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Looking for your love connection? Check out the sun sign for you and your sex partner, it commands your sexual instincts whether you are male or female. Instead of relationship advice, Lunar Cafe is offering fifty shades of astrology sex tips for the month. Below is a zodiac list for the hot in your hookup.
Gemini is typically intelligent. To score with them, expose your own smarts and wit. Flirtation is their middle name and they will use their sensuality to tantalize and to sweep you off your feet. They're quick thinking, means they are original lovers, boredom will never be a problem. This also means you need to keep the excitement high, less they get bored, as well. If they loose the thrill, they can be discourteous. Flattery is key here, be sure to focus on enticing their mind. Gently compliment on their intellectual prowess and seek their opinions. Always promote your own intellect in the process. Then you'll have a Gemini win-win, here. (May 21 – June 20)
Cancer is super sentimental and emotional. This sign wants your caring and love filled touch. They seek a connecting tie with a partner that likes to perform the best of deeds for others. Cancers' nurture and make sweet love, however once they loose faith in you, they will seek hard revenge. Romantic emotion should be the focus here. Cancers like to be cared for, so feeding and watching over them scores high points. (June 21 – July 22)
Leo burns with fire filled passions. They are sensually, bold and cocky. They like being in command and directing in bed. You can probe with high drama for sexual exploits with this sign. They like things done on a grand scale. They like to please their lovers with pleasantries and gifts. Tantalize them by messing and playing in their head of hair, it's usually big and lustrous. (July 23 – August 22)
Virgos want to be the center of your world. This lover is an expert at focused and private affection. On the surface they appeal casual and serene but underneath that surface there is a burning sex drive. Seducing a Virgo means presenting yourself in your Sunday best, so shower, cleanup and present yourself neatly. This sign can be picky. They are not typically sought after for their sexual prowess because they are driven by perfectionism but they can be obsessed with a single soul, so be careful if you're in it just for the sexy, their love can fall hard and eternal. (August 23 – September 22)
Libra likes to please. They are affectionate and attentive, as a lover. They tend to sway toward a lot of sentiment and romance; patience is a requirement, here. If you want their sexiness, you need to fulfill their notions and dreams. They are natural flirts and like to try new things in the bedroom. Go with it. Seduction for the Libra should be filled with a high caliber of romance. They like the height of sophistication, smooth operation and elegant suave. This zodiac is drawn to attract another so it won't be difficult to entertain them in high style. (September 23 – October 22)
Scorpio is the extreme of sexy. Some may consider them sex tools because they enjoy the act in and of itself, so much. Their personalities tend toward magnetism and irresistible attraction. They are known for being highly physical and dramatic lovers, although inside, they may be somewhat aloof. Want to seduce a Scorpio? It's a difficult task, their charm borders on manipulation because they like to be the pursuers. This sign is considered an excellent lover. (October 23 – November 21)
Sagittarius is not known for their ability to last in relationships. They are great for short-term sex flings, a great lover for fun times. Want to seduce a Sagittarius, what's needed is a focus on the middle, a focus on the thigh, the waist and the hip, a touch here means a lot. Keep it light and filled with humor, Sagittarius likes this. They are driven to play and behave youthfully. They are creative lovers. They will embrace the unusual yet can be passionately wild and focused on a single lover for a moment, before turning again and moving on to other fun-filled opportunity. (November 22 – December 21)
Capricorns need a slow seduction. You'll need to plan and work hard, focusing on the little caring touches and looks that linger. Take your time and don't give much right away. Capricorn will only trust a gradual building that leads to a tall, expansive firework, and explosion. They are more cautious and want to fall in love for physicality and intimacy. Adventurous or experimental are not their driving adjectives. Capricorns want the slow and steady, tried and true, constant, in their partner. Err on the side of caution if fun is what you seek, here. Capricorns like to chose a partner for life. (December 22 – January 19)
Aquarius isn't seeking a relationship before they fulfill their sexual fantasies with you, though. They want to love your body, first and foremost. They like the animalistic passion and unexpected flirtatious romance. Their nature slants toward rebellion and the more unusual tendencies you offer, the more they'll be taken with you. If you've got a hot body and a zeal for passion, Aquarius will be an excellent lover for you. Make sure you play very hard to get with this sign. The result will be great for your sexual tendencies. (January 20 – February 18)
Pisces need an aggressive seeking partner. To seduce a Pisces, you'll need to drive hard because they tend to be very laid back, not enthusiastic or willing to chase after a prize. They do offer a physical connection filled with love, pleasure making and impactful satisfaction. Once love is found with a Pisces, they like to solve relationship issues with great make-up sex. So being with a Pisces has its benefits! (February 19 – March 20)
Aries is full of power and magnetism and boy do they like control. They make the best kissers. Aries are driven sexually for a finite time period of time; so if you're targeting this sign, make your strike very fast, as the mood passes by quickly for their erogenous zone. They are restless and self-absorbed lovers, which may cause issues in relationships, so grab them while their desires are hot, take advantage of their fiery passion in the moment. To entice an Aries, don't be coy. Nothing drives an Aries like unpredictability so don't refrain from seductive compliments. (March 21 – April 19)
Taurus is extremely masculine; this energy pounds its massive sex drive. Is this zodiac sign a great lover? If you like commanding control, then the answer is yes! They have an unending desire for the intimate and reach hard and high for physicality. Good loving for them is like the most flavorful food. There is no need to move fast with this sign, take your time and enjoy the impactful momentum. Their voices are melodic and filled with beauty. Moisturize your skin and make sure your mouth is minty fresh. Seducing this one means giving presents and making sure you're wearing your best scent. (April 20 – May 20)
Find your lover's zodiac sign above and fill your romantic calendar with the appropriate sex kicks and tricks for your monthly seductive pleasure. There's plenty to go around, just pick the appropriate zodiac above and read, ravish and release!


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T. White Parker Recognized as 2017 SmartCEO Future 50 Award Recipient
February 10, 2017
SmartCEO recognized T. White Parker as one of 2017's Future 50 award winners. The Future 50 Awards program is the largest and most anticipated SmartCEO awards program of the year. This program recognizes 50 of the Washington, DC region's fastest growing, mid-sized companies. These companies represent the future of the region's economy and embody the entrepreneurial spirit critical for leadership and success. The winners are chosen based on a three-year average of employee and revenue growth.
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On Monday night, Liverpool and Manchester United meet at Anfield in a fixture widely regarded by supporters and players as fiercer and more important than the clubs' respective city derbies.
Both teams have enjoyed dominant periods in the top flight – Liverpool before the dawn of the Premier League – but now are bidding to recapture past glory after relatively fallow periods.
This season's clashes will have added spice with Liverpool's Juergen Klopp and United's Jose Mourinho – two of the world's most highly regarded managers – trying to outwit each other in a battle that is sure to add to the list of great matches.
Here are five memorable clashes bwetween the archrivals.
February 2012 - United 2 Liverpool 1
The two Premier League matches between the clubs in the 2011-12 season highlighted the worst of feelings on the pitch.
After their meeting in October 2011, Liverpool's Luis Suarez was banned for eight games after being found guilty of directing racist abuse at United's French full back Patrice Evra.
Suarez's first game back was the return at Old Trafford and, with all eyes on the pre-match handshakes, Suarez raised the stakes, deliberately avoiding Evra's outstretched hand.
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish denied seeing the incident, and laid into a TV reporter for questioning him about it.
Wayne Rooney's double earned United a 2-1 win and Evra celebrated loudly. United boss Alex Ferguson called Uruguay's Suarez, who scored 10 minutes from the end, a disgrace.
September 2010 - United 3 Liverpool 2
Dimitar Berbatov's hat trick for United, including a spectacular overhead kick, in a personal wonder show, trumped Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard's brace as the hosts headed towards one of their more comfortable title successes.
A header from a corner was followed by a stunning bicycle kick. But, as has become a familiar pattern in these clashes, it heralded a stunning comeback as Gerrard scored with a penalty and a free kick.
Another header made Berbatov the first United player for more than half a century to grab a hat trick against Liverpool, and earned a vital three points on the way to their historic 19th title – surpassing the record jointly held with Liverpool.
March 2009 - United 1 Liverpool 4
Liverpool still harboured hopes of a first Premier League title, but champions United were the team to beat, and when Cristiano Ronaldo put the home side in front, it looked like another false dawn for Rafael Benitez's side.
But Fernando Torres, enjoying possibly his best game for Liverpool, equalised and a Steven Gerrard penalty then put the visitors ahead before halftime, Old Trafford was in for a shock.
