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Iggy, a 4-foot iguana with a penchant for running away from its owner, has seen enough of life outside his cage. He`s going home.
After several days of phone calls from people who thought the land iguana captured by two Sunrise boys was theirs, employees at the Wildlife Care Center in Fort Lauderdale have determined that the lizard belongs to Lorne Vengroff of Sunrise.
That discovery ended more than a week of adventure for Iggy, who escaped from his cage and roamed his neighborhood in the 9200 block of Northwest 45th Street before being captured with a fishing net by brothers Michael and Frankie Dara.
The Daras turned over the green and black lizard to the Wildlife Care Center, but the elusive Iggy escaped a second time in Fort Lauderdale before being taken to the center`s headquarters.
For his part, Vengroff knew that the 15-pound lizard was his as soon as he saw its picture in the newspaper last week.
``He`s missing four toes on his right rear foot,`` said Vengroff, who recently had moved to the Sunrise neighborhood. ``Occasionally he`ll get loose, but he always knows where to come back. But he`s new to the area, so I was worried.``
Vengroff said he had been keeping Iggy in a pen in the back patio of his home, but there was a hole in the pen`s screen from which Iggy escaped.
Four people who thought the fleet-footed pet was theirs called the Wildlife Care Center during the last several days. One man said he had videotapes of his missing iguana, but the man could not give a proper description of the lizard held at the center.


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While many individuals think of driver distractions, adverse weather conditions, and speeding as the main causes of motor vehicle accidents, failing to maintain vehicles also can contribute or even be the primary cause of accidents. Fortunately, these types of accidents are completely preventable. By ensuring that your car is properly maintained on a regular basis, you can avoid accidents, as well as the inconvenience of having your car break down on you at an unexpected moment.
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About the award
The Healthcare Innovation Award was announced in May 2013 following the launch of GSK and Save the Children's ambitious partnership, which aims to help save the lives of one million children in some of the world's most vulnerable communities. One aspect of the partnership is the focus on working together to maximise innovations to tackle under-five child mortality. For example, Save the Children is involved in helping GSK to research and develop child-friendly medicines such as the reformulation of an antiseptic solution used in its mouthwash. Save the Children has a seat on a new paediatric R&D board set up by GSK to accelerate the development of innovative life-saving interventions for under-fives, and to identify ways to ensure the widest possible access in the developing world.
The 2017 Healthcare Innovation Award is the fourth annual US$1 million award, rewarding innovations in healthcare that are helping to reduce child mortality in developing countries and that can show how an award would enable them to scale up their interventions.
The winners had to demonstrate the impact of their innovation on under five child survival. They also had to demonstrate sustainability as well as the potential to scale up and replicate.
The Healthcare Innovation Award is co-chaired by the CEOs of GSK and Save the Children. A judging panel, comprising experts from the fields of public health, science and academia, split the award funds between the four winning healthcare innovations.
As well as providing funding, this year's Healthcare Innovation Award provides a platform to review and evaluate new approaches to health system challenges, to recognise those that are having an impact, and share best practice with the wider global health community.
To overcome these persistent challenges and to save children's lives, we are supporting, encouraging and recognising health innovations of all kinds that are increasing access to healthcare for the hardest to reach children and their families. The winners of the 2017 Healthcare Innovation Award receive the following:
- A cash donation from a USD$ 1 million award fund that has been made available by GSK
- Promotion through public award announcements and international media coverage
- A 'Round-Table' event in their local community that will convene interested and relevant stakeholders from the public, private and non-profit sectors to provide a support network that can help improve and grow the innovation
- Potential additional support may include volunteer and/or technical assistance from GSK and Save the Children staff and country offices
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. | New Tennessee coach Derek Dooley promised his players from the day he was hired in January that he wouldn't demand their trust.
Dooley found himself in what he described as a "delicate situation" as the Volunteers' third coach in as many seasons.
"I told them I'm never going to ask them to trust me because I do think that's something that you have to earn in time," Dooley said in a Thursday teleconference. "That trust is built over time and in the consistency in how we treat them and in the consistency in how we coach them and the fairness and respect that we do it with."
Dooley held 14 spring practices sessions before the team's annual Orange and White scrimmage, and the Vols worked on installing new schemes – the third in three years for the defense and fourth in four years for the offense.
