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Tiberius Julius Sauromates I
Tiberius Julius Sauromates I Philocaesar Philoromaios Eusebes, also known as Sauromates I (Greek: Τιβέριος Ιούλιος Σαυροματης Α' Φιλοκαισαρ Φιλορώμαίος Ευσεβής, Philocaesar Philoromaios Eusebes, means lover of Caesar, lover of Rome who is the Pius one, flourished the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century AD, died 123) was a prince and Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom.
Sauromates I was the son and heir of the Bosporan King Rhescuporis I by an unnamed wife. He was of Greek, Iranian and Roman ancestry. The name Sauromates is a name of Sarmatian origin. His paternal grandparents were the previous ruling Bosporan Monarchs Cotys I and Eunice.
Through his paternal grandfather, Sauromates I was a descendant of the Roman Triumvir Mark Antony from his second marriage to his paternal cousin Antonia Hybrida Minor (second daughter of Roman Republican Politician Gaius Antonius Hybrida, Antony's paternal uncle), thus Sauromates I was related to various members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was also a descendant of Roman Client Rulers Polemon I of Pontus, Pythodorida of Pontus and Cotys VIII of Thrace. Through his paternal grandfather, Sauromates I was a descendant of Greek Macedonian Kings: Antigonus I Monophthalmus, Seleucus I Nicator and Regent, Antipater. These three men served under King Alexander the Great. He is also descended from the Monarchs Mithridates VI of Pontus and his first wife, his sister Laodice and the previous Bosporan King Asander.
When Rhescuporis I died in 90, Sauromates I succeeded his father as Bosporan King and reigned until his own death in 123. He was a contemporary of the Roman Emperors Domitian, Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. Sauromates I continued his father's legacy of rebuilding the Bosporan Kingdom. In 68, Rhescuporis I had restored the Bosporan Kingdom, previously a part of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior, as a semi-independent Roman Client State. On coins, his royal title is in Greek: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ or of King Sauromates.
Sauromates I is mentioned in the letters of Roman Senator Pliny the Younger. About 103, Pliny served as the Roman Governor of Bithynia. Sauromates I sent his ambassador (legatus) to travel to Bithynia to deliver two letters to Pliny. The nature of these letters is unknown. The first letter requested Pliny, for a messenger to use a diploma (a permit to use an official wagon) to assist the messenger's journey, which Pliny respected. The second letter was for Trajan. Pliny learned no more than that it contained news which Trajan needed to know. An imperial freedman called Lycormas took the second letter from Bithynia to Rome for Trajan, a journey that would have taken 6–8 weeks.
Either Rhescuporis I or Sauromates I established Phanagoria as the new capital city of the Bosporan Kingdom. From the late 1st century, Panticapaeum, the original capital city, had gradually lost its importance. Phanagoria became the new capital city because of the increasing popularity of the city's titulary goddess, Aphrodite, and her cult.
In 105, Sauromates I, entrusted and appointed a priest as an official to oversee the restoration of the porticos at the temple at Hermonassa. Out of his personal religious devotion in 110, he erected a temple dedicated to Aphrodite in Gorgippia. In an honorific inscription dedicated to Sauromates I, found in Nicaea, Sauromates I was given the honorific title Ktistes or Founder. He was awarded this title because of his goodness, generosity and his contributions throughout the Bosporan and Anatolia.
At Panticapaeum, there is in Latin an honorific inscription, dedicating and honoring Sauromates I:
- 'King Tiberius Julius Sauromates, an outstanding friend of Emperor and the populus Romanus'.
Sauromates I married an unnamed woman and had a son called Cotys II. Cotys II would succeed his father. Through his son, Sauromates I would have three descendants ruling the Bosporan that would bear his name.
See also[edit]
- The supreme gods of the Bosporan Kingdom: Celestial Aphrodite and the Most High God By Yulia Ustinova Edition: illustrated Published by BRILL, 1999 ISBN 90-04-11231-6, ISBN 978-90-04-11231-5
- Rome, the Greek world, and the East By Fergus Millar, Hannah M. Cotton, Guy M. Rogers Edition: illustrated Published by UNC Press, 2004 ISBN 0-8078-5520-0, ISBN 978-0-8078-5520-1
- http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/bosporos/kings/t.html
- http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per01403.htm#0
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160315021241/http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per01404.htm
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|Preceded by
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The Doctor the Abra
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|The Doctor
|Text Color
|Everstone band around his ankle
|Appears Middle-aged but actually old as balls
|#063, Abra / Psi pokemon
|43.0 lbs.
|Pokédex Entry
|It senses impending attacks and teleports away to safety before the actual attacks can strike.
|Inner Focus
|Highly curious
|- Teleport (level)
- Shadow Ball TM
- Psychic TM
- Protect TM
|The Doctor hails from Europe, and is older than he appears. He belonged to a large clan of wild psychic pokemon. These psychics were naturally drawn to the thickly forested area because of the high amount of psychic energy focused there. They found that it would amplify their powers, allowing them to become very powerful as a group. A clan was formed, where many rules were made to help control the psychics' powers, so they were not abused. The clan vowed to protect their new home and any that were in it. They called this hotspot Gallifrey.
Over time, humans began to settle on their land, building small towns nestled in the hills and trees. The clan often protected the humans in secret against their own folly as well as rogue clan members who had suffered from the prolonged effects of Gallifrey.
As time progressed, as did the battles and wars against evil, the clan grew more violent and vicious. Their morals changed from protectors to antagonists. The older the land got, more creatures began to 'invade' their land. The clan began to feel overwhelmed by the progress of both humans and pokemon into their territory, and began to fight them, without reason or moral code. In their growing vanity and madness, they discarded their previous code and began to kill indifferently.
The doctor, after being initiated, was lost to the clan after fleeing from them. He was hunted down, but not before he managed to lead the humans to the heart of their pack, where the majority of the clan was killed or captured.
In the slaughter, he fled deep into the forest, running as far as he could.
He was devastated by the loss of his kind and the world that he knew, but he could not return.
He began to travel, under his new alias of 'the Doctor.' He would seek out companions to travel with him, to seek out mystery, beauty and danger. Since then, many of his companions have died or gone missing, with the Doctor at the heart of it all. Despite his best attempts at keeping them safe, he almost always loses his companions, much to his grief and despair.
(About the clan)
- Very intelligent, but still rely on theft from humans for their source of 'outside' knowledge, such as books, health items and complex goods. They would often steal HMs and TMs as well, knowing that they held the strongest attacks.
- Psychics born into the clan near the end of its' reign were taken from their parents at an early age and trained to fight and indoctrinated by the elders of the clan.
- They were taken to a clearing in the forest, where the energy was strongest and forced to remain there for weeks. If they survived the overload of psychic power and the lack of sustenance, they would be initiated into the clan as one of their soldiers.
- Every one of the initiated were forced to wear a shackle with an everstone in it before they began, so their growing strength wouldn't overwhelm their physical form, and evolve too quickly.
- The shackles were stolen from the human town that they had sacked
- Many of these children would die. If they didn't die, they would either grow heartless and cold, lose their minds entirely, or just flee out of sheer terror from the mental overload.
| - slim, tall and 'foxy'
- He often walks with head held high and often cheery/curious.
