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of the weblog Pandagon—is my hero for the day.
Personally, I've always taken the "Anger is a gift" view of things...
So the WATB's at the WaPo can't deal with it? They've never been able to deal with it. Sounds like a personal problem to me.
I'm amazed that, despite having gone through a complete staff turnover, Pandagon still manages to hit the nail on the head, with attitude.
Amanda, kicker of butts, does it again.
I read through the article and although I agree about most of the points, several of them, well, anger me.
And that doesn't mean I have no sense of humor. Getting angry when I am the target of a joke, however, may be a bit of a giveaway. It's not a sense of humor if you only laugh at others - it is simply meanspirited-ness.
And it doesn't mean I'm uncool. Ad hominem attacks upset me, and my social ineptness has no bearing either way. Nor connected, as such, with my attractiveness, or lack thereof - and ridiculing the question isn't particularly fair methodology. ("...who really wants to admit to that?")
The on that really got me going, however, was stupid enough that I'm having trouble thinking clearly enough to refute it properly.
Anger muddles your thinking - it does. No reasonable being would deny this - and if you're angry, you are not reasonable. It slows reaction time, in some cases as much as alcohol. It causes people to behave irrationally, frequently to the point of murdering other human beings. Like all emotions, it has it's place, but remember that the assumption you start with don't change unless you are willing to examine them, and anger is simply not conducive to admitting mistakes or otherwise confused thinking.
"Anger muddles your thinking - it does. No reasonable being would deny this"
From which we can reasonably conclude that anger "muddles" David Manheim's thinking.
Whether all human beings are wired exactly like David Manheim is another question, and probably not a question on which David Manheim's opinion is determinative.
Hint: When you find yourself typing phrases like "no reasonable being would deny this", it's time to check for feathers.
The comment that amused (and saddened) me was the one about Saddam taking down the twin towers.
How soon we forget the facts of the case. Osama directed that action, not Saddam, and there wasn't an Iraqi among the terrorists. In fact, 15 of the 19 terrorists were Saudis, as is Osama.
Sorry, it truly is a most inconvenient fact for certain political parties.
Right-wing talk of liberal anger has, for a long time, seemed to me one of these carefully-considered abuses of valid ethical precepts, like a wife-beater telling their victim to turn the other cheek. These people don't believe in ahimsa; they want their enemies to be spineless, that's all, and that the argument is made tells us something of what they think of us. Any group that takes Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter to their bosom, that glorifes war, that actually starts wars and makes excuses for the behavior, needs to consider the friggin' tree-trunk in their own eyes before worrying about anything in ours.
"Things That Ain't So":
9/11 changed everything; then 9/12 changed 9/11.
David Manheim: Anger muddles your thinking - it does.
Sometimes it does, sure. Sometimes it focuses the mind.
I don't have much of a temper. It hardly ever gets lit off, but when it does I guess it can be pretty impressive and there are times when I apparently rise to heights of Precision Expression that even I marvel at. That sounds like bragging or something but I don't mean it that way. It's just that sometimes I'm shocked at how much muck is blown out of my head when my fuse gets lit and we get some sort of detonation.
I don't deny that anger can strangle expression sometimes, but sometimes it clarifies things.
Kip W: 9/11 changed everything; then 9/12 changed 9/11.
One of the biggest laugh-out-louds for me in "The Aristocrats":
"...the tragedy of January third..."
When you find yourself typing phrases like "no reasonable being would deny this", it's time to check for feathers.
While psychology is a pretty fuzzy science, there is a whole world of things out there that no reasonable being would deny. And Alan Sokal is their prophet.
I would argue that the debatable portion of this is what do we mean when we say anger? Are we talking about a hot rage? Something that is just shy of a physical assault? Then I think that David is probably correct. That being said, just because someone is just plain odious doesn't mean I have to get my blood pressure all off kilter.
Anger can muddle your thinking, just like any other emotion can, but it doesn't neccessarily have to muddle your thinking.
while moonlighting as a life coach, I've found that sometimes people feel some emotion that really has nothing to do with what's going on in the moment, other than they got reminded of some event that happened in the past.
And other times, they feel some emotion that has everything to do with what's going on in the moment, but may need to be uncovered so they can act on it clearly. They may feel sad, but further discussion reveals that underneath the sadness they are angry but have suppressed it for some reason.
Once uncovered and clarified, emotions are basically our brain's way of telling us something. Anger often translates into "No. Enough is enough", which can give the person the focus they need to stand up to whatever is making them angry.
I can't say I've had the experience of a right winger saying to the left "you're angry" as a way to dismiss the left's argument, but I don't get out much.
The tricky part of coaching is that emotions aren't "right", but they are "true". Being angry doesn't mean your argument is correct. It just means that's how you truly feel. I know plenty of nutjobs in the media who feel angry and are wrong in everything they say.
If someone on the left is angry and some critic ignores valid arguments and instead responds simply with "you're angry", then I'd suggest they respond with something simple, like "Yeah? So what?" and not let it make them loose focus of what's right.
I think we're getting muddled here between anger and rage. In rage, you lose control, and thus, of course, your thinking is muddled.
No reasonable person would dispute that in "anger leading to a loss of control and muddled thinking," one's thinking is muddled. Any reasonable person could dispute that all anger leads to such a result; for example, I consider myself a reasonable person, and I'm frequently angry, but it only muddles my thinking occasionally. If I punch the wall and leave my own blood on it, yeah. If I think about the Bush administration...not usually.
If anger always muddles your thinking...well, I'd say that's a personal problem, and the answer is therapy. Been there; done that.
There's also a problem with the meaning of 'muddle'. All emotion influences thinking; that's why experiments are double blinded if possible: the experimenter needs to be able to evaluate the data without being influenced by hir desire to see a particular result. But in my opinion one's thinking is only "muddled" if one does NOT make such allowances or take such precautions. One of these is the application of rigorous logic.
And the reason the Right thinks anger automatically muddles thinking? They don't believe in rigorous logic, and in many cases are unfamiliar with it. Therefore they assume—wrongly—that our thinking when we're angry is as muddled as theirs is all the time.
Alright! So when's the next ML slam-dance party?
Yeah, the Left is angry.
As opposed to the Right, which is shivering, pants-crapping terrified.
They've got all three branches of government*, the media, the churches, and the Fortune 500. Yet they still whimper like a toddler at the Monsters Under The Bed, whether the Monster of the Day is uppity blacks, uppity women, Arabs, Mexicans, environmentalists, child molesters, drug dealers, Communists, or Quakers.
And frightened people are very, very dangerous. Much more dangerous than angry people.
* Well, two and a half. The courts are still trying to hang in there.
Let me suggest that there is a standard in these matters, and it was set nearly three centuries ago:
Hic depositum est corpus
Huyus Ecclesiae Cathedralis
Ubi saeva indignatio
Cor lacerare nequit
Abi Viator
Et imitare, si poteris
Strenuum pro virili
Libertatis Vindicatorem
Obiit 19 Die Mensis Octobris
A.D. 1745 Anno �tatis 78
W.B. Yeats' translation:
Swift has sailed unto his rest.
Savage indignation there
cannot lacerate his breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
world-besotted traveller, he
Served human liberty.
"Indignation" is probably the best word for what I, and I assume other people, feel about the Bush administration. I don't actually hate Bush. (I don't hate anyone, but my feelings for him come as close to hate as I get.) I do feel that he is unjust, mean, and unworthy, which is the definition of the word "indignation" if I understand it correctly.
Frustration is another feeling I get.
Sometimes anger is there as well.
