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Carol Hanisch
Carol Hanisch is a radical feminist and was an important member of New York Radical Women and Redstockings. She is best known for popularizing the phrase "The Personal Is Political" in a 1969 essay of the same name.[1] She also conceived the 1968 Miss America protest and was one of the four women who hung a women's liberation banner over the balcony at the Miss America Pageant, disrupting the proceedings.[2]
She co-founded and currently co-edits with Kathy Scarbrough Meeting Ground online, the third version of "Meeting Ground." The statement of purpose from 1977 describes itself as providing "an ongoing place to hammer out ideas about theory, strategy and tactics for the women's liberation movement and for the general radical movement of working men and women."[3]
In 2013 Hanish, along with Scarbrough, Ti-Grace Atkinson and Kathie Sarachild initiated "Forbidden Discourse: The Silencing of Feminist Criticism of 'Gender'", which they described as an "open statement from 48 radical feminists from seven countries".[4] In August 2014 Michelle Goldberg in The New Yorker described it as expressing their "alarm" at "threats and attacks, some of them physical, on individuals and organizations daring to challenge the currently fashionable concept of gender."[5]
- ^ Smith, Dale M. (2012-01-15). Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960. University of Alabama Press. pp. 153–. ISBN 9780817317492. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ Buchanan, Paul D. (2011-07-31). Radical Feminists: A Guide to an American Subculture: A Guide to an American Subculture. ABC-CLIO. pp. 124–. ISBN 9781598843576. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ Meeting Ground online website "about page" with January 1977 statement of purpose, accessed August 31, 2014.
- ^ Forbidden Discourse: The Silencing of Feminist Criticism of 'Gender'", at Meeting Ground online, August 12, 2013, updated with more signatures September 20, 2013.
- ^ Michelle Goldberg, What Is a Woman? The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism, The New Yorker, August 4, 2014.
External links[edit]
- "The Personal is Political by Carol Hanisch, March 1969.
- Writings by Carol Hanisch (official web site)
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Improper budgetary allocation is the chief reason for irrigation projects being held up in Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar said on Saturday.
"Proper fund allotment has not been done for nearly two decades by the State government," he said, speaking to The Hindu, in a veiled pot-shot at the Congress. The State needs a staggering Rs. 75,000 crore to complete its pending irrigation projects.
Without specifying what had caused the massive cost escalation, Mr. Pawar merely said project costs had also risen owing to the increase in the price of raw materials over the years.
On Friday, Chief Minister and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan bluntly said the contractor-driven nexus, coupled with bad planning, resulted in massive backlog and cost-overruns.
While he rebutted suggestions of the Congress and the NCP playing politics over a 'White Paper' on irrigation, Mr. Chavan said it was imperative to know how the money would be spent on completing these projects in the future.
The issue of 'White Paper' has driven a wedge in the ruling Congress-NCP coalition, with the State Economic Survey 2011-12 unravelling that Maharashtra's irrigation capacity had shown an imperceptible rise of 0.1 per cent though Rs. 70,000 crore had been pumped in between 2000 and 2010.
This fact prompted Mr. Chavan to direct the Water Resources Department, headed by Water Resources Minister and senior NCP leader Sunil Tatkare to come out with a White Paper to clear the air on the state of irrigation — a move that has not gone down well with the NCP.
Mr. Tatkare disputed the Economic Survey findings, claiming that the irrigation capacity had risen from 0.1 to 5.17 per cent in the last decade.
"The main purpose was to disseminate information to the public on the massive cost-overruns of pending projects. The massive backlog resulted in irrigation projects being converted into potable drinking water [sources] in some parched districts," said Mr. Chavan.
Ideally, the status of all pending projects ought to be put on the websites of various departments, Mr. Chavan said, adding he was working towards a systems-based approach that would enhance coordination between the two parties.
However, a top Congress functionary hinted that the NCP was reluctant to bring out the White Paper.
"The Economic Survey claims a 0.1 per cent increase, while Mr. Tatkare claims that the irrigation capacity had risen 51 times to 5.17 per cent. One of the figures has got to be wrong. There cannot be such a big discrepancy," the source told The Hindu, adding the subject of White Paper on irrigation touched a raw nerve with the Congress ally.
Earlier in the day on Saturday, Mr. Pawar met Mr. Chavan to confer on a range of issues including financially distressed co-operative banks in six districts.
Funds to be pumped in
Mr. Pawar said funds would pumped in, in a bid to revive three District Co-operative Banks (DCBs) in Jalna, Osmanabad and Wardha that have a high negative net worth and have had their banking licences revoked by the Reserve Bank of India.
Mr. Chavan and Mr. Pawar would meet Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi on Monday on reviving the distressed DCBs.


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LEGO Battles: Ninjago DS
- Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Release Date: Apr 12, 2011
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Apr 14, 2011An impressive replay value meets repetitive sounds, a humorous plot fights against an unforgiving handling. LEGO Ninjago definitely isn't quite polished as it could be, but for tacticians, it is very suitable.
May 24, 2011LEGO Battles: Ninjago is meant to be an introductory RTS for young gamers.
Nintendo PowerMay 6, 2011Ninjago is a satisfying new addition to the LEGO universe. [May 2011, p.88]
May 16, 2011Hellbent Games and TT Games have teamed up to provide one of the most solid real-time strategy experiences on the Nintendo DS in general.
Nintendo GamerMay 13, 2011A rigid Lego step in the right direction. [May 2011, p.68]
May 25, 2011Lego Ninjago is an ideal RTS for an audience of beginners and kids. Several flaws undermine a product however able to amuse and entertain for a few days.
May 5, 2011A very easy RTS, better if enjoyed in multiplayer matches.
Apr 15, 2011Basic graphics, basic strategy game. It's not bad, but it's not brilliant either.
May 17, 2011While the game can be quite enjoyable with patience and perseverance, the story premise is overdone and ridiculous, and Lego fans would be better off to play with the actual toy bricks.
May 17, 2011In single and two-player Battle Mode, Lego Battles: Ninjago provides a simple, approachable RTS that can make for a fun, uncomplicated and challenging experience. However, the main adventure can be tedious and disappointing, level design is lacklustre and warrior classes lack enough variety to make for a rich and subtle strategic experience.
Apr 25, 2011Branching the Lego brand off into RTS territory is a good idea, and one that, at times, can be seen bearing some fruit. Unfortunately, there are just too many problems to make this game worth recommending. With a graphical overhaul and a few tweaks, this game might be able to briefly make the kids forget about their desires to catch all those Pokemon. However, like that space jet you attempted to construct when you were five, this game is probably better off forgotten.
Apr 20, 2011LEGO Battles: Ninjago will satisfy gamers looking for a change from LEGO's popular action-adventure titles and don't mind looking at shabby graphics.
May 16, 2011Despite a good concept and the important brand, LEGO Battles: Ninjago is a RTS excessively lacking depth and visual quality even for the the little kids the game is obviously aimed to.
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Iron Ore Gluts Seen Through 2017 on Record Supply: Commodities
Phoebe SedgmanThe seaborne iron ore market is poised for at least four years of expanding gluts as producers from Rio Tinto Group to Vale SA increase supply to a record just as growth in China drops to the slowest pace in a generation.
