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Magician, Sorcerer, Wizard?
, What do you consider yourself?
Nov 6 2011, 07:17 PM
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I still am very fond of the term
after the last several years.
It remains short and sweet and right to the point for me, compared to all the others.
Sep 26 2012, 02:56 PM
QUOTE(curi @ Jul 6 2006, 06:59 PM)
Good evening,
This is perhaps a topic that has been mentioned quite regularly, but what in your opinion should a male practicing magic call himself? Why do some choose to call themselves "magician" instead of "wizard." Next, when should a male, or female for that matter, begin to call themselves by these different names? It is sad to think that an armchair magician is calling himself a great and powerful mage. I understand that these different names have to do a lot with your background, but I thought I'd get everyone's imput on the classification of these sorts of men and women alike. Shouldn't a woman who practices magic be considered a witch? Or shouldn't a male who does the same thing consider himself a magician? Let's keep things simple, right? There seem to always be complications that arise with the term. What do you consider yourself and why? What's your background? Any thoughts would be a very interesting read.
Mr. Curi
Versed in both sleight of hand and in ceremonial magick, I prefer the term "magician."
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Haha, it's a little hard to answer the question without feeling pretentious, but I'd have to roll back to the Victorian era and dredge up Spirit Worker for myself. I think that comes closest, but at the end of the day it comes down to what matters to you. And off the soapbox I go. (IMG:
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QUOTE(Jack @ Dec 2 2012, 03:27 AM)
Haha, it's a little hard to answer the question without feeling pretentious, but I'd have to roll back to the Victorian era and dredge up Spirit Worker for myself. I think that comes closest, but at the end of the day it comes down to what matters to you. And off the soapbox I go. (IMG:
Now after 42 years of magickal study and lots of reading and practise, I have still just skimmed the surface of a vast amount of magick subjects that have my interest , so I call myself lifetime student of magick.
Me I am not into titles. I am selfthaught and a student who lighted her own lamp.
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I typically classify myself as a mage, a diviner, a psychic and a healer as I do have a knack for both psionic and magical healing, and I am fairly good at divination spells. I also practice sorcery and druidic earth magic, I have connected with a dryad by the name of Dendranaliandra, and she often assists in my rituals at my sacred glade in a nature park near my home.
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I agree with some of the previous posters that I think 'witch' has been pretty well claimed by wiccans of both genders. I both love and hate the term sorcerer because it is dramatic, making it great in terms of self identifying for magic, but not so much for defining oneself in public. Magician immediately brings to mind stage magic, not something I look down on by the way, those guys are incredibly talented performers and occasionally engineers.
My friends who know I practice magic like to call me a Dark Wizard because ONE TIME I may have accidentally cursed a guy. Don't worry, that was early in my path; I learned my lesson. On the occasion I try to explain my practice to someone new, I usually tell them I am shaman; it doesn't carry the stigma of witch or the over-the-topness of sorcerer, but still conveys the spiritual nature of my practice.
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People have used props for thousands of years to assist in their focus during magickal workings. Poppets, herbs that burn and sting to induce pain and anger, stone circles, and anything else that would help to create the proper mood, help to stimulate and intensify the right emotions, and help to direct one's energy and focus are known as "props."
One should be powerful enough to influence one's environment using the power of one's mind alone without having to rely upon props. Props definitely help in beginning magic as they provide a focus.
Advanced working with props is a different matter and requires infusing them with energy or binding thoughtforms or souls into them. Here is where props have real power and can become magickal assistants within themselves. From observation the name one adopts is aligned with the props one uses. But the true adept need no props, so he/she doesn't need any 'name' as the adepts goal is that of literally becoming a god. All the true adept needs is his/her mind which has become exceptionally powerful because of consistent power meditations.
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A Title is like a name, if your name is bob and you believe yourself to be named bob then to you, you are bob. The deference between a name and a Title is other people's acceptance in referring to you as that title... I mean to say that a King is only a king if others believe him to be king And the same goes for any other title. If I just start proclaiming myself to be the president then like you would expect. Nobody would believe me and "The title would not stick" and only i would be calling myself the president which would be delusional.
In the case of a wizard or magician the same is true, In my opinion if there is one other person out there who believes you when you say your a wizard then to that person that is what you are. Not everybody has to believe your title is legitimate in much the same way some people call Jesus a "Messiah" (which is a title) while others don't believe that to be true like muslims and jews.
At the end of the day your title Is based on belief others have in you. If My title is a wizard then that simply means that people believe I am a wizard, If my title is king, that simply means people believe I am a king and if my title is messiah then that simply means that people believe I am a messiah.
You have to convince people that you are what you say you are otherwise people wont have much of a reason to believe you when you proclaim that you are this or that. That is the whole reason why wizards do magic. So that people will believe the magician is supernatural when in reality the magician is simply pulling off a simple trick of slide of hand with a little prestidigitation. But The point of the magic trick to begin with was to MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE you are supernatural.
Wizards, witches, conjurers, mages, sorcerers, clerics, scientists, politicians are all part of a group of thinkers who have one goal in mind and that is to get you to believe in something. But they differ in WHAT they want you to believe and have different techniques to get you to believe what they want you to believe. Scientists for example want you to believe in the big bang theory and all the other things which they collectively believe to be true whether it is or not. The way scientists make people believe in something usually means doing an experiment which is done like a magician does magic.
The scientist will illustrate why what he wants you to believe is true based on the scientist's hypothesis (which is his theory, what he believes is true) and if people believe his explanation then it might as well be fact unless someone can prove it is not.
politicians want you to believe that they will be a good leader and that you should believe their lies so that they might get a political position. Then he won't do what he promised.
clerics want you to believe what ever the hell they can get away with, so that you donate and warship at their marble and gold plated alters.
As for magicians and most any synonym of the word we want you to to believe that we have powers and can do the impossible, like casting a demonic spirit into your house to haunt you. Having people believe that you can do this can be quite useful at getting what we want. we do magic so that we can get people to believe we have power over the supernatural.
It's called make believe people and that's what titles, lies and magic are for.
I don't think it really matters what you call yourself, but if you want a title then I would recommend convincing people that is what you are.
If I had to choose my favorite word to refer to a magic practitioner I would choose: Wizard because I like how the classic blue starry wizard looks and I like what it represents which is power though wisdom and knowledge. I personally believe that wisdom and knowledge is truly powerful but only when it is aligned with your personal goals otherwise wisdom and knowledge can be quite useless and a burden.
Merlin the great wizard of legend saw that England was locked in a foolish civil war so he devised a magic trick, a contest to pull an old sword from the grip of a stone. The prize for pulling the sword from the stone was to be chosen by god to rule England. War lords came from all over England, they came so that when they pulled the sword from the stone the people of England would accept them as the one true king. The contest was obviously rigged by Merlin so that he might choose for himself who would be king. Merlin saw all of the warlords and decided
that non of them was fit to be king so he chose a small boy from the crowd because he saw righteousness in him. This story is iconic in the world of magic because it illustrates that sorcerers are greater then kings and that magic and make believe can shape the fate of our world.
