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Many people today would love to improve their public speaking skills in order to communicate much better with the world. If you want to learn more about public speaking, this article is for you. Keep reading for everything you need to know to be a success
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When you are speaking in public, there is usually a time frame that you need to stick to. Make sure that you get to your key points before your time is up. Otherwise, you will have wasted all of our time since the audience will not have received the message you were trying to deliver.
If you have to speak publicly, try to keep it at twenty minutes or less. This is the average attention span of most individuals, so speaking for longer than this is going to risk boring them. If you have to speak for longer than this, find some way to change gears in the middle to liven things up.
Make eye contact with your audience members. Doing so makes them feel as if you are speaking directly to them and helps keep them engaged. It also makes you appear confident and poised. Look at various members of the audience as you speak to help engage as many of them as possible.
It is important to give off a confident vibe when giving a speech. Therefore, avoid looking at the floor, ceiling, or your notes too often during the speech. Instead, look into the eyes of your audience. They will realize you are not only confident, but that you have prepared yourself, as well.
If you are nervous when you first stand up to speak, there are a couple of things you can do. Either choose a person toward the center of the audience to focus on or focus on a point at the back of the room. An EXIT sign is a good choice. This will help calm your nerves.
Visit your hairdresser on the day of your speech. Nothing gives you more confidence than looking and feeling great. Purchase a new suit which makes you feel good to bolster your confidence levels. Audience members will take note of you when you are dressed for success and exude a sense of confidence.
at the venue before you make your speech. See how big the room is, how many seats there are, and what the lighting is like. You will feel less nervous when you know what environment you will be dealing with. Also, try standing at the podium to get a feel of the stage.
Be sure to practice your speech well in advance. Practice often so that you can deliver your thoughts naturally and smoothly. Use a timer to perfect the length of your speech. In this way, you will neither leave your audience hanging with time to spare, nor force them to stay longer than they wish.
Before you get ready for your speech, make sure you know the material. This is easy when you are actually interested in the topic you have chosen. Try learning more about the topic than what you actually say in your speech. This will help you add some useful additional information. it can also help you better answer questions.
Try to find humor in the situation if things do not go as planned. There are many variables when you speak in public, which means that there are many opportunities for things to go wrong. The microphone or projector may not work, there may be an interruption in power or someone may enter the room in the midst of your speech. Try to take things in stride. Taking things too seriously can result in you having a meltdown, so try to laugh off any issues that may arise.
Consider your appearance. The audience is not likely to listen to you when your state of dress or grooming skills are distracting. Consider your audience when you think about what you are going to wear. Suits work well in for most speeches, but consider something more casual when speaking to younger audiences.
Your reading of this article should alleviate your fears about public speaking. Some people are born great orators, but most of us have to work at improving our public speaking skills. All that is left for you to do is start practicing what you've just learned.


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The letterpress effect is becoming hugely popular in web design, and with a couple of modern browsers now showing support for the text-shadow CSS3 property, it's now simple and easy to create the effect with pure CSS. No Photoshop trickery here!
Letterpress – Isn't that a type of industrial print method? That's right! But the effect has also made its way into web design. Check out the previous feature showcasing examples of how designers are using this cool 'de-bossed' look on designs across the web.
With the recent support of text-transform in Safari and Firefox (3.1+) the effect can easily be created without needing to use any image replacement techniques. This means your text is much easier to edit and has the benefit of being rendered directly in the browser.
Start out by creating a simple background. In Photoshop create a 100x100px and fill with a dark grey. Add some texture using the Noise filter.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Pure CSS Letterpress Effect</title>
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Pure CSS Letterpress Effect

Set up a plain HTML document, then add a few lines of text to test the effect on.
body { background: #474747 url(bg.png); } h2 { font: 70px Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; text-align: center; }
Style up the text using the usual CSS properties to edit the size and basic appearance.
Now we're ready to apply the text-shadow property. This works by specifying an x-offset, a y-offset, the shadow blurriness and the actual colour of the shadow.
color: #222; text-shadow: 0px 2px 3px #555;
To create the letterpress effect, we need to add a shadow that's lighter than the colour of the text to ensure the effect works correctly. Here we're using #555555 against the darker #222222 text colour. A 2px vertical offset and very subtle blurriness help give the exact appearance we're after.
Simple! Check out the example to see it for yourself. Don't forget, users with rubbish unsupporting browsers will only see the plain text, without the cool shadow awesomeness, so use it wisely.

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Linked to high cholesterol and heart disease, trans fats aren't exclusive to fried foods. Don't want to get burned? Read this cheat sheet.
A product claiming "zero trans fats" may actually contain up to half a gram, according to FDA regulations.
To ensure you're dodging even these small amounts, read ingredient lists: Trans fats appear under the guises "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" and "vegetable shortening."
- These ingredients also can indicate the product contains interesterified fats, the chemically altered fats often used as a trans fats replacement, which pose similar health risks.