Late goals by Fabio Aurelio and Andrea Dossena, following United defender Nemanja Vidic's red card, put the icing on the cake for Liverpool though United once again had the last laugh, pipping their rivals to the title.
February 2006 - Liverpool 1 United 0
Memorable less for on-field brilliance than the festering of wounds opened up by Gary Neville's goal celebration in front of the Kop in their Premier League clash a few weeks earlier.
The bad feeling spilled over into the FA Cup fifth-round tie at Anfield, with Liverpool later apologising after sections of the crowd threw coins at United supporters.
"I expected abuse, but I also got a hamburger and about 4.50 pounds ($5.60) ian change," Neville said after United's defeat.
But there was more unpleasantness when United's Alan Smith broke his leg, prompting taunts from some Liverpool fans, who also attacked the ambulance in which he was taken to hospital.
January 1994 - Liverpool 3 United 3
Not for the first, or last, time this high-profile fixture produced a memorable comeback.
United, the league leaders, were 3-0 up inside half an hour at Anfield through goals from Denis Irwin, Steve Bruce and Ryan Giggs. But Liverpool, who were eighth in the table back then, hit back as Nigel Clough scored twice before the break and defender Neil Ruddock crowned a stunning fight back with the equaliser 10 minutes from time. United still went on to win the league.
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A Malaysian tourist was arrested for operating a drone camera without securing permit from the concerned authorities in Charikot, the district headquarters of Dolakha, on Sunday.
The 52-year-old was found operating a drone camera on the premises of a local hotel. To use drone cameras in the country, one should take permission from the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, and Home Ministry.
Police have detained several foreigners for using drone cameras without obtaining permit over the past couple of months.
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Arsenal may have secured back-to-back FA Cup triumphs but almost even before all the champagne had been quaffed in the Millennium Stadium dressing room questions were being asked about the future of some of their elder statesmen.
David Seaman and Dennis Bergkamp are the two who may be on borrowed time at Highbury, while another Arsenal veteran Oleg Luzhny's surprisingly impressive performance in the 1-0 victory over Southampton is unlikely to guarantee his continued appearance in an Arsenal shirt.
Luzhny's central defensive partner Martin Keown also has a lot of mileage on the clock and is under threat of being replaced.
Manager Arsene Wenger has already admitted he needs to strengthen his squad after losing the Premier League title to Manchester United and the need for new blood may force his Cup Final star trio down the first team pecking order.
Speculation has been rife over Seaman's role at the club, especially after England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson left him out of the latest international squad because he claimed uncertainty over the player's future made it difficult to select him long-term.
The 39-year-old, whose excellent late save from Brett Ormerod safeguarded Arsenal's slender lead - given to them by Robert Pires' first-half goal - does not want to quit yet but is reluctant to make the bit-part contribution Wenger believes will extend the goalkeeper's career at the very top.
"I know approximately what I want to do but I will make a definite decision over the next week," said the Arsenal boss, who has been linked with goalkeepers Rustu Recber, of Turkey, and Blackburn's Brad Friedel.
"It will be my decision, as it is for every player. I want him to be on board but for how long I don't know.
"There will be a transitional period where he will be still fighting for a place in the team and maybe goalkeeper coach. I have to think about it, at the moment it is not clear in my head.
"The end comes to all of us and of course it is a difficult period but I think he's still at the top and he doesn't feel that he has diminished in his quality. The only question is how long he can stay there. He's still at the top of his game at the moment."
Today it was revealed that Manchester City have made a cash bid for Seaman as Kevin Keegan looks to replace Peter Schmeichel.
Meanwhile Wenger knows he has to bolster the defence despite the performance of Luzhny in the absence of the suspended Sol Campbell, especially considering Keown's injury-hit season.
The Ukrainian full-back was identified before the game as the weak link which Saints striker James Beattie could exploit but the England man received short change from his opponent. "I think it was a remarkable performance by Oleg Luzhny in the centre. He was outstanding for 90 minutes, did not make a mistake and was surprisingly good in the air. He and Martin Keown had a great partnership," said Wenger. "However, we conceded 42 goals (in the league) and I think we could do with ten less. That's our target, improve the balance defensively without losing the offensive drive."
Asked about how many new faces there would be next season, Wenger replied: "Between one and three. Maybe one, maybe two, maybe three but not more than three players as I think the basis of the quality is still there."


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In the Kallipolis, this would not be seen as anything wrong, since there would be no free will, but it makes the ideal city look like an ant colony. It asks too much from the people, and is therefore destined to fail for it puts the regime in a critical condition in which any change can only be for the worst, since supposedly, the regime is perfect. This implies that the knowledge of the good would ultimately entail a pessimistic view of the world.
In a democracy, the citizen can choose to be wrong. He may err, but then it is a personal mistake, not someone else's: he can enter a profession for which he has no real talent and waste his time in the process. This is much more selective in the long run than eugenics.
What we know today as 'the market', a concept that is really more ample than what suggests its economical origin, controls the evolution of professions and careers to a great extent. Good bakers defeat questionable ones in the long run. The result, that is, to have better bread, is the same as what can be obtained with a formidable and massive regulatory framework, but the free market methods, at least in theory, have two advantages over regulatory schemes: freedom of choice dos not entail the relinquishing of the free will and gives a second chance by which the mistaken person can correct past mistakes.
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Elections and Events 1870-1889
Bell 1981: "The time was ripe for a plebiscite, and in February 1870 the Dominicans voted overwhelmingly in favour of annexation by the United States. Nothing came of it simply because the Congress in Washington refused by a narrow majority to ratify the treaty" (pages 56-57).
Tansill 1967: Báez "wished to have American war-ships in Dominican waters before the plebiscite was taken, and he strongly preferred to have the United States Senate consent to the ratification of the annexation treaty before any final action should be taken by the Dominican Government...(A) decree was issued on February 16, 1870 providing for the holding of a plebiscite on February 19 with reference to annexation to the United States...(I)t was apparent that the vote on the question of annexation to the United States was overwhelmingly favorable" (page 397). Includes excerpts from letters of U.S. officials reporting on the election and its results (pages 397-398).
Welles 1928: Baez proclaimed "on February 16th that the plebiscite was to be held on February 19th" (page 384). Out "of a total of some 16,000 votes cast, only eleven were announced as having been cast in opposition to the project, and these were recognized as having been cast at the President's instance by his agents in order to prevent the proceedings from appearing too farcical" (page 386).
Welles 1928: "On March 16th, the Senado Consultor adopted a resolution declaring that 'The people of the Dominican Republic have demonstrated their desire to be united to the United States of America" (page 386).
Schoenrich 1918: "By a resolution of Congress, approved January 12, 1871, the President of the United States was authorized to send a commission of inquiry to Santo Domingo...The commission's report was transmitted to Congress, and President Grant made another earnest plea for the annexation of Santo Domingo. Congress took no further action, however" (page 64).
Welles 1928: On January 27, 1872, Baez expresses "his determination to decree the holding of elections for a Constitutional Convention to revise the Constitution of 1868" (page 404).
Welles 1928: The "Constitutional Convention assembled in August, 1872, and revised the qualifications of the electorate [gives details]...(T)he Convention concluded its labours on September 14, 1872, having first granted the President a term of six years' duration, with almost dictatorial powers, and having created the Vice Presidency, stipulating that elections for the President and the Vice President be held three years apart" (page 405).
Schoenrich 1918: "When it became apparent that nothing would come of the annexation plans, the Baez administration, on December 28, 1872, rented the Samana peninsula to an American corporation, the 'Samana Bay Company,' for ninety-nine years" (page 65).
Atkins 1998: "In 1873 President Báez faced growing discontent in the Cibao, where leaders of the 'Partido Rojo' had decided he no longer effectively represented their interests. Generals Cabral, Pimentel, and Luperón continued to lead the opposition 'Partido Azul'" (page 27).
Welles 1928: "(O)n January 4th, the Dominican people were called to a plebiscite to pass upon the contract...By the use of the same coercive methods which had proved so satisfactory three years before, the concession was approved in the popular vote by a majority even greater than that cast in favour of the annexation project" (pages 407-308).
Bell 1981: "A rigged plebiscite approved the [Samana] contract almost unanimously in February 1873" (page 57).
Welles 1928: "On February 22, 1873, President Baez officially announced that the votes cast in the plebiscite had resulted 20,496 in favour of the contract and only 19 opposed thereto" (pages 407-308).
