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To rush Scafell is perhaps churlish, though, as the view from its peak are as good as any other in Britain. [8] Chase was also only the seventh person recorded to have climbed all P600s over any time period. The highest mountain in the UK is Ben Nevis at 1,345 metres or 4,411 feet. Ben Nevis – 4411 ft (1345m) The highest peak in Scotland and in the UK, Ben Nevis is near Fort William, at the western end of the Grampians in northwest Scotland. P600 mountains by height. Northern Ireland's is Slieve Donard in the Mourne Mountains. This is a different measure to the overall height of the mountain and shows how far the particular summit rises from the surrounding landscape. They are all in Scotland and are all Munros. Of all countries, Lesotho has the world's highest low point at 1,400 metres (4,593 ft). The mountain peak may be reached by opting for the ‘Gondola lift’ that serves the Nevis Range Ski area. The highest point in Wales is Snowdon (1085 metres : 3560 ft.).. Where Are the Highest Mountains in Europe? List: Top Ten Highest Mountains in the UK Date: 1997 Source: Munro's Tables (Revised) Base: All mountains in the United Kingdom whose summits may be considered individual mountains as opposed to subsidiary peaks. (‡‡) Added since the 2006 "metric" list of 119 mountains with prominence over 2,000 ft (610 m), based on updated surveys. The highest mountain in the UK is the iconic Ben Nevis, standing at an impressive 1,345m tall. Ben Nevis, Scotland – 1,344m (The highest mountain in the British isles and the highest mountain in Scotland.) This list of the top 10 highest mountains in the UK in order, is listed by overall height. With the names ‘Beag’ meaning small and ‘Mòr’ meaning big, it’s a little confusing that Aonach Beag is the largest of the Aonachs (the names are in relation to the overall bulk of the mountains, not the height). Climbing The Highest Mountain In UK: Scafell Pike. With plenty of UK mountains ready for you to conquer, you don’t have to travel far to put yourself to the test. UK's Highest Peaks (clockwise from top): Ben Nevis in Scotland (1,345m), Mount Snowdon in Wales (1085m), Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland (850m) and Scafell Pike in England (978m) If you thought that Ben Nevis was the UK's highest mountain, then think again. The 120 P600s contained 54 of the 282 Scottish Munros, and 10 of the 34 Non-Scottish Munros (or Furths), all of which have prominences above 3,000 feet (914.4 m), and are sometimes called the "Super-Majors". In addition, the SMC define Munro Tops, as Scottish peaks above 3,000 feet (914.4 m) that are not considered Munros. There are the longest-lying […] Dawson's prominence threshold was the normal height threshold for a British Isles mountain,[11] and 111 mountains met his definition. Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro (1856–1919), who produced the first list, known as Munros Tables, in 1891. The highest mountains in the UK are in Scotland in the Scottish Highlands. Use these checkboxes to show or hide Mountains… The highest point in England is Scafell Pike (978 metres : 3208 ft.). We’e also a list of The Highest Mountains in England along the same lines and The Highest Mountains in Scotland (also the UK!) Whilst all of the UK's 50 highest mountains are to be found in Scotland there are still a considerable number of peaks which reach over 2,000 feet (610 metres).. As you may notice most of these mountains are located in the North of England. 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The Mountain ranges such as Scottish Highland and Cairngorms holds many highest points (mountains), The Highlands are typically mountainous and the highest summits in … Following on from our top 25 Summits in Wales – we’ve compiled the same list for England. Boasting a prominence of 912 metres, Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England and the 13th tallest in Britain. Guide To Climbing The Highest Mountains In UK. The highest point in England is Scafell Pike (978 metres : 3208 ft.).. That record goes to Mount Elbrus is the Caucasus Mountains with an impressive highest peak of 18,510 feet (5,642 meters). National elevation ranges. Highest Mountains in England. The only problem with compiling a top 25 for England is … In addition to their heights and locations, this list of the highest mountains in Europe also tells you who were the first to reach each summit. Many climbers choose the Cumbrian mountain as a one-off ascent, although a great number also tackle it as part of the National Three Peaks Challenge, which also takes in Ben Nevis and Snowdon. Name Elevation Latitude/Longitude; 1: Ben Nevis , Scotland: 1,344 m: 56.797 / -5.004: 2: Ben Macdui , Scotland: 1,309 m If – like us – you immediately said “the Alps”, then think again! All of Scafell Pike’s routes are unmarked, but all will reward you … Pictured: Ben Macdui, the second highest mountain in the UK. See List of English counties by highest point for tops of the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, and List of counties of England and Wales in 1964 by highest point for historic county tops. Highest Mountains in Scotland. Click on the name of any of the mountains to visit its page. #bennevissummit #scottishscenery #lochaber #scottishhighlands At 3,239m, Mount Hope in the British Antarctic Territory has just been declared Britain's highest peak! Highest point in the UK on the coldest day of the year so far. England's Highest Mountains. The highest point in England is Scafell Pike (978 metres : 3208 ft.). (‡) Would not have been eligible for Dawson's 2004 "imperial" list of 111 mountains with prominence over 2,000 ft (610 m). K2 is classified in three categories of mountains: Ultra, Seven Second Summits, and Eight-thousanders. Didn’t think it was possible to get a view from the #summit of #bennevis ! Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro (1856–1919), who produced the first list, known as Munros Tables, in 1891. Very rarely do mountains occur individually. The UK’s tallest mountain is part of the Grampian Mountain Range and attracts over 100,000 visitors every year – and with very good reason. This is a list of P600 mountains in Britain and Ireland by height. On a clear day, it's possible to see more than 30 other peaks, with some climbers even reporting glimps… The highest mountain in England is well known to be Scafell Pike, but what about the other of England’s highest mountains? But the biggest mountain in Ethiopia is Ras Dashen, a mountain designated as the highest in the entire horn of Africa. Although England is the poor relation in respect of the highest mountains on the British Mainland there are still over 200 which reach over 2,000 feet (610 metres) in height. [11][12] Since 2006, one of Trengrove's Sub–Majors, Moel Siabod, was re–surveyed and shown to be a P600 "Major". Nicknamed “The Ben”, this is the highest – and one of the toughest – mountain challenges you can undertake in the UK, with an altitude of 1345 metres above sea level. By definition, P600s have a height above 600 m (1,969 ft), the requirement to be called a "mountain" in the British Isles. [11] In 2004, Dawson's prominence was converted into a metric threshold of 600 metres (1,969 ft) by Rob Woodall & Jonathan de Ferranti, and labelled the "P600s", a term used by the UIAA for major mountains; the P600s expanded to 119 mountains. topographic isolation); this is a similar approach to that of the Marilyn, Simms, HuMP and TuMP British Isle mountain and hill classifications. [3][4] P600 and "Majors" are used interchangeably.[5][6][7]. The highest mountain in England is Scafell Pike in the Lake District. That’s why we’ve put together all the information you need to make your climb to some of the highest mountains in the UK. Marilyns are the same as P600s, except the prominence requirement is just 150 metres (492 ft), therefore all P600s are Marilyns. With a near 40% summit fatality rate, a mountaineer is more likely to die here than on any other 8,000m climb. United Kingdom - Highest Mountains. It’s both the highest mountain in Wales, as well as the one with the most choice in routes up. [11][12] The current list has 120 mountains, although there is dispute as to whether Moel Siabod's prominence is above 600 metres (2,000 ft), or is in fact just below the threshold at 599.9 metres.[12]. The list below is the October 2018 DoBIH[b] list of the six mountains with a prominence between 590–600 m (1,940–1,970 ft) in the British Isles. The mountain range in which it resides, the increasingly threatened Simien Mountains , (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) are famed for their rugged rockiness and severe ravines. This makes it more than twice as tall as Ben Nevis, which is mainland Britain’s highest peak at 1,345 metres (4,411ft). From the biggest to the smaller, lesser-known climbs that still have a lot to offer, there are mountains to suit all abilities – so there’s no excuse not to give it a try. The highest point in Scotland (also the highest in the United Kingdom) is Ben Nevis, standing at 1344 metres (4409 ft.).. The undisputed king of Welsh Mountains. The list also contained the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Please note: the list below is ordered by the relative height, or prominence of the peaks. Mountain, landform that rises prominently above its surroundings, generally exhibiting steep slopes, a relatively confined summit area, and considerable local relief. The highest mountains in the Yorkshire Dales are home to some of England’s finest and wildest scenery, all of it ripe for hiking. United Kingdom Mountains. The basic meaning of the term Aonach is ‘fair’ whereas Cairngorm stands for ‘blue cairn’. Aonach Beag Located in the Highlands of Scotland, it is the highest peak in the British Isles. Located in Cumbria, in the Lake District National Park, its summit is 978 metres above sea level. Highest points and most of the Scotland are covered by Ice Sheets during winter and even summer season. Please note: the list below is ordered by the relative height, or prominence of the peaks. A P600 is defined as a mountain with a topographic prominence above 600 m (1,969 ft), regardless of elevation or any other merits (e.g. Highest mountains in england; Rank Name Elevation (metres) Elevation (feet) Prominence … Mountain Height (m) Prominence (m) Note; 1: Scafell Pike: 978: 912: This peak lies on the Lake District and Southern Fells Range, is the highest peak in England. 2: Sca Fell: 964: 133: Second high point and stands between Wasdale in the west and Upper Eskdale to the East. Climbing any mountain can be a great physical and mental challenge to conquer. It's in the Grampian Mountains. The Munros by Altitude. As we’ve already mentioned, Scafell Pike is England’s highest mountain. Most of them, including the 10 highest are located in the north western corner of the country within the Lake District National Park. This is a different measure to the overall height of the mountain and shows how far the particular summit rises from the surrounding landscape. The "P" terminology is an international classification,[1][2] along with P1500 Ultras. Where Are the Highest Mountains in Europe? Countries. 3: Helvellyn: 950: 712 Other countries with high low points include Rwanda (950 metres (3,117 ft)) and Andorra (840 metres (2,756 ft)). Highest Mountains in Scotland. 1 Snowdon – Yr Wyddfa (1085 metres) Snowdon Range. A ridge joins together both Aonach Beag and Aonach Mòr. If – like us – you immediately said “the Alps”, then think again! The highest point in Scotland (also the highest in the United Kingdom) is Ben Nevis, standing at 1344 metres (4409 ft.). The tale of the tape puts its height at nearly 15,000 feet. List of mountains and hills of the United Kingdom, List of English counties by highest point, List of counties of England and Wales in 1964 by highest point, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_highest_points_in_the_United_Kingdom&oldid=957159039, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 May 2020, at 10:19. The Mountains, Peaks, Tops and Hills in The Lake District National Park, Cumbria If you count only the Wainwrights there are 214 tops to climb, bag & conquer and the highest … British Isles mountain cartographer, Alan Dawson, developer of … [8][9], British Isles mountain cartographer, Alan Dawson, developer of the Marilyns designation,[a][10] labelled "Majors" as having a prominence of over 2,000 ft (610 m), but no other criteria. The highest point in Scotland (also the highest in the United Kingdom) is Ben Nevis, standing at 1344 metres (4409 ft.). This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. Highest Mountain in the 48 Contiguous United States Whitney, California: 14,494 feet / 4418 meters Highest Mountain in South America Aconcagua, Argentina: 22,834 feet / 6960 meters Lowest Point in the World (and Asia) Dead Sea shore, Israel-Jordan: 1369 feet / … The highest mountains in Scotland are traditionally the Munros, but if we stuck to those then this would just be a list of the highest Munros - what's the [15] These tables are therefore subject to being revised over time, and should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded again. In addition to their heights and locations, this list of the highest mountains in Europe also tells you who were the first to reach each summit. ⛰️. is in the pipeline. If you count only the Mountains (Hewitts) there are 180 tops to climb, bag & conquer and the highest point is Scafell Pike at 978m (3,210ft). 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Las Vegas (CNN) — Las Vegas Boulevard -- the world-famous Las Vegas Strip -- is the central artery of Sin City and the main line to a majority of the city's best sights, gambling, food and fun.
With neon signs and dancing fountains along an eight-mile stretch of awesome, the Strip delivers sensory overload.
Some of the latest sights to hit the Strip include a new competitive video game arena at Luxor and a virtual reality attraction at the Neon Museum.
These are just the most recent developments along Las Vegas' most iconic street. Whether you want to roll the dice at one of the city's casinos, watch a world-class performance, eat at a celebrity chef's Vegas outpost or simply glory in the glittering spectacle, it can be hard to choose what to do first when you travel here.
It's best to start at the beginning, at the southern end of the Strip. From south to north, here are 15 of our favorite attractions on one of the most famous roads in the world.
1. 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada' sign
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The iconic "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada" sign serves as Sin City's unofficial welcome mat.
This neon beacon has greeted visitors at the south end of Las Vegas Boulevard since 1959, when commercial artist and prolific sign designer Betty Willis designed it as a gift to the city. Because Willis never trademarked her work, merchandising companies have been able to replicate it on t-shirts, mugs and other tchotchkes.
The sign was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, and it's one of the most popular selfie spots in town. It also served as the site of a makeshift memorial after the mass shooting at a country music concert in October 2017.
"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada," sign, Las Vegas Boulevard, South. Las Vegas, NV 89101.
2. Luxor Hotel & Casino
This 1990s-built pyramid isn't one of the seven wonders of the world, but it stands out in a town where copycatting New York, Paris, Venice and other iconic destinations certainly is a compliment.
Inside, guests ride inclinators instead of elevators to their rooms, and people-movers ascend and descend at 39-degree angles along the corners of the pyramid, creating a rocking sensation that makes riders feel like they're on a boat.
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Outside, a spotlight at the pyramid's peak boasts of being the strongest beam of light in the world. The resort just opened the Strip's first dedicated arena for multi-player video games.
Luxor Hotel & Casino, 3900 Las Vegas Blvd., S. Las Vegas, NV 89119; +1 702 262-4000
3. The Park
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One of the newest additions to Sin City, this $100 million urban oasis between the New York-New York and Park MGM (the soon-to-be-renamed Monte Carlo) hotels stretches from Las Vegas Boulevard back to T-Mobile Arena.
Along the way, brick walkways wind past the Las Vegas outpost of Shake Shack and other open-air restaurants, a walk-through water feature that evokes parting the Red Sea and "Bliss Dance," a 40-foot-tall statue of a dancing woman. The area is hopping before home games for the NHL's Golden Knights, the first pro sports team in Vegas history.
The Park, 3784 Las Vegas Blvd., S. Las Vegas, NV 89109; +1 702 740-6969
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4. Public art at City Center
While Las Vegas isn't known for its art scene, MGM Resorts has invested $40 million over the last 10 years in public art at the 67-acre City Center complex.
Notables include Maya Lin's "Silver River," which hangs behind the registration desk at Aria Las Vegas and depicts the course of the Colorado River; and Glacia, a piece on the ground floor of The Shops at Crystals composed of 15-foot-tall ice columns rising anew each morning and melting in different patterns throughout the day.
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A third piece, named "Big Edge," comprises more than 200 kayaks, canoes and other water vessels.
City Center, Las Vegas, NV 89109; between the Monte Carlo Las Vegas Resort & Casino and Harmon Avenue.
5. Fountains of Bellagio
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Water that dances like ballerinas. Cannons that shoot water hundreds of feet in the air. Yes, the fountains that span the artificial lake in front of Bellagio Las Vegas have become one of the most iconic Vegas sights. It's no wonder this is where the characters from the 2001 version of "Ocean's 11" met to celebrate their big heist.
The spectacle, designed by a company poetically named Wet, opened with the property in 1998 and today comprises more than 1,000 fountains in all, some shooting spray more than 450 feet into the air. The fountains go off weekdays every 30 minutes between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and every 15 minutes between 8 p.m. and midnight. They are even more frequent on weekends.
Unless you've got a bird's eye view from a balcony suite at The Cosmopolitan, arrive early to secure a prime standing-room only spot along the Strip.
Fountains of Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas, NV 89109; +1 702/693-7111
6. Fall of Atlantis show
Drama is in full effect at this free animatronic spectacle inside the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. The 11-minute show tells the story of the Lost City of Atlantis, and what happens when the ailing King Atlas must decide which of his children should rule.
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Audiences are treated to video screen supplements, fireballs, a 20-foot winged dragon and props by set designers who worked on "Thor" and "Pirates of the Caribbean." There are even fish tanks with real, live fish. The show debuted in 1997 and was updated in 2013. Shows start every hour between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Fall of Atlantis show, Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas, NV 89109; +1 702 893-4800
7. LINQ Promenade
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Malls are nothing new in Las Vegas. But this open-air pedestrian-only attraction, which opened in 2013, is more than a shopping center. The LINQ Promenade stretches from the Strip to the High Roller, the tallest observation wheel in the world (at 550 feet tall, it's taller than the London Eye).
In between, the Promenade is home to the Strip's only In-N-Out Burger franchise, a West-Coast outpost for the bowling alley/concert venue Brooklyn Bowl and a Beverly Hills-based Sprinkles bakery that sells cupcakes from an ATM. A zipline is expected to open later this year.
LINQ Promenade, 3535 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas, NV 89109; +1 702 794-3366
8. Wildlife Habitat at Flamingo Las Vegas
This zoo-like oasis in the courtyard of the Flamingo Las Vegas is home to more than 60 exotic birds (including Chilean flamingoes, of course), 20 turtles and 300 fish.
The free attraction opened in 1995, and it's a great place to escape from the hubbub of the Strip and the nearby LINQ Promenade. To see the animals in their most active states, swing by for one of the twice-daily feedings, held in a section dubbed "Pelican Island" at 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Flamingo Las Vegas, 3555 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas, NV 89109; +1 702 733-3111
9. The Mirage Volcano
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Fireballs, water cannons and booming percussion riffs highlight the free "eruptions" at the volcano that fronts The Mirage along Las Vegas Boulevard.
The soundtrack is a collaboration between Mickey Hart, former drummer for The Grateful Dead, and Zakir Hussain, an Indian musician who is a master of a drum called the tabla.
The volcano dates back to the hotel's opening in 1989. It was updated with new beats in 2008. Pyrotechnics go off Sunday-Thursday at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., with an additional show on Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m.
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Read articles written by very well-known personalities and eminent authors about their views on Gandhi, Gandhi's works, Gandhian philosophy and it's relevance today.
Articles on Gandhi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Relevence of Gandhi : Gandhi: Call of The Epoch
ARTICLES
Relevance of Gandhi
Ibu Gedong Bagoes Oka - A Study of Gandhian Influence in Indonesia
Global Peace in the Twenty First Century: The Gandhian Perspective
Relevance of Gandhi in Modern Times
Gandhi is Alive and Still Relevant
Taking up Sarvodaya As Our Duty
Gandhi Will Live On
Mahatma Gandhi Today
The Influence of Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's Message and His Movement 50 Years Later
The Relevance of Gandhi
Good Bye Mr. Gandhi- Awaken Thy Moral Courage
Relevance of Gandhian Ideals In The Scheme of Value Education
Gandhi And The Twenty First Century Gandhian Approach To Rural Industrialization
Gandhi's Role And Relevance In Conflict Resolution
Gandhi In Globalised Context
The Gandhian Alternatives And The Challenges of The New Millennium
Gandhian Concept For The Twenty First Century
Champions of Nonviolence
Science And Technology In India: What Can We Learn From Gandhi?
Passage From India: How Westerners Rewrote Gandhi's Message
Time To Embark On A Path To New Freedom
Increasing Relevance of The Mahatma
Gandhi's Challenge Now
The Legacy of Gandhi In The Wider World
Quintessence of Gandhiji's Thought
Recalling Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi Today
The Relevance of Gandhian Satyagraha in 21st Century
Relevance of Non-Violence & Satyagraha of Gandhi Today
India, Gandhi And Relevance of His Ideas In The New World
Relevance of Gandhi's Ideas
The Influence of Mauritius on Mahatma Gandhi
Why Gandhi Still Matters
The Challenge of Our Time: Building Sustainable Communities
What Negroes Can Learn From Gandhi
Relevance of Gandhi
Towards A Non-violent, Non-killing And Peaceful World : Lessons From Gandhi
Gandhian Perspective on Violence And Terrorism
GANDHI - A Perennial Source of Inspiration
An Observation on Neo-modern Theories of Global Culture
The Techno-Gandhian Philosophy
Global Peace Movement and Relevance of Gandhian View
Technology : Master or Servant?
Gandhis of Olive Country
Gandhian Strategy
The Effect of Mass Production and Consumerism
Gandhi's Relevance Is Eternal And Universal
Service To Humanity
Relevance of Gandhi: A View From New York
Gandhi And Contemporary Social Sciences
India After The Mahatma
Pax Gandhiana : Is Gandhian Non-Violence Compatible With The Coercive State?
GANDHI : Rethinking The Possibility of Non-Violence
Aung San Suu Kyi : In Gandhi's Footsteps
Gandhi: Call of The Epoch
Localization And Globalization
Significance of Gandhi And Gandhism
Understanding GANDHI
Gandhi, Peace And Non-violence For Survival of Humanity
Further Reading
(Complete Book available online)
Why Did Gandhi Fail?
from GANDHI - His Relevance For Our Times
Gandhi's Political Significance Today
from GANDHI - His Relevance For Our Times
India Yet Must Show The Way
from GANDHI - His Relevance For Our Times
The Essence of Gandhi
from GANDHI - His Relevance For Our Times
The Impact of Gandhi on U. S. Peace Movement
from GANDHI - His Relevance For Our Times
Gandhi: Call of The Epoch
Arun Bhatt
Translated from Gujarati by Alaka Sarma
(1)
Friends,
At the onset, I wish to thank you all, for giving me an opportunity to go through reminiscences of Gandhi at the lecture series organized on 2nd October, by Baroda Municipal Corporation.
Mohandas was like us – an ordinary being, but by worshipping Truth since childhood he emerged as a giant human being. He became a Mahatma out of Mohandas Gandhi.
Islam preaches one fundamental truth; that there is only one God, the rest are all his disciples. A man can become a fakir, saint or an angle but can’t become a God. Gandhi was originally just like us – shaky, with a tendency to slip many times in his path. But with strong will power and devotion, he had risen above all of us. That is why when I mention ‘opportunity for remembrance’ of Gandhi, these words carry a lot of meaning for me. His remembrance makes us more pure. My special thanks to Baroda Municipal Corporation for initiating such a pious tradition.
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One must always question oneself about any system that one follows. When we sit down for a meal, do we sit because it is time to have a meal or because we are hungry. If we sit down for a meal just to maintain a ritual, even though we are not hungry we will not benefit much. But if we are really hungry for insight, this churning will benefit us a lot.
I am reminded of a funny incident that happened almost fifty years ago. I was visiting the villages of Bihar for ‘Bhoodan’. I was in a small town. The President & Secretary of the local club came to me. We didn’t know each other, but it was 2nd October. They wanted to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti. They had heard that someone involved with Bhoodan movement had come from Gujarat.
They told me, “Our club has decided to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti, so we have come to invite you to deliver the first talk.”
I gave my consent. They needed a speaker; I needed an audience. I reached on time, the club president began to introduce me,
"We are lucky to have amongst us a great philosopher…scholar…highly knowledgeable person… a freedom fighter…Mr?”
….well, he had many adjectives to describe me, but what is the use of adjectives without a name? The fact was that he did not even know my name. He was puzzled…he was unable to end the sentence. He hesitated, slowly, bent down & whispered in my ear, “what is your name?” It was only when I told him my name that he could finish the sentence, by telling Mr. Arunbhai Bhatt to address the gathering.
I began my speech in the same formal way…
“Today, we have gathered here to observe the birth anniversary of a great man, who didn’t utter a single unnecessary word on his birthday, the gentleman who introduced me has heaped on me all sorts of adjectives. But not a word of it is appropriate. I am an ordinary man; lucky to benefit from experiences of great souls; that is all.”
(3)
As such, ‘Gandhi’ is not a topic of discussion. Gandhi represents a philosophy that one must live. Gandhi’s greatness lies more in the implementation of his thoughts, much more than, in the quality of his thought. That is why when someone asked Gandhi to give a message for a function, Bapu said without dropping an eyelid, “My life is my message.”
Sri Narayanbhai Desai has written a detailed biography of Gandhi, published in four volumes, named, ‘My life is my message.’
(4)
Manubhai Pancholi (Darshak) once narrated this. He said, “I am very fond of reading, that too, I like to read autobiographies of great men. When I am reading autobiographies of people, I get a feeling that most are indirectly aimed at glorifying the self (the writer). When I started reading ‘My Experiments with Truth’, I could not keep it aside. Each page was so engrossing! Here is a man who doesn’t claim to be ‘a man of all virtues,’ a person who has faced the kind of temptations that have come in my life also. There were both positive and negative phases in his life – oh, so much like my life. He went abroad, got attracted to the glamour world, joined a ball dance group, became obsessed with his body…But then, one finds that the man reorganized himself and reached the level of a superman.”
An ordinary man, who began the journey of his life in the most ordinary way – reached the pinnacle of height! So inspiring! As if he lived many lives in a single life. The pillar of this amazing life was that he lived his life based on his thoughts.
(5)
I remember one more incident. The period is post independence; a few years after the death of Mahatma Gandhi Vinobaji was on his ‘Bhoodan Yatra’. His speeches covered many issues & touched many dimensions. One day, his managers thought that all his speeches be compiled, classified & published as separate volumes, so that scholars may benefit. So they prepared a note to that effect. When Acharya Vinoba was shown that, his response was far from warm.
He said, “Ok, if you want you can do it, but the main thing is life.”
This is not an issue of classical debate or an occasion to go verbose. But an issue of how to live one’s life. With this introduction, let me go to the topic of the day “Gandhi – Call of the epoch.”
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Gandhi – Call of the Epoch
Many times a question is raised “Is Gandhi relevant in modern times?” Lots of discussions, debates and differences of opinion take place over this issue. “Is Gandhi relevant in modern times?”
(7)
I am reminded of a dialogue. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has written a book, “Discovery of India”. The book deals with Indian history. One of its chapter’s deals with the era of Akbar.
Once Panditji happened to meet Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
Vinobaji asked, “You have mentioned in your book that in the era of Akbar, there was a saint called Tulsidas who had created Ramcharit manas which is a household book in North India. Now my question to you is did the era belonged to Akbar or to Tulsidas?”
Nehru understood the comment, but still defended his version. “You are right but history is written around kings, emperors & Badshahs, that is why it is projected in this manner.”
Vinoba told him, “Once I was passing by a Muslim Village, about 15-20 miles away from Delhi. It was a Friday. Our meeting was held after the evening prayer (Namaz). The whole village was present.
I asked, “Do you know Emperor Akbar?”
There was no response.
I asked again & yet they were quiet.
One elderly man said, “We don’t know which Akbar you are referring to? When we offer prayer, we beckon him, “Allah, O Akbar…” We know only that Akbar”.
This happened in a Muslim village close to Delhi.
I asked them, “have you heard about Tulsidas?”
“Yes, prompt came the reply, he was a great saint.”
“Do you know Kabir?”
“Yes, we know Kabir also.”
We try to write history around kings & emperors, but the public forgets them. Saints & Sufis remain evergreen in public memory.
(8)
How to explain this? History is a witness to the fact that the span of the era of Kings & Emperors is restricted only to their life span, whereas the Rishis, Saints & Fakirs live for thousands of years. If we think in the Indian context, so many saints have enriched us, and continue to enrich us now & for all time to come.
(9)
If Lord Buddha had not rejected a life full of riches to go deep into the secrets and essence of life & had not come out with the doctrine of the ‘middle path’, he couldn’t have survived in the public mind for nearly 2500 years. Since Vedic times, people who have survived in public memory are the ones who explained to the people the universal elements, which form the pillar of our society.
(10)
Gandhiji was the representative of this tradition. Vinobaji had this to say about Bapu. “He was the fruit of the ancient tradition & a seed of the approaching epoch.” A fruit which gives rise to a seed – a continuous flow. It is in this context that we call him, “The demand of the epoch.” Even if we want to discard him by saying that “He is no longer alive”, he will not leave us.
After India got independence, someone had advised Gandhi “Your work is done, now you can quietly spend the rest of your days in the Himalayas.”
Bapu had said, “You are my Himalayas.” “I am there, where you are there.” The ‘I’ that he mentions represents the whole universe.
(11)
I had read a song by Prof. Ramesh Parekh, many years ago, the title of the song was ‘The Lamp’.
A lamp enlightens all corners with pride, challenging the ego of darkness…
It grants everything its original shape, yet remains quiet, in spite of such grand action. No expectation for self, just devotion.
From where you get the strength
to fight darkness?
Who blessed you to make
this mission a success?
Oh, lamp, the moment you get lighted
is the eternal moment!
When I read this, I felt, the poem was written with Gandhi in mind. A lamp, just one lamp, enlightening the whole world. Friends, I request you with folded hands. “Let us not trivialize the eternal. Even if we make lots of effort, the eternal is not going to lose even a bit of its glory. The only outcome of this would be that the one who tries to do this will become irrelevant. I wish to humbly request you not to turn away from this all pervasive lamp. Let us not close our eyes. If we can set aside our prejudices & desires, and look at the lamp with a hopeful mind, we will get the light.”
(12)
I don’t mean to indicate that we must blindly follow Gandhi, perspectives have changed and keeping in mind the changing times we should follow Gandhi. Gandhi himself never advocated ‘packaged’ solutions and was always evolving. His teaching never ceased to grow, never restricted its flow. Rituals and external structures may change as per place / time, but basics should not be tampered with.
Gandhiji has said the following. “I wish to tell scholars & other friends who are interested in my writings that I do not care to appear consistent for all time to come. In search of truth, I have gotten rid of many of my beliefs and have learnt many new things. I may have aged but my internal growth has not ceased. And for that matter, I don’t think that the process will stop even after my physical body withers away. I am concerned about only one thing and that is to follow the truth at any moment. So, if anyone feels that there is contradiction in my writing, then take the later version as the authentic version, if the person concerned has faith in my wisdom.”
In short, his life was continuously in the growth mode. Learning to live and living to learn was his motto. As he himself has penned down, “I am only concerned about the fact that I speak the truth at any point of time. Not just speak the truth but follow it & be ever ready to follow truth.”
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Truth is God
Gandhiji worshipped truth. That doesn’t mean that he had made on idol of truth or made a temple where he performed Puja twice daily. On the contrary, he tried to live by truth each moment of his life. He raised his voice against the mighty British Empire, because that was his truth. History has no other record of such a long and so consistent a struggle based on truth & non-violence. People who were willing to make the supreme sacrifice of dying for the nation had no idea of the strength of the non-violent path to freedom. Acharya Kripalani, a professor, had said to Bapu, “History doesn’t record any incident of attaining freedom the way you describe it. I am telling this based on my experience.” Bapu had replied, “Prof. Kripalani, you teach history whereas I make history.” Such was the confidence of Gandhi. He had full faith that truth shall prevail. He laid so much emphasis on the principles of truth and non-violence that even the mission to achieve independence appeared insignificant compared to that. He used to proclaim that he would not opt for independence at the cost of truth & non-violence.
Initially he used to say that “God is truth” – but later he modified it as “Truth is God.”
He named his autobiography as “My Experiments with Truth”. In the autumn of his life someone asked him – “Have you realized the truth?” His answer was, “No, not fully. I have just had some glimpses of it. The glow of truth becomes brighter every passing day, but ‘The Truth’ has not fully emerged”. That is why Gandhiji used to say, “May many like me perish, but let truth triumph. The scale of truth should not be marginalized to accommodate pygmies”
(14)
The foundation of Ashram life – Ekadash Vrat (एकादश व्रत)
Topping the list among the ekadash vrat [eleven religious disciplines] is ‘The Truth.’ Worship of ‘power’ (shakti) was not the goal, the focus was on purification. When life gets purified, ‘power’ is acquired. Power is the off-shoot of purification of life.
When Vinoba reached Kashi after leaving his home, he heard Gandhi’s historic lecture at Varanasi. Vinoba says that, “The main thing in that lecture was that unless one is fearless, one cannot practice ‘Non-violence’ (Ahimsa). Resorting to open violence is perhaps less damaging than harbouring the feeling of violence. The state of mind which reflects ‘Ahimsa’ is the basic ‘Ahimsa’ which cannot come without fearlessness.” Vinoba says that even after a month of delivering the speech, Gandhi’s words reverberated in the streets of Kashi.
After this, Vinoba wrote to Gandhi, seeking clarification for doubts in his mind. Bapu replied to each of the queries. They exchanged two letters. In the second letter, Gandhi wrote, “your curiosity about Ahimsa cannot be quenched by letters alone; it can be understood only in the context of life.” Vinoba wrote, “I liked the answer, the solution lies in life & not in talks.”
“With this reply, Gandhi sent a time table which was a matter of great attraction for me. Till then, I had not seen any such time table of any institution.” It was written, “The goal of this Ashram is service to the nation which doesn’t contradict with the well being of the world as a whole.” The list contained ‘Vrats’ (व्रत) that were essential for Ashram life. They included Truth, non-violence, celibacy, non-possession (Aparigraha), physical labour etc. “I was surprised” says Vinoba. “I had read a lot of history but had never seen such a clause, that following these ‘vrats’ was necessary for performing service to the nation. These topics come in theories of Yoga, in religious books, in books meant for devotees but the focus on these for giving service to the nation attracted me. I thought here is a man who gives equal emphasis on political freedom as well as spiritual development. I liked the approach. Bapu invited me & I became his disciple.”
(15)
Prayer – Bapu’s strength
Prayer was Gandhi’s strength and his shelter. A friend had given me a picture of Bapu, that of Gandhi sitting in prayer. It looks as if prayer itself is sitting in the form of Gandhi. A one liner captions the picture, “I can live without food for many days but cannot survive a second without prayer.” His life itself was a prayer.
Once Nanabhai Bhatt of Gramdakshinamurti & Lok Bharati was narrating his experiences, “I wanted to understand Gandhi’s views on education. Bapu was in Sevagram. I went there. During our conversation, I realized that Gandhi used to quietly, utter each sentence & used to pause in between. I realized that he used to chant the name of God silently during the pause. His life was a prayer.”
(16)
When India became independent, the whole country was rejoicing but Bapu was disturbed. During those troubled times when he was visiting the interior villages of Noakhali, he thought his duty was to douse the cauldron of violence. The, Government wanted to give him police protection. But Bapu refused. Gandhi’s faith in Ram (his God) and truth was unshakeable and hence he feared not for his life. I am reminded of a poem by Makrand Dave.
“We couldn’t see anyone around with us
and yet, someone was there with us.”
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Bapu’s dream – Non-violent Society
A society that cannot be controlled without violence should be called an uncultured society. Survival of the fittest is the rule of the Jungle. If we want to create a civilized human society, its base must be human values; truth, love, empathy. We have yet to evolve a society based on humanistic values.
What we call a ‘super power’ is hardly a ‘super power’. It is a myth to call a country with economic prosperity and atomic weapons that can destroy the world as a ‘super power’. If at all we have to put a label – we must call them ‘powerless state’. In fact, such societies cannot be called humanistic developed societies.
Real power lies in strengthening weak nations, in ensuring that all nations get equal opportunity to develop. This is embedded in selfless service. What is so great about pushing oneself at the cost of others? Today’s society is characterized by big industries, huge financial institutions & monstrous systems of administrations that can never guide mankind. Once Bapu was asked, “What is your definition of a civilized society?” Bapu said, “The society that has minimum needs is a civilized society.” Long term experience has made it clear that growing needs lead to exploitation, violence & suppression. As a result Mother Nature gets exploited. Water, soil, forests & sky gets contaminated.
(18)
Gandhi stands tall amidst all this. He is not concerned as to how many & who all are opposing him. He is least bothered about that. He clearly visualises that the world will march on the path shown by him. He has full faith in his vision. Friends, the epoch of Gandhi has begun & it is not going to end till the work is done.
Once a few friends came to Mohemmad Paigambar. They suggested that he should not torture himself by trying to advise others to walk on the path of religion because they are least likely to improve, instead he can just pray to the all mighty. To them Mohemmad Paigambar Saheb replied, “On the day of Qayamat when Allah asks me, so many were perishing, what did you do to help them? I can tell, I tried, and may be a few benefited.”
The main thing is that “Allah, I had tried.”
Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram,
Patit Pavan Sita Ram.
Ishwar Allah Tere Naam,
Sabko Sanmati de Bhagwan.
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Is it permissible for a Muslim man to marry a woman who professes no faith or "deen" at all -- an "agnostic"?
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Praise be to Allah.
This is not permitted at all, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “… they are not lawful (wives) for the disbelievers nor are the disbelievers lawful (husbands) for them…” [al-Mumtahinah 60:10]. An exception is made in the case of chaste women of the People of the Book (Jews and Christians), because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “(Lawful to you in marriage) are … and chaste women from those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) before your time…” [al-Maa’idah 5:5]. And Allaah knows best.
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Barnes is a city in Washington County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 159.
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Geography
Demographics
2010 census
Education
Notable people
History
Barnes was originally called Elm Grove when it was founded in 1870. It was renamed Barnes in 1876 in honor of A. S. Barnes, a major stockholder.
Barnes was a station and shipping point on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Geography
Barnes is located at 39°42′41″N 96°52′23″W / 39.711525°N 96.873094°W / 39.711525; -96.873094 (39.711525, -96.873094). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.18 square miles (0.47 km2), of which, 0.17 square miles (0.44 km2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water.
Demographics
Historical population
Census
Pop.
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1880 32 —
1900 383 —
1910 454 18.5%
1920 395 −13.0%
1930 361 −8.6%
1940 391 8.3%
1950 308 −21.2%
1960 247 −19.8%
1970 209 −15.4%
1980 257 23.0%
1990 167 −35.0%
2000 152 −9.0%
2010 159 4.6%
2019 (est.) 152 −4.4%
U.S. Decennial Census
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 159 people, 71 households, and 45 families residing in the city. The population density was 935.3 inhabitants per square mile (361.1/km2). There were 89 housing units at an average density of 523.5 per square mile (202.1/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 95.0% White, 1.3% Native American, and 3.8% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.0% of the population.
There were 71 households, of which 22.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.5% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 36.6% were non-families. 35.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.82.
The median age in the city was 44.2 years. 23.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22% were from 25 to 44; 27% were from 45 to 64; and 21.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 52.2% male and 47.8% female.
Education
Barnes is served by USD 223 Barnes Hanover Linn.
Barnes schools were closed in 1965 through school unification. The Barnes High School mascot was Bullets.
Notable people
Omar Knedlik, (1915–1989), inventor of the ICEE frozen drink.
Joe Vogler, (1913-1993), Alaskan politician
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39°13′34″N 92°50′46″W / 39.226°N 92.846°W / 39.226; -92.846Coordinates: 39°13′34″N 92°50′46″W / 39.226°N 92.846°W / 39.226; -92.846
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Confederate victory
Territorial
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Glasgow occupied by Confederate forces from October 15–18, 1864
Belligerents
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Commanders and leaders
Chester Harding, Jr. John Bullock Clark, Jr.,
Joe Shelby
Strength
800 1,500–1,800
Casualties and losses
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The Battle of Glasgow was fought on October 15, 1864, in and near Glasgow, Missouri as part of Price's Missouri Expedition during the American Civil War. Although the battle resulted in a Confederate victory and the capture of significant war material, it had little long-term benefit as Price was ultimately defeated at Westport a week later, bringing his campaign in Missouri to an end.
Background
The battle of Glasgow was a part of Price's Missouri Expedition, a raid by Confederates under the command of Major General Sterling Price into Missouri which began on 19 September 1864. Price's primary aims were to recruit men from pro-Confederate areas of northern Missouri, capture the Federal arsenal at St Louis, and seize animals and supplies for Confederate use. He hoped that his raid might relieve the pressure on Confederate forces in Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia by diverting Union troops to fight him; he also hoped his raid would influence the November presidential election, by reducing support for Abraham Lincoln.
After sustaining heavy casualties during the Battle of Fort Davidson, Price turned away from St. Louis, and headed towards Jefferson City, the state capital. Nearing his objective, Price concluded that it was too heavily defended, and ordered his troops to move further west towards Lexington and Kansas City. At this point, Price detached troops from his army to capture the city of Glasgow, on the Missouri River, having been informed of a storehouse there containing weapons and supplies. A Union garrison of 800 men was located in Glasgow, under the command of Colonel Chester Harding. The size of the Confederate forces engaged against them was reported as being between 1,500 and 1,800 troops including infantry, cavalry, and artillery. These were commanded by Brigadier Generals John Bullock Clark, Jr., and Joe Shelby.
Battle
Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, commander of the Confederate forces engaged in Price's Missouri Expedition.
Brig. Gen. John Bullock Clark, Jr. was a commander of Confederate forces engaged in the Battle of Glasgow.
Map of Glasgow Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.
When the Confederates reached Glasgow, they laid siege to the town. Four pieces of Rebel artillery commenced shelling the city at 5 AM on October 15, 1864, and continued firing until 1 PM. Additional cannon were deployed to support the infantry assault, which began at 7 AM as Rebel soldiers advanced into Glasgow from multiple directions. Hereford Hill, a nearby promontory which the Union soldiers had fortified, was also brought under attack. After fierce resistance, the Federals were compelled to fall back from the town to their breastworks on the hill, but not before blowing up the Glasgow city hall, which they had been using to store their munitions. The ensuing explosion destroyed a half-block of downtown Glasgow.
Once atop the hill, the Union troops formed a line of defense. However, as the Confederates continued their steady advance, Harding became convinced that his forces could not win and accordingly surrendered his command at 1:30 PM, upon receipt of generous terms from his foes. The Confederates occupied Glasgow for three days, taking 1,200 muskets, 1,200 overcoats, and 150 horses before leaving to rejoin Price's command. A Federal steamboat captured at the Glasgow wharf was burned. Captain G.A. Holloway, U.S. Adjutant General, testified to the "uniform, kind and gentlemanly treatment" the Federals received at the hands of Clark and Shelby. The paroled Union troops were permitted to retain their personal property, and officers were allowed to keep their sidearms after the surrender. Clark equally permitted his defeated foes to proceed by any route they might select to Union lines at Boonville, and promised not to disturb private property or citizens remaining in the town.
Aftermath
The Confederate victory at Glasgow and the captured supplies proved a boost to the Confederates' morale, especially after their failures to take St. Louis or Jefferson City. Price's army would continue to advance through Missouri, but the high losses in men and material at the Battle of Westport on 23 October 1864 finally convinced Price to withdraw his forces from the state. During the retreat, Price's men were attacked repeatedly by Union troops as they made their way through eastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri into Arkansas. Price had not been able to gain enough recruits to replace his losses, and the large number of troops deployed against him in Missouri had solidified the already-formidable Union hold over that state. Hence, Price's raid would ultimately be described as being "barren of results". Although a bright spot in an otherwise rather dismal campaign, the Battle of Glasgow is considered to have been at best a "token" victory, though it did provide Price's forces with much-needed supplies.
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Esports has been gradually growing in popularity over the last few years even to the point of talks being in place around introducing Esports in the same capacity as our mainstream professional sports industries. As Esports gains such a huge following there has been more interest in the training and preparation that competitors have to go through in order to be successful during an event. There is a lot that goes into it with each training activity focusing on a different element of the body and mind to help our professional Esports players win their games.
Game Training
The game training that many Esports players will do will depend upon their favored E-sport or video game to compete in, it is said that many professional players will spend over ten hours a day practicing and honing their skills on their specialized Esports game. The games that are played can vary with many mainstream video games and some more strenuous sports simulators being amongst some of the most popular.
The game training that many players will conduct consists of the general playing of the games, it is important that players are aware of every aspect of the game including the storyline, controls, and game objectives. If a player is not well versed in what they need to do to win the game then it is likely that they will not do very well in comparison to someone who has spent hours doing the E-sport. Many would argue that because many Esports revolve around traditional video games they should not be considered a sport, however, when you look at the level of familiarity that is needed to be successful there is actually a lot of hard work involved.
Team Training
Many Esports will require a team to compete against another team of players in a head to head match, with this in mind it would be a great idea to find time to come together with your fellow players and practice playing a few matches so that you can work on your tactics and work out any specific strategies that you could use to get your win. It is often overlooked the importance of spending time training with your team, and it is clearly apparent when a team has not practiced together as a game that requires multiple team members to work effectively as a unit cannot be faked.
Training as a team can also be very beneficial for your individual skill level, if you are struggling with your current training methods it could be a nice refresher to see how somebody else plays the game and any of their tactics that could be implemented into your own gameplay. It is also a great social experience for you to meet like-minded individuals who have a passion for playing esports with who you could build a friendship.
Physical Fitness
It may come as a surprise to you that there is a level of physical fitness required within the Esports industry, as there is so much variation within the games and sports that are played competitively there is also a lot of differences between the level of physical fitness that is required. As more and more games are released, as well as the production of new technology such as virtual reality we have seen more physically exerting Esports coming into play within the professional competition setting. This means that virtual sports which require a similar skill level that is required within the real thing are also being introduced to the industry.
When you consider the training for these types of Esports you will need to make sure you are in peak health and fitness before you start to compete, if you lack the energy level that is required then it is likely that you will lose speed very early on and lose the win. If you are looking for ways that you can improve your health and fitness to the point where you can compete effectively in the more active Esports then I would highly recommend that you look at losing weight and leaning up, this is a great way to reduce your cholesterol levels and increase your stamina.
If you are not the best when it comes to losing weight and increasing your fitness then I would suggest that you look at other methods to help you get into shape much quicker. Using supplements such as leanbean or visiting a professional trainer are both excellent ways to give yourself the motivation you need to improve your health. As you progress on your fitness journey you will find it much easier to compete in professional matches especially those that require extra physical exertion.
Mental Training
Playing Esports also requires a lot of mental efficiency and the ability to make instant decisions during a high-stakes situation, if you are not mentally capable enough to deal with the stressful situation of competitive gaming then it is likely that you will not see the success rates that you desire. Building your mental capacity will take practice and time and it is not something that you are going to get overnight, one of the best things that you can do would be to practice playing your games a lot which you should be doing anyway. Practicing being in certain situations is one of the best ways to build your confidence and encourage your mind to make good decisions instantly and without contemplation that could cost you the game.
Building your mental skills will help you in many other walks of life and if you are going to pursue a career in professional Esports it is something that you will need to work on. As video games only get more and more complicated it is likely that the need for good mental skills will only become more necessary.
Familiarity With Equipment
Something that is very important within a professional Esports match would be how comfortable you are with the equipment, if you are not experienced with a certain model of a controller or headset it could really throw you off during a game and affect your overall performance. It is important that before a game you enquire around which equipment is going to be used so that you have the time to familiarize yourself with the positioning of the controls and get used to how you will need to play when playing on certain devices that you may not have used before.
Match Preparation
The match preparation that is required on the day of a big game consists of simple things like ensuring you have had plenty of food and drink beforehand to ensure your body is properly fueled for a good game. If you are feeling any pre-match nerves I would recommend doing some casual revision of your game tactics and the controls so that you can calm yourself down and focus on what you need to remember for the game. As you become more experienced you will find that your nerves lessen in intensity further in your career when you know what to expect.
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Pilots of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, Boxted. Image Source: American Air Museum in Britain
Lieutenant Charles "Chuck" Gumm Jr. was born on 29th October, 1920 in Spokane, Washington, and was a relative of the entertainer Judy Garland - born Frances Ethel "Baby" Gumm. He graduated from the John R. Rogers High School in 1939 from where he then proceeded to Gonzaga University to continue further his education. In 1942, following the US entry into World War 2, and shortly after marrying his high school sweet heart, Muriel "Toni" Wiley, Gumm left university to volunteer for training in the USAAF. He joined the 354th Fighter Group (The Pioneer Mustang Group) of the 355th Fighter Squadron (Pugnacious Pups) where he undertook his training as a pilot. After a while, Charles and Muriel were blessed with the birth of their daughter Toni, and then some time later the Fighter Group was posted to England. After crossing the U.S. by train they arrived in Manhattan where they were loaded onto the HMS Athlone Castle, and set sail for Liverpool. They arrived on 1st November, but could not move into the dock until the 3rd owing to a thick fog which hung over the harbour. Early on 4th November they disembarked and made their way to the Greenham Common airbase, which was to become their first home in England. But this would be only a short stay and, on 13th November, they were posted to Boxted airfield, Station 150, (located at Long 0:55:59E, Lat 51:56:19N - map ) in the small rural East Anglian village of Langham, which lies on the Essex-Suffolk border, close to Nayland. The Air Ministry usually named airfields after the nearest village or town. However, there already existed an airfield named Langham in Norfolk, so in this case the airfield was named after the next nearest village, Boxted.
Lt. Charles F. Gumm in the cockpit of his Mustang
Image from American Air Museum in Britain
Two days before leaving Greenham Common, the 354th Fighter Group received its first combat airplanes, the new Merlin-engined P-51 Mustang fighters which, when fitted with additional drop fuel tanks, could escort allied bombers all the way to Germany. The 354th Fighter Group were called "The Pioneer Mustang Group" because they were the first group to fly these new P-51B Mustangs. Lt Gumm soon saw action and on a mission to Bremen, 16 December, 1943, is credited with being the first P-51 Mustang pilot to shoot down an enemy plane over Europe - a Bf-110 over Breman. He returned to base with a claim of one JU 88 damaged and one Bf 109 shot down at 1330 hours. A little over two months later on 21st February, 1944, Lt. Gumm became the first of many 354th Fighter Group aces by downing a Bf 110 over Brunswick at 1430 hours - the accepted definition of a fighter pilot ace is one who has shot down five or more enemy aircraft. Lt. Gumm was assigned two aircraft, both of which he named "My Toni" after both the wife and baby daughter he had left back in Spokane. After a six-month stay, the 354th moved to Lashenden, and thence to Criqueville, France in August 1944, following the Normandy invasion.
Lt. Charles F. Gumm in front of his P-51 Mustang
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In a cruel twist of fate, Lt. Gumm's career ended very unexpectedly on 1st March, 1944 when he made the ultimate sacrifice. The P-51 Mustang (P-51B1, 43-12165) he was flying (on a cross country flight to Goxhill) crashed shortly after becoming airborne. Its engine lost power at 800 feet. Observers of the crash, and in particular Canon W. Wright of St. James Vicarage, reported that Gumm could have parachuted to safety but chose to stay with the plane which crashed into an open field outside town. He realised he was over the Nayland village and that if he bailed out to save himself his plane would crash into the English town and claim innocent lives. He therefore decided to remain with his plane to steer it away from the village and to attempt a forced landing. It crash landed on the banks of the river Stour near 'Court Knoll' but, unfortunately, at the last moment his Mustang hit a tree and he was thrown out of the cockpit and died instantly.
The Court Knoll earthworks (located at Long 0:52:22E, Lat 51:58:09N - map ) is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and was the subject of an Archaeological, Geophysical & Historical Study by the Nayland with Wissington Conservation Society.
The residents of Nayland were deeply moved by Gumm's clear and unmistakable gallantry and commissioned a memorial plaque. They installed a bench in St James's churchyard with two brass plates afixed; one with a dedication to the young hero, whilst the other has the apt poem, 'A life that I have', by Leo Marks, inscribed as follows,
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The Love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death shall be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours
Leo Marks
The people of Nayland had for many years lobbied unsuccessfully with the War Graves Commission to have Lt. Gumm's name recorded on the Village War Memorial. However, they did re-iterate Nayland's appreciation of Lt. Gumm's bravery on Saturday 31st March 2001, by erecting a new bench in the centre of Nayland Village near the War Memorial. Brass plaques were re-located from the original commemorative bench, which still remains in St. James's churchyard.
The story of Lt. Gumm's heroism was recounted at the time in the 'Stars and Stripes'.
During his brief flying career, Gumm received the air medal and three oak leaf clusters. He was also awarded, posthumously, the silver star, the soldiers medal and the distinguished flying cross for gallantry in action. At the time of Lt. Gumm's death he was the leading ace for the group with 7½ victories to his credit.
Photograph Credit: Sue Tanner
Lt. Gumm is buried at Greenwood Memorial Terrace in his home town of Spokane, Washington, United States of America - where he is still remembered. He was survived by his wife Muriel R. and 10 month old daughter Toni. Muriel subsequently remarried, to Duke Shearin, who had been in Charles' squadron and she adopted her new husband's surname. Lt. Gumm also had three older siblings, a brother Ross and two sisters Velda and Lucille, all whom are now deceased (source: Salley Green, grandniece of Charles Gumm, granddaughter of Lucille). Lucille lived in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, until she died in July 2010 (source: The Spokesman-Review.com ).
Lt. Charles F. Gumm's heroic deed is remembered still with a wreath being laid on on his bench each Remembrance Day.
Graham W Griffiths, Wissington
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
Much of the above information has been gleaned from the the websites indicated below. Our thanks go to these sites which perpetuate the memory of the gallant deeds of Charles F. Gumm and other US Airmen who fought along side the UK in its hour of need. Special thanks go to Mr Gene Lamar who supplied pictures of Charles Gumm from his personal collection and to Mr Richard Turner who supplied pictures and valuable background information relating to Lt Gumm. Mr Lamar has created a website dedicated to the 354th Fighter Group and his father, pilot Lt. Robert Lamar, who served in this Fighter Group. Mr Turner is Chairman of the Boxted Airfield Historical Group. Additional material has been obtained from the references indicated below. Pictures have also been supplied by Nayland residents.
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Tribute To Charles F. Gumm Web page specifically dedicated to Charles F. Gumm.
American Air Museum in Britain Further Information on Charles Gumm.
354th Fighter Group Website dedicated to the 354th Fighter Group.
355th Fighter Squadron History of the 355th Fighter Squadron - The Pugnacious Pups.
First P-51 to Down Enemy Plane Web page confirming Gumm piloted first P-51B to shoot down an enemy plane over Europe. Note: this report states it was a Me-110, not a Bf-109, as stated in 354th Fighter Group, by William N Hess.
National WWII Memorial Website, including an electronic registry, that supports the National World War II Memorial located in Washington, DC. This website lists Lt Gumm as a World War II Honoree and provides official confirmation that Gumm was the first pilot to down a German plane in a Mustang P-51.
Boxted Airfield Historical Group Website dedicated to Boxted Airfield History.
Washington State Roll of Honor Charles F Gumm is cited on Part 5: World War II, G-L
Other References:
Arthur F. Brown (Capt.) Ed, 1992, History in the Sky, 354th Pioneer Mustang Fighter Group, Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas, USA (reprint).
Tom Frisque Ed, 1999, Aces and Wingmen, Vol 2, Aviation USK.
Paul M Sailer, 2016, I had a comrade, Loden Books.
William N Hess, 2002, 354th Fighter Group, Osprey Publishing Ltd.
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Tiger Woods was "not drunk" at the wheel and the crash that seriously injured him was "purely an accident", according to the Los Angeles County sheriff.
The 45-year-old golf star suffered serious leg injuries when his car hit a kerb and then a tree before rolling several times on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.
No other cars were involved.
Image: The scene of the crash in Los Angeles. Pic: AP
Police have found no evidence that the golf champ was impaired by drugs or alcohol following Tuesday's accident on a downhill stretch of road known for crashes, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said.
"He was not drunk, we can throw that one out," the sheriff said during a livestreamed social media event, appearing to rule out any potential criminal charges despite the ongoing investigation.
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But he said investigators may seek warrants for a blood sample to definitively rule out alcohol and drugs.
Detectives could also apply for warrants for the golfer's phone to see if he was driving distracted, as well as the vehicle's event data recorder or "black box", which would give information about how fast he was going.
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Woods, who had checked into a clinic in 2017 for help dealing with prescription medication, was driving alone before his car crossed into oncoming lanes and flipped several times.
The crash caused "significant" injuries to his right leg that required surgery, according to a post on the golfer's Twitter account.
Deputy Carlos Gonzalez, who was first to arrive at the scene, patrols the road and said he sometimes catches people exceeding 80mph in the downhill 45mph zone, and that crashes there were common.
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"It could be a mixture of adrenaline. It could have been shock."
Joe Giacalone, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired New York police sergeant, said it was "premature" for Sheriff Villanueva to determine the crash was an accident just a day later.
"The blood test could give us a whole other insight," he said, noting some drugs were not necessarily detectable by observation.
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The world of mountaineering is not the world of business. No need to be a mountaineer to realize that there are important differences, in terms of motivation, pleasure, nature of the risks, etc.
However, what happens in moutaineering refers to deep characterisitics that express themselves in our personal and business life. I do not claim for the belief of direct analogies between mountain and business, but I am convinced that what we understand through mountaineering can be relevant out of the mountain field.
My approach can be summarized in three steps,
Sharing an experience
The first step is to share my experience, and to explain what I learned out of it, how I understand it. It is based on stories, on mountain ascents and adventures that I lived.
Facilitating its appropriation
The second step is more committing for the participants : together, we find paths from my experience and its meanings, to their life. I have created a few tools to make this interaction possible and efficient, such as : working on a fiction, set of cards, set of questions, etc
In the context of mountain workshop, the mountaineering experience acquired by each participant with the help of mountain guides is debriefied, and is itself a tool for the appropriation and thinking.
Formulating explicit objectives
The third step is mainly the task of the participants : they are the professionals of their business, and as such they are the best persons able to formulate the keypoints and objectives emerging from our meeting.
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Does knowing the extent of COVID-19 exposure help plan for the next wave? Why is ICMR unlikely to launch a fourth study anytime soon?
The story so far: Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has conducted three serological surveys nationwide to measure the spread of infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The third (from December 17 to January 8) showed that 21.5% of the population had been exposed to the virus. Until May 23, India had only been able to fully immunize 3% of the population and only 10.9% had received a dose. There are indications that the ICMR is unlikely to immediately undertake a fourth national serological survey to estimate the extent of exposure to the coronavirus since January of this year.
Why are serological surveys important?
Serological surveys take blood samples from participants and measure antibodies to check past exposure to the virus. From about 10 days after infection, antibodies reach significant numbers in most patients. As some studies show, they start to decrease after five to six months. Researchers are more interested in a class of antibodies called immunoglobulin G (IgG), which persist the longest and attach to the coronavirus to prevent them from overgrowing. Their longevity and number are therefore indicators of immunity against future infection. Since the SARS-CoV-2 virus is new, there is uncertainty about the actual duration of these antibodies. Serological surveys are therefore a crude measure of the proportion of a population likely to be protected against a second infection; this can be used by planners to decide the future capacity of health care and the opening of the economy.
How many serological surveys have been carried out so far?
The ICMR has conducted three national serological surveys since May 2020 and found that exposure to the virus was several times higher than that reported by confirmed cases. The third serological survey which measured the spread of the infection from December to early January found that 21.5% of India’s adult population and 25% of people aged 10 to 17 may have been infected. Prior to that in August-September, it was 7% and the first survey, May-June 2020, estimated the infection rate at 0.73%. The ICMR survey covered 70 districts, in 21 states, which were expected to include high and low prevalence of infection as well as the spread of infection in rural and urban areas of India and recruited approximately 28,000 people. . Subsequent surveys were carried out in the same districts but included people aged 10 to 17 as well as health workers. There have also been several city-specific surveys in Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai – sometimes multiple rounds – to assess the distribution among different districts. Many of these surveys, at least before the start of Wave 2, seemed to suggest that more than 50% of the population in urban clusters may have been exposed to the virus.
Why is ICMR not likely to perform a fourth serological survey?
India’s devastating second wave began in mid-March amid a vaccination program that prioritized healthcare and frontline workers, as well as the elderly. The antibodies that are raised after infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus are structurally indistinguishable from those after vaccination. However, studies show that people vaccinated after being exposed to the virus have much higher levels of antibodies than those vaccinated. Add to that the complication of increasing and decreasing antibody numbers. Dr Balram Bhargava, Director General of ICMR, said The Hindu, “Serological surveys lose their scientific relevance once vaccination begins in the population. ”
In theory, this could be corrected by eliminating the vaccinated people from the survey. However, health officials claimed that due to the vicious second wave, hospitals and health care infrastructure in several districts were overwhelmed by the increase in the number of cases. A serological survey is a demanding logistical exercise as detailed interviews must be conducted with the participants, qualified phlebotomists must be available and dedicated laboratories must be assigned to analyze blood tests. This would require significant contributions from the districts. In addition to infections, the regional focus should be on immunization, and everyone agrees India is struggling to keep up with demand. Only 10.9% of the population received a single dose despite almost 20.4 crore of vaccines administered. It is quite possible that the ICMR will consider a future investigation when the situation is more favorable.
Can serological surveys reveal more than just exposure?
Surveys provide information about the questions they are designed to ask. Tellingly, the second serological survey indicated an increase in infections in rural India. These surveys showed that large parts of the country were not exposed to the virus and therefore at risk of infection – as the second wave highlighted.
Editorial | Focus on serology
Specific blood work tests, called assays, can be used to check whether antibodies the body makes are targeting the peak region of the coronavirus or an inner envelope containing its genetic material called a nucleocapsid. It is believed that antibodies against the peak are more relevant in preventing future infections and therefore a better indicator of immunity. They can also thus provide inputs for vaccine improvement.
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Yale University professor and bestselling author Timothy Snyder rounds up five popular myths about history, and why they’re absolutely false.
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5 Common Myths About History—Debunked
As the Housum Professor of History at Yale University, Timothy Snyder knows that understanding the past can help us make sense of current world events. “As historians, we’re professionally concerned with ascertaining the truth, and that’s all the more important in the political world in which we’re all now moving,” Snyder said at Chang School Talks, a series presented at Ryerson University in Toronto. “Politics now is much less about right and left, and much more about truth and anti-truth.” To drive his message home, Snyder shared five common myths about history, and why they’re bunk.
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Myth #1: Democracy will always prevail
According to Snyder, the collapse of the Soviet Union gave birth to the myth that all countries will eventually become democracies. “When we invaded Iraq in 2003, the basic idea was, ‘All we have to do is clear away a bad regime.’ We didn’t plan for anything else because we thought it would all work out. Now look how the Middle East is today.”
Snyder described this view as the “politics of inevitability,” and went on to say that many people who voted for Donald Trump didn’t think it would make any difference because, in their minds, the American democratic system would rescue itself in the end.
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Myth #2: The past was better
This myth is not only false, said Snyder, but dangerous: nostalgia might evoke a time or place that only existed in the imagination. He pointed to Brexit—the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union—as a prime example: “The referendum conjured up the idea of a Great Britain that was neither in Europe or an empire. It never happened. It was an imaginary 1930s.”
Snyder called this kind of false nostalgia the “politics of eternity.” During Trump’s presidential campaign, the slogan “America First” was used, but not for the first time in history: it was also the name of an American anti-war committee that was trying to prevent American involvement in World War II. In other words, Trump’s campaign tried to evoke the glory days.
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Myth #3: New technologies make people smarter
When you think of the newspaper, radio or television, visions of a more connected world come to mind. But according to Snyder, new technologies don’t automatically make people more intelligent. “We know less about world history, have shorter attention spans, and are less able to talk to one another than was the case before the Internet,” he said.
A 2016 study from Stanford University found that young students struggled to differentiate real news articles from advertisements, or even identify where information they read came from. And an older study published in Science found that people have worse recall when they know a piece of information can be accessed online—in other words, people only remember where to find information. Snyder’s solution? Disconnect as often as you can.
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Myth #4: Globalization is a recent phenomenon
Globalization is the process that allows people, products and ideas to move easily across borders. It has dominated recent headlines thanks to Donald Trump, but according to Snyder, it’s not a new concept. “We in the 21st century tend to think that our globalization is the only one that has ever happened, but there have been at least two in the history of the world,” he said.
The other example of modern globalization? The Industrial Revolution—a period in the 1700 and 1800s that gave birth to mass production, the steam engine, the telegraph and improved systems of banking. Earlier forms of globalization can be traced back to the 13th century.
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Myth #5: Immigration is more common now than ever before
Thanks to Trump’s temporary Muslim travel ban and Brexit, there exists the perception that mass immigration is a new phenomenon. Snyder said this is false: “France in the 1920s and 1930s, for example, was an empire in Africa and Southeast Asia, and had infinitely more Muslims back then compared to the amount of Muslims living there today.”
Migration isn’t new to Canada either. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada reports that one million immigrants arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax between 1928 and 1971; by the 1960s, one-third of Canadians had origins that were neither French nor British. Nowadays, most immigrants who come to Canada are from China, India and the Philippines.
Originally Published: February 16, 2017
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Last week, a Labor Department report showed that inflation grew at the staggering rate of 4.2% and the Biden administration now seems to be worrying about the ultimate price of inflation and how that will affect the recovery.
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This article nearly never got written because as I start to write on the issue I start seeing red. When India was raptly watching students of a prestigious university go through a long drama of whether slogan shouting students had committed sedition or not…rampaging mobs were burning, looting, and ransacking the cities of Haryana, right next door to the capital Delhi. Nobody was really outraged, no resignations were called for, no charges of sedition were made and after nearly two days of looting and burning worth 34000 crores, the government cordially accepted the demands of the rampaging mobs and the burning and looting came to an end. An amicable solution all around..except for criminality and couple of thousand crores of national property but …..this is India!
Four days later some ghost stories started floating around. The whispers said that not only Haryana’s cities had been burnt and ransacked; women commuters had been raped too on the highways. The police however assured us that these were all rumors being spread by nasty people. However they refused to die. Soon a newspaper, The Tribune, did a story on how women travellers coming to Delhi were dragged out of their cars by mobs on a National Highway 1 at Murthal in Sonepat district of Haryana and gang raped by mobs. That the paper reported this happened only about 2 hours from Delhi, near a very popular eating spot, made it more shocking. But the Haryana government and the police breezily denied these, ignoring that the newspaper was an established one, and not given to salacious stories.
