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Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton
YOU KNOW THE SCENARIO. It begins with someone asserting that global warming really exists. "Oh, yeah?" asks his skeptical friend. "Show me this thing called global warming; where is it exactly?" The other points first to a graph, then to a spate of bushfires, then casts around for another disparate bit of evidence. In the end the skeptic has the last laugh with her example of the delicious irony of climate scientists being stuck on a ship frozen in Antarctic ice.
This is the conundrum that Morton hits upon in this book. Hyperobjects, of which global warming is his prime example, are vast objects. You can't pick them up as easily as an orange. They exceed human apprehension, but we constantly notice their local manifestations. They challenge our assumptions of human mastery over things; we can philosophize more simply, it seems, about the existence of ordinary things like oranges, but hyperobjects are scary game-changers, and they have a touch of the sublime. Like Bob Dylan's Mr. Jones, we sense something is happening, but we don't know what it is.
With extraordinary verve and audacity, Morton makes his hyperobjects into harbingers for a new epoch, on a planetary scale, a task in which he is assisted by the general consensus about the Anthropocene, the current era of human-induced planetary change. His tone is inevitably messianic; it's right there in his title, "the End of the World." But I shall have to explain what he means by this, along with how he has built his argument on what we thought were the ruins of the late 20th century's postmodernism and poststructuralism. With Morton's book, along with the work of his like-minded colleagues, postmodernism has returned with a vengeance, bolstered with all the moral force of global ecological concerns.
So how did Morton get to write a book like this? An Englishman who studied at Oxford, he was imbued in the Romantics, writing a dissertation that became Shelley and the Revolution in Taste (1994). Moving to the United States, it wasn't such a leap from the Romantics to ecology, giving us Ecology Without Nature in 2007. He taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder and UC Davis before moving to Houston, where he is now Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. What he does is "theory," which is what high-flying professors of English write when they are not training people to read literature. Those who read Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory in college will be familiar with the genre. It comprises difficult material made a little more accessible, and even enjoyable, via rhetorical flourishes, brilliant and breathtaking connections (Marx, God, Wordsworth, and cornflakes might appear in the same sentence), and sometimes it includes combat sports, as rival critical theories are pummelled into the ground.
Theory is not an academic discipline. Philosophers reading Hyperobjects might groan and protest (see Nathan Brown's review of Morton's recent Realist Magic), but Morton is not doing philosophy, he is sampling it. Likewise with the most recent advances in theoretical physics, appearing in this book in spades, along with some writing about avant-garde arts and music. It's a strange mash-up, this theory stuff. You don't read theory to advance the discipline you might belong to — you read it for stimulation, which is why Hyperobjects will find a broad educated readership across the world. And it is good that it should. The destiny of the planet is his topic, after all.
The hyperobject is a catchy concept — that is, it catches you while you can't quite catch it. Morton first established it in The Ecological Thought (2010). His new book explains why everyone is affected by hyperobjects, even if they strive to deny their existence. Climate, natural oil reserves, the English language are all hyperobjects in that they cannot be grasped as "simple" objects. Have you ever met "English"? No, but what you experience every day are groping attempts to make meaning with words. Whispered lovers' words and words digitized and zapped across the internet are materially quite different things, but both belong to the hyperobject we call the English language. Here's another example: you feel the existence of global oil reserves each time you check, while pumping gas, how much the price has gone up; and you sense there is something to do with oil in the Middle East conflicts, and how it makes you want to debate the hijab.
Hyperobjects are pervasive and don't allow you to rationally divide and resolve them with our human artifacts called Science and Art. It doesn't work to say global warming is a purely scientific issue. "The Science is in, folks! And the rest of you should shut up." Such an imperative would stop us treating it as ideological or related to voting patterns, or, indeed, related to aesthetics and philosophy. But no amount of science or human willpower can make that happen, because it is already there, says Morton, infiltrating every aspect of existence. Nor can any amount of science provide absolute, 100 percent proof of causal connections. This gives skeptics and fossil fuel industries the same "lack of certainty" argument that big tobacco had in earlier debates.
The right-wing ideologues might argue, but their corporations also assess the risks. Hyperobjects are there for them too, pushing different buttons:
The panic and denial and right-wing absurdity about global warming are understandable. Hyperobjects pose numerous threats to individualism, nationalism, anti-intellectualism, racism, speciesism, anthropocentrism, you name it. Possibly even capitalism itself.
The pervasiveness of hyperobjects is what Morton calls their viscosity, and in Part 1 of the book he outlines this and the other strange properties of hyperobjects: non-locality, phasing, and interobjectivity.
Non-locality has its origins in quantum theory, and here I should pause to say that Morton's heavy reliance on fairly recent theoretical physics is a plank in his attempt to explain "how the world works" using accounts of reality that are updated to the relatively recent. In our common-sense world we interact with oranges according to Newtonian laws, and we don't need quantum mechanics to stop crashing our cars. But at the other levels that Morton explores, things are indeed not quite what they seem, and he needs non-locality to explain how a hyperobject can act simultaneously at more than one place. The physicist Zeilinger has apparently demonstrated that "you can send one particle some information (make it spin in a certain way), and the others will instantly spin in complementary ways. This works to an arbitrary distance — that is, whether two yards, two miles or two light years apart." And it can't happen according to traditional physics because the connection would exceed the speed of light. The other theory is that there is a level of reality that is superposed over, or subtends, those discrete particles — the hyperobject, in other words.
Phasing, another property of hyperobjects, is like non-locality, but with a rhythm section added. Time and space exist "radically inside objects, rippling through them." The multidimensional hyperobject pulses in and out of the limited confines of human perception. This adds further to the effect of diminishing human agency. We could call it the self-centeredness of humanity — when we are increasingly aware that in the Anthropocene, the forces that threaten to wash, blow, or irradiate us into oblivion have become more palpable.
Finally, even simple objects are "hyper" to the extent that they are in or out of phase, not being exactly "equivalent to themselves" at any given time. A paper clip is also a SIM card remover. An apple is also a baseball in a high-spirited backyard game that will get the kids into trouble with Mom. The apple-for-baseball is an object always getting into the rhythm for that kind of event. This lack of discreteness of objects, which tends to make every object somewhat hyperobjective, is underscored by the final property of Part 1, interobjectivity, "in which nothing is ever experienced directly, but only as mediated through other entities in some shared sensual space." This is what makes the driver's position in a car, with the seat and all the controls, (inter)objectively human, because no other being can effectively occupy it. Yet humans, in this object-oriented philosophy, are not elevated to special subject status, but are a subset of objects. And I guess even automobiles, to the extent that they become smart enough to drive humans, are becoming hyperobjects.
Interobjectivity is a meshing and crisscrossing that we inhabit and which inhabits us. The interobjective is not neatly sorted into classified strata, because existence is necessarily ontologically plural. Our existence is tied up with plants, animals, tools, ticking clocks. Morton exaggerates the immediacy of these connections in order to point to the cynical and artificial way that modern humans have imagined themselves critically distanced from "the world," from "Nature."
The pressing reality of hyperobjects now has the effect of destroying this critical distance, of making it impossible to separate causality from art (as if art were mere decoration on top of the "real workings"), and of forcing us to abandon the modern habit of redemptively imaging a better future, for now we have to hesitate in front of what hyperobjects are placing right in front of us: that we are not in charge of the future anymore, because it might well be without us.
