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by Andreas Wieland in Supply Chain Management Research
This year, the CSCMP's Annual Global Conference 2014 was held in San Antonio, Texas. The Educators' Conference, which provides academics and students a forum to hear the latest in our research field, has become an integral part of it. As every year (see my previous post from Denver last year), several leading supply chain management […]... Read more »
Corsi, T.M., Grimm, C., Cantor, D., & Wright, D. (2014) Should Smaller Commercial Trucks Be Subject to Safety Regulations?. Transportation Journal, 53(2), 117-142. DOI: 10.5325/transportationj.53.2.0117
Dixon, M., & Verma, R. (2013) Sequence Effects in Service Bundles: Implications for Service Design and Scheduling. Journal of Operations Management, 31(3), 138-152. DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2012.12.002
Kull, T.J., Barratt, M., Sodero, A.C., & Rabinovich, E. (2013) Investigating the Effects of Daily Inventory Record Inaccuracy in Multichannel Retailing. Journal of Business Logistics, 34(3), 189-208. info:/10.1111/jbl.12019
Nyaga, G., Lynch, D., Marshall, D., & Ambrose, E. (2013) Power Asymmetry, Adaptation and Collaboration in Dyadic Relationships Involving a Powerful Partner. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 49(3), 42-65. DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12011
Spillan, J., McGinnis, M., Kara, A., & Yi, G. (2013) A Comparison of the Effect of Logistic Strategy and Logistics Integration on Firm Competitiveness in the USA and China. International Journal of Logistics Management, 24(2), 153-179. DOI: 10.1108/IJLM-06-2012-0045
Winter, M., & Knemeyer, A. (2013) Exploring the Integration of Sustainability and Supply Chain Management: Current State and Opportunities for Future Inquiry. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 43(1), 18-38. DOI: 10.1108/09600031311293237
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist businesses. By contrast, the multilingual language work provided by migrants for migrants in multiethnic service enterprises has rarely been … Continue reading →... Read more »
Maria Sabaté i Dalmau. (2014) Migrant Communication Enterprises: Regimentation and Resistance. Multilingual Matters. info:/
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic_Discover
People who drink a lot of coffee – and other caffeinated beverages – find it more difficult to identify and describe their own emotions. This is the claim of a new study, published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, from Australian researchers Michael Lyvers and colleagues: Caffeine use and alexithymia in university students. "Alexithymia" – […]The post Coffee Drinkers Have Trouble Talking About Emotions? appeared first on Neuroskeptic.... Read more »
Lyvers M, Duric N, & Thorberg FA. (2014) Caffeine use and alexithymia in university students. Journal of psychoactive drugs, 46(4), 340-6. PMID: 25188705
by Alexis Delanoir in How to Paint Your Panda
It's no secret that when it comes to what the public thinks, atheists are usually at the bottom of the "nice" list. A survey in 2006 found that atheists were the least trusted minority group in America. Similar studies find that atheists are mistrusted and are seen as more immoral than their religious counterparts. But are these views justified? A new study by Hofmann et al. (2014) suggests they aren't, and this conclusion is consistent with other available data.... Read more »
Gervais WM, Shariff AF, & Norenzayan A. (2011) Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice. Journal of personality and social psychology, 101(6), 1189-206. PMID: 22059841
Hofmann W, Wisneski DC, Brandt MJ, & Skitka LJ. (2014) Morality in everyday life. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6202), 1340-3. PMID: 25214626
by Rodney Steadman in Gravity's Pull
Maybe it was all the Who noise that made the Grinch so aggressive. Recent research out of Bulgaria suggests a link between noise pollution and displaced aggression.... Read more »
Dzhambov A, & Dimitrova D. (2014) Neighborhood noise pollution as a determinant of displaced aggression: A pilot study. Noise and Health, 16(69), 95-101. DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.132090
by DJMac in Recovery Review
"Giving implies to make the other person a giver also." So said Eric Fromm whose quote starts this research paper which travels to the heart of mutual aid. The clear message? In helping other, we help ourselves. The recovery saying "We only keep what we have by giving it away" hits the mark in this respect. What [...]
