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American Exceptionalism
In her debate tonight, Governor Sarah Palin endorsed "American exceptionalism:--she invoked the Puritan ideal of a "city on a hill"--a New Jersualem.This is a topic on which we at dotccommonweal are prepared to debate--in fact, we have debated in the past. Any new thoughts about the use/advisability/ helpfulness of the image?
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"If anything, it has reinforced my belief in American exceptionalism. One of the things that happens when you live overseas is you realize how special America is our values, our ideals, our Constitution, our rule of law, the idea of equality and opportunity. "Barak Obama, in an interview with Timehttp://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1834309,00.html
Mark--In reading the interview you cited, I think Barak Obama has a realistic view of the role America plays in the world, as well as the unique nature of our fundamental freedoms as compared to most. I think he is prepared to guard those freedoms, but in a different way than John McCain. The hawkishness of McCain/Palin cannot be overlooked, and frankly it is damaging and unnecessary, and I'm prepared as a voter to try something new!
I still can't get over the fact that she attributed the phrase to Ronald Reagan. So much for John Winthrop. But she seemed quite pleased with herself.
This whole American exceptionalism/manifest destiny is deeply rooted in the American psyche. It no doubt has its origin in Puritan American Protestantism and is the shadow side of the distinction between church and state. The state itself is called to a higher purpose.I saw Ahmadinejad on Larry King and while I wouldn't hold him out as a shining counter-example he did raise an interesting point when Larry King asked why the world hates Iran or something like that. He answered Who is the world Larry. Do you mean the US and its Western allies - is that the world. There are many countries in the world that support us.It was a subtle point but drove home the larger issue of politicians or people inovking 'the world' to justify positions. Inother words the downside of this whole American exceptionalism is that it can make people draw false universals.
The fact that Commonweal exists is evidence that there are some who believe that Religion, Politics and Culture are related.
Nancy;Yes but what is the nature of the relationship? To skcetch it out boradly enought to reach a consensus is pretty tough.The devil (and God) are in the details.I think that this is still a work in progress.
There was a fairly brief discussion on Vox-Nova titled "Obama and American Exceptionalism, and I am going to borrow from what I said there . . . .I was certainly educated, as a Catholic, to believe that the Catholic Church was the one true Church and that America was extraordinarily special among nations. As much as possible, both themes were woven through all academic subjects. For example, I was taught to read with the Faith and Freedom Readers (published by Ginn). We sang patriotic songs in glee club. History and geography classes were used to promote both Americanism and Catholicism. Math and spelling were the only two subjects I can remember that didnt promote Americanism and Catholicism. (It would have been so easy to have a Faith and Freedom type speller. I wonder why we didnt.)I would suspect that most Americans, myself among them, believe in some version of exceptionalism, if that means we think of America as the greatest country on earth and the leading promoter of freedom and democracy and the last best hope.I think it would be odd for any presidential candidate to make the case that America is just another country, with a lot to be proud of and a lot to be ashamed of, and that when we sing "God Bless America" or "America the Beautiful," we're going way to far in assuming God's special blessing on the United States. I would find it difficult to give up the idea of American exceptionalism, and I hope that if Barack Obama is elected, he will be able to restore the waning reputation of America throughout the world. Of course, if McCain is elected, I am going to have to give up the idea of American exceptionalism, since I am going to move to Canada.
American Exceptionalism is an ideal we are called to live up to, not just congratulate ourselves for.The best moment for Palin in the debate was when she stopped winking and talking like a hick yer sure darn tootin' on steriods long enough to agree with Biden that we should do something about the suffering in Darfur.I was also relieved to hear that, however much Palin wants to be a VP in the mold of Dick Cheney, Eminence Grise of the Bush Administration, she noted that McCain (no fool he) was going to give her some tasks, like advocating for special needs children. Perhaps she can find some way to exhibit American Exceptionalism in that role. If not, she can certainly do no real harm.Long shot prediction with maybe some wishful thinking mixed in, but I can certainly envision a scenario after a McCain victory when Palin "resigns" and someone qualified to be president is installed. While Palin didn't have to use her lifeline last night, she's clearly not up to the Big Job.
Yes. She's a combination first lady = vice president. Then again, I suppose so was HRC.Jean, did it look to you as if she had notes?
Biden said some pretty bizarre things last night.Like on what the role of the Vice President is according to the Constitution - he was wrong.Like on the rights accorded by civil unions are outright "in the Constitution." No matter what you think of civil unions, this statement is odd, sounding like it's from an 8th grade civics paper.Like his statement on Hezbollah and Lebanon which was flat-out wrong.Where does he get his genius reputation? I'm not seeing it.
Speaking of the debate, I know my view is idiosyncratic, but I was struck by two things: One, the welcome focus on policy issues like finances and health care and war and peace, and avoidance of those hot-button culture war topics. Two, when they addressed gay rights, civil unions, gay marriage, Palin agreed with Biden and the Dems positions. Again, is she is more states rights than religious right? And is the religious right going to overlook this? I think it's a sensitive but also savvy move, in that the polls show gay issues giving the GOP little traction.PS: Jean, to paraphrase the old SNL skit, it seems McCain has withdrawn from Michigan. What are the feelings of frustrated Michiganites? (Michigonians? Meshuganeh? Oh, and which one of the two referred to "Bosniacs"?! That was good.)
Did abortion come up at all? I didn't hear it.
Biden brought up Roe at the very end, almost wedging it in there as he spoke about his record on the Judiciary Committee. But Gwen Ifill gave no opening (I think she's great, as is Jim Lehrer, but there are those who will acuse her of bias due to her forthcoming book on politics) and I didn't note any other reference to abortion. It was a very meaty debate on issues that you refer to in your post above this one, though I think (my subjective perception) that Biden came across as very crisp (surprising) and very well-versed (not surprising). Palin wore thin, very thin, for me, but that's likely a matter of taste. She survived, and stopped the bleeding somewhat. That seems to be, in the conventional redundancy, the general consensus.