- often walks upright, but occasionally walks on four if startled or acting on instinct.
- Based on Doctor Who, the 10th doctor.
- Chooses to stay in his present form. He is afraid of taking off the shackle, in fear of what unleashing his powers might do to the others around him.
- Despite his unevolved form, he's actually middle-aged, and sounds older as well.
|- He was part of the initiated children, one of the few to survive and flee.
- He was there when Gallifrey and his clan fell to the humans.
- He was part of their final downfall and slaughter. He's killed many, and this has tainted him on a very deep level. He was a teenager when the clan fell.
- He chose the alias 'the Doctor' to protect himself against those who used to know him. Not everyone from his clan died, and he had made many enemies during his time with them. He has a real name, but he doesn't reveal it to anyone. If pressured for a real name, he'll call himself John Smith.
- He has grown exceedingly intelligent from the focused psychic energy of Gallifrey, but the mental inhibitions are there. He grows unstable and callous if he is left by himself. He sees this in himself and consciously seeks out others to partner with, to prevent it. Due to the danger he puts himself and others in though, he is often left alone...fueling his partial insanity.
- He suffers still from the indoctrination of the clan, and still believes that they were good at the heart of it all. The tempering they instilled in him is still present in the way he fights and harnesses his powers.
- cheery and fun-loving, very curious about everything.
- Quirky and loud at times when excited
- likes to use a lot of physical contact
- Hides a deep pain and loneliness behind his cheery visage.
- very humanistic. He goes about doing nothing but trying to help others, even if it costs him.
- can be very cold, callous and dark if memories are triggered by certain things from his past. Oftentimes, he just falls into his thoughts, ignoring others around him.
In worse cases, he becomes very dangerous and difficult to reach on an empathic level. He'll kill and destroy what he feels is necessary, going against his regular moral code.
- Vengeful and unforgiving when faced with enemies that persist after he warns them to stop. He'll feel that his personal sense of justice is violated and is very quick to anger because of it.
-His ego can feed into his darkness immensely. He will let his hubris get the better of him, doing terrible things. He'll often call himself 'clever,' to boast about himself.
- Needs select company with him at all times, or he'll start becoming more and more callous, losing himself.
- Likes to babble, mixing important things with apparent nonsense, making him appear to act erratically. He switches between moods quickly, as a way of reverse psychology. He doesn't like to be 'figured out,' and will try to confuse others as much as he can.
- He tends to make people feel uncomfortable by being unintentionally insulting. This is a severe lack of empathy, which is a part of his partial insanity. He has found a way to detach himself from most painful situations, making him a very hard character to like at times.
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|- Has a British accent
- Very well-read and intelligent, always uses his wits to get himself out of situations
- has an incredible sense of taste, in the way that he can lick something and be able to divulge something from it.
- With the training from Gallifrey, he's done away with having to nap constantly and has harnessed his psychic powers. He isn't, however as strong as he could be if he were to evolve.
-Prolly gonna pair him up with Crusher eventually
-- relationship between the two: Crusher will mostly see him as a father figure.
- He doesn't consider the virus to be anything apocalyptic, but rather just a passage in time.
- He has a very strong faith/love for pokemon and humans, believing them to be inspirational and brilliant. But this is sometimes contradicted when he comes across something that is particularly cruel that these species do, where he'll accuse them of being terrible and short-sighted.
- His family was lost in the destruction of Gallifrey. He had gone back amidst the chaos to find them, but he had found them too late; all dead.
- His motive is to travel around the regions, seeking for things that interest him. He seeks out human locations, to find out what happened in the area and to track down how the whole epidemic started. This is really just out of intrigued curiosity though, as he doesn't see the epidemic as something terrible.
- He also is intrigued to see new species of pokemon that he hasn't come across before, and doesn't hesitate to get close and personal to figure them out.
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-Slow- passive
- black- despair, pain, anger, malicious intent
- red- confidence, tenacity, passion
- yellow- happiness
- blue- love, courage
- green- fear, envy
- purple- suspicion, distrust, guarded
- white- innocence, purity, awe
- brown- confusion, uncertainty
- orange- pride, vanity
- gray- sadness, melancholy
- none- undead. devoid of emotion
- void- negative aura
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Thanks for clicking this link from a person on LinkedIn you may have never actually met. This is going to be so worth it.
Quick shout out to our partner and hometown of Cary, North Carolina, whose Chief Information Officer will be traveling with us to Dreamforce next month to discuss their consolidation to a single, digital platform.
Here's your week in technology news and ITSM tips:
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You know that part of the airport experience where you stand in line for somewhere between ten and a thousand minutes for someone to make sure your actual face is the same as the face on your passport? It's going away.
Ok, it's going away in Dubai, but that's a start.
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AI for Your Hand-Eye
I have a confession. My younger brother has been DOMINATING me in ping pong for almost twenty years. Every Thanksgiving I'm reminded of what a failure I am. It's disgraceful to lose to a younger sibling in anything, so I need to fix it.
I need a trainer. I need… Forpheus.
The Japanese ping-pong robot has a 5-axis motor and a "brain" to react to your shots and control the paddle. It even gives you words of encouragement to boost your confidence after a long rally. Wonder if my fiance will mind making space for him (her?) in the living room.
Speaking of practical AI uses, here's a new game in which you turn the entire world into paperclips.
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The Kudos app is coming to the United States from Norway. It functions basically as training wheels for social media. Kids can sign up, post pictures and commentary, and react to others' posts (with only positive reactions). The app notifies parents of their children's activities, and uses image and verbal recognition technology to prevent inappropriate content. The Kudos team includes alumni from Disney, Dreamworks, Pixar, and Instagram.
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Many of today's most popular cocktails are either variations of iconic drinks or based on old-fashioned remedies for sicknesses that we now cure with injections or pills. The recipes might have changed, the liquors have become more refined and yet the enjoyment of a tasty cocktail remains the same.
From the sophisticated Apple Martini to the powerful punch of a Zombie, there are plenty of well-known cocktails available for patrons of any restaurant or bar. The presentation and experience of a fine cocktail defines the moment and even character of the person enjoying the drink. Much like a brand of beer or a label on a fine bottle of wine, ordering a cocktail can say so much more than just a preference in taste.
There will always be the Martini, Screwdriver, Bloody Mary and even the Tom Collins are ordered with a fair amount of consistency at just about any bar. Even the Mimosa and Bellini have become standard additions to any bartender's list. The following 10 cocktails, however, have become trendy and popular or have managed to maintain their popularity despite great pressure from fine wine and even craft beer.
10 Apple Martini
An Apple Martini, or "Appletini," is a trendy cocktail that has gained popularity by adding a big twist to the typical dry martini. Vodka, instead of gin, is the basis of the cocktail and apple schnapps is most often used to add the sweet but slightly sour taste of apple to the trendier version of the cocktail. The Appletini is usually finished with a little lemon juice and garnished with a slice of apple to differentiate it from a normal martini served in the same glass.
The Appletini is a favorite drink of late night host Conan O'Brien and has been featured in several movies and sitcoms. In 2007, an Appletini was a focal point in a Disney movie, Enchanted, where a version of the cocktail made with poisoned apples was presented to the character Giselle in an attempt to harm her.
