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Democracy - The most inefficient type of government?
I look at general masses of people, what they do, how they think, how easily they are manipulated, and how clueless they can be. I often wonder how people can be so ignorant! And this got me to think "if the masses are so ignorant and so easy to manipulate, why do they select our leaders?" Well this brought me to another point, is democracy really an efficient form of government if its people are ignorant?
We are prisoners of democracy. If you are on the opposing view of the masses and unable to convince the needed majority, then you effectively have no say, even if you are correct.
This wouldn't be a problem except that it seems that people, now more than ever, are suckers of propaganda, rumors, and biased news. If the masses don't understand what they are voting for and are so easily swayed, how can we still consider democracy a superior system of government?
Dec 30 2012: Democracy is not inefficient. The most powerful leader is the one with the strongest will. The chosen leader is the one that the public wants. The public chooses the one with the strongest will.
democracy does not pick the "best" leader but it does pick the most ppowerful
and its very efficient at itDec 29 2012: It is not that democracy is inefficient, we are inefficient. We lack organization and determination, which are basic to the democracy. Another point would be that democracy is weak, at least when compared to its enemies (corruption, personal interests...). Democracy has a long way to go still, but longer is the path for us to walk and achieve democracy.
Human kind has this desperate need of being all together, to be equals. Sad but true I guess, it won't happen. In order for the world to be considered as global, as one; inequality must be present and democracy must fail.
Lejan .
Dec 29 2012: Do you know of a better alternative to Democracy or about ways to fix those problems you noticed?Dec 24 2012: Efficient is someone (or something) that does more with less, so my first question would be: inefficient compared with what???. Show some figures and your source, in order to agree or disagree.
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You are right, masses are often ignorant, easily driven and dumb, but democracy grants anyone the right to get out and stand up (if most people don't use it, that's another story). This simple fact, I think, is what balances the equation, and makes the big difference with other methods of government. On a monarchy or a dictatorship (socialism is a dictatorship by definition) if you were born as part of the mass you will die being part of the mass, you simply don't have the right to scale in the social fabric. So I stay with democracy with all its faults.Dec 24 2012: Someone once said something like "Democracy is system of 51 fools"...........pondered many times how right it is !!!
Alternatively came up with question below
What you think about if everyone thinks something is right /good to do but the Tyrranic Monarch / Military Dictator forcefully execute what s/he wanted to do?
Agree with you what you said about so called NEWs....I don't see any news in mainstream media....only propaganda or rumour as you said it correctlyDec 30 2012: Short example of democarcy:
If we are three people and we want to decide where to go out in the evening and two of us want to go to the cinema, you don't want - but you have to do it because we are the majority and we decide. If tomorrow evening and two of us want to go to a concert, you don't want - but you have to because we are the majority and we decide. If later on we want to eat a pizza and you don't want - you have to because we are the majority and we decide.
If we go along like this what do you do? If we are the majority - in the case you are always on the wrong side - you will never choose. So, you isolate yourself? You can, yes. But this way we're not together anymore and you are alone. Maybe we can decide to follow you? It's not happening like this if we are the majority.Dec 29 2012: First of I would like to say that Democracy is not the most inefficient form of government. However there are no types or forms of government that are completely efficient or ever will be. Human nature insures this. Three main reasons: whenever money, power, and religion come into play, a government will be dysfunctional. And no, I am not saying religion is bad, rather it tends to create problems when conflicting religions fight for power and influence. Money tends to influence decisions to one side or another which tend not to be in the best interest of the people. And as they say "absolute power corrupts absolutely".
However, all forms of government can be made more efficient including democracy. Power can be shared, money interests can be excluded, with exceptional difficulty though. Religion should stay in its place, not trying to influence policies or governments. So lets stop talking about why and which forms of government are bad or do not work rather lets start a discussion on how to improve the ones we have.Dec 26 2012: The greater the electorate numbers and the more diversity there is of political/cultural views, the less likelihood that central government can be democratic.
The only way to get close to any form of democracy, is to decentralise government as far as it takes for it to represent localised and unique characteristics, culture, political views and landscape type.
