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Lauded for its proximity to the Oregon State Capitol and its comprehensive study abroad programs, Willamette's College of Liberal Arts is included in the latest edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges.
The Fiske Guide examined more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and Great Britain.
In the book, Willamette was praised for its small class sizes, active campus life and personal atmosphere. It noted the benefits of the university-owned Zena Forest and Farm, a "300-acre outdoor laboratory" used by hundreds of students each term, and it described Willamette's professors as "amazing, engaging and supportive."
At Willamette, students said they have the freedom to express their individuality while being a part of a larger community.
"Community is what sets Willamette apart," one student said. "Many of the Pacific Northwest schools look similar on paper, but once you step foot on campus, it is clear how warm and caring students, staff and faculty are."


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Protein electrophoresis - urine
A urine protein electrophoresis is a test that estimates how much of certain proteins you have in your urine.
How is the Test Performed?
A clean-catch urine sample is needed. The clean-catch method is used to prevent germs from the penis or vagina from getting into a urine sample. To collect your urine, the health care provider may give you a special clean-catch kit that contains a cleansing solution and sterile wipes. Follow instructions exactly so that the results are accurate.
After you provide a urine sample, it is sent to the laboratory. There, the laboratory specialist will place the urine sample on special paper and apply an electric current. The various proteins move and form visible bands, which reveal the general amounts of each protein.
Preparation for the Test
Your health care provider may tell you to stop taking certain medicines that could interfere with the test. Medicines that can affect test results include:
- Chlorpromazine
- Corticosteroids
- Isoniazid
- Neomycin
- Phenacemide
- Salicylates
- Sulfonamides
- Tolbutamide
Do not stop taking any medicine without first talking to your health care provider.
How the Test will Feel
This test involves only normal urination. There is no discomfort.
Why is the Test Performed?
Normally there is no protein, or only a small amount of protein in the urine. An abnormally high amount of protein in the urine can be a sign of many different disorders.
Urine protein electrophoresis may be recommended to help determine the cause of protein in the urine. Or the test may done as a screening test to measure the various amounts of different types of proteins in urine. Urine protein electrophoresis detects two types of protein: albumin and globulins.
Normal Results for Protein electrophoresis - urine
No significant amount of globulins are found in the urine. Urine albumin is less than 5 mg/dL.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What Abnormal Results Mean
- Acute inflammation
- Amyloidosis
- Decreased kidney function
- Diabetic nephropathy
- Kidney failure
- Multiple myeloma
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Acute urinary tract infection
Protein electrophoresis - urine Risks
There are no risks associated with this test.
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McPherson RA, Ben-Ezra J. Basic examination of urine. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 28.
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Job interviews can be rough under the best of circumstances. They're not helped any when bad interviewers ask questions that take away from the real point of the interview, which is to assess your skills and how well you fit with the rest of the team. The categories that follow are some of the most commonly asked bad interview questions, which might help to prepare you, so you're not caught off guard.
Keep in mind: Your job in the interview is to sell yourself to the interviewer. Your aim is to communicate that you have the skills the team needs and that you can work well with others. You want to talk about how you can make the company money, save money, or save time. When you are asked questions that seem to veer away from those areas, try to bring back the conversation to the issues that matter.
However, no matter what kind of questions you get, keep your opinions about them to yourself. It's not appropriate for you to say something like, "Really? You're going to ask that?" or "What does that have to do with the job?" The only exception to this rule is if the question asks something that could be illegally discriminatory, as described below.
Arcane Technical Facts
- What are the elements of the OSI network model?
- Here's a piece of paper. Implement a doubly-linked list in whatever language you like.
- Name as many options of the ls command as you can.
The questions that most programmers seem to worry about, at least based on the number of books on the topic, are specific technical facts. Books and websites abound telling you how to answer, "Explain polymorphism" or "How do virtual destructors work in C++?"
I fear that many people study these books hoping that it will help in an interview. Yes, it may help you to brush up on certain concepts; for example, if the job requires a technology you haven't used in a year or two, it makes sense to graze the literature to learn what's changed. But anyone who thinks that memorizing answers from a book is going to get him a job is fooling himself.
Whatever you answer, don't just give facts. The interviewer may ask you questions off a checklist, but you don't have to answer like it's a test in school. The interviewer should be finding out if you know how to do the work, but if he's not, then help him along.
For example, if the interviewer asks, "What is a reference in C++?" don't answer by parroting, "A reference is a quantity that holds the address of an object but behaves syntactically like that object." You can start with that definition, but then explain why you use references, and how you know when to use a reference and when to use pointers.
For questions that ask for trivia and not working knowledge, such as rattling off all the different printf format specifiers, answer what you can, but don't be afraid to say, "That's all I know, but in situations like this, I turn to (some information source) for the details." Specify where exactly you would look, whether it's a man page, or a well-worn O'Reilly Nutshell book, or php.net's online documentation. Don't just say, "I would Google it." Give specifics of actual sources that you've used before.
If someone asked me to implement a doubly-linked list, I'd explain that I haven't had to write code for that since 1986 and that I'd turn to an already-written implementation online. If I couldn't find an existing library, I might turn to one of the three volumes of Knuth or to the copies of Mastering Algorithms in C or Mastering Algorithms in Perl on my shelf.
Estimation Questions
- How many windows are there in New York City?
- How many people are using Facebook at 5pm on a Friday?
- How many golf balls would fit in a 747?
- How many gas stations are there in Texas?
Estimation questions are all the rage these days, based on several recent articles, including this glassdoor.com survey, which has been rehashed and repurposed dozens of times in the past few months.
Estimation questions upset people, and that's understandable. Being asked "How many golf balls fit inside a 747?" when you're not interviewing for air transport of golf balls is a waste of time.
For some companies, such as Google, Facebook, and others with huge infrastructures, it makes sense to judge the candidate's ability to estimate absurdly large numbers. Scalability is one of their core competencies. For everyone else, it's a waste of time, even if the interviewer thinks, "It gives me an idea of how the candidate thinks." What the interviewer should probably be asking you is something more grounded in his actual business needs – perhaps estimating server needs for a new website, or estimating project schedules.
If you get one of these estimation questions, go ahead and answer to the best of your ability, but then follow up with discussion of more realistic examples of your estimation skills. You could say, "Based on my rough calculations, I'd estimate 32,500 golf balls could fit," and explain how you got to that conclusion. Then, immediately follow up with, "I'm much better at estimating project schedules. Last year I was part of a five-month project with three other developers, and we shipped it only four days over our initial estimate."
Philosophical questions
- What song best describes your personality?
- If you were a tree/animal/kitchen utensil, what would you be?
- What was your favorite cartoon as a kid?
- What would you take with you on a desert island?
Even worse than the estimation questions are the fanciful philosophical time-wasters. There's no right answer to these questions, other than whatever the interviewer has in his head, and there's no way to steer it back to reality. At least with estimation questions, you can tie your answer back to something that is useful to the company, but in this case, you're out of luck.
The best you can do is think of an answer, give the response, and then forget about it. Don't dwell on it or waste brain cycles trying to figure if yours was the right answer. You'll never know what the right answer was, and you'll lose focus from talking about the tangible benefits you can bring to the company.
Trick/stumper questions
- Why are manhole covers round?
- How would you weigh a 747 without a scale?
- You are in a locked room with only a ball of yarn, an onion bagel, and Volume 3 of Knuth. How do you escape?
These are no better than the philosophical questions. While the interviewer is looking for one correct answer, it's something that you either know or you don't. Like the philosophical questions, give your best answer and then put it out of your mind. You either got it or you didn't and worrying won't make it any better.
If you can follow up your answer with tying it back to reality ("Interestingly enough, I worked on a database project for a bagel bakery back in 2009 using…") then do that.
Questions that get at discriminatory questions
- Your last name is interesting. Is it Polish?
- When did you graduate high school?
- How many kids do you have?
In the United States, it's illegal to discriminate in hiring on many different factors, including sex, ethnicity, religion, and many others. If you're asked questions about any of those topics, it can make things very uncomfortable.
Despite all the blog posts out there that refer to "illegal interview questions," it's not illegal for an interviewer to ask questions about these topics. Quoting from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
Although state and federal equal opportunity laws do not clearly forbid employers from making pre-employment inquiries that relate to, or disproportionately screen out members based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, or age, such inquiries may be used as evidence of an employer's intent to discriminate unless the questions asked can be justified by some business purpose.
TL;DR: It's not illegal to ask, but it's stupid to do so, because it's just asking for a lawsuit.
So what do you do if you're asked a question that gets at one of these verboten areas? The most important thing is to not assume malicious or inappropriate intent. Nothing is gained by getting combative in the interview. Don't say anything like, "You can't ask that, and I'm going to sue this place."
In general, try to answer the question that they're really asking, without giving away anything that could be used in a discriminatory way. Sometimes they are just asking for information poorly. For instance, if you're asked, "Do you have any children, or are you planning to?" or "What church do you attend?" you could answer, "I don't have any family or outside obligations that would get in the way of my doing the job." If you're asked, "Did you grow up in a Spanish-speaking country?" you can answer with something like, "I speak Spanish fluently."
If you're asked a question that doesn't seem to have any legitimate reason to be asked, like "Are you Chinese?" turn it around and ask the interviewer something like "That question is surprising; what makes you ask?" or "I've never been asked that. Does it relate to the job somehow?" If the interviewer persists, you need to end the line of questioning by saying, "I'd like to get back to talking about my qualifications for the job."
