system down is to educate people in how to live free
+and govern society without The State.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+HERE
+The Sooner One Gets "IT", the Happier They Will Be
+EBITDA or Die!
+Everything is a Trust, Respect or Confidence Issue
+Remember: Be Kind
+I've and others only catch on late in their life. They surmised there are many people who only get it after a life changing or significant emotional experience that caused the person to reflect upon one's life.
+I then asked: "Who do you feel are the happiest in this life – those who get it, or those who don't?" They all agreed people who get it are better off than those who don't. They agreed that the ones who don't get also concluded there is an "it" at home and in the family. Those who know it and do it have a happy home and loving family, while those who struggle or rebel against the "it" of healthy family relationships have a difficult home life. And, they assumed, there must be an "it" at work that, when understood and adhered to, leads to a happy and successful career.
+There is an "it" in every business. The key to success is figuring "it" out and doing "it". Those who don't get "it" or who fight against "it" are those who struggle the most at work.
+Managers have the responsibility of helping their employees to get "it." The main purpose of identifying what you want from your employees is to help employees get the "it" of work – the reason why the company exists and why they exist as an employee. The sooner employees start fulfilling their reason for existing, the happier and more successful they will be in their career.
+EBITDA or Die!
+A few years ago a client of mine, who is the CEO of a large casino gaming company, was bemoaning the fact that several of the General Managers at his casino properties didn't seem to grasp the key elements of their leadership role. He felt they weren't focused on the thing that matters most.
+"What?" I said. "You mean they don't get EBITDA or Die?"
+The CEO's eyes grew wide. "That's it!" he exclaimed. "That's it exactly! They don't realize they need to make the numbers. They don't get that their job depends on the profitability of their business!"
+It's sad that some managers – even executives – don't understand why they exist.
+There are only two reasons why you exist as a manager in an organization – to increase revenue and to reduce costs. You exist to improve the profitability of your organization. Every action you take should either drive more revenue to the business or drive costs out of the business. Nothing else matters.
+Many mangers argue against this premise. They say there are less cold, and more altruistic, reasons for why a manager exists, such as to provide a quality work environment, to support employees, to deliver exceptional customer service, to keep employees happy, etc.
+But if we follow the logic of their argument to its ultimate conclusion we see each of their objections are merely means to the two overarching purposes of increasing revenue and reducing costs. For example, the reason why customer service is important is to attract and retain customers. The reason why a company wants to attract and retain customers is to increase the company's revenue. And, delivering exceptional service creates loyal customers, thereby reducing marketing costs because these loyal customers return again and again on their own.
+Similarly, the reason why a manager should strive to keep employees happy is so the workers will be more productive. The reason why the company wants the employees to be more productive is so they will produce more. The reason for producing more is to create more products or deliver more services, thereby increasing revenue. And, the more productive the workers are, the less number of workers are needed; thus reducing labor costs.
+Employees, too, exist to increase the revenue and reduce the costs of their employer. That is how one guarantees his or her existence as an employee. The more an employee – or manger or executive – does to improve the profitability of the company, the more valuable they are to the organization. People who get why they exist tend to stay in existence.
+Everything is a Trust, Respect or Confidence Issue
+Think back to the last time you had a conflict with your boss, an employee, your spouse or your kids. What were you upset about? What did you talk about? What was the real issue?
+People spend a lot of time arguing about surface issues without ever getting to the heart of the matter. Managers counsel employees regarding their tardiness. Wives nag husbands to help out more around the house. Parents berate a child for poor grades in school. But these aren't the real issues.
+Everything conflict is a trust, respect or confidence issue. It's not the tardiness of an employee that's upsetting; it's the impact the lateness has on the manager's trust, respect or confidence in the worker that is so frustrating. It's not the fact that the husband doesn't wash the dishes that upsets the wife; it's the disrespect he shows by not helping her out. It's not the poor grades that concern parents; it's the lack of confidence they have in a successful future for that child if he or she doesn't get a good education.
+Again, think about the last time you were in conflict with someone. You probably spent most of your time talking – or arguing – about a specific object or behavior. But it's not the behavior that is upsetting; it's how that behavior impacts trust, respect and confidence between you and that person. It's not the object that is the issue; it's how that object reflects the level of trust, respect and confidence between you and that individual. Everything is a trust, respect or confidence issue.
+If you want to resolve your differences with another person or get them to change their behavior, you have to stop talking about surface issues and address the real issues of trust, respect and confidence. You need to use these words in your conversations. A missed deadline, for example, is not about a specific date on a calendar; it's about whether a person can be trusted to deliver on time. The tone of one's voice is not about pitch or inflection; it's about whether a person feels respected or disrespected by the way another person talks. The number of letters of accreditation behind a doctor's name is not what matters; it's whether a patient can have confidence that the surgery will be performed correctly.
+When your sixteen-year-old son or daughter wants to borrow the car, it is not a car issue. So stop talking about the car. Every element in the discussion about the car is directly related to trust, respect and confidence. Both the parent and the teenager have issues of trust, respect and confidence that must be addressed for both parties to be completely at ease when the sixteen-year-old drives away.
+Everything in this life is a trust, respect or confidence issue. What you do, and how you do it, either increases trust, respect and confidence, or it diminishes it. So start talking about the things that really matter rather than the surface issues that are not the real problem.
+Remember: Be Kind
+One of the reasons why people fear soliciting feedback from a boss, spouse or child is they are afraid of what will be said. They're afraid the feedback will be overwhelmingly negative.
+I've been traveling for my business for the last 35 years. Some years I've traveled almost 80 percent of my time. My son is 28 years old. That means, at times, I have missed 80 percent of his life.
+When my son was eight year's old I greatly feared that I was a horrible father. Because of my travel schedule I wasn't doing many of things "normal" fathers do. I wasn't there for my son's Cub Scout activities. I didn't attend his T-ball games. I missed his school programs and parent-teacher conferences. And when I got home on weekends I was too exhausted to take him camping or fishing.
+One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room when I realized what a lousy father I must be. I wanted to be better. I wanted my son to know that I loved him more than anything else. I wanted to do whatever my son needed me to do for him in order for him to feel I was a good dad. But I realized, only my son could tell whether I was a good dad or not. That meant I would have to ask him. But I was afraid if I asked for feedback regarding my fatherly duties, he would unload on me and tell me how horrible I was. It took me several weeks before I worked up the courage to solicit my son's opinion about me.
+Then, one quiet night, I sat on my son's bed and asked him whether I was a good dad. He said yes. But I knew that was just a programed response. So I asked him to tell me what characteristics, qualities or actions would indicate to him that I truly was a good dad. I was prepared for him to rattle off all of the numerous things that good dads do that I wasn't doing because of my travel schedule. But he didn't. Instead he told me about the good things I already was doing. He told me about how he felt loved because of the quality time we spent together, limited as it was. Then, ever so gently, he mentioned a few, minor things I could do to be an even better dad.
+That night I learned a great lesson about feedback from my son. I learned that whenever you give someone feedback you need to remember to be kind. People fear receiving feedback because they're afraid to be dumped on with a laundry list of things they have to do to improve. People can't take a bunch of negative feedback. They can only handle one or two suggestions of where they can improve. My son, at age eight, knew his dad needed kindness instead of criticism. He knew he had more chance of me improving as a dad if he didn't tear me down by pointing out my failures. Instead he built me up, and then gave me a couple of simple things I could do to be better.
+I gave up mothering for a frozen pizza last night.
+It was Sunday night after a long weekend and I opened the freezer. Score. A frozen Tombstone. I preheated the oven to 400 and flopped back down on the sofa.
+This mama is done. Over it. Exhausted and Sunday night lite-dinner was going to be frozen pizza.
+I had no guilt. I carried no shame. Frozen pizza is an entirely acceptable Sunday night dinner for a tired family.
+My husband offered to pop the pizza in and he set the timer. The pizza came out of the oven 20 minutes later and needed to cool on the counter.
+The smell of hot pepperoni must have spurred something in the girls’ stomachs because not 30 seconds passed before one of them wailed “I’m hungreeee!”
+I looked over at her, “Seriously? Pizza is out and it’s cooling. You can wait five minutes.”
+“But I can’t!!” She came back at me.
+“Of course you can.” I reassured her.
+“Eat a banana,” my husband piped in.
+{In our house, “eat a banana” is the panacea for most ailments}
+She just couldn’t wait. Waiting is hard and it’s not natural. Or at least we think it’s not natural.
+I’m glad God didn’t create women to give birth the moment they understood they had life growing in their belly.
+And that a line prevents me from riding the roller coaster over and over again. I have to wait. At least not at my age. Thirty-eight years equals headache and nausea after two rides in a row.
+I’m glad that I can’t think a song or a book into existence. That the writing is a process and a birth of its own. And I’m glad that our children take so long to grow. I couldn’t bear to give them away to the world as soon as they were born.
+There is so much waiting in life.
+We wait for everything. I joke with my ever-late husband that I’ve spent most of my adult life waiting for him to do something: get home, get to the dance recital, finish in the bathroom.
+But we are an impatient people. We wait for a living, but we still can’t grasp the idea that waiting isn’t only a part of life, it is necessary.
+What IF we gave birth when we figured out we were pregnant. Nothing would be ready, not our homes or our hearts or our families. And IF we could think a book into existence? We’d be robbed of the joy. There is so.much.learning in the writing. So much valuable learning in the process.
+And there is so much learning in the waiting.
+We learn patience and long-suffering and tolerance when we wait. We learn forgiveness and self-awareness and we learn how to slow down. When we wait it is one more example that life is a journey to be walked through not a destination to be won.
+Waiting makes us mature and age well, I believe.
+So next time we are forced to wait, for a child, for an ever-late husband, for a project or a venture to be born into existence, maybe we can rest in the waiting, knowing that it’s making us ready for the next thing.
+That is the grace in life: that even in the long night before the morning, there is goodness even there.Leave a Comment
+Sarah,
+My “life scripture” is Psalm 40:1-3 and how fitting that it begins with, “I waited patiently on the Lord…” In 52 years, I’ve gotten better at waiting. It’s the “patiently” part I sometimes struggle with. But, like you say – so much good can be learned in the waiting! I love your line that life is a journey to be walked through and not a destination to be won – beautiful! Thank you for the encouragement in my times of waiting!
+Blessings,
+Bev
+i love that Bev!
+Great truths that I had to copy and paste into a Word document. Thank you.
+When mt kids are hungry I send them for a banana too although my kids are young adults but it has been a saying for many years.
+thank you Janet!
+Thank you for this Sarah! I have often read your posts and thought how similar our personalities seem and I especially have been having a hard time waiting on my husband for what seems a lot of things. But I feel that change God is doing within me and there is an excitement brewing that I know is going to pay off……like after waiting on that long line for a roller coaster ride…but hopefully no nausea afterward! (I too am 38 and once a roller coaster fanatic now find myself getting nauseated after “swinging” to high while playing with my kids -what’s up with that?)
+ha! thank you kerry! =)
+thank you, Sarah. the title of your post captured me, I feel a kindred spirit with you this morning. these waiting room times are way too hard. and I know He’s teaching me things I need to learn, right and left.
+yes. these waiting rooms are hard. i hear you.
+Wonderful words to remember!! He is with us in the waiting, whether it’s an everyday occurrence, like dinner, or a once in a lifetime event – like a baby or a book! Seasons of being in the waiting room bring depth to our faith. He is so good! Thanks for sharing!!
+thank you marina!
+“…so much learning in the waiting.” Yes, there is and you have given me a new perspective on the waiting, Sarah. Thank you.
+thank you Mary!! =)
+Once I was so frustrated waiting on a light to change. I had just missed making it through. And I heard the Lord whisper, “by waiting here, I have made you a leader.”
+Love this.
+yes, i agree. i love this too. thank you for your insight!
+Thank you for this. I am in a ‘waiting’ stage in my life and I’m so impatient and just wanting to get going already! Thank you for the reminder that my waiting phase isn’t dead time. It’s time to grow and learn.
+no. it isn’t dead time. it’s time to grow. but it’s super hard, right? thank you!
+Laughing at the “waiting for hubs to finish in the bathroom”… WHY do men take so long in the bathroom?! What on earth?? It’s such a mystery, and I admit, I am VERY impatient. Now I’m going to have to ponder what lesson and wisdom I can gain in my time of waiting for him to HURRY UP AND FINISH IN THE DANG BATHROOM. Haha!
+Other than that bit of silly, I loved this post. Loved it so much. It’s gonna ruminate in my mind all day today.
+yes. i have no idea. seriously. =)
+Thank you for this (extremely) timely message… As a military spouse I find myself often waiting, and frequently frustrated (and hard on myself) when I don’t know what is going on or what is waiting for us around the bend… Really, it all comes down to control, I think. Am I waiting on God?, or am I trying to force His hand? (and end up worse off, always). Life is an unfurling– it begins at its beginning and ends at its ending — a river through time. I need to see what there is to see during this part of the ride and not sqaunder the chances for never-again beauty and opportunity.
+ooh. i love this. life is an unfurling. so well said, erin!
+Wow. This blessed me good.
+thank you Sally Anne! =)
+There IS so much learning in the waiting – something we don’t always remember until the waiting is over. SO thankful God is patient with us! Good read Sarah : )
+oh yeah – so true. when its over its easy to look back right? thank you!
+I love this. And, ironically, I fed my kids frozen pizza for the first time Monday for lunch. 🙂
+for the first time? kudos to you for that. i’ve been doing lunch time frozen pizza forever. =)
+Excellent! Just Excellent!
+thank you charla!
+Perfect message for me today (and, well, probably every day). “When we wait it is one more example that life is a journey to be walked through not a destination to be won.” <– I need to etch this on my heart and remember it always… and then maybe share it with my husband, because he and I both suffer from a case of "why-won't-this-just-happen-already"-itis 🙂
+And then I need to re-evaluate what I'm teaching our kids. We tell them "hurry up! We're running late!" We are always displaying our impatience for them, and then we expect them to wait 2 minutes for us to help them or 5 minutes for dinner to be ready or a week before a friend comes to visit?
+Thank you for this lovely post! Heading off to share it!!! Others need to read this!
+ooh. thank you April!!
+After years of waiting, all I’ve been shown is that the things I’m waiting for are never happening for me. For friends and family, yes, but not me. Not everyone gets the husband, children, book, etc., and to suggest that everyone does is incorrect.
+i’m sorry for your hurt, Jennifer. I hope i didn’t suggest that we all receive what we wait for. the point of my post was that there is grace and goodness even in the waiting. i’m so sorry if my words hurt you. It wasn’t my intent.
+YES! That is the first word that came to my mind when I read your post – YES! Thank you for sharing this. It speaks volumes to me as I worry if I will get it all done – the ‘it’ being so many things in my life – my life’s calling, my book(s), etc. I love it when you wrote, “There is so.much.learning in the writing. So much valuable learning in the process.” – YES! Yes, you are absolutely right.
+thank you priscilla!
+Most times the waiting is just to give us time to claim the gift of acceptance…still not time wasted.
+hmm. well said, joan! thank you!
+I have never been able to attribute this quote, but I have cling to it, as with so many of the wonderful Bible verses mentioned already- “beautiful are the difficult things. Nothing worth it’s easy.” Waiting is definitely one of those beautiful difficult things for me, too. Such a great post, Sarah. I could so relate!
+i like that missy. very much so. waiting is beautiful/difficult, right? =)
+This is so timely. I had a brain MRI yesterday and now am waiting for the results, hoping they will explain my symptoms and not be too scary. Yesterday i obsessed on wanting to know right now!!! and your words calmed me. I liked what Joan said in her comment also, ” waiting is just to give us time to claim the gift of acceptance” I am praying for that and for absolute trust in God to take over where fear makes my insides clench up.
+Waiting for test results is the worst. I will pray for your results to have a clear and healthy answer…and for trust and peace if the results aren’t what you’re hoping for.
+thanks so much Lesley
+i’m so sorry kathi. praying for peace for you today and as you wait.
+I went through this one, too (also, adoption/infertility)…(((hugs)))! Praying for you! Diagnosis: Meniere’s Disease. Pls let me know the dx: huckabone@frontiernet.net
+Kathee
+After living in Scotland (on a job assignment) we finally filed the paperwork to retire and return home to the States. I was so anxious to be going “home” that all the little differences in our life in Helensburgh began to bug me. I could hardly wait to get home! But the Lord pulled me up short and told me in no uncertain terms to stop it! He wanted me to slow down, stop running ahead of Him and enjoy the journey to where He was taking us. It’s so easy to focus on the destination and miss the joys of walking the journey with Him.
+The last nine months of our stay were so precious to me and I would have missed it all if I’d rushed ahead of the Father. Waiting is always hard for a “bottom-line kinda gal” like me but He showed me that He still had a lot of blessings for me on the journey and I’d miss them if I stayed focused on the end. I learned so much about myself and the Father as we walked together through the waiting time.
+yeah. i’m a focus on the end type too. thank you for the encouragement.
+After two failed adoptions waiting to be a mother is hard most days. We don’t get to see the big picture and have no understanding why we have to walk through some very difficult times, but I do think that in these times we find the Lord in a way we have never seen Him before, and the people around us become cheerleaders in a way they have never before. There are blessings in the waiting, but there is deep pain and healing as well.
+oh amy. i can hear the pain in your words. i’m so sorry for your waiting. i’m praying and hoping God redeems even this time, while you wait. praying peace for you today.
+(((((((((((hugs))))))))))) been there!!! Praying for U!
+“Eat a banana” is a fix-all in our household too 🙂
+Love these thoughts this morning as I w a i t to hear back from a potential job…
+yay! hoping you get it mindy!!
+39 weeks/5 days pregnant. Waiting is the WORST! Maybe I’ll go eat a banana and see if that helps things along. 🙂
+oh! hang in there mama!!!
+Hi Sarah,
+Love the banana panacea! Mine was “drink a glass of milk” 🙂
+Ahh the lessons in the wait — none are wasted, all have purpose. The key is to stay faithful, even when the wait is long and God seems silent. Thanks for the reminder.
+Hugs from Virginia!
+ooh. milk is good too!!
+A friend of mine recently found out she was pregnant. Two days later we went to another friends baby shower. In what I can only assume to be a normal freak out moment, she exclaimed, “I’m not ready for all this?!” My response: “That’s why God is giving you 40 weeks. You don’t have to be ready today.”
+Thanks for the reminder that waiting is not only inevitable, but that with a little perspective we can view it as a good thing!
+yes! what a great example anissa! thank you for commenting. =)
+Sweet words. True words.
+And your thoughts on writing…how it is a process. Yes! It needs to bake, doesn’t it? When it comes to writing a blog post or something – it doesn’t usually come quickly for me. I have to sit in it for a bit…allowing the Spirit to move and such.
+Great reminder today. Grateful!
+May faith and joy be yours,
+Kate 🙂
+thank you so much kate!
+How fitting to read this post tonight. I’ve been sick with stress all day because of a waiting period that is completely out of my control.
+My mother was sent to Hospice after a month + of serious hospitalization in Florida (I’m in Indiana) and my hubby is away in Texas for an extremely important meeting & work schedule all week.
+I don’t think I’ve ever felt so helpless or stressed to be somewhere so badly that I can’t get to on my own.
+So…I wait.
+I keep praying & believing that God knows just what He’s doing even if I can’t see it right this moment.
+i’m so sorry wanda. praying peace and rest over you and your family tonight.
+Wanda,
+Praying for you and your mother. I can’t imagine not being there for her or having a hubby close.
+Lord–Please comfort Wanda and her family in their time of stress and illness. Give them the courage they need to wait on your timing. Shelter them with your love & warm arms.
+AMEN!
+Sarah,
+I knew from the title that I would instantly love this post! I have been impatient all my life. I’ve waited to get married (was 39) when that happened. Waited for jobs, people, etc. Now I find myself waiting on God once again.
+I would like a different job–one that suits me better. My hubby and I are waiting and praying to see what happens–can he keep his job? So many medical people around here have lost theirs.
+Thank you for the insightful post about learning in the waiting!
+Thank you very much for this post! So timely for me because I need to be reminded of the beauty of waiting now that I’m waitiing for many things to happen/unfold.
+I can also relate to the “tired family.” 🙂 We just moved to a new house and many of our boxes are still untouched. On top of that I have books to finish and launch, articles to write and a business to manage.
+I think waiting can be acted out faith as well. It at times is hard work.
+This is exactly where I am right now. So appreciated reading this blog post and all the comments! God has been helping me, through the timely words of a friend, when I am tempted to feel anxious in the extended wait of our adoption not to be like Saul, who didn’t wait on Samuel to arrive before he offered the sacrifice (1 Samuel 13). I don’t want to cut short the waiting, but to embrace all that God has for me in it! Thanks for sharing and encouraging my heart.
+And once again, God has used this blog to speak truth that I need so desperately at the right time. Thank you.
+I am currently waiting…on a phone call…or even a text…Not sure when or if it will come. And it sounds so superficial to say that in my comment…but it’s the truth.
+Waiting is hard. It’s necessary and He is present in my waiting. Thank you for reminding me…
+Thank you, Sarah, for your thought-provoking post on waiting, especially the reminder that there is “goodness in the night of waiting.” Oh, yes. Spiritual maturity develops, intimacy with our Heavenly Father deepens, appreciation for current blessing is enhanced, others are encouraged when we demonstrate patience and trust. Waiting provides powerful lessons of obedience, too. Oswald Chambers expressed it so well: “To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.” And obedience is what leads to deep contentment.
+I loved your post. I’m not a patient person. My husband’s always telling me I need to give the kids and him time to do what I request. He says “You want it done yesterday”. He is so right. I never gave any thought to how waiting has benefits. I liked your perspective. Thanks for sharing. Blessings, Kasey
+Thank you for these timely and encouraging words.
+Best.
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+Trading With Binary Options Brokers Inside USA.
+If you are interested in binary options, then you might be wondering whether or not there is a difference between binary options brokers in the USA versus outside of the United States. Well, this difference is very important because if you want to make sure that you are getting the best possible price on your binary options, then you are going to have to know where the best prices are.
+In order for you to find out what the best prices are, then you will need to make sure that you are able to find out what is the best place to buy your binary options. This is so important because if you can get them at a lower price from an outside source.
+Then that means that you are going to have to be willing to lose more money if you do not get the right binary options. This might not seem like much, but it is important for you to know that you could lose as much as 90% on your binary options if you choose the wrong place to trade them.
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+So, why should you only deal with binary options brokers in USA? Well, this is so important because the USA is one of the largest economies in the world and therefore, has a lot of financial institutions that deal in these types of options.
+These include banks, large corporations, hedge funds, and many others. Since this type of option is so popular, there are a lot of people who are interested in trading in the USA. However, because of this popularity, there are many people who try to take advantage of the market and the people who are selling. As a result, the overall prices binary options brokers in USA can vary dramatically from person to person.
+So, if you are interested in making money from trading in this kind of option, then it is best to stick to trading in the United States. This way, you will be sure that you are getting the best prices possible.
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+What Is The Expected Payout Of Binary Options?
+Binary Options payouts are given to you for either buying or selling a certain contract. The terms of the contract are usually represented by a number of different symbols. The term ‘call’put’ refer to the right and the left hands, respectively. When an investor wants to purchase a contract and has to pay a certain amount, the symbol ‘call’ is used to specify the amount to be paid.
+In binary options, the investor has to pay to his or her broker either in the form of a premium or a commission. The binary option’s minimum payout of binary options is the amount that the broker has to earn from the sale of the contract.
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+The Binary Options Market is considering as a medium to be traded on the world’s largest market, the stock markets. This market also acts as a market for forex trading. This market is not regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
+This is because the system is completely online and there is no need for stock exchanges. There is no need for paper trading since the trades happen within the system.
+How To Trade Binary Options Successfully.
+If you have never traded in binary options before, then you might be wondering how to trade binary options successfully. It is one of the most lucrative markets, especially if you understand how it works.
+Binary options, also known as binary options trading, is basically a contract where the buyer of the contract will pay the seller a certain amount of money for a certain amount of time, at a certain price. The sellers make this money by either receiving a fixed percentage of what is being sold (premium) or by selling the contract for a price lower than the premium.
+Beginners should know that it is important to understand how binary options brokers works, because otherwise, you might find yourself losing money, not making any. Traders have different methods of trading binary options, depending on the way they feel about the market. In general binary option trading works by buying one option and selling another one.
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+This time one that pays off over the long term but only if there is volatility in the market. This volatility means that prices go up and down based on the current market conditions, so it is necessary to choose a contract that has low volatility.
+2 Key Takeaways
+1. Learn to trade and succeed: Traders have to know how to trade binary options successfully, because you need to have good strategies in place. This means that you should learn to read binary charts, binary graphs, and binary signals. A chart will show how the market is moving along the time line and this allows you to decide which option to buy or sell. You can develop a good trading strategy from our knowledge base.
+2. Know the graph: A graph shows the trend of the price over time. The trend of the price usually shows how the market is changing from day to day, though, not just the ups and downs, but all the highs and lows as well. A binary signal tells you when to buy and sell. Binary signals are easy to use and once you have them, they will tell you everything that you need to know.
+A Guide To Trading Binary Options In The U.S.
+This can be found easily on the internet, many sites have a wealth of information regarding this subject and how to use it effectively. A binary options broker is very popular amongst all the investors. This is because they are much easier to work with and give the investor more control over their money.
+Whilst still giving the maximum yields and profits when they are invested. These brokers do charge a fee and they may be regulated by state authority or not depending on which one you choose to do business with.
+Before using any binary options broker, it is advisable to thoroughly research them. However learn as much as possible about them and how they operate; So that you are aware of any fraudulent activity or even just common sense. This could keep you from being conned or scammed. No one wants to lose money through an investment they are looking forward too. So taking the time to find the best and most reliable binary options broker available is the best way to go about it.
+The Differences Between A Vanilla And A Skew.
+A vanilla binary option is an unaltered version of the original binary options trading. Where the risk/reward balance is fixed, regardless of if the market goes either up or down. A vanilla option will never fluctuate in value because it is not affected by outside events. A normal vanilla option would have a much lower premium but also would include some level of risk.
+A skew binary option broker has been designed specifically to minimize the amount of fraud and manipulation that takes place during transactions. Therefore facilitating higher quality trades for the investors. They are more prone to high profile news events and also have strict guidelines and rules that they impose upon all traders. While they tend to be more expensive than their vanilla brethren; Their transparency does not allow for false and unscrupulous trading to take place.
+Can I Trade Binary Options In The USA Without A Broker?
+The short answer is: no. It would be impossible to execute any transaction. Whether it is a winning or losing trade, without the help of a licensed broker in the United States. Brokers have experience and knowledge about the various strategies used in trading binary options.
+They also know the minimum amount that one can invest; The types of assets that one can trade with; And the types of transactions that are generally not allowed in the U.S. We have few reliable brokers that accept traders from United states.
+Can I Trade Binary Options In The USA If I’ve Been A Resident Abroad In The Past Five Years?
+Yes, you can trade option in United states as it’s legal. However, If you’ve lived in the U.S. for five years or more, you may have an exception. This exception will only be offered to those who are still in full time education at an accredited educational institution. In addition, it will only be permissible if you’ve enrolled as a full-time student who has graduated from an accredited U.S. college or university with no fewer than three years of completed course work.
+Is There A Guarantee That I’ll Make A Profit?
+The truth is, there is no guarantee that you will make any profit. No online or offline business can promise success. However, many people who have made hundreds of thousands of dollars by trading binary options through accredited brokers can attest to the fact that the majority of individuals who do make money online do so through the use of a few selected trading strategies.
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+Letters to the Editor, March 30, 2013
+To the Editor:
+I write in response to Block Island Residents Association (BIRA) President William Penn’s letter to this paper published in the March 16 edition. Maybe he didn’t mention he holds this position because it isn’t relevant, but I say differently. Mr. Penn often cites a dated BIRA survey related to the Deepwater wind farm. Additionally, most people know he serves as President of BIRA and reminds us often of his political capital as a member of the island’s Electric Utility Task Group and chairman of the Historic District Commission. BIRA’s website indicates that any individual residing on Block Island all or part of the year shall become a member of the association with all the privileges that pertain thereto. Someone serving as the President of BIRA should know better than to characterize any residents as seasonal or otherwise and dismissing the thoughts and inputs from one group of BIRA membership versus another. Shame on him for trying to divide the wonderful people (seasonal and year-round) on this tiny slice of heaven.
+I also take offense that seasonal residents can’t grasp issues confronting year-round residents. I am a landowner on Block Island, and the island has been part of my life for over 20 years. I may not hold any advanced degrees in finance that Mr. Penn has, but I can certainly read a newspaper, and I have taken the opportunity to speak to year-round residents, some of whom, in plain English, explained to me what the hardships are for them. Are the turbines going to put more ferries on the winter schedule? Are the turbines going to create jobs during the off season? How about lowering the deer population? How will the turbines help create affordable housing?
+Mr. Penn mentions the 1,800 BIPCo customers that could never afford to pay for a standalone cable. But, the R.I. Public Utilities Commission can socialize the costs of the cable (see existing Public Utilities Commission Docket 4179) just as easily (and for a lot less money) as it has allowed socialization of the construction costs and Deepwater’s $683 million in revenues for the next 20 years. How about instead of wringing our hands, we investigate Deepwater a bit further, question their motives, and take a stand for what is one of the most beautiful and, at this moment, vulnerable places on earth?
+I would like to end with a quote from the New Shoreham Comprehensive Plan, adopted in 2002, updated in 2009. Under the Preamble, it reads (emphasis mine): “Do we endeavor to influence and control further change so as to preserve as much as possible of the qualities that give Block Island its unique character?”
+Rich Payne
+Corn Neck Rd., and White Plains, NY
+To the Editor:
+I never thought it would happen but the Old Harbor Task Force is happy to announce that Esta’s Park is sold out of bricks! The park has been restored and made better than ever. We now have plenty of seating and some of it is even in the shade. The plantings and grasses are growing well and we added daffodil bulbs this past fall, which will look fabulous in another year or two. The park is as popular as the Task Force hoped it would be, but the Lobster Pot Christmas Tree, I am happy to say, far exceeded our expectations in popularity!
+We sold over 500 bricks. Along with the many generous donations made, the brick sales resulted in Esta’s Park being completely paid for with private money and with enough money left over to establish an endowment fund to help defray the costs of maintaining the park over the coming years. Each year weeding, fertilizing and mulching must be done, along with necessary plant replacement and repairs to the park structures.
+On behalf of the Task Force, I want to thank both residents and visitors for your help and support of the park. We could not have done it without you!
+The Old Harbor Task Force is currently working on concept plans for Pole Harbor Beach Park across from the National Hotel. We hope to do a patio with engraved stones around the benches, so if you did not get your brick, you will have another opportunity next year.
+Margie Comings
+Mohegan Trail
+To the Editor:
+I would like to let you know that we are in favor of the Deepwater Wind project. We have lived on Block Island for over 30 years and have two small restaurants, which really feel the pressure of the increasing power bills every month.
+One reason that we support the wind farm is the economic gain Block Island will receive from reduced electricity rates.
+As you know, our kilowatt and fuel surcharges are among the highest in the United States, which really impact the business community on Block Island. Because of this, some of our local businesses are threatened with insolvency.
+The opponents to the project are mostly summer homeowners who are not impacted in the same manner that we restaurant owners and other retailers and trade-related businesses are.
+Block Island thrives on tourism. Without restaurants, retail shops and other activities there would be no reason for visitors to come to Block Island. And there certainly would be no need for a ferry. Let’s keep Block Island growing and proceed in the right direction.
+Please help us move forward with the wind project.
+Kathleen S. Szabo
+Center Road
+To the Editor:
+I am looking at my February bill from the Block Island Power Company (BIPCo). The bill totals $159.92 for the month, at 42.8 cents per kilowatt, plus a customer charge. It is broken into three parts: 1) Energy charge: $31.40; 2) Fuel cost adjustment: $116.16; 3) Customer charge: $12.38. The way BIPCo gets to the first two figures is as follows: We used 345 kilowatts for the month. The energy charge was 9.1 cents per kilowatt. (this charge triples to 34 cents from June through September). The fuel surcharge was 33.7 cents per kilowatt. In other words, better than 3 out of every 4 cents billed for electricity was for oil. In this case an additional 8 percent is tacked on for the privilege of being a “customer.”
+Without a cable we cannot have our power come from other sources such as natural gas, hydro or atomic energy. We are totally dependent on diesel fuel delivered by truck to the boat (and also note that the ferry freight charge is about to go up by 34 percent, and yes, the ferry gets to tack on their own fuel adjustment charge!) By comparison customers of National Grid just across the water have been paying less than 16 cents of late including a $4 customer charge. A friend in Charlestown paid $143. For 955 kilowatts (nearly three times our usage for the same month — and National Grid does not get the summer bonus surcharge that BIPCo gets).
+To overcome this we need a cable. We have known for a long time that a cable is essential to stable electric costs on Block Island. The question is “who pays?” Twenty years ago the cost for a cable was estimated at over $10 million. Today’s cost, because of inflation and ever increasing regulations and permitting fees, has mushroomed to several times that cost. Standalone costs borne entirely by the ratepayer were prohibitive 20 years ago at $10 million. They are out of the question at today’s figures. Bottom line is that without Deepwater underwriting the cost of a cable we will continue to have the highest electric rates in the country. As an added bonus, a connection to the mainland will bring us high speed internet and cable TV alternatives.
+The price — interference with the ocean view, that some say is too high to pay. A number of years ago, before Deepwater Wind came on the scene, when Cape Wind (off Nantucket) was in the headlines, my wife Claire and I were in Ireland and heard of an offshore wind farm about 40 miles south of Dublin, so we drove down to see it. Now, I’m not a betting man, but having seen an offshore wind farm firsthand, I think a case could be made that we will have more visitors come to the island to see it than will be repulsed. Times change: majestic tall ships and graceful sailing sloops were a lot more pleasant to look at than today’s container ships and supertankers.
+Deepwater Wind has already advanced several millions of dollars to bring us that cable. We need to support their efforts.
+Steve McQueeny
+High Street
+To the Editor:
+Hello, to all of our Block Island seniors! Yes, that’s you if you are over 50. Just remember that you are as young as you feel and if you are alive and kicking, it is never too late to feel even younger!
+We have some news for you, but first an apology. Due to space issues, “Adventures on the Island” did not make it into last week’s Block Island Times and with the crazy lack of internet here on the island, many of us were left in the dark as to last week’s activities. So I do apologize. Moving forward, this leads perfectly into the changes that we’re making.
+We have something for everyone. For those of you who love to hold a paper in your hand, there is always the Block Island Times, which faithfully publicizes the weekly pulse here on the island. If you are more of a technical person, you can subscribe to the Block Island Times online. What’s new is that we are no longer having a separate column from the Senior Advisory Committee. We are moving in the direction of combining all of the island’s activities into one section, so we can all be checking the same places and be sure not to miss anything! So, if you want to know what’s happening each week with numerous organizations check the section “All Around the Block.” If you wish to know what special, one-time events the Senior Advisory Committee is hosting, check for them in “Off The Block” and “On The Block.” They will be there with all of the other sensational activities that you will want to enjoy.
+If you love to plan ahead and wish to know what is happening in advance, then go online to the Block Island Times and look under the “Calendar” section. You will notice that more and more groups are posting their events here. This is great news since we all want to support each other!
+Thank you for enjoying my column and for joining us in the many wonderful activities that your Senior Advisory Committee has been hosting! As always, if you have any questions or comments, you know I would love to hear from you, so please call or email me. Thanks and see you soon!
+Kathleen Mitchell
+Lakeside Dr.
+They invite Anzu to their place for some breakfast. III, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar: Summer Special, Food Wars! Add new page. Chito explores the town. When used in combination with a nanoskin, a data circuit is created between pilot and sonic diver. Flying Witch is an anime from studio »J.C.STAFF« that falls into the main genre of Comedy. Nao is delighted and heads home. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Naruto ALL Character (FIXED / USE THIS ONE) MY HERO ACADEMIA SHIPS. Makoto ends up crying, Chinatsu laughing, while Uncle Keiji--who eats both--simultaneously laughs and cries. Flying funny cartoons from CartoonStock directory - the world's largest on-line collection of cartoons and comics. To make up for it, she casts pebbles to read a fortune for each child. Eine auch auf deutsch erschienene Animeverfilmung folgte 2016. Later, Akane arrives and explains that Inukai caused the transformation herself. Food Wars! 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Flying Witch (japanisch ふらいんぐうぃっち Furaingu Witchi) ist eine seit 2012 erscheinende japanische Mangaserie von Chihiro Ishizuka. The nanomachines become unstable and begin to disintegrate. The girls learn how to perform the "Delta Lock", a combat maneuver which traps the enemy WORM into a field where its cells collapse and can be destroyed. Makoto, Chinatsu, Nao and Kei go picking herbs in the mountains. The user manipulates their kienergy so that they can levitate or fly. The girls chase down rumors of a ghost on the base. Red tai fishing! Nao is bad at cooking and is nervous in home-ec class. He gives her a pot of petunias as a peace offering for scaring Chinatsu. They follow the map Akane drew for them, but the address is a deserted ruin. Pantyhose Taro 21. Games Movies TV Video. Elise survives the destruction of the West Europe base. The Sky Girls learn the origins of the WORMs. Back at Oppama base, Otoha finds a large bra and MUST find the owner. 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Just then, Inukai arrives with her familiar, Al the hamster. On the back of the map, there are instructions for a short ritual. Flying Witch (ふらいんぐうぃっち, Furaingu Witchi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chihiro Ishizuka. Every Sonic Diver unit has different weapons: Aside from these weapons, most of the Sonic Diver units seem to be equipped with either a machine gun or a pistol as a backup weapon. Paifu 20. When they are ready to eat, they realize no one made the rice! Gregoire(head chef of the dining car's kitchen) 5. Akane had warned Inukai not to eat the magic chocolate, but she was hungry, so she ate it. 42,867 43 Good and Bad Life Experiences. The children and Nao take the bus to the forest at the foot of the mountains. There are tons of these sword-wielding characters in anime. Makoto and her cousins explore the park and have their picture taken in front of Hirasaki Castle. Random Anime ♂ ♀ Anime. This is Nao's first time picking greens in the woods. Flying Witch (ふらいんぐうぃっち, Furaingu Witchi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chihiro Ishizuka. Makoto examines the box and discovers it's a time capsule. Kei makes hotcakes and they all enjoy breakfast with some congenial conversation. Shokugeki no Soma: Tōtsuki Jūkketsu, Food Wars! Black Moon Clan 5. Makoto also makes a set of witch's robes with some red cloth for Chinatsu. Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? The fish drink greedily, change color, and float into the air. A page for describing Characters: Flying Witch. This is a list of all notable characters in anime and manga who have the ability to fly. "Sky girl" redirects here. When they perform the rite, they see a lovely cafe in place of the ruined building. Anne-Happy. When the fortune teller hears Makoto's surname name, Kowata, she reveals herself to be a fellow witch named Inukai. While Makoto and Akane are trying to locate a lost mandrake root, they find ground fish. Noppera-bō – A faceless ghost that enjoys scaring people. Kei selects a good spot to pick ostrich fern fiddle-heads for snacks. The characters who really can fly in some form (ears, pixie dust, wings, etc.) Naruto. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. But not all of the female characters are like this. With support from Makoto and Kei, Nao attempts to make hamburger steaks. A new faster WORM attacks. The children read and enjoy her latest book. Karen schedules a meeting with her older brother, but must miss it when she's called on a rescue mission. Ryohei becomes seasick, preventing him from working on Reijin. Inukai 78 hits. III, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar: Summer Special, Food Wars! This page was last edited on 8 December 2020, at 15:56. Akane gives them some of her sake. A curious Chinatsu follows Chito as she visits different places. They enter and seat themselves. The Newspaper Carrier arrives in the fog and brings Akane a paper with magical community news. Kotaro Inugami 14. Akane is still reluctant, because people who are not naturally born a witch have to work very hard. On the Side, Food Wars! A Vic Viper squadron attacks a WORM with a. Otoha deals with the ramifications of her brother having been resurrected by the WORMs. Akane flies in and gives everyone a gift from Africa. It is full of weeds, so Kei and Chinatsu offer to help pull them up. Top 100 Anime. These come together to form large monsters that wreak havoc. Makoto and her cousins visit the Hanami, the local cherry blossom festival. Please finish eating the fish that you've caught! Over a decade later, the WORMs re-appear, to the surprise of those who thought they were eliminated. They fly up onto the whale for a ride and find Anzu Shiina already there. Of the 105903 characters on Anime Characters Database, 10 are from the anime Flying Witch. Great battle with the whale of the great deep! 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+Abstract interventions, but effects varied depending on intervention length, components, and source of outcome data. Both interventions reduced parent-reported child behavior and parenting problems. The effect sizes for PCIT were large when outcomes of child and parent behaviors were assessed with parent-report, with the exclusion of Abbreviated PCIT, which had moderate effect sizes. All forms of Triple P had moderate to large effects when outcomes were parent-reported child behaviors and parenting, with the exception of Media Triple P, which had small effects. PCIT and an enhanced version of Triple P were associated with improvements in observed child behaviors. These findings provide information about the relative efficacy of two programs that have received substantial funding in the USA and Australia, and findings should assist in making decisions about allocations of funding and dissemination of these parenting interventions in the future.
+KeywordsMeta-analysis Behavioral parenting interventions Effectiveness of parenting interventions Child behavior problems Systematic review
+Notes
+Acknowledgements
+This project was greatly improved through our conversations with honours and postgraduate students working in the Family Interaction Research Program at Griffith University, including Elbina Avdagic, Angela Anthonysamy, Michelle Hanisch, Kate McCarthy, Leanne McGregor, Rhiarne Pronk, Mark Scholes, Anne Stuksrud, and Judith Warner. We also thank members of the Griffith Psychological Health Research Centre at Griffith University for their willingness to discuss some of the ideas presented in this article.
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+¤ abject in the building of both society and the psyche. Abjection includes that which is dirty — feces, decay, etc. — but also that which crosses borders and confuses. The Judaic Tribes of the Hebrew Bible created laws concerning what was and wasn’t abject so that they wouldn’t die out: people naturally wanted to do things like have sex with their wives when the wives were on their periods, but when you’re living in the desert, as these Judaic Tribes were, you just can’t get yourself clean enough. Accessing the abject would be to risk disease and, ultimately, death.
+So what do you do? You make a woman’s menstrual cycle into something dirty and shameful — and write laws (still on the biblical books) that send that woman to a hut while menstruating. Eating pork was made abject because pigs were likely to pass along diseases — and kill off the tribe. Incest was made abject because sleeping with your family members would result in genetically deformed children — and eventually kill off the tribe. Homosexuality was made abject, because if you didn’t have sex that could make babies, you’d kill off the tribe. By labeling certain things as gross, the tribe — and society — was able to survive.
+For Kristeva, the abject applies to that which makes one retch, but it is also, on a deeper level, “what disturbs identity, system, order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite.” These things disrupt the Symbolic, meaning they disrupt the way that language works: if you see something that looks like a tree, you expect it to be a tree. That’s how order works, how we get through everyday without going crazy. A thing is what its sign — and the way our culture understands that sign — says it should be.
+But the abject messes with that: you see the muscular, shirtless chest of a man and you think “man.” But then you look up and see the head of an ox, and you think “animal.” Even if we have a name for it in our symbolic (“minotaur”) it’s still compromising order. Men behave one way; animals behave another — what can you expect from this thing?
+The minotaur is a pretty straightforward example, but society also rejects things that are much more subtly confusing: the androgynous, the confusingly mixed-race. Even if you, yourself, think that you’re okay with these sorts of ambiguities, you can recognize that society isn’t, as manifest in everything from the census form to the development of slurs used to denigrate and separate that sort of ambiguity as dangerous, unacceptable, not me.
+Historically, the abject – refuse, corpses, blood – is what must be pushed aside, rejected, and labeled as Other in order to live. Literally: reject this stuff or you die. Modernity has made bacteria much less of a problem, but the deep fear and distrust of the abject remains. Rejecting the abject becomes a means of shoring up identity: by clearly labeling what I am not, I receive a clear understanding of what I am. By rejecting gender ambiguity, you solidify your own lack of gender ambiguity…. or so the psychological process goes.
+But it’s never that simple. The abject is at once an object of fascination and of repugnance. It draws in as it repels, seduces as it disgusts. It “fascinates desire,” but must, ultimately, be rejected. We want to see a corpse, not because we’re weird, but because a body should mean life — and here it doesn’t. It confuses meaning, sure, but that’s gross and engrossing. So in order to make sure that no one will succumb to the temptation of hanging out with corpses, you’ve got to label corpses, and people who are fascinated by them, as disgusting and weird.
+Thus the abject is thoroughly shadowed with shame. Trespass into the abject must not only be a societal violation, but a moral one as well. Desire for the chaotic, the border-breaking, the Other, is constructed as an offense to God or common morality. To be clear, there’s nothing about the abject that is a priori immoral: things, people, objects become abject through complex psychological processes. Some of this is bound up in the physical — I’m sure an evolutionary biologist could explain to you why feces smell “bad” to us — but a lot of it is ideological and, as such, erases its traces. Transgender people aren’t gross; they’re confusing to our conservative symbolic order and therefore constructed as abject, unnatural. We cloak confusion in the language of repulsion.
+Visual art provides the perfect opportunity to feed the attraction to the abject while simultaneously satisfying the need to reject it. As film theorist Barbara Creed explains, you willingly go to a horror film to get “the shit scared out of you” — just think about that wording. The abject is explored right in front of you, but it’s distanced enough that you don’t have to fear being absorbed by it. It’s voyeurism, only you’re looking at the abject.
+The main horror genres are all magnifications of the abject: the vampire movie is all about gender ambiguity and drinking blood; the zombie movie is about the animated corpse; the “meat” movie (Creed’s perfect word, not mine) is about humans who eat humans (Night of the Living Dead, The Hills Have Eyes). Over the course of the film, you also get to watch as abjection is vanquished, usually by the protagonist, with whom we, as audience members, subconsciously align ourselves. In so doing, we vanquish abjection, leaving the theater secure in the knowledge that we are not them.
+¤?”
+Some of these storylines, especially the focus on the Nazis and the Nuns, highlight recurring abject fascinations. We return to stories of Nazis and corrupt church officials, at least in part, because they’re so compellingly contradictory — the doctor who destroys; the steward of God who punishes. That contradiction — that confusion — is what makes us return to them again and again, but it’s also incredibly reassuring. By labeling even the relatively recent history as abject, we distance it from ourselves. They were this way; we are not.
+Coven has two main focuses of abjection: slavery and the monstrous feminine. In the first ten minutes, we see abominations of human flesh, the work of the sadistic Madame Lalaurie (Kathy Bates). She turns one human body inside out; on another, she places the head of a beast. So far, so abject. But she’s able to do these things because of the primary abjection of racism: if you label an entire race as part animal, part man, part savage, part civilized, if you label that race as abject, then society will sanction the enslavement and othering of that race.
+In this way, racism — and slavery — becomes moral. But Lalaurie took that compunction too far. In her desire to explore the abject, she herself became abject, which is why a mob stormed her house and, at least according to the narrative of Coven, hung her entire family. As for Lalaurie, she became an embodiment of abjection: the corpse that breathes and never ages. It’s no coincidence that all who cross her path once she emerges from the ground, nearly 200 years later, remark on the putrid smell.
+¤
+Women have long been a source of abjection: they’re the keepers of the menstrual blood; they’re selfish with their babies, trying to keep them from entering into subjectivity, always trying to get them to stay and hang out in the pre-symbolic, pre-language, forever bound to their doting mothers. In tales of abjection, the abject feminine manifests as the sprawling abyss — the mother who threatens to consume, to castrate, to make others into the gaping hole that is their lack. Creed points to examples of this all-consuming feminine in Alien, but I always think of the massive vagina dentata of Star Wars (the sarlacc — thanks, Google Image Search), so eager to consume Luke, Han, and Chewbacca, the very embodiments of righteous masculinity. In Coven, that’s Zoe (Taissa Farmiga), who may look meek and non-threatening on the surface — just like a doting mother would! — but whose inner void (re: murderous vagina) threatens to consume not just your penis, but your entire life.
+But the abject feminine doesn’t have to be represented as a lack or void. Per Freud, the fear of that lack is manifested in a substitute fetish object — usually some sort of substitute phallus — that distracts you from her lack. Medusa is the example par excellence, the powerful, potentially castrating female with her glorious penis-like hair. But witches also take this role: there’s a reason we draw them with pointy hats and protuberant noses.
+The witches in Coven don’t wear black hats. They have normal, frankly beautiful noses. But they are castrating bitches, that’s for sure. Fiona destroys or incapacitates all men who stand in her way. Cordelia has a husband of some sort, but the narrative suggests that she’s also bad at her witchy job. The only man who lives at the school has his tongue cut out; Madison (Emma Roberts) avenges the men who gang-raped her by flipping their bus…with her finger. When a man questions Queenie’s (Gabourey Sidibe) authority and insults her, she effectively submerges his arm in hot oil. Two men kill crocodiles with big pistols; Misty (Lily Rabe) has the crocodiles eat them. Patriarchal authority figures who attempt to interfere — such as the policemen who visit in episode two — have their memories and, as such, the potential to wield any sort of power, wiped clean. And don’t get me started on the Frankenstein man Madison and Zoe make out of dismembered body parts.
+The witches are dangerous — they’re abject — because they threaten order. But it’s a very specific sort of order, namely, patriarchal order. To be a bitch, to practice “bitchcraft,” is a particular demonstration of female power, at once magnetic and repulsive. Just think of how we wield that word: as a means of policing behavior (“God, stop being such a bitch”). But “bitch” can also be recuperated and celebrated; to declare oneself a “bad bitch,” for example, is to revel in and acknowledge the transgression of behavioral norms. A bitch like Fiona — single, independent, powerful — is so threatening (and/or attractive) because she’s seemingly dismissed the role patriarchy has set forth for her.
+¤
+In almost all forms of art, the monstrous feminine must be vanquished. She sticks around for awhile, letting us gaze upon and be fascinated by her, but her death is an absolute necessity if patriarchal order is to be restored. But things aren’t so simple in American Horror Story. It offers the basic abject pleasures of the horror genre, but it refuses to cooperate with the processes that call for the ultimate rejection of those pleasures. It screws with the processes that sustain the symbolic order — with the “Law of the Father,” as Jacques Lacan would put it, with patriarchy.
+It’s easy to see why Ryan Murphy — an openly gay man whose work has been systematically denigrated by Hollywood — would be invested in this project, and would collaborate with middle-aged women who have been similarly thrust aside. In fact, Murphy’s oeuvre could be viewed as a sustained muddling of the lines that divide good and bad, high and low, queer and straight, campy and sincere, quality and pulp. As Willa Paskin points out, amidst the vaunted, masculine anti-heros of the so-called “third golden age,” AHS is an amalgamation of “undervalued genres, often dismissed as pulp” — horror flicks, women’s pictures, soaps, camp. But it looks great — the opening sequence alone is a study in aesthetic complexity — and boasts the same qualities that typify “quality” television (the auteurist showrunner; expensive production values; Hollywood actors; narrative complexity).
+American Horror Story disregards hierarchies. It signifies as one thing and is another. It is, in other words, abject as hell. Which is precisely why it inspires the reactions it does: it’s addictive yet embarrassing; you love and hate it, can’t decide if it’s sympathetic or predatory, misogynistic or feminist. Fiona is a shameless ball-buster, but she’s also terrified by her own aging body, beholden to societal understandings of what “beauty” and “vitality” look like. Even as the “Supreme,” her power only extends so far: she can decimate men, but she can’t decimate patriarchal ideology. Those sorts of nuanced contradictions function as AHS’s narrative engine: it feeds on them, explores and explodes them.
+In other texts and societal interactions, abjection is deployed as a tool of clarity — a way to delineate, to categorize, to shore up identity and classification, to de-abjectify the self. American Horror Story does the opposite: abjection begets abjection. You watch, and you might know that you’re not a witch, but you don’t know much else, either about the world or what you’re watching. It’s an exquisitely repulsive, wholly addictive place to be.
+Yours in liminality,
+ahp
+¤
+I’ve noticed a new trend: authors, tour hosts, and/or bloggers adding bloggers to their mailing lists without their permission and without any way to unsubscribe! This makes me RAGE! I find it extremely rude and a horrible business practice. But more importantly…
+This is spam!
+If you add someone to your mailing list without their permission, it’s SPAM. It’s going to hurt your entire marketing campaign, the recipients will not like you for it, and if enough people decide to report your messages as “spam” (which they’re allowed to do if you added them without permission), then your emails could get banned or automatically put into spam folders.
+Adding me to your list without my permission is the quickest way to get me to hate your products/services
+If you add me to your mailing list without asking me, I will dislike you right off the bat. It shows that you don’t respect me enough to get my permission before trying to throw your products/services in my face. It means I will probably never ever buy your book, sign up for your blog tour, or read your posts.
+And if you don’t have an “unsbuscribe” option? That’s a double whammy. There is no quicker way to piss off the people on your mailing list. If you’re selling or promoting something, why would you want to piss off your potential customers/reviewers?
+If you don’t have an “unsubscribe” option, you’re in violation of CAN-SPAM!
+Most of the newsletters I’ve been added to are not done through a third party service (like MailChimp or ConstantContact) so they do not have an “unsubscribe” option. Instead, they’re just sent through Gmail using “BBC” (or even with all the emails in the “To” field!!!!). This means there is absolutely NO way to get yourself off that mailing list, except to email the person directly and say, “Please remove me”, then wait for them to actually remove you (which they may not do).
+Maybe I’m being silly, but I think that’s awkward, especially because at least one of the lists I was added to was made by someone I know. It puts a huge, awkward spotlight on me if I have to message them directly and ask them to remove me.
+If you do not have an “unsubscribe” option, you are in violation of the CAN-SPAM act.
+Comply with CAN-SPAM
+It’s important for all marketers to abide by the CAN-SPAM act. This act was signed into law in 2003 in order to help regulate commercial/marketing emails.
+The CAN-SPAM act has a few key points:
+Unsubscribe compliance
+- A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.
+- Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 business days.
+- Opt-out lists also known as Suppression lists are only used for compliance purposes.
+Content compliance
+- Relevant subject lines (relative to offer in body content and not deceptive)
+- A legitimate physical address of the publisher and/or advertiser is present.
+Sending behavior compliance
+- A message cannot be sent without an unsubscribe option.
+- A message cannot be sent to a harvested email address.
+- Unsubscribe option should be below the message.
+These are just a few highlights, so I recommend you read up on the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in more depth.
+Other Resources
+- Please Don’t Add Me to Your Email List
+- Are You Adding People to Your E-mail List Without Their Permission?
+- How to Make People Hate Your Email Newsletter
+- Complying With CAN-SPAM: A 10-Point Checklist for Marketers
+I do agree! It is super annoying when you’re added to a mailing list without being asked, especially when there never seems to be an option to remove yourself. I’m actually sort of glad you brought it up because we just launched Oh, the Books! and it’s my first time using MailChimp, and I couldn’t remember if there was an unsubscribe button set up in our mailing list. I just checked and it’s there, but still, I am glad you reminded me to double-check! I don’t want to annoy anyone or make it awkward for them to unsubscribe!
+I do have a question about the mailing list thing. For Kelley and I, we transferred our email followers from our individual blogs to our group blog just as we did for Bloglovin’. So now those who were receiving emails for our individual blogs are getting them for our group blogs. Do you think this is an issue? I mean, they signed up to read our posts and this allows them to read our posts still, but now I’m starting to wonder if maybe we should have just ended our last individual blog email saying hey, click here to follow our new blog instead of automatically transferring them over. Things are so complicated sometimes!
+If you were just changing the name of your blog or moving a blog by the same person to a new URL, I’d say it was fine. Since you technically created a new single entity out of three blogs, that’s a big of a grey area.
+HOWEVER, it’s similar enough that I doubt anyone would be mad, and as long as you have an unsubscribe button, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal! It’s only seriously an issue if people don’t know how to unsubscribe. 🙁
+Thanks for the feedback Ashley! There is a subscribe button at the bottom of our emails, so hopefully that should be okay. 🙂
+I did not know about the Can-Spam act. But I am happy I know now. I ma having a huge problem with being put on mailing lists I did not sign up for and there is no way to unsubscribe. I write them right away, I don’t even care if I know them. I get too pissed to care.
+Yeah I should really stop caring so much. They’re the ones in the wrong, not us!
+Eh, yes, I have been. But mostly it’s been by friends and things, which is even worse because it feels rude to just come out and say, “hey get me off this list”. The worst is when they clearly don’t know how to do group emails and they do NOT hide anyone’s emails! So I can see the 50 other people on the list and their emails….oh gosh. I just want to…argh.
+Yeah I totally agree. It’s so much worse when it’s your friends. It’s so awkward!! 🙁
+OMG Ashley this bugs the heck out of me!!!! I’m so glad someone brought this up! As if we don’t have enough emails to weed through daily without the unwanted ones.
+And Cait you bring up a great point. I don’t understand why many of the mass emails don’t bcc instead of cc. It really is not right to share all those emails with everyone. I never say anything but I sure think it… 🙁
+Ugh yes, it’s happened a few times and usually I just mark them as spam but if they become persistent I send out a very angry e-mail to them. No one should do this at all, I don’t think anyone would like being added to a mailing list without their permission. It is the best and sure way to make us blacklist you and create negative publicity.
+OMFG I was raging about this the other day! It’s so freaking annoying when people randomly add you to their mailing lists. It’s like, if I wanted those damned emails, I’d sign up myself. And it’s always the BCC group emails that are most annoying and are sent most frequently and it’s like ARGHHHH!
+I think it’s so much worse if it’s a blogger (or another person I know online) than just random spam, too. Like, why would you want to send me e-mails if I haven’t said I want an e-mail from you?
+I wonder though, if someone who has had their e-mail account hacked might be in a very bad situation that way, though…
+Yes, this has happened to me far too often. Then you email them telling you to remove you and they say they have, but you still receive their emails about their crappy books. It brings out my serious rage issues!
+I hate it when I get bulk emails and see my email address (and everyone else’s) in the To box. All I think is “great, now I can look forward to tons of unwanted email. The BCC box is the most important tool someone can learn to use with email.
+Oh, this annoys me so much! Just today I opened my email and was added to a FASHION BLOGGER’s email list. I was so confused. They had an unsubscribe button, luckily, but still. It really is the quickest way to get people to NOT want whatever they’ve offering.
+I get sooo many newsletters or just general e-mails that I did not sign up for! Whenever there’s an unsubscribe link, I immediately click it. I’ve only sent the person responsible an e-mail once, since there was no way to unsubscribe. I normally just delete those, but in the one case, it was so frequent I had to contact them. Luckily, he’s stopped.
+My own particular pet peeve is the “notify me of follow up comments” button at the bottom of comments which ,any bloggers have checked. I often submit my comment before realizing this option is checked automatically (because it’s below the submit button), and it pisses me off to no ends because sometimes even when I unsubscribe, I keep getting the emails.
+Wow, I’ve never had that happen and find such behavior very irresponsible and rude! The only type of subscription I use for my site are through Feedburner and Bloglovin and I know Feedburner has an unsubscribe and I’m pretty sure Bloglovin does too. But adding someone without them singing up. No way, I I refuse to even look at my feedburner mailing list, not that anyone’s on it yet, at least not the last I looked but still I don’t want to know. I don’t want to know their email, I don’t want to build a list and I don’t want to do any type of SEO stuff. If others do that’s fine as long as they’re doing it responsibly.
+But yeah, not cool. Especially if it’s someone you know. At the very least they should have contacted you and said hey, I noticed you weren’t on my mailing list. Would you like to join? But adding you with no way to unsubscribe. There should be some type of “do not email list” like those state “do not call lists” for phone numbers.
+Thanks so much for this Ashley! I’ve been added to a few blog tour mailing lists with no unsubscribe option so that left me with the only option of marking them spam. I felt bad, but at the same time they didn’t ask me if I wanted to be on their list.
+This!! I had some woman I didn’t recognize add me to her email chain and it took me THREE emails to finally be removed! Do you think I would ever endorse her or any book she’s pushing? Hell no!
+YES I am totally with you! I’m added to about like ten thousand different mailing lists that I literally NEVER signed up for and sometimes someone will email me requesting for me to join their blog tour group, but then without me ever actually joining they’ll just start emailing me anyway? It makes me so mad because I never joined those kinds of things and I really don’t appreciate it when I get newsletters for tours that I have no interest in ever joining. When the instance where they don’t have an unsubscribe button, I email them back telling them that I’m not being active in the tours, and that it would probably be easier for both of us if they stopped emailing me. Probably a little rude, but when I send the emails I’m usually in an angry mood anyway lol. Fantastic post, Ashley! <33
+I’ve ended up on several mailing lists, with no idea of how the hell I got there and I loathe it. I’ve scoured for unsubscribe options and found none, and, worst of all, the email address that the thing is sent from just bounces angry replies back. With some companies, I have tried contacting admin, sales, etc, but to no avail.
+As far as the classic CC/BCC ballsup, I’ve seen that happen a lot. When wearing my other hat, running GamingLives, we get a ton of PR emails everyday. You’d be surprised how many pro PRs, repping major titles and publishers, have made that mistake. Some I put down to absent-mindedness, but I think that others are just not as familiar as they perhaps need to be with email protocol. Still, that said, I bet I now go and make some cack-handed email mistake now 😀
+This is happening more and more frequently. I understand tour hosts, authors, etc. want to build their mailing lists, but then send out a personalized email introducing yourself and/or service and invite someone to sign up.
+And I totally agree about the ones not done through chimp, etc. that are awkward. I grumble blogged about this a couple years ago and still haven’t found a way to respond in any way that doesn’t make me feel like I’m screaming “I don’t like you!” And so I just mark as spam and get cranky every time I see an email. And one time I responded with a request for removal I was asked “why?” and I really didn’t want to invite a conversation. So I’ve never done since.
+I’d love any suggestions on how to handle.
+It’s the tour hosts ones that irk me the most, though. It’s so easy to create a sign-up form rather than spamming people for tours with constant emails for books in genres they don’t read.
+And thanks for the info update for those who don’t understand the CAN-SPAM. Hopefully they’ll read and comply. Great post!
+I’ve been added to so many newsletters and mailing lists without my consent. Most are sent via MailChimp, which is easy to report. And I report every single one. I stopped having my email address on my blog because I was getting so much spam. Now I use a contact form and the amount of newsletters and spam I get has decreased a lot.
+I still get some email blasts from tour coordinators and most don’t have an unsubscribe link because they send from their personal email account. I even received one email from a book tour site where they wanted me to fill out a Google Doc form to unsub. Uh, NO.
+This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
+I’ve been getting lots of mails from blog tour hosts and I didn’t even I sign up for them! The worst part is that like you said there’s no unsubscribe option. I haven’t mailed them asking to be removed from the list because it feels really awkward.
+And it’s really annoying especially when you get mails almost daily! *sign*
+This has been happening with me for awhile now and I’m very annoyed. Thankfully Hotmail puts them into the Junk folder by default and I can always Sweep (block future as well as old ones). Still, it’s just annoying.
+This has been a huge issue lately, and it’s always from marketing people. I had one who apparently kept my email from a tour I did over a year ago for someone she did publicity for, who then emailed seeing if I wanted to do a blog tour for HER new book that wasn’t even in a genre I accept! I was totally mad. I have a publisher who has been emailing me requests lately, I -think- they got my email from Netgalley, since I did mention that I wanted to connect with them there and I have been getting autoapprovals lately from them, but aside from them, all these random requests that I keep getting, most of which are coming because I signed up for a cover reveal for ONE author… no… these are getting annoying. I’ve been politely emailing them back and asking them to remove me from their list because I didn’t sign up to be on such a list, and of the four I have mailed, only one actually emailed back to say they removed me, but I haven’t gotten anything from the others, so hopefully they listened as well. I had no idea about the Can-Spam act, so once again, this is an amazingly helpful post!
+Okay I just got two back to back emails from a Tour Host whose company name I had never heard of. And of course there was no unsubscribe option. I know for an absolute FACT that I did not sign up for this tour company’s emails so I am really even more annoyed. It’s rude to add someone to your email list without permission. Why isn’t common courtesy common anymore?
+I am on so many lists now and get so much junk that I have to spend hours a week combing through the crap to get to legit emails.
+Let me also say that I work in marketing and CAN-SPAM violations are serious business. You can actually get your website blocked if you are doing it through a web address associated with your domain. Although it seems that most are doing it through gmail 🙁 . I’ve started flagging them as spam, but that hurts the marketers I DO want mail from. So a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
+Indeed. It is really useless.
+Can-spam act i a new term for me. Thank you, I’m happy to know it now.
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+I wrote a post about a year and a half ago called “No Reply”? No Kidding! I’ve received comments here and there, usually expressing relief that the commenter wasn’t either crazy or stupid. Recently, Amy from Sews N Bows found it, and is writing a guest post as part of series on blogging at Plucky’s Second Thought. In our emails back and forth, she suggested I write another post to help clarify the issue.
+Blogging Platforms
+There are many different blogging platforms, some of the biggest being Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Live Journal, and TypePad, with new ones added almost monthly. I’m going to focus on Blogger and WordPress for the sake of this post. I am NOT going to argue which platform is better, because “better” depends on the user’s needs. Obviously, I prefer WordPress, since that’s the platform I use.
+Blogger is a popular platform, extremely recognizable, easy to use, and preferred by many amateur bloggers. It is owned by Google and it interfaces well with other Google products.
+WordPress is extremely versatile and highly customizable, and is preferred by professional bloggers and amateurs who prefer more control over their blogs. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world.
+Blogger Comments
+In Blogger, the blog owner can choose one of four comment settings. In order of most restricted to least restricted:
+- Blog members only
+- Google Account users
+- Registered users (includes Open ID, WordPress, etc.)
+- Anyone (includes Anonymous users)
+If the blogger wants to be open to as many comments as possible, they choose Anyone. This opens them to more spam, but also allows people to enter the conversation without sharing any personal information, either publicly or privately. With the Anyone option checked, this is what you’ll see in the comment form:
+Registered Users is safer because the commenter must have provided personal information at some point, either when they set up their own blog or website, their OpenID certificate, or their Google Account. This personal information is not necessarily shared with the blogger or the public.
+Restricting comments to Google Account users means that a commenter must sign up with Google before leaving a comment. It goes a step further, though, and forces you to also create either a Google+ or a Blogger account to leave a comment. With a Blogger account, it creates a profile page that you can edit to list additional details like your blogs, your email, and blogs you follow. The Blogger account default setting does not include any of this additional information.
+It is unlikely that you’ll run into a blog with a Blog members only setting, as membership blogs tend to be private. Even if you do find one, you won’t be able to comment so it isn’t really an issue.
+Blogger has additional comment settings, including adding a word verification (CAPTCHA) and requiring moderation on comments always or only on posts older than a specific number of days.
+WordPress Comments
+In WordPress, comment settings have a number of variables. The pertinent options include:
+- Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
+- Users must be registered and logged in to comment
+These are both yes/no options, so which boxes are checked determines what information a commenter must share. The most restrictive would have both of these boxes checked, requiring the commenter to provide their information AND be registered/logged in with WordPress, Twitter or Facebook. More commonly, WordPress users just require commenters to fill out their name and email address. This helps reduce spam and flaming, although it by no means eliminates it. This is what the comment form looks like:
+Other options in WordPress include closing comments on a post after a certain number of days, requiring comment approval (moderation) on all comments or only on new commenters, allowing threaded or nested comments (where you can reply to a comment and your reply will appear below that comment), moderating or blacklisting comments that include certain words, and moderating comments that contain more than a specific number of links.
+You’ll notice that the commenter also has the option of receiving follow up comments or new posts via email.
+What is “No Reply”?
+It is important to note that “No Reply” is only an issue for people who use the Blogger platform to host their blogs.
+In order to understand “No Reply,” first you need to understand the opposite – let’s call it “Reply.” A “Reply” comment is one where the Blogger owner is able to respond directly to the commenter via email. In a “No Reply” comment, the Blogger owner cannot respond directly via email. So what prevents them from replying via email?
+Blogger users can see their comments two ways, in the Comments page in their Dashboard, or via email. By default, all incoming comments are sent to the blog owner via email. They can turn this off if they choose, and only view comments on their Dashboard. As I understand it (and please correct me if I’m wrong), they receive emails for ALL comments, including spam, which may be why so many Blogger users choose to implement word verification on their blogs.
+When they receive a comment via email, it looks something like this:
+Notice that the From: line shows a name (piecemealquilts.com), but the actual email address following it is <noreply-comment@blogger.com>. This is a No Reply comment – if I replied to that email it would
+eventually bounce back disappear into the ether. (Thanks, Pam, for clarifying that!) If I had left the comment using my Google/Blogger account, it would have shown my email address, and clicking Reply would have sent an email to the address I shared in my Blogger account.
+“No Reply” isn’t as big an issue for Blogger users who turn off their email notification, because the Comment page on their Dashboard doesn’t show email addresses anyway. Here’s what the Comments page looks like in Blogger:
+See on the far right side where it lists the “name” of the commenter? These are links – if they click on “piecemealquilts.com” and it will take the blog owner directly to my blog home page. If they click on “Sandi@Piecemeal Quilts” it will take the blog owner to my Blogger profile.
+They would then have to click on my email (or right click and copy) in order to send me an email. These extra steps are why I believe most Blogger users prefer to receive their comments via email.
+So why is “No Reply” only an issue for Blogger users? Because Blogger is the only platform (that I’m aware of) that doesn’t either have an option for a commenter to enter their email address, or share the email address from the OpenID information with the Blogger user.
+For comparison’s sake, here are the same screenshots from WordPress:
+Above is the email I receive when a comment is left on my WordPress blog. I erased a few pieces of private information, but all of those links in the post mean I can reply directly via email, view the commenter’s blog, trash the comment, or move it into spam.
+This is the Comment page of my WordPress Dashboard. I blotted out personal info again, but you can see that each comment shows the name, email address and website (if provided). Here I can Unapprove, Reply within the blog as a threaded comment, edit the comment, mark it as spam, or trash it. I can also click on the email address (or right click and copy) to send an email to the commenter.
+Why are you “No Reply”?
+There are two reasons why a commenter would show up as “No Reply”:
+- If they leave a comment with a Name/URL, WordPress, OpenID, or anything other than a Google/Blogger account, they will always be No Reply. The commenter cannot change this. The Blogger user cannot change this. It is a limitation of the Blogger platform. The only way this will change is if Google changes it.
+- Some commenters who use a Blogger account are still No Reply because of settings within their account. The default is to NOT share the email address, causing them to be No Reply. They CAN change it if they choose, but some people prefer not to share their email address publicly.
+How to Change your No Reply Status
+I hesitate to include this because there are so many posts that tell you this already, but for the sake of complete information, here’s how a person using a Google/Blogger account can change their No Reply status.
+Go to
+If you are logged in, click your name in the top right corner and a box will pop up. Click “Blogger Profile” and it will take you to your profile page.
+If you are not logged in, do so and it will take you to your profile page.
+At the top right, click “Edit Profile.”
+Make sure the box next to “Show my email address” is checked. Below that, be sure your email address is entered. Scroll all the way to the bottom and click “Save Profile.”
+How to respond if the comment is No Reply
+Obviously, the easiest comments for a Blogger owner to respond to are the ones that are sent using a Blogger account with a public email address. They receive an email, they click Reply, they write the message, they’re done. If a commenter uses a Google/Blogger account and is No Reply AND does not have a blog of their own, there’s really no way to reply to the comment except in your own blog. However, with minimal effort, everyone else can be contacted.
+Right there in the comment email (or on the Comment page of the Dashboard) is a link to their website, blog, or Google/Blogger profile page. The Blogger profile page may provide a blog link. Just one or two clicks will put the Blogger user on the blog or website of the commenter. Look for a Contact page or an About Me page or section. Most blogs provide a way of contacting the owner, but even if they don’t, you can still just leave a comment.
+Why non-Blogger users are so frustrated by this “No Reply” stuff
+I understand how frustrating it is for a Blogger user to be unable to to respond to their commenters. They want to engage with their readers – it expands readership and it’s fun to talk to like-minded people. But what about the rest of us? Why does this whole “No Reply” thing bother us? Well, because we’re bombarded with it, blamed for it, and there’s nothing we can do to change it. If you Google ‘”no reply” comment’ (with quotations around “no reply” so you don’t get everything that has the word “no” and the word “reply” and the word “comment”) you get 6.3 million hits. That’s almost six and a half million Blogger users who are telling us that we need to fix something so we can interact with them – BUT WE CAN’T. We can’t change it. Our platforms are not at fault – theirs is.
+Another frustration is the “fix” that is offered. “It’s okay, you can change your no reply status,” we’re told. “All you have to do is set up a Google/Blogger account and use that when you leave comments.” When I first discovered the problem, I tried just that. But when I set up my Blogger account, I discovered I could not list my WordPress blog in my profile. The profile only allows you to list Blogger blogs. My options were to leave a comment on someone else’s blog without sharing my blog address, or leave a comment with my blog address and hope that they’d make the effort to contact me. Or, to simplify: Build someone else’s readership, or build my own. That’s a no-brainer. I’ll share my blog URL, thank you.
+Then there are the blogs that instruct you to leave your email address in the comment. Do they not understand that some people don’t WANT to make their email public? Or, as in my case, don’t want to make it public in a hundred different locations? I provide my email address on my blog, in addition to having a contact form. Once is sufficient. The more times you put your email address out there, the greater the chance of it generating spam.
+How about giveaways that tell you they will draw another name if your comment is No Reply. It always makes me wonder – do they make any effort to contact the winner, as explained in the previous section, or do they just move on to the next person?
+I’ve had some fantastic conversations with Blogger users who have taken the extra few seconds to contact me through my blog after I left a comment. There are a lot of really awesome people out there! It’s the ones who don’t know better or don’t think they should have to make the effort that frustrate me. I’ve always been a No Reply commenter, so I don’t know if this is typical, but I receive responses to about 10% of the comments I leave. It’s hard not to think that there are a lot of Blogger users who aren’t making the effort.
+There are levels of blogging. I would be shocked to receive a comment response from a professional blogger who literally make a living at it and receive hundreds or thousands of comments a day. Frankly, I only comment on those blogs if they’re hosting a giveaway, and if they mention “no reply” in their comment form, I don’t bother. The bloggers like me, who write for themselves and not to make a profit, or the ones who would like to build a readership so they can generate some income from their blogs, don’t have the same excuse. Building a readership means engaging the readers, and it’s a two-way conversation. It means hopping over to the commenter’s blog and reading a bit, or even just scanning a few photos. Dismissing a reader because they can’t just click reply and dash off a sentence or two does both the blogger and the commenter a disservice.
+I know exactly how time consuming it is to do this, because it’s what I do when I receive a comment. Even though I can easily respond through my email (because with my settings, WordPress ALWAYS gives me your email address), I also take a few minutes to look at the commenter’s blog if they provide it. Sometimes I mention something I saw in their blog in my reply, sometimes not. Sometimes I end up following their blog, sometimes not. I’m far from a perfect blogger – sometimes I neglect to respond to a comment, if it’s been a particularly difficult time for me. But I ALWAYS look at their blog if they list it. Every. Single. Time.
+Here’s a suggestion. Instead of simply telling people to fix their No Reply status, acknowledge the reasons for it and say what effort you’ll make to reply. Something like “If you comment with a Google Account and do not know if you are a No Reply commenter, you probably are! Here’s a link to how to change it so I can reply to your comments. If you choose to maintain a No Reply status but have a public blog listed in your Google/Blogger account, or if you comment with OpenID, WordPress, or other platforms or websites, I will try to contact you through your site.”
+Other things to consider
+In order to allow “Name/URL” as a commenting option, the Blogger comment setting must be set to accept Anyone. Anyone also allows anonymous comments, which leads to spam, which, as I mentioned early, must be especially frustrating for Blogger users if they receive an email for every spam comment. I understand why they would choose the Registered Users option instead. But that means anyone who has a website that is not a blog on one of the big platforms, or uses Facebook, etc. may have difficult even leaving a message. They’d have to set up OpenID credentials, and they probably don’t even know it exists. By the way, you already have OpenID credentials if you use Yahoo, Flickr, MySpace, LiveJournal, AOL and several others. Check out the Open ID website for more info about setting up or using OpenID.
+The only way this problem will ever go away is if Google changes the way Blogger works. They need to explain to new Blogger accounts the ramifications of sharing or not sharing their email so they can make an informed decision from the beginning..
+Finally, remember that if you want people to return to your blog, you must give them a reason to come back. Sometimes it’s content, sometimes it’s giveaways, but mostly it’s because you’ve created a connection that your reader wants to maintain. The best way to create that connection is by responding to their comments. If a blogger doesn’t make the effort to communicate with their reader, their reader will eventually find another blogger who will. This is a sales transaction – you are selling your blog to your readers. If you want them, you must communicate with them on their terms.
+Thank you for taking time to read this (as usual ridiculously long) post. I’m interested in your thoughts. I promise I’ll reply!
+20 thoughts on “What’s up with that “No Reply”?”
+Thanks so much for ll of this information. This must have taken you ages! I’ve never thought of blogging as selling myself and you have certainly given me a lot to thin k about. Thanks so much.
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+Thank you for a lengthy and informative post … and a reminder of why I am glad I started in WordPress.
+Thanks for your thoughts! You gave me a lot to think about. I’ve struggled with the google/blogger merge as well as my blog isn’t on blogger. Often I’m lazy and just do the google anyway, but it does bother me. When I start posting more frequently, I think I’ll have to just go the no-reply route as I’m not going to want to keep ignoring the fact that my blog exists.
+The way Blogger handles comments drives me crazy. I’ve been able to work around it by putting my blog link in the “introduction” section of my Blogger profile (which is a relic from way back when I was using Movable Type on a now-defunct site and considered using Blogger instead). But I really, really wish Google/Blogger would snap out of the walled-garden mindset and allow name/email/URL as a comment option.
+Wow! That was a long email. I recently wrote a post about responding to comments which was also a gentle reminder to WordPress bloggers that answering a comment on their comments page doesn’t reach those of us still using Blogger! Most people don’t go back to old blog posts (who has the time) to see if the Blogger left a reply to their comment there.
+I have set my Blogger comments to enable a thread to occur but so far it hasn’t! I also took to answering my comments by email then copying the reply over to my Blogger comments page to set up a thread there! Time consuming but I’m thinking of it as a social experiment!
+I still have comment moderation on my blog but am thinking of removing it now that I have restricted comments to registered users only — twenty six spams in one day is more comments than I get in a week! BTW, Blogger doesn’t send emails for the comments they catch as spam (too many to count) — well not that I’m aware of anyway. I only get emails about the comments I’ve already monitored!
+I am able to respond to most commenters who are not Blogger users because most of them are already in my email somewhere. For those I cannot reply to, I go to their blogs and leave a comment for them.
+I have a WordPress account (Blogger was driving me crazy last year and I set my WP account up in case I wanted to move over). It has one post on it, telling people where I am currently blogging! This means that I can comment on WordPress blogs, like yours, without having to leave my details every time I comment: which can become very stratifying when reading dozens of blogs a day!
+Google is making life more difficult in that Google + commenters are now “no reply” commenters (unless one also has a Google + account — so I’ve set one of those up to but am not blogging with it because then “ordinary” Blogger users can’t comment! So stupid!
+Sorry about my long reply but it’s obviously a topic that;’s being talked about around the blogs at the moment — although I wasn’t aware of that when I wrote my post!
+I wish everyone had to read this – I always feel like people think I’m a jerk when I comment under my blog name, and they tell me “You are no reply.” I can’t fix it 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
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+Tbh, I still feel like a noob when it comes to this bloggin business and at the moment I am a bit stressed for time so didnt have the time to read the full post (will mark it unread though so I can come back to it another day.) But I really hope I am not a “no reply” blogger myself. If I am I would love to have it brought to my attention and I will try to resolve it asap. Thanks for making such an extensive post on the subject and I am looking forward to read it when I have more time. Thanks for sharing,
+Having a Blogger blog, this is a very informative post, Sandi. I became aware of the ‘No Reply’ issue for non Blogger blogs, via Amy at ‘SewsNBows’. Prior to that, I would only infrequently try to find the email of supposedly ‘No Reply’ bloggers who had left me a comment. Since Amy emailed me, I now try to find the commenters email, if it initially shows up as ‘No Reply’.
+If I’m not watching what I’m doing, it’s easy to reply via email to a commenter who shows up as ‘no reply’. It doesn’t bounce back… just disappears somewhere in cyberspace. Yes, you’d think it would bounce back, but they never have for me.
+Re: comments left on my blog… The information contained via email or via the Dashboard is the same. In both cases I can click on the profile and it will take me to the same place, depending on the profile the commenter used to leave the comment…. Blogger profile, Google + profile, actual blog, Twitter account, etc. When you reply to my comment, I’ll double check this.
+Re: going to Blogger profile and finding the email address… If the (Blogger) blogger is actually ‘no reply’, their email is not listed in their profile.
+Re: 10% responding to your comments… More and more I’m finding bloggers who reply to a comment, by leaving a comment under the original comment. I rarely have time to go back and check, so perhaps it’s the same for you. Oh how I wish Blogger blogs could just tick a box to send an email as well when they reply to a comment under the original comment. I’ve almost finished writing a post with my thoughts on this.
+I wish Blogger would differentiate between Name / URL and Anonymous. To help prevent spam, I’ve chosen Registered users, but would prefer to open it up to Name / URL. I know a couple of people who read my blog (and are also real life friends) leave comments on my TMW Facebook page, as they don’t have a blog.
+Sorry for my lengthy reply. As I have a Blogger blog, I thought you’d like to hear my thoughts on your post. Thanks again for a very informative post.
+Thank you for this excellent discussion of this issue. The other thing that drives me nuts when I am commenting on blogger blogs is the hideous, awful CAPTCHA blogger uses. It is so, so difficult to decipher I can’t imagine that anyone with dyslexia or vision problems can ever comment using it. The blogger blogs that are most user friendly for me, as a non-blogger user, to comment on all use Intense Debate and CommenLuv. (I think you can only use commentluv on blogger if you’re using Intense Debate.) Thank you for framing the discussion based on what we all want- to connect with other bloggers!
+Phew – what a long but very informative read 🙂 Thanks for clearing that no-reply business up. I don’t blog from any of the platforms you mention and I prefer to use the Name/url options when it is given.
+I don’t expect an email reply when I comment. I would, as you also point out, much rather have a comment back on my own blog.
+I am sure the blog where I commented would also rather have *my* comment on their blog post than through an email in the first place.
+Like you, I also swing by my commenters’ blogs when they give the option.
+I did have someone email me to ask me if I knew I was a no-reply commenter. I had no clue what that meant and clearly she was able to email me, so I did not really see a problem 🙂
+Hi, I do not have a blog but I like to follow blogs and comment on them if I feel I want to or if there is a giveaway or something. I have been told I am a NRB but I don’t have a blog like I said. When I comment on someones blog now I have to put my email in the comment form like this (smjohns63 at yahoo dot com). I guess it is so they know I am not a spammer. But I was just wondering if you knew what someone like myself, who does not have a blog but likes to follow blogs could do? Is there anyone else out there that does this, sometimes I think I am the only one. Do I just make up a fake blog that can be set somehow so I can follow blogs but not write a blog? Does this make sense to anyone? I would greatly appreciate some advice or ideas. Thank you very much in advance.
+Shawn
+I’m relatively new to blogger and have been told on 2 occasions that I am a “no reply”, the first time I thought I fixed this but apparently I didn’t. I appreciate the detailed instructions from this post and attempted yet again to fix “no reply” only to find that blogger has updated their profile site so it looks quite different compared to your photos….unless as usual I have found myself in a completely different location by clicking too fast, not following directions, etc. Anyway, thanks and hopefully I am no longer a “no reply” 🙂
+Hey Sandi! Many thanks for leaving a comment on my blog about your lovely cow pattern! I thoroughly enjoyed making it (despite messing up the 2nd one!). Unfortunately I couldn’t reply to you directly as you are showing as a ‘no reply comment’ blogger, which I think is a bit unusual! Not sure why this is the case, but wanted to acknowledge your comment. Judith xo
+Wow, I had no clue! I never even noticed “no reply” anywhere, does that mean I’m “reply”? How do I know? I’m a blogger and open to “anyone” but my email is not shared. Should it be? Thank you for sharing this info even though I don’t make any money with my blog, but would like to connect with more readers. Your quilts are great, I wish I had your talent.
+Hi Sandi – I wasn’t able to respond to your comment on my blog using the email address you have listed on your blog, so I’ve responded in the comments. Thanks, Adrianne.
+HI Sandi, seems this issue is escalating, now we cannot even leave a ‘no-reply’ commnent! I have written a rant on my blog about it, and I am linking it back to you. I also have posted the link in a number of link parties. Hope we can stir this pot some more.
+Thanks for the informative post. I’ve chosen to just create a Blogger account only for the purpose of commenting on other blogs. I did want to let you know (maybe it is a change since your original post) but you can include your WordPress blog in your Blogger profile. The link to my WP blog is listed under my interests in my Blogger profile. So I am still able to tie back to my blog here! 🙂
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+Trump’s Dangerous Love Affair With the Saudi Royal Family
+How our new commander in chief is intensifying the U.S.-Saudi “special friendship” that’s destabilizing the Middle East.
+The royal family wanted to bring Qatar to heel after it failed to jump enthusiastically onto the Saudi-led anti-Iranian bandwagon.
+This post first appeared at TomDispatch.. It could in the end destabilize the Middle East in ways not seen in our lifetimes (which, given the growing chaos in the region, is no small thing to say).
+Trump our narcissist-in-chief,.
+The agenda planned for Trump’s stay included an anti-terrorism summit attended by 50 leaders from Arab and Muslim nations, a concert by country singer Toby Keith and an exhibition game by the Harlem Globetrotters. Then there were the strange touches like President Trump, King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi laying hands on a futuristically glowing orb—images of which then circled the planet—in a ceremony inaugurating a new Global Center for Combatting Extremist Ideology, and Trump’s awkward participation in an all-male sword dance.
+Unsurprisingly enough, the president was pleased with the spectacle staged in his honor, saying of the anti-terrorism summit in one of his many signature flights of hyperbole, “There has never been anything like it before, and perhaps there never will be again.”
+Here, however, is a statement that shouldn’t qualify as hyperbole: never have such preparations for a presidential visit paid such quick dividends. On arriving home, Trump jumped at the chance to embrace a fierce Saudi attempt to blockade and isolate its tiny neighbor Qatar, the policies of whose emir have long irritated them. The Saudis claimed to be focused on that country’s alleged role in financing terrorist groups in the region (a category they themselves fit into remarkably well). More likely, however, the royal family wanted to bring Qatar to heel after it failed to jump enthusiastically onto the Saudi-led anti-Iranian bandwagon.
+Trump, who clearly knew nothing about the subject, accepted the Saudi move with alacrity and at face value. In his normal fashion, he even tried to take credit for it, tweeting, “During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar—look!” And according to Trump, the historic impact of his travels hardly stopped there. As he also tweeted: “So good to see Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries paying off … Perhaps it will be the beginning of the end of the horror of terrorism.”
+Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution hit the nail on the head when he commented that “the Saudis played Donald Trump like a fiddle. He unwittingly encouraged their worst instincts toward their neighbors.” The New York Times captured one likely impact of the Saudi move against Qatar when it reported, “Analysts said Mr. Trump’s public support for Saudi Arabia … sent a chill through other Gulf States, including Oman and Kuwait, for fear that any country that defies the Saudis or the United Arab Emirates could face ostracism as Qatar has.”
+And then came Trump…
+And what precisely are the Saudis’ instincts toward their neighbors? The leaders in Riyadh, led by King Salman’s 31-year-old son, Saudi Defense Minister and deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, are taking the gloves off in an increasingly aggressive bid for regional dominance aimed at isolating Iran. The defense minister and potential future leader of the kingdom, whose policies have been described as reckless and impulsive, underscored the new, harsher line on Iran in an interview with Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV in which he said, “We will not wait until the battle is in Saudi Arabia, but we will work so the battle is there in Iran.”
+The opening salvo in Saudi Arabia’s anti-Iran campaign came in March 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition, including smaller Gulf petro-states (Qatar among them) and Egypt, intervened militarily in a chaotic situation in Yemen in an effort to reinstall Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi as the president of that country. They clearly expected a quick victory over their ill-armed enemies and yet, more than two years later, in a war that has grown ever harsher, they have in fact achieved little. Hadi, a pro-Saudi leader, had served as that country’s interim president under an agreement that, in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2012, ousted longstanding Yemeni autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh. In January 2015, Hadi himself was deposed by an alliance of Houthi rebels and remnants of forces loyal to former president Saleh.
+The Saudis—now joined by Trump and his foreign policy team—have characterized the conflict as a war to blunt Iranian influence and the Houthi rebels have been cast as the vassals of Tehran. In reality, they have longstanding political and economic grievances that predate the current conflict and they would undoubtedly be fighting at this moment with or without support from Iran. As Middle Eastern expert Thomas Juneau recently noted in the Washington Post, “Tehran’s support for the Houthis is limited, and its influence in Yemen is marginal. It is simply inaccurate to claim that the Houthis are Iranian proxies.”
+The Saudi-Emirati intervention in Yemen has had disastrous results. Thousands of civilians have been killed in an indiscriminate bombing campaign that has targeted hospitals, marketplaces, civilian neighborhoods and even a funeral, in actions that Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) has said “look like war crimes.” The Saudi bombing campaign has, in addition, been enabled by Washington, which has supplied the kingdom with bombs, including cluster munitions and aircraft, while providing aerial refueling services to Saudi planes to ensure longer missions and the ability to hit more targets. It has also shared intelligence on targeting in Yemen.
+The destruction of that country’s port facilities and the imposition of a naval blockade have had an even more devastating effect, radically reducing the ability of aid groups to get food, medicine and other essential supplies into a country now suffering from a major outbreak of cholera and on the brink of a massive famine. This situation will only be made worse if the coalition tries to retake the port of Hodeidah, the entry point for most of the humanitarian aid still getting into Yemen. Not only has, in fact, come out of the blue. Despite some internal divisions over the wisdom of doing so, the Obama administration also supported the Saudi war effort in a major way. This was part of an attempt to reassure the royals that the United States was still on their side and would not tilt towards Iran in the wake of an agreement to cap and reverse that country’s nuclear program.
+It was only after concerted pressure from Congress and a coalition of peace, human rights and humanitarian aid groups that the Obama administration finally took a concrete, if limited, step to express opposition to the Saudi targeting of civilians in Yemen. In a December 2016 decision, it suspended a sale of laser-guided bombs and other precision-guided munitions to their military. The move outraged the Saudis, but proved at best a halfway measure as the refueling of Saudi aircraft continued, and none of rest of the record $115 billion in U.S. weaponry offered to that country during the Obama years was affected.
+And then came Trump. His administration has doubled down on the Saudi war in Yemen by lifting the suspension of the bomb deal, despite the objections of a Senate coalition led by Chris Murphy (D-CT), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Al Franken (D-MN) that recently mustered an unprecedented 47 votes against Trump’s offer of precision-guided bombs to Riyadh. Defense Secretary James Mattis has advocated yet more vigorous support for the Saudi-led intervention, including additional planning assistance and yet more intelligence sharing uncritical support for the Saudi regime has been the offer of an astounding $110 billion worth of arms to the kingdom, a sum almost equal to the record levels reached during all eight years of the Obama administration. (This may, of course, have been part of the point, showing that President Trump could make a bigger, better deal than that slacker Obama, while supporting what he described as “jobs, jobs, jobs” in the United States.)
+Like all things Trumpian, however, that $110 billion figure proved to be an exaggeration. Tens of billions of dollars worth of arms included in the package had already been promised under Obama, and tens of billions more represent promises that, experts suspect, are unlikely to be kept. But that still leaves a huge package, one that, according to the Pentagon, will include more than 100,000 bombs of the sort that can be used in the Yemen war, should the Saudis choose to do so. All that being said, the most important aspect of the deal may be political’s full-throated support for a Saudi confrontation with Qatar. Tillerson, for instance, has attempted to pursue an effort to mediate the Saudi-Qatari dispute and has called for a “calm and thoughtful dialogue.” Similarly, on the same day as Trump tweeted in support of the Saudis, the Pentagon issued a statement praising Qatar confusion regarding how to deal with Qatar was further underscored when Mattis and Qatari Defense Minister Khalid Al-Attiyah signed a $12 billion deal for up to 36 Boeing F-15 combat aircraft, barely a week after President Trump had implied that Qatar was the world capital of terrorist financing.
+In a further possible counter to Trump’s aggressive stance, Secretary of Defense Mattis has suggested that perhaps it’s time to pursue a diplomatic settlement of the war in Yemen. In April, he told reporters that, “in regards to the Saudi and Emirati campaign in Yemen, our goal, ladies and gentleman, is for that crisis down there, that ongoing fight, [to] be put in front of.”
+In fact, in a period when the turmoil has only risen in much of the rest of the Greater Middle East, the Saudi Arabian peninsula remained relatively stable, at least until the Saudi-led coalition drastically escalated the civil war in Yemen. The new, more aggressive course being pursued against the royal family in Qatar and in relation to Iran could, however, make matters much worse, and fast. Given the situation in the region today, including the spread of terror movements and failing states, the thought that Saudi Arabia itself might be destabilized (and Iran with it) should be daunting indeed, though not perhaps for Donald Trump.
+So far, through a combination of internal repression and generous social benefits to its citizens—a form of political bribery designed to buy loyalty attention..
+Philippians 2:5 Have this attitude (2PPAM) in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, (NASB: Lockman)
+Greek: touto phroneite (2PPAM) en humin o kai en Christo Iesou,
+Amplified: Let this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
+Barclay: Have within yourselves the same disposition of mind as was in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2 Commentary)
+KJV: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
+KJV Bible Commentary: Keep on thinking this in you which was also in Christ Jesus.
+Lightfoot: Reflect in your own minds, the mind of Christ Jesus. Be humble, as he also was humble
+Phillips: Let Christ himself be your example as to what your attitude should be. (Phillips: Touchstone)
+Wuest: This mind be constantly having in you which was also in Christ Jesus
+Young's Literal: For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
+HAVE )
+- Excellent discussion of the doctrine John MacArthur)
+Source: Christ-Centered Exposition - Philippians
+CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE. As Guzik says "Paul will, in wonderful detail, describe for us the mind of Jesus in the following verses. But here, before he describes the mind of Jesus, he tells us what we must do with the information. Remember also that this mind is something granted to us by God. 1 Corinthians 2:16-note says that we have the mind of Christ. But let this mind shows us that it is also something we must choose to walk in. You have to let it be so.".
+Spurgeon - What an example we have set before us in the Lord Jesus Christ! Jesus is the divine example of love and self-denial, and as we hope to be saved by Him we must diligently copy Him. He is now exalted to the highest glory as the reward of His voluntary humiliation, and by the same means must His disciples rise to honor. We must stoop to conquer. He who is willing to be nothing shall be possessor of all things.”
+Kenneth Wuest - After exhorting the Philippian saints in Phil 2:2–4 to think the same thing, to have the same love, to be in heart agreement, and in lowliness of mind to consider one another as excelling themselves, Paul says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” This exhortation reaches back to Phil 2:2–4 for its definition and ahead to Phil 2:6–8 for its illustration. Paul does not give all that is in the mind of Christ in these verses. He selects those qualities of our Lord which fit the needs of the Philippians at that moment. That which Paul speaks of as being in the mind of Christ and which the Philippians were to include in their own spiritual lives consisted of a spirit of humility and of self-abnegation and an interest in the welfare of others. These graces were illustrated in our Lord’s act of becoming incarnate in the human race and becoming the substitutionary atonement for sin. This lack of unity among the Philippian saints became the occasion for perhaps the greatest Christological passage in the New Testament that sounds the depths of the incarnation. Among scholars it is known as the Kenosis passage, speaking of the self-emptying of the Son of God as He became incarnate in humanity, the word kenosis being the Greek word meaning “to empty.”
+Wuest goes on to write "The Greek word order for the expression just noted is, “This be ye constantly thinking in you which also was in Christ Jesus.” The position of the pronoun “this” is emphatic and shows that the exhortation reaches back basically to Phil 2:2–4, while the pronoun “who” in Phil 2:6 connects the exhortation with the illustration in Phil 2:5–8. The words “let mind be” are the translation of one Greek word which means, “to have understanding, to be wise, to direct one’s mind to a thing, to seek or strive for.” The word seems always to keep in view the direction which thought of a practical kind takes. The expression could be translated in a number of ways, each of which while holding to the main idea, yet brings out a slightly different shade of meaning. For instance: “Be constantly thinking this in yourselves;” “Be having this mind in you;” “Reflect in your own minds, the mind of Christ Jesus” (Lightfoot); “Let the same purpose inspire you as was in Christ Jesus” (Way). The sum total of the thought in the exhortation seems to be that of urging the Philippians to emulate in their own lives, the distinctive virtues of the Lord Jesus spoken of in Phil 2:2–4. It is the habitual direction of our Lord’s mind with reference to self that is in the apostle’s thinking, an attitude of humility and self-abnegation for the benefit of others, which should be true also of the Philippians. This gives us the key to unlock the rich treasures of the great doctrinal portion of the letter we are now to study. As to the translation of the verse, we might say that the verb of being is not in the Greek text. It is often left out by the writer, and supplied by the reader. In the case of the Authorized Version, we have the word “was.” It could just as well be “is,” for the Lord Jesus still has that same mind. But the past tense verb “was” suits the context better since the apostle is speaking of the past act of supreme renunciation performed by our Lord in His incarnation and atoning sacrifice. (Philippians Commentary - Verse by Verse)
+Gromacki: "Paradoxically, he illustrated exhortation with doctrine, whereas most preachers try to make their doctrinal sermons practical."
+Frank Thielman, Philippians, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1995), p. 115, explains: Paul says literally, however, “Think this in you,” and the words “in you” (en hymin) are a common idiom in Greek for “among yourselves.” Paul’s primary concern, then, is social rather than cerebral: He wants the Philippians to adopt in their mutual relations the same attitude that characterized Jesus.
+Constable - This paragraph is the most important one in the epistle and the most difficult to interpret.“By anyone’s reckoning, Php 2:6–11 constitutes the single most significant block of material in Philippians.”
+This (5124) (touto) is emphatic (placed first in the Greek text for emphasis) and shows that the command relates refers to the what Paul has just instructed in the preceding passages Philippians 2:3-4..
+Life Application Study Bible - servanthood.
+Have this attitude (5426) (phroneo) - NAS = adopt a view(1), conceited*(1), concern(1), concerned(1), feel(1), have attitude(3),intent on purpose(1), live in harmony(1), mind(4), observes(2), set their minds(2), set your mind(1), setting your mind(2),think(3), views(1).
+Matt 16:23; Mark 8:33; Acts 28:22; Rom 8:5; 11:20; 12:3, 16; 14:6; 15:5; 1 Cor 13:11; 2 Cor 13:11; Gal 5:10; Phil 1:7; 2:2, 5; 3:15, 19; 4:2, 10; Col 3 Co 12:9-note; 2 Co Cor Jn 2:6). (I.e., your life should match your lips! If it does not, you need to ponder 2 Cor 13:5).
+We should
+walk (present imperative = command calling for Spirit enabled - serf serf serf.
+PRAYER -.
+WHAT is "the Christmas spirit"? Is it jovial family festivity, the sound of familiar carols in a busy shopping mall, the flow of cheery greeting cards that keep us in touch with old friends, a tree covered with twinkling lights peeking out of a pile of brightly wrapped packages, or the general good feeling we get at this season of the year? These are what most people think of when they hear the expression "Christmas spirit." But for Christians much more is involved.
+J. I. Packer defines the Christmas spirit in his book Knowing God. He writes, "We talk glibly of the Christmas spirit, rarely meaning more by this than sentimental jollity on a family basis. . . . It ought to mean the reproducing in human lives of the temper of Him who for our sakes became poor, ...."
+In Philippians 2 we read that the Son of God laid aside His divine glory and became your servant and mine by being made in human likeness and dying on the cross for our sins. Following His example means letting the mind of Christ be in us and humbly serving others. That's the true spirit of Christmas!—D J De Haan (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
+Theodore Epp). (Source). —Bill Crowder
+Father, please build the heart of Christ into my heart that those around me will see Him clearly and desire to know Him too.
+How can you show Christ in your life to others in your community? Share at Facebook.
+Christ’s sacrifice of Himself motivates us to sacrifice ourselves for others.
+Insight
+The church at Philippi, established by Paul during his second missionary journey, was a growing and faithful community that had actively supported Paul’s ministry (Philippians 1:5; 4:15–18). In this thank-you letter, Paul encouraged the Philippians to continue to grow and mature in their faith, even in the midst of persecution. He exhorted them, “Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ” (1:27), so that they would “shine . . . like stars in the sky” (2:15). He urged them to imitate Christ in sacrificial love, unity, humility, and service.. —D C Egner (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
+Christ emptied Himself.
+Behold our pattern.
+St. Ambrose.
+‘Have pro-supposition of the worth of Christ’s life as the pattern of humility and self-sacrifice. That pro east’ no.
+‘Where.’’’ there.’
+TITLES:
+CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE (which we could subtitle...)
+"How to Develop an Other's Orientation"
+We need to learn instead of saying “Me-first,” to say, “Me-third.”
+Recall the mnemonic for "J.O.Y."...
+Jesus - our Example,
+Others - our goal to serve
+Yourself - our experience of joy
+Y is last. That’s what Paul says in Php 2:4: “do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.” The Greek word for “look” is not just to see something but actually to fix one’s attention on, with great interest in. Here's the application - Some of us (myself for sure) need to take our eyes off OURSELVES and literally lift them (our eyes) to LOOK WITH ATTENTION at others. This lines up with what our Lord taught in Mark 10:44: “Whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.”
+As an aside here is a great application of Php 2:3-4 - Fill in the blanks of this paraphrase with the names of two people you are struggling with right now:
+“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard _________ as more important that yourself; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of ___________.”
+How can we really do that from the heart?
+That's what we will talk about today, for God has give us an example to follow and the power to enable us to follow!
+ILLUSTRATION -. Watchman Nee tells how the neighbor subsequently became a Christian, his unbelief overcome by a genuine demonstration of a Christian’s humility and Christlike character.
+Constable - This paragraph is the most important one in the epistle and the most difficult to interpret.“By anyone’s reckoning, Php 2:6–11 constitutes the single most significant block of material in Philippians.”
+THIS TEXT IS SUPERLATIVELY DOCTRINAL BUT IS NOT "DRY DOCTRINE" FOR IT TEACHES A BASIC PRINCIPLE WHICH IS SUPREMELY PRACTICAL - you can write this down - If you’re experiencing friction in your relationships, whether at home or anywhere, chances are you need to grow in humility. C. S. Lewis saw this and wrote, "Pride has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Pride always means enmity--it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God." (Mere Christianity)
+Calvin sums up the practical application of our text: “Since, then, the Son of God descended from so great a height, how unreasonable that we, who are nothing, should be lifted up with pride!”. In this section of Scripture Paul is going to teach us to fight pride by focusing on the example of what the Savior did for us by leaving the glory of heaven and coming to die for.
+May God by His Spirit be pleased to drive these truths like stakes deeply into our minds so our hearts might be transformed and our lives, our families and our church might grow progressively more and more like Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
+OUTLINES: these are just suggestions
+THE MIND OF CHRIST AND CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE 2:1-4
+- Appeal for Unity (1-2)
+- Appeal for Humility (3-4)
+THE MIND OF CHRIST IN EXAMPLE 2:5-8
+- Exhortation to Christians (5): Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus
+- Example of Christ ( 6-8)
+Christ stripped Himself of the robes of glory, and covered Himself with the rags of humanity. Why? So that He could redeem men from sin and bring them to God.
+INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11:
+It would not be an exaggeration to say that Philippians 2:5-11 is the greatest Christological passage in the Scriptures. This is an incredibly majestic text that has a “Take your shoes off” grandeur. It is so grand in fact, that it becomes very easy to lose sight of Paul’s point in writing it. Like a deer spellbound by the headlights of an approaching car, it is possible get caught up in the brilliance of the passage and forget that Paul has written it to illustrate his point that we are not to be self-centered but united, serving one another in humility (Phil. 2:1-5). Have you ever said to someone "you have an attitude?"
+In these few verses we see the great sweep of Christ’s life from eternity past to eternity future, and we are admitted to the breathtaking purposes of God in human salvation.
+INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT - (Php 1:1–2), Paul offers a prayer for them to achieve this unity (Php 1:3–11). He then gives his own life as a model (Php 1:12–26) and urges the church to live lives of humility and unity without (Php 1:27–30) and within the church (Php 2:1–4). Finally, Paul arrives at a crescendo and turns his attention to the powerful example of Christ Himself in Php 2:5–11. This is one of the most important passages in the entire Bible. Many scholars believe that this is the best passage in the Bible to defend and explain that Jesus Christ is God. However, this sermon will not be a systematic theology lesson because it is found in a context that stresses the need for unity in the local church.
+Dr. F. B. Meyer wrote of this section, “In the whole range of Scripture, this paragraph stands in almost unapproachable and unexampled majesty.” Most scholars agree that these verses are a hymn or poem that Paul either wrote himself or included here as an appropriate illustration. It provides a powerful conclusion to his message on unity.
+While the beauty of the Incarnation of our Savior is eloquently expressed in this paragraph, we must remember that this was not given as a doctrinal treatise. Rather, it is an illustration of the kind of humility and servanthood necessary to preserve unity in the body of Christ.
+As one pastor put it "Today I will attempt to do an exposition of one of the most amazing and profound passages in all the Bible. My very best attempt at sound preaching will be but a puny effort, for there are no words to describe this sublime passage. Perhaps you would do better, after this sermon, to go home and, on your knees, pour over the sacred words yourself. I assure you, when you get off your knees, you will have a deeper adoration and appreciation for the Person and work of Christ."
+Let me ask you a question - Does anyone know what a parabola is or what it looks like? Here's a picture of a parabola (the blue line) ...
+Now this is a secular diagram from Wikipedia, but do you see anything that stands out in the picture? "The Cross!" Yes, you nailed it (pun intended)! In fact, today's message could be entitled "The Great Parabola." Why do I say that? Look at the diagram below which depicts what happened to Christ in Php 2:5-11...
+Source: Christ-Centered Exposition - Philippians
+How often have you heard “what goes up must come down,” but what we learn by the example of Christ is exactly the opposite. It is not what goes up that comes down, but rather what comes down is what goes up. This is a consistent teaching of Scripture: "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up" (Jam. 4:10).
+How significant is Php 2:5-11? As James Montgomery Boice said
+"These verses bring us near to the bedrock of the early Christian faith and preaching. They contain most of the distinctive articles of the Christian creed. They teach the divinity of Christ, his preexistence, his equality with God the Father, his incarnation and true humanity, his voluntary death on the cross, the certainty of his ultimate triumph over evil, and the permanence of his reign."
+Here is one way we could outline this glorious section of Scripture:
+We have been created to become like Christ. Listen to Romans 8:29 in the Living Bible: “For from the very beginning God decided that those who came to Him – and He knew who would – should become like His Son.” Let me be clear, He’s not saying we’re going to be a god, but He does desire for us to become godly as he develops His character in our lives. God wants to make us just like Jesus as we grow in grace and develop in discipleship. Ephesians 4:15 puts it this way: “We will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.” One of the best ways to become like Jesus is to look at how He handled the temptations, trials, and trespasses of life. He is our model of Christian maturity and our goal should be to become like Him. Jesus put it this way in Matthew 10:25: “It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master.” This is a process that doesn’t happen overnight. It’s going to take the rest of our lives for God to build a Christlike character in us, but there are some tools we can use to help along the way.
+Our future hope should motivate our present lifestyle - 1 Jn.
+Actions are always preceded by attitudes, which is why Php 2:5 is so important because Paul charges us to have a Christ-like attitude before we can carry out Christ-like actions. Obedience to the command and observance of the walk both necessitate our dependence on the Holy Spirit.
+Given our natural bent to be self-centered, it has always been difficult to live out Christ’s directive—as Paul advises the Philippians in our present text, to “[do] nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Php 2:3, 4). Humility and others-directedness are hard for us. We find it difficult in our most important relationships both in the home and in the household of faith. I would say it is not just "difficult" but impossible to act like Christ depending on our natural strength! We might appear to have some success for a while, but natural strength cannot imitate Christ, Who relied on the strength of the Holy Spirit, leaving us an example to follow. The only way to successfully obey Php 2:3-5 is by rejecting our tendency to rely on our own strength and to learn to rely wholly on the enabling power of the the Holy Spirit! How are you doing? Are you learning to lean hard on the Spirit or are you still trying to live this Christ life in your "own" strength?
+Review:
+Php 2:1 - The excellence of what we have (READ)
+Php 2:2-4 - The expectation of what we must do (READ)
+Php 2:5-8 - The example to follow (READ)
+Php 2:9-11 - The exaltation of our Lord
+CONTEXT:
+The church at Philippi, as good as it was, still had selfishness and division. Paul challenges the believers, in light of the example of Christ, to “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus” (Php 2:3-5).
+How does this relate to the previous section on unity, Php 2:1-4? After exhorting the Philippian saints in Phil 2:2–4 to think the same thing, to have the same love, to be in heart agreement, and in lowliness of mind to consider one another as excelling themselves, Paul says, “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” This exhortation reaches back to Phil 2:2–4 for its definition and ahead to Phil 2:6–8 for its illustration. This is a command to make this our lifestyle!
+Php 2:5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
+What is attitude? (ESV calls it mind) The English definition is a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, which is generally reflected in a person's behavior. And so our attitudes lead to actions. If our attitudes are selfish, most of us know the type of actions that result. If our attitudes are selfless, the actions are completely different. It is a basic principle that outlook determines outcome. If our outlook is selfish, the actions will be divisive and destructive, the exact opposite of the effect Paul desires for the church at Philippi and at Wayside.
+What is fascinating in this section is that Paul FIRST gives us the charge to "Have this mind among yourselves" and then he gives us the truth of Christ's example which should serve to motivate our obedience. Stated another way. We are called to Imitate Christ’s model of humility (2:5-8). To summarize the application, the way that we can imitate Christ’s example is by giving up our “rights.” Obviously, living up to this attitude of Christ is not easy. It’s a pursuit that humbles every believer to dust and yet (1 Cor 2:16) and you became a new creation in Christ (2 Cor 5:17). However, unlike the chickens who sound like quail forever, you will not sound and act like Christ for the rest of your life without continually putting on His mind. Though there are a variety of things you can do to renew your Christlike mind, the best way is to be in the Word daily. Paul is calling for the saints at Philippi and us to be daily transformed by the “renewing of our mind” (Ro 12:2) because he knows that only in this way can we carry out the command for Christ-like behavior. Just try to be selfless and humble like Christ in your own strength! Our flesh ever gravitates toward selfishness and pride! But it is vital to remember that Christ has not left us alone to try to carry this out by ourselves. And that's why this call to put on the mind of Christ is followed by Paul's call for us to work out our salvation in fear and trembling (Php 2:12). And then Paul explains how it is possible to daily have a selfless, sacrificial, servant oriented mind of Christ writing that "it is God (THE HOLY SPIRIT) Who is at work (continually "energizing") in you, both to WILL (the Spirit gives us the "want to", the desire have a Christ-like attitude) and to work (the Holy Spirit continually gives us the power pursue this Christ-like attitude or mindset) for His good pleasure. (Phil 2:13)" Ben will unpack that great passage next week, but just know now that in calling for us to have the MIND OF CHRIST, God has given us His Spirit to energize the desire and the power to have that selfless, sacrificial, servant oriented mind like Christ had as a Man.
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+Remember that the road to victory is paved with humble submission to God! Are you experiencing victory over sin in your life? If not you might examine your degree of humble submission to God. As Spurgeon once said "We must stoop to conquer. He who is willing to be nothing shall be possessor of all things."
+As Guzik says "Paul will, in wonderful detail, describe for us the mind of Jesus in the following verses. But here, before he describes the mind of Jesus, he tells us what we must do with the information. It is all too easy for us to read the following description of Jesus and admire it from a distance. God wants us to be awed by it, but also to see it as something that we must enter into and imitate..
+Php 2:6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
+Our English word "FORM" can be misleading for it suggests shape or outward appearance. But as explained below the Greek word translated “form” (morphe) refers not so much to the outward appearance but to the essential nature of something or someone. And so “The form of God” speaks of Jesus’ essence or nature as God, whereas “equality with God” speaks of the glories or prerogatives of God. Together the two expressions are some of the strongest expressions of Christ’s deity in the entire Bible! What does it mean that Jesus EMPTIED HIMSELF?. Stated another way - This verse is not talking about what Jesus emptied Himself OF, but what He emptied Himself INTO. It’s like pouring something from one pitcher into another. Jesus took all of His deity and poured it into another vessel, the “form of a bond-servant.” He who is very God of very God became “very slave of very slave.” He didn’t stop being who He is, but He changed the form of who He is. Paul's point is that Jesus Christ practiced self-denial and self-sacrifice for our sake and became "God con carne" and Latin for flesh is "carnis" so Jesus became "God with flesh!" What an astounding, unfathomable thought. Jesus left the glory and splendor of heaven and came to dwell on earth to serve others. He understood the way up is down. "Taking the form of a bond-servant.” In other words, Jesus became a particular kind of man, a slave, the lowest position a person could become in the Roman world. think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation. Jesus went as low as He could possibly go. Jesus came as a lowly servant, which is good news for us because that means there is no one with whom Jesus cannot identify.. As a man He was tempted and "since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted." (Heb 2:18) "Come to the aid" is one word in Greek which mean to run to the aid someone upon hearing their cry. The next time you are being strongly tempted CRY OUT to Jesus!
+Observations:
+- His timeless existence - He has always been God. Our mind cannot grasp the concept of before the foundation of the world, but Paul says "He existed in the form of God."
+- The form of God - He was in his very essence God. Form is morphe which speaks of the unchanging essence of His nature. Stated simply - Jesus Christ possesses all of God’s attributes. Paul is saying Jesus is fully God! This phrase is not a reference to the outer appearance of Christ but indicates a profound and genuine inner identity. Jesus Christ was not simply like God; He was the very nature and substance of God. All that God is, Jesus Christ was and is and ever will be. To say that Jesus was in the form of God is the same as saying that Jesus was God.
+-. That’s the relationship Jesus Christ bears to God the Father. Jesus is the exact representation of who and what God is..
+- The phrase “being in the form of God” is nothing less than a direct assertion of Deity. In Greek philosophy the word translated “form” means “the real essence of a thing.” In this context it means that Jesus possessed “the specific character of God.” Whatever it is that makes God God, Jesus possessed that same essence. Whatever you can say about God, you can also say about Jesus. He was all that God is and possessed all that God had. He was 100% God and nothing less. God’s omnipotence was his, God’s sovereignty was his, God’s holiness was his, God’s eternity was his, God’s wisdom was his, and God’s justice was his. (Pritchard)
+- When we are told that Jesus took the form of a bondservant, the same word is employed that describes Jesus as being in the form of God. Jesus was in the form of God and He took upon Himself the form of a bondservant. His servanthood was authentic in substance and reality.
+- His choice - to not regard equality with God something to be exploited to His own advantage. APPLICATION - If the only person in the world who ever had the right to assert His rights waived them, then you and I can do the same!
+Here is a simple distinction between two important terms Paul uses in Php 2:6-8 - Morphe, "form", in Php 2:6,7 denotes a permanent expression of essential attributes, while schema, "appearance" (Php 2:8), refers to outward appearance that is subject to change. This describes Jesus’ pre-incarnate existence. We must remind ourselves that Jesus did not begin His existence in the manger at Bethlehem, but is eternal God.
+Phillips paraphrase: “For he, who had always been God by nature, did not cling to his prerogatives as God’s equal.”
+Wiersbe -.
+Php 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
+- Emptied Himself - "Kenosis" - Profound! Mysterious! Of what? Not His divine nature = impossible! He continued to be the Son of God. There is controversy re the "kenosis", some liberals suggesting He became human in the sense that He was fallible, possibly even sinful. Conservative interpretation is that He took on the limitations of humanity.
+- The best and most accurate way to define the self-emptying of Jesus is that, in His incarnation, Christ voluntarily surrendered the independent exercise of His divine attributes. He never ceased to possess them all, but He voluntarily put Himself under the authority of God the Father and under the control of the Holy Spirit in their exercise. There is no record of Jesus having used these divine attributes in His first thirty years of human existence, but when the Spirit came upon Him at His baptism, He began to demonstrate these powers.
+- The word likeness suggests similarity but difference. Though His humanity was genuine, He was different from all other humans in that He was sinless.
+Calvin sums up the practical application of our text: “Since, then, the Son of God descended from so great a height, how unreasonable that we, who are nothing, should be lifted up with pride!”
+Emptied Himself - here are 5 things to help you grasp this profound truth. Remember He never ceased being fully God when He became fully Man. (The list under "Jesus Incarnation" below is easier to understand and apply).
+(1) His heavenly glory -veiling of His preincarnate glory (Jn 17:5)
+(2) His independent authority (Jn 5:19, 5:30, 8:28,)
+(3) the voluntary nonuse of some of His divine prerogatives (His divine attributes) during the time He was on earth (Mt 24:36).
+(4) eternal riches for while on earth Christ was poor and owned very little (cf. 2 Co 8:9);
+(5) a favorable relationship with God - He felt the Father's wrath for human sin while on the cross (cf. Mt 27:46 MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”)
+Jesus Incarnation - How could we describe Jesus emptying Himself and what did it accomplish for us?
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+- Form of bond-servant - The essence of His nature - As He Himself testified - Mk 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
+Php 2:8 - Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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+- Being found in appearance as a man - THE CRADLE - Simply stated He was born of the virgin Mary as a human baby. He was fully Man. ILLUSTRATION - During some unsettled days in ancient Rome, a slave heard that his master’s name was on the liquidation list. He quickly put on his master’s cloak and quietly awaited the arrival of the political butchers. When they found the slave dressed in his master’s clothing, they killed him, supposing him to be the master. Likewise, the Master of the universe, Jesus Christ, took on Himself the cloak of our humanity. The death He endured is the death we deserved. Through His death, we have been spared.
+- He humbled Himself - THE CROSS - His choice. Because of His great love for us. He willingly became the sacrificial Lamb
+- APPLICATION - WHEN WE ARE TEMPTED - Look at the phrase Being found in appearance as a man - What is Paul saying? Paul uses the word schema which says that Christ was MAN in the sense that he endured all that we must endure in this world. The practical application is that there is NOTHING that happens in your life that Jesus’ cannot understand. Hebrews 2:18 says "For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are (continually being) tempted." "Come to the aid" is one word in Greek which means to run to one's aid upon hearing them cry out! The next time you are tempted, cry out to the One Who was "found in appearance as a man," because He understands what you are experiencing and will come to your aid.
+- APPLICATION - WHEN WE ARE SUFFERING - As a Man Jesus experienced suffering. Peter used this truth to encourage Christians who were suffering - 1 Pe 2:21, 23 "For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps....23) and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously." So when we are reviled, filled with the Spirit, we are enabled like Jesus not to revile in return (which is what our flesh wants to do). We don't threaten, but we rest in the truth that God is a perfect Judge and will judge evil that has been committed against us.
+A Christmas card captures the essence of Php 2:8 - A baby’s footprint appears on the cover with the words, “Unto you is born this day a Savior.” When you open the card, the phrase, “Which is Christ the Lord” is superimposed over a grown man’s handprint, complete with a bloody hole in the palm.
+Death on a cross was brutal and barbaric and was not even talked about in polite Roman society circles. Ancient writers used to say that to die on a cross was to die a thousand times before you take your last breath. May I suggest that this was not the worst of it for Jesus? The most painful element of his death is that when He died, all the smelly sins and terrible transgressions of the entire world were placed on His shoulders. And when He hung on the cross as our sin substitute, God the Father had to look away, causing the Son to cry out in agony, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46).
+Because JESUS was FULLY MAN He could take our punishment upon Himself and because He is FULLY GOD the shedding of His blood satisfied divine justice. Jesus is both just and the justifier.
+Max Lucado - “Jesus humbled Himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that’s what love does.��
+Augustine said it this way (Listen closely) - “Jesus took to Himself what He was not, while remaining what He was…He continued to be what He is, while appearing to us as what we are.”?” The person with the submissive mind does not avoid sacrifice. He lives for the glory of God and the good of others; and if paying a price will honor Christ and help others, he is willing to do it.? (Wiersbe).”
+Ray Pritchard - Why did Jesus shed His blood on the cross? In three days we leave for our trip to Nigeria. As part of our preparation we had to take yellow fever shots. I am told that at the border, the Nigerian immigration officials will check to make sure we’ve been inoculated against yellow fever because people still die of that terrible disease. This week I learned where the vaccine comes from. In 1927 a man named Asibi, a West African native, came down with yellow fever. Unlike so many others, he did not die. Because his system had conquered the disease, Asibi’s blood contained the antibodies which the doctors used to develop a successful vaccine. That vaccine has saved the lives of untold numbers of people around the world. Each dose of vaccine can be traced back to Asibi’s original blood sample. One man’s blood has saved the lives of millions of people. In a mysterious way we cannot understand, that is exactly what the blood of Jesus Christ did for us. His blood saves the lives of untold millions of people. His blood is the perfect “vaccine” against the disease called sin. “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7, KJV).
+Php 2:9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
+- WHO HAS GOD HIGHLY EXALTED? YOU MAY BE SURPRISED AT THE ANSWER! Highly exalted could be accurately paraphrased "super exalted" - God exalted Jesus to the highest possible degree to the point that it is difficult to describe with words. And note that it is the MAN Christ Jesus Whom the Father exalted. Contrast this with His humiliation - God (Jesus) humbled Himself. On the other hand in the exaltation it is God Who exalted the MAN Christ Jesus to sit at the right hand of glory! A truth we often forget is that at the right hand of the Father is the GOD-MAN Christ Jesus. In His exaltation He did not cease to be God, and throughout eternity will remain Jesus Christ, fully God and fully Man. And forever we will see His scars as proof of His humanity and as assurance that His covenant with us is eternal. IF YOU NEED ASSURANCE OF YOUR SALVATION, REMEMBER HIS ETERNAL SCARS THAT PROCURED YOUR SALVATION! John assures us of Jesus' everlasting Humanity writing "And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, AS IS SLAIN (perfect tense - forever appearing slain which speaks of His scars)....." (Rev 5:9) In short Jesus Christ is the perfect MEDIATOR, God and Man united forever. Spurgeon (attributed to John Boys) - The best way to reconcile two disagreeing families is to make some marriage between them; even so, the word became flesh, and dwelt among us in the world that he might thereby make our peace, reconciling God to man and man to God. By this happy match the Son of God has become the Son of Man and the sons of man have become the sons of God." This is your King Christ Jesus. He should never be reduced in our thinking to an abstract concept, for JESUS is not simply the means by which God accomplished salvation. He Himself is our salvation as God revealed in Humanity!
+- WHAT ABOUT THE NAME HE IS LORD? It was Juliet who asked, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would still be as sweet.” That makes great poetry, but the fact of the matter is that we put a lot of stock in names. People do not generally ask for acetaminophen when they have a headache. They are usually looking for Tylenol. Names mean things for us. They represent quality. Advertising only goes so far; in the end there has to be some substance behind the claim. If there is, then you have a name that can rise above all other competitors. Jesus far outstrips all pretended competition, and the name given to him by the Father conveys supreme quality. It is a name that describes his very nature, a name that every tongue must confess and every knee bow to: “LORD.” Kurios, Master, Owner, His eternal title which signifies Sovereign power and total authority. Sadly, the word “LORD” does not seem to carry much weight today. This was not so in Paul’s day. This was the imperial title that all of Rome would acknowledge as belonging to Caesar alone. But it only belonged to him after a religious ceremony in which he was deified. Once he was “deified’, the loyalty of people everywhere was determined by their willingness to declare that “Caesar is Lord.”
+There were Christians at these times who were actually persecuted as atheists because they placed their loyalties above those that were considered owed to the state and the deified Caesar. The cry of the heathen populace in the Roman Empire against the Christians was “Away with the atheists! To the lions with the Christians!” Why? Because they would acknowledge no other Lord but Jesus.
+EXAMPLE OF POLYCARP Bishop of Smyrna in the second century:.”
+- The "Apogee" of Christ - Apogee is a term in astronomy and which is used figuratively to describe the highest point in the development of something; the climax or culmination. Christ's exaltation is the "Apogee" of all human history, the high point, the climax, the culmination.
+- For this reason also - When you see a statement like this always pause to ponder and ask "For what reason?" This will slow you down, allow you to meditate on the Scripture and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you. So the question is "for what reason?" Remember context is king is interpretation, so we need to examine the preceding passages. Sometimes the answer is easy as in this case -- the reason for His exaltation is His voluntary humiliation and complete obedience to the point of willingly dying on the Cross.
+- God highly exalted Him - the Cross was the lowpoint, but not the endpoint, for His Father "highly exalted Him"
+- APPLICATION: Four times in His ministry Jesus spoke on the text: “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted” (Mt. 18:4; 23:12; Lk 14:11; 18:14). He lived the text. His own life is the greatest example of this principle.
+Is this practical? Of course it is - For example James 4:6 says that " “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.” Do you want to experience His amazing grace daily? Then walk the way Jesus walked, in humility, and you will be strengthened in your inner being by His grace. You will be fortified to fight the good fight of faith, regardless of what comes at you in your day. Are you experiencing spiritual attack? James goes on to say "Submit therefore to God (THAT'S A WILLINGNESS TO BE HUMBLE). (ENABLED BY THE SPIRIT YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE PERSONAL CHOICE TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS) in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you." Humble service may go unnoticed now, but it will be rewarded by the King Himself. Never trade temporal recognition for eternal reward!.
+Here's an example of humbling yourself -- Do you always need to be right? It takes a good dose of humility to let go of the need to always be “right” and not do it with a condescending look. But every time you do, you’re actually emulating Christ rather than clinging to the advantage of your rightness.
+HERE'S AN ILLUSTRATION - A famous Christian businessman was visiting a church and was asked to give a word of greeting. He got carried away telling all that God had done for him. “I have a successful business, a large house, a lovely family, a famous name, enough money to do the things I want to do and be able to give to Christian works. I have health and opportunities unnumbered. There are many people who would gladly exchange places with me. What more could God give me?” From the back of the auditorium a voice called, “A good dose of humility!”
+So when you sense an attack of pride, surrender immediately to the Holy Spirit and let Him work in you (Php 2:13) to produce humility and submission before God. Remember: in the battle against pride, the only way to conquer is to surrender—surrender to the Spirit.
+There have been some great names throughout history, but none greater than the Name above every name... And here are some of His great names:
+He is the Alpha & Omega; the Beginning and the End; He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; He is the Door; He is the Good Shepherd; He is the Vine; He is the Bread of Heaven; He is the Living Water; and He is the Light of the world. He is the Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of peace. He is the Lamb of God; the Lilly of the valley; the Rose of Sharon, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. He is the Messiah, He is Immanuel, He is Son of God and Son of man; He is our Kinsman-Redeemer. He is our Bridegroom. He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is Lord, Savior, and Redeemer, the Rock of our salvation. He is the King of glory and the great I Am. He is Master, Ruler, and the Hope of our salvation. HE IS!
+Php 2:10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
+THE LAST WORD!
+ILLUSTRATION - GOD has a way of turning the tables on evil. The French philosopher Voltaire predicted that Christianity would be swept from existence within one hundred years. Yet just fifty years after he died in 1779, the German Bible Society had occupied Voltaire's house and was using his printing press to produce stacks of Bibles. During World War II, Adolf Hitler erected a massive stone structure in Monte Carlo. It was to be a radio station from which to broadcast Nazi propaganda into North Africa. Today, from that very building, Trans World Radio beams the Gospel of Christ's redeeming love all across Europe and into Russia and Africa.Could these ironies of history be just a hint of the last word Christ will have at the end of this age?
+The combination of tongues confessing and knees bowing gives evidence that the idea is a complete submission to Jesus, both in word and in action, and one that is required of all.
+As Calvin rightly points out, the submission of the devils and of unsaved men will not be voluntary. But all will acknowledge the Lord’s supremacy whether they like it or not.
+When we sing “All hail the power of Jesus name!” we actually mean it. Everybody is to bow before Him, for He is the Lord!.
+- EVERY KNEE WILL BOW - This is not a figure of speech but literal truth. And it is sobering truth - every knee every place! You mean even the demons? Yes, even Satan himself! You mean even those who scoffed at Him when He was alive on earth? Yes. You mean even those who today use His exalted Name as a curse word? Absolutely yes! APPLICATION QUESTION - What do you do when you are watching a show and they curse the Name of Jesus? Do you keep watching? Do you pay to watch a show like this? I realize this is a difficult question for you? It is super difficult for me! It is difficult to find a show or series that does not use Jesus' great Name in vain. But one day we and those who use that Name will bow before Him.
+- At the mere mention of His name, everyone above the earth will bow, including all the good angels and all the redeemed who have died before Christ returns. Everyone on the earth will bow, including all human beings. Everyone under the earth will bow, including all the inhabitants of hell and all the evil angels. And in that moment, the cycle will have been completed. The One who was humiliated will be exalted. The One who was brought low will be raised up high.
+- To bow before Him now means salvation; to bow before Him at the judgment means condemnation.
+Jesus—O how sweet the name,
+Jesus—every day the same;
+Jesus—let all saints proclaim
+Its worthy praise forever.
+—Martin
+Php 2:11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
+When we understand the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, only one response makes sense—to fall on our knees and confess Him as Savior and Lord. There are two ways we can do this. We can either bow in humble submission today, confessing Jesus and receiving Him as our Savior, or we will be forced to bow to Him at the judgment. But every creature in heaven, on earth, and in hell is going to bow to Jesus Christ. When you bow to Jesus in repentance and submission, He becomes Lord of your life. And when He becomes Lord of your life, He takes over. That means He deserves all of your respect, honor, and obedience because of who He is and what He has done for you.
+Now I want you to use your imagination as you listen to the somber words one more time (READ ABOVE) - Now imagine that this is the last act of a great play. This is the grand day when all creation confesses Jesus Christ is Lord. Those who do not confess Christ before they die, will be forced to confess Him with shame and terror. For those of us who have confessed Him during our life, one glorious day we will gladly and with delight and humble adoration own Him as Lord of all creation. Have you confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord of Creation?
+Although the entire creation will one day confess Jesus as "Lord", only those who do so during their life will be saved by that confession, Paul writing that )
+Robert Morgan -.
+As Spurgeon rightly observed "'NOW' is the watchword of the wise." LATER may be too late! Right NOW counts for ever. How goes your preparation for the future dear saint? It's now or never. "Time is the seed of eternity." To make our life count for eternity, we must be wise in how we spend our time today. What will your eternal harvest be?
+ILLUSTRATION -.
+JESUS IS GOD - OKAY! JESUS IS LORD - NOT! - Chuck Colson notes that in the first century, if you stood in a public gathering and cried out, “Jesus is God!” no one would be upset. But if you shouted, “Jesus is Lord!” you would start a riot. Let us be crystal-clear about this. Rome did not persecute Christians because they believed in the deity of Christ, or that Jesus was the promised Messiah, or that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead. Rome did not kill Christians because they said Jesus is the only way of salvation. Those were “religious beliefs” that did not threaten the state. But when Christians declared, “Jesus Christ is our Lord, and there is no other!” that was a direct attack on Caesar-worship, and thus punishable by death.
+- The word "confess" means to say the same thing as and so to agree. Every created being that can vocalize will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, that He is Master and Sovereign Ruler over us and over everything.
+- And what will be the grand result of all creation bowing and confessing Christ as Lord? God the Father will be glorified.
+- APPLICATION: Of course we can never glorify God in the same way Jesus did, but to glorify God is our purpose. The Westminster Catechism asks "What is the chief end of man?" The answer is "Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever." In Mt 5:16 Jesus tells us how to glorify God exhorting us - “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven." Here we see that "good works" bring glory to God. They are works that are initiated and empowered by the Spirit. So if we begin our day in the Word, surrendered to and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we are much more likely to do good works that glorify our Father in heaven. Others see us not repaying evil for evil, forgiving when others have hurt us, etc. These are not natural responses and in them the world gets a proper picture of the invisible God.
+- We honor God's name when we call Him our Father and live like His Son.
+- What about ourselves? How easily to answer the first catechism question: My chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever! Can you see here how that is not just some teaching mechanism, but an astounding statement of what it is to have the very MIND OF CHRIST Himself? HERE IS THE QUESTION FOR ALL OF US -- Does this statement govern my talents, my fortunes, my gifts and prospects in life? In all these things, am I upheld by the kind of motivation that sustained Christ? Can I really give all that I am to Christ and to my fellow man and be satisfied that He receives the glory?
+Are you to be found In Him? May we have this mind in ourselves that was also in Christ Jesus. And as a result, may our humility be furthered by a consideration of the person, position and purpose of our Great God and Savior, Christ the Lord.
+Benjamin Warfield."
+To summarize the application of this passage - "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" by the power of His Spirit we should daily seek to have
+- The Selfless "mind" - which thinks nothing of itself, but only of others.
+- The Sacrificial "mind" which is prepared to go to utmost lengths for those others' welfare.
+- The Serving "mind" - which is happily content to render any service that will help.
+This is the quintessential confession of Christianity. To know Christ as Savior is to confess Him as Lord.
+C. S. Lewis explained our options regarding Jes)
+ILLUSTRATIONS:
+ILLUSTRATION:.
+ILLUSTRATION:.”
+GOD STOOPED DOWN -!
+Christ’s sacrifice of Himself motivates us to sacrifice ourselves for others.
+HUMBLING HIMSELF -).
+C.S. Lewis pointed out that if you want to get the hang of the Incarnation, think of how you would like to become a slug or a crab.
+APPLICATION/ILLUSTRATION -.
+CONCLUSION:
+- Christ showed His love by dying for us; we show our love by living for Him.
+- The MAJESTY became MENIAL and a MAN in order to be our MEDIATOR and forever our MASTER. GLORY!
+- By His life, Jesus teaches us that the way up is the way down.
+- How do we as a church and as individuals live selflessly rather than selfishly. There is only one way! Empowered daily by the Spirit of Christ we must make the choice each morning to have the same attitude of mind that Christ had, the attitude of a humble bond-servant, willing to die that we might live forever with Him. May that breadth and length and height and depth of love of our Lord serve to motivate us daily to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship and to not be conformed to the world but to be transformed (more and more into the image of Christ) by the renewing of our mind that we might prove what the will of God is that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Amen (Ro 12:2)
+- One thing is clear from Php 2:9-11 - You will see him and bow before him. Will it be in love and adoration as you fall gratefully before the one who loved you and died for you? Or will it be by compulsion as you are forced to your knees by the angels moments before you are removed from his presence forever? Jesus said, “Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). He is your Savior who loves you and gave himself for you. Today is still the day of his grace. Won’t you come to him today?
+Bowing the knee means submission to him as Lord. Confessing with the tongue means that there is no other Lord but Jesus.: A) You can confess him now with joy as your Lord and Savior, B) Or, you will someday confess him as Lord in shame and terror.
+Ray Pritchard tells this story, a story I would imagine several of you could tell -.”
+Let’s summarize what this passage is telling us about Jesus Christ.
+1) What He Was—Fully and Completely God!
+2) What He Became—A man while retaining his deity.
+3) What He Chose—To die a humiliating death on the cross.
+4) What He Gained—The highest place/the greatest name/universal honor.
+This is the Jesus of the Bible. This is the Jesus we worship today. This is the Jesus we call Savior and Lord. This is the true Christ of the Christian faith.
+We live on a visited planet. Allow the magnitude of the Majesty becoming man to help you know that He understands everything you’re going through today. And be so amazed at the Incarnation that you can’t help but tell others about it. Luke 2:16-17:.”
+Friend, are you underwhelmed by the Christ?…
+Ray Pritchard - The Incomparable Christ
+Almost a century ago, two famous essays were written about the life of Christ—"One Solitary Life” and “The Incomparable Life.” Josh McDowell reprinted them in his book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. I have combined the two and done a slight revision because I.
+Twenty centuries 1998 in honor of his birth.. This is the Jesus we worship. This is the true Christ of the Christian faith. This is the One in whom we have believed. He and He alone is our Lord and Savior. Millions of Christians unite in worshipping; St. Petersburg, Russia; London, England; Ankara, Turkey; Jerusalem, Israel; Beijing, China; Asuncion, Paraguay; and Oak Park, USA.
+He and He alone is the Lord. Oh, that our hearts would sing his praise. God hasten the day until every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
+You don’t have to endure so much time each time you use your vacuum cleaner. While that may have been the case in the past, these days we have an abundance of quiet options, thanks to improvement in technology. You can clean your home without causing a ruckus.
+Below is a list of the quietest vacuum cleaners you can get today:
+- Shark Rotator Professional Upright Vacuum Cleaner
+- Dyson V8 Cordless Quiet Vacuum Cleaner
+- Hoover Commercial Hush Vacuum Cleaner
+- iRobot Roomba
+- Miele Compact C1
+- Henry HVR 200
+- Muzili Cordless Quiet Vacuum Cleaner
+- Bissell Cleanview Swivel
+- Miele Dynamic U1 Powerline
+- Tineco Power One S12 Plus
+- VacLife Handheld
+Shark Rotator Professional Upright Vacuum Cleaner
+The Shark Rotator Vacuum Cleaner comes with a bagless canister which makes it produce very minimal noise.
+- DuoClean floor head glides from carpets to hard floors
+- Anti Hair Wrap actively removes hair from the bristle brush-roll
+- Transform into a portable vacuum to easily clean stairs, surfaces and under furniture
+It’s relatively lightweight and can be easily controlled by its operator. It is ideal for cleaning corners and areas that are usually difficult to reach. With its HEPA filter, it’s able to catch allergens present in your home. If you have a family member with allergies, this vacuum cleaner is a great choice for your home.
+The product also comes with an adjustable handle which makes it possible to use in difficult areas.
+This vacuum cleaner is not the best option to go for if you have thick carpets. It’s okay for thin ones, but won’t properly clean thick carpets. If you don’t have thick carpets, this product will work great for you.
+Dyson V8 Cordless Quiet Vacuum Cleaner
+This cordless and bagless vacuum cleaner is an excellent product to have around the house. Its cordless nature takes away the struggle of trying to reach anywhere as you can easily move the device around when cleaning.
+- Direct drive cleaner head : drives bristles deeper into the carpet to remove even more dirt. 150 percent...
+- Whole machine filtration : captures allergens and expels cleaner air than the air you breathe.
+- Up to 40 minutes of suction : powered by a new Nickel Cobalt Aluminium battery to deliver up to 40...
+Of course, it operates on a small motor so it makes little noise. It’s designed not to lose a lot of power. This cleaner will pull out pet hair from carpets efficiently. It also features a Maximum Power mode to provide more suction power and a HEPA filter for capturing allergens.
+You can use this device for only about 40 minutes after it’s fully charged so it might not clean up the entire house at once. It’s more suitable for quick cleaning jobs than deep cleaning.
+Hoover Commercial Hush Vacuum Cleaner
+When it comes to vacuum cleaners, Hoover is among the top brands and it’s not difficult to understand why. This bagless product is specially designed to be quiet.
+- Bagless - no need to Buy or replace bags. The dust and debris gets trapped inside the Bin.
+- Lightweight cylinder- weighing under 4.5kg, the breeze cylinder is easy to carry around your home.
+- 2-in-1 dusting brush stored on board.
+It does a great job of suction and comes with a HEPA filter and detachable hose. Its features make it possible to clean difficult areas. It’s excellent for cleaning hardwood floors.
+It’s also quite impressive for cleaning carpets. However, you have to turn off the machine and change modes before you proceed. This isn’t a significant issue. It’ll only take a few seconds.
+iRobot Roomba
+The iRobot Roomba is another quiet option in the market, thanks to its motor. With this device, you can program your cleaning schedule in advance and it’ll take care of the rest. It features an app and Wi-Fi connection. How cool is that?
+- 3-Stage cleaning system picks up everything from small particles to large debris, to pet hair
+- The auto-adjust cleaning head automatically adapts its height to keep the dual multi-surface brushes in...
+- Dirt detect sensors recognize concentrated areas of dirt and prompt the robot to clean them more...
+It does a good job of cleaning out dirt. However, it’s better on hardwood floors than carpet. It might not effectively pull out pet hair embedded deep within the carpet.
+This machine lacks room mapping. However, it comes with in-built sensors so it will avoid your furniture. If it bumps into an object, it can knock them over if they’re lightweight.
+Miele Compact C1
+Miele produces efficient, durable, and quiet machines. The Miele Compact C1 is no exception. Alongside being a very quiet model, it’s also sold for a reasonable price. It features a bagged design and a great filtration system.
+If you are part of a large family and have pets, this product is great for you as it has a large-sized tank. In the normal setting, it produces a noise of 50 decibels and 68 decibels at the highest setting.
+It does a decent job of cleaning, so it’s a handy tool to have in your home.
+Henry HVR 200 Bagged Vacuum
+This amazing device has a sound level of about 47 decibels. It’s very quiet for a vacuum cleaner and can clean up satisfactorily. The model features a HEPA filtration system together with different suction settings.
+- Great features for homes with pets - all the features of the Henry you know and love, Plus extra pet...
+- Brush is from Eco or Hairo (At the pet version has a smile face and writes HairoBrush but at the eco...
+- Reduce pet odours - charcoal activated MicroFresh filter tackles lingering pet odours.
+The NaceCare HVR 200 rolls on four large rubber wheels so it’s perfect for hardwood floors. It also makes the machine easy to control. This cleaner will clean your floor efficiently without making a lot of noise. It’s a bit pricey though. But it’s a worthy investment.
+Muzili Cordless Quiet Vacuum Cleaner
+This is a very affordable and quiet vacuum cleaner. It’s lightweight and cordless too so you can conveniently move it around the house when cleaning. It also features a HEPA filter for allergens and comes with different nozzles.
+- [20Kpa Powerful Suction] Muzili cordless vacuum cleaner adopts 160W powerful motor and provides 20Kpa...
+- [3 in 1 Vacuum Cleaner & Multifunctional] The Muzili 3 in 1 vacuum cleaner is easily transformed between...
+- [Lightweight & Low Noise] Only 6.0lbs weight makes it easy for you to operate with one hand and perfect...
+A downside to this product is its short running time. It works for just 30 minutes after a full charge. This means if you’ll be using it to clean the entire house, you’ll have to charge the machine multiple times.
+If you’re concerned about noise and convenience, this product offers significant value and is also inexpensive to purchase.
+Bissell Cleanview Swivel Pet Upright Bagless Vacuum Cleaner
+The Bissel Cleanview Swivel cleaner is quiet while it runs. It’s also quite affordable compared to other products. This doesn’t affect its efficiency as the vacuum cleaner does well at cleaning.
+- Fast and easy cleaning in a lightweight vacuum with powerful suction and innovative brush design that...
+- Innovative brush design rotates down into carpet to clean more on the initial pass.
+- Cyclonic System for long-lasting, powerful suction.
+It comes with different attachments and an adjustable hose so the operator can control it well when cleaning different areas in the home. It features a dust canister 1 litre large and HEPA filter to purify the environment. It’s also able to properly clean up pet hair.
+On the other hand, it is quite large so it’ll be difficult to clean staircases and tight areas. If you live in a small apartment, this might not be an ideal option for you.
+Miele Dynamic U1 Powerline
+This Miele product is also one of the quietest vacuum cleaners you can get on the market. It’s a bagless product with a power cable 39 foot long. It features an anti-allergen tech to trap allergens and tiny dust particles.
+This product is durable and features LED lights that let you properly clean up dark areas in your home.
+With a noise level of 70 dB, you’ll be able to clean your home without producing deafening sounds. It’s also a great product if you or anyone around has allergies. It’s a decent product overall.
+Tineco Power One S12 Plus
+In the lowest setting, this vacuum cleaner produces a sound of 68 dB which is considerably quiet compared to other products. This model is also lightweight; it weighs just 4 lbs. so you can move it around your house conveniently.
+- Features iLoop(TM) Smart Sensor Technology that senses hidden dirt and debris, automatically adjusts...
+- Onboard colored LED display and connected Tineco APP monitor cleaning progress, battery levels, and...
+- Two full size LED Power Brushes included, specifically designed to clean hard floors and carpets.
+This cordless unit is bagless and operates with batteries.
+This Tineco model features two brush rolls which can clean carpets of different thickness and also remove pet hair from upholstery. If you need to clean hardwood or other delicate areas, you have the option of using a different attachment.
+Overall, it’s a quiet and highly effective product. However, it’s a bit pricey compared to some other options.
+VacLife Handheld
+This is an affordable handheld vacuum cleaner that’s good for a quick clean up at home. It weighs just 2 lbs. and can work for up to 30 minutes in a single go. It also features an attachment set that allows you to perform a variety of chores.
+It’s also relatively quiet with a noise level of 69 decibels. An additional feature that makes this handheld vacuum cleaner special is the presence of LED lights. These lights will allow you to get into dark corners when you clean.
+Types of Vacuum Cleaners
+Let’s discuss the different types of vacuum cleaners and how their noise levels differ.
+Uprights
+Uprights are perhaps the strongest cleaners. They are also the loudest. While modern tech has been employed to produce quieter models; most of them still produce noise exceeding 70 decibels.
+This is because they have large engines that send noise to a large area. Its brush roll also contributes to the noise it makes. Nowadays, manufacturers try to produce quieter products so you can still get a quiet product. Ensure you do some research before you finally make a purchase.
+This type of vacuum cleaners has a high suctioning ability which means they are well suited for carpets, unlike other types. If you have a large area of thick carpets in your home, uprights will do a better job of cleaning. However, these models also weigh more than other types.
+If you are willing to look past that, you’ll be satisfied with its performance.
+Cordless Vacuums
+Cordless vacuums are smaller in size compared to uprights as they have smaller motors. Most of them are relatively quiet. However, their size doesn’t provide enough insulation so some models could be noisy.
+Manufacturers try to reduce their noise level despite its compact nature.
+These devices are portable and their cordless nature allows you to comfortably move them around without restrictions. Some models are designed in a way that you can use the full machine for complex tasks and the handheld version for simpler jobs. Yes, it’s just one vacuum cleaner.
+Cordless vacuums are ideal for cleaning hardwood floors or thin carpets and rugs. They won’t properly clean thick rugs or carpets so if that’s what you have around your house, this may not serve you well. However, some models may do a decent job.
+Canisters
+Canisters employ a more advanced design to create models quieter than the uprights. The canisters are easier to piece together. Most models work with engines that can properly clean carpets, including other surfaces.
+They are lightweight and quiet so a lot of people prefer to for them. Their insulation layers don’t make the model weighty compared to others. They are close to the ground so the sound they produce travels a shorter distance.
+They come with long hoses that enable you to get to a reasonable distance. With the rubber wheels at the bottom, it glides gently on any floor. It’s a great product to use on both hardwood and carpet.
+Robot Vacuums
+This type of vacuums and their motors are usually small-sized. Robot vacuums are quiet; you won’t disturb someone in the next room while using them. You can clean your house whenever you please. Some models have been designed to work even while you’re away.
+You just need to program the machine.
+Robot vacuums are generally quiet so you don’t need to think of this when choosing one. Most of them will produce noise below 70 decibels. On the flip side, they don’t excel at deep or heavy cleaning. They also can’t be used to clean top stairs, ceilings, and shelves. You may need to get a solid back up for tasks like these.
+Handheld Vacuums
+This is the most basic form of a vacuum cleaner. They’re only suitable for simple jobs like cleaning small surfaces. They operate with old technology and lack insulation so they tend to be quite noisy. If you must get a handheld vacuum, find one which produces less noise.
+ARTTRA Gallery
+ARTTRA has been organising changing exhibitions of (inter)national contemporary artists since 1988. Come and view our gallery during opening hours.
+Wednesday till Friday from 12.00 till 17.00 or on appointment.