I think the only difference between words describing anyone practicing magic who goes by a title like wizard or witch is association If you call yourself a street magician then you are associating yourself with a type of street performer. If you call yourself a witch then your associating yourself with Wicca. and so on.
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i would most of the time liked to think myself as a Mystic, that's fine with me. (IMG:
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One day after Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson compared [1] embryonic stem cell research to Nazi medical experiments, White House domestic policy adviser Claude Allen [2] appeared on Dobson's radio program and echoed Dobson's opposition to stem cell research without mentioning -- much less repudiating -- his reference to Nazi atrocities.
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DOBSON: I want to devote today's program to a subject that, as you know, is very close to my heart, having to do with embryonic stem cell research and, specifically, that which destroys tiny human life. We discussed that subject yesterday with reference to Senator Bill Frist and several of his Republican colleagues, who have shifted their views from a decidedly pro-life perspective to a more utilitarian position, and we regret that abandonment of what we consider the ethical and moral stance.
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In World War II, the Nazis experimented on human beings in horrible ways in the concentration camps, and I imagine, if you wanted to take the time to read about it, there would have been some discoveries there that benefited mankind. You know, if you take a utilitarian approach, that if something results in good, then it is good. But that's obviously not true.
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Verbotene Liebe is a German soap opera about sex, money and power. 20 years around affairs, blackmails, murder, alcoholism, tragic deaths and forbidden loves.
It all begins with the tragic love story of Jan Brandner (first Andreas Brucker, later Hubertus Grimm)and Julia von Anstetten (first Valerie Niehaus, later Nina Bott), who turn out to be twins that were separated at birth by their mother Clarissa (Isa Jank). Jan grow up with his father Arno (Konrad Krauss), while Clarissa married the billionaire Christoph von Anstetten (Jürgen Zartmann), who adopted Julia.
The story between Jan and Julia went on for more than two years, before a pregnant Julia, married to Tim Sander (Roland Pfaus) disappeared and later wanted Jan to follow her. While he was happy that his beloved sister was alright, Jan knew that their love couldn't continue and tried to move on.
Jan later would become a priest, while Julia gives birth to her son Timo (Remo Schulze) and marries Doctor Ricardo Mendes (Daniel Sellier). It takes them fourteen years before the reunite on the Spanish island Mallorca.
In the meanwhile the focus shifted to the complex matriarch of the show, Clarissa. She developed a long time rivalry with the murderous Tanja von Anstetten (Miriam Lahnstein), who used to be married to Christoph's younger brother Ben (Andreas Jung). An enmity that would bring Clarissa behind bars, while everyone believes she died in a plane crash. It takes her ten years to walk free again and have the aspiration to start over, beginning by making up with her children Jan and Julia. Feeling guilty for their forbidden love for each other, Clarissa visits Julia on Mallorca and is confronted with her old love and father of her children, Arno.
The years that Clarissa spend behind bars, lead to Lahnstein family becoming the main focus of the show. Patriarch Johannes von Lahnstein (Thomas Gumpert) falls in love with the beautiful and young Cécile de Maron (Yvonne Burbach), who marries him, but eventually starts having feelings for her stepson Leonard (Lars Korten). Johannes later finds happiness with Elisabeth Ryan (Martina Servatius), but is always threaten by his power hungry son Ansgar (Wolfram Grandezka). A beast to love. He finds true love in Nathalie Käppler (Jenny Winkler), who later turns to alcohol because of his schemes and indignities. Ansgar is blackmailed into marrying Tanja, as Nathalie finds her love for him again. In the end, Nathalie gives up the fight over Ansgar and he starts an affair with Lydia Brandner (Theresa Underberg), the wife of his cousin Sebastian (first Joscha Kiefer, later Sebastian Schlemmer). She even becomes pregnant and the two plan to marry, after Ansgar divorced Tanja and Lydia Sebastian, but once again Ansgar's schemes are in the way. Lydia leaves him with their unborn son. As Kim Wolf (first Lisa Tomaschewsky, later Nicole Mieth) comes into Ansgar's life, he does not know that the two share a secret connection, only known by Kim's mother Viktoria (Patricia Schäfer).
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Think for a moment about how much you LOATHE Colin Kaepernick and Jim Harbaugh. Us olds in the Twelve Army hated John Elway every bit as much, and sadly our moments of victory over him were rare and fleeting. We never got to see Dave Brown tip an Elway pass to Fredd Young to seal an AFC Championship Game victory at the Kingdome. This is a tale of pain and frustration, of near-ruined childhoods and bloodlust. This is the story of how Washington native John Elway became Public Enemy No. 1 in his home state. Our victory at MetLife Stadium Sunday night will mean just a TINY bit more to Twelves who endured 15 years of torture inflicted by the one we all ended up calling "Mr. Ed." Here's why:
The story begins back in the AFC West, where the Seahawks competed from 1977 to 2001. Before realignment sent Seattle to an NFC West they'd swiftly start dominating, they toiled for a quarter-century in a division they'd win TWICE. That's it. TWICE. Neither division title brought much in terms of bragging rights, either. In both 1988 and 1999, they won the division with a 9-7 record and promptly lost their first playoff game. Over the same era, Denver would win NINE AFC West titles, go to 6 Super Bowls, and win two of them. The Seahawks also had an intense rivalry with the Oakland/L.A. Raiders, but once John Elway became Denver's starting quarterback Seattle's path to the top of the AFC West was effectively roadblocked.
Those two AFC West titles for Seattle? One came in a down year for Elway where he threw 19 interceptions and posted a 71.4 passer rating. The other came the year after he retired. Seahawks fans hated Elway for the same reason Cleveland Cavaliers fans hated Michael Jordan: No matter how good we were, he'd almost always find a way to beat us. Both players had a knack for conjuring what felt like unearned victories out of thin air, and it is absolutely MADDENING to be vanquished that way.. over and over and over again.
Elway was almost the greatest hometown sports hero Washington had ever seen. Born in Port Angeles, he spent a huge chunk of his childhood in the Evergreen State. After a stellar career at Stanford, Elway was billed as a "once-in-a-generation" prospect. After stating that he'd opt to play baseball if drafted by the winless (and hopeless) Baltimore Colts, an intense bidding war developed for the top pick in the 1983 NFL Draft. As chronicled in the great ESPN 30 for 30 documentary "Elway To Marino," Elway was eager to be drafted by the Seahawks, and a deal was in place to make that happen, until Seattle management decided they'd rather make a trade putting them in position to draft Penn State running back Curt Warner. While Dave Krieg was still one of the best quarterbacks of the 1980s, and Warner was a highly productive back for most of seven seasons, it's not hard to imagine how different the history of the NFL (and the Seattle Seahawks) would be if Chuck Knox and Mike McCormack had executed the Elway trade with Baltimore.
When Elway entered the league, I was a eight-year-old baby Twelve living in the Tri-Cities. When the Hawks stomped Denver in the 1983 AFC Wild Card game, the rookie Elway couldn't even beat out journeyman Steve DeBerg for the playoff start. After that 31-7 blowout win, Krieg and Warner certainly seemed more valuable than Elway and Denver's forgettable collection of ballcarriers.