I think the polls show you're not in the minority.
I haven't seen numbers or much commentary yet. I just go by the tabloids at the newsstand: "No Baked Alaska," says the Daily News!
Obama, McCain, and Palin are the epitome of "American exceptionalism" (that is not meant as a slight against Biden--but he is a fairly typical senator who followed a relatively typical path to where he is) .. but truly: where else but in America could the leading candidates for the nation's two highest offices include a member of a minority racial group--many of whose members' ancestors were once owned as "property" by the majority racial group ... a man who had so often challenged his own party that the other party seriously considered offering him its VP spot back in 2004 ... or a young woman with relatively little experience but a strong "narrative" to her life story (although some people criticize Palin for that inexperience, her rise is a uniquely Americanm event--a relative unknown would never be able to rise so quickly in most other countries)
One of the greatest things that happened in the last few years was the gathering of former Secretary of States from both parties urging dialogue and engagement with the rest of the world, against the isolationists, God is with us from Chaney/Bush and the fundamentalists. That same group called recently for talks with Iran.We have to stop clamoring to make Christianity the religion of the state. All it does is make people convert so they can get political jobs, power and influence.
While Sarah.Palin might be carrying the torch for American exceptionalism. I daresay James Madison is spinning in his grave.
David,Bosniak is a transliteration of the term the people of Bosnia use to refer to themselves, so Biden's use of it was correct. But it is the kind of correctness that can annoy others, who think somebody one does not need much knowledge in order to understand the issues. I suppose that is one of the problems of American exceptionalism -- we stand out because we represent the inherent rights of every person in the world, but we are held back by those think individuals cannot stand out among Americans.Wikipedia lists two terms for the people of Michigan: Michiganian and Michigander. (is Jean a Michigoose?) But how does Joe Biden refer to himself, as a delwarite or a delawarian?
Jim McK, thanks for correcting my snarky ignorance. I will not attempt to parse the proper name of Delaware dwellers. On the other hand, it comes from the name of an Indian tribe--or is it one we confered on them? I don't know how one makes the plural in the Iroquois. Though Biden might...
Oh yeah, then there was this line from Palin, which took me aback a bit:"You mentioned education and I'm glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and God bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right?" Is that a threat or a blessing?!
The notion that the U. S., or any other particular nation, is the "exceptional" nation is pernicious. In religious terms, it smacks of blasphemy. In political terms, it runs counter to any reasonable aspiration for a just international order. Think about it. Doesn't this notion amount to the claim that there is a prima facie presumption that American goals, porrposes, and/or interests are always deserving of preeminence?
I thought I heard Obama refer to the "city on a hill" the other day.Cathy: I thouight she had notes.
David, I too was surprised by the "her reward is in heaven" line. Mostly because I thought it was a perfect setup for Biden to come back with, "Maybe, but under Barack Obama we'll see that teachers see some rewards while they're here on earth as well!" She followed it up with generalizations about how she wants to help working people, though -- the whole I'll-just-repeat-what-he-said tactic -- so it probably wouldn't have worked. But she did seem to be asking for it.
Bernard said: The notion that the U. S., or any other particular nation, is the exceptional nation is pernicious. In religious terms, it smacks of blasphemy. In political terms, it runs counter to any reasonable aspiration for a just international order. Think about it. Doesnt this notion amount to the claim that there is a prima facie presumption that American goals, purposes, and/or interests are always deserving of preeminence?Yes. It's the peculiar form that American nationalism takes that make its holders think that they aren't nationalists. America doesn't have a monopoly or copyright on the value of democracy. And while everyone might love their mother, someone who seriously thinks that their mother is the best mother in the world and is a hope to all other people who want good mothers is something else.
"... although some people criticize Palin for that inexperience, her rise is a uniquely American eventa relative unknown would never be able to rise so quickly in most other countries."True! And Mencken would have had a field day with that story were he with us today. He might have pointed out that one of the "exceptional" things about America is that people with a good streak of hucksterism and very little else are able to make it here, where elsewhere they'd be laughed off and ignored.I thought the whole exchange over legal rights of gay couples was close to unintelligible on both sides. Joe Biden a genius? I don't know any card-carrying Democrats who think that. Lord, a reporter has Biden on video saying that when the market crashed in the Great Depression, President Roosevelt went on TV and explained everything to people. He's got a big heart, and that saves him from foot-in-mouth a lot.What you call people from Michigan depends on where you live. There are Downstaters (who live in the Lower Peninsula), Westsiders (who live in the Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo axis and are mostly extremely Dutch and extremely Republican), Detroiters (which could be just about anybody in urban southeast Michigan) and Yoopers (who live in the Upper Peninsula). And then there are "people who live in the Thumb." Michiganians hate being called "Michiganders," but I will admit to being a Michigoose when I say stupid things.Wouldn't it be "Delavarians" from Delaware, a la Glasgovians from Glasgow?Anyway, yes, McCain has pulled out of the race here. Dems are exulting, but I think the GOP understands that if MCain has to put his money where he's got a chance.
Folks from Glasgow are called Glaswegians.
And speaking of exceptionalism: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ABOUT-WORDS/2003-08/105974...
We are so "exceptional" that we made three thousand lives at the WTC sound like the holocaust while we repaid that with the killing of hundreds of thousand of Iraqi and Afghanistan lives. Basically, because W, Rumsfeld, Chaney, Neuhaus and a few other neocons were pissed off. And still going. It repeats history. The Muslim invasion of the seventh century was nowhere as bloody as the Crusades were. Jesus said "take up the cross." Subverting Christians turned it into a sign of conquest. There are some basics missing, don't you agree?
