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Shut up and play. They used to have T-shirts in sports that said as much. They need to hand out some to the Heat as they make this final push to the mountaintop.
And let's start with two of the biggest three players on the team.
If that's harsh, the stakes, the NBA Finals, demand it. Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh have continued their running theme of self-sacrifice in delivering the team to LeBron James and having to adjust their games accordingly.
"Not everyone could do what I did," Wade said.
"I've had to change my game completely," Bosh said.
Everyone respects and appreciates Wade and Bosh, for who they are, for what they've done.
And, yes, everyone has seen how this union can be difficult, as all matches of stars can be. Look at the Beatles. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Boston's Big Three.
And their thoughts keep showing it.
"We've got to get everyone involved," Wade said.
"I never thought I'd be shooting 3-pointers," Bosh said.
The hours leading into Game 2 of the NBA Finals aren't the time to wear this like an amulet to ward off the evil spirits of unsavory thoughts and unwanted media questions. They're the time to show everyone why they sacrificed, to make another push to a title.
Take Wade. The hard truth is the bar has been so lowered that when he scored 21 points in Game 7 against Indiana there was a re-coronation of him, and his 17 points in Game 1 against San Antonio suggested he'd done his part.
Yes, his knee hurts. No doubt. It hurts in a manner that affects his game and his mind. But on Saturday LeBron said he can tell when Wade is, "most in tune with the game — I can see it on his face."
He added: "I don't know if it's maybe his knee or maybe frustrated at times or maybe he's just not in the rhythm. But I can see it on his face when he's there. That's what I told him, even if sometimes you're not in the rhythm, I need to see your face that you're in tune and you're ready for the next possession and ready to move on from whatever is going on."
This isn't the time of year to check out for stretches. And, if he's honest, Wade must be frustrated with himself for not adjusting his game to age as much as LeBron's appearance. He hasn't improved his shooting, for instance.
That's shown by his 25.8 percent shooting on 3-pointers during the regular season. That's the lowest for him in seven years, back when he was a rising, young star with springs in his legs.
So at a time he should have prepared for ways to adjust to a weakening body, experienced mind and opponents not fearing his rim-seeking missile of a game, he doesn't have the outside shot.
Others do. LeBron, for instance, worked on his outside shot, especially taking advantage of Ray Allen being on the team this year. The result was LeBron's career-high 40.6 percent this year on 3-point shots.
Wade? He needs to maximize what he has. Smarts. Experience. And still enough athleticism to milk to win games.
Then there's Chris Bosh. He is the most interesting of the Big Three, a thinker, a reader, a man who "appreciates balance in my life," as he said in talking to the media Friday. "For example, right now I'm with a lot of people. Later, I'll take time to be alone."
Who doesn't appreciate someone with good thoughts? Who doesn't respect how he stayed above some of the cheap shots he's taken, right from the start of this era, about how he didn't fit and wasn't talented.
But sometimes he can think too much. Like now. Today isn't the time for philosophy. It's a time of action, and for the Heat that means Bosh needs to start remembering who he is.
This isn't a slap at the missed 3-point shot that drew such focus at the end of Game 1. He was wide open. He entered that game as the third-best 3-point shooter on the team in the playoffs at 48.5 percent. So quit playing the result.
The problem is Bosh has turned himself into only a jump shooter of late.
Oh, there was Game 7 against Indiana when he drove the ball hard to the basket. He had trouble finishing. But the point is that bore fruit as Indiana's mountain, Roy Hibbert, eventually got into foul trouble.
Balance, right? Isn't that what Bosh embraces. Inside. Outside. That's his game. And rebounding. There's some truth to the fact he's outside on offense and can't get as many offensive rebounds.
The full truth is there are defensive rebounds, too. LeBron had 18 rebounds in Game 1. Bosh had five. Do you think that contributed to LeBron tiring in the fourth quarter to the point he asked out?
Bosh has double-figure rebounds in just two of 17 playoff games. He has five or less in 10 of them. He needs more. They all need to do more and think of their situation less.
There's no reason to get carried away with one loss. But two? To San Antonio?
This, again, is why the Heat were formed. It's why they've sacrificed. Time to shut up and play.


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Sold by McDonalds as part of a Happy Meal, this fizzy drink claims to be one of your five-a-day portions of fruit and vegetables. How so? This is because it contains a mixture of grape, raspberry and lemon fruit juice concentrate blended with fizzy water and some 'natural' preservatives.
Complaints from the TV commercial sparked an investigation into the drink by the Advertising Standards watchdog but it ruled the five-a-day benefits still remain in the drink, even considering the 250ml serving contains approximately 6 teaspoons of sugar.
It's pretty clear that "Frutizz" is not going to do anything beneficial for your health (you can see this by the picture) but are the rules dictating what can be and what can't be classed as 1 of your 5-a-day a bit too relaxed, therefore allowing foods onto the market claiming to benefit health with little or no nutritional content?
Let's have a look at this a bit further…
Fruit juice is often marketed as 1 of your 5-a-day but with all the sugar in it (whether added or not) and most of the goodness coming from the pulp that is missing, chances are this is not a good way to get your quota. In fact a study has indicated an increase risk associated with diabetes with fruit juice consumption (1). This again is part to do with the lack of fibre, other phytochemicals, the sugar load and also how rapidly it is absorbed. So there is clear evidence that fruit juice can affect your health and not in a good way, yet it is marketed to be beneficial.
So how is the best way to get your 5-a-day?
The World Health Organisation guidance suggests adults consume 400g of fruit and vegetable a day. Split this into 5 portions we get each portion needing to be 80g.
Fruit: Even fruit itself contains sugar. This is in the form of fruit sugar called Fructose. Limit your consumption of fruit a day to 2 portions and opt for lower sugar fruits such as blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, melon.
Vegetables: 3 portions of your allowance should be in the form of vegetables. The best vegetables to consume are those grown above the ground. Broccoli, Spinach, Kale, Cauliflower are some examples.
Juices: If you are going to have a juice, it is best to make your own with a juicer. You can add all different types of mixes of fruit and vegetables and plenty of recipes online. If you are going to have a fruit juice from a carton, mix it with water to lower the sugar content.
Variety is key so try out different fruits and vegetables to ensure you are getting a range of vitamins and minerals. Eat a rainbow.
Typical day's meal plan to maximise your fruit and vegetable intake:
Breakfast: Porridge with blueberries and raspberries
Lunch: Grilled Chicken Salad with lettuce tomato, cucumber and avocado
Dinner: Spaghetti Bolognese with peppers, corn and tomato
Snack: Freshly juiced kiwi, apple, strawberry & spinach juice with a handful of almonds.
(1)Bazzano, L, Li, T, Joshipura K, Hu F (2008) Intake of Fruit, Vegetables, and Fruit Juices and Risk of Diabetes in Women. Diabetes Care, 31: 7, p1311-1317.

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The Truth-O-Meter and the 2013-15 state budget
Gov. Scott Walker has said he will sign the 2013-15 state budget into law on June 30, 2013.
The two-year tax-and-spending plan takes effect the next day.
We've covered the budget terrain with a number of Truth-O-Meter items.
Here's a roundup of claims on school vouchers, bail bonds, tax cuts and more.


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Statement From Governor Rick Scott Regarding Efforts To Help Achieve Student Success
Governor Rick Scott today released the following statement regarding the State Board of Education's efforts to close the achievement gap between Florida's students:
"The goal of our education system is to prepare students in Florida for success in college and careers. In order to ensure that all of our students are making progress toward ultimate success in college and careers, we have to measure student achievement and ensure the highest level of accountability.
