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- Nonresident permits: 2
- Total permits: 22
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Type: Limited-entry
Species: Buck pronghorn
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DescriptionBox Elder, Cache, Morgan, Rich, Summit and Weber counties--Boundary begins at I-15 and the Utah-Idaho state line; south on I-15 to I-84 at exit 340; east on I-84 to I-80; east on I-80 to the Utah-Wyoming state line; north on this state line to the Utah-Idaho state line; west on this state line to I-15. Excludes all CWMUs. USGS 1:100,000 Maps: Logan, Ogden, Promontory Point, Tremonton. Boundary questions? Call the Ogden office, 801-476-2740. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
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It's refreshing to know that Randy does know when to cut ties with a team he really had no interest in. We all know he would rather watch Aston Villa than the Browns. I am just glad that it happened now than half way through the season (especially if the team is struggling).
I am happy to hear than Haslem is involved with being one of the "faces" of his franchise, and that we will be able to hear more from him as this purchase takes place. I am not saying I want a Mark Cuban type of owner, but I am happy to see someone that is willing to get infront of the media and a very intelligent fan base to let us know what he is thinking/planning/executing in regards to our Browns.
I also, don't mind that he has (and will have had) a stake in the Squealers. He seems to be very passionate about whatever team he supports. And, why would that be any different when he comes in paying $1 Billion for our Brownies? I think he will fit right in with the rest of us, and we may even see him sit in the Dawg Pound a time or two! (well Ok, maybe that is pushing it)
Maybe he is taking this chance to buy the team that the Steelers hate, just because they wouldnt allow him to be the majority owner in Shittsburgh? Stick it to the Man! You know what I mean?!
Anyway, I am looking forward to this season just a little bit more! As I make my trek up from Columbus on Sundays, I will definately be stopping at the Pilot/Flying J's to fill up instead of the GoAsis :-)!
Go Browns! Full Throttle!

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I also might try another formulation with the GM Full Strength flour with a straight method to see how that works out. I am not sure what to change in the formulation I used at Reply 209 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,18407.msg183987.html#msg183987 but that formulation gave a nice tender rim crust with good bottom crust browning, but wasnt crisp enough on the bottom crust or didnt have enough oven spring.
I wasnt sure how to go about the next attempt for a dough at market trying the GM Full Strength flour. I decided to try a preferment again......This is a copy of my worksheet.
Norma,I noticed that the sugar in the worksheet is 0.075%. Did you mean to use 0.75%?Peter
I made a mistake when typing in the preferment calculation tool and didn't notice it until you brought it up. Should I just skip the sugar, or do another worksheet? I did mean to use 0.75% for the sugar value.
Norma,You might try increasing the hydration by a few percent in order to allow more time for the pizza to bake and develop a crispier bottom crust. This is a topic that was discussed recently at Reply 1 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,18690.msg182446.html#msg182446. You might also let the dough warm up longer than usual before using to form a skin in order to get the benefits of the longer fermentation. With the amount of yeast you are using, I would think that you would have a skin filled with bubbles and primed to give you more oven spring. Peter
Norma,I think I would keep the sugar, if only to increase the residual sugar to contribute to final crust coloration if that is what you are after. I might add in this respect that NY style pizzas, including slices, typically have fairly light colored rims. And the rims tend to be fairly small and flat. Of course, if those features do not sell well at market, you should go with what will sell.Peter
Norma,I have discovered that designing a dough formulation to produce certain desired crust textural and color characterstics and results might sound simple but in practice can be quite difficult, especially if the objectives have conflicting aspects. For example, someone might want to have a crust that has a large, open and airy, and soft rim with decent color yet have a crispy bottom crust. If you do the kinds of things one normally does to achieve one of the objectives, you may find that it conflicts with the other objective. Moreover, the oven has to be accommodating, both in terms of top and bottom temperatures and bake times. So, coming up with the right dough formulation may not alone be enough to achieve the desired set of objectives, no matter how good the dough formulation is on paper. To give you an example, if I wanted to have a large, open and airy and soft rim with decent color, I would select a flour with a high enough protein content that can develop a robust gluten structure that can both capture and retain the gases of fermentation (as well as offer some color because of an elevated protein content), use a fairly high thickness factor, use a high hydration value, use a lot of yeast to promote active and prolonged fermentation, add some oil to promote dough softness and expansion, subject the dough to one or more periods of fermentation (e.g., before refrigerating and during tempering), shape the final skin so as to force and keep the gases in the rim, and use a high oven temperature and a relatively short bake time. If more crust color is desired, I would add some sugar but not so much as to cause the bottom of the crust to turn prematurely brown or burn because of the elevated oven temperature.From the standpoint of achieving a crispy bottom crust, several of the above steps are conducive to that objective to the extent that the dough has decent volume and acts like an insulator during baking of the crust so that more of the bottom heat is dedicated to drying out the bottom crust and making it crispy rather than passing through the skin (especially a thin one) and heating the sauce, cheese and toppings. However, to get the desired degree of bottom crust crispiness, the bake temperature can't be too high and a longer bake time may be needed. That means that unless you can alter the oven temperature during baking, for example, using a high oven temperature initially to achieve a good oven spring and lowering it to let the bottom of the crust bake longer without overcooking the cheese and toppings and/or browning the rim too much, there will be tradeoffs. I know that I can do these sorts of things in my home oven, but I suspect that it would be difficult for you to do them with your commercial deck oven, principally because of the more effective heat retention of the stones. Generally speaking, the way I would approach the matter is to try to achieve as many of the desired features and characteristics as possible at one time with proper formulation design and look for solutions to resolve any remaining issues, provided that the oven will also be accommodating. This means that you have to decide which features and characteristics are most important to you and which are less important and that you can pass on as a compromise solution. But, even then, there will be other considerations, such as flavor/taste considerations and, in your case at market, costs. And how these considerations are addressed can impact one or more of the other factors discussed above. That is why it is difficult to find the perfect solution right out of the gate. Peter


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Can hot yoga really help you lose weight? We untangle the truth behind this and other hot yoga rumors.
