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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Second-ranked Northwestern knew its season-opening test at 10th-ranked Notre Dame would be a challenge, and it played out exactly as expected. Behind three goals from sophomore Erin Fitzgerald (Mt. Sinai, N.Y./Mt. Sinai) and a goal and three assists from junior Shannon Smith (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon), the Wildcats prevailed 14-11 over the Fighting Irish at the Loftus Sports Center.
"We knew coming in that this was going to be a very tough test against a very good team, and that's exactly wha
t it was," said head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller. "I thought we did some things very well, and there are a lot of things we need to improve on. It was a good win and a good experience for our young team to get a victory over a top-level team."
Eight different Wildcats found the back of the net in the season opener, led by the hat trick for Fitzgerald and a pair each from senior Brooke Matthews (Baltimore, Md./Friends School), juniors Jessica Russo (Port Jefferson, N.Y./St. Anthony's) and Alex Frank (Westwood, Mass./Westwood) and sophomore Ali Cassera (Fairfield, N.J./West Essex). Smith, sophomore Taylor Thornton (Dallas, Texas/Hockaday School) and freshman Alyssa Leonard (Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore) each netted a goal as well for Northwestern.
Notre Dame had a few solid chances early, but a pair of saves from Brianne LoManto (Miller Place, N.Y./Rocky Point) kept the Irish off the scoreboard. Then the Wildcat offense came to life Russo as notched the first goal of the season off a feed from Smith with just over 24 minutes remaining in the half.
Matthews would tally her first of the season just two minutes later, converting on a free position attempt. The ensuing draw was won by Thornton, who proceeded to race downfield, move behind the Notre Dame net, spun around an Irish defender and converted a goal just 30 seconds later to give the Wildcats the early 3-0 lead with 21:34 remaining in the opening half.
But Notre Dame found its own offensive spark, tallying three goals in a two minute span to knot the game at 3-3 with 19:31 remaining in the opening half. Russo stopped the bleeding with her second of the game, putting Northwestern back on top 4-3 less than a minute later. Smith then fed Frank in front of the net, and the Wildcats were back on top by two at 5-3 with just under 18 minutes to go. Leonard then slipped a hard angle shot between the pipes for her first career goal as NU completed its own 3-0 run, taking the lead 6-3 with 16:39 to go in the first.
After the furious start to open the game, play settled down a bit as Smith notched her first of the year with 10:33 to play, extending the lead to four at 7-3. A Notre Dame goal was then answered with a goal from Fitzgerald off a long outlet pass from Russo, pushing the lead back to four at 8-4 with 8:15 remaining in the opening half. The Irish would add two late tallies, sending the Wildcats to the locker room with an 8-6 lead.
Northwestern opened up the second half with its typical aggressive attack as Frank netted her second of the game off an assist from Smith with just 48 seconds burned off the clock. Cassera then added a free position goal less than two minutes later as the Wildcats went back on top by four at 10-6 early in the second half.
Notre Dame once again made a run, notching two goals in a three minute span to cut the gap to two at 10-8 before Cassera converted a free position to push the Wildcat lead back to three at 11-8 with 18:34 remaining in the game. Fitzgerald then converted a free position of her own two minutes later, extending the lead back to four at 12-8.
Once again, the Irish remained tough, notching three of the next four goals to cut the Wildcat lead to just a pair at 13-11 with 7:27 to play, sandwiching a free position goal from Fitzgerald. But a key free position goal by Matthews with five minutes to play pushed Northwestern back to a three goal cushion at 14-11. LoManto then made a pair of huge point-blank saves down the stretch for the Wildcats, giving her nine for the game as Northwestern was able to run out the clock and preserve the opening day victory.
Northwestern, the nation's leader in draw controls, asserted its authority once again against Notre Dame, outdrawing the Irish 22-5, including winning 17-straight draws during one stretch. Leonard won a game-high six for the Wildcats with Smith, Frank and Thornton each winning three for NU. But it was the 19 Wildcat turnovers and Notre Dame's 16-8 edge in ground balls that helped keep the game close.
With the victory, Northwestern improves its all-time record against Notre Dame to 11-2 and have now won 11 consecutive games against the Irish. The Wildcats also improved to 4-1 all-time in South Bend and won their season opener for the fourth consecutive season.
Northwestern continues its challenging five-game season-opening road trip this coming weekend, traveling to the Southeast for a pair of games against top-11 teams. The Wildcats face third-ranked North Carolina in Chapel Hill Friday, Feb. 25, before hopping over to Nashville, Tenn., for their American Lacrosse Conference opener against 11th-ranked Vanderbilt Sunday, Feb. 27.


