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Searchers are optimists, and walkers are searchers. Are walkers optimists?
Well, I am. I wouldn't say I was born that way. I recall a pessimistic teenage phase, coincident (or not?) with pounding headaches and an infatuation with William F. Buckley's Firing Line. I walked away from it, and them, and from my initially-declared Poli Sci major, after my sophomore year in college. Thank goodness.
I know, there are and always have been pessimists who also walked. Schopenhauer springs instantly to mind. Nonetheless, every walk is an optimistic undertaking. And, I suspect, every self-avowed pessimistic walker is a closet optimist. Can't prove it, but to paraphrase Camus: one must imagine daily walkers happy. More on that anon.
I discovered Walker Percy and his character Binx Bolling's "search" in college. Percy saw the search as looking ultimately for a way out of this world, which he and his religious confreres viewed as "fallen" in its natural state. But reading his books, and then standing in his gazebo and surveying his "lost cove," convinced me that his search was really for a way to love living.
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Philosophical walkers are like John Francis: planet walkers. That's another name for cosmopolitans, citizens of the globe and the universe who choose to accept responsibility for the whole. Every step symbolizes that choice, and that sense of a shared and universal identification with the natural world and all its lifeforms. In one of the stranger TED Talks on record, Francis declares "we are the environment, and how we treat each other is really how we're going to treat the environment." Similarly, he told the Atlantic,
The environment is therefore also about human rights, civil rights, gender equality, economic and education equity. It is about all the ways we relate to one another because how we relate to each other manifests itself in the physical environment around us.
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Something is happening to Android in the U.S.
After years of runaway success, it's now losing share to Apple's iPhone, according to the latest data from comScore.
For the three months ended in February, Apple had 38.9 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, up from 35 percent for the same period ending in November. Android fell to 51.7 percent over the same period, down from 53.7 percent.
The United States is not the world, but it is a leading market for smartphones. So, it's worth paying attention to these trends.
Apple has been able to eat into Android's lead thanks to increased distribution and lowered pricing. The iPhone wasn't available from Verizon until February 2011, four years after it debuted on AT&T. It later joined Sprint, then some regional carriers, and this year it's going to T-Mobile.
Apple offers the iPhone at a variety of prices on Verizon and AT&T, from $0 to over $400. A free-on-contract iPhone has made it an option for more people.
Android is a great operating system available on a number of excellent phones, some with gigantic screens. It's odd that it's gone flat. It's not just a U.S. phenomenon for Android, either.
When Google's Android chief Andy Rubin stepped down, the company released new data on Android activations. While year-over-year growth remains spectacular, growth during the holiday season was relatively tepid.
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President-elect Barack Obama didn't make the list, not even for his much-criticized remark in which he said some small-town Americans "cling to guns or religion."
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Burns biographical film with Gerard Butler returns
It's been an absolute age since I heard anything about the planned Robert Burns film that Gerard Butler was being linked with, and the last word was that it was dead due to lack of funding.
That may have changed though with this year's Scottish Homecoming, an event made to draw more tourists, ex-Scots and Scottish descended people into the country. It seems that a Scottish Government backed drive for funding is going to finally see the film made, and with a little thanks to the drawing power of Butler.
Word is that the Burns biographical film is to start shooting this year, and that Gerard Butler is still on the cards to play the great Scottish poet Robert Burns, although once upon a time Producer and Scottish actor James Cosmo revealed that Johnny Depp was lined up to play the great man, something that the Scots audience just wouldn't take.
The script for the film was written by Alan Sharp who also wrote Rob Roy and The Osterman Weekend. It's Rob Roy though that is the most interesting film in that list, for it's the infamous story of Robert Roy MacGregor living and fighting against the English in the highlands of Scotland in the 1700's, and although some of the casting left a lot to be desired, it was was a pretty good story.
Vadim Jean still seems set to direct the film, you might have heard his name before as he directed the two Terry Pratchett films Hogfather (Filmstalker review) and The Colour of Magic.
Now with Gerard Butler playing Burns in a story Sharp wrote, directed by Jean, we could be seeing something interesting. However if this is a straight story of the Scottish poet and writer then I don't know if it's going to be as successful a film as one might hope, perhaps if it uses poetic license to bring to life some of his adventures in the mind's eye then we'll see something more interesting.
Mind you I am biased, being Scottish I would love to see something decent to immortalise Burns in film, as does the Scottish First Minister according to The Times through Digital Spy (who again don't link to the source):
"Robert Burns is rightly regarded as Scotland's favourite son...It would be great for Scotland if Burns could be immortalised in modern film, particularly as we mark the 250th anniversary of his birth this year and celebrate his genius through Scotland's Year of Homecoming."
Well of course, that would rake in the tourists for this Homecoming year that's been set up. For those already in Scotland though, I'm sure there's just a real desire to see this done right.
Apparently the story will focus on the love affairs with his wife, Jean Armour, and an Edinburgh society hostess called Agnes McLehose or sometimes Clarinda.
The article also tells us that most of the five million pound budget is already there, finally, however the rest is being raised by some two hundred and fifty investors who will provide a sum of money each in order to see the film made, and hopefully return a profit.
However this isn't the only Robert Burns story to hit the screens just now, Travis A. Jackson has written and is directing two films about the man, The Bard: The Story of Robert Burns - Volume I and II in 2010 and 2011. There's no word on how well they are going or who the star will be, but the projects will be covering the same story of Burns' life.
Great news is that it will shoot on location in Edinburgh and in Burns' Ayrshire. Now take note, I'm in Edinburgh, so if production does begin on the film I'm looking for a set visit at least!
What about Butler for Burns? I think it's a foregone conclulsion what everyone thinks, but is he a good choice? Actually let me answer that, if he still is on board he's the best choice there is. Strong Scottish actor, well known around the globe, looks the part, what more could you want?


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The best coach in the National Basketball Association officially announced his retirement last night, and it's time for us to say "Congratulations Phil Jackson!" That isn't just because his 1,155 wins and career .704 winning percentage is the best in NBA history, it's also because North Dakota is proud of this hometown hero and hopes he has a heck-of-a-fun retirement!
Jackson was raised in Williston, North Dakota, and began his legendary basketball career there – leading the high school team to two state titles. Jackson went on to the University of North Dakota (in Grand Forks), where he helped the team to third- and fourth-place finishes in the NCAA Division II tournaments in 1965 and 1966.
In 1967, Jackson was drafted by the New York Knicks. He played professionally for 13 years and in 1987 began a coaching career with the Chicago Bulls that included a promotion to head coach in 1989. Jackson coached the Bulls to 6 championships in nine seasons.
In 20 years of coaching (9 with the Chicago Bulls and 11 with the Los Angeles Lakers), Jackson notched 11 championships and numerous other accolades. He coached some of the best in professional basketball, including Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
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I tried this myself, and I can confirm that I am able to link my Google account to my Windows Live account. It allows a two-way sync between Google Contacts and Hotmail Contacts. Hotmail Contacts provides the ability to see a contact's information across all the services they are connected to, so now when you search for a contact you will see their information flowing in from all major "address book" databases – Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, and of course your local Hotmail contacts.