Abad 1993: "Los propósitos de Baez, resuelto á llevar á término la anexión y á hacerse reelejir por otros seis años, determinaron la revolución de 25 de Noviembre de 1873, iniciada en Puerto Plata" (page 142).
Welles 1928: "On November 25, 1873...General González proclaimed himself leader of the revolution" (page 410).
Abad 1993: "(E)l 31 de Diciembre inmediato se veía el Presidente obligado á capitular" (page 142).
Bell 1981: "A revolution by both parties toppled [Báez] in December" (page 57).
Schoenrich 1918: "A new generation, grown up since the independence of the country and which had come to look upon civil disorder as a normal condition, now came into power, and the question of foreign annexation ceased to be an issue. A period of constant revolutionary ferment and frequent changes of the constitution followed, with a wearisome succession of military presidents" (page 65).
Abad 1993: "El general Don Ignacio Ma. González se hizo cargo de la interinidad que sobrevino; rescindió el contrato de arrendamiento de Samaná, por falta de pago en una anualidad, y convocó una Asamblea Nacional" (page 142).
Atkins 1998: "González tenuously held power for only two years (from 2 January 1874 to 21 February 1876), unable to reconcile the diverse party interests" (page 27).
Welles 1928: "(O)n January 2, 1874, Baez resigned his office to the Congress assembled in the capital, and fled from the country" (page 410).
February: election (González)
Campillo Pérez 1986: Describes the election won by General Ignacio María González (pages 87-88). Gives the results of the election (pages 434-436).
Abad 1993: González "convocó una Asamblea Nacional, que hizo la Constitución de 24 de Marzo de 1874, con arreglo á la cual, se elijió el cargo Presidencial, que recayó en el mismo general González" (page 142).
Abad 1993: González "se hizo cargo del gobierno el 6 de Abril y convocó una Convención Nacional para reformar la Constitución" (page 143).
Welles 1928: "By dint of tactics which were not altogether to his credit, González finally succeeded in ensuring his own election, after a Constitutional Convention had once more revised the national charter of liberties, and he was consequently inaugurated Constitutional President of the Republic on April 6, 1874" (page 412).
Abad 1993: "El nuevo Código fundamental fué sancionado el 9 de Marzo de 1875" (page 143).
Schoenrich 1918: "As the constitution did not suit [González], he called a new national convention and had another constitution promulgated on March 9, 1875. This was too much even for Santo Domingo, and his enemies formed a powerful league in Santiago with a view to having him impeached, but the Congress rejected the charges" (page 66).
Abad 1993: "Una nueva guerra civil amenazaba ensangrentar los campos de la República; pero la renuncia de González la evitó. El poder quedó en manos del Consejo de Ministros" (page 143).
Atkins 1998: "The six years following the overthrow of González in February 1876 were characterized by constant plotting among generals and important civilian figures, numerous revolutions, elections, and interrupted presidencies" (page 27).
Rutinel Domínguez 2000: "Acuerdo del Carmelo 1876: Pacto firmado el 1ero. de febrero de 1876 entre líderes del Partido Azul y el Presidente Ignacio María González y sus seguidores…dejando el Poder Ejecutivo en manos de un Consejo de Secretarios de Estado que lo entregarían, a su vez, a los jefes de revolución, quienes organizarían elecciones para elegir un nuevo presidente" (page 11).
Welles 1928: In February González, "realizing that he lacked the means wherewith to withstand the opposition to his Administration which had now become almost universal, determined to heed the advice tendered him by representatives of both the 'Blue' and the 'Red' factions, and resigned his office" (page 417).
March: election (Espaillat)
Campillo Pérez 1986: Describes the elections, which take place March 24-26, 1876 (pages 92-93). Gives the results of the election (pages 436-439).
Haggerty 1991: "After a period of infighting among the Blues, backing from Luperón helped Ulises Francisco Espaillat Quiñones to win election as president on March 24, 1876" (page 18).
Hartlyn 1998: "The first individual who was not a general to reach the presidency, although not by truly open elections, was Ulises Francisco Espaillat in 1876; his promising civilian, liberal government, however, lasted less than six months" (page 36).
Welles 1928: "The result of the elections of March, l876, proved that the general longing for a reform government had not spent itself as the result of the ill success of the González Administration...By an overwhelming majority, Don Ulises Francisco Espaillat was elected President" (pages 418-419).
Atkins 1998: Ulises Francisco Espaillat is president from May 29 to October 1876 (page 27).
Bell 1981: In May 1876 "both González and Báez launched revolutions" (page 57).
Schoenrich 1918: Espaillat "entered upon office on April [May?] 29, 1876" (page 66).
Welles 1928: "Don Ulises Francisco Espaillat…took office in the capital on May 29, 1876" (pages 418-419).
Welles 1928: "The President had hardly been in office two months before the intrigues of General Baez...and the propaganda of General González...proved effective in creating the outbreak of revolutionary movements along the Haitian frontier" (page 422).
Abad 1993: "La caída de [Espaillat] fué debida á una revolución promovida por González…y apoyada por algunas autoridades en la Capital. González fué nombrado Presidente" (page 143).
Atkins 1998: General González is president from October 5 to December 27, 1876 (page 28).
Bell 1981: Espaillat is forced to abdicate in October (page 57).
Schoenrich 1918: On "October 5, 1876, Espaillat was ousted" (page 66).
Welles 1928: "On October 5th, a group of malcontents in the capital seized the seat of Government and proclaimed themselves a national Dictatorship, announcing their intention to maintain their posts until General González could return" (page 425).
Schoenrich 1918: "A superior council of government was formed, which appointed General González president in the beginning of November, 1876" (page 66).
Abad 1993: "González fué nombrado Presidente; pero apenas tuvo tiempo de formalizar su elección, cuando fué suplantado en el poder por Baez, elevado al Gobierno de la República, por quinta vez, en Diciembre de 1876, por efecto de una revolución triunfante en el Cibao" (page 143).
Atkins 1998: Báez is president from December 27, 1876 to March 2, 1878 (page 28).
Bell 1981: González steps "down in favour of Báez in December. Báez now entered upon his fifth, last, and most despotic administration. To protect himself against revolutionaries operating from Haiti he suspended all constitutional guarantees and imprisoned many prominent citizens of Santo Domingo without trial" (page 57).
Schoenrich 1918: "González had been in power for just one month when he was overthrown, in December, 1876, by a revolution that originated in the Cibao, and General Buenaventura Baez became president for the fifth time. The Republic thus had four presidents in 1876: González twice, Espaillat and Baez" (page 66).
Welles 1928: "Installed as Dictator on December 27, 1876, Baez once more formed a Government in which there figured the familiar names of the same men who had so long been associated with him" (page 426).
Welles 1928: "In March...[Baez] was declared elected President of the Republic by a National Convention, selected 'ad hoc'" (page 426). "As was to be anticipated, a general revolution broke out almost immediately" (page 427).
Campillo Pérez 1986a: "(L)a reforma constitutional del 10 de Mayo de 1877…obligaba a una votación para Presidente de la República y Miembros del Congreso, en forma directa, oral y pública. Pero tal modalidad subsistió apenas un año, pues la Constitución que la estableció tuvo su nacimiento cuando llegaba a su final el caudillismo de Buenaventura Báez" (page 42).
Schoenrich 1918: "Baez called a constitutional convention and the constitution of May 14, 1877, was promulgated" (page 66).
Abad 1993: "Aunque en esta ocasión Baez estableció un régimen distinto al que había informado su gobierno autoritario de los seis años, no logró gobernar en paz, y despues de una lucha sin tregua, tuvo que dejar el poder por efecto de la capitulación de 24 de Febrero de 1877 [should say 1878]" (page 143).
Schoenrich 1918: Baez's "whole term was one prolonged struggle with insurrections, until he was obliged to surrender on February 24, 1878" (page 66).
Atkins 1998: There is a provisional government from March 3 to July 1878 (page 28).
Bell 1981: "By 1878 most Dominicans had had enough of Báez. In March a revolution organised by a priest, Padre Fernando Arturo de Meriño, and a black general, Cesário Guillermo, forced him to leave the country-this time for good" (page 57).
Díaz Santana 1996: "En 1878 dos gobiernos se disputaban el control del país, el de Cesáreo Guillermo en la capital y el de Ignacio María González en Santiago. El primero no sólo imponía su autoridad desde la capital, sino que tenía el reconocimiento del Congreso. Una mediación de Gregorio Luperón determinó que fueran convocadas elecciones para mayo de ese año" (page 51).
