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This story was written for AirlineReporter.com by Travis Griffith, who blogs for CarGurus.com, Enjoy… David.
How does a car guy fall in love with aviation? Perhaps it's actually the other way around. Maybe I've always been an aviation guy, briefly grounded by the allure of the automobile.
Allow me to explain.
For the first six or seven years of my life, my lone obsession came in the form of Superman. I wore the outfit three Halloweens in a row. I remember leaping off the couch in the blue costume so my red cape would flutter, ever so briefly, as my feet touched neither couch nor floor. In those moments, I flew, just like the Superman I'd see in the movies.
Looking back, I realize my interest in Superman was actually a budding interest in flight. Superman embodied the freedom to travel wherever and whenever, unbound my human limitations. I wanted that.
At about seven years old, on a trip to the Oregon coast, my parents surprised me with a trip in a seaplane. I vividly remember the feeling of walking toward that plane as it gently rocked in the waves. I remember climbing through the door and being greeted by the cockpit and its array of buttons and gauges. My heart leapt when I received instruction to sit in the empty seat next to the pilot.
'œYou'll be my co-pilot today, okay?'
I'll never forget those words.
The plane took off and I saw the world beneath me shrink as the sky grew. I virtually climbed the windows trying to see everything outside, but kept getting drawn back in by the pilot's motions on the equipment inside the plane.
'œWould you like to fly it?' he asked me.
I don't even remember how I responded but before I knew it I held the yoke in my small hands and the pilot held his hands in the air.
'œYou're flying an airplane,' he said.
It became one of those childhood moments that defined me as an adult.
Flying and airplanes were the focus of the rest of my childhood. I remember meeting captains on board 737s on family vacations and I remember going to the airport and sitting in the terminal as a teenager just to see the planes take off and land (back when that was allowed). As an early adult I bought a flight simulator and all the accessories and practiced landing a Cessna at O'Hare. I even took another trip to Oregon to fly in a seaplane, where I again took the front seat and relived that defining childhood moment.
As tends to happen in life, I grew up, went to college and got regular jobs. I became a writer. The adult me became fascinated with cars and car culture, and I've spent a good portion of the last five years blogging about cars and the car industry. I still love it.
But I haven't forgotten about airplanes and never stopped following the industry.
It doesn't take a big stretch of the imagination to wonder why other car-loving people would fall in love with aviation, too. Check out that picture on top of this story. The one with four wheels is a McLaren MP4-12C, a $240,000 supercar capable of 205 miles per hour and a 0-60 mph time of 3 seconds. That's as close to flight as any car will ever get (well, unless you count the Terrafugia Transition, but that's another topic for another time.)
A passion for aviation, though, can take over when at 200 mph you find yourself wishing for just one thing:


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A king of former times had an only son, whom he contracted in marriage to the daughter of another king. But the damsel, who was endowed with great beauty, had a cousin who had sought her in marriage, and had been rejected; wherefore he sent great presents to the vizier of the king just mentioned, requesting him to employ some stratagem by which to destroy his master"s son, or to induce him to relinquish the damsel. The vizier consented. Then the father of the damsel sent to the king"s son, inviting him to come and introduce himself to his daughter, to take her as his wife; and the father of the young man sent him with the treacherous vizier, attended by a thousand horsemen, and provided with rich presents. When they were proceeding over the desert, the vizier remembered that there was near unto them a spring of water called Ez-zahra, and that whosoever drank of it, if he were a man, became a woman. He therefore ordered the troops to alight near it, and induced the prince to go towards it with him. When they arrived at the spring, the king"s son dismounted from his courser, and washed his hands, and drank; and lo! he became a woman; whereupon he cried out and wept until he fainted. The vizier asked him what had befallen him, so the young man informed him; and on hearing his words, the vizier affected to be grieved for him, and wept. The king"s son then sent the vizier back to his father to inform him of this event, determining not to proceed nor to return until his affliction should be removed from him, or until he should die.
He remained by the fountain during a period of three days and nights, neither eating nor drinking, and on the fourth night there came to him a horseman with a crown upon his head, appearing like one of the sons of the kings. This horseman said to him, "Who brought you, O young man, unto this place?"
So the young man told him his story; and when the horseman heard it, he pitied him, and said to him, "The vizier of thy father is the person who hath thrown thee into this calamity; for no one of mankind knoweth of this spring except one man." Then the horseman ordered him to mount with him. He therefore mounted; and the horseman said to him, "Come with me to my abode: for thou art my guest this night." The young man replied, "Inform me who thou art before I go with thee." And the horseman said, "I am the son of a king of the Jinn, and thou art son of a king of mankind. And now, be of good heart and cheerful eye on account of that which shall dispel thine anxiety and thy grief, for it is unto me easy."
So the young man proceeded with him from the commencement of the day, forsaking his troops and soldiers (whom the vizier had left at their halting-place), and ceased not to travel on with his conductor until midnight, when the son of the king of the Jinn said to him, "Knowest thou what space we have traversed during this period?"
The young man answered him, "I know not."
The son of the king of the Jinn said, "We have traversed a space of a year"s journey to him who travels with diligence."
So the young man wondered thereat, and asked, "How shall I return to my family?" The other answered, "This is not your affair. It is my affair; and when thou shalt have recovered from thy misfortune, thou shalt return to thy family in less time than the twinkling of an eye, for to accomplish that will be to me easy." The young man, on hearing these words from the Jinnee, almost flew with excessive delight.
He thought that the event was a result of confused dreams, and said, "Extolled be the perfection of him who is able to restore the wretched, and render him prosperous!" They ceased not to proceed until morning, when they arrived at a verdant, bright land, with tall trees, and warbling birds, and gardens of surpassing beauty, and fair palaces; and thereupon the son of the king of the Jinn alighted from his courser, commanding the young man also to dismount. He therefore dismounted, and the Jinnee took him by the hand, and they entered one of the palaces, where the young man beheld an exalted king and a sultan of great dignity, and he remained with them that day, eating and drinking, until the approach of night. Then the son of the king of the Jinn arose and mounted with him, and they went forth, and proceeded during the night with diligence until the morning. And lo! they came to a black land, not inhabited, abounding with black rocks and stones, as though it were a part of hell; whereupon the son of the king of men said to the Jinnee, "What is the name of this land?"
And he answered, "It is called the Dusky Land, and belongeth to one of the kings of the Jinn, whose name is Zu-l-Jenáheyn. None of the kings can attack him, nor doth any one enter his territory unless by his permission, so stop in thy place while I ask his permission." Accordingly the young man stopped, and the Jinn was absent from him for a while, and then returned to him; and they ceased not to proceed until they came to a spring flowing from black mountains. The Jinnee said to the young man, "Alight." He therefore alighted from his courser, and the Jinnee said to him, "Drink of this spring."
The young prince drank of it, and immediately became again a man, as he was at first, by the power of God (whose name be exalted!), whereas he rejoiced with great joy, not to be exceeded. And he said to the Jinn, "O my brother, what is the name of this spring?" The Jinnee answered, "It is called the Spring of the Women: no woman drinketh of it but she becometh a man; therefore praise God, and thank Him for thy restoration, and mount thy courser." So the king"s son prostrated himself, thanking God (whose name be exalted!). Then he mounted, and they journeyed with diligence during the rest of the day until they had returned to the land of the Jinnee, and the young man passed the night in his abode in the most comfortable manner; after which they ate and drank until the next night, when the son of the king of the Jinn said to him, "Dost thou desire to return to thy family this night?"
