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Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
May 06, 2015, 07:20:20 PM »
I had serious disciplinary issues in law school. I am wondering whether they will impact my C&F determination.
In fall 2013, I had a manic episode and as a result I was placed on University Probation, which lasted for the academic year. In addition, the aggrieved individuals lodged a stay away order against me. Conduct in question was harassing, aggressive, belligerent behavior over the phone, email, and in person.
In May 2014, the probation was lifted. In addition, as of now, the stay away order has been lifted for all but 2 individuals.
In fall 2014, I had another manic episode. I was charged by my student conduct office with disorderly conduct, creating a community disturbance, failure to comply, and property damage. In addition, while the investigation was ongoing, I was given an interim suspension (not a sanction) and I was banned from campus by the school police. Later, my school gave me the option of doing a medical withdrawal in lieu of going thru the student conduct process and receiving a formal sanction. I am still not allowed on campus without the permission of the Dean.
During the medical withdrawal, I have been treated for bipolar disorder. I am under the care of a psychiatrist (monthly), a psychotherapist (weekly), and a bipolar support group (weekly). In addition, I am volunteering with legal aid in the interim to help show my rehabilitation. I will attempt to reenroll in law school in fall 2015, with the recommendation of my psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychologist, and support group leader that I am not a danger to myself or others.
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Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 06:10:49 AM »
There's a lot to unpack here. So let me start with the basics- you failed to provide one crucial piece of information. What state? Every state has a different bar. Some states' bars are notorious for the C&F (sometimes called moral character and fitness) determinations, some states are a little more lax. So that would help.
Next, your question is whether this will impact the determination. That's easy- yes, it will. It will impact it. The type of impact it will have is the interesting question.
Then there's the issue of re-enrolling. Here's the thing- when you re-enroll, you have to be 150% honest. Go above and beyond. Disclose everything to the law school. Why? Because what kills people with "issues" isn't just the issue, it's the candor. The bar loves that word. They don't like to screw you on the actual issues (for reasons we will discuss shortly), but they will nail you every time if you haven't been candid. Partly it's because you are required to be candid as an attorney. Partly it's because that's one area where the bar can restrict membership easily, and if you've lied or failed to disclose on a law school admission, they can go after you for that.
Now, you'll have to divide the issues into two areas- the legal issues, and the medical issues. While you present them as intertwined, and they are, they present slightly different issues. The legal issues (the stay order, the campus sanctions) are the type of issues that, but for your illness, you'd have to otherwise explain away. The mental illness issue, properly treated, also would not be enough to deny you admission.
But the mental illness issue is further complicated. IIRC, in the last few years, several state bars have come under fire because denying someone solely based on a mental illness may be considered a violation of the ADA. But this is an evolving area of the law.
Arggh... so what does this all mean?
1. Many states have some type of lawyer assistance for attorneys and/or law students who have struggled with mental illness or substance abuse. See if your state has one and contact them. They may be able to help you.
2. Be candid.
3. Be healthy!!!!!!
4. Talk to someone informally in your state who is a practitioner about your issues; maybe a professor at the law school could point you in the right direction (a PR prof?)? You may want to contact an attorney who specializes in bar admissions issues.
I don't want to write any of this to discourage you. Many attorneys have struggled with substance abuse and mental illness, and have not only been accepted by their state bar, but have successful practices. Just make sure you protect yourself.
Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 07:33:13 AM »
I don't know what state I will end up in because I don't have a job lined up. Possibly PA, but who knows?
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Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 08:01:07 AM »
I am not familiar with Pennsylvania. I will assume that you're planning on practicing in the state where you are re-enrolling in law school. Pennsylvania, I believe, is one of the few states that does not specifically ask about mental illness, but does have a catch-all question. In addition, it will be extremely difficult to explain the recent issues you had in law school and the order against you without full disclosure.
At this point, everything you are doing is correct. If your question is a general, "I screwed up, I have been diagnosed as bipolar, can I pass?" then my answer to you is a qualified yes. (That's going to be a common answer you can give as a practitioner!). Mental illness, alone, will not disqualify you from any Bar so long as you show evidence that you acknowledge the problem, you are treating it, and it will not impact your ability to practice law while treated (which is a little bit of a higher bar than not a danger to yourself or others!).
However, you should be aware that your illness, *combined with your recent conduct in law school* will raise a red flag, and the bar will be reviewing your application very thoroughly. Make sure you have been candid in the past- including your original law school application (and make sure you amend, if necessary). The exact facts and issues are going to be a little complex, and I don't know that you want to get too detailed on a public forum on the internet, so I will repeat my advice to you- talk to an individual familiar with the process in Pennsylvania, confidentially. Clear the first hurdle (get back in school!) and worry about the Bar after after that. Nothing you've written will automatically disqualify you, so long as you remain candid.
Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 08:07:45 AM »
Why do I have to amend my law school application? All these events happened during law school and the administration is well aware of it. Not a blemish on my record prior to fall 2013 (no criminal history, no disciplinary action in school, etc.)
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Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 08:27:03 AM »
I stated that you need to make sure you have been candid in the past. If you were, then no problem.
Again, every state is different. If there are no "red flags," then most applications, in most states, tend to sail through. Yours--- won't. You have a *recent* stay order against you, as well as disciplinary action against you in law school. For these reasons, it is incredibly likely that the Bar will go through your past more thoroughly.
I added that note as a caution, as I have experience dealing with attorneys seeking admission in a different jurisdiction that have similar issues. It is rare for someone to have issues with mental illness or substance abuse as serious as yours that have caused no problems at all, and then suddenly cause such serious problems in law school. But it does happen. More often, however, they had sporadic issues prior to that, there was a question on the law school application that could have been answered one of two ways (let's say... completely candidly, or a little less candidly), and they chose less candidly. It's no big deal if they amend prior to the process (assuming it's something small).
If this doesn't apply to you, ignore it. And I will reiterate that mental illness, alone, will not be a reason to deny you the license.
Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 08:45:03 AM »
The stay away orders were not done thru a court. They were done through the school, just to clarify.
What are my chances of getting into a local school as a transfer/exchange student? I don't want to go back to my original school. I want to finish my JD at a local law school so I can continue my treatment.
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Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 09:07:11 AM »
Thank you for the clarification! It's certainly better that it was just a school sanction.
Regarding the transfer- eh.... too many factors to consider. Your timeline makes it look like you started in 2013, and didn't quite finish your first semester of your second year. So it would be a decent option just based on time. But you- 1) have disciplinary issues at your prior school, and 2) I would assume that the same issue you had might have prevented you from being at the top of your class?
You can always try. On the plus side, enrollment numbers are way down, so if you're paying full freight somewhere, you might have more of a shot.
Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 09:31:30 AM »
Thanks for all your help, loki.
To clarify, I have already completed two years of law school (58 credits). So I would like to be a visiting/exchange student at a local school for my third year so I can continue my treatment while completing my degree. I do not under any circumstances want to return to my original school. As a visiting student, you get the degree from your original school, and the classes taken at the visitor school are not calculated into your GPA (but you get credit for them).
Re: grades, I have a 3.006 GPA, though a strong upward trend (~3.5 average for 2L year). My original school is ~T30 and the schools I want to apply to are TT/TTT.
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Re: Disciplinary Action in Law School--C&F?
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May 07, 2015, 09:57:16 AM »
That's great info! Visiting student status is very different than a "pure" transfer. One of my good friends did that back in law school (he did his first two years with me on the East Coast, then went to Loyola-LA law as a visiting student for his third year) and it's definitely doable, but fairly rare. That said, it may be something your current school administration would be amenable to, given both your needs (continued stability, etc.) and, perhaps, their needs.
I think you will need to start with a conversation with your current school's administration (some type of Dean of Student, etc., whoever you feel comfortable talking to). It is my general understanding that you would need to be "enrolled" at your current institution (cleared) before you can visit another for your third year. Remember, though, that the administration, despite whatever disagreements you might have had with them, has an interest in your success as well, if for no other reasons than to keep their numbers up.
Good luck!
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|Singer/songwriter Hedwig simulates one form of teabagging.
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|The Fake Tea Party: They hated corporations
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Global CharterEdit
Tea Bagging AgendaEdit
The Big Six are at the top of our agenda, the rest are known as mini-bags.
|a Fat Camp for Brown People!
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Legalizing RapeLegalizing God's plan to have babies with anyone we want no matter how much they say no.
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Decimate 4Chan from existenceFourwhat? We never heard of them... now leave us alone!
