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She's determined to get her man, whatever the cost!
Bladen lifted his gaze to her face and found her regarding him expectantly. While your offer is very tempting, Ms. Mallory, I cant accept it.
Her brow furrowed beneath her long, sexy bangs. Why not?
He gave her a small smile. Because for one thing, it wouldnt be very professional of me. And for another, I would feel like I was taking advantage of you.
She blinked, obviously surprised by the words. But then her lips curved into a smile. You wouldnt be taking advantage of me, Mr. Sloan, I assure you. I know exactly what Im offering you, and Im willing to do whatever is necessary to retain your services.
Bladen said nothing for a moment. Damn, she must want to find her ex-boyfriend bad. And since she obviously wasnt going to let Bladen bow out of this gracefully, he was going to have to try a different approach. Dont take this the wrong way, Ms. Mallory. I find you very attractive, but I dont think that a single night of sex would be a fair trade for ten-thousand credits worth of my services.
While hed been careful how he phrased the words, he could tell by the color rushing to her cheeks that hed clearly offended Cindra Mallory. Then again, maybe that might be a good thing, he thought. If she was suitably insulted, maybe shed storm out of his office in a huff and he could forget all about her very tempting offer. But instead, she simply lifted a brow.
Then Ill sleep with you more than once, she said. Is there a particular number you have in mind?
Bladen had to fight to keep his jaw from dropping. Shit, that hadnt gone like he thought it would. Cindra Mallory was seriously willing to sleep with him in exchange for his help. And the sultry look she was giving him right now was making his cock stand up and demand to be put in charge of the negotiations.
Id have no idea what the going rate would be, he said. But even if I give you the benefit of the doubt and say that a single night of lovemaking with you is worth a thousand credits, that would still mean you would owe me...
Ten nights of unbelievable passion, she finished for him. Deal!
For the second time that night, Bladen stared at her in disbelief, stunned by what she had just agreed to. His cock however, was quite thrilled. Let me make sure I understand this, he said slowly. In exchange for my services, youre agreeing to provide me with ten sexual favors, of my design, and at the time of my choosing?
Yes, Mr. Sloan, thats exactly what Im agreeing to, she told him.
What was she thinking, agreeing to sleep with Bladen Sloan ten times in exchange for his help? Cindra wondered. But shed been so caught up in their sexy banter, not to mention mesmerized by his hypnotizing good looks, that the words had come out of her mouth before she even knew what she was saying. Was it too late to back out of it? she asked herself. But one look at the expression on the bounty hunters face told her that he considered it a done deal. Maybe she should tell him that she changed her mind, and then make a mad dash for the door.
But she didnt. Instead, Cindra forced herself to take a deep, cleansing breath. Why was she freaking out? What difference did it really make if she agreed to sleep with Bladen Sloan once or ten times? It wasnt like she was actually going to have sex with him anyway. Shed flirt and lead him on just like she planned, then when Sloan found DelCour for her, she would be off Pendari before shed ever have to honor their agreement.
Behind his desk, Sloan inclined his head. Then Ill draw up a contract and we can make it official.
Cindra frowned at that. She found it hard to believe he was actually going to put something like that into writing, but she said nothing as he dictated the terms of their agreement into the computer. Well, she could only hope he was just as thorough when it came to looking for DelCour, she thought wryly.
Once the contract was printed, the bounty hunter came around the desk and held it out for her signature. Quickly reading it, she saw that he had simply put their agreement into words. There was something about seeing it on paper that made her blush though, and her hand trembled a little as she signed it. It wasnt as if the contract would hold up in any council of law in the galaxy anyway, she told herself. At least she didnt think it would.
So, what do we do first? she asked, handing the signed contract back to him.
He set the contract on the desk, and then turned to give her a grin. You.
Cindra looked up at him in confusion. Me?
Taking her hand, he pulled her gently to her feet. She had known the bounty hunter was tall, but now that he was standing so close, she realized just how tall he really was. The top of her head didnt even reach his chin.
I think it would only be fair for me to get a partial payment up front, dont you? he said softly.
Her pulse quickened as she realized what the bounty hunter meant. He wanted to have sex with her. Right then! Here? she asked, looking around the office.
Bladen released her hand to lightly run the tips of his fingers up and down her bare arm. The touch sent the most delicious little shivers up and down her back. Why not?
His nearness was making it difficult to think. Or speak, for that matter. She hadnt expected to have to make good on her side of the bargain quite this soon. B-but anyone could walk in, she stammered. Damn, he smelled good! Not like cologne either, she thought, just pure, unadulterated masculinity.
He reached behind him to press a button on his computer. A moment later, a lilting female voice confirmed that the doors had been locked and the office was now secure. Not anymore, he told her.
Cindra chewed on her lower lip, trying to come up with some excuse she could use to avoid having sex with him right that minute, but for some reason, nothing would come to mind. Maybe it was because she was flustered, she told herself. Then again, maybe it was because with Bladen standing so close to her, she was suddenly thinking that sex with him wasnt necessarily something to be avoided. Before she could really decide if that was a good thing or not, the question became moot as Bladen lowered his head and covered her mouth with his.
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I'll take it as a compliment! You are so sweet, TOIAP. I'll put in a positive note to the misses about you.
I am going to put up some censored pics in a few minutes... y'all don't need to know her face if y'all are still D-Bags. ;)
I'll PM the actual pics of those that played nice.
Ironic, as the pics were tits AT the zoo... you were so close!