The Windows Live team recently moved away from trying to integrate with various services (like they did with Yahoo! Messenger) and instead, chose to just "link" to them using open standards. As a result, they are able to easily and quickly increase not just the breadth of the offerings but also the functionality they provide through the various services. So while the current link to Google only allows access to Google Contacts as of now, we could potentially see the addition of presence and feeds like they can do with Facebook Chat and Facebook updates (and similarly, across the many other services).
Could this be in preparation for native support of Google Chat/Google Talk in Windows Phone's People Hub? Given that Windows 8 is going to have a similar "People" tile which will be linked to your Windows Live ID, could this be in preparation for Windows 8? What about the previous rumor that Google+ would be a native service in Windows Phone like Facebook is today? This linkage would be required in order to support any such functionality.
Regardless of what's in store, all of which is pretty exciting, at this point it seems Microsoft is serious about making sure no matter what your choice of service is, Windows Live, Windows Phone and Windows 8 support it. You have one less reason to stay away from the Windows ecosystem now.


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Since this person is only referred to as "Nott" in the books, I think "Mr. Nott" is inappropriate. If his first name is unknown, that could be stated, but as far as i know he is never referred to as Mr. Nott. Mafalda Hopkirk 12:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Why is that photograph here? I didn't know Nott was Voldemort's classmate. That photo is also on the page of Mulciber. I think they were mentioned as being the Death Eaters who travelled at Hogsmeade to tell Riddle "good luck". I'll remove it.User:Quirinus Quirrell
Sorry! I didn't find on Mu;ciber's page. User:Quirinus Quirrell
The photo you added to not Nott but Unidentified Female Voldemort's return.Note that no pointy hat, but the hood.
Pardon my asking, but why is there a large black blob on the right side of the photo, between his mask and the hood? Is it perhaps just me eyes? Hunniebunn (talk) 23:40, September 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm, I think maybe it is just your eyes. I'm not seeing anything that looks unusual to me. ProfessorTofty (talk) 04:33, February 17, 2013 (UTC)
- I've uploaded an image, see below:
When I look at it head-on, it looks alright, but then I look at it from one side or another and I see the black blob... Don't forget: Elvendork! (It's unisex!) 13:58, February 17, 2013 (UTC)
- You're right, I can see it now. I don't know, it almost seems as if someone was trying to cover up a watermark or something. We should see if we can get a better image-- that one's not very high resolution anyway. ProfessorTofty (talk) 04:59, March 8, 2013 (UTC)
Theodore Nott's father
Why this page say this Nott is Theodore Nott's father? The Nott that in original deatheater seems too old for Theodore's father.


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Anna Trebunskaya Talks Forever Tango and Dancing With The Stars 14 Cast Reveal
As you might have read earlier, Dancing With The Stars' Anna Trebunskaya is currently on tour with the cast of "Forever Tango". This week, she traveled to Richmond, VA. WRIC News was able to catch up with her to ask her on the show. They also ask her about Dancing With The Stars and if she knows who her partner is yet. Anna starts out by saying that everything you hear is probably 99% not true and it will be the biggest kept secret until the reveal on Feb. 28th. The dancers don't know anything and even whether they will be on the show or not. After that, they talk of "Forever Tango". Anna even gives a Tango demonstration. She's so cute as always.


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Dorothy Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 98.
Height, who continued actively speaking out into her 90s, had been at Howard University Hospital for some time. The hospital said in a statement she died of natural causes.
As a teenager, Height marched in New York's Times Square shouting, "Stop the lynching." In the 1950s and 1960s, she was the leading woman helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists orchestrate the civil rights movement.
It was the second death of a major civil rights figure in less than a week. Benjamin L. Hooks, the former longtime head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Thursday in Memphis at 85.
The late activist C. DeLores Tucker once called Height an icon to all African-American women.
"I call Rosa Parks the mother of the civil rights movement," Tucker said in 1997. "Dorothy Height is the queen."
Height was on the platform at the Lincoln Memorial, sitting only a few feet from King, when he gave his famous "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963.
"He spoke longer than he was supposed to speak," Height recalled in a 1997 Associated Press interview. But after he was done, it was clear King's speech would echo for generations, she said, "because it gripped everybody."
Height became president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1957 and held the post until 1997, when she was 85. She remained chairman of the group.
"I hope not to work this hard all the rest of my life," she said at the time. "But whether it is the council, whether it is somewhere else, for the rest of my life, I will be working for equality, for justice, to eliminate racism, to build a better life for our families and our children."
Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 from President Bill Clinton.
To celebrate Height's 90th birthday in March 2002, friends and supporters raised $5 million to enable her organization to pay off the mortgage on its Washington headquarters. The donors included Oprah Winfrey and Don King.
Height was born in Richmond, Va., and the family moved to the Pittsburgh area when she was four. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from New York University and did postgraduate work at Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. (She had been turned away by Barnard College because it already had its quota of two black women.)
In 1937, while she was working at the Harlem YWCA, Height met famed educator Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the National Council of Negro Women, and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had come to speak at a meeting of Bethune's organization. Height eventually rose to leadership roles in both the council and the YWCA.
One of Height's sayings was, "If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time." She liked to quote 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who said that the three effective ways to fight for justice are to "agitate, agitate, agitate."
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The MOWAG Piranha is a family of armoured fighting vehicles designed by the Swiss company MOWAG (since April 2010 the name has changed to General Dynamics European Land Systems – Mowag GmbH). Five generations of vehicles have been produced, manufactured by Mowag or under licence by other companies, and variants are in service with military forces throughout the world. Piranhas are available in 4×4, 6×6, 8×8, and 10×10 wheel versions. There are several variants within these versions, giving different degrees of armour protection and several kinds of turret, for use in a variety of roles. Piranha derivatives have been assigned roles as troop transports, command vehicles, fire support vehicles, tank trainers, and police vehicles.
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BOTHELL, Wash., – Mark Lamb, Mayor of the City of Bothell, signed a resolution declaring the week of April 11 through 17 to be "Undergraduate Research Week." The resolution, which was brought forth to the mayor's office from the research office at the University of Washington Bothell, echoes a similar declaration passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.
According to the federal resolution, "undergraduate research is essential to pushing the nation's innovation agenda forward by increasing the interest and persistence among young people in crucial science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines." The Bothell declaration states that "the fruits of such research can be witnessed throughout the City of Bothell's high tech/biomedical corridor."
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BLADESTORM: NIGHTMARE is a strategy game where the player takes the role of mercenary and chooses to fight either for England or for France in missions inspired by real events and battles of the era dubbed the Hundred Years War' (1337-1453). Adventure awaits in one of the lengthiest and most politically unstable periods in European history.
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More than two-thirds of Facebook users worry about their privacy, and about half of those using Google's search engine also fret about their personal information being made public, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll.