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Expel Liberal CEOsCEOs are our most precious Real Americans, there is no truth about the rumor of targeting CEOs. Ban EarmarksLies, Earmarks are good for the economy! Now Shut up and do as we say! -- The GOP
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- Join the Pirate Alliance
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Tea Bagging Wars:Edit
America, we are at war, and our enemies are many!
Not RacistEdit
The Tea Party is not racist! They never have and never will, plus we have a black friend!
Any articles providing evidence of racism within the Tea Party is nothing but a smear campaign. And being racist against mooslims is not racism, that's patriotism!
Tea Baggers are not racists, they are vulgarians. (I dont know what vulgarian means, but I bet is good).
Joos are not welcomed to the Tea Party, not because they are joowish but because they killeth Jesus and they never apologized.
To demonstrate that the Tea Party is not racist they have produced a music video for the kids, look it even has black people and big butts!
The Tea Bag Army:Edit
|We are going to Tea Bag like is 2001!
Just like the Kiss Army, only more weaponized and with less facial make up... most of the time.
We even have WWII style propaganda posters!
Join Now!
Membership is free!
Join now and you too can make $50,000 a year from the comforts of your home!!!
And Remember Folks, once you join in you cant never leave... EVER
List of RecruitsEdit
- Joyce Kaufman,
Director of Mediawe are sorry to hear she had to resign because some lunatic didnt understand the Tea Party message to overthrow the government...
- Byron Williams of Groveland, aka Kalyfornia Patrolman
- Super Teabaggerman, defender of Tea Bagging.
- The Black Tea Baggers
- Maine Tea Party is not recruiting at the moment
- some tea bagging black dude
- Ted Hitler, Senior
- The Billionaires Club (will send their servants to enlist on their behave as soon as they are done with their chores)
Tom Tancredo Swift Boat for Tea Baggersthe boat is on the shop
- Martin Olson: Honorary Tea Bagger
- Christine O'Donnell
- Cruella DeVille
Rich Iott (as Tea Nazi)Never heard of him...
- Biker Gangs
Stephen Broden, King of Tea Bagging Senate candidate Al Reynolds (R-Danville)You are dead to us...
The Chamber of CommerceLIES
- karl Denninger. You are dead to us...
- The Weather
The Teabagging Final solutionEdit
|Tea Baggers ready to storm 4Chan,
what could go wrong?
the teabaggers have come up with a plan to fix all americas problems once they take america back from the mooslim libural socialists. its purpose is to make sure every american will be wight republican christian and patriotic. before they put the plan into action they instate laws directly from the constitution stated below.
- mooslims must wear a brown bomb shaped patch on their shirts.
- liburals must wear a blue donkey shaped patch on their shirts.
- mexicans must wear a sombrero shaped patch on their shirts and may only speak english.
- socialist must wear a red star shaped patch on their shirts.
- people who are not american must wear a black circle or something on their shirts
- gays mus wear a pink rainbow shaped patch on their shirts.
the groups listed above are not allowed to do stuff such as vote or voice their beliefs. people can beat them up without getting in trouble. after a few months the teabagger goverment will give all the money
they do not have got from a non-tax source they will figure out later to their business freinds. then they will figure out how to pay for an army to invade mexico and make it american. after invading mexico they will put all of the groups mentioned above
in death camps truthynessification camps.
Tea Baggers Calling for an End to All Violence... Against Tea Baggers or Else:Edit
Tea Baggers understand that if un-american traitors down tone down their vitriol they will get a visit from a Real Patriot.
Tea Bagging TV (TBTV)Edit
a TV Channel exclusive to transmit only Tea Bagging programs for Tea Bagging issues.
Yes, we are getting our own reality tv show!!!
Tea Bags of TubesEdit
The Tea Bagging Party is now joining the
20th Century 21th Century by exploring the marvelous series of tubes so they can spread their message of fiscal responsibility, the dangers of socialism, and how Obama is actually a mooslim Hitler
EMERGENCY UPDATEEdit
ahem... I mean, The Tea Party thanks 4chan for showing them their error and they are correcting this honest mistake. It wont happen again! The Tea Bag Party sincerely apologizes for their transgression...
Currently our Faceteabaggingbook is currently down for maintenance... we need to clean our content with acid, fire, and iron brushes to clean up... the mess... Then quarantine the site, lets say for a couple of centuries, until the rest of the toxic hazard dies out...
The Future of Teabagging TubesEdit
Under our settlement with 4chan, any Tea Bagging Patriot seen on sight using 4chan's trademark slogan shall be:
- Tea Bagged to Death (Just like stoning, but instead we use Tea Bags. Strangely enough, it seems to be a very popular form of punishment. All of our volunteers are very eager men)
- Be dealt by 4chan and left at the mercy of their inhumane merciless methods of punishment (Trust me, being Tea Bagged to Death is actually the better choice)
Tea Bagging ComicsEdit
Tea Bagging: For Kids!Edit
Tea Bag Society for Puppies (Tea Bagging Puppies)Edit
|Remember liberals, dont vote.
It just makes it easy for us to take over.
The Tea Bag Society for Puppies is a Real American group that wants to wipe out the Humane Society, a well known hippie commie libural bestiality lover group that is undermining the free market pet business by outlawing Free Market practices that support Puppy Millers (or bootstrap nurturing programs like "less water, less food, smaller space, makes a puppy free").
The Humane Society libural policies are well known for harming local businesses by supporting unnecessary regulations that are suffocating and overly cuddling our puppies that are demanding more freedom and less regulations. Thus creating a new generation of lazy puppies that have never learned the wonders of bootstraps.
Real American Puppy Millers:Edit
Puppy Millers are Real American puppies, they are tough, they are strong, and they take no sh#t from no one, not even from their owner. Just like Real Americans!
Puppy Mills grow on deplorable conditions so they can become strong and tough, they receive no Veterinary Care because free Health Care is a Socialist Doctrine (if these puppies want to see a veterinary they better get health insurance next time)[2].
These Puppy Mills have been trained to eat less, drink less, and want less from their master so they wont become too dependent on their masters or the Government. These puppies are the perfect gift to our children so they can emulate their rugged individualism and come to learn the values of self-sufficiency, plus they are cheap.
Elitist Puppy Breeders:Edit
Elite Hippie breeders are elitists that dont like competition, to make sure they have a monopoly on the breeding market of puppies they support communist policies that is making it difficult for Real Americans like Joe The Plumber from becoming Joe The Puppy Breeder. How is he to be able to start his own puppy business if he cant breed and grow puppies on the cheap?
These Elite Breeders are suspected of breeding high class terror puppies that lack that rugged individualism that comes from growing up in a sheltered environment. These puppies will try to pass on their hippie dogma to our children thus creating a new generation of gay hippies that will support libural agendas. Once they accomplish their mission they will soon try to take over America.
The Tea Bagging Animal Welfare Policy:Edit
- Animals dont have rights, they are not black or slaves. Only black people or uppity black folks need rights.
- Hunting is a free market practice that encourages animals to buy bootstraps so they can run faster.
The Humane Society Animal Rights Policy:Edit
- They want to give rights to animals so they can become our equals thus leading to the slippery slope of slavery and ownership!
- They hate the American past time known as "hunting", also they are depraving animals the needed edjukashun of "survival of the fittest", otherwise animals would become lazy and soft without the threat of hunting.
TrashCare: The New Socialized GarbageEdit
The Redistribution of Garbage:
This is an emergency news to the residents of Fountain Hill, Arizona. We have reports that the Mooslim Administration is launching a sekret program to socialize our garbage! That's right, America's trash is in danger of falling on the hands of communists! Real Americans are hoarders and we are not going to share our trash with hippies!
This is how it happened: A community council, elected by the citizens, held a bunch of hearings or otherwise got a lot of input from its citizens regarding trash collection and the mounting pile of garbage on their streets. The council did a study, analyzed the complaints, and then they let out competitive bids for a task that is vital to the community, included a provision to recycle - a responsible thing to do - and Tea Baggers are pissed because they did not see this one coming! This is not what they asked for! They asked them to solve the Garbage Crisis by implementing free market solutions and instead they are going to socialize our garbage by implementing recycling mandates! Where is the freedom on that?!
The Communist hippies are trying to spread the insidious pagan practice of recycling and saving the Earth by stifling individual rights to consume, pollute, and waste for freedom! Such communist programs are a threat to the free market! Everyone knows that recycling takes away from jobs and reduces waste production thus hurting America's profits. Everyone knows that waste is America's main product.