9 Long Island Iced Tea
Packing quite a punch, the Long Island Iced Tea is one cocktail that never seems to go out of style, especially with men. The potent concoction of rum, vodka, tequila, gin and triple sec is often finished with a mixture of sweet and sour, lemon juice and cola. Traditionally, there is no tea added to the mixture but the ingredients, especially the taste from the cola, provide the flavor profile of a tea with much more flavor and attitude.
The origin of the drink is debatable, but one thing that is known is that it appears to come from the community of Long Island. In 1920, a version was said to be created in the Long Island community of Kingsport, Tennessee, while the modern version was said to be invented in a contest in a bar on Long Island, New York in 1972. Much of the confusion surrounding its origin probably stems from the fact that many variations of the drink exist, including substitutions for tequila, cola and even sweet and sour mix.
8 Californication
A California twist on the Long Island Iced Tea, the Californication is a golden state version of the popular Long Island concoction. The Californication is mixture of run, vodka, tequila and gin finished with orange liqueur, lemon juice and orange juice to taste. Strong and yet sweet. The cocktail is finished with either a slice of orange or a twisted peel of orange rind.
The Californication is not a subtle cocktail, but the citrus flavor imparted by the orange liqueur and orange juice attempt to disguise the punch it packs from the mixture of spirits. The name of the cocktail, Californication, is based on a term that is prominent in the lyrics of a song by the rock group, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There has also been a television series that has run since August 2007 with the same name.
7 Pina Colada
The classic tropical cocktail with a distinctive look and taste would have to be the Pina Colada. The simple yet exquisite mixture of rum, coconut milk and pineapple juice has been a favorite in the tropics and with the less experienced cocktail drinkers looking for a sweet cocktail that drinks more like a smoothie than an alcoholic beverage. The drink has become a popular drink to enjoy poolside or anywhere offering a glimpse of the ocean or the feel of sand between the toes.
The Pina Colada has roots that can be traced to Puerto Rico and has long been considered the island Country's national drink. The cocktail was said to be invented by a bartender at the luxurious Caribe Hilton Hotel's Beachcomber Bar in 1952 shortly after a key ingredient, Coco Lopez cream of coconut, was developed. Puerto Rico honors the cocktail with a National Pina Colada Day that is celebrated each year on July 10th.
6 Margarita
The margarita is easily the most popular cocktail in the United States made with tequila. The simple mixture of tequila, triple sec and lime juice is often blended with ice but is traditionally served on the rocks. In either instance, the beverage is commonly presented in a salt rimmed glass. Since the basic lime margarita was invented, many other fruity variations of the cocktail have been created that are mostly found in its blended form.
The origin of the margarita dates back to the late 1930's or early 1940's and while the exact location of the origin of the drink has been a subject of great debate, the region of Baja California, Mexico somewhere between Tijuana and Ensenada is more than likely the birthplace of the drink. The refreshing cocktail continues to be popular in the sunny and somewhat arid regions of Mexico and San Diego, California as well.
5 Caipirinha
The World Cup is about to introduce the world to the fun-loving country of Brazil and one drink that Brazilians are always delighted to share with others is the slightly intimidating Caipirinha. The national drink of Brazil is made with cachaca (spirit from sugar cane) or white rum, brown sugar and lime juice. Some formulations of cachaca can be over 100 proof and like magic, Caipirinha manages to hide almost all of the alcohol taste.
Caipirinha, has its origin that goes back to 1918 and is based on a remedy that was commonly used to treat Spanish flu. The word "Caipira" refers to a person from the countryside of Brazil who is far from modern or sophisticated in his or her ways. The drink is served from households to restaurants and bars in Brazil and has only recently started to gain popularity outside of Brazil. The inability to find good brands of cachaca in North America and Europe has been the only limiting factor to its growth in popularity.
4 Mint Julep
The official drink of the Kentucky Derby, the Mint Julep, is a symbolic cocktail of the American South. The concoction of Bourbon, a little bit of water, powdered and granulated sugar and plenty of mint has long been a very popular way to drink a cocktail made with Bourbon in the region that produces most of the Bourbon in the United States. Simple and yet refined, the cocktail has gained acclaim elsewhere thanks in large part to its association with the crown jewel of horse racing, the Kentucky Derby.
The origins of the Mint Julep go back as far as the late 18th century. Evidence suggests that it was an established drink by the early 1800's with gin, brandy and whiskey all used to create different variations of the drink. The current version with Bourbon has been promoted by Churchill Downs to Kentucky Derby fans since 1938. Currently, about 120,000 mint juleps are consumed each year at Churchill Downs during the two days of horse racing over the weekend that includes the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.
3 Mai Tai
The Mai Tai is a Polynesian-style cocktail that has a fruity tropical taste indigenous to the Western Region of the United States. The mixture of light and dark rum, orange curacao, orgeat syrup and lime juice has been a symbol of Tiki or Tahitian culture ever since it was first created. The cocktail was very popular in the 50's and 60's and was even featured in Blue Hawaii, a film staring Elvis Presley.
The cocktail has over 10 documented recipes and was said to have been invented by the proprietor of Trader Vic's of Oakland, California in 1944. He created the drink for some friends who were visiting from Tahiti and after one of them exclaimed that the drink was "Maita'i", or very good in Tahitian, the name stuck. A rival restaurant, Don the Beachcomber, also claims to have invented the cocktail in 1933 with a more complex version of the drink. The truth probably lies somewhere in between, but California was more than likely the birthplace of the popular cocktail.
2 Mojito
The Mojito has become very popular as its fresh minty taste complements warm summer weather much like a cool glass of non-alcoholic lemonade. The mixture of white rum, mint, lime juice, sugar and soda water is crisp and clean with a relatively low alcohol content. Sprite or 7-up can often be used in place of the soda water and a good portion of the sugar. One of the keys to preparing a proper Mojito is to crush, not cut or dice, the mint leaves in order to unlock more of the oils of the mint, thus enhancing the minty flavor.
The origins of the minty mixture with rum go back as far as 1586 when the men aboard Sir Francis Drake's armada reached out to local Indians in search of a cure for scurvy and dysentery. Drake's small boarding party returned from the shores of Cuba with the primary ingredients for the modern day Mojito. Several other stories exist regarding the cocktail's true origins, but most stories simply provide evidence to how long the general recipe has been in existence. The great author, Ernest Hemingway, was known to have developed quite a taste for the refreshing drink.
1 Cosmopolitan
The Cosmopolitan is an ultra modern drink that has surged in popularity during the last 20-30 years. The tangy concoction of vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice has managed to leapfrog the venerable screwdriver as many vodka drinkers prefer the Cosmopolitan's cleaner and slightly tart taste. The keys to the preparation of a Cosmopolitan are a good brand of cranberry juice and Cointreau Triple Sec, two essential elements to the drink.
The origin of the drink is unclear, but the modern version presented in a sophisticated martini glass is said to be invented in 1985 by a bartender of the Strand restaurant in South Beach, Florida. Other stories place its origin coming from a bar in Minneapolis around 1975. In either case, the cocktail has created quite a following with females and seems to have the perfect name to match its sophisticated taste and traditional martini-like presentation. The shortened name of "Cosmo" and the drink itself exploded in popularity during the 1990's with frequent mentions on the hit television series, Sex and the City.