Local people deciding on their own affairs is far more likely to be democratic than any faceless bureaucratic representative from central government imposing inappropriate, standardised policies on regions that are loath to find even remotely helpful.
Dec 27 2012: But isn't there a 'need' for central authority? Without a central authority isn't a country more like a bunch of small cities and towns then one unified country?
Dec 27 2012: "Without a central authority isn't a country more like a bunch of small cities and towns"
and it is bad because ...?
Dec 27 2012: I'm not say it is bad however we live in a country. And part of a country is having a central government. Look at examples of countries with a weak and disorganized central government. You will find they are not doing nearly as well as those with a central control.Dec 27 2012: can you tell me any geographical areas that are decentralized for a longer period of time, and not a result of a failed state? i can not. so it is not exactly fair to compare the US with afganistan or somalia, and declare strong state as winner. the US became strong with a very limited, almost nonexistent government in the 1800's. and one can argue that life in somalia is way better without a state than with it. when they had a government, it was not a tad bit better, it was worse.Dec 27 2012: Well, maybe there is a peceived need for central authority, but that would only be because it's what we've become used to.
I think the idea of a 'unified country' might be an illusory pipedream, if people and unique communities are to retain some sense of autonomy at the same time. Unification in the truest sense can only be achieved under some kind of dictatorship - either despotic or benevolent, and since benevolence is not known to coexist within a dictatorship, the result will always be oppression of some kind.
Central authorities cannot cope with diversity; the more remote that central authority is from places of such diversity, the less democratic they will be.
On the other hand, leaders of smaller communities would have a visible 'face' and a local presence, and would therefore be very answerable to the people who voted for them. Democracy would naturally follow, and would be cognisant of the particular community's diverse, autonomous character.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a bunch of small cities and towns. With the inevitable depletion of fossil fuels, it's likely to head that way anyway.Dec 24 2012: Personally, I don't think the masses are ignorant, I think they're reasonably smart.
If the majority chooses a leader I don't like, it doesn't bother me too, too much because I know I can go on fighting. Every time the leader introduces a new policy I don't agree with I can fight him/her on that policy.
I was introduced to a really cool form of decision-making in Columbae House at Stanford called consensus decision-making. Consensus decision-making means that when the house has to make a decision, they keep dialogue-ing about it until every member of the group, in the case of the house sixty people, agrees with the final decision. Sometimes the process takes a long time, often it goes very quickly.Dec 24 2012: I have never experienced a national democracy or a national anarchy, but I suspect anarchy would be markedly less efficient than democracy. I base this on the many experiences I have had on the much smaller scale of social and business interactions. Thank you!
Dec 24 2012: Well, a true democracy would be inefficient because every issue would have to be votes on by everyon eligible and willing to vote. Of course not many countries use a true democracy.Dec 24 2012: what experiences?
Dec 24 2012: For example: A group of four couples trying to decide which restaurant to go to; Anarchy sends everyone to different places according to their free-will, uninfluenced choices; Democracy lets the night be spent discussing and debating the best choices with a decision, possibly, never being reached; A Representative Republic allows everyone to go enjoy dinner together wherever their designated expert says.
Gail .
Dec 24 2012: One summer I babysat 6 10-yr olds. Because they rejected the notion of a babysitter, but were williing to be with a responsible adult, I gave them the right to form their own rules (government). They chose democracy. Within 3 days, everyone was suing everyone. I had said that I would not get involved, but at one point, the group was split 3 and 3 and they really needed a judge. After 3 days of what had been constant arguing, I agreed to judge. I heard the case and judged that democracy doesn't work. I established socialism as the de facto government.
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With socialism, big (expensive) toys must be shared no matter who owned them, but small toys (dolls etc) were private property. Again the law suits began and it didn't take long for me to again be called in as judge. I judged socialism to be a failure, and I instituted communism. All toys can be played by all.
that didn't work. Fights were renewed. I was again called in and I judged communism to be unworkable. I instituted a benign monarchy. I would take input, but the final decision was mine. This didn't help much. So I said that the benign monarchy was dead and I was now a dictator.