"When looking at those measurements, an achievement gap still exists between different groups of students in our state. Such a gap is unacceptable. The actions taken last week by the State Board of Education in adopting their strategic plan did not clearly articulate our shared commitment to fully close that achievement gap for all students, regardless of race, geography, gender or other circumstance.
"We will only have accomplished our goal when every student is performing at the highest level and ready for success in college and careers. The standards set by the State Board must clearly and sincerely acknowledge that all students are capable of performing at grade level regardless of their race or background and that our ultimate goal is to ensure there is no achievement gap in Florida's education system.
"With this in mind, I would ask the board to more completely incorporate this recognition into its strategic plan so that we can focus our efforts on helping every student to achieve the highest level of success."


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TV style gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are launching tomorrow an Israeli version of What Not To Wear. Admittedly, I am anxiously waiting to see how the two will brilliantly make over the natives in an inevitable collision course between The Holy Land and Britannia. I was less than happy, nevertheless, to find out the name of the television series will be 'Trinny and Susannah do Israel' ('Trinny ve Susannah osot et Israel').
That's right, Channel 10's executives went with the Debbie Does Dallas reference, 'coz even independent women who have jobs are nothing more than whores, a couple of dressed-up porn stars on the tube.


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Experience Emiquon is a cooperative effort between Dickson Mounds Museum, The Nature Conservancy, UIS Therkildsen Field Station, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Illinois Natural History Survey. This site was created to provide information on the restoration of the Emiquon Nature Preserve and the Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge, and as a place to post information on public events and opportunities relating to Emiquon.
Featured Events
- Saturday, January 25, 2020 - 10:00am - 3:00pmPosted By:Dickson Mounds Museum
- Sunday, January 26, 2020 - 1:00pm - 3:00pmPosted By:Dickson Mounds Museum
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Filming is under way for a presentation on Emiquon to appear in the Dickson Mounds Emiquon Exhibit gallery, presently in the planning stages. Shown below is a short clip of the video, produced by WTVP, Peoria Public Television.
Also check out the action in the video below, captured by Jane Garrison Ward of the February 2011 snow geese migration through Emiquon.


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Bella has asked for contributions on her blog from other Singlutionaries and I encourage you to check out her post and her blog. She asked the following questions (please add your own to the comments):
Below is my contribution to Bella's project:
- Do you have a favorite answer to the question, "Why are you single?"
- Have you addressed other people's false assumptions of what your single life is like? Which approaches have worked best?
- Have you found any successful ways of dealing with singlism in the workplace? For example, if you have been asked to cover more than your share of holidays or overtime or travel, have you handled those experiences in ways that resulted in positive changes?
- Have you ever let a business know that their advertisements or practices were dismissive of singles or unfair to them?
- Have you ever written a letter to an editor, author, reporter, social scientist, or anyone else pointing out an act of singlism and explaining what is wrong with it? (Share your letter, if you are willing, and let us know if it was ever published or acknowledged.)
- Have you ever stood up to a speaker at a public event and challenged their singlism? (Positive stories are welcome, too. For example, have you ever publicly thanked a speaker for acknowledging the real stories of singles' lives rather than perpetuating already-debunked myths?)
- Do you write an enlightened blog about singles or maintain a website or run an organization or give talks or workshops that you would like more people to know about? If so, drop all modesty and briefly explain what's so great about what you are doing. (Please, no dating stuff.) I maintain a list of blogs and other resources at my website, but I'll probably only include in the book ones from people who tell me they'd like to be included and who offer their own description of what they are doing. I think it is important to have part of the book written in other people's voices.
- Have you held political leaders (or other people in power) to account for their singlism or thanked them for their actions and policies that are fair to single people? Have you explained to any of them the kinds of policies and practices that would be fair to single people (without being unfair to anyone else)?
- Have you knocked on doors, handed out pamphlets, given to advocacy groups (name your favorites), volunteered your time, or done anything else to raise consciousness or stamp out singlism?
Fighting the good fight against any kind of prejudice happens on two fronts: There are changes in policy and there are changes in culture. My mixed race parents were married a couple years after the miscegenation laws were formally taken off the books in California. However, mixed race marriage had steadily gained cultural acceptance long before the law changed. The same could be said for singlism: We change policies as fast as we change culture and we change culture through changing laws. I've made a conscious decision to use my blog, Singlutionary, to work on changing the cultural perceptions and acceptance around being single. It takes many voices to make a shift like this and I am proud to be one of them.
My blog, Singlutionary, is about my life: I have been single for all 30 years of it save a few months here and there. My longest relationship has been with my car. I own a house, have been driving the same car for 7 years (which I maintain myself). I also have maintained friendships from Kindergarten even before the advent of facebook. I have three roommates, a dog, three chickens and a garden. I organize family reunions and camping trips and meetup groups. I'm a failed actor turned academic.
So what is so great about all that? I do it single. I navigate this world not with one partner but with a community of friends, co-workers, roommates and neighbors. My life is full and valid and equally deserving of praise and presents as is the 25 year old married couple who just bought a house in a great school district. So when my cousin prods into my dating life and desperately tries to encourage me to desperately try harder to find a partner so that I can be just like her, well, I write about it. I write about all the comforts and discomforts of being single because I wasn't always so comfortable with it. When I began writing the blog it was during a time when all my single friends would come to me for advice, not realizing that I felt broken and wrong for always being single. I was their single hero yet I felt like I had completely ruined my life without even realizing it. I was 27 and had just broken up with a man who I thought I would marry. To be honest, I didn't even really like him. But I wanted to prove to my family that I was not a failure. I wanted to do something that would validate me in the eyes of the world -- that would position me as a fully formed woman and not a girl lost in a sea of indecision. I didn't realize that the sea of indecision was merely a subconscious acceptance of our culture's concept that a person doesn't really "grow up" until they "settle down". I was waiting to commit to myself because I thought I had to commit to someone else first.
There are so many states of being single. There are so many experiences. Some people, like me, are single for long periods of time and some people marry their high school sweetheart and are not single until much later in life. Singleness in not a space of lacking: It is a space of wonder and excitement and peace. It is also a state of frustration, confusion and sadness. Being single is not better or worse than being coupled. But it is where I am and how I live my life and right now, I am going to rock the Singlution.
That is what Singlutionary is all about.


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Simply put, the issue is this. Many institutional websites that contain old documents and photographs apparently claim a copyright in the web pages and make readers assume a de facto copyright interest in the documents or photographs. I hesitate to give concrete examples because I do not want to get into a situation where the entity claiming the copyright either disputes my observation or makes an infringement claim against me because I copied their web page.
If you haven't noticed, check the bottom of the page of some of the more popular online record databases and notice that the pages have a copyright notice. In some of the databases, the claim appears on every page, including pages where abstracts or summaries of the data appears, but is not present on the pages with actual images of old documents.
For the purposes of this discussion I make several assumptions. First, that the documents shown on the website are clearly not subject to anyone's copyright claim. For example, they are documents from the 1800s in the U.S. Second, that the pages in the website with the scanned images of old documents, claims a copyright to their own original work. In extreme cases, I have seen collections of old photographs that have been digitally watermarked before being loaded online with an ownership or copyright claim from the website owner. I can only assume that some where, some attorney has told these folks that they can claim ownership of public domain documents by putting their own copyright notice on the document. That is simply false.
