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Memphis-based AV Artistry, which has opened a new design studio that showcases its ability to do everything from basic entertainment system installations to helping outfit the most high-tech of man caves, knows its customer base well.
AV Artistry co-owner Brad Parsley, right, and sales representative Lamar Gibson help the company keep closely tuned to its customer base.
A grand opening held a few days ago for the new studio, in fact, was a chance to prove it.
Many of the projects undertaken by the company – which helps outfit homes and businesses with high-end entertainment and technology solutions, among other services – are for clients who want a better sports-watching experience.
The new studio, at 7750 Trinity Road, suite 116, in Cordova, helps those customers see firsthand the solutions the company customizes that include things such as high-end TVs with ultra-high-definition screens, surround sound and home theater systems.
So AV Artistry scheduled a grand opening for the new facility at the end of the 2013 World Series week, calling the event the company's "7th Inning Soiree." The company threw open the doors to current and prospective clients, and added touches like brews from Joe's Wines and Liquors and grub from the Slider Inn.
Classic films such as "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham" were displayed on next-generation technology to showcase the company's audio and video capabilities. From the technology demonstrations to the food and drink and the fans relaxing in a high-end listening room, it was an opportunity for AV Artistry to take the lid off its new creation.
"The whole purpose of this place is we want to change Memphians' perception of technology," said AV Artistry co-owner Brad Parsley. "We want to get every architect, interior designer, builder – anybody who specifies what goes in a home – we want them to see this, to come to our place and see what all the different options are. They can put their hands on it here. This is the real thing, and for us, this has been years in the making."
The company itself is 15 years old. It provides comprehensive audio and visual services including home theaters, music systems, outdoor entertainment and video distribution. Additionally, the company specializes in systems integration, energy management and control solutions.
Parsley, who co-founded the company with Chris Rogers, said the new studio gives the company the opportunity to showcase its capabilities to a wider audience. AV Artistry, he added, gets excited by all manner of projects, whether they involve energy management, hiding TVs behind mirrors and artwork, automated draperies and lighting control, where all it takes is pressing one button to perform a function.
One large room at the facility is dedicated to nothing but music and includes some high-end audio equipment.
Parsley and Rogers started the company, which employs 12 people, after working for another equipment dealer. They thought they knew the business enough to make it on their own, and "just kind of rolled the dice," in Parsley's words.
"We love what we do," Parsley said. "We're on track for 2013 to be a record year, and we're expecting 15 percent growth in 2014. The main focus for us right now is this unique place we've opened up. We're investing in this and want to get people in here to see what we created. When you look at our great products and killer new showroom, we think people will pick us every time."
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Via Charles Hugh-Smith of Of Two Minds blog,
The paradox of an advanced post-industrial economy is that the number of jobs needed declines even as the cost of living rises.
The fundamental dynamic of America's job market is simple: we need relatively few workers to provide the absolute essentials of life even as the cost-basis of the economy inexorably rises. In other words, there are fewer jobs even as the costs of maintaining a "middle class" life rise.
Let's start by observing how all the financial data in the world does not necessarily describe the primary dynamics of an economy. There are a number of factors that cause this disconnect between the primary forces at work beneath the surface and the data.
One is that economists tend to focus on situations with abundant, easy-to-interpret data. If you're only looking for roses, then you ignore everything that isn't a rose. So economists seek dynamics that can be easily explained by available data, and financial factors that they are paid to examine. Everything else is ignored, especially if the act of examining it casts a skeptical light on a self-serving Status Quo.
One key reality that is rarely if ever discussed is that the number of workers needed to provide the bare essentials of life to the 313 million residents of America is modest. Let's stipulate that bare essentials include food, heat in winter, clean water, sewage and waste disposal, public health (innoculations against pandemics, etc.), public safety and enough energy to fuel these essentials. If life were suddenly reduced to these basics, and no energy were available for anything but these essentials, then how many full-time workers would be needed?
Roughly 1% of the workforce raises the vast majority of our food, and a modest number of workers maintain the water and sewage systems, natural gas pipelines, furnaces, etc., A similarly modest number of workers maintain public health and safety and provide transport of essentials.
Of the official workforce of 154 million, how many fall into this "absolute essentials of life" category? Perhaps 10% or 15 million people? Even if we double that to include all sorts of non-essential but "critical" goods and services, then that's perhaps 30 million workers, roughly 10% of the population and about 12.5% of the real workforce of 240 million (the Federal government has relegated roughly 88 million working-age people to the zombie-status of "not in labor force" to keep the official unemployment rate low).
We all know the dynamic behind this dramatic reduction in the number of people needed to provide the essentials of life: enormous increases in productivity based on abundant fossil fuels and advanced technology.
Even well-made infrastructure requires maintenance, but this process of replacing aging transmission lines, water mains, highways, refineries, etc. requires a relatively modest number of workers because machines do much of the work.
If you doubt this, stop and count the workers on a major repaving project or the construction of a highrise building. A very large multi-story building is generally assembled by about 100-150 workers, more during certain stages and less during others. Most of the components are fabricated in factories where machines do most of the work.
Ask how many frontline police officers are on your local force. Cities of a few hundred thousand might have 200-300 officers, larger cities might have 800-1,000. It's not a large number.
On a macro-scale, the challenge in advanced economies is creating "make-work" for 80% of the working age population. This is not an issue in developing economies, as most of the workforce is non-market and does not participate much in the cash economy. For example, only 7% of India's vast workforce of hundreds of millions of people gets a paycheck. The other 93% survive via barter, raising their own food, a bit of trade or occasional labor for cash, etc.
Before industrialization, roughly 50% of the U.S. population and workforce lived and worked on farms. The surplus of their labor fed the other 50% who lived in urban areas, and that cash supplied the few essentials the rural dwellers needed.
The paradox of post-industrial economies is that the cost of living rises even as the efficiencies of providing essentials reduces the number of essential jobs. Some of this may be due to Baumol's Disease, a topic I have covered before (Productivity, Baumol's Disease and the Cliff Just Ahead, December 8, 2010).
Baumol's cost disease is named after economist William J. Baumol, who with William G. Bowen described a critical difference between goods-producing and labor-intensive work.
Baumol and Bowen noted that if productivity/wages rose by 2.2% a year and costs rose by 2%, then over time workers could buy more of everything--goods, services and government services paid for with taxes.
They also observed a critical, long-term difference between the rates of productivity growth in goods-producing industries and labor-intensive industries such as nursing and teaching. (I would also include the Armed Forces as an example.)
Goods-producing industries could achieve very high productivity growth as labor-saving automation and supply-chain efficiencies scaled up, while nursing and teaching required the same number of hours with patients or students as in years past. In other words, productivity in labor-intensive services has intrinsically lower rates of productivity increases than goods-producing industries.
Baumol and Bowen then described the peculiar result of this: as GDP increased due to goods-producing improvements in productivity, the relative share of low-growth-productivity services would rise.
Thus machine-produced TV sets and computers fall in price while labor-intensive healthcare costs rise.