The former Louisiana Tech coach replaced Lane Kiffin, who unexpectedly left after one season to coach Southern California. Players voiced frustration about how Kiffin ran his program after he left.
Dooley realizes that time spent with the players during March and April was valuable in rebuilding players' confidence in a coach.
"I feel like our players have made a big jump in the last two months in how they feel about our coaching staff, but at the end of the day it's our job to get them to trust us, not us to demand that they trust us," Dooley said.
Linebacker LaMarcus Thompson said after the spring game that that approach to trust has already earned him respect from many players.
"It was nice to hear that, and it made you want to respect him from the jump," Thompson said. "He wasn't coming in here just telling us what's up. He told us he knew what we'd been through, and he just asked us to open ourselves up to trusting him."
Dooley said the Vols had great spirit and a strong work ethic during spring drills, setting the tone for Tennessee's summer workout program and fall practice period.
"I think the biggest thing is that the players now have a good feel for us as coaches and what our expectations are, and we have a better feel for our players and our personnel issues," he said. "I was real pleased with how we came out of spring, but we certainly have a long way to go."


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Every year, the American Humane Associate gives out Hero Dog Awards to recognize those dogs "who unconditionally avail themselves to us in so many important ways, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, providing therapeutic support to children suffering from cancer, or just. . .


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McALLEN, Texas – Federal agents arrested a group of 11 illegal immigrants who had been hiding inside a truck carrying a shipment of onions.
The arrest took place early Thursday morning at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias when a tractor trailer pulled up for inspection, information released to Breitbart Texas by U.S. Border Patrol revealed.
A Border Patrol K-9 alerted the agents as to suspicious contraband in the vehicle so they sent the truck to a secondary inspection area.
"Upon further inspection, agents found 11 undocumented immigrants concealed between pallets of onions with no means of escape in the event of an emergency," the information released by the U.S. Border Patrol revealed.
The illegal immigrants were offered medical attention but they refused. The driver of the vehicle who was only identified as a U.S. citizen was also arrested and the truck seized. If federal prosecutors move against the driver, he will likely be formally charged on Friday at the federal court in Corpus Christi.


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Suspected Russian air strikes hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Syria on Monday, killing nine people including a child, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "A building that housed a hospital supported by MSF was destroyed on Monday by aircraft, presumably Russian," near Maaret al-Numan in the northern province of Idlib, said the British-based monitor. The raids also left dozens wounded, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground.
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One more Spanish experience, to make your holiday more authentic and fun, is to learn Flamenco, or at least to try it. 90 minutes in a Spanish "tablao" and you will learn the first steps to dance this unique dance.The class includes a theorical introduction to flamenco and its origins, a dancing lesson and a drink at the end. Maybe you won't become a specialist but you will enjoy it a lot!
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Friday, October 19, 2007
PR students raise $2,000+ for United Way
Post-Grad Public Relations students at Loyalist College came together yesterday to raise just over $2,000 for United Way in a high-energy six-hour event.
The "Way or No Way" take-off of the popular TV game show "Deal or No Deal" saw more than 1,000 briefcases sold for charity across the Loyalist campus.
Besides raising much-needed funds for the United Way, PR students also earned 20% of their grade for their Fundraising Fundamentals course.
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the event, and those who donated their hard-earned twoonies.
Without you there would be no Way!
To learn more about the United Way of Quinte, please visit www.belleville.unitedway.ca.
Posted by Loyalist PR at 07:23:00
2 comments:
- lizbiz said...
Some of my peers demonstrated new talents in public speaking. It was really a fun day.
- 19 October 2007 at 10:57
- LoyalistPR said...
Yes, give some people a megaphone and you just don't know what to expect! :) Great job, guys.
- 19 October 2007 at 11:09
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Power Boats Rental in Ibiza
The Power Boats are one of the best ways to enjoy the sea, and in a place with sea landscapes as spectacular as Ibiza, it is not surprising that tourists wish to be part of the adventure of traveling by boat.
The problem with the boats, is that they can become very expensive, so many refrain from making trips of any kind. Luckily, it is possible to rent a boat and enjoy the advantages of knowing the sea in a private way and without having to pay large sums of money for the boat or for the anchorage of it.
