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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team finished seventh overall at the 2014 NEC Indoor Track and Field Championships on Sunday. Junior Ronea Saunders took the gold in the high jump with her height of 1.73 meters, qualifying for ECAC competition and tallying 10 team points for CCSU.
This year marks the second-consecutive season in which Saunders has claimed the gold in the event. The three-time 2014 NEC Field Athlete of the Week has posted impressive performances throughout her junior campaign, landing tied for 26th in NCAA DI with her season-high leap of 1.78m.
In addition to Saunders gold-medal performance, the Blue Devils also claimed the victory in the distance medley relay event. The squad crossed the finish line in 12:23.82, adding another 10 points to CCSU's overall total.
After finishing second in yesterday's one mile prelims with her time of 5:18.82, freshman Brittany Mendelson took the silver on Sunday. The two-time NEC Rookie of the Week crossed the line in 5:02.03 for eight points.
Shelby Tuttle, who broke her CCSU record in the 60m hurdle preliminaries yesterday, surpassed her own record yet again in Sunday's finals. The senior posted a final time of 8.86 seconds for a new Central record and a bronze medal for CCSU. Tuttle was followed in the finals by freshman Melissa Wolliston who finished eighth. The pair combined for seven team points.
In the 400m dash, junior Chantelle Deer finished sixth in the finals after her qualifying performance yesterday. Deer crossed the finish line in 59.77 seconds for three team points.
Other scoring performances for Central on the day include junior Shannon McBride who finished seventh in the 5,000m (18:29.19), sophomore Chelse Terry who placed seventh in the weight throw (14.44m) and sophomore Alyssa Gonzalez who crossed eighth in the 200m dash with her time of 25.98 seconds.
The Blue Devils also finished fourth in the 4x400 meter relay, posting a time of 3:59.23 and earning five team points for Central.
Sacred Heart won the meet, racking up 136 team points. The Pioneers were followed by LIU Brooklyn (102), Robert Morris (95), Saint Francis U (94), Mount St. Mary's (71.5) and Wagner (60.5). Fairleigh Dickinson finished eighth with 21 points while Bryant and St. Francis Brooklyn tied for ninth with 17.
Several CCSU qualifiers will return to the track for post NEC competition. The first event slated for the Blue Devils is the New England Championships, a two-day competition hosted by Boston University from February 28-March 1.


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May 19, 2010 — People who drink alcohol in low or moderate amounts are healthier on average than teetotalers, European researchers say.
Researchers led by Boris Hansel, MD, of the Hopital de la Pitie in Paris, studied 149,773 people at the Center for CVD Prevention. The study participants were divided into four groups, based on how they described their daily drinking habits:
- People who said they never drank.
- People with low alcohol consumption (10 grams or less).
- People with moderate alcohol consumption (10-30 grams).
- People with high alcohol consumption (more than 30 grams).
Ten grams roughly equals one alcoholic drink, according to the study.
The researchers found that low and moderate drinkers among both men and women were in better health than those who never drink. They also were in better overall health, the researchers say, than people who identified themselves as heavy drinkers.
The low and moderate drinkers also scored higher than nondrinkers on subjective health measures, such as physical activity and respiratory function.
Alcohol intake for men and women was strongly associated with increased concentrations of HDL "good" cholesterol. But the researchers say they could not determine whether the influence of alcohol on HDL had a protective effect against cardiovascular disease.
The moderate male drinkers were more likely to have lower cardiovascular risk, a reduced heart rate, less stress and depression, and a lower body mass index than nondrinkers.
Moderate female drinkers had lower blood pressure and smaller waist and hip circumferences than nondrinkers, according to the study.
Another finding suggests that moderate alcohol consumption is an indicator of optimal social status, which the researchers say could explain why people who drink alcohol in low or moderate amounts are healthier than nondrinkers.
Among other general findings:
- Total alcohol intake increased with age in men and women.
- Wine was the alcoholic beverage most widely drunk, except among people under 30.
- There was a significant positive relationship between smoking and drinking of alcohol.
- Women who were moderate drinkers were more likely to say they practiced regular physical activity.
- Men who said they had never drunk alcohol reported the highest level of physical activity.
The researchers conclude that drinking alcohol is strongly associated with factors favoring "a superior overall health status and a lower risk of [cardiovascular disease] in moderate alcohol drinkers" compared with people who said they had never drank alcohol.
The researchers write that moderate drinking of alcohol is a "powerful general indicator of optimal social status."
They also say future research is needed to verify their findings.
The study is published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.


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Looking back at the many, many beautiful fashions designed by Oscar de la Renta over the years, I found myself saying, over and over, "Oh, this one was a favourite"... Then I had a moment of recognition. You see, I have always thought that there are so many incredibly talented, unique fashion designers in the world that I could not possibly choose a favourite. But, now, I know I do have a favourite designer, and it would have to be the late Oscar de la Renta. His feminine, glamorous dresses make me swoon.
His passing this week has made me cherish his gifts of beauty to the world even more than ever before. I know I'm far from alone in saying that he was truly a great designer, one whose remarkable fashions will continue to inspire us for many years to come. He will be missed.
Here are 20 of my favourite Oscar de la Renta designs. I could have included many more images, but these will have to suffice as my tribute to this beloved fashion designer.


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While its design lacks visual appeal, its functionality and convenience allows users to keep up with new research in the field from the top journal in the field of Pediatrics. (For a more detailed look at the app, read the recent review in the iMedicalApps blog.) It is available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Best of all, its FREE.
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Despite the interesting symbolic carvings (two small books, swagged drapery, laurel leaves), it was the epitaph that caught my attention. Isn't the final line beautiful?
M[r. J]AMES
who died Saturday
June 21, 1845
Aged 26 Years
6 Mo & 12
T'is done, James has breath'd his last
Early the shades of death he past
He's gone and left his frends [sic] to mourn
And he to them cannot return.
Blest be the memory o'er his Grave
Let roses bloom and willows wave.
The epitaph is taken from the poem "On the Decease of Mrs. E. B. W——" by Thomas Kennedy (b. 1776, d. 1832), an American merchant, lawyer, and poet.
'Tis done, Eliza breathes her last,
Her troubles and her trials past,
The hours of sorrow now are o'er,
And pain shall ne'er assail her more.
In life most dear—in death how great,
Calm and resign'd she met her fate;
Sweetly her spirit sunk to rest,
To wake among the truly blest.
At such a scene ev'n seraphs sing,
O death! where is thy cruel sting?
Thy sting O death ! is left behind,
And pierces deep each feeling mind.
Love and affection sadly mourn,
And friendship sighs o'er her death urn,
And many a tear is fondly shed,
For her who dwells among the dead.
Among the dead; no, no, on high,
Among the souls who never die,
She takes her place ; and oh ! if there,
She ever feels an earthly care,
'Tis for the sake of the lov'd few,
To whom she scarce could bid adieu,
To whom her fond regard was given,
As dear to her almost as Heaven.
Blest be her mem'ry, o'er her grave
Let roses bloom and willows wave—
There oft shall silent footsteps tread,
And haunt the spot where rests her head.
And tears of sweet remembrance flow
In all the luxury of woe;
'Tis done, Eliza breathes her last,
Her troubles o'er, her trials past.
- The gravestone gives the day of the week that Mr. Jameson died.
- The stone carver signed his initials, D. C. C., but I have not identified him. Not yet anyhow.
Galena Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio


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text: UK 1 May 2008 Is Labour abolishing illness? The new rules on incapacity benefit stake everything on a major gamble: that a large proportion of c By Alison Ravetz COMMENTS Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up Incapacity benefit has become one of this year's favourite scare stories. Hardly a day passes without a new headline deploring its soaring costs and the rising numbers of claimants who get "something for nothing", at the expense of decent, hardworking taxpayers. We are told that we are footing an outrageously escalating bill for 2.4 million people, a million of whom shouldn't be on the benefit at all, and each successive work and pensions minister vows to be more ruthless than the last. The true picture is somewhat different. The unreported version, which can be culled from Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data, is that only 1.4 of the 2.4 million actually receive any payment, the rest get national insurance credits only, and numbers have been falling since 2003. The basic benefit is worth barely £3,000 a year. After two small rises in the first year there is no further increase, other than index-linking. All those who get the benefit have to pass a rigorous "personal capability assessment" (PCA) with doctors appointed by the DWP; and they can be re-examined at any time. The audited estimate of fraud is under 1 per cent - the lowest of any part of the social security system. Nonetheless, the 2007 Welfare Reform Act is now being implemented across the country. It replaces support, as of right, for illness/disability (one of the planks of our rapidly disappearing welfare state) with a new, conditional employment and support allowance. Claimants are held on a basic allowance until it is confirmed that their capability for work is limited. This is determined by a "work capability assessment" tougher than the old PCA. Those deemed capable of one day returning to work (and the arbiters are health professionals rather than doctors) must engage in a series of "work-focused" interviews and activities. These include, among other things, "condition management", which in practice is likely to consist of group sessions loosely based on cognitive behavioural therapy. All this brings an additional slice of benefit that can, however, be cut for those who do not engage in it without "good cause" - a potential loss of 40 per cent of income. Ultimately, any whose capability for work remains limited through failing to follow medical advice, or "any prescribed rules of behaviour", face a period of disqualification. (A further provision of the act, to be piloted in nine areas, is that people served with Asbos - antisocial behaviour orders - can face cuts in their housing benefit for refusing local authority offers "to help address any problem behaviour".) A main selling point of the reform was the great savings it would bring. It would staunch the outflow of benefits and get many people into jobs where they would pay tax and provide for their old age. This government's cherished goal is an employment rate of 80 per cent of the working-age population - though it is difficult to find any reasoned argument in support of this since our present rate of 75 per cent is, with Canada's, the highest in the world. The government accepts that employers must be paid to take on people with an illness record and, for the time being, it has pledged not to cut the benefits of existing claimants. Any immediate savings, therefore, can only come from bumping as many as possible off the benefit, shaving future benefit levels (already well in hand), and making it harder for newcomers to get it in the first place. Delivery is being farmed out to private agencies paid by results - which means, of course, the setting of targets. The next few years will be a bad time to have a crippling accident or succumb to a serious disease, particularly a psychiatric or neurological one that does not have obvious outward symptoms. Blaming the "cheats" The reform of incapacity benefit has been over ten years in the making, leaving in its wake a dense trail of commissioned reports. A curious thing about this voluminous material is how little information it contains on the actual health conditions for which benefit is paid. This is no accident, for the reformers long ago made up their minds that claimant numbers are too high, therefore a large proportion - usually put between a third and a half, but lately upped to 70 per cent in some quarters - must be spurious. An appeal to history is repeated like a mantra that, back in 1979, only 700,000 claimed the old sickness/invalidity benefits. Since then, money has been poured into the NHS while health care, living standards and longevity have improved beyond all expectations. People must be healthier, which proves that huge numbers are exploiting a slack and obsolete system. Who is to blame, apart from outright cheats? It can only be the self-indulgent, who fancy themselves sicker than they really are, and complacent GPs who let them think they are too ill to work. Crucially, the reformers bracketed illness with disability. The disability lobby had long argued that "disability" was a discriminatory label imposed by society, and it was bent on removing the barriers to work that excluded those so labelled and kept them in poverty. But the bracketing brought confusions - for those with disabilities may be extremely fit (consider the disabled athlete), whereas the able-bodied can be extremely ill. More confusion arises with conditions such as "stress", "anxiety" and "chronic fatigue" that sound trivial. As for "back pain", how unreasonable is it to take time off sick for something best dealt with by a stiff upper lip and the odd aspirin? It is easy for those in good health to pooh-pooh such things, agreeing with the government that "Work is the best therapy". The government's declared mission is to "liberate" claimants, to bring them into its "reformed, coherent welfare state for the 21st century". It seeks to overturn a culture based on the "medical model" of illness that allows them to "drift" on to long-term benefits without realising that "symptoms, feeling unwell, sickness and incapacity are not the same" - hence the appeal of cognitive behavioural therapy, which it understands as a treatment that will talk the sick into believing they can lead normal lives. Doctors - so often the refuge of desperate people trying to find out what is wrong with them - should as far as possible be excluded from the process. Even those working for the DWP have opinions that are "unfounded, of limited value and counter-productive", while GPs are "unaware of the importance of work, the absence of which leads to depression, poor health, higher rates of suicide and mortality, poverty, and social exclusion". (The quotations are from a 2005 study from the Unum Provident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University, whose ideas and rhetoric infuse the reform. Unum Provident is an American firm, the largest disability insurance company in the world, which is currently in litigation in different countries for refusing to pay out on some of its policies.) A private agency has now taken over the running of its first GP surgery here, and doctors dealing with disability living allowance are advised not to invite patients to explain how their condition affects them. Features of the reform are familiar from other policy areas. First, a demonisation of a needy or vulnerable group, followed by a rebranding: so claimants become not even "clients" but "customers" (as in the just published "Commissioning Strategy" document); incapacity benefit becomes employment and support allowance; sick notes are redrafted for doctors to certify, not what patients can't but what they can do. Next come "partnerships", on an unchallenged assumption that the public sector has failed. The new system is farmed out to for-profit or non-profit-making agencies paid by results. This entails targets, and where targets are set, sanctions follow, for any who "fail to recover". There are features of the new programme that look intelligent and humane, doubtless owing much to the efforts of the disability lobby. They include a longer and more flexible bridging period (and a back-to-work grant) between benefits and work, and a broader view of "work- focused" activities. The crunch will come with those described as not able or prepared to engage "because [of] the nature and severity of their health condition, or more a matter of attitudes, perceptions and expectations which may or may not be accurate . . . It is a question of what the claimant cannot do vs what they will not do." For the reform stakes everything on a gamble: that a large proportion of claimants, present and to come, are fit enough to work. There seems no way of proving or disproving this, other than trying it out, at the risk of much waste of public money, and much personal grief. Deliberate rejection of the "medical model" deprives us of all we might have learned (from the wealth of data available) of the impact of illness on our society. I have scratched my head long and hard over this reform (among other things sending out lengthy submissions to all concerned during the long consultation phase in 2005-2006) because so much in its theory and rhetoric contradicts my own experience: of chronically and seriously ill family members and friends, of several years as a Mind volunteer, and further years of peripheral involvement in action groups for chronic fatigue conditions. All this has indelibly impressed me with the courage of many who live with horrible complaints, the sheer hard work involved in their day-to-day coping, their relentless search for any amelioration, let alone cure, often at costs hard to spare from limited resources. I have witnessed, too, and at close quarters, the hurt and stress of living difficult lives as people have to do, in a perpetual culture of disbelief and threat, where some of the most valiant are blamed for their conditions and conflated with the alleged "can't work, won't work" unemployed. For the message of the reform that comes across, for all its fashionable rhetoric, is that a person is valued only as a productive unit. Compassionate cases aside, those too ill to work are outside society and money spent on them is wasted. Sickness, disablement and inability to work have no place in a modern society - they can't and shouldn't be afforded. No one pretends that illness is not a blight, imposing personal and social costs going far beyond the financial; but - pace the government - no one as yet knows how to remove it from the human condition. Why waste valuable time and resources on an ill-founded reform, when they could instead be used to further understanding of the real impact of illness on our society? Alison Ravetz is a professor emeritus of Leeds Metropolitan University who writes on housing policy and welfare reform Subscribe For daily analysis & more political coverage from Westminster and beyond subscribe for just £1 per month! This article appears in the 05 May 2008 issue of the New Statesman, High-street robbery


