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TBS has reached the difficult decision not to order a third season of Lopez Tonight," says the statement. "Thursday will be the final episode of the show. We are proud to have partnered with George Lopez, who is an immensely talented comedian and entertainer. TBS has valued its partnership with George and appreciates all of his work on behalf of the network, both on and off the air.
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Startup Cost Tax Deductions – How to Write Off the Expense of Starting Your Business
Did your business incur expenses before you were technically "open for business"? Did you know that you can write off some of these expenses against your business as soon as you are operational?
Read on for tips and information about deducting startup costs, plus advice about when you may not want to immediately claim these deductibles.
What Are Deductible Startup Costs?
The IRS defines "startup costs" as deductible capital expenses that are used to pay for:
1) The cost of "investigating the creation or acquisition of an active trade or business."This includes costs incurred for surveying markets, product analysis, labor supply, visiting potential business locations and similar expenditures.
2) The cost of getting a business ready to operate (before you open your doors or start generating income). These include employee training and wages, consultant fees, advertising, and travel costs associated with finding suppliers, distributors, and customers.
These expenses can only be claimed if your research and preparation ends with the formation of a successful business. The IRS has more information on how to claim the expenses if you don't go into business.
You'll notice that equipment purchases are not listed here. It's very likely that you purchased equipment before opening your business; however, these are not considered startup expenses and instead can be written off through depreciation, with different rules for different assets. Learn more from the IRS about depreciation.
Other Startup Deductibles – Organization Costs
If you choose to incorporate or organize as a partnership while you are still setting up your business, you can deduct or amortize certain costs incurred. These include the cost of state incorporation fees and legal fees, organizational meetings, and salaries for temporary directors. Partnership deductibles include legal, accounting and filing fees related to developing the partnership agreement. These costs must have been incurred before the end of your first tax year in business. They must also be chargeable to a capital account and amortized over the life of the corporation/partnership. Read more about requirements and exclusions on IRS.gov.
How Much Can You Deduct?
If you started your business in 2011, had startup costs of $50,000 or less, and incurred startup and/or organizational expenses after October 22, 2004, you can deduct up to $5,000 in business startup costs on your 2011 tax return. If those startup costs exceed $50,000, the $5,000 first-year deduction is reduced dollar-for-dollar by the amount your expenses exceeded $50,000. Furthermore, if your start-up expenses exceed $55,000 or more, you won't be able to claim the $5,000 deduction for the first year.
For example, if start-up costs are $51,000, the deduction is reduced to $4,000. If start-up costs are $55,000 or more, the $5,000 deduction is completely phased out. Read more atIRS.gov.
What is Considered the Startup Phase?
What constitutes a startup expense as opposed to a traditional business operating expense? Basically, you are in startup mode during the development and planning phase of your business. As soon as you are operational (either open for business or conducting transactions), your costs are considered to be the expenses of an operating business.
How to Claim the Deduction
Tax law used to require you to proactively elect to claim startup expenses when you processed your tax return. However, in August 2011, a new tax law was issued that automatically assumes you will make the election, if you are entitled to do so. If you forget to claim this deduction in a previous year, talk to your accountant about how you can catch up with missed deductions.
You can get a tax write off by donating unwanted electronic equipment
Keep Good Records!
Be sure to keep good records from the get-go and back up your expense deduction claims. SBA offers the following guide which includes tax recordkeeping tips.
Talk to Your Accountant before Startup Expense Deduction
You can see from these examples that if your startup costs are going to exceed $50,000, then your deductible is reduced, and completely wiped out if you exceed $55,000 in expenses. So it may not make sense to take the business startup deduction in the year you start your business. It all depends on the individual situation. For example, if you don't expect to make a profit for many years or you want to reduce your tax liability, you might want to forgo deducting startup expenses when you become operational and capitalize or amortize them. Talk to a tax advisor or accountant about the best options for your business.
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Over the past few weeks, it has become clear that the world is facing an unprecedented challenge. We are committed to taking precautions to help keep our members and community safe and prevent the spread of the COVID-19, Coronavirus.
On behalf of the Parker Area Chamber of Commerce, we wanted to send a personal note to let you know how we are responding to the situation. We feel it is appropriate and necessary to cancel all regular events through the end of April. Look for Zoom Events! Those in leads groups need to contact their group chair for virtual meetings.