While this is undoubtedly one causal factor, it is not the only causal factor. I think there is an implicit assumption being made on both a policy and cultural level that higher costs are acceptable because it "means more people are being put to work."
So when the cost per military fighter aircraft leaps from $56 million each (the F-18) to $200 million and $300 million (the F-22 and F-35), then we accept this as OK because we assume more jobs will be created as costs rise.
Gross waste and inefficiency is thus accepted as the "cost" of creating more jobs.
The problem with this implicit pact is that a rising percentage of these jobs are friction: they do not increase productivity or wealth, they merely consume wealth. In the case of fighter aircraft, the cost has leaped so dramatically that it is now apparent the nation cannot afford a fleet of these hyper-costly (and apparently troubled) aircraft.
Will 100 of these aircraft prevail over 1,000 dirt-cheap drones? How about 10,000 drones? If the future of warfare is increasingly powerful unmanned networked drones (and it clearly is), why are we spending $1 trillion+ on hyper-costly aircraft that are essentially designed for a previous era?
We're not building miltary dominance with these programs, we're sinking money down ratholes, just as we're not "buying" more health with our 17% of GDP spent on sickcare, we're simply managing more chronic diseases.
In the case of healthcare, patients being issued $1,000 a month in medications are not necessarily "getting better," rather many thousands are dying of accidental overdoses. Though the U.S. spends twice as much as other advanced democracies as a percentage of GDP on healthcare, Americans are arguably less healthy in aggregate than the citizens of Japan and Australia, nations that spend about 8% of GDP on healthcare while the U.S. spends 17% of GDP.
These are but two examples of trillion-dollar friction that is sapping the nation's wealth and vitality. Since the nation cannot actually afford to spend $1 trillion on the F-35 program or $2.5 trillion every year on a healthcare system of which at least 40% is fraud or paper-pushing, then we have been borrowing $1.5 trillion every year to maintain the illusion that these trillion-dollar sinkholes are sustainable.
The solution to the post-industrial decline of labor is not unproductive "make-work" jobs and borrowing trillions of dollars until the system implodes, it's lowering the cost basis of the entire economy and culture. The central paradox of an advanced post-industrial economy is that the number of jobs needed declines even as the cost of living rises. The only way out of that paradox is to radically reduce the cost-basis of the entire economy, which means eliminating all the systemic sources of unproductive friction.
I will discuss this further in the days ahead.
Via Charles Hugh-Smith of Of Two Minds blog,


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He is accused of massacre and to have killed many during the Sarajevo seige during the Balcan war. His trial starts today
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He is accused of massacre and to have killed many during the Sarajevo seige during the Balcan war. His trial starts today
CNN) -- Radovan Karadzic, whose Interpol charges listed "flamboyant behavior" as a distinguishing characteristic, was a practicing psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia."
Twice indicted in 1995 by the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Karadzic faces charges of genocide over the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, and nine other charges related to ethnic violence during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
He had filed a motion seeking acquittal on all 11 counts in June, but was successful on only one.
While president of the so-called Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Karadzic's troops were reported to have massacred over hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Croats during a campaign of "ethnic cleansing." Early estimates of the death toll from the 3-year war ranged up to 300,000, but recent research reduced that to about 100,000.
The U.S. State Department had a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. His arrest brings an end to more than 10 years as a fugitive.
Karadzic was born on June 19, 1945, in Petnjica, Montenegro. He studied psychiatry and medicine at the University of Sarajevo during the 1960s and took courses in psychiatry and poetry at Columbia University from 1974 to 1975.
Karadzic, a Serb-Croat, in 1990 helped found the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), a party aimed at unifying Serbs into a common state, and became its president.
Two years later, he became president of the newly declared Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, later called "Republika Srpska." During the next three years, he ordered Bosnian Serb forces to seize the majority of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He also announced, according to his U.N. indictment, six "strategic objectives" for the Serbian people. They included the establishment of state borders between the Serbs and the other two ethnic communities, Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats.
Answering to him, according to the indictment, was Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.
From May 1992, the indictment alleged, Bosnian Serb forces under Mladic's command targeted civilian areas of Sarajevo with shelling and sniping during a three-year conflict within the city.
In July 1995, according to the U.N. indictment, troops under Mladic's command executed an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Muslim male prisoners in Srebrenica, a U.N. safe area, and then participated in a comprehensive effort to conceal the killings. The massacre is considered the worst in Europe since World War II.
The indictment states that Bosnian Serb forces acted under Karadzic's direction and worked to "significantly reduce the Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb populations" in municipalities that were seized.
Karadzic was last seen in public in September 1996, a year after the Dayton Peace Accords brought a formal end to the conflict and banned anyone accused of war crimes, including him, from office.
He reportedly shaved his trademark bushy hair, grew a beard and donned priest's robes, moving from monastery to monastery in the mountains to avoid capture.
CNN correspondent Alessio Vinci said in 2008: "He enjoyed protection from the local population, wherever he was hiding. Legend has it he disguised himself as a priest to take part in his mother's funeral.
"In 2002, after NATO launched one of its many failed raids to try to arrest Karadzic in Bosnia, I interviewed his mother. At that time she said: 'Serbs are righteous people and I can see that they support him, and that they adore him the way he is. They would lose their lives to protect him.'"
Despite years on the run, Karadzic wrote "Miraculous Chronicles of the Night" -- 1,200 copies of which sold out at the 2004 Belgrade International Book Fair.
After his arrest was announced, Serb officials revealed the final chapter of his life on the run had seen Karadic reprise his medical role, working in a clinic in Belgrade under a false identity and heavily disguised by a white beard, long hair and spectacles.


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Imagine yourself living in Uganda, a landlocked country in East Africa, where more than 14 million people eat bananas almost daily. In fact, as a resident in Uganda, chances are you and everyone you know is consuming 0.7 kg of bananas per day. Citizens of no other country in the world eat more bananas than Ugandans.
But suddenly, bananas, your staple food, are under threat. Banana bacterial wilt (BBW), a disease, is attacking bananas. It has already destroyed 90% of bananas on some farms. BBW is known to spread rapidly, and it can cause total crop loss within a year.
Not to exaggerate, but this could be a disaster for Uganda. The bacteria needed to be stopped immediately. That's what a team at the World Bank thought when they out about BBW. The team started to explore various solutions to spread the word to farmers on how to control the spread of this disease and stop it.
They came across U-report, a communications technology developed by UNICEF Uganda to "give young Ugandans a voice on issues they care about." There are more than 240,000 U-reporters and the number is growing every day. You just have to text "join" to 8500 in Uganda to become a U-reporter.
A joint ICT/Agriculture World Bank team reached out to UNICEF to see if U-reporters can help "visualize the BBW epidemic and disseminate information to affected communities." This resulted in a five-day campaign with UNICEF and others to save bananas.
The first SMS was sent on March 26, 2013 to almost 190,000 U-reporters with a question: "Do you know any farmers whose banana plantations or crops are infected with banana bacterial wilt disease? YES or NO."
