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I love stories that start by making you say "Huh?" and leave you saying "Hmmm …" And I'm happy to report that David Schoenfield of ESPN's Sweet Spot baseball blog has generated one. I'd suggest you leave me for the time being and go read it first, but if you're click-averse I'll summarize:
According to Mr. Schoenfield's research, the greatest National League team of the past three-plus decades was …
The 1998 Atlanta Braves.
Not the worst-to-first Braves of '91. Not the 1993 crew that added Fred McGriff and overhauled the Giants. Not the 1995 club, which actually won the World Series. Not even the 1996 assemblage, which led the World Series 2-nil and prompted one idiot (blush) to liken those Braves to the '27 Yankees.
The '98 Braves, who lost the NLCS to San Diego in six games (after falling behind 3-0).
The genesis for Mr. Schoenfield's comparison was his attempt to rate the current Phillies, who are on pace to win 106 games, against high-yield NL clubs of "recent memory." Using copious data, he arrayed the 2011 Phils against the 1975 Big Red Machine (108 wins), the 1986 Mets (also 108), the 1998 Braves (106) and the Cardinals (105). Rating the teams position by position, he reached the fairly stunning — at least to me — conclusion that the '98 Braves stand as the best of the five.
Schoenfield's ranking, top to bottom:
A personal note: Having seen all those clubs in person, and having lived 84 miles from Cincinnati in 1975, I'd say the Reds were the best of the bunch, not the worst. And Marty Brennaman, the Hall of Famer who broadcast those games on Reds Radio, would surely agree. When I once mentioned that the Braves of the early '90s were reminding me of those imperial Redlegs, Marty said: "Don't ever compare any team to the Big Red Machine."
But back to the '98 Braves. This was their starting eight: Javy Lopez, C; Andres Galarraga, 1B; Keith Lockhart/Tony Graffanino, 2B; Walt Weiss, SS; Chipper Jones, 3B; Ryan Klesko/Danny Bautista, LF; Andruw Jones, CF; Michael Tucker/Gerald Williams, RF. To me, that lineup doesn't stack up against the '75 Reds or even the '93 Braves of McGriff and Justice and Gant and Pendleton and Blauser and Lemke. (Those Braves won 104 games, you'll recall.)
The '98 Braves had great starting pitching, duh: Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, Neagle and Millwood. The bullpen was pretty good by Braves standards: Ligtenberg, Rocker, Seanez, Dennis Martinez.
That team won the NL East by 18 games and swept the Cubs in the Division Series. And there the troubles began: Ken Caminiti homered in extra innings off Kerry Ligtenberg to win the rain-delayed Game 1, and Kevin Brown shut the Braves out in Game 2.
Game 3 featured the strangest postseason lineup of Bobby Cox's stewardship. Down 0-2, the Braves didn't start Lopez, Lockhart, Klesko or Tucker, going instead with Eddie Perez, Graffanino, Bautista and Williams. (The latter three because they were right-handed hitters and the Braves were facing lefty Sterling Hitchcock, Perez because he's was Maddux's personal catcher.) The Braves lost 4-1 and trailed 3-0, and the aforementioned idiot wrote a column that bore the sarcastic headline: "Let's start with that lineup."
To their credit, the Braves won Game 4 (Galarraga hit a grand slam) and Game 5 (Tucker homered off Brown, whom Bruce Bochy strangely deployed in relief) in San Diego to bring the series back here. Again the Braves faced Hitchcock, and again Cox trotted out his righty platoon. The Braves mustered two hits and lost 5-0, all the Padres' runs coming in a sixth inning unhinged by Bautista's error in left.
Thus did the greatest NL aggregation of "recent memory" take a Matterhorn nosedive. And to me, the most intriguing part of Mr. Schoenfield's altogether intriguing take is his ranking of the 1998 Braves' bench — counting Perez and the righty platoon guys — as the second-best of the five teams examined. The point being (I guess): Those guess were great in supporting roles, but they showed in the NLCS why they weren't full-timers.
OK, enough. Using the old (and always unreliable) Bradley Eyeball Exam, I'd say Mr. Schoenfield's conclusion is faulty — but I applaud his effort and enjoyed the heck out of his story. I suspect you will, too.
By Mark Bradley
August 10th, 2011
10:32 am
August 10th, 2011
10:36 am
And then Bobby played Danny Bautista and Keith Lockhart in the playoffs! What an idiot! No wonder we won only one title under that idiot.
August 10th, 2011
10:37 am
LEGEND batted cleanup on that team i believe
August 10th, 2011
10:38 am
Wasn't 1998 the year Chipper was "distracted" by the knocked-up Hooters waitress while his then-wife probably nagged & whined to him when she found out about it?
August 10th, 2011
10:40 am
If the Braves 1998 was truly the "Best of the Free Agency Era," does that mean it was the manager's fault for not winning the World Series?
August 10th, 2011
10:43 am
Didn't Chipper Jones win the M-V-P Award for that '98 NLCS against the Padres, the Most Variety of Pop-Ups?
Were the judges counting the one from the Hooters restaurant, too?
August 10th, 2011
10:44 am
The link above in the article leads me back to your blog, Mark!
That's a pretty sly way of getting more blog hits!
August 10th, 2011
10:58 am
cox was a fool,everybody thought he was so great hell i could have won all those games with that pitching staff,should have won at least four world series.
August 10th, 2011
10:59 am
The 98 Braves had what is considered by many to be the greatest starting 5 of all time. That's a big, big deal.
August 10th, 2011
11:00 am
Everyone has an opinion – none truly objective: see MB's Reds comment and their announcer's.
The ESPN guy has to fill space as does Bradley.
Seems to be still mostly empty space, but it tides fans over until a real game starts.
August 10th, 2011
11:00 am
Yep, 106 wins in the regular season, and then, thanks to the unique managerial genius of Booby Cox, run out of the playoffs by an inferior team. I wonder what a real Manager, such as Joe Torre or Tony LaRussa, would have done with the Braves through the decade of the 90's? 4 World Series wins? 5?
August 10th, 2011
11:00 am
Proof AGAIN that Bobby Cox is THE MOST OVERRATED MANAGER IN BASEBALL HISTORY and the absolute WORST MANAGER IN POSTSEASON HISTORY.
The man is single-handedly responsible for the Braves not winning the three or four World Series a COMPETENT manager would've had them win in the 1990's.
All you morons attending "Bobby Cox Day" are lemming blind homers who have no ability to see the truth of reality, y'all just buy into the b.s. hashed by guys like Bradley who've told you how "great" Cox is so much that you believe it.
Sparky Anderson, Joe Torre, Terry Francona, shoot, even Davy Johnson would've won more than a single-solitary World Series with the 1990's Braves.
Bobby Cox owes his ENTIRE managerial success to 1) John Schuerholtz and 2) His own acumen as a GM.
Bobby Cox, who built the Braves farm system, and then was given the most talented teams in baseball history by Schuerholtz, kept all of that talent from winning multiple World Series.
He should NOT be praised.
He should be shunned and ridiculed.
August 10th, 2011
11:01 am
It seems the guys at ESPN have way too much time on their hands!! What a pointless excercise!!
