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Jan D. sent a note that the latest episode of webcomic Cat and Girl features a meditation on wants and needs. With the permission of artist Dorothy Gambrell, here's the strip:
Girl says:
To need is to live. To want is to live in society. What if we could break free from want. What could that mean? What if we didn't want anything?
What if we didn't want anything? Would our lives be dull? How can one find balance between wanting and having?
It's a great question. What if we could break free from want? For myself, reducing wants has played a fundamental role in helping me improve my finances. When I stopped wanting so many things, I stopped spending. I stopped feeling bad that I didn't have things. I became more satisfied with who I am and what I have.
Cat and Girl is awesome. It often features commentary on class, money, and consumerism. Look for a future interview with artist Dorothy Gambrell about "the financial aspect of this comic strip thing". (And let me know if you have any questions you'd like to ask her.)
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This reminds me of how much I despise birthdays and holidays. Everyone always asks me what I want. I don't want anything! … at least not anything that you can buy.
I've often wondered what would happen to our economy if everyone became financially responsible overnight.
What if we ALL stopped wanting?
Would the family box business go under because a lot fewer boxes were needed?
Would we all have jobs?
I don't think we have to worry about that happening. It is interesting to ponder…
I've never commented here before, and it figures that Cat and Girl is what drives me to do it, and not your fantastic advise on money and frugality.
But, anyways, I love Cat and Girl and would love reading an interview with her. Awesome idea, and I await the post.
I'd imagine we'd either go one of two ways…
1. We'd become some kind of utilitarian utopia where we all met our needs then stopped striving to meet anything
2. We'd meet our needs then seek some kind of spiritual enlightenment
In both cases, materialism only goes so far as fulfilling our needs and not wants, but in the second case, humanity would have something else to strive towards.
Sorry, I think I read into it too much…
EDIT: Maybe not a utilitarian utopia, I think we'd regress back to an agrarian or hunter/gatherer society. One man's theory, anyways.
Hey-I get lots of socks for Christmas, and I'm perfectly fine with that.
Actually, I did ask for a can of Lysol this past Christmas (my friends laughed at me), and my mom bought three huge bottles. Score! I won't need Lysol for at least two years.
I love these want/need consumerism posts you've done recently. This is exactly where I'm at right now–trying to let go of irrational desires to buy a lot of crap, when I know I have perfectly good crap already in my closet, or in my home, etc.
I'm trying to reverse and start donating and throwing stuff out, but I have to let go of the "wanting" so that I won't just accumulate more.
Per your reviews, I picked up The 4-Hour Work Week and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (at the Half Price Bookstore!) I know, the library woulda been even better, but books are one thing I don't mind hanging onto…if they're something I'll return to more than once.
I have the same problem at gift receiving occasions. I just don't need much of anything and want almost nothing. It's not that I already have a lot of stuff, it's that I don't WANT a lot of stuff.
Electronic gadgets and video game stuff is of no interest to me.
I don't collect anything anymore.
I own a pretty bare bones computer and upgrades are few and far between and always on the cheap.
I DO enjoy cooking but I already have most of what I want for the kitchen, everything that space allows for at any rate.
I tend to buy durable clothes and keep them forever.
This past Christmas I actually ASKED for socks and underwear. It's all I really needed.
Just ask yourself
What would happen if I didn't buy this?
I think J.D.'s question can take on two wholly different meanings, based on what you mean by a want. One way of looking at it is wanting _stuff_, the other is wanting something out of life. I think Jarik's response answers both ways of asking the question; his first response is if there are only material wants, his second response is his answer to the question of life's wants.
I tend to believe that even if all the stuff to want was taken away, their place would be filled with other, more meaningful wants. I think one of the first steps in living a frugal lifestyle is the realization that there are so many better things in life to want than stuff.
Depends on how you define "want." I've largely given up wanting material items, but I don't think I'll ever give up my desire for experiences–travel, great meals with friends, cultural events such as concerts and theater.
I think this kind of thing is overly extreme.
I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with or dirty about wanting something.
Wanting something doesn't mean you can't be happy, joyful, and responsible in the present. In fact the "utopia" that one person mentioned (having to do with meeting your needs and then not striving for anything) sounds like hell if you think about it for three seconds.
I struggled and struggled to give family members gift ideas for my birthday and Christmas, as I am seriously trying to get rid of as much Stuff as I can part with. I finally asked for restaurant gift cards (so my kids can practice behaving themselves in restaurants) and Pier One gift cards, so I can get some pretty scented candles, which I would never be able to justify spending money on. The gift cards still sit in the kitchen because I really can't be bothered to go shopping, even on someone else's dime. Progress!
If we didn't want so much, then we'd have to work less to satisfy our wants. Everyone would work less. There'd be more time for friends and family. We'd put less stress on the environment.
Everyone seems to think that we'll go into an economic depression the moment we step off the consumerism treadmill. That may be true in the short term but the economy will adjust and we'd just end up downscaling.
I think it completely depends on the definition of "want" as Anne above says.
For example: I spent my first year of college only reading text books and assigned things. I got severely depressed and unhappy and couldn't figure why or how to help myself. One night I found an 800 page fiction novel I'd bought years ago and hadn't read yet that was just sitting among the books on my shelves. I curled up, spent all night and half the next day reading it. I felt tons better.
For me certain things that might be a 'want' for others are closer to a need. Books and games are these sorts of things. The mental stability and stimulus I get out of them combined with the social factor of gaming with my friends (I don't know if anything beats the camaraderie of avoiding a dungeon full of traps to slay a dragon) is worth a lot to me. Health (emotional, physical, and mental) isn't a want.
