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'"I started collaging as an escape from making meaning. I got tired of writing poems, of trying to make sense – verbal sense. It is a relief to make a different kind of sense – visual sense. One must think, of course, but it is an entirely different kind of thinking, one in which language does not intrude."'
– from Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, quoting poet Mark Strand
" An entirely different kind of thinking."
This remark raises self-evident questions about how the human mind processes information and experience. Tom Stuart-Smith has spoken of Broughton Grange in words that take you to the very edge of language, then leave you there, waiting for the next step. As I see it, there isn't a next step until you recognize the limits of language to express certain kinds of experience, and move on.
Of course we can write about the physical garden of things–its structure, its similarity to or difference from another garden, the success of its execution, its dimensions, its type, its planting style, its historical precedents, the ecology of the site, its value to wildlife and so on. But when one enters the realm of atmosphere, emotion, and other unnamed, perhaps unnamable, attributes, words won't do.
Tom Stuart-Smith has said of Broughton Grange, "it was remote from the house … so there was kind of no point to it. It wasn't a setting for a house, somewhere you all spill out and have a cocktail party and enjoy the view … it was absolutely something you made a pilgrimage to … and you got there, and the garden was the thing. I was immensely lucky to have this opportunity to make this garden that had no point." (Italics are mine.)
What does "no point" mean here? I think simply that it exists as a garden, as a work of art exists, for silent observation and contemplation, as a field for the the free play of imagination, with absolutely no practical purpose or utility.
Thinking about my first visit to Broughton Grange has led me to consider two talks Stuart-Smith gave in 2014–one I attended at the New York Botanical Garden and another, a few months later, at the Garden Museum Literary Festival in the UK. Things he said at both events struck me in a remarkable way, with a meaning I find difficult to put into words, thus my reference to Mark Strand's turn from one mode of "thinking" to another. In the case of Stuart-Smith, I don't even suggest the garden need "make sense." Rather, that it be like a door open to possibility and potential. (I should note here that Stuart-Smith's words in double quotes are my own imperfect transcription of his spoken words, not direct quotations.)
The Garden's 'Push Back'
As shown in this top-of-the-wall photo from Tom Stuart-Smith's web site (above), Broughton Grange is formally structured as three terraces that step gently down toward the landscape in the distance: the top terrace with gritty, low nutrient soil and plantings more or less in the Mediterranean style, the middle terrace with a large square pool in the center and luxuriant prairie-like plantings, and the lower terrace (hardly visible here) with a very unusual box parterre. The distinctive verticals of the the columnar yew topiaries on the top terrace and the bobble-headed beech topiaries on the second terrace break up the space into a kind of relaxed grid that contrasts appealingly with the lavish perennial plantings, that anchors them and fixes them in space. They also suggest human forms looking out into the landscape, and suggest a sense of prior occupation of the garden space.
I've admired the walled garden at Broughton Grange for years, but visited it for the first time only last summer on a cloudy and intermittently rainy day in July. I was already familiar with some of the garden's most characteristic features from photographs–the central pool, stone-framed runnels and stepping stones, the narrow yew columns and beech topiaries, the view off into the valley.
On first entering, although the beauty of the garden was immediately apparent and I could take delight in the open view across, it was so laid out and so closely planted, I also felt a moment of confusion as if there were nowhere to go. Obscured by the profuse plantings, the many potential routes into the garden, the generosity of opportunity there, became a kind of psychological barrier. These feelings of emotional constraint transpired within a few seconds, and I was soon making my way through the top terrace. But I had experienced something new. The garden had gently pushed back and, in doing that, set itself apart as a special place. My initial confusion, in a place I expected to feel at home, awakened me to the garden.
A Different Realm of Experience
Tom Stuart-Smith seeks to enable a kind of experience we in America–so accustomed to usefulness and utility in all things–rarely expect, or even think to consider, of a garden: that a garden may have "no point," meaning no purpose other than to be a garden. This is very different from the kinds of utilitarian gardens that have come down to us through the influence of such great American garden designers as Thomas Church through his book Gardens are for People, which essentially extended the house into the garden and filled it with utilitarian purposes.
"The garden was the thing." "A garden that had no point." These phrases resonate.
Speaking of gardens that influenced Broughton Grange, Stuart-Smith told a story of searching for a gardino segreto on the grounds of the Villa Farnese in Italy. He says, "One garden that remains a great inspiration to me is this extraordinary garden at Caprarola … it's this complete fantasy garden made around a casino … It's very possible to go to Caprarola and never discover this casino and its garden. We wandered through this pine grove, and I thought for a bit my garden-finding antennae had let me down, but then I saw this gleam of Carrara marble through the trees. You discover this extraordinary garden that has absolutely no reason to be there at all!"
"We have to step back to Broughton," he continues, "and these topiary figures in the garden and why they are there. For me, they're about giving some other presence to the garden, so when it's not occupied by people, there's almost a sense of prior occupation. It has that same quality as Caprarola where, when you arrive on the lower parterre, there are these extraordinary herme figures around the parterre. You really do feel you've interrupted some sort of mythic going on where everyone's been frozen to stone as you come up the stairs."
I do wonder if many people don't have similar experiences visiting gardens. That feeling of "prior occupation," of having interrupted some "mythic going on". I know that feeling of contingency, where the quotidian encounters the miraculous. I used to call it epiphany, but you might equally describe the feeling as a sense of immanence in the garden, or in the mind of the visitor.
"I always use topiary in a sort of semi-anthropomorphic way," Stuart-Smith continues, "to encourage the quality that the garden has other occupants, others than yourself, sort of an entirety. And many of the most wonderful garden experiences are about coming into these extraordinary spaces where you feel something has been going on … It doesn't have to be a garden space. It can be a natural space as well … when you're in a field of cowslips or coppiced woodland, particularly if the place is occupied by other animals or birds. I've always wanted that sense that you are a visitor in the space and observing what is happening."
Rükenfigur and Vertical Topiaries
When I first heard Stuart-Smith speak at NYBG two years ago, he flashed on the screen, just for a second, a Caspar David Friedrich painting showing two Rükenfigur:
He used this same painting again to illustrate this point in his Garden Museum talk several months later, so one can infer this concept is significant. We see the backs of two figures as they gaze off into the landscape. It's not pretty, but it's powerful. Stuart-Smith has stated that the vertical topiaries punctuating the space at Broughton Grange are suggestive of Rükenfigur (literally "back figure")–a human figure, always mysterious, unidentified, facial features invisible, looking away toward a landscape or distant view. On one level, this is a metaphor for how a garden can relate to its landscape–an echo of the 18th century English landscape garden that is well illustrated at Broughton Grange. But there's more to it than that. Recalling Mark Strand, I suggest you let your eyes linger on the painting above; it may say more about this garden experience than any of the words in this post. Words are only pointers; the painting is direct experience.