Americans are constantly buying unnecessary garbage every second that supports our consumerist economy. The reduction of wasteful buying could topple our free market and we cannot allow that. The hippies are sending a message to capitalist Americans by supporting Socialized Garbage: "Stop wasting by buying more stuff and start recycling"
The recycling bin of liberty must be emptied from time to time...
Arizona Tea Baggers are against the new government program that bars free-market solutions to solve Fountain Hill's garbage crisis. The communist government will reward socialist trash collectors to steal our garbage under the cover of the night; even worst, we suspect that Obama's terror troops are studying our garbage to collect intelligence on us for the day he decides to take over Fountain Hill.
In order to preserve our free market and our personal values we must gladly accept higher prices for services, higher local taxes, and decreased our property values by turning them into dumping fields. Only then we can safely breath the air of freedom.
your family's garbage and waste
Government Monopoly on Garbage:
The communist government has decided to reward their garbage contract to only a few trash collectors, thus reducing the residents' option of having a free market garbage collector to collect their trash for a higher price. All garbage from now on will be collected by government approved agents thus taking away the individuals right of choosing a more expensive alternative. That goes against Free market principles!
According with Tea Bagging analysts the reduction of garbage collection competition will hurt the local economy as well as the trickle down economics: "The reduction of multiple garbage trucks will reduce road maintenance, cause less pollution and increase air quality, and reduce fuel consumption. The rigorous and constant pick up schedules would reduce garbage piling which will affect the city's rat infestation. This will hurt the construction industry, our health care industry, the big oil industry, and our pest control industry! This is clearly a communist conspiracy to turn us hippies!"
A Recycling Center in Every Landfill:
These Socialized Trash Collection Centers are known for employing secret Al Qaida members who are plotting to overthrow the government by sorting the garbage between plastic #1 and plastic #5. If the program is successful, the mooslim tyrant will scale it Nationwide to assimilate all of our garbage, turning us into a nation of Hippies! (Obama has not yet appointed a Garbage Czar, so it is not too late for us).
I think is time for us to eliminate the Sanitation Department and let the free market solve our garbage crisis.
Socialized Garbage Mandate:
- Mandatory recycling
- Mandatory separation of paper, plastic, aluminum, and others.
- Mandatory Separate bins for recyclables and non-recyclables.
- Mandatory trash collection for everyone (no exceptions!)
- Support experimental practices for trash Handling like Composting (which we have no study!)
Big Government After Our Dirty Water and CancerEdit
Once again the hippies are trying to undermine America's way of polluting ourselves to death. It is our right to pollute and drink our water, for it is taste like freedom and cancer! It is time for the EPA to stop their hippie ways.
Clean water is not a right but a privilege. And Cancer is a badge of honor that demonstrates the progress of our industrial Nation.
Liberal Slander Against The Tea PartyEdit
|He is not racist.
He just wants black people
to stop from committing crimes.
- Falsely claiming that Tea Bagging/Tea Bag/Tea Bagger is a sexual innuendo or something. They chose it because it reminds them of ballz and courage.
- Declaring we have low turnout rallies. False! Many of our brave Tea Baggers like to protest at the comfort of their home in the Series of Tubes.
- Falsely claiming that we are editing our rally videos to disclaim our low turnout. Again, false. We just clone our supporters, that's right. The Tea Bagging Party has cloning technology!
- Handing the NY-23 seat to the Democrats for the first time in 150 years. And what is wrong with that? It could be part of our strategic plan!
- Declaring that a Tea Bagger Spitted on a black congressman. Ok, that one is true. But on their defense Tea Baggers spit ALL Congressmen, that's called freedom of speech!
- Claiming that we Dropped the N-bomb at a black congressmen. False! The Tea Party doesnt use bombs! We are not terrorists or brown people!
- The libural media showing the parade of idiotic and racist signs. Everybody knows those were planted by democrat plants!
- Claiming we are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory against Harry Reid. Again, part of our grand strategy for 2010 and 2012.
- Quite possibly losing Kentucky. How many times do I have to repeat myself? It is part of our grand plan! Dont you get it you stoopid liburals?!
- Forcing the few sane GOP candidates left to spend WAY more in normally slam-dunk primaries, with the GOP especially cash-strapped. IT CREATES JUBS! WHY IS IT SO WRONG TO SPEND MONEY TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY?!
Tea Bagging: International House of Tea LeavesEdit
We have gone international!
Tea Bagging: The 2010 RekoningEdit
|Surviving Washington, DC.
Once our brothers and sisters in the Tea Bagging movement takes over Congress, we can expect a wonderful future for America.
We have done it Nation! Our victory in
Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, Florida, and Kentucky has demonstrated our enemies that the Tea Party is a danger to not be taken lightly. This victory will allow us to stop Obama's insidious plan to turning the White House through 180 degrees until it pointed directly at Mecca. This is America, and we wont allow that.
This is a new era of Tea Bagging-Republican alliance.
Michele Bachmann: Queen of Tea BaggersEdit
Today we are announcing that Michele Bachmann will receive the chairmanship to control the Republican Party, thus solidifying the Tea Party control of the GOP! Congratulations, your Tea Bagging Majesty!
I am sad to announced that while Mrs. Bachmann is qualified to receive the chairmanship, she lacks a fundamental quality to qualify for the control of the House:
sanity balls.
Tea Bagging for KidsEdit
Tea Baggers are trying to introduce a new bill that would allow bootstraps educational programs for children, it is time for this tricycle welfare queens to earn their bread.
Lil' Tea Bagging
Force Labor Summer Fun CampEdit
Mom and Dad, it is that of the year where we must teach our children the value of the dollar. Lil' Tea Bagging Summer Fun Camp will teach your children how to pull their own bootstrapsw without being dependent to no one, not even you! We will teach such valuable activities like:
- Making wallets to sell in Taiwan to fund the Tea Party treasury
- Hunt for food so we can sell it for additional profits for the Tea Party
- Build a shelter to rent to our rich tourists and visitors (and our staff, we need to sleep)
- Construct a recreational facility for our staff members to make their summer memorable
- Valance our booksheets and find additional ways to create tax deductible items
- Memorize the Konstitushon
- And other fun activities!
But of course these activities are not free, for the price of $599 we can guarantee that your child will become an indoctrinated member of the Tea Party!
All proceeds will be reinvested into the Tea Party.
GOP infightEdit
There is no truth that Tea Baggers are fighting with Social Conservatives on different issues. That is a lie. Nor there is any truth that Tea Baggers are betraying the free market or our benevolent masters like Big Oil.
Tea Bagging: International EditionEdit
The Tea Party is looking forward to export their patriotic ideas overseas, as of right now they have established a beachhead in Norway. Their attache, a Mr. Breivik, is already working hard to convince Real Nordic people that the threat known as Obama is coming soon to destroy their way of life and kill their children.
Tea Party soon to invade England.
Tea Party Demolishes Socialist Rating!Edit
|You are welcome.
Thanks to the Tea Party we are close to our libertarian no-government paradise dream, yet the liberals continue their deluded dream that Real Americans are destroying the economy. Liberals...
Save The Constitution!Edit
The Tea Party will save the constitution by killing it, it makes sense.
Tea Bagging HealthcareEdit
|Yeah, kill the socialist!
- Government out of Medicare and the Privatization of Medicare.
- And if you are sick, you better die. But wont worry, you will die Free!
- The Tea Party has proposed a reality TV show where they get to film the sick uninsured as they are dying to teach a lesson to America, if you are not rich to buy your own healthcare then you are not worthy of even living.
Tea Party Nation: The Raisin of the New South!Edit
Now this is the Real American we all have been looking for.
See AlsoEdit
- Astroturf
- Glenn Beck
- anal poisoning
- Scott Brown
- Dale Robertson
- Sharron Angle
- The Tea Bagging Manual
- MeCorp and the free market.
External, Yet still American, Tea Bagging TubesEdit
OK, I grew up in Lutherville, and Divine opened the back door at the Timonium Theatre so we could sneak in and see Jane Fonda naked in Klute and Jennifer O'Neal in summer of '42, but NO MORE EXTERNAL TUBES! Footnote: Maryland State Fair
|Tea Party: a Call To Arms
- Black Tea Baggers' Facebook page
- Tea Bag TV
- Tea Bagging more popular than ever!
- Tea Baggers supports GOP
- Tea Baggers Baggin' on Healthcare!
- Tea Baggers finds solution to Health Care Problems!