I think putting things into two categories makes it a little oversimplified. There are basic needs like food and shelter. Then there are other needs, which while being less life-threatening in an immediate sense, when done away with due to dire necessity can have long lasting and horrible effects on the wellbeing of a person. For me these are things such as companionship, personal growth, and physical/mental health. So called "stuff" often comes hand in hand with these things. The key, as always, is balance.
True "wants" for me are things like candy, going out to the movies, a hybrid car (I can dream), a house of my own etc…
Also, if people really stopped desiring anything, we'd never see any more great literature. All stories at the core have to do with either/both wanting and losing, desire and death. If we stopped wanting anything, where would be the hope? The drive for improvement? I think the answer is less, not stopping.
(also, since when did wanting something become synonymous with spending money?)
"What if we didn't want anything? "
Isn't that what Buddha describes as Nirvana?
In a lot of languages there is no difference between the words "need" and "want".
"What if we ALL stopped wanting?
Would the family box business go under because a lot fewer boxes were needed?
Would we all have jobs?"
A more immediate concern is what will happen if we all start living below our means. Consumer debt growth has been driving the economy in recent years. Obviously that is unsustainable over the long term, so what happens when people stop borrowing to buy stuff–not because they change their outlook, but because nobody will lend them any more money? In my opinion, this is something we're going to find out. I think the negative effects are going to be spread out over everyone, including people who already live below their means.
I agree with AB that putting things into two categories oversimplifies things, and I'm not sure exactly what "wants" are.
I've been trying to think of the ideas here in terms of Maslow's heirarchy of needs (Physiological; Safety; Love/belonging; Esteem; Self-actualization)… maybe "wants" are things that we buy in order to try to fulfill some of the higher needs. It feels unsatisfying because once the lustre of the purchase wears off the underlying need is still there and we must buy again.
For example, buying certain clothes in order to belong to a peer group. If a person has an underlying need for belonging but is trying to fill that hole with a superficial purchase (a "want" item) it won't give lasting satisfaction.
so maybe a "want" is a short-term fix for a need …
great blog btw!
This American Life had an interesting episode about testosterone, the "hormone of desire". One of the segments was about a man who had lost the ability to produce testosterone, and he described what it was like to be fully without desire. Listen here:
How does one differentiate between intangible (psychological) wants and needs?
If someone says they need/want peace and quiet and privacy, are those wants or needs?
Frugality will always mean different things to different people. Peoples definitions of wants and needs will be different. Those idea might change during different stages of life. We can all keep it in balance for ourselves, but I don't think we can tell others how to do things. (We might give some tips others might find useful however)
Sure, certain material needs aren't "necessary", but for some people, they can be.
If they can afford it for example, an writer might want a moleskin notebook or a new laptop instead of a plain paper or an old computer-because treating themselves to what they really want is treating oneself well. Thus, they might be inspired.. If they can afford it, these things might make them work better then
They might not be able to afford it, and they certainly could make it work with the basics and work well or better. They can still be inspired.
Money or no money, lots of things can inspire: Non-material or Material, anything!
If that person can rightly justify their expense …who is anyone else to judge their spend their wants or needs, and spending habits.
Make sure that whatever you feel, stuff or no stuff; you are really happy. Don't not acquire something because you feel bad for spending ANYTHING. If really it would make your life better, happier, more efficient (deep down you will know this), buy it. If it won't do a thing, don't.
Hello JD and fellow commenters,
1) I agree that 'wants' have become too bloated.
I believe that wanting new experiences and meaningful memories remains a basic human need.
Unfortunately, consumerism has bloated this basic need artificially and abnormally.
So people today spend in excesses.
They end up possessing too much material stuff.
2) There was a time when my country, struggling to develop itself economically, was a nation of super-savers.
Today, this society is filled with super-spenders, similarly like yours.
It's become easy to blame Westernisation for all that blatant squandering.
Actually, I suspect many people surrendered and sold off their right to natural happiness.
3) I've always been a bookworm, but have been unable to buy many physical books for years now, although I can easily afford to.
There's just too much fabulous free content on the Web!
That's why in a recent post on my own blog, I called for supporting digital content over print media.
4) Our late mother was the model super-consumer.
Recently, 2 years after her unfortunate passing, we finally completed the struggle to dispose of her now-suddenly-useless possessions.
Thank goodness it was not more than over 100 large black trash bags of clothes, shoes, handbags, books, appliances etc. … and truckloads of bulky movables to dispose.
All this in the space of a single public apartment.
None of us had the time, energy or means to eBay off the lot, or transport it to charity.
5) My 2-cents question to add to this discussion:
What do you carry off with you when you die?
6) As individuals, let's condense our lives as we deem fit.
The larger society and economy will adjust to accommodate our collective efforts.
Always has been that way.
Wanting is what makes my life meaningful. It's what drives me to get off the couch and actually *live* life. The key is what do you want? Wanting a big house and a BMW is very empty. Wanting close friends. Wanting loving families. Wanting to see justice. These are the things that make life worth living.
Wants are totally fine, without them we would have nothing to strive for or build towards.
For me I totally want a PlayStation3, but my other wants; my own house, promotion at work etc take much higher place. So I push for those that I really want and wait on the silly wants, I would much rather have an extra $600 in my 401k than a PS3.
When the time and the price is right I'll get one.
This is a great comic! If anyone is seriously interested in exploring the question of want vs. need there are a number of great resources available through the New Roadmap Foundation at http://www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org. My husband and I belonged to a study group for about a year that used the book, Your Money or Your Life, as its foundation. There is a study guide you use and it had a big impact on where we are today. Debt free and almost financially independent at 47(and that is with four kids.)