Within 24 hours, responses from over 35,000 U-reporters helped track the spread of BBW across Uganda. In days that followed, SMSs were sent out to inform U-reporters about BBW and how to control it. Within just five days, 190,000 Ugandans learned about BBW and what they can do to save bananas on their farms.
Using U-reporters to save bananas was a simple, effective, and cheap solution. It only costs 3 U.S. cents per person for each SMS. If BBW had destroyed bananas in Uganda, the country could have lost $360 million per year.
Watch this video about U-reporter:
This is a classic example of youth using technology to help themselves and their communities to avert what might have become a national challenge.
Have you seen others? Tell us in the comments.
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We want to do some service like this in Bangladesh. Because our country need this types of service.
It is strange to read an
It is strange to read an article from a financial institution that in discussing the costs of a system only includes the cost of sending SMS. It would be useful to know the FULL cost of the U-report system including the salaries and travel and per diem of the consultants and programmers who set it up and maintain it. And the maintenance and ongoing costs of the system -- including salaries.
Without revealing the true, full costs of this system it is impossible to compare it to other interventions. For example, it would also have been possible to simply send an informative SMS to ALL Ugandans without the need for foreign consultants or a reporting system, and it's likely that such an approach would have been both more complete and cheaper.
We need to stop describing systems as free or "only 3 cents per person" when the true costs are much higher.
very effective way of
very effective way of communicating but I would like the author to tell us what was the solution to BBW
This communication technology
This communication technology would be very useful for ugandans, they can also use it in case of naturals disasters.


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I have a beauty lust list of some items I really want but are expensive and I can't justify buying. Then when I achieve something new I got to the hit list to give myself a treat.
This was the case when I bought not 1, but 2 purple/lavender palettes I have wanted for a long, long time. More than I wanted this full set!
These two palettes were Lunasol Sheer Contrast Eyes in Lavender Coral and Ocean Scene Eyes in Warm Ocean.
Ocean Scene Eyes is Lunasol's newest collection and Sheer Contrast Eyes is a few years old. I think Sheer Contrast Eyes is probably Lunasol's best eyeshadow collection to date.
How much do these cost?£40 each – I think that's quite steep.
The packaging is nice – I learned recently that Lunasol do bigger cases for storing up to 8 eyeshadows unfortunately I can't find anywhere to buy it 🙁
The thing with Lunasol if that you can buy the cases separately so you can just buy the colour if you already have something like the Unii palette.
Sheer Contrast eyes in Lavender Coral has a soft lavender, a pink, a soft purple and a yellow:
It's medium pigmented, which is what it's supposed to be "sheer" – although it is mighty high on the sparkle. Remember this if you buy it, it is SPARKLY.
I really do love this palette though:
Ocean scene eyes in Warm Ocean has a theme of having 3 light shades and one dark signature colour. In Warm Ocean this is a deep aubergine and that shade makes it. I have no interest in baby pink and baby blue on their own but in the palette it just WORKS:
This eyeshadow is richer in pigment and softer than Sheer Contrast eyes but I don't see this as making it 'better' – just different. The purple is pretty and I love this new range of shadows from Lunasol:
I've been wearing Warm Ocean a lot – less fall out too (Sheer Contrast does leave you with a bit of a sparkly face!).
I'm glad I bought these, I've been lusting after them for so long!
Have you got any eyeshadows on your hit list?


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"What is the wisdom you seek simple one?" :D
Strife (released in 1996) is a Doom-engine game created by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity. It offered an RPG-like action game, with heavy story elements and voice-acting. Among the features were hub-levels much similar to Hexen, the ability to increase the player's accuracy with most of the weapons, an item that could destroy forcefields, and the ability to raise your maximum health from 100 to as much as 200 permanently. Strife is also the very last commercial game to use the Doom engine.
"What is the wisdom you seek simple one?" :D
who noticed the spectre flying above thy oracle?(who you must kill to get the good ending)
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Talking dirty can be a tantalizing way to spice up your sex life ... if you can get past the idea of the naughty things you're saying. But you don't have to be a sex kitten to learn how to talk dirty to your guy. Hey, you might even discover that you like how talking dirty makes you feel.
Still, plenty of us feel too shy or embarrassed when we're actually in the moment. How to get over that awkward feeling?
Here are some tips and tricks for mastering the art of dirty talk.
Soft-Core Dirty Talk -- This is what you probably want to start with if you've never talked dirty to your partner before. It's a good way to start out, and can include things like:
"I want you now."
"I love how you touch me."
"I'll do anything you want."
Once you've warmed up to that (try it first with your lights off so if you get shy, he can't see it), you can move on to the next phase.
Hardcore Dirty Talk -- This kind usually involves slang and more vulgar words and phrases, including:
"I want your d*ck inside me now."
"I love how you f*ck me."
"I'll make you c*m so hard."
Here are some tips for making these statements steamy and hot:
1) Remember, it's more important to focus on HOW you say things than WHAT you say. Whisper these in his ear softly, groan and moan in response to what he's doing.
2) Start with fantasies. Tell him what you want him to do to you right now. Be upfront and be sexy about it.
3) Don't EVER try to talk dirty to him if it makes you feel uncomfortable. That's not sexy and it's not fair to you.
4) If your partner tells you things that you don't like to hear, tell him. Talking dirty to each other is supposed to be hot for you both!
5) Relax and go along with it. If you find out that you hate it? That's okay!
Do you talk dirty to your partner?
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Maybe it took me two years to finish this full report because I was so pissed off about the race. (link to my short preliminary report published soon after) Three times I was screwed at the Mohican 100 Mile Trail Run, the weekend of June 20-21, 2009. I *suspect* it might have had something to do with course markings. Course markings that weren't there when I needed them.
We hadn't been to my parents in southwest Ohio for four years. So I decided to go that summer, timing the trip for the 20th anniversary of the Mohican 100. As a result, no Kettle Moraine that year (with optimal weather conditions), since it was only two weeks prior. We went to my in-laws' near Chicago instead in April where I ran McNaughton 150 (Mid-Western States part 1).
The first 16 days of June, I worked 155 hours. I was ready for a vacation, though I knew the relaxing part would have to wait until after the weekend.
I set up my dad's portable tent
mission accomplished, congrats, Stephen!
He also explained that he was going to go out hard, then crash around mile 40, and would probably finish around 26-28 hours. I calculated he was running a 16 hour pace, so didn't quite get his race strategy with predictable results. Eventually he pulled ahead of everyone, out of sight. I was not convinced he was going to take that long to finish.
Beth on left, from an earlier, different race.
The first and last 10 miles of both races is road, the rest trail. I had considered following the suggestion of veterans to start in road shoes, switch to trail shoes at mile 10, then switch back to fresh road shoes for the end. I was glad I opted to start the race with my Sportiva Wildcats, as I was in no mood to take a minute to change shoes while fresh at mile 10.