That was the point (except maybe cavebear). lol
It feels like a good time to check up on my old stomping grounds. Not sure if I am planning to keep on following the forums or not, but I just wanted an update on y'all.
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PARMA, Italy -- Alessandro Petacchi won a mass sprint Sunday to take the second stage of the Giro d'Italia, with Mark Cavendish finishing second to take the overall lead.
Lampre's Petacchi captured the Giro's longest stage, completing the 151-mile ride from Alba to Parma in 5 hours, 45 minutes, 40 seconds. Cavendish beat Manuel Belletti of Colnago for second place.
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador finished in the main pack, placing 29th in the same time.
Cavendish took over the pink jersey from his HTC-Highroad teammate Marco Pinotto, who won the first stage. The Briton said Petacchi impeded him in the sprint by changing direction three times. Petacchi brushed away the claims.
"To be honest, the only thing that I noticed is that when I saw him coming up before the sprint, I let him pass along the barriers," he said. "I could have closed the door but I didn't."
Cavendish has an overall time of 6 hours, 6 minutes, 27 seconds to lead HTC-Highroad teammates Kanstantsin Sivtsov of Belarus and Craig Lewis of the U.S. by 12 seconds.
Contador was 42 seconds behind Cavendish in 41st.
The Spaniard is competing at the Giro while his doping case is being appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
He tested positive for clenbuterol while winning the 2010 Tour, but was cleared of doping by the Spanish cycling federation after he blamed the result on eating contaminated beef. Cycling's governing body and the World Anti-Doping Agency have appealed to the CAS, which is expected to issue a ruling before this year's Tour in July.
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The modern world has seen a variety of agricultural crises deriving from a problem known as the "metabolic rift," in which capitalist agriculture depletes soil nutrients through intensive monocropping and fertilizing. This problem is fundamentally historical and material, and visible in the archaeological record. A manuring platform found in Deerfield, Massachusetts, offers a material vantage point through which to explore the contradictions of early capitalist agriculture. Increasing market penetration into the New England backcountry in the early nineteenth century spurred farmers to increase productivity, at the cost of sustainability. Wealthier farmers were able to capitalize on this transition, while poorer farmers were forced into wage labor or out-migration.
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Sliced almonds add a delectable, almost-like-fried-chicken crunch to the breading for these tender pieces of pork. We slice the pork thinly to keep the cooking time quick. The resulting pork "fingers" are great dipped in this surprisingly simple, delicious honey, soy and mustard sauce.
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In the wake of the General Services Administration's overspending debacle, a forthcoming bill would require a senior official's approval before an agency could host a conference. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) announced on April 18 she will introduce the Accountability in Government Act.
The bill would put agencies under tough scrutiny when hosting conferences. A senior official, such as the chief management officer, would have to give approval for any conference costing more than $200,000.
For an agency to sponsor an event, officials would have to notify Congress with detailed information about it.
Furthermore, the bill would bar an agency from giving bonuses to employees or supervisors under investigation by an inspector general, who have been found to fail to follow contracting regulations, or who supervised actions that have led to fraud or abuse of funds.
McCaskill, chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Contracting Oversight Subcommittee, drafted the legislation in reaction to the overspending and waste at GSA's Western Regions Conference. The conference in Las Vegas for 300 GSA employees cost more than $822,000, much of it squandered on repeated trips to Vegas and stays in luxury hotels for GSA personnel during the planning phase, and extravagant decorations, catering and entertainment during the event, according to the recent Inspector General report..
"I'm aiming to make sure that agency leaders can't just shrug off responsibility for wrongdoing, and to see that employees who betray the public's trust by wasting taxpayer dollars are punished, not rewarded for bad behavior," she said.
Former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and other GSA officials have faced questions from lawmakers this week about the conference, as well as the bonus given to Jeff Neely, the agency's Pacific Rim regional commissioner who's now on leave. Neely played a major role in arranging the 2010 conference. He also received a bonus while under an investigation by the IG.
More legislation may be coming too, in an effort to make GSA more transparent in its spending.
At a hearing April 17, Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee, told GSA officials he is considering legislation to open GSA's financial records. It would require GSA to get approval for its administrative budget each year, Denham said. The specific bill has not been introduced yet.
"GSA has continued to operate under a culture of abuse with no consequences, and I share in the public outrage," he said.
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This bill would condone $200,000 for all conferences. Every conference I've attended had a registration fee - presumably to cover costs...so why would $200K from an agencies budget even be necessary?? By the way, the article said 300 GSA employees attended the conference. $200,000 divided by 300 employees equals $666,666666666 etc. Senator McCaskill, the devil's in the details and your bill is a kneejerk reaction rather than well thought out to make an improvement!! Let more heads roll and you'll get better compliance.
Accountability is the answer. Fire or punish the offenders and quit adding tiers and rings of oversight and approval that cost more than a rogue conference. I am tired of the political process that shuns individual accountability in favor of grandstanding and adding permanent bureacracy. If the cost vs value of all the oversight were known, GSA's shrimp would look like a bargain.
While we are at it let's add a notification by Congress before they take a junket or co sponsor an earmark. What's good for the goose...
Rather than punishing the entire government why not hold those responsible accountable?? Passing this bill will waste more money that most conferences cost.
This is definitely a good idea to have higher level approval. As long as we only have to inform Congress, rather than get their approval, than I'd have no issue with this.
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The Israeli marksman boosted his chances of a big money move when he scored in the 3-2 defeat against Sevilla.
