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Carrie Bow Cay is a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea, about 14 miles off the coast of Southern Belize. The island is so small—0.77 acres—that you can walk its entire perimeter in under 10 minutes. Scientists regularly visit Carrie Bow Cay to study coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows, as well as the animals that live in these unique ecosystems.
When Sara Lewis and Randi Rotjan of Tufts University travel to Carrie Bow Cay, they spend most of their time underwater, examining corals. But they also wanted to make the most of their time on land, inbetween dives. So the biologists decided to study the behavior of Caribbean hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus), around 1,000 of which live on Carrie Bow Cay's sandy shores.
Like all hermit crabs, Caribbean hermit crabs—which are the most popular pet variety in the United States—depend on other creatures' shells for protection. Strip a hermit crab of its shell and you will see its soft, pink abdomen curled behind its head like a fern's frond. Most hermit crabs favor snail shells, although some use the shells of bivalves, like clams and scallops, and others have made do with driftwood, stones and pieces of glass or plastic bottles.
In 2009, Lewis and Rotjan surveyed the entire hermit crab population on Carrie Bow Cay. Many crabs were living shells that were a tight fit or had one too many holes. As they grow, hermit crabs must move into larger shells, so they are always on the lookout for a more spacious dwelling. And an undamaged shell is preferable to a broken one, even if the shells are the same size. Knowing this, the researchers decided to dramatically change the available hermit crab real estate on Carrie Bow Cay. They placed 20 beautifully intact shells that were a little too big for most hermit crabs at various spots around the island and watched what happened.
When a lone crab encountered one of the beautiful new shells, it immediately inspected the shelter with its legs and antennae and scooted out of its current home to try on the new shelter for size. If the new shell was a good fit, the crab claimed it. Classic hermit crab behavior. But if the new shell was too big, the crab did not scuttle away disappointed—instead, it stood by its discovery for anywhere between 15 minutes and 8 hours, waiting. This was unusual. Eventually other crabs showed up, each one trying on the shell. If the shell was also too big for the newcomers, they hung around too, sometimes forming groups as large as 20. The crabs did not gather in a random arrangement, however. Rather, they clamped onto one another in a conga line stretching from the largest to smallest animal—a behavior the biologists dubbed "piggybacking."
Only one thing could break up the chain of crabs: a Goldilocks hermit crab for whom the shell introduced by Lewis and Rotjan was just right. As soon as such a crab claimed its new home, all the crabs in queue swiftly exchanged shells in sequence. The largest crab at the front of the line seized the Goldilocks crab's abandoned shell. The second largest crab stole into the first's old shell. And so on.
No one had ever documented such well-orchestrated shell swapping before, but similar behavior was not unknown. In 1986, Ivan Chase of Stony Brook University made the first observations of hermit crabs exchanging shells in a "vacancy chain"—a term originally coined by social scientists to describe the ways that people trade coveted resources like apartments and jobs. When one person leaves, another moves in. Since then, several researchers—including Lewis and Rotjan—have studied the behavior in different hermit crab species. Some preliminary evidence suggests that other animals use vacancy chains too, including clown fish, lobsters, octopuses and some birds. As Chase explains in the June issue of Scientific American, vacancy chains are an excellent way to distribute resources: Unlike more typical competition, a single vacancy chain benefits everyone involved—each individual gets an upgrade. So it makes sense that hermit crabs and other animals have evolved sophisticated social behaviors to make the most of vacancy chains.
The orderly vacancy chain that Lewis and Rotjan observed is called a synchronous vacancy chain, which is different from an asynchronous vacancy chain in which a lone crab encounters a shell, claims it and leaves behind its old home, which is later seized by a different crab that never interacts with the first animal. As the above video makes clear, however, synchronous vacancy chains are not always civilized affairs. Sometimes crabs fight each other for the best shell or gather in violent groups. And the exchanges often happen extremely quickly. Lewis and Rotjan had to slow down the footage just to see what was happening and it is still difficult to make out: three hermit crabs crowd a large green shell; the largest claims the green shell and the other two swiftly trade up. Lewis thinks the chain would have been more orderly if the crabs were not disturbed by two biologists filming them.
"Hermit crabs really have to think about and evaluate these shell resources—these are life and death decisions," Lewis says. "They're interesting to look at from that perspective. They have greater than average crab intelligence." Lewis wonders whether hermit crabs release chemical signals to attract nearby crabs and start a vacancy chain, which is what she wants to investigate next. As soon as she finds time to return to Carrie Bow Cay.