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A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants.
By Fariba Nawa
October 18, 2011
The Christian Science Monitor
Newark, Calif.
My daughter Bonoo Zahra, age 3, began preschool in August, and my worst fear about her education in the United States is coming true – English is invading her speech.
Before she began school, she exclusively spoke Farsi, our native Afghan language, but now she shuts the door to her room and prattles in English with her imaginary friends. She prefers to watch cartoons in English and wants me to read her books in English.
My husband, Naeem, and I decided our language at home would be Farsi so that our two daughters could learn to speak it. They would learn English in school and outside the home. After watching dozens of relatives' and friends' children in the US forget their native language, we are determined to teach Bonoo and Andisha, 5 months, the importance of bilingualism. But it's a battle many second-generation immigrant parents have lost to the pervasiveness of English.
Besides preserving cultural heritage, a second language can boost careers, sharpen analytical skills, and encourage communication with a world outside one's own.
The loss of language is a deep-seated fear among many immigrants. The US has been dubbed the graveyard of languages by some academics for pushing English and excluding other tongues. Currently about 55 million Americans speak a language besides English at home, but by the third generation, the home language tends to atrophy, according to various studies. American society supports a rhetoric of multiculturalism but not multilingualism, experts say.
While many of our parents wanted us to assimilate faster and speak English better, our generation – the 30-somethings – is focused on preservation. In the past few decades, the emergence of identity politics has encouraged ethnic Americans to hold on to more than English.
More 'heritage language' learners
Olga Kagan, director of the Center for World Languages and National Heritage Language Resource Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, says more and more students of ethnic backgrounds want to learn their native language when they enter university. These students are identified as heritage language learners, and UCLA opened the resource center she runs in 2006 to meet that need.
"Now we are more aware of it. In the past, people didn't pay much attention to [learning their native tongue]," Ms. Kagan says.
Unlike Europe, where the younger generation in immigrant communities seems to be more successful at retaining its native tongue, children raised in America tend to only speak fluently in English. The Hispanic community, which represents the majority of bilingual Americans, may speak only English by the third generation. But the influx of new immigrants helps keep Spanish alive in the community.
The authors of the 2006 article "Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern California," in the Population and Development Review journal, contend that Hispanics in the Los Angeles area shift to English between the first and second generations and lose Spanish by the third.
Yet if children in other countries are capable of speaking at least two languages fluently, why can't American children do the same?
The US movement for monolingualism began after World War I when xenophobia developed against Germans in the US and caused many German-language schools to close, according to Lisa García Bedolla, head of the Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Ever since, the presumption is that a patriot should know only English.
"I think the issue is that we may have a rhetoric of multiculturalism in the US since the civil rights movement, but that does not seem to have been accompanied by an acceptance of multilingualism," Ms. García Bedolla says. "It's made very clear to children that [English is] the politically dominant language for belonging and inclusion. There's a hierarchy of language, a power issue."
This dominance has been institutionalized in the education system, she says. García Bedolla is the coauthor of the recent report "Classifying California's English Learners," which shows that bilingual kindergartners or bilingual children who go to public school for the first time are categorized as "English deficient." Many students who are proficient in English are wrongly placed in language-development classes. California has 1.6 million English learners, a quarter of the students in its public schools.
The presumption is, "If you speak Spanish [for example], you cannot speak English," García Bedolla says.
Vanessa Velazquez, my daughter Bonoo's preschool teacher, agrees with García Bedolla's assessment of the language hierarchy. Her preschool classes are 75 percent bilingual, she says. The majority speak Spanish but pick up English within a month. School policy says she can talk to Spanish-speaking children in Spanish but must encourage them to speak English in the classroom. She talks to her own children in Spanish inside and outside the home but says she has faced discrimination. A Caucasian customer at a mall told her she should only speak English in the US. "I said, 'It's a free country. I can speak what I want,' " she recalls.
Multilingualism common in Europe
In Europe, discrimination and the impulse to belong are equally present, so why does it seem as if ethnic communities speak more than one tongue? Magnus Marsden, a professor of social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London has been involved with the Afghan British community and says knowing more than one language is typical in London.
"It is a norm rather than exception to speak multiple languages…. But one important thing is that Afghans in the United Kingdom often claim to be able to learn other languages from their own region that they did not know before they came here. There are also organizations that are involved in strengthening other forms of language capacity."
Being multilingual is part of European culture, but unlike in the US, it's more difficult to assimilate into the mainstream culture, so immigrants tend to keep to themselves.
Mariam Noorzai is second-generation Afghan British – she was 5 when her family fled Kabul – and she never spoke English at home. Her three children were born in London and are fluent in both English and Farsi. Ms. Noorzai says in a phone interview that her large family has been consistent over the generations with the "Farsi only" rule at home. But another reason for language retention in Britain, she says, is ethnic isolation. "We only interact with our own family. My kids socialize with others only in school."
Mr. Marsden disagrees and says immigrant communities do mingle with mainstream Britain but are still able to retain their native language.
Nushin Arbabzadah, a research scholar at UCLA, studied linguistics in Germany. In Germany, she says, language learning has many dimensions. "For example, third-generation immigrants born in Germany to parents who were themselves born in Germany can grow up not speaking German correctly while being semifluent in their own native tongue. By contrast … committed and aspirational new arrivals can become fluent in German in a year, sometimes refusing to speak their own language in public out of a sense of shame."
Parents like me still think there's a way to retain language in the US despite the odds.
Anthony Henriquez, 8, and his brother Jason, 5, sit at the dinner table in their Fremont, Calif., home doing homework. The conversation is a mixture of Spanish and English. Doli Henriquez, the boys' mother, says she's proud that her kids speak Spanish well and do so without pressure. Anthony plops on the couch next to his mother and says he thinks in English but dreams in Spanish. "I feel comfortable in both languages and no one ever makes fun when I speak it at school. But it's the best when we go back to El Salvador," he says of the trips the family makes.
For the immigrants whose countries are not at war and who can afford it, frequent trips to their native land can be the answer. But it doesn't seem wise to return with my daughters to a war zone like Afghanistan.
I call a friend in Chicago, Shahir Ahang, another Afghan-American and the only one of my generation I know in the US whose children, Emad, 9, and Zaki, 6, retain Farsi.
"From the day they were born, I have always told them when you're at home, you have to speak Farsi," Mr. Ahang says. "When they say something in English, we don't answer them back. They hear five to 10 times a day, 'Say it in Farsi.' When they don't know a word, they ask."
Ahang says their friends call the couple "the language police," but he and his wife are making their children's lives difficult now so that they can communicate better in the future. He says language retention was a matter of preserving cultural identity at first, but now it's the usefulness of knowing more than one language that drives the couple.
Language-immersion schools grow
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the rise of the Asian population has been accompanied by an increase in language-immersion schools. Zhenxi Dai and Yunfang Qian began their Chinese school from their home in 1998 with 10 to 20 students. They now have up to 100 students of Chinese descent enrolled.
Hieu Ta and Cindy Huang-Ta's children, Chloe, 8, and Alex, 6, were learning Mandarin in Ms. Qian's school before the family moved to Los Gatos, Calif. Ms. Huang-Ta has spoken to her children in Mandarin since they were born. Their first words were in Chinese, but as they get older, English is becoming more prominent. The couple researched more than a dozen Chinese schools before choosing Qian's, but their move to Los Gatos three months ago, where there are no daily Chinese schools, has distanced the kids further from Mandarin.
"It's a total struggle. We got a lot of advice from a lot of different people, and the vast majority said [teaching a second language] does not work," says Ta, a software engineer.
Their friends told them the best way for the children to retain Chinese is to live in China, and the couple may do that someday. But for now, Chloe and Alex go to a weekly Chinese school 10 minutes away.
As for my own family, we're going to follow Ahang's advice and continue to be the Farsi police.
One recent day in the car, Bonoo picked up a book and began to count the images she saw in Farsi, "Yak, do, se [one, two, three]." I grabbed my camera and pressed the video button. Ten years from now, if she refuses to speak Farsi to me, I can replay it and remember the moment when she could rattle off numbers in her mother tongue.


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Various types and sizes of whole house water filtration systems are available to address potential water quality issues experienced inHalifax, Massachusetts town water or well water. Not only is matching the right technology important, sizing the system to meet the water usage demands of your home is also key. Lastly, a professionally plumbed system is also critical as well as maintenance of the system throughout the years to optimize the useful life and proper functioning of your new equipment.
While symptoms of water quality issues such as bad odors & taste, staining of laundry, bathroom fixtures, etc. are indicators of problems, the preferred starting point is to get a water test to identify the minerals or contaminants in the water and at what quantity they exist. This will lead to an effective system recommendation and route to providing your home with excellent water quality. While certain minerals & contaminants can be tested on-site (iron, hardness, pH, total dissolved solids), health threat items like radon in water, arsenic in water, nitrates and others should be properly sampled and brought to a certified laboratory for testing that requires specialized equipment.
A water softener is a type of whole house water filtration system that is designed for removing hard water minerals (magnesium & calcium) as well as dissolved iron and manganese from the water. For water with high levels of iron or manganese ("the stainers"), an "up-flow" water softener is recommended to prevent mineral build-up in the bottom of the water softener. Also, high efficiency water softeners that are more efficient with both water and salt usage are preferred.
There are various types of bad odors and tastes that you may experience in your water. Hydrogen Sulfide is not uncommon and is evidenced typically by a rotten egg smell in your water, however this may also be caused by high Manganese levels as well. A water filtration system specifically for this problem is effective in correcting this. For a more complete description of this and other potential bad odors and taste in your water, see the link at https://h2ocare.com/bad-odor-taste/.
You may notice odor and taste issues if your home is supplied by town water, typically associated with Chlorine. Chlorine is used for disinfection purposes by the town to control microorganisms including bacteria and others that may be present in the water distribution system. Carbon water filtration systems are effective at removing chlorine and the associated taste and odors that come with it. These systems can either be installed at the point of entry in your home, typically in the basement, or at a point of use for drinking water only.
WHOLE HOUSE WATER FILTRATION – Radon & Arsenic in private wells
Other contaminants found in New England well water include Radon and Arsenic. A water softener will not remove these health threat contaminants. Radon in water is safely removed with an aeration system that agitates the incoming well water, releasing the gas from the water in a sealed chamber. This gas is then safely vented to the outside ambient air.
Arsenic in water can be removed at the point of entry into the home by installing tanks filled with arsenic specific resin that captures the arsenic before it can get into the home's water supply. Point of use systems for drinking water can use reverse osmosis technology to effectively remove arsenic as well. Speak to a water treatment professional to decide which system is right for you.
H2O Care is an established Massachusetts based, full service water filtration and testing organization originally formed in 1989 with offices in Middleton, Stow & Lakeville, MA & service depot in Plymouth, MA. See our published articles in Water Technology Magazines at www.h2ocare.com. Contact us at [email protected] or 800-539-1100.


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'The Simpsons' Shred On Stylish Santa Cruz Skateboards
Bart Simpson was a pretty edgy cat when The Simpsons debuted in 1989, what with his skateboarding, slingshotting and his "Eat my shorts!" yelling. Bart's boarding may not afford him as much "bad boy" cred in a 2011 where your grandparents know who guys like Tony Hawk and Shaun White are, but it's still pretty thrilling to see Santa Cruz Skateboards fully replicate Bart's board


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Just buy and play the damn thing, already!
System Shock 2 is one of those games that everyone should get around to playing eventually. It's an eerie and atmospheric first-person shooter with RPG elements that truly was ahead of its time. Some folks like it better than BioShock, others don't; regardless, it is a game that is loved by many and hated by few. Now, with the addition of System Shock 2 to the Steam library, there is no reason not to own it anymore.
The classic randomly hit Steam today with a price of $9.99, temporarily decreased to $6.99 until May 17. It was previously available from GOG.com, and I'm sure many of you bought it as soon as it launched on the site. For those of you who held out…what are you waiting for? Buy it!