He has scored six goals in La Liga this season – only Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Radamel Falcao have scored more goals in Spain.
Hemed also hit five goals for Israel earlier this month in the home and away victories over Luxembourg in the World Cup qualifiers.
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President Barack Obama picked up support from enough Republicans to gain Senate ratification of a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. One Republican predicted passage by a "decent margin."
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander, a member of the Republican leadership, announced on the Senate floor today his intention to support the treaty. Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson followed with an announcement of his backing.
That brought the number of Republicans supporting ratification outright to at least nine. With all Democrats in support, that brought support to the minimum two-thirds Senate majority required for ratification. At least two more Republicans, Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, have said they're leaning in favor of approving the treaty. Democrats control 58 votes in the chamber.
"The treaty is definitely going to pass," Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker told reporters. "It may even pass with a decent margin."
Alexander said he would vote to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed last April by Obama "because it leaves our country with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come." Alexander also cited the president's commitment to an $85 billion program to modernize the U.S. nuclear-weapons arsenal.
Obama has made calls and written letters of reassurance on modernization and other issues in recent days as he seeks to secure more than the minimum nine Republican backers he needs to ratify the treaty.
Test Vote
The Senate is preparing for a test vote likely today that would limit remaining debate to 30 hours on one of the last pieces of legislation remaining before Congress adjourns.
"I think there is a way we can complete this sometime tomorrow," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat,
Arizona Senator John McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said passage of an amendment he has co-sponsored to address some remaining concerns "would be helpful" in also getting his support.
Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois said his support for the treaty's ratification also hinges on approval of the amendment, which he co-sponsored. The amendment would reaffirm the U.S.'s ability to construct a missile defense system intended to protect against potential attacks by countries such as Iran.
'A Deal-Breaker'
"Any downward pressure by the treaty on the United States and our allies to knock out an Iranian attack would be very bad," Kirk said today. Including Obama's assurances on that point, submitted in a letter to the Senate, in the final resolution of approval "would be very good," Kirk said, adding that failure to pass that amendment would be "a deal-breaker."
Democrats have defeated five other Republican-sponsored amendments, most of which would have required reopening negotiations between the U.S. and Russia -- a prospect Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has ruled out.
Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he has included in the ratification resolution 13 amendments aimed at satisfying Republicans' concerns without reopening treaty talks.
"We will reach further," Kerry told reporters at the Capitol yesterday. "There may be some additional things we can incorporate."
Top Priority
Obama has made ratification of the treaty his top foreign-policy priority during the post-election lame-duck session. Democrats, who now control 58 votes in the 100-member Senate, will have a narrower majority in the next Congress starting in January.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said support for the treaty from people such as Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former secretaries of state from Democratic and Republican administrations helped turn the tide in the Senate.
"People have had an opportunity to focus on what's in the treaty," Gibbs said at a White House briefing today. Supporters such as Mullen and former Secretary of State James Baker helped assure senators that it "does nothing to impact or hinder our ability to defend ourselves."
Obama yesterday sent letters to Alexander and Cochran, as well as Senators Dianne Feinstein and Daniel Inouye, vowing to keep commitments to modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, one of the issues that had been raised by treaty opponents such as Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican.
Nuclear Modernization
"I recognize that nuclear modernization requires investments for the long-term," Obama wrote in the letters released by the White House. "That is my commitment to Congress -- that my administration will pursue these programs and capabilities for as long as I am president."
Even after some top Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, expressed opposition over the weekend, others who had voiced concerns said they are supportive or leaning in favor of ratification.
Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal advocate for the treaty. Mark Helmke, his spokesman, said Dec. 11 that the agreement has sufficient support to approve ratification.
In addition to Lugar, Corker, Alexander and Isakson, other Republicans who've said they will vote for the treaty include Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Scott Brown of Massachusetts and George Voinovich of Ohio.
Former Top Officials
Utah Republican Robert Bennett, who is leaving the Senate, told reporters today he couldn't think of any reason why he would oppose the treaty. The support from former secretaries of state, top military officials and foreign policy experts "are pretty unanimous" in favor of the treaty, Bennett said.
Idaho Republican James Risch, who said he was among the presenters in the classified session yesterday and has concerns over how well the U.S. could verify Russia's nuclear arsenal under the treaty, declined to say that he would oppose ratification.
"I continue to have serious reservations," said Risch, who failed to win support for an amendment he proposed that would have required renegotiating the treaty.
Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have been making calls to senators since the weekend to press for ratification, Gibbs said.
He said opposition from McConnell wasn't a surprise and didn't alter the administration's calculations of support.
Concerns Addressed
Gibbs said the concerns of Republicans -- including U.S. missile defense development and modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal -- had been addressed during 18 committee hearings. The treaty text has been available since it was signed by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April.
Among the issues raised by treaty opponents, including McConnell, is whether the accord would limit U.S. development of a missile defense. Obama sent a letter to McConnell on Dec. 18 saying that the treaty wouldn't hinder the U.S. from deploying such a system in Europe.
"We are proceeding apace with a missile defense system in Europe designed to provide full coverage for NATO members on the continent, as well as deployed U.S. forces, against the growing threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles," Obama wrote.
Missile-Defense Options
Military commanders and defense and nuclear officials have testified that the accord doesn't limit missile-defense options and that it improves the ability to verify Russia's adherence to agreed-upon weapons thresholds.