The funny thing about this is that the kids LOVED it. They were no longer responsible for their own actions & consequences. As much as they liked it, I hated it. I was busy every minute resolving disputes. Something had to be done. Then I had an idea.
Each day while waiting for parents, we played round robin Donkey Kong. There are rules for winning at the game. Stay relaxed. Look at the big picture. Your'e not competing agaiinst a partner, but with yourself. Don't be afraid of the bombs. While calm, decide on your next move.
We instituted a Donkey Kong government (rational anarchy) and ALL arguments immediately ended. When a child felt unhappy, she went to a list of things she liked to do and did them in an effort to remember how to be happy.
Kids loved it. Moms talked of great changes in kids. I loved 2
Dec 24 2012: That sounds like an interesting experiment that seemed to show a suprisingly accurate view on government.
It seems as though each governing style has a flaw and that flaw always proves to be a huge flaw. We talk about the superiority of choice and the power of the people in democracy but it is really the wealthy and well-spoken that hold all of the power in almost every case of government. The only difference is, in democracy they have to control the masses in other forms of government they have more direct control (dictatorship, monarchy, communism, etc.)Dec 25 2012: Interesting indeed.
So the States needs Sulla the Proscriber?
There is Sweden.Dec 24 2012: No
The U.S. is a Republic not a democracy.
The most efficient form of government would be a monarchy.
Dec 24 2012: Yes, but, I never said the US was a democracy and I was referring to democracy as a whole. Of course the problems with monarchy are that one persons judgement completely rules over everyone and they could easily be incorrect or make a bad decision with no one to stop them.
Also, "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and it is my personal belief that, generally, over time, governments ruled by one person become less an less efficient and power until a new change of leadership.
Dec 24 2012: Duly noted and I don't disagree. And the current crop of constituents are crap.
edward long
Dec 24 2012: Isn't your problem with democracy that one person's desires can be swallowed-up by the masses? How then can you deny the monarchy, or dictatorship which absolutely, and utterly resolve that problem?
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Dec 24 2012: No, my problem with democracy is that 49.9% of people could be ignored even if they are right. I am saying, in general, people are too easily manipulated and decided by propaganda and media. So, if a small group of people knew exactly what was best for the country but weren't able to convince the majority, then they don't get to do anything about it!
I don't believe I stated that monarchy or dictatorship were any better than democracies soling this problem. I was more referring to how people consider democracy sucks. Great system when in fact there seem to be a few flaws in it. However, I and other have yet to come up with a better solution.


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Amtrak Rolls Out Plan for Northeast High-Speed Rail Corridor
Amtrak recently unveiled their latest plans for a new high-speed rail corridor in the Northeast US that will connect Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC. High-speed trains will travel up to 220 mph and make the 426 mile trip in less than 3 1/2 hours, compared to the current run time of 8 hours on the regional and 6.5 on Acela trains. Amtrak's plan is expected to cost over $117 billion, and it won't be realized until 2040 – over 30 years away! It's clear that we need this high-speed rail corridor, but is there any way they could speed things up?!
The new rail corridor will require its own set of dedicated tracks in order to keep service consistent throughout the day. Average speeds for the trains would be around 140 mph, cutting the trip down to half of what it is now. The expanded train service would mean more departures per day and the ability to accommodate even more passengers. Hub stations would be located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. with regular stops in other important locations.
The build-out for expanded service would take place over 25 years and it would provide over 40,000 full-time jobs annually with an annual investment of $4.7 billion. Funding along with political will are obviously the biggest hold-ups to achieving a functioning high-speed rail system in the US. Amtrak's plans for a critical update to this important transportation corridor are certainly good news, but 2040 seems like an awfully long time away.
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October 20, 2010 at 11:43 am
a number of years ago I listened to an investment banker in Boston who I was driving to Logan Airport in very heavy traffic , tell me the answer to the amtrak problem. A tax free investment plan to build a high speed rail system in the northeast. That and other creative tax reducing investment plans plus a Robert Moses type czar could have us speeding on the rails in less than ten years.
