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A majority of Congress remains undecided, at least publicly, about President Obama's plan to launch a military strike against Syria.
Not Minnesota Rep. Rick Nolan. The 69-year-old Democrat is a firm "no" vote.
He's characterized the administration's evidence of a chemical attack as "sketchy and confusing at best." He remains unconvinced that it was Syrian President Bashar Assad, and not the al-Qaida-linked rebels, who ordered the use of chemical weapons that killed 1,429 Syrians, including 426 children. During a Monday briefing on the situation, he got into a vigorous exchange with Secretary of State John Kerry.
"A careful examination of the evidence in this case shows a profound neglect in exploring the other possibilities," Nolan said Tuesday. "We do know that this whole thing will likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and we'll kill a lot of people as well."
Nolan, who was first elected to Congress in the 1970s on an anti-Vietnam War platform, is emblematic of the resistance in the Democratic Party's liberal wing.
One of an estimated 50-plus left-leaning Democratic House members expected to vote against Obama's plan to strike Syria, Nolan is dead set against the use of force, arguing that the role of the U.S. is "not the policeman of the world."
"I've had the good fortune to vote to end several wars that we ought not to have gotten into," says Nolan, who declined to run for re-election in 1980 but was sent back to the House last fall after a 32-year hiatus. "I'd like to be on the front end of stopping one before it got started."
Nolan says he can't get into the specifics of the contretemps with Kerry because it occurred during a classified meeting. He summed it up this way: "He obviously hasn't read the same documents that I have — but he has invited me to meet with him in his office to go over the ones he has." The meeting is being planned.
Strange Bedfellows
The liberal Democratic congressman finds himself in the unusual position of being aligned with fellow Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, the conservative founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, who also adamantly opposes military action.
Some characterize the opposition to intervention in Syria as libertarian, ultraconservative or ultraliberal. Nolan explained it this way during a Tuesday radio interview in his home state: "I think it's just good common sense."
Yet for all the chatter about liberal anti-interventionists like Nolan teaming up with libertarian or conservative anti-interventionists like Bachmann, history — and especially recent history — is not on their side.
The closest such a coalition came to victory recently was a vote on a bipartisan House amendment that would have restricted the NSA's power to collect domestic phone records. The amendment, sponsored by libertarian GOP Rep. Justin Amash and liberal Democratic Rep. John Conyers, both from Michigan, attracted votes from both parties but failed 205-217. Bachmann voted against the amendment; Nolan voted for it.
Could the unlikely coalition against military action in Syria produce a different result?
"I would love to be proven wrong because President Obama promised us no stupid wars," says Michael Heaney, a former House committee staffer under Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. "But you don't see any coordination across these groups, and you would need to see that to build a winning coalition."
"Given the polarization in Washington, I don't see it being built — to build a majority, you really need coordinated opposition across both parties," says Heaney, who has written extensively about what he calls the "demobilization" of the anti-war movement since Obama won the White House.
"My prediction is that there will be opposition from both political extremes, people who are fairly marginal in American politics, but most in the middle will support the president," he says.
There is at least one wild card, however: House leaders of both parties have designated the Syria vote one of individual conscience, meaning members will not be pressured by the leadership team to vote a certain way.
"When you have a free vote, or a conscience vote, members have to make up their own minds," says Keith Poole, a political scientist who tracks U.S. politics and polarization at the University of Georgia. "This vote will separate the serious from the unserious, and that's why it's so important."
It's a situation where it will be difficult to predict votes based on previous positions, says John Isaacs of the Council for a Livable World, a progressive organization that advocates for the control of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
"This is a new situation for everyone," Isaacs says. "Congress is like the dog that chases the car — now they've caught the car, what do they do?"
Slim Prospects For No Vote?
On Tuesday, the chances of the no-on-Syria movement appeared to dim as House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor issued strong statements of support for the president's plan to launch a military strike.
And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who along with Obama, opposed the Iraq War in 2002, has continued to stand by the president.
In a letter Tuesday to Nolan and his fellow House Democrats, Pelosi said that a military response to the use of chemical weapons is "in the national interest," and evidence of the use of chemical weapons is "clear, convincing and devastating."
The rallying that's occurring around the president's plan points to the difficulty that unlikely coalitions face when trying to put together a win.
Nolan concedes the uphill nature of his fight. Even he'd bet on the "power of the presidency and the military-industrial influence on Congress" to ultimately extract a yes vote for Obama's plan.
One reason is that the fervor of those opposing war during the Bush administration was all but extinguished by Obama's election, says Heaney, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, where he and a colleague have tracked the modern anti-war movement.
"It's not easy," Nolan says of his anti-war efforts. "The president has a very formidable PR machine."
He also tweaked major media outlets, suggesting that they have failed to balance the voices of advocates for the strike against Syria with contrarians.
"These wars of choice," Nolan said Tuesday in Minnesota, "are bankrupting the country."
He wants Assad's fate to be placed in the hands of the International Criminal Court — despite the fact that it's an alternative that many see as toothless on its own, especially in the face of Syria-like situations. (It took U.S.-led bombings and NATO intervention to bring Bosnian war criminals to trial, for example.)
Still, Nolan argues that courts and the rule of law should be allowed to play their roles despite their flaws.
"It's not easy, but in the progress of humanity, killing begets more killing begets more killing," he said. "I think, in this instance we don't have any friend in this conflict, on either side."
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Many different types of treatment can be used for brain tumors. Which may work best for you? It depends on a number of factors. These include what type of tumor you have, how big it is, where it is in your brain, and whether your healthcare provider thinks it can be removed with surgery. Other factors include your age, overall health, and the side effects you'll find acceptable.
A biopsy is usually done before treatment choices are offered. A biopsy is when a small piece of tissue is removed from the tumor and tested in a lab. This helps your healthcare team know the exact type of tumor and what treatments may be effective. A biopsy may be done as its own procedure or as part of a surgery to remove the tumor.
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Surgery. Surgery is used to remove the tumor while leaving as much of the brain as possible intact. It's often the first step in treatment for most brain tumors. Removing the tumor (resection) is usually done if the tumor can be removed safely. Surgery gives the healthcare team an exact diagnosis. It also reduces the tumor size. In some cases, the surgeon can't remove the whole tumor. This may be because it's near vital parts of the brain. Or it may be growing into the brain. If the tumor is in an area of the brain that can't be reached safely, a small amount of tissue is still taken out for testing (biopsy).
Radiation therapy. The goal of radiation is to kill cancer cells. This is done using X-rays, gamma rays, or proton beams. It may be done to shrink a tumor before surgery. Or it may be done to kill any cancer cells that may be left after surgery. Radiation therapy might be used as the main treatment if surgery isn't a choice. It can also help relieve symptoms caused by a tumor.
Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy may be used after surgery or biopsy. Its goal is to reduce the chance that the cancer will grow, spread, or come back. In many cases, chemotherapy is taken by mouth as pills. But these medicines may also be given as a liquid put into your blood through a vein (IV) or put right into the cerebrospinal fluid around your brain. If you can't have surgery, you may still get chemotherapy. You might also get it along with radiation therapy. Chemotherapy may be used if the cancer comes back after treatment.
Targeted therapy. Newer medicines target different parts of cancer cells or nearby blood vessels. They work differently from standard chemotherapy medicines. A few targeted medicines are used to help treat certain kinds of brain tumors. They're usually used when surgery is not a choice or the tumor comes back after treatment.
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Stocks fell again today on Wall Street. The U.S. market's down about 25% so far this year. Now, usually, when stocks are down, bonds hold steady or go up, but they're down, too. So what is going on? The Indicator's Darian Woods and NPR's Chris Arnold break it down.
DARIAN WOODS, BYLINE: Owning both stocks and bonds is a basic concept of investing. It's like investing 101, right? You got stocks, which tend to make you the most money over a long period of time.
CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: But they're volatile, right? And bonds are usually more like a slow turtle, just chugging along, paying you a fixed, predictable rate of return.
WOODS: I love this turtle image. So with bonds, you're essentially lending to the government or a big company. They're agreeing to pay you back a fixed interest rate - say, 2% a year. And after a set time period, you get your original money back, too. And so the returns aren't flashy and impressive, but the risk is usually pretty low. You get slow, steady progress - like a turtle.
ARNOLD: Yeah. And when stocks crash, bonds usually hold their value or sometimes even go up. Right now, though, not happening.
DEBORAH MCDANIEL: These last couple months have actually been really brutal.
ARNOLD: Deborah McDaniel is 69 years old. She lives in Bremerton, Wash., and she retired two years ago. And she's got a mix of stocks and bonds in her 401(k).
WOODS: And she thought this was the responsible and safe approach for her retirement account. You know, especially as you get into retirement, most advisors say to have a bigger share of your assets in those safe, steady bonds. So Deborah did that in her portfolio, but...
MCDANIEL: It got hammered. I'm down about, I want to say, like, 25% over the last 18 months-ish.
ARNOLD: And that's brought the value of her retirement account down from more than $500,000 to around $400,000. That's about all she has besides Social Security, so she finds herself thinking, you know, if this goes on much longer...
MCDANIEL: Oh, maybe I need to find a job again, at 69.
WOODS: So here's what's happening. Bond prices are tied to interest rates in this kind of upside-down kind of way. So interest rates fall, bond prices rise - vice versa. And in a recession - you know, when the stock market is usually crashing - the Fed will be anxiously cutting interest rates to boost the economy - you know? - to stem that crash. So in this situation, bond prices would tend to go up.
ARNOLD: But now we are not in a normal situation. Stocks are falling because people are worried that the Fed might cause a recession because it cares so much more about something else - inflation. Inflation's at a 40-year high, and so the Fed is relentlessly raising interest rates to hit the brakes on the economy - slow the economy to try to snuff out inflation. And remember that upside-down relationship, right? The interest rates go up. Bond values go down.
So what does this really mean for you, though? OK, remember that bonds are those slow, steady turtles paying you interest. And bonds are also not, like, the most intuitive thing to understand. So to picture this, think of your bonds as actual turtles.
RICK MILLER: OK. And if you want to use that metaphor - right? - then your turtles have numbers on their backs.
ARNOLD: Rick Miller runs a financial planning service outside Boston. And he says, let's say they have twos on their backs 'cause they're paying you 2% a year on your investment, and they just keep doing that guaranteed. Unless the company fails or something, that's how bonds work.
WOODS: But new bonds are always getting issued, and they might pay different interest rates. And so that's what's happening right now. Interest rates have quickly risen for all kinds of new bonds.
ARNOLD: So now, you could buy the same type of bond, but now let's say it could pay 5% - pay you back much more money.
WOODS: So these are faster, better turtles, essentially - like, we are now racing these turtles. So you have your 2% turtle. It's still going as fast as it used to go. But in a competition, you can see the faster turtle's out there. And if you want to sell your 2% turtle, that's a bit of a problem.
ARNOLD: Is it kind of like nobody wants to buy my crappy, slow turtles?
MILLER: Well they can buy those speedy, nifty, new five turtles. So why are they going to want your slow two turtle? And you can say, well, my turtle is still a nice turtle. It's a really cute turtle. But if you want to sell it, you're going to have to give them a discount.
ARNOLD: That right there is why your bond fund has fallen in value. Basically, you have to cut the price to sell it, or nobody wants it because people have better options - bonds that pay more money back.
WOODS: But - and this is really important - your bonds, even though, on paper, the price is lower if you want to sell them, you're still going to get that same 2% of interest based on the original amount you invested.
MILLER: Your turtle is not dying. Your turtle is not even sick, right? It's just a two.
WOODS: But Rick Miller says a big takeaway here for everyday investors is don't panic and sell all your bonds just because the price dropped.
ARNOLD: Yeah, because, he says, somebody like retiree Deborah McDaniel - if she was making $10,000 a year in interest income off of the bonds in her retirement portfolio, if she doesn't sell them...
MILLER: It should still be generating $10,000 a year - that bond fund - that bond portfolio.
ARNOLD: Even if it's gone down in price, it still pays her the same amount of money. That is key to understand in all of this, and it's reassuring to Deborah.
MCDANIEL: It's good to know that my entire portfolio hasn't tanked. So you'd have to look at not just your balance, but at the income part of your quarterly statements.
ARNOLD: The problem for retirees, of course, is that many do have to sell some bonds from their retirement account to pay for expenses - their rent or their mortgage - or if you're selling shares of your 529 plan to pay your kid's college tuition.
WOODS: Right. Many of those have bond investments that are down. So a lower price does hurt them if you have to sell, and there's just no way around that.
ARNOLD: But, you know, we should say that there is another silver lining here, too. For how many years have you heard people complain about, like, money market accounts? There's no money. There's no return. Interest rates on safe Treasury bonds are so low. Well, now that's changing.
WOODS: So new money that you invest now into bonds, at their current prices and interest rates - those bonds are going to be making you, say, twice as much as they would've before, and they will keep doing that for years to come.
ARNOLD: Now, to jump back to our beloved turtle metaphor here, you know, you've got a bond fund with bonds paying, say, 2%. It is kind of a bummer that they're twos - right? - and not those faster, fancy fives.
WOODS: Right, like, it would be great if you could just magically transform them into turtles that paid a higher interest rate.
ARNOLD: And actually, you know, part of the magical mystery of bonds, as I like to call it, is that, over time, that does sort of happen.
MILLER: Those turtles don't live forever.
WOODS: Wait, wait, I thought turtles lived forever. My turtles are going to die?
ARNOLD: Well, I don't want to say that your turtles are going to die, but I mean, kind of.
WOODS: I'm heartbroken.
ARNOLD: Yeah, I can tell you're very - but look, let's just say they retire. They go to Florida. So after a certain number of years - it depends on the bond - the bond matures, and then it pays you back the original amount of money that was invested in it. And then your bond fund uses that money to go replace that bond with a new bond. You buy new turtles.
WOODS: And if interest rates are higher, the new bonds will pay a higher interest rate.
MILLER: Exactly. And it's much better to fill in with fives than it is to fill in with twos.
ARNOLD: So I guess here, too, it's the advice financial advisors tell you all the time in times of big market swings. With the price of stocks or bonds, don't panic and sell stuff. Just stick with your plan.
WOODS: And with bonds even more so 'cause your dependable little turtles are still handing you tiny, little fistfuls of money.
Darian Woods.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You'd think it would be easy to use seismic waves to find tunnels dug by smugglers of drugs, weapons or people.
You'd be wrong.
Nedra Bonal of Sandia's geophysics and atmospheric sciences organization is nearing the end of a two-year study, "Improving Shallow Tunnel Detection From Surface Seismic Methods," aimed at getting a better look at the ground around tunnels and learning why seismic data finds some tunnels but not others.
Her eventual goal is to come up with a seismic detection process for the border and other areas where tunnels pose a security threat. Bonal's project is funded by Sandia's Early Career Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.
Most tunnels are found by tips from people rather than by scientific methods, Bonal said.
"It would be great if we could use this to do a better job with tunnel detection, so you could scan an area and know if there is or is not a tunnel and find it and stop it," she said.
If researchers discover what it takes to pinpoint tunnels, the next step would be to develop streamlined seismic methods that would be more practical for the Border Patrol and military.
The study arose from earlier work at Sandia detecting shallow tunnels. Bonal said she was surprised when standard refraction and reflection processing techniques Sandia used could not successfully pinpoint some tunnels.