New START would limit each side's strategic warheads to no more than 1,550, from 2,200 allowed previously, and sets a maximum of 800 land-, air- and sea-based launchers. The previous treaty expired in December 2009.
The Senate voted 66-32 on Dec. 15 to begin consideration of the agreement, highlighting how narrow a majority Obama and his Democratic Party may have for an accord that requires two-thirds of the senators present and voting -- 67, if all 100 are in the chamber -- for approval.


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Video Archives – Lunchtime Talk with Laura Ephraim (February 2011)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011: Lunchtime Talk
Participants: Laura Ephraim, a 2010-2011 Post-doctoral fellow at the HAC and a 2011-2012 Associate Fellow at the HAC. She is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College.
In February of 2011, Laura Ephraim gave a brief Lunchtime Talk in which she presented an Arendtian critique of Ray Kurzweil's writings on 'the Singularity.' Kurzweil himself spoke at Bard that winter, elaborating on his theory of the Singularity, which states in short that human technological progress has advanced, historically, on an increasing curve of complexity such that in the near future, it can be expected that the intelligence of machines will surpass the biological intelligence of the human brain. At that point, 'Version 1.0' of humanity—purely biological in form—will be supplanted by a humanity augmented by and in symbiosis with technology.
Arendt on Humanity's Cosmic Awareness
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"If, in concluding, we return once more to the discovery of the Archimedean point and apply it, as Kafka warned us not to do, to man himself and to what he is doing on this earth, it at once becomes manifest that all of his activities, watched from a sufficiently removed vantage point in the universe, would appear not as activities of any kind but as processes, so that, as a scientist recently put it, modern motorization would appear like a process of biological mutation in which human bodies gradually begin to be covered by shells of steel."
--Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 322-3.
In the preface to The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt not only starts provocatively with the point of view of an "earth born object made by man," but describes this object, the recently launched Sputnik satellite, as the realization of the dream of science fiction literature that illuminates "mass sentiments and mass desires". In this passage quoted above from the very last section of the book, Arendt returns to space and for a moment herself sounds like a science fiction writer, inviting the reader to look with her from a number of challenging perspectives.
Alienation from the Cartesian Change in the Meaning of Truth
"Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company."
—Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 41.290
What can it mean that there are two different types of truth—scientific and philosophic? And how could they not be connected?
Arendt on Thinking with Kant and Kafka
"The inner I: That I of reflection is the self, a reflection of the appearing human, so mortal, finite, growing old, capable of change, etc. On the other hand, the I of apperception, the thinking I, which does not change and is timeless. (Kafka Parable)"
—Hannah Arendt, Denktagebuch, February 1966
In an age overcome with the reach of globalization and the virtual expanse of the Internet, Arendt's notes in her Denktagebuch on a seemingly obscure technical question on activity of thought in Kant gain new relevance by differentiating modes of thinking with depth and over time. Her reference to Kafka and the form of the entry pushes her profound temporal ideas in the direction of narrative fiction.
The Brain Activity Map
I am a neural matrix of roughly 80 billion cells each charged with the potential for action, firing out in multiple patters of synchronicity towards a seemingly inexhaustible order of calculations -- I am the system that emerges, I am its apex, I am sentience -- therefore I am.
This, I imagine, is what Descartes would have to say today of what remains of the self under the scope of examination, though I will admit this sounds less poetic then his original statement.
Galileo's telescope, the atom, the space age, the tech age, the Human Genome Project, and now the BAM project, all can be seen as a succession of strivings towards a new perspective through which we could gleam a greater understanding and synthesis of Man. The BAM project is the newest manifestation of this urge. It is an exciting endeavor, and yet as with any new attempt of science to probe ourselves, it is a frightening one too.
Recently I learned about the "Brain Activity Map" (BAM) initiative sponsored by the Obama administration. I have a baseline knowledge of neuroscience and have been long fascinated by its hoped for implications and speculative repercussions. I wanted more detail. I found what I understand to be the source paper for this project, The Brain Activity Functional Connectomics, by Paul Alivisatos, et al. This is hot stuff, and I am not being glib. Obama thinks so too, that's why 3 billion governmental dollars are slated to go into the project. Microsoft and Google are throwing in real money too. So what is really going on?
BAM follows the model of the Human Genome Project. In the proposal paper, as well as Obama's state of the union address, reference is made to the fact that each $1 put into the Human Genome Project brought back $140 to the economy. I will leave alone the implications of this being economy driven. Should science be economically driven? This question, in our society, is mostly moot. Everything must now at least appear to be economy driven. Knowledge, transcendence, self-discovery, can only resonate in conversation with the economy.
But what are the human as opposed to the economic implications of the Brain Activity Map? BAM is a 15-year plan to create a non-topographical map of the brain the repercussions of which reach into the medical, commercial, educational, and technological fields. Until now our neuro-understanding of the brain has been limited to compartmentalized thinking, or to the study of individual ingredients. The brain simply cannot be understood this way and thus Alivisatos' paper argues that "no general theory of brain function is universally accepted." BAM seeks to create an "emergent systems" model, something akin to the rules of complex systems. This stems from the knowledge that brain function arises from the interplay of the electrical impulse grid (the action potential of all the neurons). The best way I can state this is that brain activity is a symphony rather then a carpenter's graph. It is the interplay of notes, tones, and pacing, and sound rather than a combination of these individual elements. The point is not to isolate and combine but to mimic the complex yet structured electrical impulses of the brain in a way that allows higher order brain function to emerge in an artificially intelligent being. To quote Alivisatos: "An emergent level of analysis appears to be critical for understanding the most compelling questions of how brain functions create sentience." The most exciting effort, in other words, is to create a sentient, thinking, and autonomous entity.