Jimmy Mac, I'll be a Michigoose! If you google (which is sometimes helpful to see which phrases are in common parlance, if not actually correct), I got 62 "Glasgovian," 1,140 "Glasgowian" and (ta da) more than 315,000 "Glaswegian" hits.Does that mean people from Delaware are Delawegians?
First, I thought the factcheck on nPR this morning was revealing and balanced and unlike some posts here only willing to point out one side's gaffes( the kind of inane partisanship I disdain.)I though Palin looked like she had notes, that abortion really didn't come up (But I think what was asked was what most Americans are thinking about, not Commonweal readers), that Palin ndid reaonable but convinced me she's weak on gravitas.As to "exceptionalism", I think we enjoy much here in terms of freedom and many of us have better prosperity than folks elsewhere. But "shining light on a hill" seems a bit jingoistic to me.
Jean Raber said: "The best moment for Palin in the debate was when she stopped winking and talking like a hick yer sure darn tootin on steriods long enough to agree with Biden that we should do something about the suffering in Darfur."That was actually the low point for me. I know Senator Biden was just trying to show off his foreign policy knowledge and all that, but I hope he really doesn't want to send American troops back into Lebanon and into Sudan. Talk abut provoking the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians all in one fell swoop.
David, I too was surprised by the her reward is in heaven line.That's actually a biblical reference. It's an allusion to Matthew 6:19-20:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206%20;&version=9;19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal
So Palin's remark obviously was just a way of saying, "Teachers are doing the Lord's work." ("Doing the Lord's work" is another common religious saying.) What's surprising about it?
MAT, I can understand why some people might have seen that exchange with trepidation, especially since the "war on terror" has expanded to three fronts--Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.I see Darfur, however, as a truly humanitarian effort, and one for which there is ample evidence that should persuade us to act on the matter in some way; it's not a trumped up cause with fake intelligence about WMDs.Both Palin and Biden seemed to be talking about a joint effort with allies, and providing air support, though Ifil initially asked if they supported "boots on the ground" support. I also give Palin credit for supporting a divestiture of her state's interests in the region, which she hopes the Alaska legislature will pass.If they talked about entering Lebanon in the same question, I missed it. There are some true horrors that have happened there, but I don't think a military action there is a good idea at all.
The history of the phrase - City on the Hill - is significant for what it caused, created, and left behind. Best book on this subject:A City Upon a Hill By Larry Witham Buy this book Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com - $24.95 Books-A-Million BookSense.com Google Product Search Borrow this book Find this book in a library Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. America's Puritan founder John Winthrop preached about "a city upon a hill", a phrase echoed more than three centuries later by President Ronald Reagan in his farewell address to the nation; Abraham Lincoln's two greatest speeches have been called "sermons on the mount"; and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" oration influenced a generation and changed history. From colonial times to the present, the sermon has motivated Americans to fight wars as well as fight for peace. Mighty speeches have called for the abolition of slavery and for the prohibition of alcohol. They have stirred conscientious objectors and demonstrators for the rights of the unborn. Sermons have provoked the mob mentality of witch hunts and blacklists, but they have also stirred activists in the women's and civil rights movements. The sermon has defined America at every step of its history, inspiring great acts of courage and comforting us in times of terror. A City Upon a Hill tells the story of these powerful words and how they shaped the destiny of a nation. A City Upon a Hill includes the story of Robert Hunt, the first preacher to brave the dangerous sea voyage to Jamestown; Jonathan Mayhew's "most seditious sermon ever delivered," which incited Boston's Stamp Act riots in 1765; early calls for abolition and "Captain-Preacher Nat" Turner's bloody slave revolt of 1831; Henry Ward Beecher's sermon at Fort Sumter on the day of Lincoln's assassination; tent revivalist/prohibitionist Billy Sunday's "booze sermon"; the challenging words of Martin Luther King Jr., which inspired the civil rights movement; Billy Graham's moving speeches as "America's pastor" and spiritual advisor to multiple U.S. presidents; and Jerry Falwell's legacy of changing the way America does politics. A City Upon a Hill provides a history of the United States as seen through the lens of the preached wordsProtestant, Catholic, and Jewishthat inspired independence, constitutional amendments, and mili-tary victories, and also stirred our worst prejudices, selfish materialism, and stubborn divisivenessall in the name of God. Another great resource is: The Blessings of Liberty of Charles Heath.\Both of these tell a detailed story of folks starting prior to Winthrop, then JFK, Martin Luther King, Reagan, George W. Bush, and how Evangelical Christians have co-opted this phrase since Reagan's time. Some of the results of this "call" have not been ideal or even positive - history of triumphalism; justification of racism, slavery, torture, etc.
Jean Raber: But unless the UN Security Council approves our presence there, with or without allies, it would be illegal under the UN Charter and I don't think China is going to allow that any time soon. I actually believe Senator Biden that he is committed to international law, etc. I think he was just trying to make a point to display his knowledge of international affairs and the like when he said that. Anyway, they speak about Darfur frequently in the UN General Assembly and Security Council - they will continue to make progress with diplomacy as they have been. And you're right - the Senator's recommendation to send Americans back into Lebanon was in response to a separate question, not on Darfur.
