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"Ape-Men"WhatWere They?
FOR many years there have been reports that the fossil remains of apelike humans have been found. Scientific literature abounds with artists renderings of such creatures. Are these the evolutionary transitions between beast and man? Are "ape-men" our ancestors? Evolutionary scientists claim that they are. That is why we often read expressions such as this article title in a science magazine: "How Ape Became Man."1
2 True, some evolutionists do not feel that these theoretical ancestors of man should rightly be called "apes." Even so, some of their colleagues are not so exacting.2 Stephen Jay Gould says: "People . . . evolved from apelike ancestors."3 And George Gaylord Simpson stated: "The common ancestor would certainly be called an ape or a monkey in popular speech by anybody who saw it. Since the terms ape and monkey are defined by popular usage, mans ancestors were apes or monkeys."4
3 Why is the fossil record so important in the effort to document the existence of apelike ancestors for humankind? Because todays living world has nothing in it to support the idea. As shown in Chapter 6, there is an enormous gulf between humans and any animals existing today, including the ape family. Hence, since the living world does not provide a link between man and ape, it was hoped that the fossil record would.
4 From the standpoint of evolution, the obvious gulf between man and ape today is strange. Evolutionary theory holds that as animals progressed up the evolutionary scale, they became more capable of surviving. Why, then, is the "inferior" ape family still in existence, but not a single one of the presumed intermediate forms, which were supposed to be more advanced in evolution? Today we see chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, but no "ape-men." Does it seem likely that every one of the more recent and supposedly more advanced "links" between apelike creatures and modern man should have become extinct, but not the lower apes?
How Much Fossil Evidence?
5 From the accounts in scientific literature, in museum displays and on television, it would seem that surely there must be abundant evidence that humans evolved from apelike creatures. Is this really so? For instance, what fossil evidence was there of this in Darwins day? Was it such evidence that encouraged him to formulate his theory?
6 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists informs us: "The early theories of human evolution are really very odd, if one stops to look at them. David Pilbeam has described the early theories as fossil-free. That is, here were theories about human evolution that one would think would require some fossil evidence, but in fact there were either so few fossils that they exerted no influence on the theory, or there were no fossils at all. So between mans supposed closest relatives and the early human fossils, there was only the imagination of nineteenth century scientists." This scientific publication shows why: "People wanted to believe in evolution, human evolution, and this affected the results of their work."5
7 After more than a century of searching, how much fossil evidence is there of "ape-men"? Richard Leakey stated: "Those working in this field have so little evidence upon which to base their conclusions that it is necessary for them frequently to change their conclusions."6 New Scientist commented: "Judged by the amount of evidence upon which it is based, the study of fossil man hardly deserves to be more than a sub-discipline of palaeontology or anthropology. . . . the collection is so tantalisingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmentary and inconclusive."7
8 Similarly, the book Origins admits: "As we move farther along the path of evolution towards humans the going becomes distinctly uncertain, again owing to the paucity of fossil evidence."8 Science magazine adds: "The primary scientific evidence is a pitifully small array of bones from which to construct mans evolutionary history. One anthropologist has compared the task to that of reconstructing the plot of War and Peace with 13 randomly selected pages."9
9 Just how sparse is the fossil record regarding "ape-men"? Note the following. Newsweek: "You could put all the fossils on the top of a single desk, said Elwyn Simons of Duke University."10 The New York Times: "The known fossil remains of mans ancestors would fit on a billiard table. That makes a poor platform from which to peer into the mists of the last few million years."11 Science Digest: "The remarkable fact is that all the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin! . . . Modern apes, for instance, seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record. And the true origin of modern humansof upright, naked, toolmaking, big-brained beingsis, if we are to be honest with ourselves, an equally mysterious matter."12
10 Modern-type humans, with the capacity to reason, plan, invent, build on previous knowledge and use complex languages, appear suddenly in the fossil record. Gould, in his book The Mismeasure of Man, notes: "We have no evidence for biological change in brain size or structure since Homo sapiens appeared in the fossil record some fifty thousand years ago."13 Thus, the book The Universe Within asks: "What caused evolution . . . to produce, as if overnight, modern humankind with its highly special brain?"14 Evolution is unable to answer. But could the answer lie in the creation of a very complex, different creature?
WhereAre the "Links"?
11 However, have not scientists found the necessary "links" between apelike animals and man? Not according to the evidence. Science Digest speaks of "the lack of a missing link to explain the relatively sudden appearance of modern man."15 Newsweek observed: "The missing link between man and the apes . . . is merely the most glamorous of a whole hierarchy of phantom creatures. In the fossil record, missing links are the rule."16
12 Because there are no links, "phantom creatures" have to be fabricated from minimal evidence and passed off as though they had really existed. That explains why the following contradiction could occur, as reported by a science magazine: "Humans evolved in gradual steps from their apelike ancestors and not, as some scientists contend, in sudden jumps from one form to another. . . . But other anthropologists, working with much the same data, reportedly have reached exactly the opposite conclusion."17
13 Thus we can better understand the observation of respected anatomist Solly Zuckerman who wrote in the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: "The search for the proverbial missing link in mans evolution, that holy grail of a never dying sect of anatomists and biologists, allows speculation and myth to flourish as happily to-day as they did 50 years ago and more."18 He noted that, all too often, facts were ignored, and instead, what was currently popular was championed in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Mans "Family Tree"
14 As a result, the "family tree" often drawn of mans claimed evolution from lower animals changes constantly. For example, Richard Leakey stated that a more recent fossil discovery "leaves in ruins the notion that all early fossils can be arranged in an orderly sequence of evolutionary change."19 And a newspaper report regarding that discovery declared: "Every single book on anthropology, every article on the evolution of man, every drawing of mans family tree will have to be junked. They are apparently wrong."20
15 The theoretical family tree of human evolution is littered with the castoffs of previously accepted "links." An editorial in The New York Times observed that evolutionary science "includes so much room for conjecture that theories of how man came to be tend to tell more about their author than their subject. . . . The finder of a new skull often seems to redraw the family tree of man, with his discovery on the center line that leads to man and everyone elses skulls on side lines leading nowhere."21
16 In a book review of The Myths of Human Evolution written by evolutionists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall, Discover magazine observed that the authors eliminated any evolutionary family tree. Why? After noting that "the links that make up the ancestry of the human species can only be guessed at," this publication stated: "Eldredge and Tattersall insist that man searches for his ancestry in vain. . . . If the evidence were there, they contend, one could confidently expect that as more hominid fossils were found the story of human evolution would become clearer. Whereas, if anything, the opposite has occurred."
17 Discover concluded: "The human species, and all species, will remain orphans of a sort, the identities of their parents lost to the past."22 Perhaps "lost" from the standpoint of evolutionary theory. But has not the Genesis alternative "found" our parents as they actually are in the fossil recordfully human, just as we are?
18 The fossil record reveals a distinct, separate origin for apes and for humans. That is why fossil evidence of mans link to apelike beasts is nonexistent. The links really have never been there.