Barracuda Ibiza is the main luxury boat rental company on the island of Ibiza. The company has been in the luxury market for several years, allowing people who wish to have a small taste of luxury to do so, without risking bankruptcy.
The company has a complete fleet of boats, all developed to ensure a first-class stay. The person will feel like a five-star hotel, thanks to the good finishes of each of the available boats, as well as being able to enjoy a personalized tour, free of other strange travelers.
Most of the boats have capacity for more than 10 people, so you can make meetings with small groups of close friends, or carry out family tours.
Each of the boats was created with a very modern style, so that the person can navigate the sea effectively, without worrying that the boat will not be able to travel certain distances.
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In Boats.com are wholesaler Parts Marine, Boat Rental and used boats for sale, but also include tools for marketing through the Internet.
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Online stores with the brand and image of each distributor including a catalog of 89000 parts and logistics service delivery to the end customer.
Yacht Charter platform . Websites boat hire products with the brand and image of each distributor, including a catalog with more than 14,000 boats to rent with integrated central reservation.
Yacht Brokerage platform . Websites for the Sale of used boats products with the brand and image of each distributor with a catalog constantly updated with over 5000 used boats for sale from the United States with operational for Integrated Import: Transport, customs clearance , CE certificates, change of flag, registration etc ..
Its web platform at any of its three versions is available in 7 languages, so that a Spanish entrepreneur can create your own online nautical shop in France for example quickly and effectively without having to physically move because Boats.com will handle surrender to French customers.
"When and more than 70% of business generated in the marine industry comes from the Internet, the most logical way to start a business in the marine industry is through the online channel"
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Woodland Themed Snowmen...
I recently had the opportunity to chat
with Lisa Ammerman,
the artist and designer of these
Woodland Themed Snowmen.
Lisa makes miniature figurines,
detailed Christmas ornaments
and Art Dolls.
(Her Halloween / Autumn themed work
is amazing, also !)
These snowmen are dressed
in toggle coats, boots
and wool hats.
She gives each of her creations
just the right amount of detail
to give them personality and charm !
(I could see a little vignette of these
snowmen on a windowsill !)
To learn more about Lisa's work you
can visit her Blog
or see more of her work in her Shop.
Counting down to Christmas !
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They are just fantastic. If you hadn't said something about the toggle coats I don't think would have noticed. What detail and how perfect each one is. I am so glad you shared. I will be checking it out.ReplyDelete
How very cute! Hope all is well with you RoseReplyDelete
Hi, Rose! Thank you SO MUCH for featuring my Woodland Snowmen today here on your blog! And thank you for sharing the links to my blog and my shop. I hope your readers will stop by and say "hello". How wonderful to have my work appreciated! I LOVE using your beautiful wools on my winter dolls!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful holiday season!
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How cute! 'Will have to go check-out Lisa's blog and her Etsy shoppe :)ReplyDelete
lovely, very detailed.ReplyDelete
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LaserCom and InfoSlips, South Africa's leading companies in their respective industries have partnered on communicating with their customers.
LaserCom generates more than 30 million personalised customer communication messages a year. InfoSlips generates millions of its award-winning digital InfoSlips – this makes the partnership a logical and profitable one, with bidirectional revenue exceeding R3 million in the first year of joint trading.
"Between us we reach customers through all channels," says Alan Burger, MD of InfoSlips. "Our company does not worry about which channels are used to reach recipients: e-mail, mobile or online – and LaserCom does the print side of the communication. In both cases it means that customers only have to deal with one interface."
LaserCom and InfoSlips cover most of the market, and a big part of their success has been their ability to give innovative solutions within specific verticals. These verticals include financial services, benefits administration, human resources, stock broking, telecoms, insurance and the investment industry. Types of documents delivered include cellular statements, benefit statements, daily trade notes and payslips, to physical transactional documents, such as tax invoices, statements and reminders, to promotional documents.
InfoSlips takes full control for every aspect of the electronic side of the partnership, managing creative, design, compositing, selection and execution.