October 9, 2010 at 12:27 pm
We have a great country. So why can't we get up to speed with the rest of the G20 on HSR and renewable energy? Does the name Military Industrial Complex ring a bell? These are the future. Believe it. Ask you Gov. and State Rep. why you don't have much more of each on their agenda. When you get the wrong answer, remind them : WE ARE GREEN , WE ARE WATCHING and WE VOTE.
October 9, 2010 at 6:49 am
What about the rest of the country?
Michigan\'s corridor isn\'t anywhere
near finished and Amtrak is already
talking about the next generation
NE corridor. I think not.
October 8, 2010 at 11:43 pm
"is there any way they could speed things up?!" Yes!! Don't let the federal government have anything to do with it. I know it's frustrating to see many GOP candidates and serving members say they are against building a HSR system. As an eco-conscious conservative I understand the conflict. Our transportation infrastructure is crumbling badly. We need to invest heavily in new and existing infrastructure. We know that. I know I speak for many Republicans and conservatives when I say that it's not the idea so much as it is the cost of realizing the idea. I remember an anecdotal story about a bridge in California that needed replacing years ago. The California DOT was asked to give a price and time quote. They said it would cost $20Million and take 2 years. Unhappy with the answer, they asked a private road construction company. Six months and $2Million later the new bridge was open. America is not Europe, China or Japan. We shouldn't pretend that answers for their problems in their countries will work here, and we most certainly should not let the federal government take a good idea and screw it up. Letting the individual states negotiate with several competing construction companies will cut construction time and cost.
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By the way, can i just say **** HILLARY RODUPHERASS CLINTON>>>>>>
I guess we know what she would have said on the 3a.m. call.....What Difference does it make.
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"Politics is the Art of Looking for Trouble, Finding it Everywhere, Diagnosing it Incorrectly, and Applying the Wrong Remedies"
The level of stupidity of some people just seems to keep going up. I mean, is this GoFins guy for real? Surely no one who wasn't fed paint chips as a child, or dropped on their head repeatedly, could actually believe that drivel he posts. Statler I can understand, he is clinically insane. But what's up with this other guy? Maybe watching excess amounts of Fox News make you insane too...?
It appears that I have unknowingly issued (2) "No Thanks" to posters here at FH.
If you have received one of these "No Thanks", please accept my apologies for this oversight. More than likely I was trying to "Thank" you. I truly hope that you don't feel slighted.
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Ana: It is a great pleasure of mine that I have the opportunity this year to take part in the Olympic Games, because it is not a small thing being a part of the team and representing your own country at the Olympics, so I am happy and I hope this year will be much more successful than 2008.
AP: And we will follow doubles with Zimonjic with added interest?
Ana: Yes, it will be very interesting, I think. Sometimes it is more fun watching doubles or mixed doubles than singles. He is great indeed in what he does and I think it will be very interesting with us having a good chance to win the medal.
AP: Athletes usually get asked when they go to the Olympics how they picture the atmosphere in the Olympic Village. Who would you like to see and meet there?
Ana: Unfortunately this year we won't be staying in the Olympic Village because Wimbledon is quite far from the Village, so tennis players will generally be staying at Wimbledon. I am very sad about it, but I will surely try to go to the Opening ceremony and mix with other Serbian athletes.
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Ana: Certainly, that is Novak. However, I do think we have a strong team and we have good chances in volleyball, water-polo and swimming and it would be really nice to meet the expectations and bring back the medals.
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Ana: Grass is a very specific surface and it is hard to predict, since everything happens so fast and it depends on the day: if the opponent has a good day the match can be pretty quick and vice versa. Currently, I feel that I am in a good shape and I will give my best and hopefully reach the second week of Wimbledon and later on.
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that research, both at AERA and in other national and international
venues, most recently at the biennial meeting of the World Council
for Gifted and Talented Children in Prague, in August 2011.
Other longstanding research interests have included gender
equity, single-sex education, and motivation and engagement among
adolescents. Professor Spielhagen first explored issues of gender
equity in 1990-1991, as a teacher engaged in action research
through an Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship from the American
Association of University Women. At that time, the focus was on
female achievement. From 2003-2005, she conducted research on
single-sex education in a small urban public middle school. In
recent years (2006-current), she has served on the advisory board
of the Gurian Institute, which has focused on achievement among
boys. In 2007-2008, as consultant to the Gurian Institute, she
evaluated the professional development of teachers in the
single-sex schools in Atlanta, Georgia.