You�re crammed in a 100-degree room next to 50 gasping, perspiring men and women, twisting your body into impossible pretzel-like contortions. Sweat drips off your bare flesh and onto the soaked and spongy mat beneath you, forming a small puddle. The room is suffocating, and a wave of dizziness passes over you. This scenario may sound like a form of cruel and unusual torture, but it just so happens to be one of the hottest fitness trends�hot yoga. A form of yoga typically consisting of 26 poses and two breathing exercises practiced in a room heated to 95-100 degrees with 40 percent humidity, hot yoga has lured a robust clientele hailing from all corners of the globe. It�s easy to see why: hot yoga promises a number of compelling health benefits, alleging to cure everything from back pain to high blood pressure to anxiety. And, a 90-minute session is purported to scorch a whopping 1,000 calories, all while flushing out toxins and increasing flexibility. RELATED: What You Need To Know About Bikram Yoga �Hot yoga is provocative,� says Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and author of the book Your Brain on Yoga. �You�re in this hot environment, pushing yourself to your physical limits�it�s this whole unique, provocative scene, and I think people are drawn to that.� But does hot yoga really stand up to its claims, or is this sweat-drenched practice too good to be true? We untangle the truth behind hot yoga�s purported benefits. Rumor: Hot Yoga provides a harder cardio workout than regular aerobic exercise. Reality? False. The heated environment in hot yoga classes is thought to speed up heart rate, giving you a more rigorous aerobic workout. But can a hot yoga session replace more traditional forms of cardio? �In a groundbreaking July 2013 study conducted by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), researchers examined the effects of hot yoga on heart rate and core temperature. The findings? Hot yoga might not be as hard as you think, says Cedric Bryant, Ph.D., FACSM, Chief Science Officer for ACE. �Despite the subjects� perceiving the workout to be so much more challenging, in terms of the heat�s effect on heart rate and core temperature, it really wasn�t much different than a class performed in a thermally neutral environment,� Bryant says. In other words, individuals don�t experience much of a spike in heart rate between a regular yoga class and a hot yoga class. So although the heat makes the workout feel more challenging, you�re not necessarily working any harder. Rumor: Hot Yoga offers stress relief. Reality? True. Stress reduction is one of the largest benefits of any yoga practice, heated or otherwise, Khalsa says. �Stress reduction is extremely valuable because it allows people to cope with their lives on a day to day basis, improving their overall wellbeing,� he says. �What�s more, chronic stress is a very powerful risk factor for most major diseases.� Rumor: Hot Yoga cleanses your body of toxins. Answer? False. The combination of twisting postures and sweat in Hot Yoga is thought to help the body flush away toxins and waste products. However, this notion of toxin release is vague and unfounded, Khalsa says. �From a physiological perspective, no one knows what �flushing out toxins� actually means. What�s being released, what�s being cleansed, what�s being purified�none of this is really clear,� Khalsa says. Rumor: Hot Yoga increases flexibility. Reality: True. Hot yoga promises to loosen the muscles and increase flexibility. Experts agree that there�s no denying this claim: �This is probably the biggest benefit we see,� Bryant concurs. �The heat certainly helps the individual warm up the muscles, joints and ligaments so that you�ll be more effective with any type of flexibility or stretching type exercises. Over time, you should see improvements in flexibility.� Rumor: Hot Yoga delivers a massive calorie burn. Reality: False. Some hot yoga classes claim to torch 1,000 calories in a single 90-minute session. �That is a gross exaggeration,� Bryant says. �Most disciplines of yoga�from your mildest forms to your most intense power yoga classes�will have a modest calorie burn ranging from about 3 to 7 calories per minute.�� So if you�re assuming that your Bikram class is burning the caloric equivalent of a cheeseburger and fries, you want might to reevaluate your calorie counting. Rumor: Hot Yoga is a great tool for weight loss. Reality: True and false. As we�ve seen, from a calorie-burn perspective, hot yoga isn�t as effective as cardiovascular-intensive forms of exercise like running or cycling. However, yoga may lead to weight loss indirectly�by influencing practitioners to make better food choices. �What comes out of a yoga practice is the development of mind-body awareness,� Khalsa says. �When you practice yoga after a while, you smoke a cigarette or excessively drink or overeat, and you are very keenly aware of the effect of that on your body. Yoga, in that sense, is a practice that can encourage people to desire better behavioral choices and lifestyle choices.� So will practicing yoga alone cause you to shed pounds? Not necessarily. But it may cultivate mindful eating, improve quality of sleep and combat stress, which will in turn lead to weight loss. At the end of the day, both Khalsa and Bryant say that the benefits of a hot yoga practice (increased flexibility, stress relief, etc.) vastly outweigh the relative negatives (namely, lack of calorie burn). �There are so many reasons why one should be physically active other than weight loss. If it�s something you really enjoy and it provides other benefits, there�s no reason you should give it up,� Bryant says. Khalsa agrees: �Yoga is a practice which can encourage people to desire better behavioral choices and lifestyle choices. It's basically a way of maintaining your body in its optimum functioning state. And that leads to better well being, better quality of life and, ultimately, better health.�Brought to you by: Spry Living


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'Doing' Social Work: Critical Considerations on Theory and Practice in Social Work
Social work is a multi-dimensional and contradictory field of practice, which often leads to theoretical confusion. Another tendency within social work today is the development of an evidence-based practice. This kind of social engineering, together with the theoretical confusion, might lead to the reproduction and strengthening of dominant discourses and perspectives. Pointing out the need for critical theory to transgress and resist hegemonic practices, the article aims to present ideas on how to theoretically position social work practice within a framework of critical theory. The question is how to combine an ambition to develop suitable methods and to anchor social work in a sound social-scientific context with critical theories concerning, for instance, gender, ethnicity, and class. It is suggested that a movement towards a more deconstructive and reflexive mode of thinking and practicing social work, 'doing social work', would enable the field to become more ethical and reflexive.
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Wednesday, 10 women sang for spots in the semifinals on American Idol. Tonight, 10 guys get their shot. Who will make the most of it? Share your opinions here, in the Idol Chatter live blog. -- Brian Mansfield
Tonight, the first 10 of American Idol's 20 remaining guys will sing for 1,500 people at The Mirage in Las Vegas -- and for judges Keith Urban, Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj.
"There was so much raw talent last night that it was almost impossible to eliminate anybody," says Mariah Carey, who adds that she has her favorites among the guys but would be concerned if she were them, because the girls were so strong.
Tonight's performers: Paul Jolley, Johnny Keyser, Kevin Harris, J'Da, Chris Watson, Devin Velez, Elijah Liu, Jimmy Smith and Curtis Finch Jr.
***Spoiler Alert*** The results are in. So Curtis Finch, Devin Velez and Charlie Askew are easy choice for the finale. I'm pretty sure Paul Jolley will make the cut. And I'm not sure it's the right choice, but the judges likely won't be able to resist Elijah Liu's potential, even though his performance tonight was pretty shaky.
Let's see if the judges see it that way.
Jackson says tonight's decisions were very difficult -- Jimmy Iovine had to weigh in as the tie-breaker in at least one situation.
Curtis Finch gets the news first. But this is an easy one. "Would you please stop with this act? You know damn well you goin' through," Minaj tells him.
Jimmy Smith is next. Fortunately, the producers don't make Urban break the news to him. "Dude, tonight you didn't make it. Thank you very much. Good luck."
Kevin Harris gets the call. Carey gets emotional as she talks to him. "I expect to hear you somewhere, one somebody's radio, at some point." Unfortunately, it won't be on Idol.
Now here's Elijah Liu. "This is such a strange night," Urban says. "I so wish that we could keep you -- and I'm glad that we are." Well, the guy looks like a Mexican-Chinese Justin Bieber, and he sings like Bruno Mars. He's the only contemporary act of the night -- they had to keep him.
How about the very entertaining J'DA? "You know I love you, and you know how talented and very very special and unique you are," Minaj says. "Tonight, we were unable to keep you, but God bless you and good luck with everything you're doing." I'm not sure that's a great call, though I know a lot of this audience is breathing a sigh of relief.
Paul Jolley's the split decision, so Ryan Seacrest tosses to Jimmy Iovine. "What I think I saw tonight was a good singer with the wrong song. ... I felt I was watching Paul sing a Keith Urban song while auditioning for Phantom of the Opera." Because of his great instrument, though, he's going to recommend that Jolley continue. After flaying him alive on national television. Jolley wins the battle but loses the war.
After commercial, we return to find out who fills the last two spots.
Chris Watson gets called next. Randy Jackson breaks the news: "You've been good throughout the competition. Tonight, it didn't go in your favor."
Charlie Askew will learn his fate from Carey. "We've been focusing on the vocalists, primarily, and not so much the performers. ... But in your case, you're staying with us."
That leaves Johnny Keyser and Devin Velez. Sure would hate to be Keyser right now, because Velez was fantastic. "I feel that I gave it everything that I had," Velez says. Keyser says he felt like he gave everything he had, too, but he's also aware that he's sitting next to Velez, competing for one spot.
"Guys, I think it's important to know that you both have gotten so far, and it's because of your talent," Minaj says. "This is not unanimous: We love both of you." But "Johnny, your journey ends here. Devin, congratulations."
So there's your five: Devin Velez, Charlie Askew, Elijah Liu, Curtis Finch Jr. and Paul Jolley.
Curtis Finch Jr.'s new 'Superstar.' The gospel-singing Curtis Finch rearranges Superstar so dramatically it's almost unrecognizable until he hits the chorus -- and that's whether you're familiar with Leon Russell's, The Carpenters' or Luther Vandross' version. If this is a singing competition (it's not), he wins the night, hands down.
