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I want to live in a world where *everything* that makes me uncomfortable or might cause pain or conflict is excised from history. After all, if it never happened, no one can be pissed off about it--and we can all get along fine. No more racial resentment, no more ethnic conflicts, no more religious wars. We get along, we always got along, end of story. Israel and Palestine always co-existed in peace beside each other. Europeans, Africans, and Asians discovered the New world together and have lived here peacefully together ever since. Every religion is the religion of peace and always has been. "Genocide" is just an abstract concept used by fiction writers, not something that has ever happened in the real world.
Laugh if you want, but wouldn't that make for a much better world? Why focus on the pain and resentment when we can reinvent ourselves as something much better?
Sure it all involves a good dose of self-delusion, but a lot of people have improved their lives greatly with a little self-delusion. After all, no one starts down their path to self-improvement by admitting to themselves that they are an unexceptional, not particularly good or worthwhile person. They start by telling themselves "I am a good person, I can do better" even if they know deep-down that they're lying to themselves. And, quite often, the lie actually BECOMES the reality. Convincing yourself that you're a better person can actually MAKE you better. Why not apply the same principle to society as a whole?
I'm not being a troll here, I'm asking a serious question. Wouldn't we be better off for it?
I'm not being a troll here, I'm asking a serious question. Wouldn't we be better off for it?
And also doomed to repeat it all?
And also doomed to repeat it all?
Well, that's the classic argument. But I would contend the opposite. Our knowledge of our nasty history hasn't stopped us from repeating ourselves again and again, after all. Perhaps we would be better served by making the very *concept* of genocide or war simply inconceivable. I think we would be a lot better off with "But we've never done this, we've always been better than that!" than with "We'll, here we go yet again."
As to Twain and Huckleberry Finn - Twain took great pains to accurately capture the dialect and idioms of the characters he wrote about. He took such pains because he thought it was essential to the story he was telling. What's next? Are they going to correct all the grammar and have Huck speak the Queen's English?
That's not even the problem. Check the percentage of people that actually know anything of what we're supposed to learn about History in school. Go ask questions like how did the I and II World War started, who was Benjamin Franklin, Stalin, Cristopher Columbus...
It's not that "knowing" didn't help. Most people didn't even got that far.
Here's what comes out from erasing or modifying the "bad" part of History:
- Instead of just a small percentage of people knowing it (voluntarily or not), nobody would.
- Who decides what to erase? Hitler, Stalin or the Pope? Or everybody?
- How will we know how one thing led to another?
This kind of History elrous0 proposes sounds like a new kind of Bible to me.
Yes, too many things have *aspects* which are appealing at first but which history has shown to tend towards situations which we don't really want.
Eugenics can start with the simple and reasonable goal of not wanting children to suffer horribly painful genetic diseases but history in the form of the nazi party showed that if you go too far down that road then being a member of an unpopular ethnic group is eventually cause enough for sterilisation or extermination so better to steer well clear entirely, it isn't worth it.
Hell the nazi party provides no shortage of warnings it's good to remember like
"never believe any government which is herding some segment of the population into cattle cars and tells everyone that they're really just going to live somewhere nice"
And perhaps most relevent lesson from history to elrous0:
"Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen."
"Check the percentage of people that actually know anything of what we're supposed to learn about History in school. Go ask questions like how did the I and II World War started, who was Benjamin Franklin, Stalin, Cristopher Columbus..."
DO the same with members of Congress and the news!
Cripes I heard crap out of the mouths of Some senators and Fox news pundits during the past 3 weeks about the congress working during Christmas that Claim they are christian say things about Christ that are blatantly wrong.
And these are from people who CLAIM they worship and follow the teachings of Christ. I guarantee they know even less about American History.
The overall education of Americans, from inner city kids to rich, well to do college educated leaders is atrocious. We're a nation of morons.
That's not even the problem. Check the percentage of people that actually know anything of what we're supposed to learn about History in school. Go ask questions like how did the I and II World War started, who was Benjamin Franklin, Stalin, Cristopher Columbus...
I think you're being a little unfair. The human brain only has so much space. Sure, one could understand every detail of our history, but that person probably won't also know every detail of mathematics or physics. Folks complain about people not understanding science all the time. No human being is going to be good at everything. Particularly in political leaders, far more important than knowledge is awareness of one's own limitations. It's not important what you know. What's important is knowing that you don't know and knowing how to research it to find out.
The problem is that most folks in Congress don't know and don't want to know. Instead of bringing in experts to explain complex subjects, they let lobbyists tell them what to do because it is easier. The crap they spew sounds ignorant not because they don't understand things, but because they willfully delegate understanding to other people. In short, they're mostly irresponsible across both sides of the aisle, and it is only getting worse.
The right thing to do would be to have Congress consist of proportional representation not just geographically but also in terms of their backgrounds (contrasted with our current Congress, almost half of whom are lawyers). The people in there should be smart enough to know when to defer to the opinions of other Congresspeople who have a better understanding of a specific issue. Unfortunately, instead of such reasonable people, we tend to get people who stubbornly refuse to cooperate, refuse to work with the other political party, and generally drag the country down with them.
Cripes I heard crap out of the mouths of Some senators and Fox news pundits during the past 3 weeks about the congress working during Christmas that Claim they are christian say things about Christ that are blatantly wrong.
Well, the problem there is that Fox and the "conservatives" they promote have an agenda and beliefs that are diametrically opposed to Christ's teachings. They may claim to be Christians, but they really worship money. But there are so many true Christians out there that if Fox and the politicians they promote let it be known that they think Christ was fiction, or his teachings were bunk, etc., they would lose votes and eyeballs.
The same holds true for half the congregation in any church; they're only there to be seen.
The necktie is a symbol of wealth and power. Never trust a man who wears one, and never take a man with a tie at his word when he claims to be Christian.
Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined could ever hope to.
As to Twain and Huckleberry Finn - Twain took great pains to accurately capture the dialect and idioms of the characters he wrote about.
It isn't censorship, it's a rewrite. With Mark Twain there's no censorship, because the original unmolested text is public domain and there for anyone to read [virginia.edu]. You can buy unraped versions at almost any bookstore.
However, in the case of a more recent author like Vachel Lindsay [wikipedia.org], there is a very bad problem -- his heirs hold the still standing copyrights to his works, and his son has set about "correcting" the work to be more contemporary. Much if it will therefore be lost forever, since most of his books were hand made (he was known as the "Hobo Poet", riding the rails).
Odd that this controversy isn't covered in the wikipedia article, it's well known to acedemics here in Springfield.
I think we would be a lot better off with "But we've never done this, we've always been better than that!" than with "We'll, here we go yet again."
I respectfully disagree.
If I may liken it to a more concrete example of the history of mathematics, I don't think we ever would have made it to integration without remembering mistakes or basic concepts like addition.
We have stood on the shoulders of the works of very brilliant philosophers and thinkers to get where we are today. Fascism has slowly been phased out in favor of more liberal and democratic governments. And we all know that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the ones we already tried (thank you, Churchill).
Our knowledge of our nasty history hasn't stopped us from repeating ourselves again and again
It's not a perfect process, no. But you don't see a Pol Pot rise to power so easily today and you don't see a new Stalin sending millions to the gulags. Because we remember those things and we remember how they were accepted at the time but are clearly wrong now. On top of that, we remember what Imperialism did to the poor nations and how it made some nations poor and more powerful nations richer. We're not going to get away with colonizing a weaker nation and taking all their resources anymore. Because we remember what that results in. Of all the bad things you listed in your post, I implore you to look back to the situations and causes that set up those problems -- like the redrawing of boundaries of countries following World War II. And remember that so we can catch it next time. The list of these things are endless but you can find example after example in any history book worth its salt (I was most impressed with Hobsbawm's "Age of
When a child picks up the text of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and reads the word "nigger" I want them to take offense. Not to take offense at Mark Twain but more so to take offense to and own up to this great country's tortured past and to vow that this will never happen again. This use of a word as a marker of hate and denigration simply because of the color of a person's skin -- and the widespread cultural acceptance of it! If your child never learns the horrible results of that scenario than your child may one day find themselves as a part of that scenario.
Ok, I have to ask...do that many people out there find the word nigger to be so horribly offensive?
I mean, I know a great number of black people find the word offensive (although strangely enough usually only if a non-black person uses it, they often call themselves niggers in everyday conversation), but do people of other colors find the term to be THAT offensive?