- Tea Bagging to receive Medal of Freedom
- Tea Baggers elect New Pope
- Tea Baggers remembers 9/12
- Tea Baggers to protest Metro DC for wasteful spending
- Fox News loves Tea Bagging
- Tea Party wins heart of the media
- Tea Party to start in new movie!
- Tea Baggers Tells joos to stop whining and monopolizing on the "Hollowcaust"
- Tea Party Candidate arrested for
drug possessionbeing American!
- Tea Party to sue un-american traitors!
- Tea Party supports anti-immigration against
- Tea Party to topple
McCainanother Republican Traitor
- Tea Party captures Obama's secret agent: Scheduled to be executed
- Palin and Bachmann join forces with Tea Party
- Tea Party to recruit rubber chickens
- Tea Party: The Movie
- Tea Party to replace GOP. Republicans celebrate!
- Tea Party comes to Colorado
- Evil democrats refuse to listen to Tea Party's protest
- Tea Party to bring Back Christmas!
- Tea Party supports the end of Communist America
- Tea Party: A History
- GOP to ask Tea Party for cash
|Our Tea Bag Experts
- Tea Party sends fax to un-american traitors. Eloquent papers convinces Nation of Libural Threat
- Tea Party demands the end of Socialized Medicine
- Tea Party to give more money to the GOP
- Tea Party being hijacked by
- Tea Party doesnt support Racism
- GOP to take over Tea Party. Tea Party
- Tea Party to go on strike! America Demands prosecution of Mooslim Tyrant
- Tea Party uncovers new evidence that Obama bankrupted America
- Tea Party convention rocks the Nation
- Tea Party Tells welfare queen to get a jub!
- Tea Party to elect new speaker: Mr. Browning
- Tea Baggers to hunt down Dorks!
- Tea Bagging heroes to hunt down socialist traitors
- Glorious Patriots making time to save our Nation
- Liburals continue to slander lies about The Tea Party!
- Learn how to speak
Tea BagReal American 101
- Reverse Racism continues to haunt Tea Party
- Taxes more popular than tea?
- The Black people joins the Tea Party
- Six easy steps to become a Tea Man!
- Tea Party proves That they are not Racist!!!
- Tea Party joins cause to stop un-american foreigners
- Democrats refusing to endorse Tea Party's Libertarian Philosophies
Mooslims are worshiping a monkey!The comments made by Mark Williams does not reflect the opinions of Wikiality.com
- Rand Paul to lead Tea Party to new Century of
- Tea Party to run on Pro-Messiah Platform. Where is your God Now
- Tea party to take Las Vegas by storm
- Tea party Awesomest Economic Plan for Fiscal Responsibility
- Tea Party takes Maine
- Tea Party to take a long hiatus
- Tea Party Moves "Tea Bagging HQ" to Colorado: Free Tea Bagging Every Tuesday
- Tea Bagging makes awesome profit!
- Tea Bagging Dont Need no Government Help
- Tea Bagging: What Happened in Las Vegas... stays in Las Vegas! Do You Understand Me?
- Old Lezbian Hatez Tea Bagging!
- Corporations want some of that Tea Bagging
- Tea party Hero abandons patriotic agenda
- Tea Bagging National An... wait there is a conservative youtube?? Since when?!
- There is no racism in Tea Bagging Party!
- Tea Bagger Patriot attacked by hobos!
- If you are a Tea Bagger you are not racist: It is genetically Impossible
- Tea Bagging Hero to Retire: to Spend More Time with Family
- Tea Baggers to hold orgy summit
- Michele Bachmann's leadership to help the
GOPTea Party win election
- Tea Party supports Wikiality.com
- Super Teabagman!
- un-american traitor betrays Tea Party
- Tea Party Hero sticks it to the man. Want his money? Come and get it!
- Tea Bagging Carnival Opens Today!
- Tea Bagging Hater slanders Patriots
- New Hero to stop IRS
- 90% of Tea Baggers are ten times more patriotic than anyone
- Tea Party to replace currency with Libertarian Magic Fairy Dust
- Tea Party dont need money. They can run on Libertarian magic dust!
- Tea Party agenda will bring success to the GOP
- GOP and Tea Party dont need no Latino Vote
- Charity Organizations to take over Entitlement Programs at very affordable prices
- Elimination of 14th Amendment will create jubs!
- Tea Bagging Washington DC on one penny a day
- Tea Baggers to hold a Constitutional Orgy!
- Alaska to become Tea Bagging Central!
- Tea Baggers welcome Glenn Beck
- Tea Bagger claims Tea Party like Nazi Germany: Racist and misunderstood
- Billionaire Club supports Patriotic Party
- Tea Bagging: Japanese Edition
- Delaware welcomes Tea Bagging Overlord
- Bob Bennett is a failure
- Another Tea Bagging Victory on the way!
RepublicansDemocrats running for the hills Brave Tea Bag Heroa nobody is disrupting the Tea Bagging Process!
- Tea Baggers protesting
democraticrepublican organization
- GOP Delaware declares war on Tea
- un-american traitor sabotages Tea Bagging's plans
- Tea Party soon to claim new State! Suck it sexual deviants!
- Tea Bagging Patriots to take Delaware with their patriotic support
- Tea Bagging Victory at hand, we are close!
- Tea Baggers to celebrate victory over Mike Castle
Tea Party to hold the Biggest Tea Bagging Event Ever in Las VegasYou are dead to me Phillips
- Tea Baggers face more persecution than teh geys: Being a Patriot is not a Choice!
- The History of Tea Bagging: Now with more Crackers
- Tea Bagging News: Hollywood is Racist!
- Tea Baggers opposes Corn Bailout
- Tea Baggers discover a new Hero
- Tea Baggers to buy a more sophisticated blend
- Tea Bagging power continues to grow
- How Tea Baggers will take over the world
- Tea Baggers need more money!
- Radical Tea, Dude!
- Christian Tea Baggers to take country in less than two years
- Tea Bagging badges for sale
- Is working! Social Security now more unpopular than ever!
- Tea Party to own more land
- Tea Party Heroes to help Wall Street
- No More Socialist Church
- Tea Bagger fear for his life: liburals are out there to get me!
- Republicans have nothing to fear from rightwing extremism
- Tea Party ready for 2012
- Republican traitor abandons Tea Party!
- Tea Bagging Ejukashun sucex!
- Tea Bagging hero arrested for telling the truth
- Tea Party to fight the IRS
- Shocking News: Labor Unions filled with trolls!
- How to recognize a real Tea Bagger
- Awesome plan to stop Obama from driving the wrong direction
- Free Market to give more freedom to Tea Baggers
- How Tea Bagging changed the Political landscape
- Tea Baggers close to achieve victory! We have saved America!
- Tea Bagging is now Trademarked, please stop tea bagging without paying up
- Lies about the Tea Party
- Edjukashun continues to steal from Real Americans
- Tea Bagging last hope to stop the gay wave
- Tea Bagging Paradise
- Liberal lies about Tea Party falling apart
- Liberal book tries to rewrite history
- Tea Party edjukashunal program includes schoolz for the rich only
- Tea Party Strategy to get what they want by Destroying America
- Tea Party Paradise
- Tea Baggers celebrate victory over Debt Ceiling. Suck it, Obama!
- Tea Party declares victory
- How the Tea Party saved our economy
- Tea Party to prepare their own stimulus package
- Brave Tea Bagger tea bagged with taxes and commies
- How the Tea Party prepared our Path to Unlimited Prosperity!
- Tea Baggers ready for biggest tea orgy in history
- Tea Party to liberate space from socialism. Vulcan, cesspool of socialism.
- The Tea Party secret for success
- Tea Party to end era of Socialist Town Halls
- Brave Hero underfire for trying to stop great tyrant
- Republican Hero working hard to protect our liberties
- Tea Party understands the meaning of shared sacrifice, no more caviar cake
- Tea Party Victory is ours! Government entitlement programs soon to collapse
- New Tea Bagger amazes crowd
- The wonder that is the Tea Party
- How the Tea Party saves on grocery by eating their young.
- Tea Party finally learning to navigate the murky waters of Congress
- Socialist bridge to undermine profits!