Things immediately shifted in 1984- Curt Warner blew out his knee on kickoff weekend, and Elway blossomed into one of the NFL's most dangerous weapons. 1984 was the start off fifteen seasons of Elway-generated misery for the Twelve Army... but I'll get back to that in a minute. In those 15 campaigns, Elway would win more games, pass for more yards, and throw more touchdowns against the Seahawks than he did against any other team. While Browns fans are more famous for their rabid, bug-eyed hatred of John Elway than Twelves are, the Seahawks were the team the Broncos climbed over to reach all those playoff games against Cleveland.
Growing up in the Tri-Cities, I felt SURROUNDED by little bastards in Orange jerseys, who delighted in taunting me after every Denver victory over my Hawks and using me like a cash machine. All they'd have to do was tell me "SeaChickens SUCK!" I'd reply "Oh yeah? Wanna bet on it?!?" A huge chunk of my allowances growing up went right into the pockets of little snot-nosed Elway jock-sniffers, which further stoked my wrath toward that horse-faced, leather-skinned cretin.
Of course, 15 years after retiring with two Super Bowl rings, Elway is Denver's Executive VP of Football Operations. He's built the team that the Seahawks will face in XLVIII, and he bested PCJS in the competition for Peyton Manning's services two years ago. Countless older Twelves like me are horrified by the notion of not only losing our 2nd Super Bowl in eight years, but by the notion of JOHN ELWAY being the one hoisting the Lombardi Trophy over our (figuratively) battered bodies. Conversely, an XLVIII win would also represent a small measure of payback against the man who has been our most formidable foe for my whole life as a Twelve. Here's a look back at some of the lowest (and highest) points of Seattle's rivalry with Elway and the Broncos. Enjoy!
1984- Round One
11/25/84 Seahawks 27, Broncos 24
This was one of the best matchups of the 1984 season, with the 10-2 Seahawks visiting the 11-1 Broncos. The fireworks started with an 80-yard Dave Krieg-to-Darryl Turner bomb on the FIRST PLAY for a 7-0 Seattle lead. Krieg would incinerate the Broncos, accumulating 406 passing yards, tossing three TDs and nary an INT. This was also the best regular season game of Steve Largent's Hall of Fame career: 12 catches for 191 yards and a score.
The Hawks built up a 27-17 lead in the 4th, but it looked like young Elway would pull off a soul-crushing comeback. Denver scored to pull within three, and had a chance to send the game to OT on the final play. Rich Karlis booted the ball with his bare foot... it looked good... then faded... faded... CLANG! the upright. NO GOOD! Seahawks win! Seattle was in control of their own playoff fate with three games left. Win all three, and they'd nail down home field advantage through the AFC playoffs.
1984- Round Two
12/15/84 Broncos 31, Seahawks 14
The Seahawks dropped the penultimate game of the '84 season at Arrowhead (of course), but could still win the AFC West and a first-round bye with a home win over Denver. The Seahawks had been undefeated at home in 1984, and were favored to defeat Elway and the Broncos. It was a deeply weird game in which Dave Krieg clearly outplayed Elway (who threw four interceptions)- But one of Krieg's interceptions was returned for a touchdown, and Denver was able to capitalize on Seattle's other two turnovers as well. The Broncos rolled to a 31-14 win, and the Twelve Army's collective rage towards Elway was kindled.
1986- Round One
10/26/86 Broncos 20, Seahawks 13
While Elway was busy laying waste to Seattle's defense for 321 yards passing, Dave Krieg completed only 6 passes for 26 yards. He'd get yanked in favor of Gale Gilbert, who'd lead Seattle on a tantalizing touchdown drive that convinced Chuck Knox to bench Krieg in favor of Gilbert. After two starts where Gilbert would generate two measly touchdowns, Krieg got his job back, and lead the Seahawks on a furious 5-game rally to end the 1986 season.
1986- Round Two
12/20/86 Seahawks 41, Broncos 16
In the Kingdome rematch, the surging Seahawks shredded the Super Bowl-bound Broncos. Curt Warner galloped for 192 yards and three touchdowns, and Krieg was 17-for-24 for 238 yards and two more scores. Elway would get sacked twice and be held to 187 yards passing while competing less than half his passes. The pain of missing the playoffs would be somewhat alleviated by watching Elway and the Broncos get blown out by the Giants in Super Bowl XXI.
1987- Round One
9/13/87 Broncos 40, Seahawks 17
The Seahawks acquired standout Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth in the offseason, and he immediately endeared himself to the Twelve Army by vowing to hit Elway as hard as he could every chance he got. The Boz would plant Elway in the Mile High Stadium turf twice, but those brief flashes of pleasure were smothered in a blowout loss to the Broncos. Elway threw for 338 yards and four touchdowns, and a competitive 20-17 game at halftime turned into a demoralizing 40-17 loss.
1987- Round Two
12/13/87 Seahawks 28, Broncos 21
I was at this game, and I happened to be about 10 feet away from the Broncos team bus as they arrived at the Kingdome. I was in awe of Tony Dorsett, but when Elway came off the bus it took all of the self-control I could muster as a twelve-year-old to keep myself from making a doomed Jeff Gillooly-esque run at his knees. Thankfully, I restrained myself and the Seahawks secured a late-season win that kept their playoff hopes alive, with the game-clinching score coming on a reverse flea-flicker that climaxed with a 40-yard TD strike from Krieg to Ray Butler. Once again, I'd have to console myself by watching the Broncos ultimately fail in Super Bowl XXII.
1988- Wow! A sweep!
12/11/88 Seahawks 21, Broncos 14
9/4/88 Seahawks 42, Broncos 14
The first of only two Seattle season sweeps of the Broncos... If Denver had won either of these games, they would have won the AFC West and Seattle has one less banner hanging from the Seahawks Stadium rafters. The Broncos were two-time defending AFC Champions, and huge favorites over Seattle at Mile High on Kickoff Weekend 1988, but Krieg was mistake free while Elway barfed up three turnovers, and the Hawks escaped with a 21-14 win. One chilling sidenote was Mike Harden's vicious illegal hit on Steve Largent, which broke his facemask, knocked out a few teeth and drew a huge fine from the NFL.
The rematch in Seattle three months later was no contest: Warner and John :L. Williams both rambled for over 100 yards rushing, and Dave Krieg was 19/22 with two TDs and no picks. Oh... and Largent got his revenge, DESTROYING Mike Harden with a perfect (and legal) hit on an interception return.
In a four year span from 1986-1989 the Broncos went to three Super Bowls. In 1988, the Seahawks rose up and smote them right out of postseason contention.
1993- Typical Elway
11/28/93 Broncos 17, Seahawks 9
This was the only time EVER that I arrived late for a Seahawks game. I hit Seattle about 12:30, and drove right into the gaping maw of pre-game traffic, which I usually miss by being ridiculously early. So I found myself sitting on the ramp off I-90, within sight of the Dome, gridlocked. I didn't get into the stadium until a few minutes into the first quarter, but there was no score yet. Yay!
I got to my seat in the 300 level, just in time to see the pivotal play of the game, and of Seattle's season. I hadn't even sat down yet... It was 3rd and long for Denver from midfield. 65,000 twelves combined to make a deafening roar, and it looked like Antonio Edwards was going to force a 3-and-out or a turnover with a vicious blindside hit on Elway...