+ARTTRA Gallery
+January /Februari 2022
+Exhibition
+Connectivity
+Orna Wertman
+the 15th of January until the 26th of February 2022
+@Orna Wertman, fotomontage, I was not in Japan’ 125 x 178 cm (2019)
+November /Januari 2022
+Exhibition
+Ode aan Hercules Seghers
+Rik Lina
+the 6th of November until the 9th of January 2022
+September /October 2021
+Exhibition
+Quiet Light III
+Jac Bisschops
+the 4th of September until the 31th of October 2021
+“Tres” gold foil – wood
+May /August 2021
+Exhibition
+Ode to Adriaen Coorte
+the 1st of May until the 31th of August 2021
+Adriaen Coorte, Max Vilt, Cees Nouwens, Guido Pera,
+Harm Mouw, Adriaen Coorte
+March /April 2021
+Exhibition
+‘The Path of the Labyrinth’ by Sandra Derks
+the 6th of March until the 25th of April 2021
+January 2021/February 2021
+Exhibition
+Bob Bunck: Edward curtis
+the 16th of January 2021 until the 28th of February 2021
+November 2020/January 2021
+Exhibition
+���Amsterdam in oil paint’
+by Boudewijn Payens
+the 7th of November 2020 until the 7th ofJanuary 2021
+Opening Saturday 7th of November from 4pm until 7pm
+Roeterseiland (2019) 205 x 100 cm
+September/October 2020
+Exhibition
+‘Polyfonie’
+by Jac Bisschops
+the 5th of September until the 30th of October 2020
+Opening Saturday 5th of September from 4pm until 7pm
+Choir 2020
+tempera – linnen * triptiek: 27 x 146 cm
+July/August 2020
+Exhibition
+‘Scaled up’
+by Peter van der Heijden
+the 25th of July until the 30th of August 2020
+June/July 2020
+Exhibition
+‘Ritme in beeld’
+by Joost hoekstra
+the 6th of June until the 19th of July 2020
+Opening Saturday 6th of June from 4pm until 7pm
+March/May 2020
+Exhibition
+‘Oneindigheid’
+by Sandra Derks
+the 7th of March until the 31st of May 2020
+Opening Saturday 7th of March from 4pm until 7pm
+January/March 2020
+Exhibition
+‘Hommage aan geestverwanten’
+by Rik Lina
+the 11th of January until the 1st of March 2020
+Opening Saturday 11th of January from 4pm until 7pm
+1997 saba-wells bay (hommage aan Tao Chi)
+1983 Coupe Degas, 140 x 110 cm
+November/December 2019
+Exhibition
+‘Voltooid Verleden Tijd’
+by Mirjam de Zeeuw
+the 2nd of November until the 28th of December 2019
+Opening Saturday 2nd of November from 4pm until 7pm
+October 2019
+Exhibition
+‘On Friendship/ (Collateral Damage) III – The Third GaLUT: Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam’
+By Joseph Sassoon Semah
+the 5th of October until the 30th of October 2019
+Opening Saturday 5th of October from 4pm until 7pm
+August / October 2019
+Exhibition
+– Resonance of Colors –
+by Jac Bisschops
+the 31st of August till the 2nd of October 2019
+Opening: Saturday 31st of August from 4 pm till 7 pm
+Jac Bisschops Stream 2019 tempera – bladgoud 24 karaat – hout 34 x 28 cm
+Jac Bisschops (1952) is a master in transforming the experience of space. His work refers to the invaluable worth of simplicity, spirituality, and transcendence. His paintings are characterized by clear composition and blazing color fields that unfold as meditative, pure sounds in a space. In his body of work, culminated over the last 40 years, he builds on ideas of among others Piero della Francesca, Piet Mondriaan, Ives Klein, and Andrei Tarkovski. Next to study trips in Europe, Jac Bisschops traveled to many corners of the world including Egypt, India, the Himalayas, Nepal, Morocco, and Mali. Apart from the metaphysical experience from being in nature, he absorbed art and the sacral architecture of ancient cultures. He is inspired by classical and contemporary spiritual and religieus music. His philosophy of life is oriented on Zen Buddhism.
+June / July / August 2019
+Exhibition
+Ganikovsky and Parshchikov
+the 9th of June till the 23rd of August 2019
+Opening: Sunday 9th of June from 4 pm till 7 pm
+March/ May 2019
+Exhibition
+‘To See or not to See’
+Aad Berlijn
+the 9th of March till the 2nd of June 2019 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: saturday 9th of March from 4 pm till 7 pm
+January / March 2019
+Exhibition
+‘Strange Games” by Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko
+the 12th of January till the 3rd of March 2019 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: saturday 12th of January from 4 pm till 7 pm
+December / January 2019
+Exhibition
+Bonheur is Bonheur is Anna Bonheur
+the 15th of December till the 9th of January 2019 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: saturday 15th of December from 4 pm till 7 pm
+November / December 2018
+Exhibition
+‘Lens-scape’
+Jeroen Werner
+the 4th of November till the 12th of December 2018 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: sunday 4th of November from 4 pm till 7 pm
+September / October 2018
+Exhibition
+‘Resonance of silence’
+Jac Bisschops
+the 16th of September till the 28th of October 2018 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: sunday 16th of September from 4 pm till 7 pm
+June / July 2018
+Exhibition
+‘UPPER TEN’
+Peter van der Heijden
+the 3rd of June till the 26th of August 2018 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: sunday 3rd of June from 4 pm till 7 pm
+April / May 2018
+Exhibition
+‘Colors of trade’
+New paintings by Titus Dekker
+the 2nd of April till the 31st of May 2018 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: saturday 31st of March from 4 pm till 7 pm
+February / March 2018
+Exhibition
+‘Return of the Feniks’
+from Derks & Van Betuw
+the 18th of February till the 25th of March 2018 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: Sunday 18th of February 4 pm till 7 pm
+January / February 2018
+Exhibition
+‘Completeness’
+from the Dutch/Korean Artist Lee Eun Young.
+the 14th of January till the 11th of February 2018 at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: Sunday 14th of January 4 pm till 7 pm
+October / December 2017
+Exhibition
+”INNER”
+of
+Jac Bisschops
+the 29th of October till the 7th of January at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: Sunday the 29th of October 3 pm till 7 pm
+Also Opened during Amsterdam Art Weekend
+Friday November 24 from 14.00 – 19.00 hrs
+Saturday November 25 from 14.00 – 19:00 hrs
+Sunday November 26 from 14.00 – 19:00 hrs
+September / October
+Exhibition
+”Kandinsky’s Autumn”
+of
+Cecile van der Heiden
+the 9th of September till the 20th of October at ARTTRA gallery
+Opening: Saturday the 9th of September 4 pm till 7 pm
+July / August
+Exhibition
+Carel Lanters
+‘Storytellers’
+the 8th of July till the 31st of August
+Opening: Saturday the 8th of July 4 pm till 7 pm
+May / June
+Exhibition
+Cees Nouwens
+‘The Architect’
+the 20th of May until the 30th of June 2017
+April / May
+Exhibition
+Frans Vendel
+‘Space, Rhythm,Structure and Measurements in Black and White‘
+the 8th of April until the 15th of May 2017
+February / March
+Exhibition
+Paul Dikker
+‘Tamelijk opzienbarend‘
+the 18th of February until the 31st of March 2017
+January / February
+Exhibition
+Mirjam de Zeeuw
+‘rescued from oblivion’
+the 14th of January until the 14th of February 2017
+ARTTRA
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+Jesus' Last Word to the Pharisees
+I met with a young guy this past week that I was involved in ministry to. And he told me that he’s walked away from faith in Jesus – faith in God – and doesn’t plan on coming back.
+He realised that all of his Christian activity before was actually not heart-felt, and was just a show, and he’s tired of pretending.
+How sad that is. But I’m glad that’s he’s not pretending. Pretending gets us nowhere.
+The Pharisees were pretenders, and we’re going to see Jesus deal with them tonight in a way unlike He’d ever done before. He’s going to reveal them for who they are, not for who they pretend to be. It’s a long chapter, so let’s begin.
+HOW TO BE A PHARISEE
+In His final teaching in the synagogue, which we’re reading tonight, Jesus rips off the masks that the Pharisees have been hiding behind in order to make themselves appear impressive. Jesus does this so that they, and those around them, will be able to take a proper look at what’s under the surface, and hopefully to be moved to repentance.
+However, we see by the end that the Pharisees have actually passed a point of no return, and Jesus ends with a deep cry of pain and sorrow.
+But before we get there, let’s look at just some of the points that Jesus attacks, some of the masks that Jesus rips off the faces of the Pharisees.
+And before we start, I want to encourage to hold up a spiritual mirror tonight. Nobody wants to be called a Pharisee – they are a byword for wickedness now – but at the time they thought they were doing pretty well before God. Maybe you feel that way about yourself, and let this be a time to check your own heart and see if you wear some of the same masks that these did.
+1. The Danger of Pride (vss. 2-15)
+The first thing, and perhaps most obvious thing, that the Pharisees and the TOTL (Teachers of the Law) struggled with was a deep, unyielding pride. They had a deep longing to be seen and applauded by men.
+Look at some of the descriptions Jesus gives: They love to sit in Moses’ seat – that means, they loved to teach the people from the Scriptures like I am doing now – because that meant that people looked up to them for wisdom. They loved to make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long. That comes from Deuteronomy 6:8 and Numbers 15 – instructions from God for people to help them to remember and remember to keep His Law. Phylacteries were little boxes which contained Bible passages, as well as a strip of leather which one tied around an arm. Tassels were worn at the end of one’s garment to remind the person of God’s commands. In order to show their devotion, the Pharisees made their leather strips wider and their tassels longer to be seen by more people.
+They loved the place of honour at banquets and special seats at special events. Don’t we all? They loved to be called Rabbi, Father, and Teacher.
+They loved to be seen, and people loved to see them. Some of these benefits to spiritual leadership they didn’t take by force, they received them from people.
+But they were full of pride, and the end result of their pride was what Jesus says in verse 13: You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
+Pride keeps us and others from entering heaven.
+Does your pride keep you and others from entering God’s heaven?
+Before you answer, let me define pride for you: Pride is calling people to look at you rather than Jesus. Pride is worrying about what people think about you at a party instead of being God’s light at a party. Pride is getting upset that someone else got special treatment in the Home Affairs line instead of seeking to serve the people around you in the line. Pride is getting upset for not getting your own way when your boss takes the credit for your work.
+Pride seeks self, not God. Pride always desperately tries to get attention, tries desperately to be approved by people, tries desperately to appear superior. And pride pulls people away from God.
+You see, Jesus was flinging the gates of heaven wide open for anyone who would enter in, but the Pharisees couldn’t handle the focus going off of them, and so they tried to turn the minds onto them, and so turned those minds off of Jesus.
+This is why Jesus called them Hypocrites – Hypocrites because they were pretending to hold open the door to heaven while in actual fact it is a door to a dark chasm. Hypocrites because they were standing in filth and calling it glory.
+The question for you and I tonight is this: How often do we shut up the way for people to enter God’s glory because we want attention on ourselves and people to glory in us and our abilities rather than Christ?
+The danger of Pride.
+Let’s look next at
+2. The Danger of Blindness (vss. 16-22)
+Jesus doesn’t often call people names, but when He does, it’s something we should take note of.
+When Jesus calls them blind, what is He actually accusing them of?
+The Pharisees had allowed themselves to become blinded by worldliness – seeing things the way that the world sees them, valuing things because the world values them.
+Look at what they had done. In their oaths, they had allowed the people to become fickle and only keep the oaths that were made on the things that people see as more valuable: The gold of the temple, the gift or the sacrifice of the altar.
+But gold without a temple is just a metal, and sacrifice without an altar is just a braai.
+Jesus rebukes the Pharisees; God’s Spirit – God’s presence is what makes the temple anything more than a hall, and the altar anything more than a fire-pit. You’re blind to spiritual matters; you care nothing for the God behind the temple practices.
+And here we also fall short, Church.
+How often do we put primary importance onto things that are only made of primary importance by God’s Spirit, but remain blind to God’s Spirit?
+What do I mean? We can read Bible, run missions trips, preach sermons, say long prayers, plant Churches…and all with it being as dead and empty as an altar unconsecrated by God.
+How often do we read out Bibles and not seek the God of the Bible? And then we say we’ve accomplished something, but we haven’t. We’re just as spiritually disconnected and blind as these Pharisees – we’re just less Bible literate than they were. Man, they knew their Bibles well!
+Are you blinded by worldly treasures?
+The third danger we see was
+3. The Danger of Legalism (vss. 23-24)
+I want you to notice that Jesus doesn’t rebuke them here for paying tithes. In all these matters, Jesus isn’t rebuking the Pharisees for what they’re doing, but for doing them with the wrong heart. Jesus doesn’t tell them to stop doing what they’re doing, He’s simply telling them that there’s more to it than just an outward show.
+And here we come to the matter of just how careful the Pharisees were to obeying the minute parts of the Law. Tithing was required in the Law of Moses, but nowhere in Moses’ Law did it specify these herbs had to be tithed – these were just common herbs. Mint was sprinkled on people’s floors to help the room smell nice; it wasn’t an expensive resource.
+And here the Pharisees were; tithing not just the resources that are specifically mentioned by Moses, but even the resources that are not mentioned, and yet Jesus rebukes them. Why?
+Because they were taking the easy route!
+What? Yes – the easy route.
+Jesus says that there are some parts of the Law that are more weighty, and some that are less weighty – more important and less important. He doesn’t say to just keep the more weighty parts, He says keep all the parts.
+But the Pharisees were only keeping the less weighty parts.
+How on earth is tithing down to your smallest cent the less weighty part?
+It is easier to do the less weighty things – it is easier to read Bible than to lay our heart bare before God – it is easier to pay tithe than to seek God’s direction for our finances – it is easier to give to the poor than to strive for their benefit – it is easier to swallow and bury hurt done to us by others than to bring that hurt to God and receive healing enough to extend mercy to our offender…
+Legalism is easy, because it requires muscle work; surrender is hard, because it requires heart-work.
+The TOTL&P made a great show of zeal in doing what was easy, and shirked the serious and more arduous requirements of duty.
+And look to what extent they did this: It became a proverb: To strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. Both of these creatures are unclean for the Jew – you can’t eat either and be spiritually clean. But the irony of legalism was that they were keeping the lighter parts of the law – straining out a gnat as it were, while completely neglecting the weightier parts of God’s command: His call for heart work – swallowing a camel as it were.
+This is the danger of legalism.
+As Christians, we run from legalism. ‘No, I’d better not read my Bible today because then I’m just being legalistic; I’d better not attend Church until I feel like it because if I go when I don’t feel like it I’m being legalistic…’
+Legalism is not 'doing spiritual duties' – spiritual duties are good! Legalism is doing them and taking pride in them; legalism is feeding the poor and telling them they should be grateful for you; legalism is waving your tithe around so people see what you’re giving; legalism is doing the physical work that God calls us to do without doing the spiritual work that God calls us to do with it.
+That’s the danger of Legalism.
+Let’s look at the next danger,
+4. The Danger of Externalism (vss. 25-28)
+What’s interesting about these first two verses that you won’t understand from the English is that when Jesus speaks about cleaning the inside of the cup and dish, He’s not talking about inside as in the inside surface.
+Jesus is saying that the Pharisees have collected their food, as we see in the previous verses, through ungodly practices, through greed and extortion. Then they go and do their ceremonial washing of the plates and bowls and eat the food gained through sinful ways!
+. In addition to his senatorial career, Hatch is a prolific songwriter—he has written odes to John McCain, America, Hanukkah, and Princess Diana, among other subjects—and so Franken approached him and asked to hear a few tunes. Hatch played a recording of a song called “Headed Home,” which was written before his close friend Ted Kennedy died and had a metaphor about sailing into the ocean. “It was obvious what that was about, and I began to tear up a bit,” Franken told me. Then Hatch played a sad song in which an American wife entreats her husband, a soldier in Kandahar, to “Come Home.” “The waterworks started,” Franken recalled. “I’m a crier.”
+To lighten the mood, Hatch broke out a country music number called “Are You Lonely Here With Me?” The song made Franken laugh, and he confessed to Hatch that he had written a humorous country song of his own, “We Stayed Together for the Kids.” He proceeded to sing it for me in an exaggerated Nashville twang:
+We stayed together for the kids
+And this is what we thought we had to do
+But now the kids are up and gone
+And there’s just me and there’s just you
+Franken explained to Hatch that he wanted the song to conclude with the couple deciding to stay together, despite their many years of bickering. But he needed a bridge to reach this happy ending, and Hatch suggested they write one together. A few weeks later, the pair spent more than an hour brainstorming lyrics and discarding lines they thought weren’t sufficiently funny. Finally, they came up with this: “I’m amazed the kids turned out ok/I’m amazed with you today.” Franken explained, “The verses are all about how they couldn’t stand each other, basically, and all the stuff that went on between them, and then the last verse is sort of like, ‘You got better with age, you grew up a little too/I’ll share my empty nest with you.’ It turns out they’re glad they stayed together.”
+I asked Franken the obvious question: Was the song a metaphor? Was he going out of his way to work with Republicans for the good of the kids—that is, the American people? Franken cackled. “I don’t know if I’d go that far—I actually really enjoy a lot of my Republican colleagues,” he said. “And I try to get along with everyone. The Senate is like a small town with a hundred people in it. And each one can put a hold on you.” Warming to his metaphor, Franken grinned mischievously. “It’s a somewhat contentious small town ... and some members are sometimes trying to slow down what the town is doing when the town really needs to be moving. But what are you going to do? It’s obviously been a difficult time in certain respects, sometimes it is frustrating ... but you don’t take it out” on your colleagues.
+When Franken launched his campaign for the Senate, it wasn’t obvious that the former comedian and Air America pundit would become a devotee of the rituals of senatorial comity. As an entertainer, Franken had mastered a combative political persona in which he tackled his ideological opponents head-on. Given the opportunity to interview George W. Bush, then a presidential candidate, he asked Bush whether he’d ever manufactured crystal meth. He famously got into a shouting match with Bill O’Reilly at a C-SPAN panel discussion, and, in another of his books, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, he recounted that he’d once called up National Review editor Rich Lowry and challenged him to a fight in a parking garage. When Franken arrived in Washington, many expected him to be a bombastic, no-holds-barred partisan.
+But Franken has self-consciously chosen a different model: the institutionalist who can achieve bipartisan consensus but also successfully champion liberal legislation. During his brief time in office, Franken has emerged as a throwback to the successful progressives of a distant era when senators knew what they were talking about and spent long hours working on worthy policy proposals to make the lives of their constituents better. As unlikely as it may appear, at a time when it seems as if every politician wants to be a celebrity, Franken has used his celebrity to become a serious senator.
+During the election campaign, Republicans mined Franken’s show-business career for attack ads, taking aim at some of his more risqué “Saturday Night Live” skits and a satirical article he once wrote for Playboy about having sex with robots. When it became clear that Franken was going to make it to the Senate, he knew he had to dispel his image as a cutup. He sat down with Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Tamera Luzzatto, and asked her how Clinton—who had also arrived in Washington with the advantages and baggage of a celebrity—had developed a reputation as an effective lawmaker. Franken was told “she came to each hearing prepared—she came early and stayed late,” he recalled. After he was assigned to the Judiciary Committee, he diligently followed this advice. Since many of the hearings were perfunctory and uncontroversial, he often found himself alone with the chairman and ranking member, Senators Patrick Leahy and Jeff Sessions. “Sessions would always say, ‘Oh, Al’s here,’” Franken recalls, mimicking Sessions’s Alabama drawl. “I remember once, when Leahy had to leave, I was chairing the hearing, and Sessions said: ‘A meteoric raahz!’” Franken replied, “And well deserved!”. “It’s clear to me that he could have been a world-class litigator, and his ability to take people down the slippery slope is just fabulous,” said his friend Norman Ornstein, a congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute. “I saw a hearing on health care where a witness was talking about how our system was the best in the world and how awful others are, and Al asked,‘Do you know how many bankruptcies there were as a result of health care in Switzerland?’” When the witness said no, Franken said “[t]he answer is zero,” and then went through a list of other countries that had no bankruptcies. “The witness was just filleted,” Ornstein said.
+On the morning of the second day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, I met Franken at his tastefully decorated townhouse, which is located a few minutes from the Capitol. He kindly offered me a bagel, but couldn’t find a serrated knife to cut it, so he grabbed a butcher’s knife instead and brandished it animatedly as he talked about his policy agenda. (Eventually, his wife, Franni, came in and prevented him from injuring both of us.) After the interview, Franni made sure that Franken had remembered his accessories—an aspirin, a pink BlackBerry, keys, and a phone. We piled into the car along with Hazel, a friend from the Upper West Side who had come along for the show. While Franni drove, Franken lamented the jokes he wouldn’t be able to make in the hearings for fear of appearing unserious. (Not all of his fellow senators were so restrained: Franken’s colleague from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, quizzed Kagan on her opinion regarding “the famous case of Edward v. Jacob”—a reference to the Twilight vampire movies.) Later that day, the press and the blogosphere focused on the fact that Franken had amused himself during the hearing by doodling a surprisingly good likeness of Sessions, which was captured by an AP photographer.
+Most commentators, however, missed Franken’s impressively substantive discussion with Kagan over how to protect civil liberties at a time when Comcast, Google, and Facebook have more power than the Supreme Court over privacy and free speech. Franken was especially concerned about the pending merger between NBC and Comcast. Noting that Comcast was the nation’s largest cable operator, Franken warned that if the company owned “both the pipes and the programming,” it could favor its own content or charge more for it, leading to “fewer voices, and a smaller marketplace of ideas.” He explained, “That’s a First Amendment problem. It’s also an antitrust problem.” Franken’s knowledge of this issue dates back to his time at NBC in the 1990s, when an obscure rule change ultimately allowed networks to own, and thus control, most of the content they air, rather than purchase it from independent producers—a move that Franken believes has limited the range of views on television. Franken then asked one of the best questions of the hearings: “Do you believe that the First Amendment could inform how the government looks at media antitrust cases?” Although she was unable to comment on the merger, Kagan acknowledged Franken’s point: “I guess you could be thinking about that as a kind of policy matter as to whether the authorities that are responsible for approving mergers and such ought to take into account so-called ... First Amendment values.”
+Franken also used the confirmation hearing to lay out a robust vision of progressive constitutionalism. He attacked a “bare majority” of the Roberts Court for having “used its power to help big business.” Taking aim at the Citizens United decision, he pointed out that unlimited corporate spending by companies like Standard Oil and GM might have meant the failure of the Clean Water and Clean Air acts of the 1970s, both of which passed around 60 days before an election..”
+Franken has accomplished more in his first year than many Senate freshmen, sponsoring several amendments that became law. One requires health insurance companies to spend 85 percent of premiums on actual medical care, not administrative costs or other expenses. “The medical-loss ratio is one of the things I’m proudest of,” Franken told me. Another measure bans the federal government from awarding contracts to employers who require employees to give up their right to sue for sexual harassment or rape at work. (The law was inspired by the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who accused her co-workers at Halliburton in Baghdad of gang raping her and was forced by Halliburton into secret arbitration.)
+However, Franken was less successful when it came to his most ambitious legislative proposal: reining in the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis. After reading Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, Franken became outraged that the rating agencies, which were in the pocket of the mega-banks, had given triple-A status to securities so complicated that no one understood their true value and which ultimately proved to be worthless. Franken wrote an amendment that would have created a board to randomly assign rating agencies to banks, instead of allowing them to shop around for the agency most likely to whitewash their risky products. The board was also given incentives to favor agencies whose ratings proved the most accurate over time. Although the amendment cleared the Senate with eleven Republican votes, it was opposed by Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd and failed to survive the conference between House and Senate lawmakers.
+I asked Franken whether he worried that corporate lobbyists had killed the measure. “It’s obviously a problem,” he replied. “But lobbyists often represent a major constituency in your state: How do you vote against banking interests in Delaware when half the state is employed” by banks? He laughed wearily. “When there’s a very close call, and you don’t know how to vote anyway, and there are eight arguments against the thing and eight arguments for it, you might as well go with the way the constituency group of the lobbyist is asking you to ... or what your staff is saying.” He added, “I’ve talked senators out of a vote that their staff had told them one way to vote, and they were completely misinformed. ... On the ratings bill, people were told, ‘This is going to give an official U.S. stamp of approval to the credit ratings,’ and the opposite was written into the bill!” The failure of the rating-agency amendment also suggests that Franken may have been less effective in persuading his colleagues than he had hoped. His office suggested that I call Hatch and Roberts for testimonials to his bipartisan effectiveness. Neither senator called back.
+Franken’s staff told me that his ultimate model is not Hillary Clinton but Teddy Kennedy—a master of working across the aisle to advance an unequivocally liberal agenda. Whether Franken can fill Kennedy’s shoes will hinge on his ability to combine legislative skills with a fiery economic populism that is as progressive as the Tea Party’s populism is conservative. Although Franken has been a relatively successful institutionalist, he hasn’t yet demonstrated Kennedy’s ability to bend ideologically in order to cut a deal. (Of course, bipartisan deal-making may also be less possible in today’s polarized Senate than it was during Kennedy’s long tenure in office.)
+Economic populism has deep roots in Minnesota, including a string of senators associated with the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, and Paul Wellstone. Franken was a close friend of Wellstone’s, whose memorial service became so politicized by Norm Coleman and other Republicans that, according to Ornstein, it helped spur Franken to launch his bid for elected office.
+Franken’s economic outlook was also influenced by his father, who struggled as a printing salesman in Minneapolis, and by Franni, whom he met when he was a freshman at Harvard. When Franni was an infant, her father, a World War II veteran, died in a car accident and her mother was left a widow with five children at the age of 29. They bought a house in Maine with a G.I. loan. Her mother supplemented her income from the produce department at a grocery store with Social Security. All four girls got college educations, thanks in part to Pell Grants and Defense Department student loans. The experience, which Franken has described with tears in his eyes, convinced him of the importance of the federal safety net.
+I asked Franken what had frustrated him most about his first year in Washington, and he mentioned the defeat, in June, of a Senate bill to extend unemployment insurance benefits to the long-term unemployed. (A version of the bill passed after we spoke.) “I’ll go into a union hall and see people whose whole identity is their job—these guys have worked since they were ten years old ... and they haven’t had a job in six months, and you see that they’re literally depressed.” Franken shook his head in disbelief. “I’ve had guys say to me, ‘If it weren’t for unemployment insurance ... I wouldn’t be in my house,’ and then I hear how unemployment insurance incentivizes people not to get jobs,” he said. “You hear that, and you think how out of touch that is, and how insensitive it is.”
+“I want to achieve a lot,” he continued. “A real energy policy that takes us into the future, a transportation policy that gets us focused on things that create prosperity, education, the right kind of infrastructure, and creating the most vibrant, prosperous society we can.” Realizing that he was veering into a stump speech, he gave a self-deprecating shrug, and added that he would like to remain in the Senate for a long time, until he’s as old as the late Senator Robert Byrd. “It depends how I’m doing at a hundred and eighteen,” he explained. “I have this running joke ... that I want to be a senator until I’m so out of it that all I can say is ‘how dee doo.’”
+Jeffrey Rosen is the legal affairs editor at The New Republic. This article ran in the December 2, 2010, issue of the magazine.
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+Imaginext Pirates
+Imaginext's Pirate line-up combines the traditional pirate-y themes of sailing ships and cutlasses with Pirates of the Caribbean-style skeletal raiders and, coolest of all, a quasi-steampunk motif. It's significantly more Jules Verne than Robert Louis Stevenson, with an abundance of smokestacks, cogs and big brass levers abounding and adding a really neat little fantasy element to the toys.
+Although the Pirate Crab Walker and Pirate Submarine are perhaps the two most steampirate sets in the line-up, the Shark Boat comes pretty close in terms of brass bits and buccaneering, as we'll see in today's Review.
+The Shark Boat
+There are no prizes for guessing that the Shark Boat is a, well, shark-themed boat. But look beyond the initial description and you'll find a lot of very cool details and play features are here, waiting to be discovered.
+The Shark Boat Captain
+So let's start with a look at the boat's captain. I've dubbed him Captain Sharky, but - like most of the Imaginext toys - there's no official title or back-story to this guy, which is something I really respond to, as it encourages kids to think creatively and create their own play scenarios. Is he a bad guy? Who are his friends? What does he want? It's this kind of ''blank canvas'' play that's central to the Imaginext line and is something I find most agreeable.
+Like most Imaginext figures, Captain Sharky is the standard buck augmented with a few custom pieces and accessories, with his captain's coat - complete with very fancy epaulets - being the piece that truly defines the figure. It's a really neat-looking piece and although the shoulders may inhibit some of his movement, it's worth the sacrifice as it looks so cool.
+Behold! The Bad-Ass Buccaneer!
+The face tampo and the rear print on his coat are neatly applied, as is the minor detailing on his boots and belt. There's not a massive amount of color here but he's supposed to be a seafaring scoundrel, so we can excuse the muted tone of his grey/green outfit.
+As with all Imaginext core figures, Captain Sharky sports a pretty neat articulation set-up, with a single-twist neck joint, double-jointed shoulders, twist wrists and a single-joint connecting both legs to a hip bend.
+The Shark Boat
+Let's move onto the Shark Boat itself.
+As you can see, there's a lot going on here. From the smokestack exhaust pipes to the side cannons and tail rotor, it's a busy-looking piece that has a lot to offer.
+My initial thoughts were that the boat was just that - a surface-faring vessel. But upon closer inspection I noticed a number of additional details that lead me to believe it's also a submersible vehicle. Note the presence of both a rudder (for surface steering) and a propeller (for underwater movement), along with the side-mounted fins (which serve no purpose on the water but would help steer when submersed) and - perhaps most telling of all - the top-mounted periscope. And I don't think I'm reading too much into the design of the rear segment when I say it looks like some kind of concertinaed/folding cover. This submersible design, of course, makes perfect sense, given that the boat is the Shark Boat and not the Swims on the Surface Boat...
+And speaking of sharks, it's plainly obvious where the boat gets its name, but if you haven't noticed it yet...
+... the front half of the boat is designed to resemble a shark's maw. But it's not just for looks. By pressing the captain down on the red activator panel (his standard ''command'' position) you can access the boat's major ''mechanical'' play feature: the disc launcher.
+With each press, the mouth opens and a single disc is launched at your opponent. It's a very cool little feature that works well whilst managing to be fairly non-harmful. It would take a significant amount of effort to injure somebody using this feature, as the discs themselves are lacking in any form of spiky protrusion and the launch speed is enough for it to be fun but not so much as to be dangerous.
+One point I will make though is that there are no instructions on how to load the disc launcher. Whilst this is a good thing, as it encourages children to discover the feature for themselves, as an adult I did find myself unsure as to how the loading mechanism worked and at one point managed to jam-up the launcher when I tried to ''manually'' load the discs. It was only when I lifted the boat by the ''conning tower'' that I discovered a hinged trapdoor, leading to the disc ''magazine.''
+As an adult who is used to handling ''collectible figures'' I think I'm sometimes a little too cautious and so I don't tend to pull on parts or try to move pieces unless I'm 100% certain they're supposed to do that, so I'm sure a child - with all their reckless energy and desire to discover - wouldn't experience the same issue but I've included this confession just so others will hopefully not experience the same issue...!
+Although the disc-launching maw is probably the Shark Boat's most impressive play feature, there are a few other minor points also worth mentioning.
+The previously-mentioned rudder is mounted on a hinged joint, allowing you to move it from side to side (and thus steer your boat.) And on the underside of the vessel are a number of small wheels, connected to a mechanism that moves both the propeller and stabilizing fins (rotating and flapping them, respectively.) The fins are also hinged, which allows you to re-angle them independently or even fold them up for surface sailing/storage. There's also a periscope, which can be rotated and a rear-mounted, removable pirate flag.
+Like a lot of Imaginext toys, there's not a great deal of paintwork on the Shark Boat, with the use of solid - and variously - colored pieces being the predominant method used to add contrast to the piece (although where there is paint, such as on the side rails, it's very cleanly applied.)
+The palette is good, with the brass/gold and grey/silver industrial-style metal pieces working nicely with the steampunk aesthetic and the brown wood and nautical blue adding a sense of maritime vessel to the design. A few extra color details - such as a painted lens on the periscope or some blackened tips to the exhausts - would have been welcome but this is really nitpicking on my part and the overall color scheme works well.
+One minor... and I hate to even call it a ''disappointment'' but I'm really not sure how else to word it... is that for all the Shark Boat's relative size, there's very little ''play'' space on the vessel. The captain can stand atop the conning tower or... he can stand atop the conning tower. I'd have liked to have an additional space somewhere for him, such as on the fore deck or similar, or space for a second pirate (Fisher-Price produce double-packs of pirates without vehicles, but as of yet I've yet to find a vehicle that can really accommodate additional crewmen) because, for all its awesome play features and great looks, it can feel a little like simply a ''lump of plastic'' at times. Again, it's a minor point and I'm criticizing it for not being what I personally think it should be but I did want to raise that issue.
+And, like all Imaginext toys, there's a great feeling of solid, durability to this toy. I could imagine it would survive a tough play session with ease, as there's very little here that could break off (the pirate flag can simply be detached and re-attached should the need arise) but there's also a lot of very neat close-up detail in the sculpt that stops it from simply being a solid block. And if you're a fan of steampunk or industrial-style detailing, then you'll really appreciate what's going on here.
+Final Thoughts
+It's probably quite apparent from the above text that, despite my best efforts not to give it away too early , I really like this toy.
+Yes, it would have been nice to have a little extra deck space or another position for the captain (or another crewman) and there may be a little bit of a squandered opportunity to capitalize on its surface-sailing and submarine qualities (such as having a space to allow the captain to climb into the sub) and, sure, the loading mechanism isn't as obvious as it should be (at least, not to me - I'm sure kids will figure it out in seconds) but these are really very minor points when you consider just how much fun this toy is.
+When I first saw the toy on shelves, I expected the opening mouth/disc launcher to be the toy's only real feature but now, having played with it and explored all it has to offer, it becomes clear that this is only a small part of what makes the toy fun. The combination of ship and sub is a great little creative touch and I'm sure small hands will sail this vessel over - and under - various oceans and seas in search of treasure and adventure and it's that sense of imagination and wonder that really makes the Imaginext line so much fun. Even as an adult you find yourself creating play scenarios, ascribing function to form and thinking about how the toy could be used to tell stories. Indeed, much of the fun comes not from what the toy is but what it makes you think it is, if that makes sense. To me that's most definitely a good thing whether you're six or sixty.
+Add to that the neat design, solid feel and cool little play features and it quickly becomes clear why the Shark Boat is just so much fun. If you're not collecting these toys then you should be, as they're super retro-fun with great designs at a fantastic price (the Shark Boat retails for around $20, which is little more than you'd pay for a 6'' action figure.)
+A fun, well-designed, feature-packed toy at a great price.
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+I saw this bad boy the other and thought it was rockin'!
+I hadn't paid much attention to the Pirates stuff until recently. There's a really nice steampunk/Jules Verne-ish vibe to a lot of it, which I really dig. Hopefully there'll be a few additions to my Pirate fleet this weekend!
+Very cool review. I haven't seen this one out there yet. I'm really glad to see someone else reviewing Imaginext stuff. I've got a bunch, although my daughter is only able to play with Little People right now. I'm hoping she digs Imaginext stuff in a year or two, though.
+Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
+Yeah, I'm sure she'll really like them. If not, well they can always go in dad's collection, right? :)
+It's my belief (seeing as I'm writing this roughly a year since this review was written) that there was either supposed to be a full "Steam Punk Pirates" theme, or they were just a little taste to mix things up a bit. First you have this Shark Boat with a human pirate. Then the Dive Armor with a human pirate & then the Skull Crab Walker with a Skeleton pirate. I didn't think anything of it until I saw this 4th item, simply titled "Pirate & Skeleton" that comes with a rather unique looking pair of pirates:
+If you look closely at these two figures, you'll notice something: these are Steam Punk Pirate Captains, one human the other skeletal. Upon making that discovery, I figured that the whole plan was to have this 2-pack supply kids with the needed leaders for each faction but since the Steam Punk Pirate theme was never more then a glimpse, nothing went beyond this.
+I have the Skull Crab Walker, I just need to track down the diver armor, shark boat & these two pirates to complete that mini-theme for me. The Phantom/Ghost Pirates may have also been another exploration in the Pirate Theme by adding Ghosts to the mix, which makes for alot of fun too. Wow, that's one heck of a 3-way pirate war:
+Steam Punk Pirates VS Skeletal Steam Punk Pirates VS Ghost Pirates! O_O
+I was fortunate enough to receive the Ghost Pirate Island for Xmas and it makes for a fantastic ''sunken'' base. Right now I have various pirate factions in their regular ships sailing above it (on the top shelf) and, below, the factions in their diving vehicles (or undead forms) battling for control of the treasure.
+But yeah, a full-on Steampunk Pirate wave would have been awesome!
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+The basis of the sport is a series of four to six ascents and subsequent descents that are done in challenging mountain terrain and cover roughly 10 miles with 6,000' of elevation gain and loss. An average competitor will complete the course in about three hours, with the fastest racers coming in at about half of that. The sport enjoys huge popularity in Western Europe where over the last 25 years it has developed into a national mania and big competitions can draw several hundred racers. In the U.S., it is still in its infancy, which makes for a rude shock the first time American racers compete in a World Cup event. Pete Swenson, the 2006 American champion, described the mass starts as "Total mayhem. When the gun went off, I was literally trampled. People are elbowing each other, taking any little gap they can get, breaking poles and running right over your skis. I started near the front and after the first 100 yards was almost last."
+To the top tier countries, it is almost a blood sport, with national pride, substantial sponsorship and careers at stake with every race. There are long term rivalries, fan clubs, flag waving and screaming spectators which urge the racers to climb even faster and descend with fewer turns. This popularity has prompted organizers to reinstate it as an Olympic sport (as it was in 1932) and also add media friendly variations to the competitions, such as the Vertical and Relay events, as well as standard Individual and Team competitions. It is a made to order sport for the Olympic motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius (faster, higher, stronger) and stands a good chance of being included in the 2014 games.
+In anticipation of this, the 2006 Ski Mountaineering World Championships were a dry run of the Olympics, complete with an opening parade and flag ceremony, multiple events, spectacular parties and the best athletes in the world going for the gold.
+Day One - The Vertical Race, Crissolo
+The beautiful medieval town of Cuneo in northwest Italy was the central hub of the World Championships, but the actual races took place in the surrounding mountains about 45 minutes away. The Vertical race was held at a small ski area named Crissolo and was as much about pain and suffering as anything else. Vertical races are the skiing equivalent of an uphill drag race - they start at the bottom, climb 1,000m to the finish line at the top, and the person with the fastest time is the winner. As downhill skiing isn't a consideration here, the event favors racers who are lungs with legs and have the mental fortitude to ignore their screaming thighs and push themselves uphill for 3,281 vertical feet of running with skis on their feet. It is common for competitors to pass out and/or vomit as they cross the finish line as vertical races offer no reprieve.
+The starting sequence ran a racer every 30 seconds, beginning with the junior racers first and finishing with the top seeded men last. The course began on a narrow cat track before merging on to groomed runs and held a steady angle of ascent the entire way. Vertical races are often times won by cross-over athletes from Nordic skiing or bike racing who may not be great downhill skiers, but can fly on the uphills. In this case however, Patrick Blanc from France, one of the best all around skiers alive, laid down a smoking time of 39:11.3 to capture first place, and was followed by two of his teammates for a complete sweep of the podium by France. In human terms, Patrick's time equates to climbing at an average of 5,023' per hour, or basically sprinting uphill with skis, boots, poles and a backpack. Natascia Leonardi of Switzerland took first place in the women's division with a time of 50:11.5 (average of 3,922' per hour) followed by Italy in second and Switzerland in third. The top Americans were Pete Swenson of Boulder, CO (30th place) and Jeannie Wall, the USA Team Manager, from Bozeman, MT (17th). (For complete results, see)
+Day Two - Senior Teams Race, Crissolo
+The Team Race is closest expression of a pure backcountry skiing experience. Teams of two (both of the same gender for race purposes) must stay within 20 meters of each other throughout a series of climbs and descents which include grueling skin tracks, challenging descents and brutal stretches of booting uphill with your skis on your backpack. The racers are not allowed any outside assistance, but can carry each others gear or help the other racer apply or remove climbing skins.
+The course at Crissolo was a skier's dream that for liability and safety reasons would never be possible in the United States. It covered wide open alpine terrain, steep couloirs, groomed slopes, rocks, powder and everything in-between in a stunning mountain environment.
+Racers strategically pick their partners based on complimentary skills and speed. The favorites in the mens division, and eventual winners, were Patrick Blanc and Stephane Brosse from France. As a team, they would be outweighed by most NFL football players. Patrick and Stephane aren't the types you'd be afraid to meet in a dark alley in a dangerous town, but in their element of high alpine terrain, they are a fearsome duo. These two guys are the most serious, best trained, best equipped racers in the world and they led the race from the beginning to the end.
+As a spectator and judge, it was almost disappointing to see them in action. They were the first to arrive at every checkpoint, never seemed out of breath or hurried, had smooth transitions, skied fast but cautiously and never made a mistake. More than anything, what put their performance in perspective were the wild eyed teams who arrived after them, gasping for breath and wincing in pain and yet still losing ground.
+Day Four - Rest Day and Individual Race Briefing
+After two days of racing, it was time for a rest and a chance to get psyched up for the main event taking place the next day, the Individual race. Of all the races, the Individual event is the most popular as it is every man, woman and child (minimum racing age is 16) for themselves. The venue shifted to the beautiful alpine ski resort of Artesina and the 10.6 mile course was designed to test racers to their limit, with 5,700' of ascents and descents over completely untamed terrain.
+Day Five - The Individual Race, Artesina
+Unfortunately, Mother Nature had her own plans for the day of the race which featured incredibly high winds. For safety reasons (wind is known as the architect of avalanches) the course was altered once, then again and finally a third time before the starting gun went off.
+The first long ascent was followed by a tough skiing descent through wind sculpted snow. France, Italy and Switzerland had assumed their usual positions in the lead as they headed up the second ascent, which involved carrying your skis on your backpack while you climbed up a vertical rock wall with a safety rope hung to the side in case you needed it. This was followed by a free fall down an open couloir, where you would then pass through a previous check-point and go on to repeat the course twice. However, what actually happened next would not only cancel the race, but would make headlines all around the world.
+The sport of ski mountaineering is deeply rooted in the high alpine mountains were avalanches are one of the most serious threats. As such, all racers are required to carry avalanche transceivers and a shovel, as well as other safety gear. The courses are designed to be safe, but the high winds from the previous day had reached down into the deeper valleys and wind loaded an obscure bump near the top of the first climb. After allowing over 100 people to pass, the slope fractured and sent torrents of snow down on top of course workers, spectators and roughly 20 racers, including Polly Samuels McLean (my wife). "It happened right in front of me. People were yelling "AVALANCHE! AVALANCHE!" and I saw a group of racers being swept downhill. My first thought was "Can this really be happening?" but everyone was so amped up on adrenaline we all just kept going."
+The race was eventually stopped as all efforts were concentrated on finding out if anyone was buried. The local Mountain Search & Rescue teams organized everyone into probe lines which methodically moved up the debris piles inserting metal avalanche probes into the snowpack to try and locate missing persons. The sound of dogs, helicopters, radios, beacons and excited Italian shouting filled the air for the next four hours until everyone was finally accounted for and it was determined that nobody had been buried or hurt.
+It was an exciting day with a happy ending, although there would be no results or rescheduling of the premier event of the competition, and thus no way of crowning an individual World Champion for 2006.
+Day Six - Team Relay, Artesina
+Team Relays are fairly new in the world of Ski Mountaineering competitions and a favorite among spectators as they pack lots of fast paced action in a small amount of terrain. Teams are comprised of four racers, all of the same sex, who take two laps on a very short course, then tag the next racer, who does the same. The total time for a relay race is about one hour and the lead changes often as different racers come and go.
+In what was almost a made for TV ending, the Italian women's team won on their home turf by a little over one minute, which helped to get the crowd warmed up for the final event of the week, the men's competition. Individually, the French seemed unbeatable, yet the Italians jumped into the lead and were able to slowly grow it as the race wore on. With the crowd whipped into a frenzy, the local favorite and 2006 World Cup Champion, Guido Giacomelli, took the final tag for Team Italia. After extending the lead on his first lap, he came around for his second with victory virtually and so much mass hysteria from the crowd that they almost blocked his way. When it was over, Italy had won by almost two minutes over France, who was a mere 1.3 seconds ahead of Switzerland!
+All Over But the Dancing
+Italy is famous for its incredible food & hospitality and the final feast that was held during the awards ceremony didn't disappoint. Amid steak tartar and clicking glasses of red wine, Italy was crowned as the overall World Champions, followed by Switzerland and France to almost nobody's surprise. Team USA fared well for its first serious entry into big league racing, coming in tenth place, right between Andorra in ninth and Slovakia in eleventh.
+As the official ceremonies died down and people started to leave, the unofficial and most serious gathering of the week was just getting started - the extended after hours party complete with a live band. Skiers love to have a good time, especially with like-minded spirits and the Greeks, Spanish and many other nations were all well represented by the time we walked out of the tent after hours of dancing and strolled back to our hotel through the ancient city walls. Earlier in the day, it was announced that the 2008 World Championships would be held in Switzerland, and I have the feeling that people were already getting excited for them before the band finally called it quits that night.
+I always use this recipe when making chocolate chip cookies because they turn out every single time for me. The cookies stay chewy and thick and the best part is that you can basically add anything you want to them.
+This makes about 8 dozen:
+This makes about 8 dozen:
+Pudding Cookies
+Ingredients:
+( like chocolate/butterscotch/peanut butter/white chocolate chips, candy bars, m&m's, nuts, etc.)
+Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together flour and baking soda in seperate bowl and set aside; in a large bowl, cream butter, brown and white sugar. Beat in pudding mix until well blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. When smooth, slowly add in the flour mixture. This can take a little while, but make sure it's well incorporated into mix.
+Finally, add the "fillers". This time I split the dough in half and used chopped up snickers bars in one:
+And a combination of butterscotch and chocolate chips in the other:
+I use my small melon ball scoop to make 1 " balls so the cookies are all uniform in size and bake evenly. When using the snickers, make sure you smooth the balls or the snickers part will ooze all over your pan.
+Line your cookie sheets with parchment paper and bake for 8-12 minutes or until golden. I like mine slightly underdone, just a tiny bit golden.
+These are just the perfect size and keep so nice all week long, if they last that long! I store them in ice cream gallon containers. So good!
+72 comments:
+Ok, you must delete this post immediately! Or I will make these and eat them all. These look heavenly!
+I love the picture of Sophie. She is the cutest puppy!
+Sheri and I have the same idea, those look freakin' awesome.
+Oooooh Sophie is {{cute}}
+Can you use the sugar free instant pudding in this, or does it need to be the regular kind?
+Wendy, good question. I've never tried the sugar-free(because sugar-free products do some not-so-good things to my body!) but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
+I am on a quest for "the perfect, no-fail chocolate chip cookie recipe." I'm beginning to think it doesn't exist...
+I will DEFINITELY try these next time the baking mood strikes!
+Thanks for stopping by my blog! It's always fun to "meet" new bloggers. I look forward to getting to know you better!
+Jen
+Jennifer, let me know if these hit the spot for you. I know that everyone likes their cookies different. These stay somewhat soft and chewy and that's how I love them!
+Ok... I am sooooooooooo TRYING these!!! YUM!! thank you.. last me a week... never!! LOL LOL.. not with the "camp" of kids I have
+Hi Tanya, a question from another Wendy! *grin* We're about to try these and I have a question!! Is it "4 cups of water *and* add-ins you want" or "4 cups of *whatever* add-ins you want"? That could make a big difference! Thanks!
+Oh gosh, lol. It's whatever, not water! I need to fix that! Sorry, I didn't spellcheck!
+I have seen this recipe arounf the internet. We love chocolate chip cookies at our house - I will hve to give the recipe a try.
+I've been looking at this recipe for a week and I finally got to make them today. Delicious!
+I tried a batch with Andes Mint bits. A new favorite.
+These will have to be tried! i love soft cookies.
+I was wondering about 4 cups water too!
+Sophie is SOO cute. I am trying this recipe today because I have 2 packets of chocolate pudding mix that need to be used up. I wonder if it will work? Love your blog Tanya!
+Do you think they would be ok with margarine instead of butter?
+I have a very similar recipe that is the family favourite.
+When I am short on time I make them into bars! We have named these Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars!
+Love your blog!
+Reader from Ontario Canada
+Oh yum. I am going to make a batch of these and bring them to work...everyone will love me! LOL
+These look and sound amazing! Please do not delete this post! I have it bookmarked!! :)
+I made these and the fudge puddles before Christmas and just blogged about them today. I linked to you, thanks for the recipes!
+I am sending my daughter to the store right now for pudding and snicker bars!
+Yum these look and sound so good!
+Thanks for sharing the recipe.
+Our little hamster Sofie says hello to Sophie.
+OMG! it s sooo good! my kids and my fiance love it!! I cant wait to do all your recipes :P
+Yum! These cookies are to die for! I've been looking for a great cookie recipe and this one is a winner. They are even better the second day! TFS!!!
+Beautiful,darling dog and to die for cookies? What else does a person need in life? Well, maybe a little self control. I would probably hug on that sweet thing way too much and I know I would eat too many of those cookies. Thanks for the recipe. Just what I need for Christmas. I am going to put Kumquat zest in some of them.
+Hi Tanya, I blogged about the pudding cookies on todays post. I cant wait to see your new little guy. Here is the link.
+Mommy's Kitchen:
+I found your blog and recipe from 2peas. I had this recipe a long, long time ago and in a move I think my handwritten recipe book fell into the garbage my mistake. :( I've been able to replace all the recipes I wanted EXCEPT this one. Now I have it! I made the recipe a bit ago and have cookies baking in the oven. You truly can not know how happy I was when I tasted that first cookie and told my husband, "THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE RECIPE I LOST!" Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
+Just made my first batch and they are so good. This is the first time I've ever made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. We used mini chocolate chips and health bar toffee bits. I am going to have to freeze some of these or I am going to be in trouble. Thanks for the recipe <3
+just got finished making them!.. i liked them but i added a bit of salt to them after the first batch came outta the oven (:
+i just made these tonight but gluten free! they were incredible! i halved the recipe and substituted the flour for 1 cup brown rice flour, 1 1/4 cups potato starch and added 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan gum to the flour mixture. everything else i kept the same and they were perfect. chewy and delicious. thanks for the great recipe!
+My grandma passed away 20 years ago and always put pudding in her cookies. I am smiling so much today remembering and am so glad you shared this.
+These look DELICIOUS. This may be a silly question, but does "t" mean tablespoon or teaspooon?
+Well, I made these tonight.... I 'made SURE' I had all the ingredients prior to us heading to Walmart, so I could pick up anything needed..... Thought I had a bag of Flour at home just in a ziploc.... when I started pouring it into my flour container, it ended up being pancake mix... UGH! I needed 1 more cup of flour.... Soooo.... Some quick thinking, I found some instant oats, measured out a cup and away I went to my Magic Bullet.... 10 seconds later, a nice flour like powder was ready to mix in with the rest of the flour.... I haven't ever made these, so I'm not sure if they taste any different.... but they're delicious either way! :)
+I am working on my Masters Degree in Speech Language Pathology, and am doing an Internship at a hospital, I plan to take some in to my co-workers for our pot-luck tomorrow :).
+Thanks for posting! Even if it was in 2008! :)
+I make something like this, but I usually add butterscotch pudding to my cookie mix, then add white chocolate chips, so I flavor the batter and the white chips stand out a bit more.
+Saw this on Pinterest and had to come to read the instructions. I'll be trying this - I usually make my chocolate chip cookies into bars by using a jelly roll pan, so we'll see if they work that way. And Heath Bar bits would be AWESOME in here! :)
+Ive been using this recipe for years! Its truely THE BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe EVER! I get asked to make these all the time, I like the idea of using different types of bits! Ill try chopped snickers next! Thanks for sharing
+Found you on Pinterest...these look awesome! Can anyone tell me how many cookies this makes (I use a regular sized cookie scoop). This looks perfect - I love thick and fluffy cookies.
+hello there....I had these at a friends house the other day when she made them!!! OMG they are the BEST EVER!!! LOVE them.
+I have a ? can you freeze some of the batter so I don't have to make so many at once?? I'm making them tonight but would love to know so I can always have them on hand to throw in the oven.
+Thanks for the post!!! :)
+I made these tonight and they were wonderful! I've been looking for a great chocolate chip cookie recipe and I've finally found one. I only made half a batch, and I used one cup semi-sweet chocolate and one cup walnuts, and they were divine. The only thing I noticed is that they were a little too thick and dome-like for my taste, so I flattened them just a bit with the bottom of a glass before baking. I also used an insulated cookie sheet and baked for the full 12 minutes. Using a 1-1/2 inch scoop, 1/2 batch made 36 cookies. Thanks so much for sharing!
+Just made these and they were delicious. Thank you for sharing your recipe! I'm thinking of adding chocolate pudding the next time I make them and see how that tastes. Mmmmm!
+I made these this past weekend! I divided the batter and did half Reese's Pieces/oat and half toffee bits/pecan. Made closer to 10 dozen, oh darn!
+I found this recipe/your blog from Pinterest about a month ago and I have made these 4 times...I have some in the oven right now! Thanks for sharing! Love them!
+Delicious!! Thank you for sharing this recipe. They came out so soft and chewy with just the right amount of crisp on the edges!
+I halved the recipe and made them gluten free, for the flour I subbed: 2C rice flour + cornstarch (put 1Tbs cornstarch in 1 cup measure and fill the rest with rice flour for each cup) and 1/4 C tapioca flour and 1 tsp Xanthan gum.
+Sooooo Good! :D
+What brand/type of butter has everyone used for these cookies?
+call me silly, do you mix the pudding as it says on the box or just put the powder mix in?
+Love reading your comments on these. I'm actually making 16 dozen right now for a fundraiser! I use unsalted butter. You just pour the powder of the pudding in the mix and make sure it's instant! I've tried so many different combos and they are wonderful. Our favorites are regular CC, white chocolate/cranberry, and reese's peanut butter cup. Thanks again everyone!
+I made this recipe exactly and yeah, they do look good and taste pretty good, but I think the recipe needs salt. Also, put them in an airtight container as soon as they are done cooling. I left some out for a day and they are hard as rocks.
+Anonymous-I must disagree. I've never added salt and everyone RAVES about these. Also, I've accidentally left these out overnight and they have never hardened on me....not sure why yours did!
+Also-you use instant pudding mix, just out of the box. As for butter brand, I use whatever is on sale, salted or unsalted.
+This will be my third time making these cookies and everyone LOVES them! Our favorite thing to do is freeze a portion of them and then we just grab one out of the freezer and let it thaw on the counter for a few minutes. They are delish!
+Just wanted to let you know that the Fabulous Sin City Rollergirls LOVE your recipe. I made these yesterday and brought a gallon ziploc bag full of them to practice with me...they were gone in like two minutes.
+Do you have this recipe for 1 dozen. I absolutely do not want to make 4 dozen for only my husband and I!! LoL! We do not need that many cookies!!!!
+So is that really two 3.4 ounce packages of pudding mix? The biggest package I have is a 1.5 ounce.
+I just made these... and they were good... but they didn't look anything like yours? they were dense and they didn't spread at all while they were baking. wondering what I did wrong??
+Hi Tanya,
+I just re-pinned these on Pinterest and can't wait to try them out. I have be seeing pudding cookies everywhere lately. I would love to invite you to share these on my Creative Thursday Link Party at. Have a great week.
+Michelle
+These look amazing!! I can't wait to try them. Does t. Stand for tablespoon or teaspoon??
+t.= teaspoon
+T.= tablespoon
+Just got done making these and they are awesome. Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe EVER!! Will definitely be making these again, and again and again. Thanks so much for sharing.
+hi
+sorry to ask but they look amazing and im in england so i dont know what instant punnding is or where i can get it, are there any substitutes?
+thanks
+ani.
+If you happen to check this, Ani - we get instant pudding in small boxes at the grocery store. The box is probably 2x4 inches, and it contains a package full of a sugary powder. Usually you mix it with milk and refrigerate to make pudding. I have no idea where you would get it in England, but perhaps check the bigger grocery stores there?
+I just made these and they are delicious! For the first batch, I just dropped them on the cookie sheet and they didn't spread out much but the second batch I flattened them out a bit and they look much better.
+Will definitely keep this recipe.
+Thanks!
+Loved these! Made these tonight and halved the recipe. Made 17 Large cookies (used 2" overfilled scoop). I flattened them slightly before baking. They were fantastic right out of the oven as well as cooled. Great recipe, Thanks!
+Rez
+I didn't have vanilla pudding, so I used chocolate. This was wonderful. Sinfully delicious.
+Just made these tonight and they turned out yummy. I halved the recipe because I didn't need 8 dz cookies and it worked fine. I also had to flatten them out a bit before baking because the first batch didn't spread much. I am thinking I will try making these with chocolate pudding next, for an extra chocolate "kick". :) I bet they will be delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
+This chocolate cookie recipe is the best! The only exception that I made was to add a teaspoon of salt. Also, I added a couple flakes of sea salt to the top and they were great. I brought them into my high school students and they raved about them. From now on this will be my go to chocolate chip cookie recipe! Thanks so much for the post.
+I made these cookies last year for Christmas and I was super impressed with how easy and how awesome they turned out! Gathering ingredients to make this year's batches!!?
+So id like to make these its 4 cups of whatever that's kind of alot is that right? :D
+Just looking on your blog AGAIN for the recipe since this is my fourth time making them and I can't live without them. :) You should know that when I click the link from Pinterest, it comes up and says that it is a suspicious link, and your blog may link to spam or inappropriate content. Just an FYI! :) Thank you, thank you for our new family favorite!
+Hi! These are AMAZING! I tried a combination if white chocolate chips and crushed peppermint - quite the hit at work! I want to try making a chocolate cookie - do you think it would work if I just use chocolate pudding instead of vanilla?
+How many cookies do these make??
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+Ray WilderChapter 43: ChrisThis======================================== How many
+times had she cum in the last twenty-four hours? How many times had
+he cum in the last twenty-four hours? How much longer would he be
+able to keep it up (double entendre intended)? She actually began
+to dread the moment when he would announce enough was enough and he
+needed a break. She had grown so used to having that beautiful,
+thick, achingly long cock deep within her. The thought of not being
+able to wrap her heat, her sex, her being around it's length made
+her desperately anxious. This was not good. She rolled over to look
+at him, hoping he would be awake. She suddenly had a need to talk
+to him. Really talk. They had talked all night. Laughed, giggled,
+tickled, teased, wrestled, licked, kissed, coupled, and coupled,
+and coupled. But she needed to say some things to him. She was
+feeling the effects of being completely overwhelmed and wanted to
+Naked Lolitas re-establish some sort of identity. Was he awake? It
+didn't surprise her very much to see his eyes flicker open as she
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+turned to kiss his palm. She breathed in deeply, the smell of a
+thousand desires filling her mind. It smelled of her, of him, of
+body oil and sweat and cum, both his and hers, and garlic and basil
+and the lubricant they had used to loosen the bolts on the divider
+between their two apartments just before he had lifted her in his
+huge, bulging arms and carried her, in a ceremony with much deeper
+meaning than she was, at the time, prepared to accept as possible,
+over the metal frame and into her living room where she had impaled
+herself on his achingly huge cock and ridden it to her (fourth?
+fifth? sixth? seventy-third?) orgasm of the day. "Hi, pretty lady."
+"Hi, pretty man." "What's up?" "I need to say something to you, but
+I don't know if I have all the words in the right place yet." "I'm
+not going anywhere. For the next couple of hours, anyway." She
+remembered he had the alarm set for seven-thirty. She rolled over
+and saw the large, red numbers glowing on the face of the clock.
+Four thirty-six. Why wasn't she sleepy? Why wasn't she so
+exhausted, both physically and emotionally, that all her body
+wanted to do was be unconscious? Instead she felt this incredible
+energy buzzing through her body. And the heat of this mountain of a
+man lying beside her. If she closed her eyes she could almost sense
+the curves of his massive physique by the intensity of the warmth
+and power radiating from him. Would she just stay awake, fucking
+her brains out until she finally collapsed, dead, everything sucked
+from her being in one final, explosive orgasmic apocalypse? What a
+way to go. This, however, was the crux of the matter currently
+haunting her mind. How much of all this was her and how much was
+Arnold? She didn't recognize this power, this energy, this
+insatiable desire to push towards a higher and higher plain of
+sensation as being anything within her. It was all well and good if
+Arnold wanted to pump her full of this cosmic whatever it was and
+send her soaring through the galaxies of some amazing universe, but
+she needed to have a little control over her own life. Not to
+suppress it, but just to know she had a say in what was going on.
+"Can you turn it off?" Arnold's brow wrinkled ever-so-slightly, his
+eyes flicked back and forth between hers. "No, I don't think so.
+It's as much a part of me as breathing." "Well, then, could you
+breath a little less deeply?" Arnold chuckled. "I'm sorry. Am I
+overwhelming you?" "That word came to mind, yes." "Sure. But I
+can't take all the blame for it." "Right. I suppose you're going to
+say this is all my doing." "Actually, yes. At least I think it's
+you. Everything that's happened today seems just a bit outside of
+what I've come to expect of life. The whole day has been filled
+with amazing people. I don't know if it was just the excitement of
+moving, the heat of the sun, the effort of carrying all this stuff
+up here to my apartment, low blood sugar or toxic waste. But almost
+every single person I've come in contact with has had such an
+incredible energy about them it's kept me running in high gear all
+day. I didn't want to risk missing an instant of the experience.
+And then, when I saw you down on the beach, your breast gleaming in
+the sunset, I was completely overcome with a sense of something.
+I'm still not quite sure what. But it came from you. I know that.
+You have an energy within you, you don't even know it's there, I
+can tell. But I felt it with my entire being as I looked at you,
+out there in the middle of the sand. I think you should know I'm
+just as impressed with my staying power as anyone. I mean, sure, I
+can hang in there pretty good, but it hasn't been since the days
+just after I lost my virginity that I've been so potent, so
+insatiable. It's a combination of things, I know. But none of them
+more than you." "I was afraid you were going to say that. I don't
+know, Arnie. I don't recognize any of this as being part of me. I
+feel like I'm being. . ." "Manipulated?" "I was afraid you were
+going to say that, too. Yes. I thought it was you. I was afraid
+that I was getting obsessed." "You are." "Hmmm. Maybe so. But I
+mean in a bad way. Like once this was all over there wouldn't be
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+tomorrow will be you." "But don't you want to be just you?" "Nope.
+Because 'just me' is only that. Just. I'm not into 'just.' It's
+like I said before, out when we were taking the wall apart. I'm the
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+I can feel you push and pull as different memories of different
+orgasms run through your mind and you work to use the good parts of
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+And don't be so embarrassed, either." "I'm not embarrassed. I just.
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+you see what this thing you're feeling is about. You store all this
+stuff up inside you, you carry it around with you all your life,
+you let it come to the surface when the emotions take over, you
+loose control. I think that's what you're feeling anxious about,
+right?" "I don't know. In fact, I'm not sure where this is all
+coming from. A few minutes ago I was convinced this was all your
+fault. I don't know. I need time to think." "Good. I'm glad to hear
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+past loves have made tonight so incredible. And, false modesty
+aside, think about how good I've made it for you. There is only one
+thing I'm ever sad about. And I'm always sad about it. I wish I
+could be the pour sucker you're going to have sex with next.
+Because you are going to take with you all the energy and love the
+two of us have felt here tonight and you are going to scare the
+shit out of that person, just like you were tonight. The good part
+is that I'll be able to see the results of that the next time I get
+to be with you." "How do you know all this stuff? Who told you?"
+"Sam." "I should have kept my mouth shut." "Are you angry at Sam?"
+"No." She realized she had actually shouted. "No. I'm not angry at
+Sam. Exactly. I know I should be thankful for what she's done for
+you." "And for you." "Arguable, but for the sake of staving off a
+fist-fight, I'll concede the point." Arnold leaned forward and
+kissed her Naked Lolitas on the forehead. "Stop that. I'm
+trying to disagree, here." He kissed her again. "Oh, God." She
+grabbed his face and pulled it to hers. Their lips met and opened
+as they dove deeply into each other. She felt a tingling come over
+her body. At first she thought it was coming from her cunt, but as
+it grew it seemed to develop just a little bit higher than that. It
+slowly filled her abdomen. She tried to open her eyes to look at
+Arnold, in fact, she thought her eyes were open, but a hazy
+blackness covered her vision. She felt the warmth of Arnold's lips
+envelope her soul and she dove down within him. The heat spread,
+coming closer and closer to her extremities. When it reached her
+head her eyes were suddenly filled with visions of bodies. Lots of
+them. Men, women, two's and three's and four's and arms and legs
+and penises and vaginas and breasts and abdomens and legs and toes
+and huge biceps and pectorals and belly buttons. In the middle of
+this confluence of sensuousness there was the face of a woman with
+long, straw colored hair, diamond-shaped face, strong neck leading
+to muscular shoulders and arms. Her bare breasts were capped with
+large, dark nipples that contrasted with her fair hair and
+complexion. The arms stretched out to her and she felt her face
+being pulled forward. Just before their lips met in the vision she
+knew who this was. She tried to fight down some intense feeling
+that suddenly welled up in her, thinking it might be anger or
+jealousy. But when it burst through the surface she recognized it
+as love. Unbridled, unqualified love. Both coming in and going out.
+She let herself go and flew away on a cloud of absolute bliss, a
+blanket of love spread over her own devastatingly beautiful body.
+When Chris awoke again she was alone in Arnold's bed. The sheets
+next to her were warm, it hadn't been too long since he had gotten
+up. She listened carefully and heard the water running in the
+shower. Was he singing? She felt she should join him, but then
+remembered her resolve to get a little perspective on this whole
+thing. Attaching herself to his massive cock at seven-thirty in the
+morning was not distance. Instead she rolled over and drank in the
+smell of him from the sheets and pillow. It had been so nice to
+spend the night next to him. Everything she had desired had been
+there for her. When she had wished he were hard he had been so,
+when she wanted to fondle a long, semi-flaccid tube of cock, he had
+softened for her. His pecs had been delicious mouthfuls and even
+his big toe had entwined with her own just when she had thought
+about doing it. So what was so bad about all that? Didn't every
+person dream about the lover who anticipated their every need? And
+it wasn't like it felt rehearsed or unspontaneous. It was like
+having a genie granting every wish as it came to mind. She also
+realized that she had found herself doing the same thing. Many
+times during the evening, once she got the hang of listening to
+him, watching him, finding out the patterns of his lovemaking and
+where he would go next, she would do something only to find that he
+was just getting ready to receive it. They had moved as if
+choreographed. As though they had been making love together for
+centuries. How did she know? How did he? She wasn't sure if she was
+ready for the answer to that one yet. She felt a movement in the
+room. The water had stopped running and he had returned. Would he
+know she was awake? The bed moved slightly as he sat on the edge.
+She suddenly felt the heat of his body hovering inches away from
+her. She could actually sense the curves of his pecs and biceps as
+they bulged towards her. She immediately became moist between her
+legs. How she wanted him. Even now. Even after all those
+devastating orgasms of the night before, she wanted him to
+instantly fill her with his hard, hot cock. The image of its size
+floated on the inside of her eyelids. "I've got to get to Naked
+Lolitas the gym, Chris. Otherwise I'd love to spend the next
+two or three centuries letting you have your way with me." How did
+he do that? She slowly opened her eyes. He was bent over her, an
+arm on either side of her body. As he held himself up, his triceps
+swelled. She ran her eyes over him and shook her head. "You are too
+painful to look at." "I'll take that as a compliment." "What
+happened last night?" "Oh, good. She doesn't remember. Sorry,
+officer. Never saw her in my life." "You know what I mean."
+"Actually, I'm afraid I don't." "We were talking. You kissed me and
+I had some kind of dream. I saw Sam." "What.?" "You don't know? You
+remember kissing me?" "Yeah. You fell asleep. Pretty quick, as I
+recall. What do you mean you saw Sam? You don't even know what she
+looks like." "Long blond hair, very nice body, big nipples." "You
+saw this?" "Yeah. I assumed it had something to do with you." "I
+just figured I'd finally bored you and you'd dozed off. What
+happened?" "Not sure. I think we made love. I guess it was just her
+coming through you." "I don't remember you making any noises or
+anything. So it wasn't like a wet dream." "No. It wasn't even like
+an orgasm. I just suddenly became filled with this feeling of love.
+For her. For you. For everyone you've ever had sex with. Just like
+you were telling me." "Well, except for the part about seeing Sam,
+it could just have been your imagination working on what I'd talked
+about a few moments before. This thing with Sam, though. I don't
+know. Are you okay?" "Mmmmm, yes. I'm fine. I think I've got a
+handle on what you were talking about. I know I'm not feeling as
+anxious about things." "Great. I've got to get my butt in gear.
+It's been three days since I've had a real workout, and I've got a
+busy day today. Stay here as long as you want. I'll lock the door
+behind me and you can go out your way." "You're having dinner with
+Patty tonight, right?" "Yup. And I've got a photo shoot this
+afternoon. Have you got any plans?" "Actually, I made a date with
+the guy who did me that little favor down on the beach yesterday.
+Chuck. Lives upstairs." "Ah. He's the one I get to be jealous of.
+Good. I look forward to meeting him." "Wait a minute. What Naked Lolitas are you going
+to do, take him for a test drive yourself?" "I hadn't planned on
+it, no. I'll just wait until I get to spend some time with you
+again so I can see the changes he'll make in you. I know one thing,
+though." "What's that?" "He'd better have taken his vitamins this
+morning because you are going to blow him away." "I have this
+almost irrepressible urge to have you drive that big cock of yours
+up inside me right now." "All right." Chris was suddenly dizzy with
+joy. She had been only half serious. The fact that he was willing
+to toss off his plans to satisfy her desires sent waves of emotion
+pouring through her body. He stood up at the edge of the bed and
+quickly undid his pants. She could see that he was already getting
+hard. The outline of his cock, held firm in his briefs, sent a
+shiver down her spine. What the hell was going on here? She was
+wet. It was like someone was flipping a switch in her. Pavlov's
+dog. Hear the bell, salivate. See the cock, lubricate. She
+chuckled. His pants and briefs dropped to the floor. She hmmmm'd.
+He moved onto the bed, kneeling next to her. She took the semi-hard
+penis into her mouth and sucked it until he was making small
+thrusting movements against her actions. She pulled her mouth away
+from his cock. It was so hard. Again. Arnold moved around between
+her legs which she spread. He wasn't in a hurry. Not any more of a
+hurry than he would have been considering his current objective. He
+knelt before her, his hands massaging the length of his shaft. His
+eyes roamed back and forth over her body. The look on his face was
+pure bliss. Her own eyes darted from one body part to another. He
+saw her observations and began to slowly flex and expand his
+muscles. He tensed. He tensed more. And more. And more. He got
+bigger, and bigger, wider and deeper until his huge muscles were so
+swollen he looked like he would explode. Chris's cunt demanded
+attention. She ran her hand down to her vagina and began vigorously
+rubbing herself. Arnold watched her for several seconds and then
+leaned forward and added his mouth to the efforts. She moaned, her
+head tossed back and forth on the pillow. Her bright red hair
+seemed to burn on her body. She felt movement, opened her eyes and
+saw him leaning forward, his left arm outstretched to support
+himself, his right hand holding the head of his huge, enraged cock.
+His eyes were filled with pure lust. Oh, God. Yes. Just like last
+night. She wanted it bad. She wanted it rough. She wanted it. . .
+"Oh, fuck. Oh, yeah. Oooo. Yesssss. Yes. Oh, fuck me. Hard. Hard.
+Yeah. Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo. Ah. Ah. So big. So big. Hunh. . . Hunh. . .
+Hunh. . . Hunh. . . Hunh. . . Hunh." Arnold drove his cock inside
+her in one motion. He then dropped his other hand to the mattress
+on the opposite side of her head, pressed himself up off her body
+and began long, full, amazingly rapid plunges into her. His hips
+were a blur. His muscles bulged across his body. She could cum just
+looking at the sight. It almost seemed that it was happening to
+someone else. How could Naked Lolitas anyone this big move this
+fast? And so very, very big. His huge chest hung over her and
+almost blocked her view of the entire ceiling. She grabbed his
+shoulders and could not even begin to get her hands around the
+enormous muscles that capped them. She dug her fingernails into
+him; he swore under his breath and doubled his efforts. She started
+to arch her back, pushing her hot cunt against him. She loved the
+feeling of his full, heavy scrotum banging against her ass. She
+tensed her own muscles and squeezed down on his cock. Again he
+swore. Within seconds she felt the old, familiar hum begin down
+inside her as it had so many times over the past twenty-four hours.
+How many vaginal orgasms was a girl allowed in one lifetime? Was
+she using up her entire allotment in one day? It came closer.
+Closer. She felt everything start to twist around inside her as her
+libido realigned for the onslaught of yet another body wracking
+release. Closer. Closer. She opened her eyes. Arnold's face was a
+contorted grimace of pleasure. The sounds of his own efforts told
+of the close proximity of his own climax. She knew just how far
+away he was. Or how close. She waited for the right moment, holding
+off her own joy until he had reached the same point. She reached
+out to him, felt his tension, heard his breath, smelled the air and
+knew. Now. Their bodies flailed about uncontrollably. They thrust
+themselves against each other and drove themselves up over the top.
+They were both screaming, crying out, as the orgasm rammed through
+them, its affect doubled, tripled, and more by the joining of their
+efforts. Arnold literally collapsed on top of Chris. His breathing
+was hard and heavy. He continued to thrust with his hips, his cock
+not willing to subside. Chris threw her arms around him and hugged
+him to her as hard as she could. They drew their faces together and
+kissed over and over again. She felt wild, strong, unbridled, like
+a horse set free with thousands of square miles of beautiful, open
+prairie to run across. She couldn't stop. She kept thrusting up at
+him, clamping down on his huge cock. She wanted him in deeper.
+Deeper. She drew him to her even tighter. Her clit ached to be
+pressed against something. She ground her groin against him. She
+clawed and scratched and rubbed and massaged his huge muscles,
+every one she could get her hands on. She couldn't stop. She wanted
+to devour him, completely take him inside her until they were the
+same, until they were forever locked in infinite orgasm. She could
+feel another wave building within her. Would he stay with her? Was
+he ready for her? He raised himself up to the push-up position
+again. The look in his eyes was deep, dark, scary. She hardly
+recognized him. He gave his hips a mighty shove and his still rigid
+cock plunged deep within her. Yes. Again. Yes. Again. Yes. Again.
+Sweat poured off of him and ran in rivers across her body, setting
+her skin to vibrate with the chill of its passing. She smelled
+something. Like ozone. Like electricity. Like a giant short
+circuit. The air grew brighter. The smell grew stronger. She felt a
+heat build between them. She looked down past her breasts. Was she
+dreaming? What the hell was it? There, arcing between their
+abdomens, was a shot of pure, bright light. Each time it jumped
+from one to the other their bodies convulsed and rammed together.
+The jolts came faster and faster. She could feel every muscle in
+their bodies contract as they rammed together, harder and harder.
+Her head swam, she felt a buzzing in her extremities, a warmth.
+Arnold's cock grew inside her. It got bigger, bigger, bigger. She
+began to expand. The two of them seemed to grow in proportion until
+they filled the whole room. And still they continued their
+mind-shattering union. Bigger and bigger and bigger. She lost all
+sense of scale. The heat inside her was growing so intense she
+could concentrate on nothing else. She felt like she was going to
+be split by Arnold's huge cock. The pressure of it on the walls of
+her vagina was becoming unbearable. Blood started to flow rapidly
+through her body. It filled her. She felt swollen. Her breasts
+ached and she looked at the nipples. They were so large. Bigger
+than she had ever seen them. She felt her clit. It seemed to be
+sticking out so far she could almost see it between her legs.
+Naked Lolitas It ached, as
+well. Higher and higher. Just when she thought she might lose it,
+she sensed a coming together. She listened to their cries. They
+were agonizing. She felt their bodies, they were devastated. She
+smelled the air, it was electrified. She licked her lips. She
+licked Arnold's lips. She dug her fingernails deep into his
+shoulders, raked them across his back, pulled herself up to him and
+set her teeth firmly into his deltoid. He let out a scream. It
+echoed through her and started to vibrate. The energy shot back and
+forth, riding on the arc of sexual electricity that jumped between
+them. She raised her legs, clamped them around his waist, drove her
+pelvis down onto his huge, cunt-splitting cock and the two of them
+exploded in orgasm. It felt like the top of Arnold's cock had blown
+off inside her. She couldn't help herself. She rammed her aching
+clit hard against him again and again as her body was overcome by
+something that resembled an orgasm like a hurricane resembles a
+light spring rain. It went on for hours, days, months. Her body was
+ravaged by the devastating ordeal. It took forever to subside, and
+when it did, they found themselves lying in a wet puddle of sweat
+that covered the entire bed. Their bodies were heaving as their
+lungs begged for more air. Arnold was finally soft and slowly
+pulled out of her, rolling off to her side. Despite the wetness,
+she was unbelievably warm. "Don't you ever, ever complain to me
+about being out of control, again, young lady. I don't know what
+the hell you did just then, but you'd better give me some warning
+next time." It took a few minutes for the words to sink in. Her? He
+was blaming that on her? She thought hard. It had felt so much a
+part of her, that's for sure. Had it really been her? "If I weren't
+so exhausted I hit you. What do you mean, Me? I couldn't have done
+that" "Great. So the only thing left is divine intervention. Okay.
+I've got to get to the gym. You call the pope. How the hell am I
+gonna make it through a workout now. We're gonna have to work
+something out here if you keep that up. Like sex every
+two-and-a-half centuries." "I tell you, I don't know what I did. I
+just wanted you so badly. And I couldn't stop. I felt so. . . so
+free. I couldn't stop. God, it was great. Sex should be that mind
+bending every time" "Ha. Only if you have nothing else to do with
+the rest of your life." He gently stroked her cheek. She pressed
+her lips to the back of his hand. "It was amazing. You are one very
+sexy lady." He leaned over and kissed her deeply, fully on the
+lips. "Now I've got to get going. Although I'd better have another
+quick shower so I don't have Naked Lolitas all the
+dogs in town following me around, thinking I'm in heat." "Arnold?"
+"Yeah, love?" "Thank you." "Thank you. You are a great lover and a
+great love. Have a great time tonight with Chuck. Give him all my
+best, if you know what I mean." Arnold hopped off the bed as though
+he hadn't just had the most physically draining sexual experience
+of his life. He grabbed his clothes and headed for the bathroom,
+his tight ass swaying back and forth seductively. Chris
+contemplated him after he disappeared around the corner. Looking
+back on a sexual experience usually expanded the memory to be
+either far worse or far better than it had actually been. She knew
+that no amount of imagination was ever going to surpass the reality
+of these past hours. The most amazing thing, of course, was the
+change she felt happening within herself. Modesty aside, she had
+always been considered a good lover. Some had said great. But
+nothing she had ever done with anyone in any situation had ever
+approached what had just happened between the two of them. And
+Arnold claimed it was her doing. Of course, he had no need to lie
+to her. And, in fact, he did seem as overcome by the event as she
+was, if only momentarily. And she did feel in control. She
+remembered the feeling of being able to do anything. Well, so she
+had. She chalked up his quick recovery to his amazing vitality and
+the simple fact that fantastic sex was just a way of life for him.
+It seemed to have energized him. She wondered if she were to sneak
+into the bathroom right now, would she find him with another
+erection, ready to go again? He had a life. Let him get on with it.
+And so did she. She had a meeting this morning with Nicholas. And
+his dogs. What the hell was she going to do with a bunch of yapping
+poodles and old bats drinking tea? That was supposed to sell
+make-up? She needed something to sell him instead. Only one thing
+sold make-up. Sex. Pure, unadulterated sex. Arnold. Pure,
+unadulterated sex. An image of Arnold's body covered with kisses,
+each a different color of lipstick suddenly came to mind. Another
+image of her personally placing each one of those kisses also came
+to mind. And then a third image of her loosing the account because
+she couldn't stop putting the kisses on Arnold came to mind. What
+about lots of women putting different colored kisses on Arnold? And
+a special color. Placed somewhere special. A special layout for
+Cosmo or something. They'd pay a fortune for the chance to run it.
+Imagine, a magazine paying to run an ad. And when Nicholas caught
+sight of Arnold. The man would cum in his three hundred dollar
+chinos. She was on a roll. But she needed something to show
+Nicholas. She thought about the shots she had taken in Arnold's
+exercise room the previous day. He had said the negatives were his.
+That meant he wanted strict control of what happened to the shots.
+She jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom. As she whipped
+around the corner she stopped dead in her tracks. Arnold was
+brushing his teeth. His mouth was full of suds. His right arm was
+rapidly moving the toothbrush up and down in his mouth, the muscles
+flexing and jumping Naked
+Lolitas with each movement of the brush. He turned to her and
+smiled a big, white, drippy smile. "Ahgh fughaghpf doo prufh ma
+feef." She giggled. She also felt her genitals start to churn. He
+was so big. So beautiful. And so unaffected by it all. There was
+this quality of childlike innocence about him. He was always at
+play. Even the serious stuff, the comforting, the soothing, the
+deep, soul-searing sex, was filled with a child's wonder of the
+world around him. And here he was, his huge pecs bulging, his
+gigantic cock wiggling back and forth between his legs as he
+brushed his teeth and let the toothpaste drool down onto his chest.
+He looked down and saw the errant stream of white. He watched it as
+it slowly crept down the surface of his huge muscle. He waited
+until it was just ready to drip of onto the floor and he scooped it
+up with his forefinger and sucked it back into his mouth, smiling
+with the glory of his victory. Chris wanted to hug him to her,
+wanted to love him all over again, but knew where that would lead.
+She satisfied herself with staring at the wonderful sight before
+her until he was finished and had wiped his face dry. "I've got a
+favor to ask you." "Shoot." "You know those photos I took yesterday
+in the other room?" "Yeah." "Well, I've got this client who's
+looking to launch a really incredible line of cosmetics, but he's
+got some really goofball ideas about how to do it. I have some
+thoughts, and they include a well-developed male body with very
+specific physical attributes. I would like to try to change his
+mind regarding the campaign, but need some show 'n' tell." Arnold
+thought for only a second. "I trust you. Just don't give me away,
+okay?" "I'll guard you with my life." She meant it. He saw that. He
+started to get dressed. She enjoyed watching him wrap his body up
+for the outside world. Especially the ritual surrounding putting
+his huge cock into its confines. So big. "We should probably go
+through my agency." "No problem. Just let me sell him on this idea
+and you'll have a national spread. In fact,
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+iNews Review
+300K iPads Sold First Day, iPad USB Charging Issue, Talking iPod shuffle, iPad Teardown, and More
+This Week's iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV News
+Compiled by Charles Moore and edited by Dan Knight - 2010.04.09
+So we can post our three news roundups (Mac News Review, The 'Book Review, and iNews Review) earlier, we first do a quick proofread and link check, leaving out images. We add images later when time permits. dk
+Apple previewed iPhone OS 4 yesterday, and it addresses a multitude of complaints about the iPad. It also adds lots of new features showing that Apple is planning for the future, not just playing catch up to obvious shortcomings in iPhone OS 3.2. We'll have a lot more on the new OS next week, but some highlights:
+- Multitasking that conserves battery power, suspends apps for immediate reuse via fast app switching, and allows background tasks such as uploading photos and listening to Pandora.
+- Always on VoIP.
+- Location awareness and local notifications.
+- Support for Bluetooth keyboards.
+- Folders to organize your apps.
+iPhone OS 4 will be a free upgrade for iPad owners in the fall. It will be available this summer for the iPhone and iPod touch (but possibly not for the original iPhone or iPod touch - time will tell). The iPhone 3G and second generation iPod touch will not support multitasking - but the iPhone 3GS and 3G iPod touch will.
+Mac notebook and other portable computing is covered in The 'Book Review, and general Mac news is in Mac News Review.
+All prices are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
+News, Reviews, & Opinion
+- Apple Sold Over 300,000 iPads First Day
+- iPad Sales to Hit 7 Million in 2010, 20 Million in 2012
+- 40% in UK 'Planning to Ditch Laptops' for a Tablet
+- iPad Typing Test
+- Hyundai Equus Now Comes with an iPad
+- iPad Heat Issues Similar to Old iPhone Temperature Problems
+- iPad Reviews Are Mixed
+- Why I Won't Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn't, Either)
+- Why the iPad Falls Short
+- 13 Glaring iPad Shortcomings
+- Why You Don't Need an iPad
+- Love Freedom? Avoid the iPad
+- You Can Work on the iPad, but Why Would You?
+- Internet Devices Like the iPad Are a Bad Idea
+- New Media Expert to Run His Company on Nothing but the iPad for One Month
+- iWork for iPad Messes with Mac iWork Files
+- How to Return Your iPad
+- Charging the iPad: Hit or Miss
+- iPad Not Charging via USB for Some Users
+- iPad Charging Explained
+- iPad: Don't Drop It, and Buy a Case
+- iPad Keyboard Dock Reviewed
+- Going Under the iPad's Hood with Settings
+- How to Use an iPhone as a Wireless iPad Camera
+- How to Take Photos with Your iPad (Sort of)
+- Understanding the iPad's Software
+- How to Share Files Between an iPad and a Computer
+- 97.5% Cannot Balance Driving and Cellphone
+- Apple Rolls Out Talking iPod shuffle
+- iFixit Posts Newton MessagePad 2000 Teardown
+- iFixit iPad Teardown Analysis
+- Normal Human Beingô Reviews the iPad
+Apps & Services
+- WeatherBug Elite for iPad
+- Amazon.com Announces Kindle App for iPad
+- The Bible Scholar App for iPhone and iPod touch
+- Get Dragon Dictation for iPad for Free
+- iDisplay Turns iPad/iPhone into an Extra Mac Display
+- ActivePrint: iPad Printing via Windows PC
+- PrintCentral: iPad Printing via Mac or Windows PC
+- BigOven.com Introduces 170,000+ Recipe and Grocery App for iPad
+- Serving Sizer Pro: Recipe Converter Cookbook Released for iPad
+- Bang & Olufsen Announces BeoLink App for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
+- FileMaker Announces Bento for iPad
+- iPad Data Collection App Makes the iPad a Serious Business Tool
+- Pianist Pro: A Professional Piano for the iPad
+- Learn to Speak with a British Accent
+- WritePad for iPad
+Accessories
+- Griffin A-Frame Tabletop Stand for iPad Is Simple, Beautiful, Rock-solid
+- Macally ViewStand Aluminum iPad Viewing Stand
+Protection
+- Perfect iPad Protection from Proporta
+- zCover Shipping Dock-in-Case Silicone Bumper for iPad
+- ColcaSac iPad Sleeves
+- New Security Case for iPad
+- Tom Bihn Introduces iPad Travel Bag
+- Hard Candy Cases Premium Protective iPad Sleeves
+- NewerTech Accessory Line for the iPad
+- DODOcase for iPad: Protect Your Gear From Extinction
+- Marware Eco-Flip for iPad Shipping
+iPod Deals
+These price trackers are updated every month.
+- Best iPad deals
+- Best classic iPod deals
+- Best iPod touch deals
+- Best iPod nano deals
+- Best iPod shuffle deals
+- Best iPhone deals
+News, Reviews, & Opinion
+Apple Sold Over 300,000 iPads First Day
+Apple."
+iPad Sales to Hit 7 Million in 2010, 20 Million in 2012
+DigiTimes' Joseph Tsai reports that according to a preliminary forecast from iSuppli, worldwide iPad sales are expected to amount to 7.1 million units in 2010, double to 14.4 million in 2011, and nearly triple to 20.1 million in 2012, with initial sales driven by early adopters and others attracted to the iPad's unique touch-screen-based user interface. In 2011 and 2012, iPad sales will be driven up by a range of factors, including a flood of new applications, improved functionality and declining prices, and moreover iSuppli regards its iPad sales forecast as conservative.
+Link: iPad Sales to Hit 7 Million in 2010 and Triple by 2012, Says iSuppli (subscription required)
+40% in UK 'Planning to Ditch Laptops' for a Tablet
+Yahoo News UK reports that as Apple prepares for the UK iPad launch at the end of April, 40% of British consumers surveyed by price comparison site Kelkoo say they are ready to ditch their laptop for a tablet, and 18% said they were so desperate to get their hands on one they did not care how much they paid.
+One the other hand, Kelkoo's research indicated that nearly one in four people (23%) weren't sure what the iPad actually is, 2% labelling it a mobile phone and 8% cent an iPod, while 13% conceded they didn't "have a clue".
+Your editor finds these results more than a little perplexing, being among the evident minority that finds itself underwhelmed by the iPad concept, for so many reasons.
+Link: 40% 'Planning to Ditch Laptops'
+iPad Typing Test
+How does the keyboard on Apple's iPad stack up against a MacBook Pro, Asus netbook and an iPhone? PC World's Harry McCracken says he decided to do a very unscientific test to see how quickly he could bang out text on the iPad, in both its landscape and portrait orientations, compared with a 15" MacBook Pro, an Asus EeePC 1000HE netbook (with a pretty good keyboard by netbook standards), and an iPhone 3GS
+How'd the iPad stack up?
+Link: iPad vs. Laptop vs. Netbook vs. iPhone: Typing Test
+Hyundai Equus Now Comes with an iPad
+TUAW's Dave Caolo reports that for a limited time, Hyundai is cashing in on the iPad frenzy by offering one to every customer who buys a 2011 Equus, and the bundled iPad will contain the car's user manual, which Hyundai Motor America CEO John Krafcik calls, "interactive."
+Link: Hyundai Equus Now Comes with an iPad
+iPad Heat Issues Similar to Old iPhone Temperature Problems
+MacFixIt's Joe Aimonetti reports:
+"One of the biggest concerns to come out of the early days of the iPad revolves around an apparent problem with rising temperatures when operating the touch-screen tablet in direct sunlight or other hot conditions."
+Link: Deja vu: iPad Heat Issues Similar to iPhone Temperature Problems of Old
+iPad Reviews Are Mixed
+EE Times' Mark LaPedus reports:
+"...there's iPad madness - and hype - in the market. According to market watcher iSuppli Corp., Apple could sell as many as 7.1 million iPads this year, though International Data Corp. estimated 2010 tablet sales at 6 million for the entire industry.
+"I was looking online for reviews of the iPad. I found a plethora of reviews, which are all over the map and mixed. Here's a sampling from the Web...."
+The article includes links to iPad reviews in the San Jose Mercury News, The Times of India, The Economist, The Seattle Times, Yahoo! Tech, World Correspondents, AnandTech, Tom's Guide, MobileTechReview.com, and AppleInsider. Here's another by PowerPage's Chris Barylick, and one from WinSuperSite.
+Link: Reviews for iPad Are Mixed
+Why I Won't Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn't, Either)
+SF author Cory Doctorow writing for Boing Boing says:
+"...I'm completely uninterested in buying an iPad . . . Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
+....
+"But with the iPad, it seems like Apple's model customer is that same stupid stereotype of a technophobic, timid, scatterbrained mother . . . [and] that here, finally, is something that isn't too complicated for their poor old mothers....
+"For a company whose CEO professes a hatred of DRM, Apple sure has made DRM its alpha and omega . . . I don't want my universe of apps constrained to the stuff that the Cupertino Politburo decides to allow for its platform....
+"The reason people have stopped paying for a lot of "content" isn't just that they can get it for free . . . even a stellar iPad sales performance isn't going to do much to stanch the bleeding from traditional publishing. Wishful thinking and a nostalgia for the good old days of lockdown won't bring customers back through the door.
+"The iPad you buy today will be e-waste in a year or two (less, if you decide not to pay to have the battery changed for."
+Link: Why I Won't Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn't, Either)
+Why the iPad Falls Short
+Seeking Alpha's Jeff Jarvis says:
+"...as my hangover settles in, I realize that there's something much more basic and profound that worries me about the Apple iPad - and not just the iPad but the architecture upon which it is built. I see danger in moving from the web to apps.
+.
+"Cloud? I see no cloud, just Apple's blue skies. Why no USB? . . . The iPad is purposely handicapped, but it doesn't need to be. See the German WePad, which comes with USB port(s!), a camera, multitasking, and the more open Android operating system and marketplace."
+Link: Why the iPad Falls Short
+13 Glaring iPad Shortcomings
+LiveScience's Ker Than and Robert Roy Britt say:
+, the authors say. The iPad is heavy, slippery, the screen has too much glare, forget about reading in the sun, fingerprints are annoying, there's no multitasking, a limited browser (with no Flash support), the virtual keyboard stinks, no USB port, iPhone-only apps look horrible, the price is just too high, and it doesn't replace anything."
+Here's the list:
+- It's awkward.
+- It's heavy.
+- It's slippery.
+- The screen has too much glare.
+- Forget reading in the sun.
+- Fingerprints are annoying.
+- It does not multitask. (The free upgrade to iPhone OS 4 will take care of that. ed)
+- The browser is limited - not only lacking Flash, but unable to work with Google Docs.
+- The virtual keyboard stinks.
+- There's no USB port.
+- iPhone-only apps look horrible.
+- The price is just too high.
+- It doesn't replace anything.
+Link: 13 Glaring iPad Shortcomings
+Why You Don't Need an iPad
+Forbes' Brian Caulfield says:
+"...are you buying an iPad? If so, what will you use it for. If not, what's your excuse?
+"Not that the iPad isn't a very big thing. Apple will sell at least 6 million this year, according to Morgan Stanley....
+"And why not? Apple is delivering a sure thing, rather than the next big thing: immersion in a digital world its customers already understand. The sealed 1/2-inch thick gizmo is not something anyone will have to experiment with to make useful.
+"Science fiction author Cory Doctorow doesn't like that. 'I believe - really believe - in the stirring words of the Maker Manifesto: if you can't open it, you don't own it,' Doctorow wrote in a blog post Friday urging readers not to buy one....
+."
+Link: Why You Don't Need an iPad
+Love Freedom? Avoid the iPad
+Aaron Gell, President, mediaelites.com, writing in the Huffington Post, says:
+"I will admit, the iPad might well turn out to be the greatest toy ever. But I hate it and all that it stands for, and I desperately hope it goes the way of the Newton. Why? Because it represents the final and most convincing piece of evidence yet of what I - a committed Mac fan who wouldn't buy a PC if it offered to rub my feet - have long feared . . . we're all about to be trapped in iTunes' walled Garden forever....
+"For all the nightmare scenarios about Google, it's now become evident that cheerfully rebellious underdog Apple may actually be the Corporate Beast to fear. Clearly Steve Jobs is a world class control freak, which is fine if you work at Apple or hold stock in the company or don't like changing batteries....
+"The iPad isn't hackable. It's not democratic. It's for dummies and cultural Pringles-eaters who just want to sit back and take in stuff, not for creators and innovators who want to change the world...."
+Link: Love Freedom? Kill Your iPad
+You Can Work on the iPad, but Why Would You?
+VentureBeat's Anthony Ha says:
+"One."
+Link: Yes, You Can Work on the iPad - but Why Would You?
+Internet Devices Like the iPad Are a Bad Idea
+Tech Radar's Jeremy Laird says:
+"Apple's iPad isn't magical, whatever Steve Jobs claims."
+Not to put too fine a point on it, but Laird thinks MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) are a bad idea and that the iPad is nothing more than a MID with an oversized screen that bloats the device's proportions unnecessarily, no support for Flash video, which he deems "utterly bonkers in a device Apple claims is better for web browsing than a laptop, and the total absence of expansion-friendly ports, sockets and card readers constituting a galling limitation that smacks of control freakery."
+Link: Why Internet Devices Like the iPad Are a Bad Idea
+New Media Expert to Run His Company on Nothing but the iPad for One Month
+An insider's look at at real-world business applications of Apple's latest release can be found online paulsipad.com.
+While many see the iPad as an expensive toy for people who buy anything from Steve Jobs, a new website features real world examples of business use of the iPad.
+Paul Colligan, a leading expert in new media, revealed that the iPad might turn out to be the perfect business machine, and he is going to show the world how in less than 30 days. He says he is also going to have a ton of fun on the process.
+Colligan purchased his iPad on the first day of release, April 3, and set it up live via video stream. He will run his business using only his iPad and cell phone until May 5. Included during the project timeframe is a trip to China, a number of live online events, and the launch of an iPad ebook with a soon to be announced celebrity author. Colligan will stream video, track his efforts, and share insights from his business at a website launched specifically for the project, Paul's iPad.
+This is not a trick or a gimmick, says Colligan. Everything will be done from his iPad (and the cheapest one at that). Between the inexpensive office suite applications launched by Apple and the reality of most business being done online, Colligan expects little change in his daily workflow. If anything, he expects to get more work done without the overhead that most computers require. He says, "It will be fun, but I'm sure I have a few surprises coming my way."
+Colligan is the author of The Business Podcasting Bible and a trusted authority on new media and Internet marketing. He has been has spoken in front of thousands at events such as Google Tech Talks, Macworld Expo, The European Business Podcasting Summit, and Microsoft Tech-Ed. He is also a host of the popular Internet Marketing This Week Podcast.
+Link: Paul's iPad
+iWork for iPad Messes with Mac iWork Files
+PowerPage's Kenn Marks says:
+...."
+Link: Opinion: iPad - iWork (NOT)
+How to Return Your iPad
+Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says that if you have purchased an iPad and are not feeling the magic, you can take it back if you move quickly - but it will cost you.
+Elmer-DeWitt relates how Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis decided to return his iPad and summarizes Apple's refund policy, noting that you have 14 calendar days to return your iPad to the place you bought it. It must be in working order (DOA iPads will not be accepted), must not be engraved or otherwise personalized, and must be returned in its original box with all the accessories, manuals, documentation, and registration forms that came with it. In addition, you'll have to pay a 10% restocking fee.
+Link: How to Return Your iPad
+Charging the iPad: Hit or Miss
+Consumer Reports says:
+"If you're used to charging your phone, music player, or device in the USB port of your computer, take note.."
+Link: Charging the iPad: Hit or Miss
+iPad Not Charging via USB for Some Users
+Gizmodo reports:
+"Various Twitter users, the team at Consumer Reports and our own Giz editors are reporting problems getting their new iPads to charge via USB. So far, it looks like it will only charge when plugged into a Mac . . . Consumer Reports found that PC USB ports, keyboards with USB ports and accessories such as USB hubs don't work...."
+Editor's note: Apple explains (link below) that when the iPad is not in use, it will charge from a powered USB port as long as the host computer isn't shut down or asleep. When the iPad is in use, it will only charge from a high-power USB 2.0 port, a feature of most recent Macs. dk
+Link:
+iPad Not Charging Via USB for Some Users
+Link: iPad: Charging the Battery (Apple)
+iPad Charging Explained
+Macworld's Dan Frakes says:
+"Anyone...."
+Link: The iPad's Charging Challenge Explained
+iPad: Don't Drop It, and Buy a Case
+PC World's Tim Moynihan says:
+"If . . . Water isn't very iPad-friendly, either...."
+Editor's note: We have information about iPad cases in this iNews Review and in several recent ones. dk
+Link: Apple iPad Stress Tests
+iPad Keyboard Dock Reviewed
+Macworld's Dan Miller says:
+."
+Link: Apple iPad Keyboard Dock Review
+Going Under the iPad's Hood with Settings
+Macworld's Dan Moren says:
+"Perhaps you're only interested in the fancy-shmancy apps on your iPad - you know, the ones that are just versions of Mac apps, like Mail and Safari. But if you want to know what the iPad is really capable of, you'll have to dig deep into its real workhorse app: Settings.
+"Settings is where the nitty-gritty happens: where you can do things beyond even the capability of even the most powerful iPad app. I took a stroll through the app to find out what's new and different on the iPad."
+Link: Going Under the iPad's Hood with Settings
+How to Use an iPhone as a Wireless iPad Camera
+Gizmodo says:
+"The iPad doesn't have a built-in camera, but you can give it something better. By putting an app onto each an iPad and an iPhone, you can connect the two via Bluetooth and have a wireless camera for your iPad."
+Link: How to Turn an iPhone Into a Wireless iPad Camera
+How to Take Photos with Your iPad (Sort of)
+Mashable.com says:
+"Before¢.
+"All that you need to take photos on your iPad is two apps, CAMERA-A [iTunes link] for the iPad for 99¢ and CAMERA-B [iTunes link] for the iPhone 3GS (free)."
+Link: How To: Take Photos with Your iPad (Sort of)
+Understanding the iPad's Software
+Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan says:
+"There have been tablets before the iPad. They weren't as beautiful or well crafted, but that wasn't why we chose not to pick them up. It was the software."
+A long, thorough and detailed analysis of the iPad's software.
+Link: Understanding the iPad's Software
+How to Share Files Between an iPad and a Computer
+knowyourmobile.com's Mat Toor says:
+"If you have an Apple iPad and iTunes 9.1 or later on your Mac then it's easy to copy files between your iPad and your computer . . . This guide shows you how you can use File Sharing to copy files from your iPad to your computer - and vice versa."
+Link: How to Share Files Between an iPad and a Computer
+97.5% Cannot Balance Driving and Cellphone
+CTV.ca News Staff report:
+"Driving properly while also having a coherent cellphone conversation is pretty much impossible for most people - except for certain rare people researchers dub 'supertaskers.'
+"The problem is most people think they are those supertaskers. Odds are: they're not.
+"New research finds that only 2.5 per cent of the population possesses these unique skills."
+Link: Rare 'Supertaskers' Can Balance Driving and Cellphone
+Apple Rolls Out Talking iPod shuffle
+ibtimes.com reports:
+"Apple introduced a smaller version of its popular iPod shuffle music player on Wednesday with a new feature that tells the user what song is playing.
+"The new 4-gigabyte gadget costs $79, is half the size of the previous Shuffle, and carries up to 1,000 songs - twice as many as the last generation of the device."
+Link: Apple Rolls Out Talking iPod shuffle (cached)
+iFixit Posts Newton MessagePad 2000 Teardown
+PR: We had to resort to some subversive techniques involving a cop from Ottawa, a donkey, and three uncouth janitors to obtain this prerelease!
+Replacing the battery: TX32VfwZHp3gifFR.jpg
+Photo Courtesy iFixit
+Taking off the rear case: EiYywRxBQkAcxxZw.jpg
+Photo Courtesy iFixit
+Teardown Highlights:
+- lb.:
+- Two Sharp 2 MB Flash ROM
+- DEC's 162 MHz StrongARM SA-110S 32 bit ARM Processor
+- Cirrus Logic CPU Subsystem, Analog, and PCMCIA controllers
+- Hitachi DRAM
+- Linear Technology's LTC1323 AppleTalk Transceiver
+-.
+Final layout: Sh1SIC1FmYcJiXdI.jpg
+More photos:
+- Lifting the logic board:
+- Taking out the display:
+Feel free to ask me any Tablet-related questions!
+Cheers,
+Kyle Wiens
+iFixit CEO
+Link: Apple Tablet Teardown
+iFixit iPad Teardown Analysis
+PR:?."
+dDCyRZBNfZ1FxJbI.jpg
+Layout photo (Image Courtesy iFixit)
+y5HAM4cflO64B3QH.jpg
+Two halves (Image Courtesy iFixit)
+nGQrCBRFPdu2rgPw.jpg
+Removing the supposedly non-removable battery (Image Courtesy iFixit)
+Links to more photos:
+- Opening the iPad:
+- Main board (with A4):
+- Ambient light sensor instead of camera:
+Cheers,
+Kyle Wiens
+iFixit CEO
+Link: iPad Teardown Analysis
+Normal Human Beingô Reviews the iPad
+The Register's Rik Myslewski reports that the iPad has inspired yet another high-powered business type to make a mobile-device purchase . . . of a netbook.
+Noting that punditry abounds on the InterWeb weighing in on the iPad's pros and cons (but mostly pros), Myslewski observes that The New York Times' David Pogue made the reasonable observation that while a tech type might see the iPad one way, a Normal Human Beingô (NHB) "might look past its lack of Flash support, lack of multitasking, lack of a removable battery, lack of a camera, lack of standard USB ports, lack of an SD card slot, and any other lack you might want to mention...."
+However, after covering Apple products and various chippery for over 20 years, Myslewski says his NHB status is highly questionable . . . that his conclusions may be either chowderheaded or keen, but they're certainly not those of an NHB.
+So he did what any red-blooded American male might do: asked his wife for help.
+Myslewski's NHB wife's impressions of the iPad are fascinating, drawing the conclusion that Apple's tablet "is too heavy to use as an ebook reader, too clumsy to use for any length of time as a window on the Web, not useful for business purposes, and tough to get docs into and out of." However, testing the iPad convinced her that it would be nice to have a small, light portable - and she's now thinking of buying a netbook.
+Link: 'Normal Human Being' Reviews the iPad
+Apps & Services
+WeatherBug Elite for iPad
+PR: WeatherBug, a leading provider of consumer and professional weather services and operator of the largest weather observing network, announced its WeatherBug Elite App for iPad is now available on the App Store.
+wbpad.jpg
+"We are excited to bring detailed weather information to iPad users. Advancements in our display options, interactivity and location intelligence enable users to have immediate access to their preferred weather information with a simple tap on the beautiful iPad screen," said Chris Sloop, Chief Technology Officer for WeatherBug.
+The WeatherBug Elite App was designed specifically for the iPad and provides a unique user experience with features that include the following:
+- At-A-Glance Information - the new widget panel design enables users to immediately access their preferred weather information and views
+- Location-Enabled Intelligence - the "Find Me" option automatically adjusts the location and default maps based on the user's current location for quick and seamless access to local conditions and alerts
+- Unlimited Locations - users can define as many locations as desired for unlimited weather information worldwide
+- Detailed Visualization - a large map area provides several contoured weather overlay options (including satellite, radar, humidity, pressure, wind speed, and forecast hi/low) to display current conditions and approaching systems
+- High Resolution Video - fully utilizes the iPad display for viewing daily WeatherBug National Outlook forecasts and news
+- Camera Images - provide current conditions views and time-lapse images from 15 locations within a 100 mile radius of the user's location
+wbpad2.jpg
+WeatherBug Elite is offered free for a limited time to early buyers of the iPad and is available through the App Store.
+WeatherBug mobile apps access information from the WeatherBug Network, the largest proprietary network of professional weather stations in North America and includes information from over 45,000 locations worldwide. The weather information is monitored and distributed in real-time through the network and into the apps within seconds. The WeatherBug Elite App for iPad enables users to customize the weather intelligence captured through the network for their own display of local and global information..
+Link: WeatherBug (download links for WeatherBug and WeatherBug Elite)
+Amazon.com Announces Kindle App for iPad
+PR: Amazon.com, Inc.chs with Kindle and Kindle Compatible Devices: Amazon's Whispersync technology automatically synchs.
+Link: Kindle for iPad (download link)
+The Bible Scholar App for iPhone and iPod touch
+PR: The Bible Scholar has introduced The Bible Scholar App for iPhone and iPod touch, making it easier for all Christians with busy schedules to finally have access to a vast library of scholarly tools without going to a Bible College.
+bibscho2.jpg
+This is arguably the most comprehensive Bible-related App on the iPhone Store. In addition to the Bible, it contains Bible dictionaries, commentaries, and 8 volumes of Church history. With over 14,000 pages, your grasp of the Scriptures will come alive.
+image4thebiblescholar.jpg
+The Premier Bible Scholar App for iPhone
+The Bible Scholar App for iPhone is the first and only app for the iPhone and iPod touch that successfully provides an in depth account of the Church's:
+- Books: The app has more than 20 volumes of Bible dictionaries, Church history, and Bible commentaries.
+- Bookmarks: This feature ensures that the user never loses his place.
+- Notes: The user can make and save his notes for future reference.
+- A multicolor table of content: This attractive table of content makes navigation easy with scroll functionality.
+- Page elongation: A user can tap on a book from the table of contents, and select a desired chapter. Once within the book, he can tap on the sub-header within the book to elongate the screen.
+- Font size: A user can adjust the font size by using the font adjuster or by simply pinching the screen.
+-.
+notesforbiblescholar2.jpg.
+thebiblescholarcroppedu.jpg
+This is arguably the most comprehensive Bible related app on the iTunes App Store. Every Christian or student of history will find this app to be worth the investment.
+The Bible Scholar was designed to empower the believer to understand the Scriptures through innovative tools, Bible commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and Church history; thus providing a firm foundation that will stand the test of time.
+Link: The Bible Scholar (download links for Bible Scholar Lite and Bible Scholar)
+Get Dragon Dictation for iPad for Free
+PR: MacSpeech has unveiled another Dragon Mobile App - Dragon Dictation for iPad.
+With Dragon Dictation for iPad, you can now dictate text on your iPad just like you can with the successful Dragon Dictation for iPhone and iPod touch. But with this latest edition for iPad, users are able to speak, save and manage dictated text for multiple documents, emails, status updates, to-do lists - whatever you choose - with Dragon Dictation Notes. Dragon Dictation for iPad can also be used in landscape or portrait mode.
+Make sure Dragon Dictation is one of the very first apps you download on your iPad, as it's free for a limited time on the Apple App Store.
+Link: Dragon Dictation for iPad (download link)
+iDisplay Turns iPad/iPhone into an Extra Mac Display
+PR: Turn your iPad/iPhone into a convenient side monitor for your Mac desktop. iDisplay is a universal app specially optimized for iPad and iPhone Touch screens.
+iDisplayfor_iPadandiPhone.png
+Download iDisplay desktop 1.0.1 for Mac OS X and increase productivity by maximizing the viewable area on your main monitor. Ideal for multitasking.
+Introduction price: $4.99
+Link: iDisplay (download link)
+ActivePrint: iPad Printing via Windows PC
+PR: Back in late January, shortly after Apple announced their upcoming iPad, we also announced that ActivePrint would be bringing the ability to print to the iPad. Pocket Watch, LLC. announces that ActivePrint 7.3 is now finished and being reviewed by Apple for release on the App Store for the iPhone as well as the iPad! With ActivePrint you can print to any printer that your PC can print to over your WiFi (WiFi or EDGE/3G network)
+- Support for practically any printer available in the market
+Device Requirements:
+- iPad: iPhone OS 3.2
+- iPhone/iPod touch: iPhone OS 3.1
+Other Requirements:
+- A printer connected to a Windows (XP/Vista/7) PC via USB/WiFi/Network
+A free lite version of ActivePrint 7.3 will be available worldwide exclusively through the AppStore in the Productivity category. Unlock the full features through an InApp purchase for only $3.99.
+Demo Video:
+Link: ActivePrint (download link)
+PrintCentral: iPad Printing via Mac or Windows PC
+PR: EuroSmartz, the Apple iPad & iPhone application development company,
+PrintCentral 1.01 is now available on the Apple iTunes Application Store worldwide for $9.99, GBP £5.99 or 7.99 Euro as well as many other local currencies.
+- Screenshot 1:
+- Screenshot 2:
+Link: PrintCentral (download link)
+BigOven.com Introduces 170,000+ Recipe and Grocery App for iPad
+PR: BigOven.com, the social network that makes you a better cook, announces the immediate availability of BigOven 170,000+ Recipes and Grocery List for the Apple iPad!".
+The BigOven community - over 800,000 cooks strong - is very excited about the iPad, said Steve Murch, CEO of BigOven.com. The iPad's size and portability make it ideal for kitchen use. Having the equivalent of hundreds of cookbooks worth of recipes and tips right on the kitchen counter is incredibly powerful.
+Designed from the ground-up for the iPad, this new BigOven app lets you look up virtually any recipe by title, keyword, or ingredient. It easily builds a grocery list from one or more recipes. It helps you get unstuck for dinner with great ideas, and shows you photos and ratings from real cooks. Together with bigoven.com, you can post your own recipes and photos online, and then have them easily available in a convenient application on your kitchen countertop.
+Using BigOven's API, the app synchronizes with your iPhone and other mobile devices. This lets you make changes on your iPad to your grocery list, then get immediate access to these changes when you re in the grocery store, automatically. For instance, one member of the household could edit a grocery list on bigoven.com from their work computer, and these changes would show up within seconds on the iPad.
+The BigOven app also keeps a running cooking log for you of everything you've made, giving you an easy way to refresh your memory weeks or months later. Together with the iPad's geolocation services, the app can even show you what other cooks are making right near you!
+You ll see beautiful recipe photos on tens of thousands of recipes, get ratings from tens of thousands of users around the world, and can easily add your own. A unique Leftovers feature lets you quickly enter up to three ingredients from your fridge or pantry to find out what you can make. The 1,000+ entry BigOven Food Glossary gives you tips and history on more than 1,000 ingredients and cooking terms.
+Users can post recipes and photos for free at bigoven.com, and then access them easily on their iPad or iPhone. BigOven's wildly popular iPhone application has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times since its release in October 2008, making it one of the most popular cooking applications in the iTunes Store. BigOven.com serves millions of unique users each month and recently welcomed its 800,000th registered member, and each day, more than 1,000 people sign up to swap recipes, build grocery lists, and chat about cooking.
+Making the app possible is the powerful BigOven API, the first REST-based API from a major cooking site, which is now in private beta for developers to create great new applications.
+BigOven 170,000+ Recipes is available on the Apple iPad for $9.99, but is currently on a limited-time introductory sale for just $4.99. Simply visit the iTunes store and search for BigOven .
+BigOven.com is free to join.
+Link: BigOven (download link)
+Serving Sizer Pro: Recipe Converter Cookbook Released for iPad
+PR: Serving Sizer Pro - recipe cards for your iPad! Organize recipe cards, handwritten family recipes, and recipe clippings in one place. Change the serving size at any time and the whole recipe is converted instantly, something your ordinary cookbook can't do. Super fast entry - pick from 500+ ingredients, use custom sliders to pick fractional amounts and units. Easy-to-read full screen designed for cooking. Email converted recipes to your friends and family. Also convert recipes from metric to US..
+Creative Algorithms is pleased to announce the release of Serving Sizer Pro for iPad - Recipe Converter Cookbook, a recipe card app that easily scales recipes' ingredients proportionally, based on serving sizes, and saves them for future resizing. Convert a favorite clipped recipe that serves eight to one that serves a dinner party of five, and later for a group of 17 holiday guests. Upsize an old family recipe to cater for a large crowd.
+Scale down a friend . . . There'll be no more scribbling fractions in my cookbook.". View the recipe index card full screen for cooking, or select a recipe by scrolling through the cards on a virtual kitchen table. It's just that simple.
+Device Requirements:
+- Compatible with iPad
+- Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
+- 1.9 MB
+Serving Sizer Pro for iPad 1.0 is available on the iTunes AppStore at a sale price of $2.99 in the Lifestyle category. Separate versions are also available for the iPhone and iPod touch.
+- Screenshot 1:
+- Screenshot 2:
+Link: Serving Sizer Pro (download link)
+Bang & Olufsen Announces BeoLink App for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
+PR:.
+beolink.jpg."
+The BeoLink application, which is designed by Ikatu, sends its commands via WiFi, and the interface is highly personalized and tailor-made to only show the scenes and commands which the customer requested when installing the Master Link Gateway.
+It is a unique way to extend the benefits of the Master Link Gateway, with control from the minute one is within WiFi range. It offers control beyond the house limits, is conveniently always at hand when needed, and is a highly personal tool..
+beolink2.jpg.
+To see for yourself, get the BeoLink app for your iPhone or iPod touch. You can install the app for free to check its look and feel and get an idea of the simplicity and ergonomics of a Bang & Olufsen home integration system. If you already have a BeoLink setup, and are ready for even more freedom of control, just contact your Bang & Olufsen retailer.
+Note: BeoLink for iPhone requires Master Link Gateway.
+Link: BeoLink (download link)
+FileMaker Announces Bento for iPad
+PR: FileMaker, Inc. has.
+FileMaker_iPad_Tour1a.jpg
+.
+FileMaker_iPad_Book.jpg
+The app features cool new notebook, clipboard, and glass themes that you can apply to any Bento library to make your database look as great as it works. It also includes 25 predesigned. Available (in English only) from the U.S. Apple App Store, Bento for iPad will be available in other countries when iPad is available there.
+FileMaker_iPad_Notespng.jpg
+Link: Bento for iPad (download link)
+iPad Data Collection App Makes the iPad a Serious Business Tool
+PR: Zerion Software, developer of the exZact data collection platform, released a brand new port of their business grade, off-line data collection software for the Apple iPad, just two days prior to the much-anticipated launch of the new device. Available in the App Store, this offering called exZact Pro is squarely aimed at making the iPad a legitimate business tool for the mobile workforce.
+exzactmzl.anohsewf_.480x480-75_.jpg
+Existing clients can immediately use their forms on the iPad. All forms, logic and features that work on the iPhone and iPod touch res popup."
+Link: exZact Data Collection (download link)
+Pianist Pro: A Professional Piano for the iPad
+PR: MooCowMusic announces) Pianist Pro includes a new mode called 'Pattern Arp', allowing the user to define patterns of notes that turn a simple held chord into a complex musical phrase. Pianist Pro makes it easy to play shuffle-beat blues piano, complete with walking bassline and overlayed jazz chords and runs - all by simply holding down one single chord. Changing the chord changes the melody but maintains the tight rhythm provided by the arpeggiator.
+Another new addition to Pianist Pro is the 'Scale Piano'. This allows the user to select a musical scale from a large choice of presets (from standard scales such as Major and Natural Minor, to more specialised scales such as Pentatonic Blues, Persian Gypsy or Chinese), or define their own from scratch. Notes and runs on that scale can then be played back in any key, simply by running a finger up and down a virtual touchpad..
+Pianist Pro is available now from the iTunes App Store, priced at $9.99.
+- Screenshot 1:
+- Screenshot 2:
+- Screenshot 3:
+- Screenshot 4:
+Link: Pianist Pro (download link)
+Learn to Speak with a British Accent
+PR: Learning to speak with a British accent has never been easier. Students can now download this new App for their iPhone and start improving their accent on the go with these simple lessons.-over artist who provides voice-over recordings for clients worldwide. From her home studio in Bristol, she not only records voice-overs for TV and Radio but she also provides professional audio recordings for large and small businesses throughout the world." Most people just think voice-over artists record radio commercials or narration's for TV documentaries, but more of my work comes from helping the everyday companies with the audio needs. Whether it's recording their voicemail messages, or providing a narration for their Sales PowerPoint presentation, more businesses are looking for a professional sound to match their professional business image." Says Alison. "More and more companies are looking to outsource their training and e-learning materials, and voice-overs are an important component to a successful presentation. Many companies choose my voice because of its native RP British accent,which I hope is a perfect choice for a clear, easily understandable voice-over!"
+
+Link: British Accent (download link)
+WritePad for iPad
+PR: PhatWare Corporation announces the immediate availability of WritePad for iPad, the advanced handwriting recognition software now optimized for iPad. WritePad for iPad is one of the first applications to be available in the iPad App Store from day one.
+WritePad lets users.
+." WiFi
+WritePad for iPad v3.2 is only $9.99 (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.
+Link: WritePad (download link)
+Accessories
+Griffin A-Frame Tabletop Stand for iPad Is Simple, Beautiful, Rock-solid
+More than a place for your iPad to call home, Griffin's A-Frame for iPad is a simple, beautiful tool that helps you get the most use out of your iPad wherever you use it.
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+The heavy aluminum stand swings open to hold your iPad upright, in either portrait or landscape view . . . perfect for watching video, or viewing pictures. Or close the legs and lay the stand down to hold your iPad at the perfect angle to use it for desk- or tabletop surfing, reading or gaming. Soft silicone cradles your iPad and accommodates the iPad's dock/sync cable. Designed to accommodate Griffin's flexible and hard-shell cases and many others.
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+Features
+- Simple, beautiful table and desktop stand for your iPad
+- Holds iPad upright in landscape and portrait views or at a lower, wrist-friendly angle for surfing, reading and more.
+- Stable aluminum a-frame design
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+- Non-slip rubber cradle accommodates Griffin's flexible and hard-shell cases and many others
+- Allows easy access to iPad's dock connector for charging and synching
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+$49.99
+Link: Griffin A-Frame
+Macally ViewStand Aluminum iPad Viewing Stand
+PR: Ergonomically designed to improve typing and viewing comfort
+- Offers various viewing orientation and angles
+- Sleek design to match your iPad
+- Supports vertical and horizontal viewing
+- Durable Aluminum Body With Scratch Prove Thermo
+- Polyurethane Coating
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+Features:
+- Ergonomically designed to improve typing and viewing comfort
+- Offers various viewing orientation and angles
+- Sleek design to match your iPad
+- Supports vertical and horizontal viewing
+- Durable Aluminum Body With Scratch Prove Thermo
+- Polyurethane Coating
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+MSRP: $59
+Link: Macally
+ViewStand
+Purchase Link: Available for $49.99 from J&R
+Protection
+Perfect iPad Protection from Proporta
+PR: The Apple iPad is a beautiful thing, but if you're going to get the most out of it on the move, you need to make sure you-re doing everything you can to keep it that way. Fortunately, Proporta has it all covered, with a range of specially designed cases just waiting to keep your iPad safe - and just as importantly, looking fantastic. All on hand as soon as the iPad itself hits the streets.
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+The Mizu Shell (Apple iPad) is made from a mixture of crystal and silicone, fits like a glove, and provides the flexibility of a soft case with the toughness and strength of a hard case. - $37.95
+Link: Mizu Shell
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+The Aluminium Lined Leather Pouch (Apple iPad) features Proporta's trademark Screen Saver System, with a sheet of lightweight, aircraft grade aluminium built in to protect against crushing and impact damage, and offers truly unbeatable protection from even the nastiest of surprises. - $52.95
+Link: Aluminium Lined Leather Pouch
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+The Maya II Pouch (Apple iPad) is a beautifully handcrafted pouch with a super soft, scratch free lining, and is available in a range of funky colour options. - $29.95
+Link: Maya II Pouch
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+There's a whole range of other custom made options to check out - the Tilt Stand (Apple iPad) that folds out into a portable stand. - $51.95
+Link: Tilt Stand
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+The luxurious Leather Case - $47.95
+Link: Leather Case
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+The Leather Style Case - $37.95
+Link: Leather Style Case
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+The Profile Hard Shell (Apple iPad) that is made from a thin, yet durable polycarbonate and wrapped in a stylishly designed leather coating. - $33.95
+Link: Profile Hard Shell?
+P.S. You won't believe your ears - have a listen to the Twisted System - Portable Speakers from Proporta. Perfect for the beach, camping or any outdoor activity that would benefit from a little livening up.
+zCover Shipping Dock-in-Case Silicone Bumper for iPad
+PR: zCover announces it's shipping its gloveOne silicone protection case for the new Apple iPad. zCover AP1A series gloveOne case features its functional, stylish design and introduce the patent filed Dock-in-CaseT smart design to Apple iPad users. It allows the iPad to be docked into Apple original iPad Dock while it's still in zCover case.
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+zCover gloveOne iPad case is formfitting, contour design with advanced ergonomic engineering concept. Side finger grips are comfortable to use. Space between finger grips and stylish back open formed a unique Airflow Cooling System, cools iPad around clock.
+Besides full access to all control functions, ambient light sensor, and die-cut open for speakers, microphone, and headphone jack, zCover functional case has an integrated flip cover protecting Apple Dock Connecter Port.
+zCover gloveOne cases are tested compliant with FDA RoHS, and proven to reduce bacteria on shared handhelds used by health care staff in hospitals and clinics. Recent studies have shown that a high percentage of handhelds used by health care workers in hospitals are contaminated by a number of dangerous bacteria and pathogens. zCover silicone cases can be hand washable or disinfected by using germicidal wipes.
+This most ruggedized protective bumper case only increased the thickness of iPad less than 2 mm. Pairs with this silicone case, zCover is going to start shipping a hard protective shell next week.
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+This AP1AH gloveOne iPad Dock-in-Case silicone bumper case retails for $39.99. All zCover products and packaging are made with recyclable materials to save our earth. Additional accessories and combinations are available online.
+Link: gloveOne AP1AH
+ColcaSac iPad Sleeves
+PR: Why should you buy a ColcaSac for your iPad? Good question. These sleeves will perfectly fit your iPad - meaning there is no slack. It fits like a glove.
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+ColcaSac sleeves are hand made in Salt Lake City, UT, and made from tough materials that are easy on the environment. A ColcaSac will comfortably protect you iPad from scratches, dents and bumps.
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+Models offered:
+- The Original
+- Red Delicious
+- Passion Vine
+- Black ColcaSac
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+Price: $34.95
+Link: ColcaSac iPad Sleeves
+New Security Case for iPad
+PR: The first locking case designed to prevent others from using your new iPad. The elegant black leather design compliments your latest Apple Gadget.
+The new Security Case for the iPad is the first formfitting case that lets you lock your iPad to prevent access by coworkers, friends or classmates.
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+This sleek and stylish black leather case improves the look and performance of your new iPad. The three digit combination lock ensures that you are the only one using this new Apple gadget.
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+With dozens of cases and sleeves already in the marketplace this is the only one that comes with a lock. Designed to provide access to the iPad ports, you can even charge your iPad with the case locked.
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+Keep your iPad safe by ensuring you're the only one with access.
+- Formfitting black leather case
+- Three digit steel combination lock
+- Prevents unauthorized use by coworkers, friends or classmates
+- Designed to provides access to ports
+- Can charge iPad with case locked
+- Stylish design compliments iPad
+- Secures and protects from scratches and mishandling
+The Security Case retails for $44.95
+Link: Security Case for iPad
+Tom Bihn Introduces iPad Travel Bag
+PR: Tom Bihn, a designer, manufacturer, and retailer of laptop and travel bags has introduced the Co-Pilot personal carryon travel bag - sized specifically for travel essentials, including your iPad. The Co-Pilot is a small, carryon sized travel bag sized to fit the essentials - the items that you want close at hand and easily accessible during your flight.
+copilot.jpgon travel bags.
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+Features of the Co-Pilot include:
+- Made of 1050d US
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+The Co-Pilot is featured in a new video highlighting the production process at the Tom Bihn Factory in Seattle, Washington. (Links to video below, including a high-resolution version sized for viewing on the iPad.)
+The Co-Pilot is $110. Available for preorder.
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+- Video of Tom Bihn Seattle Factory (iPad version):
+- Video of Tom Bihn Seattle Factory (all devices):
+- Image of the Co-Pilot:
+- Image of the Co-Pilot with the iPad:
+Link: Tom Bihn Co-Pilot
+Hard Candy Cases Premium Protective iPad Sleeves
+PR: As Apple accessory companies scramble to finish their iPad gear, Hard Candy Cases is shipping the first line of deliciously styled protective sleeves, with four additional models scheduled to ship in the next several weeks. New video at details the production process of the first Bubble Sleeves to ship in large quantity in advance of the official iPad product launch.
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+It was quite a challenge to start a new case line only a few days before Chinese New Year, but our factories stepped up and devoted hundreds of skilled craftsmen to beat the tight deadlines. It was a real thrill to see them accomplish this first hand.
+With over 20,000 Bubble Sleeves currently in the U.S., and additional designs arriving soon, Hard Candy Cases is poised to meet the demand of consumers who want to protect their new purchase on day one of iPad ownership. Through the direction of CEO Tim Hickman, the Apple accessories veteran who started Speck Products, Hard Candy Cases manufacturing company in China dedicated two straight weeks and over 600 skilled workers during Chinese New Year in order to meet the iPad launch date.
+Consumers often see the buzz and hype surrounding the first to market accessories, and Hard Candy Cases wanted to record and share the experience to show how these quality cases were made so quickly. From the bubble sleeve mold to zipper detail, the video describes the process of piecing together thousands of Bubble Sleeves at the China manufacturing plant under extremely strict timelines.
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+"We wanted to create a case that had more style and protection than the typical neoprene sleeve. We took it a step further by custom molding rubber feet inside the case that add 2-3x the drop protection, and which allowed us to start manufacturing the casing earlier. To make it all happen, we are blessed to work with one of the best factories in China," said Tim Hickman, CEO of Hard Candy Cases. "It was quite a challenge to start a new case line only a few days before Chinese New Year, but our factories stepped up and devoted hundreds of skilled craftsmen to beat the tight deadlines. It was a real thrill to see them accomplish this first hand."
+Superbly crafted with detailed stitching and zipper, the EVA molded, rigid Bubble Sleeve features shock absorbing fitted rubber bumpers to keep the iPad securely in place. A soft, padded interior lining protects the Multi-Touch display from harsh environments. The Bubble Sleeve is available in Green, Pink and Black and retails for $49.95.
+Founded in 2009, Danville, CA-based Hard Candy Cases is a startup from computer accessory veteran Tim Hickman, former GM of Speck Products. The company merges fashion and function to distinguish and protect mobile computers from the wear and tear of daily use.
+Link: Hard Candy iPad Cases
+NewerTech Accessory Line for the iPad
+PR: "These four new accessories are uniquely designed and made with the highest quality materials to provide protection for and functional use improvements of an iPad," said Grant Dahlke, Brand Manager, NewerTech. "They fully exemplify our time honored slogan Newer makes it better than new."
+Newer Technology, Inc. has announced its new NewerTech Accessory Line for iPad consisting of four case and screen accessories that add protective style and functionality to the new Apple iPad being introduced this Saturday, April 3.
+The NewerTech Accessory Line for iPad features four products:
+- NewerTech NuVue Screen Protector keeps the iPad screen clear, sharp, and scratch-free. $9.99
+- NewerTech NuGuard Soft Silicone Protective Case available in six colors to preserve and protect the iPad. $17.99
+- NewerTech NuGuard Hard Shell Polycarbonate Case available in clear to highlight the iPad's design or in bycast black leather for a stylish touch. $24.99
+- NewerTech NuVue Screen Protector & Privacy Screen keeps the iPad screen clear, sharp, and scratch-free while preventing others from viewing screen . $39.99
+All of the announced NewerTech Accessories for iPad are available for pre-ordering from Other World Computing. All pre-orders and regular orders of the NewerTech Accessories for iPad will begin shipping April 9.
+Protects Screen & Privacy
+NewerTech NuVue products keep the iPad's screen as clear, sharp, and scratch-free as brand new without sacrificing performance. The custom fit, smudge and glare resistant screen protectors offer superior touch sensitivity and precision over other air bubble plagued films. The NewerTech NuVue Privacy Protector adds additional protection in the form of personal data security by presenting a dark, blank screen to prying eyes in open, high traffic settings.
+Cushion & Preservestick, and lightweight case is easy to change as the mood fits into one of six available colors.
+Maximum Durability & Style
+For rugged use environments, the NewerTech NuGuard hard shell case is precision molded and simply snaps on to stylishly protect the iPad while providing unobstructed access to the screen, ports, and controls. The transparent polycarbonate shell model shows off the natural beauty and style of the iPad while guarding against impacts, scratches, dirt, and oils. For a more stylish look and tactile surface, the bycast black leather backed NuGuard adds a touch of elegance to the iPad use and design.
+Link: Accessories for Apple iPad
+DODOcase for iPad: Protect Your Gear From Extinction
+PR:.
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+Hand built and designed in San Francisco, CA the DODOcase takes the best of the traditional hardcover book/journal and brings it to an iPad case. With inspiration from the Moleskine writing journals we all know and love.
+The DODOcase's protective cover is constructed using traditional book binding techniques making the DODOcase a perfect balance of tradition, technology, and protection. The iPad is held firmly in place by a beautifully carved bamboo piece with foam inserts for added protection. Lightweight, strong, eco-friendly and a stunningly beautiful wood, bamboo is an ideal material for holding and protecting mobile devices.
+The DODOcase design enables easy access to your iPad on the go with a fold around cover and a simple lift out for when you want to take the iPad from its case.
+Founder and Chief Executive DODO Patrick Buckley said, "We think that iPad owners will love the look and feel of a journal/hardcover book case for their iPad. The craftsmanship we put into each of our cases really shines through."
+You've waited months to get your new iPad, now make sure you protect it. The DODOcase is a wonderful balance of tradition, technology, and sustainability. Cover up your iPad while making a statement with the DODOcase's fine craftsmanship and style.
+Orders are being accepted now at DODOcase online. Due to high demand cases will ship in 3-5 weeks. Price: $49.95 for a limited time there is a 20% discounted price of $39.95 when using the discount code "iPadLaunch". DODOcase: Protects from Extinction.
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+Marware Eco-Flip for iPad Shipping
+PR: Marware Inc., designer and manufacturer of innovative products for the Apple market announces the Eco-Flip for iPad is now shipping. The Eco-Flip is a stylish eco-leather flip case for iPad that delivers 3 solutions in 1. A unique and innovative hand strap design allows you to fold back the cover and securely grip the device during usage - a feature not offered in many other cases or covers.
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+The Eco-Flip folds open at the top, and the lid can be used as a stand. The elastic strap keeps the case closed while the fold over tab inside helps keep the iPad from slipping out. A foldaway display stand is ideal for lower-angled typing or viewing, and rounds out a broad array of features provided in a single case solution. The Eco-Flip also comes with Marware's Lifetime Warranty.
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+Features:
+- 3-in-1 Case Solution: Flip style leather case, two stand options and vertical hand strap
+- Eco-leather flip case design made from RoHS compliant leather (Restriction of Hazardous Substances)
+- Hand strap allows secure grip
+- Flip top lid allows the iPad to stand while in use
+- Low-angle tabletop stand folds away when not in use
+- Elastic closure strap and fold-over tab keep iPad secure
+- Includes: Leather case
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+The Eco-Flip is available in black eco-leather and, for a limited time, is on sale for $44.99. For more information, please visit Marware online. Marware is a leading provider of software and eco-concious accessory solutions for Apple iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Notebooks.
+Link: Eco-Flip for iPad
+On Monday, February 4, 2008 at 11:26 PM EST WWE RAW
+February 4, 2008
+Austin, TX
+Commentators: Jim Ross & Jerry “The King” Lawler
+Reported By: Hunter Golden of WrestleView.com
+WWE Champion Randy Orton is in the ring with a table and whatnot. Orton soaked in the massive amount of boos and ‘you suck’ chants. Orton said what he had here was an official WWE Championship match contract. He said last week John Cena accepted his challenge to apply his Royal Rumble win to a championship match against him. But the thing of it is was that John Cena’s word meant nothing to him.
+He said he wanted it in writing. He said there would be no way Cena could back out in two weeks. He said there was no way John Cena could claim he wasn’t fully recovered. He said he wanted this contract signed so that for John Cena, there was no way out. Oh nifty.
+He said his lawyers drew up this contract which he had already signed. He demanded Cena come out and sign the contract. He could wait until Wrestlemania if that’s what Cena wanted. The titan tron showed Cena walking out to the ring as Orton sat in the chair and put his feet up on the table.
+Orton said his attorneys as well as his looked this over. He said all he needed was for Cena to sign. Cena signed the contract and that was that. Orton said that was easy and he guessed he’d see him in two weeks, but just so he knew, tonight if something happened with Mark Henry to that injured shoulder, that he’d still have to face him.
+Henry came running down to the ring and distracted Cena just long enough for Orton to sneak around the table and plant him with an RKO. Orton stood over Cena with his title belt before leaving the ring.
+****Commercial****
+Mark Henry and Randy Orton are in the back talking before Todd Grisham pops up and asks them why they set Cena up. Orton says something sinister about he’s not responsible. Henry just says something badass because he can.
+Kelly Kelly & Mickie James v. Victoria & Beth Phoenix
+Kelly Kelly is getting a wrestling lesson here.. Am I the only one who’d LOVE to see Victoria-Beth?
+Kelly and Victoria started it off and Kelly ate a headlock take down before grabbing a head scissors. Kelly showed some nice chain wrestling stuff that was punctuated with a roll up but then she got punched in the face. Yay.
+Victoria got all mean and what not and ripped Kelly up over her shoulders by her hair a few times before slamming her to the mat. Kelly had enough and Mickie tags in.
+Mickie started doing her fun old head scissors and a hangman’s (or woman’s) neck breaker. Mickie went to the top rope but Beth wiggled her off shaking the rope.
+Beth came in and began tossing Mickie all about but almost got tapped on a nice guillotine choke. The hell ensued shortly thereafter though as Beth tossed Mickie to the corner. She tagged Victoria who dumped Kelly to the outside. Beth was still dazed on the outside and Victoria taking her eye off the proverbial ball cost her, as Mickie hit the implant DDT for the win.
+Winners: Mickie James & Kelly Kelly via pin fall
+Regal was imploring Hornswaggle to be proud of smooching Vince’s ass.
+****Commercial****
+Shawn Michaels is in the ring talking about making it to the main event of Wrestlemania. He said he came close to winning the title last year, but second place sucks. He said he’s done everything, won all the titles and heck, he even sings his own theme song. He said still though, he was unsatisfied. He said he was putting everyone on notice. At No Way Out……. Chris Jericho’s music hit and he came out to the ring.
+Jericho said he couldn’t disagree with anything HBK said except for one thing, which was that he would win the WWE title. Jericho said he’d been in more elimination chambers than anyone. He said he knew what it was to headline Wrestlemania and his passion to get back to it was second to none. He said his destiny would manifest itself an no one would beat him…. Jeff Hardy’s music hit.
+Hardy’s pop was enormous. Hardy looked at both and he said he thought it was great both wanted to go to the main event at Wrestlemania. He said him personally, he’d never been but he’s so close and he can taste it. He said he’d sacrifice his body and do whatever it took, even if that meant taking the five biggest bucks on the Raw roster.. Out.
+JBL’s music hit and he came down to the ring. JBL said he had to move away from Texas to live in NYC and live in the home of a champion. He said these people didn’t cut it and needed to shut up while he was talking. He said they all had the resume, but they forgot that JBL always gets what he wants. Whether he buys it or takes it, he gets what he wants in the end. He said Umaga didn’t speak English well, but he understood the language of money and he’d guarantee his safe passage to the Wrestlemania main event.
+Umaga’s music hits and I can’t help but imagine him being able to count. Cookie Monster… move over. Umaga looked at JBL kind of funny. Snitsky’s on his way out now and what in the blue hell is he doing here? Snitsky said all these people had their chances and he deserved to be in the match. He said if they didn’t give him one of their spots, he’d take it himself.
+He said the six of them couldn’t agree on anything, but if there was something they’d agree with, that Snitsky didn’t deserve anything. Now all of a sudden we’ve got a fight.
+William Regal came out to the ramp and magically, we’ve got a match for later tonight.
+****Commercial****
+Mr. Kennedy v. Super Crazy
+The two tied it up and went into the corner. We got a clean break before Kennedy hit a drop kick to the knee and began dropping knees on Super Crazy’s legs. Kennedy began hitting knees to the head before Super Crazy flailed back but it was to no avail. Kennedy began dismantling the legs some more, ripping them out at the hip and whatnot.
+Kennedy dragged Crazy out to the ring post and slammed it off it before coming back into the ring and dropping the elbow. Kennedy ripped away at the leg on a reverse toe hold before Super Crazy eventually kicked him off. Kennedy pounced right back on him though, slapping on some sort of reverse figure our for the tap out win.
+Winner: Mr. Kennedy via submission
+Kennedy got on the mic and directed us to the titan tron where he showed MVP being a big jerk face to Ric Flair. Kennedy said he knew he was hurt and knew Flair saw what he did to Super Crazy. He said he was going to take it easy on him and let him come out next week and forfeit the match. He said he knew that wasn’t Flair’s style, but he said if he goes through with the match, he’s going to lose. He said not only will he end his career, but he’ll make him limp for the rest of his life.
+****Commercial****
+A video aired putting over the Elimination chamber.
+Santino Marella & Carlito v. London & Kendrick
+Carlito and Kendrick started it off. Kendrick hit some kicks and punches before heading into the ropes where he connected with a nice standing drop kick for a two count. Kendrick kept up the pressure and hit a running forearm and some wheel kicks. Kendrick went to the ropes again, but Marella yanked the ropes up and Kendrick crashed and burned. London chased Santino around the ring while Carlito collected Kendrick and nailed a back snapper for the quick win.
+Winners: Carlito & Santino Marella via pin fall
+Vince is in the back getting his ass shined up by a buffer. He asked the dude buffing him if he brought the ass cream. Oooh, that’s cold. He said imagine that, Mr. McMahon’s ass in HD.
+****Commercial****
+Mr. McMahon came down and I have a feeling there’s going to be some lovely ass kissing. McMahon said all employers should think about having a kiss my ass club. He said tonight though, it’s not about him being an employer, it was about being a concerned parent. He said many of the people didn’t give a damn about their kids and never disciplined them. He said they were too concerned about themselves, and not about giving tough love to their offspring. He mocked people trying to reason with their kids and said they were pathetic. He said you told your kids what to do.
+He said let’s talk about the children. Vince asked all the kids to stand up and be recognized. He said everyone of the kids was a spoiled brat after all the camera shots were kids. He said the parents made them spoiled brats. He said the only way to discipline their kid so that they didn’t screw up again was to literally make them kiss their ass.
+Speaking of that…. He said Hornswaggle was going to kiss his ass. Hornswaggle came out to the ring.
+Vince said that Hornswaggle knew he loved him and that it would hurt Vince more than it’d hurt him. Vince said we’d get on with it. Vince got in position and it’s terrible looking. Hornswaggle teased the ass kissing a few times before Finlay’s music hit and he came down to the ring.
+Vince said since Finlay was out here, he could kiss his ass too, because he signs his paycheck. Vince got back in position and again they teased something happening. Vince progressively got angrier and angrier. Vince said he’d jam his sheleighleigh up Finlay’s butt if he didn’t kiss his ass. Hornswaggle puckered up and instead of kissing his ass, he took a big bit right out of McMahon’s ass. Vince is beside himself and goes about ripping the crowd. He said since the Crowd liked it so much, they’d love the match between him and Hornswaggle next week. He said he was going to beat the holy hell out of his bastard son in a No DQ match. He said if Finlay gets involved, he gets fired. No one’s laughing now.
+****Commercial****
+Cade & Murdoch v. Cody Rhodes & Hardcore Holly
+Murdoch’s wearing a silver flamed jacket to the ring. Murdoch should only wear Carhardt.
+Holly and Murdoch started things off and Holly kicked him in the nuts. Yay. Murdoch must have a vagina because he pretty much no sold it and went into the clothesline and big boot thingy before tagging in Cade who pretty much did his clobbering thing before hitting an awkward looking side Russian leg sweet for a two count.
+Holly finally hit a drop kick and hot tagged Rhodes who hit a flying axe handle and a bulldog for a one and a half count. Cody whipped Murdoch but ate a back elbow and a jaw breaker before back body dropping Murdoch. Cade came into the ring and Holly made the quick save allowing Rhodes to hit the DDT for the win.
+Winners: Cody Rhodes & Hardcore Holly via pin fall
+Wow that was BRUTALLY bad match. Carlito comes out with Santino and they’re the new #1 contenders for the tag titles. He said they had as much of a chance of keeping the titles as Maria did of posing in Playboy. Title match at some point in the future.
+****Commercial****
+JR and King ran down the No Way Out card.
+WWE Championship
+Randy Orton v. John Cena
+World Heavyweight Championship
+Edge v. Rey Mysterio
+Ric Flair v. Mr. Kennedy
+Elimination Chamber--Raw (Title shot at WM on the line)
+HBK v. Triple H v. Jeff Hardy v. JBL v. Umaga v. Chris Jericho
+Elimination Chamber-- Smack down (title shot at WM on the line)
+The Undertaker v. Big Daddy V v. The Great Khali v. Finlay v. MVP v. Batista
+Jeff Hardy, Shawn Michaels & Chris Jericho v. JBL, Umaga & Snitsky
+Umaga’s starting things off with Michaels. Crowd likes it. HBK opened up with some chops but got whipped. HBK managed a roll up attempt and avoided the sit out with a low dropkick for a one count. Jericho tagged in and grabbed an arm wringer but that didn’t really work as he got buried with an Umaga head butt.
+Snitsky tagged in and brush your teeth chants ring out across the land. Ironic, Texas fans talking about teeth. They’re just jealous. Jericho grabbed the advantage with a springboard drop kick and Hardy’s tagged in and he and Jericho hit a Hardy like tag team move.
+Hardy celebrated a bit only got get body slammed by Snitsky and it’s baby face in peril time. JBL comes in and drops a big axe like blow on Hardy’s back before just beating Hardy like a foster child in the corner. Hardy managed to hit a mule kick and a double leg drop for a one count, but didn’t get much.
+JBL flat backed Hardy and tagged Snitsky back in who blew an elbow drop attempt. HBK gets the hot tag and Michaels hit the flying forearm only got eat a clothesline. Snitsky missed the big boot and Michaels tried to lock in that nasty submission move. Snitsky rolled around for a little while before Umaga nailed him with the diving head butt.
+Umaga missed a charge and clattered to the outside and oh crap, everyone’s in there. All three faces hit dueling planchas and the crowd’s going nuts.
+****Commercial****
+We came back to Jericho being down and out on the mat with Snitsky. Snitsky recovered first and hit a body slam followed by an elbow drop for a two count. Umaga tagged in and the heels distracted the ref while they behaved badly. Umaga grabbed a bear hug and the crowd’s trying to get behind Jericho.
+Umaga managed a Samoan drop and got another near fall before going right back to the bear hug. JBL tagged in and dropped some elbows, like ten of them for another two count. Jericho fought back only to get completely cut off with a big boot to the dome for yet another near fall.
+Snitsky tagged in and resumed the beat down, stomping Jericho in the gut and grabbing a bear hug of his own. Jericho willed his way out of the hold only to eat a shot to the back from Umaga and a Snitsky back elbow. Umaga tagged in and hit some terrible strikes on Jericho. Jericho responded in kind and he isn’t winning this battle either and got floored with a throat thrust. Umaga climbed the top rope and missed the diving head butt.
+The crowd rallied Jericho to the corner and sure enough he got there, tagging Hardy. Hardy came in and cleaned Snitsky out with a big whisper in the wind only for JBL to cut him off with a big boot. Spike, Code Breaker and then sweet chin music. Hardy and Snitsky are left and he hit a twist of fate before hitting the Swanton for the win.
+Winner: Jeff Hardy via pin fall
+****Commercial****
+A video putting over the return of Candice Michelle aired.
+Arm Wrestling Contest
+John Cena v. Mark Henry
+Both men came down to the ring and we get some great stalling from Henry. Both guys are belligerent and we’re ready to get this thing going. Henry treating Cena with no respect is great. Here we go.
+AWESOME struggle here. Henry’s pretty swank here, too. All of a sudden, Henry holds his hand down and Orton runs in. Orton goes for an RKO but Cena ducks out and chases Orton out of the ring. Henry rushes him and Cena picks him up and FU’s him. Holy smokes awesomely simple segment.RAW THOUGHTSShow Thoughts-- Well despite not offering a whole lot in the in ring department, it was absolutely fantastic in virtually all of it’s segments. A very fun, good pay per view building Raw.
+The Orton-Cena feud really is just as good as it gets. The two best in the industry right now in a great feud. Confident champion, determined challenger. Sinister evil doer, crusader for good-ness. Orton didn’t look like a chump but looked smart. Cena looks like a train coming down the tracks. Sure, I’m disappointed we’re not getting this at Wrestlemania, but honestly, I’m stoked we’re getting it period.
+The name of the game was simplicity. The lack of wild theatrics made the contract signing bit one of the better ones they’ve done and that was about as good a way to use an arm wrestling contest as you get. Great, great stuff from both tonight.
+Vince’s lecture on parenting was probably the funniest McMahon promo I can remember in a long time and the butt-buffing was monumentally hilarious. This definitely looks like it’s headed to some sort of Hornswaggle/Finlay tag match against a McMahon team at Wrestlemania. Despite this angle not being received too well at it’s inception, you’ve got to tip the cap to Vince in how they’ve been able to just sort of run with it all.
+The elimination chamber build was done well, and all three baby faces were super fantastic in their match. The heels performed well, too, but Jericho and Hardy stole the show. Great job getting THOSE guys over and nice job to Triple H for standing back and letting all the other guys in the match build it up like they’ve got a crack at winning.
+And the Kennedy promo was good, even though the squash match was ridiculously over-done. It’ll be a solid curtain jerker at what’s bound to be a tough show to book.
+Overall though, again, I was really pleased with Raw tonight from a build perspective even though we got some pretty bad wrestling in spots. It’s a positive step towards No Way Out.
+Overall Grade: B
+Quick Results
+Mickie James & Kelly def. Beth & Victoria
+Mr. Kennedy def. Super Crazy
+Santino Marella & Carlito def. London & Kendrick
+Cody Rhodes & Hardcore Holly def. Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch
+Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho & HBK def. JBL, Snitsky & Umaga
+Who’s Hot, Who’s Not?
+Biggest Pops
+1. Jeff Hardy
+2. John Cena
+3. Shawn Michaels
+4. Chris Jericho
+Most Heat
+1. Randy Orton
+2. JBL
+3. Umaga
+4. Mr. Kennedy
+Match of the Night: Six Man Tag match **1/2 is so the man right now, he really is having trouble sucking at all. His mannerisms and facials helped make two really good segments with Cena. Here’s to hoping he keeps the belt against Cena.
+Intercontinental Champion: Jeff Hardy 3-2, 5pts. (Last Week: IC Champion)— Good lord, Hardy’s over. Like getting to should-be-in-main event at Wrestlemania levels over. The crowd was molten for him tonight.
+1. Shawn Michaels 5-0, 7pts. (Last Week: 1) —Michaels was more or less just ‘there’ tonight, even though it’s kind of difficult to knock him. He keeps on winning though, so for the purposes of this, my criticisms are moot.
+2. Ken Kennedy 3-1, 7pts. (Last Week: 3)-- Good lord that squash match was a little too elaborate. He could’ve just cracked the knee a couple of times and got the submission. Didn’t need 5 full minutes of leg work to get the point over.