Granted, I'm a bit older, and the word was not as bad a four letter words to use. Sure, you didn't shout the word nigger when in company of black people, but in every day conversation, the word was used as a general term for black people...not as a term for putting them down, but that was just the word you used. Growing up, I pretty much thought it was just the usual regional difference in terminology. You hear negro up north, and nigger or nigra as my grandmother used to say it in the south.
I live in the south, and in general, when not in a the presence of black people, the term is still used freely as a synonym for a black person. And no...this is not a bunch of mouth breathing, uneducated rednecks. On the contrary, they are from all walks of life, and most that I am speaking off first knowledge of, are wealthy, well educated and often in places of power (yes, even governmental).
Maybe I'm answering my own question...maybe the degree of "offense" is regional too.
For the record...I'm just not offended by much of ANY language. It is, after all, just a bunch of words.
I don't feel any more offense from words like: idiot, cunt, skin flute, fuckwad, wankel rotary engine, trapazoid, mongolian cluster fuck any more than I do the word nigger.
Words are words.
Revising history, however...is a bad concept.
Perhaps we would be better served by making the very *concept* of genocide or war simply inconceivable.
You keep using that word but I don't think it means what you think.
Knowledge of nasty history can be very valuable. Take the controversy over vaccines, for example. Some of the folks who lobby against vaccine use try claiming that the diseases they prevent aren't really that bad. If you have a sanitized version of history, you wouldn't know that people died, were permanently disfigured or were permanently disabled by diseases such as measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, etc. Modern parents (including myself) don't have first-hand knowledge of these horrors so they might look at Sanitized History and wonder why they should use vaccines if things weren't ever so bad. Then, when vaccination rates drop and the diseases make a comeback (which is happening in some areas), children will get sick and die.
I'll admit that no historical account is ever 100% objective, but I'd rather have an honest-as-possible recording of history than a Scrubbed-Clean-With-Bad-Stuff-Replaced-By-Rainbows-And-Unicorns version.
Sounds a bit like Huxley's Brave New World minus the genetic tampering.
No, self delusion is what brings us religion.
Self improvement for me came when I accepted that I needed to improve. Before, I always thought that I was a good person and didn't need to try harder. Coincidentally my realisation of a need for self improvement also coincided with me losing my religion.
I chose to accept truth and pain over just pretending that I was being watched over by some all powerful being. There is something to be said for being happy, but I can't bring myself to sacrifice truth for happiness, otherwise I'd probably still be religious.
You also appear to have not noticed the basic element of human nature that causes us to split into groups and have an "us vs them" mentality, which means that there will be vehement disagreements and wars between groups of people in the future anyway, no matter what people believe happened in the past. The best way to reduce this kind of thing is from learning and communication, not ignorance. Even things like having sports teams to love and hate instead of making a big deal of nationality are good things I suppose. They keep the dumb people distracted with shiny things so they have less time to hate other kinds of "different".
They start by telling themselves "I am a good person, I can do better" even if they know deep-down that they're lying to themselves. And, quite often, the lie actually BECOMES the reality. Convincing yourself that you're a better person can actually MAKE you better. Why not apply the same principle to society as a whole?
I'm not being a troll here, I'm asking a serious question. Wouldn't we be better off for it?
The problem is that there are also a lot of people who start by telling themselves "I am a good person. I am doing the best I can" - all the while slugging back some McD's and tossing that non-biodegradable cup out the window into a grassy field. Or "I am such a good person. I'm better than those filthy n*gger thieves". Not trolling - there are people who believe that stuff. Believing in self-delusion often leads to arrogance.
In order to be a better person you need to have some reference to be better of. Forgetting genocide, racism, sexism, rapings, killings, wars, etc - tossing all that aside just leaves it open to happen again. Without knowing it happened, and the consequences associated with it, there is no reason it won't just continue. This is like history 101, those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.
Honestly they need to put it back in there. Who is being offended by this word? African Americans? Let me put it this way: By leaving it in there you help propogate the story of how your people were treated during those times. How will our children know the N word offends you if we don't give the N word it's proper context?
I'm not being a troll here, I'm asking a serious question. Wouldn't we be better off for it?
All right, here's a serious answer. No, we wouldn't be better off. Excising history would not excise social injustice from the present, it would only rob us of the perspective necessary to recognize and redress it.
No. Read the outright racist newspaper accounts of WWII. What you're suggesting would require expunging the vast majority of human history.
We can start by removing "offensive" words, but where do we stop? "nigger" is offensive to some, "jap" to others, "squaw" to still others.
But it's not just words that are hurtful. We need to expunge all history of violence and pain. How about accounts of the thousands of dead bodies in Pearl Harbor, floating so thick the survivors could walk on them? How about Mogadishu? Hutu-Tutsi genocide?
The human race is the most successful predator to walk the face of the earth in 4 billion years. You can't expunge violence and pain; it is our nature. We need to deal with the fact that we are a vicious, violent species, and we need to evolve beyond that level to survive.
The fact that it makes some of us uncomfortable is proof that at least a few of us are rising above our violent nature, and that maybe there is hope for us yet.
Nothing like ret-conning the evil out of our past. I mean, it's not like we should remember history so we don't repeat it, or anything. Protect the children at all costs, their innocent eyes shouldn't ever know the word "nigger."
There was some sarcasm in there, in case you didn't notice.
I think you are misquoting that book.
My NewSouth Books edition of 1984 doesn't have that paragraph in there at all.
You know what? You spooked me there for about 20 seconds and I was about to go on a rampage until I realized the reference to NewSouth Books...
Then I scared the hell out of myself when I was that ready to accept that this was already happening.
Such a sad state is this world.
I'm just going to play the Devil's advocate here, largely because the knee jerk reaction (and a reaction that I share) is that this is censorship and censorship should be prevented at all costs.
But, what if you look at it, not as censorship, but as translation. Language changes a lot in 100 years, and the meaning of the this particular word has changed even more than the average. I suspect that many of the instances of the word 'nigger' in the original text are not in line with the racist, hateful connotations that are associated with the word today. It is possible that changing the word to something less emotionally charged would more accurately reflect, from a purely narrative, non-historical point of view, the intentions of the author.
Of course, there are doubtless instances in the book where the use is meant to be racist and emotionally charged, I can't find any logical reason why those instances should be changed. And of course the targeting of this single word for changes without changing other words and phrasing in the story to make it more easily understood for the students is clearly censorship or at least pandering.
But, what if you look at it, not as censorship, but as translation.
Obvious answer: if we're revamping Finn for "modern audiences", then why aren't we doing the same for Shakespeare (where kids are told that you have to study it in the original text or it loses meaning). You can't have it both ways.
But, what if you look at it, not as censorship, but as translation.
Because, Samuel Clemmons was a unapologetic satirist. The only people using the derogatory words were the idiots of the book, the so-called "fine and upstanding citizens of society" were fools, criminals and murderers. The fact that the words are more hideous now makes the fools of the book look even more foolish.
Mark Twain is turning in his grave...with laughter...and the fools still don't get the joke.
US history is particularly subject to ret-conning, at least in the US. That's because a lot of folks can't stomach the idea that their country was founded on the very intentional and institutionalized genocide of one group of people and the enslavement of another. Particularly those who's ancestors fought and in some cases died for those causes of genocide and slavery have a hard time dealing with it. And yet it happened, and not acknowledging it happens leads to all sorts of trouble today, over a century after the actual evil is over.
For instance, when the press interviewed attendees of the Secession Ball in South Carolina, not one of them acknowledged that the rights that South Carolina was fighting for was the right to own slaves.
That's because a lot of folks can't stomach the idea that their country was founded on the very intentional and institutionalized genocide of one group of people and the enslavement of another.
What country wasn't founded on institutionalized genocide? Almost every 'civilized' country in history had a dominant culture that killed off or otherwise suppressed a whole bunch of others, and even those that didn't (as much) only didn't due to accident of geography (say, the Japanese, not that it made them any less prone to doing the same thing to others). Heck, the Romans were much better at it than we are. I'd sooner bet on Roman Centurions vs. The Taliban than I would on the USA vs. The Taliban.
I'm not saying that your point about people not wanting to think poorly of themselves or their country is wrong, because it's quite clearly right. But I don't think that the US is any more prone to it than any other country. It's a human condition, not exclusively or even particularly American.
Going a bit OT here but I like your premise. So, What Would the Romans Have Done in Afghanistan?