"LaserCom is the fulfilment partner of choice for many leading corporate enterprises," says Konni Hoferichter, MD of LaserCom, a company in Bytes Document Solutions, wholly owned by JSE-listed Altron. "This partnership has already delivered rich value to our mutual customer sets and we only see this accelerating."
Since 2005 InfoSlips has become the de facto standard for providing superior corporate document solutions. InfoSlips are delivered in a secure, interactive and visually rich format.
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"I'm just not sure that it all means that racism is exclusively a white thing."
"In short, when I say that racism has a sole, functional expression—or as I usually say, a sole, functional form—white supremacy, what I mean is that white supremacy is a more powerful, effective, and dominant kind of mistreatment than, apparently, any other yet devised by people."
"In fact, though, a more useful way to think of race, or a more functional way, is as field; as a context where certain kinds of outcomes are likely; i.e., ones that "favor," or "empower" white people, and "power-less" non-white people."
I really don't see how you can NOT understand this.
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^sorry about the bold type, that was unintentional … I wanted this to be a linebreak.
Comment by C.R.— September 17, 2009 #
Racism is racism, backwards, forwards, and even, reverse. It's as simple as that.
Comment by Miranda— September 17, 2009 #
Dear The Domestic Terrorist:
You saved me the trouble of having to even type a reply:
"At the end of the day, I realize that the black teacher, that black principal, that black hospital staff, that black real estate agent, and even that black Commander-In-Chief ALL answer, ultimately, to predominantly 'white' interests."
In fact, they answer to more than that: They answer to white *people*.
The reverse is not true.
Comment by Harry Allen— September 18, 2009 #
Harry Allen isn't saying there's no such thing as racism directed at whites by blacks. His point is that such racism is not going to have societal consequences. It may cause fights, flashpoints, injury or even death – but it's not going to replace extant power structures. The key word he used is "functional": the only form of racism that actually makes a difference beyond a one-on-one situation is white supremacy, because society (in the US and the "developed" "west": I took Mr Allen's remarks to be about the US because the context of the discussion originally – Kanye West and his VMAs outburst – is a US story) is structured that way. True, the US has had a black president for the past nine months, but that's nowhere near long enough to change the racial make-up of the legislative, economic and political system he sits atop of, where those who hold the levers of power are predominantly white (and, for that matter, male).
Also, a quick point of information, more related to comments made in your previous blog replying to Mr Allen. You attempt to insinuate that his views may be no more or less relevant than yours when you say he's a "self-described expert on hip hop culture," and also imply that calling himself "Media Assassin" is a kind of arriviste online pose. I realise you probably didn't have time to look into it, but even a quick search online, or a read of the "about" page on his site, would have shown that Mr Allen has a track record of writing about hip hop, culture and race that goes back more than two decades, and that the title "Media Assassin" was one he acquired during his work as part of the genre-defining hip hop group Public Enemy during the 1980s. I can't think of anyone better qualified to speak about these issues than him.
Comment by Angus Batey— September 18, 2009 #
Racism requires power. We should be using words like "bigotry", "prejudice", and "hatred" to describe acts that aren't affecting the society at large.
Comment by chapman— September 18, 2009 #
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This Syn Free Sweet Chilli Chicken with Rainbow Salad is perfect if you're after a quick and easy meal. It's packed full of speed too, so it's ideal when you're following the Slimming World Extra Easy plan.
For the full list of ingredients and comprehensive instructions, please see the recipe card at the end of this post. Before you scroll, there's important stuff in the blurb 👍
You'll notice that this Syn Free Sweet Chilli Chicken with Rainbow Salad recipe uses our Syn Free Sweet Chilli Sauce, which you will find here.
However, you can use a shop bought sauce, but you'll have to Syn it accordingly, and it won't be half a nice in our opinion!
The Syn Free Sweet Chilli Sauce is one of our easiest recipes and you can make it up in advance and keep it in an airtight jar in the fridge until you're ready to use it.
We've stored it this way for over a week without any problems.
Cooking the Chicken
There are a couple of different ways to cook this Syn Free Sweet Chilli Chicken with Rainbow Salad.
You can follow the method we've used here, and use a griddle pan (see below for more details) which will give you those griddle markings.
If you don't have a griddle pan, you can just pop the chicken in the oven for 20 minutes or so.