Well, the newspaper stuck to its guns quoting eyewitnesses. Initially three eyewitnesses—Hari Krishan of Kurad, Zile Singh of Hassanpur and Amrik Singh—came forward, saying women were sexually assaulted. Eyewitness Niranjan Singh told The Sunday Standard: “I saw these men chasing women in the fields, and assaulting and tearing off their clothes.’’ The Tribune report also mentioned the raped women were met by the police and instead of being taken to a hospital for examination, they were advised paternally by the policemen and the district administration to not file a complaint and go home. The police even dropped many home solicitously, instead of taking them to a hospital or filing an FIR.
In the fields where nothing had happened, torn bras, panties and various undergarments of women were found strewn about. The police collected them and sent them for forensic examination. But nobody was still outraged –perhaps the women themselves were struck by a sudden urge to become nude while travelling through. No minister thought it worth his or her while to comment on such trivial issues. But the courts for once woke up, took suo moto cognizance of the report and ordered an inquiry. That gave some faint hope to the horrified citizens following the story.
In response to the court inquiry, the local Police issued casual notices saying if women had been gang raped could they please come up and contact the police? No mention was made of the policemen who were supposed to have pressed the women not to press charges. No effort was made to find out the cars, which had passed through the tollgates. No Indian woman was surprised when not a single woman came to volunteer about her gang rape. To add insult to injury the number of the lady DIG given to contact was wrong and belonged to a resident of Indore. The New Indian Express, a reputed newspaper quoted a senior police official as saying that: “there is too much political pressure to play down the incident.”
But the unkindest cut for the women of India was saved for the last. As the Parliament met for the budget session there was hope that all the national representatives at the highest level would be outraged by this incident. The opposition would clamor and the government would be forced to take stern measures against the criminals and those shielding the,. The opposition did outrage, the government especially a woman minister did indulge in splendid melodramatics but not for the women of India. For two days the Indian Parliament was in furore over demon worship and the honor of the mythical goddess Durga.
Yes you read that correctly: DISCUSSING THE MYTHICAL GODDESS DURGA’S HONOUR WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO INDIAN PARLIAMENT THAN DISCUSSING ASSAULT ON REAL INDIAN WOMEN!!!!
I can’t think of any civilized country in which such a thing would happen. At that point I realized a very important thing: This is what the worth of a woman in India. NOTHING. Don’t get fooled by the glitzy ads showing beautifully groomed career women who are also empowered at home. Don’t be fooled by the number of women in the Parliament or careers. Don’t be fooled by the tall promises made after the Nirbhaya rape. All women are in India are pieces of property, meant to protect the honor of the man, the family, the country. To expect respect as a normal human being, as an equal citizen deserving equal rights is futile. I’ve given up. Just hope that you can be a goddess someday, from the flesh and blood human you are.
PS: Till the time of this article going for publication two victims have come forwarded and narrated their ordeal of being gang-raped along with many other women. They are mothers and wives and young women and teenagers. They say that they ” were advised by the officials there not to report the matter for the sake of honour, because what has happened could not be undone,” and are terrified of going to a police which wants to bury the incident. However the eyewitnesses have now turned hostile. News of the Murthal rapes has completely vanished from the national media. All is well in India.
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Meha Khanduri is an alum from Columbia University, New York and works on issues of human rights and conflict in India.
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travelwithgowri says:
March 14, 2016 at 1:41 am
What else can you expect? With sex ratios screwed ,the ,Hindi movies double speak of Durga and virginity on one hand and half naked women thrusting their bodies in your face,with absolute ridiculous so called traditions dinned into your ears ” what else can we expect?.They are protected by law makers who have to protect their jobs.
We dare not accept these and educate these uneducated B when they were in school.Now that a lot of tongue clicking and ha and hooo has been made,lets get back to our mundane lives and wait for the next horror story ,probably in another minute?
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Ash says:
March 14, 2016 at 3:16 am
This is India shining..Make in India.. Beti bachao..For what???To fulfill the lust of a MAN.. The system is corrupt but sadly we too are a part of this system..Media can work wo sets if they want to..
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sitanaik says:
March 14, 2016 at 6:11 am
Similar sentiments by Mrinal Pande in today’s Indian Express
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/a-new-mother-india-armed-aggressive/
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Shikha Jain says:
March 14, 2016 at 6:23 am
Is this India?? The country for which we were used to take pledge from the childhood – “India is my country, All boys and girls are my brothers and Sisters”. The jats who did all this shit, were they not taught about it? They raped women on the name of their agitation for reservation, is this seems fine to Indians and India government? I feel ashamed being an Indian where people are “Illiterate even after being educated”. Being a girl, this is not acceptable to me that for getting a right from government, you are rapping a girl, who is not even a part of this, who is not responsible for not giving the reservation. And I Hate those politicians who are ordering and supporting such acts, just to play some “cheap politics”.
And even after showing such illiteracy, if these Illiterate will get the reservation, what will be the future of India?? If they are getting reservation, then expect such acts in India every year or every month, either by them or some other communities to get some other right from govt.
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pankaj says:
March 14, 2016 at 6:43 am
we can react in a very subtle manner but there are two sides. One saying its truth another its false.
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Juliet Maya says:
March 14, 2016 at 7:40 am
Absolutely discouraged, disappointed , disgusted at the treatment of
women in India . Unless Indian women organise and fight against a
society that doesn’t value its women citizens , India will not change .
Women of India , rise up ,demand respect , demand justice, fight
for equal rights, refuse to give dowry, get educated , empowered ,
support other women in their struggle to be free from the restrictions
imposed on you by a culture that only values its men . India needs
a feminist movement , a feminist revolution , to come to its senses !
An Indian woman now living abroad
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Amit shokeen says:
March 14, 2016 at 7:56 am
U guys believe that what happened I must say not happened that was all fake news n only thing that it was just a news.beleive in practical things n the woman u r taking about she is just a greedy women n asking for money.Nothing has proved hoga kaise kuch huwa nahi.
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sironzkar world says:
March 14, 2016 at 9:24 am
Reblogged this on sironzkarworld and commented:
Sad state 😦
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Monk says:
March 14, 2016 at 10:47 am
I hang my head in shame. This shows the rut not only in the system but in every dimension of social fabric.
A country that does not respect its women and children has no future and is doomed to extinction.
It has become fashionable to say Bharat Mata Ki Jai ….. but see the karmas that we as a nation follow when it comes to women.
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pameladev says:
March 14, 2016 at 10:49 am
the assholes got what they wanted. we have such a pathetic system. who bloddy cares about the modesty of women.. the government has done nothing about it.. alll they can do is loot us of our hard earned money in term of taxes. why wouldnt the remaining of educated indians wanna go abroad and settle where atleast people are heard. women respecteed. doing shit in the name of caste system .. When will india rise above these sick shambles!!!
is the government listening???? HEllo.. any body here.. or r u just happy grabbing the 30% taxes and fighting in parliament like dogs.. disgrace!!!!
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Rita says:
March 14, 2016 at 2:45 pm
All jats should be denied any reservation and all govt jobs be closed for the jats for next 20 years
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Dr. S.N.Sewak says:
March 14, 2016 at 2:51 pm
It was really shameful. Even a high-powered women’s team did nothing in the matter and virtually absolved the criminals. The victims chose to stay mum. A
great shame indeed.
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anu says:
March 14, 2016 at 4:22 pm
first analyse before writing mam. and mind your language.first of all govt didnt accepted the demands of rampaging mob. a mob has no face, no caste no community. the stir was started by jats , a respectable community and hardworking mostly farmers. conditions of farmers in india is not hidden from anyone. do a little homework for this. the of stir was non violent but was made violent by the tactics of the ruling govt to ensure vote bank of non jats community. all kinds and people from all castes were on streets to loot and burn . the jat community is already bearing the blame for everything as they themselves were not prepared that the things will be given such a bad and communal twist. the jats are not so tech savy and educated to counter all this bad things spread in the name of their caste. the sabotaged the stir badly against the jats. the news of actually what happened at Rohtak and how violence started , has nowhere been shared and shown. as far as murthal rapes are concerned from day one Army and police is claiming no rapes took place. the witnesses have refused this too. there are coming different versions from day one. one version claim that these types of clothes are found in this area earlier also as the girls from nearby girls hostel sometimes discard old clothes in garbage. now the news is coming police may be involved. one version was that it was all because a domestic dispute. as the women who reported this as victims had some domestic dispute with the culprits named. in this era of fast news fast inetrnet world opinion making is simplest thing . but beware. analyse before sharing. even army claimed that no rapes took place during this stir anywhere in haryana. it looks more of a propaganda to malign the image of a particular caste.
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Pallavi says:
March 14, 2016 at 10:03 pm
How can you say women were not raped? I know a family from UK who went to India and their daughters were raped and left in the fields. My brother-in-law’s car was smashed and several cars were burnt. He was hiding in the fields all night to save his life. Who is responsible for that? Knowing our political and social environment, how do you expect ladies to step out and claim they were assaulted? Don’t make such high claims if you don’t know the fact. Don’t get fooled by the media and your so called “society”. Like you’re advising the author, you also do your homework first and then post something on social media.
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naresh (@vaagyam) says:
March 15, 2016 at 10:48 am
@Pallavi people like you or the people in your comment are equally to blame!
Knowing our political and social environment whatever change has come has come from ladies who have stepped out and claimed they were assaulted without fear. if so many people are commenting and talking about these incidents, it means they will stand for victims. High Court, NHRC, NCW are helping people who want to come forward, if you still think you have a moral high ground by narrating incidents and doing nothing you are part of the problem not the solution.
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Ankur says:
March 15, 2016 at 12:31 pm
So u are saying that people from UK Did not file the case they also don’t want to protect and get justice for their girls claps 👏👏 for you miss
Knowing about our political and social environment I want to tell you that lots of rape cases are reported in India
I agree that cars were smashed and burnt
If you are fearless enough to spread rumours on social media and defame a particular community I think you have some energy left to come forward and file the case
Apart from all this I want to tell you that crime was committed by criminals not by a community (if anything like this happened which I don’t believe)
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anu says:
March 14, 2016 at 4:34 pm
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/did-media-jump-the-gun-on-murthal-rapes/story-5F7Z51434N0sxrx4HUPojN.html
read this also.
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Vinod says:
March 14, 2016 at 4:40 pm
What happened to these women is definitely horrendous and inhumane to say the least and something that should never go unpunished. But to add to your point, its not just the women… everyone in this country man or woman is treated like trash unless they have insane amount of money, political power or a mob behind them. The situation in this country is so volatile that anything could happen to anyone anytime…
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geoffnmonika says:
March 14, 2016 at 5:18 pm
Matter of great shame to us Indians to see women treated like this..
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VivaceReveur says:
March 14, 2016 at 6:25 pm
Reblogged this on Refuge – Penned, not Typed.
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Mizan says:
March 14, 2016 at 7:50 pm
Agreed that the rotting political scenario of the country dictates which issues to focus on and which ones to ignore, but this doesn’t imply that ALL is wrong with our country. I have seen incidents which show the human nature in its best possible form. Lets stay positive and join hands to change the dynamics of this Nation. Jai Hind.
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rittam says:
March 14, 2016 at 8:01 pm
Hey Anu– wake up! perhaps u shud see more TV– 2 diff TV {one was SAB if I remeber channels carried LIVE interviews with 3-4 different men who were also in cars at the time the women got raped. After the first time these were aired– one never heard of them! that is ur
wonderful govt for u .
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Ranga says:
March 15, 2016 at 3:08 am
Movies are the first culprit followed bh lackbif discipline at home. Rest all after that.fix the funda.
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sanjukta says:
March 15, 2016 at 4:21 am
You know what…woman need to do something which will send shivers down thier backs…’bobbit’ them. I know it sounds an extreme reaction….but extreme steps need to be taken for extreme crimes which our protectors overlook. I would happily join a band of women who would take on this task!
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KAVURI L R SIMHA says:
March 15, 2016 at 8:11 am
The last Paragraph (before P.S) was wrong.. It was in Haryana where sex ratio is screwed 1000/770+ it does not apply to whole India which is so different in social thought and behavior for every 500 km radius..
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ds rataul says:
March 16, 2016 at 11:43 am
very eye opening piece and from this episode, though I am an optimist, I feel India still continue living in middle ages and it will never be civilized till it starts respecting it women and no politician is ready to take about making India civilized
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R says:
March 16, 2016 at 1:22 pm
There is no curse bigger than being a woman…be it India or Planet Earth…
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Misfit menage says:
March 16, 2016 at 7:25 pm
Reblogged this on outcast1493.
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Bikram Singh says:
March 16, 2016 at 7:59 pm
Their fathers and uncles had committed similar crimes in1984 but they were pardoned for having taught a lesson to S
Sikhs so the beasts have repeated the act .Will they reach to gallows this time ? .
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Pranav Sharma says:
March 17, 2016 at 2:24 am
This is the dat and stylish stays of affairs in India, aversion people debate on stupidity and non existing issues but no action is taken on real concerns
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Richa says:
March 17, 2016 at 4:55 am
Whom to blame the public the media or the ministers, do we forget what are our responsibility to be strong and speak up. No one can help us unless we help ourself. No one but the lady herself is to be blamed why fear honour is not something that gets tarnished because you were raped . something bad happened we just need to forgive ourself don’t be hard on yourself. Stand up and punish those wrong doers they deserve the punishment.
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dr priya kapoor says:
March 17, 2016 at 9:55 am
Each time a woman keeps quiet about such things the chances of the next one multiples. Its time we make sure that a physical assault does not leadto a mental one too.spread this till the culprits are punished
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parwatisingari says:
March 18, 2016 at 1:41 am
Reblogged this on Parwatisingari's Weblog and commented:
Reblogged this, it makes me angry, and I am guilty of this too, we want to keep up pretenses, why did the women keep quite? We are as much citizens and some woman is responsible for the birth and bringing up of the monsters who raped these women, Why don’t we a nation question, interrogate the elected member of our constitution for not delivering, why is that we do not have a janta ki adalat in our constitution asking the elected representiative why did he allow the wastage of our time and resources. He after all represents us at the parliament. The answer is we don’t want responsibility, we don’t know how to tackle it, we are happy in our apathy.
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Do you think mushrooms are just fungi that can be used for culinary purposes? Well, you are not alone as people are unaware of the benefits of kefir mushrooms. These mushrooms are prized for their health and nutritional benefits. Although a fungus, they are the size of wheat kernels. When you see the grains, you may think a cauliflower has been reduced to small, soft and spongy kernels with the help of a laser! In order to consume them, you need to add milk to the mushrooms, beginning the fermentation process. After 24 hours of fermenting, the milk turns into a creamy, rich drink that is replete with live probiotic microorganisms. If you drink this delicious and natural beverage on a daily basis, you can reap its wonderful benefits.
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James E. DeWitt was on the Track Team with Coach Carnes 1966 but had a season ending injury and didn't finish Season...Graduated and Taught, Coached Football, Track for 30+yrs sending many good Athletes to the FB, Track Team.
Ed TC Wilson / aka ‘The Hammer-man’ /
The UF YEARS
1970-1973 UF Track and Cross Country
Distance Runner: Mile, 3mile, 6mile, Marathon
1. Ed TC Wilson Is A Pioneering Black Student and Athlete That Helped DESEGREGATE and INTERGRATE The University Of Florida In The Classroom and in Athletics. 1970-1973
2. Ed TC Wilson Is One Of The First 12 Black Athletes To ORIGINALLY Compete For The University Of Florida [ Fall Of 1971 ]
3. Ed TC Wilson Is One Of The First 6 Black Athletes To Break A School Record At UF
4. Ed TC Wilson Is The 2nd BLACK Athlete In UF Athletic History! To Set A SCHOOL RECORD As A WALK ON! April 1972 - Marathon / ( Johnny Brown was the 1st - 6 Mile Run )
5. In Nov1971 @ age 19 - Ed TC Wilson Finished Directly Behind The #1 Marathon Runner In The WORLD ( FRANK SHORTER ) In A 12 Mile Race
6. In APRIL Of 1972 Ed TC Wilson Ran One Of The Fastest ‘FIRST TIME ‘ Marathons By A ‘TEEN-AGER’ In Running HISTORY!!! AGE 19 26.2miles In 2hrs 39min ! / 1972 Florida Relays
7. By Doing Something Few Distance Runners In History Have Ever Done - RUN A SUB 2:40 Marathon AS A TEEN-AGER!!! / Something That Takes GUTS, DARING, COURAGE, and TOUGHNESS That Few Have At Age 19!!!
8. When Head Track and Coaching Legend JIMMY CARNES Recognized His Accomplishment As A NEW UF SCHOOL RECORD It Meant - ED TC WILSON Had Made UF / SEC / and NCAA ‘ATHLETIC HISTORY’ !!! as The 1st BLACK ATHLETE To Set A School Record At A MAJOR ‘WHITE’ UNIVERSITY - In A ‘DISTANCE RUNNING EVENT’ - Longer Than 6 Miles - In NCAA HISTORY!!!
In The Spring Of 1971 During The Greatest Racial Tension In The History Of UF / Ed TC WILSON RESISTED Being Threatened and Bullied To WITHDRAW From School / I Didn’t Come To The University Of Florida TO QUIT - I Came To DESEGREGATE, INTEGRATE, and Help CHANGE The Racial History / To Be A Pioneer That Helped PAVE THE WAY For Other Black Students and Athletes / If I Had Withdrawn - I Never Would Have Made UF - SEC - and NCAA ATHLETIC HISTORY A Year Later ! - Being The 1st To Do Something Is Always FOREVER / It’s A RECORD That Can Never Be Broken or Changed
Jeremy Stallings 1993 - 1997 - Stanton HS - Stanton TX
UFTF Team Captain 1996-1997
UF Cross-Country Team Captain 1996
UFTF MOST OUTSTANDING ATHLETE - 1995 Indoor Track
UFTF MVP 1997
US Junior Runner Up 800M 1993
PanAm Junior Games Bronze Medal 800M 1993
UF School Record Holder - Distance Medley Relay
8-Time NCAA Qualifier 800M - Mile - Distance Medley Relay
6-Time All American 800M - Mile - Distance Medley Relay
Olympic Trials Qualifier 800M - 1996
SEC CHAMPION - Mile - 1997
FLORIDA RELAYS CHAMPION - 4x800 - 1997
Personal Bests:
Indoor 800 - 1:48.03
Outdoor 800 - 1:47.50
Indoor Mile - 4:01.73
Takydra Robinson
A member of the Women’s University of Florida Track Team from 1997 to 2001. Main events were the 100 and 200 meter dashes while the 4x100 meter relay was a staple as well. One-time All American (1998 NCAA Outdoor 4x100 meter relay team).
SEKOU CLARKE
Sékou Clarke is the founder of the Sekou Clarke Law Group. As an immigrant himself, he has firsthand experience with the intricacies and challenges navigating the U.S. Immigration system.
Sekou’s unique vision and personal experiences led to the birth of The Sekou Clarke Law Group. A full-service Immigration Law firm, providing services in Family Immigration, Large and Small Business Employment visas, Sports Visas, Investor Visas, Deportation Defense and Immigrant Injury.
The Sekou Clarke Law Firm is quickly making a name for itself in Personal Injury. The firm represents injured clients in Auto accidents, slip and fall and Medical negligence throughout the State of Florida. The Firm has focused on a client-based approach to maximize medical and settlement recovery.
Born in St. Andrew, Jamaica, Sekou’s work ethic and athletic ability earned him a full athletic Track and Field scholarship to the University of Florida where he was team captain, 10-time All-American, and helped the Gators to 2 National titles.
Sekou retired from Collegiate and International Track and field competitions, with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Florida and a Master’s in Business Administration from St. Leo University. Sekou followed his dream to be an advocate for people whose voices needed to be heard and whose rights needed to be protected and pursued Law School. Sekou achieved his Juris Doctor Degree from Florida Coastal School of Law in 2016.
Sekou started his legal career as an associate attorney at a Personal Injury law Firm in Clermont, Florida. Soon after Sekou joined a Major law Firm in Downtown, Orlando, as an associate Personal injury attorney and the lead attorney for the firm’s Immigration Department.
Sekou’s experience working with Immigrants developed his passion for representation and honed a keen sense for litigation. The discipline and patience from Sekou’s sports background is evident in his zealous approach to fighting for his clients and his unyielding dedication in ensuring that his clients are adequately heard, represented and compensated.
In 2018, Sekou was recognized for Excellence in Immigration Law by the Association of American Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40 in Immigration Law. In 2019, Sekou was recognized by premier Lawyers of America Top 40 under 40 in recognition of $1+ Million Recovered in Personal Injury. In addition, Sekou was named a Team Jamaica Bickle International Ambassador for his philanthropic community efforts and excellence in the practice of Law. Sekou enjoys participating in community outreach programs and mentoring athletes and High school students.
Based on Sekou’s personal experiences in the US as an Immigrant coupled with his Journey as an attorney in representing Immigrants he has Authored the Book “ Surviving Trump’s America- An immigrant’s Guide in 2020.
Sekou is Licensed to practice in all Florida State Courts, the Middle and Southern District of Florida and he is a member of the American Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, Association of Immigration Lawyers and Orange County Bar Association.
BETH FARMER - LUSNIA
Beth Farmer Lusnia
Seven-time All-American
SEC 10,000 meter record of 32:49 as a Junior
Three time SEC winner in 10,000 meters in 1982,1983 and 1984
Back to back SEC Indoor Championships in 3,000 meters
NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Championships top 20 in 1983, 1985
1984 U.S Women’s Marathon Trials 18 th place finish with a time of 2:36:22
Married Steve Lusnia – high jumper on UF Track and Field team
Two children
Ciara Lusnia- graduated from UF in May of 2019, Summa Cum Laude in
Neurobiology and minor in Theatre. Competed for UF Crew team and won first
place in the Dad Vail National Collegiate Championships in the Light Weight
Women’s 4 boat.
Conor Lusnia- currently a Junior at UF studying Economics. Conor is a member of
the UF Cheer Squad.
NADIA GRAHAM
UFTFAA BLUE GOOSE AWARDS 2019 at BULL GATOR ZONE
UFTFAA BLUE GOOSE AWARDS 2018 at BULL GATOR ZONE
UFTFAA BLUE GOOSE AWARDS 2017 at BULL GATOR ZONE
UFTFAA BLUE GOOSE AWARDS 2016 at F-CLUB
UFTFAA BLUE GOOSE AWARDS 2015 at F-CLUB
Will Claye DID NOT RECEIVE the award
UFTFAA BLUE GOOSE AWARDS 2014
2014 Blue Goose Awards Honorees at UF President House
BEAUFORT BROWN
(born: Tampa, Florida USA 1953)
University of Florida 1971 – 1975 “The Genesis of Champions Era”
Coaches: Jimmy Carnes, Head; Roy Benson, Asst; Dave Atkins,
440 and Relays
2011
I was recruited to the University of Florida's Track Program in 1971, by Head Coach Jimmy Carnes. While in Tampa Florida’s Middleton High School, I played football; was track team captain; and had won Championship titles at the Conference, District, Regional, and State levels. When I was competing in the State of Florida’s Championship meet, Coach Carnes came to watch me run the 440 and the sprint medley relay—both of which I was favored to win. I anchored and won the relay; but when I made the mistake of looking back near the finish line, I lost the 440! As a result, Coach put me on the Gators’ team—but he wouldn’t give me a scholarship until I proved myself. From that point on, I never looked back—either literally or figuratively. My time as a Trackman at the University of Florida was The Best Time of My Life! I made some life-long friends with some great guys. Together, we put UF on the National Track and Field “map”, and we were among UF Track’s pioneers in “The Genesis of Champions” era. Florida’s jumpers, vaulters, and fielders were already soaring, so we runners began the tradition of the “Flat Out Flyin’ Florida Gators!” I loved impressing the fans with my trademark ‘flying’ leap across the finish line. The UF Track Team, several individuals and I became SEC Champions; my mile-relay teammates and I became National Champions; and I enjoyed earning a long list of honors and awards—including being elected team captain for an unprecedented three years! Coach Carnes encouraged me to be a versatile runner by challenging me to run everything from sprints to middle distances (100 – 880 yds)! I clocked some of the fastest times in the world for several events; ran in prestigious invitational meets; qualified for the Olympic Trials; and beat the Russians in the Jr. Olympics, while setting and shattering UF records all along the way! I even managed to make the Dean’s List! One newspaper article proclaimed, “Brown Is Beautiful!” and another nicknamed me, “Bodacious!”
When I arrived at UF, I met my friend and college sweetheart, Barbara Lee, who graduated from UF cum laude. Three years later, we were married; and we now have three adult children—all of whom are honor students and musicians. Older son, Beaufort III—aka “Robb”—has graduated from USF; son Brandon has graduated cum laude from UF; and daughter Briahna is currently a student at UF (Class of 2012).
Four years after arriving at UF, I graduated as an Outstanding Senior. Then, I earned my state insurance license and worked in that area for a few years. Since that time, I have been blessed to work as an educator in the field I love—health, fitness, and physical education. In addition to working in the Florida school system, I have coached track at the high school and college levels; managed swimming programs; and worked with Migrant and Special Olympics. I have been honored by induction into three Halls of Fame. I learned to water-ski—even barefoot! I am an avid student of religious studies and a spiritual teacher. My wife and I recently had a great visit to Mayan lands; so I hope to do more traveling. I enjoy grilling, cooking—and eating—but I still do a little running to stay in shape. *lol*
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LORI MERCER
In high school (1979 – 1981) Lori earned All-America status as a shot putter and discus thrower for Cheyenne Central High School where she held the state record in the Shot Put for over 20 years and continues to hold the record in her high school. She was an 8 time State Champion in the shot put, discus, and softball throw. She was heavily recruited in high school and after attending Utah State University from 1981-1982, she followed her coach to the University of Florida where she made a name for herself. In the fall of 1983 while training in “THE SWAMP” she was challenged by linebacker great Wilbur Marshall in a baseball throwing competition. To the amazement of her coach and all
in attendance, she threw a baseball the length of Florida Field splitting the uprights of the goal posts at the other end. Her coach was so impressed that he put a javelin in her hand and her track career took flight. In the spring of 1984 she qualified for the NCAA Championships where she finished 3rd and qualified for the Olympic Trials where she finished 8th ; after only training in the even for eight months.
She has always considered her throwing ability a gift from God stating, “I don’t know many people who grow up dreaming of throwing the javelin!” Since that time she set the University of Florida record for the javelin at 188’ 8”. Lori also set records and won the Penn Relays two years in a row (1985 and1986) and won the Gatorade Classic. At the 1985 US Championships she finished 2nd earning her a spot on the United States Track and Field Team. She competed in several international competitions that year and ended that season with a trip to Tokyo Japan where she finished 11th in the World University Games. She carried a US top 10 ranking 4 out of the 5 years she competed on the national and international track circuit and was a three time Collegiate All-America and two time Olympic Trials finalist in the javelin.
Lori earned a BA in Health Science from the University of Florida in 1986. Since then she has earned a Masters of Arts in Counseling Education, and a Masters of Arts in Education: Administration and Supervision. She has worked for the past 25 years with disadvantaged, inner city youth. She currently resides in Newark, NJ and works in Jersey City, NJ at the Hudson County Schools of Technology/County Prep High School where she is a School Counselor. She continues to stay close to her athletic roots and
has been a volunteer throws coach at Newark Central High School and an assistant volleyball coach at Jersey City’s Snyder High School. She also continues to play competitive volleyball and likes to take her javelins out often to take road trips down memory lane.
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Benny: “Burlington Code Academy trains adults in the digital skills necessary to enter a career in technology on an accelerated timeline. We are a Bootcamp provider that helps adults transition their career into coding or UX design. We do that by providing exceptional technology education combined with career strategy.”
The Pivot
Like nearly every company, Burlington Code Academy was impacted by COVID-19. Here’s what Alex had to say about their transition away from in-person classes: “We were doing all in-person courses then COVID-19 pushed us and most schools into doing some sort of online format. That turned out to work really well for us and it actually enabled us to open up beyond Vermont.” “Our instructors were able to transition our in-person format and adapt it to online in a way that I don’t believe that any other boot camps were doing at the time.” Their pivot was so successful that the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation(VSAC) reached out to find out how Burlington Code Academy achieved the “smoothest transition to an online format that they had seen from any educational institution in Vermont”.
Bringing an “in-person” feel to online education
Burlington Code Academy instructors have been able to replicate the in-person class experience by using a combination of Zoom lectures and Discord voice channels. During lectures held on Zoom, BCA teaching assistants are available to answer questions in private Discord channels. This enables students to ask questions during class without interrupting the lecture.
Alex described several of BCA’s other initiatives to maintain the value of in-person courses: “Our community coordinator makes sure to almost daily check-in with students and makes sure everyone’s voices are heard. We are also continuing our career track. We have a career coach that does one on one sessions with students to help them curate their resume, help their LinkedIn profile, and take them through a series of trainings. We also do “lunch and learns” where we have folks from the tech industry or our hiring partners come in to tell students about what it’s like to have a career with their company or to work in the industry.” “We create a ton of opportunities for collision for students to be able to just talk to people in the industry. I think that helps a lot to compensate for not being in person. We try to bring a really personal feel to everything we do”
BCA’s competitive advantage
Anyone who has looked into learning how to code online knows there are a ton of options ranging from free youtube videos to full-service boot camps like Burlington Code Academy. Here’s what Benny had to say about how BCA stands out from the pack: “All of the programs like Codecademy, Codecamp, etcetera are great but they are an entirely different product. It’s like going to the grocery store and comparing a bag of potatoes with a bag of sweet potatoes; if you want sweet potatoes you’re not going to buy a bag of regular potatoes. It’s the same thing with us, if you want to get an instructor-led full-time course it’s going to be a very different experience than paying 30-50 dollars a month for some online training.”
“The way that we differentiate ourselves from the competitors within our market is by bringing a synchronous experience that tries to replicate the in-person experience as much as possible… That’s not what our competitors do”
What’s next for Burlington Code Academy?
Alex: “We just debuted our UX (user experience) course so we’re really excited to see how that unfolds. Also just continuing to move things online, that’s a huge transition that has so much potential in the air. We can really expand past the geographic location of Burlington onto a more national scale. With that, I think we’re going to see a lot of expansion and growth for this company”
Benny: “We believe right now there is a massive opportunity for our company to emerge as a leader in this industry. We do have a number of direct competitors, but none of them are pushing programs that are as strong as ours. BCA in the next few years plans to be a force majeure in the online Bootcamp space.”
Biggest win in the past year?
Alex: “Being able to grow through investment is definitely a milestone a young entrepreneur can hit that really meant so much. Also, continuously getting phenomenal placement rates; there’s something special in watching students go from somebody who was a cashier at a store to the point now where they are making a really killer salary at a tech company. Seeing the progression of the students has been extremely impactful for me on a deeply personal level.”
Benny: “I landed a tail slide and that was really sick because I’ve been skateboarding for most of my life. I could get a nice boardslide or a 50-50, maybe a crook but I was never able to tail slide.
BCA is hiring!
– UX Content Creator
– Coding Content Creator
– Sr. Software Developer
– Instructor, UX Design
– Instructor, Software Development
“We’re looking for folks who are in it for the long haul.”
Words of wisdom for young entrepreneurs
Benny: “When we were first starting this company we were both young and didn’t have a lot of experience, but there were still a lot of people in this community who took us seriously nonetheless. It’s so important to have people who believe in you especially when you don’t already have a history of success. Burlington is a really special place for that; I think this should be a call for all young entrepreneurs to stay out of the cities and try to find their start somewhere that has a supportive community like Burlington.”
“If you’re a young entrepreneur that’s thinking about leaving Burlington because the grass is greener on the other side as you typically would believe, you’re dead wrong, this is the place to start a company.”
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Friend or Foe? The general form of cockroaches varies little, however their size can range from only a couple of millimetres in length up to 70 millimetres for the Giant Rhinoceros cockroach, which lives in Northern Queensland. There are just over 400 species in Australia out of 4000 worldwide, the best known being the introduced pests which commonly inhabit houses, restaurants and sewers.
All cockroaches have the following characteristics:
* Oval and flattened shape
* The thorax is covered by a large plate (the pronotum), which extends partly over the head
* Chewing (mandibulate) mouthparts.
* Compound eyes and 2 simple ocelli-like spots
* 2 pairs of membranous wings when present. The forewings are more sclerotised than the hind wings. Wings are folded left over right when at rest
* Prominent cerci
* Long antennae
Almost all species in the Blattidae family are flightless except for Methana species. Species in the Blattidae family range from black and brown to red in colour, but a few are even iridescent green. Some species have distinctive bands or spots, while others such as Methana marginalis have pale borders. Some species in the Blattidae family are of economic importance, such as the American cockroach Periplaneta americana which is an introduced pest species commonly found in and around human habitation. Methana marginalis is a native species found throughout Queensland. It has been introduced to Norfolk Island where it has become a pest, by invading homes and gardens.
Life Cycle
Cockroaches have incomplete metamorphosis. Most species of cockroaches lay eggs in an ootheca (egg case) that is either deposited on or under suitable substrate, or carried attached to the genital region. The egg stage lasts from a few weeks to a few months. The young are active from hatching and resemble the adults, but are usually lighter in colour and lack wings. The young cockroaches develop through a number of nymphal instars, which may range from 2 to 12 depending on the species and may take from a month or so up to 12 months to reach maturity. Some species may live for several years.
Feeding
Much of the feeding habits of native Australian cockroaches is unknown, but it is likely the majority are omnivorous. Some species are known to feed predominantly on rotting wood, while some species harbour symbiotic gut Protozoa that aid in cellulose digestion. The introduced domestic species appear to eat almost anything.
Habitat
Cockroaches in Australia are widespread and adapted to both wet and dry environments. Most species are nocturnal and ground dwelling and are usually found hiding during the day in crevices, under bark, rocks or logs and in burrows. Some species may occur on plants or in litter and some also occur solely in caves or ant nests. Others are associated with human habitation.
Geoscapheus dilatatus (Blaberidae)
Blaberidae is the second largest family of cockroaches worldwide, although Australia has few species.
Many species, such as Geoscapheus dilatatus, are adapted for burrowing in soil, having robust body shapes and short powerful legs.
Also belonging to this family is the giant rhinoceros cockroach, Macropanesthia rhinoceros, which lives in northern Queensland. This cockroach is the largest in the world and can weigh up to 30 grams. It can live for several years and is sometimes kept as a pet.
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CNS depressants are also referred to sometimes as tranquilizers and sedatives. These are substances that slow down brain activity which causes a relaxing feeling. Depressants are used to treat anxiety and sleep disorders but should never be misused or combined with other depressant drugs.
Medications that are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep problems include barbiturates and benzodiazepines Examples includes:
Barbiturates like Mebaral and Nembutal are used to treat tension, anxiety and sleep disorders.
Benzodiazepines like Valium, Librium, and Xanax are prescribed for treating anxiety, acute stress, and panic attacks.
Halcion and ProSom are more sedating benzodiazepines and are prescribed for short term treatment of sleep disorders.
Other sleep medications include Zolpidem which is Ambien, Zaleplon with is Sonata, and Eszopiclone which is Lunesta.
Most of the time, CNS depressants either come in a pill or capsule form and are abused by taking larger doses than are prescribed or by taking cns depressant drugs without a prescription. There are also people who take depressants and mix them with other drugs to intensify the effects or in attempt to counteract side effects. Depressants slow down activity in the brain and the individual becomes calm and drowsy and like many drugs, depressants are addictive when abused. After repeated use when a person is abusing depressants they become tolerant and need to use more to achieve the same affect. When a person continues to misuse depressants physical dependence sets in and if the person stops taking them they experience withdrawal symptoms.
There are several ways depressants like the ones mentioned above are abused, taken orally, crush and snort them, or turn them into a liquid and inject them. No matter how they're abused, they're still addictive and there are many risks involved.
Diazepam and alprazolam are also benzodiazepines and are sometimes combined with methadone to increase or intensify the high a person is looking to achieve. Irritability and anxiety are common effects a person experiences when they abuse cocaine. Sometimes people use benzodiazepines to relieve these side effects that are commonly experienced with cocaine binges.
Brain activity slows down with the use of depressant drugs and the heavier they're abused the slower brain activity gets, the opposite can happen when a person stops taking them. Instead of drowsiness their brain activity can speed up which can lead to seizures and other serious problems.
CNS Withdrawal Symptoms
Benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms occur when a person becomes dependent on them after long term use. It depends on the severity of dependence as to how intense withdrawal symptoms may be. Withdrawal symptoms include anxiety, insomnia, depression, tremors, and seizures.
Barbiturate withdrawal symptoms can be experienced after long term use as well. Symptoms can include anxiety, agitation, sleep problems, nausea, dizziness or faintness and sometimes twitching. If a person frequently uses barbiturates and they're heavy users they can experience seizures, low blood pressure, delirium and hallucinations.
Street Terms for Depressants
Barbiturates like Mebaral and Nembutal are referred to as barbs, reds, red birds, phennies, tooies, yellows, and yellow jackets on the streets. Benzodiazepines like Valium, Xanax, Halcion, ProSom, Klonopin, Ativan, and Librium are referred to as candy, downers, sleeping pills and tranks on the streets. Sleep medications like Ambien, Sonata and Lunesta are referred to as A-minus and zombie pills on the streets.
Today there are so many people who abuse street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs and they're abusing depressant drugs and other medications at the same time to counter act the side effects they're experiencing. It's becoming more and more common for substance users to have more than one addiction that's destroying their lives. Because anxiety, depression, and insomnia are common side effects experienced due to substance use, many users are getting hooked on sleeping pills and other medications to relieve these symptoms they're experiencing too.
Treating Substance Abuse and Depressant Drug Addiction
Treating drug addiction today can be very difficult due to multiple dependence issues and it's more important now than ever before to seek help and not attempt to stop using these substances all at once on your own. When seeking help it's equally important to be honest with your physician or treatment center about multiple drug use, the severity, duration, and exact substances abused.
It doesn't matter whether a person has become dependent on depressant drugs legally by prescription or if they obtain them on the streets and become addicted they should always seek medical advice before stopping their use.
Substance users who abuse or misuse depressants to counter act the side effects of drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth and other dangerous substances not only need to seek medical advice but also seek treatment before they stop on their own. Medical supervision and intensive therapy is needed when treating addiction and multiple addictions can be even more complex to treat.
It's very common today to have become addicted to more than one substance and with the right treatment approach and medical supervision you can recover and remain drug free. The longer a person puts off treatment for substance abuse, dependence or multiple addictions the more dangerous their life becomes. The risk of overdose increases dramatically when combining drugs with depressants to counter act side effects experienced from substance use. The risk of seizures, organ damage, mental health issues, and other effects from drug use continue to increase the longer a person a person uses drugs and the withdrawal symptoms become more intense as well.
Recovering from substance abuse and drug addiction isn't easy but it's a whole lot easier than slowly dying from the effects and symptoms experienced due to abusing them.
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Jerry M. October 24th, 2011
I started taking a CNS depressant, Xanax, for the treatment of anxiety when I was in my late teens. I don't think that my doctor spent a lot of time explaining the potential for physical dependence well enough, because I was really surprised when the drug seemed to stop working and I felt like I had to change my dosage to deal with the problem. The physical withdrawal symptoms were horrendous, and I did not know how to talk to my doctor about it. Instead of understanding what was happening to me, I just figured the pills weren't working anymore. For a while, I just attempted quitting cold turkey but this caused even more problems. Not only did I get a serious case of withdrawal symptoms, but my anxiety worsened to the point where I had to start taking Xanax again.
I struggled with this for a long time before I realized what was really happening to me. I had to work closely with my physician to lower my dosage of Xanax down lower and lower until I could eventually quit taking it. I have started to take a different anxiety medication, and I am having far fewer problems with it than what I experienced with Xanax. Everyone is different and my experience is not inevitable for everyone, but I've learned that it's essential to keep a close eye on how my body is responding to the medications that I am taking so that this never happens to me again.
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Allyson N. October 24th, 2011
I honestly did not realize that you could become as addicted, or worse, to regular medications as street drugs. I've avoided a whole manner of different street drugs all my life to avoid this type of problem, not realizing that the antidepressant medication my doctor prescribed me could cause a similar problem down along the line. After about a year of use I developed a physical dependence on the medication, or at least this is what my doctor called it when I relayed to him how I was feeling. Suddenly my medications were not working in the way that they had before, and I was feeling absolutely miserable both emotionally and physically as a result.
Had I become addicted to my prescribed medications?
I was lucky. I spoke to my doctor about it and asked for help. He told me what was happening and helped me adjust my medication regimen so that I could continue to get the help that I needed without all of the icky withdrawal symptoms. If I had not spoken to my doctor, I would probably be in a really bad place now because I can honestly say I thought about adjusting the dosages of my medication myself, something you are never supposed to do. You should never mess with your own medication. You need to talk to your doctor if you ever end up in the same spot that I was in. You will thank yourself later when you get the help that you need.
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Brandon B. October 24th, 2011
From an early age I learned about drug addiction. DARE taught me that drugs were bad, and just to say no, and to avoid them at all costs. Unfortunately, nobody ever really warns you that the medications your doctor prescribes can cause problems as well. I never thought that taking Valium for my mental health issues was going to exacerbate a completely different problem. The physical dependency I experienced sent me into a tailspin. I thought I needed more and more of the medication to keep me going from day to day, and so I foolishly began to alter the dosage of my own medication. Unfortunately what this meant was that I was making the problem even worse.
I should have talked to my doctor.
I should have asked someone for help.
The withdrawal symptoms were so severe that I overdosed. I ended up in the hospital and this is where I finally learned that a physical dependence can happen over time, and that I needed to have confronted my doctor for help rather than playing with the dosages of my medication. More people need to understand what this physical dependence is so that they can go through the right channels for help instead of experiencing painful and terrible withdrawal symptoms and having to try to deal with the recovery process alone. I highly recommend anyone that is taking CNS depressants like I was speak to their doctor regularly to make sure that everything is working as it should without the potential for a situation like mine.
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Christina Bowlin January 18th, 2013
If I was taking this drug I would think I would be stupid do it because it can kill me or make me sick.
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Corrections and Clarifications: A previous version of this story did not make clear the difference between the number of unemployment assistance claims that had been submitted and the number of people who actually received money in Washington State.
For Cocoa, Florida, residents Christine Powell and her fiance, Robert Hammond, the relentless downward economic drag of the past six months has been suffocating.
First, Hammond was put on medical leave in December after he broke his hand. Then, as the 49-year-old landscaper was about to return to his job, the pandemic hit. Hammond applied for unemployment insurance, but he hasn't received a dime, he said, and no one will answer his or Powell's repeated calls to Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity.
“I felt hopeless,” said Powell, 30, a mother of two who works as a supportive living coach at a behavioral health agency. She, too, suffered a wage cut since the start of the pandemic. Her hours were reduced to just 10 per week, and her income keeps her barely above the threshold to qualify for unemployment.
Without enough money to pay their bills, Powell and Hammond had to sell their flat-screen TVs, her laptop and her children's Xbox. Powell finally had to make a heart-wrenching decision: In May, she pawned her engagement ring.
“I was doing what had to be done to survive,” Powell said, adding that she's angry and frustrated with the unemployment system.
"Someone needs to accept the blame, and it needs to be fixed," Powell said. "It’s not fair to me or the hundreds of thousands of other Americans that are going through this.”
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Gripped by one of the deepest recessions since the 1930s, state governments across the country have to race to catch up with escalating demand for unemployment assistance. Many lacked the technology to deal with the massive wave of layoffs and furloughs, experts said, creating two big issues for their computer systems.
First, there was a surge in people filing for traditional unemployment claims. Then, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act created a federally funded Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program that allows furloughed, self-employed, independent contractors, temporary workers and gig workers to seek benefits – people who didn’t qualify under traditional unemployment.
After more Americans became eligible for unemployment, states had to repurpose their computer systems on the fly, according to Andrew Stettner, a fellow with the Century Foundation.
“It’s created a level of confusion and frustration for a lot of people,” Stettner said. “The challenges have been widespread among states. The volume has been so high that people have struggled to get through.”
Fifty-seven percent of unemployment applications have been paid, according to the Century Foundation, a nonprofit think tank that analyzed the latest available jobless claims and payment data from the Labor Department and Treasury Department from March 1 to May 15.
Expanded benefits have thrown a lifeline to many Americans. The coronavirus relief act provided an additional $600 per week to individuals collecting unemployment, but that’s set to expire at the end of July if Congress doesn’t pass new legislation. Democrats proposed an extension, either at the full or a reduced amount, but some Republicans argue the extra money has encouraged many Americans to remain jobless.
Florida, Georgia lag other states
Washington, Florida and Georgia were among the slowest to pay unemployment claims – with fewer than four in 10 claims being paid, according to the Century Foundation's calculations.
Statistics provided last week by the state of Washington show that 39% of claims have been paid, which is roughly equivalent to numbers provided by the Century Foundation. But once ineligible claims were weeded out and certain claimants were funneled into the PUA program, 71% of all claimants ended up getting their money, according to Nick Demerice, public affairs director for Washington State Employment Security Department.
In Florida, however, Paige Landrum, press secretary for the Department of Economic Opportunity, pointed to a website that shows markedly different numbers from the Century Foundation's results.
The dashboard shows that the Sunshine State received 2.96 million claims since the beginning of the pandemic and paid on 1.66 million of them – a total of 56%. It notes that Florida deemed 1.7 million of the claims to be eligible; therefore, it says it has paid on 97% of eligible claims.
Asked for further comment, Landrum did not respond.
The state of Georgia presented statistics showing it has processed more than 2.8 million claims since the outset of the pandemic, but has paid out on only 820,858, which amounts to less than 30%.
Though Kersha Cartwright, director of communication for the Georgia Department of Labor, acknowledged that looks pretty bad on the surface, she said that’s only because of the peculiar way Georgia has processed claims since the start of the pandemic.
Instead of allowing claimants to proceed from beginning to end, regardless of how much money they earn or how long they've worked, Georgia makes claimants go through the process in two phases. The first phase functions the way the system has always functioned. If claimants have not worked for at least five quarters (three-month periods) and have not made at least $1,134 in two of those five quarters, their claims will be rejected. Once they’ve received that rejection, they can proceed to phase two and apply for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.
It’s all the rejections in phase one that make it look like Georgia hasn't been paying as many claims, Cartwright said, but that's not the case. The bottom line, she said, is more than 90% of eligible applicants have gotten their money.
Across the country, states were initially slow in paying unemployment claims, but the pace of claim payments has accelerated, according to Jay Shambaugh, an economist and director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.
In June, there was a sizable jump in unemployment payments made by the U.S. Treasury. They climbed to $115.7 billion last month, up from $93.7 billion in May and $48.4 billion in April. Those payments were $3 billion in February before unemployment spiked in March.
“It’s clear that very early on during the pandemic, lots of people weren’t getting paid,” Shambaugh said. “As weeks have dragged on, more people have been getting their money. People still facing delays should eventually be getting their benefits.”
No one will answer their calls
Gerald Redding, 41, was one of those people who sought help from the government. He lost his job as a mechanic in Detroit in early March and still hasn’t received any money.
He began the process of seeking unemployment and was fortunate to land another job within a week. Two days before he was scheduled to start, his new employer, Fontaine Modification, a truck service, temporarily shut down its facility because of the pandemic.
Like Powell in Florida, Redding said he couldn’t get anyone from the Michigan Department of Labor And Economic Opportunity to answer his calls for months and he couldn’t claim his weeks on the website.
“The online system is in shambles. I keep getting booted off,” Redding said. He reached out to his governor’s office and state and local representatives to no avail. “Hardworking people are being put through the wringer. We’re struggling, and there are no answers.”
So much time passed that he got called to return to his job in June, but his hours were reduced, and he still qualifies for PUA. He had been working 40 to 82 hours per week. Now the $300 he makes working part-time per week won’t cover all of his bills or food for his family. In Michigan, unemployment maxes out at $362 a week unless Congress approves legislation extending the $600 extra benefit beyond July.
“I’m scared. I’m on the verge of losing it all. I don’t know if I’m going to wake up in the dark, or if there will be an eviction notice on my door,” Redding said. “My family is looking to me as the provider. Sometimes I hide in the bathroom and cry.”
The pandemic exposed weaknesses in the public health and economic systems, the pervasive extent of racial and social inequity and Americans’ low immunity to financial disruption, said Jamie Kalamarides, president of group insurance at Prudential, raising the question of whether financial resilience is truly possible.
“Blacks, Hispanics, women, small-business owners and other minorities have suffered incredibly more than affluent white men during the pandemic,” Kalamarides said. “Society is judged by how we treat those who are less fortunate. We need to rebuild the path to the middle class.”
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Some may have to change careers
Priscilla Miranda of Rosemead, California, doesn’t know whether she’ll have a job to return to once the theme park she works at reopens. The 30-year-old applied for unemployment in March when the park shuttered its doors, but she still hasn’t received any money.
Since then, she’s been forced to deplete the money from her savings account, which will run out soon.
“It’s frustrating,” Miranda said. “I’ll have to start all over again once my savings are gone. I’m not begging for money that’s not mine. Companies have unemployment insurance for a reason. And it’s not being rightfully paid out.”
She sent documents to verify her identity with California's Employment Development Department but never heard back. No one will answer her calls, she said. Miranda can’t log into the system online because the department hasn't sent her an account number, she said.
Miranda, who worked as a stage manager for live shows at a Southern California theme park, doesn’t know whether theater performances will be the same again after the pandemic because of social distancing measures.
“It’s scary. This isn’t a normal 9-to-5 job. I can’t just wear a mask. I don’t know if I’ll ever do this job again,” said Miranda, who has worked in theater since high school. “I don’t have a backup plan. This is all I’ve ever known.”
COVID-19's financial toll
The pandemic reversed nearly three years of financial wellness gains in the USA, and 51% of Americans say their financial health has been negatively affected, according to Prudential’s Financial Wellness Census, a survey provided exclusively to USA TODAY. For many, the impact has been devastating.
About 26% of survey respondents had an income disruption, including furlough, reduced compensation or work hours. Nearly 1 in 5 saw their household income fall by half or more in the months after the outbreak, the data shows.
Of those with job loss or income disruption, 17% lost employer contributions to a retirement plan, 14% lost health insurance and 10% lost group life insurance – ripping away critical elements of their personal safety net.
More than half of U.S. adults saw their finances compromised, and people of color, women, younger people, small-business owners, gig workers and those employed in the retail industry were disproportionately affected.
Alexis Roldan, 20, is one of many Americans falling deeper into debt. The college student, who lives in Orange County, California, had to ask her family for money when she was furloughed in March from her part-time job at retailer Aerie, an American Eagle brand that sells intimate apparel and activewear.
“I'm already in student debt. I don't need to owe my family as well,” Roldan said. “I need this money to survive and eat.”
Roldan, like Miranda, sent documents to verify her identity with the Employment Development Department, but no one will pick up her calls either, she said.
“It’s an absolute nightmare,” said Roldan, who has since returned to work part-time as a merchandise lead at Aerie but still hasn’t received any government benefits from when she was unemployed. “I’ve been told to be patient. But patience doesn't pay my bills. It doesn't pay my rent.”
Gig workers face challenges, too
Rick Suryk, 68, was one of the lucky ones. Suryk, who is retired, is a driver for Uber and Lyft in Belleville, Illinois. He went 16 weeks without getting an unemployment check but received $9,800 in benefits from late March to June.
In March, he was told to apply for traditional unemployment, then get denied, so he could qualify for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. He was a gig worker and wouldn't qualify under typical unemployment, he said.
After six weeks, he was denied, then applied for PUA. Ten weeks went by, and his online account said it was still “pending” for PUA. He couldn’t get anyone on the phone to help him.
“I wanted to rip my hair out!” Suryk said, who had to go back and refile through traditional unemployment.
In a twist of fate, the serpentine belt in his car broke, and his mechanic’s wife, who also worked for Uber and was dealing with her own unemployment issues, gave Suryk a six-digit code that she used to get ahold of a real person at the unemployment office.
Suryk said he feels fortunate that he finally got a real person to talk to him and help him receive his money, but he has concerns about returning to the road.
“It’s nerve-wracking. I still feel at risk catching the coronavirus while driving,” Suryk said. “I could be picking up someone coughing a few feet from me. I would be putting myself in danger.”
Contributing: Michael Braga
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(CNN) -- The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia, but not without a deadly fight, the U.S. Navy reported Tuesday.
The USS James E. Williams ordered pirates to give up their weapons, the Navy says.
When the battle aboard the Dai Hong Dan was over, two pirates were dead and five were captured, the Navy said.
Three wounded crew members from the cargo ship were being treated aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS James E. Williams.
The captured pirates were being held aboard the North Korean vessel, the Navy said.
The bandits had seized the ship's bridge, while the crew kept control of the steering gear and engines, the Navy said.
The Koreans moved against the attackers after the Williams -- responding to reports of the hijacking -- ordered the pirates to give up their weapons, according to the Navy.
When the crew members stormed the bridge, the deadly battle began. After the crew regained control, Navy sailors boarded the Dai Hong Dan to help with the injured.
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The incident took place about 70 miles northeast of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the Navy said.
It is the second incident of piracy reported in recent days. A second U.S. Navy destroyer was searching waters off Somalia for pirates who hijacked a Japanese-owned ship, military officials said.
Over the weekend, gunmen aboard two skiffs hijacked the Panamanian-flagged Golden Nori off the Socotra archipelago near the Horn of Africa, said Andrew Mwangura, a spokesman for the Kenyan-based Seafarers' Assistance Program.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke has been pursuing the pirates after entering Somali waters with the permission of the troubled transitional government in Mogadishu, U.S. officials said Monday. In recent years, warships have stayed outside the 12-mile limit when chasing pirates.
Two military officials familiar with the details confirmed the ongoing operation.
The Navy's pursuit of the pirates began Sunday night when the Golden Nori radioed for help. The Burke's sister ship, the USS Porter, opened fire and sank the pirate skiffs tied to the Golden Nori's stern before the Burke took over shadowing the hijacked vessel.
When the shots were fired, it was not known the ship was filled with highly flammable benzene. U.S. military officials indicate there is a great deal of concern about the cargo because it is so sensitive.
Benzene, which U.S. authorities have declared a known human carcinogen, is used as a solvent and to make plastics and synthetic fabrics.
Four other ships in the region remain in pirate hands, the Navy said.
U.S. and NATO warships have been patrolling off the Horn of Africa for years in an effort to crack down on piracy off Somalia, where a U.N.-backed transitional government is struggling to restore order after 15 years of near-anarchy. See how piracy is worse than 2006 »
On Monday, the head of the transitional government resigned as his administration -- backed by Ethiopian troops -- battled insurgents from the Islamic movement that seized control of Mogadishu in 2006.
Hospital officials reported 30 dead in three days of clashes on the city's south side.
In June, the ship USS Carter Hall fired warning shots in an attempt to stop a hijacked Danish cargo ship off Somalia, but the American vessel turned away when the pirated ship entered Somali waters.
In May, a U.S. Navy advisory warned merchant ships to stay at least 200 miles off the Somali coast. But the U.S. Maritime Administration said pirates sometimes issue false distress calls to lure ships closer to shore. See the warning area »
The pirates often are armed with automatic rifles and shoulder-fired rockets, according to a recent warning from the agency.
"To date, vessels that increase speed and take evasive maneuvers avoid boarding, while those that slow down are boarded, taken to the Somali coastline and released after successful ransom payment, often after protracted negotiations of as much as 11 weeks," the warning advised.
The agency issued a new warning to sailors in the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and Yemen, after Sunday's hijacking. E-mail to a friend
CNN correspondents Barbara Starr at the Pentagon and Christian Purefoy in Nairobi contributed to this report.
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This is why Copthorne Preparatory School will now not take children through to GSCE
Copthorne Preparatory have said they 'will do whatever they can' to help parents make alternative plans for their children's education after they decided to drop plans to takes students through to their GCSE's.
By Mark Dunford
Thursday, 18th November 2021, 11:25 am
Before the pandemic, the school in Effingham Lane, announced it would take pupil;s through to their GCSES, with the first cohort taking the exams in 2026.
But after reassessing their strategy, they have taken away the provision, which children now having to find alternative schools for their GCSEs.
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One parent, who did not wish to be named as their child still goes to the school, called the Crawley Observer with their concerns.
They said: "We chose the school because of how good it was and how it would take our child through to GCSEs. But now we have to go through the stress of finding another school for our child after Year 8.
"We didn't know anything about the change in advance. It's such a shame because it is a lovely school and our child is so happy there."
The school has said they are in close contact with parents and will help them with the alternative plans they will have to make.
A spokesman for Copthorne Preparatory School said: "Before Covid struck Copthorne announced plans to take pupils through to 16, with the first students due to take their GCSEs in 2026.
"Since that decision was taken the pandemic happened – a once-in-a century event that required Governing bodies of all schools to reassess their strategic priorities.
"After a comprehensive review, the school therefore decided to focus its resources instead on a substantial programme of investment in its facilities and infrastructure – something that will cement its position as the leading prep school in the area.
"While this was undoubtedly the right thing to do it was not a decision that was taken lightly, and we recognise that it will disappoint those parents and pupils who had wanted to stay on at the School.
"We are in close touch with them and will do whatever we can to help them make alternative plans for their children’s education."
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If you are a friend or family member of someone diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder (ScAD), you can play a helpful role in that person's life. Understanding as much as you can about ScAD will help you to be as supportive as possible.
What do I need to know about this condition?
ScAD is a lifelong mental illness that causes periodic episodes of mood swings and severe loss of contact with reality (psychosis). It may interfere with personal relationships or normal daily activities. A person with this illness has symptoms of a psychotic disorder (schizophrenia) and a mood (affective) disorder. There are two types based on the mood disorder that is present:
Bipolar ScAD. The person goes through episodes of emotional highs (mania) and emotional lows (depression).
Major depressive ScAD. The person only has episodes of depression
Symptoms of schizophrenia include:
Hearing, seeing, or feeling things that are not there (hallucinations).
Having fixed, false beliefs (delusions). These often involve a person believing that he or she is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or plotted against.
Speech or behavior that is odd or disorganized or does not make sense to others (incoherent).
Symptoms of mood disorders include:
Symptoms of mania, such as increased energy and activity, restlessness, and reckless behavior.
Symptoms of major depression, such as low energy and activity, feeling hopeless or worthless, and loss of interest in activities that used to be enjoyed.
What do I need to know about the treatment options?
ScAD requires long-term treatment. Treatment may include:
Medicines, such as antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, or antidepressants. The exact combination of medicines depends on the type and severity of the person's symptoms.
Counseling or talk therapy. Individual, group, or family counseling may be helpful in providing education, support, and guidance. Many people with ScAD also benefit from social skills and job skills (vocational) training.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This procedure involves applying short electrical pulses to the brain through the scalp to change brain chemicals (neurotransmitters). ECT may be used to treat people with severe symptoms if other treatments are not effective.
A combination of medicine and counseling is usually best for managing this disorder over time.
How can I support my loved one?
Talk about the condition
Good communication can be helpful in supporting your friend or family member. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
Be careful about too much prodding. Try not to overdo reminders to an adult friend or family member about things like taking medicines. Ask how your loved one prefers that you help.
Be patient, listen well, and speak encouraging words.
Be available if your loved one wants to talk. Make an effort to acknowledge his or her feelings.
Find support and resources
A health care provider may be able to recommend mental health resources that are available online or over the phone. You could start with:
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): www.samhsa.gov
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): www.nami.org
Think about joining self-help and support groups, not only for your friend or family member, but also for yourself. People in these peer and family support groups understand what you and your loved one are going through. They can help you feel a sense of hope and connect you with local resources to help you learn more. You could also try family or couples therapy.
General support
Make an effort to learn all you can about ScAD.
Ask your loved one how you can best help him or her. Offer to help with daily responsibilities, such as laundry or meals.
Help your loved one follow his or her treatment plan as directed by health care providers. This could mean driving him or her to therapy sessions or suggesting ways to cope with stress, such as going for a walk together.
Do not argue with your loved one about his or her perception of reality.
How can I create a safe environment?
Create a written crisis plan. Include important phone numbers, such as the local crisis intervention team. Make sure that:
The person with ScAD knows about this plan.
Everyone who has regular contact with that person knows about the plan and knows what to do in an emergency.
Be aware that sometimes there is a risk of violence toward you when a person has schizoaffective disorder. Set limits when it comes to physical or verbal abuse. One thing you could do is tell your loved one that if he or she is getting violent, you will leave and then call the police. Talk ahead of time about your plans for handling violent situations. Doing that will help to make violent episodes easier to manage if they happen.
To lower the risk of violence or suicide during a crisis, remove or lock up guns and other weapons. If you do not have a safe place to keep a gun, local law enforcement may store a gun for you.
How should I care for myself?
Supporting someone with ScAD can cause stress. Be sure to find ways to care for your body, mind, and well-being.
Find someone you can talk to who will also help you develop coping skills to manage stress.
Try different techniques for coping with stress, such as:
Muscle relaxation, meditation, and breathing exercises.
Exercise, even if it is just taking a short walk a few times a week.
Getting the right amount of good-quality sleep.
Try to maintain your normal routines. This can help you remember that your life is about more than your loved one's condition.
Make time for activities that help you relax, and try to not feel guilty about taking time for yourself.
What are some signs that the condition is getting worse?
Warning signs that your loved one's condition is getting worse include:
Clear, sudden change in behavior or symptoms.
Struggling with daily activities.
Increased use of drugs or alcohol.
Not being able to fulfill basic needs (food, clothing, shelter).
Warning signs that your loved one is thinking about suicide include:
Withdrawing from friends and family.
Talking about suicide or searching for methods.
Expressing feelings of being trapped or not having a purpose in life.
Ask a counselor or your loved one's health care provider about when to get help if you are concerned about behavior changes. Privacy laws limit how much a health care provider can share with you without your loved one's permission, but if you feel that a situation is an emergency, do not wait to call a health care provider or emergency services.
Get help right away if:
You are in a situation that threatens your life. Leave the situation and call emergency services (911 in the U.S.) as soon as possible.
If you ever feel like your loved one may hurt himself or herself or others, or may have thoughts about taking his or her own life, get help right away. You can go to your nearest emergency department or call:
Your local emergency services (911 in the U.S.).
A suicide crisis helpline, such as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. This is open 24 hours a day.
Summary
ScAD is a lifelong illness that causes periodic episodes of mood swings and severe loss of contact with reality (psychosis).
Treatment for ScAD is ongoing, and it may include medicines, counseling, therapy, support groups, and social skills or job skills training.
Support that you give to your loved one is an important part of a successful treatment plan.
Make sure to take care of yourself while supporting someone with ScAD. Get help when you need it.
Expect mood swings and behavior episodes, and have a plan for how to help your loved one manage them. If you feel threatened or are worried about your loved one's safety, contact your local emergency services as soon as possible.
This information is not intended to replace advice given to you by your health care provider. Make sure you discuss any questions you have with your health care provider.
Document Released: 05/01/2018 Document Revised: 05/01/2018 Document Reviewed: 05/01/2018
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Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
This is the historic moment when a 30ft whelker sailed into one of Norfolk's previously long-forgotten harbours for the first time in more than six decades.
Salford sailing into Cley Harbour from Chris Taylor Photo / AeroVisuals on Vimeo.
A once thriving place, the port at Cley-next-the-Sea in north Norfolk was one of the busiest in the UK and saw cargoes of grain, malt, cloth, and spices exported and imported to and from Europe.
But over the centuries, siltation and land reclamation led its estuary becoming unnavigable - until now.
Proving that Cley Harbour is still very much open for business, this weekend saw it welcome its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years. The whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company, is best known for its role in the filming of The Personal History of David Copperfield.
Sailor Laura Hampton said she felt 'incredibly proud' following her involvement.
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
'Many years ago, Cley was an incredibly significant port,' she said.
'To re-invigorate the delivery of cargo along the North Norfolk coast is something we all care very deeply about. We want to bring back the golden age of sail, and to deliver more goods sustainably.
'It was a truly historic day.'
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Before 2014, when a group of volunteers joined forces to bring it back to life, all that remained was the narrow River Glaven. Little more than a ditch, it wound its way past the village and its windmill and out to sea.
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Simon Read, chairman of Cley Harbour committee, explained that the event on Saturday October 27 had been a culmination of a lot of hard work by the community of Cley , over the last four to five years, to save the harbour from dereliction.
He said: 'The arrival of Salford timed with the presentation of North Norfolk District Council's environment award for the harbour has set a bench mark for its continued use.
'Cley as a port has been up and running again for the last three years after an initial dredge to clear the harbour of mud, since then it has again become a focus for the village with smaller boats coming and going on the high tides.
'A community project that has involved the whole village.'
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
Cley Harbour welcomes its largest traditional commercial sailing vessel in more than 60 years - the whelker named Salford, from the Coastal Exploration Company. Picture: CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTO - Credit: Archant
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14 Can toothpaste remove stains from clothes?
How do you get a taco stain out?
Mix one (1) tablespoon of liquid dishwashing detergent with two (2) cups of warm water. Using a clean white cloth, sponge the stain with the detergent solution. Blot until the liquid is absorbed. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until the stain disappears or no more stain is absorbed into the cloth.
How do you get dried sauce out of clothes?
Possible agents include hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar applied with a sponge. You can also use lemon juice on white fabrics. Rinse well. Repeat with detergent followed by mild bleaching agent until the stain no longer appears.
How do you get hot sauce out of a white shirt?
mix 1 tablespoon of dishwashing liquid (Dawn is best) with 2 cups of warm to hot water. use a clean, white cloth that is soaked in the solution. sponge the hot sauce stain by applying pressure. continue applying pressure, repeat steps 2 & 3 until the stain disappears.
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What is a good stain remover?
Here are the best stain removers:
Best overall: OxiClean Versatile Stain Remover.
Best on a budget: Fels Naptha Laundry Bar Soap.