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I remember lunch boxes from when I was child, made by my dad (who stayed at home whilst my mum trained and then worked as a midwife). I remember the excitement of finding out what was in them when midday came around. I'd always have, something savoury, a snack and a treat (as well as a drink of course) and each day it would be different. Coming from a family of five kids I'm only now just realising how much effort must have done into preparing them all for us for the day ahead. I still miss my dad's cooking now and hopefully with a little practise my kids will miss mine ;)
With Wilf starting school I'm thinking more and more about the practicalities of these things, school bags, homework, p.e kit and lunch boxes. It's all becoming very real! I'm working with Flora on this post to share with you my 5 day lunch box plan Incorporating Flora Original into the meals I make.
When it comes to Wilf's meals I've previously struggled with just how much he is supposed to eat and at what age. I often fall into the trap of thinking he should be eating much more than he does or give him portion sizes that overwhelm him. I think that can be a concern for lots of parents but I've learnt that smaller portion sizes and looking at how much he's eaten over a whole week rather than just a day is really helpful.
I hope you've like my five day lunch box plan and that it's maybe given you some ideas for your own. I find food can be such a tricky one with kids at times so it's nice to mix it up and not eat the same thing every day whilst still keeping things quite simple!
Flora have a section on their website for 'healthy kids meals' which can help when trying to work out what items to look for to ensure your kids get their 5 a day. You can also download their lunchbox guide which will give you lots of ideas and inspiration for your child's lunch box. What do you pack in your packed lunch box?
Lunchbox Plan
Monday – Cheese and tomato sandwiches are a real staple for our week. I find routine and familiarity really help when it comes to mealtimes but we try and mix it up as the week goes on. I include breadsticks as a snack then blueberries as a superfood and an orange to finish. It's worth noting I pack a bottle of water with all his meals and try to limit juices as much as possible.
Tuesday - Wilf loves wraps and would eat them every day of the week. I think they are such a simple way to encourage him to eat foods he might not always try (especially in fajitas). This wrap I've gone for Flora Original, Quorn ham (as we are all vegetarians) cream cheese and a little tub of sweetcorn. I've popped in some strawberries as a healthy snack and a banana as well which will fill him up for the rest of the afternoon.
Wednesday - We like to make use of any leftovers we have from the night before, it also makes for an easy go-to for my lunch which is a must with a baby around. Rice or pasta are brilliant left over lunch box items I think, just pop them in an extra bit of tupperware. I think it helps change things up from bready items every day. In this lunch I've got yesterday's tomato pasta, some sweetcorn and a boiled egg for extra protein. For pudding I've added a homemade fruit loaf with Flora Original spread across it.
Thursday - Wholemeal pitta and hummus with Flora original, my son can't get enough of hummus which is also a great snack you could pop in and add some cut up veg or breadsticks as an alternative to pitta. I've added fresh vine tomatoes, green and red grapes and a banana.
Friday - Ending the week with a simple but delicious one, cheddar cheese on crackers with Flora Original. Fresh tomatoes and avocado for a healthy fat addition and strawberries and raisins for pudding.
Three Top Tips
- Plan ahead for the week when doing the supermarket shop, to ensure you have, main, snacks and pudding.hen you won't be reaching for things like crisps or chocolate when you're out of ideas.
- Make a little more of your main meal the night before, especially if it's something easy like rice or pasta that can be added to a lunchbox for the next day. It also means you're spending less and have a meal all ready to go without too much sorting in the morning.
- I tend to find with my little boy, that larger portion sizes really overwhelm him. If I include smaller handfuls of things (a few tomatoes, a handful of grapes, a sandwich cut into small pieces etc) then he will be more likely to eat them, than if I include only one of two larger items.
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Cottage in the middle of nowhere
Hello travelers!
Are you always ready to adventure around the world or do you need "holiday" from your exciting life like me? This photo was taken right next to our cottage. Perfect place to relax between the crazy traveler and blogger life. Just nature, animals and quietness around you. What else would wild adventurer ask from her holiday?
Cottage life is super normal in Finland. I think that like half of families living in Finland own their own cottage or visit someone else's cottage every year. We just love our homes away from home. I can't remember any summer from my childhood when we wouldn't have spent at least a week on our cottage. Swimming, eating barbecue food, and playing board games. Those are the happiest memories I have.
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Bird friendly building design a priority
In the last three decades, glass building designs have achieved a popularity never before seen. Thanks to improvements in glass and glass coatings, glass has become a standard component of energy efficient building designs. But the use of glass in architecture comes with a price, and groups like the Audubon Society and other nature advocates, the adoption of bird friendly building design could significantly reduce bird mortality.
Bird friendly building design can reduce bird deaths
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) attributes the death of hundreds of millions of birds in the United States annually to glass building design. According to ABC, collisions with glass are the second largest source of bird mortality, behind predation.
Just as glass is transparent to human beings and other animals, it's also transparent to birds. Humans have learned to detect the presence of glass through subtle visual clues like reflections, dirt and window frame construction. Because of the way a bird's eye works, birds cannot interpret these clues correctly and do not realize that a window is not an open space.
For the most part, birds are daytime feeders, but what many people don't know is that birds migrate at night. While the vast majority of collisions with buildings occur during the day, nighttime artificial lighting interferes with a bird's ability to navigate at night, and can cause changes in birds' migratory patterns and habits.
In 2011, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) added bird friendly building design guidelines. The standard requires building designers to quantify the threat level a design poses to birds, taking into account the building's construction materials and design details.
Bird friendly building design takes into account such elements of glass as its transparency and reflectivity. It also measures the impact of landscaping around the building that may inadvertently draw birds into close proximity with glass. Tall glass buildings pose a particular problem for birds because they reflect open sky and distant landscaping. Since birds cannot detect the difference between actual open sky and a reflection of open sky, tall glass buildings tend to cause a higher proportion of fatal bird collisions.
The principles of bird friendly building design include minimizing the use of glass; placing glass behind screens or lattice work that helps birds identify solid surfaces; and the use of netting, screens, grilles, shutters and exterior shades. Other techniques, such as the use of angled glass. UV-patterned glass, opaque or translucent glass, or silk screened patterns on glass can also help birds detect glass.
How well can these solutions work? A study done on the glass-and-steel Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City in 2009 showed that the building had one of the highest bird mortality rates in the city. Following a 2014 redesign that took bird mortality into account, bird mortality has been reduced there by more than 90%.
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United Reserves Get Some Revenge on the Crew
On the first truly hot day of the year, United's reserves wilted a bit through the first 50 minutes, but sprang back to life in an exciting second half to surge past the Crew.
Neither team was particularly threatening in a pretty sloppy first half, however, the Crew pulled ahead on a well worked corner kick that found it's way to the back post where United's Quavas Kirk was unfotunate to knock it into his own net. Had he not tried to make a play on the ball, Crew defender Ezra Hendrickson was right there to put it in anyway.
After the Crew nearly scored on a shot rifled off the crossbar just before the half, the Crew doubled their advantage just after halftime as Jason Garey tucked in a neat cross to give the Crew a seemingly insurmountable lead given United's play to that point.
However, minutes later United's central midfielder Dan Stratford stung a venemous 25 yard shot well into the far side netting and the goal seemed to swing the momentum to United for most of the rest of the match.