This jolly thought takes us to Part 2 of the book, where the angle of attack is different. Here Morton asks how humans will react to the end of the modern world and to the new hyperobjective cosmos. "You are walking out of the supermarket," he narrates casually, and, "As you approach your car, a stranger calls out, 'Hey, funny weather today!' With a due sense of caution — is she a global warming denier or not? — you reply yes." We have all experienced this kind of hesitation and apprehension about the weather. Innocent conversations about it seem to be no longer possible. Worries about the weather are a mere symptom of something huge, foreboding, and ungraspable in its entirety: climate is a hyperobject, and global warming is its apocalyptic avatar.
The "world," in the old sense, is over because the weather — like Nature — is no longer the neutral backdrop we can rely on to stay put, while we play out our little human dramas in front of it. If the hyperobject of global warming is imposing itself radically, and I am convinced that it is because even the deniers can't stop talking about it (and our wisteria bloomed two weeks early last spring!), then that old world of human foreground and natural background is gone. You are right to get a sense of the ridiculous when you see on TV a skeptical captain of industry debating a greenie minister of religion, as if their opinions really mattered. It is not the absent scientist on the panel that is the real concern, it is that the conceptual architecture of the world they share is the same as it was at the time of the Industrial Revolution, that they still share the same language of human mastery, hope, and redemptive adjustment.
They occupy the same clichéd world of a beautiful landscape painting, one which has forgotten all the violence that went into its creation — not just the painting, but the whole conceptual architecture. Morton urges a replacement aesthetic that is attuned to hyperobjects via the concepts of hypocrisy, weakness, lameness, and asymmetry. If we own up to hypocrisy, rather than imagining that cynicism and critique will bring about change, we acknowledge that we inhabit chronic failure, not a world where we once achieved mastery or one day will. But hyperobjects also demonstrate ontological hypocrisy, for they can never reveal the full force of their reality, short of an unknowable apocalypse.
Letting go of pretensions to mastery is an aspect of the concept of weakness, which would also have an origin in the political philosopher Antonio Gramsci. Humans, from the start, have to make ethical compromises in their interobjectivity, as we swing from one relationship to another, without the certainty of any metalanguage: no beyond, no essence within. We must, if we are not occupying some fictional position of safety away from "the world," be attuned to what's going down. This is our weakness; in some profound sense we can't help but go along with the imperative of the zeitgeist. In Morton's argument, it is the age of hyperobjects dragging us into its vortex.
Morton takes his cue from speculative realist Graham Harman, of the object-oriented ontology movement in philosophy, in claiming that since objects always have an obverse, a side that is not in play, they are never complete in themselves. The language used is that they are "withdrawn," as when the capacity for an apple to be a key component of a baseball game is withdrawn if you start to eat it. I am not convinced. I am uneasy about the generalization of withdrawnness, despite its philosophical heritage going back to Kant. It leads to mystery (Morton says, "The real dinosaur is a mystery […]") and to assertive tropes like: "The more data we have about life-forms, the more we realize we can never truly know them." This is no doubt true, but lesser scientists continue to plod away and discover another species of worm. And electronics experts continue to develop new cell phones without giving up in the face of ontological uncertainty, and they do so by bracketing out what Morton calls the lameness that "constitutes the very being of the object as such."
Bruno Latour's philosophy defines objects, instead, by their relations with each other, by their constantly changing constellations of attachments, some more permanent than others. For him, the important task is to follow the pathways of changes in objects' attachments. That task, however, does not lead to "the age of hyperobjects" and the capacity for attunement to an aesthetics of doom without redemption. It is more pedestrian. You might end up describing how mobile telephony came about. As a concept, withdrawnness skates on the dangerously thin ice of the almost transcendent, even as Morton, bless him, is resolute in his refusal of any kind of beyond. He would be familiar, as a literary scholar, with the mystical use of the "radical unknowability" and "infinite richness" of the literary text. That's what makes me uneasy, but I also know that an argument without a generalization would be flat and unworkable.
"The overall aesthetic 'feel' of the time of hyperobjects," Morton says, "is a sense of the asymmetry between the infinite powers of cognition and the infinite being of things." The hyperobjects seem to be winning this cosmic battle because, "Knowledge is to longer able to achieve escape velocity from Earth," or at least the comfort of stable dualisms like Subject-Object, Self-Other is long gone, because "we" are swallowed by the viscosity of hyperobjects we are not sure we are inside or outside of. And even though humankind has given its name to this age because of its part in creating the Anthropocene, the concomitant philosophies emerging are effectively decentering that agency.
My political economist friends, who would scoff at Morton and quote David Harvey to the effect that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, would miss the point. He would applaud what political economists do to analyze the workings of modern capitalism. It just isn't what he is doing, which is much more central to the core values of the humanities. I've been thinking a bit about what these values might be, among that ragtag bunch of litterateurs, artists, philosophers, historians, and linguists. They believe strongly in advancing their arts and disciplines, they believe they should be interesting (a poet can get away with being politically incorrect, but never with being boring); philosophers know, whatever they do, they must never be dogmatic, and historians must compare sources. What they collectively do is a pedagogical and civilizing thing, as they reflect back on and reinforce these core values within a culture. They keep the barbarians at bay, which is only a figure of speech, I hasten to add. The barbarians are those who put their faith in transcendent comforts like Science, God, Gaia, Individual Self-Interest, and the Market.
This is what I see Morton doing with this hyperintelligent book. It is bold, stimulating, and provocative. Its central ideas are persuasive because they are attuned both to what is going on right now with what he describes as the "sparkling unicity" of things, and to the "the three most progressive scientific views of our age, relativity, ecology and quantum theory." Straddling the sciences and the humanities, he brings out the inherent creativity of both fields.
In 1945 Robert Oppenheimer exploded the atom bomb, inventing a hyperobject without knowing it. This is underscored by his quoting of Shiva, "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds." In Sydney, Australia, Morton looks at a 2011 work by Aboriginal painter Yukultji Napangati, and he sees it "surge toward me, locking onto my optic nerve and holding me in its force field." He was thus captured by the Dreaming, "the Aboriginal hyperobject," finding it "impossible to leave the painting. Hairs standing up on my body, tears streaming down my face, slowly I tear myself away…" It is Morton who mediates the Aboriginal aesthetic and the atom bomb, and in doing so he creates a new kind of subjectivity. Dare I say it, but the writing that has made a case for hyperobjects has created an offshoot, the hypersubject.
