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Texas on the Potomac offers guest commentary from across the political spectrum. Today, we offer a column by Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
The clock is ticking for the 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also known as the "Super Committee," to submit their debt reduction package to Congress by November 23rd. The Super Committee must make tough decisions about our nation's finances in order to put us back on a sustainable and prosperous path. Many senators, including me, have offered suggestions of ways to trim federal spending.
One common sense cost-saving measure I have advocated is a thorough reevaluation of our overseas military base needs, with the intention of relocating as many of our military personnel back to America as is prudently possible. American Forces have been deployed in Germany and Japan since World War II and in Korea since the Korean War. With mounting pressure to make drastic cuts in the defense budget, we should first look for savings by closing unnecessary overseas bases, rather than by reducing force structure or cutting critical weapons programs.
We should carefully evaluate the rationale for every single overseas base and, wherever possible, redeploy our men and women to stateside military installations. Aligning our overseas base commitments with projected security needs will enable us to save billions of dollars in construction and maintenance, bring thousands of troops back to America and take advantage of high quality training facilities and other resources at existing stateside bases.
According to reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congressional Budget Office, it is significantly more expensive to maintain facilities overseas, particularly in Europe, compared to bases in America. In addition to the money that would be saved by closing or downsizing unneeded bases, our troops and their families would spend their paychecks in local communities and contribute to our economy, and billions of dollars in military construction would be performed here by American workers.
My idea has attracted support from a bipartisan group of Senators. For starters, we have asked the Super Committee to take a hard look at halting expensive overseas military construction projects, especially in Europe, South Korea and Guam. It makes no sense to build new facilities overseas if the affected bases may be closed or shrunk in coming years.
I've also recently introduced a bill with Senator Tester from Montana that would require a comprehensive review of the potential benefits and savings from closing outdated overseas military bases. Our legislation would establish a blue-ribbon commission of national security experts to review the United States' current overseas basing structure, and report recommendations to the President and Congress. Modeled after the Hutchison-Feinstein 2005 Overseas Basing Commission, this commission would re-examine our current overseas bases in light of the nation's current fiscal challenges, new military capabilities, and evolving security threats to determine which bases could be closed, and what forces could be redeployed to bases in the continental United States.
The Commission would ensure that military spending on construction, operations, and maintenance match our future national security needs for training and force projection.
The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has estimated that strategically sound overseas base closings could save taxpayers $8.5 billion through 2015. There are a number of stateside military installations that could easily accommodate returning U.S. forces at great savings. For instance, we know that Fort Bliss and Fort Hood in Texas both offer unparalleled training facilities and equipment as well as family housing, excellent military health care, and ready access by rail to nearby Gulf ports for rapid worldwide deployment. At the same time, Texas offers supportive communities, educational and employment opportunities for family members, and an overall high quality of life.
It has been determined that deployment from U.S. bases is as rapid and efficient (sometimes more so) than deployment from other countries.
Tough choices are inevitable in order to get our nation's fiscal house in order. Training more of our military stateside at a lower cost to the taxpayers, without jeopardizing troop readiness, is a common sense, painless way to help reduce our debt.


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I don't like Charlie Sheen, and I thought the online mania over him last year after he was fired by CBS was a sign from God that American culture was in a very bad place and needed divine intervention to be saved.
Given the political landscape these days, I'm not feeling any better about American culture, but I like Sheen's new FX sitcom "Anger Management" a lot more than I thought I would.
"Not only do I like it, as in, "Gee, that was a lot more fun to watch than 95 percent of the braindead network sitcoms I screen," I am impressed by it, as in, "Yikes, this thing actually looks like it might have something to say about American life today. Who would have thought?"
By the way, if you are one of the people who reads a preview and then sends an email or posts comments filled with anger, snark and outrage because you encountered a "spoiler," stop now and go lock yourself in the basement until Thursday night at 9 when the series premieres, because "spoilers" are going to be everywhere in the online world, and I am tired of trying to write around things because some people are too mentally lazy to do it for themselves.
(Do you get the idea I do not want to hear from anyone about spoilers? I know, I know, "Hey Z, maybe somebody else could use some anger management here, huh?" But that's kind of my larger point for this review: We are in a very angry place as a culture, Z included since I am part of that culture, and this sitcom speaks to that anger. And that's why I like it. But let's get back to me delivering some spoilers.)
The series stars Sheen as a therapist named Charlie whose in-home practice focuses on patients with anger management issues. Hearkening all the way back to "The Bob Newhart Show," a landmark sitcom that debuted in 1972, the core setting for the series is Charlie as therapist in a group therapy setting with his patients. They include a very angry and prejudiced Vietnam veteran, a gay man who expresses his anger in a passive-aggressive acts, another man who likes women to take their anger out on him, and a woman who is ordered by the court into Charlie's group for shooting her boyfriend.
One of the advantages about this formula is that because the characters are patients with impulse control issues they get a special dispensation to say things that otherwise might be off-limits or taboo -- even for cable TV. And they do, but I am not going there in this review.
(There is also a group of patients at a prison that Charlie works with pro bono, but I am not going there either in this post. I have some issues of my own with the way certain identities are depicted in that group, but I have not seen enough to make a call and lower the boom on the producers and writers.)
Charlie also has a 13-year-old daughter who has an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Of course, we meet her as she enters the livingroom and locks and relocks and relocks and relocks ad infinitum the front door.