Researchers speculate the difficulty might be what's called a halo effect around a tunnel, in which fracturing and other geological anomalies create diffuse boundaries and hide the tunnel. The earlier, broader research produced several successes in tunnel detection, but was not focused specifically on what happens in the area where tunnel and earth meet, which might help explain why tunnels can be detected in some cases but not others.
Bonal is looking at whether seismic waves are strongly impacted by fracturing or saturation of pores in rock or soil, as well as varying pressures at different depths. Physical processes change from shallow depths to deeper depths, but it isn't clear just where that change occurs, she said.
In addition, the halo effect is both asymmetrical and complex.
"It depends on the geology or the soil as well as the seasonal variation, rain events and the relation to the water table," Bonal said. "So it's a pretty complex regime just from the hydrology standpoint."
More research is needed, but asymmetry may turn out to be an advantage because an asymmetric area might show up better than a symmetrical one, she said. "These anomalous areas are what we may identify as tunnels in the data," she said.
Bonal began her project by figuring out what gaps existed in current scientific knowledge, then modeling real-world scenarios based on collected data that would affect hydrology models and in turn, seismic waves: an area's soil and other geology, the depth of rock fracturing around a tunnel in a particular environment, the probable tunnel size, its relation to the water table and seasonal variations in that relationship.
"We try to get some bounds to this problem," she said. "If we can't see it in the best-case scenario, then there's really no point in trying to see it in more subtle factors that may affect the seismic waves."
The team ran the hydrology models to get some results, then converted those results into seismic velocities that could be plugged into Sandia's 3-D elastic seismic wave propagation simulation code, Bonal said. These results will produce synthetic seismograms that will be compared to field data from the real environment and can be used to develop other processing techniques. That will in turn produce data that's expected to look like what's collected in the field.
"We can then compare the effects of a tunnel versus no tunnel and changes in fracturing and saturation of the tunnel halo versus no changes to assess their impact on seismic waves," she said.
The standard used to show the relationship of saturation in pores in rock or earth to seismic velocities is an oil industry standard called the Biot-Gassmann theory. However, few experiments have tested that theory at shallow depths where border tunnels are commonly dug, Bonal said.
"The few that have been done have shown that the Biot-Gassmann theory tends to overestimate the velocities for those unconsolidated near-surface materials where the pressures perhaps aren't as great" as at depths where the oil industry operates, she said.
The very near surface behaves one way, but at some point behaviors change because of greater pressures and other factors, she said. The Biot-Gassmann theory holds well at greater depths where pressure is more intense and the rock is more consolidated, while another theory, Brutsaert, describes what happens very close to the surface.
"But there's sort of a middle regime where I'm looking where I'm not real sure either one of them works as well as they need to," Bonal said. She expects to have the modeled data results soon to compare with seismic data collected from previous experiments to help resolve the issue.
Experimentally verifying at what depth or in what materials competing theories work best lies outside the scope of her LDRD, but Bonal hopes to work on those puzzles in a future project. "I think there are still plenty of questions we have that need to be answered but I am very excited about the progress made so far. I have been able to detect a tunnel that I previously had not seen by other analyses," she said.
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Marine Gen. Michael Langley took over as the top U.S. commander for Africa on Tuesday, heading U.S. military operations on a continent with some of the most active and dangerous insurgent groups and a relatively small Pentagon footprint.
Langley, who made history on Saturday when he became the first African American in the Marine Corps to be promoted to four-star general, took over U.S. Africa Command in a ceremony at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. He is the second African American to lead the command, which has about 6,000-7,000 troops across the continent.
Speaking at the ceremony, the outgoing commander, Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, noted the often limited troops and resources allocated to the continent. "There is a new challenge every day and we don't have resources to throw at those challenges. So we have to think," said Townsend, who is retiring after 40 years in the military. "America cannot afford to ignore Africa. The continent is full of potential but it's also full of challenges and it's standing at a historic crossroads.
For years, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, turmoil in the Middle East, a greater focus on an increasingly combative and competitive China and the recent war in Ukraine have dominated the Pentagon's attention. But insurgent groups, including al-Qaida and Islamic State militants, flourish in ungoverned spaces in Africa, a nd al-Shabab continues to be a significant threat in Somalia.
Earlier this year, Townsend warned Congress that the U.S. was "marching in place at best" and "may be backsliding" in Somalia, because of former president Donald Trump's decision to pull all of the roughly 700 U.S. troops out of the country in his final days in office. His decision forced commanders to rotate small teams of special operations forces and intelligence personnel into the country for short periods of time in order to provide some limited support to the Somali National Army and the mission there.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier this spring authorized the return of about 400 U.S. troops to the embattled country.
On Tuesday, Austin noted that decision, saying that the persistent U.S. military presence to train and assist Somali forces is crucial as al-Shabab's attacks on civilians grow more lethal and brazen.
He added that the African continent is "on the front lines of many of this century's most pressing threats–from mass migration to food insecurity, from COVID-19 to the climate crisis, from the drumbeat of autocracy to the dangers of terrorism." And he said China is expanding its military footprint there, looking to build bases in Africa and seeking to "undermine U.S. relations with African peoples, governments and militaries."
Both Austin and Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted the historic nature of Langley's appointment.
The Marine, said Milley, "is the right leader at the right time with the right skills to lead this command."
And Austin, who is the first African American to serve as Pentagon chief, said that young Marines around the world are watching Langley.
"Your extraordinary achievement reminds them that they belong," said Austin. "And it reminds them that the United States military is deeply committed to making progress, and to breaking down barriers, and to opening its arms wide to all qualified Americans who hear the call to serve their country."
Langley, who was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marines in 1985. His father was in the Air Force.
He told the gathering that his father always told him to aim high. And now, he said, "I know I have a lot to do. We have a lot to do, as we look at the African continent and their quest for prosperity, security and stability."
The Marine Corps, which traces its roots to 1775, did not accept Black men in its ranks until 1942, a turnabout that followed the attack on the American air base at Hawaii's Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the U.S. entry into World War II.
Most recently, Langley was commander of Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic and Marine Forces Command. He also commanded troops in Afghanistan.
Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward, also African American, was the first commander of Africa Command when it was launched in 2007.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Everyone shouldn't be published
Why is it wrong to say that everyone shouldn't be published? Yeah – that question is already sending some of you to your refrigerator to procure vegetable missiles. And while I might have to duck and cover, I will say that I don't believe that everyone who writes and seeks publication should actually achieve it.
Should everyone be an accountant?
Does everyone have the ability to be a neurosurgeon or a rocket scientist?
Trust me when I say you don't want me playing with sharp objects near your brain or doing whatever mathematical equations are necessary to launch people into space. Does that mean I suck at science or math? No. No it doesn't. But it does mean that some people are better than me at it and I'm glad they're the one in charge of keeping satellites in orbit.
Could I have applied myself and become a fabulous doctor or a ground breaking scientist? Yes – although all the studying in the world might not have helped me reach the fabulous or ground breaking parts. But yes – I could have spent years and years in school studying the principles and then years and years in internships and residencies and in a variety of jobs to learn the skills I needed to learn.
But I didn't and so I will never crack open a skull (unless it is on the page) and I'll never get high on rocket fuel fumes.
When I decided to sit down at my computer and type, I did so because I wanted to see if I could tell a story from beginning to end. And I did. Once I did that, I decided I wanted to learn better ways to write a story. I worked with other writers to learn about the craft of writing. I read lots of books in the genres I wanted to write in to see how the authors I liked best sculpted their words. And I worked hard to find my own voice….as crazy and wacky as it sometimes is. And even after years of work I knew that I might not ever be published because there are only so many books publishers will buy and mine might never be one that fits what they are looking for.