The young man answered, "Yes."
So the son of the king of the Jinn called one of his father"s slaves, whose name was Rájiz, and said to him, "Take this young man hence, and carry him upon thy shoulders, and let not the dawn overtake him before he is with his father-in-law and his wife."
The slave replied, "I hear and obey, and with feelings of love and honour will I do it." Then the slave absented himself for a while, and approached in the form of an "Efreet.
And when the young man saw him his reason fled, and he was stupefied; but the son of the king of the Jinn said to him, "No harm shall befall thee. Mount thy courser. Ascend upon his shoulders." The young man then mounted upon the slave"s shoulders, and the son of the king of the Jinn said to him, "Close thine eyes." So he closed his eyes, and the slave flew with him between heaven and earth, and ceased not to fly along with him while the young man was unconscious, and the last third of the night came not before he was on the top of the palace of his father-in-law.
Then the "Efreet said to him, "Alight." He therefore alighted. And the "Efreet said to him, "Open thine eyes; for this is the palace of thy father-in-law and his daughter." Then he left him and departed.
And as soon as the day shone, and the alarm of the young man subsided, he descended from the roof of the palace; and when his father-in-law beheld him, he rose to him and met him, wondering at seeing him descend from the top of the palace, and he said to him, "We see other men come through the doors, but thou comest down from the sky."
The young man replied, "What God (whose perfection be extolled, and whose name be exalted!) desired hath happened." And when the sun rose, his father-in-law ordered his vizier to prepare great banquets, and the wedding was celebrated; the young man remained there two months, and then departed with his wife to the city of his father. But as to the cousin of the damsel, he perished by reason of his jealousy and envy.


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
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24 (FOX) - Kim Raver ("Third Watch"), Nestor Serrano ("The Day After Tomorrow"), Shohreh Aghdashloo ("House of Sand and Fog") and Louis Lombardi ("The Sopranos") have all scored roles on the drama's upcoming fourth season. Raver will play Audrey Raines, an aide to the secretary of defense in Washington and a potential new love interest for Kiefer Sutherland's character while Serrano is set as a Middle Eastern businessman with Aghdashloo as his wife. Lombardi will then play a new member of CTU.
THE ASSISTANT (MTV) - The series scored a 1.9 national rating/6 share among MTV's target demographic of persons 12-34 on Monday, building off its lead-in "Road Rules" by 18.75% (1.6/5) and winning its time period among all basic cable networks in said group. Overall this season, "The Assistant" has averaged a solid 1.9 million viewers.
BLUE COLLAR TV (WB) - Comedy Central has purchased the exclusive repurposing rights to the WB series from Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution in a deal believed to be valued at $100,000 per episode. The series, which currently airs on the Frog on Thursday nights at 8:00/7:00c, will encore on the cable channel Mondays at 10:00/9:00c and 12:00/11:00c beginning next week. The pact also includes the option to purchase the show's entire off-network run should it build enough episodes for syndication as well as built-in escalators should it reach certain ratings levels on the WB. The news won't effect the WB's Friday, 9:30/8:30c encores of the series, meaning viewers will be able to catch each broadcast four times within a given week: Thursdays at 8:00/7:00c and Fridays at 9:30/8:30c on the WB and Mondays at 10:00/9:00c and 12:00/11:00c on Comedy Central.
BODYGUARD (New!) - Wright-Crear Management, which reps the Backstreet Boys, has signed a deal with producer Jonathan "J.T." Taylor ("The Osbournes," "Tough Enough") to develop a new reality series in which contestants compete for the chance to become a bodyguard for the group, which is planning a comeback tour next summer. Backstreet's A.J. Maclean, Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough and Nick Carter will all be involved both in front of and behind the camera on the project. Complete details however weren't specified about the series, other than the final episode will track the winner's first day on the job. Wright-Crear partners Johnny Wright and Kenneth Crear will executive produce the project along with Taylor. The trio plans to pitch the series to various broadcast and cable networks later this month.
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (Comedy Central) - 1.3 million viewers on average tuned into the show's coverage of the Democratic National Convention last week, good enough to tie the primetime average of MSNBC during the same stretch. "The Daily Show" was also watched by more viewers among adults 18-49 and 18-34 than MSNBC, CNN and Fox News Channel on three of the four convention nights. Overall said numbers marked the series' third best weekly average to date as the show is up 21% in year-to-year comparisons from January-June 2004 (1.1 million viewers) versus the same period last year.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (ABC) - Writer/producer Kevin Murphy ("Reefer Madness") has signed on as a co-executive producer of the series which premieres on Sunday nights this fall. He'll serve alongside executive producers Marc Cherry, Michael Edelstein and Tom Spezialy on the project, which comes from Touchstone Television.
DISTRACTION (Comedy Central, New!) - The cable channel has ordered six episodes of a new primetime game show from FremantleMedia ("American Idol," "The Swan") in which contestants answer relatively simple trivia questions while withstanding various forms of "distractions," such as electrical shocks and body-piercing. Michael Dugan ("Trigger Happy TV") has come aboard to executive produce/showrun the project, which could air by the end of 2004. Not surprisingly, "Distraction" is based on the U.K. series of the same name, however the U.S. edition won't feature some of the more extreme stunts.
DREAM JOB (ESPN) - ESPN has bumped up the premiere of the show's second season up a week to Tuesday, September 14 at 7:00/6:00c.
GROWING UP GOTTI (A&E) - The network's latest reality entry opened to a stellar 3.2 million viewers, 1.8 million of which fell into the adults 18-49 demographic. Both numbers mark records for a series premiere on the cable channel. In addition, the series also fared well among A&E's target demographic of adults 25-54, pulling in 2.0 million viewers, and built 500,000 total viewers between the half-hours of its two-episode premiere. In total, 20 half-hours of the series are set to debut this season.
HELL'S KITCHEN (FOX) - FOX has released an official description of the series, which notes casting has started on the project: "Casting has begun on HELL'S KITCHEN (working title), a new unscripted series for FOX which will begin production this summer and will air later this season on FOX. HELL'S KITCHEN is a culinary boot camp that features the drama of a group of wannabe cordon bleu cooks and aspiring restaurateurs running a top-class restaurant, and is overseen by world-renowned but equally terrifying Head Chef, Gordon Ramsay. Ramsay and HELL'S KITCHEN will serve daily helpings of terror, tears, tantrums and triumphs. Ramsay, a former pro-soccer player-turned-Michelin-starred chef will cross the pond to the United States' hotbed of haute cuisine, Los Angeles, CA., to open the city's newest restaurant, staff it with would-be head chefs, and turn it into the city's top hot spot. Adapted from the wildly successful British short-run series of the same name, HELL'S KITCHEN will follow the competing chefs 24/7, capturing all the drama, intrigue and high emotion as they strive to open their restaurant. These ambitious hopefuls believe they have the drive, talent and desire to one day run their own restaurant and they will be tossed into the cauldron working under Ramsay, fighting for survival. Casting for participants is underway and whether they already have culinary experience -- a burger flipper, a mother of six or a BBQ whiz -- one thing they will all have in common is a passion for cooking. These future contestants will believe they have what it takes to work in the adrenalin-fueled atmosphere of a busy kitchen ... but they haven't worked for the perfectionist Ramsay before. A man they may fear and respect in equal measure, he will be assessing their performance and driving them to achieve the best. For him, failure is not an option, and nothing or no one will stand in his way. So for the trainees, this means one thing -- they are in for the toughest weeks of their lives. Each week Ramsay will slice and dice the contestants, keeping those who possess the right combination of ingredients to ensure success. The ultimate prize for the winning chef is to have his or her own restaurant and that is exactly what awaits if they are the last cook left in HELL'S KITCHEN. Applications for potential chefs/restaurateurs are available at www.fox.com. HELL'S KITCHEN is produced by Granada Entertainment and A. Smith & Co. Paul Jackson and Arthur Smith serve as executive producers."