"What is your greatest weakness?"
This is the king of bad interview questions. It's the start of a stupid little game. The interviewer wants to get the candidate to expose something bad about himself, such as, "I have a violent temper if anyone disagrees with me," so that the applicant can be eliminated from contention. The candidate knows this and comes up with a weakness that isn't really a weakness, such as "I work too hard." It's a dance of lies.
The other reason that you might get asked this question is if the interviewer hasn't put much thought into what she's trying to find out. She probably saw it on a list of questions that someone should ask and didn't put any more thought into it than that. It's the same reason that candidates waste space and reader attention with objectives on their resumes: They just heard it was the thing to do without thinking about why.
If anyone actually asks you, "What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?" treat it as if you were asked, "What is something that you're trying to improve about yourself? and how are you working to do that?" For example, I might answer, "So much of the Internet is moving to JavaScript, and I only know the basics. I've been working through a book on jQuery in my free time."
However you deal with these questions, remember a few overriding principles that apply throughout your interview.
- Don't think of the interview as an interrogation. Treat it as a business meeting with your new boss at your new job that you don't yet have.
- Tell stories, especially of past successes. Stories give details that help convince the interviewer that you're the candidate for the job. This also means you must gauge the interviewer's response to know when to shut up.
- There are no universal answers. There are 6 million companies in the U.S. and they aren't all alike.
Or perhaps you're worrying about the flip side of this issue. Did someone ask you to participate in the interview process for a new team member? Read our advice about What To Ask Candidates In Job Interviews.
See also:
- I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid
- How to Crunch Your Resume for Optimum Appeal to Automatic Tracking Systems
- Leveraging Open Source Experience in Your Job Hunt


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Stephen G. Patterson, MD
Focus Areas
Hematology / Oncology
Notable Work Experience
Chief Medical Information Officer, Medical Oncology Fellowship Program Director - Nevada Cancer Institute - Las Vegas, NV (2010)
Chief Medical Information Officer, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center - Tampa, FL (2005-2010)
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine - Medical Oncology
Fellowship, Medical Oncology/Hematology - University of South Florida - Tampa, FL (1995-1998)
Residency, Internal Medicine - University of South Florida - Tampa, FL (1992-1995)
Higher Education
University of South Florida Leadership Institute - Tampa, FL (2010)
University of South Florida - M.D. - Tampa, FL (1992)
University of Notre Dame - B.S. - Notre Dame, IN (1988)
Professional Associations
American Medical Informatics Society
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher
A Multicenter, Open Label, Randomized Phase III trial comparing Immediate Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy (Eligard-leuprolide acetate) In combination With TAXOTERE (docetaxel) Administered Every Three Weeks Versus hormonal Therapy Alone Versus Deferred Therapy.
A Randomized Multicenter Phase II Trial of Patupilone (EPO0906) Plus Prednisone versus Docetaxel (Taxotere) Plus Prednisone in Patients with Metastatic Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer
An exploratory Phase II, Multicenter, Open-Label Trial Evaluating the Activity and Tolerability of FK228 in Androgen Independent Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients with Rising PSA
Correlation of Fatigue and Testosterone Levels in Castrated Prostate Cancer Patients
A Multicenter, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Single-Agent Lenalidomide (Revlimid) in Subjects with Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer
Phase III Intermittent Androgen Deprivation in Patients with Stage
D2 Prostate Cancer
A Phase II Trial of Weekly Taxotere and Dexamethasone in Hormone-Insensitive D2 (D1) Prostate cancer and a Pilot Study of Taxotere Pharmacokinetics
A Phase II Trial of Daily, Oral Thalidomide and Dexamethasone in Patients with Stage D hormone-Insensitive, Chemotherapy-Insensitive Prostate Cancer.
Impact of LHRH Agonists on Cognitive Function in Prostate Cancer Patients
LHRH Agonist therapy and Cognitive Functioning in Men with Prostate Cancer.
Identification of Gene Expression Differences between Chemotherapy Naïve and Chemotherapy Exposed Clones of Established Prostate Cancer Cell Lines.
LHRH Agonist therapy and Cognitive Functioning in Men with Prostate Cancer.
Kawachi MH, Bahnson RR, Barry M, Busby JE, Carroll PR, Carter HB, Catalona WJ, Cookson MS, Epstein JI, Giri VN, Hemstreet GP 3rd, Howe RJ, Lange PH, Lilja H, Loughlin KR, Mohler J, Moul J, Nadler RB, Patterson SG, Presti JC, Stroup AM, Wake R, Wei JT. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: prostate cancer early detection. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2010 Feb;8(2):240-62.
Molife, L.R., Attard, G., Fong, P.C., Karavasilis, V., Reid, A.H.M., Patterson, S., Riggs Jr, C.E., Higano, C., Stadler, W.M., McCulloch, W., Dearnaley, D., Parker, C., de Bono, J.S.: Phase II, two-stage, single-arm trial of the histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) romidepsin in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Ann Oncol. 2010 Jan;21(1):109-13.
Jim, HS, Small BJ, Patterson S, Salup R, Jacobsen PB. Cognitive impairment in men treated with leutinizing hormone releasing hormone agonists for prostate cancer: a controlled comparison. Support Care Cancer. 2009 Apr 3.
Ulloa Winters, E., Salup R., Patterson, S.G. and Jacobsen, P.B.: Relationship between Hot Flashes and Distress in Men Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer. Psycho-Oncology 18:598-605 (2009) Published online 22 October 2008 in Wiley Inter-Science. DOI:10.1002/pon.1427.
Patterson, S.G., Winters, E., Kish, J.A., Agresta, S., Garber, D., Jacobsen, P.B. Relationship of Hot Flashes to Fatigue in Men Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer. European Urology. Submitted July 2007.
Patterson, S.G., French, S., Bria: W.F. Clinical Decision support: Lessons from the Field on the Integration of Medical Intelligence and Information Technology. Healthcare Technology, 4: 66-68, 2007.
Alekshun, T.J., Patterson, S.G. : Management of Hot Flashes in Men with Prostate Cancer with Androgen Deprivation Therapy. Supportive Cancer Therapy, Oct Vol.4, No.1, pp. 30-37, 2006.
Park, J., Chen, L., Ratnashinge, L., Sellers, T., Tanner, J., Lee, J., Dossett, N., Lang, N., Kadlubar, F., Ambrosome, C., Zachariah, B., Heysek, R., Patterson, S., Powsang, J.: Deletion Polymorphism of UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase 2B17 and Risk of Prostate Cancer in African American and Caucasian Men. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006; 15(8). August 2006.
Ho, V.Q., Wetzstein, G.A., Patterson, S.G., Bradbury, R.: Abbreviated Rasburicase dosing for the prevention and treatment of Hyperuricemia in adults at risk for Tumor Lysis Syndrome. Supportive Cancer Therapy, 3(3): 1787-182, 2006.
Patterson, S.G., Wei, S., Chen, X., Sallman, D.A., Gilvary, D.I., Zhong, B., Pow-Sang, J., Yeatman, T., Djeu, JY: Novel Role of Stat1 in the Development of Docetaxel Resistance in Prostate Tumor Cells. Oncogene, May 1, pp. 1-10, 2006.
Diaz, Michael, Patterson, S.G.: Management of Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer-Cancer Control, Vol.11, No.6, pgs 364-373, November/December 2004.
Park J, Chen L, Shade K, Lazarus P, Seigne J, Patterson S, Helal M, Powsang J. Asp85tyr polymorphism in the udp-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 2B15 gene and the risk of prostate cancer. J Urol. 2004 Jun;171(6Pt1):2484-8.
Patterson, S.G., Davis Christine, Schmitzer Jessica, Foster Elissa, Baglia Jay, Balducci Lodovico, Ellis Carolyn: Spiritual Dimension of Cancer Care. Journal of Cancer Integrative Medicine, Vol.2 No.2, Spring 2004.
Patterson, S., Balducci, L. The Book of Job: A 2,500 year-old Current Guide to the practice of Oncology: The Nexus of Medicine and Spirituality. Journal of Cancer Education, Vol.17, No. 4, Pgs 237-241, Winter 2002.
Patterson, S.G., Balducci, L.B., Pow-Sang, J.M.: Controversies Surrounding Androgen Deprivation for Prostate Cancer. Cancer Control, Vol. 9, No.4, July/August, Pgs. 315-325, 2002.
Greene, G., Patterson, S. G., Warner, E.: Ingestion of Angel's Trumpet An increasingly common source of toxicity. Southern Medical Journal, Volume 89, Number 4, Pgs. 365-369, 1996.
Helfet, D.L., Koval, K.J., Hissa, E.A., Patterson, S.G., DiPasquale, T., Sanders, R.: Intraoperative somatosensory evoked potential monitoring during acute pelvic fracture surgery. Journal of Orthopedic Trauma, Volume 9, Number 1, Pgs. 28-34, 1993.


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This week, Drake caught attention for denying comments he made about Kanye West's 'Yeezus' album in a Rolling Stone interview, but also his displeasure at his cover being canned in favor of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died earlier this month. The rapper has since deleted the tweets he posted and apologized for his behavior on his blog, calling his rant a "tough day at the office."