Would not being published mean I was a bad writer? No. Great writers go unpublished all the time. That's just the way the business works. And I was okay with knowing that. In fact, just knowing that made me work harder to make my own writing stronger. I never wanted to publish the books myself (even though many do and they are very happy with that choice) because I wanted all or nothing. I wanted to get an agent, be edited by an editor and go through ever step that the authors I have loved for years went through. And if that had never happened I would have been at peace with it. I would never have thought less of myself for trying or curse the fates.
Publishing is what it is. A tough business.
And yet, for some reason saying the words "Everyone who writes shouldn't be published" gets a lot of people pissed off and ready to do battle.
Being published takes hard work and even still you might come up short. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. The current trend to self-publish (and I'm talking full novels here not short story collections that are best sold directly to the author's fan base by the author themselves) seems to perpetuate the thought process that all people who type on their computer should call themselves published authors. I can't help thinking this is wrong. The new trend of writing a book and sticking it up on Amazon almost immediately after hitting "THE END" gives writers permission to skip steps in learning the craft and the business that would make them a better writer. They don't have to go through the painstaking editing that might be required to get the book to the next level. They don't have to worry about making sure every word is necessary. They don't…
They just don't.
Those steps are important. And I'm not saying that there aren't books out there that have gone through these steps and for some reason or another didn't get traditionally published. And I'm not saying that there aren't reasons that one might want to self-publish a book. (Those short story collections are great reasons to venture into this arena.) But everyone who writes – traditionally published authors included – should never skip the steps that make their writing better. And if you are willing to skip those steps then you shouldn't be published.
I'm not saying any of this to be mean or rain on anyone's parade. In fact, I want to do just the opposite. I want every writer striving for traditional publication to keep working toward that goal. Keep writing, revising and submitting. Will you find an editor or agent if you do this? Not necessarily, but your chances are better. The more you do this, the more lottery tickets you buy in the publishing raffle. And one day, when you least expect it, your number might be called. And if not – then you will be proud of your efforts.
13 comments:
- Sandra Ruttan said...
All a person ever has to do is watch a few episodes of American Idol in the audition round. Not everyone should be a singer, and if someone does something badly, it's better to tell them to chase another dream than to waste their time with something they aren't good at.
Not everyone can write. And of those who can string sentences together, some can't construct a story. That's an absolute reality.
If everyone could write, there'd be no value in the accomplishment of getting published, or completing a work, or an award nomination. Sales would only be popularity contests, not indicators of talent. - February 6, 2011 at 6:36 AM
- John McFetridge said...
Hey Sandra, nice to see you here.
The flip side of this, of course, is not everyone can read. When publishing companies are entirely run by accountants you get safe, been-done-before books and almost no risks.
American Idol is a good example. None of the music on offer is very innovative, the goal is do something that's already been done with a certain level of skill. They're not looking for innovation, they're not interested in the kind of music that is often described as "musician's music," stuff that only other musicans really like - and understand.
But that's where all the influence and innovation comes from.
I used to work for a movie producer whose signature quote was, "Show business - show, little itty bitty word. Business, great huge word." (he had a Scottish accent, that might help).
The danger in the "tough business" of publishing is that it becomes entirely business. If innovative, experimental, niche books have to published outside the mainstream then I hope they do because we need them.
(but yeah, sure, what we don't need are a million poorly-written wannabe bestsellers) - February 6, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- A.L. said...
Reading your article, I don't think your argument matches up with your title.
You say everyone shouldn't be published, but what you wrote was "Everyone won't be published". Your argument for why you aren't a famous physicist is because you didn't have the drive to accomplish it. The inverse is your argument for how you became published.
I like the article, and your words need to be heard. People like me, dreaming of someday getting good enough to be published, and running towards that goal, need to know that it is hard work. Need to understand that if all we're in it for is the "I'm published" credentials, that we're probably doomed to failure.
I agree, everyone shouldn't be published. More importantly though, everyone /can't/ be published. So if you want to be one of the published, you need to get in there and go for it as hard as you can. - February 6, 2011 at 1:09 PM
- Bryon Quertermous said...
OMG, I couldn't agree more. I think self-publishing offers a lot of options for books that maybe aren't right for mass market publishing, but for first authors, there's no short cuts.
What pisses me off though, is the vast majority of readers don't care. Many of the "indie" authors making ridiculous amounts of money, aren't very good. And not in the James Patterson, Stephanie Meyer, bad, but in can't string together a coherent sentence bad.
But for those of us in it for the long haul, you've got it right. You've got to work at it, always striving to get better, and know that, even still, you may not achieve that dream. - February 6, 2011 at 1:36 PM
Most people who are published, self or traditional, have no business being published. It obviously doesn't mean you're a good writer, or even competent at your craft, just that you created something someone things they can package and use to make a few bucks.
How you're published or where doesn't matter much anymore. Even self published books that aren't doing very well are selling more than traditionally published midlist authors. Pretty soon these authors are going to see how much money they're losing, and they're going to put the books out themselves. If they're any good, they'll sell. If they're not, and most aren't, they'll fall where they deserve to fall.
I feel bad for all the new traditionally published authors. It must be hard to reach a goal only to realize the game has changed. - February 6, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Jen - Devourer of Books said...
A-freaking-men, Joelle. It is always interesting to me the justifications people use to try to convince themselves otherwise.
- February 6, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- John McFetridge said...
Brian Tripp is right about midlist authors, or at least he's right there are plenty of self-published authors selling a lot more books than I am with my traditional publisher.
Still, I think there are other good reasons to be with a publisher - even (maybe especially) a small one.
My hope now is that the new technology like e-books and POD will allow more small publishers to start up. Like our own Steve Weddle is doing with Needle Magazine and Needle Publishing soon bringing out a collection of Dave White's stories.
Maybe other e-zines and flash sites will start putting out e-book collections.
Maybe Sandra and Brian will launch some kind of Spinetingler publishing (hint hint...). - February 6, 2011 at 4:29 PM
- Addley C. Fannin said...
Amen. This idea that "everybody CAN be published, so everybody SHOULD be published" makes me want to headdesk until my skull splits open. It's not like there's not good self-publishing out there, but the ones who rush in because they've never had to fight to be good are just...ugh. So aggrivating to deal with.
- February 6, 2011 at 4:46 PM
- Steve Weddle said...
How often do you hear:
My dream is to walk into a bookstore and see my book on the shelves.
My dream is to be a published author.
My dream is to see my name on the NYT Best Seller list.
My dream is to have a book signing with 1,000 people.
My dream is to have my book made into a movie.
My dream is to sign with a BIG NAME publisher.
I hear that all the time--much more often than I hear "My dream is to write a great book." - February 7, 2011 at 11:34 AM
- Lamar said...
I agree. Not everyone can be published, and not everyone should be published. I also agree with what some commenters wrote about some works being published that should not have been.
The idea that being able to self publish allows writers to forgo efforts to learn the craft is a serious message that I think needs to be repeated often. Yes, it's easy to self publish, and some good writers are going that route. However, how long will this be a viable avenue if the image of self publishing remains that it's a vanity project or that it's poorly crafted?
Of course, then there is the fact that far too many books published not just by small publishers, but by big-name houses, are not only poorly written, but are poorly edited. I recently read a popular, New York Times bestseller title from a major publisher that was littered with typos, grammatical errors and mistakes that a beginning copy editor should have caught.
However a work is published, the writer has an obligation to work hard to create the best book possible, to practice and honor the craft of writing. Editors and publishers, though, too, should also work hard to ensure a high quality of craft. I think there are just too many shortcuts taken through out the industry these days, from bottom to top. - February 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- Chris said...
Because I'm lazy, I'm basically just going to cut/paste a comment I made on a similar discussion elsewhere. . . .