- Tea Party to restore Articles of Confederation
- Tea Party projects awesome gains for 2012
- Tea Party lives

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Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Cave Collection 2003
External Review by Fame Wine and Tobacco:
"Forward aromas of cassisAdd winemaker's notes
Far Niente Winery:
Far Niente was founded in 1885 by John Benson, a forty-niner of the California gold rush and uncle of the famous American impressionist painter, Winslow Homer. Benson hired architect Hamden McIntyre, creator of the former Christian Brothers winery – now the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone – to design the building. Constructed against a hillside in western Oakville, Far Niente functio... Read more
Far Niente was founded in 1885 by John Benson, a forty-niner of the California gold rush and uncle of the famous American impressionist painter, Winslow Homer. Benson hired architect Hamden McIntyre, creator of the former Christian Brothers winery – now the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone – to design the building. Constructed against a hillside in western Oakville, Far Niente functioned as a gravity flow winery, gently moving the grapes through each stage of production. Far Niente prospered until the onset of Prohibition in 1919, when it was abandoned and left to fall into disrepair. Sixty years later, in 1979, Gil Nickel purchased the winery and adjacent vineyard and began a three-year restoration of the property. During restoration, the original name, Far Niente, from an Italian phrase that romantically translated means "without a care," was found carved in stone on the front of the building where it remains to this day. We felt an obligation to preserve the name with the hope that we could recapture a bygone era when life was indeed without a care. Nineteen eighty-two marked the return of winemaking to Far Niente, with the harvest of the winery's first Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay was also produced at the winery for the first time that year; the 1979, '80 and '81 vintage wines were made at an offsite location. Today, the winery continues to focus on producing only the two varietal wines. California's Oldest Bottle of Wine Far Niente's past and present were reunited in 1998, when a bottle of Far Niente Sweet Muscat, vintage 1886, was discovered in a private cellar in Marin County, CA. The bottle exhibits the original label, cork and capsule, and is believed to be the oldest intact bottle of California wine in existence today. The label, featuring a sepia-tone line drawing of a hammock laden with grape clusters, is thought to have been designed by Benson's nephew, artist Winslow Homer. Historians of the artist liken the style of the hammock on the label to the same technique employed in Homer's other works. Eric Rudd, a historian and expert on Homer, has explained that while Homer created very little commercial art, he was known to have supplied his work to friends and relations for commercial use, including his cousin, Virginia Johnson. This was the same Virginia Johnson who inherited Far Niente in the early 1900s, from her uncle, John Benson. Today, Far Niente wines carry an intricate art nouveau-style parchment label, which was designed by artist Tom Rodrigues in 1979. Rodrigues also designed the labels for Far Niente's sister wineries Dolce, producer of a late harvest wine, and Nickel & Nickel, a new winery devoted exclusively to producing small-lot, single vineyard wines. When John Benson built Far Niente in 1885, it was evident by the stone archway in the west wall of the cellar that wine caves were to be chiseled into the solid rock. Unfortunately, as a result of Mr. Benson's death and the forced closure brought on by Prohibition, these caves never materialized. It was in 1980, one year after Far Niente was purchased by Gil Nickel, that Alf Burtleson was hired by Gil to dig a small 60-foot wine cave in the hill behind the winery. Little did the two men know at the time, that the Far Niente wine caves would become the first to be constructed in North America since the turn of the century, spawning a new industry in California wine country. Almost ten years after the first excavation and accompanied by Alf's expertise, Gil undertook the adventurous project of expanding the wine caves to 15,060 square feet. At the time, Alf and his four-man crew utilized a 22-foot long electric and hydraulic drill used in England for digging coal mines, and completed the shotcrete-lined caves in 1991. A second phase, adjoining an additional 13,000 square feet were added in 1995, and a third phase, bringing the total cave area to 40,000 square feet, was completed in 2001. "Caves have qualities beneficial to wine aging that are impossible to capture in an above-ground building," says Dirk Hampson, director of winemaking at Far Niente. Much attention and concern have been devoted to the aesthetics in the integral design of the caves, which consist of recessed lighting, back-lit niches, a large octagonal wine library, and a number of 45-degree tunnels. In addition to the wonders of aging wine in beautiful surroundings, much can be attributed to the practical benefits of storing and aging wine underground. A constant temperature of 58-60 degrees Fahrenheit, accompanied by natural humidity, contribute to low evaporation in a consistent environment. Far Niente's caves currently house approximately 2,500 French oak barrels. Read less
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0 New Video – Mudvayne – Heard It All Before
1 Mudvayne – The New Game (Release Year – 2008)
2008 has introduced me to a plethora of new hard rock and metal music. For whatever reason, I have not picked up any Mudvayne releases until now. I recently heard Mudvayne's new single, "Do What You Do", and I liked that song well enough to check out their new CD, "The Game".
Dave Fortman, who produced Mudvayne's last album, "Lost and Found" returns to helm for "The New Game". He has also previously worked on albums by Evanescence and more recently "All Hope is Gone" by Slipknot produced this disc. I am familiar with the discs that he has worked on, so I took the plunge, and purchased this CD.
I must admit, with Mudvayne's image, I expected this to be a disc that was more heavy metal than anything else. Most of the time, "The New Game" is more hard rock than heavy metal, but it does have its heavy moments. When the band slows it down, they remind of Disturbed mixed with a bit of Slipknot. When they crank up the tempo, they nearly fall into that hard core style. Singer Chad Gray, is another one of those singers that can sing in a pure voice, and then change over to hard core like screams. Typically, I can't stand hard core vocals, but with Gray, I can understand what he is singing, so that is a definite plus. He occasionally reminds of me of ex-Pantera front man, Phil Anselmo, so that is kind of cool.
"Fish Out of Water" is the first song that is half hard core, half hard rock. I didn't like this song on the first spin, and while I have warmed up to it somewhat, I can still do without this one.
"Do What You Do" is the first single, and was my introduction to the band. I like this song pretty well, and there are more songs in this vein on "The New Game. "Have It Your Way" is one of the songs in the same style. This song has a really cool rhythm and seems tailor made for radio.
I can see the mosh pits breaking out for the title track "The New Game". This is more of a hard core tune which is really not my cup of tea. I do like the heaviness of the song, but as a whole, this isn't a tune that I can get into.
"Dull Boy" originally appeared on the Mudvayne compilation CD, "By The People, For the People". Strangely enough, I have heard this on the radio a few times, but I never realized that it was a Mudvayne song. This is another solid tune on this disc.
"Never Enough" has that typical heavy rhythm guitar style of playing that is so common place with today's rock acts. This reminds me a lot of Corey Taylor's side project, "Stone Sour". This is a nother song that will find its way on the radio.
"We The People" closes out "The New Game" with a hard hitting number that will ignite your inner head banger. Each time I play this tune, I like it more and more. This is as good of an album closer as I have heard all year.
After listening to this CD, I read what some long time Mudvayne fans have said about this disc, most of which was not nice. Most have not liked Mudvayne's change of direction in sound. While I can't comment on the bands' past work, I liked the majority of the songs on "The New Game". If you are a casual fan, you ought to give this band a chance, you might like what you hear. The music might not be completely original, but it is definitely worth giving a spin. I believe the more mainstream approach on "The New Game" will mak this Mudvayne's most successful album to date.
You can preview songs off of the "The New Game" on the Mudvayne myspace page.
- Fish Out Of Water
- Do What You Do
- A New Game
- Have It Your Way
- A Cinderella Story
- The Hate In Me
- Dull Boy
- Same Ol' (Clean Album Version)
- Never Enough
- We The People
Mudvayne is:
Chad Gray − vocals
Greg Tribbett − guitars, backing vocals
Ryan Martinie − bass
Matthew McDonough − drums


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In November 2007 EKA was announced, which is privately funded supercomputer. Eka, built by CRL, Pune is the world's 4th fastest supercomputer, and the fastest one that didn't use government funding. This is the same supercomputer referenced in Yahoo!'s recent announcement about cloud computing research at the Hadoop Summit. This article describes some of the technical details of Eka's design and implementation.
My town – pune is home to some of the best supercomputing research and development facility into the area of software and other related technology. C-DAC (a scientific society of the Department of Information Technology, Government of India) has developed and supplied a range of high performance parallel computers, known as the PARAM series of supercomputers. Now CRL – a tata group company build the EKa one of the top 10 supercomputers in the world, Eka is the only system that was fully privately funded. All other systems used government money, so all of them are for captive use. This means that Eka is the only system in the top 10 that is available for commercial use without strings attached.
The computing infrastructure itself consists of:
- 1800 blades, 4 cores each. 3Ghz for each core.
- HP SFS clusters
- 28TB memory
- 80TB storage. Simple SATA disks. 5.2Gbps throughput.