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Capitalism is to civilization what AIDS is to the human body. The injustice of injustices is that our fundamental human needs must be earned through labor and purchased with income. Human existence does not have to be subservient to the flow of money. When the needs of humanity are met unconditionally (without first having to earn the right for survival) then we, as a people, as a community, will be free to turn the creativity within our minds and hearts to higher concerns.
04 APRIL 1990, DENVER, COLORADO: "If we did not keep to socialism, but instead, as some people advocate, turned back to take the capitalist road, . . . degeneration . . . inherent in a society of exploiting classes, would spread unchecked." Chinese Premier Li Peng spoke these words on March 20, 1990, to the Chinese legislature. Although blind to the greater oppression of socialism, Premier Peng, when observing capitalism, sees with notable clarity.
Capitalism invites a degeneration of human compassion and desire; it calls for an inhalation of profit, gain, goods, and services; and it demands a plunge to the lower depths of human potential. Within the system of capitalism, people make choices in life while contemplating the pitch-black abyss of unemployment, hunger and homelessness.
For a view of these lower depths, one has only to look to the cast of characters in the recent events in Eastern Europe: the American capitalists who are rushing in for opportunity; the Eastern Europeans who are embracing the West with wild intoxication (as documented by American journalists); and finally, the Eastern Europeans who are worrying with a sober fear of an uncertain future that approaches like an avalanche.
On November 9, 1989, East Germany conceded to the rupture of its population that had begun September 12, with the opening of the East German – Hungarian border. The Berlin Wall had opened for travel into the west.
As if a dam had burst open from the pressure, refugees, like tons of water, flooded through. With the Christmas season rapidly approaching, Hyman Products, Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, responded to the event with salivating urgency. Fifty tons of the Berlin Wall were quickly dismantled and quietly shipped to Missouri, where the concrete slabs were reduced to chunks the size of golf balls. The mementos, symbolizing the western democratic freedom to be found beyond the wall (and moderately priced at $10.00 each), reached the shelves of stores such as Bloomingdales and May D&F in the nick of time for Christmas shoppers who had mistakenly thought they had everything.
Arriving in West Berlin nine days after the wall was opened, the aging acoustic-rock trio Crosby, Stills & Nash performed a twenty-minute set of music to an enthusiastic audience with the Brandenburg Gate portion of the Berlin Wall as a backdrop. A CBS Evening News film clip captured the trio singing "Chippin' Away," a fortuitously appropriate song from one of their recent albums. Their record company, Atlantic Records, no doubt, insured that music stores throughout West Berlin had an adequate supply of the Crosby, Stills & Nash vinyl.
SHORT TAKES : Crosby, Stills and Nash Sound a Positive Note at Berlin Wall
November 21, 1989|From [LA] Times Staff and wire service reports
WEST BERLIN — Crosby, Stills and Nash, whose rock music roots reach back to the early years of the Berlin Wall, sang to several hundred chilly fans today in front of the Brandenburg Gate, telling them to keep chipping away at the wall.
Stephen Stills said the 20-minute performance with sidekicks David Crosby and Graham Nash was arranged on short notice, with help from the West Berlin police.
There might have been no hint of an intent to market except for the telltale evening news clip. How could the performance have truly been spontaneous and heartfelt when it was a mere twenty minutes in length, but long enough for CBS to grab a film clip of the song, "Chippin' Away?" Compassion and marketing walk hand-in-hand along the capitalist road.
On December 29, Vaclav Havel was elected President of Czechoslovakia after its population had also ruptured the borders of its communist regime. Frank Zappa, American rock guitarist and self-avowed capitalist, wasted no time announcing that he was planning to interview Havel in a film documentary for FNN (Financial News Network on cable television). The documentary would cover Havel's rise from the oppression of socialism to his role in Czechoslovakia's current alignment with the economy of the West.
Jane Fonda, the movie actress, had a similar light bulb flash in her mind, according to a March 21, 1990, Denver Post column by Liz Smith:
"People are talking about Jane Fonda's recent trip to Europe. She's been moving fast since the tumultuous events over there and plans a big movie which would co-star – the fall of the iron curtain! Fonda recently spent time with Czechoslovakia's new president, playwright Vaclav Havel, and sees his life story – especially the five years he spent in jail for dissident activities against communism – as a heady brew for film. Fonda herself would portray Havel's wife, Olga."
It's debatable that Fonda's desire would go any further than the boundaries of her heart without the profit motive of the film company that dictates her vocation. Honest compassion, present though it may be, is hard to find in the news stories emanating from these recent events. Honest compassion is associated with the poor and the lower class – those who are the polar opposites of capitalists. An example would be Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who does not accept money for the continuation of her work. She accepts only unconditional offerings of food, medical supplies, and service. Compassion that turns a profit, however, makes the news and adds definition to life at the lower depths.
Captured by American journalists, the eyes and voices of the refugees flooding through the borders express a consuming desire for the goods and services of the West. A CBS reporter for the Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt program on November 12, 1989 commented that refugees pouring into West Berlin would mostly stop in front of toy stores with "crazy-big smiles" while looking at stuff for their children.
One television image focused on a large sign held by children in a crowd near the Brandenburg Gate, at the entrance to West Berlin, which proclaimed Krenzman, "Batman." One journalist wrote in a November 12 front-page Denver Post article that a large Woolworth's outlet in the heart of West Berlin was literally under siege by thousands of East German consumers "buying food, cassettes, clothes, anything affordable and in short supply in the east."
According to an article from the same paper, East Germans "waded past dazzling showcases of oysters, caviar, lobsters, champagne, and oranges on their first visit to the West. So it went in thousands of West Berlin department stores and bars, bookstores and movie theatres, hamburger joints and even pornography shops."
The article continues, "outside the Wertheimer department store, a crowd gathered around a glass case to ogle an elaborate toy train display that seemed as marvelous to them as the Mercedes sedans clogging the nearby side street." According to a March 18, 1990 Denver Post article, there are now open-air markets in Weimar, East Germany with signs over much-coveted blue jeans and bananas that read "deutsche marks only."
This intoxication with Western goods and services affected the results of the March 19 free elections in East Germany, after which one East German man (interviewed on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather) concluded "East Germany is finished. Fifty percent of the people voted for money, not for their own country." A professor from Humboldt University in East Berlin concluded "My fellow countrymen have betrayed me and my nation for the promise of riches. They voted for bananas, chocolate, and a better life." In nearby Czechoslovakia, when the borders were opened to the west, one Prague teenager (interviewed on the CBS Evening News) said "I think for young people it makes no sense, because we won't have the money to go [to the West] anyway." This degenerative focusing of human desire upon the acquisition of products characterizes life at the lower depths of capitalism.
The elderly and the soon-to-be unemployed of East Germany are fearful of the insecurity that capitalism will bring. Under socialism, the East Germans have "cradle-to-grave" social benefits that provide secure employment, as well as subsidized food and housing.
On December 31, 1989, a journalist for CBS Sunday Morning reported "Most East Germans want the benefits of a free economy, but are afraid of losing the benefits of socialism." An East German lady (being interviewed) agreed, "Not only a free economy, but on the other side the social things should not be lost: the right for work; everyone has a house; nobody is so poor they have to be hungry." A March 13, 1990 Denver Post article reported:
"Economic reforms will leave 100,000 auto workers without jobs, an industry official said yesterday in the most concrete sign that East Germany's radical changes could mean widespread unemployment. Dieter Voigt, the general manager of East Germany's IFA Automobile works, said layoffs of between sixty percent to seventy percent were expected in the automobile industry and related production facilities."
On the March 19, NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw, Gerhard Petri (interviewed in East Germany) said "I am scared that my apartment will cost four or five times more, and my pension will not be raised. I am 78 years old and I don't see a rosy future."
According to a December 14 Rocky Mountain News article by Peter Tautfest (an American writer and editor who has lived in West Germany for the last twenty years), West Berlin residents, prior to the building of the Berlin Wall, would exchange their strong mark on the free market for the weak East German mark and cross over to East Berlin to buy such heavily subsidized food items as bread, milk, potatoes and meat at a fraction of the price they had to pay in Western supermarkets. "Today," he writes, "many fear the same prospect could draw West Berlin's growing population of homeless, unemployed and social dropouts to buy cheap basics in East Berlin." He adds:
"An even greater worry is that a poor and weak East Germany could wind up as an economic colony of its rich and powerful Western cousin. Some wealthy West Germans are already speculating in real estate in East Germany, . . . As go basic food items and real estate, so would go industrial assets. . . . In no time flat, large parts of East Germany could be bought up by West German investors."
Fear and insecurity, already being felt by East Germans, are at the heart of the lower depths of capitalism.
Soon, capitalism will be the only economic system of significant strength. Then, all other systems will be slight in comparison. Eyes will turn away from the tangible oppression of the socialist regimes that created symbols of division such as the Berlin Wall and rulers such as Nicolai Ceaucescu. As the refugees flood to the capitalist west and socialist regimes crumble into obscurity, eyes will turn to the oppression of capitalism that degenerates the compassion and desire of humanity into a narrowed focus upon earnings, acquisitions, and basic hand-to-mouth survival. It is an oppression that cannot be shattered into pieces with a sledgehammer, like the Berlin Wall, or assassinated with a firing squad, like Ceaucescu, yet it seeks to divide, control, and submerge life with the same authority.
by S.A. Bort / 1 August 2013 (4 April 1990)
Three Essays Advocating the Abolishing of Money: III. "Imagining Earth (Without Money)"
Three Essays Advocating The Abolishing Of Money: II. "The Travail of Wage Labor"
Photo Credits:
1). Associated Press. The Denver Post. 18 March 1990. 2), 3). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall 4). eBay. 5). http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/328143/Children-holding-a-banner-reading-'Krenzman'-duri 6). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/berlin-model-railroad-birds-eye-view-in-miniature_n_1505832.html#slide=960847 7). eBay. 8). http://media.photobucket.com/user/julierhodes7/media/playgroundcemetary.jpg.html?filters[term]=cradle%20to%20grave&filters[primary]=images&filters[secondary]=videos&sort=1&o=19#/user/julierhodes7/media/playgroundcemetary.jpg.html?filters%5Bterm%5D=cradle%20to%20grave&filters%5Bprimary%5D=images&filters%5Bsecondary%5D=videos&sort=1&o=19&_suid=1375402521143003213963459371233 9). Amazon.com.
I originally wrote this April 4, 1990, five months after the Berlin Wall fell. After twenty-three years, I thought I would tune it up a bit and publish it here on the blog, along with the two accompanying essays.
I sent these three essays to Burlington, Vermont's Brautigan Library, named for Richard Brautigan and initiated by his daughter, Ianthe. The essays were among the first (in 1990) accepted, bound and placed on the shelves under the "Mayonnaise System Catalog Number" of: "Social/Political/Cultural: SOC 1990.007." My accompanying certificate states: "LET NO MAN block the light of wisdom and inspiration found therein."
See: http://dtc-wsuv.org/brautiganlibrary/?s=Stephen+Bort , http://www.cchmuseum.org/research/the-brautigan-library/ , http://www.thebrautiganlibrary.org/Blank.html , http://www.brautigan.net/responses-library.html , http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=The+Brautigan+Library and https://www.facebook.com/BrautiganLibrary for current information on the library.
Shortly after I was added to the shelves, I was contacted by Lawrence Ingrassia of the Wall Street Journal, who was writing an article on the opening of the library. He had seen the above foreward to this essay and was curious about the concept of "abolishing money." He asked if I was a socialist. I answered no. He asked other questions, but in the end, his article of May 28, 1991 did not mention me. His article can be found here: http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=Ingrassia+1991+Fictional+Library+Becomes+a+Real+Place