Going by the historical record, I believe they would have built roads and bridges throughout the valleys in that godforsaken country, massacred one tenth of the population in "war", enslaved another tenth and demoralized the rest through torture, public mass executions and destruction of the local religious and/or political elite, followed by replacement with a friendly local satrapy that would take its orders from a Roman (pro-)consul. Then they would have split the country roughly in half, with them holding tight the reins of only the resource-rich bits and everything else left to rot in carefully nurtured anarchy, economic despondency and in-fighting. Then, the life of the new colony would begin in earnest, with rich Roman patricians in control of colonist-run resource operations such as export of valuable minerals and agricultural products.
Oh, wait...
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country....Is it not strange that the descendants of those pilgrim fathers who Crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion, have always proved themselves intolerant of the Spiritual liberty of others?
Of course a large portion of the missing quote is his attempt at a logically consistent defense of slavery, but starting shortly after the war, more and more people framed it in those terms.
Personally I think it is good that people don't focus on the slavery aspect. Can you imagine if every time someone flew a confederate flag, it meant they wanted slavery back? Instead it is often is a sign of anger at the federal government.
Outstanding excerpt from Russell Baker!
The problem is, these people aren't REALLY morons... they're just to afraid of the truth to accept the lessons in the book, the message it's sending is lost in the cacophony created by the war drums of political correctness.
Censorship is the poison of culture and of minds because it is the ultimate in controlling what we see and hear and say all in the fruitless quest to not offend ANYBODY. To make all that anyone CAN be exposed to as generic and boring as possible, to strip the color from existence in order to make it "safe".
It's an impossible task and simply drains away the richness of life, history, society and culture every time it's applied.
People demand censorship because something offends them... Well, I decry censorship because it, and those who call for it, offends ME.
Don't joke. Some folks would probably be more than happy to remove Jim entirely from the book and slap that sticker on.
Says the guy who can't write nigger.
There is no way a school is going to make children read a book with the word nigger in it. Its too much trouble for the teachers, principles, and school board. They wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. The public school system is not equipped to handle controversy.
Then again, censoring such eminent work from Twain is going to catch you some major heat too.
The lesser of the 2 evils I think is to run the book with the word n***r censored that way, so every on is placated, and the students can have a discussion about it.
There is no way a school is going to make children read a book with the word nigger in it. Its too much trouble for the teachers, principles, and school board. They wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. The public school system is not equipped to handle controversy.
Then again, censoring such eminent work from Twain is going to catch you some major heat too.
The lesser of the 2 evils I think is to run the book with the word n***r censored that way, so every on is placated, and the students can have a discussion about it.
Yeah, but how do you do you pronounce n***r when you are having the discussion? "Now class, let's discuss how Twain contrasts Huckleberry's newfound perspective with that of his boyhood friend Tom, the disparity between the two illustrated when Tom is recounting the boiler explosion on his recent trip by steamboat; 'Thankfully no one was hurt. A n-star-star-star-er was killed.'"
Also, don't know where you're from, but we sure read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in school, n-word and all. Somehow we even managed to
The lesser of the 2 evils I think is to run the book with the word n***r censored that way, so every on is placated, and the students can have a discussion about it.
I think censoring is far more evil than running the risk of offending people.
That's an awfully slippery slope, and before long you're assassinating people who disagree with a law against blasphemy [cnn.com].
Yes, that's an intentionally over-the-top example, but changing reality to fit someone's beliefs/hopes/sensitivities is just plain bad for a free society.
The NYTimes [nytimes.com] has, of course, a lot of coverage on the topic, but many, including the editorial board, make the very strong point - how is this any better? Yes, as countless first posters try to show everyday, nigger is offensive, but nothing is such a blight on American history as the institution of slavery. This censorship wrongly conflates the word to be the problem, when really the problem is the hundreds of years of oppression, hatred, and violence that has and is aimed at blacks that the word represents. Some choice editing won't change the realities of the South in the mid-1800s, to think this fools anyone is a presumption of ignorance amongst teachers, parents, and children.
> This censorship wrongly conflates the word to be the problem
That's the best argument I've heard yet. These people are targeting a word. Not the institution of slavery, not racism.
Twain used the word on purpose to sharpen his anti-racist message. Removing the word serves only to dull his attack.
This censorship is completely counter-productive.
An Alabama publisher named NewSouth Books will be editing and censoring the book so that schools and parents might provide their children the ability to study the classic without fear of properly addressing the torturous history of racism and slavery in The United States of America.
I thought that was part of the point. Oh, well, we need to protect the children from words that they are not even obligated to get offended by (it could turn them into racists, after all)! Why don't we just lock all children in some sort of bubble forever and get it over with?
Let all those kids know the book is in the public domain and they can legally download the original version with the bad words and sex scenes in it.
In case you're wondering, mentioning the sex scenes is to make sure they'll actually read the book.
My biggest problem with this is that removal of the word from the English language will not stop people from thinking the exact same thoughts. The word is a -symptom-, not a cause. As such, this is a pointless exercise that only costs money and provides no benefit for anyone.
do you know he's currently on the ny times best seller list?
http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/overview.html [nytimes.com]
how'd he do that? he wrote a book, said "wait 100 years before publishing", and they did, and here he is, selling a new book, in 2011
quite an impressive man
and did you know about twain and halley's comet?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_connection_between_Mark_twain_and_Halley's_comet [answers.com]
It is believed that Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) was born the same month as the passing of Halley's comet in November 1835. Halley's Comet passed on November 10th 1835 and Twain was born November 30th 1835. Twain vowed he would "go out"with the passing of the comet, as it passes in 75 year cycles. Halley's comet passed again April 20th 1910, Twain passed April 21st 1910.
mark twain: space alien who travels via halley's comet
With the rise of eBooks, we should be able to do this automatically to all clbuttic literature.
Anyone who butterts that this is a violation of our consbreastutional rights is overreacting.
That's a rather medireview implementation.
But this is the only good argument for perpetual copyright I've seen in a while.
If you can change 'objectionable' words at your whim and re-publish the work of an author as if it were the 'original', well, you can't know what the hell anyone ever wrote unless you kept a copy.
I'm not at all interested in reading Mark Twain censored. Next thing you know, they start in some really offensive authors, and we have nothing to rely on.
Sounds like something the high-school textbook publishers would do. Stupid. So much for literary integrity. Another publisher I can regard with a jaundiced eye.
Where I work, there are two black people adjacent to my cubicle. Both agree that this is bad. Their take is "this happened and this is how things were, what can be accomplished by denying it?"
I heartily agree. This is just as bad as going back to old movies and editing out the cigarettes or replacing the guns with walkee-talkees in E.T.
yeah, this reeks of white busy body trying to help those poor black people who can't face history.
This very act is far more insulting and racist then anything in huckleberry finn
Did they even understand huckle berry fin? it's signigance? that fact that it's one of the first work to recognize a 'nigger' as an individual and not property? that fact that it was common parlance that became impolite latter?
History doesn't need a white washing.
Uh, I agree with your conclusion, but I think you display symptoms of the exact problem you're decrying. Here, let me help you....
Our country was the first to try the grand social experiment of a democratic republic, based loosely on ideals from the ancient city-state architecture of Greece.
That would actually be the Romans. You know, the place where the word "Senate" comes from.
Our people developed an entire branch of music known as Jazz.
Only if you define "our people" as also consisting of the black people in the 1920s and 1930s - which no one in polite society would admit to at that time. Not to mention that Jazz music was pretty much frowned upon in the US when it got started.
Our people blended with, reproduced with, lived with, and learned from the Native American population that we found here.
The primary interaction that Americans had with the locals was killing them. The blending, reproducing and learning from was a small subset thereof.
From them, we learned to place a vast amount of importance on the individual and independence.
Nice story, but individualism, self-reliance and independence is already found in the religion of the original settlers: hard-core protestants who believed that success in life was a sign of closeness to god, and hard work a god-approved way of getting there.
We learned an appreciation for nature, and the resources it provides (who, before us, had a national forest preservation system?)
That would be the Germans in the 19th century. You can go back even earlier if you look into more exotic places.
Our culture includes the blending of numerous ethnic communities into a veritable melting pot of ideas and values.
It's understood that a better analogy is that of a salad bowl. Blending of ethnic communities is rare, and takes a very long time. Just look at the various "-towns" in major cities.
We have had dark times in our short history, and we will continue to have dark times as time marches on. We had eras dominated by racism. We had eras dominated by sexism. Currently we are trying to end an era dominated by sexual preference intolerance. We have had wars. We have had depressions. We have had Civil Wars where brothers killed brothers and fathers fought their sons. Yeah, we've had some dark times. We ran the Native American population into the ground. But you know what? We learned from those times.