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I am here, Jesus.
I come tonight to finish my message and will do so, if your condition is such that you may receive it. Well, as you may remember, my subject is: "How the Divine Love enters into the soul of a human being."
I have already explained to you the difference between, and the respective functions of the physical body, the spiritual body and the soul, and how the real man is the soul, which may live forever. I have also shown you how the physical and spiritual bodies change their component parts, and as such bodies, disintegrated and disappear in the form that they may have at any one time.
Well, the soul is the man and becomes the angel of God's kingdom. The soul may also become only the everlasting part of man in the spiritual kingdom as contradistinguished from the Celestial Heavens.
The only way in which the soul may become an inhabitant of the Celestial Spheres, is by its obtaining of the Divine Love and thereby become a partaker of the Divine nature of the Father; and this can be accomplished only by the inflowing of the Divine Love, by means of the operation of the Holy Spirit, which is the instrumentality used by God to carry this Love to the souls of men.
As I have before said, this Love never forces itself into the souls of men, and comes only when men seek for it in sincerity and with effort. It is waiting for all men to receive it, but never comes into the soul of its own initiative, and without invitation. So the important question is, how does it come into the soul and what must men do to induce its inflowing.
There is only one way, and that is by the opening up of the soul in such a manner that this Love, when it comes in response to sincere seeking, may find an entrance and a condition of development that will cause it to find lodgment and abiding place, harmonious and satisfactory to the qualities of its own existence. Of course, man cannot of himself open up his soul to this inflowing, for, while he has great power, yet the will is not sufficient; nor has he any other inherent qualities that will enable him to place his soul in such condition as to make possible the work of the Holy Spirit in causing the Love to flow into the soul.
The only means by which this can be accomplished are prayer and faith. When a man in true earnestness and sincere aspirations, prays to the Father for this Divine Love, such prayer not only brings Love, but causes those portions of the soul which are capable of receiving this Love to open up to its coming and to work in such a way as to attract the Love.
The Holy Spirit never performs this work of preparing the soul for the reception of this Love, but merely brings the Love and causes its inflowing when the soul is in condition to receive it. In answer to prayer, there are other instrumentalities of the Father working to prepare the soul condition that is required, and these instrumentalities are the bright spirits of the Celestial Heavens, whose duties, among others, are to answer the prayers of the penitent in the way of infilling the soul with influences that turn the thoughts and aspirations to this Divine Love and its operations.
As I said when on earth, there is no other way to get into the sheep fold but through the gateway provided, – he that attempts to climb over the fence is a thief and a robber. But this should be modified to fit the exact fact, for there is no possibility of getting into this fold by climbing the fence. There is only one way – that through the gate of prayer and sincere longing.
I know that many men believe that the performance of church duties, and the observation of the requirements of the church as to baptism and the sacraments, etc., will be sufficient to enable them to get into the Kingdom; but I tell you that they are all wrong, and their disappointment will be very great when they come into the spirit world.
What are called moral deeds and good thoughts will not cause this inflowing of the Divine Love because these things are necessary steps towards the purification of the soul in its natural love; and (yet) no matter how pure this love may become, yet it is not the Divine Love or any portion of it.
Good thoughts and deeds, though, may help to turn the aspirations of the soul to these higher conditions, and open up its perceptions to a degree that may lead to prayer and faith, and, therefore, in addition to their work of purifying the natural love may prove to be of great value in assisting men towards the development of the soul so that the Divine Love may enter into it. But to depend on good thoughts and moral deeds and a life pure from sin to give man the right to an entrance into the Celestial Kingdom, is a great mistake.
The Divine Love is a thing entirely apart from the nature of man, even in its purest state, and was never conferred on man as was the natural love, and, consequently, when man obtains this Divine Love, and it becomes a part of his soul qualities, his nature, as it were, changes, and he becomes a new creature. An additional something has been conferred upon him, and it becomes impossible for him to remain the mere man that he was, and he always would, be, except for this change in his nature.
I know that men do not understand the distinction between a man with only the natural love and one with the Divine Love, but the distinction is so great, that the one, when possessed to a sufficient degree, makes the man a part of Divinity, while the other, no matter how fully possessed and how pure it may become, makes man merely man, though a perfect one.
Whosoever will pray in sincerity for the inflowing of this Divine Love will receive it. It is not a respecter of persons, and the sincere aspirations of the soul of any man, be he prince or peasant, rich or poor, will invariably cause this Love to come into his soul and change his nature, so that he will become a new creature, and one not subject to death forever more.
