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Hey! I'm Neal Schaffer, cofounder of the Social Tools Summit, author of Maximize Your Social, and founder of Maximize Social Business and the Social Media Center of Excellence. I live and breathe social media for business, and through my work have engaged with dozens of social media tools vendors. I love geeking out about social and tools - so ask me anything you're curious about and let's make this an epic time together!
What do you think is the most underrated social platform that businesses often overlook?
@ems_hodge I actually think the most underrated social platform is Twitter! It's not often overlooked, but never seen as a strategic network these days with the rise of the visual social networks. I'm actually in the process of writing a free ebook on Twitter Marketing and speaking on this subject at Social Media Marketing World 2016 #smmw16 so I look forward to revealing more about my ideas soon!
Hi Neal. How did you first discover your love for everything social? What tools do you use daily and recommend to businesses, large or small, to maximise their social presence (without spending a ton of money)?
@ems_hodge I suppose I've always been an outgoing social person, and thus my love for social - I love to meet new people from all around the world on a daily basis! I use LOTS of tools on a daily basis, but the main one companies should have is a social media dashboard. I use HootSuite SproutSocial, and Buffer ... all companies should have at least one of not two of these platforms for various reasons. Hope the answer helps!
Eric T. Tung@ericttung · Recruiting Marketer, BMC Software
I know you have lots of international experience with social media, Neal. Can you talk about how it's used differently, either from a societal or marketing perspective in other countries that might be unexpected or unusual?
@ericttung Hey Eric! Social media is used pretty similarly throughout the world, but there are differences and the stage of development differs as well. Europe, in general, I find is 6 to 12 months behind the U.S. in general social media marketing. I expect that gap to close, but it does seem a little behind. WIthin Europe, every country is different. The German-speaking countries still use XING over LinkedIn, but LinkedIn is actually more popular in certain European countries than in the United States (relying on Alexa.com data here). Facebook is as universally popular in Europe as it is here. Pinterest adoption lacks behind. In Asia, mobile social using personal messaging apps has become the predominant social media. Specifically, this means WeChat in China and Chinese-speaking Asia and LINE in Japan. If 2015 was the year Facebook started to monetize Instagram for marketing, I expect they will do the same with WhatsApp in 2016 to compete with these two apps. Hope this helps!
What are your thoughts on Casey Neistat's app BeMe? How can businesses use it to tell compelling stories about their products/services?
@tomstocklein I've actually never heard of BeMe! Tell me more!
@nealschaffer Check out this intro video on BeMe: https://beme.com/
@nealschaffer It's basically a video sharing app.
@tomstocklein I checked out the @BeMe video briefly. It's hard to compete with major photo and video sharing apps. However, as a technological engine, I think it a great target to be bought out by one of those major apps should they have a large number of users and/or have more secret sauce technology. That's my take!
Thanks for taking the time Neal. 1. What is your best advice for startups. 2. What kind of budget should they expect. 3. Best routes to traction. All the above can obviously differ for different industry sector. But in general.
@porsche_tysk My pleasure! 1. Advice for startups? Growth hack leveraging social! Create content to attract and share in social and build a handpicked community by leveraging Paid Social in a savvy way! 2. Budget's a toughie. I think it comes down to people and Paid Social more than tools. You don't necessarily need expensive tools - maybe a few hundred dollars a month tops. The budget should be allocated to a person - which doesn't need to be full-time necessarily -, content creation which might require a budget of at least a few hundred dollars a month or more depending on how much content you want to create, and a few hundred dollars a month of Paid Social. In other words, excluding personnel, start at $1,000 a month for tools, content creation, and Paid Social combined. Make sense? 3. Best route to traction is difficult as well. If there was one best traction everyone would be on it and be successful, right? Social media is powerful only if people talk about your product. Sometimes it will happen organically, but usually at the beginning you need to think of a creative way to get people talking about you. Some do it via leveraging influencers, others using a Kickstarter, and others with unique campaigns. Social media, as is marketing in general, is 1/2 science and 1/2 art - you need to become the artists here and paint a picture that works best with your own community.
Thanks for joining this Ask Me Anything on @ProductHunt ! If I don't respond to your questions after a few minutes, please be patient - I'll get to 'ya!
1. Do you believe in Facebook paid ads? 2. Which paid ads would you use? Facebook's ad revenues are impressive but there are plenty of articles out there saying that their paid ads are not worth the money. We have experienced some of the same issues as the author of the below video. We lately had issues with Instagram showing content to the completely wrong target group and FB ignoring all requests to investigate and respond. http://youtu.be/oVfHeWTKjag
@porsche_tysk Thanks for the question! 1.) I'm a HUGE fan of Paid Social in general, including Facebook Paid Ads. If I wanted to target my ad to 25 year-old males living in San Francisco who already Liked Product Hunt, I have the ability to do that on Facebook but I can't do that anywhere else - even on Google! 2.) For Instagram, I believe that Facebook has improved and Instagram ad posting is now set to "OFF" as a default. Furthermore, not every ad format can be posted to Instagram. Taking that out of consideration, the ROI of a Facebook Ad campaign is only as good as 1) your targeting, 2) your budget, 3) your conversion definition, and 4) the strength of your ad copy & visual to attract the relevant potential customer to convert. I would take a look at each one of these and see if there are ways to optimize. Experiment, measure, optimize. Repeat!
Whose social media strategy do you admire right now? In terms of companies or brands?
@ems_hodge The challenge about social media strategy is that companies don't go out announcing what they are doing in that it is part of their corporate strategy that they might not want their competition to know about ;-) I've been a fan of a lot of different brands and what they do. Gotta love what Nordstroms does on Pinterest, The Bouqs on Instagram, B2B brands leveraging excellent resourceful content for social like Buffer, "old school" brands trying to stay relevant in this day and age like G.E. Lots of great social brands out there!
Who should we all be following to take inspiration from for upping our social game?
@ems_hodge There's a lot of great people on social that share a lot of great content. I would personally recommend you follow the following: @NealSchaffer ;-) @AdeldMeyer @AndreaVahl @BrennerMichael @janlgordon @JayBaer @markwschaefer @jeffbullas @kimgarst @MadalynSklar @msocialbusiness @JohnAguiar @pammktgnut @IanCleary @RebekahRadice @JohnHaydon @mike_allton @anatrafficcafe @danielnewmanUV These are not just great people but also excellent content creators themselves who also curate and share a lot of other people's great content.
Thanks everyone! I hope to be more active here on @ProductHunt in the future! Feel free to engage with me at @NealSchaffer with your additional questions!
Neal, what are Twitter's biggest challenges and opportunities?
@tomstocklein Boy, the Twitter news is really shocking. Hint at extending the character limit - which is good for advertising revenue - and immediately your stock takes a tumble and executives leave. The challenge is that: "Tweaking" Twitter to generate more revenue while growing a passionate community without alienating them. Facebook and LinkedIn have been successful doing this. On the other hand, the opportunities are numerous because Twitter provides the realtime firehose of information that everyone uses. They have a plethora of tools companies that make a lot of money through providing them API access. They are supported by celebrities, television stations, et. al. So there are many ways to monetize Twitter to a greater extent and keep everyone happy - but they should be thinking out of the box and do it in a different way than others have because they ARE different!
If you were in charge of monetizing ProductHunt, what would your strategy be?