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Pedro joins Darren, JJ, and Randy in-studio to talk about cryptocurrency mining. The European Central bank will do less quantitative easing in the future. The Federal Reserve raises a key interest rate to curb price inflation. Numerai is paying anonymous coders bitcoin to help create an artificial intelligence hedge fund brain. Coinbase loses the court battle but a user is stepping up to stymie the efforts of the IRS. Dash now has its first BitPay-like service. Zero knowledge Proofs and zkSNARKs. Randy has a report on the welfare cliff and how mobile commerce is helping lift people out of poverty.
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King Dork is the self-inflicted, private nickname of fourteen-year-old Tom Henderson, who in real life has far worse nicknames to contend with. At his high school, Tom is very nearly at the bottom of the food chain--only the kid who has to wear a football helmet to protect his fragile bones and the unfortunately named Pierre Butterfly Cameroon look up to him. He has only one friend, Sam Hellerman, to whom he is bound by a relatively equivalent level of dorkiness, but even more strongly by the fact that their surnames followed one another on class lists for most of junior high. At home, Tom's wannabe hippie mother downs highballs and smokes joints for breakfast while earnestly exhorting him not to experiment with drugs, while his well-meaning, genuine hippie stepfather tries to bond with Tom over a shared love of rock and roll, only to dig himself further and further into the generation gap with every word that leaves his mouth. Worst of all, no matter what English class he's placed in, Tom can't avoid the American high-schooler's rite of passage--reading The Catcher in the Rye.
The Catcher in the Rye is this book from the fifties. It is every teacher's favorite book. ... It changed their lives when they were young. As kids, they carried it with them everywhere they went. They solemnly resolved that, when they grew up, they would dedicate their lives to spreading The Word.But for all the disdain that he heaps on The Catcher in the Rye, Tom's life is changed by the book--by one specific edition of it, to be precise. Looking through some old boxes in the basement, Tom comes across his father's copy of Salinger's novel. The elder Henderson was a policeman who was killed in what may or may not have been an accident, and his copy of Catcher contains cryptic numbers, notes, and scraps of paper that might shed some light on the circumstances of his death.
It's kind of like a cult.
They live for making you read it. When you do read it you can feel them all standing behind you in a semicircle wearing black robes with hoods, holding candles. They're chanting "Holden, Holden, Holden..." And they're looking over your shoulder with these expectant smiles, wishing they were the ones discovering the earth-shattering joys of The Catcher in the Rye for the very first time.
Only, not really. The mystery aspect of King Dork--and apart from the death of Tom's father there are several other mysteries to unravel, including the question of why a beautiful and relatively normal girl decides to make out with Tom at a Halloween party--is probably where the novel is weakest, mainly because Tom isn't much of an investigator, or even that keen an observer. Like Holden Caulfield, Tom is locked into a set of prejudices and preconceptions--mainly a conviction that anyone approaching social normalcy is an evil psychopath--that color the way he sees the world and prevent him from noticing the obvious. And like The Catcher in the Rye, King Dork is written in a very tight first person, which crams us into Tom's head even as we recognize that this kid isn't nearly as smart or as world-weary as he thinks he is. King Dork is most enjoyable when Portman leaves the mystery plot on a slow boil in the background and just lets Tom be Tom--offering anthropological observations on the behavior of his peers ("It's a call-and-response game, the response [to 'who you callin' faggot, homo?'] being: 'I ain't no homo. Who you callin' homo, faggot?' This is a self-sustaining loop that can literally go on for hours if uninterrupted."), dreaming about girls both real and imaginary (and positing the existence of a hypothetical "Sex Alliance Against Society", in which the person you're having sex with sides with you against the general meanness of the world), going on at length about books and music and creating bands, again, both real and imaginary, with Sam Hellermen (the book ends with a list of Sam and Tom's imaginary band names, which include such gems as Ray Bradbury's Love-Camel, Green Sabbath and We Have Eaten All the Cake).
In any novel with an unreliable narrator, there's a very delicate balancing act that needs to be maintained between occupying the protagonist's headspace and allowing the readers to reach their own conclusions about him. It's a failure to maintain that balance that is, in my opinion, the main reason that The Catcher in the Rye, in spite of being a brilliant, masterful and (for its time) ground-breaking exploration of a lost, lonely kid's psyche, doesn't work as a novel. Lurking behind the teenaged Holden's disillusionment with and fear of the compromises of adulthood is the adult Salinger's disappointment with them, and the intensity, the grandeur that he bestows on Holden's plight forces us to view a character who should, by all rights, have been pitiable as a tragic hero. Frank Portman has obviously learned from Salinger's mistakes (and apparently doesn't suffer from Salinger's well-documented hang-ups). His use of humor brings us closer to Tom, while at the same time allowing us to maintain the minimal distance required to see the kid as he is, and to recognize how wrong, how self-involved, how uncomplicated, his viewpoint can sometimes be.