Best eco-friendly: Earth Friendly Stain and Odor Remover Spray.
Best for dry-clean-only clothes: K2R Spot Remover.
Best on-the-go: Tide to go.
Does hot sauce stain?
Hot sauce does stain due to the tannins and oils from the fruits and vegetables that it contains. Let’s walk you through the proper next steps to make sure that stain isn’t there forever. Follow each step in order and stop once the stain is removed.
How do you get a sauce stain out?
Mix two cups of cool water with a tablespoon of liquid dish washing detergent. Apply the solution using a clean, white cloth and blot with a dry cloth until the liquid is absorbed. If necessary, repeat the process until the spot is gone.
Does peroxide remove stains?
Remove Stains From Clothes Hydrogen peroxide is a very effective stain remover for protein- and plant-based stains. And it works well in treating mildew, blood, fruit and vegetable, and dye-transfer stains.
Does OxiClean remove tomato sauce stains?
OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover can eliminate even the toughest of tomato sauce or ketchup stains, leaving you free to enjoy grandma’s delicious dinners without worry. Always test OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover on an inconspicuous area first. Rinse, and allow it to dry. Safe on colorfast fabrics only.
How do you get taco sauce out of a white shirt?
Dip a sponge or clean white cloth in distilled white vinegar. Working from the outside edge of the stain toward the center, sponge the stain and then rinse well. Repeat until no more of the stain is transferred from the fabric to the sponge or cloth.
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How do you keep a hot sauce stain out?
If the hot sauce is completely gone, put the clothing in the dryer or hang it up to dry. If there’s still a faint stain, continue treating the garment until it’s gone. Washing the garment in cool water will prevent the stain from setting into the fabric if it isn’t completely gone.
How do you get chili sauce stains out of clothes?
For stubborn stains, rub with heavy-duty liquid detergent. Launder immediately. If color stain remains, soak/wash in chlorine bleach if safe for fabric, or in oxygen bleach. For extra heavy stains, apply dry cleaning solvent to back of the stain over absorbent paper towels.
Does Coca Cola remove stains from clothes?
All you need to do is pop open a can of cola and pour it in with your laundry, along with the normal dose of detergent and run a wash cycle. To fight even tougher stains, apply the cola directly to the stain and let it soak for up to 30 minutes before tossing it in a regular wash cycle.
Will vinegar take out stains?
For stains that are a little tougher to remove, you can either pour vinegar directly onto the stain and let it soak up or rub the vinegar into the stain and let it soak up. Leave to soak for as long as necessary. You can also make a spot treat paste by adding baking soda to a mixture of water and vinegar.
Can toothpaste remove stains from clothes?
Toothpaste Rub it briskly into stains on clothing or carpet. Wash or rinse as usual. Toothpaste is supposed to be good for reducing stains in tea and coffee cups.
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November 11, 2016 - 17:22 GMT Emmy Griffiths Paul opened up about what Mary Berry had to say about him staying with the show following its move to Channel 4
Paul Hollywood's decision to remain as a judge on The Great British Bake Off following its move to Channel 4 was met with controversy, particularly after fellow judge Mary Berry and show hosts Mel and Sue announced their plans to remain with the BBC. However, the 50-year-old judge has now broken his silence on his difficult decision, revealing that Mary approved of his decision.
Speaking at the Good Food Show, he said: "I spoke to Mary about it all the way through and she said 'I would go too if I was your age'."
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Paul is the only member of the original team to stay with the show
Although the baker told the audience that his decision was met with a reaction so strong it was like he had "murdered somebody", he teased that fans should be "pleasantly surprised" with the show after it moves to Channel 4.
"Chapter one is finished but the second chapter is about to begin," he said. "I can't really say too much but none of us were involved in the negotiations. You have the production company and then you have the channel. I always work for the production company… For the new series we will have the same tent, the same crew and the same challenges. I think you will be pleasantly surprised."
Paul revealed Mary supported his decision
Although Mary, Mel and Sue released statements in which they stated they would remain loyal to the BBC, Paul admitted that he had little direct contact with the network. He said: "I have got no direct contact with the BBC. At the end of the day it is all done through the production company. That is where it is all decided. I was so lucky to get that job in the first place. I feel a huge sense of loyalty to the tent and the crew."
Mary has spoken about Paul's move with the show to Channel 4. While attending the National Reality TV Awards, she said: "It's going to be different, but I am sure Paul will carry it on successfully."
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September 23, 2020 - 11:15 BST Francesca Shillcock The new Netflix series has proved popular with fans – but is the central character based on a real person? Find out here…
Ryan Murphy's Ratched has captivated audiences since it landed on Netflix earlier this month. The new series, which stars Sarah Paulson as the lead role, is based on the character nurse Mildred Ratched from the seminal novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, who enters a new psychiatric hospital in California in the hope of seeking employment.
But while the eight-part series has had viewers both hooked and disturbed, many are wondering the origins of the story and main character. So is there any truth behind the show, and was nurse Mildred Ratched a real person? Find out all the facts on the drama below…
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Is Ratched based on a true story and was Ratched a real person?
The series Ratched is based on the origin story of nurse Mildred, who was a central character in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – so Mildred as a character is fictional. However, it is known that the novelist wrote the book based on his own experiences while working the graveyard shift at a mental health facility in California.
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It is also known that Ken based the character of Ratched on a real head nurse he worked alongside at the hospital and described her as a "cold, heartless tyrant" in the book.
Therefore, while Ratched is fictional, she's based on a real person and elements of the book and show are based on real experiences. In the 1972 film, starring Jack Nicholson, nurse Mildred was portrayed by Louise Fletcher and the role won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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What is Ratched about?
The synopsis for the thrilling drama reads: "In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind.
The Netflix show has proved a hit with fans
"On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred's stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born."
Who stars in Ratched?
Sarah Paulson takes on the central character of Ratched and has been hailed for her performance. Alongside Sarah, many other big names appear throughout including Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon as Ratched's love-interest Gwendolyn Briggs.
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Famed actress Judy Davis (Romeo and Juliet, Husbands and Wives) takes on the role of Ratched's rival Betsy Bucket Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone plays the role of Lenore Osgood, while 13 Reasons Why actor Brandon Flyn plays Henry Osgood, her son. British actress Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda, Christopher Robin) stars as Charlotte Wells, a patient at the psychiatric hospital.
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The 38-year-old actor is famous for his dalliances with many A-list women including Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie and Lindsay Lohan but has insisted his lothario days are now far behind him as he's much more interested in raising his two sons, James, 11 and five-year-old Henry.
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The 38-year-old actor is famous for his dalliances with many A-list women including Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie and Lindsay Lohan but has insisted his lothario days are now far behind him as he's much more interested in raising his two sons, James, 11 and five-year-old Henry.
Colin said: "I am a good boy these days. There is not one (woman in my life) - zilch, nada. I have not dated for, ooh, four years now. It's just not happening, what with the work, the kids and my life. I know it's not what people expect to hear, but that's the honest truth."
The 'Phone Booth' star also puts his children down as the reason for him overcoming his drug addiction and living up to "those old expectations", especially James - who he has with Canadian model Kim Bordenave - as he was born with a developmental disorder called Angelman syndrome, which causes severe intellectual and physical disability.
Speaking to Style magazine, Colin said: "(When you have children) it's not all about you any more, which is a relief. It's about a bigger world, and helping them find their place in it. It's not about 'me, me, me, the loudmouth' any more - and that takes the pressure off me to live up to those old expectations."
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Industrial Operations Specialist (Equipment)
Industrial Operations Specialist (Equipment)
Company : U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command
Salary : $43,683 - $76,499 a year
Location : Oklahoma
Full Description
Duties
Plan and execute industrial equipment maintenance, production facility utilization, and equipment installation.
Develop maintenance plans, establish priorities, and timelines using automated systems.
Analyze production maintenance operations to develop methods, techniques and procedures on program effectiveness and efficiency.
Develop short and long-range project plans.
Conduct studies to determine bottlenecks.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
Pursuant to EO 14043, all Federal employees, regardless of duty location or work arrangement, must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by November 22, 2021, or before entrance on duty if after November 22, subject to exceptions as required by law.
If selected, the agency will provide information regarding what documentation is needed and how to request any legally required exceptions from this requirement.
Proof of vaccination will be required. To ensure compliance with this mandate, review the vaccination requirements, to include timelines for receiving required doses, at the following: https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/faq/vaccinations/
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience:
GS-07
One year of specialized experience which includes:
Experience interpreting and applying engineering designs and specifications to determine scope of work, cost, or material requirements;
Experience developing preventative maintenance orders, plans or schedules;
Experience utilizing automated database systems to input, manage and retrieve data, such as Facilities and Equipment Maintenance System, Logistics Modernization Program, or Defense Property Accountability System, and
Experience preparing or implementing work job orders.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05).
OR
Education: One full year of graduate level education in any major field of study which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR
Superior Academic Achievement: Successful completion of all the requirements for a bachelor's degree with Superior Academic Achievement. In order to be creditable under this provision, Superior Academic Achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled. Superior Academic Achievement is based on:
(1) Class Standing - Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses; OR
(2) Grade-Point Average (G.P.A.) - Applicants must have a grade-point average of either (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on your official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum.; OR
(3) Honor Society Membership - Applicants may be considered eligible based on membership in one of the approved national scholastic honor societies listed by the Association of College Honor Societies (https://www.achsnatl.org/).
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) by 18. Add the two percentages.
GS-09
One year of specialized experience which includes;
Experience utilizing knowledge of industrial operations and project planning methods to gather data and translate into plans and estimates of manpower, material costs, work phases, and material requirements for projects,
Experience interpreting and applying construction or mechanical principles and techniques to evaluate facilities utilization and equipment requirements, and
Experience identifying, analyzing and evaluating problem areas.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).
OR
Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in any major field of study which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages.
GS-11
One year of specialized experience which includes;
Experience analyzing facilities utilization and equipment requirements to improve productivity and cost efficiency,
Experience determining equipment, facility, or service deficiencies and appropriate resolutions,
Experience developing equipment and preventive maintenance schedules, and
Experience conducting physical surveys of facilities and equipment.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).
OR
Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in any major field of study which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Additional information
Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
Two year trial/probationary period may be required.
Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
This is a Career Program (CP) 29 - Installation Management position.
Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority for this position. To receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria (2) be rated well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. To be considered well-qualified and receive selection priority applicants must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a score of 90 or above. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website.
If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.
Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
Relocation (Government Home Sale) Expenses are not authorized.
This position may require overtime work.
This position may require shift work and/or work on rotating shifts to cover work performed on weekends, holidays and/or in other situations.
This position may require you to wear personal protective equipment and/or clothing.
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement.
If, after reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.
You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation.
Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Required Documents
As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies.
The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in the Applicant Checklist (External).
As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.
1. Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.
For additional information see: What to include in your resume.
2. Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional
Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
How to Apply
To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section above.
The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 12/07/2021 to receive consideration
To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application (https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/11296720).
Follow the prompts to select your résumé and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process.
You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete.
It is your responsibility to verify that your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accurate, and submitted by the closing date. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.
Additional information on how to complete the online application process and submit your online application may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center.
To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/.
Agency contact information
Army Applicant Help Desk
Website
https://portal.chra.army.mil/hr_public?id=app_inq
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Next steps
If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. Your application package will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking (as applicable) for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your application will receive no further consideration.
Fair and Transparent
The Federal hiring process is setup to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Reasonable accommodation policy
Financial suitability
Selective Service
New employee probationary period
Signature and false statements
Privacy Act
Social security number request
Required Documents
The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in the Applicant Checklist (External).
As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.
1. Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.
For additional information see: What to include in your resume.
2. Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional
Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
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B. Massive earthquakes and tsunamis
C. A complete technological breakdown a la Y2K
Okay, now that we've gone through our Day After Tomorrow doomsday checklist, it's time to examine what actually might happen. In order to do this however, we have to look back in time. Based on geological studies, we know that for the past 20 million years, Earth's magnetic poles have flipped roughly every 200,000-300,000 years. It's been close to 800,000 years since the last reversal, so we're definitely overdue. That said, this flip probably won't happen overnight. In fact, there are estimates that indicate changes in the past have occurred slowly, taking a few thousand years to fully develop. This is both a good and a bad thing. It's good, because if the poles shift slowly, we'll be able to address any unforeseen consequences as they occur, rather than having a bunch of problems dropped into our lap all at once. The problem is, this slow rate of change may leave our atmosphere vulnerable.
Luckily for us, Earth is surrounded by a powerful magnetic field that protects the surface from cosmic radiation. During a geomagnetic reversal however, this field is temporarily weakened, providing less protection against solar flares. If a magnetic reversal occurs, holes in the ozone, like the one in Antarctica, could become the norm. On a positive note, these holes wouldn't be permanent, but their presence would almost certainly correspond with an increase in skin cancer diagnoses due to the abundance of ultraviolet rays that would penetrate our atmosphere. Thankfully though, the amount cosmic radiation that gets through wasn't enough to cause widespread genetic mutations in the past, and claims that magnetic pole reversal is related to mass extinction are spurious at best. While a complete thinning of the Earth's magnetic field would have some serious side effects, it's nearly impossible to predict the degree to which it would be weakened if the poles do flip, if being the operative word.
That's right, despite the fact that Earth's magnetic field's strength has been decreasing for at least the last 160 years, there's a chance that the poles won't flip at all, that the process will be aborted. There is a precedence for this, as a similar phenomenon occurred about 40,000 years ago.
Still, if our poles do flip completely, there will be some consequences. For one, campers and wilderness experts will probably have to buy new compasses. According to Nadia Drake, north will be in Antarctica and south will be somewhere in Canada. The true victims in the event of geomagnetic reversal however, will be migratory animals such as birds and sea turtles. There's a significant chance they'll have a hard time resetting their migration patterns. That said, if the fossil record is to be believed, animals have been able to sort themselves out in the past. There's no reason to believe that today's birds wouldn't eventually adjust to the new polarity.
In the end, the flipping of our magnetic poles sounds much more frightening than it actually is. The worst case scenario is one in which we all wear a little more sunscreen and sales of UV-resistant windows go way up, and there's no telling whether or not this will actually happen. There is one extremely cool benefit of a geomagnetic shift: the Auroras Borealis–a reaction between the sun's particles and our atmosphere– will be visible all over the planet. Whether they'll retain the name "Northern Lights" is a matter of speculation however.
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Nearly three months after Louisville, Kentucky, police shot and killed Taylor in her home during a botched attempt to serve a "no-knock" warrant related to a drug investigation of an entirely different person, activists and allies are using her birthday to rally support for a series of criminal justice reforms intended to make sure what happened to Taylor doesn't happen to anyone else.
Spearheaded in part by writer Cate Young, the campaign to recognize Taylor's life and demand accountability for her death includes a number of concrete steps to not only raise awareness of Taylor's story, but to pressure Kentucky officials to file charges against the officers responsible for shooting Taylor in her home. To date, the three officers involved have been reassigned, but not dismissed or arrested, and the state has opened an investigation into their actions. The FBI has also launched its own investigation into Taylor's death. No charges have been filed.
In a particularly affecting part of the expansive efforts to push for justice for Taylor — which also includes a Change.org petition signed by over 4 million people, as well as a crowdfunding campaign for her family that has raised more than $3 million — activists are also sending birthday cards for Taylor to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, demanding he press charges against the officers involved.
Already a number of high-profile notables have come out to lend their considerable clout to Taylor's cause, including Kim Kardashian West, Charlize Theron, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, civil rights activist Bernice King.
Mourners and activists have also begun combing through Taylor's social media profiles, surfacing heartbreaking accounts to highlight just what her friends, family, and community have lost.
"Working in health care is so rewarding," Taylor, an EMT, wrote in one Facebook post last year. "It makes me feel so happy when I know I've made a difference in someone else's life."
In a tweet sent in February, Taylor mused about what life would have been like had she not moved to Kentucky.
In another tweet posted a few months before that, she simply predicted that 2020 would be "my year."
In an interview with Distractify, Young explicitly tied her efforts to commemorate Taylor and demand justice for her death with the ongoing protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
"I had just been feeling kind of frustrated with how quickly Breonna’s name had fallen out of the news cycle,” Young explained “I think with the protests that have been happening in George Floyd’s name, it kind of got really easy and convenient to forget her."
"But," Young continued, "having been paying attention to the news for the last seven or eight years, I’ve seen this kind of thing happen over and over again, where we enter these periods of increased attention to police brutality against Black people, Black women are among that number, and those Black women’s names just stop coming up in stories."
"I want justice for her," Breonna's mother told The Washington Post in late May. "I want them to say her name."
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In a photo provided by Bahamas Visual Services, Auburn forward Jabari Smith, front, and Connecticut forward Isaiah Whaley (5) reach for the ball during an NCAA college basketball game at Paradise Island, Bahamas, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. (Tim Aylen/Bahamas Visual Services via AP)Tim Aylen/AP
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — No. 22 UConn is holding out forward Isaiah Whaley from Thursday's game against Michigan State after he fainted following a first-round game at the Battle 4 Atlantis.
The team said its medical staff had evaluated Whaley overnight and before the game and decided “it would be best” to give him a day to rest as a precaution, though “all signs look normal.”
Whaley was laying on the sideline in front of the bench immediately after a wild 115-109 double-overtime win against No. 19 Auburn on Wednesday. After a few moments, he was back on his feet with a smile and joined the handshake line.
The school later said Whaley had a “combination of end-of-game excitement, fatigue and dehydration,” leading him to feel lightheaded and dizzy. UConn said its team medical and training staff determined there was no cause for concern.
Whaley had played 43 minutes and later tweeted a joking video about his fainting episode. He was on the bench in street clothes for Thursday's game against the Spartans.
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Jae’Lyn Wither added 11 points for Louisville (4-1) and Malik Williams finished with eight points and 10 rebounds.
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Williamson scored 10 straight points for Louisville during a 21-5 run that made it 29-12 when Dre Davis made a layup to cap the spurt with 4:55 left in the first half. Davis added two free throws and a 3-pointer before Noah Locke made a jumper to give the Cardinals a 20-point lead with 3:21 left in the first half.
Iverson Molinar led Mississippi State (4-1) with 17 points and Tolu Smith scored 10.
Locke, who went into the game averaging a team-high 16.0 points this season and needing just three points to reach 1,000 in his career, finished with two points on 1-of-9 shooting. The senior transfer scored 933 points in three seasons at Florida.
The Bulldogs, went into the game shooting 52% from the field and 45.7% from 3-point range this season, made 20 of 60 from the field and just 1 of 15 from behind the arc.
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Money is the root of all evil. Or is it? While we’ve heard stories of people succumbing to its allure, money is merely a resource or a tool used to purchase products, services, or experiences one needs to function. What makes money dangerous is when people bring in their biases and perspectives to something that is supposed to be neutral. Every one of us has developed a particular relationship with money, whether it comes from a place of abundance, shortage, or just right. That becomes the determining factor in how people decide, act, and prioritize specific goals.
Learning financial literacy, then, is a must-have skill for everyone, especially in making smart long-term decisions compared to impulsive short-term actions. Sadly, the road to being wise with money can be tedious and full of technicalities. The corporate world is fond of its jargon, such as credit scores, bullish stocks, or AAA investments. Anyone will be intimidated and dissuaded from increasing their financial know-how if they are bombarded with unfamiliar terms.
One way to get over this roadblock is by using board games to teach about the foundations of increasing wealth and decreasing debt. Games can improve engagement and retention, which increases learning outcomes compared to reading large blocks of text on the internet. Here are some of the best board games that will help people master their finances:
Income and expenses: Payday
Knowing the ins and outs of a budget is the basic step in managing one’s money. Without it, people will not be able to see where their money is going. Payday helps players visualize the significance of budgeting by stimulating the typical inflow and outflow of funds in a given month. They take turns going around the board and try to deal with bills, mortgage payments, unexpected payments, and surprise cash sources until payday comes on the month’s last day. The game ends when a person amasses a sizable amount of wealth or when most are ready to quit.
Payday helps instill the importance of putting in money monthly to a savings account, as well as having an emergency fund for unforeseen expenses. It won’t be a surprise when players find themselves applying for a debit card at their nearest bank after the game.
Investments: Cashflow
Cashflow is another game that puts players in the corporate working world. This time the focus is on escaping the rat race and never-ending cycle of paying for one’s debt. Players can do this by understanding the power of investments, which can take the form of properties, stocks, and personal business ventures. The game introduces the notion that relying on a monthly paycheck is not enough to become financially free. Another way is to look for ways where you can get passive income streams, which are sources of funding that generate money without much maintenance or substantial action on your part.
Big Picture View: Catan
The Settlers of Catan game brings players back to a time when bartering goods is the primary mode of currency. Money, as the current world sees it, doesn’t exist yet as the past mainly dealt with managing existing resources such as brick and lumber. What makes Catan a great game to teach financial literacy is its ability to showcase the bigger picture of how an economy lives and grows. A balancing act of competition and cooperation is needed in society for the population to increase their level of resources.
For technical topics like financial literacy, experiential learning is more effective in instilling knowledge and developing skills. The aspects of fun, expression, and experimentation found in board games make people more engaged and involved in the learning process.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks about the so-called Heroes Act, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pelosi unveiled a more than $3 trillion coronavirus aid package, providing nearly $1 trillion for states and cities, “hazard pay” for essential workers and a new round of cash payments to individuals. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
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PUBLISHED: May 27, 2020 at 2:06 a.m. | UPDATED: May 28, 2020 at 11:44 a.m.
Throughout America right now, business owners are adapting, overcoming and rising to the challenge of COVID-19. They are reconfiguring their restaurants to allow for more space between diners. They are putting tape on the floor so that customers can stay six feet apart while they shop. They are making sure that their employees have the protective gear that helps their guests stay safe. In short, these entrepreneurs are using the same ingenuity and creativity that got them into business in the first place, getting ready to re-open as soon as they are able.
But these safety measures, while critical, will not be enough on their own to bring the economy even to where it was just a few months ago. The most sophisticated physical distancing policies we implement won’t get customers in the door if they don’t feel safe from COVID-19 or if they don’t have money to spend.
As business leaders, we simply cannot restart and reinvigorate the economy on our own. We need our state and local governments to keep protecting the health and safety of our communities while making it easier for our customers – so many of whom have lost their jobs or seen their hours cut – to get back on their feet and back into our businesses.
For states and cities, however, fighting the health and economic crisis just got much harder. Red and blue, rural and urban; governments of all stripes and sizes are facing devastating revenue shortfalls due to the COVID-19 recession. Even states like California that were in strong fiscal shape before the pandemic now have to consider cuts to essential programs that would play a key role in economic recovery.
The federal government has the power right now to stop these cuts and restore funding for the key services our economy needs to thrive. As members of the California Governor’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery, we were proud to stand with elected officials across the nation and call for $1 trillion in direct and flexible relief for states, tribes and local governments.
Governments need this funding to fight the virus and help reopen the economy.
They need funding to ramp up contact tracing and testing, so that they can contain the spread of COVID-19 in our communities and help customers feel safe about shopping again.
They need funding to help reopen schools, so parents can confidently drop off their children at school and head back to work.
They need funding to keep buying the personal protective equipment that helps keep our workforce healthy and customers safe.
They need funding to protect local farms, farm workers and food processors so that we can maintain the food supply and keep fresh, healthful produce in our communities.
Without federal relief, essential programs – and people – could face cuts that will make our economic recovery even more challenging. Programs like childcare, job training and small business support could be on the chopping block. Some governments may also have to resort to laying off teachers, police officers, firefighters and others who have been acting so honorably during this crisis, leaving them with less money to spend in their communities. Without their business, our businesses will struggle, too.
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In sum, the federal relief will not only protect critical services, ensuring that people will be safer as they go back to work. It will also put money in the pockets of workers and help drive the demand side of the economy. Both are critical to getting California, and in turn the nation, thriving once again.
Now is the moment for leaders to work in the same spirit of collaboration that has helped us fight the virus to date. This issue does not have to be partisan. Every vulnerable life at risk, every first responder striving to defend it, and every person who has put their faith in our collective safety even at great personal sacrifice, are all counting on us to protect lives and livelihoods. Federal support for states and cities will help us do just that.
Don Cameron, Rick Caruso and Sarah Krevans are members of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery. Don Cameron is the General Manager and Vice President of Terranova Ranch, Rick Caruso is the Founder and CEO of Caruso Management, and Sarah Krevans is president & CEO of Sutter Health.
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'Unfinished business': Why Kansas State football's five super-seniors returned for a senior day encore
Arne Green
Topeka Capital-Journal
MANHATTAN — A year ago, as he stood near the Kansas State locker room waiting for his name to be called on senior day, Noah Johnson's heart really wasn't in it.
The spectators at Bill Snyder Family Stadium numbered less than 10,000, a byproduct both of the COVID-19 pandemic and what would soon become a five-game season-ending losing streak. Besides, Johnson had already made a decision in his mind that this would not be his farewell to K-State football or his college career.
Because of the pandemic, the NCAA granted all players an additional year of eligibility and Johnson was all in.
"Last year, I didn't even want to do any senior day stuff because I knew I was going to come back," said Johnson, the Wildcats' starting center and one of 32 seniors who will be honored Saturday, minutes before K-State's 4:30 p.m. kickoff against No. 13-ranked Baylor. "Our family wasn't even allowed to come on the field.
"It was nice, but my parents have come to every game this year and credit to them for everything they've done for me. To be able to share the moment with them (this) weekend is going to be awesome."
Johnson is one of five K-State super-seniors who will get their second bite of the senior day apple, joining quarterback Skylar Thompson, defensive end Bronson Massie, linebacker Cody Fletcher and safety Jahron McPherson. Regardless of the outcome of Saturday's game, they all leave under better circumstances.
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The Wildcats are 7-3, guaranteeing a winning season, and if they extend their current four-game winning streak it also will ensure a winning Big 12 record with just one regular-season game remaining next Friday at Texas. And by beating in-state rival Kansas two weeks ago, they also became bowl eligible for the second time in three years.
"It's kind of weird," Thompson, who last year suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in the third game, said of what also will be his second senior day ceremony. "Especially because last year it was in the back of my mind that I was probably going to come back. So I somewhat had to fake that it was my last one.
"But last year we weren't able to have our families down there, and it was a lot different than it will be this year. So to have a normal ceremony — we have 32 seniors, which is a lot — is awesome. I'll be excited to have my family down there and for sure know that this is my last one, obviously it means a lot, so I'm excited for it."
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Of the five super-seniors, team captains Thompson and Johnson were the ringleaders, in large part because they felt they had unfinished business. Both told their coaches that they intended to come back, though it took a while for word to get out on Johnson, who is not active on social media.
"I just don't have Twitter or Instagram. All the coaches knew, I just didn't post anything," Johnson explained. "Once Skylar got hurt and I knew he was coming back, the more and more I realized that I just want to keep playing football and I want to keep playing football at K-State.
"I kind of always knew deep down and I guess I officially decided the Sunday after we played Texas the last game. I went and met with coach (Conor) Riley and coach (Chris) Klieman and asked if they would have me back. From then on out it was go time."
Once Thompson made his decision shortly after undergoing surgery to repair his throwing shoulder, he went to work on the other seniors.
"I will say I did some recruiting in that aspect," Thompson said. "At the end of the day, I knew everybody's situation was different and guys like Noah Johnson were easy to get to come back.
"It wasn’t a deal that I was going to pressure anybody to make any decisions. It was just throwing it in their mind like, ‘Hey, we have unfinished business, and with the way this season went, we can't walk away with it being this way.’ I couldn't fault them for whatever decision they made, but whoever was deciding to come back, we were going to give it our all for this last year, and we were going to finish on a high note."
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Nobody was more appreciative than Klieman, who also was deeply disappointed with how the 2020 season — his second as K-State's head coach — ended.
“Just in general for the five, I was so happy that they trusted us as a staff, and trusted the culture and trusted what was going on here. That they wanted to finish it on a high note," Klieman said. "Last season didn't go as well as we all wanted for a variety of reasons.
"All those guys, for different reasons, came back, some because they wanted to play with their buddies one more time, some because they have aspirations of playing at the next level (and) some they just love the game. But most importantly, they all love K-State football."
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Thompson, a starter since his redshirt freshman year, has come back after missing two early games with a knee injury to have arguably his most productive season. In the six games since returning from the injury, he has completed 72.2% of his passes for 1,456 yards and nine touchdowns with two interceptions.
In the West Virginia game, Thompson set a school career record with 23 career victories as the starting quarterback, and his 38 starts also are a record. He also is the only player in K-State history to throw for at least 6,000 yards and rush for 1,000 in his career.
McPherson, another team captain, has quietly had a solid season as the leader in K-State's retooled defensive secondary.
His 43 tackles, including six for loss with a sack and a forced fumble, ranks third on the team behind linebackers Daniel Green and Fletcher.
"J-Mac has had a really good year," Klieman said. "When we moved him positions from strong safety to the middle safety, I think it kind of even sparked him a little.
"He's still the leader in the back end. He's the guy that's directing traffic. He's the guy that is breaking guys down. He's a guy that's challenging other people."
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Massie, who has missed two games with an injury, remains a key contributor in the Wildcats' defensive line rotation. He also chose to join the other super-seniors for one last go-round.
"(Last year) wasn't a normal year," Massie said. "A couple of guys like me, J-Mac, Sky-T, Noah Johnson, we called it the 'Revenge Tour' and came back because we just didn't like the way last year ended."
The last of the five to re-up was Fletcher, who has started all but one game at weak-side linebacker, recording 55 tackles, including six for loss, with one sack. Last week, he had his first career interception to help ice the victory over West Virginia.
"Just the opportunity to play one more time here at this place that I love and play alongside Daniel (Green) again, and just be with my friends," Fletcher said of his reason for returning. "These teammates and just the fact that I really believe in coach Klieman and what he brought to the program.
"He's the biggest reason I decided to come back."
All five have contributed to the Wildcats' resurgence.
"I believe all of our sixth-year guys who were seniors have done a great job as far as providing leadership and demanding more out of our teammates, and it's paid off," Thompson said. "I think just having so much experience in the program and game experience and all that type of stuff just pays off over time, and you can't simulate it, so it's been really good for us.”
Klieman agreed.
"I was excited that all those guys came back," he said. "They've all had an impact.
"They're all great leaders, and they're all guys that had a profound impact on the turnaround that we've had this year.”
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The Coalition of homelessness is the organization that clearly states its goals and objectives. In actuality, the problem of homelessness is very important because many people are homeless, while the current economic crisis, especially in the household market, deteriorates the position of homeless people even more. Moreover, the current situation threatens to increase the number of homeless people in the USA.
Therefore, such organizations as the Coalition of homelessness need to development their activities in order to draw the public attention and unite efforts of various organizations and agencies, both governmental and non-governmental to cope with the problem of homelessness. In fact, the major goals and objectives of the Coalition of Homelessness is to eliminate homelessness in the USA or, at any rate, help people who are homeless at the moment. Basically, the organization clearly states its goals and objectives, though it is unclear what organizations and supporters the Coalition of Homelessness actually counts for. Instead, the organization simply appeals to all people and organizations who are working on the problem of homelessness and who are ready to help homeless people. Therefore, the organization implicitly relies on a wide circle of people and organization but it does not precise them. In addition, the ultimate goal of the organization to eliminate homelessness is rather implicit than clearly states. Therefore, it is also possible to argue what the ultimate goals and objectives of the Coalition of Homelessness are.
The Coalition of Homelessness combines both short-term and long-term goals. In actuality, the organization aims at the finding people and organizations who share the similar views and ideals. They aim at the cooperation and effective work with their supporters. At the same time, the organization aims at the elimination of homelessness which the Coalition of Homelessness defines as its major mission. In this respect, it is possible to speak about a long-term perspective. As for short-term goals and objectives, it is possible to speak about the intention of the Coalition of Homelessness to help people who are homeless at the moment. In addition, the organization looks further and develops another long-term goal to help people who are at risk of becoming homeless.
Basically, goals and objectives are manifest since the organization clearly states that its major goals and objectives are to unite efforts of different people and organizations in the struggle against homelessness as well as assist people who are homeless or who can face such a risk of becoming homeless. At the same time, the organization does not clearly set goals and objectives concerning concrete projects. What is meant here is the fact that the Coalition of Homelessness rather sets strategic goals and objectives which are clear and manifest, but it does not pay much attention to the practical goals and objectives. In fact the help to homeless people is rather a latent objective, which needs to be backed up with more concrete goals and objectives, such as the work on projects of construction of shelters for homeless people or something like that. However, in practical terms, goals and objectives of the Coalition of Homelessness are rather latent than manifest.
At the same time, it is important to distinguish clearly objectives and goals of the Coalition of Homelessness. In fact, goals of the organization basically relating to those issues and changes the organization hopes to achieve. Basically, goals rather refer to the intention of the organization than to a definite action plan. In this respect, objectives are totally different. What is meant here is the fact that objectives of the organization refer to definite plans and projects of the organization, which the Coalition of Homelessness wants to achieve and implement in the real life. As a rule, the organization has resources and practical possibilities to implement their objectives in real life, while goals of the organization are mainly oriented on the future developments and projects which are in the process of planning and there is no clear plan of their practical implementation at the moment.
As it has been already mentioned above, the Coalition of Homelessness does not really have concrete projects which have reference to practical sphere. Instead, it has strategic goals and objectives the organization is willing to achieve. Nevertheless, it is possible to speak about the involvement of homeless people in the work of the organization which is apparently a very good objective which can be achieved on the condition that the organization develops specific programs where homeless people can be involved. What is meant here is the fact the strategic ideas of the involvement of homeless people is good because their involvement in the functioning of the Coalition of Homelessness will help them to get integrated into a normal social life. They will acquire important social experience and they will get a new purpose in their life. Moreover, they will be able to form their own community which can protect its interests and solve the problem of homelessness on their own.
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All over the world, the expectations of men from their brides seem to be the same. However, not all men are fortunate to have their expectations met due to the educational background, exposure, cultural history, and above all, the thoughts and beliefs about family (home). What every man desires from their brides is HOME. The home refers to the woman, her entirety, and the kids. Unfortunately, most men encounter a setback in life due to failure to find the right woman to help build the kind of home they are looking for.
Unknown to most people, men can easily be affected by the effects of their home- either good or bad; little wonder, men who have great wives tend to perform better at work than those that are not happy with their wives. Considering different marital settings globally, Russian Ukrainian brides make the best women that meet the expectations of the largest number of men.
What You Should Expect From Russian Ukrainian Brides
There is an endless list of what you can expect from brides from Russia and Ukraine. Consider few of what you can expect from them below:
1. They Are Not Feminists.
With the growth of feminism in most countries of the world, men now are skeptical about dating or marrying a woman who is a core feminist. Meanwhile, Russian Ukrainian brides are brought up in the traditional way that sees men as the head of the family and accords him all due respect. Therefore, you can rest assured that your woman from Russia or Ukraine is a true follower of the family structure handed down culturally by several generations.
They certainly do not have the feminism belief like most women in the Western countries.
2. They Are Raised Traditionally.
Russian Ukrainian brides are brought up in a more traditional way than the female counterparts in other countries of the world. They are committed to their husband and children and prefer to do all chores themselves to hiring an outsider. They believe that it is part of their duties as a wife. They are neither influenced by the Western standard nor motivated to forsake their traditions about the roles of a woman at home.
3. They Are Educated And Intelligent.
Russian Ukrainian brides are not only beautiful but also educated and intelligent. Most of them have the university education and can speak the English Language reasonably. If you are from an Anglophone country, you do not have anything to worry about; your bride can speak, understand, and interact with your family and friends quickly.
4. They Are Family-Oriented.
One of the high points for Russian Ukrainian bride is their orientation about family. They do not only see the man as the head of the family but also love to have and raises kids. They see family complete when they have their own children. Besides, they show a lot of commitment to making their husband and children comfortable and satisfied. Moreover, they relate so well to the family members of their husband and integrate excellently.
5. They Are Beautiful And Feminine.
Russian and Ukrainian ladies are known all over the world to have exquisite beauty. They are supermodels and are gorgeous.
In almost all fields in life, women from Russia and Ukraine are the most beautiful; they are naturally endowed.
Another fact about then is that they appear feminine in all manners. They have different procedures for caring for their face, hair, and skin. And they carefully select their clothes. They look sexy and attractive anytime in their dressing and have a great visual, sensual, and sexual appeal.
6. They Are Supportive.
Russian Ukrainian brides are so understanding that they support their husband in all ways. They usually do not like to burden their husband with requests. They are not afraid to sacrifice to keep the family together whenever there are sensitive issues. Moreso, they rarely ask for a divorce.
What is not to desire about Russian Ukrainian women? They are exceptional in all ways. Whatever expectations you may be looking for in the brides from Russia and Ukraine, you will not be disappointed.
If you are searching for these remarkable Russian Ukrainian brides, click www.russian-ukrainian-brides.com and meet a large collection of beautiful, gorgeous, and exceptional girls, who are waiting to meet you. Join the site, search for your dream bride, date, and get married to the bride that will make your life meaningful.
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Ruby
24 Jun 2020
The simple truth is, every thing depends upon two aspects: using a perfect match and a excellent go with. However, I hope I been able to obvious all of these mysteries for you personally. Certainly, good and wonderful relationships are the type which are a result of a pure adore plus a real wish.
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Coleman
24 Jun 2020
So when a guy, I think that your upcoming partner demands to take into account the same when you. She has to be delighted and powerful in order to be an effective spouse. And I’m sure that once you have wedded your Russian Ukrainian woman, you should have a youngster and this is the reason I really believe that the Russian woman would often be grateful.
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Wood
29 Jul 2020
Unwell buy two!!
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Paul
24 Jun 2020
Where’s the attractive women?
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Lindsey
24 Jun 2020
Hello could you help me to visit im looking for a actual relationship but i dont know where to begin
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Emilie
27 Jul 2020
Whoa that’s shocking
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Chase
24 Jun 2020
Needless to say, you must would like husband being strong and you cannot force him to get something he doesn’t wish to be. Effectively, there are numerous Russian women that do not allow themselves being pressed by gentlemen.
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Kevin
24 Jun 2020
In fact, a lady should be an effective better half because it is very important for any family members to become jointly. Regrettably, in today’s planet women are shedding their identification and that is certainly why they should be taught to get one. The notion of as a good Russian spouse is very important to a woman who wishes in which to stay a family. Just request just a little girl who wants to be considered a doll.
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Paul
24 Jun 2020
This can be another reason why why your marital life will probably be productive – your husband will be a ideal match for yourself and need the identical stuff you want. and correctly.
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Rodriquez
24 Jun 2020
Moreover, a female that has been through plenty of pain and suffering and is also now a great wife, I think, is definitely not prepared to do anything wrong. Believe me, men that spend their entire life within the bed of some huge European internationalist will never ever be a great spouse. And so it is far from the truth for all men.
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Cook
24 Jun 2020
this is certainly what you need to know
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Ola
24 Jun 2020
I m seeking a severe connection
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Lambert
24 Jun 2020
I want popular gf
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Cora
25 Jul 2020
Damn.. it’s exactly like Japan and Korea
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Dustin
24 Jun 2020
Ukrainian folks which i talked to mentioned that all the community ladies are cash feeling hungry wh…s.
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Isabelle
25 Jun 2020
Outstanding
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Cornelia
26 Jun 2020
Before you request your dream wedding event in Russian federation, you should know the all-important details about an ideal Russian Ukrainian bride. To start with, she will need to have some type of an cultural starting point. This may be an advantage as it means you don’t have to provide your very own bride-to-be on her wedding party. And you also don’t ought to put together some thing on her.
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Katharine
27 Jun 2020
Extremely beautiful women
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Moody
28 Jun 2020
Whilst your potential better half can come from an racial backdrop, she ought not only be part of your local local community but also participate in the larger local community of the nation she is going to be getting into much like all visitors usually do. You ought to opt for your groom from one of the members of the conventional Russian family members or group. Once you opt for your husband or wife, your special day will come better. In the following paragraphs, I am going to describe what you should expect from Russian Ukrainian brides.
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Keller
29 Jun 2020
I need a Russian girl for merrege.
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Ortega
30 Jun 2020
they want American citizen glucose daddy!!
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Jonathan
01 Jul 2020
I really like Russian young lady.
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Francisco
02 Jul 2020
A good better half is really a spouse who seems to be eager to please and discover. An incredibly wonderful partner is one who can be an attentive mother for your youngsters. Keep in mind, the kids are the future of your family.
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Newton
03 Jul 2020
I wanna meet up with blonde girl
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Fletcher
04 Jul 2020
For the loved ones, you need to know the overseas measure of the situation. A contented marriage with the ideal loved one will not be one thing quick and easy to attain. It requires effort and time to construct a healthy romantic relationship. So try and help make your spouse sense cherished and highly regarded.
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Ramos
05 Jul 2020
Thank you friends i love ukraine girls
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Mendoza
06 Jul 2020
the Ukrainian girls all fault the men
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Marie
07 Jul 2020
Things you have to know! Ukrainian girls are cheaper’ done! Your encouraged
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Cox
08 Jul 2020
A great Russian girl could be a nice partner but in simple fact, most women are inadequate at it. Your upcoming spouse should know the most important thing to you personally and the ways to become a great spouse.
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Beatrice
09 Jul 2020
becouse if the money runs out the honney runs out
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Lois
10 Jul 2020
Like a guy, I am just not saying that ladies should not discover how to make and sew but the fact is that I believe that excellent Russian girls can be a good partner. That may be, once they consider matrimony initially and that means they are understand all that they could to be a excellent female and not quite a 1.
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Manning
11 Jul 2020
Sugar Toddlers merely wanting for Sugar Daddies. That is all there is certainly on it. Haha.
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Seth
12 Jul 2020
Okay now I want one particular
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Lucinda
13 Jul 2020
They aint single, they still date but look for more money
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Marcus
15 Jul 2020
My mommy was Ukrainian/American along with a wonderful new mother. I am just so pleased my father discovered her. Each have been first age group American. My father’s Belgium new mother imagined he had hitched a peasant! Love won out!
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Jim
17 Jul 2020
Right after view the whole movie, I sensed something which doesn’t makes sense!
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Richard
19 Jul 2020
They consume excessive vodka.
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Myrtle
21 Jul 2020
So she is declaring Ukrainian guys had been MGTOW long before us inside the west…!
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McKinney
23 Jul 2020
Stay away from classic Slavic women unless you need to be smothered by her loved ones. She in no way “leaves” her family members. You practice secondly chair to her family members.
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You are a schoolboy and want to play sports, but your parents are worried that it will have a bad effect? We will prove otherwise. For example, basketball can be just as useful as research paper editing services.
Why basketball?
People who want to strengthen their health with useful training should pay attention to basketball. Today, the basketball section is one of the most exciting and accessible to the people. who want to lead a healthy lifestyle. Simple at first glance, the game with the ball can attract the attention of many spectators and athletes themselves. However, no less important is the question: what are the health benefits of these classes and why basketball?
Techniques and tactics
The process of playing basketball is full of many special techniques that require technical and tactical skills, and the emerging spirit of rivalry provides a stormy interest of the match. In the course of game the person needs to use various groups of muscles for implementation of difficult maneuvering movements, running and high jumps that provides comprehensive development of the athlete. The dynamic process of the game forces players to use their powers wisely, constantly changing the level of their activity. In order to achieve an advantage over the opponent it is necessary to accelerate running at the right moment or to carry out fast and sharp movement with a ball by means of specific jumps and throws. All techniques of basketball perfectly develop reflexes and support muscles of a body in a tone. the constantly changing course of the match motivates the athlete to make strenuous movements in the amount of approximately 40% of the total competition time. Today, in just one competition, the player runs about 7 kilometers, plus performing various jumps, throws and other technical movements.
Endurance and body
Effective basketball creates favorable conditions not only for the development of physical strength of the athlete. Playing with a ball, the person perfectly develops the coordination in the course of motor activity, and also becomes more endurance after long trainings of the respiratory system during sharp stresses, throws, jumps, runs and movements. Movements in basketball force the body to work harmoniously like a clock during the game, so the organs of internal secretion and the digestive system are favorably affected.
Nervous System
The nervous system is subjected to a certain load and development due to constant monitoring of organ activity. A person who plays basketball improves his peripheral vision, which is a big plus, which has a significant impact on the effectiveness of visual perception. Studies have shown that today, regular basketball increases by an average of 40% the sensitivity of visual perception of light pulses. All of the above shows how useful basketball will be for children.
Cardiovascular system
Similarly, basketball helps the body in the development of the cardiovascular system, which occurs due to normalized physical activity. The heart rate of athletes during the match reaches from 180 to 230 beats per minute, with blood pressure not exceeding 180-200 mm Hg.
Respiratory system
Due to the increased frequency of respiratory movements reaches 50 – 60 cycles in one minute with a volume within 120-150 liters during basketball, vital capacity of lungs subsequently increases. The gradual development of the respiratory organs makes a person more energetic and resilient, which has a beneficial effect on health.
We burn calories – we lose weight
Considerable energy costs for one productive game of basketball are about 900-1200 calories. As a result for consumption of which lacks energy working muscles use a considerable quantity of fatty deposits, getting rid of the person of extra kilograms. Slender people in this case continue to strengthen and maintain a great figure. Today, this fact motivates many men and women who are overweight to start health training with basketball, to get a beautiful figure in the process of an exciting game.
Good shape, good health
Some of the exercises of modern basketball are so useful that they have been included in many physical therapy courses. For example, such exercise for basketball as a throw of a ball in a basket develops hands, muscles of legs and a back that can be good prevention of a disease of joints. An interesting and mobile game with constant movement will help weak and sedentary people to feel much better after regular training. Basketball classes will have a positive effect on the development of the body only if the novice athlete has paid enough attention to the initial level of preparation for training.
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Inside Robbie Williams’ £26m Beverly Hills mansion with 22 bathrooms and swimming pool as he struts around in his pants
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ROBBIE Williams has given fans an inside look at his £26million mansion as he wandered around in his underpants.
The 46-year-old singer's Beverly Hills home boasts 22 bathrooms and ten bedrooms.
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Robbie Williams sends fans wild as he wanders around messy house in just his pantsCredit: instagram.com/robbiewilliams
He's isolating there with his wife Ayda Field, 40, and their four children Theodora, seven, Charlton, five, Colette, 18-months, and newborn baby Beau.
But the family-of-six aren't struggling for space in the gigantic Los Angeles mansion.
They've got their own home gym, huge gardens, a tennis court and swimming pool.
While entertaining themselves in lockdown, the family have given fans a sneak peek inside their lavish household where Robbie and Ayda are home-schooling their kids.
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Robbie and wife Adya recorded a hilarious Tiger King-themed video from their living room
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Robbie has a swimming pool in his massive gardenCredit: Instagram
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Robbie at the dining table with baby BeauCredit: instagram.com/aydafieldwilliams
On many occasions the kids have been seen hard at work sat at their 12-seater dining table.
They've also enjoyed lots of quality family time in the living room that has an L-shaped sofa and TV on the wall.
Robbie today shocked fans with an undie-believable new picture that shows him wandering around his messy house in just his Y-fronts - while his cleaner hoovers in the background.
took to Instagram this morning to share the candid snap of himself baring - almost - all in his living room.
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Robbie and Ayda's home boasts a tennis courtCredit: Instagram
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It also has huge gardensCredit: Instagram
Robbie stripped down to his black underpants to show off his array of tattoos scattered across his upper body.
He captioned the post: "Informal Friday x"
Although fans were very pleased with the revealing snap, they couldn't ignore his cleaner in the background, and a few of them wished that they were the lucky lady.
One wrote: "Is it the cleaning woman in the back? If yes: can I be your cleaning woman please? And can you please walk around like that all the time please?"
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Robbie built a folding gate for a pet that's in the backgroundCredit: instagram.com/aydafieldwilliams
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Fans couldn't help but notice the cleaner in the background of his snapCredit: instagram.com/robbiewilliams
Another commented: "Is that a cleaner there Rob watch yourself."
While a third said: "What a lucky cleaner you have!"
David Walliams was among Robbie's celeb fans who poked fun at his attire commenting: "Please release those balls from lockdown."
This isn't the first time the singer has stripped down to his pants to keep himself occupied during lockdown.
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Robbie was also inspired to strip down to his boxers by the Netflix series Tiger King
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He wore the iconic pants in his 2000 Rock DJ video
The singer recently got the pants he wore in his 2000 Rock DJ music video out of storage for a Tiger King inspired workout with his wife.
The pair went through all manner of exercises inspired by Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin for the Instagram post.
While Ayda did most of the workout herself, Robbie strutted from side to side in his pants and a cowboy hat.
The couple recently opened up to The Sun about how they are coping with lockdown in their house in Los Angeles.
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Robbie and his family are isolating in their home in LA
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Robbie has been speaking to his parents every day since the UK were put on lockdownCredit: Getty - Contributor
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Robbie said: "We are incredibly fortunate to be where we are but right now I am also talking for my dad, who is in the bungalow in Stoke-on-Trent and for my mum, who is in a house by herself.
"They’re of that age that is very vulnerable to what is going on, so I am speaking to them on the phone daily."
His wife added: "For us there is the fear because we’ve got a newborn and my mum has health issues, she has Parkinson’s and lupus.
"I know we are incredibly blessed to be living in a beautiful location, not cooped up in a one-bed flat with 30 of us going ape s**t at each other, and not having to scrap and hustle for toilet paper.
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Born in Le Havre in 1947, Tristan Murail received advanced degrees in classical and North African Arabic from the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, as well as a degree in economic science, while at the same time pursuing his musical studies. In 1967, he became a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory, and also studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, graduating three years later. In 1971, he was awarded the Prix de Rome, and later received a First Prize in composition from the Paris Conservatory. He spent the next two years in Rome, at the Villa Medicis.
Upon returning to Paris in 1973, he co-founded the Ensemble L'Itineraire with a group of young composers and instrumentalists. The ensemble quickly gained wide recognition for its fundamental research in the area of instrumental performance and live electronics.
In the 1980s, Tristan Murail used computer technology to further his research in the analysis and synthesis of acoustic phenomena. He developed his own system of microcomputer-assisted composition, and then collaborated with Ircam for several years, where he taught composition from 1991 to 1997, and took part in the conception of the computer-assisted composition program "Patchwork". In 1997, Tristan Murail was named professor of composition at Columbia University in New York, teaching there until 2010.
Again in Europe, he continued giving master-classes and seminars all over the world, was guest professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg for three years, and is currently guest professor at the Shanghai Conservatory.
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Born in Le Havre in 1947, Tristan Murail received advanced degrees in classical and North African Arabic from the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, as well as a degree in economic science, while at the same time pursuing his musical studies. In 1967, he became a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory, and also studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, graduating three years later. In 1971, he was awarded the Prix de Rome, and later received a First Prize in composition from the Paris Conservatory. He spent the next two years in Rome, at the Villa Medicis.
Upon returning to Paris in 1973, he co-founded the Ensemble L'Itineraire with a group of young composers and instrumentalists. The ensemble quickly gained wide recognition for its fundamental research in the area of instrumental performance and live electronics.
In the 1980s, Tristan Murail used computer technology to further his research in the analysis and synthesis of acoustic phenomena. He developed his own system of microcomputer-assisted composition, and then collaborated with Ircam for several years, where he taught composition from 1991 to 1997, and took part in the conception of the computer-assisted composition program "Patchwork". In 1997, Tristan Murail was named professor of composition at Columbia University in New York, teaching there until 2010.
Again in Europe, he continued giving master-classes and seminars all over the world, was guest professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg for three years, and is currently guest professor at the Shanghai Conservatory.
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Simon Proust
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The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) defines a way for a web server to interact with external content-generating programs, which are often referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts. It is a simple way to put dynamic content on your web site, using whatever programming language you're most familiar with. This document will be an introduction to setting up CGI on your Apache web server, and getting started writing CGI programs.
Configuring Apache to permit CGI
In order to get your CGI programs to work properly, you'll need to have Apache configured to permit CGI execution. There are several ways to do this.
Note: If Apache has been built with shared module support you need to ensure that the module is loaded; in your apache2.conf you need to make sure the LoadModule directive has not been commented out. A correctly configured directive may look like this:
LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so
On Windows, or using a non-threaded MPM like prefork, A correctly configured directive may look like this:
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
ScriptAlias
The ScriptAlias directive tells Apache that a particular directory is set aside for CGI programs. Apache will assume that every file in this directory is a CGI program, and will attempt to execute it, when that particular resource is requested by a client.
The ScriptAlias directive looks like:
ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/"
The example shown is from your default apache2.conf configuration file, if you installed Apache in the default location. The ScriptAlias directive is much like the Alias directive, which defines a URL prefix that is to mapped to a particular directory. Alias and ScriptAlias are usually used for directories that are outside of the DocumentRoot directory. The difference between Alias and ScriptAlias is that ScriptAlias has the added meaning that everything under that URL prefix will be considered a CGI program. So, the example above tells Apache that any request for a resource beginning with /cgi-bin/ should be served from the directory /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/, and should be treated as a CGI program.
For example, if the URL http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/test.pl is requested, Apache will attempt to execute the file /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/test.pl and return the output. Of course, the file will have to exist, and be executable, and return output in a particular way, or Apache will return an error message.
CGI outside of ScriptAlias directories
CGI programs are often restricted to ScriptAlias'ed directories for security reasons. In this way, administrators can tightly control who is allowed to use CGI programs. However, if the proper security precautions are taken, there is no reason why CGI programs cannot be run from arbitrary directories. For example, you may wish to let users have web content in their home directories with the UserDir directive. If they want to have their own CGI programs, but don't have access to the main cgi-bin directory, they will need to be able to run CGI programs elsewhere.
There are two steps to allowing CGI execution in an arbitrary directory. First, the cgi-script handler must be activated using the AddHandler or SetHandler directive. Second, ExecCGI must be specified in the Options directive.
Explicitly using Options to permit CGI execution
You could explicitly use the Options directive, inside your main server configuration file, to specify that CGI execution was permitted in a particular directory:
<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/somedir">
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
The above directive tells Apache to permit the execution of CGI files. You will also need to tell the server what files are CGI files. The following AddHandler directive tells the server to treat all files with the cgi or pl extension as CGI programs:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
.htaccess files
The .htaccess tutorial shows how to activate CGI programs if you do not have access to apache2.conf.
User Directories
To allow CGI program execution for any file ending in .cgi in users' directories, you can use the following configuration.
<Directory "/home/*/public_html">
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>
If you wish designate a cgi-bin subdirectory of a user's directory where everything will be treated as a CGI program, you can use the following.
<Directory "/home/*/public_html/cgi-bin">
Options ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
Writing a CGI program
There are two main differences between ``regular'' programming, and CGI programming.
First, all output from your CGI program must be preceded by a MIME-type header. This is HTTP header that tells the client what sort of content it is receiving. Most of the time, this will look like:
Content-type: text/html
Secondly, your output needs to be in HTML, or some other format that a browser will be able to display. Most of the time, this will be HTML, but occasionally you might write a CGI program that outputs a gif image, or other non-HTML content.
Apart from those two things, writing a CGI program will look a lot like any other program that you might write.
Your first CGI program
The following is an example CGI program that prints one line to your browser. Type in the following, save it to a file called first.pl, and put it in your cgi-bin directory.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, World.";
Even if you are not familiar with Perl, you should be able to see what is happening here. The first line tells Apache (or whatever shell you happen to be running under) that this program can be executed by feeding the file to the interpreter found at the location /usr/bin/perl. The second line prints the content-type declaration we talked about, followed by two carriage-return newline pairs. This puts a blank line after the header, to indicate the end of the HTTP headers, and the beginning of the body. The third line prints the string "Hello, World.". And that's the end of it.
If you open your favorite browser and tell it to get the address
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/first.pl
or wherever you put your file, you will see the one line Hello, World. appear in your browser window. It's not very exciting, but once you get that working, you'll have a good chance of getting just about anything working.
But it's still not working!
There are four basic things that you may see in your browser when you try to access your CGI program from the web:
The output of your CGI program
Great! That means everything worked fine. If the output is correct, but the browser is not processing it correctly, make sure you have the correct Content-Type set in your CGI program.
The source code of your CGI program or a "POST Method Not Allowed" message
That means that you have not properly configured Apache to process your CGI program. Reread the section on configuring Apache and try to find what you missed.
A message starting with "Forbidden"
That means that there is a permissions problem. Check the Apache error log and the section below on file permissions.
A message saying "Internal Server Error"
If you check the Apache error log, you will probably find that it says "Premature end of script headers", possibly along with an error message generated by your CGI program. In this case, you will want to check each of the below sections to see what might be preventing your CGI program from emitting the proper HTTP headers.
File permissions
Remember that the server does not run as you. That is, when the server starts up, it is running with the permissions of an unprivileged user - usually nobody, or www - and so it will need extra permissions to execute files that are owned by you. Usually, the way to give a file sufficient permissions to be executed by nobody is to give everyone execute permission on the file:
chmod a+x first.pl
Also, if your program reads from, or writes to, any other files, those files will need to have the correct permissions to permit this.
Path information and environment
When you run a program from your command line, you have certain information that is passed to the shell without you thinking about it. For example, you have a PATH, which tells the shell where it can look for files that you reference.
When a program runs through the web server as a CGI program, it may not have the same PATH. Any programs that you invoke in your CGI program (like sendmail, for example) will need to be specified by a full path, so that the shell can find them when it attempts to execute your CGI program.
A common manifestation of this is the path to the script interpreter (often perl) indicated in the first line of your CGI program, which will look something like:
#!/usr/bin/perl
Make sure that this is in fact the path to the interpreter.
When editing CGI scripts on Windows, end-of-line characters may be appended to the interpreter path. Ensure that files are then transferred to the server in ASCII mode. Failure to do so may result in "Command not found" warnings from the OS, due to the unrecognized end-of-line character being interpreted as a part of the interpreter filename.
Missing environment variables
If your CGI program depends on non-standard environment variables, you will need to assure that those variables are passed by Apache.
When you miss HTTP headers from the environment, make sure they are formatted according to RFC 2616, section 4.2: Header names must start with a letter, followed only by letters, numbers or hyphen. Any header violating this rule will be dropped silently.
Program errors
Most of the time when a CGI program fails, it's because of a problem with the program itself. This is particularly true once you get the hang of this CGI stuff, and no longer make the above two mistakes. The first thing to do is to make sure that your program runs from the command line before testing it via the web server. For example, try:
cd /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin
./first.pl
(Do not call the perl interpreter. The shell and Apache should find the interpreter using the path information on the first line of the script.)
The first thing you see written by your program should be a set of HTTP headers, including the Content-Type, followed by a blank line. If you see anything else, Apache will return the Premature end of script headers error if you try to run it through the server. See Writing a CGI program above for more details.
Error logs
The error logs are your friend. Anything that goes wrong generates message in the error log. You should always look there first. If the place where you are hosting your web site does not permit you access to the error log, you should probably host your site somewhere else. Learn to read the error logs, and you'll find that almost all of your problems are quickly identified, and quickly solved.
Suexec
The suexec support program allows CGI programs to be run under different user permissions, depending on which virtual host or user home directory they are located in. Suexec has very strict permission checking, and any failure in that checking will result in your CGI programs failing with Premature end of script headers.
To check if you are using suexec, run apache2ctl -V and check for the location of SUEXEC_BIN. If Apache finds an suexec binary there on startup, suexec will be activated.
Unless you fully understand suexec, you should not be using it. To disable suexec, simply remove (or rename) the suexec binary pointed to by SUEXEC_BIN and then restart the server. If, after reading about suexec, you still wish to use it, then run suexec -V to find the location of the suexec log file, and use that log file to find what policy you are violating.
What's going on behind the scenes?
As you become more advanced in CGI programming, it will become useful to understand more about what's happening behind the scenes. Specifically, how the browser and server communicate with one another. Because although it's all very well to write a program that prints "Hello, World.", it's not particularly useful.
Environment variables
Environment variables are values that float around you as you use your computer. They are useful things like your path (where the computer searches for the actual file implementing a command when you type it), your username, your terminal type, and so on. For a full list of your normal, every day environment variables, type env at a command prompt.
During the CGI transaction, the server and the browser also set environment variables, so that they can communicate with one another. These are things like the browser type (Netscape, IE, Lynx), the server type (Apache, IIS, WebSite), the name of the CGI program that is being run, and so on.
These variables are available to the CGI programmer, and are half of the story of the client-server communication. The complete list of required variables is at Common Gateway Interface RFC.
This simple Perl CGI program will display all of the environment variables that are being passed around. Two similar programs are included in the cgi-bin directory of the Apache distribution. Note that some variables are required, while others are optional, so you may see some variables listed that were not in the official list. In addition, Apache provides many different ways for you to add your own environment variables to the basic ones provided by default.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
foreach my $key (keys %ENV) {
print "$key --> $ENV{$key}<br>";
}
STDIN and STDOUT
Other communication between the server and the client happens over standard input (STDIN) and standard output (STDOUT). In normal everyday context, STDIN means the keyboard, or a file that a program is given to act on, and STDOUT usually means the console or screen.
When you POST a web form to a CGI program, the data in that form is bundled up into a special format and gets delivered to your CGI program over STDIN. The program then can process that data as though it was coming in from the keyboard, or from a file
The "special format" is very simple. A field name and its value are joined together with an equals (=) sign, and pairs of values are joined together with an ampersand (&). Inconvenient characters like spaces, ampersands, and equals signs, are converted into their hex equivalent so that they don't gum up the works. The whole data string might look something like:
name=Rich%20Bowen&city=Lexington&state=KY&sidekick=Squirrel%20Monkey
You'll sometimes also see this type of string appended to a URL. When that is done, the server puts that string into the environment variable called QUERY_STRING. That's called a GET request. Your HTML form specifies whether a GET or a POST is used to deliver the data, by setting the METHOD attribute in the FORM tag.
Your program is then responsible for splitting that string up into useful information. Fortunately, there are libraries and modules available to help you process this data, as well as handle other of the aspects of your CGI program.
CGI modules/libraries
When you write CGI programs, you should consider using a code library, or module, to do most of the grunt work for you. This leads to fewer errors, and faster development.
If you're writing CGI programs in Perl, modules are available on CPAN. The most popular module for this purpose is CGI.pm. You might also consider CGI::Lite, which implements a minimal set of functionality, which is all you need in most programs.
If you're writing CGI programs in C, there are a variety of options. One of these is the CGIC library, from http://www.boutell.com/cgic/.
For more information
The current CGI specification is available in the Common Gateway Interface RFC.
When you post a question about a CGI problem that you're having, whether to a mailing list, or to a newsgroup, make sure you provide enough information about what happened, what you expected to happen, and how what actually happened was different, what server you're running, what language your CGI program was in, and, if possible, the offending code. This will make finding your problem much simpler.
Note that questions about CGI problems should never be posted to the Apache bug database unless you are sure you have found a problem in the Apache source code.
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Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester it is near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme; it was noted in the 1086 Domesday Book as a village known as Oderesfelt also as Odresfeld; it has been known as a market town since Saxon times; however there has been a settlement in the vicinity for over 4,000 years; the remains of a Roman fort were unearthed in the middle of the 18th century at Slack near Outlane, just west of the town; Castle Hill, a major landmark of the town, was also the site of an Iron Age hill fort.
Huddersfield was a centre of civil unrest during the Industrial Revolution; in a period where Europe was experiencing frequent wars, where trade had slumped and the crops had failed, many local weavers faced losing their means of livelihood due to the introduction of new machinery, which would have condemned them to poverty or even starvation; the Luddites began destroying mills and machinery in response; one of the most notorious attacks was on Cartwright, a Huddersfield mill owner, who had a reputation for cruelty and his Rawfords Mill.
In his book Rebels Against the Future, Kirkpatrick Sale describes how a large army platoon was stationed at Huddersfield to deal with Luddites; at its peak, there were around a thousand soldiers in Huddersfield and only ten thousand civilians; in response, the Luddites began to focus their attacks on nearby towns and villages, which were less well-protected; the largest act of damage that they ever did was the complete destruction of Foster's Mill at Horbury, a village which is about 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Huddersfield.
The government campaign that eventually crushed the movement was provoked by a murder that took place in Huddersfield; William Horsfall, a mill owner and a passionate prosecutor of Luddites, was killed in 1812; although the movement faded out afterwards, Parliament began to increase welfare provision for those out of work and to introduce regulations to improve conditions in the mills.
The town is well known for its important role in the Industrial Revolution, for being the birthplace of the late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who was commemorated by a statue in front of the railway station, and for being the birthplace of rugby league and the Huddersfield Giants, who were founded in 1895 and currently play in the European Super League and Football League.
Huddersfield is a town of Victorian architecture and Huddersfield railway station is a Grade I listed building, described by John Betjeman as 'the most splendid station facade in England' second only to St Pancras, London; the station stands in St George's Square; having been renovated at a cost of £1 million it subsequently won the Europa Nostra award for European architecture.
Attempts by the local council to gain support for city status were rejected by the town's population in an unofficial referendum held by the local newspaper, the Huddersfield Daily Examiner; the council did not apply for that status in either the 2000 or 2002 competitions.
Historically the town produced textiles and is still a manufacturing town, despite the university being the largest employer; the number of people who work in textiles has declined greatly, but those companies which survive produce large quantities of woollen products with little labour.
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created around the same time as 'Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog', the show simply named 'Sonic the Hedgehog' had quite a long complex path to completion. early Drafts (Known on his site as 'Freedom Team' due to large differences, were almost completely different from the final show and featured many characters based on the Western Animal names from Sonic 1, with Tails being missing from the cast. The show seamed (from concept art) to be fairly dark for a kids show and this was quickly changed. The much lighter show idea that was created next featured only three of the characters from the 'Freedom Team' idea, being Princess Sally Acorn (Based on the Animal 'Sally Acorn the squirrel, western version of the Male 'Ricky the squirrel'), Sonic the Hedgehog himself, and Doctor Robotnik. This new lighter version took more changes to the original animal cast, turning the rabbit 'Johnny ' into 'Bunnie Rabot', turning Joe Sushi the Walrus, into 'Rotor the Sea-lion', as well as a few more changes and introduced Tails into the cast.