@tomstocklein If I was in charge of monetizing ProductHunt, I would 1) repurpose these Ask Me Anything into definitive content and publish them for SEO, 2) grow a larger community in social through Paid Social and creating more content that is shared in social such as in 1) but also other content related to all of the product reviews on this site, 3) consider having "promoted product reviews" - requires more thought and strategy but I think is possible and acceptable and 4) have "promoted chats" because you give exposure to anyone coming on these Ask Me Anythings that has value - the larger you social community, is, though, the more apparent value you will have. I believe that more and more of us are looking to and relying on review sites. The goal is to make Product Hunt that review site that everyone comes to for your niche - and by doing the above I believe you can get there in a monetizing way.
Harry Stebbings@harrystebbings · Podcast Host @ The Twenty Minute VC
thanks so much for joining us today. I would love to hear what you think is the most under utilised but effective method of social media for business? Also, what are your fave social media tools to help with the process?
@harrystebbings Thanks for the question Harry! Wow - that's a pretty broad and general question to give a complete answer to, but I'll try ;-) Most effective method of social media for business, in general terms, is to 1) have content on one's website that is shareable, 2) build community in social, and 3) leverage that social community for business objectives. My fave social media tools? To do the above I prefer 1) WordPress, 2) SproutSocial, and 3) LeadPages, if that makes sense!
Dewi Eirig Jones@dewi_eirig_jones · DewiEirig.Cymru
What do you make of the Twitter dismissals over the weekend?
@dewi_eirig_jones I'm actually shocked by the Twitter dismissals and worried about its future. I would speculate that there is disagreement about moving away from its 140-character roots, but I might be mistaken. The world is changing and social media is changing - to survive, one needs to adapt to the present. I believe that that is exactly what Twitter is doing.
What are you most proud of in your career?
@ems_hodge I suppose what I am most proud of is before social - helping foreign high tech companies in Asia build business from scratch with no previous brand recognition. Did this for a Japanese semiconductor company in China and a Canadian embedded software company in Asia. I like building something from nothing ;-) I also think it is that holistic business experience before social that has helped give me unique insight to help other businesses with social media.
What is your opinion of the social selling tools out there around social CRM? I'm a big fan of Nimble but open to hearing more (other than using LinkedIn directly of course .. which I do). Cheers and great to see you here. We've been connected for awhile. Peter
@ourmaninto Thanks Peter! I'm of two opinions regarding this: 1) Salespeople, even in this age of social media, still need a CRM. They also need to append that CRM with social data so that they have everything in one tool. Nimble is the best representation of that by far, especially with the social appending. Of course, using LinkedIn Sales Navigator directly is another option. 2) On the other hand, just like social media marketers need to use many tools to get the job done, perhaps salespeople will need to do the same. I recently, as a small business owner, started using Pipedrive as a CRM and I must say it is a brilliant and eloquent tool. I can't manage my social contacts through there, but I do that through a separate social media tool. Is it less efficient than using one tool? Perhaps - but I feel like I am in better control of the information because CRMs just don't do social right. Nimble is the closest, but it is still different than managing my social contacts through a dashboard like SproutSocial. Don't know what your thoughts are on the subject, but I hope mine makes sense!
@nealschaffer Neal - thanks for this. Was meant to open the discussion. I am consistently wondering about the efficiencies of social crm in that sense. One or two tools or the overall dashboard approach. I can see that if you are already listening to convos via another tool (such as sproutSocial) then pulling all that data could be a duplication. Interesting topic eh! :) Thanks, Peter
@ourmaninto Interesting topic indeed. We've already seen social networks shut off APIs preventing them access to key data. Based on that, CRM vendors need to reinvent their approach. I believe Nimble has done and continues to work through that - not sure of the others.
if you were to fundraise a startup today how would you go about it?
@porsche_tysk If I was to fundraise a startup today, I would work on first being very clear on 1) what problem this startup helps solve, 2) who the competition is and how you can defeat them, and 3) what the total market size and sales/profit estimates are. I think having a solid, well-thought out business plan is the first step. For the next step I would try to gather attention through free user signups, list signups, etc. to validate the idea. Only then would I look to raise money because you now have a solid plan (assuming that you already have or prove that you can develop the product itself) as well as some data that supports your plan. And I wouldn't look to social media for fundraising but connecting with venture capitalists and angel investors in person through networking et. al. Let me know if I missed anything here!


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A powerful collaboration between our friends at Just Telland Project Unbreakable.Two incredibly important, empowering movements collide, with amazing results. Fantastic work by Grace, Vivian & Hannah.
1) Hannah's poster: I told.
"When I was eleven, I was sexually abused. I told my mom as soon as it happened, and we pressed charges against my abuser. My mom took me to speak to police detectives, and she testified for me in court. After being sexually abused I went through a period of time where I was uncomfortable with my body, and wore baggy clothes. There were times where it has been hard for me to be intimate with another person, but because the abuse had not been repressed, I was able to start healing from it soon after it happened. Having been sexually abused, -while unfortunate and something I wouldn't wish on anyone- has made me part of who I am today. But I know that I would not have been able to move on from there if I had not told."
Vivian's poster: I didn't know I could tell.
Vivian was sexually abused as a child, but didn't realize she had the right or ability to tell, and she actually blanked it out so she didnt even remember the abuse. It was 10 years before she remembered and disclosed that she had been molested repeatedly over 2 or 3 years. She suffered a lot during those years, without knowing what made her act out. Finally when she was 25, it all came back to her and her healing journey could begin. Vivian became a social worker who worked with kids who were sexually abused for many years. She also teaches new social workers to work with sexual abuse issues.
She had her daughter, Hannah. Hannah was sexually abused at age eleven.
2) Because of the differences, we started JustTell.
Inspired by her daughter's strength and by how Hannah was able to let go of any sense of responsibility or blame for what happened to her, Vivian had the idea for JustTell. When she saw the difference between how she suffered over those ten years before she remembered and disclosed her abuse history, and how Hannah was able to let go of what happened to her once she let go of the burden of and told her mom, Vivian realized other kids needed to know that if they have been sexually abused, they need to choose an adult they trust and …just tell.
With the advice of many other professionals and teen focus groups online and in Hannah's school, they started JustTell in 2007.
From the website JustTell.org: The mission of Just Tell is to reach out to youth aged 8 to 17 who are being sexually abused in order to convey, in age-appropriate language, that: they are not alone, they are not to blame for the abuse and should feel no guilt or shame, and that they need to choose a trustworthy adult in their life and tell them about the sexual abuse. The secondary mission of JustTell is to educate and empower all youth around the issue of childhood sexual abuse.
3) You have every choice to use your voice.
Hannah, shortly after her abuse, wrote a poem about her journey, which featured this line.
"Although I told my family and police detectives that I had been sexually abused, it wasn't until I was sixteen that I decided to tell someone my age. I realized after I told that I felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders, and it felt good to tell. I found out that though being sexually abused is my secret, it is also my choice who to tell it to. I wrote a poem after telling the first person my age, titled 'A Secret You Don't Have To Keep' about deciding not to keep this secret, and wrote the words 'Don't ever say, you don't have a choice/For you have every choice to use your voice' as a message of encouragement for myself and others to speak up. Because unlike what abusers say, you do not have to keep their secret, and I know that in my experience I feel a sense of relief every time I tell."