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Qunetin Tarantino's new film, 'Inglourious Bastards" depicts a fictional group of American Jewish soldiers who are dropped into France where they conduct the killing of numerous German soldiers including taking their scalps. In fact, there was a real life squadron of Jewish soldiers who hunted down SS officers in Austria right after the war ended in an operation called "Nakam" (vengeance in Hebrew). According to the last survivor, 88 year-old, Chaim Miller, "we operated in the south of Austria in the days just after the war ended. We were soldiers in the Jewish Brigade group of the British army stationed in Tarvisio, Italy." He said Yugoslav partisans provided the names of Nazi war criminals and they went in groups of three to secretly get them.
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Liesbeth writes:
Tomorrow starts the XVIII International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria Conference here in Rio de Janeiro. I read Peter Hotez will be participating in a round-table session on "What is the future role of academic journals in the research, control and prevention of tropical diseases?".I myself will be presenting partial results of my graduate project on the zoonotic potential of Giardia duodenalis in the past. Dr. Racaniello recently participated in the Brazilian Virology Society meeting congress in São Paulo, but what about Dr. Despommier? It would have been awesome meeting you both here! But well, too many congresses, too little time, right? (and money, for that matter!)
All the best
Sophie writes:
Hello Twipsters
I have a pick of the week: Windowfarms, it's a non-profit vertical gardening project: How to make your own vertical window garden. If you want a full description listen to Britta Rileys TED-talk, I can't do it justice. I don't know if this is a fitting pick, as it's more a Dickson pick, than a parasitology pick. But I think it is amazing, I'm definitely doing this:)
Keep up the good work
Peter writes:
Dear Vincent and Dickson.
I would like to point out that the "Female Owners of Cats More Prone to Suicide" article mentioned in TWiP 43 is rather misleading. The study mentioned made no mention of cat ownership and men were not included in the study as it was only mothers who were included in the cohort.
Most human infections are from contaminated meat, not from handling infected cats.
If a cat is infected with Toxoplasma gondii the oocysts are only shed for a short period of time, typically less than 14 days, before the cat's immune system stops oocyst production. The cat should then be immune to further infection.
Dr Postolache has noted limitations to the study, such as the inability to determine the cause of the suicidal behaviour.
He said:
"T. gondii infection is likely not a random event and it is conceivable that the results could be alternatively explained by people with psychiatric disturbances having a higher risk of becoming T. gondii infected prior to contact with the health system."
Could the high rate of infection reported in France be due to the popularity there of rare meat?
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Dear Vincent and Dickson.
Thank you for a fascinating and informative TWiP, I thoroughly enjoyed the linking of parasitism and ecology. Following your request for listeners to find more information on the life cycle of nematomorphs I did some reading and found that many nematomorph species use a "paratenic" or transport host in which the larva forms cysts and do not develop further until the paratenic host is eaten by a scavenger or predator.(1)
Crickets are generally omnivorous but some species are carnivorous. A wide range of species can be used as paratenic hosts including flatworms, snails ans some nematomorph species make the transition from water to land by forming cysts in aquatic insect larvae, with the cysts surviving the host's metamorphosis to an flying adult which can then convey them to land. Adult nematomorphs are short lived and do not feed, they die after mating. One species of nematomorph has been discovered from Kenya that is parthenogenic and lacks males(2) Some sites I looked at mentioned the morphological similarity of the larval nematomorphs to some adult marine worms(3)
(1) http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI3064559/
(2) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034472
(3) http://www.bumblebee.org/invertebrates/NEMATOMORPHA.htm
continuing: I came across a bit more information on how nematomorph worms influence insect behaviour.
David Biron, Frédéric Thomas and colleagues at the Laboratory of Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases at Frances National Scientific Research Center in Montpellier., France, have found the worms produce proteins that mimic some found in the insects nervous system. Somehow these prompt the insect to jump into water, allowing the adult worm to swim away. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_wormparasite.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BnVsaLiR0
Tommy writes:
Dear Vincent and Dickson,
I really enjoyed your episode on the horsehair worm and food web ecology. In case if you haven't already found it, here is a review on the biology of nematomorphs which you might find useful:
Hanelt, B., Thomas, F., and Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (2005) Biology of the Phylum Nematomorpha. Advances in Parasitology, 59: 243–305
Also, I was pleasantly surprised to hear you talk about the New Zealand cockle-trematode system. Those papers you mentioned originated from the lab where I did my PhD - in fact, my PhD thesis (and a small part of my postdoc work) consisted of research which followed up on some of the questions which were raised by those initial studies you cited, delving deeper into the ecology of that host-parasite system. Here are a small selection of publications which pertain specifically to the cockle-trematode system.