August 10th, 2011
11:03 am
Herschel Talker- The eternal optimist
August 10th, 2011
11:05 am
Mark I finally took that article off the wall in 2007. (the one the idiot wrote about the 27 Yankees and Braves of 96) Was a great teaching tool for my children. Don't count your chickens before they hatch type teaching tool. I cursed you every October for a decade. I cursed you when you wrote it (all in good sports fun) Now since you brought it up again you can do me a favor, buy the cap I bought from that WS and end the issue. Go to this link on ebay and end that heartache forever…… ……..http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200639997297&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_1618wt_1083 ……..!
August 10th, 2011
11:06 am
The 93 Braves team with Gant and Justice having their best years was the best. The pitching depth of the 98 team doesn't help in a three man rotation series, and I suspect that depth is what put that team on this guy's plateau. Platooning Klesko was always Bobby's greatest FUBAR. Klesko had a great eye at the plate so his OBP would have justified letting him play.
August 10th, 2011
11:07 am
how does one ad a link was told once and lost those notes
August 10th, 2011
11:09 am
I'm just glad to see Vizcaino has been called up and Scott Proctor is gone.
August 10th, 2011
11:09 am
I happened to read that article yesterday and found it quite interesting as well. As most others here will also likely agree, the conclusions are questionable, though I did enjoy seeing the Braves at the top of the list. One also would have to say that the criteria for measuring the true success and capability of a team ISN'T whether they win/won a World Series championship, but rather, since baseball is a marathon like no other in sports, how they performed consistently across that particular season.
That of course is the crux of the dilemma that Braves fans have faced since the early 1990s. 14 straight division titles, multiple NL championships…and only a single World Series championship. When you have an assemblage of talent like the Braves had during that incredible run, from a fan's perspective anything less than another World Series championship is considered a failure, but is that really fair to those great Braves teams or even to us as fans?
I remember a story my pastor shared with our church from a true story someone had written. The author said he was sitting with an old friend and talking about baseball, and the friend recounted how as a boy one year he got to skip school to go see his Brooklyn Dodgers play the hated Yankees in the World Series. He lamented how utterly disappointed he was in that the Dodgers hadn't even gotten a single runner on base that day. That's when the author had asked, "Do you mean to tell me that YOU were at the game where Don Larsen threw the ONLY perfect game in World Series history!!?" It was only then that the truth of the message became clear; the man's disappointment had literally blinded him to the fact he had witnessed something very special and unique, something that should be treasured and appreciated simply as a fan of the game.
Just like we Braves fans had for fourteen wonderful seasons. Don't let the sting of those playoff crapshoot disappointments take away from the magnitude of that accomplishment. We got to witness some special stuff ourselves, many times over. We should always be thankful for that, regardless of what this season or the future may hold for the Braves and Atlanta team sports.
August 10th, 2011
11:11 am
Umm, having a delay seeing my post again, Mr. Bradley…
August 10th, 2011
11:13 am
The Braves did not win a few WS for one reason only, we did not have Mariano Rivera. Lets be honest, our closer situation has always been horrible. The 90s, we had some decent ones that just blew up, Wohlers was good until a slider, Rocker until an interview. But mostly just bad.
August 10th, 2011
11:14 am
Way to go, Bradley…..write an inane article that will bring out all of the idiots, zealots, haters, and crackpots.
August 10th, 2011
11:14 am
Mark, How would you rate the Braves teams of all time? Just asking.
August 10th, 2011
11:15 am
Your link to the article does not work.
August 10th, 2011
11:19 am
I believe the '93 team was better on paper. Three Braves players finished in top five of MVP voting: Gant (36 homers, 117 RBI), Justice (40 homers, 120 RBI) and McGriff. Otis Nixon stole 47 bases, Jeff Blauser hit .305. Glavine won 22games and Maddux won 20. Stanton had 27 saves. And, of course, they lost the NLCS despite outscoring the Phillies in the series.
August 10th, 2011
11:30 am
You can't just gloss over that rotation. It's a ridiculous starting five.
August 10th, 2011
11:31 am
I agree the '98 team was probably not the greatest, but I think the point of the article on ESPN was also to highlight that being the best team in the regular season and having a dominant season doesnt GUARANTEE ANYTHING in the postseason. We went into the playoffs with the best team at least 4 times (across all of MLB) but only came away with 1 WS. Some of that can be contributed to other factors (managing, matchups, lineups, etc…) but a lot of it can be attributed to just flat-out rotten luck! I mean, seriously, we could have easily won in '91, '92, and '96 but had bad breaks or missed one of two key plays to win.
The Yankees didnt win 4 titles in the late '90s and early '00s simply because they were so awesome, they also had a bit of good fortune.
It happens.
That is why I am holding out hope this one year (maybe this year) we can be the team that wasn't necessarily the best, but the most fortunate and best when it counts…in October! We are overdue to have something like that happen, right!?
August 10th, 2011
11:35 am
Hankie Aron:
What does this have to do with being optimistic? I'm looking back and Bobby's failures, not looking at Fredi's future failures. You're happy with Bobby's postseason performance?
August 10th, 2011
11:46 am
As much as you can be critical of Cox in our postseason failures, look closer at some of the losses:
1991- Lose the most evenly played series of all-time. One baserunning mistake made the difference.
1992- Lost four 1-run games, including a blown save from Jeff Reardon. Not necessarily better than Toronto, but definitely could have won.
1993- Ran out of gas after running down Giants. Lost LCS despite outscoring Phillies. Tough loss.
1995- Hey, we got it right!
1996- Wohlers…enough said. But also, dont forget RF umpire getting in way of Dye chasing a foul pop who could have slowed the rally in that 8th inning before it started. Also, Dye made huge mistake on ball in gap in 1-0 game 5 loss.
1997- Ran into Eric Gregg behind plate in crucial swing game. Brutal performance. Kevin Brown also was tough on us.
1998- Kevin Brown. Sterling Hitchcock. They killed us. This probably was the best example of "choking" from this team.
1999- Made WS with depleted roster. Should have shown better than a sweep from Yanks, but definitely not the better team.
2000- No Smoltz, not best season. ran into buzzsaw in St. Louis. Weird season. 2nd best choke.
2001- Another undermanned team. Made run into LCS and lost to better D-Backs team. No Furcal, diminished Smoltz.
2002- Great team. Just couldnt finish in series with Giants. Probably better team, but couldnt close out with a 2-1 advantage. Probably should have added legitimate 1st baseman or 2nd baseman.
2003- Really good team, but ran into hot Cubs pitching.
2004- Just a good team. Lost to a better Astros team. Jaret Wright started game 1 and 5, do you really blame them for losing.
2005- Also just a good team that lost to a better Astros team.
2010- Injuries…they killed that team.
Anyone have thoughts on these losses? I contend that only a few of these are terrible performances. Some are just bad circumstances and/or luck.
August 10th, 2011
11:46 am
I always felt the 1999 Braves were better than the 1998 team.
Doesn't really matter though since the 1996 spectre of Leyritz lay over them until the bottom finally fell out around 2005. They weren't a championship quality team after around 2001 or so.