With more of the possession as the game wore on, United finally found the equalizer as Ryan Cordiero fought for a ball deep against the endline keeping a play alive. Coming away with the ball, he set up Mike Zaher, who made some nifty moves to draw the defense before laying off to Niell at the edge of the box. The crafty Niell dummied the ball right to Jeremy Barlow to slot into the lower corner from 20 yards.
Tied and United pressing for more, backup keeper Jose Carvallo had to make two spectacular saves on Jason Garey inside the six yard box to keep United from falling behind again.
Finally in the 89th minute, Rod Dyachenko struck a loely thru ball to Cordiero streaking dwon the left side and his shot found the lower corner to win the game.
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Kendra from The Fountain in Bloomer, WI brings us this design perfect for smaller churches…or perfect for larger churches who want to multiply this look a couple time.
They had a few minutes to setup, an extremely limited budget, and a stage only 9 feet deep. Since the screen comes down right behind the curtain they kept everything up front.
They took a music stand and popped the top off. Then they placed a pipe down the center of the stand so that it was now 8 feet tall. They drilled a hole in the pipe and used a hanger to create a loop to hang the material from. The star was from a dollar store and painted white. The material cost $5 from WalMart.
Then they back lit it with a garage light and used an end table for the wreath.
On the right hand side of the stage they put up a little Dollar Tree 4ft tree ($8) and a tall candle stand pillar ($1 garage sale). Then they cut "Faith" out of foam board.
Their biggest expense was battery operated candles!


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I wanted an environment where I felt truly comfortable and a school that presented the ability to meet people who shared my curiosity and thirst for learning. It was also important to me to have a strong academic focus and classroom setting. And Booth has some of the best faculty and curriculum in the world.


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e-coat can help you keep your kennel clean and sanitary by solving a major problem that kennel owners often face: the dreaded kennel cough.
As dogs move around a kennel, they cause tiny scratches in a typical tile or linoleum floor. These scratches create a harbour for bacteria and it doesn't matter how long or hard you scrub or disinfect – you're always going to have issues with bacteria and infections.
In fact, if you have these micro scratches, there's a strong chance the dogs in your kennel will develop kennel cough, a nasty upper respiratory viral infection. And if your kennel develops a reputation for having dogs with kennel cough, it could significantly harm your business.
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At e-coat, we can apply a pleurae polyaspartic coating on concrete dog kennel floors. This special coating:
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Polyurea Polyaspartic coating has an extremely tight molecular structure that minimises the micro scratches that provide a fertile breeding ground for unwanted bacteria.
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Solution-Focused Treatment of Domestic Violence Offenders: Accountability for Change Mo Yee Lee, John Sebold, and Adriana Uken describe in detail how their solution-focused approach helps to create effective, positive changes in domestic violence offenders. They focus on holding offenders accountable and responsible for building solutions, rather than emphasizing their problems and deficits. By focusing on "solution-talk" instead of "problem-talk," clients are assisted in developing useful goals and solution behaviors that are then amplified, supported, and reinforced through a solution-building process. In a recent chapter in Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, the authors write the following about how they work with mandated clients:
We believe it is important to emphasize choice even when participants are mandated to attend. In this way, we emphasize and respect the participants'most basic right to assess what is best for them from the very beginning. In the few cases where participants decided not to attend the program we have complimented their decision to go back to the judge and argue their case. This led to a better commitment and rapport when the individual returned, requesting admission into the program.Below is an example from that same chapter. As you will see, a critical factor in what makes this conversation work is that the therapist keeps on emphasizing the fact that the client makes the choice to get into the program or not.
|So now that you have an idea of how the group is structured and the expectations of the group, do you have any questions?
|No, I just don't think I should have to do this class and I wouldn't even be here if my wife wasn't a drunk. Why isn't she here ... tell me why she isn't here?
|I don't know ... I guess the judge ordered you to come.
|That's right; you don't know, do you? You're just making money right?
|I can see that you're angry about the judge's ordering you to come and I can understand that. I think it's important to know you don't have to come to this program if you don't think it will be helpful for you.
|Just where am I going to go? All the way to Reno, all the way to Chico, or Sacramento?
|I don't know, perhaps you could talk to the judge or your attorney about your options.
|Right, it's jail or here.
|Those are tough choices.
|Yeah, real tough, and you don't care one bit and my wife's out there doing exactly what she wants.
|I am curious: have you ever had to do something you really didn't want to do and still made it work?
|Like, what does that mean?
|Well, you're facing this incredible challenge and pressure. I was wondering if you've ever been able to get through something this difficult before?
|(Pause) I used to come home from school and all there was, was a jar of mayonnaise in the fridge. I don't want my kids' coming home to that. They deserve better than that. You know what I mean?
|Yeah, I definitely do. You want something better for your kid. You're a man who really cares about his kid.
|Yeah, I am ... so, when does this group start?
|In two weeks. Are you ready?


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It's been a while since I have added any new features to this site so I decided it was about time to get busy. It has also been kind of hit or miss on if you would see a new posting when you stopped by for a look. That is a problem I hope to solve for everyone today.
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Today NetApp announce their Unified Compute and Storage Platform (NUCSP)
NetApp have taken their OnTap 8.x platform and advantage of the many cores that are now available within their scale up and out clusters to provide general purpose compute services that are located close to storage.
OnTap 8.x (based on an open source Unix derivative) is now pre-loaded with a hypervisor that allows them to run both their native storage software and also general purpose operating systems.
This is rumoured to also allow them to complete their Bycast integration, not by integrating into the OnTap suite of software, but running as a separate OS instance within the hypervisor


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Though Ridley Scott didn't show up in person for the much anticipated Comic-Con panel on 'Prometheus,' Fox execs kindly provided footage, revealed a first photo from the set (see above) and sent screenwriter Damon Lindelof and co-star Charlize Theron to San Diego to talk about the production. During the panel, a satellite video feed popped up and Lindelof chatted with Scott and co-star Noomi Rapace (they're shooting the opening of the film in Iceland).
'Prometheus' has been a buzz film ever since it was announced as a prequel to the 'Alien' franchise, and rumor and speculation have surrounded the production ever since. When Lindelof was brought in to rewrite the original script, the film supposedly changed course and was touted as a stand-alone sci-fier, though there would be more than a passing nod to 'Alien.'
At the panel, Theron talked about her role in 'Prometheus,' saying that she plays a "suit" named Vickers who's in charge of the central mission of the film -- "a machine in charge of the machine." Ummm.
Scott wasn't any little less cryptic when talking about the film. Since robots, cyborgs and replicants are part and parcel of modern sci-fi cinema (thanks to 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner,' of course), Scott let it out that "there may be two" in the film, and mentioned that they were doing something fresh with them this time around.
He also went on to delineate a connection between 'Prometheus' and 'Alien,' saying that an unexplored concept from the original films would be examined here and that the connection between 'Prometheus' and 'Alien' would be revealed in the last few minutes of the film.
So looks like we'll have to wait a little longer to find out more about this one. 'Prometheus' stars Rapace, Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie and Rafe Spall and will be released on June 8, 2012.
Here's Fox's official line on the film:
Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life's ultimate mystery.