I'd take any of those over depression and fear any day. Depression and fear impede action. They close down will power. Anger, indignation, and frustration are calls to action. They are unsettling. They require you to do something even if it is only posting on a blog.
A fast googling doesn't turn up Amanda Marcotte's piece about Darfur. Assuming it was a real article rather than something invented by the WashPost, did she have an idea of what could be done about the genocide, or was it a demand to get angry and pressure politicians to Do Something?
Joe J: Even hatred of the corrupt, dishonest, and criminal in positions of power has a long sanction:
'My charges upon record will outlast
The brass of both his epitaph and tomb.'
'Repent'st thou not,' said Michael, 'of some past
Exaggeration? something which may doom
Thyself if false, as him if true? Thou wast
Too bitter � is it not so? � in thy gloom
Of passion?' � 'Passion!' cried the phantom dim,
'I loved my country, and I hated him.
-- Byron, 'The Vision of Judgment'
it's time to check for feathers.
I'm sorry, my parser is stuck on this one and cannot extract the intended meaning.
Amanda (who I had the pleasure to meet two months ago) has been a hero of mine for some time now. She has the uncanny ability to write very reasonable posts that drive your average rightwing wingnut completely blind with rage.
--But I still miss Jesse.
Nancy Lebovitz: The WaPo article claims to cite a Darfur piece by Maryscott O'Conner, not (At least as far as I bothered to read) anything by Amanda Marcotte.
Greg: Turkey? I'm guessing.
"The apprehension of evil causes hatred, aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some present evil, or in the anger that resists it." Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Resistance. Works for me.
Fragano Ledgister: That's an excellent quote, but it doesn't convince me that there is value in hate. That's not to say I couldn't hate someone. I just would rather not settle for hate since it too often leads to violence. Anyway, there's more than enough hate going around now. I don't need to add to the supply.
A thought occurred to me concerning anger. To care about something, you have to be able to react emotionally to what happens to it. For example, I care about my country. If good things happen to it, I'm happy. If bad things happen, I'm angry or sad. If I didn't care at all, I wouldn't feel anything at all.
If liberals are angry, it means we care about America. The more we are angry, the more the welfare of the country matters to us. Amanda Marcotte is right. You can't dismiss this passion as sour grapes. It's too intense for pouting. Only people who care deeply and are deeply concerned can be this angry.
I think we should remember that the only useful purpose for being angry in published form is to make others angry for the same reasons. If we really want to change what's wrong with the world, we need to be in the business of converting people. The unsuspecting schmoe who wanders into a room full of scowling and snarling people may very well leave in a hurry and go looking for more convivial company.
In my opinion, the best vehicle for anger is dark humour. Ever noticed how many of the best political attack ads are funny?
Joe J: Hate, at its best, is anger focused on a target (in the case of Junius, made to speak by Byron, George III. I'm not advocating (nor was Byron) hatred as a mode of thought or being, but saying that some anger becomes hate -- hatred of the evils done and of the evildoers.
I think anger can be great motivation ("Anger Is Fuel"). That said, I've also had problems with the anger vs. rage dichotomy at points in my life (as P&T may recall), and eventually spent a number of years in therapy and 12-step groups learning to deal with that and other issues.
In hindsight, my problems were:
1) I didn't know how to use anger effectively.
2) I didn't get angry early enough, or often enough.
That last sounds counterproductive, but it's true. I stuffed the small angers inside, I kept my mouth shut, I didn't rock the boat, until it all reached a critical mass where the latest shitheaded statement or action by my friends or opponents would make me explode in (sometimes literally) screaming outrage.
Expressing my anger in smaller ways, quieter ways, might have made a difference. Maybe. (Though I tried that a few times, for the period I'm thinking of, and it didn't make any difference; all the dire consequences I tried to warn against two years in advance came to pass anyway. But it would certainly have been better for my own sake.)
Fragano Ledgister: I see your point.
Ariella said: "In my opinion, the best vehicle for anger is dark humour."
Dave Chappelle comes to mind. So does George Carlin.
I don't know. . . these days, it seems like humor doesn't get through either- they laugh it off and go back to what they were doing.
Maybe I'm too damn bitter to be funny, these days.
What I've found in coaching folks is that the words "anger", "hate", "rage", and similar, are all dealt with the same way. Help them find out why they're feeling that way, help them figure out what (if anything) they can do to get back to their center, and help them relate to the emotions their feeling so they're more conscious of what's going on with themselves.
What is often on the other side of these emotions for people I've coached is a sense of clarity that something isn't working for them anymore and they've had enough.
As for "hating" someone, the flip side of that is sometimes simply the wake-up call that you don't want that person in your life anymore and you have the right to uninvite them.
How I sincerely wish I could uninvite Bush from my life.
I did use the key word "sometimes"
Lenora, thanks. Here's the article, and it recommends some sensible courses of action, though I don't know whether they'd be enough.
In any case, the WashPost piece was unfair to put all the emphasis on anger, There's thought going on, not just hostility-dumping.
Ad hominem attacks upset me,
"Don't listen to anything Fred Singer says about climate because he's funded by the oil companies" upsets you?
"He lied to us about TANG, he lied to us about Niger, he lied to us about Saddam's links to 9/11, so I don't trust him about Iran" upsets you?
"The Washington Times is a Unification Church-funded newspaper, and FoxNews is the propaganda arm of the GOP" upsets you?
Or did you mean "insults"?
Joe J: There are a few people in this world I hate. I didn't settle for it. They took the time and effort to earn it. I don't enjoy it, but I'm not sure that I am wired to avoid it.
When grievous injury is done, over long time, and with intent, there ain't enough christian love in me to survive forever, there comes a time I can no longer forgive; absent repentance and penance.
Sooner, or later, hate comes into the picture. It's not the first reaction, nor yet the last (there have been some I've hated whom I no longer hate, they have passed from all but memory, and the memory is one of faint sadness. I can't explain that, but that's how it goes), but it's what is.
I take it into account when dealing with them.
I don't think David Finkel saw himself as writing a political story with http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401648_pf.html. I think he set out to write a story whose subtext is this-is-a-strong-willed-woman-with-issues-who-is-a-few-hoppers-short-of-a-full-carload.
He's done this before, with a short-order cook in Utah as his "subject," last January 31:
>[Utah Town Has Question About President: 'What's Not to Like?'](http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/978549571.html?dids=978549571:978549571&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Jan+31%2C+2006&author=David+Finkel&desc=Utah+Town+Has+Question+About+President%3A+%27What%27s+Not+to+Like%3F%27): Author: David Finkel Date: Jan 31, 2006 Start Page: A.01:To get to the place where they like George W. Bush more than any other place in America, you fly west for a long time from Washington, then you drive north for a long time from Salt Lake City, and then you pull into Gator's Drive Inn, where the customer at the front of the line is ordering a patty melt. "Patty melts! No one makes patty melts anymore," she is saying to the counterman, Ryan Louderman, who knew she wasn't local as soon as he heard the sound of a car being locked. "Can I get it without onions?" she says. "And can I get mustard? On the side? Dijon mustard?"...
>"No onions? With mustard?" says Orton, who voted for Bush in 2004 and 2000. "Oh, God, we get some weird ones" -- but she cooks it anyway, as requested, and passes the non-patty melt out to the woman, who takes a bite, declares it "fabulous" and wraps up the rest to go. She's on her way to a ski resort. She is going to be lifted by helicopter to the top of a mountain with untouched snow, and then she is going to ski down....