What Did They Look Like?
19 However, if mans ancestors were not apelike, why do so many pictures and replicas of "ape-men" flood scientific publications and museums around the world? On what are these based? The book The Biology of Race answers: "The flesh and hair on such reconstructions have to be filled in by resorting to the imagination." It adds: "Skin color; the color, form, and distribution of the hair; the form of the features; and the aspect of the faceof these characters we know absolutely nothing for any prehistoric men."23
20 Science Digest also commented: "The vast majority of artists conceptions are based more on imagination than on evidence. . . . Artists must create something between an ape and a human being; the older the specimen is said to be, the more apelike they make it."24 Fossil hunter Donald Johanson acknowledged: "No one can be sure just what any extinct hominid looked like."25
21 Indeed, New Scientist reported that there is not "enough evidence from fossil material to take our theorising out of the realms of fantasy."26 So the depictions of "ape-men" are, as one evolutionist admitted, "pure fiction in most respects . . . sheer invention."27 Thus in Man, God and Magic Ivar Lissner commented: "Just as we are slowly learning that primitive men are not necessarily savages, so we must learn to realize that the early men of the Ice Age were neither brute beasts nor semi-apes nor cretins. Hence the ineffable stupidity of all attempts to reconstruct Neanderthal or even Peking man."28
22 In their desire to find evidence of "ape-men," some scientists have been taken in by outright fraud, for example, the Piltdown man in 1912. For about 40 years it was accepted as genuine by most of the evolutionary community. Finally, in 1953, the hoax was uncovered when modern techniques revealed that human and ape bones had been put together and artificially aged. In another instance, an apelike "missing link" was drawn up and presented in the press. But it was later acknowledged that the "evidence" consisted of only one tooth that belonged to an extinct form of pig.29
What Were They?
23 If "ape-man" reconstructions are not valid, then what were those ancient creatures whose fossil bones have been found? One of these earliest mammals claimed to be in the line of man is a small, rodentlike animal said to have lived about 70 million years ago. In their book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey wrote: "They were insect-eating quadrupeds about the size and shape of squirrels."30 Richard Leakey called the mammal a "rat-like primate."31 But is there any solid evidence that these tiny animals were the ancestors of humans? No, instead only wishful speculation. No transitional stages have ever linked them with anything except what they were: small, rodentlike mammals.
24 Next on the generally accepted list, with an admitted gap of about 40 million years, are fossils found in Egypt and named AegyptopithecusEgypt ape. This creature is said to have lived about 30 million years ago. Magazines, newspapers and books have displayed pictures of this small creature with headings such as: "Monkey-like creature was our ancestor." (Time)32 "Monkeylike African Primate Called Common Ancestor of Man and Apes." (The New York Times)33 "Aegyptopithecus is an ancestor which we share with living apes." (Origins)34 But where are the links between it and the rodent before it? Where are the links to what is placed after it in the evolutionary lineup? None have been found.
TheRise and Fall of "Ape-Men"
25 Following another admittedly gigantic gap in the fossil record, another fossil creature had been presented as the first humanlike ape. It was said to have lived about 14 million years ago and was called RamapithecusRamas ape (Rama was a mythical prince of India). Fossils of it were found in India about half a century ago. From these fossils was constructed an apelike creature, upright, on two limbs. Of it Origins stated: "As far as one can say at the moment, it is the first representative of the human family."35
26 What was the fossil evidence for this conclusion? The same publication remarked: "The evidence concerning Ramapithecus is considerablethough in absolute terms it remains tantalizingly small: fragments of upper and lower jaws, plus a collection of teeth."36 Do you think that this was "considerable" enough "evidence" to reconstruct an upright "ape-man" ancestor of humans? Yet, this mostly hypothetical creature was drawn by artists as an "ape-man," and pictures of it flooded evolutionary literatureall on the basis of jawbone fragments and teeth! Still, as The New York Times reported, for decades Ramapithecus "sat as securely as anything can at the base of the human evolutionary tree."37
27 However, that is no longer the case. Recent and more complete fossil finds revealed that Ramapithecus closely resembled the present-day ape family. So New Scientist now declares: "Ramapithecus cannot have been the first member of the human line."38 Such new information provoked the following question in Natural History magazine: "How did Ramapithecus, . . . reconstructed only from teeth and jawswithout a known pelvis, limb bones, or skullsneak into this manward-marching procession?"39 Obviously, a great deal of wishful thinking must have gone into such an effort to make the evidence say what it does not say.
28 Another gap of vast proportions lies between that creature and the next one that had been listed as an "ape-man" ancestor. This is called Australopithecussouthern ape. Fossils of it were first found in southern Africa in the 1920s. It had a small apelike braincase, heavy jawbone and was pictured as walking on two limbs, stooped over, hairy and apish looking. It was said to have lived beginning about three or four million years ago. In time it came to be accepted by nearly all evolutionists as mans ancestor.
29 For instance, the book The Social Contract noted: "With one or two exceptions all competent investigators in this field now agree that the australopithecines . . . are actual human ancestors."40 The New York Times declared: "It was Australopithecus . . . that eventually evolved into Homo sapiens, or modern man."41 And in Man, Time, and Fossils Ruth Moore said: "By all the evidence men at last had met their long unknown, early ancestors." Emphatically she declared: "The evidence was overwhelming . . . the missing link had at long last been found."42
30 But when the evidence for anything actually is flimsy or nonexistent, or based on outright deception, sooner or later the claim comes to nothing. This has proved to be the case with many past examples of presumed "ape-men."
31 So, too, with Australopithecus. More research has disclosed that its skull "differed from that of humans in more ways than its smaller brain capacity."43 Anatomist Zuckerman wrote: "When compared with human and simian [ape] skulls, the Australopithecine skull is in appearance overwhelmingly simiannot human. The contrary proposition could be equated to an assertion that black is white."44 He also said: "Our findings leave little doubt that . . . Australopithecus resembles not Homo sapiens but the living monkeys and apes."45 Donald Johanson also said: "Australopithecines . . . were not men."46 Similarly Richard Leakey called it "unlikely that our direct ancestors are evolutionary descendants of the australopithecines."47
32 If any australopithecines were found alive today, they would be put in zoos with other apes. No one would call them "ape-men." The same is true of other fossil "cousins" that resemble it, such as a smaller type of australopithecine called "Lucy." Of it Robert Jastrow says: "This brain was not large in absolute size; it was a third the size of a human brain."48 Obviously, it too was simply an "ape." In fact, New Scientist said that "Lucy" had a skull "very like a chimpanzees."49
33 Another fossil type is called Homo erectusupright man. Its brain size and shape do fall into the lower range of modern mans. Also, the Encyclopædia Britannica observed that "the limb bones thus far discovered have been indistinguishable from those of H[omo] sapiens."50 However, it is unclear whether it was human or not. If so, then it was merely a branch of the human family and died off.