If anyone cares, I can cite statutory and case law to the effect that an entity cannot create a copyright interest in a public domain document merely by making a copy and claiming a copyright in the copy. Additionally, no entity can assume a copyright merely because they have the original public domain document in their possession or claim ownership of the document. Copyright status is not conferred by mere ownership. For example, a book can be purchased from a book store, but your ownership of the book in no way changes the copyright ownership interest of the author or whomever.
In fact, I will go so far as to say that it is morally reprehensible and dishonest to claim a copyright interest in a public domain document, especially if there is no possible dispute that the document is really in the public domain. I might mention here that it is also as morally reprehensible and dishonest to steal someone's copyrighted work and publish it as your own. Both situations involve misrepresentation of the copyright state of the original work.
Here is one concrete example. Here is a quote from the book Tanner, George C. William Tanner of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and His Descendants. [Minneapolis, Minn.]: Pub. by the author, 1905.
It is said that the Tanner name in England dates from the time of William the Conqueror. The name appears in history in the time of Edward the Third (1312-1377). Their estates lay in the county of Corn- wall; and later, the name appears in other parts of England, Wales and Ireland. At this date it is difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain to what branch of the Tanners in England the American Tanners belong. It is the opinion of the writer that they are English, and that the Tanners of Ireland and Wales are also of English origin. There are many Tanners in America from Switzerland. But it may be that these are also of English ancestry, having left England, as did many others, on account of religious and political troubles. One, at least, of the Tanners in the New York regiments in the Revolution was of Dutch or German ancestry. Amid this uncertainty, the only claim which will be made here is, that the Tanners are an old and respectable English family, with here and there an honored name, among which is that of Bishop Thomas Tanner, of the Diocese of St. David's in Wales, archeologist and writer, whose contributions are to be found in the Bod- leian library at Oxford, England.
This book was published in the U.S. in 1905 and cannot be subject to a copyright claim. But what about this blog post? Is it copyrighted? The simple answer is yes. Is the above quote subject to my claim of copyright simply because I included it in my copyrighted document? The answer is no. The key here is that both copyrighted and uncopyrighted material can appear on the same page at the same time.
This subject now begins to get complicated. Perhaps I will stop for a while and pick this up later.


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Paperback, 144 pages
Released: July 2008
The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political organization seriously. Amin offers provocative analysis of contemporary resistance to neoliberalism,while boldly calling for a new global movement, "an internationalism of peoples," to challenge the current order and fashion a better world.
Throughout the last century, great revolutions, the socialist and communist internationals, and national liberation movements presented a serious challenge to global capital. Neoliberalism and the U.S. drive for military hegemony have given birth to new political and social movements and new attempts at international organization, such as the World Social Forum. Amin maps these oppositional formations, new and old, critically assessing their potential and limitations for the revolutionary project today.
The World We Wish to See draws a distinction between "political cultures of conflict" and "political cultures of consensus." Amin explains that effective opposition must be based in a "convergence in diversity" of the world's oppressed and exploited—workers, students, peasants and other opponents of the neoliberal order. What is required today is a new "international" with an open and flexible organizational structure to coordinate the work of oppositional movements around the globe. Included in this volume is the full text of the Bamako Appeal, described as a Communist Manifesto for our age, and Amin's provocative new essay "Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism." Amin's masterful analysis offers new ground for realizing the world we wish to see.
Amin's global intellectual reach enables him to deal with a wide variety of issues… with magnificent ease and simplicity.
- The Internationalism of Peoples in the Twentieth Century
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EARLIER this year, a column by a Harvard undergraduate named Sandra Y. L. Korn briefly achieved escape velocity from the Ivy League bubble, thanks to its daring view of how universities should approach academic freedom.
Korn proposed that such freedom was dated and destructive, and that a doctrine of "academic justice" should prevail instead. No more, she wrote, should Harvard permit its faculty to engage in "research promoting or justifying oppression" or produce work tainted by "racism, sexism, and heterosexism." Instead, academic culture should conform to left-wing ideas of the good, beautiful and true, and decline as a matter of principle "to put up with research that counters our goals."
No higher-up at Harvard endorsed her argument, of course. But its honesty of purpose made an instructive contrast to the institutional statements put out in the immediate aftermath of two recent controversies — the resignation of the Mozilla Foundation's C.E.O., Brendan Eich, and the withdrawal, by Brandeis University, of the honorary degree it had promised to the human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
In both cases, Mozilla and Brandeis, there was a striking difference between the clarity of what had actually happened and the evasiveness of the official responses to the events. Eich stepped down rather than recant his past support for the view that one man and one woman makes a marriage; Hirsi Ali's invitation was withdrawn because of her sweeping criticisms of Islamic culture. But neither the phrase "marriage" nor the word "Islam" appeared in the initial statements Mozilla and Brandeis released.
Instead, the Mozilla statement rambled in the language of inclusion: "Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness. ... Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions. ..."
The statement on Hirsi Ali was slightly more direct, saying that "her past statements ... are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values." But it never specified what those statements or those values might be — and then it fell back, too, on pieties about diversity: "In the spirit of free expression that has defined Brandeis University throughout its history, Ms. Hirsi Ali is welcome to join us on campus in the future to engage in a dialogue about these important issues."
What both cases illustrate, with their fuzzy rhetoric masking ideological pressure, is a serious moral defect at the heart of elite culture in America.
The defect, crucially, is not this culture's bias against social conservatives, or its discomfort with stinging attacks on non-Western religions. Rather, it's the refusal to admit — to others, and to itself — that these biases fundamentally trump the commitment to "free expression" or "diversity" affirmed in mission statements and news releases.
This refusal, this self-deception, means that we have far too many powerful communities (corporate, academic, journalistic) that are simultaneously dogmatic and dishonest about it — that promise diversity but only as the left defines it, that fill their ranks with ideologues and then claim to stand athwart bias and misinformation, that speak the language of pluralism while presiding over communities that resemble the beau ideal of Sandra Y. L. Korn.
Harvard itself is a perfect example of this pattern: As Patrick Deneen of Notre Dame pointed out when the column was making waves, Korn could only come up with one contemporary example of a Harvardian voice that ought to be silenced — "a single conservative octogenarian," the political philosophy professor Harvey Mansfield. Her call for censorship, Deneen concluded, "is at this point almost wholly unnecessary, since there are nearly no conservatives to be found at Harvard."
I am (or try to be) a partisan of pluralism, which requires respecting Mozilla's right to have a C.E.O. whose politics fit the climate of Silicon Valley, and Brandeis's right to rescind degrees as it sees fit, and Harvard's freedom to be essentially a two-worldview community, with a campus shared uneasily by progressives and corporate neoliberals, and a small corner reserved for token reactionary cranks.
But this respect is difficult to maintain when these institutions will not admit that this is what is going on. Instead, we have the pretense of universality — the insistence that the post-Eich Mozilla is open to all ideas, the invocations of the "spirit of free expression" from a school that's kicking a controversial speaker off the stage.
And with the pretense, increasingly, comes a dismissive attitude toward those institutions — mostly religious — that do acknowledge their own dogmas and commitments, and ask for the freedom to embody them and live them out.
It would be a far, far better thing if Harvard and Brandeis and Mozilla would simply say, explicitly, that they are as ideologically progressive as Notre Dame is Catholic or B. Y.U. is Mormon or Chick-fil-A is evangelical, and that they intend to run their institution according to those lights.
I can live with the progressivism. It's the lying that gets toxic.