August 10th, 2011
11:47 am
The 98 braves season can be summed up in 2 words – ERIC GREGG – Greggs comments when asked later about his strike zone was 'Everybody knows MY strike zone' … I know that Gregg is deceased now but thinking about that game still riles me.
August 10th, 2011
11:48 am
Any team without a Clusters shouldn't be in the discussion.
August 10th, 2011
11:57 am
The 98 Braves aren't the only "loaded" team in history not to win the World Series. Based on these comments the Phillies had no business not going all the way the last two years, nor this year. Was it Charlie Manual's fault the Giants got hot last October?
In baseball it's not the best (or highest paid) team that wins out. You'd think most braves fans would've figured that out by now.
It's not the t
August 10th, 2011
12:05 pm
Wasn't Gregg the culprit in 1997 vs Marlins?
August 10th, 2011
12:08 pm
practice run ignore this post …….End this misery
August 10th, 2011
12:11 pm
The Eric Gregg fiasco was the 97 NLCS against the Marlins …
August 10th, 2011
12:12 pm
Mark link works End this misery
August 10th, 2011
12:13 pm
Since you brought it up!
August 10th, 2011
12:13 pm
DO NOT TALK ABOUT ERIC GREGG!! I'm trying to keep my lunch down.
Those repeated calls 4 feet outside were both absurd, strange, sickening, revolting, vomit inducing, and weirdly comical. Livan mustve felt like he won the lottery.
August 10th, 2011
12:16 pm
why doesn;t your paper do a story on the fact that there are over 5000 tickets still for sale through a website for bobby cox night
what kind of sportstown is this?
August 10th, 2011
12:23 pm
MLB still owes the fans of Atlanta an apology for that atrocity.
August 10th, 2011
12:26 pm
Cox lost that series for us…no question about it.
August 10th, 2011
12:29 pm
"The Braves did not win a few WS for one reason only, we did not have Mariano Rivera. Lets be honest, our closer situation has always been horrible. The 90s, we had some decent ones that just blew up, Wohlers was good until a slider, Rocker until an interview. But mostly just bad."
I totally agree there James, that and lack of some juiced bats is what got us only one WS.
August 10th, 2011
12:42 pm
hey DCBrave33 – when you are 1 for 17 in the postseason there has to be something more than circumstance or luck – Bobby is the common thread running from Toronto to 3 generations of Braves teams. All you Bobby loyalists can say whatever you want, but his postseason record speaks for itself…….
August 10th, 2011
12:43 pm
I think the 1997 team was the best of the run, that team just ran into a Marlins club full of Brave Killers.
The chokes were in 96-98. Every other season, outside of maybe 2002-03, can be considered a good to great run. Heck the team in 1999 had to be one of the worst WS teams ever, that lineup outside of Chipper was pitiful.
August 10th, 2011
12:49 pm
only Cox would sit a player hiting over .500 in the WS….Deion in 92 v Toronto. The "book" that Cox followed must have been flagged becasue it obviously was read while on the crapper…where it belongs. The Braves won despite Cox…anyone can win division titles with 3 HOF pitchers going to the mound every 5 days. Cox was totally out managed by Kelly, Gaston, Torre, Bochy, LaRussa, Baker, when it counted.
August 10th, 2011
1:02 pm
Could not agree more with extremus and DCBrave33! As heartbroken as I was for nearly every postseason of the last 20 years, I have always kept one thing in mind: We Braves fans were (and maybe "are") incredibly lucky to a have contending team every year.
Since 1991, would you rather have been a Braves fan or a Royals fan? Or worse, a Pirates fan? The Pirates haven't had a winning season since Sid Slid, and crept over the .500 mark for the first time briefly this June. And of course, they just ended an 11-game losing streak! As frustrated as I have been with roster moves, lineups, pitching changes (or leaving a pitcher in too long), bad hitting coaches, reduced payrolls, etc. etc. — it was still more exciting than a continual parade of 90+ loss seasons.
August 10th, 2011
1:10 pm
All this chatter stirs up terrible memories of all the times in the 90's the highly-favored Braves succumbed to underdogs. Maybe this will be the year we flatten some other teams on high horses.


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This module explores the relationships between reading, writing and technology. It examines developments from block printing and presses to changing ideologies of authorship, copyright, politics of patronage, methods of publishing, and democracy and autonomy of authors.
- ENG277 Children Reading, Reading Children
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module explores child readership, the relationship between the (usually) adult author and child audience, and constructions of childhood in children's and adult's literature.
- CW240 Genre & Form
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module explores the relation between literary form and genre. It will also explore the relation between genre/sub-genre and categories which define literary markets and target specific reading audiences.
- CW241 Audiences & Context
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module explores the reception of literature. You will explore large-scale studies of audience and effect/affect as well as learning to understand the more intimate relations of address which are involved in any performance or experience of reading.
- CW250 Poetry & Form
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module considers questions such as: How does form influence and change the way we read or write poems? How do rhythm and metre work? How experimental can a sonnet be and remain a sonnet? When is a poem not a poem?
- CW251 Writing Short Stories
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module explores the artistry and craftsmanship of short story writing, and investigates various writing strategies and methods that are specifically adapted to the production of short fictions.
- CW252 Writing Lyrics
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module draws on media, literary and cultural studies to explore the craft of writing lyrics through seminars, group workshops and discussion, along with individual projects and presentations.
- CW256 Writing for Radio
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module aims to develop writing skills specifically for radio drama. You will explore ways to develop original ideas for radio free from restraints such as costume or special effects.
- CW254 Screen Writing
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
Screen writing introduces novice screenwriters to the basic skills of writing for film. Underpinned by film theory and the study and examination of important films and filmmakers, this module will take you through the fundamentals of script writing.
- CW255 Business & Editorial Writing
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
In this module you will explore how language can be used creatively for a range of purposes, from providing information to establishing brand identity. You will engage in a range of writing practices, from features to writing for the web.
- CW253 Writing for Theatre
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module will provide a thorough understanding of the advantages and limitations of the dramatic medium through an exploration of the development of British theatre.
- CW257 Different Engines: Science Fiction
(20 credits 10 ECTS)
This module explores science fiction, focusing primarily on a period from the 1950s. We will explore representations of the future and past in science fiction, and place these into a wider cultural, historical and social context.
Year 3
You'll continue the study of literature and culture from World War One to the present day, and choose from Creative Writing options such as writing a novel, travel writing, poetry and performance, writing for the digital age, mass market fiction, and more. These modules take you beyond the writer's garret, enabling you to gain a further understanding of some of the professional competencies required in the business of writing.
In the final semester you'll undertake a dissertation and portfolio module, resulting in creative and critical work that demonstrates proficiency in writing alongside sustained argument and analysis.
The Media Centre, Library and The Performance Centre include:
- Digital labs, lecture theatres and seminar rooms
- Libraries housing a collection of 140,000 books, 17,000 DVD and video titles, and exhaustive electronic and journal resources
You'll be taught by academics and practising writers with expertise in areas such as screenwriting and theatre, contemporary poetry, digital texts, Victorian literature, Blake studies, the 18th century, landscape and travel writing, gender studies, children's writing and science fiction.