From JD: But I do think that in U.S. culture, we've been taught to indulge our wants.
and from Aleks: Consumer debt growth has been driving the economy in recent years. Obviously that is unsustainable over the long term, so what happens when people stop borrowing to buy stuff–not because they change their outlook, but because nobody will lend them any more money? In my opinion, this is something we're going to find out. I think the negative effects are going to be spread out over everyone, including people who already live below their means.
Our powerfully consumerist culture INVENTS wants. To exist at all, the economic structure we've built has to convince us that we want a lot of stuff that we don't need and that, once we get past the all-pervasive hype urging us to buy buy buy, we realize we don't want.
Problem is, as Aleks points out, our whole economy is built on this impetus. We have a president who for better or worse recognized that when he told us the patriotic response to 9/11 was to go to the mall and spend money.
When the impetus to spend goes away, either because most people can no longer afford to buy on whim or because they smarten up and make a free choice to quit filling their lives with junk and unnecessary services, the engine that drives our economy will sputter to a stop.
Uhm…is that an engine knock I hear right now?
"If you would make a man happy, add not to his riches but take away from his desires."
– Epicurus
I've not heard of this comic before; that's great! I so think that the monks got it right (if too extreme for the vast majority) when they got rid of their worldly possessions…
Seems that consumerism has become the religion of this generation.
"But I do think that in U.S. culture, we've been taught to indulge our wants."
I agree. I went to a conference that was located next to a ritzy shopping area, and I indulged in a couple of things, but felt a little bad about it later. When I told a coworker that I probably overspent, her reaction was, "No, good for you! You deserve to have it." She also says she's accepted that she and her husband will never get out of debt. Ouch.
I'm making serious progress, though. Several HUGE boxes of stuff are going to Goodwill today, and a big box of books is going to Half Price. And it's only the beginning. I'm tired of "stuff." I want things like vacations, memories with family and friends, and new experiences, and the "stuff" is just weighing me down.
It seems like as a whole, we're just bored, or looking for what's next. I have a friend who does this constantly. She pressured her now-husband into marriage, talking about it all of the time. After the newness wore off, it was time to have a baby. Her house bored her after a year, and she was devastated when they lost out on a deal for a home they couldn't have afforded anyway. She liked my car, so she went and bought one similar (although, because mine was 1.5 years old, my payments were half of what she paid for hers new). She thinks if she goes shopping and doesn't buy something, she's "the poor one" in the group. We're not very close anymore because we just don't have a lot in common.
The problem isn't desire. The problem is that humans are horrible at knowing what truly makes us happy. The key is to focus on the really important and rewarding things in life. Material wealth does bring some happiness, but we generally overestimate how happy it actually makes us.
Dear April (March 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am),
I've been thinking about what you said.
1) Congratulations on lifting yourself above the zone of indulgence, into the zone of wisdom!
2) Desire is very human, yet going for lifelong experiences and memories is still far more lasting and enduring, than hopping from one fashionable material good to another trend-of-the-moment.
What I have noticed about really happy people, is they are deeply satisfied by even 'small' things in life.
At the same time, I also had to watch, as some really unhappy people constantly hungered for more, without ever achieving true satisfaction.
It makes me sad to witness this, especially when they happen to be people close to me.
By many standards, I have control of my spending but I would like to be totally spend free. My first step is to separate items by need and want. If I need it, I can buy it new i.e. food, underwear,socks and shoes( impossible to find a correct fit). If it is a want, than I have to buy it second hand. I love garage sales, but I was bringing home things and not using them. Now I must be able to bring it home and use it immediately. This has made me put back alot of items. No more bread makers, hobby items or anything that some day I will get around to using. I bought beautiful taupe silk lamps for my bedroom dresser ($5.00 total)and made myself install them as soon as I got home.
"Peter Pumpkinhead fooled them all. Emptied churches and shopping malls." – XTC
Is shopping the new form of prayer, malls the new churches, and the economy the new religion? It seems likely, doesn't it? All these conflicting beliefs on what will fix the economy (make the new gods happy?)…
We are physical beings that crave sensation. That has been sold to us as needing new things, and feeling empty without it. But I'm happiest sitting in the sunshine, or taking pictures, or spending time with my family. By putting a little time and attention into the "little stuff", it becomes a lot more fulfilling than a new toy.
Besides – wanting is often more experiencing a lack. By fulfilling that perceived lack, we feel better – until the next perceived lack shows up. And the media are experts at showing us newly-minted lack.
I'd think that people getting past their 'wants' would be good. There would be more money to spend on things that were more important to them, phasing out whole industries, and making others much larger. There's still the same creative spark, the same energy. We'd just find more satisfying directions for it.
Maybe more charity, and less inequality? Maybe shorter work hours, and more time spent with friends and family? Careful, well-built, beautiful things instead of MORE things.
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Durham City Council voted late Monday night to reject a utility extension agreement and subsequently the future of a controversial development plan for southern Durham.
The City Council voted 4-3 Monday to reject the annexation of land off Highway 751, which would have allowed developers of new retail space and apartments access to city services live water, sewer and police.
The city unanimously rejected the annexation last year.
Last year, Rep. Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) filed a bill that would have forced the city to extend utilities to the project. The bill passed the state House, but failed in the Senate.
Opponents of the annexation worry that with the City Council's vote, House Republicans will try again to force the city to offer its services. In fact, Durham Mayor Bill Bell said "no matter what action we take," state lawmakers will take action.
"Those lands are lightly developed, if developed at all," said Steve Bocckino, who is opposed to the 751 annexation. "If that is approved, that part of the county will look like Southpoint Mall."