>"Dijon mustard," Louderman says as the woman drives away. "I don't know what Dijon mustard is. Don't care to find out, either."...
>In Randolph... where Bush received 95.6 percent... the mind-set is even more specific to a place that seems less a part of the modern United States than insulated from it. It isn't just mustard, but everything....
>Terrorist threats? That's anywhere but here. Iraq? That's somewhere over there.... [Orton] turns off the "open" sign and starts adding up the day's receipts. It isn't much. She netted $10,000 last year, if that. She has no savings. She has no retirement plan. She works seven days a week, 12 hours a day. Her last vacation was a quick trip last Thanksgiving to see her in-laws.... Somewhere out there are the sounds of chattering terrorists, and shivering homeless people, and helicopters ferrying soldiers, and a president rehearsing a vitally important speech. Here in 71.5 percent Utah, though, and 95.6 percent Randolph, and 100 percent Gator's, the only sound is of a believer explaining why, come Tuesday night, she doubts she will bother to listen.
>"I don't think there's anything he could say that would make me dislike him," she says.
Finkel, of course, says: "You can't tell anything about what I think from the article. You can't tell anything about me other than that I am male and write for the *Washington Post.*"
Chris Clarke ::: (view all by) ::: April 18, 2006, 03:07 PM:
Ad hominem attacks upset me,
[clipped out the examples of argument ad hominem]
Or did you mean "insults"?
Well, I don't know about the other poster, but ad hominem arguments like you described do anger me. Broken rhetoric always annoys me when I spot it. It annoys me greatly when it's used with awareness that it's broken (i.e. sophistry) and it ratchets up into anger when it's paired with the frustrating feeling that I'm not going to be able to explain to anybody why the previous statements were worthless and should be ignored.
Furthermore, "ad hominem attacks" could easily be read with a different meaning than "argument ad hominem".
Elaborating on what I take to be roughly Chris Clarke's point:
Arguing ad hominem is fallacious when you're intending to attack a deductive argument. A deductive argument is sound or unsound, and which it is does not depend at all on who's making it... so arguing ad hominem is beside the point. It is a version of the fallacy of irrelevance.
Socrates is a man.
All men are mortal.
Therefore Socrates is mortal.
This argument is sound, and it remains sound whether it's made by me or Hitler or Tom Cruise. No information about the character, judgment, etc of the arguer affects its soundness.
Similarly, ad hominem attacks cannot show, by themselves, the truth or falsity of a statement of fact. Suppose Hitler says "All Jews are greedy." That's a false statement, and Hitler is a bad guy, but the fact that he says it does not by itself show that the statement is false.
BUT it's a different story when we're assessing the credibility of a statement of fact -- in particular, when we're trying to decide whose statements of fact we should trust. (Independent assessment of evidence is the best way to decide when to believe a statement of fact. But in most cases we're unable to independently assess the evidence -- we may not have access to it all, its assessment may require specialized knowledge, etc. We have to trust experts. So we have to have a good way to decide which experts to trust.)
It's highly relevant and prudent to consider whether we should believe the person who is the source of the statement of fact. For this purpose, it is a good idea to consider that person's track record of lying, spinning, having an interest in misleading you, allowing ideology to cloud their own factual judgment, getting their info from the wrong people, being dense, etc.
Now, just for clarity, suppose we discovered that the person has a bad track record -- they've lied a lot in the past, for example. What would this show? It would not show whether the current statement is TRUE. (As I said above, the ad hominem arguments cannot establish the truth or falsity of the factual claim under discussion.) But it would show that we shouldn't believe the statement just on the strength of this person's word.
And, I meant to say, all of Chris Clarke's examples of ad-hominem-that's-okay are examples of that latter use of ad hominem. They're all examples intended to show that we should not take a given person/organization's word for something.
They're okay because that's their purpose, and because they offer highly relevant reasons why that person's word is unlikely to lead us to the truth on a given subject.
What's relevance?
This is okay:
Person X works for big pharma, so she is likely to mislead us about certain public policy issues in a way that benefits big pharma.
This is not okay:
Person Y reads dirty magazines and is ugly, so she is likely to mislead us about public policy issues.
But the reason the second example is not okay is just because the claim about Person Y is not relevant to assessing the trustworthiness of Y's statements about medical issues.
(Ok, taking my "critical thinking 101" hat off.)
Well, I don't know about the other poster, but ad hominem arguments like you described do anger me. Broken rhetoric always annoys me when I spot it. It annoys me greatly when it's used with awareness that it's broken (i.e. sophistry) and it ratchets up into anger when it's paired with the frustrating feeling that I'm not going to be able to explain to anybody why the previous statements were worthless and should be ignored.
A courtesy note then: you may wish to avoid reading pretty much anything I write, as I find life too short to presume the best of habiitual liars on a continual basis.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I hope you don't avoid readiing my writing,but if what you say above is true, I'll almost certainly piss you off. I don't feel my arguments are sophistry. I make them in good faith and out of the hard-earned knowledge that we are up against people who deliberately lie for profit.
Terry Karney: You make good points. I did come off as a bit sanctimonious, and I apologize for it. I suppose "settle for it" was the wrong phrase to use. The point I was getting at was that I disliked hate in other people, but most of all in myself. Hate benefits no one, not the person being hated or the person hating. As you made clear, hate is something you can enter into and then move beyond. I make a conscious effort to try to move beyond hate since it is so poisonous. I get the sense that many people don't get that far and just fall into hating as a way of dealing with adversity and injustice, which saddens me.
That said, I know I can hate someone, and I believe I may have hated people in the past, including myself. I'm not immune to hate as an emotion, but I am opposed to it. I deeply respect anyone who is able to see beyond hate, and I try not to judge people who do hate.
I hope that clarifies my position better. Thank you for your post.
oh look, a fish!
(exaxmple of non sequitor fallacy)
I don't do hatred - more because I can't seem to muster it up then because of any great morality on my part. I have a hard time with anger too. One of the reasons I read Amanda regularly and admire her as much as I do is that she articulates her own anger so well - and thereby makes my own more accessible to me.
Plus she's from Texas, so you should listen to anything she says (See? Ad hominem works both ways!)
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Nov 11, 2007
Post Op Update and...
I had a work emergency on Friday. I received a frantic phone call that a client needed work redone (our office screwed it up). Everyone was out of the office at a seminar. Since I felt OK, just couldn't talk, I went in and redid the work. The client was really wigged out over the issue. One of the partners was there and very appreciative that I came in and saved the day.
In the past few days, I've been feeling well enough to work on some ornaments. I've had two... one, two... finishes. They are both "Christmas Tree Ornament" by X's & Oh's. I stitched them on 14ct white aida with DMC floss. Krenik gold blending filament was used to embellish the garland and star. Red Mill Hill beads created the ornaments on the trees. The hanger was created using 1/8" satin ribbon that goes around the entire ornament. Gold pearlized pins decorate the borders of the ornament. The back of the ornaments are covered in a green fabric with tiny gold trees. It took me about 4 hours to do the stitching, and another hour to create the ornament.
15 comments:
- Paisley said...
Your ornaments are so pretty!
Glad to hear you're feeling better, too!
- November 11, 2007 at 8:37:00 PM CST
- Sweet Pea said...
Cute ornaments! I just picked up some fabric and cording this afternoon to finish off my 2 lighthouse ornaments, but I sort of got involved in football, so that fell by the wayside. LOL
Glad to hear you're feeling better!
- November 11, 2007 at 10:52:00 PM CST
- Barbara said...
Your ornaments are so cute. Great job.