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mossy_11 on Tuesday, 07 December 2010. Posted in Mac Classics Reborn
John Calhoun's Glider games hold a special place in the history of Mac gaming, acting almost as an icon of the platform through much of the 1990s. They spawned a hugely dedicated fan base, which produced a ridiculous amount of original content both for and about Glider -- especially Glider 4 and Glider PRO, the later versions.
I caught up with Calhoun over email recently, and quizzed him on the origins and development of the series. This is the second (and final) part of that interview. Read on to discover how Glider grew from a shareware to commercial product, what inspired the new features of Glider 4 and Glider PRO, how the game's community shaped its development, what Calhoun thinks of the Mac indie scene, and more.
You can catch the first part of the interview here. And also be sure to check out Dreaming of a Thousand-Room House: The History and Making of Glider, which provides context and a narrative for this interview.
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On this date in 1400, the Thomas le Despenser was beheaded — as much a lynching as an execution — by a mob at Bristol.
The heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent."
-Henry's loyal (for now) nobleman Northumberland summing up the destruction of the Epiphany Rising in the last scene of Shakespeare's Richard II
House Despenser had painstakingly rebuilt its position in the three generations since Thomas's great-grandfather, the notorious royal favorite Hugh Despenser, was grotesquely butchered for the pleasure of Roger Mortimer. (Readers interested in a deep dive should consult this doctoral thesis (pdf))
By the end of the 14th century, the family patriarch, our man Thomas, had by 1397 parlayed his firm support of Richard II against the Lord Appellant into elevation to a peerage created just for him, the Earldom of Gloucester.
The "Gloucester" sobriquet had just gone onto the market thanks to the beheading that year of the attainted Duke of Gloucester and the consequent revocation of that patrimony. This ought to have been a hint, if his ancestors' fate did not suffice, that such glories are fleeting. Thomas le Despenser had barely two years to enjoy his newfound rank before Richard II was deposed by Henry Bolingbroke who now styled himself Henry IV.
Despite initially making his terms with the new regime, Despenser joined a conspiracy of nobles that contemplated a coup d'etat during the 1399-1400 holidays — the Epiphany Rising, whose misfire has brought other victims to our attention previously.* Titles are the least of what one forfeits in such circumstances; Thomas managed to grab a boat for Cardiff and possible refuge but to his unhappy surprise the ship's captain put in at Bristol to deliver him to his enemies: death was summary, his head posted to the capital for duty on the London Bridge.
The Despensers had already proven the resilience of their line in the face of the violent death of this or that scion and although this was a rough coda for their century of glory they were not done for the English political scene by a long shot. Thomas's widow Constance** got her own plotting afoot by conspiring unsuccessfully in 1405 to kidnap Richard II's heir from Henry's custody as an instrument to leverage for political realignment. (Constance, Executed Today is grieved to report, was not executed for this.)
* Episode 134 of the History of England podcast grapples with the Epiphany Rising.
** Constance's brother is popularly believed to have betrayed the Epiphany Rising.
On this day..
- 1928: Earle Nelson, the Dark Strangler - 2020
- 2011: Leroy White - 2019
- 1973: Lt. Col. Mohamed Amekrane, no asylum - 2017
- 1864: Private Samuel Jones, in retaliation for Private Daniel Bright - 2016
- 1809: Seven Valladolid ruffians, by Napoleon - 2015
- 1869: William German, surprising Klan lynch victim - 2014
- 1979: Pin Peungyard, Gasem Singhara, and (twice) Ginggaew Lorsoungnern - 2013
- 1943: Jarvis Catoe - 2012
- 2010: Liu Lieyong and Chen Xiaohui, Hubei gangsters - 2011
- 1825: Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo, Frei Caneca - 2010
- 1759: The Tavora family - 2009
- 1871: Kawakami Gensai - 2008


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- Must have a valid driver's license of more than two years
- A credit card in the name of the driver is required for the security deposit
- Further Terms and Conditions apply.
- Motorcycles are insured and assisted on the French territory as well as in all the countries appearing on the green insurance card.
- VARIO suitcase kit
- Interior suitcase kits (optional)
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text: Choose one of the most arid deserts in the world, travel there (often not an easy task), strap a gasolinepowered propeller to your back, and parasail off into the blue to snap panoramas of the barrenness below. (Local authorities may also try to arrest you for spying.) Does this sound a bit wacko? It's what George Steinmetz has been doing for the past fifteen years, and when you see the breathtaking photographs in this hefty new collection of his work, you'll be glad that he was crazy enough to do it. And if you think that one sand dune looks pretty much like another, you will find each image a unique delight. The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica provide a subtle abstraction in shades of white, gray, and brown. The green-blue shades of Lake Assal, more briny than the Dead Sea, look like a delicate watercolor against the tans and auburns of the Djibouti desert. The intricate white tessellations of the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia are as psychedelic as an Escher design. And these landscapes aren't all uninhabited abstractions—the paraglider provides an intimate view of the patterned movements of camels, zebras, flamingos, and humans.


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Admin CONTACT: goatlady at Goat-Link.com
These are things I keep in mine along with the dosages I use- and divided into Must Haves, Should Haves and Nice to Haves - Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it!
(or order through Jeffers or ValleyVet Supply)
You need to be able to tell at a glance if something is wrong with one of your goats and if you know what to look for it is not hard to do. Early detection of goat illness and prompt medical attention is the key to treating successfully - Knowing your individual goat's mannerisms and being observant daily is foremost in a healthy herd.
Keep one thing in mind at all times: By the time your goat is showing outward signs of illness the goat has been ill for days sometimes weeks.. it is natural for an animal Not to show outward symptoms of disease or illness for the natural protection of the herd in the wild and this holds true for a domesticated herd as well.