There is an ex-wife in the picture, too. She's played by Shawnee Smith, and she is the saving grace of the series in terms of a providing gender balance. There's more female balance from Selma Blair as Charlie's therapist, but here it's more a matter of sexual balance than gender; she and Charlie are sexual partners. (Memo to therapists: Save the emails about patients and therapists sleeping together. I didn't say the series was enlightened. I wouldn't go near Charlie or her if I wanted real-life therapy. But this is sitcom, remember?)
I like the backstory, too. Charlie is a former professional baseball player, who after a slog through the minor leagues in backwater places like Beloit, Wisconsin, makes it to the major leagues only to ruin his career by losing his temper. After a fan a reaches over the field of play and grabs a foul ball that Charlie was about to catch, he picks up a bat and tries to break it over his knee, only to shatter his knee and his career instead. The injury sent him back to school to become a therapist.
After showing his patients the video of his career-ending act, Charlie piously tells them his mission now is to help them so that they don't do that kind of harm to their lives.
"Play it again," the woman who shot her boyfriend responds with piles of snark, "so that I can see if I care this time."
No sanctimonious moment is allowed to stand unchallenged in the two episodes I screened.
Here's the takeaway: Not only does the pilot, which premieres at 9 p.m. June 28th, speak to what an angry nation we have become, it picks around under the scab a bit to explore what's causing the infection. One thread of discussion involves whether or not it pays to go to college given the high cost and the lack of the jobs for young people.
It's set up by Charlie's ex-wife dating a guy who is telling Charlie's daughter she doesn't need college. Charlie doesn't want him telling his daughter that. The guy, who is far richer than Charlie will ever be, throws his success in Cahrlie's face.
Any series that even acknowledges the social reality of through-the-roof college costs and an econony that betrays the promise made to young people that they will find good jobs if they get a degree is one that gets my vote.
That's part of the takeaway, too: As crazy as he is, Sheen, and his producers (crazy as they might be for going into business with him), appear to have a better sense of where the country is at than either President Obama or Mitt Romney.
I'll have more of "Anger Management" as we get closer to the premiere. I want to talk about the way in which Sheen is a great sitcom actor in the tradition of network sitcoms. I also want to talk about the unique business model the producers and FX are using for this series, and what it might mean for the future of television.
As for the 46-year-old Sheen telling the New York Times this is his last series, while he talks to Rolling Stone about a foot fetish, this is one of Hollywood's great conmen playing the press and the beast of online gossip like almost no one else in the pop culture industry can.
You can hear a podcast of a review of "Anger Management" that I did on WYPR-FM, Baltimore's NPR outlet. It's linked on the left hand side of this post under the WYPR logo. Lisa Morgan produced it.

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when a female bends all the way over to the front exposing ones Vaginal area from the back allowing ones dancing partner to "pop it"
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When a woman stand on her head/hands with legs spread, balancing as she shakes her ass front to back. This motion has been made popular by several porn movies and the song "Pussy Poppin'" By Luda.
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the art of thrusting your pelvic region in and out in order to ensure an item is worthy of your awesomeness...
C: Hey Puss! I like your new dress. Can you pop that pussy in it?
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C-D: (while thrusting) Of course boo! Think I would buy something that I couldn't pussy pop in?! Its pussy poppin!
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Sally was your vaginal area just pussy poppin'?
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When fake ass bitches act like your friend to your face but when you are away they start acting all stank.
Aye that bitch needs to stop pussy poppin' and talk to me to my face
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When a female dancer/stripper, or any woman at that fact, so lose that when then dance there pussy pops aka claps.
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text: Meanwhile, the tennis team looks like the team we expected this year. They dominated Pepperdine today 4-1. None of the matches we won were reasonably close. Luis Flores played like he was healthy again, winning the three court 6-1, 6-4. The Dawgs face Ole Miss Sunday for a spot in the semifinals. Georgia beat Ole Miss earlier this year in Athens 5-2 without Flores. But don't be fooled. The Rebels are the five seed for a reason. They have four top singles players. The tennis team has had their ups and downs this year, but they still stack up pretty well against the field. If they can beat the Rebs again, #1 Virginia likely awaits.


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Although the Argentine Governor in the Falklands, General Mario Menendez, had considered withdrawing from Stanley and occupying the Airfield peninsula with his remaining men, he quickly realised that this would be a futile gesture. According to Argentine sources Menendez had visited the local hospital, and the sight of military surgeons treating wounded men left an indelible impression upon him. According to one of his subordinates, Brigadier-General Jofre, the decision to surrender was also motivated by a desire to make sure that none of the Falkland Islanders would be harmed, which would have inevitably happened had the fighting entered Stanley itself.
Menendez contacted the President of the ruling Junta, Galtieri, to ask for permission to surrender. Out of touch with the situation, Galtieri ordered Menendez to fight on, reminding him that under the Argentine Army Code surrender was illegal unless 50% of his men were casualties, and he had expended 75% of his ammunition. Although he still had around 8,000 men left, including three Battalions worth of men who had not yet fought, as a professional soldier Menendez knew that the morale of his men had cracked. Mindful that the majority of them were inexperienced conscripts, that they had been outfought and that he had no support from Argentina, Menendez realised that he could not ask any more of his men after all that they had endured. He made up his mind to surrender. Galtieri had called him a coward, and ordered him out to fight. But these were easy accusations for a dictator to make, hundreds of miles away.