Got a hit offline citing Andrew Sullivan re Palin's stand on Alaska's divestiture in Darfur. Here's the WaPo story on her position. Looks like her administration was first sympathetic but opposed divestiture because it wouldn't make much difference. In April Palin's administration reversed its position to support divestiture.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR200810... Public Radio News indicates that the bill died, but is likely to be resurrected in the legislature. MAT, I don't know if Biden was showboating on foreign policy. I wouldn't be prepared to say that his answer advocated circumvention of the U.N. Charter or diplomatic efforts. The official Obama policy on Darfur:"As president, Obama will take immediate steps to end the genocide in Darfur by increasing pressure on the Sudanese and pressure the government to halt the killing and stop impeding the deployment of a robust international force. He and Joe Biden will hold the government in Khartoum accountable for abiding by its commitments under the Comprehensive Peace Accord that ended the 30 year conflict between the north and south. Obama worked with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) to pass the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act in 2006."I could find no foreign policy statement that indicated an Obama administration wants to send Americans back to Lebanon.Source: http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/foreign_policy/Okie doke, enough from me on this thread. Off to make Saturday night pancakes with Michigan maple syrup and bratwurst and continue our DVD viewing of political related movies. Toight: The Sean Penn version of "All the King's Men."No arugula eatin' East coast libersals we! (Or maybe that was on another thread ...)
This may be too late in this thread to get much notice, but Andrew Bacevich, Commonweal contributor and author of "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism," has this column at The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-bacevich/sarah-palin-and-john-wint_... (H/T Paul Raushenbush at Beliefnet: http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2008/10/america-the-excepti...)
Stuart - Thanks for the citation, but I am actually quite familiar with the origins of the phrase. I was surprised to hear it at that point in the debate because the very concept of earning "rewards in heaven" sets up a contrast with earthly rewards, suggesting that the latter are less reliable and less noble. That suggestion is certainly on-message for Christ, but when it comes to policy discussions, earthly rewards are a far more relevant subject. Nevertheless, I don't question the truth of Palin's statement, or her intentions in referencing holy writ -- what I said above was that she seemed to be setting up a perfect comeback for Biden, something along the lines of, "If Senator Obama and I are elected, we'll see that deserving teachers are rewarded right here on earth too!"
Another good book dealing with the concept of A City on the Hill is this:In Cities on a Hill (1987) Pulitzer Prize-winner Frances Fitzgerald explores this often eccentric, sometimes prophetic inclination in America. With characteristic wit and insight she examines four radically different communities a fundamentalist church, a guru-inspired commune, a Sunbelt retirement city, and a gay activist community all embodying this visionary drive to shake the past and build anew. Frances FitzGerald here gives eloquent voice and definition to a quintessentially American impulse. It is a resonant work of literary imagination and journalistic precision.http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-0671645617-0


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L. V. KANTOROVICH and M. K. GAVURIN, "The application of mathematical methods in problems of freight flow analysis", in V. V. Zvonkov, ed., Collection of Problems Concerned with Increasing the Effectiveness of Transports, Publication of the Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow-Leningrad, 1949, pp. 110-138. (Russian)
I am wondering if anyone knows how can I can find this specific paper, and if anyone knows how I gain access to Russian journals?
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The McLaren driver started P2 at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and then went on to win the race and he repeated that trick at Interlagos on Sunday to secure fifth place in the Drivers' standings.
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In my opinion, he continues to run this city like it's his "political toy." Since Will Flanagan was first elected, he has yet to come up with a logical plan to move this city forward. He is now in his third term as mayor. This is the man who ran on the platform that the "rainwater tax" was illegal. Going into his second term he said he had learned from his mistakes. Before he could take the oath of office for a second time, he appointed a lieutenant who was not qualified to be the new fire chief as a way of saying thank-you for his political support.
The mayor has never been a strong advocate for the property off Route 24 that has been set aside to be an industrial park for the city. Instead, he wanted to use the biopark land for a casino, but lost that battle in court. I don't believe that the mayor and his administration know how to revive our community by attracting big businesses to come here. And, so he has elected to once again throw the casino card.
Unfortunately, this community is so desperate to see something positive happen, people are ready to just follow along. If the mayor fails, he will blame the governor, the state Legislature and our representatives for not supporting Fall River.
Before that happens, and I'm betting it will, it is time that we stop this foolishness, quit wasting time, and start demanding that our elected officials come up with realistic solutions to our economic issues. If they can't do the job, we need to start voting for new faces. It is about time this community recognizes it is our only hope.
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Born in Philadelphia in 1951, Ms. Mifflin was a member of the first class of undergraduate women to be accepted by Yale University. She graduated in 1973, with a degree in history. While there, she and a classmate organized the field hockey team, which in 1972 became one of Yale¹s first three varsity sports for women. She went on to receive a master¹s degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1974.
Ms. Mifflin was one of the first female sportswriters to work on a major metropolitan newspaper. After two years as a city desk reporter for The News, she became a sportswriter there in 1976. She has covered the major sports, as well as three Summer Olympics, the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, and, as a soccer specialist, two World Cup tournaments.
In 2002, the PBS Nova documentary "Bioterror," on which she served as co-executive producer, won an Emmy Award, The Times¹s first news and documentary Emmy. She was also co-executive producer on two PBS Frontline documentaries that won the Alfred I DuPont-Columbia University silver baton: "A Dangerous Business" (2004), which also won a George Foster Peabody Award, the Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize and, in combination with the articles in The Times, the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for public service; and "The Secret History of the Credit Card" (2005), which also won an Emmy. Her department won a third duPont-Columbia silver baton in 2006, for "Nuclear Jihad," a documentary co-produced by The Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Discovery Times.