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Palestinian scholar of Sephardic-Ashkenazic parentage; born at Amsterdam 1810; died at Jerusalem Aug. 6, 1890. His teacher was R. Abraham Susan. In 1830 he emigrated to Safed, Palestine, where he married, afterward settling in Jerusalem. There he studied in the Sephardic yeshibah. He became especially interested in rabbinical manuscripts, and acquired many rare copies, some of which he sold to European libraries, while others he published with his own annotations. The latter are: (1) "Bet Natan" (The House of Nathan), containing a varied version of Berakot, MSS. of Cairo, and decisions by Isaiah di Trani, the elder, with an introduction by Coronel (Vienna, 1854). (2) "Ḥamishshah Ḳonṭerisim" (Five Pamphlets), containing a varied version of Kallah, decisions in jurisprudence by R. Solomon Tazerat, and a letter of excommunication by David, the exilarch, etc. (Vienna, 1864). (3) "Seder R. Amram Gaon" (846
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"We are excited about David joining our leadership team due to his strategic vision and commitment to growing our business while maintaining a keen focus on our policyholders," said Roger Putnam, SVP and COO of MassMutual's U.S. insurance business and Acselrod's direct report, in a statement. "His experience across a number of disciplines within the life and individual disability insurance businesses will further strengthen our underwriting operations."
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After the monthly jobs report on Friday, the next big federal report with implications for the presidential race comes Wednesday morning when the Census Bureau releases its annual study on the number of people without health insurance.
Last year, the Census reported that in 2010 the number of uninsured rose by 1 million to 49.9 million while the rate remained flat at 16.3 percent. In 2002, about 40 million people were uninsured.
Most experts say to expect a slight rise in the number of uninsured in 2011.
Although the economy was still rocky last year, unemployment fell from 9.4 percent to 8.5 percent. Typically, as unemployment rises, so does the uninsured rate because people lose their jobs and the health coverage that came with it. On the other hand, state Medicaid rolls grew in 2011, albeit at a slower rate than in previous years. Typically, Medicaid enrollment and the uninsured rate grow together as they reflect the state of the economy.
Another factor that could lower the numbers is the provision in the federal health law allowing young people to remain on their parents' health plans until age 26, which according to the Obama administration has helped more than 3 million young adults gain coverage.
"I expect (the number of uninsured) will go up a bit, but not a lot," said John Holahan, director of the health policy research center at the Urban Institute. He noted employer coverage is likely to fall for low-wage workers as the economy remains sluggish.
Vernon Smith, managing principal at consulting firm Health Management Associates, agreed. "I'd expect a rise, continuing the trend related to continued erosion of employer-sponsored health insurance, as fewer businesses offer health coverage," he said. In case the number drops, he said credit will be due to the health law provision allowing young adults to remain on their parents' insurance.
The bet from Ken Thorpe, chairman of health policy and management at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health: "I think the share of uninsured population remains about 16.3 percent — but total number tops 50 million — slight increase."
If the number of uninsured does rise, conservatives will say President Barack Obama's health law has failed. If the number goes down, Obama supporters will credit the new law.
However, the data won't be that simply explained. For one thing, the main coverage expansion provisions in the law don't start until 2014. And to make things more complicated, the Census Bureau this year will make some changes in its methodology that will affect the number for 2011 and also likely result in a revised number for 2010 .
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By Naomi Aldort, author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, www.AuthenticParent.com
Editor's Note: The author invites us to consider a different perspective on children's behavior. You may wish to read this in conjunction with API's Balance Principle and many other articles on children and sleep available at API's website and TheAttachedFamily.com. As always, we encourage you to trust your own wisdom and find what works best for you and your family.
Q: Why can't my children go to bed and go to sleep? It takes us a couple of hours to put them in bed. They run away from putting pajamas on, and again they escape when we try to brush their teeth. It is such a struggle every night; they just don't cooperate. Is there a better way?
A: Most parents go through the same exhausting and frustrating process you describe so well in your question. This can be both difficult and painfully disconnecting. You wish to tuck your children in bed with love and a calm heart, and instead you end up feeling frustrated and exhausted.
It is human and natural to want to stop the running child and get her to bed, but it actually thwarts her efforts to get ready for a good night's sleep. Some parents tame their children to obey them, creating disconnection and not attending to the child's emotional needs. From your question, it is obvious that you don't want to dominate but to have your children go to sleep of their own free will and in response to your aware and loving leadership.
Any time we fight against the need or nature of a child, even with the best of intentions, we cause hardship and disconnection, especially if the children obey against their own inner voice. Instead of struggling to stop or control the child, we want to find ways to understand the child's valid need and, when possible and safe, respond to it. The goal is not to control but to flow with the child's real needs. Such care creates cooperation without coercion or domination.
The Wisdom of Power Games
Before being able to sleep, children may need to unleash the stress and energy of the day. If we consistently suppress that need, the child can develop emotional and behavioral difficulties. A child is eager to be independent, yet she often experiences feeling helpless–told what to do, unable to drive, buckled up in a car, unable to reach places or do things for herself, and overall excruciatingly dependent. At the end of the day, giving her yet another experience of someone else being in charge of her body may result in emotional harm and the kind of struggle you describe in your question. The child wants to unleash this stress before she can relax into dreamland. Though routine and structure are important for some children, they can be adjusted with sensitivity to meet a child's needs for freedom and choice. Including power games can be part of the routine–a healing and joyful part.
Children running at bedtime are doing exactly that: unleashing energy and stress. I have coined this type of healing play "power games" because it is a way for the child to regain a sense of power and autonomy and undo some of the experience of being small and helpless. This responsive play has nothing to do with winning or having power over anyone. Instead, the parent plays the role of a loving play-therapist, meeting a need and creating a routine of healing games that prepare the child for sleep.
A child's drive to run away at bedtime is healthy and deserving of care. I suggest you include it in the bedtime routine. Children initiate power games with their parents all the time, and parents tend to thwart most of them (by saying "stop"), not realizing the value of the game. In your example, your children start a power game by running away from the pajamas. I describe other types of power games in my book, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves.
It is wonderful that they love playing with you; it shows their wisdom and their trust of you. When you demand a smooth ride, on your terms, from the bathroom to bed, you disconnect yourself from reality and lose sight of what is actually needed. Indeed, when you don't recognize the child's need, you actually lose the ability to be the parent, the leader. Your choice is between a time of struggle or a time of playful and nurturing connection. Being a leader means knowing how to steer the ship in the direction of the stream.
Other Options
I can hear some parents say, "But I don't want to. I want a quiet bedtime and a quick one." What I suggest will give you a more peaceful, respectful and enjoyable bedtime in which you will not feel helpless because you will be in charge as a wise healer. If your child needs to unleash energy or stress through play, your desire for a quick bedtime causes you stress because it opposes the child's real need that has to be met. Some children go to sleep with a story and a hug, while some children need an energetic game before going to bed. In addition, a child who needs power games one night may not need them the next night. The goal is not consistency in what we do but consistency in being loving, aware and responsive.
There are things you can do to increase the chance for a quicker or calmer bedtime:
1. You can respond playfully to power games earlier in the day. You can find more about how to play a variety of power games in my book.
2. You can minimize screen time and sitting and allow plenty of outdoor rigorous activity in daylight.
3. For health benefits and for better sleep, feed your children healthful and nourishing foods. A wholesome diet helps children sleep better, go to bed calmer, learn better and be more focused and peaceful. In my practice, I have found that eating carbohydrate, including fruit, in the evening may interfere with a child's ability to fall asleep. You may wish to try offering protein-rich foods instead.