"Preach on, Brother Curtis!" exclaims Keith Urban. "I feel thoroughly cleansed of my sins."
"Every time you step on stage, you raise the competition to another level," Minaj says, "and the other contestants are waiting to see what you're going to do."
"You're one of the best singers in this whole thing," Jackson says. His one piece of advice: "Make sure you keep it young. Don't let it get so old-fashioned."
Carey wouldn't even begin to critique his vocals. "You brought me to tears."
Jimmy Smith sings Keith Urban for Keith Urban: Jimmy Smith got to Las Vegas being inspired by Keith Urban, so he's going to go with what brung him -- a Keith Urban hit, Raining on Sunday (written by Radney Foster). But his performance isn't as strong as Paul Jolley's was at the start of the show, and it'll be a head-to-head comparison, since they both did Urban tunes.
"It's really hard to critique somebody who just sang your song," Urban says, giving a shout-out to Foster. "I thought you did a really good job with that."
Minaj thought it was a good vocal, but she was a little bored. She's still thinking about Charlie and them.
"It was definitely a little bit boring for me," Jackson says.
Carey says she's been fighting for him all along, but she thinks he may be feeling the pressure. "I still think there's something about you that America should be able to see."
I think Charlie Askew's gonna be around a long, long time: Charlie Askew looks like a time traveler from a '60s flower-pop band tonight. He got a vintage shirt on Hollywood Boulevard and got a belt on J'DA's recommendation. He's been practicing with a golf club in place of a baseless mic.
He starts Elton John's Rocket Man totally lost in the song. He's a little nervous -- you can hear his vibrato -- but it works when he sings, "I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife." He actually sounds lost and lonely. His rock star moves look a little silly, but they're endearing. His high end's very strange, but he gets style points for sheer fearlessness. Gotta keep this kid around.
"I bet nobody left the television set for the whole performance," Urban says. "It's like if Freddie Mercury had a love child out at Woodstock somewhere." He's not sure what the hell Askew's doing, but he knows it works.
Minaj thinks he made the smartest, most interesting song choice of the night. 'I want to cradle you in my arms." She loves his awkwardness, but Askew's so awkward he's trying to be raw and real.
Jackson thinks it might have been "a little stage school," but that's OK with Askew: "I grew up in the theater." He tries to make a cogent statement about his singing, but Askew's judge-proof.
Carey struggles for words, too, finally settling on "fantastic."
Elijah Liu has the look, but maybe not the voice: Eighteen-year-old Elijah Liu is half-Mexican/half-Chinese. He's chosen Bruno Mars' Talking to the Moon, the most contemporary pop song of the night. And he looks the part. It's a good fit for him, though his falsetto is a little weak, and that's a key part of this song. Wait, I'm wrong -- his falsetto is very weak, and it's a big part of the song. Ouch.
Urban thought the song choice was perfect, though "it was a shaky performance." However, "you look like a frickin' pop star."
Minaj doesn't care about the song: "You are a super-duper star, little boy. I want to have your babies." He's her new favorite boy. "I would sign you today. … You have the most marketable face/voice combination I have seen tonight."
"This was not a great vocal … but I know you're capable of it," Jackson says. Clearly, they like him -- Liu might be the one guy who gets past a bad performance tonight.
"You're extremely marketable," says Carey, who seemed to like his vocals more than the male judges.
Listen to Devin Velez: Devin Velez takes a different approach to song selection, picking Beyonce's Listen. It's a smart move, and his may be the first great vocal performance of the night. He commands attention, and when he starts singing in Spanish, he elevates the performance yet again. It's perfectly paced -- strong start, surprise move to Spanish, followed by a modulation of key to add a little extra drama.
"That's the way to do it, Devin," Urban says. "You walk out there and you can sing. You've got a voice. You made a connection with me with your voice. You didn't have to do anything else."
"Not only did you do an amazing job at singing the song," Minaj says, "but I think you made a smart choice, as an artist, to sing in Spanish."
Jackson: "You took your time with it. … It was a great arrangement. … Dude, love, love, big props to you."
Carey caught him critiquing himself during his performance and tells him not to do that. She also loves the Spanish touch he brought to the song. "No matter what, I can't wait to see what a producer does when you get into the studio and make an album."
Chris Watson doesn't make it to the dock: Chris Watson's a waiter by day and a singer by night. He's ready to leave the tips behind for big checks.
He's picked Otis Redding's (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, which with his neo-'60s, post-Hendrix look is a horrible choice. For one thing, he's not that good a singer. For another, the combination of song and look makes him come across like an oldies singer in a bad impersonators show.
Urban thinks Idol isn't so much a singing competition as "a connection competition." Watson's voice wasn't the best it could have been, but Urban likes the way he carries himself on stage.
Minaj thinks he's the prettiest man she's ever seen, and she wants to marry his vibrato. "I don't know that this was the best song choice," and she's obsessed with him, though she admits she might be the only one. "I just love you."
Jackson likes him and his look. "Once again, I'm waiting for people to show me something vocally." The song went nowhere with him, Jackson says.
Carey understands where he was coming from. She, too, was surprised his Watson's choice of song. "For me, it wasn't your best performance, vocally, but certain things have overridden that."
Kevin Harris gets a mixed response: Kevin Harris, a 28-year-old from Montgomery, Ala., got nicknamed "Butter" by Randy Jackson, and it seems to have stuck.
He's got a classic look as he sings a soulful version of (Everything I Do) I Do It for You -- tuxedo vest and pants, with a dress shirt and two bow ties, one tied, one open. He seems like he's just on the edge of his voice, like he's pitched the song just a little too high. It's just not as smooth as it ought to be. With all the good singers coming up, he may have trouble sticking around.
Urban has always loved that song and thinks it was a good song for Harris. "Your range is crazy!" he says. However, he's not crazy about the big high runs singers like him tend to do at the end of the song.
Minaj thought every musical choice he made was perfection. She loves his vibrato, his falsetto. His personality doesn't jump out at her, but she thought the vocal was 100%.
Jackson was bored, felt it was karaoke. If he wanted to show what he could do vocally, Jackson says, he should have picked a different song.
Harris has been one of Carey's favorites since early in the season. She also wishes he had chosen a song that made it easier for him to show off his voice.
In other words, a very mixed reaction -- which is dangerous for Harris.
J'DA puts on a show: J'DA, who auditioned in Chicago, sells luxurious French cosmetics and considers himself "the star of my own movies, the artist of my own life."
His version of Adele's Rumor Has It has its moments -- he's actually quite a good singer, with a sweet tone in his upper range that's a nice change from most of the singers we see on this show. But he seems like he's just as interested in himself as he is the song, and that may not suit him in the long run on the show.
The judges seem amused, though I can't tell if they're impressed.
Urban commends him on putting on a show. "I appreciate that, and I also applaud your originality." ("I know," J'DA says.) However, Urban felt like he was "counting steps" -- "I don't want to feel like I can sense that through the performance."
"Work it, girl, work it," Minaj says. ("I've got to represent for the gays," he responds.) Minaj calls him a superstar performer. She compliments his professionalism, but thinks his voice was "a little whiny."
"You were so keyed in on the performance," Jackson says. "You don't miss a beat." But he was so keyed in on the performance that he wasn't thinking enough about his singing.
Carey, however, felt he was so confident he wasn't wavering vocally. "I liked the vocal. I was, like, wow, he's doing a lot, and he's also not wavering."
Jackson does admit that J'DA woke them all up.
Johnny Keyser won't give up: Johnny Keyser made some fans last year with his blue-eyed soul. "Getting cut was kind of the beginning of my growth," he says. "It wasn't until that that I really started to go for it."
Unfortunately, he needed to go for the first notes of Jason Mraz's I Won't Give Up a little harder. He begins uncertain and off-key, and he takes far too long to recover. Even when the melody gets more in his range and he gets more comfortable on stage, Keyser comes across as lifeless and uninteresting. It's a performance that suggests we've seen the best he has to give.