The Human Family
34 Neanderthal man (named after the Neander district in Germany where the first fossil was found) was undoubtedly human. At first he was pictured as bent over, stupid looking, hairy and apelike. Now it is known that this mistaken reconstruction was based on a fossil skeleton badly deformed by disease. Since then, many Neanderthal fossils have been found, confirming that he was not much different from modern humans. In his book Ice, Fred Hoyle stated: "There is no evidence that Neanderthal man was in any way inferior to ourselves."51 As a result, recent drawings of Neanderthals have taken on a more modern look.
35 Another fossil type frequently encountered in scientific literature is Cro-Magnon man. It was named for the locality in southern France where his bones were first unearthed. These specimens "were so virtually indistinguishable from those of today that even the most skeptical had to concede that they were humans," said the book Lucy.52
36 Thus, the evidence is clear that belief in "ape-men" is unfounded. Instead, humans have all the earmarks of being createdseparate and distinct from any animal. Humans reproduce only after their own kind. They do so today and have always done so in the past. Any apelike creatures that lived in the past were just thatapes, or monkeysnot humans. And fossils of ancient humans that differ slightly from humans of today simply demonstrate variety within the human family, just as today we have many varieties living side by side. There are seven-foot humans and there are pygmies, with varying sizes and shapes of skeletons. But all belong to the same human "kind," not animal "kind."
What About the Dates?
37 Biblical chronology indicates that a period of about 6,000 years has passed since the creation of humans. Why, then, does one often read about far longer periods of time since acknowledged human types of fossils appeared?
38 Before concluding that Bible chronology is in error, consider that radioactive dating methods have come under sharp criticism by some scientists. A scientific journal reported on studies showing that "dates determined by radioactive decay may be offnot only by a few years, but by orders of magnitude." It said: "Man, instead of having walked the earth for 3.6 million years, may have been around for only a few thousand."53
39 For example, the radiocarbon "clock." This method of radiocarbon dating was developed over a period of two decades by scientists all over the world. It was widely acclaimed for accurate dating of artifacts from mans ancient history. But then a conference of the worlds experts, including radiochemists, archaeologists and geologists, was held in Uppsala, Sweden, to compare notes. The report of their conference showed that the fundamental assumptions on which the measurements were based had been found untrustworthy to a greater or lesser degree. For example, it found that the rate of radioactive carbon formation in the atmosphere has not been consistent in the past and that this method is not reliable in dating objects from about 2,000 B.C.E. or before.54
40 Keep in mind that truly reliable evidence of mans activity on earth is given, not in millions of years, but in thousands. For example, in The Fate of the Earth we read: "Only six or seven thousand years ago . . . civilization emerged, enabling us to build up a human world."55
The Last Two Million Years states:
"In the Old World, most of the critical steps in the farming revolution were taken between 10,000 and 5000 BC." It also says: "Only for the last 5000 years has man left written records."56 The fact that the fossil record shows modern man suddenly appearing on earth, and that reliable historical records are admittedly recent, harmonizes with the Bibles chronology for human life on earth.
41 In this regard, note what Nobel prize winning nuclear physicist W. F. Libby, one of the pioneers in radiocarbon dating, stated in Science: "The research in the development of the dating technique consisted of two stagesdating of samples from the historical and the prehistorical epochs, respectively. Arnold [a co-worker] and I had our first shock when our advisers informed us that history extended back only for 5000 years. . . . You read statements to the effect that such and such a society or archeological site is 20,000 years old. We learned rather abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known accurately."57
42 When reviewing a book on evolution, English author Malcolm Muggeridge commented on the lack of evidence for evolution. He noted that wild speculations flourished nevertheless. Then he said: "The Genesis account seems, by comparison, sober enough and at least has the merit of being validly related to what we know about human beings and their behavior." He said that the unfounded claims of millions of years for mans evolution "and wild leaps from skull to skull, cannot but strike anyone not caught up in the [evolutionary] myth as pure fantasy." Muggeridge concluded: "Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied."


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"You know, we have veterans who have been here for 30 years or more, and they've never seen anything like Saturday night. The reason that was is because so many people showed up here without a ticket," Summerfest CEO Don Smiley said.
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Washington, D.C. -- Today, the US House Committee on Natural Resources voted in favor of H.R. 5741, the Shark Conservation Act of 2008. Introduced by Subcommittee Chairwoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), the measure will reinforce the Shark Finning Prohibition Act, which was signed into law in 2000.
Since the original bill's passage, the cruel and wasteful practice of shark finning whereby the fins of a living shark are removed and the animal is thrown back in the water to die has been illegal in the United States, but enforcement has been hampered by loopholes in the ban.
Enforcement officials have stated that the only way to truly impose a shark finning ban is to require that sharks be landed whole, and an amendment to the Shark Conservation Act introduced by Representative Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS) contains this mandate. This key amendment requires that sharks be landed with their fins naturally attached and was also agreed upon by the committee.
"Personally I don't like the way and manner in which sharks are being killed," Faleomavaega told reporters. "But at least as a conservation measure…those fins better be on that shark."
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), an animal advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., supports this critical and timely modification to the current US shark finning ban. "We commend the committee for approving this important bill and giving sharks much-needed protection," said AWI President Cathy Liss.
Actress Bo Derek, activist against wildlife trafficking and longtime AWI spokesperson, also sent a letter to committee members in support of the bill. "It's very difficult to know how many there are left in the world. Some studies show that in the past 20 years, they're down 90 percent. They reproduce very slowly," Derek explained. "I don't think sharks have a chance unless people just stop eating shark fin soup."
While the bill would stop sharks from being finned in the US, imported shark fins served in the US could still be from finned sharks. AWI will continue its campaign to contact US restaurants currently serving the highly controversial "delicacy" of shark-fin soup, asking that they consider the precarious status of many of the targeted species and stop selling the dish immediately. A list of these establishments and a fact sheet on the practice of shark-finning are available on the AWI website.
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Know this, oh ye studios and publishers: After 30 years, gender issues have overtaken violence as the hot button issue in video games. Earlier this year, Square-Enix was taken to task for not one but two of its studios' depictions of women. Gearbox is now under fire as a newly announced downloadable character class for Borderlands 2 was described as "girlfriend mode" by one of the game's lead designers.
Gearbox detailed a fifth playable character, the Mechromancer, that will be available as DLC for Borderlands 2 around two months after the game hits shelves. Taking inspiration from Jamie Hewlett's (Gorillaz) old comic book character Tank Girl, the Mechromancer is a punk girl in a jean jacket, pigtails, and a robot arm. Her support ability summons a giant tank named Deathtrap who, unlike commando Axton's turrets, is there to draw fire away from the player.
The Mechromancer is different from other characters in a different way. One of her three skill trees, the chain of abilities unlocked as you progress in the game, is called "Best Friends Forever." Those skills are built to make the game significantly easier than playing as one of the other classes. For example the "Close Enough" skill will give shots fired a chance to ricochet so the player doesn't have to aim particularly well.