The article with the poll seemed pretty low in figures and information, but had this to say:
Nearly seven out of 10 Facebook members surveyed — and 52% of Google users — say they are either "somewhat" or "very concerned" about their privacy while using the world's most popular social network and dominant search engine. . . . The poll found that a similar percentage of Facebook and Google users — 65% and 54%, respectively — say they are worried about Internet viruses.
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Although the numbers may seem high, many experts believe most people don't understand the risk to their privacy. "Consumers generally do not understand who's getting access to their data and for what purpose," Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project at the Stanford University Center for Internet and Society, told USA Today.
AllFacebook.com suggests a PSA or Facebook commercial get the word out. I don't think that's likely given that the social network has typically hid and obscured its privacy policy in the last few years to benefit third-party developers and advertisers.


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I commit myself to engage into a 7 year journey to life whereas I will be re-constructing myself and my life patterns in which I've accepted and allowed. I commit myself through the act of self-forgiveness and commitment statements, to reinvent myself as to be what is best for all life within equality and oneness, standing absolutely one and equal to all life within our existence.
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Day 255 - Memory point, breathing through mouth within asthma
So, lately I've been trying to 're-program' myself to breathe through my nose. For as long as I can remember, I've breathed through my mouth. That's what I have to do, actually..ask my mother/father, lol. They've obviously known me since birth.
I did have asthma for basically my whole life up until I was about 21. So, that could very well be the reason that I breathe through my mouth. I can get more air to my lungs through breathing through my mouth, so I may have automatically resorted to that, because I did struggle to breathe a lot as a child, and a teenager.
I saw a doctor about it today, too. He said that it could be from a number of reasons, deviated septum...other medical issues. He also said it could very well be "psychological issues" and that I could therefore sort of do-it-myself as to re-structure my breathing technique to breath through my nose. I've read a lot of articles indicating that breathing through the mouth is not healthy. Because of fumes, it can also cause facial muscles to move (such as my jaw).
So - I had a CT scan today and I got my nose scanned. I don't get the results of that until tomorrow/in a few days. So, it would be cool if it were 'psychological issues' - then I could keep applying self-forgiveness and perhaps through that, and practical application - be able to overcome my mouth-breathing.
But for now, I think that my cause/origin of my mouth-breathing could very well be because of my need to cope with my asthma. And I struggle to breathe through my nose because in my mind I'm thinking that nose-breathing 'won't work' or it 'won't be as good' as mouth-breathing - like that I'm allowing a fear of potential asthma to get to me if I choose to nose-breathe.
I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to be influenced through my breathing technique through the memory of my reliance to breathe through my mouth because of my asthma condition in which I previously had.
I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed the thought of "If I nose-breathe instead of mouth-breathe, then I will not be able to cope, and I'll run out of breath." - within that, I commit myself to practically guide myself and move my myself to physically breathe through my nose as often as I can, as to realise within myself and teach myself that I CAN breathe through my nose.
I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed the memory point of asthma to dictate me in breathing through my mouth through the point of fear - fear within the unknowing of what will happen to my body, if I'll die if I choose to not breathe through my mouth - within this, I realise that I've grown accustomed to mouth-breathing so much, that it's become a habit. I commit myself to break this mouth-breathing habit since it is both unhealthy, and I have no asthma condition currently.
When and as I see myself struggling to move myself practically and physically to nose-breathe, I stop and breathe. I realise that I'm allowing myself to be held back by my mind in the backchats that I will die if I nose-breathe instead of mouth-breathe.
I commit myself to LET GO of the memory/fear within myself of relying on mouth-breathing to 'live' within asthma - I commit myself to slowly but surely guide myself within my physical body to slowly learn to nose-breathe - pushing myself, but not going overboard.
I commit myself to realise that I CAN change the way in which I breathe - I commit myself to realise that I won't be breathing through my mouth my whole life, that I can change it - I realise that just because I breathe through my mouth now, doesn't mean that I'll breathe through my mouth for the rest of my life.
I commit myself to ALWAYS be AWARE of my physical breathing, not only within stopping in the moment and breathing as I do to not participate within my conscious mind thoughts, but also to be aware in general about my breathing, to slowly breathe through my nose WITHOUT the participation in backchats that I will 'run out of breath'.


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Following is a summary of Gary Stern's March 10, 1993, testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Stern, along with the other 11 Federal Reserve bank presidents, was called to testify on the state of the district economy and to share his views on monetary policy.
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, I appreciate this opportunity to discuss with you economic conditions in the Ninth Federal Reserve District and my views on monetary policy. My task is somewhat easier today than it would have been eight years ago, right after I first took office. Over this period economic conditions generally have improved in the Ninth District, and over this period I have had the opportunity to refine my views on the role and conduct of monetary policy. Let me briefly address these two topics in turn.
The Ninth District economy is doing well relative to the national economy today, in large part because it did not participate as fully as some of the regions of the nation in the expansion and excesses of the middle and late 1980s. While the rest of the nation was affected by unsustainable expansions and subsequent sharp contractions in some sectors the Ninth District was more steady-as-you-go. Moreover, inflation appears to have diminished in the district in recent years.
The Ninth District has a relatively small population, but it is large geographically and contains a diverse industrial base. The Ninth District includes the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, as well as western Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Important in the district are the natural resource industries of agriculture, forest products and mining; diverse manufacturing industries including modern computer, electronic and medical technologies; and tourism.
In the middle and late 1980s the district economy was a bit weaker than the national economy. The district did not benefit as much as others from the defense build-up, the commercial construction spree, or the real estate price run-up. Consequently, though, when these areas turned down, the district economy was affected relatively less than the national economy.
In addition, the district has been fortunate to have some growth industries within its borders. The district economy has been supported by growth in exports, medical instrument manufacturing, residential construction, medical services and tourism. And, notably, agriculture has for the most part recovered appreciably from the serious problems of the mid-1980s.
However, I do not want to give the impression that all is well in the Ninth District. Not all industries and not all regions are prospering. In particular, some natural resource industries, commercial construction, computer manufacturing and small-town retail stores all have been slumping to some degree. Nevertheless, I think it is fair to say that as a whole the district economy has improved.
The fortunes of the district's banks largely have reflected the ups and downs of the district's economy. In 1986 the district's banking system was far from healthy. The lagging effects of the 1981-82 recession, difficulties in the agricultural sector and problems with loans to less developed countries had combined to weaken banks' financial condition. But since then, banking conditions have improved. Asset quality, earnings and capital all have improved. In the first three quarters of 1992 only 2 percent of the district's banks reported losses, down from 20 percent in 1986.
Much of the information I get on the district economy comes first-hand from District Dialogues with community and business leaders and from meetings with the bank's directors and advisory council on small business, agriculture and labor. Our involvement in district economic affairs has served both the community and Federal Reserve policymaking well, I believe.
The state of, and prospects for, the regional economy are important elements in my preparation for an approaching Federal Open Market Committee meeting. But, of course, regional considerations must be balanced and integrated with information about the national and international economy, for ultimately the effects of monetary policy transcend regional boundaries. Thus, a wide range of factors, combining regional economic and financial information with additional perspectives, helps to shape my view of the appropriate course of policy.