The surplus will reach 82 million metric tons in 2014, the most since at least 2008, and the glut will keep growing through 2017, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Australia will account for about 66 percent of the supply gains next year, Morgan Stanley says. Iron ore will average $115 a ton in 2014, 19 percent less than now and the least since 2009, according to the median of 10 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Prices rose as much as eightfold in the past decade as China added $6.8 trillion to its gross domestic product. The nation now makes almost one in every two tons of steel produced globally. Ore supply failed to keep pace, with shortages in seven of the past eight years, spurring Rio, BHP Billiton Ltd. and Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. to boost output. The looming glut will drive prices down to $80 in 2015, Goldman Sachs says.
"China is slowing down and steel production is going to be at a lower rate than what we've been used to," said Christian Lelong, an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Sydney. "It's a long-term trend that's starting next year. On the demand side, it's hard to see a return to the strong rates in the past."
Ore at the Chinese port of Tianjin, a global benchmark, fell 2.1 percent to $141.80 a dry ton this year, according to The Steel Index Ltd., owned by McGraw-Hill Financial Inc. Prices reached a seven-month low of $110.40 in May. The Standard & Poor's GSCI gauge of 24 commodities declined 1.1 percent and the MSCI All-Country World Index of equities rose 11 percent. The Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index lost 2.6 percent.
Commodity Cargo
Seaborne supply of the biggest commodity cargo after oil will rise 9.7 percent to 1.27 billion tons next year, exceeding the 3.7 percent gain in demand to 1.19 billion tons, Goldman says. Imports by China, accounting for 67 percent of the global total, may expand 4 percent to 800 million tons, the bank estimates. Worldwide growth in imports will slow to 2.5 percent this year, the lowest since at least 2008.
China's economic expansion lifted more than 600 million people out of poverty from 1981 to 2004, the World Bank estimates. The second-biggest economy will expand 7.5 percent this year and next, the weakest growth since 1990, according to the median of economist forecasts compiled by Bloomberg.
Factory Production
There are signs that Chinese growth may exceed expectations after factory production rose a greater-than-expected 9.7 percent in July and gauges of manufacturing and service industries also strengthened. The nation imported a record 73.14 million tons of iron ore last month, 17 percent more than in June, customs data show. Rates for Capesizes, the largest iron ore carriers, more than doubled this year, according to data from the Baltic Exchange in London.
Ore rallied from the low in May on expectations that China would have to expand port stockpiles that fell to a four-year low in March. Inventories rose to 68.92 million tons as of Aug. 9 from 66.26 million tons in March, according to Beijing Antaike Information Development Co., a state-backed research company. Stockpiles are still 28 percent lower than a year ago.
"The sentiment around China should start to warm around the start of 2014 and that should be reflected in a reasonably buoyant price," said Mark Pervan, head of commodity research for Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Melbourne. "The market will underestimate Chinese demand, and I think the supply response won't be as great as people expect."
Project Delays
Gains in supply may take longer than expected because of project delays, bottlenecks and less funding, Morgan Stanley says. The 82 million-ton surplus anticipated by Goldman for next year compares with projections of 27 million tons by Deutsche Bank AG and 8.8 million tons by Morgan Stanley. UBS AG is predicting a 150.7 million ton surplus.
Declining prices may force higher-cost producers to shut down, with Goldman estimating that about 15 percent of output in China's coastal provinces will close over the next two years. Supply in China can cost more than $100 a ton to produce, according to an Aug. 5 presentation from Perth-based Fortescue, which mines ore for about $60.
India may become a net importer for the first time. Overseas purchases will surge to 24 million tons in the year to March 31 from 3 million as shipments drop to 10 million tons from 18 million, according the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries. Mining remains banned in the state of Goa and producers face delays restarting after curbs in Karnataka.
December Contracts
The swaps market anticipates prices will reverse the rally over the past two months, with December contracts at $131 and $111 for a year later, according to data from GFI Group Inc. Trading volumes reached a record above 28 million tons in July, The Steel Index said on Aug. 5.
Australian mines will remain profitable even as prices drop, according to Goldman. Rio had all-in costs of A$37 ($34) a ton last year, the bank estimates. Iron ore accounted for 42 percent of the London-based company's sales last year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Shares of the biggest shipper behind Rio de Janeiro-based Vale fell 5.1 percent this year.
Steel use in China will grow 2.5 percent to 686 million tons next year, slowing from 3.5 percent in 2013, according to the Brussels-based World Steel Association. Chinese hot-rolled-coil steel prices dropped 8.6 percent from this year's high in February to 3,633 yuan ($593) on ton, data from Antaike show, signaling surplus supply.
Weaker Currencies
Vale can produce as much as 350 million tons next year, 40 million tons more than 2013, Jose Carlos Martins, the executive director for ferrous and strategy, said in June. The company is better able to withstand lower prices than producers that began operations during the boom, Martins said in an interview. Shares of the company dropped 24 percent this year.
Mining companies in Australia and Brazil may also benefit from weakening currencies, which will help curb local costs. The Australian dollar is the second-worst performing major currency this year, while the real ranks fourth.
Australian shipments of iron ore and associated products were valued at $56.7 billion last year, more than twice as much as in 2009 and 22 percent of total goods exports, according to data from the Geneva-based International Trade Centre. Brazilian cargoes were valued at $31 billion, or 13 percent of the country's total, the data show.
"This year, demand has been quite solid but it will probably taper off a bit next year and the supply growth is really ramping up," said Ian Roper, a Shanghai-based commodities strategist at CLSA Ltd. "By this time next year, I'd expect to see iron ore prices below $100."