Leung, T.L.F. and Poulin, R. (2007) Interactions between parasites of the cockle Austrovenus stutchburyi: Hitch-hikers, resident-cleaners, and habitat-facilitators. Parasitology, 134: 247-255.
Leung, T.L.F. and Poulin, R. (2007) Recruitment rate of gymnophallid metacercariae in the New Zealand cockle Austrovenus stutchburyi: an experimental test of the hitch-hiking hypothesis. Parasitology Research, 101: 281-287.
Leung, T.L.F., Poulin, R. and Keeney, D.B. (2009) Accumulation of diverse parasite genotypes within the bivalve second intermediate host in the digenean Gymnophallus sp. International Journal for Parasitology, 39: 327-331.
Leung, T.L.F., Keeney, D.B. and Poulin, R. (2010) Genetics, intensity-dependence, and host manipulation in the trematode Curtuteria australis: following the strategies of others? Oikos, 119:393-400. Leung, T.L.F. and Poulin, R. (2010) Infection success of different trematode genotypes in two alternative intermediate hosts: evidence for intraspecific specialisation? Parasitology, 137:321-328.
Leung, T.L.F. and Poulin, R. (2011) Intra-host competition between co-infecting digeneans within a bivalve second intermediate host: dominance by priority-effect or taking advantage of others? International Journal for Parasitology, 41: 449-454.
Vincent was wondering how the cockles become infected with the trematodes - I can answer that as I conducted (and came up with the protocols for) experimental infections of those cockles, and spent many, many hours observing and documenting the process. The free-living cercariae are initially sucked in through the cockle's inhalant siphon, once inside the cockle's mantle cavity, they immediate cling to the foot and begin penetrating into the muscle. Once within the foot, they then migrate through the muscular tissue for some time (a few hours at most) before encysting at a suitable spot (usually the tip of the foot). During one of my observation periods, I recorded some footage of the cercariae penetrating the foot tissue - the link to which I recall I've sent to you in another e-mails, but to save you the trouble of wading through masses of old e-mails, here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4-m3IsAlAQ
P.S. I really appreciate all the effort and time which must go into making all the "This Week In" podcast series and the role they play in educating the public about the unseen and overlooked majority of life on this planet. I am the writer and co-administrator of the Parasite of the Day blog (http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com), where I write about newly published research on parasites that I happen to come across, in a manner that is accessible to the general public. I consider that my small contribution, as a scientist, for public education and promotion about parasites, parasitism, and parasitology.
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A Conversation with Robert Sapolsky
A few years ago, I sat down with a couple of the Toxo docs over in our hospital who do the Toxo testing in the Ob/Gyn clinics. And they hadn't heard about this behavioral story, and I'm going on about how cool and unexpected it is. And suddenly, one of them jumps up, flooded with 40-year-old memories, and says, "I just remembered back when I was a resident, I was doing a surgical transplant rotation. And there was an older surgeon, who said, if you ever get organs from a motorcycle accident death, check the organs for Toxo. I don't know why, but you find a lot of Toxo." And you could see this guy was having a rush of nostalgic memories from back when he was 25 and all because he was being told this weird factoid ... ooh, people who die in motorcycle accidents seem to have high rates of Toxo. Utterly bizarre.
What is the bottom line on this? Well, it depends; if you want to overcome some of your inhibitions, Toxo might be a very good thing to have in your system. Not surprisingly, ever since we started studying Toxo in my lab, every lab meeting we sit around speculating about which people in the lab are Toxo-infected, and that might have something to do with one's level of recklessness. Who knows? It's very interesting stuff, though.
You want to know something utterly terrifying? Here's something terrifying and not surprising. Folks who know about Toxo and its affect on behavior are in the U.S. military. They're interested in Toxo. They're officially intrigued. And I would think they would be intrigued, studying a parasite that makes mammals perhaps do things that everything in their fiber normally tells them not to because it's dangerous and ridiculous and stupid and don't do it. But suddenly with this parasite on board, the mammal is a little bit more likely you go and do it. Who knows? But they are aware of Toxo.