Selected Articles by Lawrie Mifflin
A Growth Spurt Is Transforming TV for Children
Public lamentation over the dangers to American children from too much sex, violence and repetitious fare on television has been around almost as long as television itself. But today, alongside the hue and cry lies a quieter appraisal. In the last three years, children's television has undergone an explosive growth spurt, with new cable channels, new program blocks on broadcast channels and scores of new shows, many instructive if not downright instructional.April 19, 1999 businessNews
CBS's Hewitt Is Said to Accept '60 Minutes' Clone
After months of arm-twisting, key CBS News executives have overcome their skepticism and agreed to proceed with developing a second weekly edition of ''60 Minutes,'' the oldest and most successful news magazine program in television, people close to the executives said yesterday. Don Hewitt, who has been the executive producer of ''60 Minutes'' since he created it 30 years ago, is the crucial person whose mind has been changed on the subject, said two people who spoke with him yesterday.June 26, 1998 businessNews
Revisions in TV Ratings Called Imminent
The television industry seems close to revising its five-month-old content-rating system to add V for violence, S for sex and L for language to the existing categories, perhaps as soon as this week. Less clear is whether D for suggestive dialogue, A for action-adventure or other letters will also be added to the system. Well-organized pressure from advocacy groups for parents as well as from some politicians has led most broadcast and cable network executives to conclude that they must compromise on adding more information to the labeling system.June 16, 1997 artsNews
TV Broadcasters Agree to 3 Hours of Children's Educational Programs a Week
Under political pressure to reach accord before President Clinton convened a White House conference on children's television this morning, negotiators for the broadcast industry agreed early today to a compromise that would require stations to show three hours of children's educational programming a week. The compromise is to be encoded in a Federal Communications Commission regulation that, said the commission's chairman, Reed E. Hundt, could be approved by the F.C.C. at its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday.July 30, 1996 usNews
PLAYS; Gretzky's Touch
Soviet hockey players are celebrated for their mastery of the art of puck control. It includes the almost uncanny ability to hold the puck on the stick as if by magnetic force, despite opponents' attempts to slash it away. But it is also the ability to manipulate the puck with the skates, soccer-style; the ability to feint and shift direction sharply while carrying the puck, and the ability to shoot with precision.December 30, 1982 sportsNews
A majority of the club owners of the North American Soccer League has voted to remove Phil Woosnam as commissioner of the league, according to executives who attended an owners' meeting in Chicago March 16 when the decision was reached. Woosnam, who is 49 years old, is the only commissioner the 15-yearold league has had. In its first season, 1968, the league, then divided into two conferences, was administered by the presidents of each conference. Only the principal owners of the 14 teams in the league were summoned by the executive committee to attend the meeting in Chicago, although Seattle and Portland were represented by their general managers. The details of the meeting were disclosed by several persons who attended, most of whom asked not to be identified because those who attended had agreed not to speak publicly about the decision on Woosnam.April 25, 1982 sportsNews
France vs. Nigeria: World Cup 2014 Live Blog
France broke a scoreless tie late in the match and ended up with a 2-0 victory over Nigeria. France now heads to Rio, to meet Germany or Algeria in the quarterfinal in the Maracana.
June 30, 2014, Monday
Ecuador vs. France: World Cup 2014 Live Blog
France has advanced and needs a draw to be certain of winning the group. Ecuador's situation is complex; with the right results it could advance even with a loss or be eliminated even with a win.
June 25, 2014, Wednesday
France vs. Switzerland: World Cup 2014 Live Blog
Switzerland was much buzzed-about coming into the Cup, and after an initial struggle, it rallied to beat Ecuador.
June 20, 2014, Friday
France vs. Honduras: Live Blog
France rolled past Honduras in its opening match, helped by a red card to Honduran midfielder Wilson Palacios and two goals from forward Karim Benzema.
June 15, 2014, Sunday
New Zealand Field Hockey Eliminates U.S.
The New Zealand field hockey team defeated the United States, 3-2, putting the U.S. out of medal contention at the London Olympics.
August 4, 2012, Saturday
The Straw That Stirred the Cosmos
Giorgio Chinaglia, who died Sunday at age 65, was a goal scorer, and fans cheered him not only in East Rutherford, N.J., where the Cosmos played, but wherever the brash, domineering team roamed.
April 3, 2012, Tuesday
Women's World Cup: This Time, a Show Worth Watching
I'm struck by how rapidly the women have improved, even since 2007 — and by a weird sensation of watching history in motion.
July 17, 2011, Sunday
World Cup Live: Spain vs. Portugal
Can Spain find a way through Portugal's stingy defense? Will Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo come good in Cape Town tonight?
June 29, 2010, Tuesday
World Cup Live: Slovakia vs. Italy
Will defending champion Italy manage to squeak through into the Round of 16? They need to beat Slovakia.
June 24, 2010, Thursday
World Cup Live: Netherlands vs. Japan
The Netherlands and Japan are meeting at sea level, in Durban, for their second game in Group E.
June 19, 2010, Saturday
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I leave on my trip next month, and I wanted to buy locks for my backpack since I'll certainly be passing through crowded areas of the city where it may be difficult for me to notice a pickpocket attempt. What I want to know, is whether a key or combo lock offers a higher level of security over the other. Also, would anyone know where I might be able to purchase a set of 4-5 locks that unlock with a single key?
Using common sense, I would say locks with keys are more secure, most combo locks have just 3 digits and it doesn't take that long to test 1000 combinations.
I had long bus rides where the bags were on the roof of the bus along with some locals riding for cheap. They had all the time in the world to open the locks.
Having said that, I still use combo locks, because I hate to carry keys with me. They are small and I may lose them, the second copy would be in the locked bag.
If someone really wants your stuff, they just cut your bag open.
With backpacks, The small outer pockets are the target for pickpockets. They are easy to open without you noticing it. So always leave your valuable stuff at the main pocket of the backpack even if you use locks on the outer pockets they can still steal stuff from it. In Egypt around 2001-2002 I have seen some one whose passport was stolen from his backpack while using locks, The pickpocket used a sharp blade to make a cut in the lower part of the small outer pocket where the passport was and let the contents of the pocket slide easily. So locks are not really the way here. Yes it will add extra difficult steps to the pickpocket but still they can beat it.
Don't bother with any locks.
Always have your bag in your sight and keep more valuable items deeper in the bag, and you will be fine.
If your bag is out of sight, no lock will save you. They will just take your whole bag or they will cut it open.
I am going to put forth a suggestion that I had put forth before about the luggage.