Welles 1928: "Delaying for a few days the final negotiation of his capitulation with the leaders of the insurgents, the Dictator collected all the customs revenues which he could force local merchants to pay in advance, amounting to some $70,000, and then, on March 2nd, abdicated his authority and set sail once more for Puerto Rico" (page 430).
Schoenrich 1918: "Two governments were now established...An agreement was reached by them on April 13, 1878, and Guillermo became provisional president of the entire country" (page 67).
May: election (González / PA)
Bell 1981: "In the elections that followed the final departure of Báez, Guillermo was chagrined to see González reelected" (page 57).
Campillo Pérez 1986: Describes the elections, which take place May 24-26, 1878 (pages 95-96). Gives the results of the election (pages 439-441).
Díaz Santana 1996: "Campillo Pérez estima que fueron los primeros comicios limpios, porque el electorado tuvo libertad para escoger entre tres candidatos; el gobieron guardó imparcialidad, al extremo de que el presidente, repostulado, quedó en tercer lugar; dos de las tres facciones predominantes presentaron candidaturas, y la tercera se abstuvo, pero no por imposición gubernamental; y la Cámara Legislativa respetó el veredicto popular, proclamando al que más votos recibió, Ignacio María González, a quien se computaron 6,203 de los 12,987 votos emitidos. Pero la legitimidad democrática de aquel gobierno no detendría el predominio militarista ni la anarquía derivada de la ambición desenfrenada" (page 51).
Hartlyn 1998: "The first somewhat free elections in the history of the country were realized in May 1878, following a formal pact between two of the major candidates, pledging to support the rule of law and the result of free elections; however, the agreement was broken only two months into the one-year term of President Ignacio MarRa González when Gregorio Luperón, the losing candidate and other major signatory of the preelectoral pact, successfully carried out a revolt that forced González's resignation and exile" (page 36).
Ramírez Morillo 1997: "Las primeras elecciones libres celebradas en el país, donde al electorado se le permitió votar sin ataduras por el candidato de su preferencia, fueron las de los días 24, 25 y 26 de mayo de 1878. Aunque las mismas tuvieron un aspecto negativo, puesto que el partido rojo se abstuvo de participar" (page 28). Gives results (pages 28-29).
Welles 1928: "A reconciliation was likewise effected between General González and General Luperón, resulting in a joint manifesto addressed by them to the people, urging the support of all classes and of all parties for the candidacy of the Chief of the Santiago Government. Consequently, in the general elections held in May of the same year General González was once more elected President" (page 431).
Atkins 1998: González is president from July to September 2, 1878 (page 28).
Welles 1928: "Immediately after his inauguration, which occurred in the first days of the month of July, 1878, General González attempted to secure the continued support of General Luperón by offering him any post in the Government which he might desire. Upon Luperón's refusal to accept office, the President...refused to carry out the promises which he had made previous to his election" (page 431). "Indignant at this disregard of his wishes, General Luperón at once resorted once more to revolution" (page 432).
Welles 1928: On "August 3rd [General Luperón] captured the fort in Puerto Plata and took possession of the city. A Provisional Government was once more constituted in Puerto Plata under the control of Luperón's adherents...Steps were then promptly taken by the Provisional Government to march upon the capital, but not swiftly enough to prevent the prior arrival there of General Guillermo, who himself had lost no time in proclaiming a revolution against González after his defeat in the elections" (page 432).
Atkins 1998: There is a provisional government from September 2, 1878 to February 26, 1879 (page 28).
Bell 1981: "In September 1878 González went into exile and Guillermo installed himself as president. His dictatorial rule, which did not stop short of assassination, became intolerable to most Dominicans" (page 58).
Schoenrich 1918: "Jacinto de Castro, the president of the supreme court, acted as president until September 29, 1878, when he was succeeded by the council of ministers of which Guillermo was chief" (page 67).
Welles 1928: President González "was forced on September 2nd to abdicate...On September 3rd, General Guillermo entered the city...For the time being, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was permitted to hold office as Provisional President" (pages 432-433).
Campillo Pérez 1986: Presidential election scheduled for October 1-3, 1878, is rescheduled for October 16-18 after candidate Cáceres is killed (page 99).
December: presidential election (Guillermo / PA)
Campillo Pérez 1986: The election takes place December 29-31, 1878 (page 99). Gives the results (page 441).
January: election
Welles 1928: As "the result of further elections held on January 26th, 27th, and 28th, General Guillermo forced his own election as Constitutional President" (page 433).
Atkins 1998: General Cesáreo Guillermo is president from February 27, 1879 to December 5, 1879 (page 28).
Welles 1928: General Guillermo "was inaugurated on February 27th, 1879. General Luperón, who had not unwisely declared his determined refusal to accept election to the Presidency in view of the fact that General Guillermo had already secured possession of the capital, left the country and embarked for Europe" (page 433).
Abad 1993: Guillermo "tomó posesión de la Presidencia, constitucionalmente, el 21 de Marzo de 1879" (page 143).
Abad 1993: Guillermo "cayó por efecto de la revolución iniciada en Puerto Plata el 6 de Octubre de 1879, que elevó á la Presidencia interina al general Gregorio Luperón, bajo cuyos auspicios se inauguraron los bienios presidenciales" (page 143).
Haggerty 1991: Luperón "governed from Puerto Plata as provisional president from October 1879 to August 1880" (page 19).
Schoenrich 1918: "On October 6, 1879, a revolution broke out at Puerto Plata and a provisional government was formed under the presidency of General Gregorio Luperon" (page 67).
Welles 1928: "The movement for Guillermo's overthrow was instigated by Luperón, who returned from Europe in the autumn. Proclaiming a new revolution in Puerto Plata on October 6, 1879, Luperón constituted a Provisional Goverment" (page 434).
Atkins 1998: General Gregório Luperón is president from December 6, 1879 to September 1, 1880 (page 28).
Betances 1995: "The Partido Rojo...formed around Buenaventura Báez, had already declined significantly when Gregorio Luperón came to power in December 1879. Luperón inaugurated the era of the Partido Azul...by militarily defeating Báez's forces" (page 57).
Schoenrich 1918: "Guillermo resisted two months, but was compelled to surrender on December 6, 1879" (page 67).
Welles 1928: President Guillermo "took refuge on December 6th upon a Spanish man-of-war...The Government of the Republic was now vested in the hands of General Luperón, who insisted upon retaining the seat of his authority at Puerto Plata, delegating General Heureaux as his representative in the capital" (page 435). Luperón "at once announced his determined refusal to accept the Constitutional Presidency of the Republic. A Constitutional Convention was summoned to meet in the capital to amend the Constitution, and the electorate was officially informed that general elections would be held as soon as the Constitution had once more been revised" (page 436).
Hartlyn 1998: "The country was in almost continual civil war until the end of the 1870s. Gradually the key national political struggle...following the founding of the second republic in 1865 came to revolve around the 'Rojos' and the 'Azules,' a division which approximated that between conservatives and liberals elsewhere in the region...The Rojos were a centralized movement, concentrating the more conservative powerholders of the northwest, south, and east, who tended to identify with Buenaventura Baez...In turn, the Azules coalesced primarily from the more liberal, smaller tobacco growers and merchants of the northern Cibao" (page 29).
May 18
Campillo Pérez 1986: New constitution is promulgated May 18, 1880 (page 101).
Hartlyn 1998: "(T)he leader of the Azules, Gregorio Luperón, called for a national convention to enact a new liberal constitution, which it did in 1880" (page 35).
Schoenrich 1918: A "constitutional assembly...in 1880 adopted with amendments the constitution of 1879, and fixed the presidential term at two years" (page 67).
May 29
Welles 1928: "On May 29, 1880, General Luperón addressed a public manifesto to the Dominican people urging upon them the election as their President of Padre Meriño. Granted this immense support, Padre Meriño was elected without opposition...In view of the favour bestowed upon Padre Meriño by the Provisional President, two candidates who had at first presented themselves-General Heureaux and General Francisco Gregorio Billini-withdrew their candidacy prior to the election" (page 440).
June: general election (Meriño / PA)
Campillo Pérez 1986: "(L)as elecciones para Presidente de la República y diputados al Congreso Nacional fueron fijadas para los días 19, 20 y 21 de Junio [1880]" (page 101). Gives the results (pages 101 and 442).
Hartlyn 1998: "The first president to complete a constitutional term in office was the Monsignor Meriño from 1880 to 1882, who did so even while suspending constitutional rights and in spite of armed opposition" (page 36).