You sure about that? Because all I see is that we're just making the same stupid mistakes again. Racial profiling a la Japanese Internment act is one large scale gun assault away from happening. A lot of people are clamoring to redo the same mistakes that lead to the Great Depression. I could go on for a while.
I'd argue that the Golden Ages where never really that golden - maybe gilded for some, but it's been a pretty brutal slog for a lot of people. Again, I agree with your conclusion. I just think you might want to update your data points a bit.
PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
... by American's greatest writer
If the can't handle "nigger" then they aren't ready to read the story.
(The following is a true anecdote that has happened to me when I was younger)
I was once asked in high school to write a short story about a man murdering an Arab in France in 1960 when there were strong racist sentiments against Arabs among the French population. The story had to be narrated from the perspective of an eye witness.
For the purpose of authenticity, I made the eye witness telling the story a French racist. I made the narrator use racist speech and express racist opinions such as referring to the Arab victim as "that dog" and expressing approval about the murder. I tried not to over-do it though, otherwise it would not have sounded natural.
The teacher asked us all to read to the entire class what we had written. When my turn came and after I was done reading I realized my classmates were just staring at me as if I had just punched someone in the face in the middle of the classroom. I expected most of them would not understand the point of the racism in my story, but I did not think they would be so stunned. I think some of them must even have thought I was actually racist.
Anyway, they were shocked... and the teacher gave me the maximum mark.
When I tell this anecdote to people, many don't understand why the narrator had to be racist. People usually tell me I had no need to make a racist narrator and what I did was wrong. I try to explain that racism was not only important in 1960 France but also a central element to the story and the murder. If I had not placed racism in my story, I would have missed an important part of the setting. But no matter how I explain it, a lot of people just don't get it. My teacher did, obviously (as the mark suggests).
Context is everything. You can't write a story set in a period of strong racism and pretend racism doesn't exist. I you want to be authentic, you need to face the facts. And if you're not authentic, your work is bad. Art in particular needs full immunity against political correctness.
But ignoring racism when authenticity requires it is one thing. It only makes your art bad.
It's a whole other thing to retroactively censor literature, particularly if it's so old it's not just considered popular culture but also historical. Now THAT is offensive.
Because when you're ashamed of your past, it's probably best to just change it. Why bother with educating people who read about your past (telling them about ways you and your people have changed) when you can just deceive them from the start?
I'll bet you're wondering what the heck one of the worst Star Trek movies ever has to do with the censoring of Huck Finn.
Well, I'll tell you.
In Star Trek V, there's a guy wandering about trying to remove everyone's "pain", and in doing so, he converts them to his particular cult because they feel so "healed" by the removal of the pain. But it's a sham.
Kirk correctly points out that "I need my pain. It makes me who I am."
And here we are as a society trying to do the same thing: remove something we consider painful. In the hope that we'll somehow be "healed". But it's a sham. We need our pain, it's what makes us what we are. It's what keeps our society in check. And as usual, the big-brother committee, in true "Brazil" fashion, has targeted a word, and not the real problem. Changing a word doesn't change race relations in the USA, nor does it excise xenophobia.
If anything it points out the ridiculousness of nanny-state-ism, just as much as Frank Gorshin's portrayal of a man who is black on the right side, who despises a man who is black on the left side. It's too bad our society learned nothing from Star Trek. Poor Gene. He tried so hard to explain. But nobody listened.
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"For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens."
Psalm 89:2
In our lives we are gifted with the beautiful ability to love and be loved. God has an unconditional and unfathomable amount of love for His children. Although He shows us this kind of love, we don't always reciprocate our love for Him and others. We are also blessed with the ability to love like God and love God as He loves us. Our gift to love and be loved is something not to be taken for granted, it is something where we should go forth and spread our love and God's love. The gift of faith, like love is given to be strengthened for God. Our faith in Him can constantly become stronger and it is with us every step of the way. He never leaves us on our own, He is always helping us even though it may not be apparent. We pray and ask God to bless us in our everyday lives.
Lord, bless us in our growth in faith and love, and help us to spread Your love. Give us the grace to grow each day, ever closer to You. Amen.
2 Sm 7:4-5, 12-14, 16, Ps 89: 2-5, 27, 29, Rom 4: 13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1: 16, 18-21, 24

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UVM Celebrates Food Day with Local Menus Across Campus, Panel Discussion
- 10-25-2012
- By Jeffrey R. Wakefield
UVM celebrated Food Day, a national event held Oct. 24 promoting local, sustainably produced food, in style: by serving an array of Vermont-grown menu items for lunch and dinner at all 12 on-campus dining facilities.
The day also featured a panel discussion on the impacts of purchasing local food with panelists from the Intervale Center, Black River Produce, Mad River Food Hub, Vermont Food Venture Center, Sunrise Orchards and Sodexo.
UVM served more than 650 pounds of Vermont meat and vegetables alone. In all, about 15 suppliers throughout the state were represented, ranging from Putney Pasta in Brattleboro to Sugarman maple syrup in Hardwick. Menu choices ranged from orange and fennel porchetta with Vermont chevre polenta and roasted baby turnips at Brennan's Pub to Vermont Highland Cattle Company meatloaf with Grafton smoked cheddar and gravy roasted rutabaga, mashed potatoes and local squash at Harris Millis.
UVM's version of Food Day was designed to raise awareness among students of the university's year-round commitment to local growers, as well as to celebrate and promote the benefits of local food, according to Caylin McKee, sustainability coordinator for University Dining Services, which spearheaded Food Day at UVM in partnership with the Real Food Working Group and Slow Food UVM. McKee graduated from UVM with a degree in environmental studies in May.
"It's bringing awareness to the students about the initiatives we have, because sometime they aren't seen," she said. "It's hard to label where the carrots in the soups are coming from every day, and tell people that we actually do have a significant amount of real food on campus. So it's to raise awareness and to have a celebration. It's the Earth Day equivalent for real food."
Cara D'Anello, a first-year dietetics major, who ate a lunch of creamy butternut squash and apple soup made with Vermont ingredients at the Marché, resonated with the cause. Local food is "basically the only thing I can trust because you don't know where your other food is coming from," she said. "And it just feels like you're closer to the community when you're eating local food."
Last spring UVM became only the fifth school in the country to sign on to the Real Food Challenge, committing to serve 20 percent "real food" – defined as locally grown, fair trade, of low environmental impact and/or humanely produced – by 2020. Currently, between nine and 12 percent of the food UVM serves is "real," depending on the season and semester.
Food Day is a nationwide event that celebrates the movement for more sustainable, healthy and affordable food. Communities around the country host events to celebrate progress that has been made in the food system, as well as to discuss other changes that can be made to continue moving forward. The goal of Food Day is to promote ways in which food is produced with care for the environment, animals and the people who grow, harvest and serve it.


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Reading claimed a first away win of the season at Newcastle, Loic Remy scored on his QPR debut and Wigan dropped into the bottom three.
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Reading claimed a first away win of the season at Newcastle United and Loic Remy scored on his Queens Park Rangers debut against West Ham United.
Wigan Athletic slipped into the drop zone after losing at home to Sunderland as Norwich City shipped five goals against Liverpool for the second time this season before Aston Villa moved out of the bottom three after a draw at West Bromwich Albion.
Champions Manchester City picked up three points at home against Fulham and Swansea City proved too strong for Stoke City in South Wales.
Adam Le Fondre scored twice in the space of six second-half minutes as Reading came from behind to win 2-1 at St James' Park and pile the pressure on Newcastle boss Alan Pardew.
Newcastle gained the initiative 10 minutes before half-time when Yohan Cabaye marked his first start for over two months by curling an excellent free-kick over the wall and into the top corner.
Reading equalised in unconventional circumstances on 71 minutes when Jimmy Kebe's low cross was turned in by what appeared to be Le Fondre's midriff.
The game was completely turned on its head six minutes later when Le Fondre finished much more confidently after Hope Akpan had mis-hit his shot, with the goal lifting Reading up to 17th, albeit potentially for just a couple of hours.
Record signing Remy was denied a dream debut for Queens Park Rangers by a player Harry Redknapp was also keen to sign as Joe Cole earned West Ham United a 1-1 draw at Upton Park.
Only 14 minutes were on the clock when Remy started to repay QPR's investment as he finished coolly past Jussi Jaaskelainen after being sent clear by Adel Taarabt's incisive pass.