"That was good," Urban says. "That's the best you've sung, I think." (Yikes.) Urban saw moments of nervousness but moments where Keyser returned to the song.
Minaj didn't see nervousness; in fact, she thought he looked relaxed. "Kudos to you for being really freshly, nicely groomed." Which is a way of deflecting attention from the singing.
"I don't know if you've got the greatest voice," Jackson says. He found it to be an "OK performance. … Dude, you gotta slay it tonight. You can't play it safe."
Carey loves his commitment to music, and "you are bringing the masculinity. You are giving us that sexiness. … It's a competition, so you have to show your voice."
Up first, Paul Jolley. The retail worker from Tennessee has been singing around the area for the past few years. He's starting the night with a Keith Urban hit, Tonight I'm Gonna Cry. It's a nicely understated rendition of the song, better than some of the performances we've seen from him so far. He's got a nice, plaintive country break in his voice, and he maximizes the power of his runs by limiting them. He has some issues with a few high notes at the end, but, overall, it's a good start.
Keith Urban says "it's a huge honor" to have someone sing one of his songs. "I think you've got a really great voice" and he shouldn't try to over-sing.
Minaj was more wowed by other performances, she says. The big notes work for him, she says, but "even when the song may be understated, your eyes may be very theatrical, so you've got to watch that."
Jackson thinks singing Urban's song in front of him is a risky proposition. He likes Jolley's potential in the country field, comparing his voice to Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts.
Carey felt like the front half of the song offered an intimate performance and found him refreshing.


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School Rumble
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I remember the first time.
Traveling in Yemen was a special affair. With the permission of the tourist police, I was on a road trip, leaving the Yemeni capital for the first time a few months after I'd moved there from Lebanon. The road out of Sanaa snaked through the belt of mountains that guard the city and cut through the early morning souqs of towns and villages along the way. The souqs bustled with the noise and chaos of shoppers rushing about like bees looking for bargains and sellers hawking their goods: live chickens, calves, vegetables and various wares displayed in shops and on stalls on both sides of the road.
By midday, these same places looked like they had been hit by a tornado. The shops were closed and every place looked eerily abandoned except for restaurants and qat markets. The driver stopped in front of a restaurant.
When a woman is among restaurant customers, her party is quickly ushered away from the busy main food area full of men and to a side entrance. We went in and were led down a narrow hallway with private rooms on either side. This was the family area.
We were given our own little room. When I looked inside, my heart sank. It was a small space of four bland walls and a rug on the floor. That was it. No table and chairs. No nice little menu with enticing smoothies or desserts. As I was clueless, the driver went ahead and placed the order – a whole chicken with rice and local side dishes I'd never heard of, and, of course, bread.
"Which kind of bread?" the driver asked. Pause. Um, just, regular, bread. I would later learn of all the different kinds of Yemeni bread. The driver ordered.
I sat on the rug with legs bent on one side beneath me, but kept shifting them from side to side. I couldn't sit more comfortably cross-legged so as not to be offensive. The young male waiter served reusable, glass soda bottles that looked like they were made in the 1970s. There was Pepsi, Fanta, Canada Dry. The food arrived fast. We shared all of it. I ate a few bites with bread that I made into small triangular scoops and guzzled the Pepsi, but mostly I pondered my present situation.
Why do I put myself through these things?
I think I may have been near tears. This was definitely not Beirut. If my dad could see me, I thought, he'd say in his fatherly Lebanese way, Shoo sayer alaykee? To the effect of: What tragedy has befallen you and forced this upon you?
There I was, a woman of the luxuriously inclined Lebanese culture and all its superfluity, sitting awkwardly on the floor, hidden away in a barren room like a secret, picking at the food. I wanted to rush back to Beirut.
But I didn't. It was humbling. It brought me down to earth. For there I was, along with millions of Yemenis, gathered together around a simple meal on the floor. A whole new world lay open before me.
Should I venture forth?
Read more posts in the series: Yemen Journey: A personal narrative of my life in Yemen
This is a new series on my life in Yemen. Send me your questions or share your thoughts in the comments; I'd love to read them. Have you had a similar perspective-changing experience? Were you in a situation outside your comfort zone that you were later thankful for?
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ST said:
wow, what a story.
Mira said:
Thanks, ST.
Nasser said:
I respect your humility, and gratitude.
Abu MoRaZa said:
Great writing Mira,
just wonder how the tourist police (how absurd is that in itself!) let you go on a trip in July this year, I tried so many times and they won't let me go anywhere officially since this 'revolution' started.
But it was like you describe since I can remember, even before they introduced the 'tourist police'.
Mira said:
Thanks, Abu Moraza. None of the stories are during the uprising. They're about my time in Yemen before the protests and over the years.
Ziad Ahmed said:
It was an awesome, detailed and essay-to-follow article. . I am just going to read the rest of the series. .
Jihad said:
Be it, Yemen or any other middle eastern or even Asian countries, you will always find the predominance of chauvinist culture and isolation of women in public life. Nowadays, even in Lebanon, you would find areas becoming a copy paste of such Yemeni places you encountered.
It seems women in the middle east have to live in confinement except for few urban cities.
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Brown bacon in a medium skillet over medium high heat. Remove bacon to a paper towel lined plate. Add extra-virgin olive oil to the pan, 1 turn. Add shallots to the pan and saute 1 to 2 minutes. Add Brussels sprouts and coat in oil. Season with salt and pepper. Cook Brussels sprouts 2 to 3 minutes to begin to soften, then add broth. Bring broth to a bubble, cover and reduce heat to medium low. Cook 10 minutes, until tender. Transfer sprouts to a serving dish with a slotted spoon and top with cooked bacon bits.
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On January 20, 2009, President Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. What foreign policy objectives should the Obama Administration establish as its top priorities?
What foreign policy objectives should the Obama Administration establish as its top priorities?
John in New York writes:
The topic priorities of this great country should be to give voice for those groups of people whose non-violence struggle for their freedom have been ignored. I know former President Clinton detached human rights issues from business deals with countries like China during his term. Make human rights issue as number one issue when it comes to talk with repressive regimes. And distribute the wealth of American liberty around the world. Yes you the Mr. President can do it.
Yes I believe in that change.
Julie in Illinois writes:
Perhaps you could use American workers and technology in a combined foreign policy/economic program.
You have Gaza which was devastated by the war, for example, which is totally dependent on Israel for all of its energy needs. Couldn't they use wind or solar power?
President Obama went to the plant where they build wind turbines and talked about how it's our future. Why not the future of others as well?.
How about offering Americans who are willing to go overseas to work in countries affected by wars or natural disasters, a job, using the bailout money, that would allow us to do service overseas, tax-free (as we give Blackwater employees to wage war, and as we gave people working the oil fields in Saudi Arabia in the 80's) to help rebuild these countries.
In addition, send over people that can assess the likelihood that alternative energy would work in their countries and offer our companies as a source for these new initiatives.
It would create jobs here, expand businesses, allow Americans to put on the best face of America and work with people of other cultures - building a mutual understanding for the future, give people who want to go overseas, as I would, the opportunity (because now you pretty much have to have a degree in International Studies to get a job with and aid agency - which is nonsense), and overall would show the world what America is all about.
Additionally, people who do this would come back with new skills and possibly ideas for new businesses.
Mother Theresa did a lot of good, and she didn't have experience in logistics or politics. She just did unto others as she would have them do unto her. She learned as she went along, as do all missionaries, journalists, and others who go overseas to conflict zones.
Just a thought.
Good luck.
Dennis in New York writes:
Autonomy for Tibet.
Amy in Washington, DC writes:
Bring back soft power! Our failed policies have bred a generation of extremeists with some valid reasons to hate America-- let's change that before it is too late.