So what's the problem? Making Borderlands 2 more accessible without affecting the core game has to be a good thing, right? The problem is how Hemingway described the Mechromancer to Eurogamer during a Gearbox studio tour. "The design team looking at the [Mechromancer] concept art and though, you know what, this is actually the cutest character we've ever had. I was to make, for the lack of a better term, the girlfriend skill tree. This is: I love Borderlands and I want to share it with someone, but they suck at first-person shooters. Can we make a skill tree that actually allows them to understand the game and to play the game? That's what our attempt with the Best Friends Forever skill tree is."
Hemingway's statements ignited a firestorm of angry Internet goers and the game remains a trending topic on Twitter as of this writing. Gearbox president Randy Pitchford took to Twitter himself on Monday morning to defend Hemingway and the game.
"There is no universe where Hemingway is a sexist," said Pitchford, "The future DLC Mechromancer class has a skill tree that makes it easier for less skilled co-op partners (any gender!) to play and be useful."
While Hemingway's phrasing could certainly be seen as patronizing, Borderlands 2 is hardly a bastion of video game misogyny. The game is written by Anthony Burch, who along with his sister Ashly Burch is responsible for the surrealist comedy show Hey Ash, Whatcha Playing. The only serious topic that show ever tackles is how women are depicted in games, and the writer has shown a keen awareness of problematic game creation.
Hemingway chose his words poorly. If people want to take Gearbox to task for being misogynists, take them out for releasing Duke Nukem Forever.
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Four Triple-A callups rejoin Astros in Oakland
OAKLAND -- There were fresh faces all around the Astros' clubhouse Sunday morning.
Four players were recalled Saturday from Triple-A Oklahoma City: right-handers Rhiner Cruz and David Martinez, infielder Brandon Laird and utility man Jimmy Paredes.
Cruz was 1-2 with a 4.75 ERA in 41 2/3 innings for the RedHawks. It's his second stint with the Astros this year.
"Cruz got sent down then did a tremendous job and got better and better and better as the year went on," manager Bo Porter said.
Martinez spent most of the year with Double-A Corpus Christi before being promoted to Oklahoma City in mid-August. At the two levels combined, he went 14-4 with a 2.57 ERA in 140 1/3 innings over 29 appearances (21 starts).
The plan is for Martinez to be used in long relief and for Cruz to make spot relief appearances.
Laird batted .277 with 16 home runs and a club-leading 79 RBIs for Oklahoma City.
"We wanted to get a right-handed bat off the bench," Porter said. "He provides us with that right-handed bat."
Paredes hit .287 with 21 doubles and 16 stolen bases, appearing at shortstop (20 games), third base (20), second base (3) and in the outfield (35).
"You look at the season that Paredes put together," Porter said. "He's obviously a guy that has conquered Triple-A. He's done everything that a person can do there. We're going to continue to give him an opportunity here."
Paredes is in his fourth stint with the Astros this season. The three other callups are in their second stint.


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We can't show it to you yet, but the quality is very good, with a face full of transparent acrylic lens what give the LEDs inside a sweet diffuse effect. According to them, it's their best ever.
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"Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project have everything we want to stand for in comedy: smart writing, hugely appealing casts and comedy that feels contemporary and real," Fox Chairman Kevin Reilly said in a statement.
The Mindy Project stars The Office's Mindy Kaling as a gynecologist trying to juggle her career and love life. Ben and Kate stars Dakota Johnson as a single mother who leans on her goofy but good-hearted brother, played by Nat Faxon.
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Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi (30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was a Hindu sage, and a proponent of Advaita Vedanta. He advocated self-enquiry (Atma-Vichara) as a means to Self-realization.
- All quotes herein are translations from Tamil or Sanskrit to English; and therefore, in a certain sense, indirect quotes.
- Who Am I?
- Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
- Interview (c. 1945) in The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi (1972), p. 75
- Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
Nan Yar = Who am I?Edit
The booklet Nan Yar? (Who am I?) elaborates on the "I" and Self-enquiry:[1]
- "Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought."
- "What is called mind is a wondrous power existing in Self. It projects all thoughts. If we set aside all thoughts and see, there will be no such thing as mind remaining separate; therefore, thought itself is the form of the mind. Other than thoughts, there is no such thing as the mind."
- "That which rises in this body as 'I' is the mind. If one enquires 'In which place in the body does the thought 'I' rise first?', it will be known to be in the heart [spiritual heart is 'two digits to the right from the centre of the chest']. Even if one incessantly thinks 'I', 'I', it will lead to that place (Self)'."
- "The mind will subside only by means of the enquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'Who am I?', destroying all other thoughts, will itself finally be destroyed like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre."
- "If other thoughts rise, one should, without attempting to complete them, enquire, 'To whom did they arise?', it will be known 'To me'. If one then enquires 'Who am I?', the mind (power of attention) will turn back to its source. By repeatedly practising thus, the power of the mind to abide in its source increases."
- "Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss."
- "The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self."
- "The Self itself is God."
Sri Ramana GitaEdit
- Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
- … just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
- It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
- By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of the entire human family.
- [A member of the community] should conduct himself always by word, mind and body in such a fashion that it results in help to the society. He should also make his own men understand this.
- Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
- Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
The Science of the HeartEdit
- Selected excerpts from Sri Ramana's volitional discourse on Hridaya Vidya
- 2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.
- 3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
- In the definition of the heart is placed as a corollary that the direct Sadhana for knowing the heart is the tracking down to the origin of the I-thought.
- 8. For one stationed in the Self, Sahasrara will be of pure effulgence. There: if any mental formulation falls within its presence, it will not live.
- 9. Even when the sensory objects to be known are in the proximity, when the difference is not taken in, the mind does not cause a break in Yoga.
- 10. Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
- 11. The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
- 12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.
- 13. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
- 14. Just as the sun gives light to the moon this heart bestows the effulgence on the mind.
- 15. As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.
- 16. Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
- 17. The Jnanin present in the heart sees the mind merged in the light of the heart, like moonlight in the presence of the sun during the day.
- 18. The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
- 19. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
- 20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
- 21. During that time, the embodied person does not know the attainment in the heart. It is known in the Samadhi. The difference in name is due to the difference in cause.
Abide as the SelfEdit
- True silence is really endless speech.
- There is no greater mystery than this: being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.
- I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.
- Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
- We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal--an illusion--since it rests upon paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.
- Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth
- Truly there is no cause for you to be miserable and unhappy. You yourself impose limitations on your true nature of infinite Being and then weep that you are but a finite creature. Then you take up this or that sadhana to transcend the nonexistent limitations. But if your sadhana itself assumes the existence of the limitations, how can it help you to transcend them? Hence I say know that you are really the infinite, pure Being, the Self Absolute. You are always that Self and nothing but that Self. Therefore, you can never be really ignorant of the Self; your ignorance is merely a formal ignorance... Know then that true Knowledge does not create a new Being for you; it only removes your "ignorant ignorance." Bliss is not added to your nature; it is merely revealed as your true and natural state, eternal and imperishable. The only way to be rid of your grief is to know and be the Self.