West Ham felt they should have had a penalty on the half-hour when Marouane Chamakh was held by Clint Hill, but the home side did draw level midway through the second half when Joe Cole had a simple finish after Julio Cesar pushed out Carlton Cole's header.
Steven Fletcher reached double figures for the season for Sunderland by scoring a brace in a 3-2 win at Wigan which dumps Roberto Martinez's side into the bottom three.
The Black Cats had endured a miserable start to the game after falling behind on four minutes when David Vaughan turned Ronnie Stam's scuffed shot beyond his own keeper.
But the visitors quickly recovered and drew level on 17 minutes through Craig Gardner's penalty after James McCarthy's raised arm had blocked Sebastian Larsson's free-kick.
Sunderland were soon in the ascendancy and went ahead three minutes later when Fletcher finished emphatically at the second attempt after his initial header from Alfred N'Diaye's cross was blocked.
Fletcher scored his second of the afternoon, and 10th for Sunderland, just three minutes before half-time with another thumping finish after the Scot had been teed up by Adam Johnson.
Wigan gave themselves hope with 11 minutes to go when Shaun Maloney's cross to the far post was headed home by Angelo Henriquez for the on-loan forward's first goal in English football.
A point was enough to lift Aston Villa out of the relegation places despite Paul Lambert's side throwing away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at West Brom.
Christian Benteke's powerful drive gave Villa the lead on 12 minutes and the advantage was increased through Gabriel Agbonlahor's low finish on 31 minutes.
However, the Baggies pulled a goal back four minutes into the second half when Chris Brunt's side-foot from 25 yards clipped the post on its way in to the net.
And, after wasting a couple of good opportunities, Peter Odemwingie earned West Brom a point with seven minutes to go when he hooked home Gareth McAuley's knock-down from a corner.
Manchester City closed to within four points of leaders Manchester United after David Silva scored a goal in each half in a routine 2-0 home win over Fulham.
City enjoyed a flying start by taking the lead after just two minutes when David Silva was presented with a simple finish after Mark Schwarzer could only parry Edin Dzeko's well-struck shot.
Silva doubled the champions' advantage on 69 minutes with a delightful dinked finish over Schwarzer after Carlos Tevez's clever flick had played the Spaniard into the box.
Luis Suarez scored against Norwich again and Daniel Sturridge was on target for the third game in a row as Liverpool crushed Chris Hughton's side 5-0 at Anfield.
Liverpool took the lead on 26 minutes when the ball broke to Jordan Henderson on the edge of the box and the midfielder smashed a superb volley beyond Mark Bunn.
It was 2-0 just 10 minutes later when Sturridge's clever dummy from Lucas' pass sent Suarez through on goal and the Uruguayan converted the chance for his 16th Premier League goal of the season.
Sturridge continued his fine start to his Liverpool career by scoring the third goal on 59 minutes, tapping home from close range after Stewart Downing had teased a ball across the face of goal.
Captain Steven Gerrard drove home the fourth foal on 66 minutes and the day got worse for Norwich on 74 minutes when Ryan Bennett turned Raheem Sterling's shot into his own goal after the Liverpool winger had beaten Michael Turner to the ball.
Swansea warmed up for next week's Capital One Cup semi-final with Chelsea with a 3-1 victory over Stoke at the Liberty Stadium.
The hosts had been the better of the two sides in the first half and got their reward four minutes after the interval when Ben Davies finished confidently after breaking forward from left-back.
Jonathan De Guzman scored his first of the game on 57 minutes when the on-loan midfielder whipped a sumptuous free-kick over the wall and into the top corner.
And De Guzman's second with 10 minutes to go was equally eye-catching as he finished past Asmir Begovic after being played in by a delicious touch from Danny Graham.
The only bright spot for Stoke came in the final minute when Michael Owen scored his first goal for the club, the substitute glancing home Cameron Jerome's cross.


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The European Commission today published an action plan for a fairer corporate tax system in the European Union.
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Fighting inequality is not just an issue of fairness but an economic necessity. That's not Oxfam speaking, but the International Monetary Fund today.
UN climate talks avoid crunch issues, political direction needed
Negotiators avoided a show-down over crunch issues like finance and increasing near term emissions cuts, but they are only delaying the inevitable. A clearer mandate from Heads of State and ministers is needed to ignite the talks and ensure key questions are answered.
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The G7 have made a stuttering start on climate but have largely neglected the plight of people living in poverty, said Oxfam at the close of the annual leaders' summit in Germany today.
Japan's proposed emissions reduction targets fall well short at the G7
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With the number of Iraqis forced to flee their homes tripling in the last year to nearly 3 million, the launch of the new UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Iraq in the European Parliament today is a crucial opportunity for donor governments to both fund the aid effort and begin to address the underlying causes of the conflict
East Africa Heads of State must put vulnerable people of Burundi first
East African heads of state are meeting in the Tanzanian capital Dar Es Salaam on May 30-31 to discuss resolutions to the on-going conflict in Burundi.
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A gala dinner at Wimmera Events Centre at Longerenong on Saturday night was a highlight of Horsham College centenary celebrations across the weekend.
College teacher and former student Brandi Galpin said the event, which celebrated music and students through the ages, was huge.
"We had 450 people at the dinner and the night went fabulously well, with students from the 1930s and `40s, through to now represented," she said.
"The waiting staff were current college students dressed in old school uniforms and we had 47 students from years seven through to VCE performing songs through the eras.
"Some were performing for the first time, while others were old pros, like the VCE ensemble.
"It was a huge event, but it was absolutely worth it to hear those cries of 'oh, it is you'."
Miss Galpin said when the first bus pulled up to take people back to Horsham at 10.30pm, nobody wanted to leave.
"I thought some of the older people might want to go home, but no-one left," she said.
"It was a really pleasant, positive and enjoyable night and people really appreciated the opportunity to catch up and see some of the memorabilia on display."
Miss Galpin said students performed five songs from each decade of the school's life, up until the 1950s.
"We performed 10 songs for each decade after that," she said.
"I had so many compliments about the selection of music and the way the students conducted themselves they did themselves, and me, proud."


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The defensive staff for the Baltimore Ravens certainly celebrated along with the rest of the organization after upsetting the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship on Sunday night.
The defensive staff for the Baltimore Ravens certainly celebrated along with the rest of the organization after upsetting the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship on Sunday night.
On Monday morning, they were no doubt breaking down game film, looking at how the San Francisco 49ers run the read option out of the Pistol formation and not having as much fun.
They got to see how the Packers keyed on Frank Gore only to see quarterback Colin Kaepernick decide at the last millisecond and take off. They got to see how the Falcons determined that Kaepernick was not going to beat them with his legs only to see Gore and LaMichael James get the handoffs and carve out big gains on inside runs. The fact that the 6-4, 230-pound Kaepernick is as swift as a defensive back and can throw lasers from the pocket only makes it worse — or better if you like the 49ers.
The 49ers have run it so well lately that it's almost like having an extra player on offense.
"That's exactly right," said West Davidson coach Dale Barnes, who's had to scheme against plenty of spread offenses based on the read option.
There's nothing new about the read option. It's been around the college and high school game for quite a while. Conventional thinking in the NFL was that the option wouldn't work because the quarterback would end up getting hurt.
Thomasville, coached then by Benjie Brown, started running the shotgun spread in 2003 with Bryan Shore at quarterback. The Bulldogs had some success with it and then really got some mileage out of it when 6-5 E.J. Abrams-Ward was running it.
Lately, it has taken off in the NFL with Cam Newton, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin III.
The pistol formation, created by University of Nevada coach Chris Ault, is different. In the shotgun spread, the quarterback lines up seven yards behind the quarterback with the running back beside him. In the pistol, the quarterback is closer to the line of scrimmage and the running back is behind him. Kaepernick flourished in it at Nevada.
County football fans who see it on TV might notice that it looks familiar. When Chris Deal coached at Lexington, he used a formation called the Pistol-T in which a second running back is behind the quarterback.
"It's very similar," Barnes said.
Lexington's version was more run-oriented and that makes sense because successful, sophisticated passing attacks are not the norm in high school football. The scheme really took flight when freshman running back Marquez Grayson was promoted to the varsity for the playoffs. The Yellow Jackets won three in a row in the playoffs before losing in the 2-A semifinals to Mountain Heritage. There was to be no encore as Deal departed for Patton after the season.
Football is like a big chess match with coordinators on one side of the ball trying to counter what the other is doing. Kaepernick carved up the Packers for an NFL-record 181 yards rushing and the Falcons were prepared to stop him Sunday. But the initiative was still with the offense, Kaepernick read what the Falcons were doing and only made two runs.