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This has been a long, rough week for me. So what better salve than new music from Elizabeth Mitchell, whose kids music has been part of my kid-filled life from just about the get-go. Head to her Myspace page to hear a couple new recordings. "Little Spring" is a quiet melody (albeit one that builds over its sub-2:00 runtime. "Under the Chestnut Tree" sounds a bit like the Shins (or your other favorite slightly minimalist indiepop band) doing a Japanese folksong -- in other words, totally awesome.
Go listen to them now because they're only going to be up for a couple days. Mitchell says there'll be another new song next week.
Update: Bill reminds me that he and Ella chatted with Elizabeth Mitchell and the rest of her band in February, including "Spring Song." Go there or here to listen to the song and details.


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It seems like we forget about black beans. That is, when it comes to vegetable gardening. Plant beans in your garden. Sure! But do you remember to plant Black Turtle Beans, or do you automatically think about green snap beans?
Here's more information on growing black beans! But, are you sick of eating black bean burritos? Is that possible? Try this wonderful black bean recipe: black bean feta mint salad. Serve chilled with tortilla chips, or even over lettuce. Now, imagine if those black beans and mint were grown in your little vegetable garden out back.


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NEW YORK -- An Oppenheimer & Co. analyst downgraded shares of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., saying the company's stock price already reflects potential approval for its leukemia drug ponatinib.
THE OPINION: Analyst David Ferreiro on Monday cut his rating on Ariad shares to "Perform" from "Outperform." Ferreiro said the Food and Drug Administration should approve ponatinib as a treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia in early 2013, as Ariad expects. But he said Ariad may have trouble getting approval to market the drug as a primary treatment for the disease.
He added that ponatinib will face still competition in 2015, when low-cost generic versions of Novartis AG's cancer drug Gleevec reach the market. Ferreiro said a lot of the stock's recent gains have come from optimism about AP26113, a drug in early-stage testing as a treatment for lung cancer. He said there is little clinical evidence supporting AP26113 and it's too soon to assign it a lot of value.
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A bursa is a small flat cushion-like structure usually found in between a muscle and a bone. It helps provide protection and reduces friction. It is sometimes thought of as a small fluid-filled cushion, one to three inches in size, but usually it is quite flat, similar to a barely filled plastic bag of water. These are present in many areas of our skeletal system, and frequently cause pain in the knees, shoulders, elbows and hips. There are two main knee bursae, and several others. One is on the inside of the knee, just below the joint. The other main bursa is in front of the kneecap.
Pain will occur when the patellar bursae become injured, pinched or inflamed. When the bursa is inflamed, it is called patellar bursitis. (the 'itis' refers to something that is inflamed - like appendicitis). When the bursa is inflamed or injured, the bursa produces more fluid causing swelling and pain.
A bursa may become painful with injury or strenuous or repetitive activities. Often a fall or excessive kneeling on the kneecap will cause pre-patellar bursitis. Sometimes knee bursitis is due to a more serious disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis or even infection.
When the knee is at rest there is less pain, but it usually will feel painful with walking, pressing on the front of the knee is painful, and occasionally redness and swelling is present. The pain may be very sharp if patellar bursitis is severe.
Along with a history of the knee symptoms, an examination using specific motions may suggest bursitis is present. Usually X-rays are done, but because the bursa is made of soft tissue, X-rays or CT scans are often not sufficient. An MRI or ultrasound examination may show if bursitis is present.
The treatment of knee bursitis depends upon the cause and severity of the pain. In general, if pain does not improve with ice and rest, then medical evaluation is a good idea. Physical therapy and anti-inflammatory medications may be tried to reduce pain. More severe pain may be treated with removal of fluid or injections of cortisone-like medications into the knee bursa. Rarely, surgery may be required to remove the bursa.
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Time: July 16, 2018 at 10am to July 28, 2018 at 6pm
Location: Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse
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Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse, the Italian-inspired eatery famously known on the East Coast, is opening their first location in Southern California later this summer! Davio's is hosting a job fair on July 16-21 and July 23-28, from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the restaurant (located at 18430 Von Karman Ave. Irvine, CA 92612).
The restaurant is hiring for all positions, full-time and part-time including:
For more information, visit http://davios.com/irv/events/now-hiring-davios-irvine. Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse is located at 18430 Von Karman Ave. Irvine, CA 92612.


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We know eating healthy is important in fighting cancer. So how can you enjoy that summer cookout with friends and families without tossing healthy eating aside? Here are some tips on how to grill safe this summer.
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In celebration of Pi Day, we will be offering a Savory Apple Pie special pizza paired with B. Nektar's Apple Pi mead. Come in on Pi Day for $3.14 off the special pairing. Additionally, happy hour drafts will be $3.14 from 5-7pm at the bar only.
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Project Gecko is happy to announce another CQB 01 course.
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Instead of wasting the remaining toner, which is both costly and wasteful, use the following tips to ensure you never waste printer toner again.
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For those of us who prefer to be prepared rather than surprised by issues that usually come at a most inconvenient time, it can be extremely tempting to keep backup toner replacements. There are many reasons for keeping an extra toner onsite including:
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- Peace of mind
However, it is important to note that having replacement toner available can be costly if it is never used. Here are some reasons not to purchase extra toner:
- Store returns are usually limited to a certain number of days and you would need to keep the receipt to take advantage of this option
- Return postage/restocking fees may eliminate any discounts associated with buying in bulk even if you can return the extra toner
- Unless you are located in an obscure location, an office supply store is likely within ten miles
- If you have an Amazon Prime account you can get free 2-day shipping on replacement toner
- You can always order replacements once the toner gets to a certain threshold
Ultimately the decision to keep extra toner comes down to weighing the drawbacks. Can you afford to be without one printer for a half hour to 2 days? Do you have additional printers that can be used? Is there anyone reliable who can be responsible for ordering more when the printer warns the toner is low? Where is the nearest office supply store?
If you do decide to keep extra toner onsite, read the next tips for ways you can utilize them even if the printer breaks.
2 - Buy a replacement printer using the same toner
If the quality of the printer that died worked for your environment, consider purchasing the same printer or a similar model that uses the same toner. If the same model is not available, try doing an internet search for the toner.
Click a result from a company you trust.
Scroll down to the Product Details section to reveal all the printers using this toner. In this example, there is also a tab that lists the compatible printers.
Once you have a list of compatible printers, compare their specs and pricing to find the best match for you.
3 - Talk to family and friends
When a printer dies you might not intend to replace it right away. Sometimes a new printer has already been purchased and this one was no longer a necessary device. Other times you might not be interested in the same model or brand printer. If this happens, reach out to family and friends to see if they could use the toner. Finding someone who can use the toner saves them money and keeps you from wasting materials. Besides, you never know when they might be able to return the favor!
4 - Donate the toner
You can always contact a local school or non-profit to see if they might be able to use your toner. Reach out to your children's schools and see if they have a way to put the toner to use. If you are far from schools or do not have any connections, try contacting a local non-profit. Non-profits are made possible by people donating time and resources. Something as small as extra toner might make a huge difference in their daily operations.
In summary, rather than wasting any remaining toner when a printer eventually breaks, talk to family and friends to see if anyone can use it. If that does not work, consider donating it to a non-profit or purchasing a printer that utilizes the same toner. Most importantly, keeping the available stock of toner to a minimum will help reduce the risk of ending up with the task of trying to return or give away toner. Some printers are built to last longer than others, and failure is based on many factors including usage and environment. Either way, what is inevitable is having toner remaining when the printer fails.