Entering the Garden – Choices
So we enter the garden (below) through a symmetrical entrance sequence styled to suggest weight, solidity, stability and stillness, in contrast to the energetic plantings the visitor will find on the other side of the wall.
Once inside the garden, decisions await you. The entry path runs straight through the garden and out the opposite side. On each terrace, a group of pleached trees offers a stopping place, and a side path into the garden plantings.
Below, the stairs of the entry pathway from the opposite end, show quite clearly the levels of the three main garden terraces.
Apart from this direct path, which is a separate structural element off to the far side of the main garden, the breadth of the garden proper offers a beckoning view across to the distant landscape but no easy path through. The yew columns are like signposts, pulling the eyes downward into the garden, where you gradually begin to see many potential routes through. But the initiative to begin exploration is entirely up to you. There is no particular place or feature that says "enter here."
As Stuart-Smith has said, the visitor to Broughton Grange is immediately confronted by the fact that he or she is not the center of things. "One of the most important things for me is that the middle of the garden is left empty. Because if the middle of the garden is empty, you can't be there. It's about the garden, and the processes of nature. The process of the garden takes primacy in the place. It's about watching the descent down into the valley, and about watching the space which is the centrally defined emptiness framed by the garden."
There are many pathways, and they force you to experience the garden to get to this center, which in a sense is both strikingly beautiful and a massive impediment. Once there, walking around it is difficult; there is too much in the way. Navigating a way around requires attention and thought, and full participation in the garden. Even those stepping stones across the water, though they look inviting, are difficult to use. They are unusually large, and not sized or positioned for easy walking across the water. I tried it and turned back. They seem intentionally sized to function more as barrier than walkway.
Complexity and Permeability
Stuart-Smith uses two words to make an important point about his understanding of garden experience: complexity and permeability.
"For me, a garden that is too instructive, and says that there's only one way to appreciate it, is a garden that I immediately bridle at. I think that if someone comes to visit any garden that I've made, and they turn to me and ask what is the way around the garden, I put up my hands and say I genuinely don't know. You must set off and see what happens. I think that this idea, which I call permeability, the idea that you can thread your way through a place and discover it, relates very much to the idea of complexity."
"I've always felt that some degree of complexity is almost a moral necessity in the garden. I'm not saying as an absolute, but gardens which are completely minimal seem to be running against the grain of nature." What does he mean by complexity? I think, as he implies, he simply means a garden that reflects the complexity of the natural world. And there is an ecological component to complexity; the garden strives to emulate the complexity of nature in some way …
… and the complexity of human experience. Drawing a parallel with literature, Stuart-Smith refers to E.M Forster's book Aspects of the Novel in which Forster writes about the "incalculability" of a character …
He contrasts Dicken's characters, "which are fully delineated and don't have a kind of imaginative hinterland," with Forster's characters, which are "sort of partially drawn, … drawn as much from inside their character as they are from the objective eye of the author; they seem to live more in the imagination … I think that quality of not over describing things, not pinning things down too much, is quite important."
Another telling phrase: "imaginative hinterland."
Stuart-Smith wants the garden "to live more in the imagination," to offer more than a simple visual experience of pleasure, or at least to offer, always, the possibility of more.
Stuart-Smith lowered two sides of this walled garden, making it, in effect, a ha-ha, so that he could preserve views out into the landscape. Here above, he goes further, centering the gravel pathway on the curve of a path and a highly picturesque group of trees in the distance. This view is constructed with precision. In such scenes as this–yet another example of Stuart-Smith's use of layered complexity–in this case historical layers–a visitor is asked to reach back to gardens made almost 300 years in the past, and to such remarkable elements as William Kent's "eye-catchers" at Rousham.
The Garden as an Entirety
The third and lowest terrace, the box parterre, is visually very different from the complex plantings of the two upper terraces. The irregular pattern of the parterre is derived from the cell patterns of leaves (as seen through a microscope) of the surrounding trees …
… looking at the images, it's clear this parterre, so different from traditional parterres, adds yet another layer of complexity with its unpredictably sinuous lines suggestive of waveforms, or worms, or framed by a strict edge geometry, like a huge abstract painting.
About the unusual method of obtaining the patterns for the parterre, he says, "for me it's not important for people visiting the garden that they know this particular story … that idea of suggestion for me is an important one. I will construct a garden around an idea or a series of ideas but for the most part I'm happy to keep those ideas below the surface.
As soon as they pop out and announce themselves on the surface, then you've kind of lost it. I think the garden is this territory of freedom and liberty to construct your own pathway, your own narrative. A lot of the historic gardens that I find most interesting are the ones where the meaning has become lost in algae and time."
I was attracted to this garden many years before I was able to visit it. From the start, the stark verticals of the yew columns, which I've heard others disparage, were one of the elements that most powerfully drew me to this garden. Those were familiar when I first visited. Other things were not. For example, finding that the "stepping stones" across the water are actually very difficult to use, that walking around the perimeter of the central pool is an intense exercise in navigation, were total surprises.
I've said little about how I liked or disliked this garden, other than indirectly. So I perhaps should add that I see this garden as a masterwork of garden art. And I agree so completely with Stuart-Smith's own explanation of the garden, I've thought it most helpful to use his own words. You can find them here:
How to end? Stuart-Smith speaks about a garden "with no point," a garden where you feel "you've interrupted some sort of mythic going on," a garden that, like Forster's characters, offers an "imaginative hinterland," a garden that is "an entirety." "The garden is the thing," he says–and it is.
He almost always uses some underlying thought process, which a garden visitor need know nothing about, but the result of that approach to garden design opens it to imaginative observation and exploration by the garden visitor, a process that ideally can take place without the interference of more quotidian concerns. In my case, I was familiar with the concept of Rukenfigür before I ever heard Stuart-Smith speak and make reference to it. So my experience of the garden is strongly colored by that concept, and by aspects of German romanticism with which I'm familiar. But that knowledge is not necessary for a full appreciation of the garden, nor is knowledge of the influence of the hidden garden at Villa Farnese necessary. His aim is to give visitors freedom to fully exercise their own imaginations and to find their own meanings, if they want meaning, or simply to experience being in the garden. The visit is open-ended, an exercise in free imagination.