Which is not to say that Portman doesn't occasionally stumble. He rather belabors the point on those occasions when Tom experiences empathy for others (an emotion which he describes as feeling sorry for himself while pretending to be someone else, and really, Portman is being more than a little disingenuous when a kid whose vocabulary includes the word 'callipygian' can't put a name to empathy when he experiences it). And as I've said, the mystery plotlines are King Dork's weakest aspect, primarily because they force us to accept Tom's descriptions of his teachers, his classmates, and his parents at face value. We have to believe that in Tom's high-school, tenth graders spend their English lessons copying chapters out of books and using perfectly ordinary words in sentences, or that a PE teacher could get away with letting a beating go on for several minutes while he watches in pleasure, or that one can get AP credit for making collages. If we don't accept that Tom is capable of accurately describing the basic facts of his environment, then the mystery is rendered meaningless. If, on the other hand, we buy the picture Tom paints for us, then the novel is bled of its immediacy. It becomes, not a touching look into a smart but inexperienced boy's head, but a funny yet heartless satire, which takes place in an alternate universe where teenagers are truly capable of sustained, intense cruelty, instead of the haphazard, thoughtless kind that most of us experienced. The meeting points between these two different and mutually exclusive novels--the teen memoir and the mystery--are dissonant, jarring us out of the narrative in much the same way that the two scenes involving adult characters came close to shattering the central gimmick in Brick.
Happily, Portman seems to have realized as much. Towards the end of the novel, he downplays the mystery, and Tom's narrative climaxes not with the unmasking of a killer but with the performance of his only-slightly-imaginary band at the school talent show--a scene so hilarious that I was laughing out loud and gasping for breath as I read it. Portman also avoids the standard teen novel/movie pitfall (which Tom, naturally enough, lampoons) of ending the story with his character transformed into a popular, sexy, well-adjusted adult. At the end of King Dork, Tom is more popular than he was at its beginning, but he still isn't popular. There are several girls in his orbit, but none who are willing to be seen with him in public (much less form a Sex Alliance Against Society with him). There's the suggestion of a potential social group he might join, but Sam Hellerman is still his only friend. He has a better relationship with his mother and stepfather, but they're still loopy hippies. King Dork is, for Tom, only a first and rather tentative step towards adulthood, but its greatest significance is that in making it, Tom recognizes that such steps exist, that nicknames aren't destiny, and that the unhappiness you feel at fourteen won't necessarily follow you for the rest of life. It's more than Holden Caulfield ever managed.


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Meanwhile, drain pears, reserving liquid for another use. (The juice makes a refreshing beverage mixed equally with club soda.)
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Release Date: 2009 |
Album Rating: 4.0I really, really, really want this album.
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Album Rating: 4.5I've never heard an album by this band but am considering getting this.
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4) Are they especially rare?
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Your score: 95%
Average score: 92%
This is a measure of your ability to remember the photos you've seen, regardless of the part in which you saw them. From all 24 photos shown in Parts 1 & 2, you recognised: 23 photo(s). In the section above you made 0 "false positive(s)". That is, thinking you remembered seeing the photo when you hadn't seen it before. Average false positive score is 1-3.
Temporal memory score
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Your score: 65%
Average score: 68%
This is a measure of how often you recognised a photo and matched it to the correct part, instead of just remembering which ones you'd seen. From all the photos you recognised, you matched: 15 photo(s) to the correct part.
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Someone once said, if we didn't have any weather, most Canadians couldn't start a conversation. That's not too far off the mark. In 2014, a report by Influence Communication analyzed all major news stories of the year and concluded that sports and weather-related news dominate our headlines.
Our obsession with the weather is nothing new: many of the weather instruments that we use today were invented at the beginning in the 15th century. We've been observing, measuring and forecasting the weather for a very long time. We spend a lot of time talking about the weather too; I've made a career of it.
I grew up on a dairy farm so nothing was more important than the weather. Today I understand why, but as a young girl on the farm the message wasn't quite so clear. You see, in the summer, if it was nice, we couldn't go fishing or head to the beach with our friends from town. Instead, we were off to the field to make hay. I wasn't the only one. Many people grew up in households where the weather dictated what they did and when they did it. Weather patterns can also impact our physical and mental wellbeing; I know quite a few people who struggle on dreary days. I must say, it is easier to "rise and shine" when the sun's out!
And what about those "aches and pains?" Falling barometric pressure and high humidity have been linked to joint pain and for some, awful headaches.
We can learn a lot by observing the weather and its impact on the world around us. Data is collected and stored for that purpose.