HERCULES (NBC) - Timothy Dalton has been confirmed while Angie Harmon ("Law & Order") is in talks to join the cast of the Peacock's $20 million, four-hour mini-series. Already cast are Sean Astin, Leelee Sobieski and newcomer Paul Telfer in the project, which chronicles the life of the Greek hero (Telfer) who, after killing his two sons and two of his brother's sons, performs 12 labors to repent. Astin will play Linus, Hercules' music teacher with Sobieski as Hercules' second wife, Deianeira; Dalton as his stepfather, Amphitryon; and Harmon up for the role of Hercules' mother, Alcmene. Production on the project is set to begin on August 23 for a likely May 2005 air date.
IMMIGRANTS (Spike TV) - The cable channel has put the kibosh on the animated series' two-hour August 12 premiere. No reason for the change was given as Spike will instead air a two-hour block of "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge."
JEOPARDY! (Syndication) - Game show phenom Ken Jennings will resume his run when the series kicks off its 21st season on September 6. The syndicated series closed last season as the top draw in its category for the fourth consecutive week on July 25.
LAW & ORDER: S.V.U. (NBC) - Neal Baer, the show's executive producer/showrunner, is reportedly close to a new, eight-figure, multi-year deal with NBC Universal Television to remain with the series for at least four more years as well as develop original projects for the studio. Exact details however have yet to be finalized.
THE MEN'S ROOM (NBC) - Kate Walsh ("The Drew Carey Show") is the latest addition to the midseason comedy, about three best friends of various ages (Scott Cohen, John Cho and Brian Skala). It's not clear if Walsh is replacing one of the show's current female cast members (Suzanne Cryer and Shelly Cole) or is been written in as a new role. In addition, Franco Bario ("That '70s Show") and Will Calhoun ("What I Like About You") have signed on as executive producers of the series, where they'll serve alongside creator Danny Zucker.
NIP/TUCK (FX) - Tuesday's broadcast marked a series high among adults 18-49 (2.2 rating/6 share) for the sophomore drama, which also finished as the top cable draw for the night (3.8 million viewers).
THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW (Syndication) - Oprah Winfrey has once again extended her stay with King World Productions as her syndicated talk show has been renewed through the 2010-11 season, its 25th year overall. The three-year extention comes as part of a new deal with the distributor, which calls for her to put out 28 original weeks per season except for the final year of the deal in which she'll cut back to 26 weeks. "Oprah" is coming off its best May sweeps in seven years, during which it averaged a 7.2 household rating including a 5.2 rating among women 25-54, a 4.5 among women 18-49 and a 4.1 among women 18-34, and is up a solid 16% in year-to-year comparisons.
POP ROCKS (ABC Family) - The telefilm, which stars Gary Cole and Sherilyn Fenn, has been pushed up two days and will now premiere Friday, September 10 at 8:00/7:00c.
THE TONY DANZA SHOW (Syndication) - Former "The Apprentice" contestant Ereka Vetrini has landed herself a new gig: sidekick to Tony Danza on his new syndicated talk show, which bows on Monday, September 13. The news comes as "Danza" fights for exposure in the cluttered syndicated talk show market: in some cases it will air at 2:09 a.m., such as on the ABC-owned KABC in Los Angeles, and in others it will air at 10:00 a.m. following "Live with Regis and Kelly," such as on ABC-owned WABC in New York and WPVI in Philadelphia. As for the addition of Vetrini, she'll serve as a correspondent as well as join Danza to chat about entertainment and other events.
UNTTILED CHRIS KATTAN PROJECT (New!) - 20th Century Fox Television has inked a one-year, mid-six-figure talent holding deal with the "Saturday Night Live" alum. The project calls for the studio to develop a series with Kattan in mind or place him in an existing project. Should said series be developed for him, 3 Arts Entertainment, the actor's representation which also has a deal with 20th, will serve as a producer. Kattan is said to already have an idea for a show, noting it will not be a sketch comedy, and will begin meeting with writers shortly.
UNTITLED DIANE FARR PROJECT (New!) - Diane Farr ("The Job") is developing a TV series loosely based on her life, as the actress has scored a script deal at Sony Pictures Television. The project plans to revolve around a group of women entering their 30s in Los Angeles with Farr herself as star of the show. Farr's life is understood to be full of TV-ready events, such as her fiance calling off their wedding on Valentine's day just as they sent out cards announcing the date. Said story lead to her deal with Sony as she recounted the events during an apperance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The news marks the latest gig for the actress, who is set to make several appearances on FX's "Rescue Me" this season not to mention is developing a talk show based on her book "The Girl Code."
UNTITLED GUARDIAN ANGELS PROJECT (New!) - Rollman Entertainment has stuck a deal with the legendary Curtis Sliwa-founded organization to develop a new reality series focusing on the group. The project, described as a mix of "Cops" and "The Real World," would track the Angels' recently announced plans to return to the streets of Los Angeles, including the recruitment and training of new members and any impact they have on the city. Jeff Androsky will executive produce the project, which is set to be pitched to various networks in the coming weeks, for Rollman.
UNTITLED JIM SHERIDAN PROJECT (NBC, New!) - Recent Oscar-nominee Jim Sheridan ("In America") and his daughter Naomi Sheridan are developing a new drama series at the Peacock about a large Irish family struggling to run a restaurant in the United States. The project, set up at Paramount Network Television, will be written by Naomi Sheridan and executive produced by the duo. Jim Sheridan himself may also direct the pilot should it go forward, time permitting.
UNTITLED PAM BRADY/WILL GLUCK PROJECT (FOX, New!) - Pam Brady ("South Park") and Will Gluck ("Method & Red") are set to team for a new experimental comedy at the network. While the exact details are being kept under wraps, it's understood to revolve around "the first guy in his group of friends who has a real button-down job," according to an interview with Brady in Daily Variety. In addition, the duo plan to do the series with a production schedule with three days of shooting and two days of rehearsal per episode in order to give the actors more prep time. 20th Century Television, where Gluck's overall deal is based and was recently extended through May 2006, is behind the untitled project.
UNTITLED TARA REID PROJECT (FOX, New!) - FOX has inked a talent holding deal with Tara Reid ("Scrubs") in which the actress is expected to topline a new project for the network. Reid will meet with producers in the coming months to hammer out the details of the series, which is expected to be a half-hour comedy. Financial details about the pact weren't released.