Below the box parterre is this informal area of topiary and groomed lawn, which makes a gradual transition from the more formally tiered, intensely planted garden above into the landscape as it falls away, providing the only easily walkable open space in the garden. The spatial change is subtle and emotionally powerful. The topiary shrubs in conversation remind me of the "conversation" among the instruments in Beethoven's Late Quartets. But that is my imagination at work. Your's will be different.
* Note all quotations are actually paraphrased passages, not direct quotations, that I transcribed from a video on Tom Stuart-Smith's website. You can watch it by clicking here.


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Saint Erasmus zealously served the Lord from his youth. In his mature years he was consecrated as Bishop of Formium, Italy. During the persecution against Christians under the emperors Diocletian (284-305) and Maximian Hercules (284-305), Saint Erasmus left his diocese and went to Mount Libanus, where he hid for seven years. Once, however, an angel appeared to him and said, "Erasmus! No one vanquishes enemies if he is asleep. Go to your own city, and you shall vanquish your enemies." Heeding the voice of the angel, Saint Erasmus left his seclusion.
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After being set free, Saint Erasmus baptized many pagans, and later went to the city of Sirmium, where he was seized and subjected to torture. They seated him in a red-hot oven, but he remained alive and unharmed. This miracle amazed so many people that the emperor, fearing civil unrest, retired into his own chambers. The angel freed Saint Erasmus from his fetters and took him to the city of Formium, i.e. to his own diocese, where the saint baptized many more people. The saint died there in 303. Christians buried the relics of the holy confessor with honor.


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Roland Emmerich hates you.
I mean, he has to, right? His movies fall into two basic categories: The "let's destroy the world" category ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow," "Godzilla," "2012"), and the "let's go back and tinker with history to make it uniformly terrible" category ("Stargate," "The Patriot." "10,000 B.C."). He doesn't want you to be happy in the past, present, or future.
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Attention fellow citizens of Appling County; my name is Sarah Leggett Tanaka, an insulin dependent diabetic. In April I had a toe to get infected and I went to see my doctor as usual. They said I would have to see another. I never get to see my doctor. The doctor continuously changed my antibiotics. I told him time after time I needed an x-ray and probably antibiotics through an I.V. He never did either; another toe became infected and moved into the foot and up my leg. I still never got to see my doctor. He never one time saw my foot in the month this went on. On Friday, 5-25-12, I went to the ER. The doctor there never examined my foot just said he was going to change my antibiotic and give me a pain shot. I said, "No, if you can't help me I am out of here." It's a shame when you get sick and can't even see your doctor and none of the others care.
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Fairway and AWI Help a Mississippi Veterans OrganizationJune 12, 2019 12:00 am
A Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation branch in the Jackson, Mississippi area partnered with the American Warrior Initiative (AWI) to honor a local U.S. veterans organization. Along with a donation, the Fairway branch held a residential housing "boot camp" to train real estate professionals and mortgage planners on how to best handle the home-purchase needs of active duty military members and veterans.
Fairway and AWI honored the organization, LoveVets Ministries, with a $5,000 donation. Founded by U.S. Army veteran Clarence Douglas, LoveVets works to provide tools and services for the eradication of homelessness in the United States' veteran community.
Area manager Russ Ogburn was excited to be part of this fantastic event in Mississippi. He said:
"In April of this year, Louise Thaxton and Karen Vaughn came to present to our local Realtors in Jackson, Mississippi. Louise and Karen are very passionate about the AWI cause and are both amazing speakers. This was our first experience hearing them live … and all thought it was an INCREDIBLE and AWESOME EVENT. Tears were shed and hearts were moved that day! In addition, we raised $5,000 that day for our local veterans charity in Jackson, Mississippi."
Co-founded by Louise Thaxton and Sean Parnell, the American Warrior Initiative is a non-profit organization sponsored by Fairway Independent Mortgage. AWI seeks to ease U.S. veterans' transition from military to civilian life.
I am proud to work for a company that does so much to honor those who sacrifice for our country. If I can help answer any questions about VA loans or any other home loan options, please give me a call.Veterans


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Upper Tonquani (trad)
This is also an MCSA owned kloof and permits should be obtained - see the main page for details. It is part of the Tonquani Complex. Contact the MCSA for more access details.
Routes/ Gradings
This is one of the most popular kloofs with almost 150 routes. They are mostly multi-pitch natural routes. These routes see grades from 5 to 25. Many classics can be found here such as Hawk's Eye, Stone Needle and so forth.
There is plenty of water and some impressive pools all surrounded by forests. Climbing is good all year round.
This is the grandest and most scenically attractive kloof in the Magaliesberg. The access traverse above the pools between Upper and Lower Tonquani (C) is over polished rock and is hazardous to inexperienced parties. The upper meet point is below Kitchen Crack. The longest climbs are on the Coffin Buttress (80m). The climbs elsewhere averaging 40-50m. The rock is generally excellent and water is always available.
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Lethal Injection 21 **** [N] Essentially an alternative to the crux pitch of Last Rites. Climb Last Rites to take a semi-hanging stance at the Coffin rail. This is the rail about 4m above the final roof on the 2nd pitch of Last Rites. 1. 21, 20m Step left onto the slab and climb the groove to where it dies. Step left to a pencil crack and climb this to jugs at the left end of the Last Rites crux traverse. Up to belay at the small tree. Notes: 1. Small cams and wires are useful. 2. The route was cleaned and top-roped before being led. FA: Hector Pringle, Bernard Spies and Linda Watson May 2008.
Accipiter's Edge (aka The Bird of Prey) 23R **** [N] Start directly below the abseil tree to the right of the last pitch of Hawks Eye. Scramble up as per Hawks Eye to about halfway up the leftward sloping ramp. This is just about where the climbing on Hawks Eye starts. There is a reasonable flat ledge here. 1. 23, 30m Climb up in the corner then traverse 2m right to a crack in the face. The crack turns white higher up and curves left under the big roof. Climb the crack and crank leftwards through the roof to a foot ledge on the left. Up the overhanging wall to a rail and wedged prong. Surmount this then slightly left up the technical face to a short dihedral and rail. Place a good small cam and run it out on jugs to the top. Notes: 1. Small cams and wires (especially a good selection of micros) are useful. 2. Runout but gear is solid. 3. The route was cleaned and top-roped before being led. FA: Hector Pringle and Bernard Spies May 2008.