Don writes:
Dr. Racaniello,
On TWIP 42 you decried the lack of a Microbe World search engine. Well here's a little used Google feature that can help. To find the TWIP episode about toxoplasma simply type this as a Google search:
site:microbeworld.org toxoplasma "this week in parasitism"
As long as the site allows the Google crawlers the result is usually better than site search features. Unless of course the site search feature is an embedded Google search.
Looks like the TWIP you were looking for was #12.
Love TWIP, TWIV and TWIM. I have heard them all. Some multiple times. But my favorite has to be TWIP largely because of the happy accident of a world class parasitologist and a world class raconteur being embodied in your co-host. Dickson Despommier is without peer.
Dickson's modest erudition and your nagging straight man routine make for a very entertaining show. Please don't think I am belittling the part you play.
That you could do what you do so graciously, given all your accomplishments, is rare. Lesser men would let their egos get in the way.
That I can also learn something is also much appreciated. Don't change a thing.
Thank you, Don
Kyle writes:
Dear Dr. Despommier,
I am a student doing post-bac work in premed, and was intrigued by your discussion of a possible study of the contamination of dog run soils by Toxocara Canis. I'm designing a study in the Chicago Land area to gather this data, and was wondering if you could recommend a method of testing for eggs in the soil, i.e. if there is any preferential methods in your opinion. Also, I heard on your podcast that there is some graduate work being done in New York, and was also wondering if they would want to compare data after both our studies are done. Thank you for the great work both you and Dr. Racaniello put out every week, your podcast is an absolute joy to listen to.
Sincerely, Kyle
Ronald writes:
I love your TWIP and TWIM and am sharing a balance of them with students as time permits. My absolutely only complaint is that ... as an old geezer ... my hearing is not what it once was and for me ... there are often times when a speakers' voice seems to almost disappear ... sort of a mumble for me ... I believe this is because you speak ... and this is natural ... as if you are speaking to someone sitting close to you. I believe it would help if you each spoke as if you were speaking to an audience ... maybe with a microphone and never allowing your mouth to point away from the audience ... aiming the sound down instead of forward ... without losing the cordial atmosphere. Trivia, I know and I doubt anyone else has described similar issues. Keep up the great work. It is great to have a chance to learn from your discussions. I know you spend a lot of time preparing these and I am truly grateful. Enunciate is the word that has been escaping me but I believe that is the core of my problem.
Nick writes:
Firstly I'd like to say I am a huge fan of your shows- TWIP, TWIV and TWIM. I am a student in Perth, Australia and am in the final year of my zoology major, and first year of my microbiology major. I am extremely interested in getting some experience in a lab to do with viruses, parasites and microbiology, so I was wondering if there was any help or advise at all you could give me?
Thanks, Nick
Amanda writes:
Good morning Drs. Racaniello and Despommier;
My name is Amanda and I just love your TWIP podcast. This article caught my eye and I thought it would be of interest to both of you considering that it seems to be about a virus parasitizing another virus!
Also, a recent study on DNA methylation in Trich: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32932/title/Genomic-Methylation-Collector/
Keep up the good work! Can't wait to hear another podcast…you guys keep my brain active when doing routine lab tasks!
Research Technician at Massachusettes General Hospital
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FYI for Dick just to show where the subject is appearing, with comments.
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Michael writes:
Dear Professors Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier,
I am a long retired biochemist who spent his career in Public Health. The two things that I miss the most are access to journals, and the round table discussions that I held in my office every morning. I accomplished this by providing free coffee, and often Danish. Soon my office was bursting with those wishing to talk about what they were doing, where they were having problems, and what they were going to do about them. These were not meetings in the normal sense, but rather verbal free-for-alls where many problems were resolved, many friends made, and aptitudes which were dormant came alive.
While I often worked with the biochemistry of microbes, I never had occasion to do any work with parasites other than see an interesting slide or specimen that someone wanted to display to everyone in sight. When I started listening to TWIP, I first I thought it was the filling of an enormous cavern of personal ignorance that drew me towards your show. But then I realized it was the Socratic method that formed the backbone of your lectures. With Professor Racaniello so often playing the foil, and the general banter it was almost like being back at my favorite time of the day at work. As I now live in a rural area and can no longer have such conversations with my old colleagues, this has truly gladdened my heart and filled in a missing part of my life that goes far beyond the knowledge provided. While I realize that this is not your primary intent, it is a delightfuly serendipitous collateral benefit. I would like to urge you to ignore those curmudgeons and martinets who demand a formal, structured and pedantic presentation. You are at your best when you allow your personalities to show through.