Tenzing in Canada writes:
"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist"
With these words, I sincerely hope that President Obama will not forgot a distant people struggle for their Identity, Freedom and Human Rights.We the Tibetan people in exile and in Tibet hope that the President will play an active diplomatic role in resolving the Tibet issue.At the same time not being intimidated by a powerful China that freedom and human rights are pushed under the table.
As many nations continue to cave into kowtowing China for the benefit of trade and investment, I urge Pr.Obama to not forgot its ideal of freedom and human rights in any dealing with China.'change' must come by following its true meaning.Therefore, I personally have a great hope that the Obama Administration will play a positive and 'genuine' role in bringing peace and 'genuine autonomy' in Tibet.
Karma in North Carolina writes:
The Obama Presidency represents hope for the hopeless and justice for unjust. People around the world have great expectation from the new U.S. administration. One of the issues in the world today that has great potential for world peace is the Tibetan struggle. I would like to request President Obama and Secretary, Hilary Clinton to urge the Chinese leaders to enter into substantive negotiation with the Dalai Lama's representatives on the Memorandum the Exile Tibetan Administration has handed over to the Chinese leadership.
Dave in North Carolina writes:
Resolving the Israel/Palestine question. President Obama's decision to contact most of the regional key players on the first day was a good start but the United States has to answer two important questions. 1) Can we be an impartial broker between Israel and Palestine and, 2) do we really respect democracy? Until we can learn to discern the difference between constructive criticism and anti-Semitism we are hobbled... and Israel knows it. And, as for democracy, a cornerstone of our foreign policy since the end of World War II, if we truly respect the will of the people then we have to respect their bad decisions as well as their good. That includes acknowledging Hamas whether we find them detestable or not. If we can address these two important issues we can help Israel and Palestine forge a real and lasting peace. That is, of course, if that's what we really want for both of them.
Jeri in Maryland writes:
This is very Cool, by the way!
I believe that the Obama Administration needs to re-establish our place in the world above all else. The last 8 years have been an era of flexing muscles rather than leading by example. America lost a lot of respect in the international community.
Clearly getting our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan while still maintaining peace and integrity in those nations is key!
Peace in the middle east is always a wonderful goal - these countries have been battling since time began. Any small successes in the middle east would be a step in the right direction.
Developing and redeveloping relationships with countries and leaders throughout the world so that we can participate in dialogue about to resolve world hunger, poverty, abuse and health issues TOGETHER!
Thanks for asking!
Kathy in Connecticut writes:
Congratulations Madame Secretary,
I will say what might seem obvious, but it should be peace in the Middle East. The fighting has gone on long enough.
I do like what Secretary Clinton said today about diplomacy and development. Specifically, I do see development as the lever to world peace. We do need to help developing nations and we do need to become a nation of peace and not a nation of war, which I fear is hohw the world sees us.
An issue which is also closer to me personally is the situation in Cyprus. It has gone on for far too long and the island needs to be united.
My prayers and hopes are with the administration.
Teresa in California writes:
There has to be an organized approach to responding to and dealing with radicalized Muslims. The two new envoys, Holbrook and Mitchell are actually going to be working on the same problem but from different angles.
It will take time for the world to believe us as honest brokers, but as time moves on our influence to do good will grow.
Monda in the U.S.A. writes:
Congratulations, Madame Secretary. I wish you all the best in your new challenging job. And I am very confident you have what it takes. As a long time supporter of yours, it was with pride that I watched you today in your new home.
As far as foreign policy objective, I think the priority ought to be peace in the Middle East. To be able to achieve other goals in the region, the two state solution has to be the lasting foundation of a new era for that region (and in our best interest.) At the same time, a new dialogue has to start with Syria. Israel-Syria negotiations (through Turkey) have to go on (interrupted because of the Gaza situation.) It looks like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan are "re-aligned" into challenging/balancing Iran's power in the region. If we could break the Iran-Syria marriage of convenience, it would be to our advantage. Please finish what President Clinton started at Camp David.
... and yes, you can, Madame Secretary.
Timothy in Ohio writes:
The top foreign policy objective of the United States, after ending the War in Iraq and reconfiguring the War in Afghanistan, is to reestablish the United States' diplomatic credibility around the world. We must work to regain old alliances that were broken during the Iraq War and strive to create new ones with countries whos alliance was once thought to be out of the question. Secretary Clinton is more than qualified to fulfill this object. I have full faith in her and our newly instated President and Vice President. Together, they can ensure a safer and more diplomatic United States of America and help restore our image around the globe.
Tenzin in California writes:
President Obama opens a new and dynamic chapter in our history. As a Tibetan-American, I am very proud to witness this unprecendented event in our country. Relating to the question posed, I would strongly request our new President and his administration to elevate Tibetan issue in their top priorities.
I am very aware of the President's great respect and admiration for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his nonviolent approach to address international issues including the Sino-Tibetan issues. I also know that many in his new cabinet share the same admiration and support for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's approach to resolve the issues.
Since 2001 his envoys and the Chinese counterparts met eight times to date but yielded no substantive outcome. Tibet has been under the Communist China's occupation for 50 years and more repressive policies have been implemented in Tibet to attack the person of His Holiness, the undisputed secular and political leader of the Tibetan people both inside and outside Tibet, and undermine the Tibetan identity, language, religion and culture. Tibetans are not only lacking in basic human rights but also under virtual military surveillance and crackdown.
Most importantly, the United States of America can make the Tibetan issue a top priority and ACTIVELY MEDIATE Sino-Tibetan dialogues leading to a genuine autonomy for the entire regions of Tibet to preserve the rich Tibetan civilization and save the endangered Tibetans. Time is of essence because the Dalai Lama is in advanced age and after him Tibet may erupt into violence due to hopelessness and become an unsolvable issue. That would be most unfortunate for all parties concerned. It is not late to save Tibet right now. We shall over come Tibetan issue. We should tell China to live and let live Tibetans giving them a genuine autonomy as Tibetans have presented in their recent memorandum.
Dhondup in Bhutan writes:
All the best for the New American Administration.
As the most powerful nation on earth, its foreign policy must be conducted with compassion, humility and diplomacy aimed at helping every man kind in general and those in captivity in particular without consideration for political and economic expediance.
Hobbs in California writes:
Restore pride of being American again President Obama, get Osama with Pakistan people's help not government pressure, restore trust and respect in South America, encourage not bully China towards better human rights, expect progress to be slow, France wants a role, encourage it and have them mediate the Iran talks, embrace Russia without patronizing, give them due respect and economical incentives to move forward, France Russia and China are the key to Iran Syria and Lebanon, recognize Iran's eagerness to play a role and channel it towards a responsible & accountable one, world peace is amazingly within reach if Israel's delinquency is no longer blindly encouraged, America and Israel are better off recognizing the legitimacy of resistance to occupation which ends naturally by ending occupation, vs. labeling all as terrorists, a stronger United Nations means less need to use American military, bandage soft power through justice and philanthropy.
Harolynne in Greece writes:
I really hope that the US will now truly be a BALANCED partner in achieving Middle East peace. That means talking to and with Hamas as well as Fatah, the Israeli and other Arab governments in the region.
This will help keep us safe.
Marianne in Florida writes:
Renew our respect in ourselves as a fair and peace loving people.
Magdalena in Uruguay writes:
President of the Unites States of America, Mr Barack Obama, Congratulations! Now the world has renewed hopes of CHANGES not only in your country, but what YOU CAN do for the world, in which we ALL live and our children will inherit.
As we are confronted with the reality of the MULTIPLE signs of our PLANET being gravely ill, I would ask you to become also an EXAMPLE to other leaders of the world, in addressing the issues of what is causing the GLOBAL WARMING. With your wisdom and gifted ways of addressing people with the TRUTH, the world would listen to YOU. What an opportunity to BE HEARD and make a difference, in regard to the scientists' and Mr Gore's warnings. The oceans are already showing the ACIDITY that KILLS the corals, hence the fish and other events which eventually will affect all other creatures in a very sad way. Even the whales are already DYING, in Australia and in South America. Besides, the glaciers are melting in a dangerous manner -what will bring other harsh consequences to us ALL.