"I completely support and agree with Rolling Stone replacing me on the cover with the legendary Phillip Seymour Hoffman," Drake says in the post. "He is one of the most incredible actors of our time and a man that deserves to be immortalized by this publication."
The 'Worst Behavior' MC then goes into exactly why he was upset with the publication: "My frustration stemmed from the way it was executed. The circumstances at hand are completely justifiable (on the magazines behalf), but I was not able to salvage my story or my photos and that was devastating.
"They ran the issue without giving me a choice to be in it or not. I would have waited until it was my time because I understand the magnitude of the cover they chose but I just wasn't given that option and that made me feel violated."
Drake was interviewed on Jan. 28, according to TMZ. Hoffman passed away on Feb. 2 and Rolling Stone contacted the rhymer's camp to inform him that he was going to be replaced on the cover.
The Toronto native also admitted that he had a knee-jerk reaction to Rolling Stone's actions.
"Today I was forced out of my character and felt the need to react swiftly," he writes. "These days are the worst ones. Waking up after a great night in the studio and it's your day to be picked apart.
"After dwelling on it for a few hours or days you will come to the conclusion that you brought it on yourself almost every time. So here I am having that moment."
He ends his blog post by offering his respect to Rolling Stone for giving him a shot at the cover and declaring this issue a learning experience. "I guess this is a day to learn and grow," he says.
October's Very Own didn't recant his remarks against Macklemore, in which he called his Grammy text apology to Kendrick Lamar, "wack as f—."
In his Twitter rant, Drake also said he's "done doing interviews for magazines." He didn't address that comment in his blog post, and the tweet containing that line is the only one from his the three that remains.


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Government investigators say employees at a veterans medical clinic in Colorado were instructed to falsify records to make it appear that veterans were getting appointments close to the day they wanted them.
A Veterans Affairs Department report says employees at the Fort Collins clinic were told to make their records show that veterans got appointments within 14 days of the day they wanted, whether or not it was true.
The investigation was first reported Monday by USA Today.
The VA is already under criticism over allegations that up to 40 patients may have died because of delays in care at a veterans hospital in Phoenix.
At the Fort Collins clinic, investigators say they found no evidence that anyone's health suffered. They say the practice violated VA policy but not the law.


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Finding Aid to the Norman Jacobson Papers, 1949-2002
Finding Aid to the Norman Jacobson Papers, 1949-2002
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2006/223The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California Funding for processing this collection was provided by Matt Jacobson
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Marjorie Bryer
- Date Completed:
- May 2007
Scope and Content of Collection
Container List
Series 1 Correspondence 1949-1989
Scope and Content Note
General Professional Correspondence 1949-1965
Bowles, Chester 1954-1956
Schaar, John 1958-1959
Rockefeller Foundation Grant 1956-1960
Personal Correspondence and Reprints 1958-1960
Reactions to Publication of "Political Science and Political Education," and Address, "Political Behavior" 1961-1965
Outgoing Correspondence 1962-1964
Incoming Correspondence 1964
Brown, Hon. Willie L., Jr. 1967
General Personal and Professional Correspondence 1978-1989
Series 2 Writings 1950-2000
Scope and Content Note
Subseries 2.1 Manuscripts 1951-2000
Scope and Content Note
Adlai Stevenson -- Draft Analysis of Speeches and Related Correspondence 1952
The Americans -- Screenplay by Norman Jacobson and Robert Peyton circa 1970
"Behold Leviathan" circa 1966
Scope and Content Note
John Brown: Or the American -- Screenplay by Jacobson and Peyton, Fragments, and Correspondence 1971-1972
"Building National Consensus: Revolution, Constitution and Culture" undated
Scope and Content Note
"'Damn Your Eyes!': Thoreau and Male Friendship in America" 1999-2000
Scope and Content Note
A Distant Drummer -- Screenplay by Jacobson and Peyton circa early 1970s
"The European Visitor's Conceptions of the Social Setting of the American Frontier, 1760-1860 1950
Scope and Content Note
"Franco" -- "Playlet" and Newspaper Clipping undated
Game Proposal -- "Politics" 1956
The Image of Science in the Social Sciences circa 1956-1960
Scope and Content Note
Kirk (Russell) and Viereck (Peter) Book Reviews for The American Political Science Review 1956-1957
"Language and Politics" 1953, 1979-1984
Scope and Content Note
The Mirror of Science: Reflections on Science and Social Science circa 1960
Scope and Content Note
"Parable and Paradox: Hannah Arendt's On Revolution" undated
Scope and Content Note
"III. The Perspectives of Science -- Sociological Man: Marx undated
"The Politics of Irony" 1981-1989
Scope and Content Note
"The Possessed: Masters and Disciples, Intellectuals and Masses undated
Scope and Content Note
Pride and Solace Correspondence 1978-1982
"Primer of War" and "The Measures Taken" -- Brecht's Plays and Jacobson's Notes circa 1969, undated
"II. Psychological Man: Freud" 1965
"Realism in Political Analysis in America" circa early 1950s
Scope and Content Note
"Rodeo"-- Memoir of Attending a Rodeo in 1968 undated
Report circa 1970-1972
Scope and Content Note
Rulers circa 1951
Scope and Content Note
"Scholar" 1958, 1964
Scope and Content Note
Science -- Earlier Version of "The Mirror of Science" 1961, 1963, 1970
Scope and Content Note
"Science/Images/Mirrors" Book(s) undated
Scope and Content Note
"Scientific Method and Political Theory: A Reactionary View" circa 1950s
Scope and Content Note
Television Series circa 1956-1958
Scope and Content Note
"The Toll Taker" undated
Scope and Content Note
"Truman" 1988
Scope and Content Note
"The U.S. Constitution and the Politics of Irony" undated
Scope and Content Note
Reprints of Articles 1953-1971
Subseries 2.2 Addresses and Lectures 1952-1982
Scope and Content Note
"Values and Science in Political Theory" 1952 September 13
"The Unity of Political Theory: A Case for Commitment" 1955 January
"American Institutions in the Age of Analysis: The Descent into Reality" 1956 September 6
Pieces for KPFA Radio Program "The Political Animal" circa 1956-1959
Rousseau Lecture, Mills College Late 1950s
"Berkeley v. Statewide" Early 1960s
"Civil Disobedience: Philosophy and Tactics" 1964 Oct. 9
"Perspectives on Politics: Dostoevsky on Authority and Rebellion" 1965 March
"The City in American Political Theory" 1965 November 5
"Men Who Teach" 1968 April
Scope and Content Note
"Lincoln and Nixon" circa 1972-1974
"On Modernization: A New World Passional" 1976 April 29
"Science & History as Ideology: New Men in the Academy" 1974 April
"The Abuse of Public Language and the Teaching of Politics" 1978 April 29-30
"O Brave New World" 1980 May
"The Fate of Two Classics: Democracy in America and The Federalists 1981 May 9
"Doing Political Theory and Psychotherapy: Some Experiences of the '60s" 1981 September
"Political Theory and Political Science" 1982 September
Between Past and Future undated
Scope and Content Note
"Gold Rush" undated
Scope and Content Note
"Phaedrus" undated
Scope and Content Note
"Science and Politics" undated
Series 3 Political Activities 1954-1985
Scope and Content Note
U.S. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations 1954-1955
Fund for the Republic 1956-1959
Powell Sedition Trial 1958
"Slate Supplement to the General Catalog" 1964
Free Speech Movement 1964-1965
Awake and Sing Program 1969
South Africa Demonstration -- Correspondence Spring 1985
Series 4 Professional Activities 1965-1995
Scope and Content Note
Letter Re: Promotion to Professor 1965 July 19
CASE Award as California Professor of the Year 1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Retirement 1989
Scope and Content Note
Curriculum Vitae 1989, 1995
"Faculty Profile: An Interview with Professor Norman Jacobson" undated
Series 5 Course Materials 1951-2002
Scope and Content Note
PS 1, "Introduction to American Politics" 1983-1985, undated
PS 1 and PS 4, "Introduction to Political Theory" 1984
PS 3, "Introduction to Political Science: Scope and Methods in Political Science" 1978-1980
PS 44C, "The Enlightenment" circa 1987
PS 110, "Contemporary Issues and Political Theory" 1965
PS 111, "Principles of Political Theory" 1950s
PS 111A, "Principles of Political Theory," PS 118A "History of Political Theory," and PS 290A, "Scope and Method of Political Science" 1955-1961
PS 112B, "History of Political Theory" 1989, undated
PS 113A-B, "American Political Theory" 1950s-1999
PS 118A-B, "History of Political Theory" 1950s
PS 151A-C, "History of Political Theory/Thought" 1995-2000, undated
PS 160, "Politics of Business I" and American Government & Politics, X106 ABC 1952, 1956
PS 217, "Politics and Culture" circa 1989
PS 255, "Graduate Seminar in Political Theory and Literature" 1995-2002, undated
PS 261, "American Political Thought" 2000
GINT 304, "Contemporary Political Theory" 1993
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The Bears have enjoyed one extended period of excellence in my lifetime. From 1984 through 1991, the Bears were one of the best teams in the NFL, winning one Super Bowl, playing in three NFC title games and going to the playoffs every year but 1989.
Even though he resigned as general manager in 1983 after the death of George Halas and the arrival of Michael McCaskey, NFL Hall of Famer Jim Finks was the architect of those teams.