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Last Friday the Obama Administration asked U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of Pensacola, Florida for a clarification in his recent ruling that a portion of the Affordable Care Act mandate was unconstitutional.
From Bloomberg:
The federal government, in papers filed with Vinson yesterday, asked him to clarify whether that decision relieves the suing states of their rights and obligations under the act while the U.S. pursues an appeal.
"We believe it is important to put to rest any doubts about the ability of states and other parties to continue to implement these critical programs and consumer protections provided under this statute," Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement announcing the U.S. filing.
Florida's newly elected Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn't like this request for a clarification by the Obama Administration at all, so much so that she is "advising" the administration to just "appeal the ruling" already. She accuses the administration of "delaying tactics" by asking for a clarification.
From The Palm Beach Post:
"Department of Justice's motion to clarify is merely an attempt to delay the process when the order clearly required a halt to implementation," Bondi said in a statement….
…."Our memorandum states that time is of the essence in this matter, and the Court should deny the defendants' motion for clarification as well as their thinly disguised request for a stay," she said. "Everyone knows this case will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Department of Justice should join us in seeking an expedited appeals process. This issue is too important for delay, and we urge the
President to file an appeal in the appropriate appellate court, as was done in Virginia and Michigan. It is in the country's best interest to present this case before the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as possible."
Bondi certainly seems to be in a hurry to get the case to the Supreme Court, in fact she even sounds a little desperate. Of course the U.S. Supreme Court has some justices who seem to have what appears to be some "conflict of interest" problems and it's widely feared that those will interfere with the legal process in the health care ruling. I suppose that could be part of the reason Republicans who want to overturn the law are in a hurry to get it to the Supreme Court.
That being said, what else is Pam Bondi so afraid of? Why the rush? People's lives are at stake here. Don't they deserve the very clarification the Obama Administration is requesting? Because the last time I checked, Attorney Generals were elected to serve the people of the Florida. Bondi was not elected to serve those who may have a vested interest in the outcome of rulings against the Affordable Health Care Act and who supported Bondi in her campaign, like the National Federation of Independent Business.
Bondi seems less interested in legalities, and is more selective on which rulings she chooses to follow, basically only the ones that suggest the ACA is unconstitutional. Bondi was just as thrilled with Judge Vinson's ruling as she was thrilled with all the money the NFIB was throwing into her lawsuit. Where's the impartiality?
But again, why is Bondi in such a hurry to want the Administration to skip that clarification and just move ahead with a hastened appeal? Perhaps this ruling on Feb. 22 that got little attention in the media had something to do with it:
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has become the third federal judge to rule that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, and that Congress was within its constitutional authority to regulate health insurance under the Commerce Clause.
"We welcome this ruling, which marks the third time a court has reviewed the Affordable Care Act on the merits and upheld it as constitutional. This court found — as two others have previously — that the minimum coverage provision of the statute was a reasonable measure for Congress to take in reforming our health care system. At the same time, trial courts in additional cases have dismissed numerous challenges to this law on jurisdictional and other grounds. The Department will continue to vigorously defend this law in ongoing litigation."
Instead of looking at this ruling, Bondi has chosen to ignore it altogether and instead doubles down in urging President Obama to just forget that whole "clarification" thing and hurry along an appeal so the case can advance quickly to the Supreme Court where Republicans have reason to think they will have a more favorable outcome against the ACA.
So I ask again: just what is Pam Bondi so afraid of?


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The appropriation which authorizes pay raises for employees and state officers for Fiscal Year 1993-1994 but excludes members of the General Assembly is consistent with general law.
You and the Legislative Fiscal Officer have asked me to confirm that members of the General Assembly do not receive the raise awarded state employees this fiscal year and that the Lieutenant Governor does receive the raise. Because the question is similar to one answered differently by unofficial opinion last year, I am answering by unofficial opinion this year to explain the difference.
The General Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1994 provides for certain state pay raises as follows:
The General Assembly has distributed to and included in the agency appropriations . . . State funds . . .: 1.) To provide a general performance based increase of 2.5% for employees . . . to be awarded on . . . anniversary date. Increases are contingent on . . . rating satisfactory. . . . 4.) To provide an increase of 2.5% for each State official (excluding the members of [*2] the General Assembly) whose salary is set by . . . Code Section 45-7-4. . . .
Ga. Laws 1993, pp. 1819, 1908. (parentheses in the original) For this language to be effective, it must conform to the general law provisions of the Code regarding the salaries of members of the General Assembly and of other state officers. See, e.g., Op. Att'y Gen. U92-19 (language excluding legislators from COLA appropriation for employees could not contradict general law requiring COLA for legislators when employees get COLA). The Code provides that members of the General Assembly receive a cost-of-living adjustment ("COLA") of one-half the employee increase "when employees of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches . . . receive a cost-of-living increase of a certain percentage." O.C.G.A. § 45-7-4(a)(22) (proviso). Because the appropriation for raises for employees in Fiscal Year 1993-1994, quoted above, is not across-the-board but is contingent upon satisfactory performance, employees are not receiving a COLA. Consequently, members of the General Assembly may not get a COLA, and their exclusion in the appropriation for raises for officers conforms to general law. Cf. Op. Att'y [*3] Gen. U92-19.
The corresponding provision in the Code for state officers is different:
As a cost-of-living adjustment, the annual salary of each state official (whose salary is set by this and certain other Code sections, except legislators) may be increased . . . in the general appropriations Act by a percentage not to exceed the average percentage of the general increase in salary . . . granted to employees . . . in the classified service.
O.C.G.A. 45-7-4(b) ("subsection (b)"). That is, state officers get a COLA when classified employees get a "general" increase.
Unless a particular subject matter or context requires otherwise, words are given their ordinary meaning in the interpretation of statutes. O.C.G.A. § 1-3-1(b). A "general" increase may be one affecting the majority of those involved. American Heritage Dictionary 552 (2d Amer. College ed.). "General" may also mean "universal". Id. However, subsection (b) requires a calculation based on an "average". That means that employee raises which satisfy subsection (b) may be "general" in the "majority" sense but do not have to be general in the "universal" or "across-the-board" sense.