Related: Meteorologist Cindy Day to keep her eyes on the sky for SaltWire Network
I recently became aware of another method of documenting weather for future reference; it involves collecting data and just enough yarn to make a blanket.
Earlier this week, Lori Mahar sent me a photo of a blanket she crocheted. It took her all year; not because she's a slow crocheter, but because she had to wait to collect the daily temperature information.
Lori picked a different coloured yarn for every 5 degrees Celsius and crocheted a row a day in the colour that corresponded to that day's temperature. There are 365 rows in this blanket.
The left side of the blanket starts Jan. 1, 2017, and the right side ends on Dec. 31, 2017. Lori tells me her weather blanket was fun to make: "…and a great reminder of how the temperature changes throughout the year".
Lori lives on Prince Edward Island and used the Summerside temperatures to build her masterpiece.
The blanket is beautiful but some might say it's a little too blue for their liking.
Thank you for sharing Lori!
Cindy Day is chief meteorologist for SaltWire Network.


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CFP: CCCC workshop about international higher education writing research
Dear colleagues,
Please circulate (and consider for yourselves and collaborators!):
We are inviting brief proposals for up to twenty-four researcher-participant roles in a U.S. College Conference on Composition and Communication (CCCC) workshop focused on research about writing in higher education outside of the U.S. (see details below).
We know that researchers around the world are interested in finding sites, physical and figurative, for serious cross-national conversation that includes multiple research traditions.
For the eighth year, we are planning to propose a workshop that (if accepted) will take place at the annual CCCC conference. The conference next year is in Tampa, Florida, US, from March 18-21, 2015: http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv
The workshop is tentatively titled: Deep Rewards and Serious Risks in International Higher Education Writing Research: Comfort Zones and Contact Zones
This workshop, along with the exchanges we have before meeting at the conference, is designed to make space available at the CCCC conference for extended time to read, process, think through, and discuss in detail each other's work. We have learned, through seven previous workshops and other international exchanges, that we all need this kind of time for real exchange, given that we come from different linguistic, institutional, political, geographic, theoretical and pedagogical places.
We want to engage researcher-participants from many countries and research traditions in an equal exchange dialogue, learning from each other: the primary focus is on the writing research itself.
The research can be focused on teaching or studying writing in any language. We are willing to help with translation of a text into English as needed, if the paper is accepted for the workshop.
The brief proposal should describe a research project you would be interested in sharing with other facilitators and participants. It can be completed or in process. By research, we mean a project with a focused research question, an identified methodology (qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, historical, discourse analysis, etc), and the collection of data in some form.
The project should be "international" for a U.S. audience, by which we mean (*only* for the purposes of this U.S. call!!) carried out by either scholars in countries other than the U.S. or scholars collaborating deeply across borders, including U.S. borders, in any language. Your role in the workshop would be to provide a draft text about the research by the end of December 2014, to read the other facilitators' texts before attending the CCCC conference, and to participate in the day-long workshop by leading a discussion about your project and participating in discussions of a subset of others' projects.
A copy of last year's (2014) workshop proposal can be obtained by contacting Cinthia Gannett or Christiane Donahue (email addresses below), to give you an idea of what the overall proposal will look like. The copy includes the titles from last year's workshop to give you an idea of the kinds of work we've exchanged in past sessions. We will send out a draft of the 2015 overall proposal when you send in your project description. You will be welcome to suggest changes to the overall proposal at that point. You may notice that the proposal is written with a U.S. readership in mind--this is because the proposal review committee is comprised primarily of U.S. scholars. We seek to convince this audience that many CCCC attendees have much to learn from writing research in traditions other than the ones they find most familiar--that writing research needs multiple perspectives from multiple contexts and traditions. We also know how critical it is for all scholars to be directly engaged with projects and research models from multiple research traditions.
Please submit your proposal by April 25th to [https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7QHLB2B]. This proposal can be quite informal (it serves to help us determine appropriate projects, and only the title will appear in the program), so please feel free to send something along.
We strongly encourage you to submit a proposal to the CCCC as individual presenters, as well: <http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv> The CCCC format does allow individuals to present at both a workshop and a concurrent session (it does not allow individuals to present at more than one concurrent session).
Thank you! Please write with any questions at all.
Cinthia Gannett and Tiane (Christiane) Donahue
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Amnesty criticizes Ivory Coast for biased justice
Ivory Coast's government is subjecting supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo to biased legal proceedings, ill-treatment and torture, while failing to ensure their security in the country's volatile western region, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International.