- Even if you try not to do your duty you will be perforce obliged to do it. Let the body complete the task for which it came into being. Sri Krishna also says in the Gita, whether Arjuna liked it or not he would be forced to fight. When there is work to be done by you, you cannot keep away; nor can you continue to do a thing when you are not required to do it, that is to say, when the work allotted to you has been done. In short, the work will go on and you must take your share in it -- the share which is allotted to you. [Question: How can it be done? Reply:] Like an actor playing his part in a drama: free from duality.
- In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
- Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
- Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.
- We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize or make real that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. When we stop regarding the unreal as real, then Reality alone will remain, and we will be That.
- It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.
- Relative knowledge pertains to the mind and not to the Self. It is therefore illusory and not permanent. Take a scientist, for instance. He formulates a theory that the Earth is round and goes on to prove it on an incontrovertible basis. When he falls asleep the whole idea vanishes; his mind is left a blank. What does it matter whether the world remains round or flat when he is asleep? So you see the futility of all such relative knowledge. One should go beyond relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Real knowledge is such experience, and not apprehension by the mind.
- Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
- Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
- There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
- Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
- Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
- If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.
- Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
- Seek the seeker.
- Self-Enquiry paraphrased, as spoken by Ram Dass in the film 'Abide as the Self.'
- Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
- In reference to an excerpt - "by his non-action, the sage governs all" - from Lao Tze's Tao Te Ching.
- The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.
- Know Thyself. All else will be known to thee of its own accord. Discriminate between the undying, unchanging, all-pervading, infinite Atma and the ever-changing, phenomenal and perishable universe and body. Enquire, "Who am I?" Make the mind calm. Free yourself from all thoughts other than the simple thought of the Self or Atma. Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite "I". Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
- The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.
- In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
- What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
Reality in Forty VersesEdit
- Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
Quotes About Sri Ramana (see: Ramana Smriti)Edit
- Sri Ramana is a true son of the Indian earth. He is genuine and, in addition to that, something quite phenomenal. In India he is the whitest spot in a white space. What we find in the life and teachings of Sri Ramana is the purest of India; with its breath of world-liberated and liberating humanity, it is a chant of millenniums...
- Carl Jung in his foreward, 'Sri Ramana and his message to modern man', as published in the book, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
- I have a gorgeous photograph of him [Ramana Maharshi] in my house, and every time I walk past it, I look into his eyes and see the humour in them. I hear his lilting laugh that says, "Oh, come off it! I recognise you, Shiva. What funny clothes you're wearing today."
- Alan Watts, The Dramatic Model, The Nature of Consciousness, in Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek
(From Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in His Own Words: Last chapter to the book Ramana Smriti)
There are only two ways to conquer destiny or to be independent of it. One is to enquire whose this destiny is and discover that only the ego is bound by it and not the Self, and that the ego is non-existent. The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, realizing one's helplessness and saying all the time, 'Not I, but Thou, oh Lord', giving up all sense of 'I' and 'mine' and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you.
Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord. True surrender is the love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of salvation. In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-enquiry or through bhakti marga. The spark of spiritual knowledge (jnana) will consume all creation. Since all the countless worlds are built upon the weak or non-existent foundation of the ego, they all disintegrate when the atom-bomb of knowledge falls on them.
All talk of surrender is like stealing sugar from a sugar image of Ganesha and then offering it to the same Ganesha. You say that you offer up your body and soul and all your possessions to God, but were they yours to offer? At best you can say, 'I wrongly imagined till now that all these, which are Yours, were mine. Now I realise that they are Yours and shall no longer act as though they were mine'. And this knowledge that there is nothing but God or Self, that 'I' and 'mine' do not exist and that only the Self exists is jnana. It is enough that one surrenders oneself.
Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it. Because you imagine yourself to be out of it, you raise the question, 'Where is the source'?
Some contend that just as sugar cannot taste its own sweetness and that there must be someone to taste and enjoy it, so an individual cannot both be the Supreme and also enjoy the bliss of that state; therefore the individuality must be maintained separate from the Godhead in order to make enjoyment possible. But is God insentient like sugar? How can one surrender oneself and yet retain one's individuality for supreme enjoyment? Furthermore they also say that the soul, on reaching the divine region and remaining there, serves the Supreme Being. Can the sound of the word 'service' deceive the Lord? Does He not know? Is He waiting for these people's services? Would He not – the Pure Consciousness – ask in turn, 'Who are you apart from Me that presume to serve Me'?
External linksEdit
- ↑ The original book was first written in Tamil, and published by Sri Pillai. The essay version of the book (Sri Ramana Nutrirattu) prepared by Ramana is considered definitive, as unlike the original it had the benefit of his revision and review. "Nan Yar" was documented by his disciple M. Sivaprakasam Pillai, who was already heavily influenced by traditional Advaita, and so had added notes about the traditional Advaitic negation method for his own clarification; these additional notes were later removed by Sri Ramana.(Sadhu Om 2005 p.147) A careful translation with notes is available in English as 'The Path of Sri Ramana, Part One' by Sri Sadhu Om, one of the direct disciples of Ramana.(Sri Sadhu Om 2005)


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Final Thoughts and Conclusions The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is a monster no matter how you look at it. The Radeon HD 5970 card is the fastest single x16 PCI Express graphics card in the market toda...
The dual-GPU powered ATI Radeon HD 5970 was not the best kept secret, but many gamers have been awaiting its arrival to see how it will shake things up. Designed to support the most demanding PC games at ultra-high resolutions and image quality settings, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 also has unlocked overclocking potential, granting access to every bit of power the card has to offer through ATI Overdrive. Will this be enough to take the title of the world's fastest video card away from NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 295? Let's find out!
The ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card is fairly simple and ATI included just one slide about the card's architecture to get the point across. It takes a pair of Evergreen GPUs that are used on the Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, downclocks them and then pairs them together with a PLX PCI Express bridge to enable full-time CrossFire on a single high performance graphics card. The end result is a single card solution that has 3200 stream processors that are able to deliver almost 5 TFLOPs of Compute power! This makes the new 'Hemlock' card the most powerful graphics card in existence.
The default clock rate on the Radeon HD 5970 is 725 MHz on the core clock and 1000 MHz for the GDDR5 memory ICs. As you can see from the chart above, these are the same clock speeds as the Radeon HD 5850, but the Radeon HD 5970 has more stream processors and texture units. Each 40nm GPU has access to a 1GB frame buffer bringing the grand total of memory on the card to 2.0 GB! The power consumption of the HD 5970 is very good though as it is ~42W at idle and then 294W under maximum board power draw.
When it comes to pricing, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 has an MSRP of $599, which is a little more than what most people spend on graphics cards. Let's take a closer look at the card to see what $599 will buy you these days.