Barb in TX
- November 12, 2007 at 2:07:00 AM CST
- Chiloe said...
Great that you feel better and saved the day at work!!! I love the ornament !!! Any news from S.?
- November 12, 2007 at 3:14:00 AM CST
- Irene said...
Great ornaments they look lovely. Hope you are feeling better.
- November 12, 2007 at 4:55:00 PM CST
- Shelleen said...
I love your ornaments and how you finished them.
- November 12, 2007 at 5:03:00 PM CST
- ndmurdock said...
Meari, I have been gone during your surgery, but so glad to hear that you are improving, probably too slow for your liking, but take it easy and heal fully!!! Your ornies look great! How long before you have to get back to work??
- November 12, 2007 at 6:21:00 PM CST
- imbrilyent said...
They look good!
- November 12, 2007 at 9:04:00 PM CST
- glenda said...
I can't believe you went to work!! LOL
I absolutely love those ornaments. you always do such lovely work.
- November 13, 2007 at 1:55:00 AM CST
- Anonymous said...
So glad that you are doing well after your surgery, Meari. My mother and 8 year old brother had this done on the same day. You would be surprised at the difference in their recovery. Hope everyday finds you feeling better.
- November 13, 2007 at 11:15:00 AM CST
- Old Yankee Stitcher said...
These little trees are so cute. Glad to hear you are on the mend. And you even got to play the hero at work. You go girl.
- November 14, 2007 at 12:52:00 AM CST
- Sharon said...
Your ornaments are cute, cute, cute!! I'm so glad to hear that you're feeling better - take care and dono't overdo it though...keep sharing your wonderful finishes!!
- November 15, 2007 at 6:13:00 PM CST
- stitcherw said...
I'm so glad that it sounds like you're feeling better. Your two finishes are lovely too, the colors are so pretty and Christmassy. I'm seeing some wonderful Christmas finishes lately, makes me think I need to get moving on something too (I'm still working on an Autumn piece).
- November 17, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CST
- Jenna said...
Yay! I'm glad that you are able to eat more normal food now. I was starting to get concerned. Your ornaments look lovely! And congrats on saving the day at work. :)
- November 19, 2007 at 2:21:00 PM CST
- Julie R said...
Very cute ornaments.
- November 23, 2007 at 10:10:00 AM CST


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The Stedelijk Museum and Ammodo start research into a new institution for contemporary art in Amsterdam
In 2016, the Stedelijk Museum and Ammodo will begin searching for a new contemporary art venue in Amsterdam. The institute will be a repositioning of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA). Launched 23 years ago, SMBA was founded to offer young artists and curators a platform in Amsterdam. For the new institution, an approach and […]Read more


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Yankees, Pirates Agree to A.J. Burnett Trade as Teams Await Approval
A.J. Burnett will finally be headed to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Pirates and the New York Yankees have agreed to a trade that would send the much-maligned 35-year-old right-hander to western Pennsylvania. All both sides need is approval from the commissioner Bud Selig's office, which should come Friday, sources told ESPN's Buster Olney.
In return for Burnett, the Yankees will receive right-handed reliever Diego Moreno, a 25-year-old from Venezuela, and 20-year-old outfielder Exicardo Cayones. Moreno has split the past two seasons between the Class A and Double-A minor league teams, and Cayones spent 2011 in Class A.
Approval of the commissioner's office is needed because of the money involved, according to Olney. The Pirates will pay $13 million of the $31.1 million remaining on Burnett's contract, which leaves the Yankees room to aggressively pursue a veteran designated hitter once the deal is done.
Sources also told Olney that the team would prefer to go after Raul Ibanez, rather than Johnny Damon or Hideki Matsui, in order for him to against right-handers and partly because it believes the 39-year-old can play in the outfield on some days. Damon and Matsui are generally regarded as defensive liabilities.
The Yankees were prepared to trade Burnett to the Los Angeles Angels for former Yankees outfielder Bobby Abreu, but Burnett invoked his no-trade clause to West Coast teams. Reports said that Burnett would veto a trade because his wife is from Maryland and has a fear of flying.
Burnett became expendable when the Yankees acquired starting pitchers Hiroki Kuroda and Michael Pineda this off-season. Add C.C. Sabathia, Freddy Garcia, Ivan Nova and Phil Hughes to the mix, and the Yankees would have had seven starting pitchers for a five-man rotation.
Once the deal is approved, Burnett will be joining Pirates right-handers Charlie Morton and James McDonald and lefty Erik Bedard in what might be a competitive rotation in the NL Central, a division offensively weakened because of Albert Pujols going from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Angels and Prince Fielder going from the Milwaukee Brewers to the Detroit Tigers.
As a Yankee the past three seasons, Burnett is 34-35 with a 4.79 ERA. He is 121-111 with a 4.10 ERA in 13 seasons with the Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays and Florida Marlins.


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Free solar panels from ISIS Solar
As you may remember, Mr Green replaced our lighting with LEDs and installed a couple of small solar panels to run them.
So far so good; we now enjoy free lighting most of the year.
We would love to install more solar and run things like computers, chargers and other non-heat producing appliances. Well, to be honest, in our dream world, we would like to be totally self sufficient with energy by installing some HUGE solar panels to run everything in the house!
ISIS Solar
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ISIS has announced that it will help up to 18,000 homeowners install solar panels on their homes for free. Once installed, you will benefit from lower electricity bills while ISIS solar recovers the cost and makes a reasonable profit by collecting payments from the government's Feed In Tariff legislation. It's a win-win!
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ISIS estimate that hose who take up the offer will cut their electricity bills by £339, and reduce their carbon footprint by 1.2 tonnes a year.
The company will cover all the costs, including the equipment, installation and maintenance of the panels, by collecting payments from the recently introduced 'Feed-In Tariff' legislation. Under this scheme Ofgem will pay out a fixed rate for each kilowatt hour of renewable power households produce.
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While ISIS solar collects the tariff payments to pay for the equipment, you will benefit from vastly reduced electricity bills and a more sustainable household that produces its own clean energy and uses fewer polluting fossil fuels.
The 3.33 kW systems that ISIS solar is offering will generate at least 2,830 kWh of electricity per year. So they work out, a family paying 12p per kilowatt hour of electricity will reduce their bill by £339 a year, with one of these free systems.
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WASHINGTON — The fifth day of the partial shutdown of the U.S. government brought no signs of a breakthrough as House lawmakers passed a bill that would eventually reimburse furloughed federal workers for lost pay.
The measure, which passed 407-0 Saturday, was part of an effort to "ease the pain" of the first shutdown since 1996, said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia. He and fellow Republican leaders called on President Barack Obama and Democrats in the Senate to negotiate on a spending deal.
"He is here this weekend, we are here this weekend," Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the No. 3 Republican in the House, told reporters Saturdday. "This can all end."
The shutdown has furloughed about 800,000 federal employees and is becoming a prolonged deadlock that is merging with the debate over raising the U.S. debt ceiling. Unlike past fiscal feuds, this dispute is more about Obama's Affordable Care Act and less about the amount of spending.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who on the Senate floor Saturday continued to blame Republicans for the effects of the government shutdown, said Friday he would determine how to handle the House retroactive pay measure when the Senate receives it. The Senate convened at noon Satirday with no votes scheduled.
Reid, D-Nev., likened the House pay plan to an "Alice in Wonderland" trick, saying Republicans had spent the past two years seeking to undermine federal employees and their benefits.
"It's really cruel to tell workers they'll get their back pay once the government opens and then refuse to open the government," Reid said, calling on the House to pass a spending bill without conditions.