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Toys'R'Us plans to hire approximately 45,000 seasonal employees this holiday season, a number greater than the total workforce the company hired during each of the last three holiday seasons due to the addition of 600 new Toys'R'Us Express stores. In previous holiday seasons, the company has hired approximately 35,000 toy-trained employees.
"We're pleased that we can create thousands of new jobs as we double our workforce nationwide in preparation for another busy shopping season," said Executive Vice President for Human Resources Dan Caspersen.
Of the 45,000 seasonal hires, 35,000 employees will staff the company's 587 traditional Toys'R'Us stores, while most of the others will fill 10,000 positions at approximately 600 Toys'R'Us Express stores in malls and other shopping centers. Some seasonal workers will also be hired in the company's nine distribution centers nationwide.
For details visit the company's careers website, Ruscareers.com.
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by Donald B. MacGowan
There are many wondrous, enigmatic and fascinating attractions on the Big Island of Hawaii, some better known than others, many out of the way and generally off the beaten track. Tour Guide Hawaii has produced an encyclopedic collection of the most up-to-date information, presented as short GPS-cued videos, in an app downloadable to iPhone and iPod Touch that covers the entire Big Island, highlighting the popular and the uncrowded, the famous and the secluded, the adventurous and the relaxing.
Lava Viewing at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
Can you believe this? It's absolutely outstanding and amazing! You can actually walk right up to flowing lava here; see a volcano erupt before your eyes and the molten rock pour into the sea. This has to be one of the four or five most exciting, amazing, wonderful, mystical experiences on earth…you must not miss this!
Mauna Loa is active but not currently erupting. The summit area is slowly inflating, filling with magma and the flanks are subject to frequent minor earthquakes, but no obvious activity is apparent to the visitor. Kilauea, the most active volcano on Earth, started its current eruptive phase in 1983, the longest eruption in history. Since then it has ejected almost 3 billion cubic meters of lava. Flowing from various vents in the rift, most notably Pu'u O'o and Kupaianaha, in streams and tubes at over 1000 degrees Celsius, much of the lava makes its way into the sea in fiery, steamy explosions or the incredible incongruity of glowing hot lava pouring directly into the sea with little more apparent than a mere bubbling of the water.
Since the flow of lava over the moonscape plains and into the roiling sea can be seen nowhere else on earth, it is certainly the most exciting, unique and moving highlight of any trip to Hawai'i. People stand at the edge of the flow and weep at the majesty and mystery of the earth remaking itself; it is wondrous, remarkable and unforgettable. Although surface flows and breakouts are frequent and common, there is no guarantee that over any given trip to the Big Island they will be visible or easily accessible to the casual visitor. Before planning a hike to see the lava, check with the Rangers at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for information on the hike length and location of surface flows and a review of safety information. Eruption information is available from the Park Service at 808.985.6000.
Over the months and years, the lava river issuing from Pu'u O'o winds its way back and forth across the lava plain of about 9 miles breadth, sometimes flowing into the sea within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, sometime outside the eastern margin of the Park on County of Hawaii land, sometimes ponding behind the low lava hills for weeks at a time without entering the ocean at all. When you check with the rangers about flow conditions, they can tell you the best way to approach these flows.
If the flows are toward the more western margin and within the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the best approach is to drive to the end of Chain of Craters Road in the Park and then hike in. This hike can be of a few minutes, or a few hours, duration, depending upon how far away the lava ocean entry is. Talk to the rangers beforehand so you can come prepared. The hike is over an uneven, rough surface, hot during the day, even when it rains, cold at night and navigation can sometimes be counterintuitive. When lava is flowing in the park, parking can be monstrous at the end of Chain of Craters Road; please go here for more details about visiting the end of the road.
The trail at first is marked with cairns and reflectors, but after a few hundred meters you are on your own to navigate the basalt wilderness. The good news is, even if the hike is a couple hours duration, when the lava flow is in the National Park, you are allowed to walk right up to it; this is not true if the lava is flowing in the more eastern margin, onto County of Hawaii land. In this case, viewing is from a County of Hawaii-maintained viewing platform at Waikupanaha. Information on viewing the lava flows from County of Hawaii land is available here and from the County of Hawaii at 808.961.8093.
Whether you approach the lava flows from the west or the east, bring at least 2 quarts of water, a flashlight for hiking out in the dark, camera, food, first aid kit and a light rain jacket; wear a sun hat, sturdy hiking shoes, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt–those rocks are sharp! Sun glasses and sunscreen are a must here; in fact, they are so important in tropical Hawaii, we ask you please go here and here for information on skin and eye protection. Over the years, we have found a stout hiking stick and an umbrella to be of good use as well. Since photos and video are most spectacular at night, it is wise to bring a camera tripod.
The lava seems to glow with only a dull petulance during the day and may be less than inspiring until nightfall brings it alive and the madly glowing, fiery goddess within is revealed. Thus knowledgeable hikers plan their hike to commence in the afternoon, reaching their destination at dusk, and then hike back in the dark. Check your flashlights before you leave the car and replace weak batteries. Remember that you are hiking on a highly active volcano, if flowing streams of lava strand you, no rescue is practical or possible; plan, take care and pay strict attention accordingly.
Obviously, the lava is lethally hot and sometimes flowing mere inches below seeming solid ground; a stick or ski pole used as a probe helps you determine what is dangerous ground and what is merely "hot and squishy" but otherwise safe to walk on. This is also why you should wear boots, not running shoes or sandals—it only takes having your sneakers catch fire once to drive this point home. When in hot terrain, never stop moving your feet. Even when you are standing still to photograph, walk in place or you may find your shoes afire.
There are other dangers to hiking on the lava plain that might not be obvious to the casual visitor. The steam clouds generated by the lava entering the sea contain fine, glassy particulate material as well as sulfuric and hydrochloric acids in concentration high enough to aggravate the very young and old, expectant mothers and people with respiratory and cardiac conditions. Over the past 20 years, a few adventurous people venturing too close to vents or the sea entries have asphyxiated from toxic gasses.
The ocean near the lava entries is superheated and waves lapping on inviting black sand beaches can be scalding hot. One brave (foolhardy?) surfer wanted to be filmed surfing in front of the lava flows and was badly scalded for his efforts. Where explosive, the meeting of molten rock and sea can explode large, searing hot rocks hundreds of feet in the air and throw boiling water, splashing everywhere.
Methane explosions occur with no notice, dozens if not a hundred feet ahead of flows, flinging huge blocks hundreds of feet. Unstable benches that build up into the sea, and upon which the unwary hike and pause to photograph the scenery, are prone to collapse, carrying all into the sea. Such collapses can cause local tidal waves which scour the landscape clean of everything as they pass. Thin lava crusts can hide lava tubes, caves, hollows and holes into which hikers occasionally fall and are caught.
A volcano is a naturally highly seismically active area and earthquakes are common (there are over 1200 measurable earthquakes a week on the Big Island). Less common, but certainly a constant threat, are local tsunamis generated by these earthquakes. The Park Service has roughly marked the trail to the lava; follow it closely, turning around frequently to acquaint yourself with landmarks for the hike back.
Be sure to take extra film or memory cards for your camera and remember to wipe down all cameras, eyeglasses, binoculars, optics and electronics after your visit; the salt and volcano effluent-laden atmosphere is highly corrosive. Batteries may be drained faster than expected due to the high heat near the lava; bring extra for cameras and flashlights.
Despite the inherent dangers of hiking over liquid rock, steaming and unstable ground along the ever-restless sea, very few hikers are injured here, even fewer are killed. This is only because people enter the goddess's home with a sense of awe and great caution, and the Rangers are very good about instilling fear and trepidation into the hearts of those who think themselves otherwise immune to the mortal dangers presented here. If you go, remain cautious and vigilant, plan for adversity, think ahead and pay attention. The rewards for this are a moving and amazing experience few ever have, a memory of mystery, awe and wonder to treasure always.
If you are planning on viewing the lava at night, be sure to remember that there may be no open gas stations or restaurants when you depart the Park until you reach either Kona or Hilo…plan accordingly, think ahead. Stay safe…stay awesome.
To see the new iPhone/iPod Touch App, please visit http://www.tourguidehawaii.com/iphone.html.
The best of Tour Guide Hawaii's free content about traveling to, and exploring, the Big island, can be found here.
For more information on traveling to Hawaii in general and on touring the Big Island in particular, please also visit www.tourguidehawaii.com and www.tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com.
All media copyright 2010 by Donald B. MacGowan. All rights reserved.