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Need Help So I just got back from vacation and I have to say that I am not really feeling all that motivated to get back to riding. Before I left I was overly motivated and I was making some great strides with my horse and I really hated the idea that I was going to be gone a whole week and wasn't going to be able to ride... now that I am back, I have started a new job which is so mentally exhausting and I am not really feeling like riding that much. Any help that you can give me to get me motivated again would be GREATLY appreciated... |
Frankly, I can't advice much. But I know how you feel - when I'm overwhelmed with work (especially if something doesn't go smooth, or I stuck with the problem). Well... I'm just telling myself: "I have to". :-) And try to arrange time (may be not a lot, just 20-30 mins). Usually when I kick myself out and start brushing etc. I already mentally ready for the ride (and I try to leave behind thinking about work etc.). :wink: |
I dont know if any of us can really say anything to motivate you. You just have to get out there and ride. Once you start having good/fun rides, you'll get motivated again. I know how you feel. I started a new job in the winter and by the end of the day i just wanto to go home and relax. I know it sounds odd but i had to force myself to get back into the swing of things and ride again. (I was a BM before and could ride whenever i wanted) Now i have a "real job" so i need that extra push at the end of the day. Once i went out a few times in a row and had some amazing rides on my boy, I found my self wanting to ride all the time after work again. It just takes time and getting back in the swing of things. Good luck! and stop making excuses of why not to go and just go! |
You are exactly right! I do make excuses of why I shouldn't ride today when it really just comes down to the fact that I just don't feel like it. I have only ridden once since my vacation ended and it was just a walking trail ride because it was so blistering hot that day that I was dripping sweat standing in the shade. The whole 'real job' thing sucks! I had one before but my new job is way more mentally exhausting. I don't know if it is just I am not in the swing of things yet or what but I am going to HAVE to figure something out. I am thinking that I may need to take a lesson with my trainer. That really motivated me before, but the problem is I am not legged up to handle a lesson and I am no where near where I should be when it comes to the homework she gave me from my last lesson. Talk about discouraging myself again... ugh!!!! I just need to get over it and enjoy riding again. It really should be relaxing instead of daunting. |
What really helped me at first was find someone at your barn to ride with. Schedule a ride after work, that way you wont want to cancel on them and you'll go. It worked with me. Even if you dont really know some one. What better way to get motivated then go to for a relaxing, stress free ride and talk about your horse the whole time. And if it is too hot and buggy to ride, just go see your horse for a few minutes, give him a pat and some cookies. Being in the environment helps too. Once you're there you may want to hop on for 15 minutes just for a quick walk. You just have to get yourself there. |
well the good thing is that I live where my horse does. He is litterally in my backyard. My best friend does have one of her horses out there too which usually helps because I have her to ride with but for some reason since I got back from vacation I am just overly unmotivated. I think I need to find a goal and force myself to stick with it. I usually do better when I am working towards something rather than just doing nothing. I guess it makes me feel more accountable because I don't like the feeling of not being prepared. |
All I know is some of my best rides have been when I thought I was too tired. Something about your body being overly relaxed due to extreme fatigue translates into the horse moving soooo much better. I always go home from my "too tired" rides happier than a kid in a candy store. |
I am proud to say that I did ride last night! It wasn't for long, but a short ride is better than not riding at all. I have to say that I felt pretty good about it too. Hopefully that good feeling will continue so I will ride again tonight! Keep your fingers crossed for me :-P |
Good, glad to hear it! Now you have to keep that momentum going and ride again today. |
I have trouble sometimes motivating myself for my once weekly lessons. Because I'm scheduled, and it's first thing in the morning, it prevents me from skipping out just because I don't feel like it. And once I'm there I *do* finally get motivated. So, maybe you just have to put yourself in a position to do something with your horse. Once you're there, it'll be easier to get into the riding mood. It'll also get easier once you settle into work and things come easier for you there. Not to mention when the weather gets a little cooler. This summer has been especially brutal. |
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Sheriff's Department drops bid for $100 million to expand jail
In a letter to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the state agency overseeing the bid and award process, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens cited a requirement that the state own and operate the facility, "something that will not work in our community."
The county Board of Supervisors approved the bid in March to seek funds under the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007, also known as AB900.
Supervisor Bill Campbell's district covers Irvine and Orange, home to Theo Lacy jail. Campbell said Hutchens did the right thing by not pursing the bid because of the possible implications of letting the state own and operate a re-entry facility in Orange County.
"That facility would potentially be a state prison and I do not support a state prison in the heart of Orange County," Campbell said. "The sheriff negotiated on a bunch of alternative ways to make sure it could never change, but they wouldn't agree to that."
Ryan Burris, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, said the loss of the bid means the county must find other ways to relieve the overcrowding in the county's jails. According to the Sheriff's Department, there are 1,256 beds at Musick, on the outskirts of Lake Forest and Irvine. The city of Orange has an agreement with the county that Lacy hold no more than 2,986 inmates.
"We still know that we need to expand the jail facilities to meet demand," Burris said. "They're going to have to look at all of that to figure out the best way to do so."
The original proposal for the inmate re-entry program called for it to be at Theo Lacy in Orange. In May, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation rejected that plan after city officials protested the move because the re-entry program entailed paroling 292 state inmates onto the streets of the city.
Orange Mayor Carolyn Cavecche said that she also protested the move because it would have violated an existing agreement with the county not to change the conditions of the jail without city approval.
"We are responsible for that jail," Cavecche said. "We've done our fair share."
Cavecche said jail overcrowding is a concern for the entire county.
"That's why the county Board of Supervisors are looking for ways to expand bed space," she said. "It's a very large county. I trust that the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Hutchens are going to be able to find a solution that's equitable for all of the cities in the county."
In her letter, Hutchens wrote that the county was interested in the second phase of funding for AB900. Campbell said that the Board of Supervisors and Hutchens are looking at other options, including recategorizing inmates to open up beds.
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I hope they will do something to tailoring too, like adding cooler mounts then just flying carpets (or new ones)!
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"Harvested from ancient moments, this strange stone can be formed into truly strange constructions."Since 99% hope that this Living Stone is indeed not a purchasable sink, I still wonder how is it obtainable.1. If it's a stone, and it is "harvested", does that mean pure Prospecting, or Mining too?2. It does not seem to be BoP, therefore it will influence AH even worse, than current JC condition.3. Judging by the price, it's either every profession is getting a solid boost of income possibilities, or it will be a sort of rare world spawn(like current "Tear of Loyalty" from idiotic rare beast kills). In latter case, we get even worse effect on AH, than in point 2.All in all, Blizz seems to want to add too much shiny trivial stuff for people to collect. 5 mounts for ONE profession? Yes, JCs asked for some bones to gnaw upon, but this is a bit...ridiculous.
Quick question though, will only JC's be able to ride these bad boys? If So, I'd better get grinding on JC and ditch LW before Pandaria comes. Lol.
I'm beginning to think new gem models are one of the most annoying things for the art team to work on in a new expansion..."Okay guys, all the other stuff is fantastic. Now make these 3 types of shiny rocks look different from those old shiny rocks!"
THUNDERCATS GOOOOO! *snarf Snarf* XD
I so thought of Voltron too when i saw these! hahha! Nice different looking mounts.
This so makes me wish you could vote up people in this area! Thanks for posting that for all the newbies/youngsters out there!
I'd really like to see this daily model overhauled. I don't feel it should be necessary to do a daily every day, jacking up the cost of uncommon quality gems, just to get the cuts you need. I really wish they would use dailies to fill in the gap not be the only way of getting patterns.
Soo it said that these mounts also change based on your riding skill, the other panthers fly as well, any chance of some screenshots or a viewer of the others with their wings out ?
They all look fantastic, too bad I'll probably never own one, even with my main being a Jewelcrafter, damn me and my lack of interest making enough gold to afford them =D
I thought that flying panther model was the new RAF mount, the Obsidian Nightwing?I could swear there was an actual jewelled black panther that did not fly (I remember it had shiny turquoise gems in the spot where the wings are on this one.)
The new JC mounts scream "Go Go Power Rangers" lol. They even have the yellow rangers zord hahaha >.<
It really makes me sad Blizzard has not learned anything, i have the feeling they still try to continue the game with all the old stuff putting it in a new jacket. What i would love too see is graphical spell changes so a fireball that really changes the more you practice with. Where a level 1 fireball is small has less sound and hardly got any shiffering down my spine onces i shoot it, while the spell grows the more i use it and different kinds of accent come to it when endly you get an extreme sea of fire once you trigger your fireball at his highest level. make it like you feel like a god when you are out leveled. also i would love too see changes on the side quests. Now it gains only money or experience, why not gaining rested bonus instead of staying in town for getting rested bonus, work for your rested bonus by doing minigames, sidequests in town like fishing, cooking, partying or stay the night in a inn once in a while. so diveded the quests it in adventure quests and relaxing quests.just my thoughts about it.