Ramírez Morillo 1997: "Meriño triunfó en las elecciones celebradas en el 1880, presentándose como candidato del Partido Azul" (page 30).
Schoenrich 1918: "Luperon then held an election and gave the presidency, for the two years beginning September 1, 1880, to one of his supporters, Father Fernando de Meriño, an eloquent priest who had taken an active part in politics since his youth, and who later became archbishop of Santo Domingo. The reverend gentleman suppressed all revolutionary uprisings with uncompromising severity and did not hesitate to execute the conspirators that fell into his hands" (pages 67-68).
Atkins 1998: Padre Fernando Arturo de Meriño is president from September 1, 1880 to September 1, 1882 (page 28). Meriño is "a distinguished but authoritarian public figure, Luperón ally, and Báez enemy, who was elected and served his full two-year constitutional term."
Haggerty 1991: Meriño "assumed office in September 1880 after apparently fraudulent general elections. Heureaux served as interior minister under Meriño" (page 19).
Welles 1928: Padre MeriZo "was inaugurated President of the Republic on September 1, 1880" (page 440).
Welles 1928: "Perturbed by the first attempt at revolution which had been perpetrated, and induced thereto by the rumour of the imminent insurrection of Guillermo, and likewise incensed by the antagonism of the Senate,...President MeriZo, on May 30, 1881, issued a decree announcing his assumption of power temporarily as Dictator of the nation" (page 442).
Schoenrich 1918: "During Meriño's administration General Ulises Heureaux served as minister of the interior and began to wield the power which he was to retain for twenty years...Throughout [the] civil wars he remained a sturdy follower of General Luperon, the successor of Santana as leader of the 'Blue' party and an implacable opponent of General Buenaventura Baez, the chief of the 'Reds' and of General Ignacio Maria González, the leader of the 'Greens'" (page 68).
Welles 1928: "On May 31, 1882, the President promulgated a decree convoking the elections for the following July 1st, 2nd and 3rd" (page 443).
July: election (Heureaux / PA)
Campillo Pérez 1986: Gives the results of the election (pages 103 and 443-445).
Ramírez Morillo 1997: "Lilis aniquiló a sus opositores tanto dentro como fuera del Partido Azul" (page 31).
Welles 1928: "In accordance with the custom then existing, the voting took place in the various ayuntamientos, the votes cast each day being counted by the members of the ayuntamiento at five o'clock in the afternoon [describes process]...Inasmuch as the candidacies of General Ulises Heureaux as President and of General Casimiro N. de Moya as Vice President were supported both by President MeriZo and by General Luperón and his adherents, the Governmental ticket was naturally elected by a great majority" (page 443).
Atkins 1998: "On 1 September 1882 following duly held elections, General Heureaux, then thirty-seven years old, was inaugurated president for a two-year term. He and his vice president, General Casimiro Nemesio de Moya, had been supported by both President Meriño and General Luperón, consequently enjoying considerable popularity and hope for political peace and economic prosperity" (page 29).
Haggerty 1991: "Although MeriZo briefly suspended constitutional procedures in response to unrest fomented by some remaining 'baecistas,' he abided by the two-year term established under Luperón and turned the reins of government over to Heureaux on September 1, 1882" (page 19).
Ramírez Morillo 1997: "Durante la tiranía de Heureaux no hubo elecciones sino farsas electorales para tratar de darle legalidad al régimen" (page 31).
Welles 1928: "On September 1, 1882, the new President and Vice President were inaugurated...Thus, for the first time in the history of the Republic save one, a President was regularly elected and installed in accordance with the Constitution" (page 443).
Wiarda 1992: "The political and economic disruptions occasioned by nearly a hundred years of repeated international traumas, Haitian occupations, and ruinous caudilloism came to an abrupt halt with the coming to power in 1882 of a modernizing dictator, Ulises Heureaux. For the next seventeen years, Heureaux ran a tightly knit regime" (page 30).
Atkins 1998: "As the 1884 elections approached,...Heureaux maneuvered to break up the unified leadership of his own 'azul' party, the major constraining element on his ambitions, by successfully playing the several strong personalities off against each other. He sought especially to undermine the influence of his long-time patron, General Luperón" (pages 29-30).
Haggerty 1991: "By 1884, no single potential successor, among the various caciques who constituted the republic's ruling group, enjoyed widespread support. Luperón, still the leader of the ruling Blue Party, supported General Segundo Imbert for the post, while Heureaux backed the candidacy of General Francisco Gregorio Billini" (page 19).
Welles 1928: Describes Heureaux's efforts to control the election (pages 451-455).
Welles 1928: "Heureaux called a meeting of all the prominent leaders of the party to assemble on May 14th. As a result of the deliberations of this assembly the famous 'Capitulations' of Puerto Plata were agreed upon both by the President and General Luperón, and by the three candidates for the Presidency" (page 453). Gives details of the agreement.
June: election (Billini / PA)
Betances 1995: Partido Azul general "Casimiro Nemecio de Moya claimed that Heureaux had used regional caciques to engineer the fraudulent election of Billini. This accusation created much bitterness among the Azules and eventually led to Billini's resignation in 1885" (page 61).
Campillo Pérez 1986: The election takes place June 28-30, 1884 (pages 107-110). Gives the results of the election (pages 447-450).
Welles 1928: "Heureaux, through his agents, had stuffed the ballot boxes in many of the districts where the election was close. Even so, in the capital, where every measure was resorted to in order to defeat the Imbert ticket, Billini received a sparse majority of 400 votes. In the final returns the Billini ticket was announced as obtaining 35,000 votes, while the Imbert ticket was declared defeated with a total of only 33,000 votes" (page 455).
Welles 1928: "Upon the inauguration of General Billini as President on September 1, 1884, the unity of leadership in the 'Blue' party which had persisted without serious impairment during a period of twenty years had been shattered. It now remained for Heureaux to obtain the confidence of the leaders of the various factions into which his party had been split, and then to cause the disappearance from the scene of General Billini, who, he soon found, was not as tractable as he had supposed" (page 455).
Atkins 1998: "Heureaux managed [Billini's] removal through a vicious rumor campaign that inspired an insurrection serious enough to cause Billini to resign on 16 May 1885. Billini was replaced by Vice President General Alejandro Woss y Gil, who willingly submitted to Heureaux's will" (page 30).
Welles 1928: "Within six months the President was forced to the realization that he had to make his choice between suppressing the insurrection which had by now become inevitable, and resigning his high office...(O)n May 16, 1885, [he] presented his formal resignation to the Congress which immediately accepted it. He was immediately succeeded in office, in accordance with the Constitution, by the Vice-President, General Woss y Gil" (page 456).
June: election (Heureaux / PA)
Betances 1995: De Moya "gathered political support in La Vega, Santiago, Puerto Plata, and even Santo Domingo, [and] used it to launch his own candidacy in the 1886 presidential elections...The Rojos had disappeared with Báez's death, and Heureaux had little difficulty drawing them into the conservative wing of the Azul party...These elections were the acid test of a Cibao-based challenge to Heureaux's political power and proved both highly competitive and violent...Heureaux claimed victory, but the election results were not immediately published" (page 61).
Campillo Pérez 1986: "Las próximas elecciones fueron fijadas para los días 26, 27 y 28 de Junio de 1886" (page 111). Describes the election (pages 111-115). Gives the results of the election (pages 451-453).
Haggerty 1991: Luperón "supported Heureaux in the 1886 presidential elections... Heureaux relied on his considerable popularity and his demonstrated skill at electoral manipulation to carry the balloting" (page 20).
Welles 1928: The "Presidential elections...were scheduled to take place in the first days of July, 1886" (page 458). Describes the negotiating among candidates before the election. "Notwithstanding, the elections passed off quietly, resulting, as his opponents should have anticipated from past experience, in the election of General Heureaux by a majority of more than 20,000 votes. In the capital the faction of de Moya was so far in the minority that on the first day of the elections, after polling only 500 votes, the leaders of the party protested, and abandoned the contest" (page 459).
Welles 1928: A "revolution was proclaimed by the adherents of the defeated candidate...At the end of August, General Heureaux, once more appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Government forces, succeeded in capturing La Vega [stronghold of General de Moya]" (page 459).
Welles 1928: "Since the Congress, because of the revolution, had been unable to assemble in special session to go through the official form of counting the votes cast and proclaiming the validity of the elections, September 1st, the date upon which the new President should have been installed, passed, and no proclamation of the new Administration could constitutionally be made. The Government of General Woss y Gil consequently, in disregard of the Constitution, announced its own continuance in power until an opportunity might be afforded the Congress to proclaim officially the election of Heureaux" (pages 459-460).