The U.S. budget deficit in June was 4.3 percent of gross domestic product, down from 10.1 percent in February 2010 and the narrowest since November 2008, when Obama was elected to his first term, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the Treasury Department and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Republicans' most recent proposal for opening the government would postpone for one year the mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance, mirroring the delay the administration granted to employers. It also would remove employer contributions toward health insurance for members of Congress, their staffs and political appointees.
"When we have a crisis like we're in the middle of this week,the American people expect their leaders to sit down and try to resolve their differences," House Speaker John Boehner said Friday, insisting that Democrats make concessions on the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Obama repeated his position Friday that Boehner, R-Ohio, should buck the majority of House Republicans and vote on a short-term spending bill without policy conditions.
"If Speaker Boehner will simply allow a vote to take place, we can end this shutdown," Obama said during a lunchtime walk to a sandwich shop near the White House. "And a whole bunch of families not just here in Washington but all across the country will have the certainty that paychecks will be coming, that they'll be able to make their mortgage, that they'll be able to pay their expenses and they'll be able to look after their families."
The effects of the shutdown continued to ripple through the government and the country.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics didn't release Friday's monthly report on unemployment, repeating what it did in the 1996 shutdown. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said in a statement that the government wouldn't be able to participate in next week's second round of negotiations on the Trans- Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Brussels.
Lockheed Martin Corp., the largest U.S. defense contractor, said it will furlough about 3,000 employees on Oct. 7 because of the effects of the shutdown, including the inability of workers to get to their jobs in shuttered government facilities and a halt to government inspections.
Other government services continued, including Social Security benefits, mail delivery and air traffic control.
Rep. John Fleming, R-La., said Boehner told members Friday that he had no intention of "rolling over" to Democrats' demands for spending and debt- limit bills without policy conditions. He said his constituents aren't concerned about the shutdown.
"All they want to talk about was the drag of Obamacare," Fleming told reporters. "I don't think many of my constituents even know that there is a shutdown, or even care."
House Democrats will attempt to use a procedural move known as a discharge petition to force a vote on a bill to end the shutdown without policy conditions.
The move is a long shot. It wouldn't result in a vote until Oct. 14 and would require Republicans who support the policy to break with Boehner in ways they haven't on other procedural matters.
House Republicans continued their strategy of passing bills to fund parts of the government, such as national parks, weather monitoring and infant nutrition.
Republicans' best hope was to keep sending piecemeal bills and wait for public sentiment to change, said Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
"The public is going to finally say to the president, 'Look, at least sit down and talk,'" he said.
The Obama administration has threatened to veto the separate spending measures. Giving in now would only embolden Republicans to seek more concessions, said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
"The hope is maybe once the tea party has realized it's not getting its way on shutting down the government, that they won't try the same stunt on the debt ceiling," Schumer said. "If they do, by the way, the heat on them will be much, much greater than it is now."
The U.S. will run out of borrowing authority on Oct. 17 and will have $30 billion in cash after that. The country would be unable to pay all its bills, including benefits, salaries and interest, sometime between Oct. 22 and Oct. 31, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Boehner said he doesn't want the U.S. to default on its debt. He also said he will reject Obama's call for a debt-limit increase free of policy conditions.
"If we're going to raise the amount of money we can borrow, we ought to do something about our spending problem and the lack of economic growth in our country," he said.
Last month, Boehner outlined a debt-limit strategy that included lighter regulations, cuts in entitlement programs and approval of TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline.
The outline added means-testing in Medicare, changing malpractice law and eliminating social services block grants. Also being considered was a proposal to eliminate a requirement that gives regulators authority to seize and dismantle financial firms if their failure could damage the stability of the U.S. financial system.
— With assistance from Victoria Stilwell, Terry Atlas, Ian Katz, Kasia Klimasinska, Lisa Lerer, Margaret Talev, Heidi Przybyla, Derek Wallbank, Phil Mattingly, Jonathan D. Salant and Richard Rubin in Washington and Andreea Papuc in Hong Kong.


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The City of Hartsville filed a lawsuit against a commercial developer Balaji II LLC, after misleading Hartville's official about its ability to finance a commercial development in the city. The commercial developer planned to construct a commercial development— Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Hartsville, a city in Darlington County, South Carolina.
From 2008 to mid 2009, Balaji II, which is owned by D.J. Desai has repeatedly presented the city officials of Hartsville that his company is an experienced commercial and hotel property developers, who can construct the commercial development— Hampton Inn & Suites at Vista, a downtown district in Hartsville.
According to the complaint filed in Darlington County Common Pleas Court, the construction developer misinterpreted the information presented about financing the project by themselves without making a bank loan.
Hartsville is suing Desai and his company Balaji for misrepresentation and breach of contract, and is asking Darlington County Common Pleas Court to return the 3 acres of property in the Vista— where the commercial development were to be constructed, to the city ownership immediately.
The Desai and his company Balaji acquired the property in 2009 from the city.
The city alleges the developers allowed the commercial property to deteriorate, which resulted to investment loses and the reconstruction of the former railroad courtyard to create a suitable site for the commercial development.
The lawsuit seeks financial damages from the developers for an amount deemed proper by the court.
Desai did not comment abut the issue because it's in litigation.
The defendants have one month to answer the complaint made by the city regarding the commercial development.


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Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have killed President Joao Bernardo Vieira just hours after a bomb blast killed the the country's military chief.
Soldiers loyal to the slain army chief attacked the presidential palace Monday, killing President Vieira as he tried to escape. They blame the president for Sunday night's bomb attack that killed the head of the joint chiefs of staff, General Tagme Na Waie.
Soldiers have closed the capital's five private radio stations. State radio is playing traditional music but is broadcasting no news.
President Vieira was re-elected in 2005 following a civil war that drove him from office after 19 years in power. But he failed to repair relations with the nation's military.
He survived a failed coup attempt in November when soldiers attacking the presidential palace were pushed back by security forces. That battle led the interior ministry to recruit a 400-man militia to protect the president.
But those militiamen were disbanded when the armed forces command linked them to an assassination attempt on Waie last month.
Now both men are dead and Guinea-Bissau faces another unconstitutional change of power - the latest in a series of army mutinies and coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
Regional diplomats say that instability has been made worse by Latin American drug gangs using remote airstrips along Guinea-Bissau's coastline to smuggle cocaine to Europe.


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Hot breakfasts can present a logistical challenge, when you're serving a crowd, but they aren't always necessary. Often, a good continental breakfast is perfectly adequate and -- if well executed -- can make a superior impression. Avoid meat and heavy foods, such as bacon, sausage, pancakes and French toast, in favor of lighter, finger-friendly options. While this type of breakfast is simple to prepare and plan, it doesn't have to look cheap. Create a luxurious ambiance with classical music, homemade baked goods and sophisticated place settings.
Skip the paper plates, plastic cups and sporks. Provide your breakfast guests with small, elegant dishes; silverware; tea cups; juice glasses and coffee mugs. Set out cloth napkins or heavy-duty white or patterned premium napkins.
Serve fresh-squeezed orange juice and gourmet coffee. Provide your guests with a selection of specialty breakfast teas, as well as plenty of hot water, sugar cubes, real cream, creamer and lemon wedges. Serve mimosas if you're planning breakfast for your friends or family members.
Display your continental breakfast food on platters or in cloth-lined baskets. Use serving dishes of varying heights to add visual interest. Serve milk and juice in glass pitchers.