Covered Bridge is maybe the heart of the race, as 100 milers go through this five times during the race (miles 21, 25, 42.5, 63.5, 81). After hitting it the first time, we went out to do the purple loop, which traversed only once in both the 50 and 100 mile races. Beth had been ahead, but I ran into her running backwards. There were few markings on the trail and she had run into a large rock. I remember seeing a photo of runners climbing up a wall of roots, and found this immediately to the left. At the top, it was still ambiguous which way to go, but it seemed like we should go right. Just as I had helped orient Caitlin Smith at PCTR's Skyline to the Sea 50k two months earlier, I was helping another fast woman find her way.
No clue. No way!
Volunteer course marking head at pre-race meeting holding up a colored plastic or paper plate, the supplemental course marking to the arrows. How using plates to match the color used to name each section of the course helped us stay on the right trail was beyond me. Some of these plates were wasted on unambiguous places on the trail. Other confusing intersections lacked them. There were other markings of a different color on many trails. They didn't buy a whole lot of plates. Definitely not enough. I know you are volunteering your time and I appreciate that, but please can someone give me ribbon?
The aid station was off a main road, and getting to it requires running this weird flattened Z along the road. It was all uncovered; the sun beating down. I realized this is where the the 50 milers split off, so asked Beth how she's feeling. "Really tight."
The trail emerged onto a road with campsites on the side. I saw a string of white arrows close together on the road, leading me to a grassy island on the right. Then they stopped. Huh? I guess I'd been so deprived of course markings, I was too eager to follow them to nowhere. Okay, now what?
The next split is 7.2 miles, the longest of the course. I had stashed an extra bottle in my drop bag at Bridle, but decided just to hydrate well and hope for smooth sailing. There were 3 river crossings. The first was at about 1.3 miles, the second about 4.5, and I forget to take note of the third, perhaps because it was the deepest, and like at McNaughton, up to my knees.
Felt good, but I was feeling pressure on my big toes from all the water.
Screw you number two.
I was disheartened, but at least I could talk with Jay, who knew the course. My hunch that my failure to find any course markings at the turn was not because I was stupid was validated by Jay who laughingly asked me how I could have missed such a well marked turn (friendly sarcasm). We ran together to Rock Point (mile 50.2). My blisters were starting to hurt, so I make the decision to take the extra time to take care of my feet.
Although my feet felt good as I headed out, the rest of me was not. It had grown really hot, and I was a little nauseated. I couldn't run the uphills anymore. As I floundered, I suddenly heard a voice behind me, and saw a bearded runner, who I mistook intially for Steve. He introduced himself by his last name, Mongold, rather than his first name, Bradley.
This West Virginian knows me from my blog. Other cool thing is his occupation as an emergency physician. I suspected there was another ultrarunning ER doc, but hadn't met one until that day.
At least one blogger had him on the radar to win Masanutten the month prior.
Mongold holds the record for running the 292.1 mile Allegheny Trail (4 days, 13 1/2 hours)
This was his first stab at 100 miles. I tried to keep chatting with him, but he was talking and running much more easily than I. I apologized, congratulated him for running so well his first 100, and wished him luck.
The next several miles were a definite struggle. I was feeling the humidity, and continued to lag even more.
What got my ass moving finally was a fly (horsefly? deer fly? no clue-- had never been attacked by one in the Bay Area). It kept going after me, including my scalp through my visor.
At Fire Tower (mile 61), I was surprised to see Jay, looking worse than even than I had earlier. He looked green like the color of the section. I asked him if he wanted any ginger, but before I can pull some out, Lloyd Thomas came up to me and asked if I need anything. He used to live in the Hayward Hills and run the trails of Garin / Dry Creek (my preferred longer trail commute to and from work). He offered to get me stuff (thanks, Lloyd), and we had a nice short chat as I tried to recuperate. (Later this year I would help him organize a small fat-ass race in the same park he ran in as a kid.)
I soon saw Jay on the short 2.5 mile leg to Covered Bridge, with a pacer, walking. I gave him my ginger, half wondering if I might regret this later, since I was still slightly nauseated myself and had only one more candy left. However he definitely needed it then, while I only theoretically might need it later.
At Hickory Ridge (mile 68.8), lots of friendly questions for the leader, which made me a bit nervous, since I didn't know who was behind me or how far. At Grist Mill (mile 75.4) I saw Jay, who had dropped from the race at Covered Bridge 5 miles back. He crewed me a little (thanks, Jay) and confirmed what I'd calculated with my watch-- if I didn't see anyone coming out of the forest before I reenter it, I would know I was at least 20 minutes ahead of the next runner.
I tried to run, but it hurt too much, so supporting my arm and trying to gut through the pain, I walked. F*ck, he's going to catch up! One of my problems late in 100-milers has been muscle spasming, often my upper body, despite consciously trying to keep things loose.
I was in great spirits and excited. After all the set-backs, including getting lost twice not through my own fault, and my mid-race slump probably fueled by humidity to which I could not have acclimated, I was winning the race, with a half hour gap on the next runner. As long as I could keep a decent pace, I should be able to win this thing. I started feeling elated and emotional, thought about my family and how excited my older son would be when I told him I won the race, and just missing them (this happens a lot toward the end of my 100 milers), though I reminded myself that it wasn't over yet, and it definitely was no time to slack. It actually felt great putting out decent effort, especially as the temperature started to cool a bit.
And going. And going. Seemed like I'd been out there a while-- wasn't I supposed to have ascended and hit the paved roads by now?
Suddenly after a turn, I saw three lamped runners heading towards me. Volunteers checking the course? I asked to verify I were headed toward Rock Point. One shouted back "You're headed the wrong way!" Crap, did I get lost again? Pattern recognition. No surprise that I was screwed the third and biggest time. It didn't dawn on me that this runner was Wyatt Hornsby, now armed with two pacers (until the following summer, I had never used one.) I only figured out his identity later.
Rather than follow them, I tried to figure out where I was. I turned on my Forerunner in an attempt to get the map of the route I ran already, but in the dense forest, it couldn't pick up the satellite signal. After several minutes, another lone runner came alone. He oriented me both in terms of route and race standings.
I figured it made more sense to just follow him out of this mess.
Only post-race did I learn he was the previous year's PCTR Headlands Hundred winner, and had placed 1st and 2nd in the two double Ironman distance triathlons he'd completed (that's 4.8 miles swimming, 224 miles biking and then 52 miles running). We talked. I try to be upbeat, while debating how hard I was going to try to catch up with Wyatt. Near the end of the stretch, which for me had turned from 7 into 10-11 miles, I suggested to Matt that if I gave up on catching Wyatt, maybe we could finish together (wtf was I thinking) but told me he wanted to give it a go for 1st himself.
I would have to make my move now.
I had actually had some doubts about the organization of the course due to last minute changes that weren't clearly communicated to runners, and in fact, I ended up taking matters into my own hands and revised a chart of mileage and elevation change so that it reflected those changes about 4 days before the race. Here is a link to a another blog that talks about some of the pre-race information frustration. So, my pre-race apprehensions turned out to be on target. The race director told everyone a few days ago earlier that all drop bags had to be in extra large zip-lock bags or they wouldn't be allowed, which got a lot of people upset. He tried to make it seem like it was a suggestion later, but they way it was phrased was that is was mandatory, not optional.