He also was a friend of my dad and one of the folks who took me under his wing to learn the game as a young reporter after my dad died and I took over Pro Football Weekly.
One of the first things he taught me was the rule he used to build Super Bowl teams in Minnesota and Chicago, and a contender in New Orleans before he passed away. Finks believed that championship teams are built on the offensive and defensive lines, and he always practiced what he preached.
In the 10 NFL drafts he oversaw for the Bears, he had 12 first-round picks and he used them on four offensive linemen (Dennis Lick, Ted Albrecht, Keith Van Horne), three defensive linemen (Dan Hampton, Al Harris and Dave Gallagher), two linebackers (Waymond Bryant and Otis Wilson) and one quarterback (Jim McMahon), one running back (Walter Payton) and one receiver (Willie Gault).
The fact that two of his picks also were Hall of Famers Payton and Hampton, of course, helped. But the fact is his formula worked everywhere he went.
So, knowing what we think we know now about the current Bears, what should they do in the upcoming 2014 draft and free agency? I'll bet you know what I'm about to say.
Phil Emery is off to a good start. His first two picks have been defensive end Shea McClellin (actually a linebacker at Boise State) and offensive lineman Kyle Long. And if he wants to win, he'll keep his focus right where it's been.
One fact of these Bears is their pass protection has been significantly improved, but the offensive line might not be at all. The short yardage running game is awful, and the running game, in general, is more about the occasional big play than consistent good blocking.
The pass protection has been improved more by regular maximum protection – six and seven players kept in to block – and the deployment of a sixth offensive lineman, Eben Britton, than it has been by upgraded talent.
The Bears still need another starting offensive tackle – Jordan Mills has played poorly and doesn't appear to be improving – unless the decision is to move Long to tackle, in which case they need a guard. It's hard to imagine Roberto Garza playing more than another year if they elect to re-sign him at all.
Another consideration is that, while Jermon Bushrod was signed as a Pro Bowl left tackle, he has been average at best. It's possible the Bears' best plan moving forward is to move Long to left tackle, Bushrod to right tackle and give James Brown a shot at guard while they draft at least one more guard and a center.
There is no doubt in my mind, though, that more help is needed on the offensive line.
Clearly, the story is the same on the defensive line. The Bears have to draft, or find in free agency (or both), at least one more pass-rushing defensive end and two tackles. And that's assuming they aren't silly enough to think they can afford to lose Julius Peppers to save cap space.
The McClellin experiment should be over. Give him a shot at linebacker or move on.
I hope Henry Melton makes a full recovery but counting on it is folly. Even if he does, he is not a complete player.
The Bears should re-sign Corey Wootton, but only at their price.
The bottom line is, as badly as they need help at safety and linebacker, this team and this defense isn't getting better until it's fixed up front.
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Great buck congrats
I'll say..........good job, that's a great buck.
Great buck congrats
Nice one. When was that shot?
nice 1 man congrats
Great Buck man!!!
Congrats!!! That's a great buck!!
Nice buck, when is your muzzleloader season? Kind of odd to have velvet still. Congrats!
hey thanks for the comments everyone... I took this buck this past sept. during muzzleloader, thats why its still in velvet.
Way to get it done romo. Congrats!


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Question: How is this any different than sponsoring someone in a "Walk for ...."?
Considering that this event already happened from August 27th-Sept 1st, I don't think you have to worry about saying anything at this point.
Mass Effect 3 wasn't released until earlier in this month, so it would have been very interesting had he been intending to play it this past August.
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Just six months after becoming the first state to reject a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, Minnesota is poised to become the twelfth state to legalize it.
A jubilant crowd of supporters erupted into applause as the Minnesota State Senate passed legislation Monday extending marriage rights to same-sex couples. The bill passed the Senate by a 37-30 vote; all but two Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party senators supported the measure, while all Republicans but one opposed it.
The Senate vote came on the heels of last Thursday's 75-59 vote in the state's House of Representatives. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton will sign the bill into law on Tuesday in a ceremony on the steps of the state capitol; marriage equality will officially become law on August 1.
The bill's chief sponsor, State Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, spoke movingly during floor debate about his husband, who he married in California in 2008, and said the measure would not change marriage, but expand it.
"We were lucky to be able marry during the narrow window in 2008 when all marriages were legal in California," Dibble said, reading from a letter to colleagues that he wrote in February. "Our family, who had always been loving and supportive, understood us and had a connection to our relationship in a way that just didn't exist previously. Marriage is simply meaningful in ways that nothing else is."
Dibble also praised generations of Minnesota activists for same-sex marriage, including the late State Senate President Allan Spear, DFL-Minn., one of the first openly gay legislators in the country, and Richard Baker and Gerald Nelson, who unsuccessfully sued in 1971 for the right to marry.
Senate Republicans tried repeatedly to amend the bill, which would have forced the bill back to the House for further action. The effort included an unsuccessful attempt to allow businesses to discriminate against same-sex married couples. Still, even as the bill's opponents railed against the legislation, they had to concede that the tide of progress was working against them.
"Some have said, 'But don't you want to be on the right side of history?' The truth is I'm more concerned about being on the right side of eternity," said State Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville.
In an odd way, Hall and other opponents of marriage equality were responsible for today's historic vote. In 2011, the then-Republican-controlled legislature voted to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot banning same-sex marriage. The move backfired spectacularly; in November of 2012, voters in Minnesota rejected the amendment and swept the GOP out of control in both the House and Senate.
The coalition that successfully beat back the amendment turned its energy to fighting to eliminate the state's ban on same-sex marriage altogether, pushing their allies in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to bring the issue to a vote. In February, marriage equality was endorsed by DFL Gov. Dayton; State House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis; and State Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook.
On Monday, Minnesotans United, the organization that successfully fought to stop discrimination from advancing, and then successfully fought to roll it back, was celebrating.
"Nearly two years ago to the day, the Minnesota Legislature put a hurtful amendment on the 2012 ballot that would've permanently excluded same-sex couples and their families from marriage," the organization said in a statement. "The Minnesota Senate has just taken a historic step towards affirming what we already know to be true: Marriage is about the love, commitment, and responsibility that two people share, and it is time to stop denying that to some Minnesotans just because of who they are."
Minnesota becomes the first midwestern state to legalize same-sex marriage through legislative means; Iowa previously legalized same-sex marriage through the courts. It is likely to be joined soon by Illinois, where marriage equality has already passed the state senate. Since May 1st, three states — Delaware, Minnesota, and Rhode Island — have legalized same-sex marriage.


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Thats exactly why PFSense is not an option for TMG....All of this is included in TMG and not in PFsense. Use one package for http...another for https and a third for some other thing.The more packages one runs, the more vulnerable your system will be.
That is something we have been asking for for a long time....and remember the detailed logging that TMG has, it needs to be equivalent in pfsense.Otherwise its useless.
I dont understand what you mean by wildcard....?
I read several articles and tutorials, but none of them answered my question. I am looking for an alternative for Microsoft TMG 2010; formely MS ISA 2006. I read such good comments about pfSense I wanted to give it a try. I am struggling the overview and configuration with pfSense.Situation: - one external IP; - multiple servers - 2x MS TMG 2010 (FO & LB (Fail-over & Load-balanced)) - 2x MS Exchange Edge (FO & LB); port 25 - 2x Postfix (FO & LB; for fallback/backup MX) if Edge are offline; port 25 - 3x MS RDP (FO & LB); port 3389 - 3x MS IIS (FO & LB); port 80, 443 - 2x MS SharePoint (FO & LB); port 80, 443, 987 - 2x FTP (FO & LB); port 21 - Wireless (multiple SSIDs)Future request: - VoIPWith MS TMG 2010 it is easy to configure above configuration; everything works as it should be. Can above configuration been applied to pfSense? Furthermore I want to install/configure a HTTP and HTTPS accelerator (in- and outbound) and/or load-balancer, proxy (with AV-functionality), backup MX and a robust firewall and logging. Then I have got a corporate wireless network and a guest network. I want to split those by some kind of mechanism and authority-based.Is all of this possible? Can multiple pfSense configured to FO & LB? Can pfSense read host-header? Can it handle the above situation? What kind of system requirements is needed?I have seen so many kinds of packages, I really do not know which to choose in what matter.Regarding the future request; can anybody advise my about which system to choose referring to VoIP? Asterisk?I know it is a lot, but perhaps you can help me out here. It would be great when you have some 'step-by-step' tutorials available.
Quote from: Supermule on March 19, 2012, 08:14:53 amI dont understand what you mean by wildcard....?Thc for the kind words.Ask microsoft support.You are looking like a troll.
I dont understand what you mean by wildcard....?Thc for the kind words.
The thing is we as IT want to implement a solution based on Linux.
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Posted 29 September 2003 - 11:27 AM
Couple Questions
1. Service Manual? I am having a hard time finding one for my Outback. Any suggestions?
2. Any special service things I should know about?
3. Any cheap or easy mods I should consider doing?
Posted 29 September 2003 - 01:52 PM
Make SURE the tires on your car have almost identical circumference or you can create 'torque bind' and severely harm drivetrain components.
Um - confirm you have normal engine temp readings and normal coolant level.
I'm sure others wil have advice more specific.