Serve sweet and savory items, such as muffins, pastries, donuts and fruit tarts. Provide sliced bagels in such flavors as plain, blueberry, whole grain and poppy seed. Display butter, jam and cream cheese in small glass dishes with butter knives or small spreaders.
Provide bite-size pieces of cut fruit. Prepare a fresh fruit salad or make an edible fruit arrangement. Serve apple slices with caramel sauce, chopped nuts and party picks. Display melon balls in a hollowed-out watermelon. Set out bowls of raspberries, blueberries and blackberries if they're in season. Add chocolate-dipped strawberries for an indulgent treat.
Serve vanilla and strawberry yogurt with dishes of granola, dried banana chips, dried bing cherries and chopped nuts. Place small glass dishes next to your breakfast bar so your guests can prepare their own parfaits.
Set out a variety of cereals.
Provide plenty of seating for your guests. Display your breakfast spread on a long counter, bar or table covered with a white cotton or linen tablecloth.


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26 June 2009 in One Alternative Energy Blog Global Biomass signs 3 Biomass Supply Contracts
Global Biomass Plc Corp. (GBC), a UK based company, has signed a 25 year contract to supply three power plants with biomass. GBC will harvest the biomass from farm waste. Specifically corn, rice straw, sugar cane and other farm residues.
The three companies that they will supply biomass residues to are Green Power Panay Philippines Inc., Green Power Nueva Ecija Philippines Inc. and Green Power Pangasinan Philippines Inc. All three companies are on track to put up a 15MW biomass power plant in their respective location.


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Succession Planning for Financial Advisors: Building an Enduring Business, + Website
Succession Planning for Financial Advisors: Building an Enduring Business, + Website
Jun 2014
224 pages
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This book is going to challenge you and everything you think you know about succession planning.
For independent advisors, succession planning is quickly becoming the cornerstone to a strategic growth strategy designed to perpetuate their business and their income streams beyond their own lifetime, while providing a multi-generational service platform that attracts and rewards younger advisors. This makes succession planning one of the most, if not the most, important practice management tools in this industry today.
As an independent financial advisor, now is the time to address the question of what will happen to your practice and your clients after you "exit the building." In most cases, the answers are right in front of you. Thankfully, Succession Planning for Financial Advisors: Building an Enduring Business has arrived to transform today's practices into businesses designed to endure and prosper and serve generations of clients.
- Learn how to create a "Lifestyle Succession Plan" that can provide a lifetime of income and benefits to the founder even as he/she gradually retires on the job
- Unlock the power of equity management – the best planning and building tool an independent advisor owns
- Learn how to attract and retain the best of the next generation to help you build a great business and to support your succession plans and care for your clients and their families
- Determine precisely when to start a formal succession plan and related continuity plan so that your business can work for you when you need it most
- Understand why succession planning and selling your business are completely different strategies, but how they can complement each other when used correctly
95% of independent financial service professionals are one owner practices. To the positive, these practices are among the most valuable professional service models in America. But almost all advisors are assembling their practices using the wrong tools – tools borrowed from historically successful, but vastly different models including wirehouses, broker-dealers, and even OSJ's and branch managers. Revenue sharing, commission splitting and other eat-what-you-kill compensation methods dominate the independent sector and virtually ensure that today's independent practices, if left unchanged, will not survive the end of their founder's career. It is time to change course and this book provides the map and the details to help you do just that.
For independent practice owners and staff members, advisors who want to transition to independence, as well as accountants, attorneys, coaches and others involved in the financial services space, there are invaluable lessons to be learned from Succession Planning for Financial Advisors. Written by the leading succession planning expert in the financial services industry, former securities regulator, M&A specialist, and founder of the nationally recognized consulting and equity management firm, FP Transitions, David Grau Sr., JD, has created an unmatched resource that will have an enduring and resounding impact on an entire industry.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
CHAPTER 1 The Succession Conundrum 1
Practices Built to Die 1
What Exactly Is a Succession Plan? 2
Why You Need to Create a Succession Plan Now 4
Your Clients Are Watching You! 8
Why This Industry Struggles with This Concept 9
The Evolution of the Solution 11
Mind Your Own Business 14
The Opportunity at Hand 16
CHAPTER 2 How to Start Creating Your Succession Plan 19
Defining Your Goals 19
Building a Foundation for Success 24
Facing Your Biggest Challenges 26
Equity—A Powerful Business-Building Tool 33
Valuing a Financial Services Practice 35
Practicing Equity Management 47
Building Profit-Driven Businesses 49
CHAPTER 3 Transforming Your Practice into a Business 51
Assessing What You Have Built 51
A Building Problem, Not a Planning Problem 55
A Parable 58
Building Your Ship 60
Rethinking Your Compensation System 61
Balancing Revenue Strength and Enterprise Strength 63
Selecting the Right Entity Structure 65
Remodeling Your Cash Flow 72
Production Model versus Business Model 77
CHAPTER 4 Creating Your Succession Team 81
The People Problem 81
The Secret Formula: G-1 + G-2 + G-3 82
Plan Before You Build and Hire 85
Mining the Talent Pool 87
Turning Employees into Equity Partners 89
Onboarding Talent with a Book of Business 91
The Case of the Super Producer 94
Help Wanted Ad 96
Solving the Talent Crisis in This Industry 98
A Conversation with the Next Generation 99
CHAPTER 5 The First Step—A Continuity Plan 103
A Dress Rehearsal for Succession Planning 103
What Exactly Is a Continuity Plan? 104
Basic Components of a Continuity Plan 105
Types of Agreements 106
Funding Your Continuity Plan 111
Continuity Plan Dos and Don'ts 112
A Powerful Acquisition Tool 115
Communicating Your Plan 115
CHAPTER 6 Charting Your Succession Course 117
Exit Strategies versus Succession Plans 117
Selling Your Practice 118
Mergers 124
What Doesn't Work in This Industry 126
Employee Stock Ownership Plans 129
What Does Work? A Lifestyle Succession Plan 132
Goals of a Lifestyle Succession Plan 134
The Family Business—A Special Case 136
"Yes, but . . ." (Obstacles to Overcome) 139
CHAPTER 7 Succession Planning Step-by-Step 147
Where to Start 147
Assembling Your Support Team 150
Enjoy the Planning Process 152
Doing the Math 153
Establishing a Fair Price 154
The Nuts and Bolts of a Plan 155
Documentation 166
Bank Financing—Expanding Your Options 167
Beware of Benchmarks and Survey Results 169
CHAPTER 8 A Tale of Ownership 171
Succession Planning Case Study 171
CHAPTER 9 Course Corrections 179
Returning to the Harbor 179
Empowering the Next Generation 180
Growth Is a Sign That Your Plan Is Working 182
What to Do When Your Plans Change 183
What to Do When Their Plans Change 184
Handling the Culture Shift 185
Conclusion 187
About the Companion Website 189
About the Author 191
Index 193


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One of the major issues involved in discussions about the existence of God is the issue of morality. In recent years there have been several books by atheists trying to suggest that "You don't need God to be good," and that theme has been posted on bus panels and billboards in various cities around the world as we have reported in this journal (see "News and Notes" March/April 2011). Atheists argue that morality is a survival issue because, "If I don't want you to murder me, then I must not try to murder you." That oversimplification simply points out there can be a motive for morality that does not involve God in any direct way. The Christian response to that atheist view may be to point out that "survival of the fittest" in humans may in fact demand murdering someone to avoid the possibility of that person being a competitor in the future.
"You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die" (Genesis 2:16b, 17).
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; … (Genesis 3:7).