I guess the question I ultimately arrive at is this: who cares if people are self publishing bad writing? Is that any worse than having all of this stuff clogging up the slush piles of legitimate publishing houses and/or agents? Personally, I find the latter to be more disturbing, as that has a direct correlation between whether something I submit may or may not be read AT ALL. I'd rather have those folks frustrated and self publishing than continuing to submit.
I suppose some people do, but it's hard for me to imagine just randomly buying something self published on Amazon. I usually only find stuff because I'm looking for it specifically, either as the result of a review, a recommendation, word of mouth, etc. Even then, a synopsis that is horribly written probably will make me stay away, assuming the prose will be equally bad.
As someone who likely WILL self publish at some point, whether it is a collection of stories or even a novel, I realize that friends and word of mouth is about the only way it will get noticed. I'm fine with that. Doesn't matter one bit to me, and I don't care if it is a "risk" to my career. There are plenty of pitfalls in being published traditionally as well. It's nice to be recognized as having written well by someone else, but that approval isn't going to make or break whether I put stuff out for people to read when that time comes. Especially a collection. With all those Kindles out there, throwing a batch of stories out on Amazon, or a serialized novel, sure seems to make more sense to me even than putting them on a blog.
I guess I just don't get what all the fuss is about. So someone who self publishes calls themselves a published author. So what? For example, is a writer published in Needle any less published than one who has a story in Mystery Scene? If so, why? If they are, then that smells suspiciously like some kind of friggin' rule that artists of all types should be setting about breaking into teeny tiny pieces. - February 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Eric Beetner said...
Great post Joelle. You said it all quite well, all I can add is - right on.
- February 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM
- LINDA FAULKNER said...
I agree with virtually all you said, Joelle, and have never wanted to self-publish. Why? Because of the reason I write.
Like most writers, I love to read and I love that a total stranger can reach inside my mind and heart to touch places ... and make a diffrence with words on paper.
I write because I HAVE to, because I want to reach into the minds and hearts of other people and make a difference. Because I'm a participant and I believe in reciprocity.
As a writer, if I want to make a difference, the words I put on paper better be arranged in such a way that they DESERVE to be received with appreciation.
Honing my craft, working with an editor and a publisher, constantly striving to be better, winning the approval of readers and reviewers--that's my reward.
Self-publishing won't do it for me.
As an aside: I've reviewed a number of books for one of my blogs, Author Exchange Blog, and I've never discriminated between traditionally published, indie published, or self-published authors. I can state, unequivocally, that the majority of the books I haven't published reviews for (because they had "issues" or I didn't care for them) were self-published. And the packaging and publicity involved in many of them was so good I didn't realize until I was several pages into them that they were self-published. - February 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM


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Registered nurses (RN) can be found working in many different healthcare settings. As there is a vast amount of medical care settings, there is also a great deal of specialization available for the Registered Nursing career. RNs often supervise the work of other licensed practical nurses and aides in order to ensure the best possible care. Ultimately, registered nurses perform many different tasks and work with a variety of patient populations. As you'll learn by reading through this article, a career as a registered nurse can be extremely rewarding both financially and personally.
Financially speaking, there is quite a lot of variation in the amount of pay RNs receive. The lowest 10 percent earn $44,970 up to $96,630 for the highest earners. The average salary, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is $69,110. Keep in mind salaries vary based on many factors like location and experience. You should check to see what the average salary is in your state if you are interested in becoming a registered nurse.
Registered nurses are fairly high on the "nursing career path", and becoming a registered nurse represents a high degree of achievement. Many RNs begin their careers as a CMA (Certified Medical Assistant) or another type of entry-level medical professional, and even beyond the registered nursing stage, many options are available for career advancement, which we will explore further along in this article.
Ultimately, the mission of every RN is to use his or her knowledge to promote healthy lifestyles, give information to mitigate illness, and to help those patients that suffer from illness. A great deal of planning and assessing is involved in the daily work of a registered nurse in order to meet these goals. Your academic program will teach you to think critically and subjectively in order to help you achieve this aspect.
RNs also act as advocates for patients and their families. They use their breadth of knowledge to support healthy living in families and individuals. Their scope of work is unique to their profession and is also very exciting.
You will find an RN working with patients directly in a medical setting, doing case management, leading multifaceted nursing systems, conducting research, and also educating future RNs. All of this is often done while practicing in many different types of medical facilities.
RNs have the option to specialize. Each specialization area has its own requirements for training and accreditation. Some of these specialties include addiction, critical care, hospice, women's health, neonatal, rehabilitation, nephrology, emergency, cardiovascular, psychiatric, nurse education and more.
For example, you could become a registered nurse specializing in cardiovascular medicine. Your daily work would involve supporting a physician who also specializes in cardiovascular care. Every RN has a strong background in educational and practical training, but your career path as an RN will be the ultimate training ground for your practice of medicine.
Among all of these medical specialties, there are 2.7 million nurses working in medical environments today. Most work in hospitals, and the rest work in offices of physicians, nursing homes, patients' homes, clinics, and government and educational establishments.
There are also travel nurses that go where nurses are in great demand but limited supply. Travel nurses are often very well paid, though the work can be demanding and tiring. As a travel nurse, you travel throughout the United States and even abroad. While many find the idea enticing, not all qualified RNs are also a good fit to become travel nurses. However, the career option is there for the right personality type.
The RN's role in day-to-day work is a very physical one. You must be able to stand, walk, bend, and lift. As an RN, you work in close daily proximity to many infectious illnesses. It's critical that all RNs are sure to follow the strict guidelines set forth for working in these potentially hazardous environments.
The nursing field, like the entire medical field, is changing. RNs' roles are growing and their jobs are becoming more difficult, because much of the patient care is leaving the hospital setting for outpatient facilities and primary care environments. Registered nurses are changing from being caregivers on the bedside to being an extraordinarily important aspect of a complex medical group.
RN Job Descriptions
Registered nurses (RNs) do many different kinds of jobs. Some of them include watching patient behavior and recording any changes. It is very important to keep a close eye on all things that happen to your patients. RNs also consult with the doctors, physicians, and all of the other professionals in the healthcare team.
Another important job given to RNs is to determine the treatment plan for each patient and then implement the plan. An RN must be able to use ever-changing medical technology. RNs also take a supervisory role, over licensed practice Nnrses (LPNs) and certified nursing assistants (CNAs). RNs also perform different kinds of tests that diagnose illnesses, and give patients their various treatments and medications.
RNs work in emergency settings as well. In these cases, they treat heart attacks, burns, and strokes. The career of an RN is not for the faint of heart.
Basically, RNs monitor all aspects of patient health. This includes physical activity and diet. RNs promote wellness in everyday life and try to teach these skills to patients while they undergo treatment.
RNs are part of a team, and in order for that team to be successful, RNs do what needs to be done for the patient. The RN is often in charge of this team and has to maintain a high degree of professionalism and integrity. There are many problems that will need to be solved at the team level.
An RN is an advocate for the patient. This means that they keep all personal information confidential and only discuss it on a "need to know" basis. Patient privacy and confidentiality is a very important part of medical operations. Only ethically responsible RNs can be trusted with this grave responsibility.
RNs work with families to ensure that everyone understands the illness of the patient and how the patient should be treated. Identifying this treatment plan is essential in order for the patient's health to be restored. RNs work hard to ensure that patients and their families understand their role in the treatment plan of every patient.
RNs are also in charge of watching over the technological equipment. They are expected to be versed in the instructions from the manufacturer and troubleshooting techniques. They also must order repair work when necessary, manage inventories, and stay informed about new and changing technologies.
As an RN, you will often work under the supervision of a variety of physicians and medical professionals. All of these supervising physicians will have their own approach to medical care and their own philosophies. It's important that RNs are flexible in the workplace and understand how to respond to and simultaneously support a wide variety of medical staffers.