Experience you'll get
- Workshops from nationally renowned creative writers, literary experts and media professionals
- Placements with schools, businesses, museums and arts organisations
- Vocational experience in events management, PR and copywriting
- Frequent opportunities to perform and present in public
- Continuous assessment with no formal examinations
- Coursework and e-learning exercises
- Critical evaluation
- Final year dissertation and creative writing portfolio
- Journalist, editor, web editor
- Teacher, lecturer in FE and HE, librarian
- Copywriter, web content producer
- Author, poet, playwright, screenwriter
- Work in publishing, marketing and PR
- Postgraduate study (PGCE, MA, PhD), research assistant
Interview and selection process
We invite all applicants to interview.
The interviews will last for approximately three hours and will include a tour of the campus, a group session and a short individual interview. We invite up to ten applicants to each interview session.
You will not be required to bring samples of your writing to the interview. However, you will be asked about your personal statement and your interests and achievements so far. We are looking for enthusiasm and passion for English. We are also looking for commitment to studying English at Falmouth.
Interview dates will be published soon.
Student mentor scheme
Falmouth's student mentor scheme matches new starters with a second year student, to help you settle in and find your feet. Our student mentors are now on Facebook. To chat to a mentor about the course, living in Cornwall or what to expect at Falmouth, check out the English courses group. You'll need to join the group before you can post.
If you don't have access to Facebook please email your name and proposed course to: firstname.lastname@example.com
For more information about the application process, portfolios, interviews and selection days, please contact our admissions team: firstname.lastname@example.com


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It's Wednesday, duh.
It's time for another heartwarming visit to the Department of Awesome Parenting where we meet David LaFerriere, graphic designer, "illustrator with geek-like tendencies," and a completely awesome dad. Located in Attleboro, Massachusetts, David has been drawing delightful illustrations on his kids' lunchtime sandwich bags since 2008 and has photographed almost all of them.
Consider the scope of this for just a moment: So many sandwiches… So many drawings… Over 1100 of them now and he's still going!
David's lucky kids get to enjoy new surprise drawings (and the sandwiches themselves) every day, but we get to enjoy them all at once over on his Flickr account.
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Samich Art.
We were thrilled to run across this awesome Octopus series of photos created by Seattle-based photographer Jessica Walker and model Velocity, who put our Finger Tentacles and Tentacle Mustache to very good use.
Prints available here.
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Giddy up.
Unicorn in a Unitard on a Unicycle - Gangnam Style
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
- Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends
I've been obsessed with pixelated dots since I learned how to draw. The simplicity of it makes feel all warm and fuzzy inside. So naturally, this tattoo design draws me in like animal magnetism that dances like iron filings at the north pole.
Done by Reverend Simon White at Wildfire Tattoos in Cape Town, South Africa
Classic beauty.
The beautiful Hedy Lamarr has a United States patent in her name. In 1942, she and George Antheil patented a frequency-hopping spread-spectrum system for torpedo guidance. This same technology serves as the basis for today's Bluetooth and COFDM used in Wi-Fi network connections.
I could live in absolute and total happiness to have these colors as my daily life spread.
L1003052.jpg by Robert_Scott on Flickr.


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- Michael Phelps hit the bong.
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- Matt Millen didn't have a great week either.
- Soccer's officially dead here in the States.
- The Cowboys are still a mess, like always.
- Manny Ramirez is being an idiot, like always.
- Lane Kiffin is doing his best to become really unpopular, really fast.
- A look at the ugliest NHL jerseys ever.
- Signing Day was this week, and as always, it was hilarious.
- Leryn Franco is back, and better than ever.
- You probably won't be watching the Pro Bowl this weekend for the football, but instead for the cheerleaders.
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MONDAY, Sept. 24 – Use of certain antibiotics may put children at higher risk for developing bowel diseases, new research has found. The earlier children take antibiotics and the more they take, the higher the risk of later developing the inflammatory bowel diseases known as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the researchers found. "There appears to be a 'dose response' effect," said Dr. Matt Kronman, assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. "The more antibiotics children took, the more their risk increased." Earlier studies had suggested a link between bowel disease and antibiotics use, but most of those studies had limitations. The new study, published online Sept. 24 in the journal Pediatrics, looked at data on more than 1 million children 17 years old or younger in nearly 500 health practices ... Read more
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-- Antibiotic resistance occurs when a bacterium mutates and becomes immune to the effects of a specific antibiotic. You can help prevent antibiotic resistance by taking an antibiotic regimen only when necessary. Remember that antibiotics don't work against viral infections such as a cold or the flu. If you do begin taking an antibiotic, you should never skip a dose. Also, you should finish the entire amount that your doctor has prescribed, despite the fact that you might be feeling better. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says antibiotic-resistant bacteria are dangerous because: It may be difficult to find a medication that kills the bacteria. Resistant bacteria tend to spread more quickly between families and within communities. Infections become more difficult and more expensive to treat. People may die from a resistant infection before it can be treated ... Read more
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THURSDAY, Nov. 18 – Knowing when to take antibiotics – and when not to – can help fight the rise of deadly "superbugs," say experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About half of antibiotics prescribed are unnecessary or inappropriate, the agency says, and overuse has helped create bacteria that don't respond, or respond less effectively, to the drugs used to fight them. "Antibiotics are a shared resource that has become a scarce resource," said Dr. Lauri Hicks, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC. She's also medical director a of new program, Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work, that had its launch this week. "Everyone has a role to play in preventing the spread of antibiotic resistance," Hicks said. The stakes are high, said Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, CDC's associate director for health care-associated infection prevention programs. Almost every type of bacteria ... Read more
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A Radical Plan To Save Antibiotics
Posted 7 Sep 2010 by Drugs.com
From Guardian Web (September 7, 2010) What are we to do about the diminishing power of antibiotics - once the miracle drugs that looked set to end infectious diseases? We know the problem is becoming very serious - here is a piece I wrote about the alarming prospects for a future without antibiotics. But we don't hear much in the way of imaginative answers. So it's refreshing to read a paper out this morning from Aaron Kesselheim, from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and Kevin Outterson, a professor at Boston University Law School. Their analysis, published in the journal Health Affairs, says the usual idea, to give pharmaceutical companies financial incentives to invent and manufacture more antibiotics, won't work. One of the reasons we are in this parlous state of affairs, they say, is that drug companies in the past have tried too hard to sell more ... Read more
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Antibiotic Resistance Can Last a Year, Review Finds
Posted 19 May 2010 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, May 18 – Some patients who take antibiotics may become resistant to them and stay that way for as long as a year, a new review finds. The researchers analyzed 24 studies of antibiotic resistance, in which people develop a partial or full immunity to the powers of a medication. The studies looked at use of the drugs in primary care, most often for respiratory or urinary tract infections. Antibiotic resistance is at its height in the month after a drug is prescribed, but the effect may last for a year, according to the findings published online May 18 in BMJ. "Primary care clinicians and patients may wish to consider this evidence when discussing the benefits and risks of prescribing and consuming antibiotics," study author Alastair Hay, consultant senior lecturer in primary health care at the University of Bristol in England, and colleagues concluded. In an accompanying ... Read more
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It's mind-boggling to Andy Samberg, formerly of Saturday Night Live, that he actually gets to star in his own TV cop show.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a freewheeling sitcom that premieres at Tuesday on Fox, is not remotely what he expected to be doing at this stage of his career.