"The Falcons had two people on him, one to the outside and one behind that guy," Barnes said. "That's why Gore got free."
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said in an interview recently that the NFL was cyclical and that defenses will catch up to it. That could happen in the Super Bowl — or it could be years down the road.
Right now, the read option is the big thing. Who knows? Maybe Barnes could install it at West. Uh, no. Not going to happen. Three yards and a cloud of dust will do just fine for the Green Dragons.
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BLACKSBURG - Fans of Virginia Tech Athletics now have another way to stay up-to-date with the Hokies with the launch of an official athletic board on Pinterest in conjunction with hokiesports.com.
If you're already on Pinterest, simply search for the "Virginia Tech Hokies Athletics" board or go to http://pinterest.com/hokiesports/ and begin following. Already, boards are set up for Promotions & Contests, Virginia Tech Football, Hokie Kids' Club, Baby Hokies, Nike Gear, Sport Posters, Tailgating, Campus Life, Hokies Respect, Virginia Tech Pets, DIY VT Crafts, Hokies & Holidays and much more.
Q: What is Pinterest?
A: Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard. It lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes and organize their favorite recipes. Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. To get started, request an invite.
Q: What can I do with Pinterest?
A: Redecorate your Home! Plan a Wedding! Find your Style! Save your Inspirations! Save Your Recipes! The Virginia Tech Athletics board will be a place to get the first scoop on marketing events and giveaways, as well as a place to share pictures from events and anything Hokie-related like crafts and projects.
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Q: How do I get started?
A: First things first, you must requested an invite. Once approved, you can get all the help you need here.
Pinterest is the latest tool in the social media world adapted by the Athletics Department, joining Facebook and Twitter. You can find all of Tech's social media sites here.
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1. Sprinkle cooked catfish with Cajun seasoning.
2. Combine catfish, bell peppers, celery, onion, mayonnaise, hot sauce, and salt and pepper in bowl; mix well.
3. Place lettuce leaf and tomato slice in each pita half; spoon in catfish salad.
Serves 4
Counting carbs? Forget the pita, and simply serve
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you mean like sony batteries?
The only reason tobacco is illegal is cause back in the early 21st century the battery industry stepped in to prevent competition. They ran smear campaigns to try to make tobacco use look immoral and -fffffffff- unhealthy.
There's always more money in finding efficient ways to kill people than to find efficient ways to make everyone's lives better.
Luckily some of that stuff trickles down and we use it for the latter anyway.
I agree with your post title. I used to be one of those soldiers, too. And I never got to benefit from much of the tech that was 'for me' in the end --- come to find out much of the spending is just a cash handout to Gov contractors that reinvest part of it to political campaigns... who knew? lol.
I worked (briefly) in military research. Back then, they considered 20 years to be a good length of time from original idea to battlefield deployment. The problem was that this applied universally. For a new design of jet engine, it made sense - you need a lot of testing to even get to the prototype stage, and then mass production takes even longer. Unfortunately, for integrated circuits, it's insane. It means that you had state of the art mechanical systems controlled by a Z80. You get the next-gener
I can see why your work was brief.
Off thr shefl solution almost never work under military conditions.
They have a goal to fill. You fill it and it serves it's purpose. The fact that ti isn't the latest chip does not matter.
Why must every technology always be for soldiers? Because who else would pay $500 for a hi-tech toilet seat.
And you should be glad of that. For instance, if it weren't for military [wikipedia.org] applications [wikipedia.org] civilian jet transport would have come much later than it did. The very first [wikipedia.org] jet plane designed primarily for civilian service was a failure suffering from severe design flaws.
If you are going to spend a shitload of money on the military, at least let them iron out the flaws in new technology.
I could see this being better for the environment by the fact that the batteries are grown (?) however doesn't batteries woven into clothing come with a risk of spontaneous combustion?
The article is very light on details. I'm wondering how they "spray" the batteries on...
Probably just spray a patch of anode and a patch of cathode somewhere else and run some wires. It might be useful for charging very low power devices like aimpoint sights.
There's a lot more to worry about here - viruses that produce electronic components? That grow in crops? What happens if these things get out and infect other plants? What happens when (not if) they mutate?
I hope this whole thing is thought all the way through before it goes to production. Although the chances are this is pretty much pie in the sky anyway.
The silicon-based lithium ion battery anode showed a nearly 10-fold increase in capacity over existing graphite anodes, said Culver.
Capacity of what? So vague. Does this translate to batteries having 1000% of the present capabilities? Per what? cm2? oz? what kind of units are we talking here? Or are we just looking at the numbers game?
Someone misposted the Obligatory XKCD in the other story when it belongs in this one!
http://xkcd.com/350/ [xkcd.com]
Wow, what could possibly go wrong?
From the article (if you were wondering): "The MIT and Maryland scientists used two viruses that are harmless to humans."
Clothing? CLOTHING?
How about putting a whole bunch of them in a box. Then put this box in a car. Hook up electric motor in car to box.
Maybe? Please? Fucking marketing dweebs.
Seriously? Flamebait?
A ten-fold increase in efficiency, and all they can think of for applications is clothing? A ten-fold increase in automotive battery efficiency would push electric cars into the realm of "practical-for-everyday-use-and-beyond". A shirt that might hold a few phonecalls worth of juice, that might not even survive a wash cycle? C'mon people, what ever happened to priorities?
Sounds like someone didn't like their article getting nit-picked.
Seriously? Flamebait?
A ten-fold increase in efficiency, and all they can think of for applications is clothing?
Lightweight power cells are something the military has wanted for a long time. The less weight a soldier has to carry, the better. And they mention powering UAVs with this technology as well; a civilian application can't be far behind.
As for making an electric car practical, it needs to be affordable too. If this technology doesn't drop the price of an electric car, many people won't be able to afford one regardless of how practical it is.
A ten-fold increase in efficiency, and all they can think of for applications is clothing? A ten-fold increase in automotive battery efficiency would push electric cars into the realm of "practical-for-everyday-use-and-beyond".
I don't think adding more range to electric cars is going to solve people's range anxiety. I was speaking with a guy who lives on a tiny island about electric cars, he said he wouldn't buy one, because what do you do if you run out of charge? Call a tow truck? I pointed out that he could drive across the entire island over 10 times on a single charge and that it would fully recharge overnight, so if he only sleeps at home once a week he'll still never run out of charge. But no, it's still too risky he says.
how is that better then powering it with you pant's when you sit in the car?
Seriously, it would imply that we are talking low power. Enough to charge a smart phone.
Alright men, this is what you've trained for
Yeah, but that black mana isn't going to do them much good even after they've got spray-on batteries on the field. I'll just use my Greater Sony Instant and completely disrupt the combo.
I want my batteries nicotine free to avoid supporting the tobacco lobby.
And I want my nicotine battery-free to avoid supporting the battery lobby.
Hey what if these batteries became so popular that they caused tobacco supplies to dwindle? Cigarette prices would skyrocket ($20 per cell phone battery is acceptable, $7 per cigarette not so much), nicotine addicts would have to grow their own...maybe once the media gets a good view of how powerful nicotine addiction is, people would start to think about which drugs should and shouldn't be illegal.
You're right Monica Lewinsky could have been electrocuted.
Batteries made of disease and tobacco?
You only need to add alcohol to have a trifecta of sins. The power I imagine comes straight from the Devil?
Sure yeah they could make hybrid fuel cell batteries to take advantage of some alcohol too. And then they could be built by Siemens and put into Apple devices. The strange red glow coming from the battery could provide some cool case lighting. You'd just need to add some kind of transparent sound insulation to muffle the howls of the damned.
But where are the hookers and blackjack?
This is what will power the WereCar. which would make it " the most evil propulsion system ever conceived!"
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Quack and Beaver Boy play in the snow. Chirp discovers a pink cherry orchard, but then she makes the mistake of telling Quack. Pocoyo: Magical Watering Can - Pocoyo gives the last drop of water from his watering can to his friends instead of using it to water his musical flowers.
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UNION — Union County deputies seized 254 gallons of moonshine and tens of thousands of dollars Tuesday at a home shared by an 89-year-old man and his son.
UNION — Union County deputies seized 254 gallons of moonshine and tens of thousands of dollars Tuesday at a home shared by an 89-year-old man and his son.
Yellow jackets buzzed around the bed of a pickup truck parked near the Union County Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon — attracted to the sweet aroma wafting from the moonshine in dozens of plastic gallon jugs in the bed of the pickup.