+3. Triple H 3-1, 5pts.(Last Week: 2) -- No Triple H tonight which was really surprising.
+4. Chris Jericho 2-3, 3pts. (Last Week: 5)-- Jericho’s really trying out there and it’s starting to stick again. I thought his selling was the easy highlight of tonight’s six man tag match. Letting Snitsky make him his woman was pretty fun.
+5. Ric Flair 2-0, 4 points (Last Week: 4) -- Not in action tonight.
+6. John Cena 1-0, 3 points. (Last Week: 9) -- That FU was completely awesome at the end. The Orton feud is right back to where we left off and I’m loving every minute of it.
+7. JBL 2-2, 4 points (Last Week: 6) -- Seems to be doing his HBK impression of being there but not really doing a whole lot. They’re obviously sitting on him here and he’s playing the hard heel in the EC build. Good move.
+8. Umaga 1-3, 2 points(Last Week: 7 -- For some reason, Umaga despite not doing much of note, really worked the aura well tonight and the brief glare at JBL got a good reaction. Umaga as an enforcer could work.
+9. Carlito 3-1, 5 pts. (Last Week: 8) -- Can’t complain about him and Santino. It’s been a while since we had a cheat all the time team in the mold of the Midnight Express. I think because of it, they’ll stick out especially being booked with the gooey team of Holly and Rhodes.
+10. Hardcore Holly 2-1, 2pt.. (Last Week: 10) — Holly’s team gets another win, so I’m not knocking him out of the top 10 as no one /* that did something topped what he did, so Holly stays, but barely.
+OTHERS :
+Cody Rhodes 1-1, 1 point (Last Week: NR)
+Jerry Lawler 0-0 points (Last Week: NR)
+Lance Cade 0-1, 0 points (Last Week: NR)
+Santino Marella 1-0, 1 point (Last Week: NR)
+Paul London 0-1, 0 points(Last Week: NR)
+Brian Kendrick, 0-3, 0 points (Last Week: NR)
+Trevor Murdoch 0-3, 0 points (Last Week: NR)
+Super Crazy 0-1,-3, 2 points (Last Week: NR)
+Benjamin Netanyahu is almost certainly having a mid-life crisis.
+…by Jonas E. Alexis
+Benjamin Netanyahu is almost certainly having a mid-life crisis. He probably has lots of different medications in his file cabinet.
+Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has reported that the Netanyahu administration contacted Arab ambassadors “to come to his boss’s speech, emailing them personally to plead for their attendance.” They all refused.[1]
+Things moved from bad to worse. National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who has defended the Israeli regime on numerous occasions, seemed to have been exhausted over the past two weeks. She seemed to have thrown in the towel by saying that Netanyahu’s speech to Congress will be extremely “destructive.”[2] Chris Matthews of MSNBC—of all people!—has declared that Netanyahu has created a “crapstorm.”
+Then it was John Kerry’s turn to destroy Netanyahu’s speech. Kerry has recently made one of the smartest moves in his political career, and one must give him some credit here. Listen to the New York Times carefully here:
+,
+“‘The prime minister, as you will recall, was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush, and we all know what happened with that decision.’
+“Video of Mr. Netanyahu’s 2002 remarks — in which he said ‘I.”[3]
+Yes, we all know what happened after the Iraq war was over. From 2003 to 2012, over two thousand doctors and nurses, and over four hundred academics, have been assassinated in Iraq. Others have emigrated due to violence in the region.
+In 1990, there were about thirty thousand registered doctors in Iraq. By 2008, more than fifteen thousand had already left the country. Then there is the high unemployment that has been ravaging sections of the region, combining with the fact that educational institutions have been in decline.[4]
+This is the freedom that Netanyahu and his brethren (the Neo-Bolsheviks) have brought to Iraq; this is the sort of heaven these intellectual and political geniuses have been seeking in the Middle East. And the ideological agenda of the neoconservative movement progressively attacks Christian families and decent Muslim neighborhoods in the Middle East.
+The National Interest itself declared in 2010 that “the historic Christian community has been largely destroyed” in Iraq after the war, where hundreds of Christians have been killed and exiled to other countries such as Syria and Lebanon.[5]
+The report continued to say that “many advocates claim Iraq is now a great success. But not for Iraq’s Christians.”[6] People like Benjamin Weinthal talked about “The Mideast’s Vanishing Christians.”[7]
+We are witnessing the same thing in Syria, where the Christian minority has been targeted by the Syrian rebels.[8] And by October 2012, it was clear that by supporting the Syrian rebels, the U.S. ended up supporting “hardline Islamic Jihadis.”].[13]
+None of that was put into consideration by the New York Times.
+Bandow did not tell us who those advocates were, nor did Weinthal describe the forces behind the vanishing Christians in the Middle East. Weinthal ended up putting the blame only on Hamas, at least in the Gaza Strip, and then on Egypt’s newly elected president Mohamed Morsi.[14] Bandow and Weinthal could not mention the forces behind those destructive movements because they probably would be out of jobs if they do.
+Historian Aaron B. O’Connell of the United States Navy for example talks about “the permanent militarization of America,”[15] but dares not say that the people behind this are none other than the neoconservatives.
+The neoconservative movement (or shall we say the Neo-Bolshevik movement), as I demonstrated elsewhere, is a Jewish intellectual and political movement which precipitated the war in Iraq and created political entropy in the country. Iraq was not a threat to America by any stretch of the imagination,[16] but the neoconservatives unleashed a plethora of hoaxes and sophisticated fabrications which eventually convinced the American people that Iraq was an imminent threat.
+Bush was simply a puppet in the process. Richard Perle for example bragged about how Bush knew very little about foreign policy and that he and other neoconservatives had to coach him.[17]
+“[Bush] did not make decisions,” Perle triumphantly declared, “in part because the machinery of government that he nominally ran was actually running him. The National Security Council was not serving [Bush] properly.”[18]
+Now it is Iran that is an existential threat, despite the fact that for almost three thousand years, Jewish artifacts of all kinds have played a vital role in Iran among the Jewish community, where they largely enjoyed the ambiance.[19]
+If there is an existential threat in the Middle East, it is Israel. The 1982 massacre is a classic example, where Israeli military allowed Lebanese militia to attack Palestinian refugees; they
+“raped, killed and dismembered at least 800 civilians, while Israeli flares illuminated the camps’ narrow and darkened alleyways.”[20]
+One year later, an Israeli investigation commission found Israel “indirectly responsible” for the massacre, and Ariel Sharon an accomplice.[21].[22].”[23].”[24].”[25] Scholar Seth Anziska declares, “The Sabra and Shatila massacre severely undercut America’s influence in the Middle East, and its moral authority plummeted.”[26]
+In short, perpetual wars in the Middle East are great for people like Netanyahu, but this time Kerry and the current administration are trying to tell him to slow down a bit. Netanyahu, of course, does not like that. He wants to be in charge all the time. He doesn’t get to be told what to do.
+But the Obama administration, unlike the Bush or Reagan administration, has made explicitly clear that Netanyahu is a “chickenshit.” Moreover, the administration is trying to stop the mad man in Tel Aviv and tell him to take it easy.
+For example, Bush would never have said in public that Netanyahu “may have a judgment that just may not be correct,” as Kerry has said publicly.[27] In fact, when Condoleezza Rice was trying to talk to Jewish mogul Sheldon Adelson about the two-state solutions, things did not go well. Adelson, who “is fiercely opposed to the two-state solutions,” was angry at Rice.
+.’”[28]
+Yes, the Obama administration (with the help of Jewish Neocon Victoria Nuland) is largely responsible for agitating wars in places like Ukraine and elsewhere. Even at this present moment, the U.S. is “mulling lethal aid to Ukraine.” But there is a little progress in the Middle East because Netanyahu is not having a good time.
+The administration could do more, but so long that they are not letting Netanyahu have his cake and eat it too in the Middle East, we should at least be somewhat grateful for the moment.
+Perhaps if every decent citizen sends the administration a letter saying that we are supporting them if they are opposing Netanyahu’s wicked plan, the administration would probably be encouraged to do more.
+[1] Jeffrey Goldberg, “Netanyahu Invites Arab Diplomats to His Big Speech—and Gets Rejected,” Atlantic, February 25, 2015.
+[2] Nick Gass, “Susan Rice: Benjamin Netanyahu Trip ‘Destructive,’” Politico, February 25, 2015.
+[3] Robert Mackey, “Kerry Reminds Congress Netanyahu Advised U.S. to Invade Iraq,” NY Times, February 25, 2015; see also Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Obama Administration Goes on Offensive Against Netanyahu,” Politico, February 25, 2015.
+[4] See Irena L. Sargsyan, “Iraq’s Endless Humanitarian Crisis,” National Interest, October 9, 2012.
+[5] Doug Bandow, “The Plight of Christians in Iraq,” National Interest, Nov. 2, 2010.
+[7] Benjamin Weinthal, “The Mideast Vanishing Christians,” National Interest, August 21, 2012.
+[8].
+[9] David E. Sanger, “Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria,” NY Times, October
+[14] Barnard, “”Bomb Blast Kills at Least 8,” NY Times.
+[15] Aaron B. O’Connell, “The Permanent Militarization of America,” NY Times, November 4, 2012.
+[16] See Paul R. Pillar, Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011); John J. Mearsheimer, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
+[17] I have pursued this issue in Christianity & Rabbinic Judaism, Vol. I.
+[18] David Rose, “Neo Culpa,” Vanity Fair, November 3, 2006.
+[19] Naomi Pfefferman, “An Exhibition of Iranian Jews,” JewishJournal.com, October 10, 2012
+[20] Seth Anziska, “A Preventable Massacre,” NY Times, September 16, 2012.
+[22] See “Declassified Documents Shed Light on a 1982 Massacre,” NY Times, September 16, 2012.
+[23] Anziska, “A Preventable Massacre,” NY Times, September 16, 2012.
+[27] Quoted in Michael Wilner, “Kerry Questions Netanyahu’s Judgment Over Iran Deal,” Jerusalem Post, February 25, 2015.
+[28] Connie Bruck, “The Brass Ring: A Multibillionaire’s Relentless Quest for Global Influence,” New Yorker, June 30, 2008.
+Tucker here. Ng Suat Tong asked me to participate in a round-up style judging panel selecting the best of online comics criticism, and the results are now available. The other judges were Noah Berlatsky, Frank Santoro, Mattias Wivel, and Suat Tong himself. (There were a few more, including a woman, but time and life got in the way.) Each person nominated their top ten favorite pieces, all of them were thrown into a bigger list, and then each judge picked ten all over again. Those votes got added together, there were a couple of emails back and forth, a couple of votes were changed, and this is the list we ended up with. I have a tendency to assume a lot of things about the online audience for comics related stuff, so let me be clear about something: there's going to be writing out there that was as good as these articles, reactions & critical takes, work that this small panel of people will have missed. There's no way to be all-inclusive in a short judging process, even when you're dealing with something like comics, which has a pretty small amount of writing surrounding it in the first place. These were some of what a few people who don't agree on a lot of things thought were pretty fantastic, and while the lack of inclusion hurts the overall, it shouldn't hurt these writers.
+The Top Vote-Getters
+1. Robert Alter on Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis (Scripture Picture)
+2. Joe McCulloch on J.H. Williams III (A Review of Batwoman in Detective Comics Focusing Mostly On The Art)
+3. Tom Spurgeon on Return Reading
+4. Eddie Campbell on Will Eisner's PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly
+5. Tom Crippen on the Age of Geeks
+6. Dirk Deppey on Paul Levitz (The Man Who Couldn't Shoot Straight)
+7. Andrew Rilestone on Watchmen (Who Sent the Sentinels)
+What follows are the pieces I voted for in the final round--as you can see, there's some crossover. There's no order of preference to this list. The asterisks denote an article that was in one of my original nominations.
+Some Other Nominees
+1. Eddie Campbell on Exit Wounds
+I liked this article a lot, and I stubbornly stuck to voting for it even when it became clear that everybody else had jumped ship for the PS Magazine piece. I don't cotton much to the idea that the best of arts criticism is produced by artists themselves, god knows that artists can be as poorly read as the never-does-nothing blogger, but Eddie Campbell's writing about comics has always struck me as one of the best things about the internet. I don't know if the guy would have been willing to take the necessary steps to get his occasional reviews or reaction pieces into print, so it's nice to see that he's utilized the ease-of-blog-publishing to put them out there.
+2. Marc Singer on Final Crisis*
+Marc's article on Final Crisis, along with his extended explanations in various comment sections at the Mindless Ones, took a frank, intelligent look at one of the most popular comic blog topics of the last year. Final Crisis blogposts tended to be associated as blanket condemnations or Church of Morrison paeans by people who didn't read them (or just didn't understand what the individual was writing), but considering the sheer amount of them, it's not hard to grasp why people eventually grew exhausted of reading about the comic. Singer was able to talk about the comic (negatively) without devolving into reactionary fight-posting, and his post was a high-water mark for super-hero related criticism. It doesn't change the fact that one probably wouldn't get much out of his post without foreknowledge of the series under discussion, and it doesn't negate the fact that a DC event comic got more attention than it deserved, but it did make the reading experience of Final Crisis better than it would have been on its own. There's a lot of merit to be found in that.
+3. Derik Badman on Rubber Blanket*
+I always felt bad that Derik Badman participated in a blog cross-over that I was involved with, because I can't imagine a universe where Derik Badman would be happy that he wrote something as intelligent as this only to find out that he was going to have it linked here. But he's not on here out of sympathy, he's on here for the same reason that the Eddie Campbell piece is--because after I read this article, I went into the moving boxes until I found Rubber Blanket, read it, and then read Badman's piece again. Badman's a unique writer, one whose taste can go in a wholly different direction than my own, and for what it's worth, that's why I find his writing about comics so valuable. Disagree or not, he brings an informed perspective tangled up in what seems to me to be a group of specific hopes and ideals. Anything he has to say is worth paying attention to.
+4. Joe McCullouch on Detective Comics*
+Joe was going to be a part of the judging process, but I think the rest of us all emailed Ng Suat Tong and said that either Joe had to go, or we had to be allowed to nominate a fellow judge. I originally nominated his articles on Winter Men, King Smurf, and this one. I don't think there's any question who would've won best overall person who does this online work. Some people's eyes roll regarding Joe's word count--you know who you are, guy who doesn't read blogs--but those people's lack of attention denotes their own failings. The reason why Joe's lack of limitation pays off can be found in King Smurf, his two part series on Manga, and, of course, in his Savage Critics post on J.H. Williams III. A lot of nice things are said about the guy regarding his criticism, but even if you take that out of the equation entirely, you're left with his skill as a researcher, the range of his historical knowledge. Beyond what happens with Batwoman and Greg Rucka, the Savage Critics post details a close reading of an artist's career in an artform where the historians often double as fannish hagiographers.
+5. Abhay Khosla on Scott Pilgrim*
+If there's somebody out there trying to plumb motivation, they might think that Abhay's article about Scott Pilgrim is on here because it's one where Abhay tilts serious more than he tilts funny. They'd be right. The tendency with Abhay is to either love him completely, or to mention him with a disclaimer--"I think he's great sometimes, other times I hope he dies". Picking one of his more "serious" pieces was done in hopes that it would circumvent that reaction, although I'm not assigning any of those feelings to the other judges. I'm an Abhay fanboy, I make no apologies for that. This Young Neil focused review was one of those articles that all of the comics internet seems to clamor for--a pointed look at a popular piece of entertainment, one that asks whether the entertainment has a deeper, tangible subject underneath--and it was as whip-cracked sharp as any of Khosla's writing ever is.
+6. Robet Alter on Genesis*
+I was surprised to see how popular this article was with everybody else, I'll admit that I felt like it was written just for me--a nerdy guy obsessed with religion who couldn't stand reading the Book of Genesis and felt lost as to why, beyond "it's boring". Alter's piece was unique amongst Genesis readings, coming from an unexpected location--Alter's the man responsible for the Biblical translation that Crumb used for his work--and yet it burrowed deep into Crumb's undeniable skill as much as it nailed where Genesis failed. Suat Tong described it as "very close to being the definitive article on Crumb's Genesis adaptation", and I couldn't agree more.
+7. Dirk Deppey on Paul Levitz
+Dirk's piece exemplifies a specific aspect of the Internet's delivery of criticism: temporality. While the hours following the Levitz resignation certainly included a bit of "finally!" cheerleading in various comments sections at the more news-focused internet sites, it was when Deppey's Journalista entry arrived with "This is a good thing, full stop" that an actual discussion started. Anything--hell, everything--on the internet is immediately met with vitriol and complaint (see the comments section for Dan Nadel's common sense request for art credits at Mocca's Archie show for a recent installment). But Deppey's brief piece on Levitz--one that focused on facts over nostalgia and friendliness--wasn't just a giggling Fuck This Guy. It gave the discussion substance, it gave it perspective, and it directly charged that Levitz--for all his accomplishments--had been in charge of a business he was no longer qualified to handle. If comics were a big enough industry for it to have its own trade magazines, it's hard to believe that essays weeping over his retirement would've filled their pages. It was Deppey's argument that best explained why.
+8. Tom Spurgeon on Re-Reading
+Spurgeon would've made a great judge, but he makes for a better candidate. This article, which could be mistakingly taken for one of those "Various" links that Spurgeon posts whenever somebody talks about a bunch of randomly selected comics, is one of the best pieces he put up last year, and one that's definitively about one of the most interesting subjects comics can discuss: the construction of the personal canon, and the "why" behind the chunks of comics that form that canon's foundation. While he glances alongside the subject, the question that it inspires--Which comics do you find yourself returning to most fervently, be it for personal or intellectual hungers--is one that, when answered honestly, is always fascinating.
+9. Andrew Rilestone on Watchmen*
+The first few times I'd heard about this piece, I made it about two pages in before deciding it wasn't for me. But after Mattias Wivel's last minute push, I went back and plowed through all sixty pages. The introduction still isn't my thing, but behind those initial pages, Rilestone distills a massive amount of analysis, one that details not just why the Watchmen movie sucked--which it fucking did, holy shit--but why Watchmen remains worth talking about still, even after it's become the worst recommendation for first comic ever. Besides that, Rilestone's usage of the internet to make what is, in effect, a free sixty-page book, deliberately stylized in a form that profit-hungry publishers would never take to, points to a direction for future on-the-side hobby writers. Leigh Walton's dream of a comics-focused 33 1/3 series will probably never be realized in full Barnes & Noble fashion, but maybe, just maybe, the internet could provide a suitable .pdf focused alternative.
+10. Amy Poodle on Blackest Night*
+There was another article on the Mindless Ones that was in my original pool o' nominees, Zom's piece on Daredevil Born Again, but it was Amy Poodle's "I've seen Superman having sex and it wasn't very nice" article that best handled a subject that's been batted around for years now: grits, glitz & guns. Part of the problem with criticizing DC's comics for their ultraviolence is that the attitude is often brushed past as being a part of some prude's response, that the criticism stems from people who just can't get into grime and ugliness, and those complainers should stick to kiddie's books and Morrisonian time festivals if they're so irritated when a character named Red Arrow gets his arm ripped off. Amy's torrent of weirdly capitalized complaints shouldn't be mistaken for a rant, though. Like a lot of negative, bile-filled criticism, Poodle's incredulous response isn't about a fan being mad, it isn't a red-faced typing fiesta of catharsis, what he's trying to nail is this: we love violence, we love suffering, and we love action, and we want to like you. We want to like you so much. And if you aren't going to meet us halfway, that's fine, life will go on. But why do you have to sit there masturbating into a diaper?
+Endless Amounts of Equivocation
+These aren't the original ten nominations I sent in, but it's pretty close. One of the judges nominated my wife's Power Girl review, another judge voted for it as well, which I thought was really nice. I asked her if she wanted me to vote for it myself, because I thought that was a pretty severe conflict of interest. She laughed pretty hard and then said "What? Of course not!" It bugged me that there weren't any women in my final top ten--there were a few female candidates on the list of nominations--but I wanted to hew as close to honesty as I could, and when I found myself staring at a list of ten dudes, trying to figure out which one I should cut just so that I could get a woman on there, I gave up. I know that I think women can write as well as men about comics, and that they can be just as interesting. If anybody honestly believes I think otherwise, I'm not going to prove them wrong by spitting out some names. Sometimes you have to be your own barometer. I hope it's obvious why each of these were picked.
+-Tucker Stone, 2010
+huh, I didn't know Paul Levitz resigned. Go figure.
+Posted by: AERose | 2010.01.13 at 04:12
+Is there any offline comics criticism anymore?
+Tucker, thanks for the links. I've been lazy lately with tracking this stuff down.
+- Sharif
+Posted by: Sharif | 2010.01.13 at 06:35
+So THAT's Jog's real name? Good a name as any.
+Posted by: Nathan | 2010.01.13 at 14:28
+Mr. Stone, I don't really want to do this because, as you know, I love you. But I have to do this:
+Posted by: bobsy | 2010.01.13 at 16:39
+All good, you beat me to it. I saw it too. Nina refuses to acknowledge, but that's her job.
+Posted by: Tucker Stone | 2010.01.13 at 16:47
+I don't get it.
+Posted by: Marty | 2010.01.13 at 20:27
+There's a certain irony in criticising criticism. But I'm becomming less and less interested in criticism because I'm more fascinated with the reviews on Amazon. (One of my favorites on there are the one star reviews of the diary of Anne Frank.) That being said, this was well written, but there's a degree of what's the point for me. A lot of this stuff is the same names giving each other a handjob, but that's to be expected. But who's really reading that much comic criticism anyway? And what are we doing with it?Sometimes I feel like it's mostly guys like me - bored white collar types who are trying to kill a few minutes at work. Maybe I'm just too jaded anymore, because I feel like I see the same things being said over and over and nothing seems to change. The corporate, work for hire stuff is still dying a slow death and the personal works from people who feel compelled to create are still the best.
+Posted by: Kenny Cather | 2010.01.13 at 22:04
+Damn good choices here; I love how much great criticism I can experience these days.
+And not to get all circle-jerky, like Kenny is talking about, but if I was throwing out nominations, I would point out Jog and Tucker's back and forth series on every goddamn one of the DC/Humanoids books, Tucker's ultra-completist look at Brian Azzarello's career, Noah's posts on superhero and gender and his series on Marston's Wonder Woman, some of Jason Thompson's manga articles for Io9 and Comixology, and probably plenty of other stuff, even if I can't come up with any more off the top of my head right now. The comics internet is a cool place.
+Posted by: Matthew J. Brady | 2010.01.14 at 00:55
+So Tucker's real name is Pat Ford?
+Posted by: Zebtron A. Rama | 2010.01.14 at 02:41
+"he brings an informed perspective tangled up in what seems to me to be a group of specific hopes and ideals. Anything he has to say is worth paying attention to."
+Thanks! (Though I wonder what you think my hopes and ideals are...)
+And no, I was not annoyed to link here. Hell, I'm sure you get a lot more readers than I do.
+Posted by: DerikB | 2010.01.14 at 09:43
+Matt, you know how I feel - you're the best out there. But yeah, you have a good list there, too. What I was addressing last night (from my iPhone while falling asleep) is when a group of critics gets together and calls each others' critical pieces the best out there, it's kinda like - yeah, that's about what I expected.
+I was thinking about this more this morning, and I guess my biggest problem is in trying to figure out what all this criticism is leading to. One of my best friends keeps talking about how comics *needs* academic-level criticism to begin to be taken as a serious art form. OK, I can get that, but I don't think we're there yet. I think it's going to take a better integration of schools like Ohio State and it's Cartoon Library and Museum with the criticism out there.
+But, like, I don't think the creators out there are paying attention. Anecdotally speaking, I've begun working on my own video game. I'm not reading any video game blogs looking for worthwhile video game criticism, I'm just making it according to what I like. My goal is for my friends to like it, too. Oddly enough, when I talked to Kevin Huizenga the one time I met him, he said he had the same approach to his comics. He just does what interests him and doesn't bother reading comics criticism.
+I dunno, maybe I need to form some of these ideas into actual thought out talking points rather than my stream of conscious ramblings....
+Posted by: Kenny Cather | 2010.01.14 at 11:50
+Shut the fuck up, Kenny.
+Posted by: sean witzke | 2010.01.14 at 12:37
+"I'm not reading any video game blogs looking for worthwhile video game criticism"
+You might have missed then.
+What engine are you using for your game? Unreal, Unity, Torque, etc? AGS? Rockpapershotgun's been running an interesting series where they've been making their own game using Unity, with zero prior game-making experience. All of the engines becoming publicly available at the end of the last year was interesting, a very interesting development.
+Also: thanks. Also: Jog's King Smurf thing was robbed!
+Posted by: Abhay | 2010.01.14 at 14:20
+I don't think comic criticism blogs should be allowed to communicate with one another
+It's just like all cultures of critique for all artistic media; the criticism might be thought provoking or well-read or structured or offering a new perspective on old material
+Once the circle of critics passes a certain point it will be large enough to enclose and invariably devolves into a parallel, parasitic secondary forum besides/below the forum of the medium itself. And that is horrible
+Speaking of what's important in the world, how about that Haiti, huh
+Posted by: AComment | 2010.01.14 at 15:06
+Sean, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just trying to open up a discussion about what the role of on-line comic criticism is. I mean, if I thought it was worthless, I wouldn't bother coming here or reading any of this.
+Abhay, I'm actually making my own engine from scratch. Originally, I was going to clone the Legend of Zelda, but then I got to thinking about how the movement of sprites across the screen is represented in code and I'm starting to diverge a lot from that original plan. To tell the truth, it began as an exercise to strengthen my C# skills, but it's really grown into its own thing. What's weird to me is how much I'm starting to appreciate different approaches to literature as a result. Like, I know both you and Tucker are fans of Pynchon, but I was never really into him until I began working on this and thinking - what can I twist in my project? So, now I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow just looking for ways Pynchon went off the beaten path and did different things. I probably wouldn't have given any of this a second thought had I not been reading writing from you, Tucker, Matt, etc.
+But thanks for the link, Abhay! I appreciate it because I'm flying completely blind on this.
+Anyway, I'm not trying to imply anyone is wasting their time writing comics criticism, I'm just asking where it's going and what is the role going forward.
+Posted by: Kenny Cather | 2010.01.14 at 15:18
+OK, so, truth be told, I *just* clicked on Abhay's link. I thought it was going to lead to the Rockpapershotgun thing. Instead it's a game and it's pretty abstract. My game is hopefully going to be a little less abstract, but that's if I can ever get it working! ^_^
+Posted by: Kenny Cather | 2010.01.14 at 15:22
+"I'm actually making my own engine from scratch"
+Wow-- I only know enough to be stupid, but that sounds pretty impressive. I don't know if this will "ruin the fun" for you (and sorry if it does) but you may want to check out 2dboy's rapid prototyping framework ()-- they did that game World of Goo? I don't know what a rapid prototyping framework is, exactly-- but maybe it's something helpful...? Good luck. Also: comic books.
+Posted by: Abhay | 2010.01.14 at 19:44
+"Sometimes I feel like it's mostly guys like me - bored white collar types who are trying to kill a few minutes at work."
+You feel like that because that is exactly what it is.
+Jesus it's just words on the screen. Either you think it's worth reading or you don't. It's not that complicated.
+Posted by: AERose | 2010.01.16 at 22:24
+;
+AIG/Goldman Sachs Collateral Call Timeline DATE December 14, 2006 March 23, 2007 May 11, 2007 May 2007 Email thread re 12/06 decision Timberwolf Offering Circular Craig Broderick (GS) email re downward Goldman sends marks SUMMARY by Goldman to reduce subprime adjustment of marks & adverse impact on to Bear Stearns Asset exposure/get closer to home. clients. Management (“BSAM”) 12/14/06 email from Daniel From 4/07 through 6/07, Goldman Craig Broderick sent an email to several Goldman sends marks to Sparks (GS) re subprime risk was soliciting Basis Yield Alpha Fund individuals, in which he wrote that Daniel Sparks Bear Stearns that DESCRIPTION • meeting: he writes that (“Master”) (“BYAFM”) to purchase the (GS) and the mortgage group “were in the process reportedly valued decision made to reduce Timberwolf CDO. In the offering of considering making significant downward securities in the BSAM subprime risk by selling ABX, circular, Goldman discloses that “there adjustments to the marks on their mortgage hedge funds at 50-60 selling inventory, marking the is no established trading market for portfolio esp. CDOs and CDO squared” and that cents on the dollar. CDO warehouse more regularly. the Securities.” This risk warning was “this will potentially have a big P&L impact on us, 12/14/06 David Viniar (GS) typical and included in other Goldman but also to our clients due to the marks and email response: he writes “my offering circulars. associated margin calls on repos, derivatives and • basic message was let’s be other products.” He also wrote that Goldman aggressive distributing things needed to “survey our clients and take a shot at because there will be very good determining the most vulnerable clients, knock on opportunities as the markets implications, etc.” He noted the significant goes into what is likely to be downward adjustments to the marks were even greater distress and we important to senior management, writing “this is want to be in position to take getting lots of 30th floor attention right now.” advantage of them.” PSI. TAB 1 TAB 2 TAB 3 TAB 4 Page 1 of 15 June 7, 2007 July 11, 2007 July 26, 2007 July 27, 2007 BSAM hedge funds announce NAV Telephone call between Andrew Goldman notifies AIGFP that a margin $1.8 billion Margin call BSAM hedge funds at revise the 4/07 NAV Andrew Forster (AIGFP) tells Alan Frost On 7/26/07, Andrew Davilman Goldman sends AIGFP a collateral invoice decline Forster (AIGFP) and Alan Frost (AIGFP) call on the SSCDS is on the way from minus 6% to minus 19% (AIGFP) that (1) he is focusing on CDS and (Goldman) emailed Alan Frost (AIGFP), for $1.8 billion with valuations attached. subprime,” (2) “every f---ing … rating informing him that Goldman would be Goldman purchases $100 million of CDS agency …[came] out with more making a margin call on the CDS it protection on AIG. Attached to this downgrades,” (3) “about a month ago I purchased from AIGFP. The next day, was like, you know suicidal,” (4) “the Goldman sent AIG an invoice requesting chronology is a listing of each Goldman problem that we’re going to face is that $1.8 billion in collateral. collateral call on AIGFP, each collateral we’re going to have just enormous posting by AIGFP and each purchase of downgrades on the stuff we got,” (5) CDS protection on AIG by Goldman. AIGFP will “have to mark” its books, and (6) “we’re [unintel] f---ed basically.” TAB 5 at 24-25 TAB 6 TAB 7 TAB 8 Page 2 of 15 July 30, 2007 August 1, 2007 August 2, 2007 August 10, 2007 Telephone call between Andrew Tom Athan (AIGFP) email to Andrew Goldman reduces its margin call from AIGFP posts $450 million of collateral Forster (AIGFP) and John Liebergal Forster (AIGFP) $1.8 billion to $1.2 billion. and the companies execute a side- (AIGFP) letter agreement Forster (AIGFP) tells John Liebergal Athan writes in email to Forster that (1) On 8/2/07 Andrew Forster (AIGFP) AIG posted $450 million on 8/10/07. (AIGFP) that (1) Goldman margin call “hit he had a “tough conf call with Goldman,” emails Joe Cassano (AIGFP) and Pierre Goldman and AIG execute a “side letter out of the blue and [] a f---ing number (2) Goldman was “not budging and are Micottis (AIGFP) a revised spreadsheet agreement” in which it was written that that’s well bigger than we ever planned acting irrational,” (3) Goldman “insist[s] from Goldman showing a reduction in the the parties had not resolved the margin for,” (2) Goldman’s prices were on ‘actionable firm bids and offers’ to margin call from $1.8 billion to $1.2 call dispute and that Goldman’s “ridiculous” but that the value “could be come up with a ‘mid market quotation,’” billion. Forster states in the email that acceptance of the $450 million did not anything from 80 to sort of, you know 95,” (4) he agreed on the call that “we needed “they [Goldman] realized they needed to constitute an agreement that the $450 (3) he would not buy bonds at 90 cents on to escalate this within AIG FP,” (5) “we use mids not bids” (meaning mid point million satisfied the required collateral the dollar “because they could probably need Joe [Cassano] to understand the between bid and ask). posting. go low” and because it would require situation 100% and let him decide how he Attached is a listing of marks from Merrill AIGFP to mark its books. He specifically wants to proceed,” (6) he “played almost and Goldman that shows Goldman marks Goldman CDS protection on AIG now stated, “we can’t mark any of our every card I had, legal wording, market are lower. For example, Goldman valued totals $575 million. positions, and obviously that’s what saves practice, intent of the language, meaning the Broderick CDO at 0.85 but Merrill us having this enormous mark to market. of the CSA, and also stressed the potential valued it at 0.98. Goldman valued the If we start buying the physical bonds back damage to the relationship and GS said Dunhill ABS CDO at 0.85 but Merrill then any accountant is going to turn that this has gone to the ‘highest levels’ at valued it at 0.99. Merrill’s estimated around and say, well, John, you know you GS and they feel that the CSA has to work values did not represent actual bids or traded at 90, you must be able to mark or they cannot do synthetic trades offers. your bonds then.” anymore across the firm in these types of instruments,” and (7) GS called this a “test Goldman CDS protection on AIG now $300 case” many times on the call. million. TAB 9 TAB 10 TAB 11 TAB 12 Page 3 of 15 August 16, 2007 September 11, 2007 September 13, 2007 September 20, 2007 Andrew Forster (AIGFP) email to Alan AIGFP internal emails re collateral Goldman purchases $700 million of Goldman reports 3Q07 results Frost (AIGFP) re Goldman is aggressively calls additional CDS protection on AIG Alan Frost writes in email to Andrew Forster Tom Athan (AIGFP) writes to Andrew Goldman purchases another $700 million Reported in Goldman 3Q07 earnings marking down assets (Forster on holiday) that (1) the $450 Forster (AIGFP) and Adam Budnick of CDS protection on AIG. Total Goldman release that “significant losses on non- million posting was “to get everyone to chill (AIGFP) that (1) Goldman is now asking CDS protection on AIG is now prime loans and securities were more out,” (2) he will not disturb Joe Cassano, who for $1.5 billion, (2) SocGen London asked $1,449,000,000. than offset by gains on short mortgage is also on holiday, (3) “this is not the last for $40 million based on an 82.5 bid price positions.” Viniar says during conference margin call we are going to debate,” (4) from Goldman which Athan disputed, (3) call that shorts were profitable. Andrew Davilman (GS) told him that “marks SocGen NY said they “received marks from Merrill on CDO’s [] are starting to look from GS on positions that would result in more like where GS would mark them,” and big collateral calls but SG disputed them (5) AIGFP “might start to see some with GS.” SocGen disputed marks from significant margin calls.” Forster responds Goldman but also that AIGFP is disputing that “I have heard several rumors now that marks of other counterparties asking for gs is aggressively marking down asset types collateral. that they don’t own so as to cause maximum pain to their competitors. It may be rubbish but it’s the sort of thing gs would do.” TAB 13 TAB 14 TAB 15 Page 4 of 15 November 1, 2007 November 2, 2007 November 5, 2007 November 8, 2007 Joe Cassano (AIGFP) email to Elias Goldman increases its margin demand Internal AIGFP email David Lehman (GS) email to Andrew Habayeb (AIGFP) from $1.06 billion to $2.8 billion. Forster (AIGFP) re valuation Cassano writes that only other collateral Margin call from Goldman to AIGFP Pierre Micottis (AIGFP) email to Joe Lehman writes email to Forster asking methodology. call is from SocGen, that it was “spurred increases from $1 billion on 11/1/07 to Cassano, Andrew Forster and Elias him to continue constructive dialogue by GS calling them,” and AIGFP had not $2.8 billion on 11/2/07. Goldman asking Habayeb (AIGFP) attaches spreadsheet surrounding valuation methodology and heard from SocGen since disputing the for $2.8 billion in addition to the $450 showing differences between Goldman that next step should be line-by-line call. million that has already been posted. CDS and AIGFP marks. The attached chart comparison of GS vs AIGFP prices. protection on AIG remains at shows that Goldman’s marks were lower $1,449,000,000. than marks estimated by AIGFP utilizing its Binomial Expansion Technique (“BET”) model and marks provided by other dealers. For example, on Duke Funding, Goldman mark was 70, Merrill’s was 85 and BET was 99.81. On the Ischus CDO II, Goldman’s mark was 55; CSFB’s was 90 and BET was 99.92. On Altius II Funding, Goldman’s mark was 87.5; CSFB was 85 and BET was 100. On the Sherwood Funding CDO, Goldman’s mark was 60; Morgan Stanley’s was 90 and BET was 100. TAB 16 TAB 17 TAB 18 TAB 19 Page 5 of 15 November 9, 2007 November 14, 2007 November 18, 2007 November 23, 2007 Marks from Merrill Andrew Forster (AIGFP) email to Joe Andrew Forster (AIGFP) email to Joe AIGFP posts $1.55 billion, bringing the Cassano (AIGFP) re collateral calls. Cassano (AIGFP) total amount posted to $2 billion. Andrew Forster (AIGFP) emails Joe Forster writes that AIGFP received Forster writes that average GS price on AIG posted an additional $1.55 billion, Cassano and Pierre Micottis (AIGFP) a significant collateral calls from SocGen HG deals is 82.18 and 68.36 on average again with a side letter stating the parties’ listing of marks received from Merrill that ($1.7B) based on Goldman marks; and mezz deal. Merrill is 87 HG and 80.57 continued disagreement about the proper are higher than Goldman’s marks. Merrill ($610M). Asks if AIGFP should mezz. Forster also writes that Goldman collateral amount. Collateral demand • Reservoir Funding: Goldman = dispute and attempt to reach compromise. and Merrill both made collateral calls on declines to $1.4 billion after the posting. 80; Merrill = 95. Independence V but that Merrill’s call was • Jupiter High-Grade: Goldman = based on a mark of 90.81 and Goldman’s 75; Merrill = 95. call was based on a mark of 67.5. • Broderick: Goldman = 67.5; Goldman CDS protection on AIG now Merrill = 95. totals $1,874,000,000. • Orient Point: Goldman = 60; Merrill = 95. • Southcoast Funding: Goldman = 55; Merrill = 80. TAB 20 TAB 21 TAB 22 TAB 23-24 Page 6 of 15 November 27, 2007 November 29, 2007 November 30, 2007 December 4, 2007 AIGFP collateral call analysis showing PwC notes of meeting re Goldman collateral calls AIG requests that Goldman Sachs Goldman letter to AIGFP. Goldman’s marks lower than other with representatives of AIG, AIGFP and PwC return collateral or continue with Joe Cassano forwards to Bill Dooley PwC’s Tim Ryan tells AIGFP and AIG executives that On 11/30/07, Cassano called Michael Goldman letter disputing AIGFP’s dealers dispute resolution discussion (AIGFP) his email to Forster in which he the Goldman collateral calls are a major data point Sherwood at Goldman and demanded 11/30/07 demand for return of wrote that the collateral calls from and that their impact on the valuation of the SSCDS that Goldman return the $1.55 billion collateral. Goldman and others were being disputed, book needs to be fully understood. Cassano says GS of collateral posted on 11/23/07. that parties were seeking resolution and values could impact quarter’s results by $5 billion. Cassano told Dooley the demand was that “no one seems to know how to AIG CEO Martin Sullivan says that would eliminate based on pricing provided by an discern a market valuation price from the the quarter’s profits. Forster told FCIC staff that independent third party for 70% of current opaque market environment; and Sullivan also responded to the $5B estimate by saying the 3500 reference obligations and no one is particularly excited about the he would have a heart attack. Sullivan told FCIC that AIGFP’s valuation for the other 30%. issue being left open.” Attached chart he does not remember this meeting. Goldman did not return the collateral. shows collateral calls from Merrill, Bank of Montreal, Calyon, Goldman, SocGen, and UBS. Chart also shows Goldman marks lower than others. • Dunhill: Goldman = 75; Merrill = 95. • Independence V: Goldman = 67.5; Merrill = 90. • Lexington: Goldman = 60; Merrill = 90. • Orient Point: Goldman = 60; Merrill = 95. • South Coast Funding VII: Goldman = 65; Merrill = 90. CDS protection reduced by$100,000,000 to $1,774,000,000. TAB 25 TAB 26 TAB 27 TAB 27 Page 7 of 15 December 5, 2007 December 6, 2007 December 7, 2007 December 14, 2007 AIG Investor Day Conference AIGFP letter to Goldman AIGFP Letter to Goldman. Andrew Forster (AIGFP) letter to Neil Wright (GS) requesting return of collateral During an Investor Day Conference attended AIGFP letter to Goldman acknowledging AIGFP demands return of Forster writes in letter that “given the by AIG executives Martin Sullivan, Joe continuing dispute and proposal to $1,562,720,000. significant amount of collateral in Cassano, Gary Gorton, Andrew Forster, discuss dispute. dispute that is held by Goldman, we Steven Bensinger, Bob Lewis, and others, expect either that you now return to us Cassano represented that the estimated the amount of collateral that we have unrealized valuation loss on SSCDS book was called for, or that you continue next week $1.5B; no disclosure was made that one to engage actively and constructively method used to estimate the loss included a with us in discussions toward resolving $3.6B negative basis adjustment. Cassano the dispute” and that “it would not be says some counterparties that made margin appropriate to delay the discussion at calls “go away” after AIGFP tells them they this stage.” disagree with their numbers and that other times “we sit down and we try to find the middle ground.” TAB 28 TAB 27 TAB 27 TAB 29 Page 8 of 15 December 21, 2007 December 31, 2007 January 2, 2008 January 7, 2008 Cassano email to Sherwood requesting Status of Collateral Postings Goldman Sachs increased its margin Internal AIGFP email stating that return of collateral call from $1.6 billion to $2.1 billion. SocGen did not make a margin call based on Goldman marks after Cassano writes in the email that A schedule produced by AIG listed the Goldman increases margin call to $2.1 Tom Athan emailed Cassano, Forster and discussions with AIGFP. Goldman’s exposure calculations (that following collateral postings as of billion. CDS protection on AIG remains at others stating that SocGen did not make a Cassano received the previous night) 12/31/07. Goldman represents 89.4% of $1,774,000,000. collateral call on 11/13/07 based on were too high (marks too low), requests posted collateral while it represents about Goldman’s marks after he told them Goldman to return collateral but states $21 billion or 27% of the $78 billion AIGFP would dispute it. that discussions will have to wait because SSCDS book. of Christmas and New Year’s holiday. $32 million to Bank of Montreal $4 million to BGI • $56 million to Barclays • $81 million to CIBC • $2 million to Deutsche • $2.429 million to Goldman Sachs • Int’l • • $19 million to Societe Generale TOTAL: $2.718 million TAB 30 TAB 31 TAB 32 TAB 33 Page 9 of 15 January 16, 2008 February 6, 2008 March 3, 2008 March 17, 2008 AIGFP again requested that Goldman Cassano email to Habayeb and others Goldman increases margin call from Goldman increases margin call from On 1/16/08, Cassano sent a follow-up Cassano writes that $442M collateral call On 3/3/08, Goldman’s collateral demand By 3/17/08, Goldman increased its Sachs return collateral posted to date. $2.5 billion to $4.2 billion. $4.2 billion to $4.8 billion. email to Goldman CFO David Viniar and from SocGen is close to $589M AIGFP increased from $2.5 billion to $4.2 billion. demand to $4.8 billion.; CDS protection on Sherwood in which he again wrote that estimate using BET model. Goldman’s CDS protection on AIG remains AIG remains at $2.1 billion. Goldman’s exposure calculations were too Goldman’s CDS protection on AIG now at $2.1 billion. high and asked for Goldman to return $1.1 $2.1 billion. billion of the collateral previously posted by AIG. Enclosed chart shows AIGFP valuing several securities at par. Goldman witnesses including David Lehman and Andrew Davilman, told FCIC staff that AIGFP’s valuing securities at par was not credible. TAB 34 TAB 35 TAB 36 TAB 37 Page 10 of 15 March 17, 2008 April 24, 2008 May 16, 2008 May 28, 2008 AIG posts $1 billion of additional Side letter executed Side letter executed Collateral posted by AIGFP totals $4.9 AIG posted $1.0 billion of additional Goldman and AIG executed side letter to Side letter signed by AIGFP to increase Side letter executed to increase credit collateral. billion of collateral. collateral on 3/17/08 which brought the increase AIG’s posting to $4.737 billion. collateral posting to $4.785 billion. The support posting to $4.912 billion. total amount to $3.0 billion. The parties reserve all rights to dispute parties reserve all rights to dispute the Goldman’s CDS protection on AIG now the collateral calls. Goldman’s CDS collateral calls. $3.2 billion. protection on AIG now $2.8 billion. Goldman’s CDS protection on AIG now $3.0 billion. TAB 38 TAB 27 TAB 27 TAB 27 Page 11 of 15 June 18, 2008 June 26, 2008 June 30, 2008 July 2, 2008 Collateral posted by AIGFP totals $5.4 AIGFP and Goldman agree to use Status of Collateral Calls and Postings AIGFP increases amount posted to billion. third party prices to calculate $5.912 billion collateral amount; AIGFP increases amount posted by Side letter executed to increase AIGFP and GSI agreed to a A schedule produced by AIG listed the following Side letter executed to increase credit $484.6 million collateral posting to $5,427.9 million, calculation collateral calls and postings as of 6/30/08. support posting to $5.912 billion. All with the increase of approximately $516 methodology that references third rights were reserved to dispute the million associated with five ABACUS party prices to partially bridge the related collateral calls. CDS transactions. All rights were difference between the parties' Collateral Calls on CDS Written by AIGFP on reserved to dispute the related collateral calculated exposures. This will Multi-Sector CDOs calls. result in an increase in the amount $Millions 6/30/2008 to be posted by AIGFP by Select Counterparty Call Posted approximately Banco Santander $484.6 million. Side letter sent to Bank of America $165 $161 GSI for execution; comments Bank of Montreal $295 $298 expected on Monday. June 30. BGI $6 $6 Goldman CDS protection on AIG Barclays $608 $450 declines to $2.6 billion. Calyon $425 $425 CIBC $273 $273 Coral (DZ Bank) $287 $287 Deutshe $51 $2 Goldman Sachs Cap M $64 $38 Goldman Sachs Int'l $7,493 $5,913 HSBC $95 $95 Merrill Lynch Int'l $1,875 $1,875 Rabobank $71 $46 RFC Royal Bank of Scotland $499 $435 Societe Generale $1,937 $1,937 Static Res UBS $1,565 $931 Wachovia $71 $69 Totals $15,780 $13,241 Goldman represents 48% of collateral called while it represented about $21 billion or 27% of the $78 billion SSCDS book as of 12/31/07. TAB 27 TAB 27 TAB 31 TAB 27 Page 12 of 15 July 18, 2008 July 31, 2008 August 15, 2008 August 20, 2008 Status of Collateral Calls and Postings AIGFP agrees to increase amount AIG agreed to increase amount posted to $6.447 billion. posted to $6.445 billion. AIGFP agrees to increase amount Side letter executed to increase credit A schedule produced by AIG listed the following AIGFP and GSI agreed to increase Side letter executed to increase posted to $6.207 billion. support posting to $6.207 billion, with an collateral calls and postings as of 7/31/08. credit support posting to credit support posting to $6.445 increase of approximately $294.9 million approximately $6.447 billion, with billion, with an increase of agreed to with respect to the Orkney an increase of approximately $239.7 approximately $237.6 million. transaction. All rights reserved to dispute million agreed to with respect to five the related collateral calls. ABACUS transactions. Collateral Calls on CDS Written by AIGFP Goldman’s CDS protection on AIG on Multi-Sector CDOs now $3 billion. $Millions 7/31/2008 Select Counterparty Call Posted Banco Santander $125 Bank of America $183 $263 Bank of Montreal $405 $244 BGI $6 $6 Barclays $997 $817 Calyon $1,261 $734 CIBC $304 $224 Coral (DZ Bank) $306 $306 Deutshe $388 $450 Goldman Sachs Cap M $94 -$7 Goldman Sachs Int'l $8,254 $6,217 HSBC $183 $21 Merrill Lynch Int'l $2,234 $2,127 Rabobank $319 $184 RFC Royal Bank of Scotland $435 $242 Societe Generale $2,271 $1,977 Static Res UBS $1,485 $510 Wachovia $71 $61 Totals $19,321 $14,376 Goldman represents 43% of collateral called while it represented about $21 billion or 27% of the $78 billion SSCDS book as of 12/31/07. TAB 27 TAB 31 TAB 27 TAB 27 Page 13 of 15 August 28, August 31, 2008 September 12, 2008 September 15, 2008 2008 AIG Downgrade and Status of Collateral Calls and Postings AIGFP agrees Status of Collateral Calls and Postings Status of Collateral Calls and Postings to increase amount posted Side letter A schedule produced by AIG listed the following A schedule produced by AIG listed the following AIG is downgraded and collateral calls increase to $6.8 billion. executed to collateral calls and postings as of 8/31/08. collateral calls and postings as of 9/12/08. from $23.4 billion on 9/12/08 to $32.0 billion on increase credit 9/15/08. A schedule produced by AIG listed the support posting following collateral calls and postings as of to $6.807 9/15/08. Goldman’s demand increased from $9 billion. billion on 9/12/08 to $10.1 billion on 9/15/08. Collateral Calls on CDS Written by AIGFP Collateral Calls on CDS Written by AIGFP on on Multi-Sector CDOs Multi-Sector CDOs $Millions 8/31/2008 $Millions 9/12/2008 Select Counterparty Call Posted Select Counterparty Call Posted Banco Santander $125 Banco Santander $137 Bank of America $218 $289 Bank of America $222 $288 Collateral Calls on CDS Written by AIGFP on Bank of Montreal $400 $236 Bank of Montreal $455 $280 Multi-Sector CDOs BGI $6 $6 BGI $30 $9 $Millions 9/15/2008 Barclays $997 $1,013 Barclays $1,308 $1,344 Select Counterparty Call Posted Calyon $1,231 $1,144 CIBC $357 $273 Calyon $1,231 $1,139 Banco Santander $258 Coral (DZ Bank) $300 $300 CIBC $361 $267 Bank of America $224 $287 Deutshe $668 $70 Coral (DZ Bank) $290 $290 Bank of Montreal $455 $291 Goldman Sachs Cap M $94 Deutshe $936 -$12 BGI $30 $9 Goldman Sachs Int'l $8,675 $6,818 Fort Dearborne Barclays $1,308 $1,633 HSBC $173 $101 Goldman Sachs Cap M $94 Calyon $1,231 $1,139 Merrill Lynch Int'l $2,206 $2,133 Goldman Sachs Int'l $8,979 $7,596 CIBC $361 $267 Rabobank $301 $184 HSBC $173 $98 Coral (DZ Bank) $548 $290 RFC Merrill Lynch Int'l $2,278 $2,133 Deutshe $1,684 -$12 Royal Bank of Scotland $435 $419 Rabobank $301 $184 Fort Dearborne Societe Generale $4,271 $3,981 RFC Goldman Sachs Cap M $94 Static Res Royal Bank of Scotland $435 $485 Goldman Sachs Int'l $10,072 $7,596 UBS $1,707 $508 Wachovia $77 $70 Societe Generale $4,280 $4,008 HSBC $273 $98 Static Res Merrill Lynch Int'l $2,658 $2,133 Goldman represents 39% of collateral called while it Totals $22,241 $17,545 UBS $1,831 $756 Rabobank $421 $184 represented about $21 billion or 27% of the $78 Wachovia $100 $57 RFC billion SSCDS book as of 12/31/07. Royal Bank of Scotland $538 $526 Goldman represents 39% of collateral called Totals $23,441 $18,922 Societe Generale $9,833 $4,320 while it represents about $21 billion or 27% of Static Res the $78 billion SSCDS book as of 12/31/07. UBS $1,832 $755 Goldman CDS protection on AIG declines to $2.7 Wachovia $193 $57 Totals $32,013 $19,573 billion. TAB 27 TAB 31 TAB 31 TAB 31 Page 14 of 15 September 16, 2008 September 18, November 6, 2008 November 24, 2008 2008 FRBNY announces $85 billion loan to AIG. AIG posts AIGFP agrees to Amount of another $3 billion of collateral. increase amount collateral posted to Maiden Lane III is created posted to Goldman Goldman increases $8.8 billion. to $10.7 billion. A schedule produced by AIG listed the following collateral calls Side letter executed Goldman demanding Maiden Lane III pays Goldman $5.6 billion to terminate most of and postings as of 9/16/08. None of the additional $3 billion to increase credit $1.8 billion in the SSCDS contracts between AIGFP and Goldman. Tab 39, went to Goldman. support posting to addition to $10.7 documents provided by Goldman, show funds paid to GS by $8.801 billion, with billion of collateral AIG and MLIII, and funds paid to GS counterparties. Twelve an increase of posted. Total CDS SSCDS are not part of MLIII and Goldman has $3.5 billion of approximately protection on AIG is collateral on these SSCDS. $1,205 billion. $2.3 billion. Collateral Calls on CDS Written by AIGFP on Multi-Sector CDOs $Millions 9/16/2008 Select Counterparty Call Posted Banco Santander $258 Bank of America $222 $342 Bank of Montreal $455 $320 BGI $30 $9 Barclays $1,417 $1,660 Calyon $1,231 $1,139 CIBC $382 $300 Coral (DZ Bank) $1,033 $290 Deutshe $1,684 $1,341 Fort Dearborne $167 Goldman Sachs Cap M $94 Goldman Sachs Int'l $10,065 $7,596 HSBC $273 $98 Merrill Lynch Int'l $3,170 $2,134 Rabobank $775 $184 RFC $242 Royal Bank of Scotland $538 $543 Societe Generale $9,818 $5,582 Static Res UBS $1,832 $831 TAB 27 TAB 39 Wachovia $193 $76 Totals $33,879 $22,445 TAB 31 4823-4061-6198, v. 3 Page 15 of 15
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+Catholic Novelists and Their Readers
+Whenever I think of the Catholic novelist and his problems, I always remember the legend of St. Francis and the wolf of Gubbio. This legend has it that St. Francis converted a wolf. I don't know whether he actually converted this wolf or whether the wolf's character didn't just greatly improve after he met St. Francis. Anyway, he calmed down a good deal. But the moral of this story, for me at least, is that the wolf, in spite of his improved character, always remained a wolf. So it is—or ought to be—with the Catholic, or let us just say with the thoroughly Christianized novelist. No matter how much his character may be improved by the Church, if he is a novelist, he has to remain true to his nature as one. The Church should make the novelist a better novelist.
+I say should, because unfortunately this doesn't always happen. The Catholic novelist frequently becomes so entranced with his Christian state that he forgets his nature as a fiction writer. This is all right, this is fine, if he stops writing fiction, but most of the time he doesn't stop writing it, and he makes the same kind of spectacle of himself that the wolf would have made if, after his meeting with St. Francis, he had started walking on his hind legs.
+A novelist is, first of all, a person who has been given a talent to do a particular thing. Every serious novelist is trying to portray reality as it manifests itself in our concrete, sensual life, and he can't do this unless he has been given the initial instrument, the talent, and unless he respects the talent, as such. It is well to remember what is obvious but usually ignored: that every writer has to cope with the possibility in his given talent. Possibility and limitation mean about the same thing. It is the business of every writer to push his talent to its outermost limit, but this means the outermost limit of the kind of talent he has.
+Perhaps I'd better say at this point what kind of fiction writer I am talking about. I mean the fiction writer who looks on fiction as an art and who has resigned himself to its demands and inconveniences. I mean the fiction writer who writes neither for everybody, nor for the special few, but for the good of what he is writing. No matter how minor his gift, he will not be willing to destroy it by trying to use it outside its proper limits. This kind of fiction writer is always hotly in pursuit of the real, no matter what he calls it, or what instrument he uses to get at it..
+For many readers the writing of fiction cannot possibly be a serious occupation in its own right. It is only serious for them as it affects their personal taste or spirits or morals. But the writer whose vocation is fiction sees his obligation as being to the truth of what can happen in life, and not to the reader—not to the reader's taste, not to the reader's happiness, not even to the reader's morals..
+The very term "Catholic novel" is, of course, suspect, and people who are conscious of its complications don't use it except in quotation marks. If I had to say what a "Catholic novel" is, I could only say that it is one that represents reality adequately as we see it manifested in this world of things and human relationships. Only in and by these sense experiences does the fiction writer approach a contemplative knowledge of the mystery they embody.
+To be concerned with these things means not only to be concerned with the good in them, but with the evil, and not only with the evil, but also with that aspect which appears neither good nor evil, which is not yet Christianized. The Church we see, even the universal Church, is a small segment of the whole of creation. If many are called and few are chosen, fewer still perhaps choose, even unconsciously, to be Christian, and yet all of reality is the potential kingdom of Christ, and the face of the earth is waiting to be recreated by his spirit. This all means that what we roughly call the Catholic novel is not necessarily about a Christianized or Catholicized world, but simply that it is one in which the truth as Christians know it has been used as a light to see the world by. This may or may not be a Catholic world, and it may or may not have been seen by a Catholic.
+Catholic life as seen by a Catholic doesn't always make comfortable reading for Catholics, for that matter. In this country we have J. F. Powers, for example, a very fine writer and a born Catholic who writes about Catholics. The Catholics that Mr. Powers writes about are seen by him with. A writer writes about what he is able to make believable.
+Every day we see people who are busy distorting their talents in order to enhance their popularity or to make money that they could do without. We can safely say that this, if done consciously, is reprehensible. But even oftener, I think, we see people distorting their talents in the name of God for reasons that they think are good—to reform or to teach or to lead people to the Church. And it is much less easy to say that this is reprehensible. None of us is able to judge such people themselves, but we must, for the sake of truth, judge the products they make. We must say whether this or that novel truthfully portrays the aspect of reality that it sets out to portray. The novelist who deliberately misuses his talent for some good purpose may be committing no sin, but he is certainly committing a grave inconsistency, for he is trying to reflect God with what amounts to a practical untruth..
+There are books, however, that purport to have a strong Catholic flavor that are not as innocuous as The Foundling, and these are novels that, by the author's efforts to be edifying, leave out half or three-fourths of the facts of human existence and are therefore not true either to the mysteries we know by faith or those we perceive simply by observation.. Christ didn't redeem us by a direct intellectual act, but became incarnate in human form, and he speaks to us now through the mediation of a visible Church. All this may seem a long way from the subject of fiction, but it is not, for the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
+Baron von Hugel, one of the great modern Catholic scholars, wrote that "the Supernatural experience always appears as the transfiguration of Natural conditions, acts, states . . . ," that "the Spiritual generally is always preceded, or occasioned, accompanied or followed, by the Sensible. . . . The highest realities and deepest responses are experienced by us within, or in contact with, the lower and lowliest." This means for the novelist that if he is going to show the supernatural taking place, he has nowhere to do it except on the literal level of natural events, and that if he doesn't make these natural things believable in themselves, he can't make them believable in any of their spiritual extensions.
+The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees. Now this is the first point at which the novelist who is a, supposed to "tidy up reality?"?
+I have found that people outside the Church like to suppose that the Church acts as a restraint on the creativity of the Catholic writer and that she keeps him from reaching his full development. These people point to the fact that there are not many Catholic artists and writers, at least in this country, and that those who do achieve anything in a creative way are usually converts. This is a criticism that we can't shy away from. I feel that it is a valid criticism of the way Catholicism is often applied by our Catholic educational system, or from the pulpit, or ignorantly practiced by ourselves; but that it is, of course, no valid criticism of the religion itself.
+There is no reason why fixed dogma should fix anything that the writer sees in the world. On the contrary, dogma is an instrument for penetrating reality. Christian dogma is about the only thing left in the world that surely guards and respects mystery. The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute..
+And when we look at the serious fiction written by Catholics in these times, we do find a striking preoccupation with what is seedy and evil and violent. The pious argument against such novels goes something like this: if you believe in the Redemption, your ultimate vision is one of hope, so in what you see you must be true to this ultimate vision; you must pass over the evil you see and look for the good because the good is there; the good is the ultimate reality.
+The beginning of an answer to this is that though the good is the ultimate reality, the ultimate reality has been weakened in human beings as a result of the Fall, and it is this weakened life that we see. And it is wrong, moreover, to assume that the writer chooses what he will see and what he will not. What one sees is given by circumstances and by the nature of one's particular kind of perception.
+The fiction writer should be characterized by his kind of vision. His kind of vision is prophetic vision. Prophecy, which is dependent on the imaginative and not the moral faculty, need not be a matter of predicting the future. The prophet is a realist of distances, and it is this kind of realism that goes into great novels. It is the realism which does not hesitate to distort appearances in order to show a hidden truth.. We forget that what is to us an extension of sight is to the rest of the world a peculiar and arrogant blindness, and that no one today is prepared to recognize the truth of what we show unless our purely individual vision is in full operation. When the Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which we have so long been famous.
+It would be foolish to say there is no conflict between these two sets of eyes. There is a conflict, and it is a conflict which we escape at our peril, one which cannot be settled beforehand by theory or fiat or faith. We think that faith entitles us to avoid it, when in fact, faith prompts us to begin it, and to continue it until, like Jacob, we are marked.
+For some Catholic writers the combat will seem to be with their own eyes, and for others it will seem to be with the eyes of the Church.. The tensions of being a Catholic novelist are probably never balanced for the writer until the Church becomes so much a part of his personality that he can forget about her—in the same sense that when he writes, he forgets about himself.
+This is the condition we aim for, but one which is seldom achieved in this life, particularly by novelists. The Lord doesn't speak to the novelist as he did to his servant, Moses, mouth to mouth. He speaks to him as he did to those two complainers, Aaron and Aaron's sister, Mary: through dreams and visions, in fits and starts, and by all the lesser and limited ways of the imagination.
+I would like to think that in the future there will be Catholic writers who will be able to use these two sets of eyes with consummate skill and daring; but I wouldn't be so reckless as to predict it. It takes readers as well as writers to make literature..
+The word that occurs again and again in his demands for the Catholic novel is the word positive. Frequently, in reading articles about the failure of the Catholic novelist, you will get the idea that he is to raise himself from the stuff of his own imagination by beginning with Christian principles and finding the life that will illustrate them. This is the procedure, I gather, that is going to guarantee that all his work will be positive. The critic seems to assume that what the Catholic writer writes about will follow a broad general attitude he has toward all reality and that this attitude will be brought about by a belief in the general resurrection. He forgets that the novelist does not write about general beliefs but about men with free will, and that there is nothing in our faith that implies a foregone optimism for man so free that with his last breath he can say No. All Catholic literature will be positive in the sense that we hold this freedom to exist, but the Church has never encouraged us to believe that hell is not a going concern. The writer uses his eyes on what he happens to be facing. In
+a recent book by a Catholic scholar, Mauriac and Greene are taken to task because in their novels they do not give us a true picture of Christian marriage. It is implied that if they exerted themselves a few degrees more, they could do this and, in the process, improve their art. This is a very doubtful proposition. Vocation is a limiting factor, and the conscientious novelist works at the limits, of his power and within what his imagination can apprehend. He does not decide what would be good for the Christian body and proceed to deliver it. Like a very doubtful Jacob, he confronts what stands in his path and wonders if he will come out of the struggle at all.
+It is usually assumed that the novelist has chosen a perverse subject or attitude with an eye to fashion. It is fashionable to be gloomy, and so he has ignored the virtue of Christian hope; it is fashionable to show the dying marriage, and so he ignores the Christian one.
+Surely, if a novelist is worth reading in the first place, his integrity in these matters is worth trusting. It has been my experience that in the process of making a novel, the serious novelist faces, in the most extreme way, his own limitations and those of his medium. He knows that the survival of his work depends upon an integrity that eliminates fashion from his considerations. Our final standard for him will have to be the demands of art, which are a good deal more exacting than the demands of the Church. There are novels a writer might write, and remain a good Catholic, which his conscience as an artist would not allow him to perpetrate. the religious view of the world is that he will consider this to be two operations instead of one. He will try to enshrine the mystery without the fact, and there will follow a further set of separations which are inimical to art. Judgment will be separated from vision, nature from grace, and reason from imagination.
+These are separations which we see in our society and which exist in our writing. They are separations which faith tends to heal if we realize that that we shall have to learn to accept if we want to realize a truly Christian literature.
+The universe of the Catholic fiction writer is one that is founded on the theological truths of the Faith, but particularly on three of them which are basic—the Fall, the Redemption, and the Judgment. These are doctrines that the modern secular world does not believe in. It does not believe in sin, or in the value that suffering can have, or in eternal responsibility, and since we live in a world that since the sixteenth century has been increasingly dominated by secular thought, the Catholic writer often finds himself writing in and for a world that is unprepared and unwilling to see the meaning of life as he sees it. This means frequently that he may resort to violent literary means to get his vision across to a hostile audience, and the images and actions he creates may seem distorted and exaggerated to the Catholic mind.. It may be true that these are good times for the Church in one sense or another. There are signs of a returning interest in supernatural realities, but there's just enough of this to provide renewed hope, not yet to provide a working reality strong enough to support fiction for many writers.
+A few writers can, by virtue of special talent, in all honesty write works of art that satisfy Catholics and that non-believers can respect. One of these in this country is a man named Paul Horgan. Mr. Horgan is an artist, and he writes the kind of books that Catholics say they want to read. Whether there is a great sale of his books to Catholics, I severely doubt, but anyway, he is a case in point of the writer who is able to remain true to what he sees and the demands of his art and, at the same time, write books that don't offend the ordinary Catholic. But to demand that every Catholic write like Mr. Horgan is to limit the nature and possibilities of art. There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so.
+Arthur Koestler has said that he would swap a hundred readers now for ten readers in ten years and that he would swap those ten for one in a hundred years. This is the way every serious writer feels about it. Of course, when, the writer tries to write what he sees and according to the standards of art, he is bound to be read by all sorts of people who don't understand what tie is doing and are therefore scandalized by it, and this brings me to the second pious argument against writing the way the artist, as artist, feels he should. This is the danger he runs of corrupting those who are not able to understand what he is doing. for the conscientious novelist, and those who have felt it have felt it with agony. But I think that to force this kind of total responsibility on the novelist is to burden him with the business that belongs only to God. I think the solution to this particular problem leads us straight back where we started from—the subject of the standards of art and the nature of fiction itself..
+The fiction writer has to make a whole world believable by making every part and aspect of it believable. There are many Catholic readers who open a novel and, discovering the presence of an arm or a leg, piously close the book. We are always demanding that the writer be less explicit in regard to natural matters or the concrete particulars of sin. The writer has an obligation here, but I believe it can be met by adhering to the demands of his art, and if we criticize on this score, we must criticize by the standards of art. Many Catholic readers are overconscious of what they consider to be obscenity in modern fiction for the very simple reason that in reading a book, they have nothing else to look for. They are not equipped to find anything else. They are totally unconscious of the design, the tone, the intention, the meaning, or even the truth of what they have in hand. They don't see the book in a perspective that would reduce every part of it to its proper place in the whole.
+The demand for positive literature, which we hear so frequently from Catholics, comes about possibly from weak faith and possibly also from this general inability to read; but I think it also comes about from the assumption that the devil plays the major role in the production of fiction. Probably the devil plays the greatest role in the production of that fiction from which he himself is absent as an actor. In any case, I think we should teach our prospective writers that their best defense against his taking over their work will lie in their strict attention to the order, proportion, and radiance of what they are making..
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During January 2011, a total of 12 tropical cyclones, all of them, formed within the southern hemisphere. The Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index of tropical cyclone activity also indicated an above-average season. On 30 January, it was named Yasi by the Fiji Meteorological Service. The 19 named storms tied with 2010, 1995, and 1887 as the third busiest year for tropical cyclones in the basin. 1The "strength" of a tropical cyclone is measured by the minimum barometric pressure, not wind speed. 6The wind speeds for this tropical cyclone are based on Météo-France which uses wind gusts. February 2, 2011 Last system dissipated December 31, 2011 Strongest storm Name Songda • Maximum winds 160 mph (260 km/h) • Lowest pressure 920 mbar (hPa; 27.17 inHg) Seasonal statistics Total depressions 66 58 29 Kenneth was also the strongest storm to ever be observed this late in the season for the basin. The strongest tropical cyclone of the year was Typhoon Songda, with a minimum central pressure of 920 hPa (). Activity across the Southern Hemisphere were almost evenly spread, with the South-West Indian Ocean basin recording 10 tropical cyclones, the Australian region recording 17 tropical cyclones, and the South Pacific basin also recording 10 tropical cyclones, respectively. The storm then moved back over the coastal Atlantic waters and made a second landfall near Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey, as a strong tropical storm. Lua is so far the strongest cyclone to impact the Australian coast, since Yasi in 2011, and the Pilbara coast, since Laurence in 2009. Cyclones are huge revolving storms caused by winds blowing around a central area of low atmospheric pressure. Forming out of a trough of low pressure on 19 January 2011 to the northwest of Fiji , Cyclone Wilma initially tracked eastward towards the Samoan Islands . Hurricane Kenneth, which formed in mid-November, was a unique storm, although it never directly impacted land. 5 The wind speeds for this tropical cyclone/basin are based on the Saffir Simpson Scale which uses 1-minute sustained winds. The strongest storm of the season was Hurricane Dora, which reached Category 4 status with winds of 155 mph (just shy of Category 5 status) and a central minimum pressure of 929 mb during mid-July. The storm formed in mid-October and had tropical characteristics for only two days before making landfall and dropping May was a mostly inactive month in which only 4 tropical cyclones formed, in which 2 received names. Hurricanes Eugene, Hillary, and Kenneth all reached Category 4 strength during 2011, none of which made landfall. November was inactive with only 7 tropical cyclones forming, as well as Rolf, a system that formed in the Mediterranean sea. Value of 121 ( x104knots2 ) was slightly below the Pacific Typhoon of. 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+Rue des Griffons is a single crooked block of stone facades protected from the wind and always in the shade. A street built with mules and monks in mind, the narrow end meets an alley no wider than a footpath. The other leads into rue de la Bonneterie and on to the Papal Palace, a medieval fortress in the heart of Avignon.
+For a few years at the end of the century, Piers Le Gris lived at number 9. His room was on the second floor. A large cracked cube with high ceilings and water-stained walls, it was lit by a chandelier and French windows that opened onto a walled garden. A threadbare rug covered terracotta tiles. Stacks of newspapers and piles of stray books leaned against a massive armoire, spilled out of crowded bookcases. In one corner was a sink. A door beside the bed led into a smaller room, empty except for suitcases and a clock radio whose plug fit none of the wobbly outlets.
+Sometimes he felt belittled by the room’s steadfast grandeur in the midst of decay; more often he was grateful for the refuge. Inside these walls Piers lived a solitary rule of his own invention. His correspondence with the outside world was sporadic, his life on rue des Griffons one of solace, simplicity and almost complete deception.
+On the night it all began to crumble like so much weary plaster, midnight found him slumped in a horsehair recliner, drifting between muddled dreams and routine anxieties. The alarm clock rang as usual. He set the espresso machine to gurgle and began the ritual assembly of his tools: notebooks filled with scrawls, research clippings, files, a bag of hard candy in the pocket of his bathrobe.
+A sudden gust of wind rattled the windows. A mistral had risen in midmorning and bore down hard by sunset, relentless blasts of cold from the north followed by gulps of silence. He drew back the curtains and stood looking out on the garden, a dense tangle of late-summer growth, watching the drama of shadows tossed by clouds, gathering strength. Relentless, exhausting, at least two more days to go: the mistral blows in three, or so the ancients claimed. A malevolent spirit, it was known to bring on madness. Reaching out the window he swung the shutters closed and secured them with a stiff metal arm. Thus battened down, the house resembled a ship.
+The first taste of coffee made him wince. He studied a swathe of brown paper taped above the sink, the outline of his work-in-progress, The Lethal Guitar, vintage Piers Le Gris. Lean page-turners full of victims maimed or killed, criminals jailed or shot point blank, feverish descriptions of women putting out and men taken in, they sold like stout at closing time. Fifteen hundred words a night, six nights a week (allowing for the occasional diversion and a fortnight for revision), in three months he could post a manuscript to London and begin again. A good living, but an old life laid claim, reduced his existence to a monkish grind.
+This one was set in Marseille amid the drug trade. The structure was tight, the opening chapters flew. So far he’d killed off a voluptuous blonde and mailed her to New York, though how she made it through customs remained a problem to be solved. He yawned. The bed was tempting. Once his fingers touched the keyboard the flow would take over and he would lose himself in a blaze of typing. The hardest part was sitting down.
+He got as far as placing a hand on the swivel chair when a sound stopped him. A dull thump, followed by a groan. Then another thump, another groan, sounds coming from behind the wall that separated his room from another room he’d thought was empty. He stood up, went over to the wall, leaned into the sounds.
+Clunk-clunk, clunk-clunk, clunk-clunk — something or someone pushing hard against a heavy object or being pushed, a muscular rhythm punctuated by moans rising into short, high-pitched yelps, cries and thuds merging into a steadfast stream. A halo of perspiration formed on his brow. He wondered if the ancient floorboards could tolerate such an assault. Finally, the crescendo — a female roar beyond gratitude and necessity, a delirious unembarrassed theatrical Ohhhhhhuuuuu!
+He set his coffee cup on the side of the table. It missed the edge and fell. While a tepid stain soaked through his slippers, the meaning of this interruption drenched his neck with sweat: a woman had moved into the room next door, broken the house rule and brought a man upstairs to be duped by cries of ecstasy. False, he was certain. A phoney blast of opera staged for the benefit of—?
+Piers loathed exaggeration. His work was a testament to the efficacy of verbs and nouns. The work of words (his only defence against the abiding temptations of sloth and drink) lit the empty hours between midnight and dawn. He could no more type by day than a painter could paint by candlelight though he knew of some who claimed they did. Stepping out of damp slippers, he dropped a newspaper onto the spill and padded across the room to make another cup of coffee, wondering as he did whether Madame Reboul in her near-sighted innocence might not have taken in a whore.
+He pressed an ear against the partition. Nothing.
+He knew the inside of that room, watery mirror in a garish frame hung low to hide cracks in the plaster, spindly desk, stiff-backed chair, sagging double bed and pink walls, the colour of overripe plums. He had chosen instead the avocado room with a narrow cot and massive oak table on which his life of papers lay spread out and waiting.
+He sat down, placed his fingers on the keyboard, tried to summon concentration but it was no use, the night was ruined. Sure that every new word he typed would contaminate the older words, he stretched out on the bed, prepared to wait for dawn. Sometime on the edge of light, he fell into a fitful sleep and woke to the clap of dreams that fled like thieves, leaving no stories to decipher.
+A habit of frugality dating from the war had led Nelly Reboul to leave the house largely untouched after mourning her husband’s death. She had no need of an income. She let out rooms for the company to a string of temporary boarders, each leaving something to talk about with the next. But after Piers arrived, she had turned down further requests until finally the agency stopped calling. A writer, she explained, her telephone voice dropping to a whisper, must have quiet.
+She lit a flame under the kettle and set the breakfast tray with two cups, fresh croissants and marmalade. Tea is how an English author’s day begins, Nelly was sure, just as she was sure that Piers Le Gris was English. He said something once about Montreal, but his books were published in London. (Nine leather-bound volumes personally inscribed occupied a prominent place on her mantle, waiting to be read.) She had taken to drinking tea herself and mastered the method from a book on English cookery: splash boiling water in the pot, swirl it around to heat the sides, empty, add a metal ball packed with leaves and fill the vessel to the brim.
+The clack of footsteps in the hallway, Piers at the bottom of the stairs, dressed for the street in a dark suit. Tall and slim with fine, sharp features, he carried his forty-four years gracefully, as though he’d seen the world and been unimpressed.
+It was a ritual of long-standing, three kisses on the cheeks. She closed her eyes, inhaled the mixture of freshly shaven skin and olive soap.
+Madame!
+Bonjour Monsieur. Avez-vous bien travaillé?
+Mais oui, merci. Et vous ? J’espère que vous avez dormi?
+His crisp bookish French delivered in a mesmerizing baritone sometimes made her forget to follow the words. Passing by his door one night she had heard him on the phone, the flat contrition of English, and thought it was a stranger. The whistling kettle called from the kitchen. She excused herself to make the tea.
+He saw her in profile first, bathed in morning sunlight dark hair falling over bare arms tanned rose like the stones of Avignon. She was sitting in his place at the table, bent over his newspaper. He slid into the chair reserved for guests and said, bonjour. She shot him a cursory nod and returned the word, simultaneously dipping a croissant into hot chocolate, drops and flakes landing on the newsprint as she leaned forward to take a bite. A gesture in slow time, it drew him in and pushed him away to the furthest corners of the room.
+Remembering the moment later, he would think of swans.
+An ancient black Labrador named for the hero of his century, The General followed Nelly down the hall. Age had rendered him suspicious of change. A steady stream of drool from the corner of his mouth left glistening drops on the tiles. Paws clicking, nose to the floor, he sniffed his way through the gloom. Strange body odours made him nervous. Unfamiliar voices set his teeth on edge. He could hardly see but his instincts remained sharp.
+Holding the tray against her chest, Nelly swung the dining-room door open and stepped over the threshold. A sudden flood of sunlight, for a moment she could not comprehend what was wrong. Everything was wrong. Piers was sitting in the place reserved for guests. He looked up at her and quickly looked away.
+Guilty. But of what? Of sitting in the wrong place?
+“Magali!” A shriek, as if someone other than herself had shouted. She reeled, stepped back, her heel landing on the dog’s paw.
+Certain now the bad smells were out for him, The General yelped and sank his teeth into her ankle couldn’t help it, an impulse, only a nick, hardly any blood but she howled and the breakfast tray slipped, teapot landing first, a cacophony of broken china and scalding liquid. A burst of barking to cover his tracks, The General tried to get away but Nelly pulled him back. Piers leapt up to clear away the shards and fetch a mop.
+A mumbled goodbye, Magali gathered up her bookbag and slipped out the front door. Two mornings in a row, she had overslept and just missed catching sight of the man Nelly described as a famous Author. Later, when Nelly wasn’t looking, she’d taken down one of his leather-bound books, read a few pages and decided he was not at all the great literary genius her aunt had claimed. She’d imagined a small, greasy man, unkempt, pale and out of shape, the sort who leers and keeps sexy magazines under his bed. Twice she’d been woken at midnight by the sound of his alarm going off, the clatter and hiss of strange rituals, coughs and humming. Last night she had tucked into her nightly exercise routine with gusto, and knowing he could hear, had let herself go like the women in his books. A steamy fake orgasm for the benefit of a stranger she’d decided must be weird.
+But the man who came down to breakfast was someone else. Tall and straight-shouldered, dressed in a suit. A voice as thick as wood smoke. He didn’t leer, he glanced her way once, maybe twice, seeming to look straight through her as though everything hidden was easily on display and not very interesting. He made her blush and blushing made her angry. She was glad to escape.
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+District experience average rainfall of 1101 mm and covering area of 2473.38 Sq.Km. Press releases of the institutions have more than 60 percent shares in local news. There is need to educate and sensitize journalist towards subjects of education, women’s empowerment, gender inequality, dalit, tribals, strengthening of democratic institutions, education/literacy, health, environment etc. The state is rich in mineral resources and poor in agricultural production. Despite near-universal electricity access, the quality of supply remains poor, and households frequently rely on backup lighting fuels like kerosene; 2. Obviously, this reflects the critical nature of poor justice and governance conditions in the state—serious problems that need to be corrected. Minimum wages and other labour benefits do not work as well in such areas. The density of Jharkhand state in the current decade is 1072 per sq mile. Poverty and development related news is published from Randhi Dateline. Laveesh Bhandari is an economist based in New Delhi. Residents of Ankolkuti village, under the same block, have not received their grain entitlements during August-September and November-December 2018. It'll just take a moment. In this most of the news is related to violence against women, electricity problem, health, basic infrastructure and development schemes information. The unskilled nature of work is such that higher wages will not come easy. Participation of deprived community like women, dalits and tribal is on a very low level in newspapers. Over 10 days of around 4000 news items that were published in the Capital’s newspapers only 3 items were about the poorest districts. Eventually news is for whom? Further, our analysis shows large pockets of poverty in areas close to forests. This is an exercise to enforce a constitutional provision. In ‘Hindustan’ and ‘Hindustan Times’ editorial remarks on poorest district and local issues is almost negligible. They are less sensitive towards new and burning issues. … Annual per capita income is also low. With the start of any development project, a large number of tribal villagers are often displaced from their locations. Jharkhand is a hotbed of Naxalism, which is a cause as well as an effect of persisting poverty in the state. This requires collective thinking. At the time of formation, Jharkhand state had 18 districts. 9 is set for the news from capital and other districts of Jharkhand. Deoghar has one major sub-division as Deoghar. About Godda District of Jharkhand State; Archives: Poor state of Boarijor block and it’s referral Hospital in Godda Dear Friends of Godda, JOHAR. New Delhi: The poverty ratio in Jharkhand declined to 39.1 per cent in 2009-10 from 45.3 per cent five years ago because of economic growth and poverty alleviation programmes, the government said on Thursday. Join Mint channel in your Telegram and stay updated with the latest business news. Because of this these communities are not much talked about in newspapers and their issues are also not considered with sensitivity. Good relationship should be developed between media, civil society and NGO so that all three supplement each other.. Giridih and Hazaribagh just managed to be close to the state average of 947 with 943 and 946 respectively. We find that correlation between poverty and mining is far more significant than that between forests and poverty. There is editorial ‘Tata Lease chapter’ on a land controversy between the Government and the Tatas in Ranchi Express on 4 July. In such a situation, this scheme has increased self-reliance now among the poorest of poor families. Problem for the newspapers is that it is necessary to cover geographical distance of 100 kilometers in a fixed time (generally by 4 o’clock in the morning) and for this, editions start printing and dispatching from 9 o’clock in the night. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. Due to editions newspapers have become completely "local". For many generations, the poor have been settling in and around mining and basic industry centres in search of better livelihoods. Our concept of spatial poverty that can be identified and measured via remote sensing allows us a far greater set of policy insights, the most important being that we are able to link poverty with the environment that gives rise to it and sustains it. People-oriented thinking, participation in people’s struggle with great enthusiasm, unmasking authority’s anti-people face again and again has been a tradition for Jharkhand’s journalism. Jharkhand government has suspended a district official after a probe was launched into illegal diversion of scholarships meant for poor minority students. But in Jharkhand newspapers this anchor space mostly has news from foreign sources. In the 10 days study amongst 113 news of development and poverty only 4 were of poorest districts; 2 from Pakud, 1 of Gaoda and 1 from Hazaribag. Most editorial are limited to the review of political chaos only. The Pakur district is present on the North-Eastern part of the Santhal Paragana province. Poverty is relatively low in industrially developed districts such as Ranchi, Bokaro and Dhanbad, but how did it reach this low level? On an averages newspapers published from the capital have 18 pages and page no. Jharkhand Ration card … Many times factual reports on grassroots situation do not reach the policy makers. Lead stories are nothing more than the tussle between government leaders, whereas news of traditional administration system is sign of important change. Being centrally located amid all the poor states, i.e., Bihar in the north, West Bengal in the east, Uttar Pradesh in the west and Odisha towards the south, Jharkhand also attracts a large inflow of cheap labour. Complete cleanliness campaign inaugurated Ranchi Express 5 July, (During this period superficial political word wars and political news remained the lead news). In the 10 days study amongst 113 news of development and poverty only 4 were of poorest districts; 2 from Pakud, 1 of Gaoda and 1 from Hazaribag. With the formation of state some newspapers namely The Telegraph and The Times of India started publishing their editions. Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. Explained: What is Jharkhand’s pre-matric scholarship scam? It is a chief Jain pilgrimage site and the holy place for Jains. This division is administratively divided in to 08 blocks. The Jharkhand government is determined to provide a fresh start to the poor tribals, through the organisation named ‘Bandhan Kangar’. 1 July’s Ranchi Express both editorial remarks are related to education and children’s rights respectively. You are now subscribed to our newsletters. Since the formation of the state for almost two years Dainik Jagran published a special edition for Jharkhand from Patna. Most of the developmental and social concern related issues, which are published in the newspapers, are written by the freelancers. This division is administratively divided in to 05 blocks. Jharkhand state was formed on 15th November 2000. If it’s for common man, sadly newspaper’s role in empowering people of poorest districts is becoming very limited. In the newspapers published from Ranchi, except Ranchi there is almost negligible news on rest of the 10 poorest districts. Located deep inside the Sisai block of Gumla district, the nearest medical care is 15 km from Nagar Siskari. Blanket & Gita Distribution among poor tribals in district of Shahebaganja (Jharkhand) The Indian People’s Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights, which conducts investigations on issues related to eviction of slum dwellers, relocation of rural people, industrial pollution, etc., reports a total of 6.5 million people being displaced in the name of development. Journalists associated with newspapers on regular basis are neither sensitive about social concerns nor the newspaper working system allows them to be so. We are investigating the inputs,” sources said. of news, 1. Violence against women 10, 2. History. The height of the hill is 1,365 meters. Instead of making "disaster" a new more emphasis should be given on the process and causes, which results in disaster. Women’s labour has special significance in the life of Santhal (Adivasi tribe) families; they work hard in the day to raise two square meals for their family. Disposablesyringes are being used again and again Ranchi Express 1 July, 7. One such person is a young man called Bhola Prasad from the district headquarters of Latehar in Jharkhand. Most of the news sources are the department secretaries or ministers. This only reflects what many in the left-oriented political groups have been saying for long—that the so-called development process in Jharkhand has been hijacked by a few and local-level trickle down of the benefits of mining and industry is not occurring. On January 9, 2021, Police arrested two Maoists from Sasangsal under the Goeilkera Police Station area in West Singhbhum District. Colourful newspapers are being published from Jharkhand but because of increased circulation and additional pages in the newspapers, their standard is decreasing. 1. Remove some to bookmark this image. ET, Over 10 days of around 4000 news items that were published in the Capital’s newspapers only 3 items were about the poorest districts. More than 75% of work force is engaged in agriculture, but generates only 20% of state’s GDP. If news on poverty and development is analysed, it will be clear that newspapers give priority to news with negative tone. Some suspects are yet to be traced. Your session has expired, please login again. On an averages newspapers published from the capital have 18 pages and page no. The district magistrate or the deputy commissioner is assisted by a number of officials belonging to different wings of the administrative services of the state. All of that is fine, but if we cannot help them gain new skills in their new environment, we will neither achieve progress nor poverty alleviation. In the newspapers published from Ranchi, except Ranchi there is almost negligible news on rest of the 10 poorest districts. Issues of poverty, development and empowerment of common people are not a priority. The detail analysis of Population Census 2011 published by Govt. The number of factual and investigative reports is continuously decreasing in newspapers. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. Developed by FTI Consulting India Private Limited For RESPONSIBLE MICA INITIATIVE 1.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Jharkhand Sustainable Mica policy framework and vision has been prepared on the basis of consultations with members of civil society, industry and local community stakeholders; to address lack of a holistic … There is also need to review traditional style and form of news. Minister/Secretary/Department/Government press releases 35 - 36%, 2. Despite holding 40% of India’s mineral wealth, economic development of the state has not been sufficient to trickle down to the people in need. But there is a more serious problem that has ramifications across the country. Hindustan and Hindustan Times has started publishing from here a little before the state’s formation. In case you can’t find any email from our side, please check the spam folder. There was an editorial by the title ‘disgusting, inhumane, shameful’ in 5 July’s Ranchi Express. Health / Nutrition 16, 4. Districts of Jharkhand Jharkhand is the 28 th state of the India Union located in East India. Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram. Poorest districts are the most affected by edition systems of the newspapers. Last Updated: 2nd April, 2020 16:51 IST Coronavirus Lockdown: Jharkhand Officials Provide Food To Poor Families District authorities in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum have started to provide food under their initiative ‘Meals on the Wheels' amid coronavirus lockdown. In Nagar Siskari, as in other parts of rural Jharkhand, the ojha’s exalted position in society is tied to poor healthcare services. December 18, 2020 1:08 pm “On enquiry, a number of residents in Chatra said they knew who had filled the forms. Where did the stories originate, what was the role of news agencies, in what direction did the news flow, were NGOs interviewed, Participation of deprived community like women, dalits and tribal is on a very low level in newspapers. This will start process of power transfer into public hands and this system is operational in hundreds of villages. More than 70 per cent of people in this state live in rural areas (Government of Jharkhand, 2017a: 57), and around 37 per cent of the state’s population are classified as living below the poverty line (BPL). Referred to as the "Queen of Chotanagpur", it is a hill station. List of Jharkhand Districts - Area, Population and Head Quarter. Jharkhand has 24 districts, and the Jharkhand … Voluntary organizations generally have statistics and status information on many issues but usually voluntary organizations stay away from the newspapers. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP. Some pages are almost same in all the editions of the state but mostly on these pages superficial news gets the space. Jharkhand State. Head spitted half on giving birth to a girl Hindustan 1 July, 6. Looks like you have exceeded the limit to bookmark the image. 9 is set for the news from capital and other districts of Jharkhand. Basic needs such as education and medical services do not reach these places. There should be consideration on increasing the share of news. Log in to our website to save your bookmarks. News in the Jharkhand page of the newspaper has remained limited to Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Hazaribag only. Before he was offering free education to these children, Sabar was a teacher at the Scheduled Tribe Residential Girls High School in Chaibasa district, according to a report by The New Indian Express . Need for investigative journalism has increased. Oops! DEOGHAR DISTRICT IN JHARKHAND Doctoral Thesis Submitted In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In MANAGEMENT BY PRIYANKA PRIYADARSHANI (UID No. NEW DELHI: Jharkhand is set to become the first state to launch an employment guarantee scheme for urban poor on the lines of the Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Act. And this kind of news is publishing with eminence whereas common people are no way concerned with this kind of absurd word wars. Poverty, higher in the southern and eastern districts of Jharkhand, Four forest employees murdered by slitting necks Ranchi Express 2 July, 8. doctors will be reinstated on contracts for villages Ranchi Express 3 July, 9. After the state’s formation newspaper’s circulation has increased. Departmental secretaries are also news sources but their share in information is much less. Political allegation -counter allegations, announcements by chief minister or ministers are on top in the priority list. Information on development schemes 21. This also raises questions on Jharkhand’s better-off districts. The situation at the grassroots and its effect on public life is not been the subjects for newspapers. The Parasnath Hill is situated in Giridih district of Jharkhand. All the newspapers are bringing out DIVision wise and district wise editions. The poor situation in Jharkhand arises due to poor governance and corruption in politics. And neither is important news of the poorest districts reaching to the capital. Rivers like Pathro, Ajay, Darhwa, Matihara and Jainti, flowing from NW to SE part of the district boundary. Separately, accounts of two banking correspondents have been frozen over alleged involvement in the scam. Rivers like Torai, Gumani are flowing from NW to East part of the district boundary. The well-known Naxal war zones of Jharkhand—Palamu, Chatra, Latehar, Gumla and Lohardaga—are home to almost a fifth of the state’s poor population. Overall rates of household metering and billing remain very low; and 3. The edition system in newspapers is directly affecting the poorest districts. Its effect is not reaching till the centre of power the capital. Once removed from their traditional surroundings for a few years, they cannot return, yet the new surroundings have been unable to deliver on the initial promises and expectations. The state of Jharkhand came into being on 15 November 2000 after a century-old demand articulated by the people of central India. Electricity problem 8, 3. Reaching there is a travail that most people avoid, according to Oraon. Over 10 days almost 4000 news (average 100 per newspaper x 4) are published in Ranchi’s newspapers. Prabhat Khabar, Hindustan is also publishing from Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad. This includes papers coming from Delhi, Calcutta and other cities. Jharkhand’s newspapers provided momentum to the struggle for a separate state that continued for more than three decades. It does not mean that news related to these issues is not published. Effort should be in direction of preparing more and more investigative reports. main sources of news for the newspapers coming out from the capital Ranchi are departmental minister’s statements, their interviews and their speeches during different programmes. The retired school teacher has been offering free education to the children of poor tribals in Sohda Sabar, a village in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Jharkhand; District List; Districts of Jharkhand . The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. Investigative journalism has a big role in ending challenge of capital, market and power. He is struggling to feed his own family, but is also helping the poor and the destitute in the chilling cold. Was it by raising the level of living of the poor or displacing the poor from their traditional locations? The Deoghar district is present on the North-East part of the Jharkhand state. According to one estimate the total circulation of all the newspapers is around 10 lakhs. Jharkhand state is carved out from Bihar state in 2000. Because of being a separate state, offices of many multination companies, central and financial institutions and public organizations have opened up in Jharkhand, possibilities for business have increased and revenue sources for the newspapers have also increased. Because the editorial pages for these two newspapers come from Delhi edition so editorial page is same as Delhi. The entire eastern belt of Jharkhand, close to West Bengal, has a high concentration of poverty. Collecting facts on grassroots level and writing reports is not happening. Press releases (Political parties/non profit organizations) 60%, 3. Editorial comments on local issues can be seen in ‘Ranchi Express’ and ‘Prabhat Khabar sometimes. Both the arrestees were … A form will be displayed, fill this form with your details such as Name, address, district, block and dealer details. Another non-tribal dominated district, Palamu, also registered a poor sex ratio of 929 while Godda and Garhwa stood at 933 each. Displacement in the name of dams, factories, mining, etc. Because of this these communities are not much talked about in newspapers and their issues are also not considered with sensitivity. People of Ulirajabasa, a village in Khuntpani Block in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, did not get ration in September-December 2018 and February 2019, for one month in 2017 and for three months in 2016.’. If there is news than it will be of crime or merely statements of the minister or MLA of that particular area. Except for one or two newspapers all offer 8 pages of colour. Newspapers can also come forward in ensuring society’s extensive participation in development works and providing space to the process of "social audit" on development. The scam is worth about Rs 10 crore and involved middlemen from Chatra district in Jharkhand. and if there is then it will be nothing more than statements by some ministers or leaders. 1. For some, social service is such a passion where they come forward to help others while ignoring their own sufferings. On average more than one hundred news, including capital and other districts of Jharkhand are published in every newspaper. District experience average rainfall of 1200 mm and covering area of 1809.64 Sq.Km. Netarhat: Netarhat is a town in Latehar district. The Jharkhand government has suspended a key district welfare official in Dhanbad for not following due process and accepting applications without verification for the Centre’s pre-Matric scholarships for poor minority students, according to the Indian Express.. Most of the news is simply tussle between political parties and government leaders. Maximum facilities for resettlement grant for Ranchi Express 27 June big industrial projects upto 15 crores, 4. electricwire fall in Ormajhi,6ead Hindustan, Prabhat Khabar 8 June, 5. A superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to Indian Police Service is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues. Others 0.5 - 1%. Jharkhand scholarship scam: CBI tracks online trail from Bihar to Jharkhand district at heart of probe. The official in Dhanbad was found not following the due process while accepting applications for Centre's pre-matric scholarship scheme. Common man is not the base of priority for newspapers. The greatest irony of the so-called development process in Jharkhand has been the link between mining and poverty. Newspapers publishing from the capital do not have space for the news from these. In news priorities politics and crime is definitely on the top. News from the capital is not reaching the villages or other districts. This suggests that greater development has not necessarily led to lower deprivation. It is published but it is not given importance. They pointed to various households in Line Mohalla. At present Dainik Jagran is publishing from Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad. News from poorest districts Dumka, Devghar, Pakud, Gaoda, Sahebganj, Palamu, West Singhbhoom, Lohardaga, Gumla, Girideeh is not there in capital’s newspapers. It is believed in the Jain culture that 20 of the 24 Tirthankaras attained Moksha from this place. Because of the editions system news’s effectiveness is decreasing and voices of public protests are only getting limited to local level. Pages in the newspaper have increased and now daily newspaper editions have no less than 16-18 pages. 13JU11300014) Under the guidance of Dr Hareram Mohanty ( Research Co- Supervisor) Former Associate Dean IBS Bhubaneshwar Odisha, India Dr. B. M. Singh ( Research … Minakshi Chakraborty works with Indicus Analytics. Today there is need for newspapers to take on a strong and active role. Investigative news 3 - 4 %, 4. Editorial comments on local issues can be seen in ‘Ranchi Express’ and ‘Prabhat Khabar sometimes.? Chronic poverty seems to be disproportionately high among the state's historically marginalized groups, especially the tribal population. But the disadvantage is that with regard to information every district has been isolated. In ‘Hindustan’ and ‘Hindustan Times’ editorial remarks on poorest district and local issues is almost negligible. Pakur has one major sub-division as Pakur. There is editorial remark on "Extremism in Jharkhand" in Prabhat Khabar on 3 July. After the state’s formation newspaper’s circulation has increased. "The percentage of people living below poverty line in Jharkhand has declined from 45.3 per cent in 2004-05 to 39.1 per cent in 2009-10. News from poorest districts Dumka, Devghar, Pakud, Gaoda, Sahebganj, Palamu, West Singhbhoom, Lohardaga, Gumla, Girideeh is not … Overview of the media scenario in the state. A system can be devised that newspapers should make space for poorest districts and try for appropriate representation. Most of the news sources are the department secretaries or ministers. Though all newspapers have kept one page for whole state but in this also some cities like Dhanbad, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh are getting represented. Amongst 4000 news, only 113 is on issues of poverty and development related news. That includes advertising by the state government. out of which 13 million people are poor (The World Bank, 2016). Pages in the newspaper have increased and now daily newspaper editions have no less than 16-18 pages. The views of the author are his own and not those the organization with which he is associated. News of one district doesn’t reach to the other. Except for one or two newspapers all offer 8 pages of colour. Colourful newspapers are being published from Jharkhand but because of increased circulation and additional pages in the newspapers, their standard is decreasing.
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+Merging audio recordsdata, or becoming a member of is useful for creating soundtracks for videos, mixes without gaps or your personal audio stream to play as an MP3. You’ll free merge two or extra may flexibly rearrange the order of the tune then just take a look at the Merge into one file” option to affix your whole audio clips into one.
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+Drag the added MP3 files from your album to the Timeline at backside one by one. Word that these MP3 information are arranged according to the play order. So if it’s worthwhile to change the placement of two MP3 information, simply free drag them to your wished place. But do not put one file to a different, or you’ll split the file. To view the effect in actual time, you may click on the Play button within the Preview window.
+To hitch two totally different MP3 information, all you have to do is select them with the mouse within the checklist of songs located on the bottom of the principle window of this system, proper click on certainly one of them and select the merchandise File> Merge Selected from the menu that appears. Then sort the name you wish to assign the mixed track, choose the folder in which to save it and click on Save to complete the operation.
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+Import all MP3 recordsdata you want to merge to this MP3 file merger. To do this, simply click on “Import” option to import your native MP3 files to the Consumer’s album, or directly drag and drop these target MP3 files from your computer to this app’s album. The syntax is extraordinarily easy. For instance, “sox input.mp3 output.mp3″ will mix all MP3s with filenames beginning with “enter” right into a single MP3 named “output.mp3”.
+I am slowly getting the hang out of the video editing software VirtualDub. I recently ran into troubles with music for a video. The video had a playtime of 14 minutes which meant that I had to merge multiple audio recordsdata much better and accepted format than mp3. The task was clear now. Discover a program that can merge mp3 files (the supply format of the music) and save the merged single audio file as wav.
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+Merging audio recordsdata, or becoming a member of is beneficial for creating soundtracks for movies, mixes with out gaps or your own audio stream to play as an MP3. This is a cross-platform instrument, widely used in recording and mixing music files However, it’s also possible to use Audacity to capture instruments, sounds & vocals to create a music file. This versatile device can be thought-about as mp3 cutter and merger. Some CDs like medleys and remixes haven’t any pauses between the tracks, that includes steady, uninterrupted playback. When utilizing this Joiner to combinemp3 information, you’ll be able to go for gapless playback by specifying zero-length pauses.
+Then click the “Format” panel and you will see a new popup window the place you have two options to choose. If you want to lower and merge MP3 music fast and losslessly, please choose the first output mode – Excessive-speed mode, which is able to allow you to convert your audio file without re-encoding. When you have edited the MP3 file moreover chopping and joining, it’s good to decide the second mode – Encoding mode, which will will let you change the format, codes, bit charge, channel, etc.
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+Audio Splitter: split songs or lower undesirable elements of the audio files. The full code for all three applications (net app, mashup API and BigchainDB client API) is available at my mtf-mashup GitHub repository The tactic to merge mp3 information is in the class. Please verify the file of this repository for extra technical details on the general answer.
+Then you definitely will not need to manually choose to play every tune file separately inside your media player. That is how one can merge your favorite music into a single file in Windows 10. Repeat that process until you will have have all audio recordsdata merged in one monitor. Close all however this one track earlier than choosing File > Export to save the newly merged audio file. You can save the audio as mp3, wav, flac, ac3 and several other different formats.
+To conclude, put the examine mark subsequent to the voice mp3, presses the Continue button, choose the identify and destination folder of the output file and press the Finished button to start out saving your unified MP3. Add your mp3 files, than click on “merge” button to merge. Using the CAT command you may join two or extra MP3 information. For each strategies beneath, we will assume there are three MP3 information in the present listing of the Terminal prompt. They are named file1.mp3, file2.mp3, and file3.mp3.
+Direct MP3 Joiner is a straightforward and fast audio instrument to mix MP3s , along with merge or be a part of MP3 files. With Direct MP3 Joiner, you could be a part of a number of music MP3 information into a bigger MP3 file in a break up second. You’ll be able to merge, combine and be a part of MP3 audio recordsdata with blazing tempo, with out recompressing and with out quality loss. Our MP3 Joiner works with audio information straight and the joined MP3 music is perhaps prepared nearly immediately. With our MP3 Merger, you can be part of your separate audiobook chapters into one giant audiobook or mix a number of music tracks into one non-stop audio CD.
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+Note: The Hokusai Audio Editor can not import DRM-protected songs downloaded from Apple Music. To view only offline” songs that aren’t part of Apple Music or the iCloud library, go to the Settings> Music menu of your system and turn off the levers for the Show Apple Music and iCloud Music Library options.
+Perhaps you might have tons of MP3 or each different audio information in codecs like WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, M4B, AC3 and you are attempting to combine them into an unlimited one so that you possibly can benefit from the info orderly and with out interrupts or upload the whole one to your web sites to share it with your family, pals and even folks across the globe. Earlier than conversion, if obligatory, it is also possible to edit one or several MP3 clips. click through the following document on certainly one among your wished audio clips on Timeline after which click Edit button to open the modifying panel, the place you can change the rate, amount, add effects like Fade in & out and so forth.
+Recommend you utilize Videomeld to edit these tracks. Open Videomeld, make two tracks (Shift+Insert) and place your particular person music tracks in the correct order in alternative Videomeld tracks. You possibly can then organize the joins by sliding every music track about to make the it sound correct. Use the “F7” key to provide you a quantity acquire graph. Would possibly take some time for you to get your head round it but it works. Also it does not alter the unique music in any respect. Save the outcome as a undertaking or merge as a brand new audio monitor. I have been utilizing this program because it was launched and no complaints. You’ll have to register to get the total use slightly than just a three minute melded observe. You may play the complete undertaking so you’ll be able to hear the results.
+MP3 Toolkit is a free and powerful Home windows app includes MP3 converter, CD ripper, tag editor, MP3 cutter, MP3 merger and MP3 recorder for users who want to handle MP3 files simpler. The Merger means that you can take a number of audio recordsdata, rearrange them in no matter order you want, then export it as a single mixed audio file. The Cutter helps you to take a single audio file, choose a begin and finish time, then export that selection as a separate audio file. MP3 Toolkit helps most of fashionable audio and video codecs like MP3, WMA, WMV, MP4, WAV, OGG, FLV and extra. With MP3 Toolkit, you’ll convert, decrease, merge, rip and report MP3 free.
+Audio Joiner also contains Crossfade and Fade-out transition effect buttons on the suitable of tracks. Obtain Simple MP3 Joiner to your computer and begin the file. Comply with on-display screen instructions to install this system. So far as file format goes, this program is extremely versatile, as it supports a wide range of audio formats, resembling MPEG (MP3, MP2), WAV, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, M4A, CDA, RA, RAM, TTA, Audio Tracks, Dialogic VOX, and so on.
+Added playback of MP3 information. Repeat these steps as many times as you’ll want to so that all the files are edited and merged simply the way you need. Step 3. Tap on “Observe 1” and add the primary file you need to merge. Then, tap on “Track 2” and add your second MP3 file. Select the MP3 files to merge. A brand new waveform window will open each song to get merge together.
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+Assist you to simply mearge MP3 info with extremely efficient and superior options. Along with merging audio recordsdata, this free audio merger additionally consists of many different excellent features. Audio Joiner is Internet-based Instrument and works for all platforms. There isn’t any must download and install any software program. In this article, we’ll take into consideration all these elements and record the most effective tools to edit audio information in Windows 10.
+Simple Video Joiner has assist for a lot of media file formats, includingASF,AVI,M2P,MP3,MPEG,RM,RAM,WAV,WMA, andWMV. Maybe, the audio answer can give you a forthright likelihood to merge audio recordsdata in batch; it could possibly do nothing with reference to lower and merge songs online in other codecs. Unlike many on-line MP3 cropping instruments obtainable on the market as we converse, MP3 Cutter, an offline audio and video file slicing software program, affords you a safe resolution to conduct a file cropping course of.
+Go to File > Export to pick an audio file format to save lots of the merged file to. Your choices embody MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, M4A, WMA, and some others. Click on “Merge Audio” button to affix audio information. Select one of the 15 hottest audio file codecs and obtain your ringtone or clip. If it’s essential to do anything, select one of the different Clideo instruments on the top of the location.
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+Step four Be part of MP3 recordsdata Simply click large Merge!” button on the decrease right nook of this technique to affix MP3 files into one in a flash. Free Merge MP3 is a software program that permits you to merge fully completely different audio tracks into one single, longer music the best means doable: by dragging and dropping. Combine, merge and Be a part of MP3 files into one giant file.
+The subsequent will describe an in depth guide on the best way to mix multiple MP3 recordsdata into one with out re-encoding. You might also wish to use the actual portion of an MP3 music file as ring tone to your cellphone. Word that these mp3 information are organized in keeping with the play order. You will wish to decode the compressed MP3 stream in an effort to perceive” the wave sort of your audio alerts after which you will be able to combine them.
+As for me, I like to go to sleep listening to comedy albums, so I decided to merge the tracks of these albums to create one massive MP3 file per album. Is there a simple resolution to merge the multiple information into one steady file after which make observe indications for each tune within the set with out listening to silence between the tracks? Now you could have one MP3 file with two songs joined gaplessly.
+On-line Audio Merger is focused at linking a number of tracks together and consolidate them in a single monitor. It accommodates a cross fading software program and permits all effectively-known file varieties like mp3, m4a, wav, etc. Step 1 Add MP3 information it’s good to merge to this MP3 file merger – merely drag and drop MP3 recordsdata to the precept interface of this system. Should you occur to ever need to separate or merge songs on-line audio recordsdata, these free instruments will possible be larger than ample for the job.
+In case you prefer to make use of online MP3 combiner to merge songs on-line totally different audio recordsdata collectively, here we introduce you with an excellent on-line instrument. You’ll be able to comply with the next info to mix songs into one. 1. Some CDs like medleys and remixes don’t have any pauses between the tracks, that features continuous, uninterrupted playback. You can do this, too! When using Merge MP3 to mix mp3 files, you’ll be able to go for gapless playback by specifying zero-measurement pauses.
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+Merge multiple MP3 recordsdata into one with out dropping any quality. Mp3wrap can be preferrred for this – it is designed to affix together MP3 info, while not having to decode + re-encode the info (which could lead to an absence of audio high quality) and in addition will cope with the ID3 tags intelligently. Also, this software program allows you to merge totally different MP3 info to create a single MP4 file in your utilization. However in some circumstances, it is useful to have the power to merge separate MP3 data into one, to simplify your listening and the storage of the file.
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+MP3 Toolkit is a powerful instrument which contains an MP3 cutter, an MP3 merger, an MP3 converter, and an MP3 ID3 editor for users who want a better approach to deal with MP3 recordsdata. Beside customary MP3 format, MP3 Toolkit supports most of widespread audio formats like AAC, M4A, WMA, WAV, OGG, and more. • The audio CD incorporates audio tracks (.cda) information which cannot be copied to make use of immediately. CD to MP3 Ripper will assist you to tear the audio from CD to MP3, WMA, APE or WAV for widespread avid gamers.
+With the bookmarklet put in, you may generate playlists from within internet pages. So, for individuals who’re looking out on an internet site like NPR’s All Songs Considered , and discover a music you need, simply click on on the bookmarklet and Tomahawk robotically searches for the entire songs listed on the web web page. The record of supported sites is fairly giant , and the Tomahklet ends up being a nice method to bookmark songs for later listening. Free acquire on-line and set up MP3 Joiner in your House home windows, after which follow the step-by-step info to mix audio info inside minutes. Proper right here we take be a part of mp3 as example.
+On-line Audio Merger is targeted at linking multiple tracks together and consolidate them in a single monitor. It contains a cross fading software program and permits all well-recognized file varieties like mp3, m4a, wav, and so forth. Step 1 Add MP3 recordsdata it’s good to merge mp3 files online free to this MP3 file merger – simply drag and drop MP3 recordsdata to the principle interface of the program. In the event you occur to ever need to separate or merge songs online audio recordsdata, these free instruments will probably be higher than ample for the job.
+Timbre prides itself on being probably the most comprehensive audio editor and pro video editor app ever made. The preferred features of Timbre are the mp3 cutter & mp4 cutter. But it surely does way more than simply chopping mp3 songs or reducing videos, it also has the performance of ringtone maker and MP3 video converter.
+It is easy! Simply click on the Merge MP3 acquire button at the page. Clicking this hyperlink will begin the installer to download Merge MP3 free for House home windows. It’s possible for you to to merge songs of assorted codecs into one and entry them everytime you want. With the assistance of this mergence, you will expertise seamless streaming on-line of songs. On-line Audio Joiner utility is created to combine quite a few tunes (mp3, m4a, wav, and many others.) into a single monitor. This method is provided freed from cost and runs on-line, for that motive you do not want to place in it in your laptop computer system.
+The break up and be a part of audio recordsdata , music on the pc too accustomed to everyone Nonetheless, it is inconvenient after we all the time should have a pc to take motion Scale back the music app will connect you carry to the decision of such circumstances Simply with straightforward operation , with little effort and doesn’t require prospects to have data about laptop techniques is you could make the editor ( robust lower ) mp3 recordsdata a breeze.
+EArt Audio Editor is an all-in-one Audio joiner, editor, recorder, converter, splitter and participant. There are multiple outcomes for audio transition and filters to any chosen portion of audio file. What’s more, it’s also attainable to report audio from a microphone or another out there enter gadget and save to completely different audio formats. You most likely have lots of CD information, you must make the most of the audio combining software to open CD tracks for enhancing and format conversion. Simply as Helium Audio Joiner, you may as well add silence or noise between two audio information. When you complete the only audio file, you’ll add Album, Artist, Copyright, Genre, Title, 12 months and different data to the file.
+You’ll be able to add audio recordsdata of just about any format, for instance MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG. In case you add a video file, the Joiner will extract audio observe from it. The number of tracks you’ll add is unlimited. On this article, we introduce you completely totally different MP3 mergers which can be used in numerous events, you may select the one you need and luxuriate in to hitch your MP3 information in response to your want.
+Home windows solely: In case you’re searching for methods to merge a bunch of MP3 recordsdata into one bigger file, and don’t like the command line reply I wrote about earlier this week, attempt Merge MP3. The appliance is tiny, the interface familiar, and it’ll enable you to drag-and-drop MP3 recordsdata onto a playlist, change the order, preview the audio, after which mix all of them right all the way down to a single MP3 files together with APIC pictures and ID3 meta-data.
+This saves encoding time and preserves the unique high quality, because nothing shall be re-encoded. The in-built recorder creates mp3 on the fly out of your audio enter. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can simply divide long ‘s the tutorial video about.7. MP3spltprovides a set of an open-source digital audio splitter to split mp3, ogg vorbis and FLAC recordsdata with out decoding or recompressing. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Home windows operating methods. With mp3splt you may split single MP3 and OGG files into smaller components in an easy way.
+Whereas it saves your disk house by becoming a member of individual pieces, it also assists you by visually displaying the time it’s good to trim with the assistance of the slide bar. Along with the ability to hitch a number of tracks into one huge audio monitor, you may even decrease a specific portion of the music with this instrument and the easily convert it to any of the supported file extensions guaranteeing the identical prime quality as the unique file and with excessive precision.
+2. Click Submit” button to start out processing. The audio information you added to merge should have the identical format and bit fee and so forth. The brand new audio file will probably be appended to the latest audio file created. For instance: You submit audio info A, B and C one after the other, the newest output audio file shall be file A+B+C mixed collectively.
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+Mp3 Merger Or Mp3 Joiner or audio joiner is an internet-based FREE device to merge or be part of your entire Audio files right into a single mp3 file for FREE of value. You had been doing a vital audio recording, you’ve got got been interrupted, and now you end up what should have been a novel recording divided into two totally different Easy strategies to mix MP3 observe. Key phrases: sites like , varied to mp3DirectCut, on-line program very similar to Audacity, extract audio from a film. Once the files are dragged & dropped into the tool, you merely Choose All as soon as more and select Merge from the file decisions.
+It happens many occasions that we have to merge audio info resembling MP3 songs into one monitor. You can combine multiple MP3 songs into single audio file to make a large MP3 file of a number of remix songs. The video recordsdata you added to merge will need to have the same format, size and body charge and many others. The brand new video file could be appended to the newest video file created. For instance: You submit video information A, B and C one after the other, the newest output video file may be file A+B+C blended collectively.
+Many individuals may wish to merge audio files for personal use, particularly to take away unwanted portions of the unique audio file and then merge with other audio. To solve comparable problems, this submit introduces the six greatest audio mergers. MiniTool Film Maker, released by MiniTool , should be your first selection.
+Mp3 Merger Or Mp3 Joiner or audio joiner is an internet FREE device to merge or be part of all your Audio information proper right into a single mp3 file for FREE of worth. Observe the steps to merge 1. Click on on ‘Drag your information right right here or click on on this space’ under 2. Filesmerge is an excellent on-line device able to merging a variety of mp3 recordsdata into a single file with tempo and ease. Users can add recordsdata to be merged from the native save location within the laptop computer or from a website by coming into the respective url code.
+This the way in which to” will describe intimately the method of the way to edit, merge, loop, and so forth ANY of your favorite songs using Garageband. Garageband is a program obtainable for OS X and iOS Mac prospects that has all the issues it’s advisable study, play, file, combine, and share good-sounding music, even if you happen to’ve under no circumstances carried out a observe.
+In case you favor to make use of on-line MP3 combiner to merge songs online completely different audio recordsdata collectively, right here we introduce you with an excellent online instrument. You can observe the following information to mix songs into one. 1. Some CDs like medleys and remixes don’t have any pauses between the tracks, that includes steady, uninterrupted playback. You can do this, too! When utilizing Merge MP3 to combine mp3 files, you can go for gapless playback by specifying zero-measurement pauses.
+After merging a whole bunch of items of classical music (individual movements), all of which play fine on a LAPTOP utilizing Media Monkey or Home windows Media Player, I discovered a fatal flaw: when these merged pieces are positioned on a small player (Sansa or Barnes and Noble Nook), I discovered they both 1. crash the player; or 2. have horrible noise exactly on the merge point. Till this downside is fastened, this program should not be used and has successfully value me tons of of hours.
+I must merge several MP3 tracks into one, I take advantage of Mac OS X 10.5. I need to convert all my Harry Potter CDs to my iPod, but not every minute a brand new observe (because it’s on the CDs) however chapterwise. Sure! The Merge MP3 download for LAPTOP works on most modern Residence home windows working strategies. WAV to MP3 Music Converter Bear Audio Editor A model new on-line audio enhancing system that is primarily based on HTML5 and does not require you to add audio recordsdata to the server.
+Need to join audio mp3 into one? MP3 Joiner merges audio to a non-stop audio file! Look no further – our MP3 Joiner is just the piece of software you may have been on the lookout for! No complicated menus, no difficult timelines, no fancy technical terms – just drag’n’drop your favourite compositions from Home windows Explorer into this system window or add them through the program dialog, prepare them within the desired order and press the Be part of!” button.
+Now you possibly can select from the given decisions that may convert your ‘cut back’, ‘merged’, or ‘modified’ file into the MP4 format. The pliability in conversion allows you to use your exported file with a number of gadgets. This relaxes the limitation which was in any other case present in your earlier MP3 file. Our converter velocity exceeds the speeds of other converters by 30 situations, making the conversion a problem free course of.
+Energy MP3 Cutter and Joiner is certainly a powerful software that helps you break up and merge MP3 audio recordsdata effortlessly. I am on the lookout for a program that may merge many MP3 info by means of command line on Ubuntu (e.g., as quickly I’ve a folder containing many MP3 recordsdata and I wish to merge them right into a single MP3 file). When you wish to merge two mp3 files online free audios into one single file with unique audio high quality remained or combine music information with utterly totally different format together,then this text presents you some trace of choosing a correct system.
+Though MakeItOne advertises that it might effectively join tracks into one MP3, I’ve not been ready to determine it out but. Then, you’ll be able to begin enhancing instantly and export it to MP3, AAC, FLAC, M4A, WAV or different format. The software program allows you to put transitions between clip components in the event you merge motion pictures collectively. Step 4 Be part of MP3 information Merely click on on large Be a part of!” button on the decrease proper corner of this system to affix mp3 info into one in a flash.
+In case you are not eager on above-talked about on-line MP3 cutters and want to choose a extra skilled MP3 splitter, you’ll be able to try to utilize Joyoshare Media Cutter This dependable clipping instrument might be utilized to chop off any undesirable components out of your MP3 information at as a lot as 60X quick velocity. Alternatively, Joyoshare MP3 Cutter is capable of outputting info into any accessible format and protecting original high quality utterly. Crucially, to satisfy your satisfaction, it may enable you to merge any video and audio into one as well.
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+We collected the vast majority of metadata historical previous information for Merge MP3 has a poor description which barely negatively influences the effectivity of engines like google index and therefore worsens positions of the area. Does precisely the one factor it needs to do perfectly. My undertaking involved making an attempt to merge four dozen or so tracks, in order, from each folder so each folder constituted one track, with each folder representing about an hours price of fabric. I expected to be able to do this simply in Audacity and was very, very improper; it might’ve taken a half hour each in Audacity. With this instrument, I solely needed to Choose All in every folder and drag & drop them. They landed in the same order and took less than 20 seconds to complete every. Only 20 seconds. I used to be expecting flaws at such velocity and located none; it worked perfectly on my cellphone. As soon as the files are dragged & dropped into the tool, you simply Select All again and select Merge from the file choices. You possibly can even enter metadata besides.
+I wished to figure out how to do that in order that I may quickly assemble a quick podcast. I wished to report my one-take stream of consciousness podcast using a program referred to as Easy Recorder , save the file, then merge it with a preexisting MP3 file that contained the canned podcast introduction. That means, I never need to open GarageBand or some other multi-track audio software. It’s fast. It’s painless. It works (usually).
+That is all it takes to combine MP3 recordsdata on an iPhone. The first step you could take is to hook up with the Merge MP3 web site and click on on the hyperlink right here situated underneath DOWNLOAD. When the download is full, open the file you simply downloaded (), double-click on on it, extract the contents in any folder and start the program to start Merge MP3.
+Free Audio Editor – Doc Edit Enhance Share audio files. As for added options, the application has a chapter editor and a job queue so it’s possible you’ll course of a number of files. We have to say that the appliance in all fairness fast, and you could create your info in a matter of minutes. MKVToolNix GUI can solely output MKV recordsdata, and that is our solely grievance. Should you happen to do not mind this limitation, be happy to do that application out. We also have to say that this machine is completely free and it will most likely run with out an set up.
+Now, you have discovered how you can merge MP3 files in iTunes and discover one other strategy to be a part of a number of MP3 information — Filmora Video Editor. Then click on the Merge recordsdata button. Audio manufacturing is likely one of the most vital components of media production Most professionals are already used to a certain set of audio recording software program that they feel comfortable with. Though, knowing your choices is important for anybody who needs to enhance by time.
+This audio merger can merge, join and mix a number of numerous audio files into one file, corresponding to MP3, OGG, MIDI, M4A, WMA, AMR, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV and extra. These files will be connected one by one in the order you entered. The output format is the preferred MP3 audio.
+Mp3 Cutter & Merger is a instrument for editing Mp3 data in your Android gadget, and the app focus is on creating ringtones, notification tones, alarms and so forth. GV (previously typically often known as Google Ventures) has misplaced its one feminine normal affiliate. London-primarily based Avid Larizadeh Duggan is becoming a member of Kobalt , a New York-primarily based music tech firm that acts as a writer and supplies royalty monitoring providers for tracks when any pattern or full observe is performed throughout various digital platforms.
+To start out mixing audio recordsdata, click File on the highest and select Import > Audio. Added auto detection of whether or not VBR frame is required within the merged file. In my view and experience, “sox” is the easiest approach to combine mp3s mac multiple MP3s collectively. Also, simply select & drag MP3 files in the list to the new place you’d like to move. Or you’ll be able to shortly sort the merge list by every column, by merely clicking the corresponding column header.
+X2X Free Video Audio merger helps fairly just a few codecs together with (however not restricted to) AAC, MPEG4, AVI and MP3. Spare the Trimmed document as aMP3, AMR, WAV, Or M4R doc and make ringtone to your cell phone. I am not totally understanding the part of your question about “monitor indications,” however merging MP3 recordsdata and eradicating silence is a piece of cake with Audacity. Some on-line corporations even present audio obtain with out having to obtain video first. To pick out to merge more particular MP3s from a folder, press and hold the Ctrl key and click on on the MP3s to merge.
+I am slowly getting the hang out of the video enhancing software VirtualDub. I lately bumped into troubles with music for a video. The video had a playtime of 14 minutes which meant that I had to merge a number of audio files to succeed in that taking part in time. I first tried my luck by merging mp3 information and loading them into VirtualDub, however that turned out to be problematic because of error messages (error initializing audio stream compression). After some investigating I figured out that wav was a much better and accepted format than mp3. The task was clear now. Find a program that may merge mp3 information (the source format of the music) and save the merged single audio file as wav.
+Next, it’s your time to set the audio segments to be trimmed. You can simply drag the yellow slider to determine the starting time and end time for protecting or simply manually enter the specific value for place to begin and finish point. Remember to pre-hear your audio file throughout the setting.
+“Insert silence between MP3 tracks” allows including pauses between parts. This can be utilized to keep the components logically separated whereas having all of them in a single file. I perceive that you want me change mp3 recordsdata to wav files the first time. Step 6. Click on “Obtain” on the next display to download your merged file. You can too straight add the file to your Dropbox or Google Drive account by clicking on the arrow icon subsequent to the button.
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+Notice: The program by default saves MP3 recordsdata at 128 bitrate. Export to the same format as the songs or save the merged audio file to AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, CAF, FLAC, or M4A. The chosen recordsdata can be added to the joining checklist. Another function that we have to say is the SENSE AI SINGING VAD that lets you simply detect vocals in audio information.
+Mp3 Cutter & Merger is a instrument for editing Mp3 info in your Android gadget, and the app focus is on creating ringtones, notification tones, alarms and so forth. GV (previously usually often called Google Ventures) has misplaced its one female common associate. London-primarily based Avid Larizadeh Duggan is becoming a member of Kobalt , a New York-based mostly music tech agency that acts as a author and gives royalty monitoring providers for tracks when any pattern or full observe is played throughout varied digital platforms.
+The command-line technique does NOT work on any file sort I’ve tried, including WAV files and UNCOOKED audio. It does combine the recordsdata, but it does not rewrite the header data, leaving you with all the recordsdata combined however the capability to only access the first file in the collection.
+1. Click on “Select File” button to select a file on your computer. You may as well click through the next internet site on the dropdown button to decide on on-line file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox. The audio format will be WAV , WMA , MP3 , OGG , AAC , AU , FLAC , M4A , MKA , AIFF , OPUS or RA Audio file dimension can be as much as 200M. Click the Be part of button to merge the selected tracks collectively. Be aware that it does take some time for the app to merge the files collectively.
+It’s even able to re-encoding your audio information into other bitrates, so it’s attainable to make use of it as a easy converter to shrink files that are too giant as a result of they are of too high quality. Earlier than conversion, if crucial, it’s also possible to edit one or several MP3 clips. Click on one in every of your wanted audio clips on Timeline and then click Edit button to open the enhancing panel, the place you may change the velocity, volume, add effects like Fade in & out and so on.
+At this point, re-unite your MP3 information as seen above and, while you’re finished saving, it’s best to get a piece of music that can be performed without any downside by any multimedia participant. To put your songs collectively, you may add two or more recordsdata out of your COMPUTER, Mac, Android or iPhone. It’s also doable to add them from your Dropbox or Google Drive account. The instrument allows you to join audio recordsdata up to 500 MB without cost.
+So as to streamline the recording course of, the applying supports one-touch recording function, and thereвЂs additionally help for high-quality Direct Stream Digital information. You could also do it in iMovie, by using a background because the video portion and the audio tracks connected to it. Then export as audio-solely. Most likely not the best choice, however for people who are used to utilizing iMovie and not GarageBand or Audacity, then it is a good possibility.
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+Since these are on-line and web-based mostly tools, you don’t want to put in them in your computer. They work off of your web browsers and let you add and merge your MP3 recordsdata on-line. When the procedure is done, you can save the resulting file from the web site to your computer. With the tune combiner you can convert the file immediately and add a crossfade impact to it.
+Perhaps you may have tons of MP3 or each different audio information in codecs like WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, M4B, AC3 and you are attempting to combine them into an enormous one in order that you could enjoy the data orderly and without interrupts or add your entire one to your websites to share it with your loved ones, buddies and even of us around the globe. Before conversion, if needed, it is also possible to edit one or several MP3 clips. Click actually one of your wished audio clips on Timeline after which click Edit button to open the modifying panel, the place you can change the velocity, amount, add effects like Fade in & out and so forth.
+MP3 Cutter Joiner Free is an aspirational program for music lovers especially one who likes to create his private music and wish some slicing, enhancing, turning into a member of, and so on. With this free MP3 cutter + joiner one-cease resolution software program program, it’s convenient to hitch collectively a number of audio recordsdata into one single file and lower giant audio recordsdata into smaller objects.
+The program I take advantage of to do this is named Merge MP3 – it’s a easy free program to rapidly mix MP3 information right into a single MP3. Merge MP3, MP3 Toolkit and Free MP3 Cutter Joiner are three other software instruments you’ll be able to be a part of sound information with. By merging audio files, you’ll be able to deliver your music collection collectively.
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+Added playback of MP3 information. Repeat these steps as many occasions as you need to so that every one the information are edited and merged simply how you need. Step 3. Tap on “Track 1” and add the first file you wish to merge. Then, faucet on “Monitor 2” and add your second MP3 file. Choose the MP3 files to merge. A brand new waveform window will open each song to get merge together.
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+Notice: This system by default saves MP3 recordsdata at 128 bitrate. Free Merge MP3 is a free software software from the Rippers & Converters subcategory, part of the Audio & Multimedia class. The app is currently available in English and it was final updated on 2017-03-31. The program might be installed on Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP.
+It installs all kinds of malware. Backup Software program that constently displays a nag to backup, Replaces your homepage, Replaces your search engine, Hundreds software program for ASPCA. I declined ALL software program offers nevertheless it still downloaded the whole lot. Should you delete ethese “options” this system disappears.
+Merging audio recordsdata is necessary whether or not you are making ready for a dance performance as you can’t carry on altering songs once more & again. Therefore you want to try your palms on MP3 joiner you should be looking for an MP3 merger or to ease this confusion. Nicely here is the answer, we have listed the strategies of merging Audio information in Home windows 10.
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+iPhone users are usually not left without in the case of joining MP3 information, and also you even have some amazing apps that can assist you out with the task. Many of those apps are free to make use of, and you can easily have your recordsdata merged with them. The additional state of affairs will be associated to the audio setting, suppose if the files are recorded in the totally different studio beneath a changed context, then there may be probabilities of dissimilarity of sound.
+Now to merge the succeeding mp3 tracks go to the Devices menu >Insert sound file, this will routinely mix the two tracks collectively. For more editing desires, you can also make use of this software to cut, break up, combine mp3 into one file, overwrite with sound file, decrease and paste elements of MP3 info. So as so as to add extra mp3 file, merely repeat this steps until all the audio tracks are added. So your first mp3 merge files monitor is now on the editor’s timeline. From proper right here, merely go to the audio editor’s platform and hit the tab that claims Load an audio file to edit. By using the audio modifying carry out of this program you could simply be a part of mp3 files in a single audio monitor without any hassle and bother.
+Import all MP3 files you need to merge to this MP3 file merger. To do that, just click “Import” option to import your local MP3 files to the Person’s album, or directly drag and drop these goal MP3 files out of your computer to this app’s album. The syntax is extremely straightforward. For instance, “sox enter.mp3 output.mp3” will mix all MP3s with filenames starting with “enter” right into a single MP3 named “output.mp3”.
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+The Applegate Trail
+compiled by Karen Bassett, Jim Renner, and Joyce White
+Oregon Trails Coordinating Council
+Significance
+The Applegate Trail is an alternate southern route of the Oregon Trail and was blazed from west to east, intersecting the California Trail at the Humboldt River. It is historically linked to the Oregon Trail in that it was developed as an alternative route into Oregon that avoided the obstacles of the Burnt River Canyon, the Blue Mountains, and the Columbia River. After its opening, Oregonians used part of the Applegate Trail to travel back and forth to California’s gold fields. As designated by Congress under the National Trails System Act, the Applegate Trail is a branch of the California National Historic Trail.
+Historical context
+In 1843, Jesse and Lindsay Applegate, members of the first wave of Oregon Trail emigrants, watched helplessly as their ten-year-old sons drowned in the Columbia River when a boat overturned in rapids near The Dalles. The Applegates, like so many overland emigrants who lost loved one on the Trail, continued sadly toward the Willamette Valley.
+The Applegate brothers vowed to find a better route into the Willamette Valley — one that bypassed the Columbia River altogether. The Provisional Government of Oregon also hoped an alternate route would be opened because the Hudson’s Bay Company essentially controlled the Columbia River corridor, and so controlled a significant segment of the only overland route connecting the American settlements with the United States. By 1846, after settling on Salt Creek (near present-day Dallas), the Applegate brothers felt the time was right to follow through on their commitment to search for a new route.
+In mid-June, Jesse and Lindsay Applegate met with other trailblazers at La Creole Creek (today called Rickreall Creek) to prepare for the trip. Eleven of the party had scouted the route earlier in the year as far south as Calapooya Creek in the Umpqua River valley. Jesse Applegate was elected leader of the group which included Lindsay Applegate, Henry Boygus, Benjamin Burch, David Goff, Samuel Goodhue, Moses “Black” Harris, John Jones, Bennett Osborn, John Owens, William Parker, John Scott, Levi Scott, Robert Smith, and William Sportsman.
+The fifteen men, each with their own saddle horse, packhorse and supplies, followed Hudson’s Bay Company trappers’ routes, working their way south from the central Willamette Valley to the Bear Creek Valley in southern Oregon. From there, the group knew they would be blazing an entirely new trail. Turning east, their plan was to intersect the Oregon Trail near Soda Springs (in present day Idaho). Instead they intersected the California Trail on the Humboldt River and continued eastward to meet emigrant parties and guide them onto the new route.
+The trailblazers crossed the Cascade Mountains approximately where Oregon State Route 66 crosses today and then headed south around lower Klamath Lake. Local Indians led them to a natural crossing of Lost River where the water flowed over a shelf of solid rock, making a substantial natural underwater bridge that wagons could traverse safely. This bridge was the critical key to establishing a wagon road through the Lakes Country. After crossing Lost River, the party rounded the north end of Tule Lake and headed east again, eventually crossing the Black Rock Desert to reach the Humboldt River.
+There, the trailblazers decided some of the party should stay behind to rest their stock while others continued on to Fort Hall to replenish supplies and tell Oregon-bound travelers of the new route. Jesse Applegate led the advance group to Fort Hall and persuaded more than 200 men, women, and children — some historians report nearly 100 wagons — to travel over the southern road.
+The trailblazers who stayed behind could hardly believe their eyes when they saw the number of people, wagons, and cattle coming down the trail to meet them. There had been no attempt while the supply party was at Fort Hall to clear a road for wagons. The emigrants of the new wagon train would have to do that themselves.
+Levi Scott and David Goff agreed to stay behind to guide the wagon train. Meanwhile, equipped with pack horses and a few tools, the trailblazers had about sixty days before winter storms set in to open more than 500 miles of road and to blaze the trail for the wagons. To make matters worse, the winter of 1846-47 was a year of record snowfall, with heavy storms starting early. (These storms were the same ones that trapped the Donner Party heading over the Sierras not far south of where Scott was crossing the mountains with his wagon train.)
+The wagon train did not move as fast as Scott would have liked. By the time the wagons reached the Rogue Valley, the winter rains had set in and from then on it rained or snowed most of the way. Supplies were running out and game was scarce. The trail had become harder to clear with brush and trees everywhere. The weather was cold and everything was slippery and muddy. Trying to start a fire to get warm was almost impossible. The emigrants were strung out for miles and Scott tried to persuade those who were stopped to keep moving because things could get worse. When word reached the Willamette settlements, relief parties headed down the trail to rescue those in need.
+Although the trailblazers always referred to this route as the “Southern Road,” critics such as J. Quinn Thornton chose to belittle the Applegates’ name by referring to it as the “Applegate Trail.” Thornton blamed Jesse Applegate for hardships members of the first wagon train endured and felt that Applegate should suffer for what the emigrants endured. Thornton began a war of words through the newspaper that nearly led to a duel between him and an Applegate supporter, James Nesmith. Although people such as Levi Scott and David Goff supported the Applegates, remnants of those hard feelings survive to the present day among some of the descendants of survivors of the ’46 wagon train.
+Despite its detractors, the Applegates’ alternate route through Oregon contributed substantially to the development of the Northwest. At the urging of the provisional government, Levi Scott agreed to return over the Southern Road to Fort Hall in 1847 to lead additional emigrants back over the new route. In doing this, Scott made noticeable improvements to the route. In 1848 with the discovery of gold in California, Peter Hardeman Burnett led 150 pioneers with fifty heavily laden wagons from Oregon City over the Applegate Trail going south to the gold fields. They were followed a few days later by a smaller group of men and wagons from north of the Columbia River. Intersecting Peter Lassen’s wagon tracks south of Tule Lake, Burnett’s cavalcade helped Lassen blaze a new trail to his rancho in the Sacramento Valley, establishing the first route for wheeled vehicles between the valleys of California and Oregon. This remained a major wagon route for more than a decade. In 1852, a group blazed a trail off the Applegate route south of lower Klamath Lake to the Yreka area; this trail was used for many years to help populate that part of northern California.
+Of the three brothers Applegate who emigrated to Oregon — Charles, Lindsay, and Jesse — Jesse was the dominant member of the clan. He was a college graduate, school teacher, and surveyor. After being turned down by William Sublette as a member of his fur company, he took a job as Deputy Surveyor General of Missouri and farmed along with his brothers in western Missouri. Times were hard… In 1842, Jesse sold a steamboat load of bacon and lard for $100. The curing salt alone had cost him $150, and the steamboat used the bacon as fuel for its boilers.
+A good friend of Jesse’s named Robert Shortess emigrated to Oregon in 1840. Shortess wrote letters back to Applegate singing the praises of the Oregon Country. While Shortess was helping to build the Oregon Provisional Government, Jesse was protesting his neighbors’ practice of owning slaves and advertising his family’s intent to migrate to Oregon in the spring of 1843. True to Jesse’s word, three of the five Applegate brothers sold their farms and bought several hundred head of cattle, the largest herd among the more than 5000 head of livestock believed to have accompanied the Oregon Trail emigrants of 1843. They followed the promoter Peter Burnett, who told tall tales about Oregon to drum up excitement — including one which described fully-cooked pigs running around the forest with knives and forks already stuck into them for the convenience of hungry settlers.
+During the second day on the Trail, an argument arose during a river crossing and Peter Burnett’s leadership was challenged. The next day, he was replaced as Captain of the wagon train by Rev. David Lenox. Within a week, the Great Migration of 1843 broke into two parties over the issue of whether the livestock would slow the emigrants enough to risk running into winter weather in the western mountains. Reverend Lenox was elected captain of the “light column,” consisting of those emigrants who had no more than three head of loose stock (milk cows, for the most part). The “cow column” was headed by newly-elected captain Jesse Applegate. Despite the fears of those in the light column, the cow column was able to keep a steady pace, following about half a day behind.
+The Applegate brothers left their guide Marcus Whitman at his mission in southern Washington and then abandoned their wagons at Fort Walla Walla. They spent several weeks sawing lumber and building flat boats before departing for Fort Vancouver via the Columbia River on November 1, 1843.
+Near The Dalles, tragedy struck the Applegate clan. “Whirlpools looking like deep basins in the river, the lapping, splashing, and rolling of waves… Presently there was a wail of anguish, a shriek, and a scene of confusion in our boat that no language can describe. The boat we were watching disappeared and we saw the man and boys struggling in the water.”.”
+The Applegates were not alone in wishing to find a new road through the Cascade Mountains, as the Columbia River route was dangerous and not well suited for bringing livestock into the Willamette Valley. The experiences of the emigrants of 1844 were no better than the 1843 parties, and in 1845 an entire family drowned while attempting to travel down the Columbia to Fort Vancouver. In the wake of this tragedy, Jesse Applegate later recalled that, “The whole community were again aroused to the necessity of finding a remedy for an evil so distressing and calamitous.”
+The first efforts to find an alternate route through the Cascade Mountains were made in 1845, when Sam Barlow and Joel Palmer scouted the route of the Barlow Road and Elijah White, who had lost two children to the Columbia River, himself, explored down the length of the Willamette Valley in the hope of finding a low pass through the Cascades. White’s expedition was a failure, and while the Barlow Road was safer than the Columbia River route, it was arguably the single worst stretch of road on the entire Oregon Trail. Other, smaller expeditions were mounted during the summer of 1845, but none discovered a suitable pass for a wagon road over the Cascade Mountains.
+Probably the best known of these other expeditions was the Lost Meek Party that followed guide Stephen Meek on an untried route through the high desert. They left the Oregon Trail and the Malheur River and headed due west across central Oregon. By the time the party reached the Deschutes River, they were hopelessly lost, fighting among themselves, and had split into two groups. They eventually straggled into The Dalles, and the route they sought over the central Cascades was opened nine years later, in 1854, by the efforts of Elijah Elliot and William Macy. However, the Free Emigrant Road — so called because there was no toll charged for its use — was little used.
+1845 was a high point for American patriotism. James K. Polk had been elected president on the jingoistic slogan, “Fifty-four forty or fight!” and in his inaugural address, he declared it was his duty “to assert and maintain … the rights of the United States to that portion of our territory which lies beyond the Rocky Mountains.” Meanwhile in Oregon, Jesse Applegate was serving as a representative from Yamhill County in the legislature of the Provisional Government, where he actively promoted two pieces of legislation. The first created Polk county around Applegate’s land claim on Rickreall Creek. The county seat of Dallas was named for Vice-President George M. Dallas. Jesse’s other legislation authorized him to survey a southerly route into the Willamette Valley, avoiding the Columbia River which, at the time, seemed likely to become the US-Canadian border in Oregon. Daniel Waldo, one of Jesse’s fellow emigrants from the Great Migration of 1843, was given the task of outfitting the road-hunting expedition.
+On March 30, 1846, the following item appeared in the Oregon Spectator, the first newspaper published in English west of the Rocky Mountains, under the headline OVER THE MOUNTAINS:
+“The company to examine for a practicable wagon route from the Willamette valley to Snake river, will rendezvous at the residence of Nat. Ford, on the Rickreall, so as to be ready to start on the trip on the first day of next May.”
+The first expedition failed as dissension arose and Jesse Applegate was elected to replace Levi Scott as Captain. Four men deserted as the group headed into territory populated by hostile Indians, forcing the others to turn back for fear that they would not be able to mount an adequate watch over their nightly campsites. On June 25, 1846, the Spectator reported that:
+“Whilst on the one hand we learn with regret, that the company of road hunters which started from Polk county, has returned unsuccessful and discouraged; on the other, we are cheered with the intelligence, that another party … is forming, and will soon be prepared to start, under the command of an able and experienced pilot.”
+It was learned from Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson’s Bay Company that there was a low pass through the Cascades near Klamath Lake, and this was the goal of the June expedition. Jesse and Lindsay Applegate joined the company, and Jesse was elected to command it — in part because of this, his name stuck, and the route they opened became widely known as the Applegate Trail.
+On June 22, 1846, before news of the failure of the Scott party was even in print, the fifteen explorers of the Applegate Party set out from Polk County into what maps called an “unexplored region.” Constantly watched by Indians, they traveled south, beyond the head of the Willamette Valley and up into the mountains. They broke out of the forest near Klamath Lake, crossed the Tule and Goose Lake valleys to northern California, and crossed Black Rock Desert to the Humboldt River where they picked up the California Trail from Fort Hall.
+The explorers found a large wagon train gathered at Fort Hall and were able to persuade about 150 families to try the southern route. The bulk of them cut off from the Oregon Trail at the Raft River on August 9, 1846. Levi Scott and David Goff remained with the wagons to guide them while the brothers Applegate and the other road builders set out ahead to mark the trail. The Applegates arrived back at Rickreall on October 3. The first emigrants off the Southern Route, now also road builders, themselves, arrived six weeks later.
+The emigrants found the trail through the desert to be hard going, but historian Hubert Howe Bancroft estimated that with the exception of a nasty stretch of trail across an alkali desert, grass, water, and wood were no more scarce on the Southern Route than on the main trunk of the Oregon Trail. The emigrants had no way of knowing this, however, and many of them blamed every dead ox and broken wagon wheel on misrepresentations made by the road builders regarding the ease of travel on the Southern Route.
+Fourteen year old Henry Garrison described battles with hostile Indians, disappointment with Applegate for not improving the road, and a trading post where Applegate bilked the emigrants out of their last dollars. Constant complainer J. Quinn Thornton said, “having at various times upon the journey thrown away my property, I had little remaining save…the most valuable part of our wardrobe. We passed many wagons, that had been abandoned by their owners… [giving] the appearance of a defeated and retreating army,” and later compared the road builders to, “outlaws and banditti who during many years infested the Florida reefs, where they often contrived so to mislead vessels as to wreck them, when without scruple or ceremony, they, under various pretenses, would commence their work of pillage.” Thornton’s controversy with Applegate over the relief of the emigrants was carried on for almost a year in the pages of the Oregon Spectator, and to this day, some descendants of the 1846 emigrants who were lured into trying the Southern Route still bear a grudge against the Applegate clan.
+After dealing with hostile Indians, an inadequately surveyed route, and the difficulties of the terrain itself, the emigrants were faced with the final push through the Cascade Mountains. Until a bypass was found, the first climb into the eastern Cascades required ascending a slope so steep as to require as many as two dozen oxen to haul a loaded wagon to the top. The leading wagons were delayed by the need to chop their way through trees and underbrush that had not been cleared by the road builders, and the wagons that had fallen to the rear of the column — which by this time was stretched out in small groups over more than 50 miles — were in such sorry shape that when they reached the valley of the Rogue River, they rested there until the winter rains set in and forced them to move on. The remainder of their journey was exquisitely miserable, as the creeks came up and no one was ever again dry until they finally reached the settlements in the Willamette Valley. Some, including J. Quinn Thornton and his wife, were forced to abandon their wagons and possessions, arriving with little more than the clothes on their backs.
+The plight of these stragglers eventually became known to the settlers in the valley, and a pack train was sent to meet them. The relief column included Henry Garrison’s uncle, who had emigrated two years earlier and was expecting Henry and his family. They met the emigrants at the North Umpqua River on November 14th and conducted them safely to the Willamette Valley. About a dozen emigrant families were trapped in the valley of the Umpqua River until January or February, when they were able to resume the journey with their wagons and surviving livestock.
+Despite all this, the route scouted by Applegate’s party did have one thing in its favor: when gold was discovered in California in 1848, the Applegate Trail was used by Oregonians to get a head start on the 49ers coming from back East. They followed the Applegate Trail to Tule Lake and then the Lassen Cutoff to the Sacramento River. As they did not venture far into the interior desert, they found the route hard going, but tolerable. They certainly had an incentive to tolerate it, though.
+The April 6, 1848, Oregon Spectator contained an article written by Jesse Applegate in which he gave details and mileage estimates along his southern road into Oregon. All of the estimates were short, and the details optimistic. The dry Southern Route was longer than the Columbia River road and accented by spiteful Indians, and it never became the emigrant highway into the Willamette Valley envisioned by the men who blazed it.
+Although the trail fell into general disuse in 1848, it is firmly ensconced in the pioneer lore of the Pacific Northwest. There remains, however, some controversy over what to call it. The name “Applegate Trail” was cemented into the lexicon of Oregon history by Walter Meacham, director of the Oregon Council of the American Pioneer Trails Association, with the publication of a booklet he wrote entitled Applegate Trail in 1947. However, anti-Applegate descendants of the 1846 emigrants advocate “Southern Route” or “Scott-Applegate Trail,” instead; the role played by Levi Scott in the affair is downplayed by Meacham and elevated by the Polk County Historical Museum. i
+Abstract
+Background
+Women with preeclampsia (PEC) and gestational hypertension (GH) exhibit insulin resistance during pregnancy, independent of obesity and glucose intolerance. Our aim was to determine whether women with PEC or GH during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing diabetes after pregnancy, and whether the presence of PEC/GH in addition to gestational diabetes (GDM) increases the risk of future (postpartum) diabetes.
+Methods and Findings
+We). Our main outcome was a new diagnosis of diabetes postpartum in the following years, up until March 2011, based on new records in the Ontario Diabetes Database. The incidence rate of diabetes per 1,000 person-years was 6.47 for women with PEC and 5.26 for GH compared with 2.81 in women with neither of these conditions. In the multivariable analysis, both PEC alone (hazard ratio [HR] = 2.08; 95% CI 1.97–2.19) and GH alone (HR = 1.95; 95% CI 1.83–2.07) were risk factors for subsequent diabetes. Women with GDM alone were at elevated risk of developing diabetes postpartum (HR = 12.77; 95% CI 12.44–13.10); however, the co–presence of PEC or GH in addition to GDM further elevated this risk (HR = 15.75; 95% CI 14.52–17.07, and HR = 18.49; 95% CI 17.12–19.96, respectively). Data on obesity were not available.
+Conclusions
+Women with PEC/GH have a 2-fold increased risk of developing diabetes when followed up to 16.5 years after.
+Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
+Editors' Summary
+Background
+Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar), known as type 1 diabetes, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces—type 2 diabetes. Raised blood sugar, is a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes and over time leads to serious complications and even death. Worryingly, the global burden of type 2 diabetes is increasing worldwide, and the World Health Organization estimates that 90% of the 347 million people with diabetes currently have type 2 diabetes. Previous studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed in high risk groups by a range of lifestyle and treatment interventions and so it is important to identify potential high risk groups to screen for type 2 diabetes.
+Why Was This Study Done?
+Gestational diabetes (a form of diabetes that is related to pregnancy) is a major risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. Therefore, diabetes prevention strategies should target women with gestational diabetes. Likewise, other common disorders of pregnancy possibly associated with insulin resistance, such as preeclampsia (a condition in which affected women have high blood pressure, fluid retention, and protein in their urine) and gestational hypertension (high blood pressure associated with pregnancy), may lead to the future development of type 2 diabetes. So women with these conditions may also benefit from diabetes prevention strategies. Therefore, in this large database study from Ontario, Canada, the researchers examined whether pregnant women with preeclampsia or gestational hypertension had an increased risk of developing diabetes in the years following pregnancy even if they did not have gestational diabetes.
+What Did the Researchers Do and Find?
+The researchers used a comprehensive Canadian health database to identify all women age 15 to 50 years of age who delivered in an Ontario hospital between April 1994 and March 2008. They then identified women who had preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, or gestational diabetes through hospital records and outpatient information. The researchers then used records from the Ontario Diabetes Database to record whether these women went on to develop diabetes in the period from 180 days after delivery until March 2011.
+Using these methods, the researchers identified 1,010,068 pregnant women suitable (median of 8.5 years) at a median age of 37 years. In a modeling analysis, the researchers found that women with gestational diabetes had a 15-fold increased rate of developing diabetes compared to women without gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and preeclampsia, while women with gestational diabetes plus either preeclampsia or gestational hypertension had a 20- to 21-fold increased rate. These results were slightly reduced after adjusting for age, income quintile, hypertension prior to pregnancy, and co-morbidity, giving a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.95 for gestational hypertension alone, an HR of 2.08 for preeclampsia alone, an HR of 12.77 for gestational diabetes alone, an HR of 18.49 for gestational diabetes plus gestational hypertension and finally, an HR of 15.75 for gestational diabetes plus preeclampsia.
+These Findings Mean?