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Posted 29 September 2003 - 02:39 PM
I recommend you check and change the the front and rear diff oils regularly (30k) and switch to synthetic. Same for the ATF. This should ensure smooth running of the AWD in the future.
ROTATE your tires at 5k to ensure same circumference on all tires thus avoiding damage and torque bind.
Thats about it, everything else is very solid on these cars.
Enjoy your Scoobie and have fun !
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Just bought my first Subaru too this past week.
You are looking for a manual...check out ebay online, they have manuals for many makes, usually cheap. Have bought lots off ebay, safe (been screwed once but once out of many purchases).
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I am a proud new owner of a 2000 Leagacy Outback Wagon. I really like the car so far. I have had to service it already though. The TPS kinda went bad. It was still working, but the resistance was low. It idles and runs much better with the new TPS installed. The only bad thing was the $100 for the sensor. I have been scanning the board and it looks pretty good. I found a good message board for Jeeps when I bought my Wrangler and learned tons about it and I plan to do the same with my Outback.
Couple Questions
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HIA's outbound cargo surplus offers window into freight business
Central Pennsylvania is already blessed with a diversity of industries, which helps to moderate the region's economy for sustained stability.
But do we produce more than we consume? Do we export more than we import?
The answers are more complex than yes and no. However, there is some evidence that the midstate has a better production economy than other places: About 60 percent of all cargo at Harrisburg International Airport is outbound, and our metro areas are decent exporters compared with other top U.S. cities.
Academics and transportation experts see these as positive signs for southcentral Pennsylvania's economy, but especially because the air cargo numbers illustrate the large impact logistics and distribution play here.
Get on the plane
Thousands of planes and people fly into and out of HIA every year. Officials there said they have a good picture of who is using the airport, such as business travelers, and where they're going.
However, they're trying to learn more about the cargo that moves through HIA.
"We want to understand this cargo market better," said Scott Miller, the airport's spokesman.
What they've found so far is that consistently — every year since 2008 — more cargo weight flies out of HIA than into it. In 2012, outbound cargo was more than 62 percent of the total cargo weight, according to statistics from HIA.
Even during the recession in 2009, when total cargo dipped by more than 10 percent, more cargo still flew out of the airport, according to statistics. Outbound cargo was 56 percent of the total that year.
Total cargo tons also grew, by 2.79 percent between 2008 and 2012, according to statistics. As of August, this year is shaping up to be on par with 2008 and about 1 percent less than last year.
On average, 58 percent of all freight is outbound through HIA, said Tim Edwards, executive director of the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority, HIA's owner.
"To me, that's a fairly balanced result," he said, explaining that the airport looks more at total freight for its business indicators.
"(The air cargo) tells me we have a fairly stable economy and economic base," Edwards said.
The airport cargo numbers could be considered a trade surplus for Central Pennsylvania. However, the HIA numbers reflect merely weight of goods and not a dollar value, the way national trade numbers do.
Cargo not mainly on the plane
Depending on how it's viewed, HIA's outbound cargo surplus could be an indicator of a thriving regional export economy. But some analysts urge caution, saying there's more to the transportation, logistics and distribution sectors than one airport's cargo, including the massive amount of goods that move by truck and train.
"I'm not sure someone can say much without looking at the broader freight numbers," said Bill Bellinger, an economics professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle.
The amount of merchandise moving by train and truck could eclipse air cargo, even if what is flying out of HIA is mostly gathered from the midstate's producers, he said.
"We've always had this sort of thing, and there's plenty of blue-collar stuff in this region, but (those industries are) more services like transportation than manufacturing," Bellinger said.
For example, location quotients are a good way to get a feel for what a regional economy looks like compared with the national economy, he said. Cumberland County has a distribution quotient of 3, or three times as much warehousing compared with the overall U.S. market. It has twice as much management services and one-and-a-half times the insurance and finance industry compared with the national economy.
Manufacturing, which is an important outbound freight source, is 30 percent smaller that what the national economy has, Bellinger said. Other areas look similar, he said.
In addition, there's no way to tell what amount of cargo shipped out of HIA was generated by midstate companies. Nor can you determine from the numbers whether it balances out the massive amount of goods produced elsewhere bought by consumers and companies.
In other words, air cargo is an incomplete picture.
"I think it's one indicator," Edwards said. "That's why we give those numbers on a monthly basis."
However, Memphis-based FedEx Corp., HIA's largest freight carrier, shows air cargo is a regional export. Last year, it carried more than 29,600 tons in and out of HIA, or 58 percent of total air cargo.
FedEx's 285 flights a month aggregate packages from the midstate region, as well as from trucks and flights from other Pennsylvania cities, spokesman Scott Fiedler said.
"It's faster to fly things over to Scranton or Williamsport in some cases," he said.
HIA is called a "ramp" airport, like a highway on-ramp, moving packages into FedEx's global highway, he said.
"The sophistication of logistics today," Fiedler said, "is truly amazing."
Economic impact
The numbers do demonstrate a fair representation of the local economy's health, analysts said.
Even if you can't say definitively that air cargo represents a trade surplus, it does represent the importance of the freight industries to the region.
In 2006, the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission's Regional Goods Movement Study found that 10 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, or $15.9 trillion worth of goods, comes through Central Pennsylvania.
Sixty-nine percent of that was through-traffic, with 17 percent outbound from the midstate and 14 percent inbound, said Tim Reardon, the commission's executive director.
Even if manufacturing is smaller today, there's still enough of it to contribute to outbound traffic, he said. The commission wants to update the study to see how freight movement through the region has changed, he said.
That's the same reason the airport is studying cargo more closely.
"We're trying to figure out what's being put on the airplanes," HIA's Miller said. "When you look at 2008, it's a different world today in what's being put on the airplanes."
The numbers definitely illustrate a healthy distribution economy, but you can't derive much else, said Pete Swan, associate professor of logistics and operations management at Penn State Harrisburg.
For starters, some things could skew HIA's outbound tonnage and its relevance to the economy, such as shipments from military bases in the area, he said.
"What could throw that off is the military component, which is not necessarily responding to the economy," he said.
The air freight numbers certainly reaffirm the value of distribution, Reardon said.
"(Freight companies) do bring a benefit to this area," he said. "If we got rid of all those trucks and warehouses, we'd still have 69 percent moving through here. ... In the long run, there's a benefit to having those things here."
So far in 2013
While total cargo numbers for the past five years are generally rising, 2013 could be a down year compared with 2012.
So far, the airport has handled 33,423 tons of cargo. That puts it about on pace with 2008, according to numbers from HIA. From January to August 2008, HIA handled 33,406 tons; from January to August 2012, it handled 33,751 tons.
Here is a look at 2013's airport cargo numbers up to August compared with the same period in 2008:
Outbound cargo (tons): 19,694
Inbound cargo (tons): 13,729
Outbound difference (tons): 5,965
Total cargo (tons): 33,423
Annual change (from 2012): -0.97 percent
Change from 2008: 0.05 percent
Source: Harrisburg International Airport
X(port) factors
Midstate exports of goods and services to other countries could be a wild card in freight and air cargo numbers, or at least one more lens through which to view midstate freight. And two local metro areas cracked the top 100 in 2012.
Lancaster had $3.1 billion in exports, ranking it 84th in the top 100 metro areas, according to the Brookings Institution's Export Nation 2013 report. The Harrisburg-Carlisle metro had $2.6 billion in exports, placing it at No. 90.
However, both metros significantly improved exports during the past eight years. Harrisburg's export growth rate from 2003 to 2008 was 11.2 percent, placing the area No. 15 in the nation for growth in that time period, according to Brookings. The metro had an export growth rate of 4.6 percent from 2009 to 2012.
Lancaster metro area's exports were 14.1 percent of its total output, giving it a ranking of 30th in the nation for that metric, according to Brookings. Lancaster's exports grew 5.3 percent from 2003 to 2008 and 5.8 percent from 2009 to 2012.


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The Interview with Bruce Sterling 95
Lemmy Caution asks:
A lot of your work recently has been on the Viridian project - a movement dedicated to innovative, practical, and far-reaching responses to environmental crisis. You've focused on the use of design and engineering to create a less destructive way of living on this planet.
You're doing so in a way that seeks to avoid politics - you'll name names, but seem unwilling to pitch battles. Is this fatalism, or an attempt to preserve consensus in a movement that includes both libertarians and communitarians?
*Mostly it's because I don't have 12 million dollars to get a Senator elected.
Do you believe that conscientious consumerism is going to be sufficient to avert continued environmental destruction?
*No, no, you're not getting it yet -- you've got to go deeper than that. If you have to be "conscientious" about it, that means that the system is malfunctioning. Being "conscientious" is just another term for letting morons with crap products steal your valuable attention. You are co-dependent with bad design when you're "conscientious." Piece-of-junk twentieth century technologies like coal-fired power plants shouldn't even *exist.*
Do you believe that "local minima" of the immediate benefits of good design will always win in the market?
*Well, it depends on how much the market sees fit to tell you about the reality of what you're buying. Suppose you had a Palm Pilot with a bar-scanner, and you ran it over a box of soap, and the readout said, "This stuff is dead cheap, but the factory gives your kid liver cancer." Suddenly it's an entirely different kind of marketing choice.
*"Making the invisible visible" is an important design principle. Everytime you hit a return key, there ought to be a puff of black coal smoke showing up on your monitor. That's the reality of today's energy market -- you're just never shown the truth about it.