Back to the race:
Finally, I decided that a continued heroic effort was not what I cared about, especially with unsure dividends. In less than 16 hours I would be back at my parents with my younger son, wanting to ride me piggy-back around the house and up and down the stairs. Call it a cop-out, but this became a greater priority.
I also tried to rationalize that I couldn't really use much of the grand prize for the overall male and female winner, which included free entry to the December Northface 50 mile in the Marin Headlands plus $300 for airfare. I think I would drive to that race. I was still the first master's finisher, and probably would still get some plaque.
Though tainted, this was was still a memorable, worthwhile experience. Don't you love my smile and my positive attitude? Great! Now let me rag on the race director!
Though I was happy enough to finish, a large part of me really wanted to win. Finisher me was still happy I ran the thing and put it out there, but part of me, the would-be winner me was kicked in the balls, stabbed in the heart and then decapitated.
photo by Mike Keller
most negligent RD I have encountered in my career
as far as I can tell, he's not a runner, but a cyclist
someone help me here
I never got any honest requests for feedback or an apology. Lots of others complained post-race about the course markings, but I found your response less than adequate. Don't tell me you had no idea it was going to rain buckets. Buddy, until you apologize properly to me and change your ways, I will reserve my not nice opinion of you.
Even if you've fixed the problem since, you sucked then.
Okay, readers, I feel much better now, thank you for bearing with me. (and maybe I'll edit this post a little later. soften it up a bit. to be a nice guy...)
Regardless about my gripes, thanks to all the volunteers. And the friends who at times gave me special help. You were all awesome.
The pain of my blisters was nothing compared to the pain of being screwed repeatedly.
Garmin Forerunner 305 partial map of my run
or try the results and reports page from website.
race website (a little confusing to navigate, as it the Mohican running races are on a semi-obscured subset of links on the "Ohio Mountain Bike Championship Series" website). Go figure.
super-volunteer Colleen Theusch's race report. note, I didn't try to correct her story to include the navigational problems not of my fault.
Michelle Bichsel
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I thought this prayer would be particularly helpful to those of us who are still in our years of study, and also generally helpful to all of us in our capacity as students of the Church struggling in our pursuit to learn her way; the way of the Fathers; the way of Wisdom and Salvation. Student's PrayerInscrutable Creator, Lord Jesus Christ,you are the source of light and truth,enlighten my mind and dispel from methe cloud of ignorance.You give us, your children, the abilityto speak. Cultivate my tongue andfill my mouth with the gifts ofyour blessings.Give me the ability to understand,the capacity to receive,the wisdom to interpret,the ease to study andto express myself gracefully.Adorn my soul,guide my workand bless my life.Amen.[I copied this prayer from an Armenian Orthodox website; it was one of the few prayers that were presented without any reference to an original source. Maybe Salpy can help us find out more about the source of these blessed words of the Spirit.]
Thank you, vasnTearn, and welcome to the forum!Pari yegak!
I have a Syrian and Armenian Orthodox prayer to be recited before meals, but you specifically seek out Ethiopian Orthodox prayers as if they hold some sort of unique value?Oriental Orthodox unity (on a tangible level that is--I would in no way ever suggest any defect in the underlying substantial unity based on shared Eucharistic communion) will never be truly realised until we can begin to speak and act in a way that demonstrates that we not only acknowledge and respect the traditions unique to other jurisdictions, but that we are willing and even inclined to identify with and incorporate them as our own (without undermining the sense in which we are entrusted to preserve and exercise those traditions unique to the jurisdiction to which we belong).Had you simply inquired into an Ethiopian Orthodox prayer before meals, I wouldn't have been inclined to formulate the above concern. Such concern is mainly triggered by the sense in which you seem to suggest that your desire "to know a good prayer for meals" is one you implicitly deem only capable of being addressed by "[your] Ethiopian Orthodox brothers."If you are at all familiar with my website and one of the primary sentiments that drives it, you will understand why the above concern is important to me. NB: This post was in no way written in a spirit of anger, frustration or rebuke--I only seek to gently caution you to be wary of how you perceive and understand yourself as an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian within the wider OO communion, and the implications of such perception and understanding.
I definitely respect where you're coming from and laud you on your pursuit to learn and adopt the ways of your Church. It disturbs me when western converts to Orthodoxy neglect or disrespect the culture of the church they convert to upon the assumption that the 'Faith' is all that matters (yes, the Faith *is* all that matters, but the culture is part and parcel of it).Like I said, had you simply made an exclusive inquiry into Ethiopian Orthodox prayers, I wouldn't have made any issue out of it. It was just that seemingly implicit suggestion that a *good* prayer before meals was an *Ethiopian Orthodox* prayer before meals (as if non-Ethiopian Orthodox prayers were not as *good*) that got to me. Though clearly you didn't mean it that way! I hope you don't think I was accusing you of such.
Gebre Menfes Kidus,We do have prayers before and after meal. The standard ones that I have in ge'ez are long meal time prayers usually led by one person. This requires translation which I can't make now. If possible, in the future, I will try to translate only a small portion of prayer before meal from a prayer known as "sa'alnaake mehari" and paryer after meal from the "sibhat" prayer.Hiywot
Gebre Menfes Kidus,Here are the mealtime prayers you requested.Prayer before meal [from the Sa'alna'ke Mehari]O! Holy and Righteous Jesus Christ Eternal Son of God and Incarnate Son of Mary; Send us Your Divine Hand and Your Most High Arm and bless this bread and this drink [this meal] for us. O! Lord, let this bread and drink [this meal] be sweet for the mouth, light for the throat and healthful for the stomach;O! Lord, let this bread and drink heal the sick and strengthen the weak;O! Lord, let this bread and drink not deter us and make us forget your praises;O! Lord, let this bread and drink not lead us to excessive sleep and to laziness that interferes with prayers;O! Lord, let this bread and drink be used by our body for knowledge and wisdom, peace and love, praises and singing; O! Lord, let this bread truly be a meal of righteousness and this drink truly be a drink of life; …………………………………. [and it continues]Christ our God, we thank you for giving us and blessing this bread and drink for us.Prayer after meal [the Sibhat Prayer]Glory to the Father; Glory to the Son; Glory to the Holy SpiritGlory to Our Lady Mary, Virgin Mother of GodGlory to the Cross of our Lord Jesus ChristLet Christ remember us in his mercy; [Amen]Let Him not leave us ashamed in his second coming; [Amen]Let Him awaken us to bless his name; [Amen]Let Him strengthen us to worship Him; [Amen]Our Lady Mary, take our prayers up and purge away our sins:-To Him that fed us this bread; [His mercy endures forever]To Him that gave us this drink; [His mercy endures forever]To Him that prepares our daily meal and clothing; [His mercy endures forever]To Him that is merciful of our sins; [His mercy endures forever]To Him that gave us His holy flesh and blood; [His mercy endures forever]To Him that safely brought us to this hour; [His mercy endures forever]We deliver thanks and glory to God the Most High and to His Virgin Mother and to His Holy Cross.Let the name of God be glorified always, at all times and hours. Amen(When in group, one person leads the Sibhat Prayer and the others respond by repeating the words in parenthesis)Hiywot
So anyone wanna post the Ethiopian Trisagion, pretty please?