Welles 1928: "On November 25th, the Congress met to proclaim the President and Vice President elect legitimately elected" (page 460).
Welles 1928: On "January 6, 1887, General Heureaux once more was inaugurated, this time to hold office for the remainder of his life" (page 460).
Betances 1995: "During the First Republic, presidential elections were indirect. The Partido Azul had opposed the exclusion of the masses from electoral politics, and once in power it had instituted universal suffrage and direct election of the president. Circumstances had changed, however, now that the Partido Azul had split and Heureaux headed its conservative wing. In a well-orchestrated political maneuver, Heureaux had his supporters in Cibao, De Moya's stronghold, call for indirect elections. In June 1887 a petition signed by leading political figures asserted that universal suffrage and direct elections were the cause of civil wars" (page 63).
Abad 1993: "La Convención Nacional de 1887, reformó la Constitución política que venía rigiendo desde 1881. Una de las modificaciones acordadas fué la ampliación del período presidencial, que es ahora de cuatro años, en vez de dos" (page 144).
Betances 1995: A "congressional commission noted in October that political instability discredited the republic abroad and recommended the extension of the presidential term from two to four years" (page 63).
Betances 1995: "Heureaux did not mention that he was going to run in the 1888 elections when in November 1887 he arranged for Congress to approve the creation of two institutions to organize indirect elections: primary assemblies and an electoral council. The primary assemblies, locally elected bodies, were to choose delegates to represent their districts on the electoral council that would elect the president and the vice president" (pages 63-64).
Betances 1995: "One week before the vote, Luperón withdrew from the race" (page 65).
Haggerty 1991: "The elections of 1888...pitted Heureaux against his political mentor...Heureaux's agents attacked Luperón's campaigners and supporters, arresting and incarcerating considerable numbers of them. Recognizing the impossibility of a free election under such circumstances, Luperón withdrew his candidacy, declined the entreaties of those of his followers who urged armed rebellion, and fled into exile in Puerto Rico" (page 20).
November 1-2: election (Heureaux)
Betances 1995: "The general elections were scheduled for 1-2 November 1888...Once Luperón had withdrawn, Heureaux had no opposition, and the campaign ended in victory for Heureaux" (page 65).
Campillo Pérez 1986: "Las 'elecciones' fueron realizadas en un clima de frialdad y de terror. Las Asambleas Primarias eligieron como Electores a los mejores vasallos de Heureaux" (page 119). Gives the results (pages 119-120 and page 454).
Welles 1928: Describes Heureaux's manipulation of the 1888 presidential elections (pages 472-473).
Welles 1928: "The new Administration was inaugurated on March 1, 1889, again in the absence of the President-elect, who was engaged in stamping out the last remaining signs of rebellion..., with the Vice President, Don Manuel Maria Gautier, assuming the Presidency temporarily" (page 473).
Haggerty 1991: "Constitutional amendments requested by the president and effected by the Congress extended the presidential term from two to four years and eliminated direct elections in favor of the formerly employed electoral college system" (page 20).
Welles 1928: A "Constitutional Convention, in November, 1889, promulgated a new Constitution which fixed the commencement of the next Presidential term as from February 27, 1889, and lengthened the term in accordance with the Dictator's desires. In the same Constitution, the system of direct election which had previously existed was replaced by that of the election of the President by an electoral college, bound in the future to facilitate the indefinite reelection of Heureaux to the Presidency" (page 462).


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Final Pathos Project: Peer Revision Edition
Cascading waves larger than Japan's tsunami will crash down, bubbles will burst with the force of supernovae, and the streets will run red with the ink of a budget in deficit if Americans don't fix the debt crisis, or so we're told. The current debate over how to fix the U.S. budget dilemma swarms with a passionate rhetoric of crisis, victimization, and shame as lawmakers define the borders of concern. For my project I will undertake an aesthetico-politcal mapping of the affective intensities that compose the public(s) surrounding the debt crisis. I will show how the various strategies employed in institutionalized discourse create collective imaginaries that are held in a precarious balance, subject to the swift flick of a legislation writing wrist.
The current debate occurs upon territories of feeling more so than disembodied cognition. While this characteristic is true of most American politics, it is especially germane to the budget issue for a few reasons. The tax code is a labyrinthine web of policy text that is abstract beyond most people's comprehension, yet issues of dollars and sense remain intricately tied to deeply held values and questions of identity. The budget we choose determines who we are, take Obama's budget speech for example "This is who we are. This is the America I know." Furthermore, such a complex issue requires metaphors that simplify the issue in cognitive terms yet amplify its magnitude in affective force. The budget debate occurs on the limits and thresholds of political alignments, investments and cuts occur in relation to emotively charged goods that circulate not just as public benefits but as affective entities.
Adopting a rhetorical analysis that explores the dimensions of pathos and affect is especially poignant in the case at hand because of the nature of topic. While much of the institutional discourse dispersed centers on concrete effects of a particular plan, there is also a meta-commentary on the material effects of the budget and debt debate on financial markets. Lawmakers are faced with a situation in which their participation in the debate changes the conditions of the policy field itself.
Specifically, I will focus my analysis on the ways that the search for the wound circulates rhetorics of shame and victimization in order to translate abstract policy numbers onto emotively invested figures. Beyond being merely politically useful tropes, this move is part of a larger process of shifting the collective imagination of "the good life." Austerity and sacrifice are posed as positive principles in response to the eschatological predictions of crisis. I will supplement this final aspect by demonstrating the ways that visual imagery, through graphs and charts become an increasingly effective tool for simplifying such a dizzying array of statistics. And finally, I will point to some of the larger implications such an analysis has for theorizing the operations of publics and the role of the critic.
Sara Ahmed theory of 'affective economies' is a useful analytic for understanding why feelings dance with figures. For Ahmed, affect is an impersonal force that swarms through networked spaces that precede the subject. She analogizes the movements of affects to the circulation of commodities. They accumulate a surplus of value or intensity through processes of exchange that conceal their histories, transformations, and origins. Ahmed offers a useful vocabulary for interpreting the recent budget and debt debates. Emotions are the sticky substances that mediate the individual-milieu couple. Ahmed writes, "the individual subject comes into being through its very alignment with the collective. It is the very failure of affect to be located in a subject or object that allows it to generate the surfaces of collective bodies (128)." Affect is in intimate contact with the realm of meaning, rather than existing completely external to it. This is because affects operate in order to define and arrange bodies within specific relations.
Ahmed writes on the tethering of catastrophe to character, "narratives of crisis are used within politics to justify a "return" to values and traditions that are perceived to be under threat." There is a strange dialectic in which the fear of loss is always accompanied by what Lauren Berlant terms a 'cruel optimism' (93), or "the condition of maintaining an attachment to a problematic object in advance of its loss" (94). The budget (Politicians' pork, peoples' benefits and taxes) seems to be this frustrating endurance of an affective form par excellence. "Cruel optimism as an analytic lever," for Berlant,"is an incitement to inhabit and to track the affective attachment to what we call "the good life" (97). The rhetoric of the budget debate gravitates toward appeals to futurity. Obama's speech for example, "this doesn't have to be the country we leave to our children." Fundamentally, it asks the question what sort of life do we want to reproduce and who is helping or hurting this cause.
The parallelism between the macro structures of spending and the everyday structures of feeling offers an insight into the economies of emotion. Economic analyst Kevin Drum writes "There are limits to how far a big country like the United States can get from fundamentals, but we're still susceptible to the kinds of mob emotion that power both bubbles and bank runs." The value of austerity is instilled as an ethic for both our economic and rhetorical etiquette. There is the constant refrain of the necessity for an 'adult conversation.' Berlant writes, "All of the strikes and tea parties in response to the state's demand for an austere sacrifice under the burden of shame tell us that this incitement for the public to become archaic as a public is not going down too easily." The intense fears of populism, the crowd, or class warfare haunt the discussions in a way that shows the impossibility of austerity. Joshua Green writes that, "'class warfare' has that extra dimension of apocalyptic consequence and the undertone of victimization that work so well together even though they shouldn't, like sweet-and-sour soup." (Joshua Green) The figure of the incompetent and unfair populist is tied to a dismantling of the very fabric of American life.
Obama said in his speech, "We will all need to make sacrifices. But we do not have to sacrifice the America we believe in." The budget crisis forces us to rethink the way shame functions as the underbelly to the positively imbued value of austerity; and furthermore "to think of austerity in relation to claims that the vulnerable should recode loss as sacrifice and therefore produce an affective cushion to replace the loss of other material ones, which were both real and affective."