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- Amanda
This past Christmas, "Santa" brought my 3-1/2-year-old twins a battery-operated blender (apparently fashioned by his elves at Amazon.com). Bright yellow with a plastic "blade," it whirred along excitedly when I added some dried beans to the container – whap! whap! whap! And for a few days this entertained my kids with occasional bursts of loud fun (and beans ending up in the strangest places.)
About a week ago, I decided it was time to take the dried-bean training wheels off the blender and put it to work in the kitchen: it was time for milkshakes! We set the blender on the floor. I pulled out some salted caramel ice cream I had in the freezer, some milk and some breakable Illy espresso cups I'd had for years thinking they'd be perfect for when we had children (until I actually had children, saw how often their cups plunged to the floor, and decided to let the cups sit in the cabinet for a few more years).
Together Walker, Addie and I scooped the ice cream, poured the milk, put on the lid, and then turned on the little plastic blender-that-could. It chugged and struggled and whirred and in a few moments the lumps of ice cream began to slowly unmoor from the sides of the container. Without a blade, the "blade" swished the ice cream until it broke down and the blender filled up with slushy foam. It never occurred to me that you could make a milkshake without intensely blending the ingredients. But it turns out that all you really need to do is emulsify the milk and ice cream until they achieve a texture that's not quite milky and not quite solid but "ploppy" as I explained to my kids. We watched the mixture spin and checked the ploppiness factor and when it was just right, poured the milkshake into the thimble-sized cups. My kids brought the cups to their lips and didn't pause until they were emptied.
The milkshakes have since become a nightly ritual (which means, for me, a 7 pm milkshake aperitif has replaced the Lillet or scotch -- but things could be worse). When we ran out of caramel ice cream we made vanilla shakes, flavored with a few spoonfuls of chestnut spread. And when we ran out of that we whipped up a banana and nutmeg frappe (with milk and ice rather than ice cream). Walker and Addie have begun to discuss the ingredients and wonder about the process. And how lucky for them that a world of lassis, smoothies and floats still lies ahead.
There is no need for a recipe for milkshakes. All you do is add 1 large scoop of ice cream per person. Drop the scoops into the blender and add enough milk to almost cover the scoops. Turn on the blender -– bbrrrrrrrrr! Done!
Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Recipe adapted from Nicole Kaplan at Eleven Madison Park in New York City; it originally appeared in the New York Times on October 8, 2006 in an article by Christine Muhlke.
Makes about 1 quart
1. Place 3/4 cup sugar and the corn syrup in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Do not stir. Cook over medium-high heat to a dark caramel, swirling as it begins to brown to distribute the sugar. Deglaze with the cream; then slowly add the milk. The caramel will harden. Bring to a boil, then simmer, stirring, just until the caramel has dissolved.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the remaining sugar, yolks and fleur de sel. Whisk a little caramel cream into the egg mixture to temper, pour the egg mixture into the remaining caramel cream and mix. Strain the mixture through a fine-meshed sieve. Cool completely, preferably overnight, then freeze in an ice-cream maker.
3. Sprinkle with fleur de sel before serving.
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In "Headlines That Write Themselves" news, Twisted Sister singer and former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Dee Snider has come out against Paul Ryan's use of his classic hit "We're Not Gonna Take It." The Republican vice-presidential hopeful has apparently been using the song during his campaign appearances, no doubt because the song's "If it's too loud, you're too old!" sentiment rings so true with geriatric G.O.P. voters. Anyway, here's Snider's statement:
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Medicaid's Impact in North Carolina Helping People with Serious Health Care Needs
Publication Date: September 2011
Publisher(s): Families USA
Author(s): Families USA
Topic: Health (Health care financing)
Keywords: Medicaid; diseases
Coverage: North Carolina
This report examines how vital Medicaid is for residents with cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease, or heart disease or stroke. For these people, Medicaid can be the difference between life and death, and program cuts would put them at risk. Released in partnership with three other groups.


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Hello, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend, however you may have spent it. Mark and I had a great time at our friends' place yesterday, noshing on steak, guzzling beer-itas (their surprisingly good beer/tequila/limeade concoction) and watching the fireworks display by the beach!
Speaking of seafood, I have a very fun and simple shrimp dish for you today. I have been seriously craving some seafood in my diet lately, because sometimes it seems like Mark and I are on a cycle of chicken-pork-beef-repeat every week. Though it can be pricey (keep a lookout for deals!), buying a large bag of frozen raw shrimp goes a long way, and even though frozen, the shrimp is still very tender and tasty once cooked. I have more than enough left over for another recipe, plus maybe one more.
Ree served her stir fry without any bread, rice or pasta, which I thought was a very healthy option, but I served mine up with a side of garlic bread. A little bread was just the right compliment to this stellar dish, and each flavor truly shined, from the sweet corn and juicy tomatoes, to the fresh zucchini, parsley and succulent little bites of shrimp. Next time, I think I'll add a little lemon juice to the pan to amp up the crisp, clean flavor even more. This stir fry also made for great leftovers, so it's one you can keep enjoying again and again.
Whether serving it as an easy, quick weeknight meal or a savory summer meal for guests, you are sure to love this one as much as I, and Ree's followers, did!
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Spinach and Feta Stuffed Chicken Breasts Recipe
Chicken cutlets stuffed with spinach, feta and ricotta, then breaded and baked to perfection!
I love making stuffed chicken breast as many as you probably figured out by now. You can stuff chicken with just about anything, and leftovers can be frozen and reheated for your very own homemade frozen meals which are so much better than store bought.
Anyone can make these, there are no toothpicks required and the prep time is fairly quick. I served this with a great big salad on the side, but you can also serve it with couscous, rice or quinoa.
Servings: 8 • Size: 1 roll • Points +: 4 pts • Smart Points: 3
Calories: 169 • Fat: 5 g • Carb: 8 g • Fiber: 2 g • Protein: 25 g • Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 177 mg (without salt) • Cholest: 31 mg
cooking spray or oil mister
1 tsp olive oil
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup chopped scallions
10 oz package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and juice squeezed out
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 tbsp fresh dill
1/2 cup (2.5 oz) crumbled Feta cheese
1/3 cup fat free ricotta
1/4 tsp kosher salt and pepper, plus more to taste
8 thin skinless chicken breast cutlets (1.5 lbs total)
1 large egg
1 tbsp water
1/2 cup whole wheat seasoned breadcrumbs
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a large baking sheet with spray.
Heat the oil a medium sauté pan. Add onions, garlic and scallions and
sauté about 1 minute. Add spinach, parsley, dill, 1/4 tsp kosher salt and
pepper and cook another minute or until heated through. Remove from heat
and mix in the feta and ricotta cheese.
Season chicken lightly with more kosher salt and pepper to taste.
about 1/4 cup of spinach mixture in the center of the chicken and roll,
then lay the chicken seam side down on a platter or piece of wax paper.
Repeat with the remaining chicken.
Whisk the egg and water together in a small bowl with a pinch of salt. Place the breadcrumbs in another bowl.
Dip the chicken rolls into the egg wash, then into the breadcrumbs and
place seam side down on the baking sheet. Repeat with the remainder then
lightly spray to top of the chicken with cooking spray. Bake about 25
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Have you ever wondered what fields of study are hot right now in the world of technology? Or maybe youre starting to think about declaring your major and youre looking for some real world guidance?
It is worth thinking beyond a traditional Computer Science degree or even an Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) program. Microsoft is hiring people with unique backgrounds, some newer with the inception of the Cloud, web services and the amazing scale at which the industry is operating (Exabyte anyone?).