The project calls for an investment into new technologies that could make recording the action potentials and coordination of their impulses more feasible. This can be accomplished by investing in nano-technology: nanotubes and wires, quantum dots, nano-particles, neural probes, shanks containing optical waveguides, and tiny microchips that can pass into the brain.
The brain mapping project could likely entail human testing, which "we do not exclude," though it would not take place till the last phase of the project.
Microsoft and Google have signed on as partners and possibly fiscal contributors, because clearly the repercussions of such of project could be ground breaking for the tech industry: Computer chips that replicate the emergent systems model; search engines that could graph society by treating each user as if they are a neuron and their googling activity as action potential. The source paper acknowledges some possible paranoia at such an endeavor and thus states that it is essential that this project be a public one, thus allowing for transparency in all findings. It also encourages a public relations campaign to reassure any party that may be susceptible to conspiracy theory making. That's me!
I hold both, a fear of repercussions and a sense of excitement for this project. I tend to think that conspiracy theories are healthy. All great science fiction is fed by the conspiracy model, but it also tends to foretell future technological and social revelations. And there exactly is my point, or fear, or observation -- the irrelevance of social relevance. We don't really care, unless it scares us.
I found myself facing this in writing this post. I am excited to tell people about this project, but as a writer I have a constant mechanism at play in my head as I write, to present a story or topic in a light that will make people interested. As much as this mechanism comes from within me it is also a product of cultural observation, a consistent tracking of what stimulates popular dialogue. What stimulates popular dialogue is conspiracy, not excitement or optimism. This itself is worthy of examination.
Ultimately the fear is of what we are losing in the race to understand ourselves through science and technology, of what we leave behind. I do not mean to gesture towards a conservative approach on science. Rather, I am fascinated by the anxiety that accompanies the prospect, and propose that our fear is that of isolated parties traveling at quite different speeds. We can investigate the self intrusively or/and reflectively. Reflectively, we evaluate and discuss our culture, ethics, the relationship of groups and individuals to one another, we pause and contemplate the grace of being. Intrusively we probe into the elemental makeup of ourselves and the world we inhabit. As one practice outpaces the other, something feels askew, as if a key organ in the symphony of being human is muting in the distance.
-Nikita Nelin
A Sorry Bunch of Dwarfs
Freeman Dyson, the eclectic physicist, took good aim at philosophy last week in a review of the silly book by Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?" An Existential Detective Story. Holt went around to "a portrait gallery of leading modern philosophers," and asked them the Leibnizian question: Why is there something rather than nothing?" The book offers their answers, along with biographical descriptions.
For Dyson, Holt's book "compels us to ask" these "ugly questions." First, "When and why did philosophy lose its bite?" Philosophers were, once important. In China, Confucius and his followers made a civilization. So too in Greece did Socrates and then the schools of Plato and Aristotle give birth to the western world. In the Christian era Jesus and Paul, then Aquinas and Augustine granted depth to dominant worldviews. Philosophers like Descartes, Hobbes, and Leibniz were central figures in the scientific revolution, and philosophical minds like Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Arendt (even if one was a philologist and the other two refused the name philosopher) have become central figures in the experience of nihilism. Against these towering figures, the "leading philosophers" in Holt's book cut a paltry figure. Here is Dyson:
Holt's philosophers belong to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Compared with the giants of the past, they are a sorry bunch of dwarfs. They are thinking deep thoughts and giving scholarly lectures to academic audiences, but hardly anybody in the world outside is listening. They are historically insignificant. At some time toward the end of the nineteenth century, philosophers faded from public life. Like the snark in Lewis Carroll's poem, they suddenly and silently vanished. So far as the general public was concerned, philosophers became invisible.
There are many reasons for the death of philosophy, some of which were behind Hannah Arendt's refusal to call herself a philosopher. Philosophy was born, at least in its Platonic variety, from out of the thinker's reaction to the death of Socrates. Confronted with the polis that put the thinker to death, Plato and Aristotle responded by retreating from the world into the world of ideas. Philosophical truth separated itself from worldly truths, and idealism was born. Realism was less a return to the world than a reactive fantasy to idealism. In both, the truths that were sought were otherworldly truths, disconnected to the world.
Christianity furthered the divorce of philosophy from the world by imagining two distinct realms, the higher realm existing beyond the world. Science, too, taught that truth could only be found in a world of abstract reason, divorced from real things. Christianity and science together gave substance to the philosophical rebellion against the world. The result, as Dyson rightly notes, is that philosophy today is as abstract, worldly, and relevant as it is profound.
What Dyson doesn't explore is why philosophers of the past had such importance, even as they also thought about worlds of ideas. The answer cannot be that ideas had more import in the past than now. On the contrary, we live in an age more saturated in ideas than any other. More people today are college educated, literate, and knowledgeable of philosophy than at any period in the history of the world. Books like Holt's are proof positive of the profitable industry of philosophical trinkets. That is the paradox—at a time when philosophy is read by more people than ever, it is less impactful than it ever was.