This is particularly significant to me as I had been in an undergraduate honors program that had about 40 profs and a dozen students. We were completely self directed, and met either one on one, or in small groups with the profs. We got to know them as people, and as a result leared more and did more than we ever would have under more normal circumstances. It was unfortunate that this outstanding experiment was far too expensive to be broadened to the rest of the students.
Before I wear out your patience, I would like to note that I listen to many such podcasts, but that yours is the only one that does not request financial assistance (which I usually provide.) You program is most worthy of some mechanism of recognition. So I thought perhaps a donation in your names and TWIP to be a possible method of recognition of your outstanding work. Would you please advise me as to your favorite charity or research facility in parasitology that you would prefer the donation to be made.
Truly gratefully yours, Michael
Robert writes: Sirs, In September 1903 the British satirical magazine Punch published an insomniac's ode to the students of tropical disease:
Men of science, you that dare
Beard the microbe in his lair
Tracking through the jungly thickness
Afric's germ of Sleeping Sickness
Hear , oh hear my parting plea
Send a microbe home to me.
Sometimes it is better not to get what you ask.
Todd writes:
Thank you so much for the parasitology podcast. I am encouraging my children and nephews who will probably pursue health related careers to listen to it, first because it is such an interesting "fly through" of the related science, and secondly because I find you two so interesting. However, my family eats a whole lot of sushi, and I haven't been able to find the sushi episode on iTunes. Did that end up getting made?
Regards, Todd
P.S. I had been imagining myself to be a sort of forager, and would eat the semi-fermented pears that fell from my tree after cutting away the portions containing ants and worms and washing them a bit, but after watching some YouTube videos about roundworm infections, I got a little bit afraid, since I don't know but that the pears had fallen onto soil or leaves that had traces of dog, opossum, squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, or bird feces. However, a professor friend of mine told me that our immune system kills roundworms for us, and it's only children who are at risk.
PPS. Since I also occasionally dip into alternative health websites, I wonder if you have ever podcasted related to the "clean hypothesis" of allergies and the alleged cures of asthma and other allergies from exposure to roundworms (in controlled situations) and hookworms in uncontrolled situations. I think a lot of people are interested in auto-immune disorders lately, and those of us who live somewhat dirty and untidy lives wonder if somehow environmental stimuli are keeping us robustly healthy.


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THE Federal Government will offer Australians the chance to send messages to distant intelligent beings from today.
Not Canberra's beings, but those that may inhabit a world 20 light years from Earth.
Discovered in 2007, Gliese 581 d was the first planet found circling in the ''Goldilocks'' or ''habitable zone'' around another star, where it is neither too hot, nor too cold for life.
The messages will be beamed to the planet from NASA's Tidbinbilla space tracking station, outside Canberra, to mark National Science Week, which starts on Saturday.
Announcing the rare public opportunity to greet alien life forms, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Kim Carr, revealed he had crafted his cosmic communique: ''Hello from Australia on the planet we call Earth. These messages express our people's dreams for the future. We want to share these dreams with you.''
To post an interstellar message, earthlings must visit HelloFromEarth.net, which will operate from 10.30am today until August 24. Messages can contain up to 160 characters.
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To say hello (or something else): http://www.hellofromearth.net/
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To supplememt djw, see Carmon, Mr. Bogg, Filipovic, and Bouie.
…and let us not forget Mssrs. Riley and Edroso.
I always feel bad about getting riled up by Douthat — he's clearly just fucking trolling liberals — but I do. This may not be his worst column evArone, but it may be his douche-iest.
In short: Fuck him.
Don't forget Doghouse Riley
APOLOGIES for treading ground that Roy has already stomped much more efficiently, but yesterday, when my neighbor tossed the Times over the back fence it landed with such a resounding thud I knew I had to check out Douthat first thing.
Reader, is there any question that the whole right-wing "birthrate" thing is the Anti-Fluoridationalism of the 21st century? The most hopelessly bent, the most recursively insane, the signature folly of a parade of fools? They can't keep race out of it, the way their intellectual forebears couldn't keep backwoods theology out of dental hygiene. They can't keep Catholic theology out of it, even though most of 'em aren't Catholic.
They can't quit talking about it. Which, y'know, to each his own kink
APOLOGIES for treading ground that Roy has already stomped much more efficiently, but yesterday, when my neighbor tossed the Times over the back fence it landed with such a resounding thud I knew I had to check out Douthat first thing.