I can see how jewel mounts kinda fits in nicely with the already-eastern feel of MoP, but I'd still love to see more mounts from other professions :/ How about some origami mounts from Inscription? That could compliment MoP well.Origami Proto Drake (cuz everyone knows that Protos > Regulars)- Truck-loads of parchment- Lots of rare ink- specific glyphs (?)- rare gems for adornments and eyeballsDone :)
So pleased to see secondary stats costing less of the gem budget. Hopefully this does away with the "primary stats are so much better than you just want to shove red gems in every socket" quote-unquote strategy. Would be really interesting if any DPS specs end up valuing a secondary at better than 0.5 primary, you'd see non-tanks putting orange gems in red sockets and using some of the previously worthless yellow and green cuts.


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This track dropped like three months ago, so it's honestly hard to figure why Bow Wow's camp would even go to the trouble of putting together a music video for it. Regardless, as was with the song, it's here and we have to deal with it, so just call it an albatross around the neck for now.
The creative genius in this one is immediate, as you see Bow Wow dressed as Shredder within the first four seconds of the video. From there, it's nothing more than your typical motorcycles, whips and exotic women all plastically set against neo-urban nightlife settings built to breed the idea that fantastical asininities are cool, and should make sense. Lil Wayne looks like he wandered onto the set by accident, and, much as he tries, Bow Wow still looks like a tween being babysat by call girls.
Here's the video. Whatever happens, make it to the 4:45 mark.
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"Biggest Loser" alum Tara Costa could have a weighty legal situation on her hands.
Costa, who appeared on NBC's "The Biggest Loser: Couples 2" — and lost 155 pounds in the process — is being sued by a fitness company, which claims that Costa violated a business agreement with them.
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Among the gripes in the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Florida: That Costa "had gained far too much weight" to make personal appearances on behalf of the company.
FC Online Marketing, Inc. — which owns the website I Love Kickboxing — claims that the alleged weight gain ran contrary to a passage in the agreement that Costa "agrees to maintain her current level of fitness and conditioning" during the length of the agreement.
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The suit, which also names The Champion Funds, Inc., d/b/a the Inspire Change Foundation, levels other charges. The complaint also claims that FC Online Marketing agreed to pay the Foundation $45,000 for "likeness rights" to Costa — rights that, the suit alleges, were not the Foundation's to grant.
On top of everything else, the suit claims, Costa entered into an agreement with one of FC Online Marketing's competitors, in violation of the original agreement.
Also read: 'Storage Wars' Star Brandi Passante Gets Pittance in Porn Video Lawsuit
The Inspire Change Foundation has not yet responded to TheWrap's request for comment.
The suit is seeking unspecified damages.
Pamela Chelin contributed to this report.


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May 30, 2005
Is it good for young children to believe they are cute?
UPDATE: Oh, good, they're gone.
15 comments:
- David Manus said...
The Inscrutable Doctor Althouse
- Joan said...
My kids know that they're cute, but they also know that being cute on the outside doesn't excuse being vile on the inside, or behaving badly... - 5/30/05, 3:03 PM
- Meade said...
Seems to me that believing they are cute can't possibly be as bad as believing they are many of the other things so many children today seem to believe they are -- such as -- the one and only center of the universe.
- Ann Althouse said...
When I wrote that post, I was sitting near a child who was acting excessively cute, obviously encouraged by her parents, and utterly incapable of knowing how idiotic she appeared to people who didn't know her. IIn my opinion, her parents had done her a disservice.
It's one thing for a child to believe she's good and lovable, quite another for a child to engage in cutesy behavior because it causes her parents to beam at her. I'm afraid she's going to be quite confused when she discovers that sort of behavior doesn't make new people think she's wonderful. - 5/30/05, 4:34 PM
- jinnmabe said...
Ah, I see you meant "behaving" cute, as opposed to being physically cute. I think my kids are very, very cute physically, but they don't always act that way. I don't know that it will hurt them for me to tell them they are beautiful (while still avoiding the Seinfeld-ish "you gotta see the BAY-bee" with other people).
Could you be more specific as to the age of the child and what exactly they were doing? A one year old can get away with "cute" behavior more often than a four year old. - 5/30/05, 4:48 PM
- Ann Althouse said...
It's fine for you to think they're cute. My problem is with parents who interact with their kids in a way that conveys to the kids that they ought to think of themselves as cute.
The kid I felt had been done a disservice was perhaps 6. - 5/30/05, 4:56 PM
- henny said...
Aaaah, I see. I think I'm starting to get the problems with "cute". Reminds me of a time when I was sitting in an adorable, small and quiet cafe in my neighborhood. A Dutch mother enters with her children and another friend while she lets her 3 -4 year old kids run wild. They scream, they bang their heads against the glass door that I am sitting next to, they throw sugar packets across the cafe, all the time while the mothers just stand their and smile at the "cuteness" of their children. I was even more apalled when another mother, a stranger, starts talking "cutesy" to the child banging his head against the door - "Are you a doooor man?!!! Are you a cute little dooooor man???"
Absolutely nauseating and not cute. My mother never would have let me get away with that. - 5/30/05, 5:17 PM
- nappy40 said...
I met a person for whom the comment, "oh, your daughter is so pretty," was not a compliment. It was close to an insult or a suggestion that the girl was less than intelligent.
- HaloJonesFan said...
nappy40: On the other hand, that sort of thing sounds more like the stereotypical hyper-feminist "what, you mean my daughter's LOOKS are the ONLY IMPORTANT THING ABOUT HER?! Why not just CHAIN HER TO THE WALL so she doesn't LEARN TO THINK INDEPENDENTLY!"
- HaloJonesFan said...
Oh, the original post? Well, there's "I am cute", and there's "I am a beautiful and unique snowflake and nothing I do can ever be wrong, it's only my free independent spirit expressing itself as I run around and goose strangers because I like to watch them jump."
- Slac said...
Hmm. No, it's not good at all.
Cuteness is an innocence that inspires love and affection. When you know you're cute, you're no longer innocent and no longer cute. While manipulating your cuteness, you no longer inspire love and affection from others. And we could use more of those. - 5/30/05, 11:06 PM
- Bruce Hayden said...
The problem with kids believing that they are cute is that they use it to get away with things that they shouldn't. Obvious, from what all above are saying.
But to continue - part of what I consider good parenting is not letting them get away with this. Not just because what you think is cute in your kid, others most often think is bratty.
But even more, in that it gives exactly the wrong message to the kids - just do cute things when you are bad, and you can get away with them.
I see a lot of parenting as going against your natural inclinations when going with them would be counterproductive. - 5/31/05, 1:39 AM
- Bruce Hayden said...
But is this really any different from letting some women get away with a lot, just because they are beautiful?
Add to this, that beautiful children are much more likely to be considered cute by other than their parents. - 5/31/05, 1:44 AM
- TWM said...