The 86-page report, titled "The Victor's Law," says continued abuses against Gbagbo supporters - as well as the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators - have deflated prospects for reconciliation nearly two years after a bloody postelection conflict brought the country to the brink of civil war.
"To Amnesty International's knowledge, none of the perpetrators of serious human rights violations and abuses described in this report have been brought to justice or even suspended from their duties," the report says. "This illustrates the failure of the Ivorian authorities to establish the rule of law nearly two years after the new authorities came to power."
Gbagbo refused to leave office after losing the November 2010 presidential runoff to current President Alassane Ouattara, sparking five months of violence that claimed at least 3,000 lives. Journalists, rights workers and the United Nations have collected ample evidence indicating that forces loyal to both men committed grave human rights abuses during the conflict, particularly in the commercial capital of Abidjan and in the west of the country.
The new report says abuses by pro-Ouattara forces have continued in earnest, prompted most recently by a wave of attacks against security installations that began last August. The U.N. has documented at least 23 such attacks throughout the country, killing 60. Ouattara's government has blamed the attacks on Gbagbo supporters within Ivory Coast and in other countries.
In response to the attacks, the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast, the army created by Ouattara in March 2011, has rounded up hundreds of suspected perpetrators, holding many at unauthorized detention sites such as military camps and private villas. Many detainees have been held incommunicado without access to a lawyer, in violation of Ivory Coast's criminal procedure code. The report says detainees have been beaten with batons and iron bars, burned with melted plastic, subject to sexual abuse and plunged headfirst into barrels of water.
The Associated Press reported in October that detainees at a military camp in the southwestern port city of San Pedro had been subjected to electrical shocks, quoting witnesses who had observed the practice. Amnesty says it interviewed "more than a dozen" detainees at the San Pedro camp who claimed to have been shocked.
A master corporal at the Abidjan airbase described to Amnesty how soldiers shocked him to try to get him to confess to involvement in the attacks.
"Under orders, I undressed, I kept my boxer shorts on and I was asked to sit down and to put my hands behind my back and around an iron post," the torture survivor said. "I was handcuffed and cold water was poured over me. I was given several electric shocks, they then asked me to spread my legs and they put electricity on my penis and on my body. It is in this position that they asked me to confess."
At least two people have died as a result of torture, according to Amnesty, including a police sergeant named Serge Herve Kribie who was shocked with electricity in San Pedro. One month after Kribie's death, Ouattara awarded him the National Order of Merit, Amnesty says, apparently trying "to make believe that he was part of the soldiers and police killed in various attacks."
In addition to their alleged involvement in the attacks, detainees were asked about their past support for Gbagbo during interrogations by security forces, who seemed to imply that this support "could still constitute a recognizably criminal offense," according to the report. Many were rounded up in mass raids because they belonged to ethnic groups that generally supported Gbagbo. Some were eventually released without charge, though they often had to pay substantial ransoms.
The report bemoans the fact that no Ouattara supporters have been charged with crimes related to the postelection conflict. Some 55 Gbagbo supporters have been charged over violent crimes, according to the U.N.'s independent expert on human rights in Ivory Coast.
Impunity on Ouattara's side for past crimes is likely contributing to ongoing rights violations, as even individuals whose names are widely associated with rights abuses have not been arrested or charged, said Gaetan Mootoo, who researched the report for Amnesty.
"These people, everybody knows them," he said. "We can't say, `Where are they?' Everybody knows them. And even some of them have been targeted by the U.N., and their names are known and they could easily be identified."
Mootoo also expressed frustration that no tangible progress had been made on the investigation of the July 2012 attack at a camp housing nearly 5,000 displaced persons in the western town of Duekoue. Witnesses and rights groups have said that soldiers and traditional hunters known as dozos, who backed Ouattara and have assumed unofficial security roles in the west, were instrumental in carrying out the attack. Officials put the death toll at eight, though many observers believe the toll was much higher.
The Amnesty report calls for the creation of an international commission of inquiry to probe the attack and its immediate aftermath. Gootoo said there was little reason to believe a government-led investigation would yield speedy and credible results.
"Of course they told us that they have opened an inquiry," he said. "But, at the same time, they have done that on other, similar cases and we haven't seen anything yet. This is why we are asking for an international commission of inquiry."
In a written response to the Amnesty report, Ivorian officials did not address specific allegations but reiterated past vows to punish members of the security forces who have broken the law. Ouattara himself has repeatedly vowed to bring all perpetrators of crimes to justice.


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It's a brand new month, and we've got a brand new TAYpic to bastardize, but right now let's discuss video games in Kotaku's official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves.