[Via SlashFilm]
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Stupid White Men
Moore's 2000 book, "Stupid White Men," is one more chapter in the Gospel According to Michael. Its very title reveals the core of Moore's appeal in this narcissistic age.
Think of it for a moment. The drive to feel superior to others is a powerful motivator, particularly if a person has a bit of a self-image problem. It's powerful enough to fuel major political movements: the Know-Nothings of the 1850s rejoiced that they were superior to immigrant Germans and Italians; the segregationists of the next century rejoiced that they were superior to blacks, to say nothing of constant national rivalries.
Most of Moore's productions, filmed and written, seem to center on Moore showing how he is smart and sincere and everyone else in the production is foolish or nasty. The real emotional appeal to the viewer/reader is: follow Moore, identify with Moore, and you, too, are superior to these often-powerful but really ignorant people. You are not the loser -- they are!
"Stupid White Men" -- a perfect choice for a title. Not to mention Chapter Five, which begins "Do you sometimes believe you live in a nation of idiots?" By buying the book, and dare we say "believing in Moore," the follower demonstrates his superiority to "stupid white men" and the idiots that fill his nation. He may be an albino yuppie (a fair description of many followers), but he's proven he is not stupid, at least. Moore has invented a $25 self-esteem course for aspiring yuppies.
Stupid White Men is thoroughly humorous, although much of the humor is unintentional.
To read it without guffaws, one must suspend disbelief. Not to mention common sense. Mad cow disease has stricken 200,000 Americans. Enron and Halliburton are great investments. Nader did the Demos a real favor in the 2000 election. There is no economic downturn. Kim Jong II of North Korea is turning over a new leaf.
Let's warm up with few real whoppers, where any reader on Planet Earth should have stopped in wonderment.
200,000 Americans are dying of Mad Cow Disease, and nobody knows it.
"Americans are not immune from this deadly disease. Some experts estimate that some 200,000 US citizens diagnosed with Alzheimer's may in fact be carrying the alien protein and that their dementia is actually a form of mad cow." (Stupid White Men, p. 137).
Okay, back to Moore's end-notes. His source is an article by Deborah S. Rogers.
What she actually says is actually that mad cow disease is one variation of prion diseases, and we shouldn't focus upon mad cow disease when other prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD), are already known here. (How CJD is spread, other than by contaminated transplant tissue and other surgical transmission, is unknown. Based on similarities in the prions, it is believed that mad cow disease can cause one form of CJD known as new variant or variant CJD (vCJD), which is a tiny fraction of CJD cases worldwide.) The 200,000 estimate Rogers gives relates to CJD, not to vCJD or mad cow disease.
(While we're at it, Moore gives some paradoxical advice here. He says that even burning does not destroy mad cow disease prions: "But even when you burn them, the threat does not disappear; you can't kill them, as I said. The smoke and ash just carry them to another location. . . ." (Stupid White Men, p. 137). Then he goes on to advise, "Make sure, if you eat a burger or steak, to cook that sucker until it's black." (id.). Moore is dead wrong on both counts. Burning does destroy prions, cooking does not. They're protein, and cooked meat is still protein, but meat smoke is not.).
George Bush's Campaign Finances -- $120 million from 170 people, despite campaign contribution limits.
Moore's second chapter is an open letter to George W. Bush. (Moore loves open letters; whether he bothers mailing any is unknown.). He refers to "all those dudes who gave you a record $190 million to run your campaign (two-thirds of which came from just over seven hundred individuals!)"
Hmm... Federal elections laws then restricted individual Presidential Campaign donations to, what, $2500 each? So how would 700 people contribute about $120 million?
Moore does include end-notes, so I could check his sources. Let's see.... here it is. The data he cites actually show the $190 million and 700 persons refers to people donating "soft money" to the GOP as a party, not to Bush's campaign. Soft money can't be used to endorse a candidate -- the party uses it for voter registration drives, party recruitment, and issue ads ("Social Security is important to you") that cannot mention a candidate or a race (although they're obviously aimed at promoting an issue that the party wants as a voting issue).
By the way, the Demos are no slouches at soft money, either. The Washington Post in 2001 reported that "Democrats were essentially even with Republicans on the soft money chase, bringing in $243 million to the GOP's $244.4 million." And, like the GOP, their soft money is largely from big donors. Example.
Fred Barnes, graduate of UVA and Harvard Fellow, doesn't know what the Iliad and the Odyssey are.
Moore says that he heard Fred Barnes, apparently a conservative commentator of some sort (I don't watch TV) say that modern schooling was so weak that many students don't know what the Iliad and the Odyssey are. Moore's response:
"The next morning I called Fred Barnes at his Washington office. 'Fred,' I said, 'tell me what the Iliad and the Odyssey are.' He started hemming and hawing. 'Well, they're ... uh, you know ... uh, okay, fine, you got me -- I don't know what they're about. Happy now?'" (Stupid White Men, pp. 91-92).
No, I'm not," Moore continues, denouncing Barnes for hawking his purported wisdom to the nation without having any idea what he's talking about.
Barnes is a graduate of the University of Virginia and held a fellowship at Harvard, the type of joints which often teach the Iliad and the Odyssey, and sometimes even mention Aristotle and Shakespeare. But according to the Gospel According to Moore has never heard of the most basic of the classics. He pulled the words Iliad and Odyssey out of the air (probably heard someone discussing them on the subway), not having any idea whether they were about the Trojan War and its aftermath, or the postwar Greek economy, or astronomy. It must be true, for Michael has written it.
It is rather superfluous to add that, when asked, Barnes stated (1) he's read both in their entirety, and (2) he's never talked to Moore in his life. Another source. A third.
Idiot Nation Or National Idiot?
Moore's Chapter Five, "Idiot Nation," is the most obvious pandering to his readers' drive to prove their superiority by denigrating others. If you follow the Gospel of Mike, you can rejoice that "you're not like them." The chapter begins:
DO YOU FEEL like you live in a nation of idiots?
I used to console myself about the state of stupidity in this country by repeating this to myself: Even if there are two hundred million stone-cold idiots in this country, that leaves at least eighty million who will get what I'm saying . . . .
(Stupid White Men p. 85) The argument ill-becomes one who claims to be a spokesman for "the people."
His proofs? Let's see, people memorize sports statistics and watch ESPN. I personally don't care much for either -- but this is supposed to be a champion of the working classes?
And... "There are forty-four million Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth-grade level -- in other words, who are functional illiterates. How did I learn this statistic? Well, I read it." (SWM, p. 86).
Moore should have read better. His endnotes attribute the figure to the U.S Department of Education's National Adult Literacy Survey. (SWM, p. 264). I found it online here. It does report that 40-44 million Americans performed in the lowest level of literacy. The next paragraph notes:
Many factors help to explain why so many adults demonstrated English literacy skills in the lowest proficiency level defined (Level 1). Twenty-five percent of the respondents who performed in this level were immigrants who may have been just learning to speak English. Nearly two-thirds of those in Level 1 (62 percent) had terminated their education before completing high school. A third were age 65 or older, and 26 percent had physical, mental, or health conditions that kept them from participating fully in work, school, housework, or other activities. Nineteen percent of the respondents in Level 1 reported having visual difficulties that affect their ability to read print.