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Lenovo ThinkCentre M92 Tiny System Review: Pint-Sized Power
by Dustin Sklavos on August 17, 2012 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- Ivy Bridge
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Application and Futuremark Performance
Ignoring Intel's naming shenanigans with the Core i5-3470T for a moment, it's hard to get too excited about the CPU choice in the ThinkCentre M92 Tiny when an extra ten watts or hundred dollars would get Lenovo a quad core processor. The power supply should be able to handle it without too much trouble, as there's very little else in the system it has to power, and you'll see there's at least a little thermal headroom in Lenovo's design. That said, keep in mind the M92 is roughly as small as the Logic Supply system we reviewed and smaller than the two Puget Systems machines we're comparing it against.
The PCMarks are unkind to the M92 due to its mechanical storage (the Puget Systems Echo builds both feature SSDs), and unfortunately Lenovo asks an ungainly $220 for an upgrade to a 128GB SSD. The Echo also benefits from being able to support a quad core processor, but keep in mind the Echo is bigger to boot and is powered off of a 95W external power brick instead of a 65W.
Ivy Bridge brings us strong single-threaded performance and the M92 is impressive enough there, but the instant extra cores are brought onto the field it loses a lot of traction. Still, the i5-3470T should be adequate for most tasks and certainly more than enough for kiosk duty.
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randinspace - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
I just saw this in a Lenovo promotional email and thought "I wonder if AT will review it" and here we are, so kudos on the quick review.
Unfortunately, I just can't see any reason to buy one of these instead of a laptop, particularly since your average notebook (as opposed to ultrabook) is actually easier and cheaper to upgrade than one of these would be.
That said, I'm also hopeful that Lenovo dipping their toe into mini-ITX will help to bring the overall cost of the form factor (particularly the motherboards) down sooner rather than later.
Side question: who makes the mobo Lenovo uses for this anyway? I didn't just miss it in the review, did I? -
yyrkoon - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
My guess would be Asus for mobo manufacturer. Just a guess though.
As this motherboard looks like a custom PCB. I am not sure if this would help us cost wise. Dell also had a Core2Duo mini system they sold a couple years back. However I think it was based on mobile components.
As for the reasoning of something like this versus a laptop. Well, *if* it were up-gradable. Then *if* you could add discrete graphics . . . For me, that would be all that was needed. Reasonable gaming performance with a small power footprint,. Granted . . . we'd need a decent low power discrete graphics solution too. Something akin to whats used in mobile systems, with the ability to switch between on board, and discrete. -
ganeshts - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
And it is probably miles ahead in expandability and more importantly, has HD 4000..
But Lenovo is probably going to sell a ton of these as thin clients to SMBs... -
Scannall - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
So Apple's Mac Mini does more and costs less.
$699 seems way overprices. -
macuser2134 - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
Hahahahaha. Too true. Dustin Sklavos you must have been taking crack whilst writing this review not to acknowledge that this product is positioned to compete directly with the Mac Mini. And make a fair comparison. Perhaps you were never aware of the existence of that particular product (the Mac Mini?). Or that it can run Windows 7 and do 100% everything else that this product can?
But thank you Jarred. I began to laugh at this comment:
"However, as much as I want to bag on Lenovo for overcharging and nickel-and-diming end users with the M92 Tiny, the fact remains that nobody else has anything like it."
Jesus what a clanger. I mean really? What makes the Leveno so vastly different from the Mac Mini for you to say that?
Oh yeah its, probably this little gem:
"There's no reason to use rivets to seal the enclosure when screws would've done the job."
It must be that in your review you neglected to mention that this little device was made in the 1950's. That explains it then. Must be doubling up as a battleship or transformers or something.
Priceless comedy god. That made my day. Actually rivets are great, aren't they? Thats absolutely hilarious though. I genuinely have to thank you for writing that. You can't put a price on making people smile.
Of course, for many people its rather sad and still a real shame that none of these manufacturers (and Leveno can definitely be added to that list now). They cannot to produce a product to be seriously considered a worthy competitor to the Mac Mini. That is the unvarnished truth. Its even been re-iterated here on Anandtech (by Anandtech staff) when reviewing similar HTPC products.
Personally I'm not bothered. Because the Mac Mini is so great a product. It seems to be going okay out there on its own. Remaining good value to consumers, even without the competition you would normally expect to drive that. Muahahah Leveno and AsRock eat your face out. Doesn't matter what you write Jarred. Just stop smoking that crack hmm? Its bad for your health man. Its making us worry about you. -
macuser2134 - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
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Dustin Sklavos - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
I don't compare it to the Mac Mini because the Mac Mini isn't servicing the same market this is. Generally speaking if someone wants to buy a Mac, they're going to buy a Mac. Someone named "macuser2134" should be able to grok that well enough. The M92 Tiny is not for Mac users, it's for Windows users, and it's for enterprise and kiosk usage. Those last two markets are places nobody in their right mind is going to buy a Mac for.
The Mac Mini never enters the equation because even though the form factor and hardware may be similar, the use cases are wildly, WILDLY different.
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Dustin: there is no need to get upset with macuser2134, he/she is obviously an apple fanboy.
Anyhow I just fail to see the point of Lenovo (except maybe for kiosk use). Business can buy cheaper than this and have a case that you can get into to replace damaged parts. Actually a cheap laptop would probably be more useful.
If business wants a complete non-upgradeable closed system where if something breaks it has to be sent back to the manufacturer, then Mac mini is probably a better choice although, outside of media, not many businesses are willing to consider Apple. The only benefit of the Lenovo over the Mac mini is that it would come pre-loaded with Windows and ready to use whereas the Mac would no doubt need to be loaded up with windows - not really a problem for most IT depts but might be too much for a small business to deal with.
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macuser2134 - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
Allright, lets say "fair enough" that maybe that was a bit harsh. I apologise for the condescending - sounding tones. Didn't mean to give the impression that the rest of your review was rubbish or anything like that. It was very enjoyable to read about this Leveno product and they are an interesting company.
What seemed really odd to me from a pure reporting and journalistic standpoint the dissmissal of the Mac Mini from the picture here. A kind of biased reporting. There just doesn't seem enough justification or weight behind those market segment arguments to put this product in such a sharply defined seperate category like that. Or rather to exclude the Mini, and put the Mini in a separate category from these other PC products.
Most times that's fair to do because Macs are often a lot more expensive. However not so in this instance.
And in the review it actually says that you don't really know who the Leveno is being aimed at. Because of the "SimpleTap feature" with "Flickr, Facebook, PayPal, Netflix, MTV". So your retort about it being a kiosk only or enterprise only product seems to be inconsistent with that previously expressed viewpoint.
I love the accusation of me being a Mac fanboy but you really know very little about me. I used to have a PC for many years. That is a big reason why I still love to read about these PC reviews and remain interested in the PC market. Nothing really against PCs. When I bought a Mini it was because of merits of the product itself - the Mini. I just couldn't find or make my own PC that was anywhere near as good as that. And there are many other Mac Mini owners just like myself who wanted to get another PC but just couldn't do it anymore. Its a shame but life goes on and maybe one day I can own a PC again.
I was kindda guessing that you would prefer not to have to answer hard questions about your review. Hence the comedy, the jokes. Lighten up a bit maybe? I see now I was wrong because you sound so serious about defending absolutely everything in your article. But without that kind of constructive criticism how are you going to improve your standards of journalistic reporting? It wasn't meant to be mean, I'm sorry if you took it that way. Just really funny. A bit of a clanger but oh well life goes on. No-one got shot did they? No need to take it personally or anything. -
ananduser - Friday, August 17, 2012 - link
A mac mini requires an additional cost, the windows license. And it prevents you from installing backup win images(like acronis). Bootcamp only takes the install .iso. So no, the mac mini is not the best option nor it can ever be.


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Pronunciation: jet-ee • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A natural promontory, land projecting out into water. 2. A pier or dock projecting into the water. 3. A projection from a building, especially from an upper story, a cantilever. 4. A breakwater designed to defend a harbor.
Notes: This word comes from the verb jet "to project forward, to protrude". It is the root of jettison "to throw overboard" and the thing thrown overboard, jetsam. This word is most frequently heard in the phrase flotsam and jetsam. However, items that are thrown overboard and float are flotsam. Jetsam is expected to sink to the bottom, perhaps to wash ashore later. See the connection with the sense of throwing in the Word History.
In Play: Let us first look at the nature of a natural jetty: "The state of Florida is the most prominent natural jetty in the United States." Jetty is most widely used in the US to distinguish breakwaters from piers: "Randy had a few too many drinks on his boat and crashed into the jetty as he entered the harbor." Of course, we should not forget the architectural usage: "The jetty on Henderson's house allowed him to run a driveway beneath it and bring the second floor up to his property line."
Word History: Today's Good Word comes from Old French jetee "something thrown out, a projection", the feminine past participle of jeter "to throw". Old French inherited this word from Vulgar (Street) Latin iectare, an alteration of Classical Latin iactare "to throw". There are many words English borrowed from Latin with this root: subject, inject, eject, interject. English made jut out of the same Old French word, jetee, though it is not clear how it did this. (We wish Anthony Arlidge safe harbors always for his suggestion of this word, whether protected by a jetty or not.)
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With the Tribune Company nearing the end of its interminable bankruptcy and Peter Liguori poised to become its new CEO, the question arises of what he will do with the reborn media company.
From what my sources tell me, most likely he will oversee much of its dismantling.
An insider close to Tribune leadership tells me that Liguori has for some time been designated as the CEO-in-waiting, reporting to Edgar Lee of the private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management, the creditor who is now running the show.
They have a plan, I'm told. "They're going to liquidate as much as they can," said this senior insider.
Also read: FCC Approves Tribune Co. Bid to Transfer Print/TV Ownership (Updated)
On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission signed off on waivers needed to transfer Tribune Co.'s broadcast properties to new ownership, the final major hurdle before the company can emerge from nearly four years in Chapter 11.
Current Tribune CEO Eddy Hartenstein released a statement to the Chicago Tribune saying the company is expected to emerge from Chapter 11 "over the course of the next several weeks."
Once that happens, Liguori is expected to be formally named. And then?
My insider suggests that the newspapers, particularly the "crown jewel" of the company — The Los Angeles Times — will be on the auction block.
Tribune comprises nearly a dozen newspapers, including The Times and Chicago Tribune, and 23 local television stations and radio stations.
As a standalone proposition, The Times is still a profitable entity, according to this executive. But like print newspapers across the country, its overall revenue is in steady decline. Buyers for print properties have proven to be few and far between of late.
Still, with about $50 million in profit expected this year, an expected sale price would be about $200 million, according to my insider. That represents a shocking decline from what the newspaper could have commanded just five years ago when David Geffen offered $2 billion for the property in 2007. Tribune, then run by Sam Zell, declined.
Also read: Will Tribune Co. Sell its Newspapers Post-Bankruptcy?
Thus goes the fate of newspapers. (And no, the L.A. Times real estate is not worth as much as its locations might suggest, with huge environmental and zoning issues involved in any repurposing, according to another informed source who has looked at them.)
Liguori is a television executive, having come from building FX into a significant cable presence, before being promoted to run entertainment at Fox (where he was bumped in 2009).
He then went to Discovery as COO, where he was meant to help launch Oprah's new channel OWN. Oprah took that endeavor over as CEO in mid-2011, and Liguori left Discovery last December.
Liguori's resume suggests that Tribune will focus on its television channels, which are also the largest source of revenue for the $3 billion company, although my insider says some of those channels are also likely to be sold.
The new ownership group comprise senior creditors Oaktree Capital Management, Angelo, Gordon & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Their view of Tribune? "It's not a big growth play," said the individual. "This is a private equity fund. They are interested in maximizing the value and getting out."