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Kuuluvainen, V., & Isotalus, P. (2014) Supporting others – Supporting oneself: Members' evaluations of supportive communication in Al-Anon mutual-aid groups. Studies in Communication Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.scoms.2014.03.009
by Bill Sullivan in The 'Scope
A strange and provocative paper by Alexander Panchin and colleagues proposes an unorthodox new idea called the "biomeme hypothesis", which posits that the impulse behind some religious rituals could be driven by mind-altering parasites.... Read more »
Panchin AY, Tuzhikov AI, & Panchin YV. (2014) Midichlorians--the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?. Biology direct, 9(1), 14. PMID: 24990702
by Viputheshwar Sitaraman in Draw Science
Fist bumps minimize contact time and surface area, diminishing germ transfer in terms of greetings--especially compared to handshakes.... Read more »
Ghareeb, P., Bourlai, T., Dutton, W., & McClellan, W. (2013) Reducing pathogen transmission in a hospital setting. Handshake verses fist bump: a pilot study. Journal of Hospital Infection, 85(4), 321-323. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2013.08.010
by Gabriel in Lunatic Laboratories
I was debating about this new study. On one hand it's important to share all sorts of different findings. On the other hand, my faith in humanity was more than just a little shaken, but there is no point on sweeping it under the rug. So disturbing news for women on college campuses, a new study indicates that female college students who are victims of sexual assault are at a much higher risk of becoming victims again. Please hold your disgust till the end…... Read more »
Parks, K., Hsieh, Y., Taggart, C., & Bradizza, C. (2014) A Longitudinal Analysis of Drinking and Victimization in College Women: Is There a Reciprocal Relationship?. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. DOI: 10.1037/a0036283
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic_Discover
Imagine that someone else was controlling your actions. You would still look like you, and sound like you, but you wouldn't be the one deciding what you did and what you said. Now consider: would anyone notice the difference? In this nightmarish scenario, you would be a "cyranoid" – in the terminology introduced by psychologist […]The post "Cyranoids": Stanley Milgram's Creepiest Experiment appeared first on Neuroskeptic.... Read more »
Corti K, & Gillespie A. (2014) Revisiting Milgram's Cyranoid Method: Experimenting With Hybrid Human Agents. The Journal of Social Psychology. PMID: 25185802
by Wiley Asia Blog in Wiley Asia Blog - Social Science
Internet addresses are "the numbers that uniquely identify computers and devices on the Internet". Although the current version of the Internet Protocol known as IPv4 provides 4.3 billion addresses, "they have already begun to run out". Computer experts created another Internet Protocol version in mid-1990s which is known as IPv6 that can provide "nearly infinite address space". The challenge, however, is that "IPv6 Internet is not backwards compatible with the........ Read more »
Liv Coleman. (2014) Next Generation Internet Policy in Japan, China and India . Asia . info:/
by Elizabeth Preston in Inkfish
If you watch poker coverage on television, you probably won't hear the commentators compare players to pigeons. Maybe they should. The birds don't play a great game of hold 'em, but the way they think about risk might be strikingly similar to the way we do. Researchers discovered this by putting humans and birds through […]The post Pigeon Gamblers Treat Risk Just Like Humans Do appeared first on Inkfish.... Read more »
Ludvig EA, Madan CR, Pisklak JM, & Spetch ML. (2014) Reward context determines risky choice in pigeons and humans. Biology letters, 10(8). PMID: 25165453
by Cobb & Hecht in Do You Believe In Dog?
The things we noticed in and around canine science over the past two weeks, Storified in one neat location for your convenience:[View the story "Do You Believe in Dog? [16-31 August 2014]" on Storify] Further reading:Feuerbacher E.N. (2014). Shut up and pet me! Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) prefer petting to vocal praise in concurrent and single-alternative choice procedures, Behavioural Processes, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2014.08.019 Gygax L. (2014). The A to Z of sta........ Read more »
Gygax Lorenz. (2014) The A to Z of statistics for testing cognitive judgement bias. Animal Behaviour, 59-69. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.06.013
Arnott Elizabeth R., Claire M. Wade, & Paul D. McGreevy. (2014) Environmental Factors Associated with Success Rates of Australian Stock Herding Dogs. PLoS ONE, 9(8). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104457
by Rebecca Kreston in BODY HORRORS
Anthrax is a deadly disease with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Because it is, thankfully, also quite rare, it is relatively easy to track its whereabouts and going-ons when an outbreak occurs. Typically, outbreaks of anthrax have been traced to groups of people involved in high-risk activities involving grazing animals and their byproducts: anthrax favors shepherds, butchers, wool-sorters, leather workers, and even the odd drum-playing hippies. In 2009, however, an outbreak upended this........ Read more »
Berger, T., Kassirer, M., & Aran, A. (2014) Injectional anthrax - new presentation of an old disease. Eurosurveillance, 19(32), 20877. DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.32.20877
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic_Discover
Are men who inject testosterone and other anabolic steroids at risk of entering a violent "roid rage"? Many people think so. Whenever a professional athlete commits a violent crime, it's not long before someone suggests that steroids may have been involved. The most recent example of this is the case of Jonathan "War Machine" Koppenhaver. […]The post The Myth Of "Roid Rage"? appeared first on Neuroskeptic.... Read more »
Lundholm L, Frisell T, Lichtenstein P, & Långström N. (2014) Anabolic androgenic steroids and violent offending: Confounding by polysubstance abuse among 10,365 general population men. Addiction (Abingdon, England). PMID: 25170826
by Gabriel in Lunatic Laboratories
Ebola has a nasty reputation for the way it damages the body. It's rightfully earned when you look at the death rate. But when you look at the actual details of an Ebola infection, a surprising fact surfaces: The virus isn't what ends up killing you, it's your own immune system. Sure they are trying different ways to outsmart the virus, but it's mutating... quickly. In fact, scientists have rapidly sequenced and analyzed more than 99 Ebola virus genomes. The hope it to better understand the enem........ Read more »
Gire, S., Goba, A., Andersen, K., Sealfon, R., Park, D., Kanneh, L., Jalloh, S., Momoh, M., Fullah, M., Dudas, G.... (2014) Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1259657
by Nura Rutten in United Academics
Compared to the beginning of the sitcom-area, in the 1950′s/1960′s, the roles of women and men sometimes seem to be reversed. However, in every sitcom, the woman who wants to be funny has only two options.... Read more »
Simmons, J., & Rich, L. (2013) Feminism Ain't Funny: Woman as "Fun-Killer," Mother as Monster in the American Sitcom. Advances in Journalism and Communication, 01(01), 1-12. DOI: 10.4236/ajc.2013.11001
by Ray Carey in ELFA project
As I've earlier argued on this blog, sometimes the claims of "fluidity", "diversity", and "innovation" found in English as a lingua franca (ELF) research are overstated. It's so diverse that even ordinary diversity won't do – it's "super-diversity" now. It could very well be ultra-mega-diversity-squared, but the question of the prominence of these presumably innovative […]... Read more »
Osimk-Teasdale, R. (2014) "I just wanted to give a partly answer": capturing and exploring word class variation in ELF data. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 3(1), 109-143. DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2014-0005
by Rodney Steadman in Gravity's Pull
Connectedness with nature may influence cognitive styles.... Read more »
Leong, L., Fischer, R., & McClure, J. (2014) Are nature lovers more innovative? The relationship between connectedness with nature and cognitive styles. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 57-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.03.007
by nooffensebut in The Unsilenced Science
Geneticists are not the leading experts on behavioral genetics, and they and other critics have made numerous errors and misjudgments about Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance, as well as MAOA or warrior gene research.... Read more »
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Now a US citizen, he acknowledges that opportunities like the one he had have gone away and that young people have it harder now.