Get wireties they are cheap to get at any hardware store and without strong scissors or wirecutters impossible to get off. For pickpocket its a difficult proposition to get something off someone moving with this obstacle in the way but one has to consider that in the past pickpockets(at least in former Soviet Union) used to use sharpened coins to cut through cloth and thin leather.
The other advantage of this is that if you have to check this backpack in. You don't risk losing the locks to someone in security deciding to check the contents.
I'm throwing out a suggestion that works well in my favor: Assuming you are carrying a daypack for your excursions, I would simply wear it upfront in crowded spaces, so it is always in my control and line of sight.
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I just came across (pdf) this expression:
A Smith & Wesson beats a straight flush
What does it mean?
Is it the idea of winning via unlawful means when losing?
Is it a common expression?
I just came across (pdf) this expression:
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It means a gun will beat whatever you have in a poker game.
That is, if you have a pair of twos and the other person has a straight flush, it won't matter. You have a gun, and you can shoot the person.
Basically, the card game is irrelevant. If you have something powerful (gun, or a monopoly, or a dictatorship) then the rules that everyone is playing by do not apply to you.
The straight flush is the highest hand in poker: nothing beats it. The meaning intended here is, from the document itself: "In the marketplace, whichever party has the most power gets to make the rules."
Of course, that is also a prime example of argumentum ad baculum.
Its exact meaning depends on the context. If you read the paper you link carefully the meaning is straightforward. It's an idiom of the "Main idea" for "ELEMENT #3: Rules" (page 5):
Thus, in this context it means that in business those with power can opt out of rule following and benefit from it. Or put differently: in business power is such that it allows for benefits by changing or breaking the rules.


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I know I have read something similar recently in the WoW Blogs, net bots swoop in and scrape our blog content, throwing it up on their sites as:
Unknown wrote this interesting article….
I would feel slightly (only slightly mind you) if the sites were WoW related, but the majority of them are completely off track in scraping Armaggedon's Coming.
- Pet sites
- Wrestling Sites
- Humor Sites (OK, maybe that's legitimate ;-))
- the list goes on…
I even feel slightly guilty… well before I started this blog, I used scraped references. I had no idea at the time that they were scraped, except often finding the same content on multiple sites. I naively thought that they were all sites of the one company, just spreading the love around, picking up hits from different people with different needs.
Well, I know better now, and hopefully after reading this you will know a little bit better yourself.
Anyway, for once whinging isn't the point of my post, rather it's an attempt to help out those of you that write blogs and are feeling the same helplessness.
There is a wonderful blog writer by the name of Lorelle. She has wonderful resources for blog authors both at The Blog Herald and Lorelle on WordPress, so if you haven't check out her stuff, and subscribed to her feed, then I will give you 20 seconds to do so now….
Back… that took more than 20 seconds, but I am glad you are back!
Anyway, she recently threw this post up, which is right on the money if you have been scraped, or fear being scraped (which you should, even if you haven't yet).
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I probably don't need to add much more, but as always, I will go on, and on, and on, and on…
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I like the Hanns-G for the 16:10 ratio, sheer size and price. The Asus has fantastic reviews and is highly recommended all around.
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Anyone care to take a sales pitch with the HP? Why is it worth the extra $$$ versus the other displays seen above?
Here's Cyril's opinion. And I like mine a lot(for ~18 months) and my friend has had a good experience too.noonesshowmonkey wrote:Anyone care to take a sales pitch with the HP? Why is it worth the extra $$$ versus the other displays seen above?
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I'm trying to clone a partition and make it a bootable usb. I've made two ext3 partitions (just like the installation I'm cloning).
The first one is small and has
grub/ and the kernel.
The second partion is large and contains
I need to modify the
fstab to fit the new usb device and I'm not really sure how to do that.
The old
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# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
/dev/nfs / rootfs noauto,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
# Mount the POSIX mqueue filesystem
none /dev/mqueue mqueue defaults 0 0
When I try to run
grub-install /dev/sdc I get:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).
I got this idea from this question
I also get this on another machine when I run
grub install:
/dev/nfs: Not found or not a block device.


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I was watching a video of SRV and one of the things that really stood out was the fact that he seemed to have a different iteration of the I-IV-V turnaround - and made it look/sound effortless. Any starting points/suggestions for substitutions for a I-IV-V turnaround?
There are a ton of easy and great-sounding substitutions, and you can use them in the turnaround or anywhere else you want. Here are a few of the most common:
Some of these substitutions sound better in a jazz context than a pure blues context, but either way they'll spice up your playing. Also, the same principles apply to your soloing: for example, if you're soloing over a G7, feel free to play a D♭ pentatonic or mixolydian scale, which will still sound good but add a bit of unexpected color.
Here are quite a few standard substitutions take from page 36 of the free PDF you can download here:
In jazz-blues I often play:
There is also cliche lick with chromatically descending sixths.
I have article on my blog about blues turnarounds. You can check it there (Blues Turnarounds)
If you're looking for something maybe a little different, Gillian Welch's version of Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor has a pattern I really like:
The I/first bar is treated like a pick-up measure, and the melody starts on the IV and goes 11 bars. The progression is:
Although the turnaround is very straightforward, the I III IV preceding it lends an enhanced sense of resolution.
I don't know much theory, so I may be wildly incorrect as to how this song may be properly marked up (I'm especially wondering whether what I'm calling a III is something else), but I hope if nothing else it's food for thought.


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Hi Art-
Glad you enjoyed the video!
1) For the initial release, the Concurrency Runtime is targeting CPUs.
2) We internally have a suite of performance tests, though I don't know at this time whether such a suite would be released publicly. There are of course industry standard suites, many of which have emerged from the HPC space, and I imagine at some point
some subset of those will be publicly ported to run on the runtime once it's released.
3) To your last question, we have team members that focus on hardware, on software, and the interplay between the two.