His post- SNL plan, as a matter of fact, was downright gloomy.
"I thought I would probably try to do stand-up for a while — unsuccessfully — and then get a different job and be sad," Samberg says, only half-joking, as he munches from an enormous bag of beef jerky. "It feels more and more impossible every time I do something new.
"When I was 8 years old, I decided I wanted to do SNL, and that was pretty much all I thought about until I was actually on it. So everything from the point when I got to audition has been icing. It's so far beyond what I imagined happening for me."
Samberg plays Jake Peralta, an exceptionally talented and undisciplined police detective. Crime solving comes easy to Jake, too easy, so he spends most of his time goofing off and cracking jokes.
Truth be told, that's not unlike Samberg's approach to the craft of acting.
"I'm finding more and more parallels between Jake and me as the show goes on," he says. "He's based on me more than I realized!"
But then Andre Braugher, formerly of Homicide: Life on the Street, the poster boy for cop-shop intensity, enters the scene as Captain Ray Holt, a by-the-book boss who challenges Jake to straighten up.
Each character can stand to learn a thing or two from the other.
"As an actor, I am completely in awe of him," Samberg says of Braugher. "This is a Juilliard-trained, Shakespeare-in-the-Park heavy. He knows exactly how to play drama and has so much experience in that regard. I'm learning from him every day, watching how he approaches things.
"It's been funny, because so many people have this impression of him that he is very intimidating, but I haven't really seen any of that. He's been nothing but warm and collaborative.
"And because of that gravitas that he has and that actual acting training, which is so the opposite of where I come from and how I've gotten into comedy, I feel like our characters play perfectly off each other.
"He's able to ground scenes and let me act like a maniac all around him, like a yipping little dog."
The tone of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is more in the spirit of Barney Miller than Reno 911! That's largely because series creators/executive producers Dan Goor and Michael Schur were die-hard Miller fans.
"When Dan and I started thinking of ideas for shows, we pretty quickly realized that there hadn't been a half-hour cop comedy in a while," Schur says. "In this day and age, where there are 10 million shows about every genre, every setting, every location that is possibly imaginable by the human brain, that made it kind of an exciting challenge."
Samberg says he was turned on by the idea for a different reason: "I get to wear a cool leather jacket!"
He's so right for the show because the idea of Andy Samberg with a badge and gun is frighteningly funny.
"I don't want to belittle how much training and how much work actual police officers put in to get to a point where they really know what they're doing," he says. "I don't know what it actually takes, let's put it that way.
"Like, I can pretend like I know how to fly a plane, but we wouldn't be in the air very long."


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Monthly Archive for October, 2009
New compromise on home buyer credit includes price limit, fraud protections
Senate leaders released more details about their compromise on the home buyer tax credit today. Among other things, the deal would give the IRS more authority to spot cheaters in advance and set an $800,000 price limit on all homes eligible for the credit. The existing $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers (meaning those […] [Read More]
Senate leaders compromise on extending federal tax credit for home purchases
Senate leaders have reached a tentative compromise on extending the federal tax credit for home purchases, but the measure still has a ways to go before becoming law. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Max Baucus D-Mont., wanted to extend existing the $8,000 credit, which is set to expire after Nov. 30, through March 31, then […] [Read More]
Q&A: Will my credit score get hurt if I check it?
Q: John H. asks: "I'd like to get my FICO score and want to take the Equifax route for $7.95 as you suggested in your Oct. 22 column. However, I have the impression that if one applies for and gets a FICO, one's credit rating is reduced because of the simple act of requesting a […] [Read More]
BofA sells SF-based First Republic Bank to investor group
Bank of America has agreed to sell First Republic Bank of San Francisco to a group of investors including First Republic's management and funds managed by Colony Capital and General Atlantic. BofA refused to disclose the sales price. Speaking on background, a source told me the price would be book value, which would work out […] [Read More]
Question of the Day: Have any class-action suits been filed against Schwab's tax-free YieldPlus funds?
In response to last week's column and blog item on the Schwab YieldPlus Fund, several readers asked whether there are any class-action suits pending against the tax-free versions of YieldPlus. YieldPlus (ticker symbol SWYSX) is a taxable, ultra-short-term bond fund. It is the subject of a class-action suit claiming that it suffered steep losses stemming […] [Read More]
Retirement-plan contribution limits won't go up next year
The maximum contribution to 401(k) and other retirement plans won't be going up next year thanks to a lack of inflation. The most you can put into a 410(k), 403(b) or 457 plan before taxes in 2010 will be $16,500, the same as this year. People who will be 50 or older next year can […] [Read More]
SEC planning action against Schwab over two bond funds
Charles Schwab has received a Wells notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that the SEC staff plans to recommend filing a civil enforcement against the company over two Schwab bond funds. They are Schwab YieldPlus, which was marketed as a higher-yielding alternative to money market funds, and Schwab Total Bond Market. At its […] [Read More]
Consumer woes grow in October
The economy show signs of stabilizing, but consumers — especially lower-income households — face growing difficulties, according to the Consumer Reports Trouble Tracker index. The index tracks both the percentage of consumers that have faced financial difficulties and the number of negative events they have encountered. Negative events include: the inability to pay medical bills […] [Read More]
Airlines slap $10 surcharge on more peak travel days
The nation's major airlines keep increasing the number of "peak travel days" subject to a $10 fare surcharge, with some carriers now slapping in on 16 days (and counting). San Francisco Chronicle/Mark Costantini Airlines charging extra on busy travel days It all started on Sept. 23, when American Airlines quietly added a $10 surcharge to […] [Read More]


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A D.C. police lieutenant has been brought back to work after six years of conflict with a department that once fired him -- for having been previously fired by them.
Tim Haselden had been arranging traffic cones at the police academy and drawing his $100,000-per year salary while he fought to be sent back on the streets. On Christmas Eve 2003, he was fired following a couple of angry confrontations with his wife. The department said he was a wife-beater. Haselden appealed and an administrative law judge held that, in fact, Haselden had tried to defuse the confrontations.
He was set to come back to work when a media outlet reported that rogue cops were sneaking back onto the force using legal technicalities. Embarrassed by the report, Attorney General Peter Nickles and Police Chief Cathy Lanier fired nearly two dozen officers, including Haselden. Nickles claimed that the false allegations against Haselden were bad enough that they had destroyed his credibility and prevented him from testifying in court.
"I'm going to be fired for being fired," the 42-year-old told The Examiner in an interview last year. "First they tried to ruin my reputation by saying I was a wife-beater. Then they tried to ruin my reputation by saying I have no credibility."
Lanier couldn't be reached Friday for comment.
But earlier this month, Haselden was handed his badge and gun and ordered to report to the 5th District.
"It's kind of a bittersweet conclusion," Haselden's lawyer, James Pressler, said. "This guy never should have been fired in the first place."
Haselden is in battle with his bosses over nearly $75,000 in legal fees. Pressler said his client shouldn't have to foot the bill.