This month's TAYpic base comes from professional TAYpic craftsman Pan_1da7. Well, technically "Primavera" comes from Sandro Botticeli, but that was way back in 1482, so I don't think he'll mind.
You know the drill by now. Grab a larger version of the painting and go to town, remixing one of Botticelli's finest pieces into a mishmash of video game madness. Post your masterpieces in the #TAYpics thread. Don't forget to keep your image in a 16x9 ratio if you want a slice of Talk Amongst Yourselves glory. We're counting on you.


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Simon Newcomb and his wife Deborah moved to Lebanon, New London Co., CT in 1713. The were married about 1687 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where they resided at the time. He was a farmer and landowner in Lebanon. Simon took the Freeman's Oath at Lebanon and was elected highway surveyor in 1714.
The graves of Simon and Deborah, and those of all the Newcombs interred in the Old Cemetery (also known as Trumbull Cemetery), are but a few feet from the tomb of the Trumbull family, and in a westerly and southwesterly direction. This colonial cemetery also contains the graves of many of the founders of our nation, including Revolutionary War Governor Jonathan Trumbull and William Williams, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Many of the tombstones were carved by Obadiah Wheeler of Lebanon, who was considered the greatest of the rural carvers in the area. There are 82 of his stones in this cemetery as well as stones by many other fine carvers, including John Huntington, Benjamin Collins, Lebbeus Kimball, the Manning family, and the old master John Hartshorne.
Wheeler's early stones somewhat resemble those of John Hartshorne in being three-lobed on the top and in having framed faces and elongate straight noses. They have a series of elaborate curls beside the face rather than wings and usually some form of diamond or triangle border design. Later Wheeler stones take several different styles of wings which are sometimes very elaborate. Wheeler faces are characterized by slender, aristocratic noses, almond eyes, and a small smiling or frowning mouth. In later stones the eyes are closed or squinting in a rather beatific expression. Some of his most elaborate stones have faces in strong relief; finials are usually six- or eight-rayed rosettes. There is usually a horizontal row of designs below the face and above the legend consisting of a central heart or triangle and lateral stemmed rosettes and circles. Wheeler footstones are very distinctive, many of them large ellipses and others great circles with large six-rayed rosettes within. No Wheeler stone is later than 1749. His work is most abundant and varied in Lebanon and Norwichtown, but there are beautiful stones in Windham and Mansfield and isolated stones occur as far north as Union and Putnam and on the coast in the old Mystic Whitehall burying ground. Wheeler is often considered the greatest of all eastern Connecticut carvers. (From: Slater, James A. The Colonial Burying Grounds of Eastern Connecticut and the Men Who Made Them. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, vol. 21. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1987.)
Simon and Deborah each have a headstone and a footstone. These are Simon Newcomb's (1665 – 1743) stones:
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Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Patrick County is a jewel of a destination, offering activities for the whole family. Drive the Blue Ridge Parkway, tap your toes to traditional mountain music along the Crooked Road Music Trail, tour our unique wineries—Stanburn and Villa Appalaccia—or visit local artisan studios on the Hidden Treasures Artisan Trail. Enjoy a sun-filled day at the Gordon Trent Golf Course, Fairy Stone State Park, or one of our eight annual festivals. History buffs can browse our local museum, visit Jack's Creek Covered Bridge, or step into the Victorian era at the Reynolds Homestead or at the Civil War Reenactment at Laurel Hill, the birthplace of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. A variety of restaurants and local stores awaits you. And after a long day, relax in luxury at Primland Resort or settle in at one of our cabins or a locally owned bed and breakfast. Click here for things to do.
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C. S. Lewis would have thought the moral sense referred to in this meme was one of the strongest evidences of God's existence.
One can, like C.S. Lewis, posit this evolved moral sense is a signifier of God's existence. However, this is misusing a perceived correlation as a causation. Even this error hinges on interesting factors for it to even be made.
Tribal societies or hunter gatherers had a great incentive to treat their own members nicely and have fond feelings for one another. The biological mechanism backing this is mediated by oxytocin.1 One would be tempted to say that this extends to all members of our society. Sadly, as evidenced by people's tendencies through history and by modern biological research, oxytocin plays a dual role.