Section 82 of the [*4] appropriations act cannot be read to require a "universal raise" because the word "raise" is qualified not only by "general" but also by "performance based." Section 82 does require that the increase be "general", expressly so and in the sense that it is consistent with ordinary understanding to expect that a raise for everyone whose performance is "satisfactory" will apply to a majority of employees.
Therefore, it is my unofficial opinion that the appropriation for raises for state officers is effective and further, as an officer whose salary is set by O.C.G.A. § 45-7-4 (a) (2), the Lieutenant Governor is entitled to this year's COLA pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 45-7-4(b).
Issued this 18th day of November, 1993.
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Scooter Braun, who manages some of the biggest artists in pop music, like Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen, is adding an unexpected new client to his roster. Braun posted a video online in which he announced his partnership with Korean rapper and pop star Psy, the man behind the goofy 'Gangnam Style' video.
In the video, Braun promised Psy will "be the first Korean artist to break a big record in the United States." Braun is wasting no time introducing Psy to American fans. Disney Dreaming reports that the Korean pop star will appear at this Thursday's MTV Video Music Awards, perhaps as a presenter or possibly a performer.
What are Psy's credentials? He was born in South Korea but later attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, the same school that produced John Mayer, Esperanza Spalding, Gavin DeGraw, and numerous others. He has been a K-Pop star since the early '00s.
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A couple of years ago, I remember someone here expressing idea that the scriptures should always be read in their original languages in church services and then the lector should make his or her own translation (prepared or spontaneously) for the given congregation at the given time in order to allow the word of God to speak to the congregation as directly and as spontaneously as possible. I really like this view! It combines the importance of the literal original text with the high value, however fleeting and transitory, of dynamic equivalence translations.
This would also require, and encourage, our lectors (and other members of the congregation) to be well trained in the original languages and sensitive to the activity of the Spirit in local communities. Most would consider this highly unrealistic, of course, but I really like this idea.
As I understand it, this is presumed to have been the common synagogue practice around the time of Jesus when the scriptures were read initially in Hebrew and then translated spontaneously into Aramaic. Eventually, some of these Aramaic translations were standardized into targumim, ie, textual translations of the Hebrew which were still rather free in character, reflecting an oral, dynamic equivalent practice. I guess if this was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for us as well.
Have others come across this idea or practice? Origin? Thoughts?
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Karl Kissner, 51, was going through his grandfather's attic in Defiance, Ohio this past winter when he came upon a collection of turn-of-the-century baseball cards estimated to be worth around $3 million, reports David Briggs of the Toledo Blade.
The almost 700 card find are in near mint condition and include baseball legends Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Connie Mack.
The rarest and most valuable portion of the collection are part of a 30-player set that came with caramel candies in 1910. This 1910 set is being auctioned off by Heritage Auctions, with the highest bid currently set at $120,000 although it is expected to reach $500,000.
Besides the 1910 set, the collection is notable for the superb condition of the cards, including the first mint-condition Honus Wagner card found to date.
The collection is so rare and important, it has been given its own title by Heritage- the "Black Swamp Find", so named "for the damp landscape on the edge of Defiance, Ohio."
Joe Orlando, President of Professional Sports Authenticator told the Blade that at first he was skeptical about what had been found, "But when the cards arrived, they were just absolutely spectacular. ... This could be considered the greatest single find of cards ever."
Kissner's grandfather ran a meat market in Defiance and collected the baseball cards that once came with candy. Kissner, who owns Kissner's Restaurant, found the collection in a green cardboard box under an old dollhouse while looking through the attic.
Kissner and 19 cousins were left the "Black Swamp Find" by a recently passed aunt and will be sharing the profit from the sale of the cards.


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Hide Power or Heart Rate data on an Activity
Update privacy setting to be able to hide power data of your ride...
Update privacy setting to be able to hide power data of your ride...
Might want to put that on your wish list for 2020...
I posted on this loonnnnggggg support 'issue' years ago and have seen only one response from Strava. I would venture to say it is not an 'issue' in their eys, don't expect any movement on this as there is no pressure on Strava to do anything. just go with it or change products.
I also would like to hide my HR-info for other people. Hopefully strava makes it possible in 2018.
Hi guys,
a few months ago I wrote to the support asking for information about https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/208835687-Hide-Power-or-Heart-Rate-data-on-an-Activity .
Mrs Elle Anderson replied to me writing
"I'd be happy to pass your comments along to our team. Privacy features are very important to us and we are interested in a feature for our members to hide heart rate and power.
Manager, Strava Feedback Team"
After this answer nothing more.
If everyone write to the support asking for information about https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/208835687-Hide-Power-or-Heart-Rate-data-on-an-Activity maybe Strava will understand that it's a feature to be developed...
Gg, Sorry but I simply don't have a firm answer for you at this time. My response is accurate. A feature to hide heart rate and power is under discussion. The Strava team agrees that the community wants this feature and that there is a demand for such a feature. Work is not currently scheduled nor does this development have a timeline right now. We will do our best this year to see if this feature is possible.
Ciao Elle,
thank you for your quick answer and it's true, when I wrote to you, your response was accurate.
I hope the feature will be planned soon.
Just one think: you wrote "We will do our best this year to see if this feature is possible" but we all know this feature is possible because it exists for professional athletes... so I don't understand why it isn't implemented for the other users.
To be polite I can't imagine how could be such simple question discussed within a Strava team for four years without any answer/decision..
Gg and Viktor, We'll do our best to see if this feature if possible for development. It's not only possible, but we agree that it would add value to our existing privacy features. It will just depend on whether the development work is prioritized.
Hi Elle, thank you again for your reply.
I'm sure Strava will do the best for develop this feature and I hope it.
I'm sorry for my awful english, it's hard for me to write in English, I don't want to be argumentative...
But I think this: we are talking about privacy feature and then a privacy feature should have the highest priority but I have the impression that Strava prefers develop social features like a sort of facebook (post, photos... I have read post with videos will be planned).
I agree social features but I think privacy features are most important.
Thank you
Dear Elle,
In 2016 you wrote: "Your privacy is a top priority for us".
In 2018 you write: "It will just depend on whether the development work is prioritized".
Isn't this a contradiction?
In the meantime, you can always use FIT File Tools to remove heart rate, power, etc., before uploading to Strava.
" If privacy is a top priority for Strava then why is this request still open after three years ? Heart rate is by nature, private." Heart rate is our privacy. We will hide heart rate. DO it.