As always when it comes to tech, it can be easy to end up with consumables going to waste. Finding a way for the resources you have to be used in their entirety is better for everyone!
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This volume of OSAP contains eleven articles and two discussion pieces, and a comprehensive Index Locorum of ancient texts discussed in the articles. As one expects from the series, the articles are of varying length (some much longer than a regular journal article) and span the history of Greek philosophy from Heraclitus to Proclus. For those bereft of Greek, all Greek words and quotations are transliterated/translated either parenthetically or in place of Greek. The collection as a whole is extremely valuable as an indicator of current trends and developments in ancient philosophy, and those working in ancient political philosophy and ethics will find much grist for the mill of their own research in the very competent and insightful pieces here presented. What follows below are brief synopses/comments on each of the pieces in turn.
Herbert Granger, "Argumentation and Heraclitus' Book"
Granger argues against Jonathan Barnes' contention that the fragments of Heraclitus may have been taken from a book of continuous prose. Barnes opposes the orthodox picture of Heraclitus as a writer of aphorisms and contends that the use of logical connectives (mostly γάρ) provides evidence of philosophical argumentation instead of mystical or aphoristic presentation. What we now know as Heraclitus' aphoristic style may be the result of the imperfect preservation of isolated quotes from a continuous text of Heraclitus' book. Against Barnes, Granger suggests that Heraclitus' book, if there was one, was a collection of independent passages, some aphoristic, others more extended in argumentation. Granger shows a sound grasp of the literature on Heraclitus and incorporates research on the recently discovered Derveni Papyrus. The essay is a very good introduction to some of the issues surrounding Heraclitus' style and provides a useful Bibliography of 32 key texts on Heraclitus.
John Palmer, "Melissus and Parmenides"
Palmer does some careful work in distinguishing Parmenides' monism from that of Melissus. He suggests that far from being derivative of Parmenides, or putting forth the same position, Melissus should be regarded as a much more independent and original thinker than he usually is. Palmer brings in distinctions implicit in Aristotle's treatment of Parmenides and Melissus, and suggests that the idea of a common Eleatic position originates with Gorgias, who is really responding to Melissus and not Parmenides. Palmer suggests, without taking a line on how Parmenides should be interpreted, that Melissus was more influential as a representative of Eleaticism than is commonly recognized and points to the danger in letting one's interpretation of Melissus color or influence one's reading of Parmenides. That is, one should not interpret Parmenides on the assumption that Melissus is defending or expounding the same position as Parmenides. Palmer's bibliography is reasonably full, although conspicuously absent is any reference to Patricia Curd's The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought, Princeton University Press, 1998.
Gabriela Roxana Carone, "Calculating Machines or Leaky Jars: The Moral Psychology of Plato's Gorgias"
It is impossible here to do justice to this rather lengthy piece, which is a very rich and at the same time careful analysis of key moves in the Gorgias regarding Socrates' stance on the relationship of reason to desire. Carone argues that, far from departing from intellectualism, one may read the Socratic stance in the dialogue as a consistent extension of the position. Carone also brings in important passages from the Republic, most notably the oft-ignored "channeling" passage at Rep. 485d, in support of her argument, suggesting as well that although there may be other developments in Plato's moral theory in the Republic, it too may be seen as consistent on the point of intellectualism. The title of Carone's essay derives from the passage in the Gorgias (493a-b) in which the location of the desires in the soul is compared with a leaky jar, suggesting that some part of the soul is always akolastos and subject to aplêstia, a concept that Carone finds consistent with Socratic intellectualism insofar as akolasia can be accounted for by lack of reason. But we are not leaky jars, that is we are not ultimately ruled by insatiable desires, nor are we dry calculating machines -- viz. Socrates' psychological eudaimonism is not a dry intellectualism either, but does take account of the role of emotion and desire in his moral theory.
Raphael Woolf, "The Practice of a Philosopher"
This essay focuses on Socrates' remark in the Phaedo that philosophy is a preparation for death and asks whether the remark should be taken as implying an evaluative stance or an ascetic stance. According to Woolf, an ascetic reading would involve separating the soul from the body as much as possible in life, whereas an evaluative reading would suggest that one approach the body with indifference. Of course Socrates as depicted by Plato does not appear to be wholly ascetic -- he dines, drinks, jokes, etc. -- yet he does sometimes suggest that true philosophical knowledge can come only with the complete separation of body and soul. Woolf offers an in-depth analysis of arguments for and against both readings of Socrates' remark, suggesting that ultimately we need to give "interpretive space to both". I think that this is correct, but I suspect that Woolf 's argument would benefit from considering how Plotinus interprets the relationship between soul and body rather than using what he calls a "Kiplingesque" stance as a touchstone. The third section of the paper causes the most concern, since it attempts to resolve the discrepancy between Socrates' attitude towards death in the Apology and his attitude in the Phaedo, suggesting that the discrepancy might be accounted for by the fact that the audiences are different in each case (viz. jurymen vs. Pythagorean philosophers). To make this case it would be necessary to ignore the fact that Socrates' ideas about death in the Phaedo are bound up with Plato's theory of Forms and recollection, and it would seem rash to foist these onto the Socrates of the Apology, a point of which Woolf is well aware. At the same time, however, one might bear in mind that Plato suggests he was present at Socrates' trial, but absent for the execution. The latter fact, as well the indirect reporting of the Phaedo gives Plato a certain literary license that he does not have in the Apology.
Rachana Kamtekar, "What's the Good of Agreeing? Homonoia in Platonic Politics"
In this clearly articulated piece, Kamtekar examines the relationship of the citizens' agreement to be ruled by the philosopher-king in the Republic to their happiness. The notion of homonoia is problematized by initial forays into the Clitophon and First Alcibiades, without any commitment to their authenticity (on the customary grounds that they are indicative of a Socratic point of view -- whether the argument then requires that the Republic too be taken as a Socratic point of view and how far this bears on the argument is left unclear). In the Clitophon, concern over the danger of homonoia is stressed, and Kamtekar allays this concern by suggesting that true belief removes this danger, the kind of true belief instilled in the lower classes by the Republic's programme of education. I agree wholeheartedly with Kamtekar 's explanation of the necessity of education to produce virtuous souls; while I agree with Kamtekar 's critique of Bobonich, the critique of Reeve leaves some doubt. Against Reeve, Kamtekar argues that what remains questionable in his account is that the phulakes and demiourgoi still value honor or money, and it is not clear how these bring happiness or virtue. However, in Kamtekar's argument, the importance of money and virtue are pointed out, and one may recall that in the Apology Socrates says that from virtue comes money and all good things (30a). Could not education place desire for money -- a recognized good -- in a subservient and instrumental role with regard to virtue, both as a result of and in the service of homonoia? Kamtekar emphasizes Rep 581b-c, which, taken a certain way (and it is unclear how committed to that way Kamtekar is) would suggest that phulakes and demiourgoi are unjust precisely because reason does not rule in their souls. But if we take account of the fact that justice is doing one's own internally, as Plato suggests at Rep 443c-d, it is not clear that one can be just by submitting to someone else's reason, as Kamtekar (and previously Jonathan Lear1) would have it. I point this out not to be contentious, but rather to show how evocative Kamtekar 's essay is. The essay is rounded out by comparisons of the functionality of homonoia in the Republic and Statesman, and a concluding section that bears on the implications of homonoia for Plato's opposition to contract theory and contemporary approaches to agreement in contract theory. It is not clear to me how "recent social contractarians, where consenting is nothing other than rationally endorsing a social or political arrangement" (167) is any different from James I or Hobbes, or for that matter Glaucon's position, which is said to be like swearing an oath or signing a contract. K is right, however, to distinguish Platonic homonoia from this kind of hypothetical contract. This paper should be read by anyone interested in the Republic. It might benefit from a deeper analysis of Plato's psychology.