Power games during the day may lessen their need at bedtime, but they do not guarantee an adult-like bedtime scenario. If a child played power games in the afternoon and later experiences helplessness or sitting, he may need more release through power games and running before he is ready to sleep. It is a real need that should not be denied or suppressed. In addition, your anxious desire to put your children to bed ignites their desire to oppose you as a therapy game. Learning to enjoy the children is much easier and more beneficial than taming them to go against their healthy and needed direction. In fact, suppressing their needs often causes bedtime to take longer and leaves the children stressed and with unresolved emotional needs.
How to Play Bedtime Power Games
You may enjoy your bedtime with the children more if you flow with their invitation for play. Learn what your children need by observing them. If you are not a physical person, it may give you the exercise you need, or you can ask your spouse to chase them. Falling in love with reality can bring peace to bedtime with your children.
In a power game, your goal is not to change what the children do but to empower the game by offering pretend dramatic opposition, such as, "Oh no, they ran away again," while you chase them over and over again. When you catch a child, bring her back to the bedroom while you huff and puff in "exhaustion" and declare, "I am going to hold you better this time. Oh, I hope … (in exasperation), I hope she doesn't slip away again … " Then pretend a desperate attempt to hold on as you put the pajamas on while allowing the next escape with a dramatic, "Oh no!" and a chase.
A true leader is a transparent one. Steer without controlling by making sure to let the children decide when to end the game, or else the healing is cancelled by your being in the position of power.
Transforming Ourselves
When we recognize the rightness of what the child is doing, we can provide for it without resistance, and the child then goes to sleep with ease. In contrast, when we resist, we become impatient and frustrated, and we tend to try to control instead of steer with wisdom. The child is not the cause of our frustration; our opposing thoughts and wants are. You may find peace and freedom in working on yourself to learn to enjoy the bedtime play rather than trying to change your children's wise and healthy preparation for sleep. You may miss this time in their childhood all too soon.
Power Games at Our House
In our home the words "Lets go to bed" often came from the children. They recognized their own tiredness because we never went against their inner voice, and they loved bedtime because it was so much fun. Needless to say, they fell asleep easily and were always sound sleepers. Sharing our family's bedtime routine is not as an answer for an "only" way but a window into one peaceful possibility that demonstrates the spirit of what I am suggesting.
The invitation to go to bed, regardless whom it came from, became the beginning of a joyful routine.The children often ran to the music corner and started playing the piano, drumming and dancing. Oh, how we loved that part of our routine. My husband and I would sit around to watch and marvel their creativity. When they thought it was a good idea to go to bed, they went to the kitchen for a snack. Food, laughter, clean up … we were all in the kitchen cherishing our daily tradition.
Next came the pajamas and teeth brushing, and yes, you guessed it, just like your children ours ran away, inviting a chase. We accepted the invitation, or I should say, my husband did. He would chase them to the end of the house, pretend to barely manage to catch them, and then bring them back to the bathroom, out of breath and saying repeatedly, "Oh, I hope they don't run away again." And of course, soon enough I would hear the playful dramatic declaration, "Oh no! They ran away again." As the little ones passed by me with their father in tow, I could only wish that this joy would never end. I often joined at this point, wanting my part in the game. We never initiated the end of the game because that would have destroyed the sense of power the children were experiencing. It would have caused struggle and cancelled the healing.
Once the children had enough, they would get ready for bed eagerly and quickly. Of course once in bed, there were 20 minutes or so of heavenly joy: climbing on Daddy, snuggling, singing, laughing, rolling … These were some of the best hours of my life. In fact, if I could replay the best moments, bedtime with the children would be my very first choice.


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At the Breaking Point
Inam (pictured above with her daughter Najah) lives with her husband and their five children in a stone house on the outskirts of Irbid, a city near the Syrian border. Her greatest worry is the health of her children this winter. Although their ice-cold living quarters has a place to cook and a heating oven, they don't have any fuel tanks.
The 30-year-old mother arrived here nine months ago from the Syrian village of Daraa. The family fled to Jordan across the Yarmouk River and prefers not to have their family name publish out of fear for their safety. Although times are difficult, they have been able to make do with the occasional job found by her husband Bilal and the food vouchers the family is now receiving from the UNHCR.
It is only some 15 kilometres to the Syrian border from here. Exhausted Syrian refugees, some of them wounded, arrive every day. The newcomers are met by soldiers of the Jordanian army and, if necessary, they are brought to Irbid's only hospital.
In the shadow of the refugee crisis
The people on both sides of the border are closely related in terms of ethnicity, culture, and language. There are many family connections that span the border region. Inam also has relatives on the Jordanian side of the border. The Jordanians have shown a great willingness to help, especially early on in the crisis. Yet, the dimensions of the refugee drama are beginning to push all those involved to the breaking point.
Irbid is Jordan's third largest city with around 650,000 inhabitants. At first glance, life in this university city seems remarkably normal, despite its geographic proximity to Syria. Yet, the refugee crisis is now part of everyday life in the city. The UNHCR has registered some 130,000 Syrian refugees. There are an estimated 600,000 refugees in the whole of Jordan, and they live all over the country. Many have located in the north of Jordan, to the east of Amman, and, increasingly, in the south.
The hospital in Irbid has treated 4500 Syrians in 2013, complains Badr Al-Qadi, the district governor. However, the necessary financial resources for staff and equipment at the hospital have not been increased. The Al-Mothanna School in Irbid used to have a thousand pupils, now there are twice as many. Classes are taught in two shifts. In addition to the regular morning classes, a second afternoon session has been introduced.
This is not an isolated case. A total of 25 such "double shift" schools can be found in Irbid. "We are also under pressure for another reason," explains Nawaz Titi, the school principle. Many Jordanian parents have recently had to take their children out of the private schools they had been attending, as they could no longer afford tuition. Now these children go to the much more affordable public schools. In 2012, UNICEF paid for the new teachers and materials needed to accommodate the influx of students. The European Union will provide assistance for the 2014 school year. The schools are left on their own to deal with other problems related to the refugee crisis, such as the aggressive behaviour of traumatized Syrian children.
A rise in prices
The cost of living in Jordan is high. Fuel, gas for heating and cooking, as well as food have risen in price since the government cut subsidies under pressure from the International Monetary Fund. In a survey conducted by the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, around 80 per cent of residents questioned in the city of Mafraq, located some 60 kilometres north of the capital Amman, feel that Syrian refugees should be housed in refugee camps, where they would not be competing with the local population for jobs and housing.
Syrian refugees now make up the majority in Mafraq. Power and water outages are on the increase. There is not enough garbage disposal or street cleaning to serve the increased population. The rents have since tripled in price and now pose an enormous financial burden for most families. Many property owners are said to have evicted their Jordanian tenants in order to collect far higher rents from Syrian refugees.
Officially, the Syrians are not allowed to work, but the authorities have turned a blind eye to the practice. Refugees are particularly noticeable in certain sectors, such as restaurants, construction, and agriculture, where working conditions are considerably worse than at jobs held by locals. There are reports of starvation wages far below the legal minimum wage of 115 Jordanian Dinars a month (approximately 110 euros). The cheap labour force from Syria has pushed down wages in general, which has let to massive discontent among Jordanians.
Growing tensions and feelings of resentment
There have already been some skirmishes in Mafraq recently, including the burning of car tires and broken windows at organizations aiding Syrian refugees. However, one could search in vain for reports on such events in the Jordanian media. Behind closed doors, one often hears that many Jordanians are simply fed up with Syrian refugees.