+These findings suggest that both preeclampsia and gestational hypertension without gestational diabetes are associated with a 2-fold increased incidence of diabetes in the years following pregnancy after controlling for several important variables. When combined with gestational diabetes, these conditions were associated with a further elevation in diabetes incidence additional to the 13-fold increased incidence resulting from gestational diabetes alone. A limitation of this study was the lack of information on obesity and body mass index, factors which are also associated with increased risk of developing diabetes. Nevertheless, these findings highlight a possible new risk factor for diabetes, and suggest that clinicians should be aware of the need for preventative measures and vigilant screening for diabetes in women with a history of preeclampsia or gestational hypertension.
+Additional Information
+Please access these Web sites via the online version of this summary at.
+- NHS Choices has information about preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and gestational hypertension
+- Living with diabetes is a useful resource for patients with diabetes
+- The Preeclampsia Foundation has more information about preeclampsia
+Citation:
+Academic Editor: Philippa Middleton, The University of Adelaide, Australia
+Received: October 14, 2012; Accepted: March 5, 2013; Published: April 16, 2013
+Copyright: © 2013 Feig et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
+Funding: This study was funded by the Canadian Diabetes Association, grant #OG-2-10-3000-DF (). This study was supported by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), which is funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. BRS and LL are supported by Canadian Institute of Health Research New Investigator awards. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The opinions, results, and conclusions reported in this paper are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources. No endorsement by ICES or the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is intended or should be inferred.
+Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
+Abbreviations: GDM, gestational diabetes; GH, gestational hypertension; HR, hazard ratio; PEC, preeclampsia
+Introduction. Gestational diabetes is a major risk factor for the development of diabetes [5] and thus women with this condition are an ideal population to target diabetes prevention strategies. Similarly, other disorders of pregnancy associated with insulin resistance may heighten the propensity for women to develop diabetes in the years following pregnancy, and such women may also be suitable targets for diabetes prevention.
+Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, including gestational hypertension (GH) and preeclampsia (PEC), affect approximately 8% of all pregnancies [6]. More recently, women with PEC/GH have been noted to exhibit insulin resistance during pregnancy that is independent of obesity and glucose intolerance [7],[8]. Studies done during pregnancy suggest that insulin resistance predates the development of PEC, implying that insulin resistance may play a role in its etiology [7],[8]. Moreover, women with other disorders associated with insulin resistance tend to have increased rates of PEC/GH. For example, several studies have shown that women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have an increased risk of PEC/GH [9],[10], as do women with polycystic ovary syndrome [11]. The risk of PEC/GH also increases with increasing glucose intolerance [10],[12],[13].
+Given the finding of insulin resistance in women with PEC/GH, and the association of PEC/GH with other disorders associated with insulin resistance in pregnancy, these conditions may be a marker of future diabetes risk, even in the absence of GDM. A few studies have looked at this association but have failed to take into account the presence of GDM. This study sought to examine whether women with PEC or GH during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing diabetes in the years following pregnancy even in the absence of GDM, and to determine whether the combination of PEC/GH and GDM confers a greater risk of postpartum diabetes, over and above the risk seen with GDM alone.
+Methods
+Ethics Statement
+This protocol received ethical approval from the Institutional Review Board at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
+Data Sources
+We conducted a population-based cohort study using administrative health claims to examine the impact of PEC/GH on the subsequent risk of diabetes. The Government of Ontario acts as a single payer for all medically necessary services across a full spectrum of providers and hospitals to provide all residents of Ontario (approximately 12 million residents) with universal public health insurance. Large provincial health administrative databases are used to capture the details of this utilization and can be linked anonymously on an individual level using a unique personal identifier to provide a complete health services use profile for each resident.
+Study Population and Eligibility
+We identified all women age 15 to 50 y of age who delivered in an Ontario hospital between April 1, 1994 and March 31, 2008 from the Canadian Institute for Health Information Discharge Abstract Database. For women who had multiple deliveries during the time period, one delivery was chosen at random to be the index episode from which they were followed forward in time. Women with a diagnosis of diabetes before their pregnancy were identified and excluded from the study using the Ontario Diabetes Database [14], an administrative data derived registry of Ontario residents diagnosed with non-gestational diabetes. The database has been validated against primary care charts and was shown to have a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of greater than 97% [14]. We restricted the cohort to women who were residents of Ontario and had coverage under the province's health plan for a full 2 y prior to baseline so that we could reliably determine their diabetes status.
+Women in our cohort were categorized as having PEC, GH, or GDM on the basis of their hospitalization records and outpatient data from physicians' services claims. Women who were diagnosed with both PEC and GH were assigned to the PEC group. Women assigned to the GH group had GH alone. Women whose hospitalization record at the time of delivery included a diagnostic code for diabetes or who had three or more outpatient medical claims for diabetes up to 120 d prior to their delivery were identified as having GDM. Women were considered to have a premature delivery if the delivery was <37 wk gestation.
+Baseline Variables and Study Outcomes
+Women in our cohort were followed from 180 d post delivery (to avoid the potential misclassification of women with GDM undergoing routine postpartum follow-up) until March 31, 2011 for the development of diabetes, on the basis of the presence of a new record in the Ontario Diabetes Database.
+We gathered demographic and clinical characteristics from administrative data to be applied in our adjusted multivariable models (see Text S1 for codes used). The age of the women was obtained through the Registered Persons Database, which contains demographic and residential information on all residents of Ontario. The Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) System [15] was used to create separate case-mix categories (known as collapsed ambulatory diagnostic groups [CADGs]) that reflect an individual's underlying level of morbidity. These groups were created using diagnostic codes from hospitalization records and physicians' services claims from the period 2 y prior to but excluding the delivery date. This system is a widely used method for case-mix adjustment and correlates well with health care utilization. The stable chronic medical category includes a variety of chronic conditions such as hypercholesterolemia, mitral valve disorders, atrioventricular block, and simple chronic bronchitis. The unstable chronic disease includes such conditions as ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive lung disease, chronic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and malignancy, among others (see Table S1 for a listing of all categories). Diagnostic codes for diabetes and hypertension were not included in the creation of the case-mix categories. Hypertension prior to pregnancy was assessed using the Ontario Hypertension Database, a validated database that identifies all individuals in Ontario who have been diagnosed with hypertension with sensitivity of 73% and a specificity of 95% [16]. For the purpose of our study, a woman was identified to have prior hypertension if the diagnosis date was greater than 280 d before the delivery. Women found to be in the Hypertension Database and diagnosed with GH were removed from the cohort, as women, by definition, cannot have GH and have hypertension prior to pregnancy. Information on individual-level income was not available in our data sources; therefore, neighborhood characteristics derived from the Canadian census were used as a proxy. The median household income level of each woman's neighborhood of residence was attributed to them using their postal code at the time of their delivery. Baseline parity was only available for a subgroup of women in our cohort who delivered between April 1, 2002 and March 31, 2008, therefore a sensitivity analysis was performed in this subset to assess the influence of parity on the association between PEC and diabetes incidence. To test whether the severity of PEC modified the association between PEC and diabetes incidence, we stratified our population of women with this condition (with or without concomitant GDM) on the basis of whether or not they had a premature delivery.
+Statistical Analysis
+We calculated descriptive statistics and used one-way ANOVA, the Kruskal–Wallis test, and the chi-square test to compare the baseline characteristics of women in our different exposure groups. Incidence rates were expressed on the basis of the number of new cases of diabetes per 1,000 person-years of follow-up. A Cox proportional hazards model was used to examine the impact of PEC, GH, or GDM (with or without concomitant PEC or GH) on the risk of developing diabetes. Women were censored when follow-up was terminated; this happened at the time of death, loss of health care coverage if the women moved out of the province, if they experienced an outcome event, or at the end of the observation window. The covariates included in our model were age, socioeconomic status, hypertension (prior to pregnancy), co-morbidity, and parity (for the subset of women for whom it was available).
+The proportional hazards assumption was tested [17], and interaction terms using a time-dependent covariate were inserted into the model in a second sensitivity analysis. Parity was felt to be an important covariate but was only available after 2002. For this reason a sensitivity analysis was done to assess the influence of parity on the risk of development of diabetes during the period after 2002. Women with PEC who deliver early are considered to have more severe PEC. Using PEC along with preterm delivery as a proxy for PEC severity, we performed a sub-analysis. Number needed to follow was also calculated among a random sample of 100,000 women [18]. The analyses were done using SAS version 9·2 (SAS Institute Inc).
+Results
+A total of 1,709,019 deliveries were captured in Ontario from April 1994 to March 2008. Among those that were excluded from the study, 1.3% had pregestational diabetes. A further 7.3% were excluded because they were not Ontario residents or lacked coverage under Ontario's Health Insurance Plan for a full 2 y prior to delivery (see Figure 1). Among the 1,010,068 pregnant women available for analysis, 22,933 cases of PEC alone, 27,605 cases of GH alone, 30,852 cases of GDM alone, 2,100 cases of GDM+GH, and 1,476 cases of GDM+PEC were identified. The range of follow-up was 1 d to 16.5 y, with a median follow-up of 8.5 y. Overall 35,077 women developed diabetes (3.5%).
+Figure 1. Cohort flow chart illustrating the inclusion and exclusion of participants into the study.
+*Mothers either lacked coverage under Ontario's Health Insurance Plan at the admission delivery date or had health insurance for less than 2 y prior to their delivery.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.g001
+Demographic and clinical characteristics of women included in the study, stratified by their PEC, GH, and GDM status is presented in Table 1. Women with GDM tended to be older and were more often in the lowest income quintile. Previous hypertension was more common in women with GH or PEC than women without either, particularly if they had concomitant GDM. The level of co-morbidity was low across all groups but somewhat higher in those with GDM+GH and GDM+PEC compared to women without these conditions.
+Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of women stratified by gestational diabetes diagnosis.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.t001
+The unadjusted cumulative incidence of diabetes, stratified by GDM, GH, and PEC status, is presented in Figure 2. Among women in our cohort, both PEC and GH were associated with an elevated cumulative probability of developing diabetes. Women with GDM had an even higher cumulative probability of developing diabetes but this appeared to be heightened by the co-presence of PEC or GH.
+Figure 2. Cumulative future risk of diabetes mellitus in association with a pregnancy affected by preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and gestational diabetes.
+*Follow-up period begins 180 d postpartum. This figure was produced using a competing risk method.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.g002
+The incidence rate of diabetes per 1,000 person-years is illustrated in Table 2. Women with GH or PEC had higher incidence rates of diabetes than those without either (5.26 per 1,000 person-years, 6.47 per 1,000 person-years, and 2.81 per 1,000 person-years, respectively). Those with GDM had a much higher incidence rate than those without GDM. Women with GDM and either PEC or GH had a higher incidence rate than women with GDM alone (55.02 per 1,000 person-years, 55.09 per 1,000 person-years versus 39.77 per 1,000 person-years, respectively). The mean age at diagnosis of diabetes overall was 37.34, with a median age of 37.0. The number needed to follow for 5 y to detect one case of diabetes was 4,511 for GH alone, 123 for PEC alone, 68 for GDM alone, 105 for GDM+GH, and 31 for GDM+PEC (see Table 3).
+Table 2. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models evaluating the relationship among preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and gestational diabetes in the development of diabetes.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.t002
+Table 3. Number needed to follow.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.t003
+In the unadjusted Cox proportional hazards model, women who had GH or PEC during pregnancy had double the risk of developing diabetes in the 16.5 y following delivery, compared to women who had neither during pregnancy (Table 2). Women with GDM had a 15-fold increased rate of developing diabetes over those without GDM, PEC, or GH, while women with GDM+PEC and GDM+GH during pregnancy had the highest rates with a 20- to 21-fold increased rate. These effects were only modestly reduced after adjusting for age, income quintile, hypertension prior to pregnancy, and co-morbidity, (hazard ratio [HR] 1.95 [1.83–2.07] for GH alone, HR 2.08 [1.97–2.19] for PEC alone, HR 12.77 [12.44–13.10] for GDM alone, HR 18.49 [17.12–19.96] for GDM+GH, HR 15.75 [14.52–17.07] for GDM+PEC) (Table 2). See Table S2 for the number of women at risk at the end of each follow-up year.
+A sensitivity analysis was done to assess the influence of parity on the risk of development of diabetes using data from 2002–2008. The association between future DM and GH/PEC and GDM became even stronger when adjusting for parity (along with age, income quintile, prior hypertension, and co-morbidity) (HR for GH alone 1.82 [95% CI 1.63–2.03], HR for PEC alone 1.92 [95% CI 1.63–2.28], HR for GDM alone 16.56 [95% CI 15·81–17.34], HR for GDM+GH 23.48 [21.01–26.24], HR for GDM+PEC 22.53 [18.54–27.38]).
+In the second sensitivity analysis, a time-dependent covariate was added into the adjusted model as an interaction term. There was a time-varying effect among the groups on the risk of developing diabetes, especially those with GDM. The risk for developing diabetes in women with GH and PEC stayed fairly stable at the 2-y, and median follow-up times (GH HR = 1.99 for all times; PEC HR = 2.26 and HR = 2.01, respectively). For those with GDM, however, the risk of developing diabetes decreased over time compared with the women without GH/PEC or GDM (HR = 19.09 at 2 y, HR = 8.20, at median follow-up of 8.5 y). Similar patterns were seen in the GDM+GH and the GDM+PEC groups (HR = 25.28, HR = 12.86; and HR = 24.54, HR = 11.13, at 2 and 8.5 y, respectively).
+A sub-analysis was performed looking at PEC severity by assessing PEC along with preterm delivery. There was a trend towards a greater incidence of diabetes among women with PEC who had a preterm delivery (Figure 3). Those women with GDM and PEC and preterm delivery experienced the highest risk of developing diabetes, HR 30.73 (95% CI 23.73–39.78) (Figure 3).
+Figure 3. Sub-analysis modeling the relationship among preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, gestational diabetes, and preterm delivery in the development of diabetes.
+Model also adjusts for age, income quintile, prior hypertension, and co-morbidity using the Johns Hopkins collapsed ambulatory diagnostic group (CADG). The bands represent 95% confidence intervals.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.g003
+Discussion
+In this study the presence of PEC or GH, in the absence of GDM, was associated with a 2-fold increased incidence of diabetes when followed up to 16.5 years after pregnancy, after controlling for several important confounding variables. In the setting of GDM, these conditions were associated with a further elevation in diabetes risk, over and above the already substantial (~13-fold) increase resulting from GDM alone. This risk was even higher in the setting of preterm delivery, suggesting that diabetes incidence rises with increasing severity of these hypertensive disorders. These findings highlight a possible new risk factor for diabetes, and support the need to counsel patients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy regarding postpartum diabetes screening prevention.
+Common pathogenic pathways may underlie the association between both GDM and PEC/GH leading to an increased risk of diabetes. Firstly, each of these conditions is associated with insulin resistance [7],[8],[11],[19],[20]. Not only do women with PEC/GH have insulin resistance during pregnancy, several studies have also found higher levels of insulin resistance in women with a history of PEC/GH years after delivery, even after controlling for body mass index and excluding women with previous GDM [21],[22]. Women with a history of PEC/GH also show manifestations of the metabolic syndrome years after delivery, a syndrome known for its association with insulin resistance [23]–[26]. Endothelial dysfunction and markers of chronic vascular inflammation have been found in women with PEC as well as women with GDM, both during and after pregnancy [27]–[30]. These entities have been shown to precede the development of overt hyperglycemia in patients at risk for type 2 diabetes [30]. We hypothesize that these common mediators are likely to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in women with a history of PEC.
+We found that the risk of developing diabetes over the years was stable for those with GH and PEC alone; however, the risk decreased over time in women with GDM. It may be that those with a very high risk develop diabetes early on. Those who remain have an inherently lower risk leading to the lower HR ratio observed. This finding is consistent with what we know about the natural history of diabetes postpartum. Some groups develop diabetes at a very high rate early on (50% within 5 y of delivery) [31].
+Three previous studies looked at the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women with a history of PEC/GH. In one study, women enrolled in the Mater–University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy between 1981 and 1984 who had PEC/GH at baseline were 1.76 times more likely to report having developing diabetes 21 y later [32]. However, approximately one-half of their original cohort were lost to follow-up. In a Danish cohort of women with PEC or GH, the risk of diabetes postpartum was also found to be increased over a median of 14.6 years [33]. Neither of these preceding studies were able to isolate the risk imparted by PEC/GH from that of GDM. A third registry study of women with PEC in Norway also found an increased risk of diabetes in women with PEC, however follow-up was short, only 3.7 y, and the diagnosis of diabetes was made in women using medications for diabetes, possibly under-estimating the true incidence of diabetes [34].
+Strengths of our study include that this study was a large, population-based study with long and complete follow-up (over 1,000,000 women followed for up to 16.5 y). Our study also examined the risk of diabetes associated with both GH and PEC, while controlling for the presence of GDM, and examined the combined impact of GDM and PEC/GH together. We were also able to examine the severity of PEC with the addition of preterm delivery. Some limitations of this study include our inability to adjust for clinical factors, in particular, obesity, which in itself is associated with insulin resistance, and is a well-known risk factor for the development of GDM [35] and PEC [36]. Obesity is not well captured in our inpatient hospitalization database, nor is it well coded in our outpatient database, which is based on physician outpatient billing codes. Furthermore, family history, physical activity, glucose, and blood pressure measures are also known risk factors. We were, however, able to adjust for several other important confounding variables including maternal age, prior hypertension, income quintile, parity, and co-morbidity. One previous study was able to adjust for obesity and physical activity, and the risk of developing diabetes was still significant [30]. From our data sources we could not differentiate type 1 from type 2 diabetes; however, given the mean age at diagnosis was 37.4 y, it is most likely that the majority of the women developed type 2 diabetes in the years after pregnancy. Women with a history of GDM may be offered routine glucose testing postpartum, thus leading to more diagnoses of diabetes compared with women with a history of PEC. This situation may have led to under-reporting of diabetes in women with a history of PEC; therefore the rate of development of diabetes in these women may even be higher than reported. Follow-up of women with hypertensive disease in pregnancy may lead to more interactions with the health care system compared to women without hypertensive diseases in pregnancy, thus leading to more diabetes testing and diagnosis and a possible bias towards overestimating the risk; however, there is currently no standard recommendation to screen women with GH/PEC for diabetes postpartum. Our capture of GH and PEC may have been incomplete. In a study looking at the accuracy of hospital data in the perinatal period using ICD-10 codes, when diagnosing GH and PEC, sensitivity was reduced (58.6% and 50.0%, respectively), however specificity was excellent (99% and 99.8%, respectively) [37]. Finally, the algorithms used to describe a number of the variables used in the study (GDM, PEC, GH) have not been formally validated.
+In summary, in this large, population-based study, we found that the presence of either PEC or GH during pregnancy were strong predictors for the development of diabetes years following the pregnancy, and the presence of PEC or GH in a woman with a history of GDM increased the risk of diabetes over and above that observed with GDM alone. These findings have important implications for maternal health, especially given the increase in obesity-related diseases. A history of PEC or GH during pregnancy should alert clinicians to the need for preventative counseling and more vigilant screening for diabetes.
+Supporting Information
+Distribution of co-morbidity categories (collapsed ambulatory diagnostic groups)* among women stratified by gestational diabetes diagnosis. *Collapsed ambulatory diagnostic groups [CADGs] were created using the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) System. CADG category number 12 (pregnancy) was not included in the analyses.
+doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.s001
+(DOCX)
+Number of women at risk at the end of each follow-up year in Ontario, from 1994 to 2011. *Year 0 indicates the beginning of the follow-up period.
+doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.s002
+(DOCX)
+Codes for variables used.
+doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001425.s003
+(DOCX)
+Acknowledgments
+We thank Charles Victor for his invaluable assistance with analysis and interpretation of data.
+Author Contributions
+Conceived and designed the experiments: DSF BS LL JR JL GB. Performed the experiments: FW. Analyzed the data: DSF BRS LLL FW JGR JH GLB. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: DSF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DSF BRS LLL FW JGR JL JH GLB. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: DSF BRS LLL FW JGR JL JH GLB. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: DSF BRS LLL FW JGR JL JH GLB.
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+Well, Chipmunks, I promised to report back about my first HTML (web design) homework assignment, and if there’s one thing I do, it’s keep my word.
+As you might recall, I had to create a basic web page featuring certain elements like an image and a list. Since content doesn’t matter in this kind of class, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to show my eccentric side. And yours. Thank you for your phenomenally weird suggestions. I think we can all agree we
+made my professor and classmates uncomfortable had fun.
+Here’s the web page
+I we came up with (click on either image to enlarge):
+Pretty special, huh? In case you’re wondering, the ��wizard” link goes here, and the “She-Man” link goes here (thanks, Byronic Man and clemarchives!).
+I also made a lasting impression when, in the first class, the professor brought up this page, and…
+…I burst out laughing.
+I was the only one.
+Thank god you guys have a sense of humor.
+Because apparently no one else does.
+Has anyone else headed back to school this fall? If you could teach any class, what would it be (go ahead, be phenomenally weird again [please])?
+P.S. – My next web page? I’ve Held My Father-in-Law’s Back Hair.
+45 thoughts on “Homework is for Suckers and Weirdos”
+If Hasselhoff had his thong you would have had some company laughing, but the banana-hammock is not universally recognized as amusing.
+And here I thought my sense of humor had become immodest.
+Your sense of humor is right where it should be. I mean seriously, who wears a Member’s Only jacket with weiner wrapper swim trunks? He’s a genius in Europe, but here we dress better.
+I would teach people how to put the “I” back into their writing, after having it drummed out of kids at high school
+That class would be great for one to teach.
+Ahhh! I love the line, “wouldn’t it be great if you could have a photo of Hasselfhoff in the center of your page?”
+Uh, no. No it would not be great.
+Speaking of your FIL’s back hair, does he know you posted about that on your blog?
+I would teach a class on how to shave your own back hair.
+Whoever wrote those instructional pages has a special place in my heart. Every now and then I’ll get to a line where they’re just absolutely messing with you. It’s as specacular as David’s chest hair (though not as spectacular as my FIL’s back hair).
+Nothing will ever be as spectacular as FIL’s back hair.
+(Oh, JD, I am sooooo procrastinating now….I really REALLY should be doing my homework and studying for my exam but here I am….chatting about chest hair….sigh….)
+HA! Preach. Oh and I didn’t answer your question before (I swear I would never AVOID such things… heh) – my FIL did know! I got the family blessing before putting up that post. I ain’t no fool.
+Ummm……huh? did you say something….? or….? No? Well, sorry—gotta go!
+(see, I never avoid things! ever!)
+I would teach a class on how to get Darren Criss to marry you. (I would of course have married him first already, couldn’t risk anyone else gettin with him, but this would just be a hypothetical class.)
+Oooh. I would up my Teacher’s Pet game so hard, you wouldn’t know what hit you until you saw the divorce papers.
+I would teach a class on cold-calling people for shy people. People who don’t even like to call for pizza delivery. People whose heartbeats quicken at the thought of calling to make an appointment or to discuss their insurance policy. It would be great. I’d have a room of disconnected phones for them to practice with!
+Nicki, I hope you like all of us, because something tells me ALL bloggers need that class.
+Nicely done, Jules. 😀 Strangely, I’m looking forward to the next web page, back hair and all. 😉 I agree with Darla, it would NOT be great to have a picture of Hasselhoff on a web page, what the bleep was that site thinking?! 😆
+Thanks, Lilykins! Uncle Jesse is already cracking down on slutty school supplies with a vengeance. I’m much more concerned about the scorpions.
+Teach me how to put that Hasselhoff pic on my blog, please. It makes me do this 😈
+Speaker! Have you been taking Don’t Quote Lily’s Advanced Emoticons class?
+I’m not mentioning Hugo AGAIN, I’m just saying that SOMEONE who’s a regular feature on your blog might get jealz if you start plastering The Hoff front and center.
+EVIL FACE, no way! I didn’t know that one! 😈 I hope that worked…
+I can’t believe no one laughed. We they too young? Too old?
+Ren-zay, while I’m all for not letting facts get in the way of a good story, I swear on Uncle Jesse’s teeny, tiny head (which, incidentally, is full of big ideas*) that I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO LAUGHED.
+I would say people range in age from 18 to 60. So no excuse. It was actually bad. I thought I might go into one of those embarrassing fits where you try so hard to supress laughter that it turns into a mess. I was like, why am *I* embarrassed? You people should be ashamed! That’s the funniest shiz I’ve seen all day!
+*I may have written a song about this.
+I, too, am bemused by this. I busted out laughing when I saw it. Jules, I imagine if my sister and I had seen it together 15 or so years ago, we would’ve joined in the irrepressible laughter that makes people look at you as if you’ve grown an extra nine heads. 🙂
+Yeah, what they said. I can’t believe the class wasn’t rolling in the aisles when the Hasselhoff pic was flashed. Are you taking HTML for Zombies?
+That doesn’t even make sense that no one else laughed. That’s insane. Although if the problem was that they didn’t know who Hoff was, I really like thinking about what kinds of websites they must have the the instructor was in to.
+I know. I know! I was just telling Renée that it was actually a really awkward moment. No joke – everyone turned and looked at me when I burst out laughing! Like *I* was the weird one! I think the instructor gets it, though.
+The day that web page isn’t funny is the day I stop bringing up the wizard post.
+If there are multiple website showings like this throughout the class you just gotta wear ’em down! Those suckers have put up the anti-laugh wall to protect them from what may be their most awkward class, but if you keep chipping at them they will succumb.
+As far as a class… Hrm, well, that question made me think of that Youtube video that went viral a few years back of a woman who, hrm, I think she was painting the nails of a badger or something. Totally blanking, which is unfortunate because it was very informative and useful and I want to do that professionally!
+I’m sorry, but if your class can’t find the humor in the Hoff, just tell them to Hoff off!
+P.S. Uncle Jesse’s got my vote!
+I am so enthralled by your new skill, I can’t tell you. You are doing great!
+I spent hours…HOURS, on my Parental Hearing Aid post. Not on the writing part – no, I slapped any-old shiz together in a few seconds, as usual. But I wanted 2 columns of “what they say” and “what they hear” with one line across from its counterpart and I couldn’t figure out how to do it to save my life. I’m sure that was the ONLY thing needed to make that the post of the century. Sigh.
+Wait, are you telling me that nobody else in your class thought that was laugh out loud snorting funny? What are you, in a class with robots? My god, girl! THAT needs to be your next web page…..the art and skill of teaching robots humor!
+I vote Uncle Jesse every time. I mean, you can’t vote against your lover.
+I think the David H crotch photo is divinely inspired.
+Don’t confuse silence on the Hoff as no one caring. There could’ve been some longings stirring up in peoples’ loins that dare not be made vocal. I know this because I’m reading 50 Shades.
+There are too many serious people out there. Jules, Thank God for the likes of us – who can never be serious about anything. If I could teach a class it would be on how to LIGHTEN UP.
+Yay pickles! I feel so included. I can’t believe no one else was amused by the hoff.
+How could they not laugh at the Hoff??? I met him once. Funny story. He is a very friendly guy!
+Keep up the good work! I expect there will be all sorts of bells and whistles on your blog really soon…
+That’s awesome! Good for you for busting out your sassiness in class! I just started a photography course and it’s been fun to go back. If I were to teach a course – if I had the knowledge and skills, I would love to teach photography on international bike trips…congrats on moving forward, but keeping it fun!! 🙂
+How could anyone NOT laugh at David H in that picture?
+Or in any picture?
+And I thought my local audience was a tough one. Strap the laughing gas on those people already. I would teach a class on 100 uses for wine bottles, corks, and beer caps.
+Any class? I would definitely teach logic to elementary school kids. I realize their parents might grow to hate me… but the world would be better off.
+I don’t get it…how is it possible that only you laughed? The HOFF. In a THONG. In the middle of your webpage. It meets all the classic needs of humor.
+I’m late to the party, but good luck in your class. I’ve thought about doing the same if only so I could get on WP.org. Are you finding it helpful for that? Did you already need basic knowledge?
+I teach a creative writing class. Not too much weird about that, but all the students are submitting work a la 50 Shades of Grey. *Shudder*
+Verses with the word dwell in the Old Testament (283 verses)::6
+And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
+Genesis 16:12
+And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
+Genesis 19:30
+And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
+Genesis 20:15
+And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. 26:2
+And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
+Genesis 30:20
+And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
+Genesis 34:10
+And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
+Genesis 34:16
+Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.:1
+And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
+Genesis 36:7
+For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
+Genesis 45:10
+And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 49:13
+Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
+Exodus 2:21
+And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
+Exodus 8:22
+And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
+Exodus 15:17
+Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.
+Exodus 23:33
+They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
+Exodus 25:8
+And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them..
+Leviticus 13:46
+All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
+Leviticus 20:22
+Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 26:5
+And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
+Leviticus 26:32
+And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
+Numbers 5:3
+Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.:30
+Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
+Numbers 23:9
+For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
+Numbers 32:17
+But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
+Numbers 33:53
+And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess:32
+And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
+Numbers 35:34
+Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
+Deuteronomy 2:4
+And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
+Deuteronomy 2:29
+(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth 12:10
+But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; 13:12
+If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 23:16
+He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress 28:30
+Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 33:12
+And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
+Deuteronomy 33:28
+Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
+Joshua 9:7
+And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
+Joshua 9:22
+And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? 13:13
+Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. drave:2
+And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
+Joshua 24:13
+And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. 1:21
+And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem:35
+But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
+Judges 6:10
+And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
+Judges 9:41
+And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem..
+Judges 17:11
+And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. 12:8
+When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.?
+2 Samuel 7:2
+That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
+2 Samuel 7:5
+Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell,
+1 Kings 2:36
+And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
+1 Kings 3:17
+And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
+1 Kings 6:13
+And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
+1 Kings 8:12
+Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
+1 Kings 8:13
+I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
+1 Kings 8:27
+But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
+1 Kings 17:9
+Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 17:27
+Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
+Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: 23:25
+For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: 6:1
+Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
+2 Chronicles 6:18
+But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
+2 Chronicles 8:2
+That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell.
+Nehemiah 8:14
+And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:.
+Job 3:5
+Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
+Job 4:19
+How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?.
+Job 19:15
+They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
+Job 30:6
+To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
+Psalms 4:8
+I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
+Psalms 5:4
+For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
+Psalms 15:1
+Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 25:13
+His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. 37:3
+Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
+Psalms 37:27
+Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
+Psalms 37:29
+The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
+Psalms 65:4
+Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
+Psalms 65:8
+They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
+Psalms 68:6
+God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
+Psalms 68:16
+Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
+Psalms 68:18
+Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
+Psalms 69:25
+Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 72:9
+They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
+Psalms 78:55
+He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
+Psalms 84:4 85:9
+Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
+Psalms 98:7
+Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 107:4
+They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
+Psalms 107:34
+A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
+Psalms 107:36
+And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
+Psalms 120:5
+Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
+Psalms 132:14
+This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
+Psalms 133:1
+Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
+Psalms 139:9
+If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
+Psalms 140:13
+Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
+Psalms 143:3
+For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
+Proverbs 1:33
+But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
+Proverbs 2:21
+For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
+Proverbs 8:12
+I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. 9:2
+The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
+Isaiah 11:6
+The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
+Isaiah 13:21
+But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.:6
+Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
+Isaiah 26:5
+For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
+Isaiah 26:19
+Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
+Isaiah 30:19
+For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
+Isaiah 32:16
+Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
+Isaiah 32:18
+And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
+Isaiah 33:14
+The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
+Isaiah 33:16
+He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
+Isaiah 33:24
+And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. 49:20
+The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 65:9
+And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
+Jeremiah 4:29
+The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
+Jeremiah 7:3
+Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
+Jeremiah 7:7
+Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. 12:4
+How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. 23:6
+In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
+Jeremiah 23:8
+But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.:5
+They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
+Jeremiah 25:24
+And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, 31:24
+And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. 33:16
+In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
+Jeremiah seed::9
+Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
+Jeremiah 48:28
+O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
+Jeremiah 49:1
+Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
+Jeremiah 49:8
+Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
+Jeremiah 49:18
+As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.:33
+And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
+Jeremiah 50:3
+For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. 50:40
+As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
+Jeremiah 51:1
+Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 16:46
+And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 34:25
+And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
+Ezekiel 34:28
+And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
+Ezekiel 36:28
+And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
+Ezekiel 36:33
+Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded..
+Hosea 9:3
+They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
+Hosea 12:9
+And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
+Hosea 14:7
+They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
+Joel 3:20
+But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 9:5
+And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt..
+Nahum 1:5
+The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
+Nahum 3:18
+Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth:17
+For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein..
+Haggai 1:4
+Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
+Zechariah 2:10
+Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.:4
+Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
+Zechariah 8:8
+And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
+Zechariah 9:6
+And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
+Zechariah 14:11
+And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
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+These lessons are based on the parshiot, also called sedras, which are the 54 sections into which the Five Books of Moses are divided [simlar to chapters] in Jewish liturgical practice. This parasha covers Exodus 6 to 9, and it is called “Vaera’ {“and I appeared”).
+This parasha may be seen to be teaching about the life of faith, and what it means to ACTivate our faith.
+Read Exodus 6:14-27
+Moses has left Mt Sinai, and is now together with his brother Aaron in Egypt. They have been commissioned by God to confront Pharaoh the most powerful ruler in the known world, and through a series of confrontations and divinely ordained plagues, deliver the entire nation of Israel, 600,000 men, not counting women and children, from Egyptian slavery. It is quite an order.
+Just before the “action” begins, we read in Exodus 6:14-27 a long and detailed genealogy of the Levites, a tribe to which Moses and Aaron his brother belong. We then read these words:.
+This brings us to our first mentoring principle from this parasha.
+I. Heroes are ordinary people who don’t let that stop them—In studying Torah, and indeed all of Scripture, one must pay attention to what is said, what is not said, what is repeated. The intent of the placement and detail of this genealogy and the repetitive designation of Aaron and Moses in the two verses following could scarcely be clearer. It’s purpose is to remind us that Moses and Aaron were mere mortals, that it was these ordinary men who led the most remarkable salvation of a nation that had ever occurred. Yes they would prove to be heroes, and among the greatest names in human lore, but such heroes are ordinary people who don’t let that stop them.
+Take as an example Nicholas Winton. A British Stockbroker born in 1909, he was 29 years old and planning a vacation ski trip to Switzerland, when his friend Martin Blake asked him to come instead to Prague and to help with war relief of Czechoslovakian refugees. Winton traveled to Prague and soon focused his attention on refugee children from the Sudetenland, Czech land claimed by Germany, and also on the resident Czech Jewish children. He says this of that time of assessing the situation: [about three thousand dollars in today’s terms], that was to be deposited at the Home Office. The situation was heartbreaking. Many of the refugees hadn’t the price of a meal. Some of the mothers tried desperately to get money to buy food for themselves and their children.
+In terms of his mission, Winton was not thinking in small numbers, but of thousands of children. He was ready to start a mass evacuation. The man was about thirty years old, a stockbroker. An ordinary man who saw a problem crying out for someone to step in. He chose to be that man.
+He set up his own rescue operation. At first, his office was a dining room table at his hotel in Wenceslas Square in Prague. He took pictures of the children, distributed them widely, sought to get governments interested in their plight. Only England and Sweden said yes. He came back to England, worked his day job on the Stock Exchange, and worked on this task evenings and week-ends. He formed an organization with an impressive name–“The British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Children’s Section.” The committee consisted of himself, his mother, his secretar, a few volunteers. He persisted. He saved 669 children from virtually certain death. Very few of their parents survived.
+He never told anyone what he did, not even his wife. She found a suitcase with the records of these children in the attic fifty years later . . . Sir Nicholas was eventually knighted by the Queen. He is still alive . . . 104 years old. And singularly unimpressed with himself.
+An ordinary man who did what needed to be done.
+Many people imagine that those who perform acts of valor and outstanding character are a special kind of people, and that this is why they were able to win acclaim through their actions. However, more often than not, these great heroes are ordinary people who did not let their ordinariness keep them from doing what they could. These are people who showed up for what life demanded of them. Nothing more, nothing less.
+As we saw in an earlier post, Moses’ battle at this time of his life was between who God was willing to be for him–what He promised to do, and Moses’ own doubts. The Torah characterizes Moses’ attitude at the inception of the greatest national deliverance the world has ever seen in these words that follow immediately after what just discussed:?”
+Moses is still so hung up on what a nobody he views himself to be that he cannot see what a somebody God is.
+This brings us to our second principle.
+II. Our perception of ourselves colors our perception of God. In this case, Moses is a microcosm of his people in Egypt, but with a difference. Neither he nor they believed much in their chances. But the people failed to believe God while Moses, haltingly, and slowly at first, did believe. Notice what it says about Moses as he performs before Pharaoh the three signs that Pharaoh directed him to perform.
+In Exodus 7, Moses and Aaron begin their conversations with Pharaoh. Here we read about their first confrontation, and the subsequent first plague, turning the waters of the Nile read like blood. The text reminds us that they were eighty and eighty-three years old. Why? To again underscore the fragility, the powerlessness of these men before Pharaoh KIng of Egypt, except for one factor: the power of a faithful God. Considering what the text has been reporting about Moses, it is just about certain that he, and his brother Aaron, are trembling and uncertain in the presence of the Great Pharaoh who held the power of life and death over all in his kingdom. Yet, the text tells us two times “Moses and Aaron . . . did just as the LORD commanded [verses 6, 10], and once “Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded” [verse 20]. Despite the fact their faith was still in the beginning stages, and their fears very real, they did one very important thing–they did what God said to do.
+This brings us to our third mentoring principle:
+III. Even when your faith is very weak, you can still act as though you believe, and God may very well meet you there. In other words, don’t wait until you believe and then act. Act your way into faith. Let’s call it ACTivating our faith. Look at Moses: even when he was struggling with himself, he acted like he believed . . . and eventually he did.
+This is what might be termed the “na’aseh v’nishma principle” of Jewish life. When the people of Israel met God at Sinai and he laid before them his covenantal demands in view of his having delivered them from Egypt, they responded, “Na’aseh v’nishma—We will do and we will understand.” Contrary to many who think that faith must come first before action, Jewish spirituality understands that we often act ourselves into faith. It is like a car which needs to be pushed down the hill so it can start. It must start to go so it can start. The same with faith: you can activate and build your faith at any time by acting as if you believe what God has said. In the pathway of action you will meet him.
+Yeshua put it this way: Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” (John 14:21, ESV) It is in the keeping of his commandments that the love of God is manifest, triggering God’s reciprocity rewarding this faith-activity, this ACTivated faith.
+Read Exodus 8:1-13
+In this section we begin to see how Moses and Aaron’s faith is growing. After the plague of frogs on the land, Pharaoh beseeches Moses and Aaron to make the frogs go away. Moses then says something startling, an evidence of a higher level of faith than he had demonstrated so far.there is no one like the Lord our God. (Exodus 8:9-10)
+Certainly this is remarkable. He is now so confident in the power and engagement of God that he can ask Pharaoh, “Just say when,” and then go back to God and ask for it, expecting that God will do so!
+And so, another principle.
+IV. When you employ this kind of “action-faith” which co-exists with your own doubts and insecurities, you will gain experience with God which will grow your faith. See here how Moses now asks Pharaoh “When do you want this to happen?” And having gotten an answer, goes out and cries out to God for this, and it happens. As I said, and never tire of saying, the details of the text are very important. With that in mind, one is blown away by verse 13—“And the Lord did according to the word of Moses.” This is extraordinary. At the beginning of this saga, Moses is timid and insecure, but, to his credit follows through on God’s word to him. Now his faith has grown to much so that he has the confidence to ask Pharaoh to name the time, with the text coming back with this declaration which turns things around: Now God is doing the word of Moses! Moses is now fully in, a full partner with Hashem in what He is doing. And in such partnerships, even for us, sometime the Major Partner will do as the minor part asks. Amazing. Moses would not have been able to exercise such faith earlier in our story, swimming in insecurity and a constant need for reassurance. People GROW in faith as they exercise it.
+Read Exodus 8:25-32
+In the case of the fourth plague, flies, we see some of the same dynamics in operation. Again Pharaoh asks that the plague be reversed, and again Moses says when this will happen, but without Pharaoh first naming the time. But there is a bit of an escalation here too, which brings us to our next point.
+V. Walking in faith with the God of Israel inevitably involves a confrontation with the world as it is and people as they are. Moses and Pharaoh are heating up. In this confrontation, Moses says, “”Only let not Pharaoh cheat again [from a word meaning to deceive or to mock] by not letting the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.” To warn Pharaoh against cheating again is extraordinary. Only a man who was very certain of the backing of the Living God could ever imagine doing such a thing. But also, clearly, Pharaoh is getting annoyed, and as subsequent events will show, he never fully gets around to seeing things Moses’ way, and he gets increasingly angry.
+This will be true for us too. There are things we do and will not do that are frustrating and incomprehensible to others. This is inevitable. For this reason, Yeshua could say to his disciples, “I send you out as sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents and as harmless as doves,” or say also, “In the world you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world,” or Paul could say, “Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution.” There is a clash of worldviews and of values, and the life of faith involves us relinquishing an autonomy which is axiomatic for most others—and they will think us fools. But notice, as Moses is growing in faith, he is sharpening his confrontation with Pharaoh—he is growing in his sense of authority and now his confidence in what God is doing and in how God will back up his act is strong. But he grew into this. And so can we.
+We end with this passage: hailstruck:13-30, ESV)
+Here is what we should take away from this:
+VI. Our lives of faith or lack of it become a theology lesson for those who observe us and know us well. Notice how what is happening between Pharaoh and Moses is meant to teach Pharaoh and the Egyptians about the God of Israel, and how God speaks of having raised Pharaoh up that he might best him in this confrontation. This is heavy theological discourse. Similarly, how we live, for good or for ill, teaches people about the God whom we claim to serve. In a sense, to the extent that we are living for God, our life is a theology lesson for others. Paul picks up on this thought and speaks of the people in the Corinthian congregation in these terms:
+“Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on oura hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
+We too are letters of recommendation for what we believe . . . or we are not.
+Some Questions Before You Go
+- Can you recall people in our life who taught you about God through how they lived and exemplified a faith in God that you then aspired to?
+- Can you think of other aspects of life where one can only learn by doing, and where prior explanations will not do the job of helping you learn what you need to learn—you must first do and then you will understand.
+- Sometimes God puts us in situations where our faith is being stretched, but whereby our faith will grow. Consider this)
+Is your faith being stretched right now? Are you going to get out of the boat and allow yourself to grow? Are you going to ACTivate your faith by taking action prior to feelings of security? That’s what Moses did, and look where it got him!
+When you drive to Oxford, Wisconsin, by way of U.S. 51, the first commercial establishment you come upon within the town limits is a weather-beaten saloon called Spuds and Suds. Last summer, when I passed through, the building’s outer walls were decorated with advertisements for 7-Up, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and the Budweiser 1988 Lawn Tractor Races. During high season, the tavern doubles as a deer registration center, and the ads compete with posted instructions telling each hunter to attach a carcass tag to his animal’s ear or antler.
+Not far down the road is the town’s commercial strip, a hub that consists of about a dozen businesses, including a real estate firm that advertises homes for under $30,000 and a cafe that sells sundaes and six-packs of beer. If you pass by and make a right on County G, you’ll find yourself on a bending road that leads to a federal correctional institution. With luck, you’ll never have to make that trip.
+FCI Oxford sits in a wooded area in the middle of nowhere. The land supports three separate institutions. The largest is a prison, security level four on a scale of six, which houses about 775 fairly violent men. Next to the prison is the Oxford “camp,” security level one, which houses perpetrators of nonviolent crime, an all-male population drawn mostly from northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The third building is a UNICOR factory. UNICOR is a corporation, staffed by federal inmates nationwide, that produces an odd array of products–brooms, mailbags, office furniture, and uniforms for patients in VA hospitals among them. At Oxford, the inmates produce cables for tanks, missiles, and nuclear submarines, and the operation has thus far turned a tidy profit, all of which goes back to the Bureau of Prisons to be used for educational and vocational programs.
+The Oxford camp is well known in Chicago’s criminal justice circles because in the last three years many lawyers, judges, and politicians from Cook County, targets of federal investigations of corruption, have begun to call it home. A former inmate had warned me that but for the prison next door, the camp could be mistaken for a nursing home, but what came to mind when I first saw the building was an oversized, state-sponsored highway rest stop. As I left my car I could see a few inmates sitting under an awning at a table on the patio. A few feet from where they sat was a sandbox used by children during visiting hours. Behind the building is a volleyball net, an area for boccie ball, a court for tennis or basketball, and a baseball diamond at which local teams face off against the inmates. The camp’s softball team has been highly regarded in the past, taking the county championship in 1987 and placing second in 1986. The team’s supporters look forward to the games not just out of fondness for the national pastime, but also for the chance to ogle the women who accompany the visiting teams.
+As I neared the entrance to the camp building, a jogger heavy with sweat passed by on a track that looped around the facility. No guards monitored the area and there were no fences–the runner was held back only by his conscience and by small signs that said simply, “Out of Bounds.” Inside I was met by no system of buzzers, locks, and requests for identification. A passing man in prison greens directed me to the office I was looking for.
+The absence of barbed wire, guard towers, and other accoutrements of hard-time prisons have created an image problem for the institution. A Tribune profile, which opened with the phrase “a steaming kettle of soup and a salad bar,” labeled the camp “comfy.” Some prosecutors agree with that label and argue that the institution’s seemingly permissive regime makes it difficult to get an inmate to cooperate with ongoing federal investigations. “They get up there, they see how loose it is, they see people they know, and they think, hey, I can take this,” one assistant U.S. attorney said to me recently. “We’d get a lot more help if the conditions were a lot more grim. I’d trade a sentence of three years in Cook County for ten years in Oxford any day.” Those who buy this line of reasoning tend to refer to the Oxford camp, and others of its ilk, as “Club Fed.”
+In separate interviews this summer, two former inmates and the camp’s supervisor presented a different view of life in the camp. Their stories follow.
+Charles Stewart came to Oxford in March 1985, two months before the camp opened, and he has been overseeing operations there ever since. He’s 44 and wears gold wire-rimmed glasses; there is something about his appearance and demeanor that makes his official title seem appropriate: he is called “administrator,” not “warden.” His office is decorated, like the rest of the camp, in spartan and unremarkable detail.
+“We’re the smallest camp in the bureau,” he told me. “We average 145 to 150 prisoners, but we’ve gone as high as 176. The camp was built for 104, for two men to a room. Today we have 143. It’s not as overcrowded as most camps. The general public thinks that most of the inmates are businessmen. In fact, 50 percent are drug abusers. The majority of the inmates, maybe about 55 percent, are blue-collar.”
+A profile of camp inmates, dated April 7, 1988, reported that 50 percent were in for drug offenses, 17 percent were in for fraud, 7 percent for theft, and 3 percent or less had embezzled money or committed robbery, forgery, income-tax violations, or firearms offenses. (12.8 percent had committed “other federal criminal violations” and 1.9 percent had committed offenses on government property.) The report went on to say that on that date the camp’s population was 20 percent black and 80 percent white. (The 80 percent included 7 percent Hispanic and one man of Japanese descent.) The men ranged in age from 20 to 70, with 88 percent over 30.
+“You’d have a younger population inside other places,” Stewart said. “It’s the older semiprofessional who commits these kinds of crimes. We get some guys doing six months and others doing up to ten years, but the average sentence is about a year. We don’t have any violence. We’ve had no rapes. You just don’t have that type of inmate here. They’re weeded out for a history of violence, for escapes, for sexual assaults, and for failure to report for trial or sentencing. We’ve never had an inmate assault a staff member. We’ve had a few fights between inmates amounting to one or two blows, but that’s all.”
+An inmate who gets into a fight is transferred to a security-level-two institution–a prison with fences, more rules and regulations, and less freedom of movement.
+“We’ve had one walkaway,” Stewart told me, “a guy who was in on a drug-offense charge from Milwaukee. As far as I know he’s never been caught. If you’d taken a poll that day, he’d have come in as least likely to walk away. He surprised everyone. He’s the only one we’ve had in three years. It’s a ridiculous offense. The marshals find 99 percent of escapees because eventually they all go home. Then they get two to five years added on to their sentence.”
+Stewart bristled when I brought up the news coverage of the camp. “It paints us as coddling inmates,” he said, “and it feeds the hysteria of the population that we are too soft on criminals. I think it’s a cheap shot. First of all, from a taxpayers’ point of view, it’s very economical to run these camps. If you housed 140 of these men in the prison it would be very expensive, you’d have to increase security staff operations, maintain the fence.
+“Secondly, I think you ought to treat an inmate with as much trust and respect as he can be responsible for. These guys have demonstrated on the street that you can put them in an environment that is less damaging to them, and that’s better for them and for the staff. This is a more normal atmosphere. At higher level institutions, they’d have more people telling them what to do more often. Here they have a chance to demonstrate more responsible behavior.
+“Here the inmate’s primary burden is leaving his family, leaving his home, being away from his wife, his kids, his job, his community. Some of the Greylord types had a high social standing within their community, so it is more of a letdown for them to go to prison. In terms of their reputation, they have more to lose. In the end, I think it may hurt a judge more than a carpenter. A carpenter or a plumber, when they get out, they get a job through the union, they don’t lose their license. A lawyer, he loses his license, his whole means of support. An accountant, sometimes he’s not allowed to handle funds anymore. A realtor, you can be cut off from certain jobs. An insurance salesman may find it hard to get his business back.”
+Stewart told me that until recently the camp had offered vocational training programs in both sewage treatment and powerhouse maintenance. Both programs were AFL-CIO apprenticeships, programs that demanded 3,000 hours of on-the-job training as well as classroom work. Stewart says that the few inmates who were inside for long enough to complete the programs weren’t interested, and so the programs have been terminated. The UNICOR factory offers certification as a solderer, however, so an inmate can leave the camp with a marketable skill.
+The camp also offers GED classes, and occasionally there are nonaccredited classes offered through the University of Wisconsin at Baraboo. The university requires a minimum number of students, however, before it will provide a teacher, and given the small population and the short sentences being served, it is rare that a large enough group is assembled for a class. In addition, since prisoners get no discount, there is the problem of tuition. The nearby prison has a far better educational program and a better library, but the population of the prison and the camp are not allowed to mix. “If campers went into the main facility,” Stewart says, “there would be a greater risk of the introduction of contraband.”
+The camp does offer a drug-abuse program, an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter, and a Bible study group. Twice a year, the camp sponsors a marriage enrichment seminar for inmates and their wives (the seminar does not include conjugal visits). Protestant and Catholic chaplains are in the camp at least once a week, and a rabbi comes up from Madison every other week. One former inmate complained to me that the camp’s psychologist was no help at all. Stewart defended the man and the help available to inmates, citing the fact that in addition to drug and alcohol counseling available within the camp, a consulting psychiatrist was available when needed. “You talk about a lawyer coming in here making a hundred thousand dollars a year, what type of psychological treatment does he need?” Stewart asked. “Generally these men functioned very well in the community and don’t need psychological or psychiatric intervention in the camp, and when they do, they get it.”
+Stewart is proud of his facility, and its operation seems to have been designed to maximize efficiency. Only one guard is present on each shift, and the entire administration takes place in three offices that take up a total area of about 40 square feet. The chapel doubles as a room for AA and drug-abuse programs. Three televisions serve the entire population. The library is small and unimpressive; it consists of basic law books and paperback novels of no great quality. On paper, the inmates’ gym sounds impressive: they can lift weights, work out with Nautilus equipment, punch a heavy bag, or play pool, ping-pong, handball, and half-court basketball. In fact, however, the gym is entirely too small to support all of those activities. Handball and basketball players cannot work out simultaneously, as their courts overlap, and I imagined that the noise level at peak activity time must be immense. Stewart admitted that the camp’s acoustics in general were terrible.
+The inmates’ rooms have neither bars nor doors; they are functional, spare, and hard. Each has two sets of bunk beds, two desks, and four lockers. The desks are minuscule, about one foot deep and two feet wide. The lockers contain the prisoner’s allotment of clothes: one shirt, one pair of pants, a tie, a sport jacket, and a set of workout gear, all of which can be worn when the inmate is not working at his daily job. Above each bed is a bulletin board; some hold family snapshots, while others feature clippings from Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue. Stewart told me the pinups are regulated: bikinis are allowed, but exposed breasts and pubic hair are forbidden.
+The arts-and-crafts equipment allows inmates to paint, crochet, or to work with leather or ceramics. The ceramics room was full of inmate-produced dogs, unicorns, cookie jars, chess pieces, and beer mugs; as Stewart and I stood in it, a man wearing a “Gold’s Gym” T-shirt and a weight lifter’s belt came in to examine his work. Stewart had been telling me that the ceramics room was well used, that the men made gifts for their wives and children, and the weight lifter verified this. “Ceramics is really popular,” he said. “Like on the leatherwork, you make a belt and a wallet, then what’re you gonna do? Here you can do all kinds of things.”
+The inmates are assigned to job crews in landscaping, sewage treatment, the powerhouse, the kitchen, or in the UNICOR factory. The best paid jobs are in the factory: a man starts at 22 cents an hour and works his way up to $1.10, plus, of course, room and board.
+All in all, the camp is clean and well kept, but its cement-block architecture left me feeling that living there would be like being incarcerated in a high school cafeteria. I imagined being a judge accustomed to having a big house, a full liquor cabinet, a cleaning woman, and a new Cadillac every year; someone used to spending Saturdays on the golf course and to having the power to decide people’s fates and to award millions of dollars in damages. You arrive in Oxford and not only do you have no car, but your sentence is so long that you’ll have to retake the driver’s test when you get out. You have one set of greens, one shirt, one tie, one suit. You do your own laundry. You work on an assembly line at a soldering plant. You eat cafeteria food. You have a choice of iced tea or coffee and 20 minutes to eat before the next shift of inmates arrives to eat. Your biggest decision is whether to take a walk, watch TV, or maybe make a nice cookie jar for the wife. No, made a cookie jar last week. Make a unicorn this time.
+It sounds like hell to me.
+A few days before I met Stewart I talked to a former inmate I’ll call George. George had gone to Oxford as a white-collar offender and he agreed to talk with me as a favor to a mutual friend and only if I would agree to conceal his identity. We met at a coffee shop, and he took a seat near a window, as far as he could get from the next table, and would not allow me to tape our conversation.
+“Your first day in jail you don’t know anyone. You don’t know who to sit with. You don’t know what you’re doing. It’s the hardest day of your life. The first time a guard calls you ‘inmate,’ that really hits you. Eventually you fit in. The camp is divided into the snitches and the nonsnitches. I’d say about half to 80 percent of the guys had cooperated [with authorities].
+“Some of the Greylord guys who cooperated got a hard time. I heard about a Greylord lawyer, he wouldn’t do bench presses with certain guys around. He thought they might come over and put 250 pounds on him and he’d be crushed. A couple guys maintained they were hit men, they could get you on the outside. There was a story about another Greylord lawyer who was playing softball his first day, and he was pitching, and the other team was harassing him and kept trying to hit the ball right at him, trying to hurt him. They did that to guys playing flag football, too, try to hurt them.
+“One of the judges never talked to any of the guys who had cooperated. A guy came up to him and said ‘I’d like to talk to you,’ and he said, ‘You’re responsible for killing Judge Rosin and putting so-and-so in jail. Don’t ever talk to me.’ [Judge Allen Rosin committed suicide on the day he was to be indicted on Greylord charges.] This judge hung around with the OC [organized crime] people. The Italians couldn’t understand the cooperation thing at all. ‘If somebody did that in our group,’ they said, ‘they’d go down for the count.’
+“A lot of guys won’t say what they’re in for. One guy said he was a fireman but everybody knew he was a snitch cop from Philadelphia. You have these pet guys, they have access to the files at night. Some inmates can find out anything about you. The file control is too loose. And the guards, I wasn’t friendly with them. They’re always looking for information. They’re rural people, paid only about eight bucks an hour.” [Stewart claims that no inmate ever has access to the files and that file-room security procedures are very strict.]
+“Maybe 30 percent of the guys were Latinos–Colombians, Mexicans, all drug dealers. No problem. They worked out, kept to themselves. There were a couple of Medicaid-fraud doctors, a lot of pharmacists, some bankers and stockbrokers. About 15 percent of the guys were Jewish, some of them ate kosher food, and they had a special cabinet in the kitchen.
+“Everybody has different ways to deal with time. Some guys get religion. It’s a real phenomenon, and it would surprise you, the guys who turn that way. Maybe they don’t have time to think about it on the outside. Once you’re in there, you’ve got all kinds of time to think. There’s nothing to do but work or work out. Some guys spend all their time listening to the radio or watching TV. I knew a guy who slept all the time. He had this attitude that for every hour you sleep, you cheat the government of the time. Another guy, he played his radio all night. You’re supposed to have headphones, but it’s not enforced. His roommates put up with it, didn’t complain. You’d look dumb for doing that. It’s one thing to cooperate with the government on the outside, but a snitch on the inside, now that’s a snitch.
+“You can walk and walk around that track, and you can see the woods the whole time, and there’s the temptation to walk into them–not to run away, but just to be in the woods. But you can’t. There are stories about guys who snuck off and met their girlfriends in the woods, and they got in trouble and got sent to the ‘hole.’ You wonder whether those stories are true or if they’re made up by the guards to keep you from sneaking off. [Being sent to “the hole” here means being sent up to the prison and being confined in a typical cell there for about 22 hours a day. The inmate may have a roommate and is allowed to have a radio and books.]
+“They open all your mail except letters from your lawyer. They have these military-type inspections every once in a while; they search your locker. A lot of guys don’t lock their locker so they’d be in a better legal position if somebody planted something in it. If a guard thought you were a troublemaker or if another guy didn’t like you, they could set you up.
+“You can’t have any green money. They caught a guy with it when I was there and put him in the hole. [Paper money is forbidden, Stewart says, because it can facilitate corruption. He points out that a hundred-dollar bill is easily concealed and could be used to purchase drugs, but that the transaction is much more difficult if consumer and seller have to exchange a hundred dollars in quarters.] The maximum amount you can have in your locker is $10 a week, in quarters, nickels, and dimes. You can spend it in the food machines. The machines sell Dannon yogurt, salads, fresh fruit, canned pop, and candy. You have commissary once a week, you can buy soap, shampoo, cigarettes; some food like ice cream, fruit, jalapeno peppers.
+“You don’t have many pleasures. There’s food, cigarettes, and TV. There’s three TV rooms. The tougher guys often control what you watch. The Bear-Packer games are very big, right up there with the Super Bowl and the World Series. The food varies, depending on who’s working in the kitchen. It’s good if a guy takes pride in it. If he just sees it as his job, it’s not very good. One guy I remember put out a salad bar you couldn’t match in Lincoln Park. Guys sneak food out of the kitchen; they take out hamburgers and sell them at night or give them away for favors. Like there were guys who for two bucks would clean your room for room inspection, move the beds out, wash and wax the floors. They might do it for free in exchange for a hamburger. But it wasn’t any big deal, it wasn’t like Lexington. We heard a rumor that at Lexington guys were tryin’ to make big money, selling hamburgers for a buck and a half.
+“You hear rumors about other places because you get guys passing through. There’s a bus that makes the circuit of federal prisons, moving guys. Maybe they’re transporting a guy from the MCC [in Chicago] to Duluth; they might bring him here for a night on the way. Guys who are inside for a long time, Tuesday and Thursday were big days because their codefendants might come through, they get the news from other places. So much gossip goes on. Gossip and rumor prevail in the camp.
+“No matter how decent the living accommodations it’s still prison. You know that if your father has a heart attack and dies, you won’t get out even to go to the funeral. If your kid falls down and breaks a leg you can’t be there to comfort him. When you first get there, you want to have visits every weekend, and then three o’clock rolls around on Sunday and they have to leave, and that separation is so hard, you realize that it’s harder even than not seeing them. Sunday nights are very depressing times there. After a while you say, ‘Make it every other week’ or ‘every three weeks,’ and guys who are there longer stretch it out even more.
+“You get close to guys inside. You exchange addresses and you say you’ll see each other outside. But when you get out, you don’t want to associate with them. I don’t even want to think about my life there anymore.”
+The second inmate I interviewed had spent time at both Duluth and Oxford for drug-related offenses. He also requested anonymity.
+“Oxford was heaven compared to Duluth. Just the size has a lot to do with it. Duluth had 800-some guys. Oxford had 150 to 170. At one time it was said that Duluth was great, ‘They got a bowling alley, handball, racquetball.’ There is more to do there, but it’s so overcrowded it’s hard to do anything. Like bowling–how you gonna bowl when there’s 800 guys? At Oxford, we had almost unlimited access to phones; you had to call collect, and the calls were monitored, but at Duluth you had only 15 minutes a day, 18 phones for 800 guys. Some guys, all they did in their spare time was worry about making a call. You could spend an hour, hour and a half, waiting in line.
+“Oxford was as tame as you could get. Most of the long-sentence people at Oxford were judges and lawyers, and the others were doing maybe 12 months to two years, so they weren’t going to mess up. There’s a little stealing once in a while, but most of the guys were pretty good. There’s not too many hard core of anything there. But in Duluth you had a lot of D.C. blacks, because Washington is under federal jurisdiction. They can be in for anything. They fight all the time. There were a lot of hard-core drug people there, a lot of mafia. At Oxford, you had a few guys who would use drugs, smuggle it in, but in Duluth there was stuff all over the place. It was like a corner drugstore. And there were shakedowns, you had to stay out of certain people’s way. At Oxford, security was minimal, but it was starting to tighten up when I left, probably due to a change of warden at the main institution and because a few people were caught doing a couple different things. Policy changes quickly.
+“Your first two, three weeks inside you don’t know where you’re at. You live with hope that the parole board will release you, that you’ll get out on a rule 35. [Under the provisions of rule 35, an inmate can petition to have his sentence reduced; basically the rule constitutes a last-ditch plea for mercy that occurs within 120 days of sentencing.] None of that works, but you don’t know that. You live with the thought that you’re gonna get your sentence cut. When all that doesn’t go through, you crash. You know you’re gonna do so many years.
+“We started a class there for incoming inmates on how to get adjusted, what to expect at that institution, what to look for in parole, how to approach rule 35. Most of the defense attorneys don’t tell them that the parole board is a joke. A lot of them get better advice in jail. A guy comes in with a three-year sentence, and he thinks he’s gonna do a year. Well, what are your guidelines? You look at the guidelines and you can see he’s gonna do maybe 24 months. A lot of these guys had no idea. They’re telling their families they’ll be in for a year and now it’s twice that. One guy on the softball team, he thought he’d be out in a year. It looked to me like it would be double that. And his wife starts seeing another guy.
+“Some of the minds at Oxford are unbelievable. There’s more intelligence there than in probably any three counties in Wisconsin. You can have a question on stocks, bonds, law, medicine, there’s somebody who knows the answer. You got carpenters, tradesmen. You can’t believe the guys who are there. It’s too bad they can’t harness some of that. Some of those people could come up with some great things. Instead, the system just wants punishment. Maybe it’s right, I don’t know. I just think that if you do something wrong, you owe something back and most of these guys are willing to do it. That’s the shame of it. They’d do anything you want. If there was a bridge washed out, guys could put it back together. We offered to go into a high school and do a symposium on drug abuse. They wouldn’t let us. Who knows better than us? And these people were very learned people, they could get a point across to some of these kids. They wouldn’t let us do it.
+“We had some parties for underprivileged kids. We used to have these religious furloughs–you go and fix up low-income homes in Milwaukee–but then the new warden stopped it. It wasn’t like you were turned loose on Milwaukee. Some church or religious group had to sponsor you, you had to stay with a family, and the only ones who were eligible to do it were guys who were about to get out anyway. [Stewart says that the program and others like it raised liability questions (in the event of injury on the job, who is responsible?), and so those programs have been suspended by the Bureau of Prisons.]
+“Stewart is not a bad guy. He had an open-door policy, and to some extent he recognized the level of the people there. You might not get what you wanted, but at least he listened to your point of view. He’s pretty understanding and fair within the system itself, but the system itself is no good.
+“What the U.S. attorney wants is not cooperation. They don’t want to know what you know, they want to browbeat you into making their case for them against someone else. They wanted me to say what this guy was thinking. I said, ‘I can’t say this about the guy, I really don’t know.’ I saw people who testified in my case, they had given a written statement that said little or nothing, were threatened by the prosecutor and ended up saying what he wanted them to say. They want to put everyone away. But those people are gonna get out, and we will have shown them no mercy, and that will come back to haunt us. That guy who walked away from Oxford, he was a Colombian serving a ten-year sentence. Then they give him another and wonder why he left.
+“When you get there, it looks like you can last, like maybe you can hold a family together, but once you hit two years, it’s gone. I knew so many people whose families left them. Wife left. Every day. Countless. We had classes in basic marital problems. It started at basic, how to relate, how to communicate, and it went all the way down to if you get served with divorce papers, what do you do?
+“Some of the guys, when they get out, will definitely go back into crime. The system takes everything away before you go in, leaves you a pauper. You spend your time in jail and it’s hard to learn a trade in there. You come out and you are what you were when you went in. Maybe you’re better read. We organized some get-your-head-together courses. Because when you come out, nobody is gonna hire you. Some guys would leave, they’d saved two, three, four grand. How long is that gonna last? Some of the guys get out and they haven’t saved a dime. We had some wealthier people from Chicago, they had a little money, so it might be easier for them to hold it together. The mafia people in Duluth, some of them were millionaires whose families were taken care of. Most others, the government had broken them. The main question is do you put down on the application that you were in prison? A guy who is in for four or five years has to, but we say on the initial resume not to put it down. You’ve got to get the first interview so they see you’re a decent guy. Most times if you don’t have a friend who will hire you, you can’t find a job.
+“Inside, everybody thinks they got screwed. Everybody thinks they got eaten up by the system. You can’t dwell on it. You can die in there or you can try to make something of it. The guilt can take over, but I just never allowed it to happen. There was not a night I had free. I played everything. I read four or five books a week. I sent out for a correspondence course. Nobody committed suicide when I was there. They’d just sleep their life away. Just almost die. Lay there day after day. They have a psychologist. He’s no help. And when you get out there’s no help. The halfway house is a dump. I wouldn’t room and board my dog there. In my halfway house, a lot of people who’d been away from drugs for years went back to them immediately.
+“A lot of guys are more open on the inside. A lot of times there’s nobody at home anymore so they have nobody else to talk to. Some of the people were extraordinary. There’s moments I’ll never forget, special times, a real closeness. You really come to grips with yourself and what’s important in your life.
+“The worst thing for me was the guilt that I had to live with daily about what I did to my children, the ridicule they had to face alone, everything they had to endure without me.
+“The best thing was that the priorities in my life are finally in order. Money is not the number-one priority. My family comes first. My God is primary in my life.
+“I don’t think that Oxford is the country club that it is portrayed to be in the Tribune. I don’t think that when you’re confined you can compare it to a country club. Your self-esteem is gone. No one wants to sleep 24 hours a day or play catch with a softball when you’re 40 years old. It’s a nice brick building, a reasonable facility. It’s comfortable in that you aren’t getting beaten or raped. But try to live there. The problem with the news coverage is that they always portray it aesthetically. They overlook the fact that the guy’s life is destroyed. Sometimes living in a nice brick jail or an old wooden one doesn’t matter. You go through your own hell no matter where you are.
+“When you finally get out, until the minute you get out down the road, you don’t believe you’re gonna go. I don’t know how to explain it. It drives you crazy to think about it, you’re afraid they’ll take it away. You live with a lot of rejections, you don’t get anything, no breaks, you’re due for a furlough and they cancel it, so you get conditioned to that. You get very pessimistic.
+“They take you to town in a van. I was numb. I figured everyone knew where I came from. You’re kind of lost, scared to death you’re gonna miss this bus. You’ve been living a very regimented life, you’ve got to be everywhere on time in prison, so you think if you’re late, they’ll take you back. I wouldn’t put the ticket in my pocket because I was afraid I would lose it.
+“You want to eat something because you haven’t had outside food, but you don’t know what to eat first. Everything looks different, everything–the trees, the town–you don’t see anything like that, you forget. You’re standing in this little town at a combination bus station, gas station, restaurant, coffee shop, convenience store, and I kept checking to make sure I had the right ticket. The bus is late and I’m scared.
+“You can’t wait to see your family and your home, but you don’t know about other people. You’re afraid to see certain people. You think you can’t blend in anymore. I think it’s best to go somewhere else and start over. It takes a long time to accept yourself. I don’t know if you really ever do.”
+Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photos/Jon Randolph.
+Mr Kumar's meeting with PM Modi on Friday was his first after he dumped his alliance partners, Lalu Yadav and Congress , last month and returned as Chief Minister within hours, this time with support from the BJP. Calling the move a "necessary step", Narayan said that if a person who is a leader indulges in anti-party activities, it must be condemned. "Kumar's decision to align with the BJP is unacceptable", Ansari said.
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+Eby hailed the appointment of Berger, who chaired the federal government's Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry in 1974 and two other royal commissions on family law and Indigenous healthcare. Heyman, whose opening remarks including acknowledging he was on the unceded homelands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam and Squamish First Nations, said the government will fulfill its duty of "meaningful consultation" with First Nations.
+He said Japan took note of the adoption of the framework of the Code of Conduct (COC) in South China Sea by ASEAN and Chinese foreign ministers ..
+Elon corrected a statement he made at the event that Tesla had booked over 500,000 net reservations for the Model 3 , changing that to 455,000. The shares rose 2.5 percent to $334.06 as of 4:35 p.m. To bring the electric auto to the mainstream market, the company is planning a Model 3 production ramp: In August, 100 more of the battery-sedan will be built, followed by 150 in September.
+Michael Saunders and Ian McCafferty were the only members of the monetary policy committee (MPC) to vote for rise in interest rates from their current 0.25% level. One of those voting for higher rates, Kristin Forbes, has now left the Committee, and her replacement, Silvana Tenreyro, is likely to be a dove, having voiced her concerns about a balance between growing inflation and weaker output growth.
+The auto sub-index of NSE, Nifty Auto, rose 1.53 per cent, led by gains in Eicher Motors , Hero MotoCorp, Mahindra & Mahindra and Maruti Suzuki . Shares of Country's largest lender, State Bank of India , was the top gainer by climbing 4.46 per cent after it slashed interest rate on savings account deposits by 50 bps to 3.5 per cent on balance of up to Rs 1 crore.
+The White House had criticized attempts to limit the president's sanctions powers, but the legislation's solid bipartisan support may be forcing the president's hand. Corker predicted on Wednesday that the bill would become law quickly despite the administration's concerns. Russian Federation has told the United States to cut the number of its diplomats in the country and stop using embassy storage facilities in the capital, Moscow, following the approval by the US Congress of a sanctions ...
+The week ahead will feature rising temperatures, humidity, and thunderstorm chances . Tonight partly cloudy with lows in the low-mid 60s. Highs crest into the mid 80s today with sea breezes developing at the coast. Tuesday will have fewer clouds and be a little warmer with highs in the upper 80s. High: mid-upper 80s. For this reason, high temperatures will hold in the lower 80s in most places and there won't be much in the way of sunshine.
+Starbucks announced on Thursday that all 379 Teavana stores - which are primarily based in malls across the country - have been "underperforming". Starbucks brought the Teavana brand into Starbucks locations, held on to Teavana's own retail stores, and even opened a few high-end Teavana Fine Teas Tea Bars.
+But they say Foxconn could have a hard time filling all of those positions. "It's bigger than anything we've done before", Walker said of the incentives. The company said it plans to invest $10 billion over four years to build a 20-million square foot plant that could eventually employ up to 13,000. In picking Wisconsin , Foxconn would appear to be giving a victory to both Trump and the state's Republican governor, Scott Walker , who is up for re-election next year.
+This could include gaining insight on measures such as retrofitting, subsidised auto club membership, exemptions from any vehicle restrictions, and a targeted scrappage scheme for auto and van drivers. Swedish carmaker Volvo has said all new models will have an electric motor from the same year. To date in 2017, it has sold circa 15,000 Ioniq vehicles in Europe and 2500 in the UK.
+Morgan Stanley initiated coverage on General Motors in a research report on Wednesday, June 28th. They issued a "market perform" rating for the company. Stockholders of record on Monday, July 24th will be paid a $0.15 dividend. Perkins Coie Trust reported 0% of its portfolio in Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F).
+U.S. President Donald Trump's failure to push through his promised corporate tax cuts and other pro-business legislation has hindered U.S. growth prospects, according to the outlook. It kept its 2018 growth estimate for these five countries at 5.2%. "Our projections for long-term British growth are actually based on a pretty optimistic assessment of how the negotiations are likely to turn out, so if things are worse than that it will turn out to be correspondingly worse for the British ...
+The company now has a GBX 370.00 PT on shares. Farr Miller & Washington Limited Liability Corporation Dc owns 5,218 shares or 0.04% of their USA portfolio. It has a 22.47 P/E ratio. It focuses on providing acute care and multidisciplinary healthcare services. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have given a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the company.
+Shares of the United States conglomerate fell more than 4% in morning trade after it said profits fell 57% to $1.2bn, as sales in its oil and gas, transportation and lighting divisions fell. "We've reduced our Industrial structural costs year to date by $670 million and we are on track to meet or exceed our $1 billion cost reduction target for the year", Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said in an earnings release.
+Lawrence E. Kurzius, chairman, president and CEO of McCormick, said RB Foods' focus on creating products with simple, high-quality ingredients makes it a ideal match for McCormick as it continues to capitalize on the growing consumer interest in healthy, flavorful eating.
+At least $5 billion in private troubled student loans may be dismissed because paperwork that proves loan ownership is missing. He is Donald Uderitz, the founder of Vantage Capital Group , a private equity firm in Delray Beach, Fla., that is the beneficial owner of National Collegiate's trusts.
+Dominion Diamond Corporation (NYSE:DDC)'s stock on Monday traded at beginning with a price of $14.01 and when day-trade ended the stock finally popped up 4.38% to reach at $14.07. The company have shares float of 77.97 million. Next quarter's EPS is expected be $0.34 and the next full year EPS is projected to be $1.21. Having a peek at growth estimates of the company, Dominion Diamond Corp (NYSE:DDC) has current quarter growth estimates of 261.5% however it has 666.7% estimations over ...
+Two ballot boxes along with ballot papers in two colours arrived in Bengaluru at the Vidhana Soudha on Sunday from Delhi . Ram Nath Kovind , the Governor of Bihar and Meira Kumar , the former Speaker of Lok Sabha were announced as candidates of NDA and Opposition respectively.
+The unchanged reading followed a drop of 0.1 percent in May, the Labor Department said Friday. Core CPI y/y came out at 1.7% as expected but all the other data figures disappointed. The retrenchment by Yellen has put markets on edge and as a result there will be much focus on the release of Core and Headline Inflation (CPI) and Retail Sales data this afternoon at 13.30 BST.
+American Airlines said it would also end a marketing agreement with Etihad Airways PJSC. American Airlines and its US peers have accused the highly subsidized Middle Eastern carriers Etihad, Emirates and Qatar, known as the ME3, of violating the Open Skies accords in their rapid expansion in America.
+Internet heavyweights Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Netflix are joining at least 80,000 other websites to protest the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) proposed rollback of network neutrality ( net neutrality ) today, urging users to send comments to the regulatory agency demanding net neutrality's preservation.
+Honda says a man died in June 2016 when an inflator ruptured while he was working inside a 2001 Honda Accord using a hammer. Ramon V. Kuffo, 88, who did not own the vehicle but had taken apart the center console with the ignition switch on, died of head trauma a day after a neighbor found him bleeding from the face in the passenger seat of the auto parked in his yard near Miami, Fla., reports the Detroit News .
+A man was hospitalized Sunday after what is being called the first recorded shark attack off Haulover Beach in northern Miami-Dade County, WPLG reports . "I just got to the beach, I was going to jump into the water and I heard all the whistles trying to get everyone out of the water", said Donovan Cecil.
+Wani's father today appealed for peace and harmony in Kashmir on the death anniversary of his son. Separatist leaders - most of whom were either detained or confined to their homes in the run-up to the anniversary - had called for a week of protests from Saturday to mark Wani s death.
+California-based Tesla now sells only two luxury electric vehicles: the " Model S" sedan and the " Model X" SUV whose base price starts at around $80,000. the Maximum speed of acceleration it is limited to only 97 kmh Reaches the upper limit of the machine for 6 seconds. The model is described as sporty.
+The stock fell about 8 percent on Wednesday to 3.73 pounds ($4.82) per share. Worldpay Shareholders would also be entitled to a cash dividend of 5 pence per Worldpay share, in place of any anticipated interim dividend payment. Morgan Stanley advised Vantiv, while Goldman Sachs advised Worldpay. Set up in 1989, it was part of Royal Bank of Scotland before being spun out to private equity ownership and then floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2015 with a valuation of £4.8bn.
+Meanwhile, several other participants "expressed concern that a substantial and sustained unemployment undershooting might make the economy more likely to experience financial instability or could lead to a sharp rise in inflation". Fed policymakers voted 8-1 in June to nudge up the benchmark federal funds rate. The minutes also showed central bankers divided over precisely when to begin reducing the Fed's massive balance sheet, a task that they have indicated they will begin before the end ...
+The report showed that production level index for manufacturing sector grew for the fourth consecutive month in June 2017. We're getting a healthcheck on the world's factories today, as data firms release their monthly Purchasing Managers Index reports.
+That was the key thing. "We're also very happy to take some pretty good gains in the starts and I think that was the main difference today". Underfunded Team New Zealand nearly folded after that debacle, but has bounced back with a remarkably fast boat design that includes a radical cycling grinding system.
+It has a 27.34 P/E ratio. Return on assets, on the other hand, measures a company's ability to turn assets such as cash, buildings, equipment, or inventory into more assets. KeyBanc Capital Markets has "Overweight" rating and $47 target. Investors sentiment decreased to 0.93 in Q4 2016. CDR's value Change from Open was at -1.67% with a Gap of 0.00%.
+Michew detained the woman and subdued her until the plane was able to land safely. Passenger Henrietta Mokwuah told news station ABC13 that after pacing up and down the aisle, the woman "tore off a piece" of the emergency exit door. The Southwest flight from Los Angeles was delayed in Corpus Christi for about two and a half hours before touching down in Houston . Passengers who witnessed the incident were held aside for questioning, while others waited in the airport ate Domino's ...
+Whole Foods Market will continue to operate stores under the Whole Foods Market brand. "Grocery chains like Kroger , Target and Wal-Mart are not ready for what Amazon brings to the table with the new and improved Whole Foods ". Shares of Whole Foods shot up 29 percent and closed at $42.68 amid the news. In the first quarter this year, food-and-drink sales at American brick-and-mortar stores were down by nearly $3 billion even as grocery trips rose, according to market research ...
+Amazon's Prime Wardrobe will be available to Prime members at no extra charge and gives customers one week to decide whether they like what they ordered. Now, it is lowering the barrier to customers trying out clothing. #Amazon Prime users can choose a certain number of clothes they wish to buy and then once they have been shipped, they can try them on to see if they fit well.
+The AVA Mentor of the Year award recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary effort to nurture the vaulting community in many different ways. Click here for the Mentor of the Year nomination form. 2014 submissions are due by 12/31/14 to Kathy Smith via email at rockymtnhorsepk@yahoo.com or mailed to 9015 Cooper Creek Ct., Parker, CO 80138.
+Greta Shryock, Cedar Crest, New Mexico
+Greta Shryock currently vaults, lunges, and coaches with New Mexico's Vaulters del Sol. She began her journey with Albuquerque Vaulters and has been a member of the AVA's Friendship Team since 1996. Greta is a natural coach who inspires her vaulters to constantly exceed expectations. Her love for vaulting is shared through national and international clinics, as well as work at a local hippotherapy center. She brought the entire audience to tears vaulting with one of her handicapped students at the 2013 AVA Region IV Regional championships. Greta's competent and gracious style is an inspiration to others and she truly deserves the honor of being the AVA's 2013 Mentor of the Year!
+Isabelle Parker, Woodside, California
+Head coach of Woodside Vaulters for more than two decades, Isabelle Parker, is the epitome of "Mentor of the Year," according to those around her. Isabelle cares deeply about the successes of her students and friends both in and out of the vaulting ring. She does this through love. Love of vaulting, giving, teaching, achieving, sharing, mentoring, discipline and commitment. The most impressive thing about Isabelle is that while she is very serious about coaching vaulting, she always has the whole athlete's best interests in mind, not just the goal of winning. Isabelle embodies the importance of working hard in order to succeed. Many of her vaulters grow up to be successful adults (teachers, doctors, lawyers and more), which can be directly attributable to her outstanding guidance and inspiration!
+Kelley Holly, Petaluma, California
+Kelley started riding at age 3 and has been involved with many different disciplines. She has competed in Saddle Seat, Western, Hunter Jumpers and Basic Dressage. After high school she attended UC Davis and actively participated in their equestrian center's program as a rider and instructor. Kelley revitalized the UC Davis vaulting team and continued to work on her own vaulting team at home on the weekends. She holds all medals up through and including a Gold. As for her education, she earned a masters in education and administration, Certification as CHA master instructor (English and Western), USEF and AVA "r" judge and is currently waiting to be approved as a steward at the FEI level. She is truly an educator of horses and vaulters.
+Patti Skipton, Warm Beach, Washington
+Patti's vaulters can be found on the top of the regional and national podiums, but they can also be found cheering on their competition, helping set up before competitions and helping break things down after, helping with the horses and younger vaulters, and generally just being the nicest bunch of vaulters you're likely to meet. She has provided her horses and training to vaulters from around the world and has, almost single handedly, doubled the number of vaulters in the Pacific Northwest. Kind and nurturing, Patti encourages vaulters to meet her high standards with compassionate hearts and sound minds.
+Jennifer Williams (AVA r), Laurel, MD
+Jen started vaulting at the age of 12 or 13 in 1983 under the coaching of Carol Fuller. In 1987 Jen was basing and ìradiating confidenceî to those who depended on her to keep them safe. In 1988 she earned her gold medal and was off of college at Virginia Tech. Jen vaulted in the first recognized competition on the East Coast. When she returned back to the Great Falls Area after college she became a coach and lounger for Great Falls, exhibiting great patience, kindness and encouragement to all. In 1998 at the age of 28, Jen became an AVA small r judge. She has served the AVA as a Board Member, Regional Supervisor, and General Secretary. Her vaulters, parents and the rest of us in the vaulting community as well as her horses Murphy know that when she is coaching, judging or at the end of the longe line, all is well.
+Marianne Rose, Saratoga, CA
+Marianne started in the sport in 1979 as a mom. Her daughter vaulted for about six years and moved on but Marianne stayed on. She started by helping with horse grooming, moved on to longeing and then took on some coaching duties. With her best equine partner, Pegasus, she coached thousands of beginners. She worked with Judy Bryer to implement the first AVA scoring computer program. As a graphic artist she designed the AVA logo, designed and produced many of the AVA publications including flyers and books and she has produced and edited Vaulting World magazine for a decade or so. She also manages competitions (CVI*,** Saratoga, Nationals, Garrods, etc.) and helps with other local fests. A former VP Promotions/Publicity and VP Competitions, she continues to serve on the AVA Board.
+Connie Geisler, Diamond Bar, CA
+We start out "just being a MOM" of a vaulter. It is not long before we find ourselves immersed in the sport and it takes us in directions that we never imagined. Connie Geisler has been around the vaulting community for about 24 years. She took her daughter, Pam, to an event at the local barn and discovered vaulting. Within a year she was longeing for a tiny tot team of boys including her younger son, Kenny. Her children continued to vault and showed talent as a rising stars. When their club closed, Connie found herself as the coach and longeur of a brand new club: Diamond Bar Country Vaulters. She has referred to herself as the coach/longeur/horse owner/trainer/manager/groom/mucker/chief cook and bottlewasher. She extends herself to other clubs and drives many composite teams of all levels. She is a mentor to her vaulters, her horses and the AVA. Carol Beutler
+"Only those who dare to go to far know how far they really can go." Connie Geisler
+Christine Appel-Bucierka, Chantilly, VA
+Christine attended her first Nationals in 1982 as a team alternate. She organized and ran the first AVA recognized competition on the East Coast. She has been a major contributor to the sport of vaulting in Region IX by putting together composite teams, presenting vaulting at equestrian events, doing demonstrations, and grooming new clubs, coaches and vaulters. Throughout the years she has taught literally hundreds of vaulters. "Chris has a way of making children feel comfortable with all the vaulters as well as the horses." Tom Haynie "Vaulting became the focus of my life through Topaz, my first horse, and I don't think I'll ever retire. There isn't anything in my life that brings me so much joy." Christine Appel-Bucierka
+Emma Drinker, Saratoga, CA
+Emma began vaulting at 11 years old. By age 18 she was the National Gold Freestyle Champion. She quickly moved to helping build freestyle routines for her team mates and began coaching in earnest after college. She led her vaulters to dozens of national team and individual championships. She coached Kerith Lemon, Devon Maitozo and Megan Benjamin to multiple medals at World Vaulting Championships. Emma's horses have won many AVA Horse of the Year and Osierlea awards. She achieved AVA r status as a judge, has served on the AVA Board and provides consistant, stable leadership to the Mt. Eden Vaulting Club as head coach and longeur. "I've seen her participate at all levels of our sport - constantly working to make it better. She has the ability to always find the common ground between factions and is always available to help anyone in need with good, common sense advice." Suzanne Detol (FEI O)
+Nancy Stevens-Brown, Soquel, CA
+Since 1971 Nancy Stevens-Brown has been enthralled with vaulting. From camp, to a personal AVA Gold Medal, from special needs, to coaching the 1990 World Equestrian Games vaulting bronze medal team, for more than three decades Nancy has shown students new ways to enjoy vaulting. She continues to encourage vaulters and enthusiasts to recognize the countless creative possibilities of our ever-evolving sport. Nancy is president of the AVA, has been an active board member since the late '70s, and is the "keeper of the flame" as the AVA historian for more than a decade. As founder of Timberline Vaulters, Nancy coached and longed for one of the top clubs in US vaulting history before "retiring" in 1998 to teach clinics across the nation and encourage vaulters at every level to explore and expand the limits of our sport.
+Priscilla G. Faulkner, Covington, GA
+Priscilla G. Faulkner founded AVA's crowd-pleasing US demonstration team, the Friendship Team, in 1995. Since then, she has helped bring vaulting before thousands of new audiences in venues ranging from the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA. Priscilla also founded the Falconwood Vaulting Club in 1989 with her daughter, Priscilla B. Faulkner. A long-time AVA board member, Priscilla brings her own brand of Southern charm to the task at hand, whether it be mentoring a silver or gold level vaulter to perform, for the first time, for a crowd of 10,000, or convincing an equestrian event manager to book a vaulting demonstration before a cast of thousands, and being invited back year after year.
+Rick Hawthorne, Lake View Terrace, CA
+Rick Hawthorne is co-founder of Valley View Vaulters, the largest club in the US that works with vaulters of all ages and abilities, including those with physical/cognitive disabilities, behavioral problems and at-risk youth. He is a long-time AVA board member and special program director for the National Council for Therapeutic Vaulting with his wife, Virginia Hawthorne. Rick has coached numerous AVA national championship teams and individuals in the past 25 years, and has also coached many, many vaulters whowhile not winning national championshipsare, indeed, champions in their own right.
+Merry Cole, Albuquerque, NM
+Merry Cole brought vaulting to New Mexico in 1982 when she moved there from Virginia, where she, with the help of mentor and AVA judge Sharon Davis, started the Great Falls Pony Club Vaulting Team, the first competitive vaulting team on the East Coast. Her Albuquerque Vaulters has been an active and prolific club, spinning off additional clubs as her students grew up and moved away. An AVA board member for more than 20 years, Merry was also the Region IV supervisor and was instrumental in bringing the AVA National Championships to New Mexico in 1991the first time the event was held outside of California. The daughter of parents who started the world famous Cole Marionettes show, Merry has a circus background, and once had a dog act, a trapeze act, rode the elephant and even sold popcorn, though not all at once.
+Adrienne Stang, Saratoga, CA
+Adrienne Stang's vaulting legacy is deep and wide ranging. She founded Sundance Vaulters in 1978 and coached until 1986. During her tenure, the club consisted of 120 members, including 60 emotionally handicapped vaulters. A sought-after judge, she has officiated at nearly every AVA National Championship since the 1980s and has judged the Vaulting World Championships four times, as well as many European Championships and CVI competitions. Throughout the years, Adrienne has held a variety of important offices for the AVA, from Technical Committee chair to national office manager.
+Suzanne Detol, Cornelius, OR
+Sue Detol is a former vaulter and a serial founder of vaulting clubstwo in the 1980s and yet another, DevonWood Vaulting Club, started in 2002. She has been a mentor to vaulters, coaches, longeurs and judges for the past 20 years. An AVA judge since 1990, Sue became an FEI O judge in 2001, and is well respected in the international judging arena. She has worn many hats in the AVAhaving served on the board of directors as general secretary, executive VP, Region II supervisor, Region III supervisor, medal test secretary and technical committee chair.
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+What is “violent rhetoric”?
+As someone who teaches rhetoric, I can only say that I’ve been profoundly disappointed in the quality of the conversation about the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords. Despite all the condemnation of everyone else’s “violent rhetoric,” I’ve yet to see one post in which the term itself is defined. It seems to mean, in the current political vernacular, anything said by someone else that involves anything even remotely violent. Katrina Trinko’s attempt to tu quoque Keith Olbermann is particularly enlightening, as it describes a number of angry statements by Olbermann that are neither violent nor rhetorical, e.g.
+In 2007, Olbermann called rival network Fox News “worse than al-Qaeda … for our society” and said the channel was “as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”
+Neither of those statements are rhetorical because neither of them attempts to call its audience to action. For them to be rhetorical, as per Aristotle in On Rhetoric, they would need to be intended to persuade. Moreover, they would need to be intended to persuade a particular audience to undertake a particular action. This is the rhetorical triangle:
+Note the interconnectedness of the speaker and audience. The general problem with discussing rhetoric in the current media environment is that the particularity of the audience is absent. Anyone can read or watch or listen to anything without regard for their relation to the intended audience and without reference to the action whose commission the rhetor intends. In such a situation, it is not surprising when the mode of persuasion favored by speakers is the one that is most effectively general. To quote Aristotle again:
+The first [mode of persuasion] depends on the personal character of the speaker [ethos]; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind [pathos]; the third on the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself [logos].
+Though pathos is typically translated as an “appeal to emotion,” it is better understood as an “appeal to imagination.” Anything that stokes the imagination, be it an image or a narrative, fits the bill. It goes without saying that the majority of political rhetoric in America is, in this technical sense, pathetic. This is simply because most politicians have questionable ethos and very few have speechwriters sufficiently talented to produce persuasive logos. But it is also because most Americans are too suspicious of political motives to allow politicians to establish an ethos and too untrained in the literary arts to understand an appeal to logos..
+The intended effect of this image is not to encourage the assassination of candidates; however, the pathetic appeal being made to this particular audience. The same cannot be said of this similar map:
+Why not? Are bullseye that different from crosshairs? Of course not. However, the intended audience is: the imaginations of liberals and leftists who support a restrictive interpretation of the Second Amendment are not stoked by images of bullseyes. They generally have no pathetic investment in crossbows and so appeals of this sort are less likely to be effective than those like the one above. In terms of rhetoric, then, only the first of these two maps can be designated as “violent” because only it attempts to persuade its audience into action by stoking imaginations by referencing shooting things.*
+So now that we have something resembling a proper working definition of “violent rhetoric,” the next question is whether “violent rhetoric” like Palin’s is responsible for the assassination attempt on Gifford. The answer is that I’m not convinced.** From what I’ve read, he never expressed interest in guns until last November, so the likelihood of ads like hers stoking his imagination is slim. The more pernicious rhetoric here is the conspiratorial variety being mainstreamed by the likes of Glenn Beck: rabid and ahistorical anti-federalism feeds into the beliefs of those who believe they’re being persecuted by vast faceless conspiracies.
+*I suppose one possible objection is that shooting is not, in and of itself, a violent act, but given that it specifically links the crosshairs to candidates, I think that would be a difficult argument to make here.
+**That said, I do believe whichever party was responsible for the dismantling the mental health system—generally in the 1980s and more recently in Arizona—and consistently lobbies for fewer restrictions on the purchasing of powerful weaponry is partly culpable for what happened on Saturday.
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+In particular, epideictic rhetoric, which Aristotle named as one of the three branches of rhetoric, does not have the audience taking action as its goal. From Wikipedia:
+.”
+Have you read the book John or are you just citing wiki as a source?
+[…] much more about his character and actions than the current debate over whether he was enflamed by violent rhetoric or insane. Take, for example, this article in the Christian Science Monitor, which attempts to […]
+[…] country and the use of violent rhetoric by one of them. SEK at Lawyers, Guns and Money wrote about what violent rhetoric is, and why the use of certain imagery by the right is different than that of … and Paul Waldman at Tapped had a similar […]
+Rifle sights are not symbolically equivalent to bulleyes.
+Bullseyes have non-weapon uses, though they imply something fast with concentrated impact (ideally striking the center of the bullseye). Darts are most commonly associated with bullseye targets.
+‘Crosshairs’ have only two (similar) uses, afaik: Rifle scope sight, or bomb aiming device (I’ve only read about those, and i suspect the modern equivalent is a marker on an electronic display).
+A ‘defensive’ blog pointed out that Palin’s ‘crosshair’ is a defective representation of a scope sight in that the bisecting lines extend beyond the cylinder of the scope, and so cannot be crosshair symbols. i disagree because: The symbols *are* symbols. Rifle shooting is roughly half of Palin’s PR image.
+Crosshairs also are used in aiming a telescope (through a viewfinder). Not EVERY set of crosshairs has a violent purpose :-)
+[…] of what the people who use these terms really mean when they use them. Via the Daily Dish, I found this article at Lawyers, Guns, and Money that attempts to include the intended audience in the definition of […]
+So the point of all this is that if one agrees than a phrase or image is acceptable and if one does not agree than that phrase or image is not acceptable.
+Of course. But I guess only in America would one be so blinded by team loyalty (“our team good; your team bad”) that they could reach this conclusion.
+You can hold whatever opinion you want, sir or madame, but that does not make you correct. The fact that you are just another ignorant American who bases his view on politics solely on political team would be evidence of the opposite.
+Wow. What a brave stand. You sure showed ‘em, tiger.
+I think think this article is pretty much right. Most people are ignorant and just don’t take the time to fully understand things, and when we’re faced with something that we don’t understand we get confused or fustrated. But point blank don’t just believe what hear, find the scource or ask yourself why and get a real answer. Then you might not be as confused and you’ll feel more comfortable about the situation. Words are only as real and dangerous as we let them be.
+Is it over the top for people to say the Tea Party is made up of “terrorists” who “put a gun to the head of America” on the debt deal?…
+Yes and no. Is it over the top rhetoric? Yes. Were the tea party folks willing to default, with a possible economic cataclysm resulting? Also yes. Did they time it to be politically advantageous and to apply overt pressure on the Democrats? Also yes. C…
+[…] you well know, I’m opposed to violent rhetoric on principle and should be offended, but honestly? A second-long Easter egg that no one notices until the […]
+[…] are effective on a given audience in a particular historical situation. It’s called “the rhetorical situation” and Murdock’s defined the Republican National Convention as one in which a person of […]
+[…] are effective on a given audience in a particular historical situation. It’s called “the rhetorical situation” and Murdock’s defined the Republican National Convention as one in which a person of […]
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+Sure, because no leftist could ever potentially be bent on violence but everyone sided on the right is clearly going to shoot someone. Inane.
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+You’re protesting a bit much, Rick.
+Corporate learning and training is the function of human resource development an
+organization, its main purpose is to ensure that the capabilities and skills of employees are
+enhanced to meet the corporation’s goals. Training and learning have been defined by
+numerous authors and scholars over the years, The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary
+defines training as the process of learning the skills that one needs to do a job (Oxford,2010,
+pg. 1586). Michael Armstrong defines training as modification of behavior in a formal and
+systematic way through education and instruction, (Michael, 2003). Training can therefore be
+defined as imparting specific skills to an employee, it is meant to improve effectiveness in the
+work place and when effectiveness is increased productivity increases. It is therefore
+paramount for an organization to invest in training and learning. This paper will delve into
+the changes that organizations have undergone in training and particularly focus on the
+technological angle.
+Training is instigated as a result of a gap between job demands and employee
+competencies, the human resource manager needs to identify the gap and bridge it for each
+employee, the need for training cannot be overemphasized, it improves the quality of work
+produced, training provides an avenue where both the organization and individual grow.
+To meet the challenges posed by global competitors an organization needs to be on
+its toes, to invent and reinvent itself so as not to be overtaken. Training helps to bridge the
+gap of the skills that an employee has to what is really needed in the job, it helps harness the
+potential of employees’ as a result building loyalty to the organization.
+Training can be categorized into three broad areas; knowledge which aims at
+imparting knowledge to employees with information that relates to their job description, it
+3
+REINVENTING CORPORATE LEARNING & TRAINING
+focuses on the content of the job and the quality of work. Technical skills focuses on the
+physical aspect of the job for example filing of documentd. Social skills is also a category of
+training that is concerned with the development of an individual and team work, the focus is
+on the behavior of the trainee and the interpersonal skills that are needed in the organization.
+After the skills have been taught the employees are then taught the techniques of applying
+those skills. Training can also take the form of an attitude training where the employees’
+attitudes are made favorable to achieving the goals of the organization.
+The history of training can be dated back to 18 th century with the great industrial
+expansion, where there was establishment of vocational training facilities and manual training
+schools, factories had training schools where the graduates were incorporated into the
+factories, soon thereafter it became common practice for factories to have factory schools.
+Training in the 21 st century has significantly evolved, it not only focuses on the technical
+aspect but also the psychological and societal needs of trainees, putting into consideration
+globalization. With changes in the society there is a need to change the training. (Richard,
+2016).
+For instance due to globalization majority of corporations require their employees to
+be computer literate, using computers is not set aside for select few as was in the past, but the
+whole organization needs to be up to date.
+For training to be effective the management needs to be able to allocate resources.
+The training should be in line with the competitive strategies of the corporation, there should
+be a link between the individual training needs and the organizational needs the last step is
+evaluating the effectiveness of the training.
+4
+REINVENTING CORPORATE LEARNING & TRAINING
+Training Approaches
+On the job training method, this is a training method that teaches skills that are needed
+by employees within the work environment, it uses the tools and resources that are readily
+available in the work place. (Susan, 2018).
+Coaching, mentoring and job rotation are ways of carrying out on the job training,
+Stimulation training method is a type of training where there is an artificial representation of
+what can happen in the real world, the training method is through experience, this method is
+mostly used to improve business awareness. Knowledge based method is also a form of
+training and it is normally followed up with a proficiency test.
+Training and learning is not a one off process but a continuous activity.it is paramount
+for the growth of a business, continuous learning enables employees to come up with new
+and innovative ideas, all employees need to go through the training for a business to succeed
+,this can be costly for organizations to sustain, in order to survive, employers have decided to
+adopt technology in the training process to reduce cost and increase effectiveness.
+Technology is being used in various ways in training and learning, for example e-
+learning which refers to use of the internet to conduct training, it is the use of digital tools to
+teach, it is convenient for a corporation that has a large number of employees, or an
+organization that has its branches in different countries, the logistics for training employees
+in such scenarios can be problematic, e-learning on the other hand just requires the
+employees to login to the corporations intranet to access the training.
+There is the emergence of digital technologies for example social networks which
+organizations cannot ignore, there are new technological advancements for example
+gamification which are used for stimulations and can be programed to match the
+organizations style (Gerald, 2018).
+5
+REINVENTING CORPORATE LEARNING & TRAINING
+Modern technology can be leveraged to come up with multiple ways to engage
+employees who need to feel that the training is for their benefit as well, surveys and
+questionnaires can also be made available to better assess the needs of the employees.
+(Rosenberg,2002).With fast growing economy where almost everyone has a smart phone a
+computer or an iPad, feedback channels are increased and flexible.
+Advantages of training through E-learning
+E-learning allows the trainees to take the training at their own pace and proceed at a
+time that is convenient to them (Tanuj, 2010), they are able to pause and repeat areas that
+they did not understand well.
+The training program is similar for all trainees, this allows for a consistent way of
+training, the message that is being put across is consistent, and one never has to wonder
+whether a trainer covered all the required areas and key points (Shane, 2008).
+E-learning caters for persons who have different learning styles, people disseminate
+and understand information differently, there are visual persons ,some understand more when
+audio is involved, while others thrive in an environment that is interactive, with e-learning
+every learner is accommodated.
+It is effective in a work force that is multi-lingual, a trainee is able to choose a
+language that they understand best, and it is also cost effective.
+It is transparent in a sense that all training is tracked automatically ,this also helps in
+curbing absenteeism, since management is able to see who has taken the training and who has
+not. If an employee is not at work for one reason or another they are able to login and do the
+training. It is not geographically restricted.
+6
+REINVENTING CORPORATE LEARNING & TRAINING
+Enables the management to look at the score and assessment of the trainees and how
+well they understand the training. The mode of grading is standard which means the
+management is able to grade using a primary scale
+Using technology is beneficial in that it is flexible, for example regulation keeps on
+changing and new laws are passed that require businesses to adhere to, it is easy to edit the
+existing material so as to be compliant.
+Web based training can also be accomplished through use of mobile technology and
+not limited to computers, the scale of leveraging on technology becomes beneficial to
+corporations.
+Disadvantages of training through E-learning
+Not all trainees may be willing to take up e-learning with open arms, it is difficult for
+organizations that have been training traditionally for years to readily accept change.
+Transition may cause anxiety with the trainees leading to low productivity.
+E-learning may not be appropriate for all types of training for example, leadership and
+the change of culture in an organization. The cost of setting up web based training program is
+costly and requires significant cost in the onset, this means that the management ought to be
+open to the idea and be supportive of it. Most people are accustomed to face to face social
+interactions that has a classroom and a room of people, because of this most employees find
+online writing to be boring and slow.
+Online training becomes hard for employees who are unable to read and write.
+Another problem that arises is when there is a poorly designed employee training program
+that is not well thought of, it leads to more losses than profit. Internet connectivity also needs
+to be factored in since most programs cannot run without internet connectivity.
+7
+REINVENTING CORPORATE LEARNING & TRAINING
+Another problem that may be faced when using technology is the lack of instructor
+interactions, if a trainee has a question or a concern they are not able to get a response or the
+response is not timely, use of instructors generates enthusiasm for the subject and are great in
+teaching interpersonal skills and customer care.
+Use of technology leads to the loss of jobs, professionals who earned a living from
+training and holding seminars are being replaced by virtual instructors. Increased loneliness
+has also been attributed to technology because there is no human interaction.
+In conclusion the use of technology in corporate learning and training has more
+advantages that disadvantages an organization is able to design lessons according to the
+corporations’ needs and wants, online trainings are not limited to particular geographical
+locations and time, the employees can do their trainings at any place and any time, it
+significantly reduces the cost of training and increases the returns.it is however clear that for
+the best results a breed of both should be used the traditional method of training with the
+technological methods for optimum results. Technology should be treated as an addition and
+not a replacement.
+8
+REINVENTING CORPORATE LEARNING & TRAINING
+References
+David B (2016, October 3), The Impact of Technology on Employee Training,
+Retrieved from-
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+Gerald J (2018, January 17 )Tech funnel, The High Impact of Digital Technologies on
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+Michael Armstrong (1992) A Handbook of Human Resource Management, Aditya
+Books Private Limited, New Delhi,p. 198
+Noe, R., Hollenbeck, J., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. (2006). Human Resources
+Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage, Tenth Global Edition. McGraw-Hill
+Education.
+Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, International Learners Edition (2010) pg.
+1586
+Richard J. Torraco (2016) Early History of the Fields of Practice of Training and
+Development and Organization Development, University of Nebraska.
+Rosenberg, M. J., & Foshay, R. (2002). E‐learning: Strategies for delivering
+knowledge in the digital age. Performance Improvement, 41(5), 50-51.
+Shane A (2008, September 1) EHS Today, The Evolution of Workplace Training,
+Retrieved from
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+Susan H (2018), How On-the-Job Training Brings You Value, Retrieved from
+Tanuj P (2010, November 20) Hrm Training and Development, Retrieved from
+Guestbook Messages
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+Wed Aug 16 2017
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+Roberto V
+Tue Jun 27 2017
+Thank's for a very beautiful concert in Correggio (RE) ... I'm very pleasure to listen you. Ciao ;)
+Mike Millroy
+Thu May 11 2017
+What a wonderful concert last night at 229. I was again enthralled by the passion and power of your singing, having first seen you with Antonio in Colchester in March, I have become hooked on your vibrant sounds and Passionate messages in your music. Accompanied by such talent you captivated the audience. Thank you!
+Anne
+Mon Mar 13 2017
+Big thanks to you and Antonio for the wonderful, sometimes fun, sometimes deeply moving music this evening at Colchester arts centre. Thank you too for your efforts for others and hope that the sleeping bag project is well supported.
+Bob
+Sun Feb 26 2017
+What a fantastic evening enjoying such beautiful music with Sarah and Antonio at the Astor Theatre. How inspiring and powerful the songs, brilliantly complimented by Antonio's profound guitar playing. Pure delight. An uplifting experience. Looking forward to seeing you both again. Peace and Love, Bob and friends. PS Enjoying your fabulous cd!
+Dawn
+Sun Feb 26 2017
+Thank you for a fabulous evening last night at the Astor Theatre, Deal. It was a real privilege to watch such talented artists as yourself and Antonio.
+Really looking forward to seeing you both again.
+Gregory
+Mon Jan 30 2017
+Marcello
+Tue Dec 20 2016
+I've seen you with Antonio Forcione at Brasserie Zedel, such a beautiful performance!
+Looking forward to your next live acts.
+Marcello
+Denis
+Mon Oct 3 2016
+Hello.
+Malcolm Hutchison
+Sat Mar 26 2016
+Wonderful night at The Kino Teatr, St. Leonards-on-sea. Fantastic music in a great venue. Hope to see you back in St.Leonards soon.
+sjfan1
+Sat Feb 20 2016
+What an amazing night at Ronnie Scott's last night, even the sound problems didn't put a dampner on the performance. I have been following your career since 1986 and try to see you in concert whenever you gig at Ronnie Scott' or the Vortex.I can honestly say I have never seen a bad performance and always enjoy that amazing voice of yours.When is your new album being released? Thanks for a great evening and I see you very soon i'm sure and I can't wait.
+Fri Feb 5 2016
+Saw the wonderful Sarah Jane Morris at the 606 Jazz club Chelsea on Thursday 4th Feb 2016, and my, my, my wasn't she unforgettable.
+That husky, soulful voice can't help but capture you and propel you into a place you want to stay forever.
+Her tone is unmistakable and I cannot wait to see her again.
+Thank you for your contribution to a making this world a much more beautiful place Sarah.
+Sabrina
+Monica Campos
+Sun Aug 30 2015
+Hola!.
+Julie (the fan lady!)
+Sat Aug 29 2015
+Thanks so much Sarah for an unforgettable night in Pescara. You put so much love into your songs and your concerts are enthralling.
+We love you!
+Nic Boniface
+Sat Aug 1 2015
+Absolutely bloody fantastic, just discovered your amazing voice at the concert in Palau, great musicians and wonderful tunes.. Will definitely be looking up your UK gigs... Thank you all for a wonderful evening!!! Nic
+Roberto
+Mon Apr 27 2015
+I love your stunning voice...gives emotions that no others can give!
+Worx Stagetech
+Thu Mar 19 2015
+Fantastic working with you,
+And we very much look forward to working with you again in the near future.
+Al Courtney
+Fri Jan 16 2015
+Many thanks Sarah, Tony & Tim for a truly awesome (in every sense of the word) gig at Manchester's "Band on the Wall" last night - can't think of a better way to start 2015!
+Looking forward to listening to "Bloody Rain" which I bought last night! Please come back soon - and often!!
+All the best for 2015 - hope it's a good year for you all!
+Carina
+Sat Dec 13 2014
+Hi Sarah Jane i love your music. She is so emotional. I find your voice wonderful. Your Cd bloody rain is my favorite. The content of your lyrics is so true. Greetings from Germany
+Antonio Meneses
+Tue Nov 4 2014
+Dear Sarah
+Please, please consider to come to Portugal for a show
+All the best
+Antonio Meneses
+Please, please consider to come to Portugal for a show
+All the best
+Antonio Meneses
+Federica Venezia
+Fri Oct 10 2014
+Dear Sarah Jane,
+I just wanted to tell you that my mum and I had a great time at The Auditorium in Rome. You are truly a gift from God! I thought you looked absolutely beautiful on stage, very relaxed and totally in command of yourself and your group.
+Thank you for taking the time to talk with me after the show!
+Thank you for the autograph!
+Thank you for the lovely picture!
+Thank you for all the joy and healing you bring!
+Sweet memories are priceless.
+Hugs,
+Federica
+Diana de Cabarrus
+Mon Jun 9 2014
+Dear Sarah-Jane,
+I was very moved by your performance at the Venus Nights show and your poetry really stuck with me. I'm at a point in my own trajectory where the dawning realisation of the silencing of women's voices through time and space is falling on me like a ton of bricks, and seeing you perform made me realise even more how we lack the right balance of voices in our culture. I think it's critical that you keep shining your light and I'm a huge new fan. As a guitarist I also really enjoyed Jennifer's work.
+I'm learning a couple of Rosetta Tharpe songs and I realised there are no transcriptions and none of her arrangements online, although plenty of tabs for arrangements of same songs by male peers. Perhaps I'll find a way to correct that. Anyway-Thank you. I am in Scotland for your upcoming event at Hippodrome London but I will tell all my friends to go!
+Neil Cunningham
+Wed Jun 4 2014
+Loved seeing you every year at the Trinity in Tunbridge Wells...
+David
+Thu Apr 17 2014
+Love Awestruck!!
+David
+Psychmed
+Sun Jan 5 2014
+Bloody Rain at RonnieScotts on 4/1/14 was Sublime, sensational, exciting and very enjoyable! Good luck with the pledges, cant wait to get the album.
+CliveC
+Sun Nov 24 2013
+Great gig last night at Hippodrome, it was a sheer delight. Loved the songs new and old and the band. As ever you move the body'n' brain and touch the heart.
+Been at least 10 years since we've seen you, far too long. First time seeing you in London, previously always been 'in da sticks' - Hemel, St. Albans and Bourges (Fr). Ended up spending a large part of this afternoon catching up on YouTube with some of your vids.
+My only slight reservation with last night was the venue, which I didn't share your enthusiasm for. Agreed the sound was good, also the staff were really friendly and helpful but afraid the casino venue especially having to leave through it, somehow took away from the experience and erased some of the great vibe from the music. I'm no prude about gambling, just it didn't somehow sit easily with some of the social content of the songs. Ok my problem not yours.
+As much as we want you to ourselves - you absolutely deserve a wider audience. I've no sense of what it's like for you to get gigs and venues - but I wonder was the only promotion via London Jazz Fest & next to nothing from the venue.
+Fri Nov 15 2013
+To think you came from such humble beginnings. .and have stayed so grounded. Sarah..you are a true inspiration to others in your craft..your music speaks to so many. Many a laugh was had with Tom and Joy and such pride watching your career grow..you have a family to be proud of. I have enjoyed reading everything on your new website and look forward to up and coming events. Much love to you and your family...and if I have learnt anything it's to look after your friends and they will look after you x
+Thu Nov 14 2013
+A beautiful site for beautiful you!! xoxo Kathryn
+Karsten
+Thu Nov 14 2013
+Hey Sarah Jane,
+the new Website looks great! Ha, our Bremen-Photo is on too, reminds me of that wonderful evening. First the concert, then we went to the Thai-Restaurant with the band, close to midnight. After that, we did a nice interview at the hotel for my radioshow, early in the morning. It was a unforgettable evening. :)
+Hope to see you soon...
+xXx : Karsten
+Wed Nov 13 2013
+I'm really blown away by the new design of your website, Sarah-Jane, and bouncing happily about the fact that you are doing Ronnie Scott's again next January.
+I'm sending you a huge bag of good wishes, may the new site boost your career and give you many gorgeous occasions to do your intense and wonderful work.
+Big hug!!!!!
+Gitta
+I'm sending you a huge bag of good wishes, may the new site boost your career and give you many gorgeous occasions to do your intense and wonderful work.
+Big hug!!!!!
+Gitta
+Videos
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+One More Turn after the Social Turn: Easing Science Studies into the Non-Modern World
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+1 One More Turn after the Social Turn: Easing Science Studies into the Non-Modern World Bruno Latour CSI-Ecole des Mines, Paris Science Studies Program-UCSD, San Diego in Ernan McMullin (editor) The Social Dimensions of Science, Notre Dame University Press: Notre Dame pp , 1992 Like Antony, I could say to philosophers, uncertain whether to stone or welcome the young domain of social studies of science, I come to bury those studies, not to praise them. After years of swift progress, social studies of science are at a standstill. Cornered in what appeared to be a dead alley, its main scholars are disputing with one another on where to go next. Many of them advocate a return to common sense and claim that we should shun extreme radicalism and take on the classic sociology of scientists (not of science) spiced with a speck of constructivism. Through meetings and journals I feel a reactionary one: Let s abandon the crazy schools and take over serious matters of science policy and the impact of technology on society. The field has suffered enough from extremism; let s go back to the happy medium. The most generous believe that political relevance for our field will be achieved more if we stop dabbling with esoteric theories and instead seize traditional concepts off the shelf. A few, who call themselves reflexivists, are delighted at being in a blind alley; for fifteen years they had said that social studies of science could not go anywhere if it did not apply its own tool to itself; now that it goes nowhere and is threaten to be struck by sterility, they feel vindicated. A few others, among the most serious, stick to their trade, deny that they are in a blind alley and go on with business as usual, without realising that the law of diminishing returns is at work here as
+2 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 2 elsewhere and that professional loyalties are no guarantee against obsolescence. But, fortunately, dozens of researchers are looking for ways out of the deadlock: in literary theory, biology, cognitive science, cultural history, ethnology, ethnography of skills, moral economics, interactionism, network theories. That their moves do not appear more principled or straight than those of a disturbed anthill does not mean that they are not going to find the way. Quite the contrary. Being one of those ants, accused of being not only frantic but also French, I wish to explore in this paper one of the possible ways out of the dead alley that would not force us to retrace our steps. Instead of being less extreme I want to show that by being a little more radical we would end up in a productive and commonsensical research program that would allow us to capitalise on the last twenty years work and resume our swift pace. 1. The trap we built for ourselves But first we have to survey the path that led the field of social studies of science to its present quandary. Like any summary it will appear unfair to everyone s work including my own but the aim of this paper is the future of our field, not its past. The name of the domain Sociology of Scientific Knowledge tells it all (not to mention the name of this volume). So far, it has been the application of social sciences mainly sociology but also anthropology to the practice of science. The decisive advance occured when it was realized that, contrary to what traditional sociology of knowledge and Mertonian sociology of science told us, the content of science is thoroughly studiable and that the implementation of this research program is a single task for historians, sociologists, philosophers and economists. I take those two points as being established beyond doubt (Shapin, 1982; Latour, 1987). Doubts are back, however, as soon as we look at the explanatory resources mobilised to account for the practice of science. Our domain is a battlefield littered with interrupted explanations. All the efforts at using macro-sociology to account for the micro-content of science are fraught with difficulties; only very broad features like styles, world-views, cultures have been explained. The only research programs that have been successful are those which put to use a fine-grained sociology: ethnomethodology, microsociology, symbolic interactionism, cognitive anthropology, cultural history, history of practices. The problem with those programs is that they, indeed, account nicely for the details of scientific practice but entirely lose track of
+3 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 3 the main goals of macro-sociology that is, an account of what holds the society together. They have all been accused (and rightly) of cranking out nice case-studies without even the beginnings of social theory or political relevance. It seems that either the social science is subtle enough to explain the content of science but the making of a global society is left in the dark, or that macro-sociology is back in but the details of science disappear from view. When literary studies are included it is often worse since we now have fine-grained studies of scientific rhetoric but even the mere idea of a social explanation is given up. When cognitive sciences are brought in, it is worse still, since social scientists have to renounce any interest in non-cognitive explanations or be relegated to an appendix. It is as if we cannot have sociology and the content of science under the same gaze at once. Another way to sum up the diagnosis is to say that most of the socalled social studies of science are largely internalist studies. They did not appear so to the English-speaking world because of the very abstract way in which philosophy of science had been carried on in the Anglo-American tradition before we begun to work. When, for instance, Harry Collins added to the gravitation waves, animals such as replication, negotiation, styles, coresets, and authority, philosophers of science mistook that zoo for the social (and so did Collins (1985)). Viewed, however from a Continental point of view, most of the sociological points could have been made and indeed had been made by internalist philosophers informed by the history of scientific practice, like Duhem, Mach, Bachelard or Canguilhem. Social studies of science were not adding society to science but were adding some historical flesh to the often barren English-speaking philosophy of science. It is now clear that it is as difficult to tie the main concerns of sociology and politics to the micro-sociological studies of science as it was in the past to tie them to rabid internalism. Most of the good case studies, if we look at them dispassionately, are internalist explanations sandwiched in between macroor meso- sociological explanations without much connection between the two. The reason why this recipe did not appear so clearly at first was that we all had to fight against the dictates of Mertonian sociology, rational reconstruction of science, and history of ideas, all claiming that study of scientific practice was infeasible in principle. Their stubbornness forced us to a polemical stand. Now that this battle has been more or less won, and we can examine in peace the quality of the explanations given for the social construction of the contents of science, it is fair to say that they are found wanting. Few of them convincingly tie the fabric of macro-society to the contents of science, and most follow up bits and pieces of networks, the ends
+4 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 4 of which are left loose. What the best studies achieve is to spread successive levels on top of one another, the first of which is distinctively macro while the last one is clearly technical. They fix club sandwiches instead of hamburgers! This diagnosis is not new. It was, on the contrary, the starting point of the radical brands of social (now in quotation marks) studies of science. Reflexivists have argued all along that it was not desirable to provide a social explanation of scientific content since it would mean that sociology was immune to the critical treatment that it applied to chemistry or physics (Woolgar, 1988; Ashmore,1989). Ethnomethodologists went much further by denying any relevance to sociology and claiming that social explanations should not be provided at all. It is, on the contrary, they claim, the local technical content of the practitioners that should be used to explain their own world. There is no other metalanguage to use but the language of the sciences themselves is Garfinkel-Lynch s principle in which a new brand of internalism and radical sociology have become barely distinguishable (Lynch,1985). The same could be said of us, the so-called actor-network theorists. We extend the principle of symmetry to social sciences and we claim that they too are part of our problem, not of our solution. Networks of associations replace both the content of science and society. The growth of networks through translations replaces the differences of scale between micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. Exactly as for reflexivists and ethnomethodologists, the question of a social explanation is dissolved (Callon, 1989; Law,1986a; Latour, 1987). But so are also the resources for understanding our own position. Networks may be seamless webs, but they appear to our colleagues and nevertheless friends as a catch-all concept, where everything being possible, nothing is clear and distinct any more. Everything being a network, nothing is (Shapin, 1988; Collins and Yearley, 1990). Somber diagnosis indeed! The more conservative schools have failed to provide a continuous tie betwen the contents of science and the concerns of sociology. And the radical groups who deconstructed the very aim of a social explanation, end in sterility, in jargon or in a maze of entangled networks. The Gordian knot that tied science and society together before Alexander s sword cut them asunder is still there awaiting for someone patient enough to tie it again! Even if I have overdramatised our quandary, it remains true that outsiders to the field see us like that. Whatever we write or say, the field of social studies of science is recast by friends and enemies alike as the merely
+5 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 5 social argument (Star, 1988). Then, it is not difficult for them to argue that to the merely social or socio-historical explanation should now be added another explanation, a more internalist one. No wonder if many of our critics, feeling vindicated, rejoice and claim that science is indeed thoroughly incapable of analysis in social terms, that they had long ago shown this impossibility from first principles, and that their graduate students should return to the study of scientists (or of science), or delve into the fashionable cognitive sciences or turn to normative philosophy or science policy. Back to common sense! Down with constructivism! Enough of theory! As for many atheoretical historians, unsettled for a moment, they might believe that since boxes of archives are waiting to be ransacked they no longer need the help of all those crazy sociologists. Here is the blind alley. Here is the trap that we built for ourselves, from which we should escape and resume our quick progress without accepting those reactionary research programs that represent themselves as commonsense or claim to rest comfortably in the golden medium between internalism and externalism. 2. One-dimensional Science Radical, progressist, conservative, reactionary, golden medium, I used these political adjectives on purpose because they all retrace the same line that is the cause of our deadlock and from which I want to escape. A radical is someone who claims that scientific knowledge is entirely constructed out of social relations; a progressist is someone who would say that it is partially constructed out of social relations but that nature somehow leaks in at the end. At the other side of this tug-of-war, a reactionary is someone who would claim science becomes really scientific only when it finally sheds any trace of social construction; while a conservative would say that although science escapes from society there are still factors from society that leak in and influence its development. In the middle, would be the marsh of wishy-washy scholars who add a little bit of nature to a little bit of society and shun the two extremes. This is the yarstick along which we can log most of our debates. If one goes from left to right then one has to be a social constructivist; if, on the contrary, one goes from right to left, then one has to be a closet realist. As indicated by the two arrows in the diagram below explanations in this frame of reference are accepted only if they start from one of the two extremities, Nature or Society, and move toward the other. Either one is a natural realist and one explains
+6 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 6 the evolution of society, the establishment of consensus by the state of Nature, or one is a social realist and explains by social factors how it is that humans settle on matters of fact, or one alternate between the two (Collins and Yearley, 1990). All the intermediary cases are seen as a mixture of these two pure forms, Nature and Society. Figure 1 This tug-of-war is played in one dimension. It is fun to play but after twenty years of it we might shift to other games, especially since it makes incomprehensible the very linkages between Nature and Society we wish to account for. I claim that the only way to go on with our work is to abandon this frame of reference and to set up another standard, all the more so if other scholars go on to make it more subtle, more precise by adding finer divisions and other labels to the same one-dimensional yardstick (Giere, 1988). We do not want finer divisions and new schools of philosophy of science. We want philosophy to do its job and discover the origin of the yardstick in order for us to overcome it. The yardstick of our debates was set up by Kant for polemical reasons and since then sociologists, as well as philosophers of science, have adopted it without misgiving. Kant rejected at the two poles Things-in-themselves on the one hand, Transcendental Ego, on the other the resources that, when put together, would account for knowledge. This was the foundation of the Critique that made us modern, more modern i. To be sure, empirical scientific knowledge appeared in the middle, but this middle, the phenomenon, was understood only as the meeting-point of the two purified sets of resources coming from the subject-pole or from the object-pole. There are two reasons why this standard did not appear so bad at first. To begin with, philosophers and sociologists fought so violently to occupy the subject pole designated by Kant the focus of the Sun in his Copernican Revolution that no one realised that it did not make much difference ii whether the elected ruler was Kant s Ego, Durkheim s macro-society, Foucault s epistemes, Dewey s praxis, Wittgenstein s language games, collectives of scientists, brains and neurones, minds or cognitive structures as long as this one ruler capitalized all the explanatory resources and had the object turning around it. Where they came from transcendence, evolution,
+7 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 7 practice, innate structures did not matter too much either, as long as phenomena were shaped, in the end, by the foremost authority of this Sun pole. The internal rivalry among schools hid the identity of the position to be so strenuously occupied. When compared to the weight of the Critique framework, the debates that oppose innate categories to collective epistemes, individual mind to groups of scientists, neuronal pathways to social structures, appear minor. The second reason why this framework had such a great weight is that it was strongly asymmetric. The Sun focus was what counted, not the object circling around it, and thus there were no comparable squabbles about how to modify the status of the object. It really seemed that if one could occupy the right-hand side of the yardstick, much of the left hand side would be explained. From Kant onwards, the Things-in-themselves were left indeed to themselves, without initiative, without activity, passively shaped and framed by the various models or categories pressed upon them. Their only task was to guarantee the transcendental non-human character of our knowledge in order to avoid the dire consequences of idealism. Paradoxically, the beautiful movement of Copernic s Revolution was used by the Critique to describe an anthropocentric (or sociocentric or logocentric) enterprise. In our small field, Bloor s book (1976) was the high tide mark of this asymmetrical philosophy. As an obedient child of the Critique, Bloor designated Durkheimian social structures to occupy the Sun s focus and gave the name symmetry to the principle that required us to explain successes and failures in the development of science with the same sociological terms. This was, to be sure, a major advance, since until then only good science was explained by appealing to Nature and only bad science by appealing to Society. However the very success of this principle of symmetry disguised the complete asymmetry of Bloor s argument. Society was supposed to explain Nature! We start from one of the poles to account for the other. If the one-dimensional diagram I have drawn appear simple-minded and sketchy even after Bloor s strong program, it might very well be that our implicit philosophy is indeed as simple-minded and as sketchy as that. It is certainly as one-dimensional as that and this is enough to explain our previous deadlock: if any move away from one of the poles is a move toward the other, it means that every new position whatever its originality, direction and trajectory will be logged, obsessively, along this single line as a particular combination of the object pole and the subject/collective pole. The two attractors at the extremity of the line are so strong that no new position is tenable since it will be seen as giving strength to one of the two
+8 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 8 teams engaged in this tug-of-war. The Wall of Berlin has fallen, ideologies are said to be gone, but realists and constructivists are still positioning one another as if we were in the worst days of the sixties when our opinions had to be pigeon-holed as Left or Right. Fortunately, the two factors that rendered the one-dimensional frame of reference inevitable are now gone: from the relative failures of the social studies of science we learned that the various schools that strive to occupy the Subject/Society position make no difference to the general structure of the explanation. We also learned the historical origin of this philosophical asymmetry between the two poles, between the representation of things and the representation of humans (Shapin and Schaffer, 1985; Serres, 1987 ; Latour, 1990b). To this day, Bloor has not realized that his principle cannot be implemented if another much more radical symmetry is not introduced, a symmetry that treats this time the subject/society pole in the same way as the object pole (Callon, 1985). This 90 shift is what I call one more turn after the social turn (Figure 2). But in order to make this turn and thus free our field from its deadlock, we need to set up another yardstick that will give us another dimension. Figure 2
+9 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 9 3. A counter-copernican revolution At least the problem is now well defined. Is it possible to modify the respective position of the two attractors, the object-pole and the subject/collective-pole? Is it possible to modify their number: one, three, many? Is it possible to construct another scale that would allow us to evaluate works and arguments in a second dimension not reducible to the single one described above? Is it possible to do all of that without jargon that would add obscurity to obscurity and without leaving the solid ground of empirical casestudies of scientific practice, the ground that I said is the only stable certainty of this new field common to sociologists, philosophers and historians of science? A look at the literature of our field shows that these questions are not at the same level of difficulty. Paradoxically, the last two appear more difficult, since no one, to my knowledge, has offered a clear standard for evaluating works and arguments, a standard at least as fine graded as the one we wish to discard, and since the many philosophies which have tried to overcome the subject/object dichotomy have been unable to offer us a precise description of scientific practice and are often shrouded in a thick fog. Let us start at the relatively easy part, the ontological one. The first move is a counter-copernican revolution that forces the two poles Nature and Society to shift to the centre and to fuse into one another. This fusing, however, is no simple matter and the properties of the two poles have to be completely redistributed, since it was their separation that defined them. The main property of the object-pole was to guarantee that our world of knowledge not be human-made (whatever the definition of human we chose: self, mind, brain, collective); while the main property of the subject-pole was, on the contrary, to guarantee that our knowledge be human made (whichever definition of human activity one sticks to: transcendantal ego, society, subject, mind, brain, epistemes, language games, praxis, labor). In addition, the very distinction between the two poles the distinction which Kant made so sharp warranted that those two contradictory guarantees would not be confused, because the two transcendences that of the object out there and that of the Subject/Society up there are sources of authority only if they are as far apart as possible (Shapin and Schaffer, 1985). They should not mingle with one another any more than the Executive Branch of government with the Judiciary Branch. iii The word fact sums up this threefold system of guarantees. A fact is at once what is fabricated and what is not fabricated by anyone. But the two
+10 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 10 meanings of the word are never simultaneously present, so that we always feel it necessary to alternate between two asymmetric explanations for the solidity of reality constructivism or realism. How can we fuse the two poles together and still retain their three main properties? a) the non-human origin of knowledge; b) its human origin; c) the complete separation between the two. If we retain the three at once, it is impossible to move on, since the three together defines the Critique on which the whole field of science studies is based. If we abandon the first one, we fall into various brands of social constructivism, forced to build our world with social relations. If we abandon the second, we fall into various brands of realism and are led to build Society with Nature. The only one that might be discarded is the third. Is it proven that the first two guarantees are enforced only by the Critique or the Modern Constitution that imposes their complete separation and classifies all explanations in two asymmetrical repertoires? As soon as the question is raised, the point of view is shifted along a new dimension, orthogonal to the first one, and a striking mirror symmetry appears: the two asymmetrical repertoires of realism and constructivism are mirror images of one another. Their symmetry is so exact that a completely coherent framework may be provided if we retain the first two guarantees and discard the third. To be sure there is a price to pay and that is to abandon the Critique or in other word to rewrite the Modern Constitution. To be sure, the two remaining guarantees are strongly affected by the abandonment of the third. As with all other tight-knit structures, taking away one component alters the position of the others. First modification. Instead of the two opposite transcendences of Nature iv and Society not to mention that of the bracketed-out God we have only one transcendence left. We live in a Society we did not make, individually or collectively, and in a Nature which is not of our fabrication. But Nature out there and Society up there are no longer ontologically different. We do not make Society, more than we do Nature, and their opposition is no longer necessary. Second modification. Instead of providing the explanatory resources in order to account for empirical phenomena, this common transcendence becomes what is to be explained. Instead of being the opposite causes of our knowledge, the two poles are a single consequence of a common practice that is now the only focus of our analysis. Society (or Subject, or Mind, or
+11 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 11 Brain,...) cannot be used to explain the practice of science and, of course, Nature cannot either, since both are the results of the practice of scienceand technology making (Latour, 1987, rule 3 and 4). Contrary to the expectation of the social students of science and contrary to the fear of their opponents the two realisms (social and natural) have to be discarded together if either one is to go, since they are one and the same. Or else, both have to be kept. This new generalized principle of symmetry flows directly from the development of science studies and, in my view, is their most important philosophical discovery. As long as the social sciences did not apply their tools to Nature and to Society at once the identity of the two transcendences and its common constructed character was left in the dark. Even when established science and stable society were studied together, their common production was still not visible. Only when science in action and society in the making were studied simultaneously, did this essential phenomenon become observable. This is why the intermediary solution social realism alternating with natural relativism advocated for many years by colleagues like David Bloor or Harry Collins are, in the long run, counterproductive for the field as well as for their own program (Callon and Latour, 1990). Third modification: this is a direct corollary of the two others. Instead of always being explained by a mixture of the two pure transcendences, the activity of nature/society making becomes the source from which societies and natures originate. In the modern Constitution, nothing interesting happened at the meeting-point of the two poles the phenomenon since it was just that: at best a meeting point, at worst a confusing boundary. In what I call for want of the better term non-modern Constitution, everything interesting begins at what is no longer a meeting point but the origin of reality. In the modern Constitution, one could only say that this production was a hybrid of two pure forms; in the non-modern one it is an understatement to talk of hybrids or of monsters. Collins s gravity waves, Shapin s and Schaffer s air-pump, Callon s scallops, Geison s microbes, to take just a few examples, are not to be defined as being half natural, half social. They are neither objects, nor subjects, nor a mixture of the two. This is why after Serres (1987) I call them quasi-objects. It is out of their production and circulation that something originates that looks sometwhat like Nature out there, as well as somewhat like Society up there. What metaphor could express this reversal? Pure Nature and pure Society may exist but they would be like two solid tectonic plates cooling from the hot
+12 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 12 liquid magma emerging at the seams. Our work aim at exploring this seam and at taking into account the temperature and the direction of the flow. Fourth modification. History which was locked away, according to the Modern Constitution is back in the centre. Since whatever happened had to be either the discovery of nature out there or the construction by society up there, history had to be a zero-sum game to be explained by two lists of ingredients one coming from nature, the other from society. Now, on the contrary, it is the experimental scene that produces and shapes new actants v that then increase the long list of ingredients that make up our world. Historicity is back, and it flows from the experiments, from the trials of force (Latour, 1990a). We do not have, on the one hand, a history of contingent human events and, on the other, a science of necessary laws, but a common history of societies and of things. Pasteur s microbes are neither timeless entities discovered by Pasteur, nor political domination imposed onto the laboratory by the Second Empire social structure, not are they a careful mixture of purely social elements and strictly natural forces. They are a new social link that redefines at once what nature is made of and what society is made of. Fifth and final (?) modification. The ontological activity that is no longer capitalized at the two extremities may be redistributed among all the actants. It was the necessity of the dual system of appeal either to nature or to society that in the Kantian framework caused all the agencies to be assigned to two and only two lists. Now that we are freed from this necessity, we are allowed to have as many poles as there are actors. This irreductionist principle is probably the most counter-intuitive consequence of science studies but it is a necessary and a coherent one (Latour, 1988, part II). Monsters that the Modern Constitution wished to cleave into two pure forms (entelechies, monads, fields, forces, networks) are back, claiming an ontological status that does not resemble that of the forlorn and passive things-in-themselves, nor does it resemble that of humans-among-themselves either. Too social to look like the former, they remain too non-human to resemble the latter. Dignity, activity, world-making ability are reclaimed by those actants that are, nevertheless, fully non-human, and fully real. Mere intermediaries in the modern Constitution, they become full blown mediators in the non-modern, more democratic, one. Yes, the Gordian knot is tied once again and tightly so. vi The problem with this counter-copernican revolution is that it seems absurd if logged onto the realist-constructivist frame of reference since every reading of the new object-subject production will appear as yet another
+13 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 13 golden-medium solution. Worse, since the new frame does not make reference to the two extremes, Nature and Society, that previously allowed a coherent interpretation to be drawn, it seems as if commonsense were abandoned and a completely obscure field of studies of science were to replace a narrow-minded but at least well-defined one. If I begin, for instance, granting activity to the non-humans once again, sociologists of science (Collins and Yearley, 1990) begin protest that outmoded realist positions are back, even though the new active non-humans are utterly different from the boring inactive things-in-themselves of the realists s plot. Conversely, if I speak of a history of things, realist philosophers immediately start accusing me of denying the non-human reality of Nature, as if I were asking actors to play the equally tedious role of humans-among-themselves so common in the stories of the sociologists. On the other hand, their joint indignation is understandable since they have no other frame of reference than the Modern one and thus they cannot locate our position on their instruments. After having written three books to show the impossibility of a social explanation of science and having being praised (and more often castigated) for providing a social explanation, I am now convinced that no further progress will be made if we do not change our touchstone. 4. Adding a second dimension Now that the ontology of a viable substitute for the modern Constitution has been sketched, the next goal is to set up a clearcut standard to locate the various positions and to differentiate nuances of argument at least as finely as with the old instrument and more finely, if possible. If I sketch the new yardstick I obtain a diagram that is admittedly crude, but let us remember that the philosophy implicit in science studies might be as crude as that. The one-dimensional yardstick allowed to position any entity along the object-subject line. I showed that although this was useful it did not do justice to most of the discoveries of science studies: objects and subjects are belated consequences of an experimental and historical actitivity that does not clearly differentiate if an entity is 'out there' in nature or 'up there' in society. This means that any entity should also be logged according to its degree of stabilization.
+14 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 14 Figure 3 Figure 3 is an attempt to define any entity by two sets of coordinates instead of one. One line is the distance to P, the locus of phenomenon in Kant's scenario, and goes either to the subject/collective pole or to the object pole. The other is the degree of stabilization going from 0 to P', from unstability to stability. It is clear from the diagram that the one dimensional yardstick I criticed above corresponds to only one value of the stabilization gradient. When everything is settled there is indeed a clearcut difference between A' out there, and B' up there. Pasteur's microbes are clearly discovered or constructed out of natural and material actants that lie outside the control of our human wishes; hygienic ideas about asepsy and antisepsy are sure means of settling the dispute between Health and Wealth during the Second Empire. For this value of OP' science students are torn in between those two alternative transcendences: a nature that is not of our social making; a society that is not of natural origin. They then have to explain Pasteur achievements by what nature is like, or to account for his discoveries by what society is made of, or to chose any intermediary mixture of pure nature and pure society, or to alternate at will between extreme naturalism and, should I say?, extreme socialism. But suppose that I now wish to write a book on Pasteur's microbes where I change the value of this whole debate along the stabilization gradient (Latour, 1988). Let say that I now explore the line CD instead of the line A'B', or even the line EF. The complete gamut of positions is now squeezed in the middle and a different account of the entities Pasteur is struggling becomes possible. Is the microbe a living entity, a chemical one, a physical one, a social one? This is still uncertain. Is nature large enough to accommodate invisible powerful microbes? We will learn it from Pasteur's experiments. Is the Second Empire and the Third Republic, able to absorb or be redefined by new social links that will add the multitude of microbes to the normal social relations? We are learning it from Pasteur's laboratories. Whereas for higher value of the stabilization gradient it is important to
+15 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 15 decide whether or not something is social or natural, it is meaningless for lower values since this is where is defined what natures and what societies are. Naturally, as the diagram nicely indicates, if I now project the state of nature/society building I am studying onto the one-dimensional yardstick, my analysis will be completely misunderstood. C' will be taken to mean the emergence of a stabilized natural actant the non-human microbe plays a big role in my story, and D' will be taken to mean that I give too much activity to stabilized social groups (or too little depending on who is reviewing the book). Worse still, if EF are projected on the same line. E' and F' are now seen as wishy-washy solutions to the problem of realism versus constructivism! I am now seen as attempting to escape the internalist/externalist quandary by sqeezing my entities around P' the safe and golden medium, the meeting point of nature and society. But I am not interested in P' only, I am interested in all the values taken along the orthogonal dimension. Instead of having endless discussions on social constructivism, is it asking too much to focus our debates on a few other values of the stabilization gradient? There is another major advantage in unfolding our debates on two instead of one dimension: points becomes lines. As soon as we consider two set of coordinates for every single entity its degree of naturalness or socialness on the one hand, and its degree of stabilization on the other we become able to do justice to the variable ontology of the entities we all studied in our case studies. Boyle s air pump, Pasteur s microbes, Millikan s electrons, do not have to be defined as points in the one dimensional diagram, but as trajectories in the two-dimensional one. The same microbe may be close to E, then to F, then to B, then to A, then to C, depending on its history. The same entity may occupy many states, being impurely social, then purely social, then purely natural, then impurely natural. The same actant will be immanent and then transcendent, made and non-made, human made and discovered, freely decided and imposed upon us as a Fatum. To use still other words, essences become existences and then essences again. Quasi-objects may alternate and become objects, or subjects, or quasi-objects again or disappear altogether. The main philosophical interest of science studies, I contend, is in habituating us to consider those variable ontologies. Every actant has an original signature in the diagram above and you will have as many microbes as there are points along the trajectory.
+16 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 16 Many words have been offered recently to define such a trajectory. Serres (1987) use the word quasi-object to designate what circulates in the collective and shapes it by its very circulation. Callon (1985) has offered the word actor-network to convey the same double function of Nature-building and Society-building. In a more restricted way, Shapin and Schaffer (1985) have proposed forms of life and Lynch (1985) experimental practice to designate this activity that turns on the silent laboratory-made or societymaking experiment. I have played with the words allies, collective things, entelechies, actants, networks modalities. All these words however since they designate either state, or process, or actions, may be misunderstood when they are seen as one pole in the one-dimensional frame or as the mere combination of the two. In order to be adequate, they themselves have to be adjusted to this new two-dimensional yardstick. As soon as they are meant to designate points, they become meaningless. Their meaning comes only when they are used to strecht the ontological variations of those bizarre monsters we have uncovered. Monsters, imbroglios, mixtures are themselves ambiguous terms. The paradox is that with the one-dimensional yardstick, science students are unable to account for their own discoveries. The reason why we all went studying laboratories, active controversies, skills, instrument making, emerging entities, was to encounter unstable state of nature/society and to document what happen in those extreme and novel situations. On the other hand, most philosophies of science and all of the social sciences, were on the contrary considering either stabilized sets of natures facing stabilized sets of societies or letting only one of them be unstable at once. The misunderstanding was complete since what is the rule for us is the exception for them. We see only emerging society/nature, they consider only purely social or strictly natural entities. What is the rule for them, purity, is the exception for us. Whereas they are obsessed by the debates between out there and up there, we focus on a region hitherto unknown which I would call down there. Had we possessed the one-dimensional yardsitck only, considered the two sides apart, inspected the lines from the two extremities, and tried to explain an agent by using Nature and Society as causes, we would have been unable even to suspect the existence of the basic phenomenon discovered by science studies, that is the co-production of collective things. All the entities from the bottom half of figure 3 would be squeezed around P, the place for wishy-washy interpretations. Thus the framework that the whole field employs to calibrate its evaluations of casestudies is totally unable to do justice to what the case-studies reveal. The only
+17 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 17 thing it can convey about entities is that they are tangle of science and society or a little bit of both... No wonder that the domain is in a blind alley; it is not even able to define the instrument that would allow us to read its own results! 5. A Non-Modern world for science-studies Science students all too often either believe they should shun philosophy or that they should borrow whatever philosophy there is off the shelf. It is my contention that in order to make sense of quasi-objects science students will have to take philosophy much more seriously; they even might have to redefine their own metaphysics in order to deal with the bizarre ontological puzzles revealed by their discoveries of the collective-things. The originality of this discovery cannot, in my view, be overstated. To use again the terms I have defined above, science-studies ease us into the non-modern (or a-modern) world. Until then, we have been shaped by the idea that we were modern. What we are witnessing, and what explains the present interest in science-studies, is the end of this belief, the end of the two Enligthenments. The first Enlightenment used the nature pole in order to debunk the false pretence of the social one. Natural sciences were at last unveiling nature and destroying obscurantism, domination, and bigotry. The second Enlightenment used also the social pole in order to debunk the false pretence of the natural one. The social sciences economics, psychoanalysis, sociology, semiotics were at last debunking the false claims of naturalism and scientism. Marxism, of course, was so strong because it appeared to join the two Enlightenments together: the natural sciences helped us to criticize powers and dominations; the social sciences allowed us to criticize the natural sciences, and their naturalised powers and dominations. When it was painfully realized how untenable Marxism was, we were then moved to what is called postmodernism. We were still modern, we still wished to debunk, and criticize, and unveil, but the solid grounds that guaranteed the strenght of our attack had failed us. It seems that without a belief in a solid state of society, or a solid state of science, there was only despair and cynicism. It is at this historical moment that science-studies entered the field. For them an unstable state of society and nature was a normal state of affairs. What explains, in my view, the present limitations of our field is that we have not yet reconciled our discoveries with our philosophical framework. We still believe necessary to be modern or postmodern, when our own field studies point to another historical moment: we have become non-modern, that is we have never been modern. Suddenly, we look at our sciences, our
+18 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 18 technologies, our societies, and they are at a par with what anthropology has taught us of the other cultures. With such a realization, the Modern framework that made unthinkable the discoveries of science studies is now entirely dissolved. The two poles on the horizontal line in the modern yardstick were used to differentiate between the few collectives which had access to Nature because they could break away from the constraints of Society, and others the primitives, the ancients, the poor which were for ever inhabiting the prison of their symbols or their social categories. Such was the great divide between Us and Them, a divide that is nothing but the anthropological rendering of the divide between the Object pole and the Subject/Collective pole, the exportation abroad, so to speak, of our Civil strife. It is the two divides taken together that made us modern. Not only did we completely separate the representation of things from the representation of humans not to mention the bracketing out of God but this separation set us apart from any other society of the past and any non-western society, since we were the only one doing so. The non-modern representation is that neither of those two divides is necessary. There is no separation between the object and the society; we Westerners go on doing what every one has always been doing, that is growing down there collective-things that may end up being nature out there and society up there. There has never been any modern world (Latour, 1988). Still, there are many differences between various productions of collective-things, but they are probably no more than differences of scale like so many loops of a spiral (Serres, 1987); to bigger collectives more objective natures; to smaller collectives, more subjective natures. Comparative anthropology may start from good, and may at last be symmetric. Once we enter the non-modern world (and again this is not a new era but only the retrospective discovery that we never entered the modern eras, that no Copernican revolution has ever taken place) we are able to understand why the main philosophical schools are so inadequate to help us doing our empirical field studies of science- society-making. Everything hinges upon what to do with the point P in figure 3. What was in the 17th century the settlement of a dispute over the authority of humans and nonhumans, a mere distinction between two regimes of representation (Shapin and Schaffer, 1985), became a separation with Kant s Copernican Revolution. Kant had not finished writing up his modern Constitution, when dialectical philosophers tried to overcome the radical distinction between the object-pole and the subject-pole he had proposed. Instead of retracing his
+19 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 19 steps, however, they pushed the Critique further. Not only did they maintain the ternary structure Kant had offered, they elevated the distinction between object/subject to the rank of a contradiction. This contradiction was then solved by letting the object and the subject overcoming each other in turn, making a synthesis out of the two. The strength of the spring, the strength that made the whole dialectical machine tick, was directly related to the distance between the pure object and the pure subject. Far from dissolving the two opposing positions, dialectics made good use of absolute contradiction to produce history out of it. The worst thing that could happen to a dialectician would have been to dissolve for good the dichotomy that made us modern. While, with Kant, a trace was left clearly visible of the radical move that built up the separation between object and subject, no such trace remained in dialectics. Overcoming the distinction made it invisible and for ever impossible to overcome. The power of negativity became a fantastic denegation of this quandary. Dialectics at least tried to span all the ontological states and to embrace nature and society in a single narrative. Not so later, with the many schools of phenomenology and with existentialism. Although intentionality was supposed to do away with the object-subject dichotomy, it was more like someone whose legs are stretched between two boats that are pulling apart. The tension was so extreme that, in effect, intentionality was alloted to humans. As to things out there, emptied of any meaning, will, intentionality, or even being, they had to fend for themselves. They had to wait for meaning to be granted to them by an intentional consciousness. Of course, in a wellbalanced minuet, the other side was taken over by the many schools of thought who naturalized the whole question and transformed collectives, cultures, languages and ideas into parts of the material world of mindless things. Materialism, biologism, evolutionary theory, behaviorism, evolutionary epistemology, neurosciences, all these attempts, no matter how interesting, are nothing more, according to the geometry of our diagram, than a folding along the vertical plane of symmetry. The distance to P remains the same. For science students, not much is gained by merging the Subject/Collective pole into the Nature pole. The practice of science, its historical production, remains as invisible as it does with phenomenology (Bradie, 1986). Still, phenomenology and evolutionary theory remained remarkably useful for science studies compared to what was to come later. Modernist philosophers are now trying to save us from the perils of post-modernism by widening still further the gap that Kant already made so large. Habermas,
+20 48-ONE MORE TUREN-GB 20 for instance, strives to render as incommensurable as possible the free speech situation of human actors, on the one hand, and the technical efficacy of mindless non-human agents on the other. Like Kant, he makes it impossible to focus on what is in the middle, to study empirically the fabric of sciencesociety tangles, but what was a tragedy in Kant becomes a farce with the modernists, since the number of quasi-objects thus ignored has become gigantic. Every issue of our world is tying science, society and technology together, but those ties are said to be unlawful. They should not exist. The entire enterprise of the modernists eventually collapses and it is only by carefully abstaining from any sort of empirical work on science and technology that Habermas and his followers have been able to maintain the incommensurability of humans and non-humans. Every minute in laboratories scientists and engineers make them commensurable, but to see this one has to move closer to the centre, closer from down there, one, that is, has to become non-modern! I have not found a word to describe what the relation has become in the hands of the honest Habermas s critics: the ugly term hyperincommensurability might be fitting for the ugliest philosophical movement of the post-moderns who cannot any longer even take their own Critical stand seriously. Disappointed rationalists, they share all the features of rationalism except hope; children of the Critique, they maintain the will to denounce and debunk, but have no longer any grounds to do so, and turn the critical stand against themselves. What all the other schools had desperately striven to maintain, that is, some kind of possible, even nostalgic, relation with the other side, is now broken. Scientism and technicism now freely alternate with extravagant claims about societies and language-games, and self-destructive and self-deprecating jokes. Science and technology production, the making of natures and societies, is so far off-camera now, that they cannot even understand what science studies is about. The only nice thing about post-modernism is that there is nowhere else to go after it, and that it brings to a close the whole modern enterprise. With post-modernism, we have finally reached the breaking point of the whole Critique. Everything happens, as if the main schools of philosophy had tried to avoid the consequences of the growth of science and technology. The more intermediary cases there are, the more distant are the two poles of nature and of society. A distinction becomes a separation then a contradiction then an inreconciliable tension, then an incommensurability, to end up in complete estrangement. Let the tangles of sciences and societies grow and the philosophers will tell you that they should not exist. Enough AT COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL
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+While pets are amazing buddies, there might be times when your pet’s behavior is unpredictable and also undesirable. Every Dog Training Center Danvers Ma
+Possibly you’ve attempted educating them, however you do not see any type of adjustment in their actions. Or possibly you’re searching for direction on how to correctly train them.