The merely intellectual prayers are not efficacious, for it does not have any effect in opening up the soul, and neither does much of this praying do the work. One little moment of this true praying will be more effective in causing this Divine Love to flow towards the soul than a whole lifetime of idle repetition of prayers that come from a source merely mental. And here let me say that the mind is not the soul, and much less God.
Well, I think I have made plain how this Love flows into a man's soul, and in addition what its effect is, when possessed by man. There is nothing in all God's universe that can take its place for the purpose of making a man at-one with the Father, and of causing him to become Divine, in so far as he possesses this Love.
So I say to all men, pray and pray and never cease to pray for the inflowing of this Love, for there is no limit to its abundance, or the amount which man or spirit can obtain. Always in the Celestial Heavens, we spirits continually pray for an increased bestowal, and always our prayers are answered – but always there is more to follow.
I must not write more tonight.
I am satisfied with the correctness of your receiving my message, and will come again and write you another.
With all my love and blessings,
I am your brother and friend,


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The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countries experienced little or no economic growth, globalization has been terminally discredited in the last two years. As the much-heralded process of financial and trade interdependence went into reverse, it became the transmission belt not of prosperity but of economic crisis and collapse.
End of an Era
In their responses to the current economic crisis, governments paid lip service to global coordination but propelled separate stimulus programs meant to rev up national markets. In so doing, governments quietly shelved export-oriented growth, long the driver of many economies, though paid the usual nostrums to advancing trade liberalization as a means of countering the global downturn by completing the Doha Round of trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization. There is increasing acknowledgment that there will be no returning to a world centrally dependent on free-spending American consumers, since many are bankrupt and nobody has taken their place.
Moreover, whether agreed on internationally or unilaterally set up by national governments, a whole raft of restrictions will almost certainly be imposed on finance capital, the untrammeled mobility of which has been the cutting edge of the current crisis.
Intellectual discourse, however, hasn't yet shown many signs of this break with orthodoxy. Neoliberalism, with its emphasis on free trade, the primacy of private enterprise, and a minimalist role for the state, continues to be the default language among policymakers. Establishment critics of market fundamentalism, including Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, have become entangled in endless debates over how large stimulus programs should be, and whether or not the state should retain an interventionist presence or, once stabilized, return the companies and banks to the private sector. Moreover some, such as Stiglitz, continue to believe in what they perceive to be the economic benefits of globalization while bemoaning its social costs.
But trends are fast outpacing both ideologues and critics of neoliberal globalization, and developments thought impossible a few years ago are gaining steam. "The integration of the world economy is in retreat on almost every front," writes the Economist. While the magazine says that corporations continue to believe in the efficiency of global supply chains, "like any chain, these are only as strong as their weakest link. A danger point will come if firms decide that this way of organizing production has had its day."
"Deglobalization," a term that the Economist attributes to me, is a development that the magazine, the world's prime avatar of free market ideology, views as negative. I believe, however, that deglobalization is an opportunity. Indeed, my colleagues and I at Focus on the Global South first forwarded deglobalization as a comprehensive paradigm to replace neoliberal globalization almost a decade ago, when the stresses, strains, and contradictions brought about by the latter had become painfully evident. Elaborated as an alternative mainly for developing countries, the deglobalization paradigm is not without relevance to the central capitalist economies.
11 Pillars of the Alternative
There are 11 key prongs of the deglobalization paradigm:
Production for the domestic market must again become the center of gravity of the economy rather than production for export markets.
The principle of subsidiarity should be enshrined in economic life by encouraging production of goods at the level of the community and at the national level if this can be done at reasonable cost in order to preserve community.
Trade policy — that is, quotas and tariffs — should be used to protect the local economy from destruction by corporate-subsidized commodities with artificially low prices.
Industrial policy — including subsidies, tariffs, and trade — should be used to revitalize and strengthen the manufacturing sector.
Long-postponed measures of equitable income redistribution and land redistribution (including urban land reform) can create a vibrant internal market that would serve as the anchor of the economy and produce local financial resources for investment.
Deemphasizing growth, emphasizing upgrading the quality of life, and maximizing equity will reduce environmental disequilibrium.
The development and diffusion of environmentally congenial technology in both agriculture and industry should be encouraged.
Strategic economic decisions cannot be left to the market or to technocrats. Instead, the scope of democratic decision-making in the economy should be expanded so that all vital questions — such as which industries to develop or phase out, what proportion of the government budget to devote to agriculture, etc. — become subject to democratic discussion and choice.