Not to mention that 4% of those surveyed (1,100 of 26,000) were serving time in jail. Surprise: functional English literacy is not high among the blind and visually-impaired, people learning to speak English, and prison inmates. This hardly makes the US a place that "GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO REMAIN STUPID AND IGNORANT," in Moore's typically capitalized phrase. (SWM, p. 87). By the way, as the National Adult Literacy Survey confirmed, a disproportionate share of those Moore labels "STUPID AND IGNORANT" happen to be blacks and hispanics.
In any event, as Michael Moynihan points out, limited functional literacy is a worldwide event: "almost 20 per cent of Australian adults had inadequate literacy skills to be effective in everyday life;" "some 25 per cent of Irish adults are functionally illiterate and approximately another 20 per cent can perform only simple reading and writing tasks;" "American teenagers rank higher than the Germans in all three subjects (math, literacy and science); 30 percent of Germans drop out of university, roughly equivalent to Mexico;16% hold university degrees, compared with 35% in the United States."
Frankly, if Mike was of the working class, instead of a pretender to it, he'd understand something that I learned back in the No. 1 tunnel at Pima Mines. These guys may not write like Shakespeare, or go home to read Neitzsche and Spengler, but they are smart, live in the real world, and know one heck of a lot about the things that matter. I was in college, working summers, eventually bound for a doctorate in law -- and they left me in the dust when it came to knowledge of current politics.
[At that--Stupid White Men is a lot better than Moore's latest performances, which consist of invoking a National Geographic poll to the effect that most young Americans couldn't locate Iraq on a map, and using that to flatter by comparison whatever overseas audience he is currently sucking up to, e.g., from one of his speeches in Britain, "the dumbest Brit here is smarter than the smartest American." Personally, I agree that the dumbing-down of history and geography is deplorable, but it is not purely an American phenomenon. The same survey found that
"Young adults worldwide are not markedly more literate about geography than the Americans. On average, fewer than 25 percent of young people worldwide could locate Israel on the map. Only about 20 percent could identify hotspots like Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. Of all the young adults in the survey, only about one-third in Germany, Sweden and Japan, could name four countries that officially acknowledge having nuclear weapons. In the rest of the countries that number dropped to less than a quarter. In France 24 percent did not know that that their own country was a nuclear nation." Source
In fact:
89% of Canadians couldn't locate Iraq on a map, a higher "ignorance rate" than that of the United States.
81% of Canadians couldn't locate Israel on a map
5% of Canadians couldn't locate Canada on a map
90% of Britons couldn't locate Iraq on a map, again a worse figure than that of the US
21% of Britons couldn't locate the USA on a map
7% of Britons couldn't locate the England on a map
Swedes scored highest in the poll -- but even there 70% couldn't find Iraq. Source.
And possibly the world record on geographical foulups? The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has a granite map of North America on the floor of its lobby. A few minor problems: it shows shows Vancouver Island as a penninsula, and shows no trace of the Queen Charlotte Islands. In compensation for that loss, it gives Canada the state of Alaska. As the Ottawa Citizen reported,
This isn't the first time a bold new geography has been created for the North American continent. In July, the inaugural issue of the Canadian Tourism Commission's magazine, PureCanada, contained a map that eliminated Prince Edward Island, Labrador, Halifax and Fredericton.
And just last month, Ottawa International Airport's new terminal was opened, and a map in the baggage area located Atlanta in the middle of Alabama, Chicago in Wisconsin and Washington, D.C., in Virginia. Perhaps the map was meant to indicate where your luggage would end up. You know, if you fly to Atlanta, you'll have to pick up your bags in Alabama, and so on.
A thought on this latest development in the tale of Moore: Moore has merely discovered how to market himself on an international level. Many people are motivated by a drive to look down upon others, to feel that they are not a loser because others, especially apparent "winners," are the real losers. In the US, Moore panders to a following by ridiculing others and showing that he by extension his followers are not like them. Internationally, he simply substitutes the US as a whole for the others.]
Nader did the Democrats a favor, since his candidacy caused a tie in the Senate.
"If you're going to blame Nader for taking votes from Gore in Florida, then you must also credit him for bringing thousands of new voters to the polls who made the different for Cantwell, thus allowing the Democrats to force a 50-50 tie in the Senate." (Stupid White Men, p. 239).
Some favor.
There is no economic downturn.
Moore argues there is no real economic downturn. Yes, profits are down in comparison to preceding years, but that's only because the previous years were boom years and now the economy is now (i.e., 2001) returning to normal.
"Part of the reason you're hearing so much about how bad the economy is these days is that many of those getting the pink slips are friends and family of those reporting the bad news. . . . There is no downturn." (Stupid White Men, p. 55).
Glad to know it. So it is written in the Gospel According to Moore, so it mut be.
Moore's predictive abilities.
Okay, let's see whether Mike hacks it as a pundit. His predictions:
Kim Jong II of North Korea is really okay and about to straighten out.
Moore notes that North Korean leader Kim Jong II "has a huge army, and is even suspected of having an atomic bomb. In the past two years, though, Kim Jong II has showed signs of a change of heart, signs that he's emerging from the shadows." (Stupid White Men, p. 192).
Kim Jong of course responded by announcing plans to begin refining plutonium in order to make North Korea the first mental ward with nuclear capabilities.
Invest in Enron!
"Thanks in part to the California energy crisis, Enron has quickly grown into a $100 billion company." (Stupid White Men, p. 24).
It is not known whether Moore's endorsement played a role in Enron's economic collapse and bankruptcy.
And Halliburton!
"When nominated for the vice presidency, Cheney hemmed and hawed about divesting himself of his Halliburton stock. I guess he knew that good times were yet to come." (Stupid White Men, p. 17).
Upon reading this chapter, of course, intelligent readers ditched their Halliburton shares.
As Alan Wolfe noted in New Republic,
"It is beneath Moore, of course, to point out that Cheney did in fact divest himself of the stock--or that Halliburton, which was selling for roughly $40 per share in the fall of 2000, is now worth less than $20."
[Actually, the fad now is to criticize Cheney for having divested himself as he was asked to do.... From MSNBC:
"The developments at Halliburton since Cheney's departure leave two possibilities: Either the vice president did not know of the magnitude of problems at the oilfield services company he ran for five years, or he sold his shares in August 2000 knowing the company was likely headed for a fall."]
Okay, so Moore doesn't understand the election laws, politics, the economy, or anything else that he's writing about. Let's get down to what he considers serious.
To Moore, it was all just a big conspiracy.
"The coup began long before the shennanigans on Election Day 2000. In the summer of 1999 Katherine Harris, an Honorary Stupid White Man who was both George W. Bush's presidential cochairwoman and the Florida secretary of state in charge of elections, paid $4 million to Database Technologies to go through Florida's voter rolls and remove anybody "suspected" of being a felon. She did so with the blessing of the governor of Florida, George W.'s brother Jeb Bush....." (Stupid White Men, p. 3)
"Harris and Bush knew that removing the names of ex felons from the voting rolls would keep thousands of black citizens out of the voting booth." (Id., p. 4).