Another option, with the warm weather fast approaching, is to throw it on the BBQ.
What else will I need to make this Syn Free Sweet Chilli Chicken with Rainbow Salad?
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Next, cutting the vegetables
This Syn Free Sweet Chilli Chicken with Rainbow Salad recipe requires a lot of the ingredients to be cut into thin strips.
Now, you can do this with a decent sharp knife, but as you will know we love a kitchen gadget so we like to use either a mandoline or a julienne peeler.
If you don't have either of these you can pick them up on Amazon.
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You can use it to julienne the carrots and then flip it over to slice the cucumber into thin ribbons. How good is that!
If you'd rather go for the mandolin then we'd recommend this one as it has everything you could possibly need.
The Griddle Pan
Lastly the cast iron griddle pan, this has to be the most used pan in our kitchen.
Whilst it's not essential for this Syn Free Sweet Chilli Chicken with Rainbow Salad recipe it certainly adds to the flavour as it gives those lovely griddle marks on your meat too. It conducts heat really well, and it's suitable for all stove surfaces.
You can get this Kitchen Craft 24 cm Cast Iron Round Ribbed Grill Pan super cheap over on Amazon.
It's the one we have and use many times each week!
Whenever we need to replace oil in cooking we use Frylight. Perfect for everyday frying and cooking, it delivers exactly one calorie per spray, which makes it Syn free! The Sunflower or Rapeseed Oil flavours are ideal for this Syn Free Sweet Chilli Chicken with Rainbow Salad recipe.
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- 3 Chicken Breasts
- 1 Syn Free Sweet Chilli Sauce see notes above for the recipe
- 1 nest Egg Noodles
- Frylight
- 100 g Edamame Beans
- 5 spring onions sliced
- 2 large Carrots cut into thin strips
- 1/2 Red Pepper cut into thin strips
- 1/2 Yellow Pepper cut into thin strips
- 60 g Red Cabbage shredded
- 3 handfuls Rocket
- 1 handful Cherry Tomatoes cut in half
- 1 7cm length Cucumber cut into thin using a peeler
- For the Dressing
- 1 tbsp Syn Free Sweet Chilli Sauce see notes above for the recipe
- 1 Lime juice only
- 1 tsp fish sauce optional
- 1 tsp Soy Sauce
- Preheat the oven to 200 °C, then coat each chicken breast with 1 tablespoon of Syn Free Sweet Chilli Sauce
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
December is here!
Referrals came in for folks LID for the first bit of September. Congrats to them, they(CCAA) don't seem to be able to pump a month worth out, this means things continue to be slow. BAH!
My hope is we will get a referral mid to late summer, but at this point who knows. Bah HUMBUG!
Onto brighter news. We decorated the house and tree for the season, Cara is delighted, she loves Christmas and all the stuff that goes with it. She keeps saying with glee," It is snowing!" I growl. The white stuff can stop anytime, every day or second day, more shovelling. I haven't touched the deck, just got 3 words to say, "TOO MUCH SNOW!"
We are both over the nasty cold/flu bug that is circulating,and things should be almost at a slow down place at work, so hopefully I can get ahead on some stuff.Just have to keep busy, try to make the time fly by faster. Holiday is gonna be tough, wishing we had her, but surely by the NEXT one we will.
Well Amazing Race is on, can't wait for the snails pace of our race to get to the stage we are racing to China!
3 comments:
Hi Folks
Yes it is winter on the praries and it came to Regina with a vengence this week too. We too have been busy getting ready for Christmas and thinking of the Christmas's to come when our Olivia is finally home.
Take care
Liam and Sherry-Lou
DTC Oct 31
- 9:37 p.m.
- Janet said...
I love Amazing Race too! One of our favourite shows! And the snow! It just keeps on coming, doesn't it? Our kids are delighted! Don't think hubby is delighted, though. He has to plough the driveway. And it's REALLY long! Poor guy!
- 11:28 a.m.
- ladybugmommy said...
I like the connection between the Amazing Race and the race we are on to China, that is taking many twists and turns...looks like it may be a longer series than we first thought from the pilot episode when wait times were only 6-8 months...the reward will be great though and we will all win.
- 7:02 p.m.