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2013 : I'm now living with my boyfriend so I decided to keep things healthy (for me and for him)
I'm vegetarian and in need of some healthy recipe :) If you have any advice please message me.
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Bismarck High has a storied history on the football field and wrestling mat. And to have that kind of success, you must have standout student-athletes.
Ricky Galindo fits that description.
Weston Dressler and Layne Johs are two of the best running backs to ever play at BHS, but head coach Mark Gibson puts Ricky Galindo in that same category.
"It makes me feel good because of all the good runners to come out of BHS. For him to say I'm one of the best, if not the best or toughest; like you said, it means a lot because I respect him a lot. For him to say that overthrows any emotion I can say," says BHS senior Galindo. Keyword "toughest." Galindo does not go down easily. If you're going to tackle him you better wrap up, and then hope one of your teammates is there to help."We'd like to take some credit for what he did up front, but a lot of it was him gaining that extra yard, fighting for that extra yard, doing things that normally a kid's not going to do. That's just the type of kid he is. He's a warrior. We know if we want a yard, he's going to get you a yard," says Gibson.
In Galindo's first three seasons on the gridiron, he was a complimentary piece to three state titles. But he really bursted onto the scene as a senior. Despite all his individual success, the Demons fell a win short of another state title."You know I still think about it and yeah it sucks. But that's what also drove me into the wrestling season. I didn't want it to happen again. It made me realize that I'm not invincible, and anything can be taken," says Galindo. Clearly that frame of thinking worked because this year Ricky earned his second straight individual state championship on the wrestling mat. "To be successful with anything, you've got to train and practice and make it also muscle memory. I've trained and put my body through pain that most others wouldn't just to be the best. Once I set my mind to it, there's nothing that can stop me," says Galindo.
And now, that his athletic career is over, he can look back at the moments spent with his teammates. "My favorite sports memory is the team, and I celebrating after a tough win against Fargo South, first time. We had a disco dance party in the locker room. So, it gets pretty wild and being that close to the team and having that much fun with the group of guys I played with and grew up with. That's gotta be my favorite memory," says Galindo.
Spoken like a true team player.
Next year, Galindo plans to enroll in Army bootcamp for a year and then go to UND to resume his football career.


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John McPhee on structure
You can build a strong, sound, and artful structure. You can build a structure in such a way that it causes people to want to keep turning pages. A compelling structure in nonfiction can have an attracting effect analogous to a story line in fiction.
There's a (paywalled) piece by John McPhee in the January 14, 2013 New Yorker on how he has to find the structure of his feature stories before he can get down to writing them.
I had done all the research I was going to do…. I had read all the books I was going to read, and scientific papers, and a doctoral dissertation. I had assembled enough material to fill a silo, and now I had no idea what to do with it.
He likens the process to cooking:1
The approach to structure in factual writing is like returning from a grocery store with materials you intent to cook for dinner. You set them out on the kitchen counter, and what's there is what you deal with, and all you deal with.
Pre-computer, McPhee started out by typing out all of his notes, leaving blank space after each one. After studying all of his notes, he'd write out elements of the story on index cards, each representing a component of the story.
All I had to do was put them in order. What order? An essential part of my office furniture in those years was a standard sheet of plywood—thirty-two square feet—on two sawhorses. I strewed the cards face up on the plywood. The anchored segments would be easy to arrange, but the free-floating ones would make the piece.
And then it was time for the scissors:
After reading and rereading the typed notes and then developing the structure and coding the notes accordingly in the margins and then photocopying the whole of it, I would go at the copied set with the scissors, cutting each sheet into slivers of varying size. If the structure had, say, thirty parts, the slivers would end up in thirty piles that would be put into thirty manila folders. One after another, in the course of writing, I would spill out the sets of slivers, arrange them ladder line on a card table, and refer to them as I manipulated the Underwood. If this sounds mechanical, its effect was absolutely the reverse. If the contents of the seventh folder were before me, the contents of twenty-nine other folders were out of sight. Every organizational aspect was behind me. The procedure eliminated nearly all distraction and concentrated only the material I had to deal with in a given day or week. It painted me into a corner, yes, but in doing so it freed me to write.
It's interesting to note that McPhee usually has his beginning and ending in mind when he starts writing. How does he know when he's done?
When am I done? I just know. I'm lucky that way. What I know is that I can't do any better; someone else might do better, but that's all I can do; so I call it done.
See also:
- How Rebecca Skloot built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- LOOPER's borrowed story structure
- Lawrence Weschler's building blocks
(Thx @twliterary)
Funny to contrast McPhee's cooking metaphor to David Rakoff's: "Unlike cooking, for example, where largely edible, if raw, ingredients are assembled, cut, heated, and otherwise manipulated into something both digestible and palatable, writing is closer to having to reverse-engineer a meal out of rotten food." ↩
The NYTimes has a great piece on Rian Johnson's influences while making LOOPER. (One of my favorite movies I saw this year.)
He conceived of the movie in four acts, each one related to a quote from T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," and he borrowed the story structure from another source I totally missed:
He also points out that "Looper" owes more to "Witness" — the 1985 drama starring Harrison Ford about a Philadelphia cop who hides out on an Amish farm while investigating a murder — than it does to "Blade Runner." While he was plotting "Looper," Johnson sat down and watched "Witness," diagraming its structure on a piece of paper so he could dissect exactly how that screenplay worked. "It starts in the city, creates this noir-type tension and atmosphere, then transfers to the farm, but loses none of that momentum and keeps you in suspense until the end," he says. "Which is like a magic trick to me. So I studied it." One thing he noticed: "Witness" features a prologue on the farm before shifting to the city, which "helps acclimatize you to the visual world of the farm." He liked that so much he aped it, situating his own opening scene in a sugarcane field — so that when the film shifts later to a rural setting, "it's not like we're going into a room we've never been in before."