The other officers who were fired alongside Haselden are working their way through the court system. Several were brought back to work through lawsuit settlements and they've filed new, multimillion-dollar lawsuits alleging that the city broke the original settlements. Earlier this summer, a police trial board ordered officer Timothy Holmes put back to work, ruling that his earlier settlement with the department was binding.
Lanier has ignored the trial board's ruling and on Wednesday formally fired Holmes.


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The World Series of Fighting 3: Fitch vs. Burkman fighter salaries were released to MMAWeekly.com on Monday by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Josh Burkman established himself as the promotion's top welterweight by upsetting the incoming Jon Fitch in the night's main event, while Steve Carl put his name in the welterweight mix with a win over Tyson Steele.
WSOF 3 took place Friday, June 14, at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
The following figures are based on the fighter salary information that promoters are required by law to submit to the state athletic commissions, including the winners' bonuses.
Although mixed martial arts fighters do not have collective bargaining or a union, the fighters' salaries are still public record, just as with every other major sport in the United States. Any undisclosed bonuses that a promoter also pays its fighters, but does not disclose to the athletic commissions (specifically, pay-per-view bonuses, fight of the night bonuses, etc.), are not included in the figures below.
Josh Burkman: $32,000 (includes $16,000 win bonus)
def. Jon Fitch: $30,000
Steve Carl: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Tyson Steele: $7,000
Jacob Volkmann: $14,000 (includes $7,000 win bonus)
def. Lyle Beerbohm: $15,000
Justin Gaethje: $12,000 (includes $6,000 win bonus)
def. Brian Cobb: $8,000
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Jerrod Sanders: $8,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus)
def. Jeff Smith: $4,000
Dan Lauzon: $12,000 (includes $6,000 win bonus)
def. John Gunderson: $6,000
Carson Beebe: $8,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus)
def. Joe Murphy: $4,000
Krasimir Mladenov: $10,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus)
def. Kendrick Miree: $4,000
Brenson Hansen: $5,000 (includes $2,500 win bonus)
def. Josh Montalvo: $1,000
World Series of Fighting 3 Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $200,000
Unleash the salary trolls
all they need to do is look at the last fight listed here and then we can stop talking about ufc not paying enough
After WSOF 1 people were saying that the WSOF was paying its fighters too much and that they'd go out of business with their salaries. Now I bet they'll say they don't pay enough
You can not compare a fledgling startup mma promotion to the UFC. The guy who made $1000? It was his first professional fight, against a guy who had maybe 5 fights. There are 0 rookies in the UFC…all are experienced MMA veterans, most of whom were recruited because they had a very good record or were champion of a smaller promotion. Granted, WSOF mixes in a few veterans to balance things out, but in no way could or should the salaries of it's fighters be commensurate with those in the UFC.
No way I'd risk serious injury to fight for $2,500. More power to them!
What about a $1,000?…. that's what they're paying Josh Montalvo.
ESPN Friday Night fights used to pay as little as $250 for a boxing match! They figured you were on tv, that's enough pay in itself.
I used to do it for free. Either you want to fight, or you don't.
very true. If your fighting just for money, it takes a LONNNNG time to get there. You have to be willing to go a while with no pay. Amatures get paid NOTHING. You go pro and you get a dollar. Not everyone is GSP.
Alos think of endorsements and gym name. They might get 1K or 5K but if they do well enough they will get their money outside the ring.
If you combine the pay of every single fighter except the main and co-main events, you will get approximately the amount James Krause was paid in his first ever UFC prelim fight.
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Here are some of the new faces you will see if you attend Georgia State's first football practice of the fall:
Running back Donald Russell (formerly of Kentucky): He was the Wildcats' third-leading rusher with 293 yards, a 4.6 average and two touchdowns last season. He has two seasons of eligibility.
Tight end Alex Smith (formerly of Kentucky): While in high school in Cincinnati, he was No. 11-rated tight end in the nation by Rivals.com. He redshirted last season and has four seasons remaining.
Defensive end A.J. Portee (formerly of Connecticut): He attended Mays High School. He played in nine games last fall at Connecticut, with six tackles. He has two seasons of eligibility.
Inside linebacker Dexter Moody (formerly of Fort Scott CC): Moody's travels are well-known. Can he stick at GSU?
Freshman signees who didn't attend summer school: placekicker Christian Benvenuto (Palm Coast, Fla.), wide receiver Mark Young (Charlotte, N.C.) and athlete Lynquez Blair (Swainsboro). Also joining are placekicker Matt Ehasz (Camden County), punters Matt Hubbard (Starr's Mill) and David Miller (Bradwell Institute), defensive back Daniel King (Marietta/Arizona Western), offensive lineman Victor Ozieh (Peachtree Ridge), and defensive end John Kelly (Norcross/Nevada).
Coach Bill Curry said this about a few more of the new faces: "One of them you have already seen in the spring, D'Mario Gunn. He's a good player and we expect a lot of good things from D'Mario Gunn. Qwontez Mallory was one of his teammates at Georgia Military. He is a linebacker and we expect Qwontez to make an immediate impact. We have the young placekicker, Christian Benvenuto, who had a tremendous high school career. He will be trying to replace our third-team All-American Iain Vance, but he will have competition from some talented walk-ons."
True freshmen that attended summer school are:
Offensive lineman Tyler Ferguson
Defensive tackle McClain Head
Strong safety Nick Henderson
Offensive lineman David Huey
Quarterback Ben McLane: "We would love to redshirt Ben McLane," Curry said. "If it is the right thing to hold somebody out, then we would like to do that. If we can, we will. If we have to play him, we will prepare him to play."
Wide receiver Nathaniel Minor
Defensive end Roderick Thompson
Wide receiver Mark Young
– Doug Roberson, AJC. Follow on twitter @ajcgsu
August 3rd, 2011
7:31 pm
Great to hear ball is starting again.
August 3rd, 2011
8:44 pm
Im seriously excited about this season, and regardless of our QB situation I think we will still have an impressive season
August 3rd, 2011
9:31 pm
Glad to see these guys are official. Is Dexter Moody a DE though? I thought he played ILB. We have depth at both positions, but could probably use the help more on the line.
August 3rd, 2011
9:34 pm
YES YES YES!! Cannot WAIT!! Got my Tix, in the Huddle really excited about catching up w/ friends at the alumni tent. Oh, and believe it or not the Kroger @ Georgetown plaza has some GREAT GSU shirts. Guess we've made it then right? Seriously though, really hope that our O & D lines hold firm if they do we will have a great season. Cannot wait to see what the new guys are going to do. Welcome to the panther nation!!!!!
August 3rd, 2011
11:05 pm
Welcome to all the New Comers and Freshman. It's going to be a GREAT second year! See ya in the Orange Lot tailgating as well as in the Huddle. Come on all you GSU Panther Alums, especially the 100,000 strong in the Metro Atlanta area, and be at the home games jn the "Pantherdome" in the Concrete Jungle. You won't be disappointed as our Men are going to make a Statement this year about the future of GSU Panther Football! GO PANTHERS!!!
August 4th, 2011
12:06 am
Great to hear about the new additions! Can't wait to see these guys on the field this fall. GO PANTHERS!!!
August 4th, 2011
12:34 am
Football needs to be here soon! I can't wait! Season Ticket Holder Sec 120 Go Panthers!