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Finally, New York could celebrate an NBA playoff victory again.
Carmelo Anthony scored 41 points, Stoudemire had 20 points and 10 rebounds in his return from a cut hand, and the Knicks snapped an NBA-record, 13-game postseason losing streak by beating the Miami Heat 89-87 Sunday in Game 4 of their first-round series.
"I think it's the first of many," said Stoudemire, his left arm back in a sling to keep his hand elevated. "Tonight was a great win for us, for our fans to finally get over that hump of those consecutive games that we lost, I guess the Knicks, lost over those years in the playoffs."
Anthony made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 54.5 seconds left as the Knicks overcame another serious injury to win a playoff game for the first time since beating Toronto on April 29, 2001, in Game 3 of a best-of-five series. Baron Davis dislocated his right kneecap in the third quarter, just as the Knicks were making the run that got them back into the game after a dismal first half.
"I'm just glad that we came together after that, kept our composure, kept on fighting and won the basketball game," Anthony said.
LeBron James scored 27 for the Heat, who will try to close it out in Game 5 at home on Wednesday. Dwyane Wade had 22, but missed a 3-pointer on the last possession that would have given Miami a lengthy rest before starting the second round.
"We'd love to take the week (off) but it's not in the cards for us to do that in this round," Wade said. "You know, we'll adjust. We play Wednesday in Miami at 7 o'clock. We'll be ready to play and give our fans another exciting game."
Wade's errant shot set off a loud celebration from Knicks fans whose team was on the verge of getting swept for the second straight year, and third straight time dating to 2004. It didn't look as if the elusive postseason victory would come in this series, after the Knicks had been blown out by 20 points per game in the first three games.
But they got a huge lift from Stoudemire, playing with padding over his hand just six days after he punched a fire extinguisher case after a Game 2 loss in Miami. And they got a sensational effort from Anthony, who shot 15 of 29 and was one point shy of his playoff career best after he made only 34.4 percent of his shots in the first three games.
"We stepped up to the challenge," Anthony said.
Now here comes another: The Knicks need a solution at point guard after Davis was carted off on a stretcher with his severe knee injury. Jeremy Lin is close to returning from knee surgery, but Iman Shumpert was lost with a torn knee ligament in Game 1.
A day after the Dallas team that beat them in the finals was swept by Oklahoma City, the Heat failed in their attempt for their first sweep since beating Washington in the 2005 Eastern Conference semifinals.
The series was on pace to be one of the most lopsided in NBA history through three games, but this one was within four points the entire fourth quarter, the crowd at Madison Square Garden growing louder with every play that moved the Knicks closer to their first playoff win in 11 years.
Mike Bibby's 3-pointer with 1:23 left snapped an 81-all tie, but the Heat called timeout and ran a play that freed James for a wide-open 3 that tied it again seven seconds later. On the Knicks' next possession, Anthony came far beyond the arc to receive the ball after JR Smith picked up his dribble, then dribbled forward and pulled up for a 3 that made it 87-84 with 54.5 to play.
The Heat turned it over on their next possession when Chris Bosh's pass sailed into the backcourt, and Anthony was fouled by Shane Battier attempting a 3-pointer. He made only one foul shot, and the Heat cut it to one again when James converted a three-point play while drawing Tyson Chandler's sixth foul.
Stoudemire made a free throw with 14 seconds left to make it 89-87, and Wade lost control of the ball driving into the middle on Miami's last possession. He regained it and dribbled to the corner for a 3-pointer that was off.
"I had a lane and then I kind of lost the ball. When I lost it, I knew that they'd recover by then so it made me dribble it out," Wade said. "We got the switch and I got a little step on Amare and I was about to go to my shot. I was about to go to my shot but I kind of fumbled the ball a little bit. I thought I got a good look. I thought it was going in. But it came up a little short."
Stoudemire had surgery Wednesday to repair a muscle in his left hand and the Knicks had listed him as doubtful for Sunday, but he was back on the court during practice Friday and cleared to play in Game 4.
He was back in his usual spot as the last player introduced during starting lineups, getting a loud reception, and he quickly picked the Knicks up after their sluggish start.
"He's a good player. He's a great player honestly, and he gave them the spark that they needed," James said.
The Heat jumped to an 8-1 lead, holding the Knicks without a basket for almost four minutes to start the game. Then Stoudemire had three baskets in a 12-2 spurt to give the Knicks the lead, and they were up 20-18 after one following two free throws by Anthony with 7.3 seconds left.
The game then turned into a foul-fest, with 23 called in the second period. The Heat shot 19 free throws, making 14, while the Knicks were 8 of 9. Stoudemire and Chandler both went to the bench with their third fouls, but the Heat failed to pull away even after forcing the Knicks to miss their first six shots of the period while opening a 10-point lead.
Both teams shot 33 percent in the quarter, played at a glacial pace while the teams paraded to the free-throw line. Miami led 44-38 at halftime.
Miami led 51-40 before the Knicks' offense finally got going. Stoudemire made a jumper and converted a three-point play, Anthony made a layup, and Smith stole the ball and made a 3-pointer for a quick 10-0 run.
James missed and the ball was batted up ahead to Davis, who drove in with a chance to give the Knicks the lead. But his leg buckled near the foul line and he crumbled to the court, called for a travel. Concerned teammates quickly waved for help, and Davis was wheeled off the court.
But New York regrouped and surged into the lead, going up by six late in the period before taking a 64-61 advantage to the fourth. After making only 13 baskets in the first half, the Knicks shot 10 of 20 in the third, getting 11 points from Anthony.
Game notes
Heat reserve C Eddy Curry (flu) was not with Miami for the game. … There was a musical tribute during a second-quarter timeout for Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who died Friday of cancer.


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Nokia, now lightened of its handset load thanks to Microsoft, has made an acquisition to expand its HERE mapping business, one of the assets that has remained with the Finnish company. It has bought Desti, a mapping startup and app maker that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help people find what they are looking for. Desti is a spin-out from SRI International, the same group that produced Siri, now part of Apple.
As part of the deal, the existing Desti app will be shut down. Don Zereski, VP of search and discovery at HERE, says it will be wound down "within the next 90 days." The iOS app has already been pulled from the App Store.
Instead, the company will be incorporating Desti's technology into its HERE platform as it looks to add more personalised search to the product "over the balance of this year," he said in an interview.
And, as Nokia makes its APIs available to third parties, it will be interesting if it uses the Desti technology for its own services, or chooses to open that up to developers as well.
Zereski says that while initially the technology will be used in HERE's own, branded apps, it will also play into the company's wider API effort. "The Desti backend will beocme a part of the platform over time," he says.
The deal is an interesting one because it gives Nokia another way to build out its mapping business and add an intelligent layer on top of it — in this case not just to facilitate more hands-free and mobile-friendly interaction, but also a way of searching Nokia's location data.
This will take Nokia into areas beyond mapping and more into services that use location. "Desti technology goes way beyond maps," Zereski says. He says that the fact that its data trove is organised around natural language will make it easier to search and discover. "Desti has done a terrific job mining the web to collect data about places. It allows users to discover them using the way we speak about them. It lets users discover information in a more intuitive way."
Adding more firepower to its mapping business is essential right now for Nokia because the company, now without its core handset business, will need to prove that what is has left can be a sustainable business on its own — or at least be an attractive acquisition for another company interested owning one of the handful of companies that controls primary mapping data.
Currently HERE is a fairly small part of Nokia operation. In the first quarter of this year, reported at the end of April, HERE had net sales of €209 million ($284 million), down 3% on a year ago and down 18% on the previous quarter. HERE represented less than 10% of Nokia's overall net sales of €2.7 billion ($3.7 billion).
One of Nokia's biggest customers for HERE, at the least for the short/medium term, will be Microsoft, which has signed a four-year licensing deal for the mapping technology for its mobile devices the operating systems that run on them.
In that regard Nokia is tasked with another challenge: it needs to start laying the groundwork now for how and where it will generate revenue after those four years are up, either from continued business from Microsoft or from other customers — and ideally both.
Desti could help on that front with its functionality and for how it might be commercialised itself.
"I don't expect consumers to pay for services but Desti provides ways to create more commerce models around the product," Zereski notes. "It will allow consumers to book hotels and restaurants from our products." He was cut off from saying more on this by one of the PR people sitting in on the call, who cut in to emphasise that this is all theoretical at this point.
This would of course put Nokia into closer competition with the likes of Google, Yelp and Foursquare — the latter being a partner at the moment.
Analyst Neil Shah points out, there are a number of places, more immediately, where Desti may get integrated:
- It beefs up HERE platform as a much more smarter contextual search engine
- Into HERE's LiveSight service for richer search experiences
- In HERE's in-vehicle services
- Location-based search results
- Location-based services for specific verticals
Nokia says it is not disclosing the terms of the deal. We are still trying to find out.
You can read more about Desti in our profile of the startup when it launched in 2012. The company had raised $2 million from SRI International, Horizons Ventures and Carmel Ventures.