Greek immigrant Stavros Katolis
Stavros Katolis, 75, spent more time traveling to the U.S. from Greece than he did looking for work once he got here. That was in 1965.
After an 11-day steamship trip across the Atlantic, 28-year-old Katolis was fetched from the dock in New York City by his brother, who was already living on Long Island. One week later, the brother took Katolis to his new job as a furrier, secured through family connections.
"That day was my birthday, and I'm never going to forget: That day was the day I got a job," Katolis recalled. "It's a great country."
Forty-seven years later, Katolis is retired and comfortably ensconced in his home in the upper-middle-class community of Port Jefferson Village, N.Y. He is separated from his significant other -- and lonely -- but he says he's happy to be able to get by on his small savings and Social Security payments of about $1,250 a month.
With help from the New York State School Tax Relief Program, which reduces his property taxes from $6,000 to $2,500 a year, he is able to manage. ("It's a big, big thing," he said. "Because that $6,000 is hard.")
"I never complain, believe me" said Katolis, who was raised in Greece and is now a U.S. citizen.
Katolis said that while he always worked hard, he benefited from something that's harder for young Americans, let alone immigrants, to come by today: a union job from the get-go, which offered job security, good pay and benefits.
"It used to be a big job, because I was in a union," he said. "In the '70s and '80s, for a man to make $500 a week and have all the benefits, it was a good job.
"Today's different, not only here, but in every country. But years back, it was much easier to get a job, to live like a human being."
In 1965, 31% of workers in the private sector were members of unions, which historically elevated wages across an industry. In 2011, just 7% of private-sector workers belonged to unions, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Today, Katolis said, it's more difficult for unskilled American workers to make a living wage, in part because of illegal immigrants who undercut pay. He wishes the labor laws were more strongly enforced.
"I know people, they don't have papers, they come here. I don't know how they come here and work," Katolis said. "And the other thing, the bosses abuse the people. They take less money and they take work from Americans. Nobody check those places."
Katolis receives a union pension of just $62.34 a month. After 43 years of work, his pension was supposed to be between $800 and $1,000, but after a corruption scandal decades ago, the pension funds evaporated, he said.
"Don't laugh," Katolis said, when revealing his pension amount. Nonetheless, he continues to tell people: "The union was good to me. I love union. Anyone who work for the union is good."
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In this case, one man's "just war" is another's ethnic cleansing. Do the Palestinians have no natural right to defend themselves from the onslaught of Israel's military, from 50 years of occupation, death, poverty and despair? What is to happen to them when Israel's "just war" is over?
First off, Hamas is committing terrorist acts by launching rockets into Israel, and that is wrong. That said, where is Washington's moral outrage for Israel's actions (as of this writing), killing 1,346, wounding an estimated 6,780, and displacing 240,000 Palestinians? The vast majority of the dead — some 70 percent — are civilians, with 232 of them children. Certainly there was moral outrage over the downing of the Malaysian Airline flight over Ukraine, killing all passengers on board, in July. But for the Palestinian civilians, there seems to be only "hard lessons" and little remorse from Israel's best friend in the West.
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Several warnings are in effect in the mountain parks as grizzly bears spend a lot of time in and around the Banff and Lake Louise townsites.
Officials with Banff National Park are urging special caution around the town's recreation grounds and the Cave and Basin area — including Sundance trail to the junction of Healy Creek trail.
"We've had a lot of grizzly bear activity in the areas immediately adjacent to the Banff townsite," said Steve Michel, human/wildlife conflict specialist with Banff National Park.
He said the warning was put out because there's a soccer field and skateboard park in the area, which is close to a wildlife corridor.
There are three young grizzly bears — believed to be the four-year-old offspring of No. 64, the well-known matriarch of the Bow Valley — travelling separately, although each one is spending a lot of time around the townsite.
"These bears are at the very bottom of the totem pole," he said, noting they are likely staying where they know they'll be safe from an encounter with a large male grizzly bear. "It's much greater security for them."
Although the warning covers a specific area, bears are being spotted throughout the national park.
"We've had grizzly bear activity literally everywhere," said Michel. "It's 360 degrees around the town of Banff and throughout the whole Bow Valley at the lower elevation portions of Banff National Park.
"There's a high degree of bear activity this spring."
There are several reasons for the heightened activity — including the elk calving season, which attracts grizzly and black bears; the regular bear breeding season; and, snow hanging around at higher elevations.
"We've got this fantastic salad bar for the bears down in the valley bottom around places like the town of Banff," he said.
A similar situation is happening around Lake Louise, where several bears have been spotted around the townsite and local trail system.