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Are you mad, at me, darling?
Are you sorry that we, we, we met?
Have you learned to love another?
Has he told you to for, for-for-forget
But no other heart can love you
Like this broken heart
Of mine
Yeah, I've been diggin' on your vibes lately
Yes, and you've been finding more faults
Than Carter got liver pills
And I'm hip to all that Gemini material laying around, heh
And I ain't no Gemini
I just want to make sure you ain't half-steppin', and short-strokin'
Can you get to that?
Well, no other heart can love you
Like this broken heart of mine
Like this broken heart
Of mine
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Huskies' Soma Earns All-America Honors at NCAA Indoor Meet
March 12, 2004
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Washington junior Kate Soma earned her second-career All-America honor Friday, tying for fifth in the pole vault at the 2004 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at Arkansas' Randal Tyson Track Center. Four of the Huskies' five NCAA qualifiers were in action on the first day of the two-day meet, which concludes Saturday.
In addition to Soma's fifth-place pole vault finish, freshman Ashley Lodree placed 13th in the 60-meter hurdles, sophomore Ingvill Makestad placed 15th in the women's mile, and senior Eric Garner qualified for Saturday's men's mile final.
Garner and defending NCAA champion pole vaulter Brad Walker will conclude the Huskies' competition at the meet on Saturday.
The eighth-ranked vaulter in Pac-10 history, Soma entered Friday's competition seeking to finish what she started at the 2003 NCAA outdoor meet, when, in seventh place, she was forced to retire after lacerating her hand on a broken pole.
The Portland, Ore., native needed just one attempt at each of her first three heights, and stood tied for first entering attempts at 13-7 1/4, a height one inch beyond Soma's UW school-record best. While four vaulters successfully cleared the height, Soma narrowly missed on all three of her school-record attempts, including a second-attempt miss in which the bar bounced up slightly and momentarily settled back onto its supports, before eliciting a gasp from the crowd as it slipped to the floor.
The junior's All-America honor was the first-ever indoors by a Husky women's vaulter, and the first for any Husky woman indoors since 1994. The performance also established Soma as the Huskies' first two-time female All-American since Aretha Hill earned the last of her four career honors in 1998.
'Every time the pressure's on, Kate steps up,' said second-year head coach Greg Metcalf. 'I couldn't be prouder of her today.'
Senior Eric Garner also stepped up to the pressure Friday, earning one of 10 spots in Saturday's final of the men's mile.
After missing the NCAA mile final in 2002 as a result of a slow heat, Garner took matters into his own hands Friday, charging to the front so as to set his own pace. As the pack, led by NCAA leader Chris Mulvaney of Arkansas, surged forward with 300 meters remaining, Garner held on for a fifth-place finish, his time of 4 minutes, 3.22 seconds the eighth-fastest among the two preliminary heats.
One of just two four-minute milers in Washington history, Garner will seek his second-career All-America accolade Saturday at 6:25 p.m. CST.
'Eric's been here before and knew exactly what he needed to do,' Metcalf says. 'Now he's got a chance tomorrow to go out and show some of the nation's top milers what he's made of.'
Rounding out the Huskies' first-day competition were Makestad and Lodree, each making their NCAA debuts.
Norway's reigning 800-meter national champion, Makestad was shuffled to the back early in the first heat of the women's mile, and could only watch as NCAA record-holder Tiffany McWilliams of Mississippi State pulled the pack away. The sophomore's time of 4:53.37 was good for 15th overall, trailing by 12 seconds the final qualifying time of 4:41.27.
Also making her NCAA Championships debut was 60-meter hurdler Ashley Lodree (Richmond, Calif.), who entered the meet as the nation's highest-ranked freshman with a school-record best of 8.19 seconds. Lodree placed fifth in her preliminary heat Friday in 8.29 seconds, faster than all but one other woman in UW history, and 14th in the NCAA field.
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Police, Soldiers Warn New Orleans Holdouts
Blood Bath Coming? And if so
is it ( state genocide ) part of the whole plan?
We'll soon find out.
NEW ORLEANS - Using the unmistakable threat of force, police and soldiers went house to house Wednesday to try to coax the last 10,000 or so stubborn holdouts to leave storm-shattered New Orleans because of the risk of disease from the putrid, sewage-laden floodwaters.
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Is it the risk of disease or another agenda, the reason the authorities want to remove every one?
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It'll be scarey if they use this
as an example to mind condition
the citizens of the USA to
not try to resist state oppression.
I guess $60,000,000,000
in rebuilding contracts for
the State/Corporate elite
could be mission accomplished already.
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I think the answer is obvious.
Undoubtably, some waters have been tested.
Given the times in which we live, the subjects that we discuss, the ABNORMAL number of hurricanes which seem to be hitting the East Coast of America...given all that has come to light...is their ANY doubt that these series of events are manufactured and bode of what is to come.
I hold faith that individuals will refuse to follow Federal Government orders after this.
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Computer and communication sciences have become an important part of most professionnal activities. With their fast evolution, they are strategical for the economical growth and for industrial innovation.
However, many engineer students only broach the subject in their late studies. To create a training supported by the research field allowing every student from highschool to phd to gather fundamental knowledge of Computer and communication sciences is an educational priority of Labex DigiCosme.
Several of Labex DigiCosme actions are meant to promote this goal:
- DigiCosme Springschool, mainly intended for its phd students.
- DigiCosme Master Scholarship for Computer Science and Communication programme, aimed at international and French students aiming for a Research course.
- DigiCosme program for Invited Professors.
- the funding of pedagogical projects regarding entrepreunership and the use of research platforms in the teaching activities See the Call for application (in French)
- the teaching of computer and communication sciences in highschool and earlier.
- Financement de projets pédagogiques dans les domaines suivants :
- ISN contest (in French)
- Working with Elementary Schools project
- Programme informatique de L3 et premiere annee d'ecole d'ingenieurs Programme d'informatique L3 et premiere annee d'ecole d'ingenieurs
- Enseignement de l'informatique et Sciences numériques : présentation de Gilles Dowek à l'atelier Labex DigiCosme au Forum Digiteo 2012


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Gartner: Long hard climb to high level of cloud computing security
It's still a long, hard climb to get to a high level of security in cloud computing, according to Gartner research vice president Jay Heiser, who said business and government organizations with sensitive data appear likely to hold back from cloud-based services until things improve.
"Finance tends to be more conservative about cloud computing than small business," said Heiser in his online presentation to Gartner clientele yesterday. In "Prepare for and Minimize the Security Risk of Cloud Computing," Heiser expressed the view that it's somewhat simpler to establish a security baseline when using infrastructure-as-service (IaaS) than it is for software-as-service (SaaS) if only because there's more flexibility and less dependence on the competence of the service provider. But overall, cloud service providers aren't as clear as they should be concerning matters such as their business continuity and disaster-recovery practices, making it hard to win customer confidence.
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"Gartner clients are almost universally disappointed" by what they regard as the incompleteness in cloud-computing contracts where they still don't see the level of specificity related to security they expect, said Heiser. "Cloud contracts are incomplete," he emphasized.
The struggle to define both technologies and legal obligations between the cloud and the customer is a topic that has been taken up by both the federal government in its FedRAMP program that seeks to certify cloud-service providers for government use, and the organization Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), which has several working groups pouring enormous effort into defining industry standards.
Heiser also pointed out that the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has replaced its SAS70 certification with what's service provider certification called with SOC 1, and there's now a SOC 2 and SOC 3 as well to indicate service provider systems trust and security.