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Olivine City is Johto's city port. Jasmine's gym (the 6th one the player comes across) is here. The main area of interest is the Glitter Lighthouse which houses an Ampharos, named Amphy by Jasmine, that has to be cured with the Secret Potion retrieved from Cianwood City. It is connected to Ecruteak City by the Routes 38 and 39 in northwest, and connected by Routes 40 and 41 to Cianwood City in southwest. After Johto's Elite Four are defeated, the players is allowed to access the S.S. Aqua in the port to travel and start off in Kanto. After defeating Sabrina, she will be at the port on Sundays.
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I was wurried the new C9 studio and greenscreen would not be as cool as the chairs and walls and monitors. But with a good background it's pretty nice. Still hope they get chairs though
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Love the show! Keep the great reviews coming! Check out Favorites Hub! Getting great reviews and gaining position.
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Why don't you take a look at Altair VI? It's a quite unique game and it's getting great reviews all around.
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First time checking this show out..must say....pretty cool! Its better than sifting through alllll those apps, reading threads and descriptions..way to go Laura! I just downloaded Cocktail Flow and it works great!
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Springtime In Yellowstone National Park
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Springtime rings eternal (and free) in Grand Teton & Yellowstone National Parks for Teton Springs Lodge & Spa guests!
Here's one for your "bucket list" – VISIT YELLOWSTONE PARK! Chances are you have already experienced this wonder of the world, our nation's first National Park, at some point in your life. After all, Yellowstone has been around for well over a hundred & thirty years. So, if you haven't felt the spray of the most famous geyser in the universe erupt, Old Faithful, or explored its 2million plus acres, then you better get going! At Teton Springs Lodge & Spa, we pride ourselves on having the world's best "neighbors" – Teton & Yellowstone National parks. There is virtually never a bad time to visit these world-renown treasures, but for me, spring time is best.
Come early May, the roads open to motorized vehicles, although, with so little traffic this time of year you'll wonder if the roads are truly open or if you alone have some mystical pass to enter this magical world. The only thing better than a magical pass is a FREE one and the staff at Teton Springs will make sure you've got one of those too, right there among your regional maps and "please don't feed the bears" pamphlets! There are manyoutdoor activities in the Teton Valley and Yellowstone Park.
It's a short and scenic jaunt to Grand Teton National Park from Teton Springs. You'll love the trip, especially if you visit Jackson Hole along the way. Don't forget to stop, or at least slow down, when you see the National Elk Refuge just outside Jackson's city limits and bordering Teton National Park. You may see the magnificent Trumpeter Swans that call Flat Creek home, and the largest elk herd in the world, or at least part of the pack who haven't yet boogied for their summer habitat in Yellowstone. Marvel at the Grand Teton Mountains as the sun glistens on their peaks and set your viewfinder on the mighty Snake River, running wild with spring runoff.
Springtime in Yellowstone means spotting baby bison literally napping on the roadways and an invite to see all of the park's famous creatures coming out of their winter slumber; coyotes, eagles, black & grizzly bears, mule deer, elk and the great gray wolf. The wildlife is not nearly as leery of human types this time of year so up-close-and- personal viewing is probable. Yes, it's a glorious time in the parks, for you, and the mostly 4-legged "neighbors" who reside there.
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The 5 Most Diabolical Crimes Planned and Executed by Kids
#2. Two Teenage Girls Rob a Bank and Get Away Clean
When we pictured our art thief earlier, we immediately imagined a suave, sophisticated type. Well, when picturing bank robbers, we tend to imagine something much more brutal and direct. Shotguns fired into the ceiling, ski masks, shouted commands to get down before you get your head blown off.
And if they're the type to actually get away with it, they have to be pros. They have to know the security and have a getaway plan. Since it's a federal offense and all, they probably have to spend a week or 50 in Mexico to avoid the FBI manhunt. So, with all these deterrents, it should be utterly impossible for the average person, let alone two kids of junior high school age, to just waltz into a bank and rob it. Right?
"OK, but I get to be Mrs. Pink."
Apparently not. Two Ohio kids were able to pull off a totally successful bank robbery, taking home an undisclosed (meaning too embarrassingly huge to reveal) amount of cash. We'd point out that the brazen act was even more shocking in light of the fact that the teens were girls, but that would be sexist. Instead, we'll just let their ages, estimated to be 14 and 12, stand as the fact that leaves us in awe.
Even more surprising, there wasn't even any violence involved. The 14-year-old just calmly walked up to the bank teller and, with the same nonchalance with which other girls her age pass notes in class asking whether that bitch Janie is coming to Stacey's sleepover, handed the cashier a note demanding money. The robber was wearing a tightly wrapped hoodie, thus rendering the surveillance footage of the robbery completely useless.
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"But if any bank robber ever dares to stare directly into those cameras from two feet away, we'll have them!"
Meanwhile, the 12-year-old stood outside, serving as a lookout for both the cops and Mr. Sweeney, who was probably looking for the girls after they skipped homeroom. The teller, who was apparently trained to classify any robber as a serious threat, even if she was unironically wearing glitter lip balm, handed over the cash. The two girls fled, and the teller immediately called the cops.
This is the part in most movies where the robbers mess up and get caught by the genius policeman who was on to them from the start. But not these girls. Despite the fact that the FBI did everything in their power to catch them, from releasing a police dog to deploying freaking helicopters, the girls got away scot-free, and remain at large and unidentified to this day. Not even the fact that some of the bills were marked seems to have worked. The girls either had someone in their crime syndicate identify those bills for them or MacGyvered a contraption that detected them using nothing but their Hello Kitty markers and Bunsen burners from the older kids' science lab.
"We're totally real money, kids. You should spend us at the police station!"
OK, maybe any kid can get lucky once. But how about several hundred times? Well ...