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Rumor: Miami looking at Michael Redd?
If the Heat cannot sign preferred choices Shane Battier, Grant Hill or Tayshaun Prince postlockout, Miami will consider Michael Redd.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Is he healthy? Is he willing?
In theory, Michael Redd could absolutely help the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat win an NBA Title.
For years, Redd was a prolific scorer with the Milwaukee Bucks, killing opponents with his deadly outside range.
The left-handed gunner has the skill-set to punish defenses for cheating on Chris Bosh, LeBron James, and Dwyane Wade.
Of course, health matters. In the last two seasons, Redd has played in just 28 games, and doesn't resemble the perimeter threat that terrorized opposing defenses.
Redd's goal may be to re-establish his reputation as a star rather than support another team's stars -like Bosh, James, and Wade in Miami.
If healthy and willing, Redd would help the Heat. A contender can never have enough shooting or depth.
--Oly Sandor.
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This little beauty hails from down under, Australia, and is an extremely versatile plant, growing in both sandy and wet soil conditions! Once established, it tolerates drought beautifully!
Growing best in full sun to part shade, Breeze grass offers a great alternative to shrubs and ground covers. It has a medium growth rate and grows 2 to 3-feet tall x 2-feet wide. Breeze grass grows in US hardiness zones 7 through 11 and once established, requires very little care! Sorry yankees – this plant likes it in the warmer plant zones.
This is definitely a plant US Southern gardeners will be seeing a lot more of! Enjoy!


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Cranks who claimed that the aurora borealis makes a noise when it lights up the Northern sky have been proven right by science.
Boffins from Aalto University in Finland recorded the 'clapping' sounds of the Northern Lights back in 2004, but only discovered the noises when they switched the recording from DV tapes to disc.
Just to check they were right, the researchers then put three microphones in three different locations during the phenomenon to record the auroral sounds again.
The researchers realised that the reason scientists had thought the people claiming the Northern Lights made noises were a few fries short of a Happy Meal was that the sounds were made quite close to the ground.
"Our research proved that, during the occurrence of the Northern Lights, people can hear natural auroral sounds related to what they see. In the past, researchers thought that the aurora borealis was too far away for people to hear the sounds it made," Prof Unto Laine said in a canned statement.
As well as clapping, the aurora borealis also makes crackles and muffled bangs that are difficult to hear if there's any background noise, say the researchers.
While the researchers believe sounds are caused by the same energy particles from the Sun that create the Northern Lights, they can't say too much more about them than that. There are many different noises and they don't always happen when the Northern Lights appear, so the boffins suspect there's more than one thing going on, but they don't know for sure yet.
The study will be published in the proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, a conference in Lithuania that will go on until Thursday. ®


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Duda back in Bisons lineup
The Buffalo Bisons today announced that OF LUCAS DUDA has been activated off the club's disabled list. The team also announced that LHP CASEY FOSSUMhas been placed on the restricted list.
Duda has missed 14 games with a mid back strain. He was officially placed on the disabled list on May 13, retroactive to May 11. The outfielder has played 24 games with the Bisons this season with a .241 (20-83) average, three home runs and nine RBI.
Duda has also played in 10 games over two stints with the New York Mets this season. With New York, Duda has averaged .100 (2-20) with a double and one RBI.
Fossum was 0-4 with a 6.56ERA in nine games and six starts for the Bisons (35.2IP, 46H, 24K).


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(Devic's syndrome)
Neuromyelitis optica, sometimes called NMO, is a rare yet severe inflammatory process of the central nervous system. The condition mainly affects the spinal cord and the optic nerves, or the nerves that carry signals from the eyes to the brain. As a result, the disease can cause paralysis and blindness.
With neuromyelitis optica, your immune system attacks a substance in your body called myelin—think of it as the insulation around your nerves. Specifically, the myelin cells in the spinal cord and optic nerves are attacked. Usually, people with NMO have flare-ups of the disease that may strike months or years apart. Between these flare-ups, people may have some recovery.
Facts about neuromyelitis optica
Neuromyelitis optica most often strikes during childhood or when adults are in their 40s. NMO is especially common in young women, but men can develop it, too. Experts used to think that NMO was a type of multiple sclerosis. They now think it may be a different condition. The conditions do have some similar symptoms, but these are usually more severe in neuromyelitis optica. Vision problems with multiple sclerosis usually affect one eye at a time, but NMO may affect both eyes at the same time.
Types of neuromyelitis optica
Neuromyelitis optica comes in two forms:
Relapsing form, which has periodic flare-ups, with some recovery in between. This is the more common kind, and women are far more likely to have this form than men.
Monophasic form, which involves a single attack that lasts a month or two. Men and women get this type equally.
These are possible symptoms of NMO:
Pain in the eyes
Loss of vision
Weakness or numbness in the arms and legs
Paralysis of the arms and legs
Difficulty controlling the bladder or bowels
Uncontrollable vomiting and hiccups
Doctors may do a variety of tests if they suspect neuromyelitis optica:
MRI scan of your brain and spinal cord
Samples of your blood and spinal fluid to check for signs of the disease
Tests to check on how well your optic nerves are working
Experts don't consider this condition curable. But doctors can prescribe medicines or other treatments to reduce the effects of the disease and relieve symptoms. These may include:
Corticosteroid drugs to halt the immune system's effect on your nerves
Immunosuppressant drugs
A process called plasmapheresis, which removes proteins from the blood that may be playing a role in the condition
Other treatments to address symptoms such as pain and loss of bowel and bladder control
You may also need help from health care providers to cope with blindness and paralysis.
It's not known whether you can prevent the disease. Certain treatments may help prevent future attacks. You may also need medical care to treat or prevent complications of NMO. These include an inability to breathe, blood clots, and urinary tract infections.
Managing neuromyelitis optica
Disability from NMO may become worse over time. Most people with NMO develop weakness in their arms and legs. Others may have more severe symptoms. Many people with NMO need to start using a ventilator, which is a machine that helps them breathe. They may also need to work with an occupational therapist or social worker to address their disabilities.