- Lustre distributed file-system
- 20Gbps infiniband DDR. Eka was on the cutting edge of Infiniband technology. They sourced their infiniband hardware from an Israeli company and where amongst the first users of their releases – including beta, and even alpha quality stuff.
- Multiple Gigabit ethernets
- Linux is the underlying OS. Any Linux will work – RedHat, SuSe, your favorite distribution.
=> Building EKA – The world's fastest privately funded supercomputer


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Under a skylight in her tin-ceilinged loft near Union Square in Manhattan, the abstract painter Carmen Herrera, 94, nursed a flute of Champagne last week, sitting regally in the wheelchair she resents.
After six decades of very private painting, Ms. Herrera sold her first artwork five years ago, at 89. Now, at a small ceremony in her honor, she was basking in the realization that her career had finally, undeniably, taken off. As cameras flashed, she extended long, Giacomettiesque fingers to accept an art foundation's lifetime achievement award from the director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Her good friend, the painter Tony Bechara, raised a glass. "We have a saying in Puerto Rico," he said. "The bus la guagua always comes for those who wait."
And the Cuban-born Ms. Herrera, laughing gustily, responded, "Well, Tony, I've been at the bus stop for 94 years!"
Since that first sale in 2004, collectors have avidly pursued Ms. Herrera, and her radiantly ascetic paintings have entered the permanent collections of institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and the Tate Modern. Last year, MoMA included her in a pantheon of Latin American artists on exhibition. And this summer, during a retrospective show in England, The Observer of London called Ms. Herrera the discovery of the decade, asking, "How can we have missed these beautiful compositions?"
In a word, Ms. Herrera, a nonagenarian homebound painter with arthritis, is hot. In an era when the art world idolizes, and often richly rewards, the young and the new, she embodies a different, much rarer kind of success, that of the artist long overlooked by the market, and by history, who persevered because she had no choice.
"I do it because I have to do it; it's a compulsion that also gives me pleasure," she said of painting. "I never in my life had any idea of money and I thought fame was a very vulgar thing. So I just worked and waited. And at the end of my life, I'm getting a lot of recognition, to my amazement and my pleasure, actually."
Julián Zugazagoitia, the director of El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, called Ms. Herrera "a quiet warrior of her art."
"To bloom into full glory at 94 whatever Carmen Herrera's slow rise might say about the difficulties of being a woman artist, an immigrant artist or an artist ahead of her time, it is clearly a story of personal strength," Mr. Zugazagoitia said.
A minimalist whose canvases are geometric distillations of form and color, Ms. Herrera has slowly come to the attention of a subset of art historians over the last decade. . Now she is increasingly considered an important figure by those who study her "remarkably monumental, iconic paintings," said Edward J. Sullivan, a professor of art history at New York University.
"Those of us with a passion for either geometric art or Latin American Modernist painting now realize what a pivotal role" Ms. Herrera has played in "the development of geometric abstraction in the Americas," Mr. Sullivan said.
Painting in relative solitude since the late 1930s, with only the occasional exhibition, Ms. Herrera was sustained, she said, by the unflinching support of her husband of 61 years, Jesse Loewenthal. An English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Mr. Loewenthal was portrayed by the memoirist Frank McCourt, a colleague, as an old-world scholar in an "elegant, three-piece suit, the gold watch chain looping across his waistcoat front."
Recognition for Ms. Herrera came a few years after her husband's death, at 98, in 2000. "Everybody says Jesse must have orchestrated this from above," Ms. Herrera said, shaking her head. "Yeah, right, Jesse on a cloud." She added: "I worked really hard. Maybe it was me."
In a series of interviews in her sparsely but artfully furnished apartment, Ms. Herrera always offered an afternoon cocktail "Oh, don't be abstemious!" and an outpouring of stories about prerevolutionary Cuba, postwar Paris and the many artists she has known, from Wifredo Lam to Yves Klein to Barnett Newman.
"Ah, Wifredo," she said, referring to Lam, the Cuban-born French painter. "All the girls were crazy about him. When we were in Havana, my phone would begin ringing: 'Is Wifredo in town?' I mean, come on, I wasn't his social secretary."
But Ms. Herrera is less expansive about her own art, discussing it with a minimalism redolent of the work. "Paintings speak for themselves," she said. Geometry and color have been the head and the heart of her work, she added, describing a lifelong quest to pare down her paintings to their essence, like visual haiku.
Asked how she would describe to a student a painting like "Blanco y Verde" (1966) a canvas of white interrupted by an inverted green triangle she said, "I wouldn't have a student." To a sweet, inquiring child, then? "I'd give him some candy so he'd rot his teeth."
When pressed about what looks to some like a sensual female shape in the painting, she said: "Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things dirty minds! but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles."
Born in 1915 in Havana, where her father was the founding editor of the daily newspaper El Mundo, and her mother a reporter, Ms. Herrera took art lessons as a child, attended finishing school in Paris and embarked on a Cuban university degree in architecture. In 1939, midway through her studies, she married Mr. Loewenthal and moved to New York. (They had no children.)
Although she studied at the Art Students League of New York, Ms. Herrera did not discover her artistic identity until she and her husband settled in Paris for a few years after World War II. There she joined a group of abstract artists, based at the influential Salon of New Realities, which exhibited her work along with that of Josef Albers, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and others.
"I was looking for a pictorial vocabulary and I found it there," she said. "But when we moved back to New York, this type of art" her less-is-more formalism "was not acceptable. Abstract Expressionism was in fashion. I couldn't get a gallery."
Ms. Herrera said that she also accepted, "as a handicap," the barriers she faced as a Hispanic female artist. Beyond that, though, "her art was not easily digestible at the time," Mr. Zugazagoitia said. "She was not doing Cuban landscapes or flowers of the tropics, the art you might have expected from a Cuban émigré who spent time in Paris. She was ahead of her time."
Over the decades, Ms. Herrera had a solo show here and there, including a couple at museums (the Alternative Museum in 1984, El Museo del Barrio in 1998). But she never sold anything, and never needed, or aggressively sought, the affirmation of the market. "It would have been nice, but maybe corrupting," she said.
Mr. Bechara, who befriended her in the early 1970s and is now chairman of El Museo del Barrio, said that he regularly tried to push her into the public eye, even though she "found a kind of solace in being alone."
One day in 2004, Mr. Bechara attended a dinner with Frederico Sève, the owner of the Latin Collector Gallery in Manhattan, who was dealing with the withdrawal of an artist from a much-publicized show of female geometric painters. "Tony said to me: 'Geometry and ladies? You need Carmen Herrera,' " Mr. Sève recounted. "And I said, 'Who the hell is Carmen Herrera?' "
The next morning, Mr. Sève arrived at his gallery to find several paintings, just delivered, that he took to be the work of the well-known Brazilian artist Lygia Clark but were in fact by Ms. Herrera. Turning over the canvases, he saw that they predated by a decade paintings in a similar style by Ms. Clark. "Wow, wow, wow," he recalled saying. "We got a pioneer here."
Mr. Sève quickly called Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, a collector who has an art foundation in Miami. She bought five of Ms. Herrera's paintings. Estrellita Brodsky, another prominent collector, bought another five. Agnes Gund, president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, also bought several, and with Mr. Bechara, donated one of Ms. Herrera's black-and-white paintings to MoMA.
The recent exhibition in England, which is now heading to Germany, came about by happenstance after a curator stumbled across Ms. Herrera's paintings on the Internet. Last week The Observer named that retrospective one of the year's 10 best exhibitions, alongside a Picasso show and one devoted to the American Pop artist Ed Ruscha.
Ms. Herrera's late-in-life success has stunned her in many ways. Her larger works now sell for $30,000, and one painting commanded $44,000 sums unimaginable when she was, say, in her 80s. "I have more money now than I ever had in my life," she said.
Not that she is succumbing to a life of leisure. At a long table where she peers out over East 19th Street "like a French concierge," Ms. Herrera, because she must, continues to draw and paint. "Only my love of the straight line keeps me going," she said.


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Using SambaRobert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
1st Edition November 1999
1-56592-449-5, Order Number: 4495
416 pages, $34.95
A.4 Setting Up SSL Proxy
The SSL Proxy program is available as a standalone binary or as source code. You can download it from http://obdev.at/Products/sslproxy.html.
Once it is downloaded, you can configure and compile it like Samba. We will configure it on a Windows NT system. However, setting it up for a Unix system involves a nearly identical series of steps. Be sure that you are the superuser (administrator) for the next series of steps.