Reader, is there any question that the whole right-wing "birthrate" thing is the Anti-Fluoridationalism of the 21st century? The most hopelessly bent, the most recursively insane, the signature folly of a parade of fools? They can't keep race out of it, the way their intellectual forebears couldn't keep backwoods theology out of dental hygiene. They can't keep Catholic theology out of it, even though most of 'em aren't Catholic.
They can't quit talking about it. Which, y'know, to each his own kink
I assume that the proprietors assume that I already read Mr Riley regularly.
"Don't forget Doghouse Riley" is generally just good advice.
Who will tire first? The morons in the Village that write such ridiculous trash or the DFH's morally compelled to respond to their willful ignorance and inexhaustible stupidity?
I'll wait to see the half-time adjustments on star date 5943.7 before I can place my bet
Jebus protect us from these damn Catholics–if you're having fun, you're doing it wrong! Get down here and suffer with the rest of us like God intended! You must PAY–PAY I tell you!–for your nookie!
So, Douthat must have the required 12 children by now, right? Surely he hasn't been corrupted by this DECADENCE?!?
To mock him, Ben & Jerry ought to introduce an ice-cream flavor named "Chunky Whitherspoon."
Only it's be chunks of stuff and ice – but no cream.
No, not "it's" – 'it'll.'
Haven't finished that first cup of coffee yet.
Y kent oui haz "Edit" pleeze?
This second blog post convinced me there might be at least something interesting to read in the Doohat column.
There wasn't.
How did you manage to generate 140 comments with that?
You don't find the window into the mind of right-wing theocrats who are trying to masquerade as worldly sophisticates interesting?
Because I find it very interesting indeed, given how many of them there are.
Interesting? No. Amusing? Very.
Because it's about sex?
I just find it funny to read Brooks and Douthat for their mindless bullshit even if it's not interesting.
Douthat has a tendency to bring out weird responses from progressives, but this response is weird even by that standard, given that I suspect zero of the five people mentioned in the OP disagree with any of the concrete policies Douthat endorses in his article. Douthat believes crazy shit! Catholicism is full of crazy shit! If they use it to justify banning abortion or contraception or gay marriage, do whatever is necessary to destroy them.
If they use it to fight against the central goal of the modern conservative movement–redistribution of wealth upwards–not sure why progressives should get in the way.
Because people take offense whey they are insulted? Is this news to you?
Take your pick, all of which are discussed thoroughly in the links:
1. Douthat's premise is blinkered, since the most obvious, efficient and beneficial policy response to the situation he bemoans is liberalizing immigration laws, which for some reason he does not mention.
2. The framework Douthat uses to analyze the issue is surprise surprise incredibly misogynistic in that it treats the economic and reproductive agency of women as problematically "decadent".
3. The barely-mentioned policy proposals are ones that have been in political discourse since the 50s, and when Republicans don't outright oppose them they use them as part of the politics of instilling economic and racial fear in the middle class. It's an ollllld con.
Douthat is wrong about everything and the point of my comment was obviously not that he was right or that anything said by anyone at any of the links is wrong.
But why jump in front of someone supporting good policies for bad reasons? There are lots of misogynists, racists, and people with absurd religious views in the US. Very few of them benefit from upward wealth redistribution. It is good for our politics to have them express their misogyny, racism, and religion in a way other than supporting upward wealth redistribution.
But why jump in front of someone supporting good policies for bad reasons?
As any number of people have pointed out, he's not "supporting" those policies — he grudgingly acknowledges their existence and then waves them away so he can get to the real crux of the matter: "values," and the lack thereof among the lower orders.
If he really wanted to break with conservative orthodoxy and come out in support of Scandinavian-style family policies, what on earth would be the point of all that recycled Alan Bloom crap about "decadence" and "moral exhaustion"?
Nodding in the direction of Sweden does nothing but show that he's a Serious Thinker, not a doctrinaire wingnut…just like Brooks, he's not like the crazies, he's "one of the reasonable ones." Faking left before veering right is straight out of the reasonable conservative playbook.
Oh, and as long as I'm here…the totally gratuitous aside about gay marriage (one more manifestation of that ol' moral exhaustion, we can only surmise) was a first class dickhead move. And that's where Brooks and Douthat part company in my mind: the former is merely a pseudo-intellectual con artist and courtier to the elites who's occasionally good for a laugh (especially when Charlie Pierce is doing the laughing). The latter is a loathsome prick.
The point is that he really believes it?