Austerity becomes a way of coping with the stark realities of an uncertain future. Ahmed theorizes about how "the fear of degeneration as a mechanism for preserving social forms becomes associated more with some bodies than others." The Right has been able to recode shame from the figure of the crony capitalist to the excessive politician or consumer. The Left sticks shame to those that would "tell families with children who have disabilities that they have to fend for themselves" or "abandon the fundamental commitment this country has kept for generations." Obama makes responsibility not just a partisan thing but "patriotism." Ahmed writes, "threat of such others to social forms (which are the materialization of norms) is represented as the threat of turning away from the values that will guarantee survival." Here it becomes evident that threat operates not merely as tethered to an objective referent of economic crisis.
Threat is intensified not only by means of exaggeration but also by attaching itself to abstracted character forms and socialized values that circulate without being tied to particular objects. Anxiety sets in because the ambiguity about what investments are excessive or dangerous or the cuts that might affect the vulnerable comes with the fear of passing. Berlant says "It might be unbearable to discover how little one matters to the reproduction of life, but shame is just one of the many moods of affective relation that locates persons and groups in the anxiety of forging an idiom of response." Shaming is part of the process of constituting subjectivities by defining a self or collectivity in terms of proximity to or alignment with objects of promise or peril.
Mapping this terrain of affective friction means that "one must embark on an analysis of rhetorical indirection as a way of thinking about the strange temporalities of projection into an enabling object that is also disabling" (95). Taxation or cuts in spending are this paradoxical object for the parties. This contradiction at the heart of affective objects provides a basis for extending Ahmed's Marxist analogy of affective commodities in terms of Crisis Theory. Crisis goes back to the Proto Indo European root krinein meaning "to separate, divide, judge." Is this not what occurs within the encounter and enactment of a cruel optimism? Enabling forms of enjoyment are separated from the disabling, a conception of the good life is judged against its threat.
As Marx himself put it "the simple form of metamorphosis comprises the possibility of crisis, we only say that in this form itself lies the possibility of the rupture and separation of essentially complimentary phases" (451). While Ahmed analyzes affect in relation to the M-C-M circuit, Marx indicates that in the entanglement of production and circulation (or the M-C-M and C-M-C circuits) in the reproduction of capital lays "a further developed possibility or abstract form of crisis" (455). Furthermore, the largest cause of crisis derives from capital's tendency to over-accumulate, "to produce to the limit set by the productive forces…without any consideration for the actual limits of the market" (465). Affective crises or over-saturation occurs when their circulation is separated from how they are produced or when they threaten the matrix that renews their life force.
When affects are freed from referents they can circulate and thus accumulate force so freely that they can be redeployed to undermine their initial cause. Ahmed writes, "To declare a crisis is not "to make something out of nothing"…But the declaration of crisis reads that fact/figure/event and transforms it into a fetish object that then acquires a life of its own" (132). The crisis becomes a thing that grows larger than the sum of its parts. "Through designating something as already under threat in the present, that very thing becomes installed as "the truth," which we must fight for in the future, a fight that is retrospectively understood to be a matter of life and death." (132) For example the figure of the elderly at threat of losing their life support has become an oversaturated figure within the political landscape: the Left use it as a victimized figure because of the ways the Right has employed it previously.
The budget debate no longer becomes about numbers but how we align with this particular figure. The hyper-mediated figure of the elderly or the budget crisis-thing is an assemblage of so many hybrid forces that a crisis ensues for the audience to interpret how it fits within their conceptual horizon of the 'good life.'
Another interesting parallel in the analogy is the way that affect is actually related to market dynamics. By analyzing the accounts of emotional tendencies in markets and stockbrokers we get an example in which cognitive activities feed-forward and back into feelings. As Couze Venn writes,
what passes for the most rational of economic activities…that in reality turns out to depend on 'a feeling for the market' mixed in with a whole range of in-the-moment experiences as well as cognitive calculations. What is striking, then, is the instantaneous correlation of every kind of 'information': facts, signals, rumours, news, mixed in with moods and emotional energies, enabling agents to participate in an activity in which all behave both as an individual and as an element of a collectivity. (Couze Venn 2010)
Labels: Affect, Affective Economics, austerity, Budget, crisis, cruel optimism, Debt, guilt, lauren berlant, sacrifice, Sara Ahmed, shame, victimization


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Baltimore's monument to the man who wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner" was defaced Tuesday night, with the words "Racist Anthem" scrawled in black.
The phrase was written at the base of the concrete and marble Francis Scott Key monument. Besides the black lettering, the structure was splashed with red and black paint.
On the ground near the monument, words from the third stanza of Key's famous poem were painted in black, according to the Baltimore Sun: "No refuge could save, hireling or slave, from terror of flight, or gloom of grave."
Police are investigating, but they've yet to identify any suspects.
Key penned what is now the national anthem while he was held captive by the British during the War of 1812.
The Key incident comes a few weeks after a monument to Christopher Columbus was vandalized in Baltimore and a week after the city removed four monuments honoring Confederate leaders.
The Baltimore Sun described Key as having a mixed record on race, writing his "actions helped incite a race riot in the District of Columbia" due to Key's actions as district attorney in the arrest of an abolitionist.
Many historians have not read Key's "slave" verse as a glorification of slavery, but rather have pointed to numerous alternate interpretations, including one stemming from the British practice of kidnapping sailors and forcing them into duty.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Recruited to MI18, a top-secret British agency that employs children to gather intelligence, six preteens use their minds over high-tech gadgets to fight crime in this imported debut.
Thirty years ago, the Myers Holt Academy, an elite and secret boarding school that housed the MI18, closed when one of its students, Anna Willows, was kidnapped and presumed dead. Very much alive, plotting revenge and now known as Dulcia Genever, she, along with her adopted twin sons, has been incapacitating the students and faculty that never came to rescue her. The academy is reopened when one of those former students—the current prime minister—appears to be next on the hit list. Following a confusing transition from prologue to story, the novel centers on 12-year-old Christopher Lane, whose father died seven years ago and whose mother has been a recluse ever since. Chris and his stereotypical mix of cohorts (the overweight bully, the foreigner with broken English, etc.) train to develop their Ability, using their brains to their full capacity, as they practice telekinesis and mind reading and prepare to protect the prime minister at the annual Antarctic Ball for children. This training proves to be more interesting than the concluding fight against villainous Genever and her twins.
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InterContinental New York Times Square
The InterContinental New York Times Square conveniently located near all of New York City's airports and within blocks of Penn Station and Grand Central stations. A Subway station is accessible below the hotel. Designed by the global architecture firm Gensler, The InterContinental New York Times Square rises 34 stories above the dynamic Eighth Avenue development corridor. It joins contemporary icons the Hearst Tower by Norman Foster and Renzo Piano's New York Times Building on the skyline. Gensler's holistic design draws from two distinctly New York neighborhoods. White glass along Eighth Avenue reflects the movement and shimmer of the street, while warm-toned granite on the 44th Street facade relates to the adjacent residential buildings. Featuring a restaurant and street-level retail, the six-story podium is topped by a sculptural glass hotel tower.
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The InterContinental New York Times Square will be located at 44th Street and 8th Avenue, in the heart of the Broadway District and within walking distance to 40 theaters. The New York fashion, financial and commercial districts are nearby as well as spectacular sights, city landmarks and incredible shopping.
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From LGA: Take the Midtown Tunnel via I-495 W. Right onto E 34th St. Right onto 8th Ave Left onto W 45th St. Take 1st left onto 9th Ave 1st left onto W44th St. Hotel is located at the corner of 44th St and 8th Avenue on right hand side. From JFK: Take the VanWyck Expressway (I-678). At Exit 10-take ramp to Grand Central Parkway (signs will indicte LGA/Triboro Bridge) Take Exit 10-W toward Manhattan/Midtown Tunnel. Go thru tunnel Stay to left and follow signs Downtown/34th Street Turn right on 34th Street Turn right on 10th Avenue Turn right on 44th Street Hotel entrance is on the left side of 44th Street between 8th and 9th Avenue. From Newark Airport: Route 78 East to New Jersey Turnpike (Western Spur) NJ Turnpike to Route 46 E 46 Merges to Helix at Lincoln Tunnel At tunnel exit make a left onto Dyer Avenue Left at 2nd light onto 42nd Street Right onto 10th Avenue Right on West 44th Street Hotel entrance will be on left side between 8th and 9th Avenue
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10,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space located on a dedicated meeting floor, including the 4,000-square-foot Gotham Ballroom. The hotel's additional ten separate meeting rooms are each named after Manhattan parks.