In this new show, Dr Robotnik had just taken over the planet Mobius from the Good King. Sonic's Uncle Chuck and dog Muttski had been captured by him and turned into mindless Robots. Sonic was planning an attack to get them back when it met Sally, the young daughter of the Good King, who had set up a group of freedom fighters and lived in the underground village of Knothole. Much earlier drafts even included an old man 'Nate Morgan', who was advisor to the good King. A Pilot episode was filmed and a comic was created to spin-off from the show. A number of changes were made from the original pilot and the show was given a much darker tone, along with small character changes (Like Rotor going from a sea-lion to a Walrus, and Antoine going from English to French) and the show ended up as the final version that was produced. 12 Episodes were made and released in the first Series in 1993. Unlike the other show at the same time, this one had a higher budget per episode and was designed as a network show, meaning a story that would carry on, even if not heavy (a bit like but less of a running story, shows like 'The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin' or 'The Flintstones' in it's mid-to late series). After Series one, there were a number of changes to the background story, which while unconfirmed in the first series was very clearly there, for series two. Other changes including minor character design tweaks (Antoine's appearance changed, Sally gained a Jacket, Rotor had a complete redesign and a new voice). Also the show became more story based as a single theme ran though out most of the series, ending up on the cliffhanger episode 'The Doomsday Project'.
The Show was done at DIC and shared Jaleel white was the Voice of Sonic, but he was joined by Jim Cummings (more known as the Voice of Winnie-the-Pooh Bear) as Dr Robotnik, Charlie Adler (Tiny Toon adventures, GI Joe, The Transformers and many others) as his side-kick Snively, Kathie Soucie (Captain Planet, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pryde of the X-men and many others) as Princess Sally Acorn & Rob Paulson (Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles, The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the bible, The Tick and many others) and more as well as regular guest star William Windom (Murder she Wrote, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Farmer's Daughter and many others) and featured many guest stars such as Shari Belafonte (Hotel, Beyond Reality, The Midnight Hour), Tim Curry (The Worst Witch, Clue, Peter Pan and the Pirates and a lot more) & Michael Bell (Challenge of the Super friends, The Incredible Hulk, The Transformers, Spiral Zone and many others).
Due to a mix of the Comic, which was based on earlier drafts but often changed at the drop of a hat, Writers ideas which may or may not have turned out in the end, and fan ideas, a lot of information on this series is often wrong or misinformation and with the spread of the internet, this information seams to take over.
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Kinako Flour is a Powder (substance), powder made by Mill (grinding), grinding raw grains, List of root vegetables, roots, beans, Nut (fruit), nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods. Cereal flour, particularly wheat flour, is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for some cultures. Maize, Corn flour has been important in Mesoamerican cuisine since ancient times and remains a staple in the Americas. Rye flour is a constituent of bread in central and northern Europe. Cereal flour consists either of the endosperm, cereal germ, germ, and bran together (whole-grain flour) or of the endosperm alone (refined flour). ''Meal'' is either differentiable from flour as having slightly coarser particle size (degree of comminution) or is synonymous with flour; the word is used both ways. For example, the word ''cornmeal'' often connotes a grittier texture whereas ''corn flour'' connotes fine powder, although there is no codified dividing line.
Etymology
The English word ''flour'' is originally a variant of the word ''flower'', and both words derive from the Old French ''fleur'' or ''flour'', which had the literal meaning "blossom", and a figurative meaning "the finest". The phrase ''fleur de farine'' meant "the finest part of the meal", since flour resulted from the elimination of coarse and unwanted matter from the grain during milling.
History
The earliest archaeological evidence for wheat seeds crushed between simple millstones to make flour dates to 6000 BC. The Ancient Rome, Romans were the first to grind seeds on cone mill (factory), mills. In 1779, at the beginning of the Industrial Era, the first steam mill was erected in London. In the 1930s, some flour began to be enriched with iron, niacin, thiamine and riboflavin. In the 1940s, mills started to enrich flour and folic acid was added to the list in the 1990s.
Degermed and heat-processed flour
An important problem of the industrial revolution was the preservation of flour. Transportation distances and a relatively slow distribution system collided with natural shelf life. The reason for the limited shelf life is the fatty acids of the Cereal germ, germ, which react from the moment they are exposed to oxygen. This occurs when grain is milled; the fatty acids oxidize and flour starts to become rancidification, rancid. Depending on climate and grain quality, this process takes six to nine months. In the late 19th century, this process was too short for an industrial production and distribution cycle. As vitamins, micronutrients and amino acids were completely or relatively unknown in the late 19th century, removing the germ was an effective solution. Without the germ, flour cannot become rancid. Degermed flour became standard. Degermation started in densely populated areas and took approximately one generation to reach the countryside. Heat-processed flour is flour where the germ is first separated from the endosperm and bran, then processed with steam, dry heat or microwave and blended into flour again.
Production
Flour mill, Milling of flour is accomplished by grinding grain between Mill stone, stones or steel wheels. Today, "stone-ground" usually means that the grain has been ground in a mill in which a revolving stone wheel turns over a stationary stone wheel, vertically or horizontally with the grain in between.
Modern mills
Roller mill#Producing wheat flour, Roller mills soon replaced stone grist mills as the production of flour has historically driven technological development, as attempts to make gristmills more productive and less labor-intensive led to the watermill and windmill. These terms are now applied more broadly to uses of water and wind power for purposes other than milling. More recently, the Unifine mill, an impact-type mill, was developed in the mid-20th century. Modern farm equipment allows livestock farmers to do some or all of their own milling when it comes time to convert their own grain crops to coarse meal for animal feed, livestock feed. This capability is economically important because the profit margins are often thin enough in commercial farming that saving expenses is vital to staying in business.
Composition
Flour contains a high proportion of starches, which are a subset of complex carbohydrates also known as polysaccharides. The kinds of flour used in cooking include all-purpose flour (known as plain outside North America), self-rising flour, and cake flour including bleached flour. The higher the protein content the harder and stronger the flour, and the more it will produce crusty or chewy breads. The lower the protein the softer the flour, which is better for cakes, cookies, and pie crusts.
Bleached flour
"Bleached flour" is "refined" flour with a chemical whitening (bleaching) agent added. "Refined" flour has had the germ and bran, containing much of the nutritional fibre and vitamins, removed and is often referred to as "white flour". Bleached flour is artificially aged using a "bleaching" agent, a "maturing" agent, or both. A bleaching agent affects the carotenoids responsible for the natural colour of the flour; a "maturing" agent also affects gluten development. A maturing agent may either strengthen or weaken gluten development.
Additives
The four most common additives used as bleaching/maturing agents in the US are: * Potassium bromate, listed as an ingredient, is a maturing agent that strengthens gluten development. It does not bleach. * Benzoyl peroxide bleaches, but does not act as a maturing agent. It has no effect on gluten. * Ascorbic acid is listed as an ingredient, either as an indication that the flour was matured using ascorbic acid or that a small amount is added as a dough enhancer. It is a maturing agent that strengthens gluten development, but does not bleach. * Chlorine gas is used as both a bleaching agent and a maturing agent. It weakens gluten development and oxidizes starches, making it easier for the flour to absorb water and swell, resulting in thicker batters and stiffer doughs. The retarded gluten formation is desirable in cakes, cookies, and biscuits, as it would otherwise make them tougher and bread-like. The modification of starches in the flour allows the use of wetter doughs (making for a moister end product) without destroying the structure necessary for light, fluffy cakes and biscuits. Chlorinated flour allows cakes and other baked goods to set faster and rise better, and the fat to be distributed more evenly, with less vulnerability to collapse. Some other chemicals used as flour treatment agents to modify color and baking properties include: *Chlorine dioxide (unstable to be transported in the U.S.) *Calcium peroxide *Azodicarbonamide or azobisformamide (synthetic) *Atmospheric oxygen causes natural bleaching. Common preservatives in commercial flour include: *Calcium propanoate *Sodium benzoate *Tricalcium phosphate *Butylated hydroxyanisole
Frequency of additives
"Cake flour" in particular is nearly always chlorinated. At least one flour labeled "unbleached cake flour blend" (marketed by King Arthur Flour) is not bleached, and the protein content is much higher than typical cake flour at about 9.4% protein (cake flour is usually around 6% to 8%). According to King Arthur, this flour is a blend of a more finely milled unbleached wheat flour and cornstarch, which makes a better end result than unbleached wheat flour alone (cornstarch blended with all-purpose flour is commonly substituted for cake flour when the latter is unavailable). The end product, however, is denser than would result from lower-protein, chlorinated cake flour. All bleaching and maturing agents (with the possible exception of ascorbic acid) have been banned in the United Kingdom. Bromination of flour in the US has fallen out of favor, and while it is not yet actually banned anywhere, few retail flours available to the home baker are bromated anymore. Many varieties of flour packaged specifically for commercial bakeries are still bromated. Retail bleached flour marketed to the home baker is now treated mostly with either peroxidation or chlorine gas. Current information from Pillsbury is that their varieties of bleached flour are treated both with benzoyl peroxide and chlorine gas. Gold Medal states that their bleached flour is treated either with benzoyl peroxide or chlorine gas, but no way exists to tell which process has been used when buying the flour at the grocery store.
Enriched flour
During the process of making flour, specifically as a result of the bleaching process, nutrients are lost. Some of these nutrients may be replaced during refining – the result is known as ''enriched'' flour.
Cake flour
Cake flour is the lowest in gluten protein content, with 6-7% (5-8% from second source) protein to produce minimal binding so the cake "crumbles" easily.
Pastry flour
Pastry flour has the second-lowest gluten protein content, with 7.5-9.5% (8-9% from second source) protein to hold together with a bit more strength than cakes, but still produce flaky crusts rather than hard or crisp ones.
Plain or all-purpose flour
All-purpose, or "AP flour", or plain flour is medium in gluten protein content at 9.5-11.5%(10-12% from second source) protein content. It has adequate protein content for many bread and pizza bases, though bread flour and special 00 grade Italian flour are often preferred for these purposes, respectively, especially by artisan bakers. Some biscuits are also prepared using this type of flour. "Plain" refers not only to AP flour's middling gluten content but also to its lack of any added leavening agent (as in self-rising flour).
Bread flour
Bread flour, or strong flour is high in gluten protein, with 11.5-13.5%(12-14% from second source) protein. The increased protein binds to the flour to entrap carbon dioxide released by the yeast fermentation (food), fermentation process, resulting in a stronger rise and more chewy crumb. Bread flour may be made with a hard spring wheat.
Hard flour
Hard is a general term for flours with high gluten protein content, commonly refers to extra strong flour, with 13.5-16% (or 14-15% from some sources) protein (16% is a theoretically possible protein content). This flour may be used where a recipe adds ingredients that require the dough to be extra strong to hold together in their presence, or when strength is needed for constructions of bread (e.g., some centerpiece displays).
Gluten flour
Gluten flour is refined gluten protein, or a theoretical 100% protein (though practical refining never achieves a full 100%). It is used to strengthen flour as needed. For example, adding approximately one teaspoon per cup of AP flour gives the resulting mix the protein content of bread flour. It is commonly added to whole grain flour recipes to overcome the tendency of greater fiber content to interfere with gluten development, needed to give the bread better rising (gas holding) qualities and chew.
Unbleached flour
Unbleached flour is simply flour that has not undergone bleaching and therefore does not have the color of "white" flour. An example is graham flour, whose namesake, Sylvester Graham, was against using bleaching agents, which he considered unhealthy.
Self-raising flour
In the English-speaking countries, self-raising (or self-rising) flour is commercially available with chemical leavening agents already in the mix. In America, it is also likely to be pre-salted; in Britain this is not the case. The added ingredients are evenly distributed throughout the flour, which aids a consistent rise in baked goods. This flour is generally used for preparing sponge cakes, scones, muffins, etc. It was invented by Henry Jones (baker), Henry Jones and patented in 1845. If a recipe calls for self-raising flour, and this is not available, the following substitution is possible: *1 cup (125 g) plain flour *1 teaspoon (3 g) baking powder *(US recipes) a pinch to teaspoon (1 g or less) salt
Types
Gluten-containing flours
Wheat flour
Wheat is the grain most commonly used to make flour. Certain varieties may be referred to as "clean" or "white". Flours contain differing levels of the protein gluten. "Strong flour" or "hard flour" has a higher gluten content than "weak" or "soft" flour. "Brown" and wholemeal flours may be made of hard or soft wheat. * Atta flour is a whole-grain wheat flour important in Indian and Pakistani cuisine, used for a range of breads such as roti and chapati. It is usually stone-ground to coarse granules, which gives it a texture not easily found in other flatbreads. *Common wheat flour (''T. aestivum'') is the flour most often used for making bread. Durum wheat flour (''T. durum'') is the second most used. * Maida flour is a finely milled wheat flour used to make a wide variety of Indian breads such as paratha and naan. Maida is widely used not only in Indian cuisine but also in Central Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine. Though sometimes referred to as "all-purpose flour" by Indian chefs, it more closely resembles cake flour or even pure starch. In India, maida flour is used to make pastries and other bakery items such as bread, biscuits and toast. * Noodle flour is a special blend of flour used for the making of Asian-style noodles, made from wheat or rice. *Semolina is the coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat used in making pasta, breakfast cereals, puddings, and couscous. * Spelt, an ancient grain, is a hexaploid species of wheat. Spelt dough needs less kneading than common wheat or durum wheat dough. Compared to hard-wheat flours, spelt flour has a relatively low (six to nine percent) protein count, just a little higher than pastry flour. That means that plain spelt flour works well in creating dough for soft foods such as cookies or pancakes. Crackers turn out well because they are made from dough that does not need to rise when baked.
Other varieties
* Rye flour is used to bake the traditional sourdough breads of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Czech Republic, Poland and Scandinavia. Most rye breads use a mix of rye and wheat flours because rye does not produce sufficient gluten. Pumpernickel bread is usually made exclusively of rye, and contains a mixture of rye flour and rye meal.
Gluten-free flours
When flours do not contain gluten, they are suitable for people with gluten-related disorders, such as coeliac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity or wheat allergy sufferers, among others. Contamination with gluten-containing cereals can occur during grain harvesting, transporting, milling, storing, processing, handling and/or cooking. * Acorn flour is made from ground acorns and can be used as a substitute for wheat flour. It was used by Native Americans. Koreans also use acorn flour to make dotorimuk. * Almond flour is made from ground almonds. * Amaranth flour is a flour produced from ground amaranth grain. It was commonly used in pre-Columbian meso-American cuisine and was originally cultivated by the Aztecs. It is becoming more and more available in speciality food shops. *Apple flour is made from milling apple pomace, the solid remains of juiced apples. * Banana flour has been traditionally made of green bananas for thousands of years and is currently popular both as a gluten-free replacement for wheat flour and as a source of resistant starch. * Bean flour is a flour produced from pulverized dried or ripe beans. Chickpea, Garbanzo and vicia faba, fava bean flour is a flour mixture with a high nutritional value and strong aftertaste. * Brown rice flour is of great importance in Southeast Asian cuisine. Edible rice paper can be made from it. * Buckwheat flour is used as an ingredient in many pancakes in the United States. In Japan, it is used to make a popular noodle called soba. In Russia, buckwheat flour is added to the batter for pancakes called ''blinis'' which are frequently eaten with caviar. Buckwheat flour is also used to make Crêpe, crêpes bretonnes in Brittany. On Hindu fasting days (''Navaratri'' mainly, also ''Maha Shivaratri''), people eat food made with buckwheat flour. The preparation varies across India. The most famous dishes are ''Buckwheat, kuttu ki puri'' and ''kuttu pakora''. In most northern and western states the usual term is ''kuttu ka atta''. * Cassava flour is made from the root of the cassava plant. In a purified form (pure starch), it is called tapioca flour (see in list below). * Sweet Chestnut, Chestnut flour is popular in Corsica, the Périgord, and Lunigiana for breads, cakes and pastas. It is the original ingredient for Polenta#Description, polenta, still used as such in Corsica and other Mediterranean locations. Chestnut bread keeps fresh for as long as two weeks.''The Grocer's Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia of Foods and Beverages''
. By Artemas Ward. New York. 1911. In other parts of Italy it is mainly used for desserts. * Chickpea flour (also known as gram flour or besan) is of great importance in Indian cuisine, and in Italy, where it is used for the Ligurian farinata. * Chuño flour is made from dried potatoes in various countries of South America. * Coconut flour is made from ground coconut meat and has the highest fiber content of any flour, having a very low concentration of digestible carbohydrates and thus making an excellent choice for those looking to restrict their carbohydrate intake. It also has a high fat content of about 60 percent. *Coffee flour is flour usually made with either Coffea, coffee cherries or coffee beans. * Corn (maize) flour is popular in the Southern United States, Southern and Southwestern United States, Southwestern US, Mexico, Central America, and Punjab regions of India and Pakistan, where it is called ''makai ka atta''. Coarse whole-grain corn flour is usually called cornmeal. Finely ground corn flour that has been treated with food-grade lime is called ''masa harina'' (see ''masa'') and is used to make ''tortillas'' and ''tamales'' in Mexican cooking. Corn flour should never be confused with corn starch, which is known as "cornflour" in British English. * Cornmeal is very similar to corn flour (see above) except in a coarser grind. * Corn starch is starch extracted from endosperm of the corn kernel. * Glutinous rice flour or sticky rice flour is used in east and southeast Asian cuisines for making tangyuan (food), tangyuan, etc. * Hemp flour is produced by pressing the oil from the hemp seed and milling the residue. Hemp seed is approximately 30 percent oil and 70 percent residue. Hemp flour does not rise, and is best mixed with other flours. Added to any flour by about 15-20 percent, it gives a spongy nutty texture and flavor with a green hue. * Mesquite flour is made from the dried and ground pods of the mesquite tree, which grows throughout North America in arid climates. The flour has a sweet, slightly nutty flavor and can be used in a wide variety of applications. * Nut (fruit), Nut flours are grated from oily nuts—most commonly almonds and hazelnuts—and are used instead of or in addition to wheat flour to produce more dry and flavorful pastries and cakes. Cakes made with nut flours are usually called tortes and most originated in Central Europe, in countries such as Hungary and Austria. * Peasemeal or pea flour is a flour produced from roasted and pulverized yellow field peas. * Peanut flour made from shelled cooked peanuts is a high-protein alternative to regular flour. * Potato starch flour is obtained by grinding the tubers to a pulp and removing the fibre and protein by water-washing. Potato starch (flour) is very white starch powder used as a thickening agent. Standard (native) potato starch needs boiling, to thicken in water, giving a transparent gel. Because the flour is made from neither grains nor legumes, it is used as a substitute for wheat flour in cooking by Jews during Passover, when grains are not eaten. * Potato flour, often confused with potato starch, is a peeled, cooked potato powder of mashed, mostly drum drying, drum-dried and ground potato flakes using the whole potato and thus containing the protein and some of the fibres of the potato. It has an off-white slight yellowish color. These dehydrated, dried, potatoes, also called instant mashed potatoes can also be granules or flakes. Potato flour is cold-water-soluble; however, it is not used often as it tends to be heavy. * Rice flour is ground kernels of rice. It is widely used in Western countries especially for people who suffer from gluten-related disorders. Brown rice flour has higher nutritional value than white rice flour. * Sorghum flour is made from grinding whole grains of the sorghum plant. It is called ''jowar'' in India. * Tapioca flour, produced from the root of the cassava plant, is used to make breads, pancakes, tapioca pudding, a savoury porridge called fufu in Africa, and is used as a starch. * Eragrostis tef, Teff flour is made from the grain teff, and is of considerable importance in eastern Africa (particularly around the horn of Africa). Notably, it is the chief ingredient in the bread injera, an important component of Ethiopian cuisine.
More types
Flour also can be made from Soy flour, soybeans, arrowroot, taro, Typha, cattails, acorns, manioc, quinoa, and other non-cereal foodstuffs.
Type numbers
In some markets, the different available flour varieties are labeled according to the ash mass that remains after a sample is incinerated in a laboratory oven (typically at or , see international standards International Organization for Standardization, ISO 2171 and International Association for Cereal Science and Technology, ICC 104/1). This is an easily verified indicator for the fraction of the whole grain remains in the flour, because the mineral content of the starchy endosperm is much lower than that of the outer parts of the grain. Flour made from all parts of the grain (milling yield, extraction rate: 100%) leaves about ash or more per dry flour. Plain white flour with an extraction rate of 50–60% leaves about . * German flour type numbers () indicate the amount of ash (measured in milligrams) obtained from 100 g of the dry mass of this flour. Standard wheat flours (defined in DIN 10355) range from type 405 for normal white wheat flour for baking, to strong bread flour types 550, 812, and the darker types 1050 and 1600 for wholegrain breads. * French flour type numbers () are a factor of 10 smaller than those used in Germany, because they indicate the ash content (in milligrams) per 10 g flour. Type 55 is the standard, hard-wheat white flour for baking, including puff pastries (). Type 45 is often called pastry flour, and is generally from a softer wheat (this corresponds to what older French texts call ). Some recipes use type 45 for croissants, for instance, although many French bakers use type 55 or a combination of types 45 and 55. Types 65, 80, and 110 are strong bread flours of increasing darkness, and type 150 is a wholemeal flour. * Czech flour types describes roughness of milling instead of amount of ash, though sometimes a numbering system is used, it is not a rule. Czechs determine following four basic types of mill: extra soft wheat flour (, 00), soft wheat flour (, T650), fine wheat flour (), rough wheat flour () and farina wheat flour () * Latin American flour uses roughness of milling as well, being 0, 00, 000 and 0000, where the number of zeroes indicates its refinement. * Polish flour type numbers, as is the case in Germany, indicate the amount of ash in 100 g of the dry mass of the flour. Standard wheat flours (defined by the Polish Committee for Standardization, PKN in PN-A-74022:2003) range from type 450 to 2000.:pl:Mąka#Typy mąki, Polish Wikipedia entry on flour number types In the United States and the United Kingdom, no numbered standardized flour types are defined, and the ash mass is only rarely given on the label by flour manufacturers. However, the legally required standard nutrition label specifies the protein content of the flour, which is also a way for comparing the extraction rates of different available flour types. In general, as the extraction rate of the flour increases, so do both the protein and the ash content. However, as the extraction rate approaches 100% (whole meal), the protein content drops slightly, while the ash content continues to rise. The following table shows some typical examples of how protein and ash content relate to each other in wheat flour: This table is only a rough guideline for converting bread recipes. Since flour types are not standardized in many countries, the numbers may differ between manufacturers. There is no French type corresponding to the lowest ash residue in the table. The closest is French Type 45. There is no official Chinese name corresponding to the highest ash residue in the table. Usually such products are imported from Japan and the Japanese name Zenryufun (全粒粉) is used, or it is called QuanMaiMianFen (全麥麵粉). It is possible to determine ash content from some US manufacturers. However, US measurements are based on wheat with a 14% moisture content. Thus, a US flour with 0.48% ash would approximate a French Type 55. Other measurable properties of flour as used in baking can be determined using a variety of specialized instruments, such as the farinograph.
Flammability
Flour dust suspended in air is explosive—as is any mixture of a finely powdered flammable substance with air (''see'' dust explosion). Some devastating explosions have occurred at flour mills, including an explosion in 1878 at the Washburn "A" Mill in Minneapolis that killed 22 people.
Products
Bread, pasta, Cracker (food), crackers, many cakes, and many other foods are made using flour. Wheat flour is also used to make a roux as a base for thickening gravy and sauces. It can also be used as an ingredient in papier-mâché glue. Cornstarch is a principal ingredient used to thicken many puddings or desserts, and is the main ingredient in packaged custard.
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He tried to put one over on the old lady when saying that he was her lost child because of her immense fortune.
live on
demonstrate
persuade
take in
Choose the word(s) which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The employee's claim of being out with the flu did not seem very plausible because he returned from sick leave with a deep tan.
tactful
vulnerable
inattentive
unreasonable
Choose the word(s) which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Urbanization is the shift of people moving from rural to urban areas, and the result is the growth of cities.
movement
maintenance
variation
transposition
Choose the word(s) which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
‘What I’ve got to say to you now is strictly off the record and most certainly not for publication,’ said the government official to the reporter.
already official
beside the point
not popular
not recorded
The members of the Red Cross were dedicated their whole life to _____ the suffering of human beings.
reduction
reducing
reduce
reductive
The government decreed that the new laws ______ the following month after several discussions.
take effect
took effect
be taken effect
taken effect
We truly respected our father and always _____ by his rule.
submitted
obeyed
complied
abode
You shouldn't lose heart; success often comes to those who are not ______ by failures.
left out
put off
switched off
turned on
Young people are ambitious by nature, so they tend to set their ______ high on whatever they do.
sights
views
visions
eyes
Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.
Lee Kuna Yew was appointed as the first prime minister of Singapore in 1959 when the nation became a self-governing state. At that time, Singapore per 20.1 capitanationalpersonalcapital income was only about USD 400. When Lee 20.2 satsettledsteppedpassed down in 1990, the figure was USD 11,000 and in 2014 it went up to over 56,000, even higher than that of its former colonizer, Great Britain. In his 20.3 autographagendajournalsmemoirs published in 2000, he wrote, 'They laughed at us, but I was confident that we would have the last laugh.'
Born into a middle-class Chinese family in Singapore, Lee was influenced by the language and institutions of the British rulers. He was 20.4 madeorderedscheduledpushed to go to the UK to study law, but the Second World War broke out and he had to go to the local Raffles College where he learned some economics. It was 20.5 not untiltillinfrom 1946 when he talked his way into Cambridge and graduated three years later with a starred first. It was during this time that he nurtured ambitions 20.6 tobeyondoverof starting a legal career back home.
As a prime minister, he has always been described as an efficient and inventive person. He was one of the greatest statesmen who proved to the whole world that human 20.7 propertyabilitysourcesingenuity , not natural resources, is the essential element of prosperity. Lee is also believed to be very forward-looking. When Singapore gained independence in 1965, he decided to keep English as the main language to increase economic benefits. Although many of his policies are still considered 20.8 contradictorydisbelievingskepticalcontroversial , they helped Singapore to overcome many obstacles and become one of the most admired international business and financial centers around the world.
Read the passage then choose the best answer to each question.
While most desert animals will drink water if confronted with it, for many of them the opportunity never comes. Yet all living things must have water, or they will expire. The herbivores find it in desert plants. The carnivores slave their thirst with the flesh and blood of living prey. One of the most remarkable adjustments, however, has been made by the tiny kangaroo rat, who not only lives without drinking but subsists on a diet of dry seeds containing about 5% free water. Like other animals, he has the ability to manufacture water in his body by a metabolic conversion of carbohydrates. But he is notable for the parsimony with which he conserves his small supply by every possible means, expending only minuscule amounts in his excreta and through evaporation from his respiratory tract.
An investigation into how the kangaroo rat can live without drinking water has involved various experiments with these small animals. Could kangaroo rats somehow store water in their bodies and slowly utilize these resources in the long periods when no free water is available from dew or rain? The simplest way to settle this question was to determine the total water content in the animals to see if it decreases as they are kept for long periods on a dry diet. If they slowly use up their water, the body should become increasingly dehydrated, and if they begin with a store of water, this should be evident from initial high water content. Results of such experiments with kangaroo rats on dry diets for more than 7 weeks showed that the rats maintained their body weight. There was no trend toward a decrease in water content during the long period of water deprivation. When the kangaroo rats were given free access to water, they did not drink water. They did nibble on small pieces of watermelon, but this did not change appreciably the water content in their bodies, which remained at 66.3% to 67.2% during this period.
This is very close to the water content of dry-fed animals (66.5%), and the availability of free water, therefore, did not lead to any 'storage' that could be meaningful as a water reserve. This makes it reasonable to conclude that the physiological storage of water is not a factor in the kangaroo rat's ability to live on dry food.
What is the topic of this passage?
Kangaroo rats.
Water in the desert.
Desert life.
Physiological experiments.
The word 'it' in the first paragraph refers to _____.
a living thing
the desert
the opportunity
water
The word 'expire' in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.
become ill
die
shrink
dehydrate
Which of the following is NOT a source of water for the desert animals?
Desert plants
Metabolic conversion of carbohydrates in the body
The blood of other animals
Streams
What is true about the kangaroo rats?
They need high water content to live in the desert.
They search for water by finding desert plants and preys.
They have to eat dry seeds to live in the desert.
They eliminate a small amount of water from their bodies.
According to the passage, the results of the experiments with kangaroo rats showed that _____.
kangaroo rats store water for use during dry periods
kangaroo rats took advantage of free access to water
lack of water made no change in kangaroo rats' weight
a dry diet seems detrimental to the kangaroo rat's health
What happens to a kangaroo rat when he is given water?
The amount of water in his body stays the same.
He immediately drinks the water.
He stores the water in his body for later usage.
The utilization of water gently occurs in his body.
What is the same between the dry-fed animals and kangaroo rats?
their ability to eat plants and search for preys
their ability to live without a water reserve in body
their ability to find free water in desert environment
their ability to access to free water resources
- "How well you are playing!"
- "_____"
Many thanks. That is a nice compliment.
Thank you too much.
I think so. I am proud of myself.
Say it again. I like to hear your words.
Two close friends Tom and Kyle are talking about Kyle’s upcoming birthday.
Tom: “Can I bring a friend to your birthday party?”
Kyle: “______ The more the merrier.”
How come?
Beat me!
Why not?
You bet!
John: "Tom is such a _____ boy. He just do what he wants and doesn't listen to other people's advice."
May: "That's why I don't want to talk to him."
bareheaded
deep-mouthed
bullheaded
cast-off
Jim invited Helen to visit his gardens.
Helen: "I love your gardens. The plants are well taken care of!"
Jim: “Thanks. Yes, I suppose I've always _____.”
had green fingers
let nature take its course
made it down on my luck
drawn the short straw
Anna: "The work is ______ and the deadline is being shortened, and I think I will have to work overtime to finish."
David: "Oh, so sorry to hear that. I wish I could help you but mine is the same."
messing up
livening up
patching up
piling up
Choose the best way to rearrange the following sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation.
a. Did you really like it?
b. Yes. I thought it was excellent.
c. It's nice of you to say that.
d. That was a very good performance!
d-a-b-c
a-b-c-d
d-a-c-b
b-a-c-d
Choose the best way to rearrange the following sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation.
a. Excuse me, but don't I know you from somewhere?
b. That's okay.
c. No, I'm afraid not. You must have me confused with somebody else.
d. Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I made a mistake.
c-b-a-d
d-b-a-c
a-c-d-b
b-c-a-d
Choose the best way to rearrange the following sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation.
a. Great. Let's see it!
b. Sure. What would you like to do?
c. That sounds good. Did you have any particular movie in mind?
d. Well, how about seeing a movie?
e. Well, they say that A Man and His Horse is very good. It's playing at the Rialto Theater.
f. Would you like to get together this weekend?
f-e-a-d-b-c
f-b-d-c-e-a
a-b-c-e-f-d
b-d-e-a-c
Choose the best way to rearrange the following sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation.
a. I think so. Let me see. First, I go to the corner and turn right.
b. Sure. Go to the corner and turn right. Walk two blocks to Main Street. Turn left, walk two more blocks, and you'll see the post office next to the bank. Have you got it?
c. Then I walk two blocks to Main Street. Right? And then... Hmm. I forgot the last part. What do I do after that?
d. That's right.
e. Would you by any chance be able to tell me how to get to the post office?
f. You turn left, walk two more blocks, and you'll see the post office next to the bank.
c-f-b-a-d-e
e-b-f-d-a-c
b-e-d-a-c-f
e-b-a-d-c-f
Choose the best way to rearrange the following sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation.
a. I don't think so. I'd just like a refund, please.
b. I'd like to return this hat.
c. I'm sorry. We don't give refunds. However, we'll be happy to offer you credit toward another purchase in our store.
d. It's too old-fashioned.
e. What seems to be the problem with it?
f. Would you like to exchange it for one that's more stylish?
c-f-b-a-d-e
e-b-f-d-a-c
b-e-d-f-a-c
d-a-e-c-b
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
We thought of buying the pretty wooden house we saw by the river, but then we gave up the idea, as the roof was too damaged.
If the roof had been in better condition, we would certainly have decided to buy the attractive wooden house we had viewed by the river.
Even if the roof of the pleasant wooden house by the river had not been in such a bad condition, we would probably have decided not to buy it once we had really thought about it.
Because of the poor condition of the roof, we decided not to buy the nice-looking wooden house we had looked at by the river and had considered buying.
Although the beautiful house next to the river, which was made of wood, had a broken roof, after looking at it, we still considered buying it.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
In the case of snakebite, if an antidote is given quickly enough after being bitten, the risk to the person of dying is very much reduced.
When people have been bitten by a snake, their chances of survival are far higher if an antidote is administered soon afterwards.
After being bitten by a snake, if enough antidote is given, then the risk to that person of speedily dying is considerably lowered.
The rapidly expanding use of antidotes have made the risk of being killed through snakebites far lower than it used to be.
If an antidote is given too quickly after a person has been bitten by a snake, then there is a slight risk of that person dying from it.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
Because Tsar Nicholas of Russia ruled with such incompetence, he was thrown from power in a revolution.
Tsar Nicholas II lost the power to rule Russia, although the revolution had been badly managed.
Because the revolutionaries found the Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, to be such an unintelligent ruler, they decided to overthrow him.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia would have become able to rule with competence if he hadn’t been removed from power in a revolution.
In Russia, a revolution occurred which removed Tsar Nicholas II from power because he had been running the country so badly.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
Supposedly housing a copy of every book ever published in English, the British Library is a remarkable research facility.
It would be remarkable if the British Library actually had a copy of every English book published all over the world.
Because the British Library has a copy of every possible book in English, it is the ideal place to do research.
There are few books ever published in English that are not found in the British Library, so it is a great place for research.
The British Library is an outstanding place to do research as it is believed to have a copy of every book ever published in English.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
Having put his entire career at stake with his proposal, he nervously awaited the committee's decision.
He waited confidently for the committee to decide about the future of his proposal.
Waiting nervously for the committee’s decision, he realized that they could make or break his career.
He was risking his entire career with his scheme, so he was anxious for the committee’s decision.
The committee was going to decide whether his proposal had been worth’ risking his career for.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
Anne Frank wrote a diary to tell how she spent more than two years in hiding from the Nazis in Holland. Sadly, she died before the war ended.
Anne Frank managed to hide her diary from the Nazis in Holland for a little over two years, but unfortunately, she was eventually caught with it and killed.
Anne Frank’s wartime diary was not found by the Nazis in Holland until more than two years after she had died.
Anne Frank wrote a diary explaining how she hid from the Nazis for over two years in Holland, but unfortunately she died during the war.
Holland is where Anne Frank hid her diary from the Nazis for two years until the end of the war, but then she died.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
In 1848, The river that fed Niagara Falls became frozen. Therefore, it temporarily stopped flowing for more than 24 hours.
1848’s freezing of Niagara Falls lasted over a day when the river feeding it also froze.
The falls in Niagara froze over for one whole day in 1848, causing a stop in the flow of the river it fed.
For over a day, Niagara Falls failed to flow as a result of its supply river freezing over in 1848.
One day in 1848, Niagara Falls froze, and it failed to supply water to the river for a while.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
Howard Carter first looked into Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. He was astonished to see so much gold.
Tutankhamen’s tomb still contained an amazing quantity of gold when it was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
It was a surprising amount of gold that Howard Carter found when he first went into Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922.
Howard Carter was dazzled when, in 1922, he first saw how great an amount of gold was in Tutankhamen’s tomb.
Howard Carter had never seen as much gold as he saw upon first looking into Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
Your blood test results came back negative. However, I think it is a good idea for you to take one again, just to be sure.
You can’t be certain from just one blood test, especially when the results are negative, so you must take another one.
Negative blood test results are never certain, so I think you ought to take another one.
You should take another blood test as this one came back negative, and this time you had better be sure it is the right result.
It is better for you to take another blood test to make things certain, even though the results we got from this one are negative.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
The doctor told you to cut down on how much you eat and start exercising. You should listen to him.
You still haven’t recovered your health because, by eating too much and refusing to take exercise, you are doing the opposite of what the doctor said.
What the doctor said about reducing your food intake and exercising is what you should do, or you’ll remain unhealthy.
You should eat less food and begin a fitness program immediately in order to follow the doctor’s instructions.
The doctor was right in advising you to cut down on your calories and take up sports, because you look so unhealthy.
Read the passage and choose the correct answer.
If you are an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or snarl. (1)______. But there seems little doubt it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastics have brought enormous benefits, even environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental evil – (2)______.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastics are made from oil, gas, or coal- non-renewable natural resources. We consume well over three million tons of the stuff in Britain each year and, (3)______, most of it is thrown away. A high proportion of our annual consumption is in the form of packaging, and this constitutes about seven per cent by weight, of our domestic refuse. (4)______, though the plastic recycling industry is growing fast.
(5)_______. They have a higher caloric value than coal and one method of “recovery” strongly favored by the plastic manufacturers is the conversion of waste plastic into fuel.
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Back in October, I thought I'd try a no-'poo experiment but do it one further: no cleansers at all. No conditioners. No products, natural or otherwise. Just water.
I wanted to see if water alone could keep my face, body, and hair clean. Here are the results of my two-month experiment.
In crunchy parlance, no-'poo refers to forgoing shampoo and conditioner to cleanse one's hair and instead using natural concoctions of baking soda, apple cider vinegar, coconut oil, and the like. I'd already been doing no-'poo or low-'poo for years in Curly Girl terms, which means, literally, no shampoo but still plenty of conditioner (known as co-washing).
I was happy with my current hair regimen, but I was curious to try the crunchier methods. I sort of figured that since I hadn't used harsh shampoos in my hair for years that I already had a good oil level in my hair, and I was skeptical that any other no-'poo routine would serve me better than the conditioner routine I already had set up. But I do love me an experiment (and potentially making myself miserable). And since I was going to experiment, I thought I'd start first with water-only, since that intrigued me even more. Nothing crunchier than plain water, right?
How to cleanse with water only
Here's the thing: Soap and detergent have a purpose. Soap acts as an emulsifier, and detergent breaks the surface tension of water, both of which, essentially, allow water and oil to mix, and thereby let the dirty greasiness on your body be washed away. Or, as Beakman's World helpfully and catchily taught me, soap makes water wetter.
I point this out just to show that: (a) I don't have anything against cleaning agents. They do a job, and they make life easier. Because: (b) If you don't use soap or detergent, you'll want to use some other method of making the water get rid of the things you're trying to clean off your body. Namely: friction.
Here was my routine for water-only washing in the shower:
Stand under warm water spray and get hair and body wet.
Scrub scalp with pads of fingertips.
Use wide-tooth comb to get off any extra dead skin and help pull scalp oils through hair.
Use washcloth to scrub body, paying close attention to scrubbing and rinsing traditionally smell-prone areas (armpits, crotch, feet, yum) and anywhere dead skin tends to build up and get itchy (legs, for instance).
For my face, I usually just rinsed. Honestly, I've been doing water-only washing of my face for a couple years now, so I already knew that worked fine. Sometimes I do a little oil cleansing, but I skipped it for this experiment. I have acne, and I'd already found that less is more when it comes to cleansing my face.
For shaving … well, I'm fine with water-only shaving, actually. I usually do that, or shave dry. And by "often," I mean, I don't shave that frequently. And particularly not in the winter when I was doing this experiment. You'll have to decide what you're comfortable with there.
Rinse well.
(I will point out that I continued to use whatever soap was available to wash my hands throughout the day. I know water-only plus friction can work to kill bacteria, but frankly, I didn't want to risk it.)
Pros of water-only cleansing
There was a freedom in stepping into the shower with absolutely no need for products. It felt almost gleeful, this complete divorce from our culture's obsession with Products to Make You Clean. I could scoff at all the commercials, because I had something no one had to sell me: water. Just tap water and elbow grease.
It alerted me to the possibilities for travel and camping. If you ever forget your toiletry bag or the airline loses your luggage, no worries. If you're out in the wilderness and don't want to pollute the stream, then don't. Just scrub, rinse, done. (Now, when you're traveling, you might actually care how you look, who's going to see you, and what pictures are being taken, so that could limit your insouciance about water-only cleansing unless it's a short trip.)
Water-only washing is very gentle on your skin and scalp. I didn't need any sort of moisturizing, because my natural oils were allowed to stay put.
My body and hair were clean. I want to add some sort of qualifier to "clean," like "technically" or "pretty much." More on that later, but here I'll just say that the basic standards of hygiene were being met. I had no visible dirt, my hair looked like hair (albeit a bit limper), I didn't get sick, I didn't get an invasion of fleas or anything. I was hygienically acceptable. Clean (ish).
I already knew it was theoretically possible to be clean with water-only washing, because it's how we've washed our kids. Mikko and Alrik are both water-only washers for their bodies, and though I had to graduate Mikko early on to conditioner-washing with his mop o' hair, Alrik's hair (such as it is) still just gets a rinse in the tub. They're both clean (right after a bath, anyway!) and non-smelly (barring obvious reasons they might periodically become smelly again). Their skin is soft and healthy. We never need to put moisturizer or other creams on them, and they never complain of itchiness or the like. In short, I already had a great experiment in them to show me that water-only washing is a win … for those of us who have not hit puberty and/or don't care what their hair looks like.
Those last two points were the rub, and why I eventually stopped.
Downsides, and why I stopped
As for puberty, even though, as I've said, Mikko and Alrik are never smelly despite a weekly or so water-only bath, I found that I was. Not just after I showered, but soon thereafter. I'm not used to smelling body odor on myself and my clothes, so I'm guessing that usually soap holds that at bay for me. Water-only washing was just not as effective at long-term cleanliness — or, I guess, technically, long-term unsmelliness.
Presentable, but not inspiring.
My hair was clean enough, but it was never great. The oils weren't overwhelming, but they were present, weighing down my locks, and seriously, my hair doesn't need help being limp. It pulled out the wave and any volume. I don't know that anyone else would have noticed the difference, but I could see the subtle sheen of oils near the scalp, and it just wasn't my favorite look. Second-day (or further-day) hair was a big miss and needed to just be pulled back or up after using a natural-bristle brush to try to move some of the oils down the hair length. By the end of the experiment, I was feeling quite discouraged with how I looked, and it was messing with my self-confidence about going out in public. (That's when I knew it was time to move on.)
The biggest blow to water-only washing was how ungreen it was. I know — that was the big reason I wanted to try it! And my conclusions were that it was worse for the environment (for me). I typically shower every 3-4 days, and my showers last presumably a short to normal amount of time. I have my routine down pretty well, and I have people waiting for me, so I don't dally. With conditioner washing my hair and using organic soap to wash my body, taking brief showers twice a week or so is perfect for me. I'm clean, my hair is manageable, I'm unsmelly.
With water-only, I found myself getting antsy to shower again after just a day. After all, I smelled. My hair was limp. My legs were itchy. And when I'd get in the shower, I'd stay in much longer than you'd think necessary for water-only ablutions, trying to make sure I scrubbed and rinsed as much of the grease, smell, and dead skin away as I could to make the shower's effects last longer. I couldn't help but realize I was using much more water than before, and how could using several times more water be better for the environment than using dabs of organic conditioner and shampoo?
I'll point out, too, that if you've been using conventional shampoos and switch cold turkey to water-only, you'll likely have a detox-type period where your scalp will be pumping out oils (as it's been taught to by the harsh shampoos, to replenish what they've been stripping), and only several weeks in will the production level out.
I'm guessing everyone's experience of water-only washing will be different. I've read from people with thick or unruly hair that they like the extra weight the grease gives. I'd imagine that a short haircut such as on a typical Western male might do just fine, or likewise, very long and thick hair, whereas with my hair, being of a normal weight and at a middling length, it simply pulled out the wave and made it look pretty blah.
I'd imagine other people have different tolerance levels, too, for (a) how often they shower (if you already shower every day, you'd probably not notice much of a difference switching to water-only) and (b) how much they smell (I was surprised that I smelled as much as I did, though Sam said he didn't notice it; I was too embarrassed to ask anyone else!).
Conclusions and recommendations
Ok, these are my opinions, based on my experience with the experiment.
For kids, absolutely give water-only washing a go. It makes things easy and keeps their skin healthy and soft. It works perfectly well, for now, for our kiddos. Mikko does sometimes luxuriate in a bubble bath now, just because he discovered the fun of bubbles, but I appreciate that their skin isn't regularly being stripped of harmless oils at their age. Depending on your kids' hair type (thickness, cut, style), you can try water-only there as well, or you could do some gentle conditioner washing.
For face, definitely try a gentle water-only wash, particularly if you're acne-prone or have other skin conditions. Despite having greasy skin, I find not using cleansers doesn't increase the grease level — quite the opposite. If you use makeup, try to switch to all-natural brands that won't clog pores or hurt your skin if it doesn't all get rinsed off, such as a natural mineral makeup. (I like Everyday Minerals.)
For hair, I next tried the crunchy no-'poo of baking soda and vinegar, which I hope to write about. But (spoiler alert), I still prefer my conditioner-washing method or using Jessicurl's curl-friendly shampoo and other products (giveaway coming soon, I swear; I love this line!).
For body, well, there's a reason soap was invented! I'm back to cleansing with actual cleansers, and I no longer smell. Woo!
Have you ever experimented with water-only washing or other alternative cleansing methods? What do you recommend?
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By Lauren Wayne at 2:02:00 PM
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41 comments:
I'm Katie. said...
I have gone to the crunchy side when it comes to washing clothes, and the perfume-free life is a little jarring. I used baking soda and vinegar to make sure everything is squeaky clean and odor-free, but the lack of perfume is weird, even after months. Knowing that this is a ridiculous standard (like douching used to be- there'd be roses growing on us if we were meant to smell that way!), I suck it up, but other forays into all natural deodorant/no deodorant/no 'poo/no soap have met quick demises. *shrug* I did find that olive oil is a great cleanser for my baby's skin when she's particularly grimy in her neck/armpit folds. *gives self a Participation Award* ;)
July 9, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Unknown said...
Thanks for sharing this experience! I also haven't found the need to wash my 1yo with soap unless she is particularly dirty or to remove sunscreen residue. For myself, I tried to go poo-free, but gave up after about a week because I work in a professional office and couldn't wait the adjustment period. Currently, I wash my hair with an organic shampoo without conditioner and shower about twice a week. I don't use soap though. I just wash with the shampoo suds as they rinse from my hair. I live in Florida, so things can get a bit steamy, but my hubby's never complained that smelly. Usually, when I get out of the shower I put coconut oil on my face, and I do use a moisturizer on my legs after I shave. It makes me feel better knowing that other people find it acceptable to shower less often and not have a bathroom full of products! Thank you!
July 9, 2012 at 5:31 PM
Jackie said...
Thank you for sharing this - it is such a taboo issue among a lot of people I know, and it's great to see someone being so open. Makes me feel a lot less ashamed of my own habits.
I've never tried water-washing my hair - but I do only wash it every 4-5 days. I prefer 2nd (and 3rd and 4th) day hair; it's easier for me to manage. And only having to straighten it every few days helps keep it healthier I think.
As for my body - I rarely use body wash. It's water-only for me. I wash every day (at the sink if I'm not washing my hair) and honestly, I get told I smell *good*! I avoid lotions/perfumes but I do wear commercial deodorant, so maybe people are just loving that "shower fresh" scent. ;)
Like you, I cannot give up my handsoap. Some things just aren't worth risking, haha.
Thanks for making me feel less gross - we all have to do what works for us. For some, it's soap and shampoo; for others, it isn't. There isn't a "wrong" way, in my opinion.
July 9, 2012 at 8:02 PM
Chetana said...
I live in India and I use Green Gram flour mixed with dry turmeric to wash the body. Turmeric is anti-bacterial and the green gram makes your skin fresh and doesn't dry it. Its does not create harmful effluents, so its very eco-friendly. I buy the beans and the turmeric, use a blender to make a fine powder of the beans and blend in the turmeric.
For hair, I am yet to experiment, and I am inspired by your post to try washing it only with the green gram flour sans the turmeric. Will let you know how it goes.
If you are in the US, you can get the flour in any Indian store or you can get the green gram beans and make a fine powder at home with a blender.
Every since my DD was born 2.5 years ago, we have switched to this mix and its been working great for our family.
July 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Chetana said...
turmeric can cause a slight burning sensation on skin, so if you have sensitive skin, please be careful
July 9, 2012 at 8:40 PM
sustainablemum said...
I haven't tried water only but we do not used bought products in our house any more. I wash my hair with bicarb (baking soda?) and cider vinegar, we use oatmeal in a pair of tights and run the water through for our family bath. We wash the surfaces with bicarb, the loo and glass (windows and mirrors) with white vinegar. We have just bulk bought some ingredients to make dishwasher powder. For laundry I use Eco balls or bicarb and vinegar with a few drop of lavender oil. We are still using up the bought washing up liquid so that will be next on the list to 'make'. If my skin feels dry I drink more water and I make my own deodorant.
July 10, 2012 at 1:01 PM
LaChesita said...
I usually do water only for my hair and lovely handmade, all-natural soaps for my skin. If I feel particularly grimy or my hair gets icky looking I'll swipe a wee bit of my hubby's shampoo. When my hair just needs a bit of a refresher, I put a drop or two of essential oil on my hairbrush before running it through my hair. I do use commercial deodorant most days because I have mighty BO. When I'm not doing much, I use a natural crystal deodorant.
July 11, 2012 at 7:19 AM
Melissa said...
I read this blog last night, and I was like "ooh, interesting", and now today I am rethinking it from a daytime-in-the-summer mindset. In the middle of a Northeast summer, sweating my petunias off every day, I can't imagine showering every 4 days, or not using soap for that matter. I last showered yesterday morning, then I cooked breakfast for my daughter, we packed up and went to visit Pepe, went out for lunch, came home to nap, I did 2 loads of laundry, ironed my clothes for work and put makeup on, vaccuumed the house, then the baby was up and I gave her a snack. By then my husband was home from work, so I headed out the door, on the way to my job. Today, up again early to cook breakfast (I wish to god my daughter ate cereal, it would be soooo much easier!) then vaccuumed again (yes, I have 3 cats. So. Much. Cathair.) Then put barbeque chicken in the oven to cook and cooked some corn on the cob for baby to eat for dinner tonight, since my husband and I are both working tonight and I have to have dinner ready for the babysitter. While dinner was cooking (and turning my entire kitchen into an oven) I started folding my MOUND of laundry, with the baby trying to "help". Now the baby is napping and I have to go iron clothes for my husband and I for work, and I am literally a giant sweating greasy mess. It's been 80+ degrees around here, and I am HOT. It's actually not too muggy right now, which is nice, but if it were muggy I'd probably put the AC on and wouldn't be so sweaty. So the nicer weather actually makes me more sweaty and gross. Go figure. There's no way I could not shower at all, and just rinsing with water would definitely not get the job done. I'm not trying to criticize or sound like I'm busier than others (I only have 1 kid, I know other moms are way busier), but I just can't imagine how someone can shower so infrequently! What does your day look like that you aren't all gross and sweaty in the middle of the summer? How do you do it?
July 12, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@See Kate run.: Your Participation Award is making me grin. :)
The biggest confusion for me was going from dryer sheets to wool dryer balls. I bridged the gap by having the dryer balls scented at first with essential oils, but it was still jarring, as you say, not to smell anything on my clothes. Just … nothing, which is to say, clean. I've gotten used to it now, though, and when we were traveling picked up a body wash and was overwhelmed by the fragrance.
July 12, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@Unknown: The adjustment period is a pain! I'm always glad, too, to hear from other people who limit their hygiene down from what our culture says is the minimum.
July 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@Jackie: "Thanks for making me feel less gross - we all have to do what works for us. For some, it's soap and shampoo; for others, it isn't. There isn't a "wrong" way, in my opinion."
Yup, absolutely. Everyone has to figure out what works for their body chemistry and lifestyle.
July 12, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@Chetana: That's so interesting. I never knew you could wash with those ingredients. I'd love to hear how it goes for your hair, too, if you try it! I'm assuming you don't use the turmeric on your face if it causes a slight burning — do you use the green gram flour?
July 12, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@sustainablemum: That's so inspiring. I'm making a move away from many store-bought products, but you're way ahead! :) I'd like to learn to make our own laundry and dishwashing detergents and bought some of the ingredients.
July 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@LaChesita: I was using a crystal deodorant in the winter and spring (a giveaway win from a lovely fellow blogger) and it worked great. But now that it's finally hot here, I chickened out and went back to my conventional deo, since I was planning to use it up at some point anyway. I am curious, though — maybe I should switch back and try it…
I love your idea of using essential oil on a hairbrush. Sounds heavenly! I'll have to try that.
July 12, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@Melissa: Oh, I definitely think you have to shower/soap as often as works for your day and climate! I'll point out a couple things for me. First of all, I did the experiment in October-December. Secondly, I live in the Pacific Northwest, and it's just now decided to turn summer here. Regardless, it doesn't often get too hot and typically not very humid. Now, for the people who are in Florida or wherever and still say they don't shower often, maybe they use more A/C? Or maybe sweat just doesn't bother them.
I'll be honest and risk grossing people out some more (heh heh), but even after I sweat (like, after a run or ballet class), I'm not likely to hop in the shower. Once it dries, it's dry, and I don't find I'm smelly. I really think that's a body chemistry thing — some people are more prone to b.o., and some not. And some of us have been conditioned to believe we must be smelly just because we've been sweating. But if you are uncomfortable and hot, then definitely shower! I used to live in Indiana, and jumping in a lukewarm or cool shower was sometimes all that saved me in the summers.
P.S. I always think it's interesting to hear what other parents do! Here are some other day-in-the-life posts if you want to browse some other experiences. I should write a proper one sometime myself.
July 12, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Inder-ific said...
I love these experiments that you conduct! It's so interesting to read about them. BTW, I've been doing less shampoo and more conditioner on my little guy's curly head, and it's working AWESOME. I was shampooing periodically with Selsun Blue to address his eczema (he also gets a good amount of goo on his little bod for this reason), but doing it every 2 weeks instead of every week doesn't seem to make that big a difference. So that has been great. :-)
July 14, 2012 at 1:47 PM
slightlycrunchy said...
I only wash my hair once a week because its too long and thick to bother washing it more than that!! I tried bicarb and cider vinegar for a while but y scalp got really itchy... I'd like to try it again but I'm not sure where I went wrong. Does anyone have any tips to avoid the itch?
July 18, 2012 at 6:44 AM
Lindsay said...
I had terrible results with crystal deodorant and all the other natural deodorants I tried-I smelled and felt like I used nothing except for the Tom's of Maine's which gave me a rash, and an $18 Lavanila kind at Sephora that I can't justify the expense of. Seriously, whole experiment was one fail after another. But then after I gave up, I saw some Arm & Hammer naturals deodorant. It's not as natural as say using just baking soda, but it has no parabens or aluminum, is baking soda based, and actually prevents pit stains and odor in most conditions (other than like running a 5k on a 90 degree heat or things like that no deodorant can beat). Anyway, that's my suggestion for a giving up deodorant without having to completely give up. I was so glad I found it! (and it's like $2)
August 22, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Jenny said...
I have to really scrub and generously apply deodorant crystal to not smell stinky, and even then I do by the end of the day. I am so jealous of naturally non-stinky people who don't have to work at it! Then again, I am in South Carolina where it's very hot and humid.
Have you ever tried Norwex? They are a company that makes microfiber cleaning cloths with silver woven into them. Not only household cleaning cloths (great for the kitchen, bathroom, etc) but also BODY cloths. I don't use mine on my body because I heart soap; however, they are perfect for washing my face and they do an awesome job of getting my eyeliner off! I can try scrubbing off the eyeliner with soap, it'll still be there, and then the Norwex cloth takes it right off. It's great.
August 22, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Megan said...
I switched to a goat's milk deodorant that I bought at the farmer's market, and as long as I'm careful with it, it works really well. If I put too much on it can make my clothes greasy and then it doesn't come out :(. I have been considering honey as a facial cleanser, and also thought about no poo, but that adjustment period is a scary proposition.
The only non-natural home cleanser I use is chlorox wipes, but they're probably the least eco-friendly so I'm planning to make up a bunch of cleaning cloths and store them in an old wipes container with vinegar water.
I would suggest to anyone with acne, though, to try going gluten free for at least three months and see if that helps. I have been gluten free for almost a year now, and my skin looks so much clearer than it did before. I still get comments (from people who've known me for a while) about how great my skin looks. Another side benefit was that I lost weight - and I am not a calorie counter, and I do not work out or intentionally exercise. It was just from cutting out gluten. The only tough part was finding gluten-free options when eating at a restaurant.
Anyway, back to the original topic! Has anyone tries brushing their teeth with salt? The flavor of baking soda makes me gag and I have to admit, I'm partial to the non-natural flavor of orange crest...
August 22, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Unknown said...
@See Kate run.
I had a similar problem, except for me it wasn't perfumes, but suds. It took me a long time to really grasp that sudding wasn't SUPER MAGIC CLEANING IN ACTION, but a side effect of... EDTA? I used to work in a lab, I should know that shit. Once I got there, I could get with all this powder cleaning and shiz.
August 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM
julilee said...
I've been skipping the soap and shampoo for six days now. My hair was all greasy and weird for four days. Then, suddenly, it was glossy and bouncy after my shower yesterday. I think it's because I used a warm, cold, warm temperature progression and the massage setting on my shower head. Haha, you really have to get in there to get the gunk out. I found something called "Snowy's Massage Technique" on a forum that really helps work the sebum through the hair, too. I think that makes brushing less gross, but it does take a lot of time.
I hadn't thought about the greenness/water usage issue, but I guess having to thoroughly scrub their scalp really would lengthen showers for a lot of people. Because it's just my husband and me, I can and do take 30-ish minutes in the shower most of the time. It takes me at least 5 minutes to wash my hair now, but I think my total shower time is shorter since the only other thing I do in there now is give myself a gentle scrub-down with a wash cloth. (I was brushing my teeth, shaving, and using various washes before, and I've always been really weird about rinsing the shampoo and conditioner out of my hair super thoroughly.)
Lucky for me, I have never really had issues not using body soap (except for missing the exotic fragrances). When I was in high school, I never wore deodorant because I just didn't stink. When I started working, that changed a little (stress), but I have always been able to get away with aluminum-free, "all natural" deodorant. I have dry skin and am prone to nummular eczema, so I was advised by my doctor to only use soap in the "stinky" areas years ago. I don't want to gross anyone out, but I just want to say it because I see a lot of posts from women about soaping in what I consider to be the wrong places: I DO NOT use soap in my crotch. It can disrupt the balance down there if it goes where it's not supposed to, and since it's a liquid once it hits the water, I don't know how you would keep it out. I've always just used hot water, and I do it last just in case soap from the rest of me made its way down. Haha, I'm probably just paranoid with that last bit, but it's what I do.
The one issue I'm experiencing now without soap is that my skin is actually drier. I was using a very nourishing body wash that I think was less drying than water. Oh yeah, and lotion. I'm hoping that my skin adjusts. Otherwise, I'm going back to that body wash.
I've also been using the Oil Cleansing Method for my face the past few days, too. I tend to get blackheads and have found that water only doesn't get rid of them. (I tried! My skin is SO sensitive!) I haven't experienced anything nasty yet in terms of an adjustment period. I am a little dry after my morning shower, so I'm trying to work out how that can be avoided without 1) getting too oily and 2) using moisturizer, which my gut tells me will only break me out. I do have one big zit, but it's better than the rash of breakouts I had on my cheeks and the blackheads I had on my chin and nose, which are virtually nonexistent now. It's soooo healing for me. I highly recommend it.
Woo, that was a lot of info! Hope this helps someone!
January 11, 2013 at 8:45 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@julilee: Thanks! I love hearing other people's experiences and am sure it will be helpful to others.
January 11, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Lauren Wayne said...
@Megan: On the acne side, it's funny you said gluten-free helped, because we've been grain-free for a few months now, and I had high hopes my skin would be clearer. But it's worse! I think (I fear) it might be that I'm eating more dairy (cheese as snacks) now that I'm not eating grains. Hmm… But I've heard from a lot of other people that going gluten- or grain-free helped their skin, so maybe things will get better for me eventually!
January 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM
Lauren Wayne said...
@Jenny: I need to find these Norwex cloths. They sound magical!
January 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM
Lauren Wayne said...
@slightlycrunchy: Super-long response time here, but Mamammalia has written more than once about using baking soda and vinegar, and she answers readers' questions to troubleshoot, so you could try her!
January 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM
hallielynnw said...
Loved this post! I actually have never used soap or body wash in my body and my skin is great! Occasionally it gets dry in the winter when I indulge in a hot shower instead of my usual cool ones. Also no odor issue (but I do take fenugreek supplements and it does give me a faint maple syrupy scent). I was recently inspired to try no shampoo or conditioner for my hair but it is driving me crazy. My hair is greasy and my scalp itchy and flakey, and the worst part is I am having a major acne breakout. Not sure if I can persevere. It has been 2 weeks...
January 22, 2013 at 6:35 PM
hallielynnw said...
Loved this post! I actually have never used soap or body wash in my body and my skin is great! Occasionally it gets dry in the winter when I indulge in a hot shower instead of my usual cool ones. Also no odor issue (but I do take fenugreek supplements and it does give me a faint maple syrupy scent). I was recently inspired to try no shampoo or conditioner for my hair but it is driving me crazy. My hair is greasy and my scalp itchy and flakey, and the worst part is I am having a major acne breakout. Not sure if I can persevere. It has been 2 weeks...
January 22, 2013 at 6:37 PM
Anna said...
I am 14, and have always been interested in natural products. I started no poo last year, and just recently switched to WO hair washing. At first I didn't even realize it, but I had stopped using soap in the shower, using deodorant, perfume, and hair products. I don't stink, and my hair looks great too!!
November 18, 2013 at 7:15 PM
Samantha Anne said...
@See Kate run.
try some quality essential oils from a health food store! it's a lot of fun to mix em n wear a few at a time.... mmmmmm sandlewood... rose... ylang ylang.... lavender.... sage.... :)
November 26, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Gabriel + said...
This is interesting! A few comments:
I've been on "water-only everything, shower once a week" for the past three weeks. Like you, I was jarred by the "body odour" scent at first, but oddly, two things seem to be happening:
1) I have less BO (almost none!) than at the beginning of the experiment; and
2) It doesn't stick to my clothes, at all!
Granted, it's the end of winter and here winter is long and cold. I'm sure in the summer I will have to modify this.
As for my hair, I was just noticing how FANTASTIC this has been for it: I'm black, so my hair is very curly and naturally a bit oily. I keep it fairly short..."no shampoo" and "wash with water twice a month" has meant
1) no dandruff and itchy scalp(this used to be a problem for me, now no more!)
2) hair that requires no shaping and little combing,
3) no need to shave my head to keep it short -- it stays compact on its own now (my theory is it's the natural oils)!
My skin is another big win! MUCH less dry, and I genuinely think it even has a richer, healthier colour.
I'm washing high-odour areas of my body every day (with water only).
I couldn't be happier with my decision, and I'm just excited to see how it'll play out for the summer. You talked about a washcloth for scrubbing; I've been using my bare hands but you may be on to something.
April 8, 2014 at 8:20 PM
Anonymous said...
I've had eczema since I was an infant; hereditary but triggered by a childminder feeding me cereal too soon. When I was old enough to bathe myself, I was often advised by doctors to take frequent, lukewarm showers & only use soap on the smelly parts. I didn't follow directions because they didn't work for me: I looked & smelled like a zombie. Frequent showering didn't allow my skin to heal & hot water (terrible, I know) numbed itchiness. The scaling & oozing ALL over my body required scrubbing with a washcloth & cleansing with soap.
I should mention that water is like acid on my skin regardless of temperature. And dryness of skin means little to no body odor. So, since adolescence I have showered no more than once or twice a week, anyway. I stopped using medicated ointments (thins the skin) & popular, heavy, petroleum creams a few years ago. For a while I was using Vanicream products (soap & cream), green tea shampoo & conditioner, UV light treatments & a water filter to alleviate my scalp-to-legs eczema.
Now I dry brush before a shower, use my Vanicream soap for shampoo, a tiny bit of coconut oil for conditioner, & apple cider vinegar as a body cleanser with/without a washcloth. When I have to shower quickly I use the soap for a full-body wash. Sometimes I use apple cider vinegar to wash my face on in-between days, but I can get away with a warm, wet cloth. I switch between soap & apple cider vinegar for hand washing. And I use hypo-allergenic wipes to clean the private areas. For moisturizer, I either make a body butter, use straight coconut oil, or mix the coconut oil with Vanicream cream. I'm looking at switching to a natural deodorant like Green Body, Aubrey's E Plus High C, or Primal Pit Paste. Right now I have Dove unscented for sensitive skin that I use sparingly when I leave the house.
My eczema [& acne that I've had since 18] has been well controlled since late fall 2013. It's already spring & I'm not seeing any worrying changes. The biggest contributors are probably the filtered water, what I use for cleansing, & that when I shower it's usually at night. I know it's time to hop in, when I start to smell or don't like the appearance of my skin & hair. My hygienic outlook is motivated by a lazy, low-maintenance attitude & a desire to avoid painful skin situations. As a bonus it's health conscious & Eco-friendly.
May 3, 2014 at 5:33 PM
niel said...
Is there a transitional period for water-only body washing, and if so, how long is it and what usually occurs during that period? What if only cold water is used? Would filtered water work better? SORRY if this is TMI: So just as long as we (gently) and thoroughly scrub, water alone will wash away human waste germs? Menstruation? What about sex? Wounds?