Civil society must constantly monitor and supervise the private sector and the state, a process that should be institutionalized.
The property complex should be transformed into a "mixed economy" that includes community cooperatives, private enterprises, and state enterprises, and excludes transnational corporations.
Centralized global institutions like the IMF and the World Bank should be replaced with regional institutions built not on free trade and capital mobility but on principles of cooperation that, to use the words of Hugo Chavez in describing the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), "transcend the logic of capitalism."
From the Cult of Efficiency to Effective Economics
The aim of the deglobalization paradigm is to move beyond the economics of narrow efficiency, in which the key criterion is the reduction of unit cost, never mind the social and ecological destabilization this process brings about. It is to move beyond a system of economic calculation that, in the words of John Maynard Keynes, made "the whole conduct of life…into a paradox of an accountant's nightmare." An effective economics, rather, strengthens social solidarity by subordinating the operations of the market to the values of equity, justice, and community by enlarging the sphere of democratic decision making. To use the language of the great Hungarian thinker Karl Polanyi in his book The Great Transformation, deglobalization is about "re-embedding" the economy in society, instead of having society driven by the economy.
The deglobalization paradigm also asserts that a "one size fits all" model like neoliberalism or centralized bureaucratic socialism is dysfunctional and destabilizing. Instead, diversity should be expected and encouraged, as it is in nature. Shared principles of alternative economics do exist, and they have already substantially emerged in the struggle against and critical reflection over the failure of centralized socialism and capitalism. However, how these principles — the most important of which have been sketched out above — are concretely articulated will depend on the values, rhythms, and strategic choices of each society.
Deglobalization's Pedigree
Though it may sound radical, deglobalization isn't really new. Its pedigree includes the writings of the towering British economist Keynes who, at the height of the Depression, bluntly stated: "We do not wish…to be at the mercy of world forces working out, or trying to work out, some uniform equilibrium, according to the principles of laissez faire capitalism."
Indeed, he continued, over "an increasingly wide range of industrial products, and perhaps agricultural products also, I become doubtful whether the economic cost of self-sufficiency is great enough to outweigh the other advantages of gradually bringing the producer and the consumer within the ambit of the same national, economic and financial organization. Experience accumulates to prove that most modern mass-production processes can be performed in most countries and climates with almost equal efficiency."
And with words that have a very contemporary ring, Keynes concluded, "I sympathize…with those who would minimize rather than with those who would maximize economic entanglement between nations. Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel — these are the things which should of their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible; and, above all, let finance be primarily national."
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South Dakota's Dakota State University (DSU) is about to become the epicenter of security for the nation's financial system. The Madison, S.D.-based university is creating the National Center for the Protection of the Financial Infrastructure.
Already the research center has received $2 million from the state of South Dakota and has garnered support from federal agencies and the private sector. DSU is partnering with New York-based Citibank ($2.2 trillion in assets), San Francisco-based Wells Fargo ($609 billion in assets), Sioux Falls, S.D.-based First Premier Bank ($900 million in assets), the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Department of Homeland Security to establish the center.
Mel Ustad, director of commercialization in the South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development, says the goal of the center is to advance the security and safety of the nation's financial infrastructure through education and the development of new technologies. "This is going to be a training program so that students and those currently employed in the financial industry are better prepared to protect institutions," he comments.
According to Kevin Streff, the center's director, it will focus on six primary goals: creating improvements in security, preparedness and resiliency of the financial system; developing rapid and accurate methods to prevent security incidents at financial institutions; developing tools and strategic applications to mitigate cyber incidents; developing tools to facilitate recovery from cyber incidents and resume stable operations; developing a process for rapidly communicating with the public/customers in the event of a security incident; and delivering high-quality education and training to students and professionals.
Streff says the center provides an opportunity for academia to offer solutions to the private sector's problems. "Academia has resources that can be brought to bear to help solve information security problems," he explains. "In fact, several academicians have been active in information security research. However, their efforts are not prioritized or coordinated to meet the needs of the financial industry." The new program, he adds, designates DSU as the lead in national efforts to protect financial information.
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According to Ustad, DSU is considered by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency as one of the centers for academic excellence in information assurance, specializing in financial services. It is the only one focused on financial services information security.
Further, the state has a history with the financial services sector. In 1984 Citi established its credit card operations in South Dakota, Ustad explains. "Once Citi arrived, [DSU's mission] changed to a focus on IT and developing IT people that Citi needed for its credit card business," he relates.