Some Argentine units had maintained their discipline, and prepared for urban warfare in Stanley. There is evidence that some Argentine conscripts were ordered by their officers to be prepared to shoot Falkland Islanders if they resisted, but thankfully no such situation arose. British artillery had already wisely ceased shelling Argentine troops as the flooded back into Stanley.
British units were ordered to advance to Stanley, and await developments on the outskirts. They were given instructions not to fire on the demoralised Argentines, while negotiations were taking place. 2 Para advanced down the track from Wireless Ridge into Stanley, followed by 3 Para. The Gurkhas scaled the now unoccupied Mount William without any opposition, and the Welsh Guards, reinforced by two companies from 40 Commando, occupied Sapper Hill.
A British delegation, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Rose of the SAS, and including a Spanish speaking Royal Marine Officer, flew into Stanley. After negotiations with Menendez, Major-General Jeremy Moore, the Commander of British Land Forces on the Falklands, flew in and received Menendez's surrender. The ceremony was private and low key, and under the terms of the surrender the Argentines were allowed to keep their flags, and the officers retained their sidearms – fearful of being lynched by their own conscripts. That they were thinking of this suggests in part how bad officer-men relations had become. The surrender was effective from 2359 British time, on 14 June 1982.
Although the Union Jack was now flying again over the Falklands, the problems were far from over. Thousands of Argentine prisoners had to be processed, cared for, fed and sheltered while they were awaiting repatriation. Many of them were held at the Airport. There were also masses of captured equipment to be dealt with:
- 100 Mercedes Trucks
- 20 Unimog trucks
- 20 Mercedes Jeeps
- 12 Panhard Armoured Cars
- 1 Roland and 3 TigerCar Anti-Air missile launchers
- 1 improvised surface to surface Exocet launcher
- 3 155mm field guns
- 10 Oto Melara 105mm cannons
- 15 Oerlikon twin 35mm and Rheinmetall twin 20mm anti-air cannons
- 11 various fire control radars
- 14 airworthy helicopters, including 2 Augusta 109, 10 Huey, 1 Chinook, 1 Puma)
- 10 Pucara attack aircraft
- 1 Patrol Boat
- 11,000 small arms weapons
- 4 million rounds of 7.62mm ammunition
- 11,000 105mm artillery shells
Some of this equipment can now be seen in British military museums, or as trophies for units who were involved down south. In some cases was used by British forces – the SAS are rumoured to have utilised some of the folding stock FN FAL rifles captured from the Argentines – and other equipment also provided useful spare parts.
Clearly, the Argentines had not been lacking in heavy equipment or weaponry. They had artillery pieces that outranged the British artillery considerably, and formidable air defences. Some of the Panhard armoured cars were delivered to the islands and then seem to have been forgotten about – when they were captured, some still had their packaging on them. These could have caused problems for the British troops had they been utilised effectively. Logistics seems to have been a problem for the Argentines, in terms of getting the right equipment and making good use of it. Some sources suggesting that what was wanted and what was sent from Argentina were very different. One of the first cargo planes to the Islands after the invasion in April carried not reinforcements, but Televisions for the Islanders as a cyncial and futile attempt at bribery.
There was also much clearing up to be done, as the Argentines had shown scant regard for tidiness and cleanliness. Once the Prisoners had been returned home, the garrison itself had to be taken care of – both in accomodating the troops already on the islands, and then replacing them with fresh units from Britain.
The surrender was greated with relief among many in the task force, not least Sandy Woodward who had been struggling to keep all of his ships on station. After months operating in a South Atlantic autumn and early winter, many ships were virtually falling apart at the seams. Although air cover had to be maintained until an airbase could become operational on the Islands, and ships were still needed to defend the islands all the time there was still a threat, ships could at last begin returning home.
In London, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lauded in the House of Commons. It was one of the rare occasions in British politics when the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Foot, paid tribute to the Prime Minister of the day.
Related articles
- Falklands mark end of 1982 war (bbc.co.uk)
- David Cameron and Cristina Kirchner clash over Argentine sovereignty of the Falkland Islands (standard.co.uk)
- David Cameron warns Argentina against making threats over Falkland Islands – Telegraph.co.uk (telegraph.co.uk)
- Argentina's President Fernandez demands Falklands talks – BBC News (bbc.co.uk)
- Falkland Islands plan referendum 'to send a message to Argentina' (telegraph.co.uk)
- Sovereignty row sours 30th anniversary since the end of the Falklands war (independent.co.uk)
- Islands pack thanksgiving service (standard.co.uk)


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Should Ratan Tata advise Mukesh Ambani about how to use his wealth?
A couple of days ago famous industrialist Ratan Tata commented about the lavish life style of another billionaire business tycoon Mukesh Ambani quoting his 27 storied Mumbai house viz., Antilla. Tata said that Mukesh Ambani's house Antilla represents the rich Indian's lack of empathy for the poor. His remarks: "The person who lives in there should be concerned about what he sees around him and [asking] can he make a difference. If he is not, then it's sad because this country needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways of mitigating the hardship that people have."