#1. A Lone Teenager Causes a 500 Percent Increase in Crime
Residents of Essex, England, were victims of a six-year crime wave that, while thankfully absent of disemboweled hookers, cost residents over 1 million pounds' worth of goods that were stolen from hundreds of homes. The burglaries were so frequent and of such a high volume that they led to a 500 percent increase in the crime statistics in Chelmsford alone.
So, did the Mafia move into town? Did some kind of newfangled and highly addictive drug hit the streets of Essex, causing residents to steal whatever wasn't nailed down so they could pay their dealer? Nope. That 500 percent increase in crime was the work of just one incredibly prolific teenager named Bradley Wernham.
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He got his start lifting weed whackers to manage that unibrow.
Bradley started his crime spree at the age of 12, breaking into houses and pubs. He also hit a few churches, just in case stealing alone wasn't enough to write himself a one-way ticket to hell. Within a few years, he moved on to things like luxury automobiles, stealing two Mercedes vehicles, an Audi and a Porsche. When he was finally apprehended, Wernham was charged with 17 counts of burglary. Not wanting to appear to be some kind of amateur, he asked that an additional 645 crimes be taken into account as well. If you're keeping score at home, that's over 660 burglaries and thefts that he committed before finally getting caught.
Unsurprisingly, it was Wernham's staggering crime stats that eventually got him arrested, but probably not in the way you think. At one point during his one-man crime extravaganza, the wily thief moved to a new city. A few short months after his arrival, crime statistics in his new hometown shot up to record levels as well. Officials eventually put two and two together and charged Wernham with being some kind of super-efficient crime-committing machine.
"He even stole the paint off of his walls, officer."
Naturally, at trial, the judge threw the book at him. Ha, just joking! For his crimes, Bradley Wernham was given 150 hours of community service and was forced to live rent-free in a government-provided apartment. He was also sent to college on the taxpayers' dime. For the love of God, have mercy on the poor kid, England!
Shockingly, this punishment did nothing to stop Bradley Wernham's criminal ways. A few months after being sentenced to a life of leisure, he was arrested for burglary once again. This time, there would be no lenient sentencing. Bradley Wernham was sentenced to five years in prison.
"Now you get in that cell and think about what you've done over a nice nap. We'll bring you breakfast at nine."
He remains locked up to this day. Ha, again, just joking. He was released after serving only 18 months of his five-year sentence. This raises an obvious question: Why doesn't every criminal just move to England?
For more unexpected criminals, check out The 7 Most Incredible Crime Sprees Carried Out by Animals and 7 Ridiculous Cases Where Animals Were Put On Trial.


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When a person says "HaKel HaKodesh" instead of "HaMelech HaKodesh" during Eseres Yamei Teshuva the halacha is they must go back to the beginning of the tefillah and start over again. What would be the din of the person didn't go back to the beginning but rather said the bracha of "Atah Kodesh" over again with "HaMelech HaKodesh" and then continued davening normally. Would this be ok b'dieved or would they have to start the whole tefillah over again after finishing?
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This is not a special עשרת ימי תשובה law, but a general law that the first three Brachos are seen as one unit. The last three as well.
If one makes a mistake in a Bracha he needs to return to the beginning of that Bracha. If a mistake is made in one of the first three - he returns to the beginning of the three, which is the beginning of 18.
(EDIT) Hence, if one fails to fix the Bracha which was messed up - the whole Tfila should be said again.
Rambam, Tefila 10:1:
A friend pointed out Rav Ovadia saying that a shatz during chazara should return to third bracha. However, he explains this is because during chazara the 3-bracha-unit ends after kedusha, so there's no need to go to beginning. A yachid should go to beginning. Other poskim do not agree with this psak (I've seen Rav M. Eliyahu explicitly).
(P.S. The friend argued that if it was possible to return to 3rd bracha only that's what the psak would be since we make a bracha levatala (on the first two brachot) doing otherwise. I'm unsure about this point.)


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Are you getting a little more attention than you would like? Once your belly becomes very obvious, you may begin to feel that it and you are public property. Fascinated by your ever-increasing abdomen, some friends and family, or even strangers, may want to see your belly, touch it, or even kiss it. This can feel very strange because, as a rule, people tend not to go around touching each other's abdomens!
If you're uncomfortable about being touched, then you could politely ask people not to touch the belly, or simply move away. There are, however, some advantages to having people notice that you are pregnant: your belly acts as a warning for people not to jostle you in crowds and people tend to give you a seat on public transportation. Another unwanted intrusion might be that people feel entitled to ask you intimate questions regarding your medical history and about the baby. This may make you uncomfortable, especially if you tend to be a private person. People you have never met before might comment on your figure, and discuss whether you're having a girl or a boy.
Some pregnant women enjoy the attention, while others feel that people are intruding on a personal experience. If you feel uncomfortable, answer questions vaguely or try to change the subject; ask the person about themself instead. Another way of avoiding the unwanted attention is to wear loose clothing that makes your belly look less prominent and attractive to touch.
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text: How can I make a tutorial on an Indian without making a lesson on one of their homes. Back in the beginning when man fought Indians or thought of them as savages, Native Americans roamed free on American soil and lived a very harmonious lifestyle. They kept to themselves and only fought with other tribes when a it was decided that a battle is necessary. Unlike the houses we all live in today, Native Americans used to reside in huts made of animal skin (usually buffalo), and long strong branches. The branches where used as the frame, and the skin canvas was placed over the sticks. When completed they lived in what you call tepees. Today we will be learning "how to draw a tepee for kids", step by step. This lesson will be useful for people that love drawing Native American related stuff. I had a lot of fun making this drawing because I love anything that has to do with Native American culture. This is going to be a simple task to complete so have fun drawing a tepee for kids as I prepare my next tutorial for you all. Adios people!