September 17, 2014 at 8:52 AM
Judy said...
I've been shampoo-free for three years. For the first two years I mostly used baking soda to wash and vinegar to rinse, but I found that the bs was drying out my hair so I switched to washing with water and rinsing with vinegar, and occasionally omitting the vinegar step. My hair is soft and clean-looking until about day 5, but I only wash it once a week so I put up with the oiliness on day 6. My hair is below my waist and I wear it in a braid so it looks ok.
I gave up using soap on my body about a year ago and to my surprise, I've found that my natural body smells are now milder although they haven't disappeared altogether. I use Crystal deodorant or sometimes none if I'm not being active, and I wash my hands with soap as needed.
I have not washed my face with anything but water for more than ten years, and it seems to be doing just fine. I don't wear makeup but do use sunscreen, and water seems to get that off well enough.
I don't scrub at my body; just splashing the water on and gently wiping with my hands seems to work. I do massage my scalp very thoroughly with my fingertips when washing my hair.
May 13, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Judy said...
I've been shampoo-free for three years. For the first two years I mostly used baking soda to wash and vinegar to rinse, but I found that the bs was drying out my hair so I switched to washing with water and rinsing with vinegar, and occasionally omitting the vinegar step. My hair is soft and clean-looking until about day 5, but I only wash it once a week so I put up with the oiliness on day 6. My hair is below my waist and I wear it in a braid so it looks ok.
I gave up using soap on my body about a year ago and to my surprise, I've found that my natural body smells are now milder although they haven't disappeared altogether. I use Crystal deodorant or sometimes none if I'm not being active, and I wash my hands with soap as needed.
I have not washed my face with anything but water for more than ten years, and it seems to be doing just fine. I don't wear makeup but do use sunscreen, and water seems to get that off well enough.
I don't scrub at my body; just splashing the water on and gently wiping with my hands seems to work. I do massage my scalp very thoroughly with my fingertips when washing my hair.
May 13, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Aaron said...
Lauren! What you describe that made you want to stop water-only bathing appears to be what most everyone experiences during the first week or so.
In theory, if we use soap (or shampoo) to remove oils from the hair, then the body may make a ritual of compensating with a lot of oil. And so the oily hair during the first few days of water only treatment may simply be the manifestation of all of the work that the body goes through because of shampoo.
Niall and several others (those who have commented) have talked about their positive experience:
http://www.ndoherty.com/no-shampoo/
I'm not saying what's best for you - I just would like you to have the complete story.
August 18, 2015 at 6:36 PM
Lauren Wayne said...
@Aaron: I agree with you on the detoxing sort of experience for the first week or so. Unfortunately, I did this for 2 months, and it never got better for me. :) I'm happy it works well for others, though.
August 18, 2015 at 11:05 PM
Lauren Wayne said...
@niel: Sorry for the long delay in responding. The short answer is I don't know the answers to all your questions and was hoping someone else would chime in. ;) I think water only would be fine for menstruation or sex, because it's not an infection or a problem, just messy. I don't know about for wounds; however, for small wounds, I already use water only to wash them out before I bandage because it hurts less and flushes out any dirt, and that's worked fine. I don't know what's happening at the bacterial level, though, or whether that would be harmful for some people or for some wounds.
I don't know about cold or filtered water. I often use cold water (with soap) for washing my hands, but if I want a deeper wash, I tend to switch to warm or hot — I have the sense it cleans more easily, but that could be just my impression.
There definitely is a transition, and I talk about that a bit in the post. You'll be oiler for awhile.
August 18, 2015 at 11:10 PM
Unknown said...
ive gone crunchy all the way, and was a little surprised at reading your article. no-poo/no-nothing works great for me! then again, living in a very hot, very dusty place, makes an everyday shower(with or without cosmetics) mandatory. i switched from a very intensive chemical cleansing routine to water-only and the 'detox' lasted a month. now i just wash my hair twice a week and my body everyday with water & 'elbow grease' haha. and comb it with a regular comb every morning, works like a charm. there is a feeling of liberty to it, isn't there? ;)
April 14, 2016 at 2:27 AM
Lauren Wayne said...
@shashwati jha: I bet it does make a difference if showering every day. That's great that it's working so well for you! I agree that it's liberating to be so product-free in getting ready. :)
April 15, 2016 at 12:04 AM
Anonymous said...
@LaChesita, I'm curious what kinds of essential oils you use on your brush. I tried water washing and had really great success over all (nitty gritty details here if you want), but after about a month and a half, I ran into some real issues with dandruff. I ended up washing with a little tea tree oil shampoo just to get this under control, and I've had to keep using this every couple of weeks. Do you think that just using tea tree essential oil would work the same way? Does pure essential oil on your hairbrush irritate your scalp at all? Sorry for so many questions—just very curious since I'd love to be able to do pure water washing without shampooing every other week.
March 16, 2017 at 10:10 AM
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ( pronunciation (help·info); 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), commonly known as 'Swatantryaveer Savarkar' in Marathi language,[1] was an Indian independence activist and politician who formulated the Hindu nationalist philosophy of Hindutva.[2][3][4] He was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha.[4]
As a response to the Muslim League, Savarkar joined the Hindu Mahasabha and popularized the term Hindutva (Hinduness), previously coined by Chandranath Basu,[5] to create a collective "Hindu" identity as an essence of Bharat (India).[6][7] Savarkar was an atheist and also a pragmatic practitioner of Hindu philosophy.
Savarkar began his political activities as a high school student and continued to do so at Fergusson College in Pune.[8] He and his brother founded a secret society called Abhinav Bharat Society. When he went to the United Kingdom for his law studies, he involved himself with organizations such as India House and the Free India Society. He also published books advocating complete Indian independence by revolutionary means.[9] One of the books he published called The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857 was banned by the British authorities. In 1910, Savarkar was arrested and ordered to be extradited to India for his connections with the revolutionary group India House.
On the voyage back to India, Savarkar staged an attempt to escape and seek asylum in France while the ship was docked in the port of Marseilles. The French port officials however handed him back to the British in contravention of international law. On return to India, Savarkar was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment totalling fifty years and was moved to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
After 1937, he started travelling widely, becoming a forceful orator and writer, advocating Hindu political and social unity. Serving as the president of the Hindu Mahasabha political party, Savarkar endorsed the idea of India as a Hindu Rashtra (Hindu Nation). Savarkar was critical of the decision taken by the Congress working committee in its wardha session in 1942, passed a resolution which said to British: "Quit India but keep your armies here". Which was reinstallation of British military rule over India which he felt would be much worse.In July 1942, as he felt extreme stress during his duties as president of Hindu Mahasabha and as he needed some rest, He resigned from the post of President of Hindu Mahasabha. The timing of which, unfortunately coincided with Gandhi’s Quit India Movement.[10]
In 1948 Savarkar was charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, however he was acquitted by the court for lack of evidence. Savarkar resurfaced in the popular discourse after the coming of the BJP into power in 1998[11] and again in 2014 with the Modi led BJP government at the center.
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (May 28, 1883 – February 26, 1966) was an Indian pro-independence activist, politician as well as a poet, writer and playwright. He advocated dismantling the system of caste in Hindu culture, and reconversion of the converted Hindus back to Hindu religion. Savarkar coined the term Hindutva (Hinduness) to create a collective "Hindu" identity as an "imagined nation". His political philosophy had the elements of Utilitarianism, Rationalism and Positivism, Humanism and Universalism, Pragmatism and Realism.
Contents
1Quotes
1.1Hindutva
2About V.D. Savarkar
2.1Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past
3External links
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One of the most important components of such injunctions of the past that we have blindly carried on and which deserves to be thrown in the dustbins of history is the rigid caste system. This system has vivisected our Hindu society into so many micro-fragments, forever at war with one another. From temples, streets, houses, jobs, village councils, to institutions of law and legislature, it has only injected a spectre of eternal conflict between two Hindus; weakened our unity and resolve to stand united against any external threats. It is one of the biggest impediments in the conception of a Hindu Rashtra.
V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
The practice of untouchability is a sin, a blot on humanity, and nothing can justify it. Consider only that untouchable which is injurious to one’s health, not fellow human beings. Unshackling this one foolish fetter would bring crores of our Hindu brethren into the mainstream. They would serve the country in various capacities and defend her honour.
V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
The folly of disallowing reconversions to Hinduism is a self-destructive one. How easily Hindus converting to Islam or Christianity merge in their new milieu. Yet the same facility is not available to a non-Hindu who might earnestly wish to return to his or her fold or adopt Hinduism as a matter of faith. This shackle seriously depletes our numbers and makes the Hindu community a ready preying ground for the conversion factories that are always looking at swelling their numbers, many times by stealth or inducements. I have nothing against those who convert to another faith by sheer conviction. But such examples are rare. Why should we not allow the enhancement of our numbers due to some antiquated idea that does not even have any scriptural sanction that we cannot convert to Hinduism?
V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
While it is nice to describe a beautiful rose in full bloom, it would be incomplete without a description of everything—right from its roots, the stem, the manure and nutrients that have sustained it, the fresh and dried leaves as also the thorns, in order to conceptualize the beauty of that rose in all its dimensions. Likewise, for a human being’s biography, he needs to be presented ‘as is’ and not ‘as should be’—from head to toe, nothing more, nothing less, as transparent and true to reality as one can be. Everything that can be said or unsaid, that is embarrassing or praiseworthy has to be documented without inhibitions and fears. ... Still, I hold a promise that I have revealed all that needs to be revealed, with the least of colours and bias from my side.
V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
‘By annihilating the wicked I lightened the great weight on the globe. I delivered the country by establishing Swarajya and by saving religion. I betook myself to shake off the great exhaustion which had come upon me. I was asleep, why then, did you my darlings awaken me?’
English translation. From the poem ‘Shivaji’s Utterances’ (and signed ‘mark of the Bhawani Sword’) which appeared in the editorial columns of the Kesari . V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
Till now we Maharashtrians kept saying that Shivaji Utsav is only a historical commemoration and it has no political colour. But the festival that we have organized here in Nashik is both historical and political. Only those people, who have the capability to struggle for the freedom of their country just like Shivaji Maharaj, have the real right to organize and celebrate a festival commemorating his memory. Our main objective must therefore be to strive towards breaking the shackles of colonial rule. If our only aims are finding solace in foreign rule, earning fat salaries, be peaceful negotiators with the government on inconsequential issues such as lowering taxes, diluting some laws here and there, and secure ourselves enough to eat, lead comfortable lives, earn pensions and privileges—then this Utsav is not for you or for Shivaji, but that of the last Peshwa Baji Rao who capitulated to British might! Here we are invoking the god of revolution, Shivaji Maharaj, so that he may inspire and instil that energy in all of us. Depending on circumstances our means might change, but the end is non-negotiable and that end is total and complete freedom for our motherland.
From a speech by V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
(Oh Shivaji! This land of the Aryans
has been repeatedly attacked by the Mlechchha s (non-Indians).
Please wake up!
This land is calling for your help.
Are you unable to hear that pleading tone of this motherland?
Is it not piercing your heart?)
English translation. From a poem by V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
(Victory to you, Oh! Ever Auspicious, munificent and holy Mother!
Oh! Glorious Goddess of Freedom! I seek your blessings for success.
You are the embodiment of our national spirit, morality and accomplishments
You are the Queen of Righteousness, Oh! Goddess of Freedom!
In these dark skies of enslavement, you are the bright beacon and star of hope.
The flowery cheeks of people and the fields of blossoms,
You are that blush of confidence, Oh! Goddess of Freedom!
You are the radiance of the Sun, the solemnity of the oceans!
Oh! Goddess of Freedom! But for you, the sun of freedom is eclipsed.
Oh! Goddess of Freedom! You are the face of eternal happiness and liberation,
This is why sages hail you as the supreme consciousness, in our scriptures.
Oh! Goddess of Freedom! All that is ideal and lofty, magnificent and sweet!
Is associated only with you.
Stained with the blood of the evildoers whom you destroy, nurturing the righteous!
Life is to die for you! Death is to live without you!
The entire creation surrenders unto you, Oh! Goddess of Freedom!)
English translation. From the 1903 poem ‘Hymn to Liberty’, still popular across India as the iconic song ‘Jayostute’, also in a song by Lata Mangeshkar, set to tune by her brother, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
Vande Mataram (Salutations to the Mother!)
In the name of God,
In the name of Bharat Mata,
In the name of all the martyrs that have shed their blood for Bharat Mata,
By the love innate in all men and women, that I bear to the land of my birth,
Wherein lie the sacred ashes of my forefathers, and which is the cradle of my children.
By the tears of the countless mothers for their children whom the foreigner has enslaved,
imprisoned, tortured and killed,
Convinced that without Absolute Political Independence or Swarajya my country can never rise to the exalted position among the nations of the earth which is Her due, And convinced also that that Swarajya can never be attained except by the waging of a bloody and relentless war against the Foreigner, solemnly and sincerely swear that I shall from this moment do everything in my power to fight for Independence and place the Lotus Crown of Swaraj on the head of my Mother; And with this object, I join the Abhinav Bharat, the Revolutionary Society of all Hindustan, and swear that I shall ever be true and faithful to this, my solemn Oath, and that I shall obey the orders of this organization (body); If I betray the whole or any part of this solemn Oath, or if I betray this organization (body) or any other working with a similar object, May I be doomed to the fate of a perjurer!
From an oath used by members of the Mitra Mela, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
Oh Ocean, take me back to my Motherland!
My soul in so much torment be!
Lapping worshipfully at my mother’s feet
So always I saw you
Let us visit other Lands to see
The abounding nature, said you.
Seeing my Mother’s heart full of qualms
A sacred oath you did give to her,
Knowing the way home, upon your back
My speedy return you promised her.
Fell for your promise did I!
That worldly-wise n’ able be I
Her deliverance better serve do I
Upon returning, so saying I left her.
Oh Ocean, my soul in so much torment be!
Like a parrot in a cage, like a deer in a trap—
Oh so duped am I
Parting from my mother for ever—
Besieged by darkness am I!
Flowers of virtue gather did I
That blessed by their fragrance she be.
Bereft from service for her deliverance
My learning a futile burden it be,
The love of her mango trees, oh!
The beauty of her blossoming vines, oh! Her tender budding rose, oh!
Oh forever lost is her garden to me,
Oh Ocean, my soul in so much torment be!
Stars abound in the heavens above, but
Only the star of Bharat-land love I
Here are found plush palaces, but
Only my mother’s humble hut love I
What care I for a kingdom without Her?
Ever exile in her forests choose I.
Deception is futile now, say I
Let you not be spared, vow I
Suffer the same pangs, cry I
Of parting with the dearest of your rivers!
Oh Ocean, my soul in so much torment be!
Oh Ye of Foaming Surf, pitilessly you mock!
Why go back on your word, oh!
Why deceive my helpless mother,
Oh why condemn me to exile so!
Was it in fear of England
Who flaunts her mastery over you so?
Fearsome though England may be,
O My Mother is not feeble so
Tell all about Sage Agastya she will, lo
Who in one gulp your waters drank!
Oh Ocean, my soul in so much torment be!
English translation. From a a poem Ne majasi ne parat matrubhoomila, sagara, prana, talamalalaa, it was set to music and sung by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Meena Mangeshkar and Hridyanath Mangeshkar.. , quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
Come, Death! If really thou hast started already to come—welcome!
These flowers may tremble to fade away,
These juicy grapes to wither,
But why should I fear Thee?
I have but these wines of tears that fill my cup to offer Thee
And which I thought over-drinking cannot exhaust;
Come if that be acceptable to Thee!
English translation. From a a poem, ‘On the Death-Bed’ (Maranonmukh Shayyevar )., quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
“He who gives up verbosity and acts as per the principle of ‘irrespective of whether others do it or not, as far as I am concerned, I will practice reform on a daily basis’ alone is a true reformer.”
(‘Hindutvache panchapran’ or The Spirit of Hindutva; Samagra Savarkar Vangmaya, edited by SR Date, Vol. 3, p.75). Quoted from [1]
Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i.e. the land of the origin of his religion (…) Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.
V.D. Savarkar: Hindu Rashtra Darshan. p. 77.
The epitaph of an RSS man will be: he was born, went to shakha, and died.
Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 256
The name " Hindustan " must continue to be the appellation of our country. Such other names as India, Hind, etc., being derived from the same original word Sindhu may be used but only to signify the same sense—die land of the Hindus, a country which is the abode of the Hindu Nation. Aryavarta, Bharat-Bhumi and such other names are of course the ancient and the most cherished epithets of our Mother Land and will continue to appeal to the cultured elite. In this insistence that the Mother Land of the Hindus must be called but " Hindustan ", no encroachment or humiliation is implied in connection with any of our non-Hindu countrymen. Our Parsee and Christian countrymen are already too akin to us culturally and are too patriotic and the Anglo-indians too sensible to refuse to fall in line with us Hindus on so legitimate a ground.
V.D. Savarkar quoted from B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)
"The Sanskrit shall be our " Deva Bhasha)" our sacred language and the "Sanskrit Nishtha" Hindi, the Hindi which is derived from Sanskrit and draws its nourishment from the latter, is our ' 'mr' ' (Rashtra Bhasha) 12 [f.12] our current national language—-besides being the richest and the most cultured of the ancient languages of the world, to us Hindus the Sanskrit is the holiest tongue of tongues. Our scriptures, history, philosophy and culture have their roots so deeply imbedded in the Sanskrit literature that it forms veritably the brain of our Race. Mother of the majority of our mother tongues, she has suckled the rest of them at her breast. All Hindu languages current today whether derived from Sanskrit or grafted on to it can only grow and flourish on the sap of life they imbibe from Sanskrit. The Sanskrit language therefore must ever be an indispensable constituent of the classical course for Hindu youths.
V.D. Savarkar quoted from B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)
Religion is a mighty motive force. So is rapine. But where religion in goaded on by rapine and rapine serves as a handmaid to religion, the propelling force that is generated by these together is only equalled by the profundity of human misery and devastation they leave behind them in their march. Heaven and Hell making a common case - such were the forces, overwhelmingly furious, that took India by surprise the day that Mahmud Ghaznavi crossed the Indus and invaded her.
1923. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1992). Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam.
“The Hindu Sanghanists Party aims to base the future constitution of Hindustan on the broad principle that all citizens should have equal rights and obligations irrespective of caste or creed, race or religion, provided they avow and owe an exclusive and devoted allegiance to the Hindustani State. The fundamental rights of liberty of speech, liberty of conscience, of worship, of association, etc., will be enjoyed by all citizens alike. Whatever restrictions will be imposed on them in the interest of the public peace and order of National emergency will not be based on any religious or racial considerations alone but on common National grounds.”... “No attitude can be more National even in the territorial sense than this and it is this attitude in general which is expressed in substance by the curt formula ‘one man one vote’. This will make it clear that the conception of a Hindu Nation is in no way inconsistent with the development of a common Indian Nation, a united Hindustani State in which all sects and sections, races and religions, castes and creeds, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Anglo-Indians, etc., could be harmoniously welded together into a political State on terms of perfect equality.”...“But as practical politics require it, and as the Hindu Sanghanists want to relieve our non-Hindu countrymen of even a ghost of suspicion, we are prepared to emphasise that the legitimate rights of minorities with regard to their religion, culture and language will be expressly guaranteed: on one condition only that the equal rights of the majority also must not in any case be encroached upon or abrogated. Every minority may have separate schools to train up their children in their own tongue, their own religious or cultural institutions and can receive Government help also for these, but always in proportion to the taxes they pay into the common Exchequer. The same principle must, of course, hold good in case of the majority too.”
Quoted from Time For A New Generation Of Scholars To Study Savarkar
After winning the final battle, when the Muslims rushed violently, like a stormy wind, through Sindh, they went on beheading these Buddhists even more ruthlessly than they did the Vedic Hindus. For, the Vedic Hindus were fighting in groups or individually at every place and so they struck at least a little awe and terror in the minds of the Muslims. But as there was no armed opposition in Buddhist Vihars and Buddhist localities, the Muslims cut them down as easily as they would cut vegetable.
V.D. Savarkar: Six glorious Epochs, p.136. (-: Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History. Veer Savarkar Prakashan, Bombay 1985 (1963).)
These our well-meaning but unthinking friends take their dreams for realities. That is why they are impatient of communal tangles and attribute them to communal organizations. But the solid fact is that the so-called communal questions are but a legacy handed down to us by centuries of a cultural, religious and national antagonism between the Hindus and the Moslems. When time is ripe you can solve them; but you cannot suppress them by merely refusing recognition of them. It is safer to diagnose and treat deep-seated disease than to ignore it. Let us bravely face unpleasant facts as they are. India cannot be assumed today to be a unitarian and homogeneous nation, but on the contrary there are two nations in the main; the Hindus and the Moslems, in India. And as it has happened in many countries under similar situation in the world the utmost that we can do under the circumstances is to form an Indian State in which none is allowed any special weightage of representation and none is paid an extra-price to buy his loyalty to the State. Mercenaries are paid and bought off, not sons of the Motherland to fight in her defence.
V.D. Savarkar: Hindu Rashtra Darshan, quoted in part in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.332
Hindutva[edit]
After all there is throughout this world so far as man is concerned but a single race - the human race, kept alive by one common blood, the human blood. All other talk is at best provisional, a makeshift and only relatively true. (...) Even as it is, not even the aborigines of the Andamans are without some sprinkling of the so-called Aryan blood in their veins and vice-versa. Truly speaking all that one can claim is that one has the blood of all mankind in one’s veins. The fundamental unity of man from pole to pole is true, all else only relatively so.
Hindutva, p. 90.
We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.
Hindutva, p. 12.
We are all Hindus and own a common blood. Some of us are Jains and some Jangamas; but Jains or Jangamas—we are all Hindus and own a common blood. Some of us are monists, some, pantheists; some theists and some atheists. But monotheists or atheists—we are all Hindus and own a common blood. We are not only a nation, but a Jati , a born brotherhood. Nothing else counts, it is after all a question of heart. We feel that the same ancient blood that coursed through the veins of Ram and Krishna, Buddha and Mahavir, Nanak and Chaitanya, Basava and Madhava, of Rohidas and Tiruvelluvar courses throughout Hindudom from vein to vein, pulsates from heart to heart. We feel we are a JATI, a race bound together by the dearest ties of blood and therefore it must be so.
Our Gods spoke in Sanskrit; our sages thought in Sanskrit, our poets wrote in Sanskrit. All that is best in us—the best thoughts, the best ideas, the best lines—seeks instinctively to clothe itself in Sanskrit. To millions it is still the language of their Gods; to others it is the language of their ancestors; to all it is the language par excellence; a common inheritance, a common treasure that enriches all the family of our sister languages. 46
One who considers this vast stretch of land called Bharat
From the Sindhu to the Sindhu (Indus to the Seas)
as his fatherland (or land of one’s ancestors) and holy land
is the one who will be termed and remembered as a Hindu.
Our patriotic and noble-minded sister (Sister Nivedita) had adopted our land from Sindu to the seas as her Fatherland. She truly loved it as such, and had our nation been free, we would have been the first to bestow the right of citizenship on such loving souls. So the first essential may, to some extent, be said to hold good in her case. The second essential of common blood of Hindu parentage must, nevertheless and necessarily, be absent in such cases as these. The sacrament of marriage with a Hindu, which really fuses and is universally admitted to do so, two beings into one, may be said to remove this disqualification. But although this second essential failed, either way to hold good in her case, the third important qualification of Hindutva did entitle her to be recognized as a Hindu. For, she had adopted our culture and come to adore our land as her Holyland [sic]. She felt, she was a Hindu and that is, apart from all technicalities, the real and the most important test. But we must not forget that we have to determine the essentials of Hindutva in the sense in which the word is actually used by an overwhelming majority of people. And therefore we must say that any convert of non-Hindu parentage to Hindutva can be a Hindu, if bona fide, he or she adopts our land as his or her country and marries a Hindu, thus coming to love our land as a real Fatherland, and adopts our culture and thus adores our land as the Punyabhu . The children of such a union as that would, other things being equal, be most emphatically Hindus.
“At last the great mission which the Sindhus had undertaken of founding a nation and a country, found and reached its geographical limit when the valorous Prince of Ayodhya made a triumphant entry in Ceylon and actually brought the whole land from the Himalayas to the Seas under one sovereign sway. The day when the Horse of Victory returned unchallenged and unchallengeable, the great white Umbrella of Sovereignty was unfurled over that Imperial throne of Ramchandra, the brave, Ramchandra the good, and a loving allegiance to him was sworn, not only by the Princes of Aryan blood, but Hanuman, Sugriva, Bibhishana from the south – that day was the real birth-day of our Hindu people. It was truly our national day: for Aryans and Anaryans knitting themselves into a people were born as a nation.”
About V.D. Savarkar[edit]
"Strange as it may appear, Mr. Savarkar and Mr. Jinnah, instead of being opposed to each other on the one nation versus two nations issue, are in complete agreement about it. Both agree, not only agree but insist, that there are two nations in India—one the Muslim nation and the other the Hindu nation. They differ only as regards the terms and conditions on which the two nations should live. Mr. Jinnah says India should be cut up into two, Pakistan and Hindustan, the Muslim nation to occupy Pakistan and the Hindu nation to occupy Hindustan. Mr. Savarkar on the other hand insists that, although there are two nations in India, India shall not be divided into two parts, one for Muslims and the other for the Hindus; that the two nations shall dwell in one country and shall live under the mantle of one single constitution; that the constitution shall be such that the Hindu nation will be enabled to occupy a predominant position that is due to it and the Muslim nation made to live in the position of subordinate co-operation with the Hindu nation."
Ambedkar, Pakistan or the Partition of India
Our main plank is Veer Savarkar’s message which he preached at the Calcutta session: ‘Equal rights for all citizens and protection of the culture and religion of every minority’.
Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, Hindu Politics (Calcutta, 1945), p. 74
Here, Godse denies once more that Savarkar had played a role in the assassination. Approver Digamber Badge kept on making this very allegation, possibly because he or the investigating police officers expected some reward from Pandit Nehru in exchange for catching such a big fish. HMS leader and Godse’s lawyer L.B. Bhopatkar revealed several years later, in Manohar Malgonkar’s The Men Who Killed Gandhi.., that Dr Ambedkar, the Law Minister in Nehru’s Cabinet at that time, met him secretly to inform him that Nehru was personally interested in involving Savarkar, though there was no evidence to prove Savarkar’s complicity. His mere imprisonment was successful enough in eliminating him from politics. Manohar Malgonkar, in The Men Who Killed Gandhi writes ‘The strain of the trial, and the year spent in prison while it lasted, wrecked Savarkar’s health and finished him as a force in India’s politics.’ At any rate, the prosecutor could not produce the slightest evidence connecting Savarkar with the murder. In August 1974, Badge admitted to an interviewer that his testimony against Savarkar had been false. Ever since, journalists reluctant to give up the polemical advantage of connecting the main Hindutva ideologue with the murder, glibly introduce him as ‘a co-accused in the Mahatma murder trial.’ In Nehruvian ‘secularism’, superficiality of thought is compensated for by thoroughness in dishonesty.
Manohar Malgonkar, in The Men Who Killed Gandhi . Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2018). Why I killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse's defence. New Delhi : Rupa, 2018.
Most secularists pretend not to know [the] unambiguous position of Savarkar’s (in many cases, they really don’t know, for Hindu-baiting is usually done without reference to primary sources). Likewise, Savarkar’s plea for caste intermarriage to promote the oneness of Hindu society is usually ignored in order to keep up the pretence that he was a reactionary on caste, an “upper-caste racist” (as Gyan Pandey puts it), and what not. There are no limits to secularist dishonesty... [It] is just another case of secularist justice: Hindu are damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
Elst, K. Was Veer Savarkar a Nazi? , 1999 [2]
All these facts taken together were destructive of any theory other than the conspiracy to murder (of Gandhiji) by Savarkar and his group.
Jeevan Lal Kapur Commission, Report of Commission of Inquiry into Conspiracy to Murder Mahatma Gandhi 1969
Hindutva was a political argument made in a poetic register. It was an argument with and against an unnamed Gandhi at an opportune moment when he seemed finished with politics. Hindutva was also a political cry from behind prison walls, reminding the larger world outside that even if Gandhi was no longer on the political scene, Savarkar was back. He was still a leader, a politician capable of pulling together a nationalist community. But unlike Gandhi, he was offering a sense of Hindu-ness that could be the basis for a more genuine and, in the end, more effective nationalism than that of the Mahatma. The startling change for its time was Savarkar’s assertion that it was not religion that made Hindus Hindu. If Gandhi had officiated at the marriage of religion and politics, and Khilafat leaders were using the symbols of religion to forge a community, Savarkar argued that name and place were what bound the Hindu community, not religion . . . The fundamental (negative) contribution of Hindutva was to install a new term for nationalist discourse, one that was both modern and secular, if open to a secular understanding of religious identity. In place of religion qua religion, he secularized a plethora of Hindu religious leaders. In so doing, he did not create a sterilely secular nationalism. He did quite the opposite. He enchanted a secular nationalism by placing a mythic community into a magical land .
Janaki Bakhle quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past[edit]
Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
I was to slowly discover that Savarkar was a bundle of contradictions and a historian’s enigma. He simultaneously means many things to many people. An alleged atheist and a staunch rationalist who strongly opposed orthodox Hindu beliefs and the caste system and dismissed cow worship as mere superstition, Savarkar was also the most vocal political voice for the Hindu community through the entire course of the Indian freedom struggle.... A feted revolutionary who created an intellectual corpus of literature that inspired the revolutionary movement in India for decades, Savarkar was also a passionate and sensitive poet, a prolific writer and playwright, and a fiery orator. ...The social reformer in him strove to dismantle the scourges of untouchability and caste hierarchies, and advocated a unification of Hindu society.
Towards the end of 1926, the first English biography of Savarkar titled The Life of Barrister Savarkar was published in Madras under a curious pen name ‘Chitragupta’. In Hindu mythology, Chitragupta is the accountant of Yama, the God of Death, who keeps a meticulous debit and credit account of every soul’s sins and virtues. There have been various allusions about who the author is—from Congress leader C. Rajagopalachari, the revolutionary V.V.S. Aiyar to Savarkar himself writing under a pseudonym. The identity of the author continues to remain a mystery.
Right from his childhood, Vinayak found the caste system that plagued Hindu society reprehensible. In his own little way he broke these barriers. Despite being an upper-caste Brahmin, and a landlord at that, all his childhood friends were from poor backgrounds and belonged to the supposed lower castes.
The streak of rationality and questioning tradition too came early to him. Once a multicoloured book on the shelf at home caught his attention and he decided to read it, despite it being in Sanskrit, of which he understood very little. When Damodarpant discovered that his young son was reading the Aranyaka s he was enraged. There was a superstition that reading the Aranyaka s at home forebodes evil for the reader’s worldly life and they needed to be read in seclusion in the woods. This left a lasting question in Vinayak’s mind. How could someone as intelligent as his father believe in such superstitions?, he wondered. Mocking the belief, he continued reading the book without anyone’s knowledge and proved to himself that this was just a fanciful and concocted tale.
Vinayak and his friends were absorbing from the Kesari , Pune Vaibhav and other newspapers the stories of these bloody riots and the polarized tinderbox that Maharashtra had become. Each time they heard of the attack on Hindus, they would be enraged and wondered why Hindus could not organize themselves and retaliate instead of suffering repression... Vinayak acknowledges in his memoirs that these experiences taught him how poorly organized and disunited the Hindu community was and how easy it was to subjugate them. 11 The Hindus were perpetually divided among themselves along several fault lines, especially caste, and this made them doubly vulnerable to attacks. They were full of self-doubt and suspicion about the other, and seldom committed to the ‘cause’.
In a moment of intense emotion, he rushed to the idol of the Ashtabhuja Bhawani in his home town in Bhagur and poured his heart out to her. He made a fervent vow in front of his family goddess that he was committing himself and his life to free the motherland through armed struggle. He declared in her presence: ‘Shatrus maarta maarta mare to jhunjen! ’ (I will wage war against the enemy and slay them till my last breath).
Savarkar is widely reviled in Indian history as an apostle of hate; through a reading of Hindutva I argue that he might better be understood as a spurned lover . . . Hindutva in its time was also a reminder to a Hindu community that even if Gandhi had left the political milieu, there was no need to worry. A political Hindu and a true nationalist was back and ready to lead India, even from behind prison walls. Hindutva was a pugilistic punch thrown against Gandhi in the competitive political ring for national leadership.
Despite being born in an orthodox and religious Chitpawan Brahmin community, Vinayak despised the caste system right from childhood. This has been illustrated in the kinships he developed with children from various castes and strata of society, and how he dined at their homes. At a time when most members of his community forbade sea travel for fear of a loss of caste, Vinayak was among the few Brahmins who travelled to London for his education. He had no qualms about going non-vegetarian as well, unlike most Brahmins of the time. As his political thoughts matured during his long years of incarceration, he penned essays on the abhorrent practice of the caste system and untouchability and how these sapped the nation of all vitality. Advocating a strong case for their total, complete and unconditional eradication at a time when these ideas were not yet a part of the political discourse popularized by either Gandhi or Ambedkar, he was the first to envision a casteless India.
Back in mainland India, a new movement was brewing. It is important to understand this issue because it sets the context in which Vinayak penned his magnum opus on Hindutva and his belief in the need for Hindu society to organize itself politically. The concept of Hindutva continues to be a contentious one in Indian politics even today..... Meanwhile, it was in the dark confines of Ratnagiri prison that Vinayak began writing his magnum opus on his political philosophy—his conception of what constituted a ‘Hindu nationalist identity’. These were distilled from his experiences in the Andaman and Ratnagiri jails with respect to the conversions, his own attempts at shuddhi and sangathan and the raging debates in the country surrounding the Khilafat agitation. The word that he popularized and which holds immense political currency in contemporary India was ‘Hindutva’ or ‘Hindu-ness’.
Right from his early days in the Andamans, Vinayak encouraged people to speak in Hindi....Till then, government records were maintained in Urdu, and even Hindi was written in the Persian script. Vinayak strongly advocated the implementation of the Devanagari script as it was the one in which the oldest language of the subcontinent, Sanskrit, was written. During his interactions with local merchants in his capacity as the foreman of oil collections, Vinayak passed this zeal on to them too. Through his influence, a girls’ school that was started in the Andamans began a compulsory teaching of Hindi in the Devanagari script.
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<div class="box"> == Host == [[Kenneth Kendall]] (1982-9) [[Ned Sherrin]] (5 April 1985) [[Dermot Murnaghan]] (2002-3) == Co-hosts == Skyrunner:<br> [[Anneka Rice]] (1982-8)<br> Gemma Craven, Kenny Lynch, Wayne Sleep (5 April 1985)<br> [[Annabel Croft]] (1989)<br> [[Suzi Perry]] (2002-3) Adjudicator:<br> [[Ann Meo]] (1982-3)<br> Annette Lynton (1984)<br> Wincey Willis (1985-9) Cameraman (on location): Graham Berry Video recordist (on location): Frank Meyburgh == Broadcast == Chatsworth Television for Channel 4, 28 December 1982 to 18 May 1989 (91 episodes in 7 series + 6 specials) Chatsworth Television for Thames (regional), 30 October 1985 (as part of ''Thames Telethon'') Chatsworth Television for ITV, 29 to 30 May 1988 (as part of ''ITV Telethon'') Chatsworth Television for BBC Two, 16 December 2002 to 2 August 2003 (15 episodes in 2 series) </div> == Synopsis == If someone came up to you and said that Treasure Hunt was an hour of complete arse, not only do they have Tourette's Syndrome, but somewhat ironically they would be almost completely right. That's because the show is infamous for Graham the Cameraman's need to film [[Anneka Rice]]'s bottom. In jump-suit as well! However, it was a groundbreaking game too, and one of Channel 4's most popular shows of the era, regularly clawing in 7-8 million viewers. <div class="image">[[Image:Treasure_hunt_001.jpg|350px]]''Golden girl Anneka Rice with her lightweight (for 1985) radio pack.''</div> The game, then. Former BBC newsreader [[Kenneth Kendall]] helps two ordinary rich people (the first two contestants were fish farmers from Cornwall) to solve five devious cryptic clues in order to guide "Skyrunner" Anneka, transported by helicopter, around the five places of interest, usually on a 20x20 km map, within 45 minutes. Part of the game was that although they could communicate with Anneka via a two-way radio link, they couldn't actually see her. An unintentional difficulty factor was that the radio communications would sometimes break up, completely by accident, at unfortunate times. In the studio, the players have access to lots of reference works and they'll need them because the clues are somewhat cryptic. For example, one clue once was: ''"In a Seahawk, in a Seahawk, in a Seahawk."'' the contestants had to work out that an airbase in the area was known as the HMS Seahawk, and at that place was an actual Seahawk plane and inside that was a small model of a Seahawk plane, and the clue was in that. Often homonyms, anagrams, double meanings and other connotations needed to be solved, with a bit of quick research each time, to solve the clues. For most of the run of the series, back at the base was TV-AM weather girl and zoologist (a combination you tend to see everyday) Wincey Willis who gave absolutely no help whatsoever save for time checks, giving out the clues in the studio and giving the hint to the Treasure at the top of the show. Part of her job was to track what the helicopter was doing on her big board which seemed fairly pointless, truth be told. What made the show entertaining were the things Anneka had to do to earn the clues and the treasure. Most of the time they just had to go to a certain place, but sometimes the clue is on a character on stage at a packed performance, under the water, in the middle of an Army Assault Course obstacle - that kind of malarkey. <div class="image">[[Image:Treasure-hunt_large.jpg|350px]]''Skyrunner in the helicopter, [[Anneka Rice]]''</div> Even when the contestants were stuck on clues, there was always plenty to look at. The view from the helicopter was interesting (Graham the cameraman always doing his "low shot" to perk up the proceedings), and Anneka tried her best to chip in with solving the clues wherever possible. Bless her. The main problem with the format was that if there was only 3 minutes on the clock, and that the next location was miles away, we just knew they weren't going to make it. This was a bug that was solved in the next similar show in the genre, ''[[Interceptor]].'' That said, ''Treasure Hunt'' got seven series, ''Interceptor'' got one. There's no justice. <div class="image">[[Image:Treasure_hunt2_annabel.jpg]]''Annabel Croft, with no Interceptors in sight''</div> In the final series of the original run, [[Anneka Rice]] was replaced by tennis-player [[Annabel Croft]], who went on to do the afore-mentioned ''Interceptor'' with the same production team/helicopter crew combo (''Chatsworth Television'' and ''Castle Air''). === Bonus clues === It seemed like a few days since Annabel Croft ended the last run of ''Treasure Hunt'' by picking a rubber duck out of a reservoir in Derbyshire. After almost fourteen years in abeyance, the format has been revived for the BBC. In a pilot week, the show based itself in a Kent manor house, with five different routes being plotted around that region. [[Suzi Perry]] was the new skyrunner. They can't see her in the studio, but they can hear her, and follow her progress via GPS. Perhaps the most visible change is that there are a lot more shots from the helicopter. Gun cameras to show Suzi and Keith, and new cameraman Guy and soundman Simon get more angles than Frank and Graham got in seven years on C4, though there's still the obligatory following-from-behind shot. There's a funky split screen effect, showing what's happening in the studio, and what's happening in the chopper. [[Dermot Murnaghan]] is the host, furthering his claims to be taken as the new [[Kenneth Kendall]]. He's in a studio with lots of reference books and lots of good-looking but useless props but, in the one concession to new technology, there are CD-ROMs and a multimedia computer. As well as trying to help out the contestants, Dermot also confirms the location of the clue - a role Kenneth took in the initial C4 series, which acted without an on-screen adjudicator. And we're assured that, no, Dermot *hasn't* been given the answers beforehand. He does have an earpiece so that the producers can shout out if the contestants are (literally) miles off course, but that's all. <div class="image">[[Image:Treasure_hunt_new_suzidermot.jpg|350px]]''Treasure Hunt in Kent''</div> Very usefully, bits of the clue disappear as they're solved, so to admire that handiwork, you've got to be watching carefully. The effect is similar to the way [[Pete McCarthy]] explained the clues on radio's [[X Marks the Spot]]. And once Suzi has her hands on clues one and three, she gets to shout "Stop The Clock!" and use the break to reposition back at the helicopter. Clue one is worth £100, clue two another £200. £300 for the third, £400 for the fourth, and £1000 for the last clue. Hmm, that would be exactly double the prizes on the old C4 version. In many ways, this is perhaps a stronger show than C4's. We tend to forget the long transits and transfers between clues that Anneka suffered. The game is now five minutes shorter, which means five minutes less travelling time, which means less time filling in or looking out of the window, and no chopper work between clues four and five. The clues are also far less absurdly cryptic than on the C4 version. The good news is that the sound problems between the studios and the skyrunner have mostly been ironed out, though that might be because the studio is within striking distance of the course. The bad news is that Zack Lawrence's memorable "Peak Performance" has vanished down the back of the BBC sofa, to be replaced by something far less memorable. Dermot is dressed in a black jumper, not quite the learned schoolmaster of Kenneth, but still smart. Suzi is loud and talks a bit too much, but is nowhere near as annoyingly squeaky as Annabel Croft, and we have to remember that it took Anneka two or three years to really get her teeth into the skyrunner role. There are some cute set-pieces - Dermot leaning out of the window to wave at the passing helicopter wouldn't have happened on C4. There's also indisputable evidence that Suzi does have a brain, and can solve these clues on her own bat. Quite where the obsession with pigs comes from remains to be seen - twice this week, Suzi went in search of some good porkers bearing canisters of fun. Another good feature is the occasional screen of information on the places they've been, though ''bbc.co.uk/treasurehunt'' redirects to Auntie's attempts to recover tapes she wiped in the 70s. Very poor is the signal to indicate time has expired - Dermot counting "three ... two ... one ... oh dear" doesn't have the crashing certainty of the trusty old gong. Oh, and the role of Wincey Willis? It's been taken by technology in general, and a GPS link to the helicopter (G-ONTV) instead. While somewhat subdued, the show had a lot of promise, and surely a full series was in order... === An Englishwoman Abroad === And so there we were in the hot Summer of 2003 with some (extremely expensive) international specials hindered by the fact that it was an abnormally warm week for the time of year so nobody was in to watch it. Furthermore, it was Wimbledon and some Tim Henman matches went on so long that the show got jostled around the schedules. In one week viewers went to far flung places such as San Francisco on Monday, Mexico City on Tuesday, New Zealand on Wednesday, Alice Springs on Thursday and Melbourne on Friday. All very beautiful to look at and happily, the show's still as much fun as it always was; some felt as if there was too much flying and not enough terra ferma hi-jinks early in the week. The single biggest addition the new version of the show has bought along is that of having the treasure in the vicinity of the final clue. One of the biggest problems with the original of course was that if they get the fifth clue with only a few minutes to go you knew there would be no chance of them winning because the helicopter wouldn't get there in time. Now there is always a chance. <div class="image">[[Image:Treasurehunt_suzi_large3.jpg|250px]]''Suzi on tour''</div> However, whilst in the original pilot week many of these final clues required a short run but needing to know an exact thing in order to win, a few too many of the final clues this time round have revolved around "Is Suzi fit enough to run from point A to point B, up a hill in time?" (the best example of this being on Alcatraz on Monday where she had to run up a large hill but Guy and Simon the technical blokes got to ride in a truck. There is also a rather pointless addition of sound stings for when they light up the map, when they start the clock, when they stop the clock and when time runs out. Fine normally, except they're barely audible (so they're seen as irritants) and generally a bit pathetic. And there's no way the current time's up signal (a sort of wheeeeeeeee-[wind chimes]) conveys the same authority as the gong. Silly silly silly. We like Treasure Hunt. But it never quite got there. And nobody saw it. Why the show never got a try out on Saturday early evening BBC 1 we don't know - it had enough production values for it. It was purely a question that BBC 2's loss of ''The Simpsons'' was the overriding factor to find something to plug the gap, and hang the cost. In some ways the low-key nature of the failure may see it return again one day. We shall see. == Key moments == The spectacular seasonal specials, set in foreign countries. Ned Sherrin's 1985 end of series special in which he was the host and Kenneth and Anneka were the contestants. Three special celebrity "Skyrunners" took on Anneka's role in the helicopter. Gemma Craven started off at Chelsea, Wayne Sleep then took over. The final runner was Kenny Lynch and the final clue brought Kenny to the Limehouse Studios where Chatsworth made the show. When Kenny made it to Kenneth and Anneka at the map table, the clock was stopped. == Catchphrases == "Stop the clock!" == Inventor == Based on the French show ''La Chasse aux Trèsors''. == Theme music == The famous theme tune was called ''Peak Performance'', composed by Zack Lawrence. <div class="video"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8KON3jFr7dg?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8KON3jFr7dg?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br/>''The original opening titles from all 7 series''</div> The 2002-3 edition was composed by Francis Haines (of ''Another 9 1/2 Weeks'', no less). It was tweaked slightly between the pilot week and the full international series because Lawrence felt that they used a similar riff. == Trivia == The skyrunner's helicopter had the registration G-BHXU (pilot: Keith Thompson). The communications helicopter that flew alongside was G-SPEY (pilots: Geoff Newman and Michael Malric-Smith - see ''[[Interceptor]]''). The 1984 adjudicator, Annette Lynton, is married to Nick Mason from the group ''Pink Floyd''. She still appears in various film and TV productions as an actress. A best-of programme in 1983 called ''Treasure Hunt: A Second Look'' featured Kenneth (in the chopper) and Anneka (in the studio) presenting highlights from the first series. In 1986, a behind-the-scenes doc ''The Making of Treasure Hunt'' was produced. A Welsh-language pilot, ''[[Helfa Drysor]]'', was produced for S4C. Anneka Rice on the Dermot-era remake: ''"I only saw a tiny bit of one of them, because it was on at a really random time on BBC - which was confusing. I don't know... it didn't feel messy enough. It looked a bit edited and it had screens within a screen and things going on. I think when they brought it back it should have been as it used to be - wobbly cameras and not any clever editing techniques or presentation techniques. You don't want split-screen. You so don't want that. I think if you bring something back, you've got to be loyal to how it was, otherwise don't bother."'' == Merchandise == A ''Treasure Hunt'' book was published. <div class="image">[[Image:Treasurehunt boardgame.jpg]]A board game was also produced.</div> <div class="image">[[Image:Treasurehunt computergame.jpg]]There was also a computer game for the ZX Spectrum.</div> == Web links == [http://www.chatsworth-tv.co.uk/ Chatsworth TV] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Hunt_%28UK_game_show%29 Wikipedia entry] [http://www.martinunderwood.f9.co.uk/Treasure%20Hunt/ Martin Underwood's episode list] [http://www.expand.fr Expand Images] (makers of the original French show and a spin-off called ''La Carte aux Trèsors''). [http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/index11fa.html?page_id=985 Off the Telly review of original series] [http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/indexc736.html?page_id=968 Off the Telly article of the come-back series] == Pictures == <div class="image">[[Image:Treasure_hunt_002.jpg|350px]]''A lucky young thing gets to spend quality time with Anneka, thanks to Jim'll Fix It.''</div> <div class="image">[[Image:Treasurehunt_suzi_large1.jpg|350px]]''Suzi Perry in the outback.''</div> <div class="image">[[Image:Treasurehunt_suzi_large2.jpg|250px]]''Suzi Perry in San Fransisco.''</div> == Videos == <div class="video"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uhbt3nznO5s?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uhbt3nznO5s?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br/>''First few minutes of the very first episode''</div> [[Category:Action and Adventure]] [[Category:Chatsworth Television Productions]] [[Category:Channel 4 Programmes]] [[Category:French Formats]] [[Category:Long-Running]]
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His group Invisible Children allegedly has ties to groups that promoted the death penalty for gay people in Uganda.
He also has a daughter who he didn't feature in his film.
He was arrested for masturbating in public, amongst other unruly intoxicated behaviors (March 16, 2012).
He tried to recruit numerous celebrities to speak about Kony on twitter, including Rihanna, Tim Tebow and George Clooney.
He also tried to recruit Rush Limbaugh into the Kony 2012 phenomenon, even though Limbaugh previously had defended Kony because he was a Christian.
He was accused of being selective in singling out Joseph Kony when the Ugandan and Sudanese military have committed equally horrific crimes.
Soem Ugandans have criticized his film as being inaccurate.
Why he might not be annoying
He successfully recruited various celebrities into his cause, including Rihanna, Ryan Seacrest and Justin Bieber.
He also managed to include various politicians in his cause, including Senators Jim Inhofe, Barbara Boxer and John Kerry.
His video received over 74 million views on youtube in less than a month.
Despite the fact that Joseph Kony has been covered by the media before, his film helped bring widespread attention to the problem.
He promised his friend Jacob, a Kony victim, that he would stop Kony, and has done everything he can to do so.
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The education industry is undergoing a major change, with most of the higher educational institutions and universities leaving their traditional marketing playbook and adopting niftier online marketing strategies. And, with a change in the pattern of how students and parents research and select their preferred educational institution, the challenge for an educational institution is to increase student enrolments during the admission process. This is where inbound marketing steps in.
What is Inbound Marketing?
Inbound marketing is a marketing strategy that involves the creation and distribution of relevant content for your audience, without having to pay hefty amounts for advertising. The principle of inbound marketing focuses on letting your prospects find your business and keeping them engaged by using channels such as blogs, infographics, social media, SEO, videos, whitepapers, etc.
In other words, instead of cold-selling education courses, you produce and distribute content that people are looking for, and also provide some value to them by fulfilling their immediate needs.
Adopting an inbound marketing strategy can enable educational institutions to go a few steps further in their marketing strategy, and meet all the marketing goals they have in mind. Here’s how inbound marketing strategies are effective for educational institutions:
#1. Target and Nurture the Right Kind of Leads
While you may be using marketing tools or resources to target and reach your target audience, your reach may be limited to a small number of clients, and a very specific pool of them to boot. This means that you would need to maximize every opportunity to gather those prospects, and it needs to be a consistent effort.
By adopting the inbound methodology, you can use tactics such as building your content assets, participating in social media and other pull strategies which can draw interested students to your website, and thus widen your pool of prospects. And since inbound marketing is all about understanding the needs of your buyers and providing a solution to them, you can leverage this opportunity by creating customized content which is suitable to the specific needs of the buyer, and offer knowledgeable content which would add to their knowledge.
#2. Opportunity to Nurture Your Leads by Educating them
A major aspect of inbound marketing methodology for the education sector is to educate and make your prospects aware of the product or service which you have to offer, and how it helps them reach their end goals and ultimately add value to the lives. With an inbound marketing approach, you can capture those leads and nurture them at every stage of the sales funnel.
This method is a lot more effective since you form tailor-made campaigns to create multiple conversion points and shorten the time between a prospective student’s first visit and their application submission. It would allow you to answer and foster interaction with your prospects about pertinent questions – from pricing and expected results, to what makes your education institute different.
#3. Convert High-Quality Traffic Into Prospective Students
Adopting an inbound marketing strategy would enable you to attract higher quality traffic to your website, convert them into prospective student applications, and then nurture them to take admissions. This is made possible due to a relationship based on information, advice and resources, which is instrumental in the lead generation process, and ultimately closing them for sales.
#4. Exercise Relationship Building and Delighting Your Prospects
Inbound marketing is all about delighting your customers – even after your customers have made their purchase – with the goal of turning them into the promoters of your brand. Building relationship with students beyond the course curriculum is every education institute’s primary goal, and inbound marketing provides a perfect solution to fit this requirement by throwing in a plethora of options for doing so. By adopting smart content strategies such as recycling cornerstone content, social outreach initiatives, etc., you can aim to foster a lifelong relationship with your students by constantly keeping them in the loop, thus gaining their trust and affinity.
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Something is going on at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and it runs contrary to local and national trends. While the majority of colleges and universities across the nation - including the three "other" big schools in the Twin Ports - have seen enrollment numbers drop over the last year, enrollment at UWS is up from 2020.
Additionally, that positive growth in enrollment for UWS is part of a general pattern for the university of steady enrollment numbers, even as local trends have seen a general trend downwards for the remaining schools (University of Minnesota-Duluth, Saint Scholastica, and Lake Superior College).
According to data shared by the Superior Telegram, UWS is on track to have positive enrollment growth for 2021:
"By more than one measure, the University of Wisconsin-Superior, the smallest of the four schools [locally], has proven to stand apart from regional and national trends. The school's enrollment total increased by nearly 1% this year to about 2,580 students, just shy of where that number stood in 2019."
At the same time, UWS has "Managed to continue enrolling a student body that's made up of 45% first-generation students".
In contrast, UMD, St, Scholastica, and Lake Superior College each saw a slide in enrollment numbers over the last year. For some of those institutions, that decrease is an overall general trend that started around five years ago. Here's a general breakdown of the four schools, with numbers from the last five years:
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UWS
2021: 2582
2020: 2559
2019: 2608
2018: 2601
2017: 2590
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UMD
2021: 9884
2020: 10275
2019: 10858
2018: 11040
2017: 11168
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St. Scholastica
2021: 3512
2020: 3735
2019: 3906
2018: 4043
2017: 4235
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Lake Superior College
2021: 2774
2020: 3096
2019: 3122
2018: 3146
2017: 3160
Whether enrollment is up or down at the four schools, one a variety of common factors is driving those numbers. High demand for labor in the current job market and the trend towards employers paying higher-than-usual wages to attract employees has had a definite affect on college enrollment numbers. According to Lake Superior College spokesperson Daniel Fanning:
"Some of those students who just weren't quite sure if they wanted to do the online courses or not, or just weren't sure with some of the uncertainty, a lot of them are taking that gap year, which has turned into a couple gap years. Some of them are working for $15-20 an hour because that's kind of the going wage right now."
Many of the students who do choose college are doing do part time; balancing work and school at the same time. "At least 70% of the college's students attend part time, which is higher than usual".
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Macadamia nuts are a type of nut that grows on the Macadamia nut tree in Australia, Hawaii, and other tropical regions. These nuts have been used for centuries by indigenous Australians to prevent illness and promote good health.
In recent years, scientists have shown how these nuts can provide powerful health benefits when eaten as part of a healthy diet. They can be eaten raw or roasted and usually, people eat them as a snack food because they’re crunchy, tasty, and an excellent source of healthy fats. On top of all that, they’re also gluten-free!
In this article, you will learn more about the types of macadamia nuts, their health benefits, and their side effects.
Nutrition Facts
Macadamia Nuts Health Benefits
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Nutrition Facts
According to the USDA, 1 ounce (28 grams) of raw macadamia nuts has the following nutrients (9):
Calories: 204
Fat: 22 grams
Carbohydrates: 3.91 grams
Fiber: 2.44 grams
Sugars: 1.3 grams
Protein: 2.24 grams
Calories
There are about 200 calories in 10 macadamia nuts. Because they are a calorie-dense food, you should make sure that you don’t eat too many of them at once.
The best way to eat these nuts is in place of other calorie-dense, less nutritious snack options like crisps. To control your portion, use your hand to measure how much you should eat at a sitting – one handful is an ideal serving size.
Carbs
Macadamias are low-carb nuts. If you’re following a keto diet or a low-carb diet, macadamia nuts are a good snack to have between meals. They are also rich in fiber – 2.4 grams per serving – so they will fill you up and keep you full for a long time.
Fat
Macadamia nuts have a high-fat content, but the kind of fats they contain are heart-healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids (MUFA and PUFA) (4).
They also contain omega-3 fatty acids, which means that macadamia nuts can help lower cholesterol levels in your body, reduce blood pressure, protect your cardiovascular system against diseases, and prevent inflammatory diseases like arthritis (11).
Additionally, they contain plant sterols, which can help lower blood cholesterol levels just like statins do (6).
Protein
There are 2 grams of protein in one ounce (28 grams) of macadamia nuts, which makes them a good source of vegetarian protein. Protein is an important macronutrient that helps build and repair muscle tissue (2).
Vitamins And Minerals
Macadamia nuts are a source of vitamin B1, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese, calcium, copper, iron bacon, zinc, selenium, and potassium.
Vitamin B1 (thiamin) helps turn carbs into energy for your cells to use to stay alive while magnesium regulates blood sugar levels which can benefit people with diabetes who are at risk for hypoglycemia (8)(15).
Meanwhile, zinc helps enhance your immune system while selenium is an antioxidant that protects against free radicals in the body which can cause cancer and heart disease (3).
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Macadamia Nuts Health Benefits
Macadamia nuts have been used by people for centuries as herbal remedies for preventing illness and promoting good health. Here are some of their main benefits:
Prevent Arthritis
The anti-inflammatory properties of macadamia nuts can help prevent arthritis and reduce pain associated with arthritis.
Antidiabetic
Macadamia nuts have a low glycemic index (GI), which means that they don’t cause big spikes in blood sugar levels after you eat them as some other foods do. This makes them perfect for diabetics and those at risk for diabetes, as they can help control blood sugar levels.
Heart-Healthy
Macadamia nuts have a high concentration of heart-healthy monounsaturated fatty acids which can help reduce inflammation in the arteries leading to your heart (13). This benefits people who already have atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, or are at risk for developing it.
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Reduce Weight
Having a high-fat diet doesn’t have to lead to weight gain, provided that you choose healthy fats. Like other nuts, macadamia nuts can help reduce appetite and cravings for unhealthy snacks like crisps and chips because they contain plant sterols that mimic the effects of statins. In one study, participants who ate a macadamia based diet lost weight while those in the other group didn’t register significant weight loss (14).
Glowing Skin
Macadamia nuts contain almost twice the recommended daily intake of vitamin A and zinc, both of which can help promote healthy-looking skin and reduce acne (12).
Reduce Cholesterol
The plant sterols present in macadamia nuts can help lower blood cholesterol levels. This, in turn, keeps your cardiovascular system healthier and reduces your risk of developing heart diseases (6).
Antimicrobial Properties
The antioxidant power of macadamia nuts can help kill off bacteria and fungi in your body. This benefit makes them good allies to have during the cold and flu season because they can fight against infection.
Anticancer And Antioxidant Properties
Macadamia nuts contain polyphenols, which are antioxidants that can reduce oxidative stress in the body and prevent diseases like cancer (16).
Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
The omega-3 fatty acids found in macadamia nuts can help fight off cognitive decline and protect against dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease by reducing plaque formation in the brain (10).
Stress Buster
Macadamia nuts contain magnesium, which is a stress-relieving mineral that your body needs to stay calm and relaxed even when you feel overwhelmed (7).
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Macadamia Nuts Side Effects
Despite being a rich source of nutrients, these nuts can have the following side effects:
Allergies
Macadamia nut allergies exist. If you’ve already experienced allergic symptoms after eating nuts in the past, such as itching and redness of the skin or swelling of the lips and tongue, then you should avoid macadamia nuts (5).
Selenium Toxicity
These nuts contain a high concentration of selenium which, in large doses, can have toxic effects on the body. Some signs of selenium toxicity are hair loss, brittle nails, nausea, fatigue, and irritability (1).
If you have diabetes or high blood pressure, then you should avoid eating too many macadamia nuts because selenium toxicity can worsen these conditions.
The Bottom Line
Macadamia nuts can help control blood sugar levels and cholesterol while minimizing oxidative stress in the body. They also contain a high concentration of many nutrients that promote good health and glowing skin. However, if you’re allergic to nuts or have diabetes or hypertension, then you should avoid eating this variety.
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This article is intended for general informational purposes only and does not address individual circumstances. It is not a substitute for professional advice or help and should not be relied on to make decisions of any kind. Any action you take upon the information presented in this article is strictly at your own risk and responsibility!
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, an American political writer, born at Thetford, county of Norfolk, England, Jan. 29, 1737, died in New York, June 8,1809. He learned under his father, a Quaker, the trade of staymaking. About 1755 he shipped in a privateer, and in 1759 settled at Sandwich, where he worked at his trade, and preached occasionally as a dissenting minister. In 1760 he obtained a place in the excise at Thetford, and subsequently at Lewes in Sussex, where he also carried on business as a grocer and tobacconist. He was chosen by the excisemen to speak for them, and wrote in 1772 "The Case of the Officers of the Excise." Being accused of smuggling in connection with his business as a grocer, he was dismissed from the excise. Benjamin Franklin having advised him to go to America, he arrived in Philadelphia in December, 1774, and was employed as editor of the "Pennsylvania Magazine." In October, 1775, he published in the "Pennsylvania Journal" his "Serious Thoughts," in which he declared his hope of the ultimate abolition of slavery, and his belief in the separation of America from Great Britain. His writings attracted the attention of Dr. Benjamin Rush, at whose suggestion, it is said, he wrote "Common Sense," a pamphlet advocating an independent republic.
It made a profound impression, and is said to have had a wider circulation than any paper published until that time in America. It was strongly opposed and denounced, hut struck the keynote of popular feeling, and contributed much to the dissemination of republican ideas. The legislature gave him £500, and the university of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the honorary degree of M. A. The work was first published anonymously and without copyright, and its great circulation did not reimburse the author.
After independence was declared Paine volunteered in Gen. Roberdeau's division of the flying camp, and afterward was aide-de-camp to Gen. Greene. In December, 1770, he published his first "Crisis," which began with the phrase: " These are the times that try men's souls." This was read by order at the head of every regiment, and did much to rouse the drooping ardor of the people. A second number of the " Crisis " appeared after the battle of Trenton, and other numbers at irregular intervals, until the 18th and last on the attainment of peace, April 19, 1783. In 1777 he was elected secretary to the committee on foreign affairs, but was censured by congress and obliged to resign for making improper use of official secrets in his letters in the "Pennsylvania Packet" against Silas Deane. In November, 1779, he was elected clerk to the general assembly of Pennsylvania. In the following June a letter was received by the assembly of Pennsylvania from Gen. Washington, saying that, notwithstanding his confidence in the attachment of the army to the cause of the country, he feared their distresses would soon cause mutiny in the ranks. This letter was read by Paine as clerk. A despairing silence pervaded the hall, and the assembly soon adjourned.
Paine wrote to Blair McClenaghan, a merchant of Philadelphia, explaining the urgency of affairs, and enclosed in the letter $500, the amount of salary due him as clerk, as his contribution toward a relief fund. McClenaghan called a meeting next day and read Paine's letter; a subscription list was immediately circulated, and in a short time £300,000 Pennsylvania currency was collected. With this as a capital, the Pennsylvania bank (afterward expanded into the bank of North America) was established for the relief of the army. In 1781 Paine was sent with Col. Laurens to France to negotiate a loan, and secured (3,000,000 livres from the French government, and its guarantee for 10,000,000 advanced by Holland. In 1782 he wrote a " Letter to the Abbe Raynal," correcting mistakes in the account by the latter of the American revolution. In January, 1785, he was elected a member of the American philosophical society, and in the following October received $3,000 from congress as a testimonial for his services during the revolution; and the state of New York granted him a house and farm of 300 acres in New Rochelle, it be-ing the confiscated estate of a royalist, On April 20, 1787, he sailed for France, where he was cordially received by many eminent men.
He submitted the model of an iron bridge which he had invented to the academy of sciences at Paris, whose opinion of its merits was decidedly favorable. In September he visited his mother in England, and wrote the "Prospects of the Rubicon." In 1788 he resided at Rotherham in Yorkshire, superintending the erection of his iron bridge, of which Stephenson says: "If we are to consider Paine as its author, his daring in engineering certainly does full justice to the fervor of his political career; for successful as the result has undoubtedly proved, want of experience and consequent ignorance of the risk could alone have induced so bold an experiment; and we are rather led to wonder at than admire a structure which, as regards its proportions, and the quantity of material employed in its construction, will probably remain unrivalled." This bridge was put up for exhibition in an open field at Paddington, and was afterward taken down and the materials used in the one which now spans the river Wear at Sunderland. In 1791 appeared the first part of his " Rights of Man," written as a reply to Burke's " Reflections on the French Revolution;" the second part was issued in 1792. This work had an immense circulation, and was translated into French. The American edition was prefaced with a commendatory note by Thomas Jefferson. In 1792 he gave the revolutionary society of England an order on Jordan, his publisher, for £1,000, to be applied in the furtherance of their objects.
In September of the same year a deputation from France announced to Paine his election to the French national convention from the department of Calais. He immediately left England to take his seat, and met with a triumphant reception in Paris. The revolutionary doctrines of the "Rights of Man" caused his indictment in London for sedition. The following December his trial took place, and, not appearing to receive his sentence, he was outlawed. In the national convention Paine generally voted with the Girondists. He was associated with Brissot and Condorcet on the committee that framed the constitution of 1793. As a member of the convention, he advocated the trial of Louis XVI.; but when the sentence of that unfortunate monarch came up for discussion, he opposed his death, and suggested his banishment to America. He incurred the ill will of the extreme party, and was imprisoned by Robespierre as a foreigner. On his way to prison he placed the manuscript of the first part of his "Age of Reason" in the hands of Joel Barlow. His confinement lasted from January to November, 1794. When he was first arrested, the Americans in Paris went in a body to apply for the release of " the apostle of liberty in America," as they styled him; but they were unsuccessful.
A few months after the death of Robespierre, James Monroe, the American minister in France, procured his liberation, and tendered him a home in his own family, which Paine enjoyed for about 18 months. In December he resumed his seat in the national convention, on the invitation of its members. In 1795 the second part of the "Age of Reason" appeared. It was denounced as atheistical, but unjustly. It assailed Christianity with great boldness, though not advancing many new arguments, or displaying any great study of the subject. Its position is deistical, declaring a belief in God and a future life. In April, 179G, he published an essay "On the English System of Finance," and in the following July a "Letter to General Washington," in which he accuses him of ingratitude in not attempting to procure his liberation from his French prison. "Agrarian Justice," and a " Letter to the People and Armies of France," appeared in 1797. In 1802 Paine resolved to return to the United States, and at his request President Jefferson offered him a passage in the sloop of war Maryland, that he might be secure from British capture.