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Good way to lose weigh Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Good way to lose weigh Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Health and Fitness View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message beibeizhuJoined: 29 Mar 2009Posts: 61 Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: I am beautiful girl from shanghai.but I am a lot fat,haha!I want lose weigh .my beibeizhu tell us that the best way is eat less, and healthier, exersise more. Back to top Jenniferdu521Joined: 29 Mar 2009Posts: 72 Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject: beibeizhu wrote: I am beautiful girl from shanghai.but I am a lot fat,. Dear rita, I can not agree with you, I don't think you are fat, I think you have a nice figure! but I agree with you to do more excercise, that is not only good for our figure, but also good for our health. Back to top charactereducationJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 21Location: USA Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:46 am Post subject: Loose the weight with in no time just start dieting and you will start loosing weight._________________Character Education Back to top VegaJoined: 15 Jun 2010Posts: 5 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:00 am Post subject: I'll tell you what you don't want to do. You don't want to take a diet pill that promises to cut the fat. Most of them don't work and many aren't really good for your health. There is no magic pill. And diet alone will help you lose weight but not as fast and not as well as diet combined with exercise. In regards to diet, you don't necessarily have to follow a certain diet program. You just have to eat healthy foods and eat the right proportions. You also want to cut out the junk foods and drinks._________________Vega Sinclair, Medical Insurance Advisor Back to top James20Joined: 26 Jul 2010Posts: 3Location: Ohio Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:26 am Post subject: Exercises to lose weight Definitely cardio! The more varied the better. Mixing 3-4 sessions per week (if you have the time of course) is perfect. You could combine aerobics with running, rowing, swimming, water aerobics as well as walking more. Maybe also consider bike riding to work or to the gym. I ride my bike everywhere now and it has done wonders for my stamina. It will also really tone up your legs. It's best to vary your exercise so you can tone up every part of your body. If you go to the gym ask your gym instructor about helping tone up your arms and legs with less weight and faster strokes. This will help with burning off fat. I hope this helps!_________________!James20! Back to top YessVJoined: 29 Oct 2010Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject: My dad is studying about nutricion and it's really interesting. I've got the pressure for being a nutricionist and all that stuff, so I've learned something. You should NEVER stop eating!! Everyone should eat 5 times a day! Breakfast, collation, principal meal, collation (again) and dinner. Between the meals, you can eat peanut (it's super healthy), popcorns (natural popcorns, they're really easy to make... the popcorns in bags or cinema's popcorns are like POISON! Delicious, though xP), raisins, a yoghurt, apples, plantains, oranges, any fruit. The excercise helps the metabolism to be faster, and to not get flaccid Also, never stop eating carbohidrates, proteins and all that stuff, 'cause it's necesary. Eating good is an art :B Also, many people I know with diabetes and high blood pressure (which are really dangerous) have lost weight and reduced their medicine dosis with a good diet and not stopping eating. So... never NEVER stop eating, or stop eating carbohidrates ('cause EVERYTHING or at least, many meals have them), proteins... drink a lot of water... It will make you feel energized, healthier and a lot better. BUT... All of this stuff is about being patient. You won't see results in 5, 6 days, one week, but with the time, you'll start to notice it Mybe once in a while you can eat chips, a slice of pizza, a hamburger, an ice cream or something like that. And you can do it, just you won't feel guilty. And let me tell you... IT REALLY WORKS! It is not about your appearance, it's about your health! Back to top TaoJoined: 26 Oct 2012Posts: 66 Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:33 pm Post subject: Running IS a great way to lose weight, fat weight, that is. Exercise can add weight but it is muscle weight and a reduction of fat weight. If you're just starting, start slowly. Start with a slow jogging for about 5-7 minutes out and then return. Do that a few days then add on a couple of minutes. Don't go fast, just increase you heart rate and be able to talk as you run without gasping for breath. Check your heart rate the first thing after you wake in the morning. You will find that in a month or maybe less that your heart rate has decreased. Your heart is a muscle and it gets stronger with aerobic exercise, so needs to beat less to pump the same amount of blood through your body. After a couple of months you'll probably be running closer to an hour total time. Add crunches to your exercising; this will help your running. You need strong abdominal muscles for running. I was 20 pounds overweight and started a slow routine of running. In two months I lost the 20 lbs., ran a couple of 10Ks in 40-43 minutes and since a half-marathon and a couple of marathons. I typically ran at least two hours and never less than an hour. I added weight training to my regimen and gained back about 15 lbs but not fat!_________________TAO Back to top youngbin KiJoined: 12 Jul 2016Posts: 7 Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:39 am Post subject: You can lose your weight several ways. I recommend you I think important thing. You never miss to take three meals a day and you do exercise for every day. If you follow this way, you can lose your weight. Back to top ansrb5643Joined: 16 Jul 2016Posts: 4 Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:32 am Post subject: exercise everyday, and don't eat junk food. most importantly, you need to reduce your food. Back to top jjuniJoined: 11 Jul 2016Posts: 20 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:23 am Post subject: I think jogging is a good way to lose weight. and also I prefer push ups 10times 5 Back to top Helena_Birk12Joined: 23 Jun 2017Posts: 6 Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:25 am Post subject: If someone really want to lose weight they just have to stop eating. This sounds stupid as the idea of loosing weight on its own. You people just have to start eatig healthy and exercise daily. That's it. 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Soooo. . . Call me crazy (Chris does) but I got rid of our puppy, Moze. Now, before you start pointing fingers at Chris, hater of all things canine, you should know this is all on me. I know what you are thinking! Ugly/hairless/blackhead covered/neurotic Itzy vs. adorable/hairy/sweet/puppy breath Moze. But you should be thinking this (as I did), potty trained (for the most part) vs. bladder the size of a kumquat. In the end, Itzy regained her throne as Queen of Johnna's Lap. You see, Moze was put into an intensive potty training workshop for one, two, and yes THREE weeks. At the end of which, he was no further along than the day we began. I've learned a very powerful lesson, well two I guess. One, puppies are pure evil! They make you love them and then they pee on your pulchritudinous carpets. And two, I have absolutely no business potty training a teacup chihuahua.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Itzy vs. Puppy
Posted by Johnna Jayne at 12:03 PM
4 comments:
- LUCKY7 said...
how sad! he was a cutie, but believe me i understand. pan was a hard one to break. it took her 5 months to potty train. it totally ruined my carpet and rob hated her forever because of it. i'm sad she is gone now, but she was... hard.
we are getting a lab puppy soon and i'm not too scared about potty training they pick things up so quick. that is usually the difference between small dogs and big dogs. too bad it is not the other way around b/c small ones are sooo much cuter and they have less fur!!!
- July 16, 2008 at 5:44 PM
- Julie Plotz said...
I didn't even get a change to meet Moze. So sad. So what animal are you adopting next?
- July 17, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Johnna Jayne said...
Well, never say never. . . But I think I am actually done with animals. Giving Moze up was totally heartbreaking. I think I need to cool it in the critters department and move on to the human species.
- July 17, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Brad and Marissa said...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That was funny. I have to agree with ya Johnna, one pet is enough. I remember when we were growing up and you way to many pets back then too. Well can't go wrong with a pet that doesn't keep your carpets damp.
- July 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM


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Industry and art may at first glance seem to present a contradiction, yet Schweinfurt combines the two to exciting and captivating effect. Schweinfurt remains the heart of the European ball bearing industry, but is also a centre for art whose galleries and museums would make many a larger city proud.
Of course, a town with a 1,200-year history must have more than just industry to recommend it. And Schweinfurt cultivates this contrast to this day. In this former free imperial city with its innovative outlook, modern buildings stand alongside their equivalents from centuries past, and a sense of civic pride is complemented by a strong working class ethos. The winds of change are blowing through the town: locals are proud of their achievements and their town's new image, but they are equally proud to have stayed true to their roots.
Past and present: the town hall and the Georg Schäfer Museum
The town hall on the market square is an eloquent testimony to preindustrial times. Built between 1570 and 1572, it is probably the finest and most beautiful historical building in Schweinfurt. It's a miracle that it survived the disasters and wars of the last centuries unscathed – in particular the Second World War when much of Schweinfurt was destroyed. The entrance hall is used to exhibit art, something that comes as no surprise in Schweinfurt. The Georg Schäfer Museum, meanwhile, is devoted entirely to art. It houses the most important private collection of German painting, covering the late-rococo and classicist periods to Romanticism and Impressionism. The Carl Spitzweg collection alone encompasses 160 paintings and 110 drawings, and there are works by Caspar David Friedrich, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Albrecht Adam, Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Leibl, Adolph Menzel, Franz von Lenbach, Hans Thoma, Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt and Max Beckmann. The building itself is among the most important new museum buildings of modern times, "a treasure chest", as one critic put it, characterised by "huge recesses, angles and corners, ramps and steps".
Art at the swimming baths and history at the old grammar school
Schweinfurt's Kunsthalle gallery, housed in an indoor swimming pool built for the town by industrialist Ernst Sachs, is another striking example of museum architecture. Its New Objectivity style and generously proportioned exhibition spaces are ideal for displaying art. Another Schweinfurt highlight, the Otto Schäfer Museum contains around 1,000 illustrated prints, among them a fine collection of engravings by Albrecht Dürer, as well as first editions of German literary works from the Reformation to Realism. The Altes Gymnasium Museum (old grammar school museum) explores the origins of Schweinfurt, focusing on early history since the 8th century, Schweinfurt's time as a free imperial town, civic culture, the guilds and industrialisation. Fortunately for us, Schweinfurt can now offer both art and industrial heritage.
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USD 11.2 billion in 2012 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.8% from 2013 to 2019, to reach an estimated value of USD 21.6 billion in 2019.
Rise in the number of respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPDs), asthma and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) are primary factors driving the growth of this market. A considerable rise in the total number of surgeries conducted globally has also boosted the growth of anesthesia devices market. Sophistication and persistent technological advances by respiratory and anesthesia devices manufacturers is another driving factor for the growth of this industry Moreover, merger of information technology and nanotechnology into these devices has helped in miniaturization of these devices. The shift of patient preference from hospital care devices to home healthcare devices has further accelerated growth and encouraged the provision of easy to use and portable devices that have paved a new way to revive this once mature market.
Saturation in western countries, especially the U.S. and Europe, coupled with unfavorable taxation policies has negatively affected the growth of the market in these regions. Companies are now vying for growth in emerging markets namely India, China and Brazil. The major players in this industry are also facing stiff competition from the regional manufacturers of these countries. However, robust R&D and continuous innovation has helped the big players of this market to retain their strong position in the market. In addition manufacturers such as GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Teleflex and Drager have created a strong brand image with high end quality products supporting their strong market position.
The anesthesia machines market was valued to be USD 3.0 billion in year 2012 and is expected to grow at a healthy rate. Moreover, the anesthesia disposables market which includes anesthesia masks and anesthesia accessories is expected to have the fastest growth of the total anesthesia devices market by 2019. The respiratory devices market includes respiratory equipments, disposables and measurement devices market. The total respiratory devices market was valued to be USD 6.2 billion and is anticipated to have a strong growth in the coming years of forecast. Moreover, the respiratory measurement devices market is expected to grow at a growth rate of over 7% from 2013 to 2019.
Geographically the North American market accounted for the largest share of anesthesia and respiratory devices and is valued at more than USD 4 billion in 2012. However, Asian countries namely India and China are witnessing fast growth and are predicted to emerge as dominating markets in the near future owing to rise in awareness and increased disposable income in these nations.
Anesthesia Devices Market, By Types
- Anesthesia Machines
- Anesthesia Disposables
Respiratory Devices Market, By Types
- Respiratory Equipments
- Respiratory Disposables
- Respiratory Measurement Devices
Anesthesia and Respiratory Devices Market, by Geography
- North America
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- Rest of the World (RoW)
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FBI in Philadelphia Reports Theft of New $100 Notes
PHILADELPHIA - The FBI is reporting an unusual heist of some newly designed $100 bills that aren't going into circulation until next year.
Agent Frank Burton Jr. says the cash was stolen from a plane that arrived at Philadelphia International Airport around 10:25 a.m. Thursday from Dallas.
Investigators said these Benjamins are easy to spot. The new bills have sophisticated elements to thwart counterfeiters, like a disappearing Liberty Bell in an orange inkwell and a bright blue security ribbon.
The FBI said a "large amount" of bills were stolen, but agents aren't giving specifics.
The theft was reported by a courier service transporting the C-notes when the shipment arrived Thursday afternoon at the Federal Reserve Building in East Rutherford, N.J. Officials then discovered some of the money was missing.