Job Prospects
The outlook for registered nurses (RNs) in the future is very positive. Nursing and the entire medical field is growing rapidly, and there is a great need for new staff. Much of this need comes from the growing and aging Baby Boomer population. Rising rates of obesity and diabetes are also an important factor impacting the medical world. People are also living longer lives and will need longer periods of medical care during old age than ever before.
If you take your education seriously, you will not have a problem finding a job as an RN. By 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says that the field of nursing and is supposed to grow by 26 percent. This growth is significantly faster than most other professions. Those with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree will enjoy the greatest opportunities. You will also find that most employers these days require RNs to have a BSN or at least require you to get one within a certain timeframe of being hired. Often employers will even pay for all or part of your additional educational requirements.
Here are some further details on the job outlook for registered nurses. As an example, by the time recent BSN nursing graduates finished their program, 59 percent of them had serious job offers. This number compares favorably to 29.3 percent with serious job offers in other professions. Furthermore, within just four to six months (only several months more), a full 89 percent of graduates had received a job offer. These are very encouraging statistics for anyone interested in pursuing a career with a strong employment outlook.
Many hospitals are also in financial trouble, and they discharge patients earlier than they should due to their financial struggles. Thus, more patients are being admitted to long-term care facilities, going to outpatient clinics, and also using home-health nurses. Many RN jobs of the future will be in these types of centers.
In addition, more procedures are being done directly in the physician's office these days because of evolving technology. As a result, there will be more jobs available in this kind of setting than ever before.
The amount of jobs that will be created between 2012 and 2022 is an increase of 562,800, bringing the total RN workforce to about 3.2 million. Additionally, 525,000 nurses will be necessary to supplement the RNs that choose not to stay in the field. This brings the total amount of new jobs to over 1 million.
Still, the RN field is very competitive. Newly minted registered nurses will have to work very hard to get the best jobs and should learn how to market and promote themselves effectively. Individual job prospects will vary based on where you live, where you graduate, and what experience you have. Places like New England and the West Coast may be more difficult regions for new RNs to find a job. The south, on the other hand, has a much greater job outlook. Being geographically flexible can go a long way towards improving your overall job prospects and RN career outlook.
Also, hospitals are becoming more selective about who they hire. You will have to be a great RN in order to get a hospital job. Customer experience is huge these days, and that includes patients in hospitals. RNs are there for the patient and to make their experience as comfortable as possible. Program Info
Education is a critical factor in your registered nursing career path. It's important to find a program that suits your needs, style of learning, tastes, and budget. Keep in mind that while you technically only need to get an associate's degree to become a registered nurse (RN), the new standard is quickly becoming the Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN degree). To improve your future career options, a master's degree is an obvious way to make your CV more competitive.
Ultimately, the most important thing you will have to do after your education is sit for the NCLEX-RN exam. This is the examination that gives you a license to be an RN. The goal of your educational program is to prepare you enough to pass this exam.
The fastest way to become an RN is indeed through the Associate's Degree in Nursing (ADN). Though you may have more trouble finding a job than your BSN counterparts, jobs will still be open to you at the entry-level that will give you very good experience.
After completing your ADN and you are working as an RN, you will have the opportunity to do an RN to BSN program. These types of programs are very popular and can be completed online. They allow for an easier transition from an ADN to a BSN.
The BSN can be earned traditionally in about four years. You will have to take many different classes besides nursing such as arts and sciences courses.
If you already have your Bachelor's degree in another field, consider an accelerated BSN. This type of degree transfers your existing credits into the BSN degree and usually only takes one and a half years.
The BSN degree will provide much more in depth knowledge into the career of an RN. It will include clinical time as well as the theory behind nursing. You can typically attend any kind of nursing program part-time if this is necessary for you.
Also if you already have your bachelor's degree in another field, many schools offer an Entry-Level Master's of Science in Nursing (EL-MSN) program. This program is for people with a bachelor's in another field with no nursing experience.
Be sure your program offered through an accredited school. The main accreditation organizations for nursing are the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) and the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
The duration of the time you spend training depends on which of these types of programs you choose to undertake. You have a lot of options, and it is a good idea to research each one thoroughly.
Keep in mind there are bridge programs available other than the ADN to BSN degree. These include RN to MSN, LPN to RN, LVN to RN, MA to RN, and paramedic to RN bridge program. Bridge programs add a lot of flexibility to your education path towards becoming a registered nurse.
RN School Costs and Other Considerations
Registered nurse (RN) educational programs vary in cost, depending on the type of program you choose to undertake. The Associate's Degree in Nursing is the most affordable simply because it is only a two-year degree. Still, while cost might seem like the only factor, RNs with the Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN) are more attractive to employers. They generally command higher RN salaries as well.
The cost for the average tuition at a private, four-year school is $31,231. As for public institutions, the average cost is $9,139 per year for in-state and $22,958 a year for out-of-state. The cost for an average year at a two-year community college is $2,713.
These numbers are just for tuition only, and they are only averages. You will also need funds for living expenses, books, uniforms and medical equipment. Medical equipment could cost upward of $300 per year, and books will costs around $1,000 to $3,000 per year. It is also possible there will be a separate affiliation expense with the medical facility with which the school is partnered. Insurance could also run $1,200 to $1,600 per year.
Keep in mind, the sticker cost of the school is often not what you pay. Contact the financial aid office at your school of choice to discuss what your options are for obtaining grants, work-study programs, scholarships, and loans. Remember, if given a grant or scholarship, you will likely have to maintain a certain GPA. To determine what financial aid you are eligible for, the school will look at family financial background information as well as your academic record.
Another thing you will have to pay for is the NCLEX-RN exam. Depending on where you live, this test could cost anywhere from $200 to $350. All of these costs are unavoidable.
Many people choose to take out loans for their studies as an RN. Loans can be a great means to achieve a goal, but don't forget the debt stays with you for many years. However, it's important to consider that these loans will allow you to earn a higher salary than you would likely make without a degree.
Some people choose to work as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) before becoming an RN. This is a great way to get your foot in the door at a hospital or clinic, garner great experience, and be seen as a more impressive candidate for many colleges. These types of programs don't take long to train for and don't cost very much either.
The costs for being an RN certainly do add up, but if you are determined and work hard, you will be able to make it happen. A quality education is expensive, and yet, it is also priceless. You'll want to get the best education for your money, so shop around before committing to a school or program.


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Not every disagreement is a logical fallacy
This article originally appeared in the Newton blog on Real Clear Science. You can read the original here.
All too many people behave as if they are experts in everything. The internet is partially to blame. The widespread availability of information is both a blessing and a curse. Indeed, the adage "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" has never been more true, especially as it has become painfully obvious that some people believe that reading the first paragraph in a Wikipedia entry will quickly bring them up to speed on complex topics. Really, who needs a PhD when you have five minutes to kill and access to Google?
Philosophy, in particular, has witnessed an obnoxious infestation of alleged experts. World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking — who has weighed in on everything from aliens destroying Earth to the existence of God — recently declared that "philosophy is dead." How he is able to simultaneously practice philosophy while believing that philosophy is dead without experiencing cognitive dissonance is curious, but perhaps Dr. Hawking suffers from the philosophical equivalent of Cotard delusion.
The esteemed Dr. Hawking isn't the only person who has foolishly dabbled in philosophy. Several bloggers, specifically science and political bloggers, have made dubious contributions to the philosophical subdiscipline of logic. How so? By inventing logical fallacies (that you would never learn in a real logic class) and applying them to their political opponents.
The most popular one is false equivalence. (I wrote an entire chapter debunking false equivalence for my book, Science Left Behind — now available in paperback at fine retailers everywhere!) From what I can gather, "false equivalence" is a fancier way of saying, "You're comparing apples and oranges." It's meant to convey the notion that two things being compared can't actually be compared.