If you downloaded the binary for Windows NT, you should have the following files in a directory:
The only one that you will be interested in is the SSL Proxy executable. Copy over the phoenix.pem and phoenix.key files that you generated earlier for the client to the same directory as the SSL proxy executable. Make sure that the directory is secure from the prying eyes of other users.
The next step is to ensure that the Windows NT machine can resolve the NetBIOS name of the Samba server. This means that you should either have a WINS server up and running (the Samba server can perform this task with the
yesoption) or have it listed in the appropriate hosts file of the system. See Chapter 7, Printing and Name Resolution, for more information on WINS server.[1]
[1] If you are running SSL Proxy on a Unix server, you should ensure that the DNS name of the Samba server can be resolved.
Finally, start up SSL Proxy with the following command. Here, we assume that
hydrais the name of the Samba server:#
C:\SSLProxy>sslproxy -l 139 -R hydra -r 139 -n -c phoenix.pem -k phoenix.key
This tells SSL Proxy to listen for connections to port 139 and relay those requests to port 139 on the NetBIOS machine
hydra. It also instructs SSL Proxy to use the phoenix.pem and phoenix.key files to generate the certificate and keys necessary to initiate the SSL connection. SSL Proxy responds with:Enter PEM pass phrase:
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- Be inclusive and diverse
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With the help of Faust, here is an ILP primer on basic Philosophical Logic. There are two sections to this post – 1) A basic introduction to logic and 2) A refresher section for people who learnt the basics but want to be reminded of things. The first section is patronising and the second is not, because I wrote the first and I'm not a very nice person. Mistakes in there are therefore all mine.
If you are a new student of logic, you should start with [1] and then, once understood, move on to [2]. We hope to introduce more guides like this in future. This is a tentative start.
There is a lot that has been written about logic and you would do well to buy yourself an introduction to philosophical logic. This guide can only act as a motivator or as a very basic introduction but will leave you with many questions. If you just want to pretend to appear clever, you would do well to learn this guide by heart and that will put your ability to win arguments above 90% of internet users today.
Here we go…get yourself a cup of coffee or a strong whiskey.
Section [1]
When we talk about logic, in terms of Philosophy here at ILP, we're actually talking about the study of argument. Argument is logic, logic is argument. Philosophers care a great deal about arguments, and hence, one cannot hope to be a philosopher without knowing about logic even if you then decide to ignore logic (notable example: Nietzche).
However, there's a problem. Everyone has got an opinion, and just how do we tell good arguments from bad ones?
It should be mentioned that to a philosopher, an argument is interesting only in so far as what is being said and not how it is being said. So, we could shout and swear at one another, but the philosopher only cares about what we are shouting and swearing and more often only about the structure of what we are saying, such as the order in which we say things. In this sense, an argument is not actually a shouting match. To be successful at philosophy, you need to teach yourself to argue without becoming emotional (or, at least, not too emotional!).
For our purposes here, we shall describe an argument as a sentence or a set of sentences which lead up to some other sentence. This last sentence may or may not be justified by the sentences which came before it. Confused yet? Good! The way to spot the last sentence is to look for a word like 'therefore' or 'so' or 'hence'. The sentences which lead up to this kind of word are known as premises. The sentence which comes after the 'and so..' or 'therefore' word is called the conclusion. For for a Philosopher, an argument is:
Premises, followed by a 'therefore' sort of word, and a conclusion.
Not too tricky, right? Keep an eye out for the words like 'therefore' or 'thus' because these warn you that the conclusion is about to arrive. Unfortunately, reading a paper or talking to your friend will not always yield arguments as simple or straightforward as this. Sometimes you have to cut through lots of rubbish to find the argument itself. This is why learning about arguments is so helpful – because you will actually become better at expressing yourself to others while you understand others much better too (probably even better than they understand themselves…).
The next step for a philosopher is to ask how we can tell if the conclusion, once it is identified, is a logical consequence of the premises or not. Do the premise-sentences justify us accepting the conclusion-sentence? How do we know? How can we tell?
Firstly we need to find out if the argument is valid or not. Uh oh – what is validity?
Validity: A judgment made about the form of an argument. Validity has nothing to do with truth. An argument is said to be valid only "by virtue of it being a substitution-instance of a valid argument form.â€
What the hell does that mean? Don't worry – it's part of Formal Logic, which is described further down the page – but for now just keep reading. Take another sip of coffee.
When we talk about validity, we are actually not talking about words, sentences or phrases. We are talking about the structure or the form of the argument. For example:
"Obw is a man, and since all men are mortal Obw must be mortal too."
We can display this natural language argument as follows:
Premise 1: "All men are mortal.â€
Premise 2: "Obw is a man.â€
Conclusion: "Obw is mortal.â€
This argument has a form which you will one day be able to recognise (see Formal Logic below once you understand the definitions). First, let's cover some definitions:
In order to analyse the above argument we need to be aware of some basic definitions. This is a bit like learning algebra in a maths class - but much more fun.
Mathematicians use symbols like X and Y to hold the place of numbers. I'm sure you remember having to learn that 2x + 2x = 4x or something like that. If not, don't worry. Maths people use these symbols to represent numbers. In Philosophy we don't need to use maths symbols. We have our own special types of variables (things which can represent other things).
In Philosophy, our variables reserve space not for numbers, like in maths, but for sentences. To be precise - we don't call them sentences, we call them propositions.
But just what is a proposition?
A proposition is best imagined as something absolutely identical with the meaning of a sentence rather than a sentence itself. In this way, a proposition can be the 'general gist' of two sentences, even when these sentences are actually different. For example:
Sentence 1: "Obw is more handsome than Faust."
Sentence 2: "Faust is uglier than Obw."
These two sentences can be described as expressing the very same proposition: I.e. that Obw is one some way better looking than Faust, or any way you want to word it. The proposition is the meaning both sentences allude to. Even though the sentences are different.
Now you know what a proposition is. Does it feel good? Good! Sometimes, logic types call propositions sentences. That's because they enjoy confusing you.
Let's go back to Philosophical variables. We mentioned that maths people use X and Y and so on. We also mentioned that in Philosophy, we want to have variables not for numbers, but for propositions. Logicians use letters to reserve space for propositions, and although there are many different ones, you only need to learn about three right now:
p, q and r.
That wasn't so painful! As Philosophers, we can use p, q and r to represent our propositions, or the propositions of others' arguments. These have a special name: sentential variables (sentential because they deal with sentences (propositions)).
Ok, back to argument form. So we mentioned that validity is all about the form of an argument and nothing to do with the truth of an argument. You should think of the whole argument-analysing process as having two distinct steps:
1) You figure out if the argument is valid.
2) If it is valid, you figure out if the premises are true. If they are, the conclusion is gonna be true too.
It's like a logic machine. Validity is the oil. Without oil, the machine doesn't work. If your argument has validity, and you put truth into it, it will spit truth out. If you put rubbish into it, it will spit rubbish out. If it's not valid, there's just no oil, and it isn't going to spit anything out – it might just fall apart. It's not even worth touching without big gloves and a plastic hat.
So let's consider what we have just learned:
- This means that even if the premises of an argument are false, the argument can still be valid. Hmm, interesting.
- This means that whenever the premises of a valid argument are true, the conclusion will be true too.
- This means that if an argument is valid, it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false.
- This means that an invalid argument is where it's possible that the premises could be true AND the conclusion false. Oh… Ok, I am beginning to get this now.
We have another word to describe an argument that is valid AND has all true premises. Given that a valid argument with true premises MUST have a true conclusion (thanks to its validity!), we can call this argument sound. A sound argument, therefore, is an argument that is valid and an argument that has true premises. If the argument is valid, but some premises are false, it is a valid argument only. If the argument is not valid, we don't even need to worry about the premises!
Deductive argument: A deductive argument is a valid argument. You will often see philosophers talk about valid arguments as being deductively valid arguments. This comes from the word 'deduce'. The conclusion is deduced from the premises.
Ok – so you have a basic appreciation of what it is for an argument to be valid, but how can we formally show one argument to be valid and another not valid?
Formal Logic and Validity
Formal logic is all concerned with argument forms, or forms of argument. We mentioned earlier that a valid argument is an argument that has a valid argument form. But, I didn't tell you what a valid argument form is yet:
If we consider the example I gave right at the start – that of myself, Obw, being a man and being mortal, we can see this argument to be valid – if the premises are true then the conclusion has to be true too. It would be impossible for those premises to be true, and the conclusion false. So it has to be valid. This is the force of logic.