One explanation for this paradox is nihilism—The devaluing or re-valuing of the highest values. The truth about truth turned out to be neither so simple nor singular as the philosophers had hoped. An attentive inquiry into the true and the good led not to certainty, but to ideology critique. For Nietzsche, truth, like the Christian God, was a human creation, and the first truth of our age is that we recognized it as such. That is the precondition for the death of God and the death of truth. Nihilism has not expunged ideas from our world, but multiplied them. When speaking about the "true" or the "good" or the "just," Christians, Platonists, and moralists no longer have the stage to themselves. They must now shout to be heard amongst the public relations managers, advertisers, immoralists, epicureans, anarchists, and born again Christians.
Dyson ignores this strain of philosophy. He does point out that Nietzsche was the last great philosopher, but then dismisses Heidegger who "lost his credibility in 1933" and even Wittgentstein who would remain silent if a woman attended his lectures until she would leave. And yet it is Heidegger who has given us the great literary masterpieces of the 20th century philosophy.
His work on technology (The Question Concerning Technik) and art (The Origins of the Work of Art) has been widely read in artistic, literary, and lay circles. It is hard to imagine a philosopher more engaged with the science and literature than Heidegger was. He read physics widely and co-taught courses at the house of the Swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss and also taught seminars with the German novelist Ernst Jünger.
It seems worthwhile to end with a poem of Heidegger's from his little book, Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens/From Out of the Experience of Thinking:
Drei Gefahren drohen dem Denken
Die gute und darum heilsame Gefahr ist die Nachbarschaft des singenden Dichters.
Die böse und darum schärfste Gefahr ist das Denken selber. Es muß gegen sich selbst denken, was es nur selten vermag.
Die schlechte und darum wirre Gefahr ist das Philosophieren.
Three dangers threaten thinking.
The good and thus healthy danger is the nearness of singing poetry.
The evil and thus sharpest danger is thinking itself. It must think against itself, something it can do only rarely.
The bad and thus confusing danger is philosophizing.
How We Became Estranged With Nature
"An albatross dips towards the sea, then lifts again, beating its wings as if repelled by the opposing magnetism of the water." Beginning her book, On Extinction, with this scene of natural collision, Melanie Challenger's image soon unfolds as her gaze turns down to the expansive water. "The sea is deathly calm, spread out like a cerecloth. Then a rocketing breath hurls a rainbow into the air." With this Challenger paints the experience of watching a rising blue whale.
Ms. Challenger sent us a copy of her book here at the Arendt Center, suggesting a connection with Arendtian themes. She is right. What albatross and whale mean, how we see them, and the ways in which we increasingly don't are the themes of Challenger's book. What is most visible in our world, she writes, is the loss of wonder at the natural world, the old Platonic thaumazein, "the wonder at what is" that is the birth of philosophy.
Modern life, however, seems to not simply repudiate the experience of thaumazein, but also the notion that anything occurring in nature is inherently meaningful, or, to put it in the economic terms which so pervade our thought processes, that anything has value "as it is." Modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes, replaces the wonder at the world with doubt regarding the world's existence or our ability to know it. But doubt does not have to lead to disregard. And even disregard for nature is not an adequate description for what Challenger has in mind. Human beings have and will continue to recognize the economic possibilities of nature, which is less disregard than use; it is precisely this use and exploitation of nature for economic purposes that bestows meaning on nature for modern man. Wonder and doubt have both been replaced by an attitude of unremitting mastery.
Of course, everyone does not seek to exploit nature, or accept the ultimately wishful assertion that man is superior to nature and that any natural activity is either superfluous to human life, profitable to man, or a problem man must figure out how to overcome. Pressed on whether one supports or rejects the vast damage man has committed to the earth, be it in the form of global warming, obliteration of environments, or human-induced extinctions many times the rate of estimated natural extinction (see the Guardian's Human Activity is Driving Earth's 'sixth great extinction event), most would say they do not support it, that we must live in a more sustainable way.
Watching "Planet Earth," however, and then donating some money to Greenpeace is not going to radically change things. It is necessary to recognize that this language of sustainability, of "green" products and efforts, including efforts made by some businesses, to condone the most destructive practices of global industry are largely technical or superficial solutions which mask the need for a more fundamental discussion that addresses not simply the symptoms of modern exploitation of nature, but seeks to understand what we are doing and why. We must think about and discuss both the relationship between nature and man and the basic activities that gives form to and conditions our lives. In other words, to address the destruction of our environment, and why we are acting in this manner, we must adopt Arendt's proposal "to think what we are doing."
Indeed, "to think what we are doing" is the underlying impetus of Melanie Challenger's On Extinction. Confronted with her own "fragmented connection with nature," Ms. Challenger writes "I became aware that I was living through another mass extinction of animals and plants without even knowing it, this one due to human behavior. I wanted to explore the idea of extinction in the light of this new, sobering reality." Her "chief interest…in gathering a history of how we had become so destructive to the natural world and its diversity" springs from a determination "to understand why…marvels of nature were imperiled and why that should matter."
Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition provides a wonderful banister upon which we may begin to think, with Ms. Challenger, about our proclivity toward exploitation and destruction of nature. Broadly speaking, the rise of human induced extinctions (which began to increase dramatically in the 18th century) and the massive exploitation of natural resources accompanying industrialization may be traced to the rise in prominence of homo faber within the vita activa, followed shortly by the succession of the animal laborans. "The modern age," Arendt writes, "has carried with it a theoretical glorification of labor and has resulted in a factual transformation of the whole of society into a laboring society." This reduction of the active life, comprised of labor, work, and action, into a life of mere laboring follows the modern commitment to infinite economic growth, and therefore limitless consumption, alongside an obsession with the life process itself.