When asked about the name of the bar in the film, "La Belle Aurore," he replied:
"It's a Casablanca reference. If you take a close look at Joe's narrative arc, I totally just stole Rick's arc from Casablanca. So I named my bar after the bar they're at in Paris when the Germans are attacking. I figured I owed that movie something.
- 3-act structure vs. 4-act structure
- Rebecca Skloot Talks About How Fried Green Tomatoes and The Hurricane Helped Her Find the Structure of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Filed under: storytelling (via @maudnewton)
Long piece by screenwriter Todd Alcott comparing the classically-constructed act structure of Star Wars (3 40-minute acts) to Jaws (4 30-minute acts).
What studying the act break does is reveal the journey of the protagonist — at one moment, the protagonist is one person, and in the next moment he is another, and that change is irreversible. The path of the protagonist is the meaning of the movie — that's the important thing, everything else is in the service of the delineation of that concept.
Screenwriting/storytelling nerds will love digging in the archives of Alcott's blog. (Start with the "Screenwriting 101" tag.) I've blogged Alcott's stuff before, but my friend James Francis Flynn sent me this analysis.


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G.NA releases 2nd image teaser for 4th mini-album "Oops!"
Female soloist G.NA is preparing to make her comeback soon with her 4th mini-album this month, and has already begun to tease fans with the release of her first image teaser.
Following up, on March 5th, G.NA released yet another image teaser of herself showcasing her new short, red hair. With a beautiful blue colored wall as her background, G.NA is seen smiling widely with a cute eye smile at the camera wearing tight, black outfit and red high-heeled shoes.
G.NA's fantastic body figure is shown off in this rather simplistic photo, along with her collarbone, highlighted by her shirt's plunging neckline.
Meanwhile, G.NA is set to release her 4th mini-album on March 14th with the title song "Oops!". It is said that "Oops!" will have a bright spring feel and a charming piano melody.
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The Washington Nationals will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Saturday when they take on the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park.
The Nationals will trot Dan Haren out to the mound in this one. Righthander Haren has a 4-10 record and a 6.00 ERA this season.
Haren's opponent in this one will be Jose Fernandez. The Marlins righthander has a 2.83 ERA to go along with a 5-5 record this season.In their last action, Washington was an 8-3 loser on the road against the Marlins. Bettors on Miami at +165 on the moneyline collected their winnings from that game, while the total score (11) sent OVER bettors home happy as well. Current streak:
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J. Matthew Sleeth was on campus this week for Trevecca's 3rd Annual Stewardship of the Earth Day. Sleeth is a former emergency room doctor who now writes, preaches and teaches full time about faith and the environment. He authored the book Serve God, Save the Planet. Read more about Sleeth and his works at www.servegodsavetheplanet.org.


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For all my enthusiasm last night, it seems Mr Obama has been re-elected. It was announced about 20 minutes ago. I am stunned. I cannot believe it.
I have to agree with both Rolley and Kevin V. I was an early Ron Paul supporter, and up until a few weeks ago had every intention of writing in his name. When the Nat'l Convention happened and Paul was literally battered into releasing his delegates so Romney could take the nomination, Dr. Paul did nothing. If he can't defend himself, how is he going to defend a whole country? So, I began paying more attention to the posts on the blogs I read that said any vote for anyone besides Romney was a vote for Obama, and I couldn't deny the logic. So, that's what I did (absentee) and why I did it. If the objective is to get Obama UN-elected, there's no real choice. I don't trust Romney as far as I could throw him, but that was my choice. Maybe that will help someone else to make up their mind.
Basically, the three chief concerns of the Manhattan Declaration are also the main reasons I have very reluctantly decided to vote for a candidate I disagree with on so much else.
I have a lot of serious reservations about Romney, and I hate the thought of having to vote for him. But there are some deeply disturbing things going on in our country right now and I think we just need to hit the brakes. There are social changes like gay marriage and the president's enthusiastic support of abortion and even making religious groups pay for it. I just think we need to turn around before we go over the cliff. We're letting babies be aborted even in the eighth or ninth month. We are killing and experimenting on unborn babies and calling it medical research. We have to turn back and find our conscience as a nation.
If Romney gets in, I fully expect to be angry with him on a regular basis. But weighing everything, I have to vote for him.
Hope I'm Wrong
In fact, I hope the question proves rhetorical and I don't have to find out through the historical process.
But I'm among those who are considerably less sanguine about the effects of an Obama victory. While I agree with the first part of Jim's equation (i.e. regarding what is likely if Romney is elected), I have grave and respectful doubts about the second part.
My expectation is that if BHO is reelected it will mark a nigh-irreversible tipping-point in the American tilt towards marginalizing all but sycophantic Christianity. For my thought is that if today, when the determination of the 2012-2016 presidency is still up for grabs, the current administration has the chutzpah to brazenly trash the First Amendment and other articles of the Constitution, then if it wins at the ballot box on Nov 6 it will interpret that win, no matter how close the race, as a mandate to forge ahead with unbridled zeal. And if it does, what's to stop it?
(BTW, that last is NOT a rhetorical question, in case someone would like to speak to it).
It seems to me tomorrow's election is our last, best chance –by magnitudes of power-- to prevent a nightmare none of us who values First Amendment freedoms wants to even begin to imagine, but that we will be forced to deal with, if Obama is reelected, before he serves even half of his second term.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- In the aftermath of pummeling rival Miami 31-7 to end the 1974 regular season, Florida coach Doug Dickey beamed with pride at the thought of the Gators being invited to just the second Sugar Bowl in school history.