Wells Fargo and Premier Bankcard, the card arm of First Premier, also have card operations in the state. In fact, the financial services sector contributes $6.4 billion to South Dakota's $32 billion gross state product.
"Now we're bringing in additional people and resources. Citi, Wells Fargo, the FDIC and the others have representatives sitting on the center's advisory board," Ustad explains. "They will help set the agenda and focus on the areas most needed by the industry."


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Instructor Claire Taylor is the Studio Manager at the Book Arts Program. She received a BFA from the University of Utah in printmaking in 2007. Working mainly in letterpress and drawn media, she exhibits nationally.
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The pneumococcal vaccine prevents serious blood, brain, and lung infections due to the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. Such infections are called pneumococcal disease — they include pneumonia, meningitis and septicemia.
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A booster shot may be needed after five years. The doctor will recommend a second dose for adults between ages 19 and 64 who have: a damaged spleen or no spleen; kidney disease called nephritic syndrome; a weakened immune system due to medications such as chemotherapy drugs and long-term steroids; cancer, including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma; history of an organ or bone marrow transplant; HIV/AIDS; and Sickle cell disease.
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Research suggests It might be genes that sways our vote.
Aug. 27, 2012— -- The 2000 presidential election may have hung on some hanging chads, but new evidence suggests that a handful of genes may be influencing election outcomes more than we think.
Genetic studies find that nature may be playing as significant a role as nurture when it comes to political traits. Certainly, learning and environmental factors play a role too in the development of political opinions, but new gene studies indicate that people may have natural tendencies when it comes to political ideology and partisanship, voting behavior and engaging in political violence.
In a review article published Monday in the journal Trends in Genetics, lead author Peter Hatemi, a professor in the political science, microbiology and biochemistry departments at Pennsylvania State University, said that making people aware of how their political behavior is shaped has implications for foreign policy, public health, attitude change, reducing discrimination and much else.
"We're seeing an awakening in the social sciences, and the wall that divided politics and genetics is really starting to fall apart," Hatemi said in a news release "This is a big advance, because the two fields could inform each other to answer some very complex questions about individual differences in political views."
It has long been assumed that environment and social influences had the biggest impact on a person's political preferences, but new research finds that genetics may play a larger role in political behavior than previously believed. For example, although adolescent experiences can influence political ideology, studies that looked at twins suggest how genetics comes into play. Comparisons between identical and fraternal twins found that once teenagers left home, only identical twins maintained similar viewpoints, while fraternal twins were more likely to hold divergent views.
This suggests that genetics – not just environment – may shape political ideology and partisanship.
Because the human genome is very complex, political traits are likely influenced by thousands of genetic markers. In other words, there is no specific gene tied to a specific political opinion.
It may be that certain genetic propensities may influence our emotions, which, in turn, influence political beliefs. For example, a tendency for high pathogen avoidance and phobias may manifest itself as xenophobia and ethnocentrism.
In particular, researchers have found specific genes that seem significant. Genes that have to do with dopamine and serotonin -- two chemicals in the brain known to influence emotion -- appear to have an effect on socialization, voter turnout and political participation. For example, researchers have already identified a gene on a dopamine receptor that causes people to have a large number of friends. Interestingly, these people tend to be more liberal.
However, experts caution that while genes certainly influence political behavior, it is not to say that there is a definite correlation.
"What you have to think of is more like genes encoding for height," said Nancy Cox, professor and section chief of genetic medicine at the University of Chicago. She emphasized that although there is some causality related to genes, many environmental factors also play a role, and "there is a very large number of genes whose variants help determine what a final adult height might be.
"Similarly, something as complex as political views may be influenced by genetics, but what you see is a cumulative effect of those very small genetic effects."
Identifying how genes are expressed in politics may influence public policy. For example, discussions about health care reform or social welfare may be related to fundamental beliefs about resource allocation.
"Making the public aware of how their mind works and affects their political behavior is critically important," Hatemi said. "This has real implications for the reduction of discrimination, foreign policy, public health, attitude change and many other political issues."


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I've been chewing over various things about clothing and geek feminism since our recent posts about clothing and grooming (Kylie's, Terri's first, Terri's second). I still think I can't address it satisfactorily, but I thought I'd lay out various angles in which we might think of clothing and grooming in geek feminism.
- I refer to "geek women" a lot in this essay. All of these considerations apply to other people too in varying degrees, and sometimes more acutely. But given the nature of this blog I am focussing on geek women's interests, and pressures on them.