The modern obsession with the life process is characterized by a continuous process of consumption. The laboring process is cyclical – we have needs, labor produces consumables to meet those needs, consumption occurs and the process begins anew. Arendt writes: "laboring always moves in the same circle which is prescribed by the biological process of the living organism and the end of its 'toil and trouble' comes only with the death of this organism." It is not the biologically necessary process of labor and consumption, however, which has led to our massive exploitation of the earth's resources, but rather the over-consumption symptomatic of the emergence of what Arendt calls a waste economy, "in which things must be almost as quickly devoured and discarded as they have appeared in the world, if the process itself is not to come to a sudden catastrophic end."
Exploitation and abuse of nature, however, does not derive strictly from our capacity to labor and the emergence of a modern society captivated by necessities of life and addicted to the endless laboring process. We are not simply laboring animals, but also fabricators, and it is from this perspective of homo faber that nature divorced from man is almost meaningless. Nature, Arendt writes, "seen through the eyes of homo faber, the builder of the world, 'furnishes only the almost worthless materials as in themselves,' whose whole value lies in the work performed upon them.
Reading Challenger's On Extinction with Arendt in the background calls up a picture of a society dominated by the never-ending process of labor and consumption coupled with humanity's ability to deny intrinsic value to nature; with such a picture, one cannot help but consider, in Challenger's words, that "the lunacy of pursuing profit despite all warnings to the contrary" may be characterized not as a reckless and irresponsible gamble pursued by some but rather the unavoidable consequence of living within and being a member of modern society. While we may question how anyone "back then" could have supported the almost total depletion of the whale population for oil, for example, there seems to be a similar ambivalence in our own time, as many bemoan the warming of the planet and nations pledge reduction in greenhouse gas emissions while the world's leading economies and major oil companies are concurrently jockeying for drilling rights in the arctic to fuel the vehicles and supply power for those same people reflecting upon the destruction of nature and wishing it wasn't so.
The consumerist society knows no boundary lines, and in the places most vulnerable to global warming, economic actors do not see tragic, avoidable destruction, but rather increased opportunities to profit from the exploitation of nature. While in Nunavut, Ms. Challenger spoke met an Inuit asking why she was there. Telling him that she was researching the changing relationship between the Inuit and their landscape, the man replied, "Nunavut's future won't be in the land…It'll be funded by minerals." Explaining that the Meta Incognita peninsula was recently surveyed and found to have significant deposits of iron, lead, gold, and diamonds, the man concluded by saying "The more the ice melts…the more they'll get."
Asking, and trying to answer a question such as why we have become so destructive to the natural world is by no means a worthless endeavor, even though it doesn't always lead to directly positive results, or even anything tangible, unless one counts the confusion caused by the immensity of the subject. The simple fact that we do ask these questions though, people all over the world, every day, demonstrates that we are still ultimately world-seeking people conditioned by a world which includes the human artifice and earth's nature. So despite the dominance of animal laborans and our fixation on limitless economic growth, despite the assertion of homo faber that man gives meaning to nature, man, seemingly in spite of himself, will still sometimes experience the state of thaumazein. If there is hope for better relations with the natural world in the future, hope in man recognizing the futility of limitless economic activity and exploitation of nature for objects of increasingly little permanence, then this hope rests in part with our capacity to still "wonder at everything that is as it is." Ms. Challenger's work provides a timely reminder to the importance of this wonder.
Ms. Challenger's US edition of On Extinction may be pre-ordered and previewed here.
-David Breitenbucher


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Double Peanut Butter Paisley Brownies
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 40 mins
Found on the back of a Reese's Peanut Butter Chips package.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 118.29 ml butter (1 stick) or 118.29 ml margarine, softened (1 stick)
- 59.14 ml reese's creamy peanut butter
- 236.59 ml granulated sugar
- 236.59 ml packed light brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 4.92 ml vanilla extract
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Iraq inspected an Iranian cargo plane bound for Syria on Monday, a day after it searched a Syrian aircraft flying from Moscow to Damascus, the head of Iraq's civil aviation authority said.
No prohibited items were found on either flight, Nasser Bandar told AFP.
Washington has for months accused Baghdad of looking the other way as Tehran sends military equipment through Iraqi airspace to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, and has called on Iraqi authorities to make random, unannounced inspections.
Iran has described the inspections as "unacceptable" and has officially protested to Baghdad, describing the searches as part of "an Iranophobia project sponsored by the United States, Western countries and the Zionist (Israeli) regime and certain regional countries."
Tehran has remained a steadfast ally of Assad regime despite the bloody conflict with Syrian rebels seeking his overthrow, which the United Nations says has killed more than 70,000 people since it erupted in March 2011.


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Roy Keane is apparently being sounded out for the vacancy created by Steve Kean's defenestration from the Ewood Park boardroom. He has — so the reports suggested — put a job offer from a club in Turkey on hold while he considers the possibility. We can only hope he accepts. English football could do with his return. Things have been getting worryingly sane in his absence.
Keane and Venky's would be the most unlikely of football couplings. And without doubt the most entertaining. On the one side would be a bunch of business people so utterly naïve as to the ways of the game they believed when they bought Blackburn that there was no such thing as relegation from the Premier League.
This is the group who sacked a highly capable manager who was delivering stability and replaced him with a bloke who happened to employ the same agent they had used to procure the club. And whose wife had charmed the senior members of the board. There was no other reason to hire Kean.