Do you think lasting change will be possible without global regulation?
*Given the current political reality on the ground, global regulation is probably worse than useless. Global regulation is likely to set a bad situation into permanent legal concrete. I strongly suspect that as oil and coal companies start dying, and their oil suppliers start losing revenue, both oil governments and oil industry will try really, really hard to get a global regulatory board to throw a carbon-friendly Kyoto Convention, and write them into the industrial system forever.
And what do you think the most promising recent Viridian-positive developments have been?
*People do seem willing to buy clean energy, and not because they're scolded or regulated into it. They but it for the same reasons they buy decent plumbing, or maybe gourmet coffee. The rates of adaptation look really good. I got a brand-new solar panel system on my house right now, and it started pumping wattage into the city's grid yesterday.
Robert.Franklin asks:
I thought that The Difference Engine was one of the most offbeat and interesting takes on the cyberpunk (steampunk?) genre. Are you still in contact with William Gibson?
*Yeah, sometimes. Gibson's in Britain now, signing his new book.
Do you have plans to collaborate with him again?
*Nope, but ideas of the caliber of that Difference Engine thing don't come along very often. We discussed that concept for years on end before we started writing the novel.
G-Man asks:
I still remember early Cyberpunk, and then the early years of Wired, as times of being exposed to one "mind blowing" idea after another. The future, though far from Utopian, was going to be very interesting. Anymore, though, I see few ideas that make me sit back and say "Whoa...now *that* is cool."
Now, in a mundane world of spam and banner ads, the coming future doesn't seem nearly so thrilling. In trying to pinpoint the source of my apathy about new ideas, I can't quite decide if it's me, us, or you. That is, I can't decide if: (a) My personal perspective has changed, and I've learned enough that little suprises me anymore (b) We've all gotten better at predicting the future, so little surprises any of us, or (c) You folks (the SF writers and Futurists) blew out all the great ideas in the 80s and early 90s, and we'll just have to wait awhile for the next Big Thing.
So what I'm wondering is: Have you become at all jaded about technology and its effect on society? What do you think about our current state of predicting the future? Are there any ideas, authors, etc., that you've seen recently that make you say "Whoa..."?
Your answer is (a.) Except it's not just you that's getting older. The whole society is getting older, as a group. We're going to be living in cultures with more and more old people for as long as we live.
I don't "whoa" real easy these days, but there's (a) Dolly the cloned sheep, (b) Doogie the genius mouse, (c) MEMS microelectronic silicon engines on a chip, and (d) that weird crowd at Brandeis University, who are trying to evolve and grow artificial machines in a cyberspace, and then manufacture them as working gizmos in real life. They have little web-movies of those Karl Sims-style gimmicks just floppin' around in there. That's one of the most unspeakable things I've ever witnessed. Weirder yet, the thing they're doing in that lab is really close to the central gimmick of my Hugo-awarding-winning story "Taklamakan" (1998). That story came out just last year, and here they are trying to ship product already. Will wonders never cease!
boojumsnark asks:
Bruce: I remember reading an essay by you about Burning Man a while back; you hauled your daughter along. I thought this move, besides indicating that you were an incredibly cool dad, pretty much marked the end of Burning Man as a "dangerous" underground phenomenom. Similarly, a number of different forces are transfroming the web-centric Internet into something increasingly bland. I know you're a long-time user of the Well, which is now owned by Salon, the Newsweek of the web.
Which leads me to my question. Do you think it's possible nowadays to create a sustained, independent, and transgressive community (a TAZ, if you will) without it being co-opted by society at large? Some of your old Catscan essays (particularly the one on Jules Verne) hint at what your response to this question would have been in the past, but I'm curious to hear what you have to say now.
*If you want a sustained, independent and transgressive community that can't be co-opted by society at large, you need to get out of the boho art scene, and right into organized crime. I mean, stop pretending that Burning Man is "dangerous." You're not fooling anybody. Mardi Gras in downtown New Orleans is more "dangerous" than Burning Man. There isn't a casino in Vegas that isn't ten times more dangerous than Burning Man. My kids went to Burning Man and had a better time than they would at Disneyworld.
*If you're way-into rebellious danger, I can especially recommend drug smuggling. It pays great, it's super-dangerous, and it's kind of the ne plus ultra of unacceptable outlaw subculture. Huge bureaucracies have been invented to try to make you stop existing. You get ritual handshakes, tattoos, slang, gangster molls, fast cars, the works! You may end up spending quite a lot of time in prison, but prison subcultures are the true havens of the congenitally un-cooptable.
*Going into exile in a country with a different ethnic base should also keep you happy. Kyoto, for instance, is full of cool Zen hipster guys who are white. There is zero chance that they will ever be "co-opted" by the Japanese. If you want the straights to pay no attention to you, just go to a place where your skin is a billboard for difference.
webmaven asks:
One of the things that I found most intrigueing about Islands In The Net was the corporate structure and culture of the Rizome corporation.
Recently we've seen companies with radical new business models (such as Redhat and VA Linux) hiring developers to work on whatever they want, and corporate HR departments focusing on 'recruiting from within' to minimize employee turnover. Both these trends may be extrapolated to lead to Rizome type corporations.
So here's the question: What do you currently think future business entities will look like, and what can we do to make those future entities as human-friendly as possible?
*I think future business entities are gonna look like billboards for their shareholders. There will be business-entity churn, and corporations will appear on the shelf and disappear as rapidly as products. There's no sticking power left inside the "corporation." You'd be better off joining the cast of a Broadway road show, rather than imagining that a corporation is gonna look after you in the long term.
*I can't think of a single corporate entity that's truly likely to be around ten years from now. I mean, without being bought out, re-named, taken over, acquired, or re-engineered, or moving into a new net-based business model. It's over for corporate dominance, they blew it all in the downsizings. It's all about stockholder dominance now.
dmorin asks:
We're hearing lots about Neal Stephenson in the geek set these days. What's your opinion of the man, his writing style, and his choice of topics upon which to write?
*I think Neal Stephenson is a talent of the highest caliber. He's smart, he's ambitious, he's doggedly persistent, and he has got it going on in every single way that a science fiction writer should. The guy is the cat's fuckin' pyjamas.
tilly asks:
It is customary to ask people who their influences were. But I would like to turn that around. and ask a harder question...
Which new authors do you feel that you have most strongly influenced? What specifically makes you select them?
*I don't have any disciples. I see people pick gizmos and concepts and notions out of my works, every once in a while. That's a pretty standard thing in the SF field; we're always swapping notions, and I've thrown out my share. I think I probably had the most influence on people who were my contemporaries. If you take people seriously, and ask them to do their best, and suggest that new things and approaches are genuinely possible, it improves their morale. They do things they wouldn't have thought worth doing otherwise. And the world is a better place for it.
seesik asks:
First off, did Marianne Dyson get any NASA funding to help get your T1 trunk to Siberia? ;-)
Secondly, in your most recent book titled Distraction, you base a large part of the economic demise of America on the scenario of the Chinese government making all U.S. commercial software freely available on the net. While I am not deluded about the role and importance of many commercial products, how do you think the recent rise in availability and quality of free software would affect this scenario? How much consideration, if any, did you lend to the free software movement when writing Distraction?
*Well, I could tell you about that Dyson thing, but then I'd have to kill you.
*I have to confess the Chinese riff was kind of an ass-backward approach to economic collapse there. I wanted to write a book in which it was a given that America's economy had collapsed as badly as Russia's has. So I was looking for plausible excuses for that event to happen.
*So what happened to Russia? Communism collapsed, even though it had really brilliant rhetoric and a lot of pious justifications. Because, as a way of daily life it was hooey, and people just opted out. It didn't matter how many lectures you heard, at bottom there was always something fishy and unworkable about it.
*And you can say much the same about Microsoft and the Software Publishers Association, who really act and think a lot like righteous Marxist commissars trying to beat back "corruption." So if you're looking for a similar weakness in America, it's got to be the "New Economy." Frankly, I don't think the New Economy is any less sound by its nature than the Old Economy. After all, the Old Economy used to blow up and fall down all the time. Outside of the high-tech boom, America's Old Economy still looks about as sick as it did under Reagan.
*But it's easy for readers to imagine America getting really deeply invested into the "Information Economy," and then finding out that the whole shebang is built on sand. That may not be accurate, but it's plausible, and it works for readers. People felt the same kind of nervousness about abandoning the Gold Standard. "You mean I'm just supposed to *pretend* that this money is worth something? What are you, *crazy*?"
*I count myself as quite the fan of GNU/Linux antics. I don't program, and I don't have a GNOME box or anything, but I like the whole Free Software effort, just because it's a radically different industrial method. Society needs phenomena like GNU/Linux because it helps to prevent mental monoculture.
*Besides, I had Stallman in my house once, and he gave me this really wack Conlon Noncarrow CD. Noncarrow was this guy in Mexico who made insane experimental music by cutting holes in player piano spools. This generous act of Stallman's expanded my sense of possibility.
Robotech_Master asks:
I read, some time back, a Manifesto of yours dealing with dead (ie doomed or archaic or obsolete) media; it was a very interesting read.
If I'm not mistaken, the thrust of your manifesto was that a research tome on such media should be created, but since you were too swamped with projects, you hoped that people out there on the Internet who read it would come together and help to create the book themselves.