That's why I always told my kids there were ugly as hell -- made em work harder.
(Joking -- before you call childrens services on me) - 5/31/05, 7:29 AM
- Be said...
Wandering Mind: In all seriousness, I know of people whose parents have said stuff like that. One in particular's mom told her daughter something to the effect of her making d@mn sure that she learned to use her brains, because she wasn't going to get anywhere on her looks.
I consider that and what Nappy 40 commented on to be two sides of the same coin. - 5/31/05, 9:17 AM


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I am no longer, as of October 2008 working as a class teacher at Sandaig, so have moved this blog to another server. If you want to comment on this post, pleas search for it there.
For a blog that claims to be mostly what we are doing with ict in class I've not posted much about that recently. Things have be coming a bit thick and fast for reflection. This is just a wee note about some things that have been going on over the last couple of weeks.
One afternoon a week I take a bunch of children from or primary six classes to work on self esteem, emotional literacy and the like through practical activities. The most recent activity is drawing to a close. It this the children created short tunes with GarageBand, then designed covers for a cd. The covers were further edited with picnik. We then burned cds with all 12 tracks and published the mp3s and art on the website: Sandaig Primary Wiki Primary6Project. The children are in the middle of adding a bit of writing to the wiki to round up the project.
We have been using GarageBand around the school too. My musical ability has been taken to its limit just making a minute of loop music so I've roped in our peripatetic music teacher Martian Douglas who is working with groups of children on a Friday afternoon. At the moment they are just using the loops provided, but Martin is working on incorporating drumming and guitar played by the children. The music made so far can be heard on the Sandaig Jukebox.
On Wednesday afternoons I teach 'the other' primary six class to cover NCC time. This term I am teaching the Sound part of the glasgow Sound and light topic. I am using a modified topic created by Alisa Barr of nearby Mount Vernon Primary when the children work in groups on challenges to cover the learning outcomes. This has been quite challenging for me and i am not sure I spent enough time on preparing for group work, despite the fat I had attended a couple of cpd events by Alisa on just that.
I've give the topic a slight web 2 spin as I present the challenges on the Sandaig Primary Wiki SoundAndLight. The first challenge we did as a class and published our findings as a mp3. The next section was on The Ear and the groups tried a variety of ways of reporting their findings. In the current challenge Sound Travels different groups have been set different tasks and seem to be widening there reporting methods (not published yet).
These two project have been my first step of using a wiki at school, at the moment the children need support for publishing but hopefully this will improve. Some of the publishing is a bit tricky, eg powerpoint to slideshare and then a recipe to put on wiki. I am using PmWiki which is not wysiwyg but seems to be working out well enough.
The topic was interrupted this week by health week which should have been a excellent chance to get the children blogging, but in reality they were to busy with activities, there is a wee movie in the works and hopefully it will be blogged next week.
In the midst of the Health week we had a visit from Johanna Hall from BBC Scotland, Johanna had commented on the Sandaig Otters' blog about Radio Sandaig. She came in to give the children a chance to work on recording some content for the BBC (links when I know them). She also gave a masterclass on speaking and recording for the 12 children involved which I hope they will cascade to their classmates. This also gave me a bit of impetus to get the podcast flowing and we put out a special this week with another one nearly finished. My HT kindly gave me some time out of class to work on these before Johanna's visit. Johanna took them away with her recording to work into an up and coming BBC production.
I am sure I've missed one or two things out, but that is probably quite enough for now.
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Can Chaos Create?
December 17, 2013 | Posted by DLH under Darwinism, Evolution, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, theistic evolution |
Or does the observed biochemical complexity imply design?
Dr. Granville Sewell finds: Intelligent design theories gaining steam in scientific circles
"The debut at #7 on the New York Times best seller list last July of Stephen Meyer's new book Darwin's Doubt is evidence that the scientific theory of intelligent design (ID) continues to gain momentum. . . .
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Would the concepts of ergonomics and logistics be products of unintelligent forces, I wonder? Matter at its most wily?
On logistics, can "unintelligent forces" (stochastic 4 laws) do better on the traveling salesman's problem than random chance? For quantitative details, See Dembski's & Mark's papers at the Evolutionary Information Lab. -
as to the question "Can Chaos Create?" Or does the observed biochemical complexity imply design?.
Scientific American: Evolution "To some extent, it just happens" – July 2013
"Complexity, they say, is not purely the result of millions of years of fine-tuning through natural selection—the process that Richard Dawkins famously dubbed "the blind watchmaker." To some extent, it just happens.
Biologists and philosophers have pondered the evolution of complexity for decades, but according to Daniel W. McShea, a paleobiologist at Duke University, they have been hobbled by vague definitions. "It's not just that they don't know how to put a number on it. They don't know what they mean by the word," McShea says."
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....selection/To clarify what they mean by 'they have been hobbled by vague definitions'.
"It is our contention that if 'random' is given a serious and crucial interpretation from a probabilistic point of view, the randomness postulate is highly implausible and that an adequate scientific theory of evolution must await the discovery and elucidation of new natural laws—physical, physico-chemical, and biological."
Murray Eden, "Inadequacies of Neo-Darwinian Evolution as a Scientific Theory," Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, editors Paul S. Moorhead and Martin M. Kaplan, June 1967, p. 109.Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on the Empirical Problems with Neo-Darwinism – Casey Luskin – February 27, 2012
Excerpt: While they (Darwinian Biologists) pretend to stay in this way completely 'scientific' and 'rational,' they become actually very irrational, particularly because they use the word 'chance', not any longer combined with estimations of a mathematically defined probability, in its application to very rare single events more or less synonymous with the old word 'miracle.'"
Wolfgang Pauli –
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....56771.htmlTalbott humorously reflects on the awkward situation for Darwinists here:
Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness – Talbott – Fall 2011
Excerpt: In the case of evolution, I picture Dennett and Dawkins filling the blackboard with their vivid descriptions of living, highly regulated, coordinated, integrated, and intensely meaningful biological processes, and then inserting a small, mysterious gap in the middle, along with the words, "Here something random occurs."
This "something random" looks every bit as wishful as the appeal to a miracle. It is the central miracle in a gospel of meaninglessness, a "Randomness of the gaps," demanding an extraordinarily blind faith. At the very least, we have a right to ask, "Can you be a little more explicit here?"
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/.....randomnessIn our effort to help alleviate Darwinists of this vague "Randomness of the gaps" definition they are stuck with, I think it will be helpful to point out that when computer programmers/engineers want to build a better random number generator, for any particular computer program they are building, then a better source of entropy is required to be found by them in order for them to achieve the increased randomness they desire for their program:
Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
Excerpt: From an information theoretic point of view, the amount of randomness, the entropy that can be generated is equal to the entropy provided by the system. But sometimes, in practical situations, more random numbers are needed than there is entropy available.