Her publications include peer reviewed articles in the Journal
for Advanced Academics, the Middle Grades Research Journal,
Research in Middle Level Education, and American Secondary
Education, several book chapters, and two books, Debating
Single-Sex Education: Separate and Equal (Rowman & Littlefield,
2007) and The Algebra Solution to Mathematics Reform: Completing
the Equation (Teachers College Press, 2011).
Dr. Spielhagen has also been involved in service to national
organizations. From 2007-2009, she was president of the Sociology
of Education Association. From 2009-2011, she was co-chair of the
Education Committee of the National Association for Gifted
Children. From 2010-current, she has served as a mentor on the AERA
Undergraduate Research Program under the direction of George
Wimberly. She has just been named the editor-in-chief of the Middle
Grades Research Journal (2011-2014) and selected for membership on
the Research and Evaluation Awards Committee of the National
Association for Gifted Children.
Professor Spielhagen is currently conducting a longitudinal
study of the civic behaviors and attitudes among her former high
school students who were engaged in problem-based service learning
projects she created.
Dr. Spielhagen was on sabbatical during the 2012-2013 academic
year as a Visiting Research Professor in Residence at the Center
for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Virginia.
Recent Publications
Spielhagen, F. & Schwartz, P., Eds. (2014, in press).
Adolescence in the 21st Century: Constants and Challenges.
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.
Spielhagen, F. (2013). Debating Single Sex Education: Separate
and equal? 2nd Edition. Latham, MD: Rowman and Littlefeld
Spielhagen, F. (2013). Disrupting Inequity: How policy change
can foster STEM equity. In Improving Urban Schools: Equity and
access in K-16 STEM education for ALL students. R. Capraro & M.
Capraro, Ed's. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.
Spielhagen, F., Brown, E., & Hughes, C. (2014, in press).
Outliers: Political forces in gifted and special educate. In
Politics and Policy in k-12 Education. New York: Routledge.
Dr. Spielhagen is Editor-in-Chief of the Middle Grades Research
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The XX won the Mercury Prize. I feel like the only person in the world who never quite got into that record. Long-time readers will know I was rooting for Wild Beasts. Such rooting shall continue now...
The XX won the Mercury Prize. I feel like the only person in the world who never quite got into that record. Long-time readers will know I was rooting for Wild Beasts. Such rooting shall continue now...
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like. Here's why that's disastrous for education—and mental health.
Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in "that violates the law") lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she'd sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. "I'm a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me," the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan's article in this month's issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can't take a joke.
The drug modafinil was recently found to enhance cognition in healthy people. Should you take it to get a raise?
If you could take a pill that will make you better at your job, with few or no negative consequences, would you do it?
In a meta-analysis recently published in European Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers from the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School concluded that a drug called modafinil, which is typically used to treat sleep disorders, is a cognitive enhancer. Essentially, it can help normal people think better.
Out of all cognitive processes, modafinil was found to improve decision-making and planning the most in the 24 studies the authors reviewed. Some of the studies also showed gains in flexible thinking, combining information, or coping with novelty. The drug didn't seem to influence creativity either way.
All of the downsides of being a subordinate, combined with all of the downsides of having to tell people to do things they don't want to do.
When researchers try to determine the types of workers who are most prone to depression, the focus is usually on the misery of those at the bottom of a company's hierarchy—the presumed stressors being the menial duties they're tasked with and their lack of say in defining the scope of their jobs.
But it turns out that middle managers have it worse. In a new study from researchers at Columbia University, of nearly 22,000 full-time workers (from a dataset from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions), they saw that 18 percent of supervisors and managers reported symptoms of depression. For blue-collar workers, that figure was 12 percent, and for owners and executives, it was only 11 percent.
A new study shows that the field suffers from a reproducibility problem, but the extent of the issue is still hard to nail down.