@ElleAnderson please don't treat us like a child. This feature is implemented but available only for pro cyclists!!!
The answer is why simple people can't chose?
The main benefit I am getting from Strava are the routes I can download from users of the area I'm not familiar with. As a pay back I also want to share my routes with the community, but would like to keep my other data private. Strava still didn't make it possible, thus I keep all my rides private. When riding in a group I always upload via Fit File Tool. Due to the fact Strava treat us as the animals in the ZOO I've also cancelled my Premium subscription and since Strava is not my prefered training diary. Instead I've started to use Trainingpeaks. btw. much better for training purposes..Dear Strava team, I don't know why you are doing this, but you are losing paying customers.
It's the same with me. I have also cancelled my premium subsciption due to this issue...
Hi Strava Team,
Can we get an update on where you are with the heart rate data privacy?
It has become very obvious the commitment Strava has for customer data. It has now been exposed by several major television channels world wide the failures of Strava to take into consideration the data privacy of their client base.
This support request has been going on for years now, don't expect Strava to do anything, Ride on...
Unfortunately I think Neal D. Is right....
C'mon Strava!!! a switch to hide the heart rate and another one to hide the power!!!
I attended an international IT conference today. The key note speaker used Strava as an example of a company that has serious disregard for privacy.
This thread has been around since 2014 and the best response from Strava is "we have a working group." Sounds to me like Strava doesn't care much about this topic. This isn't a hard feature. Either show the data or not and give users the right to choose. Not much different than making an activity public or private. I am at the point of ditching this platform over the issue.
Is there an update concerning that issue?
Some news?
To hide the hart rate would be nice.
Very quick is Strava, the question is form 2014???
I just terminated Premium to the next date with the reason of this missing feature. I reorder as soon if the feature is implemented. But perhaps than I won't miss the Premium features at all. The Pros can use it, so it's obvious that strava is kidding us. This should be punished and one of the best punishments is ending the Premium membership, best would be ending membership at all.
Why strava don't care about our sensible data? Are you sell this data to other company like facebook...
@ Syntax Error What gives you Premium? Heart rate analysis? You got that for free at TrainingPeaks. I've dropped Premium last year and keep all my activities private. I refuse to be an animal in the ZOO.
STRAVA is collecting all our health data, the more data they can get from all GARMIN, FITBIT, SUUNTO etc devices the more value their database will be. One day they will be approached by HEALTH CARE COMPANIES and make money out of their database. The response that they have a "Group that is working on this" was send to me in 2016 as well, its a joke and they are literally keeping us all busy with these responses and definitely are not doing anything about this.
@ Igor i that's one reasion why I have quit. I can use other tools to analyse the data. I used live-segments some time ago but latest since I have a powermeter I did'nt touch this feature neither. Heatmaps are nice but there are also other tools. And for sharing the tours we made with others we can also use other platforms like komoot (it's only displaying GPS, altitude and speed). So no need for strava at all.
Eric, the health data is collected with or without the activity show this datas. The problem is the privacy of our data to the other people, even because we agree with the policies of the application to use it. But I want to see this in little time.
Ps.: This site offers a way to remove this datas (https://www.fitfiletools.com/#/top)
Would like to have the ability to make the heartrate data private. I'm riding in a team and it's not that interesting that other riders can see when and where you had hard times on the bike. It can give them verry important information that they can use the following rides... maybe as an extra feature for the premium members???
Yep just had a ride with a crazy power meter reading - meter was off by over a thousand watts for 10 minutes or so, my Fitness/Freshness chart is now useless if I want to use power data, if I could just press a button and strip off a sessions power data that'd fix it. I went googling and now here I am.
Can't be that hard can it?
I am not going to accomodate workarounds, because an even easier workaround would be to just move my training management to a different platform.
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What happens to our doorstep recycling waste?
My message to Conwy County Borough Council Recycling Department, 23rd October 2018…
We are we hearing horror stories about mountains of recyclables from the UK ending up in Malaysia.
Can Conwy CBC assure us that all our recyclable waste is actually recycled here in the UK?
Their reply…
Thanks for getting in touch, Peter.
All of the material that we collect at kerbside both in the Trolibocs and the food waste bin is sent off to various companies within the UK to be recycled.
The markets do change and this can sometimes be as often as monthly, in order to get the best value for the Council.
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By Regan Dickinson, Examiner.com
When the 2012-2013 ski season officially ended at Arapahoe Basin, the ski area turned right around and announced its pass pricing for the 2013-2014 season, which is now months away.
Returning for another year is the two-season Double Down pass, once again retailing for $499. The Double Down is good for unlimited skiing and riding during both the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons.
A-Basin's Elevation 3 Pass now provides an extra day on the mountain with the Elevation 4 Pass. You can purchase the Elevation 4 Pass during a limited time this summer and receive four days of skiing and riding for the same price as last year's three-day Elevation 3 Pass: $119 for adults (ages 15 and up) and $89 for children (ages 6-14).
The Elevation 4 Pass is valid any day during the 2013-14 ski season, is non-transferable, and will be sold online at arapahoebasin.com. Prices are subject to change.
Arapahoe Basin single-season passes are also on sale at the lowest prices of the season. Adults (age 19+) can ski or ride for the entire 2013-14 season for $269; youth (ages 15-18) passes cost $199; child (ages 6-14) passes cost $139.
A-Basin season pass holders receive discounts on food and beverage, retail items, snowsports lessons and discounted lift tickets for friends and family.
While the ticket window pricing for next season has not yet been released, single-day lift tickets for the 2013-14 season are currently on sale online. To find the best value on single-day lift tickets, book in advance online at tickets.arapahoebasin.com.
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Missouri Governor Releases Money for Improving State Facilities
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has given the go-ahead to spend $132 million on improvements to the Capitol and other state facilities.
Nixon had put a hold on the money when the 2014 budget took effect last July. The governor said Friday he's releasing the money because of an improving economy.
The money includes $28.5 million for repairs at the state Capitol, which has been plagued by water leaks, and $12.5 million for improvements at state parks.
It also includes $38 million for the design and construction of a state office building and the renovation of the Missouri Department of Transportation headquarters. Lawmakers had envisioned a new building. Nixon's administration plans to instead use the money to renovate existing facilities.


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Continuing from the following scenario from my previous question Centripetal force of a rotating rigid body? :
Consider someone pushing a roundabout in a playground. Initially the roundabout is stationary, but when it is pushed, it rotates with increasing rotational speed.