Quote from: Nazarene on September 27, 2009, 10:35:11 AMSo anyone wanna post the Ethiopian Trisagion, pretty please? I think this is it. Ge'ez version:"Qidus Igziabhér, Qidus Hayal, Qidus Hiyaw, Ze'iyimewut, Tesehalene Egzi'o." Selam
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After the visit, you realize you''re smiling. And you feel a little less tired and a bit more optimistic. You can''t wait to tell your family all about that charming canine. In fact, you''re already looking forward to the dog''s next visit.
Animal-assisted therapy can significantly reduce pain, anxiety, depression and fatigue in people with a range of health problems:
And it''s not only the ill person who reaps the benefits. Family members and friends who sit in on animal visits say they feel better, too.
Pet therapy is also being used in nonmedical settings, such as universities and community programs, to help people deal with anxiety and stress.
The biggest concern, particularly in hospitals, is safety and sanitation. Most hospitals and other facilities that use pet therapy have stringent rules to ensure that the animals are clean, vaccinated, well trained and screened for appropriate behavior.
It''s also important to note the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has never received a report of infection from animal-assisted therapy.
More than a dozen certified therapy dogs are part of Mayo Clinic''s Caring Canines program. They make regular visit to various hospital departments and even make special visits on request. For example, one dog and his trainer worked with a 5-year-old girl recovering from spinal surgery. The therapy dog helped her relearn how to walk, taking a step backward each time she took a step forward.


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In late June, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the economy grew at a 1.9 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2011. This, our third estimate for the quarter, turned out to be lower than our initial estimate of a 2.2 percent growth rate made in late April. When we revise a major economic indicator, it's not unusual for some to ask us, "Why didn't you get it right the first time?"
It's not that the earlier estimate was wrong. Rather, it's the result of a delicate balancing act BEA performs to simultaneously achieve the two most important qualities of its estimates—accuracy and timeliness.
The public wants accurate data and wants it as soon as possible. To meet that need, BEA publishes early estimates that are based on partial data. Even though these data aren't complete, they do provide an accurate general picture of economic activity. They capture the direction and trends of various components of the economy, providing valuable information that businesses and government leaders depend on and react to. They provide an "early read" on what's happening in the economy.
Although the revision process is complicated, we make it systematic and transparent. BEA produces three estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) for a given quarter. Each includes updated, more complete, and more accurate information as it becomes available. The first, called the "advance" estimate, typically receives the most attention and is released roughly 4 weeks after the end of a quarter. For example, the first estimate of GDP for this year's January-to-March quarter came out near the end of April. The first estimate for the second quarter will come out July 27.
That advance GDP estimate offers the first comprehensive picture of how the economy is performing in a specific quarter. It gives a pretty accurate picture of whether the economy is slowing down or speeding up and which components of spending are responsible for those changes. It tells us the pace at which shoppers are shopping and what they are buying. It also tells us what businesses are producing and investing in, what government is spending, and how much we are buying and selling abroad. It also tells us about trends in key variables, like saving and inflation.
When BEA calculates the advance estimate, the Bureau doesn't yet have complete source data, with the largest gaps in data related to the third month of the quarter. In particular, the advance estimate is lacking complete source data on inventories, trade, and consumer spending on services. Therefore, BEA must make assumptions for these missing pieces based in part on past trends. As part of this process, we publish a detailed technical note that lays out the assumptions made for a particular estimate. BEA also publishes detailed materials on the standardized procedures and methods used in the various vintages of the GDP estimates.
As new and more complete data become available, that information is incorporated into the second and third GDP estimates. About 45 percent of the advance estimate is based on initial or early estimates from various monthly and quarterly surveys that are subject to revision for various reasons, including late respondents that are eventually incorporated into the survey results. Another roughly 14 percent of the advance estimate is based on historical trends.
By the second GDP estimate, we have new data for the third month and revised data for earlier months. By the third estimate, a lot more data is available so that only 17 percent of the GDP estimate is based on information from the first set of monthly and quarterly surveys.
The revision process doesn't end with updates to the quarterly estimates. Toward the end of every July, BEA releases the results of its annual revision with even more complete and detailed data for GDP estimates for the past 3 years. In addition, once every 5 years, BEA conducts what is known as a "comprehensive" revision that encompasses the entire GDP series back to 1929. New data, new methodologies, changes in definitions and classifications, and changes in presentations are all incorporated into the comprehensive revision. All those changes are designed to more accurately portray the evolving U.S. economy.
Last year, BEA introduced yet another revision method known as the flexible annual revision. This new option allows the Bureau to make an annual update to specific parts or even an entire series without having to wait for the next comprehensive revision cycle.
Even though GDP estimates are revised over time as more complete and accurate data become available, studies show that the general picture of economic activity does not change:
• The overall pattern of change in GDP over business cycles is little changed by revisions.
• Revisions to long-term growth rates are small, averaging less than 0.1 percentage point for average growth rates between 1985 and 2009.
• There are no substantial revisions—as measured by shares of GDP—in key measures such as investment, government spending, or the national saving rate.
Measuring GDP for the U.S. economy is always a work in progress. Because BEA faces so many challenges in measuring GDP, our estimates are informative, but never really final. Our advance estimates strike a good balance between accuracy and timeliness, given the data available at the time. Successive revisions reflect BEA's commitment to incorporate both more complete source data when they become available and improved methods for measuring a rapidly changing economy.
More information on GDP revisions can be found in BEA's Frequently Asked Questions and the Survey of Current Business.


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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to sit down with the anchors of the five major U.S. news networks and PBS on Monday in separate one-on-one interviews.
The on-air appearances coincide with a heavy fall agenda for the president and Congress. Most lawmakers return to Washington from their summer recess on that day, which also falls on the eve of a nationally televised address Obama plans to make his case for military action on Syria.
Monday's interviews, which will be taped that afternoon and broadcast on the networks' nightly news, will serve as a stepping stone for the president to frame his arguments before the American people.
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Although supported by leading lawmakers in both parties, the administration's push for military intervention in Syria's civil war has has hit pushback from significant numbers of Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress. Unofficial tallies by ABC News of members of Congress suggest that a resolution to strike against Syria's Bashar Assad for the use of chemical weapons in that struggle would likely fail in at least the House of Representatives.
The Syria question is also shadowed by a docket of issues for Capitol Hill including showdowns on the national debt, federal budget, healthcare, and a possible curb on the government's surveillance of millions of its citizens.