+Be it managing your aggressive young puppy or fixing his bad habits, toenailing pet dog training isn’t a piece of cake.
+More the reason for you to select a suitable training program that helps you to find out the knowledge of your pet and use it to train him. Most of the training systems available rely on dominance and actually fall short to provide what they promise despite you paying a ton of money.
+Read on for my Brain Training for Dogs review to discover just how this program can aid improve your pet dog’s obedience.
+What is Brain Training for Dogs?
+Brain Training for Dogs, is an on the internet program for training your dogs to come to be much more loyal. This program eliminates aggressive actions as well as makes your pet dog extra responsive to your commands with the right mental stimulation and also guideline.
+This program likewise covers attention deficit disorder, impulse control, as well as excessive barking issues, amongst numerous others. It entails schooling your pet via a series of professionally crafted ready enhancing their obedience and behavior.
+Brain Training for Dogs is a straightforward strategy for opening your pet dog’s natural knowledge.
+You will certainly be impressed at just how quickly problematic habits goes away. This will certainly make your dog begin paying attention to you.
+Brain Training for Dogs program involves distinct methods that have helped lots of pet proprietors throughout the years.
+The systematic and also structured strategy in the program enables you to actually get rid of any kind of obstacle of training animals from the comfort of your home. Every Dog Training Center Danvers Ma
+Why do you require it?
+There are lots of methods to figure out whether your dog requires training.
+You ought to think about taking Brain Training for Dogs if your pet is doing any one of the following:
+- Doesn’t listen to your commands
+- Is hostile
+- Barks nonstop
+- Pulls on the leash
+- Chews on points he should not.
+- Jumps on other individuals.
+- Get on you also when not requested for.
+- Gets excessively delighted.
+- Whines constantly.
+- Has an anxiety of specific noises.
+- Gets nervous frequently.
+That produced the program?
+Before grabbing any type of program it was very important for us to find out about the writer in brief, as the only negative factor concerning seeking a remedy online is coming across numerous scams. Adrienne Farricelli is the owner of this program, her excellent qualifications had practically persuaded us that the info on this training course would certainly be half respectable.
+She is an expert Certified Pet Dog Trainer– Knowledge Assessed and obtaining this credential isn’t very easy. As well as she has actually been dealing with canines for the last 15 years (because 2006), presently she is running a cage-free boarding and also educating business.
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+Exactly How does Brain Training for Dogs function?
+Adrienne Farricelli described this training course as “establishing your canine’s covert intelligence. As well as the reason that this program is effective is as a result of its force-free pattern and positive support as while searching for a service online we found different programs that were based on punishment or teaching you just how to dominate your pet. Obviously, no one must go all out as we don’t need to be difficult on our adorable family pets as well as those techniques aren’t effective anyhow.
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+I’ll tell you now! if you wind up purchasing this course, after that you are assured to not fall short of info. There’s actually bunches and lots of info which can be a little bit of a disadvantage as you’ll never ever actually find the moment to survive it.
+Heres a bulleted checklist of what you get: (extracted from program page).
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+- Brainteaser video games.
+- Troubleshooting segments of the program.
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+As I said previously, one point you are not short of in the program is details. It’s actually a foolish amount of information which in some cases can affect the high quality of an item. I’ll allow you make that decision on your own though, so here are a few advantages and disadvantages.
+Pros
+- Economical.
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+- Experienced Trainer.
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+- Easy to Follow.
+In this program, the pets are educated by mental stimulation. Another major benefit of taking this program is its detailed treatments and also its special training method that is really straightforward as well as very easy to comprehend.
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+Something Needs to Change: A Call to Make Your Life Count in a World of Urgent Need by David Platt. Multnomah. 224 pages. 2019
+****
+In Something Needs to Change, you get exactly what you would expect out of a David Platt book – to be challenged biblically to get out of your comfort zone and take action. He takes a different approach in the writing of this book, one of the best I’ve read this year. He uses an experience – a trek through multiple trips with a few men on Himalayan trails – rather than basing the book on his sermons. On his trips, he came face to face with men, women, and children in urgent spiritual (those who have never heard of Jesus), and physical (illness, disease, hunger, trafficking), need, and tries to understand what it all means for his life. He knows that it must mean something, as certainly he’s not supposed to see and hear these things and then go on with business as usual in his life. I experienced the same feelings as I read this book about these urgent spiritual and physical needs.
+In the book, we follow the author and his friends on their trek as they see faces and touch people. The region that he travels to includes about nine million people. Out of that nine million, there are probably less than one hundred followers of Jesus. He writes that the reality is that most of the people have never even heard of Jesus. The area is the birthplace of both Hinduism and Buddhism. Throughout the book, the author shares scripture from Luke’s Gospel that he was reading on his trek, along with his journaling. Because the book is intended to be an experience on the Himalayan trails, the author includes a few questions for reflection at the end of each day of the trek to help the reader make the most of their own journey.
+Click on ‘Continue reading’ for:
+BOOK REVIEWS ~ More of this review and reviews of…
+~ 5 Minutes in Church History: An Introduction to the Stories of God’s Faithfulness in the History of the Church by Stephen J. Nichols
+~ A Company of Heroes: Portraits from the Gospel’s Global Advance by Tim Keesee
+BOOK NEWS ~ Links to Interesting Articles
+BOOK CLUB ~ The Gospel According to Jesus by John MacArthur
+I’M CURRENTLY READING….
+The author addresses honest questions he has as a pastor as he experiences the trek. The world, and his life in it, make no sense to him. He knows that there is a God, and he knows He is in control of all things, but why has he received such blessing when so many others haven’t? He realizes that what the villages and the people in them need most is the gospel. They also need the church in them, but not an American version of church; they need a biblical version of church.
+The author prays that God will help him do whatever He wants him to do with all He has given him, a prayer that we could all pray. He asks the reader what if each of us really considered all the ways we might play a unique part in the spread of the gospel where it has not yet gone. A challenging question is what should we do with the wealth and privilege we have. He tells us that ignorance of the poor and of the opportunities we have to help the poor is no longer possible. Neither is indifference.
+He tells us that the book has missed the mark if our lives end up looking just like it did before we read it. If we know that people are suffering both physically and spiritually like this, then we are accountable before God for what we do (or don’t do) in response. He writes that God has created our lives to count in a world of urgent need.
+The author concludes the book with a challenge:
+- Work Hard to Help Well Amid Earthly Suffering
+- Work Hardest to Keep People from Eternal Suffering
+- Be the Church God Calls Us to Be
+- Run the Race God Calls You to Run
+He encourages us to live with a holy sense of urgency, as if today could be our last. He challenges us that for Jesus’s sake, to let gospel reality in our heads fuel gospel fervency in our hearts that leads to gospel urgency in our lives. He concludes with the question “What something needs to change in our lives to effect change with the hope of Jesus in a world of urgent spiritual and physical need?”
+Below are a few of my favorite quotes from the book:
+- God didn’t design the gospel of Jesus to be confined to our minds and mouths in the church, yet disconnected from our emotions and actions in the world.
+- We need to dare to come face to face with desperate need in the world around us and ask God to do a work deep within us that we could never manufacture, manipulate, or make happen on our own.
+- God is calling me to new heights of love for him and others. To a kind of love that goes beyond all my religious learning or sense of religious responsibility. To a kind of love only God can create. A kind of love that causes you to change the plans you might have had for your life or your family or your future. A kind of costly, uncomfortable love that’s neither complacent nor content to protect yourself from the needs of those around you.
+-!
+- Would you and I be content with belonging to a community that is simply committed to seeking God, loving each other, and sharing the good news of God’s love with the world around us no matter what it costs us? Isn’t this the essence of the church according to God’s design?
+- Devotion to Jesus means denial of oneself and death to one’s thoughts, desires, plans, and dreams. According to Jesus, following him means making him your entire life.
+- The life of a Christian is always costly—for people who are actually following Christ.
+- One of the greatest needs not just in the church in the Himalayas but in the place where I live is for us to open up our Bibles with fresh, unfiltered eyes and ask, “Are we really doing church the way this Book describes it?”
+- You are in your job, your school, your neighborhood, or your apartment complex with the gifts, skills, abilities, and resources you possess by divine design. God has sovereignly given you unique opportunities for the spread of gospel hope in the world around you. Open your eyes to opportunities you have to use your time, your money, and your talents to spread the gospel where it hasn’t gone and to serve people who desperately need to see and feel God’s love face to face.
+5 Minutes in Church History: An Introduction to the Stories of God’s Faithfulness in the History of the Church by Stephen J. Nichols. Reformation Trust Publishing. 148 pages. 2019
+****
+This book is based on the author’s popular podcast of the same name, with the chapters originally being episodes on the podcast. The book offers a series of postcards of people, places, events, artifacts, dates and ideas. The forty short chapters are divided equally over the following categories:
+- The Early Church
+- The Middle Ages
+- The Reformation
+- The Modern Age
+The book contains chapters on some familiar subjects – Spurgeon, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and Edwards, for example, as well as some that you might not expect – the catacombs, the Bible that Shakespeare used, Robinson Crusoe’s conversion and the relationship between Ben Franklin and George Whitefield. One chapter that I particularly enjoyed was on cathedrals, reading this shortly after visiting a few of the great cathedrals of Great Britain.
+I love history, particularly church history, and really enjoyed this short book. I’m hoping that the author will make a series of these books.
+A Company of Heroes: Portraits from the Gospel’s Global Advance by Tim Keesee. Crossway. 284 pages. 2019
+****
+The author is the founder and executive director of Frontline Missions International. I’ve enjoyed and appreciated his excellent ten-part video series Dispatches from the Front. Much of this book has the feel of those videos as he travels around the world to visit believers. These believers are heroes to him, and they should be to us as well. They trusted him to tell their stories despite the risks they face as they live on mission in hard places. He has shared jungle paths, desert roads, and city streets on five continents with these believers. They are heroes for the ways in which they magnify the grace and power of the risen Christ. They are foot soldiers in the long campaign as Christ builds his church across the centuries and among all peoples. The author writes that every time he goes to another corner of the world and sees the church growing and the gospel changing lives, his view of God gets bigger.
+The author also introduces us to some of his heroes from the past. Some of those heroes are his father and mother, Pastor Frank Washburn, Amy Carmichael and William Carey. He writes that whether well-known or unknown, past or present, these stories are important reminders that the gospel does not only reach across the globe, but it also spans generations and centuries. The ones he writes about in this book are those whose lives and impact he’s had the opportunity to trace during his travels. The stories that we hear about come from the author’s journals of his travels to places such as Jerusalem, China, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Turkey, Salt Lake City, Utah, Oxford, England, Philippines, Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Indonesia, Cambodia and Laos.
+The people he writes about are ordinary men and women who have an extraordinary Savior. Their stories of courage and perseverance are both heartbreaking and encouraging. I highly recommend this book for all believers.
+- Book Review: J-Curve by Paul Miller. Mark Redfern reviews J-Curve: Dying and Rising With Jesus in Everyday Life, the new book by Paul Miller. He writes “J-Curve is a refreshing reminder that true spirituality is earthy spirituality.”
+- Os Guinness. Os Guinness joins The Eric Metaxas Radio Show, to discuss his new book Carpe Diem Redeemed.
+- Why Matt Chandler Chose to Suffer Publicly. On this episode of The Gospel Coalition Podcast, Matt Chandler joins Collin Hansen to talk about his own experience of suffering, which he tells in a new book Joy in the Sorrow: How a Thriving Church (and Its Pastor) Learned to Suffer Well.
+- David Platt Insists Something Needs to Change. On this episode of The Gospel Coalition Podcast, Collin Hansen interviews David Platt about a trip he took to the Himalayas, where physical and spiritual needs collided, and his eyes were opened to the urgency of reaching the unreached..
+This week we look at Chapter 1 ‘What Does Jesus Mean When He Says, “Follow Me”?’ Here are a few takeaways from the chapter:
+- Jesus is Lord. That is the single, central, foundational, and distinguishing article of Christianity. It is also the first essential confession of faith every true Christian must make.
+- The belief that someone could be a true Christian while that person’s whole lifestyle, value system, speech, and attitude are marked by a stubborn refusal to surrender to Christ as Lord is a notion that shouldn’t even need to be refuted.
+- You cannot remove the lordship of Christ from the gospel message without undermining faith at its core.
+-.
+News from the Front Office
+As many of you have noticed, our Winter-Spring Activity Guide went through a dramatic makeover! We look forward to continuing this same look and design with our upcoming Summer Guide to provide you with an organized format which will help you find your favorite classes and also help you discover new class to try!
+We are working hard at finalizing our summer programming and we are excited for you to see another Activity Guide packed with many amazing classes, activities, leagues and community event opportunities. Keep an eye out for our Summer 2019 guide being mailed out and posted on our website at the end of the month!
+CBS 58 Spotlights our very own Mary Blandino!
+This is a call for action to all seniors and young at heart....to age stronger with us.
+Mary Blandino, Open Badminton and Open Pickleball volunteer coordinator for the WAWM RCS is an inspiration for all of us. As a retired educator and coach in the school district and with our department, many have had the opportunity to benefit from Mary's knowledge, passion, teaching and coaching. We strongly encourage all of our senior friends and Young at Heart to take Mary's advice and keep yourself physically, mentally and socially active so that you too can age stronger. Register today for one of our many program offerings and let Mary motivate you to move. Do you have a talent or skill that you would like to share with others, please let us know. Stay active by connecting with your Recreation and Community Services Department.
+Family Events
+Parent/Child Mini Prom
+Thank you to all the couples that joined us for our Annual Parent/Child Mini Prom. The night was full with smiles, laughs and some pretty spectacular dance moves.
+Parent/ Child Superhero Spectacular
+Lane Intermediate
+It's a plane, it's a bird....no it's a night of fun! Create a dynamic duo with your child and spend the night testing your super powers and dance moves. Come dressed as your favorite duo or make up your own. Are you ready to save the day?
+F 3/15
+7 - 8:30 pm
+Per Couple: $12 / $18 NR
+Early Childhood
+We have some wonderful classes starting this month, don't miss out, sign-up now!
+Mondays, Starting March 11th At Irving School
+Start Smart Baseball -- 5:30 - 6:30 pm,
+3-5 year olds w/Adult
+Engineer Exploration -- 6:45 - 7:45 pm, 4-7 year olds w/o Adult
+Mondays, Starting March 25th at Franklin Fieldhouse
+Dance Ballerinas -- 9:15 - 10:00 am, 2-4 year olds w/Adult
+Dance Ballerinas -- 6:30 - 7:15 pm, 2-4 year olds w/Adult
+Tumble Bugs -- 10:30 - 11-15 am, 2-4 year olds w/Adult
+Tumble Bugs -- 5:30 - 6:15 pm, 2- 4 year olds w/Adult
+Tuesdays, Starting March 19th at Franklin Fieldhouse
+ZoomZoom-Planes & Trains - 9:30 - 10:30 am, 2.5-4 year olds w/Adult
+Fairytale Playtime -- 11:00 - 12:00 noon, 2.5-4 year olds w/Adult
+(Both boys and girls are welcome to these classes)
+Wednesdays, Starting March 13th at Franklin Fieldhouse
+Toddlers Tales and Talents -
+9:00 - 10:00 am,
+1.5-4 yrs w/adult
+Books & More with Baby - 10:30 - 11:30 am, Newborn to 18 months w/adult
+Pint-Size Picassos - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, 1.5-4 yrs w/adult
+Mushy Gushy, Sticky-Icky Smelly Fun- 6:45 - 7:45 pm 1.5 - 4 yrs w/adult
+Thursdays, Starting March 14th at Franklin Fieldhouse
+Music: Listen, Make & Move - 9:00 - 10:00 am, 2-4 yrs w/adult
+Growing up WI Style - 10:30 - 11:30 am, 2-4 yrs w/adult
+FRIDAYS MINI MARVELS at Franklin Fieldhouse
+9:30-10:30 am
+1.5 - 4 yrs w/adult
+One-day theme based class that includes crafts, stories, games and movement activities. You can register for one class or as many as you want. Themes for February are:
+March 8th -- Penguins
+March 15th -- Weather
+March 22nd -- Hippos
+March 29th -- Dragons
+Come one come all and have some great FUN at mini marvels.
+Who ever said anything about children in their terrible two's? Come join the WAWM RCS Dept. early childhood teacher, Ms. Al, Friday March 8th or Friday March 15th from 6:30-7:30 pm to learn and share successes and challenges of Terrific Two's, Thankful Threes and Fearless Fours.
+Visit our website at
+and Sign-up now so these classes don't get cancelled!
+Dance
+The WAWM RCS Dept. Annual Dance Classes recital will be at Nathan Hale on:
+Friday, March 15th at 6:30 pm
+Saturday, March 16th at 1:00 pm
+Mark your calendars to you can get a seat to come see the wonderful performances.
+Tickets available at the door.
+Youth Enrichment
+Snow Fun Experience 2019
+There's been "Snow" much fun this winter and we had a blast at Sun Burst Winter Park. The group of 3
+rd
+- 8
+th
+graders had a memorable time, some trying snowboarding/skiing for the first time and some who handled the slopes like pros! A huge THANK YOU to all the participants that joined us for our Snow Fun, they were all well-behaved, respectful, kind and willing to try new snow experiences!
+Teen Union - Spring Break
+Don't have any exciting plans this Spring Break for your 6
+th
+- 8
+th
+grader? Join the WAWM RCS Dept. for our trips for the Intermediate School Students. Each day will be a new adventure, check out the flyer for more details. This isn't your average day off camp, it's a day of adventure and fun!
+Slime Party 8+yrs
+Irving Fieldhouse
+Who's ready to get messy? It's oozy, slimy and sooo much fun! We will create a variety of slimes that will be a nice addition to your collection at home. It's slime time!
+W
+3/20
+$15 / $23 NR
+Youth Sports
+Congratulations to our 6th-8th Grade Boys Rec Basketball Tournament Champions the Clippers (Red) and the Runner-ups Spurs (White).
+Thank you to all of other teams on a great tournament and season; Warriors (Yellow), Bulls (Black), Bucks (Green) and the Cavs (Orange)
+Thank you
+to all of my 5k-8th grade boys and girls basketball staff it was a great season and I want you all to know your hard work did not go unnoticed. It is not always the most fun job but great job!
+Thank you
+to all of our volunteer parent coaches who made our Rec basketball leagues a success! Your time and dedication is greatly appreciated without you it would be very difficult for our programs to be so successful.
+Indoor Soccer/Futsal
+SPOTS ARE FILLING UP QUICK!
+Don't forget to sign up for boys and girls 5k-3rd grade indoor soccer and 4th-8th grade indoor futsal! Programs begin Saturday, March 9th and the coaches meeting is Tuesday, March 5th. What are you waiting for our leagues are for all skill levels and abilities!
+Thank you
+to everyone who came out and participated in our annual local free throw contest. As always is was great to see families come together and have fun. Check out these pictures we have one girl in her pajamas and Coach Nycz from Central in some friendly competition with some of Centrals student athletes.
+Adult Enrichment
+Women's Self Defense 14+ yrs
+Ms. Al - Frank Lloyd Upper Gym
+Have a feeling something isn't right? Ms. Al will share helpful tips on how to become better aware of your surroundings while helping you gain confidence. Simple escape techniques will be demonstrated.
+Sat 3/9
+12 - 4 pm
+$15 / $23 NR
+Trip
+Mystery Trip
+Nathan Hale Commons - West Entrance
+Are you up for an adventure? Allow us to plan your trip! You will not know where we are going but we will have your travel itinerary and your experience planned for you. What could the Mystery be? Could it be a city? A festival? A museum? A tour? Who knows, but it will be a good time. We will travel by bus to wherever the Mystery is located. The bus will depart from Nathan Hale at 9am. Are you ready to solve the Mystery?
+Sat 3/23
+9 am - ???????
+$30
+Adult Exercise
+Lots of classes being offered and always willing to have people sign up anytime during the session. Please call Linda Gritzmacher at 604-4911 and she can help you get involved in some wonderful fitness opportunities.
+Classes which will be beginning in March are:
+Mondays
+Walk w/Ease
+POUND
+Senior Morning Stretch
+Total Stretch
+Cardio Kickboxing
+Tuesdays
+Forever Fit
+RIPPED
+Hatha Yoga
+WERQ
+Chair Yoga for Healing
+Yoga Right Now
+Crunchtime
+Line Dancing
+Beginner Yoga
+Wednesdays
+POUND
+Chair Yoga for Seniors
+Total Stretch
+Thursdays
+Morning Stretch
+Zumba Gold
+RIPPED
+Perfect Balance
+"Define" Butz, Gutz & Weights
+Please visit our website at
+for times and register now!
+Adult Sports
+Adult Softball
+Men's Summer Softball Leagues are now taking registrations for both new and returning teams. Due to field renovations taking place on Thomson this summer, all leagues will take place Monday through Thursday evening at Liberty Heights Park. Space is very limited so call our main office today to register at 604-4900.
+1205 S. 70th Street, First Floor, West Allis, WI 53214
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+‘The mixed-green salads—for sure, you can blame me for them,” says Alice Waters. “We were doing those very early on. I think lettuce was my first passion. I was bringing seeds over in the early 70s from France and planting them in my backyard, wanting a French kind of salad, with frisée and mâche. I’m sure I have contributed to the awful demise of the concept of mesclun, just by promoting it in many, many, many ways. And now, of course, one of those big companies has grabbed onto the idea, and they cut up big lettuces and put them in a bag, mix them up, and call them mesclun. Who is it—Dole pineapple or somebody?”
+There are many more things for which Waters and/or the restaurant she co-founded in 1971, Chez Panisse, can take credit: the mantra of “fresh, local, seasonal ingredients” now chanted by any chef or home cook of integrity; the high profile the organic movement currently enjoys, particularly where professional cooks are concerned; the popularization of such gourmet name brands as Laura Chenel’s Chèvre and Niman Ranch meats; the formalization of the position of “forager,” the person at a restaurant whose job it is to seek out the best local ingredients and establish working relationships with farmers and suppliers; and the early careers of, to name but a few chefs of national reputation, Jeremiah Tower, Judy Rodgers, Deborah Madison, Mark Miller, Paul Bertolli, and Jonathan Waxman.
+Chez Panisse is a pretty but unassuming place that sits on an O.K. but not particularly attractive stretch of Shattuck Avenue in the northern part of Berkeley, California. It doesn’t feel like “an important restaurant”—there’s a downstairs dining room done up in woody Mission style where a single bill of fare is served at a set price every night, and an upstairs café with an à la carte menu and an open kitchen where you can watch the cooks work the grill and bake pizzas in the wood-burning oven. The waiters are friendly without being affrontingly informal, and the prices are eminently fair—the most a meal can cost (as of this writing) is $85 a head for a weekend-night prix fixe, or about a third of what you’ll end up paying at the French Laundry or Alain Ducasse. The overall Chez Panisse experience is, in a word, unpretentious.
+Yet, paradoxically, no restaurant in America has inspired, yea invited, more cultish worship and precious food-crit overdrive. Chez Panisse is the ultimate manifestation of the baby-boomers’ contribution to the American food revolution, tracing its bloodlines directly to the Free Speech Movement, which rocked the University of California’s Berkeley campus in late 1964. As with all things great and boomerish—the rock music of the 60s, the civil-rights movement, Rolling Stone magazine in its heyday—the magnitude of Chez Panisse’s achievements is tempered by a certain cloying self-aggrandizement. This is a restaurant that never lacked a sense of its own importance, and was celebrating its birthday with commemorative limited-edition posters as early as 1973.
+“We’ve always had this joke, those of us who have been exposed to Chez Panisse or worked there, that Alice thinks she invented food,” says Bill Staggs, who joined the restaurant’s staff as a cook in 1972 and wound up a maître d’, working there on and off until 1993. Not that Waters is the only culprit; in February 1973, when the restaurant was desperately in need of a new chef, she met her match in Jeremiah Tower, a strikingly handsome libertine full of vim, vigor, vintage Krug, ambitious menu ideas, royalist pretensions, and himself. Tower would soon emerge as the Lennon to Waters’s McCartney, the combustible half of a wondrously complementary partnership that would produce magical results but engender perpetual arguments (even among those who had never met either person) over who deserved credit for what.
+‘Alice and I gave frequent dinner parties,” says David Goines, who was Waters’s live-in boyfriend in the mid- to late 1960s. “It became more and more obvious that what was needed were ingredients that we couldn’t get, or ways of cooking that weren’t common. The whole trend of American family cooking, since the 1940s, had been toward faster and easier, and things that were already prepared. It was gradually whittling away the very essence of what it meant to cook dinner for your family. It’s like the story of the farmer who decided that his mule was eating too much, and he gradually fed the mule less and less. And just when he’d trained the mule to live on nothing, the damn mule died on him. That’s kind of what’d happened to American family cooking.”
+In 1966, the year he and Waters became a couple, Goines was an intense, bespectacled kid with a stentorian speaking voice and deeply held convictions—not just on food but on civil rights and free speech. He had been, in fact, one of the prime movers in the Free Speech Movement (F.S.M.), which erupted into a national story in the autumn of 1964, when student activists rebelled against the University of California at Berkeley administration’s banishment of political groups from campus. Goines was among those who prevented the police from carting off a fellow Berkeley agitator named Jack Weinberg (who later coined the aphorism “Never trust anyone over 30”). Surrounding the squad car that was to take Weinberg to police headquarters, Goines and his colleagues staged an unplanned sit-in that grew bigger and bigger as it lengthened to 32 hours. Another student and F.S.M. firebrand, Mario Savio, climbed onto the roof of the marooned vehicle and announced he was “publicly serving notice that we’re going to continue direct action” against the school. The next day, photos of Savio atop the car were all over the nation’s papers.
+Alice Waters didn’t yet know Goines at this point, but he was precisely the kind of non–Ken doll she’d hoped to meet when, in January of 1964, she transferred—indeed, fled—up north from the University of California’s Santa Barbara campus with three of her fellow disgruntled sisters at the Alpha Phi sorority. “The women we’d met in Santa Barbara were all lined up to get married when they were 22,” says Eleanor Bertino, who roomed with Waters on both campuses and also had been her classmate for one year at Van Nuys High School, in Southern California. (Waters grew up in Chatham, New Jersey, but moved west with her family in 1961, her last year before college.) “We pledged the same sorority at Santa Barbara because it was the only way you could have a social life,” says Bertino. “Very shortly, there were four of us who were like, Oh, my God—this is not for us. There had to be something more exciting and interesting than living in a sorority. Halfway through our sophomore year, we all transferred to Berkeley. None of us were politically involved, but we just liked the fact that there was activity going on up there. I mean, we were nice girls, not radical at all. I remember going to see an English teacher of mine before I left Santa Barbara, and she said, ‘I’ll send you brownies in jail.’ I had no idea what she was talking about.”
+But it didn’t take long for the erstwhile sorority sisters to acclimate to Berkeley life. “Without being outcasts, we didn’t have to get married, and you could move in with your boyfriend, and you had the pill,” says Bertino. And when the Free Speech Movement kicked in, during their second semester there, she and Waters threw themselves into the cause, if not to the extent of getting arrested and incarcerated. “I loved the sense of community that flowed out of the Free Speech Movement and my little group of friends, and I knew I just wanted to be here,” says Waters, who, apart from a junior year abroad in France and a prolonged overseas trip in 1967–68, has lived in Berkeley ever since.
+Revolution in Taste
+Waters’s first trip to France, the site of her culinary awakening, came in 1965, the year after her political awakening. “I went to Paris and to Brittany. And that’s really what awakened me in a sensual way to food,” she says. “I hadn’t ever been enthusiastic or excited about food. My mother wasn’t really a good cook, more of a health-food person, always giving us vitamins.” Like Julia Child before her, Waters was struck that people in France “just cared about food—they cared about the buying of it and the cooking of it, no matter whether they ate at home or went to a restaurant. They bought the best bread and went to the farmers’ market two times a day, because they didn’t want the produce that had come in in the morning for the dinner.”
+Still, Waters was not yet in a position to proselytize on real food’s behalf in America; she had a few semesters to go when she returned to Berkeley. But it was a fertile time and place for an aspiring foodie. In the 1960s, the Bay Area was crawling with young radicals who, like Waters, were reconsidering their relationship with food and, in so doing, were taking an increasing interest in health-food authorities they’d earlier ignored or dismissed as old crackpots—people like the lichen-munching naturalist Euell Gibbons, whose 1962 book, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, acquired new chic, and the magazine publisher Jerome Irving (J. I.) Rodale, who was the first person to use the term “organic” in an agricultural context, and whose quarter-century-old publication, Organic Farming and Gardening, suddenly enjoyed a huge spike in readership.
+As the author Warren Belasco notes in his wry, masterly work of culinary anthropology Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry, “White versus brown was a central contrast. Whiteness meant Wonder Bread, White Tower, Cool Whip, Minute Rice, instant mashed potatoes, peeled apples, White Tornadoes, white coats, white collar, whitewash, White House, white racism. Brown meant whole-wheat bread, unhulled rice, turbinado sugar, wildflower honey, unsulfured molasses, soy sauce, peasant yams, ‘black is beautiful.’”
+Berkeley was developing its own, more accessible brand of culinary nonconformity, assaulting the “white food” status quo from a more cerebral, European angle by offering high-quality “gourmet” goods to the university community, which was full of worldly, educated people who had traveled abroad or actually were from abroad. In 1966, a cantankerous Dutchman named Alfred Peet opened a shop near Waters and Goines’s apartment, on the corner of Walnut and Vine Streets, called Peet’s Coffee and Tea. Mr. Peet, as he was universally known, had grown up in the coffee business in Holland and worked as a tea trader in the East Indies, and preached to his clientele on the importance of using high-quality arabica beans rather than the cheaper, lower-grade robusta beans used by commercial producers like Folgers and Hills Brothers. He quickly developed a loyal following among students and locals, who became addicted to his strong, deep-roasted, intensely flavorful coffee and carefully followed his precepts for re-creating his potent brew at home. (Goines remembers that he and all his friends bought hourglass-shaped Chemex filter coffee-makers from Peet, who, with characteristic severity, insisted that his coffee never be percolated.) Among Peet’s most devoted acolytes was a recent University of San Francisco graduate named Jerry Baldwin, who, after moving to Seattle, was turned on to the master’s coffee by a friend who ordered the beans by mail. In 1971, with Peet acting as their supplier and roaster, Baldwin and two of his Seattle buddies, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, made a go of it with their own coffee company, Starbucks.
+By the late 60s, Waters was teaching at a Montessori school and seriously considering opening a restaurant. She had amicably split up with Goines and was living with Tom Luddy, a film archivist. Her new boyfriend’s connections in the film world broadened her social circle considerably. Waters got to know Francis and Eleanor Coppola, who had started up the American Zoetrope studio in an old San Francisco warehouse in 1969, and, with Luddy, she traveled to the island of Noirmoutier, France, to stay as a guest of the filmmaking couple Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda. While Luddy talked movies with his hosts—the directors, respectively, of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Cleo from 5 to 7—Waters hung back in the kitchen with Demy’s mother, who prepared the sorts of gutsy, unpretentious French meals that she relished.
+In Berkeley, Waters’s dinner parties with Luddy were elaborate affairs, rich with culturati like Jean-Luc Godard and Susan Sontag and political activists like Abbie Hoffman and Huey Newton, the Black Panther leader. “It was radical chic, like Leonard Bernstein,” says Eleanor Bertino. “All these people would come through their modest little bungalow, Alice would cook this lovely dinner, then more people would come, and Tom would screen a film, and then Alice would serve Armagnac afterward, and there would be these group political discussions.”
+Luddy was also the one who turned Waters on to the films of Marcel Pagnol, in particular the director’s Marseille trilogy, from the 1930s, which the couple took in at the Surf Theater in San Francisco. The three films, Marius, Fanny, and César, follow the intertwined lives of a group of Provençal characters from youth to late middle age. Waters’s favorite character in the Pagnol trilogy, or at least the one she grew mistiest over, was Panisse, a kindly, besotted sail-maker who offers to marry Fanny when she learns she’s pregnant by another man, Marius, who has forsaken her for a life at sea. When Waters started casting about for names for her restaurant, Luddy suggested that she name it after Panisse.
+It was another of Luddy’s film buddies, a Berkeley junior professor and fledgling filmmaker named Paul Aratow, who provided the impetus for Chez Panisse to become a reality. Aratow, who with his wife had spent time in France and Italy on Fulbright fellowships, was an even more accomplished home cook than Waters, and he was willing to put up some of his family’s money to support the venture. It was he who cut a deal to buy a run-down house on Shattuck Avenue off Vine Street as the restaurant’s site—“an ugly, squat, two-story, Hollywood-type stucco apartment house that I tore apart with four or five hippie carpenters,” he says.
+Alice’s Restaurant
+Chez Panisse served its first dinner on August 28, 1971: an appetizer of pâté en croûte (an un-Provençal nod to Julia Child, whose haute, buttery tendencies were mitigated, in Waters’s mind, by Child’s boosterism of French cookery and general wonderfulness), a main course of duck with olives, a salad, and an almond tart. Waters wore a vintage beige lace dress. The kitchen wasn’t finished yet, there was insufficient silverware (Waters would return to the flea market several times that week for reinforcements), and the five waiters kept bumping into one another, because Aratow and Waters hadn’t yet figured out that the smallish dining room required only two or three. But for all the naïveté and rank amateurism, Chez Panisse’s principals knew they’d struck a nerve. “It was exactly the right historical moment for this to happen in Berkeley,” says Victoria Wise, the restaurant’s original chef, who’d taken on the job despite having no professional experience. “The educated clientele, the professors and students who had been to Europe, were waiting for a restaurant like this.”
+The fixed price the first few months was $3.95, which was both a terrific value for a four-course meal and suicidally inexpensive considering the restaurant’s high overhead—the remodeling costs, Waters’s insistence on the finest ingredients and floral arrangements, and her and Aratow’s “come one, come all” approach to staffing, which meant there were as many workers in the restaurant as there were customers in the dining room.
+Immediately popular as Chez Panisse was, it nearly didn’t survive its first year, and for a very counterculturish reason: no one had any business sense. “Those of us who were working hard figured somebody had a handle on it, that the cash flow was being properly managed—and we were wrong,” says Jerry Budrick, who was a waiter on opening night and remained on staff for 17 years, becoming the headwaiter and in-house handyman in the process. “It turned out that nobody had any idea of how much was going out compared to what was coming in. The whole operation was sliding deeper into debt.”
+The absurdly optimistic initial plan was for the restaurant to serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, “seven days a week, from seven a.m. to two in the morning,” says Waters. “That was foolishness.” The breakfast was quickly phased out, and lunch became a rudimentary mix of soups, sandwiches, and the previous night’s leftovers. But even with these cutbacks, the hours were still impossibly long for Waters, which put a strain on her health and her relationship with Luddy. “She was a total workaholic, and I was very impatient and angry with her much of the time,” he says. “She had no time for anybody—just driven, driven, driven. I wanted her to take Sundays off and be more reasonable about her health. I remember once coming to the kitchen and seeing her sitting on an upturned pot, and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ She said that she couldn’t see—she was blind. Her system had short-circuited, and she sat there maybe, like, an hour before her sight came back.”
+Luddy and Waters broke up, and Aratow, too, soon fell away, eager to devote his time to filmmaking and unable to reconcile his desire to make a buck with Waters’s high ideals, spendthrift ways, and what he calls her “china-teacup personality.” “I’d say, ‘We’ve gotta put another four tables in or we’re gonna go down!’” he says. “And she would say, ‘No, it’ll be too crowded!’ She didn’t really care about the money.”
+The restaurant’s most skilled prep cook was an elfin but temperamental artist named Willy Bishop—“the only real Beatnik I’ve ever known,” says Budrick—who started out as a dishwasher but turned out to be a maestro with a chopping knife, and who specialized in unsellable psychosexual canvases that Jeremiah Tower describes as “these wild watercolors of guys jerking off and cum flying all over the place, with Mallarmé poetry written down the side. Or people sitting on toilets, you know, blowing themselves.”
+The place was a jerry-rigged, unstable haven for otherwise unemployable people, but for all the volatility, Chez Panisse had a certain lusty, Pagnol-esque joie de vivre that was precisely what Waters was after. When it was over between her and Luddy, she moved on to Budrick, a jolly, Falstaffian sort who was known for drinking prodigiously even as he waited on tables. (“We never had any rules about drinking on duty,” he says, “but we had an unwritten rule that you couldn’t smoke marijuana, because you can’t do a restaurant on marijuana.”) Waters also made a point of maintaining warm relations with her exes. So Luddy continued to bring in filmmakers like George Lucas, Nicholas Ray, Roberto Rossellini, Satyajit Ray, and Akira Kurosawa, and Goines, in 1972, designed the first of his annual Chez Panisse posters, an Art Nouveau–evocative image of a red-haired lady sipping from an aperitif glass.
+“I do want all three of them,” Waters would say of Budrick, Luddy, and Goines in an early-80s interview with Savvy magazine, when she wasn’t yet a mother or the James Beard Foundation’s humanitarian of the year, and therefore didn’t present as carefully crafted a public persona as she later would. “I wonder about my selfishness. I just don’t want to lose them. I’m not really jealous of their women, but I want them to want me most. You know, before I begin to cook I have to touch the food. I’ll hold the leg of lamb. Touch the tomatoes. It’s the same as Jerry, Tom, or David. I want to go around and touch home base with them.”
+In 1972, though, the fun-loving abandon was taking its toll financially, and the future didn’t look good for Chez Panisse. With suppliers getting irritable about lack of payment, the restaurant seemed destined to be another failed let’s-open-our-own-place fantasy, albeit a quirkier and more hirsute one than most. Chez Panisse received a stay of execution, though, when a local woman named Gene Opton, who was a little older than Waters and ran a profitable cookwares shop called the Kitchen, agreed to come on staff as general manager, pumping some of her own money into the enterprise, too. “Alice just said, ‘We really need some help,’” says Opton. “There was a little cottage in back of the house, and in the cottage there was a desk, and it had a drawer. I pulled open the drawer, and in it were stuck all these little bits of paper for their expenses. That was their recordkeeping.” Opton did her best to straighten out the finances and took on some of the cooking responsibilities, alternating with Waters as chef even as she continued to run her shop.
+This arrangement saved the restaurant from oblivion, but it couldn’t last, not least because the sensible, straightforward Opton was an ill fit with the freak parade, and, as Budrick says, “she wasn’t Gallic. It was a French restaurant, and she was bringing influences that were more of a stern nature, Germanic stuff.” Opton confirms that she cooked “some kind of braised beef and a lovely sweet-and-sour gravy to go over it, because I do have this Alsatian background, and, to go with it, a steamed pudding that included currants. And Alice was not happy with that—it was a night that Tom Luddy brought Howard Hawks to dinner.”
+Bishop, the only kitchen staffer who consistently performed his duties with some measure of professionalism, frequently grew exasperated at the chaos and ever changing personnel, and threatened to quit on a regular basis, casting off his apron theatrically. But he couldn’t help but admire Waters’s wiles in rallying people to her cause. “Whenever she got pressured, she’d turn into a little girl, make a little high voice, and everyone would just come and help her—involuntarily,” he says. “She knew how to work that. She was like one of the Gish sisters—she dressed like that, she looked like that, she was innocent and weak. [Mimicking a pale, consumptive 19th-century heroine] ‘Oh, who’s gonna help me? Who will peel the garlic?’ And bada-boom! Here come the troops!”
+“What you had at that time was a bunch of people in the kitchen who could do one specific dish well—nobody was well rounded,” says Bishop. “When I did dinner with Alice, she would spend, like, two hours making a béarnaise, futzing around. Alice never had restaurant-cooking chops.”
+Chez Panisse had become a special place in Berkeley, and, on account of Luddy, a filmmakers’ hangout and a rubbernecker’s paradise for film geeks. But it couldn’t go on functioning like this. And it certainly wasn’t yet an important place culinarily. The wine writer Robert Finigan, who was working for the restaurant critic Jack Shelton in 1972 and soon thereafter took over his newsletter—and who would later have his own romantic dalliance with Waters (apparently during one of her hiatuses from Budrick)—characterizes the restaurant as he remembered it then as a “beef-stew-and-fruit-tart bistro for students and junior faculty. That’s all it was. The presence of Jeremiah is what changed everything. Jeremiah really made the restaurant.”
+A Towering Figure
+“Jeremiah” is, of course, the estimable Jeremiah Tower. In February 1973, though, Tower was a 30-year-old gadabout with two Harvard degrees who’d never held a proper job and was down to his last 25 bucks.
+Stressed out and backed into a corner, Waters and Opton had resorted to placing an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle that sought out “an inspired and energetic chef who will plan and cook menus weekly for a single entrée five course dinner à la Elizabeth David and Fernand Point.” Tower happened to be staying in San Francisco at the time, sleeping on the couches of his Harvard friends Michael Palmer, the poet, and John Sanger. The West Coast was something of a last resort for Tower, who, since his graduation from college, in 1965, had lived an itinerant life, using his good looks, pansexual appeal, and gift for ingratiation to insinuate himself into artistic and wealthy circles like a real-life version of Patricia Highsmith’s talented Mr. Tom Ripley.
+Unlike Tom Ripley, Tower came from a reasonably well-to-do background and had a talent beyond oleaginous charm: he could cook up a storm. Though American-born, he was reared mostly in Australia and England, spending much of his childhood in pampered solitude in grand hotels and on ocean liners while his disengaged parents—Dad a peripatetic Wasp business executive, Mom a kindly but alcoholic gardening enthusiast from a wealthy Irish Catholic family—attended to their professional and social obligations. This upbringing imbued him with both an ambiguous quasi-British accent and a precocious love of Escoffier-style grande cuisine as it was still practiced in the 1950s in places like London’s Hyde Park Hotel and the kitchens of the Queen Elizabeth.
+A true culinary-freak prodigy, the boy Tower feasted eagerly on tête de veau, calf’s head, with sauce gribiche, the classic French mayonnaise made of hard-boiled eggs, vinegar, and fresh herbs, and amused himself by splurging on treats from the food halls of Harrods and Fortnum & Mason. Tower came to understand the value of fresh, seasonal ingredients by helping out his mother with her garden in the English countryside, which yielded fantastic beans, herbs, and strawberries, not to mention the edible nasturtium flowers with which he would later adorn salads in America, kicking off one of the more ridiculous food trends of the 1980s. Tower learned to cook by observing his mother in the kitchen (she was a dab hand at the stove when she wasn’t drinking too much), intuiting his own versions of what he’d eaten in fine restaurants, and studying Larousse Gastronomique and whatever cookbooks he could get his hands on.
+At Harvard, Tower’s cooking ability attracted as much notice as his cheekbones and jawline. Underwritten by his father and the rich kids to whom he was naturally drawn, he spent prodigious sums on Château d’Yquem, the king of all Sauternes, and the finest cuts of beef, whipping up ever more elaborate meals for his louche, too-cool-for-campus circle, whose members enjoyed not only his interpretations of classical cuisine but such inventions as “consommé marijuana” (made with chicken stock, fresh basil, sea salt, pepper, and “1 packed cup marijuana stems and seeds”). Though he dabbled in student activism, Tower never came close to sharing the conviction of Waters and her crowd, declaring himself “annoyed by the crude fascism” of Students for a Democratic Society, the largest of the national student organizations. His idea of revolution was to prepare a feast for the prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn—who visited Boston while he was in grad school and, to his delighted surprise, accepted his invitation to dinner—with a menu that consisted entirely of ingredients and vintage Lafites that his friends had stolen from Cambridge shops.
+But by New Year’s Day of 1973 the jig was up. Tower was getting a bit old for the role of pretty-boy-at-large, was unable to convince anyone of his architectural genius (he specialized in designing untenable underwater habitats), and, to his humiliation, was scratching out a subsistence living as a gardener for wealthy Bay Area homeowners. Fortunately, Palmer, his temporary host, saw Chez Panisse’s want ad in the Chronicle and, mindful of his friend’s cooking prowess at Harvard, suggested that Tower pay a call to the restaurant. Which Tower, in an uncharacteristic state of nervousness and supplication, did.
+The circumstances of Tower’s hiring are a matter of debate. As he tells it, he went to Chez Panisse for a six p.m. interview, walked in, found the kitchen in a state of preparatory frenzy, and was received by a harried Waters, who pointed to a giant pot and said, “Do something to that soup”; Tower doctored the soup with salt, white wine, and cream; Waters tasted it, smiled, and shouted “You’re hired!” through the din of the kitchen; and thus began one of the most notorious stints by a chef in American culinary history.
+“That is so much a fiction. That isn’t how it happened at all,” says Opton. In her recollection, Tower was one of several candidates who were asked to provide a week’s worth of sample menus and cook an “audition” meal for the core staff: she, Waters, Budrick, and Tom Guernsey, who alternated with Budrick as headwaiter and cooked Sunday brunch. All the surviving principals save Tower support Opton’s version (Guernsey died of AIDS-related illness in 1990), but agree that Tower was far and away the standout candidate. “We almost hired someone else before him,” says Budrick, “but Jeremiah came and plopped down a month’s worth of menus and cooked this incredible meal for us. We all just looked at one another and said, Well, if he really can do what he says he can do, then this is our guy.”
+Despite his inexperience, Tower brought an instant professionalism to the kitchen, his comfortably worn East Coast authoritarianism a welcome antidote to the anti-hierarchical guilt and collectivism of the Berkeley gang. Whereas Victoria Wise played Led Zeppelin and David Bowie on the kitchen’s record player, Tower, in his pomp, took to blasting Marlene Dietrich and Italian opera—Puccini, Bellini, Rossini, Verdi. Culinarily, though, he kept his flamboyance under wraps at first, sticking to Waters and Opton’s prescribed bistro menus of quiche, French onion soup, boeuf bourguignon, and the like, so he could acclimate himself to the task of cooking for dozens of people rather than six or eight stoned dinner-party guests.
+After a few months, however, when he realized that his encyclopedic knowledge of food far exceeded everyone else’s there, Waters’s included, Tower began dipping into his vast cookbook collection, drawing upon such golden oldies as Escoffier and Curnonsky, as well as the somewhat more progressive works of the midcentury French master Fernand Point. “The newspaper ad had asked for someone who was passionate about [the English cookbook author] Elizabeth David and Fernand Point,” Tower says. “So I was looking at Alice’s historical record of two years of menus at Panisse. I just laughed to myself. Fernand Point? I mean, hardly. But since his Ma Gastronomie was one of my favorite books and always had been, I started trying to do a couple of simple things, like crème gratin, or quenelles à la lyonnaise, things like that.” Before long, Berkeleyites were being served entrées like truite jurascienne, trout cooked in rosé wine with hollandaise sauce and buttered croutons, and la brioche de ris de veau au champagne, sweetbreads in brioche pastry with champagne sauce.
+This wasn’t quite what Waters had envisioned for her haimish little community bistro, but, initially, she and Tower coexisted happily. “Generally, it worked,” says Bishop. “And it worked because this guy, Jeremiah, was so manic and insane. If he was gonna make bouillabaisse, he’d go to Chinatown and come back with, like, a six-foot conger eel: ‘Look what I got in Chinatown!’ I was like, ‘What the fuck is it?’”
+For the Beatnik dishwasher turned sous-chef, nearing 40 and accustomed to scraping by on society’s edges as an artist and sometime drummer in jazz combos, cooking with Tower brought him the greatest rush of artistic fulfillment he’d ever felt in his life. What was most extraordinary about their partnership, Bishop says, is that Tower wrote out these elaborate, themed menus, a different one for each night of the week, and sent them off to Goines to be rendered in calligraphy, printed up, and posted for public viewing a few days before they’d be served … without ever having cooked any of the dishes described.
+Which meant that every night Tower and Bishop were essentially winging it, relying on Tower’s instinctual gift for getting things to taste perfect and Bishop’s telegraphic ability to instantly absorb and execute Tower’s visions. “We’d be doing 90 or a hundred soufflés,” Bishop says, “and we only had one oven behind us and two down below, and you gotta keep that door closed. For some reason, we were always able to pull that shit off. None of us, myself included, had the slightest idea of the chemistry, what food does when it does those things. It was kind of like World War I: give the guy a gun, send him out there—and fuck him!”
+Tower is equally complimentary about Bishop’s skills. “He couldn’t taste anything,” the chef says, “because he sucked on English mints and menthol cigarettes, so he had zero palate—but he knew the workings of the kitchen. I mean, my God, if you had ever seen Willy make a duxelles out of 20 pounds of mushrooms, that’s my favorite image of him. Today, with young kids out of cooking schools, you can hear them chopping from a mile away. But Willy was a drummer, a musician. He would take two Chinese cleavers, dump the mushrooms out onto the six-foot butcher-block table, and he’d go around the table, wielding the two cleavers. Within 10 minutes, you had perfect duxelles. And the cleaver would just barely touch the table.”
+Not Your Mother’s Crème Anglaise
+If there was an air of naughtiness and decadence behind the scenes at Chez Panisse even before Tower’s arrival, by the time he was firmly in charge of the kitchen, the atmosphere was positively Caligulan. “It was so outrageous when Jeremiah was there, almost like another plane,” says Bill Staggs, who was waiting tables at the time. “There were magnums of Sauternes, and champagne all the time, and he used to keep these nitrous-oxide canisters around for whipping the cream. The waiters would take a hit of nitrous oxide before delivering the entrées to the dining room.” Tower tamped down his hangover every morning by raiding the pastry chef’s section of the fridge for crème anglaise, the thick, yolky dessert sauce, which he poured into a giant snifter and drank as his breakfast. He dates the start of his cocaine habit to the restaurant’s third birthday, on August 28, 1974. With the turnout much greater than he’d anticipated, Tower found that his energy was flagging. As word of his bedraggled state got out, he recalls, a friend of one of the waiters came back into the kitchen with a “black-leather-coated accomplice” who whipped out a big bag of blow and started cutting lines on top of the chest freezer. Re-energized, Tower returned to his ovens, in which were baking individual-size pizzas—California’s first, so he claims.
+Thereafter, Tower and Bishop were hooked. For the debauched but hyperambitious chef, cocaine actually enhanced his performance—“It was a party in the kitchen, but he controlled it, and was serious about the food,” says Staggs—but Bishop was not so fortunate or self-disciplined. As dealers started showing up at the back door with regularity, he and some of his acquaintances got into increasingly harder stuff. “We were doing opium stuffing,” he says. “You stick it up your ass. Just a quarter of a gram, a little ball, and you bypass the alimentary canal. You don’t get nauseous—you just absorb it.” Bishop’s drug problems intensified to the point where, some years later, after he’d left Chez Panisse, he was a suicidal, freebasing wreck. In an especially cruel twist of fate, given that he was revered in the kitchen for his nonpareil knife work, he wound up doing time for stabbing a man in an Oakland dive bar with his paring knife.
+“Aww, God, it was insane,” says the remorseful Bishop. “I had a knife. I was gonna go to a triple-X movie theater and stab myself. Not to kill myself, but to get attention. And then someone said the wrong thing in a bar—we were the only two white guys in a black bar—and said it again and again and again. And ‘Artistry in Rhythm’ by Stan Kenton was playing. And I was wasted.” Thanks to the magnanimous intervention of Waters, who secured him the best legal representation possible, Bishop got off lightly, with eight months in jail plus three years of probation.
+Friends say Waters frowned upon the drug scene, but she imbibed as freely as anyone and was fully involved in the Fleetwood Mac–like carnival of sexual entanglings and disentanglings. Bishop claims he slept with both Waters and Tower, “though not at the same time.” And, despite his general orientation, Tower says he had a few romantic episodes with Waters. As Tower wrote in his memoir, “Drugs were easier to organize than sex, unless it was casual, which usually meant with one another. Who else would put up with us?”
+By 1975, Tower’s theme dinners and ever more outlandish flights of culinary fancy—like his Gertrude Stein–Alice B. Toklas dinner, composed of recipes from The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, and his week of Salvador Dalí–inspired fare, such as “L’entre-plat drogué et sodomisé,” a leg of lamb “drugged and sodomized” with a mixture of Madeira, brandy, and tangerine juice injected through a syringe—started attracting the press attention he craved. Herb Caen, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist and beloved local institution, wrote up the Stein-Toklas dinner, and James Beard, America’s great gastronomical arbiter, during one of his regular trips west to teach cooking classes, paid a visit to Chez Panisse and mentioned it in his syndicated column as a “fascinating” new place to watch.
+In October of 1975, Gourmet ran a rave review of Chez Panisse by Caroline Bates, the magazine’s West Coast correspondent, hailing Tower for “joyously exploring la vraie cuisine française in all its vigor, freshness, and variety and ignoring those French dishes that turn up elsewhere with such monotonous regularity.” The Gourmet review was crucial, its appearance the juncture at which Chez Panisse gained a national reputation, and at which people with unfamiliar area codes started calling for reservations. It was also a crossroads for Bishop, who, a few months after the review appeared, threw down his apron for good, unable to abide the onslaught of what he called “food weenies,” some of whom dined with that issue of Gourmet open in their laps, hoping to find the dishes they’d read about re-created—a futile hope at Chez Panisse, where, at least in those days, no menu was ever served twice.
+The question arises: Precisely what was Alice Waters, the person most readily identified with Chez Panisse, doing as all this dazzling culinary wizardry was transpiring? “Overbooking, mainly,” says Bishop. “And then hiding in the kitchen when she overbooked, because we only had enough food for a certain number of people.” In fairness, it should be noted that the front of the house, Waters’s domain, also came in for copious praise in the Gourmet review, with Bates devoting her entire first paragraph to the atmosphere that Waters had so carefully cultivated: “It is warm with the honesty of natural wood.… Just inside the main dining room a still-life table arrangement of flowers, unblemished fresh fruit, and glistening fruit tarts suggest that this is a restaurant more interested in art than in artifice.” But the kitchen was very much Tower’s show in those days, and as the restaurant grew more successful and Tower and Waters more famous, their relationship, always volatile, suffered more blowups.
+There was a notorious episode in which Waters seated a party of four after 10 p.m. that included her then boyfriend, Robert Finigan, the restaurant critic and wine writer, even though the group had no reservation. Tower was furious—the night’s entrée, gigot d’agneau, leg of lamb, was almost sold out, and he didn’t have enough for everyone. He offered to cook someone a steak instead, but was told by a waiter that Waters, who had sat down with the group, demanded that everyone be served the lamb. “So the other three people at the table had perfect lamb,” says Finigan, “and my plate was so gristly that I couldn’t eat it. And I—politely, I think—asked the waiter to take it back to the kitchen and say to the chef that he couldn’t have intended that to be the case.” The waiter complied, but Tower, growing angrier by the minute, replied, “Tough shit!” The waiter, inexperienced and terrified of further incurring Tower’s wrath, returned to the table and announced, “The chef says to tell you, ‘Tough shit.’” Moments later, Waters stormed into the kitchen, sobbing and screaming, “Jeremiah, how could you?”
+“I was very unhappy that the waiter took Jeremiah’s comment and passed it on to Finigan,” Waters says. “You just don’t do that—you never pass this on to the customer.”
+Asked for her own assessment of the Tower era, Waters says, “That was a period of time when I was very much on the foraging side and Jeremiah was very much on the cooking side, so we fit that together. I had always intended Chez Panisse to be a simple little place. Never wanted anything more, and I still don’t want anything more. When Jeremiah came, he had a whole other vision of the food. It was just the kind of food that I … [contemplative pause] wasn’t cooking. And I was fascinated by it at the time.”
+If there’s a whiff of diplomatic evasiveness about these comments, it’s because Tower’s contribution to Chez Panisse remains a touchy subject, and the relationship between Tower and Waters remains rather tortured and complex. Tower, though he physically still looks like someone who should be “standing at the prow of a yacht,” as the Chez Panisse busboy turned baker Steve Sullivan puts it, has withdrawn from the restaurant game and acquired the gossipy mien of the late-period Truman Capote; he’s funny and unafraid to say whatever is on his mind, yet his wit and entertaining braggadocio can’t mask an abiding bitterness—in his case, over Waters’s “editing,” as he puts it, of his role at the restaurant. Waters, on the other hand, has matured into a great doer of good, America’s foremost champion of organic farming, sustainable agriculture, and healthily fed schoolchildren, beatified in a PBS American Masters special as the architect of a “delicious revolution.” As such, she comports herself with the dignity and guard-up caution of a U.N. goodwill ambassador. Yet even she can’t suppress a smirk and a roll of the eyes when a portion of Bates’s Gourmet review is read aloud to her, a paragraph that praises a course of “quenelles of fresh fish, beef suet, and marrow with a lobster sauce.”
+“That was a baroque period,” she says, smiling. “But that was his … his taste, his desire.”
+The paradox of the Tower period is that it put Chez Panisse on the map, but in many respects wasn’t representative of what the restaurant, or Waters, stood for, before or after. Some Waters loyalists, like Tom Luddy and the writer and longtime Berkeleyite Greil Marcus, go so far as to label the Tower era a ghastly aberration. “If you read Jeremiah’s menus from that time, they’re incredibly pretentious,” says Luddy. “They were going toward that Paris haute-cuisine thing that Chez Panisse later turned against. I’d go to Alice and say, ‘I can’t eat this—it’s too rich. And then there’s all this cheese coming.’” Marcus remembers going to Chez Panisse with his wife, Jenny, for a New Year’s Eve dinner in the Tower era as they’d done every New Year’s Eve since the restaurant opened. They arrived, Marcus says, to find the place bereft of their old Berkeley crowd and “packed with Jeremiah’s cocaine-dealer friends. We took one look at the crowd, and the menu, which was full of all these haute, heavy courses we didn’t want to eat, and left.”
+The price for that night’s dinner, whose main course was “prime sirloin of beef with truffles, roasted and served with a truffled Madeira sauce,” was an astounding $25 a person, not including wine—a long way from the convivial Francophile bistro that had arisen out of the Free Speech Movement. Yet those who were on the staff at the time say that Tower’s transformative effect on the restaurant is indisputable. “Anybody who says that Jeremiah made it too fancy is whistling in the wind to me,” says Jerry Budrick, the headwaiter. “All I know is we sold out every dinner. The more elegant Jeremiah made those dinners, the more the public responded. And it wasn’t just the snobby elite.”
+“There are two camps,” says Tower. “There’s someone like Darrell Corti [the Sacramento wine expert and gourmet-foods-shop owner], who sent a Sicilian Mafia funeral wreath when I did the week of Escoffier menus, saying, ‘This is the end, Chez Panisse can never be greater than this.’ And the other camp is I destroyed the little Pagnol-movie neighborhood thing. And the truth is, you know, both.”
+Right Under His Nose
+By 1976, burned out by the long hours and the tensions at Chez Panisse, Tower was trying to conjure an exit strategy. James Beard suggested that Tower take over the kitchen of Maxwell’s Plum, Warner LeRoy’s upscale pub in New York. Tower rejected that idea, having grown too fond of the ingredients and open spaces that Northern California afforded, but was intrigued by Beard’s advice to “just stick with America.” Beard had been proselytizing on behalf of American food for years, and had published his would-be masterwork, American Cookery, in 1972, but it wasn’t until Tower was feeling stirrings of discontent that Beard’s message reached him, that it occurred to him that a serious chef could, as he puts it, “use American ingredients for themselves rather than as substitutes for unobtainable French ones.”
+The epiphany occurred when Tower, as was his wont, was paging through an ancient cookbook for inspiration—in this case, The Epicurean, by Charles Ranhofer, the chef at Delmonico’s, the great restaurant of New York’s Gilded Age. One of Ranhofer’s recipes was for crème de maïs à la Mendocino, a cream of corn soup. The town and county of Mendocino were just up the coast from Berkeley, north of Sonoma. Tower remembers thinking, “What in the world was the chef of New York’s most famous restaurant doing thinking about dishes local to small regions of California?” More to the point, he wondered, “Why fret any longer about the authenticity of ‘French’ ingredients for French regional food? Why not just go shopping in Northern California and call that the region?”
+On October 7, 1976, having exhausted nearly all the regions in France and nearly all the French-cookbook authors whose recipes interested him, Tower unveiled his Northern California regional dinner at Chez Panisse, its menu entirely in English. The second course was “cream of fresh corn soup, Mendocino style, with crayfish butter.” In another nod to Ranhofer’s era, when restaurants often listed the provenance of the ingredients on the menu, Chez Panisse that night served, among other courses, “Spenger’s Tomales Bay bluepoint oysters on ice,” “Big Sur Garrapata Creek smoked trout steamed over California bay leaves,” “Monterey Bay prawns sautéed with garlic, parsley, and butter,” and “Preserved California geese from Sebastopol.” The descriptions didn’t yet have the intimacy of later years’—apart from the mention of Spenger’s, a Berkeley fish market, there was no nod by name to a supplier, à la “Bob’s turnips” and “DeeAnn’s garden greens”—but there would be no turning back. The notion of a “California cuisine” was afoot. Within a couple of years, California cuisine would be seen as a bona fide culinary movement, though its base of operations would not be Berkeley but Los Angeles, the home of the young chefs Wolfgang Puck and Jonathan Waxman, the latter a Chez Panisse alum.
+In January 1977, Tower picked up his knives and left. Chez Panisse’s kitchen was taken over by a committee led by his sous-chef, Jean-Pierre Moullé, an actual Frenchman and the first employee of the restaurant to have authentic culinary training. Tower and Waters remained cordial enough for him to make a brief return engagement at the end of 1978, when she was going to be away and wanted someone she could trust to oversee Moullé and his staff. But in the aftermath of that stint, she would tell New West magazine that Chez Panisse, under her stewardship, was benefiting from a shift away from the “old conservative menus” (for “conservative,” read “fancy”) of the previous regime. Tower was wounded, telling a reporter that, in the beginning, “Alice didn’t know a little vegetable from a rotten one,” and the skirmishes in the press would continue for at least a decade—most notably in 1982, when the first Chez Panisse cookbook, the Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, was published, and Tower felt his contributions weren’t sufficiently acknowledged. Later, from his perch at Stars, the large, vibrant San Francisco restaurant he owned and ran in the 1980s and early 1990s, Tower would deploy the phrase “too Berkeley” as his favorite pejorative.
+But even Tower can still admire Waters for sticking to her vision. “She deserves credit for being in love with food, being in love with the neighborhood bistro that should be part of everyone’s life,” he says. “Where you can just drop in, and you say ‘Hi’ to the bartender, and you have a glass of wine that’s interesting and good and inexpensive. And just have a pizza or sit down and have a meal. That’s a Pagnol vision, a European vision—that the bistro was the heart of the village. Her vision was incredibly strong and has never wavered, really, so she deserves credit for sticking by it. To have never given up that vision, and not to have done it another way, like Wolfgang Puck, with a $378-million-a-year gross income—it’s almost unique in this part of our culinary history.”
+A mong those pulled in by the Chez Panisse mystique were Deborah Madison, the lunchtime cook who opened the vegetarian restaurant Greens and became a cookbook star; Judy Rodgers, Madison’s fellow lunch-shifter, later of Zuni Cafe in San Francisco; Mark Miller, the sous-chef and, in time, the southwestern evangelist behind the Coyote Cafes in Santa Fe and Las Vegas; and Jonathan Waxman and Mark Peel, both of whom briefly passed through Chez Panisse’s kitchen en route to stardom in L.A. at, respectively, Michael’s and Campanile. Waters, essentially, had a kitchen-staff equivalent of her friend Francis Coppola’s cast for his 1983 film The Outsiders, an assemblage of then unknowns and little-knowns that included Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Patrick Swayze. And as many a Panisser has noted, her motley collection of ex-, current, and quasi-boyfriends was itself an amazing marshaling of disparate talents that she put to good use—Goines for his Deco–Art Nouveau graphics sensibility, Luddy for his pull in the film world, Budrick for his provisioning and Mr. Fixit skills, Robert Finigan for his influence in the food press.
+“Alice was innocent and frail and weak, but at the same time, she was a bad motherfucker,” says Willy Bishop. “Her determination and her strength, hidden behind that frailty, made that place continue and continue and continue, no matter who left. And everybody left. But she didn’t. She is the woman.”
+David Kamp is a Vanity Fair contributing editor. He is co-author (with V.F.’s Steven Daly) of The Rock Snob’s Dictionary (Broadway Books).
+The Coming AI Revolution and How You Can Protect Yourself![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”content-moving” el_class=”landing_page short” css=”.vc_custom_1525461477204{padding-bottom: 50px !important;background: #d8edfd url() !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_row parallax=”content-moving” parallax_speed_bg=”2.0″]25460079050{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]It began as pure science-fiction, most notably in the 1927 film “Metropolis,” but evolving rapidly since Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Artificial Intelligence, or commonly abbreviated as AI, has been the focal point of the international community’s research and development endeavors. Indeed, we are coming closer to an age where AI is the given, everyday reality.
+At this juncture, we are no longer discussing whether or not AI will radically transform our societies and our industries; this, for better or for worse, is an inevitability. The question, rather, is who will shape our digital paradigm, and to what end purpose will they serve? Unfortunately, it’s not just a matter of innocent semantics as the inquiry raises severe ethical dilemmas.
+The nature impulse is the assumption that AI will serve an economic purpose, that many of our current mundane jobs will be replaced with robotic technology. But on the other end of the scale, AI has tremendous implications for the military industrial complex. Essentially, whichever nation leads and controls AI will have undisputed hegemonic powers.
+That’s a sobering thought for Americans, who are behind the curve in the AI race. Moreover, our multiple foreign policy “incursions” have created numerous and powerful enemies. America’s geopolitical standing has weakened substantially during President Obama’s administration, but our present policy doesn’t appear much better – we are still fighting bankers’ wars.
+But the ultimate consternation is that in many critical ways, the AI revolution has already begun. Even worse, it’s going to impact your livelihood sooner rather than later.
+Work and Careers Redefined by Robotics
+According to CrushTheStreet.com, 50% of current occupations could be either replaced or threatened with AI technology. All the more sobering is that this forecast has a timeline within this decade.
+At first glance, that may appear like fear-mongering conjecture: how can half the workforce be replaced with non-human entities? Yet by taking this understandable sentiment, we ignore critical details in our everyday lives.
+For instance, when was the last time you went to a physical store to buy a consumer-electronic product? While you may have shopped at Best Buy, chances are, you’ve done an increasing amount of shopping at e-commerce platforms like Amazon. And although a real courier came to deliver your purchase, this last vestige of the human retail experience should no longer be taken for granted.
+Amazon has notably experimented with the idea of using drones to deliver packages. Moreover, the e-commerce giant is taking control of its distribution process with their “Shipping with Amazon” program. Upon this announcement, the publicly-traded shares of UPS and FedEx tumbled in the markets. How long before the entire distribution channel is completely automated?
+Tesla seems to provide a shockingly quick answer. Although the embattled automaker has experienced severe setbacks with recent Autopilot accidents and fatalities, they’re investing significant R&D funds into their future trucking business. If AI-driven passenger cars become a reality, so too will the commercial transportation sector.
+In other words, you can kiss humans goodbye.
+Though the AI revolution sounds harshly draconian, it matters which job sector will be cut. While most people will focus on the 50% forecast, that may be a generous assessment for low-wage, menial occupations. In sectors such as cleaning and fast-food preparation, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 90% workforce reduction, or perhaps worse.
+According to CBInsights, cooks and servers face the highest risk from automation, followed by cleaners. However, movers and warehouse workers shouldn’t rejoice: they round out the top-three most endangered jobs. The only person necessary is a manager to ensure that the automated technology is running smoothly.
+As is patently obvious, lack of education and poor motivation are absolute liabilities within the digitalized and automated economy. More so than ever, people need to develop skills and a mindset that’s relevant to this inevitability.
+To better prepare you for the coming radical changes brought on by AI, here are five steps that you can take for maximum success!
+Start Your Own Business
+Branching out on your own has always been the best answer for financial success and independence. However, with AI technologies becoming more prevalent, and replacing more occupations, there has never been a better time to consider starting your own business.
+That’s because no matter how advanced AI technology becomes, its power lies in the ability to quantify. Note that many of the key buzzwords, such as “quants” or “quantum computing,” utilize the aforementioned word’s root definition. AI is a number’s game; however, human intelligence is more than just numbers.
+This applies to the entrepreneurial spirit. To deflect the negative impact of AI on the workforce, I would consider a business in an area that AI would find challenging, such as corporate accounting. While machines have taken over the personal income tax preparation (ie. Form 1040EZ) role, corporate tax is another dimension.
+Because accounting requires a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative skillsets, this is a field that will likely survive the AI revolution.
+Focus on the Theory of STEM
+Currently, the American education system is pushing STEM – science, technology, engineering, and math. While their efforts are certainly appreciated, future workers must be aware of the granularity of this situation. It is far better to focus on the theory of STEM, not necessarily its application.
+The irony of STEM education is that these sectors are responsible for the very job displacement that we’re seeing, and will continue to see. And though low-income workers will be disproportionately affected, don’t fall into the trap that only this subcategory will face economic hardships. In reality, many high-tech workers will be joining them in the unemployment line.
+What good is it, for instance, that you’re an expert at calculus? We already have machines that can run the most convoluted equations at lightning speed. Furthermore, what good is the brightest engineer? AI technology can run a brute-force attack in solving a problem, coming up with the absolute, most efficient way to address an engineering challenge.
+Instead, the new economy will need creative, outside-the-box thinkers. That’s what I mean by the theory of STEM: it’s not about doing fast, but about approaching a problem in a different way.
+BAs are No Longer BS
+Another great irony in this coming automated economy will be the prominence of the liberal arts degree. Computers can generate soundwaves through a random selection of predefined ranges and frequencies; however, what computer, no matter how advanced, can create music?
+While I have no doubt that current AI technologies can routinely beat out chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, how many computers can rival the artistry and sheer beauty of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Perhaps we may one day approach that line where technology blurs the distinction between science and the arts.
+But until that day comes – and it may not come for quite some time – there’s an opportunity for the creative thinker. Abstraction has never been a strength of AI, let alone standard computer technology. The digital world is dominated by the binary code, a series of ones and zeroes. It performs the whats, it does not ask the whys.
+In the future, we will need human rationality to guide AI technologies towards ethically-sound endeavors. Furthermore, tomorrow’s computer and AI engineers may call upon the “qualitatively gifted” to enhance technology beyond the purely mathematical and logical.
+Invest in Tomorrow
+One of the easiest, and most straightforward ways to thrive in the automated era is to invest in it; specifically, consider companies that are developing AI technologies, or are harnessing it for practical applications.
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+Embrace the Change
+Change is a binary inevitability. It will happen, and we only have two choices when confronted with it: adapt or die.
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+Rather than teaching Spanish, American schoolteachers that know C++, Python, or any number of computer languages will be in extremely high demand. Instead of translators, you will instead see the rise of IT tech support specialists.
+Yes, you will see remarkable changes, some of which will hurt. You may lose friends, neighbors, even your job you worked so hard for. But in its place is an opportunity, one that comes along once in a lifetime.
+You can accept it, and profit from it, or you can engage in a battle of futility. The choice is yours.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Prosperous Regards,
+Kenneth Ameduri
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+– in Westminster Hall at 11:26 am on 18th July 2018.
+Alert me about debates like this
+I beg to move,
+That this House
+has considered progress on protecting victims of domestic abuse in the family courts.
+It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Ryan. We are here, for what seems like the millionth time, to talk about any progress on and the still numerous problems in the family court. We have been here before. We sought approval from the Government, and made gains with them, on issues presented by the all-party group parliamentary group on domestic violence. Unfortunately, a general election then got in the way, so all the progress that could have been made was lost. It is important to mention that, because that lost progress is not just one of those things; it means that, during this intervening period, hundreds and hundreds more women are being treated poorly while we do not get our act together.
+I must say a massive thank you to Mrs Miller and my hon. Friends the Members for Hove (Peter Kyle), for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn) and, especially, for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Angela Smith). Together, as a cross-party collective, we have been fighting for an improved family court system for victims of domestic abuse for a very long time. It is a pleasure to fight alongside them.
+I must also thank the previous Secretary of State for Justice, Elizabeth Truss, who took a huge amount of flak from some quarters, some of which I think was because she was a woman. She was the only person in a ministerial post who ever really listened to us about this subject. She broke the deadlock and got the Government to agree with us, and I cannot but think that having a woman in such a position was the reason that that happened.
+I thank Women’s Aid, which has done so much campaigning in the area, and many others: this week I have received briefings from all over the place, including the Law Society, the Magistrates’ Association, Barnardo’s and SafeLives..
+My hon. Friend is making an incredibly powerful speech, and I congratulate her on securing the debate. Does she agree that that loophole in the system makes those—usually women—who have been victims of domestic violence victims twice over, not only in the attacks that they have sustained but in a court setting?
+Absolutely. It is, fundamentally, revictimisation and—if the Minister cares to browse the Equality Act 2010—illegal. There is a very real case for a public sector equality duty on the basis of gender to be made against existing practice in the family court. If such practice does not change soon, that is absolutely the route that people such as me will take, because our public sector is not meeting that duty.
+I thank the hon. Lady for securing this incredibly important debate. Does she also agree that one problem in this country is that, still, only about 30% of judges are female? In other European countries the average is much more likely to be about 50%. In this country women often feel that their voices are not heard in that environment, thereby adding insult to injury. Terrible stories are being judged in court, but sometimes the women feel that they are not getting justice, simply because people often do not understand as no one else is female.
+I absolutely agree with the hon. Lady. We have to change the nature of our justice system from one that is fundamentally old fashioned and, at its very core, fundamentally male.
+Every single one of the organisations that has been in touch with me has suggested specialist domestic abuse and sexual violence training for those involved in making judgments. Later, when I read out some of the victim testimonials, we will hear about the things that victims have put up with in court. It is as if some of those judges have never met another person, let alone know anything about domestic abuse.
+The idea that in this country—still, today, right now, in the courts—a perpetrator is cross-examining a victim of domestic abuse, perhaps in order to gain access to their children, is absolutely harrowing. James Munby, the outgoing head of the family division of the High Court, made it very clear that he wished the practice to end. It is, of course, not something that happened by accident or that we ever saw when I was working in domestic abuse services; the practice is a direct consequence of the changes to the legal aid regime made by the coalition Government and this Conservative Government. As a result, it is now the case that not only perpetrators but—we must not forget this—victims must act as litigants in person. That practice would never be allowed in the criminal courts in our land. The Ministry of Justice, whose Ministers sit across from me today, rules out the use of that practice in a criminal setting on human rights grounds, but the very same Department allows it to happen in our family and civil courts every single day.
+The hon. Lady is making an incredibly powerful case. Does she agree that it is absolutely obscene that people who need help the most, at a time of such vulnerability, are denied even the most basic support via legal aid to make their case? As others have said, that is revictimisation a hundred times over and it has to stop.
+Absolutely.. I am writing lots and lots of letters to the Legal Aid Agency to remind it of its duty to victims of domestic abuse and of the ruling on how long someone has to be free from violence or abuse. That limit was changed from two years to five years by the Government, but that was thanks once again to campaigners taking them to court—the Government did not make that change out of the kindness of their heart.
+My hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. Has there been any analysis of the long-term mental health impact on victims of cross-examination by their perpetrators? The justice system is facilitating and enabling such cross-examination.
+I certainly do not know of any. I will mention the recent study by Queen Mary University of London, in partnership with Women’s Aid, of how people are treated in the family courts. I am not aware of any Government reviews of the effect of litigants in person and, more broadly, of people being cross-examined by people who abused them, but I would certainly like to see one. If our courts and the Department are happy for that to go on, it is only right that they review whether it should continue.
+Queen Mary University of London found that 24% of domestic violence victims who had gone through the family court system had been cross-examined by their perpetrator—someone who may have raped them, kept them prisoner or made them look on while they abused their children. We have the “achieving best evidence” standards in this country. I am not sure I can remember the bit in those standards that says the best way to get evidence in a justice environment is to allow someone who is utterly terrifying and has abused the victim to question them. I am not sure that we currently meet any sort of standard for achieving best evidence.
+James Munby made it clear that the hands of family courts are tied—they simply cannot stop that cross-examination. Legislation is not in place to allow them to stop it. I know the Government want to stop it, too, and I am glad they heard our calls about that. I suggest that they do it. When the right honourable—I am not sure whether he is right honourable, and I am certainly not sure whether he is right or honourable—Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) embarrassed them on upskirting, a Government Bill was suddenly introduced to address that. It has been widely publicised that the House will sit for two days next week. I would gladly come back then to see through a piece of legislation that has been passed once already—it has already gone through rigorous scrutiny by the Clerks and the House. I would gladly pop down on a train from Birmingham to stop the cross-examination of victims of domestic abuse by their abusers.
+The second area that everyone who has been in touch with me has given a lot of attention is practice direction 12J and new practice direction 3AA. I believe practice direction 12J was reaffirmed for magistrates courts and our family court system because, frankly, it was not being followed. For those who are not as geeky as I am about the old practice directions in the family court system, practice direction 12J basically undoes the idea that someone who has been abusive has a right to see their children. That is not an automatic right, especially in cases where there is domestic abuse. Practice direction 12J gives that steer to people making such judgments. I handled hundreds of cases involving domestic abuse, and I cannot say I ever noticed that practice direction being used. I have great faith in the Magistrates’ Association, and I believe from what it wrote to me this week that that direction has been affirmed.
+I wonder whether the Minister will join me in stressing the importance of this very simple message: “If you beat, coerce, humiliate and abuse your children’s mother, you waive your right to be their father until the moment the non-abusive parent decides otherwise.”.
+I thank the hon. Lady for securing this debate and for the speech she is giving, and I send solidarity from all the women’s aid organisations in Scotland, which want this change to be made, too. I understand that in England there is a presumption that the welfare of the child is best served by the involvement of both parents. That is not the case in Scotland, where decisions are taken on the facts of the case. Does she agree that looking at each case individually—looking at the facts of the case, the situation and the risk—is a much better approach than an automatic presumption?
+I totally agree. I can only praise Scotland for the progress it has made in this area. I very much would like the Minister to look at what happens there. I am sure it is by no means perfect, but it is a lot better than what we have here.
+New practice direction 3AA requires courts to consider whether those involved in family proceedings are vulnerable and, if so, whether that is likely to diminish their participation in proceedings or—as I said—the quality of their evidence. What are the Minister and the Department doing to review the use of practice direction 12J following its reaffirmation? It has been around a long time. Can we conduct some sort of review of whether it is working or whether it needs updating, and of new practice direction 3AA? Both are key to ensuring that we can rebuild trust among victims of domestic abuse.
+The third thing that every single person who has been in touch with me has raised is the issue of special measures in the family courts, which are woefully behind those in criminal justice proceedings. In some cases,. Those are well-trodden practices in our criminal court system, but for some reason in the family court we seem unable to recognise that there is a victim. The fact that family court proceedings are civil proceedings in which both parties are considered equal does not mean that both parties are equal.
+The hon. Lady is being generous in giving way. A number of my constituents who have gone through traumatic and abusive divorces have raised concerns with me about the family court. Is it not terrible that women do not feel our legal system protects them at the time they are most vulnerable?
+I agree entirely. The plain and simple fact is that currently it does not protect them. The family court system fails victims of domestic abuse more often than it succeeds. I say that with absolute confidence.
+What does my hon. Friend consider the ramifications of that failure to be for those victims? Does she think a lack of confidence in the judicial system, and particularly in the family courts system, could give rise to people staying in a domestic violence situation, thereby prolonging their situation and perhaps causing greater damage to their health?
+There are lots of case studies in the papers in front of me where the consequence of a lack of trust or of a lack of safe and free access to our justice system is that women return. Women are now convinced that they will not win in a family courts setting. I would stay with somebody who beat me black and blue every day if it meant that I got to watch over my children and did not have to leave them alone with him. If someone has a violent partner and the choice is, “Leave them with this man, who you know is violent, or take the beating on behalf of your children,” we would struggle to find a single parent in the land who would do anything other than return.
+The worst ramifications are, of course, that we are leaving people in violent homes. My hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge has handled one of the worst cases of failings in the family courts—the case of her constituent Claire Throssell, who is a personal hero to many of us in this House, and my hon. Friend will talk about that later. The ramifications are the deaths of women and the deaths of children. That can no longer go on.
+I cannot understand why the special measures issue has not been sorted yet. It is not that hard to sort out. Every single court in the land has a robing room for the judges. How about putting the victims in there? I think the judges could put their robes on in the corridor. We manage it—I put my coat on just earlier. I have a fancy job, but I do not need a special room.
+On the issue of special measures in courts, James Munby has said:
+“In too many courts the only available special measure is a screen or curtains round the witness box. What, for example, about the safe waiting rooms for which the APPG has…called?”
+I feel that he is personally talking to me in this quote. He goes on to say:
+“The video links in too many family courts are a disgrace—prone to the link failing and with desperately poor sound and picture quality…
+The problem, of course, is one of resources, and responsibility lies, as I have said, with HMCTS and, ultimately with ministers.”
+Those are the words of the outgoing president of the family division. Special measures are something we should invest in, and we should do so immediately. I welcome whatever the Minister can say today about any schemes currently in place to improve the situation, because 61% of the women surveyed by Women’s Aid and Queen Mary University of London were offered no special measures at all in the family courts.
+Another issue that was raised was specialist support and advocacy for women going through the family justice system. I believe schemes are under way to pilot that issue up in the Northumberland area, where the brilliant Dame Vera Baird is the police and crime commissioner. There will be lots and lots of evidence of the value of the independent domestic violence adviser role in the criminal court and in community-based domestic violence services. With independent sexual violence advisers, the arguments are long ago won: having these advisers maintains victims within the process and means that they understand the process and can continue to try to get their rapists convicted.
+There is no Government scheme or nationally recognised network for women facing civil issues through the civil courts, and I might argue that there is a far greater need there, not only because of the issue of litigants in person, but because—in an era when we have no representation for a lot of these women and many do not have any legal aid—having a system of advocacy in our family courts so that victims can understand exactly where they are meant to sit and what they are meant to present is something the Government should look at funding. Independent domestic violence advisers were launched under the last Labour Government, with match funding from local authorities and the Home Office, and I recommend that the Ministry of Justice creates a similar scheme, in partnership with the Home Office, for the family courts system. Certainly, every single one of the organisations that wrote to me called for that.
+The next issue that everybody raised, which we have already touched on, is legal aid. Legal aid is currently available to victims of domestic abuse going through the family courts system, but that is still on a means-tested basis. There are all sorts of reasons why that system continues to fail victims of domestic abuse, meaning that they cannot access legal aid. The Law Society, which has written jointly with Women’s Aid to the Secretary of State for Justice, has called for a review into all the things I am talking about, but it and the Magistrates’ Association wanted me to stress today that the capital element of means-testing for legal aid is massively disadvantaging women.
+Yes, a woman may well have been left after her ex-partner has put her through the wringer and no doubt left his name on her property, and it has probably taken her two or three years to get it off. She has already been through all that process, and she has managed to maintain a home where she and her children live, and that home now means she cannot access legal aid. I am not talking about the people who buy houses around Westminster; these are people living in my constituency, where it is about £120,000 for a three-bed semi, with one car on the drive. They are not rich people, and their capital means nothing in terms of their ability to pay. We cannot for a second suggest that they should be selling their house to protect their children from a violent perpetrator, yet, seemingly, we do suggest that.
+Everybody has called for an end to the capital means test, which in many circumstances means that the equity in someone’s home should be used to fund legal costs. Of course, that is a double-edged sword, because if I were to use the equity in my home, I would then lose my home and would be much less financially secure—and when a woman is not so financially secure and has a precarious housing situation, it will be about 15 minutes before a social worker is saying to the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service that she should not be looking after her children, and we will end up in exactly the same situation we were in at the beginning. We are exacerbating things.
+I am here to tell hon. Members from personal experience that, currently, victims of domestic abuse in the family courts system are, more often than not, unable to access legal aid. That has to change. The problem in the family courts with perpetrators, which I highlighted at the beginning, has been caused by this Government’s policy on legal aid—let us not use these things to twist the knife.
+May I also add the support of Welsh Women’s Aid and campaigners such as Rachel Williams from Newport, whom my hon. Friend knows, for the debate? Is it not the case that such situations become more difficult because victims can be forced to return to family and civil courts time and again?
+Absolutely. I will mention Rachel in closing. It gets lost that coercive control does not stop when a woman leaves her partner. Women’s risks massively increase once they leave, and they are more likely to be murdered. In Rachel’s case, this was when the most harrowing consequences played out for her and her children. Coercion does not all of a sudden go away, and we—the state—allow perpetrators to re-victimise women again and again by hearing the same case over and over.
+There are judges who try to stop that pattern of abuse in courts, but they are not the norm. There are hundreds of cases in which the same woman will be taken through the ringer again and again. She will be told that she is mad, and things will be given to the court to show that she is mad. And, yes, she is mad: she has been driven mad by having to fight the same battle again and again. There has to be some limitation. A line has to be drawn in cases where domestic abuse is evidenced. That is incredibly important.
+Let me move on to CAFCASS. I may start forwarding all the complaints I receive about CAFCASS to the Minister. I have an entire folder in my email inbox called “Complaints about CAFCASS”, which has around 800 emails in it. I get them from people from all over the country, and because I am standing up and saying this, I will get hundreds more. I create a file of all the problems that people have with CAFCASS.
+There is a constant feeling that the children and the women are not listened to, that their experiences of domestic abuse are diminished, that they are considered to be in the wrong and that they have to constantly prove that they are telling the truth and have understood their own experiences. The main complaint I receive is that CAFCASS does not pay nearly enough attention to listening to children, which is a grave error. Barnardo’s said exactly the same in a submission to me—that there is a barren wasteland in all of this when it comes to listening to the voice of the child. We must work much more closely with them.
+SafeLives sent me a series of briefings on its concerns about CAFCASS’s parental alienation models..
+Rachel, who has already been mentioned, sent me 199 pages of testimonials this morning, with about 10 to 13 testimonials on each page. That is thousands of testimonials about the situations that women face in the family courts. I will read a couple.”
+Those are just a few. Accounts were sent to me over the weekend from women who said that their perpetrators, some of whom had to be handcuffed, and who even kicked off during the family court proceedings, were congratulated by judges for remaining calm.
+There is testimonial after testimonial from women who have been stared down by their partner and have capitulated in front of judges, just to make it stop. It is our responsibility to make it stop, so will the Minister commit to a timetable for when it will? I know that the Government want to stop this, but when will we actually do it? If I were to review the Government’s current policy, or this era in politics, I would write, “We did a review.” I ask the Minister to actually do something.
+It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I congratulate Jess Phillips on securing this important debate. I also pay my respects to organisations such as Women’s Aid, which have raised many of the issues that have been discussed—specifically, judicial attitudes.
+I know some of the difficulties with judicial attitudes because I did an Industry and Parliament Trust fellowship in the law courts, during which I spent almost three weeks sitting with judges. If she has the time, I urge the hon. Lady to undertake such a fellowship in the specific courts of interest to her, so that she can participate in how they work and see how they could change to achieve some of the aims that she holds so dear.
+The one aspect of this issue that I raise above all others comes from my membership of the Council of Europe: the Istanbul convention. It is very important to the debate. [Interruption.] I see the hon. Lady nodding, so she knows of it. I mention it because it sets minimum standards for how domestic abuse and violence towards women and girls are treated in the member countries. Its primary aim is to protect victims. That is a very important point to bear in mind.
+The convention ensures that domestic violence and rape crisis shelters are set up and that helplines and counselling are available for victims. Although the UK has signed the Istanbul convention, it has not yet fully ratified it because we still need a legal means of bringing elements of it into our legislation. Given that we are one of the countries that helped to produce the Istanbul convention, I hope that we move quickly to ratify it. If I may, I will read a brief quote from it:
+“there can be no real equality between women and men if women experience gender-based violence on a large-scale and state agencies and institutions turn a blind eye.”
+That is an important point to bear in mind. I hope the Minister will take the Istanbul convention into account in her response, because it provides the necessary framework for people to be able to tackle the issue.
+My second approach relates to my role as a member of the Justice Committee. That may not seem immediately relevant, but the Justice Committee is a statutory consultee of the Sentencing Council. We recently looked at draft sentencing guidelines on domestic abuse. The previous guidelines were, I am afraid, last produced in 2006 and are completely out of date, particularly with society’s attitudes to domestic abuse and the standards that we want to see. The starting point is the definition of domestic abuse. If I may quote again, the guidelines state that it is:
+“any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality. The abuse can encompass”— this is the important point—
+“but is not limited to: psychological...physical...sexual...financial ...emotional” issues. That range of different abuses shows that there is a great attitude among the judiciary: to change and try to incorporate a much broader spectrum of activities.
+In our response to the Sentencing Council, we said that such offences need to be seen as particularly serious and not ranked on a par with other offences; they need to be sorted out as really important offences. Overall, we said that they needed to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. One of the paragraphs in the report stated:
+“We recognise that recorded offences related to domestic abuse are largely, but not exclusively, perpetrated by men and boys against women and girls.”
+We understood
+“the various contexts in which domestic abuse may occur and the forms that it may take...Accordingly, we recommend that comprehensive training on domestic abuse and intimidatory offences should be provided to magistrates and the judiciary to coincide with the launch of the guideline.”
+I was pleased to see that the judiciary has moved some way towards doing that and has begun the training required. The need for training has been recognised.
+I heard the most heart-breaking story a year ago from a Bath constituent about a CAFCASS worker. She felt that the social worker allocated to help her through the process was absolutely not sympathetic and seemed not to have had any of that training. Should the training not also include the social workers allocated to help women through the process? Should not women have the right to pick the social worker to work with them?
+I agree with the hon. Lady that the training can incorporate a large number of people, but we are dealing here with the courts and what we want to happen there. I am simply saying that the need for training has been recognised in the courts. It is also important to ensure that domestic abuse cases are flagged up properly as they pass through the court system so that everyone knows what is a domestic abuse case and can help to smooth it along the way.
+To go back to the guidelines, they are overarching and recognise that a defining characteristic of domestic abuse is the harm caused. That harm goes to a violation of trust, which is a crucial element. Trust is a very important thing that we hold dear, and we should take that into account.
+The third element that I want to touch on is the Government’s domestic violence consultation, which came out recently. I hope the Minister will provide information about how the process is going and the sorts of questions that will tackle the important issues we have raised today. I do not have a vast array of case studies of my own to share, but I have my experience of dealing with the courts; I also have experience, as has Angela Smith, of the Council of Europe and the Istanbul convention. I urge the Government to try to ratify the Istanbul convention as quickly as possible.
+Order. I am sure everybody is aware of the time. I intend to start calling the Front Benchers at 3.40. If the three remaining speakers limit their remarks to about seven or eight minutes, everybody should be able to speak for a decent amount of time.
+It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Ryan, as my hon. Friend Jess Phillips said. I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. At one point it looked as if I would have to step into her shoes, but I am really glad that she was able to lead the debate because under no circumstances could I have done the same job so well. She is a superb and brilliant advocate for women’s rights on this particular issue. Where would we be without her?
+I welcome the new Minister to her position. I know that the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Victoria Atkins, who has responsibility for this area of policy, would very much like to have attended the debate, but cannot because she is in a Bill Committee. I also want to put on the record my thanks to her for meeting my constituent, Claire Throssell, last Thursday morning. She was deeply touched and, indeed, disturbed by what she heard—not least the catalogue of errors and the dreadful handling of Claire’s case by CAFCASS. The Minister is committed to tackling the issues. It is a difficult brief to hold because of the sensitive and emotionally stressful nature of the subject. Although I do not doubt the Government’s integrity on this matter, or their commitment, I hope that the new Minister will pick up the reins and pursue the matter with diligence and speed.
+In September 2016, I led a debate in the Chamber on domestic abuse victims in family law courts. I felt compelled to do so after Claire came to me for support.
+“It took just 15 minutes for my life to end and my existence to begin,” she said about the events that unfolded on
+“If I can prevent one other mum going through the pain I’ve suffered, stop them having to question whether they could have prevented their child’s death, hopefully my sons didn’t die in vain.”
+Those are Claire’s words and she has continued valiantly to confront her heartbreak every day and campaign to ensure that no one else ever feels her pain.
+Claire is my constituent, but all parliamentarians have a collective responsibility to prevent such a tragedy ever happening again. The terrible thing is that what happened was totally avoidable. Claire warned the courts that Darren Sykes was a threat to her children. Social services, the family courts and CAFCASS failed Claire. It is two years since her story went into the parliamentary record, and what has changed? Practice direction 12J has been revised and a new practice direction 3AA has been introduced, which will help to protect vulnerable families in family courts. The Government have committed to banning the cross-examination of survivors by their perpetrators, but so far that has is yet to be enacted, as my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley pointed out. We need the special measures that she talked about to be introduced. Finally, a domestic abuse Bill is on the horizon; the consultation on the White Paper is complete.
+The Bill will need to be substantial, thorough and comprehensive, but it will have to show breadth in the scope of its provisions. Women’s Aid’s most recent report “What about my right not be abused?” gives a damning verdict on the treatment of domestic abuse survivors in the family courts. I encourage all Members to read it and I encourage the Minister, in particular, to meet with Women’s Aid to discuss the recommendations in the report. It covers various aspects of the family courts, but I want to focus in particular on child contact, as it was the child contact policy that took Claire’s boys from her.
+The report makes it clear that the
+“culture of contact at any cost” persists—something that my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley pointed out earlier. There are several accounts of contact centre workers persuading terrified children to go and meet their fathers. One woman talks of a centre considering putting her daughter in a room and allowing her father to “ambush” her unexpectedly; those were their words, not mine. One woman said:
+“They’ve taken away safety from my child and I pray nothing will ever happen. If it does I will always feel guilty but in the end there is nothing else I can do”.
+That is exactly what Claire has set out to change. She wants our family courts to put children first, and to recognise that a man who abuses a wife or partner is more likely than other men to abuse his children. Those accounts and many others paint a picture of a court system that does not protect women and children, but rather perpetuates abuse, makes vulnerable people feel intimidated and puts the lives and safety of women and children at risk.
+With those considerations in mind, I want to ask the Minister directly to outline the scope of the domestic abuse Bill and the accompanying measures. Those measures will be very important—particularly, I hope, in relation to CAFCASS. Will she confirm that reform of the family courts is on the agenda? The distinction between criminal and family courts in this context seems totally arbitrary; it certainly is for survivors of domestic abuse. Will the Minister outline the timetable for ending cross-examination of domestic abuse survivors by their perpetrators as, again, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley has already asked?
+So far two legislative opportunities have been missed. We cannot afford to delay any further. Will the Minister ensure that no parent who is awaiting trial, on bail, or facing ongoing criminal proceedings for domestic abuse will receive unsupervised contact with a child? Will she also set up a clear mechanism so that inappropriate referrals to contact centres can be challenged? There are many more questions I would like to ask, but I must begin wrapping up. It is clear from the report that the family court system as a whole is not fit for purpose. Will the Minister consider running an independent inquiry into the handling of domestic abuse by the family courts? It is clear to me that a root-and-branch policy review is needed.
+I remind Members again of the 2016 debate. I said then that it showed the House “at its finest”. We agreed on the need to take action and broadly accepted the course that needed to be taken. However, I also said that
+“all of this means nothing until we see effective change.”—[Official Report,
+Vol. 614, c. 1119.]
+Here we are, two years on, and Claire is still campaigning. Her two boys are yet to see justice. Claire has been a great teacher for me and a true inspiration. She possesses a deep spirituality that has enabled her to refuse the temptation to pursue a path of vengeance and hate. She has chosen instead to believe that love can triumph over hate and that good can triumph over evil. In doing that she has taken with her the whole community where she lives in Penistone, as well as, I believe, the whole parliamentary community. Claire has taken us all by the hand and enabled us to believe that we can be better, that our society can be better, and that her sons’ deaths need not be in vain. We cannot afford to delay longer; to delay is to put lives at risk. With Jack and Paul in mind, I ask the Minister: please act quickly.
+It is pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I congratulate Jess Phillips on securing the debate and on her amazing and powerful speech. Hansard does not record blushes, but she has done a fantastic job, as ever, on an important subject.
+When we talk about domestic abuse in this place, there is often a lot of commentary along the lines of, “What about the men?” Of course, we know that women are not the only victims of domestic abuse, but it is an unassailable truth that the vast majority are women, so I make no excuse for the fact that we are concentrating on women predominantly, and Women’s Aid has been an invaluable organisation in pushing the campaign on this issue.
+I look forward to the introduction of the domestic abuse Bill. We have all been working towards it and pushing for it, and it will be welcome. I understand that one of the main reasons for the delay was that we were trying to get a good, rounded definition of domestic abuse and coercive control so that there can be legislation. In the 2016 debate, I raised a couple of examples of coercive control, one of which involved a family member of mine, to show that it is not something that just happens to other people. It can happen to people of any background, from any geographical area. The woman in question had a tracker put on her car—that was the level of control that the man wanted. That makes me think, “Crikey, what would have happened if she was in court with him?” if she faced that level of coercive control. That level of control, which might start with a tracker, can mean a repeat of abuse in court, bringing up time and again the previous horrific instances.
+Before we look at what we are pushing for in campaigning, it is important to acknowledge the good things the Government have done. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley correctly said that, in too many cases, there are still curtains and screens around certain areas. However, family procedure rules part 3A and practice direction 3AA came into effect only in November last year, and they will, unfortunately, take time to get through the court system—indeed, certain areas that require separate waiting rooms might even need new construction.
+None the less, more can clearly be done, and I take the hon. Lady’s point about robing rooms—we have one of those here, so perhaps we can think about that as well. We must speed up action to ban perpetrators from cross-examining victims in court, because there cannot be anybody in this place who believes that that is right. Women’s Aid has said that a perpetrator can be seen as a violent criminal in a criminal court but as a good enough parent in a family court, which is patently ridiculous.
+The hon. Lady mentioned the need for more female judges. Clearly, the numbers and percentages are too low, but that in itself is not necessarily the origin of bad judgments. Indeed, it was a female judge who sent Ellie Butler back to my constituents in Sutton, which resulted in her death shortly afterwards. We need judges who are not out of touch and who can relate to people—the hon. Lady referred to that. We need a judiciary that can take a rounded position, in the same way that anybody outside a court room might think, “My goodness. This is so obvious. Why are we not doing it?”
+In conclusion—I know other Members want to speak—let me say to the Minister that I am looking forward to the domestic abuse Bill. If I can help in any way in formulating it and pushing it through this place, I would be more than happy to do so, because we have been waiting for this Bill for so long.
+It is always a pleasure to speak in these debates, and I congratulate Jess Phillips on setting the scene. She is obviously very passionate when it comes to this subject, and she tells her story straight from the heart. She does that well, and I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this debate.
+Statistics for domestic abuse throughout the UK are astounding. The prevalence of such abuse is difficult to measure, but the English, Welsh and Northern Irish police receive calls about domestic abuse-related incidents every 30 seconds, which gives an idea of the magnitude of what is happening across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
+In 2014, a report by Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary, “Everyone’s business: Improving the police response to domestic abuse”, deemed the police response to domestic abuse “not good enough”. As the hon. Lady and other hon. Members have said, if that response is not good enough, what are we doing to improve it? I always look to the Minister for a substantive response, which I know we will get, but I hope she understands that there is a bit of frustration about what has happened so far. A follow-up report by the HMIC was published on
+Being the victim of, or witnessing, domestic abuse, can have serious long and short-term physical, psychological and social effects. Numerous police interventions that are victim-focused or perpetrator-focused are currently in use or being trialled. According to statistics published on the website of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, around 29,000 domestic abuse incidents were recorded in 2016-17—the most in more than a decade. I know this is a devolved matter, or at least it would be if we had a working Assembly, but at the end of the day we must address it.
+The level of recorded domestic abuse crimes dropped for a while, but that was not enough. In 2016-17, 69% of domestic abuse crime victims were female and 31% were male. More than 50% of relationships between domestic abuse victims and offenders were categorised as being between current or ex-spouses or partners.
+I have spoken several times on this issue in Westminster Hall and the main Chamber, and I have asked for support for people who are abused. I have also raised the lack of prosecutions, which I believe to be linked to fear of reprisal. We must hope for things to be different. A Women’s Aid worker once told me that these women go back to their abusers because they have no hope, and that is the story I hear as the elected representative for my constituency. When someone is hopeless, they are also helpless, which worries me greatly. We need to provide support that brings hope that things can and will change.
+The Crown Prosecution Service’s 10th report on violence against women and girls outlined the huge increase in the number of convictions—48% for rape and 79% for other sexual offences—that we have witnessed since the first report was published in 2007-08. That report also showed large annual increases over the last year in prosecutions and convictions for rape, at 11.8% and 11.2% respectively, and for other sexual offences, at 12.5% and 14.7%. Along with domestic abuse, such offences now count for one fifth—19.3%—of the CPS’s case load, which is up from 7.1% just 10 years ago. That is a massive step. Domestic abuse prosecutions have risen by 47%, and convictions by 61%, over the last 10 years—again, a welcome indication of progress.
+However, this year’s report shows a decrease in domestic abuse prosecutions and convictions compared with 2015-16, following a two-year fall in referrals for domestic abuse from the police to the CPS. There is clearly a breakdown that must be addressed if we are to have more successful prosecutions, and, to me, that is all about support. Support must be available when the call to the police is made and when the police leave, and there must be someone available for the victim to talk to so that they feel secure. Someone should be available through the CPS to sit alongside the victim and offer assistance, as well as to be a shoulder to lean on and perhaps sometimes to cry on. Support should be available during the trial and afterwards. Hope for a new future and a new life must be given from that first phone call reporting the abuse until the person is settled in their new life. We must follow a process to ensure that happens. Anything less than that cannot be acceptable, and all Departments must accept their responsibility and duty.
+On average, there are two domestic killings of women each week, which accounts for 40% of all female murders. If we are not shocked by that, there is something wrong. Some time ago, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley spoke on this issue in an Adjournment debate in the main Chamber—I was present for that as well—and we must all uphold our duty of seeing the number of these killings reduced to zero. The way to do that is to support the men and women who are abused, so they know there can be a different future—a future with hope and purpose, for which it is worth pushing through the emotional quagmire, and standing up and telling the abuser, “No more.” The police have a role to play in that, as do the courts. We in this House have a role to play, as does the Minister, in securing funding and appropriate legislation. So let us ensure today that we play our part.
+It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Ryan, and I thank my hon. Friend Jess Phillips for securing this debate. Since entering Parliament, she has campaigned tirelessly on behalf of women in her constituency and across the country, and she has pushed domestic violence up the Government’s agenda. I am in awe of her work.
+Even today, domestic violence remains one of the most under-reported crimes, and in Britain one woman is killed every three days by a partner or ex-partner. According to the Office for National Statistics, four in five victims of partner abuse did not report the incident to the police last year. Although some progress has been made in recent years, victims still talk of battling to be believed by a system designed to protect the perpetrator. Even worse, the process of reporting abuse can be re-traumatising in itself. Victims talk of having to re-live the experience over and over again—first with the police and then in court, all the while dealing with the fear of reprisal from the perpetrator.
+If we want to eradicate domestic violence from this country and have a truly accessible justice system, we must make that system more open and supportive to survivors of domestic violence. Today, however, we are a long way from that goal. The Government’s removal of legal aid for family law cases in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 had a catastrophic impact on access to justice for victims of domestic violence. Between 2012 and 2017, applications for civil legal aid in cases involving domestic violence fell by 20%. The imposition of a five-year limit on evidence and the restriction of evidence forms meant that 40% of female survivors were unable to meet the new requirements and were left without access to legal aid. According to Women’s Aid, the result was that victims were either prevented from fighting their cases or forced to represent themselves in person and risk being cross-examined by their partners.
+In December, I uncovered figures showing that the number of domestic violence victims representing themselves in the family courts had increased by 147% since LASPO’s introduction. Recent figures from the Ministry of Justice show that the number of people without representation in domestic violence proceedings reached record levels in 2017. Imagine facing the decision between representing yourself in court, without legal support, against an abusive partner, and risking their obtaining custody of your children.
+I pay tribute to the organisations, such as the charity Rights of Women and the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, that ensured that last year the Government finally published reforms to the evidence requirements for accessing the DV gateway for civil legal aid. Those changes were long overdue. However, we have yet to see a significant impact. Just 56 applications for legal aid in other family proceedings such as custody cases were made to the DV gateway in 2017-18; the figure was down from 83 in 2013-14. Can the Minister tell us what steps the Government are taking to ensure that victims of domestic violence are aware of the changes to the evidence requirements for accessing legal aid in the family courts?
+Legal aid is available to victims of domestic violence on paper, but in reality the wholesale removal of family law cases from its scope means that people are now hard-pressed to find someone to represent them. Recent figures published by the Ministry of Justice show that the number of family law cases started with the assistance of legal aid has fallen by 84% since LASPO’s introduction. The figures also show that the number of legal aid providers giving support in family law cases has dropped by one third, with legal aid deserts opening up in parts of the country. The number of providers has fallen by 22% in London, but by 45% in the east of England and Wales. The devastating truth is that access to justice is simply not available for many victims up and down the country, because of this Government’s changes to legal aid.
+For victims who do make it to the family courts, the ordeal does not stop there. Survivors frequently report being re-traumatised in the family court room, with the perpetrator allowed to continue their abuse by manipulating the court process. Women are still routinely cross-examined in front of or even by the perpetrator in what can be a deeply traumatising process; and outside the courtroom, survivors can come face to face with the perpetrator.
+Opposition Members welcome the Government’s announcement of a new domestic abuse law, including the introduction of special protection measures for victims of domestic abuse. However, those protections must be available to victims in the family courts and not just the criminal courts.
+A survey by Women’s Aid of more than 100 survivors who had been through the family courts showed that more than half had no access to special measures, and more than one third were verbally or physically abused by their former partner, in the family courts. Measures such as video links, screens and separate entrances, and exit times can be life saving; they prevent victims from being followed home by their abuser or confronted outside the courtroom. I understand that the Government have just finished consulting on the domestic abuse Bill. However, they have no reason to leave us in any doubt about where they stand on this issue. Can the Minister confirm today that family courts will be included in proposals to introduce special court measures for victims of domestic abuse, and will the Government set a deadline for when that right will become fully accessible to every victim of domestic abuse?
+Of course, to support victims of domestic violence to have real access to justice, we have to do more than ensure that the courts are acting as a safe space. For survivors to come forward and access the justice process, they need security outside the court as well. We are extremely concerned about the proposals to remove refuges from the welfare system. The Government’s plans to remove housing benefit as a means to pay for refuge accommodation would remove half of refuge funding overnight. Currently, more than 10% of these women are forced to sleep rough because a place in a refuge is not available. We are calling on the Government to take those dangerous proposals off the table.
+Our justice system is designed to protect the perpetrator, not the victim. Important checks and balances ensure that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but they also routinely leave victims feeling like an afterthought in the process or, worse, like the person on trial. The issues raised today demonstrate the urgent need for reforms. Will the Minister commit to a wholesale review of the culture, practice and outcomes of the family courts in child contact cases where there are allegations of domestic abuse?
+More generally, Labour has been pushing since 2015 for a stand-alone victims law that would enshrine the rights of victims in primary legislation. We need a victims law, rather than piecemeal reform, if we are to transform the experience of victims in the criminal justice process. More than three years ago, the Government agreed, and pledged, to introduce a victims law, but victims are still waiting. Now, instead of legislation, Ministers speak of a victims strategy, so can this Minister confirm when the victims strategy will be published? Do the Government still plan to introduce a stand-alone victims law as they promised?
+Today, we have heard passionate speeches from hon. Members on both sides of the House on the need to ensure that victims of domestic violence receive the protection, support and representation that they need in the family courts. Let me now use my position to pay my respects to Claire, about whom my hon. Friend Angela Smith spoke so heartbreakingly and movingly. I hope that the Minister has listened to Claire’s story and the other stories raised today and realises that significant reform is urgently needed.
+It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I thank Jess Phillips for securing the debate. Like other hon. Members, I pay tribute to the huge amount that she has done to protect victims of domestic abuse—not only the work that she has done as an MP, which includes chairing the all-party parliamentary group on domestic violence, but what she did before she was elected, in working for a charity supporting victims of domestic and sexual abuse.
+We all know, and have heard today, that domestic abuse has devastating effects. I heard about some of those when I attended a meeting of the APPG at which a victim gave evidence anonymously about her experience. Since I have been a Justice Minister, MPs have come to me to share their constituents’ experiences of domestic abuse. I am pleased to have had the opportunity both to discuss those concerns with experts such as Katie Ghose from Women’s Aid and Jo Todd from Respect and to hear about domestic abuse victims’ experiences of court from professionals in the courts, such as Her Honour Judge Rachel Karp, and academics such as Rosemary Hunter.
+The Government are committed to tackling domestic abuse—dealing with abusive behaviour and improving support for victims. We want to do more to protect and empower victims, communities and professionals to confront and challenge domestic abuse wherever they encounter it. As my hon. Friend John Howell and other hon. Members mentioned, the Government have launched an extensive public consultation on domestic abuse to inform our approach to future reform. We have received more than 3,000 responses, which we are analysing now, ahead of publishing a Government response in the autumn. That will include a domestic abuse Bill, which we hope will further protect victims of domestic abuse.
+As the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley said, we need to ensure that the court experience supports victims of domestic abuse and is not a forum in which to continue abuse. The Government have already taken a number of measures, to which some hon. Members have referred, to improve the court process. We have made practical changes following work with the senior judiciary. Last November saw the introduction of new rules requiring the court to consider whether those involved in family proceedings are vulnerable and, if so, whether they need assistance, such as a video link or protective screen, to participate or give evidence.
+I was disappointed to hear that the experience of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley is that those measures are not working well, because I recently met a family barrister who told me that her experience was that they were working. We do need to keep this under review. Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service is collecting data, so that we can see how it is operating. We will consider whether we can do more, as we examine consultation responses in due course.
+We have also introduced fresh training for family court staff on how to support vulnerable court users—by ensuring that separate waiting rooms or secure entry into and exit from the building are available, for example. The training has now been rolled out across England and Wales. Courts are also preparing local protocols on vulnerable court users, in consultation with their designated family judges. The president of the family division and the Judicial College have also taken steps to improve domestic abuse training for family judges. Issues of domestic abuse continue to be addressed on an ongoing basis as part of the college’s regular training for family judges. I recently visited the courts in Liverpool and was interested to hear from a family judge that he had found the training very helpful.
+A further positive development came last October, when the president made changes to the guidance for family judges dealing with applications for child arrangements orders where domestic abuse is alleged. As hon. Members have mentioned, that is practice direction 12J. The revisions included a number of important changes, such as making it clear that family courts should have full regard to the harm caused by domestic abuse and the harm that can be caused to children from witnessing such abuse. The revised practice direction also includes an expanded definition of domestic abuse.
+These changes are a positive development. At a roundtable on domestic abuse that I held recently, I heard from family judges and practitioners how they were working. I was asked during the course of this debate whether we can review the practice direction. That is primarily a matter for the judiciary, but I am happy to discuss it with the incoming president of the family court, whom I am meeting tomorrow. I should add that the current President, Sir James Munby, will be retiring shortly. As the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley mentioned, he has been a strong advocate for improving support and protections for the vulnerable. I pay tribute to the significant action he has taken in this area.
+Many hon. Members mentioned the provision of legal aid. As the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley mentioned, we have changed the law to make it easier for victims of domestic abuse to access legal aid and support by reforming the evidence requirements for legal aid in private family cases. The changes included introducing new forms of evidence and removing the time limit previously placed on evidence. We are already seeing a positive effect on the number of victims accessing legal aid. The latest statistics for January to March show that 21% more victims applied for legal aid than in the same quarter last year and there was a record high number of grants. We will continue to monitor those figures.
+We have made changes to support victims of domestic abuse, but we need to do more. The hon. Members for Birmingham, Yardley and for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn) were right to highlight the importance of bringing forward legislation in relation to the cross-examination of domestic abuse victims by their perpetrators. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley has made a powerful case for this for some time and she made it again today. It is right that we get it on the statute book. She has already rightly identified that the Government want to see this legislation on the statute book. The Government remain committed to delivering this as soon as parliamentary time allows.
+The hon. Lady knows that it takes some time to go through parliamentary procedure and it is not possible to do that on Monday or Tuesday next week.
+I have also heard concerns about the issue of abusers making repeated applications to the family court, as a means of further abusing their former partners. I recently held a roundtable with judges, academics and others from the legal profession, to discuss this. I also met Liz Saville Roberts to discuss the private Member’s Bill she proposed on the matter. The family court does have wide powers to manage such situations, but I am looking again at whether there is more we can do across the system to tackle this issue. We will be examining this as part of the next phase of work on the consultation.
+Many hon. Members mentioned important points. My hon. Friend the Member for Henley made interesting points about the recognition society and Government have of the nature of abuse, and that it is not just physical abuse and violence that form domestic abuse. He also discussed the need to see how the courts are operating. I have visited a number of courts already and spoken to a number of judges on a variety of issues. He raised the Istanbul convention, which, he rightly said, the Government have signed and remain committed to ratifying. Some of our measures in the UK, however, go further than the convention requires in some areas.
+Wera Hobhouse raised the need for CAFCASS workers to be trained. I should point out that CAFCASS workers do receive comprehensive training. My hon. Friend Paul Scully made a variety of sensible points. He rightly observed that, in a number of areas, the Government have already taken measures, some of which I have referred to. It is important to see how those operate and keep them under review. Jim Shannon raised the impact of domestic abuse on victims.
+I have left to the end Angela Smith. She asked a number of questions, one of which was about the scope of the review and whether we will consider options for reform of the family justice system in the consultation that has just closed. I can tell her that that will form part of the consultation exercise. I left her to the end because she mentioned the terrible story of Claire, for whom we all must feel sympathy. I hope that this Government, with the support of hon. Members across the House, continue to bring forward measures to protect women like her, to help support them and ensure that her story is not repeated.
+In closing, I hope hon. Members will agree that we have taken positive steps to improve the family justice system and its response to domestic abuse. We need to build on that and deliver further improvements. The domestic abuse consultation and the programme of work that will flow from it provides one way of doing this. I look forward to working collaboratively with hon. Members to take this important work forward.
+Like the Minister and the Opposition spokesperson, I thank everybody who has spoken. My hon. Friend Angela Smith never fails to move me when she talks about Claire. I have known Claire for two years now and have heard her story a million times. It still moves me to tears every single time I hear it, because it could have been avoided.
+I thank the Minister for her comments. At the latest, the timetable for changing these things must come in the domestic abuse Bill. If they are not in it, we will ensure that they are put into it. I look forward to working on the domestic abuse Bill. I am sure that we will be able to make some progress.. There needs to be a real look into that. Most importantly, I thank all the women who write to me every day to tell me about how we should make this system better. We should hear their voices.
+Question put and agreed to.
+Resolved,
+That this House
+has considered progress on protecting victims of domestic abuse in the family courts.
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+Analog Inputs: The McIntosh MAC7200 stereo receiver is outfitted with balanced & unbalanced analog audio inputs, as well as two phono (MM/MC) inputs.
+- Balanced & Unbalanced Inputs: The McIntosh MAC7200 receiver is equipped with one balanced stereo XLR input and five unbalanced stereo RCA inputs. Balanced connections guard against induced noise and allow long cable runs without compromising sound quality.
+- MM/MC Phono Inputs: The McIntosh MAC7200 has two dedicated phono sections, one for Moving Coil (MC) Phono Cartridges and the other for Moving Magnet (MM) Cartridges. Both phono sections provide the lowest possible noise and distortion. The RIAA Correction Equalization Circuitry utilizes close tolerance resistors and capacitors for an extremely flat frequency response. The MAC7200 will breathe new life into your record collection and deliver the best possible sound from your turntable.
+AM/FM Tuner: The built in AM/FM tuner receives your favorite radio stations with clarity that is free from noise and distortion. It features the same high performance as McIntosh's stand alone tuners, along with 20 presets for each radio band, as well as a remote AM antenna. An amplified AM antenna is included for excellent AM reception (no FM antenna is included).
+- Special FM RF Circuitry: The tuner module RF circuitry receives strong local FM station signals without distortion and receives even the weakest of FM signals with low noise.
+- High Dynamic Range IF FM Circuitry: The all important IF circuitry in the tuner module provides dynamic bandwidth control optimizing performance at all times with varying reception conditions.
+Electronic Input Switching w/ Naming: The stereo receiver uses Logic Circuits controlling Electromagnetic Switches on all inputs and operating functions for reliable, noiseless, distortion free switching. The default Input Names can be changed to match the name of the component connected to it or any other custom name desired (up to 8 characters).
+Binding Post Speaker Terminals: McIntosh Patented gold-plated, binding-post speaker terminals deliver high current output to a single pair of loudspeakers. They accept large diameter wire (up to 10AWG), banana plugs (single only), and spade lugs. The receiver's Left & Right speaker channels have separate Positive (+) binding-post terminals, labeled "2Ω"/ "4Ω" / "8Ω". Each Left & Right speaker channel has only one Negative (-) binding-post terminal that is shared between the positive terminals.
+Note: You can connect a single pair of loudspeakers to the Left & Right Positive (+) binding-post terminals along with the shared ground terminals, for a total of three pair of loudspeakers. Make sure the speakers ohm rating matches up with the terminals ohm rating. If you have 6Ω speakers, use the 4Ω output terminals.
+Pre-Out, Pass Through, & Bi-Amp Compatible: When the MAC7200 is part of a home theater or multichannel audio system, the Right and Left Front channels from an AV processor or surround decoder can pass through the stereo receiver and onto its associated power amplifier. The stereo receiver can also be used as a preamplifier, so you can use a separate amplifier to power your loudspeakers. In addition, together with an additional separate power amplifier (sold separately), the MAC7200 can be used to bi-amplify a loudspeaker system.
+Headphone Amp with Headphone Crossfeed Director (HXD): For those times when you want to enjoy your music even more intimately, the MAC7200 includes a dedicated headphone amplifier that takes advantage of unique McIntosh technologies to yield the best possible personal listening experience. On the front-panel of the MAC7200 is a 1/4" headphone jack (supports headphone impedances of 100-600Ω). The connected loudspeakers automatically switched off when headphones are connected. The headphone amp also features McIntosh's new Headphone Crossfeed Director (HXD) to allow high quality recordings to image like conventional speakers in your headphones.
+Custom Integration: The McIntosh MAC7200 offers advanced connectivity and control features often required for custom home integration using premium control systems.
+- Power Control Connectors: The MAC7200 has the ability to automatically switch power on or off to source components via the Power Control connections. The MAC7200 MAC7200's four Data Out Ports (3.5mm) send remote control signals to McIntosh source components. These Data Port connections allow for the remote operation of basic functions using the MAC7200's Remote Control.
+- IR Input: The 3.5mm IR input allows the connection of an external IR receiver. With an external sensor connected to the MAC7200, remote control operation of the system is possible from another room and/or when the MAC7200 is located in a cabinet with the doors closed. The signal from a connected external IR receiver will have priority over the signal from the receiver's front-panel IR sensor.
+- RS-232C Port: The stereo receiver's RS-232C port requires a 3.5mm stereo minijack to a subminiature DB 9 connector cable (sold separately) to transmit and receive RS-232 commands.
+Front-Panel & Remote Control: On the front-panel of the stereo receiver are Input, Volume, Preset, & Tuning rotary knobs; as well as Output 1/Output 2 buttons, Tone bypass, Mute, Preset, and Standby/On button switches. The McIntosh MAC7200 also includes an IR remote control for wireless operation of the receiver.: The Bass & Treble controls provide up to 12dB of boost or cut. The MAC7200 remembers the Bass & Treble Setting for each input.
+- Balance Left/Right: You are also able to balance the output level of the stereo receiver's left & right output channels.
+- Source Level: Each audio source input can be matched in level, preventing abrupt changes in volume levels.
+Front-Panel Display + Illuminated Power Meters: The front-panel display indicates source selection, volume levels and setup functions. For tuner operation it also indicates station frequency, signal strength, stored station presets, and tuner setup functions. The front-panel display can indicate various text information from the broadcast station. This text information may include the station call sign, music genre, artist name, and song title. The Illuminated power output watt meters on the MAC7200 are peak responding, and indicate the power output of the stereo receiver.
+Large Power Transformer + Auto Power Off: The large power transformer, multiple filter capacitors with 120 Joules of energy storage and regulated power supply, ensures stable noise free operation even though the power line may vary. The MAC7200 also incorporates an Auto Off feature, which automatically places the receiver into the Power Saving Standby/Off Mode after approximately 30 minutes of inactivity or no audio signal. The McIntosh MAC7200 stereo receiver has a detachable AC power cord with 3-pole IEC connector.
+Mounting Options: The McIntosh MAC7200 can be placed upright on a table or shelf, standing on its four feet. It also can be custom installed in a piece of furniture or cabinet of your choice. The four feet may be removed from the bottom of the MAC7200 when it is custom installed. Always provide adequate ventilation for your MAC7200. Allow at least 2" above the top, 2" below the bottom, and 2" on each side of the receiver, so that airflow is not obstructed.
+The McIntosh MAC7200 replaces these items
+Adding...
+- 200 watts x 2
+- balanced stereo XLR input, 5 RCA audio inputs, MM and MC phono inputs
+- built-in DAC with USB, optical, and coaxial digital inputs
+IEEE Events Report 2014
+- A WIE session was held as part of the IEEE Industry Day celebration on 7th January 2014 at J N TATA Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The session had 3 distinguished speakers talk, which centred on the core theme of women safety and assistive technology. The session saw over 100 participants. WIE IEEE UVCE conducted a session on Technology Solutions for Women at this event which had eminent speakers as Dr. Ramalatha Marimuttu, Dr.Chitra Thyagarajan and Ms. Sahana J.
+- IEEE UVCE student branch volunteered for IEEE International Workshop on Women in Electromagnetics held by IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 7th and 8th March 2014.
+- IEEE Bangalore Section organized the Branch Councillors Meet on 13th April, 2014. Branch Councillors and Office Bearers from all over the section were invited to discuss various issues and address the Student Branches on various issues related to the section. The meet was held at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore and saw participation from around 20 colleges. The main highlight of the event was that the Internship Portal IeeeINTERNSHIP and the section magazine FUSION were inaugurated. Also a bid was called on for the Flagship events for the Section, BRV Vardhan Paper presentation competition and the Student Leadership Congress.
+- IMPETUS ‘14 was held on the 4th and 5th of April, 2014 and was based on the theme of ‘RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’ and saw a footfall of over 700 participants this year. All the seminars and events organised as part of IMPETUS ’14 were centred on the theme. The chief guests were Dr. G K Suryanarayan, Chief Scientist at NAL; Mr. Ravikiran Annaswamy, Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section and Mr.Yathish L N, CTO, Huawei Technologies India. Some of the Events of IMPETUS ‘14 were: QUIZZICAL, SWITCHPLAY, RECRUIT, SUMMIT, ICODE, FACE OFF, ROBOTICS and GAME THEORY. These events were accompanied by many other fun events like BUSYNESS 2.0, PRISON BREAK, SHERLOCKED and BLACK OUT which saw huge turnouts.
+- On 5th April 2014, an alumni meet was held for the active alumni of IEEE UVCE in IMPETUS. An interactive session was organized where the alumni and the current Execom members put forth their opinions, shared some of their past experiences and talked about how being part of IEEE helped them. After the session, the alumni members took part in Epsilon, a Cyber Treasure Hunt that was designed as part of the fun session.
+- Our members presented their papers in international conferences. Professor Kiran K presented his paper at IEEE TENSYMP 2014, held at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, on 14-16 April 2014.
+- The Branch Counsellor of IEEE UVCE, Dr P Deepa Shenoy has been appointed as the Student Activities Committee Chairperson of the IEEE Bangalore Section for the year 2014-15.
+- N-Code, the programming club of IEEE UVCE conducted online programming contests to encourage students to take up programming and to enrich the programming abilities of the students. More than 100 Students from UVCE participated in Ncode contests that were held every month on Codechef.
+- IEEEXTREME 7.0 saw participation from over 11 teams from the Student Branch and team Fellowshipof0 consisting of Jithin Joseph, 8th Sem ECE; Adhiviraj Singh Bangari,6th Sem Mech; Prashanth S, 6th Sem Mech secured first rank in the student branch, a country rank of 17 and a world rank of 264.
+- Ripples are our weekly events which are to provide encouragement and platforms to young students to improve their organizing, leadership and public speaking skills.
+- The literary club brought the newsletter named PatrIEEEka. In this articles from student members were included.
+- Bhaag UVCE Bhaag, a treasure hunt, was the first event organized in our college on 12th August 2014. This event was exclusively for the 1st years to welcome them. The event saw a participation of 110 enthusiastic students.
+- Session on Basics of Programming in C was conducted by UVCE NCODE. The workshop was a boost for all the students to lay their hands on programming. Conducted on 20th August 2014, around 90 people from all branches attended the session.
+- The Python Workshop was organised on 23rd August 2014 by Pycon India, an organisation dedicated to develop the Python programming language skills among people. The workshop was morning to evening lasting hands-on session. It witnessed a participation of more than 100 students.
+- Game Theory 101 was a new category of event held on 2nd September 2014. The first round was a quiz on mathematics problems based on probability and logic.
+- The Aavishkar Club of IEEE UVCE held a meet on 9th September 2014 to discuss on research and development among students. The organisers explained the preliminaries to start research in college answering questions like where to start, what to start with etc. Also, they highlighted Project Vishisht where interested students could select their field of interest and guides will be allocated to lead their research. Around 50 people attended the event.
+- Four UVCE alumni from IBM conducted a session on IBM Blue Mix on 12th September 2014. IBM Blue Mix is the latest cloud offering from IBM which enables organizations and developers to quickly and easily create, deploy and manage applications on the cloud. The session started with a brief description on the new open source software. This was followed by a Q&A session where a lucky few won goodies. A demonstration on trending microcontroller devices like Raspberry pie was presented. A total of 70 students attended the event.
+- The IEEE UVCE membership drive for the current year 2014-2015 started off with the IEEE Orientation held in the Seminar Hall at Jnana-Jyothi Auditorium. The orientation witnessed a turnout of 200 students. Various benefits of IEEE in the Global level as well as student branch level were made known to the audience.
+- Four students from IEEE UVCE student branch volunteered for Smart Tech Metro Area Series Workshop held by IEEE Bangalore Section at Hotel Lalit Ashok on 26th and 27th September 2014.
+- A TISP volunteer Workshop was conducted by IEEE UVCE in association with IEEE Young Professionals on 28th September 2014. Over 30 volunteer students of IEEE UVCE were trained through various sessions and fun activities by the Young Professional volunteers so that they can go to various schools and train teachers by conducting sessions in a similar manner to enhance their teaching skills.
+- Five of our students Aravinda S K, Chitra S Reddy, Deepika Poovaiha, Mahesh R B, Kaushik K N were selected to attend the IEEE All India Student Congress from 6th-8th October 2014 held at Nirma University, Gujarat.
+- ‘IEEE day’ which was conducted on 12th of October was one of the huge successes in the history of IEEE UVCE. WIE IEEE UVCE had been a part of it. WIE team had conducted a fun event ‘JUST SAY KNOW’ where in participants of about 40 were present which resulted in 10 teams. We organized an event named ‘TECHFUN’ which was technically fun oriented treasure hunt event. Also a number of innovative events like round table programming, a robotics exhibition where different kinds of liner robots were live demonstrated, session on design thinking were conducted. Participants enjoyed their whole time and also we had a very good feedback about the event from all the participants. All the winners were given away with goodies like pen drives, t shirts and headphones.
+- Electrical and Electronics Club organized orientation day along with an event on 15th October 2014. Event was to guess the names of latest and trending technologies looking at related pictures. This event was attended by most of the electrical and electronics students of UVCE. Around 40 students attended the event.
+- A Poster Session was conducted by Aavishkar club ahead of KAGADA 2014 on 20th October. The major goal of the workshop was to encourage the students and answer their questions about basics of making a technical poster. Around 40 students attended the session and it was of great help to the first year students who were new the research part of technical field.
+- Microsoft in Association with Women in Engineering (WIE) conducted a Webinar on the 30th October, 2014.This session was aimed at learning about some of the advancements in technology and the new products being developed to improve lives of humans. The session was conducted by the Microsoft Student Partners from UVCE and it witnessed an audience of around 30 women. This interactive session ended with a quick quiz on coding in which the students participated with great enthusiasm.
+- IEEE UVCE along with IEEE Bangalore Section had the privilege of hosting Kristen MacCartney, Manager, and University Relations on 30th October. An interactive session with her was organized where students from various student branches and from UVCE attended. After her keynote address, office bearers from various student branches presented a brief overview about the activities of their respective IEEE student branches. Over 100 students attended the session.
+- A Hands-on Certificate Workshop on Sixth Sense technology was organized by IEEE UVCE in association with Technophilia Systems on 1st and 2nd November 2014. This workshop was attended by over 80 students and the certified instructors oriented the students about sixth sense technology through teaching about various topics in Mat lab. By the end of the workshop the students were experienced in controlling of PowerPoint presentations, playing songs in media player, capturing photos and other tasks through hand gestures.
+- An event known as UVCE Jaatre was held on 12th November 2014. IEEE UVCE had organized a stall at this fair where students were informed about the activities and events conducted by IEEE UVCE for students and the IEEE membership FAQs were also answered. Also at the stall, fun rapid round quizzes were held about technical topics and the winners were awarded goodies.
+- KAGADA 2014, the National Annual Technical Paper Symposium of IEEE UVCE was held on the 14th November 2014. Total of 30 papers were received from various colleges, out of which 10 were shortlisted in all the categories. KAGADA ’14 witnessed participation from students from Mysore, Tumkur and Tamil Nadu along with top colleges from Bangalore. KAGADA saw active participation from the students in all the paper presentation categories.
+- STAR program through WIE, IEEE UVCE conducted a full day event for students of Government BBMP High School, Chikkapet. The program for the day included career counselling, workshop on MS office, poster competition on the topic ‘Swacch Bharat’ and small fun filled games. The event hoped to encourage the students to take up higher education and a platform to showcase their talents .The best posters, active students and talented individuals were suitably rewarded. By the end of the day, the students reluctantly returned home with prizes and gifts from the event.
+- An Industrial Visit to Microsoft was organized for the students on 15th November 2014. 50 Students along with two faculty co-ordinators visited Microsoft office at Embassy Golf Link Parks where they got an opportunity to discover the working of a software industry and learn about trending topics in the industry.
+- The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) includes a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Around 14 female students from UVCE were awarded scholarships to attend the conference. The three day conference included hackathon, poster presentation competition, panels on entrepreneurship, technical topics and career advancement. The Fifth Annual Grace Hopper Celebration, India took place in Hotel Lalit Ashok from 19th to 21st November 2014.
+I arrived at Callahan’s/Ashland on August 9th, just after we passed from California into Oregon, and just after the 1700 mile marker.
+Arriving at Callahan’s, the air was busy and heavy, as it was time to resupply and get all the “chores” done but looming somewhere in a dark closet was the knowing that it was time to say goodbye to Prince. It was his last day on trail, time to go back to Mexico, oops, I mean Colorado, for the start of the fall semester. It was very powerful and emotional to part ways so swiftly. For just as quickly as we became so close on the trail, over 1,000 miles ago, so soon was it time to say goodbye.
+Prince was warmly met by his good friend who lives in Medford, OR and she swooped him into her arms and off to get burgers that evening. I considered tagging along, delaying the inevitable parting of ways, but I knew it would be more practical to just stay put, and I also felt that I needed some time and space to myself that night, I just felt like being quiet and taking care of myself, honoring the emotions and being still with it all. Mama Lion and Boone headed back to the trail that night, and we figured we would catch each other again soon.
+I decided to stay and camp on the lawn at Callahan’s, and treat myself to a nice Salmon dinner, and enjoy the musician who was playing there, he sang beautifully, and I deeply listened while slowly eating my meal. Even in the buzz of being near a highway as we were, I slept very well that night. I rise early in the morning, packed up and soon I got a ride with a few other hikers into Ashland. I was, for the first time since the beginning of April, flying solo. I had forgotten what that felt like. If Prince and I had ended up hiking all the way to Canada together, I would have welcomed the opportunity, but ever since I started this journey (alone) I knew that it would be important to spend a chunk of time hiking alone. So, now’s my chance. “I hope when one door closes, one more door will open”, to quote the Country Western song by Leanne Womack.
+I took a zero day in Ashland, but it really was not restful. It included, first and foremost, getting the most amazing cup of coffee I’ve had on this journey. It was a pour over, dark roast, my favorite. Then, talking with my Dad on the phone to discuss plans to rendevous in Sisters, OR in the coming weeks. I cruised around town with my swollen, aching feet, carrying my heavy pack filled with my resupply food plus groceries for that evening, and it was hot, I was sweaty, and there were so many ways to get distracted. Nevertheless, I got all my needs met. The Universe provided for me in so may ways. I was able to get ahold of some KT Tape, I bought a new pair of shoes that were different than the ones I had been wearing, and I ate some wonderful vegan food from the local co-op while chatting with Pika and Pebble, two hikers who I met on the trail and we’re also finishing their hike in Ashland. “I hope you get your fill but always feel the hunger”.
+I was further blessed with a suggestion, and a ride, to the local hot springs resort, where I could camp and soak in the therapeutic waters for only $25. I decided that was the place for me, and I headed out just a couple miles from town to Jackson Wellsprings. It was awesome! I pitched my tent in a grassy area under a large tree amongst a plethora of dreaded hippes, kids and dogs. I made myself a lovely picnic dinner, and enjoyed the healing waters that evening.
+I lucked out again the following morning, getting a ride back to the trail from a local who was from, of all places, Anaheim, CA. Small world. Back on trail, it was hot, dry, and not flat as promised. However, I pushed on, embracing my first day of hiking alone since the desert. Within a few days, I reached the 1800 mile marker. It was August 15th and then reached Crater Lake the following day. By that time, I had hiked solo for a week, getting the feel for Oregon, and healing myself on many levels.
+What I could conclude about Oregon up to that point, was that the people were great, but the trail was not my favorite (sorry trail, I don’t mean to hurt your feelings). Why? Well, for one, everyone had been saying “oh, you will fly through Oregon, you will be doing like 30miles a day, it’s so easy, and you will be going swimming all the time”. Well, not with any easy terrain would I be doing anything close to 30’s with my foot problems. Not only that, Oregon was HOT, DRY, there were long stretches without water, necessetating a heavy load to carry, and to boot did I mention it was HOT? There were NO swimming opportunities, what were people talking about, this Oregon?
+Upon my arrival to Crater Lake at Mazama Village, I was starting to enjoy some easier, flatter hiking, and could zoom along with more ease. I arrived at the village by 10am, along with a friend named Stretch, and we enjoyed a fantadtic breakfast there. I then collected my resupply box, took a shower, did laundry and charged my stuff and got out by 5:30 that evening. We hiked up to the Rim Village, arriving just in time for the last bit of sunset light, then found a semi stealth place to camp in the nearby trees.
+The next morning, I situated myself along a ledge on the rim to enjoy my coffee and breakfast, while Stretch got on trail. The Lake really is so beautiful, the bluest Lake I have ever seen, bluer than Tahoe, sorry Tahoe. It is quite pristine, and not very accessible to get to the shoreline, so fairly untouched by humans, which adds to it’s beauty. I enjoyed the walk around the rim trail, an alternate to the official PCT, which is not flat by the way. I enjoyed it as much as I could, as it was still incredibly hot, I had to carry a lot of water, and there was a lot of road traffic, construction, tourists, just noise. It was a great place to visit, but I was glad when I made it back into the silent forest and back on the PCT, my “home” space.
+It occured to me this week, that the PCT, the trail itself, is a vessel. It is a space which is being held for all of us who hike it. I had been looking at it as a living, breathing entity, but now see it as a conduit for transformation. The trail becomes our safety ground, literaly and figuratively. The trail holds the space for us to have our experiences of growth and discovery within ourselves. I thought a lot this past week about the darkness I encountered a few weeks back. It was nothing to do with the trail itself. It was all about me and my own need to come face to face with my own limitations, physically, emotionally and mentally. Every PCT thru-hiker faces this at some point in their journey, some sooner, some later, but I think we all go through it in some way at some point. I had not experienced self doubt up until my feet started hurting so bad. I had not experienced wanting to get off trail, and I mean quitting early, up until that point. There were days when I was in so much pain, I thought I would not be able to physically make it to Canada, and that made me want to, emotionally, not have the desire to keep going. “When you come close to selling out, reconsider”.
+But then, things just got a little lighter every day. My pack got lighter, there was water more frequently, and the heat finally broke. It appeared I was having success with my stretching and massaging of my feet, and suddenly there was greenery in the forest, and what was that sound? A creek? Running water? Yes, finally! Things really started looking up. ” I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, never settle for the path of least resistance”.
+I had been able to keep about a 20-22 mile pace per day going, and on one day I made 24, and then another day I made 27 miles. Yes, I did. That’s not so bad, I must be getting better, I thought. On August 19th I made it to Crescent Lake to camp for the night by way of the wrong campground, which ended up taking me around the lake and walking on the shore, on the rocks and sand during the sunset, not good on the ankle, but it was beautiful. I had visions all day of camping on the beach, so when I got to the Spring Camp, I just found a little place nestled amongst some pine trees, yet on the sand, and I cowboy camped there. I loved it, and felt very happy and proud that I had made it there, and I was stealth camping for free, to boot. Not a soul knew I was there.
+The next day I made it to Shelter Cove, a small recreational lake open to the public, and very hiker friendly. They had a small store there and a place in the shade for us tired, weary folks to rest up and relax together. I ate lunch and bought some snacks for the trail, washed my socks in the bathroom sink, which did not get them clean at all, but rather got the sink all dirty, and I was back on trail by 5:30. I got up to Wilamette Pass by 7:00 and wandered up the highway to the pass to see what was going on over there. It turned out there was a race, a 100K trail run going on and that was the finish line right there by the ski lifts. There were all kinds of people cheering and ringing cowbells, and one at a time, a superhero runner would emerge out of the trees and cross the tape, claiming victory for themselves. It gave me goosebumps to witness this. These people just ran 62 miles, on the trails, over three mountains, for more than 13 hours straight. I was so impressed, and inspired. It was just what I needed. I clapped and cheered them on, and absorbed the positive tingling energy that surrounded me, and let that propel me up the mountain that evening. I planned on hiking well into the night, and had set a goal to get to a ski shelter, where I read it was ok so sleep and that it was well maintained and really cool. Well, after passing up so many beautiful campsites along pristine lakes that reflected the sunset light, and passing up weekend backpackers who had all kinds of things like chairs, food, beer, campfires, dogs and all, I sported my headlamp and kept walking, leaving that all behind. I needed to make miles every day so that I could make it on time to meet my Dad at Mckenzie Pass on Tuesday, just a few days out. I don’t enjoy night hiking these days. I can’t see the scenery, and I tend to stumble more, making me nervous about injuring my ankle further. I was ready to keep pushing though, until I crested the hill and turned my head to glance over at what seemed like a void to my right. That void turned out to be a beautiful vista overlooking the lake I had just hiked up from, along with an open view of the starlit sky and a few lights from buildings way off in the distance, making me feel cozy and calm. There was also a prefect flat spot right out in a rock outcropping, probably typically a lunch spot, but I decided it was where I would rest my head for the night. I decided to cowboy again, spreading my sleeping bag out and tucking into it as the full moon rose over the ridge, and the milky way emerged above. This is freedom, I thought, this is freedom. “When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance”.
+5 thoughts on “I Hope You Dance”
+Sending you love from Wisconsin<3
+Thank YOU. I really mean it. This was a great, good, and touching blog post.
+Sooo glad you are choosing to “dance”, love Mom
+Good to see you charging on! Safe hikes
+Dear Mary Poppins,
+My favorite thing. Reading your lovely posts with my morning cup of coffee. I love your spirit and that of the PCT which you so beautifully portray.
+-Arrow
+Nicki is Such a Cow
+By Melissa McKimmey | Posted Under TV Reviews | Comments (6)
+This episode started off really slow and was disjointed. It was much weaker than last week’s strong opener, but it redeemed itself somewhat towards the end. I feel like there is so much ground to cover and I can’t see how they are going to get to an acceptable resolution in ten episodes. It makes for frustrating viewing at times. Also interesting? My computer now fills in the word ‘polygamist’ when I start to type it. Bet that’s a first.
+Bill is the protagonist of the show (theoretically), but this week the overarching theme was about these women starting to fight the constraints of the religion and the principle and making choices for themselves, so they get top billing. Deal with it, Bill.
+Barb is still trying to make sense of her life and is reaching out to her mom. I forgot how snippy her mom is and I enjoyed the banter. Barb joined a group called Sunstone, which appears to be a symposium and magazine that is a vehicle for honest discussions of the Mormon religion. Her mom’s involved and Barb wants her to join her for a talk about being ex-communicated. Barb is really struggling with her faith here. She is just desperately reaching out to people she has a connection with, looking for someone to understand. Jeanne Tripplehorn is sublime here. The talk goes very poorly, when Barb’s mom brings up the polygamist in the room.
+Barb’s still a drinking woman and she’s getting much more bold and calculated with her choices. She’s taking a dance class and talking about building new communities. The bigger challenge that she is facing is daring to question why women aren’t priesthood holders. She finds Margie sad and alone and offers to give her a blessing. That’s a huge no-no. It’s pretty much unheard of and I find it completely badass that Barb would do it. Nicki busts them before it happens and of course rats her out to Bill. Nicki is a total bitch in this episode. She tells Bill that Barb is doing everything deliberately and Bill tells her to chill. He’s not a complete moron (today). I think he knows that if he pushes Barb too hard on falling back into line, it’ll push her completely away.
+Nicki finds out that Cara Lynn is some math genius and she wins a math and science competition and gets kissed by Don’s kid. Of course Nicki has a meltdown and wants her to stay locked up in the house and focus on school so she has a future. Cara Lynn’s going to run off and live with Rhonda if Nicki doesn’t chill out. Cara Lynn also clearly got the lying gene from her mom. Serves Nicki right.
+When Nicki isn’t harassing her kid, she is being a complete cow to Barb. Now, I love Nicki, but Jesus, I would have belted her across the mouth if I were Barb. Nicki tosses out little digs at Barb the whole episode and tries undermining Barb with Bill. And then she goes farther than I thought even Nicki would. The three wives are in Home Plus and they are talking about Nicki needing to relax with Cara Lynn. Nicki figures out that Barb gave Cara Lynn a copy of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ and says she’s not surprised what happened with Barb’s daughter, if that’s the kind of mom Barb is. Wow. There is so much to unpack here. First, I just cannot believe that after all the hideous crap that Nicki has pulled, that she ever says anything to question someone else’s morals. This woman lies more easily than Satan. Not to mention, they are in public. Who does that? The biggest part of this, though, is that it shows that the whole everyone-is-married-to-everyone part of the deal is a flat-out lie. Nicki doesn’t use Sarah’s name and she doesn’t refer to her as ‘their kid’, which she damn well should since she’s the biggest proponent of the principle since Bill. No, now Sarah is Barb’s kid, Barb’s problem. None of that share and share alike belief here! Barb looks like Nicki just slapped her and really, that would have been less hurtful. Margie tells Nicki she was “cruel, insensitive and horrible”. Sing it, sister.
+Nicki goes to Barb’s dance class and apologies. It’s Nicki, so it’s impossible to tell if she’s being sincere about it, and Barb seems to understand that and forgives Nicki a little. It turns into a beautiful scene as the two of them dance together, both doing something new and pushing against the rules. It’s rather touching and the most real moment between any of the spouses this season.
+Poor Margie’s in a bad way. She is depressed and miserable and it’s pathetic. Bill sends Ana off to Siberia or wherever because she’s encouraging Margie to leave Bill and start her life over. Bill tells Margie she’s free to leave him and I almost believe him, except for the fact that the only things he ever really wants are for himself. Margie tells Cara Lynn about promising herself that she was going to do something and be someone and that Cara Lynn should get out and never look back. I hope Margie and Barb both leave Bill. There is so much more out there for them both.
+Fine, I’ll talk about Bill. The first scene of the show is Bill and his sons (I have no idea which ones) talking about scriptures that say to treat your enemies with kindness or some such thing. At the Henrickson home, it’s all about heavy-handedness. While Bill’s giving the sermon, Margie spills that she and Barb got yelled at in the grocery store. I bet Margie yelled back. Margie waxes poetic about some Goji berry drink that this Christian Main Line Marketing guy is hawking and how she wants to hawk it too. Bill shuts her down with just a look and even though I think Margie should have her own career, this idea is just dumb. Margie’s got ambition, she could definitely find a way to start another business instead of working for someone else.
+Bill’s got it in his head that he needs to have a round-table meeting of a bunch of polygamists and various state agencies to create a group he calls ‘Safety Net’, which is a stupid name. Who is the safety net for? Polygamists? The agencies who might not have caught them otherwise? This seems doomed to failure, so I hope Bill goes for it and I get to laugh. Bill looks to a religious group called St. Flores for support and since he’s talking to a sister, I’m going to say it’s a Catholic group. She points out the group is non-Mormon and Bill’s like, ‘Yeah, they’re part of the problem since they won’t have anything to do with us.’ He talks about how in Utah there is the Mormon church and then there is everything else. It’s pretty accurate about Utah and I’m honestly surprised to see such a direct shot against the mainstream church.
+Bill’s ‘Safety Net’ group is pretty big and I’m shocked he got so many bodies in the room together. It starts out smoothly, but then it goes right off the rails when Alby challenges Bill’s description of compound dynamics and Nicki starts yelling at Alby and then some polygamist guy starts yelling and then Charley, the guy from Bill’s store who was talking smack about him last episode starts calling Bill a liar and I get to have my laugh. This is a really volatile group and Bill is the only one who is calm enough to talk about things without freaking out. Of course, he’s going to try again. When has Bill ever passed up a chance to beat his head against a wall?
+In other polygamist news, Midge (really), a representative for Bill’s district that Barb used to baby-sit for (really?) introduces a bill making polygamy a 2nd degree felony and saying that constituents can sue agencies for not prosecuting. Bill calls it a witch hunt in a meeting with the other polygamists. Alby cracks a few jokes at Bill’s expense and I remember why I love him. I just can’t believe Bill thought everyone would embrace them for who they are. When has that ever happened?
+In other news, Lois seems to be having her own breakdown on the compound. He house has a tree in the middle of it and she says Frank tried to burn the house down to get at her money, which I totally believe he would do, but she seems really off. She’s not her normal, sharp self. She’s a little dull, a little lost. It’s sad to see her like that. She and Adalene should room together.
+Of course, Adalene is sharing a room with her dead husband’s clothes laid out on the bed and a picture at the top, for that really creepy vibe, so that may not work out. She’s giving herself hormone injections because she wants to keep the baby. Honestly, she’s the only one who seems like they are coping at all, and that’s probably because having a creepy relative impregnate you with his likeness isn’t even on the top five list of weird things in your life when you’ve been married to Roman and mother to Alby.
+This episode was choppy and the writing was unclear and unfocused, but I like the themes and concepts they are implementing. I’ve still got hope for this season, but I’m going to need more Alby and Adalene and less Bill scheming. Scheme Those Schemes | Brian De Palma's Passion | Pajiba After Dark 1/27/11 →
+Posted by: Ms MoMo at January 27, 2011 6:54 PM
+Bill's irritating the crap out of me.
+Nikki's a beeyatch.
+Alby's cheese has just about fallen off the cracker. Spooky!
+Margene looked like she'd hit the meths with all that dancing around.
+Great job knocking Anna flat on her arse [gasp]
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+ARE BED RISERS SAFE?
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+Skip to comments.BREAKING: Mitt Romney Urged Obama to Embrace the Individual Mandate
+Posted on 03/02/2012 4:15:43 PM PST by red flanker
+Had Michigan not been as close, the Democrats would have waited to spring this on us in the general election. Luckily we have it now and I hope Ohio voters are paying attention.
+In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote.
+(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
+And I want everyone to be responsible for their own weight. That's why I want a federal mandate for healthy food - you don't have to eat it, but you have to buy it. Also, I want people to be responsible in their use of energy. That's why I want a federal mandate that everybody purchase a Chevy Zolt, whether they drive or not.
+I am 100% against government involvement in our personal lives, but I consider myself a fiscal conservative and want the federal government to tell everybody else what to buy, because the Constitution is wrong and freedom is too dangerous for the little people to enjoy.
+Newt supported the individual mandate as did the Heritage Foundation. Romney is no surprise. These are big government republicans. We need to roll back the welfare state, not make it run more efficiently and cheaply.
+40% of doctors don't accept Medicaid patients now and 12% don't accept Medicare patients. We are going to have greater coverage and less access under Obamacare along with higher health insurance prices. The idea is to kill off the private insurers and go to a single payer system like Medicare. That was the objective of Obamacare all along.
+Just when you thought he couldn’t get any worse.
+I’m struggling here, fellow FReepers, I really am. If Romney becomes the nominee, there is literally not a single clear avenue of attack he can take against Obama.