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My husband is trying to join the marines. First he wanted to join when I was pregnant and I was really supportive but now I'm just scared and don't want to lose him. We just had our son, and I thought he would change his mind but he hasn't.. he says all he wants to do in life is be a marine and blow peoples heads off, Everyone keeps saying that it is a decision that we both need to agree on but I know if I don't let him he will hate me, but I really don't think I'm strong enough to be the marine wife I thought I could be… I just want us to be together as a family and he doesn't seem to understand my feelings. When he leaves I will have to sign a note saying that me and my two kids will be financially taken care of for 3 months while he's in boot camp, and honestly, we wont be, I cannot find a babysitter so I can work and my parents cannot afford to support us.. I just don't understand. And I'm not trying to sound like a pussy when it comes to me not being able to handle it, it's just I really DONT think I can handle it as I am prone to severe depression/ postpartum depression.
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As we race toward the fiscal cliff, the dividends are coming fast and furious, so we need another installment of the Diary to keep you abreast of coming opportunities. The last trading week before Christmas is now upon us, so we will probably hit a zenith of dividends. Any company that has not declared now will be unlikely to sneak one in before year-end. So peruse the table below and pick off the final dividends you want to see under your tree this year.
Joining the list is one of my all-time favorites, the dividend champion Limited (LTD). Limited pays a regular dividend, and throws in specials on a regular basis. They didn't disappoint this season, declaring a special that is 6% and will go ex-dividend on Dec. 18. Paychex (PAYX) is another Diva favorite -- I play it every quarter -- that will pay an unusually high 2%, also going ex- on Dec. 18. I also like the TD Ameritrade (AMTD) dividend of 3%, set to go ex- on Dec. 19.
As you examine the table, pay attention to the pay date. The names above are very shareholder-friendly, going ex-dividend and paying the dividend in 2012, thus qualifying it for the low tax rate. Below the yellow line are dividends you'd accrue this month, but because they will not pay until 2013, you'd pay tax at the new 2013 rates. The top of the table are the nice kids that will get gifts under the tree; the ones at the bottom are the naughties that could have accelerated the payment but decided not to do so. Shame on them!
Of course, life goes on, so come Jan. 1 we will be back to rotating through dividends with no thought to the tax implications. As I noted in an earlier post, dividend rotation is tax-indifferent anyway -- we always pay the highest rate -- but from 2013 on, the buy-and-hold will have no tax advantage, so dividend rotation will become even more attractive!


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They did this last year too with Snow White, right?
Mirror Mirror came out in March, just like Olympus Has Fallen, about the White House getting blitzed and Gerard Butler saving the president. Snow White And The Huntsman was released in June and same goes for White House Down, about the White House getting blitzed and Channing Tatum saving the president.
Mirror Mirror was the acid trip version of the fairy tale. Snow White And The Huntsman was the video game version. Not sure if the similarities extend there. But the point is, Olympus did fine, just like Mirror Mirror. And I don't see why anyone would worry about White House Down because... Channing Tatum. Right now, Channing Tatum is all you need.
A trailer for White House Down was released yesterday and Abraham Lincoln continues to be on trend. This kind of movie...is not my jam. But here's why I think White House Down will be superior, if that's the right word:
1.There is no Gerard Butler
2.Channing Tatum doesn't talk much
3.There is no Gerard Butler
4.Channing Tatum is actually kinda hot here, and I don't normally find him attractive. It's the shot at the 1:47 mark.
5.There is no Gerard Butler
6.They don't seem to be fear-mongering Asians
7. Django is the President
8.There is no Gerard Butler
Here's Channing Tatum with his wife Jenna Dewan (I recently just learned it's pronounced Dew-inn, rhymes with Ewan, and not Duh-wann) last night in London on promotion for GI Joe which is going head-to-head against The Host this weekend. More thoughts on this later.