WEEDS (Showtime) - Elizabeth Perkins ("Battery Park") is set to star opposite Mary-Louise Parker in the pay channel's comedy pilot, about a suburban mother (Parker) whose life is turned upside down when her husband dies unexpectedly and she turns to dealing pot to make ends meet while trying to maintain her life as a responsible mother and PTA member. Perkins will play a prim-and-proper mother in the community whose son becomes romantically involved with the daughter of Parker's character. Brian Dannelly ("Saved!") is set to direct the project from a script by Jenji Kohan ("The Stones").
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? (Comedy Central, New!) - Adam Cohen, Cara Tapper and Joanna Vernetti of Super Delicious ("The Assistant") are developing a new series at the cable channel, described as a semi-spoof of E!'s "True Hollywood Story." The project explores recent pop culture moments, such as the Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez breakup, using campy reenactments of the how they think the event went down.
Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters


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Reflections on Laclau
Posted 10 years ago on April 20, 2014, 12:07 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
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Ernesto Laclau, who passed away on Sunday, April 13, 2014, is known primarily as an Argentinian political theorist who wrote about populism, socialism, and political discourse. Populism is commonly referred to as a type of politics that exalts the 'people' and pits them against the elite. Laclau's work on populism and political discourse has important ramifications for how we can reconceptualize the role of new social movements, such as Occupy.
Even though the formula for populism is relatively simple, a conception of people vs. power, the genesis of the concept is complex. Initially, two bodies of academic literature emerged in two different regional contexts to explain certain cases. In 1934, an Italian sociologist named Gino Germani immigrated to Argentina, fleeing from Mussolini's fascist regime. Once in Argentina, he wrote about what he saw as a new form of politics evidenced in the leadership of Juan Perón – a type of politics he characterized as a 'national popular' movement that blended aspects of democratic participation and authoritarianism. This model could also be extended to characterize the leadership of other mid-twentieth century Latin American politicians, such as Vargas in Brazil and Cardenas in Mexico. In this sense, Germani provided a kind of historical model for understanding this new form of politics in relation to the experience of economic and political development specific to Latin American countries, referred to as modernization.
However, in the United States, populism has come to mean something slightly different, with reference to different historical cases. Authors such as Richard Hofstadter and John Hicks, in writing about the legacy of populism in the U.S., refer back to the People's Party of the 1890s – a grassroots political movement that developed out of a white farmers' alliance in the South. These farmers cultivated the idea that they were an ordinary people oppressed by an elite, such as 'big business,' expressing the hardships they experienced as a result of the crop lien system. The interesting move that Hofstadter made in his essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," was to try to link up rhetoric propagated in the era of McCarthyism with this historical legacy traced back to the People's Party. This led to a watershed both in the U.S. academic literature and even in the media, where it is now common to refer to examples of 'populist rhetoric' found in a tradition of U.S. politicians that spans from William Jennings Bryan to Barack Obama, but also in contemporary U.S. social movements, such as the Tea Party and Occupy.
It gets more complicated. Just as the term 'populism' has been used to refer to cases of politics in the U.S. from the 1890s to the present, it has been applied to two subsequent waves of politicians in Latin America, spanning from the aforementioned mid-twentieth century cases to figures like Venezuela's Chávez (and now Maduro), Bolivia's Morales, and Ecuador's Correa in the present. Still yet, the term also found its application in Europe as theorists like Margaret Canovan and Paul Taggart have attempted to explain the emergence of European political parties in the late 1980s and early 1990s, such as Jörg Haider's Austrian Freedom Party and Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Following this line of thought, there is much concern in the present about parties in Europe such as Golden Dawn in Greece and Jobbik in Hungary, as these parties are not only populist, but also display neofascist characteristics.
And now people talk about cases of populism present all over the world.
So, right wing or left wing, politician or movement, rhetoric or action, here or there, past or present – to what sort of thing does populism refer?
Laclau gave us the first iteration of his theory of populism in his 1977 classic, Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory. He entered into the debate on populism, following the trail of Germani and other Latin American political theorists, in the discussion about Peronism. Laclau's initial innovation in conceptualizing populism was to break with Germani's model for understanding the specific form of Latin American populism as an outcome of processes of modernization. Instead, Laclau inaugurated a paradigm shift in conceiving of populism in broader terms as a form of political discourse. The utility of this new definition of populism was that it allowed for more comparisons to cases of political movements outside of Latin America, insofar as this definition was no longer bound up with historical processes of economic and political development specific to Latin America.
One of the most important characteristics of the new discursive definition that Laclau developed in this book was that populism as a discourse creates a separation and antagonism between the people and the power bloc. Not unlike previous political theories, such as that of Carl Schmitt, Laclau asserted that populist discourse constructs an 'enemy.' Populists point to those politicians with power in the sphere of institutionalized politics and blame them for not representing the interests of the people. Populists then claim to embody the interests of the people as a way to maneuver themselves into positions of power. With all of the cases Laclau considers, he shows how this populist discourse is one that can be employed, in ideological terms, across the political spectrum from Left to Right.
In, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, Laclau and Mouffe develop this conception of political discourse further, showing how a particular form of populist discourse can be utilized by the Left in order to foster political identities and fight for socialist causes. The idea of a discourse that pits the people against groups in power remains central to this theory. Following the theory of structural linguistics pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, Laclau and Mouffe add to this conception of political discourse that there are certain signifiers, such as 'people,' 'nation,' and 'revolution,' which can be utilized in order to foster political identities. The special quality of these signifiers is that they are capable of becoming saturated with many meanings. In this way, signifiers, such as the 'people,' when introduced in a political discourse can create stable political identities by linking together a vast plethora of democratic demands. *For Laclau, creating forms of political discourse that revolve around these signifiers, which link demands and create identities, is the key to ushering in new forms of socialist and radical democratic change – for instance, to create more just forms of governance, to include marginalized groups in decision-making, and to enact policies geared toward the redistribution of wealth.
At this point, I think we can take Laclau's fully formulated conception of populist discourse in his last book, On Populist Reason, and show how his theory is applicable to a movement such as Occupy. First you have what Laclau refers to as an 'empty signifier,' like 'Occupy,' which is devoid of specific content and can function as an umbrella concept for linking together democratic demands. The signifier 'Occupy' is also linked to an 'antagonistic rift' between the people and the enemy. In the discourse of Occupy, this would be the separation between the '99%' and the '1%.' Just as Laclau's definition of populist discourse stipulates, the idea that "We are the 99%" provides for a political identity that embodies a notion the 'people' against the '1%,' a conception of the enemy as an economic and political elite that is oppressing and exploiting us. It follows that 'Occupy' as an empty signifier was capable of taking, what were previously, a series of isolated democratic demands and now linking them together into a set of unified popular demands. Thus Occupy brought together workers demanding rights, students mired in debt, people discriminated against along lines of race and sex, immigrants demanding reform, and more
Perhaps one of the most important and controversial points that Laclau makes in On Populist Reason is that "populism is the royal road to understanding something about the ontological constitution of the political as such". What he means is that populism reveals something that is at the heart of all forms of politics. Following thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Jacques Lacan, Laclau alludes to the fact that the unconscious is structured like a language, and populism itself is like a manifestation of the unconscious symbolic structure of the political. This idea has been interpreted as a threat to already existing normative democratic theories in a couple of different ways.