As always with Moore, the truth is a bit more complex. And inconsistent with his story. In 1997, the Miami mayorial race had set something of a local record for voting scandals, due to votes being cast by felons (and some folks who were barred from voting because they were, well, dead.). The Miami Herald led the outcry with an investigation that won a Pulitzer:
More than 100 convicted felons -- muggers and con artists, drug traffickers and a few killers -- voted in the Miami election last November even though they had lost their right to vote. A flasher voted. He fatally beat his cellmate. A pot-smoking jailer voted. He helped two inmates escape. A convicted ex-Miami detective voted. He covered up the murder of a drug dealer. And a homeless, crack-addicted thief voted. His voting address: the apartment next to the place he burglarized.
The Herald counted 105 ineligible felon ballots in last November's mayoral election. But a three-week Herald study reveals no evidence that any candidate recruited the ex-convict vote.
The only thing that keeps felons from voting in any election is an honor system. And when it comes to weeding felons from the registration books, the system simply doesn't work.
The Panama City News Herald added that "The names of more than 50,000 felons fill the rolls of Florida's registered voters. And the names of nearly 18,000 dead people join them." A court ultimately invalidated the election on grounds of voter fraud.
The matter stirred the Florida Legislature -- not Jeb Bush, not Ms. Harris -- to appropriate $4 million in order to cleanse the voting rosters.
Moore continues:
"The law states that ex-felons cannot vote in Florida. And sadly (although I'm confident that Florida's justice system was always unimpeachably fair) that means that 31 percent of all black men in Florida are prohibitted from voting because they have a felony on their record." (Stupid White Men, p.4).
Thirty-one percent of black males in Florida have been found guilty of felonies? Nearly one out of three, and that's counting in 19 year olds who have hardly had a chance at adult crime, octagenarians who have neither inclination nor ability, the handicapped?
Greg Pelast, who was a major critic of the efforts to identify ex-felons, put the numbers on the purge list (which Moore claims was far too broad) at less than a tenth of the number Moore gives: "Together the lists comprised nearly 1 percent of Florida's electorate and nearly 3 percent of its African-American voters." (To be precise, I should say a under fifth of Moore's figure, since Pelast's figures relate to all blacks, and Moore's to males only, and most convicted felons are males.)
Moore then cites examples of persons mistakenly identified as felons and thus not permitted to vote. No doubt that happened. Any firearms owner is familiar with similar horror stories arising under the Brady Act background check. Honest people whose names and birthdates are close to that of a felon (or a felon's alias), who wind up forced to prove that they are not that person.
The important thing to note is that Florida sent notices to voters on the lists, allowing them plenty of time in which to contest the claim that they were a felon. Eight thousand voters did so, and were restored to the voting rosters in time to cast their votes.
Moore goes on to note that convicted felons strongly tend to vote Democratic (hmmm... a lesson here?) and then argues that if the mistakenly listed non-felons had been allowed to vote, they would have given Gore the votes he needed to win. I guess logic was not Mike's strong suit. All we know, if he is correct, is that real felons vote Demo. How honest-people-whose-names-got-confused with-those-of felons vote is unknown. Most likely they would have voted like honest people who have the luck not to share a name and birthdate with a felon -- that is to say, split almost perfectly between Gore and Bush. Not to mention that some predominantly Democratic counties ignored the lists entirely and let everyone Do Their Bit For Democracy :
"At least 39 felons -- mostly Democrats -- illegally cast absentee ballots in Broward and Miami-Dade counties in the Nov. 7 elections, according to a Herald analysis of absentee votes in those counties. . . . if felons cast illegal votes in the same percentages at the polls it could amount to more than 470 illegal ballots locally and more than 2,000 statewide." Source
From there, Moore switches to the present Cabinet--"Who's Who in the Coup." I don't hang out with most of those folks (I left off frequenting the Capitol Hill Club after finding out that Ashcroft is a mean drunk), and really haven't the time to look up all of Moore's claims. But there was one case of special interest to me: Secretary of Interior Gale Norton. Moore treats her as an antienviromentalist pure and simple. Why, she "helped the State of Alaska challenge an Interior Department fisheries law. She has declared the Endangered Species Act unconstitutional and written legal opinions against the National Environmental Protection Act." (Stupid White Men, p. 21).
I can forgive Moore his lack of grasp of legal matters -- Interior doesn't enact fisheries laws, Congress does, so presumably the challenge was to some regulatory application of them, challenging whether it complied with the statute. (I notice Moore doesn't mention who won that argument). It would make little sense to write a "legal opinion against" a statute. (Come to think of it, the rule must have been pretty narrow. NOAA, in Commerce rather than Interior, has jurisdiction of fishing on the open seas, i.e., most commercial fishing.)
I went back to Moore's sources, which he cites at the end of his book, and sought to find what these meant, and when Ms. Norton had ever "declared the Endangered Species Act unconstitutional." Neither source supported Moore's claim. Okay.....
I had a personal interest in checking out this one. I used to work as an attorney/advisory (i.e., a grunt careerist, not a political appointment) at Interior Department. Specifically, the Conservation and Wildlife Division, which enforced the Endangered Species Act. For several years my boss was .... Gale Norton. If she had any compunction about enforcement of the ESA, as we called it, it never came to my attention. (Moore somehow manages to forget that after she left, she was elected Attorney General of Colorado. You'd think he remember a detail like that.)
Public Education
Chapter Five begins with "Do you feel like you live in a nation of idiots?"
(The chapter title is a rather obvious depiction of the central Moore theme. By buying his works and following him, you prove your superiority to others.)
The irony gets a bit thick when Moore turns to the subject of education. He recites various criticisms of present education and asks
"Considering the face-slapping that society gives our teachers on a daily basis, is it any wonder that so few choose the profession?" (Stupid White Men, p. 102).
Mike seems to forget that he himself spent most of the chapter complaining about teachers and teaching. "My dislike of school started somewhere around the second month of first grade." (Id., p. 95). "For the next twelve years I sat in class, did my work, and remained constantly preoccupied, looking for a way to bust out." (Id., p. 96). "High school is, we all know, some kind of sick, sadistic punishment of kids by adults. . . ." (Id, p. 97). "[T]hose running the public high school had one simple mission: 'hunt these little pricks down like dogs, then cage them until we can either break their will or ship them off to the glue factory.'" (Id., p. 97). We can be glad that Moore never gives teachers a verbal face-slapping!
Moore gets rather preachy when he tells us what our attitude should be:
"Teachers, thank you for devoting your life to my child. Is there ANYTHING I can do to help? I am here for you. Why? Because you are helping my child -- MY BABY -- learn and grow. . . . You are, thus, one of the most important people in my world." (Stupid White Men, p. 101).
Rather strange, since on the previous two pages Moore outlined his own approach. After the constitutional amendment passed lowering the voting age to 18, he ran for the school board on a platform of firing the principal and assistant principal of his high school, and won. Within months, both resigned. [Moore may actually feel a twinge of guilt for once, noting that the principal died, and had often been kind to him and other kids]. He advises students to "Threaten lawsuits -- school administrators hate to hear that word. Just remember, there's no greater satisfaction than seeing the look on the principal's face when you have the upper hand. Use it." (Stupid White Men, pp. 117-18). Hmmm... "Teacher, is there anything I can do to help?" seems to translate to "see you in court, jackass!" in Moore's world.
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