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Tag: life
Planned parenthood, arbortion et al
Rarely little more than a bunch of privileged white guys hectoring the President of Planned Parenthood. I watched some of it live, and read a number of reports afterwards, it seems to have achieved nothing, and garnered no new information.
This weeks Congressional hearing on Planned Parenthood was pretty sloppy. Rarely little more than a bunch of privileged old white guys hectoring the President of Planned Parenthood. I watched some of it live, and read a number of reports afterwards, it seems to have achieved nothing, and garnered no new information.
I just saw this clip from Late Night with Seth Myers has the best summary.
War, what is it good for?
as we head towards the American 2016 Presidential Primaries, and given the continuing falling apart of the manufactured countries in the middle east, there will again be the inevitable warmongering hawks who'll claim that we should bomb this, bomb that, or that we should have never pulled the troops out.
Yesterdays staggering revelations by Tim Weiner on Fresh Air, about American President Nixon, and Nixons utter contempt for the American public, and the total waste of lives among those who fought, and suffered Nixons war, contrasted magnificently with a docu-drama about London in the 2nd World War that I caught on TV Sunday afternoon while surfing channels.
Before you think I'm about to get all holly and sanctimonious about the British, I'm not. The documentary, available in 2-parts on YouTube(see below). It's not significant because it's about the British, or London, or anything related to my ancestry. It's significant because as you listen and watch
"My feeling was one of anger, this is my city, whats happening out there, how dare they? It was ones' own history burning, and who has any right to do this? How would you feel if you'd watched it? Your own home city burning. Put yourself in the shoes of the people that were watching that night" – Jessica Jacob
"The more we were hit, the more we had this spirit. I think they thought they could actually bomb us into submission, but it did the opposite. The more that was done to us, the more we responded by OK, we can take it, get on it with it, we are not going to submit." – George Wheeler
"If someone came to your house and said I'm going to destroy it, and you've got a wife and children, you are going to fight like fury to save it, and thats what happened here. I'm not going to forget it, I don't want to forget it." – Richard Holsgrove
It is not about Britain, not even about America, watching the documentary about the London firestorm it is easy to imagine bombers bombing Iraq; the British bombers over Dresden; anonymous, invisible drones over Afghanistan; Japanese fighters flying into Pearl Harbor; the words of Jacob, Wheeler and Holsgrove would ring true from any human.
War, what is it good for?
'Born and raised' Texans forced to prove identities under new voter ID law | theguardian.com
There are so many things wrong with this, it is hard to know where start. Yep, it's a law that solves a problem, which for the most part doesn't exist.
The fact it takes Eric Keniie 3-buses to get to a vital Texas state service, just shows how broken our transport system is in Austin. Here is a man, which, if as reported, seems a reasonable grasp on life, and a good approach, who makes living as a scrapper, foraging in other peoples garbage and when feeling flush, handout food to neighbors.
So much for the Texas miracle.
'Born and raised' Texans forced to prove identities under new voter ID law | US news | theguardian.com.
The slobs
Don't mess with Texas
Funny how things work, it's not the hill in front of you the wears you down, but the grain of sand in your shoe.
Living "downtown" has its perks, and with all the things going on, it's sometimes hard to keep track. This one wasn't though, when I went out to run this morning there was a red VW bug parked across the street when I came back they'd dumped the remains of a soda and gum package on the street.
The other night, after racing Lisa and I went to Chipotle for dinner and while walking and talking afterwards, I started picking up trash and putting it in the abundant trash cans. Soon Lisa was doing it too.
I just don't understand who people think clears up this crap, especially downtown. It's magic? Your taxes do, otherwise it doesn't. Why are people such slobs, how much trouble is it to take it home and throw it away, really?
Gun for sale?
Friday up the road in Georgetown Texas a man in dressed in camouflage clothes walked through a neighborhood and was openly carrying a rifle. He was duly arrested without incident according to this report in the Austin American Statesmans Blotter blog.
There isn't much detail, but in the rush to publish, along with lack of likely follow-up, since there was no incident, the Statesman and the other mass media outlets are missing a useful opportunity to inform people about the gun control debate.
I think what would be really useful for gun arrests/incidents now would be the answer to the following questions when it is reported or in follow-up.