An increase in oxytocin tends to produce fond feelings only for those that are part of your tribe. Those who share your culture or share a more similar appearance (a phenotype symbolizing a desirable genotype, suitable for reproduction). The other side of this, is an increase in oxytocin also increases the instinct to distrust others who do not share a simliar phenotype. It breeds xenophobic tendencies in people.2
Many other regulators of behaviors exist, but it turns out that this is a fairly primary motivator of a healthy and happy group of people:
As it turns out, the needs that are most linked with everyday satisfaction are interpersonal ones, such as love and respect. Our troubles, conversely, relate most to lack of esteem, lack of freedom, and lack of nourishment. Only when we look back on the quality of our lives thus far do basic needs become significant indicators for well-being.3
The other regulators basically cluster around having real and felt needs met. A lot of these needs are met through society and access to the proper resources. If these needs aren't met for prolonged periods of time, the organizational unit (either the individual or group) will exhibit behaviors associated with self preservation and increased stress. This means acting more out of self interest than out of respect for others or any other moral imperative (theft, war, violence, distrust, etc. are all game here).
I think it is safe to say human biology doesn't change much over time unless there is an adaptation to some external change or new constraint in the environment — in other words evolution. Even then, biology has noted the similarities of certain basic structures and chemistries of living organisms. I think it's safe to extrapolate our modern biology back some 10,000 years (since that is a fairly short time scale, evolutionarily speaking). Under this extrapolation using the young earth hypothesis as a postulate, it is a logical conclusion that our biology was the same or very similar at creation. Which implies that the only way for our biology to have changed so suddenly is through an act of God.
If this was by God's design, who said he intended us to love our neighbor and by extension all people, there is a severe disconnect between the biology we were "created" with and how he intended us to behave. If this was the case then the garden of eden would not have been perfect. As soon as groups split off there would be fighting in a perfect world and not as a result of "the fall in the garden". There was no need of an apple for this to happen — and it is doubtful that an apple could change a human's biology that much.
If God intended to rescue a race that was sinful, because of it's own choice, why would he choose to change their biology intentionally to make sure they were inherently prone to distrust? A change like this would lessen the efficacy of free will to choose a moral imperative over natural tendencies. Also, why would this change in biology persist past the time of what Christianity defines as the final sacrifice for all time, meant to atone for all sin?
A contradiction such as this is most readily remedied by looking to evolutionary processes, where such tendencies would tend to promote group cohesion and the desire to protect itself when encountering a foreign group, thus ensuring its survival and the ability to reproduce and grow. As a result of continuing growth and constant interaction and breeding with differing phenotypes the level of hostility toward different groups has decreased over time. For more on this, please see Steven Pinker's excellent TED talk on the myth of violence. 4
Through this process of increased interaction with foreign groups, moral imperatives regarding the treatment of people from other cultures arose. These moral imperatives are abstract high level constructs people create for themselves outside of and, sometimes, in opposition to their natural tendencies. Moral imperatives are not natural and take energy and practice to maintain. They are only good so long as reason can beat the lizard brain. As studies with Tibetan monks have shown, it takes time to develop strong pathways between the prefrontal cortex and the rest of the brain (the prefrontal cortex being the area that is understood to mediate higher level planning, decision making, and reason).5
This ability to use reason over natural tendencies is willpower. Willpower is the basic determining factor if someone will choose to act on a higher moral imperative or if they will go with their own path of least resistance. It has recently been observed that willpower is limited. This ability quickly depletes if the underlying biological mechanisms are no longer being fully supported. Willpower is entirely dependent on all of the biology supporting the brain and requires one's body to be well nourished and in good health.6
Where scarcity is not a daily concern, it is easy to see how humans are becoming better people. We are able to make better decisions because we are not in survival mode. Without scarcity and with plenty of close social interaction, it is easy to think moral imperatives are natural. It however takes a "leap of faith" to believe they signify God's existence.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11hormone.html
- http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/08/maslow-20-a-new-and-improved-recipe-for-happiness/243486/
- http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html
- http://www.news.wisc.edu/13890
- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html?pagewanted=all


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Last summer, I wrote about two young women from Saudi Arabia, Wojdan Shaherkani and Sarah Attar, who were the first Saudi women ever to compete in the Olympics. They had to endure criticism from conservatives at home and lots of discussion about what they would wear to compete, but they served as a powerful symbol of a better future for Saudi women's athletic participation.
Now, young women in Saudi Arabian private schools have the chance to take part in an activity open to most students all over the world – sports.
Currently, women's sports in Saudi Arabia take place unofficially in private schools or in private "health clubs" (rather than women's gyms, which are not given licenses). The recent decision to permit sports only applies to private schools, so girls in public schools will be left out, at least initially. However, measures to allow girls' sports in public schools seem to be in the works, including as of this March; as early as 2011, Saudi Arabia actually said it would establish physical education classes for female students in public (government) schools, although nothing appears to have happened.