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The exhibition, Angela Gregory: From Paris to Port Allen will be on display at the West Baton Rouge Museum from April 2 through June 12, 2016. The exhibit features the art and sculpture of Angela Gregory including her work on the Bienville Monument, the Henry Watkins Allen Monument, the Negro Project, as well as personal and religious works. On loan from the Newcomb Museum of Fine Art, the exhibit will also showcase Gregory's copy of the 15th century Head of Christ by Beauvais that she completed in the Paris studio of Antoine Bourdelle, the protégé of Auguste Rodin. Other pieces on display come from The Old State Capitol, The Historic New Orleans Collection, The Angela Gregory Estate, The West Baton Rouge Historical Association, and private collections.
Born in New Orleans, Angela Gregory (1903-1990) graduated from Newcomb College in 1925 and received a scholarship to study art at the Paris branch of Parson's School of Fine and Applied Arts. Once in Paris, she sought out Bourdelle with whom she studied for two years. Upon returning to New Orleans, she received numerous commissions throughout Louisiana and the United States including the Henry Watkins Allen monument in Port Allen.


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Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered an impassioned speech at an event marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, saying that not allowing a proposed mosque to be built near ground zero would be "compromising our commitment to fighting terror with freedom."
"We would undercut the values and principles that so many heroes died protecting," Bloomberg said at the dinner Tuesday in observance of Iftar, the breaking of the daily fast during Ramadan.
The mayor said he understood the "impulse to find another location for the mosque" but a compromise won't end the debate.
"The question will then become how big should the no-mosque zone around the World Trade Center be," Bloomberg said. "There is already a mosque four blocks away. Should it, too, be moved?"
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Sharif el-Gamal, the mosque site's developer, and Daisy Khan, a co-founder of the group planning the mosque, were also at the dinner attended by about 100 people, including members of the Muslim community and city officials such as police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
After Bloomberg spoke, el-Gamal said he was "very honored and blessed" to be an American and a New Yorker.
"Mayor Bloomberg's speech embodied the values and the mores that we as Muslim Americans live and cherish," el-Gamal said.
Khan said Bloomberg "delivered a passionate speech in defense of our deep American values."
Meanwhile, the heated rhetoric surrounding the proposal for an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from ground zero drew concern from Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who said Tuesday the tense climate could put New Yorkers in danger of losing their sense of tolerance and unity, values they embraced in the days after Sept. 11.
"We're just a little bit apprehensive that those noble values may be a bit at risk in the way this conversation and debate about the site of the mosque is taking place," Dolan, the leader of the area's Roman Catholics, said after a meeting with Gov. David Paterson about the issue.
A national survey underscored the complex views of Americans toward the mosque project, with 51 percent agreeing with opponents of the Muslim center, while 34 percent said they supported it. The poll of 1,003 randomly chosen adults was conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center and showed that a majority, 62 percent, also said Muslims have equal rights to build houses of worship.
While supporters of the mosque say religious freedom should be protected, opponents say the mosque should be moved farther away from where Islamic extremists destroyed the World Trade Center and killed nearly 2,800 people on Sept. 11, 2001.
Dolan said both sides of the debate have legitimate stances.
"I sure don't have strong feelings on where the mosque should ultimately be," he said during a brief news conference after meeting with the governor.
They spoke about how religion can be brought to bear on the debate over the proposal in an effort to encourage reconciliation and community, rather than divisiveness, Dolan said, and expressed willingness to be part of the dialogue if asked.
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who represents the lower Manhattan district where ground zero is, suggested Tuesday that Islamic leaders should move the proposed mosque. Paterson has made the same point.
Organizers have the right to build the center at a building two blocks north of ground zero but should be open to compromise, Silver said.
"In the spirit of living with others, they should be cognizant of the feelings of others and try to find a location that doesn't engender the deep feelings the currently exist about this site," Silver said.
Paterson has yet to meet with anyone from The Cordoba Initiative, the project's organizer.
Its co-founder, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is on a Mideast trip funded by the U.S. Department of state. He alluded to the controversy at a dinner Sunday night for student leaders at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Manama, Bahrain.
"The fact we are getting this kind of attention is a sign of success," he said. "It is my hope that people will understand more. … This is something we are doing for your generation."
Rauf also thanked President Barack Obama, who has said Muslims have the right to practice their religion and build the Islamic center in lower Manhattan. The president later said he wasn't endorsing the specifics of the plan.
The White House said Tuesday that Obama would have no further comment on the issue and that the administration will not get involved in talks about relocating the facility. Republicans have vowed to make Obama's supportive comments a campaign issue in this fall's midterm elections.
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Groups and producers pleased with court ruling, damage to local growers temporarily averted
The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) failed to provide adequate justification for a temporary rule issued earlier this month that would have allowed the unlawful expansion of canola growing in the Willamette Valley. Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Friends of Family Farms (FoFF) petitioned the court on behalf of growers to review ODA's rulemaking that bypassed public input and posed immediate and irreversible damage to Willamette Valley, local growers and the state's renowned organics industry.
The court ruled that CFS and FoFF demonstrated a "very substantial likelihood of prevailing on the merits" in upholding the stay of any planting — calling the ODA's position "inscrutable." Further the court found that the petitioners demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm to the Willamette Valley had the planting been allowed.
"We are gratified that the court has affirmed our arguments on the illegality of ODA's temporary rule and the harm it would bring to farmers and the environment," said George Kimbrell, senior attorney at Center for Food Safety. "Heading into the Labor Day weekend, it's a fitting tribute to the hardworking growers who have created a thriving economic engine for the state."
The Willamette Valley is one of the world's five remaining regions that can grow commercial grade seed for brassicas, which include broccoli, radish, cabbage and turnips. Canola is also in the brassica family and readily cross-pollinates with these specialty seed crops, making them unmarketable. Many countries and seed purchasers have already written letters stating that they will not purchase seed grown in the Willamette Valley if canola production is expanded.
"We've managed to overcome this first roadblock, but the fight does not end here," says Leah Rodgers, field director for Friends of Family Farmers. "Still on the table is the fight over the identical permanent rule that would change the face of the Willamette Valley, the lives and livelihoods of growers and the economic security of this state."
With the likelihood for genetically engineered cross-contamination of crops growing in the Willamette Valley, the marketability and reputation of Oregon's specialty seed industry would be critically harmed. The source of over $32 million each year for Oregon's economy, specialty seed producers stand to suffer major economic losses if the permanent rule is established.
"I expect that we will lose $500,000 to $750,000 of brassica sales within a year based on the customer fear of contamination," said specialty seed producer and co-plaintiff Nick Tichinin. "Once it inevitably proliferates in the valley, canola will become a new, established noxious weed."
A hearing on ODA's permanent rule has been scheduled for 9:00 a.m. PDT, Friday, September 28th at the Oregon State Fairgrounds. FoFF is organizing a rally for the day, gathering signatures for a petition to ODA and spearheading a letter-writing campaign for providing comments on the rule. For more information on the rally, hearings, testimony and the petition drive, contact Friends of Family Farmers.
A copy of the Order Granting Motion to Stay can be found here.
About Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety is a national, non-profit, membership organization founded in 1997 to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. More information can be found at www.centerforfoodsafety.org.
About Friends of Family Farmers
Friends of Family Farmers is a grassroots organization promoting sensible policies, programs, and regulations that protect and expand the ability of Oregon's family farmers to run a successful land-based enterprise while providing safe and nutritious food for all Oregonians. Through education, advocacy, and community organizing, Friends of Family Farmers supports socially and environmentally responsible family-scale agriculture and citizens working to shape healthy rural and urban communities. You can find out more about Friends of Family Farmers at www.friendsoffamilyfarmers.org.