1. Was there a license/permit for the weapon?
2. When was the permit obtained ?
3. When was the gun obtained?
4. Where was the gun obtained?
5. Was their a background check?
If the weapons are all obtained legally by people who underwent background checks, obtained permits and bought the weapon at Wal-Mart we have a number of problems that need to be addressed.
If the guns were all illegal, the owner had no permit, and the weapon was bought black market, we have a different set of problems. Any variation of either and the problem is the same, but the solution becomes easier.
HDMI Cables, won't get fooled again
A while back I needed a USB Printer cable, all the regular shops were charging $29.99 and up, there was even one priced "monsterously" for $59.95. Please, USB and HDMI cables carry a digital signal, along with a few other things, for USB, that includes power. They are binary, they either work or they don't.
With black friday coming this week, no doubt many people will be tempted to be thankful on Thursday, then on Friday they'll head online or to the stores to buy more stuff, so they have something to be thankful for next year. If you are considering a new TV, and are tempted to buy a bunch of new cables, don't get fooled and buy those really expensive HDMI cables. Read this link. I get all my cables from Discount Electronics and rarely pay more than $19.99 and sometimes as little as $5.
If you need exceptionally long cables, 50ft or longer then there are some issues; for example, 1080p goes 32ft without a repeater, but shorter than that, if you are having problems its the sending device rather than the cable.
Also, sound cables that go from an older TV to a hifi(home theater) system essentially carry a non-digital signal and are subject to some interference, and so you might benefit from more expensive, shielded cables, but try what you've got, or cheap ones first.


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text: So I went to the movies the other night and, for the first time, paid $15 for a non-IMAX, ordinary 2D showing. Even senior and children's ticket prices have risen to $12 in my nabe. (The 3D One Direction movie is $18.50. That's what they're charging you, not what they're paying you to see it.) I recall that ticket prices were, I think, $7.50 when I first started going to movies here, in 1991, so the inflation rate is only a tick higher than the inflation rate nationwide over the last 22 years. I continue to be mystified why all movies pretty much cost the same and there's no discount for seeing a $5 million indie as against a $250 million blockbuster.


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Brazil - Expression of indignation at court decision to absolve officials charged with responsibility for the massacres of landless peasants
25 August 1999
Letter to H.E. Dr Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of the Republic, with copies to the president of the court of the State of Para, José Alberto Soares Maia, and to the minister of justice, 25 August 1999.
Dear Mr President,
On behalf of the World Council of Churches I must convey to you our consternation and sense of indignation at the decision reached by the Court in Belem on August 18th, by which it absolves three of the officials charged with responsibility for the massacre of 19 landless rural workers in El Dorado do Carajas in April 1996.
Soon after that massacre, at the invitation of ecumenical bodies in Brazil, the WCC sent an international ecumenical delegation there to ascertain the facts on the ground. Our delegation heard eye-witness accounts in which the perpetrators were clearly identified. It also heard directly the long-suffering landless people, and shared abroad their poignant cry for justice. Subsequently we have followed closely developments in this case and the peoples' demands both from a distance and through further visits to your country.
On the basis of the massive evidence which has been gathered by the prosecutor in this case, much of which we could also confirm, we and many others around the world assumed that justice would be done. To our astonishment, what has happened in Belem has rather mocked justice, and the victims of this heinous crime.
As you are aware, the WCC played an important supportive role during the brutal years of the military dictatorship to document and denounce the massive violations of human rights in that dark period. Since then, we have supported the growing movement in Brazil, elsewhere in Latin America and in other parts of the world to bring an end to impunity for such crimes. We sincerely believed, along with many Brazilians, that this case would mark a substantial turning point in the justice system of your country when it comes to the practice of impunity. We held out this hope, knowing full well that the granting of impunity for those responsible for massive violations of human rights is an incentive for the repetition of such crimes. This response to those who witnessed and who suffered the consequences of the massacre in El Dorado do Carajas can only feed the rising incidence of violence in Brazil, in much of which, it has been amply shown, police and other officials of the Government have been directly involved.
This, Mr President, cannot be the last word in this case. We therefore appeal to you and to the responsible ministers of your Government to override this judgement in the name of the principles of human rights and the international instruments to which Brazil is a party, and in fulfillment of the provisions of your own Constitution.