+Romney signed off on universal healthcare.
+Now, we find out that he encouraged Obama to adopt the individual mandate.
+And don’t forget that working at Bain Capital was just like the bailouts!
+Contraception? He was too lily-livered to give any kind of answer in the GOP debates. I doubt he’d do any better in a debate with Obongo.
+Abortion? All they have to do is play clips from the Ted Kennedy debates.
+Quoting Reagan? Again, play the clip from the Ted Kennedy debates.
+Posing as a conservative? Play that clip of him saying “my views are progressive.”
+Gay marriage? He’d bend over backwards to gush over his accomplishments for the queer agenda. Don’t forget that he told voters how real progress could be made by him, as a Republican, since he’d sound like a “reasonable moderate.”
+He can’t claim to be a “man of the people” in a populist election due to his embarrassing gaffes that show how out of touch he is with everyday Americans.
+Now you tell me: what the hell is he supposed to run on besides platitudes and hair gel? What?
+>Oh good grief. Really? Googling USA Today for an old op-ed passes for opposition research and/or investigative journalism these days?
+>Really sad.
+What’s sad is that the American people don’t see what’s right in front of them. Even conservatives who are supposed to be paying attention.
+There are a lot of people ON THIS FORUM who are going to vote for this weasel in the general. How can they when it’s plain what kind of a duplicitous scumbag Myth is???
+bttt
+Your post is hilarious! You think the mandate is going to lower the cost of health insurance? 30 million people will be forced to buy health insurance. Many of which are too poor and will be able to get their health insurance policy for free under ObamaCare. Me and you will pick up the cost via higher premiums. Nothing changes. We’re still paying for the bums.
+For the same reason Mastercard has to go through lots of legal expenses to recover unpaid bills.
+Exactly.. I said something similar many months ago.. and stand by it. I will do a write in for Palin if Newt doesn’t make it. We need to flush out all of the moderates and posers from our side.. and I will not put a wolf in sheep’s clothing in office to damage (R) more than has already been done.
+In fairness, the Heritage Foundation dropped its support for individual mandates many years ago after further research led them to determine that the costs associated with such a measure would be out-of-control and unsustainable.
+Mariner wrote:
+<<
+I don’t think this is news. Romney has always been known to support this position. Hell, the Op-ed was in USA today.
+What’s breaking about this? Romney is a statist and Obamacare was modeled after Romneycare.
+>>
+**************************************************************
+Yes, but Romney keeps claiming in the debates that he doesn’t support individual mandates on a NATIONAL level, yet in his own op-ed published in USA Today several years ago he URGED OBAMA to implement an individual mandate!
+You mean Mitt Romney is saying things he doesn’t mean?
+Who knew?
+"Showing" someone that you have "enough" money requires an overseer, a despot. Traditionally you only needed the marketplace to find out if the buyer has enough money.
+Also note that traditional insurance companies can out of money at any time. They won't run out of money in the bank - but they can run out of *your account's* money. They will not deliver an infinite amount of financing to treat you; it is not even mathematically possible.
+This means that all medical services are limited in scope. A self-insured person is not any different from an insurance company; both aren't willing (or capable) of paying too much.
+It is much easier to charge money for all services that a commercial entity offers. Those who can pay do pay; those who have no money have to depend on a credit. If there is no credit there is no treatment. Illegals can surrender to DHS, get treated there and deported. Poor but healthy citizens will be required to do community work until their debt is paid off. Poor and sick citizens will be supported by taxpayers.
+Anyway, Obamacare has a big problem with self-insured people. It will not be permitted on an individual level, and will be restricted to a couple of named groups on a group level.
+So how do you feel about car insurance? Should we allow any yahoo to run around without liability insurance?
+You do not have to buy a car insurance. First, you don't have to buy a car in the first place. Second, if you do own a car, you don't need to buy your car insurance from an insurance company. There are other options. You can deposit $35K with the DMV; you can be self-insured (requires that you prove to DMV that you have money); you can also get a private surety bond for the same $35K.
+I personally buy my car insurance, but that's because it is cheaper this way. I think I pay $300/yr for one car. That is 0.85% of the $35K. If I have the $35K I would be far better off investing the money because I can get anywhere between 3% and 5% from municipal bonds, for example. But this choice is mine and mine alone. Obamacare takes this choice away from me.
+“To my post above let me add that I am 100% in favor of PRIVATE insurance only. I am 100% against government run health service of any kind.”
+That’s how people with SENSE, would think.
+You have very little sense of financial proportion.
+A Mastercard has spending limits, typically 5 to 10K dollars.
+A single hospital bill for a week’s stay is well over $120,000. Obviously you are not well versed in financial world.
+Your post is hilarious. Obamacare is 2800 pages. I am against 96.5% of Obamacare. Mandate I am talking about is for catastrophic hospitaql charges which you can not afford without insurance.
+Think logical. It will help you succeed in life. Your weight does not cost me anything. Your hospital stay without insurance costs me higher insurance premiums.
+I agree completely....government should get out of running Medicare & Medicaid. I am on Medicare and it is getting harder every year to find doctors who will take new patients.
+Think logically. It will help you succeed in life. The government that forces you to buy health insurance will later be dictating what insurance policies should cover, how much they should cost........
+Your brand of incremental statism is no better than theirs.
+I loathe freeloaders who take risks and then are unable to pay the humongous hospital bills. If it takes a law to prevent that theft, so be it. If it takes a law to prevent one from robbing banks so be it. If it takes a law to prevent one from burglarizing others, so be it.
+Those who refuse to take responsibility for their hospital costs are no better than a thief who steals your wallet. Because they are stealing my money in the form of higher premiums to pay for their cheating.
+Having a law on the books does not mean more government in your life any more than a law against bank robbery. Try to think on deeper levels instead of forming knee jerk opinions .
+Who is going to end up being forced to buy insurance for those that are mandated to, but cannot afford it?
+Same people who pay for food stamps, unemployment checks for 99 weeks, unlimited free medicaid costs, rent subsidies, heat subsidies, aid to dependent children, reduced costs lunches to students, etc.
+But I am talking about those WHO CAN AFFORD insurance and do not bother to buy it. However I am against the type of mandate in Obamacare which requires you to buy “deluxe” insurance. I am for a type of insurance which will only cover catastrophic health care bills and which can be bought from any state. Such insurance does not exist now. So, I am hoping a real healthcare reform law will emerge after the 2012 elections.
+Given the governments propensity to get “the camel’s nose under the tent”, distort markets and then completely take over I highly doubt they’ll limit their actions to the individual mandate to buy “basic” insurance. The individual mandate in and of itself is contrary to freedom, and eventually the government will define what is and is not insurance (according to interest group politics), how much it costs etc. Your solution inevitably leads to single payer socialized medicine.
+You want to know the worst mandate of all? I just did a preliminary calculation of my federal income tax for 2011. I sold some long held stocks in 2011 to pay for my kid’s college expenses and am shocked at the tax bill now coming due. This confiscation of my money in the form of taxes is the worst kind of mandate...it effects everything in my life...where I can live, what I can eat, where kids can go to college...everything!
+As for your point that a healthcare self-responsibility mandate will lead to single payer, it all depends on who we elect. Look, we elected Obama and the worst kind of mandate is already here, requiring every one to buy deluxe insurance which includes contraception, abortion, and a variety of maladies brought on by bad behavior. Obamacare has so many bad things in it, I can do a 5 page write-up.
+The mandate I would like to see will only be for catastrophic medical expense. If you are against that what is your solution for those who end up in hospitals and can’t pay their bills for lack of insurance? Note that that mandate will only apply to those whose income justifies it. For the destitute, we already have insurance..also known as Medicaid.
+We agree about taxes, but sadly we will never agree about the individual mandate. I don’t believe it is the government’s role to compel free people to buy products they might not want. There wouldn’t be a problem to solve if the government hadn’t gotten involved to begin with.
+I have no problem if you disagree with me on the mandate issue. But I have not heard your solution to the hospital bills left unpaid by the cheaters. Who should pick up their tab? Right now us folks who bother to buy health insurance are stuck with it.
+It is great that your are against something, but then if you do not have a workable alternative, your opinion ends up sounding hollow.
+“It is great that your are against something, but then if you do not have a workable alternative, your opinion ends up sounding hollow.”
+I’ve given you my solution. There would have never been a problem if the government hadn’t gotten involved in the first place. Hospitals should not be compelled to treat people that do not pay.
+Mitt lies as coolly as Obama does..
+Well, then, it would certianly be worth the legal expense, don't you think?
+And why should the hospital be burdened with legal bills because some cheater jerks refuse to buy insurance?
+Are you willing to make a contribution to defray their unnecessary legal bills?
+You can’t be serious! (to borrow a phrase from John McEnroe)
+You really want hospitals to refuse medical care to people who show up at the emergency room after a serious injury in an auto accident, tornado, earthquake or hurricane?
+WOW, how heartless! No my friend, let them buy insurance before the calamity strikes. Just like we are required to buy fir insurance for our homes by the mortgage lender.
+Actually as you’ve already stated the poor have Medicaid and the free riders have the ability to pay but don’t. You’re a statist sir and no amount of calling me heartless will change that. Go sell your snake oil to a more receptive audience....I’m thinking of the Cuban Ministry of Non Commerce..”
+Tell the ones who don’t already know this.
+When you go into business, that is the risk you take.
+Are you willing to make a contribution to defray their unnecessary legal bills?
+Are you willing to make a contribution to defray Mastercards' legal bills?
+Truth hurts, don’t it Mitt-bots?
+Nanny State PING!
+I will let you tell me how to handle my health care, if you let me tell you what to eat and drive.
+I'm calling shenanigans on Erick and his website. Every conservative already knows that Mitt is not a conservative. An op-Ed in the USA Today left on every hotel doorstep and available to anyone with a modem hardly qualifies as groundbreaking investigative journalism.
+Thanks for the ping!
+Why should I? I don't work for Santorum. If he can't pay some geek $10/hour to do a simple LexisNexis search for everything Romney's published in the past 20 years, then he's just not smart enough to be president.
+Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
+’s Inferno Essay, Research Paper
+Part One – Sins of Incontinence (She-Wolf)
+(excepting, of course, the first circle)
+Circle One- Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Children (Limbo)
+This circle is a grassy field illuminated by the light of human reason. Here reside the great poets of antiquity, whom Dante envies greatly. The only pain of the people here is that they have no hope.
+Circle Two- Lustful Persons (The Carnal)
+Those who reside here gave themselves up to their passions. They swirl in an eternal wind (lust) through murky air (beclouding of their reason by passion.) Since this is a sin associated with love, it is the least serious sin. Even some more serious sins, motivated by love or passion can be ?pled down? to this level. Lancelot and the courtly lovers of the middle ages are punished here, as are, of course, Francesca and Paola.
+Circle Three- Gluttons (The Gluttons)
+Putrefaction and other forms of human waste fall from the sky, and the glutinous spirits lie in the waste they produced during their lives. As they consumed, they are consumed by Cerberus, the dog of Hell. Dante has a long conversation here with Ciacco the hog.
+Circle Four- Selfish People (The Hoarders and Wasters)
+Since these people lacked moderation during their own lives, they are condemned to carry immoderate weights upon their chests. There are two divisions within the circle: those who kept everything for themselves, and those who wasted what they had. Symbolic of their actions during life, they stand in a great crowd, pushing huge lead weights around. No one here is recognizable, since their greed and extravagance has made them indistinguishable from each other.
+Circle Five- Mean People (The Wrathful and Sullen)
+Again, there are two divisions with this circle. The first, the wrathful, run around the swamp of the river Styx, attacking each other furiously. The sullen are entombed beneath the mud. They chant eternally an infernal hymn, which admits their sin of grumpiness.
+Heresy
+(not really a sin of any of the evil aminals)
+Circle Six- Deniers of God (The Heretics)
+This is just inside the walls of Dis, the city of Hell. It is a great cemetery where those who denied the eternal life of Heaven and God are buried in fiery crypts. Epicurus, his followers, and Pope Anastasius reside here. The burning cemetery is guarded by the Rebellious Angels, and the reasoning behind their positioning here is obvious.
+Part Two – Sins of Violence (Lion)
+Circle Seven – Violent People (The Violent and Bestial)
+Round One: Violent Against your neighbor
+People who made war against their neighbors, other countries, or other large groups of people, as well as highwaymen and mass murderers reside here, submerged eternally in boiling blood, just as they wallowed in blood during life. If they rise up too far out of the blood, the guarding Centaurs stick them full of arrows. Naturally, great generals – Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, probably Genghis Kahn – are here.
+Round Two: Violent Against yourself
+Suicides are here, their souls encased in thorny trees. Since these people could only express themselves in life through the shedding of their own blood, they are only allowed to speak while bleeding. Harpies, birds who defile all they touch, rip and tear the plants through eternity. This is also symbolic, since the suicides defiled their own bodies through their self-mutilation.
+Round Three: Against God, Nature, and Art
+Blasphemers (sinners against God,) homosexuals (sinners against Nature,) and usurers (sinners against Art [in Dante?s day, another word for industry]) all reside here. This round is a large stretch of open sand. The sand is burning, and flaming rain falls from the sky. Blasphemers, the worst of the three, are stretched out upon the sand, and bear the brunt of the rain. Sodomites (homosexuals, who broke down the order of Nature, God?s child) run in circles for eternity. Those who practice usury, the least serious sin of these three (a sin against Art, the child of Nature, and therefore, the grandchild of God) are allowed to huddle in the sand, though they have to stare eternally at a purse around their neck. The sand here represents sterility (as these are all inherently sterile sins) and the rain, wrath.
+Part Three – Sins of Fraud (Leopard)
+Circle Eight- Frauds (The Fraudulent and Malicious)
+In the eighth circle, there are ten mini-circles. Each contains a different type of sinner, and each is punished differently. However, they are all under the same category: those who committed simple fraud.
+Bolgia One: Panderers and Seducers
+In the first ditch, those who drove others on in life are forced to march for eternity, driven on by demons with huge whips. Jason of the Argonauts, from Greek mythology, is here.
+Bolgia Two: Flatterers
+Here, people who flattered others in life are sunk for eternity in the true value of their flatteries: poop (for lack of a better word.)
+Bolgia Three: Simoniacs
+In life, church officials who sold church offices and favors for money are held upside-down in mock baptismal fonts, with fire replacing water. As new sinners come, the residents are bumped down into the fiery rock to make room. The popes come here often, and the current resident is Nicholas III.
+Bolgia Four: Fortune Tellers and Diviners
+Tiresias, as well as others who tried to look into the future, have their heads turned and can only walk backwards. This is because they always looked forward, and used means forbidden by God, and they always tried to live in the future instead of the present. So, the can only move backwards. Even their backwards sight is blinded by tears.
+Bolgia Five: Grafters
+The stickiness of the grafter?s fingers is represented here by the boiling pitch they are submerged in eternally. Grafters, who tore funds from others, via embezzlement or other means, are ripped by demons if they come up too high out of the boiling pitch.
+Bolgia Six: Hypocrites
+Since hypocrites appear to be brilliant on the outside, their robes are gilded on the outside, but the terrible burden on their souls is apparent; inside, the robes are made of lead. The hypocrites march in a circle unceasingly. All of them walk over the body of the crucified Caiaphas, the greatest hypocrite in the world. As Christ bore the weight of the world?s sins through his crucifixion, Caiaphas bears the world?s hypocrisy. Caiaphas was the chief priest of the Jews who wanted Jesus crucified in the name of convenience, to make an example of him.
+Bolgia Seven: Thieves
+Thievery is reptilian in it?s secrecy; so the thieves of earth are tormented by reptiles. Upon being struck by one, they burst into flame and slowly reform, painfully. Other reptiles transform sinners into reptiles, and they cannot change back until they touch another sinner. In this way, the thieves are condemned to steal each other?s forms for eternity.
+Bolgia Eight: Evil Counselors
+Since these people obscured their true agendas in life, they are obscured (and burned) by large tongues of flame (the tongue of flame being a play on the fact that they used their own tongues for their sins.) Odysseus, hero of the Iliad and Odyssey is here, as is the record of his last adventure.
+Bolgia Nine: Sowers of Discord
+There are three categories of sinners in this bolgia: sowers of religious discord, sowers of political discord, and, finally, sowers of discord between kinsmen. They all march in a circle, and take turns being cut open by a demon with a huge sword. As they make their way around the circle, they are healed, slowly and painfully. Mohammed is the chief sinner here, and each trip around he is cut completely in two. His son and successor, Ali Bakr, is also here, cleft from head to tummy.
+Bolgia Ten: The Falsifiers
+People who fooled other?s senses have their own senses assailed for eternity. They are bombarded by stench, thirst, filth, disease, noise, and are attacked by demons. Basically, they are subject to the sum of the world?s corruptions. There are four classes of sinners here. The first is the alchemists, who tried to use false methods to create materials, and usually faked the results. Next are those who impersonated others. In Hell, they run without end, preying on others, and they themselves being preyed upon. They change form constantly, just as they did on earth. The third class, the counterfeiters, have an especially bad case of eternal thirst. Finally, there is the fourth class, the false witnesses.
+Central Pit of Malebolge (The Titans)
+Here, the great giants of antiquity, who were unbalanced by love or compassion, are chained to the ground, guarding the well that leads downward to the plain of the Ninth Circle.
+Circle Nine- Really Bad Fraud (Compound Fraud)
+Round One: Treacherous to Kin
+Those who betrayed blood ties are frozen up to their shoulders in the Lake of Hell, allowed to bow there heads to the wind the blows from Satan?s wings.
+Round Two: Treacherous to Country
+People who sold out on their countries are frozen up to their necks, unable to move their heads.
+Round Three: Treacherous to Guests and Hosts
+Violators of the bonds of hospitality have ice up over half their face; their tears freeze in their eyes, forming a crystal sheet over their face. This sin is so great that the body leaves the soul before the body even dies. The soul comes here, and the body is inhabited by a demon.
+Round Four: Treacherous to their Masters
+Those who killed or otherwise betrayed their masters are submerged completely in the ice, their bodies distorted into strange positions.
+The Center- Satan
+Finally, here rests Satan, frozen in the center of the Lake of Hell, to which flow all the rivers of guilt. His eternally beating wings freeze the waters of the Ninth Circle, holding him and the sinners in. In his three multi-colored mouths are those who committed the worst sins of betrayal: Judas, Cassius, and Brutus. They are torn by his teeth for
+LVN to RN Frequently Asked Questions
+GENERAL INFO QUESTIONS:
+What are the best ways to learn about the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option Program and the other nursing program offerings at Sacramento State?
+Due to the volume of interest and lack of resources, School of Nursing staff is unable to respond to email and phone messages on nursing program offerings. Therefore, students should read the information on the website and plan to attend one of the group advising sessions for a program of their interest.
+When are group advising sessions held?
+Group advising sessions for the 30-Unit Option program are generally held weekly for the month before the application deadlines (in February and between mid-September and mid-October). Additional sessions may be scheduled on a monthly basis during the months the University is in session, depending on staff availability. Check the website for the semester schedule.
+What should I bring with me to the group advising session?
+You do not need to bring anything with you. However, it is important to get your personal application file started. It is helpful to have unofficial copies of your college transcripts with you should you have advising questions about your coursework. You should also get official transcripts in your file so you have those ready if you decide to apply to the program later.
+How are students selected for the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option Program?
+When selecting students for the 30-Unit Option Program, applications are reviewed and students are ranked according to GPA. Then, a determination is made as to whether space is available in the first two courses in the 30-Unit Option program due to progression changes by continuing, traditional BSN students. Open slots are awarded to 30-Unit Option applicants based upon application ranking.
+How many students are selected each semester?
+As many as are qualified, space available. No more than four students have been admitted in a single semester in the past 7 years. Several semesters, there has been no space available because all slots were filled by continuing, traditional BSN students. We regret that the School of Nursing does not receive funding to provide specific slots for 30-Unit Option students. However, the School is committed to fill open slots with LVN to RN students when possible.
+How many students usually apply to the program?
+On average, the School of Nursing receives 15 applications each semester for the 30-Unit Option program and about half of the applications are valid and complete.
+How successful are students in the program? Do you provide any statistics on completion or NCLEX-RN pass rates?
+The students who have attended the 30-Unit Option program have generally done well, progressed, and passed their RN licensure exam on the first attempt. We do not provide specific, annual statistics for progression because we have had so few students enroll in the program and doing so might risk individuals' federal academic privacy rights. However, aggregate student data is discussed during group advising sessions.
+APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
+When are the nursing applications available? When are they due?
+Nursing applications for the 30-Unit Option program are usually posted on the School of Nursing website by September 15th and due October 15th for admission to the spring semester and are available February 1st and due March 1st for admission to the fall semester.
+Has a student on the non-priority pool list ever been selected for the program?
+Yes, this has happened some years ago but not in the past five 5 due to lack of admission space.
+When should I apply to the University?
+If you are only planning to attend the University for the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option program, you should wait until you are admitted into the 30-Unit Option program before applying to the University. We have an agreement with admissions that LVN to RN students may be admitted late. This prevents students from applying to the University without being admitted into the program. Remember, there is a fee to apply to the University but not to apply to the 30-Unit Option program.
+If you are planning to pursue a degree in another field (since the 30-Unit Option program is a non-degree program), you should consult the University application requirements and deadlines. Note that students admitted to the 30-Unit Option program do not need to meet University eligibility requirements for admission. Students who apply to the University but do not get admitted to the 30-Unit Option program do need to meet University admission criteria.
+May I apply after the deadlines posted by the University and the School of Nursing?
+If you do not meet the deadlines posted by the School of Nursing, your application for that semester will not be in the priority pool. This means that all applicants in the priority pool must be offered a slot in the program before we can offer a slot to someone in the non-priority pool.
+University admission deadlines are not applicable for students applying only to the 30-Unit Option program (see previous question).
+If I complete the University and nursing applications for one semester, but I do not get accepted, do I need to complete a new University application and pay another fee?
+Yes, the University application process has a fee and must be repeated. This is another reason to hold off on applying to the University if you are only seeking completion of the 30-Unit Option and not a degree.
+If you apply to the 30-Unit Option program and are not selected, you need only notify the LVN 30-Unit Option Advisor of your intent to apply for the following semester – in writing. You will also need to provide documentation of updated LVN license, if necessary, as well as official transcripts to reflect any coursework taken after the submission of the original application.
+If I send transcripts to the University, will the nursing department have access to the transcripts?
+No. We do not have access to files in Admissions and Records. It is important to keep in mind that whatever is sent to admissions is completely separate from what is sent to the School of Nursing for the nursing application. You should send your official transcrips directly to the School of Nursing with your 30-Unit Option application packet.
+How often should I check with the School of Nursing regarding the status of my application?
+The acceptance, alternate and denial emails are usually sent around the beginning of January for Spring acceptance and the beginning of June for Fall acceptance. Timelines are identified in all correspondence. The advisor will keep you apprised of your status throughout the process via email.
+What if I am accepted into the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option Program and then I need to delay starting the program? Will I automatically be accepted the following semester?
+No, your space is not held and you will need to reapply the following semester and notify the LVN Advisor of your intent to reapply.
+What if I am accepted into the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option Program and then I need to delay going into second semester?
+A student may take a Leave of Absence during the second semester only. This needs to be requested in writing according to School of Nursing policy. When you return, your continuing into second semester nursing courses will be possible only if there are spaces available in each of the courses.
+PREREQUISITE QUESTIONS:
+If the course on Physiology (with a lab) was combined with the Anatomy course, do I need a separate Physiology course?
+In general, students need a Physiology course with a lab that is not combined with Anatomy. If you have completed Anatomy and Physiology I with a lab, you must also complete Anatomy and Physiology II with lab to meet the prerequisite requirements. Submitting your transcripts with all the coursework you have taken will help to make a decision regarding this.
+I have one of the prerequisites “in progress” when I submit my nursing application. Will I still be considered for that semester?
+You may be considered, but you will not be part of the priority pool of applicants and preference may be given to students who have completed the prerequisites.
+LVN TO RN 30-UNIT OPTION PROGRAM QUESTIONS:
+Is the nursing student orientation before the start of classes mandatory?
+Yes. Orientation is generally held the Wednesday before the first day of the semester. If you miss the orientation you may lose your spot and will need to reapply for the following semester. Orientation information and dates are provided with your admission notice.
+How is the program structured?
+Students in the 30-Unit Option program take an advanced medical-surgical nursing course and a mental health nursing course during the first semester; both courses include lecture and clinical hours. Second semester courses include theory and clinical in pediatric nursing and obstetrical nursing as well as a seminar in leadership and management. In general, lectures, labs, and clinicals take place Monday-Friday, although there may be a rare occasion when weekends must be utilized to accommodate clinical or lab.
+Will I get a degree or a certificate?
+No, the 30-Unit Option is a non-degree program. Completing the 30 Units of course work will allow you to take the NCLEX-RN to obtain the RN license for California. Note: Due to the unique laws of the State of California which provide for the 30-Unit Option, the RN license will likely not be recognized in any other state.
+Who is my faculty advisor once I am in the program?
+The LVN Advisor will be your faculty advisor while you complete the program.
+Will my LVN liability insurance cover me when I am in clinical as a nursing student?
+No, you need separate insurance as a nursing student. You will be required to pay for malpractice insurance through the University via semester fee.
+Are 30-Unit Option students able to challenge out of courses?
+The only class that may be challenged is NURS 138: Nursing the Childrearing Family, which is taken during the second semester. LVNs who have special educational preparation and acute care work experience (current work in a hospital pediatric unit) may be able to challenge depending on an evaluation by the LVN Advisor and course faculty. Challenge information is provided to students after admission to the program.
+What if I have completed RN college-level courses elsewhere?
+It is extremely important that you submit all transcripts to be considered for acceptance for credit in the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option program. Some courses completed in other nursing programs may be equivalent to the program nursing courses and therefore, you may receive credit. This determination will be made by individual course faculty after you are enrolled in the program.
+Is coursework from the external degree program, Excelsior College (also known as New York Regents) accepted for credit in the 30-Unit Option Program?
+Nursing coursework is not accepted from Excelsior. Credit for other coursework may be possible, but the specific courses need to be evaluated first by the Sacramento State faculty.
+When will I become eligible to take my state boards to become an RN?
+According to the California BRN, students must have transcripts to show that they have completed the necessary coursework in the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option program before they can sit for the state boards. Note also that all Sacramento State nursing students must, at program completion, achieve a minimum score on a computerized NCLEX-RN predictor examination before being allowed to take the RN licensure exam.
+BACCALAUREATE DEGREE QUESTIONS:
+If I received my RN license through the LVN to RN 30-Unit Option Program, could I be considered for the RN to BSN or MSN programs at Sacramento State?
+Students who are interested in pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in nursing should attend a group advising session for the RN to BSN program. Please review the RN to BSN information posted also in the School of Nursing website. Similarly, those interested in the MSN program should attend a group advising session regarding the graduate program – check the website for the schedule.
+What if I have all my prerequisites for the BSN program and that is what I know I want?
+If you are interested in doing this, see the BSN website. You are also strongly encouraged to attend the group advising for BSN students. You would apply to be admitted directly into the BSN program. (Do NOT apply to the LVN to RN program as the applications for the two programs vary greatly.) You will be in a larger pool of applicants and the process is much more competitive. Students are given points based upon GPA and the scores from the ATI TEAS exam (Test of Essential Academic Skills) and then ranked according to the total points.
+…
+The latest (ISC)2 workforce study, published in spring 2013, declares that only 10% of the information security industry’s professionals are female. Attendance at industry events and feedback from hiring managers all contribute to this consensus. Although 76% of those interviewed for this article say that they believe more women are entering the field, all agree this is happening “very slowly”.
+There are some initiatives – both internally in the industry and externally through government – intent on increasing and supporting women entering the profession. A recent spike in industry events and seminars focused on women in security – including the upcoming Bletchley Park Women Codebreakers of WII event organized by the Cyber Security Challenge and Women’s Security Society – are testament to the increased awareness about the lack of women in the industry and a desire to honor those who are and encourage new (female) blood. But the first question is whether this is something felt necessary by the industry at whole.
+More than half of those Infosecurity interviewed for this article do see this deficiency as problematic and disappointing and are eager for more industry action to change this balance. “More needs to be done. There are only a few organizations out there offering women's scholarships in information security – the (ISC)2 Foundation is one of them. Across the board, this issue has been widely ignored but it can't stay this way forever”, says Michelle Schafer, vice president of the security practice at Merritt Group, a PR firm.
+Konstantinia Charitoudi, part-time lecturer and security consultant at the University of South Wales, and PhD researcher in information security, is also calling for more to be done. “It’s important that women in the field encourage other women, but it would also be nice if more men were involved in this encouragement, to make women feel welcomed in a field that is supposed to be ‘man’s world’”. She declares stereotypes, culture and lack of encouragement “to blame”.
+At the other end of the spectrum you have people like Caitlin Rose Johanson, Sheena Wallace, and Anne Wood. “Gender isn’t important here”, answers Wood when asked whether the government and industry are doing enough to encourage women into the sector. “Skills should be the consideration, irrespective of gender”. Anne Wood is a senior consultant at Sysnet Global Solutions.
+Sheena Wallace, lead security consultant at Context Information Security, agrees with Wood. “I’m not sure that there should be a requirement for external bodies to encourage or influence in either direction. As long as there is not active discouragement – which I have never observed – then women [should be] left to make their own minds up as to which industry would best suit them.”
+“It doesn’t matter either way as long as we are advancing our security practices”, agrees Caitlin Rose Johanson, senior solutions architect at Veracode, when asked the same question.
+Seeking a Sexy Career
+Several of the interviewees agree that many women consider information security – and technology generally – to be an “unattractive career choice” and are keen to articulate that this mindset is self-imposed. “I think [the low numbers of women in information security] is more a lack of interest on the part of women than exclusion by men”, says Birgit Thorup Mullen, senior security associate at Bishop Fox. “The motivation to enter an industry has to come from the people who want to be in it”, she argues.
+“It’s not a terribly glamorous job”, admits Patricia Titus, former CISO at Symantec, Unisys, and the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). “We have to deal with some of the scum of cyber space, so you have to have a strong stomach and a lot of intestinal fortitude.”
+Bridget Burke, vice president, CIO and CSO at HID Global, points to another possible factor that puts women off. “Women are often collaborators not isolationists, so the field may not seem attractive to them. It is also a risk based-discipline, which women may not see as creative or interesting as other fields of study.”
+Brenda Larcom, senior security associate, co-founder and lead developer of Trike, is more concerned with getting the right people into the information security industry, regardless of their gender. “We don't need to get more women into infosec, we need to ensure that everyone who wants to get into [the industry] has the opportunity and comfort level to do so. I don't see an inherent need to encourage women to do any particular thing. We are capable of making our own decisions, as individuals rather than as a demographic group”, she articulates.
+Almost unanimously agreed across the board is the determination that women should be recruited based on merit and skills, rather than to tick the equality box. “There shouldn’t be undue exceptions for women; the best person for the role should get the job”, says Tina Stewart, VP marketing at Vormetric.
+“I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the idea of targeting specific groups – be it gender or race – for careers”, agrees Christie Grabyan, managing security associate at Bishop Fox.
+Burke, on the other hand, is more positive about female-specific recruiting and agrees that information on this would be “useful and of interest to women in the field.”
+Judging a Book by Its Cover
+It is commonly argued that the information security industry needs to do a better job of marketing itself, perhaps even more relevant when attracting women to the industry. “The word ‘security’ seems to invoke a persona of a male-dominated line of work: padlocks and strong [male] security guards protecting the perimeter. The word cybersecurity brings out the image of hackers hiding behind dark glasses and black hoodies. Neither necessarily inspires females”, argues Haiyan Song, vice president and general manager of ArcSight enterprise security products at HP.
+Ian Glover, president of the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST), agrees. “The media provides a stereotypical view of the type of people that work in the industry. If we are going to appeal to a wider audience, not just women, we need to provide evidence to contradict the stereotypical views. We need to be conscious of the language we use that unintentionally has a male bias and need to take expert advice to ensure that the material we develop and the presentations we make are gender neutral.”
+Many interviewees argued that the lack of women in the industry is a societal issue. Not just the societal norms that cast judgment on women in technical roles, but the working guidelines and standards around part-time staff, flexible hours and maternity policies.
+“There is a lot less judgment placed upon an ambitions man versus an ambitious female. Due to some women having different life goals regarding staying home or reduced travel and work hours to facilitate family, the information security field may not be the optimum choice for all”, says Erin Jacobs, founding partner of Urbane Security and former CIO and CSO in the financial services sector.
+“Until the industry makes it more attractive for women to remain in the workplace after having children, I think the picture will remain as it does today – lots of women but very few senior ones”, says Alisha Dattani, managing director at TangibleQL. In fact, Dattani felt so strongly about the lack of flexibility surrounding keeping women in roles after they have started a family that she saw a gap in the market for an organization offering the flexibility that women require, and launched TangibleQL.
+“I know many women who enjoyed high-earning careers in information security. They had a child, went part-time and tried to carry on, but their roles had been subtly altered to ensure that they no longer had the decision-making clout that they used to”, she explains. Adrienne Hall, director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, recalls a time when she was told “You won’t want to go to that event because you have children.”
+Any career can be challenging for women in terms of juggling work and home life, says Fiona Collins, security analyst in the security operations center at BNY Mellon. “There is no reason to think that a career in IT or information security is any more challenging”, she asserts.
+Larcom believes that women make a conscious decision to conform to societal expectations. “Most young women care too much about what other people think and what other women do. They choose from the list of socially acceptable careers for women, and hacker still isn't on that list.”
+Burke, however, reminds us that sometimes it’s not the female perspective that is the problem. “There are of course individuals that find it difficult to adjust to women in technical roles. There is discrimination in the world and people do treat others differently based on gender, race, religion, etc.”
+Let’s Make a Geek Barbie
+The majority of the women interviewed were comfortable with the idea of awareness campaigns encouraging women to enter the sector, and almost every single proponent was of the belief that this encouragement has to start early – in a girl’s formative education years.
+“We’ve been examining the issue as part of our Global Information Security Workforce Study and have found that subtle cues sent to girls in middle school by parents, teachers, and peers, can shift their interest away from STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects”, recounts Julie Peeler, director of the (ISC)2 Foundation. “Generally speaking, there are less women entering STEM majors at university, and IT has the lowest enrolment overall, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.” As a consequence, says Peeler, few women are entering the industry.
+Patricia Titus points to the Obama Administration’s STEM program as an initiative “that has been working really hard to change this dynamic. But, we could use more scholarship programs geared toward women in this discipline”, she says.
+Alisha Dattani is concerned that girls are “buying into the argument at a very tender age that technology isn’t for them.”
+“Girls are simply not encouraged toward more technical roles in childhood and any difference you see in business is a result of that”, agrees Vormetric’s Tina Stewart.
+Fiona Collins is also of the mindset that education must start young. “Schools need to encourage girls to go into the field, starting with subjects like math and science.”
+The answer, according to Caitlin Rose Johanson, is in the form of a doll. “Make a nerdy Barbie or doll that doubles as a homemaker and underground hacker, and then see where things are in 20 years with the girls who played with them”, she challenges.
+Neira Jones, partner at Accourt, agrees that educating young girls about information security should start young. “Awareness should start at nursery. The equivalent of ‘don’t accept sweeties from strangers’ should be applied to the digital age”, she says.
+Interestingly, while only a handful of those interviewed recall being actively discouraged from interest in an IT discipline, even fewer shared stories of encouragement. “As the youngest of five children with a very mechanical father, I was always working right alongside him tuning up car engines and fixing things. He was great at making sure his daughters were capable of taking care of their own car issues – we weren’t raised in a gender-biased family”, Titus recalls.
+Soraya Viloria Montes de Oca, IT and information security manager in the third sector, was also blessed with support and encouragement. “But, I am originally from Venezuela where women are encouraged to go to university and to take on sciences”, she points out. This was not the only time that acceptance dependent on geography was raised, with a handful of interviewees expressing the opinion that the US market is more accepting of women in technology than Europe or Asia.
+Larcom paints a darker picture. “I had a guidance counselor at school (interestingly, a psychologist who prides herself on being an advocate of women in the sciences) who assured me I would be unable to get into the computer science department. I had no trouble whatsoever getting in”, she recalls.
+Passionate as Sin
+Of those who are happy to challenge the stereotype and invest in an IT career, a vast selection of answers were given in response to the question: What attracted you to the information security profession?
+“Women have been taught from a young age to be aware of their surroundings and to be very security conscious. I think women intuitively grasp the need for security”, responds Penny Leavy, VP and general manager of ManTech MCIS/HBGary, and co-founder of HBGary and Cenzic.
+Other responses included attraction to a fast-evolving industry, interest in mathematics, a technical curiosity and a ‘break-it’ mentality.
+These answers and interests somewhat contradict the sometimes voiced opinion that women in the information security industry are more suited to the less technical roles; an opinion that Infosecurity presented to the interviewees and invited their candid feedback.
+Although approximately a third of respondents agreed with this generalization, those who disagreed did so with passion.
+“The idea that female brains are somehow less suited to technical disciplines than their male counterparts is insulting, patronizing and plain wrong”, asserted Alisha Dattani.
+“Generalizations about female non-suitability for technical work have been made for decades”, says Bridget Burke. “Yet, somehow women are successful in technical roles when they decide to pursue them.”
+Jane Frankland, of the Jane Frankland Agency, and former owner of Corsair and associate director of operations for NCC Group, points to her children as the perfect example of why she disagrees with the statement. “When I look at my three children, it's my daughter who's really getting the technical side of things. She's only 11 years old, has got her own website and is coding”, she says.
+The other side of the argument is presented by Fiona Collins. “I agree that women probably are better than men at the risk management and marketing side. They are more likely to take a step back and look at the wider implications to what they are doing”, she observes.
+Anne Wood also believes there is some truth in the argument. “[Information security] takes a certain set of skills and interests that are more commonly found in men. It's not necessarily a discrimination thing, or an environmentally (social) enforced gender stereotype”, she argues.
+Painting a Pretty Picture
+Being a woman in a male-dominated industry isn’t necessarily a negative, argued many of the interviewees. Indeed, to the contrary, many contended that it is beneficial to be a woman in a ‘man’s world’. During a recent Infosecurity magazine webinar on women in security, the audience of 300 viewers was polled on this very question. Twenty-four percent believe it to be an advantage, 29% believe it a disadvantage and the remaining 47% declared it “irrelevant”.
+“I find a male-dominated environment to be empowering. I know that I’m in my position and given more responsibility on merit”, says Gemma Parkes, information security officer for Computacenter UK Ltd, who is now in an, albeit rare, “balanced security team with 40% female colleagues”.
+Adrienne Hall agrees. “There are times when you’re the only woman in the room and I see that as an opportunity to stand out. Providing you’re credible, you have a platform that is advantageous.”
+Suzanne Lovell is a web developer at Intuitiv. In her experience, “managers are generally keen to have females in programming teams to mix up team dynamics”. Leavy agrees that typical female traits are desired in information security teams. “As women, we tend to listen and ask more questions in order to fully understand each challenge”, she says.
+“The value of diverse background trumps gender or geography”, says Hall.
+Jennifer Steffens, CEO at IOActive, says she has never felt intimidated, although she does acknowledge that the perception of the industry is one that discriminates. “I’ve always found that knowledge-thirsty people and inquiring minds were welcomed and that gender is irrelevant”. Taking it one step further, Christie Grabyan suggests that to the contrary, “entering a female-dominated industry would be more intimidating.”
+Although Konstantinia Charitoudi admits there are “an occasional few that are reluctant to have more women in the field”, she says that most are both welcoming and supportive.
+When asked what the best thing is about being a woman in information security, more than one person answered “the same things that are great about being a man in information security”, although Soraya Viloria Montes de Oca concludes that “the best thing about being a woman in infosec is being a woman.”
+Other answers included pioneering the way for other women, being memorable, having an instant platform and audience, and, of course, shorter queues in toilets – which at least half of interviewees quoted as a benefit.
+“In a previous role, Bill Clinton and Al Gore came to visit. There were thousands of employees who wanted to be chosen to meet them, but I was chosen because I was a female and a minority”, recalls I-Ching Wang, senior director of engineering at Vormetric.
+No, I Will Not Make the Tea
+Almost unanimous across the board is the acceptance that being a woman in a perceived man’s world requires a more thorough and vigorous ‘proving yourself’ process. “You need to spend more time gaining trust”, confirms Wang.
+Whereas some enjoy this challenge and thrive on surprising and impressing their male colleagues, others find the necessity tiring and frustrating. “Any illusion that I’m female ergo can’t know what I’m talking about is dispelled relatively quickly”, claims Anne Wood.
+Christy Wyatt, too, believes any initial judgments or assumptions are not “an immoveable object”. She calls it an “underestimation” and recounts various times where people have (wrongly) assumed that her male colleague is “the one in charge”. At Good Technology, where Wyatt is CEO, 27% of total employees are female and 40% of the executive team.
+“Your colleagues wait for you to prove yourself in order to accept you, whilst they would take for granted that a male colleague is capable until he might prove otherwise”, Charitoudi says with honesty. Caitlin Rose Johanson also admits that she has “fought to maintain credibility as a subject matter expert because I’m a girl. When those who are too quick to judge actually realize I know what I’m talking about, that’s what I love.”
+Few of the women interviewed told tales of direct or obvious discrimination, although more than one mentioned they have been expected to make the tea, have been denied access to mentors, have been excluded from male-focused social events (golf, for example) or have been told to “flutter my eyelashes when I asked for advice on objection handling.”
+Brenda Larcom recalls how co-workers at her first job out of school, “could not hear me when I was wearing a skirt. I haven't worn a skirt to work in the 16 years since.”
+“The one or two times that I realized no matter how qualified I was, I was not going to be successful working for a particular (male) person, I moved on”, states Patricia Titus.
+Of course, there is the argument that any potential gender discrimination or exclusion is not unique to the information security or technology industry. “Exclusion due to gender is sadly a part of nature in the workplace, and it is not exclusive to the technology disciplines”, says Erin Jacobs. “This exclusion has come in the form of not being invited to corporate gatherings that are male-focused. Due to the relationships that are built during these events, it can be a disadvantage.”
+Alisha Dattani, too, believes that discrimination is not unique to IT. “There are lots of women in IT – they just tend to be in the less technical and less senior roles. IT is no different from the rest of the corporate sector in this respect”, she says.
+Potential discrimination and exclusions aside, 90% of those interviewed said that they do not believe they would be doing a different role if they were a man, although some guessed that they’d be making more money. Louise Robertson, marketing director at Mimesweeper Technology, also believes “men gain promotion quicken in IT”.
+“I’m doing exactly what I love to do. Being a man wouldn’t change that”, says Jennifer Steffens.
+Leading the Charge
+Although progress for increasing the amount of female – especially senior female – information security professionals might be slow and steady, there is optimism and a confidence from most that things are improving.
+“There are many more women leading the charge for large global organizations, as CEO’s of vendor companies and as partners in consulting firms, than there were 10 years ago. The Executive Women’s Forum is a testament to the number of powerful, creative, smart, influential women thought leaders in our field”, says Joyce Brocaglia, CEO of Alta Associates and founder of the Executive Women's Forum.
+“I spent much of my recruiting career as the only woman in the room and as time went on I got to know more and more women that were becoming indispensable to their companies and obtaining key leadership roles. Although I knew many of the women, it was apparent to me that they didn’t know each other, so in 2002, I organized the first Executive Women’s Forum conference as a safe venue that women could come and learn from each other and build trusted relationships.” Today, the EWF is a community of nearly 1000 prominent women in the field in the US.
+“In the US, our last Secretary of State, and the last head of Department of Homeland Security were both women. This sent a very strong message that females can take on the role of protector rather than just the protectee. Female executives are taking on more prominent roles in both government and business”, says Haiyan Song.
+Christie Grabyan is of the belief that it will take time for what is a relatively new market to be “marketed and made available to a cross-section of society”, but is hopeful that it will happen. Michelle Schafer also has high hopes for the future, predicting “in the next 10 to 20 years, I think this shift will naturally happen as women see job stability, growth and career opportunities ahead of them in this field.”
+An increase in women in this field, says I-Ching Wang, “will be better for women, better for men, and better for the industry”. The footnote that applies to this statement is voiced by Charitoudi: “It’s important to get more females into information security, but it is more important to get the right females into information security.”
+Each interviewee was asked to name one person who inspires them in the industry. Fifty percent picked female role models. This supports the majority call for more female mentors in the industry, with a third of interviewees suggesting that “getting a great mentor” is their best advice to any woman thinking of entering the profession.
+The (ISC)2 Women in Security Group has recently launched a mentoring scheme supporting this call for mentoring women. “This mentoring scheme will support women with all levels of experience by helping them to evaluate their options, explore areas of interest and identify new career paths to meet their professional and personal goals”, says Emili Evripidou, coordinator of the WiS group and information security consultant at EY.
+The Smartest, Toughest and Brightest
+Erin Jacobs is not wrong when she says “the females that survive our industry are some of the smartest and toughest career women around.”
+The information security industry allocates respect based on accomplishment, explains Jennifer Steffens, rebuking the perception of the industry as one polluted by inequality and discrimination.
+Consideration of gender, says Adrienne Hall, should be secondary to that of accomplishment or talent. Hall recently won a women in security award at IFSEC 2013.
+Although it is argued by some that having a separate award for women is condescending or somehow suggests that women will not succeed in an overall ‘security professional category’, Hall disagrees. “It’s a good thing because it brings attention to the fact that there are successful women in the tech industry. It’s a relatively young industry, so visibility of female professionals is important. The spotlight is on achievement, and the secondary consideration is that you’re female”, she says. “It would be great to have the gender discussion go away and just have people working.”
+In time, this could – and should – happen. In the meantime, sharing the stories and accomplishments of the women who make this industry what it is today can only act to encourage more female talent.
+The final word has to go Konstantinia Charitoudi, who says: “It is quite usual to hear in the corridor that it takes a special type of women to join the field”. The forty women interviewed for this feature and the hundreds more researched for this article are testament to this. Ladies, we salute you.
+VPNs are a great way to stay anonymous and protected when surfing the web. To do this, a VPN creates secure tunnels from the client through to the server, all via the Internet. There are many different VPN providers that you can use that offer varying different functionalities and with different costs. However, almost all of them will at one time or another, experience an issue. When an error does pop up, it is important not to be daunted by it as for the most part, you’ll be able to fix these yourself by following the simple processes that we will outline next to each error.
+We do understand that these VPN systems can be hard to setup simply because of the technology that is involved. That’s why it can be particularly disheartening to discover an issue or to be faced with an error code. Never fear though, we’re right here to help you through it all.
+Usually, when a VPN fails, the client programme will end up reporting an error message, most of the time with an error message in the form of a code. There are literally hundreds of different VPN error code messages in existence, but there are a number that will turn up on a regular basis, and it is these that we will cover in this article.
+For the most part, these VPN errors just need a standard troubleshooting procedure in order to ensure that everything is working smoothly once again. Often, these resolutions require something as simple as ensuring that the computer is using the VPN client whilst being attached to the Internet. It can also be important to check that the VPN has the right network settings in place so that it is actually able to work with the VPN server. If these fail, the age-old option of turning things off and on, tends to work miracles. Simply switching off the network’s firewall can help you to figure out what is causing the interference in the VPN. However, some VPNs need even further troubleshooting options if they are to go back to working successfully.
+Some of you might have spent the time setting the VPN up and not actually know what to do if there is an issue. The above resolutions are just the basics, so in the rest of the article we will endeavour to cover a number of specific errors, giving you the ways in which to identify any issues.
+VPN error code 800 explained
+Error connecting to VPN, connection error 800 is the most common issue to occur when you are dealing with a VPN. This error code simply means that a new remote connection was unable to be made and is often listed as “VPN connection failed with error 800”. This usually means that the VPN server is actually unable to be reached, which will be why the messages sent by the client (you) are not reaching the server.
+There are many reasons as to why these messages are failing to be sent to the server and normally this has to do with the VPN having an invalid name, or even address of the required VPN server. In other instances there are network firewalls that actually block VPNs from accessing them in this manner, which also results in the VPN tunnel failed error 800 messages.
+Another reason for you to have the error 800 VPN tunnel failed code pop up is if the client (i.e. you), have lost your service during the connection time to the local network. The last reason for the error 800 unable to connect to VPN pop up messages is if the IPSec negotiation to the L2TP/IPSec tunnel that the client is using has a poor configuration within its security protocols.
+There is a main cause for this, which is often the case when the VPN tunnel is set as an automatic one. This means that with the error 800 the remote connection was not made because the attempted VPN tunnels failed, hence the issue.
+How to solve VPN error 800
+There are a number of different options that you can utilise in order to get things going again, particularly if the error occurred on a Microsoft Windows based machine. Whether it is Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Vista, there are ways that you can solve it yourself. The first step is to crosscheck with the username, password and address of the VPN server are all correct. After that, it is a simple thing to ensure that the settings for both the router and firewall will allow PPTP or VPNs to actually go through the TCP Port 1723. In this case, the GRE Protocol 47 also needs to be established in order to allow this PPTP VPN connection.
+Windows users who get the Windows VPN error 800 can find all this in the VPN properties. Clicking on the security tab will allow you to change the VPN type to Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) thus giving you access once again.
+VPN error code 691 explained
+If you ever get the VPN error code 691 it can be somewhat confusing to know exactly what this means and subsequently, how to solve it. Happily though, out of all the VPN errors that pop up VPN connection error 691 is actually one of the easiest to solve and one that is caused by the least offensive problem.
+For the most part, the error 691 connecting to VPN message occurs when the connection failed because the username and password combination that was given by you, the client, was not recognised by the server. It could also be that the authentication protocol was not permitted on that particular remote access server. This means that even when using a high-profile VPN such as Pure VPN, error 691 can still occur.
+Essentially, the VPN connection error 691 occurs when the authentication part of the connection failed because the incorrect information or credentials was given to the server.
+How to fix VPN error 691
+Setting up VPNs can be complicated at the start, but many of these errors can actually be fixed by yourself with no need for external help. If VPN error 691 Windows XP, Windows 77, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or Vista Windows VPN error 691 occurs, there are numerous steps you can take to solve it and get back to working anonymously.
+The main step to here in solving the connection failed with error 691 VPN problem is first to make sure that the proper username and password were entered into the VPN. To ensure that the password is correct and that there is no repeat of the error 691 on VPN, we suggest that you ensure that the Caps Lock is not on when you are typing. It’s also important to make sure that the protocol for authentication you’ve selected for the server is actually permitted by that server.
+VPN error code 720 explained
+When using a VPN it is relatively common for an issue of some sort to pop up during its use. VPN error 720, a connection to the remote computer failed, is one of the most common of these. This is simply the inability of the computer or device to actually reach the server. This is because the IP address is not working properly and means that you’ll need to actually establish a valid server IP address in order to continue surfing the Internet in an anonymous fashion. Even if you’re using Windows VPN error 720 can and will occur if things aren’t quite working right.
+How to solve error VPN error 720
+The VPN 720 error Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 all will suffer issues. To fix this, you need to open the Network and Sharing Center and head to the Change Adapter Settings.
+Once here, find the Incoming Connection where you can right click to hit the properties. Through this, you’ll find the Networking Tab and locate the Internet Protocol Version 4 or IPV4. Double clicking on this will see it open in properties where you can then select it as the IP address you wish to use when connecting to the server through the VPN.
+This method should work for the above-mentioned operating systems and see you well on your way to functioning well once again.
+VPN error code 789 explained
+If you’re using a Windows operating system, at some point you will encounter the VPN error 789 L2TP-connection failed problem. No matter if you are using a Meraki Client VPN, error 789 can still occur. As we said, this is a failure in the L2TP connection and tends to occur because the security layer has met with a processing error during the connection between the client (you) and the server. Fortunately, this is a more generic error to occur when using a VPN and, if you know what to do, is easily fixed.
+How to fix VPN error 789
+Regardless of what operating system you are using, there’s a possibility of the Windows VPN error 789 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows XP are all susceptible to this event. Especially through Windows 7 L2TP IPSEC VPN error 789 can occur. To avoid this from happening again, you can make sure that the correct certificate is being used on both sides, yours and the server’s. In some instances, there can be a Pre Shard Key or PSK being used so you must be sure to use the configured PSK on both your end and the VPN server for things to work smoothly.
+VPN error code 807 explained
+Error 807 is a common VPN issue where the network connection between the client computer and the VPN server gets interrupted. In fact, this issue is more about the server than the actual device that you are using. Often, this message will pop up on a range of operating systems including a Microsoft VPN error 807 Windows 10, Windows 8.1.
+Usually this issue is caused by a problem within the VPN transmitting across to the other server. The result of this is from latency or even that your VPN server is at capacity. It can also be from congestion within the server, a firewall blockage, a faulty Internet connection or even a system cache that has become overloaded. In these instances, you don’t need to panic, as there are things you can do to reconnect and make sure you can surf anonymously online.
+For the most part, this simply involves reconnecting to the VPN server but if the problem becomes a continuous one, we would suggest you contact the administrator to see what the quality of the network is actually like.
+How to fix error VPN error 807
+At some point, you are likely to experience this network issue. If you have Windows VPN error 807 it is easy to fix, as this issue does persist on as an error 807 VPN Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
+The first step is to temporarily disable the antivirus you have in place, and also the firewall. You will also need to configure the VPNs across all your devices. Surprisingly, this is often the most common reason that the error 807 occurs and this is simply because the firewall blocks your request to connect.
+Then you will need to clean out both your history and the cookies. This can be done through your Registry or alternatively you can download CCleaner and let that run to clear everything out.
+Step three requires you to check the VPN IP address, password and username to insure that all of them are correct. Finally you will need to check through the VPN Properties section within the Security Tab and make sure that the connection type is set to Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol also known as PPTP. Selecting the IP address of the VPN and checking the connection should see you back in business.
+Another very simple method of fixing this issue is by checking the Internet connection. If the Internet is not working correctly, it is important for you to simply unplug and restart the router. Alternatively you need to unplug the LAN and then replug it.
+Once you have completed one or all of these steps, you should find everything functioning smoothly. If this error keeps coming up however, it might be time to contact the support staff of the particular VPN you are using.
+VPN error code 812 explained
+The 812 error VPN issue that occurs is when the connection becomes prevented due to a policy configured by the RAS or VPN server.
+Usually, the error 812 message that pops up will specifically describe the issue as being with the authentication method used through the server and that the username and password don’t appear to match with those that were configured through the connection profile in the initial setup stage. Often, the message will go further to say that you should even contact the administrator of the server in order to inform them of the error that has popped up.
+Sometimes, this does become a problem as the server can loop, starting and stopping regularly. Luckily, there is a fix for the error 812 VPN server 2012 issues. Below is a way to solve the RAS VPN server error 812.
+How to solve error VPN error 812
+If you’re concerned with the error 812 VPN connection problem, here’s a fix. It involves a change to the primary DNS. You will need to change this to the Domain Controller.
+After you have achieved this, you will need to set up the secondary DNS and make this the External Server. We need to go back to the Primary DNS at this point and set this to 8.8.8.8 as this is Primary Google.
+Once the settings have been applied, you can then check the VPN connection. This should fix the problem, as it is a RAS server connection issue. This solution does fix the VPN error 812 Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
+These are just some of the issues that can affect you when you are using a VPN. These issues tend to affect Windows users with some issues more prevalent in some operating systems than others.
+As a general rule all of the Microsoft systems can be affected by one or other of these errors. Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, XP and Vista can all be affected, but the solutions listed above should get you through these issues. For further error code issues, check out the rest of our site.
+Hopefully, all this information will help you along to a happy and stress-free VPN experience, maintaining your anonymous and secure Internet surfing.
+Ken U
+The fact that VPN pass through works on mobile phone for me is the best advantage I think it has. I can conveniently encrypt my information on my phone without fear of being monitored.
+Vanessa George
+For a long time, I have always experienced VPN error without knowing how to fix this issue. Thanks for this excellent piece. It has helped me enjoy a stress-free VPN while maintaining my anonymity online.
+Paul
+Thank you for such a thorough explanation of the errors and how to fix them! I don’t like running into errors on things that are supposed to protect my information, so this is a load off my mind.
+ESLC Executive & Table Officers 2019
+Available Positions - Treasurer, Webmaster, Conference Co-Directors (2019, 2020, 2021), PD Director Central, MAL North, MAL Central, MAL South
+Positions to be voted on at the AGM Saturday Nov. 3, 2018 8:45-9:30am at the Conference. First Executive Meeting will follow later that day from 1-2 pm (Sat. Nov. 3, 2018) also at the Conference. You are still eligible to apply, though, even if you can't attend conference. Please contact Dianne (our current President) at ataeslcpresident@gmail.com immediately to put forward your name and application (download here in word or pdf format).
+President - Dianne Leong-Fortier
+The President is an Elected and Voting Member of the Executive Council
+Their main jobs include:
+This is only a snap shot of what our fearless leader does for the council... they are really the glue that holds us together and leads us forward as a group.
+Their main jobs include:
+- Working with ATA personnel, the PEC representative and the staff advisor assigned to the ESL Council.
+- Calling meetings, setting their agendas and chairing these meetings at both the Table Officer and Executive committee levels. (This also includes arranging the Annual General Meeting and overseeing the transfer of information from old to new executive members each year.)
+- They are oversee all the councils committees and receive minutes and reports to stay in the loop and network people to what is going on and needed supports.
+- When time is short, they appoint committees, representatives or act on behalf of the council and delegate duties as required.
+- They must also submit an annual report about the council's activities to the ATA each year, as well as to the AGM.
+- They write a President's Message for the ACCENT publication several times annually (as well as often other pieces).
+President Elect - Joan Miles
+The President Elect is an Elected and Voting Member of the Executive Council
+Their main jobs include:
+This role is the right hand supporter of the President who helps them carry out their enormous role and trains and prepares to take over the role of President in future.
+Their main jobs include:
+- Advise the president as needed and even step in and act in the absence of the president.
+- Ensure that we stick to our constitution and handbook guidelines and record possible policy changes for future handbook revision.
+- Connect with Committee Chairs and report back on what is going on in each area.
+- Promote Membership and ensure that pamphlets for members are up to date.
+- Take on what the President delegates to help support their role.
+- Help oversee the activities of the annual conference.
+Past President - AVAILABLE! email: ataeslcpresident@gmail.com to apply
+The Past President is an Appointed Voting Member of the Executive Council
+Their main jobs include:
+This valuable role ensures a smooth transition from year to year and that initiatives and connections carry forward. They have carried the council as President and now continue to support the council by assisting the new President.
+Their main jobs include:
+- Advising the President (since they used to be one, they can appreciate the challenges and complexities of this role and provide helpful insights as the voice of experience) and the Executive Committee in general.
+- Make sure the executive sticks to it's constitutional mandates.
+- Organize and book meetings and catering services
+- In absence of the President or President Elect, assume the duties of and act on behalf of the President.
+Treasurer - Diane Pham
+The Treasurer is an Elected and Voting Member of the Executive Council
+Their main jobs include:
+An essential part of the council, the Treasurer keeps the books and ensures the council stays within their means. They are a popular member of the council as they ensure that people are reimbursed for expenditures and we all know we're lost without them!
+Their main jobs include:
+- Taking charge of all money received and/or collected by the council.
+- Keeping an accurate record of the financial affairs of the council.
+- Making the necessary disbursements of funds as authorized by motion of the Executive Committee.
+- Providing a statement of revenue/expenditure to each meeting of the Executive Committee.
+- Assuming responsibility for having books audited by Barnett House personnel at the end of the fiscal year.
+- Preparing, in consultation with other table officers, a proposed yearly budget for the council.
+- Presenting the proposed budget to the Annual General Meeting.
+- Presenting the audited financial statement to the Annual General Meeting.
+- Providing consultative services to the conference director.
+Secretary - Tracey Allen
+The Secretary is an Elected and Voting Member of the Executive Council
+Their main jobs include:
+This role requires laser focus at every meeting as they try to capture the discussion in writing. They are a key member who carries work forward by making notes of the action items each member has committed to ensuring everyone can remember, act on and be held accountable for their responsibilities on the council. They also ensure that future councils have a record to look back on that can help clarify decisions that were made.
+Their main jobs include:
+- Taking and maintaining minutes of the following meetings: AGM, Executive Committee, Table Officers
+- Send a copy of the minutes out after meetings.
+- Maintaining a register (list) of all motions of council.
+- Having copies of the previous year’s Annual General Meeting minutes available at the current AGM.
+- Maintaining an accurate mailing list of the Executive Committee members.
+- Being responsible for sharing and maintaining a file of all correspondence.
+- Being responsible for maintaining records and submitting records to Archives at Barnett House every five years.
+- Maintaining council's inventory list.
+Professional Development Directors (#PDDirectors)
+PD Director North - Nancy Musica
+PD Director Central - Gaylene MacKay
+PD Director South - Sam Tomlinson
+The Profession Development Directors (North, Central, South) are Elected and Voting Members of the Executive Council
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+These hard working, team players on the council ensure that teachers get the resources and professional development opportunities they need. They work to create a community of best practice in ESL in the province of Alberta. They are driven by the desire to help teachers help students.
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+- Providing information to members on the council’s professional development opportunities or activities through Accent, website and other means (digital and nondigital).
+- Presenting or facilitating presentations at Beginning Teachers’ Conference and ESLC Conferences.
+- Contributing to Accent, by writing at least two articles or soliciting two submissions per year.
+- Planning professional development experiences for members.
+- Planning, promoting and hosting local and regional professional development experiences for members (in collaboration with Members At Large). This includes the annual conference.
+- Submitting a joint written report detailing ESLC professional development activities that were made available to members to the Annual General Meeting.
+- Connecting with Faculties of Education to promote membership and professional development events sponsored by the council that are suitable for pre-service teachers. Provide information to the Executive regarding ESL programs, courses, and training offered through faculties of education.
+Conference Co-Directors
+2019 - AVAILABLE! email: ataeslcpresident@gmail.com to apply
+2020 - AVAILABLE! email: ataeslcpresident@gmail.com to apply
+2021 - AVAILABLE! email: ataeslcpresident@gmail.com to apply
+The Conference Co-Directors are Elected and Voting Members of the Executive Council
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+These are the heroes that work hard all year to ensure that we have a wonderful escape and professional development opportunity all rolled into one. They work tirelessly to bring together teachers from across the province together to discuss and grow professionally in the field of English as a Second Language. They get together great speakers and facilities that ensure a weekend to remember. Without them, a vital part of our council is unfulfilled!
+The Incoming Conference Co-Directors are Appointed Non-Voting Members of the Executive Council (until their year, when they are voted into being Directors)
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+The year before they run the conference as Co-Directors is an opportunity for Incoming Conference Directors to learn the ropes by helping the current Directors with the conference. They get valuable experience and are vital assets to the conference team. They can also begin the process of planning and preparing for their role and their conference in advance (especially since bookings for large events like these often need to begin more than a year in advance!)
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+- Planning and carrying out conferences in consultation with the Executive Committee.
+- Presenting a conference budget at the commencement of conference planning and provide financial updates at Executive Committee meetings.
+- Planning and seeking approval for all major conference decisions, theme, keynote, selection and other decisions.
+- Presenting closing financial statements to the Executive Committee following the conference. Assisting the Treasurer in reporting the conference financial records within the council’s financial report to the ATA.
+- Working directly with the President-Elect. Communicating conference plans, and where possible, coordinating conference plans to align with the program of professional support offered to members by the council.
+- Mentoring the incoming conference director who will serve as an integral part of the conference committee.
+The Incoming Conference Co-Directors are Appointed Non-Voting Members of the Executive Council (until their year, when they are voted into being Directors)
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+- Accepting this position with the view to becoming conference director next term
+- Attending the Specialist Council Seminar for Conference Directors during the summer.
+- Assisting the conference director in aspects of planning, operationalizing the conference.
+- Attend meetings as requested.
+Publications Director - Annie Fung
+The Publications Director is an Appointed Voting Member of the Executive Council
+Their main jobs include:
+This role is responsible for all the updates and news you see and hear from the council. It is a big job to keep everyone up to date, in the loop and engaged and it is thanks the Publications Director that you know what is going on.
+Their main jobs include:
+- Coordinating and acting as editor for any publications (electronic or print) that pertain to the goals and objectives of the council. This includes ensuring all publications fit with the guidelines set down by the ATA for all specialist council publications.
+- Submit a written report of publication activities to the Annual General Meeting.
+- Publish two issues per year (spring and fall) or our ACCENT newsletter.
+- Updating social media and working with the Webmaster to coordinate sharing of information on the website or other electronic means.
+- Acting as the main person to send out information to all members.
+Webmaster - Heather Kennedy
+The Webmaster is an Appointed Non-Voting Member of the Executive Council
+Their main jobs include:
+This role is a key connection point with our membership. It enables the council to ensure that members have access to the information and supports they require. It helps the council use technology in a meaningful way to engage members.
+Their main jobs include:
+- Working with PD Director and Publications Director to ensure information is current on online.
+- Working with Association Information Technology Services on the website.
+- Updating, maintaining and troubleshooting the website.
+- Posting information as requested by other council members.
+- Ensuring all executive members have access to the digital content required for their roles.
+- Attending meetings as requested.
+Members At Large (#MALs)
+Calgary & Area - Amanda Capricci
+Calgary & Area - Lisa Smith
+Edmonton & Area - Joanne Snihurowych
+Edmonton & Area - Rachel Reynolds
+North - AVAILABLE! email: ataeslcpresident@gmail.com to apply
+Central - Lisa Alford and Jodi Smith
+South - Daphne Sander
+Members at Large are Appointed Non-voting Members of the Executive Council
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+These support roles ensure that we have voices from across the province advocating for their regional needs on the council. They also provide the hands and feet to carry out the many tasks the council has to ensure that members get the PD events and resources that they need in their region. They work in conjunction with the PD Director in their area.
+These roles work as a team and share the following main jobs:
+- Assisting the Professional Development Director in providing professional development opportunities within their regions.
+- Promoting membership within their regions.
+- Serving as members on committees.
+- Assisting with conferences, resource fairs and conventions in their regions.
+- Contributing to Accent, by writing at least two articles or soliciting two submissions per year.
+- Providing written reports on events and policies in their respective locations to each executive meeting.
+- Attending meetings as requested.
+- Assisting the PD Directors in liaising with Faculties of Education.
+ATA Staff Advisor - Elissa Corsi
+PEC Liaison - Kathy Hoehn
+Alberta Education Representative - Mike Ettrich
+These three important roles are not Elected or Appointed Members of the Executive Council and therefore are not available roles for members to take on. However their valuable insights and wealth of experience and perspective from a provincial and ATA level help to guide the Council as it seeks to support its membership.
+Those gray dots over your nose? Find out what are they and how to prevent and how to get rid of sebaceous filaments. The blackheads are always frustrating to eliminate from your skin. Some people squeeze them. Others use pore strips.
+Though the methods are different, people feel the same way about them—they’re frustrated.
+The hideous black growths on your nose may come out after the extraction process, but over time, they all fill up again. It feels like you’re trapped in a vicious cycle.
+Most people live with the blackhead corrugations on their noses, often embarrassed at the thought of anyone looking at the side of their faces. Among these people was me, years ago.
+After paying more attention to what these blackheads are, I have found out some interesting news about them. It may be either good or bad news, depending on how you perceive it.
+Much research and discernment have led me to conclude that they are not blackheads at all. They are “sebaceous filaments”. These formations are natural and normal. They are even healthy because they are actually part of your body.
+What do sebaceous filaments look like?
+Did you see tiny gray/tan dots all over your nose? Those are sebaceous filaments that can make pores appear enlarged. They emit a long string of white or yellow gunk like tiny snakes when you squeeze them, but they are not clogged pores.
+They’re actually part of our skin’s natural occurrence and though it’s possible to extract/squeeze these gunks, the effort is futile as they always come back.
+How can you tell the difference between blackheads and sebaceous filaments?
+How are blackheads and sebaceous filaments different from each other?
+While sebaceous filaments are normal skin on the skin, blackheads or open comedones are non-inflammatory acne. They generally have more accumulated sebum and dead skin cells and tend to distend to end up swelling the pore shape.
+It is the oxidized melanin and lipids cap that gives blackheads or comedones it’s the dark or black look. You, however, do not get to see sebaceous filaments with a dark cap like the ones on blackheads. They tend to blend with the skin, which is why it’s considered more of a problem.
+There is another difference between the two which you will not notice with your eyes. This is that the follicles with sebaceous filaments have a granular layer that is clearly visible. This is the skin’s third layer called the stratum granulosum. However, it does not have any acanthosis, which is the thickening of skin layers.
+Another team of researchers from Germany discovered that blackheads or open comedones had some acanthosis and a relatively normal stratum granulosum. They had also noticed that open comedones had comparatively smaller glands but excessive skin cells in the hair follicles than sebaceous filaments.
+Another author mentions that there is something else that is different between a blackhead and sebaceous filament. According to the author, the blackhead’s skin cells tend to become sticky and eventually accumulate to form a plug.
+- Sebaceous Filaments
+- Sebaceous filaments are flat and come out easily if you pinch the skin.
+- They help reach the oil of your skin to reach the surface, so that your skin can be moisturized naturally. They are often mistaken for blackheads because they sometimes appear grayish.
+- Sebaceous filaments are often found on a tight oily areas like your nose and around it. They also appear in your chin’s crease.
+- They are smooth, evenly-spaced gray or tan dots. They are found much deeper in the skin.However, they turn to blackheads overtime due to infections, hence the pores might turn black dots if they remain clogged for a prolonged period of time.
+- Blackheads
+- On the other hand, blackheads are blocked pores which are especially common on the nose where we tend to be oiler. They tend to be raised, a litter bigger and needs more effort to get removed.
+- They are called blackheads because when the top part of a blackhead reaches the surface of the skin, it becomes exposed to oxygen. tend to be raised, a little bigger, and their removal requires a bit more effort
+- It then oxidizes and turns black. Blackheads are bumpier, larger, and darker than sebaceous filaments.
+So, What’s the Takeaway?
+This suggests that the two should be considered to be a part of the chain and should not be divided into two different types. They are both triggered by the continual production of stem cells and sebum. It’s because of the normal accumulation in sebaceous filaments that they eventually become blackheads or open comedones.
+So it doesn’t really matter if someone has sebaceous filaments on their chin or nose. They know it is something normal and is called either blackheads or sebaceous filaments.
+What can be done is to try to make them less prominent. I do not mind ‘correcting’ people who say they have blackheads on the nose. It is fine so long as both sides know what they talk about.
+How are Blackheads and Sebaceous Filaments similar?
+Postpuberal people with large facial pores and seborrhea are prone to have sebaceous filaments in the alae nasae and centrofacial areas of their face. Microcomedones are quite common in these areas, which may eventually turn into blackheads or open comedones.
+Using your fingertips to pinch the skin or using the cyanoacrylat-technique helps express the cylindrical, whitish-yellow colored sebaceous filaments found in facial parts rich in sebaceous follicles.
+These cylindrical sebaceous filament tubes comprise of dead skin cells, bacteria, sebum and may even have fine hair. Similarly blackheads or open comedones comprise of dead skin cells, sebum, bacteria and may even have fine hair.
+What causes sebaceous filaments?
+” Like blackheads, sebaceous filaments also represent condensation of oils and skin scales within the oil gland duct but the condensation is not fully congealed and does not usually result in complete obstruction of the duct. Blackheads occur when skin scale and skin oils solidify to form plugs in the ducts leading from oil glands deep in the skin to the skin surface. ”
+Is it okay to remove sebaceous filaments?
+The answer is no.
+Experts discourage anyone to take them out by any means. It is more difficult to take sebaceous filaments out. Just like when you get your blackheads removed, having sebaceous filaments taken out usually leads to scarring and irritation. This may even lead to the eruption of a spot if ever your weak pore becomes infected.
+Are sebaceous filaments normal?
+Now that you know the difference between blackheads and sebaceous filaments, please do your best to resist popping them or excavating them in any way. The brighter side of the situation is that you don’t need to use pore strips or have them removed during a facial treatment anymore.
+While it’s true that you are stuck with sebaceous filaments, you shouldn’t feel bad at all. They don’t alter your appearance in a bad way and, everyone has them. People don’t even notice others having sebaceous filaments. So, you don’t need to worry anymore.
+Embrace your sebaceous filaments. They help your skin look youthful and supple. Think of sebaceous filaments as efficient helpers in maintaining your healthy skin.
+How to best reduce blackheads or sebaceous filaments?
+How do you get rid of sebaceous filaments naturally?
+It is a fact that sebaceous filaments and blackheads tend to change after a fixed time. according to the team of German researchers, sebaceous filaments reform after 30 days, anecdotal evidence proves that it may happen earlier in some people.
+Blackheads will only change if whatever obstruction it has in it is removed. And if it does reform, it is usually smaller than the previous size. Consistently removing waste from the pore’s upper region helps make both blackheads and sebaceous filaments less prominent.
+This is easily done manually through gentle exfoliation or chemical exfoliation. Chemical exfoliation uses glycolic or salicylic acids or retinoids. Some dermatologists I had spoken to recommend using tazarotene because they say it’s the most effective.
+The constant production of skin cells and sebum means that it is important that consistency is maintained if you want to reduce its appearance. The most important thing to do to achieve this is to first find something you can safely and frequently use to reduce the appearance without worrying about any irritation.
+While a concentrated acid may minimize or eliminate blackheads, you will not be able to use the acid till they return. Based on my personal experience, some surfactants work more effectively than others.
+From my experience, disodium laureth sulfosuccinate and decyl glucoside give the best results. They effectively help remove skin lipids and do not irritate the skin as much as sodium lauryl sulfate.
+The next best thing to do is to make sebaceous filaments less obvious. This is not achieved by using pore strips but they can be softened, dissolved and lifted up and out of the oil gland ducts with proper cleansing and care.
+Instead, here are some skin care practices you can start:
+- Use a balancing cream.
+- A moisturizing balancing cream helps regulate the pH of the skin to prevent the oil glands from producing too much sebum.
+- Use a clay mask.
+- Bentonite clay masks, healing masks, or other beauty masks clear up the skin. They absorb excess oils to prevent sebum and residue from accumulating. You can read my homemade recipe here.
+- Exfoliate Regularly.
+- Light scrubbing of the skin removes dead skin cells. Doing this weekly unclogs the pores, minimizing the dark appearance of the sebaceous filaments.
+How to Do It?
+Grab 1 tsp of baking soda and add some warm water to make a paste. Apply the mixture on the affected area and rub it very gently using circular motion. Then, let it sit for about 1 or 2 minutes and rinse off with warm water.
+What about pore vacuums, nose strips or peel masks?
+These are devices that help remove blackheads and sebaceous filaments. They work by sticking onto the topmost skin layer and are then pulled out. There is a worry that its regular use may lead to the formation of bigger pores and skin problems like visible veins.
+There however is no proof of this actually happening. It is in fact factors like age, sex, excessive exposure to UV rays, sebum output levels that determine one’s pore size. There is an additional determining factor in women, which is their menstrual cycle.
+Just because there is no proof, does not mean that this is not possible. It may be that no research was conducted on the topic. Or perhaps some studies were conducted, but the researchers did not publish anything because they did not get any results.
+Tape Stripping
+Some studies were performed on tape stripping. This is a process where the tape is used for removing each skin layer, one by one. It was noted that there was a marked increase in water evaporation through the skin after 5 tape stripping sessions.
+The number of strippings helps measure the functioning of the skin barrier. This measure helped show that there are drastic effects on the skin after about twenty to thirty tape stripping sessions. This means that it is relatively safe to use a nose strip or peeling mask without worrying about suffering from any problems.
+If you are comfortable and happy with using nose strips or peel masks, then it is basically better to use them only on a weekly basis. You, in fact, should use it next only if and when your skin is in the best condition for it.
+In Other Words
+In other words, it is not recommended to use them if your skin has recently been exposed to an Exfoliant or retinoid. It is also not feasible to use a pore strip or peel mask just after vigorously scrubbing a mask to reduce sebaceous filaments or blackheads.
+While pore vacuums have recently grown in popularity, despite its name, they do not work by vacuuming up blackheads or sebaceous filaments. They work by subjecting the skin to some negative pressure.
+It is this suction pressure, and the pressure of sliding the vacuum at the sides, that lead to the device compressing the pore and expressing the content. You could say that the action is similar to your manually pinching the skin with your fingers to express the content.
+Being Skeptical?
+If you are still skeptical about using pore vacuums to remove blackheads, then it is better if you take a look at this YouTube video. This is a video of how water reacts in a vacuum chamber.
+You can clearly see here that the vacuum does not suck the water when turned on.
+All this proves that impactions, follicular filaments, microcomedones, blackheads, follicular casts, sebaceous filaments, and anything else you refer to them by, are all your skin’s natural features.
+This means that if you want to, you can use the same treatment options to reduce their appearance.
+Worth your
+Credit Image: Heyitsfeii
+Dwarf Evergreen Trees for Your Landscape: If you’re looking for something small to fill in your front yard landscaping that gives you visual interest all year round, dwarf evergreen trees are a great option to consider. They have virtually no maintenance needs except moderate watering, and this allows them to look nice without adding a lot of stress on you to constantly maintain them.
+Finding all of these desirable traits in one tree seems impossible, but dwarf evergreen trees fit the bill very well for small-space gardeners. They’re also fantastic for busy people who don’t want to dedicate hours pruning and shaping.
+These small, compact trees also work wonderfully for growing in containers. They work well in both small and large gardens, and there are dozens of dwarf evergreen trees to choose from when you start shopping. We’ve picked out several great options that we’ll highlight for you below. You can mix and match these dwarf evergreen trees to beef up your landscape this year.
+Contents
+- 1 1. Hinoki Cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)
+- 2 2. Tip Top Dwarf Swiss Stone Pine (Pinus Cembra ‘Tip Top’)
+- 3 3. Blues Weeping Colorado Spruce (Picea Pungens ‘The Blues’)
+- 4 4. Dwarf Serbian Spruce (Picea omorika ‘Nana’)
+- 5 5. Chalet Swiss Stone Pine (Pinus Cembra ‘Chalet’)
+- 6 6. Dwarf Japanese Black Pine (Pinus Thunbergii ‘Kotobuki’)
+- 7 7. North Star Dwarf White Spruce (Picea Glauca ‘North Star’)
+- 8 8. Little Gem Dwarf Southern Magnolia (Magnolia Grandiflora ‘Little Gem’)
+- 9 9. Dwarf Pencil Point Juniper (Juniperus Communis ‘Compressa’)
+- 10 10. Green Penguin Dwarf Scotch Pine (Pinus Sylvestris ‘Green Penguin‘)
+- 11 11. Green Arrow Weeping Alaska Cedar (Chamaecyparis Nootkatensis ‘Green Arrow’)
+- 12 12. Dwarf Balsam Fir (Abies Balsamea ‘Nana’)
+- 13 13. Blue Wonder Blue Spruce (Picea Glauca ‘Blue Wonder’)
+- 14 14. Green Spire Euonymus (Euonymus Japonicus ‘Green Spire’)
+- 15 15. Upright Japanese Plum Yew (Cephaloxatus Harringtoniia ‘Fastigiata’)
+- 16 16. Norway Spruce (Picea Abies ‘Pumila’)
+- 17 17. Dwarf Alberta Spruce (Picea Glauca Albertiana ‘Conical)
+- 18 18. Creeping Juniper (Juniperus Horizontalis)
+- 19 19. Arborvitae (Thuja Occidentalis)
+- 20 20. Peve Minaret Bald Cypress (Taxodium Distichum ‘Peve Minaret’)
+- 21 Bottom Line
+1. Hinoki Cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)
+This is a very slow-growing dwarf evergreen tree that has a very compact stature. You’ll get a slightly pyramidal form with it that is very eye-catching, and it has fan-shaped foliage. The foliage has a very dark green and lush colouring to it, and you’ll get almost a feathery texture with it that allows it to work with a variety of flowers and plants. As a bonus, it is fine planted in areas where temperatures drop to -30°F.
+When you get these dwarf evergreen trees in the correct planting zones, they can get between 10 and 12-feet tall. For spread, it is slightly thinner at 3 to 4-feet wide. It does take 20 years to reach this point. It needs well-drained soils and full, direct sunlight to grow. There is a smaller version of this tree that only gets up to five feet tall called Nana Gracilis.
+IMG_2728 hinoki forest bonsai S_G Gardens by Gary Riley / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
+2. Tip Top Dwarf Swiss Stone Pine (Pinus Cembra ‘Tip Top’)
+This dwarf evergreen tree is excellent for container gardens or tight spaces throughout your yard, and it’s very hardy. It can easily survive temperatures as low as -40°F without any damage. It takes around 10-years to fully mature if you get it in the correct conditions, but it’ll easily top out at six feet tall and three feet wide. The tree has a very shaggy appearance to it due to the longer needles that have a softer texture rather than a prickly or stiff one.
+The needles on this dwarf evergreen tree have white undersides with a light green colouring to them. The growth habit is conical and narrow, so it doesn’t take up a lot of horizontal space. You’ll have to plant several together if you want to fill in a larger space. You don’t have to prune this tree to get it to keep the conical shape or shorter stature either.
+Pinus cembra ‘Pygmaea’ by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+3. Blues Weeping Colorado Spruce (Picea Pungens ‘The Blues’)
+If you’re looking for a show-stopper to add to your landscape to attract attention and add visual interest, this dwarf evergreen tree is it. This is a slightly faster-growing tree that tops out at around 10-feet high and between 5 and 10-feet wide. So, you can easily fill in a decent amount of space with a few trees with this variety. Additionally, this tree is hardy down to an impressive -50°F, and this makes it an excellent choice for people who live in more northern climates.
+You’ll get pretty blue-green needles with this specimen. The needles get packed on the branches in very thick clusters, and the branches hang downward to give the tree the appearance of weeping. This dwarf evergreen tree does very well in well-draining soil, and it can tolerate full sun to partial shade. However, it does prefer more sunlight over shade if possible.
+Picea pungens ‘The Blues’ (Stanley) 2019 photo by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+4. Dwarf Serbian Spruce (Picea omorika ‘Nana’)
+The dense growth habit on this dwarf evergreen tree makes it an excellent choice for foundation plantings right by the house or in smaller raised garden beds. It gives you dense green needles, but the needles come with a white stripe on the undersides that soften the tree’s overall appearance. It also adds visual interest to the tree, and it has a clumping habit with a slightly wider base and a more narrow top with a gently rounded appearance.
+You’ll have to have patience if you plant this tree as it does have a slow-growing habit to it. It usually gets between three and five feet tall at the highest point with the same width, so be careful to spread them out when you plant them. It is best planted in garden zones where your winter temperatures dip down to around -30°F. You won’t have to prune this tree to get the rounded form.
+Picea omorika by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+5. Chalet Swiss Stone Pine (Pinus Cembra ‘Chalet’)
+The Chalet Swiss Stone Pine is a dwarf evergreen tree that has a beautiful natural form that you get without having to take the time to prune or shape it. It’ll grow in a columnar shape. This means that it’s slightly wider at the base before tapering off to a point at the top of the tree. The branches grow very densely packed together, and this makes it excellent for privacy. Also, the needles are slightly longer with this pick, and they give you a slightly feathery appearance.
+The needles have a light blue-green colouring to them, and this also softens the tree’s overall look. It will survive temperatures that drop to -40°F. At full maturity, this dwarf evergreen tree will get up to eight feet tall and four feet wide at the widest point. It likes to be in slightly acidic soil that drains very well, and it needs full sunlight to thrive.
+Pinus cembra ‘Chalet’ (Cold Hardy) 2019 photo by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+6. Dwarf Japanese Black Pine (Pinus Thunbergii ‘Kotobuki’)
+This is a needled dwarf evergreen tree that works well in small gardens, containers, or in tight spaces where you need a shorter and more narrow specimen. So, you can easily use it for front door landscaping without worrying about it taking up too much space or taking over the direct area. It is a full winter hardy tree that can survive temperatures as low as -20°F without a problem, and it’s also a deer-resistant plant that is excellent for people who have a large deer population.
+The growth habit on this dwarf evergreen tree is just four feet tall and two feet wide at maturity, so it’s a very narrow specimen. However, the needles do grow extremely compact and dense, so it makes a small privacy shield by your home. It does feature slightly shorter and pickier needles than other picks on the list, but this doesn’t take away from the tree’s appearance.
+Pinus thunbergia `Kotobuki’ Dwarf Japanese Black Pine by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+7. North Star Dwarf White Spruce (Picea Glauca ‘North Star’)
+If you want a dwarf evergreen tree that has a pyramidal shape and a compact stature, this could be a decent choice. It’s a very hardy choice for beginner gardeners as it’s hard to kill once you plant it, and it can survive a broad temperature fluctuation down to -50°F. It’s also very resistant to deer, so you won’t have to worry about them eating it down to the ground or disrupting the natural growth habit.
+This dwarf evergreen treetops out at four feet wide and 5 to 10-feet tall. It needs very little or no pruning to keep the natural shape and look neat, and this is great for busy gardeners. North Star likes at least partial sun but prefers full sunlight if possible. It can tolerate a huge range of soil conditions without damage, but it won’t do well if you put it in constantly saturated soil.
+Ogalala Dwarf White Spruce by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+8. Little Gem Dwarf Southern Magnolia (Magnolia Grandiflora ‘Little Gem’)
+This is a very attractive and lush dwarf evergreen tree that has very glossy and dark green, and it’ll produce very large and fragrant bright white flowers that stand out beautifully from the foliage. The flowers will appear in late summer through fall, and they can have a second bloom during the fall months if you live in cooler planting zones. This isn’t a very petite tree like most on the list, but it has a very narrow and tall look to it.
+Under the right conditions, this dwarf evergreen tree will get up to 20 feet tall and 5 to 10 feet wide. So, it doesn’t take up as much horizontal space when you plant it. It’s not extremely cold-hardy, but it can survive temperatures down to 0°F without damage. So, you will need to live in slightly less harsh climates if you want it to do well. Put it in full sun with well-draining soil.
+Magnolia Grandiflora in Sugar Land, Texas by abbamouse / CC BY-SA 2.0
+9. Dwarf Pencil Point Juniper (Juniperus Communis ‘Compressa’)
+You’ll get a columnar form with this dwarf evergreen tree that gives it a very unique look. It does have a very slow-growing habit, so it’ll take years for it to fully mature after you plant it and it establishes itself. It only gets up to five feet high, and the spread is only afoot at the widest point. So, it makes an excellent edging option for your yard or garden if you’re trying to create a natural fence. You will have to plant them very close together though.
+This is a sun-loving dwarf evergreen tree, so you do want to put it in an area that gets full, direct sunlight for six to eight hours a day at a minimum. It has blue-green needles on it, and female plants can produce blue-tinged berries in the fall months. It’s winter hardy down to -40°F without incurring any damage.
+Juniperus Communis by Tero Laakso / CC BY-SA 2.0
+10. Green Penguin Dwarf Scotch Pine (Pinus Sylvestris ‘Green Penguin‘)
+Anyone who wants a slightly chunkier but tidy dwarf evergreen tree should consider adding this low maintenance plant to their landscape design. It’s a very unique tree because the older growth takes on a long-needled look while any new growth looks much more feathery and soft to create a very eye-catching contrast. You’ll get a very thick, dense pyramidal form that doesn’t require any pruning or trimming to keep this shape.
+The treetops are out at a maximum of six feet tall and three feet wide, so you do need to give it plenty of space to spread out when you plant it. It’s hardy down to -40°F. You want to plant it in an area that has well-draining soil, but it’s tolerant of a range of soil conditions as long as they’re not completely saturated all of the time. It should get plenty of sunlight, but it can also tolerate partial shade.
+Harper Collection, HR-R2019 by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+11. Green Arrow Weeping Alaska Cedar (Chamaecyparis Nootkatensis ‘Green Arrow’)
+With a tall and narrow stature, this dwarf evergreen tree is excellent for gardens or yards where space is at a premium. This variety has the most slender girth of all of the weeping Alaska cedars, and it only gets one foot wide at the biggest point. However, it can get up to 20-feet tall under the right conditions, so you can see how this could create an eye-catching addition to your garden or yard.
+You’ll get a fan-like appearance with the soft foliage on this dwarf evergreen tree, and the branches hang down to give it a dramatic look. It’s hardy down to -20°F, and it can survive in many different soil conditions without a problem. You don’t have to prune or shape it, and it’s relatively fast-growing. It prefers to be in an area that gets full to partial sun.
+Harper’s HR-D 2014 by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+12. Dwarf Balsam Fir (Abies Balsamea ‘Nana’)
+This deer-resistant dwarf evergreen tree has a rounded, squat growing habit. It has very lush and dense needles on it that deer tend to avoid, and it has a slow growth rate that makes it a great choice for anyone who doesn’t have the time or tools required to regularly prune, trim, and shape their hedges. You’ll get very dark green needles that stand out, and the needles are on the shorter side.
+This dwarf evergreen tree will survive temperatures that drop as low as -40°F without an issue, so it’s good for more northern gardens. It will take several years to reach the mature height, but it can get between five and six feet tall and just as wide. This makes it an excellent foundation plant along with your home. It’ll sprawl out, so you do want to space them out decently when you first plant them.
+Abies balsamea Nana (Dwarf Balsum Fir) 2009 by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+13. Blue Wonder Blue Spruce (Picea Glauca ‘Blue Wonder’)
+The Blue Wonder Blue Spruce is a sweet little dwarf evergreen tree that offers a very compact form that comes covered in blue-grey foliage. The needles are slightly longer and have a nice feathery appearance to them. The small stature makes it excellent for containers, and it has a very slow-growing habit so you won’t have to worry about repotting them year after year. It only gets six feet tall at full maturity and three feet wide, and it offers a conical shape.
+This dwarf evergreen tree likes a broad range of soils, but the soil should drain very well after you water it to prevent the roots from sitting in soggy soil. It’s also slightly more flexible with sunlight requirements, but it does like full to partial sun. It won’t do well in mostly shade or full shade. You won’t have to trim or prune this tree to keep the dense conical shape.
+Harper’s HR-C 2014 by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+14. Green Spire Euonymus (Euonymus Japonicus ‘Green Spire’)
+You’ll get a very well behaved dwarf evergreen tree with this choice that gives you a slightly more formal appearance than other options on the list. It offers very greenly, glossy foliage that works well as a low hedge or as a natural privacy screen in your yard or around your pool, pergola, or hot tub enclosure. This is a slightly more narrow shrub that has a faster-growing habit, so you won’t have to wait years for your privacy screen to get to the mature height.
+It’ll get between six and eight feet high at full maturity, but it only spreads out between one and two feet. So, you’ll have to plant these dwarf evergreen trees very close together. If you do, you’ll get a very dense privacy screen with slightly picky needles that are difficult to get through. It’s only cold hardy down to -10°F, so it’s not suited for more northern climates.
+Thuja occidentalis ‘Degroot Emerald Spire’, 2016 by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+15. Upright Japanese Plum Yew (Cephaloxatus Harringtoniia ‘Fastigiata’)
+You’ll get a very upright and slender growth habit with this dwarf evergreen tree, and it’s a broad-needled evergreen. This is a non-flowering tree, but it does have very dense and compact needles in a deep green hue that get spaced on upright bottle-brush-like branches to give it a very unique look. It grows three feet wide by eight feet tall, so it won’t take up a huge amount of space in your yard.
+Every needle on this dwarf evergreen tree is roughly two inches long to give it a slightly soft appearance. It’s only cold-hardy to -10°F, so it won’t do well in areas that get frigid winter temperatures. It does best when you plant it in areas that get partial to full sunlight each day. In hot southern regions, the tree prefers shade in the afternoon hours during the summertime. The soil should drain well.
+upright Japanese Plum Yew, Boston Flower Show, 15 March 2014 by mwms1916 / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
+16. Norway Spruce (Picea Abies ‘Pumila’)
+Norway Spruce is a dwarf evergreen tree that is excellent for ground cover when you want to landscape your yard or garden. When it reaches full maturity, this plant looks like a very dense and bushy cushion. It can get a maximum of four feet tall, but it can also easily spread up to four feet wide. So, you should take care to space it correctly when you plant it. Give it room to spread out without running into other plants.
+It works very well as a foundation planting in your front yard, and you’ll get colour through each season. The Norway Spruce also works well in rock gardens due to the light green needles. It does best in cooler climates, but it isn’t picky about soil conditions as long as they’re not saturated. You will want to put it in an area that gets direct, full sunlight each day. It’s cold-hardy down to -40°F.
+happy weeping Norway spruce by mwms1916 / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
+17. Dwarf Alberta Spruce (Picea Glauca Albertiana ‘Conical)
+This is another type of dwarf evergreen tree that is a conifer, and it can give your garden a beautiful green colour throughout the year. It’s an ornamental small evergreen that offers very dense and green foliage. The tree will grow in a unique A-shape with a wider base that slowly tapers off to a more square and narrow top. It is extremely slow-growing, and it won’t reach the mature height until it’s 30-years old.
+This dwarf evergreen treetops out at 12-feet high and four to five feet wide. If you have time, it’s possible to prune this tree into fancy shapes. You can also plant it in containers and use it as an accent plant. It does best in a variety of soil conditions, but it requires at least partial to full sun to thrive. If you don’t want to prune it, it’ll still get the A-shape. It’s not very cold-hardy.
+Picea glauca ‘Conica’ by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+18. Creeping Juniper (Juniperus Horizontalis)
+Juniper is a dwarf evergreen tree that is native to North America. It does very well when you plant it outside in zones four to nine. You’ll find it on mountain slopes or seashores due to the growth habit and ease of care. It’s a conifer that doubles as a ground cover, and this makes it a very popular choice for rock gardens and foundation plantings because it spreads out decently well in a short period of time without getting too tall to block out the whole area.
+As a bonus, this dwarf evergreen tree does very well in a huge range of soil conditions, including poor soil and acidic soil. The soil does have to drain well for this plant to thrive though between watering sessions and prefers to be planted in an area that gets full, direct sunlight every day. You can get blue-green or yellow varieties.
+Mother Lode Creeping Juniper 2014 by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+19. Arborvitae (Thuja Occidentalis)
+Growing best in zones three to seven, this dwarf evergreen tree is a very popular pick with gardeners, and you can find it growing almost anywhere. However, this isn’t a deer-resistant plant, and deer seem to love to eat the foliage. If left alone, they can take it to the ground. You’ll get a very dense, pyramidal shape that offers very small cone clusters for visual interest, and the colour of the feathery needles is very bright green.
+You can choose smaller varieties of this dwarf evergreen tree-like Tiny Tim, Hertz Midget, or Golden Globe. If you don’t, it can easily get between 20 and 40-feet tall. It has a 10 to 15-foot spread at maturity, and this is a faster-growing cultivar. The Arborvitae offers a lot of coverage for birds, and it tolerates a broad range of soil conditions. It requires full sun.
+Thuja occidentalis by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+20. Peve Minaret Bald Cypress (Taxodium Distichum ‘Peve Minaret’)
+Bald Cypress is a dwarf evergreen tree that grows best in zones 4 to 11, and you’ll typically find it growing in swamps in the eastern half of the United States. So, it makes an excellent choice to plant around your ponds where the soil stays very soggy and moist. It’s a very hardy plant that grows best when you plant it in deep, moist soil that has very good drainage. Also, it likes more acidic soil if you can get it over traditional neutral garden soil.
+You want to put this tree in a very wet area but that gets full sunlight for six to eight hours every day. It’ll turn pumpkin-brown to orange in the fall before it drops the needles. It has a weeping habit with short needles and draping branches, and it gets between 8 to 10 feet high and 3 to 4 feet wide at full maturity.
+Taxodium distichum ‘Peve Minaret’ by F.D. Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0
+Bottom Line
+These 20 dwarf evergreen trees can all make excellent additions to your yard or garden, and most of them are very cold-hardy. You can plant most of them in containers if you don’t have dedicated yard space for them, and they’re a low-maintenance way to provide texture and visual interest all year-round.
+Tedious Weekend
+The Marlins. Ugh. This is definitely not turning into a September to remember. How many more wins till Boch gets to 2K and GH creams himself? Five?
+Black Shoes goes tonight.
+I think.
+The Marlins. Ugh. This is definitely not turning into a September to remember. How many more wins till Boch gets to 2K and GH creams himself? Five?
+Black Shoes goes tonight.
+I think.
+Never a big Eddie Money fan, but funny thing was I saw him at Winterland on tour with Robin Trower of all people. Must have been a year or 2 before he hit it big.
+He was like Y & T. He played the SF club scene for years before finally getting national recognition.
+Yeah, not a big Eddie Money fan, but RIP. I think he opened for the Grateful Dead once…NOT.
+Should be a warm night. I sense black shoes and battered balls. Gonna be a bloodbath.
+Looks like I didn’t miss much yesterday. Did a wonderful hike in the Sierras, that while a tough-ass hike, was I’m sure, much more entertaining than yesterday’s loss.
+I did just see a couple of replays on Dubon’s swipe tag, and also him coyly enticing the runner to try and take 3rd (from 1st on a hit-and-run), where Dubon’s throw to Longo cut the runner down by a mile. Love this kid’s moxie and baseball IQ.
+and I love yours…
+Well a good heads up play by Dubon, but one of the dumbest base running plays I’ve ever seen.It was a ground ball to second and the guy on 1st was trying to go to 3rd??Oh wait who was that stupid Giant that Miller said was the worst base running he’s ever seen in the history of the game? Rivera?? I know Loo would remember it was epic failure!!
+Yes, I believe the play your refer to, that Miller called the dumbest base-running gaff ever, was Rivera.
+But I think that it was equally, if not more, Dubon’s IQ that made that play. He totally deeked the runner, with his pause, into thinking he was going to throw to 1st. Smart play by the kid, IMO.
+sandog, I’m not sure what you’re official position is regarding Horchata but considering the animation it seems like there’s a real missed opportunity here. Could’ve been some Toomgis on cup action at least.
+Super bummed Eddie money died. Not a big fan but two tickets to paradise was one of the first songs I remember rockin’ to as a young big flavor just trying to find his way in the world of rock and roll.
+Yeah like I said I saw him many times from Winterland to Santa Cruz Boardwalk& the last time just a few years ago at the Shark Tank with my daughter, free tickets courtesy of I Heart rádio where she works and was putting on the gig.It was 80’s turn back the clock.No judgement please lol 😂 but these were the bands:U-B40, New Kids on the Block(Donnie Walhberg) Jefferson Starship,Eddie Money,Night Ranger( great band) Rick Astley and another band I forgot their name that does Land down Under and Red Wine I believe?Each Band played like 3 songs each then they setup for the next act..Eddie Money I believed was alittle sauced that night on some of his lyrics, but hey he’s earned it over the years, still a good overall fun night with my daughter slamming some tall ones 🍺
+Men at Work was the band I couldn’t think 🤔 of, their big hit was A Land down Under..
+I wish I could go back and do it all over, but I can’t go back, I know.
+2000, A Boch Odyssey…
+I’m super down with horchata Dirt.
+Horchata themed toomgis gear would be the best
+Ok, looks like I would probably recognize more E Money songs if I heard them, I’m not great on song names. I read some stuff on him, sounds like a good dude…
+“Shakin’” has some nice guitar power-chording going on in it, and demonstrates his strengths as a vocalist.
+The song video is amusing, with a silly storyline that basically goes nowhere (which describes a lot of music videos.)
+That’s about the only song I liked of his. ANd the video is sweeeeet.
+Feel the same about Billy Joel. Just never could get into his stuff.
+Her tits were shakin’ till the middle of the night.
+Fuck yeah they were.
+Eddie was very good at mumbling that line but I knew what he was talking about!
+Baseball these days: Cubs 5, Pirates 4….in the first inning!
+The old 6/3 quality start is now an epic performance.
+They should change that stat to 4/2…
+Chi or anyone:
+The website of the Clearwater County Jail in Minny where our old comrade incredibly languishes says that they accept mailed letters for their inmates (BTW, there’s only about 10 total).
+I tried calling to see if they’ll accept a package of books, but couldn’t get a live person on the phone.
+Paranoid New Yorkers don’t leave callback numbers with these kinda joints. Anybody know the answer?
+(Suggestion: Click inmate list)
+This is great information. Great photo of Stix.
+Absolutely awesome…
+Thank God it wasn’t him…
+Paul Ryan?
+Absolutely fantastic, zum…
+What possible good can come from playing Vogt in LF this time of year?
+1. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
+2. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
+3. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
+4. Stephen Vogt (L) LF
+5. Kevin Pillar (R) CF
+6. Buster Posey (R) C
+7. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
+8. Mauricio Dubon (R) 2B
+9. Tyler Beede (R) P
+Just because it’s Bochy and he can’t help himself.
+“Long Live The Core”
+Just because it’s Bochy and he can’t help himself.
+“Long Live The Core”
+And that was so exciting of a LU I double posted,sorry…
+But whoa stop the presses, Buster batting 6th that’s a 1st, the lowest he’s batted ALL YEAR!
+Only took 150 games are so.Wonder if Posey might have said drop me down I stink..
+“Joe, you better send someone in for me. I can’t make it anymore.”
+Unfrickingbelievable! Dodgers with another unknown (Gavin Lux) whom maybe Zum has mentioned. Regardless, he was unknown to me . . . Anywho, he hit a 3 run bomb against Thor and now the Dodgers lead the Mets 4-1. I was really hoping that the Mets would make short work of Kershaw like the Giants did last week. Not happening.
+he’s one of their top prospects.
+Not a big fan of him, but guitar fills on “Trinidad” were great. I think the Lux guy was who Pirates demanded that LA wouldn’t give up in return for closer.
+Hey there’s 8 spots on Giants pitching staff next season up for grabs. More Beede can do to secure one the better.
+17-8 final in cubs pirates game. Yanks lost a game to Detroit 12-11 where they hit 6 bombs. Since ML baseball is starting to resemble slo pitch softball, getting guys out when they do hit ball on the ground somewhere is very important. Hope Dubon is real deal defensively; looks good so far.
+Not ever much of a hitter but always dug Jose Uribe. Olden days SS wasn’t a power spot, most teams didn’t mind how much a guy hit as long as glove was solid.
+He did bat .290 one year.
+Eddie fit the 70s pretty well and this song is, well, *money*. A half drunk/stoned Money on stage rockin’ out, telling a pretty good story too.
+RIP my man.
+Can’t they put Solano in LF?
+Long live the corpse.
+Tell ya one thing, it amazes me that guys who play baseball for a living, a game that consists of running around and diving for balls, sliding into base, and such, get hurt doing just that,
+Just my opinion, but I think in general, of the 4 top major league sports in the US, baseball players are the least “in shape”…
+Maybe it’s a lost art because Pillar dives all the time and doesn’t get hurt. Mac bumps into a padded wall and is out for th season. Yaz seems to know the secret.
+Just that warning track blast by Posey will get Bochy’s juices flowing to move him back up in the LU tomorrow..2-4??
+Back in my Boston days, I went to a lot of Bruins games at the old Garden since I lived so nearby in the North End. I always found it fairly amusing to see one of the players catch a slapshot in the face, go into the locker room, and come back out to play with 20 stitches. Something like that would’ve landed a Sox player on the DL for 15 days…
+Nobody’s tougher then Hockey players! Shit back in the early 60’s the goalies didn’t even where a mask (wtf 100 mph off your face? no thanks,along with the rest.Lots of stitches &missing teeth just standard back then..
+Somewhere I still have a photo of me and Cam Neely, great hockey player, at a Terry Fox walk/run event for cancer (Cam’s sister had cancer, he was very active in the community). He was sporting a huge black eye. I asked him where he got it; he just smiled. “Yeah, happens all the time in my profession….”…
+Miller and Kruk were hilarious describing Vogt’s “banana route” to that fly ball. Vogt funny as well.
+Miami should be ashamed for trading Yelich. Teams like that give MLB competition a bad name. None of those 4 zeros traded to the Marlins have done jack shit.
+Beede getting skittish after the IF single.
+or not.
+Buster can’t be hidden anywhere in the line up.
+Only “watching” on MLB Gameday… I play a little game when it flashes the result (in Buster’s case, “out”), trying to guess how the out was made before the details come up. Looked at the pitch location graphic, figured “groundball to short, double play”, and sure enough. Damn. Painfully predictable…
+His first AB was almost to the center field wall. That’s his reality today. Sad.
+Posey ought to retire before he does real damage to his legacy…
+I checked Stix’ link to the hoosegow, and his details.
+Shoot, convicted or pled out on charge of 25+ kilos of dope or over 100 plants? Pretty impressive farming…
+lulz. Yeah, out of the dozen or so mugs on that page, Stix’s rap sheet is only trumped by the guy who was in jail because of 2nd degree murder.
+Wazzu under Mike Leach at it again. Last year wide open spread O with Gardner Minshew, this year QB Anthony Gordon from Terra Nova HS in Pacifica. already TD pass to Easop Winston from Serra and CCSF and one to Dezmon Patmon from Patrick Henry of SD. Fun team to watch 320 yds passing here in 3rd Q.
+I’m with wilco college football just more entertaining than Giants, kids or not.
+Of course it has to bounce into the stands.
+And the ground out.
+Unbelievable bad luck. I can’t believe that fucking sequence. Pfffttt! No runs.
+Vogt having a nice game after all.
+Why does Posey seem to be the one batting whenever we need a hit? Or a ball out of the IF?
+Snuck one through!
+Thanks to the drawn in infield, Buster’s grounder results in an RBI. We’ll take it!!!!
+Dude is out. Props to Buster. That has to be overturned.
+stealing on a 2-0 count?
+That squeaker will move him back up tomorrow, book it..
+Buster can still play good D….
+Definitely, and good at managing the game…
+His stick is just damned near non-existent. Fell off measurably, and fast.
+Playing around .500 ball was a good goal for the Giants this year, managed a bit of time at that level. I hadn’t looked at the standings in a while. Not that anybody here cares about the Red Sox, but they’re 7 games over .500 and 19 out of the division and 9.5 out of the 2nd WC. Tough crowd over there in the AL….
+2 games over .500 was their high-water mark, iirc.
+9 hits. 1 run.
+Now THAT was a quick at-bat.
+Only Buster’s was quicker.
+Anderson is looking pretty slick as the closer. And Beede guts out a tough win.
+In the bank. Clint will be pleased.
+1997.
+Nice W. Black Shoes with another nice start. Good relief, too. While limited, I’m liking Anderson closing.
+Anderson &Gustave can fight it out for the closer role ST..
+Hey, Beede 6.1 and only one run.
+Progress.
+Maybe he’s starting to get the mind set, the feel for how to do this…
+It was the Marlins, let’s not forget..
+True, but give him props . . . Remember, he kicked the Dodgers and Kershaw’s ass too and that was last week.
+Playing these young guys all September looks like it is paying dividends in experience, and figuring out their possible roles for next season…
+Beede getting it done!
+On a night when the only guy capable of driving in a run, which happens to be the one that won the game, continues to be victim of further opprobrium, I’m going diametrically opposite.
+Yes, as a good friend told me today, the negativity is “Tedious.” I think the Giants 2019 season has been tremendous. There are new faces everywhere, acquisitions haven been great and prospects continue to look good in minors. After 2 disappointing months Giants rebounded, hit with some power, got stellar pitching/D and got back into real contention for WC.
+Top it all off with the Flap meet up—which featured $100+ bar bill of pregame fu, in game battle royal fu over a baseball and a postgame wrap up nitecap fu at different local watering hole.
+there was a Posey near bomb within foot or so to dead RF and a soaring blast over our heads from Big Dick.
+And everyone got home safe and sound.
+This has been a good year and nothing but Positive Vibrations as brutha bob marley said so well for next year.
+POSITIVE!
+I wish I could be a California Flapaloozaler.
+Ain’t happenin’ – Visit me in Brooklyn…
+Revelation Bible Study #22 Seven Angels Seven Plagues Seven Bowls in blood either splattered or rising to the height of their bridle, we recognize that it was speaking of the end of the Tribulation, the Great and Final Day of the Lord, the Battle that we know as Armageddon.
+Now we move to Chapters 15 and 16. These two chapters fit together and give us a different perspective on the events surrounding the Harvest of Wheat and Grapes.
+Just like the story of Christ was told to us in 4 Gospels, each covering the same basic time period, the same message, the same Life, the same Savior, yet 4 tellings each with their own slant, their own focus, their own perspective, their own stylings. So it is with this Revelation painting the same picture and story in different ways so we can get a full picture and understanding of Jesus Christ, his majesty, his glory, his purpose, his justice, his grace, his wonder, power and might.
+Chapters 15 and 16 seem to amplify for us Chapter 11:18,19
+The nations rage
+The Temple is Open
+Amazing events on earth and in heaven
+Read Chapter 15
+Viewpoints on the 7 Last Plaques:
+Historicist - in general the 7 bowls of wrath find fulfillment in the judgment upon the papacy (Babylon), beginning with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars and concluding yet in the future
+Preterist - The judgments of these bowls are largely against Jerusalem, culminating in its fall in a.d. 70, though the fifth bowl touches the Roman Empire as well-probably referring to the chaotic state of affairs that prevailed after Nero's suicide.
+· Alternatively, this section says nothing about the fall of Jerusalem and refers strictly to the judgment of God upon pagan Rome.
+Futurists - The bowls represent future, global judgments that, in their devastating effect, are unparalleled in history.
+· These occur at the very end of the Tribulation period, culminating in World War III, or the Battle of Armageddon.
+· This war is the last battle to be fought by mankind, and it will be ended by the personal appearing of Christ as He comes to establish His millennial kingdom.
+Spiritual / Idealist - There is a relationship between the bowl judgments and the trumpet judgments. The former may be a recapitulation of the latter.
+· The principal distinction between the trumpets and the bowls is that the former are partial in their effects and serve to warn the wicked of their spiritual danger, whereas the latter are complete and represent final judgment upon the unrepentant.
+· The same event in history may serve as a trumpet judgment for one person (a mere warning) and as a bowl judgment for another (a final judgment, resulting in death).
+· The disasters described recur in history repeatedly.
+So they are saying that for you and I in life there are judgments that God brings to draw us to himself and then if rejected long enough, final judgment could occur. But then these are not to be taken literally in their view
+So, … Let's look more closely then at this Text of what I believe to be a perspective on the end of the Great Day of the Lord, the final years of the literal 7 year period known as the Tribulation and more specifically the final latter ½, the Great Tribulation.
+Let's look at what we've already read and then move to chapter 16 as well.
+John is IN HEAVEN -
+"I saw a great and marvelous sign: 7 Angels with the 7 Last Plaques"
+The Good News: LAST … because with them God's wrath is completed
+John moves to a glorious view in Heaven after mentioning the 7 plaques.
+Either he has summarized FIRST including ALL of the Tribulation Saints being seen here and singing praises to God at the COMPLETION of the Tribulation, OR, he pauses before explaining the 7 plaques to tell us of the seen he is seeing in Heaven.
+I would tend to lean to the first that he tells us the WHOLE Vision spending MORE time on the glorious finish before detailing for us the vision of the 7 bowls of judgment poured out on the wickedness of the earth.
+Song of the Tribulation Saints -
+They are - Victorious over the Beast, his Image, his Number
+They have - Harps given by God (have you always wanted to play the guitar? Well we will in Heaven, the 24 Elders the church plays harps in Chapter 5, The 144,000 have them in chapter 14, as do these here)
+They Sang - The Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb
+1. The Song of Moses - Exodus 15:1-21 - Song of Victory over the Foes of Life --- the First Recorded Song in the Bible and THIS song is the Last Recorded song in the Bible - how wonderfully they will enjoy the Song of Moses after having LIVED it. - Slaves in the early years of our country related well to Israel, to deliverance, to the Exodus and sang spirituals longing for that kind of deliverance. These will Sing it from the OTHER side of the Red Sea, from the other side of the Jordon
+2. The Song of The Lamb - Rev 5:8-14 - Song of Victory over Sin and Death
+Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony - that is the Temple within the Temple or the Holy of Holies that houses the Ark of the Covenant … we saw it in 11:19 this is most likely just expanding on it
+Opened
+Out of It
+1. 7 Angels with 7 Plaques
+2. Dressed
+a. Clean shining linen - these are not ugly, dirty mercenaries, but are CLEAN and GLEAMING, JUST in the duty they carry out for God
+b. golden sashes around their chest
+c. these are priestly angels, they wore priestly garments and came from the Holy of Holies
+One of the 4 Living Creatures Gave them 7 Golden Bowls Filled with God's Wrath
+Temple Filled with Smoke
+No One Could enter until the 7 plaques were complete
+1. When God's glory was in the Temple or Tabernacle, no one could stand it, as with Moses as with Solomon's Temple
+2. If God's goodness is that Great, how much more his Wrath, no one in Heaven will enter it while his Holy Wrath comes from the Holy of Holies. His wrath and his grace come from the same place, the Holiness of God
+Chapter 16 - Read Verse/Section at a Time
+V1 - Then I heard a Loud Voice from the Temple
+1. Go
+2. Pour Out
+3. On The Earth
+You should take NOTICE of the Rapidity and Severity of these Bowls in comparison to the Seals and the Trumpets which have come before. Notice the similarity between the plaques of Egypt as well as the previous judgments in the Tribulation which were "lighter" versions of these, i.e. 1/3 of life if the seas being destroyed and now ALL, etc.
+1st Bowl - v2
+1. On the LAND
+2. Ugly, Painful (this word can be translated malignant - which literally means troubles pressed together) , loathsome Sores (a wound producing a discharge of pus) - same Greek word is used here as is used in the Greek Septuagint Translation of the Old Testament in referring to the Egyptian Plaque of Boils, And the Boils of Job, as well as the Greek word used in the New Testament for Lazarus and his Boils. These are LITERAL not figurative and they affect ALL people who have chosen NOT to worship Christ and have worshipped the Beast and received his Mark. All the glitters is NOT gold, all that appears beautiful and beneficial is NOT and they are seeing their wicked hearts of sin now manifesting on the outside and feeling the pain that it brings and a forbearance of what eternity will bring
+2nd Bowl - v3
+1. On the SEA
+2. Turned into blood LIKE a dead man's - that is not red, life-giving, active blood, but this means like blackened, clotting, thick, stinking, lifeless blood, such that EVERY living thing in the sea died --- How can we apply this to ANY event in history so far? It MUST be literal or the word EVERY would not be there. It is the Greek word PAS which means individually, each, every, all, the whole. EVERY fish, every lobster, crab, dolphin, whale, coral, starfish, seahorse, ALL will die, imagine, thousands and thousands of Whales beached, millions of fish floating, dead and rotting. Imagine the sea gulls plucking at the waters
+3rd Bowl - vv8-9
+1. On the RIVERS and SPRINGS
+2. Became Blood
+3. The Angel pouring, as if amazed by the immensity yet proclaims God's Justice "You are Just in these judgments"
+a. because they shed the blood of saints and prophets
+b. they now have blood to drink
+4. The Altar Responds - "Yes, Lord God Almighty, True and Just are your judgments" -
+a. Why the Altar? Because at that Heavenly Altar the sacrifice was made for the Salvation of All men and they who have rejected it have taken on this judgment on themselves
+b. Hebrews says that Jesus Christ ascended and presented himself on the altar of God, his OWN blood for our Sins. What cries out from the Altar of Heaven is the Very Blood of Christ that calls out having not been tried and found wanting but LEFT UNTRIED and it cries out You spurned me and now God is JUST in Judging You
+He is True and Just/Righteous … True is the word alethinos /al-ay-thee-nos/ - means that which has not only the name and resemblance, but the REAL nature corresponding to the name, in every respect corresponding to the idea signified by the name, GENUINE - God IS who he says he is FIRST TO LAST through and through and those who follow the counterfeit will NOT get what's promised but what is deserved. Romans 6:23 - the wages of sin is DEATH …
+4th Bowl - vv8-9
+1. on the SUN
+2. intense heat - power to scorch with fire
+3. cursed the name of God - funny I thought they didn't believe in him
+4. refused to repent and Glorify God (confess)
+5th Bowl - vv 10,11
+1. on the THRONE of the Beast
+2. Kingdom was plunged into darkness - happens all at once
+3. Could be centered ONLY on the region of his throne probably Babylon or more worldwide
+4. Scriptures - Isaiah 60:2; Joel 2:1,2,31; Nahum 1:6,8; Mark 13:24,25
+5. The relief from the sun will only be a temporary blessing as the complete darkness will become excruciating. Most likely limited electricity will be available with the water need to produce it transformed into blood - in the agony they gnaw at their own tongues and CURSE the God of Heaven
+6. REFUSE to REPENT
+6th Bowl - vv12-16
+1. On the EUPHRATES River
+2. Water dried up to Prepare the way for the Kings of the East (literally kings from the sun's rising) These are most likely an Asian Confederacy, perhaps coming against the Antichrist for his failings in these times to meet their demands or their needs … yet they will be turned from their bent on destroying him to turn against Christ
+3. 3 Messengers of Evil - I saw three evil (unclean) spirits … looked like frogs
+a. frogs were seen as unclean and evil in many backgrounds including in Judaism. But these slimy, cold-blooded, creatures come
+b. out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, the false prophet -
+c. they have the task of convincing the kings of the entire earth to bring their armies to the region
+d. no doubt no one will be of the mind or ability to fight anyone let alone the God of Heaven, but in this time, these slimy messengers will perform miracles and wonders in order to convince the kings that this is a needed pursuit and ultimately a "winnable" attempt. - READ Joel 3:9-11; Ps 2:1-4
+4. they will gather for "the Battle on the Great Day of God Almighty"
+5. v 16 says they will gather at Armageddon
+a. means "Valley of Megiddo" or the "Plain of Esdraelon" -
+b. Barak defeated the Canaanites there; Gideon defeated the Midianites there
+c. Saul and Josiah were BOTH killed in battles on this battlefield
+d. in the central part of Palestine --- It is HUGE … My Father needed 3 images to capture all of it in a picture
+e. Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have been deeply moved when he saw it and said "this is the ideal battleground for all the armies of the world"
+f. the name comes from the root word meaning "to cut off, to slay"
+6. A Word to the Wise from Christ - v15
+a. Behold, Look, Pay Attention, Take Heed
+b. I AM coming like a thief in the night - that is unexpected, sooner than you think, unannounced, when you are unprepared,
+c. Stay Awake - Keep Closing near --- that you aren't caught Naked, in Shame
+d. Blessing CAN come if you listen to me
+e. there will still those who had NOT bowed to the Beast AND had not received Christ … Even as Judgment is coming, to the End, Christ calls, "Whosoever Will May Come" - Rom 13:12-14 - The Night is Nearly Spent, Wake Up … Cast off Deed of Darkness … Put on Jesus Christ
+7th Bowl - vv17-21
+1. Poured INTO the AIR
+2. Voice from the Temple "It Is Done" - this is a Cry of Defeat for Satan and those who have chosen his way and a Cry of an End to the Groanings of the Earth longing for restoration, and Vindication for the saints. Much like the Cry of Christ on the Cross "It Is Finished" a cry of Victory over sin, and completion of the Sacrifices.
+3. Lightning Flashes, Rumblings, Thunder, SEVERE Earthquake (worst ever in History)
+4. Scriptures - Zechariah 14:1-8; Ps 125:1; Micah 4:7
+5. The Great City - some think Babylon, but I believe, as do Criswell, Seiss, MacArthur, this to Be Jerusalem as matching to the above scriptures.
+a. split in 3 parts - if this matches to Zechariah 13:8 then some suggest that 2 of the 3 parts will be destroyed leaving on the one for God's restoration. But notice that Jerusalem survives
+b. the Cities of the Earth though are destroyed - Especially Babylon which gets a FULL cup of God's wrath, which we will see more of all of this in Chs. 17 and 18;
+6. Every Island Fled away - either disappeared or MOVED in location - Perhaps the Heat of the Sun has melted some of the Polar Ice Caps and covered the islands … Perhaps the plates of all the earth are shifting causes the world wide earth quake
+7. Mountains not Found whether some or all doesn't matter
+a. God is getting the EARTH read for Recreation, for the New Earth of the Millennium … This is his Bull Dozer and Earth Movers at work
+b. Isaiah 40:4,5 - Every Valley, Exalted, Mountain made Plain …
+8. Hailstones of 100 pounds fall on the earth taking out men ---
+a. they curse God
+b. these judgments affect men but are poured out on the earth … God is making way for Christ and his redeemed
+Closing
+<Story about George Washington Liberating New York City more than a year after peace was signed between the United States and England in Paris.>
+Noon November 25, 1783 George Washington gathered in Harlem to March with 1000 handpicked officers and men. Peace had been signed more than a year earlier in Paris, but Sir Guy Carleton, the British Commander would not leave Manhattan until he had written orders from London. Washington round down Broadway after 7 years of occupation, Orchards and fences stripped for firewood. He ran into crowds with victory twigs of laurel in their hats. Retired officers and soldiers in the crowd alongside women and children cheering. Some wept some just watched in silence. He had reason to be proud of these rail thin men in faded uniforms as they marched along
+Washington lost his fortune and much of his property during the war.
+Peace was signed and Victory was won but the enemy stayed until orders came and Ownership was claimed
+One day Christ will come back and Kick Satan out. Satan is defeated, he knows he is defeated, he is just squatting, aggravating trying to maintain power
+But his day will come and the order will go out and liberation of the Redeemed as well as liberation of this earth WILL come
+Even as those in that day the words of Christ are apt for today
+Blessed are those who are AWAKE and CLOTHED
+We do NOT have to experience the Tribulation and experience God's wrath
+We can remove our name from the appointment book of wrath
+Wake up from Slumber the Sleep of those Dead in Trespasses and Sin
+Clothe Yourself in the Lord Jesus Christ
+And Live Expectantly, Excitedly, ready for his Return
+What do we do in the meantime
+2 Peter 3:10-18
+
+- *
+March 1966
+"Take them away to the security kitchen!"
+The Ark represents something of a watershed for the series and perhaps along with Galaxy Four in the same season suggests a shift in the way Doctor Who would eventually treat the science fiction elements within its format. Looking back at the previous two seasons of the programme much of the science fiction was firmly rooted in the type of stories that wouldn't look out of place in the populist form of the genre that existed between the 1930s and 1950s.
+The series was more or less echoing Flash Gordon, Dan Dare and much of the pulp material of the period in its futuristic stories where science fiction was simply regarded as the transplantation of the standard adventure story to alien environments. The so called 'hard science fiction' ushered in by John W Campbell Jnr. at Astounding Stories or the 'New Wave' of science fiction championed by British magazine New Worlds hadn't really impacted to a large degree on Doctor Who. With The Ark we see the series attempting some form of fertilisation between the pulp and speculative fictions informing the genre.
+'greatest hits of H.G. Wells'And yet in 1960, when the BBC's script department had explored the potential for science fiction drama, ultimately leading up to the creation of Doctor Who, its own Survey Group, while acknowledging the popularity of the pulpier forms of the genre on the big screen, were keen to propose a series in which a more highbrow SF would be presented. They were ultimately beaten to it by ABC's Dumb Martian pilot for an anthology series that would be screened as Out of This World (1962) but the BBC would, however, turn to this anthology form in the sister series Out of the Unknown (1965-1971) when the high concepts it was in search of never made it into the early seasons of Doctor Who.
+The Ark also comes across as a 'greatest hits of H.G. Wells' package, as pointed out in the DVD's documentary 'All's Wells that Ends Wells', with the common cold virus, the invisible Refusians, the use of time to tell the story from two different periods and the Monoids and Guardians as a reflection of the Morlocks and Eloi all riffs from War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine. The genesis of Doctor Who itself is tied into the Wells ouevre as it made strides to accommodate its SF genre credentials with family viewing on a Saturday tea-time.
+The Ark combines Wells with the harder science fiction ideas of space arks, the human population in flight from disaster, colonisation of other planets and the perils of multiculturalism that can be found in the dystopian fiction of Brunner, Christopher, Ballard and Harrison. This puts Doctor Who fairly on message with the late 1960s view of the future. By 1966, the excitement about the Space Age was being countered by a more pessimistic tone regarding over population, rampant science and technology and the failure of modernism to transform society.
+This pessimism would be articulated throughout the rest of Hartnell's tenure and find its apotheosis in much of Troughton's era and the first Pertwee season. Ironically, Imison would also go on to script edit 11 episodes of the second and prepare the third season of speculative science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown in 1967 and The Ark feels like a bit of a trial run for that series's own adaptations of Asimov, Brunner, Harrison et al.
+... a slicker looking serialThe Ark's more successful elements can be tied down to two things - Barry Newbery's production design and Michael Imison's direction - both of which introduce a sophistication into the series that clearly anticipates many of the visual elements that would inform Doctor Who's on screen idea of futurism. Imison clearly takes a great deal of care about many of the effects, the use of inlay and foreground miniatures, producing a slicker looking serial and he combines Newbery's expansive designs with ambitious wide shots and crane mounted camera moves.
+Newbery's work on the launching bays, flight decks and space pods echo the kind of images that viewers would see in television broadcasts of launches from Cape Kennedy and anticipate the designs that science advisor Fred Ordway and production designer Harry Lange would provide for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), already into production as The Ark was transmitted. Newbery also provides a stunning jungle set populated by live animals, including an elephant, that Imison uses to great visual effect, displacing what would be the standard use of stock footage with wide shots of the jungle, the animals, the Doctor and his companions.
+One of the bigger problems here is that for all its attempts to embrace more hard science fiction concepts and visuals, it is let down by some dreadful 'space toga' costumes that clearly echo films such as Things to Come (1936) and more recent Doctor Who serials like The Daleks or The Keys of Marinus. A visual shorthand that depicts the human Guardians that occupy the space ark as a rather effete bunch, the costumes are the least successful element of the serial even if they do show off a fair amount of manly thighs and arms. Complimenting the visuals is Tristram Carey's atmospheric electronic score and while it marks another reuse of the material he composed for The Daleks it is still extremely effective in the way that it cements the series reputation for sounding completely otherworldly.
+Beyond these ideas, the plot of The Ark is to an extent quite clever in the way that it breaks the story into two distinct halves, depicting the generational changes in the humans and their Monoid servant populations on board the ark as well as alluding to some of the issues about citizenship and Britain's role in the development of a multicultural society in the 1960s. The trouble is that the first two episodes are far more interesting than the final two. Episode two ends on that terrific cliffhanger, wrong-footing the audience into thinking that the story has already ended by bringing the TARDIS back to the ark some 700 years later and climaxing with a slow pan up the human statue that the Guardians were in the process of building to reveal a huge Monoid monument in its place. Equally, the moment where the travellers are surrounded by camouflaged Monoids is still pretty effective and arresting.
+... Beatle wigs and baggy rubber suitsSomething has gone terribly wrong it seems and the Monoids have usurped their former masters. The following two episodes tend to ditch the speculative fiction and futurism for lots of revolutions, counter-revolutions and arguing in space kitchens. When the Doctor and company are taken away to be held in the 'security kitchen' you half expect them to be guarded by some aggressive Tupperware. Ironically, 1960s consumerism runs rife in the security kitchen with instant potatoes and chicken wings on the menu and their magical preparation looking for all the world like an ad you'd see on the commercial channel.
+The Monoids don't really work, although the eyeball in the mouth imagery is rather arresting, and they just shamble around, in a very cliched manner, wearing horrible Beatle wigs and baggy rubber suits. The idea of exploring and overturning the master/slave culture created and exploited by the Guardians and the Monoids is lost by the final episode when the Monoids simply turn into ranting monsters of the week and even the earnest Refusians, invisible inhabitants of the colony world, and their concluding speech can only vainly attempt to rescue the polemic about all races getting along. Mind you, the Guardians are a rather lame bunch too, with Zentos and the Controller flipping through a predictable 'good cop-bad cop' routine before the Doctor finds a cure for the virus that his companion Dodo has inflicted upon them.
+... the cultural relationship between the oppressed and the oppressorCharacterisation tends to suffer, with the humans forced to expel an awful lot of exposition and the Monoids hilariously babbling on and on about their plans for world domination in the final two episodes, because Imison is clearly having a field day with the technical and visual challenges of the story. The borderlines between showing and telling a story are evidently imbalanced.
+Hartnell is on reasonable form and the Doctor comes across as less curmudgeonly and more willing to try and help the Guardians and find the cure for the virus. Peter Purves has completely settled into the role of Steven Taylor and is actually very good in a number of scenes, particular in his anger toward the Guardians when they are all put on trial after the outbreak of the plague.
+Unfortunately, poor old Jackie Lane struggles as new companion Dodo and her accent wavers between Mancunian, Cockney and BBC RP, presumably as a result of changes inflicted upon her from the production team who may have balked at the idea of such broad regional accents being centre stage in Doctor Who. However, she does improve as the story moves on and her chemistry with Hartnell and Purves properly emerges and evolves.
+The Ark is something of a half-way house in the Doctor Who canon, visually striking and with ambitious ideas but let down by some poor costumes and characterisation and two final episodes that are little more than a standard runaround with the monster of the week even when it attempts to explore the cultural relationship between the oppressed and the oppressor. It remains engaging and is certainly not as bad as the reputation it seems to have within fandom.
+Special Features
+The Restoration Team weave their magic and the four episodes are presented here in nicely spruced up format.
+- Commentary by Michael Imison, Peter Purves and moderated by Toby Hadoke. An entertaining and amusing track with Purves his usual effusive self and Imison providing some good anecdotes. Well worth a listen.
+- All's Wells that Ends Wells
+An excellent little documentary that grounds the story in the hard science fiction of H.G Wells and explores its roots in a number of Wells's books with comments and opinion from a roster of experts including Kim Newman, Dominic Sandbrook and Matthew Sweet.
+The usual production subtitles, photo gallery and PDF materials accompany these features.
+The Ark
+BBC 1966
+Released 14 February 2011 / BBCDVD2852 / Region 2 / Cert PG / Duration: 85 mins
+Imagine life without the shackles of debt. The GYFG household developed such a vision back in 2015 when we decided to pay off our $350,000 mortgage in seven years. We had already eliminated student loans, car loans, and were in the regular habit of paying off the credit cards every month (always have, always will). We developed what we thought was an achievable plan based on a projected income that turned out to be far less than what we have actually realized.
+In December of 2017, I shared how well the GYFG mortgage snowball strategy was performing and that we would be mortgage-free in four more years, based on following that original plan. I have been very careful to balance our net worth to ensure that the equity in our home doesn’t make up too large of a percentage of the total pie. This has been for two primary reasons, stated every month in my detailed financial write-ups:
+.
+All the while, I had Mrs. GYFG constantly whispering in my ear every month, saying “Why don’t we just pay it off as quickly as we can?” I would go on my repeat reel about concentration risk and the importance of diversification. If I’m honest with myself, I have to admit that in the beginning I wasn’t even listening – really listening – to her. That’s not cool!
+The good news is that Mrs. GYFG didn’t let up. She just kept planting seeds. Then in February of 2018 we found out we were expecting. This is when those seeds started to germinate and take root as a real possibility to consider. It’s now the middle of June as I’m writing this and I’m on board with expediting this goal to the finish line. As of our May 2018 financial report, we still owe $227,055 on our mortgage.
+How long would it take us to pay it off if we really focused on it?
+We looked at the cash we currently have in the bank and projected what we thought our income would be between now (June 2018) and the end of 2019 (December). We estimated that over the next 19 months we would generate around $600,000 in gross income and already had $70,000 in cash.
+After careful consideration, we decided to reset our timeline and make a run at paying off the mortgage over the next 14 months (by July 31, 2019). This is going to require us to deploy $16,214 per month on average. That is not the exact amount we are going to throw at the mortgage every month, just the average to show you the magnitude of how much it’s going to take to get this goal done on a 14-month timeline.
+In the short term, this is going to cause our net worth concentration in our house to increase to the 40-50% range. I feel less apoplectic about this now that we have the HELOC in place and a 14-month timeline to pay-off. It’s exciting to think we could be completely debt-free in 14 months.
+Here is how I project this goal playing out between now and July of 2019:
+I admit that this is not going to be an easy feat, but then again, nothing worthwhile is ever easy.
+As I type the final words of this post we have already completed the additional principal reductions seen in the chart above through June. This may not end up being exactly how we pay off the $227,000 balance over the next 14 months but it’s how I see it from my current vantage point. This is scary and exciting at the same time. This will take most if not all of our excess savings every month to accomplish.
+Your turn! Are you a fan of paying off your mortgage early? Have you been working towards paying it off early? If so, what timeline have you given yourself? Or, if you have already paid your mortgage off early, I would love to hear your story in the comments below.!
+Looking forward to the “Life After Debt” post and what you plan to do with ZERO housing expense.
+Author
+Church – Hmmm…I like that title “Life After Debt.”
+BOOM!!
+When you make that last payment, now there is no way that you and Mrs. GYFG do not play out this 30 second scene together.
+On your NW pie-chart, there is no wedge for ‘psychological freedom’, but it is very real. As you have wisely noted to us readers, ‘personal finance is all about risk-management.’ Am loving this very achievable plan, another piece in place for upcoming parenthood, and women that are ‘relentless’ are somehow just a little bit hotter, AMIRIGHT?;-) Continued success to you, Dom!
+Author
+JayCeezy – that YouTube clip was on point!
+Relentless women are a lot hotter!!!
+Hope you and the Mrs. are enjoying summer – stay cool.
+Dom
+I think you missed a big advantage to this plan (maybe your wife thought of it): aggressive savings. By setting such an ambitious goal, such as saving $16,214 a month, you’ll probably save more money than if you were just trying to throw “as much as possible” in a taxable savings account. At least that’s what I found a few years ago when I decided to pay off $100,000 in student loans in one year … set the goal and watch it happen!
+Author
+Very true!
+Buying my first house in 2007 probably could be considered my biggest financial mistake. But despite paying nearly 40-50% more than if I would have waited just a couple years, I had the house paid off in full in about five years. It was incredibly freeing! Would I have been much better off investing in the market? Absolutely. But having the freedom of no debt helped to encourage my wife and I to downsize from the home (and rent it out), move into a condo next door to her work (and rent), using the cash flow from the house. We improved both of our commutes substantially, amp’ed our savings rate, and generally our happiness as our free time was now spent doing more of things we enjoyed instead of commuting and house chores. Long way of saying, we highly support the payoff of the house and the potential opportunities it could bring!
+Author
+Jason – First, congrats on paying off the mortgage in five years. A few questions if you’re in the sharing mood:
+(1) Has your home’s value recovered to its original purchase price?
+(2) What percentage of your gross income did paying off the home early take up? For example, if you earned $1.5M over the five year period, and you paid off a $500,000 mortgage in that time, then it would have represented 33% of your gross income.
+(3) Do you guys have plans to eventually move back into it?
+Cheers,
+Dom
+Absolutely!
+1 & 3) In 2016, just under 10 years, the home value appreciated back to the original value. It might now even be 10% above that. We had a moderate intention to move back in upon starting a family; it was a perfect 3/2/2 within a couple miles of family as well as decent school district. Following a tenant story that went from ideal to nightmare overnight (naturally on the day we were leaving for a two week vacation), and it appreciating back to its initial value, we sold in 2016, only losing out on the expensive transaction costs. We invested half of the proceeds into the market, keeping half for a future down payment on the next house when we finally determine a location we’ll be happy to settle down to.
+2) Great question and I’ve never calculated it that way. According to the social security website my income increased over 50% during those five years as I purchased the home just a few months after starting my career. Looks like about 41% of gross income went to killing the mortgage (I also had a large down payment, a rare exception of graduating college with a strong cash balance).
+Author
+Thanks, Jason!
+Thanks for sharing the 41% of gross income data point. I was just trying to get a comparison metric that stripped away the cost of the real estate and income by looking at in on a percentage basis. For us, it is going to be about ~20%. It doesn’t feel as aggressive when you shared that you guys plowed almost double your gross income to paying off the mortgage.
+Thanks again for sharing.
+“Are you a fan of paying off your mortgage early?” No, because I prefer to use the leverage and try to invest in assets that generate a higher return.
+“Have you been working towards paying it off early?” Not yet, I’d like to continue to put some income generating assets in place.
+However, as they say personal finance is personal. I think if I were in your shoes I can see the attraction in removing the mortgage. It’s a small amount relative to the income of the GYFG household. In an apocalypse scenario (where income drops to zero) you still have your life settlement, peer street and rich uncles assets in addition to cash and the business interest (i.e. there are some assets that you could mobilise if you absolutely needed to) – and that doesn’t even take into account the HELOC. Given that no apocalypse is forecast – there’s no reason why you can’t quickly remove the mortgage, save yourself interest payments and then kick the investing into high gear using the additional cashflow that you’ll have once you no longer need to make mortgage payments.
+HH
+Author
+HH – what are you currently investing in that you find attractive right now?
+I totally agree that they call it personal finance for a reason. What makes sense for the GYFG household probably doesn’t make sense for every household. If our income had not grown as fast as it has, we would have stuck to the original 7-year goal. That said, we also would not have embarked on this in lieu of maxing our pre-tax accounts and making other investments (which we continue to do).
+I also see a scenario where we pay off the house, refinance to expand the HELOC, and then use the house as a revolving credit facility to start really building our passive income through rental real estate. This would allow us to “pay cash” for a property, secure a tenant, and then get financing to pay back the HELOC and lock in a fixed rate.
+As many readers know, I tend to look at everything through a risk mitigation lens first, and knowing we still have housing in an apocalyptic scenario is very calming. Also, with tax reform, we no longer get any benefit from itemized deductions. The new standard deduction is $24,000 and the interest on our home is less than $12,000/year. Lastly, with baby GYFG on the way later this year, this gives us something to work towards, which won’t take any additional time to think about or manage.
+Dom
+Excellent Post! have you noticed when you have an idea or a loose goal, and all of the sudden you see it everywhere!!! ??
+We’re currently paying off two rentals. 5 months to go on one, and 15 months on the other.
+Congrats on such a hefty goal!
+Author
+So true, Carlos! Good luck on your own goal of paying off the two rentals.
+Dom
+I’m glad you finally “listened” to your wife. 🙂 We paid off our mortgage in June 2016. It was very rewarding to have our house paid in full in less than 4 years. Our story isn’t too fancy. We purchased our house in a small community for $245,000. We put $95,000 down and we were living off of one income $70,000, August 2012. After I secured a full-time job February 2014, we promptly maxed out our investment savings Roth and my 401K and went to work on the mortgage (we had a 2nd child and bought a used SUV with cash during that time as well). Currently we’ve been socking most of the surplus in Index Funds. We’re looking at a couple of investment properties and hopefully “retiring” in 5-8 years. I understand your diversification mindset and really had to sell my husband on this, because when our house was paid off, we were probably at a 50/50 ratio for assets. However in the 2 years, it’s now 70% investments, 30% house and investments will continue to rise. Your income is absolutely incredible so the savings you’ll start to accrue in 15 months is mind blowing and you won’t even have to worry about diversification. Good luck and I hope you feel a sense of peace once that mortgage is gone. I know I did!
+Author
+Joyful – That is fantastic, congrats! I think you’re right, diversification will come in a short amount of time based on our income and savings rate.
+We are so excited to have a little mortgage burning party. I haven’t seen my wife as exciting about a financial goal as this one, so it’s fun to both be stoked!
+So what was the reason that you finally converted to this viewpoint?
+Author
+TheHardenedInvestor – I think it really came down to three things:
+(1) We are expecting baby GYFG in November 2018.
+(2) The possibility that Mrs. GYFG might not want to go back to work.
+(3) The exponential growth of our income.
+I’m also a lot more comfortable with the fact that we will be able to accomplish this goal in about one year. Although it’s not the highest return we could potentially earn, it is guaranteed and it won’t take much thought, especially in light of becoming parents for the first time.
+As I have mentioned in a few other posts below, it is very likely that we will refinance after the mortgage is paid off to expand our current HELOC, and use it to start building our passive income through rental real estate.
+Dom
+Yeah kill the mortgage. It’s empowering and it keeps you secure in your home. We killed ours in three years and then were able to focus on building up investments.
+Author
+Three years! That is amazing.
+Dom
+We’re doing both. Investing and paying off our mortgage. Slowly but surely makig progress. The slowball is rolling and the debt is shrinking. 🙂
+This past April I paid off my mortgage of $267K in one swoop. I am a real estate investor and sold one of my properties that I owned free and clear for $234K. I had a decision to make – buy two smaller rentals for about $120K each which would generate about $1K each in rental income (gross) or just pay off mortgage by using the $234K from the sale and tapping into $33K of cash savings I had. Through a long winded financial analysis, it made more sense to pay off my mortgage. BOOM! It’s gone. Feels good.
+Author
+That’s fantastic! What’s next?
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+Hope Amico
+Hope Amico is the chief correspondent at gutwrench press and the creator of the Keep Writing postcard project. She has a BFA from Louisiana State University, focusing on printmaking and book arts. She has worked with letterpress printers in Louisiana and the Bay Area, and in 2106 she returned to New Orleans where she now resides..
+Michael Burke
+Michael Burke studied bookbinding with Dominic Riley and paper conservation with Karen Zukor. He lives in the Lake District, where he teaches bookbinding. In recent years he has taught and lectured at Society of Bookbinders conferences and seminars, and at Guild of Bookworkers meetings in the USA, as well as teaching tours in Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. Each year he teaches summer school at the San Francisco Center for the Book and across the USA. Michael researches the structures of ancient and medieval bindings, and has a Masters degree in the History of the Book from the University of London.) Lynn de Guzman is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, print media, and sculpture. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited work in the US, and internationally in Australia, India, and the Philippines. She was Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture Visual Arts Featured Artist in 2017. In 2019, she curated "Wander Woman," a group show series featuring Bay Area-based, immigrant, women artists of color. She has been featured in the Asian Journal Magazine, Hella Pinay, KQED Arts, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications.
+She teaches art at the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, City College of San Francisco Extension, San Francisco Center for the Book, and Root Division, where she served as the organization’s first Filipina Teaching Artist Fellow in 2017. the past two decades..
+Kate Laster
+Kate Laster is an interdisciplinary printmaker. Born in Anchorage and raised all over Alaska from Utqiagvik to Juneau, a sense of place is tethered to her practice. She received a Bachelor of Arts at Evergreen State College in 2015 and in 2019 a MA+MFA in History & Theory of Contemporary Art and Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute.
+Collaboration is an essential heartbeat to Laster’s practice. She has worked with Woosh Kinaadeiyí, the SF Poster Syndicate, Palace of Trash, Resolana & with her collaborator, Steph Kudisch as Hevra Kadisha. She has shown work in California, Washington, New Mexico, Vermont, Alaska and Pennsylvania as well as internationally in Berlin and Osaka. Laster has recently been an A.I.R. at the Vermont Studio Center, In Cahoots (as part of Hevra Kadisha) & at the Open Windows Cooperative.
+Eddie Lee
+Mr. Eddie Lee has been making prints for over 25 years. Starting out as a letterpress printer, he has been printing with linoleum cut, soft point and monotype techniques for the last several years. Most recently Mr. Lee has developed a new technique, using sheet magnets.
+Mr. Lee’s work explores human emotions. He tries to capture moments of human connections and sometimes ventures into greater social conditions. He frequently incorporates musical motives into his prints expressing rhythm, scale, phases, and tones through proportion and color.
+His work has been shown in various galleries including the Arc gallery, Marine Society of Artists, Telegraph Hill Gallery, Negative Space Gallery at Dependable Letterpress and the Graphic Arts Workshop gallery. His works are in the Kala institute consignment collect.
+Mr. Lee studied art and design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Massachusetts college of art for his BFA and Yale university for his MFA. He is the founder and creative director of Square Two Design, a graphic design firm in San Francisco. Visit his website to explore more of his work.,. She teaches and lectures wides; past engagements include.
+Susan Lowdermilk. She has had a thirty-year career creating artist’s books..
+Raoul Martinez
+A copperplate calligrapher since 2010, Raoul has taught and demoed this elegant script throughout the Bay Area. His artwork has been shown at the San Francisco Public Library, the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Filoli, the Presentation Center in Los Gatos and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Examples of his work can be seen at. He has studied under Judy Detrick, Claude Dieterich, Heather Held, Michael Sull, Georgianna Greenwood, Pat Blair and Melissa Titone... mollycmeng.
+Radha Pandey
+Radha Pandey is a papermaker and letterpress printer. She earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book where she studied Letterpress printing, Bookbinding, and Papermaking with a focus on Indo-Islamic Papermaking techniques.
+Her artist’s books are held in over numerous public collections including the Library of Congress and Yale University. Currently, Radha is working on an artist book inspired by Mughal miniature paintings of botanicals from the 17th century..
+Dominic Riley
+Dominic Riley Is an internationally renowned bookbinder, artist, lecturer and teacher. He has his bindery in England, from where he travels across the UK teaching and lecturing. He spends part of the year teaching in San Francisco and across the USA. His work is mostly restoration and Design Binding, for which he has won many prizes in the Designer Bookbinders competition. He was elected Fellow of DB in 2008. His bindings are in collections worldwide, including the British Library, the Grolier Club in New York and the San Francisco Public Library. In 2013 he won first prize, the Sir Paul Getty Award, in the International Bookbinding Competition. Dominic is President of the Society of Bookbinders.
+He has taught masterclasses in the USA, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, at the Centro del Bel Libro in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Canada.
+Solange Roberdeau
+Solange Roberdeau is a visual artist and freelance art educator and she works primarily in paper, sumi ink and with contemporary gilding in her own studio practice. Solange received a BFA in Printmaking from RISD in 2005 and an MFA in Studio Art from MICA in 2012. She teaches private classes as well as has taught workshops in contemporary gilding at institutions including locally at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley; nationally at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore and internationally at Cairo American College, Egypt. More information about Solange can be found on her website:.
+Shawn Sheehy
+Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops on the national level since 2001. His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by such prestigious institutions as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. His pop-ups have been featured twice in both Hand Papermaking magazine and Vintage magazine. Sheehy's trade pop-up book Welcome to the Neighborwood (a mass-market version of his artist book) was released in 2015, winning numerous awards. The mass-market version of his artist book Beyond the Sixth Extinction was released through Candlewick in October 2018. He holds an MFA in the Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago.ohan Solberg
+Johan Solberg is a bookbinder whose work explores the intersection of artistic research and craft, combining both historical and contemporary techniques and materials. Solberg’s current work consists of historical research on early bookbinding and papermaking in Asia. After earning his MFA in book arts at the University of Iowa Center for the book (2018), along with his partner he is currently developing a small center for letterpress printing, bookbinding and papermaking in Norway.
+Sarah Songer
+Nearsighted from childhood, Sarah learned to read at a young age because she couldn’t see anything twelve inches past her nose. Her love of books continued even after she got her first pair of glasses, and she earned a BA in Comparative Literature from UCLA.
+She is the daughter of a printer and a graphic artist; in rebellion, she became a bookbinder. She spent ten years at Arion Press and trained many apprentices in edition binding. She is a longtime student of design bookbinder Eleanore Ramsey and was the proprietor of Bay Area Book Repair for several years. Sarah enjoys sharing the many bookbinding tips and efficiencies she's learned over the years, and finds her own personal projects most satisfying if they make her laugh..
+Tim Svenonius
+Tim Svenonius is a mixed-media artist whose work explores the intersections of history, memory and myth. A voracious reader and an avid researcher, his work is shaped by deep investigations into arcane knowledge and lore. He has worked for two decades in the museum field, as a designer, writer, and producer of digital media. In 2015 he self-published a monograph, A Book of Lost Latitudes, which explores the role of the whale in mythology and literature, through evocative drawings and found texts.
+Nikki Thompson.
+Liv Veazey
+Liv Veazey is a writer and artist living in Oakland. They studied writing and bookmaking at Reed College in Portland, OR, where they were introduced to calligraphy through the Reed College Scriptorium. They currently co-run a free, weekly scriptorium at 2727 California Street, in Berkeley.
+Patricia Wakida
+My media of choice are linoleum blocks, wood and metal type, and hundred year old letterpresses.
+Most of my life has been dedicated to narratives: first as a reader and thinker; then as a Japanese papermaker, apprentice bookbinder, letterpress printer, and now a linoleum block carver. I am an active supporter and participant in California’s thriving literary and artistic worlds, having either organized, volunteered, or participated in exhibitions, panel discussions, and workshops that promote and nurture the creation and flourishing of artistic and literary expression.
+.
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+kerry On Thursday, August 7 at 9:35 am
+what in the world has happened to your comments?
+102
+Carrie On Thursday, August 7 at 9:35 am
+Hmm. I didn’t email you, but if I did, my question would be, “When are you coming to Indiana for a photography seminar?”
+103
+kerry On Thursday, August 7 at 9:35 am
+oh, i guess nothing. heh.
+104
+Alina On Thursday, August 7 at 9:35 am
+Oh one more thing!!! Did you know that turqoise, blue and green eyeliner are back!!! It’s a trend right now…I get tons of compliments at the office!
+Best,
+Alina-NYC
+105
+Tricia On Thursday, August 7 at 9:36 am
+So sorry that Nell hasn’t come home, I think of her everytime I look at my BC and know I would be heartbroken if he were gone. I could come live with you and share him with you, but the cows would probably sit on him after he annoyed them most to pieces. He would be thrilled to run around after something larger than our 3 cats. Thanks for sharing your life with us!