With respect, I put my trust in you, wishing you the very best in your endeavours and in every good thing you set your mind to achieve.
God bless you and your family. Best regards from this hopeful Uruguayan & new Australian.
Dexter in Florida writes:
Make Georgia an active member of NATO to make Russia show their true face and agenda. Also provide Georgia with advanced medical technology and establish a forwarding location to send medical aid to countries in Africa suffering from desease and mal-nutrition.
Amanda in West Virginia writes:
@ Jonathan in Texas: You have a wonderful grasp of what Tuesday January 20, 2009 means to many people in this country. The negativity that arose during the election was fear. Fear of the unknown. The filth and hatred that has spewed from the dark corners of this nation are all based on ignorance. Unfortunately, much of that ignorance was fueled by some media outlets, such as Fox News. Fortunately for us and the world, the truth prevailed and Hope won. The night of Obama's acceptance speach, I watched my young son sleep through tears, knowing that opportunites unknown are now putty in his hands.
As for foreign policies: I believe that we need to reevaluate our many free-trade agreements as not all are in America's best interest. Companies have too much incentive to leave our soil for cheaper work and pay no penalties bringing their products back in.
Recognize Taiwan. It is the will of the people that we should acknowledge, not the angry fist of China.
Help Tibet free itself from that same angry fist.
Do not abandon Israel but at the same time, stop giving unquestioned support. We should be promoting peace, if Israel is not willing to live side by side with Palestine peacefully, they must pay the consequence.
There are many more but these are all I can come up with while at work :)
Much respect to Mr. Obama and Madame Secretary Clinton. May peace be with us all.
Anna in Washington, DC writes:
1. We must make sure that nuclear and chemical weapons do not fall into the hands of rogue states or terrorist groups. We should also focus on the proliferation of small arms.
2. Continue America's position as a leader in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Do more to let the American people know how they can help fight these diseases.
3. Afghanistan and Pakistan.
4. China. Maintain good relations while remembering that China seeks world dominance and like all nations will act in its own best interests. Work with China on North Korea.
5. Darfur. Never again!
6. Mexico and Canada. Remember our neighbors! We must be respectful to both of these nations. They are our partners and friends in many areas. The drug war in Mexico is escalating. Look at Tijuana. What is happening in Mexico has a more direct impact for us than what is happening in a lot of places that the U.S. has made foreign policy priorities in the past.
7. Work with NATO more. Support NATO as a strong Western alliance.
8. Push forward the two state solution for Israel and Palestine, but continue to support Israel's right to statehood and its security.
As others have said, this is just a start! Our prayers are with you, President Obama and Secretary Clinton. We are glad to have you here!
Yolanda in California writes:
Human rights in Tibet.
TNS in California writes:
Free Tibet and we will unclench our fists.
Maureen in California writes:
With the new Administration, our unconditional support of Israel should be reexamined to recognize the humanitarian crisis in Palestine and our responsibility for this tragedy. The following actions need to be taken immediately to initiate this change:
- The U.S. should cease to automatically veto U.N. resolutions involving Israel.
- At least one half of the $3 billion in U.S. military aid for Israel should instead be directed to rebuild the damage and destruction caused by Israel in Gaza.
The humanitarian condition of the Palestinian civilians in Gaza is tragic and must be improved. The U.S. should not stand by and let Israel continue to force the Palestinian civilians to live in sub-human conditions. Continuing aid to Israel should be conditioned on providing basic needs, food, fuel and health care, for the innocent Palestinians.
Chester in Nebraska writes:
The top priority should be finding peace between Israel/Palestine.
President Obama, we need to step in and set the boundaries between Israel and Palestine. Israel needs to withdraw all checkpoints and settlements in Palestine in order for a peace process to take place. If that is done there can be no peace process. Let the Palestinians choose who is to be their leaders and let us try and work with whoever they may choose rather than condemning them.
These impediments include the assumption, implicit in Israel's occupation policy, that if no peace agreement is reached, the "default setting" of UN Security Council Resolution 242 is the indefinite continuation of Israel's occupation. If this reading were true, the resolution would actually be inviting an occupying power that wishes to retain its adversary's territory to do so simply by means of avoiding peace talks -- which is exactly what Israel has been doing. In fact, the introductory statement to Resolution 242 declares that territory cannot be acquired by war, implying that if the parties cannot reach agreement, the occupier must withdraw to the status quo ante: that, logically, is 242's default setting. Had there been a sincere intention on Israel's part to withdraw from the territories, surely forty years should have been more than enough time in which to reach an agreement.
Chester in Nebraska writes:
Correction in my previous comment.
If that is not done there can be no peace process.
Tenzin in California writes:
Human Rights for Tibetans in Tibet....
Also, Human Rights for our Chinese brothers and sisters in China.
Helga in Nebraska writes:
Congratulation to President Obama and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton!
Thank you for seeking the input of citizens/non-citizens and foreigners alike -- this is undoubtadly a FIRST and highly appreciated!
I have several points in mind -- please allow me to elaborate:
1 - After having watched helplessly the horrors in Gaza, to make sure the siege will be lifted ASAP!
2 - Make sure, humanitarian aid, medication and gas ect. will reach the population in Gaza and the checkpoints will be/remain OPEN!
3 - Israel needs to understand it will have to GIVE and not only TAKE, to fulfill obligations i.e removing ALL settlements from the West Bank in order to find a common denominator with her neighbours!
4 - Address the Israeli occupation -- work on lifting it!
5 - Please help establishing a VIABLE PALESTINIAN STATE! (CAVE: Netanyahu is ahead in the polls - he is against ANY kind of Palestinian state!)
6 - To assure, children will NEVER be incarcerated again by Israel (only yesterday kids as young as 12 were dragged out of their beds at 4am and taken away by the army - this is a CRIME!) PLEASE help to get those released and back to their families who are rotting in Israeli jails right now!!
7 - Talk with "enemies" like Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea! It is always convenient to talk with friends, but an absolute MUST to communicate with enemies!
8 - Make Israel sign the NPT/NNPT and allow inspection of Dimona, the nuclear reactor!
9 - NO blank checks/automatic money-deliveries, NO arms to Israel anymore prior to recognizing ALL so-far-conveniently-ignored UN-Resolutions!
Jake in Tennessee writes:
Dissolve NATO.
Remove troops from places like Japan, SK, Germany, and the UK.
Assist Israel in finally destroying the HAMAS as so they never fire a single shot again.
Stay our nose out of others business, we should care less what happens to agressor states like Georgia.
Kosovo is not a country.
Our real enemies are China, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, we should treat them like it.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
This is only in response to the # of Israel/Palestine remarks:
The problem between Israel and Palestine is not with Palestine...this is the problem that many of you simply cannot understand! The Palestine government has made peace; it is Hamas who is ruining any degree of viable, lasting peace and Hamas IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PALISTINE GOVERNMENT!
I have strong doubts over the proposed individual killings by Israel soldiers to be honest as Hamas would sacrifice anyone; but, be assured, it was handled as a war and there is always collateral damage. The bleeding heart aspect is journalistic hubbub working in the favor of a Terrorist theology which needs elimination. Why give them any ammunition? Red press journalism seems to be alive and well again.
Agreed, no one wants to see anyone hurt, but if Egypt cared that much, they would have opened their borders before the war started. Egypt was asked to and knew in advance of what Israel was going to do, but they closed the borders. Why? They do not want Hamas in their land. Do not put this all on Israel, to do so it beyond blissful ignorance. Get rid of Hamas and there will be peace. There is not any other problem in the way.