By the way, if you need some really good random numbers, go here:
These are truly random (not pseudo-random) and are generated from atmospheric noise.
per Gil DodgenAlso of note to defining terms more precisely:
Excerpt: It is often said that entropy is an expression of the disorder, or randomness of a system, or of our lack of information about it (which on some views of probability, amounts to the same thing as randomness).
per wikipediaIt is also of interest to point how pervasive entropy is in its explanatory power for physical events that occur in this universe,,
Shining Light on Dark Energy – October 21, 2012
Excerpt: It (Entropy) explains time; it explains every possible action in the universe;,,
Even gravity, Vedral argued, can be expressed as a consequence of the law of entropy. ,,,
The principles of thermodynamics are at their roots all to do with information theory. Information theory is simply an embodiment of how we interact with the universe —,,,
http://crev.info/2012/10/shini.....rk-energy/But what is devastating for the atheist (or even for the Theistic Evolutionist) who wants 'randomness of the gaps' to be the source for all creativity in the universe, is that randomness, (i.e. the entropic processes of the universe), are now shown, scientifically, to be vastly more likely to destroy functional information within the cell rather than ever building it up'. Here are my notes along that line:
"Is there a real connection between entropy in physics and the entropy of information? …. The equations of information theory and the second law are the same, suggesting that the idea of entropy is something fundamental…"
Tom Siegfried, Dallas Morning News, 5/14/90 – Quotes attributed to Robert W. Lucky, Ex. Director of Research, AT&T, Bell Laboratories & John A. Wheeler, of Princeton & Univ. of TX, Austin in the articleDemonic device converts information to energy – 2010
Excerpt: "This is a beautiful experimental demonstration that information has a thermodynamic content," says Christopher Jarzynski, a statistical chemist at the University of Maryland in College Park. In 1997, Jarzynski formulated an equation to define the amount of energy that could theoretically be converted from a unit of information2; the work by Sano and his team has now confirmed this equation. "This tells us something new about how the laws of thermodynamics work on the microscopic scale," says Jarzynski.
http://www.scientificamerican......rts-inform,,having a empirically demonstrated direct connection between entropy of the universe and the information inherent within a cell is extremely problematic for Darwinists because of the following principle,,,
"Gain in entropy always means loss of information, and nothing more."
Gilbert Newton Lewis – preeminent Chemist of the first half of last century"Bertalanffy (1968) called the relation between irreversible thermodynamics and information theory one of the most fundamental unsolved problems in biology."
Charles J. Smith – Biosystems, Vol.1, p259.and this 'unsolved problems in biology' is strongly supported empirically:
"The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution": Break or blunt any functional coded element whose loss would yield a net fitness gain – Michael Behe – December 2010
Excerpt: In its most recent issue The Quarterly Review of Biology has published a review by myself of laboratory evolution experiments of microbes going back four decades.,,, The gist of the paper is that so far the overwhelming number of adaptive (that is, helpful) mutations seen in laboratory evolution experiments are either loss or modification of function. Of course we had already known that the great majority of mutations that have a visible effect on an organism are deleterious. Now, surprisingly, it seems that even the great majority of helpful mutations degrade the genome to a greater or lesser extent.,,, I dub it "The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution": Break or blunt any functional coded element whose loss would yield a net fitness gain.
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Thus, Darwinists are found to be postulating that the 'random' entropic events of the universe, which are found to be consistently destroying information in the cell, are instead what are creating functional information/complexity in the cell.,,, It is the equivalent in science of someone (in this case a 'consensus of scientists') claiming that Gravity makes things fall up instead of down, and that is not overstating the bizarre situation we find ourselves in in the least since Gravity 'arises as an entropic force'.
Evolution is a Fact, Just Like Gravity is a Fact! UhOh! – January 2010
Excerpt: The results of this paper suggest gravity arises as an entropic force, once space and time themselves have emerged.
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....fact-uhoh/In fact, the maximum source for entropy (randomness) in the universe is now known to be black holes,,,
Entropy of the Universe – Hugh Ross – May 2010
Excerpt: Egan and Lineweaver found that supermassive black holes are the largest contributor to the observable universe's entropy. They showed that these supermassive black holes contribute about 30 times more entropy than what the previous research teams estimated.
http://www.reasons.org/entropy-universeIt is also very interesting to note that Ludwig Boltzmann, an atheist, when he linked entropy and probability, did not, as Max Planck a Christian Theist points out in the following link, think to look for a constant for entropy:
The Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann first linked entropy and probability in 1877. However, the equation as shown, involving a specific constant, was first written down by Max Planck, the father of quantum mechanics in 1900. In his 1918 Nobel Prize lecture, Planck said: "This constant is often referred to as Boltzmann's constant, although, to my knowledge, Boltzmann himself never introduced it – a peculiar state of affairs, which can be explained by the fact that Boltzmann, as appears from his occasional utterances, never gave thought to the possibility of carrying out an exact measurement of the constant."
http://www.daviddarling.info/e.....ation.htmlI hold that the primary reason why Boltzmann, an atheist, never thought to carry out, or even propose, a precise measurement for the constant on entropy is that he, as an atheist, had thought he had arrived at the ultimate 'random' explanation for how everything in the universe operates when he had link probability with entropy. i.e. In linking entropy with probability, Boltzmann, again an atheist, thought he had explained everything that happens in the universe to a 'random' chance basis. To him, as an atheist, I hold that it would simply be unfathomable for him to conceive that the 'random chance' (probabilistic) events of entropy in the universe should ever be constrained by a constant that would limit the effects of 'random' entropic events of the universe. Whereas on the contrary, to a Christian Theist such as Planck, it is expected that even these seemingly random entropic events of the universe should be bounded by a constant. In fact modern science was born out of such thinking:
'Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true.'
Lewis, C.S., Miracles: a preliminary study, Collins, London, p. 110, 1947.Verse and Music
Romans 8:20-21
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.Phillips, Craig & Dean – When The Stars Burn Down – Worship Video with lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPuxnQ_vZqYSupplemental Note:
Quantum Zeno effect
Excerpt: The quantum Zeno effect is,,, an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay.
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ent-445840But why should the random entropic events of the universe care if and when I decide to consciously observe an unstable particle if, as Darwinists hold, I'm suppose to be the result of the random entropic events of the universe in the first place? Perhaps instead of being accidents, as Darwinists hold, we truly are, each of us, created by God?
Great comments, bornagain77. I like this one by Wolfgang Pauli:
While they (Darwinian Biologists) pretend to stay in this way completely 'scientific' and 'rational,' they become actually very irrational, particularly because they use the word 'chance', not any longer combined with estimations of a mathematically defined probability, in its application to very rare single events more or less synonymous with the old word 'miracle.'"
Wolfgang Pauli –It has always been clear to me that Darwinists were a bunch of brain-dead, superstitious dirt worshippers.
semi related:
How Free Will Works (In Quantum Mechanics) – video
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6Piltdown2December 17, 2013 at 11:50 pm
Scott Adams had a good Dilbert strip last week on the infinite monkey theorem:
Just try to imagine what all is possible in a world with infinite possibilities!
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7Robert ByersDecember 18, 2013 at 12:11 am
I would add meyers book possibly is a bigger deal then realized.
If it had flopped or gained just a small audience EVOLUTIONISTS would of said AHA the movement is losing steam and a dying cause.
instead the books being the talk of the town surely demands the iD (and YEC) cause is doing gangbusters.
This books success with the educated public is a sign of future books acoming and doing well.
its a sign of a revolution in rather obscure matters taking place finally.