Last month, Saudi Arabia's religious police said that women could ride bikes and motorbikes—but under certain caveats including only riding bicycles for recreation (as opposed to transportation) in "recreational areas." Reactions to this have been mixed. "[Women] will also have to be dressed in full Islamic body coverings, and – in a darkly comic stipulation that evokes images of tandems – they will have to be accompanied by a male relative," writes journalist Nabila Ramdani in The Guardian.
"History shows the difference that government support for sports can make." – Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations
The issue of women driving remains unresolved. In April, Prince AlWaleed bin Talal came out in support of women behind the wheel, arguing that it was a smart economic move that would free the country from its dependence on foreign drivers. Practical arguments like these may find some support among those who are ambivalent about giving women more freedom. Even the decision about permitting girls' sports gives a nod to the question of foreign employment, as Saudi women will be first in line for employment as physical education teachers. The health aspect of the recent sports decision is another obvious practical argument to make, and was one that also came up during Saudi Arabia's shutting down of women's gyms a few years ago, when women started an ironically titled campaign, "Let Her Get Fat." (In March, it was reported that women's gyms/sports clubs would receive licenses, but an official later corrected this report, saying that this was only in discussion).
History shows the difference that government support for sports can make. In the U.S., the passage of Title IX expanded opportunities for women's sports and had a swift impact: in 1972, one in twenty-seven high school women in the U.S. played sports, but by 1978, when schools had to be compliant with the law, one in four high school women did. Saudi Arabia is starting with a much lower baseline of participation than the United States in a social environment that is far more hostile to women's sports. However, the recent decision on sports in Saudi Arabia is a step in the right direction that might eventually inspire athletic leadership among young women who have yet to even play sports.
This post was originally published on blogs.cfr.org.
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Isobel Coleman
Isobel Coleman is senior fellow and director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative as well as director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. On Twitter, she can be followed at Isobel_Coleman.


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Minéral 89
Minéral 89
Fortifying & Hydrating Daily Skin Booster With Hyaluronic Acid
Your ultimate guide to everything skincare, from A to Z.
Minéral 89 is a pure and powerful formula concentrated with 89% Vichy Mineralizing Thermal Water, born in the French volcanoes, and associated with natural hyaluronic acid.
It hydrates to strengthen skin and protect it against aggressors like weather changes, stress, fatigue and pollution, factors that lead to dull skin, skin damage, and weak skin barrier. Day after day, skin feels hydrated, plumped, fortified — quenched for a healthy glow.
This is the first daily booster that leads to healthier skin, leaving it more beautiful with each passing day.
Vichy Mineralizing Thermal Water: born in the French volcanoes, to strengthen skin's natural defences.
Drawn from a depth of 4,000 metres at the natural springs of France's Auvergne region, Vichy Mineralizing Thermal Water is a concentrate of 15 minerals at an amount of 5.2 grams per litre. Formulated by nature and irreproducible by science, this prodigious water is brimming with benefits for skin.
Paraben-free, fragrance-free, alcohol-free, oil-free, non-greasy and silicone-free
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Natural Hyaluronic Acid: a leading skin replenishing ingredient, for a boost of hydration.
Naturally present in skin, hyaluronic acid guarantees skin plumpness, hydration and moisture preservation. To help it fulfill this role, among 100 active molecules, Vichy selected hyaluronic acid from natural origin. Its greatest contribution? Acting like a sponge to hold up to 1,000 times its weight in water while ensuring perfect tolerance, even on sensitive skin. It forms an even film on skin surface, protecting it against external aggressors.
Hydrates, plumps, fortifies skin
Strengthens and preserves skin's moisture barrier and reduces transepidermal water loss
Hydrates and protects against skin aggressors for 24 hours
Tones skin and improves skin elasticity
Vichy's commitment
- Tested on sensitive skin under dermatological control
- Hypoallergenic
- Paraben-free, fragrance-free, alcohol-free, oil-free, non-greasy and silicone-free
- With soothing and fortifying Vichy Mineralizing Thermal Water
Minéral 89 is the founding step in your skincare routine, to recharge skin with extra health and strength on a daily basis before any other more specific care rituals. It can be applied on face, eye contour and lips.
With its fast-acting, quickly absorbed formula, Minéral 89 is wonderful for teaming up with all of Vichy's skincare products. As clear and transparent as its formula, the gel texture melts into skin, drenching it in freshness before disappearing almost instantly. Invisible, imperceptible, and yet so active!
Apply 2 drops on your skin after cleansing morning and evening. Use as the first step of your skincare routine. Spread with outward movements from the middle of the face, without applying too much pressure.