There's a closure in effect for portions of the Bow River Loop trail, Louise Creek trail and Tramline trail, west of Lake Louise drive and south of the Bow River.
Several warnings also remain in Kootenay National Park — including Cobb Lake trail, Redstreak campground and Olive Lake — because a female grizzly with cubs and several black bears are still frequenting the area.
It's expected the bears will remain active at lower elevations for the next two to three weeks.
Officials remind visitors to be aware of their surroundings, carry bear spray and know how to use it, and let the bears know you're there by travelling in groups and making noise.
They also ask any bear sightings be called into Banff dispatch at 403-762-1470.


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Discussion of Barack Obama's presidential campaign has mainly focused on the candidate's undeniable rhetorical skills and the obvious follow-up question: What, if any, substance lies behind them? He can talk the talk, but what's the walk, or is there a walk at all?
Conservatives like to point to his National Journal rating as the most liberal member of the US Senate, and considering another of its members -- Vermont's Bernie Sanders -- is an avowed socialist, that would be liberal, indeed. But many of the most hard-core liberals see in Obama just another bought-and-paid-for politician whose ability to mesmerize potential foot soldiers behind what they believe will ultimately prove to be a corporate agenda only diverts their energy and actually hurts the cause. And then there's a third camp of critics, who see just a gifted man with a large ego, uttering attractive but empty platitudes to advance the cause of nothing but the glory that is Barack Obama.
Well, I've seen meaningless, empty rhetoric ("Morning in America"), and I've seen cynical, deceitful rhetoric ("compassionate conservatism"), and I've seen them both work, and I've seen them both do great damage to the country, so count me among the skeptics. So when Obama came to Columbus, Ohio, this week, I felt compelled to go check things out for myself, and at the very least, cop a buzz from the energy of the crowd.
And the setting was a good one for that-- St. John's Arena on the Ohio State University campus, where a dozen or more Big Ten championship banners still hang though the basketball team has long since moved to more modern digs. St. John's is a compact, steep-sided pit of a coliseum, where viewed from the floor a fired-up crowd can give new meaning to the phrase "wall of sound."
Across Woody Hayes Drive is the famed "Horseshoe," the football stadium which hosts a modernist-style memorial to the legendary sprinter Jesse Owens, who while wearing the scarlet and gray at a meet in 1935 performed the almost unbelievable feat of breaking three world records and tying a fourth in the space of less than an hour. The next year he would go to the Berlin Olympics and strike blows against racism with a power only the heavyweight boxer Joe Louis could rival. It could plausibly be argued that Owens, almost simultaneous with Louis, was the first black man in American history whom large numbers of whites genuinely admired, cheered for, loved, and thus played more than a small part in preparing the way for the Barack Obama phenomenon.
"I've always watched politics from a distance," said Ciara Holland, a 19-year-old architecture and interior design student at OSU as she shivered in the frigid temperatures waiting to enter the arena, "but this year I wanted to be a part of it. Race is irrelevant. Homosexuality, race -- I think people my age are just more open-minded about things like that. It's what you stand for, and we want change. This election is going to affect us."
Despite the campus setting, though, both as a student (it was still before noon, after all) and as an African-American, Holland was in the minority. All ages were well-represented, and the crowd was probably 80 percent white, roughly approximating the demographics of the Columbus area. Mijiza Ashanti, a retired crisis intervention specialist from the Ohio State hospital system, brought two teenage grandchildren.
"I wanted them to see the first black president," she said. A staunch Democrat since the John Kennedy campaign, Ashanti said she adopted an African name in the 1970s, and despite living through the best and the worst of the civil rights movement, she said she wasn't surprised to see so many whites supporting Obama.
"They're seeing the same thing I'm seeing," she said. "He's a very intelligent man."
From the other side of what may no longer be a racial divide, Rhonda Donat, 72, a retired mechanical engineer, said, "I think it's a great achievement for our democracy and a vindication of our ideals. Race is not an issue. I don't know what to make of it. Maybe the country has changed."
Donat's companion at the event, who also fit what's thought of as the Hillary Clinton demographic, preferred to remain anonymous. "I come from a political family," she said. "I have two here somewhere who are volunteering for Obama, but . . ."
And the state's Democratic political establishment is as divided as the polls. Democratic icon John Glenn and Governor Ted Strickland are supporting Clinton; octogenarian ex-governor John Gilligan and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, an African-American who was recently re-elected in a landslide in the majority white city, back Obama. For that reason, a Columbus city employee in his late 20s also didn't want his name mentioned.
"I never got very involved in politics, and then I started to see what happens when you don't," he said. "The war has been such an incredible waste of resources, and Obama's the one guy who didn't support the war."
And like for most of those interviewed, race went unmentioned until the questioner brought it up, and then it was dismissed as irrelevant, or even a point in Obama's favor.
"Young people are color-blind," he said. "Elections before have always been one old white guy against another old white guy, and it didn't seem like it made much difference. It's exciting to see someone pulling us together."
Amy Bulgrin and Katie Marquardt, sisters in their 40s whose grandfather was speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives in the late 1970s, also had concrete concerns for supporting Obama, despite gold-star credentials in what was once assumed would be a pro-Clinton political establishment.
"My company just got bought, and I lost my job," Marquardt said. "The middle class has been so eroded for seven years, I'm ready for a change, and I see Hillary as part of the old school."
"My husband worked on the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992, and he's still leaning toward Hillary," Bulgrin said, and then smiled. "But he's the one who got us the tickets to this."