Among political theorists, one of the main concerns with contemporary cases of populism is that they constitute threats to institutionalized democratic politics, where in Latin America, cases of populism such as Chavismo are sometimes suggested as having authoritarian tendencies, and in Europe, new cases of populism invite comparisons to cases of both authoritarianism and fascism. Thus, if populism is tied to the very notion of the political itself, there would be no way to single out cases of politics as "populist" in order to signify that they pose a threat to democracy. In other words, if the very foundation of politics is based in a symbolic structure similar to what Laclau describes as populism, then one loses the ability to solely categorize certain right-wing or authoritarian political movements or regimes as populist.
But if Laclau is right, then populism might truly represent a much more complicated phenomenon. For Laclau, typically the event that sets off these symbolic processes of political identity formation is what he refers to as a 'dislocation,' which is a kind of real social crisis that presents an obstacle to being represented within language. For instance, it could be an economic crisis, like that of 2008, and our inability to completely wrap our minds around the center of the problem and what caused it. Political identity formations then emerge on the symbolic level to sort of fill in the gap – to be able to describe the cause of the crisis and the solution to it.
In this sense, we can see how populist movements of both the Left and the Right have emerged in the United States in the wake of the 2008 crisis, first the Tea Party and then Occupy. Both movements employ empty signifiers and link democratic demands around political identities in order to propose solutions to the problem. As the repercussions of the economic crisis have stretched to Europe, we might similarly look at the rise of Golden Dawn and Syriza in Greece.
Yet even though movements on both sides of the political spectrum might share some kernel of the same unconscious symbolic structure, this is not necessarily bad news. To view this as bad news would be to stress that from this perspective there is, in reality, simply a void in the center of all politics, which is constitutively lacking in any content and structured by unwieldy unconscious and linguistic forces. This view could lead to an extreme nihilism implying the idea of the death of politics or that authentic political action is impossible.
But for Laclau, this is good news. From his Marxist roots in Gramscian theory, he believed we could use and manipulate the symbolic structure of populist discourse in order to fight for progressive causes. And he led by example, becoming an important figure in Argentinian politics, sometimes even wielding a populist discourse to thwart his enemies. This is how I will like to remember him, as a kind of populist superhero.
Sometimes I think it is the lack of content, which the empty signifier implies, that constitutes a threat. There is the idea that with all this emptiness, and availability to absorb possible meanings, the empty signifier can really take up a lot of space. It can stand in for the people, after all. Sometimes the empty signifier can also be extremely destructive, in a paradoxically productive political sense. Laclau was aware of this – that empty signifiers are capable of taking up an important symbolic space, which allows for political action to take place.
Take the empty signifier, 'Occupy,' again. This is a potentially dangerous signifier, and that is why it was perceived as a threat by the Right. What does 'Occupy' mean, essentially? To take up space. Here we have a signifier that takes up significant symbolic space in our imagination, prompting us to take up more symbolic and even physical space. O-c-c-u-p-y. It almost exists, as Žižek would claim, as pure negation. Like Bartleby's 'I would prefer not to,' there is no content to the negation. Even before Occupying 'Something,' there is the idea of 'Occupy' itself – to simply exist and take up space – symbolically, politically, physically.
This is not really a eulogy for Laclau, nor is it for Occupy, because these ideas are not dead.
Ritchie Savage recently earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from The New School for Social Research. He is currently working on the book, "Populism in the Americas," and he teaches sociology courses as a Visiting Instructor at Pratt Institute and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College.


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According to multiple accounts, Long burst into a country bar called the Borderline Bar & Gill late Wednesday night (Nov. 7) and began firing on the hundreds of patrons who were there to attend a college country night. Authorities say he used a handgun, and so far no assault rifles have been found at the scene. Long was found dead at the scene, and his motive for the crime is under investigation.
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Other neighbors told ABC that Long lived at that house with his mother. ABC reports that the gun used in the attack was a .45-caliber handgun that was purchased legally.
CNN reports that Long used a Glock .45-caliber handgun, and Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean says he believes the shooter killed himself. The news outlet reports that Long was active in the U.S. Marine Corps from August 2008 to March 2013.
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12 people have been reported dead in the Thousand Oaks shooting, including Ventura County Sgt. Ron Helus, a 29-year veteran of law enforcement who intended to retire in a year. Helus is being remembered as a hero for trying to stop the shooting spree. Authorities say 10-12 others were injured in the shooting. No other names have yet been released.
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'Tis the season to make sure our little guys have a spiffy new set of church clothes. With my older son, his church clothes used to drive me crazy...particularly the shirts. He looked so cute dressed up, but the button-down shirts seemed bulky and uncomfortable for such a little guy, and the shirts never seemed to stay tucked in...not to mention trying to get a tie to stay on a little guy.
So with our youngest I've gotten smart and made him tie onesies. I've made a couple versions, but my favorite is this Little Guy Floppy Tie onesie. This puts a new twist on the classic tie onesie.
Instead of having the whole tie sewn onto the shirt, the tie is loose and just the "knot" part of the tie is sewed down.
My little guy loves having the tie to play with. I love that I don't have to fight him to keep the tie on and the tie never gets lost.
I just made my youngest this new shirt because he'd outgrown his previous one. His first shirt got a TON of compliments. My husband keeps trying to convince me to sell them in my shop...but I haven't added them yet.
And tie-onesies are super easy to make.
Supplies: You'll need...
- a onesie
- a fabric scrap for the tie (knit-T-shirt like material)
- Heat'n Bond Lite or similar product
- Printed Tie Pattern. 12-18-month size here, Newborn size here (You need one in between, just modify the pattern. It's pretty simple.
- your typical sewing stuff (machine, thread, scissors, etc.) P
I prefer to use knits with bold colored stripes. If you use knits (like from a T-shirt) the edges won't unravel, so we don't have to do anything special to them. My favorite is when I can find irregular striped knits...but those are hard to find. I used those black and white stripes for his last tie onesie, so this time I chose the orange and red. I used most of the shirt to make him some knit pants, and used the left-over scraps to make the tie.
Start by tracing your tie pattern onto the back of some Heat'n Bond Lite or similar product. (You can find it at just about any sewing craft store, or even at Wal-Mart.)
Cut out your pieces and iron them onto the BACK of your fabric. Place the long tie part so the strips will go diagonal on it and the knot part so the stripes will be horizontal on it.
Iron them securely with a hot iron according to directions on the Heat'n Bond. Cut out your pieces.
Peel the paper backing off the long tie piece, to reveal the adhesive.
Place this over more of your fabric scraps, preferably so that the stripes line up. Be sure you're placing the side with the adhesive on the BACK of your fabric scraps.
Iron well and cut out your tie piece again. Now you should have a tie piece with two "right" or "front" sides.
Top-stitch around the edge of the tie, about 1/8 inch from the side. You don't need to topstitch the top, but it won't hurt it if you do.
You should end up with something that looks like this...
Peel the paper backing from the back of your knot piece. Place the knot and tie on your onesie so that they're centered and the tie is underneath the knot about 1/4 inch. You may need to curve the top of the knot slightly to make it fit the curve of the onesie hem.
Once you're happy with the placement, iron over the knot section well.
At this point, it will look like this...