"We had some ups and downs during the season, but we had some great victories," said Dickey, whose team beat LSU, Florida State and Auburn before capping the campaign with a lopsided pounding of the Hurricanes. "We've gotten a little obsessed with winning the SEC championship. I've been guilty of having been obsessed, and the writers are guilty, too. We need to appreciate an 8-3 season."
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SALISBURY, Md.- The Salisbury Skatepark Committee has been fighting for the better part of a decade to bring a free public skatepark to the city. The committee has its approval and the land. All that is left is the financial support of the skating community.
The next Dew Tour champion could be living in Salisbury right now with no where to fine tune their craft. But there is a skatepark on the way for those extreme sports enthusiasts.
"We hope for it to be in the neighborhood of 20 to 25 thousand square feet when complete. It is being built in two phases. The first phase will be approximately 14 thousand square feet and that phase will include many features that will be usable by skaters of all types," said Salisbury Skatepark Committee member, Chip Carper.
The hope is to bring many of the features skaters can find in other skateparks to the new one in Salisbury. The committee has received grant money from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for over $200,000, as well as grants from other organizations. But there are certain requirements for using that money.
"We have to match that. We have the Tony Hawk Foundation which Tony Hawk is a world famous skater. We have a grant from him which we have to match and then the Department of Natural Resources, we have to match their grant as well," said Carper.
The first phase of the project is funded and the money is match but the second phase of construction is where the committee will need to lean on the community."You wanted it. Now we've got it and we need your help. I know that 9 and 10 year old kids are going to clean out their piggy banks and we want the adults that skate to clear out their bank accounts if you will. We'll take any donation from pocket change to 100 thousand dollars," said Carper.
The committee hopes to continue planning the project, send it out to bid, and hope to break ground on the skatepark by next fall.
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Financial institutions have no obligations to disclose or fix flaws in an as-is property, so buyers need to do the due diligence and hire seasoned foreclosure home inspectors to make sure they are not stuck with a lemon.
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Q: When a bank forecloses and then sells a house, do they have to disclose any faults or flaws? My friend bought a house that had been foreclosed and didn't get the power turned on to see if the well and heat pump worked. They don't!
— Olga
A: Though some banks are fixing up foreclosure properties, the vast majority are sold as is, hence these institutions have no obligations to disclose flaws and typically don't know exactly what the defects are, anyway. Moreover, banks are under no obligation to fix as-is homes, and they tend to provide only a narrow time frame for inspections. (Bing: How do foreclosures work?)
So it's usually up to buyers to do the due diligence and a thorough inspection. As your pal discovered, it's not a stretch to suspect that the previous owner of a distressed home let maintenance slide. Further, many such homes are vacant for months with no caretaker. Plumbing and sewer problems result.
Unfortunately, your friend found out the hard way that getting the power restored is a must when examining a foreclosure. Granted, getting that done is not always easy. Banks often state upfront in their special addendums that they won't be responsible for having utilities turned on to allow inspections.
And little wonder: Electric companies often remove a home's electric meter after terminating service, which complicates the whole process. Depending on the site and city, it might cost money to have a meter reinstalled, a permit fee may be required, a county inspector may have to inspect the meter post, and an electrician may even have to conduct an inspection to make sure the house won't burn down when power is restored.
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In short, some would-be owners find themselves forking out $400 to $900 just to get an inspection. As a result, some will drop the deal. Others, like your friend, simply choose to forgo that part of the inspection entirely.
Read: 5 steps to buying a foreclosure
One cheaper way is to secure a foreclosure inspector who can power the entire home with a portable generator to check the furnace, heat pumps, condenser, water heater, appliances, lighting, outlets and any electrically operated well, as in your friend's case. A call to such an inspector will let you know if this is allowable in your area.
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Let this serve as a cautionary tale. As tempting as it is to go it alone in an effort to save some bucks, a foreclosure buyer is always wise to hire a real-estate agent experienced with foreclosure deals and their nuances, get that power turned on and use a seasoned foreclosure home inspector to give it the twice-over. Good luck.
Interesting that the very people that get a cut of the buyer's money are the same as the ones that tell us how we can not survive without their "service". Also interesting how they are smothering this board with their expert advice on how you need their expert advice.
if buyers educated themselves the housing market would be no different than going to on a Costco shopping trip
Bought as is foreclosure 4 yrs ago 150,000 just sold it 194,500 (public record)
no inspection but my own no work but my own
if you ever lived in a house you are as qualified inspector as any. the government won't save you with their additional paperwork.
Now I was in a position to buy my new construction just to my taste -Many thanks to all incl Lil Bush, Herr Dick and CommyObammy as well as the do-nothings in congress , and the Fed for favors rendered allowing me to move on up on other people's money
I find your lack of understanding of the process unbelievable. I am a Realtor who works very hard for my clients. I strongly recommend to my buyers that do their due diligence with inspections. I show them comparables of other similar homes so they know what has sold recently and at what price. Realtors don't ultimately set the prices of homes. If we price the home to high, no one will buy it. If we set it to low there will be a feeding frenzy pushing the price up. Short Sales and Foreclosures hurt all of us. It hurts the communities we live in too. We have to sell a lot more homes to make our own mortgage payments. When the prices get to high we have to worry about our own children buying a home. There is a lot of blame that can be spread around to what happened to the economy, don't blame Realtors. We are the messenger. Prices are going back up, but they are still reasonable in most parts of the country, this is the cycle. If you don't like it rent, I am sure some investor will be happy to take your money every month.