Of course, the premises might not be true. On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog. I might be a Dog, and Obw might be the name my owner gave me. You can't be sure. But you can be sure the argument is valid – and validity doesn't care if the premises are true or not, only the form of the argument.
Here's the argument again:
P1: All men are mortal
P2: Obw is a man
C: Obw is mortal.
The other premise could be false too – maybe some men are immortal (like God, perhaps, if he exists). Yet again, this changes nothing about the validity of the argument. Only whether or not we would call the argument sound or simply dismiss it in its current form.
Here's the Formal Logic definition of validity:
An argument is considered valid if and only if, it is an example of a valid logical form.
Ooer! So it seems that we are saying there are things called 'valid logical forms' and that as long as an argument shares one of these forms, it can be considered valid. Hey- that's really cool. This means all I need to do is learn the valid logical forms and learn how to recognise them and I will kick ILP ass. Quite correct.
Formal Logic, then, is concerned only with valid logical forms of argument. This can be described as 'investigating formal validity'.
How to Identify Logical Argument Forms
Now you know that the logician, and the philosopher, has the job of recognising valid forms of argument. Let's consider a new argument:
P1: If Obw is a man then he is mortal
P2: Obw is a man
C: Obw is mortal.
Using our sentential variables (remember these? The proposition-holders p, q and r) we can represent the form of this argument. Do you notice how the first premise P1, has a sort of structure:
IF… obw blah blah… THEN… blah blah.
If something, then something else.
Let's put in place our sentential variables to reserve space for some propositions, whatever they might be (we don't care, we're just investigating validity right now):
If p then q.
Now let's do it for the whole argument, and investigate the form:
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P1: If p then q.
P2: p.
C: q.
Interesting! Now we have a bare-bones glimpse of the inner workings of our original argument. We've stripped away the details and got right down to the mechanics – the form. When we formalise an argument like this, we must be careful to use the same variable to represent the same sentence all the way through the argument. Such as 'p' in this case represents 'obw is a man' and 'q' represents 'obw is a mortal'.
So how do we tell valid forms of argument from invalid forms? Well, a form of argument is valid if, and only if, every example of that argument form is itself valid. You better read that again. Let me explain..
Valid argument forms are structures of argument that will never fail to lead us to create valid arguments as examples. This is called the substitutional criterion of validity. Here is an example. Stay with me. You will get it soon, I promise.
In Maths, 1x + 1x = 2x. For every time the variable 'x' is used in this equation it will always be true that two of them added together will leave us with 2 in total. This will be true even if x represents footballs, cars or planets. So with regards to arguments, we are saying that a valid argument form will be valid whatever it is talking about – Obw being mortal, Faust being ugly, Ben smelling of old socks or anything else. If it is a valid argument form, every example of that form being used anywhere in any argument will also always be valid. That's how you know it's a valid argument form. Formally, we call such examples of the form in action 'substitution-instances' of that form. It doesn't matter what you call it, as long as you understand the principle beneath it.
Conversely, then, in order to show that an argument form is invalid we only need to show how another example of that argument form is clearly not valid. This is called 'refutation by counterexample' as is the most straightforward yet powerful type of argumentative put-down.
Here are some arguments for you:
P1: If p then q
P2: q
C: p.
Notice the subtle difference here? Let's put the flesh back on the bones:
P1: If all ILP members are English then Obw is an Englishman.
P2: Obw is an Englishman.
C: All ILP Members are English.
Does something look wrong here? Try asking yourself:
- Is the argument an example of the logical form shown above?
- Are the premises true? (I actually am English, if you didn't know)
- Is the conclusion false?
Here are the answers:
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
Let's look at another example then:
P1: If p then not q
P2: Not p
C: q.
Hmmm. Interesting. Something smells though. Here is the natural language argument that has this form, but broken down:
P1: If all ILP members are Canadian then it is not the case that Obw is an American
P2: Obw is not Canadian
C: Obw is an American.
Once again, ask yourself some questions about this argument:
- Is the argument an example (a 'subtitution-instance') or the argument form in question?
- Are the premises true?
- Is the conclusion false?
And the answers:
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
So are the arguments valid or invalid? Check back with the definitions. Does that mean the argument forms are valid or not? Check back with the definitions.
If you understand these questions and answers then you understand something more about argument forms and validity.
- An argument is: premises, a 'therefore' sort of word, and a conclusion.
- An argument can only be valid if, and only if, it would be impossible for the premises to be true, and the conclusion false.
- An argument is invalid if, and only if, it is possible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false.
- A sound argument is a valid argument with true premises.
- In Formal Logic, an argument is valid in virtue of it being a substitution-instance of a valid argument form.
- An argument form is valid if and only if every such substitution-instance of that particular form is also valid, regardless of what it is an argument about.
- An argument form is invalid is there is some substitution-instance of that particular form which is itself invalid.
- A counterexample to an argument form is a substitution-instance of that particular form which is itself an invalid argument.
Next time.. (maybe) Inductive validity, formal symbolic logic, QL.
If you have questions that a re-reading of this does not answer, please feel free to PM me.
Section [2]
Logic is the study of the relations between propositions. Specifically, logic ascertains the connection between the truth of certain propositions and another proposition, the latter of which is, in logic, called a conclusion. The conclusion of any argument is itself a proposition, and can be used as a premise in another argument. The only difference between propositions that are not conclusions and those that are conclusions is their position in a given argument.
A proposition, or statement (these words can be taken, for present purposes, as synonymous) is distinct from a sentence, in that two different sentences may contain the same proposition, and two propositions may be made by the same sentence, depending on the context. And example of the former is this pair of sentences: "This room is completely dark†and "There is no light in this room.†An example of the latter is "I am a boyâ€, which differs according to who is making the utterance, or - across contexts - whether it asserts "I am not a girl†or "I am not a manâ€. It is a convention in logic to use the terms "propositionâ€, "statement†and "sentence†as synonyms, but it must be remembered that "sentence†is used in a technical sense here. Only declarative sentences qualify as "logical†ones, and even then they must contain a statement. This is mere nomenclature, and is not the subject proper of logic.
Propositions are the building blocks of arguments. Logic is not primarily concerned with the truth of the propositions in an argument, but with how the truth of conclusions is related to the truth of premises. The main concern of logic is not truth, but validity. The truth of premises must be previously accepted for the purposes of a logical argument, and only the dependence of the truth of the conclusion on the truth of the premises is the purview of logic. Valid arguments are those in which the premises cannot be true and the conclusion false. Said another way, if the premises of a valid argument are true, then the conclusion must be true.
A valid argument, then, guarantees that if the premises are true (and they may, in the event, not be) then the conclusion is also true. But validity does not guarantee the truth of the premises itself. So, a valid argument may yield a false conclusion, if one or more premises are false. It may also yield a false conclusion under these same circumstances. Only the relationship between the conclusion and the premises is at stake here, and not the truth of any of them.
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Mysterious lights are seen at sunset and during the night. They reappear again and again, in all kinds of weather conditions, causing no damage. What could they be? Have you seen them?
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Complicating the explanations of spook lights is the wide variation in their behavior. Some are said to wave back and forth, the way ground crews wave in planes. Others are supposed to skitter over tree tops, without causing fires. Some split in two. Some just sit still and glow. There can be one at a time, or more than one. They're usually white, but can be different colors.
The most handy explanation for spook lights is the old physics favorite; ball lightning. The lightning itself is not entirely explained, although physicists did create something very similar to it by heating pieces of silica until they emitted a glowing vapor. Ball lightning, however, often leaves scorch marks, and sometimes burns things outright. Spook lights don't do that. And of course, ball lightning is very rare. Spook lights are downright common in some areas.
Natural gases are another popular explanation. Eruptions of natural gas offer an explanation for why the lights show up in the same places over and over again; wherever natural gas meets frequent human travel, people could see lights. Natural gas still needs something to set it alight. Atmospheric conditions like drought or lightning might do it, but people have noticed spook lights in all kinds of weather conditions.
The final possible explanation has to do with minerals in the earth interacting with fault lines in the area. As the fault shifts, rocks inside scrape the minerals and generates light, the way rubbing certain materials together gives off sparks. The light is refracted, and appears on the horizon.
None of these explanations fit the exact behavior of spook lights, but it's possible that all of them together might. The phenomenon has been seen by many different people, and "a light at night" can't be explained away. But one reason the accounts of spook lights vary so much might be just that people are describing different phenomena.
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