In reality, this argument is used mostly by political hacks who are trying to rationalize hypocritical beliefs and behavior. For instance, readers of RealClearScience know that both sides of the political spectrum — Republicans and Democrats — will throw science under the bus whenever it is politically convenient. But partisans don't see it that way. In their minds, only the "other side" is unscientific, and any comparisons between the two sides immediately draw accusations of "false equivalence." Some writers have built their careers peddling this nonsense.
Outside of political bickering, another newly invented fallacy is called sunk cost. According to psychologist Daniel Kahneman, "We are biased against actions that could lead to regret." This explains why, for instance, students finish their PhD's even if they realize they don't really need one anymore.
But how is that fallacious thinking? Regret is a powerful emotion. Nobody likes feeling regretful. Additionally, many people enjoy finishing something they started. Proving one's ability to persist in the face of adversity could instead be interpreted as a positive character trait.
The growing list of fallacies goes on and on. Some are legitimate, but others are questionable. After reading the list, however, it is difficult to imagine how anyone could ever form an argument that wasn't fallacious!
The trouble with labeling everything a "fallacy" is that (1) not all poor reasoning is automatically fallacious, and (2) it implies that everybody would agree on everything if we could only think correctly.
Consider the following: Your child tells you that she wants a lollipop before bedtime. You, the supposedly enlightened adult, know that a dose of sugar for a toddler before bedtime isn't the best idea in the world. So you ask, "Well sweetie, why do you want a lollipop now?" She responds, "Because I want one." There's nothing wrong or fallacious about her argument. It is, however, very poor and immature reasoning — something we would expect from three-year olds or, perhaps, college students. No matter how many hard facts you use to convince her that you're correct, your little princess is going to disagree.
Why? Because people differ in priorities and value judgments. What is important to me isn't necessarily important to you. What your daughter finds important (a lollipop) isn't the same as what you find important (a good night's sleep and smaller dental bills). Fundamental differences in beliefs and values will forever prevent humanity from coming to 100% agreement on anything.
Blaming our disagreements, particularly political ones, on logical fallcies does nothing other than delude us into thinking that our opponents are illogical and that we are intellectually superior. And since when has that attitude ever succeeded in convincing anybody?
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13 comments:
- cole hons said...
nice. thanks for sharing!
- December 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Volker said...
Really good idea. Why not some big artist make such kind of songs and get to the top 10 (or top 100;-)
- December 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Badwolf23 said...
hey Dave,
in my environmental science class we've discussed alot about how plastic bags are a danger to our planet and this video just sumed up the discussion. I think this was a great idea. especially since empire state of mind is a huge hit at the moment. - December 21, 2010 at 5:25 PM
This is great! Love it. Just shared it on Facebook with family and friends. :)
- December 22, 2010 at 6:18 AM
- Unknown said...
Hey Dave!
Im in an enviromental science class right now and we just covered how harmful plastic bags are to the enviroment. This video was such a great way of teaching people those harmful effects and will really encourage people to use reuseable bags! It was such a great idea! - January 1, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- Unknown said...
Hey dave,
Just heard about your blog and your mission. I think that it's pretty awesome that your trying to save trash for a year, but I have to ask what are you going to do with all that trash after the year is up?
Antonia - January 1, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Dave said...
Hey Tonia,
This mission was actually undertaken and finished in 2008, my year of trash. I ended up taking all of the trash to the Museum of Trash in hartford CT where it is on permanent display along with videos and a mural. They use it to teach kids, which is what i do now most of the time. The recycling was all recycled. Thanks for checking me out and the kind words!
dave - January 3, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- samantha said...
hey dave,
my enviornmental science class learned alot about plastic bags and their harmful effect on the enviornment this semester and i think that this video was a great idea for providing awareness to the problems plastic bags cause. I would also like to say that your mission with the 365 days of trash was extremely commendable and I'm very glad that you did something like this to bring awareness to the issue at hand.
-samantha - January 13, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- Dave said...
Glad you liked it. What school are you in?
- January 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Unknown said...
I am also a student....we go to White Oak High School, it's in Jacksonville, North Carolina. There are two classes and both of them watched your video. I enjoyed the message and so did many of my classmates. However, I was wondering what inspired you to keep all of your trash for a year?
-Gillian - January 17, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- Dave said...
Hey G,
The inspiration really came from me suddenly realizing that when I threw something "away" I wasn't really dealing with it, but rather assuming it was being dealt with. I just decided I needed to be more responsible and the first step was to assess what I was creating. - January 17, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- Bea Greene said...
More people really need to know how out of control plastics really are.
Would you mind reviewing "Bag IT" the movie and helping them spread the word? This documentary is going to get a lot of peoples attention that wouldn't otherwise care. It is bright, very positive, and presents the dangers of plastics in a very humorous way that makes you really want to change things today. Thanks for helping spread the word!
www.bagitmovie.com - October 24, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- eatrice said...
This video was funny and made sense! I really like the feeling of inspiration to do better using a hit song to spread the word out!
- January 11, 2012 at 4:35 PM


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by Manal al-Sharif
My name is Manal al-Sharif. I'm from Saudi Arabia. I want to tell you about two separate chapters of my life. Chapter one is the story of my generation; it begins the year I was born, 1979.
On November 20 of that year, there was a siege of Mecca, the holiest shrine in the world for Muslims. It was seized by Juhayman al-Otaybi, a militant Islamist, and some 400 of his men. The occupation lasted for two weeks. Saudi authorities had to use force—heavily armed force—to eject the occupiers and end the violation. They beheaded Juhayman and his men publicly.
Nevertheless, the authorities became very anxious. They feared another uprising. Saudi Arabia was newly formed, rapidly changing, and had been adopting a new civil way of life. For rebel militants, such changes were against their beliefs, against Islam, and they wanted to stop them.
So, although the Saudi government had executed Juhayman, it began to abide by his doctrine. In order to prevent another uprising, extremists in power quickly moved to roll back liberties that had been tolerated in previous years. Like Juhayman, some ruling Saudis had long been upset over the gradual loosening of restrictions for women. In the weeks after the Mecca uprising, female announcers were removed from television. Pictures of women were banned. All possible female employment was narrowed to two fields: education or healthcare.
Activities that encouraged male-female contact were curbed: Music was banned; cinemas were closed; the separation between genders was strictly enforced everywhere. That separation became law, from public places to government offices, to banks, schools, even to our own houses. In time, each house in Saudi Arabia ended up having two entrances: one for men, one for women.
There was another sea change: Petrodollars began to pour into those extremists' pockets. They used that money to spread missionary teachers around the world, many of whom preached hatred of the infidel, dedication to global jihad, and a rejection of anyone who didn't share the same ideals.
Saudi Arabia's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or "the religious police," was also given a free hand in society. In other words, the ruling authorities had beheaded a monster, but they had enshrined his ideology of hate.
Saudi authorities tried their best to put the story of the rebellion out of public memory, and so they moved to purge all articles and records from magazines and newspapers, hoping that history would be erased and people would forget about Juhayman.
But his memory remained. I remember one day, it was Hajj time and I was performing tawaf with my mother. This is a ritual in which you walk in circles around Kaaba, the most holy of Muslim shrines in Mecca. There was a hole in one of Kaaba's walls, and as we walked around, Mom pointed to it and said, "That's a hole from a bullet, from the time of Juhayman."
Juhayman. The name itself brings terror to Muslims around the world. For me, that hole went beyond those walls. It went back in time; it was like a hole that we Saudis fill in, and continue to fill in. And so we keep going backward in my country.
The eighties went by, and the years after that brought the Afghan War and historic events in the Soviet Union. In the meantime, the extremists had become very powerful in Saudi Arabia, promoting their ideas and forcing everyone to abide by strict rules.