The following is my list of the Top Three hottest academic areas for a future career in tech:
Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing
All of these fields help us sift through and organize huge amounts of information or data. When you apply your knowledge in these areas to a challenging problem in the online space, you know that you are working at a scale that is just immense. Its much easier said than done. If you have a passion for this area and have a technical background there are a multitude of open positions that might hold a long-term career for you. With the move to the cloud and the sheer amount of information on the web, this area of expertise will continue to be in great demand. Microsoft has a great need for both people interested in the research space and the applied space which is very refreshing.
Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence
The ability to see trends, make sense of data to a business audience and help to understand your customers requires a special person. Someone with a mix of engineering, BI/CI experience and a business mindset can take this field to the next level. You will help increase any employers bottom line and be able to provide organized data that is extremely valuable to any business. You can help drive business decisions and help your internal audience understand what the data is telling or showing you.
Analytics/Statistics specifically Web Analytics, A/B Testing and statistical analysis
All of these subjects are offshoots of traditional degrees in CS and mathematics. They all apply to the online world we live in and will also be in great demand as we continue to monetize the web. Retailers, web services, and advertisers will need people in these fields as they try to get the most for their advertising money. As we continue to see the dollar amounts spent for online advertising worldwide, these fields will be hot and we will see online advertising change over time as a result of these positions.
If these fields interest you and you want to find out what some of these jobs really entail, visit our website and search on the terms above to get a more detailed look at the positions. These fields are very HOT and looking long term, the demand will be just that much greater in these areas.
1. It's more affordable to deploy than traditional marketing and advertising
2. Digital marketing goes from planning to execution more quickly.
3. Digital marketing gives fans/viewers/readers a chance to share your content.
4. Digital marketing campaigns are easier to attach to other campaigns.
5. Digital marketing campaigns have longer shelf lives.
6. It's easier to change or stop a digital marketing campaign after it starts.
7. Digital marketing gives the brand more time and space to tell its story.
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Topic: HTML5
French company sues Apple over incomplete HTML5 support on iOS, macOS Safari
10/07/2016, 11:10 am
A development company is taking advantage of a French law, and is suing Apple over incomplete implementation of the HTML 5 specification in the iOS version of Safari.
Adobe Flash fallout extends to TVs, RIM perseveres with PlayBook
11/09/2011, 11:11 pm
Adobe revealed Wednesday that its cancellation of Flash development on mobile devices will also extend to TV-related "digital home devices," while Research in Motion promised to continue in-house development of Flash for its PlayBook tablet.
Amazon introduces new HTML5-based eBook format
10/21/2011, 07:10 pm
Amazon on Friday announced a new HTML5-based e-book format called Kindle Format 8 (KF8), that will allow publishers to create content with rich formatting and advanced design elements tailored to the company's tablet and e-reader lines.
First look: Adobe Edge promises Flash-style animation with HTML5
08/01/2011, 12:08 am
Adobe's new Web development tool, Edge, aims to offer the same dynamic motion as Flash, but in the industry standard HTML5 format compatible with the iPhone and iPad.
Preview of Adobe Edge HTML5 creation tool now available for free
08/01/2011, 12:08 am
Adobe on Monday released the first public preview of Adobe Edge, its new HTML5 Web motion and interaction design tool that offers animation similar to Flash, but built on standards like HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
HTML5 performance in Apple's iOS 5 tops Windows Phone 'Mango'
06/20/2011, 10:06 pm
Though Microsoft has touted its forthcoming update to Windows Phone 7, codenamed "Mango," as having better HTML5 performance than Apple's iPhone, new tests run using an iPhone 4 with the iOS 5 beta outpace the Windows Phone results.
Rumor: Apple helping Facebook's 'secret' HTML5 project
06/18/2011, 09:06 pm
A new report claims Apple knows about and is lending support to Facebook's "Project Spartan" HTML5 web app platform, even as Facebook's PR team has attempted to downplay rumors of the project.
Microsoft announces H.264 support for Google's Chrome
02/02/2011, 06:02 pm
In an effort to resolve "uncertainty around video on the web" using HTML5, Microsoft has announced a new plugin for Google's Chrome browser that adds back support for H.264 video playback, blunting Google's attempt to gain traction for WebM.
Apple revamps its public website using HTML5
01/26/2011, 06:01 am
Apple has relaunched its entire website with a new design using HTML5, adding a darker, glossy navigation bar and speedy new animated page layouts for Mac and iPod pages.
Google drops support for H.264 video in Chrome to push WebM
01/11/2011, 05:01 pm
Google has announced the intention to remove support for H.264 video playback from its Crome browser to "enable open innovation," yet still apparently plans to promote Adobe Flash.
Apple positions iAd Producer as Adobe Flash alternative
12/20/2010, 06:12 pm
Apple has released iAd Producer, a new tool for designing interactive "rich media ads" using web standards for distribution through its iAd network within iOS apps, in a direct blow to Adobe's Flash developer tools, the current standard among many web and mobile ad designers.
Adobe Flash contributes largest number of security patches in Apple's Mac OS X 10.6.5
11/10/2010, 06:11 pm
Apple has detailed the security issues patched by Mac OS X 10.6.5 and the corresponding Security Update 2010-007 for Mac OS X 10.5, indicating that more than half of the security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X actually affect the Adobe Flash plugin and X11.
Briefly: Windows Phone 7 US launch, Mac OS X 10.6.5 beta, Adobe Flash defended
11/09/2010, 02:11 am
Monday's U.S. launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 was mixed, with some stores selling out and others selling just a handful of units. Apple has released another Mac OS X 10.6.5 beta, and Adobe's CTO defended Flash battery performance, claiming that the test was flawed and that Apple is inciting "negative campaigning" against Flash.
Flash-converting iPhone Skyfire browser to be released in 'batches'
11/05/2010, 08:11 pm
After initial demand for the Skyfire for iPhone app, a browser that converts Flash videos, overwhelmed the company's servers, Skyfire has announced that it will release the app in 'batches.'
Dropping Adobe Flash boosts Apple's MacBook Air battery life by 2 hours
11/04/2010, 05:11 pm
Apple has stopped bundling Adobe Flash on new Macs, ostensibly so users could obtain the latest, secure version themselves, but vastly increased battery life seems to be another leading reason.
Briefly: AT&T objection, Skyfire sold-out, PayPal vulnerability
11/03/2010, 09:11 pm
AT&T issued a statement Wednesday refuting T-Mobile's claim to "America's largest 4G network." The Skyfire browser iOS app, which converts Flash video to HTML5, "sold-out" after just 5 hours of availability, and a security flaw in the PayPal iPhone app could let hackers intercept user passwords.
W3C publishes 'extremely silly' HTML5 test results suggesting win for Internet Explorer 9
11/03/2010, 12:11 am
A preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser engine passed more elements of a web standards test than a random selection of other browsers in the Worldwide Web Consortium's "vastly incomplete" HTML5 test suite, creating a news story that W3C members decried as "incorrect information" based on a "rather buggy test results page."
Brightcove adds support HTTP Live Streaming for Apple iOS devices
11/02/2010, 05:11 pm
Internet video host Brightcove, among the first to begin supporting iPhone-compatible H.264 video and HTML5, is now moving to support Apple's open HTTP Live Streaming format as well, hammering another nail into the coffin of Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight.
Steve Jobs: iTunes LP, Extra coming to iOS Apple TV
11/02/2010, 05:11 pm
After its transition into an iOS device, Apple TV lost the ability to display iTunes LP and Extras, but support is on the way according to an email attributed to Apple's chief executive.