Somehow, Elway pulled a Ben Kenobi, sensed his impending doom, ducked under Edwards and fired a perfect 50-yard TD strike to Shannon Sharpe. 7-0 Denver, but it felt like 70-0. The Hawks would get it together, sacking Elway 4 times (including once for a safety) and picking him once, but once Rod Bernstine punched it in late in the 4th to make it 17-9 the game and Seattle's season was over (nope, no two-point conversions in the NFL until 1994, boys and girls). The Seahawks would finish with a 1-4 Death March towards a disappointing 6-10 finish, while Denver once again made the playoffs. This game is still one of my most unpleasant memories of being a Seahawks fan.
1995- We Got Him (For Once)!
12/10/95 Seahawks 31, Broncos 27
This win not only kept Denver out of the playoffs, but it also was the greatest comeback in team history (until that win over Tampa Bay earlier this season), against our Tormentor-In-Chief. I was going to Western at the time, and living in the Fairhaven dorms. It was final exam time, and instead of cramming I was glued to the Hawks/Broncos throwdown. As the game went on, my textbooks started to look more appealing than witnessing another Elway-administered beatdown.
Denver led 20-0 at one point, and even after a Peterson FG, it was 20-3 at the half. Denver was deep in Seattle territory early in the 3rd, about to make it 27-3. The Hawks gambled on D, sending Robert Blackmon on a safety blitz. Blackmon obliterated Elway and Antonio Edwards scooped up the fumble and rambled 83 yards for a TD that completely shifted the momentum. I leaned out my dorm window and brayed like a farm animal after that one... Seattle still trailed 27-17 in the 4th, but rallied for two late touchdowns, leading to more out-the-dorm-window screaming. Simply amazing.
What Elway-related memories/trauma can you add to this, my fellow Twelves?


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It's crunch week for BP and President Obama.
The oil company's board of directors was meeting on Monday to consider a possible suspension of shareholder dividends – a move that would increase BP's funds on hand to pay Gulf oil spill cleanup costs and damage claims.
But the move hinges on politics more than on the firm's financial outlook, many analysts say.
IN PICTURES: The Gulf oil spill's impact on nature
The president and members of Congress have been pressuring BP on several fronts: to do better at mopping up oil slicks, to create an escrow fund to cover spill costs, and to stop paying dividends to ensure adequate funding of the cleanup. With a visit to the Gulf of Mexico shoreline on Monday, an address to the nation Tuesday, and a meeting with BP officials scheduled for Wednesday, Mr. Obama is renewing efforts to exhibit leadership during the crisis.
That means it's a sensitive moment for BP.
The political pressure on the firm is enormous. The board and chief executive Tony Hayward know the firm must appear prepared to face its liabilities and also responsive to appeals from top US leaders. An announcement by BP on the dividend could come after board chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg meets Obama Wednesday.
Not an 'either-or' situation
Yet a number of oil industry analysts estimate that BP can afford both its dividends and the cleanup costs. The rationale is that BP has huge cash flow from its global energy businesses, and the oil-spill costs will probably come due over the course of several years, not all at once.
"From a strictly financial standpoint we believe the current dividend can be maintained, but with politics entering the picture, the calculation becomes a tougher one," analysts at Raymond James wrote in a recent report for investors.
Already, in a conference call with investors, BP officials have said that "all factors will be considered," not just the desire of shareholders to see the dividend maintained.
BP has options other than either maintaining the dividend as-is or temporarily scrapping it. The company could reduce the dividend's size, pay out additional stock shares instead of cash, or put the money in a fund, from which dividends would be paid later if the money is not needed for cleanup.
Oil companies' steady stream of dividend income is valued by millions of retirees. In Britain, in particular, about $1 in every $8 of dividend income from Britain's FTSE 100 stock index comes from BP. (US shareholders, too, are reaping $4 billion a year in BP payouts, by one estimate.)
The dividend pressure from Obama and Congress has become a source of London-Washington tension.
A dividend cut could push down BP's already-battered share price, as investors wonder when dividends will come back – and perhaps even whether their suspension signals deeper long-term trouble as the firm wrestles with the oil-spill fallout.
Some oil industry analysts have already wondered aloud about whether BP could be forced into bankruptcy or become a takeover target, although many say the firm is financially strong enough to weather the crisis.
Mounting financial pressures
Still, politics isn't the only reason for BP to be evaluating its dividend policy.
Even from a strictly financial analysis, the rising costs of the spill mean that "dividend risks are clearly rising," according to a recent report by analysts at Credit Suisse. Translation: The firm can afford to keep its dividend in place for now, but it won't necessarily be easy for the firm to balance the cleanup costs, investments in new production, and its level of debt.
The spill could cost BP nearly $40 billion, Credit Suisse estimated, with perhaps $14 billion in damage claims and $23 billion in cleanup. "This would absorb three years of BP's free cashflow" after paying for dividends and for capital spending on new production, the report said.
That's a lot of money – and it's not clear what the final tally will really be. For now, BP has spent $1.6 billion on the Gulf crisis since the April 20 rig explosion. The ultimate tab will hinge on a range of factors, which could pin it above or below that $40 billion forecast.
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Nancy Elizabeth Kent Westberry, 87, Teacher
Nancy Elizabeth Kent Westberry, 87, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, with family and friends by her side. Nancy was born June 25, 1925, the daughter of Rodolphus and Marion Kent. She grew up in Presque Isle, Maine and Brooklyn, N.Y. She spent summers at her parent's camp on Shin Pond, Maine.
Nancy was educated at Beaver College for Women in Philadelphia and received her undergraduate degree as well as graduate studies at the University of Maine. She taught college in Maine as a young woman, and enjoyed ice-skating and skiing with her beloved father. She also taught at the Bonner School in Los Angeles, California, eventually returning to Maine.
In 1953 Nancy met Billy Murray Westberry, an Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer who was stationed at the Loring Air Force Base in Caribou, Maine. They both shared a love of the outdoors and were soon married at the St. John's Episcopal Church in Presque Isle, Maine. Nancy and Bill then moved to Marion, Ky., after his honorable discharge from the Air Force, where Bill practiced law and Nancy taught History and English to generations of students. Nancy and Bill spent many summers on their boats on Kentucky and Barkley Lake sharing cherished times with family and lifelong friends. Eventually they moved to Paducah where they were not only closer to the lake, but to their friends and family.
Nancy was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, a former member the Kentucky Educational Television (KET) Board, the Country Club of Paducah, the Marion Methodist church and numerous book clubs where she continued to share her life-long love of literature.
She is survived by her sons, William Bishop Westberry of Houston, Texas and R. Kent Westberry (Leslie) of Louisville, Ky., grandchildren Andrew Kent Westberry and Katherine Elizabeth Westberry. Among the greatest joys of her life was the time she and Bill spent with their two grandchildren, Andrew and Katie.
She was preceded in her death by her husband of nearly 50 years, Bill Westberry, and her parents, Rodolphus and Marion Kent.