In the broadest sense, and taking a long-run perspective, the object of monetary policy is, it seems to me, to attain the highest possible living standards for our citizens over time. In order to give this goal operational meaning, the Federal Reserve in my view should seek to achieve over time maximum sustainable growth of real output.
My reading of the accumulated evidence on economic performance both here and abroad is that in the long run the most significant contribution monetary policy can make to achieving maximum sustainable growth in real output is to foster price stability. That is, I am convinced that in the long run, price stability goes hand-in-hand with sustained economic prosperity. The two goals are not antithetical and, indeed, price stability is best thought of as a means to the end of sustained prosperity.
In the short run, we in the Federal Reserve may indeed find it appropriate to respond to incoming financial and economic information in order to keep the economy on, or to return it to, its potential growth path. But, it seems to me, our short-run response should in general be cautious because of uncertainty both about the state of the economy and about the effects of policy on the economy. Moreover, we need to avoid the problem of turning long-run policy into a sequence of short-run decisions. If followed, such an approach runs the risk of adopting a strategy that is persistently inflationary or contractionary, depending on conditions prevailing when it is adopted.


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Following are key excerpts from an article by feminist author Bell Hooks, "Passionate Pedagogy; erotic student/faculty relationships," Z MAGAZINE, March 1996, 45-51. This is one of the best articles written on this subject and I urge readers to savor and critically scrutinize this article.
When I became a professor I was amazed at the extent to which students, male and female, approached me for romantic and/or sexual encounters. Like many unattached female professors in the academy, I was constantly the subject of student gossip. Often the students I loved the most did the most talking. When I complained to them about their obsession with my sex life, they simply responded by telling me to get a grip and accept that it goes with the turf. They wanted to understand female sexual agency. They wanted to know how women professors are coping with working in patriarchal institutions, and how we were juggling issues of sexual desirability, agency, and careerism. They saw us as charting the path they will follow. Many of these students were more than hip to the dangers of getting involved with someone older and more powerful.
Contemporary feminist movement has usefully interrogated the way men in power within patriarchal culture often use that power to abuse and sexually coerce females. That necessary critical intervention is undermined when it obscures recognition of the way in which desire can be acknowledged in relationships between individuals where there is unequal power without being abusive. It is undermined when any individual who is in a less powerful position is represented as being absolutely without choice, as having no agency to act on their own behalf. As long as young females are socialized to see themselves as incapable of choosing those situations of erotic engagement which would be most constructive for their lives, they will always be more vulnerable to victimization. This does not mean that they will not make mistakes, as countless female students did when they chose to have disappointing nonproductive romantic liaisons with professors. Everyone I interviewed for this piece had no regret about these liaisons. We all knew they did not have to be negative. The point is that we were not embracing a psychology of female victimization that would have been utterly disempowering. There is clearly a connection between submitting to abuse and the extent to which any of us already feel that we are destined to be victimized.
The vast majority of women who are heterosexual in this society are likely to be in intimate relations with men at some point in their lives who have greater status and power, however relative, given the nature of capitalism and patriarchy. Clearly, it is more important to learn ways to be "just" in situations where there is a power imbalance, rather than to
assume that exploitation and abuse are the "natural" outcome of all such encounters. Notice how such logic fixes those in power in ways that deny their accountability and choice by assuming that they act on behalf of their interests exclusively. And that their interests will always be antithetical to the interests of those who are less powerful.
Contemporary focus on victimization tends to leave very little cultural space for recognition of the erotic as a space of transgression that can undermine politics of domination. Rather than perceiving desire between faculty and students as always dangerous, negative and destructive, what does it mean for us to consider the positive uses of that desire, the way the erotic can serve to enhance self-actualization and growth. We hear much more about the way in which individuals have abused power in faculty/students relations where there is erotic engagement. We rarely hear anything about the ways erotic desire between teacher and student enhances individual growth. We do not hear about the affectionate bonds that spring from erotic encounters which challenge conventional notions of what is appropriate behavior.
Most professors, even the ones who are guilty, would acknowledge that it is highly problematic and usually unproductive to be romantically involved with students you are directly working with, either in the classroom or on a more individual basis. Yet, prohibitions, rules and regulations, will not keep these relationships from happening. The place of vigilance is not in forbidding such encounters but having a system that effectively prevents harassment and abuse. At every college campus in this country there are individual male professors who repeatedly harass and coerce students to engage in sexual relations. For the most part, even when there have been ongoing complaints, college administrators have not confronted these individuals or used the already institutionalized procedures governing harassment to compel them to stop abusive behavior. Even though everyone seems to be quite capable of recognizing the difference between those professors who abuse their power and those who may have a romantic relationship with a student that is consensual, by imposing rules and regulations that would effect all faculty and students they deny this difference. Some folks want to argue there is no difference that the student is always more vulnerable. It is true that relationships where there are serious power imbalances can be a breeding ground for victimization. They can begin with mutual consent yet this does not ensure that they may not become conflictual in ways that lead the more powerful party to become coercive or abusive. This is true in all relationships in life. Power must be negotiated. Part of maturing is learning how to cope with conflict. Many of the cases where students cite serious exploitation on the part of professors involve graduate students and professors. It is difficult to believe that any graduate student is not fully aware of the risks when they become erotically involved with a professor who has some control over their career. Concurrently, sexism and misogyny have to be seen as factors at work, when individual powerful male professors direct their attention at exceptionally smart female graduate students who could easily become their competitors. If campuses really want to effectively address the problems of abuse in faculty-student relations then we should be socializing undergraduates to be realistic about the problems that can arise in such encounters.
The Time magazine story on romantic relations between students and faculty begins with this confession: "During the three months in 1993 when she was sleeping with her English professor, Lisa Topol lost 18 pounds. She lost interest in her classes at the University of Pennsylvania, lost her reputation as an honor student and wondered if she was losing her mind. If she tried to break up, she thought, he could ruin her academic career. Then she made some phone calls and learned a bit more about the professor she had come to view as a predator." If one took out the words academic and professor this would read like the troubled narrative of anyone involved with someone on the job who is their supervisor. The problem with this story is not that it does not tell the truth but rather that it tells a partial truth. We have no idea why Lisa Topol entered this relationship. We do not know if it was consensual. We do not know how or why the male involved became abusive. We do know that he did not become abusive simply because he was her professor. The problem here does not lie with faculty-student relations but with this individual male, and the large numbers of men like him who prey upon females. The cultural context that condones this abuse is patriarchy and male domination. Yet most men and women in the academy, like society as a whole, are not engaged in activism that would target patriarchy. There are many faculty-student romances that end in friendship, some that lead to marriage and/or partnership. The professors in these relationships are able to conduct themselves in a way that is not exploitative despite the imbalance of power. There are many more male professors involved with students who are not abusive than those that are.