Is Ratan Tata right in his remarks or is he misguided in his judgements? Is he aware about the role of an entrepreneur in an economy or is he ignorant of this basic economic fact? Or is his remarks has some underlying assumptions which make those remarks perfectly apt for Mukesh's lifestyle? Let me deal with these questions one by one. I take two scenarios to carry out my analysis. In first scenario we assume that Mukesh Ambani is an honest entrepreneur and his profit comes from the market competition. In second scenario we assume that, Mukesh is not an honest entrepreneur and his profit comes from his business ties with government officials and his manipulation of the system of State. We see the implications of Ratan Tata's remarks under both these scenarios.
Scene 1: Mukesh is an honest entrepreneur
I first make an assertion and then go onto prove it. If Mukesh is an honest entrepreneur then his profit - which he earned in the market competition - is absolutely legitimate, and if he don't desire to do a philanthropist work then that is his voluntary choice. Ratan Tata has no right whatsoever to advise Mukesh about allocating his honestly hard earned wealth amongst the poor people or to comment on his lavish lifestyle.
As Ludwig von Mises explained, the only way in which an entrepreneur can make profit in the market competition is by serving and fulfilling the most urgent wants of his customers in the best possible way, and that best possible way is of providing top quality goods at the lowest possible price. Only those entrepreneurs succeed and make profit in the market process who can ascertain and fulfill the subjective wants of customers in the best way compared to his counterparts.
By producing and selling top quality goods at a lowest possible price successful entrepreneurs allow even the very poor people to buy his products. By allowing them to buy his products he lifts their standard of living; he lifts them out of their poverty even without raising their nominal meager income. That happens because with the falling prices in the market with the same amount of nominal income people can now buy more goods and services i.e., their real income rises. And no sane person will deny that this is the real way of increasing prosperity in the society; this is the true way of eliminating poverty and lifting the standard of living of millions of poor people.
Philanthropy, about which Ratan Tata is advising Mukesh, will only help poor people in a very short run i.e., for the urgent immediate consumption purposes. Such help to poor people will actually harm them in the long run by making them dependent on such easy free money. It will not cultivate any habit of hard work and independent living in those people. Redistributing the income will only exacerbate the problem of poverty because human nature is such that most people will always prefer the free goods. Such allocation of rich peoples' income will make everyone of us poor too because rich people play an important role of providing essential savings for the economy. And without savings it is impossible to sustain a labor population in present time which is involved in production of intermediate capital goods. And without capital goods it is impossible to increase the future production of final consumption goods, and without that progress (so-called growth) is not possible. Capitalist class - which includes people coming from all strata of society, and not just rich - plays a pivotal role of supplying this saving. If they are forced to allocate their saving to poor people, who will mostly use it for immediate consumption, then society and economy cannot progress and without progress everyone of us will be poor one day for sure.
And people should not forget another vital economic truth that, honest entrepreneur do not become rich by exploiting the public, but they are made rich by their consumers i.e., the same public. Consumers voluntarily buy the products sold by such sellers because they prefer their products over other sellers. And in this process they give their portion of income to these entrepreneurs making them rich in turn. Profit is a signal that the businessman is fulfilling the most urgent wants of his consumers in a best possible way, and that's why he is rich. On the other hand those entrepreneurs who make losses are not fulfilling consumers' wants properly and so they remain poor in turn by going broke! (to deeply understand the beautiful system of profit & loss I will advise my readers to read Mises' wonderful book, Profit and Loss).
So, if Mukesh is an honest entrepreneur then he has all the rights to keep and use his profit in whatever way he wants to.
Scene 2: Mukesh is a dishonest entrepreneur
But, if Mukesh Ambani is a dishonest entrepreneur and his profit comes solely from his friendships with the government bureaucrats and politicians then he has no right whatsoever on his wealth. Profit generated by such dishonest political maneuvering is immoral. In a system of government such businessmen are working not to serve their consumers but only to serve the politicians and bureaucrats who help them in restricting the market competition. They actively lobby government so to establish their monopolies in the market. Through these monopolies then they fleece the consumers. And because their profit depends on exploiting the political system they don't care about their consumers. In fact they go to any length to harm their consumers for making such illegitimate and immoral profits.
This type of system is historically known as 'fascism' and sadly in today's world most of the businessmen, especially the big business houses are making their fat profits by this way only.
If Mukesh Ambani (also Ratan Tata and all others) is doing his business in cahoot with the government officials then his profit is illegitimate. If one day India becomes truly a free country then he should be stripped of his illegal profits (property) and should be convicted and punished for his crimes against the people. He and all such dishonest business tycoons should be incarcerated, may be hanged.
Looking at these economic facts, if Tata and Mukesh both are honest businessmen and they really want to help people of this country then instead of allocating their profit to the poor people they should use that capital in producing top quality goods at the lowest possible price. They should try to provide as many economic goods as possible to people of India through market competition. Tata and Mukesh both can profit by serving the needs of poor people. There exists a thriving market even in remotest rural poor areas of the world as C. K. Prahalad has shown. All capable entrepreneurs (existing and new ones) should provide top quality private schools, hospitals, private roads, electricity, water works, sanitation, home etc. goods in these areas at the lowest possible price. That will be the best possible moral way of making a difference in poor peoples' lives; that is the only way in which these entrepreneurs can help the poor in mitigating their hardships. Allocation/redistribution of wealth will only result in misery for all of us.
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- it's not about being honest/dishonest? it's about show-off lavish life style in a locality which is deprived & it doesn't make sense at all. Every entrepreneur can't be like Bill Gates, i agree & there is no need to be. Ambani can purchase Al Burj or anything like that, nobody will ever comment on that.