Aid organizations recognize the problem and are increasingly attempting to include needy Jordanians in their projects. "Yes, there are tensions, particularly in the north," admits Michele Servadei, Deputy Director of UNICEF in Jordan. "What is very positive is that tensions have not yet escalated. In order to prevent this from happening, we absolutely have to do more for needy Jordanians."
At present, nobody expects that the Syrians will want to stay in Jordan forever. Refugees like Inam and her family would prefer to return to Syria as soon as possible. It just might not be possible to fulfil her wish any time soon.
Claudia Mende
© Qantara.de 2013
Translated from the German by John Bergeron
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de


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The former head of Iran's central bank, Tahmasb Mazaheri, has been found in possession of a cheque worth 54 million euros ($70 million) by German authorities, the Bild am Sonntag weekly reported.
Mazaheri, in charge of the central bank until 2008, was searched by customs officers at Dusseldorf airport on January 21 after arriving aboard a flight from Turkey, the Sunday paper said.
The cheque, with a value of 300 million Venezuelan bolivars, was discovered in his hand luggage, according to the report.
The German customs office is investigating whether the cheque was part of a money-laundering operation.
After the report was published, Mazaheri said that the cheque was designed to finance the Venezuelan government's construction of 10,000 homes.


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Last Wednesday morning, I knew we needed to just relax our schedule a bit at home - just be. Just be together.
I suggested a walk and grabbed my camera - purposing to take a picture of whatever caught my eye especially looking out for things I'd not noticed or observed before.
We walked - in no particular hurry - over to our neighborhood lake. My children absolutely love to walk over there - they have named the turtles, love to pretend fishing with sticks, etc...
We saw ducks, turtles, pretty birds, mushrooms, flowers, water, trees, clouds, sky - God's beautiful creation filling our eyes.
Before we knew it, we'd been gone an hour. And, it struck me that these are the things childhood is made of - heads hanging over the side of the dock, exclaiming over the ducks, naming the turtles and looking for the favorite one, playing with sticks and breathing good air.
No one really had the heart to go home and have school - can't we go home and get our school stuff and come back? they pleaded.
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This week I am taking a little time to stop and smell the flowers. I am reflecting on everything that I saw last week and everything that I learnt.
There was one young women and her family that really stands out in my mind-… her name is JILLIAN VANCE.
I am a true believer that you can make your dreams come true and I have always told my children that they can do anything that they want to in life, with a little work. Well, Jillian is doing just that. She loves to scrapbook and she decided to create her own line of stamps. How cool is that! You can find her work at The Princess & The Paper.
here are some of her stamps sets.
Crop registration and class registration goes on sale August 2. I am so excited because I will be teaching at both the Calgary and the Edmonton event! To register go on over to the Canadian Scrapbooker website. I can't wait to see you there!
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The battle of the "swipe fees" has been hard to miss the last few weeks. The big banks are spending millions of dollars on TV, radio and Internet ads telling us that the government should not limit the fees that they charge on debit cards transactions. On the other side, a coalition of major retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Target, has been funding a comparable campaign to stop the bank gouging.
It may seem as though the public has little at stake in this battle between big banks and big retailers, but that is not true. In this case, Wal-Mart is on the side of the angels; small businesses and consumers will win if they prevail. This is an important battle in its own right, but even more important as a lesson in effective politics.
The basic story here should be a policy no-brainer. There are two major debit card networks, MasterCard and Visa, who essentially are the market. Together they control more than 90 percent of the debit card market.
This control gives them enormous market power. There are few retailers who can refuse to accept the debit cards issued by these networks. They would lose a huge amount of business if they did. As a result, MasterCard, Visa and the banks with which they share their profits, are able to charge fees that far exceed the actual cost of a debit card transaction.
According to research from the Federal Reserve Board, the fees on debit card transactions average 48 cents. The Fed estimates that the networks can cover their overhead and operating costs with a fee of 12 cents per transaction. The difference, which comes to $12 billion a year, is pure frosting. It's additional profits for the banks and credit card networks. (Some of this is shared with debit card customers with various rewards, like frequent flyer miles.)
The biggest losers in the current system are cash paying customers. Retailers are required by the companies to charge the same price to everyone. When they raise their prices to cover the debit card fees, they also must raise prices to customers who pay in cash, who tend to be poorer. So, we have a system in which low-income consumers pay higher prices to increase the profits of the big banks and give frequent flyer miles to higher income consumers.
This is where the big retailers come in. If they can lower the swipe fees, they hope to be able to pocket some of the savings, even if they end up passing most of the savings on to consumers. If the big retailers can pocket 20 percent of the savings, this gets them another $2.4 billion a year in profits. This is real money, certainly enough to get their attention. However, the other 80 percent translates into an additional $9.6 billion a year in consumers' pockets.
This is the reason that Wal-Mart is on the side of the angels. It is not being altruistic; it hopes to increase profits by lowering swipe fees. However, it will also be putting money into consumers' pockets (and taking it away from banks), if it succeeds in this effort.
Unfortunately, any political victories by progressives in the foreseeable future are going to look like this. The reality is that progressives are far too weak to have any clean victories. Good policy to help ordinary people won't buy you a cup of coffee in Washington. Without the firepower of some deep-pocketed interest that gets to share in the pie, policy will go nowhere.
This is why cap and trade was the best hope for an agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Goldman Sachs and the Wall Street gang saw the possibility of big bucks hustling emission permits, futures and options on emission permits, emission-permit-backed securities etc. A carbon tax would be easier and more efficient, but no one in Congress or the Obama administration cares about a bunch of enviros whining over the future of the planet. On the other hand, Goldman's campaign contributions are taken very seriously.
This was the genius, whether intended or not, of the Obama administration's green jobs projects. These projects financed work by thousands of contractors around the country who made profits by weatherizing homes and businesses. These contractors are now strong advocates of more funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, even some of the recently elected conservative Republican governors now support such spending.
The moral of this story is that we should get used to seeing some of the bad guys in our camp. And if we are going to design policy that has any chance of being implemented, we have to find ways to bring more of them on board.
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Newspapers & Periodicals – Reference Sources
American Newspapers, 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1967. Call Number: Ref folio Z 6945 .A53 1967. A union list of first importance, which lists the exact holdings of nearly 5,700 depositories such as libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, and private collections. Shelved in the checklist area.
Brigham, Clarence Saunders. History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947. Call Number: Ref Z 6951 .B86 1947. Includes 2,120 newspapers arranged alphabetically by state and town. With American Newspapers, 1821-1936, it forms a fairly complete list from 1690 to 1936. The Newberry holds a microfilm set of over 300 of these newspapers. Shelved in the checklist area.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. New Providence, NH: R.R. Bowker, 2000. Call Number: lower case a 49 .67. Shelved in Ready Reference.
Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1965. Call Number: Ref Z 6945 .U45 1965. Shelved in Ready Reference.
Histories and Guides
American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Call Number: Ref PN 4877 .A44 1986.
American Literary Magazines: The Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. Call Number: Ref PN 4877 .A45 1992.
British Literary Magazines. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. Call Number: Ref PN 5124 .L6 B74 1983.