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Polytron has "other stuff on the way" says firm's producer
Polytron producer Marie-Christine Bourdua has said despite the cancellation of Fez 2, there are other things in the works at the studio, such as ports of the original Fez.
According to Bourdua, Linux and Mac versions are in the works, along with "other stuff on the way, too" she told Joystiq.
The developer is also "working with Sony," and while a PS3 or Vita version of the game has yet to be confirmed, Polytron's former programmer Renaud Bédard said "announcements are going to come really, really soon."
Bourdua went on to say she was as surprised as anyone over the cancellation of Fez 2, but said she respects and trusts Phil Fish "a lot, so that's totally fair that he decided that and he has his reasons."
"The development of Fez 2 is up to him," added Bédard. "If he decided [to cancel it] now or he decided it at the end of development, it's easier to cut it out now, than it is to say 'Hey, we've been working on this for years and I'm not feeling able to finish it.'
"So in that way it just makes more sense."


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Keith Urban and rapper Nicki Minaj are the newest American Idol judges, the Fox network officially announced Sunday (Sept. 16).
"It's really an honor to have been invited to be a part of the American Idol family," Urban said in a statement distributed by his publicist. "I'm looking forward to working with everyone and to seeing the same passion that I have for music in all of the participants."
The announcement follows weeks of speculation that Urban and Minaj would join Mariah Carey and Randy Jackson as judges for the 12th season of Idol. Carey was confirmed for the show in July, and Jackson has been a judge since the beginning of the popular series. Urban and Minaj will replace Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, who relinquished their judgeships after two seasons.
Although American Idol's producers contacted other country artists about the possibility of becoming judges, rumors of Urban's selection intensified last week when he announced he would not be returning for another season of the Australian version of The Voice.
The Season 12 judges gathered Sunday in New York City, where auditions began for the new season. Additional auditions will take place in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Baton Rouge, La., and Charlotte, N.C.


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This site is to journal the Wilder Phase II Gulf Coast waterfront dry stack modular concrete block home. This stone block project which is a second phase of the small Gulf Coast waterfront home built with the DAC-ART Building System.
Some History: The original small Italian style Phase I was completed in 2003 as a 600 sq. ft. pool/guest/office and has received considerable media attention. It was previously chronicled on the web. This web folder that was intended as a private journal for family and friends became a very popular website for people interested in classic architecture and unique custom home construction. It became clear that there were many people worldwide interested in alternative and modular building systems. Because DAC-ART is a new way to build a strong and handsome home, people were fascinated to see the step-by-step photos.
The original tiny guest house has been featured in Coastal Living Magazine twice, the DIY TV Network, NBC Affiliate News, Memphis newspaper twice, Mobile newspaper, Concrete Homes Magazine and withstood several major hurricanes. The original website that chronicles the construction of this small home currently received between 10,000 and 12,000 visitors daily. Now the main house - Phase II us under construction.
It only makes sense to build a fortified concrete home if you build in a hurricane zone. This building system has stood up to previous storms and we expect it to still be standing after the next Gulf Coast hurricane. Watch our progress and check back to see how we fare thru the storms over the years in this dry stack concrete stone block construction.
The Nasello home, is a large DAC-ART Building System home on a rugged lot surrounded by a wildlife reserve and very close to the Gulf of Mexico. Contact Jerry Nasello for home sale info... phone 1(251)223-1234.
My friends, Mary and Jerry Nasello's DAC-ART Home is being built before mine. The house is an impressive structure and the Gulf views are spectacular. Nasello residence construction journal.
Dac-Art stands for Dial Architectural Components, a modular concrete block building system developed by Ted Dial. Ted is drawing the plans for both of these houses as well as furnishing the Dac-Art Blocks. These huge, hollow, tinted man made stone blocks are dry set using heavy equipment and the seams are grouted after they are set. The hollow blocks are back-filled with concrete and contain rebar that runs both laterally and vertically throughout the blocks producing a very strong structure. All DAC-ART buildings are custom construction and all are very different.
We hope this documentation will help those considering using this product or doing any custom residential construction to gauge just how long the total concept to 'Certificate of Occupancy' time span can be. Visitors will also be able to catch a glimpse of the frustrations and the victories involved in building an unusual custom home and creating a visually rich unique dwelling.
Nice little video of a DAC-ART Block being set in place ..1 min, 22 sec.
Gulf Breeze, FL: Susan and David Vosbein's Feature in Southern Coast Home Design. DAC-ART custom home near Pensacola nearing completion. See Photos. Now on the market - great buy, under cost... See 360 tour.
Florida Coastal Home: videos showing the construction of an Italian Country Villa private residence in Southwest Florida. Follow the progress of a limestone block Palladio styled circa 16th century Italian Country Villa under construction in Naples, Florida. The house is authentic to following the Rules of Architecture as establish by Andrea Palladio. Videos of Dac-Art Construction.
Mississippi Coastal Home: Patti and Jay Golden lost their beachfront home in Biloxi, Mississippi when hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Mississippi gulf coast. Their home was three bricks thick, 90 years old, and over two stories tall. Jay and Patti decided that they were never going to take another chance with a storm. They researched every option available on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and decided that Dac-Art is definitely the best solution. Dac-Art provides both strength and beauty. Follow their progress here.
Mississippi Gulf Coast: Christine and Gray Slay on Coastal Mississippi... See Photos


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In case you didn't know, we recently hired a new fashion director: Aya Kanai, who's fierce and just as fiercely-dressed.
And we couldn't wait another second to introduce her to you!
Here's the 411: Aya was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Oberlin College, where she received a degree in Visual Art.
For the past ten years, she's been contributing to the contemporary fashion industry in print editorial, celebrity dressing, online retail, and advertising. Her past nine to fives have included: Senior fashion editor at Teen Vogue magazine and fashion director at Nylon magazine; head stylist at shopbop.com; dressing celebrities such as Ashley Olsen, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Sienna Miller, and Kirsten Stewart; and styling advertising campaigns for global brands such as Microsoft, Cole Haan, Adidas, Converse for Target, Virgin Mobile and Forever21. Needless to say, she's got some stellar experience.
Okay, now for the highly-anticipated Q&A:
Your signature style is?: "Crisp graphic prints, black and white with colorful accents, military-inspired details, and a love of shoes and bags. It's not a signature look [per se], but those are some of the wardrobe elements that I am always drawn to."
If you could only wear one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?: "[My] Balenciaga leather jacket. It's the most perfect item I own."
What was the major fashion moment of your life?: "Attending the Alexander McQueen show in Paris. There are very few events in your life that you can describe as 'magic,' and this was one of them.
When it comes to photoshoots, when I was starting out as a stylist, I had the opportunity to dress Ashley Olsen for an editorial piece, right as she was starting The Row. We talked a lot about the 't-shirt line' (as she called it) that she and her sister were starting. It was inspiring to talk to a young woman who was clearly very clever and business-minded. She knows exactly what she liked and did not like—she has a distinct point of view."