And even if he doesn't–if he's playing a con–what is the con, exactly? That French/Swedish family policy will serve as a gateway drug luring lefty NYT readers to conservative Catholicism?
I agree that Douthat's role at the NYT is "Serious Thinker" social conservative, and that explains why he, and Brooks, occasionally talk about about inequality or European policies they favor. What I don't get is why this is a bad thing. Given Douthat's influence (i.e., zero with social liberals), making social conservative arguments for downward redistribution legitimizes redistributory social policy more than it advances social conservatism.
I simply can't accept the premise that we should refrain from mocking lazy, creepy morons with the most prominent sinecure in the country for being lazy, creepy morons, because they occasionally half-heartedly endorse non-odious policies in some areas. That's some serious soft bigotry of low expectations.
That's some serious soft bigotry of low expectations.
AKA a chunky spoon, withered.
Well, I don't think that he does actually favor any family-friendly European policies. Can you imagine the screeching if we proposed something like paid leave for new fathers in the U.S.? Feminization of men! Subverting God-given gender roles! He just wants an excuse to be holier-than-thou about all us fornicatin' non-Catholics.
He's certainly taking his lumps on this one, and deservedly so. Googling "Ross Douthat more babies" comes up with dozens of posts and articles about is editorial. Virtually none of them is positive; not even conservative sites.
I'm sure he'll manage to think of himself as the lone voice crying the wilderness, and not the lone crackpot outlier he really is.
I know this question has been asked over and over, but how in the world did this guy get a column in the NYfreakin'Times, for Cthulhu's sake?
Nepotism (yes, really).
"It's a spirit that privileges the present over the future, chooses stagnation over innovation, prefers what already exists over what might be."
Douthat just gave a decent definition of 'social conservativism' but labeled it 'hedonism'. I guarantee that, no matter what, you could never shake him of the belief that centuries of maintaining the exact same inflexible social orders constitutes 'innovation'. That he genuinely believes in this inversion, and that you could never argue him out of that belief, is probably the core defining feature of a social conservative.
The Times should be embarrassed for employing that buffoon.
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Finkenbrink gave Waves' junior Mousheg Hovhannisyan all he could handle in the unfinished No. 3 singles match. The Phoenix junior lost a tiebreaker (7-6 (7-4)) in the first set and was tied 3-3 in the second set with the NCAA's 105th ranked player when Pepperdine secured its fourth and final point.
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Fanselow finished off Swanson at almost the same time that Llompart defeated Phoenix freshman Michael Tenzer (Neuried, Germany) at No. 2 (6-2, 6-3) to secure the 4-0 win. Pepperdine also won at No. 5 singles, where Jenson Turner defeated Goepper 6-0, 6-2.
The victory marked Pepperdine's 21st straight dual win, breaking the school record of 20 in a row set in 1985. The Waves (26-4) will next face Washington - who defeated North Carolina State 4-1 Friday - on Saturday at noon in the NCAA second round.
Green Bay ends its 2012 season with a school-record 19 wins (19-7, 6-1 HL) after winning its first Horizon League title and earning its first NCAA Tournament berth.
1. #15 Alex Llompart/Finn Tearney (PEP) def. Erik Finkenbrink/Craig Cox (GB) 8-1
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|Glad to help NautiGirlB. I'm sure you'll find another boat to crew on shortly enough... or take the approach Dulcitea suggested...
I would hate to think that anyone would set someone up for that kind of fall.
It still holds true that I made a serious error, but I now know why and that I would never do it again. The harsh way it was handled has gone from stinging to making me a teeny tiny bit angry. Maybe it is better that it ended now instead of later.
I am still sad that I am not going but looking at the weather predictions it maybe a good thing. Hee hee! I don't know if there is enough depth of talent there to handle a possible gale. I know I don't have the experience.
Now I need to figure out if I should go and watch them all take off and feel bad or stay home and feel bad. Knowing me I will probably go and offer silent best wishes for a safe trip.
Thank you to all for the great ideas and offers of rides. I feel so much better now.
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I think Nauti was set up for a fall. Boat is at the dock, main down ,skipper leaning against boom with beer in hand. Someone tells her to adjust topping lift. You may want to raise boom end for overhead clearance but wouldn't person giving order call to skipper and inform her boom is to be adjusted. Why didn't this person adjust lift herself. Normaly boom would be positioned away from dockside to otherside so it is not over companionway.
If this is hot boat with hot skipper why are they taking on novices, shouldn't there be a veteran crew?