Have any of you actually studied the histology of Palestine at all? What makes any of you feel that cultured civilizations want to live in an unsecure state? Stop making this some fantasy Nationalistic problem. It is a minority manipulating a majority by threat. There is no room for terrorist and Hamas is a terrorist organization. They do not represent the Palestinian peoples, but are given credence due to what?
The biggest hope for the Middle East is with Syria and Israel as business partners. Peace brings constructive gain and Syria may not want dependence on Iran and find Israel a much better ally internationally for their self benefit and solvency. .. To be honest, even in Iran, outside the religious zealots, there are businessmen who want to profit and flourish, not be ruled by a government who poses a defensive threat against the free world and limits their gain. Free Trade is one of the best answers...money is only a tool; but, needs to be used wisely...


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How the intellectual father of Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network learned to hate America in a tiny Colorado town.
Fifty-four years ago, an Egyptian scholar arrived at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley. He stayed for six months, sat in on a few classes, and did his best to sample day-to-day life in post-war America. When he left, he was quickly forgotten by the tiny community.
But Sayyid Qutb didn't forget Greeley.
Time passed and the world changed. Colorado State College became the University of Northern Colorado and Greeley grew like the rest of the state. Qutb (pronounced KUH-tahb) returned to Egypt, where he became the foremost Islamic thinker of his time.
His articles and books were scholarly but passionate examinations of history, politics, and religion. He immersed himself in the Koran, compared it to the world around him, and came to a grave conclusion. Though the modern, liberal societies of the West preached freedom of religion, in truth, they undermined it. Religion and modernity, he concluded, could not coexist.
Qutb saw salvation in Islam, a religion that he believed offered true freedom. But for Islam to survive, a jihad would have to be fought to rid society of the West's secular ways. Qutb envisioned an Islamic society ruled by Islamic law.
This was subversive stuff, even in the Middle East, and it wasn't long before Qutb was thrown into prison, where he would stay for more than 10 years. Not surprisingly, prison only hardened his views. Qutb rewrote many of his earlier books and produced new ones at an astonishing pace, including a 30-volume masterwork entitled In the Shade of the Qur'an.
And through it all – right up until the day in 1966 when he was executed – Qutb remembered Greeley. What he had seen in those few months stayed with him through the decades and filled him with fear, disgust, and contempt. What he saw in Greeley made him hate America.
The story doesn't end on the Egyptian gallows. In death, Qutb's work became even more influential. Milestones, his best-known book, has been published in nearly 2,000 editions, and though many of his books have been banned in Egypt and other moderate Arab states, millions continue to illicitly circulate throughout the Middle East and over the Internet.
His writings have become both the inspiration and the blueprint for the fundamentalist jihad that now engulfs the world. Qutb's work is to militant Islam what Das Kapital was to communism or Mein Kampf was to the Nazis. In American terms, he is Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Paine, all rolled into one. His disciples include Anwar Sadat's assassins, and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian cleric convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up several New York landmarks. They include militant groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And they include a Saudi militant named Osama bin Laden.
In the days following 9/11, the question on countless American lips was, "Why do they hate us?" Given our collective shock and grief, it's understandable that we weren't really looking for an answer. But if you really want to know why Osama bin Laden hates America, you might first ask why Sayyid Qutb hated America. And to answer that question, you'd have to go to Greeley.
Roots of Radicalism
Sayyid Qutb was born in a small village in Upper Egypt in 1906. Like bin Laden, Mohamed Atta, and many of the disciples that would later follow his teachings, he didn't come from poverty. His parents were landowners who could afford to send him to live with an uncle in Cairo, where he attended modern schools.
After graduating from college in 1933, he went to work for the Egyptian Ministry of Education as an elementary school teacher and, later, as a school inspector. Qutb became a member of Cairo's cafe society, and was well known as a poet, novelist, and literary critic, though his most lasting contribution to secular Egyptian literature was the discovery and early promotion of Naguib Mahfouz, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988.
Legend has it that Qutb had memorized the entire Koran by age 10, but it's clear that as a young adult, he wasn't particularly devout. Instead, his passion was politics, and like his father, Qutb was a strident advocate of Egyptian independence from the British. For a time, he flirted with socialism.
At this point, Qutb didn't have strong feelings about the United States. Most of his attention was focused on England and the other European powers that had carved up the Middle East following World War I.
"He really wasn't as anti-American as much as he was anti-British or anti-French – the countries that were the imperialists of that time in the region," says John Calvert, an assistant history professor at Omaha's Creighton University and a leading Qutb authority. "But World War II changes everything, and that's directly related to the American support of the Zionist cause."
From that moment on, Calvert and other scholars note a shift in his writing. Islam takes on an increasing presence, culminating with the writing in 1948 of Social Justice in Islam, his first explicitly religious book.
With its call for a classless society, Social Justice in Islam was (and continues to be) wildly popular in the poverty-stricken countries of the Middle East. It concludes with a passage that would prove prophetic both for Islam and Qutb himself:


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Skip to comments."Green" design, what do you think
Posted on 05/05/2002 7:32:07 PM PDT by Andrewksu
What are your views on what "green" design/lifestyle means and requires. As an architecture student, this is a major topic these days, but I wonder what everyone else thinks of this topic and it's importance. I am a conservative in a field of liberals, especially on this topic, and am interested in green design without the eco-freakishness. Comment away, and I will reply later with a little more on where i am going with this.
But new systems never become feasible if some don't spend money on giving them a try to begin with.
These were considered virtues in the past. The Green Revolution changed this; an ethic has become an ideology, force fed to us.
There is something to be said for building houses the same way that half-milennia-old-and-still-standing houses were built, both from a standpoint of plain old common sense (an important conservative value, by no means to be underestimated) and from the standpoint of this actually being an efficient -- and thus conserving -- use of resources. There is still room for progress, of course, but only for progress that is real and can prove itself to be genuinely "better", and not just "new" and "different".
Where Alexander tends to go wrong is that he seems to be too receptive to heavy handed central government land use regulation to implement his program, and this, of course, goes contrary to conservative ideals of minimum government and property rights. However, one can just ignore this aspect of his thinking, and be left with lots of good ideas that can certainly be implemented on a voluntary, free-market basis.
By the time the new grad is really ready to be a project job captain, trends have changed, or OJT trained staff have left the supposedly brilliant grads in the dust.
That being said, Sustainable Materials and systems, sesitivity to envirmentally sensible products and the use of trends like Earth Coupled Mechanical Systems and Electrical Demand Off-Peak are very interesting techniques.
Many major companies have built projects examining the feasibility of these systems, even at major cost to themselves. Sometimes it is done for political correctness, sometimes for more sensible reasons.
However, under current circumstances, it unfortunately means: enormous government intervention by the Behemoth Bureaucratic Despotism (BBD), and assorted sundry NGOs, therefore rendering life, production, business, and basic survival impossible.
I truly am an 'environmentalist' in the rational sense. But under the current regime of tyranny and junk-science, I am adamantly opposed to what now passes for 'environmentalism'.
Also, Self-Sufficiency is now, to a large degree, being zoned and regulated out of the realm of possibility.
For sustainable, or "green" design to be successful, it must APEAL to the mass market by way of cost efficency, asthetics, overall qualtiy and comfort, and finally ecological concerns. "Forcefeeding" the idea on people and buisnesses will only hurt the progress of responsible design. Many active solutions for sustainable design are on the verge of being cost effective, such as solar technologies. There are many aspects of sustainable design that are just good design, but have been ignored for various reasons.
A major problem I see is the permanance of things in out life. So many things are designed and purchased that are only temporary solutions and are a fix. For instance, power tools, they are cheaply made and last only a few years and then have to be thrown away and a new one purchased, but this wasn't always so. Here in our woodshop at KSU, we have tools dating back 60+ years, and they work beautifully.
This is also a problem in architecture, people and businsess want something right now, and for next to nothing. They really don't consider the lifespan of the building and the costs that come with it. A well designed building will be cheaper/easier to run will last longer and therfor be less expensive.