Topstitch around the knot. I started by sewing across bottom of the knot first, sewed all the way around, and then sewed across the bottom of the knot again, to doubly secure the loose tie.
Instead of back-stitching as I began and finished sewing, I left the threads long.
Then I pulled the threads through to the back (or you can use a needle to thread them through). Then I tied a several knots to secure the threads without making extra stitching show up on the front.
And you're done.
All ready to put on your own little guy.
My little guy is sure happy with his...and he's even happier that the weather is finally getting warm enough to sometimes play outside without a jacket.
If you're looking to give these as a gift, it can be tough to find comfortable black pants to match, especially for sweet newborns. The 2-year-old in these pictures is wearing traditional black pants, but for newborns and tiny ones, I prefer to make my own Comfy Newborn Cuffed Pants using a black or grey T-shirt for the fabric. (Yep, that's the same little guy as a newborn...although that was before I thought of making the ties floppy.)
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This fun riff on the infamous Tom Collins was developed by Jamie Boudreau at Canon in Seattle, and later published in his book of the same name. Boudreau notes that this drink is "equally at home in front of the fireplace or the patio" and even claims the drink is "much superior to the original Tom Collins", which is pretty bold. We agree: the After All Imperial is a fabulous multi-season cocktail, though it is most comfortable during the holidays as a fruity, bright, and stone fruit championing bubbler. Boudreau calls it a bracing drink and he's correct; the high proof apple brandy is prominent here, giving the drink a brashness that nicely compliments the tartness of lemon and wine. The finish is a spectacular bouquet of fruit— easily the strongest asset of the drink. Serve this beverage during the daytime around winter tables as a seasonal alternative to a French 75 or Tom Collins.
The original recipe requests Laird's bonded apple brandy, and indeed it is the superior base here; the higher proof adds a fiery base and a degree of complexity that surpasses the straight-laced apple flavors in lower proof applejacks. A dry, fleshy calvados would work well also. We can see this drink working equally well with either apricot or peach, though we think apricot brandy has a nice seasonable bent. The drink can come out a bit sour at times, so make sure to sample before you serve. The original recipe suggests serving this in a traditional collins glass with a mint garnish. We took a few liberties and started serving the drink more like a French 75, which the recipe bears some resemblance to, and added in a rosemary garnish for an extra bit of seasonal flair. Either combination looks and tastes great, so go with your heart...or whatever is in your fridge.


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1The first covenant had rules for worship and an earthly place for worship as well. 2A Tent was put up, the outer one, which was called the Holy Place. In it were the lampstand and the table with the bread offered to God. 3Behind the second curtain was the Tent called the Most Holy Place. 4In it were the gold altar for the burning of incense and the Covenant Box all covered with gold and containing the gold jar with the manna in it, Aaron's stick that had sprouted leaves, and the two stone tablets with the commandments written on them. 5Above the Box were the winged creatures representing God's presence, with their wings spread over the place where sins were forgiven. But now is not the time to explain everything in detail.
6This is how those things have been arranged. The priests go into the outer Tent every day to perform their duties, 7but only the High Priest goes into the inner Tent, and he does so only once a year. He takes with him blood which he offers to God on behalf of himself and for the sins which the people have committed without knowing they were sinning. 8The Holy Spirit clearly teaches from all these arrangements that the way into the Most Holy Place has not yet been opened as long as the outer Tent still stands. 9This is an illustration which points to the present time. It means that the offerings and animal sacrifices presented to God cannot make the worshipper's heart perfect, 10since they have to do only with food, drink, and various purification ceremonies. These are all outward rules, which apply only until the time when God will establish the new order.
11But Christ has already come as the High Priest of the good things that are already here. The tent in which he serves is greater and more perfect; it is not a tent made by human hands, that is, it is not a part of this created world. 12When Christ went through the tent and entered once and for all into the Most Holy Place, he did not take the blood of goats and bulls to offer as a sacrifice; rather, he took his own blood and obtained eternal salvation for us. 13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a burnt calf are sprinkled on the people who are ritually unclean, and this purifies them by taking away their ritual impurity. 14Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.
15For this reason Christ is the one who arranges a new covenant, so that those who have been called by God may receive the eternal blessings that God has promised. This can be done because there has been a death which sets people free from the wrongs they did while the first covenant was in force.
16In the case of a will it is necessary to prove that the person who made it has died, 17for a will means nothing while the person who made it is alive; it comes into effect only after his death. 18That is why even the first covenant came into effect only with the use of blood. 19First, Moses proclaimed to the people all the commandments as set forth in the Law. Then he took the blood of bulls and goats, mixed it with water, and sprinkled it on the book of the Law and all the people, using a sprig of hyssop and some red wool. 20He said, "This is the blood which seals the covenant that God has commanded you to obey." 21In the same way Moses also sprinkled the blood on the Sacred Tent and over all the things used in worship. 22Indeed, according to the Law almost everything is purified by blood, and sins are forgiven only if blood is poured out.
23Those things, which are copies of the heavenly originals, had to be purified in that way. But the heavenly things themselves require much better sacrifices. 24For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God. 25The Jewish High Priest goes into the Most Holy Place every year with the blood of an animal. But Christ did not go in to offer himself many times, 26for then he would have had to suffer many times ever since the creation of the world. Instead, now when all ages of time are nearing the end, he has appeared once and for all, to remove sin through the sacrifice of himself. 27Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God. 28In the same manner Christ also was offered in sacrifice once to take away the sins of many. He will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are waiting for him.
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121 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed. 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled; 16 lest [there be] any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. 17 For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father,] though he sought is diligently with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; 20 for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; 21 and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: 22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel. 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven: 26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. 27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.


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Using HomeCare parental controls on a TP-Link Router
This guide will walk you through the steps for setting up and using parental controls on a HomeCare enabled TP-Link router.
Step 1: Launch a Web Browser (Example: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Safari) and click on the address bar and type either "tplinkwifi.net" or "192.168.0.1"
Step 2: Log into your router using your TP-Link cloud account.
Step 3: Click on Basic – HomeCare – Parental Controls
*Note: You may also use the path Advanced – Parental Controls
Step 4: Click 'Add'
Step 5: Give the profile a name, then click the "+" under devices
Step 6: Select the devices you want to add and then click "Add"
Step 7: Verify the information is valid and click "Next"
Step 8: Choose a filter preset
Step 9: Once you select a filter level, a drop-down menu will appear. Here you can add or remove categories. Once you have completed the configuration click "Next".
*Note: Each filter level, Child through Teen, will have presets that cannot be deselected.
Step 10: Choose the desired time limits and bed time settings. Each time setting notch is a increment of 30 minutes. Once done click "Save"
Get to know more details of each function and configuration please go to Download Center to download the manual of your product.
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De leukste en grappigste privacy policy vonden we een tijdje geleden bij IT World. Een vrij getrouwe overname ervan vind je hieronder. Jammer genoeg is het cynisme ervan ook heel erg to the point. Pijnlijk accuraat en herkenbaar, zoals je zelf kan lezen.
"At [name website] we value your privacy a great deal. Almost as much as we value the ability to take the data you give us and slice, dice, julienne, mash, puree and serve it to our business partners, which may include third-party advertising networks, data brokers, networks of affiliate sites, parent companies, subsidiaries, and other entities, none of which we'll bother to list here because they can change from week to week and, besides, we know you're not really paying attention.