- This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of factors that figure into geek women's grooming: it's meant to be long enough to demonstrate that a lot of us have to care about it. Undoubtedly it is a somewhat privileged list too. You are welcome to raise additions in comments.
Clothing as labour. The vast majority of the clothing the vast majority of people reading this wear is made in factories in the developing world, by people working in dangerous and exploitative positions.
Grooming as make-work. Naomi Wolf, for one, made this argument in The Beauty Myth, that consuming women with endless grooming related chores and insecurities is a method of oppression. (I am barely read in feminist or cultural theory, undoubtedly hundreds of names could be listed here as having addressed aspects of this.) laughingrat raised this in our comments.
Clothing and grooming as geek interest. Some geeks take a geek-style (intense, analytical, open-ended, consuming) interest in various aspects of clothing and grooming. As examples of how you might do this, there are a lot of knitting geeks; there are historical recreation geeks who make and wear period clothing using period technology; there are people who study the semiotics and sociology of fashion.
Clothing as geek in-group marker and grooming as rejection of the mainstream. John writes in Terri's comments that someone well-groomed in mainstream corporate style can be assumed to [be] trying to cover for a lack of competence in technical matters "" or really want to be a
You often can't, in this framing, be a geek and a suit both. You have to choose, and advertise this with your grooming.suit
Within geekdom, clothing is sometimes a pretty unsubtle marker of your allegiances. What cons do you go to? What programming languages do you prefer? What comics do you read? You wear shirts that allow this to be determined on first acquaintance. (This isn't unique to geekdom of course, see also fashion labels and band t-shirts.)
Avoiding overtly female-marked grooming. Women in male-dominated workplaces often desperately want to avoid anything that might cause them to be (even more) othered because of their gender, especially since caring about grooming is frequently trivialised.
This may need to be balanced by expectations in some groups these same women move in by choice or necessity in which interest in grooming is required.
Grooming in order to own/celebrate your gender. This is important to many trans people. Conversely to the above about avoiding overt gender marking, quite a few geek women also choose to do this in order to point out that there are women RIGHT HERE in geekdom who can bring the geek.
Grooming as a marker of striving to "fit in" generally. If you have unusual grooming, or grooming that is marked as "other" or of a lesser group, people with power over you will read this as likely to be trouble
or not one of us
. Conversely, dressing like those people, or like their other subordinates, signals will do what it takes to fit in, won't make waves.
Unusual grooming as marker of power. Alternatively, if you have power over other people, you can mark this by unusual grooming, or grooming usually disdained. Ingrid Jakobsen raised this in comments.
Grooming as marker of a 'healthy, competent' woman. For women especially, being groomed and striving to meet beauty standards is considered an informal indicator of mental health. Being considered poorly groomed or lazy about grooming can invite assumptions about being depressed or similar. (This is especially othering of women who do have mental illnesses, who continually receive the message that they shouldn't have them, mustn't display them, and will be in big trouble if they do, all while they quite probably have less energy to deal with the whole mess.)
And of course, a privileged woman might get annoying concerned questions, whereas a less privileged women might find, for example, that assumptions about her mental health play into questions about her 'fitness' have access to society, to care for her children and so on.
Grooming for self-esteem. Partly due to internalisation of the above, many women in particular feel happier, more confident and more powerful when they're "well groomed" by mainstream standards.
Grooming which others female bodies. See the thing about conference t-shirts. Many don't cater for curvy bodies. If they do, they often cater only for small curvy bodies. And they almost always assume a gender binary of curvy women who want curvy shirts, and square men who want square shirts.
Sexualised grooming. Women are expected to present their bodies in such a way as to be conventionally attractive.
Overly sexual grooming. At the same time as needing to be attractive, women are expected to present their bodies in such a way as not to be "asking for it". (There is, of course, no middle-ground, see Rape Culture 101.)
Grooming for fun. Geek women may enjoy applying shiny, bright, matching, creative or cherished clothes and decoration to their bodies.
Grooming to get things done. Geek women may need to lift things, fit clothing to a prosthetic or mobility assistance device, run, avoid having a baby pull painfully at their hair, all kinds of stuff.
There are a great many intersectional things I have not addressed here, as a white, wealthy, abled cis-woman. A very very incomplete list would be: considerations about grooming to match your gender identity, considerations about grooming to satisfy people policing your gender identity, minimising grooming in order to preserve your spoons, grooming to honour and be part of your ethnic identity, grooming to meet beauty standards designed for white bodies and white faces, trying to find cheap clothes that won't be judged in job interviews.