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31 Room(s) with Accessibility Standards.
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Being Positive is Very Simple
Over the years there has has been a tremendous amount of research done on the effects of being positive, and the effects of being negative. The research is clear. It really does pay to be positive and the benefits include enhanced health and longevity, happiness, career advancement, athletic performance, team building and financial success.
Being positive isn't just a nice way to live. It's the way to live.
And it's about much more than just posting a positive quote near your computer, repeating positive affirmations, or just thinking positive thoughts. In fact the best advice just might be to start hanging around positive people, especially if you struggle with being more positive than not on your own. Get around, and stay around positive people until you have being pretty positive most of the time. And when you're thrown off guard and you start a downward negative spiral you can pull yourself out of it much quicker.
For myself, being positive is very simple, it's all about "what you're for", and being negative is simply "what you're against."
In fact I know that to be so true, especially for how my mind mind totally shifted from my time on Biggest Loser that I decided right before our finale, that I wanted to be forever reminded about the one major life lesson Jillian taught me. A lesson that helped me leave any and all negative thinking behind.
That message was a quote that I took away from an intense conversation I had with Jill at one of my most vulnerable, most broken moments on the show. Tired, homesick, thinking I was ready to go home, Jillian called my bluff and gave me a 90 minute one-on-one beat down doing all she could do to break me. make me quit, and yet through all of that I didn't, because I knew she wasn't giving up on me, I was giving up on me. And when I got that, I said never again, I have so much more in me, so much more life to live, and most of all live it well. Jill wouldn't let me any longer be "against" myself, she showed how to always be "for" myself.
So now I have a tattoo which is forever by my side as my 24/7 reminder that says…
"what you're for strengthens you"
What I didn't tattoo on my arm was the other part of that saying, "what you're against weakens you."
Now I'm not suggesting you tattoo your favorite life-affirming quote on your arm, but what you might want to consider to ponder and look into is the following list of 11 documented research studies that proves the power of positivity.
1. Positive People Live Longer – In a study of nuns, those that regularly expressed positive emotions lived on average 10 years longer. (The Nun Study)
2. Positive work environments outperform negative work environments. (Daniel Goleman)
3. Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people. (Martin Seligman)
4. Positive leaders are able to make better decisions under pressure. (Heartmath.org)
5. Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce. (John Gottman)
6. Positive people who regularly express positive emotions are more resilient when facing stress, challenges and adversity. (Several Studies)
7. Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems. (Barbara Fredrickson)
8. Positive thoughts and emotions counter the negative effects of stress. For example, you can't be thankful and stressed at the same time. (Several Studies)
9. Positive emotions such as gratitude and appreciation help athletes perform at a higher level. (Heartmath.org)
10. Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity. (Robert D. Putnam)
11. Positive and popular leaders are more likely to garner the support of others and receive pay raises and promotions and achieve greater success in the workplace. (Tim Sanders)
So where's your head with being positive. Does it come easy for you, or do you struggle? Who or what is your positive go-to resource to put your head in a better place when you're having a tough time, when the wheels are falling off?
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Eeeeeeeeeek Unwanted Facial Hair!
Hi there,
I was reading a post where you invited readers to confess their beauty secrets. Maybe you can help me with my problem because it seems like I have the worst version of a problem a lot of women have.
About 5 years ago – mid 20s I started noticing hair on my chin/front of my neck. I plucked. And plucked. This causes ingrown hairs and I loked like I had acne there. I finally got laser – which was expensive but HERE IS THE BAD PART about that: you cannot have any sun exposure for a month beforehand so you go to the apointment all excited and they basically hand you spf 50 and a straw hat and tell you to return in 30 days. AND…you CANNOT pluck for that entire time. You have to…SHAVE. They tell you to shave your face. So I did. And I felt like a dude. I went to my treatments (5 in all, about 800 dollars total) and you have to shave every day – they tell you the hair will be dead but it pushes its way out so you have to keep shaving. After my last treatment (which, BTW yes, it hurts – but as long as it worked, I totally didn't care) I had to keep shaving and shaving and shaving. I kept getting ingrown hairs. The hair kept coming. Five years later and now I'm back to plucking.
Here is the current and really bad problem: Apparently all of the plucking has caused discoloration. I now have about 30 spots of dark skin on my chin and front of neck. If I look at that area in the car visor mirror, it is horrifying! Not only are there hairs – I pluck about 20 a day, I would estimate. But there is this shadow of dark skin in the shape of a beard!!!! I can't tell how "obvious" it is – like if it's visible from 20 feet away or if you wouldn't notice unless I pointed it out to you. Thus, I wear foundation every single day – which sucks because you really have to blend down there so it doesn't look weird, and it sucks because this time of year I have an awesome tan, but you can't apprciate it because I have to cover it up with foundation – although I sometimes try to get away with blending really well so I only cover up the offending area.
At this point, I don't know if I should go back to shaving – that has its own drawbacks – that prickly, 5 o'clock shadow feeling – you can see those suckers in bright sunlight!!!! and more ingrown hairs. I guess I would deal with that if the dark spots would go away.
I have been tested for hormone levels, PCOS and they are negative – I'm just hairy. 🙁
It's a really horrible feeling. I'm married and this is the one thing I do not discuss with my husband.
Hey – don't post my name, ok????
Well, if it makes you feel any better, yours is NOT the first question I've gotten about unwanted facial hair. Not by a long shot.
Of course, dozens of questions about it later I'm still not sure I have a great answer. We've all tried Nair and home wax kits and that fancy little no!no! gadget that Sephora is pushing says it's "not recommended for use on the face" in the fine print. (Which…is pretty much the only spot on my body that would justify a $250 razor-type-thing, so honestly I politely suggest they go back to the drawing board on that one. I hate shaving my pits as much as the next girl, but please.)
I picked your question to publish because, frankly, most women struggling with the facial hair problem are debating whether to try laser treatments. Which you did, with less-than-awesome results. (Yours is probably the second or third anecdote I've heard about laser hair removal not being totally permanent too, which sucks. My husband has been eyeing the procedure for years.) I'm wondering if you've ever contacted the clinic to report the spectacular failure of your treatments? Any odds of a free or discounted re-do or touch-up session, or some "expert" advice about the dark spots?
From what little I know about laser hair removal, it's very likely that the treatment is actually to blame for your current skin discoloration. (It's a commonly-noted side effect, usually temporary, but in rare cases it can be permanent or very long-lasting.) The plucking and chronic ingrowns don't help either.
Have you tried waxing? Piggy-backing the chin area with a regular appointment to get your eyebrows done? Tell the tech you're very prone to ingrown hairs and she might be able to give you advice about what products to use post-wax and plucking to prevent them. (Plucking is no different from waxing, by the way, if you pluck and run without following up with a good product you'll get ingrown hairs and irritation for sure. ) Waxing isn't permanent, of course, but with time the hairs SHOULD get thinner and weaker, and your regrowth time SHOULD slow, and even cutting down on the number of hairs you pluck in-between waxes would probably be a relief, no?
As for the skin discoloration, it sounds similar to a sun or age spot, to which I've found nothing effective, at least in the over-the-counter realm. A dermatologist may prescribe a bleaching cream for you though, so make an appointment with one (preferably one on the "cosmetic" side of the field — you know, the kind with Botox and crap like that, since these doctors tend to be a bit more willing to help out with non-skin-cancer-type concerns). While you're there, ask the doctor about hair removal options. Maybe a prescription hair removal cream like Vaniqa? (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Vaniqa besides what I've read about it on the Internet. This is not an endorsement or anything other than me throwing options wildly out to the wind, talk to your doctor about risks and side effects, blah blah back-peddling talkyspeak.)
One last note on shaving: I'm sure we all know this by now, but the whole "if you shave it'll grow back darker and thicker" thing? Total myth. Shaved-off stubble may APPEAR darker and more noticeable, but shaving has absolutely no effect on the hair follicle, either by making it grow thicker hair or multiplying the number of strands. That said, I still totally get why shaving your face is probably near the bottom of your list of Ideal Hair Removal Options.


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These Birds
It's been a while
since I was visited by these birds.
I know there will be tears
when they start singing,
yet, I await their return
with hope.
These birds haven't been here for a while.
When they are absent, I am happy, but mute.
Now I will sing with them
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