No one is entirely clear on how Brian Nosek pulled it off, including Nosek himself. Over the last three years, the psychologist from the University of Virginia persuaded some 270 of his peers to channel their free time into repeating 100 published psychological experiments to see if they could get the same results a second time around. There would be no glory, no empirical eurekas, no breaking of fresh ground. Instead, this initiative—the Reproducibility Project—would be the first big systematic attempt to answer questions that have been vexing psychologists for years, if not decades. What proportion of results in their field are reliable?
A few signs hinted that the reliable proportion might be unnervingly small. Psychology has been recently rocked by several high-profile controversies, including: the publication of studies that documented impossible effects like precognition, failures to replicate the results of classic textbook experiments, and some prominent cases of outright fraud.
Four and a half years of violent conflict have destroyed entire regions of Syria. Caught in the middle of all this horror are the children of Syria, relying on parents who have lost control of their own lives and are now being forced to make difficult choices in desperate circumstances.
Four and a half years of violent conflict have destroyed entire regions of Syria. Neighborhoods have been smashed by shelling and government barrel bombs, and towns have been seized by rebels and ISIS militants, then retaken by government troops, killing hundreds of thousands and injuring even more. The United Nations now estimates that more than 4 million Syrians have become refugees, forced to flee to neighboring countries or Europe. Caught in the middle of all this horror are the children of Syria, relying on parents who have lost control of their own lives and are now being forced to make difficult choices in desperate circumstances. Though many families remain in Syria's war zones, thousands of others are taking dangerous measures to escape, evading militias, government forces, border guards, predatory traffickers, and more, as they struggle to reach safety far from home.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
Yanis Varoufakis on Grexit, the media, and economics
When Yanis Varoufakis was elected to parliament and then named as Greek finance minister in January, he embarked on an extraordinary seven months of negotiations with the country's creditors and its European partners.
On July 6, Greek voters backed his hardline stance in a referendum, with a resounding 62 percent voting No to the European Union's ultimatum. On that night, he resigned, after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, fearful of an ugly exit from the euro zone, decided to go against the popular verdict. Since then, the governing party, Syriza, has splintered and a snap election has been called. Varoufakis remains a member of parliament and a prominent voice in Greek and European politics.
It is not too late to strengthen the Iran deal, a prominent critic says.
It appears likely, as of this writing, that Barack Obama will be victorious in his fight to implement the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his secretary of state, John Kerry. Republicans in Congress don't appear to have the votes necessary to void the agreement, and Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign to subvert Obama may be remembered as one of the more counterproductive and shortsighted acts of an Israeli prime minister since the rebirth of the Jewish state 67 years ago.
Things could change, of course, and the Iranian regime, which is populated in good part by extremists, fundamentalist theocrats, and supporters of terrorism, could do something monumentally stupid in the coming weeks that could force on-the-fence Democrats to side with their Republican adversaries (remember the Café Milano fiasco, anyone?). But, generally speaking, the Obama administration, and its European allies, seem to have a clearer path to implementation than they had at the beginning of the month.
125 years after his birth, the author known for his eerie tales—and his racist beliefs—has had one of the biggest comebacks in Western literature.
American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson's poems weren't discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald "died believing himself a failure." Zora Neale Hurston was buried in an unmarked grave. John Kennedy Toole won the Pulitzer Prize 12 years after committing suicide.
But no tale of posthumous success is quite as spectacular as that of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the "cosmic horror" writer who died in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1937 at the age of 46. The circumstances of Lovecraft's final years were as bleak as anyone's. He ate expired canned food and wrote to a friend, "I was never closer to the bread-line." He never saw his stories collectively published in book form, and, before succumbing to intestinal cancer, he wrote, "I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales, and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors." Among the last words the author uttered were, "Sometimes the pain is unbearable." His obituary in the Providence Evening Bulletin was "full of errors large and small," according to his biographer.
In the United States and Israel, a heated debate about whether to accept the nuclear deal with Iran continues. In the rest of the world, Iran's reintegration is already underway.
The survival of the Iran deal seems more likely by the day; for past assessments of what that might mean for the Middle East, the United States, and beyond, please see the items grouped here.