YEC creationists probably predicted this decades ago. finally non yEC researchers would note evolutions failings in scientific investigation and conclusions.
perhaps the writers on this forum could unite for a series of articles in a book form.
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8origin_surgeonDecember 18, 2013 at 5:10 am
Didn't Leo Szilard say "On the Decrease in Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings."?
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I quite agree. It would bring the materialist camp no more joy than to tout the floundering sales as a death knell for the ID camp. However, as it stands the materialists must begin the spin. They throw out classics, like suggesting it is the opium-loving American masses driving up numbers.
I posit that many are seeing through the foggy caricature of God the likes of Dawkins has erected. They are realizing one can be rational, respecting the scientific method of discovery, and accept the idea of a God.
'Can chaos create?'
What an ironic question, but on the basis of the atheists' apotheosis of nothingness and meaninglessness, the natural antithesis of the Christian precept that we are entrusted by God to bring order out of chaos.
It parallels the disparagement of the term Intelligent Design, the antonym of which is not 'random chance', but Unintelligent Design, a prime oxymoron showing that they want to have their cake and eat it; they don't wish to use the lexicon of the rest of mankind, they repudiate it.
There is nothing unclear or ambiguous about the complexity and subtlety of the universe's designs – in short, their reality. If a person clinically afflicted by cretinism could understand the concept of design, he could be in no less doubt on that score than any sane human being on the 'normal to genius' scale. The irony of the term, Unintelligent Design, therefore, is delicious, highlighting, as it does, their arrant lunacy.
semi OT: UC Berkeley Mathematician Edward Frenkel on the Transcendent World of Math – Dec. 19, 2013 http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....80361.html
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Another day and yet another awards show is on the horizon, with Doctor Who as one of the candidates for a win.
The Writers Guild of Great Britain has nominated Doctor Who for one of its prestigious awards in the Best Television Drama Series category and the show is up against not only last years winner, Being Human (written by The Vampires of Venice creator Toby Whithouse) but also sci-fi cop drama Ashes to Ashes.
The guild is a trade union for professional writers and the awards are deemed to be prestigious because the work of writers is honoured by their peers and colleagues.
Writers involved with Doctor Who Series Five include: Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Simon Nye, Toby Whithouse and Chris Chibnall.
This would be a huge award to win and, let's face it; the other shows are great but stick to a stricter formula. Hopefully Doctor Who is a shoe in to win!
The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, 21st November 2010
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Which acts are the first four put through to the next round on "America's Got Talent?"
Okay, so I missed the first 8 minutes due to a DVR snafu. I joined the episode just as Nathaniel Kenyon was put through at the expense of Airpocalypse and Sally Cohn, which is pretty spot-on for me.
I love it that this show makes the contestants hang out together in a red-painted broom closet while they jump and down and pretend to like popcorn. Hilarious.
We now have Selena Gomez with "Round and Round." She looks pretty and stuff but the vocals are pretty weak sauce. She also looks like a little girl playing dress up. Sorry, Selena. You do not spin me right round like a record, baby.
The next group is Nick Pike, Kung Fu Heroes and Fighting Gravity. Well, this has to be FG, right? I mean, it's not even a question. And then they get through, which is the right choice. So far I'm 2-for-2 predicting the advancing groups. C'mon Future Funk and the Tap Dancers!
We jump right into the next results with Christina & Ali, Maricar and the Hot Shot Tap Dancers. If you ask me, the tap dancers should advance. But I'd put my money on the singing sisters, who apparently have a disease, which is very sad but doesn't make them sound better as singers. Anyway, the act that goes through is … Christina and Ali. Ugh. I mean, they are adorable and I would love to cast them in my production of "Annie" or whatever, but they weren't that good last night. Hmmm. Poor tap dancers.
Before we get to the last spot, we have "Rock of Ages" performing. This is supposed to be "rock" but it's like white bread, sugar pop rock with too-well-choregraphed back-up dancers and Constantine Maroulis permed hair. Hmmm.
The "special surprise guest" turns out to be Dee Snider. My money was on Bret Michaels, but I'm not THAT far off. Bret Michaels : "American Idol" as Dee Snider : "America's Got Talent," am I right?
Does anybody else look at this and wonder if Adam Lambert is headed this way? Just commenting — I love Adam Lambert.
Wait, what? Journey? In "Rock of Ages?" That's weird. Plus, Constantine does NOT have Steve Perry's high notes AT ALL. Yikes. I'd rather listen to Lea Michele and Cory Monteith and I am not even kidding.
How hilarious was it when Nick Cannon called "American Idol" a "big big talent show." Snerk.
The last group comes down to RNG, Paul Safy Jr. and Future Funk. So last year, the judges' decision was between the two on-the-bubble acts. Are these the acts that finished 4, 5 and 6? Or not? Hmmm.
When the acts get out on stage, the two little Future Funkers are almost crying already. Awww, little guys! But first — Nick sends one act home! And it is … Paul Safy Jr. Yeah, that's not a shock. For one, he wasn't that good. And for two, that makes the judges choose between two adorable children's acts. Man, those little boys keep wiping their eyes and the RNG girls are getting choked up. I can't even take this. There should be a kids' division of this show.
Nick informs us that they did come in 4th and 5th, so I feel better about the integrity of the show. (Did I just type that sentence?) Anyway, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the judges put through Future Funk.
Did you notice how the younger Future Funker imitates everything the older Future Funker does? SO CUTE.
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Valerie Allen (John Hay College of Justice, CUNY)
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2010
Western Michigan University
BABEL Panel: On The Question of Style
Without Style
Figure 1. Jennider Khoshbin, Life Bubble
A trip to the OED will tell us that the word style, in currency for over 700 years, comes to us via Old French from Latin stilus, meaning a stylus or nib, as if we could speak of someone being entire without nib or rather nibbish. By a synecdochal move style comes to name the words that emerge from under the scribe's hand as the stylus moves across the folium, and then, by another conceptual gathering, the inked words on the page come to express the words "as they ought to be expressed" — I modify this phrase from Aristotle's Rhetoric, which translated very literally read: "it is not sufficient to have what (things) ought to be said but also necessary [to have] how such (things) ought to be said."[1] Style is not ineffable but a function of words arranged in certain ways. We are doubly reminded of this by the words in the Greek and Latin that we translate as "style:" lexis and elocutio.
What sort of balance do we seek between, as Aristotle pitches it, "what we ought to say" and "how we ought to say it"? The question is thousands of years old yet into its large picture is inscribed the very real concerns that it generates for us daily. How we resolve the balance between style and substance bears decisive consequences for scholarly reputations and for audience. The long battle between style and substance begins at least with Plato and the sophists and, while this is not the place for sketching its history, I will mention a couple of formative turns. One, the logical turn of the early modern era, marked by Descartes' quest for certainty but before that by Petrus Ramus splitting the five canons of rhetoric — invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery — into two groups: he assigned invention and arrangement to philosophy and left rhetoric, now shrunk to style, memory, and delivery — the narrower and shallower. Style now becomes a quest for the effective way of presenting what philosophy had already ascertained to be correct. Two, the "ordinary language turn," set into motion by wrters as various as G.E. Moore, Jürgen Habermas, Stephen Toulmin, and Chaim Perelman. They show how a claim cannot be abstracted from the language in which it is cast, in contrast to formal logic, which aims for a purely symbolic notation, emptied of content, and with a truth-value abstracted from the words of the sentence. These compass points, from which we aim today to get our bearings in seeking to establish how to write as we ought, indicate the breadth of the terrain. In our little way, we join an ongoing dispute between style and substance, means and end, appearance and reality, rhetoric and philosophy, form and content.