As the time for speeches approached, the crowd reached about 8,000, according to the Columbus Dispatch -- fairly modest for Obama, who has filled 20,000-seat stadiums elsewhere. But then again, it was mid-morning in mid-week, with wind chills around 0 degrees and four inches of overnight snow on the ground. And that was still more than five times the crowd John McCain drew to the same location during the 2000 campaign, which the newspaper then described as "huge."
I had read where organizers at these rallies tried to pump up the crowd's enthusiasm before Obama appeared, but I saw very little of that this time. Miss Ohio sang the national anthem, and there was a feeble attempt at a "wave," which never really petered in and petered out entirely by the third time around the building. The crowd mostly just sat and talked and waited for the bus from Cleveland to arrive while listening to the Pickerington Central High School band play "Hang on Sloopy" and other local favorites.
When the time came, former Ohio State Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George led the crowd in just two rounds of the Buckeyes' favorite football chant -- "O-H-I-O" -- and Mayor Coleman took no more than two minutes in introducing the candidate. "This election is about who we are as a people and as a country."
But prepped or not, when Obama came on, the audience erupted in a deafening roar, an almost organic force of nature emitting a sound that crescendoed and receded in spontaneous waves, like surf pounding on a beach, before settling into a chant of "O-Ba-Ma, O-Ba-Ma."
Even then, Obama didn't milk the moment, but quickly quieted the crowd and launched into his speech.
"I'd like to take all the credit for (that reception), but I know I can't," he said, preparing for his biggest applause line. "Because we all know, no matter what happens, George W. Bush's name is not going to be on the ballot this November."
For me, the speech was surprisingly devoid of lofty rhetoric. He made some specific policy proposals -- get out of Iraq, close Guantanamo and restore habeas corpus, eliminate tax breaks for companies outsourcing jobs and give them to companies creating jobs in America, raise the minimum wage and then index it to rise automatically with inflation. There were also more general goals -- "I not only want to end this war. I want to end the mindset that got us into this war. I want to end the politics of fear." And some platitudes -- "Every child is our child."
Most of all, he spoke the way any effective leader speaks, talking neither up at nor down to his audience, but using direct, forceful language, appealing to their better natures and offering a bargain that asked as much from them as it promised to them.
"Working as a community organizer was the best education I ever had, because I learned ordinary people can do extraordinary things, and change always happens from the bottom up," he said. "So we can change the world, but I need your help.
"Hope is not blind optimism. Hope is not ignorance of the challenges we face. Change is not easy, and these things take time. But nothing worthwhile ever happened unless somebody somewhere was willing to hope. Hope is imagining and then fighting for what didn't seem possible before."
So is the criticism valid, that the Obama campaign lacks substance behind the talk? It seemed to me that he talked specifics about as much as the next guy, and if his supporters, with the exception of the war issue, seemed more moved by gut-level reactions to his rhetoric and personality than position paper policies, has it ever been otherwise? Not in my lifetime. And when was the last time you got into a conversation with a Clinton supporter that ended in a discussion of the nitty-gritty of healthcare policy?
But the day after the speech, there appeared in the Dispatch a full-page, small-print ad laying out Obama's proposals on the economy -- trade policy, tax policy, clean energy, infrastructure, pension security, small businesses, home ownership -- in mind-numbing detail. And, the ad promised, this was just the first of five such ads to run daily through election day. It was hard to take it as anything but an in-your-face response to the criticism that the Obama campaign lacks substance, and it would be interesting to know, though probably impossible to find out, how many of those critics actually read these ads.
And people who portray Obama as a candidate whose success is based entirely on a rare gift of gab also either ignore or miss the remarkable organizing acumen of his campaign -- a leave-no-voter-behind approach that seems to think of everything right down to programming the St. John's scoreboards to read "Barack Obama 2008", and that takes full advantage of the enthusiasm the candidate generates to reach and persuade potential supporters on a personal level not seen since the days of the big city machines, which only had jobs to give out.
Some 300 volunteers worked the Columbus rally, and trying to get a quote from one of them was an all but hopeless endeavor. They knew their responsibilities, and zealously so -- at times it seemed overzealously. At one point, I was observed interviewing people in an area where such activity apparently was not supposed to happen, and with the polite assistance of a couple of Columbus' finest, I was shooed behind the barricades into the section reserved for the press. "You can talk to people from across the railing," I was assured.
Meanwhile, five large vans were at the ready to shuttle people from the rally four miles to the early voting location in downtown Columbus, and an early voting march is planned for the weekend. When I returned home from the rally, I found mailings from both the Clinton and Obama campaigns. And regardless of who has been distorting whose positions (although for the record, the Clinton glossy was an attack on Obama's healthcare policy; Obama's did not mention Clinton at all), both mailings urged voters to support their respective candidates March 4. But while Clinton's left it at that, Obama's went on the explain what documents would be necessary to satisfy Ohio's voter ID law, and then provided -- in three places -- a toll-free number to call for anyone who was still confused.
Perhaps most ambitiously, the campaign has set a goal of knocking on a million doors statewide -- a number almost equal to the toral number of votes cast in the 2004 Democratic primary -- between Saturday morning and the time the polls close Tuesday. A dozen rallying points have been established in the Columbus area where volunteers will meet three times a day each day before heading out.
Not that all of that means Obama's inspirational qualities are meaningless either. Back at the rally, Maggie Ledbetter was manning a "faith table," signing up people to speak on Obama's behalf at their churches on Sunday, or at the very least, to pass out Obama hand-held fans to the congregants, a campaign gift that would hopefully keep on giving through the summer.