The big banks hae screwed around with the real estate market and continue to do so making billions in the process. Foreclosed homes that have stood empty with inadequate heating and sometimes looted copper piping and looted metal fixtures are all over the map. If the banks were smart they would not let them get into this condition but they just don't care because the transaction phase is all over now and they have made their money.
Investors now have to pick up the slack and buy up these properties as they constitute a blight on many neighborhoods. Do the due diligence to assure that you make a profit and do it soon as many of these properties are moldering away and will be worth nothing soon.


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(Updated 30 March 2011)
As compiled by Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights and Bahrain Center for Human Rights
1 Mahdi Abu-Deeb Head of Bahrain Teachers Society, House was stormed early morning 21 March.
2 Sayed-Yousef Al-Mahafdha Active member of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), House was stormed early morning 20 March.
3 Nabeel Rajab President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and vice Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Arrested briefly and beaten on 20 March. Banned from travel to Geneva to attend a human rights meeting his communications is cut. He was harassed again on 30 March while interviewed by CNN crew at his house.
4 Mohammed Al-Masqati President of the Bahrain Youth Human Rights Society (BYHRS), His photo, address and phone number was published on the internet with a message that he should be killed.
5 Abdulhdi Alkhawaja Former president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), His photo, address and phone number was published on the internet with a message that he should be killed.
6 Naji Fateel Board member of the Bahrain Youth Human Rights Society (BYHRS), His photo, address and phone number was published on the internet with a message that he should be killed.
7 Salman Naji Member of the Committee for the Unemployed. Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House stormed early morning 28 March. His brothers, Ali and Hussain were beaten.
8 Abdul Gani Khanjer Head of the Committee of the Victims of Torture. Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
9 Abdul Amir Al Aradi Activist. Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
10 Hisham AlSabbagh Active member of the Islamic Action Society (AMAL), House was stormed
11 Fahmi Bakalwa board member of Islamic Action Society (AMAL), House was stormed
12 Hussain Omran Activist. Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
13 Ali Abdul Imam Prominent blogger. Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
14 Dr. Mohammed Saeed Member of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR). Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
15 Ahmed Jawad Al-Fardan Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
16 Ali Jawad Al-Fardan Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
17 Mohammed Ali Al-Mahfoudh Cleric. Secretary General, Islamic Action Society (AMAL) House stormed early morning 21 March.
18 Abdulla Alsaleh Cleric. Deputy Secretary General, AMAL House stormed early morning 21 March.
19 Habib Abdulla Hassan Cleric. Former board member of AMAL House stormed early morning 21 March. His younger brother Jaffer was arrested
20 Sayed Hadi Redha Al-Mousawi and his son Sayed Mahdi Al-Mousawi Both are Clerics. Associated with AMAL, House in Bani Jamra was stormed early morning 21 March. Brother in law, Salah Al-Khawaja, was arrested.
21 Mohammed Habib Al-Mugdad Prominent cleric. Was detained in August 2010 and recently released. House was stormed
Bahraini Shiite women cry during a funeral for protester killed by government security forces in central Manama on March 22, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)
MANAMA, Bahrain — It was late Friday afternoon. The deserted roads of this capital city were blanketed with soldiers, faces masked, seated atop armored personnel carriers. Checkpoints secured access roads to outlying Shiite villages, where squads of police were out in force to foil any protest that might erupt.
My taxi driver stopped at one checkpoint. Three riot policemen in blue uniforms bent down to look in the car.
"Where are you going?" one asked.
"I'm bringing her back to her hotel," my driver said.
The next question — "Where are you coming from?" — carried this tagline: "Shit on you and your face."
The driver kept his cool, replying: "Before you say that, you should look at my identity card — by the way, I'm Sunni."
Taken aback, the policeman abjectly apologized.
"I'm sorry," he said, embarrassed by his mistake in assuming my driver was Shiite just because we were in a Shiite area.
The incident underscores the deep trauma afflicting this Gulf kingdom, whose citizens say they once reveled in the comforting intimacy that infuses life on a tiny island.
No more. Bahrain today is a fearful abode of sectarian division, fueled largely by the Sunni-led government's violent suppression of a once euphoric protest movement, and a campaign of Shiite intimidation that is both pitiless and petty.
"People feel they are under collective punishment," said Sayed Hadi Al Mosawi, a senior official of the moderate Shiite political party, Al Wefaq. "The situation is very, very bad."
The "situation" has included nighttime arrests of political opposition leaders, protest movement activists, human rights monitors, and even artists who supported the reformist movement. Shiites stopped at checkpoints, sometimes run by masked men in civilian clothes, are often insulted, and then robbed of their money and mobile phones, Al Mosawi said.
The home of opposition figure Munira Fakhro was firebombed twice; the offices of her party, al Wa'ad, were burned down, and the presses of the opposition Al Wasat newspaper were vandalized. Scores of people are missing, according to Al Wefaq, the political party.
A journalist, who asked not to be named because he feared retaliation, noted that official statements used the word "cleansing" to describe the security forces' routing on March 16 of the protesters camped in Pearl Roundabout, a traffic rotary that served as the movement's main staging ground.
"It's right to add 'ethnic,'" the journalist added, saying that he believed the aim of the two-week-old campaign "is to instill fear and horror in the Shiite community and make everyone succumb to the authorities."
Human Rights Watch reported Tuesday that 11 people have been killed since the crackdown began, most of them "by security forces using excessive force, namely crowd-control equipment at extremely close range and live gunfire." Four members of the government security forces were also killed. Prior to the crackdown, seven protesters had been killed.