John M. Armstrong, "After the Ascent: Plato on Becoming Like God".
Armstrong suggests that, while Plato's ancient interpreters emphasized Plato's escapism or otherworldliness, the importance that Plato placed on separating soul from body lies instead in one's becoming like a god. Armstrong points out that in Plato's later philosophy, esp. Timaeus, Philebus and Laws, there is a second sense in which one can be like god, imitating the "ordering" nature of the divine by using one's intelligence to impose order on the changing world. This is something that Armstrong claims the ancient interpreters ignored. Armstrong does not want to claim that Plato changes his mind regarding the escapism, for Plato still holds to this even in the later dialogues, but rather wants to emphasize that the Ancients seem to ignore this aspect of Plato's idea of homoiôsis theôi.
Mehmet M. Erginel. "Non-substantial Individuals in Aristotle's Categories."
This essay argues against the traditional view that for Aristotle a non-substantial individual (i.e. a property) can only exist in one individual substance. The essay primarily concerns a passage in the Categories (1a25) in which Aristotle says 'by "in a subject" I mean what is in something not as a part, and cannot exist separately from what it is in.' On the traditional view the sentence has been taken as a definition of what it is for a particular property, x, to be in a particular substance, y. On this reading Aristotle is saying
'x is in y' if
(i) x is in y
(ii) x is not part of y
(iii) x cannot exist independently of y. (p. 187)
The third clause of the definition implies that a property cannot exist in more than one substance because then its existence would not depend on the existence of the substance. Erginel argues that the passage is explaining what it is for x to be a property in general rather than for x to be a property of a particular substance, y. While Erginel's interpretation is similar to Frede's, he departs from Frede in thinking that the sentence is not intended as a definition. Erginel's view is that "The sentence provides only necessary conditions for being a property" (p. 192). Thus he takes the sentence to mean:
x is 'in' a subject only if there is (at least) a subject y such that
(ii) x is not a part of y
(iii) x cannot exist independently of y. (p. 192)
In other words, the minimum requirement for something to be a property is that it is in at least one substance. However, it can be in many substances and there is no privileged substance in which it must exist.
Michael V. Wedin, "On the Use and Abuse of Non-Contradiction"
This is a very engaging article concerning Aristotle's claim in Metaphysics Book IV that the theses of Protagorean relativism and Heraclitean flux not only deny the principle of non-contradiction, but imply its contrary -- that every thing both has and does not have every property. Aristotle's arguments for this claim are notoriously brief and opaque and there are few that think an intelligible argument can be made in support of the claim. Wedin offers accounts of the arguments which are deductively valid and provides reasons for thinking these are indeed the arguments Aristotle had in mind. Wedin does a particularly nice job of reconstructing Aristotle's argument regarding Protagorean relativism. Very roughly, Wedin shows that a Protagorean (or at least Aristotle's version of a Protagorean) is committed to accepting either one necessary truth or the contrary of the principle of non-contradiction. However, to accept any necessary truth "is to hold that there is some fact of the matter that makes it [the case]" (Wedin, 221). This is clearly unacceptable to a Protagorean relativist. Having worked through Wedin's reconstruction, if one then returns to IV.5, the argument is almost intuitive.
Michael Pakaluk, "The Meaning of Aristotelian Magnanimity"
In this important essay, Pakaluk suggests that megalopsuchia in the Nicomachean Ethics has been misread and misconstrued by many commentators. Pakaluk wants to maintain that far from being a free-hand character sketch after the manner of Theophrastus' Characters, or a negative characteristic, or a virtue that presupposes a non-egalitarian society, the concept of megalopsuchia, understood correctly, is actually consistent with Aristotle's approach to the virtues in the Ethics, and indeed an admirable trait. In order to get clear on how we ought to understand and approach megalopsuchia, Pakaluk offers an analytic translation of Ethics 1123a34-1125a15, followed by a discussion of and commentary on the translation that shows how he reads the passages, and how others have misconstrued them. Pakaluk points out seven points of disanalogy between Aristotle's "portrait" of the megalopsuchos and the approach of Theophrastus' portraits, in addition to taking issue with certain aspects of translations by Ross and Rowe. Most interesting is Pakaluk's analysis of the presentation of the megalopsuchos in tandem with the order and structure of other parts of the Ethics. This essay broaches questions of Socrates' contempt for the court, and I suspect there is much fertile ground here for a deeper examination of Socrates' attitudes towards his jury and his life, ideas already discussed in the article by Woolf in the present volume.
Erik J. Wielenberg. "Egoism and Eudaimonia Maximization in the Nicomachean Ethics."
Wielenberg attributes to Aristotle the following principle: "AE: An ethically virtuous person will always choose a course of action that he believes promotes his own eudaimonia at least as much as any other course of action he could have chosen". (p. 278) Wielenberg does not want to commit himself to the claim that the "eudaimonia-promoting" action is performed because it is eudaimonia-promoting. The analogy he uses here is weak if not disanalogous. Wielenberg suggests that I move and oxygen molecules always move, but I do not move to cause oxygen molecules to move. A bit more work needs to be done to show why one chooses eudaimonia-promoting actions; one suspects that the actions that do not promote eudaimonia are avoided precisely because they are not eudaimonia-promoting. If things are eudaimonia-promoting merely accidentally, one wonders what relevance such actions have to Wielenberg's claim of egoism. More needs to be said here. Wielenberg responds to Kraut's claim in Aristotle on the Human Good.2 that Aristotle is not an egoist on the grounds that it is inconsistent with AE, which suggests the maximization of eudaimonia. Further examination of the texts that Kraut examines shows that they are not in conflict with AE, and on these grounds Wielenberg suggests that Kraut is wrong. I suspect the essay would be more fruitful if Wielenberg would expand on what kind of egoist he takes Aristotle to be, and what is at stake here (he bows out of the argument at this stage), and why he would not commit to the stronger claim that one performs eudaimonia-promoting acts because they are eudaimonia-promoting.
Dirk Baltzly, "The Virtues and Becoming like God: Alcinous to Proclus."
Perhaps some evidence that some later Platonists/Neoplatonists do recognize the earthly value of homoiôsis theôi can be found in Baltzly's exploration of Proclus' development of the philosophy of Plotinus. According to Baltzly, whereas Plotinus is almost wholly otherworldly (what Armstrong above calls "escapist"), Proclus finds some aspects of divine virtue that are not purely intellectual but something akin to human virtue, and thus allows for a non-escapist understanding of the virtuous life. One of the upshots of both this article and Armstrong's article (although neither author takes a strong stand on the issue) is that there is room for something like "virtue ethics" in Plato, insofar as one can see the possibility of a non-escapist ethic in Plato and some of his later interpreters. One suspects that these concerns line up with the questions of Socratic asceticism/evaluationism in Woolf's treatment of philosophy as a preparation for death in the Phaedo; interesting results would follow from an examination of how these issues relate. That is, a closer examination may well reveal that Woolf's two readings of Socrates' remark in the Phaedo engage an interesting tension between Plato's two senses of homoiôsis theôi.