What's your fashion game plan for the new Cosmo?: "My deepest wish for the pages of our magazine is to show our reader what's next in fashion and how to wear it. I plan to inspire her to shop, to dream, and to always remember that fashion, at its best, is about bringing fun, color, and expression into each day of your life."
What's your dream fashion shoot entail?: "There are too many dream photo shoots to name just one, but I will say overall that I want our reader to feel connected to each fashion story we do. I want her to feel that she can see a piece of her best self in our pages. This means we must find inspiring and different people to feature in our pages. Women with cool jobs and careers, students in college, people to inspire, and people to represent the fun of fashion in a variety of different ways."
Stilettos, sneakers, flats…what's your go-to shoe?: "I love the Chloé studded ankle boots, the Tabitha Simmons Creeper ankle boots, and Chanel smoking slippers."
What do you think is a major fashion faux paus?: "Fashion victimhood. Learning about trends is for the purpose and joy of cherry-picking what works for your body, your style, and your life—not for being a slave to consumer culture."
What are you inspired by: "Experimental puppet theater, making quilts, and vintage cars."
Who's your favorite designer?: "[That's] an impossible question."
Who's your celebrity crush?: "Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert."
Okay, lastly, what five spring staples should every girl own right this minute?
1. A white moto jacket.
2. Smoking slippers.
3. 3.1 Phillip Lim "I Heart Nueva York" graphic muscle t-shirt.
4. Leather shorts.
5. A backpack for bike riding.
Follow Aya on Twitter, and then pick up Cosmo mag to see her make fashion magic!
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Google's Gmail e-mail service crashed Tuesday afternoon, leaving millions of users without access to their e-mail for about an hour, Google said Tuesday.
"We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now -- we are too, and we feel your pain," read a post to the Gmail blog.
The outage occured shortly after 4 p.m. ET. By 5:15 p.m., Gmail was accessible -- although users had to enter letters in a box to ensure they were human, and not an automated machine. By 5:45 p.m., Gmail service appeared to be fully restored and operating as usual.
U.S. & World
Google's Gmail service is used worldwide by millions and is one of the most popular e-mail servers in the world.


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European Awakening (The Lion)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4N9M8_NbA
YouTube Jail
These are the videos that YouTube has delisted for being hate speech. I'll try to add more videos here as I find out about them.
Posting a video here is not an endorsement. In many cases I haven't even watched the video. But I am interested in following this censorship and where it goes from here.
See all the delisted videos here.
Were You Delisted?
If your video was put in YouTube Jail, let me know on Twitter at @cameronleemusic.


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For offenses such as driving under the influence, you may be in need of a sincere DUI court letter. Here is a sample letter for a first time DUI offender who is requesting for a court-supervised alcohol rehab program.
The Honorable Margaret Gayle
California Superior Court
South West,Courthouse
Re: Case no. NSFWFTW-69
Dear Judge Gayle,
My name is James Lee Roman. I was charged for driving under the influence of alcohol on April 14, 2011. The DUI offense stems from my unfortunate decision to drive myself home after a birthday party. With my senses impaired, I eventually misjudged a turn and hit a tree straight-on. The incident caused my left leg to be fractured in several places, shards of glass also pierced my face. My injuries are extensive and the hours of physical therapy still come in very long, painful strides, but the lesson I learned here was invaluable. I truly realized that I was very fortunate that I did not injure anyone else, to have caused the same kind of damaged and pain on someone or even horribly death. I learned all of these things the hard way, the weeks I spent at the hospital and seeing my mother in tears of which such heartbreak cannot be undone. But I stand to correct myself and my ways. I would like to submit myself to an alcohol treatment program as soon as possible or on any rehabilitative program the court deems proper.
I would like to plead for leniency your honor, please allow me the opportunity to turn my life around, I believe the possibility of imprisonment is a huge factor for change alone. Still, I would like to be responsible for my actions and accept the consequences of my offense. Inside me, I believe is an indvidual who wants to be useful and productive to the community. Prior this, I have no criminal or any record of offense, my driving record is also very much clean. I have been an honor student throughout my younger years and an active volunteer at the local animal shelter.
Further, I would like to apologized for the cost and time incurred by my offense. In these dire economic times, the cost I had unfortunately brought upon the State could have been very well spent on other public services. I truly am sorry for being a burdened to the system.
More importantly, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my letter, your honor. I am thankful to the court for the attention and consideration it has given me.
Sincerely yours,
James L. Roman


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Reggae, Soca, and Calypso
We play a variety of reggae music ranging from: rockers, roots, rock reggae, dancehall and at times dubs. We go from as old as we can find to as new as they get. There are a host of preleased music as well. Soca / Calypso is also integrated as it is an integral part of Caribbean music. Caribbean Groove is always growing and the listeners play an important role in our growth.
Site: http://www.caribbean-groove.com


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Films and consumable materials
We offer a wide variety of consumable materials, such as films, trays, pouches and labels. To ensure perfect processability and an optimal packing result on our machines, we work exclusively with leading manufacturers.
We also offer films which have been specially designed for MULTIVAC packaging technologies. Interacting with our packaging machines, they create optimal packaging results with regard to quality and cost-effectiveness.


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More money for mostly worthless college educations. Always more ways to get unprepared, unmotivated college students, especially at community colleges, to avail themselves of the resources so that they will stay in college (and keep the federal aid coming in). A study suggests requiring not only that students take remedial classes but that they avail themselves of the other remedial resources being offered, like those for test-preparation, study skills, and "student success" habits. Next thing you know, the feds will be providing escort service from bedroom to campus, with assistance in packing book bags.
One community college here in Georgia where Dissident Prof taught did have behavioral classes for students, telling them that they should not simply saunter out the door in the middle of a lecture or interrupt the professor. A colleague tells me of a large poster in his Missouri college that encourages students to pull up their pants with a photo of Barack Obama as inspiration. You don't see the President showing his drawers, do you? is the message.
Yet, President Obama during his State of the Union address lectured colleges on accountability, suggesting tying aid to graduation and job placement rates. Jonathan Zimmerman took Obama to task for not including "learning." Zimmerman cites a study that showed that over a third of students by their fourth year had not improved their reasoning and writing skills. Dissident Prof is getting kind of tired of doing this but she will once again refer the clueless to her article about composition teachers. President Obama, go here.
It seems that the Department of Education is also sabotaging real learning under the guise of "civics." The National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, funded by the Department of Education, recently unveiled a 115-page report called "A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future." It is the fruit of numerous "roundtables" attended by tax-exempt nonprofits and taxpayer- supported public college administrators. They acted collectively and outlined plans for "doing democracy" (really). They recommended mandating that students participate in government directed service learning. They called for a civics curriculum that would transform American students into "global citizens" through "collective action." As Peter Wood points out, there is no mention of a different perspective of civics, i.e, one that mentions American citizenship. He writes in the Chronicle:
"A Crucible Moment reflects a view from inside the academy. Of the eleven members of the Task Force, nine are current or former academics, and all of them, as nearly as I can tell, represent left of center views. It is small wonder that their report is dead silent on the many aspects of civic participation and democratic engagement that concern the roughly 175 million Americans who consider themselves as conservative or moderate."