What kind of girls are they looking for?
|Excellent point Dulcitea. Good for you, and don't yell when you're the skipper.
Maybe its time to shift gears!
I am your age (okay, older , female and also not in the best physical condition of my life (that's an understatement, but hey, Dennis Connor doesn't have a six-pack either). My first serious race as an adult was on an all-female crew. I was on the foredeck. . . thank God because I couldn't hear half the yelling. That tactician had some mouth! I was clumsy, got the sheet wraped around my leg and almost went over. I "won" the tenderfoot award and wasn't asked to crew again.
Thank God! It was the best thing for me because I shifted gears. Like you I WANTED TO RACE. Instead of crewing bigger, expensive boats, I bought an old one-design and started with beer cans, one-design races and then nationals. Sure, I lost a lot at first, but no one was yelling! And it is a lot more fun being the skipper. You can learn a lot about racing on a dingy. I've got people fooled now. They actually think I'm good (sometimes). It sort of came full circle recently when a male boat owner asked me to skipper his all-male crew in an upcoming race. I will not yell. I will not yell! I WILL NOT YELL!!!
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It seems really odd to me that (and no offense intended here) with your level of experience that you're trimming main. .... Now back to main, again, it's odd that the skipper is having you trim main. It's perhaps THE most critical position on the boat. The best main trimmers have years of experience and have done most positions on the boat including driving. ... Someone new to the main will have the regular trimmer sitting right next to them explaining and teaching, and the new trimmer will not be asked to trim during a race or even cruising in heavier air.)
An inexperienced main trimmer in a race is not only slow, it's a liability in crossing situations as they're not likely to understand the physics involved in ducking a starboard tacker. From your description, it sound like you where on a beginner boat with a bunch that really don't have enough experience actually teaching and managing a crew. I've never heard of someone 'dismissed' from a boat in front of the entire crew... that's just poor people skills being mistaken for leadership and sure sign of the skipper's own insecurity.
We wont make it this year..but If you need a ride for next years Swift-sure I'll take ya!
We aren't really what your looking for race wise but the offer stands...I might be the only Guy on the boat....And I don't yell unless its to warn life, death or dismemberment to a crew...Racing should be fun even if its to win and intense...Find another boat.
I'd point out that there were a few things that the could have been done to prevent the accident ahead of time. For instance, on a lot of the lines on my boat, I have stopper knots tied in them to limit their range. If this had been done on the topping lift line, the boom may have dropped, but it would have been stopped before it hit the companionway, and certainly would not have broken it.
In general, most things have a working range of motion that should not be exceeded... dropping the boom to the point where it hits the cabintop is one of those things... They can often be prevented with a little forethought.
POLKA, you are just spoiled!
Hee hee, Giggles!
Yes, I am a girl
Damn, that's Swiftsure.
"Vancouver has a VERY small racing community. Maybe 60 boats? If you take a look at the Southern Straits boats registerd, 1/3 are American.
I am ruined. My skipper is a very experienced race with an incredible reputation, her word is gold."
BULLSH___ that just means more people are aware of her and her tactics . You need to buck up. I raced a lot in my twenties in "the bay area" on a lot of boats. ZZ nailed it earlier. I was a nubbie then. I had screamers and abusers. Then I raced with a skipper who was cool under pressure never raised his voice other than to be heard. I had a lot of skippers raise their voice to be heard not in anger which new to the boat crew took offense to. However, the good skipper would make great sandwiches the night before the races and always had beverages of your choosing. I had a few people try and woo me away from the boat, they couldn't. I was dedicated and I learned tons of info from him. Why? Because he educated everyone who was interested. How? All you had to do was listen, every situation we got into he discussed with us prior to making a move. Confidence, that is what he had in him self and his crew.
I'll be doing the Oregon Offshore and maybe see you in Victoria in May. Good Luck.
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A recent story by Fred Pearce in the February 9th online edition of the Guardian ("Victory for openness as IPCC climate scientist opens up lab doors") covers some of the more publicized aspects of the last 14 years of my scientific career. I am glad that Mr. Pearce's account illuminates some of the non-scientific difficulties I have faced. However, his account also repeats unfounded allegations that I engaged in dubious professional conduct. In a number of instances, Mr Pearce provides links to these allegations, but does not provide a balanced account of the rebuttals to them. Nor does he give links to locations where these rebuttals can be found. I am taking this opportunity to correct Mr. Pearce's omissions, to reply to the key allegations, and to supply links to more detailed responses.
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