Paul Woodruff, "Antiphons, Sophist and Athenian"
Woodruff's piece is a discussion of two recent books on Antiphon: M. Gagarin's Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law and Justice in the Age of the Sophists (Austin: 2002), and G.J. Pendrick, Antiphon the Sophist: The Fragments (Cambridge: 2002). Woodruff begins by reviewing the Corpus Antiphonteum, and then goes on to address Antiphon's identity, pointing to a distinction made by a minority of ancient scholars who distinguished between Antiphon the Rhetor and Antiphon the Sophist (this might have been a better title for the essay). In contemporary commentary on Antiphon, we find separatists who believe that the "Rhetor" and the "Sophist" are different authors, and unitarians who believe that the author is the same. Pendrick is a separatist and Gagarin is a unitarian. While there is no conclusive evidence on either side, and we need to account for both perspectives, Woodruff says that whether the texts in the Corpus Antiphonteum are the work of one man or two makes a difference. If the unitarians are right, the corpus would present a single author's work on speeches, forensics and theory, whereas for Gorgias we have only rough summaries of his theory, and no forensics, and for Protagoras' work only fragmentary remains. The latter half of this short essay is dedicated to the interpretation of "On Truth" and variant translations leading to variant interpretations in F44; Woodruff points out that both Gagarin and Pendrick agree with most scholars that Antiphon is not an advocate of natural justice as once thought (perhaps he has Barker in mind3). The essay does some justice to Gagarin and Pendrick, and while it is a discussion, not a book review, Woodruff's enthusiasm successfully inspires the reader to want to investigate the texts under discussion.
Charles Kahn, "From Republic to Laws"
Kahn offers a review discussion of Christopher Bobonich's Plato's Utopia Recast. Among Kahn's compliments for this important new book is the concluding claim that Bobonich offers the "best account we have of the ethics and political philosophy of the Laws" (p. 362). Much of Kahn's discussion focuses on Bobonich's central thesis, namely that there is a change in Plato's attitude towards non-philosophers from the writing of the Phaedo and Republic to the writing of the Laws, suggested by optimism stemming from Plato's abandonment of the tripartite theory of the soul. Kahn's criticisms center on Bobonich's failure to take account of how the literary and contextual aspects of the dialogue-form bear on our interpretation of Plato, a criticism with which I wholeheartedly agree. The most valuable part of the discussion comes with Kahn's analysis of the tripartite soul, and the strongest criticism of Bobonich's thesis is that, given the focus of the discussion of the Laws, and the retention of the tripartite theory of the soul in the temporally close Timaeus, there is no strong evidence that Plato ever abandoned tripartition. Just as recollection is absent from the Republic but still present in the Phaedo, the absence of a discussion of the tripartite soul in the Laws is not conclusive evidence that Plato abandoned it. Kahn is surely right that to claim, as Bobonich would, that non-philosophers are incapable of being just in the Republic would run counter to the intention of the Republic. Kahn's discussion is valuable not only as a survey of Bobonich, but as a sound analysis of important aspects of Plato's psychology as well, and should be read by anyone interested in the psychology and class division in the Republic.
1. Lear, J., "Plato's Politics of Narcissism," Apeiron (1994). 2. Kraut, Richard, Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton: 1989). 3. Barker, E., Greek Political Theory: Plato and His Predecessors (Methuen: 1947), 67.


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Extremely disappointed with the quality of Nissin i40 flash. Purchased from B&H a little over a month ago and after just a few uses, the markings on the dials started to wear off all of a sudden (not gradually). I have contacted both Minox (Nissin distributor in the US) and B&H Photo. We'll see what happens. A quick google search reveals that this issue is quite common with i40 units. However, I am not aware of any product recalls by Nissin. This is an expensive, advanced level flash so it's quite frustrating.


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The Cantor defeat: Inside the storm
The stunning defeat of House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Tuesday's Virginia primary election is being ascribed to not necessarily a single issue but a number of things that came together to create the perfect political storm.
Mr. Cantor had been far ahead of his tea party-backed (but hardly heavily funded) challenger, David Brat. But in the only poll that counted, Mr. Brat, who had serious doubts about his ability to win, trounced Cantor, 56-44 percent.
There's no doubt that Cantor's wishy-washy position on immigration, particularly amnesty, upset his base. But there's also little doubt that his base saw Cantor's growing leadership role — he was the odds-on favorite to be the next speaker of the House — as an abandonment of the Old Dominion's 7th Congressional District. Additionally, a low turnout worked against a Cantor campaign that figured it had the race in the bag.
Veteran Virginia political watcher Tom Davis, a former GOP state representative, called it what it was — "a genuine grass-roots revolt."
Now comes David Brat, a college economics professor who embraces constitutional and free-market principles. He'll face Randolph-Macon College colleague Jack Trammell, an associate professor of sociology, nominated by a Democrat committee after no candidates entered the race, who says his campaign is based on "community," student loan reform and greater access to higher education.
The takeaway from Eric Cantor's defeat? All politics really is local and taking your constituents — and your re-election — for granted will lead to your profound political embarrassment.


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In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The collision, which was not the first recorded between two satellites in orbit--but the most recent and alarming--produced thousands of pieces of debris, only a small percentage of which could be tracked by sensors located around the world. In early 2007, China tested a kinetic anti-satellite weapon against one of its own satellites, which also generated substantial amounts of space debris. These collisions highlighted the importance of maintaining accurate knowledge, and the associated uncertainty, of the orbit of each object in space. These data are needed to predict close approaches of space objects and to compute the probability of collision so that owners/operators can decide whether or not to make a collision avoidance maneuver by a spacecraft with such capability. The space object catalog currently contains more than 20,000 objects, and when the planned space fence radar becomes operational this number is expected to exceed 100,000. A key task is to determine if objects might come closer to each other, an event known as conjunction, and the probability that they might collide. The U.S. Air Force is the primary U.S. government organization tasked with maintaining the space object catalog and data on all space objects. This is a complicated task, involving collecting data from a multitude of different sensors-many of which were not specifically designed to track orbiting objects-and fusing the tracking data along with other data, such as data from atmospheric models, to provide predictions of where objects will be in the future. The Committee for the Assessment of the U.S. Air Force's Astrodynamic Standards collected data and heard from numerous people involved in developing and maintaining the current astrodynamics standards for the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), as well as representatives of the user community, such as NASA and commercial satellite owners and operators. Preventing collisions of space objects, regardless of their ownership, is in the national security interested of the United States. Continuing Kepler's Quest makes recommendations to the AFSPC in order for it to create and expand research programs, design and develop hardware and software, as well as determine which organizations to work with to achieve its goals.
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Kick at the Darkness m/m shifter series book #1
To live through the zombie apocalypse they have to survive each other first.
College freshman Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. He humiliated himself trying to pick up a cute guy, he hasn't made any friends at school, and his stupidly hot jerk of a TA gave him a crappy grade on his paper. He's going to drop Adam Hawkins' film class and start fresh tomorrow after he's had a good sulk.
But Parker's about to find out what a bad day really looks like—if he can survive the night.
A virus is unleashed, transforming infected people into zombie-like killers. After these quick and deadly creepers swarm campus, Parker only escapes thanks to Adam swooping him onto the back of his trusty motorcycle. Now they're on the run—and stuck with each other.