Two weeks ago, as part of a collection of notes from readers in Israel, I quoted Samuel J. Cohen, who is originally American but has lived and worked in Israel since the 1970s, on the possibility that "Obama and Netanyahu are both right." That is: President Obama is right that ending Iran's pariah status will overall be good for the United States, and Prime Minister Netanyahu is right that the same change may be overall bad for Israel, even if Iran never develops a nuclear weapon. Thus the interests of the two nations genuinely diverge.
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I made it through finals. Barely. I got to the point where I was deciding which assignments were Absolutely necessary, and which ones I could skip in order to keep my sanity. Needless to say… it was a rough couple of weeks.
But then Christmas was awesome! And now I have a little break from work and school and the laziness has commenced. I am excited for the new year. I had some truly AMAZING things happen this year, as well as some things I will be forgetting as soon as I can hahaha
I have a BIG goal for 2013. Working for a company that focuses so much on sustainability and fair labor, I feel like I can't keep ignoring the impact my purchases have on the world. I know how damaging the fashion industry is, and how just incredibly wasteful it is, and I don't want to contribute to it. My goal for 2013 is to not buy anything new, unless I know that it is ethically sourced and produced.
It's pretty ridiculous how wasteful we are as consumers. But it doesn't have to be that way. And it feels awesome when you buy something that you know was made with mother nature in mind. I was so pumped when I found some of my Christmas gifts at the local farmer's market, because I knew everything was handmade and local, and I knew that I was supporting my local economy.
So because I know I couldn't go a whole year without shopping…. I'm doing this instead. And I'll be documenting it : ) so that I can prove that you can still look cute buying second hand!
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Ryan Grigson has no offseason. Not if he wants the Indianapolis Colts to be better in 2013.
Grigson, the Colts' general manager, did a great job putting parts in place in his first season with the team. The great moves include drafting Andrew Luck, T.Y. Hilton, Vick Ballard, Dwayne Allen and Coby Fleener, signing Jerrell Freeman and trading for Vontae Davis. Every one of those players, along with veteran leaders Reggie Wayne and Robert Mathis, will be critical next season.
But there's much more to do.
Grigson has a boatload of unrestricted free agents to make decisions on, including rush end Dwight Freeney, wide receivers Donnie Avery and Austin Collie, cornerback Jerraud Powers, defensive tackle Fili Moala, offensive lineman Winston Justice, punter Pat McAfee and quarterback Drew Stanton.
The Colts have a lot of salary cap space to work with, but how much of that will go toward the above players or some others on the market?
For sentimental reasons, it'd be nice to have Freeney finish his career in Indianapolis. To learn how much sentimentality plays a part, see: Manning, Peyton.
Chances are Freeney is done with the Colts, and he seems relatively at peace with the idea. Of course, maybe that's the result of watching so many former teammates move out and move on.
"We'll figure that out, I guess, coming up soon," Freeney said Sunday. "They'll contact whoever they have to contact, and we'll see what it is."
Collie's history of injury surely means his time has passed in Indy. Avery's a tougher call. He isn't an elite receiver on par with Wayne (not many are) and he drops some passes, but he has been healthy for the first time and shows promise. I'd say it depends on the price. Rookie LaVon Brazill is there to push for playing time. Wayne and Hilton should be 1-2. I have no problem with Hilton's occasional drops. He was a rookie.
Of more concern is the offensive line, where injuries hit and inconsistency prevailed. Second-year left tackle Anthony Castonzo was solid, but still growing. Joe Reitz, when healthy, was effective. Same with Justice. The rest of the line seemed so-so at best. Luck was sacked 44 times (counting three by the Ravens). He was hit every seven minutes or so. He's tough and durable, but needs better protection.
Davis seemed like a great pickup at cornerback, and Antoine Bethea will be back as a quality safety. The rest is up in the air. New faces will be brought in to challenge. Whether Powers is retained seems 50-50 on the surface.
McAfee's a great punter and a fun personality, but this comes down to the Colts' willingness to pay. I believe punters are worth more money than most people do. Teams realize how much they're worth when they have a bad one. They should find a way to keep him.