I was wondering if this has been very successful, and if so (or if not) what you have learned from the Manifesto and its consequences.
*Yeah. Well, Dead Media Project was kind of my Linux pitch there; "I got this cool idea, and here's the kernel, so why don't the rest of you guys do all the work?"
*I worked on it pretty steady for about three years, and I think we managed to discover pretty much every form of "dead media" extant. Now what's required is somebody to make sense of the whole phenomenon. And don't look at me, because even though I've probably thought about dead media more than anyone else, I don't have any solid conclusions to share.
Switch asks:
It seems that many modern science fiction authors see the future as a time when society gives up on "physical" community in favor of technology. (i.e ruined govt, city states, corporate martial powers, etc..) Do you see this as an amplification of the state of community in today's world, or is it simply a convenient literary device?
*I think the physical community was a "technology." Irrigation canals, harbors, army barracks, police stations, cathedrals, factories, clocks, forks, running water, that's all "technology."
*There are a lot more ruined governments right now than there are sound ones. That's not a literary device. Go try living under a ruined government. Moscow right now -- it's about the most William-Gibsonian landscape you are ever likely to see.
yoshi asks:
Some authors consider collaborative writing projects to be rather painful and counterproductive. The Difference Engine , however, was a wonderful piece of writing and seemed to truly be a product of both your and Gibson's styles. My questions:
- Did you enjoy the challenge of working with another author, especially one with such a distinct style?
- Do you think that sci-fi is, as a genre, particularly conducive to collaborative projects? If so, why, and if not, any opinion on why they are so common?
- Do you have any advice for aspiring collaborative writers (other than the key "don't kill your partner")?
*Yeah, I do a lot of collaboration. I get a lot out of it. It never bothers me much.
*It depends on what you want out of writing. If you like to speculate and play with ideas, then collaboration is great. If you want to write some revelatory material which is deeply felt and reflective of your personal experience, write it in your diary first. Don't tell a soul.
*My advice in collaboration would be to try to put aside your tender ego boundaries, and really strive to understand how the other person thinks as an artist. Ideally, he's got something going-on mentally that you are unable to do, and would be of real use to you as a writer. Collaborative work often fails, and looks goofy even when it works, but it's worth the effort if you expand your composition process and pick up some new chops.
chromatic asks:
Rereading "Islands in the Net" recently, I was struck by the observation that the humble DVD rendered some of the early scenes almost obsolete (only in a speculative sense).
With that in mind, are there any technological or cultural developments in the past few years that have caused you to rethink your speculations/predictions/opinions about the near future? If so, what are they?
*I wouldn't be betting on the DVD being around very long.
*When the 2020s come around, I'd bet that ISLANDS looks a lot more like the reality on the ground than most other novels written in the 1980s. But Islands in the Net has got the *Soviet Union* in it.
*So what? I don't have to worry about "failed predictions." Selling predictions isn't my stock in trade. I don't have to migrate in a crystal ball in the year 2020 and look back; that's impossible, and not required to do the job. I don't have to read the future in tea leaves. I just have to stand a little closer to the trends than most of my readers do.
*The job of SF is not to reveal your destiny. It's to expand the spectrum of possibility and refresh your thinking.
sugarman asks:
We are starting to see parts of the future that you, Mr. Gibson, and others in the cyberpunk genre have predicted come true. Items such as the Mirrorshades are closer than ever to being a reality (the recent work by IBM on body portables being an example).
Are you surprised by how much what you forecasted has or has not come true? Is there anything you thought for sure was going to happen but didn't?
And though hindsight is often useless, in what ways would the current situation (cultural/political/technological) change the stories that you have written? Part of the trap with writing speculative fiction set in the near-future is that as the future date approaches, unless you are dead on with the predictions, the story will move into the realm of wild fantasy. John Carpenter's 'Escape from New York' serves as an example. In the end, it all comes down to the story. How well do you think your stories (and cyberpunk in general) will stand up in 20 years time?
*I'd have to refer you to my earlier answer. I can tell you that I expect the year 2000 to be a pretty lively time. It's a good opportunity to shed a bunch of the old approaches and to think science fiction through from first principles again. Next time I write a science fiction novel, I hope will be a book which could only have been written during the 21st century.
*The part about it "all coming down to the story in the end" is completely bogus. "Escape from New York" is a great piece of pop futurist cinema, but it has no "story" in it. A guy goes on a quest with a time-bomb in his neck. That's not a "story." It's just a wind-up spring to get you through the ensemble cast and the set design. And the dialogue, which is great "Snake -- I heard you was dead." The movie works because it's a spectacular head-trip, not because of its so-called story-telling.
ucblockhead asks:
Would you reconsider revisting the world of systems crackers and the like "The Hacker Crackdown" was a damn good book.
*Aw, everybody and his sister knows about computer crime now. The world is full of journalists who can cover computer crime issues. Back in the Pleistocene when I was writing HACKER CRACKDOWN, the whole concept of "breaking into computers" was so out-there that it required a science fiction writer to do it. But turning science fiction writers into everyday reporters is a total waste of time. Let somebody else handle that now; I've got to be farther out-there.
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A lot of foreigners came here to teach English, many stayed and have kids. Now all the English teachers past and present see how the schools are run, from public government schools to the private cram schools and all their different permutations. I'm interested to know how many lifers send their kids to public schools, private schools, home school, or a mix of all and why you decided to send your kids where you did.


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March 3, 2010 2:03:00 PM
Adam Minichino - [email protected]
The Mississippi State women''s basketball team made history Tuesday.
Seniors Alexis Rack and Armelie Lumanu were named to the first and second All-SEC teams, respectively, while Lumanu was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Year.
Lumanu and classmate Chanel Mokango also were named to the All-SEC Defensive Team for the second consecutive season.
The All-SEC honors earned by Rack and Lumanu mark the first time since 2003, and just the fourth time overall, MSU has put two players on the All-SEC list in the same season.
Rack earned first-team honors for the second consecutive year. The Franklin, La., native is third in the league in scoring (17.7 points per game). She also leads the SEC in 3-point field goals made, rank fourth in assists, and fifth in steals.
Rack, an All-America candidate who won the Gillom Award (best player in the state of Mississippi) last season, has 1,674 points, which is three points shy of tying former MSU All-SEC performer Jennifer Fambrough for third on the school''s career scoring list.
With 325 career 3-pointers, Rack is second all-time in SEC history and is just 12 shy of tying LSU''s Cornelia Gayden''s 337 career threes.
Lumanu, from Kinshasa, Congo, became the first MSU player to win the conference Defensive Player of the Year honor in just the seventh year the award has been given. Lumanu is second in the SEC in steals (2.5). She also leads MSU and is eighth in the league in rebounding (7.2), and is second on the team in scoring (12.1 ppg.) and seventh in the league in assists (4.1).
Lumanu and Mokango were two of five players selected to the All-SEC Defensive Team. Both earned the honor for the second consecutive season. Mokango, who is second in the league in blocked shots (67), is MSU''s career leader in blocks (164) in two seasons. Mokango, who averages 10.7 ppg., is 10th in the league in rebounding (7.0).
Lumanu and Mokango helped MSU rank first in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage defense, second in steals, and third in turnover margin.
University of Mississippi senior Bianca Thomas also was named first team All-SEC.
The All-America candidate was picked to the first team for the second consecutive season as voted on by the league''s coaches.
She joins former Ole Miss greats Cynthia Autry, Yolanda Moore, Kimsey O''Neal, and assistant coach Armintie Price as the only players in school history to make the All-SEC first team twice.
Thomas leads the SEC and is ninth in the nation in scoring (21.1 ppg.). She has led the conference in scoring since the opening day of the season and is bidding to become just the third player in school history to average more than 20 points per game for a season.
Dunlap, Kentucky take top honors
Matthew Mitchell wasn''t peeved. He wasn''t ticked, either.
Some coaches would have ranted and raved if one of their best players wasn''t selected for a preseason all-league team.
Instead of being agitated, Mitchell was "comforted" by the fact that Victoria Dunlap wasn''t picked as one of the 10 players named to the Southeastern Conference''s preseason team.
"I think she is the kind of player we can build around to have some success in the league," Mitchell said in October at SEC Media Day. "What we have to do is make sure we''re staying focused and not worrying about anything that is external. How people perceive us is not important. It is how we perceive ourselves."
Mitchell is smiling today because Dunlap was named Tuesday the SEC Player of the Year.
The 6-foot-1 junior forward helped Kentucky (23-6, 11-5 SEC) finish second in the SEC after being picked in the preseason to finish 11th.
Individually, Dunlap finished in the top 10 in seven categories, including scoring (fifth, 17.2 points per game), rebounding (third, 8.4), steals (first, 3.1), and blocked shots (1.9). She is the only player in the league to finish in the top five of those four categories.
Dunlap also was named to the SEC''s All-Defensive team.
"She has had an outstanding year," Mitchell said "The thing that makes her so valuable to us is her versatility on defense. She is one of the few players who can guard just about every position on the court and do it effectively. ... When your best player is your best defender it helps your team with its identity and motivates others to play extremely hard on the other end."
The awards capped an impressive haul for Kentucky. Mitchell was named SEC Coach of the Year, while A''dia Mathies was named SEC Freshman of the Year. Mathies also was named Second Team All-SEC and to the league''s All-Freshman team.