Realistically, our pedagogy is failing both inside and outside the classroom if students have no awareness of their agency when it comes to choosing a relationship of intimacy with a faculty member. Some folks oppose faculty/student erotic bonding because they say it creates a climate of favoritism that can be deeply disruptive. In actuality, any intimate bonding between a professor and a student is a potential context for favoritism, whether or not that intimacy is erotic. Favoritism often surfaces in the classroom and has nothing to do with desire. For example: Most professors are especially partial to students that do assigned work with rigor and intellectual enthusiasm. This is as much a context for favoritism but no one is seeking to either eliminate, question, or police it. Young females and males entering college are in the process of claiming and asserting adult status. Sexuality is as much a site where that evolution and maturation is registered as is the classroom.
A college environment should strengthen a student's ability to make responsible mature decisions and choices. Those faculty members who become involved in romantic relationships with a student (whether they initiated it or responded to an overture by the student) who are not exploitative or dominating will nurture this maturation process. In my teaching career I have had a relationship with one student. Although he was a student in my class, I did not approach him during the time that he studied with me because I did not want to bring that dynamic into the classroom or into my evaluation of his work. He was not an exceptional student in my class. When the course ended, we became intimate. From the start we had conflicts about power. The relationship did not work yet we became friends. Recently, I shared with him that I was writing this piece. I wanted to know if he thought I had taken advantage of him. He reminded me of how shocked he was that I desired him because he primarily thought of me as this teacher that he admired and looked up to. He shared his perspective: "I did not feel in any way coerced. I found it intriguing that I would be able to talk to you one on one about issues raised in the class. I was happy to have a chance to get to know you better because I knew you were this smart and gifted professor. We all thought you were special. I was young and inexperienced and even though it was exciting that you desired me, it was also frightening." Our romance failed. We had our share of miserable conflictual moments. Our friendship has deepened over the years and is grounded in respect and care.
Student devotion to a teacher can easily be a context where erotic longings emerge. Passionate pedagogy in any setting is likely to spark erotic energy. It cannot be policed or outlawed. This erotic energy can be used in constructive ways both in individual relationships and in the classroom setting. Just as it is important that we be vigilant in challenging abuses of power wherein the erotic becomes a terrain of exploitation, it is equally important to recognize that space where erotic interaction is enabling and positively transforming. Desire in the context of relations where hierarchy and unequal power separate individuals is always potentially disruptive and simultaneously potentially transformative. Desire can be a democratic equalizing force—the fierce reminder of the limitations of hierarchy and status—as much as it can be a context for abuse and exploitation. The erotic is always present, always with us. When we deny that erotic feelings will emerge between teachers and students, this denial precludes the recognition of accountability and responsibility. The implications of entering intimate relations where there is an imbalance of power cannot be understood, or those relations handled with care in a cultural context where desire that disrupts is seen as so taboo that it cannot be spoken, acknowledged, and addressed. Banning relations between faculty and students would create a climate of silence and taboo that would only intensify dynamics of coercion and exploitation. The moment power differences are articulated in a dialogue where erotic desire surfaces, a space is created where choice is possible, where accountability can be clearly assessed.
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[…] article I read at the Dankprofessor's Blog in which he cited an incredibly provocative essay by feminist bell hooks on erotic student/faculty […]
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But for the fact that so many other of bell hooks' ideological stances (principally on race and gender) are so inexcusably short-sighted…
Comment by e jerry powell | November 23, 2008 |
It is so refreshing to see a feminist who has an open minded view on the subject. If we demonize all men, and infantilize all women, where a difference of power & status exists, consider this. Nearly all heterosexual relationships are "exploitive", as most men are physically stronger than most women! See how far the paranoid feminists can carry this? I'm somewhat surprised that they haven't done so already!
Comment by Donald Visconti | August 15, 2009 |
What a great post. The sexually charged dynamic between teacher and student (of both sexes, as we hear so frequently in the news) is both understandable and, as you say, impossible to "police or outlaw." It is no different from other relationships where there is an imbalance in power, age, maturity, experience – all of which can be exceptionally alluring to both parties.
Comment by Jamie London | October 28, 2009 |
Here's an experiment for you, or at least a thought-experiment. On the same day, bring 5 copies of this essay to five campus feminist clubs, with the correct author and her photo at the top. This could be done by five cooperativing professors. On the same evening, another five cooperating professors bring a copy of this same essay with a false male name at the top and a white male (and not too "attractive") photo at the top. Have the members of the club (including any male members) vote on whether they 1) agree with 2) disagree with 3) are not sure about.
Compare the average percent voting 1) or 3) for the average of the first five, with the average percent voting either 1) or 3) in the second five groups.
This comparison might not tell us much about the merits of hooks' essay, but it may reveal much to us in other ways.
(postscript- Some of the following may be come as a surprise to some- that I admire bell hooks yet do not entirely agree with her essay)
Comment by pav | January 8, 2010 |
I do trust all of the ideas you've introduced in your post. They are really convincing and can definitely work. Nonetheless, the posts are too brief for newbies. Could you please lengthen them a little from next time? Thank you for the post.
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Ireland is well represented at this event with myself, Aidan Finn, Damian Flynn and Paul Keely all entering a session. Our UK friends have a strong showing too with speakers like Gordon McKenna, Patrick Lownds, Steve Beaumont and Simon Skinner to name but a few.
Here's a snippet about the event from our UK & Ireland MVP lead - Claire Smyth:
What is MVP Cloud OS Online?
On the 31st March and the 1st April 2014, MVPs will be releasing a series of online training videos that articulate how to rapidly build and deploy apps, flexibly manage IT services, and support real-time analytics across all forms of data. They will also highlight how the Cloud OS supports people-centric IT, allowing employees to bring their own devices and enhancing anytime, anywhere productivity.
The videos (all 25-30 minutes in length) will go online consecutively from Monday 31st March through to Tuesday April 1st and you can view them using the following info:
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- Visit the MVP Rocks UK and IE YouTube channel on 31 March and 1 April
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Trump administration diverted nearly $10 million from FEMA to ICE detention program, according to DHS document
The Trump administration appears to have diverted nearly $10 million in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency at the forefront of the president's zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to the separation of hundreds of children, some as young as 18 months, from their parents.
The reallocation of public money is documented in a "Transfer and Reprogramming" notification prepared this fiscal year by the Department of Homeland Security, the parent department of ICE, as the agency is known. It was made public by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon in an appearance Tuesday on "The Rachel Maddow Show," as Hurricane Florence barreled toward the Carolinas.
Merkley's office provided the 39-page budget document independently to The Washington Post. It shows that DHS requested that about $9.8 million going toward FEMA efforts such as "Preparedness and Protection" and "Response and Recovery" be funneled instead into ICE coffers, specifically underwriting "Detention Beds" and the agency's "Transportation and Removal Program." The U.S. Secret Service was also a beneficiary of the reallocation.
"This is a scandal," Merkley said in an emailed statement to the Post. "At the start of hurricane season - when American citizens in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are still suffering from FEMA's inadequate recovery efforts - the administration transferred millions of dollars away from FEMA. And for what? To implement their profoundly misguided 'zero-tolerance' policy. It wasn't enough to rip thousands of children out of the arms of their parents - the administration chose to partly pay for this horrific program by taking away from the ability to respond to damage from this year's upcoming and potentially devastating hurricane season."