Cates, Jo A. Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. Call Number: Ref Z 6940 .C38 2004.
Hoffman, Frederick John et al. The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography. New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1967. Call Number: Ref PN 4836 .H6 1967.
Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938-1968. Call Number: Ref PN 4877 .M63 1938.
Mutch, Deborah. English Socialist Periodicals, 1880-1900: A Reference Source. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Co., 2005. Call Number: Ref Z 7165 .G8 M87 2005.
Riley, Sam G. Magazines of the American South. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Call Number: Ref PN 4893 .R54 1986.
Sloan, W. David. American Journalism History: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Call Number: Ref Z 6951 .S54 1989.
Online Indexes
Chicago Tribune Database, 1849-1985. Available within the Newberry Library. This database offers full-text access to the Chicago Tribune, including access to advertisements and illustrations.
HarpWeek. Available within the Newberry Library. This database offers full-text access to Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. A variety of finding aids are also included.
HeritageQuestOnline. Available within the Newberry Library. (Note: your home institution may offer remote access to this database.) HeritageQuestOnline offers access to the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), an index to articles in selected local history publications. The Newberry holds some of the journals included in PERSI.
JSTOR. A full-text database, available within the Newberry Library. The Newberry's subscription includes the complete back runs of 117 journals in fifteen disciplines. It includes many of the core research and society-published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as other key fields.
New York Times Database, 1851-2003. Available within the Newberry Library. This database offers full-text access to the New York Times, including access to advertisements and illustrations.
OCLC FirstSearch. A collection of databases, available within the Newberry Library. FirstSearch provides access to the following databases:
- Article First. Index of articles related to the humanities, popular culture, social sciences, and other subjects. Some full-text articles available.
- ClasePeriodica. Index of Latin American journals. Includes some full-text articles.
- ECO. A collection of scholarly journals. Includes some full-text articles.
ProjectMuse. Available within the Newberry Library. ProjectMuse is a full-text subscription database of articles published in Johns Hopkins University Press and other academic publishers' journals.
Print Indexes
The American Humanities Index. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1975. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .A278.
Balay, Robert. Early Periodical Indexes: Bibliographies and Indexes of Literature Published in Periodicals Before 1900. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Call Number: Ref Z 6941 .B35 2000.
Book Review Digest. Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson, 1906-1987. Call Number: Ref Z 1035 .A1 B66. Shelved after the New York Public Library Research Libraries Book Catalog.
Book Review Index. Detroit: Gale Research, 1965-. Call Number: Ref Z 1035 .A1 B68.
British Humanities Index. London: The Library Association, 1962-. Call Number: Ref folio AI 3 .B7. Covers about 375 British periodicals in the social sciences and humanities. Indexing does not include poetry, fiction, film, book, theater, or art reviews. Most brief items are also excluded. The quarterly numbers contain subject listings only; annual volumes list authors and subjects.
Cumulated Magazine and Subject Index, 1907-1949; A Cumulation of the F.W. Faxon Company's Annual Magazine Subject Index. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1964. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .C76.
Essay and General Literature Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1900-1933. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .E75. Index to essays published in collections, with particular emphasis on the humanities and, since 1970, the social sciences.
Humanities Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1974-. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .H85. An author/subject index to 260 of the most important scholarly periodicals in the fields of archaeology, classical studies, history, language, literature, literary and political criticism, philosophy, and religion. Since the change to its current title, Humanities Index includes an index to book reviews at the back of each issue. Issued quarterly with annual cumulations. Formerly International Index, 1907 to 1965; and Social Sciences and Humanities Index, 1965 to 1974.
Index to American Little Magazines, 1900-1919: To Which Is Added a Selected List of British and Continental Titles for the Years 1900-1950, Together With Addenda and Corrigenda to Previous Indexes. Troy, NY: Whitson, 1974. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .I536.
Index to American Little Magazines, 1920-1939. Troy, NY: Whitson, 1969. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .I538.
Index to Little Magazines. Denver: A. Swallow, 1940-. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .I54.
The New York Times Index. New York: New York Times, 1851-1992. Call Number: Ref AI 21 .N448 and .N45.
Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899, With Supplementary Indexing, 1900-1922. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1944. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .R47. Shelved in the checklist area.
Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper. London: S. Palmer, 1837-1936. Call Number: Ref AI 21 .T45 and .T46. Continued by: The Official Index to the Times, 1936-1957; and The Times Index, 1957-1972.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. New York: P. Smith, 1938. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .P7 1938. Shelved in the checklist area. Covering 479 American and English periodicals, it is a subject index only and includes no author entries. A few other things to remember when using this index: 1) all articles having a distinct subject are entered under that subject; 2) articles having no subject -- e.g., fiction, poems, plays -- are entered under the first word of the title; 3) book reviews are entered in two ways: a) under the subject or b) if the book has no distinct subject, under the author's name. Brief articles and notes are omitted. Inclusive pagination and date are not given, but the latter can be worked out from the tables in front of each volume or by using Poole's Index Date and Volume Key. Shelved on Index Table 1.
C.W. Wall's Cumulative Author Index for Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 (Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1971) can be quite useful, but one needs to remember that the name of an author is given in whatever form it appears in Poole's. If the same author uses his initials sometimes and his full name sometimes, his writings may not be together in the index. (Ref AI3 .W3. Also in the checklist area.)
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: An Annotated List of Newberry Library Holdings. Compiled by Anna Smith. Unpublished, 1997. Shelved in the checklist area.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. Minneapolis, MN: H.W. Wilson, 1905-. Call Number: Ref AI 3.R48.
Sader, Marion. Comprehensive Index to English-Language Little Magazines. Millwood, NY: Kraus-Thomson Organization , 1976. Call Number: Ref Z 6944 .L5 S23.
Social Sciences Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1974-. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .S62. Notes: Formerly International Index, 1907 to 1965; and Social Sciences and Humanities Index, 1965 to 1974. Includes 263 of the most important periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, law, political science, psychology, public administration, sociology, and related subjects. Issued quarterly with annual cumulations. The Newberry's holdings of this index cease in 1988.
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966-1989. Call Number: Ref AI 3 .W45. Shelved in the checklist area. Also available on CD-ROM (3rd floor).


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Every second car produced today contains Infineon microcontrollers; the company has just delivered its 100 millionth TriCore™ microcontroller
Neubiberg, Germany – November 15, 2012 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) has just delivered its one hundred millionth TriCore™-microcontroller. That ranks these microcontrollers among the most successful in automotive electronics. The TriCore-based microcontrollers from Infineon are assembled in over fifty automotive brands. Statistically speaking, this means that almost every second vehicle produced today includes a TriCore-based microcontroller. It is responsible for keeping the fuel consumption and exhaust emissions as low as possible.
TriCore-based microcontrollers are used in the central control units for combustion engines and gearboxes to control the injection, ignition or exhaust gas recirculation: Increasingly, they are also being used in hybrid and electric vehicle drives. Other areas of application include electric steering, braking and chassis control as well as body control. TriCore is also used in other areas not related to the automotive sector, for example in system controls, solar inverters and for steering electric motors.