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Flying cheap is the probably the best way to travel, it means more money for fun when you arrive at your location.
The problem is, finding those fares can be a nightmare and there are so many airlines, it's confusing to even look at.
Well, it is about to become a lot easier, as eight low cost carries, including our very own TigerAir, are about to join forces and appear on each others website.
The ''Value Alliance'' partners are TigerAir Australia, Scoot, Cebu Pacific, TigerAir Singapore, Jeju Air, Nok Air, NokScoot and Vanilla Air.
They collectively serve 160 destinations in countries such as the Phillipines, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, China and Australia.
As part of their alliance, there will be a merged booking feed which will put the airlines together and easier to book one flight with one airline and another with another, to get you to your destination for the cheapest price.
There is a bit of a catch, it has pretty much been promised that this will make the airlines more money as they will be able to sell their ''extras'' easily, such as better seats, food and shop items.
We cannot wait to use it, it's going to be so much easier to travel!


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With Sanctified by Grace Kyle and I have in mind a vexing challenge for contemporary theology: the hyper-specialization of the academy which causes divisions unnatural to theology, such as between mind and heart, belief and action, dogmatics and spirituality, etc. Spirituality, the Christian life and Christian practice are all relegated to other disciplines and no longer flow from and speak back (prophetically) into theology. Rather than recognizing the death of spirituality when it is divorced from theology (and vice versa), the modern academy baptizes this separation with academic programs and books in which theology and spirituality rarely collide (let alone mutually influence).
In a modest way we hope the book addresses these temptations by providing a theological account of the Christian life in which doctrine and life, confession and practice are held together in the divine economy of grace. The approach is straightforwardly doctrinal – focusing the life of the Christian on the triune God who creates, elects, calls and redeems.
Part One—The Gracious One
1. The Triune God • Fred Sanders
2. The Electing God • Suzanne McDonald
3. The Creating and Providential God • Katherine Sonderegger
4. The Saving God • Ian McFarland
5. The Perfecting God • Christopher Holmes
Part Two—The Graces of the Christian Life
6. Reconciliation and Justification • John Burgess
7. Redemption and Victory • Christiaan Mostert
8. Communion with Christ • John Webster
Part Three—The Means of Grace
9. Scripture • Donald Wood
10. Church and Sacraments • Tom Greggs
Part Four—The Practices of Grace
11. Discipleship • Philip Ziegler
12. Prayer • Ashley Cocksworth
13. Theology • Ellen Charry
14. Preaching • William Willimon
15. Forgiveness & Reconciliation • D. Stephen Long
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After the Take Back The American Dream conference I attended a Jobs Not Cuts rally at the capitol. A few hundred people came from the conference to attend this rally, asking Congress to fix the country's problems by creating jobs to modernize our country's infrastructure instead of cutting essential social services.
Following is a brief slide show of a few pictures and videos I took at the rally:
Campus Progress has a writeup, video and more photos from the rally, VIDEO: Hundreds of Progressives March to Capitol in 'Jobs, Not Cuts' Rally,
The notion of American Dream is rapidly slipping through the fingers of an outraged middle class. But more than 2,000 rising leaders from across the nation made their presence known by taking a stand this week at the Take Back the American Dream conference, which concluded in Washington, DC, today with a rally.
The "Jobs, Not Cuts" rally on Capitol Hill served as the grand finale for the conference, and also as the starting point for a refreshed and motivated army of progressive activists and leaders.


text: LINGUIST List: Vol-13-991. Wed Apr 10 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 13.991, Review: Typology, Lexicography: Harkins & Wierzbicka Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org> Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org): Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona Editors (linguist at linguistlist.org): Karen Milligan, WSU Naomi Ogasawara, EMU James Yuells, EMU Marie Klopfenstein, WSU Michael Appleby, EMU Heather Taylor-Loring, EMU Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. Richard John Harvey, EMU Dina Kapetangianni, EMU Renee Galvis, WSU Karolina Owczarzak, EMU Software: John Remmers, E. Michigan U. <remmers at emunix.emich.edu> Gayathri Sriram, E. Michigan U. <gayatri at linguistlist.org> Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Terence Langendoen <terry at linguistlist.org> ========================================================================== What follows is another discussion note contributed to our Book Discussion Forum. We expect these discussions to be informal and interactive; and the author of the book discussed is cordially invited to join in. If you are interested in leading a book discussion, look for books announced on LINGUIST as "available for discussion." (This means that the publisher has sent us a review copy.) Then contact Simin Karimi at simin at linguistlist.org or Terry Langendoen at terry at linguistlist.org. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:34:53 +0200 From: Serge Sharoff <serge.sharoff at uni-bielefeld.de> Subject: Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:34:53 +0200 From: Serge Sharoff <serge.sharoff at uni-bielefeld.de> Subject: Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective Harkins, Jean, and Anna Wierzbicka, ed. (2001) Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Mouton de Gruyter, vi+421pp, hardback ISBN 3-11-017064-7, Cognitive Linguistic Research 17 Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-3169.html Serge Sharoff, Universität Bielefeld OVERVIEW The purpose of the book is defined in the introductory chapter written by the editors Anna Wierzbicka and Jean Harkins. The book is aimed at studying emotions from the perspective of different cultures and languages. The attitude contrasts with psychological and neurological studies on the same topic. Brain scanning studies require sophisticated equipment, so they are mostly conducted in English-speaking research environments. This is one of the reasons why neurological studies typically assume universality of basic emotions (like anger, fear or shame) following uses of respective words in English. As for psychological studies, an emotion, say, anger, significantly varies