The "monster," as Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina labeled the storm gathering strength off the southeastern Atlantic coast, threatens enormous damage and a replay of last year's devastating hurricane season, in which FEMA was woefully unprepared for the catastrophe that befell Puerto Rico, according to an after-action report by the agency. Meanwhile, a year after Hurricane Harvey brought the worst rainstorm in the nation's history to the Houston area, 50 percent of lower-income respondents in a survey conducted this summer said they weren't getting the help they needed.
As Trump pledged Tuesday that "We are sparing no expense" in preparing for Florence, DHS did not dispute the authenticity of the document in a statement posted on Twitter. The department acknowledged that funds had been redirected but said the transfer did not jeopardize relief efforts.
The memorandum sheds light on the immigration-enforcement operations enhanced by the FEMA funds. Without the transfer, the document notes, "ICE will not be able to fulfill its adult detention requirements in FY 2018." Insufficient funding, DHS observes, could prevent the agency from deporting people who stand in violation of the country's immigration laws while requiring ICE to "release any new book-ins and illegal border violators," to "reduce its current interior enforcement operations" and to limit "criminal alien and fugitive arrests."
These new limitations, the department warns, "would pose a significant risk to public safety and national security by permitting known offenders to remain at large."
The precise timing of the reallocation is unclear, as the document, which refers to Fiscal Year 2018, does not include an exact date. The document's file information indicates that it was created in late June, the first month of the Atlantic hurricane season. A Senate aide told the Post that the fiscal notice appears to have been written in June, sent to Congress at the end of the month and approved sometime between July and September.
DHS is required to notify the House and Senate Appropriations Committees of reprogramming of funds in excess of $5 million, according to a 2009 appropriations measure. Merkley, who is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told Maddow that the document he released was "the notification document that would have come to the Appropriations Committee, specifically to the chair of [the subcommittee on] Homeland Security."
Merkley said he came across the document in the course of his efforts to try "to stop child separations," which included his attempt in early June to visit a detention facility in South Texas. He linked the transfer of funds to the zero-tolerance policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in May.
"Clearly they were saying, 'if we're going to start arresting, as a criminal matter, and detaining people, we need to have much bigger detention camps, oh well we better get some more money to do that,'" Merkley said Tuesday evening on the MSNBC show. He also suggested that the financial pressure was linked to this month's announcement by the administration of new regulations designed to enable expanded detention of families who cross into the U.S. without legal status.
As for FEMA, the notifying document states that the "Mission impact" will be "minimized," as the agency will scale back training, travel, public engagement sessions and IT security support and infrastructure maintenance.
A spokesman for DHS responded to Merkley's allegations in a series of tweets late Tuesday, acknowledging the budgetary reallocation but arguing that the funds in question came from "FEMA's routine operating expenses" and "could not have been used for hurricane response due to appropriations limitations."
"The money in question - transferred to ICE from FEMA's routine operating expenses - could not have been used for hurricane response due to appropriation limitations. DHS/FEMA stand fiscally and operationally ready to support current and future response and recovery needs," Tyler Q. Houlton wrote on Twitter.
Former DHS and FEMA officials, however, disputed the spokesman's claim that the money in question was distinct from "hurricane response," saying these funds were critical to the agency's overall mission of storm preparedness and response, even if they were not explicitly earmarked for disaster relief.
"Anyone who knows FEMA knows it's parsing words," Moira Whelan, a former chief of staff in the Office of Gulf Coast Rebuilding at Homeland Security's National Joint Information Center, told the Post. The disaster relief funding left untouched by the transfer, Whelan said, covers post-storm assistance and the rebuilding of public structures, while "Response and Recovery" money tapped for the transfer pays for plans, logistics, supply-chain management and after-action reports that seek to improve on previous seasons, said Whelan, who is also a former official with the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The nearly $10 million diverted to ICE comes from a roughly $1 billion operating budget that supports much of FEMA's efforts beyond the immediate response to a declared emergency, said a former FEMA official who asked not to be identified because he still does business with the agency. That includes staff, meetings and exercises, he said - all crucial to readiness for the next hurricane season. One example, the former official said, was the network of warehouses operated by FEMA across the country, which requires staff and supplies.
Trump said on Tuesday that the government was "absolutely, totally prepared" for the hurricane bearing down on the Carolinas. Florence is expected to make landfall in southeast North Carolina on Friday as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane, bringing destructive winds and leaving flooding in its wake.
"We're ready. FEMA is ready. Everybody is ready," Trump said in brief remarks at Joint Base Andrews.
Later in the day, after a briefing on the hurricane, the president affirmed, "The safety of the American people is my absolute highest priority. We are sparing no expense." He also used the occasion to trumpet as an "incredible, unsung success" his administration's response to Hurricane Maria, which caused nearly 3,000 deaths on Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory already badly damaged by Hurricane Irma weeks earlier.
It was "one of the best jobs that's ever been done with respect to what this is all about," Trump said.
This article was written by Isaac Stanley-Becker, a reporter for The Washington Post.


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Note: This is a selection from Variations of the OODA Loop, part of tdaxp's SummerBlog '06
It is not simply because of John Boyd that OODA is no longer just a word that means a type of bear.23 Chet Richards, John Boyd's "flame-keeper,â€24 is largely responsible for the world's current knowledge of the OODA Loop. Boyd changed his OODA loop over time, creating two major versions.25 Thankfully, both Boydian OODA Loops are included in Dr. Richard's Certain to Win power point presentation26
In describing the Toyota manufacturing process, also a theme of Richards',27 Peter Dickson28 flawlessly describes the naive Boydian loop
Toyota and other fast-cycle companies resemble the World War II fighter pilots who consistently won dogfights, even when flying in technologically inferior planes. The U.S. Air Force found that winning pilots completed the so-called OODA loop — Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action — faster than their opponents. Winning pilots sized up the dynamics in each new encounter, read its opportunities, decided what to do, and acted before their opponents could.
The naive Boydian loop has the four familiar stages of observing, orienting, deciding, and acting,29 and always works in that order. No stage is skippable, and it is impossible to fall back to a previous stage without first continuing the loop.30 Dickson's words are quoted from a Harvard Business Review article,31 indicating the wide reach of naïve Boydianism. Because decision is separate but subsequent to orientation,32 orientation in the naive Boydian model is often seen as merely a form of assessment.33 Because one's orientation affects what one observes through feedback, orientation and observation together have been described as "epistemic reasoning – ie, reasoning about knowledge.â€34
Variations of the OODA Loop, a tdaxp series:
Variations of the OODA Loop 1: Introduction
Variations of the OODA Loop 2: The Naive Boydian Loop
Variations of the OODA Loop 3: The Sophisticated Boydian Loop
Variations of the OODA Loop 4: Pseudo-Boydian Loops
Variations of the OODA Loop 5: Post-Boydian Loops
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:: this week my eldest son turned 29
:: he called breathless "i was on a paddleboard two miles off the coast, we were surrounded by at least twenty migrating blue whales!"