"Our TriCore microcontrollers with embedded flash have been in series production for engine control units since 2005," says Peter Schäfer, Vice President and General Manager, Microcontrollers, Infineon Technologies AG. "Today's cars would not be as efficient, eco-friendly or safe without microcontrollers. We are very proud of our contribution to the automotive industry. Our TriCore-based 32-bit microcontrollers for automotive powertrain and chassis applications are – thanks to their high data processing rate and real-time capability – among the best products currently available on the market."
What is TriCore?
TriCore was developed by Infineon. TriCore is the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of Infineon's 32-bit microcontrollers – the brain so to speak of such microcontrollers – and corresponds to the CPU of a computer. A microcontroller however is also comparable with the complete computer because a single semiconductor contains i.e. program and working memory, interfaces and hard disks. Unlike computers, though, microcontrollers have to provide reliable service for more than 10 years despite having to withstand environmental conditions varying between -40°C and 170°C (details provided in an itemized temperature profile) as well as strong vibrations and accelerations.
TriCore is a 32-bit microcontroller architecture optimized for embedded real-time systems. It unifies real-time capabilities, signal-processing functions and highly efficient application-specific interface functions. The core has a super-scalar processor and is thus able to carry out a number of different commands simultaneously. The command set includes special mathematical functions for the efficient calculation of complex algorithms. TriCore microcontrollers are ideal for automotive applications by virtue of their high data rate and real-time capability, namely in the temperature range from -40 °C up to 170 °C.
Infineon in almost every car
Besides the management and transmission control systems, Infineon chips are used in airbags, driver assistance systems, in electronic steering support, in ABS, Electronic Stability Programs (ESP), pedestrian protection and in tire pressure control, in electric power windows, lighting control, in heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems, in seat adjustment and keyless door opening.
In 2011, around 75 million vehicles were manufactured, of which 20 million were produced in Europe alone. On average, each vehicle contains chips worth about USD 300. Infineon has a ten percent share of this market - and is thus one of the world's largest chip manufacturers for automotive electronics; what is more, the company is also the largest chip manufacturer in Europe (with 15 percent of the market). In 2011, the total value of the market for automotive chips amounted to approximately USD 23 billion (source: Strategy Analytics, April 2011 – a market research company). For its microcontrollers in engine management and transmission control units, Infineon holds a global market share of over 30 percent.
Further information
You can find further technical information about Infineon microcontrollers at: www.infineon.com/tricore and www.infineon.com/aurix
For information about Infineon's semiconductor solutions for automotive electronics, please see: www.infineon.com/automotive
About Infineon
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions addressing three central challenges to modern society: energy efficiency, mobility, and security. In the 2012 fiscal year (ending September 30), the company reported sales of Euro 3.9 billion with close to 26,700 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX) and in the USA on the over-the-counter market OTCQX International Premier (ticker symbol: IFNNY).
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Stating that you don't care if you land a partner who is "hot" or "sexy" is relatively commonplace. But what people say they want and what they actually want are often two very different things when it comes to romantic attraction.
However, a new methodology that measures people's implicit, split-second responses gets around this problem. Research from Northwestern University and Texas A&M University measures whether people's implicit preferences actually predict how much you like the hotties.
"People will readily tell you what they value in a romantic partner," said Eli Finkel, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern and co-author of the study. "But study after study shows that those preferences don't predict whom daters are actually attracted to when they meet flesh-and-blood partners. Now we can get under the hood with this quirky methodology to see what people actually prefer in live-interaction settings."
Paul W. Eastwick, assistant professor of psychology at Texas A&M University and lead author of the study, says that the findings raise questions about the way we determine what people want in a partner.
"If a person tells me, for example, that she doesn't care about how attractive a guy is, our research suggests that her claim isn't worth all that much," Eastwick said. "Instead, it would actually be more useful to measure her reaction times on this new task."
Focused on physical attractiveness, the implicit measure in this study was based on reaction times to various words flashed in the middle of a computer screen. Participants' task was to quickly sort synonyms of "physical attractiveness" with other words that they happen to like, such as tequila, or motorcycles, or romance novels. According to the researchers, the people who perform well on this task have a strong implicit preference for physical attractiveness.
Along with Eastwick and Finkel, other co-authors of the study include Alice H. Eagly, professor of psychology and faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern, and Sarah E. Johnson, a doctoral graduate of Northwestern.
"In many cases, people's consciously stated attitudes and preferences predict their behavior quite well," Eagly said. "But in the case of attraction, people's implicit, unconscious preferences seem to do a better job."
A number of psychology studies reveal a disconnect between stated preferences for partners and actual choices. Most of the studies use explicit measures in which people consciously report what appeals to them in a partner. In this new study, the implicit measure that the researchers developed predicted how much the participants liked physically attractive potential partners, both at a speed-dating event and in a face-to-face interaction in the laboratory.
"People's reports of why they like certain partners might not be especially accurate," Eastwick said. "But that doesn't mean that romantic desire is random. The reasons might still be there, hovering just outside of conscious awareness."
The study, "Implicit and Explicit Preferences for Physical Attractiveness in a Romantic Partner: A Double Dissociation in Predictive Validity," appeared in the November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.


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MACKINAC ISLAND — Gov. Rick Snyder said Thursday he would like to see lawmakers amend the state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity before the end of the year.
"I don't believe in discrimination," Snyder said in an interview with Crain's. "I hope that's something the Legislature will take up sometime this year." But Snyder stopped short of saying whether he would sign the bill, as he rarely signals his intentions on what he will do with legislation until it reaches his desk. This morning, at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference, Rick Baker, President and CEO of the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, and Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Detroit chamber came out in support of changing the law as well. Snyder said he appreciated the chambers coming forward and taking a position on the issue. If the law is changed, it would be illegal for an employee to be fired or not hired solely because he or she is gay. "Michigan's business community is sending a very clear message about the importance of workforce diversity to our state's future," Baruah said in a statement. "We are in a global war for talent, and need the best and brightest workforce to compete in the 21st century economy, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. We are committed to a Michigan where all are free and welcome to contribute to our economic comeback." Business Leaders for Michigan also called for the law to be changed and included it in the group's updated Michigan Turnaround Plan, released in April. "It's not just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do. This is about Michigan's competitiveness and our ability to attract and retain talent. We hear from our members in West Michigan on a regular basis that while infrastructure and tax policy impact the work they are doing, finding highly skilled, creative and talented people to fill jobs is a growing challenge," Baker said. "Updating Elliott-Larsen won't solve this problem on its own, but it sends a message to workers both inside and outside of Michigan that if they are qualified for a job, they will be treated fairly and judged on their merits." The two chambers also announced they were joining the Michigan Competitive Workforce Coalition, which is advocating for a change in the state's civil rights law. Also joining the group, as it was announced today are, Chrysler Group LLC, Clark Hill PLC, Irwin Seating Company, Issue Media Group, Kellogg Company, Pfizer, Professional Property Management and Slow's Bar BQ. "The coalition is growing," Jim Murray, president of AT&T and co-chair of the coalition said in a statement. "The leadership shown by both the Detroit Regional Chamber and the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce on behalf of their thousands of members and their communities is essential as we work with lawmakers to make this needed reform. The more voices the better, and we are still taking volunteers." Chris Gautz: 1-517-403-4403, [email protected]. Twitter: @chrisgautz


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11 Neil Gaiman Quotes on Writing
Neil Gaiman is a prolific author spanning genres — he has hits in the worlds of comics, young adult fiction, grownup fiction, television, film, and even nonfiction (I particularly enjoyed Don't Panic, his Douglas Adams/HHGTTG companion). Here, eleven quotes from Gaiman on writing.