When they're not bickering, they're fighting off the infected in a bloody battle for survival. Their only hope is to head east to Parker's family, but orphaned Adam has a secret he's not sure Parker will accept: he's a werewolf. Can they trust each other enough to find some light in these dark days?
This gay romance from Keira Andrews features enemies to lovers, a really stressful road trip, two young men finding love in the zombie apocalypse, and of course a happy ending.
Novel length: 78,000 words
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"[L]ove scenes were hot and very well done… I didn't want to put it down."
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You'll want to avoid this worst-case email marketing scenario:
You spend time thinking about and crafting a compelling email offer. But when it hits your prospect's inbox, their eyes glaze over, and they hit "delete."
Leads generated for follow-up: zero.
Follow this important rule to craft emails that will entice your prospects to read and click, and that will deliver you leads ripe for follow-up:
Write in Plain English
When you use buzzwords you may think you're writing in English, but you're not. You're writing in "jargon-ese."
Consider this email I received recently:
It takes more than just well-placed keywords and a few pieces of content to improve your marketing ROI with inbound. Our new white paper, Amplify Your Impact: How to Multiply the Effects of Your Inbound Marketing, teaches you how to incorporate inbound into a larger group of marketing tactics and get explosive results from channels like social media blogging and SEO.
Even some marketing experts may need a translation…
...and more importantly, the reader needs an explanation of what he gets if he acts on the offer. And in a world of email overload, lack of clarity and confusion sends your email straight to the trash.
What if the email said this instead?
Marketing makes money for you and your company. (When it's done right, that is.)
But too many businesses waste money on marketing… they invest money in it without knowing how to get the most out of it.
Learn some easy ways to boost the impact of your marketing (and dramatically increase your return on investment while you're at it.) Read the new white paper, Amplify Your Impact: How to Multiply the Effects of Your Inbound Marketing.
Get it here, now!
See the difference?
Both of these emails include the same offer: to download a white paper about marketing. But only one of the emails resonates with English-speaking human beings (which we're guessing comprise the bulk of your local prospects).
Translate Your Message from Jargon-ese
You won't always be able to avoid jargon--certain phrases (like "business development" or "return on investment") are so common they're part of the language these days.
But you can still offer your prospects a simple, clear, and understandable way to act.
The next time you craft an email offer, ask yourself: "Will all of my potential readers understand my offer and how to get it?"
If the answer is anything but a definite yes, do a rewrite. Your email may be scaring off your prospects (even the ones who speak jargon-ese) by forcing them to work too hard.
On the other hand, if you write clearly and use words anyone can understand, you'll get a lot more clicks…
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SHORT FICTION: Native Immigrant
[Note: This story first appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of Liberty University's literary magazine, LAMP.]
The June sun shone bright through the sliding glass door of his in-laws' kitchen in Albany, New York. The golden glow the light created around the room hindered Samuél's ability to read internet ads. He, his wife, and his daughter arrived the night before from Buenos Aires, Argentina — his father's hometown. Samuél had been the graphic designer for an alternative culture and arts magazine. When it folded, two months before, they felt their years spent abroad had ended.
He planned to get a job, any job, to save up enough money to pay off the plane tickets they bought on credit, so they could move into their own place. He was as certain of finding a job now as he had been while riding a bus from a futból game several weeks before in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, discussing with his porteño cousin Federico his need to leave. He thought they'd looked like twins, sitting in the same seat, both of them wearing glasses and the same powder blue and white striped Racing Club de Avellaneda jerseys.
Samuél había dicho:
—Che, tengo que irme, Fede, pero no quiero.
—¿Por el trabajo?
A dark-skinned boy with a Nike T-shirt yelled in a hoarse monotone for loose change.
—Claro, estoy secisimo.
Samuél looked out the window to read a street sign.
—¿Pero, creés que vas a encontrar?
—Sí. Hay un montón de oportunidades allá.
—¿Te quedarías si estuvieran las mismas acá?
Federico rubbed his eyes and then reached into his pocket for loose change.
—Obvio, boludo — Samuél había dicho, and pushed the buzzer to stop the bus.
* * *
Eleanor sat Indian-style on a kitchen chair to feed Graciela.
"There's a ton of sales jobs," said Samuél.
Eleanor cut up fried egg with the side of a fork. "You'd do that?"
"Not a chance. It's not in my blood."
"I'm glad you're looking, but there's no rush. Take a few days off." Her lips winked open to blow on the steaming egg. "Open wide, nena."
"I know. But I can't just sit and relax if we're broke."
"I know — Good girl! ¡Muy bien, Graciela!"
His father-in-law was a surgeon, and had the weekend Mercedes outside to prove it. Samuél grew up in a poor neighborhood in New Jersey. Even though he'd been visiting his in-laws for years, he always felt out of place as the only (albeit light-skinned) Latino in sight, and all the more so as a jobless one.
Samuél responded to as many posts as he could, and almost all of his callbacks went the same: Do you have transportation? A Bicycle. Just a minute, I'm getting another call. OK … Hey, I just got a call from a guy with a car. OK. Good luck. OK.
Around midday, Eleanor brought a sandwich, cheddar Sun Chips, and a Diet Coke to Samuél, who had fallen asleep in the backyard. His drawing pad lay next to him, open to a sketch of the Obelisco. It showed the structure on Avenida 9 de Julio, but instead of standing straight and taught and pearly, he drew it short, hunched over and filthy. Cars and people zipped and swarmed past, ignoring its decay. In script lettering above the monument, it said "Mi Buenos Aires Querido."
Eleanor lowered her head down to kiss his upturned lips. She sat down next to him.
"You've been out for a while."
He sat up and tried to find his pencil by running his fingers through the grass. Her father had spent a great deal of time maintaining that yard. The rectangular, green expanse was an organic shag carpet. A croquet course and badminton net stood ready for an after-dinner competition. "Some guy called for you. I guess for yard work? He wants to know if you can start today." She crossed her legs. They were still tan from Argentina's beaches.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" she said. "I'd be okay with you taking a week off before you start working. Maybe by then you can find something better."
"No. I'm going. I'll ride your dad's bike."
"My mom can drop you off."
"No thanks."
Samuél found her father's bicycle, a Trek road bike that weighed in ounces and still had the rubber nubs on the tires. It glided. He stopped after every couple turns to check the directions he'd scribbled onto an envelope. The creases where he folded and unfolded it over and over again were splitting from overuse and sweat. He was used to weekend rides without a helmet on an old beach cruiser in downtown Buenos Aires, slipping between taxis and brushing by squealing city buses. Those streets were laid out like a grid. With a pocket-sized street map, it was easy to get anywhere.
He found the house. A Lexus SUV sat quiet. Tree limbs and plant debris lay on the lawn. A wheelbarrow had left wobbly, orange dirt tracks on the driveway.
Draught of bottled water. Breathe. OK.
A potato-shaped man in his mid-30s sauntered toward him. "Samuel?" he said. He looked vaguely Armenian or Turkish.
"Samuél," he corrected. " … No big deal."
The man stuck his hand out. "I'm Nick."
Maybe he was Greek.
"I have another guy on the way, so let me show you around." His speech was unlabored, borderline disinterested, or tired or drunk. "Do you know what time it is?"
"Not sure."
Nick pulled out a large touchscreen phone. "It's just after four. Let me show you what I need done."