:: my youngest girl called " i got a job!"
:: my youngest boy called also "i got in! "(the school he was hoping for)
:: my middle son sent to me in the mail a letter and an apple gift card! he said have fun!
:: my oldest child made a commercial for lexus
:: my husband was offered a job as editor of a (big) magazine (he had to turn it down though)
:: my sister heard my mom sing the words to a james taylor song
i felt immense joy and pleasure at all these things
(* so i won't ever forget)
then i
took a hike
visited a gallery where my friend has a showing
spent four days with my dear friends here from germany
went on a date with my husband
showed a friend how to knit cables and she gave me some of her handmade beeswax candles
and then, after work, i started working on these...
i am going to call them green sleeves. the embroidered patch is my own design, the knitted pattern is found here. instead of wasteful paper cardboard sleeves, i hope others will want to try these reusable cozies. they keep your tea or coffee warm and keep your hand comfortable. because a comfortable hand is important indeed!


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Disasters Roundtable Staff
Lauren Alexander Augustine
Lauren Alexander Augustine is the Associate Executive Director in the Division of Earth and Life Studies and Director of the Disasters Roundtable at the National Academies.Dr.Augustine served as the Country Director in the Academies' African Science Academy Development Initiative. She came to the National Academies in 2002 as a study director for the Water Science and Technology Board in the National Research Council and directed many studies on a range of water resources topics, including Texas instream flows, endangered species in the Klamath and Platte River Basins, and forest hydrology. Previously, Dr. Augustine did her post-doc at the US Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, and worked in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Interior. Dr.Augustine received her B. S. in applied mathematics and systems engineering and her Masters degree in environmental planning and policy from the University of Virginia; she completed her Ph.D. from Harvard University in an interdisciplinary program that combined physical hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology.
Sherrie Forrest
Sherrie Forrest is a Program Officer for the Disasters Roundtable. She joined the full time staff of the National Research Council (NRC) in the summer of 2010 following a Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Graduate Fellowship in the Fall of 2009. While at the NRC, she has worked with the Ocean Studies Board and the Board on Science Education on projects that include the Roundtable on Climate Change Education, the Conceptual Framework for New Science Education Standards, and the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico. More recently, she began working with the Disasters Roundtable. She obtained her M.S. in biological oceanography from the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University, where she employed molecular techniques to explore oceanic nitrogen and iron budgets using quantitative analysis of an essential physiological structure. She received her B.A. in English from Pepperdine University.
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John Brown is the Program and Administrative Manager for the Disasters Roundtable at the National Academies. He came to the Academies in 2002 and has worked on numerous studies in conjunction with the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, including toxicity pathway-based risk assessment, the hidden costs of energy, a research and restoration plan for Western Alaska salmon, endangered species in the Klamath and Platte River Basins, risk reduction and economic benefits from controlling ozone air pollution, and environmental impacts of wind energy projects. Prior to joining the Academies staff, he worked with the Smithsonian Institution and the Kennedy Center. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Boston University.


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Oklahoma Wind Supply Chain Workshop set for October 15Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:00 am
State News Service
The following information was released by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce:
Find out how your manufacturing business can become part of the emerging wind industry supply chain. Oklahoma manufacturers: Are you interested in learning about the following:
New business opportunities in the exploding wind industry supply chain market;
Current global trends driving market demand for key components in an already sold-out supply chain;
The wind industry supply chain structure and the kinds of components needed;
What wind industry OEMs look for in their suppliers; and, Where (or if) your manufacturing business fits in the wind industry supply chain?
What: Oklahoma Wind Supply Chain Workshop
When: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009; 7:30 a.m. to noon
Where: Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) Student Union, 7777 S. May Avenue
Cost: $95 per person (before noon Monday, Oct. 12); $105 after Oct. 12
Payment Options: Credit cards and advance payment preferred
Online registration: www.okcchamber.com/events (Page 2 of the events calendar)
Space is limited, so register today!
If you operate an Oklahoma manufacturing business that produces power electronics, control systems, hydraulics, fasteners, brakes, blades, nacelles, or supplemental equipment such as ladders, elevators, hoists, fire suppression, lighting, or meteorological equipment, then the Oklahoma Wind Industry Supply Chain Workshop is for you.
If you operate a foundry, forge, machine shop, or fabricating plant in Oklahoma, then the Oklahoma Wind Industry Supply Chain Workshop is for you.
The Oklahoma Wind Industry Supply Chain Workshop brings Ed Weston, Director of the Great Lakes Wind Network (GLWN) and one of the most popular panelists at Wind Commerce 2009, back to Oklahoma--along with Matt Garran, GLWN Technical Director--to help our manufacturers capitalize on the many opportunities offered by the domestic and international wind industry.
Workshop sponsors are: the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, and Oklahoma Gas and Electric.
7:30 a.m. Doors open/registration and continental breakfast
8:15 a.m. Welcoming comments
8:20 a.m. GLWN welcome and workshop overview
8:30 a.m. Supply chain success story
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9:30 a.m. Networking break
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Today's game(s)
Quite a long day for stadium workers today…
From 12-2, we've got the WIN clinic, as a girls' softball instructional is going on down on the field right now with Jamie McCourt, Eric Gagne, Manny Mota and Jeff Kent.
The car gates open at 5 p.m. for tonight's Hollywood Stars Game…among those coming are Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Jimmy Kimmel, James Van Der Beek, Mia Hamm, Louis Gossett Jr., Carlos Mencia, Michael Clarke Duncan and Corbin Bernsen. That game starts at 5:15.
The real Dodger game starts at 7:10, with Cesar Izturis set to leadoff and play shortstop. He will appear in his 560th game a short, leaving him 11 games behind Jose Offerman for third place on the L.A. Dodgers all-time games played list at that position. Bill Russell (1,747) and Maury Wills (1,497) are in the top two spots.
Here's the lineup:
Izzy, SS
Cruz, RF
Nomar, 1B
Kent, 2B
Saenz, 3B (6-for-7, 2 HR, 5 RBI off Zach Duke)
Kemp, CF
Ethier, LF
Martin, C
Sele, P
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Nice lineup here, and JD Drew gets his nap since we don't have an off day for a while. Lofton gets a second off day in a row.
Time to secure the series win. Go Dodgers.
It's great that Drew doesn't play anymore. Maybe he's bored with baseball. He has enough money to do so many much more fun things.
honestly I love that Ethier and kemp get to play but the dodgers are paying a fortune for drew, why the heck does he play so little? I know he is injury prone but give me a break. Anyways, the pirates are like playing a minor league team so we should win.
The Drew brothers are S-O-F-T. Lok at JD's history, or read LaRusso's book "3 Nights". He has had a sore shoulder since the road trip to DC and Atlanta. He does not play through pain. Besides it gives Ethier and Kemp the playing time they need.