The force of the push is balanced by the reaction force exerted by the support at the centre of the roundabout. The forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, so the roundabout is in translational equilibrium. But they have different lines of action, so there is a resultant torque, causing the playground to rotate and have angular momentum.
Okay, suppose the roundabout's rotational speed now stabilises (ie. the resultant torque becomes zero and the roundabout is in rotational equilibrium). I infer that this happens only when the pushing force is removed (otherwise there would be a resultant torque as described in the yellow box). But if so, what (force) is keeping the roundabout rotating at its constant rotational speed (assuming no friction)? Isn't circular/rotational motion a forced motion??


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NEW YORK — In its first filing since going public in June, Town Sports International (TSI) showed an 11.7 percent revenue growth in the second quarter of 2006. Second quarter revenue was $109.5 million, up from $98 million for the same period last year. Revenue for the first six months of 2006 grew 11.3 percent to $213.5 million from $191.8 million during the same period last year, and same-club revenue increased 8.2 percent during the second quarter of this year.
CEO Robert Giardina attributed the growth to the TSI's clustering strategy and to the management team.
The percent of people surveyed who said that it was fair to ask people with unhealthy lifestyles to pay higher insurance premiums than people with healthy lifestyles. That's an increase from a 2003 poll that found that 37 percent said it would be fair.
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Independent Advisors From Across The United States Featured In Made-For-TV Campaign
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Advisor Services today launched a national television advertising campaign that supports independent financial advisors. Schwab's "Independent Difference" TV spots begin airing in steady rotation today on CNBC and Fox Business Network. The ads showcase independent advisors from across the nation who custody with Charles Schwab and articulate the importance of fiduciary advice and the ways in which the independent model is suited to meet the needs of high-net-worth investors.
"We are proud to be out in front on behalf of the industry using national television as a channel for raising awareness of independent financial advisors," said Susan Forman, senior vice president and head of marketing for Schwab Advisor Services. "More and more investors are hearing about the fiduciary standard and have questions about what that means. As the largest custodian, we believe it is our responsibility to educate investors about the fiduciary model and the benefits independent advisors provide."
The television campaign is the latest phase of Schwab's ongoing advocacy and awareness efforts on behalf of independent advisors, which aim to educate high-net-worth investors on the attributes of the independent model and help drive investor preference for the space. In addition to airing on television, the "Independent Difference" ads will appear in print and across a wide range of online properties, where they will include extended online video placements.
Schwab has maintained a robust national marketing program on behalf of the independent model since launching the first phase of the current campaign in June 2016. As part of the initial effort, it launched the Independent Advisor Learning Center, a hub for investors to learn more about independent advisors. The site also includes a mobile-enhanced directory allowing investors to find and connect directly with an independent advisor in their region.
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"So I'm Jake Hanabishi, I'm from North Carolina and before that I lived in Florida. I was born March 23rd 1992, I have an older brother named Jeremy, and I'm now a resident of Hawaii as of 6 hours ago"
'hey, your birthday is just one day ahead of mine" wow this guy is amazing.... I didn't know to make this conversation going so I asked him to say any five random facts about him and he did. No hesitations. Just listening to him talking makes me feel like I've known him for a long time. its just really easy to talk to him and I love it.
"Do you mind if I ask why you moved here?" i ask
"well my mom and dad are divorced, and hes stationed here on one of the bases, not sure which one though. My mom and I are moving here for a little while to help take care of my grandma, shes sick. So I'm going to be home schooled until we have to move again." he says this with so sadness in his eyes, like its still a fresh wound he doesn't really life to talk about, but somehow he did with me a total stranger who hit him in the face with a door.
"Sorry to hear that, my grandmas really sick now too...shes a cancer patient. She says shes doing fine, but I know shes lying she just doesn't want me to worry." I cant believe I just told someone that... I haven't even told my friends yet, I think if I told them i would break down, wishing things would be different. But here I am no tears running down my eyes, just warm thoughts of how even when my grandma is sick shes trying to make me feel safe. I guess some things just never change in a person.
Once I look back up after what i just said, theres no pity in Jake's eyes just a warm smile trying to make me feel better. What is up with this guys smile? Every time i see it makes my heart melt and wonders how i can make him smile like that again. I guess i was zoning out, cause he starts waving his hands in my face. "Hello Kira..you still there? your cousin is starting to wake up from her nap" I start to blink and remember where I am and who I'm with.
"Hey Alex, this is Jake, Jake this is Alex." all Alex does is stare at me and then stares and Jake for a long time...then smiles and goes back to sleep. "I guess shes still tired"
"So how about you tell me about yourself, same question. Tell me five random things about you."
"hhmmm lets see.... I love being in water so I paddle and swim, I have a bad right shoulder so I cant do what I love a lot, I love to read, I have two younger sisters and my grandma means the world to me." As soon as I finish a women comes walking towards our table with a warm smile.
"There you are Jake, Ive been looking everywhere for you. My shift is over now so lets head home." she then looks at me and says "Hey your the young girl from the Shinagawa room, I see you met my son here. Hope hes been treating you well."
I try to remember where Ive seen her before, but cant quite remember... "I'm sorry I don't mean to be rude but who are you?"
"I'm one of the nurses on floor eight, I always see you sleeping in the chair in your grandmas room, your a great granddaughter for taking care of your grandma like that, but shouldn't you be heading back up there? There are a lot of people up there now keeping your grandma company, I'm guessing your suppose to be doing that too." Shes right on the dot, wow... I'm suppose to be here to buy grandma some ice cream for when she wakes. "Shes right Jake got to go, and again sorry for hitting you in the face with the door"
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Boy meets Girl
"So I'm Jake Hanabishi, I'm from North Carolina and before that I lived in Florida. I was born March 23rd 1992, I have an older brother named Jeremy, and I'm now a resident of Hawaii as of 6 hours ago"
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Girl meets Boy
"Hi my names Kira Shinagawa, I'm looking for my grandma Elizabeth Shinagawa, do you know what room shes in?" I should have asked mom for directions before I came here, I should have gone home first in general. Paddling was hard enough on my shoulder, but taking a 45 minute bus ride with all my gear was not the best thing to do.
"Lets see Elizabeth Shinagawa... oh here she is, shes in room 816." she looks at me up and down wondering if I'm going to cause any trouble.