Inspired by protest movements in Tunisia and Egypt, Bahrainis launched their own on Feb. 14, and it swelled beyond expectations. The demands were political reform, with most calling for a constitutional monarchy and an end to corruption. Protesters were mostly Shiite — 60 percent of the island's population is Shiite — and they were demanding a fairer distribution of jobs as well as an end to their political marginalization.
The government of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, now dominated by a hardline faction within the royal family, declared "a state of National Safety," or emergency law, on March 15 and raided Pearl Roundabout the next day.
Violent clashes followed over several days as security forces also took over Salmaniya Hospital, whose parking lot had become another base for protesters, and sought to subdue Shiite villages where residents had erected checkpoints to keep police out.
The government said it was acting to restore stability and security and indeed, some actions by protesters appeared to be deliberately provocative. For instance, on March 13, a few hundred youths, working at dawn's light, set up barricades to block the main highway into Manama's financial district. According to another Bahraini journalist, this move was organized by hardline opposition figures that had called for the abdication of the royal family — a minority but vocal faction in the protest movement.
The leader of Al Wefaq, the largest Shiite political party, called for outside mediators to break the tension-filled impasse between the Sunni government and the Shiite population, which is not only ripping apart Bahrain but inciting sectarian sentiments around the Middle East as Sunnis and Shiites elsewhere watch events here.
"There is very deep distrust between the government and the people and we prefer that some third parties come to help for this dialogue," Sheikh Ali Salman said in an interview Saturday at his party's headquarters.
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The leading hospital in the Bahraini capital, Manama, has found itself on the front line of the clashes between pro-reform protesters and the security forces sent in to crack down on opposition supporters in the kingdom.
Salmaniya Hospital, in the Bahraini capital Manama, is one of the leading medical facilities in the Gulf, a jewel in the crown of Bahrain's public healthcare system.
It attracts doctors and healthcare workers from all over the region and the world.
But Salmaniya is close to Pearl Roundabout and when protesters based themselves there, the hospital found itself on the front lines of what began as a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration that soon turned violent.
When security police stormed the roundabout in the early hours of 17 February, doctors, nurses and paramedics went to the aid of people who had been shot, beaten and tear-gassed.
This seemed to anger security forces. At least one doctor was attacked by baton-wielding officers while tending to an injured demonstrator.
Doctors staged a protest after word spread that security forces were preventing the wounded from being brought to hospital.
They blocked the entrance to the hospital, demanding the resignation of the health minister. Other hospital workers, including nurses, joined in the protests.
The state-controlled media began to spread allegations that doctors at the hospital were refusing to treat injured police. There were even suggestions that the only patients they would treat were Shia Muslims.
"That is completely untrue," one doctor at the hospital told me. "We are doctors, we treat patients, we don't ask if you are Sunni or Shia."Continue reading the main story
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Even patients for dialysis are afraid to come for their weekly dialysis"
The doctors who have spoken out have all requested anonymity for fear of repercussions for themselves and their families.
As the government crackdown intensified, doctors from Salmaniya found themselves caught at the sharp end of an increasingly bitter and angry battle between protesters and the police.
On 16 March, the government sent the Bahrain Defense Force (BDF) into the hospital.
The move prompted the UN rights chief Navi Pillay to voice alarm at what she called the illegal "military takeover of hospitals" in the kingdom.
The government said it was forced to take the step because armed protesters were threatening staff and patients.
But a doctor who was there called that claim "a complete fabrication".
Another doctor who tried to get to the hospital said he was turned away.
Then he got a call from a private hospital to treat a young man with a serious gunshot wound, but was stopped at a checkpoint and told to go home.
"I don't know what happened to that boy," he said. "Without specialist treatment, he was going to lose a leg."Savage attack
It is not just doctors who say they were stopped from treating patients.
Abdulrazal al-Hujiri, who worked in a lab at the hospital sterilising surgical instruments, was arrested on 19 March, witnesses say.
Two days later his family was told to come and collect his badly beaten body.
Photographs appear to confirm that he was the victim of a savage attack.
That weekend, five senior consultants were arrested.
A friend described one such arrest: "He was taken by security police. He didn't know why. We don't know why. He is not political in any way. He was just helping to care for people."
Dozens of officers arrested doctors in front of their terrified families, their relatives have said. Computers, mobile phones and discs were taken, as well as family cars.
"Forget about your husband," one woman says she was told.
The government has refused to confirm or deny the arrests of the doctors.
It has been more than a week since they were seized and still the families have no word of their whereabouts.
Thus far no investigation has been undertaken into the death of Mr Hujiri, the lab technician.
And in another development, sources say that wounded protesters have been moved to a military hospital and to King Hamed Hospital, a new and not yet fully operational facility on an island in the north of the country.
Many wounded and injured are not seeking treatment at Salmaniya for fear of arrest. But even those who had nothing to do with the protests won't go there.
"Patients are afraid to come to the main hospital on the island because of security checks. Even patients for dialysis are afraid to come for their weekly dialysis," one doctor said.
The government has dismissed the claims as baseless.
"At no point [other than for one hour when the hospital was secured] were any patients or staff prevented from accessing the hospital although since the operation there have been delays on exit as a result of checks," it said in a statement.
So what could be behind the government's treatment of staff at its prized medical facility?
"The government wants to hide the facts," says Sayed Hadi al-Mosawa of the opposition Wefaq party.
"They don't want the world to know that they were using live ammunition, tear gas, batons and shotguns against peaceful protesters, against their own people."
He told me there are hundreds of injured, but because so many are afraid to seek treatment, it is impossible to get an accurate count.
Independent sources confirm 20 dead protesters.
The government says four security officers have died.
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