But while applauding all of these standardization efforts for security in cloud computing as significant, Heiser said FedRAMP, which is supposed to be operational next year, and the CSA standards are still early projects and their impact may be years away. Heiser had similar sentiments about the ISO/IEC 27017 cloud security standard and the 27018 cloud privacy standard. All of these cloud-computing security efforts are worthwhile but they will take somewhere between a year to five years to be considered mature, he says.
In the meantime, businesses and government have to pin down their requirements and evaluate potential cloud services and their security options as well as they can. The starting point should be looking at the sensitivity of the data going into the service, Heiser says. Companies have to ask questions such as what kind of impact would be the loss of it be, is it of critical competitive value, and is the data subject to regulatory concerns. "It comes down to determining the appropriateness of the service," he says.
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Ponce de Leon, founder of Spanish Florida, is known for having sought the "Fountain of Youth", but in fact this story is most likely a myth.
- 1539 - Hernando de Soto's expedition lands on the gulf coast of Florida, marauds through the region, and crosses the Mississippi River.
- 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida is founded -- currently the oldest European-established town in the United States.
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- 1620 - Plymouth Colony founded by the Mayflower pilgrims, who missed their target of Virginia by a wide margin.
- 1625 - New Amsterdam is founded by Dutch settlers, will later become New York.
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- 1730-1750 - The "Great Awakening" religious movement sweeps the east coast, revitalizing religious life.
- 1739-1740 - Stono Rebellion (slave revolt) in South Carolina ends in failure -- 44 slaves and 21 whites killed. Gruesome reprisals ensue.
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The Duchess of Cambridge was was presented today with a plastic "look-a-like" Princess Catherine doll during a visit to Dumfries House in Ayrshire with Prince William and Prince Charles.
Dayna Miller, 11, from from Coylton could not resist the opportunity to show the Duchess the Barbie-style doll, featuring unnaturally bouffant hair, that she had been given for Christmas by her mother.
"No! Oh no, is that me? Is that meant to be me? Does my hair really look like that!' the young royal exclaimed with amusement.
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49ers' Carlos Hyde (knee) suffers torn MCL in Week 16
He was on a pace for 1,000 yards last season, rushing for 470 yards in seven games, but he suffered a foot injury and missed the last nine games. Hyde would have been the 11th player in 49ers history to accomplish the feat. "It didn't feel that bad when it first happened", said Hyde, who was able to walk off the field on his own. Hyde rushed for 988 yards this season, leaving him just 12 shy of his first 1,000-yard season.


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Despite arguments that retirees should be exposed to equities in order to bring enough growth in their portfolios to last throughout their retirement, Morningstar's president of the investment management division, Peng Chen, argues in a new article that retirement portfolios must include a conservative bent that includes longevity-insurance products.
In "Confronting Retirement Risks," Chen notes that many investors do not estimate how long they will live and end up shorthanded on retirement funds. Conversely, people who are overly optimistic about how long they will live may have a too-frugal existence in retirement.
Chen outlines key risks and five factors to consider, underlining longevity risk and financial market risk and pivotal issues.
Chen says that roughly half of retirees live longer than their life expectancy. He also notes that financial markets are far more volatile than many financial planners account for, and that a retiree's exposure to stocks and bonds can put their retirement savings at risk.
"Fortunately, investors and advisers have access to effective tools to combat these risks," Chen said. "Investors can mitigate both longevity and investment performance risk with a carefully constructed combination of longevity insurance products, which offer investors a guaranteed income stream, and traditional assets, such as ETFs and mutual funds."
The five factors Chen asks investors to consider when saving for retirement are their age, financial market risk tolerance, retirement expenses, longevity and bequest goals.
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Little sailboats patiently wait
Geese sit in a row
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My band Caligula's Horse have recently released our second album The Tide, the Thief & River's End.
Musically it's progressive metal, influenced by the likes of Devin Townsend, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Karnivool, Tool, Steve Vai, Steely Dan, and A Perfect Circle, amongst many others.
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Even if you do not meet the two conditions mentioned above, you may still be granted retention of Danish nationality. The Nationality Division at the Ministry of Immigration and Integration assesses all applications individually. Among other things they will consider:
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Bones are likely Amelia Earhart's, UT anthropologist concludes
Bones found nearly 80 years ago on a remote South Pacific island are very likely those of aviator Amelia Earhart, a researcher says.
The bones found in 1940 "have more similarity to Earhart than to 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample," said a statement released by the University of Tennessee, where anthropology professor Richard Jantz did his new forensic analysis.
The university says that in 1940, physician D. W. Hoodless conducted seven measurements on the human remains and concluded they belonged to a man. The bones, discovered by a British expedition on the island of Nikumaroro, were later discarded.
But Jantz re-examined the bone measurements and he obtained precise measurements of the aviator's humerus and radius lengths from a photograph as well as measurements of her clothing.
Jantz concluded that "until definitive evidence is presented that the remains are not those of Amelia Earhart, the most convincing argument is that they are hers."
The new study is published in the journal Forensic Anthropology.
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, while flying over the Pacific Ocean during Earhart's attempt to become the first female aviator to fly around the globe. They vanished without a trace, spurring the largest and most expensive search and rescue effort by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard in American history. They were declared dead two years later, but the wreckage was never found.
The disappearance of Earhart and Noonan on July 2, 1937, in the Western Pacific Ocean has been the subject of continuing searches, research and debate.
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Farewell 2008
So, here it is, my final blog of 2008. A toast to the past and to the future. But first, let me share again that this blog appears in a few different places, so references to comments and such may or may not be obvious to you and where you see it. A word about your comments - they are encouragement to others who may be experiencing something similar, so I encourage yo to enter into the conversation.
The last post of 2008 issues a challenge: Share some highs and lows of 2008 and what your hopes for 2009 may be. I'll go first.....
In looking back and taking a big picture view, 2008 has brought it's share of loss:
- I lost a pastor and friend whose vision and leadership both challenged and fulfilled the work I do. (Lost = he moved to a new ministry)
- My youngest daughter lost a bit of her "care free" childhood as she faced test after test searching for answers to a medical mystery.
- With the economy taking it's toll in all our lives, I find myself losing my perspective of doing what I want to do to doing what I have to do. This applies both personally and professionally.
Lest you think 2008 has been a total bummer, there have been some highlights:
- 2 daughters, both in college, continue to make the Dean's list and make good choices for their lives.
- After all the testing, the current course of treatment seems to be helping my youngest daughter.
- Had an amazing vacation this year.
- Celebrated 21 years of marriage with the love of my life.
- It seems the hardware they put in my chest last year is keeping my heart beating pretty well.
- Built a guitar for the first time in my life and it rocks!
As I look forward to 2009 I share some uncertainty with most of the U.S. about our economy and such, but I'm also hopeful. Here's a few:
- My church will recover it's vision.
- I will travel to see family & friends I haven't seen in a few years.
- I will continue to watch all my daughters grow and enjoy life.
- Someone will experience hope in their life because I'm willing to share Jesus.
- I will not break any bones when I go skiing next week!


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Healthy teeth and gums are vital for our body and our daily life. Poor oral health can impact your social life too. If you do not have good oral health it's obvious that you would develop bad breath. No one even you, would be comfortable speaking to a person with bad breath, face to face for a long time.
So this article is about taking care of your oral health. Importance is given to normal daily activities than what really matters the most, your health. Smiling is a simple gesture which is understood by everybody, even a baby smiles when it feels happy. A lot is communicated between one another just by smiling. So you need to have that confidence while smiling. Continue reading