I know I'm not the best dressed especially since I'm wearing swim trunks and a tank top with a giant duffel bag, hair everywhere and I'm pretty sure I have sand all over me. I cant believe its been a year since the first day I came here. Its like another home, where i know how to get to each room, where the food is, the best place to sit and relax. I just wish it was a place that would cure my grandma of her cancer, not just slow down the process.
"Hey Kira" I turn around and see my auntie and little cousin Alexandra . Alexandra is a year old with big brown eyes and curly black hair, and is the most chill baby the family has ever had. "I forgot something of your grandmas at home, do you think you can watch Alex while I go home and pick it up? I wont be gone that long, here's some money in case you want to get something to eat too. I can tell you just had practice so get something to eat for you and Alex please." before I had the chance to say okay my auntie was long gone.
"Wow Alex your mom is crazy you know that? but we love her all the same" with that Alex smiled and got comfy in my arms. "I guess we should head up then, thank you for the help"
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So since February 14th i have been a part of a Long distance relationship(LDR) with my this awesome guy named Jake Hanabishi. Its hard on both of us but we are enjoying the time we have together. I love telling the story about how I met him, my friend Lexi told me she never gets tired of hearing the story of how we met and that my face lights up whenever I talk about how we met or just whenever I talk about him. So she thinks i should write how i met him on here in bits and pieces, I may do it cause it sounds like fun. but im just waiting on him to give me the okay =] and you can know how the girl met the boy
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Well the band isnt really new but its new to me. The band is called Red and they have two albums called End of Silence and, Innocence and Instints. I found out this band through my boyfriend and I just fell in love with all the songs.
So far my three favorite songs are Forever, Pieces and Shadows
Lyrics for Forever:
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America's chattering classes periodically fall in love with a new book that seems to alter the way we see the world by exposing a hidden crisis or explaining one that defied comprehension. One blockbuster can change history.
In the 1960s, best-sellers launched liberal crusades: the war on poverty in Michael Harrington's 1962 "The Other America," environmentalism in Rachel Carson's 1962 "Silent Spring," feminism in Betty Friedan's 1963 "The Feminine Mystique," consumerism in Ralph Nader's 1965 "Unsafe at Any Speed." After 1980, the top ground-breakers pushed us rightward: Charles Murray's 1984 "Losing Ground," E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s 1988 "Cultural Literacy," Francis Fukuyama's 1992 "The End of History," Samuel Huntington's 1996 "The Clash of Civilizations." To a degree, books shaped the political culture. To a greater degree, the culture spawned the books.
In the past few days, in a rare double-header, two new releases swept the elite buzz machine simultaneously, both by conservative scholars: "Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010," by the aforementioned Charles Murray, and "The World America Made," by neoconservative historian and Romney adviser Robert Kagan. Both offer important observations about America's current crises.
Both also offer spectacularly wrong-headed diagnoses of the crises' origins. And both propose solutions that essentially repeat what got us in trouble. No surprise here: The authors are among the ground-breakers whose previous prescriptions helped create the problems.
Kagan's book is already influencing events. Its core thesis, published as an 8,500-word New Republic article in January, reportedly impressed President Obama and inspired part of his State of the Union address. The idea is simple: America is not in decline, doomsayers notwithstanding. We can dominate the next century the way we dominated the last one if we decide to.
Political gridlock? No problem — we've muddled through worse. Economic crisis? Just a hiccup, free-market capitalism "going through one of its periodic bouts of doubting itself." China catching up? They're miles behind in per capita GDP. Besides, nobody likes them. Military overreach? Bullying image? Hey, it ain't easy being a global hegemon.
"The lesson of the twentieth century," Kagan writes, "…is that if one wants a more liberal order, there may be no substitute for powerful liberal nations to build it and defend it. International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition." The key is to believe in ourselves. Also, maintain a strong navy to police sea lanes. The world will love us for it.
It bears noting that Kagan was co-founder in 1997, with William Kristol, of the Project for a New American Century, a key promoter of war with Iraq. It was one of his major preoccupations for a decade. Oddly, his book mentions the Iraq War only in passing, as one of America's many interventions to topple "monsters" and promote democracy. Any book on preserving American power should begin with that war as a case study in alienating allies, inflaming enemies and sapping national resolve. But that would be awkward.
For sheer misguidedness, though, Murray's book wins out. Mind you, it starts well. Perhaps ruing the racism of the 1994 tome he co-authored on black inferiority, "The Bell Curve," he now argues that America's deepest achievement gap is marked not by race but class.
His America is divided into two main groups living in separate zip codes, rarely meeting or intermarrying, yielding diverging IQ gene pools. He describes them with voluminous graphs and statistics on income, SAT scores, college graduation, church attendance, out-of-wedlock births and even fishing habits. One is a "new upper class" of lawyers, professors and corporate executives who eat organic food and listen to NPR. The other is a "new lower class" that drives pickup trucks, watches "American Idol" and does grueling physical work that the elites don't understand. Or doesn't work, preferring to "goof off" and live on government handouts, depending on what point Murray is making at the moment.
Murray's "new lower class" is descending into chaos, losing the virtues of marriage, religiosity, "industriousness" (essentially workforce participation and pride in achievement) and "honesty" as measured in crime and incarceration.
Despite conventional wisdom, he says, elites retain these virtues far more than commoners do. Unfortunately, the elites no longer celebrate these virtues. Consequently, the masses lack moral guidance.
Some blame poor folk's troubles on unemployment. Rubbish, says Murray. If there's a job cleaning offices for $27,680 at 2009 wages — "not great incomes," but "enough to be able to live a decent existence" — why not take it? The answer: Men don't "need to work to survive" [his emphasis] thanks to the welfare state. So they stay home, watching television.
This has been the trend since the mid-1980s, he writes, despite "one of the longest employment booms in American history." Before that, men worked when there were jobs. Since then, welfare-state coddling and upper-class permissiveness have corrupted them, leading to less marriage, more single-motherhood and rising crime.
Alas, his dates betray him. Cleaning offices in 2009? That year saw six applicants for every American job opening, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hopping onto the government gravy train since the 1980s? That's when Washington began dismantling the welfare state, thanks partly to Murray's own "Losing Ground."
Come to think of it, the 1980s were when working-class wages began their long, steady decline; the upper classes began rapidly diverging from everyone else, and the national debt started skyrocketing, thanks to the deregulation, de-industrialization, de-unionization and tax-cutting policies of Republican administrations that Charles Murray and Robert Kagan helped to inspire. Hmmm.
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