Apple's iOS pushes Microsoft to dial down Silverlight for HTML5
10/29/2010, 06:10 pm
While Apple's success with its mobile iOS platform is credited with invoking the proliferation of HTML5 video at the expense of Adobe's Flash, it's also causing a major shift in strategy for Microsoft's Silverlight.


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Winnebago Industries Inc. was once again recognized by Ford Motor Co. for receiving the "fully meets" classification as part of its Truck Quality Program.
The Truck Quality Program is the highest honor awarded to vehicle modifiers, according to a Winnebago news release. It is based on an assessment of a modifier's engineering capability, design and build process controls, management commitment and quality control procedures.
According to Ford, the purpose of this program is to assure vehicle modifiers have the capability and processes in place to complete the vehicle in a repeatable manner that maintains the integrity of the Ford chassis system, meets federal and other standards in place at the time of the build and provides end users with a quality-built vehicle that meets their expectations. Winnebago Industries has received this award since the program's inception in 1997.
"We are extremely proud to earn the 'fully meets' classification from Ford's Truck Quality Program," said Chuck Hughes, Winnebago Industries' director of quality control. "We believe we have excelled in this program due to the advanced technology we utilize in the development and manufacturing process of our motorhomes with industry-leading designs, as well as by employing seasoned manufacturing engineering staffs and manufacturing management with the commitment to adhere to these stringent guidelines. Winnebago Industries also has ingrained a philosophy of continual improvement into all areas of the company.
"We work closely with our suppliers, such as Ford, to maintain the integrity of the purchased components in order to provide a superior product for our customers in the market place. The vehicle chassis is a critical element in our motor home design and we put a lot of time and effort into achieving these exemplary ratings from Ford. It continues to be a priority for us in order to meet and exceed our customers' expectations for the quality found in each Winnebago and Itasca motor home that we build."


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Hey All,
I was racing last weekend on a Westerly GK33 during the RSYC double handed race in the Solent. I am a bit of a traitor as I own freedom 33 cat sloop, but never consider it fast enough to race so save her for cruising. We were doing well, until this Freedom 25 romped past us in light airs under spinnaker flown from the gun mount. I can honestly say I was admiring her as she zoomed past us at 2knots (when we were doing 1knot also under spinnaker that was barely filling ). Anyway, she won the race, by some excellent sailing and of course having a great boat. The race was mostly downwind as it was variable, under 9knots to 0 knots so made for a Freedom with its easy gybing and simple spinnaker hoists. Hats off to the Freedom owner of Squirrel and his partner. Very cool.


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FY 2014 May BUDG25 Reports Are Available
The FY 2014 BUDG25 Reports for May have been posted to each district's budget reports home page of the ADE School Finance website. To download and review a specific district selection, please follow this link: https://www.ade.az.gov/Budget/EntitySelection.asp. Thank you for contacting the School Finance budget team with any budget questions by emailing [email protected]


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Women, Power, and Social Change: Beyond the 2012 Election
by Marc Beallor
December 3, 2012
Published by Portside
On November 6th, women played a decisive role in determining
the outcome of the presidential and congressional elections.
According to UPI, "Women made up 54 percent of the
electorate . . . and widened the pro-Democratic gender gap
to 18 points." 55% of all women's votes, but 67% of single
women's, went to Obama.
Time Magazine reported that the incoming "113th Congress
will mark the first time that white men are a minority in
the House Democratic Caucus." Time also reported that "The
new Congress . . . will boast the largest number of incoming
female House members since 1992, and a record 28 women of
color," and that "despite the retirements" of two Republican
senators, "women gained ground in the U.S. Senate, expanding
their ranks from 17 members to 20, a new record."
But as important as these achievements were, the electoral
gains of women barely made a dent in the male-dominated
composition of Congress. The proportion of female members
of Congress will only increase from 17% to 18% - still below
the world average of 20.3%. The United States' ranking for
women in national office - 80th of 190 countries in 2011 -
will likely continue its downward trajectory as women
continue to make impressive gains world-wide.
State legislatures averaged 23.7% women nationwide in 2012.
"This is a slight decrease from the 2010 session's ratio of
24.5 percent female legislators," reports the National
Conference of State Legislatures on its website. With
countries as diverse as Rwanda, Nicaragua, Finland, and Cuba
having more than 40% women in their national legislatures,
why has the United States' level of women's political
leadership remained so low?
There are at least three reasons. The first is the U.S.
winner-take-all electoral system. Most other nations have
proportional representation, permitting voting for slates of
candidates chosen by different parties - the number of
candidates seated from each party's slate is then determined
by the percentage of the vote received by that party.
Studies have shown that proportional representation
increases opportunities for the selection and election of
female candidates. (Anne Stevens, Women, Power and Politics,
2007, p. 83)
A second reason, often overlapping with the one above, is
the existence of electoral gender quotas in more than half
of the world's nations. These quotas take one of three
forms: a set number of reserved seats, a requirement that
candidate lists have a minimum percentage of women, or
voluntary quotas adopted by political parties. Most of these
quotas were implemented in the last 20 years, the 1995 World
Conference of Women having provided much of the spark.
These quota systems "have led to a dramatic increase in
female leaders across the globe," according to Rohini Pande
and Deanna Ford of Harvard University. (2012 World
Development Report on Gender Quotas and Female Leadership)
A third reason for the small percentage of women in elected
office in the US is the out-of-control system of campaign
finance. Studies have shown that there are very real
obstacles to women candidates' ability to compete with men
in raising money - despite the fact that other studies have
shown that women candidates, once having achieved ballot
status, have as good a shot at being elected as do men.
The Liberation and Empowerment of Women
The movement for the Liberation and Empowerment of Women
(LEW) has been growing exponentially since the publication
of Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of
Women" in 1792. From that point, it was more than a century
before women won the right to vote in New Zealand, the first
nation to enact women's suffrage. By 1922, women had won
suffrage rights in over twenty nations, including the United
At the time of the creation of the United Nations, the only
countries with more than a token number of women in their
legislative bodies were the socialist states. Fifty years
later, in 1997, twenty-eight parliaments had at least 20%
women, but only five had more than 30% (Sweden's 40.4% was
the highest). By 2011, thirty parliaments had exceeded 30%
women's participation. Today, 74 out of 190 nations have at
least 20% women's participation in their national
legislative bodies. Rwanda currently has the largest bloc
of women - 52% combined in their two chambers.
The Nordic nations are arguably the most socially advanced
societies in the world. Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
and Iceland have some of the world's highest standards of
living and the least inequality. They also have far more
women in political power than any other regional grouping:
Sweden ranks fourth among the world's nations with 44% women
in its parliament; Finland is seventh with 42%; Iceland,
Norway, and Denmark are 10th, 11th, and 12th, with just
under 40%. By comparison China and the United States rank
64th and 80th (of 190 countries) with only 21% and 17% women
in national legislative leadership respectively.
The Nordic nations also rank highest in the world in terms
of overall gender equality. The latest (2012) "Gender Gap
Report" issued by the World Economic Forum ranks Iceland,
Finland, Norway, and Sweden as the top four nations in
gender equality. Denmark ranks seventh, slightly behind
Ireland and New Zealand. The United States and China rank
22nd and 69th respectively.
Could it be that the exceptional empowerment of women in the
Nordic nations is one causal factor of those societies' more
progressive nature? Conversely, could the low percentage of
women in US Congress (17%), and slightly better (24%) in
state legislatures, be a factor contributing to the relative
political and social backwardness of the United States? A
growing body of research suggests that the answer is yes.