It is unfortunate that the Dodgers pay so much for Odalis and JD and get less in return that one could expect. I really don't understand why Odalis is not made a reclamation project. Surely he still has the skills. Isn't it the pitching coach's job to help him out of his funk? It seems like a costly guy to give up on and let ride the bench. JD is fragile and is hurting. He is not known to play through pain but not being able to understand what that is like, it might be unfair to him to accuse him of being soft. It seems to me he has an escape clause in his contract at the end of the season. Will be interesting to see how that plays out. That is, if he will exercise his option or stay with the Dodgers for the length of his contract. I think he might be more durable as a DH. When healthy he certainly can be productive.
Wow, sure looks like the Boo birds are out today. Fact is that there is no better time for Drew to rest up then during this series. Statistically it makes sense and I for one like the idea. Grady made it quite clear in the beginning of the season that he was going to be sure Drew was well rested so he would last the whole season. Plus he's always available to come off the bench, so give it a rest you guys !!! Now Odalis, that's another matter in itself. His problem isn't physical, his problem is mental and attitude. Until he bucks up and plays like a team member I say forget him. Get what you can by the trade deadline and move on. We, the team, need to keep thinking about the streak and what we can do to keep it going !!
Go Dodgers !!
No way does JD opt out and lose out on the $33 Mill left on his contract. JD has a sweet swing and plays a great RF but he is not a top tier hitter. He reminds me of what James Loney might become. A good hitter, good OBP, 15-20 HR's, and solid D. Nobody is worth $11 mill a year to me when people whom actually save lives for a living dont make anything near that. But that's just my opinion.
"people whom save lives", huh? Me am not going to say anything else about this.
Let me say something about the Odalis comments seen here over the past couple of weeks. I would not be all so fired up to trade him or to simply release him, while still being responsible for his $39 or so million. Given his performance and inactivity over the past month or so, what trading value could he possibly provide for us. Anybody willing to take the chance on Odalis and willing to part with any proven or even promising talent would have to figure that they can reconstruct Odalis to where he is again a successful starting pitcher. He has been that to some degree in the past, and he is hardly old enough to be over the hill. Right now he probably is much "out of shape" and in need of some "head counseling", but if anyone can reconstruct him to a previously successful level, why not us? Trading him now is not going to bring us anyone of value that will contribute to this season. Someone in the organization should be working with Odalis to bring him back to a level of performance that can contribute to the Dodgers NOW. I don't ever hear about that going on, and I think that is too bad. Forgetting him on the bench or letting him pitch just a couple of innings every other week will not get that job done. So, let's lean a little bit on our coaching staff to get in gear and get this $39 million package working for us instead of against us. OK, now I've said my piece.
I'd hate to see what you guys would say about the Pirates. JD Drew not worth $11 mil? What about Jeromy Burnitz at $6.5? Or Joe Randa at $4? Give it a rest…be thankful you've got a winning club to cheer for.
"A New Pirates Generation"
Hey Cory…
Thanks for the bit of perspective. I for one do not forget. It seems there are many with short-term memory loss. After all it was only last year when the wheels completely fell off this wagon. We are truly blessed to be so deep in talent right now. JD Drew will get healthy again. He's playing through an injury and is a gamer. Seems to me I remember a month or so ago that I didn't read anything but good news about JD. My how times change so quickly. lol…
Kemp and Ethier!!!! Baby Dodgers lead the way..starting another streak.
Way to go
Wow everyone looked good tonight and saito Had some electric stuff.Wish Izzy would have done better in the leadoff spot be he looked very good in those 2 double plays. Broxton even looked good but thats what I was saying about playing bad teams with our line up.Everyone will shine the team needs games like these to put it all together for the tough teams. Great jobon this streak ! Go Blue!!!
It may be the Pirates, but it's 3 in a row and a streak it is !! Sele looked good, Broxton looked good, Kent looked good and of course the Kids looked good as well !! This team is full of gamers and I can only hope that they know we're behind them. Maybe this kind of energy will help turn Odalis around and make him a team player as well !! I'll be at the game tomorrow to see the streak continue !!
Go Dodgers !!!
He's not going to keep up the .700 batting average all year.
I still say it's overkill to put in Brad Penny against Kip Wells, especially after outscoring them 17-4 over the last two games. Start Odalis tomorrow; it's not like we can't still beat Pittsburgh with him on the mound.
And is it just me, or was the official scorer a little harsh on Seo?
I would agree, start Odalis tomorrow and save Penny for Minnesota (38-35). Izzy still got a hit in the 8th !! I was at the game and Seo didn't earn the save, he survived it !! All the same, it's great to see the guys playing hard !! Keep up the streak !!
Go Dodgers !!
I'm a little puzzled about why it would even be concidered a save opp.Doesn't the score have to be within 2 runs? people on base plus at bat and on deck hitter for it to be concidered?I think the scoring is really screwy in that a reliever can come in with runners on base and allow a game tying hit that ties the score and still get the win if the team comes back.
I think perez might be a good idea but on a very short leash. Might help him build a little confidence and save the penny for the tougher job especially if we need to fill tomkos slot for a game or 2.All of our pitchers have shown through the years they have ability and some of them are feeling downright human at the moment.It doesn't help anyone when they are down to be kicked by the people who are supposed to be fans but we expect alot for the money they are paid.Granted perez has always had a knack for saying the wrong things at any givin time but he is a very 'special' proud person and while he is still on the team we have to help him be the best he can be as fans.Tracy is no longer a Dodger and he is fully getting our 2 cents worth now. What i can't figure out though is when Tracy comes out with the hook are people booing because he is Tracy or That we are kicking the **** outta his pitcher and want him to leave em in…..Izzy Looks Good where ever he plays and since he is back furcal has seemed to have kicked it up a notch.I Like what I'm seeing Kent is Back in form Killer Tomato is looking good again The kids are all Rookie of the year canadates Saito is making me not miss gagne as much and has been perfect the last 13+ innings only thing i'd like to see is lofton play 2 steps back really hate to see balls over his head bouncing off the wall.Kemps Catch tonight at the wall was beautiful repko in center is just plain sick defence gotta teach him not to try standing atop the wall to catch em.
Before I get off My Dodger High I think that this team has sooo many tools at its disposial and that if we can get em all healthy for Sept and keep it going to win the Wild Wild West that we will have the deepest team going into the playoffs in quite awhile.
In closing I'd Like to post a challenge to Dodger fans to Find people at work or friends who might not vote for all stars to get Nomar,Kent,and Lofton into the All Star game and maybe even write in for Martin,Kemp and Either just to put Numbers up on the kids as I did.We Got Izzy there last year on a Last Minute online onslaught.Go Blue!!!
The pitcher recieves a save if he fulfills at least one of the following three conditions:
1. He comes into the game with a lead of no more than three runs, and pitches at least one full inning.
2. He comes into the game with the potential tying run being either on base, at bat, or on deck.
3. He pitches at least 3 innings after entering the game with a lead and finishes the game.
Thank you Jen didn't know about the 3 inn rule.