The Obama White House has not been shy about giving network interviews during his two terms, with the president and members of his cabinet offering appearances with increasing frequency during times of political expedience. But it has been an extreme rarity to meet with five networks at once. In September 2009, for example, Obama made a similar showing during a push for his signature healthcare legislation, although he avoided Fox in favor of Univision.


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Last week, in part 2 of our top user tips we looked at the social networking features of SharePoint Online. Today, in part 3 we're going to look at how to schedule meetings using the Lync Online Web Scheduler.
Lync Web Scheduler is a web-based program that you can use to create Lync Meetings if you don't have Microsoft Outlook, or are on an operating system not based on Windows. With Web Scheduler, you can create new meetings, change your existing meetings, and send invitations with your favourite email program.
You can access the Web Scheduler using your Office 365 Education credentials, and find out more about how to create the meetings on Office.com.
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Last Minute XXL Entry From Ireland
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – (March 12, 2012) – As the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Monster Energy head into the final week of the year-long event period, a massive swell hitting Europe has produced new entries from Ireland which could affect the outcome of the event.
The huge swell which blasted Europe last week was especially focused on Ireland, with Mullaghmore Head in County Sligo producing the biggest waves ever seen along the Emerald Isle. Andrew Cotton, 32, from Croyde, Devon, United Kingdom was awaiting the monster surf on March 8 along with his Irish tow surfing partner Al Mennie.
"We'd been tracking that swell for about a week," said Cotton. "All these swells that hit Ireland can be hit and miss with wind and this one couldn't make its mind up. I've spent so many swells on that headland with the wind howling but not quite in the right direction and I honestly thought that this was going to be another swell like that. Al Mennie and myself camped out at Mullaghmore the night before and couldn't believe our luck at first light the next day.
"It had been a fairly disappointing winter compared to the previous year and it was far from perfect that day," continued Cotton. "After watching for about 30 minutes and deciding to pick a few off, Al towed me into an absolute bomb. It was my first wave of the day. It felt like a reminder of how good it can get there and why I put the time and effort in."
Images from the Mullaghmore session have been quickly entered into the XXL Biggest Wave competition and join a multitude of epic photos and video from around the world this last year from places like Teahupoo in Tahiti, Jaws in Hawaii, Maverick's in California and Shipstern Bluff in Australia's Tasmania. As the swell passed Ireland it filled into the Bay of Biscay, producing big waves in Portugal, Spain and France. New entries from those locations are expected in the coming days. All the entries to date may be viewed on the event website at http://www.BillabongXXL.com.
The 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards qualifying period runs through the end of the Northern Hemisphere winter on March 19, 2012, with an elaborate awards ceremony to be held at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California on May 4. Unlike conventional surfing competitions which wait in one location until the waves come to them, the 12th annual Billabong XXL Awards has the unique advantage of a window which runs all year long and is open to all the world's best surfers at all the world's best big waves — whenever and wherever they come in – as long as they are caught with photos or video.
Nominees will be announced during the last week of March, only after all the last-minute entries have been fully assessed. This is the second year in a row where a huge late-season swell produced legitimate XXL contenders in the final week. Last year the event was startled by a wild day at Jaws on Maui where Shane Dorian paddled into a 57-foot wave that earned the Monster Paddle crown.
The 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards feature an array of categories including the $50,000 Ride of the Year, Monster Paddle, Monster Tube and the Verizon Wireless Wipeout of the Year. There are also "world champ" awards for the Surfline Best Overall Performance (male) and the Billabong Girls Best Performance (female). The event features over $130,000 in cash prizes for the surfers and photographers.
The Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards are fueled by Monster Energy. Verizon Wireless is the official communications provider and Surfline.com is the exclusive surf forecast of the XXL. Sony is the official electronics supporter and Contour the exclusive provider of point of view cameras. The event is sponsored by Air Tahiti Nui airlines.


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150 years ago yesterday, President Abraham Lincoln released his draft Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that on January 1, 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." NPR has a brief exploration of some little-known history here, including this:
… Lincoln didn't create this moment all by himself. Throughout the war, he was hearing from generals in the field about slaves who ran away by the thousands, hoping to join the Union army. They were telling the generals, "We are here to demand our freedom. And we know you are here for other reasons, but you can't ignore us. We won't be ignored."
Lincoln's handwritten manuscript didn't stay in his possession for long. It was auctioned off in 1864, before the Civil War was even over, to raise money for relief efforts.
The first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was sold? Who knew? Historians, surely, but I didn't.
And yet we all know that emancipation did not end the travails of the abducted Africans and their descendants, either those who were freed or the generations to come. Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves (more on them later), regularly says that American emancipation was done wrong: While those who had been captured and sold or born into captivity were legally able to walk away, they were not trained in any new occupation and received no compensation for their years in bondage. As a result, many of them remained slaves in life, if not in law, via the plantation system, poverty, and the ever-escalating regime of segregation. It took another hundred years to begin dismantling the inheritance of slavery, the vicious enforcement of the idea that those victims and their descendants deserved their captivity because their color and ancestry made them inferior human beings, naturally criminals, forever to be despised.
For some anthropological reason, human beings regularly designate some group to be the unclean. For a century, Americans treated anyone black the way Deuteronomy instructed the ancient Hebrews to treat anyone unclean: "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. " (Deuteronomy 23:2) And so almost every other immigrant ethnicity in the U.S. has had a chance to rise—no matter how despised in their original country, no matter how distrusted when they first arrived—partly because we already had our fundamental other: African Americans, descendants of our nation's original sin.
And yet here, at the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's announcement that the American system of chattel slavery would end, for all his morally mixed reasons—to gain more Union soldiers, among other reasons—we have an African American president. That's longer than forty years in the desert, but—despite the birthers, despite the racial and racist attacks—it still sometimes takes my breath away.
Ah, but the United States—and the world—still contain slaves, people forced to work for no pay, unable to walk away because of fraud or coercion. Here's where I come back to Kevin Bales. In India, millions are in intergenerational debt bondage, smashing rocks into gravel or making bricks in order to pay off a "debt" incurred by their grandfather. In Sudan and Somalia, captured war victims are taken as the victors' household slaves or sold. In the Gulf States, Filipinos and Ethiopians and others who've taken the risk to migrate for better wages—so they can send money home to their children—have their passports confiscated, are kept captive inside the house or compound, beaten, underfed, forced to work around the clock, used for sex, and never paid. (Sometimes they're brought to U.S. embassies; for the story of a Filipina woman held as a slave in a Kuwaiti U.S. consulate, read here.)
Legal migrant workers in the U.S. can face the same captivity and slavery, in fields, hotels, restaurants, nursing homes, nail and hair salons, homes, and factories. Runaway American girls are taken captive to be sold, over and over again, for sex so that someone else's profit. Brazil has launched a national program to find and free its slaves, including federal antislavery squads, labor inspection, and enforcement specialists.