from person to person, from one situation to another one, while language gives a conceptual connection between two disparate emotion experiences by providing the same label for them. At the same time, the system of labels for emotional experiences is organized in different ways in different cultures and languages. Significant differences can be found even in closely related languages, as, for instance, differences in meanings of anger in English and Ärger in German. This is the main thread of argumentation offered in the introduction against the ethnocentric and in favor of the ethnographical approach to studying emotions, when emotion words are described without importing categories "from outside", but by means of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), which describes meanings of words using semantic primes, like FEEL, BAD, I, YOU, SOMEONE, SOMETHING, which are allegedly available in all languages. Readers familiar with previous works by Wierzbicka will notice that the set of primes (about 60) is significantly expanded in comparison to her earlier works such as Lingua Mentalis (Wierzbicka, 1980) with just 13 primitives. The chapter also defines a methodology, which uses prototype scenarios for describing emotions. An explication basically consists of four parts: (1) an emotional formula: X felt something because X thought something; (2) a prototype scenario: something good happened, I wanted this to happen; (3) an evaluation: when this person (I) thinks this, this persons feels something good; (4) implications of the scenario for the person (X), which is different from "I" in the prototype scenario: X felt something like this, because X thought something like this. The explication above stands for "X was pleased". The explication for "X was delighted", for instance, differs from it only in the scenario: "I know now: something very good happened; I didn't know that this would happen" and the evaluation: "feels something very good". The introduction is followed by 11 chapters by various authors who apply the theoretical principles of the NSM approach to studying emotion words in various languages. The structure of many chapters in the book (not all) follows the pattern: an informal discussion of lexical item(s) to be considered is followed by their explications. The chapter by Mengistu Amberber considers the applicability of semantic universals to describing emotion words in Amharic (a Semitic language). The paper tests 10 hypotheses from (Wierzbicka, 1999), e.g. "All languages have a word for FEEL", "In all languages, feelings can be described as good or bad", "In all languages, people can describe feelings via observable bodily symptoms", etc. The chapter considers not only strictly lexical, but also grammatical means for delivering emotions. For instance, the verb azzene is comparable to "be sad", but can be translated into English also as be disappointed or sympathize. The two meanings are distinguished by the syntactic frame: one preposition (le) is used for expressing compassion (i.e. sympathy), while another preposition (bb) for expressing disappointment. The two polysemous meanings are described by two explications. The chapter by Robert Bugenhagen studies emotion words in Mbula, a language of Papua New Guinea, in particular, body image expressions in the Mbula culture. Unlike English, which uses a specialized vocabulary of abstract terms referring to emotional concepts (angry, offence, happy), the majority of expressions referring to emotions in Mbula are related to body parts, which localize the experience, e.g. eye, liver, stomach, etc. Mata (eye) is the most productive concept, which is used for many different purposes, for instance, Y mata-mben (eye night), be angry at Y who does not see things, as if it were night, or Y iur mata-pa Z (Y puts eye for Z), Y hopes for Z. However, many examples cited in the paper do not refer to emotions per se, e.g. awake, unconscious, to lose consciousness. The chapter by Uwe Durst has an ironical title "Why Germans don't feel anger" and is devoted to studying different words referring to anger in German: Ärger, Wut, Zorn and their derivatives (sich ärgern, wütend, zornig). The research is based on uses of respective words in the Mannheim Corpus, their translations into English and historical changes in their meanings. The chapter shows that the allegedly basic emotion expressed by the English word anger has ho direct counterpart in German, a language close to English both genetically and cuturally. The chapter by N.J.Enfield studies facial expression descriptions in Lao. The chapter is indirectly related to the main topic of the book, both because it does not use the NSM-style explications and because of its subject: it contains a discussion of basic emotional expressions in Lao (without a reference to facial expressions) and facial expressions themselves, which are often, but not always used for attributing emotional states. However, the study mirrors the description of body image expressions in the chapter by Bugenhagen. The chapter by Cliff Goddard is devoted to analysis of a single word in Malay: hati, which can be translated into English as "heart", the sensitive part of a person. First, various uses and collocations with hati are studied (hati is a productive source for various expressions of emotions). Then, the author considers possibilities for translating the set of the NSM primes into Malay, so that explications of respective concepts can be done directly in this language. The chapter by Jean Harkins studies expressions referring to anger in Arrernte (a language of Central Australia), as well as in Aboriginal English, in which certain English words have also acquired new meanings, for instance, cheeky refers to a serious potential for violence or harm. She goes in depth about interpersonal dimensions important in Arrernte for expressing one's anger: the immediate intention to retaliate, the type of the offender, the desire/lack of it to communicate to the offender (cf. sulky in English), etc. The author also considers the possibilities for translating the NSM primes into Arrernte and uses explications written in Arrernte (unlike the previous chapter by Goddard, which explications are in English, even though he provides the set of semantic primes in Malay). The chapter by Rie Hasada studies two groups of Japanese sound-symbolic words denoting surprise and restlessness (anxiety, fear, nervousness). Uses of such words as haQ, gyoQ and dokiQ (all roughly correspond to startled) are difficult to grasp for a language learner, yet the correct choice between them is very important for effective communication. Their explications offered by the author are: I know something because of this vs. I can't do anything now because of this vs. I could hear something like this: dokiQ in my heart (only the core of the explication is quoted). From