Nancy was known as a kind and loving person always willing to share her gifts with others.
The family is especially grateful for the care and support provided by Bill Westberry's surviving sisters Doris Daigle of St. Michaels, Maryland, Patty Callender of Painesville, Ohio and Vickie (Bookie) McGee of Paducah.
A funeral service was held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at the Grace Episcopal Church in Paducah with Rev. Meghan Holland officiating. Burial followed in the Smithland Cemetery in Smithland, Ky. Visitation began at noon on Saturday at the church. Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah was in charge of the arrangements.
The family asks that expressions of sympathy be made to the Fohs Hall Community Arts Foundation in Marion, Ky., P.O. Box 55, Marion, Ky., 42064; Kentucky Educational Television (KET), 600 Cooper Drive, Lexington, Ky., 40502 or to the charity of your choice.
You may leave a message of sympathy or light a candle at www.milnerandorr.com.
Constance "Connie†Cameron, 90, Educator With JCPS
Constance "Connie†Cameron, 90, of Louisville, passed Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, at Jefferson Place.
Connie enjoyed a full and happy life surrounded by her family and engrossed in her work. She was a career educator starting with teaching, moving to administration and ending at the JCPS Volunteer Talent Center.
She graduated from St. Lawrence University, where she met her husband Jack Cameron; she also received multiple graduate degrees from the University of Louisville. Upon moving to Louisville with Jack in 1955 she started working for JCPS, a career that lasted until her death.
Over the years Connie was loved by her students, many of whom continued to contact her well past the years they had left the school system. Her passing is a loss to many outside of the family.
Connie was preceded in death by her husband Jack; her parents, Mathias and Ethel Poersch of Schenectady, N.Y.; her brothers Matt and John of Schenectady; and her sister Mary of Schenectady.
She is survived by daughter Katie (Bob Barnard), of Martinsville, Ind., and son John (Rosie) of Louisville, grandchildren Pam and Bobbi Barnard of Martinsvile; Becky (Chris) Doemland of Indianapolis; Maggie Cameron of Alexandria, Va.; Shelby Rose and Jack Cameron of Louisville; and great grandchildren Carri Doemland and Matt Doemland.
To say she will be missed is a gross understatement.
Her funeral Mass was held 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 501 Cherrywood Road, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation was Friday from 4 to 8 p.m., at Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road.
Contributions may be made to The Parkinson's Associations or St. Jude.
 Fanny Rose Rosenbaum, 92, Community Leader
Fanny Rose Rosenbaum, 92, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, at her residence.
She served as vice chairman of National Women's Division United Jewish Appeal (1962-1968), chairman of Louisville Women's Division United Jewish Campaign (1958-1959), president of Jewish Community Federation of Louisville (1972-1974), vice president of Metro United Way (1975), commissioner of Kentucky Commission on Human Rights (1966-1969 and 1970-1975), vice president of N.C. J.W. – Louisville Section, president of Louisville Chapter Women's Committee of Brandeis University and president of The Women of Reform Judaism at The Temple, for two terms. She was also involved as a reader and monitor for the blind, a speaker, locally and nationally for United Jewish Appeal and an amateur pilot.
She also served on the Board at many organizations, including American Red Cross, Louisville Chapter Executive Committee, the Bellarmine-Ursuline Trustees, the Louisville Conference of Christians and Jews, Jewish Hospital, Louisville Urban League and the Board of Trustees at The Temple.
She received many awards in her lifetime but notably the Center for Women & Families Women of Distinction Award (1997), the Ottenheimer Award (1975), the Hannah Solomon Award – N.C.J.W. – Louisville Section (1974) and the Man of the Year Award – B'nai B'rith (1967).
She is preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Irvin S. Rosenbaum.
She is survived by her daughters, Barbara Katz (Dr. Bernard) and Diane Rosenbaum, both of Boston; her son, Richard Rosenbaum (Janet); six grandchildren, Dr. Matthew Katz, Emily Williamson, Dr. David Rosenbaum, Stacy Rosenbaum, Michael Miller and Tony Miller; long-time, special friends, Bobbie and Warren Armes; and dear friends, Faye Schiefferle and Maye Young.
A memorial service will take place at a later date. The family had visitation Friday, Dec. 21 after 1 p.m. at the residence of her son, Richard, located in Cardinal Club Estates. Herman Meyer & Son was in charge of arrangements.
Because Fanny Rose had so many interests in her community, the family has requested expressions of sympathy go to donor's favorite charity.
Donna Rose (House) Christopher, 61, Member Of Ashby Lane Baptist Church
Donna Rose (House) Christopher, 61, of Louisville, passed away Dec. 18, 2012, at Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital.
She was a member of Ashby Lane Baptist Church.
Survivors include her mother, Delores Jean (Quinn) House; son, Ronald Keith Seidl (Stacy Beckert); granddaughter, Alyssa Smallwood; sister, Betty Hale (Henry); brothers, Tony (Janice), Tim (Melissa) and Marty (Lisa) House; aunt, Jackie Burkes; 11 nieces and nephews; eight great-nieces and nephews; numerous cousins; and friend, Ronnie Seidl.
A funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21 at Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Highway, with burial in Louisville Memorial Gardens, West. Visitation was Thursday from 2 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Online condolences may go to www.owenfuneralhome.com.
William Keller Sparks Jr., 51, Employed By Brantley Security
William Keller Sparks Jr., 51, of Louisville, passed away at his home Monday, Dec. 18, 2012.
He was employed by Brantley Security and an avid NASCAR fan. He was a devoted and loving father to his daughter, Sophia, who was the love of his life. He enjoyed nothing more than spending time with her.
He was preceded in death by his father, William K. Sparks Sr.
He is survived by his loving daughter, Mary-Georgia Sophia Sparks and her mother, Stephanie Sachs Sparks; his mother, Ann L. Dellis (Herschel); sisters, Elizabeth Radford (Cy) and Mary Catherine Saylor; and nieces Keller and Ann Preston Radford and Claire and Kate Saylor.
His funeral service was held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22 at Pearson's Funeral Home with burial following at Calvary Cemetery. Visitation was from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Pearson's. Expressions of sympathy may be made in his honor to The Healing Place, 1503 S. 10th St., Louisville, Ky., 40210.
Margaret (Gardner) Kittel, 100
Margaret (Gardner) Kittel, 100, passed away Sunday evening, Dec. 16, 2012, at Twinbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Margaret graduated from Ursuline Academy, was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church and Iroquois American Legion Auxiliary No. 229, and a past member of the Bonnycastle Club.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, William H. Young, Alex Vogedes and George (Boots) Kittel; her parents; and her brothers.
She is survived by her "special daughters†and caregivers, Judy Howell (Jerry) and JoAnne Fess (Larry) and their families; cousin, Joan Linette; faithful friend, Sharon Hodges; and a host of other friends.
The family would like to thank the staff at Twinbrook and Hosparus for the excellent care they gave Margaret.
Her funeral service was held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, at Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, with burial following in Cave Hill Cemetery. Visitation was from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Highlands.
Expressions of sympathy may be made in her name to Hosparus or to the Nazareth Home.