Sex and Science
Many studies have shown that women in government tend to
place a higher priority on social needs than men. For
instance, the political scientists Susan J. Carroll and
Richard L. Fox have written that:
"Studies of members of the U.S. House of Representatives,
for example, have found that women are more likely than men
to support policies favoring gender equity, day care
programs, flex time in the work place, legal and accessible
abortion, minimum wage increases, and the extension of the
food stamp program. . . Similarly, a number of studies have
found that women serving in legislatures at the state level
are also more likely than men to give priority to,
introduce, and work on legislation related to women's
rights, health care, education, and the welfare of families
and children. When women are not present in sufficient
numbers among public officials, their distinctive
perspectives are under-represented." (Gender and Elections,
2006, emphasis added)
And Gail Collins, New York Times columnist, offered this:
"One of the most interesting factoids gleaned from a
generation's worth of survey research on women in politics
is that while men often embark on a political career to make
business contacts, women generally get into the game because
they want to help. . .That impulse to help is in keeping
with what pollsters find about women voters - they're more
likely to support social spending and activist government."
(Why the Women Are Fading Away, October 25, 1998)
Anthropologist Helen Fisher also weighed the evidence,
concluding that women "are more inclined to favor all kinds
of social programs and social services and to regard issues
of education, health care, child care, poverty, and
joblessness as essential elements of the national agenda."
(The First Sex, 1999)
There are various theories to explain these differences
between men and women, not only in political matters but in
a wide range of attitudes and behaviors. There are some who
deny any differences and others who attribute the
differences strictly to socialization and other cultural
influences. Relatively recent advances in the psychological
and biological sciences have provided strong evidence that
these differences go deeper.
The psychologist and neuroscientist Ian H. Robertson was
recently interviewed on NPR station WNYC by Leonard Lopate.
They discussed what Robertson and other scientists believe
is a universal human need for power - power defined as
influence and impact, not simply domination. For example,
teachers may fulfill their need for power by having an
impact on their students; others exercise a need for power
by becoming police officers or accumulating wealth. He
described studies demonstrating differences between the
power needs of women and men.
In his new book, The Winner Effect, Robertson wrote that
"women on average do not have any lower need for power than
men, and women respond to competition and power in very
similar ways to men. But there are differences: it seems
that men are more power aware - they pay more attention to
signs of power than women do, and they remember more facts
about more powerful than less powerful people, while women
do not show this selective memory. Finally, men sniff out
the power relationships in a room quicker than women do."
(The Winner Effect p. 226)
Robertson then discusses the existence of two quite distinct
types of power need - "personal power" and "social power"
(referred to as "p-power" and "s-power"). Men's power need
leans more towards p-power, defined as a desire for
dominance manifested by a tendency "to be satisfied
assertively, with a strong drive to beat the opponent and
win the contest." On the other hand, women's power need
leans towards s-power - defined as "power need focused on
goals for an institution, a group or a society . . . to
achieve a change for some wider benefit than just the high
of winning: in particular, the high social power person
tends to feel some moral or legal standard governing his or
her behavior and along with that is a sense of obligation
and a concern for others." (ibid p. 229)
Robertson attributes the hormone testosterone, which men
produce far more of than women, to the on average greater
desire for personal dominance among men. "Testosterone," he
writes, "changes the brain because it alters its chemistry.
In particular it boosts levels of the neurotransmitter
dopamine." Dopamine, as many of us know, is the brain
chemical responsible for rewarding us for pleasurable
behaviors, including those like drugs, sex, and gambling,
which can become addictive. Personal power, Robertson
emphasizes, can also become addictive. (ibid p. 115)
Robertson cites the 2002 collapse of Enron as one example of
the potentially destructive nature of p-power. "The higher
you are in a steep hierarchy," he writes, "the more power
you have over those below you, whether psychological,
financial, or physical. Power pumps testosterone into the
blood, which in turn - via the winner effect - further
inflates your power by helping you win in the future." (ibid
p. 103)
Basing his conclusions on a great deal of research,
Robertson believes that most people have varying degrees of
need for both types of power. In this majority of
individuals, including men, "s-power not only tames p-power
- it also dissolves p-power's physiological linkage to
testosterone and the competitive aggression that goes with
it. S-power acts as a sort of coolant on the potent but
sometimes destructive effects of unmitigated p-power, and
women's minds have more of this coolant. What's more, s-
power's dissolving effects on testosterone very probably
diminish the most virulent of the dopamine surges that can
lead to addiction to power." But Robertson is very clear
that the chances of being a bearer of "unmitigated p-power"
- without any s-power "coolant" present - is far greater for
males. And, he adds, "this may be one reason why all the
notorious and massacring dictators of the world have been
men." (ibid pp. 234-5)
Other researchers have found similar results. Echoing Gail
Collins' observation above, a recent study surveyed 10,000
individuals, in 52 countries, who had started a new
business. The researchers discovered that women were about
twenty percent more likely than men to start a business to
promote social or environmental change, as opposed to
personal gain.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, there has been
much written about the relationship between male domination
and financial speculation. Like Ian Robertson's argument
that the sex difference in power-seeking is related to the
hormone testosterone, other research has pointed to a
similar hormonal role in relation to risk taking behaviors.
There is strong evidence that women, on average, are more
risk averse than men - and that men, on average, tend to be
more prone to rash judgment calls based on over-confidence
(a psychological trait closely linked to risk-taking).
Other recent studies have shown that banks with more gender
diverse corporate boards fared better during and after the
financial crisis.
John Coates is a former financial trader who went back to
school and became a neuroscientist out of concern for the
damaging effects of the lust for money and power. In an
article in the New York Times he described a trader's
"These past hours, the trader's testosterone levels have
been climbing. This steroid hormone, produced by men (and,
in lesser quantities, by women) primes the trader for the
challenge ahead, just as it does athletes preparing to
compete and male animals to fight. Rising levels increase
confidence and, crucially, appetite for risk. . .The stress
hormones adrenaline and cortisol surge out of the adrenal
glands, and the cortisol travels to the brain, where it
stimulates the release of dopamine, a chemical operating
along neural circuits known as the pleasure pathways. At
high levels, cortisol provides a nasty, stressful
experience. But in small amounts, in combination with
dopamine - one of the most addictive drugs known to the
human brain - it delivers a narcotic hit, a rush that
convinces traders that there is no other job in the world
[as rewarding]. . ."
He proposed one action that might ameliorate the problem:
". . . encourage a more even balance within banks among men
and women, young and old. Women and older men have a
fraction of the testosterone of young men, so if more of
them managed money, we could perhaps stabilize the markets."
Similarly, in discussing the results of a 2009 study
published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, a researcher said:
"This is the first study showing that gender differences in
financial risk aversion have a biological basis, and that
differences in testosterone levels between individuals can
affect important aspects of economic behavior and career
Behavior, Biology, Culture, and Society
It is important to acknowledge the deep misgivings that many
on the political left and in the academic social science
disciplines have about the relationship between biology, sex
differences, and complex human behaviors such as power
seeking and risk taking. These misgivings are due in part
to the understandable fear of the abuse of evolutionary
theory to support malevolent goals. We are all too familiar
with the horrendous consequences of pseudo-scientific
ideologies in support of eugenics, Nazism, and racism.
However, there is also the problem of ideology and political
agendas. Many on the organized left or in the disciplines
of sociology and anthropology perceive any hint of
biological causation for social behaviors as an assault on
basic principles, such as the deeply held belief that only
socioeconomic or cultural factors are responsible for
complex behaviors.