The Colts coaching staff likes former Norwell quarterback Chandler Harnish, who spent most of the season on the practice squad. Maybe they let Stanton leave to pursue a starting job and give Harnish the chance to win the No.2 spot. Luck's durability suggests he'll give up snaps about as often as Manning did, so a backup's work is destined to be behind the scenes.
The Colts were 11-5 in the regular season. Their schedule will be tougher next season. (Is anyone eager for the Broncos' visit to Lucas Oil Stadium?) But so many of those key young players will be stronger and more NFL-wise a year from now.
"Hopefully, we can take this season and learn from it, good and bad," Wayne said. "We're such a young team, we got the feel of it. We got what a playoff game feels like, especially on the road. So we can use this as a learning tool and we'll have that bad taste in our mouth this offseason. Hopefully, we can capitalize on that."
The Colts must draft well again, without the luxury of the high first-round pick and no second-round pick (traded to the Dolphins for Davis).
Grigson will also likely deal with some coaching changes, particularly if offensive coordinator Bruce Arians lands a head-coaching job elsewhere. Grigson has shown a willingness to financially reward Arians to stay, but money might not make that decision. Arians has longed to be an NFL head coach, and his audition (9-3) with the Colts was a good one.
The Colts could be a better team next season and win fewer games.
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It's about my project G-Biking, an animated series about futuristic hovercraft racing.
I was thinking of changing the motif of the Canadian team (Most recently their bikes have been based on a fox, a goose and a bear), because two members (including the leader) are human, but one is an alien reptile girl. Her bike was originally going to be bear-based, but then I started to feel it wouldn't be appropriate to give a reptilian character a mammalian bike.
So I was searching for whatever reptiles were exclusive to Canada, or at least more common in Canada than any other country, and I came up really short in that effort (most of the ones I saw didn't scream Canadian enough for me).
Then I learned that North America has the most fossils discovered out of all parts of the world, and what could be more NORTH American than Canada? So I was thinking of changing Team Canada to a prehistoric motif. I've already figured out that the girl's bike would be based on a dinosaur and one of the other bikes would be pterosaur based, but what about their leader's bike? What should his bike be based on if I keep the prehistoric motif?
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The most successful lizard like creatures that roamed the earth were dinosaurs and Canada has plenty of their fossils to prove how popular a place it was back then for them. Toronto's NBA team is called The Raptors. Why not go with something similar.
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Thanks Charles, but what if it seems excessive to have 2 bikes that are dinosaur-based, and one that is not (since pterosaurs don't count as dinosaurs)?
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Hoe about one being a dinosaur and the other a prehistoric mammal like a saber tooth tiger.
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I was really hoping that would work out.
The only problem I've been having is naming such a bike.
What would it be named? Red Saber? Red Tiger? Red Sabertooth? Red Smilodon?
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I don't know. That's something you'll have to work out.
The word that comes to mind is involving "chopper" in some way.
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I decided on Red Sabre.
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The Charles County commissioners bowed to public pressure and voted unanimously to stop action on a proposed pilot program to bring mandatory contract trash pickup to Waldorf.
Commissioners' President Candice Quinn Kelly (D) called the commissioners to order during their regular meeting Tuesday, told the audience that the commissioners were responding to the will of the public, and asked for a motion to cease action on the plan.
Commissioner Ken Robinson (D) made the motion, and it passed unanimously.
"Due to overwhelming opposition, the Charles County Commissioners have voted unanimously to cancel tonight's Public Hearing and not proceed with the Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services proposal," Robinson wrote in a Facebook post minutes later.
Waldorf residents had panned the plan in large numbers before the hearing, complaining about a lack of choice and the prospect of being at the mercy of a large trash hauler that wouldn't be responsive to customers.
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The last days of the transfer window were again unedifying, a circus encouraged by fans who can't get enough of football transfers and a media who know stories about transfers get far, far more hits than any other. More »Andy Mitten - Wed, Sep 2, 2015 22:15 BST
MLS: Sebastian Lletget finds comfort and consistency back home in California.
As transfer deadline day in England wound down, ex-West Ham player Sebastian Lletget was ending a training session half way across the world with the LA Galaxy. More »Kristan Heneage - Thu, Sep 3, 2015 04:19 BST
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