This huge list is just a set of things you could possibly be trying to signal or adhere to or avoid with your grooming. Hopefully this illustrates some of the tensions for geek women: for example, they are called upon to dress in both the feminine, careful style that signals "healthy and competent" but also in the masculine-coded casual style coded as "knows what the hell she's talking about when it comes to [say] science" and also in something that won't get them hassled as being unattractive in the street but also not hassled as too attractive…
I hope this has helped break down grooming and clothing as a geek feminist issue, or rather, massively multidimensional tightrope, a bit more. When women, and members of other marginalised and othered groups, consider their appearance, these are the kind of factors that go into it. Of course, in order to be accepted as geeks, we're supposed to do all that and not care about clothes, right?


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Bored of his idyllic life on Mount Olympus, Greek demigod Hercules provokes his father Zeus into sending him to modern day Earth. There, he beats up longshoremen and bullies college athletes. He eventually becomes a successful professional wrestler, and battles both the machinations of the gods and gangsters alike.
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: I have played, sang and produced 3 worship CD projects that are available around the world, helped produce other local singer/songwriters, worked with David T. Clydesdale and Babbie Mason and a host of others singing, playing and performing acoustic and electric guitar.
"Live Concert" "In Your Presence Live CD" "Live Concert"
Me at TBN's Exalting Him 03
Enter In" Live CD Emmaus Road
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E-Book explains and illustrates detailed need-to-know facts only
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Mimic chord hand and see it as you see your own chord hand. No translation. (You only find this unique method right here!)
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No waiting for book or CD in the mail
Unique teaching style found nowhere else
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Learn 4 simple unique chords and fingering
Play several worship songs with these 4 chords! Uniquely positioned
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One time low cost initial payment to start
YOU SAVE - $40/ Hr., $160 / Mo. or whopping $1920 per year!
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Review lesson videos over and over with ease right on your computer
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Now, you're probably wondering how and why we can do all those things.
Let me explain.
Learn Worship Guitar is an exclusive, unique online member web site that uses an e-book and corresponding detailed high quality instructional videos online in your own home, right from your computer anytime it suits you, at your own pace. I teach in a way that nobody else does and you WILL be playing FAST! You will master worship guitar and develop your own style in the shortest possible time. You can access it from anywhere in the world, from any computer with a High Speed Internet connection, 24/7, 365! The best part is you only
pay once
for lifetime access! There are
no monthly membership fees
as so many others charge! What makes this course so awesome is that you will see results in as little as one day! Students email me saying they are already playing a song after having the course for only 24 hours and they never achieved this success with any other program!
Don't take my word for it.
People just like you all over the world tell how and why this works for them...
Testimonial :
I'm so excited about learnworshipguitar!!! Your site is so unique! It totally inspired me to pickup the guitar again! Two years ago, I lost my love and passion for guitar. Unable to afford lessons at $40 a hour and not knowing where to turn for direction I threw in the towel. A couple of years later I found learnworshipguitar.com . What a phenomanal way inspire a generation of worship leaders!! This was the boost I needed to propel me back on guitar. The combination of video w/chords guided by a gifted worship leader is truly phenomenal! It's so great to see the worship community embrace web 2.0 technology to expand God's kingdom!
Thanks again for everything!
Issac Ortiz
Seattle, WA.
I've never played an instrument before but I am very pleased with the progress that I've made in just a few short days with your help. I hope to be in good enough form to play "Silent Night" to my family on Christmas Day!
Rick Renfro
Melbourne, FL
I can't thank you enough for all the amazing guitar lessons and support I've received from you and your video lessons. By the grace of God, I have made such great progress in obtaining a dream that He has placed deep within my heart to lead worship within my prison ministry and small group bible study, and having the guidance I received from your worship guitar lessons has played a huge part in that progress as well. I had been learning all the basics with note reading and chords, but had not been able to pull it all together and actually be able to play worship songs, until through your lessons, I found out how easy it truly can be! Within days I have already learned more than I have in months of practice on my own, and I am truly singing praises to our God for the gifts He has placed within you for bringing us such clear and detailed, but easy, guidance in learning worship guitar. Now that I can actually play some worship songs, I have literally been moved to tears of joy (and also filled with laughter!) as I play because of finally being able to worship God in the way that I have strongly desired to do for so long… I can only pray that God will use me to touch the lives of others in the same way that you have….. Thank you Dean. You are a true blessing for so many of us that have a passion to serve our Lord through music….