During a news conference, Union County Sheriff David Taylor said Manuel Grady "Preach" Harris, 89, and his son, James Wallace Harris, 51, both of 208 Pasture Drive, Union, have been charged with possession of illegal liquor.
Taylor wouldn't go into detail, but said officers had probable cause to obtain a search warrant for the Harris home. Both men were at home at the time and were arrested without incident.
Three gallons of moonshine were found in the refrigerator. Another 54 gallons were recovered from a storage room in the carport, and 197 gallons were found inside a cattle barn on the property.
Deputies also seized about $40,000 in cash from inside the home.
No weapons were found at the house, and where the moonshine was produced remains a mystery, as no still was found on the property, Taylor said. Deputies are still investigating whether the Harrises are part of a distribution network for the illegal liquor.
"Some moonshiners don't fool with (producing) it, they just sell it," Taylor said.
The gallon jugs can sell for between $25 to $30 each.
Taylor said James Harris is facing a first-offense charge, while his father is facing a second-offense charge. A first offense carries a $600 fine or six months in prison. A second offense carries a $1,500 fine and up to a year in prison.
According to the State Law Enforcement Division, Manuel Harris was arrested twice in 1977 on several liquor-related charges, including selling beer and liquor without a license. In 1991, he was convicted of trafficking marijuana and sentenced to a year in prison.
James Harris has a criminal record dating back to 1980, according to SLED. He has been convicted of numerous driving charges over the years, including driving under the influence and driving under suspension.
James Harris and Manuel Harris remained at the Union County Jail on Tuesday awaiting bond hearings.


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I have noticed that even after many years of playing, it can be fun to get together with some folks for a more "free-form" style of jamming than most of us do nowadays. I like to do this with some of my "developing" students, so they can hear just what I do over their playing, and to see if some of that "good stuff" rubs off a little, and they get to train and tune their "ear" more. Jamming should be purely experimental and improvisational anyway, and it's such a good way to create "structure" out of what is really unstructured. It also helps to "ground" a player who may be just a little too "free form" within their playing, and who needs a better sense of structure and "song-like" situations to handle.
But even once you've gotten a lot of your style, technique and experience, it's still nice to go back and visit the very concept of "jamming" so as to keep given yourself new and fresh ideas, and to literally stretch your abilities even more. I know that when I find myself in a jam I naturally find myself gravitating to either totally new territory, or at least long ago familiar territory that I haven't used in a long time! This is so refreshing, and it makes you realize sometimes just how much you've somewhat forgotten along the way. Years and years of very rigid studio work can make for a musician who may even be losing interest little by little, and there's nothing like a good jam, with good players, to really spark some new life and ideas into one's playing. This evidenced in many areas of the industry, where it's so crucial that players keep up their "chops." Perhaps nowhere is it more apparent these days than the musical hotbed of Nashville, where all those great pickers who may be doing studio work in the daytime, then let loose in the night, honing their jazz chops when they may have been playing country licks all day, or just simply further stretching and refining their playing in general.
It's always a thrill to see players of this kind of caliber "stretching out" with their improvisations and you can literally watch them grow before your eyes! This is something I readily encourage all my students to do as well, and I always do some real nice personal jamming with them as a part of their lessons. Of course, I wait till the student is ready for this kind of thing, which can be rather intimidating to them, and then and only then, will the jamming aspect of the lesson really take hold and have adequate meaning to them. Still, I might suddenly "throw" something at them just to keep them on their toes, and to basically "test" where their ear and abilities are at that moment in time.
So, I certainly would recommend seeking out good jams wherever you can find them, and please try to always take away something positive from them……the "good" side of a jam is always there for the taking! So experiment, explore and create, you can't help but get better!


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(NBC News) Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling more than 75,000 pounds of chicken nugget products that may be contaminated with "extraneous materials," officials announced Friday.
Officials say consumer complaints alerted them to small pieces of plastic found in some of the company's frozen, fully cooked chicken nugget products. The problem was traced to a product scraper inside a blending machine at a Sedalia, Mo. plant, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The company said one of the products has been sold at Sam's Club stores nationwide since January.
Tyson Foods Inc. said the company received reports of minor oral injury associated with consumption of some of the recalled products.
The recall includes the following items:
•5-lb. bags of "Tyson Fully Cooked White Meat Chicken Nuggets – 16142-928" with a "Best if Used By" date of "Jan 26 2015" or Feb 16 2015." The manufacturer codes "0264SDL0315 through 19" and "0474SDL0311 through 14" can also be found on the bags.
•20-lb. bulk packs of "Spare Time Fully Cooked Nugget-Shaped Chicken Breast Pattie Fritters w/Rib Meat – 16142-861" with identifying case codes of "0264SDL0315 through 19" and "0474SDL0311 through 14."
The product bags bear the establishment number "P-13556."
Consumers with questions about the recall should contact Tyson Foods Consumer Services at (866) 328-3156.


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Paper is still the most common way of transmitting architectural information and ideas. From initial sketches to the iterative design process, from presentation to white prints, it is the drawing on paper that is critiqued, approved, and followed. Architects need paper plans to get client approval or obtain a building permit. Contractors, engineers, and builders need a paper plan from which to work. Architectural drawings (floor plans, sectionals, and elevations) might be perplexing to someone who doesn't know how to "read" them, but with a 3-D representational scale model, no translation is necessary.
As a student at the Boston Architectural College, Russell is learning the essential skills of architectural drawing and model making. Paper is used to make massing models. These rough study models can be made quickly and are an efficient tool for understanding how a design will occupy real space. Paper can also be easily modified to represent different types of building materials, e.g., flat paper for façade; stacked, compressed paper for cement; and folded paper for clapboard siding. In today's digital world, with access to computer-aided-design (CAD), why do you think architects still build models out of paper?


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A social media hoax related to a summer horror movie may have influenced a few acts of vandalism last weekend in Rock Hill, police say.
Police on Monday found three cases of the word "Purge" spray-painted in blue on property on Ebenezer Road. Authorities say the vandalism caused at least $900 worth of damage, according to the Rock Hill Police Department.
In one case, a 1997 Ford F-150 was tagged on the passenger's side door, while parked at an interior design business. The two other cases involved vandalism at an eye care business and a real estate company.
In another incident not reported to police, a wooden pole in the Tall Oak Villas neighborhood was vandalized with the word "Purge."
Police suspect the vandalism cases occurred between Friday night and Monday morning. Officers were aware of talks of a prank circulating on Facebook and Twitter, related to "The Purge" movie, said police spokesman Mark Bollinger.
The social media hoax did not result in violence, Bollinger said.


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CRESTED BUTTE -- Like most of the competitors at last weekend's Subaru Freeride Series event, Conor Pelton got his start chasing gates.
Pelton, who won the men's division of the two-day extreme skiing competition, grew up in Michigan and was an alpine skier in his youth. But the sport's repetitive nature grew boring for the now-24-year-old, and he switched over to free skiing events in college.
"It's just more fun to do something that's basically the same as what you do when you go skiing with friends," said Pelton, who attributed his success at Crested Butte Mountain Resort to "having fun, linking tricks and keeping it smooth."
Western State College team member Francesca Pavillard-Cain won the women's event, which was a four-star qualifier. That meant the top four men and top three women earned promotion to the Freeride World Tour, which this season had stops in Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland, Canada and California.
Extreme skiing competitors plunge down highly technical terrain, trying to impress a panel of four judges who grade on difficulty of line choice, control, fluidity, technique, style and, of course, air time. The Crested Butte event was spread over two days and included a run apiece on double-black-diamond-rated Headwall and Staircase, which are both littered with rock drops, small cliffs and giant moguls.
High-speed turns, back flips, tip and tail grabs, 360 spins, big air and lots of punishing crashes highlighted the competition. No one was badly injured, but several entrants went for extended face-first slides down the precipitously steep runs after being ejected from their ski bindings by hard or off-balance landings. Non-crash-marred runs lasted no more than 90 seconds.
Dealing with -- or blocking out -- fear is key to success.
"The mental game is a little different for everyone," said Sasha Dingle, a 25-year-old former alpine ski racer from Bozeman, Mont., who was third in the women's event. "I do daily meditation practice. It helps me block out the fear and even the fact that it's a competition at all. Right before the start, I am breathing and trying to clear my mind to get rid of the anxiety. But once you push out of the start gate, your body knows what to do."
That innate knowledge typically derives from a mix of free skiing and more traditional training techniques.