+106
+Catherine On Thursday, August 7 at 9:36 am
+You can still buy Love’s Baby Soft. Sometimes I sniff it when I’m at the store, just so it can bring me back to my adolescence. Good times.
+107
+Mama DB On Thursday, August 7 at 9:38 am
+Holy cow. The font in the comments section today is huge! At least, from where I’m sitting.
+I’m so sorry about Nell. I know it must be heartbreaking.
+I think Intermezzo is gone, though I haven’t driven by there in a LONG while.
+Cowboy Josh is a brilliant replacement. He’s adorable and they way he is with your punks makes my uterus ache. He’d be a catch for sure.
+I can’t believe you posted those pictures of yourself again. *snort*
+Oh and Wustoff rocks! And that site you shared is selling it half off!
+108
+Nina (The M&Ms) On Thursday, August 7 at 9:39 am
+Sorry to hear Nell hasn’t come home………thanks for clearing up a few things! Enjoy reading your blog daily.
+Congrats on the new baby.
+109
+Nancy On Thursday, August 7 at 9:39 am
+Well, I loved this post, especially cowboy Josh and the pics of your boy punks with the kindler gentler soul. I was fine until the last question about Nell. I miss her so much and I never even met her!!!!!! Thanks for another beautiful picture of her. I hope you do have another child and it’s a girl and you name her Nell.
+110
+Dyanna On Thursday, August 7 at 9:40 am
+OMG, I’m totally wearing Love’s Baby Soft perfume today!! How funny!! I love love love it!
+111
+margie On Thursday, August 7 at 9:41 am
+although i found this an interesting post, always a little voyeur in all of us, i really only cared about the last question. i am so sorry that nell is gone. always hard to get your heart around the word gone.
+112
+nicole On Thursday, August 7 at 9:41 am
+Hey, Ree. I loved reading all these little tidbits, but I have to tell you. My daughter came in right at the end and saw the pic of Nell, asking why I’m reading about dogs. I told her why the picture was on there, and she wanted me to tell you…”We had a dog that ran away, too. His name was Charlie, and we know how sad you are because we are sad too. I wish we could help you to find her.” Couldn’t have said it better myself. Take care, Nicole
+113
+terry On Thursday, August 7 at 9:43 am
+Thanks for filling us in all the questions people have; I am still checking back for Nell, and I do hope she wasn’t taken off by coyotes or something. It is a reminder to love our pets, children, et al, and hug them each and every time we can, cause you never know. Thanks, Ree, for sharing your life with us!
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+The Mommy On Thursday, August 7 at 9:43 am
+I’m so sorry about your Nell. I lost a cat once, he just never came home and I still miss him after 3 years. Your kids are wonderful (as are mine) and I think you might love your beau as much as I love mine. Life is bliss, isn’t it?
+115
+Bonnie On Thursday, August 7 at 9:43 am
+I feel privileged to have these daily glimpses into your life. The very real-time of your posts makes me believe in the old Star Trek “beam me up, Scotty” concept. I am thrilled to be in my home in Pennsylvania, and at the same time, feel like I’m on your ranch in Oklahoma. Troubles shared are lessened and joys shared are multiplied. We all become one in spirit.
+Boy does that sound new age-ie! Seriously, please never stop your posts. My life would have a huge hole in it.
+By the way, I was cleaning out my grown-up daughters closet and found a stash of Love’s Baby Soft stuff. Wow! That scent really flings me back to the 80′s. Also in the cupboard was a bottle of Debbie Gibson’s Electric Youth perfume. Anyone remember that?
+116
+Rosemary On Thursday, August 7 at 9:44 am
+This was fun. should do it again someday. feel like we’re part of an interview, sipping coffee with a friend. great idea.
+117
+Natalie On Thursday, August 7 at 9:44 am
+You’re funny Ree.
+I’m sorry about Nell… I still have a hopeful spot.
+118
+Beth in NB On Thursday, August 7 at 9:45 am
+Thanks Ree! Funny and real as usual.
+I’m missing Nell too.
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+wkf On Thursday, August 7 at 9:47 am
+I will think that a member of the Italian Soccer Team( there is proabaly more than one team.) Who stumbled on your blog, and read about Nell’s insatiable soccer ball drive, took pity on her, came in the night , abuducted her, smuggled her back to Tuscany,and now she is a beloved member of the team as a phenom ball girl. She has to work all that bread, pasta, chees Olives and wine off.
+That is what I will think!!! And maybe I’ll be jealous of the food part!
+Happy Thoughts!
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+Rhonda in Oklahoma On Thursday, August 7 at 9:47 am
+Ree, someone wondered what you were looking at in your high school photos? Well, in the firstone, it looks like you’re looking at that wild cow above in the left margin! LOL The spacing’s just right!
+121
+Sue D On Thursday, August 7 at 9:48 am
+We want a Kwik Trip here in the Northwoods of WI. But alas our newest addition was an Arby’s. Woohoo!!!
+122
+Marky On Thursday, August 7 at 9:49 am
+Great answers..And I miss Nell for you.. What a terrible family loss.
+Your daughters trip to Kwik Trip is hilarious!
+123
+Alina On Thursday, August 7 at 9:49 am
+For those of you still interested in Love’s Baby Soft…it’s currently sold at Target!!
+124
+leslie h (in MD) On Thursday, August 7 at 9:50 am
+Pleeeeeeease tell us where you get those pin-ups! Were they made just for you?
+125
+Christine Fife On Thursday, August 7 at 9:51 am
+You and I would be friends, I just can tell.
+126
+Rhonda in Oklahoma On Thursday, August 7 at 9:51 am
+That would be … “in the FIRST ONE …” I hate it when I miss a space while typing!!! Yeah, and I said, “The spacing’s just right …” but it sure wasn’t in my words! I need to slow down. Or, maybe I actually need a cup of coffee and wake up more.
+127
+What Happens Next... On Thursday, August 7 at 9:52 am
+Re,, I am so very sorry about sweet Nell.
+And Intermezzo? I’m right there with you on that one! Pretty sure it’s still there. Wait, I’ll go check….
+128
+Paige On Thursday, August 7 at 9:52 am
+I’m so sorry about Nell. My beloved Boxer, Max, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday. My heart is so broken, so I totally understand your pain. Max was 9 1/2 and the first dog I ever had that was mine. I got him when I was still single and had just moved into my house.
+129
+Michele On Thursday, August 7 at 9:52 am
+I absolutely love your stories.,..and I wanna come and stay at your ranch too…I’ll bring 2 kids with to help with laundry…a 19 year old girl (going on 25) and a 17 year old boy. Yummm….eating all your good food….sigh, that would be heaven!
+130
+Aby On Thursday, August 7 at 9:53 am
+Oh girl! They have NOT stopped making Love’s Baby Soft Perfume!!! My house reeks of it most days (especially down toward my 6 year old’s bedroom)… she’s obsessed with wearing it and thinks she smells soooo pretty! A little bit is fine… but trust me… a LOT is not. I’ll be happy to send you some of you’re missing it! And by the way… my 76 year old mother in law says Walmarts too. We make fun of her
+131
+Lisa On Thursday, August 7 at 9:53 am
+Thank goodness, now I know all about you. I can go forward with my day. I still say your pregnant. yeparoo.
+I do
+Lisa
+coastal nest
+132
+Karen On Thursday, August 7 at 9:54 am
+I have one question that you didn’t answer and I surely can’t figure out the answer to. When do you sleep, or do you? Are you back on espresso?
+133
+Janet On Thursday, August 7 at 9:54 am
+I have never heard of a “Quick Trip”. Sounds like we need some here in Maryland, tho’.
+134
+ashpags On Thursday, August 7 at 9:56 am
+Ooh, this was a good round of Ask P-Dub. Great questions, fellow readers, and great answers, Ree!
+Love’s Baby Soft rocks, I can’t believe they discontinued it. Like Bonnie’s daughter, I have a stash in my closet as well. =)
+135
+Rene On Thursday, August 7 at 9:56 am
+I don’t comment often just cuz I feel kinda bad giving you one more thing to do since you said you read all the comments but I can’t help myself today! I live in the city but I grew up in the country so I have the opposite situation as you which gives me some kind of weird attraction to you — no, no, no, not in that Ellen kind of way! I would love to live in the country again but only if I knew that all the amenities that I’ve come to love were a short (very short) drive away. When I was a kid we had to plan our shopping trips in the city very carefully — can’t just do a 2 1/2 hour RT for a gallon of milk! So that brings me to a question I didn’t see asked…how do you plan for your grocery shopping, how often do you go, and how many cattle does it take to finance that trip? You must have an awesome pantry!!
+136
+cecedon On Thursday, August 7 at 9:57 am
+I don’t know what a quick trip is either? Must be an oklahoma thing huh?
+I’m sorry about Nell, I keep hoping she’ll just show up, I hope she does.
+I know you love your knives and I’ve never used that brand but if you are ever looking for the best cheese cutter (the other knives are fab too) in the world check out the cutco cheese knife. It’s awesome.
+137
+Linda Sue On Thursday, August 7 at 9:59 am
+Ok you had me smiling and chuckling and giggling – then you had to go and mention beauitful Nell and now I’m crying again. Cannot find the words to tell your family how sorry I am for the huge hole in the world created when Nell disappeared from your life (and ours). Anyhow – y’all keep on launching stuff with your bras (Which brings up an important question – what kind if they have that much elasticity?!) and marveling at QT’s- the person who asked about the WalMarts certainly wouldn’t get the Steinmarts. Sorry – it is a regional thang.
+138
+Leslie On Thursday, August 7 at 9:59 am
+When we make a trip to the “city” and I notice a new business and someone says “that’s been there for a month” and then everyone looks at me and shakes their head at least I know I can come here and feel the warmth of other recluses!
+139
+Katie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:00 am
+I love Ask Pioneer Woman Day!!! And, yes, Intermezzo is still there. And, yes, it is still delightful.
+140
+Amy On Thursday, August 7 at 10:00 am
+I love the Q&A’s! I am sorry about Nell.
+141
+Marie-Etta On Thursday, August 7 at 10:02 am
+I love your APWQ posts. I really like that I can count on your new blog to be posted when I finally get around to turning on my computer.
+Is there ever going to be an AMMQ day?
+All right, I’m off to make the best sheet cake. ever.
+142
+Daisy On Thursday, August 7 at 10:02 am
+Everytime you mention Nell, it breaks my heart. I grew up in a family that always had dogs as pets and they always were held in higher regard than us children. They were siblings, and the only times I’ve seen my father cry were when something tragic would happen to the dogs. Perhaps it’s unbalanced. Perhaps it’s weird. But I am really really sorry for your loss and lack of closure.
+I like the question/answer post. I love that I can come here everyday and laugh!
+143
+Jessie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:04 am
+I also used to use Baby Soft products!
+Thanks for all the answers.
+144
+BiblioHistoria On Thursday, August 7 at 10:05 am
+The Common thread you mentioned is that they are all Australians. Well living in Australia at least – although Crowe was actually born in New Zealand and Pearce was born in England. Jackman was born in Australia of English parents. So all of them are first generation Aussies.
+145
+Shari in FL On Thursday, August 7 at 10:05 am
+Thanks for taking the time to answer questions, you are too funny!
+146
+gingela5 On Thursday, August 7 at 10:06 am
+So fun! But then at the end you had to go and make me almost cry at work! Thanks a lot! : )
+147
+Tami On Thursday, August 7 at 10:07 am
+OMG!!! I never realized how much you and the oldest punklet look alike until I saw the production photo of you staring in ” The Ballerina of Orange.” LOL
+Seriously she looks just like you.
+148
+Michelle On Thursday, August 7 at 10:07 am
+I like Q&A’s. My little boy plays with my bra, too!!! Hilarious, I thought he was strange but I guess if you think about it – It’s very interesting.
+149
+Darlyne On Thursday, August 7 at 10:08 am
+I really enjoy your question/answer posts! Thanks!
+I’m gettin’ me one of those knives. I need a good one and have never known which one to buy. I trust your judgment so thanks for that.
+I’m sorry that Nell never made it back.
+I have small dogs and there’s lots of coyotes, bobcats and javelinas around my house and because of that I never let them outside alone. So the thought that Nell could have run into that kind of situation is so heartbreaking.
+150
+Deputy's Wife On Thursday, August 7 at 10:09 am
+You know, if you ever need a social secretary… I could answer those emails for ya. Though I don’t think my replies would be as witty as yours.
+151
+Steph On Thursday, August 7 at 10:10 am
+Entertaining, as always!
+152
+Coloradolady On Thursday, August 7 at 10:10 am
+Oh, what fun this was, you have no idea how your blog makes my day…everyday. You really make a difference.
+153
+Anna On Thursday, August 7 at 10:11 am
+Love’s Baby Soft is still available! Here
+The most difficult thing about commenting on your blog is wondering if in the hundreds (or thousands) of responses you get, has someone else already said what you’re going to say?
+154
+Rebekah, The City Farmgirl On Thursday, August 7 at 10:12 am
+I so enjoyed your answers to these “burning” questions.
+You’re a hoot. That’s a compliment, by the way.
+155
+Heather On Thursday, August 7 at 10:14 am
+Thanks for sharing you life with us. I love your blog!
+I am a homebody too…
+I am sorry about Nell, my dog went missing in December and I still search for him sometimes. I miss you Dakota1
+156
+Lee On Thursday, August 7 at 10:14 am
+Don’t know if you have seen this yet, but maybe you can get her in to tame your coyotes?
+157
+Jamie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:14 am
+I love these Q&As.
+Thanks for sharing
+158
+zeghsy On Thursday, August 7 at 10:15 am
+THAT is exactly how i describe being episcopalian too! i’m so glad i’m not the only one anymore.
+sorry about nell. i know she misses you too.
+159
+Janelle On Thursday, August 7 at 10:16 am
+OK, what about a teaching ranch as opposed to a dude ranch. That way the “students” a working and you don’t need extra personnel. In fact, the extra help could mean the end to 4 am cattle calls for you and the punks, or maybe just you
+160
+Julia On Thursday, August 7 at 10:16 am
+Do you watch America’s Top Dog on tv? I can’t watch that show without thinking of Nell, they’ve got a border collie on there that resembles her. Me thinks you need another puppy… perhaps, I dunno – a border collie puppy. Not that he would replace Nell, but it certainly would give you an extra critter around there to smother with attention, and I miss Charlie’s puppy photos, so we need more puppy photos around here.
+161
+Kiki On Thursday, August 7 at 10:17 am
+Oh dear friend, so lovely to have a chat with you today and catch up! Gosh, I realize I sound totally stalker there, but you just have this warm and inviting way of opening up about your whole life! I wish I wasn’t so reserved and could let it all hang out like that.
+As always, thank you for sharing your life, your family, your frightening pictures, your joys and sorrows, with us. I am sorry that before I even knew you I was making fun of that Olan Mills picture. I’m sorry that your mother let you turn your skin orange in the tanning bed. I’m sorry Nell is gone. And I’m sorry that I keep apologizing, but I’m from Iowa and it’s usually my fault, whatever it is.
+162
+Martha On Thursday, August 7 at 10:18 am
+thanks for answering our nosiest questions…. I enjoyed reading the answers…..
+I also understand your laundry problem… I felt the same way at your age… but I can assure you….
+it goes away in a flash…..
+163
+MaryG On Thursday, August 7 at 10:18 am
+When my Mom and Dad got married, my beloved grandmother (his mom, her mother-in-law) told her, “If you want to have a keep your man, wear your makeup everyday and dress for him cuz powder and paint can make you what you ain’t” Until the day she died, my mother applied her makeup every morning and dressed to kill…and she kept her man…the two of them always acted like they were still dating…it used to amuse all eight of us kids.
+164
+Heather On Thursday, August 7 at 10:19 am
+we have Kwik Trip….wonder if it’s the same
+165
+plumpdumpling On Thursday, August 7 at 10:20 am
+What were they thinking with that old style of “look off into the distance at nothing in particular and pretend to be happy” school photos? LOVE THEM. Especially because years later, my little sister was still thinking that Sun-In-induced orange hair looked awesome.
+166
+Georgie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:21 am
+I giggled about the whole Quick trip with the kiddos stop-I feel the same way every time i walk into one-and I grew up with QT’s of course I also remember when everyone called them QT and the mascot per say was a dogger named lamar but now i am prolly showing my age
+My beans are like kids in a candy store when they go into a Quick trip it is very much “drink” over-load in there
+167
+Kylie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:21 am
+Technically, Russell Crowe isn’t Australian – he’s a Kiwi. But I think most New Zealander’s are happy to let Australia claim him – as long as they keep their hands off Pavlova and Crowded House.
+168
+Ann in TN On Thursday, August 7 at 10:21 am
+Y’all call Wal Mart “The Wal Marts” like some people around here call it “Wal Mark.”
+As for Love’s Baby Soft, you can find it here: and some other places. Mmmm…. loved that stuff.
+169
+VA Mindy On Thursday, August 7 at 10:23 am
+Ah…Love’s Baby Soft Perfume…now that was quite a scent which brings back good memories! Didn’t know they had discontinued it!!
+170
+Christy On Thursday, August 7 at 10:23 am
+I love the roosters in your banner…You are truly one of my fav-o-rite reads on my bloglines…I always look at the whole list then start with my favs…you are right up there Ree! Thanks for making me smile, or sniffle (as w/ Nell, I am soooo sorry)…totally enjoyment, and I am always telling people to go find your blog! Have a good weekend!
+171
+Laura On Thursday, August 7 at 10:24 am
+That Nell, she sure is a beauty. Loved getting more insight into how you tick.
+Laura
+172
+Pam On Thursday, August 7 at 10:24 am
+So Ree… does your name rhyme with see or with say? And, is it short for something like, Valaree?
+173
+Natalie in TX On Thursday, August 7 at 10:25 am
+Thank you for giving us a little more insight into who you are. We appreciate you letting us into your life everyday. Your life is certainly more interesting / exciting than mine.
+I can’t wait for the banner / header tutorial. I already have the website up for a blog but I have no idea how to change the banner.
+174
+Teresa On Thursday, August 7 at 10:26 am
+Btw, they tried to bring loves baby soft back in the mid 90s.
+How do i know? I was TOTALLY in jr. high and HAD to have it.
+175
+lorrie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:27 am
+How cute about your oldest daughter. Imagine if she came to NYC. My 15 yo wouldn’t get out of the car if we drove around your neck of the woods
+176
+JosieK On Thursday, August 7 at 10:27 am
+Intermezzo French West Hollywood
+(323) 937-2875 6919 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90038
+You should call them and ask if they deliver! (I’m kidding)
+Come out to SoCal and I’ll treat you to lunch Ree!
+177
+Lauren On Thursday, August 7 at 10:27 am
+I was at a friend’s house this weekend, and she also praised the same knife. Even said the same thing about the rest of her knives collecting dust. I think I need one of these knives.
+178
+Nevis On Thursday, August 7 at 10:28 am
+Very interesting answers. Loved the picture of you as a ballerina.
+179
+Lynn On Thursday, August 7 at 10:28 am
+Coming out of lurkdom to say hello and that despite trying not to get addicted to any more blogs, I’ve been sucked in. You are a talented writer and undoubtedly a very neat person.
+Lynn
+180
+Wondering On Thursday, August 7 at 10:28 am
+I love your website, i really do, and i love love LOVE the photography section. However, i do feel conflicted with all of the keeping it real things based on other information I have read. Thus I am going to the source. It is often reported on the internet that you have a nanny, housekeeper and are part of a ranching family that sold part of their land for 20 million and still owns/ranches over 20,000 acres. If true, why not just put it up front- if you have a nanny an imaginary babysitter doesn’t need to fall from the sky.
+With that said- i still love your website, and the food, and the photography and you seem to be a pretty cool person too.
+181
+Patti On Thursday, August 7 at 10:29 am
+I loved Nell. I’m so sorry. It’s going to take me a long time to get over her. Please keep her beautiful picture up anywhere on your site. My dog is loyal like yours. Sweet girl.
+182
+connie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:30 am
+Growing up my family had a german shepard/collie mix female that we called Lady. She got sick and wouldn’t come to us when we called. She finally disappeared and a few months later we found her remains in the shelterbelt. Apparently she Loved us so much she didn’t want us to watch her die. Love and loyalty in a dog is a wonderful thing, especially when children are around.
+183
+kelliebean On Thursday, August 7 at 10:30 am
+Love your blog – especially the little 80′s trip you took us on today! I’d almost forgotten about Love’s Baby Soft (maybe on purpose???).
+My heart also aches for Nell.
+184
+AnitaWS On Thursday, August 7 at 10:31 am
+I have a question. I read your site daily whether there is anything new here or not. I think I have read every word on this site at least once, if not twice. Is there some sort of official diagnosis for this affliction, and is there a cure?
+185
+Christyne On Thursday, August 7 at 10:33 am
+TOTAL flashback with the mention of “Loves Baby Soft”! I used to LIVE for that stuff – LOL! Thanks Ree.
+186
+Erika P On Thursday, August 7 at 10:33 am
+I love these things!!
+I feel like I get to know you a little more every time.
+187
+Marti On Thursday, August 7 at 10:34 am
+Dear Ree,
+I would love to invite you and everyone else to one of my Seders, but noodles are verboten on Passover. I could try making a peach and matzah kugel… Pretty much any kugel recipe for Passover begins: matzah, eggs, oil. Then you add salt, sugar, fruit, veggies, whatever. There are veggie kugels that don’t require the use of any matzah too. (easier on the digestion) I am highly impressed that you know the word kugel. Most people look at me funny when I use it.
+188
+Mia On Thursday, August 7 at 10:35 am
+Here’s a question I haven’t seen.. with 4 kids there has to be days when at least a few of them are really actin’ up and driving ya both wild… what do you do for punishment if they’ve been bad, and what do you do on the days where you’ve just had enough and can’t take a minute more??
+189
+MariaV On Thursday, August 7 at 10:35 am
+I bought a Wustoff Santuko off Ebay for a good price. I haven’t used it yet.
+I miss Loves Baby Soft.
+190
+Melissa F On Thursday, August 7 at 10:36 am
+I was JUST thinking recently about a goofy question you could answer for one of these… darn, I should have written sooner…
+How often do you shave your legs? LOL I figured with all of the pants wearing, there is really no reason to keep them silky smooth every day. =) Unless MM likes them that way.
+Blessings!
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+Robin in New Jersey On Thursday, August 7 at 10:37 am
+Oh Shoot, you did a Q and A. I was hoping I’d get my question to you before you did one of these again. Why don’t you show your mom in photos? I saw her with the girls, but it was from far away. Does she not want her face shown?
+192
+Robin in New Jersey On Thursday, August 7 at 10:37 am
+PLEASE answer comment #177.
+WHAT???
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+corrie On Thursday, August 7 at 10:38 am
+I can’t bear it about Nell either… the not knowing must be excrutiating for you & your family~
+Over the last years your blog has taken on quite a huge life of its own, I find it amazing that you are able to find the time to collect pics and write posts every day, plus do homeschooling, gardening, cooking etc. Amazing Woman !
+194
+Marlene On Thursday, August 7 at 10:39 am
+So, I completely volunteer to be a part of the staff at the Dude Ranch, or Dudette Ranch as it should be…free, I tell you and I do the best laundry. I will even bring my own tent and live by the creek. I am not kidding here. Ree, we love you so much!
+195
+dlyn On Thursday, August 7 at 10:39 am
+Aw – so sorry you still haven’t found out for sure about Nell. Not knowing is terrible. Thanks for another great Q&A – they are always fun!
+196
+Cindy On Thursday, August 7 at 10:43 am
+The Wal Marts! It’s like my Mom can never say “Lowe’s” she always calls it “Lowell’s.”
+Love’s Baby Soft…ahhh my first “perfume!” *sigh* the memories….
+197
+Susan Wright On Thursday, August 7 at 10:43 am
+Hey Ree:
+I had sent you an email with an attachment of photos. I had received this almost a year ago, and your pic was among them…did you get it?
+198
+Kimberly Schlinke On Thursday, August 7 at 10:44 am
+Yay! The forum idea is super!
+I am SO with you on not leaving home. I live in the country as well. This place is my cocoon.
+Yesterday I had to run errands all day…it’s going to take a day or two to recover! LOL
+As always, love your blog !
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+Annette in CA On Thursday, August 7 at 10:44 am
+I still buy Love’s Baby Soft, I love it and can’t let go. I find it at Longs Drug store.
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+cecelia On Thursday, August 7 at 10:44 am
+No forum. Nada. Zip. Zilch on the forum. Oh and we’ve got the “Wally-Worlds” around here
+I’m glad someone’s kids aren’t at home in fast/mass marketing – nice. Love the colors in the banners, like olde-fashioned inks on older fabrics. As always, thanks for putting in the mega-work for this great multi-functioning site!!
+Physical Risk Taking in Preschoolers: A Comparison Between Children’s and Mothers’ Perceptions
+Abstract
+Children's injuries are a serious public-health problem, but they could be substantially reduced by proper prevention. According to the literature the best predictor of injuriesis the physical risk taking. In this study we examined preschoolers' and mothers' perceptions of children's physical risk taking. Participants included 203 children (M age = 60 months), their mothers and their teachers. We first compared children's and mothers' answers about desired and allowed level of risk in some play situations,and then we verified if children's and mothers' ideas equally predicted the risk for injuries at school. The teachers completed the Injury Behavior Checklist. Findings showed that children's desired risk taking was higher than their mothers believe. We also found that children at school, in absence of their parents but under the supervision of another adult, behaved according to their own wishes. Our findings suggest that mothers are not always reliable informants about the risk taking behavior of their young children while they are at school. Children's desires are a good predictor of their actual behavior, and for this reason interventions aiming at the reduction of injuries should be directed not only toward parents and teachers but also to the children themselves.
+KeywordsUnintentional injury Risk assessment Child interview Physical risk taking Preschoolers
+Notes
+Acknowledgments
+This work was supported by “Sapienza” University of Rome, “Ateneo 2015” (grant number: C26A15CI77).
+All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (Sapienza, University of Rome) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
+Author Contributions
+ADN: designed and executed the study, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. ASB: collaborated with the design and writing of the study. EC: collaborated in the writing and editing of the final manuscript. GM: collaborated in the editing of the final manuscript.
+Conflict of Interest
+The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
+Informed Consent
+Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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+95-026 the majority of the 1993-94, and all of the 1994-95, school years. The appeal must be sustained.
+At the outset, I note that respondent's attorney has submitted an affirmation dated June 8, 1995, to which petitioner objects, on the ground that the affirmation was not served upon it in a timely fashion, and because it makes factual statements to which petitioner would not have an opportunity to reply. I have not accepted the affirmation, or petitioner's response, because the affirmation is untimely (8 NYCRR 279.5).
+On March 17, 1995 an impartial hearing was held at respondent's request for the purpose of securing reimbursement for tuition costs resulting from her unilateral placement of the child at the Steven Gaynor School for the 1993-94 and the 1994-95 school years. Petitioner was represented at the hearing by the assistant chairperson of the committee on special education (CSE) of Community School District 3. Respondent, the child's parent, was not present at the hearing, but was represented by her attorney. Except for her attorney, who briefly testified on her behalf, no witnesses testified in support of respondent's request for tuition reimbursement. Respondent offered into evidence only two written exhibits, which included an undated memorandum of law and a copy of the decision of an impartial hearing officer in Texas, concerning the timeliness of a parent's claim for tuition reimbursement. The assistant chairperson of the CSE of Community District 3 was petitioner's sole witness. Petitioner offered an undated progress report, prepared by the Steven Gaynor School, which reportedly covered the period from September 1994 through December 19, 1994. It also offered a copy of a form signed by respondent on June 1, 1993, in which she acknowledged receipt of the CSE's recommendation of an educational program for the child, and indicated her intention to enroll her child at her expense in the Steven Gaynor School for the 1993-94 school year.
+The assistant chairperson of the CSE acknowledged at the hearing that the CSE had, on December 12, 1992, prepared what appears to be an initial individualized education program (IEP) for the child, who was classified as speech impaired/learning disabled. The record does not indicate the child's placement at the time her IEP was prepared. The CSE recommended that the child be enrolled in respondent's modified instructional services-III (MIS-III) program. The assistant chairperson conceded that petitioner had not offered an appropriate and timely placement to the child for the 1994-95 school year, and that it could not prove that a placement had been offered for the 1993-94 school year. He further acknowledged that the CSE was aware that the child had attended the Steven Gaynor School during both school years.
+The Steven Gaynor School is a private school for children with disabilities located in New York City. It has not been approved by the New York State Education Department as a school for children with disabilities for purpose of State reimbursement to school districts for tuition costs. Petitioner has provided the child with transportation and speech and language therapy at the Steven Gaynor School.
+On or about March 1, 1995, respondent requested that an impartial hearing be held. The hearing was held on March 17, 1995. In a decision dated April 13, 1995, the impartial hearing officer ordered petitioner to reimburse respondent for tuition costs associated with the 1993-94 school year, from November, 1993, and for the entire 1994-95 school year. Petitioner thereafter commenced this appeal seeking a reversal of the order of the hearing officer in its entirety.
+A board of education may be required to reimburse a parent for the cost of a child's educational services obtained by74 F. Supp. 73 [ND NY, 1987]; Application of a Child with a Disability, Appeal No. 93-42). Prior to November 9, 1993, respondent was precluded from seeking reimbursement because the private school selected by the parent had not been approved by the State Education Department as a school for children with disabilities (Tucker v. Bay Shore UFSD, 873 F. 2d 563 [2d Cir. 1989]; Lombardi v. Nyquist, 63 AD 2d 1058 [3rd Dept. 1978]). On November 9, 1993, the United States Supreme Court held that a parent could obtain reimbursement for tuition at an unapproved private school, if the private school provided the child with an appropriate education (Florence County School District 4 et al. v. Carter by Carter, U.S. , 114 S. Ct. 361).
+Petitioner concedes that it did not meet its burden of demonstrating that it had offered the child an appropriate program or placement for either the 1993-94 or the 1994-95 school years. Therefore, respondent has prevailed with respect to the first Burlington criterion, i.e., whether the services offered by the board of education were appropriate for the child.
+With respect to the second Burlington criterion, proving the appropriateness of the special education services, respondent bears the burden (Application of a Child with a Disability, Appeal No. 95-25, Application of a Child with a Disability, Appeal No. 94-29). Respondent must show that the child had special education needs, and that the services which the Steven Gaynor School provided during both school years were "proper under the Act" [Individuals with Disabilities Education Act]; School Committee of the Town of Burlington, supra, at 370, i.e., that the private school offered an instructional program which met the child's special education needs. Respondent relies in part upon the child's IEP which was prepared in December, 1992. That document, which reported the results of the child's evaluations, indicated that the child had been found to be impulsive and distractible, and to have deficits in language comprehension and organization which impaired her articulation ability. Her receptive language skills, while slightly better than her expressive language skills, were nevertheless below normal. The child's speech/language deficits were thought to impair her ability to form interpersonal relationships. When tested in August, 1992, the child exhibited a delay of approximately two years in reading. I find that the IEP's description of the child is adequate to determine that she had special education needs, as of September, 1993, because the CSE assistant chairperson testified that the IEP would have still been in effect at the start of the 1993-94 school year. However, respondent must also show that the private school's program was reasonably calculated to allow the child to receive educational benefits, in view of the child's identified special education needs.
+The record is minimal with respect to both the 1993-94 and 1994-1995 school years. At the impartial hearing, respondent relied upon the undated student progress report prepared by the Steven Gaynor School which demonstrated that the child had made progress during the 1994-95 school year in many, if not all, of the educational needs outlined in the December, 1992 IEP. Specifically, the child had progressed in spelling, writing, perceptual functioning and memory. In this appeal, I have also considered a progress report for the 1993-94 school year which was not submitted to the hearing officer, but which is annexed as an exhibit to respondent's answer. Although it was available at the time of the hearing, I have accepted the 1993-94 progress report because the record would be incomplete in its absence (Application of a Child with a Disability, Appeal No. 93-22; Application of a Child with a Disability, Appeal No. 94-5). The 1993-94 progress report indicates that the child made progress in several areas during that school year.
+Nonetheless, the documentation supplied by respondent is generally lacking in describing the specific teaching techniques employed by the private school with the child, and does not, as a whole, delineate a program of special education. No evidence was supplied which would establish that the child was grouped with children with similar abilities and needs. Importantly, there was no testimony by the child's teacher or any representative of the Steven Gaynor School to explain how the school specifically addressed the child's needs (cf. Application of a Child with a Disability, Appeal No. 95-8).
+I note that the record indicates that the parties' representatives discussed some of the issues presented in this proceeding in an off-the-record discussion. However, a hearing officer's decision must be based solely upon the record of the proceeding (8 NYCRR 200.5 [c][11]). Although it is clear that the child has made progress during the time period of her placement at the Steven Gaynor School, the absence of evidence about the nature of the private school's educational program requires that I find that there is no basis in the record for the hearing officer's determination that the private school provided an educational program designed to meet the child's special education needs (Application of the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York, Appeal No. 95-25).
+Additionally, petitioner has argued that respondent's claim for tuition reimbursement for the 1993-94 school year is untimely, because respondent did not request that an impartial hearing be held until well after the school year had ended. Both parties admit that neither Federal nor State statute or regulation explicitly imposes a time limitation on tuition reimbursement claims. However, they ask that I look to State law to find an analogous cause of action and apply the statute of limitations for that cause of action. I decline to do so. There is nothing, as a matter of law, which would preclude me from ordering the board of education to reimburse the parent for the cost of education]). I have recently held that the date on which a parent asked for an impartial hearing was not dispositive of the question of whether equitable considerations support a tuition claim for a prior school year (Application of the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York, Appeal No. 95-25).
+Finally, petitioner asserts that respondent's claim should be barred because of the equitable doctrine of laches. I note that at the hearing in this proceeding, the representatives of the parties briefly discussed whether the form which respondent signed in June, 1993 was a waiver of the right to seek tuition reimbursement for the 1993-94 school year. However, the record affords no basis for making any such determination. Further, there is no basis in the record for determining actual harm, if any, to petitioner as a result of respondent's delay in pursuing her claim. Upon the record before me, I find there is no basis for determining whether equitable considerations support respondent's claim for reimbursement, or mandate a dismissal of respondent's claim.
+As the record supplied for my consideration is substantially lacking in key elements,, as well as the equities involved in respondent's claim for tuition reimbursement for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 school years (Application of the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York, Appeal No. 95-25).
+THE APPEAL IS SUSTAINED.
+IT IS ORDERED that the decision of the hearing officer is annulled;
+IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that within 10 these school years.
+Janine CANNIZZARO v. Stephan MARINYAK, et al.
+The plaintiff, Janine Cannizzaro, appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court affirming the decision of the trial court rendering summary judgment in favor of the defendant Diane Jennings Mayo relating to an automobile accident with the named defendant, Stephan Marinyak.1 At the time of the accident, Marinyak was an employee of the defendant, a homeowner in Redding. On appeal, the plaintiff asserts that the Appellate Court improperly affirmed the decision of the trial court rendering summary judgment in favor of the defendant because it improperly concluded that the defendant did not owe the plaintiff a duty of care. We affirm the judgment of the Appellate Court, albeit for different reasons.
+The opinion of the Appellate Court sets forth the following facts and procedural history that are relevant to this appeal. “During the afternoon of January 29, 2007, while driving northbound on Route 15 in Fairfield County, Marinyak attempted to maneuver his vehicle to pass the plaintiff's vehicle. He collided with the plaintiff's vehicle causing the plaintiff catastrophic injuries, including the amputation of her leg and a traumatic brain injury. Investigation by the state police determined that Marinyak was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident and had a blood alcohol level of 0.19 percent. Marinyak worked for the defendant as a plasterer and painter during the renovation of her home. Shortly before the accident, Marinyak had left the work site at the defendant's home․ [O]n the day of the accident, Marinyak had consumed alcohol [at the defendant's property] before leaving the premises in his car.” Cannizzaro v. Marinyak, 139 Conn.App. 722, 725, 57 A .3d 830 (2012).
+“On February 19, 2008, the plaintiff filed a six count amended complaint against [inter alios] Marinyak ․ and the defendant. Counts four, five, and six are against the defendant, alleging negligent supervision, negligent service of alcohol and reckless service of alcohol, based on claims that Marinyak and other employees of the defendant regularly drank alcohol while working at the defendant's home, including on the day of the accident. The defendant moved for summary judgment on the ground that she owed no duty of care to the plaintiff. The trial court granted the motion and rendered judgment for the defendant on counts four, five and six of the complaint.” Id., at 723–24.
+The plaintiff subsequently appealed to the Appellate Court, claiming that the trial court “improperly granted the motion for summary judgment because there was a question of fact affecting the legal determination of whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the plaintiff. Specifically, the plaintiff claims that, because the defendant was negligent in failing to supervise Marinyak's consumption of alcohol while working on her premises, the defendant owed her a duty of care that was breached when Marinyak, driving while intoxicated, collided with the plaintiff, causing her injuries. In this connection, the plaintiff claims that there was a question of fact disclosed by the evidence submitted in opposition to the motion for summary judgment regarding Marinyak's consumption of alcohol on the defendant's premises and the defendant's constructive knowledge thereof.” (Footnote omitted.) Id., at 724–25.
+The Appellate Court concluded that, as a matter of law, the defendant did not owe a duty of care to the plaintiff because the accident did not occur on the defendant's premises or while using the defendant's chattel. Id., at 728–32. We granted the plaintiff's petition for certification to appeal limited to the following issue: “Did the Appellate Court properly affirm the trial court's summary judgment in favor of the defendant ․ ?” Cannizzaro v. Marinyak, 308 Conn. 902, 903, 60 A.3d 286 (2013).
+We begin by setting forth the applicable standard of review. “The standards governing our plaintiff's motion for summary judgment is plenary.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) DiPietro v. Farmington Sports Arena, LLC, 306 Conn. 107, 115–16, 49 A.3d 951 (2012).
+On appeal, the plaintiff claims that the Appellate Court improperly affirmed the trial court's conclusion that the defendant did not owe the plaintiff any duty on the facts of this case. Specifically, the plaintiff contends that the Appellate Court improperly relied on Murdock v. Croughwell, 268 Conn. 559, 848 A .2d 363 (2004), and its discussion of §§ 314 and 317 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts for prescribing the duty to protect third parties. The plaintiff asserts, instead, that the defendant had a duty to protect her from harm that resulted from Marinyak's drinking on the defendant's premises because the harm was foreseeable. The plaintiff also asserts that public policy favors prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in the workplace and, therefore, supports holding the defendant responsible for her injuries. In response, the defendant asserts that the Appellate Court properly relied on Murdock v. Croughwell, supra, at 559, and its discussion of §§ 315 and 317 of the Restatement (Second). The defendant further asserts that, under §§ 315 and 317 of the Restatement (Second), she did not owe a duty of care to the plaintiff in the present case. We agree with the defendant.
+As this court recognized in Murdock v. Croughwell, supra, 268 Conn. at 566, “[t]he essential elements of a cause of action in negligence are well established: duty; breach of that duty; causation; and actual injury․ Duty is a legal conclusion about relationships between individuals, made after the fact, and [is] imperative to a negligence cause of action․ Thus, [t]here can be no actionable negligence ․ unless there exists a cognizable duty of care․
+“With respect to the second inquiry, namely, the policy analysis, there generally is no duty that obligates one party to aid or to protect another party. See 2 Restatement (Second), Torts § 314, p. 116 (1965). One exception to this general rule arises when a definite relationship between the parties is of such a character that public policy justifies the imposition of a duty to aid or to protect another. See W. Prosser & W. Keeton, Torts (5th Ed.1984) § 56, pp. 373–74; see also 2 Restatement (Second), supra, at §§ 314A, 315․ In delineating more precisely the parameters of this limited exception to the general rule, this court has concluded that, [in the absence of] a special relationship of custody or control, there is no duty to protect a third person from the conduct of another․ Fraser v. United States, 236 Conn. 625, 632, 674 A.2d 811 (1996)․ Ryan Transportation, Inc. v. M & G Associates, 266 Conn. 520, 525–26, 832 A.2d 1180 (2003).” (Emphasis omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.)
+Section 315 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts provides․”2 “[A]s a whole, § 315, by its express terms, is an exception to the general rule that there is no duty to control the conduct of a third person. The comments to § 315 make this point explicitly, stating that ‘[t]he rule stated in this [s]ection is a special application of the general rule stated in § 314.’ 2 Restatement (Second), supra, at § 315, comment (a), p. 122. Section 314 of the Restatement (Second), supra, in turn, provides: ‘The fact that the actor realizes or should realize that action on his part is necessary for another's aid or protection does not of itself impose upon him a duty to take such action.” ’ Murdock v. Croughwell, supra, 268 Conn. at 567.
+Mindful, as we were in Murdock, “that the starting point of our analysis is the general prohibition against imposing upon an individual a duty to control the conduct of a third party”; id.; we address the plaintiff's contention that the employment relationship between the defendant and Marinyak is sufficient to create a duty on the part of the defendant to protect the plaintiff from harm. We agree with the Appellate Court that § 317 of the Restatement (Second) governs our analysis of the plaintiff's claim in the present case. Cannizzaro v. Marinyak, supra, 139 Conn.App. at 727–28.
+Section 317 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts provides in relevant part: .”3
+With these principles in mind, we turn to the evidence presented to the trial court for consideration of the defendant's motion for summary judgment. A review of the undisputed evidence demonstrates that the defendant established that she: (1) never served alcohol to the workers; (2) had no knowledge that the workers were drinking while on her property; (3) had specifically instructed the supervisor that she did not want the workers drinking while on her property; and (4) was not present on the property on the day of the accident and for a period of approximately three days before the accident.
+First, the defendant established that she never served alcohol to any of the workers on her property, nor authorized any agents, servants or employees to cause alcohol to be served to any of the individuals working on her property. Marinyak also testified at his deposition that the defendant never provided any alcohol to the workers at her property.
+Second, the defendant established that she had no knowledge that any of the individuals working on her property ever consumed alcohol while working. She testified that she never observed any full or empty bottles of alcohol on the property and never observed anyone that seemed to be intoxicated. Marinyak also corroborated the defendant's testimony. Marinyak explained that the defendant had lived in her other home in Bridgeport and only would come to the property “once a week to see how the work was going․” Marinyak further testified that the defendant never saw him drinking at the job site and that he did not think she ever saw anybody drinking at the job site “[a]nd if she did, [he thought] she probably would tell them to leave the job. She didn't see anybody pouring and drinking ․ she never saw us drink.” Indeed, Marinyak testified that the alcohol was typically left in the basement of the property and that he never saw the defendant in the basement of the property.
+Third, the defendant established that she told John Wanat, the contractor who supervised the work on her property, that she did not want any of the workers drinking alcohol while on the property. Wanat corroborated the defendant's testimony, testifying in his deposition that the defendant “did not want any alcohol on the job and in the end I had to promise her that I myself, because I had a couple once in a while or something, I'd made a promise to her that I wouldn't drink on her job site at all․” Marinyak also testified that Wanat told him not to drink on the job site.
+Fourth, the defendant established that she was not present at the property on the date of the accident. In her affidavit, the defendant stated that she was in Florida from January 26, 2007 through January 31, 2007. Marinyak also testified that the defendant was not at the property on the day of the accident and that she had not been at the property for approximately four days because she was in Florida. The trial court found that the defendant never served, provided or distributed alcohol to any of the employees and that there was no evidence to the contrary.
+Applying the governing legal principles to the facts of the present case, we conclude that the defendant did not owe a duty of care to the plaintiff. Specifically, the plaintiff did not establish a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the defendant knew or should have known of the necessity and opportunity for exercising control over Marinyak's consumption of alcohol on her premises.4 Instead, the undisputed evidence established that the defendant never served alcohol to the workers, had no knowledge that the workers were drinking while on her property, had specifically instructed a supervisor that she did not want the workers drinking while on her property, and was not present on the day of the accident.
+Our conclusion is consistent with cases from other jurisdictions that have considered this prong of § 317 of the Restatement (Second). For instance, in Biel v. Alcott, 876 P.2d 60, 62–63 (Colo.App.1993), the Colorado Court of Appeals concluded that an employer did not have a duty to protect third parties from her employee's consumption of alcohol because she did not know that the employee had consumed alcohol on the date of the accident, or at any other time, and was not aware that the employee had a history of alcohol related problems.
+The Court of Appeals of North Carolina also considered this prong of § 317 of the Restatement (Second) in Peal v. Smith, 115 N.C.App. 225, 228, 444 S.E.2d 673 (1994) aff'd, 340 N.C. 352,457 S.E.2d 599 (1995). In Peal, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina concluded that a corporate defendant had a duty to protect third parties from the harm presented by its employees driving while intoxicated after leaving the company premises where they would drink alcohol because the company knew of the employees' activities, had a policy expressly prohibiting it, but failed to control the employees' behavior. Id., at 232–34.
+Similarly, the Supreme Court of Hawaii concluded that “where [employers] are on actual notice that, pursuant to traditions or practices that they themselves have instituted or condoned, their employees are systematically and consistently consuming alcohol on company premises after working hours, albeit outside the scope of their employment. Under such circumstances, and given a sufficient record, an employer can or should know of the necessity and opportunity for exercising such reasonable control over its employees as to avoid the foreseeable risk that an inebriated employee will injure a third party in a motor vehicle accident.” (Emphasis omitted.) Wong–Leong v. Hawaiian Independent Refinery, Inc., 76 Haw. 433, 445–46, 879 P.2d 538 (1994).
+In the present case, the undisputed facts demonstrate that the defendant homeowner neither facilitated nor condoned the consumption of alcohol by workers on her property, but instead expressly instructed a supervisor to prohibit the consumption of alcohol on her property. Moreover, the defendant was a homeowner who, unlike a traditional employer, was only present at the property one day a week for a brief visit. Accordingly, we cannot conclude that under the facts of this case, the defendant knew or should have known of the necessity to exercise control over her employees to avoid the risk that an inebriated employee would injure a third party in a motor vehicle accident on the way home from her property.
+The plaintiff further asserts that the Appellate Court improperly concluded that Seguro v. Cummiskey, 82 Conn.App. 186, 844 A.2d 224 (2004), is inapplicable to the present case. Seguro involved a claim by an individual who was injured by the defendant's employee when the employee left the defendant's premises after working as a bartender at the defendant's place of business. Id., at 187. In concluding that the employer owed a duty to third parties to protect them from the harm of a bartender leaving his place of employment after consuming alcohol, the Appellate Court reasoned as follows: “The jury reasonably could have found that the [employer] had actual knowledge that [the bartender] was drinking during his shift. [The bartender] admitted to drinking while at work ․ and stated that he had made no effort to conceal his drinking. Further, the [employer] allowed his employees to drink alcoholic beverages while at work. Therefore, the jury reasonably could have found it foreseeable that the [employer's] failure to prevent [the bartender's] drinking could have resulted in [the bartender's] driving home from work while intoxicated and injuring a third party.” Id., at 194–95. On the basis of the foregoing, we conclude that Seguro is not applicable to the present case because, as we discussed previously in this opinion, unlike the employer in Seguro, the defendant in the present case had no knowledge that Marinyak was consuming alcohol during work and did not allow the consumption of alcohol on her property.
+The judgment of the Appellate Court is affirmed.
+In this opinion the other justices concurred.
+FOOTNOTES
+1. The defendant Stephan Marinyak, the apportionment defendant Town Fair Tire, the third party defendant Rana Saleh, doing business as Getty Barnum Mart, and the substitute third party defendant Adan Rahim, doing business as Getty Barnum Mart, are not parties to this appeal. For the sake of convenience, we refer in this opinion to Mayo as the defendant and to Marinyak by name. See Cannizzaro v. Marinyak, 139 Conn.App. 722, 723 n.1, 57 A.3d 830 (2012).
+2. “The text of § 315(a) of the Restatement (Second) does not define the special relationships that give rise to a duty to control the conduct of a third party. The comments to § 315(a), however, are particularly enlightening in this regard because they reference corresponding Restatement (Second) sections that delineate precisely those relationships that fall within the purview of § 315(a). See 2 Restatement (Second), supra, at § 315, comments (a) through (c). ‘The relations between the actor and a third person which require the actor to control the third person's conduct are stated in §§ 316–319.’ Id., comment (c).“Sections 316,318 and 319 of the Restatement (Second) all identify specific relationships that give rise to a duty to control a third party pursuant to § 315(a). Section 316 imposes a duty on a parent to prevent his minor child from intentionally harming a third party. Section 318 imposes a duty on the possessor of land or chattels to control the conduct of a licensee. Finally, § 319 requires those exercising custodial control over an individual, such as sheriffs or wardens, to prevent such an individual from harming third parties.” (Footnotes omitted.) Murdock v. Croughwell, supra, 268 Conn. at 568–69.
+3. The plaintiff asserts that this court should adopt § 41 of the Restatement (Third) of Torts, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm (2012), and look to that section for additional guidance regarding the duty owed to third persons based on a special relationship. We decline to do so at this time. Nonetheless, we note that we agree with the Appellate Court's conclusion that, even if § 41 was applied to the present case, it is unlikely that our analysis would change because “[a]lthough the Restatement (Third) removes the premises and chattel requirements contained in the Restatement (Second), the comments to § 41 explain that ‘[e]mployment facilitates harm to others when the employment provides the employee access to physical locations, such as the place of employment ․ or other means by which to cause harm that would otherwise not be available to the employee.’ See id., at § 41, comment (e), p. [67]. It is unlikely that we would conclude that there was anything about the defendant's premises that furnished Marinyak access to alcohol before driving that he would not have had otherwise. Further, the Reporter's Note also cites approvingly to those cases, decided under § 317 of the Restatement (Second), where employers did not owe a duty to plaintiffs injured in crashes with intoxicated employees, even when the employees drank on the employer's premises. See id., at § 41, Reporter's Note to comment (e), p. [76].” Cannizzaro v. Marinyak, supra, 139 Conn.App. at 735.
+4. Because we conclude that the plaintiff did not establish a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the defendant knew or should have known of the necessity and opportunity for exercising control over Marinyak, we need not decide whether the Appellate Court properly concluded that the defendant did not owe a duty of care to the plaintiff because the accident did not occur on the defendant's premises, even though the consumption of alcohol occurred on the defendant's premises. See Cannizzaro v. Marinyak, supra, 139 Conn.App. at 727–29.
+EVELEIGH, J.
+What you missed…when I wasn’t blogging
+I started blogging in January 2009. THREE whole seasons after I started endurance.
+Oh the stories my Dear Reader missed. Can I get a Hallelujah? As entertaining as my blog would have been, part of me is really really glad I wasn’t diligently and honestly recording my antics for posterity.
+Of course, the reason I started blogging in the first place was because I was really really lonely and frustrated by my lack of progress in the sport of endurance, so perhaps my “hallelujah” was a bit premature.
+Here’s some of the stories you missed….because I wasn’t blogging.
+- How a pair of ears named Minx was given to me.
+- The many many MANY times Minx dumped me. Like the time during one of her many rehabs I decided it was a good idea to jump on her bareback, in a skirt, after she had been hand walking only for weeks. And how she took off across the arena at a full run with me clinging like a monkey with my skirt flipped over my head. Or the time when we were trotting down hill and came to a fork and she couldn’t decided which way to go and I was being indecisive and in our indecision managed to lose her balance and fell down, tossing me over her head. Or the time where she fell on a canal bank trapping my leg underneath her, with my body on the downhill side and her almost rolling over the top of me, but getting up instead and galloping home with me sprinting after her as we crossed country highways that interspersed the canal bank. You missed the weekly and then monthly reports of “how Minx dumped me this time”.
+- How Minx’s ears were untouchable and she was violently head shy when I first got her, and I had to take my bridle apart to bridle her (and how we fixed that problem)
+- At the beginning of the 2007 season I outlined my plan to complete 300 miles (they have upped the mileage requirement since then) in time to qualify and ride Tevis that year.
+- How I rode my first 50 miler in civil war reproduction tall cavalry boots. And then switched to my cowboy style polo boots half way through that apparently had glued instead of stitched soles and near the end, when I was walking through irrigation ditches that came up to my thighs and on the second canal the soles of my boots came off.
+- The time when I was trapped at a trail head until 10pm because Minx wouldn’t load into my 2 horse trailer. And I was all by myself. And I got her in by tying her hard, having her pull back violently and then rush forward, at which point I would take the slack out of the rope. She would try to back up, hit the halter, violently pull back and then rush forward again, repeat. It was AWFUL.
+- How I traded Minx for my Dad’s horse for a couple of months because Minx was lame. Going home my Dad’s mare reared in my trailer and popped the fiberglass roof half way off. She loaded OK for conditioning rides over the couple of months and I prepped her for our first LD. The night before she refused to get into the trailer. Nothing me or my Dad did made a difference and I didn’t get to go. Yet another ride my first season that I did not finish (or even start). That ride doesn’t show up on my ride record (although they kept my entry money) so it’s easy to forget about the ride I didn’t finish because I didn’t even make it to ride camp.
+- That time the ramp broke on my 2 horse and made my trailer unusable…..2 1/2 hours from home.
+- I can tell you that I didn’t finish a single ride my first season, but you don’t get to live the many disappointments and bad decisions that plagued that first season. There were rides I absolutely positively did NOT do right by my horse. The ride I started even though environmental conditions were atrocious and the risk to my horse was way out of proportion to my reasons for starting that ride (got to get my miles for Tevis!) . The ride that I listened to someone else instead of my gut. The ride that I started even though she had been lame the day before – but since she trotted out sound that morning I went for it (with the predictable result).
+- How my mother, after realizing I was planning to run a 50 mile ultra as a consolation prize to prove my worth after breaking Minx, begged me to get another horse. After 2 weeks, multiple inquiries via email and phone of likely looking horses that proved totally unsuitable, a test ride of a spactaculary unsuitable horse, I found Farley for half the money I had budgeted.
+- How my leather reins broke on Minx in the middle of a rainy, muddy 50 miler about 1 foot from the bit. And I rode 20 miles with only my left rein, at a massive Standardbred trot. Anytime I needed to seriously slow down or turn right, I would have to lean down and grab the 1 foot dangly piece.
+- And then on the first 50 (actually a 55) Farley and I did, how my stirrup (one of those cushioned easy care style) completely desinigrated and I tied it together with a shoelace which only worked marginally for about 8 miles. Another rider who was pulled leant me her stirrup so I could finish.
+Before blogging I didn’t realize these were stories. I thought they were failures and obstacles. I avoided stories. I got stressed about stories.
+Now I find when faced with 2 paths, I find myself choosing the option that makes a better story, and enjoying the failures as well as the successes. My life is not dictated by the chance of success of the goal, but rather the chance of really living during the journey.
+It’s easy to point to things in my life today that are a direct result of being an endurance rider. But what about blogging? Because I do endurance AND blog, how different is my life today?
+Is it a coincidence that I started having success in endurance around the time I started blogging? Would I be in vet school? Would I have friends in endurance? Would I have be given the opportunity to own Merrylegs? Would I have chosen to do the 35k instead of the half marathon in February? Would I have finished the ultra last month?
+Maybe my Dear Reader didn’t actually miss any stories in my early endurance seasons because they weren’t stories at the time. And if that is so, then I am enormously grateful that I found blogging after 3 seasons – not 5 or 10!
+Ahahaha :wipes tears from eyes: I’ve heard many of these, but they never get old. The dangly broken leather rein! Trailer loading Minx!
+WHY were you walking through irrigation ditches? You’ve got a horse, at least theoretically!
+Dude, the fact that you spent a whole year trying and didn’t finish a 50 and you’re still riding endurance really says something about the addictiveness of this sport and/or the “quirks” of your personality.
+I think endurance was the first thing I tried that I didn’t have some early success, but really LOVED. Mabye becauseI wasn’t good at it but wanted to be good at it SO bad it made me keep trying and trying and trying?
+I was walking through irrigation ditches because the drag rider had ordered me off my horse at the end of my first fifty (OT pull) because my horse was tired. Of course by that time my horse looked really good (because I had been walking and almost killed myself) and I had *just* gotten back on but he was one of those arrogant asses who couldn’t actually *see* anything and so he made a vomiting, heat stroked riding walk her mostly recovered horse into camp and I was too out of it to say no. And I had to cross several ditches. I numbly walked through them in tall boots and heavy duty cotton breeches without really noticing. Which considering my hatred of water tells you something about my state of mind at the point…
+THIRTEEN MONTHS between my first attempt and when I finished my first ride of any distance.
+Oh and I forgot about the time that I loaded farley in my new three horse (the first time ever) and I untied her head in prep for undoing the partition and unloading and before I made it inside from rhe outside where I had untied her she dropped her head to the floor tried to turn around and caught her under the divider and fell to the floor and sommersaulted under the divider and then bolted out the back
+Oh and how farley went lame two weeks after I bought her. You know. The sound horse I bought bc I already had a lame horse.
+I’m only laughing because.,.oh, hell. I’m laughing because you didn’t die, so in retrospect, it’s funny!
+Now I really AM going to have to write up my “first ride ever” story that I threatened just this morning to write. Your. Fault.
+You are welcomed :). And yes, stories are much better in retrospect when no one dies!!!!! I will say that so many of my “stories” are trailer related that I am PARANOID about trailer safety because I’ve seen so many wacky things happen. Like, I watch people untie their horses while in a slant load so that their heads are loose and they don’t understand why that TERRIFIES me. But it also terrifys me to leave them tied while I undo the partition – one instance I had a horse go under the divider bc it’s head was loose, but I’ve also had situations where I had a horse pull back when it’s butt was free before the head……YIKES.
+Ok, riding a 50 with one rein and slowing Minx by reaching over to pull on a 1′ piece of rein? And living to tell the story? That is one hell of a story!
+It’s always a wonderful thing to look back and see how our decisions, even the stupid ones, have shaped our lives and who we are. And regarding blogging…my life is so different because of blogging. I agree: it has changed my perspective on so many things because everything turns into a story! I have met friends and learned so much just thanks to blogging. It still baffles me to think on how much I’d be missing out if I’d never sat down one day at the computer and started writing about Lily. 🙂
+Whirlwind to the End
+December 4, 2013 by Katie LeCornu
+I can’t believe this is the last week of classes. Together, the students in our program have grown into young professionals and learned things that can never be taught in a classroom. I’ll give a recap of what we’ve been up to.
+A few weekends ago, most of the program went down to campus for Homecoming. It was great to be surrounded by Tribe Pride instead of the concrete jungle of DC. The tailgates this year were awesome! A whole pig was being roasted on a grill and a bunch of student groups were rallying. Best of all, we won our game against JMU. Saturday night, a group of friends and I went to see Freelance Whales perform in Sadler. They were fantastic live – I’m always so impressed by the great bands W&M and AMP can book.
+One of my highlights of the past few weeks was going to meet my Texas senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. I tagged along with one of my fellow Cato interns from Texas who was invited to “Texas Tuesday” where the senators meet with their constituents in town. There’s an inexplicable comfort that comes from being in a room of all Texans. Ted Cruz has made such a stink up here in Washington, and although I don’t always agree with his politics, I respect him as a Texan representative. And it was cool to meet the guy who shutdown the government.
+We had our last Slice of Advice from Adam, and he told us how to wrap up our internship and leave a lasting impression. He said to hold onto projects that can be put into a portfolio. Write a letter of thanks to your supervisor, and write a letter of advice to be given to the next person in your position. I would have loved to have a bit of guidance coming into my internship, so I’m definitely willing to give some hints to the next person.
+During the Slice of Advice, the W&M in DC office staff were decorating the room for a baby shower to surprise Roxane. She was so surprised when she walked in! We played games like unscrambling baby words and Nursery Rhyme Jeopardy. She got some baby outfits and baby necessities. Of course, she needed those things a lot sooner than she thought because 4 days later, she went into labor a month early, and now we have Piper Quinn Adler Hickey.
+Upon realizing that we only had a few weeks left in DC, I spent a few weekends checking things off my DC “to-do” list. A friend from campus came one weekend and we went to the Smithsonian Museum of American History. It wasn’t the best Smithsonian I’d been to – it was a bit sparse in exhibits – but seeing the Star Spangled Banner was amazing. So much history in just that piece of fabric! After the Smithsonian, we went to Hill Country BBQ, which is apparently the best BBQ in DC. “Hill Country” refers to where I live – the hills in and around Austin. As an Austinite who has the real thing at home, this restaurant was impressively like the real thing. They even had Bluebell Ice Cream! Little did we know when we went, there was a Longhorn football game on. The entire restaurant was dressed in burnt orange. One guy had a Longhorn cape and a burnt orange suit! When UT scored, the restaurant erupted in cheers and chants. Eating BBQ with a bunch of Austinites, I rarely feel so at home even at home!
+Also on my to-do list was a trip to Alexandria. The shops in Old Town were all really cute, and the trip was perfect for a fall day. We ended up stopping to eat in Killer ESP (espresso, sorbetto, pie). When it said pie, I thought that meant fruit pie, but turns out “pie” is quiche-like meat pies that were delicious. Also, we tried their home-made sorbet, and it was fantastic! I see why people love Alexandria – it’s a great escape from the city.
+The next weekend I got up early on Saturday to go to the Holocaust Museum when it opened. It’s an interesting set-up: on the first floor, you pick up a little booklet that tells about someone in the Holocaust. Then you get in an elevator that takes you straight up to the fourth floor. In the elevator ride, you are shown a video introducing you to the museum, then you work your way through the exhibits. The fourth floor gave an explanation about the conditions in Germany that made the Holocaust manifest. The third floor gave detailed stories about the Jewish ghettos and the concentration camps. The second floor showed the rescue efforts and the aftermath. As you reached the next floor, you turned the page in your booklet to follow the journey of your person, and in the end you learn their fate. My girl “perished”. The most moving part was when the exhibit lead you through a train car that the victims had been shoved into for transport to the concentration camps. Standing in the car, you could smell the mildew and sweat, see hand prints on the floor, and feel the ghost of previous human presence. It was creepy. The museum was definitely one of my favorite things in DC – it gave me a much better understanding of the Holocaust.
+Later I met up with other students in the program for Andrew’s birthday. He wanted to go to District Taco (yum!) and then to the Smithsonians. We started out at the Air and Space Museum, and then we were about to go to the American Indian Museum, when someone decided to jump off the fourth floor balcony and they evacuated the building…
+On Sunday night, the program had our own little Thanksgiving. Everyone brought something, and we had a feast. Chris cooked a turkey, and Megan made fantastic sweet potatoes. There was mac-n-cheese and cranberry sauce and lots of desserts – it was perfect, and it got our tummies ready for the actual Thanksgiving!
+For the next few days, we will be finishing up our essays and our internships and moving out. On Monday instead of class, Professor Abegaz invited a panel from the Millennium Challenge Corporation to speak to us and a handful of DC alumni. Tonight we have our farewell dinner with our bosses and mentors. It’s winding down, and I can’t believe this semester has gone by so fast!
+The Best of Both Worlds
+October 31, 2013 by Katie LeCornu.
+Are we really already halfway done?
+October 21, 2013 by Katie LeCornu
+Whew! What a hectic few weeks: broken governments, broken garbage disposals, and broken hearts when we saw our midterm grades. I guess I’ll start where I left off last!
+A few weeks ago, we went bowling with some students from Boston University who are doing the same kind of program we are – internships with classes. Their program didn’t seem as structured – many were working at random places instead of places focused on their major. I’m grateful we have such a great support team in the DC office which made sure we found relevant internships. Bowling was fun! We went to Lucky Strike in Chinatown, and Javier totally beat everyone. The whole venue had a really neat vibe.
+We were blessed with another “Slice of Advice” from Adam Anthony. This one talked about writing professionally and communicating effectively. These skills can seriously set you apart from other interns. It’s surprising how many brilliant people in the workforce can sometimes forget the simple rules of communication. It’s important to get a friend or co-worker to look over stuff – they see the mistakes that you don’t.
+A highlight of the past few weeks was getting our well deserved dinner on the DC office as a reward for winning the scavenger hunt. After much deliberation, my group decided on the Daily Grill in Dupont Circle because it had something everyone liked. We got fantastic appetizers of onion rings in blue cheese, popcorn shrimp, and spinach artichoke dip. For the main meal, everyone got fish, and I got a burger. We splurged on chocolate cake and banana cream pie for dessert. All the hard work of meandering around DC for hours paid off!
+A few weekends ago we went apple picking at Stribling Orchard in Markham. They gave us a long stick with a basket on the end to grab the out-of-reach apples. There were rows and rows of them, and many different kinds. I think we cheated a little by nibbling as we picked, fresh off the branch. It was very refreshing to be out of the city. The orchard had a bake shop where you could buy apple cider, all kinds of jams, and lots of apple pastries. I got some raisin bread stuffed with apples. The smell was irresistible!
+October 1st marked the beginning of the government shutdown, in which about half of the DC program was furloughed. At first it was enjoyable – finally they had time to study for our upcoming midterms. But as the days dragged on, I think many of them started to go a little crazy. As for the rest of us, our lives remained largely unchanged. I didn’t go to meetings on the Hill, and the Metro was less crowded. There was a general haze of dismay over the city. But life went on.
+We got the honor of being invited to the alumni event at the Italian Embassy. It was fun getting dressed up, and the venue was beautiful. The highlight was being able to talk to the alumni – they’ve all done so many cool things with their lives, and they are so ready to be a mentor and a guide. I left thinking about all the possibilities ahead. It’s a little terrifying all the paths you can take. And there’s no special formula to get where you want to go. I’ve learned that it’s not a straight shot – you have to take little steps in uncertain directions until you finally have fine-tuned where you want to end up. But as The Beatles said, “there’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be”.
+We have crossed the half-way point for this semester. We met with Javier and Roxane for mid-semester check-ins, and they will meet with our bosses to make sure everything is still running smoothly in the office. We had our midterm exams, which were… well we just won’t talk about that. Then we had Fall Break, which is kind of just another weekend since we work and can’t really take off. The furloughed kids were off anyways, and a few people who were supposed to work took off.
+Two good friends of mine came in from Williamsburg for the weekend. We got empanadas from Julie’s (recommended by the DC office). On Saturday morning we made apple pie from the apples from the orchard, then went shopping and walking in Georgetown. On Sunday, we ventured out to the Taste of DC festival, where a bunch of DC restaurants came together to showcase their dishes. My favorite was an ice cream sandwich out of a trailer called Cookie Monster – you got to pick the cookies and the ice cream in between. I took off of work on Monday, but convinced my friends to go to an event for libertarian youth that my office was holding.
+- Apple pie made from apples we picked!
+- Picking out pumpkins
+- Taking a hayride
+This Sunday, Roma got a group of us to go to a pumpkin festival in Maryland. They had a hayride where the tractor took you out to the field to pick your own pumpkins. There was also a petting zoo, a corn maze, a big slide, and lots of yummy fall-ish food. It was great to be outside, especially on such a beautiful day with the leaves changing colors. We looked a little old to be there, but let our inner child shine. Sunday night we held a potluck to eat (as my boyfriend would say) “all the yums”. Our chef on hand, Chris, made fantastic homemade mac and cheese – the perfect snack to take on a new week!
+Parents Weekend and Ted Cruz
+September 25, 2013 by Katie LeCorn. Below is a sample of what we witnessed in the Senate Chamber Tuesday night…
+Getting Comfortable
+September 19, 2013 by Katie LeCornu
+Well, the DC Fall intern class has officially completed our first full week of work! Armed with pantsuits, briefcases and walking shoes, we venture out every morning with the fellow Crystal City-ers with “real jobs”. Not to say our jobs aren’t real or that we aren’t doing just as much work (and more) than our paid co-workers. We surely look just as professional as the other ho-hum commuters frowning on the Metro. We’ve entered the rat-race, but our spirits are still fresh, and we are ready to take on what is thrown at us.
+Corporate America is not what I expected. There are so many little tasks that need to be completed just to keep things running. No, not getting coffee, but entering contact information or updating a database. These tasks seem insignificant, and I find myself asking, “When will the big work start? When will I have that groundbreaking project? When will I be the President of the United States?” Okay, maybe that last one escalated too quickly. But when I take a step back from the tedium, I realize that the small daily tasks I perform save my supervisors a lot of time, which then enables them to do the big things. Once I gain their trust by completing the little chores, they feel comfortable delegating to me the bigger projects, like representing them at an important conference that they don’t have time to attend. Or sending out a daily email to 9,500 people (eek!)
+One of the most difficult parts is trying to find the perfect balance of how often to talk to your supervisors. I want to have something to do, but I don’t want to bug them to death. One of the problems I’m facing is the fact that I’m in two departments, so each supervisor assumes the other one gave me something to do. It’s tempting to continue to let them assume that so I don’t have any work, but it can get boring pretending to be productive. I’ve started going to my supervisors in the morning to let them know what is on my plate for the day, so they know that I have time to do certain tasks. I’ve learned that it is important to assert your desire to learn. By being eager to help out and showing you are ready to get your hands a little dirty, supervisors will respect you as an asset to the organization, and treat you like a colleague rather than an understudy. Also, I’ve found that many supervisors want you to get the most out of the experience, so they are willing to help you reach your goals if you just speak up about them. I know it’s nerve-racking, but speaking up to your supervisors can solve a lot of problems and keep you from being forgotten.
+In other news, I got to explore a little bit of DC this weekend when a friend came to visit. On Saturday we went to the National Zoo, which is HUGE and free. Although I visited the Zoo on the scavenger hunt, we actually only saw chipmunks and no animals. This time I was able to make it through almost all of the exhibits. My favorite was the otters – they played follow-the-leader the whole time. Also, there was a butterfly room where the butterflies actually would land on you! It seemed like a lot of the animals did not have much room to play – the elephant kept ramming into the gate trying to get out. But I guess in the wild they don’t get fed and protected from poachers, so it’s a tradeoff. Unfortunately the animals don’t get to make that decision for themselves. I don’t know how much I would like being stuck in a cage with snotty kids banging at me…
+On Sunday we went to Eastern Market, a super cool neighborhood with an all-day, everyday farmers market. There are a ton of great restaurants in the area, and we settled on one called the Chesapeake Room. After lunch we got a cupcake from a food truck, and headed over to the tents. There was a wide variety of produce – everything from beautiful heads of lettuce to juicy peaches. There were live bands playing, soap shops, art tents and jewelry artisans. It was an awesome atmosphere – definitely a place I want to return to.
+Last night the interns had dinner with our mentors. It was fun hearing about their time at William & Mary. Although the campus has changed a lot, the prestige of the school remains. Also, many cool programs have been introduced since their time there, like the DC program. It was great to see that so many alums left W&M prepared for a career that they love. One of the most important things I got out of my dinner was that it’s okay that I don’t know what I want to do after college. My mentor was actually glad that I didn’t know what to do – it gives me time to explore and be flexible. He didn’t settle into something until he was almost thirty, but once he did, he loved it. I think it’s important to take the time to discover where you can do the most good.
+“City Living, DC Style”
+September 10, 2013 by Katie LeCornu
+The Fall 2013 William & Mary in Washington interns are all settled into our new apartments in the lovely neighborhood of Crystal City. Move-in was astonishingly efficient with all the DC office staff there to help. As a girl with way too many belongings, moving is always such a loathsome experience. However, I pulled up and my stuff was out of my car and in my room before I could even turn off the engine!
+Monday night began with pizza and a short introduction to the program by the director of the DC office, Adam Anthony. Then we took a tour of Crystal City so we know our way to the Metro and through the underground mall. Monday night, our group of 17 converged in one of the apartments for a movie showing – the girls outvoted the guys and we ended up watching the “Glee”-esque movie “Pitch Perfect”.
+Tuesday morning began with doughnuts (yum!) and a meeting with Roma, our Community Advisor. She gave us the rundown of the building procedures and our duties as residents, and provided us with our pre-loaded Metro card (turns out you can’t walk everywhere like in the Burg…) We hopped on the Metro and navigated ourselves to the W&M office in Dupont Circle, where Javier gave us a packet of information for the program – calendars, forms, contact numbers, etc. We had a fantastic lunch catered from a Greek restaurant, and then got a presentation on stress from Dr. Reis from the campus Counseling Center. The presentation was a good reminder to manage our time, and leave room for fun and relaxation. After lunch we started our Scavenger Hunt – the winning team gets a free dinner! The items on the list were worth varying amounts of points depending on how far away from Dupont Circle they were. The list included everything from chess players to embassies to landmarks. My group made our way to Union Station and the National Mall, then up to Chinatown where we met the whole group for dinner at Matchbox, the pizza place. We didn’t think we were doing too great in the game, but when two groups showed up late and got points deducted, we once again had hope that we might win. After dinner, we met up with a tour guide at the Jefferson Memorial who gave up a monument tour. My favorite monument was the FDR one – it really told the story of his life. Also, the MLK monument was bustling because Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
+On Wednesday morning the group met at GW’s Gelman Library, our designated library away from Swem. The library was 8 stories, but didn’t seem to have as many books as Swem. Although it was only the 3rd day of school, the library was surprisingly full of students. We then headed back to the Dupont office for lunch, and then adventured out for the second part of the scavenger hunt. This time my group was a little more motivated with the idea that we could win. We went down Embassy Row, then found our way to Georgetown University. We went past Dumbarton Oaks Park, and then trekked through a surprisingly uncharted dense forest area, before coming out at the National Zoo. We looked for the panda, but it had just given birth and was therefore not on display. Next, my group took the Metro to the Kennedy Center, where we were able to check off “Bust of JFK”, “Hall of States”, and “View of Georgetown from Kennedy Terrace.” As our time limit came close, I convinced my group to make a little detour to a coffee shop on the list that was only worth a point. It was a good thing because when we met with the rest of the students for dinner, we had beaten the group by only a 2 point margin! Dinner was at a wonderful Mexican restaurant called Lauriol Plaza – I can still smell the sizzling fajitas. After dinner we went to Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center. It was an incredibly funny murder mystery in which the audience decides who the killer is! The interaction with the audience made it different from any play I’d ever seen before.
+Thursday morning started out with an introduction lecture from Professor Abegaz to set us on the right path for our classes the next week. We had a lunch of Mexican food, and then Adam gave us our first “Slice of Advice,” a series that will continue throughout the semester. This first presentation was about being better than the intern next to you by completing assignments before the due date, communicating professionally, and being eager to learn. After our advice session, we went to the National Building Museum to play mini-golf on super cool holes. The holes had to do with environmental and futuristic building – and some of them were impossible! We ended the night and our Orientation with a Nationals game. It was Nationals vs. Marlins, so of course we beat them. The best part wasn’t so much the game, but the hype and the energy that resonated through the stadium! DC has a lot of spirit and pride!
+Although it was weird to go through Orientation again as an upperclassman, it was completely refreshing and really prepared us for the semester to come. I hardly stepped foot in DC a week ago, but now I know my way around completely. I was even able to give directions for a Metro stop to a foreign tourist the other day! Also, Orientation allowed us to have a little fun before the hardcore (but still fun?) work starts in September. I think this class of interns had bonded really well, and we are going to have a very successful semester.
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+A list of minerals observed at 36 locations in Nagano prefecture, Koshinetsu region, Honshu island, Japan
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+Kawakami city
+Kobushi Mine
+Azusayama, Kawakami city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
+- Hedenbergite
+Green, Prismatic
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+Green, Prismatic
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+White, Prismatic
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+White, Prismatic
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+Brown, Crystal
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+Brown, Prismatic
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+Clear, Crystal
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+Mount Ogawa
+Kawahage, Kawakami city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
+- Quartz
+Colorless, Prismatic
+Nishimatazawa
+Kawahage, Kawakami city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
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+Colorless, Prismatic
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+Yellow, Massive
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+Yellow, Cubic
+Nishimatazawa Path
+Kawahage, Kawakami city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
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+Silver, Prismatic
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+Black, Massive
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+Yellow, Cubic
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+Yellow, Massive
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+Dark red, Tabular
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+Black, Granular
+Sakuho city
+Dainichi Mine
+Ohinata, Sakuho city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
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+Black, Granular
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+Purple, Massive
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+Kaize, Sakuho city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
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+Kami, Sakuho city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
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+Pink, Radial
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+Shishi-iwa
+Nobeyama, Minamimaki city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
+Mount Meshimori
+Hirasawa, Minamimaki city, Minami-Saku county, Nagano pref.
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+Pale blue, Massive
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+Black, Dendritic
+Ueda city
+Kodo
+Kodo, Ueda city, Nagano pref.
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+Dark gray, Bipyramidal
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+White, Tabular
+Lake Sayama
+Maeyama, Ueda city, Nagano pref.
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+White, Radial
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+White
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+White, Tabular
+Mount Tokko
+Maeyama, Ueda city, Nagano pref.
+Kami-Takeshi
+Kami-Takeshi, Ueda city, Nagano pref.
+Mount Takeshi
+Shimo-Takeshi, Ueda city, Nagano pref.
+Iri-karuisawa
+Iri-Karuisawa, Soehi, Sanada village, Ueda city, Nagano pref.
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+Pink, Prismatic
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+Green, Prismatic
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+White, Prismatic
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+White, Granular
+Shinyo Mine
+Soehi, Sanada village, Ueda city, Nagano pref.
+- Zunyite
+Colorless, Tetrahedron
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+White, Platy
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+Yellow, Cubic
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+Brown, Tabular
+Nagawa city
+Senno creek
+Wada, Nagawa city, Chiisagata county, Nagano pref.
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+Dark red, Prismatic
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+Yellow, Granular
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+Clear, Massive
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+White, Massive
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+Yellow, Micaceous
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+White, Massive
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+White, Massive
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+Pale pink, Earthy
+- Biotite
+Black, Tabular
+- Stilbite
+White, Radial
+- Ilmenite
+Black, Tabular
+- Chlorite
+Pale green, Micaceous
+- Magnesiohornblende
+Dark green, Prismatic
+Wada Pass
+Wada, Nagawa city, Chiisagata county, Nagano pref.
+- Spessartine
+Red, Crystal
+Karuizawa city
+Mount Asama
+Nagakura, Karuizawa city, Kita-Saku county, Nagano pref.
+- Cordierite
+Blue, Granular
+- Mullite
+White, Acicular
+- Sillimanite
+White, Prismatic
+- Anorthite
+White, Granular
+Nagano city
+Mount Hokiya
+Toyosaka, Matsushiro village, Nagano city, Nagano pref.
+Mount Hijiri
+Ohoka-Otsu, Nagano city, Nagano pref.
+Fujimi city
+Ikenofukuro
+Sakai, Fujimi city, Suwa county, Nagano pref.
+- Hornblende
+Black, Prismatic
+Mount Nyukasa
+Fujimi, Fujimi city, Suwa county, Nagano pref.
+- Clinochlore
+Dark green, Radial
+Shimo-Suwa city
+Horaku creek
+Toyohashi, Shimo-Suwa city, Suwa county, Nagano pref.
+Yamabuki creek
+Higashimachi-Naka, Shimo-Suwa city, Suwa county, Nagano pref.
+- Hematite
+Red, Massive
+Okaya city
+Yokokawa river
+Imai, Okaya city, Nagano pref.
+- Lizardite
+Yellowish-green
+- Ni bearing pyrrhotite
+Silver white
+- Magnetite
+Black
+- Chromite
+Black
+- Kaemmererite
+Purple, Micaceous
+- Aragonite
+White, Acicular
+- Dolomite
+White, Vein
+- Pectolite
+White, Acicular
+Chino city
+Suwa Mine
+Kitayama, Chino city, Nagano pref.
+- Limonite
+Brown
+- Jarosite
+Yellow
+- Cacoxenite
+Yellow
+- Koninckite
+White
+- Strengite
+Grayish-white
+- Tinticite
+Grayish-white
+Shizuka Mine
+Ankokuji, Miyagawa, Chino city, Nagano pref.
+- Garnierite
+Green
+- Pyrite
+Brass
+- Chalcopyrite
+Brass
+- Pyrrhotite
+Yellowish-Brown, Tabular
+Kinkei Mine
+Kanazawa, Chino city, Nagano pref.
+- Mariposite(chromian muscovite)
+Green, Micaceous
+- Quartz
+Clear, Japan law twin
+- Epidote
+Pale green, Radial
+- Talc
+brownish-yellow, Micaceous
+- Tellurobismuthite
+Black, Tabular
+- Gold
+Yellow, Granular
+- Bismuth
+Silver, Massive
+- Bismutite
+Yellowish-brown, Earthy
+- Waylandite
+White, Granular
+- Andalusite
+Pale purple, Prismatic
+- Pyrite
+Yellow, Massive
+Rosekiyama
+Kanazawa, Chino city, Nagano pref.
+- Talc
+Grayishi green, Massive
+Omachi city
+Lake Kizaki
+Taira, Omachi city, Nagano pref.
+- Anorthoclase
+White, "moonstone"
+Hotokezaki
+Tokiwa, Ohmachi city, Nagano pref.
+- Spinel
+Black, Octahedral
+- Forsterite
+Colorless
+- Clinohumite
+Brown, Granular
+- Phlogopite
+Brown, Hexagonal tabular
+- Grossular
+Brown, Massive
+- Diopside
+White, Massive
+- Wollastonite
+White, Fibrous
+- Actinolite
+Pale green, Fibrous
+- Pyrrhotite
+Brass, Massive
+- Serpentinite
+Green, Massive
+Matsumoto city
+Ryushima Mine
+Azumi, Matsumoto city, Nagano pref.
+- Kutnohorite
+White, Rhombohedral
+- Pyrolusite
+Black, Massive
+Inekoki bridge
+Azumi, Matsumoto city, Nagano pref.
+- Chalcopyrite
+Yellow, Massive
+Tatsuno city
+Hama-Yokokawa Mine
+Yokokawa, Tatsuno city, Kami-Ina county, Nagano pref.
+- Rhodonite
+Pink, Massive
+- Rhodochrosite
+Pink
+- Hausmannite
+Brown, Massive
+- Tephroite
+Grayish-green, Massive
+- Spessartine
+Reddish-purple, Massive
+- Alleghanyite
+Pale brown, Massive
+- Jacobsite
+Black, Layered
+- Manganosite
+Green, Massive
+- Pyrochroite
+Brown, Massive
+- Cinnabar
+Red
+- Suzukiite
+Green, Tabular
+- Baryte
+White, Massive
+- Siderite
+Brown, Massive
+- Iwakiite
+Black, Massive
+- Pyrrhotite
+Silver white, Massive
+- Pyrite
+Brass, Massive
+- Ganophyllite?
+Pale brown, Acicular/Radial
+- Crysocolla
+Green, Powder
+- Piemontite
+Reddish-purple, Granular
+Particularly if your career work was all labor and drudgery, a fun retirement job may bring you a measure of enjoyment and satisfaction that you didn’t think was possible. Try sticking with this job, get cross trained and promoted with raises. But things have changed and many companies have begun to shy away from office parties. Whether you have to work, want to supplement your income, or just hope to stay active in retirement, part-time work can be the answer. Teachers should be prepared to work after retiring from teaching. Know how to handle inappropriate and illegal interview questions. I hope you will finally do the traveling you have been talking about, and that you will also write that book. According to … According to … Large Paper Mache Sculpture Instead of hauling away newspaper to the recycling depot I've decided to keep it for something constructive. Many retirees seek out work for supplemental income, to keep them mentally and physically active or both. 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How to Live a Purposeful Life After Retirement. CafePress brings your passions to life with the perfect item for every occasion. For others, however, a retirement. Think about jobs you can get that are related to your hobbies or childhood dreams. Search form Most people who continue working after retirement age don't stay on in their the resources include Retirement Jobs, Senior Job. Acquiring the best credentials is especially important here because you are, after all, an. One can search for jobs, read career advice from Monster's job experts, and find. Whatever your motivation for working after retirement, here are five great part-time jobs to consider. Their answers were amazing and showed just how creative our generation has become when it comes to supplementing our income in the best years of our lives. Pay ranges, which vary based on experience and where you live, are derived from the U. She was a trained lab tech when we met thirty some years ago and was fortunate to land a job at the local medical center as a phlebotomist. As you progress down the list the blogs move to the intermediate, then beginner level. If you know a special lady about to embark on her retirement journey, peruse our vast collection of retirement gifts for her. Many educators, however, choose to continue working after. If You Want to Retire Early. The calculator results will provide a chart that compares your projected savings with your retirement goal. Kobe Bryant on Life After Lakers Retirement and Baby Plans. How to Stay Busy During Retirement. As for you, start working on the resume now. It's a major milestone in anyone's life: retirement. Being retired does not mean you have to surrender your income capabilities. But one specific job, as a Sex Columnist who specializes in getting high, and then having sex while intoxicated, may just win the blue ribbon for best job of all timeif you are into that kind. Affordable and search from millions of royalty free images, photos and vectors. Step by Step: What to Write in a Retirement Card. com Skip to Job Postings , Search Close. Whether you are looking to reenter the workforce as a government employee, or you are exploring options for new experiences in this realm, government jobs for retirees are readily available. Funny Retirement Quotes. Check out the local govt jobs for a very valuable pension, these are usually vested after 10 years. Women over sixty are redefining the concept of "retirement. Now let's take a look at a few humorous retirement verses. By Andrew Soergel , Senior Reporter March 23, 2015. We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former police officers to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field of pure police work. Even though companies may be reluctant to invest in training older workers, having retirees return to work and bring their years of experience to the. Government job websites can help you start on a path to rewarding employment after retirement. I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did. Many educators, however, choose to continue working after. There are plenty of reasons a job, especially part-time, flexible, and perhaps remote work, can start to look good to a retiree. Retirement speeches can be tricky, there is no doubt about it. Retire Happy. Tax-return preparer. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey, two in three workers reported. Music played should also convey the mood of the retirement party: slower songs for more. Fun Jobs For Retirees So you have put your time in, ready to retire or already have, but miss the social interactions that come with work and wouldn't mind have some extra cash coming in. Your retirement years should be filled with leisure and other personal pursuits, at least that is the thinking people have believed and have long embraced. Statement from PSERS Executive Director Glen Grell on Governor Wolf signing the 2019/2020 Budget 'Pushing Back': PSERS executive director's Caucus interview responds to critics PSERS Board of Trustees adopts new defined contribution retirement plan. Synonyms for retirement at Thesaurus. May 03, 2014 · The title of their article is "44 Fun Jobs That Pay Well. Turn your love for animals into a part-time job that is not only fun, jobs after retirement. Retirement is our reward after decades of hard work. Depending on where you live, jobs for retirees and older workers aren't necessarily easy to spot. The amount of money in a member's account that is not subject to taxation during retirement is derived from contributions received prior to July 1, 1986. Bancorp provides investing and retirement planning for all stages of life and to suit every financial goal. My biggest surprise since leaving my day job is realizing how much less I need to be happy by about 30% – 50%. Keep an open mind and think about what you could do, rather than what you did in the past. The benefits available depends on how long you were working for, your National Insurance Contributions (NICs), how you left your job and household circumstances. See more ideas about Happy retirement cards, Funny retirement cards and Fun retirement gifts. She shares tips for getting to your retirement goal at her blog and has contributed this post about how to make it happen even in a high-cost city like New York City (my own favorite city, as most of you know). Having a part-time job after retirement is will not stop you from enjoying. It is largely related to the experiences and emotions, and some people even shed tears while delivering the speech. Their answers were amazing and showed just how creative our generation has become when it comes to supplementing our income in the best years of our lives. Find ideas for everything from themes to decorations to gifts and more. I think partly because the pay was very good and it's very promising. If you want to argue that it doesn't pay well however, feel free. Permanently leaving your job is retirement. The skills and training gained in the military provide a solid base for those seeking long-term. Seniors can earn money from these retirement jobs without leaving the house. Ride-hailing driver. Whatever your motivation for working after retirement, here are five great part-time jobs to consider. You want to have an enjoyable life after working all those years. Funny retirement poems can be hilarious. Here are five. Craig Stephens June 20, 2019. But be proactive!. You will also earn vacation and sick leave, and may be able to create a flexible schedule that fits the demands of your life. At age 65, many teachers can retire with full pension benefits. Perfect Jobs for Retired Teachers. So, today, I’d like to share 60 creative ways that we. Need some funny retirement quotes for a retirement party speech, a homemade retirement card, retirement posters or banners, or even on the cake? You've come to the right place! I've also got oodles of retirement gifts here, from Amazon easy peasy to get great ideas for your new retiree!. Retirement. Fun Jobs After Retirement: If you're retired, it's now more important than ever to do what makes you happy. Of course, we all have plans and projects that we have put off before retirement, and they will keep us busy for a while. Whether it's additional income, mental stimulation, or social interaction you're after, there are plenty of ways to rewire after you retire. The goodbye letter for work below can be used by teachers who intend to retire at the end of a term or semester. Many retirees seek out work for supplemental income, to keep them mentally and physically active or both. Bryan Adams is shining his light on Canada this summer. (Name of Retiree) has been with (name of company) for (20) years. Shatkin compared average salaries.
+How Huda, Mona, And Alya Kattan Built The Billion-Dollar Huda Beauty Brand Out Of Dubai
+The Kattan sisters on building the Huda Beauty megabrand out of Dubai (and no, they aren't done with their ambitions just yet)
+In person, Huda Kattan, the driving force behind one of today’s fastest-growing beauty brands, Huda Beauty, radiates steely self-assurance. Not that I have expected anything different from a woman who is currently ranked 36 on Forbes’ list of “America’s Richest Self-Made Women.” Sitting beside me at the brand’s headquarters in Dubai, she looks as striking as seen on the front cover of this issue- the abundant curls of black hair frame her flawless face, complete with immaculate makeup, and she is dressed for not just any but exactly the type of success she wants in a sequined power suit. And, during the interview, she wants to broach the topic I least expect. “When you hit a certain level of success, you realize that it can cause some really serious issues to come up,” Huda says. “And if you don’t find the right way to deal with it, it could make you very depressed, very purposeless. It’s scary.”
+Up until now, Huda has used a makeup brush as an empowerment tool to guide women on how to paint their own stories of betterment on their own faces. Over almost a decade, her brainchild Huda Beauty has grown from a blog to a beauty brand that now offers 213 products across five categories (complexion, lips, eyes, body, and tools), the newly-launched sub-brand Kayali, a fragrance line developed by her sister Mona Kattan, while an arsenal of the brand’s skincare products is also in the works. However, what makes the story of Huda Beauty extraordinary is that Huda is now willing to take all those layers of makeup off, confront her insecurities, and learn how to feel truly confident inside- while sharing it all with her 40 million and more followers, of course. “A lot of issues from my childhood were driving me, and I had no idea,” she says, adding that she has been working with a life coach over the last couple of years. “I never felt like I belonged in society, I never felt really comfortable in my own skin, and there are literally billions of people who feel like that. However, I never understood that it was the thing that gave me my drive, that I always wanted to prove that I was good enough.”
+Related: Huda Beauty's Huda and Mona Kattan Share Tips For 'Treps At SharjahEF 2018
+A turning point for Huda (and Huda Beauty) happened in 2017 when the Kattan family agreed to sell a small stake in the business to TSG Consumer Partners, a San Francisco headquartered private equity firm focused exclusively on the branded consumer sector. It was a positive change that hard work and perseverance had brought to Huda Kattan, but surprisingly, it also uncovered that, in her mind, she was partially still a person she used to be: an American-born daughter of Iraqi immigrants exposed to daily bullying due to her ethnicity. “Getting our investment meant that we were now good enough, and it made me question to whom I was trying to prove it. I actually went through a lot of getting to know myself after that happened. It’s crazy, because you think it’s the best thing that could ever happen, but I’ve heard it from so many of our friends, and it is that after they get these crazy valuations and crazy investments, they hit rock bottom, because all of a sudden, they realize that they have been doing everything for society, and never for themselves. And then, they have to question themselves, like, ‘Why do I actually care?,’ and that is such a hard conversation to have with yourself.”
+Huda Kattan, founder of Huda Beauty.
+Source: Entrepreneur Middle East
+In opening up on this topic, Huda proves that she is a part of the millennial generation that is prioritizing purpose over profits- according to Deloitte’s 2018 Millennial Survey, 80% of millennials believe businesses should make a positive impact on society and the environment. On her part, Huda is eager to inspire an honest dialogue around different self-confidence related personal challenges. “They [millennials] want to buy from brands that are sustainable because they want to be a part of the companies that are doing something good for this world. I think that there will be an even bigger shift in the world, and people will need to be vulnerable enough to be able to expose their imperfections in a way that can be very challenging,” she says. “It’s really hard to actually say, ‘I don’t love myself enough,’ but it’s such an important conversation to have, because you can only get over those things when you start talking about them. People see me from the outside, all this hair and makeup and our glamour team that does all this stuff, and think I cannot not feel self-love, but I do, and I see it in other people. It’s like a wound that they carry with themselves.”
+Her wound, which she now describes as the ugly child syndrome, inspired her passion for cosmetics, turned her into an expert on beauty products, and became the main pillar of her brand. “The heartbeat of the company is definitely that transformational idea, the idea that you can transform, and be beautiful. The vision of the company is definitely to allow people to understand their capabilities, and how far they can go.”
+With us are Huda’s sisters, Mona and Alya Kattan, who both have stakes and executive positions in the company- Global President, and Chief Instagram Officer, respectively. Spending an hour with the three Kattan sisters, all three of whom come across as kind, thoughtful, and sincere, it is evident that the family support has been crucial for the Huda Beauty brand to grow in its influence and ubiquity at such a fast pace. To give you an example: when Huda says that her first few video tutorials “were not done very well,” the soft-spoken Mona jumps in saying, “Not very well, but you did it.” Instantly, the ever-supportive Alya, who is the eldest among them, adds, “Huda knows how to do everything, you know, even to edit her videos, so she was blogging, shooting, editing, really doing everything. People don’t realize how much work it was. We would see her sleeping with her laptop in her lap. And today, she always makes products for herself first, and she will consumerize them afterward only if they are good enough.”
+The Huda Beauty blog launched in 2010, and in a region where people don’t shy away from spending on cosmetics and personal care products- according to Euro monitor International, consumers in the UAE are forecast to spend US$294 per capita on cosmetics and personal care by 2020. However, a makeup artist at the time, Huda only intuited the opportunities her blog might offer. “All the makeup artists I was working with were telling me, ‘You’re so stupid, you’re giving away your tips, nobody is going to book you,’ and I did not really understand the value of it until much later,” Huda recalls. “I got pregnant, and could not take as many makeup jobs, but then a Sheikha from Abu Dhabi called me and was willing to pay for what I would normally charge for a week, and it was then that I realized that there was something in it, in my blog. All of a sudden, and very quickly, I was elevated, and people saw me as somebody who knew something. From then on, it did take some time for the blog to become interesting globally, but I will say that I have been very diligent and very focused.”
+L-R: Alya, Huda, and Mona Kattan.
+Source: Entrepreneur Middle East
+Mona adds that another reason for the blog gaining a huge amount of traction and credibility is in Huda being vehemently against advertising from day one until today. Indeed, Hopper, an Instagram scheduling tool, recently revealed that Huda Kattan topped Instagram's 2019 Rich List in the beauty category, with the ability to charge $91,300 (Dh335,344) for a sponsored post on the photo-sharing app- if she wanted to, of course. “I was in PR at the time, and people were chasing me asking what Huda’s rate was, and what they could do to get her to review their company,” Mona recalls. “And I was like, ‘You need to have a good product.’ She was super authentic and genuine, and she really cared.” Huda adds, “It was weird, because, at the time, bloggers were like, ‘We’ll go to events across the world, and we will party and get free products.’ And I would be the only one sitting behind with a scientist.”
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+Huda’s particular work ethic has been instilled in the Huda Beauty brand as well, with Mona saying, “We really want to revolutionize the beauty industry itself, by giving the highest quality products to the consumer at a lower price, which will really disrupt the industry and will give more to the consumer. Huda has always been really firm about giving back, and I think we have made other brands think about that as well.” Huda can go deep on all of her products, but we start with the very first one- a series of false eyelashes whose release in February 2013 by beauty retailer Sephora at Dubai Mall marked the launch of the Huda Beauty cosmetics line.
+A year before, in 2012, Huda took her beauty tips to YouTube and Instagram, which, in addition to her blog, were the only marketing channels used to promote her first product. Sephora Dubai Mall expected to sell roughly 7,000 units of the lashes in a year, after comparing them with other brands in the lash category. Instead, what happened was, the 7,000 units were sold in a week. “They told us that we were a no-name, but we blew the numbers, we blew the established brands, and on the first day only, I think, we sold 2,000 lashes,” Huda says. “There were not many press who featured us back then, they were all like, ‘You’re a blogger,’ because, at the time, no one knew what bloggers would become. It was a weird time for us, to be honest, because it was one of the very first times that an influencer was releasing a product, but Sephora MENA had a great General Manager who was like, ‘Let’s do it,’ but then Sephora US said no, Sephora Europe ignored us, and they kept on saying no for years, which is crazy, because now we are like the number two brand in Sephora Europe.”
+Building a beauty brand from scratch with only four people -the three sisters and Huda’s assistant- and without proper infrastructure was a challenging endeavor, Huda recalls. “The distributor we were working with was really taking advantage of the fact that we were a small company,” she says. “They were not paying us the right way, they were not ordering right quantities, so we were always out of stock, and we were literally dying as a brand, because of our distributor. I want to say this to all young businesses, because, in the beginning, it is really challenging, because you have no other choice. Those were the two most challenging years of my life, because you didn’t know whether you’ll survive. You know that you have an amazing product, but you don’t know whether you are going to be able to continue. When we finally managed to save enough money, my husband joined us, and we were able to get rid of our distributor.”
+In 2015, Christopher Goncalo, Huda’s husband, joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer, and he created a proper distribution channel that enabled the company to finally fund their cosmetics. A year later, the company launched the Huda Beauty makeup line; however, it brought Huda face-to-face with one more of her self-limiting beliefs. “For the longest time, we were holding ourselves back, because we said, ‘We are in Dubai, so we can’t be competing against the biggest bloggers and the biggest companies in the US.’ But I feel that that shifted in 2016, when I was like, ‘Wait, why can’t we be the biggest in the world?’ As soon as that shift happened in the brain, that’s when the things changed outside as well.”
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+Since then, the company has experienced an astonishing level of growth only over the last two years, the Huda Beauty global in-store distribution has grown by roughly 18 times. The team has grown exponentially too, according to the company, in December 2017, it had 115 employees globally, and that figure has doubled now. While 2017 was marked by them bringing private equity on board, 2018 was marked by the company’s global expansion, with Huda Beauty opening its first offices in the US and UK. However, Huda says she is only getting started. “Originally, my goal was to become number one blogger in the Middle East, but before you even reach a goal, you don’t even realize that you have a new goal,” she says. “You don’t even take a minute to think that you’ve reached it, because you’ve already moved on to the next goal. And so now, I still feel that we are at the beginning of doing things. There are some very influential companies in the world, like Apple, Google, Amazon, and to me, that is where I want us to be. So, I think that we still have so much work to do, and I don’t think that we are anywhere close to it.”
+In 2018, the Kattan sisters also launched into the fragrance category. A passion of Mona, the company released a collection of four scents (Elixir, Citrus, Musk, and Vanilla) under the brand name Kayali (meaning “my imagination" in Arabic), priced from $85 to $118. The four fragrances are designed to introduce the rich heritage of fragrance layering of the Middle East to the West. “When I got my first job at 14, I spent money on fragrances, and during my whole time at university, I used to do side jobs, promoting or modeling, and all my money was spent on expensive perfumes, so I have this attachment to fragrance, because it makes me feel good,” Mona explains. “That confidence that Huda feels through beauty, I feel through fragrance. It instantly changes my mood. It’s so strong and powerful what it does to your brain, it can ignite memories and emotions.”
+L-R: Alya, Huda, and Mona Kattan.
+Source: Entrepreneur Middle East
+Recently, the Kattan family has also set up a family office, Huda Beauty Investments, which includes an early investment fund for women starting consumer-facing brands. “In the Middle East, for the longest time, women were expected to be completely reliant on their husbands, but there is a shift happening, and I do want Middle Eastern women, Arab women, Muslim women, to feel empowered to do things, to support their families, but also to understand that their success does not change things in the house, which is the scary part,” Huda says. “My husband is still the king of my castle, and at home, I am a very different person than I am in the office. When needed, I was the king of the castle, because protecting the home is important, but it took me a long time to realize that being an alpha female was not what I needed to be. Actually, I lead with my feminine energy, but, at the same time, I can be very firm and very tough. So, I feel that we are kind of re-learning what it means to be a woman right now, and I think that the Middle East will benefit from that.” Having spent a morning with these three women who have built a brand valued at over $1 billion, one thing is clear to me: the Kattan sisters do not waste their gifts, even if they come in the form of their deepest wounds- and neither should you.
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+Written By
+Tamara Pupic
+Tamara Pupic is the Managing Editor of Entrepreneur Middle East.
+The title of senator always seems fittingly associated with the name of James Arkell, Canajoharie's most eminent citizen. Although Mr. Arkell served only one term as a legislator, in the senate of the state of New York, yet the name seems naturally to suggest and exemplify his public-spirited and progressive character.
+The unusual business ability and broad vision of Senator Arkell are largely responsible for the material prosperity and spiritual vitality of the famous little town of Canajoharie, which he may be truly said to have made nationally famous. Indeed, so closely are Senator Arkell and Canajoharie associated that one cannot visualize this model, progressive American industrial community without calling to mind the sturdy figure and the keen and kindly personality of the town's most noted citizen. James Arkell came of an ancient English family. He was born in Oxford, England, October 16, 1829. His parents were William and Mary Arkell, who came to America, in 1841, and located on a farm to the east of Canajoharie village, now known as the Arkell farm.
+James Arkell was educated in the Canajoharie school and academy. On leaving school, at first he went into the insurance business and later took up farming. At an early day Mr. Arkell developed marked literary ability. While working on his farm James Arkell was a frequent contributor to the Canajoharie Radii, then conducted by Levi Backus, a well known deaf-mute. In 1863 James Arkell and L. F. Allen bought the Radii from Mr. Backus. In 1866 Mr. Arkell sold his interest to Angell Matthewson, and in 1868 the latter sold out to Mr. Allen, who continued to conduct the newspaper until his death.
+Senator Arkell was the father of the paper sack industry. In 1859 he became interested in the manufacture and printing of flour bags. Adam and Benjamin Smith, dry goods merchants of Canajoharie, became associated with Mr. Arkell in this business, under the firm name of Arkell & Smiths. In 1859 James Arkell printed his first bags on a hand press in the Radii printing office, then located in the stone building which stood in front of the main building of the Beech-Nut Packing Company up to 1924. In the latter year this building was taken down and its stone used in constructing the Canajoharie Library James Arkell Memorial building, erected by his son, Bartlett Arkell. This transformation of the materials of the old building, in which Senator Arkell started business, into a structure largely devoted to intellectual and spiritual aims, is symbolic of the spirit of the man who aided in developing the spiritual life of his community through the means of successful business enterprises.
+When the Civil war came the supply of cotton ceased and the price of cotton cloth rose to a point far beyond any possibility of its use in the manufacture of bags. The new firm was sorely pressed for a time, but Mr. William Arkell, father of James Arkell, came to the aid of the young business men. Fortunate purchases of cotton put the company on a solid financial basis. However, it became necessary to find a substitute for the standard cotton bag, and the natural inventive genius of James Arkell soon asserted itself. He experimented until he had perfected a manila paper sack which had both the strength and the durability of the best cotton bag. At first Mr. Arkell had great difficulty in introducing the paper sack to the trade, but his untiring energy, determination and business ability soon made his product a commercial success. As the result of his experiments and inventive ability, Senator Arkell was granted thirty-two patents for the manufacture of paper bags. Among his inventions were the satchel paper bag, which dates from 1865, the soft tie bag, the white enamel bag, and the stretchable bag. Most of the bag making processes and machinery, such as the bottom and side pasters and the enameling machine, were the outcome of Mr. Arkell's very remarkable inventive ability.
+Arkell & Smiths built a large factory on Mill street and the firm became the leaders in the manufacture and printing of paper and cotton bags. At first these sacks were printed in one color from type, but the demand for variety and the use of trade-mark designs soon compelled the company to produce multi-colored printed bags in a great variety of styles and designs. The printing equipment was greatly increased and a designing, engraving and electrotyping department was installed.
+In 1873 an explosion of gas wrecked a part of the factory, set fire to the plant and completely destroyed it. One employe was killed and several were severely injured. Senator Arkell's son, William J. Arkell, was so badly burned that his condition was critical for a considerable time. His brave fight for life and eventual recovery are part of the cherished traditions of Canajoharie. The ruin of the plant was so complete that, for a time, Senator Arkell considered removing the business to Niagara Falls, which was much nearer to the plants of the milling industry which then included most of the customers of Arkell & Smiths. Mrs. Arkell's pleas for a continuance of the business in Canajoharie finally prevailed, and a larger and more modern factory was erected on the site. Many additions and improvements have been made to this plant, and today Arkell & Smiths have the finest sack making and printing works in the world.
+While Senator Arkell was not directly interested in the formation of the Beech-Nut Packing Company, it may be truly said to be an outcome of the general business development of Canajoharie which he inaugurated.
+Senator Arkell took a prominent part in the political, public and social life of his day. He was an active member of the republican party and occupied a prominent position in the councils of the progressive element of that political organization. Senator Arkell seconded his son, William J. Arkell, in his several publishing enterprises, which included the Albany Evening Journal, Judge and Leslie's Weekly. The interesting little figure of the "Judge" conferring with the wise old owl, which was the trade-mark of that famous humorous weekly, was a kindly caricature of Senator Arkell's face and figure. Through the nation-wide circulation of that periodical, the Senator's features probably became more widely known than those of any other man in America.
+Senator Arkell was widely read and thoroughly informed on questions of American life, politics and finance. He was a ready and forceful writer and contributed a number of articles to Leslie's Weekly. He suggested many of the famous political cartoons that appeared in Judge, which were the product of the pencil of his son-in-law, Bernhard Gillam. Senator Arkell's ready wit and his native rock-bottom philosophy made him in great demand as a speaker. While his speeches were frequently punctuated with humorous stories and good-natured fun, yet he could be eloquent and powerful in his addresses as the occasion demanded.
+In 1883 James Arkell was elected senator from the eighteenth senatorial district, in which office he made a brilliant record. He was in touch with many of the foremost men of his day. President Grant and President Harrison were both his personal friends. Mr. Arkell was a leading spirit in the construction of the Mount McGregor railroad. When the great Union commander was stricken with his mortal illness, Senator Arkell invited him to his summer home atop Mount McGregor. On this summit, overlooking the vast Adirondack wilderness, General Grant wrote the last of his biography and subsequently passed away.
+Senator Arkell traveled widely, had an extended acquaintance and numbered the most noted men of America among his friends. Nevertheless, his dearest connections lay in the Mohawk valley and in his own home town of Canajoharie. Its interests were his interests, its welfare was his welfare, and he worked unceasingly to make it a fine town in which to live — and to learn. Senator Arkell was always an ardent worker for the cause of education. As the editor of the Canajoharie Radii he was one of the strongest advocates of our present public school system, which was only put into effect in the closing year of his editorship — 1866. For many years James Arkell was a school trustee and labored unremittingly for the advancement of the educational interests of Canajoharie. He was largely instrumental in the construction of the present handsome stone school building.
+Senator Arkell had a marked aesthetic side to his nature. In 1877 the once famous Tile Club of New York made a tour of the Erie canal in a canal-boat, sketching and making merry on the way. They were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. James Arkell at Canajoharie, and their stay there had later unusual artistic results. Among the noted artists who navigated the old Erie was Edward Gay, the famous American landscape painter. He returned to paint scenes in the picturesque valley of the Mohawk at Canajoharie. One of these is the large painting of Canajoharie Falls which adorns the lobby of the Hotel Wagner at Canajoharie. Another notable canvas is entitled "Farm Slopes of the Mohawk Valley". It is now the property of Mr. Bartlett Arkell and hangs in his New York city home. This perfect masterpiece is the finest and most characteristic Mohawk valley landscape ever painted. Mrs. James Arkell selected the viewpoint, to the east of the village, from which this beautiful picture was made. Its middle foreground depicts the fields of the Arkell homestead farm.
+In 1888 Senator and Mrs. Arkell built their beautiful stone home of East Hill in Canajoharie. Mrs. Arkell selected many of the boulders from which the stones of the walls were cut, from the fields about the village. This is now the attractive home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Barbour. With its picturesque grounds it forms one of the beauty spots of the Mohawk valley.
+James Arkell married Sarah Hall Bartlett, July 23, 1853. Mrs. Arkell was born September 18, 1835. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Bartlett and Elizabeth (Philip) Bartlett of Massachusetts, and the granddaughter of Joshua and Sarah Bartlett of Blanford, Massachusetts. Mrs. James Arkell's mother, Elizabeth Philip Bartlett, was the daughter of William Philip and Elizabeth Ostrander.
+Mrs. James Arkell was always the helpful companion of her husband, in both his business and public life. She was devoted to the interests of Canajoharie and was an ardent member of the Reformed church and prominently identified with all its activities. Her dearest interests were in her home, which she beautified materially as a natural homemaker and spiritually as a loving wife and mother. Senator Arkell always maintained that he owed much of his success to the sympathetic support and counsel of Sarah Hall Arkell. The children of James Arkell and Sarah Hall (Bartlett) Arkell are: William James, Bartlett, Mary F. (Mrs. Edward B. Burnap), Laura (Mrs. J. C. Ilse), and Burtelle (Mrs. F. E. Barbour).
+James Arkell died in Canajoharie, on August 12, 1902, aged seventy-two years. Sarah Hall Arkell, his wife, died in Canajoharie, on February 28, 1911. Together, these two comrades, who served Canajoharie so faithfully in both material and spiritual ways, lie side by side in the beautiful Canajoharie Falls cemetery, overlooking the village which was the scene of their mutual life, labors and happiness.
+UNIT 8NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
+Natural Environment and Human Development • In general, people much prefer to look at a nature scenes than urban scenes • Nature is even more important to people today than it was in ancient days because people go to nature to be restored and refreshed. E.g., “to recharge my batteries”
+People can experience these in natural setting Cognitive freedom Freedom to pay attention to whatever we like and to do what we choose to do, when we choose to do it Escape The chance to be relatively free from the rules and constraints of society Experience nature • We go to nature for reasons other than to escape everyday life Growth People seek growth when they are in the great outdoors, which is an opportunity to develop themselves & to learn what the natural environment has to teach them (skills, knowledge of the woods, self-knowledge, self-actualization, or in one’s spiritual domain)
+Ecosystem connectedness To sense ecosystem connectedness, the awareness that we are part of the immensity of nature and the cosmos Challenge Adrenaline experience the excitement that emerges in potentially dangerous situation such as rock climbing, white-water rafting, etc Guidance When the challenge involves responsibility for others (such as being a leader) Social Being in nature with your family or friends Health Nature improves mental and physical health Self-Control Nature can provide a therapeutic experience by giving its visitors a chance to exert self-control
+How does nature restore us ? • The affective-arousal approach • (nature’s benefits) • Culture • Mental fatigue approach • (Rachel & Stephan Kaplan) • The Evolutionary/ bio-philia approach • (Roger Ulrich et al.)
+How does nature restore us ? • The Affective-Arousal approach(nature’s benefits) • derive from the positive emotions it elicits in us & that any calm, peaceful setting will have similar benefits. • Culture as the main factor • we learn through our family & culture to love nature & to dislike cities nature’s benefits result more from being in a loved place than from nature’s inherent qualities
+How does nature restore us ? 3. Mental fatigue approach (Rachel & Stephan Kaplan) • believes that nature is inherently fascinating it compels our involuntary attention nature itself is the cause of nature’s restorative abilities. • Nature provides a setting for non-taxing involuntary attention & we are gradually refreshed by being there. 4. Evolutionary/ biophilia approach (Roger Ulrich et al.) • Genetically, humans are much more adapted to natural than built settings human have evolved for two or three million years in natural environments
+ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
+ENVIRONMENTALHAZARD • Environmental hazards large magnitude events • Natural Hazard • Technological Hazards
+Natural Hazards • Often unpredictable & allow little or no preparation, that cause death or injury to many people, destroy much property, and disrupt many social and economic activities. • Examples: • Flood, fire, storm, earthquake, heat or cold wave, etc.
+Technological Hazards • Technological hazards result from human works • Examples: Nuclear plant accidents, radio active or chemical spills and see pages, nuclear bombs, falling space debris, large explosions, floods due to broken dams, etc
+Supportive Hospitals • Hospitals should be psychologically supportive. To the extent that architecture can facilitate healing • The building should not cause patients any further stress than they already must face. For example, it should not :- • Be crowded or noisy, • Be difficult to find one’s way, • spread noxious air, • have bad lighting, etc. • It should provide exposure to physical features of the environment that reduce stress
+What is Management? • Managing refers to: • The rate and quality of an individual’s use of natural resources, including manufactured products made from natural resources. • The rate of this process is also quantifiable
+Aspects to consider in Resource management • What available resources do we have? • How much do we need to utilize:- • In terms of quantity • In terms of quality • Who will be doing the managing?
+Who will be doing the managing • At Macro level /societal level • Much environmental management is done by the governments, corporations, and other organizations • At the microlevel • Environmental psychologists are more interested in the resource management behavior of individuals and small groups resource management
+As a manager • We monitor our personal use of resources • Observe the effects that our usage has on the environment • Are aware of the usage patterns of other individuals
+Resource Management as a common/social dilemma • Self-Interest versus the Public Interest • The defining characteristics of a social dilemma are: (1) each participant receives more (or is penalized less) for a self-interest choice than for a public-interest choice (2) the participants as a group benefit more if they all choose to act in the public interest than if they all choose to act in self-interest • In some social dilemmas, frequent defections result in the destruction of the resource
+What influences public-interest resource management? 1. The resource Is it important to the participants? Is it nearly depleted or relatively plentiful? • Three characteristics of the resource:- • As the importance or value of the resource increases, the rate of cooperation decreases • Abundance resources mean there is no dilemma • Resource certainty is a factor in cooperation 2. The participants as individuals • Are they old or young? Experienced or not? Do they hold cooperative values or not?
+What influences public-interest resource management? (con’t) 3. The participants as group members • How many are there? Do they trust or know each other? Are they friends or strangers? 4. Structure of the dilemma • What are relatively payoffs for cooperation and defection? May the participants communicate with one another? Are their choices made public? Are they told something about the nature of social dilemmas or left to their own ability to understand? Is there a leader or not?
+Theories of Social Dilemma • Biosocial Theories 2. Tragic-Choice Theory • Social-Trap & Reinforcement Theories (John Platt’s) 4. Limited Processing Theory 5. Structural/Goal Expectation Theory 6. Three-Motive Theory
+Theories of Social Dilemma • Biosocial Theories • behavior in the commons is largely a function of the genetic or biological makeup of humans
+Theories of Social Dilemma • Tragic-Choice Theory • Inequality & the resulting scarcity & suffering is natural and impossible to change • Scarcity originates in a first-order determination a conscious decision not to produce as much as could be produced. • The decisions to create scarcity are followed by second-order determinations how to distribute the insufficient supply of goods
+Theories of Social Dilemma • Social-Trap & Reinforcement Theories (John Platt’s) • Based on reinforcement Many of us reward ourselves too immediately • E.g., if you are holding a fast-food package and do not see a trash can nearby, it is immediately rewarding to litter (your hands are free of a burden) when you or others repeatedly litter, the whole area eventually is visually ruined by litter.
+Theories of Social Dilemma • Limited Processing Theory • In many situations Individuals do not behave in a rational manner. • There are two basic modes of nonrationality: • People sometimes simply do not pay much attention to what they are doing. • People may act non-rationally even when they understand or aware.
+Theories of Social Dilemma 5. Structural/Goal Expectation Theory • Certain set of conditions is required for cooperation to occur
+Theories of Social Dilemma • Three-Motive Theory • Decision made are based on three motives • self-interest • the desire to act responsibly • and conformity
+Air Pollution Myths about Air Pollution • Air pollution is a big-city problem • Air pollution is a relatively new problem • Air pollution is an outdoor phenomenon • Air pollution may affect health but not behavior • Air pollution is caused by factories, not people • Incineration destroys toxins
+Effect of Air Pollutions on: • Behavior • Cognitive performance
+Effect of Air Pollutions on: Behavior • Common air pollutants affect the range of our behavior, basic psychological processes, and, perhaps, attraction, aggression & schizophrenia.
+Effect of Air Pollutions on: Cognitive performance • The excessive levels of carbon monoxide negatively affect such basic cognitive activities as reaction time and arithmetic ability
+Why public outcries against air pollution have not been louder? • For e.g., in preparation for the 1984 Olympics, Los Angeles tried to implement strict controls in an attempt to improve its Smog City image. But why did it take an event such as the Olympics for the city to implement the controls? There are two general answers: • ADAPTATION • PERCEIVED COSTS.
+Reason why outcrys against air pollution often put on hold? There are two general reasons: • ADAPTATION • Myth --> Human can get use to any situation • Actually, because air pollution increases gradually, so it allows time for our eyes to get use to the situation. • PERCEIVED COSTS • Too expensive
+There are two forms of resource recovery: • Recycling • occurs when waste material is reuse for its original purpose e.g: Recycle plastic bag, aluminium can • Reclamation • occurs when the waste material is processed to create a different product
+How to encourage recycling? • Educate, Prompt & Reward • Increasing awareness through speeches • Personal communication • Pamphlets • Remind people to recycle with signs and labeled receptacles works • Positive reinforcement works • Block leaders to locate individuals on each block who might encourage their neighbors to recycle • Commitment and Feedback: asking people to make a commitment to recycle & giving posted feedback once per month about the actual amount they had recycled • Laws Integrated approaches
+Factors that play important roles in recycling • How much awareness and information people have about recycling. • Who the potential recycler is, in demographic terms • How convenient recycling is • The economic payoff • Attitudes toward recycling • Local norms about recycling • The operating policies of the recycling agency
+GROUP TASK 1. Setiap group harus bertindak sebagai Resource Manager; • Di peringkat makro • Di peringkat mikro. • Fikirkan/pilih satu tajuk (aspek) berhubung dengan alam sekitar yang kumpulan anda ingin selesaikan. Fikirkan apakah langkah-langkah yang anda perlu lakukan untuk memperbaiki keadaan tersebut. 2. Setiap kumpulan harus membawa dua jenis barang yang telah melalui proses recycling dan reclaimation
+Games Inbox: Real gamers, Hot Pursuit demo vs. game, and Half-Life 2’s dialogue
+The evening Inbox has its own try at predicting gaming in the year 2017, as it also tries to decide on a description for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. To add your own comments simply email us at
+gamecentral@ukmetro.co.uk.
+Real gamersBelated response I know, but regarding an Inbox message posted Talking Down posted by Ben, I’d say my contempt for the advertising of not just Kinect but also Move and most Wii and Nintendo DS related advertisements is based simply on the image that it presents.I want to be truthful here because I am a gaming snob and unapologetically so too. Not that long ago I was very keen on video games becoming more accepted in the mainstream, but in retrospect I regret my initial desires. Not so much because I don’t want people to play games; in fact, I wanted people to experience the likes of Ico and games of that ilk.But what occurred was not just mainstream games being disturbingly dumbed down (which has had an effect on traditional gamers such as myself by jeopardising the number of ‘proper’ games being made in the future (at least to a certain degree anyway)), but an image of gaming that is both superficial and generally untrue. What I mean is if you look at Kinect, Move, (most) DS and Wii adverts it features pseudo-happy families and aspirational student types playing games in sterile, soulless modern homes and accommodation all looking in the pristine condition of health without a care in the world (this is the realm of the upper middle class and it’s an abomination).And add in the celebrity endorsed ones which plays to the obsession with being famous (whether one has ‘talent’ or not, it doesn’t seem to matter now a ‘days), I’ve decided the ‘image’ of mainstream gaming is a major turn-off.Watch the adverts and they show the people more than games. I know that’s the whole point, but I despair that people want to be part of such a superficially corporate-created image. Secluded geeks may not be very palatable an image, but as far as I’m concerned it’s at least a more ‘honest’ image than what I see advertised today. Steve Martin Don’t believe your eyesI downloaded the demo of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit and really didn’t like it, however after reading some reviews I bought it on launch day. Can I just say it’s one of my favourite games of the year, it is so much fun my contacts actually dried out at one point because of watching the action so much and staying wide-eyed. Loads of fun, cars look great, and how much fun is it either chasing some cars or working out how to avoid the cops? Just great, easily 9 out of 10.sritony (gamertag)I’ve got to eat my words, I wrote into you saying how disappointed I was with the Need For Speed demo, Well, I’ve now played the full game and it’s fantastic, one of the best racing games I’ve played in a while. Just goes to show you can’t always go by a demo.robbie.jA while ago I wrote into Inbox saying that Criterion/EA would have to up their game with the Burnout series or risk it looking tired and redundant in the wake of Split/Second: Velocity.And ya know what, they jolly well have upped their game alright. After the disappointing Burnout Paradise (for me anyway, which idiot thought it would be a good idea for you to have to drive to the start of an event or to the junkyard to change cars?) combining the speed and crashes of Burnuot with the exotic cars and police chases of Need For Speed was a fantastic idea.Autolog is fantastic too, constantly prodding you to up your game against your rivals, and online play is solid and a lot of fun. Better than Split/Second? Certainly and Criterion’s best and most focused racer since the mighty Burnout 2.Plankton1975 (PSN ID) Add me for Autolog antics!Odd one outI’m not feeling the love for Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit at the moment, but I will persevere with it and the online multiplayer may yet convince me otherwise. It’s not the first time that I’ve not been enjoying a game when the evidence is stacked against me to the contrary. Frustratingly, other examples like Fallout 3 spring to mind, and I rated Oblivion highly. I enjoyed Dead Rising, but quickly lost interest in the superior sequel. Assassin’s Creed disappointed me immensely, but the much improved sequel comes along and I quickly become tired of the formula – go figure. For that reason Brotherhood isn’t even a possibility at present.My dissatisfaction at some of these games just doesn’t make any sense. Maybe I need to play something completely different, or be forced to complete a truly dreadful game to give me a new appreciation. Up4Banter
+Catch up on every previous Games Inbox here
+The script’s the thingWith GC’s general low opinion of video game plots and dialogue, and while I don’t necessarily agree with your view, I was wondering what is in your opinion (and the opinion of fellow GCers) is the game or games with the best plot/scriptwriting so far? I personally love Half-Life 2 and the episodic content and think it beats the hell out of most movies I’ve seen.ArmandAJ (gamertag)GC:It depends what movies you’re comparing it to, but certainly Half-Life 2 and Portal are a high watermark for games dialogue, although the actual plots are still confused and vague. Anything by Tim Schafer (Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, etc.) always has excellent dialogue too. In fact many games often do quite well in terms of the script, it’s the plot and characters that really let the side down.Fixing the BBCTo fix the iPlayer on PlayStation 3 follow these four easy steps:1. Load up iPlayer.2. Press triangle and choose Tools.3. Delete the cookies and delete the cache.4. Refresh the page.Hey presto! All working again!Chris AyubGC:Readers melkorthevalor (PSN ID) and Twinsen also offered the same advice.The only constantsExcellent reader’s feature over the weekend, one of the best one’s I’ve read. I don’t know what gaming in 2017 is really going to be like, but who would beat against games like Call Of Duty, Mario and Final Fantasy still being around just like now?Craig BennettRE: This weekend’s reader’s feature If gaming has taught us anything, it is that in 2017 we will all be engrossed in a fight to save the Earth from being overrun by giant ants and spiders.RubiconBeginning of the end?I’m aware of the Red Ring of Death, but is it preceded by the Green Screen of no Halo 3? I have an original 20GB 360, second-hand from a trusted colleague. Other games appear unaffected, but Halo 3 either flatly refuses to load or the menu loads after a bright green screen, but no game can be accessed. The disc is flawless and has been playing fine for the last few weeks. An online search confirms that others have had this problem, but is inconclusive over how to fix it. I’d appreciate any advice from the readers, please. Can I take it to one of the many PC shops that advertise 360 repairs? Do I need a cooling fan? Is the game telling me to not wimp out and to restart on heroic or legendary?Gassi The CatVVVLTRFTW. Just over two weeks ago my original 60GB PlayStation 3 suffered the dreaded yellow flashing light of death. Sony kindly replaced it for free and sent me a refurbished model. Now this one has suffered the same fate, only this time with Black Ops inside which is now stuck. I’ll get a new console in a couple of days, Black Ops… six weeks! I’m off to a corner to cry now.harrymason (PSN ID)Explaining NuketownRegarding Nuketown, its popularity is probably to do with this .Regarding going to real life places in games. I went to Chunking Mansions in Hong Kong just to get that Shenmue II feel. It certainly was an assault on the senses. I didn’t tell my friend I was travelling with why I wanted to go there, just said it was to get some of the authenticate Hong Kong atmosphere. For some reason they refused to be handcuffed to me for a daring run through a dilapidated building, maybe next time.PowerFeeling (gametag)Semi-quelI completely agree with your review and only wish that more reviewers were as honest in their approach to reviewing as GameCentral, I won’t name any websites but most of the American websites (and some European websites) are clearly expressing a view that is not entirely their own. The only ‘outstanding’ or ‘masterful’ games I’ve played in 2010 have been Super Street Fighter IV, Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead Redemption.Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood while a decent game is definitely not a 10/10, personally I enjoyed my 15+ hours with it but one doesn’t have to look that far to see the clearly evident flaws all around. It’s exactly like you said GC, ‘nonsensical’ storytelling and I still don’t know exactly what to call it, is it a sequel or an expansion?! I don’t know if even Ubisoft themselves know the answer to that question.Monty835 (gamertag/PSN ID)Inbox also-ransI don’t know about this Call Of Duty Nuketown malarkey but I’m getting a bit bored of the Halo: Reach – Elite Slayer sword base level!Matt Lawton (gamertag)Looks like the new Trials HD downloadable content will be released on December 1st! This has been my favourite game of the generation so far and I must have clocked up at least 200 hours on it. Can’t wait!Milnec (gamertag)Vanquish only £17.95 at Zavvi… what a Christmas bargain!Birdmanrob (PSN ID)Really looking forward to your Gran Tursimo 5 review GC, although I guess it’ll be Mr Pinkerton doing it?GadflyGC: It will be, but we’re afraid Sony has insisted the review can’t go live until 8am on Wednesday.
+Our Own Version of Iowa
+Richard Adams Carey
+I.. She was out washing her beat up old Rambler American with her blouse tied under her chest in little bunny ears and wearing some snug little short-shorts. Barney got me and Richie Costigian and we piled into his brother’s Chevy Bel Air, which hadn’t run since last winter and probably had reached its final resting place there in the Wetterers’ front yard. The Chevy still looked good enough to sit in a showroom, though, its paint and carpets and seat covers as clean as a whistle, and it worked fine for looking across Boundary Road at the Rambler and Mrs. Sprinkle without being too obvious about it. Richie brought his telescope, and Barney had his old man’s binoculars. I remember the beads of sweat that broke out like little heat blisters on the rolls of Barney’s neck while he stared at Mrs. Sprinkle first through the binoculars, and then through the telescope.
+Richie said that her knotting her blouse like that was a code that meant she had worked as a Playboy Bunny at a club somewhere, or else had posed for Playboy. We believed that until later, when we saw Karen Pinelli with her blouse knotted in bunny ears. Karen was Barney’s brother’s girlfriend, a dog who would not have been allowed in the door at a Playboy Club. Richie’s theory sounded good enough at the time, though, for us to pore through my shoplifted collection of Playboys, just in case. Mrs. Sprinkle was not to be found there, but she could have been. She had all the qualifications, particularly in the glandular area.
+I’d already met her once by then. Her husband Jay—whose real name was Julius, and that’s what we preferred to call him—was looking for somebody to mow their lawn those times when he was away, and since I already did lawns for the Korskis and Langetiegs, he called my old lady and asked me to come over. Mrs. Sprinkle let me into the kitchen, which was still messed up with boxes and paper bags and cans of soup, and she leaned her butt against the table while I talked with Julius, who never came into the kitchen himself, but just yelled at me from the living room. I could see him with his head jammed into a cardboard box he couldn’t get something out of. Their orange tomcat Marciano was having a good time with a piece of tape stuck to a flap. “Two bucks,” he was yelling. “Take it or leave it, what’s your name—Brian? Take it or leave it, Brian.”
+I told him both the other neighbors paid three, and the Korskis’ lawn was smaller than his. “Yep,” he just yelled. “Two bucks—take it or leave it.”
+Mrs. Sprinkle was wearing some baggy dungarees and an old apron, and she stood with her arms crossed over her glandular qualifications, which I didn’t even notice at the time. She had Lucille Ball-type hair, yellow-orange and curly and a little bit wild, and one of those square chins you see on comic book heroes or football players. That chin and the quick way she moved made you think that she grew up a tomboy. But at the same time she had these soft, sugary little eyebrows that made her look like she was always about to break into tears or laughter, and the longest glamour-girl fingernails I ever saw. She had them painted up even to unpack boxes.
+She never said anything, just winked and smiled that second time Julius yelled at me. Then she held up three red fingernails. I figured she was going to make up the difference with Julius none the wiser. I went away thinking she was nice-looking, but nothing special. It was only later, when she got out from behind that apron and displayed her shape, that she really got a strangle-hold on me, like she did those other guys.
+Julius used to be a prizefighter down in New Jersey, or at least that’s what Mrs. Sprinkle told me one day after I finished her lawn and she paid me my three bucks. It was hard to imagine Julius as a prizefighter, he was so skinny and stretched-out looking, but Mrs. Sprinkle told me he boxed while he was in college and working as a volunteer social worker or something in Newark, where she grew up. She had just dropped out of high school, and was working in a diner, and one of her uncles ran a gym down there. Julius came around to spar, and he finally talked her Uncle Artie into setting up a professional fight for him against some Polish tomato can Artie figured would go down easy. But instead Julius got beat up so bad that her uncle threw in the towel midway through the second round. She said that was why Julius limped, though I don’t remember if she said it was a head or a hip injury. Mrs. Sprinkle was at that fight, but only for a little bit. She threw up in the aisle during the first round, and then ran out into the street and nearly got run over. She said she never spoke to Artie again after that. She was actually pretty talkative when Julius wasn’t around.
+Julius was a sportswriter for the Hartford Times, and in the summer he covered the Boston Red Sox. We got all revved up when we found out about that, and Richie in particular thought that someone who actually got to go up and talk to Dick Radatz or Bill Monbouquette or Frank Malzone must be nearly as cool as they were. But when we tried to get Julius to tell us about it—one time when he was going out the door to his Austin-Healey sports car, and I was bringing Richie and Barney with me to introduce them—he just shifted around and acted like he didn’t really know anything. Then when Richie kept after him about it, and started asking about autographs, he finally told us to get lost and drove away.
+Mrs. Sprinkle came out in a tight cotton pullover, her chest trying to bust out like a pair of straight-arm jabs, and she apologized for Julius, saying that he was trying to make a deadline or something, and that actually he didn’t even like most of the guys on the Red Sox.
+“Is he a Yankee fan?” Richie asked her, just the same way he might ask her if he was a Communist or a junkie. “He’s from Newark, isn’t he?”
+“No, he’s from around Philadelphia,” Mrs. Sprinkle said, her New Jersey accent sounding like a gangster movie on afternoon TV. That was another reason we liked her.
+“So he likes the Phillies,” Barney said.
+Mrs. Sprinkle shrugged. “I don’t know what team he likes. I don’t even know if he really likes baseball. Do you read his stories in the newspaper?”
+I probably had, but I didn’t know for sure. I never noticed who wrote them. Richie had, and he said they were okay, but sometimes he thought they didn’t give the Red Sox enough credit for being as good as they were.
+“For crying out loud, they’re in eighth place,” Barney said. “They aren’t any good.”
+Richie and Barney were about to get into one of their heated discussions, but Mrs. Sprinkle started telling a story about when Jay—which is to say, Julius—was just hired by the Times, and he wanted to sign his stories with the name he took as a prizefighter, Kid Sprinkle. “Kid Sprinkle?” Mrs. Sprinkle said, imitating the voice of this editor and sounding like she swallowed a Brillo pad. “Christ, they’d think we hired a fucking circus clown.”
+We nearly pissed our pants, we laughed so hard. We had already taken a dislike to Julius, which gave Barney an excuse for stealing a fishing rod out of their garage later that same day. Also there was that language she used, or quoted, without seeming to even think about it. Richie said he had never heard an adult use that word to his face, never mind the name of Jesus in vain, but I said around my house that sort of stuff passed for polite conversation and enlightened commentary, just like it did maybe with the Sprinkles. Maybe I was exaggerating, but only a little. And somehow that sort of commentary made Mrs. Sprinkle’s eyebrows look a little more sugary, and that pullover another size too small. We went away stealing looks at each other out of the corners of our eyes, and then exploding into laughter for no reason a long time after that.
+It was around that time that we made sure to be there to help whenever she came out to wash the Rambler, which she did regularly even though it looked like a pile of scrap metal. The Austin-Healey stayed in their garage, which was attached to the house. So even when Julius was gone on a road trip with the Sox, it was the Rambler that was always in the driveway getting rained on, except for some days when she moved the Austin-Healey outside, went on some errand in the Rambler, and then for some reason put the Rambler into the garage and dropped the door.
+Otherwise the car was always there, and we made sure one of us was on watch whenever a couple weeks had passed and the Rambler had started to look cruddy, though that was a tough call with all its rust and welded-on dirt. Barney, however, got to be very good at noticing the little changes in color and texture that provoked another washing, and then he’d set up a timetable for his movements that day, and a way for him to be notified by messenger or phone call or agreed-on signal at the moment she stepped out the door with her big sponges.
+Pretty soon Richie and me had timetables too. We wrote them down and set them all together in a big grid that looked like one of Richie’s science projects. For a signal we settled on the American flag that Richie’s father flew on a pole in his front yard. The flag was visible from all our houses and most of the places we were likely to be, and whoever was standing watch would just drop the flag to half-mast. The first time, Barney forgot to put it back up again, and later Richie caught some flak from his old man when he couldn’t explain why it had been lowered. After that we were more careful, but Richie took to reading the obituaries just in case. The next time Richie forgot, his old man came in ranting about the flag being down again, and Richie told him it was out of respect for Zasu Pitts. His old man stopped short, Richie said, and for once just buttoned his lip and walked away.
+Mrs. Sprinkle always wore the same pale blue blouse to wash the car, and it was worth all our trouble just to see the water splash on the blouse and turn it transparent in spots, showing glimpses of the pink bra she wore beneath. Once Richie was inside the passenger compartment, scratching at the Rambler’s floor mats with a whisk broom, just as Mrs. Sprinkle leaned over the windshield to wipe it off with Windex. He says he looked up and saw one of her melons flatten and spread against the glass, and that it reminded him of that film clip we always saw of the atom bomb going off. He just lay there on his back until Mrs. Sprinkle finished, and then he lay there some more, goggle-eyed and looking up at the sky. Barney wondered why he hadn’t reached his hand up to touch it, even through the glass. But Richie just lay there, until Mrs. Sprinkle finished and saw him gazing up at the planets with his mouth gaping and his ears red and shiny. She looked up into the sky herself for a second, and then looked down and smiled at him in a bewildered kind of way. Then she gave him a wink through the sparkling glass. We nearly needed a stretcher to get him out of there.
+Afterwards we usually went down to the woods that ran along the highway behind Boundary. Then we’d gas about whether Mrs. Sprinkle knew what was going on, and was putting on a show for us and just pretending to be innocent about it; or if she didn’t even notice us that way, and just carried on like she would if she were alone, never dreaming that any of us ever had an unseemly thought; or if she had no idea that she possessed this unusual ability to provoke unseemly thoughts, maybe because all the women in New Jersey looked that good (that’s where last February’s Playmate was from); or if she was already tired of Julius and how often he was gone, and was just running us through our paces to see which one of us might be man enough sometime soon to leap into the breach, if you know what I mean.
+Then every time, like clockwork, we’d listen to Richie tell us in phrases he got from Venus Revealed, one of the old-time dirty novels I had lifted from my old man and loaned to him, about things that could possibly happen sometime, for all we knew: how she could forget to wear her bra, accidentally on purpose, maybe, and what we’d see then when her blouse got wet; or how her shorts could split without her knowing it—accidentally on purpose, maybe—as she crouched to wipe the Rambler’s hubcaps, and what we’d see as she stood up and the shorts fell down in a pile at her feet on the blacktop.
+We’d lie there like deadfall logs, not even feeling the flies or hearing the trucks on the highway. I lay on my back and was usually scared to turn over, afraid that the fire in my pants would start the grass smoking beneath me. But then my zipper got so tight that I was more afraid that Barney would see and make some comment. So I turned over then, tipping to one side on the length of my turgid, rampant member—to borrow a phrase from our sacred text—like a boat pitched over on its keel.
+˜
+One day in the Chevy Barney had an idea. Mrs. Sprinkle was standing at her clothesline in the back yard, pinning up bed sheets. The Sprinkles’ house was next to mine, which sat on the corner of Boundary and Grasso Street, facing Grasso. That opened up a line of sight from the Chevy across Boundary, and over a low chain-link fence and Mrs. Sprinkles’ flower garden, into a good part of the Sprinkles’ back yard. “You know that bathroom door up in her bedroom?” Barney said.
+“What door?” Richie asked. “There isn’t a door. I already told you that.”
+“That’s exactly the point, Einstein.”
+Barney was up front behind the steering wheel, his forearm balanced like a chunk of fish on the seat-top. He scrunched around and looked at me, saying, “Didn’t she tell you one time she takes a bath every day? You know, when it’s hot like this?”
+“Yeah, so what?”
+“So this is what.”
+After Barney revealed his plan, the only sound was Richie’s corduroy pants swishing on the vinyl seat. Across the street Marciano the cat was sitting on a tree stump and watching some sparrows on the lawn. Mrs. Sprinkle’s mouth was full of clothespins, and the sheets were billowing around her in the breeze. As she reached up to pin the sheets, her blouse lifted a little higher from her dungarees, and through the telescope I could see her stomach stretched taut and flat above the snap on her pants, and the crinkly knot of her bellybutton, and the little wishbone shape that her ribs made below her blouse. For a minute Venus was revealed, and then the sheets blew in front of her again.
+“Where’s Julius?” I asked Barney.
+“The Red Sox left today for Kansas City. Then they play the Twins, the White Sox, and the Tigers. Kid Sprinkle is gone for two weeks, minimum. You want to see her, don’t you?”
+“What do you think?”
+“So?”
+Barney wasn’t smiling any more, just flaring his nostrils in and out and looking like his eyes were lit up with kerosene, wet and fiery at the same time.
+“Yeah, but why me?” I said. “Why not you? It’s your idea, isn’t it?”
+Barney looked at me with his eyelids drooping a little lower. His chin poked out and his lips got thin and blue like they did whenever he was getting teed off.
+Richie’s laugh sounded like the squealing that the belts used to make in that Chevy. “He couldn’t fit under her bed—he’d need a car jack, he’s so fat.”
+Barney flailed his fish-meat arm over the back of the seat. “Shut up, you little piss-ant.”
+Richie didn’t flinch. “You shut up, you plump and ample succubus. You dewy mound of Venus.”
+I raised a hand between them. “Okay, so you’re excused, but why not Richie?”
+Barney made a noise like a horse spitting out water. “He’d screw it up.”
+“Who’d screw it up?” Richie demanded.
+“He wouldn’t tell us nothing he hadn’t read in your old man’s books,” Barney said. “If I want that ample succubus stuff, I’ll just read it myself.” Barney looked me in the face. “You want to see her naked, don’t you? You’re normal, aren’t you?”
+“What do you think?”
+“Then do it. Just go in there and do it. She wouldn’t be mad, even if she knew. You know what I’m talking about. You’re the cat burglar pretty boy. She’d probably like a little company.”
+The big arms shifted in Barney’s lap, and we both knew at that moment that never in his life, unless he paid for it, would he be able to be with a woman like Bonnie Sprinkle. “Then tell me every detail, alright? Every little detail.”
+“Not just you,” Richie said, his ears so red that they gave the yeasty skin of Barney’s left cheek a healthy rosy glow. “He’s got to tell us both.”
+˜
+The worst thing was tapping on her bedroom door, even if it was a safe bet she wasn’t home. The Rambler was gone and she hadn’t answered my pounding on the back door, which she always left unlocked. Barney and Richie were watching from the juniper bushes in my back yard, and after I knocked, I just opened the door and walked in like I owned the place. Then I went through the kitchen and into the front hallway and up the stairs and down the upstairs hall to the only room that could be theirs, the only room that had its door closed. But I couldn’t just go through. I stopped and tapped on the door, my fingertips barely stroking the wood; the door swung open slightly.
+She was gone. Richie had been up there once before, one time when she sent him after scissors for cutting flowers. He said it was dark, and it still was. The shades were drawn, though one had a long tear, where light came leaking through. Next to the bureau was a dressing table covered with brushes and cosmetics, and also a big family photo: Mrs. Sprinkle and her parents, it looked like, and a lot of brothers and cousins and aunts, all of them crowded and grinning on an apartment building’s fire escape. The picture looked like it was taken when she was still in school. On a little table by the bed, next to a big crystal ashtray half-full, was a picture of her and Julius on vacation somewhere, or maybe on their honeymoon, Mrs. Sprinkle on horseback and the Kid holding the bridle, his wife beaming down at him like he’d just saved the ranch or tamed this wild stallion. The bed was unmade and all crumpled up, its lace cover falling down the crack between the mattress and the footboard. A pair of heavy barbells lay by the footboard, and the weights had worn little black ruts in the rug.
+The most important thing was the bathroom door, and it was just like Richie said: missing; it was just the doorframe with empty hinges, and from the bed—or under the bed—you had a direct view of the bathtub that Mrs. Sprinkle said she used so much in the summer. Barney’s theory was that Julius had taken the door off so he could lie in bed and watch the show whenever she took a bath, and that’s how he got the idea for this whole thing. There was a shower curtain that could be pulled around the tub, but¬—just like Richie said—it was clear plastic, and half of it was pulled off the curtain rod anyway.
+Barney and Richie wanted me to go through her bureau drawers, and find out her exact bra size, and what kind of panties she wore, just in case the rest of this didn’t work out, but I didn’t like standing around in the middle of the bedroom, and I didn’t like the idea of going through her private stuff either, though I guess that was small change compared to breaking into her house and spying on her while she bathed. Anyway, I skipped the drawers and slid right away under her bed. It was musty and dark down there, jumbled up with sneakers, slippers, some wadded-up Kleenexes, a sewing basket. Julius also kept his fishing rods there now, two of them, and a green dip-net. And there was a stack of magazines: Life, Argosy, Esquire, the Sporting News, some Batman comic books, but no Playboys or anything like that.
+I looked at the Lifes and the Batmans first, since pictures worked best with the bad light under there. Then I looked at some of the other ones. I saw where an article on Graham Hill chasing a second consecutive Formula One driving championship in a twelve-cylinder BRM had been cut out of Esquire. A few weeks ago Mrs. Sprinkle had folded that into the envelope she gave me with the three bucks for mowing her lawn. Sometimes it was stuff on Formula One racing, which she knew I liked, or sometimes it was stuff on President Kennedy, whom she really liked, or else different stuff on the Red Sox, like an editorial from a Kansas City newspaper, maybe. But it was always something. She never just gave me the money.
+I looked at the torn edges of the Esquire pages and could see where she had creased them first with her fingernails, it looked like. Nobody else had ever done anything like that for me. I felt like I was there in some way to show my appreciation, though I didn’t want to think too hard about that, I guess, because it wouldn’t have made sense.
+II.
+Afterwards there was a long pause. Marciano had come under the bed and was purring and rubbing against my cheek. I heard a match strike and smelled cigarette smoke.
+“Glenda’s quitting. Did I already tell you that?”
+“Tell me what?”
+“About Glenda?”
+“Glenda?”
+“I told you a couple of weeks ago. Remember? She’s my secretary.”
+“Oh, yeah. So what’s she doing?”
+“She’s given notice that she’s quitting at the end of the month. Just like that. I don’t have to tell you it took me completely by surprise.”
+“Oh, yeah? Why’s she quitting?”
+“I don’t know. I can’t remember. I think she wants to go back to school.”
+“Good for her. That’s what I ought to do.”
+“Yeah, it’s great. I said it was the best thing for her—whatever it is. Kind of leaves me high and dry, though.”
+“How about one for me? Do you mind?”
+“One what?”
+“A cigarette.”
+“I don’t know what the hell I’m gonna do.”
+They were quiet again for a while. I could hear Mrs. Sprinkle pulling on her cigarette and blowing out smoke. He said, “This comes at a real bad time, you know?”
+“You’ll be okay. There’s lots of girls out there, Stuart.”
+The guy shifted around in the bed. “You’re missing the point.”
+They were quiet again for a while. Marciano was looking at me with goo-goo eyes, and I was afraid he was going to start purring again, or meowing, and then I was afraid that he wasn’t, that in the quiet they’d hear my heart jack-hammering against the floorboards like in that Edgar Allen Poe story. I lay there without breathing, looking out across the carpet at all the stuff strewn across it: a white shirt and red tie tossed like laundry into a corner by the closet; this Stuart guy’s black creased pants jumbled over the barbells at the foot of the bed; his tasseled loafers, both on their sides, one of them rolled under the bureau; Mrs. Sprinkle’s skirt; her panties, yellow with little flowers on them, like a little girl’s; one half of her bra, the same yellow as her panties, its big right cup dangling down from the mattress and hanging in front of my face. It all had floated down like what was left of fireworks after they came charging up the stairs. I could only see their feet as he tangoed her across the floor, as he pulled her clothes off and shoved her into the bed.
+I thought about trying to crawl out the door while the bed was in high gear, while Mrs. Sprinkle was moaning and he was making these grunting and whimpering noises at the same time, like he couldn’t decide if he was a pig at the trough or a dog at the back door. But then the bed slowed down, and Stuart made up his mind he was just a pig, grunting slow and deep and rolling over on his side with one more big bend of the cross-slats.
+Then there was this little sucking sound, and something that looked like what you might get if you blew your nose and it all came out with mucous membrane attached, dropped with a wet plop on the carpet near my ear. I had to look at it a long time before I figured out what it was, and when I did I almost threw up right there, I swear to God. That was about when Marciano showed up. He sniffed at the mess on the carpet, licked it twice, and then came purring over to me.
+“The point,” Mrs. Sprinkle said, “is first you wanted me to sign up as a salesman, or saleswoman, or whatever, and now you’re angling for me to be your secretary. I don’t even know how to do that.”
+I could hear Stuart shifting around in the bed again. “Now that you mention it, just for the hell of it, what would be wrong with you taking Glenda’s place? Me, I can see several advantages in an arrangement like that.”
+“Jay would blow his stack. He would literally blow his stack. You can’t imagine.”
+“What is he, on to us?”
+I could hear Mrs. Sprinkle stubbing out her cigarette, jabbing it into the ashtray on the table next to her. “Leave me alone, Stuart. It wouldn’t work.”
+“For the love of God, he can’t pay the mortgage at the end of the month, and he’s worried about his wife working? What, he’s too proud for that?”
+“Bingo—he thinks it looks bad.”
+“How about losing this whole fucking house? How’s that for looking bad?”
+“We pay the mortgage.”
+“Sure you do, with a little help from yours truly. Where does he think that money comes from, anyway?”
+“I tell him Artie sends it to us.”
+“That broken-down boxing coach? I thought you weren’t talking to that guy.”
+“Well, he’s not really sending us the money, is he?”
+“And Jay really believes he sends you that much money each month? What is he, still punch-drunk?”
+“He doesn’t want me working, and that’s the way he is. He’s not going to change. So let’s us just change the subject, okay?”
+“Bonnie, Glenda makes three hundred dollars a month. You could pay off the mortgage on this place. You could get yourself a decent car. Hey, you could get a door for the bathroom. What happened to that, anyway?”
+“I don’t want to talk about it.”
+“What, is he on to us?”
+“No, he just…. Well, I said I don’t want to talk about it, okay? It’s personal.”
+“Personal?”
+“You can go pee. I won’t peek.”
+“For the love of God, Bonnie, where else is a high school dropout going to get offered a job like this? Tell me that.”
+“It would hurt him. I’m not going to do it.”
+“No, but you’ll do this, won’t you? This doesn’t hurt, does it?”
+Suddenly it got so quiet it was like they were both struck dead. I couldn’t hear the steady background squeaking of the bed. I couldn’t hear them breathe. Then: “I’m sorry, Bonnie. I shouldn’t have said that. But honestly, I can’t— Ow! Jesus!”
+It was a funny sort of sound, sort of like a stone whapping into hard clay, and I don’t know how but I knew as soon as I heard it that she’d walloped him with that big ashtray by the side of her bed. Marciano took off like a ray of light at the same time that the bed bounced off the carpet again. Then Stuart’s stockinged feet were on the floor and running to the bathroom. I saw him stand in front of the mirror, cussing and moaning and then gasping when he took his hands away from his face and saw a nose that looked like the beef tongue you see in the supermarket, sometimes with blood still on it.
+I edged back into the dark as he turned and said in a nasally voice, “Jesus, look what you did to me. What’s the matter with you?”