We'll also share all of this information with the government. We're just suckers for guys with crew cuts carrying subpoenas.
Remember, when you visit our Web site, our Web site is also visiting you. And we've brought a dozen or more friends with us, depending on how many ad networks and third-party data services we use. We're not going to tell which ones, though you could probably figure this out by carefully watching the different URLs that flash across the bottom of your browser as each page loads or when you mouse over various bits. It's not like you've got better things to do.
Each of these sites may leave behind a little gift known as a cookie — a text file filled with inscrutable gibberish that allows various computers around the globe to identify you, including your preferences, browser settings, which parts of the site you visited, which ads you clicked on, and whether you actually purchased something.
Those same cookies may let our advertising and data broker partners track you across every other site you visit, then dump all of your information into a huge database attached to a unique ID number, which they may sell ad infinitum without ever notifying you or asking for permission.
Also: We collect your IP address, which might change every time you log on but probably doesn't. At the very least, your IP address tells us the name of your ISP and the city where you live; with a legal court order, it can also give us your name and billing address (see guys with crew cuts and subpoenas, above).
Besides your IP, we record some specifics about your operating system and browser. Amazingly, this information (known as your user agent string) can be enough to narrow you down to one of a few hundred people on the Webbernets, all by its lonesome. Isn't technology wonderful?
The data we collect is strictly anonymous, unless you've been kind enough to give us your name, email address, or other identifying information. And even if you have been that kind, we promise we won't sell that information to anyone else, unless of course our impossibly obtuse privacy policy says otherwise and/or we change our minds tomorrow. We store this information an indefinite amount of time for reasons even we don't fully understand.
And when we do eventually get around to deleting it, you can bet it's still kicking around on some network backup drives in somebody's closet. So once we have it, there's really no getting it back. Hell, we can't even find our keys half the time — how do you expect us to keep track of this stuff?
Not to worry, though, because we use the very bestest security measures to protect your data against hackers and identity thieves, though no one has actually ever bothered to verify this. You'll pretty much just have to take our word for it.
So just to recap: Your information is extremely valuable to us. Our business model would totally collapse without it. No IPO, no stock options; all those 80-hour weeks and bupkis to show for it. So we'll do our very best to use it in as many potentially profitable ways as we can conjure, over and over, while attempting to convince you there's nothing to worry about.
(Hey, Did somebody hold a gun to your head and force you to visit this site? No, they did not. Did you run into a pay wall on the home page demanding your Visa number? No, you did not. You think we just give all this stuff away because we're nice guys? Bet you also think every roomful of manure has a pony buried inside.)
This privacy policy may change at any time. In fact, it's changed three times since we first started typing this. Good luck figuring out how, because we're sure as hell not going to tell you. But then, you probably stopped reading after paragraph three."
met dank aan IT World voor deze "first truly honest privacy policy" :-)


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(RNS) — When Staff Sgt. Brandon Hill came home from his third tour in Iraq last year, he expected his wife and young daughters at the welcoming ceremony. What he didn't expect were the pastors, secretaries and members of their Assemblies of God church to be there, too.
"It was awesome — the fact that they would give up their time to come see us back," said Hill, who is stationed at Fort Sill, an Army installation in Lawton, Okla. "It really shows that they really care."
Denominational leaders and chaplains with years of military service are calling on more churches to find ways to minister to the men and women who have recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.
[The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod started its Operation Barnabas in 2007 as a way to help returning veterans, especially Reserve and Guard chaplains, readjust to civilian life after war-zone tours of duty. For information on the program — which also provides assistance to the families of those on active duty — visit www.lcms.org/operationbarnabas.)
Chaplain Keith Ethridge, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) National Chaplain Center, said about one million military members have returned to civilian life — with some continuing in Guard or Reserve forces — after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
While some churches, especially those near military installations, might advertise themselves as being "military friendly," Ethridge and other leaders are trying to expand that universe to other American congregations.
"What we try to do is encourage, in general, a supportive atmosphere," said Ethridge, whose center is in Hampton, Va. "We want our clergy and our churches at large to be aware of how they can make referrals when they have friends or loved ones in need of support."
In recent years, the VA has ramped up training, including in rural areas, for clergy to learn more about veterans' issues and how they can refer former military members facing physical and spiritual health challenges. It held eight training events for rural clergy in 2012, and more are planned for 2013.
As part of his new work as a chaplaincy executive with the Southern Baptist Convention, retired Army Chief of Chaplains Douglas Carver is urging congregations to be places where veterans can turn as they make the transition home.
Carver knows the challenges firsthand: "I retired a year ago, and one of the hardest things for me to do is to transition back to a community."
He wants churches to move beyond a once-a-year military recognition on Veterans Day or Independence Day to become places of refuge to help returning military members overcome isolation that can lead to suicide or violence.
"They've had battle buddies in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they come back to their communities almost as a stranger," Carver said. "Isolation is one of the key indicators where we're seeing our troops take their lives because they may have 300 friends on Facebook but who do they have at 2 o'clock [a.m.] that they can call on?"
Statistics are few, but Scott McChrystal, a retired Army chaplain and the military/VA representative for the Assemblies of God, doubts that more than 5 percent of churches have an ongoing ministry for returning vets. He says churches can start small, with a coffee hour or other monthly gathering for veterans.
"The churches can make a huge contribution and most of what needs to be done, in my opinion, can be done by reasonably educated informed lay people, not experts," said McChrystal, whose brother Stanley was the head of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan.
Hill, 30, said his church, Lawton First Assembly, has helped when service members are away. Congregants maintained the cars of military spouses with a "car care clinic," for example, and they checked on his wife Jessica, 31, shortly after the births of the couple's daughters.
But he also appreciates the help when he returns from the battlefield. He and his wife have taken up offers from church members to watch their kids so they can have some time to reconnect.
"They know that's the hardest time, when military come back," said Hill, who works with multiple launch rocket systems at Fort Sill. "There's a lot of separation anxiety and stuff like that but they've always said, 'If you ever need to talk, just let us know.'"
The Rev. Gary Sanders, who has pastored churches in military communities for almost 30 years and founded the Military Missions Network, said church leaders need not create snazzy programs or duplicate secular or military support groups, but instead can provide personal assistance as a caring church community.
"People will get better and work through things if they're surrounded by healthy, caring people that are helping them work through it," said Sanders, minister of military missions at First Baptist Church in Norfolk, Va.
The Rev. Herman Keizer, a retired Army chaplain, will help inaugurate a Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School on the day after Veterans Day in hopes of involving more congregations in helping people who have what he called "moral injury" from combat duty.
Keizer, who once oversaw military chaplains in the European Command, said congregants need to learn to be nonjudgmental and not ask the wrong questions of returning military members, such as "Did you kill anybody?"
"Some of the questions are like lighting a fuse," said Keizer, co-director of the center in Fort Worth, Texas. "And it just sets off a lot of reactions within the veterans when someone asks that kind of question."
Hill, the Oklahoma staff sergeant, said church outreach makes military members feel more at ease at a time when transitions can be difficult.
"It makes you feel like you're not just an average person, just going to church every Sunday and paying your tithes," he said. "They know exactly what you're going through."