Nick had just bought the house from an old lady. Her husband had died about six years ago, and her children lived elsewhere. From the outside, the house looked even bigger than Samuél's in-laws', but it was girdled by a moat of wet, fallen leaves — the Accumulation of each fall since the husband had died. Samuél filled large black bags high with damp roughage. His back muscles turned to cement with each trip to the curb.
After an hour of work, a pickup truck arrived and backed up onto the yard. It was hauling a tractor-sized machine that looked like an orange robot with a buzz saw at the end of its one arm.
The driver stuck his head out the window. "Nick?"
"In the house," Samuél said, and continued raking. He wanted to appear as diligent as possible. It was the only thing he could do to dull his frustration. He was a bilingual college graduate who had worked in the Paris of South America, but now toiled as an immigrant to his own country — anonymous and sweaty.
The sound of oiled machinery stopped Samuél's rake. He noticed that the machine had no seat or steering wheel. The man who brought it stood by the truck and fiddled with a remote.
The machine rolled onto the lower portion of the yard, near the street, where the stump of what was once a stout tree sat rooted into the ground. The machine's blade was several inches thick and had fist-sized teeth. It began to spin. Samuél watched without speaking, his gloved hands hung at his sides. Only the robot mattered.
The blade spun vertically, but moved side to side as if conducting a symphony of destruction.
Nick tapped Samuél on the arm and gestured toward the machine. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"I never knew such a thing existed. Was the tree about to fall?"
"No. It just wasn't our taste."
By 8 p.m., the sun began to set. Samuél had been having trouble walking; carrying another bag of leaves seemed impossible. He knocked on Nick's front door and Nick stepped out with the same sleepy look as before, munching an apple. He pulled out a wallet made from cream-colored suede. Samuél looked away from the green bills, feigning disinterest. Nick handed him a few dollars extra and said, "Call it a first-day bonus."
Samuél found his way out of the development and onto a road with two lanes in each direction and traffic lights at every hundred meters or so. The sun faded to a burnt orange as it descended toward the horizon. Samuél tried to imagine wide streets, headlights busy like fireflies, tall concrete houses, the whip-whistling of city buses.
Several minutes went by and he realized that he'd missed a turn. He cursed to himself in Castellano. Before long, he recognized the name of an intersecting street and turned left before the traffic light. He coasted over the opposite lanes and into the curved merging lane designated for vehicles coming from the opposite direction.
He figured he'd made a clever move in avoiding a busy intersection. A Ford F-150 came around the corner and sounded its horn. Samuél squeezed the breaks and the bike's new mechanics let him stop with ease. The sun had descended, and he couldn't see the face behind the middle finger. No cars came now. He put all his weight on one leg and propelled the thin bicycle forward.
A restaurant on the left illuminated the word "Ravenswood" atop its awning in bright red. A car leaving the restaurant pulled onto the road at the same time Samuél rode by. He thought he heard the frame crack when he spun counterclockwise above the road. He landed in a heap of limbs and carbon fiber.
A bushy-haired kid wearing a Kings of Leon T-shirt stepped out of the car. Samuél looked up at him from the middle of the road and disliked him."Dude. I guess I wasn't … You OK?"
Samuél stood up. The bicycle's back wheel had been bent into an impossible shape. "This isn't my bike."
A car pulled into the parking lot and stopped between Samuél and Leon's car. The woman inside spoke: "I saw the whole thing. Don't worry, I called the cops." Her voice was almost reassuring. She turned to Leon, "I called the cops."
When the policeman came, he asked for their identification. Samuél could only give his name and social security number. He no longer had an American driver's license.
From the cop Samuél heard: " … press charges?"
Leon's engine started. He looked both directions several times before pulling out.
"Here's my card. If he doesn't pay you for the bike, then give me a call, OK?"
The policeman drove off. Red tail lights in the night. Samuél looked around for a payphone, but then remembered what country he was in. His back throbbed. He wasn't sure if it was from the wreck or the work. How could he tell Nick he had to quit without sounding like a liar, or worse?
He dragged the bike over to a patch of grass alongside the road. He crouched down to sit next to it, but his legs gave. His shoulders and head hit the ground, sweaty.
Samuél's lower back muscles felt like pavement on the grass. The sun finally set and the cold crept in. Samuél waited for a Buenos Aires city bus to come and carry him home.
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My name is Marcelo Asher Quarantotto.I WRITE WITH WORDS, PHOTOS, VIDEOS, WEBSITES AND MUSIC.
I am a father of three beautiful daughters and husband to the most gracious, saintly creature I've ever met. (You'll find pictures of them here from time to time.) I am also a multidisciplinary storyteller.


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UPDATE: A new post from Charlsie reads:
Ah well hmm…
I think tumblr is lying. And they know it.
The scandal continues!
One of our commenters apparently waltzed over to one of Charlsie's two tumblrs and found this:
Yes, it's me. Charlsie.
The tumblr (nycintern.tumblr.com) I kept for my written component as an intern during J-Term was removed. Well, actually, it exists … but if you go to it, a lovely yet dull page of
We couldn't find the page you were looking for
comes up.
Sometimes though, this comes up
Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.
That's funny. But not really.
On Tuesday afternoon, I received a phone call from NonSociety's Mary Rambin about my blog. She asked me to make it private or delete the posts. Before I could even really do any of that, my page just disappeared. Now, when I go under my tumblr accounts, I can click on the January in the City account, but I do not have any real permission to post.
That's all for now.
This post is no longer there. Hmm. We wonder how this happened? We sincerely hope that Ms. C didn't actually lose her posts; it doesn't sound like she did–only that she can't post. But this is fishy.
Another update: You know what really pisses us off about this? We thought NS was all about "putting it out there." Why can't the intern "put it out there"? All she did was share her honest thoughts and the mundane tasks she had to do for these girls. But, you know, since her posts didn't gel with the image that JAB and company are trying to present, it had to go. Way to talk about honesty and transparency, ladies.


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The Sublet Experiment
by Ethan Youngerman
November 2006 - May 2007
Ran for over six months, playing to sold out crowds all over New York City
The Sublet Experiment, a production that performed in a different apartment in New York City each weekend, was widely covered in the press, and even featured on television programs in Germany and Japan!
Selected press coverage:
New York magazine featured The Sublet Experiment in the Approval Matrix, in their winter culture guide, and in an online video.
Articles on the production appeared in The New York Times, the Associated Press, Newsday, Gothamist, the Detroit Free Press, the Real Deal, and Backstage.
You can listen to an interview Ethan Youngerman and I did with Broadway Bullet.
Photos by Davina Pardo, Costume Design by Jessica Pabst
"The Sublet Experiment is a play that taps into the thrills of theater's psychological voyeurism..."
New York Times, December 29, 2006
New York Magazine critics' pick
"The Sublet Experiment is a total success. Youngerman and director Michelle Tattenbaum have mounted a production that is thematically and artistically satisfying, and a whole lot of fun to boot...the viewer can truly feel the change in the air."
www.nytheatre.com, December 6, 2006
"Ethan Youngerman's The Sublet Experiment is truly inventive and thrilling....Michelle Tattenbaum directed this tight ensemble in a tight space with an incredible intricate aplomb...Find out where this is playing...it's brilliant. GO-O-O!" HI! DRAMA
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Friday January 26, 2007
"Cleverly written and unaffectedly acted, The Sublet Experiment is modern and apropos, and manages to put a new spin on the tired, but ever-present, quest for identity. Plus, you can laugh, cry and check out real estate all at the same time."
NY Press, December 6, 2006