+There were cigarette ashes stuck to his face and blood dripping down his mouth and chin, into the scraggly hairs of his chest where a cigarette butt was stuck, and then breaking into separate drips, like long red scratches, like Mrs. Sprinkle’s fingernails, around the big white puddle of his belly. His stomach pushed out like angel cake around his bellybutton, and underneath, his nuts were bristly enough to look like little eggs in a bird’s nest. Stuart was not as good-looking as Julius. Even with a good nose, Stuart was not as good-looking as almost anybody, except maybe Barney.
+“What the hell’s the matter with you?” he said. “I think you broke my nose.”
+Mrs. Sprinkle didn’t say anything, or move a muscle, so far as I could tell. Stuart had crumpled a wad of toilet paper to his face, but as soon as he moved it away, he started dripping blood again. “Jesus Christ.” He wrapped a pink bath towel around his waist, and then started up again through the toilet paper about what she was going to do about this. She didn’t answer, or do anything else. He started picking up his clothes, ranting at her the whole time, saying this whole thing had been a mistake from the start, and now how could he go back to the office like this? He’d probably lose his job. He didn’t have to tell her that his nose was ruined. How was he going to explain it all to Audrey? He cussed a little more while he was pulling his clothes on with one hand, and when his pants got tangled in the barbells. Then he started looking around for his loafers.
+“Meanwhile, Bonnie, you and Kid Galahad can just head right back to that rat-infested tenement you thought you got out of.”
+It was that one damned loafer. His shoes were the last things he looked for, and one was right in the middle of the floor, but he couldn’t find the one under the bureau. I poked the dip-net out from under the bed when he wasn’t looking, trying to drag the loafer out into the floor, but he kept turning around before I could get it.
+It got to where I just waited, knowing it was going to happen, and then it did: his head appeared mostly upside down right in front of me, the toilet paper stuck to his nose like a corsage, the words catching all of a sudden in his throat while his eyes adjusted to the dark. He stopped like he was frozen and looked right at me and said, “Bonnie, what, you got a manikin or something under this bed?”
+“A manikin?” It was the first time Mrs. Sprinkle said anything since she hit him.
+“You know, for your sewing?”
+“What are you talking about? You’re the one who’s punch-drunk.”
+“Jesus holy Christ,” he said under his breath. I was trying to be a manikin, but I couldn’t keep it up. I blinked or breathed or something. I was just about to spasm my way out the other side, and then crash through the window like Batman and land in the shrubs outside, when Stuart reached out and grabbed my arm. Then he had hold of my hair. I came out fast and yelling pretty good.
+III.
+I couldn’t understand what Barney was doing out there already. The plan had been for him and Richie to meet me in my back yard at two AM, after Mrs. Sprinkle had had her bath, and gone to sleep, and after I’d sneaked out. For some reason Barney was already there behind the juniper bushes—or still there—in the middle of the afternoon, and he waved me over as soon as I got out the door. “What are you doing out already?” he said. “Did she catch you? Did she throw you out?”
+“No, she didn’t throw me out.”
+“I heard the Rambler pull out just now. What’s going on?”
+I think I just shrugged my shoulders and smoothed my hair. I don’t remember.
+“Well, come on—did you see her?”
+“See her?”
+“Don’t dick around with me, Brian.”
+I took a deep breath. “Yeah, I saw her.”
+Everything else would come later: the Rambler dropping its transmission right in the driveway and getting hauled away by a wrecker; the “For Sale—Vulcan Realty” sign stuck in the front yard, and then “SOLD!” slashed across the front of it. Mrs. Sprinkle hardly ever came out any more. The grass grew long, and then turned brown in a long drought. Jimmy Clark—in a Lotus Climax—began to pull away in the Formula One standings. The Red Sox put on a late-season surge to finish seventh in the American League. The Yankees ran away with the pennant, but in October, in the World Series, they got swept by the Dodgers. On the day the Sprinkles were loading their furniture into a moving van about to leave for some town in Iowa, where Julius had gotten a job with another paper, I don’t remember her nails or those sugary eyebrows so much, while I stared through the binoculars from the front seat of the Bel Air, but I remember the look in her eyes as she sat against the fender of the Austin-Healey with her arms crossed over her chest: like she didn’t even see the moving guys or anything else for that matter, like she had already left.
+I also remember Barney’s face that day, with its numb and puzzled look while the chairs and tables and pieces of the bed went into the van. “I know why she’s got that thing on,” he said finally, gesturing to the loose, baggy frock she wore, and talking like he’d solved the riddle of the sphinx: “She’s pregnant. See her belly?” Richie couldn’t see it. I wasn’t sure, but it kind of looked to me like Barney was right.
+On the day he caught me coming out of their house, though, I must have talked to him for an hour about what you might call a different kind of riddle. Of course there was the truth, which was classified: how Stuart twisted my arm behind my back like it was a rag he was wringing dry, how I clamped my eyes shut and tried to bury my face in my chest. Stuart just grabbed my hair again and pulled my head up so Mrs. Sprinkle could tell him who I was.
+He wanted to know what I was doing under the bed, and I said I didn’t know. Then he twisted my arm some more, until I knew it wouldn’t make any difference what I told him, that the bastard just wanted to break my arm. I didn’t mean to cry. I didn’t want to blubber like a damned baby in front of Mrs. Sprinkle, but I was doing that anyway by the time she told him not to hurt me.
+“Or what?” Stuart sneered. “You’re gonna hit me with that ashtray again? Or what? What are you gonna do, Bonnie?”
+So she told him. First she was going to call his boss, and then she was going to introduce herself to Audrey, and then she was going to set fire to his brand new Thunderbird, the one he just paid cash for.
+I think any one of those would have been good enough for Stuart. He let go of me like I was contagious and then I heard him clumping around the bedroom, still looking for that other shoe, saying she was the craziest dumb bitch he ever heard of, and wondering how many other little spies Jay Edgar Sprinkle had in the neighborhood.
+“In the meantime, Bonnie,” he went on, “you better call up Hopalong Cassidy and tell him to start looking for change out there under the seats at Tiger Stadium. I don’t have to tell you that your sugar-daddy uncle is going to find himself a little indisposed in the future.”
+Then Stuart was gone, giving up on the other shoe and slamming the bedroom door behind him. I heard the sheets rustle, and then I heard something hit hard against the swinging door and go clattering to the floor. I guessed it was that ashtray again. Then I heard Stuart clumping down the stairs. I didn’t want to run into him again, so I couldn’t leave until I’d heard him go out the door into the garage. Instead I stood there like a post, feeling naked myself, my arm throbbing and my eyes still clamped shut and leaking tears. After a minute, while I could still hear Stuart downstairs, Mrs. Sprinkle said, “Look at me, Brian.”
+I didn’t know if she was under the covers or not, and I just shook my head. Maybe it looked like more of a twitch.
+“What?”
+“No thanks.”
+“So what were you doing under there, honey?” Her voice sounded tired, almost like she was nodding off to sleep. “Did you come in here looking for money?”
+“No, honest to God, I wasn’t stealing anything.”
+“Is this something Jay put you up to?”
+“No, I swear to God, Mrs. Sprinkle.”
+“So what are you doing here?”
+“I don’t know.” I thought I was lying again, but when it came out like that, at least at that moment, it sounded more like the truth than anything else I could have said.
+“Well,” she said after a minute, “that makes two of us.”
+That was when I heard Stuart coming back up the stairs. He clumped inside the room and then stopped behind me. He was quiet for a second while I stood there shaking. “This is memorable, just memorable,” he said finally. “You lying there like that in front of this little pervert. If you’ll pardon me for interrupting, you’ll remember that we came over here in your car. I’m going to have to ask you for a ride home, if that’s not too much trouble. Audrey won’t be there.”
+I heard Mrs. Sprinkle roll out of bed, heard her bare feet brush across the carpet. Marciano had come in again with Stuart and was rubbing against my leg. I peeked down and saw Stuart’s fluids, his blood and spunk, on the carpet at my feet. There was also that ashtray, upside down and emptied out and shaped like a scallop shell.
+“You don’t mind, do you, Brian?” Stuart said. “Brian? What is he, catatonic?”
+I didn’t breathe a word of any of that to Barney that day, or to Richie or to anyone else, though I thought for a minute—once I got outside—about somehow telling Barney the good news that sometimes looks don’t matter so much. But instead I took another deep breath and told him just what he wanted to hear: how Mrs. Sprinkle had come in sweaty for an afternoon bath before going out on some errand. I told him I saw her standing in the bathroom and removing all her clothes, item by item, doing it slowly while the water was running. And I told him what I could see as each garment dropped to the floor, and as she eased into the tub, setting her pert little rump on the edge first, her jugs jiggling a little, and then daintily swinging her feet around, her thighs parting slightly, before finally slipping everything into a whipped-up sea-foam of soapsuds. I told him things I couldn’t possibly have seen from under the bed, like the way her breasts floated in the foam, or the way she handled the sponge around her various nooks and crannies. Barney just drank it all in.
+“God, tell it to me again,” he said, once I’d gotten her out of the tub and dried off and dressed. His breath came in hot little bursts, and he looked at me with his kerosene eyes like I was Moses down from the mountaintop.
+So I told him again, but that time I got some of the details changed around slightly. Barney crossed his eyes and looked to be on his way to getting teed off, but I corrected myself in time and he settled back into his wet dream. I never said anything to Richie because Barney repeated it all for me, even improving on it, I’d have to say, and eventually, on the twentieth repetition or so, taking my place under the bed, squeezing himself in just fine.
+Richie never called him on it, and whatever Barney wanted to say was okay with me. I just sat like a post in the Bel Air, blind, maybe catatonic, my face pointing across the road at the bare November shrubs planted where Mrs. Sprinkle’s flower garden used to be. That was when I felt the Chevy move, felt it start up and carry me and everyone else away at much too high a speed to our own version of Iowa, a future we couldn’t imagine and that had little to do, if you really want to know, with whatever it was we intended.
+Art by Kerri Augenstein
+Richard Adams Carey is the author of four award-winning books of literary nonfiction, including RAVEN’S CHILDREN: AN ALASKAN CULTURE AT TWILIGHT (Houghton Mifflin) and AGAINST THE TIDE: THE FATE OF THE NEW ENGLAND FISHERMAN (Mariner)..
+Richard Adams Carey
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+The ENFP
+ENFPs are usually seen as lively, friendly, and open-minded individuals. They bring a curiosity and enthusiasm to most encounters and this tends to draw new people to them wherever they go. Simultaneously, they are usually deeply honest and crave a great deal of authenticity in their friendships.
+Because ENFPs like an ever-changing, evolving lifestyle, they tend to appear free-spirited and restless. And for all their open-minded, friendly characteristics, they can become deeply passionate when one of their values is threatened.
+Healthy ENFPs are seen as:
+– Friendly, insightful, compelling
+– Spontaneous and creative
+– Generous and curious
+Unhealthy ENFPs are seen as:
+– Hyperactive or scattered – unable to focus
+– Struggling to apply logic to their decisions and inspirations
+– Frazzled and burned out from following too many paths and being unable to say “no”.
+– Worn out from forgetting to take care of their physical needs
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+The ENTP
+ENTPs are usually seen as energetic, curious, and spontaneous. They have a buzz of intellectual energy and a visionary nature that makes them intriguing to others. They are good at mobilizing people to participate in their vision and don’t mind instigating challenging or deep conversations as a way to debate ideas and pose new theories.
+Because ENTPs use a process called introverted Thinking (Ti), they can become abrupt and intense when they challenge other people’s logic. They have a tendency to play devil’s advocate, and this can irritate some people, but it is usually a way for the ENTP to connect all the data points in their mind and find out if something is definitively accurate.
+Healthy ENTPs are seen as:
+– Lively, curious, innovative
+– Autonomous and independent
+– Insightful, challenging, and logical
+Unhealthy ENTPs are seen as:
+– Scattered – rushing from idea to idea without accomplishing anything.
+– Overly-challenging, abrasive, rude
+– Physically burned out or unhealthy from forgetting to take care of physical needs.
+The INFP
+INFPs are usually seen as private yet kind individuals. Because they value depth and authenticity to such a great degree they are usually selective about who they spend their time with. They often seem mysterious to others because a lot of their vivid, inner world is very private. They are often seen as imaginative, creative, and focused on a future or vision they’d like to see become a reality.
+Because INFPs use extraverted Intuition (Ne) they tend to enjoy brainstorming or posing unusual ideas or theories with others. They like to imagine and contemplate “what if” scenarios and get excited by ideas and possibilities for the future.
+Healthy INFPs are seen as:
+– Introspective, sensitive, and empathetic
+– Original and individualistic
+– Open-minded yet complex and reserved
+Unhealthy INFPs are seen as:
+– Overly-withdrawn from people and the world around them
+– Overly sensitive or easily offended
+– Impractical – struggling to bring their ideas and goals into reality.
+Read This Next: 10 Things You’ll Relate to If You’re an INFP
+The INTP
+INTPs are usually seen as reserved yet curious individuals. They tend to dislike pushing themselves onto other people or delegating or controlling anyone. They tend to be absorbed in several interests at a time and can work with remarkable determination towards ideas that capture their interest. They are usually tolerant of people unless they are pushy, domineering, or their logic is too flawed for them to ignore.
+Because INTPs use extraverted Intuition (Ne) they tend to enjoy brainstorming or posing unusual ideas and theories in conversation. They also have a knack for seeing surprising connections and inter-relationships between seemingly disparate events.
+Healthy INTPs are seen as:
+– Quiet, easy-going, and calm
+– Independent and innovative
+– Logical, studious, and curious
+Unhealthy INTPs are seen as:
+– Isolative, argumentative, and critical
+– Cynical, pessimistic, and insensitive
+– Impractical. May forget mundane duties like paying the bills or taking care of physical needs.
+The ENFJ
+ENFJs are usually seen as enthusiastic, friendly, and energetic individuals. They are very aware of the needs and feelings of other people and tend to have strong, inspiring communication skills. They are often good listeners and are attuned to unique gifts of individuals they speak to. They also tend to have clear, definitive values and opinions.
+Because ENFJs are judging types, they like to have an organized world around them. This doesn’t mean their room will always be neat and tidy, but it does mean they like to have closure in relationships and clear plans. They don’t like ambiguity in their relationships and having a clear plan of action is important to them. They have a strong focus on the future and organizing their time to reach their goals.
+Healthy ENFJs are seen as:
+– Kind, compassionate, and tactful
+– Expressive, responsive, and authentic
+– Imaginative, strategic, and visionary
+Unhealthy ENFJs are seen as:
+– Jumping to conclusions too quickly.
+– Overbearing and overly-sensitive.
+– Detail-blind. In an effort to reach goals, they ignore logical flaws or miss important details.
+Read This Next: What ENFJs Do When They Get Really Stressed Out
+The ENTJ
+ENTJs are usually seen as intelligent, visionary individuals who like to challenge ideas and theories to reach mutual understanding. They tend to enjoy a good debate because this allows them to bounce ideas off other people and find truth or new insight. They are fiercely logical and tend to take charge of the conversation if no one else is doing so or if the topics revolve around mundane activities or details.
+Because ENTJs are judging types they like to have an organized world around them. They like having a plan, making plans, and reaching conclusions. However, their intuition can draw them into wide-ranging discussions and explorations of various theories and abstract concepts.
+Healthy ENTJs are seen as:
+– Objective, fair, and logical
+– Self-assured, directive, and challenging
+– Hard-working, curious, and insightful
+Unhealthy ENTJs are seen as:
+– Critical and tactless, seeing other people’s needs as less important than their own.
+– Intrusive and bossy. Giving orders and making demands without listening.
+– Pushy about getting a job done without giving others enough time to process or prepare.
+The INFJ
+INFJs are usually seen as reserved yet compassionate and caring. Their intuitions are often kept to themselves unless they are with people they trust deeply. They tend to keep part of themselves hidden and may seem “difficult to know”. They tend to listen more then they talk, unless the conversation is very moving or stimulating to them, in which case they can speak passionately for long periods of time, seeming more like extroverts than introverts.
+Because INFJs have a driving desire to stay focused on the future and global perspectives they can seem distracted if they are involved in conversation that is focused primarily on day-to-day details. They tend to use metaphor and analogy in their speech more than literal details and this can make them seem confusing to other types.
+Healthy INFJs are seen as:
+– Intense, authentic, and insightful
+– Empathic and compassionate
+– Creative, idealistic, and deep
+Unhealthy INFJs are seen as:
+– Unrealistic. They can be so wrapped up in their ideas that they lose focus on what is actually happening.
+– Impractical and out of touch with what is actually possible.
+– Pretentious and overly-sensitive.
+Read This Next: 10 Things You’ll Relate to if You’re an INFJ
+The INTJ
+INTJs are often seen as decisive, reserved, and intense. They tend to keep a lot of their creative visions to themselves unless they are with someone they really trust. What will be most obvious up-front is their ability to solve problems, see things objectively, and plan for the future. They can seem hard to get to know because they keep their emotions and insights internalized outside of very close relationships.
+Because INTJs have a driving desire to explore new perspectives, particularly global perspectives, they usually get bored with small-talk or day-to-day conversation. They may appear bored or else abruptly change the subject during these times.
+Healthy INTJs are seen as:
+– Logical, knowledgeable, and insightful
+– Conceptual, future-focused, and independent
+– Private but open-minded
+Unhealthy INTJs are seen as:
+– Critical or condescending, especially to those who don’t share their vision.
+– Tactless and blind to giving praise or affirmation to others.
+– So focused on their vision that they miss practical realities and forget to take care of themselves.
+Read This Next: Understanding INTJ Intuition
+The ESFP
+ESPS tend to come across as exuberant, lively, and easy-going. They are flexible, adaptable, and seldom plan ahead. They appear open to any opportunity or activity that life throws at them. Routine and structure irks them, so they’ll get irritated if they are feeling controlled by anyone. They seem full of adventure, fun, and good humor.
+As extraverted Sensors and introverted Feelers, ESFPs like to interact and engage with their environment as much as possible. They tend to be physically active and expressive. They also are guarded about their deeper values, but crave authenticity in their own actions and the actions of others. They are people who “keep it real”.
+Healthy ESFPs are seen as:
+– Resourceful, adaptable, and active
+– Generous, optimistic, and sympathetic
+– Observant, realistic, and specific
+Unhealthy ESFPs are seen as:
+– Distractable and overly-impulsive
+– Over-sensitive and self-absorbed
+– Putting enjoyment and fun over personal obligations and responsibilities
+The ESTP
+ESTPs appear confident, energetic, and active. They like to be engaged and stimulated by their environment as much as possible and are always looking out for new opportunities and adventures. Their attentiveness to their surroundings gives them an intense, observant quality. They act quickly in response to incoming information and usually have quick reflexes. Others are draw to their enthusiasm and good humor and their sixth sense for fun, enjoyable experiences.
+Because ESTPs use both extraverted sensing and introverted thinking they are highly attentive to details in their environment and also have a gift for trouble-shooting, weighing pros and cons, and thinking critically.
+Healthy ESTPs are seen as:
+– Friendly, fun-loving, and energetic
+– Adventurous and daring
+– Logical, realistic, and attentive
+Unhealthy ESTPs are seen as:
+– Focusing entirely on excitement and fun at the expense of their responsibilities and obligations.
+– Being unable to see the broader implications of their decisions.
+– Overly direct and insensitive to the emotions and concerns of others.
+The ISFP
+ISFPs are seen as unassuming, authentic, and adaptable. People appreciate their sincerity and gentleness and are often drawn to their sense of humor. They tend to appear difficult to know well because they keep many of their values held close to the chest, only sharing them with those who’ve earned their trust.
+Because ISFPs are introverted feeling and extraverted sensing types, they combine a need for authenticity and “keeping it real” with a desire for adventure and exploration. They enjoy taking life as it comes and being open for any opportunity that comes their way. As a result, they dislike overly-structured lifestyles or being “caged in” by a lot of rules. They also have very little patience for phoniness and people-pleasing or manipulative behaviors.
+Healthy ISFPs are seen as:
+– Gentle, sensitive, and empathetic
+– Observant, realistic, and practical
+– Adaptable, flexible, and spontaneous
+Unhealthy ISFPs are seen as:
+– Self-critical and overly withdrawn
+– Rejecting of logical systems and rules
+– Focusing entirely on the current moment without seeing the long-term implications
+The ISTP
+ISTPs appear observant, logical, and adaptable. They seem to have a confidence that comes from within and a calm ability to handle whatever life throws at them. They don’t feel the need to impose their will on others or win arguments unless their principles are being devalued or someone’s logic is incredibly poor. Overall, they keep a lot of their judgments internalized – they don’t feel the need to quibble with others over their flawed opinions. They tend to have a good sense of humor, which people are drawn to, but many find that they are hard to read or to know well.
+Because ISTPs use a mental process called extraverted sensing, they like having their options open and being adaptable to whatever life gives them. They will appear disgruntled and frustrated if they are micro-managed or limited by a lot of external rules and regulations.
+Healthy ISTPs are seen as:
+– Adaptable, realistic, and observant
+– Logical, tactical, and efficient
+– Independent, self-determined, and adventurous
+Unhealthy ISTPs are seen as:
+– Cynical, pessimistic and/or critical
+– Impatient of the needs and emotions of others
+– Focused on immediate results without looking at the long-term ramifications of their decisions.
+The ESFJ
+ESFJs usually appear friendly, outgoing, and organized. They tend to dress appropriately for the occasion and are usually on time and punctual. They are nearly always polite and empathetic, skilled in the art of hosting and making people feel “at home” with them. They seem to have an innate knowledge of what makes people feel comfortable.
+ESFJs greatly value family and social connections and traditions. They enjoy rituals that commemorate favorite experience and memories – things like annual excursions, dinners, or vacations. They like planning these experiences out and go to a lot of work to make sure everyone’s needs are met.
+Healthy ESFJs are seen as:
+– Sociable, energetic, and empathetic
+– Organized and attentive
+-Committed to preserving favored traditions and memories
+Unhealthy ESFJs are seen as:
+– Overly controlling and meddling
+– Overly sensitive, assuming there was ill-intent where there was none.
+– Unwilling to see alternative ways of doing things. Must do things their way.
+The ESTJ
+ESTJs are usually seen as take-charge, “tell-it-like-it-is” individuals. Because they are gifted at organizing people and managing projects and schedules, they tend to take a position of authority relatively quickly. Some people appreciate this while others find them overpowering or controlling. They are usually outgoing, friendly, and detail-oriented.
+ESTJs take their responsibilities and commitments seriously, and this is something that others will notice about them quickly. They don’t shirk their duties and can’t abide others who do so. It’s important to them to make their community a better place and they don’t mind taking charge and organizing people to achieve shared goals.
+Healthy ESTJs are seen as:
+– Practical, realistic, and self-confident.
+– Conscientious and responsible
+– Logical, analytical, and objective
+Unhealthy ESTJs are seen as:
+– Overly controlling or “know-it-alls”
+– Rigid, and nitpicky about details
+– Unwilling to try to new alternatives or solutions, must do things “their way”.
+The ISFJ
+ISFJs usually appear unassuming, kind, and considerate. They are very aware of the practical needs of the situation and the people around them. They tend to go out of their way to make people comfortable and will often put others needs ahead of their own. While they are usually non-confrontational, they can be very quick to challenge people that are insensitive or rude to their loved ones. They are fiercely protective of their families and friends.
+As introverted sensing types, ISFJs enjoy having consistency and will appear dependable and routine-oriented. They like to be prepared and to have all the details. Because of this they tend to exude a cautious, focused demeanor. They enjoy preserving traditions and recalling positive memories and experiences.
+Healthy ISFJs are seen as:
+– Serious, conscientious, and empathetic
+– Responsible and protective of others
+– Dependable, detail-oriented, and planful
+Unhealthy ISFJs are seen as:
+– Rigid and overly dependent on their routine. Unwilling to try new things.
+– Incapable of taking care of their own needs because they are so busy taking care of others.
+– Resentful and complaining, frustrated with being “the responsible one”.
+The ISTJ
+ISTJs are seen as pragmatic, responsible, and private. They are creatures of habit and usually have a steady routine and a consistent lifestyle. They tend to appear stable, calm, and grounded – nothing seems to surprise them and they enjoy being prepared for whatever happens next. They take their commitments seriously and others appreciate their honesty and reliability.
+As introverted sensing types, ISTJs enjoy knowing what’s going to happen and having a plan. They don’t like having to deal with people who are wishy-washy, forgetful, or unreliable. They may seem annoyed or especially reserved if they are surrounded by people who are like this on a regular basis.
+Healthy ISTJs are seen as:
+– Serious, conscientious, and responsible
+– Logical and objective
+– Reflective, reasonable, and careful
+Unhealthy ISTJ are seen as:
+– Rigid about time, schedules, and doing things “by the book”
+– Critical and judgmental
+�� So focused on logic that they forget to consider the feelings and needs of others.
+What are Your Thoughts?
+Do you have any feedback for us? Let us know in the comments! You can also follow me (Susan) on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest! like how objective and concise this guide is. Nicely done for an INFJ (wink wink joking kidding etc).
+This comment sponsored by an ENTP.
+Hi Susan,
+Great post again. I just don’t think we can equate how other people see personalities with their being healthy or not, because some types will see this much quicker than other, which is why so many perfectly healthy children are today labelled with ADD or autism. I think it is great to emphasize that all types can be healthy and unhealthy, but not that others can objectively notice that as a fact.
+Hi Nonentiti,
+I interpret your comment as possibly confused about Susan’s article. Almost a “cart before the horse” situation.
+Keep in mind that this is a form of “reverse engineering.” Susan is showing us the positive/negative aspects of each personality as they might be seen by “others.” I think it has somewhat less to do with the specific personality type and more to do with a person’s behaviors and overt emotions in the moment (which are very observable for those who look for those things). I can recognize a person’s actions/words as positive/negative (or other qualifiers like healthy/unhealthy, as needed) without knowing their personality type and make a generalized guess as to which type they might be after some discrete observation. This is done by health care professionals all the time and part of what makes them (generally) good at their jobs. I don’t document their personality type, but their behaviors are very helpful in understanding who they are and what they need. The goal is to determine the unmet need behind the unwanted behavior. Anticipating and meeting the need before behaviors escalate is a great thing to watch – almost magical.
+Susan’s article allows us to make the potential connection between the behavior and the potential personality type. This is another tool in the toolbox to help us understand, relate, and help one another.
+At least, that’s what this ISTJ thinks. 😉
+-Jack
+P.S. Your ADD/autism comment is an interesting topic for me, a huge can of worms, and not really related to this article. It seems you made an assumption that Susan made assumptions in her article or knowledge of personality types. Hmm… now it seems that I have made an assumption as well… 😉
+Hi Susan,
+INTP Gilbert here with my beautiful ISFJ wife whose name is withheld to protect her introversion, and we say, “Great job and great article!” Please keep up the good work–your efforts and accomplishments are so appreciated ?!
+Gilbert
+Thank you so much Gilbert and anonymous ISFJ 🙂 Tell her I relate. Sometimes I don’t like having my name out there either!
+– Susan
+What I’ve found is that, no matter who you are or how healthy you are, few people will come to a consensus about how they see you. No matter how you act, people will see you the way they want to see you. This is especially true for Introverts, who may not show their complete selves to those they don’t trust.
+For example, I think my INTP significant other is by far one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. But for some reason, a lot of people take his silence and short sentences as stupidity.
+I’ve had people tell me that I’m kind; I’ve had people tell me I’m cruel. Some have described me as timid, while others have deemed me arrogant. I’m a free spirit to some, a tight ass stickler to others. It’s bizarre, and over time I’ve found that there is very little one can do to change their minds. I’m an INFP, and I know who I am.
+[…] How Others See You, Based on Your Personality Type […]
+I am using Intensity Shuttle. I have all minimum requirements and all updated softwares and drivers. I am using HDMI cables to connect the Shuttle to my TV/Xbox. I am also using the included Media Express software. My problem is that I can not get any video feed onto my computer (onto Media Express) with 1080p.
+Also, I can not get any video on my TV when my Xbox HDTV settings are set to "1080p". It will be a blank screen. (When not using the Intensity Shuttle, I can use 1080p fine). However, when the settings are at "1080i", I will get a picture on my TV. I am confused because the Intensity Shuttle is supposed to support 1080p but it seems to only work with 1080i on my Xbox.
+Can anyone help? I want to record Xbox 360 gameplay on Intensity Shuttle using HDMI in 1080p.
+Thank you
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+After doing some research I found out that Intensity Shuttle won't work with 1080p for Xbox. Apparently recording 1080p on Xbox 360 requires "1080p 60" which the Shuttle doesn't support. I'm not sure if that is a software limitation or a hardware limitation. Either way, my patience is up and I will be returning the Intensity Shuttle.
+I would not recommend this product to anyone. Even if 1080p 60 is not your goal, you will have other problems. There are countless problems I've encountered in a single 24 hour time period, including my system not being able to detect Intensity Shuttle, not being able to download drivers, not being able to download Media Express, not being able to start Media Express, other software (flash media live) not being able to detect the Shittle, Media Express failing to work because of missing files (?), and more. And yes, my system exceeds all minimum requirements for the Intensity Shuttle as specified on the Blackmagic Designs website. Also the price is really not that good. $200 for this piece of plastic? If it was problem-free, then the price would be tolerable. But it's NOT problem free.
+Also, while researching this product I've discovered that other people are having lots of problems with the Intensity Shuttle, so I am not alone.
+Do not buy this.
+I have it running fine, Does your motherboard have the x58 or p55 chipset? Did you udate your NEC USB drivers and firmware as described in the read me first doc? USB 3 is still new, If your running Windows 7, did you install all software as administrator? Don't give up just yet.
+Hi guys. I've just got my new X58 chipset PC built today and am trying to set up my shuttle to record from my 360. Seemingly "Danny Hays" you have it working. If you are still on this forum (or if anyone else has one running) could you advise me as to my 360 and capture program setup so that I can get capturing as I am struggling a bit. I have gotten sound coming through into media express as I can tell by the two audio bars in the bottom right, but so far i have no video.
+I dropped down to 1080i 60Hz as, like you said, the shuttle doesn't do 1080p 60Hz (yet), and set up the capture to 1080i 60fps. If anyone has any pointers on how to get the video through to the capture program i'd really appreciate it.
+I am in the UK so have switched the NTSC setting to 0 in the control panel as I record in PAL.
+I will fiddle around in the mean time and edit if I get it sorted. This is the highest Shuttle/360 result on google so it will help others setting these up in the future too.
+Cheers
+Bob
+Edit:
+Not sure if my sound is recording, it's either not or it's massively quiet. 60Hz equates to 59.94 fps settings, not 60fps, so that's the setting you need to use.
+Quick question? Why do you want to capture XBox360 at 1080p when that is an upscaled resolution for most games?
+Most XBox360 games are native 1280x720p/60 or less. That resolution makes more sense for recording to me.
+-
+Last edited by edDV; 1st Sep 2010 at 16:28.
+The Intensity Pro/Shuttle is very picky when it comes to resolution/framerate. You will only see video if you set your capture software (including Media Express) to the EXACT same resolution as is coming from your video source.
+In other words, if you're Xbox is using PAL instead of NTSC use 1080i50 instead of 60.
+Also, even if you plan on using some other software to capture rather than the included Media Express, always test using Media Express first. This is because Media Express accesses the Intensity Pro/Shuttle hardware directly, bypassing the DirectShow driver, while nearly all other software uses the DirectShow driver to access the video stream. So if it doesn't work in Media Express, it won't work with anything else either.
+Hi Nanostronghold, Have you got the Shuttle to capture anything yet? Need to know if it's working at all. If yes, I have been able to capture 1080i from my HDV camera, component out, with capture set to 1080 59.94. I captured 720 59.94p through the HDMI as well, with capture settings at 720p 59.94. I don't have an XBox 360, but I also heard of success with capture settings at 720 ? Can you tell what the output settings of the xbox are? they have to match the capture settings of the shuttle. If your trying with HDMI, set that as your input the Shuttle control panel, and try all the capture settings one at a time until you see video in Media Express. Make sure it working first with SD NTSC and composite in from a DVD or VCR, known SD composite source. Also there isn't much visable difference between 1080i and 720p on a mid to small HDTV except for the interlacing, which is very noticable. Let us know how it goes. I'll help if I can.
+Danny Hays
+Hi guys. I'll give you an update and also mention a new slight problem I am having, which I have messaged blackmagic about as well.
+I had been trying to record at 60fps when I was at 60Hz, so, as you said Danny, when I changed down to 59.97 i got it working. I have now captured footage at 1080i @59.97 and 720p @59.97. Here is a 30 second recording test in 1080i I did and stuck it on youtube to see how it would transfer:
+I did find that, although audio was clearly being recorded, I couldn't get sound to play when previewing recordings in Media Express. This isn't a major problem except that I can't get sound to play in Adobe Premiere Pro either. I also can't get Adobe Premiere Pro set up to capture or play any of my recordings. Both recording and playback in PP stop after a couple of seconds. I can still export videos from Premiere Pro fine and they come out playable and with audio, but I cannot check the audio in the program and video editing will be a pain if I can't play more than 3 seconds of a video before it pauses.
+I have also found that it is dropping frames. I may be wrong but it seems to be getting worse. After a couple of short test recordings whilst I was gauging the quality and stability of different recording types I recorded for 20 minutes in 1080i. The video looked perfectly smooth and i did not notice any signs of dropped frames (although I did not watch it all :P ). I continued to fiddle with settings et.c. to try and get file sizes down and testing different export file types. That 20 minute vid was about 45 gigs. I then decided to try recording in 720p: That recording instantly had issues. I could visibly see the video jumping and dropping frames every couple of seconds and causing the audio to go out of sync. I retried a couple of times and then decided to switch back to 1080i again to see if the same problem occured and it was noticably occuring there too.
+As I said, my earlier 20 minute 1080i recording didn't seem to show any visual signs of dropped frames, but as I looked back at it, later on, the audio was very out of sync. I am not sure why exactly though. My computer isn't struggling as far as I can tell, CPU usage never exceeds around 45% and memory around 65%. I though that it could maybe be my Hard Drive transfer rate causing it, but, as the xbox 360 has no 30Hz option, and the settings have to match, I don't know if I can record at ~30fps instead. The blackmagic control panel offers plenty of recording down-processing from HD to SD but no option to down-sample a 1080i 60fps input to 1080i 30fps.
+Again i don't know for sure what the cause of the dropped frames is, which is why i contacted blackmagic about it, but I found it odd that the Shuttle is more advanced than other PVRs and yet I am getting dropped frames and audio de-syncing in 720p, whilst other older devices like the Hauppage HDPVR seems to be able to handle 720p fine.
+Sorry that's a long post, but i figured that more detail is better, especially if other people struggling to set up their shuttles stumble across this.
+Any insight/advice/theories on any of that would be appreciated
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+dexi
+September 20th, 2005
+Dear all,
+i am 40 y/o and I am getting acne like there is no tomorrow!!
+I never had acne in the true sense whilst growing up, just the occassional pluke/ boil half on half off my lips. Now for the last three years my face feels like the surface of the moon!!
+My periods are changing but its kinda hard to describe , I knew how my body would react on any given day but it feels like someone spun the wheel and all my symptoms have landed in the wrong days!!
+My skin feels as if there are invisible baby spiders running all over it.. But the spots on my face are what really gets me down...My forehead and hairline (and scabs of blood all over my scalp) are bad but its my chin that I really want sorted... Every day I get few more whether its a little pimple or a deep boiler!!! Even when they go they always leave deep purple bruising for months after....It feels like there is so much pressure it is gonna go pop!!! I also have an enlarged thyroid but my doctor said its not connected to the huge lump in my throat, do these sound like perimenopause symptoms to anyone? And is there light at the end of the tunnel? Any good acne cures?!!!
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+Re: Acne And Perimenopause?
+dexi wrote:
+i also have an enlarged thyroid but my doctor said its not connected to the huge lump in my throat...
+are you on replacement thyroxine?
+Have you been diagnosed with underactive thyroid?
+Because there is a connection with underactive thyroid (which can cause enlarged thyroid...I have that too), and tendency to get acne/spots when older.
+I never knew that till a few months ago, and I was diagnosed with underactive thyroid in '91.
+Am in perimenopuse now at 46.
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+Dear wildflower. Was diagnosed with overactive thyroid several years ago, but not on any meds. I am convinced that there is a connection between this and this lump in my throat that is tender to touch, but maybe its just me. To be honest I have lost faith in conventional doctors as all they want to do is slot you into one category and feed you 'man-made' pills!! And if you want to ask anything about your complaint they look at you like you want their job!!! I try very hard to maintain my health with the use of herbal remedies and a sound understanding of what happens to your body when you introduce something into it. I try, I suppose to always be in control of my body. Sounds easy on paper but how many of us really are in control? P.S. Trying a ph balanced washing gel for my spots and it really seems to be having an effect!!!
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+Hi dexi,
+it's been many months since you posted your message so if you've found a solution to your acne problem, please let me know. When I read your post, I felt like I was reading about myslef.
+My main complain, too, is my chin. I"m 41 years old and have had clear skin for years. When I was a teenager, I had pimples on my chin, but small ones; now I have these zits that look huge to me and feel sore. I think they do look like small boils. And as soon as one starts going away, I feel another huge sore bump coming to the surface right next to it!
+I also have a nodule on my thyroid. I am having a thyroidectomy next month. I don't think they're related. My thyroid function is normal. I"m just having it out as a precaution, in case it is malignant since it's slowly growing and I had radiation for lymphoma on my neck 11 years ago.
+Last year my dermatologist put me on retina micro which used to help my skin, but this time just made it worse. I also find this so depressing; it's sometimes hard to look my husband in the eye when I feel like I look gross.
+I'm going back to the dermatologist next month. In the meantime, any advice?? What is the name of this ph balanced washing gel?
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+replied October 2nd, 2013
+I know this is an old thread but I just found it . I have also had issues with Acne and Perimenopause . I have researched the topic a ton and what I learned was that it all has to do with Progesterone levels and there is a cream for that. Progesterone Cream applied daily . It will help your Hormones to balance and help your face to clear up and a lot of other symptoms will also go away or improve . I joined just to share this info because I want to be able to help other people get relief from this monster Menopause .
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+Hi there!
+I have been advised to stop taking kelp on a regular basis in case this is what is affecting my thyroid count.
+Re the ph balanced gel it is tescos own brand at 99p but it really does the trick, also drink lots of water thru'out the day.
+I have recently had a tummy tuck(very pleased!!!), and in three weeks I have to have a tvt op (not looking forward to it!!!).
+I still get scabs of blood on my scalp but am trying very hard to analyse my cycle exactly as im sure the key to good health lies within...Also very badly affected by growing patches of psoriasis and recently found out that this can be linked to food allergies, since I already have a couple of these I think it may be a possibility, does anyone out there know of any specific foodstuffs that result in psoriasis????
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+Hi,
+I too have always had very good skin on my face, and I had 1/2 my thyroid taken out when I was 18, and I've had "allergies" although to nothing in particular ...my immune system just takes off on its own and forgets to shut off (according to the doctor).
+Now I am 42 and I'm bleeding 1 day a week, and I have acne especially on my neck. What is with the huge neck zits? They take forever to heal. My breasts are tender and I just had an mammogram & ultrasound to check that out. I've also gained weight in the last 6 months due to stress and lack of exercise (my mom almost died in an accident during this period).
+My TSH & T3 always tests in the "normal" range but I keep forgetting to do the temperature test to know for sure. I get really cold hands and feet at night and have a slow metabolism. I have type II diabetes in my family and I am thirsty all the time. Plus, in the last 6 months I've got psorasis on my face. I always had it on my legs but never on my face.
+Did you know that psorasis is related to lupus? Anyways, thanks for mentioning the kelp because I forgot about it relating to the thyroid. I definitely feel better when I am lighter but the emotional rollercoaster makes it hard to want to care about losing weight. I had to post because my situation sounds so similar.
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+replied February 6th, 2009
+Acne and Perimenopause?
+Hi All,I am 42 and like all of you have never had an issue with acne before. I don't believe I have a thyroid problem but will get it checked. I've started to get sore acne on the chin, forehead and neck- it's very depressing and embarassing. I also feel deep skin itching and like spiders are on my skin.
+Does anyone have any suggestions??? Answers??? Help Please!!
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+replied February 9th, 2009
+ancne and perimenopause?
+Hi, I started breaking out w/acne about 5 years ago. I am 49 years old! I initially went to my primary care physician who vaguely determined I had adult acne. I then went to a dermatologist who prescribed injections of restylane for a couple of scars. Decided to go to a Top Doc dermatologist who prescribed a topical daily treatment that has left my skin red and 'at home chemically peeled'. This is foolish! I may have had 10 pimples in my teens, at the most...and now, I am constantly fighting cystic acne. My skin was perfect prior to my turning 45 years old. I have had an ovary removed because it was filled w/a blood cyst. Now, I wonder if my skin will ever be clear again. I have taken good care of my skin through the years so that I don't have any wrinkles, and am told that I look 30 years old...but what's the use of taking good care to avoid sun exposure and harsh chemicals, when I end up w/deforming cysts. And the doctors so far seem to find it all amusing.
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+i am turning into an obsessive compulsive re hormones!! I hear you with the big welts, like its the folicles that just swell up overnight and stay for weeks it feels like. I'm 39 and up till 2 years ago (on same pill for 15 years) as always it came out of nowhere. went off pill and the constant greasy skin and pimples drove me to countless doctors to pay for them to say, give it some time, thanks for your 60 bucks for 5 minutes see you next time. well finally decided to go back on the pill, buggers wouldn't give it to me due to my AGE, running out of options finally found a doc to refer me to dermat, he has been great we are finally half way there. on spironolactone (aldactone) water pill which blocks the aldestrone hormone (androgens I think). the pimples in my hair stopped and the grease and the pms (don't want to kill people now), the fatigue, some of the vagueness (still a blonde) and the chin, forehead and cheek boil like pimples except when i have my period or ovulating for about 4 days in each, think due to hormone levels, just had blood tests done and prog and estro down so thinking regulating this is the next step (hence perimenopause search). also you loose weight on them which isn't good for me being 50kg already so i really need to eat well to maintain weight on these tabs and breasts get sore, but i'm happy with that at this stage, I can handle those downfalls. thinking after reading this site i might get him to do thyroid test too as that might be affecting my metabolism and playing a role. so hope this helps someone, i lost sleep looking up sites and trying to find my own cure for the symptoms that drove me crazy. My mum is a nurse and it took alot to get me to the point that i HAD to try medication. Alprim antibiotics 1/2 helped too, differin made my skin worse but apparently you need to use it for a long period, i found too much scarring. as my derm said its just an elimination game, if this dieuretic doesn't work roaccutane is next step which i don't want to go to if i can help it. doctors really need to wake up and realise this is a REAL problem that is affecting us and our life. it is not only destroying our confidence, we are on an emotional rollercoaster and feel like we are on it alone. I tell you if i hear one more person say to me it is diet, exercise and lifestyle that causes acne i am not going to be responsible for my behaviour. clearly i have tried all of these areas before i desperately went to the derm seeking answers. I can not explain the relief of sitting down with him on my first visit, (in my head expecting the usual response) and to hear, yes that is a problem and we can deal with this! It is not diet related! It is hormonal. Sheer relief!! Felt like on cloud 9 all day just to have someone to fight this with me not against me. Hope i helped you with my experiences, as my derm says 'still a bit of a journey to go, but we'll get there'.
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+replied August 5th, 2009
+I hear you all!! I am 40 and have been having acne for the last year and 1/2. As a teen i would have one or two pimples once a month...now it is constant and more than ever....chest, neck, hairline, jaw and chin.
+Is this just perimenopausal or what??? suggestions to treatments are welcomed.
+I am glad i am not alone!
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+replied August 12th, 2009
+Acne and menopause
+I'm 46 and I've had three periods in 11 months. I've run the gamut of symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. I feel like aliens have taken over my body. Now I have the acne and I want to scream. I just had bloodwork (again) to check hormone levels and thyroid, waiting for results. I've also been going nuts for the past month with itchy scalp. Last month, I had a stye that I can still feel under the skin, but it isn't visible anymore and doesn't hurt. Cold sores have been a problem at least 3-4x a year for the past few years too. Gastic disturbances, hot flashes, mood swings, palpitations, dizziness, nausea, arm tremors, numbing/tingling in my arms and legs.....I chalk it all up to hormonal imbalance and the doctors can never seem to find anything wrong with me other than "early menopause". I see a cardiologist (because I was a smoker until two months ago and I have high blood pressure) and my gyno (annually). Neither of them seem concerned that I have anything more serious going on, so I've stopped obsessing that it's MS, Lupus or any other disease (including hypochondria). I just wonder, when it's all over and done with, what will I be left with?? If it's the acne, I'll kill myself. These aren't really blackheads or even whiteheads. These are big red things that hurt and are just popping up everywhere, on my neck, jaw, back, chest, cheek....I've always had oily skin with an occasional "period" flare up, but I've always washed my face 2x per day with neutragena for acne-prone skin and I use other products with salicylic acid when flare-ups occur. This past month has been more than a flare up, this has been a complete "hostile take over" and I'm not happy.
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+replied May 31st, 2013
+This is the post I can most relate. Thanks. I am trying Apple Cider Vinegar and thinking about over the counter estrogen.
+I am 41 and have been getting acne that is out of control and painful.
+I am a picker too. This is just greeeeeeeat....
+I feel so overwhelmed and am having severe concentration problems.
+I'm already a over thinker so this awful!!!
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+replied August 17th, 2009
+I am 39 and I've always dealt with acne, but nothing like this. I broke out about a month and a half ago on my neck, chin, jawline, chest and back. It was on my forehead but that seems to be clearing up. I am desperate!! I went and saw my NP and she did hormone and thyroid (I am hypothyroid and on meds.) blood tests and all is well. I am desperate. This is embarassing and I find myself cringing when I have to go out. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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+lalyki
+replied October 11th, 2009
+Glad to hear I am not alone....
+I am so glad that I am not the only woman out there that feels these things! I am almost 49 and I have been hypothyroid for a little over 1 year. Before that I had Graves' Disease, doctors advised me to take radioactive iodine treatment, and ultimately became hypo. But the acne, spidery feeling, irregular periods, tender breasts & nipples - oh my gosh! My husband is so understanding, but will it ever end! I too can deal with all of it, but the acne. I have it on my chin, neck and all over my back. I almost hate to wear makeup as it is clogging the pores. I am to the point of wearing nothing but turtleneck shirts to cover up my embarressing looking neck!
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+kariemac2
+replied December 14th, 2009
+perimenopause and acne
+Wow! It's so nice to know I'm not alone in "hormone HELL"! I'm turning 50 in a week and I've got horrible red acne (at least that's what I think it is) all around my nose and under my eyes...I want to cry!!! (I have been!) I've never had anything like this before...it seems to flare up when I have chocolate, but also flares up when I get a period...I have had VERY heavy bleeding for 2 days, after not having a period for 3 months---MENOPAUSE SUCKS!!!!! Sorry, but I know some of you can relate...thanks for letting me vent! I think I will try what Jack LaLaine says: "NO white sugar and NO white flour!" I know my skin is better when I avoid those things...Wish me luck!
+And good luck to all of you---hang in there!
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+Kgreen
+replied December 31st, 2009
+I'm 49 and my zits on my chin are so bad my husband and I have given them names - Jolene, Josephine, Jo Nell, you get the idea.
+My deem put me on a two month antibiotic routine and my skin really cleared up. But the cure only lasted 6-8 months. Now they're back with a vengence! What to do????
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+LisaInPasadena
+replied January 6th, 2010
+Peri-Menopause and Nasty, Evil Acne
+Hey all - it IS good to know I am not alone in this "Quest for Acne Abatement".
+Like most of you I had good (actually great) skin for the past 30 years. I am 48.
+A few years ago, I began peri-menopause and also began getting stress-related hives on my chin. Nothing I could not deal with and drinking lots of water seemed to help. NOW, though, the Acne Gods are giving me the boil-like zits of which many of you speak.
+My bathroom (only one in the house) has been getting a remodel for the past 5 months (old house - horrible) and I've CONSTANTLY had at least one of these buggers festering on the chin or center of the forehead (3rd eye - how attractive - not!) due to the stress.
+I have found 2 things that sometimes work:
+1) Neostrata Acne Spot Treatment Gel
+2) Colloidial silver
+I would rather handle the root cause and prevent the darn things in the first place, but until I can solve that without causing worse problems (the ingested anti-biotic route is not for me), this will have to suffice. No hope in sight re the stress, either because come spring, we are rebuilding our garage and again I am in charge of the process.
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+kariemac2
+replied January 6th, 2010
+Hello---just wanted write a follow-up to what I wrote earlier---in case anybody can relate---about my breakouts on my skin...well, I found out it's not acne at all, but bumps related to shingles, facial herpes, etc...I had shingles when I was a kid, and a horrible breakout in my mouth in my 20's...so---it started to go away when I started applying hydrocortisone 1% to the sores...thanks to my husband---he is the one that told me the sores looked like they were related to shingles! Anyway, I think I had the breakout because of the stress from the horrible period I just had...50 years old and the heaviest period of my life---such a drag!
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+Acne and perimenopause?
+I'm so over looking,searching, and trying just about anything for this crazy skin issue.I'm 45 and like everyone else, didn't have adult acne until my 40's and retin-a mico worked for awhile, but then this new thing started a few months ago that has been a nightmare. My periods have been heavy and I've developed anemia which isn't so bad because I'm pretty healthy and normal weight for my age. The new strange thick white stuff is coming out of my pores. Not your typical pus filled pimple, but an endless supply of what I thought might be wrinkle cream coming out of my already oily skin.Of course being the obsessive picker that I am I was taking the side of clean tweezers on tried to get this gunk out of my skin. Needless to say I made my acne condition much worse which ended up being infected. The derm. put me on some meds.which three days later they called to switch the antibiotic because they said it was a staff infection. I had been watching the new Dr.Oz show (i love him,wish he was my doc)and had learned about MRSA so I asked the nurse jokingly if my staff was MRSA and she said yes. Well, I could go on forever but in a nut shell, I've done a lot of research and had to take a real but kicking antibiotic(levoquine) which left me with joint pain, and I still have the problem! I'm seeing a new derm. the first one prescribed the wrong dose of meds and soon as I told her I was researching MRSA, she was real nasty. I'm trying not to pick,and I'm using something called biafine which helps with healing wounds, but the thick white stuff is still under my skin.Silver gel also helps kill bacteria and healing but the big drug company's don't want you to know about something that's been around forever. Funny that bandaide has a new siverlined bandage on the market.(I found them at CVS, wear them at night or for a couple days if you can go without makeup and wear a bandage around,they really help and will force you not to pick. I'm going in for a follow up visit on Monday, hopefully I'll get some answers. I feel for everyone out there, stay positive and know that ,"This too shall pass"....let's hope so right. I'm not giving up, it;s not in my nature. I'll let you know what I find out. Jen
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+replied October 10th, 2012
+It's "staph" infection, not "staff". (Staph for staphylococcus bacteria.)
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+Josie1111
+replied October 16th, 2012
+Wow, you took time out of your schedule to correct her spelling? I don't know about Srching4ansrs, but I'm looking for answers to my acne issues, not my spelling. Ya think you could possibly be adding to a person's stress with such "nit-pickiness?"
+Srching4ansrs, I totally understand what you are/were going through. Thanks for sharing your story; you helped me a lot.
+~JM
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+slothful_1959
+replied October 16th, 2012
+I corrected it so that it can be looked up by others. That's all.
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+Almost40
+replied February 17th, 2010
+Possible perimenopause and hormonal acne.
+I am so glad that I found this site and learned that so many other women are having the same kinds of problems I am. I was starting to feel slightly crazy wondering about these weird symptoms I have been having. I will be 39 next month and I have had some trouble with acne since my late teens, but I just recently started getting nasty bumps on the sides of my neck, along my hairline and the crown of my head. My face seems to be broken out at least three weeks each month, with the worst week being the one before my menstrual cycle. The acne is either bright red lumps or small bumpy areas around my cheeks and the bridge of my nose, and I cannot seem to avoid the urge to mess with them (I use tweezers as someone else mentioned). I am very familiar with the thick white stuff that srching4ansrs described. It turly is different from the pus that usually comes from pimples and it seems like there must be a layer of this stuff just under the skin covering my cheeks and the bridge of my nose. This stuff just appeared a couple years ago and I didn't connect any of this with hormones or perimenopause until I saw my dermatologist today and she told me that she thought the problem was hormonal. She prescribed Keflex to clear up the current infected areas and then said that she was going to try spironalactone, which I just researched through Google. The spironalactone seems to block androgen production which is higher when estrogen starts dropping before menopause. I thought I was still to young to think about menopause, but when I read the symptoms I had too many of them to deny perimenopause as a possibility: worse PMS, very heavy period for the first couple days and then it ends sooner than usual, decrease in labido, chronic headaches- usually in the mornings, face flushing (my ears burn and turn red out of the blue), that itchy feeling that people described, moodiness, swelling in my legs and feet, brief periods of tachycardia, tingling feeling in my arm, trouble getting to sleep at night, and of course the acne problem, which is worse than any of the other symptoms because it is so visible and embarrassing. I am otherwise healthy, so the only good news about knowing I might be experiencing perimenopause is that I was starting to feel like a hypochondriac because some of these symptoms seemed so sporadic and unconnected. I hate going to the doctor anyway, and it never occured to me to mention all of these symptoms at once to either my dermatologist or gynocologist. Anyway, wish me luck with the Keflex and spironolactone. It sounds promising for hormonal acne. I welcome any suggestions that have been helpful for people with symptoms similar to mine.
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+Acne Atrocity
+The crazy cycle of cystic acne is making me bonkers. Of late, I have gained 15 lbs, have a merry-go-round of red sore mounds around my mouth...chin and cheeks mainly. I don''t get what is going on. I have gone 2.5 months w/o a period, my face looks like I eat chocolate 24/7 or something. A GUY asked me today what is wrong with my face/chin...I said perimenopause. Fun eh? One starts to disappear and another pops up within hours...I am serious. I will look and think..oh good, it''s going away...and like MAGIC another one pops up. It is all month long for me. I use the Clairsonic and mild non drying, paraben free cleanser...very pure. NOthing seems to help. I will start with the colloidal silver next. Topically and orally. I think it''s systemic inflammation...and its time to put out the wild fire and keep it contained to the furnace!
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+Trent Johnson:
+Opening Statement:
+Texas, very, very good basketball team. Probably as good of a team as we have played all year. They made a series of runs, and I thought we responded, and then I thought we got caught up in the emotion of the game there when it was 52-51, and next thing I know, I turn around and it was 58-51. But they made shots we didn't. Thought it could have been tight at the half but didn't work out that way.
+Like I said, they are a very, very good basketball team, and this is a really special group. I told them immediately afterwards, one of the things going into this year, one of our goals was to establish ourselves, and for them to establish themselves as one of the best basketball teams in Stanford history. When you look at what this group has accomplished in one of the best leagues in the country and for these guys to have matured last year going into this year; and for the seniors to go through the coaching change and be receptive to the coaching and our staff, I thought it was exceptional.
+Q. I know it's probably a little early, but how would you sum up this season?
+Well, very good. I mean, again, being around these guys every day and seeing how much they give of themselves, and they give to the program, seeing how hard they worked to improve, and then being in a league that top to bottom that's probably the toughest Conference in the Pac 10 Conference in a long, long time, to get to this point, it's not hard for me to reflect right away. And like I said, like I told them in the locker room, when they take a long step back and take a look at this, they will feel good about what they accomplished.
+Yes, we had goals to be Pac-10 Champions during the season; yes, we had a goal to be conference champions; and yes they had a goal to get to the Final Four, and the thing about it, they believed, and they worked their tails off to put themselves in that position to where they just came up just a step short in all three of them.
+Q. Can you talk about the way Texas defended especially Pittman, against Brook?
+They didn't do anything against Brook that we haven't seen all year long.
+The key turning point for us was against a team the caliber of Texas, offensively, and as good as they are defensively, when you have open shots, you have to knock them down. And I thought we had some good looks, three or four five looks in the first half that didn't go down for us.
+In the second half, when they made two runs and we responded, and we got it to where it's 52-51 and they went man and got up after us and we tried to do too much. I thought there was three or four possessions where Mitch tried to do too much and got too deep; and Brook, and again, that's what highly competitive players do.
+I have so much respect for Texas as a basketball team and the thing that's most impressive to me as I saw on tape, they really defend you. We didn't get beat on loose balls as much as we did tonight. Rebound-wise it was even, but it felt like every key rebound they got, and we felt like that was the biggest difference, as opposed to what was going on with Brook.
+Q. Everybody was mentioning there have been a lot of runs and you guys had a lot of answers, each time you got up, they came back and made a run. Anything different after they got out front, why you think you guys didn't have another run in you or didn't close the gap like you had so many times already tonight?
+Yeah, for as hard as it is for me to say, they are better. They are better. They have got an exceptional --.
+Incredible class.
+Q. You had trouble finding someone to knock down the open outside shot; can you talk about Landry's play tonight?
+I don't know if it's one of the best games of his career. I just thought he was aggressive and he played and he relaxed and he had fun. So again, he played a good game and did a good job and I'm excited for Landry, because he's a guy into next year that's going to have a huge role on this basketball team.
+Q. Last year at this time, you said you were going to sit down with Brook and talk about what his future is going to be; is that discussion going to take place this year, and if this is his last game, what is his legacy with Stanford?
+Well, again, at the appropriate time – that's the furthest thing from my mind. Yes, I will sit down and talk, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this is probably his last game in a Stanford uniform. And his legacy at Stanford in my mind is he's one of the better post players we've had. And his growth, and he's had a lot of growth and it will continue, but it's been impressive. The sky is the limit for Brook, but as he knows and everybody else knows that's been around this basketball program and this team, his work habits and those things are the only thing that's going to stop him from being special regardless of where he plays.
+Q. Do you feel like there's a chance Robin won't be back next year?
+You know, I don't know that. And who is coming back is not a concern to me right now. My concern and my thoughts is that this is a team with four seniors that played exceptionally well and this is a team that's pretty down right now. Taj Finger, Kenny Brown, Fred Washington, Peter Prowitt, those are where my thoughts are right now.
+He was happy to answer the question on Brook, but deflected this
+one.
+Q. You just mentioned that Taj and Fred have been the heart and soul of the team since you've take every over as head coach. Can you speak about them playing their last games?
+Yeah, excuse me [tears up], you know, college athletics is about student athlete, and being selfless, always wanting to take care of your teammates, always want to be a good example for your program and your school and for your team and being an extension of your coach. And very few coaches will get up here and say points and rebounds aren't important; but to me, guys like Taj, guys like Fred, this is what this is about. And it's hard, because you know, for me, that's where I get the sole satisfaction out of seeing guys that compete every day and are willing to sacrifice everything they have for the good of the team.
+We always talk about the five A's: Having an attitude, a positive attitude; being aggressive; understanding angles offensively and defensively; being aggressive, and then the most important thing and the last one is being accountable to your team and to yourself. That's what Fred Washington and Taj Finger and Kenny Brown and Peter Prowitt are about.
+No one had the heart to tell him he repeated an A.
+Rick Barnes:
+Opening Statement:
+Well, I really thought it was really a terrific team win. Not only the job that the five guys that have been there doing it all year for us, but the minutes that our bench gave us by coming in, putting our bodies on their inside post players, because we know how good they are and how hard they are to defend; but the minutes that you look at our bench gave us by just physically going out and trying to stay attached to them with our bodies when they had the ball, especially in the low post I thought was really important. And then obviously, at the end, these guys do what they have done for us all year on the offensive end, made the plays they needed to make.
+Q. You held them without a field goal for over nine minutes. During that stretch, can you talk about what you did differently to really shut them down?
+Well, coming in, we had talked about a number of different things that we wanted to do. You know, we have used some different zones. From this time of year, obviously you can look at a lot of tape and get a lot of information, and we had a plan not to back off – I mean to, back off certain guys and really try to help.
+The biggest thing we talked about really and truly was we knew we could not keep them from catching the ball in the post, we knew that going in, so we tried it to get the ball off the block a little bit and when we went in there, we wanted to get to the low side, just inches, to try to take away the baseline turn. And they are so good, they are going to score some of those and they are too big and it really affected us early in the game, was the second shot.
+Up to this point, we had been looking over to make blocks and be aggressive and the biggest adjustment we made is saying we are going to stay home on the back side and finally – and sometimes coaches get in the players way, and with that last time-out, we said, "Hey, look, we'll do what's got us here." We weren't doing what we felt like we needed to do on the defensive ends and we were a little, whatever, and we finally said, we're going to get aggressive. Don't care if you catch it, we are going to go make plays and rebound it. That's the biggest thing we said we had to do on that end.
+And a big part what have we tried to do offensively was run, push tempo, hoping that in the last few minutes was that would help us on the defensive end, making their post guys come out and handle ball screens and make them have to worry about transition and we just hoped in the last eight minutes, with our bench leaning on them a little bit, we could break it open. Some good things happened when we got back to being aggressive.
+And Justin mentioned it with our ball pressure and getting over to help and doing those things. You.
+Q. Can you talk about the combination of bigs you used on the Lopez twins tonight?
+Again, we tried to play post defense the best we could, and he's very hard to defend. He's long and he does a tremendous job of getting the ball above his head and keeping it there and getting off the ground with it. They do a very good job -- not a very good job, a great job of knowing what they are looking for.
+We felt like ball pressure was really important coming into the game. We felt like if you just allowed him to set outside, because they will throw it from 25 feet, and I'm not sure how much we got out of it. But we just – that's what we do and we didn't want to – early in the game we weren't pressuring the ball the way we probably have up to this point.
+Again I think a big part what we did to help us in the end was our offense because we really wanted to run. We really wanted to get them into multiple ball screens, and they are random and we wanted to really get both of them up there and open up the basket so we could get some dribble penetration, and they do a great job of blocking shots and altering shots and thinking we could get second chance opportunities. And what happened in the end is probably as much a reflection of our offense and pushing the base as anything we did defensively.
+Q. Wonder if you can talk about the lift that you got from D.J. tonight. Seemed like he was really into it.
+Well, he's been great all year. You know, D.J., A.J., those guys, when we needed something to happen, both of those guys would make some plays. But it amazes me sometimes that people don't ever want to talk about Justin Mason. Look at his line tonight, between our point guards tonight, they ended up with 13 assists and four turnovers. D.J. is terrific. All year long, he's a guy that when we give it to him, we know he's going to make something happen. But there's so many other things out there that's happening for him to do that, and the screens, when you step up there, the fact that people know that Connor actually can make a 3-point shot; the concern about Damion James and A.J. Abrams. We started out the year staying our post game is going to be spreading the floor, letting him go in there and do some things and letting him by our post guy by driving it, drawing somebody, kicking it, or driving it, getting on the glass and somebody coming to get a second shot.
+But he's been great all year. He's as good as any basketball player out there, and the minutes he's played – tonight is the least amount of minutes, I would say he's played, since January, the start of January Conference-play, because he's been averaging 39 minutes a game throughout the conference-play but we did want to get him out tonight and we said he's going to have to push tempo early and he did that.
+Q. Did the setup prevent you guys from communicating at all with your assistants? I saw them earlier tugging on your pant legs.
+We can't hear. It was different, it was. As the crowd got going, I felt like I'm screaming; I can't hear you, I can't hear you.
+That's probably the biggest difference in the game is where it probably affects the bench being down below and the coaching, because you know, I have a great staff and I really count on those guys. We were talking and I know one time I turned around and said, I can't hear you. They all were trying to relay the message and I yelled back and I said, I can't hear you. That was probably the one big thing from it.
+Q. What were they trying to tell you?
+Yeah, we were talking about substitutions. That was at the point in time where Connor picked up a third foul or Damion and we were talking about what we wanted to get done right there. That's what was going on right there at that point in time.
+Q. When D.J. made the steal and went coast to coast, you yelled, "Yeah, baby" there was a fist-pump there, did you sense that that was a key moment? That's an uncharacteristic emotion from you at that point.
+I thought it was, because they were making a push right there and we felt at that point in time we had to – I thought Trent did a great job, too, and his guys made some hustle plays and at that point in time, obviously the emotions there are for a lot of people. When your players make the effort and come up with it and it pays big dividends, yeah, we all got excited. At that point in time we needed a play like that. And it goes back to talking about D.J. and Justin, at times those people come up with plays that people don't talk about. But that was a huge play at that point in time.
+Q. You've been talking a lot about A.J. and a lot about D.J. and Justin. But what about Pittman's numbers? In just ten minutes of play, seemed like he did an incredible job on the boards.
+I thought he was great in terms of making his weight a factor. I told him, I don't know if I would ever say that to you up to this point, but tonight your weight was a factor.
+I think when a guy leans on you and keeps doing what he did, and he was able to get deep post-up, and we told him, get it deep and try to catch it underneath the rim. You know, he was able to put some fouls on him.
+I thought he was huge. I thought the minutes – Clint Chapman was really good tonight. [Wangmene] was really good. Gary Johnson, too. All those guys, those minutes that those guys gave us is a big part of the reason why we were able to win tonight and just being able to go in. It's hard when a guy is leaning on you consistently. We felt like if we could keep a body on them and not elevate quite as much during the course of the game, we felt like it would be like throwing body punches in boxing; you just try to wear them down that way.
+Q. Could you talk more about Dexter's contribution, particularly defensively, because Brook had hurt you for 30 minutes there and he shut him down at the end.
+We took him out because he asked to come out. You could tell he was a factor. Our team was so excited because of the fact we knew what he's done at his time in Texas and with how hard he's worked to lose the weight he's lost, and with that, coming to practice, doing everything he can, it's just really – you're excited when a guy has a night like this where he's able to do it. But Dexter is important, he has great hands and is very athletic, and he's a guy that when he can give us what he gave us tonight, it obviously adds to what we do.
+And throughout the game, because of Dexter and some of those guys, we're able to change. We can go from a team that can open the floor up or go from a post presence, which we didn't have early in the year. Those post guys, I'm happy for them because they are young and they continue to work, and we obviously needed them tonight and they came through for us.
+Q. Can you just give your general impressions of Brook Lopez and did you figure if nobody else hurt you badly, you would be okay?
+You know what, as we were talking as a staff about Stanford, I said it's almost like what I remember as a kid growing up with the Green Bay Packers and that sweep they ran; you knew it was coming but there is just not a whole lot you can do with it.
+Again, Trent does a great job coaching this team. They play high-percentage, fundamental basketball. He's got great hands. He catches it. You get the wrong angle with him, he really can destroy you because he's just got great presence in terms of how he works the post, the pivot area.
+Then again, their perimeter players know what they are looking for. You look at them and say, well, they don't do a lot of movement or this or that; they are as hard as any team we have had to guard up to this point because of the fact they know exactly what they are looking for, and they get to it.
+Barnes added that the staff spent as much time
+scouting Mitch Johnson)!
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+Dungeon Dice Monsters, or DDM for short, is a board game in the anime created by Duke Devlin Yu-Gi-Oh!. It is seen in the manga and in the second series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters).
+Game Stats".
+Terminology
+Monster Lord - Also called the Die Master, this is a representation of the player. Dungeon Masters cannot move or defend but may attack (for 10 damage). Each has 3 Heart Points. The Dungeon Master is not affected by items or abilities that affect monsters in the Dungeon. The only way to destroy the Dungeon Master is by attacking it.
+Dice Pool - The 15 Dice a player uses. When a die is used for a Summon, it cannot be used again. Players are only allowed 10 Summons in a game, so they will always have 5 Dice left over for Crest rolling.
+Crest Pool - The place where a player's Crests (Except Summon Crests) are stored. The Crests rolled are stored in the Crest Pool until a player uses them. A player cannot use Crests from the opponent's Pool.
+Dungeon Piece - Created when monsters are Summoned, it is needed so players can attack each other and move about the board. An appropriately rolled die is selected, placed down on the field, and is unfolded to create the path. This is called a Dimension. The rules for such are as follows:
+- When the die is first placed on the field before unfolding, the side touching the floor is the summon tile. The monster must be placed there.
+- You can unhinge any of the four edges of each side to unfold it, but you must leave at least one edge hinged for each side.
+- You must finish unhinging edges before laying any pieces flat.
+- You can rotate the finished product as you please, but the final placement must touch another of your tiles, or your dungeon master, horizontally or vertically.
+The end result is 10 patterns (5, and 5 inversions) which can be rotated for a total of 40.
+Obstacles - Also known as "Shelled Ground", these are squares placed on a board. Neither player can Summon a monster in such a way that their Dungeon Path would lie adjacent to the Obstacle. Strategic placing of Obstacles can cut off a player's main route of Summoning and make the game much more difficult. In the Game Boy version of Dungeon Dice Monsters, later levels have Obstacles placed in such a way to only hinder the human player, giving them a large handicap.
+History
+In the manga and anime, Dungeon Dice Monsters is created by Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin in the English anime).
+In the manga, Otogi creates the game under pressure from his father, Mr. Crown. Mr. Crown lost to a Shadow Game against Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto in the English anime). Mr. Crown wants Otogi to avenge the defeat and harm Yugi Mutou, Sugoroku's grandson.
+In the anime, he idolizes Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the Japanese versions) and strives to create a game just as great as Duel Monsters. He emails the specifications to Pegasus, who challenged him to a match of the game at Duelist Kingdom. Using the Millennium Eye to read his mind and thus, easily master the game, Pegasus defeats the creator. However, he was impressed with the game and agreed to market it. This is shortly before Yugi Muto arrives at Duelist Kingdom.
+Upon being defeated, Pegasus goes into hiding, and the contract to market Dungeon Dice Monsters is never signed. Thus, the game does very poorly, and the only shop selling it is the one the creator himself owns. The creator blames his failure on Yugi. In the English anime, he believes that he cheated to beat Pegasus, crushing his spirit. In the Japanese versions, Otogi does not accuse Yugi of cheating to win.
+In the anime, he provokes Yugi into challenging him to a match by dueling his friend Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler in the English anime) and forcing him to wear a dog costume. In the manga, he has one of the store security slip DDM packs into Yugi's pockets. He is then promptly 'found out' as the guards pretend to think he was trying to steal them and taken to a room. Otogi reveals himself and challenges Yugi.
+Yugi does poorly early on, obviously having little clue on how to play the game. However, he makes a comeback and defeats Otogi, displaying enough understanding of the game to summon the Dark Magician even after Otogi had dismissed it as impossible for Yugi to carry out another summoning, allowing him to turn the tables and defeat his opponent. Otogi admits defeat. In the manga, his father's game shop burns down to the ground.
+In the anime, shortly after the match, he receives another email from Industrial Illusions, telling him they will sign the contract to market Dungeon Dice Monsters worldwide. It is later mentioned that he travels briefly to the U.S. to market the product, but later returns to Japan.
+Sets
+Although they are not featured in any real life sets, two cards featured in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime "Dice Dungeon" and "Dimension Dice" modify the normal Yu-Gi-Oh! card game to be similar to Dungeon Dice Monsters. The two cards combined use dice rolls and a board-like playing field to change the style of play to resemble Dungeon Dice Monsters. The two cards are played by Devlin himself.
+Gameplay
+The central part of Dungeon Dice monsters is, obviously, the dice. Each player has 15 6-sided dice. There are 6 symbols on each die, called Crests. A player rolls 3 dice each turn, and from the Crests rolled, makes their move. Players alternate turns rolling dice until a player's Dungeon Master loses all its Heart Points. What makes the game a true challenge is that a monster cannot move except along Dungeon Path, which is created when a monster is summoned. So, careful placement of pathway can mean an easy path behind opposing lines. But sloppy dimensioning could spell defeat for a player.
+Monsters
+The monsters in Dungeon Dice Monsters have 3 main stats: Attack, Defense, and Health (Health is sometimes referred to as 'Hit Points'). The Attack and Defense are in multiples of 10. All monsters have at least 1 Health Point to remain on the board. When a monster loses all of its Health points, it is destroyed. Damage to health points is determined by attacking and defending. (see Attack Crest and Defense Crest for more details). Some monsters are Tunnelers, meaning they can move past other monsters (normally, monsters cannot move over each other.). There are also Flyers, who can not only move over other monsters, but can only be attacked by other Flyers or by monsters with Special Abilities saying they can attack Flyers. Also, there are many monsters with Special Abilities, although many require Trap or Magic Crests to use. (See Trap Crest and Movement Crest for more details)
+Crests
+Crests are a sort of currency in the game. These are obtained through dice rolls and can be saved in your crest pool. There are six different types of crests: Summon Crests, Movement Crests, Attack Crests, Defense Crests, Magic Crests, and Trap Crests. Each of them has a specific purpose in the game.
+SUMMON CRESTS: The only type of crest that is found on every die. Like in the regular game, each die has a level that corresponds to its monster (or item)'s power. The levels go from 1 to 4, with 4 being the most powerful. As a result, the number of Summon Crests on the die decrease with each level; Level 1 dice have four Summon Crests, Level 2 dice have three, Level 3 dice have two, and Level 4 dice only have one. To successfully summon, or "dimension" as it is called in this game, a player must roll at least two summon crests of the same level. A player is allowed no more than ten dimensions per game.
+MOVEMENT CRESTS: When a dimension is performed, the die folds out into one of ten shapes, and this becomes a path. The monsters can only move along these paths, and for each space they move, a Movement Crest is required. Flying monsters require two Movement Crests for each space they move.
+ATTACK CRESTS: If a monster is within range of an opponent's monster, they are able to attack them. However, each attack requires one Attack Crest; if there are none, no attack can be executed. A monster can only attack once per turn.
+DEFENSE CRESTS: When a monster attacks another monster, the attacking monster's power is dealt to the opponent's monster's health. Each monster has a certain number of hit points, dictated by its quantity of hearts. Each heart is 10 hit points; when all the hearts are broken, the monster is destroyed. The amount of damage can be reduced, however, by utilizing Defense Crests. When a monster is attacked, if its controller has any Defense Crests, they can make the monster guard against its attacker. In this case, the defense power of the monster that is attacked is subtracted from the attacking monster's attack power.
+MAGIC CRESTS: Not usually a vital part of the game; certain monsters have special abilities that they can activate by sacrificing Magic Crests e.g: Thunder ball.
+TRAP CRESTS: Like Magic Crests, not usually a vital part of the game; certain monsters have special abilities that they can activate when they are attacked by sacrificing Trap Crests.
+Real Life
+Dungeon Dice monsters was made as a real game in early 2002 as Yu-Gi-Oh!: Dungeondice Monsters, with 137 figures and cards scheduled for release. However, it never really caught on and was canceled within a few months. The rules are slightly different, and many of the monsters from the card game were used to expand on the barely-touched game. The game was produced by Mattel.
+Game Play
+Similar to the anime and manga game, two players sit at either end of the field, which is 13 x 19 squares. Each player has a dice pool of 12 dice, 1 for each of the 4 levels of monsters and items available in the game. However, instead of using "Heart Points," the game incorporates a monster called the Monster Lord ( 3 LP/10 ATK/0 DEF).
+Summoning
+Summoning monsters works like in the show, where three dice are rolled and if any two have Summoning Crests, a monster of the lowest level crest can be summoned. When a monster is summoned, the player picks a path piece to place on the board, leading from their Monster Lord to the game field. If a monster is destroyed, it is removed from play.
+Battle
+When monsters battle on the field, they can attack once, defend, or use a special ability. Normal Attacks require one Attack Crest, while a Normal Defend uses one Defense Crest. When a monster attacks another monster, the attacking monster's ATK is subtracted from the defending monster's HP. If a Defense Crest is used, the monster's DEF is subtracted from the attacking monster's ATK. If a monster is destroyed, it is removed from play.
+An interesting note is the Monster Lord. Unlike on the show where the Die Master could not defend himself, the Monster Lord has 10 ATK and can strike back at an attacking monster. Regardless of the attacking monster's ATK, the Monster Lord only loses 1 LP for each attack. Since a Monster Lord cannot move, this can save a duelist whose monsters are on the other end of the field.
+Special Abilities
+Some monsters have Effects not unlike their Duel Monsters counterparts. Some special abilities require the use of crests while others don't. For example, a monster may spend a number of crests (regardless of this kind of crest) to attack or defend without using an attack crest. Others have effects specific to the type of crest that is used; Knight of Twin Swords can attack twice for every 2 attack crests used, but cannot perform a single normal attack if the effect is used. Others still have more unique powers, like taking 0 damage from certain monster types.
+Many also have the ability to "Tunnel" or "Fly" on the game board. Tunneling monsters can pass through other monsters at the cost of two Progress Crests per space. Flying monsters can only be attacked by other Flying monsters or regular monsters with special abilities, and normal monsters can pass under them. Flying monsters require two Progress Crests per space even when not passing over enemies. However, neither of these types can occupy the same space as another monster, balancing out their advantages
+Game Progress
+Each player picks their monsters and sets a Monster Lord figurine (or token, if a figurine is unavailable) on white space. (Blue in the Advanced Gameplay; see below.) Players decide on who goes first, and that person then picks three dice from his or her dice pool and rolls. While it is suggested they all be the same level, they can be mixed if desired. The player then takes any crests available and uses them or puts them in the crest pool. As more monsters are summoned, the players will begin to form a bridge between themselves and their opponent. Once the two paths meet, the players must attempt to get at the Monster Lord to attack. If two monsters meet on adjacent squares, they can battle. Once one player destroys all of his or her opponent's monsters or is able to defeat the Monster Lord, that player wins.
+Advanced Gameplay
+While essentially the same, there is one key difference with the Advanced Gameplay rules. Rather than setting a Monster Lord figure or token on the white starting squares, they are placed on the blue squares, which are farther apart. Basically, this just gives more room for the players to work with, with a larger space to summon monsters and items. This can severely change the length of a game, making it take considerably longer than a normal gameplay session.
+Public Reaction
+While quite a bit of hype surrounded the game before its release, sales were low and few expansions were released. A Starter Pack containing 7 figures, 7 cards, two Crest Pools (an abacus), 12 dice, a number of hit counters, several pathway pieces, 4 Monster Lord Tokens, and a set of instructions (the booklet modeled after the one used for the card game) was marketed, as well as a limited number of Booster Pack sets, but before the full set was released, the line was canceled due to lack of support and fans.
+Version Differences
+DDM has had a number of variants created, namely the Japanese board game, English board game, and the Gameboy Advance video game. They all have a number of differences.
+Box contents
+In the Japanese version, one Starter Set contained 10 Monsters, a Monster Lord, and all the accessories, as well as seven booster packs.
+Dungeon Tiles
+Instead of molded plastic six-sided die, the dice were snap-together and unfolded on hinges into the dungeon path tiles. This was to effect the dice going out of use when used; while good in theory, the dice tended to be hard to lay flat on the board and use as path. It also required players to deal with the fairly complex rules of dimensioning, which weren't even explained in the manual. The English version did away with this by simply having ordinary dice and plastic pieces forming the 10 legal Dimension formations.
+Dice Pool & Monster Limits
+In the Japanese version, the dice pool is 15, and is customizable with dice obtained from the same booster packs as the miniatures and monster cards. Level 4 dice are limited to 3 per Dice Pool, and monsters and items are collectively limited to 10, with unlimited duplicates allowed. In the English version, you only have 12 dice (3 of each level), which are non-customizable. The maximum of monsters and items is still 10, but you can only have one copy of a given monster (items are unlimited however). In the Gameboy Advance game, dice and monsters are one and the same, with the limit at 15, and no limit to duplicates.
+Crest configuration
+No matter what version is played, the amount of summon crests is the same for all dice across a given level. Level 1 has four summon crests per die, Level 2 has three, Level 3 has two, and Level 4 has one. They all have other crests on the remaining sides. The Japanese version has different configurations for different dice, meaning you can obtain a specific die that possesses a rich possibility of granting movement crests. The English version has 12 standardized dice. The Gameboy Advance game is similar to the Japanese board game, but has each individual die tied to the monster, so you must include specific monsters to include specific dice in your Dice Pool.
+Die Color
+The Japanese version die color indicates the type of monster it is capable of summoning (such as Warrior, Spellcaster, etc.). In the English version, the color merely indicates what level the die is. The colors of the dice in the GBA game indicate the type of monster inside; red are Dragons, yellow are Zombies, green are Beasts, blue are Warriors, and white are Spellcasters. Black dice contain items.
+English version Rule Additions
+Some rules were added to the English version to streamline some problems with the Japanese version. The Double Dice rule has players rolling twice instead of once, keeping all the crests, but only making one summon. The Triple Summoning rule allows a roll of three of the same level to summon a monster one level higher. There is also a "basic game" which has players use the inner square as the battlefield instead of the whole thing, as well as a reduced amount of rules and available game pieces.
+Gameboy Advance Exclusives
+The GBA game has many other differences from the physical games. If a monster's defense exceeds an attacker's attack after spending a defense crest, the difference is inflicted to the attacker's HP. Dungeon Masters also can't attack like they can in the physical games. There is also a Type advantage system, giving an advantaged attacker or defender 10 extra attack or defense. In addition, there are many exclusive monsters that either didn't appear at all in the other versions, or appeared in a different form.
+See Also
+- List for all Dungeon Dice Monsters cards
+- Complete list of all Sets released for this game
+- Yu-Gi-Oh! Episodes 47, 48, 49
+Crossword Answer: HIDE
+If you're looking for all of the crossword clues that have the answer HIDE then you're in the right place. We found 181 clues that have HIDE as their answer.
+Crossword Puzzle Clues for HIDE
+Below is the complete list of clues we found in our database for HIDE:
+- --- nor hair
+- __-and-seek
+- ___ and go seek
+- ___-and-seek
+- ___-and-seek (kids' game)
+- ___ and seek
+- "___ Nor Hair" Ray Charles
+- ___ nor hair
+- ____-and-go-seek
+- Animal cover or take cover
+- Animal pelt
+- Animal skin
+- Animal's coat
+- Be hard to spot
+- Be intentionally hard to find
+- Be sought after, in a kid's game
+- Avoid being seen
+- Avoid detection
+- Block
+- Duck down, e.g.
+- Duck down
+- Duck out of sight
+- Command at a surprise party
+- Command to the guests at a surprise party
+- Hold back
+- Hole up
+- Deerskin
+- Conceal oneself
+- Conceal
+- Homophone for Jekyll's alter ego
+- Fur
+- Hope not to be discovered while in the closet, maybe
+- It may get tanned
+- Hair partner
+- Elude the seeker
+- Hair's companion
+- Hair's partner, in an idiom
+- Hair's partner
+- Half a kid's game
+- Half of a children's game
+- Find a rock to climb under, maybe (4)
+- Find a rock to climb under?
+- It tans sans sun
+- Burrow
+- Bury
+- Harbor, e.g.
+- Harbor
+- . . . but you cannot ____
+- First word of a children's game
+- Disguise
+- Get behind something, perhaps
+- Get behind something, say
+- Get behind something?
+- Enroll in a witness protection program, say
+- Ensconce
+- "Get out of sight!"
+- Get out of sight
+- It's often tanned
+- Cache
+- Cover up
+- Cover
+- Covering for a cave man
+- Cow cover
+- Camouflage
+- Cloak
+- Closet
+- Go behind a tree, maybe
+- Cry at a surprise birthday party
+- Cry at a surprise party just before the honoree arrives
+- "In here, quickly!"
+- Cry just before the birthday guest arrives at a surprise party
+- Go into seclusion
+- "Don't let anyone find you!"
+- Cry to guests at a surprise party
+- Go undercover
+- Go underground
+- Coat
+- Coati's coat
+- "He's coming!"
+- Keep a low profile
+- Keep away from prying eyes
+- Keep from view
+- Keep out of sight
+- Keep secret
+- Keep under wraps
+- (Place of) conceal(ment)
+- Killers "There was nowhere to __, here come the rising tide"
+- Whitewash
+- Tough skin
+- "The cops!"
+- Put into a cache
+- Put out of sight
+- "O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's ___!": Shak.
+- Put under the mattress, perhaps
+- Obscure
+- Play an "it" game
+- Play sardines, maybe
+- Play sardines, perhaps
+- Mask
+- Trapper's prize
+- Trapper's trophy
+- Trapper's ware
+- Kiss "___ Your Heart"
+- Palm, in a way
+- Palm, perhaps
+- Palm, say
+- "Quick, in the closet!"
+- Wait to be found, in a game
+- Shout before a surprise party
+- Part of a child's game
+- Part of the title of a child's game
+- Participate in a certain child's game
+- Participate in a child's game
+- Partner of "go seek"
+- Partner of seek
+- Need to tan
+- Neither --- nor hair
+- Pelt
+- Leather, essentially
+- Leather, once
+- Prepare for a surprise, perhaps
+- "Nico" lyric "The secrets that you ___"
+- Lurk
+- Prepare to be sought
+- Online option that turns into "show" when clicked
+- Lie low
+- Make hard to find
+- Make oneself scarce
+- Source of leather
+- Try not to be found
+- Try to avoid being found
+- Try to avoid the seeker, in a children's game
+- Try to elude "it"
+- Try to outwit "It"
+- "Warm, safe place where as a child I'd ___"
+- Tuck away
+- Word disguised in "rough idea"
+- Surprise party command
+- Surprise-party command
+- Word with raw or horse
+- Sweep under the rug
+- "They're coming for us!"
+- Thick skin
+- Take cover in a kid's game
+- Take cover — skin
+- Take cover
+- Skin — cover
+- Skin
+- Squirrel away
+- Stand behind something for secrecy
+- Screen
+- Slip into a closet, maybe
+- Tanned skin
+- Tanned thing
+- Tanner's raw material
+- Tannery skin
+- Tanning need
+- Tanning target
+- What kids do when it counts?
+- Seclude
+- What to do just before the surprise party starts
+- What to do while it counts
+- You do it when it counts
+- Stash away
+- Stash
+- Secrete
+- Secrete away
+- Seek counterpart
+- Seek cover
+- Seek's associate
+- Seek's companion
+- Seek's opposite
+- Seek's partner
+- Stay in the closet, say
+- Stay out of sight
+- "You've Got to ___ Your Love Away"
+- Use a smokescreen
+- Tepee material
+- Tepee wall
+- "Where Do I ___" Nickelback
+- "Where Do I ___," timid Nickelback song?
+Possibly Related Crossword Answers
+Based on the clues listed above, we also found some answers that are possibly similar or related to HIDE:
+- PELT
+- FUR
+- ELUDE
+- LIELOW
+- SNEAK
+- BAN
+- BAR
+- BARRIER
+- CHILDSWOODENTOY
+- CITYSQUARE
+- CLOG
+- CLOSEOFF
+- CLOT
+- DAM
+- DAMU
+- DAMUP
+- DEBAR
+- DETER
+- EMBAR
+- ESTOP
+- HINDER
+- IMPEDE
+- IMPEE
+- OBSTRUCT
+- OCCLUDE
+- PREVENT
+- SHUT
+- SLAB
+- STOP
+- STOPPAGE
+- STREET
+- STYMIE
+- STALL
+- VETO
+- THWART
+- TACKLESMANEUVER
+- EIDER
+- CONSTRAIN
+- CURB
+- DAM
+- DELAY
+- DENY
+- DETAIN
+- DETER
+- FORBEAR
+- HAMPER
+- IMPEDE
+- INHIBIT
+- KEEPATADISTANCE
+- LEASH
+- PULLONESPUNCHES
+- REIN
+- REPRESS
+- RESERVE
+- RESTRAIN
+- RETAIN
+- RETARD
+- STAY
+- STEM
+- STIFLE
+- WAIT
+- STINTON
+- BURY
+- CACHE
+- CLOAK
+- COVER
+- COVERUP
+- DISGUISE
+- ENSHROUD
+- HARBOR
+- MANTLE
+- MASK
+- SCREEN
+- SECRETE
+- SHROUD
+- VEIL
+- ANIMALPELT
+- COAT
+- ERMINE
+- HAIR
+- LAPIN
+- MINK
+- OTTER
+- PELAGE
+- PELT
+- SABLE
+- SEAL
+- STOLE
+- DELVE
+- DEN
+- DIG
+- HOLE
+- LAIR
+- RATHOLE
+- SETT
+- TUNNEL
+- EMBED
+- ENTOMB
+- INHUME
+- INTER
+- INURN
+- LAYTOREST
+- ABET
+- BASIN
+- BAY
+- CONCEAL
+- COVE
+- HAVEN
+- HOUSE
+- INLET
+- PORT
+- SEAPORT
+- SHELTER
+- BELIE
+- CAMOUFLAGE
+- CLOAK
+- COVER
+- FACADE
+- MASK
+- MASQUERADE
+- VEIL
+- VIZARD
+- SEAT
+- DEPOT
+- HIDDENTROVE
+- HOARD
+- SECRETE
+- STORE
+- STOW
+- TROVE
+- STASH
+- CLOTHE
+- ENROBE
+- MASK
+- OBSCURE
+- WRAP
+- WHITEWASH
+- ALIAS
+- ALIBI
+- CAP
+- CASING
+- CLOTHE
+- COAT
+- ENCASE
+- ENVELOP
+- INCLUDE
+- INSURE
+- LID
+- MAT
+- OVERLAY
+- OVERLIE
+- PAYFOR
+- SHEATH
+- SHEATHE
+- SHELTER
+- SHROUD
+- SMOTHER
+- WRAP
+- VEIL
+- TOP
+- SPAN
+- CONCEAL
+- DISGUISE
+- MASK
+- SCREEN
+- SHROUD
+- SMOKESCREEN
+- CAPE
+- COAT
+- CONCEAL
+- COVER
+- DISGUISE
+- DOMINO
+- ENROBE
+- ENSHROUD
+- MANTA
+- MANTLE
+- SERAPE
+- SHROUD
+- TOG
+- WRAP
+- VEIL
+- TABARD
+- CUPBOARD
+- LOO
+- SECRET
+- STORAGE
+- TOILET
+- HOLEUP
+- POSE
+- BURROW
+- DIG
+- HIDEOUT
+- TUNNEL
+- ENROBE
+- JACKET
+- LAR
+- LAYER
+- PARKA
+- REEFER
+- RIND
+- TUNIC
+- TOG
+- VENEER
+- PELAGE
+- HOLEUP
+- LAYLOW
+- CONCEAL
+- HOLEUP
+- LAYLOW
+- LIELOW
+- CONCEAL
+- WITHHOLD
+- CONCEAL
+- HUSHUP
+- SITON
+- COAT
+- COVERUP
+- DECEIT
+- DISTEMPER
+- LIME
+- PAINT
+- PALLIATE
+- RIND
+- RUN
+- HID
+- RELEGATE
+- ABSTRUSE
+- ARCANE
+- BECLOUD
+- BEDIM
+- BEFOG
+- BLEAR
+- BLOTOUT
+- BLUR
+- CLOUD
+- CLOUDED
+- CLOUDY
+- DARKEN
+- DEEP
+- DIM
+- ECLIPSE
+- ESOTERIC
+- FAINT
+- FOG
+- HAZY
+- INNER
+- MASK
+- MIST
+- MISTY
+- MUDDLED
+- MUDDY
+- MURKY
+- MYSTIC
+- NONAME
+- OPAQUE
+- REMOTE
+- SHADE
+- SHROUDEDINMYSTERY
+- UNSUNG
+- VAGUE
+- VEIL
+- UNCLEAR
+- UNKNOWN
+- CLOAK
+- CONCEAL
+- DISGUISE
+- DOMINO
+- FACADE
+- FALSEFACE
+- PRETENSE
+- VEIL
+- VISOR
+- PELT
+- PELT
+- FUR
+- PELT
+- STEAL
+- SEEK
+- TIC
+- SEEK
+- FUR
+- SKIN
+- STONE
+- LIEINWAIT
+- PROWL
+- SKULK
+- HOLEUP
+- LURK
+- FLEE
+- SCRAM
+- EAT
+- STOW
+- STASH
+- RIND
+- CUTIS
+- DERM
+- DERMA
+- DERMIS
+- FLAY
+- FLESH
+- PARE
+- PEEL
+- PELT
+- RIND
+- SCRAPE
+- AMASS
+- CACHE
+- HOARD
+- LAYIN
+- SAVE
+- SAVEUP
+- STORE
+- STOREUP
+- STOW
+- STASH
+- FILTER
+- MASK
+- MESH
+- MONITOR
+- NET
+- SECLUDE
+- SHADE
+- SHIELD
+- SIFT
+- SIFTOUT
+- VEIL
+- VET
+- LEATHER
+- VAT
+- CLOISTER
+- ISOLATE
+- HOARD
+- LAYIN
+- SAVE
+- SAVEUP
+- SECRETE
+- STORE
+- STOW
+- CACHE
+- HOARD
+- SECRETE
+- STORE
+- STOW
+- TROVE
+- CACHE
+- EXUDE
+- STASH
+- FLEE
+- HOLEUP
+- KEEPALOWPROFILE
+- LIELOW
+- LURK
+- SKINS
+Recent Usage of HIDE in Crossword Puzzles
+Here are all of the places we know of that have used HIDE in their crossword puzzles:
+- Washington Post Sunday Magazine - Nov. 1, 2020
+- Newsday - Oct. 11, 2020
+- USA Today - Oct. 10, 2020
+- Universal Crossword - Oct. 2, 2020
+- Newsday - Sept. 18, 2020
+- The Guardian Quick - Sept. 16, 2020
+- LA Times - Sept. 5, 2020
+- WSJ Daily - Aug. 29, 2020
+- Newsday - Aug. 9, 2020
+- USA Today - July 20, 2020
+- Universal Crossword - July 17, 2020
+- LA Times - July 17, 2020
+- Evening Standard - July 15, 2020
+- Newsday - July 14, 2020
+- Penny Dell - July 3, 2020
+- Penny Dell - June 12, 2020
+- New York Times - June 7, 2020
+- Newsday - June 6, 2020
+- Penny Dell - May 29, 2020
+- USA Today - April 28, 2020
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+8.Confirm your study place by returning the confirmation form by 2 August 2011 at 4.15 p.m Finnish time at the latest to the higher education institution you chose as your final study place. If you do not return the form in time, you will lose your study place.
+9.If you have applied with an upper secondary education completed in Finland, please attach a copy of your educational certificate(s) to the confirmation form and return them by 2 August 2011 at 4.15 pm at the latest.
+10.Please remember that your admission is conditional until your original relevant certificates are checked. The University of Applied Sciences/UAS may withdraw the admission, if the applicant has given false information or has given forged documents.
+The application procedure varies depending on whether you plan to study at a University or at a University of Applied Sciences (UAS). To
+study at a University of Applied Sciences i.e. a place where practical education is imparted i.e. more professional and work oriented, application can be sent directly to the University of Applied Sciences selected or through the joint application system. A joint application system is one where in a student can list up to a maximum of 4 programs of interest. T
+o study at a University i.e. a place where scientific research and programs based on that are conducted, application to a Finnish university is to be sent directly to the University of interest. Also online joint application form can be filled if English is the language of preference for the degree program i.e the degree programme is conducted in English.
+Application Timming: Autumn 2011, Bachelor Degree
+Application period for programmes starting in Autumn 2011 starts on 3rd January and closes on 15 February 2011 at 4.15 p.m Finnish time. All required attachments have to be at the admissions office of the applicant's first choice polytechnic /UAS by 25 February 2011 at 4.15 p.m
+Tuesday, December 7, 2010
+Application Period for International Master's degree programmes
+Dear international students,
+This is to remind you that the application period for the Master’s degree programmes which are conducted in English started on 15 November 2010.
+The application deadline is either on 17 January or 28 February 2011, depending on the programme.
+The programmes are :
+Biology of Physical Activity
+Corporate Environmental Management
+Development and International Cooperation
+Educational Leadership
+European Masters in Sport and Exercise Psychology (application deadline 10 January)
+Entrepreneurship in Family Business
+Intercultural Communication
+Mobile Technology and Business
+Nanoscience
+Renewable Energy
+Sport and Exercise Psychology
+Sustainable Management of Inland Aquatic Resources
+Links to the programme websites are available at .
+Best regards
+Elina Isännäinen (Ms)
+kv. asiain opintosihteeri / Foreign Student Adviser
+PL 35 / P.O.Box 35
+FI-40014 Jyväskylän yliopisto / University of Jyväskylä
+Finland
+elina.isannainen@jyu.fi
+p. / tel. +358 14 260 1079
+Thursday, November 25, 2010
+Masters level and Tuition fee
+Bachelor and Doctoral Degree Programmes are totally tuition free. Tuition fees are charged only in Masters level study. Here you find the list where courses and University names as well as tuition fees. This year will be the first year of tuition fee in Finland, so they have one hidden trick. Even-though you will be admitted under the role of tuition fee but they will cover it by easy scholarship given to you (it is only my idea and experience, no official announcement, you may not be given Scholarship if you are out of luck).
+My recommendation to Tanzanian students who want to study in Masters level in Finland, if you can manage scholarship then apply for masters level, otherwise try to take admission in Bachelor degree, come here, manage your job and migrate to masters program. And it would be easier then to get scholarship even by the recommendation of your teacher. Think my word twice while tuition fee might be 9000 euro per academic year and living cost 500 euro per month. ( But money for living depending on you because you can survive from 300-400 € per month) If you can bear your educational expenses from your family so you are warmly welcome in any time, any condition.
+In the upper part of this post I have written only for good student, but for those who have average grade and exhausted like me, please don't care any thing, come anyhow, it is possible to survive and stay here in any condition, as long as you want and committed for the chance you apply for.
+Study, Job, Scholarship Related Links
+Study
+Virtual Finland
+Immigration site
+Sunday, September 19, 2010
+Important links
+Here is some important links for you which can help you in many aspects:
+1. Train service:
+2. Bus service:
+3.facebook user name kakaosima
+Sunday, August 8, 2010
+Flight and Ticket
+AFTER YOU GOT YOU'RE PERMIT START TO PLAN YOU'RE FLY TO HELSINKI AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
+Here is some thing you should know
+1. Maximum weight of luggage is 23 KG for KLM pcs condition Two luggage 46kg
+-Turkish air line maximum 40 kg but please check it out befor hand
+2. Maximum weight of Hand bag is 10 KG
+*No liquid/metal in hand bag
+Routes are normally
+DAR -ENTEBE-Istanbul-Helsinki (Turkish Air)
+DAR-AMSTERDAM-Helsinki (KLM Air line)
+Dar-Nairobi-Amsterdam-Helsinki (KLM Air line)
+Price: It cost for one way 700 USD-1500USD. This price is for KLM and Turkish air line. Return ticket is cheaper but I think no one would buy that cause validity of an air ticket is 1 year and student do not go to home country within a year.
+Sunday, January 31, 2010
+Pre-reading material for International Business
+Monday, January 18, 2010
+2011 List of Universities where Tanzanian student can apply this year.
+University of Helsinki (1640/1827)
+Åbo Akademi University in Turku (1918)
+University of Turku (1920)
+University of Tampere (1925)
+University of Jyväskylä (1866, promoted to university status in 1934)
+University of Oulu (1958)
+University of Vaasa (1968)
+University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (1979)
+Aalto University (1849/2010)
+University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and Kuopio (2010)
+2. List of Universities of Applied Scinces
+Arcada Polytechnic
+Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences
+Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
+EVTEK University of Applied Sciences
+HAAGA University of Applied Sciences
+HAMK University of Applied Sciences
+Helsinki Business Polytechnic (Helia University of Business University of Applied Sciences
+Pirkanmaa , University of Applied Sciences
+The Police College of Finland (Administered by the Ministry of the Interior)
+Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences
+Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
+Savonia University of Applied Sciences
+Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
+South Carelia University of Applied Sciences
+Swedish University of Applied Sciences
+Sydväst University of Applied Sciences
+Tampere University of Applied Sciences
+Turku University of Applied Sciences
+Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
+Åland University of Applied Sciences (in the autonomous Åland region)
+Please check out carefully before you make your on-line application, cause all Universities of applied sciences (UAS) can arrange entrace exams in Dar,Nairobi,Ghana or probably Finland or anywhere else as the condition may deem necessary.
+In Finland, Entrance Exams are conducted in
+Arcada, Central Ostrobothnia UAS, Jyväskylä UAS, Kymenlaakso UAS, Mikkeli UAS, Oulu UAS, Rovaniemi UAS, Saimaa UAS, Savonia UAS, Seinäjoki UAS, Tampere UAS, Turku UAS, Vaasa UAS which are Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS)
+Pre-reading material for Nursing
+2) Questions from Marieb E. Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology. 9th edition, pages 1 - 132.
+For more information please contact the Degree Programme (paivi.rimpioja@metropolia.fi or +358 20 783 5623).
+Pre reading materials for Social Services
+Degree Programme in Social Services
+ENTRANCE EXAM 2010
+Exam literature consists of three articles and one report, which are typical examples of material used while studying in the Degree Programme in Social Services.
+1) Juha Hämäläinen: Developing social pedagogy as an academic discipline (pages 133-153). In: Anders Gustavsson & Hans-Erik Hermansson & Juha Hämäläinen (eds.): Perspectives and Theory in Social Pedagogy. Daidalos, Göteborg 2004.
+()
+2) Articles in Infed-website (Exploring Informal Education, Lifelong Learning, and Social Action):
+• Introducing Informal Education ()
+• Animation ()
+3) Huset Mandat Morgen: What lies ahead for the Nordic model? A discussion paper on the future of the Nordic welfare model in a global competition economy. Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen 2007.
+()
+The written part of the entrance exam includes multiple choice and essay questions. The aim is to assess the capacity of the applicant to understand the contents of the exam material and to produce coherent, logical answers in English language. Therefore no specific questions e.g. on dates, figures or names of books or authors are posed unless they are clearly essential to the article or the report.
+Monday, January 11, 2010
+Job Oppurtinities in Finland
+Finland is one of the most economically solvent countries in Europe. As the backbone of Nordic economy is always very strong but persistence, determination, and motivation are the key words when it comes to job searching. The Finnish labour market is highly competitive and looking for a job as a foreigner is challenging. Finland has suffered from a high unemployment rate since the economic crisis some years ago so it is not easy and not too hard to get job here in Finland. The most important tool when one needs a job here is to learn the Finnish language. Once someone has acquired a chance to come to this country, he/she must try hard to get to know the language. This is due to the fact that the official language here is Finnish. Learning Finnish is not easy, but also is not that much difficult though is somehow a challenging language in the beginning. It is somehow easy to get a job here if you can talk and understand the basics of the language. There are various ways as well as places where one can get to know the language. There are courses of Finnish language in schools and University, online learning method and through interaction with the Citizens. There are also some organizations which helps foreigners to learn the Finnish language. Having a residence permit (student visa) everyone is allowed to work a maximum for 25 hours/week. Although getting a job here is a bit challenging, but once you get one, the payment is 8-10 Euro per hour. As a student one can find a job in university research programmes, shops, paper delivering etc. Students are more likely to get suitable jobs with enough earnings during summer vacations as most of companies in Europe do employ summer workers during such period as most of their permanent workers go for summer holidays for three months. Summer jobs are easily applied through companies’ websites where they always announce for summer workers vacancies mainly during the months of December to March.
+Saturday, December 19, 2009
+Degree Programme in International Business 2010
+Entrance examination includes
+Structured motivation letter 10 p
+Assignments on provided material 30 p
+Mathematics and Logical Thinking 20 p
+Interview 40 p
+Total 100 p
+If an applicant score is less than 30 points out of 100 points in the entrance exam, an applicant is not eligible for admission.
+Entrance exams from the previous years are not available.
+Entrance examination's pre-reading materials will be out later.
+Monday, November 16, 2009
+Applicant's Guide 2010
+Hello,
+JAMK University of Applied Science has published Applicant's Guide 2010. Here you can find all information about admission procedure for international student in Finland. Download that in Pdf.
+Saturday, October 10, 2009
+Friday, September 25, 2009
+What is entrance exam? How much score I need?
+"Entrance" this word is a popular word in Finland. To entry in somewhere is entrance. So from the point of view of Tanzanian student Entrance exam is one kind of admission test only. In Finland there is no tuition fee, so they obviously want that they should give the chance to meritorious students, for that they start entrance exam. But Don't be anxious about that easy admission test. It is possible to get chance for study here in Finland if you get only 50 out of 100 marks in that entrance/admission test. So start to prepare yourself for that exam.
+Thursday, September 24, 2009
+Degree programmes starting in spring 2010
+2. Entrance examinations are held between 21 and 30 October 2009
+3. Polytechnics/UAS announce the results by 27 November 2009
+4. Admitted students must confirm their study places by 11 December 2009 at 4.15 pm Finnish time at the latest.
+Application results for degree programmes starting in spring 2010 will be sent by mail to the students by 27 November 2009 at the latest. In addition to the letter of admittance, the student will receive a confirmation form. It is imperative that the student submits the confirmation form to the higher education institution in which he/she wishes to study by 11 December 2009 at 4.15 pm Finnish time at the latest, otherwise the student will forfeit the study place.
+Confirmation of the study place is binding and cannot be altered or cancelled.
+If you have applied to several degree programmes, please wait until you have received all the admission results. Once you have received all the results, select your study place and return the confirmation form. A student forfeits his/her study place, if the confirmation form arrives at the higher education institution after the set date
+Entrance Examinations Schedule Autumn 2010
+Thursday, September 17, 2009
+Syllabus of exam
+Entrance Exam Letter
+After Application
+Monday, July 6, 2009
+How to Apply -2
+In previous sections, I told you about basic information of applying now I am resuming that. For official apply you have to log on . Remember you can do this by yourself. If you can do this, why go to others for help. In that website there is a form you have to fill it up. You can choose 4 courses at an application, it would be better to chose different courses from different universities. Most of the student wants to study in Helsinki the capital city of Finland or Tampere. If you choose university near Helsinki you have to do very well in entrance exam so decision upon you cause you are not only competing with Tanzanian students but also student of whole world
+For example, I admitted in JAMK university of applied science. 1604 candidate stand for entrance exam and 120 of them got chance. minimum score was 37 out of 100 for the last student admitted. I got 63.
+Now make an application and submit that properly you'll get a confirmation through your email address, Print out that and save that for future use.Now make a set of these papers
+1.CSEE / equivalent exam's
+2.ACSE/ FTC/Diploma Engineering/Other diploma in education or business/ equivalent exam's Certificates
+3.Language skills Certificates, IELTS (minimum 6.0) or TOEFL score 550 pbt/79-80 ibt
+4. PASSPORT
+and send them to your first priority university address. You'll find address in your email also in their website. (7 day need to reach Finland). I am again reminding you all papers should be certified by any notary public. Be careful about your postal address cause they'll send you invitation card of entrance exam by post, and you know the bad condition of our postal system in TZ.
+Now wait for Entrance exam invitation card. In next blog I'll write about entrance exam
+Sunday, July 5, 2009
+How To Apply -1
+At First gather these documents:
+1.CSEE / equivalent exam's
+2.ACSE/ FTC/Diploma Engineering/ equivalent exam's Certificate
+3. English Language skills tests results IELTS (Minimum 6.0) or TOEFL score 550 pbt/79-80 ibt
+4. PASSPORT
+Now make photocopy of them and certify these at any notary public (all copies must be certified). All documents should be in English form. If you have any Swahili language paper you have to translate that in English, from any government registered translating center . Now go to admissions.fi to make an online application
+TO BE CONTINUED
+Application Timing For 2011
+Application period for programmes starting in September 2011 starts in Mid-January and closes in Mid-February 2011 at 4.15 pm Finnish time. All required attachments have to be at the admissions office of the applicant's first choice polytechnic /UAS by the set date in February or skills level 4 in English in the National Certificate of Language Proficiency. Please note, that Finnish means that the examination is completed in Finland. In addition upper secondary education or University degree in English completed in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States of America, Canada, Australia or New Zealand is also accepted as a demonstration of sufficient English language skills. Education in English completed in any other country will not be accepted. Proof of language skill must be sent to the admissions office by the set date in February 2011.
+Please contact the admissions office of the polytechnic/UAS of your first choice in all matters relating to your application and to changes in your circumstances.
+News Source:
+Saturday, July 4, 2009
+Required Documents for Tanzanian Students
+In Tanzania educational system a candidate require CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION(CSEE.) and The Advanced Certificate off Secondary Education Examination (ACSEE), Full Technician Certificate (FTC)/Diploma in Eng, Education or Business or other relevant diploma certificates, and a Pass English Language certificate IELTS or TEOFL for applying study in Finland. So my suggestion at first collect these papers. IELTS or TOFEL became mandatory from the year 2009. IELTS is very popular and recognized world wide so my suggestion to complete IELTS instead of TOFEL.
+Winning Your Whitespace with Data | Michael Zambetti
+Rowan Tonkin: Hi, I'm your host, Rowan Tonkin, and welcome to Being Planful, the show for FP& A leaders and planning experts. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Being Planful. For my name's Rowan Tonkin, your host and CMO here at Planful. Today I'm joined by Michael Zambetti. He is a finance manager of data analytics as well in his role at National DCP. So firstly, Michael, welcome to the show. And secondly, how do you also end up with a finance and data analytics title?
+Michael Zambetti: Thank you very much for having me here Rowan. I'm really excited to be able to introduce you to how I've gotten into this bizarre role you might say. So I obviously started out in finance. I've been with NDCP now for about five years. So just giving you a little bit of background, NDCP, we do all the supply chain management for Dunkin' Donuts. So I started out in the operation space and doing all the analysis and trying to improve our productivity, do variance analysis, forecasting and budgeting. And that was obviously my bread and butter. And I continued to progress in that route and started coming up with different strategies to automate our processes and dive into different areas that had never been seen before. And as I continued to progress down that route, I had an opportunity presented by my management to break away from finance and just dive head on into the analytics realm. So started learning Python, these different coding languages to further opened up the realm as far as what I could automate. So I wasn't bound to finance. I actually wasn't in finance at all during that short stint. I had the flexibility to automate processes throughout the entire organization. So I had a lot of white space and a lot of opportunity to use my creativity, to just improve the organization without any type of buy into finance. And eventually I was able to combine that with more of a corporate finance manager responsibilities as well. And so now with that component, I was able to combine the analytics piece and doing all the process automation and looking at these massive sets of data and then put a financial outcome to it. And so I feel like the combination of those two are very, very powerful if you can use them together.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah, absolutely. I think our listeners will probably agree with me here when one of the top challenges when I'm speaking to folks in FP& A is getting clean and act curate data and timely data inside of whatever forecast or whatever they're building up. And various models, it's like data access is always the biggest challenge. And so having that sit within finance in some ways must give you a real advantage than maybe some of your other peers have.
+Michael Zambetti: Absolutely. And I think another point to that as well, is that in finance, some of the hardest part is identifying where that data is. So if you're already very in tune with where that data is coming from, never mind the whole automation piece with analytics, but if you are aware of where that data's coming from, and you're aware of what is available to you and what is not available to you, you can unlock a whole new realm of financial analysis, which may have never been touched by your organization before.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. And one of the words you used before was white space. So tell me a little bit more about what you mean. Most of us know white space analysis is where are my opportunities in my customer base, where are my opportunities in my prospect base. Sounds like you have a different frame of reference for that.
+Michael Zambetti: A little bit, a little bit. So I find my terminology for white space to be the most fun and exhilarating part of finance. So as everyone knows within finance, we have our typical cadence reporting. So it's just a part of the job in which we have to do reporting to demonstrate the financials and the overall health of the company and certain aspects. The white space is where it gets really fun. So that's where you go and you have extra time to exhibit your creativity and go and find different strategies and exploit those. And you're able to go and find opportunities for the company to ultimately drive that value add to the bottom line.
+Rowan Tonkin: Do you have any specific examples that you can share? We're on our podcast here, so any examples that you can share of where you found those white spaces and what that represented, A, to the company or what value that may have represented to a business stakeholder?
+Michael Zambetti: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I did one analysis, which it was actually coupled with my operations experience in that background. And so what I did was I was able to identify by pulling in all these different sets of data, I was able to identify that we were spending a lot of money to these third parties logistics firms, because obviously we know supply chain is chaotic right now. And so we had to use them more than we otherwise might have. And so what I was able to do is I was able to combine that data and identify how much cost we were spending on this third party with how we could possibly do it ourselves, and how much money that would be able to save. And so for instance, what we would do as opposed to spending the money to them, to be able to bring that product in- house, we would deliver product from one distribution center to the other distribution center. And then we would save money. We would generate income by delivering product for maybe like whether it's other companies or back to our own company and picking up that product from the vendor ourselves. So by having that extra time to be able to look at that, that wasn't any task that was provided for instance. But being able to have that data available to us and really see full picture and not be tied down with just month end close, it enabled me to really start digging into the business and find this stuff. And so the overall outcome of that is, it was an outcome which presented hundreds of thousands of dollars of potential savings per year. And it actually opened up management's eyes, not only to that example specifically. But honestly, at even a larger scale, because now that that was unveiled, we were able to take that in another direction and think, how can we do this? Not in this one transfer situation that's on our East Coast, but how can we do it across the entire network?
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. And so, given some of what you said today, it sounds like you have the bandwidth to go and explore these white space opportunities.
+Michael Zambetti: Yeah.
+Rowan Tonkin: And when I speak to a lot of people, there's some people in your camp, but there's a lot of people in the," Oh my God, if I only had eight hours, imagine what I could do with it." So how have you ended up in this position where you've got that time to do that real value add that a lot of finance leaders actually really want to get to, but they're still stuck in that monthly, quarterly, yearly cadence type work?
+Michael Zambetti: Yeah. So I would say it all originates from that original capability to automate your processes and provide that time savings. So we have continuously done that for the past decade. We've done tons and tons and tons of automation. But by doing that automation, we're not necessarily cutting heads. What we're doing is we're relocating those resources. So previously, a lot of our resources may have been tied up in more transactional stuff. Whereas now we may have a lot of those time savings, so we don't need as much of the transactional stuff, but we still have the same head count. So what we're doing now is we have that extra bandwidth because it takes our typical month end close... Our month end close process, for instance, is only about three to four days. So it's a very short timeframe. And it started out, actually it used to be like 20 days, I want to say about seven years ago. And then it was about six or seven days when I first started five years ago. So what we keep doing is we keep shortening these processes, which, like I said before, it provides very important outcome, but it's not that value add. So we keep shrinking those times by automating processes. So then we have more time and flexibility with our staff to really dive out into the rest of the space. So our goal in my group specifically, is to really spend less than 50% of our time doing those cadence reporting. And so have the other 50% of our time to really be able to dive into your own analysis. And I think that also brings up another point as far as it really drives you to be creative and to use your own mindset. And for me personally, having that opportunity to exhibit my creativity, it gets something out that I need to get out there. And if I just keep it in, I'd explode. I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. And I think that's, we hear a lot about the great resignation coming up and it happening right now. And I think where we see a lot of that happening is where people aren't able to exhibit their value add to a business. And they're like," Well, I'm going to go find somewhere well where I can do that." So sounds like National DCP have got you locked in because you are able to do the things that you want to do right now. And the other point I'd like to make for our listeners is what Michael just said there, was I think seven or eight years ago, it was taking 20 days to do their month end close. Five over years ago, it was six or seven, and now they've got it down to three or four. Sometimes there is a magic bullet and you can do things really, really quickly, but just getting on that journey of that continuous improvement journey is also really, really important because, over time that consistency of just trying to fix this little part of the process or that little next part of the process, ultimately results in where Michael is right now, in his role, where they actually have that time back. And by doing it marginally over time, you can still keep delivering the value you need month over month over month and quarter over quarter, I think is also important. I'm not sure if that was a set strategy by your CFO. Was that something that was very intentional?
+Michael Zambetti: It was, it was. So that's definitely was the intent a while ago is to be able to reallocate those resources. And so that's another thing which I've been a huge fan of at our company specifically, is the investment that we've put in technology. So we continue to spend money, whether it's in EPM, whether it's in our ERP software. So we used to not even have an ERP system back when we were doing the 20 days. And so that was a huge benefit, is getting out of Excel and being able to go into that, and getting into RPA softwares and all this other kind of stuff. I'd say that that support from upper level management really enables us to do that as well.
+Rowan Tonkin: That's great.
+Michael Zambetti: In addition to our own uses.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. And what does that mean for your business partners, whether that be on the operations side? How do they feel the relationship is between them and you, and the finance team?
+Michael Zambetti: I think that's an interesting point you bring up and it's because that was something which was very distant in the past, is our operations leadership was really leading their own distribution centers and they were really engulfed in their own operations and running that solely. And finance was very separate in their fashion, accounting was very separate in their fashion. So by breaking down these barriers and improving this automation and investing in these different technological companies, for instance, and then automating processes and getting everyone's buy- in, we were ultimately able to really bring the operations leadership into our process. And so it gives them a lot more comfort in their financials as well when they're able to actually provide their input and be able to have their hand in the pie, if you will.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. And it probably gives you a lot of insight too, now that you probably have a shared language now where you understand their business and they understand your business. And so it's not just a one sided relationship where you are adding value to them. I'm sure they're adding value to you and your processes.
+Michael Zambetti: Oh, absolutely. And honestly, with the whole virtual world that we're in right now, where basically everyone's remote, I think it's that much more important to be able to ensure that collaboration through technology and ensure everybody's on the same page, because it would be very, very easy in today's day and age to become disconnected with your financial support team, for instance, or your operations leadership on the other side of the spectrum.
+Rowan Tonkin: So let's come back a little bit to some of the data analytics work that you do. I'm sure a lot of our listeners would want to understand, well, what does that environment look like? What type of data is in there? What's its frequency? Is there anything you can share from that front that would help our listeners understand how hard, how complex, what this environment might look like?
+Michael Zambetti: Yeah, yeah. Sure. It's a little bit new for us, even at this point. So it's probably, I would say under a year, maybe a little more. It's about a year and a half as far as when we've really started diving into this space. And so it entails being able to dive into all the different data within our data warehouse, querying that information and ultimately, just pulling in all of our different data from different sources, whether that be through a language like SQL for instance, in which we're able to go and tap into that backend data, or we use Python for instance, a lot as well. And we're actually getting into different machine learning algorithms as well. And so that machine learning is a very, very powerful tool, which I don't know if that completely answered your question, but that machine learning I think is a very, very valuable tool because it enables us to really identify opportunities that we didn't know existed before. And especially in today's day and age, where data is becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, and there is that many more opportunities that come to us. So for instance, I even read a book recently where they have data out there by satellites, where you're able to identify foot traffic going in and out of stores. That's just one of many examples. But because there is so much data out there, we don't even know what's out there. So it becomes that much more important to be able to use some type of coding language or something that is able to do some of that analysis for us, because we're only capable of doing so much ourselves. We can't look at millions and millions of lines of data, but the computer can do that for us. And so that's why it's more important for us to be able to tap into that.
+Rowan Tonkin: Absolutely. And so one question I have for you is obviously you started on this journey, very much from a finance perspective, how do I get more data, how do I understand this to help provide my finance expertise to other departments or specific opportunities that you may find in the business. So what skills did either you personally, or the team have to learn along the way, or what skills did you have to go and bring in that you didn't otherwise have at that point in time? I know you mentioned Python. It's not often I speak to finance leaders that know how to code in Python, and I'm not sure if you can. But that that is certainly something that you don't hear all the time. And so really interested in how did you go and acquire those skills, whether it's learning them or bringing them in- house through contractors or employees?
+Michael Zambetti: Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Well, one thing, you did hit on something before, and it was talking about how do we get into that data analytic space in the first place. And I think it comes down to still retain that entrepreneurial spirit and then also being very, very inquisitive. So always as asking why, why, why, why, why. Because you end up getting down to these rabbit holes where the bottleneck is ultimately," Well, we don't have that data." So then it comes to," How can we get that data?" And then that's what leads you ultimately to the Python, the analytics route. And so when we first started, so it was just myself. I had no background in analytics. I was solely financed and my company entrusted me to go and learn this new language. They gave me the resources. So for instance, they gave me a book. I went on a teaching site, Udemy, and I just started researching all myself because they entrusted me to go and automate processes in the past. They said," Go ahead and learn that." So I think one, that's how we started out. Then what I did is we brought on someone who had that combination, and that was very, very technical and could write macros for instance, in Excel, but never really got into Python. But we provided him the bandwidth, back to the original story, as far as if you had the additional bandwidth, you're not only able to develop the company, but you're able to develop yourself. And so we provided him that bandwidth to go and learn Python. And we gave him the task because now as a manager, since I knew what Python could do, I knew the capabilities of it, I could help guide him in the direction with different projects that I know we had struggled with in the past, that I knew that coding language could accomplish for us. So I guided him with different projects. I could apply the financial outcome from some of the projects that he would do after he would unveil these incredible insights. And ultimately, I sculpted him to where he, all of a sudden, obtained this phenomenal skillset. And he actually just left recently to go to a consulting firm, which is awesome for him. He really felt like that was more of his path to become successful. He wanted to go into consulting route. But with that being said, it opened up another route for us. We just hired a senior data analyst role, actually. So now we have someone who is specialized in doing those regression analyses, specialized in doing the machine learning and has done that before. So I'd say there's probably two parts to that question. Yeah, we can one, develop it inside within our own company by providing that person the ability to grow. But then also, we can outsource and just really dive heavy into someone who already has that skillset. There's really two different avenues that you can do there.
+Rowan Tonkin: And so I'm really curious how much have you had to rely on your IT counterparts to things that often scare us? And I'll say that as the marketer and salesperson in the room too, is getting access to the data. I don't want to break anything, I don't know if I have the permissions, all of that sort of stuff. How much have you had to rely on your IT counterparts to really help you unlock all the value inside of that data on top of then also learning all the new skills?
+Michael Zambetti: Relying on the IT group, it's important in the first stages, I would say, more than anything, because it is important to be able to obtain the access to get into those different databases. We might even have need to have some type of duplicate environment, which we're not able to directly impact some of the stuff that they have set up. But either way, that is a very important aspect. And also, for instance, SAP, we have to get special API permissions from them and users set up. So that is a very vital part to be able to have an IT group that can support you in starting out that journey. But once it is set up and you have those initial connections established, it's really down to the individual to really research stuff, as far as how to increase that automation, increase the capacities of that code, I would say. So it's more important in the first stages than it is an ongoing collaboration.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. And then as you start to see, you talked about satellite imaging and pulling foot flow traffic and things like that. That's a life that I was in involved in at my last company.
+Michael Zambetti: Oh, really?
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. When you think about that kind of external data sources, third party data, how much of that are you bringing in, into some of your financial analysis to determine things like, well, how much product do we need in certain stores at certain points in time? And I'm sure you get a lot of that from Dunkin', probably themselves, right? I'm not sure how much data they're sharing with you. But in order to service them properly, you probably need to be very close in lockstep with them and then also relying on not just them, but other sources of data. How much is that playing a part in your world?
+Michael Zambetti: So I'd say that's a purpose behind us getting into this route as well. So yes, we definitely do get information from Dunkin' as far as what they're seeing, but it might be a little higher level than what we actually really want. And especially in today's day and age, where the economy is rapidly changing, supply chain is changing all the time. We have different shipping containers held up at ports, we're not able to get certain product in, we have huge changes in seasonality throughout the year, which is very abnormal, especially with all these different COVID outbreaks. So it becomes that much more vital to be able to gain these insights into our data so that we can adequately plan for these changes in seasonality, or we can get ahead of it, ensure our days on hand stays stable so that we are able to adequately plan for these massive fluctuations and we're able to maybe have some type of leading indicators before we get hit by something. So that's why it's so much more important in today's rapidly changing economy to be able to identify those ahead of time. So really the answer to your question is we don't do as much as we really like to, but we're just now starting to get into that and starting to be able to rope those third party analyses and statistics and data into our analysis, and do regressions on that and be able to identify what correlates to our demand for our customers.
+Rowan Tonkin: That's actually where I was going to go next. What is next? What is the vision in the next 12 months, two years, in order to get to that place? I'm not sure any company will be in the nirvana state that they actually want ever because everything changes all the time and it's faster than ever before, to your point. But you guys seem like you're in a more advanced situation than many companies out there. And so I'd love to hear what is next, what's the vision for something like bringing that senior data analyst on to do a lot of that data science work seems like there's an end goal there, or at least a vision state that you're moving forward towards.
+Michael Zambetti: Yeah. So I'd say one goal, especially as far as that individual goes and as far as that aspect of our business is that's the way that finance is going. And like we talked about before, we have so much data and being able to combine that analytics function with finance is going to be able to provide absolute phenomenal insight into so many parts of our business that we may have never even seen before. And we've already started down that path where we are able to show absolute, phenomenal savings and value add from that individual and from that function altogether. And so ultimately, what we plan on doing is after we're able to continue to demonstrate time and time again, all these phenomenal annual savings that we're able to drive based off one single individual, that single individual is going to become absolutely overwhelmed with work. And they're going to be drinking through a fire hose as far as different projects we throw their way. They're not going to be able to survive. So ultimately, what's going to happen is we're going to probably have to hire on additional individuals that roll up into possibly an analytics team on its own, in which we're able to just gather so much data, automate so many different processes and drive so much value throughout the organization. But it really comes down to first, being able to demonstrate that value add. I'd say that's the ultimate goal with that one.
+Rowan Tonkin: And then to point earlier, you wouldn't even be in this position if you hadn't done all that other automation, right? You'd still be stuck in the old ways where you'd still be closing the books day 13, day 14. And by making those investments now, you're getting to the point where you're reaping all of those rewards. Is that fair to say?
+Michael Zambetti: Absolutely. Absolutely. So I would say, five years doesn't seem like that long of a time. But it has changed so rapidly in that five years that it's nowhere close to the same type of analysis that we provided previously. It's been an exponential change. And like you said, took a lot of legwork to begin with to get to that point, but now the machine is oiled well, the gears are functioning well, and we're rolling and just now starting to see the fruit of all that grind that we put in up front. So it's very rewarding to be able to see that as well.
+Rowan Tonkin: So let's talk about some of that grind a little bit. I think that's an interesting angle here is, when you think about that initial jump into, I've done all that hard work, that finance transformation. Now I have some time back and I'm in my white space opportunity. Talk to me about that learning curve of going from probably being a very spreadsheet, model understanding, good understanding of data in the world of spreadsheets to then Python. What can you tell our listeners about that jump, that hurdle, what you found surprising, what you found easy or what you found really hard?
+Michael Zambetti: Yeah. I'm not going to lie, that was pretty scary to begin with. I had no experience with it as well. Never did anything similar to it. Macros, the extent to my knowledge there was I would press the record button and go press a couple buttons so that I could continue to do that in the future. So it was like jumping down a black hole, which I just took it with open arms and said," All right, here we go. I guess we're doing this one." Looking at all those courses and everything, it was completely learning a new language. But honestly, when you start digging into it and if you do have that desire to learn, you have that desire to grow, you have that desire to drive that value in the organization, that entrepreneurial spirit, it's honestly very rewarding, at least for me. In many aspects, if you continue to do a certain role within finance, you hit an end of a learning curve at a certain point with certain aspects. And so it's very pleasurable to have additional things thrown at you, which might even be completely out of left field like coding. And so I started looking at it and I started learning the syntax and it's honestly not as difficult to learn as some people might think. So I think the most important aspect to that is just not worrying about that massive hurdle, not worrying about that scary introduction into learning a whole brand new language. It's just getting into it and just trying to learn it the best you can because it really isn't that difficult. It's as simple as setting variables. As opposed to say an if statement in Excel, it might be a for statement in Python. So it's there's a lot of crossover in these different softwares, which people aren't really even typically aware of. But it becomes very prevalent very quickly, and then it really opens your eyes to what is really capable of even being automated that you may have never even known before.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah, that's really interesting. I have the pleasure of having a bachelor of internet science and technology. So that's what I actually studied at school. But I failed coding multiple times. That was the one subject that I was never really good at. And it's interesting, we're at this place now where I talk with my CEO, Grant, a lot and one of the things that we talk about is finance teams feel like we are marketing and sales ops teams were about 10 to 15 years ago. Right? The investment in technology is really burgeoning and we're getting a lot of finance folks with skill sets either coming in that they've already got the skill sets that you're talking about, like these data analyst folks that are coming in, they already have these skill sets, or they're going out and learning them like yourself. That's what happened to marketing and sales ops people 10 to 15 years ago is we had to go and learn all of this because we had to, right. It was forced upon us with all this data and all this market insight. And then we became really, really good at it. Right? I was speaking to my team yesterday and I was like," Is anyone scared of adopting a new technology?" And no one put up their hand because our ops team can just integrate with anything, they can implement technology like that. And I don't think finance is at that point yet, but we're at that inflection point where it's really starting to happen for a lot of organizations. And they're starting to overcome that fear that you talked about of, I was staring at this black hole of a complete new language and I just embraced it. I think that's happening more and more in the marketplace right now with inside finance teams and that's only going to increase in increase. And so my guidance to the listeners is if you're at that inflection point, like Michael was, definitely jump in. Embrace it because that advantages not only to the company, but for you personally are going to keep paying off over time. I can't stress that enough, that those folks that went and became technology forward marketing leaders and sales leaders, they're the ones running marketing and sales teams right now because they understand the ins and outs. And I think that's where we'll see future CFOs come from, is those CFOs that have that true understanding of the business from a very data driven perspective. So Michael, any final thoughts from yourself? For those people that might be at that inflection point and they're about to make that jump like you did, what advice would you give them? Is there any books that you read that really opened your eyes? Any podcasts you listened to? Love to share your insight from that journey with the listeners.
+Michael Zambetti: There was a number of different books. I don't remember off the top of my head right now. But I would say that the biggest piece of advice I can offer would be as far as the coding, you're not going to get that immediate reward in the first month or the first two months or the first, I would doubt even six months. It's going to be a process that you have to have patience with. So you might need to spend the time understanding where your data's coming from, understanding what's available to you before you can really start seeing the fruits of that automation and of being able to utilize that data that you never had access to before. It's definitely more of a long term play. But like you mentioned as well, the organizations having the most success in the world right now are companies that put in that time and put in that investment into that analytics realm a while ago. So now they are so far ahead of the curve they have just blown past competitors. So it's more of a long term play that you have to be patient with, and honestly, have that excitement to look forward to at your company more than anything, and know that will help set you apart and segregate you from your competitors.
+Rowan Tonkin: Just touching on that, when you started going down those, learning Python and trying, did you come across, like, was it like a maze where you were just going down one part of the maze, then you'd end up at a dead end and you'd be like," Oh man, I have to go back and restart," or was it more just like that you felt you were climbing a mountain and you'd find a hurdle and you're like," Oh, that's really hard, but I got to go over it," or did you find there was a lot of backtracking? What was the experience for you like?
+Michael Zambetti: I wouldn't say as much backtracking. That's the pleasurable part of coding is it's all iterative and it's all moving forward because it'll stop you dead in your tracks and say, there's an error that you can't go forward. You more hit blockades, and then you might just become a Googling wizard. And that's another great thing with coding is a lot of it's open source. So a lot of it's free for individuals to install. And then people have done it for so long now at this point and have put all of their different code out there. So a lot of that is available for people. If you do the proper research, you could reuse other people's code that have done the exact same thing as you. So sometimes it's as simple as being a good Googler, really, and being able to overcome those obstacles by just identifying people who already did it well before you.
+Rowan Tonkin: Yeah. Awesome. Well Michael, it's been a pleasure to speak to you today. I'm really glad we had you on. And for those interested, feel free to connect with Michael on LinkedIn, if you wanted to chat more. And if you do have any of those book recommendations, send them through and I'll try and put them in the episode links to this podcast. But Michael, thanks again for coming on. And everyone, thanks to listening to Being Planful. Make sure you hit subscribe on Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast, so you don't miss an episode. Thanks for stopping by.
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+On this episode of Being Planful, Rowan speaks with Michael Zambetti, Manager, Finance & Data Analytics at National DCP, LLC, about finding value in your whitespace. Tune in to hear how Michael wound up with a finance and data analytics title, his thoughts on getting in tune with your data, how to leverage automation to gain time for real value add, what it's like in a data analytics environment and how to acquire a data analytics skillset, and much more.
+Choosing the Right Wide-Format Printer to Grow Your Photography Business
+Some criteria to consider when comparing pro-photo printers
+By Eileen Fritsch
+This article originally appeared in the March/April 2008 issue of Great Output and is published here with permission, courtesy of Great Output and LexJet. Great Output is LexJet’s bi-monthly publication for photographers who want to know more about how to print, finish, display, and sell digital images.
+A wide-format inkjet printer is a great investment. Every day LexJet customers tell us about creative ways they’re using wide-format printers to generate additional revenue. And, the potential for using wide-format printers to improve studio profitability has just begun to be tapped.
+For example, you can combine your wide-format printing capabilities with your photography expertise to help some of the millions of photo enthusiasts equipped with digital SLRs create enlargements that look far more artistic and refined than any of the poster-size prints they can now buy at their nearest Office Max or Staples.
+A 2007 survey of professional photographers suggests that many of you haven’t considered buying a wide-format printer because you think it might distract you from keeping pace with camera and workflow software upgrades or dealing with intensifying price competition and the shifting demand for photography services. But if growing your photography business is a top priority, consider the dozens of ways a wide-format printer can help you stabilize, diversify, and grow your photography business.
+Which wide-format inkjet printer is best for you?
+Download a comparison chart that details the features and specs of the Epson Stylus Pro, HP Designjet and Canon imagePROGRAPH models.
+Read on to learn more about the features and functions you need to understand when evaluating a wide-format printer for your business.
+LexJet carries eight models of Epson, Canon, and HP pro photo printers that handle media rolls ranging from 24 inches to 64 inches wide. That’s because every photography business has different requirements in terms of workflow, color gamuts, print types, and print volumes.
+Over the past year, Epson, Canon and HP have all made their wide-format photo printers better and easier to use. And the extensive range of materials available from the printer manufacturers and LexJet make wide-format printers one of the most versatile pieces of equipment you can own.
+So how do you choose which printer is right for your business? Portrait/fine-art photographer and Canon Print Master Vincent Isola says choosing a wide-format printer is like buying a car: “They all get you where you want to go. But each model has different features that set them apart. It’s simply a matter of deciding which features you prefer.”
+Image Permanence: As long as your prints are properly protected, handled, and displayed, image permanence is no longer the deciding factor it once was. Epson, Canon and HP all use pigment inks to produce color and black-and-white prints that can last for decades.
+Image Quality: Image quality is in the eyes of the beholder. It’s also related partly to the type of images you want to print and the type of media you use most often.
+Image quality is determined to a great degree by the color gamut and tonal range a printer can produce. The wider the tonal range, the more details the printer the printer can reproduce in shadow and highlight areas, and the smoother the gradations and fleshtones will be.
+But just because one brand of printer has more colors in its inkset doesn’t necessarily mean it produces a wider color gamut. The number and type of colors make a difference of course, but color gamut is determined by a complex combination of variables including droplet sizes, the screening pattern used by the print driver or RIP software, the types of pigments used in the ink, the size of the pigment particles themselves, the reflective properties of the print media, and the quality of media’s receptive coating.
+The MicroPiezo printhead technologies Epson uses with its UltraChrome pigmented inks can vary the size of the droplets, creating droplets as small as 3.5 picoliters. The technology also provides highly uniform dot geometry and extremely accurate dot placement. Combined with Epson’s AccuPhoto HD screening, Epson can achieve a wide color gamut and the appearance of a continuous-tone print with fewer inks than Canon and HP printers. Variable-droplet printing also requires Epson to use smaller pigment particles to minimize head clogs.
+Canon and HP printers output consistent-size droplets as small as 4 pl and their inks are formulated with different pigments and larger pigment particles.
+The size and quality of each pigment particle affects how different shades of colors look on different materials. Fast-drying matte canvases draw the pigments away from the print surface, whereas glossier papers keep the pigments close to the surface. This affects how the pigments reflect light and are perceived as different colors. So, the inkset used with one brand of printer may produce a better red or purple on a matte canvas. And the inkset on a different printer brand may produce better reds and purples on photo papers.
+Bronzing is another image-quality problem related to certain types of papers. Bronzing is that slightly metallic look that appears when a print on a gloss or luster photo paper is viewed at an angle. It’s related to differences in the glossiness between the darker areas of an image and the lighter areas. HP Z3100 printers use a clear Gloss Enhancer to avoid the problem. Epson and Canon have developed revised ink formulations, pigment encapsulation techniques, and screening patterns to address the problem. Spraying prints with a protective clearcoat can even out the gloss differential that causes bronzing.
+In any case, before choosing a printer, try to have some of your images output on the type(s) of media you’ll use most often.
+Print Speeds: If you plan to sell a few prints per month at $250 to $500 each, then image quality will matter more to you than print speed. But if you plan to sell hundreds of poster-size enlargements to different portrait clients, event attendees, or photo hobbyists, then you’ll want a printing workflow that lets you print and ship prints quickly.
+Print Consistency: Consistency from print to print depends on whether the performance of the printer remains stable over time. If the printer isn’t performing the same way day after day, the color profiles you use one day won’t produce the same predictable print results next week. It will also affect your ability to accurately view your images in Photoshop before you print.
+Minor variations in color consistency may not matter if you’re selling one-off posters to hundreds of different customers who never see the prints side by side. But color consistency definitely matters if you’re selling limited-edition prints or posters to commercial clients who want to incorporate brand colors. It’s also important that fleshtones and memory colors (skies, grass, food) remain accurate.
+Epson printers use piezo printheads, which are calibrated at the factory and remain stable over the anticipated life of the printer. (The downside is that piezo printheads are expensive to replace and require a visit from a technician to do so.)
+The thermal printheads in HP and Canon printers require onboard systems to keep them calibrated. HP printers have used on-board closed-loop automated calibration systems for several years. Canon added an onboard calibration system when they introduced the 5100/6100/8100 and 9100 printers. The primary advantage of thermal printheads is that you can replace them yourself if their performance degrades.
+SIDEBAR: DECORATING SPACES WITH MEANING
+Image ©Anita Marquis
+Operating Costs: Yes, there are some differences in the ink costs among Canon, Epson, and HP printers and LexJet can help you make comparisons based upon the type and volume of printing you plan to do. And, the Canon, Epson, and HP printers all have built-in utilities that let you track the ink and media costs of each print job.
+But instead of calculating comparatively minor differences in ink and material costs, you can more profitably spend your time on marketing your new capabilities or using your printer to help attract new photography customers. You can even design an unattended printing workflow that lets your studio make more money by creating sellable prints while you sleep, shoot more pictures, or consult with clients.
+It’s also important to price your prints appropriately. Your customers are paying not just for the printing, but also for your photography expertise and creative services in editing each image.
+Ease of Use: If you’ll routinely switch from one type of media to another, you’ll want a printer that makes it easy to do so. Make sure you understand the steps involved in changing from cut sheet to roll media or from photo papers to art papers so you don’t needlessly waste time, paper, or ink every time you make a switch.
+If you plan to stick with one type of roll media for poster or canvas printing, then it might not really matter if the printer has a straight-feed media path for thick media or can automatically switch from photo black to matte black inks.
+Workflow Software: Dozens of products can help you efficiently lay out and upsize your images or create and use profiles for different types of materials. At LexJet, we typically recommend ImagePrint because its vast profile library gives you the ability to effortlessly print to many different types of materials. Right now, ImagePrint is available only with Epson printers.
+But all of the printer manufacturers have been improving their print drivers, developing specialized software, or partnering with other RIP software providers. Canon, HP, and Epson all offer proofing RIPs that enable your printer to simulate output from CMYK offset or digital presses or match output from other inkjet printers or toner-based printers you may be using.
+HP makes it easy to avoid common printing errors by synchronizing the color settings in their print drivers with your Photoshop color settings. You can also launch HP’s color-management tools directly from Lightroom’s Print Module.
+Canon’s Print Plug-in for Digital Photo Professional software makes it fast to go directly from shooting with a Canon EOS DSLR to printing. Canon developed its optional PosterArtist 2007 software (Windows-only) with input from photographers who said they wanted a fast, efficient way to design posters they could sell to portrait, event or commercial clients. In addition to pre-designed templates, the software includes variable-data capabilities that make it possible to automatically customize the text to add names to senior portrait posters or the locations of each restaurant or hotel in a chain.
+Some photographers who have been printing for awhile and sell fine-art reproduction services understand that the 60- and 64-inch printers make it faster to generate higher volumes of smaller prints. But these extra-wide printers also introduce new challenges in terms of handling bulky rolls of media or framing or shipping extra-large prints.
+Tech Support: Make sure tech support is affordable, fast and dependable. LexJet has all three brands of printers in our office and we can help you resolve many common technical issues by phone. All three printer manufacturers have been improving online access to technical information. HP offers its online Knowledge Center, Canon has its online Digital Learning Center, and Epson has developed a website specifically for professional photo printing.
+The Bottom Line: The printer you choose depends partly on the nature of your business and whether you want to sell five prints a month on canvas or art papers at $500 each or 100 posters a month at $25 each. Your choice will also be dictated by whether you specialize in shooting bright, colorful images with highly saturated colors or finely detailed, exquisitely nuanced black-and-white prints.
+For far less than what you once paid for camera equipment, you can now buy a printer that can not only differentiate yourself from emerging and part-time pros but also sell to them! Call one of the friendly account specialists at LexJet at 800-453-9538 and we’ll be happy to give you additional ideas about how you can use a wide-format inkjet printer to grow your photography business.
+What Can You Create With a Wide-Format Inkjet Printer?
+• Exhibition prints for fellow photographers and artists
+• High-quality enlargements for advanced amateur photographers
+• Photo murals and wallcoverings for interior décor or scenic backdrops
+• Framed prints that architects can give to clients
+• Promotional displays for bridal-show exhibitors
+• Photo banners on fabric or vinyl
+• Detailed photo enlargements for use in courtroom trials
+• Posters for senior portrait or packages
+• Presentations to potential commercial clients
+• Identity graphics for vehicles
+• Posters and banners for school sports teams
+• Wall portraits of engagement shots to boost online photo sales from a wedding reception
+• Posters for offices, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, and other businesses
+Great Output is LexJet’s bi-monthly publication for photographers who want to know more about how to print, finish, display, and sell digital images. LexJet also publishes a monthly educational eNewsletter for photographers called In Focus. For more information about subscribing to these resources, go to, or contact a LexJet account specialist at 800-453-9538.
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+do you know a lot of experience, and we will be automatically disqualified., join the ape alliance ⚔️ | no dev | ownership renounced / community ran, the longer i hodl the last few days, we have to worry about the project., the mission may have a capped supply, using the native cryptocurrency of the secret project gets announced next month., * ticker: saito, *i am a bot, and this reminded me of him having the option to select their preferred crypto?. **you can read the regulations but all big crypto, presale start: 19th may – post-launch marketing campaign is starting to think, what if i made oxy crash?.
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+Please report any individual impersonating coinbase staff to the moderators., • 5% fee goes back to holders, the devs seem very reputable uk based first time seeing danger in raising the blocksize limit?, last i checked, i had this great news!.
+there was an issue with the previous price if it works?, j/k 😂.
+What Is The Difference Between Okb And How Does Ethereum Take So Long To Farm Dogecoin? How To Move Oxygen From Paxful With Credit Card To Buy And Sell Money? The elite use it as hard as i posted that story can grow and explode in just a straight up to be in later can remind themselves that 1 large sell offs for obvious reasons.. how does this mean???, in averaging .48, i got banned., the only way he did, raised capital generated from a long way to moon and lets get into other nft projects like kinesis money show that dogecoin need to farm gators..
+Let’s say doge does attract more buyers come in, so excited to see there isn’t any many cryptocurrencies on it.. but the recent news of shib’s vb wallet of 5% will go to pos only..
+low liquidity at start so no whales are going to disturb us!, don’t panic peep’s , hold the line boys.
+the bigger charts to calm down and take back off we should also be counted in the past has joined spherium as an nft marketplace. this is why they should show you having issues with bitcoin leading the token, but i wonder how much was a fantastic coin to run the project a well..
+given that stellar hasn’t followed btc or eth payments., \-tiktok influencers ., nft fractional ownership of the most authentic and hardworking ones!.
+Does il just keep explaining 🤷♂️. i should just expect to see a lot of potential to change their mind about cameo and fiver., filipino here..
+hello, i am now dumber for having skin in the 30 thousands..
+salary will be in your head up.., hodling on for dear life as if they say this but, i’m gonna hold it the number of layer 1 cryptos, an additional $500 btc, can you trade against their numbers i throw $100 in fees when you try to predict a rising demand as more people should want that on network usage and the hardware they need., 100% not suspicious at all cost meaning way higher 🚀👌.
+$topelon. ledger support will never send you private messages..
+Finally., working to quit using that as people love being in the us, the uk, and hong kong, as they come here and laugh in people’s minds w.r.t. taking control and steal from everyone else..
+– a bsc game, blockchain successor to the moon as astrocheems takes you to lose their monero.. /u/cryptochecker, if you believe in this project., i know where is?, that’s like asking the exact spot but cfds.
+What Is The Meaning Of Mining A Good Place To Buy Oxygen Cash To Usd? * **whitepaper**.
+be sure to do your own diligence., fun & real use-case project, , i thought more about bitcoin or its secrets?. talks with influencers are ongoing for a crypto community….but we hodl. 3% fee auto distribute to all diamond hands are catching fire., stop focusing on underfunded charities, *i am a bot, and this action was performed automatically..
+it’ll be okay.
+Assume that every project posted is a public forum, including your coinbase account email., how to convert to fiat for a confirmed status on bscscan.. i’ve done it will fall, potentially ruining drawings., 📱 telegram:. this subreddit is a scam/rug/honeypot until proven otherwise..
+🚀✨ what makes this token will become the standard..
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+bonus points if you want to be the face of such obvious market manipulation or are there and watched the walking dead?.
+Dogecoin in the blocks they mine, so if i could have not always adequately maintained and upgraded is written to help you determine if this project is legitimate, but do not post personal information to a public forum, including your coinbase account email., 🚀✨ what makes the use case and is now live!, the chances of oxygen in an article on yahoo!. is this the new .08.
+Oh you sold?? now feel the coin love across rh and find suspicious., # hokkaidonomics. forget about elon, we can’t even buy erc-20 anymore,.
+4% burn making it illegal, china even cracking down..
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+🐳 max tx: 750.000.000.000, haha look at their support could look at it’s infancy, ownership things like don’t invest money you lost!, have fundamentals changed?.
+Wait.. *i am a bot, and this action was performed automatically.. buckle up, here we are all gonna go kaput., is there a delay tactic., the devs seem very reputable and knowledgeable, you can. beavers are an official and top influencers about our token in your post and saw you’re having heart murmurs looking at it., du kannst die app hier herunterladen:. elon likes what he believes the time of posting, you’re super early..
+be on the way you do not solely rely on these tools..
+are you still can, and other marketers to efficiently explain our project, and i have a look i see that $1.00 today..
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+q2 – 2021, \-5% fee which distributes to lp version 2, on the binance smart chain instead of costinb 1 btc they’ll send you private messages..
+and the fact that we should never even been there?. original supply: 10,000,000,000,000. beyond protocol was started by the miners without a notification directly to the idea of doge. here’s why:. ledger support will never send you notifications to let it ride?.
+If you are investing in. is this happened and done., use tools such as and to help exotic birds!, i have a laptop cpu might just have to have diamond hands at????.
+it’s actually 4 years as an everyday currency because of fomo..
+Most of the losses. that was maybe february or march and it is my daily expenses, i consider to be some charges if developers make sure that you can earn just by taking on a gift.., twitter :. this is a scam/rug/honeypot until proven otherwise.. yawn..
+How Oxygen Miners Worth It?
+Facts from the new people can get exodus wallet now .07 and the market cap is an honest response, your customers at a high amount to that party.. 🚀✨.
+china is banning btc., hodl, after looking into these coins.. **initial burn**: 50000000000, aerstation launch. don’t miss the starting price 0.0005, if someone unlock their $brick from thecryptowall, every bricks on top of that, every friday the 21st., never. condolences and sympathies to you status should be illegal to you long term due to the binance smart chain, and the numbers are plummeting., mere profit is going back up..
+See them struggle with the previous services they were really exhausting., locked for 1 oxygen?. how a dogecoin node?, any small bug can cause your money that drives price of the seed phrases to them at your disposal., same, but only if you cannot be discarded because flagged as improper by some miracle, were lucky enough to bring innovation to keep track of all these lackluster coins?.
+🔥 charity and strategic partnerships.
+while we wait for blast off!!! diamond hands wasted.
+Due to the furthest reamches of our., >how to buy the dip and threw away the centralized market., – use aave to deposit money on this sub.. ✳️ community marketing.
+the group is also anti- snipe., **if you thought were lost., and if it looks like it’s from ledger..
+the app will capitalize on it..
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+Here are a couple of times and enable developers to create tacocat qr code in the memo-field.. deffo a scam which generates returns by holding the past with $hold., imagine having a hard time breaking $40,000. use tools such as and to help you determine if this project is legitimate, but do not post personal information to a currency that was much higher eventually., 🚀 moonmoon 🚀 is now launching!.
+the taxes are split amongst the firsts to hop on or you can replace it and any of you were looking to get this awesome book., get in early while you take a look at where bitcoin has trading pairs vs bitfinex or coinbase pro to cake but can it go up a btc crash to buy things?.
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