And on the other side is a man whose contempt for those who do not share his approach is total, whose disdain is so withering it should be classified as a dangerous weapon. Indeed so dismissive is he of others in the game, this is a man whose world view can be defined thus: there's Roy Keane and then there's the rest of the world. What a partnership theirs would be.
Perhaps if Venky's fulfil their ambition to make a few bob out of Rovers they ought to sell tickets to the interview process. It alone would provide far more entertainment than was served up in the 18 months of Kean's hapless tenure. Imagine it. The look on Roy's face when one of the Venky's types unleashes a smothering blanket of corporate management speak, talking of projects and global positioning initiatives: you would want to be there to witness that at first hand.
Not that Keano's refusal to diminish his standards and work to other people's agendas has served him too well in his career in the dug-out so far. Initially, he flourished at Sunderland, where his intensity at first terrified his charges into upping their game. But however brilliant Keane might be at it, football management requires something beyond the ability to scare the living daylights out of your players.
Contempt is not the most useful tool when seeking to encourage. As a motivational device, sneering dismissal is of limited use. The footballer's ego is a fragile thing which — however much it may dismay his manager — requires careful nurturing by the boss. Which is something Keane soon found out at Ipswich: not many people do well if their manager makes it clear he reckons them beneath his contempt.
The great man's absolute refusal to yield in his application of standards served him well as a player. It helped him as a captain too. Without question, his presence in the Manchester United dressing room communicated a sense of urgency to his team-mates. His aloofness undoubtedly helped him maintain an aura of authority. He was nobody's mate.
Gary Neville recalls once sending out a text to all his team-mates informing them that he had changed mobile numbers. He got one back from Keane asking the simple question: why do you think I'd be interested in your number?
That lynx-eyed certainty also made him a brilliant pundit. In the world of woolly compromise that is the studio sofa, his abrasive critique of anyone who did not share his utter focus (which means everyone) made compelling television. If nothing else it was worth tuning in when he was on just to see the look of abject terror in Adrian Chiles's eyes whenever he was obliged to address him.
Yet, while a manager cannot survive if he tries to be everyone's mate, Keane's dismissiveness is ultimately more corroding. If you think your boss reckons you a second-rate human being you are never going to fulfil your potential.
Not that the Venky's mob will take such things into consideration. If they were astute students of man management they would never have mistaken Steve Kean as a suitable candidate for a job that these days requires PhD levels of knowledge in everything from physiology to psychology.
It took them 18 months to work that mistake out of their system. Now they appear to be on the verge of making another.
What a combination they would form, the bonkers Venky's and the least malleable personality ever to have played the game. The friction would be incendiary. For the neutral his appointment — were it to happen — would be magnificent.
For Blackburn fans, however, it might be less joyous. And the manner in which they have suffered trial by management these past few months, even those of us seeking light entertainment would not wish it upon them.
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F.E.A.R. 3 Pushed Into May
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Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment has confirmed to Joystiq that F3AR or F.E.A.R. 3 or FEAR 3 or whatever the hell you want to call it, has been delayed until May 2011.
Previously, WBIE had tagged the FEAR threequel with a March 22nd date, but for unspecified reasons that date has now shifted by a couple of months. We suspect that Alma's bun in the oven isn't quite ready yet, or something.
Best Buy is reflecting the change on its site, placing an unconfirmed May 24th, 2011 date on the game. WBIE has yet to announce an official specific date for F3AR however, beyond the projected May 2011.


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...riding in a fire truck sporting the club's colors, and passing out stuffed animals and other gifts to the celebrants.
To see all of the fundraising events, or to donate or volunteer, please go to www.sertomastaugustine.org
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Thanks to all who joined in or sponsored prizes for the Crescent Beach Crawl, put on by Sertoma Club of St. Augustine.
Thousands of prizes were won, and many St. John's County families in need will benefit from this afternoon of fun, food and games!
As always "we put the FUN in fundraising".
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We are having a yard sale this Saturday, November 13th at the Sertoma Second Time Around Store parking lot (1690 US 1 South, Suite H).
We are looking for volunteers to help out between the hours of 7am - 3pm. If you can spare an hour (or more!) Saturday, please come lend a hand.
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Dear friends of Sertoma,
To all those who supported this month's charity dodge-ball tournament: You rock!
This year's tournament was a tremendous success! Thirty teams participated in all and through the efforts of these brave souls, our volunteers, and an excellent turn-out by our community, Sertoma Club of St. Augustine was able to raise more than $15,000.
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Come One Come All, to the Crescent Beach Crawl!A fun-filled charity 'walk' for SertomaIt's a unique take on a 'block party', with music, prizes, raffle drawings, horseshoe tournament*, drinks and food!Kick it up a notch!Get your t-shirt in advanceof the start day or time, at any participating sponsors, and bring out your 'inner designer.'Make a headband, halter top, or anything else you can imagine out of your t-shirt, to win a prize for the most creative alteration.
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Lee Hutchins, local St. Augustine Florida resident, was hit on his bicycle this summer, paralyzing him from the neck down.
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Sunday, October 17th starting 10 am
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The $15 player fee includes lunch!
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How long has it been since your knees quivered at the site of a charging dodgeball? Too long?


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Welcome to AH Stretch from a fellow stick-flicker. When you finally do go, can't wait to see some pictures and hear the stories.
Well at least you didn't add cowboy boots because then I would have a problem.
Good one Mike.
Wish I had a rich uncle too.
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