Leaflets, books, and cassettes calling for jihad in Afghanistan and insisting on ejecting all non-Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula were given out freely. I was one of the youths recruited to distribute them. A twenty-two-year-old man was among those fighting for jihad. His name was Osama bin Laden. Such were the heroes of our time. In the days of Sahwa—al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, or the Islamic Awakening—one of the main subjects of debate was women. I was taught that if I left home, I would be fully responsible for any evil that would befall me, because men cannot be expected to control their instincts. I am the seductive fruit, they said, and I would seduce men in all my shapes and forms. So I was made to stay home.
For Saudi extremists I was awra. The word awra means a sinful thing, an intimate part of the body you should not show. It is against the law to disclose it. By the time I was ten I was covering myself fully.
My face was awra, my voice was awra. Even my name was awra. Women cannot be called by name, so they are called "daughter of" a man's name, "wife of" a husband, or "mother of" one of her sons.
There were no sports for women, no engineering schools. There was also, of course, no driving. And how could there be? We weren't even allowed to have identity cards with pictures, except for passports, which were only necessary to leave the country.
We were voiceless. We were faceless. We were nameless. And we were completely invisible.
Our lives had been stolen with a lie: We are doing this to protect you from the prying eyes of men, they told us. You deserve to be treated like a queen.
But during that time, something happened to show that not everyone was going along with this. On November 6, 1990, forty-seven courageous women emerged to challenge the ban on women driving. They went out into the streets of Riyadh and drove. The women were detained, banned from leaving the country, and dismissed from their jobs. I remember receiving that news when I was a kid. We were told that those women were really bad. Afterwards, there was a fatwa. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia said that a woman driving was haram, forbidden in Islam. A television announcer came on to say that the Minister of the Interior had warned that women were not allowed to drive in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Al-Sharif delivering her historic speech in May 2012 at the Oslo Freedom Forum. She was honored at the event with the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. (Oslo Freedom Forum)
For the next twenty-two years, we were not even supposed to talk about women driving, whether on television and news broadcasts, or in magazines and newspapers.
So, yet another taboo was created.
The first had prevented us from talking about Juhayman; the second prevented us from talking about women driving.
But something else happened in that first chapter of my young life: the attack on Khobar Towers, a housing complex for foreign military personnel. The Towers were bombed on June 25, 1996, and, according to the Saudi government, the attack had been carried out by Saudi Islamic militants, including many veterans of the Afghan War. Nineteen US Air Force personnel had been killed and 372 more people of various nationalities injured.
I remember my mother gasping when she saw the pictures. "Juhayman is back," she said.
I was only seventeen, and it surprises me now to recall it, but I had no sympathy for the dead. I was brainwashed, I had been brought up in a particular time; I was the product of a terrorist culture.
The change in my life started four years later, in 2000. That year, the Internet was introduced in Saudi Arabia. It was the first time I went online. Now, let me give you a picture of myself: as an extremist, I covered myself from head to toe. I had always followed that custom strictly. I also loved drawing, but one day when they told us in school that it was sinful to draw portraits of animals or people, I felt I had to comply. I dutifully took all my paintings and drawings and burned them. Meanwhile, I found myself burning inside. This was not fair. I had learned as much from a computer. The Internet, you see, was the first door for Arab youth to venture into the outside world. I was young, thirsty to learn about other people and other religions. I started communicating with people who held different opinions, and soon those conversations raised questions in my head. I began to realize how very small was the box I was living in. It looked all the smaller once I stepped out of it. Slowly, I started to lose my phobia of having my pure beliefs polluted.
Let me tell you another story. Do you remember the first time you listened to music? Do you remember your very first song? I do. I was twenty-one years old. It was the first I had ever allowed myself to listen to music. I remember the song: It was "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely," by the Backstreet Boys.
Maybe it will help you to understand if I tell you that I used to burn my brother's cassettes in the oven. I was that extreme. And then I listened to that song.
They had told us that music was Satan's flute, a path to adultery, a door to sin. But the song I heard sounded so pure, so beautiful, so angelic. It could be anything but evil to me. It was then that I realized how lonely I was in my isolated little world.
Another important moment for me was 9/11, a turning point for so many people in my generation. When the events of 9/11 happened, the extremists said it was God's punishment to Americans for what they had done to us over the years.
I was confused about which side to take. I had been brought up to hate any non-Muslims or anyone who didn't practice Islam as we viewed it. But when I watched the breaking news that night, I saw a man throwing himself from one of the World Trade Center towers. He was falling, straight down, escaping the fire.
That night I couldn't sleep. The picture was in my head, and it was ringing a bell. Something is wrong, it was telling me. No religion on Earth can be this bloody, this cruel, this merciless.
Al Qaeda later announced their responsibility for the attacks. My heroes were no more than horrifying, bloody monsters. It was the turning point of my life.
After 9/11, Saudi Arabia faced a sweep of terrorist attacks on our own land. The interesting outcome? A few months later, for the first time, authorities started issuing women identification papers. Even though an appointed male needed to give the permission, we were finally being recognized as citizens in our own country.
Which brings me to chapter two: driving for freedom. In this chapter, the inspiration was the Arab Spring—for me as for so many of my generation. I had been leaving my doctor's clinic at nine o'clock one night, and couldn't find a ride home. A car kept following me and the men in it almost kidnapped me. The next day at work I complained to my colleague how frustrating it was that I have a driver's license from traveling overseas, but at home I'm not allowed to drive because I'm a woman. He said the simplest thing: "But there is no law banning you from driving." A fatwa was a fatwa. Not a law. That plain truth ignited everything. It was June 2011, and a group of women, Saudis all, decided to start a movement, "Drive Your Own Life."
It was to be a very straightforward campaign, using social media and calling women to come out and drive on one single day, June 17. We encouraged women with international drivers' licenses only to participate, as we didn't want to cause accidents.
- A video still of Al-Sharif driving in Oslo, an action forbidden in Saudi Arabia by a fatwa. (courtesy of Aftenposten TV)
That day, I recorded a video of myself driving. I used my face, my voice, my real name. I was determined to speak for myself. I had once been ashamed of who I was, a mere woman, but not anymore. When I posted that video on YouTube, it got 700,000 views on the first day.
Clearly, I was not alone. On June 17, when we called for women to come forward, some 100 brave women drove. The streets of Riyadh were packed with police cars and religious police SUVs were posted in every corner of the city. But of the 100 who drove, not one was arrested. We had broken the taboo on driving.
The next day, I was arrested and sent to jail. A riot broke out around Saudi Arabia, and people were divided in two camps: one called for my trial and a flogging in a public place. They called me a whore, an outcast, licentious, immoral, rebellious, disobedient, Westernized, a traitor and double agent to boot. Pages sprang up on Facebook to denounce me, claiming that men would take their igals, cords Arab men wear on their heads, and thrash any woman who dared break the taboo and drive. Women shot back, "We will throw shoes at you." So it was a full fight between genders.
I didn't realize until after I was released from prison how many people had been inspired by a simple act that many women do every single day. The support that was rallied around the world led to my release nine days later.
This is not about driving a car. It is about being in the driver's seat of our destiny. I now say that I can measure the impact we made by how harsh the attacks were. It's this simple: We've started a movement in Saudi Arabia. We call it the Saudi Woman's Spring.
We believe in full citizenship for women, because a child cannot be free if his mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. Parents are not free if their daughters are not free. Society is nothing if its women are nothing.
Freedom starts from within.
I am free. But I have to admit that when I go home to Saudi Arabia, it's not the same for everyone. The struggle has just begun.
I don't know how long it will last, and I don't know how it will end. But I do know that a drenching rain begins with a single drop. And eventually there are flowers.
This essay is adapted from Manal al-Sharif's speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum in May 2012.
Manal al-Sharif is a women's rights activist and one of the primary organizers of the Women2Drive campaign, which advocates for women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia.
Source: http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2012/fall/alsharif-driving/
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