Clinton B. "Buck†Grant, 90, Retired Welder For Airco Carbide
Clinton B. "Buck†Grant, 90, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at Norton Audubon Hospital.
He was born in Little Cake, Ky. He was a retired welder for Airco Carbide and a member of Robinson Lodge No. 266. He enjoyed clock collecting, arrowhead hunting and rifle shooting.
He is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Oma "Joyce†(Wilson); son, William C. Grant (Charlotte); daughter, Karan Nolan; grandchildren, Kevin, Cindy, Kyle and Launa; great-grandchildren, Victoria and Logan; and a brother, Edward Wallace Grant.
His funeral was held at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21 at Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Hwy., with burial at Louisville Memorial Gardens West. Visitation was from noon to 8 p.m. on Thursday.


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Well, she wanted to go to Disneyland for her birthday, but there's a heatwave in Southern California that caused Courtney Stodden and her 51-year-old husband Doug Hutchison to postpone the excursion. So instead he bought her gifts from Victoria's Secret (her favorite store). Remember when you were 17 and Victoria's Secret seemed like the epitome of sexiness, mostly because it was the only "sexy" store in the mall aside from the back corners of Spencer's Gifts? Anyway, hopefully Doug bought her something with clear bra straps, because those are her favorite. Of being one year closer to adulthood, Courtney said, "17 is going to be even better than 16 because I'm going to spend the whole year with my wonderful husband!"
Courtney Stodden turns 17, gets lingerie from husband Doug Hutchison, 51, in lieu of Disneyland trip [NY Daily News]


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Warriors: Legends of Troy (Europe) For PlayStation 3
- Do battle as the Trojans or the Greeks. With two unique storylines, players will see the war from two perspectives
- Clash with legions of soldiers on glorious battlegrounds that reach for miles
- An intense combat system lets players grapple with and throw opponents, pick up and attack with a variety shortrange and long‐range weapons, charge with shields, and use evasive maneuvers
- Additional online features include voice chat, team and individual leaderboards, and more
- Among the inspirations for the game is The Iliad, Homer's epic poem from the 9th century BC, however Warriors: Legends of Troy will include more mythological elements than the original source material. Players will annihilate hordes of soldiers, battle larger‐than‐life heroes and even confront mythical creatures sent by the gods
Three thousand years ago, a poet sang of heroes strong enough to stand alone against an army.
For love, they sailed the world.
For family, they made the greatest sacrifices.
For honor, they stood and faced the will of gods,
And fought a war which shook the earth.
In the age when Zeus Almighty ruled over immortals and men, what begins as a truce between two cities quickly erupts into a massive war that will shake the very foundations of Olympus.
Two great armies clash not over home and country, but for the love of a single woman. The fates of these civilizations now stand upon the razor's edge.
Further Info
Release Date Mar 14, 2011
Genre Action
Version Europe
Players 1-4


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ROLLINSFORD — March 2 and 3 will mark the third annual Spring Orchid Celebration held in collaboration with the New Hampshire, Maine, and Eastern Maine Orchid Societies. This year's two-day celebration will once again be hosted by Wentworth Greenhouses at 141 Rollins Road.
The Celebration will offer a wide variety of orchids for sale, two days of lectures on orchids and their care, stunning orchid display, and a Maine Orchid Society Show Table complete with awards for best orchids. The event is free and open to the public and is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.
Starting at 10 a.m. Daryl Yerdon, a member of The NH Orchid Society and Owner of Kelley's Korner Orchid Supplies, will lead off Saturday's roster of speakers with a presentation on "The Basic Care and Repotting of Orchids." Shortly thereafter, at approximately 11:30 a.m., Bob Cleveland, owner of Bob Cleveland Orchids of South, Portland Maine and Past President of The Maine Orchid Society will review and discuss the various ribbons and awards that have been conferred upon Maine Orchid Society member grown orchids. At 1 p.m., George Crozer, Vice President of the NH Orchid Society and owner of Crozer and Crozer Orchids of New London, NH will discuss "Cattleyas: The Queen of Orchids." At 2 p.m., a talk titled "Orchids, What Type Should I Grow" will be presented by Bob Cleveland, who will discuss a range of orchids, and touch on methods of home culture, and recommend orchids suitable for the home. Saturday's final presentation "Growing Orchids: Tips and Ticks," will be presented at 3 p.m. by Jim Marlow, NH Orchid Society Member and owner of Marlow's Orchids of Scottsville, NY. Having raised orchids for over 35 years, Jim will share tips for improving culture and getting orchids to re-bloom. The Sunday lecture series will reintroduce two Saturday talks and introduce a new lecture, "Orchid Pests and Diseases" which will be presented by Daryl Yerdon, owner of Kelley's Korner.
The weekend-long Celebration will feature an ongoing "Ask The Experts Table," managed by Dick Green from The Eastern Maine Orchid Society, where visitors can ask questions about orchids and seek solutions to specific problems or challenges they may be facing. An "Orchid Potting Table," managed by Bill Janetos of Wentworth Greenhouses, will also be available for anyone wishing to repot their orchids. Visitors are encouraged to bring in their problem orchid plants with them.
For additional information, visit www.wentworthgreenhouses.com or call 603-743-4919.


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Topic 16
Remittances often stimulate socio-cultural change, as specific patterns of remittance expenditure engender changing tastes, values, and social norms.
In southern Morocco, de Haas (2006) found that migration and remittances have been an important avenue for upward socioeconomic mobility of low-status ethnic groups. In this case, new forms of remittance-based inequality have been partly superimposed upon the traditional forms of hereditary inequality based on kinship, skin color and land ownership. Depending on migrant destinations, migration and remittances can also affect norms regarding marriage and fertility. This is exemplified by a recent study by Fargues (2006), which found that time-series data on birth rates and migrant remittances in Morocco, Turkey and Egypt are strongly correlated, but in varying ways. While the correlation is negative for Morocco and Turkey, it is positive for Egypt. To explain this pattern, Fargues hypothesized that migration from North Africa to European countries has contributed to the diffusion and adoption of European marriage patterns and small family norms, and so has played an accelerating role in the demographic transition. In the case of Egyptian migration to conservative Gulf countries, the effect would be the reverse.
Instead of reducing inequality, remittances may exacerbate it by creating a new social stratification and by creating a juxtaposition of new and traditional cultural lifeways. Other parts of this anthology, particularly Topic 13 (Remittances, Poverty, and Inequality) and Topic 19 (Remittances and Rural-Urban Transformations), call attention to some of these disequilibrating tendencies of remittances.
A study that found remittances to have an equilibrating role is that of Akkeson (2009), who finds that remittances in Cape Verde, a West African island country with a relatively long migration tradition, are resulting in a dispersion rather than a concentration of income. The reason is a fundamental change in family structure over the past generation that has seen free-union and multiple-partner relationships replace marriage. Remittances flow not to nuclear families, but to parents and children from previous households—in Cape Verde as well as abroad. Migrants, both men and women, often form new families abroad. Thus, remittances are sent in small amounts, to several households, in several places. These are not remittances used to create an investment and retirement anchorage for the migrant back in Cape Verde, but to support obligations to dependents from previous family relationships. It is not clear to what degree these demographic trends affect other remittance-sending countries. Akkeson mentions that Mexico does not fit the Cape Verde pattern, while the Dominican Republic does. The author has raised an intriguing question on whether the developmental impact of remittances may diminish when nuclear family structures for receiving them decline.