Today, we call slavery "human trafficking," which is misleading: No one has to move across a border for it to count. The offense is holding someone captive. Consider this example from The Polaris Project:
Born and raised in a small village in Ghana, Natalia's family was struggling to pay the school fees for their children's education and welcomed the opportunity for Natalia to receive an education in the United States.
Shortly after she arrived in the US, the father she was living with began to physically and sexually abuse the young girl, creating a constant environment of fear for Natalia. For the next six years she was forced to clean the house, wash clothes, cook, and care for their three children, often working 18 hours a day while receiving no form of payment….
The difference, of course, the is that U.S. government no longer enforces slavery; it opposes it. The Justice Department and the State Department are on the victims' side. From Kevin Bales' imagined memo to Lincoln on this anniversary:
Congratulations. Firstly, Sir, thank you for your Emancipation Proclamation. It led the way to outlawing slavery nationwide through the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and it created a context in which a slave-free America is possible. The complete eradication of slavery from the United States will be a fitting tribute to your leadership and sacrifice, and the realization of the core American value of human freedom. This memo proposes ways to finish what you have started.
Prevalence of Slavery Today. As a hidden crime invisible to most statisticians, estimates of current U.S. slavery are imprecise. Conservative estimation suggests 40,000 to 100,000 slaves in the U.S. today (.00033 of population). Key areas of modern enslavement are commercial sexual exploitation, agricultural work, domestic service, restaurant and hotel work, and small-scale manufacturing. Traffickers and slaveholders are strongly linked to other criminal enterprises. Victims are both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens. Victims are also likely to be young and economically productive, tricked into slavery because their desire for gainful employment prompted them to trust someone offering a job. Federal trafficking cases have been pursued in all 50 states. Most occur in urban areas with international transit links.
Political Implications. Ending slavery in America is backed by strong bipartisan agreement and commitment. Ideological motivations differ, but there is robust concurrence on the desired outcome. No one argues that slavery is allowable or necessary today.
So what's needed now to end modern slavery? Ask a variety of experts and you'll hear a different models. California passed the Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 to get corporations to report their supply chains, holding corporations accountable for slavery anywhere among their subcontractors; Representative Carolyn Maloney has proposed such a law for the U.S. Visa regulations desperately need to be reformed, in ways that deserve an in-depth exploration (full disclosure: I'm seeking funding to do that investigation). Free the Slaves works with local activists worldwide to do such things as, in India, bargain and buy entire Indian villages out of slavery from their feudal owners, while supplying those freed people enough money and training to make the transition to self-sufficient freedom. At a bare minimum, the U.S. Congress needs to get past its election-year logjam and pass the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, reauthorizing the genuinely bipartisan law that funds prevention, enforcement, and rescue efforts, requires the State Department to conduct annual world assessment of various governments' actions against slavery, and much more.
Thank you, President Lincoln, for getting all this started. May we finish what you began.


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CHOWDAH BOWL: "I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep." -- Beaumarchais. Laughter. Simply put, a mirthful expression challenged aggressively by the daily drumbeat of unease. And that's not healthy. Patriot Country readers who visit this corner may remember earlier comments on how Charlie Brown, Snoopy and all those wonderful "Peanuts" strip characters provide CC with a delightful early-morning prescription of chuckles, laughs and smiles to begin our days. We're grateful for that. But laughter, we're convinced is in short supply. Too many drumbeats. The subject is visited because CC has learned from a newsgal down the Cape that there is a "joyologist" in our midst. So says Doreen Leggett in her Cape Cod Voice column. A "joyologist?" That's the title Patricia Renaud of Eastham, who is described as a certified laughter leader and host of laughter clubs on Cape Cod. As Renaud points out, "Imagine if Congress had a laughter club before they sat down. It would improve compromise for sure." That got her audience laughing. There was no mention by Leggett of the numbers of clubs and members on the Cape, so we'll assume she got to laughing so heartily she forgot the numbers. Laughter clubs? Hey, why not! They offer a great prescription for all Cape Codders. However, for the present, we'll stick with our club -- Charlie Brown, Snoopy and all the Charles Schultz members.* * *
... Better Late Than ... : When Ralph Moniz was discharged from the Army he was told his three medals would be mailed to him at his home in Teaticket. That was in 1945. The Falmouth Enterprise reported that the medals arrived in late January -- 2008! Moniz, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, credits long-time friend Frederick Crocker of Mashpee for pursuing the paperwork to receive the medals ... Love Conquers: Iraq may be a war-torn battlefield, but a Cape Cod serviceman found romance in the midst of war. Private First Class Gregory Lehy of Hatchville found Private First Class Shirley Crosby, who was serving as a medic in the Army, and upon their return to the U.S., they were wed in California. ... Let There Be Light: Provincetown may be slumbering under Winter's dark blanket, but one town resident is making sure there shall be light. She's Pat de Groot, who strung 2,400 blue lights through the treetops at her home on Commercial Street. ... Thumbs Up: For 50 consecutive years, the Chatham Retired Men's Association has built friendships and "settled" community problems while consuming tons of coffee and doughnuts. The recipe for success, according to association officer Jon Freshwater: "No politics, no religion." ... Post Patriots: Cheer up, Patriot fans. The National Football League's pre-season opens in six short months (Aug. 8). ... Hopper Hassle: If you haven't read or heard about the Brouhaha over the Hopper Landscape then you're a Rip Van Winkle or have been on a year's tour of Micronesia. The scrap has been smothering all other news happenings in Truro. It was started by a controversial proposal to build a 6,500 square-foot home in the Hopper landscape adjacent to the famed painter Edward H. Hopper's summer home. The thrashing of the issue by pros and cons has proceeded with little let up since mid-2007. "It's toxic," Selectman Curtis Hartman told the Cape Codder. So much so, both sides demonized each other into polarized camps -- "pointy-headed wash-a-shores" versus a "vandal." All this in serene Truro, a town so widely recognized for its peaceableness ... .* * *
You're up there, Morris, if you ever patronized the Cap'n Grey Inn in Barnstable Village when it was owned by the late Sydney Chase, father of Cape Cod Veterans Administration director Sydney Chase ... . History buffs should know in which town Joe's Bottom and Aunt Sally's Bottom, lowlands between dunes and knolls, are located. Answer below ... .* * *
NEWSQUOTES: "Generally speaking, it is safe to say that the days when children were greeted at home after school by an aproned mother holding a pan of freshly-made cookies are over." -- Mary Lancaster, Nantucket Independent writer, on the need for both parents to work to make ends meet on Nantucket.
... "That's pretty impressive for a little school on Cape Cod." -- Chatham High School Principal Paul Mangelink in the Cape Cod Chronicle on the school winning its 11th "We the People" state championship competition.
... ."We are strongly in favor of cooperation as opposed to litigation, but that takes two to tango and we're looking for a partner." -- Yarmouth Selectman Bud Groskopf on seeking a meeting with Barnstable on Barnstable Municipal Airport issues (In The Register)* * *
ANSWER TO QUERY: Wellfleet* * *
QUOTEBOOK: "If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
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