But science has advanced tremendously in the past several
decades. This is as true of the biological sciences as it
is of physics and computer science. Developments in the
cognitive and brain sciences have been especially rich. New
imaging techniques now permit scientists to see exactly what
parts of the brain are involved in learning, memory,
addiction, desire, and other behaviors. To ignore, deny, or
discount these developments, leaving them to those with
ulterior motives to exploit, will ultimately prove to be
Sandra Witelson of McMaster University has been studying the
human brain for decades. A 2005 article in the Los Angeles
Times discussed some of her work on sex differences:
"Witelson is convinced that gender shapes the anatomy of
male and female brains in separate but equal ways beginning
at birth. On average, she said, the brains of women and men
are neither better nor worse, but they are measurably
different. Men's brains, for instance, are typically bigger
- but on the whole, no smarter.
"What is astonishing to me," Witelson said, "is that it is
so obvious that there are sex differences in the brain and
these are likely to be translated into some cognitive
differences, because the brain helps us think and feel and
move and act. "Yet there is a large segment of the
population that wants to pretend this is not true."
Commenting more recently on this ongoing debate, the
neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine wrote:
"There are still those who believe that for women to become
equal, unisex must be the norm. The biological reality,
however, is that there is no unisex brain. The fear of
discrimination based on difference runs deep, and for many
years assumptions about sex differences went scientifically
unexamined for fear that women wouldn't be able to claim
equality with men. But pretending that women and men are
the same, while doing a disservice to both men and women,
ultimately hurts women. . . It also ignores the different
ways that they process thoughts and therefore perceive what
is important." (The Female Brain, p. 160)
Donald W. Pfaff of Rockefeller University in New York City
has been studying the human brain for decades. I heard him
speak last year at the New York Academy of Sciences. He
exudes the air of an extremely meticulous and circumspect
scientist. These qualities are reflected in his most recent
book, Man and Woman: An Inside Story, in which he repeatedly
expresses a need to exercise caution when drawing
conclusions regarding the brain and behavior. But the
following is one of his conclusions:
"All of [the cautions about drawing conclusions] having been
said, some evidence does point to believable psychological
differences between men and women . . . The most convincing
evidence, in my view, has to do with social relationships.
Males are interested in hierarchies and in power. . .
"Indeed, there are anatomical differences between men's and
women's brains, and some of them, theoretically, could
contribute to the psychological differences I just
discussed." (pp. 189-190)
And from an article published in Science Daily in 2008:
"What was once speculation is now being confirmed by
scientists: the brains of women and men are different in
more ways than one. Discoveries by scientists over the past
10 years have elucidated biological sex differences in brain
structure, chemistry and function. 'These variations occur
throughout the brain, in regions involved in language,
memory, emotion, vision, hearing and navigation,' explains
Larry Cahill, Ph.D. . . at the University of California,
Differences in the behaviors of men and women are present in
all societies and cultures. Scientists who study human
behavior generally agree that most complex behaviors result
from a combination of genes and environment, nature and
nurture. As three scientists have written:
"Unless you are a Creationist, you have to accept that
humans have been subject to the same processes of
evolutionary change as all other living things on earth. A
full understanding of human nature therefore requires an
understanding of biological as well as sociological
processes. Indeed, it is actually impossible to separate
the two. We are products of an interaction between biology
and culture, or to put it in its more familiar guise, nature
and nurture, genes and environment. To separate the two is
a false dichotomy." (Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar, John
Lycett, Human Evolutionary Psychology, 2002 p. 2)
The Thatcher Effect
When discussing male/female power differences, skeptics
often ask "but what about women leaders like Margaret
Thatcher?" As Ian Robertson's research points out, women
are not immune from the desire for p-power. Rather, women
are far less likely than men to be "all" p-power and zero s-
power. Thatcher may be one of the exceptions that proves
the rule. As Robertson emphasizes, most individuals have
mixed needs for both p-power and s-power - it's just that on
average women are much more likely to be driven by the need
for social power. And this is what makes the movement to
increase the proportion of women in collective decision-
making bodies - whether Congress or the Supreme Court - so
Gender balance has become an important rallying point for
organizations, such as the White House Project, that are
actively promoting female empowerment. Research suggests
that a "critical mass" threshold of 30% is the approximate
point at which women begin to have a noticeable impact on
agenda setting and policy outcomes in collective leadership
bodies. (Sandra Grey, Women and Parliamentary Politics,
Australian National University, 2001}
This "critical mass" concept was what prompted the delegates
to the 1995 World Conference on Women to set 30% minimum
female representation in parliaments as their goal. It's
perhaps the major reason that President Obama's historic
appointments of Sonia Sotamayor and Elena Kagan to the
Supreme Court were such significant political moves.
We can see how the concept of "critical mass" has played out
in other nations. The near forty-percent level of women's
representation in the Nordic nations' parliaments puts those
decision-making bodies in an entirely different league than
the sub-twenty-percent level in the U.S. The story of
Iceland's 2008 collapse due to the male-dominated banking
sector's foray into highly risky real estate investments is
illustrative. After the financial melt-down threatened to
take down the entire country, women - who then occupied 33%
of Iceland's parliament - banded together, forced out the
former male-dominated government, and installed a new one
under the leadership of Prime Minister Johanna
Siguroardottir. The new female-dominated government then
took decisive action to clean up the mess made by the
bankers and their government allies. Ian Robertson's point
that female dominant s-power tends to "dissolve" male
dominant p-power buttresses the case for "super-critical
mass" gender balanced decision-making bodies as one
important component of the struggle for more fair and just
The Future of History?
Even if many remain unconvinced about causal relationships
between behavioral gender differences and biology, there
should be no disagreement about the need to eliminate the
social, economic, and political gender inequalities that
persist. If the organized left were to become more
proactive in promoting an agenda to accelerate the
empowerment of women, especially but not exclusively in the
political arena, we might discover that chipping away at
(and perhaps one day ending) male domination will positively
correlate with the enactment of more progressive
governmental, legal, social, and economic policies and
programs. We can continue to debate the issue of innate
gender differences, but we should not need to debate the
importance or utility of winning full gender equality, thus
advancing the LEW Revolution and the movements for rights,
fairness, and justice.
There are other reasons for the organized left to prioritize
women's empowerment as a key part of the agenda for change.
The under-representation of women in leadership - whether in
government, unions, academic teams, or progressive and left
organizations - undermines the efficacy of social movements.
Under-representation of any group leads to failure to fully
utilize talent, the stifling of viewpoints, and inhibits the
ability to create movement solidarity. As women represent
at least one-half of society, it is critical that leadership
bodies, organizing bodies, any decision-making body, reflect
that reality as much as possible. It should be self-evident
that achieving such a goal will greatly enhance the left's
ability to mobilize and organize the vast majority of
society negatively impacted by our patriarchal institutions.
The agricultural and industrial social systems that have
dominated the world for the past five thousand years have
been exclusively patriarchies. We don't know what will
happen when, and if, women achieve full equality. But the
strong correlation between feminization and social progress
in societies throughout the world gives credence to the
notion that ending patriarchy will likely have a profound
impact on the future of history. The findings of scientists
like Ian Robertson and Sandra Witelson strongly suggest that
the further empowerment of women will push societies in the
direction of cooperativeness, altruism, and compassion; away
from inequality, greed, and despotism.
[Marc Beallor has a long history of social justice activism,
including thirty years in organized labor. He has a Master
of Science degree from the NYU Wagner School of Public
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