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Ex-con Dale Messmer keeps kids off drugs
with tales of life behind bars
by Jim McCarty
Dale Messmer remembers
well the day he turned his life around.
He was in the
office of the construction company where he worked, taking care of paperwork.
The door opened and in walked a young man in a suit. Through
the door Dale could see he drove the type of vehicle favored by FBI agents.
Dale had a secret
past. He was on the run from a variety of law enforcement agencies. He
was determined not to get caught.
From a desk drawer
Dale quietly pulled a 9mm pistol in anticipation of the moment the agent
presented his badge.
"I was sure he
was FBI," recalls Dale. "I was prepared to dust him and run."
But Dale realized
the man facing him was an insurance agent. Instead of a badge and handcuffs,
he showed Dale photos of his wife and kids.
That night, stunned
by what he almost did, Dale drank heavily. Too drunk to drive, he pulled
into a parking lot and walked into the first building he could find. It
turned out to be a church and the minister was still there.
Dale "Mad Dog"
Messmer drug trafficker, martial arts expert, body guard, Vietnam
vet, trained sniper, a man so tough he once killed a police dog with his
bare hands found himself in tears, pouring out his sins to a man
he did not know. The
preacher convinced him to take his punishment which Dale did, surrendering
to authorities who agreed to a plea-bargained, 25-year sentence.
The things Dale
saw behind bars convinced him to help others make better choices. Today
Dale crisscrosses the country delivering a sobering message to kids: "Drugs,
gangs and breaking the law can do the same thing for you that it did for
Dale speaks with
authority. At the time of his arrest he was worth $3.8 million. But the
law allows police to seize the assets of anyone charged with drug crimes
and Dale found himself penniless.
"It cost me everything
I ever loved on this Earth and I am always going to be an ex-convict,"
Dale says of his choice to break the law.
Like a lot of
the kids he speaks to, Dale got into trouble because he was bored.
His past was
the kind of life featured in Hollywood action films. He served overseas
as a Marine sniper scout. He was a body guard for the likes of Charlie
Daniels and William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys. He trained S.W.A.T.
teams. He chased bail jumpers and guarded gold mines.
In his 30s, Dale
was a millionaire with a successful limousine and charter airplane service.
But he was bored. Approached by the Colombian cocaine cartel run by Pablo
Escobar, Dale was quick to jump at the chance for a little excitement.
One day Dale was
flying a load of cocaine into the United States on an overcast day. When
he popped out of the clouds federal agents were waiting. He tried to run
but a jet caught him and forced him to land. They discovered cocaine,
piles of drug money, a box of grenades and a machine gun on board.
Faced with a laundry
list of charges, Dale made bail and quickly skipped town, staying on the
run for 16 months until his change of heart.
He would spend
nearly 11 years behind bars. Here he saw firsthand what happened to kids
who made bad choices and wound up in prison.
"Once you go
in, the law ceases to exist," he says. "It's jungle rules, survival of
the fittest. It's not right, it's not fair and it's not legal but it's
what happens."
By accident he
discovered he could help.
Nearing parole,
the warden at the prison asked him to speak at a school during Red Ribbon
Week, a national anti-drug effort. At first reluctant, Dale gave in to
the promise of a McDonald's hamburger.
That talk led
to another and then more until one day he spoke at a school attended by
the son of then Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee. The elder Huckabee, now
governor, helped Dale speak in nearly all Arkansas schools.
He moved to California,
starred in commercials and movies. But he continued his anti-drug talks.
Threatened by gang violence and a car bomb that didn't explode, Dale moved
to Cape Fair last year where he is a member of Ozark Electric Cooperative.
He averages 150
schools per year and estimates 800,000 kids have heard his message. Those
who attend his program hear some tough talk.
"I don't sugar
coat anything," Dale says. "I don't use foul language but it is graphic
and detailed and I leave them with no doubts. I let them look at my face
and see where I've been stitched together. I didn't look like this before
I went into prison."
Dale gives schools
his entire day. He speaks to as many groups as they want, answers questions,
eats with students and stays after school to work with at-risk kids. He
asks for a fee of $1,500 but is quick to point out that if a school can't
afford his asking price then the price is whatever they can afford.
Dale knows he's
doing some good because he often hears from students who changed their
lives after hearing him speak.
"I am like the
vitamin company one a day. If I can get one kid a day to stop and
think then it's worth it."
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Born: May 15, 1922, Iwie, Poland
Chaja was the eldest of four children born to a middle-class Jewish family in the northeastern Polish town of Iwie. Her father earned his living as a blacksmith. Chaja first went to a private Jewish school that taught both religious and secular subjects; in the fourth grade she transferred to a public school, and also attended Hebrew school in the afternoon.
1933-39: I belonged to one of the Zionist youth organizations in Iwie. We heard lectures, often on Palestine [Yishuv], and had many sporting activities. In 1937 I graduated from high school and began learning to be a dressmaker. After the Soviets seized our region of Poland in 1939, I entered the nursing school in Slonim. Before the Soviet takeover, I couldn't have afforded such an education, but higher education became subsidized by the state.
1940-42: After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, I returned to Iwie. In 1942 a partisan group that included my friend Ruben helped me escape from Iwie's ghetto. I began working in a partisan hospital in the woods--a camouflaged cavern in the earth. We "appropriated" medical supplies from captured German stores, and performed surgeries by grease lamps. Instruments were sterilized by boiling. We used liquor as an anesthetic and salt to clean wounds. When we couldn't find a surgical saw for amputations we used a carpenter's saw.
Chaja and Ruben were married in 1942 while with the partisans. They were liberated in July 1944, and emigrated to the United States in 1949.
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Courtesy of GoGriffs.com
BUFFALO, NY — Canisius College men's basketball coach Jim Baron announced today that Kassius Robertson (Toronto, Ontario) and Jeremiah Williams (Grand Rapids, Mich.) have signed their National Letter of Intent and will join the Golden Griffins for the 2013-14 season. Additionally, Baron announced that Chris Perez (Santiago, Dominican Republic) has applied for and received a waiver from the NCAA that allows him to play for Canisius in 2013-14. Perez spent the previous three years at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., where he earned his undergraduate degree and he has one year of eligibility remaining. He will work toward his master's degree in sport administration at Canisius.
"We are excited to add these three players to our 2013-14 roster," Baron said. "We have some big holes to try and fill, especially with losing two starters and offensive pieces [Isaac Sosa and Harold Washington] to graduation. We feel like these three new guys will help us try and fill those spots."
Perez will be eligible to play for the Griffs after he graduated from Stetson with his undergraduate degree in elementary education in May 2103. On the court in 2012-13, Perez was named Second Team All-Atlantic Sun after he averaged 15.1 points and 4.1 rebounds per game, while leading the Hatters with 1.1 steals and 30.6 minutes played per contest. He has posted double figures in the scoring column 48 times in his college career and he poured in a career-high 32 points at Jacksonville Jan. 31, 2013. A graduate of Oldsmar Christian School in Oldsmar, Fla., Perez started his college playing career at Liberty, where he played in 31 games and averaged 5.5 points per game for the Flames during the 2009-10 season.
Robertson is a 6-foot-3, 170-pound guard who averaged 22.0 points, 5.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game during the 2012-13 at Thornlea Secondary School in Thornhill, Ontario. An all-league selection, Robertson was coached by former Loyola (Md.) player Shane James. Prior to playing at Thornlea, Robertson played two years at Vaughn Secondary School in Vaughn, Ontario. There he helped lead the Voyageurs to two OFSAA Provincial championships and two league titles.
Williams comes to Canisius after spending two seasons at Vincennes University in Vincennes, Ind., and he will have two years of eligibility available at the start of next season. A 5-foot-11, 165-point point guard, Williams played in 34 games in 2012-13 where he averaged 4.4 points, 2.7 assists and 1.5 rebounds per game for the Trailblazers, helping the team reach the NJCAA Division I Final Four. He averaged 5.0 points, 1.8 assists and 1.3 rebounds per game in 2011-12, and he ended his career at Vincennes with a career assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.82. He graduated from East Kentwood High School in Kentwood, Mich., where the Falcons went 19-5 overall and finished the 2010-11 season ranked No. 12 in the Michigan State High School Boy's Basketball poll.
Baron also announced that Tyrel Edwards and Jermaine Johnson have been granted their release from the College and both players will transfer. Redshirt junior Reggie Groves, who played in 91 career games as a Griff, has also chosen to transfer from Canisius and will play his final season of eligibility at North Carolina Central. Groves earned his undergraduate degree in communications from Canisius in May.
Perez, Robertson and Williams will join with newcomers Jermaine Crumpton (Niagara Falls, N.Y.), Zach Lewis (Windsor, Conn.) and Adam Weir (Tonawanda, N.Y.) on next season's roster. Those three players signed the National Letters of Intent during the NCAA's early signing period in November 2012.
Canisius will return three starters and five letterwinners to next season's team. The Griffs went 20-14 in 2012-13, the program's seventh 20-win campaign and first since 2000-01. The Blue and Gold saw their season end in the quarterfinal round of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, the school's first postseason appearance since 1996.


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From: Mike Martens, Director of Operations-NAHETS
This picture was taken on Dec 16th on the steps of the administrative headquarters of Saudi Aramco-Operations Division. The man to my right is Hussain Al-Zaiban, managing partner and president of Four Hands Construction Company. We had just completed a meeting (lasting 1 1/2 hrs) with eleven operations department heads and the chairman of the Saudi Council of Lift (Crane) Engineers.
Hussain and I announced that we had agreed on a working arrangement to bring NAHETS training to Saudi Arabia with Four Hands Company to take the lead as the training organization utilizing NAHETS curriculum and training methods. Four Hands would provide NAHETS standard of training to Saudi Arabia and to the entire Middle East.
The Aramco managers were extremely interested in establishing crane and rigging training and subsequent certification (for entry level and experienced operators) to comply with NAHETS/NCCCO standards. The Heavy Equipment Operator courses were of special interest to the managers of roads and infrastructure department.
The NAHETS simulator training was seen as also adding value to the training process.
We were asked as to the timetable for beginning the program and when told of the delay in processing the school license, we were told that this training was needed sooner and that they, Aramco, would exert their influence in speeding up the administrative timetable.
I would also commend Hussain and the staff of Four Hands Construction for the hospitality that was shown to me during my stay there; especially for the barbque immediately following the Aramco meeting.


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Previously on the Science League of America Minda Berbeco interviewed her colleague Peter Hess. At the center of the interview was a situation that had arisen at the end of a class Minda had taught at Tufts University on evolution, where on the last day the students wanted to talk about the implications of evolution for religious belief. Peter's response focused on how one might defuse religious concerns that could result in a student being dismissive of evolution. Now Peter follows up with Minda to see how he did!
What did you think of my suggestions about how you should have responded when your students wanted to discuss religious perspectives on evolution? Were they appropriate to the situation, and do you think that they would have helped?
In my case, my students were genuinely interested in religious perspectives on evolution, and you were right when you said that they were asking about it because "the question is out there." I think every teacher will handle this differently, but I found your answers actually very apt for my situation.
I definitely got the impression that my students felt as if all religions are uniformly against evolution. It would have been useful for them to hear that this was not the case. I wish that at the time I had known about NCSE's Voices for Evolution or some of the other information you noted so I could have shared that with them as appropriate.
Not then knowing what information was available, though, I think your other suggestion would have been a good one for me—namely, stating clearly that as a biologist (and not a religious scholar), I did not feel that I was appropriately suited to talk about issues of religion. This is something I would have been comfortable saying as well.
What was the perspective of your students at the time?
I definitely got the sense that there was a bit of variation in the group as to their religious perspectives, some considering themselves atheist while others thought of themselves as religious. I recall specifically having one Catholic student who was very put off by what she perceived as attacks on her religion. I really wish I had had the information that you shared with me about the Pope's statements on evolution to put some of her concerns at ease. My concern is that she left the class thinking that based on her religion she was required to reject evolution, and as we discussed, that is simply not true.
Do you see a difference between talking about religious perspectives on evolution in a classroom and teaching creationism?
Definitely. It's completely unacceptable for clearly unscientific information like creationism to be presented in science classrooms. Science teachers are ambassadors from the scientific community to their students; we depend on them to give the best possible and most up-to-date information available based on the scientific consensus on all scientific issues from evolution to climate change. Doing otherwise is both unfair to their students, the scientific community and the science itself.
There is nothing I feel more passionately about than making sure students get the best scientific information available, presented in a way that they can understand and benefit from. It's important to them as students and later when they are voters or even scientists themselves.
Do you see some connection between the rejection we see against evolution and continuing pushback against climate change?
Yes—there are so many parallels between the two that I'm not even sure where to start. Science denial is science denial. The difference is that with evolution, denial tends to be based in religion, whereas with climate change it tends to be based more on political or economic concerns. Deniers can legislate all day and night, but they're not going to change the fundamental science of how greenhouse gases trap heat. Not unless they have some sort of magic up their sleeve—but that wouldn't be based in science either!
Minda, I appreciate your candid observations on these thoughts springing from our earlier conversation. I look forward to discussing more issues at the interface between science and culture.