— Adelle M. Banks
© 2012 Religion News Service. Used with permission.
Posted Nov. 13, 2012


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Hook: TMC7999 #1/0
Thread: UNI 6/0 Red
Tag: UNI-French Medium
Body: first half Lagartun Silk Floss, second half peacock herl
Rib: UNI-French Medium
Wing: Squirrel Tail
Hackle: Whiting Rooster Saddle Grizzly
The Rat series are classic salmon patterns that many variations and adaptations, this rusty rat I haven't done before because I haven't had the peacock sword, but with some in house I have to do a series of this as well. The whiting hackle is long and vibrant and will generate just the right movement in the water. A pattern that I should take down to some trout-size hooks as well, not just these big irons!


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods blazing to victory in his Sunday red at the Masters, a scene once so familiar, was never more stunning.
It was only two years ago at Augusta National that Woods needed a nerve block just to hobble upstairs to the Champions' Dinner, unsure he would ever play another round of golf. He had a fourth back surgery with hopes of simply playing with his two children, not chasing Jack Nicklaus in history.
And now it's all pieced back together — his life, his back, even golf.
A fallen hero, a crippled star, Woods is a Masters champion again.
He won his fifth green jacket, his 15th major, but never with this much raw emotion. The most ferocious fist pump was when he walked off the 18th green, scooped up 10-year-old son Charlie , embraced his mother and 11-year-old daughter Sam.
"For them to see what it's like to have their dad win a major championship, I hope that's something they will never forget," Woods said.
Who can ever forget this day?
"It's hard to really feel bad about how I played because I just witnessed history," said Xander Schauffele, one of three players who finished second. "It was really cool coming down the stretch, all the historic holes, Tiger making the roars. I feel like I got full Masters experience."
The comeback goes beyond the two-shot deficit he erased before a delirious audience that watched memories turn into reality.
It had been 14 years since he last won the Masters — no one had ever gone that long between green jackets. He had gone nearly 11 years since his last major, the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines on a shattered left leg.
This was bigger.
Woods never missed a shot that mattered over the final seven holes, taking the lead with a 5-iron to the fat of the green on the par-5 15th for a two-putt birdie, delivering the knockout with an 8-iron that rode down the ridge by the cup and settled 2 feet away for birdie on the par-3 16th.
He tapped in for bogey and a 2-under 70, and the celebration was on.
"WOOOOOOO!!!" Woods screamed as he headed for the scoring room with chants of "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" He never hugged more people, everyone in his camp who stood by him through a public divorce, an embarrassing mug shot from his DUI arrest when he took a bad mix of painkillers and the four back surgeries, the most recent to fuse his lower spine
"I had serious doubts after what transpired a couple of years ago," Woods said "I could barely walk. I couldn't sit. Couldn't lay down. I really couldn't so much of anything. … To have the opportunity to come back like this, it's probably one of the biggest wins I've ever had for sure because of it"
President Donald Trump, who has played with Woods at his Florida course, had two tweets of congratulations. Fenway Park posted the news on the scoreboard.
A comeback for the ages?
It rates among the best because Woods has meant so much to so many in a sport he ruled for so long. Whether he can dominate it again is still to be determined. Woods needed some help to win this Masters. Six players had a share of the lead at some point on the back nine, and there was five-way tie at the top when the final group was still on the 15th fairway.
"You couldn't have had more drama than we all had out there. And now I know why I'm balding," Woods said "This stuff is hard."
It didn't use to look that way when he was younger, healthier and the most popular sporting figure in the world.
Woods lost his impeccable image to a sex scandal, one of the swiftest and most shocking downfalls in sport. He lost his health to back problems. He went two years without even playing a major.
Now the comeback is truly complete. And the race is on.
"A big 'well done' from me to Tiger," Nicklaus tweeted. "I am so happy for him and for the game of golf. This is just fantastic!!!"
Woods now is three short of the gold standard — 18 majors — set by Nicklaus.
"I think 18 is a whole lot closer than people think," Brooks Koepka said.
Joe LaCava, the caddie who stayed with Woods even when he didn't play for the better part of two years, said they have talked about the record.
"We're on 14 and I said, 'Let's get to 15.' You can't be on 14 and thinking about 18," LaCava said. "But now we can start talking about 16. So we're getting closer."
It was the first time Woods won a major when trailing going into the final round. Francesco Molinari, the 54-hole leader, was still up two shots heading into the heart of Amen Corner.
And that's when all hell broke loose.
Molinari's tee shot on the par-3 12th never had a chance, hitting the bank and tumbling into Rae's Creek for double bogey. Until then, Molinari had never trailed in a round that began early in threesomes to finish ahead of storms.
And then it seemed as though practically everyone had a chance, until Woods delivered the key shots at the big moment, just like the old days.
Schauffele failed to birdie the par-5 15th and scrambled for pars the rest of the way for a 68. Dustin Johnson made three straight birdies late in the round, but he got going too late and had to settle for a 68 and a return to No. 1 in the world.
Koepka, one of four players from the final two groups who hit into the water on No. 12, rallied with an eagle on the 13th, narrowly missed another eagle on the 15th and was the last player with a chance. His birdie putt on the 18th from just outside 10 feet missed, and he had to settle for a 70.
"You want to play against the best to ever play," Koepka said. "You want to go toe-to-toe with them. I can leave saying I gave it my all. He's just good, man."
Woods finished at 13-under 275 and became, at 43, the oldest Masters champion since Nicklaus won his sixth green jacket at 46 in 1986. That has stood as Augusta's defining moment for years.
This was one is sure to at least rival it.
"This is definitely, probably one of the greatest comebacks I think anybody's ever seen," Koepka said.
Koepka and Molinari had both faced Tigermania in the majors and held their own, Molinari at Carnoustie to win the British Open, Koepka last summer at Bellerive to win the PGA Championship. Molinari went 49 straight holes without a bogey, a streak that ended on the seventh hole. It was the double bogeys that cost him, and the Italian was gracious as ever in defeat .
"I think I made a few new fans today with those double bogeys," he said.
The final round started early in threesomes from both tees to finish ahead of a storm system. Rain fell briefly, but it stayed away long enough for Woods to be presented his green jacket on the practice green, just like old times.
He looked like a new man, making new memories.
"Now I'm able to play golf again, and do it at an elite level again, which is something I'm just very blessed to be able to have that opportunity again," Woods said.
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The first Wednesday of the month is rapidly approaching, so that means it's time for: Automation Night (formerly DIY CNC night)!
Join us and be part of the automated manufacturing and design revolution! Get together to discuss, fix, repair, upgrade, and show off 3D printers, routers, laser cutters, and other tools made awesome by computers.
- WHEN: Wednesday October 10th 7pm (show up early if you want a tour)
- WHERE: 3519 N Elston Ave, PS:One electronics lab (2nd Floor)
Typical schedule:
- 6:45 tour for new people
- 7:00 introduction round-robin
- 7:20 guest speaker
- 7:30 schmoozing, machine repair, demos, etc
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Just went to Florida and tried to spend some time on the beach. Weather mostly sucked except for the last two days. Had some good curry in Panama City and just checked out Florida around there.
Yeah same here. Did you go anywhere or do something fun for spring break? Right now, I'm just winding down and getting ready for classes tomorrow.
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