Klooster (2005) offers another intriguing question: Can remittances preserve rural lifeways rather than leading to their demise? The literature would appear to point to a retreat in traditional ways of thinking and working as the remittance economy takes hold of a village, but he argues that in indigenous or tribal societies with strong cultural beliefs and institutions, where communal expectations are strong and extend to migrants, remittances from foreign work can support local culture and help ensure the survival of rural villages. In the Lake Patzcuaro region of highland central Mexico, a Tarascan Indian region, wage labor earnings went to fulfill cargo (communal work and giving) obligations, situate the migrant within the local village political structure, and maintain local cultural institutions. People reproduced their rural lifeways through an intimate relationship with nature, producing maize, cooking traditional foods, crafting pottery, practicing their symbiotic religion, interwoven into a web of communal tasks and enterprises.
Again, this topic awaits more research and begs for a typology of cultures that are weakened and strengthened by remittances.
Topic 16 – Articles
Åkesson, Lisa. 2009. Remittances and Inequality in Cape Verde: the Impact of Changing Family Organization. Global Networks 9(3): 381–398. (Publisher Link)
Based on participant observation and 44 interviews on the island of Santo Antão during 2007 and 2008, in addition to ten years of ethnographical background research in Cape Verde, this study reveals how changing family structures affect the receipt of remittances (from the U.S. and Portugal) how these remittances shape social stratification in communities of origin. During the last three decades in Cape Verde, relationships between men and women have become more unstable, such that conjugal families have given way to family units composed of single adults or free unions with or without children and often containing older parents of the man or woman. Remittances do not go to spouses but to parents or children, and they are spread among several households. Migrants do not send remittances to invest in their future lives, but to fulfill obligations to dependents along their life-history trajectory. As a result, sums are small, intermittent, and have little effect on patterns of socio-economic stratification and inequality within the family or between families.
de Haas, Hein. 2006. Migration, Remittances and Regional Development in Southern Morocco. Geoforum 37 (4): 565–580.
Based on non-representative survey among 507 non-migrant, internal and international migrant households and qualitative research, this article examines the socio-economic and cultural impact of migration from a south Moroccan sending region to other regions and Europe. The study shows that international migration and remittances have significantly contributed to economic development, improved standards of living and enabled the partial emancipation of subaltern ethnic groups. International migrant households invest more than others in housing, agriculture and other enterprises. Risk spreading and income stabilisation rather than increasing incomes seem to be the prime rationale behind internal migration, although internal migration tends to facilitate the education and international migration of younger household members. Remittance expenditure and investments have stimulated the diversifying and urbanising regional economy and have triggered a counter-flow of "reverse" internal migration. However, several structural constraints prevent the high development potential of migration from being fully realised.
Fargues, Philippe. 2006. The Demographic Benefit of International Migration: Hypothesis and Application to Middle Eastern and North African Contexts. In World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4050. Washington, DC: World Bank.
This paper argues that international migration may have resulted in a smaller world population than in the non-migration scenario. The author claims that most of recent migration has been from high to low birth-rate countries, and since migrants typically adopt and send back ideas that prevail in host countries, they are potential agents of the diffusion of demographic modernity to their country of origin. To explore this issue, the author analyses time series data from three major emigration countries: Morocco and Turkey (where emigration is bound for the West), and Egypt (where emigration is bound for the Gulf). The host countries are either more (the West) or less (the Gulf) advanced in their demographic transition than the home country. The analysis article finds that time-series data on birth rates and migrant remittances (reflecting the intensity of the relationship between the emigrants and their home country) are strongly correlated. The Correlation is negative for Morocco and Turkey, and positive for Egypt. This suggests that Moroccan and Turkish emigration has been accompanied by a fundamental change of attitudes regarding marriage and birth, while the opposite holds for Egyptian migration. The broader conclusions from this paper are that migration may have caused a relaxation of demographic pressures for the world as a whole. In addition, if it turns out that emigrants are conveyors of new ideas in this area, the author hypothesizes that the same may apply to a wider range of civil behavior.
Klooster, Daniel J. 2005. Producing Social Nature in the Mexican Countryside. Cultural Geographies 12: 321-344.
The loss of traditional culture is often cited as a by-product of international migration, as monetary remittances re-structure village life around economic goals and social remittances patterned on dominant foreign cultures. Klooster presents a counter-thesis: remittances can permit the survival of rural communities through the reproduction and preservation of cultural contexts. His study was carried out in two indigenous villages along the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, during several months of observation and fieldwork during 1998 and 1999. He found that remittances from wage labor in the U.S. and elsewhere in Mexico enabled the continuance of everyday practices of woodcutting, tending cattle, growing maize, making pottery, preparing food, taking care of children, tending the saints and their chapels, and various communal interactions with neighbors. These practices would have likely atrophied or been corrupted if they were dependent on competitive advantage in markets. As cultural activities, they continually re-created aspects of a culture that residents valued, and that allowed them to continue living in their rural communities.


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Maroon 5 Release 'Payphone' Lyric Video Feat. Wiz Khalifa
Maroon 5 get melancholy with Wiz Khalifa in their new lyric video for 'Payphone.' The clip is designed to look like an animated graphic novel and features a cartoon of frontman Adam Levine.
The video opens with the marker-sketched Levine gazing at a photo of a former love wistfully, then crumpling it up in a blue-tinged flame of anger at the chorus. The dark-haired gent looks back on his relationship, perhaps revising history, making himself into a hero: fighting monsters, rescuing hapless old women from muggers.
He envisions himself and his former love nearly kissing and in front of the Eiffel Tower, but she fades each time his lyrics get jaded. Wiz appears in a hoodie, acting as cartoon Levine's crime-fighting sidekick. The clip has romance, sadness, action -- everything but an actual payphone.
In case you're wondering if the song is about Levine and his ex, Anne V, it's hard to tell. The song was probably completed before their split was announced, and his cartoon ex is a brunette. In any case, his heartbreak will make for great PR for the single!
In addition to watching the lyric video, Maroon 5 and Khalifa also performed 'Payphone' on 'The Voice' last night (April 16). You can check out their live rendition by clicking here.
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Camelot Redux (Or the Democrats' Built-In Death Wish)
Rant Warning! The following commentary has been assigned an AR Rating (for "Angry Rant") by Daily Planet editors. It is the work of a disenchanted old geezer and former supporter of the Obama Administration. Children and idealists should be accompanied by an adult if reading this. The editors sincerely wish the author a speedy recovery and return to a semblance of harmony. The Daily Planet assumes no responsibility for disillusionment expressed in this commentary.
Okay, Barack, it's over. You might as well resign now, take Biden and his hair implants with you, and turn the Oval Office over to Boehner for the next three and a half years.