Ledbetter, a young criminal defense lawyer from Chicago, quit her job so she could, with some financial assistance from her family, volunteer full-time for the Obama campaign. She has been following the campaign from state to state since November.
"I was telling my parents I was thinking about donating money to the campaign, and they said why don't you volunteer instead," she said. "I've been a big supporter of Obama's since he ran for the Senate in Illinois. I think the ability to inspire is important. When Demosthenes talked, people marched."
Discussion of Barack Obama's presidential campaign has mainly focused on the candidate's undeniable rhetorical skills and the obvious follow-up question: What, if any, substance lies behind them? He can talk the talk, but what's the walk, or is there a walk at all?


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A Month of Horror for Christians under Islam: September 2013
I get ill whenever I recall any time that Barack Obama proclaimed Islam as a "religion of peace" and tolerance. He once said, "Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace." HERE are some other quotes from Obama trying to defend his abominable "religion". As with everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Barack Obama, we can rest assured that statement is a certified lie. When Obama speaks always trust in the opposite of what he says. "If you like your health-care coverage, you can keep it." "If you like your doctor, you can keep him." But I don't want to stray too far away from the main topic which is Islam is far from being a 'religion of peace'. His propensity for lying is unmatched, even for politicians. I'd love to see Barack convince the Christians who were slaughtered just last September by Muslims just how much "peace" Islam has been promoting around the world.
Over at Gatestone Institute there's an article which highlights just a few of the atrocities committed by followers of Islam in various countries around the Middle East. Christians are being slaughtered, raped, and burned from their homes, and their churches are being burned and ransacked by Muslims without any fear of retaliation or prosecution.
Via: Gatestone Institute
A Month of Horror for Christians under Islam: September 2013
"We shall come for you…you are polluting our religion." — Note apparently from al-Shabaab, Somalia
"It seems great crackdowns on churches and extraordinary waves of arrest of Iranian pastors and Christian converts have not been effective." — Mohabat News, Iran
The same month that Obama tried to wage war on behalf of the jihadi rebels in Syria (citing "human rights" concerns), some of the war's worst atrocities were committed against that nation's Christian minority, most notably in Ma'loula, an ancient Christian region where the inhabitants spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
There, al-Qaeda-linked jihadis fired mortars and missiles into at least two ancient churches before looting them; some 80 Christians trying to defend their homes were killed. Others who could not flee were forced, on pain of death, to convert to Islam.
One man's last words before being slaughtered by the rebels were: "I am a Christian, and if you want to kill me for that, I do not object to it." A nun involved with humanitarian relief said the man "is a Martyr in Christ in the full sense of this word, since he was murdered solely because of religious hatred!"
The Christian Post reports:
Jihadists reportedly forced one man to convert to Islam at gunpoint and slit the throat of another Christian woman's fiancé and then [mockingly] told her, "Jesus didn't come to save him."…. "I saw people wearing Al-Nusra headbands who started shooting at crosses," the Christian senior told the AFP. One of the shooters, he said, "put a pistol to the head of my neighbor and forced him to convert to Islam by obliging him to repeat 'there is no God but God' [Islamic shehada]…Afterwards they joked, 'he's one of ours now.'"
In al-Thawrah, Syria, Christians were also singled out for attack by jihadi invaders. In one incident, they stopped three residents, released two who identified themselves as Muslims, and bludgeoned to death the third after he identified himself a Christian (graphic image). They also destroyed, among other churches, the Antiochian Orthodox church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus.
In Raqqah, a city in northern Syria, the al-Qaeda linked "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" broke the crosses off the area's two Christian churches and placed on them al-Qaeda's Islamic flags. They also set the contents of the Church of the Annunciation and the Church of Martyrs aflame. In one video, a Muslim "freedom fighter" smashes a statue of Virgin Mary to shouts of Islam's war-cry cry, "Allahu Akbar!" ["Allah is Greater!"]
These latest attacks come in the context of yet another fatwa that appeared in September, and issued by 36 Islamic scholars who legitimized "the right of the faithful Sunni Muslims to seize and take possession of goods, homes, property belonging to Christians, Druze and Alawite and members of other religious minorities 'who do not profess the Sunni religion of the Prophet.'" (Earlier, before the "sex jihad" solved the problem by luring Muslim women from Tunisia and elsewhere to provide their sexual services to jihadis in Syria fighting to make Allah's word supreme, another fatwa permitted jihadis to rape all non-Sunni women.)
Meanwhile, when publicly asked about the jihadi nature of the rebellion and that the rebels often shout Islam's supremacist war cry, Allahu Akbar (such as when firing at Chrisitan churches), U.S. Senator John McCain insisted that shouting "Allahu Akbar!" is equivalent to a Christian saying "Thank God," and that the rebels in Syria are "moderates and I guarantee you they are moderates."
Similarly, when U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was also asked in September about the jihadi and al-Qaeda elements of the Syrian rebels, he argued that, "The opposition has increasingly become more defined by its moderation … more defined by its adherence to some, you know, democratic process and to an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution"—an assertion that prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin openly to call Kerry a liar.
The rest of September's roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity:
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Average mortgage rates in the U.S. were mixed in the latest week--with the average 30-year fixed rate remaining unchanged--after fluctuating in recent weeks amid concerns about the future of Federal Reserve's bond-purchase program, according to mortgage-finance company Freddie Mac (FMCC).