August 4th, 2011
6:29 am
Yes, Dex is a linebacker. Former Under Armor All American and the highest ranked defensive player in our short history.
August 4th, 2011
6:30 am
Gotta love Auto Correct.
August 4th, 2011
8:09 am
Couldn't get a transfer QB from an FBS program? Seems like Ga State got one from every other position.
August 4th, 2011
8:18 am
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August 4th, 2011
8:54 am
Looking at this list makes me feel a lot better about our recruiting class. Some added treats in there. Gunn better produce with all this hype around him.
August 4th, 2011
9:31 am
Great to have all these players, and hope they have their good heads on their capable body.
We don't need the meatheads who can't keep their team rules or the laws of the land leading our team. Who needs the speedy guys running or throwing the ball to other endzone.
Hope we have as good or even better year than last.
August 4th, 2011
11:33 am
I ran into Thomas Frierson on campus. He wen to my High School (WHITEWATER n Fayetteville). He was awesome in high school. He had 26 TD's in two years, 14 his Junior year, and 12 his Senior year. He didn't even play 2 games his Senior year due to injury. He just transferred from some little JC in Iowa. He is walking on.
He is much bigger now and he says he is just as fast. We will see, but if he can do anything near what he did in high school, GA STATE will be the beneficiary. Since he is a walk on, he can't practice with the team until next week or so. I hope they take a good look at him. You can YouTube him. He had some incredible runs of like 60, 70, 80, and even 90 yards! Give him the ball Coach Curry!
Watch out for THOMAS FRIERSON. I said it first………
August 4th, 2011
11:40 am
Did all of Georgia State players get out of jail?
August 4th, 2011
3:24 pm
Yeah onion they did, around the same time they got up off of your mom!
August 4th, 2011
4:29 pm
@Pantherpride- hahahahahha
August 4th, 2011
9:24 pm
Goooo Gunnnn!!
August 5th, 2011
4:53 pm
Ga State became GSU in 1969. Georgia Southern became GSU in 1990. "The facts are so blinding that I can listen to a word you say or agree with what you write." Careful when responding…. the quote comes from a Souhtern Alumnus.


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A number of you have rejected this weekend's profile of the Obamas' marriage (and accompanying slideshow) as yawn-inducing celebitician/politicity pop-love drivel. Alas, I have the will power of a goldfish, and so I was possessed not only to read the big long Presidential love exposé but to write about it. Here. Now!
Fortunately for you, I was much less interested in the intimate details of the Obamas' marriage than I was in the idea of the presidency as it was overwhelmingly, if inadvertently, presented throughout the article- as a partnership.
While I enjoy a juicy detail as much as the next, and yes, Presidential date night = cute, I couldn't help but notice this surprising theme woven throughout the article.
Take this quote, from page 2:
Barack and Michelle Obama are also a more fully fused political team than ever before, with no other jobs to distract them, no doubts about the worthiness of the pursuit dogging them. Theirs is by no means a co-presidency; aides say the first lady has little engagement with banking reform, nuclear disarmament or most of the other issues that dominate her husband's days. But their goals are increasingly intertwined…
And this one, from page 8:
"After years of leaving his family behind, he now turned to his wife to help carry him to the presidency."
From page 9:
Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's….
And from the last page:
The question [how any couple can have a truly equal partnership when one member is president?]still unanswered, his wife stepped back in: "Clearly Barack's career decisions are leading us. They're not mine; that's obvious. I'm married to the president of the United States. I don't have another job, and it would be problematic in this role. So that — you can't even measure that."
Hmmmm. So to recap:
a) Barack Obama needs Michelle Obama, both to get elected and to sustain the presidency throughout his term;
b) This need has become a public duty for Michelle, and has required Michelle to take on her husband's goals as her own;
c) This pattern is not uncommon for presidential couples – in fact, it is so much the norm that it was expected of her, and would raise eyebrows (and damage the effectiveness of her husband's leadership) if she did less.
I think this is a fascinating set of expectations for the public to enforce in their political leaders, and for the couple to choose to uphold, one rife with the same crucial but contradictory values and fundamental but frustrating double standards that even women who don't happen to be married to the President of the United States often face. The FLOTUS is a crucial staple of the presidency- in fact, the U.S. has only ever had one unmarried president, and that was over 150 years ago- but not crucial enough for official duties, or, you know, a salary. Although technically, you don't have to be a president's wife to serve as First Lady, and in fact, several women who were not presidents' wives have served as first lady, romantic or not, the presidency is usually presented as a partnership, in which the two partners make different kinds of contributions to achieve the greater good, contributions which typically adhere to traditional gender norms.
I'm a big fan of Michelle Obama and I appreciate what she represents, especially to the Black community. I by no means intend to take anything away from her or her accomplishments, as I respect her a great deal. But I don't think that's the end of the story.
The truth is that the high profile/high stakes nature of the Obamas' union makes their situation particularly emblematic of American gender norms, not less. Their presidential partnership is a prototype for the kind of partnership created when America's expectations surrounding gender are appeased. But perhaps because of their unique position in the public spotlight, a lot of questions about this kind of union are left unanswered, and a lot of scenarios left unexplored.
For example, however improbable, what would happen if a President's partner didn't want to take on that role of First Lady? Why are single people not being elected to office? Why doesn't the First Lady get paid for her duty, as the President does? Should she? What if she were to get divorced from her husband during his term, but wanted to keep her position as First Lady? Or what if she wanted to reside in the White House after she and her partner divorced, and he was still President? Is her autonomy within the partnership compromised because of her willingness to serve? Does a partner of someone with power automatically receive power of their own? What are the rights of someone whose role is only formalized to the extent that it complements the role of their partner?
I don't have any easy answers, but I think it's an interesting thought experiment, and one that is relevant to other situations in which women (or men) play a role that is either completely informal or conditionally formal, such as stay-at-home parents.
Also, what does it mean that Michelle's success and relative popularity comes, in part, from the fact that she is commonly considered to be the anti-Hillary, in many ways, because of her seemingly happy marriage and lack of political ambition? While the NYT article did mention some of their similarities, it also discussed the efforts the campaign took to juxtapose the two women. ("[Michelle] was candid; Hillary was often guarded. Michelle represented the idea that a little black girl from the South Side of Chicago could grow up to be first lady of the United States; Hillary stood for the hold of the already-powerful on the political system. And Michelle seemed to have the kind of marriage many people might aspire to; Hillary did not.")
Black vs. White, Candid vs. Guarded, [Apparently] Faithful Hubby vs. Unfaithful Hubby. Sure, I get it. But there's one similarity between the two women the article fails to mention: both projected a deliberate- if unspoken- sense of biding their time while their husbands served their terms, Hillary seemingly "paying her dues" until she could make her own bid at the White House, and Michelle, the article implies, waiting it out until she can have more of a say regarding the terms under which she and her family live. Is this a sort of unspoken sacrifice expected of presidential partners? Do you think it's noble? Necessary? Outdated?
I guess it's fitting that the article ends by assuring us that when Barack's political career ends,
"…the Obamas will most likely renegotiate their compact once more — this time, perhaps more on Michelle Obama's terms."