"When competition season is coming around, I'll purposely go out and ski as fast as I can and do some (jumps) for practice," said another former ski racer, 18-year-old Perry Martin from Salt Lake City, Utah, who finished seventh. "I also do lots of dry-land training like CrossFit, lifting weights and riding bikes."
Of course, not everyone uses the same preparatory methods. On the first morning of the event, before competition started, several competitors were spotted smoking cigarettes. Another took a swig from a whiskey bottle.
"Everybody does their own thing, I guess," said John Spencer, 44, of Breckenridge, who was competing in his first extreme skiing event and did not advance out of the semifinals. "I guess some of these guys can get away with a little more. Personally, I try to get in the gym as much as I can and ride the bike a lot. But in the end, it's all about who can lay it down when it counts."
For those who succeed, the rewards are primarily ceremonial. The top men's finisher walked away with a belt buckle, a large bottle of beer and $2,000. Third-placed Dingle took home $1,000, plus a buckle and a beer.
"There's not a lot of money in it," she said. "Most of what we get comes from sponsors, and I think just about everybody here either works really hard in the summer so they can take the winter off, or they find a flexible job. For most of us, it's about passion, not getting rich and famous."


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Hey SEOs. You know when you've had that client for a year, the really niche one who deals in handling data for logistics companies specialising in shipping dog food, but only for Rottweilers? You're not doing badly, but you're losing inspiration.
"Press releases have been done to death, and the old trick of incorporating anchor text into an article and distributing it as widely as possible is akin to article marketing, and it doesn't work"


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At The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six young people overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, struggle to find their place in the world in this hilarious musical comedy. Despite lofty parental expectations, six-syllable words, and the pangs of puberty, these six kids with a worship of words discover how to spell S-U-C-C-E-S-S as they learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.
Directed by Robert Hiers, this show features Arts Center favorites Mike Reed, Michael McGee, David Winton, Laurie Burger, and Matthew Hunter. Rounding out this talented cast are Diane Bearden-Enright, Tricia Hiers, Marisa Davila, and Josh Issac.
"Holiday dinner theatre shows have become annual events for many area businesses and organizations," states Donald Fann, executive director of the Arts Center. "The number of available dates is limited and they run out quickly so we urge our patrons to make reservations early for good selection of dates and tables."
Performance dates are Dec. 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, & 22. Tickets are $28 per person and include dinner, drink, dessert and the show. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is sponsored by Smith Funeral Home. Performances: For Friday and Saturday performances, dinner starts at 6:30PM with the show beginning at 7:30pm. For Sunday performances, dinner starts at 1:00PM and the show begins at 2:00PM.
To make reservations call 615-563-2787 or online at http://www.artscenterofcc.com/The25thAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee.html
The Arts Center is located on 1424 John Bragg Highway, just west of the town of Woodbury, approximately 20 minutes from Murfreesboro, Manchester, and McMinnville and one hour southeast of Nashville. Office hours are 10:00a.m. to 4:00p.m., Monday through Saturday. For reservations or ticket information please call 615-563-(ARTS) 2787 or 1-800-235-9073. Check out our web site at www.artscenterofcc.com.
Founded in 1990, the award-winning Arts Center of Cannon County is a unique model for rural arts organizations. Situated in an under-served rural area in a town of 2,000 and a county of 12,000, The Arts Center annually attracts more than 40,000 visitors from a region covering over a 100-mile radius. Drawing on the blue-collar roots of its community, the organization focuses on self-sufficiency, fiscal responsibility and social entrepreneurship. The Arts Center is partially funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Southern Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts.


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The President, as part of the Superconductivity Action Plan, shall establish a program of international cooperation in the conduct of fundamental and basic research on superconducting materials. Such program of international cooperation shall include the exchange of basic information and data, as well as the development of international standards for the use and application of superconducting materials.
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E45 is one of those British staple health and beauty names, like Savlon, or Bonjela or Sudocreme.
Whenever you tell someone (a normal person, not a beauty blogger!) that you have dry skin they always go "Have you put E45 on it?" as if you haven't already thought of using it! It reminds of a friend I had a few years ago who was a internet newbie, so every day she'd find a new website.
I had been a hardcore internet user for years by then so I didn't mind when she started telling me about an amazing new site she found (that I should really try out) called imdb.com for looking up films, or a site called eBay.com that you could buy used things from – I had to sit there and go, "Really? That's amazing."
My point is this; there's no point recommending E45. We know.
Ah – but something new and quite different from the usual sensible looking E45 is this Endless Moisture Radiance Lotion:
Clearly trying to move away from the medicinal looking cabinets and next to the likes of Dove, E45 have made a cream (I keep calling it a cream then a lotion, let's call it a crea-tion) that is more fashionable and has a slightly glowy finish.
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Its unique formulation contains a complex of natural lipid and glycerine that work with your skin to replenish lost moisture & then build and maintain hydration in the skin from morning till evening.
E45 Endless Moisture Radiance body lotion is now enriched with radiance boosters to give your skin a naturally radiant glow.
Well…There are some clear differences to the normal E45 cream which is thicker and quite plain. This one is it's lighter, easier to use, dolled up sister. She's not quite Katie Price, but she's been dabbling with the make up cabinet.
This is not a super glowy product, in that you don't end up with sparkles everywhere – it's quite sheer, the result is natural but I guess there is a slight perky glow to the skin:
I guess I like this. I've never been that into 'glow' products because my skin gets itchy easily so I liked this on my arms I wouldn't use it too liberally every day because I wouldn't like to irritate my skin. I prefer something plainer for every day application.
Having said that I totally get why E45 would launch more of a mainstream moisturiser and I think most people would be happy with this. It's hydrating, lightweight and smells quite nice so it's a worthy choice.
It's £4.49 in Boots, I am sure they sell it in Superdrug and on various online outlets too.


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Oct. 23, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - The University of Massachusetts Boston women's volleyball team was ranked second in the first poll released this season by the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Committee for the New England Region.
The poll consists for the top eight teams in the region. This isn't the first time this season that the Beacons have been recognized in a regional poll, having been ranked first in each of the first three weeks of the campaign in the New England Women's Volleyball Association Division III Coaches Poll. UMass Boston was ranked second in the fourth week and has been ranked third in each of the last two week's surveys. The Beacons have also received attention in the national Division III poll as well, receiving votes in the American Volleyball Coaches Association Poll with nine, 10, seven and six votes, respectively in four successful weeks from September 15 to October 6.
UMass Boston's appearance in the "Others receiving votes" portion of the national poll marks the first time the program has ever been recognized in such a poll.
The Beacons have currently won nine straight matches and 22 of their last 24 to compile a 22-4 record on the season to match the best start in school history after 26 matches. UMass Boston's only losses are to Pomona-Pitzer College, University of La Verne, which was ranked number three in the nation at the time, Tufts University, which is ranked first in New England, and Endicott College. The Beacons defeated Tufts earlier in the season to hand it one of its two losses and Williams College, which was ranked 25th in the nation at the time and is currently ranked third in the region. UMass Boston also boasts victories over regionally ranked MIT (6th NCAA/5th NEWVA) and Trinity College (14th NEWVA).
The Beacons strung together a school-record streak of 13 straight victories earlier this season and have beaten 10 schools they had never defeated before.
UMass Boston is led by senior outside hitter Kate McWhorter (Bakersfield, CA), who was named to the AVCA New England All-Region Honorable Mention team last year, following a season that saw her selected as the Little East Conference Offensive Player of the Year. She has already been named the LEC Player of the Week this year and ranks second in the league with 3.83 kills per set with a .380 hitting percentage to place third among conference leaders. Freshman middle hitter Shannon Thompson (Moorpark, CA) has also been a key to the Beacons' success this season as the league's top rookie with five Rookie of the Week awards already to her credit. She stands fourth among conference leaders with 3.32 kills per set and a .360 hitting mark, while leading the LEC with 0.73 aces per game. Sophomore setter Cassy Hanneman (Denver, CO) has become one of the premier playmakers in the conference after being named the LEC Rookie of the Year last season. She currently ranks third in the league with 9.56 assists per set, despite battling injuries all season and became the school's all-time leader in career assists on September 15 at Suffolk University.
UMass Boston will be in action again on Saturday, October 24 when it hosts a Little East Conference tri-match, taking on University of Massachusetts Dartmouth at 12:00 p.m. and Plymouth State University at 4:00 p.m. The Beacons are currently 3-0 in league play, while Plymouth State owns a 5-0 mark as the last two undefeated teams in conference play.