It's clear that the authors, like most educators, think in terms of "world societies" (to use a term from A Crucible Moment), where national borders are thus viewed as evidence of imperialism. Efforts to maintain the rule of law by keeping law-breakers (called "undocumented students") from attending public colleges here in Georgia, however, are vilified by educators.
But "doing democracy" as "world citizens" might well improve college completion rates. After all, it's much easier to get a good grade in soup-spooning and "intercultural understanding" than Calculus or even freshman composition.
Rick Santorum had it right when he said, "It's no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college. The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America."
Still, over at the Chronicle of Higher Education "Tenured Radical" frets that "neoliberalism" is creeping into education, as she analyzes Obama's speech.
On those same pages, Fine Arts professor Laurie Fendrich defends Obama. The poor guy got a finger-wagging from Governor Jan Brewer! Professor Fendrich knows what that really means. She digs deeply in her analysis:
"Now consider the words the governor used to describe the encounter to the media afterwards. She said (you can watch it for yourself—it's toward the very end of the video), 'I felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude that he had, because I was there to welcome him.'
"After watching it three times, I still kept thinking, Did I hear her right? Did she really say that? Is she really oblivious to the implications of that word 'threaten,' throughout some very ugly chapters in American history, to describe an encounter between a black man and a white woman? Or what, was she worried it might be a holdup? Or that he'd snatch her pocketbook? Or that he'd physically corner her? Somehow do one or all of these things in the middle of a sunny Arizona day, all while surrounded by photographers?"
That kind of analysis does take some brain power! Good thing we have all these Ph.D.'s deconstructing such scenes of racism. Bet you didn't know that Governor Brewer was afraid that President Obama was going to snatch her pocketbook, because that's the way that all left-wing white female professors think white female Republicans think.
Breaking News!....Liberal Argues for Intellectual Diversity!!!
A social psychologist, a Democrat and a liberal, in a break from his peers, believes that conservatives should be allowed to live...in academia. Actually, Jonathan Haidt, deemed a "political defector" by the Chronicle of Higher Education, presents a modest proposal of bringing the profession from 0% conservative to 10% conservative, even suggesting a kind of affirmative action--just so the profession doesn't fall into groupthink. (Perhaps this psychologist could help Professor Fendrich.)
But it might too late to stave off groupthink, or even mass hysteria. Haidt's talk at the annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, in which he portrayed social psychologists as "a tribal moral community" "bound together by liberal values," was deemed "incendiary" by the journal. Though Haidt remains a Democrat, Dissident Prof cheers him on. Would that all liberals maintained the openness that at one time defined liberalism. She cautions Professor Haidt, though. The academic Politiboro does not take kindly to dissenters. He should watch his back, especially if he travels to Mexico.
In the meantime, Education News reports with the headline, "Scholars speak out in favor of 'electronic Jihad against the enemy." Dissident Prof did a double take and read further:
"In light of the increasing support of 'the electronic Jihad' and the divergence of views regarding this subject, Islamic scholars have underlined their support for this new phenomenon, arguing that 'any attempt to spite the enemy and endorse religion is legitimate'. They consider that Muslim youth involved in this phenomenon are in fact leading a jihad."
Huh? Scholars?
More head-scratching regarding "scholarship" as she read on:
"Abdullah Al Aalwit, a Muslim law researcher, pointed to the fact that electronic jihad means 'destroying the enemy's electronic devices or surreptitiously taking valuable information from these devices.' He confirmed that "the electronic jihad, like any other type of ihad, is legitimate in determined instances and might be harmful if used at the wrong time and in the wrong circumstances."
The original source is Al Aribiya News.
Dissident Prof worries about how this is reported--as "scholarship" on an education site. Does Education News not understand the difference between "scholarship" and "terrorism"? What do other readers of the site (educators, Dissident Prof presumes) think? Do they just go back to reading Chomsky and Zinn?
Speaking of Howard Zinn, his protege and family friend mega-millionaire, mega movie star Matt Damon (who also made Zinn mega bucks by promoting his propaganda in film) allowed the proletariat on Chicago's South Side to be graced by his presence. WBEZ reported on a project Englewood High School students are involved in that is a spinoff from Zinn's "seminal" book, A People's History of the United States. In preparation for their performance highlighting "anonymous voices in American history," [coincidentally with the same names as famous communist radicals] students "sat in a circle sharing their poetry, perspectives and personal takes on U.S. history."
There seems to be some pedagogical justification for this project called "Englewood Speaks" (like "The People Speak" produced by Damon and starring Zinn himself, get it?). Movie Star/Educator Matt Damon explained:
"'Real people who have said real things or people who are doing their own experiences like Englewood Speaks and have a place where teachers can go and get these things and use them as teaching tools to help students connect to history.'"
Howard Zinn keeps popping up like a vampire. Last Saturday, Dissident Prof met a student who had been assigned the same book in a history course at an Atlanta university.
What with movie stars, journalists, and professors just about having young people singing the Internationale in their little circles, it's a wonder that any young people are still able to think. So Dissident Prof is heartened when posts from College Conservative come into her mailbox. This week she directs readers' attention to the clarification on the notion of "social justice" from Emory theology graduate student David Giffin.
She thanks a donor, a fellow dissident prof, who would like to remain anonymous.
She also reports that the Dissident Cat, Sparky, is feeling better. The Dissident Prof can tell because the early morning ambushes from behind the drapes have resumed. In fact, the Dissident Prof household has acquired the atmosphere of the jungle, with the Prof also stalking the Dissident Cat to administer antibiotics into his mouth. The administrations of these antibiotics have become ugly showdowns between Prof and Cat. Not to worry, though, Dissident Prof has learned how to stanch the bleeding.
Finally, Dissident Prof is looking forward to attending C-PAC next week and may be sending dispatches from Washington. If you will be there, she'd like to meet you. She will be the one plastered with Band-Aids.


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vivian maxine » March 16th, 2017, 12:12 pm wrote:Speaking of "us" and "them", have you considered how often and how quickly our "us" and our "them" change? One year we can be warring with "them". A few years later, they will be "us" and we'll be warring with those who were "us".
Our brains have a very limited capacity for relating to humans in large numbers. Those we related to intimately are very few and I think knowing the names of 600 people is our max. We cope with this deficiency by establishing cultural rules, customs and ideas of good manners, and by being prejudice. Seeing all males as males or all whites as whites, or all Christians as Christians etc. enables us to deal with large groups of people, even though now we are strangers in the crowd. This is a real biological necessity and it is why education for a culture of cooperative people is so important. Without such education, the potential for violence including legal violence and economic exploitation of others runs high.