We'll probably never know the results of the Obamas' renegotiations behind closed doors, but maybe that's the point: We've made the figure of the publicly touted FLOTUS an American institution without, well, institutionalizing her experience. While bringing a FLOTUS on board seems to practically comprise a constitutional requirement for any presidential hopeful, the experience of the FLOTUS herself is wildly, perhaps tellingly informal and unlegislated, regulated only in social expectations and a set of American gender values so rigid, they need no constitutional requirements to bear their force. I'm not advocating that we salary this unelected position (although I'm not advocating that we don't), but I do think a more progressive, inclusive, and yes, feminist society will acknowledge the partnership aspect to the presidency itself, rather than relegating recognition to a separate title with nebulous paths to power and a nonexistent formal mandate.


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The Windowlicker event happened a few weeks ago, but I just thought of it today and realized that I should post more! My KCSB show will hopefully continue in Winter quarter, but I'll have a new timeslot… I'll update the info as soon as I get the info. And I've only posted some of my playlists here, because some of them sucked, or I was just too lazy, so all the playlists are on www.kcsb.org under my show Overnight (which I have finally come up with a better name for)
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Bullion "Are You the One?" from "Young Heartache - EP" (2008) on One-Handed Music
Body Language "You Can" from "Social Studies" (2010)
Telefon Tel Aviv "Lengthening Shadows" from "Apparat - DJ Kicks" (2010)
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Kasrave "Deluded" from "Tighten Up" (2010)
Instra:mental "Watching You" from "Watching You / Tramma" (2009) on Nonplus
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Friendly Fires "Skeleton Boy (Air France Remix)" from "Skeleton Boy - EP" (2009) on XL
Memory Tapes "Bicycle (Little Loud Remix)" from "Bicycle (Little Loud Remix)" (2010)
Black Moth Super Rainbow "Untitled Roadside Demo" from "Dandelion Gum" (2007) on Graveface Records
Lone "Interview at Honolulu" from "Lemurian" (2008) on Dealmaker
Gold Panda "You" from "Lucky Shiner" (2010) on Ghostly International
Dam-funk "A(nother) Day at the Carnival (Sahy Uhns' Cosmic Songbird Remix)" from "Proximity One: Narrative of a City" (2010) on Proximal Records
Floating Points "Vacuum Boogie" from "Vacuum - EP" (2009) on Eglo Records
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Andreya Triana "Lost Where I Belong (Flying Lotus Remix)" from "Lost Where I Belong" (2010) on Ninja Tune
Tokimonsta "Gamble" from "Midnight Menu" (2010) on Art Union
Hudson Mohawke "Fuse" from "Butter" (2009) on Warp Records
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Solar Bears "Crystalline (Letherette Remix)" from "Inner Sunshine" (2010) on Planet Mu
Girl Unit "Wut" from "Wut" (2010) on Night Slugs
Rustie "Hyperthrust" from "Sunburst EP" (2010) on Warp Records
Solar Bears "Twin Stars (Lone Remix)" from "Inner Sunshine" (2010) on Planet Mu
Forest Swords "Glory Gongs" from "Dagger Paths" (2010) on Olde English Spelling Bee
Kingdom "That Mystic" from "That Mystic" (2010) on Night Slugs
Salem "King Night" from "King Night" (2010) on IAMSOUND
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Shigeto "Relentless Drag" from "Full Circle" (2010) on Ghostly International
Bibio "S'Vive" from "Ambivalence Avenue" (2009) on Warp
Darkstar "Dear Heartbeat" from "North" (2010) on Hyperdub
The Morning Benders "Excuses" from "Big Echo" (2010) on Rough Trade
The Ruby Suns "Two Humans" from "Fight Softy" (2010) on Memphis Industries
Air France "Karibien" from "On Trade Winds" (2006) on Sincerely Yours
Toro y Moi "Thanks Vision" from "Causers of This" (2010) on Carpark Records
Caribou "Sun (Midland Re-Edit)" from "Sun (Midland Re-Edit)" (2010)
Bonobo "Kiara" from "Black Sands" (2010) on Ninja Tune
Lorn "Cherry Moon" from "Nothing Else" (2010) on Brainfeeder
Eskmo "Cloudlight" from "Eskmo" (2010) on Ninja Tune
Clark "Ted" from "Body Riddle" (2006) on Warp Records
Hudson Mohawke "Overnight" from "Polyfolk Dance - EP" (2009) on Warp Records
Oriol "Night and Day" from "Night and Day" (2010) on Planet Mu
Jacques Greene "(Baby I Don't Know) What You Want" (2010)
Darkstar "Videotape" from "Wild Angels" (2009) on Planet Mu
Health "In Heat (Javelin Remix)" from "::Disco2" (2010) on LovePump United
Rustie "Inside Pikachu's Cunt" from "2010" (2010) on Warp
How To Dress Well "Take It On" from "Take It On" (2010) New
Small Black "Photojournalist" from "Photojournalist" (2010) on Jagjaguwar New
Twin Shadow "Tyrant Destroyer" from "Forget" (2010) on Terrible Records New
James Blake "Don't You Think I Do" from "Klavierwerke" (2010) on R & S New
TOKiMONSTA "Gamble" from "Midnight Menu" (2010) on Art Union New
Botany "Waterparker" from "Feeling Today" (2010) on Western Vinyl New
jj "Ecstasy" from "jj n° 2" (2009) on Sincerely Yours
The Tough Alliance "Miami" from "A New Chance" (2008) on Sincerely Yours
Grum "Heartbeats (Weird Tapes Remix)" from "Heartbeats" (2010) on Ultra
Delorean "Endless Sunset" from "Subiza" (2010) on True Panther Sounds New
Studio "West Side" from "Yearbook 1" (2007) on Information
Air France "No Way Down" from "No Way Down" (2008) on Sincerely Yours
Boat Club "Spanish Castles" from "Caught the Breeze" (2007) on Luxury
The Radio Dept. "Always a Relief" from "Pet Grief" (2006) on Labrador
Mount Kimbie "Field" from "Crooks & Lovers" (2010) on Hotflush Recordings New
Bibio "Haikuesque (The Gentlemen Losers' Whispers in the Rain Mix)" from "The Apple and the Tooth" (2009) on Warp
Memory Tapes "Swimming Field" from "Seek Magic" (2009) on Sincerely Yours
Millionyoung "Pilfer" from "Be So True" (2010) New
Gorillaz "Empire Ants" from "Plastic Beach" (2010) on EMI Records
The Ruby Suns "Two Humans" from "Fight Softy" (2010) on Memphis Industries
Clark "Ted (Bibio Remix)" from "Ted" (2007) on Warp
Teebs "Arthur's Birds" from "Ardour" (2010) on Brainfeeder New
Darkstar "Videotape" from "Wild Angels" (2009) on Planet Mu
Phaseone "Animal Collective - Daily Routine (Phaseone Remix)" from "White Collar Crime" (2009)
Mount Kimbie "Maybes (James Blake Remix)" from "Remixes Pt. 1" (2010) on Hotflush Recordings
HEALTH "USA Boys" from "::DISCO2" (2010) on LovePump United New
M83 "Couleurs" from "Saturdays = Youth" (2008) on Mute