Sustainable design in many ways is just going back to principals that have been ignored recently because of our wealth and attitudes that come with that. One thing that has come with that is the decline of valuue of architectural services. I think that most people would be suprised with the average salary for recent architecture grads, here at KSU which is ranked fairly high, is about $28,000. This reflects the cheapest bidder competition that is going on in the field, which has led to the decline of quality in design. Now buisness expect a complex building for next to nothing, and it is hard to inject real quality of design and materials when you are fighting for every penny. Most buisnesses consider real estate in vary short terms, which I believe is a cost inefficent practice.
See, I have this theory that without language, thought is not possible. And when we garbage-up the language, we garbage-up our thought processes. That is what destroyed our legal system and our education system. Looks to me that architecture is at risk.
I thought you were looking for views on what we thought about green design. Well, you have mine. Now you want me to solve it? That's for the next generation. I'm old enough to show you the problem. You're young enough to bang your head against the wall for a few years fixing it.
And what role should the govermnent play? I drink bottled spring water packaged by private industry because government water is only fit to bath in and water my lawn. Ya got it?
And I am glad, too, that he has found some good "Tudors" on this thread....
Would you be willing to pay more initailly, if you were shown that you would retrive the cost over time through reduced utility bills and maintenance costs?
Or are you decisions driven by the initial contruction costs?
What do you feel about tax incentives for using techniques and technologies that reduce your energy consumtion and environmental impact?
Money ..... Cost. Time to build the "new features. Payback. Return on investment for what you pay for the property vs what you can charge for rent. Energy savings vs. cost of building the new features. Looks and access (useability!) vs "architectural touchy-feely feel-good" attitude.
Liability of the "new" features:" You want to be responsible in 5 years, 10 years, and 15 years and 20 years when those lead-acid batteries need to be disposed of .... after not savings ANY money for the past twenty? You going to pay insurance for a potential hydrogen-gas-sufuric acid bomb is sitting in the basement?
Those are the ONLY questions my clients ask me about.
It's the same old story, isn't it? What's the bottom line for the next quarter, or the fiscal year? That's the picture in the entire business sector, real estate being just one part of it.
You have to put yourself in the "Guccis" of a developer. He gets a prime piece of real estate, in the latest "boom" section of town, so he wants an "out of the box" building design, he doesn't want to wait 6 months for a full blown architectural design. He wants a ground floor with retail space, a fairly snazzy lobby, and X floors of office space, with Y elevators, etc.,etc.
McBuildings, but what can you do? He has to get Return on Investment as fast as possible.
The only exception I can think of to this is design for Government buildings. There you can cost overrun to your heart's content, and the taxpayer's anguish. Send your resumes to companies that specialize in that, if you can find them.
I have a complimentary theory: Without a chicken there wouldn't be an egg and without an egg there wouldn't be a chicken. See how much progress we have made? Now to your theory: Words are symbols for thought. With no thought, no words. However, I think that the existence of Helen Keller and others with similar problems, easily proves that thought exists without words. I advise you to go back to the drawing board.
If You mean built to last, simple and inexpensive to maintain, then You've got my vote.
Here's a few things I consider important.
1. Site selection.
I see too many housing developments being built on "bad ground", prone to flooding, or ground displacement due to soft or landfilled ground, also resulting in settling of the foundations, etc.
Trees for shade, proper grade for runoff, proper groundcover to eliminate erosion.
2. No design for the climate.
Someone else mentioned proper shading for the sun. Solar heating can reduce costs in winter, but proper overhang of the roof / eaves, can also reduce cooling costs in summer.
Designing roofs/eaves for latitude allows sunlight to enter homes in the winter but not in summer.
Proper walls can conserve energy.
Since moving to the Kansas City area some 30 years ago, I have seen numerous homes with NO Insulation!
How the (heck) do You save on energy costs when the house isn't insulated?
3. Energy Management
Homes do not utilize energy efficiently.
Aside from Major Utilities like Kitchen stoves, air conditioning, furnaces, most appliances and electric/electronic items run on 110v./120v power, and most are available in 6v.,9v.,12v. versions.
Many, if not most, electronic devices are transistorized today, and actually use step down transformers that provide the low voltages required to run these devices.
The simple step of removing electrical power losses due to transformers could result in 5% or 10% reduction in community energy consumption in this country.
Likewise, incorporation of solar energy for general low power consumption items, like outdoor night lighting would save millions every year.
Ever since the Arab Oil embargo, the means to use alternative energy, incorporated into homes and offices has been available.
Granted, it would not replace oil, but sustained research and development since the Carter administration could very well have put a dent in our nation's energy bills.
Of course, personal energy independence is anathema to the Energy and Power industries, thus legislation promoting alternative energy use is killed in congress on a regular basis.
I spent some time in Germany while in the army.
I was singularly impressed with many of the old homes there, some of which were more than 800 years old.
I was also impressed with the new homes being built.
Solidly framed, built to last, every window containing solid, insulated shutters, warm in winter and cool in summer.
Europe pays a lot more per BTU than Americans do. They have learned to conserve quite a bit over there.
Enough said, I hope my "opinion" is worth something.
If nothing else, it gave me a chance to rave a bit.
Transformers are not wonderfully efficient, but ohmic losses at low voltage can be devastating. If a device only requires a quarter watt, ohmic losses at 12 volts wouldn't be much of a problem, but even a 50% efficient transformer wouldn't waste much energy. Products that require real power, however, are another story.
Consider a product which requires 112 watts, is located 100 feet from the power supply, and is connected to a 12-volt supply with #6AWG cable (that's like booster-cable wire!). Such cable has a resistance of about 0.0004 ohms/foot, so the total resistance would be 0.08 ohms. With 10 amps flowing through it (as would be the case with a 112-watt load) the wire drops 0.8 volts. Despite the large cable, over 8 watts gets wasted in the wire!
Now consider a 119.75-watt device powered 100 feet away from a 120-volt source. Such a device may be powered with over 98% efficiency using 18-gauge wire (0.0063 ohms/foot, or 1.25 ohms total). The wire would drop 1.25 volts, wasting only 1.25 watts.
As a couple of additional points of comparision, using #6 cable would result in less than 100mW of loss; if 5% loss were acceptable, 24-gauge wire would suffice.
If you can show that your green design will return savings then you have a good economic argument. If it shows you that it is not the least expensive system, the you are wasting scarce resources. It is foolish to waste scarce planetary resources in the name of a fashionable fad such as sustainable design.
I don't know many designers who know how to perform a cost-benefit analysis.
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While a grad student at California Institute of the Arts in the early 2000s, he would drive out to the desert and take photographs for inspiration for his representational paintings. His snapshots weren't very good—sometimes he wouldn't even bother looking at them—so he'd resort to making up the image. The whole process began to feel like an "unnecessary burden," he says, especially because the fun stuff was the abstraction, the little bits on the edges of the recognizable image. He'd save that for last, like the favorite part of a meal. His attention started to drift from the ostensible subject, say a Joshua tree or a tunnel. "The subject matter got pushed out until it wasn't there anymore," he recalls.
Now when he begins one of his dramatic canvases, it may be with no more than a horizontal bar of color. He keeps riffing—painting, scraping down, covering over, creating explosions of intensely hued strips—until, somehow, he knows he's finished. "Figuring out when you're done—that's tough," he says. "I've come to the conclusion that doubt plays a big role for me." Still, Dodge has been on a tear, with 14 solo exhibitions in the past eight years. His most recent show opened in early September at Acme gallery in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, a textile designer.
Dodge is a second-generation artist. His mother, Madeleine, is a painter in Denver, where she and her husband, a physician, raised their three sons. For Dodge, the example she set has been invaluable. "Having a practicing artist [for a mother], just knowing that's an option, is huge," he explains, acknowledging that, in the minds of most children, artists are exotic, faraway beings. "Seeing someone struggle with their work prepared me for what I was in for."
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