Julie Norris
Sacramento, CA
Hi Dean
I had been playing guitar for the past 2 years more off then on cause
I hadn't found a fun easy way to learn it. There was too much theory
or a teacher would put me way out into left field with progression or
parts of songs that I wanted to learn, but made it way to complicated
to do when I got home. I felt in my mind that I wanted to give up but
my heart just said no. So I'd ask different places about teaching me
simple 4, 5 and 6 chord songs but no one seemed to have an answer.
Then I seen Dean on YOUTUBE teaching parts of the song " How Great is
our God". I went to your website learnworshipguitar.com . What do I see HOW TO LEARN 4 CHORD. Breaking down EVERYTHING. I feel it was a sign from
God. I had finally found something that I could wrap my head around.
May God Bless you Dean because you are blessing people with the gift
of music, Thank you.
Kyle Koltok
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Hello Dean
I want to thank you for your website it's fabulous, all themes in the site are very useful to adore and worship to our Marvelous, Powerful, Faithful and Beautiful God and to improve our interaction whit our loved-guitar-friend. I have learned so much in just a few days!
Best regards,
Guido A.
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With this program, it is what you see is what you get. Meaning there are no hidden costs or unknown factors.
We offer a LIFETIME access to our online course, a full money back guarantee and there are no contracts or commitments. Shoot me an email anytime you want - firstname.lastname@example.com...I
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Don't get swayed by 'review' sites who claim they know who has the best course and to buy their recommendation.
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Not necessarily the best course for you in the end. Try rolling your mouse over their links. None of them direct you straight to the product!
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Make sure the site has been around for a while. So many emails come into my inbox from people who've been burnt or bought something online and never received the product or a reply email!
With us, you can be sure we've been around for years and we are continuing to grow and have a real online presence.
Try going to Google or Yahoo search and typing in Dean Palacio guitar lessons. You don't take up the whole first page if you have not been around online for some time!
Finally, how many times have you emailed or called an online business with question or just to talk to a live person only to find that you never get an answer or return email? I would never deal with them!
I always answer emails personally and quickly, I don't have someone do it for me. If I am in my office and you call, I actually answer my phone! Don't believe me? Try me (805) 577-8481, or email me
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You get at least 10 times your money's worth with these online Christian guitar lessons!
In this course you will receive a 50 page e-book that comes to life with over 3 hours worth of instructional videos, 10 complete worship song videos, plus eight song instructional videos along with all the song sheets containing the lyrics and chords for each song. If you were to add up all the time you would spend with a 1-on-1 private teacher to learn what is contained in this course it would add up to over $2000.00 for a whole year or $160.00 for just 1 month!
1 on 1 private guitar lessons would cost you about $40 - $50 per hour, your time there and back, gas, waiting time, scheduling time and this would still not guarantee that you would come away with being able to play songs and chords with ease in less than 30 days!
In summary, this is what you get:
A 50 page e-book bursting with images, and detailed instructions and illustrations that you can download and print out. (not mailed to you physically, but downloaded right to your computer... That's right immediate access!)
Over 50 instructional videos with high quality split screen technology showing easy to see chords, chord and strumming hand details broken down step-by-step
For as much as you would pay for
private lesson
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LIFETIME access
and only one time low payment (no monthly fees!)
The hottest teaching methods to kickstart your skills to a higher level FAST... You won't find these teaching methods anywhere!
Whole complete worship song instructional videos along with song sheets, lyrics, chords and strumming patterns
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If something goes wrong, you don't like it or even if you don't like the colors in the book!
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You don't have to decide now if this product is for you. Just get it and try it out for 30 days. If it doesn't do everything I say and more, if you don't save money and time and see proven results, or if your playing doesn't improve, or if you're not playing songs, or if you don't absolutely love it, just let me know and I'll give you every cent of your money back! So you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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How Great Is Our God
Holy And Anointed One
Every Move I Make
You Are My All In All
Wonderful Maker
I Give You My Heart
Holy Is The Lord
Mighty To Save
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2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup low fat cream cheese
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 egg white
2 tablespoons grated orange peel
1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
3 tablespoons orange juice
When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray to cookie sheets with non-stick cooking spray or line with parchment paper.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a large bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat granulated sugar, cream cheese, and butter until fluffy. Beat in egg white and orange peel.
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Gather dough into a ball; wrap in plastic wrap.
Chill for 2 hours.
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