Your agenda to establish background checks for gun nuts, neutralize the NRA, re-regulate the banks, tax the rich, assemble a fair and effective immigration policy, fully implement the Affordable Care Act, enact meaningful policy to address global warming, and once and for all get America out of unnecessary foreign wars is like so much ashes a'blowin' in the wind, Dude. Have a smoke, pack up your basketballs, kiss the world's largest private jet goodbye, and go cut brush in Illinois. Or otherwise descend into obscurity.
Who was the harebrained imbecile (yes, that's redundant, but I can't think of enough adjectives to describe the level of stupidity at work here) in either the Democratic Party or West Wing who decided to sic the IRS on the Republican Tea Party faction during the reelection campaign? In this day and age of Internet porosity, when it is virtually impossible to keep anything secret, how in the Deity's name did you think you could get away with this nonsensical tactic? Were your people also looking at leftwing quasi-political groups seeing tax exemptions? At least that would have added a semblance of fairness to the IRS's honey-dip.*
Why did you think you had to stoop to such Watergate-era nefariousness to ensure victory at the polls when the other side has embarked on a trip into magical realism, putting forth candidates so unabashedly extreme they defy logic and good sense? When Mitt all but assured your victory with his mean-spirited "forty-seven percent" speech, itself leaked to the world by a clever video operator?
When the 'Merican electorate – or at least mainstream plurality – has finally come to its senses and realized the Republican Party has been co-opted by a cabal of rightwing lunatics? (Meanwhile, minorities already knew that the Republicans have nothing for them but derision and further marginalization.) As it turned out, you didn't really have to do anything: just run and make those signature speeches of yours imbued in hope and wholesomeness.
And how about us working class schmucks who actually pay our taxes? Are you going to data-mine our accounts, too? What about the leftwing political organizations? You see, it works both ways. Has your staff been channeling Nixon? Did they make up an enemy's list for you?
Now, add this insult to your Justice Department's little foray into harassment of the Fourth Estate, specifically the subpoenaing of the Associated Press's phone records, ostensibly to investigate a potential terrorist plot against U.S. air transportation. Uh, this is supposed to be a Democratic administration, right? Staffed by members of the, uh, "liberal" party, right? The one that allegedly supports unbridled freedom of the press? Who did you send to do it – Nixon's "plumbers"? As a working journalist, I find this latest move especially egregious. Terrifying, actually, because members of the press can't do their jobs, can't speak truth to power, without assuring anonymity to their sources. And, Mr. Harvard Law Review editor, do I have to remind you that a true democracy cannot survive without a free and unencumbered press? Oh, that's right, we're an oligarchy now. Silly me.
Once more the inbred death wish of the Democratic Party has prevailed, yet again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And of course, the Republicans are having a field day with this. Boehner and McConnell are nearly choking on their smugness and certitude. What a gift you and your people have given them, all tied up with a big satin bow. They're talkin' jail terms and impugning "…once more the secrecy of this White House, blah, blah, blah…" and bandying the "I" word. I can hear it now – déjà vu all over again – "Mr. President, what did you know, and when did you know it?" (And a bubblegum cigar to anyone under the age of 50 who knows where that came from and who Howard Baker is.)
Egads, it's Clinton all over again, and just like Ol' Philanderin' Bill, whose opponents were looking for anything they could use to either eject him from office or otherwise nullify his agenda, you or your people or the damn Democratic Party have given the Republicans – who virulently hate you and would bring the country down just to destroy you – all the ammunition necessary to, at worse, impeach you, or at the least, heap so many distractions upon your administration that you will accomplish nada for the rest of your term except making lawyers rich(er).
And oy vey, wait for the midterms now: the Tea Party nuts will go bullshit, and we will assuredly wind up with Hypocrite Party majorities in both houses, followed by twisted sister Bachmann or Ayn Rand disciples Ryan and Cantor running for POTUS in 2016. Forget Hillary – they're gonna' hang Benghazi around her neck like an albatross, and she'll sink like a stone.
Thanks, Buddy, it was a nice dream…but in reality, that's all it was. Why did we glom onto you in the first place, anyway? Ah, yes, now I remember: you were the anti-Bush. Hell, after the nightmare of the preceding eight years, we would have embraced Satan himself if he'd thrown his horns into the ring. And boy did we lap up your propaganda; we thought we were embarked on a new era of progressivism. And what did we get? Drones and a kill list and center-right government. Oh yeah, and a "national healthcare plan" that in reality is a gift to insurance companies and which will be repealed anyway with a super majority vote next year when the Hypocrites reclaim their majority in the Senate.
Of course, we deserve better. But as a friend of mine is fond of saying, this is the era of reduced expectations, where a college degree that renders graduates indebted for the rest of their lives no longer ensures even employment let alone a good career, where home ownership is a lost dream (and in the long run costs more than renting), and where retirement at even a meager level of comfort is a thing of the past. Another friend who, in disgust, abandoned a career in finance asserts the system is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. So I suppose we need to suck it up, as the Rand devotees would say, and just accept the new normal. But I just wish I could expunge the bitter taste of betrayal from my mouth.
On the other hand, a friend more familiar with the tax code than I pointed out the implicit hypocrisy of Tea Party groups, for whom any form of social welfare is anathema, declaring themselves social welfare organizations in order to avoid paying taxes. – DE


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This week, we list a host of 3DS launch titles, as well as check out Shift 2 Unleashed, NASCAR, WWE All-Stars, and 3rd Birthday.
Tom Mc Shea has a sinking feeling about this submarine action game for the 3DS.
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If you care about The Wood County, Texas Genealogical Society (WCGSTX), Wood County, Texas itself, or have ancestors who called Wood County home, please join in helping us create a future for genealogy, genealogical research, and the heritage of this county.
The fact is that local genealogical societies like we have known all our lives are in a crisis period. Some are gone, some are struggling, some, like the WCGSTX, are still plugging along and doing okay but face an uncertain future. The reason is that the world as we have always known it has changed, is changing, and will look even more different in a few years.
There is a discussion about the impact of these normal and not unexpected changes going on in the larger genealogy community. It is one that needs serious consideration right here at home.
A genealogy thinker I have been following (thoughtfully) for a while now is one Marian Pierre-Louis. She has an online presence in many places, but I just finished reading from her blog, Marian's Roots and Rambles, a two-part series on the paradigm shift in genealogy and its meaning. I would like to share two thoughts from it here and urge you to follow the highlighted links to read all she has to say.
I recommend reading part 2 first. It deals specifically with local genealogical societies and the two following thoughts come from it. Out of context, they might seem rather tame and obvious, but just follow this link and read her blog post in its entirety.
1. Societies have a lot to offer but they need to change with the times. They can not continue to offer services in an outdated manner when change is happening all around them. I am not going to give my money to a society who provides me with nothing.
2. Simply sending money to a society is not enough. Active participation and transformation is the answer.
Whatever your reaction to this, will you please join me in a discussion of the merits and ideas we might follow in deciding and directing our survival and our own future. At meetings, in response to this post, in emails, at chance meetings at the grocery store, on Facebook, on Genealogywise, at our activities and social gatherings, lets look for our future, decide what we want to be and become, and get busy on plans to get there.
The parade has started. Let's make sure it doesn't pass us by.
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