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with Violent Women
Pulling aside the blanket of silence on a taboo subject.
by Erin Pizzey
Copyright © 1997 by Erin
Those of us
working in the field of domestic violence are confronted daily by the difficult
task of working with women in problematical families. In my work with family
violence, I have come to recognize that there are women involved in emotionally
and/or physically violent relationships who express
and enact disturbance beyond the expected (and acceptable) scope of distress.
Such individuals, spurred on by deep feelings of vengefulness, vindictiveness,
and animosity, behave in a manner that is singularly destructive; destructive
to themselves as well as to some or all of the other family members, making an
already bad family situation worse. These women I have found it useful to
describe as "family terrorists."
In my experience, men also are
capable of behaving as family terrorists but male violence tends to be more
physical and explosive. We have had thousands of international studies about
male violence but there is very little about why or how women are violent.
There seems to be a blanket of silence over the huge figures of violence
expressed by women. Because family terrorism is a tactic largely used by women
and my work in the domestic violence field is largely with women, I address
this problem discussing only my work with women.
Whose moods set the tone?
potential for terrorism may rest dormant for many years, emerging in its full
might only under certain circumstances. I found that in many cases it is the
dissolution, or threatened dissolution, of the family that calls to the fore
the terrorist's destructiveness. It is essential to understand that prior to dissolution, the potential terrorist plays a role in the
family that is by no means passive. The terrorist is the family member whose
moods reign supreme in the family, whose whims and actions determine the
emotional climate of the household. In this setting, the terrorist could be
described as the family tyrant, for within the family, this individual
maintains the control and power over the other members' emotions.
The family well may be characterized
as violent, incestuous, dysfunctional, and unhappy, but it is the terrorist or
tyrant who is primarily responsible for initiating conflict, imposing
histrionic outbursts upon otherwise calm situations, or (more subtly and
invisibly) quietly manipulating other family members into uproar through guilt,
cunning taunts, and barely perceptive provocations. ( The
quiet manipulative terrorist usually is the most undetected terrorist. Through
the subtle creation of perpetual turmoil, this terrorist may virtually drive
other family members to alcoholism, to drug-addiction, to explosive behavior,
to suicide. The other family members, therefore, are often misperceived as the
"family problem" and the hidden terrorist as the saintly woman who
"puts up with it all.")
While the family remains together,
however miserable that "togetherness" might be, the terrorist maintains
her power. However, it is often the separation of the family that promises to
rend the terrorist's domain and consequently to lessen the power. Family
dissolution, therefore, often is the time when the terrorist feels most
threatened and most alone, and because dangerous.
Household Hitler?
In this
position of fear, the family terrorist sets out to achieve a specific goal.
There are many possible goals for the terrorist, including: reuniting the
family once again, or ensuring that the children (if there are children in the
relationship) remain under the terrorist's control, or actively destroying the
terrorist's spouse (or ex-spouse) emotionally, physically, and financially. When it was evident to Adolph Hitler that winning the War as an
absolute impossibility, he ordered his remaining troops to destroy
The family terrorist, like the
political terrorist, is motivated by the pursuit of a goal. In attempting to
"disarm" the family terrorist, it is vital that the practitioner
begin intervention by trying to recognize and understand the terrorist's goal.
The source of the terrorist's goal
as in the case of the political terrorist, usually can
be understood to spring from some "legitimate" grievance. The
grievance's legitimacy may be regarded in terms of justified feeling of outrage
in response to an actual injustice or injury, or the legitimacy may exist
solely in the mind of the terrorist. Whether this legitimacy be
real or imagined, the grievance starts as the impetus for the terrorist's
motivation. One hallmark of an emotional terrorist is that this motivation
tends to be obsessional by nature.
Whence this obsession? Why this
overwhelmingly powerful drive? In many cases, that which the terrorist believes
to be the grievance against the spouse actually has very little to do with the
spouse. Although the terrorist may be consciously aware only of the spouse's
alleged offense, the pain of this offense (real or imagined) is invariably an
echo of the past, a mirrored recreation of some painful situation in the
terrorist's childhood.
I will not describe here in any
detail the types of childhood that tend to create the subsequent terrorist. I will say, however, that invariably the terrorist's childhood, once
understood, can be seen as violent (emotionally and/or physically). Also
invariably, the terrorist can be regarded as a "violence prone"
individual. I define a violence prone woman as a woman who while complaining
that she is the innocent victim of the malice and aggression of all other
relationships in her life, is in fact, a victim of her own violence and
Violent addiction
A violent
and painful childhood tends to create in the child an addiction to violence and
to pain (an addiction on all levels: emotional, physical, intellectual,
neurochemical), an addiction that then compels the individual to recreate
situations and relationships characterized by further violence, further danger,
further suffering, further pain. Thus, it is primarily the residual pain from
childhood - and only secondarily the pain of the terrorist's current familial
situation - that serves as the terrorist's motivating impetus. There is
something pathological about the terrorist's motivation, for it is based not so
much on reality as on a twisting, a distortion, a reshaping of reality.
Because the emotional terrorist is a
violence-prone individual, addicted to violence, the terrorist's actions must
be understood as the actions of an addict. When the family was together, the
terrorist found fulfillment for any number of unhealthy appetites and
addictions. When that family then dissolves, the terrorist behaves with all the
desperation, all the obsession, all the single-minded determination of any
addict facing or suffering withdrawal.
The single-mindedness, the
one-sidedness of feeling, is perhaps the most important shibboleth of the
emotional terrorist. Furthermore, the extent of this one-sidedness is, for the
practitioner, perhaps the greatest measure and indicator of how extreme the
terrorist's actions are capable of becoming.
Any person suffering an unhappy
family situation, or the dissolution of a marriage or relationship, will feel
some pain and desperation. A relatively well-balanced person, however, will be
not only aware of their own distress but also sensitive, in some degree, to the
suffering of the other family members. (For example, reasonably well-balanced
parents, when facing divorce, will be most concerned with their children's
emotional well-being, even beyond their own grief.) Not so the emotional
To the family terrorist, there is
only one wronged, one sufferer, only one person in pain, and this person is the
terrorist herself. The terrorist has no empathy and feels only her own pain. In
this manner, the terrorist's capacity for feeling is narcissistic, solipsistic,
and in fact pathological.
Lacking conscience
Again, I
will not attempt here to detail the factors in childhood that lead to the
creation of an emotional terrorist. What is, however, evident, in the
terrorist's limited or non-existent ability to recognize other people's
feelings, is that the terrorist's emotions and awareness, at crucial stages of
childhood development, were stunted from reaching beyond the boundaries of
self, due to a multiplicity of reasons. Later, the adult terrorist went on to
make a relationship that was, on some level, no true relationship, but a
re-enactment of childhood pains, scenarios, situations, and
Throughout the relationship, the
solipsistic terrorist did not behave genuinely in response to the emotions of
other family members but self- servingly used them as props for the recreation
of the terrorist's programme. And when that relationship finally faces
dissolution, the terrorist is aware only of her own
pain and outrage and, feeling no empathy for other family members, will proceed
single-mindedly in pursuit of her goal, whether that goal is reunion, ruin, or
revenge. The terrorist's perspective is tempered by little or objectivity.
Instead the terrorist lives in a self-contained world of purely subjective pain
and anger.
Because conscience consists so
largely of the awareness of other people's feelings as well as of one's own,
the emotional terrorist's behavior often can be described virtually without
conscience. In this lack of conscience lies the dangerous potential of the true
terrorist, and again the degree of conscience in evidence is a useful measure
in my work to anticipate the terrorist's destructiveness.
An additional factor, making the
terrorist so dangerous, is the fact that the terrorist, while in positively
monomaniacal pursuit of her goal, feels fueled by a sense of omnipotence.
Perhaps it is true that one imagines oneself omnipotent when, in truth, one is
in a position of impotence (as in the case of losing one's familial control
through dissolution). Whatever the source of the sensation of omnipotence, the
terrorist believes herself to be unstoppable, and unbound by the constraints or
conscience or empathy, believes that no cost (cost, either to the terrorist or to
other family members) is too great to pay toward the achievement of the goal.
The terrorist, and the terrorist's
actions, know no bounds. (The estimation of the extent of the terrorist's
"boundlessness" presents the greatest challenge to my work). Intent
only to achieve the goal (perhaps "hell-bent" is the most accurate
descriptive phrase) the terrorist will take such measures as: stalking a spouse
or ex-spouse, physically assaulting the spouse or the spouse's new partners,
telephoning all mutual friends and business associates of the spouse in an
effort to ruin the spouse's reputation, pressing fabricated criminal charges
against the spouse ( including alleged battery and child molestation), staging
intentionally unsuccessful suicide attempts for the purpose of manipulation,
snatching children from the spouse's care and custody, vandalizing the spouse's
property, murdering the spouse and/or the children as an act of revenge.