He arrived at Baltimore, after an absence from the United States of 15 years, on Oct. 30, 1802. Jefferson invited him to Mon-ticello. At Washington he was cordially received; and while there he wrote his " Letters to the People of the United States." On his way to New York he was grossly insulted by the federalists at Trenton. His admirers in New York and Philadelphia honored him with public dinners; his enemies thought that he and Jefferson "should dangle from the same gallows." He finally settled in New York, occasionally passing a few months on his farm at New Rochelle. Just before his death he requested to be interred in a Quaker burial ground; but the Quakers refusing to permit this, his remains were taken to New Rochelle and buried on his farm. In 1819 William Cob-bett, the English reformer, took his bones to England. A monument was erected to his memory in 1839 within a few feet of the spot where he was originally buried. A memorial building was dedicated in Boston, Jan. 29, 1875, having over the entrance the inscription: "Paine Memorial Building and Home of the Boston Investigator." - Among the biographers of Paine are George Chalmers, under the pseu-donyme of Francis Oldvs (London, 1791; 5th ed., 1792), William Cobbett (1796), James Cheatham (New York, 1809), T. C. Rickman (London, 1814), W. T. Sherwin (1819), and Gilbert Vale (New York, 1841). The most complete edition of his works is that by J. P. Mendum (Boston, 1856), which however contains several articles not by Paine. A new edition of his political works, with a report of his trial in 1792, and also of his theological works, was published in London in 1861.
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South Wales Police becomes one of the world’s first law enforcement agencies to adopt a Children’s Rights Charter
Last Updated: 02/03/2020
The rights of children have been put to the forefront as South Wales Police becomes one of the world’s first law enforcement agencies to adopt a Children’s Rights Charter.
Detailing the rights young people have when coming into contact with the force, the seven-point charter – officially adopted today (Monday, March 2nd) – sets out how police in South Wales will always work on behalf of and in the best interests of young people, treating them with respect and in confidence.
It refers to all contact young people have with the police, including if they have been a victim of crime or if they are accused of breaking the law.
Officers, staff and volunteers are all expected to abide by the charter’s promises whenever they come into contact with young people.
It is the first Children’s Rights Charter to have been adopted by a police force in the UK – and possibly the world.
Compiled with help from pupils at Pentrehafod School in Swansea, who were consulted on what values they held dear and what they expected from police, and based on The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the seven articles are aimed at everyone under 18 and explain how they have:
• The right to life, to be safe and protected
• The right to what is best for them
• The right to be listened to
• The right to help and support
• The right to information
• The right to respect
• The right to privacy and confidentiality
A number of pupils from Pentrehafod School met South Wales’ Chief Constable, Matt Jukes, and Police and Crime Commissioner, Alun Michael, at an event in at the school today to mark the charter’s official launch.
Police & Crime Commissioner Rt Hon Alun Michael said:
“The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has established a comprehensive set of principles, critical to supporting and developing children in communities across the world and here in South Wales we recognise the importance of working together to achieve its ambitions.
“It is for these reasons that myself and the Chief Constable have made a joint commitment to the Convention, placing particular emphasis on using the experience of children and young people to understand exactly how policing can help to turn its principles into reality.
“This involves us developing both our policies and our approach to ensure that the responsibilities and powers of South Wales Police – and those of the Commissioner and the Chief Constable – are used in ways that are consistent with the Convention and enable children and young people to contribute to building better communities.
“This initial charter is very much the first step on a much long-term journey and we are working on the development of a detailed strategy showing the contribution that policing can and will make. Today we are establishing our commitment in South Wales to work with children and young people and our partners to develop our approach and culture, including the establishment of that wider strategy.”
Chief Constable Matt Jukes said:
“Today’s children and young people will be tomorrow’s peace-keepers, decision-makers and role models for subsequent generations. The police may play a large part in the life of a child or just be there in the background but we will always have a part to play in ensuring they are never ignored. Our role as guardians in society is often focused on the rights of children and their particular need for care and protection.
“This charter sets out those values we seek to uphold in South Wales Police, and I am really pleased these promises have been captured in a clear statement of our commitment placing the rights of children at the centre of everything we do.”
Sally Holland, Children's Commissioner for Wales said:
“I am pleased that the Commissioner and Chief Constable have taken such a positive step forward to commit to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
“It’s been a real pleasure to work with South Wales Police to explore the commitment to children’s rights and support meaningful participation with young people to develop a first for Wales – a police charter developed for young people by young people.
“Together we have been able to establish training on the UNCRC, identify what the approach will mean in practice and highlight how the work of the police is essential in helping children and young people to access a range of rights, particularly around their right to be protected.
“We look forward to further supporting South Wales Police with their work on children’s rights, along with all other public bodies in Wales.”
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The actual use of a subquery requires a basic knowledge of SQL (Structured Query Language). In essence, SQL is programming code and quite technical. Structured Query Language (SQL) is a database language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. SQL was initially developed by IBM in the early 1970s (Date 1986). The initial version, called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM’s quasi-relational database management system, System R. Then in the late 1970s, Relational Software Inc., which is now Oracle Corporation, introduced the first commercially available implementation of SQL, Oracle V2 for VAX computers.
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Many of the currently available relational DBMSs, such as Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, IBM DB2, IBM Informix and Microsoft Access, use SQL. Here is an example of the SQL language being used to create a database table:
USE SW
CREATE TABLE PROJECT
(
ProjectID Int NOT NULL IDENTITY (1000,100),
ProjectName Char(50) NOT NULL,
Department Char(35) NOT NULL,
MaxHours Numeric(8,2) NOT NULL DEFAULT 100,
StartDate DateTime NULL,
EndDate DateTime NULL,
CONSTRAINT ASSIGNMENT_PK PRIMARY KEY(ProjectID)
);
Here’s an example of a subquery In Access using the Query Wizard in Design View (the subquery is written in SQL at the bottom of the third column):
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The ultimate goal of pavement data collection is to be able to most efficiently allocate resources to plan for pavement maintenance. When it comes to programming maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) activities, all decisions are bound by resource constraints. A typical pavement network optimization problem is trying to produce the best set of pavement projects to meet a defined set of constraints, while maximizing or minimizing some objectives. This means that the desired output of the analysis is a work plan that include the following components:
Where: which sections to fix
What: which treatment(s) to use or not use
When: in which year
Usually there are some assumptions regarding this problem, such as:
A set of pavement sections has been defined in some scope
Based upon some defined set of rules, an appropriate treatment can be recommended for each section
These recommended treatments depend on the section’s attributes, such as condition, functional class, and traffic level
This set of rules often exists in the form a decision tree for many transportation agencies
Therefore, in an analysis where the analysis period is one year, the work plan will include one of the following options for each section in the defined scope:
Treat this section using the recommended treatment
Do not treat the section (Do Nothing)
The analysis performs this decision making on a network-wide basis and the sum of activities recommended by the analysis should optimally achieve the stated objective.
Optimization Approach
Developing a work plan is essentially an optimization problem because in real-world scenarios there are always some resource constraints that prevents applying treatments to all the sections in the network. An optimization problem can usually be formulated as follows:
The intention is to maximize or minimize a value in what is called Objective Function
The problem is limited by some set of rules that control how the output is manipulated by what are called Constraints
The dynamics between the objective and constraints can be changed by varying some set of values called Variables
In general, the way to specify an optimization type problem is to state:
I want to maximize or minimize this (Objective)
Subject to these conditions being true (Constraint A,B,C)
By varying these quantities (Variable X1, X2, X3 …)
Mathematical Formulation
In the context of pavement, the work plan is essentially a set of binary values, with each value corresponding to a given section at a given year, namely:
1 = Treat this section using the corresponding treatment
0 = Do nothing
Therefore, conceptually the work plan could be a list of 0’s and 1’s like this: [0,0,1,1,0,1,1,1,1,0….0]. For example, if there are 5 sections in the analysis scope, then the following are two possible work plans (Note: They may not be the optimal work plan):
[0,0,0,1,0] - This means treating the 4th section with the recommended treatment
[1,1,1,0,1] - This means treating every section EXCEPT the 4th section with their corresponding candidate treatments from the decision tree
Define the Variables
These are the 0’s and 1’s that make up the work plan
These 0’s and 1’s can be changed to find the desired solutions
Essentially the analysis is trying different combinations of these sets of 0’s and 1’s until it settle on a combination that fits the desired solution
All of these 0’s and 1’s can be referenced by the variable number. This manual uses the notation Xi to indicate the variable of section i. Example: X4 will be the variable for the 4th section in the list
Define the Constraints
Constraints can be set in many ways but they are all functions of the problem variables
Take a budget constraint as an example where the total treatment cost must be less than a given amount. If the cost of the recommended treatment for each section is ci,
the cost for a given section is ci*xi
the total treatment cost is
Therefore, if the total budget allowed is C, then the constraint equation is
AgileAssets application allows the user to define a variety of other constraint types including weighted average, percent above threshold and sub-constraints.
With the mathematical formulation of the problem, it is possible to use an optimization software, or Solver, to solve the problem.
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This article is about an American cultural commentator. For other people named David Brooks, see David Brooks (disambiguation).
David Brooks
Brooks in 2019
Born
(1961-08-11) August 11, 1961 (age 60)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality
American
Alma mater
University of Chicago
Occupation
Columnist, pundit
Spouse(s)
Sarah (née Jane Hughes; m. 1986; div. 2013)
Anne Snyder
(m. 2017)
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)[1] is a conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times.[2][3] He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal,[4] a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, a contributing editor at Newsweek, and The Atlantic Monthly, in addition to working as a commentator on NPR and the PBS NewsHour.[1]
Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Early career
3 Career
4 Political views
5 Social views
6 Criticisms
7 Legacy
7.1 Sidney Awards
8 Personal life
9 Select bibliography
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Early life and education[edit]
Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontario, where his father was working on a PhD at the University of Toronto. He spent his early years in the middle-income Stuyvesant Town housing development in New York City with his brother, Daniel. His father taught English literature at New York University, while his mother studied nineteenth-century British history at Columbia University. Brooks was raised Jewish but rarely attends synagogue.[5][6][7] As a young child, Brooks attended the Grace Church School, an independent Episcopal primary school in the East Village. When he was 12, his family moved to the Philadelphia Main Line, the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979. In 1983, Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in history.[1] His senior thesis was on popular science writer Robert Ardrey.[7]
As an undergraduate, Brooks frequently contributed reviews and satirical pieces to campus publications. His senior year, he wrote a spoof of the lifestyle of wealthy conservative William F. Buckley Jr., who was scheduled to speak at the university: "In the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping."[8] To his piece, Brooks appended the note: "Some would say I'm envious of Mr. Buckley. But if truth be known, I just want a job and have a peculiar way of asking. So how about it, Billy? Can you spare a dime?" When Buckley arrived to give his talk, he asked whether Brooks was in the lecture audience and offered him a job.[9]
Early career[edit]
Upon graduation, Brooks became a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.[1] He says that his experience on Chicago's crime beat had a conservatizing influence on him.[7] In 1984, mindful of the offer he had received from Buckley, Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern at Buckley's National Review. According to Christopher Beam, the internship included an all-access pass to the affluent lifestyle that Brooks had previously mocked, including yachting expeditions, Bach concerts, dinners at Buckley's Park Avenue apartment and villa in Stamford, Connecticut, and a constant stream of writers, politicians, and celebrities.
Brooks was an outsider in more ways than his relative inexperience. National Review was a Catholic magazine, and Brooks is not Catholic. Sam Tanenhaus later reported in The New Republic that Buckley might have eventually named Brooks his successor if it hadn't been for his being Jewish. "If true, it would be upsetting," Brooks says.[7]
After his internship with Buckley ended, Brooks spent some time at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University and wrote movie reviews for The Washington Times.
Career[edit]
Brooks preparing for PBS Newshour in 2012
In 1986, Brooks was hired by The Wall Street Journal, where he worked first as an editor of the book review section. He also filled in for five months as a movie critic. From 1990 to 1994, the newspaper posted Brooks as an op-ed columnist to Brussels, where he covered Russia (making numerous trips to Moscow); the Middle East; South Africa; and European affairs. On his return, Brooks joined the neo-conservative Weekly Standard when it was launched in 1994. Two years later, he edited an anthology, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing.[1][4]
External video
Booknotes interview with Brooks on Bobos, July 30, 2000, C-SPAN
In 2000, Brooks published a book of cultural commentary titled Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There to considerable acclaim. The book, a paean to consumerism, argued that the new managerial or "new upper class" represents a marriage between the liberal idealism of the 1960s and the self-interest of the 1980s.
According to a 2010 article in New York Magazine written by Christopher Beam, New York Times editorial-page editor Gail Collins called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch.
Collins was looking for a conservative to replace outgoing columnist William Safire, but one who understood how liberals think. "I was looking for the kind of conservative writer that wouldn't make our readers shriek and throw the paper out the window," says Collins. "He was perfect." Brooks started writing in September 2003. "The first six months were miserable," Brooks says. "I'd never been hated on a mass scale before."[7]
In 2004, Brooks' book On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense was published as a sequel to his 2000 best seller, Bobos in Paradise, but it was not as well received as its predecessor. Brooks is also the volume editor of The Best American Essays (publication date October 2, 2012), and authored The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement.[10] The book was excerpted in The New Yorker in January 2011[11] and received mixed reviews upon its full publication in March of that year.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] It sold well and reached #3 on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2011.[26]
Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006.[27] In 2013, he taught a course at Yale University on philosophical humility.[28]
In 2012, Brooks was elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees.[29] He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.[30]
In 2019, Brooks gave a TED talk in Vancouver entitled 'The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters – And a Better Way to Live'. TED curator Chris Anderson selected it as one of his favourite talks of 2019.[31]
Political views[edit]
Play media
Brooks on PBS Newshour discussing the US presidential election in 2016.
Ideologically, Brooks has been described as a moderate,[32] a centrist,[33] a conservative,[34][35][36][37][38][39] and a moderate conservative.[40][41] Brooks has described himself as a "moderate",[42] and said in a 2017 interview that "[one] of [his] callings is to represent a certain moderate Republican Whig political philosophy."[43] Ottawa Citizen conservative commentator David Warren has identified Brooks as a "sophisticated pundit"; one of "those Republicans who want to 'engage with' the liberal agenda".[44] When asked what he thinks of charges that he's "not a real conservative" or "squishy", Brooks has said that "if you define conservative by support for the Republican candidate or the belief that tax cuts are the correct answer to all problems, I guess I don't fit that agenda. But I do think that I'm part of a long-standing conservative tradition that has to do with Edmund Burke ... and Alexander Hamilton."[45] In fact, Brooks read Burke's work while he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and "completely despised it", but "gradually over the next five to seven years ... came to agree with him". Brooks claims that "my visceral hatred was because he touched something I didn't like or know about myself."[46] In September 2012, Brooks talked about being criticized from the conservative side, saying, "If it's from a loon, I don't mind it. I get a kick out of it. If it's Michelle Malkin attacking, I don't mind it." With respect to whether he was "the liberals' favorite conservative" Brooks said he "didn't care", stating: "I don't mind liberals praising me, but when it's the really partisan liberals, you get an avalanche of love, it's like uhhh, I gotta rethink this."[45]
Brooks describes himself as beginning as a liberal before, as he put it, "coming to my senses." He recounts that a turning point in his thinking came while he was still an undergraduate, when he was selected to present the socialist point of view during a televised debate with Nobel laureate free-market economist Milton Friedman.[5] As Brooks describes it, "[It] was essentially me making a point, and he making a two-sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point. ... That didn't immediately turn me into a conservative, but ..."[47]
Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Brooks argued forcefully for American military intervention, echoing the belief of commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators.[48][49] In 2005, Brooks wrote what columnist Jonathan Chait described as "a witheringly condescending" column portraying Senator Harry Reid as an "unhinged conspiracy theorist because he accused the [George W. Bush] administration of falsifying its Iraq intelligence."[50][51] By 2008, five years into the war, Brooks maintained that the decision to go to war was correct, but that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had botched U.S. war efforts.[52] In 2015, Brooks wrote that "[f]rom the current vantage point, the decision to go to war was a clear misjudgment" made in 2003 by President George W. Bush and the majority of Americans who supported the war, including Brooks himself.[53] Brooks wrote "many of us thought that, by taking down Saddam Hussein, we could end another evil empire, and gradually open up human development in Iraq and the Arab world. Has that happened? In 2004, I would have said yes. In 2006, I would have said no. In 2015, I say yes and no, but mostly no."[53] Citing the Robb-Silberman report, Brooks rejected as a "fable" the idea that "intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was all cooked by political pressure, that there was a big political conspiracy to lie us into war."[53] Instead, Brooks viewed the war as a product of faulty intelligence, writing that "[t]he Iraq war error reminds us of the need for epistemological modesty."[53]
His dismissal of the conviction of Scooter Libby as being "a farce" and having "no significance"[54] was derided by political blogger Andrew Sullivan.[55]
On August 10, 2006, Brooks wrote a column for The New York Times titled "Party No. 3". The column imagined a moderate McCain-Lieberman Party in opposition to both major parties, which he perceived as polarized and beholden to special interests.[56]
Brooks was long a supporter of John McCain; however, he disliked McCain's 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin, calling her a "cancer" on the Republican Party.[57] He has referred to her as a "joke", unlikely ever to win the Republican nomination.[58] But he later admitted during a C-SPAN interview that he had gone too far in his previous "cancer" comments about Palin, which he regretted, and simply stated he was not a fan of her values.[59]
In a March 2007 article published in The New York Times titled "No U-Turns",[60] Brooks explained that the Republican Party must distance itself from the minimal-government conservative principles that had arisen during the Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan eras. He claims that these core concepts had served their purposes and should no longer be embraced by Republicans in order to win elections. Alex Pareene commented that Brooks "has been trying for so long to imagine a sensible Republican Party into existence that he can't still think it's going to happen soon."[61]
Brooks has frequently expressed admiration for President Barack Obama. In an August 2009, profile of Brooks, The New Republic describes his first encounter with Obama, in the spring of 2005: "Usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don't know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me. ... I remember distinctly an image of – we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president."[62] Brooks appreciates that Obama thinks "like a writer", explaining, "He's a very writerly personality, a little aloof, exasperated. He's calm. He's not addicted to people."[46] Two days after Obama's second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, hit bookstores, Brooks published a column in The New York Times, titled "Run, Barack, Run", urging the Chicago politician to run for president.[63] However, in December 2011, during a C-SPAN interview, Brooks expressed a more tempered opinion of Obama's presidency, giving Obama only a "B-", and saying that Obama's chances of re-election would be less than 50–50 if elections were held at that time.[64] He stated, "I don't think he's integrated himself with people in Washington as much as he should have."[46] However, in a February 2016 New York Times op-ed, Brooks admitted that he missed Obama during the 2016 primary season, admiring the president's "integrity" and "humanity", among other characteristics.[65]
In writing for The New York Times in January 2010, Brooks described Israel as "an astonishing success story".[66] He wrote that "Jews are a famously accomplished group," who, because they were "forced to give up farming in the Middle Ages ... have been living off their wits ever since".[66] In Brooks' view, "Israel's technological success is the fruition of the Zionist dream. The country was not founded so stray settlers could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron. It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world."[66][67]
In 2015, Brooks issued his commentary on poverty reform in the United States. His op-ed in The New York Times titled "The Nature of Poverty" specifically followed the social uproar caused by the death of Freddie Gray, and concluded that federal spending is not the issue impeding the progress of poverty reforms, but rather that the impediments to upward mobility are "matters of social psychology".[68] When discussing Gray in particular, Brooks claimed that Gray as a young man was "not on the path to upward mobility".[68]
In regard to the 2016 election, Brooks spoke in support of Hillary Clinton, applauding her ability to be "competent" and "normal" in comparison to her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump.[69][70] In addition, Brooks noted that he believed Clinton would eventually be victorious in the election, as he foresaw that the general American public would become "sick of" Trump.[69][70]
When discussing the political emergence of Trump, Brooks has been strong in his critiques of the candidate, most notably by authoring a New York Times op-ed he titled "No, Not Trump, Not Ever". In this piece, Brooks attacked Trump by arguing he is "epically unprepared to be president" and by pointing out Trump's "steady obliviousness to accuracy".[71]
On the August 9, 2019 episode of the PBS NewsHour, Brooks suggested Trump may be a sociopath.[72]
Social views[edit]
Brooks opposes what he sees as self-destructive behavior, such as the prevalence of teenage sex and divorce. His view is that "sex is more explicit everywhere barring real life. As the entertainment media have become more sex-saturated, American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious" by "waiting longer to have sex ... [and] having fewer partners". He sees the culture war as nearly over, because "today's young people ... seem happy with the frankness of the left and the wholesomeness of the right." As a result, he is optimistic about the United States' social stability, which he considers to be "in the middle of an amazing moment of improvement and repair".[73]
As early as 2003, Brooks wrote favorably of same-sex marriage, pointing out that marriage is a traditional conservative value. Rather than opposing it, he wrote: "We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity ... It's going to be up to conservatives to make the important, moral case for marriage, including gay marriage."[74]
In 2020, Brooks wrote in The Atlantic, under the headline "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake", that "recent signs suggest at least the possibility that a new family paradigm is emerging," suggesting that in the place of the "collapsed" nuclear one the "extended" family emerges, with "multigenerational living arrangements" that stretch even "across kinship lines."[75] Brooks had already started in 2017 a project called "Weave", in order, as he described it,[75] to "support and draw attention to people and organizations around the country who are building community" and to "repair [America]'s social fabric, which is badly frayed by distrust, division and exclusion."[76]
Brooks also takes a moderate position on abortion, which he thinks should be legal, but with parental consent for minors, during the first four or five months, and illegal afterward, except in extremely rare circumstances.[77]
He has expressed opposition to the legalization of marijuana, stating that use of the drug causes immoral behavior. Brooks relates that he smoked it in his youth but quit after a humiliating incident: Brooks smoked marijuana during lunch hour at school and felt embarrassed during a class presentation that afternoon in which he says he was incapable of intelligible speech.[78]
Criticisms[edit]
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Brooks' writing on sociology has been criticized for being based on stereotypes and presenting false claims as factual. In 2004, Sasha Issenberg, writing for Philadelphia magazine, fact-checked Bobos in Paradise, concluding that many of its comments about middle America were misleading or the exact reverse of the truth.[79] He reported Brooks as insisting that the book was not intended to be factual but to report his impressions of what he believed an area to be like: "He laughed ... '[The book was] partially tongue-in-cheek'...I went through some of the other instances where he made declarations that appeared insupportable. He accused me of being 'too pedantic,' of 'taking all of this too literally,' of 'taking a joke and distorting it.' 'That's totally unethical', he said." Brooks later said the article made him feel that "I suck...I can't remember what I said but my mother told me I was extremely stupid."[7] In 2015, an opinion piece by David Zweig published in Salon found that Brooks had got "nearly every detail" wrong about a poll of high-school students.[80]
Michael Kinsley argued that Brooks was guilty of "fearless generalizing ... Brooks does not let the sociology get in the way of the shtick, and he wields a mean shoehorn when he needs the theory to fit the joke".[81] Writing for Gawker, which consistently criticized Brooks' work, opinion writer Tom Scocca argued that Brooks does not use facts and statistics to support his policy positions, noting "possibly that is because he perceives facts and statistics as an opportunity for dishonest people to work mischief".[82] Furthermore, Annie Lowrey, in writing for the New York magazine, criticized Brooks' statistical methods when arguing his stance on political reform, claiming he used "some very tricksy, misleading math".[83]
Additionally, Sean Illing of Slate criticized the same article from Brooks, claiming he argued his point by framing his sources' arguments out of context and routinely making bold "half-right" assumptions regarding the controversial issue of poverty reform.[84]
In 2016, James Taranto criticized[85] Brooks' analysis[86] of the U.S. Supreme Court case Dretke v. Haley,[87] writing that "Brooks's treatment of this case is either deliberately deceptive or recklessly ignorant".[85] Law professor Ann Althouse concurred that Brooks "distorts rather grotesquely" the case in question.[clarification needed][88] Brooks was previously criticized by Lyle Denniston with regard to another case, for having "scrambled the actual significance of what the Supreme Court has done".[89]
In 2018 Brooks wrote an article in The New York Times about the generation gap between older and younger Democrats, in which he attributed young Democrats' radicalism to "the cultural Marxism that is now the lingua franca in the elite academy."[90] Brooks was criticized by journalist Ari Paul who claimed that in the article Brooks "rebrands cultural Marxism as mere political correctness, giving the Nazi-inspired phrase legitimacy for the American right. It is dropped in or quoted in other stories—some of them lighthearted, like the fashion cues of the alt-right—without describing how fringe this notion is. It's akin to letting conspiracy theories about chem trails or vaccines get unearned space in mainstream press."[91] Ari Paul and Spencer Sunshine, an associate fellow at the Political Research Associates, concluded that failure to highlight the nature of the Cultural Marxist conspiracy theory "has bitter consequences. 'It is legitimizing the use of that framework, and therefore it's coded antisemitism."[91]
Legacy[edit]
Sidney Awards[edit]
In 2004 Brooks created an award to honor the best political and cultural journalism of the year. Named for philosopher Sidney Hook and originally called "The Hookies", the honor was renamed "The Sidney Awards" in 2005. The awards are presented each December.[92]
Personal life[edit]
Brooks met his first wife, Jane Hughes, while they were students at the University of Chicago. She converted to Judaism[93] and changed her given name to Sarah.[94] In November 2013, they divorced.[95][96] In 2017, Brooks married his former research assistant, writer Anne Snyder.[97]
According to The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, in a September 2014 interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Brooks said that his oldest son serves in the Israel Defense Forces.[98]
In recent years, Brooks has explored Christianity, although he has not formally converted.[99][100][101][102]
Select bibliography[edit]
Editor, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (Vintage, 1996) 0-6797-6654-5
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) ISBN 0-684-85377-9
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004) ISBN 0-7432-2738-7
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011) ISBN 978-1-4000-6760-2
The Road to Character (Random House, 2015) ISBN 978-0-8129-9325-7
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019) ISBN 978-0-8-1299-3264
See also[edit]
Co-commentator on NPR: E. J. Dionne.
Co-commentator on the PBS Newshour: Jonathan Capehart
References[edit]
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^ Shea, Danny (October 8, 2008). "David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party"". The Huffington Post. New York City: Huffington Post Media Group. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
^ David Brooks: Sarah Palin Is A 'Joke', TPMTv on YouTube, November 15, 2009
^ "In Depth with David Brooks". C-SPAN. December 4, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2015. Host: Does David regret his comment about Sarah Palin and her cancer on the Republican party? Brooks: Yeah, I do. I think it was some lunch affair for some magazine, and I was just mouthing off, and so I – I'm not a fan of hers, but that's a little strong.
^ Brooks, David (March 3, 2007). "No U-Turns". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved September 13, 2008.
^ Pareene, Alex (April 22, 2014). "Blow up the Times Op-Ed page, and start again!". Salon. San Francisco, California: Salon Media Group. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^ Sherman, Gabriel (August 31, 2009). "The Courtship: The story behind the Obama-Brooks bromance". The New Republic. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
^ Brooks, David (October 19, 2006). "Run, Barack, Run". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
^ "In Depth with David Brooks". C-SPAN. December 4, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2015. Host: So how is the president doing? Brooks: You know, I think I'm a little disappointed that he didn't do Simpson-Bowles. I was a little disappointed in the way the debt has run up, and I don't blame him for running up the debt in the recession, but I think we needed an exit strategy to get out of it. I think he could have done a little more to promote growth, though I think given all the bad things it was going to be tough no matter who was president, no matter who did anything, it was going to be tough to promote growth. So I don't particularly blame him for that. I think he's conducted himself in pretty much an honest way. He's had very little corruption. I still have great personal admiration for him. I'm more to his right, but I give him no worse than a B-. I think he's made some mistakes, but i wouldn't say he's been a bad president.
^ Brooks, David (February 9, 2016). "I Miss Barack Obama". The New York Times. New York City.
^ a b c Brooks, David (January 12, 2010). "The Tel Aviv Cluster". The New York Times. New York City.
^ Maltz Bovy, Phoebe. "David Brooks Was Right: Anti-Semitism Is a Different Evil". The New Republic. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^ a b Brooks, David (May 1, 2015). "The Nature of Poverty". The New York Times. New York City.
^ a b Schwartz, Ian (June 11, 2016). "David Brooks: People Will Be Sick Of Trump And Vote For Hillary, "She Will be Competent And Normal"". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
^ a b PBS News Hour. "Shields and Brooks on 'anticlimactic' Clinton victory, Trump's 'moral chasm'." Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, June 10, 2016. Web. September 20, 2016.
^ Brooks, David (March 18, 2016). "No, Not Trump, Not Ever". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
^ "David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart on Trump's mass shooting response (Read the Full Transcript)". pbs.org. August 9, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019. And I look at that photo, I think, well, he's a sociopath. He's incapable of experiencing or showing empathy.
^ The New York Times, April 17, 2005, 4–14
^ Brooks, David (November 22, 2003). "The Power Of Marriage". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
^ a b Brooks, David (March 2020). "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake". The Atlantic. Boston, Massachusetts: Emerson Collective. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
^ "Weave: The Social Fabric Project". The Aspen Institute. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
^ Brooks, David (April 22, 2007). "Postures in Public, Facts in the Womb". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved December 31, 2009.
^ Brooks, David (January 2, 2014). "Weed: Been There. Done That". The New York Times. New York City.
^ Issenberg, Sasha (April 1, 2004). "Boo-Boos in Paradise". Philadelphia. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
^ Zweig, David (June 15, 2015). "The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book". Salon. San Francisco, California: Salon Media Group. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^ Kinsley, Michael (May 23, 2004). "Suburban Thrall". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
^ Scocca, Tom. "David Brooks Has Noticed Hillary Is a Soviet Dictator". Gawker. New York City: Bustle Digital Group. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^ Lowery, Annie (May 1, 2015). "David Brooks Is Not Buying Your Excuses, Poor People". New York. New York City: New York Media. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
^ Illing, Sean (May 1, 2015). "Why David Brooks Shouldn't Talk About Poor People". Slate. New York City: The Slate Group. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
^ a b Taranto, James (January 12, 2016). "Brooks Borks Cruz". The Wall Street Journal. New York City: Dow Jones & Company.
^ Brooks, David (January 12, 2016). "The Brutalism of Ted Cruz". The New York Times. New York City.
^ Dretke v. Haley, 541 U.S. 386 (2004).
^ Althouse, Ann. "Althouse" (January 13, 2016).
^ Denniston, Lyle (May 7, 2012). "Constitution Check: Did the Supreme Court give us Super PACs?". Constitution Daily.
^ Brooks, David (November 26, 2018). "Liberal Parents, Radical Children". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 27, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
^ a b Paul, Ari (June 4, 2019). "'Cultural Marxism': The Mainstreaming of a Nazi Trope". Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
^ Brooks, David (December 29, 2005). "The Sidney Awards, 2005". The New York Times. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
^ "The Times' 'New York Conservative'". The Jewish Week.
^ Brooks, Sarah (June 19, 2008). "What's in a name? In part, my religion". Washington Jewish Week. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014.
^ "Love, etc.: David Brooks and Sarah Brooks divorce". The Washington Post. November 18, 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
^ Lamb, Brian (February 8, 2015). "Q&A with David Brooks". C-SPAN. Retrieved May 3, 2017. (40:42) Lamb: Are you divorced or not? Brooks: I am divorced, yes. And I don't want to personally, I don't want to legally, talk about it, but yes, I am divorced. ... I do believe in marriage, mine didn't work out, I desperately want to get married to somebody.
^ Heil, Emily (April 30, 2017). "New York Times columnist David Brooks weds his former researcher Anne Snyder". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Nash Holdings. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
^ Esham, Rob (September 23, 2014). "David Brooks' Son Is In the Israeli Army: Does It Matter?". Jewish Journal. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Wallace-Wells, Benjamin (April 29, 2019). "David Brooks's Conversion Story". The New Yorker. New York City: Condé Nast.
^ Smith, Christian T. (June 3, 2019). "How David Brooks Meandered Toward God". Christianity Today.
^ McGarvey, Bill (September 16, 2019). "David Brooks on his life-changing pilgrimage with St. Augustine and Dorothy Day". America.
^ Wehner, Peter (May 7, 2019). "David Brooks's Journey Toward Faith". The Atlantic. Boston, Massachusetts: Emerson Collective.
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The Vincent Bach Corporation is an American manufacturer of brass musical instruments that began early in the twentieth century and still exists as a subsidiary of Conn-Selmer, a division of Steinway Musical Instruments. The company was founded in 1918 by Austrian-born trumpeter Vincent Schrotenbach (Vincent Bach). This particular company has been voted by consumers for the Best Brass Tone, the Best Brass Durability, Best Price, and Best Overall, beating other companies such as Getzen, King Musical Instruments, etc.
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Main article: Vincent Bach
Vincent Schrotenbach was born near Vienna in 1890. As a child he received training on violin, trumpet and bugle. By age 12 he had concentrated on the trumpet.[1] After he graduated from Maschinenbauschule (Mechanical Engineering School, Ansbach) with an engineering degree,[2] he entered into compulsory military service in the Imperial Navy, worked as an elevator operator, and then was re-conscripted during which time he served as a military musician in the Austrian Marine Band.
When he left the military the second time, Vincent decided to defy his family’s wishes and pursued a career as a solo cornetist touring Europe.[3] At the outbreak of World War I, he was in England and was forced to change his name and flee to the United States in order to escape detention as an enemy alien.[1] He resumed his career as a performer, interrupted by another term of compulsory military service, this time in the US military as a musician.[2][4]
While Bach was on tour in Pittsburgh in 1918, a repairman destroyed his mouthpiece, and Bach began experimenting with mouthpiece repair and fabrication.[1]
Vincent Bach Corporation
New York Period
First New York Period
Time frame: 1918 - 1922
Products: Mouthpieces
Brand names: Vincent Bach
Location: 11 East 14th Street, Selmer Music, New York, New York
Set-up shop at: 204 East 85th Street, New York, New York[5]
Serial Numbers: N/A
The Vincent Bach Corporation began when Vincent purchased a $300 foot-operated lathe and began producing mouthpieces in the back of the Selmer music store in New York. He established his shop across the street from the musicians' union. He ran an advertisement that read "How to become a wizard on cornet without practicing" and accumulated $500 in orders in a short time and began his career as a manufacturer.[1]
Second New York Period
Time frame: 1922 - 1928
Products: Mouthpieces, Cornets, Trumpets
Brand names: Stradivarius, Apollo, Mercury[5]
Location: 237 E. 41st Street, New York, New York[5]
Serial Numbers: 1-1000 (approximate)
By 1922 the company incorporated,[5] had 10 employees [1] and moved into a small factory at 237 E. 41st Street in New York.[5] In 1924 Bach began producing cornets and trumpets under the Stradivarius by Vincent Bach Corporation name.[1][6] In 1928, tenor and bass trombones were added to the product line as the company expanded and relocated.[1]
Vincent Bach trumpet mouthpiece
Third New York Period
Time frame: 1928–1953
Products: Mouthpieces, Cornets, Trumpets, Flugelhorns, Trombones
Brand names: Stradivarius, Apollo, Mercury,[6] Mercedes[5]
Location: 621 East 216th Street, Bronx, New York[6]
Serial numbers: 1000 – 12,599
In October 1928 the company opened a factory in The Bronx to produce cornets, trumpets and trombones (both tenor and bass).[1] Shortly after this move, Bach removed the “Faciebat Anno” marking from his bell engraving that had been in use since before the 100th horn, and began stamping the bells with “Model” followed by numbers for the bell mandrel and bore size. Some horns have "New York 67" as the location on the bell and are sometimes mistaken for a "67" bell model, however 67 was the pre-zipcode postal code for the Bronx. This practice continued through most of this period. The bell mandrel number had previously appeared in Bach’s script “Vincent Bach Corporation” that has been an enduring marking on Bach horns.[6]
The company experienced stresses, but survived the depression and expanded again afterward. During the Second World War, Bach coped with a shortage of workers and materials and, while not converted to produce war materials as many competitors were, the company cut back on production. Throughout the early years, Bach resorted to mixing parts and modifying earlier horns returned to their ownership during this period to provide requested instruments to customers. Some horns built from extra parts or reconfigured bear an X on the serial number on the second valve casing, others had a digit added to the original serial number. In some cases, the same serial number exists on another horn.[7]
Mount Vernon Period
Vincent Bach Mount Vernon manufactured trumpet (#26XXX) in an Elkhart case circa late 60s
Time frame: 1953–1964
Products: Mouthpieces, Brass Instruments
Brand names: Stradivarius, Mercury, Minerva, Mercedes[1]
Location: 50 South MacQuesten Parkway, Mount Vernon, New York[5]
Serial Numbers: 12,600 – 29,999
Over the years, the company produced several ranges of trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns and trombones, using the brand names Apollo, Minerva, Mercury, Mercedes and Stradivarius. The Vincent Bach Corporation moved in 1953 from New York City to Mount Vernon, New York. Mt. Vernon Bach horns are prized for being hand-assembled instruments.[2][3] Mt. Vernon horns can be identified by the Bach manufacturing stamp listing Mount Vernon NY on the second valve casing along with the bore letter code and serial number.[3]
Elkhart Period
Bach logo on a 30,000-series Mellophonium.
Time frame: 1965 – present
Products: Mouthpieces, Brass Instruments
Brand names: Stradivarius, Bundy(Selmer name no longer used), Bach
Location: 600 Industrial Parkway, Elkhart, Indiana[5]
Serial Numbers: 30,000 -
In 1961 Vincent Bach was 71 and the company was acquired that year by The Selmer Company, with Bach staying on as a consultant[8] and continuing to work until at least 1974.[9] Bach accepted the bid from Selmer even though some others of the 13 which he received were higher.[1] It is believed that Vincent Bach continued customizing a small number of horns at the old Mt. Vernon facility for special customers.[10]
The bulk of tooling, along with many parts and assembled horns, were relocated to a former Conn factory belonging to the Selmer Company.[1][3] The Bach line of brass instruments continues to be made in Elkhart, Indiana, using the same blueprints and the same techniques as the originals. They are sold as a premium brand under the name “Bach Stradivarius” as well as the student line “Bach” horns.[11]
Strike
On 1 April 2006, workers at the Bach plant in Elkhart began a strike that lasted three years.[12] Production was interrupted until the company hired replacement workers, and roughly a third of the strikers returned to work.[13][14] The strike ended when workers voted to dissolve the relationship between the company and the United Auto Workers union. As a result, retired employees lost their pensions.[12]
The 70 strikers who returned to work constituted 30% of the pre-strike workforce, but they constituted 57% of the workforce after the strike, which shrank by 46% to 124. In the post-strike period amidst severe economic crisis, sales were down from pre-strike levels by 31%, but gross profit rose from 20% to 22% of sales revenues. Re-work and quality complaints dropped sharply in the post-strike period. Reductions in employee compensation were credited with returning production of student-line horns (the TR-300) from Asia to Elkhart.[15]
References
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Priestley, Brian, Dave Gelly, Tony Bacon, The sax & brass book, MIller Freeman Books, San Francisco, CA, 1998, p. 1970
1 2 3 History of Bach Stradivarius
1 2 3 4 Hempley, Roy & Lehrer, Doug, Play it again Mr. Bach, 2002, Bachology essay at http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=4 retrieved 5/31/2011
↑ Note: Bach served in the same field artillery regiment credited with bringing the "Cassion Song" to John Philip Sousa in 1917. The result, "The Caisson Song," would become the official U.S. Army march, "The Army Goes Rolling Along." See http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/mcb/Library/M0126.htm
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BachLoyalist.com Timeline of the Vincent Bach Corporation and Serial Number List at http://www.bachloyalist.com/serials/serial_trumpet.htm retrieved 6/2/2011
1 2 3 4 Hempley, Roy and Lehrer, Doug, New York Bach Stradivarius Trumpet and Cornet Bell Markings, 2004, Bachology essay at http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=1 retrieved 5/31/2011
↑ Hempley, Roy and Lehrer, Doug, Bach’s X Horns, 2001, Bachology essay at http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=2 retrieved 5/31/2011
↑ Dundas, Richard, 20th Century Brass Musical Instruments in the United States, p. 5
↑ Pavlakis, Christopher, The American music handbook, The Free Press, Calhun Publishing, 1974, p. 655
↑ Hempley, Roy and Lehrer, Doug, Bach’s Bugles, 2004, Bachology essay at http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=7 retrieved 5/31/2011
↑ Vincent Bach website http://www.bachbrass.com/ retrieved 5/31/2011
1 2 Conroy, Tommy (5 August 2009). "Conn-Selmer strike ends". South Bend Tribune (Indiana). Retrieved 23 July 2010.
↑ Marilyn, Odendahl (05 August 2009). "Three years later, the Vincent Bach strike -- and the union -- ends quietly ". The Elkhart Truth
↑ Stuckey, Mike (12 April 2010). "Little sympathy, but much at stake for strikers". eTruth. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
↑ Odendahl, Marilyn, Conn-Selmer leader's focused on the future, The E-truth, 5/23/2010, at http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?ID=513794 retrieved 6/7/2011
External links
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BachLoyalist.com
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An Historic Look at the Bach Trumpet
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Jane Galt has been tracking developments in the "Soaking The Spiteful Rich" discussion sparked by this post by Brad DeLong, with follow-ups here and here. Brad DeLong's position is that the rich engage in conspicuous consumption partly in order to spite the poor; consequently we should have a more progressive income tax to prevent this. I am not kidding:
I wrote that one reason that America's rich today live the expensive and ostentatious lifestyles they do (rather than spending much more money on charity, or philanthropy) is that it is a way of making other people feel small and unhappy...
And the policy prescription:
The easiest and most important thing the government can do to neutralize the adverse consequences of rising inequality is to make the tax system more progressive, not less. A reality-based government would react to growing pretax inequality by taxing the rich more, and subsidizing the poor more (through policies like the EITC) as well.
Greg Mankiw was too polite to laugh out loud, but he responded with "Are The Rich A Form Of Pollution?" and "Are The Rich Spiteful?". A flavor:
Reading Brad DeLong's response to a previous post of mine makes me start to think that there is a bigger gulf between my worldview and Brad's than I had ever appreciated. Here is Brad:
I wrote that one reason that America's rich today live the expensive and ostentatious lifestyles they do (rather than spending much more money on charity, or philanthropy) is that it is a way of making other people feel small and unhappy....
Brad seems to see the rich as especially mean and spiteful. I see them as some combination of more talented, hard-working, and lucky than average but otherwise like everyone else. (Or maybe Brad views everyone as mean and spiteful and the rich as having more opportunities to exercise these vile attributes.) I wonder if our varying perspectives on human nature can partly explain our different positions on public policy.
Eventually Brad DeLong offered a third post billed as a defense of his view:
Ori Heffetz's work has some empirical implications for the spite-vs-envy question...
Uh huh. Based on the long summary provided, the "empirical implication" is that the rich engage in proportionately more conspicuous consumption than the rest of us, and who can doubt it? But does this paper offer any support for the '"spite" theory of motivation? No... so I suppose I can argue that this paper has some empirical implications for the theory that the rich engage in conspicuous consumption to uplift and inspire the poor, and help the poor feel better about the prospects for their children and grandchildren - call it the "Someday this may all be yours" theory.
Of course, it also has empirical implications for the theory that the rich engage in proportionately more conspicuous consumption in order to ward off alien abduction. Wow, that was a powerful study!
Well. Lizardbreath at Unfogged cleverly shifts the topic in a post titled "Jane Galt Seems Displeased With Advocates Of Redistribution" - briefly, since it is beyond dispute that income redistribution is a good thing, folks who object to DeLong's specific argument are just being cranky.
I would have said Jane G. is displeased with silly arguments, but she says so herself in a follow-up. And the second comment at Unfogged is on target:
The discussion of why inequality is bad seems to have gone off the rails in the exchanges that I've been reading. The libertarians were saying egalitarianism was motivated by envy, and then DeLong defended himself by saying that he was motivated by a hatred of spite, which hardly seems like a firm ground for a tax code.
I have not seen any table-pounding defense of the specific spite-motivated progressive tax code advocated by DeLong (as opposed, for example, to consumption and excise taxes on spite-capable goods). If such defenders are out there, feel free to enlighten the rest of us. Thanks.
As to my own Official Editorial Position - don't rush me. My previous thoughts were here, and my quick reaction is this: I suspect that income inequality is being used as a proxy for other things, such as class and income mobility. My strong hunch is that if class and income mobility were high, folks would not be too worried about income inequality; conversely, if income inequality were low but our class and income structure was rigid (working class kids don't go to college and end up in working class jobs; neighborhoods are segreagated by class and income) I think people would agree we had a problem despite equal incomes.
My thought - drop the "income inequality" proxy and establish metrics for the variables that represent the "real" problem. Treating the cause rather than the "income inequality" symptom is more likely to lead to a long term solution, or ta least, a sensible discussion about what it is we are trying to achieve.
SINCE IT MAY NOT BE OBVIOUS: It may not be obvious, but I happen to think that Brad DeLong is a smart, honest liberal (and we all know the standard position on two out of three). Just for example. he wrote a fascinating career-killer on the potential problems with a Hillary Administration a while back; on another topic he blew a whistle on his own team in response to my near-endless heckling about a particular point about GDP growth versus corporate profitability.
And look, not every one of his blog posts represent the first draft of a paper intended for publication, especially when that post goes up just before Labor Day weekend. He floated an idea, people had fun whacking it, that's life.
My secret hope is that he will be goaded into coming back to the question of income inequality. I am reasonably convinced there is some sort of a problem and it would be interesting to see an analytical framework to think about it. That said, spite-based economics probably is not it.
Posted by Tom Maguire on September 06, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
Theory of conspicuous, er, contemption?
Well, on first blush one asks how exactly will raising their taxes reduce their spiteful dislike of the poor?
And even if raising taxes removed this spite and, in turn, lessened their consumption, would that be a good idea?
Third, why am I responding to this goofy argument?
SMG
Posted by: SteveMG | September 06, 2006 at 02:49 PM
If we keep needling DeLong enough we may get an account of what drove a utilitarian to write this:
Surely spite is at least as offensive an other-regarding preference as envy, isn't it? Surely public policy should weigh the spite-generated utility the rich gain from their conspicuous consumption as worth less than nothing, shouldn't it?
Posted by: Paul Zrimsek | September 06, 2006 at 03:07 PM
They should ask the spiteful Kennedy's why they keep all of their trust fund money off shore... Let's get Fat Ted to pay his fair share first!
Posted by: Bob | September 06, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Brad's idea sounds like a microcosm of what the UN wants to do on a global level.
One word - communism.
Posted by: doug deeper | September 06, 2006 at 03:27 PM
'inequality is to make the tax system more progressive, not less. A reality-based government would'
Sounds like Blair's and his Live8 - G8 GDP tax that he doubled the day after the London bombings.
Posted by: proreive . | September 06, 2006 at 03:36 PM
A national sales tax would be a step in the right direction. The rich would pay more taxes and everyone would be happy?
Posted by: Larry | September 06, 2006 at 03:37 PM
DeLong proves that liberals just want higher taxes and are desperately searching for some rationale to justify their own bias... a twist off the 'sentence first, verdict afterwards'... and their continuing lack of success drives them to endorse such stupidity as what DeLong is doing.
And why would the rich spend in order to spite the poor, when the rich would just as soon not have anything to do with the poor? It's not as if the millionaires are driving through the inner city slums so the poor can see the fancy car the rich are driving, nor are the rich inviting the poor out to the Hamptons so they can watch the rich sitting by the pool drinking champagne.
Posted by: steve sturm | September 06, 2006 at 03:45 PM
DeLong must be reading my mind.
I just can’t stand to be around clowns, midgets and poor people. This must be why I avoid the circus at all costs.
Posted by: jwest | September 06, 2006 at 03:48 PM
"Lizardbreath at Unfogged cleverly shifts the topic...."
Note that in an update Lizardbreath writes that Galt is "still living in a fantasy world in which the motivation for policies that reduce inequality is to injure the rich, rather than help the poor."
Delong (singled out by Galt):
"Surely public policy should weigh the spite-generated utility the rich gain from their conspicuous consumption as worth less than nothing?"
It's easy to see (unless you're Lizardbreath, I suppose) why Galt thinks that Delong is suggesting that policies that hurt the rich without otherwise helping the poor might therefore be optimal ... hence her somewhat tongue in cheek (not that Lizardbreath gets that either) analogy of throwing acid in Cindy Crawford's face. (The acid makes Cindy uglier but - this is the point - doesn't make anyone else prettier).
Posted by: Joe Mealyus | September 06, 2006 at 03:58 PM
Personally, I think we should start by really, really taxing skinny, young gorgeous models and see if that helps before proceeding further.I've always been impressed with Dahl and Lindbloom's notion that the pragmatic way to social change requires that we start small, see what works, before initiating gigantico changes.
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 04:08 PM
By the way, note that even if you buy Lizardbreath's (albeit perhaps without understanding what she's disdaining) disdain of the idea that "motivation for policies that reduce inequality" solely by injuring the rich "is to injure the rich, rather than help the poor," Galt really does provide a clever answer:
"It is not that I admire the rich for their gloating, or disdain the poor for their envy. I think that both are distasteful, in exactly the same degree, because *they are both exactly the same emotion*: the rich gloat, and the poor long to be entitled to gloat. The fundamental desire--to Lord it over others--is exactly the same; it is not edified merely because the possessor is unsuccessful at it, any more than the attempted murderer is on a higher spiritual plane than the fellow who actually managed to complete the act."
In other words, if Lizardbreath (or anyone else) wants to say something like "we're not injuring the rich to help the rich, but to help the poor," Galt's idea is that it only helps the poor by rewarding the same thing - "the same emotion" - that the rich is being punished for the first place.
Posted by: Joe Mealyus | September 06, 2006 at 04:09 PM
But it does! It makes everyone prettier except the formerly pretty, who become the new ugly.
Seriously, though, it took reading The Road to Serfdom, at least for me, to realize just how wide the gulf between socialism/socialists and classical liberalism/liberals is, and it's pretty wide.
Posted by: Extraneus | September 06, 2006 at 04:11 PM
High altitude pilots can be deprived of oxygen to the point of uselessness. Films show pilots in altitude chambers flailing about. . . a scare tactic to remind us that hypoxia can be deadly, with the pilot unable to save himself, much less his crew and passengers.
Could it be that Brad is suffering from the rarified atmosphere of academia? Is he suffering from a reality-based fantasy that justifies a spite-motivated progressive tax code?
I wonder if the real lesson is that what passes for evidence in academia is often only assertion -- that something said with gravity could just as easily be Ward Churchill or John Kerry talking.
Posted by: sbw | September 06, 2006 at 04:21 PM
Great read over at Back Talk by engram
http://engram-backtalk.blogspot.com/>The "Wages and Productivity" Hoax
nicely done engram!
Posted by: Bob | September 06, 2006 at 04:39 PM
Paris Hilton: show-off. High taxes
Andre Aggasi: nice guy. Low taxes
Bill Gates: irritating, even though gives away a lot of money. High taxes
John Kerry: doesn't deserve his money. High taxes
Tom Maguire: maybe not rich. Low taxes
Next?
Posted by: JohnH | September 06, 2006 at 04:40 PM
There are some pretty good comments to 'Jane Galt's ost too, such as:
'Very nice post. If it had been posted as a comment on DeLong's blog, he surely would have deleted it and banned you for life.'
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | September 06, 2006 at 04:47 PM
While taxing the rich has it's (anti-snob) appeal, the overall structure of the current tax system relies so heavily on the rich that when they get a cold, the federal deficit suffers too (as if anybody really cares).
Half of all Americans have no stake in the income tax system because they pay none. The income tax means as much to them as the death tax, it's somebody else's tax/problem, not theirs. When half of all potential taxpayers pay no income taxes at all, and the top 1% pay 38% of all income taxes, any notion of "American people" and equality begins to fray at all the ends. Frankly, I think it would be better if everyone had to pay a minimum tax of $1. This makes them a stake holder in the income tax system, even if it is just symbolic for the most part. They would then have a clearly legitimate claim as a full taxpayer, and an even more legitimate claim to be active in the political system.
One other thing. I suggest that the definition for rich be changed so the threshold is defined as one dollar less that what Congressmen and Senators make. So every time they get a raise, somebody gets an income tax cut. Thus making it doubly hard to justify a pay raise.
Posted by: Neo | September 06, 2006 at 04:50 PM
HEH!
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 05:15 PM
BTW, What's his thought on estate taxes? Rich people who blow thru their dough have lower estates to pay taxes on. While those who simply squirrel it away while living on cat food in one room walkups get smacked when they die--a big penalty for not creating envy. No?
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 05:18 PM
This type of progressive thinking reminds me of an encounter I had while on business in Malmo, Sweden.
Malmo is a working class town, but infested with socialists-in-training from the nearby university town of Lund. As part of their curriculum, a group of these blond heads full of mush were performing a bit of “street theater” to dramatize the inequities in their society.
The cast included the “rich man” (with accompanying evil mustache), a pillow-stuffed fat banker, a baker and, of course, a poor person. A few others played town’s people to provide the appropriate socialist response to the dialog.
Naturally, the plot opened with the poor man begging for bread from the baker. The baker, although sympathetic, tells the beggar to go away. Nearby, the rich man is bringing yet another bag of money to the banker. The narrator explains that money has hardened the heart of the rich man and that he has failed to see how wrong it was that he had so much money while the poor man had none.
I don’t remember exactly how the rich man reached his epiphany about social justice, but it goes without saying that the play ended with Swedish style income redistribution and everyone dancing with joy.
Since what brought me to that particular street and time was lunch, I asked the group if they would like to join me. (Note to fellow travelers: If you invite a dozen college-age Swedes to eat on your tab, be prepared to see some world-class eating.) We discussed the play and politics in general. Apparently, the young socialist view of the U.S. is a stark contrast between the rich whites and the poor blacks.
As a hypothetical, I asked if it would be a better long term solution if the rich man deposited his money with the banker and, due to his greed, demanded a higher interest rate. The banker, driven by greed and fear of losing the rich man’s business, would be forced to lend the money out to generate the interest. Faced with this dilemma, the banker convinces the baker, also motivated by greed, to take a loan to expand and subsequently the baker hires the beggar to work for him.
Without any prodding, a few of the students caught on that this scenario provided a level of dignity to the poor man that their redistribution model missed altogether.
So, if you travel to Sweden and happen to bump into the only two capitalists in the country, you know who to thank.
Posted by: jwest | September 06, 2006 at 05:26 PM
I need only refer to the luxury tax that was passed in 1990 and repealed in 1993. To pick just one, it nearly destroyed the recreational boat building industry putting, you guessed it, thousands of working stiffs out of a job. All that "conspicuous consumption" puts bread on the table of working people.
Posted by: Locomotive Breath | September 06, 2006 at 05:30 PM
Taxing the rich does not give self esteem to the poor,this can only be done through self help,burglary and robbery should therefore be made legal within certain tax bands.This prevents money being siphoned off by government and frittered away on vast bureaucracies.
Liberals who wished to enable the scheme could put the "Urobme" logo on their houses and SUVs and quick release clips on their Rolexes.Simple.
Posted by: PeterUK | September 06, 2006 at 05:43 PM
Yeah, that boat thing was a great example, LB. Ayn Rand would have been proud, speaking of "Jane" Galt.
Posted by: Extraneus | September 06, 2006 at 05:51 PM
PUK, I reallt like the way you think. I understand Blair has some openings to fill.
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 06:01 PM
Larry Elder explains why taxing heavily against the top wealthy base is the wrong thing to do. PUK is right.
Posted by: lurker | September 06, 2006 at 06:07 PM
It sounds like Delong is doing his research by watching "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".
But the truth is better described by the book "The Millionaire Next Door". In it, the authors demonstrate the vast majority of "rich" (people with net worth over $1 million) are no different from everyone else. They are not conspicuous consumers.
Yet again another post that demostrates how out of touch Delong really is.
Posted by: TomB | September 06, 2006 at 06:09 PM
I'm so anti-egalitarian and so pro-capitalist that I stand up and cheer every time I read that the RICH got even richer. Because, being of modest means, I still live very well. I can afford a nice house, car, good food, etc. etc. because some rich greedy bastard built a quality product and sold it at a reasonable price, then an even more greedy bastard built one and made it better and sold it cheaper, and got even more obscenely rich than the first guy. So I'm the beneficiary of greed, greed, greed.
The only way redistribution of "wealth" has worked, is making everyone poor. Except for the people in control of the redistribution, who seem to do ok despite universal poverty.
So I'll stick with greedy bastards that make my life better, over caring egalitarians that make me as equally miserable as all those around me.
Posted by: Lew Clark | September 06, 2006 at 06:09 PM
I have a friend who thinks there is a leisure class at both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Maybe it is leisure that needs to be confiscated and given to the people in the middle. : ^ )
Posted by: tp | September 06, 2006 at 06:11 PM
HTTP, Neal Boortz's Nealz News:
The Democrats, with no small amount of help from Republicans, are making headway on their goal of shifting the entire federal tax burden in this country onto a minority of income earners. In 2004 the bottom one-half of income earners paid only 3.3% of all federal income taxes. That's down from the Clinton years. In fact, that's the lowest share paid by the bottom half ever.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the majority of American families with incomes less than $40,000 pay no income taxes at all! When you factor in the welfare program known as the Earned Income Tax Credit, many of these families are coming close to getting a completely free ride!
OK ... but what about the evil rich?
In 2004 the top 1% of all income earners earned about 19% of all income. So ... the rich really are benefiting from Bush's tax policies, aren't they? Just 1% earning 19% of all income? Sorry to burst your bubble, but that figure was higher in the Clinton years. During the time Clinton was in office this figure went from 13.8% to nearly 21%. Funny how you didn't read a lot of newspaper stories during the Clinton years about growing income inequality, isn't it? Now, under bush, the share of total income earned by the wicked rich has fallen!
But what about the income taxes! Surely George Bush has all but wiped out income taxes for the nasty rich, hasn't he?
Nope.
In 2004 the top 1% of income earners -- that crowd that earned 19% of all income -- paid 36.9% of all income taxes. The top 5% of income earners paid a whopping 57.1% of all income taxes. That's an increase under Bush. So much for "tax cuts for the rich."
OK .. well how about the super-rich? What about the top one-tenth of one percent of income earners? Lordy, I don't even know how much you have to earn to be in this crowd. From 2002 to 2004, with the hated Bush tax cuts firmly in place, the top 0.1% of income earners saw their share of total income taxes paid go from 15.4% to 17.4%. That's up a full 2% for those of you who went to government schools.
OK ... that's income taxes. But what about capital gains taxes and taxes on dividends? Bush cut those taxes too, didn't he? That's where the rich are making out like bandits, right? Well ... glad you asked. Since Bush's tax cuts the Imperial Federal Government has seen an increase of 79% in capital gains taxes, and 35% for taxes on dividends.
Just remember these figures the next time you see some Democrat whining about income inequality and the need to redistribute income. It looks like we're doing quite a bit of redistribution as it is.
Posted by: vnjagvet | September 06, 2006 at 06:37 PM
Raising minimum wage is going to introduce the results opposite of what the democrats think would do.
Posted by: lurker | September 06, 2006 at 06:50 PM
From 1932 until 1982 the top tax rate on income never fell below 63 percent. If Mr. Delong can somehow provide a metric demonstrating that the rich were less spiteful toward the poor during this period then he might have an argument.
However, as the rich historically pay a higher proportion of income taxes every time tax rates are cut they may actually be more spiteful toward the poor now because the poor aren't paying their fair share, in which case Mr. Delong should be praising Mr. Reagan and Bush for soaking the rich. Either way, as an economist the guy couldn't paint a sunset on a duck's ass.
Posted by: Barney Frank | September 06, 2006 at 06:55 PM
Analogue: Professor DeLong enjoys an excess of intellectual capital, and spends it in a way that's calculated so inspire spite in those who are not so well endowed.
So, I'm thinking lobotomy.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 06, 2006 at 07:00 PM
This is all very unscientific of Mr de Long,first there needs to be an index of spitefulness so that there can be a direct correlation between wealth and spite.
Does spite increase in direct ratio to wealth? Is there a natural spite quotient which is not affected by fiscal conditions?
How are the spiteful poor to be assessed? Or even the spiteful middle classes?
Should there be a system of "Spite Credits" whereby developing classes can be allowed more spite credits than existing spite producing classes?
Perhaps some University Department of Applied Spiteology can provide the answers?
There needs to be a UN Envoy of Envy so that this global problem can be solved multilaterally.
Posted by: PeterUK | September 06, 2006 at 07:15 PM
A reality-based government
Why is it that the very people who wouldn't know reality if they fell over it, want to make everything "reality based"?
Posted by: Jane | September 06, 2006 at 07:19 PM
"The only way redistribution of "wealth" has worked, is making everyone poor."
But one argument for the redistribution of income is that it makes the wealthy better off. In particular, it allows them to enjoy a more optimal level of "public" goods (like police and military protection, roads, etc etc).
The key is that if you're a rich person, an increase in your own is also an increase in the taxes of other rich persons.
Posted by: Joe Mealyus | September 06, 2006 at 07:34 PM
I am thrilled that this is out in the open.
It has been an intergral aspect of the ideology
of the LEFT and goes back to tribal cultures,
as Shrinkwapped explains in this insightful
and timely post from July 24th:
A Perspective on Tribes and Anti-Semitism
Throughout most of humanity's tenure on the planet, societies have been organized primarily along tribal lines. Tribes are by their nature based on shared ethnicity and shared religious beliefs. They also tend to have a very limited number of leaders who have first choice of assets with the rest, essentially shared communally. Furthermore, before the very recent past, most societies lived on the edge of subsistence, with very little left over for accumulating material goods. The disparity between those with the most and those with the least was actually fairly small, though this did not keep "envy" from being a significant issue and a great many tribal rules were developed in order to manage such envy. This all began to change when man began his slow march to technology.....
,,,,,,,,,
2) They direct the envy outward toward other tribes. This is one of the reasons the fantasy of the noble savage who lives in peaceful harmony with the environment and with others, is such nonsense. Tribes cannot be pacifistic; they must be war-like since their internal cohesion relies on externalizing their aggression.
From almost the time Abraham entered into the Covenant with God, the Jew has functioned as the ideal "other" tribe upon which to project one's envy. The Jews have maintained a strong cultural and religious identity despite spending two millennia in the diaspora, and have been fairly successful in most nations which have allowed (tolerated) them to flourish. Calling themselves "the Chosen People", a concept conveniently misunderstood by those who hate the Jews, has been an intolerable provocation to those who hate the Jews. Periodically, spasms of envious hatred have been unleashed against the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust, which included not only an attempted genocide, but a not so coincidental confiscation of Jewish assets by the Nazis.
Using Jews as a way to manage envy has continued to be the modus operandi of the Arab world. If anything, the problem had become exponentially more difficult with the founding of the state of Israel. Since the founding of Israel, the disparity between the accomplishments of the tiny Jewish minority in their midst, and the enormous mass of Arab and Islamic peoples surrounding them, has grown by leaps and bounds. This despite the Muslim world being blessed with the possession of a large percentage of the world's energy reserves.
Hope you read the entire post and visit Shrinkwrapped often.
Posted by: larwyn | September 06, 2006 at 07:40 PM
In 2004 the bottom one-half of income earners paid only 3.3% of all federal income taxes.
Well... those with a regular job also pay Soc Sec and Medicare - those are pretty large budget items on the Federal revenue side.
(OK, those are "earned benefits" programs, and they get the money back later... ahhh!)
Liberals who wished to enable the scheme could put the "Urobme" logo on their houses and SUVs and quick release clips on their Rolexes.Simple.
LOL. I thought that was mandated in Britain,or at least, home defense is not allowed.
So, I'm thinking lobotomy.
Insert cheap shot here...
Posted by: Tom Maguire | September 06, 2006 at 08:27 PM
So when jillionaire Hollywood trust baby Steve Bing campaigns to take away the poor folks' gasoline (Prop. 87), he's just being spitefully rich?
Posted by: richard mcenroe | September 06, 2006 at 08:36 PM
DeLong seems to be looking a static, Newtonian universe. My intuition (FWIW) says that the velocity of money is more important than a snapshot of who has what at any given instant. Rich people either spend money or invest it -- either one contributes to the economic engine that benefits us all. Rich people do not stuff cash into a mattress. So far as velicoty is concerned, a private enterprise transaction stokes the economic engine. A transaction of confiscation and redistribution does not. So, do I have more smarts than DeLong or do I just act that way?
Posted by: sbw | September 06, 2006 at 08:52 PM
Doh! velicoty s/b velocity ... not so smart after all. ;-)
Posted by: sbw | September 06, 2006 at 08:53 PM
SBW,
All adherents to economics as expressed within Das Kapital believe economics is a zero sum game more strongly than a sheltered four year old believes in Santa. We shouldn't complain - it's cheap amusement.
Even funnier is the fact that there are undoubtedly parents writing checks to the institution which employs DeLong in the hope that their progeny will be educated. One can't say that DeLong has not done his part to soak the spiteful rich.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | September 06, 2006 at 09:06 PM
Enjoy your double-barreled Instalanche, Tom.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 06, 2006 at 09:06 PM
I'll always be amazed at how many people insist on dismissing property rights as a mere convention or "disposable" idea, but then proceed to elevate emotions such as "spite" and "envy" to the status of immutable absolutes which should form the basis of public policy.
Posted by: Seerak | September 06, 2006 at 09:13 PM
TM,
We avoid nasty little scenes by filling our tribute baskets and leaving them out alongside our carefully sorted waste,makes it easier for the lads to pick up on the way back from the boozer of a Saturday night,much safer for them too,obviating falls from climbing,or cuts from broken windows.