the explications, it is clear that each word is used for communicating a specific meaning, which is not easily lexicalized in English. The chapter by Pawel Kornacki considers the family of five basic words, which are used to express anger in Chinese: sheng/qi, nao(huo), fen and taoyan. Explications proposed by the author help to identify points of similarity and difference between these words and their possible translations into English, e.g. controlled vs. uncontrolled anger, the effect of surprise, manifestation of one's emotions, etc. The chapter by Irina Levontina and Anna Zalizniak lists more than a dozen emotion concepts that have not received in-depth treatment in the already extensive literature on Russian emotions. Several topics are addressed: various feelings of pleasure, negative feelings (like toska, obida), interpersonal relationships (e.g. zhalost', rodnoj), as well as a group of feelings referring to departure from a person or place (razluka, soskuchit'sja, toska). The authors make an explicit claim that they do not distinguish in their discussion between words, concepts they incorporate and fragments of reality they refer to. It is seems that the attitude is shared by other contributors to the volume: objects of their descriptions are not clearly articulated (i.e. it is unclear whether their statements concern words, concepts or emotional states), cf. the Critical Evaluation section of the review below. The chapter by Anna Wierzbicka is devoted to the Polish word przykro (it roughly corresponds to hurt, offended, sorry). The author tries to define an explication covering the invariant meaning behind various uses of the word, which refers to a bad feeling experienced by X; it can be caused either by someone else's apparent emotional rejection of X, or by X's own action which may appear to someone else to indicate X's rejection of them. The chapter also offers explications for the English words comparable with przykro and for the English idiom "feel bad", which is different in its meaning from "feel something bad", which is extensively used in explications. The final chapter by Zhengdao Ye considers words referring to sadness in Chinese: bei, ai and chou, which are often translated as grief, sadness, sorrow. However, the three words encode significantly different meanings: sadness as an immediate response to a recent event in bei, sorrow and compassion prototypicaly caused by someone's death in ai, and the lasting feeling, when the experiencer lacks forces to change the situation, in chou. The author also demonstrates intertranslatability of the NSM primes by providing explication both in English and Chinese. CRITICAL EVALUATION The introductory chapter refers to a statement made by Geeraerts (1999) concerning two methodological extremes of cognitive linguistics: empiricist vs. idealistic analysis. The NSM approach is a clear instance of the idealistic analysis: it claims that any word *has* an invariant meaning, which can be represented by means of a semantic metalanguage; the concept (idea) behind a word is primary with respect to its use in communication (empiricist analyses are more oriented towards communication: they assume that a word is *used* to realize certain intentions, so the attention of the researcher is aimed at studying patterns of uses, preferably based on a corpus, cf. two definitions of usage-based approaches in cognitive (Langacker, 1988) and systemic-functional linguistics (Halliday, Matthiessen, 1999)). The stance determines both strong and weak points of the book. On the one hand, almost all contributions follow the NSM methodology by constructing explications out of the set of semantic primes defined in the introduction. Thus, the book provides an example study of how various phenomena referring to emotions in various cultures can be treated by decomposing words into semantic primes. On the other hand, the discussion says relatively little about the actual behavior of lexical items and about cases in which they are really used. A good explication reveals something essential for (culture-specific) concepts designated by lexical items, but it does not embrace the whole range of their (non-metaphorical) uses. For instance, the following example from LDOCE: Tom was delighted at the sensation he was creating. implies that Tom knew that he created the sensation and wanted to do it (in contrast to the scenario for delighted, as described in the introduction and quoted above). Another case is the typical polite expression: Thanks for the invitation. I'd be delighted to come. This implies neither that "something very good happened" (at most, this means that I'm pleased with the invitation) nor that "I didn't know that this would happen". The dependence on intuition and the failure to distinguish between concepts and uses of words can also lead to factual errors. For instance, Levontina and Zalizniak study the difference between uses of two Russian words referring to enjoyment: naslazhdenie and udovolstvie. The authors claim that the first word belongs to the "high" sphere, while the second one to bodily pleasures, so the combination of udovolstvie with istinnyj (true, also a word from the "high" sphere) is impossible, unlike "istinnoe naslazhdenie"; the claim is supported by selected examples from Dostoyevsky and Pushkin. However, the allegedly impossible collocation "istinnoe udovolstvie" is *more* frequent than "istinnoe naslazhdenie" (5725 vs. 5164 occurrences according to the Yandex count). I think that this does not undermine the validity of the claim that culture-specific *concepts* istinnyj and naslazhdenie belong to the "high" sphere, unlike udovolstvie. At the same time, respective words are used for many different purposes. I think that the difference between their uses can be summarized by means of the following general pattern: udovolstvie emphasizes transitory properties of enjoyment of something happening in the immediate perception, while naslazhdenie emphasizes more durative feelings. Both words can be used in the same situation. The choice between them depends on communicative intentions of the speaker (which aspect of the situation to be emohasized). The quality istinnyj can be also combined with both words with the purpose to express the high degree and quality of respective feeling (it provides a lexical realization of Bon in terms of Mel'chuk's Lexical Functions). Such errors caused by over-dependence on intuition can be reduced, only when the analysis is based on representative corpora. There is also a danger of taking examples from highly figurative speech, e.g. poetry or psychological novels, which may distort the picture of real uses of lexical items. In short, there are theoretical problems with the description of word meanings by representing them in terms of semantic primes, for instance: are semantic formulae really meant when