Kentucky''s showing is just the second time in SEC history one team has won all three top honors. Tennessee''s Pat Summitt (coach), Chamique Holdsclaw (player), and Tamika Catchings (freshman) accomplished the feat in 1998 en route to the program''s sixth NCAA title.
Dunlap, who eclipsed the 1,000-point mark against Mississippi State earlier this season, has improved her scoring average in each of her three seasons at Kentucky. She averaged 7.3 points as a freshman and 12.8 last season when the Wildcats finished 16-16 (5-9 in SEC) and advance to the Women''s National Invitation Tournament.
This season, Kentucky figures to have locked up a bid to the NCAA tournament, which is a position Mitchell said his team wouldn''t be in without Dunlap.
"She really has been able to transform her game from a defender and rebounder and an athlete into a person who can score and do it at a high level and take over a game offensively," Mitchell said.
Dunlap is the first player in the program''s history to earn Player of the Year honors, and the ninth to be named to the first team. Stacey Reed (1994) was the last player from Kentucky to be named to the first team.
Adam Minichino is the Sports Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will remove lead-contaminated soil from a lot near a Chicago elementary school.
The agency this week said results of soil sampling showed lead levels as high as 1,200 parts per million near the surface at the half-acre lot in the city's mostly Hispanic Pilsen neighborhood. That's three times the threshold set by the EPA.
Lead can cause learning and behavior problems in children.
The pollution came from the former Loewenthal Metals smelter, which operated on the site about 70 years ago. The EPA says it also will check lead levels on nearby properties.
State environmental officials identified the contamination in 2006, but didn't refer the matter to the U.S. EPA until 2011.
The city erected a fence around the site two months ago.


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I need an explanation from 90210, immediately.
Ian Rapoport @rapsheet
Andre Holmes releases a statement, apologizing to the Raiders: "I do not know how the substance got into my system", says it was amphetamines.
Lol, I guess it's a step up from their players constantly being in jail. Can't wait to destroy these clowns this year.
I need an explanation from 90210, immediately.
Earth to 90210... Come in 90210...
LOL. These guise should just not say anything and use the pending appeal as an excuse not to talk. The best ever was Brian Cushing. He really set the bar with the "overtrained athlete syndrome".
http://www.patspulpit.com/2013/5/10/...r-andre-holmes.) Second he has as much chance of making Raiders roster as Santonio Holmes has to be a big contributor for the Jets this year. (that was before he failed the drug test)
Third he was signed more as a favor to Raiders LT Jareed Veldheer( who was friends with Holmes from their days at Hillsdale college).
Lets see 1 Denarius Moore 2 Rod Streater 3 Jacoby Ford 4. Juron Criner 5 Joshua Cribbs 6 Brice Butler 7. Connor Vernon 8 Sam MCguffie- my new binky who needs an injury to make the roster. 9 Greg Jenkins( Raiders love him and probably makes it on their practice squad) 10 Tray Session 11. Andre Holmes I think they keep seven Wr.
As you can see the odds were stacked against him. That little shot he had to make the roster, became no shot.
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Raiders and Browns are the teams I pity the most.
That is one really crappy list of JAG wide receivers. There are CFL teams with better talent.
Sadly, even when the Raidaz go 1-15 and secure the first overall pick, you can bet the house they will scarf up another J Russell or D Bey quality BUST with the pick.
From halfwitted owner to waterboy...the worst mess in the NFL by far
Rod Streater isn't an unknown as he played very well last year and there is a reason why they let DHB go.( he simple a better receiver).
The first five Wr are settle. 1. Denarius Moore 2. rod Streater 3. Jacoby Ford 4. Juron Criner 5. Joshua Cribbs( more for all special teams ability than Wr)
Here the difference Ray Ray where Raiders have their top Wr's to count on and have so many young talent wise Wr to battle for sixth and seventh Wr spot. You have to hope you hit gold with one of those young Wr's as they could be key contributors for your team.
when Braylon Edwards is your number 1 Wr that is a problem. ( there was a reason he couldn't find a job till late last year and this year for so long) IF the Jets were happy with him last year , don't you think you sign him much early than they did. ( desperate teams do things they don't want to)
Here os the lyrics for the Autumn wind. http://www.shermanreport.com/the-aut...l-video-words/. They don't make lyrics for jokes of franchises( Jets). Hey at least you have the Butt fumble to get your team the recognition they so desperately crave.
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Have the Faiders made the postseason even once since the end of the 2001 season (12 seasons and counting ago)?????
Now how old are you Sg3.( make my point for me)
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Tradition matters in Fiddler on the Roof...not so much in the NFL where your Raiders are a decade long joke franchise playing in a sewage filled dump AND owned by a semi retarded nepotism choice whose Dad wisely never allowed to do more than fold the towels in the locker room
You are judged in sports on championships . That all that matters. The Jets are going on how many years now since their only Super Bowl.( you weren't alive to see it and have a hard time understanding what I'm talking about.
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Raiders have the worst receivers, stadium, Defence, Coach in the league.
Still fails me why you continue to pollute this site with your presence.
Raider, you would be a much better poster if you showed even the slightest bit of humility. As a fan of a team who has been the worst of the last decade, I'd think you could at least sympathize with us jets fans. Yes we have some delusional dummies here, but man I simply laugh at anything you say. You really think listing 12 jag receivers will help convey a point? No it simply reinforces how completely inept the raiders are. And yes santonio Holmes is a risk. That is why braylon was signed, and that is why the jets worked out Austin collie and the dude from the jags. The jets(idzik) are working diligently to rebuild, and yet you put no effort into having a factually sound post.


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The more we relax into ourselves; we bring out creativity and happiness. See, creativity is already present in every point in consciousness and it can be evoked. If there is no creativity, then you cannot bring it from somewhere. It is like applying the heat to pop the corn and it becomes popcorn. Similarly, there is inherent creativity in consciousness.
Meditation makes you feel free from within, makes you like a child, helps drop all the inhibitions, stiffness, concepts in the mind and shed all the barriers that you put on when communicating with others.
If the mind vacillates between the past and the future, then it's not sharp enough in the present. For creativity all that is required is sharpness of the mind, ability to perceive better. Perception, observation and expression -these three aspects which are integral to any exercise can blossom when our mind has a good rest.
Creativity and skillfulness are products of meditation. The practice of meditation makes you skillful in all your actions, enables you to be happy and maintain an undying smile, come what may.
The mind is a field which goes beyond our bodies. Our consciousness is a field, our mind is a field, we are all a field. Every point in the field is knowledge and it is vast. So our consciousness is filled with knowledge, filled with creativity.
Anyone who has discovered anything or any creativity has sprung up in any mind is because it is already present in the field. We take credit because we are tapping what is already there. Sometimes we can do it without any effort; it has already come out of us. If you ask a poet how he or she came up with such a beautiful poem, the poet says, "I don't know!" Whether it is a scientific discovery or an art, the mystery is from, 'Where has it come from?'The source is unknown. Tapping this field within us, being with this unknown field is meditation.
Meditation cannot happen with effort, but with effortlessness. The mind and body have got opposite laws. On the physical level, more the effort, better the result. Whereas on the mental level or the level or creativity, lesser the effort, greater the result. When the mind learns to let go and relax, then the ideas come out. If you have forgotten something, the more effort you put to remember that, the longer it takes for you to remember. The sooner you let go, suddenly the ideas come. So the mind has an opposite law, to that of the body. And meditation is based on that law combined (that of the mind and body), when you are totally effortless.


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Tallahassee, Fl-December 7, 2012
Seventy-one years ago, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack.
The attack would eventually send the United States into World War II. Now a local Tallahassee historian is remembering Doris Miller.
Miller was an African American cook in U.S. Navy, stationed at Pearl Harbor. He's been called hero for his actions on that day.
According to historians, Miller began firing a machine gun during the battle. It was a weapon he had not been trained on. He was also credited with carrying his fellow wounded soldiers to safety.
"This man, history will endure forever here in American because this man had bravery," says Rev. William Foutz, a local historian.
Miller received the Navy Cross for his efforts. Miller was presumed dead on November 25, 1944 after an attack on Liscome Bay, a ship he was suppose to be aboard.


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March 15, 2013
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Friday, March 15
Schedule of Events: Registration and Activities Fair in the Allen Center are from 9-11 am. The welcome is in the Chapel at 11:15 am. Exams at 1:30 and 3:30 pm. Banquet at 6:00 pm in Chadwick Court
Baseball vs. Franklin: Goodrich Park, Crawfordsville, 4:00PM
Mini-Golf is directly after the Phi Delt Bouts and Winner gets a 32- inch TV.
Exhibit Opening: Stefani M. Rossi - Circuitous Center: Fine Arts Center Eric Dean Galleries (continues thru April 12), 4:30PM - 6:00PM
In her work, Stefani M. Rossi cultivates intimate encounters that invite viewers to contemplate the larger narratives in which they routinely participate. In Circuitous Center, Rossi explores the historic and contemporary rituals that people practice in the course of understanding and establishing their place in the world, both physically and metaphorically. These works represent how "the paths we find ourselves on, and the things we carry with us as we meander, determine how we walk through the world." Threading together the themes of displacement, itinerancy, and pilgrimage, Rossi's work questions what it means for one to discover and, perhaps maintain, "home."
The exhibit continues through April 12.
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