By using this long-winded phrase (to write as we ought) I try for a moment to avoid nouns because they imply that style is some thing, and instead I take refuge in the subjunctive in order to cast style as mood, a grammatical function of the verb-system that orients the verb toward reality in a certain way (declarative, hypothetical, etc.). Mood identifies the mode in which the verb is. Mood and mode are basically the same word (from Latin modus), so we can think of grammatical mood in terms of musical mode. Metaphor or analogy is perhaps the only way of getting access to style as a general concept, for it is impossible to get without style (in the archaic sense of "outside")[2] in order to think it. Style or mood and being are conjoint: "in every case Dasein always has some mood;" writes Heidegger;[3] being is always in a mood — "we are never free of moods," he says.[4] Heidegger's word for mood (Stimmung) is a musical term, meaning the tuning of an instrument.[5] All communicative acts have modality. Beneath the positive sense of style as elegance or idiosyncracy, the pervasive sense of style imbues all language.
All communicative acts have intention, a necessary directedness. Our books have intention, a necessary directedness. I visualize my book sailing through the air when I am asked in publishers' proposal forms: "who is it aimed at?" There is a larger question underlying the market-speak that is harder to answer well: "for whom do we write?" We write for ourselves, for each other, and for loved ones, as if our words were gifts. We also write for those we have read whose words have mattered to us, a ghostly audience of absent authors. Keeping Heidegger in the picture, being in the world entails having things matter to us.[6] The intentionality of style is not unidirectional, where we have designs upon our audience; it involves having an audience that matters to us, that shapes our diction. If saying so suggests that discourse communities determine our style it also harks back to the classical adage that style is formed through habits of reading, that writing is imitatio.[7] The other side of the question — how do we write as we ought? — then is: "whom ought we to read?"
In speaking of style in terms of those whom we read and for whom we write, I have cast style as a kind of choice. In the words of linguistics, style denotes "the tendency of a speaker or writer to consistently choose certain structures over others available in the language."[8] Insofar as these linguistic choices are conscious they can be changed. Thus we might profitably consider today the performative contradiction within our scholarship between now-commonplace assertions of the inseparability of form and content and a scholarly style that consistently privileges substance over style. In so privileging the one over the other, we announce ourselves as specialists and professionalize our audience. Scholarly style goes hand in hand with professionalization of substance or argument to a specialty.[9] Is that how things ought to be?
Our stylistic choices are also unconsciously made, in illustration of which, I quote from Ian Miller's Eye for an Eye:
Certain tics characterize my writing. … I start too many sentences with but and then try to vary them by changing some of them to still or yet. … But actually to get rid of them and structure my writing so as to avoid them? … I just can't find a way to do it. I also get anxious that I am using too many justs and evens…. I undertake global searches to see whether I can eliminate some of them. I manage to exchange a couple of them for an only or a mere, but then I fear my onlys and meres are starting to get ticlike. A tough-minded editor would strike out maybe half of these justs and evens because they often do not affect the core sense of the proposition. But I cannot get myself to cut more than one or two because they add an indescribable justness, either just enough of a hedge or just enough emphasis, to situate my level of commitment to my own statements ... In fact, so crucial are they … that I actually get a small feeling of vertigo when I eliminate one. … [I]t is as if I were excising a part of me. Incredible that words that mean virtually nothing mean so much.[10]
How little in control we are of our style. Sometimes I promise myself to have a computational stylometric analysis of my own writing tics. In my daydream I am full of self-understanding brought about by the encounter with my mind's deep structures; as self-awareness grows, res and verbum converge; my words become like those cabochon crystals on reliquaries where we gaze both through crystalline words and at them, depth and surface indistinguishable. Daydream over, I acknowledge that such a report would bring as much insight as reading about myself in the DSM of Mental Disorders, but a lingering wish remains for a calculative analysis of my scratchings, for a "distant reading" as Franco Moretti calls it that cares not for argument but only counts the cancerous thuses and not only…but alsos that riddle my prose. The existence of this panel suggests the appropriateness of turning our considerable reading skills upon the shared tics that mark initiation into our discourse community. We spent a long time acquiring them. Whether or not we shed them, we might at least make peace with them.
1. Aristotle, Rhetoric, III.2 (1403b).
2. See also "outwith."
3. Martin Hedigger, Being and Time, §134.
4. Heidegger, Being and Time, §136.
5. Heidegger, Being and Time, §134.
6. Heidegger, Being and Time, §137.
7. As Alexander Pope says, "Be Homer's Works your Study, and Delight,/ Read them by Day, and meditate by Night" ("Essay on Criticism"). See also Gerald Graff, "Why How We Read Trumps What We Read," Profession 2009, p. 73 (66-74): "serious education means assigning texts that possess intrinsic richness, complexity, and value," if only to give the readers a conceptual framework sufficiently complex to critique those very texts.
8. Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt, Linguistics for Students of Literature (Harcourt Brace, 1980), p. 29.
9. As academics, Jane Gallop observes, "We have been trained to read a book globally: that is, to think of the book as a whole, identify its main idea, and understand all of its parts as fitting together to make up that whole" See Jane Gallop, "The ethics of reading: close encounters," Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 16 (2000): 11 (7–17). Richard Klein speaks of the occasional need in reading to suspend "your need to know in advance where you're going" and of a book being shaped like a mandala, frustrating any forward progress of linear reading. See Richard Klein, Eat Fat (New York, 1996), pp. xiii–xiv.
10. William Ian Miller, Eye for an Eye (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 12.
11. Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Tree: Abstract Models for Literary History (Verso, 2005), p. 1.


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River Road in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation will be closed for repairs beginning Monday, according to the park service.
The road will be closed from park headquarters to Smithfield Beach while contractors complete patch repairs to the pavement.
Access to Smithfield Beach will still be open from the south on River Road.
Once the section of road from park headquarters to Smithfield Beach is complete, the section of road from Smithfield to be the southern boundary will be done, meaning River Road will be closed on that section. Access to Smithfield will be open from the north.
The project will last about two weeks. There will be a one-two week lull before the entire road will be chip sealed and striped, following a similar pattern of closures as above.
The closures will extend through the evening during the week. The road will be open on weekends, beginning Friday evening and extending through Monday morning.
Work on River Road is expected to be completed by mid-September.
Repair work on River Road in the national park starts Monday
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New imperialism or new capitalism?
Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad brush, we outline a new, power theory of capital and accumulation. We use this theory to assess the changing meaning of the corporation and the capitalist state, the new ways in which capital gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present.
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David Feldman (born 1950) is the author of the Imponderables series of books.
He holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Grinnell College, as well as a master's degree in popular culture from Bowling Green State University.
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