Freddie Mac Chief Economist Frank Nothaft said, "Fixed mortgage rates have been bouncing around over the past few weeks on market speculation that the Fed will taper some of its monetary stimulus."
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For the week ended Thursday, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.4%, unchanged from a week earlier and up from 3.62% a year earlier. Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.44%, up from 3.43% a week earlier and 2.88% a year earlier.
Five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, on average were up at 3.23% from 3.19% during the previous week and the year-earlier rate of 2.76%. One-year Treasury-indexed ARM rates on average rose to 2.67% from 2.62% the previous week and were lower than the 2.69% rate last year.
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- nyom_nyom_nyom_de_plume Jul 26, 2008 06:25 PM
Okay, I'm going to say it. I know that some of you will call down a curse upon me, my children, and my children's children, but I think the Five and Ten is thoroughly overrated and overpriced. I think it's the naked emperor of Athens, Georgia.
I've eaten there twice. Granted, not an impressive sampling, but I don't really want to take out a second mortgage to further confirm my opinion. The first time I ate there was about a year and a half ago, and I couldn't even tell you now what I ate. I had a delicious Chimay ale and I could detail the dinner conversation, but the food was thoroughly unmemorable, and probably cost about $25-$30.
I went again a few months ago. I ordered risotto. Again, I know, I should have known this wouldn't be a showpiece. But someone else was picking up the tab and I was getting hints that the budget had a ceiling, so I opted for a cheaper dish. It was totally bland, underseasoned, and cost as much as a lavish dinner for two at a local Latino place.
My husband thinks I should cut them some slack because I ordered something kind of lame. But in my opinion, if a place changes up their menu to reflect what they can do well, and when they have a fairly small selection, with every entree costing two days worth of groceries, ANYTHING you order should kick ass. And it just didn't. Someone else there ordered a lamb dish and I noticed she didn't finish it--generally there was little ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the table. (One exception: someone ordered a sardine appetizer that was very, very simple and also quite tasty.)
Both times I ate there I left reflecting on the fact that I could have gotten a meal at Sabor Latino or a similar place in town that would have cost the amount of my tip at the 5 & 10 but would have had way more flavor and nuance.
So, okay, I'm bracing myself! Let me have it!
Don't think I will commit hari kari over that review.
Sorry you didn't get blown away. We never have claimed other than to be a good neighborhood spot. Hopefully you just caught in a underseasoned moment.
Lauding comes from others, not the marketing department or PR firm, that we don't have.
As for pricing, I would agree that Latin restaurants possess fantastic value. I would recommend L'Estrella.
re: hacheson
Your modesty becomes you, Hugh. But lord have mercy I love your food.
La Estrella is excellent. They have a green-sauced enchilada that is divine. And lovely folk serving you as well.
If I could figure out a way of eating at 5 & 10 at least once a month I would. But as I live in Asheville a 4 hr drive for dinner just isn't so practical. Nevertheless, it will stay at the top of my list. We have eaten there 3 times and have been so impressed by the service, creativity and taste.
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I am planning on coming to Asheville this weekend, any suggestions
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you should probably repost and ask this question so we don't hijack this topic. LOTS and LOTS of posts on Asheville restaurants
First, thanks, Hugh for being so gracious. As you know, you have enough admirers without courting my favor.
Charlotte, I agree that the service was fantastic and I know that everyone will henceforth disregard my opinion about everything. But for the record I didn't want Latin food when I went there, I was just making the comparison afterward.
So here's a question, nicer, maybe, than my original post. What are the great meals? My own intuitions are not paying off there, and I'm sure I'll go again sometime soon, so what are you ordering that knocks your socks off?
re: nyom_nyom_nyom_de_plume
i think they change things quite a bit, so I wonder if someone can give you an answer on this. I know I had a gnocchi dish that rivaled anything I ever had in Italy and my husband as had some fish dishes that he still talks about.
re: nyom_nyom_nyom_de_plume
The frogmore stew seems to be a permanent fixture and one of my favorites.
When in doubt, go with whatever the special is.
re: nyom_nyom_nyom_de_plume
always order from the special board... all the greatest meals have been from there
re: nyom_nyom_nyom_de_plume
As much as I disagree with you I have to say that for a while my wife felt the same way about 5&10. A big part of that is that she is a vegetarian and she always ordered the pasta w/ mozz and shaved jalapeno. Which, she thought was good, but it didn't blow her away. Whereas I was almost always blown away by what I was eating across the table.
She finally ventured away from that during our visit last week for our 2nd anniversary and I'm happy to say that she was finally blown away, by the caprese-ish salad and the gnocchi with the pecan pesto. She ate the gnocchi as slowly as possible to lengthen the experience. Seriously, it probably took her 30 minutes to eat it.
I know the common advice is to not order the "safe" items.(This phrase drives me crazy and I would hope everything coming out of the kitchen is safe for consumption) Being in a town as small as Athens, I think that 5&10 has to not only be inviting to the adventurous eater, or fine dining veteran, but also to the frat boy trying to impress a date or the freshman out with his parents. And I think they do this very well.
Honestly, I usually order the specials, but the caesar salad and the frogmore stew are two of my favorite dishes that I've ever eaten. And in the case of the caesar salad, there is a lot of competition.
I guess my point is don't waste time trying "to get" 5&10. I think the restaurant tries really hard to avoid any type of pretense, and unfortunately a lot of the people who love the restaurant seem to enjoy giving the restaurant pretense.
Just order what sounds good, and if you don't like it then you don't like it. But rest assured, it's not because you don't get it.