Personally,I find it more efficatious to let my leopardess Phoebe and her cubs have the run of the grounds,amazing how fast the poor can run.
Posted by: PeterUK | September 06, 2006 at 09:13 PM
Peter,
You're right, of course. Proper incentivation can motivate even the most witless dullard.
That reminds me, where's Tic?
Posted by: Rick Ballard | September 06, 2006 at 09:19 PM
PUK--Rick--good to be online when you two are..
Posted by: clarice | September 06, 2006 at 09:30 PM
test
Posted by: John Blake | September 06, 2006 at 09:33 PM
Rick,
Septic is on a march "The Witless Dullards against" the rest of it had too many adjectives and sub-clauses to fit on the banner.
Posted by: PeterUK | September 06, 2006 at 09:44 PM
Libertarian or bureaucratic State socialist, "rational choice" in economics makes no behavioural assumptions: Spite and malice by the rich are no more relevent than envy and class-hatred by the poor.
Thorstein Veblen addressed "conspicuous consumption" of this nature in his classic "Theory of the Leisure Class". When one realizes that Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford et.al. ended school at fourteen --acquiring thereby the self-evident equivalent of MBAs today-- uniformly rising from impoverished origins, one marvels at how titanic industrial accomplishments have come to be, as our lumpen-academics attest, "spitefully and maliciously" ignored.
Barely ten years ago, Google's gang of geeks rode bicycles to work in warehouses. Now 747s with double queen-size bunks barely contain raging libidos. How spiteful towards we poor peasants can you get?
When "motivation" (sic) becomes an indice of economic progress, we're back to "he failed, but his intentions were honorable." For decades now, Leftist malingerers have portrayed Stalin, Mao, and other serious mass murderers in that light. Old whine in new bottles... maybe we need a new sommelier.
Posted by: John Blake | September 06, 2006 at 09:48 PM
It may be instructive to note that the Ten Commandments have no objection to "showing off", but they come down firmly against envy.
Posted by: Burt | September 06, 2006 at 10:04 PM
Forget taxing the rich.
Tax Liberals. After all it is liberals who cause the common sense man to have to COW BARN hose out all their self-serving proclaimatory (1) bovine-processed grass daily in order to sort out the news in a meaningful way.
Tax liberals.
Think of the treasure that is spent sandblasting off their political grafitti from the daily discussion.
I also propose a "Nevermind" tax on liberals. See the Plame-blame game. If they wish to indulge in engineered 'corruption club' multi-year tax-payer funded election talking points commercials.. let them PAY!
And, while we are at it, I think we need a "DO IT and blame others of doing it" tax. This one would be like a luxury tax. If you do it, then accuse others of doing it to divert suspicion from yourself? .. you PAY!
Finally, a ‘those who want it’ tax. Where by if you want a neat new tax-payer funded program? We tax those tax-payers who want the program and not those who don't. Think of this one as a "Put your tax dollars where your mouth is" tax.
As usual, it’s not the rich, it’s the liberals.
Rich
(1) the act of saying something and thinking by doing so it is true.
Posted by: Rich | September 06, 2006 at 10:07 PM
Brad DeLong also made the extraordinary comment that 'Nobody who is an immigrant of desendant of immigrants has any business voting Republican. Nobody.'
The Futurist challenged DeLong to a debate over the statement. DeLong performed weakly even by leftist standards.
Posted by: Twok | September 06, 2006 at 11:07 PM
I'm afraid I haven't had a chance to read through the comments; I've been trying to rustle up a comment posted to the WaPo forums some time ago in a discussion about progressive taxation. Turns out it was a few years back (hence the slightly dated stats)! Hope it hasn't already been rendered redundant above:
While I despise the specific attitude which dismisses the shiftless poor or abandons addicts and teen-age mothers, among others, to live with the consequences of their own “bad choices,” I have, in fact, argued for progressive taxation without vilifying the rich. In an attempt to free further discussion from the distraction of perceived or assumed ill-will on my part, I offer the following brief
Defense of the American Rich:
On top of the wealthy’s involuntary contributions to the quality of American life via taxes, we should probably add the huge sums of both money and time they voluntarily ante up on a yearly basis as well. How many of the most cherished institutions we take for granted were created, and how many continue to be sustained, by private contributions? Symphonies & museums, mental health and cancer research facilities, scholarships and community crisis centers, historic sites -- in the 1999 Foundation Directory, for example, the North Carolina section alone takes up 46 pages (3 columns to a page). Then there’s the Red Cross, the United Way, Colleges & Universities....
There is hardly a capital campaign going which isn’t jump started by a very small number of mega contributions. For every business maneuvering to advantage, there are businessmen spending millions and soliciting others to preserve our national treasures, support our cultural accomplishments and alleviate the burdens of our people.
Although I suppose tax deductions do represent one way to redirect one’s tax dollars toward causes one finds worthy, they are a modest tool which doesn’t even begin to explain the full measure of philanthropy which we enjoy. Anyone who cares enough to google can check the stats.
For decades, and probably longer, charitable giving in the U.S. has hovered at a level roughly equal to 2% of the GDP. The same held true (even without a $1.8 billion 9/11 boost) in 2001 where the breakout was:
Individual donors - $160.72 billion, Bequests - $16.33 billion, Corporations - $9.05 billion, Foundations - $25.90 billion
70% of American households make contributions, but in this, as in the spread of tax obligations, the top percentiles contribute disproportionately, if not uniformly. Private institutions can funnel $$ more efficiently than government, although it’s worth noting that anyone who has debated accepting a bricks & mortar gift without the concomitant resources to maintain it can tell you, relying solely on donors’ judgment as to how they want their contributions used is the proverbial road to nonprofit hell. One could almost argue that progressive taxation is simply the standardized compulsory reflection of a uniquely American system of patronage. I won’t attempt to do so, however, I just offer it up for perspective.
Comment was originally posted back in 2002.
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 06, 2006 at 11:07 PM
Of course, it also has empirical implications for the theory that the rich engage in proportionately more conspicuous consumption in order to ward off alien abduction.
Curses! The Earthlings have discovered our plan, Kodos!
Posted by: Kang | September 06, 2006 at 11:14 PM
An interesting parallel is the 16th century laws .... sumpturary something or other ... that outlawed very fancy clothing. It'd seem that something like that (expanded to large estates, whatever) would be better targeted than a more progressive income tax, which would hit the frugal as well as the overly-fancy. Altho I am conservative, the thought of Hollywood types losing it over the tax on their expenditures is rather amusing.
Posted by: David Hardy | September 06, 2006 at 11:34 PM
The Futurist challenged DeLong to a debate over the statement.
The Futurist always speaks of The Futurist in the third person? Slartibartfast is annoyed by this kind of behavior. That, and blogwhoring. Slartibartfast is most annoyed by persistent and shameless blogwhoring.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 06, 2006 at 11:49 PM
You can say whatever you want, but you are never going to convince anyone who fits into the current definition of the "left" that inequality of income is other than an evil thing anymore than you can convince mainstream Christians that Jesus was not the son of God. Its an article of faith that simply cannot be challenged; anyone who does so is a filthy heretic. Its wholly immune to rational argument.
Any framework or theory, however silly, that tends to show that such inequality is bad will be trumpeted as a justification for imposing measures intended to bring about that condition. Its kind of like the stories of people seeing the Virgin Mary's image in a taco or whatever. Its proof that the One True Faith is correct, no matter how ridiculous such claims may be to someone who doesn't buy into the core of the belief set with which they view the world.
Posted by: tcobb | September 06, 2006 at 11:51 PM
Delong makes a persuasive case- rich people spend much more than poor, and therefore the tax code should adjust to better equalize spending among rich and poor.
However, spending is not the only measure of a person's activity on earth. Some people live longer, some become more famous, some more beloved, some happier, some more powerful, and some whinier. Shouldn't we also equalize these outcomes? Why should spending be singled out for equalization through government action? Many of the other factors above are functions of personal choices. One may choose to forgo higher income as a corporate attorney to become a whitewater rafting guide, thereby becoming happier than an attorney. Rather than obligating the attorney to boost the rafter's income to acheive "equality", why not obligate the rafter to become an attorney and work 100 hour weeks drafting memorandums, getting ulcers, and ultimately a divorce? This seems ***equally*** fair.
Why should Brad Pitt be so much more famous and beloved than I, even if we were equally wealthy? Sure he may have various attributes or abilities that I lack, but isn't this where we need the government to step in and make things fair for me? The government should put me on the cover of People magazine everyweek and bar Brad Pitt until I have an equal number of star actresses fawning over me. If they still refuse, the government should find other coercive means to make us equal.
And why should one person be entitled to whine much more than another? Shouldn't the government shut them up after they exceed some threshold of whining?
Posted by: LZ | September 07, 2006 at 12:40 AM
Slartibartfart,
What kind of name is Slartibartfart?
Posted by: sphinct | September 07, 2006 at 02:06 AM
--Delong makes a persuasive case- rich people spend much more than poor, and therefore the tax code should adjust to better equalize spending among rich and poor.--
WRONG...it's the priorities folks don't want to accept. Saving and investing are NOT gov't controlled. To assume that all lower income do not have priorities with what money they have is insulting.
There are people who are poor just not victims, who would prefer to NOT spend but save.
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 07, 2006 at 02:21 AM
Robert A. Heinlein had this to say on the subject:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck."
Posted by: Mike G in Corvallis | September 07, 2006 at 02:30 AM
To quote Extraneous, "Yeah, that boat thing was a great example, LB. Ayn Rand would have been proud, speaking of "Jane" Galt."
And to Quote Francisco D'Anconia, a chatacter in Ms. Rand's Atlas Shrugged, "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
Posted by: bbwhit04 | September 07, 2006 at 02:45 AM
My thoughts: Thou shalt not covet.
Posted by: newc | September 07, 2006 at 06:51 AM
What kind of name is Slartibartfart?
I have no idea. Probably one contrived by someone with few (if any) abilities in reading or spelling.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 07, 2006 at 07:22 AM
Indeed it is the applelation of "The One"
Posted by: boris | September 07, 2006 at 08:12 AM
Probably one contrived by someone with few (if any) abilities in reading or spelling.
There goes my theory that it was contrived by a spelling master out to vex (or spite) the rest of us.
Posted by: Tom Maguire | September 07, 2006 at 08:14 AM
I think we should tax all foriegners living abroad.
Posted by: Eric Blair | September 07, 2006 at 08:14 AM
John Galt's oath:
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.
Posted by: Extraneus | September 07, 2006 at 08:20 AM
The problem with ...
attitude which dismisses the shiftless poor or abandons addicts and teen-age mothers, among others, to live with the consequences of their own “bad choices,”
... isn't so much what's NOT DONE for them, but what in their name IS DONE to the rich. The fable of the golden goose comes to mind.
Accumulations of wealth are generally the result of successful economic activity, which is good for everybody. Any POV that seeks to limit that success is ultimately counterproductive.
Posted by: boris | September 07, 2006 at 08:55 AM
The looming solution that will be embraced by the Left...wealth confiscation of the undeservedly rich which will be determined by political leanings. When $100,000/year wil barely support a family in some areas of the country yet puts you in the top bracket the futility of taxing "the rich" becomes apparent though I suppose a bracket for the "really rich" could be added. But that is not what the Dems are proposing.
Not to worry for a couple of years though.
Posted by: noah | September 07, 2006 at 09:29 AM
A huge problem with any "soak the rich" plan is that most people's definition of rich is "anyone who makes more than I do." I've had arguments about progressive taxes with liberals who actually make fairly good money, and when I point out to them that a family of 4 near the poverty line would consider them filthy rich, so they should pay more, they deny that they are rich. I can't remember who said it, but it always seems to come down to "don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax the man behind that tree."
Posted by: ray_g | September 07, 2006 at 10:29 AM
David Hardy,
The sumptuary laws of the Renaissance actually did not work as intended. The nobility wished to distinguish themselves from those involved in business--and the businessmen wished to look like the nobility. The businessmen won. They wore the exact things they were forbidden to--the laws were either unenforced or the fines paid.
Posted by: Karen | September 07, 2006 at 10:38 AM
Probably one contrived by someone with few (if any) abilities in reading or spelling.
Indeed it is the applelation of "The One"
*cackle*
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 07, 2006 at 11:46 AM
Apparently DeLong doesn't know any "rich" people.
I've known quite a few. Most have been just like those described in the book "The Millionaire Next Door".
Of the rich I've known who flaunt their wealth the people they are trying to impress are OTHER RICH PEOPLE. Actually, most of the people I've known who drive expensive cars, dress expensively and such have been frauds. They didn't have the wealth to support their spending.
Finally, as someone note above, DeLong isn't too "tolerant" of criticism. I posted something once, a purely economic subject, and was permanently banned.
DeLong is coward and a joke. He's made up his mind that the "rich" are "bad" and he'll contort whatever evidence he can find to conform to his prevailing mindset. Typical illiberal, liberal.
Posted by: jag | September 07, 2006 at 01:24 PM
PeterUK: "This is all very unscientific of Mr de Long,first there needs to be an index of spitefulness so that there can be a direct correlation between wealth and spite."
John Blake: "When 'motivation' (sic) becomes an indice of economic progress...."
Back to future! The Motive Index is, and has been, a staple of leftist politics across the board -- whether we're talking economics or Plamegate. Cheney's guilt & Armitage's innocence are directly tied to their spitefulness ratings, for example. Clinton's religiosity was unremarkable, while Bush is condemned for theocratic intent. Motive, of course, is almost always presumed, for it is exceedingly difficult to prove. In leftist hands, that becomes an advantage, for it cannot be disproved either. Indeed, in many quarters, it is actually the argument of choice, as the original column under discussion so clearly demonstrates.
The "touchy feely" DeLong concludes that if the working poor and middle class are less content, it's because the rich have acquired (at their expense!) the resources to become more overtly spiteful. DeLong chooses to ignore the central points of the very Krugman article he's just quoted at length: real wages have dropped, benefits have declined, and bargaining power has been eroded. Aside from the logical fallacy inherent in the zero sum emotional game DeLong proposes, the idea that punishing or putting a stop to conspicuous consumption is a viable remedy to the real (and measurable) problems cited by Krugman is archetypal voodoo economics.
Projection, of course, is not confined to the left, but it's certainly clear that DeLong is offended by conspicuous consumption. I suspect he might be among the first to deny that the flamboyance of others makes him feel bad about himself.
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 07, 2006 at 01:34 PM
"He floated an idea, people had fun whacking it, that's life.
My secret hope is that he will be goaded into coming back to the question of income inequality. I am reasonably convinced there is some sort of a problem and it would be interesting to see an analytical framework to think about it. That said, spite-based economics probably is not it."
In fact in his comments at Unfogged I don't think he was really defending the "spite" thing at all - he was halfway admitting the idea was toast. (Most of the other comments at Unfogged amounted to the usual "Jane Galt has to be a bad person, so I don't have to address her argument fairly" type of comments).
But he should come back to this:
"The easiest and most important thing the government can do to neutralize the adverse consequences of rising inequality is to make the tax system more progressive, not less."
This is a statement with which I, a non left-winger, would completely agree. Yet I don't believe that many Democrats really - in a thoughtful way, not just eat-the-rich reflexively - buy into it or understand why Delong thinks it's so important. It's not an issue the Democrat party, as an institution, has put any muscle into selling. My guess is 99.9% of right-wing JOM commenters would disagree with it, but that they haven't been exposed to all of the arguments either.
Posted by: Joe Mealyus | September 07, 2006 at 02:21 PM
"DeLong is coward and a joke. He's made up his mind that the "rich" are "bad" and he'll contort whatever evidence he can find to conform to his prevailing mindset."
That's completely unfair. Actually if you read his blog carefully, you'll see he has quite a nuanced view toward wealth creation. He's no Adam Smith - hater.
He does run his blog comments in a certain way, for certain reasons - mainly to avoid what I think he sees as pointless argy-bargy - that's his prerogative....
Posted by: Joe Mealyus | September 07, 2006 at 02:32 PM
"I've had arguments about progressive taxes with liberals who actually make fairly good money, and when I point out to them that a family of 4 near the poverty line would consider them filthy rich, so they should pay more, they deny that they are rich."
What's even weirder (and not uncommon where I live) are liberals who worship at the altar of stock options - who can bash Bush 24/7 but who adopt a more "Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life"-ish approach to the questions of stock options and personal wealth.
Posted by: Joe Mealyus | September 07, 2006 at 02:37 PM
In 2004 the bottom one-half of income earners paid only 3.3% of all federal income taxes.
Everyone else has already devastated the silly spitefulness argument, so I'm going to nitpick about this silly canard.
The tax that you pay on income is the sum of three different taxes schemes: a seven-step progressive tax (called "the income tax" because it was the first income tax), a flat tax (called "the medicare tax" or "the self-employment tax"), and a two-step regressive tax (called "the social security tax" or "the self-employment tax"). Because the seven steps and the two steps don't line up, the marginal tax rate swings wildly up and down. For example a single person who makes $90,000/year pays a significantly higher tax rate than the single person who makes $200,000/year. Because the functions are step functions (which means that the derivatives are discontinuous) their actual behavior is quite different from the sort of straight-line sloping up or straight-line sloping down that people tend to have in mind when they talk about "progressive" or "regressive." The tax rate is progressive in some places, regressive in others, and flat in other places.
The argument that the poor don't pay taxes is just as much lying demogoguery as all the various envy-based soak-the-rich arguments. Anybody who works pays a lot of taxes.
The spitefulness argument is just crap, but there is a reasonable utilitarian argument that can be made in favor of having a mildly progressive tax scheme. The argument is simply that since poor people value money more highly than rich people (part of the definition of money as being a good is that it has a downward-sloping demand curve) then you have to take more money away from the rich person to equalize the harm that taxes do to the poor and the rich. If you take the utilitarian position that the better tax creates less harm to the productive capacities of the economy for each dollar collected, then you would expect a mildly progressive tax to be better than a flat tax and a flat tax to be better than a regressive tax.
Note also that just like "The Income Tax" is deceptively named as if it were the only income tax, "The Flat Tax" as pushed by people like Steve Forbes is a two-step progressive tax, not a flat tax at all. Given my utilitarian argument, which is about demand curves sloping downward, we know that demand curves are not step functions, and so creating a progressive tax by using a step function is a crummy technique -- if I were going to create a flat tax the rate would be constructed so it had a shape like the cumulative-normal function. I would want something smooth and continuously-differentiable. Going from seven steps to two steps just makes the function more badly behaved. The attraction of the misnamed "Flat Tax" is that it eliminates most deductions, so that it eliminates the record-keeping and mind-numbing complexity of the tax law. And there are many of us who would be happy to pay a little more if it was easier to pay.
I have my own utopian tax policy. It looks something like this:
1) Use the Forbes-style Flat Tax but with more rates. Instead of zero and 20%, have zero, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 19, 20 percent, and it goes up smoothly;
2) The flat "Medicare Tax" stays exactly the same;
3) The "Social Security Tax" becomes completely flat rather than regressive. The difference is that your tax payments on income less than $90K go into a personal account which is owned by you, while the "Social Security Tax" on income above $90K go into general revenues. (The $90K number would be indexed exactly as it is now.)
Posted by: cathyf | September 07, 2006 at 03:32 PM
Joe Mealyus
"My guess is 99.9% of right-wing JOM commenters would disagree with it, but that they haven't been exposed to all of the arguments either."
And you base this presumption on precisely what? There's really not much that's more annoying that the oft touted idea that conservatives swing right out of ignorance. It's most obvious in Democratic incredulity at poor southerners who supposedly don't know enough to realize that a vote for Republicans is a putative vote against their own economic interests.
Personally, I believe the statement in question is entirely spurious -- and I happen to believe in progressive taxation. Even stipulating to his framing of the problem, DeLong is trying to fix it at the wrong end of the equation.
Ex post facto equalization is not the simple add-on he implies, it will effectively alter the operative incentives for wealth creation across the board and ultimately domino through the marketplace in any number of ways that could easily work against the poor/middle he purports to assist. We've seen this happen time and again on multiple fronts.
As an aside, I'd suggest that being able to improve your own circumstances does considerably more for self-esteem than standing in line for a government check ever will.
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 07, 2006 at 05:32 PM
cathyf, as has been true for so many threads, you are "the one"! (Does that mean you are "slartibartfast"?...I hope not!)
Thanks for the clear analysis.
Cathy for President!!
Posted by: noah | September 07, 2006 at 05:56 PM
JM Hanes:
"There's really not much that's more annoying that the oft touted idea that conservatives swing right out of ignorance."
I think I agree with the general drift, but if you like Republican victories, is it that "annoying?" IMO the "what's wrong with Kansas" idea is one that Republicans (of which I'm not) should approach with a certain solemnity and thankfulness.
"Even stipulating to his framing of the problem, DeLong is trying to fix it at the wrong end of the equation ... equalization is not the simple add-on he implies, it will effectively alter the operative incentives for wealth creation across the board and ultimately domino through the marketplace in any number of ways that could easily work against the poor/middle he purports to assist."
By "fix it at the wrong end of the equation," I assume you mean that it's more important to increase the productivity of poor workers than to alter the progressivity of the tax system - I'd agree, and I'm guessing Delong would too. But Delong is specifically talking about "the adverse consequences of rising inequality," which kind of assumes that policies to increase the productivity of poor workers aren't happening, for whatever reasons. I think the Bush administration has totally fumbled the ball on fiscal policy (see Samwick's blog), the consequences of which (as we go through the business cycle) will be felt much more by those on the bottom of the income distribution than those on the top.
Of course a big question is, are we dealing with "wealth creation" or "wealth extraction?" I believe that that too much of "wealth creation" nowadays is simply taking advantage of the political process in various ways....
"....being able to improve your own circumstances does considerably more for self-esteem than standing in line for a government check ever will."
Well sure. But in this case weren't not talking about a government check, we're talking about the shape of the lifetime tax burden on different income classes.
Posted by: Joe Mealyus | September 07, 2006 at 07:07 PM
the adverse consequences of rising inequality
Since all income levels are better off today than 50 years ago, what exactly is the "adverse consequence" of the economic advance responsible? Envy? Because economic growth benefits the successful more than those just along for the ride? How could it be otherwise?
Double everybody's income and the inequality also doubles, guess that makes that a bad thin huh.
2 times 0 = 0
2 times X = 2X
Look at that increased inequality, from X to 2X !!!
Bad bad bad.
Posted by: boris | September 07, 2006 at 07:27 PM
Hah! The Adam Smith Institute Blog points to this, saying, "Alex Tabarrok has I think the best idea, by reminding us of Coasean equivalence:"
The solution to envy is not to tax the rich but to tax the envious. To be envied is unpleasant. People want to be admired but not envied. To be envied is one step from being hated. (Consider how much crime is motivated by envy.) It's envy which imposes an externality on the rich. Make the envious pay for their ugly preferences.
Surprising analysis? Not really - should gays be taxed because they make some people uncomfortable? Hell no. Tax the bigots for making gays feel unwelcome.
Posted by: sbw | September 07, 2006 at 08:23 PM
Joe Mealyus:
I get the drift of your first paragraph, though it doesn't appear to make much actual sense. I'm a split ticket voter, myself, and "annoying" was the tactful version of how the attitude in question strikes me.
"Of course a big question is, are we dealing with "wealth creation" or "wealth extraction?" I believe that that too much of "wealth creation" nowadays is simply taking advantage of the political process in various ways...."
Let me get this straight: increasing taxes on the rich with a view to equalizing income is not wealth extraction via political process? Surely, you jest!
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 07, 2006 at 08:40 PM
By "fix it at the wrong end of the equation," I assume you mean that it's more important to increase the productivity of poor workers than to alter the progressivity of the tax system - I'd agree, and I'm guessing Delong would too.
I'm certainly no economist, but I don't get how you're going to achieve productivity gains in lower-income jobs. I'd guess that most of those jobs are hand labor, and hand labor doesn't benefit from technology-driven productivity gains in the way that professional/technical occupations do. This is not based on anything other than my own common sense, which may very well be wrong.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 07, 2006 at 08:43 PM
Sphinct: What kind of name is Slartibartfast?
The answer is 42.
Posted by: sbw | September 07, 2006 at 08:57 PM
42 ??? no no no it's The One
Posted by: boris | September 07, 2006 at 09:13 PM
"The easiest and most important thing the government can do to neutralize the adverse consequences of rising inequality is to make the tax system more progressive, not less."
Does it bother anyone that Clinton raised the top income bracket in 1993 yet ineqiality rose through the 90's?
Obviuosly, not all else was held constant, but shouldn't Team Reality at least offer a bit of evidence that a more progressive tax code will "neutralize" the problem? How progressive are we talking about, anyway - my guess is that if we go back to the pre-Reagan 70% bracket, incomes of the rich will fall as they substitute (free) leisure for highly taxed work. Is that really the solution we are looking for?
On a good day, we might even get Team Reality to explain just why inequality *is* a problem, and develop a few metrics to see if we are moving towards a solution.
SIDEBAR: I assume everyone worried about inequality also opposes state lotteries - aside from being a tx on the players, who are disproportionately poor, clearly the process of pooling ticket revenues and picking a winner raises inequality.
And the marketing! In NY, it is a dollar for a dream, and the dream is always a house, car, boat, fancy vacation, etc.
What about dreaming that you will send your kid to college, or that you will have time to read a great book (or start a blog!)?
As I said, I have no doubt libs are troubled by this.
Posted by: Tom Maguire | September 08, 2006 at 01:26 AM
So what would DeLong think of replacing the income tax with a consumption tax that achieved some degree of progressivity (I realize that isn't easy, but let's ignore difficulties of implementation for the moment)? What we're at it, let's get rid of the estate tax. There would be strong incentives to create wealth and invest it, rather than conspicuously consuming it.
Posted by: ScurvyOaks | September 08, 2006 at 10:38 AM
"Does it bother anyone that Clinton raised the top income bracket in 1993 yet ineqiality rose through the 90's?
Obviuosly, not all else was held constant, but shouldn't Team Reality at least offer a bit of evidence that a more progressive tax code will 'neutralize' the problem? How progressive are we talking about, anyway...."
It's not a simple thing to defend Delong's statement. Part of my point was that he says something like this but hasn't, so far as I know, put a lot of energy into explaining his own reasons for saying it. (A small fraction of the energy he devotes to criticizing just one media outlet, the Washington Post). And I don't think the Democratic Party puts much (if any) energy into justifying to voters its philosophy in this area.
I'm not on Team Reality, but I'll try to make a stab at a few points.
1. It doesn't hurt to start, I think, with two basic pieces of background information. One is the "Bush fiscal policy kind of crazy" point. This is the idea that the Bush tax cuts have been in a sense phony ones - since spending didn't fall, at some point the money to pay for current spending will have to be collected in taxes. The other is that Clinton raised taxes on top earners and the economy boomed (or bubbled, sure), while Bush lowered the same taxes and the economy has performed not quite so well.
2. In an era when the wealthy seem to making a lot more money for doing the same work (CEO's, tort lawyers, New York Yankee third basemen, etc), it's hard to see how less progressive taxes are going to yield any sort of "incentive" bonanza with respect to those high-earners. Or vice-versa, more progressive taxes won't lead to incentive catastrophe.
3. If you believe point 2, then in an era when pre-tax progressivity is rising - regardless of the causes - you can use the tax system to turn the higher level of inequality from a minus into a plus. You can say (and I believe, from the occasional Delong tidbit which has come along, but which I can't reference just now, that the Clinton folks had some alert sense of this): Hey, instead of trying to "fix" the income distribution, let's let the wealthy make their dough, but keep tax progressivity high enough so that we achieve one Very Good Thing for the economy - a balanced budget.
This is win-win so far. You get the balanced budget, but you also get low taxes on the middle class. But there's more: the economy gets to toodle along doing its thing with less "populist" pressures for various sorts of intervention. In other words, if you keep tax progressivity high enough, you can have 1) a balanced budget; 2) low taxes on the middle class and 3) avoid political pressure for Bad Things like anti-free trade policies, anti-globalization policies, more regulation of the economy, et al.
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David Corn disgraces the left by channeling Joe McCarthy as he explains that the left will only stand up for the privacy rights of their allies:
There's a list going around. Those disseminating it call it "The List." It's a roster of top-level Republican congressional aides who are gay.
...I have a copy. I'm not going to publish it. For one, I don't know for a fact that the men on the list are gay. And generally I don't fancy outing people--though I have not objected when others have outed gay Republicans, who, after all, work for a party that tries to limit the rights of gays and lesbians and that welcomes the support of those who demonize same-sexers.
Mr. Corn's position on outing Republicans is clear enough but he does not explicitly state a position on the merits of outing gay Democrats. However - if he had any journalistic integrity at all he would have to be opposed to "stealth advocacy". A black man arguing for "black" issues does not need to separately declare his personal stake in the discussion, nor does a woman discussing "women's issues".
But surely Mr. Corn agrees that it is unseemly to advocate for gay issues under the pretense of having been swayed by force of argument when, in fact, the advocate is touting his own self-interest. So presumably Mr. Corn, troubled as he is by closeted Republican gays, is equally troubled by closeted Democratic gays.
Or maybe not. Let's go back to Mr. Corn:
Let's be clear about one thing: the Mark Foley scandal is not about homosexuality. Some family value conservatives are suggesting it is. But anytime a gay Republican is outed by events, a dicey issue is raised: what about those GOPers who are gay and who serve a party that is anti-gay? Are they hypocrites, opportunists, or just confused individuals? Is it possible to support a party because you adhere to most of its tenets--even if that party refuses to recognize you as a full citizen?
Let's be clear as mud - the Foley scandal is not about homosexuality but it would not be unreasonable to out gay Republicans in response to it. Can anyone follow that? I would suggest the outing of those who are abusing their power but that logic may be too linear for someone from the reality based community.
I also love this evasion of responsibility - "anytime a gay Republican is outed by events". No, David, it won't be "events" that post that list, it will be activist Democrats trying to win an election. Hope that helps your understanding. A likely candidate would be Mike Rogers of BlogActive.com, who has spent years outing gay Republicans and whose current fund raising appeal says this:
Please help me with this effort. We have five weeks to save our nation from these right wing homophobes in the closet -- and there are more in Congress!
As to "What about those GOPers who are gay and who serve a party that is anti-gay?", well, what about those GOPers who favor lower taxes (and happen to be gay), or who favored a robust national defense in the Reagan era (and happened to be gay), or who favor gun owner's rights (and happen to be gay), or for some other reason don't fit themselves neatly into the special interest group boxes drawn up by earnest Democratic strategists?
Or what about GOPers who were put off by Bill Clinton's "Don't ask, don't tell" debacle or by Clinton's signing of the "Defense of Marriage Act", or by John Kerry's insistence that his position on gay marriage did not differ from Bush's? Are they allowed to think that maybe the Dems are more talk than action, and that other issues are more important? Does David Corn really agree with 100% of the Democratic Party platform?
This is the current state of the left - sexual privacy rights for their political opponents are trumped by a desire for power.
Mark Kleiman and Ted Barlow were quite clear on this issue two years ago. An excerpt:
The right answer to that question [of sexuality], from anyone except a potential sexual partner, is “None of your f—-ing business.”
I really, really disapprove of gay-baiting, even if the gays being baited hold disgusting political positions. And I thought that attitude was part of the definition of liberalism.
We will see whether any Dems speak out against this now, although with an election to be won I am not optimistic.
MORE: Ahh, Plan B - Josh Marshall is pretending that it is Republicans who are going to out these gay Republican staffers, and Kevin Drum is playing along.
That is quite a working theory - a group of evangelical Reps, outraged by the gays in their midst, worked up a list of gay Republican staffers ands then leaked it to their natural ally, David Corn. Mr. Corn then choked back his abhorrence at this sexual McCarthyism and penned a few paragraphs rationalizing their effort. Uh huh. Can I guess the rest - some lefty blogger will print it "just to show us what awful tricks those crazy House Republicans are up to". Please.
Personally, I figure that since there are Dem activists who do this routinely, my money is there.
But we have nothing to fight about since we all agree this is awful. And since Josh Marshall and Kevin Drum think "The List" will be coming from Republicans, I encourage them to denounce the concept unequivocally and pre-emptively, as I am doing here.
If The List appears, they will be on record as having condemned it, and perhaps other Dems will join them. And if it is the work of crazed evangelical Republicans, condemning it should be easy, yes?
I just know Dems will hurry to denounce this "List" and stand up for privacy rights for all gays, even Republican ones.
STRANGEST THING I EVER READ: From Mark Schmitt at TPM Cafe:
But when it comes to Foley, this is a case where it is us liberals who have the absolute moral value: Don’t mess with kids sexually. Adults must not mess with kids, people in positions of authority should not mess with kids. It’s not about the legal line or the age of consent in Florida or DC. It’s morality: Fifty-two year olds must not mess with 16 year olds. Remember that rule and all this complexity falls away. Don’t tolerate people who mess with kids, gay or straight. Not complicated. As Robert George would say, it’s "foundational." If you know that basic rule, and don’t hesitate to take action if people break it, or raise alarms if you suspect them of breaking it (as in, asking for a picture) then guess what?: Life gets a little simpler. Gays can be Scoutmasters because, like any other Scoutmaster, they know that you don’t mess with the kids. Straight men can be high school teachers of girls because they maintain that boundary, they treat it as a moral absolute. And so on.
On what planet? Under my sun, Democrat Gerry Studds was censured by the House in 1983 for having sex with a seventeen year old page; the voters of Massachusetts sent him back to Congress for years thereafter.
And more recently, Bill Clinton commuted the sentence of Mel Reynolds, who was "serving a seven-year sentence for corruption and having sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker."
[That Clinton-Reynolds pardon from USA Today is misleading, apparently - try this:
Reynolds resigned from Congress in 1995 after a state court convicted him of sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer. He served 2 1/2 years in prison for the crime. Two years later Reynolds was sentenced to a 6 1/2-year prison term on federal corruption charges, including wire fraud and bank fraud.
In November 1999 the former Rhodes scholar wrote a letter to Clinton and asked to be released from prison to a halfway house so that he could earn money for his family.
So Clinton pardoned a sex offender, but not for the sex offense. Got it.
Snopes has a bit as well.]
Moral absolute. Absolutely.
UPDATE: I am guided to evidence of Dems with both a brain and a conscience:
"We're getting into very dangerous territory, and I've warned my colleagues to be careful." That's what a Democrat leadership aide was saying on Wednesday, as word circulated about David Corn's blog posting that revealed that a list of gay Republicans congressional staffers was circulating through emails.
Such a list has been talked about for months, if not years, by more militant homosexual activists, who have threatened to out Republican congressional staffers or even congressmen if they take positions counter to their gay lifestyle.
..."If that list is made public, all of the political gains we've made in the past 96 hours get flushed down the toilet," says the leadership aide.
I apologize - this may not be evidence of a conscience at all. just a recognition that as a pragmatic matter this is dumb idea for Dems. But one can hope.
And one can wonder - why, if the list is coming from the homophobic right, would it reflect badly on Democrats?
Posted by Tom Maguire on October 04, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
And, Pete? Why would the U.S. surrender to Iran? The U.S. and Iran are not at war.
Posted by: anonymous | October 06, 2006 at 04:31 AM
JMH
wouldn't his junior year in highschool put him in the 2003 group of pages
His buddy - My space page - page
http://www.myspace.com/wcgorbitz
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington D.C., US
Page House Democrats 2003
And you can see Chris's (photo) page and well, you can read the bio
Posted by: topsecretk9 | October 06, 2006 at 04:35 AM
Geez Anonymous, you are so annoying, don't you ever sleep?
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 04:38 AM
--The Drudge Report said one Oklahoma source, "who knows the former page very well," claims Mr. Edmund goaded an unwitting Mr. Foley to type embarrassing comments, which were shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The Drudge Report said the prank went awry when the saved instant messages got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats. --
via washington times...when you look at those mysapce pages, they are obviously favorable
Posted by: topsecretk9 | October 06, 2006 at 04:44 AM
He went from being a House page to a Mexican model? Too funny.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 04:44 AM
Sara...click Chris's picture on the models page and it takes you to his page...that is the lady who said she was writing a book on pages son
start here
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2006/10/david_corn_has_.html#comment-23477749
Posted by: topsecretk9 | October 06, 2006 at 04:50 AM
Heroes OPRAH!!, Meredith Vierra, Paris Hilton, John Kerry, Martha Stewart, Carson from Queer Eye, Thom from Queer Eye, Nate Berkus (if you know who he is, i wanna talk to you!!!) A tribute to Zidane:
and he wants to meet Anderson Cooper.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 05:04 AM
Another snotty elitist in the making.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 05:06 AM
CREW ALSO IS COVERING UP:
From Wapo:
"the FBI believed that CREW may have received the e-mails as early as April and that the group refused to tell the FBI how they were obtained."
So CREW was awae since April but only went public just before the election. And now CREW, just like Pelosi is trying to shutdown and investigation. Now why would a so-called 'watchdog' group be refusing to answer the FBIs questions?
Posted by: Patton | October 06, 2006 at 05:22 AM
Anon spouts: ""And, Pete? Why would the U.S. surrender to Iran? The U.S. and Iran are not at war.""
See, liberals have no clue. Just because we haven't declared war, doesn't mean thy haven't declaed war on us. Think Osama Bin laden declaration of War in 1996 and Bill Clintons' refusing to take it seriously.
The Iranians certainly claim they are at war with us, whether you like it or not.
Posted by: Patton | October 06, 2006 at 05:24 AM
Anonymous doesn't seem to like all the digging being done here.
Anonymous, are you aware of all this digging that went on here during Plamegate and how the people here figured out alot of information about what really happened long before the media reported it.
The posters ehre showed conclusively that Wislon had lied, that Wilson had publicly come out long before Fitz claimed he did, that many others knew about Plame then Fitz revealed, that Fitz had NO case against Rove, etc. etc.
They blew many of Fitzs statements out of the water within minutes of him making them or his words becoming public.
What are you afraid of? A little sunshine?
DO YOU FEAR WE WILL FIND OUT WHY PEOLOSI IS TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE INVESTIGATION AND WHY CREW NOW REFUSES TO COOPERATE WITH THE FBI??
Posted by: Patton | October 06, 2006 at 05:31 AM
"And, Pete? Why would the U.S. surrender to Iran? The U.S. and Iran are not at war."
You weren't last time, but Jimmah still surrendered,incidentally one does not have to be at war to surrender.I'm sure Ahmadinajed wil accept Pelosi's submission at the Well of the Twelfth Imam.
Posted by: PeterUK | October 06, 2006 at 06:54 AM
"it probably wouldn't be a good idea for you to sit next to Professor Chomsky; you wouldn't understand a word he said."
Nobody does,Chomsty's English is appalling.
Posted by: PeterUK | October 06, 2006 at 07:28 AM
clueless. An unofficial state of war has existed with Iran since they invaded our embassy - diplomatically US sovereign territory. That is considered an act of war MR. Clueless. No treaty ending those hostilities has ever been signed. Simply a long cease-fire. Of course we never fired thaks to Jimmah.....
Posted by: Specter | October 06, 2006 at 08:11 AM
Nobody does,Chomsty's English is appalling.
LOL. But - OT - Did you see this?
Malaysia to Levy Fines for Poor Speech
By Associated Press
October 5 2006, 8:21 AM EDT
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia will levy fines on those incorrectly using the national language, and will set up a specialized division to weed out offenders who mix Malay with English, news reports said Thursday.
Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Rais Yatim said fines of up to 1,000 ringgit ($271) can be imposed on displays with any wrong or mutated form of Malay, the Star newspaper reported.
The move was to ensure "the national language was not sidelined in any way," Rais said, according to The Star.
Fines will be imposed after a first warning, the national news agency Bernama quoted Rais as saying.
Most Malaysians speak Malay, also known as Bahasa Malaysia, while English is widely spoken but a mutated form, known as "Manglish" -- a mishmash of English, Malay and other local dialects is commonly used in the Southeast Asian nation.
The government will attempt to swap commonly used English language words with Malay substitutes, The Star said.
"It has to be admitted that a mixture of Bahasa Malaysia and English sometimes cannot be helped, but we hope these measures can arrest the decline," Rais said, according to The Star.
He said a national language unit will be set up in an attempt to reduce the English-Malay mix, especially at official functions.
An official at Rais' ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed his comments as reported.
Critics have said Malaysia's decision to sideline English in favor of Malay is hurting its global competitiveness level and a downward spiral in English language standards among students.
Maybe we should do the same.
Posted by: Specter | October 06, 2006 at 08:17 AM
Had to plug for Squiggler. Check out her site and the editorial cartoon she has up.
Posted by: Specter | October 06, 2006 at 08:23 AM
OK, I have a hard copy of the myspace, and I hope that alot of screenshots havew been taken.
Is "Chris" is one of the "teens" that have given IMs to ABC? Did "Chris" give Jordan's IMs to ABC and crew? Did Robin Katsaros give the IMs to ABC and Crew? Does Robin Katsaros have anything to do with SSP faux blog? After Robin Katsaros heard rumors of Foley's taste for young adults, did she encourage her openly gay son to egg the congressman on? Enquiring minds want to know! And I pray to the lord above that the FBI knocked on a few doors before the shreaders got started.
Posted by: verner | October 06, 2006 at 08:54 AM
topseckret/JM Hanes: Nice google sleuthing. The Robin Katsaros link is worth examining further.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | October 06, 2006 at 09:05 AM
This is the first page that seems to have any sense.
The third page interviewed by ABC News, a graduate of the 1998 page class, said Foley's instant messages began while he was a senior in high school.
"Foley would say he was sitting in his boxers and ask what I was wearing," the page said.
"It became more weird, and I stopped responding," the page said.
Why wasn't this the story with all the pages ?
Posted by: Neo | October 06, 2006 at 09:07 AM
OK, lets just say that once upon a time there was an ambitious far left democrat operative who lived in Nancy Pelosi's district in Norther California. We'll call her Mme. X. And let's just say that Mme. X has an openly gay son. And like all good loony left democrat operatives, Mme. X hates republicans. So what to do?
Mme. X, like 90% of the free world has heard that there happens to be a Republican Congressman who is gay, and likes young adult males. Well, Mme. X is the mother of a young adult male, who, just by chance, happens to also be openly gay! So she rings up her Congressperson, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi--and gets her beloved son a place in the Congressional Page Program, where he will act like honey to the bee! Indeed, she encourages the young man to make nice with the poor old dear. She also encourages her dear little boy to encourage his friends to contact him as well--making sure to carefully save each and every e-mail and IM. Of course, the congressman knows the law, and makes sure that none of these contacts are illegal...that may be a problem.
And to cast a wider net--why not interview a few more pages! Tempt them with Hollywood, get them to dish the dirt!
And when we've gathered all the goods--hand them over to the right (or should I say left) people! And hold on to all of it until just the right moment, when it can do the greatest damage.
Maybe I should send all of this to Brian Ross's tip page!
Posted by: verner | October 06, 2006 at 09:16 AM
"I can't say I've seen any evidence that Soros money goes to CREW."
Gabriel, the quote says "Soros backed" which does not have to mean direct financial backing. Soroscum covers a big pond with a lot of fish in it. The 'Democracy Alliance' (an honest name would be Socialist Alliance) is the current Soros/Lewis umbrella group and CREW suits their purposes quite well. 'Soros' is becoming a placeholder term describing the leftist shadow network.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | October 06, 2006 at 09:18 AM
You know how when bin Laden or Zawihiri puts out a tape, everyone wonders if there's some sort of code that will trigger cells to commence terrorist attacks?
Well, now in hindsight we see how the dems use the very same thing.
A NewD irection for America.
When released, some thought it just to be a slight, silly gaffe by slight, silly dems. Don't be so naive.
It was the launch code for Operation FFF.
Posted by: hit and run | October 06, 2006 at 09:19 AM
"The Nation" piece about Democracy Alliance
A surprise guest at the meeting was Bill Clinton, whose agenda seemed to be protecting his wife. But things didn't work out quite as planned. When Guy Saperstein, a retired lawyer from Oakland, asked Clinton if Democrats who supported the war should apologize, the former President " went fucking ballistic," according to Saperstein. Forget Hillary, Clinton said angrily during a ten-minute rant; if I was in Congress I would've voted for the war. "It was an extraordinary display of anger and imperiousness," Saperstein says.
Posted by: Neo | October 06, 2006 at 09:21 AM
After 1 week of news that is mostly damaging to Republican House candidates, is this going to be another weekend dominated by Foley stories? And when will the promised push-back begin? (something more effective than the Drudge story)
Posted by: T Miller | October 06, 2006 at 09:21 AM
If it comes out that Robin Katsaros had anything to do with those IMs, and if she has sat on them for years or months--this little scandal is soooo over for the republicans--but it will just be getting started for the demorats!
The Republican Base will be in a red hot fury.
Posted by: verner | October 06, 2006 at 09:24 AM
verner, you maybe right but will that show up far enough before the election to make a difference ?
Posted by: Neo | October 06, 2006 at 09:29 AM
It's a waste to begin a push back a month out. The American electorate (in particular, the muddled middle) has the attention span of a gnat. This Democratic gay bashing scam is only their first salvo and is aimed at the absentee voters who are just now receiving their ballots.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | October 06, 2006 at 09:32 AM
Neo: If some decent investigative reporter gets on it, I don't see why not. If the little people on the internet can find out this much, why can't they?
Posted by: verner | October 06, 2006 at 09:32 AM
The average voter won't be too impressed if we learn that some Democrat knew about Foley and sat on the information. Most voters already have it firmly in their minds that senior House Republicans knew about Foley years ago.
Posted by: T Miller | October 06, 2006 at 09:36 AM
OT http://www.tfponline.com/QuickHeadlines.asp?sec=l&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fepaper%2Ewehco%2Ecom%2FWebChannel%2FShowStory%2Easp%3FPath%3DChatTFPress%2F2006%2F10%2F06%26ID%3DAr00903>Ford calling himself a lawyer!
Ford called self a lawyer but did not pass bar exam
By Michael Davis Staff Writer
This is starting to get rough!
Posted by: Bob | October 06, 2006 at 09:38 AM
Are private e-mails anything like testimony?
Pelosi on the Release of President Clinton's Videotaped Testimony to the Grand Jury
September 21, 1998
The release of the videotape of President Clinton's Grand Jury testimony is a blatant political move on the part of the Republican leadership in the House to further humiliate the President over an affair that he has already admitted. If there is a time to release this videotape, it is when the Judiciary Committee has completed its work and the tape could be viewed within the context of all of the documentation gathered by the Committee.
The release of these tapes, pushed through by the Republican majority on the Judiciary Committee, violates the basic principles of fairness and ignores existing precedent in which a request to release President Clinton's videotaped testimony in the Paula Jones case was denied by the Judge.
What President Clinton did was wrong. It is grounds for embarrassment, not for impeachment. The Judiciary Committee is charged with the responsibility of investigating the allegations against the President. The Republican leadership should move this process forward and not attempt to consume the nation's attention with salacious allegations about the President's private life.
Posted by: Pat | October 06, 2006 at 09:39 AM
RB, a question for you: When did the TANG memos hit?
I happen to disagree. One Drudge headline, "What did Pelosi Know, and When did she know it" Could turn this thing around. When people hear about Katsaros and her kid, and what they were up to, the story will shift focus to the Bush hating Soros funded loony left. And remembr, at this point, we have proof that what Foley did was disgusting and immoral, but not that it was illegal. And as I've said before, I don't think we will. He seems to have known just where to draw the line.
Posted by: verner | October 06, 2006 at 09:43 AM
"a nasty piece of work" said Robert Novak of David Corn. Enough said. Ditto Josh Marshall, etc.
Posted by: noah | October 06, 2006 at 09:44 AM
Republican spokespersons need to be more effective when presenting their story. This morning on CNN a Florida representative again confused the emails and the IM's - no wonder the general publc thinks they are all the same.
Posted by: T Miller | October 06, 2006 at 09:47 AM
Verner,
I see that I wasn't clear. Again. The DUI arguably did more damage than the TANG memos and the TANG memos would have been much more effective in achieving their intent had they been held until there was no time for rebuttal.
The timing of the release of the charges is probably more important than the charge itself wrt the muddled middle. The Democratic gay baiters are too early and polling suggests that the general public is rather unmoved by the story. The planned Phase II of the Democratic gay bashing program - the actual outing of closeted Republican aides is going to backfire because the Republican pols involved are going to say "what my employees do in their private lives is none of my business - and none of yours either, Ms Reporter." Democrat activists are fairly stupid and live in black/white worlds so they'll give it a try anyway.
I wouldn't mind seeing Pelosi get blistered but in a nation where 60% of the voting age population don't even know their own representatives name the impact is likely to be as marginal as this scandal du jour.
The perpetual losers of the Democratic party have thrown so much crap at the wall over the past six years that there is no way they get get any slime to stick for more than an instant.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | October 06, 2006 at 10:02 AM
The problem with the "Democrats knew about it" theory is that we are also claiming that (1) Foley didn't break any laws and (2) the IM's were pranks. So if Dems did know, but no laws were broken, what were they supposed to do?
Posted by: T Miller | October 06, 2006 at 10:03 AM
You know what I love most about Robin Kostaros? The way she gets all snippy with the pages when they ask if the book is ever going to get published.
Posted by: MayBee | October 06, 2006 at 10:07 AM
Rick Ballard: If Soros gave to Democracy Alliance and DA gave to CREW, I would characterize that as "Soros finances CREW".
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | October 06, 2006 at 10:08 AM
no wonder the general publc thinks they are all the same.
Part of the plan? Release the emails 1st so the public gets the idea that Foley is emailing a 16 year old then release the IMs? Seems their plan worked, if that is what they indeed did.
Posted by: Sue | October 06, 2006 at 10:08 AM
So if Dems did know, but no laws were broken, what were they supposed to do?
Shut them up. See Hugh Hewitt's blog to see how democrats are lying about what was known and covered up and who knew and covered it.
Posted by: Sue | October 06, 2006 at 10:10 AM
You know, Christopher Katsaros, son of Robin Katsaros, host of house parties to raise money for John Conyers, would fit the description of "a source on capitol hill" that is not affiliated with a political party.
Katsaros attends Georgetown, enrolled in the School of Foreign Service.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | October 06, 2006 at 10:13 AM
Moveon.org has a base out of Royal Oak Michigan call "Metro Detroit Friends of Moveon.org". I stumbled upon their web page and viewed some of their "Projects". One that caught my eye was a posting dated July 24th. Found here:
http://www.moveonfriendsdetroit.org/b/b/portal.php?article=2
If you notice at the end of the article they have contact information for the event. One of these people have an email address with a Wide Open Web account. Wasn't this the domain where the IP address linked to?
Posted by: Contributor From Michigan | October 06, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Contributor: That email address is for a Bruck Felk, owner of a company called 'Customer Grabbers'. On the site is a big photo of Bruce with Jennifer Granholm.
http://www.customergrabbers.com/
Bruce looks like a local Democrat organizer. I'm sure there are lots of them in that area with Wide Open West accounts. It's a local ISP.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | October 06, 2006 at 10:33 AM
According to Democratic Underground, Bruce Fealk is an "Oakland Field Organizer" for Jim Marcinowski for Congress.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | October 06, 2006 at 10:50 AM
For Don:
A short history of Muslim on Muslim violence.
..Now you have the facts; ask the following decidedly non politically correct questions.
What would have happened to the Palestinians if they were under Iraqi occupation? Or Sudanese? Or even French or Soviet? The genocide that Israel is not committing hides the real genocide, the silenced genocide that Arabs and Muslims are committing mainly against themselves.
The answers are just as politically incorrect as the questions which is probably the reason for the deafening silence on this topic.
- Ethel C. Fenig 9 28 06
Washington, Sept 27: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said here that the US military presence in Iraq keeps neighbours from invading his country... "I think that our neighbours must understand that our patience is limited," he said, refusing to single out countries but adding "we mean all of them."
Iraq shares borders with Syria, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Posted by: b | October 06, 2006 at 10:54 AM
No real surprise here:
KATSAROS, ROBIN
LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA 94022
NOT EMPLOYED/HOMEMAKER
KERRY, JOHN F
VIA JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT, INC
06/29/2004 1000.00 24971361981
Posted by: verner | October 06, 2006 at 11:00 AM
From the AP:
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule.
As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats — in her fondest wish — win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_on_el_ge/pelosi_time_1
I guess Pelosi thinks she is on her way in.
Posted by: sad | October 06, 2006 at 11:01 AM
""a nasty piece of work" said Robert Novak of David Corn"
Novak is your source on that, Noah?
ROFLMFAO!!!
Posted by: Semanticleo | October 06, 2006 at 11:04 AM
T.Miller
The problem with the "Democrats knew about it" theory is that we are also claiming that (1) Foley didn't break any laws and (2) the IM's were pranks. So if Dems did know, but no laws were broken, what were they supposed to do?
First, I don't think the pranks story is going to fly.
Second, not-illegal doesn't mean that much to very very socially conservative folk anyway. To them, gasp, it should obvious and a thorough investigation should have happened. Period.
But if the Democrats knew and kept the info from the Reps and released it just before the election for effect, that would matter.
Posted by: Syl | October 06, 2006 at 11:20 AM
In reference to the Page's chat at the alumni board, on of the kids is from Detroit:
http://www.pbase.com/adlaidemocrat/profile
Posted by: verner | October 06, 2006 at 11:20 AM
What liberals don't understand is that social conservatives actually believe their moral rhetoric, even when it's politically inconvenient. That's why GOP Rep. Bob Livingston of Louisiana had to resign when his marital infidelities became public during the Clinton impeachment, much to the chagrin of Democrats who wanted to advance the "everybody does it" defense of Clinton. And that's why vast numbers of social conservatives now want House Speaker Dennis Hastert's head on a pike.
Meanwhile, the only moral lapse that consistently offends all liberals is hypocrisy. As Howard Dean declared on "Meet the Press" last year: "Everybody has ethical shortcomings. We ought not to lecture each other about our ethical shortcomings." But he continued: "I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy." This is a convenient principle insofar as it can indict only people with actual principles.
Fanning the flames of righteous fervor over Foley will probably reap electoral benefits for Democrats. But the time will come when something like the "Foley standard" will be inconvenient to Democrats. In response, liberals will hold another fire sale. And yet, they will be stunned again when people claim the Democrats don't stand for anything.
Posted by: SunnyDay | October 06, 2006 at 11:45 AM
Brilliant detective work--special kudos to ts and jmh-My hat's off to you!
Posted by: clarice | October 06, 2006 at 11:47 AM
JMH and TS - why don't you two do a piece for AT on this? If it's framed as: "Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi should be called before the House Ethics Committee to try and attempt to clear up..." it would work perfectly.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | October 06, 2006 at 12:19 PM
And that's why vast numbers of social conservatives now want House Speaker Dennis Hastert's head on a pike.
That's just a lousy excuse. The social conservatives want Hastert to resign out of principle? Where's the principles about finding out what the truth is.
Pfeh.
Posted by: Syl | October 06, 2006 at 12:22 PM
MayBee
** The way she gets all snippy with the pages when they ask if the book is ever going to get published.***
No kidding, and then um , where's that "print on demand" book?
Posted by: topsecretk9 | October 06, 2006 at 12:23 PM
No, I'm wrong.
It's even worse than that.
The social conservatives want Hastert to resign so that they can FEEL good about their principles.
Pfhe.
Sorry, but that kind of rhetoric and excuse making really really annoys me. It's simply saying, look, we ARE better than you. Nyah. Nyah.
My father left the ministry because he got so sick and tired of people like that. Day in and day out and almost every one of them had their own skeletons.
So sacrifice Hastert and be done with it. We're right. Nothing else matters.
Pfeh again.
Posted by: Syl | October 06, 2006 at 12:27 PM
I did a shorty on it Rick. Macs working on this, too.TYpos in it..I notified editor to correct.http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6298
I think he sent the stuff to Drudge.
Posted by: clarice | October 06, 2006 at 12:28 PM
Syl,
What "vast numbers"? You may be making the same error that Jonah is making. Captain Ed and Michelle Malkin aren't representative of much besides their own viewpoints and both of them have been in 'screw the ready, aim crap - fire at will' mode for quite a while. They have become predictable and tiresome in doing so.
Dobson is as socially conservative a public figure as you're likely to find and both he and Hewitt are supporting Hastert - as is Rush.
Put down the paint brush and look around a bit.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | October 06, 2006 at 12:32 PM
Miller: ""The problem with the "Democrats knew about it" theory is that we are also claiming that (1) Foley didn't break any laws and (2) the IM's were pranks. So if Dems did know, but no laws were broken, what were they supposed to do?""
The point is from the Democrat perspective at the time they though Foley HAD broken the law and they thought eveythingw as real.
What they DECIDED was to allow Foley to continue to do the bad things they THOUGHT he was doing until the could spring a political surprise. Not caring if anyone was being hurt in between.
Posted by: Pa | October 06, 2006 at 12:38 PM
Jury consultants say that circumstantial evidence is most powerful when you let the jury draw its own inferences, and don't rub their noses in it by 'splainin' too much.
The tidbits JH and ts have come up with sure are interesting, aren't they?
Coincidence? "We report you decide".
Posted by: vnjagvet | October 06, 2006 at 12:39 PM
Pfeh again.
Hagel is an idiot
Prominent US Republican Senator Chuck Hagel criticised "very unwise decisions" in going to war in Iraq, during a return visit to Vietnam where he served as a soldier in the late 1960s.
more pfeh!!
Posted by: SunnyDay | October 06, 2006 at 12:40 PM
The Hastert chatter will weaken over the next few months because of Rove's October Surprise so hilariously characterized by Clarice. The October Surprise is that Republicans are running against The Democrats.
I postured that if the Democrats chose to remain silent on the Foley case they would gain so much more from it. Instead, they embraced the story, used it to run blatantly false ads, and are now packing their boxes planning to migrate to the Chairman offices.
The Foley story had the potential to scare social conservatives away from the polls. Could they trust the Republicans to practice what they preach? This is a very big concern with social conservatives as there are countless stories of disciples being deceived by their pastors and moral leaders. Obviously the exact numbers pale in comparison to the good hearted, compassionate pastors and priests, but bad apples stick out like a sore thumb.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | October 06, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Noel Sheppard has done a reminder to conservatives of what Hastert voted for and what Pelosi did. http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5922
Posted by: clarice | October 06, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Captain Ed and Michelle Malkin aren't representative of much besides their own viewpoints...
So true - They both seem to go off on tangents lately.
I've been embarrassed for Malkin at times - she gets wound up about stuff that is so beside the point.
Posted by: SunnyDay | October 06, 2006 at 12:44 PM
Captain Ed and Michelle Malkin aren't representative of much besides their own viewpoints...
So true. That is one of the things I love about this side. Conservative bloggers have their own viewpoints and post accordingly, unlike the townhouse libs.
Posted by: norm d'plume | October 06, 2006 at 01:11 PM
FWIW, I have a new "List" post up, so the conversation could migrate over there.
Posted by: Tom Maguire | October 06, 2006 at 01:11 PM
I love Captain ed, and I've never been all that big on Malkin. I'm not a social conservative so that stuff doesn't resonate with me, but on foreign policy, Captain ed is as good as it gets.
OT: Michael Totten has published 3 pamphlets ala Thomas Paine. He's about the best in the blogosphere at what he does too:
http://www.michaeltotten.com/
Posted by: Jane | October 06, 2006 at 01:16 PM
Posted by: SunnyDay | October 06, 2006 at 01:24 PM
Jane--I'm with you. Capt Ed brought doen the Libs in Canada and will always be a hero to me. I think the fight to remove Hastert at this point is a circular suicide move and I think it's unwarranted and stupid.
Posted by: clarice | October 06, 2006 at 01:25 PM
Jane--I'm with you. Capt Ed brought down the Libs in Canada and will always be a hero to me. I think the fight to remove Hastert at this point is a circular suicide move and I think it's unwarranted and stupid.
Posted by: clarice | October 06, 2006 at 01:25 PM
Malkin's problem is that she should be spouting her stuff from a pulpit, not from a column and blog billed as being a voice for Republican conservatives.
I don't question her puritanical purity on the social issues. I'm sure she believes with all her heart that she is in the moral and right position. If issues were only decided on the morality question, she might be able to justify her position based on strict interpretations of old fire and brimstone religious thinking, but that isn't the world we live in today. I'm not sure we ever really did, but certainly not the reality of today and today is what we need to deal with.
I vote Republican because as a libertarian there is nothing about the dem platform that remotely reflects my views. I choke down my distaste for the preachy side of the party. I am much more of a social liberal than a social conservative, but how I feel about private issues, which include most of the political social agenda is my business. What I do in the privacy of my own home is strictly my business and I don't care whether Malkin or Boortz or Falwell or Dobson approve or not.
I think the Malkin-think is stupid. I get the impression that she thinks if you don't subscribe to the "fire and brimstone" version, you aren't worthy to vote Republican. Does she ever stop to think what the alternative is? Do we need to take morality tests to get into the voting booth. As a Republican-libertarian flowerchild, I could not pass such a test, but I am absolutely sure that President Bush, our brave men and women in the military, and those who put national security above stupidity are more than happy to have my vote.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 01:32 PM
TS JMH, Gabriel , sara et al: Thank you for staying up late so I don't have to. Just found out this time of year makes everyone unseasonably tired. You have done great work.
Gabrielle: I also must get up early to get to work and collect a paycheck. That's hard to do after late nights blogging. But the real truth of this story is coming from the blogs like JOM.
Posted by: maryrose | October 06, 2006 at 01:35 PM
Republican-libertarian flowerchild
I'm trying to get a mental image ;)
Posted by: SunnyDay | October 06, 2006 at 01:39 PM
Maryrose, I can afford to stay up late since I can sleep late. Lately though, I seem to be awake more than asleep mostly due to my ongoing back pain. I have to sleep in my recliner, still can't lie down for more than a couple of minutes before the spasms kick in. So, I nap for a half hour, wake up with my laptop right here, do a quick page reload of JOM, jump in, and then nap again for another hour.
I want to work on doing a complete link roundup on the Foley matter. I'm going to work on it today and try to pull the links from all sites together in one place. If anyone has links they think should be included that go beyond AJ, Mac, AT, Gateway, Wizbang, JOM and NR, please feel free to send me an email. I'll pull as much together as I can in the next few hours (between those naps) and post later this afternoon.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 01:43 PM
I'm trying to get a mental image ;)
LOL.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 01:45 PM
Sara,
When I turned right, the thing that caused me the most pause was the social issues. I thought it would make that move very difficult on me. What I have discovered is that the right is for the most part much more tolerant than the left. On the right I've never felt castigated because I'm not religious, or because I am socially libertarian. And that tolerance has allowed me the opportunity to actually explore a different point of view, something utterly verboten on the left.
I've discovered that tolerance is really one of the most important things for me. And if you look at this scandel, and people like Mike Rogers, and the homophobic response on the left, the intolerance on the left comes through so clearly.
Posted by: Jane | October 06, 2006 at 01:53 PM
Jane, spot on.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 01:55 PM
Yes. Check out Rick's post re the Christian conservative websites on the updated Corn thread for proof.
Posted by: clarice | October 06, 2006 at 01:56 PM
Flopping Aces reminds:
---Recall ABC’s first response to the IM question:
We became aware of the IMs only after we reported the first blotter item on the emails between Foley and a former page last Thursday, September 28. ***As we have reported, ****the IMs were given to us by former pages**** who contacted us after reading that first story.*** As for responding to reader’s questions, we have received tens of thousands of comments on these stories. We would like to respond to every question, but as I’m sure you can appreciate, that is not always possible.---
Posted by: topsecretk9 | October 06, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Wow. Oh my. JOM, Mac, Ace and AJ have caused some very dirty diapers and pacifier sales have tripled since yesterday. Goodness, how you all get the info you do is just mind boggling. I think I'm going to need a lead vest and glasses soon, the meltdown is near.
Poor wittle lefties are having such a trying morning. If they could just stay focused, stop writing their conspiracy theories in crayon, and use the potty and not the diapers, they might just get promoted to 1st grade.
Posted by: Enlightened | October 06, 2006 at 01:58 PM
I grew up in a Republican family of educated upper middle class society. I went from that to 30 years of being a military wife. I rarely had a democrat cross my path. I knew no democrats, or at least no one that admitted it anyway. So, I guess I was in a bubble. I first had my eyes opened when I started my caretaking for my Mother after her strokes. I suddenly was thrust into dealing with the California health care industry. My Mother's therapist called me in and told me that I was going to have trouble. That there was quite abit of disturbance over both mine and my Mother's refusal to go along with the recommendations of the social services types to lock my Mother up in a nursing home. Suddenly she with her 170 IQ, me with not as high an IQ but still considered pretty smart, were too stupid to make decisions for ourselves and for her care. They made her life a living hell and mine too. The longer it went on, the more I began to truly hate these self-appointed do-gooders billing themselves as Adult Protective Services. Their agenda is all about control. Control over people's lives and especially over their assets. I was lucky because before my Mother was impaired, she had taken very good legal steps with several different powers of attorney covering every kind of situation, both financial and medical. They tried to come after me, but couldn't because my Mother took steps to protect me before she was ill. If I hadn't had those documents, they would have gotten control, and I would probably be in jail. Everyone needs to have legal documents spelling out your wishes and designating who you want as caretaker/legal trustee/health guardian. Spell it out. If you should be unable to speak up for yourself, make sure your designee is protected so they can fight your battles for you.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | October 06, 2006 at 02:09 PM
Rick B
What "vast numbers"?
I was reacting to and quoqting a line from the article pasted a couple messages above me. (I notice the italics didn't work.)
Social conservatives are saying 'vast numbers'.