In my experience both men and women
are equally guilty of the above behavior but on the whole, because it is men's
dysfunctional behavior that is studied and reported upon, people do not realize
that to the same extent women are equally guilty of this type of violent
Lapsing into lucidity
My working
definition, then, of a family terrorist or an emotional terrorist is: a woman
or a man (but for the purposes of this work, I refer only to women) who,
pathologically motivated (by unresolved tendencies from a problematical
childhood), and pathologically insensitive to the feelings of other family
members, obsessionally seeks through unbounded action to achieve a destructive
(and, therefore, pathological) goal with regard to other family members.
Of course, this defining profile
pertains to individuals in differing degrees. Many people, unhappy within a
relationship or made unhappy by the dissolution of a relationship, may lapse
into periods of "irrational" behavior. What characterizes the
terrorist, however, is that the vindictive and destructive behaviors are consistent;
the moments of calm and periods of lucidity are the lapses, temporary lulls in
the storm.
Also, there are women who, suffering
chagrin and misery during or after the lifespan of a relationship,
appear far more self-destructive than destructive to anyone else. For the other
partner, contemplating leaving this kind of individual, the very thought of
leaving such a person is made difficult and untenable by such frequently
uttered protestations as "I cannot live without you," and
"Without you, I might as well be dead."
To be sure, many women exist,
extremely dependent within their relationships, who,
probably having suffered sever emotional betrayal during their childhood,
genuinely feel that their life outside a relationship would be so lonely as to
be unbearable. It is difficult to leave such a woman, and the man attempting to
leave may well feel that, by leaving, he would be
responsible for delivering a mortal blow to an already pathetic wretch. Men
also, are often kept in their relationships which can only be likened to
personal concentration camps, by the fact that they feel a genuine feeling of
chivalry toward their partner. Women tend to put so much more of themselves
into their relationships and therefore suffer when these relationships fall
There is a valid question as to
whether or not this sort of suicidally-inclined individual may be deemed a
terrorist. (To many minds, this kind of individual, no doubt, would seem to
fall more within the category of "emotional black-mailer.") I believe
that sadly, there are people, deeply damaged by their childhoods, who genuinely
cannot face life by themselves. When dealing with such potential cases,
however, I try to make the leaving partner understand that the suicidally
inclined's inclinations predate the relationship by many years, and that,
however tragic the situation, one person simply cannot be held responsible for
keeping another person alive.
Longing for death
In some
individuals, the authentic (though unhealthy) longing for death is a longing
planted within them since early childhood, and there is very little a partner
can do to alter the apparently inevitable course of that longing.
Among true terrorists, however,
threats of suicide can be seen to serve a largely manipulative role. In short,
the terrorist says, "If you can't do as I tell you, I will kill
myself." Whether suicide remains only a threat or is realized, the true
terrorist uses suicide not so much as an expression of desperate grief but as a
weapon to be wielded against others.
In working with clients struggling either in relationships or with the dissolution
of a relationship, I am faced with many questions, all relevant to gauging the
woman's terrorist potential: Will the woman persevere in her efforts to
financially ruin her partner? Is she sincere when she promises to kill her
partner, or have him killed, should he ever become involved in a new
relationship? Are the threats of suicide genuine or manipulative? Will she
carry out the promises of using the law to kidnap the children in order to hurt
the ex-partner? Will she brain-wash the children to
such an extent that her ex-partner dare not form a new relationship?
Other contexts
terrorism is by no means confined to the family context. I know an extremely
successful woman in the world of fine arts. This woman has been haunted by a
former assistant who, vicariously imagining herself to be the writer herself,
dresses like her, stalks her, and issues public statements that it was she, not
the writer, who created the works of art for which the writer is
internationally famous. If the writer is to ensure her own safety, then very
definite steps must be taken.
In situations of emotional and
family terrorism, there are two areas of work to be done: practical measures of
protection (strategies for survival) on the part of family members, and
therapeutic work with the terrorist himself or herself. I must reiterate at
this stage, that both men and women are capable of terrorist tactics but men
tend to behave in a more physically violent manner within the family. Women, as I have shown use far more subtle tactics; i.e., that of
the terrorist as opposed to outright war.
The first step, on the part of other
family members, toward limiting the terrorist's destructive potential is to
understand the terrorist to be a terrorist.
In a recent case, a Mr. Roberts
described to me how, during his marriage, he and his children faced a daily
onslaught of verbal abuse from his wife. Mrs. Roberts was also physically
violent to the children. Now that he has asked for a divorce, she is making use
of every weapon in her arsenal. In the children's presence, she has used drugs
and drunk alcohol to the point of extreme
intoxication. She has staged several unsuccessful suicide attempts in front of
the children, threatened over the telephone to "do something stupid,"
promised to kill Mr. Roberts' new partner, and assured Mr. Roberts that when
she has finished with him he will not have a penny to his name.
To Mr. Roberts, all of this behavior
seemed perfectly usual. After all, he had witnessed this sort of commotion for
thirteen years of their marriage. When I suggested to him,
"What you endured is emotional terrorism," he suddenly and for the
first time was able to see his situation clearly. Now, he realized, his
wife's behavior was neither appropriate nor acceptable. No, this was not the
treatment that every man should expect from his wife, either in or out of
marriage. No, he does not want his children to be subjected to such extreme
behavior any longer. The fact of recognizing a terrorist is the essential first
Then, because a terrorist is fueled
by a feeling of omnipotence and is prepared to behave without bounds, (usually
encouraged by feminist therapists who insist that their clients suffer from
"low self esteem"), pragmatic measures must be taken to define
clearly the boundaries of behavior.
Disarm the terrorists
It is
unfortunate that the legal situation which many divorce agreements mandate is
open-ended. Certainly, when both parties to a divorce are reasonably
well-balanced, it is entirely fitting for the settlement to be flexible enough
to incorporate changing financial circumstances, child-care capabilities, and
visitation rights. When, however, one party to the divorce is an emotional
terrorist, then both the confrontational divorce procedure and the resultant
open-ended divorce settlement provide infinite opportunity for the courts,
lawyers, and the entire battery of psychologists called in for evaluations, to
be used as the terrorist's weapons. In these cases, the court and the divorce
procedure provide no boundaries for the terrorist; instead they allow the
terrorist to continue to behave boundlessly.
For this reason, when dealing with a
terrorist, it is best for the divorce procedure and final decree to be as
swift, as final, as absolute, as unequivocal as
possible. Every practitioner or attorney handling divorces is familiar with
clients described as "litigious." Only when "litigiousness"
is seen as a manifestation of terrorism can the course to swift and precise
legal settlement be steered.
To limit the terrorist's feelings of
omnipotence, there are many effective measures. The guiding principle, as in
the handling of political terrorists, must be: "There is no negotiating
with terrorists." Endless telephone calls, conversations, confrontation,
trial "get-back-togethers," correspondence, visitations, gestures of
appeasement, and efforts to placate the terrorist's demands, all serve to
reinforce the terrorist's belief that she is accomplishing something. Only
determined resolution in the face of terrorism shows the terrorist that her
power is limited.
Furthermore, for anyone dealing
directly with the terrorist, reassurances, "ego boosts,"
"positive strokes," and consolations are lamentably counter-
productive. Mrs. Roberts soon found for herself a feminist therapist staunchly
supporting the erroneous belief "All feelings (and therefore behaviors)
are valid." Mrs. Roberts is told by this therapist that she has a right to
feel and to behave in any manner she chooses, in callous disregard for the
devastation inflicted upon the children. Such reassurances serve only to
fortify the terrorist's already pathological, solipsistic, and eternally
self-justifying perspective.
If wishing to undertake the second
sphere of disarming a terrorist - personal intervention with the terrorist
herself - the therapist must be prepared to be straight, honest and very
direct. In my own dealings with women as terrorists, I have found on occasion
that one quite simply can point out to the terrorist, "You are behaving
like a terrorist. This is what you are doing. This is how you are being
destructive. This is the destruction you are heading toward," and the
terrorist, seeing themselves clearly for the first time, might be encouraged to
reconsider their behavior.
More commonly, however, extremely
deep therapy is required. For the terrorist's behavior to change,
there must first be a solid and fundamental change within the terrorist's
physiological constitution. Usually it is only by an in-depth excavation and
resolution of early childhood pain that the terrorist can begin to gain a real,
true, and level-headed perception of her own current situation.
Direct intervention with a terrorist
- like all forms of therapeutic intervention - can hope to achieve change only
if the individual concerned wishes to change and possesses that vital yet
ineffable quality: the will to health. When the will to health is lacking,
there can be no change. If the terrorist cannot or will not change, one can
only help the other family members to be resolute, strong, and, whenever
possible, distant.
Pizzey was the founder of a women's shelter in
Source: http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1997/7-dec97/pizzey07.html


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