We rank 5 & 10 amongst the best restaurants we've ever visited, and that's saying something.
I do think that Hugh's menu has a certain logic to it, with some of the perennial entrants being "safer" than others, and therefore more boring to my taste. And there are just certain items I've never ordered, and never would, like the Frogmore Stew, or the spinach salad.
Also, I would never personally order risotto as my main course, anywhere, under any circumstances. That's like ordering a plate of very fancy mashed potatoes for dinner, IMO.
But the majority of the apps, soups, and fish and meat entrees are a sure bet, as are the specials. I've just never been to a restaurant that was more consistently excellent, not to mention moan-inducing. The elegance, subtlety, and sheer precision of flavor and texture matchings is always superb.
Having said all that, there is a huge elephant in the room, so to speak. There are a LOT of people who are simply not going to, well, "get it" with a place like 5 & 10, but that's not an attempt to go anywhere near a debate on the subject of taste. It is what it is, and perhaps the place just isn't the place for you. But if you go again, do consult with your server on what's best that day, as they have perhaps one of the best waitstaffs in the country, again IMO, very knowledgeable and helpful. They always steer us right.
One more thing: the wifely and I long ago abandoned the Western-style approach to dining out. We always order several dishes, anywhere we go: maybe a couple apps, a soup, and an entree, and we sit side-by-side and share everything, sorta Chinese-style. That whole "this is my entree and I'll consume it alone" thing seems sorta barbaric and silly to us now. My point being, go with someone you feel comfortable sharing food with and do a sampling of the menu. It can be a real education for the taste buds.
Anyway, to each his/her own. There's no question that 5 & 10 is a world-class operation with some of the best food to be had anywhere, but that sort of higher-end approach to ingredient-sourcing and preparation isn't everybody's cup of tea. No biggie.
What restaurants in Athens do you enjoy?
re: uptown jimmy
Let me try this again, since someone was apparently offended by my earlier post. I didn't ask to be snarky and I apologize if someone thought that I was, but I'm genuinely curious - what is it about this place that would elicit the comment about "getting it"? That's just not a phrase I'm used to hearing in relation to restaurants, unless it's some type of unique cuisine or preparation/serving method, and I don't get the impression that 5 & 10 falls into that category. As I said earlier, I've never been there, so it's a curiosity question.
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I agree, Suzy. It's absolutely true that some restaurants speak to some people's tastes more than others, but it is strange to phrase it as "getting it," as if someone is stupid for not *understanding* what's delicious about the food.
This is actually at the heart of my perhaps feeble criticism of 5&10's reputation - and why I compared it to the emperor with no clothes. I sometimes get the impression that there's an in-grouping thing going on. "Oh, you don't appreciate the smartness/subtleties of the restaurant? Well, *I* do." The restaurant may not be promoting that attitude, and it's clear many, many diners just really like the food. But often the praise I hear about the restaurant leans more toward stoking the diner's pride in his own good taste. (As is evident from some posts here implying that anyone who isn't crazy about the restaurant just doesn't appreciate subtlety or the finer things in life.)
My wife and I LOVE 5&10. Unfortunately it didn't come to town until we were about to leave. We've been 5-7 times in the last 4-5 years and we've been thrilled each time. I second the opinion voiced earlier about asking you waiter/waitress about what's good/bad popular/unpopular. I do this nearly every time I eat and especially at a place with such good service. We frequently get the specials. Brunch on Sunday is also a special treat. I'm sorry for your bad experience, hope your next time is like mine!
Really? More nuance? I love Sabor Latino, but it's not the subtlest restaurant in Athens.
Order things that sound interesting, as though the kitchen's goofing around with them, or that contain ingredients you wouldn't expect (redneck risotto, watemelon and feta sandwich, the anchovy snackie). Soup tends to be marvelous, as does fish and anything porky or innardy. As with pretty much all restaurants, appetizers tend to be more reliably interesting than entrees, as you don't have to base them around a hunk of protein (no matter how delicious that hunk is).
This advice holds true for ordering in _any_ nice restaurant.
re: hillarybrown
Thanks for the tips about 5&10.
I have to defend Sabor Latino--they really do have some wonderfully nuanced dishes. Try the Colombian and Peruvian tamales side by side - lots of nuanced differences between them. I think tamales are usually boring--the risotto of the Latin world--but SL has shown me they can have a beauty to them. Also, a lot of their less cliche dishes, like the various baked chicken entrees with different kinds of sauces, are both very flavorful and complex.
I think there may be something else going on with Sabor Latino--we have expectations about Latin food in the US as being spicy and cheap, so we don't tend to come to the Latin table with the same kinds of expectations that we bring to, say, continental food. But I think if you put one of several Sabor Latino entrees on the 5&10 menu, slapped a $25 price tag on it, and dressed up with the 5&10 ambiance, folks on Chowhound would be raving about the nuances they might ignore in SL's hole-in-the-wall setting.
re: nyom_nyom_nyom_de_plume
I'm not saying I don't think their food is flavorful and complex. That fried Twinkie knocked my freaking socks off. I think it's an absolutely delicious and authentic restaurant. But the flavors might go a couple of places, not like five, or more. If you keep chewing, do you get a new flavor? Not so much.
I haven't been to Pura Vida in Atlanta, but my guess is that it bears the same kind of relationship to a place like Sabor Latino that Five and Ten does to traditional southern restaurants. It takes that simple, delicious food and, without losing what makes it special, does something unexpected with it.
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