I went off grocery shopping and came feeling better. turned on tv while putting stuff away and there were more of them talking about Foley. They're breeding!! LOL
Posted by: Syl | October 06, 2006 at 02:14 PM
Hmmm. the pagealumni server is down.
I wonder how complicit the Page Program is?
Posted by: Enlightened | October 06, 2006 at 02:19 PM
Republican-libertarian flowerchild
Works for me.
Thanks for that. And thanks, Jane, for reminding me why I'm on this side.
Posted by: Syl | October 06, 2006 at 02:34 PM
verner:
The sort of Katsaros black op you describe is a pretty big leap. I think it's far more likely that Pelosi got Chris K. a spot in the page program, and maybe something, if anything, took off from there. Where did you pick up that CK was openly gay? Did I just miss that in the misc. scanning last night? If Foley hit on CK, and CK passed that on to Mom, that could certainly have precipated action on her part -- whether as a reporter (Socially Speaking with Robin Katsaros!) with ties to the left or simply as a mother determined to check out a disturbing revelation.
In any case, I thought the Katsaros quotes from the Buddy Page TSK9 turned up, makes both of their political sympathies clear. Sara pretty much nailed it:
From Mom (snotty elitist):
"Take those red states and SHOVE IT!" - Robin Katsaros (responding to the miserable social statistics in red states).
From Chris (elitist in training):
"They should do a study on how people from the west coast are better than other people..."
"...I mean but at least both east and west coasters can laugh at the people in the middle: They're poor and not tan."
"Like I said, the Democrats are way more smarter."
On a lighter note (if it can actually get much lighter) I was amused by an observation on Katsaros père's business website, given Mom's remarks on leaving her interviews till last (what on earth went into the other putative 14 chapters?):
At the core of Internet Research Group’s success and our continuing work, is the concept and practice of Expert Interviews.... There is a lot of craft in determining who to talk to, what to ask them, and how to ask it. But the results are clear. You learn a lot more from 50 careful interviews than from a poll of 10,000 who don’t have experience with what you’re interested in.
Dad's got a business blog too, btw.
Posted by: JM Hanes | October 06, 2006 at 03:53 PM
Well, Los Altos Hills is extemely exclusive - Big Big Big Big money. I saw another address listed as Atherton - Again, big big big big money. Huge. She's unemployed, and donates a grand to Kerry - probably a drop in the bucket.
Posted by: Enlightened | October 06, 2006 at 04:35 PM
"So presumably Mr. Corn, troubled as he is by closeted Republican gays, is equally troubled by closeted Democratic gays."
No, Tom, actually he's troubled by their hypocritical bosses who have made a routine profession for decades of yelling that all gays are evil -- which the Democratic Party has not. Nice attempt to change the subject, though.
Posted by: Bruce Moomaw | October 06, 2006 at 04:42 PM
In this connection, let's consider the recent comments of John Cole on our host:
"Just One Minute came up with this first, last week: 'However, picture this headline – "House Leadership Boots Allegedly Gay Republican On Trumped-Up Pedophilia Charges". Ugly. Worth Avoiding. Listening to Andrew Sullivan decry the homophobes in the House would not have been worth it. So they played it a bit too cautiously and slowly and here we are.'
"Maybe these hysterical bleatings would have been more plausible if this hadn’t been the de facto party line for the GOP for the past ten years:
" 'Republicans are prepared to oppose homosexual "marriage" in their national platform, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said yesterday. 'There is a lot of energy out there, a lot of concern about gay marriage, Mr. Gillespie said. "So it wouldn’t surprise me if it were addressed in some form or fashion in the platform." He accused homosexual activists of intolerance and bigotry by attempting to force the rest of the population to accept alien moral standards. As a result, "tolerance is no longer defined as my accepting people for who they are," the RNC chairman said.'
"You can count on the Republicans to be weak, craven, corrupt, and a lot of things. Afraid of the homosexual lobby just isn’t one of them."
So. Referring back to Tom's current subject: We're supposed to regard exposing hypocritical collaborators with bigots as immoral?
Posted by: Bruce Moomaw | October 06, 2006 at 04:52 PM
Sara & Jane:
Looks like the conversation is migrating, but I just wanted to ditto your observations about landing on the right side of aisle. I'm so far left of social conservatives that I'm almost off their map, and substantially left of conservatives generally. I'd call myself a Republican, but the term has been so thoroughly conflated with Conservative, that it doesn't mean much any more. While I'm often irritated by a certain arrogance in the "conservative base" as a political block, I've found folks on the right far more willing to engage a much wider spectrum of opinion than there counterparts.
Posted by: JM Hanes | October 06, 2006 at 05:02 PM
You tell 'em, Moomaw! Those sexually screwed-up predators have absolutely NO RIGHT to privacy. Corn's list needs to be published, and it needs to be published NOW.
Every single gay man on that list is a potential child molester, and AMERICA has a right to know who they are. Hopefully after Corn's list of D.C. gays is published, we'll be able to continue our crusade and start outing all the gay men who are in hiding all over America, before they get hold of our sons.
The is NOTHING immoral about violating the privacy or civil rights of these potential pedophiles. The mere suspicion that these people might be gay means that any witchhunt is completely and fully justified.
Why can't the rest of you neanderthals think of the children, like Bruce does!
Posted by: Tailgunner Joe | October 06, 2006 at 05:05 PM
Bruce:
Actually, I'd say that engaging the base is only one of two compelling reasons the Republican platform might address the issue of gay marriage. The other is that opposition to it transcends party lines. If gay activists could wrap their brains around that simple fact, and operate accordingly, they might be looking at progress instead of backlash right now.
Posted by: JM Hanes | October 06, 2006 at 05:18 PM
This could have been a very interesting website
House Page Alumni Association (Powered by Invision Power Board)
1st post - S Michelman - No longer dem. chief page. Is S.Michelman any relation to Kate Michelman of PA?
2nd post had information regarding 'congress and page pranks' which now has been changed. (1408 replies)..... This probably holds much information.
There is also a mention of Katsaro's book.
This site went down the day the news hit and it has been altered a bit.
Posted by: Emjay | October 07, 2006 at 03:19 AM
If you think about it, there are several coincidental ties to the Foley story with a presumed October surprise by the Democrats. Here’s an angle I see:
Right now CREW is requesting a FOIA inquiry into several evangelical leaders who visited the White House. They have also significantly driven this Foley story which “value voters” are loathe to even touch with a ten foot pole.
If you look at the repertoire of CREW’s FOIA requests they range from things like abstinence based programs to suing Tom Delay, Dick Cheney and anyone who is part of the corrupt right wing conspiracy. In their list of reps to watch they have about ten republicans and one or two democrats, for good measure in case they are ever accused of bias; after all they are concerned with ethics as their name seems to indicate.
Anyways, if CREW determines that any of these evangelical leaders met with Foley (which is not unlikely since Foley was involved in children rights activities)-imagine how long it will take them to peddle this story to an already salivating media looking to paralyze value voters.
Too bad CREW wasn’t around the Clinton years. They would’ve definitely needed more staff.
Posted by: Miguel Guanipa | October 07, 2006 at 06:11 AM
"The "serial comma," ... is back in vogue with grammarians (as it should be). Here is an example:
'According to the Department of Defense, Aaron Seal, Chase Haag, Justin Peterson, Denise Lannaman, Christopher Consgrove III, Mario Nelson, Joe Narvaez, Michael Oremus, Satieon Greenlee -- comma -- and eight other members of the United States military were killed this week in Iraq.'
Hope that helps.
--Charles P. Pierce
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Charles P. Pierce is a puking idiot!
Posted by: red | October 07, 2006 at 09:20 AM
**out the hypocrites**. hypocracy isnt a minor thing. maybe you all should read the new testament.
and i note the comment thread is full of the usual sloppy, fearful, obtuse generalizations and demonization of 'liberals' as a libertarian, i have to laugh. as usual, you republicans are not conservative and lack any ability to introspect your prejudices and ignorance, you ruin america with your labels and polarization, yet you have the gaul, the temerity, to label yourselves original thinkers? its a hoot. silly people. take away gay rights but cry crocodile tears for the gays who support it who get revealed for who they are, if and only if their party label is republican. shame and pity on you.
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Measles Outbreak in Orthodox Jewish Community in NYC Could Worsen During Passover, City Officials Say
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Posted: Apr 19, 2019 / 12:14 PM PDT / Updated: Apr 19, 2019 / 12:17 PM PDT
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As one of the holiest Jewish celebrations of the year arrives, families in the Hasidic section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, face a dilemma.
“Say you have six kids that want to come to the Seder, with all the grandchildren,” said Eli Banash, 32, a member of the Orthodox community who works in Williamsburg.
“Grandmother wants everybody to come. One family didn’t vaccinate the kids. Five did. The five families are saying, ‘We’re not coming unless they don’t come!’ With Passover, it’s going to intensify.”
A persistent measles outbreak has hit this ultra-Orthodox enclave and led city officials to declare a public health emergency.
Passover, which begins at sundown Friday and ends April 27, marks the Exodus story from the Old Testament and is celebrated with large gatherings and ceremonial meals. But community leaders and health officials fear the holiday may further fuel the spread of the highly contagious disease.
Already, 359 cases of measles have been confirmed in Brooklyn and Queens since October, mostly in Williamsburg.
“The concern is that with Passover and increased travel, we’re going to be putting more people at risk,” said New York City’s health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot.
Across the country, measles cases have jumped to the second-highest level in a quarter century, with 555 cases confirmed in 20 states, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Because of measles’ long incubation period, we know this outbreak will get worse before it gets better,” Barbot said in a statement this week.
A pamphlet directed at Orthodox communities helped fuel the fear of vaccines
In Hasidic Williamsburg, bearded men walk hurriedly in long frock coats crowned by black hats. Women in ankle-length skirts push strollers on crowded sidewalks and Hasidic boys with spiraling side curls dart through the streets in bunches.
In an insular community where some don’t take kindly to intrusion, residents blame the outbreak largely on a hardline minority opposed to vaccinations, or anti-vaxers. The close-knit neighborhood — where residents explain the insularity as a way of preserving the community’s identity — has seen heightened tension in some families, especially as Passover preparations got underway.
Blima Marcus, a nurse and past president of the Orthodox Jewish Nurses Association, has been holding small workshops with the nurses in Brooklyn and New Jersey to educate members of the ultra-Orthodox community who are fearful of vaccines.
The fears were fueled in part by a slick 40-page booklet being distributed in Orthodox enclaves about the dangers of vaccines. The booklet is directly aimed at the Orthodox community, partly written in Hebrew and filled with snippets from the Torah, or Old Testament. Yet Marcus and Orthodox Jewish leaders say there is nothing in Jewish law that prohibits vaccinations.
The booklet was created by a group called PEACH, or Parents Educating and Advocating for Children’s Health. Attempts to reach the organization for comment have been unsuccessful.
“People figured it’s a fringe magazine and didn’t pay a lot of attention to it, but I think what we’re realizing now is that it had a much larger impact than anyone ever realized,” Marcus said.
‘Every night, people are arguing’
Burach Kahan, 25, said he had his youngest child, 9 months old, vaccinated this week. His two other children are vaccinated. He said he started a separate family text group where most of his 13 siblings can only talk about vaccines and the measles outbreak.
“One of my sisters is very scared,” he said. “Most of her friends are anti-vaccine and she forwards all their messages. She brought (up vaccines) on the regular group and everyone was busy all day and night fighting.”
“People will argue throughout the holiday,” said Shaya Hershko, 22, who had his 14-month-old daughter vaccinated against the measles before a family Passover trip to Canada. “Every night, people are arguing. The people you argue with about everything — your arguing partners.”
Hershko, who lives in Williamsburg, frequently argues with his sister-in-law in upstate Orange County, New York. He says she is an adherent of alternative medicine and refuses to vaccinate her children.
Orange County had seen 20 confirmed measles cases, while neighboring Rockland County — with 190 cases — tried to bar unvaccinated children from public places until a judge prohibited officials from enforcing that rule.
“I have a lot of friends that didn’t want to give the shots but I figured that a doctor knows better than my friends know,” said Hershko’s wife, Friny, 20. “The people that don’t give the shots are actually a little bit looked down because the schools and everybody are making like a big deal.”
New York health officials announced last week that in the neighborhoods affected by the outbreak, anyone who has not been vaccinated against measles or cannot show evidence of immunity could face a $1,000 fine.
Nurses are fighting misinformation
On Monday, the health department said a Williamsburg child-care program was closed “for repeatedly failing to provide access to medical and attendance records.” Schools and child care programs are required to maintain records on-site, and unvaccinated students and staff are prohibited from attending.
The child care program has reopened, but health officials said Thursday that four other city schools and pre-schools will close imminently for failing to comply with the department orders.
Marcus and a group of other nurses have researched and refuted each piece of misinformation in the PEACH booklet, and plan to soon publish a rebuttal to be distributed in Orthodox communities.
The nurses have also been meeting with mothers in Williamsburg and other Orthodox communities, Marcus said.
“I feel really bad for these women whose internal instincts of motherhood and protecting their children have been exploited by this movement and now are feeling that heat and feeling that backlash and are being kind of attacked for their medical choices,” she said.
“I talk to these women and I say you’re trying to use Jewish law to defend not vaccinating. Instead, you’re deliberately trying to harm them. It’s almost kind of like breaking your child’s bone in the hope that when it grows back it will be stronger,” she said.
“We listen to them and take them seriously on an issue where they’re usually mocked,” Marcus said.
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Did McDonald's announce a new spearmint flavored after-dinner Big Mac hamburger? And did it have a disgusting greenish tint? Fast-food lovers can rest easy: the entire story was a hoax published by a satirical website, it is not true. There are no green Big Macs, that's fake news.
The rumor about the new burger originated from an article published by The Onion on March 17, 2018 titled "McDonald's Announces New Spearmint After-Dinner Big Mac" (archived here) which opened:
OAK BROOK, IL--Calling the new menu item a cool, refreshing way for consumers to finish their meals, McDonald's officials introduced the Spearmint After-Dinner Big Mac during a press event Tuesday at the company's corporate headquarters. "Our new Spearmint Big Mac takes the classic, all-American burger customers love and gives it a minty twist that's perfect for cleansing your palate and freshening your breath," said McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook, explaining that the new Big Mac's menthol-and-sesame-seed bun, spearmint-oil-infused American cheese, and two all-beef patties provide a delicious and intense burst of mint that's "perfect for capping off any Value Meal."
Users on social media would have only seen this title, description and thumbnail which look quite realistic:
McDonald's Announces New Spearmint After-Dinner Big Mac
OAK BROOK, IL-Calling the new menu item a cool, refreshing way for consumers to finish their meals, McDonald's officials introduced the Spearmint After-Dinner Big Mac during a press event Tuesday at the company's corporate headquarters.
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The Onion is the world's leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.
In addition to maintaining a towering standard of excellence to which the rest of the industry aspires, The Onion supports more than 350,000 full- and part-time journalism jobs in its numerous news bureaus and manual labor camps stationed around the world, and members of its editorial board have served with distinction in an advisory capacity for such nations as China, Syria, Somalia, and the former Soviet Union. On top of its journalistic pursuits, The Onion also owns and operates the majority of the world's transoceanic shipping lanes, stands on the nation's leading edge on matters of deforestation and strip mining, and proudly conducts tests on millions of animals daily.
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Manchester City's Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne (left) celebrates scoring their second goal during their English Premier League match against Burnley at the Etihad Stadium on October 16, 2021.
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Chris Wood should have halved the visitors' arrears when he blasted over with just Steffen to beat, but his lack of composure showed why Burnley remain without a league win this season.
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Manchester City remained on Liverpool's tails at the top of the Premier League by seeing off Burnley 2-0 at the Etihad thanks to goals from Bernardo Silva and Kevin De Bruyne on Saturday.
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Silva snapped up the rebound after Nick Pope denied Phil Foden early on before De Bruyne's blast made the game safe 20 minutes from time.
Raheem Sterling's suggestion he could look to leave City if he is not afforded more minutes caught Guardiola unaware when he faced the media on Friday.
Guardiola responded by handing the England international a rare Premier League start this season among five changes from a 2-2 draw at Liverpool before the international break.
But Sterling struggled to make an impact in a disjointed first 45 minutes from the hosts.
"After the international break we take the victory and look what's next," said Guardiola.
"All the guys gave everything. It doesn't matter if the performance is good or not, it's important that you fight for your teammates and everyone was incredible."
Silva continued his bright early season form as his side's standout performer.
The Portuguese started the move for the opening goal by picking out Foden at the edge of the area and when his shot was parried by Pope, Silva followed up to smash home the rebound.
Burnley had lost 5-0 on their four previous visits to the Etihad and Pope spread himself to save brilliantly from Joao Cancelo moments later to prevent the floodgates opening once more.
But it was the Clarets who came closest to scoring as the half-time whistle approached.
Maxwel Cornet scored four goals in three appearances for Lyon against City in the Champions League and the Ivorian should have been the scourge of the English champions again.
Zack Steffen, deputising for Ederson due to his late return from international duty with Brazil, saved a one-on-one with Cornet before the forward blasted a second attempt over.
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Chris Wood should have halved the visitors' arrears when he blasted over with just Steffen to beat, but his lack of composure showed why Burnley remain without a league win this season.
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Tacloban mayor Alfred Romualdez becomes the country's first local chief executive to receive China's CoronoVac vaccine, the Presidential Communications Operations Office earlier said. Mayor Alfred Romualdez
MANILA—Thirteen local officials have been directed to explain why they were vaccinated for COVID-19, despite not being on the priority list, the Department of the Interior and Local Government said Wednesday.
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(We have received reports and pictures of local officials who were given shots. We're still validating this, there were barangay chairpersons involved.)
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In the year 2020 through the beginning of 2021 we have had a tragic pandemic that has left us with social distancing, wearing face masks 24/7, major events being cancelled and so much more that has impacted people and their everyday lives. Many people have had the concern of when the mask mandate will be over completely and if it should be over right now. I say it should not for a long period of time considering there are still very many cases of COVID-19 still to this day.
COVID-19 has been around for a good while now but thankfully with the smart people we have in the world, a vaccine shot was created to help prevent COVID-19 in which ages 12 and up have been approved to get. With that being said, we should keep our social distance and face masks a go until everyone has gotten the vaccine or at least until the cases of COVID-19 have a major drop in numbers. We as a whole are trying to resist the spread of COVID-19 in any way possible and if that means continuing our ways of wearing face masks and social distancing then that is what we should do.
Recently the mask mandate in counties such as Tippecanoe county and Johnson county have been dropped but other counties such as Marion county and the City of Huntington have announced an extension of the mask mandate. However, we as a whole of Indiana are trying to end COVID-19 overall and we should all continue to wear masks and social distance until further notice of COVID-19 cases dropping or even being none at all.
Being in school, there are over hundreds of students and faculty per week since we have gone back full virtual and we can only do so much as of social distancing and having only a certain amount of students in the lunch room or gym at a time, wearing masks helps make things a little easier to do things at school.
We are not completely sure on how well the vaccine will do so next school year they are offering an all in person option, an all virtual option and a hybrid option as well. Personally, I do not feel safe going back to school yet so I will be continuing the option of all virtual until the cases of Covid drop by a lot.
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(CNN) – The chairman of the Republican National Committee unveiled his latest attack on President Barack Obama on Sunday, comparing him to the captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship.
When asked if the infighting in the GOP presidential primary race would harm the eventual nominee's chances against Obama in November, Reince Priebus said the party would unite by then in an effort to win the White House.
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"In a few months, this is all going to be ancient history and we're going to talk about our own little Captain Schettino, which is President Obama who's abandoning the ship here in the United States and is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president," Priebus said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Priebus added the president is "fleeing the American people," just like Schettino allegedly fled his cruise liner.
The ship rolled onto its side in shallow waters off an island on Italy's Tuscan coast on January 13. Seventeen people are confirmed dead and 15 people remain missing while Francesco Schettino is under house arrest and faces possible criminal charges of manslaughter, shipwreck and abandoning ship.
Following the jab, CBS host Bob Schieffer seemed caught off guard by Priebus' comment, asking with a laugh: "What did you just say? What did you call President Obama?"
Priebus was defiant in his response.
"I called him Captain Schettino, you know the captain that fled the ship in Italy," Priebus said. "That's our own president who's fleeing the American people and not doing his job and running around the country and campaigning."
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Ray
I think a better analogy is that Obama took over the ship after it had already half capsize, and while the president keeps trying to right the vessel, republicans keep pumping water into it.
January 29, 2012 04:48 pm at 4:48 pm |
Dan
Yeah. Because Bush didn't campaign at ALL for his second term. He mostly hid out at his heavily fortified ranch and cleared brush.
January 29, 2012 04:50 pm at 4:50 pm |
John
It the Republican that has jump ship on America ,and not President Obama. The Republican Control do Nothing Congress Isn't Letting him do anything to get America going again. But he Is still getting It done because thing are getting better slowing but getting better and with out Republican help at all. The Republican only care about the Republican Party and not about America or the American People.
January 29, 2012 04:51 pm at 4:51 pm |
Chris
Uh..NO. Your precious DUH-BYA was Schettino – HE took the ship onto the rocks, then fled after his term was over. Obama was the Coast Guard captain, trying to get all the republicans responsible back on board, instead of watching from the lifeboats and waiting for America to fail.
January 29, 2012 04:51 pm at 4:51 pm |
snydergal
'nuff said about the teavangelical repub party...loud-mouthed liars, disrespectful and un-American, ultra-right religious fanatics, etc. This man is the poster child for hate, racism, elitism, and division...through all the rhetoric of the party of "NO" and the ugly face they put on American politics, we Democrats have to do only one very important thing...we have to go to the polls November 6, 2012, encourage our friends and family to do the same, and vote President Obama in for another 4-year term in office. We also need to do everything in our power to sway others to not only vote for the only man for the job, but we all need to get behind any and all Democratic candidates for Congress...we need to clean House, send a message loud and clear, and give President Obama a House and Senate that is forward looking, that is FOR the people, ALL the people, and not just the rich who bankroll the party of "NO" candidates. We WILL take back America from those who would take us all back 50 years!
January 29, 2012 04:53 pm at 4:53 pm |
Dean Blythe
I'm pretty sure Priebus threw out his back coming up with that analogy.
January 29, 2012 04:53 pm at 4:53 pm |
suzanne
I believe the GOP has become two parties. Each of there agendas are so different from each other, that to have the losers stand behind the party values and beliefs of the winners, means they will have to "compromise". Imagine that...saying "yes" to something they don't believe.
The use of the Schettino comparison, besides being in poor taste, demonstates an even bigger problem. The "no" mantra has left this party without the ability to imagine solutions or, in this case, to describe the problem.
January 29, 2012 04:53 pm at 4:53 pm |
johnfelten
Respect in America.....R.I.P. It's a sad state of affairs when individuals of apparent importance in American politics can equate the president with such a character as the "runaway ships captain" or wag their finger at him on the tarmac of an international airport. This is really sad.....You don't have to like him.....how about just a little more respect for his office.
January 29, 2012 04:53 pm at 4:53 pm |
Brett Sinclair
Talking about American values...uhhhh!
January 29, 2012 04:54 pm at 4:54 pm |
Chris
With a name like Rience Priebus, he'd better be producing his man card.
January 29, 2012 04:54 pm at 4:54 pm |
Perilous
GOP needs to figure out whats its going to be – organized political racist, pro-money with a dash of morality when its fashionable or striaght up stupid. I feel bad for the GOPers who are actually trying to find a middle ground to fix this situation. Those are people who need to organize and step up.
January 29, 2012 04:55 pm at 4:55 pm |
Steve
Wasn't the the guy that was captaining the ship when it ran a ground? Remind me who was President when the economy tanked? Remind me again who was President when we started losing 700,000 jobs per month. Now tell me who has been President for the last 24 months of private sector job growth. Sounds like our Capt. Schettino was GW and President Obama is more like Captain Sully who landed our economy after its engines had failed and kept us out of a depression.
January 29, 2012 04:55 pm at 4:55 pm |
Debbie
Bush is our captain Schettino.
January 29, 2012 04:55 pm at 4:55 pm |
Orwell proven
Greed stupidity cowardice dereliction = republican
What is wrong captain priebut, can't find the ladder?
January 29, 2012 04:55 pm at 4:55 pm |
KJ
This guy, it seems, has a lot to learn, making stupid comparisons and meaningless comments.
January 29, 2012 04:56 pm at 4:56 pm |
Richard
Yes, you are right, Republicans simply have no shame. And - judging by the RNC chairman's comments - no brains either.
January 29, 2012 04:56 pm at 4:56 pm |
Eric
This statement is the reason why an independent like me and my independent friends and colleagues will never support this GOP and its leadership. To somehow equate our President with a cowardly ship captain is repulsive.
January 29, 2012 04:56 pm at 4:56 pm |
Bill, NY
The entire republican congress is our real Capt. Schettino!
January 29, 2012 04:58 pm at 4:58 pm |
John
Both the republicans and democrats abandon ship along time ago and have left the American people out to dry.
January 29, 2012 04:59 pm at 4:59 pm |
ramosdr
He is a 39 year old fund raising political wannabe who lost his first election. Look at his education and career, he has been grooming himself for political office since birth. These words and the disrespect will haunt him in later elections. He looks and sounds like someone from a large second tier state university young republican meeting.
January 29, 2012 04:59 pm at 4:59 pm |
Chuck in Jasper Ga.
There is one constant that occurs with Republicans and conservatives. When there is no controversy or reason to oppose the current administration, they will create one. That does not mean they have to factual, just as long as they create opposition...Obama will be re-elected. A large majority of Americans have made note of the opposition and will vote accordingly. Republicans in the mid term elections ran on "job creation" didn't they? Where are all the jobs? They will remember that fact also..........and they will not blame Obama for business off-shoring funds.
January 29, 2012 05:00 pm at 5:00 pm |
gt
that is funny...
January 29, 2012 05:01 pm at 5:01 pm |
Joe
If that's the best they can do, it's not going to win them back the White House.
January 29, 2012 05:01 pm at 5:01 pm |
jeb
I guarantee you if you were to ask most people on the street what "Reince Priebus" refers to, I doubt most people would know. Their first guess might be a disease or something.
January 29, 2012 05:02 pm at 5:02 pm |
bobg2
This guy will be crying in his pribus come November.
January 29, 2012 05:03 pm at 5:03 pm |
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One of the best deals we've ever gotten was a small fourplex in Grandview, Missouri that was vacant, bank owned and very, very dated. Each unit had these massive aluminum windows in front that made the whole building look just terrible (and horribly energy inefficient to boot). Furthermore, the agent misslisted it and said there was a “special tax” equal to the property taxes when in fact there was not.
This mistake reduced the number of interested buyers in the property (at a time when the market was still very depressed) thus making it easier to acquire. Misslisted REO's are by no means uncommon so they are definitely something to keep a look out for. For example, I just went to a house that was listed as a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom home but was actually a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house. No homeowner would make a mistake list this, but REO agents are known to. It's critical to keep an eye out for such mistakes as they can make for great opportunities.
Given all of this, the property was only listed at a paltry $55,000, or less than $15,000/door. We offered $40,000 and eventually came to terms at $44,000. However, during our due diligence we scoped the sewer lines with Snake and Rooter and found that the line was broken in many different places. Snake and Rooter is very expensive, which actually worked in our favor (at this time, I had no idea how much replacing sewer lines actually costed). They gave me a bid for $9800, which we submitted to the bank along with the video of the broken line.
We asked for the entire $9800 off expecting them to offer to split it, but instead, the bank dropped their price like a rock from $44,000 to $35,000. It's hard to complain about that!
Once we purchased the property, I got some more bids on the sewer line and found one a good deal cheaper. The entire remodel cost about $20,000, of which most went to the sewer line and updating those awful windows (as well as cleaning the carpets, new appliances, blinds and touch up paint). Today the property rents out for $450/unit and we pay none of the utilities. It brings in $1800/month for a ridiculous rent/cost ratio of about 3.27% and effective cap rate of about 15. In other words, it's one of the best deals we've ever done or seen for that matter.
Now finally, I should note that retrading is something you should be careful with. You don't want to get a reputation as a retrader because sellers won't trust you. Also, some institutions will very rarely or perhaps never renegotiate (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD for example). Finally, it's very questionable ethically to get a property under contract with the intention of trying to alter that contract. But, I think this example does show the importance of 1) investigating parts of the listing that seem questionable (like the special tax) 2) proper due diligence (including scoping the sewers) and 3) a reminder that everything is negotiable. If something unexpected comes up during due diligence, don't assume you either have to accept it or walk from the deal. Go back to the negotiating table!
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Plan to Boost Big Swiss Firms’ Liability Fails in Referendum (Associated Press/US News – November 29, 2020)
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GENEVA (AP) — A proposal that could have stiffened penalties against companies based in Switzerland if they violate human rights or harm the environment abroad failed in a Swiss referendum on Sunday.
The initiative titled “Responsible companies — to protect people and the environment” won a narrow majority of votes, with 50.7% percent backing it and 49.3% against, but failed because a majority of the country’s cantons, or states, came out against it. Support was strongest in urban areas, much of Switzerland’s French-speaking west and Italian-speaking Ticino.
Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, which gives voters a direct say several times each year on a variety of issues, proposals need a majority both of votes cast and of cantons to pass. The Swiss held two other referendums this year, but one in May was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal government opposed the plan championed by left-leaning groups and some big civil society organizations, asserting that it went too far. Parliament has proposed a countermeasure that would also boost scrutiny of such companies’ actions.
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New 'vulnerable nations' bloc looks set to redraw the climate politics map
A new bloc has emerged at the Paris climate talks – perhaps heralding the end of the old rich-poor geopolitical divide.
Matt McDonald, The Conversation
Dec 01, 2015 · 11:30 pm
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Vulnerable states featured prominently on Monday, the first day of Paris Climate talks. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon unveiled a new initiative to strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable people and countries to the effects of climate change.
But it is the emergence of a bloc of 44 vulnerable countries calling for much stronger climate action that may be the real game-changer in international climate politics.
While the so-called North-South divide has long characterised international climate deliberations, there are signs it may be on its last legs in that forum. And that’s a good thing.
Ending the North-South divide?
The first major international environmental conference was the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. By most accounts, the conference – already undermined by the status of environmental concerns as “fringe” global issues at the time – was devastated by the scale of a divide between rich and poor countries.
While the Cold War raged and the clash between East and West dominated strategic thinking and international relations, it was the North-South divide that presented the yawning chasm between participants. Some nations, most notably Brazil, raged publicly about how impoverished states were being asked to make sacrifices to address environmental issues.
Brazil’s ambassador to the United States argued forcefully, just months before the conference, that “any ecological policy, globally applied, must not be an instrument to suppress wholly or in part the legitimate right of any country to decide about its own affairs”.
It is no coincidence that the next major international environmental conference 20 years later – the 1992 Rio summit which saw the birth of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the agency under which the current negotiations are carried out – was held in Brazil, and officially titled the UN Conference on Environment and Development. In the framing and rationale for the conference, its organisers were acutely aware of the need to address global development inequality if the environmental agenda was even to be heard, much less practically addressed.
In many ways, it is a divide that has endured since through the UNFCCC process. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol compelled only the “global North” to commit to emissions reduction targets. Subsequent difficult deliberations around technology transfer and climate finance also centred on the rich-poor divide. These debates, which may still play out in Paris, emphasised the different responsibilities and capacities of developed and developing states to address climate change.
A new view
This is precisely why the announcement from 44 vulnerable countries that they are breaking ranks with other developing states to call for more substantial global emissions reductions, and a warming limit of 1.5℃ rather than 2℃, is so significant. Of course at the most obvious level, it complicates the simple application of the North-South divide to global politics.
But more importantly for the international politics of climate change, this new “vulnerable country” alliance’s challenge to the old divide is significant for two key reasons.
It limits the extent to which an international debate about managing the global problem of climate change might descend into a debate about global inequality. The latter is of course central for coming to terms with levels of responsibility and vulnerability, but climate change is too pressing a problem not to be addressed in its own right.
What is needed instead is a focus on this global problem that is sensitive to differentiated development without being subsumed by it. Indeed, the need to be sensitive to developmental differences while focusing on the shared problem of climate change was already recognised in the 1992 Rio Declaration commitment to the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility”.
This challenge to the North-South divide could also deal a fundamental blow to the broader determination of some to cast environment and development imperatives as mutually exclusive. Economic growth in a number of states that have shifted towards renewable energy already, of course, illustrates how problematic this narrative is. But it is one that clings to life. The split in the global South suggests a challenge to it in ways that may effect debates beyond negotiations.
In Australia, for example, strong measures to address climate change have traditionally been denigrated for their impact on jobs and the economy, including as recently as the eve of the conference, when the government dismissed the opposition’s calls for more ambitious emissions targets.
Despite the facts that such assertions consistently rely on dubious or selective economic modelling, it is a narrative that seems to have traction. But when genuinely poor states call for strong climate action, it suggests limits to the idea of these goals as mutually exclusive. At very least, countries like Australia may find it far more difficult to sustain this argument for minimal action in international deliberations, as it did in Kyoto in 1997.
There is reason to be optimistic, then, that one of the most enduring and problematic impediments to action on climate change – its adverse economic effects – is being systematically undermined. The emergence of this bloc of vulnerable countries, combined with the development of renewable energy capacity and a commitment by developed states to finance climate mitigation and adaptation in the developing word, is seriously threatening the logic on which the environment-development narrative is based.
For the sake of the environment, future generations, vulnerable populations and even long-term economic growth, that’s a good thing.
Matt McDonald, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Here's some code; can you tell what's wrong with it? I didn't spot the issue for quite a while. To boil it down a bit:
class Foo
attr_accessor :buz
def initialize
@buz = 42
end
def bar
unless buz
buz = 21
end
buz
end
end
See the issue now? Another variant with no use of attr_accessor:
class Foo
def buz
42
end
def bar
unless buz
buz = 21
end
buz
end
end
With this code, when I run p Foo.new.bar, I'd expect to get 42 as a result - that's what the buz instance method is returning, it's not nil, and so the unless condition is false and so the buz = 21 assignment never gets executed. But wrong! Instead, running that program produces output of nil.
This is a somewhat surprising, but functioning as designed, feature of Ruby shadowing behavior - long story short, local variables shadow instance methods, and crucially, local variable definitions are made when the code is parsed, not when it is executed. The core Ruby docs describe this behavior here, Travis Dahlke has a nice post about it, and it's also briefly mentioned in the Ruby Hacking Guide, although there it refers to "compile time" vs parse time.
Misc notes: A simple fix is to explicitly invoke the instance method. So in the attr_accessor example, just adding empty parentheses to the last buz invocation causes Foo.new.bar to return 42. And as Ronie Henrich pointed out, in the second example the assignment would need to be either self.buz = 21 or @buz = 21. I thought Rubocop's shadowing lint cop might find this, but that's different; it's a "local shadows local" check. Also, there's a PR to fix this issue in the docusign_rest project, hats off to Mark Wilson.
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Vatican’s nearly 160-year-old daily L’Osservatore Romano has temporarily suspended publication amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The newspaper will be edited and can be viewed online on the publication’s website, said Andrea Monda, the paper’s editor-in-chief, in a statement on Wednesday.
It added that the spread of COVID-19 made it impossible to print and distribute the paper’s daily, weekly and monthly editions.
“We are therefore forced to temporarily suspend the letterpress printing from March 26,” the editor said, adding that the decision had to be taken, regardless of their will being otherwise.
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ISO 9660, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, defines a file system for CD-ROM media. It aims at supporting different computer operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and systems that follow the UNIX specification, so that data may be exchanged.
DVDs may also use the ISO 9660 file system (although the UDF file system is far more commonly used).
Contents
1 Levels and restrictions
2 Disk images
3 Extensions
4 Operating system support
5 See also
6 External links
Levels and restrictions
There are different levels to this standard.
Level 1
File names are restricted to 8 characters with a 3 character extension, upper case letters, numbers and underscore; maximum depth of directories is 8.
Level 2
File names may be up to 31 characters.
Level 3
Files allowed to be fragmented (mainly to allow packet writing, or incremental CD recording).
All levels restrict names to upper case letters, digits and underscores ("_"). Some CD authoring applications allow the user to use almost any ASCII character. While this does not strictly conform to the ISO 9660 standard, most operating systems that can read ISO 9660 file systems support the use of most ASCII characters as an extension.
The restrictions on filename length and directory depth have been seen by many as a more serious limitation of the file system. While in many cases, it simply possible to rename file or truncate the filenames in question, and many CD authoring applications do this automatically, in certain special cases, this is not feasible. For example, class files in Java are strictly required to follow naming rules, which especially in the case of nested classes may require filenames longer than 31 characters.Another soloution may be to pack the files in some form of archive. in the case of java a zip file with the extenion jar can be used directly by most jvms. However in other cases use of such archives may prevent direct use of the files off the cd.
Disk images
ISO 9660 file system images (ISO images) are a common way to electronically transfer the contents of CD-ROMs. They often have the filename extension .iso and are commonly referred to as "ISOs". It should be noted an .iso file may be:
A single ISO 9660 file system image
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Extensions
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Operating system support
Most operating systems support reading of ISO 9660 formatted discs, and most new versions support the extensions such as Rock Ridge and Joliet. Operating systems that do not support the extensions will usually show the basic (non-extended) features of a plain ISO 9660 disc.
Here are some operating systems and their support for ISO 9660 and extensions:
DOS: access with extensions, such as MSCDEX.EXE (Microsoft CDROM Extension) or CORELCD.EXE
Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME: can read ISO 9660 Level 1, 2, 3, and Joliet
Microsoft Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP: can read ISO 9660 Level 1, 2, 3, and Joliet
Linux and BSD: ISO 9660 Level 1, 2, 3, Joliet and Rock Ridge
Mac OS 7 to 9: ISO Level 1, 2. Optional free software supports Rock Ridge and Joliet: Joke Ridge (http://www.alex-castro.com/jokeridge/) and Joliet Volume Access (http://www.tempel.org/joliet/).
See also
Joliet
Rock Ridge
CD ROM
CD recorder
DVD
External links
CD Recording FAQ (http://www.cdrfaq.org/)
Ecma-119 (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-119.htm) – this standard is identical to ISO 9660.
How to write ISO files to CD (http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm)
Small, Free Way to Use and Mount Images (ISO files) Without Burning Them in Windows XP (http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips620.html)cs:ISO 9660
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A man who said he was in “panic mode” when he committed his crimes was denied a shorter sentence despite being bereaved, homeless and dealing with mental-health issues.
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Steven J. Baranyi, 44, pleaded guilty recently in Ontario Court in Brantford to assault, robbery, mischief and two breaches of probation.
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Justice Kathleen Baker told Baranyi she sympathized with his problems but expressed concern about how he treated people who were trying to help him.
“I know you have difficulties you’re struggling with and this is not a good time for anyone right now, particularly those having mental-health issues, but this behaviour has to stop.”
Last Dec. 28, Baranyi admitted that, while he was on probation, he assaulted his mother and smashed various items at her home. When the woman tried to stop him, he shoved her.
The next day, he tried to wrestle a cellphone from a worker at the Salvation Army’s Dalhousie Street homeless shelter. The worker connected the phone to 911 and Baranyi, as he held the worker in headlock, could be heard shouting: “I’ll stab you in the head.”
Baranyi was staying at the Mohawk Motel on Colborne Street. Before he checked out Dec. 30, he damaged his room’s smoke detector, thermostat and telephone and blocked the bathroom sink with sheets, causing a flood. Damage was about $2,500.
After being arrested, and under an order not to communicate with his mother, Baranyi terrified the woman by calling her from a Milton jail, warning her he’d be out soon so she should “watch her back.”
Court heard that, on Dec. 23, he was involved in another incident at the Salvation Army. He and another resident got into a dispute over using the shower. Baranyi left his victim with injuries to his head that required five stitches. When police located him, he had cuts on both hands. The charge in that case was withdrawn.
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While assistant Crown attorney Ed Slater asked the judge to consider a two-year sentence, defence attorney Eric Angevine asked for one year, saying his client had been in a “desperate state” since he had so few options.
“If you look at his criminal record, you see that, when properly supported and dealing with his issues, Mr. Baranyi is someone who doesn’t come into contact with the criminal justice system,” said Angevine.
“The robbery had a low level of physical violence and he explained he was not feeling well, dealing with frustration, homelessness and the inabilities to contact the various agencies where he would normally get help.”
But the judge disagreed.
“Having a victim in a headlock and saying, ‘I’ll stab you in the head,’ doesn’t sound like a low level of physical violence,” said Baker, “particularly since he assaulted another (person) at that facility just a few days before.”
Baranyi told the judge he was in “panic mode” at the time of the incidents.
“I didn’t handle it in the right way but I was panicking because I was going to be homeless. My father just died and, a few weeks later, I became homeless. Then COVID. I felt everybody was against me. I apologize for everything.”
The judge took into account Baranyi’s remorse, guilty plea and mental-health issues but said the man must be held to account.
She noted that the death of Baranyi’s father also left his mother in a fragile state.
“Your behaviour was terrorizing to someone who just experienced significant loss and was trying to help you.”
Similarly, she said his attack on the Salvation Army employee was unacceptable.
Baker sentenced Baranyi to two years less one day in jail and gave him credit for already serving 212 days.
“Don’t thank people by assaulting and robbing them.”
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If you have been vaccinated, you can either show a Swiss COVID Certificate, EU Digital COVID Certificate, or a certificate that is compatible with the EU Digital Covid Certificate.
Travelers who have been vaccinated abroad with a vaccine approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and who are resident in or traveling to Switzerland are able to obtain a Swiss COVID certificate. This means that travelers who have been vaccinated abroad or have recovered abroad, such as tourists, can also participate in social activities in Switzerland. The documents can be submitted electronically. Currently, only the certificates of countries using the EU Digital COVID Certificate are compatible with the Swiss system.
You will be issued with the COVID certificate on the application on paper or as a PDF document with a QR code. With the COVID Certificate app, you can host your COVID certificate on your mobile device.
If you are unvaccinated, you must have a test, and if the result is negative you can then be issued with a COVID certificate.
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There's one thing that we should be able to agree on about the Illinois and Chicago financial crises: It's not the fault of students wanting an education, poor people seeking medical care, drivers wanting decent roads, transit riders yearning for reliable service, battered children and women desperately needing help, the hungry looking for a nutritious diet and all the other beneficiaries truly dependent on the state and city.
But they're the ones who are getting socked. A well-run government should be able to handle many of those legitimate, reasonable and competing demands, within budget. Illinois and Chicago are not.
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Blame both political parties — Democrats for their years of running the city and state into the ground and Republicans who have acquiesced. And the suburban town and school boards, many Republican controlled, for caving into ruinous demands for pay and retirement benefits made by public employee unions.
As May ended, the Democratic-run legislature exhibited its incompetence again as it passed a budget $3 billion short of the revenues needed to cover expenditures.
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As the Tribune recently noted, the Democratic strategy, now that Democrats refused to pass a balanced budget, will be to "force (Gov. Bruce) Rauner to wear the jacket for billions in budget cuts that would hit social service programs in the hopes that he'll feel enough heat to eventually sign on to a tax increase ..." As if the heartless governor, who didn't bring on this crisis, is the one who is depriving the poor, elderly, young and others dependent on state aid and programs. How droll. What brass.
Mostly blame House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton (both Democrats) and their deep-pocket contributors, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and other public employee unions. Their incessant and greedy demands for more, more and more have forced government to borrow more, more and more to a point approaching bankruptcy.
Champions of the middle class, downtrodden and huddled masses? Hardly. These very Democrats are hypocritically robbing the schools, hospitals and social service providers of billions and billions of dollars that must instead go into pensions and debt service.
For example: An astonishing quarter of every dollar that Chicago earns from taxes, grants, fines and fees goes to pay for employee pensions, according to Marc Joffe, a bond market analyst and principal consultant at Public Sector Credit Solutions. On the state level, pension and interest payments gobble up 10 percent of all revenues, according to Joffe. Those billions could have gone a long way to help the most needy.
Normally, government borrows money to finance capital improvements, such as transit lines, bridges, hospitals and prisons — stuff that lasts at least as long as the life of the loan. But borrowing to pay for everyday expenses, as we do here, is like borrowing against your home to buy groceries. It eventually leads to catastrophe.
The unions will try to sell the idea that they aren't responsible for the more than $100 billion that's owed to the pension funds. They'll argue that if the government had not raided the funds to pay for normal operations, we wouldn't be facing this crisis.
In a way that's true, but here's the rub. First, the pensions are unreasonably generous; if they were more realistic, more reflective of what is normal in the private sector, we wouldn't have had to put so much money in the funds to begin with.
Second, without those diversions, the state would have spent less on schools, health and other essential services. Teachers unions always complain that not enough money is being spent on schools; but without the diversions, the schools would have had received even less. Are the teachers saying that the money should have gone first to their pensions and not the schools?
The public employee unions act as if the fault lies elsewhere. But when the money was being diverted into operations instead of pensions, where were the union leaders? They were tossing union money (i.e., the members' money) to those very same politicians, mostly Democrats, who were raiding the pension funds for other purposes. And passing inflated budgets that forced them to borrow.
Even this weekend, the Democrat-controlled Illinois legislature struck again by passing a bill that would reduce Chicago's annual contributions to police and fire pensions and push back the date for full funding — to give the city time to figure out new ways to borrow money.
The beat goes on. And the governor who is trying to straighten out this mess gets blamed for making it worse.
Dennis Byrne, a Chicago writer, blogs in The Barbershop in ChicagoNow.com.
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Barstool Sports opened its first retail sportsbook location inside of the Ameristar Casino and Resort in Black Hawk, Colorado on November 5.
Sports bettors funneled in and out of the sportsbook throughout the night to take in the new digs and place wagers on the Thursday Night Football game between the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers.
The Packers won in convincing fashion, 34-17, covering the spread (-6.5) with ease.
The book, which is located on the second floor of the casino, is canvassed with over a dozen TVs, betting kiosks, a bar, video poker machines, two blackjack tables, a roulette table and a 24-foot video wall. Additionally, the Barstool Sportsbook has its own menu of drinks specials and a rotating local beer selection.
With 3,676 square feet, the book can accommodate roughly 75 people in the era of COVID-19. In a perfect world, the sportsbook can hold just under 200 people.
The book is the first physical Bartsool Sportsbook in the country and is sure to be a mecca for Colorado sports fans and bettors who are looking to take their viewing experience up a notch.
Hanging out at the first physical @BSSportsbook in the 🇺🇸 @AmeristarBH
This place is 🔥#BettingDenver pic.twitter.com/9uhrlHNRQt
— Denver Sports Betting (@BettingDenver) November 6, 2020
Colorado is considered a major battleground for legalized sports betting in the United States. Barstool plans to stand out by offering “weekly Power Hour specials where bettors can take advantage of lines not offered anywhere else.” The book will also feature video content from the Barstool Sports network.
The sportsbook is the first move by the brand in the Colorado market, with a mobile app expected to launch at some point in the next year.
Since sports betting was legalized in May, Colorado has registered just under $500 million in sports wagers. The state generated the fourth-highest betting handle for the month of September among states that have legalized the practice.
Top five U.S. states by sports betting handle in September 2020:
1. New Jersey: $748,5 million
2. Nevada: $575 mil
3. Pennsylvania: $462.7 mil
4. Colorado: $207.6 mil
5. Indiana: $207.4 mil
— Ben Fawkes (@BFawkes22) October 28, 2020
Located about 45 minutes outside of downtown, the sportsbook is well worth the drive up the hill. Upon arriving, guests will be greeted with a sleek betting lounge with enough entertainment options to keep people glued to their seats for hours.
Barstool may have earned their stripes for their raunchy, rah-rah-like attitude, but their sportsbook extracts the best of the Barstool brand and pairs it with the elegance of the Ameristar property. This makes sense considering Barstool Sports and Ameristar are both partially owned by Penn National Gaming.
The Barstool Sportsbook in Ameristar is the first of many retail locations the brand plans to open across the United States in the coming years. Penn National Gaming purchased a 36% stake of Barstool Sports for $163 million in cash and stock in January 2020 with the intention of developing the brand into the countries top betting outlet, rivaling the likes of Draft Kings and Fan Duel.
Barstool Sports is valued at $450 million, and with droves of “stoolies” across the country, the outlet is in a strong position to dominate the legal sports betting market in the United States and here at home in Colorado.
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These days, it’s impossible to turn on the television, scroll through your news feed, or talk with your neighbor without topics like “fake news” and America’s deep political divide coming into play.
This month, the RAND Corporation released a study that explored both of these issues: “Truth Decay.” It’s a timely report that details Americans’ declining confidence in the media, elected officials, and facts themselves.
Here are four things worth talking about that can be found in the report:
1 What is Truth Decay?
Truth decay is defined as a set of four interrelated trends:
An increasing disagreement about facts and the interpretation of facts and data. An example of this is the disagreement in America over the safety of vaccines and genetically modified foods.
A blurring of the line between opinion and fact. This could include journalistic pieces that do not clearly distinguish between opinion and fact.
An increase in the relative volume, and resulting influence, of opinion and personal experience over fact. An example of this is how traditional media (newspapers and televisions) disseminate speculation, opinion, and falsehoods, while social media channels drown out verifiable data. One issue where we see this play out repeatedly is in the debate over the effect of immigration on jobs and crime.
Lowered trust in formerly respected sources of factual information, such as a significant drop in public trust and confidence in government, newspapers, television news, books, the judiciary, and the presidency.
2 What Causes Truth Decay?
There are a number of factors that must all come into play in order for Truth Decay to take hold. These include:
Cognitive bias. The way our brains process information leads us to look for opinions and analysis that confirms our preexisting beliefs, otherwise known as cognitive bias.
Changes in the information system, such as the rise of social media, the 24-hour news cycle, and the increasing partisanship of some news sources. This also includes the wide dissemination of disinformation and misleading or biased information.
Competing demands on the educational system that limit its ability to keep pace with changes in how we deliver and consume information. As school systems struggle to keep up with changes in the information system, the gap in knowledge between the educational system and the real world perpetuates Truth Decay by contributing to the creation of an electorate that is susceptible to consuming and disseminating disinformation, misinformation, and information that blur the line between fact and opinion.
Political, sociodemographic, and economic polarization. By creating opposing sides, each with its own narrative, worldview, and facts, polarization contributes to increasing disagreement regarding the validity of facts and analytical interpretations of facts and data.
3 What Are the Consequences of Truth Decay?
According to the report, some of the most damaging effects of Truth Decay include:
The erosion of civil discourse. Because people cannot agree on simple facts, it becomes nearly impossible to have productive and meaningful debates and important policies and topics. This leads to a decline in the quality of policies made and a slower decision-making process.
Political paralysis. The inability to compromise, mixed with a lack of trust in government, strengthens the position of interest groups that can further interfere with government decision-making. This results in delays in political appointments (looking at you, U.S. ambassadorships that remain unfilled), lapses in oversight and investigative tasks, and an inability to make fiscal decisions (hello, government shutdown).
Alienation. When trust in government declines, so does civic involvement. This is a problem because civic involvement often serves as a check on political representatives and fosters transparency and accountability.
Uncertainty about U.S. policy. Because we are not basing policies on facts and analysis, this can lead to uncertainty about U.S. policies around the world (the U.S. stance on North Korea, for example), resulting in a loss of international credibility and challenges to diplomatic relations.
4 Has This Ever Happened Before?
Yes. This is not the first time the United States has confronted the issue of Truth Decay. In fact, there were at least three periods in the 20th century when there was evidence of Truth Decay:
The 1880s-1890s, the Gilded Age, known for newspaper circulation battles and “yellow journalism”
The 1920s-1930s, the decades of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, known also for “jazz journalism,” the birth of the tabloid, and the rise of radio broadcasting
The 1960s-1970s, the decades of U.S. involvement in and retreat from the Vietnam War, known for “New Journalism”; concern about government and media propaganda; and, later, the resurgence of investigative journalism.
While this most recent period of Truth Decay (2000s-2010s) may seem alarming, there is some good news. America has been through this before, and after each era of Truth Decay, we’ve emerged a stronger country. How did we accomplish this? We eventually clarified the line between opinion and actuality by renewing our interest in holding authorities more accountable and returning to a fact-based analysis of policy and journalism.
One of the easiest ways we can all do this now is by taking the time to make sure the news we consume is grounded in fact before we share it on social media. Make a concerted effort to vet your news sources for political bias or misinformation and be willing to explore other channels if you find your go-to source isn’t entirely truthful or leans too far into one political direction.
In the end, despite the division that feels like it’s taking over our country right now, there is hope that we can emerge from this most recent period of Truth Decay and eventually regain trust in information — and one another.
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As society tries to handle the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people are choosing to maintain social distancing by working remotely. One online tool that has gained popularity like no other to meet this goal, and is Zoom. According to CNN Business, it has become one of the most widely used tools, not only for remote work but for happy hours, brunches, book clubs, etc. Zoom has become the most downloaded app in the Apple App Store in the first half of 2020.
But did you know that if you use Salesforce, you can launch Zoom directly from Salesforce? So, how can Zoom Salesforce integration work ensure a smooth experience? Let’s discuss it in our new article!
Zoom + Salesforce Integration Benefits
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Zoom + Salesforce Integration Benefits
Integration Types
Salesforce and Zoom integration: Manual Import
Zoom Salesforce Native AppExchange Integration
Third-party Services Salesforce and Zoom integration
Zoom + Salesforce Integration Steps
Native AppExchange Integration Zoom with Salesforce
Step 1. Install the Zoom app for Salesforce
Step 2. Customize the Zoom app
Step 3. Configure user access
Step 4. Set upscaling features in Salesforce
Zoom + Pardot Integration
Step 1. Install Pardot
Step 2. Providing integration access to Pardot account
Step 3. Setting up exclusion domains
Step 1. Create the Pardot list
Step 2. Assign Pardot lists to your Zoom Webinar
Zoom with Salesforce Integration via Zapier
Step 1. Signing up
Step 2. Connection
Step 3. Create Zoom webinar Salesforce integration
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Zoom Webinars Integration Options and Possibilities
You get a complete overview of the effectiveness of the webinar
You can increase the number of repeat registrants
You can improve the number of new registrants
You can recognize the person behind the registration
You can send smarter emails
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The Salesforce integration with Zoom instantly gives the opportunity to make appointments directly through Salesforce, and to set up Zoom appointments with your leads and contacts. Productivity levels are multiplied by the effective use of Zoom Meetings and Zoom Phone. Zoom webinars can also be integrated with Salesforce. Further, you can record virtual CRM meetings and discussions in the Salesforce activity history, and users can create Salesforce events from new Zoom meetings.
We made a list of all the benefits of Zoom+Salesforce integration that can’t be ignored:
Automate the synchronization of Zoom webinar attendee data and webinar participation;
Send one-click meeting emails and email invitations to external participants;
Use Zoom Phone in Salesforce to call from the Phone widget;
Configure Specific Custom Options for a Salesforce Virtual Meeting;
Manage both incoming and outgoing commercial calls;
Schedule an Instant Scaling Meeting;
Seamlessly manage multiple call logs;
Take notes while scaling a call;
Connect Google calendar;
Sync call notes automatically;
Save call logs.
And to top it all off, it's nice to note that integrating Salesforce into the Zoom app is simple, fast, and secure. No special programming experience is required on the part of the user. So now that you’re familiar with the main benefits, let’s go further to the main types of Zoom integration with Salesforce.
Integration Types
Zoom integration lets you store webinar data in one location. It simplifies the process of analyzing the data, giving you a deeper understanding of your audience.
What webinars did they visit? What webinars are they interested in? The integration gives you a holistic view of your audience, allowing you to plan webinars that will attract clients and increase return visitors.
There are three main ways to integrate Salesforce and Zoom:
Salesforce and Zoom integration: Manual Import
As the name suggests, this type of integration involves moving information from Zoom to Salesforce manually. The process starts with exporting participants' data from Zoom and then importing it into Salesforce. It’s better to use a data loader for this purpose. Data Loader for Salesforce simplifies your work as it has bulk import functionality that removes the need to enter data one by one. The data loader retrieves information from a database connection or CSV file. The tool is free, simple, and convenient. It does, however, require that you manually recheck the data for duplicates. You may also need merge control to import multiple files. Manual import can be time-consuming, especially in the case of a huge amount of data, but it's perfectly suitable for small or occasional Zoom webinars.
Zoom Salesforce Native AppExchange Integration
The second method of integration is using AppExchange. What does this mean? Well, simply put, it helps you start a Zoom meeting with your contacts in just a few clicks and to record the discussion in your Salesforce activity log. Schedule or start a Zoom webinar, add leads and contacts as registered, and track participation as part of those contact details. In addition, use the Zoom Phone dialer to initiate and manage Zoom Phone calls, automatically log call activity, and insert contacts directly due to integration via Zoom AppExchange.
Third-party Services Salesforce and Zoom integration
Third-party services like Pardot, Zapier, Workato are also integrating two platforms. Tools like Zapier and Workato can help you set up workflows and manage members. Zapier is rather simple to set up and can do basic integration well. The app has a free plan, but to get access to the custom integration feature, you will need to subscribe to a paid plan. Using third-party services, it’s necessary to set up integrations, manage your account, and be aware that sometimes Zaps can go offline. In this case, manual cleaning is a must.
Pardot can also integrate with Zoom for Salesforce. It allows you to create lists for registered webinar participants; both people who attended and those who did not. The list of visitors is automatically loaded after the registration of a potential client. The list of participants is updated after the webinar. The app keeps track of all attendees at the event but needs to be configured to sync Zoom webinars with Pardot's activity history. It can also be difficult to segment email campaigns with the Pardot connector, as Pardot does not automatically add members to campaigns. But this is a great opportunity if you already use Pardot.
As you can see, everyone can find a suitable option for Zoom Salesforce integration. For companies that host multiple events per year with a manageable number of participants, the manual option should work for you. But if you're searching for a one-time setup solution that maximizes your marketing power, then third-party services may be a better option. Not only does it enable Salesforce to collect data from Zoom webinars, but it can also actively segment data across campaigns immediately. All of this may be overkill, but collecting all this data can allow you to build a very efficient campaign.
Zoom + Salesforce Integration Steps
As we have already mentioned, there are several possible ways to integrate Zoom with Salesforce. So, let’s move on and briefly discuss the step-by-step integration of each of them.
Native AppExchange Integration Zoom with Salesforce
To use Zoom Integration, Zoom customers must be on the Pro, Business, Education, or API Partner plans and have access to the Zoom Rest API. Salesforce users have to use the Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Force.com, Developer, or Performance editions.
Here are the steps to integrate Zoom with Salesforce:
Step 1. Install the Zoom app for Salesforce
Find the Zoom app in the Salesforce AppExchange. Note that if you are using Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption, make sure you only use deterministic encryption for contact and lead fields. Using probabilistic encryption blocks application installation. Select Get Now and follow the steps below to install.
Step 2. Customize the Zoom app
Sign in to your Zoom Administrator account and click Create Application. This will generate an "API Key" and "API Secret" that will be used to connect Salesforce to the Zoom app.
Step 3. Configure user access
Assign Zoom permission sets to each user.
Step 4. Set upscaling features in Salesforce
Open the Zoom configuration in Salesforce and fill in all the details for Zoom Settings, Custom Settings, Custom Google Calendar API Settings, and Create Events for Non-Salesforce Zoom Meetings for Contact / Lead Mapping.
Zoom + Pardot Integration
Consider the following factors with this API integration:
Unlike the built-in webinar connectors, Pardot will not be able to automatically grade prospects based on registration/webinar attendance using the scoring model;
The original campaign might not be correct, you will need to customize this with automation;
The final actions you would normally use on a Pardot form to collect registrations, such as sending an autoresponder, notifying a user, and so on, are not available in Pardot lists – use lists in automation tools to do this;
Reporting is limited since you are not using a Pardot form or landing page to register conversions. You need to make sure you are reporting at the campaign level.
The integration process using Pardot looks like this:
Step 1. Install Pardot
The algorithm is pretty simple. Go to the Zoom market. Then go to the Pardot installation page and click Install. Confirm the permissions required by the app and click Authorize.
Step 2. Providing integration access to Pardot account
You have to provide Zoom Integration access to your Pardot account to sync webinar data with Pardot Lists. It’s possible to use Pardot-only login or Salesforce OAuth.
In the first case, sign in to the Zoom web portal and go to the Zoom Marketplace. Go to the Pardot app page > Control > Customize. Enter the information to access the Pardot account that creates your listings.
If you want to log in through Salesforce OAuth, log in to your Salesforce environment as an account administrator. Go to the Salesforce SSO setup page and click Install Package. Make sure OAuth policies in Salesforce include Allowed Users. On the Set Up Single Sign-On with Salesforce page, click Authorize. Enter your Pardot Business Unit ID. (Optional), enter domains to be excluded, and save.
Step 3. Setting up exclusion domains
It’s possible to exclude domains from the data sync. To do it, log in to the Zoom web portal, go to the Zoom Marketplace > Pardot app page > Control > Customize. In the Exclusion Domains field, enter the mail domains you want to exclude.
It's also possible to sync Pardot lists with Zoom webinars. The mechanism is as follows:
Step 1. Create the Pardot list
Log in to your Pardot account and set up the following lists to receive registrant information from Zoom webinars: registered, attended, absent.
Step 2. Assign Pardot lists to your Zoom Webinar
You need to do the following: Login to your account and proceed to the webinars, create a new webinar or open an existing webinar, set up your webinar and enable the "Registration Required" option, go to the Integration tab, click Configure, select the Pardot Lists you created, and save.
Zoom with Salesforce Integration via Zapier
A cloud-based integration platform, Zapier helps connect web applications and systems, including Salesforce, and automates repetitive workflows. The thing that makes Zapier unique is the opportunity to create a lot of automation between the various platforms without any code.
However, there are several things you should keep in mind using Zapier:
Zapier supports Salesforce Sales/Support accounts across any version (including Essentials). Unfortunately, it doesn’t support Marketing Cloud accounts;
Salesforce accounts using custom domains cannot connect to Zapier at this time. But it supports My domains.
Now, let’s move on to the integration process. With Zapier, things are going pretty simple. Just follow this instruction:
Step 1. Signing up
Sign up for a Zoom account and also make sure you have a Zapier account.
Step 2. Connection
Connect your Zoom account to Zapier.
Step 3. Create Zoom webinar Salesforce integration
Check out the out-of-the-box Zoom integrations or create your own from scratch in the Zap Editor.
How to Log a Call in Salesforce Mobile?
Sometimes you complete a task and just want to register it with Salesforce ex-post. For example, one of the interlocutors calls you on the phone, or your boss stops you at a coffee shop to talk to a client about a problem. In such situations, instead of creating a task and completing it, use the Call Log feature.
When you click the Call Log button, you simply create a task record with a Completed Activity status. To register a call, navigate to the record the call belongs to (for example, account or lead account) and follow these steps:
Scroll down to the Activity History linked list and click the Call Log button. The Call Log page appears, displaying fields for the completed task at the top of the page and fields for follow-up at the bottom of the page.
Fill in or change any of the fields to register a call. The Status field is preset to Completed, as shown in the figure.
If possible, add another related task by completing the required fields under the "Schedule a follow-up task" heading.
Check the Send email notification box for the registered call (and for the follow-up task if you choose to schedule it) and click Save when done. The details page where you started will reappear. The call record will appear in the list associated with the activity history. If you have configured a new follow-up task, this entry appears in the Open Activities linked list.
Instead of using the Notes feature in Salesforce to track the details of your interactions with customers and prospects, try using Call Log to record this type of information. Tasks make it easy to create reports, timestamp, edit, and view.
Zoom Webinars Integration Options and Possibilities
Why do you need Salesforce when Zoom already has the data you need? Salesforce not only allows you to record your customer data, but it also allows you to use that data for your marketing plans. You can create campaigns based on data collected during webinars with a customizable recipient list. You can customize emails for every contact or leader you have, which increases your response rate. Here is the list of the main opportunities that Salesforce Zoom integration will give you.
You get a complete overview of the effectiveness of the webinar
If you have Zoom webinar data in Salesforce, you don't just have data from people who signed up or attended the webinar. You will also receive data from the webinar itself. Salesforce can then offer you an easier, more efficient way to analyze that data.
You can increase the number of repeat registrants
Repeated registrants form the backbone of the growth of any webinar program. You can use Zoom webinar integration with Salesforce to target your audience with personalized emails and increase the number of follow-ups.
You can improve the number of new registrants
Your goal should not end with recruiting repeat registrants; another metric you should watch out for like a hawk is your new registrants. Continuously gathering new members is the foundation of the future of your webinar program.
You can recognize the person behind the registration
Half of the marketing battle is won when you get to know your target audience. With Zoom to Salesforce integration, you get all the information you need to know about the person who signed up or attended the webinar. If you know the person behind the ticket, it will be pretty simple to create better occasions that gather more participants.
You can send smarter emails
Smarter emails produce more signups. Using Zoom Salesforce integration to collect and store more accurate data about your registrants will help you send those smarter emails – and they can help you before and after your webinar. Since Zoom and Salesforce integration automatically allows targeting new potential registrants and re-registrations more efficiently, it’s possible to apply this integration to send smart emails that use personalized and engaging messages, include requests for feedback after webinars, help register attendees between webinars, and inform registrants about future webinars.
Afterword
When it comes to generating leads and closing deals, sales and marketers need the right path-tracking system and a compatible data network that can connect directly to it.
Your teams can use Zoom and Salesforce integration to make your company smarter, more productive, and successful in achieving new business goals. For efficient integration, we recommend you hire an experienced Salesforce consultant or certified consultant.
If you have any doubts about the best way to integrate Zoom and Salesforce into your business, or in case you need help with an already integrated solution, don’t hesitate to contact us. Ergonized will be your reliable partner for everything connected to Salesforce integration.
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