people communicate with each other? (e.g. all explications referring to anger include an assertion that something bad can happen to the angry person, but this does not necessarily correspond to the intention of the speaker). Other problems: how polysemous senses of, say, "sad" are represented (inlcuding sad stories, events, situations, being lonely); what happens in the case of misunderstanding (how can people fail to refer unanymously to the Platonic realm of explications?), etc, cf. the brilliant discussion in (Geeraerts, 1999). Notwithstanding the theoretical problems, explications are very useful for practical purposes: as concise and rigorous tools for explicating the core meanings of certain culture-specific words, for instance, for explicating differences between uses of haQ, gyoQ and dokiQ in Japanese (cf. the chapter by Hasada). The explications were helpful for students of Japanese (as claimed by Hasada) and for me as the reviewer trying to grasp semantic differences in expressions referring to surpise in Japanese. Thus, the two approaches (idealistic vs. empiricist) are not mutually exclusive, but rather complementary both in terms of their aims and their outcomes. A minor complaint concerns the choice of submissions for the book. The chapters vary in the range of phenomena covered in them. Five chapters are devoted to differences in uses of a group of lexical items, constituting a semantic subfield, e.g. referring to sadness, anger, surprise. Four chapters provide an overview of emotional lexicons in respective languages (Amharic, Lao, Mbula, Russian); while two chapters concentrate on specific words, which are salient in respective cultures (hati in Malay and przykro in Polish). When the complete set of lexical items referring to emotions (and often to cognitively-based feelings in general) is treated in a relatively small chapter, the discussion remains cursory: the window into another culture is too panoramic. When a single lexical item is treated in detail, one can grasp its meaning, but its relationship to other concepts in the culture remains obscure: the window into another culture is too narrow. Out of this reason, the most informative chapters (at least, for the reviewer) happened to be those devoted to a group of related lexical items. For instance, three chapters in the book are devoted to expressions related to anger in, respectivily, Arrernte, Chinese and German. The cross-cultural perspective offered in the three chapters provides a lot of information for a contrastive study. On the one hand, it is a difficult task for editors to level the analyses offered in papers by various contributors. On the other hand, if the editors had balanced the contributions, say, dealing with a semantic subfield, the book would become a classic reference source in the field of cross-linguistic study of emotional expressions. Anyway, in spite of minor shortcomings, the book is a valuable contribution to understanding of emotions in different cultures, especially, for lesser studied languages. REFERENCES Geeraerts, Dirk (1999). Idealistic and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics. In T.Jansen and G.Redeker (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope and Methodology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 163-194. Halliday, M.A.K., Matthiessen, C.M.I.M. (1999). Construing experience through meaning: a language-based approach to cognition. London: Cassell. Langacker, R. (1988). A usage-based model. In Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn (ed.), Topics in cognitive linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 127-161. Wierzbicka, Anna (1980). Lingua mentalis: the semantics of natural language. Sydney: Academic Press. Wierzbicka, Anna (1999). Emotions across Languages and Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ABOUT THE REVIEWER Serge Sharoff is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His research interests are in the fields of corpus studies, cognitive science and computational linguistics. Currently he works on a corpus-based description of uses of several word classes (emotions, size adjectives, verbs of motion) in English, German and Russian. 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The exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America opens today at the Harry Ransom Center. Running through January 6, 2013, the exhibition explores the life and career of American stage and industrial designer, futurist, and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958).
Read what T Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Metropolis magazine have to say about the exhibition and Bel Geddes.
More than 300 items in the exhibition reflect the broad range of Bel Geddes's interests and work and demonstrate how he shaped and continues to influence American culture and lifestyle. A polymath who had little academic or professional training in the areas he mastered, Bel Geddes had the ability to look at trends and the contemporary environment and envision how they could affect and alter the future.
"When you drive on an interstate highway, attend a multimedia Broadway show, dine in a sky-high revolving restaurant or watch a football game in an all-weather stadium, you owe a debt of gratitude to Norman Bel Geddes," said exhibition organizer Donald Albrecht, an independent curator and curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York.
All materials in the exhibition except two loaned items come from the Norman Bel Geddes archive at the Ransom Center.


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It's been obvious for months that Tim Tebow had no future as a quarterback for the Jets, and the only surprise when the Jets cut Tebow on Monday was that they waited so long to do it. But did the Jets keep Tebow around as long as they did with a thought of moving him to another position?
Asked that question on Mike and Mike in the Morning, John Idzik said that from the time he became the Jets' general manager, he and the Jets' staff never had any thought of playing Tebow anywhere but quarterback.
"No, we didn't," Idzik said. "Tim, while I was here, he was slated as a quarterback."
The strange thing about the way the Jets used Tebow last year, however, was that they seemed to be going out of their way not to give him a chance to play quarterback: He was the personal protector on the punt team and took snaps in the Wildcat formation, but when the Jets wanted a quarterback to replace Mark Sanchez, they turned to Greg McElroy, not Tebow.
Tebow was good with the ball in his hands in college and might be able to play some fullback or tight end if given the opportunity, but from all accounts he sees himself as a quarterback. And although the Jets didn't give him a chance to play quarterback, that's how they saw him, too.


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