1. On Nightmares
In an NPR feature, Gaiman discussed the stop-motion animated film Alice by Jan Svankmajer. In that interview, he made an important point for writers of stories for kids:
Kids are so much braver than adults, sometimes, and so much less easily disturbed. Kids will make their nightmares up out of anything, and the important thing in fiction, if you're giving them nightmares, is to demonstrate that nightmares are beatable.
Gaiman signing "Anansi Boys" / Flickr User Jutta
2. On Learning to Write as Adventure
From his now-famous 2012 commencement address at The University of the Arts:
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.
Gaiman and His Wife Amanda Palmer / Getty Images
3. On Freelancing
More from the same commencement address:
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.
4. On "Impostor Syndrome"
One more nugget from that commencement address:
The problems of failure are hard. The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them. The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that any moment now they will discover you. It's Impostor Syndrome, something my wife Amanda christened the Fraud Police. In my case, I was convinced that there would be a knock on the door, and a man with a clipboard (I don't know why he carried a clipboard, in my head, but he did) would be there, to tell me it was all over, and they had caught up with me, and now I would have to go and get a real job, one that didn't consist of making things up and writing them down, and reading books I wanted to read. And then I would go away quietly and get the kind of job where you don't have to make things up any more.
5. On Rejection
When asked about rejection on Tumblr, Gaiman replied:
First I got really grumpy, and then got very determined to write things that were so good that not even the stupidest most irritating gatekeeper alive could reject them.
Gaiman at the "Coraline" Premiere / Getty Images
6. On Smeagol/Gollum Slash Fiction
A fan wrote in to ask Gaiman whether he read fan fiction, what his favorite fan fiction was, and also what his opinion was on the usefulness of writing fan fiction. In other words, "Please tell me that fan fiction is good."
Gaiman's response is below, emphasis added to the portion in which he writes sample Smeagol/Gollum slash fiction. (For those who have forgotten their Lord of the Rings details, Smeagol was Gollum's Hobbit name and represents a second self in Gollum's subterranean monologues. And Wikipedia will educate you about slash fiction if you need a hand there.)
Er, no, I don't read fanfiction. I think that all writing is useful for honing writing skills. I think you get better as a writer by writing, and whether that means that you're writing a singularly deep and moving novel about the pain or pleasure of modern existence or you're writing Smeagol-Gollum slash you're still putting one damn word after another and learning as a writer. (I just made that up. I imagine it would go something like: "Oh, the preciouss, we takes it our handssses and we rubs it and touchess it, gollum....no, Smeagol musst not touch the preciousss, the master said only he can touch the precioussss.... bad masster, he doess not know the precious like we does, no, gollum, and we wants it, we wants it hard in our handses, yesss..." etc etc)
(Thanks to reader Cat Schaefer Pedini for pointing me to this gem.)
7. His New Year's Wish
At 10:08pm on December 31, 2012, Gaiman posted his New Year's Wish (emphasis added):
It's a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we're faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it's joy we're looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy.
(Thanks to reader Joseph Palreiro for posting this one!)
Gaiman accepts the Vonnegut Award / Flickr User dtd72
8. On Public Speaking
Writers are often called upon to speak in public. Gaiman recently posted six tips for speaking in public, but I'll just give you the first:
Mean it. Whatever you have to say, mean it.
Read the rest for helpful advice, especially the second point. I like to wing it, pseudo-bravely and joyously (see above).
9. Why You Shouldn't Do Creative Work Solely for Money
In an NPR interview promoting the book adaptation of his aforementioned commencement speech, Gaiman explained why doing creative projects just for money isn't worth it:
Whenever I did something where the only reason for doing it was money — and this was a lesson that I learned beginning with being a 23-year-old author hired to write a book about Duran Duran — that whenever I did something and the only reason for doing it was the money, normally something would go terribly wrong. And I normally wouldn't get the money and then I wouldn't have anything. Whereas, whenever I did anything where what prompted my doing it was being interested, being excited, caring, thinking this is going to be fun, even if things went wrong and I didn't get the money, I had something I was proud of. ... It's something that, you know, I forget. Sometimes somebody waves a paycheck and I go, 'I don't really have any reason for doing it, I'm not interested. But, yes, what amazing money, how can I say no?' And then I do it, and then I regret it. And you can almost feel the universe itself sighing, like, 'Why doesn't he learn this one?'
Gaiman, Claire Danes, Charlie Cox at the "Stardust" Premiere / Getty Images
10. On Kidnapping His Favorite Authors
Here's a snippet from a CNN interview in 2001.
"When you're 11, walking home from school through this strange little English landscape, running these weird, wonderful things through your head ... well, now this is one of those 'I've never told anybody this before' things," Gaiman says conspiratorially, "but here we go: "My worst fantasy was a really cool one. I got to kidnap all of the authors whose work I liked, living and dead — I got to go 'round and round up G.K. Chesterton and Geoffrey Chaucer and all of these guys. Then I got to lock them in an enormous castle and make them collaborate on these huge-plot books. And I would tell them what the plots were. "I was about 10 years old. And I plotted this 12-volume giant epic about these people going off to collect these rocks from all over the universe. "As daydreams go, it says an awful lot about me as a young man: I wasn't confident enough about my ability to come up with stories. I was coming up with this huge, intricate story in order to justify in my daydreams of creating stories."
Gaiman and Palmer perform at SPIN's Liner Notes / Flickr User Zoe
11. On What Constitutes a Good Day
The original source of this one appears to be lost to history, but so it goes:
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
More Gaiman
Neil Gaiman has an astonishingly comprehensive online presence. To get your fix, follow his very official Tumblr, his journal, his Twitter, and if you just like quotes, the fan Twitter account @GaimanQuotes is worth a shot. I'm also impressed by the fan-maintained Neil Gaiman Visual Bibliography, a comprehensive guide to basically everything he's ever put to paper.
Gaiman also has a lot of book releases this year. Just out this month are the book Make Good Art based on his commencement speech, plus the (free) short story How to Talk to Girls at Parties. In June we can look forward to The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The man is prolific, generous, and a damn fine writer — thank you, Mr. Gaiman.


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Jenny Craig -- We'll Pass On Kim Kardashian's Pregnant Ass
Two major weight loss companies won't touch Kim Kardashian's "big fat ass" with a 10-foot pole ... TMZ has learned they have zero interest in signing the pregnant celeb to a Jessica Simpson type deal.
Reps for Jenny Craig and Medifast tell TMZ they won't be be helping Kim K shed her post-baby weight -- and their reason, ironically enough, is the reality TV star isn't real enough.
Interestingly, JC's rep added, "We will continue our working relationship with Mariah Carey."
Of course we don't know if Kim's even looking for a new weight loss deal ... she endorsed Quick Trim last year.
But who knew? Mariah's ass: way realer than Kim's.