In anticipation of your favorable response, and of your positive corrective action, I remain
Respectfully yours,
(Rev.) Dwain C. Epps
Commission of the Churches on International Affairs


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Lawyers for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich have taken their bid to delay the start of his corruption trial to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Representatives of the court confirmed Thursday that the Blagojevich petition to postpone the June 3 trial had been delivered to the chambers of Justice John Paul Stevens.
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Cycle of Love
02 Monday Jul 2012
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02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted by Eric Alagan in Poetry_Haiku
xxjeanxx said:
So beautiful! I've nominated you for the Beautiful Blogger Award! I've loved your posts and this is a way of appreciating them.
Instructions on my post on how to accept this award and check out the other nominated bloggers: http://xblackcatx.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/the-beautiful-blogger-award/
Thank you for your visit Jean – appreciate it.
Congratulations also on landing this Beautiful Blogger Award – and thank you for the nomination. I'm not a fan of chocolates, though on the rare occasion, I do enjoy a bite.
Cheers – Eric
Dennis N. O'Brien said:
An excellent short poem Eric. You have the ability to write both formal poetry and free verse – a rare talent. Thanks for this one.
That's a neat compliment Dennis – thank you 🙂
I simply write from my heart. Academics in the literary world might frown on my style.
celestealluvial said:
Thank you Celeste – I believe there many lucky men and lucky ladies out there…
Eric 🙂
George W Mahn III said:
Thankyou George – have a great week ahead, Eric
I enjoyed your poem, Cycle of Love, it reminds me of 16th century love poetry! Thanks for dropping by and likiing some of my posts. 🙂 Fiona
Hello Fiona,
16th century love poetry – looks like our forebears knew a thing or two…
Thank you for the visit and comment, Eric
P/s I shall drop by your blog to relish more 🙂
No worries – it refers more to people who are fond of name dropping – you know, some dead fellow said this and therefore it must be gospel truth
everyone else has already said everything i'd say.but i still want to say this is amazing and romantic. yes!! how one feels about a soulmate is an excellent way to describe it.
No worries – they're still your thoughts and opinionsm.
You're very right, the feelings for a soulmate can be intense and blissful
Hello and welcome Yaz,
Soulmate is the word…you got it!
All good wishes, Eric
P/s Left a comment in your About Yaz Rooney page
Christy Birmingham said:
Very true – the elusive chalice for many.
Hello Francina – Deep love, the nectar from the heavens. Cheers, Eric
Elliot said:
Thank you Elliot. Cheers, Eric
Bethany said:
Thank you for your visit and happy that you felt so 🙂
clintonspel said:
Thank you 🙂
Valentine Logar said:
Ah, when The One finds us, we'll know, I reckon 🙂
Madhu said:
Undying love, indeed 🙂
Sirenia said:
Thank you dear. Have a great week ahead, Eric 🙂
I've been out the loop for a while – family stuff to organise. Lovely to come back to Blogland and find your lovely words waiting for me. Thank you Eric. Simple and beautiful.
Welcome back Jacqueline 🙂
Trust all is well on the family front.
Blogland? Hmmm. I've always referred to it as Blogsville. Oh well, a little ol town called Blogsville on an island called Blogsland – and the sun never sets (wink) on our empire (wink, wink)
Jyoti Mishra said:
The Cycle of Love indeed Jyoti.
As we relish the peaks, we need to endure and get through the troughs.
All good wishes, Eric 🙂
Beautifully written Eric!
If you may allow me to write here:
What is love?
An electrifying feeling
transcending life,
let's all get a morsel-
satiated I can die
come back I will
for more loaves of it!
Wow! What a beautiful contribution Aparna. Thank you 🙂
The bread of life and love, Eric 🙂
Sharmishtha Basu said:
Indeed – just for one night…
jannatwrites said:
Thank you Janna – glad my intent came through. Cheers, Eric
slpmartin said:
Coming from one who writes thought provoking pieces – this is high compliment. Thank you, Eric
ianscyberspace said:
Very true Ian.
The subject of love – written so extensively – yet draws us so…
nightlake said:
Oh, went for a walk and picked up these words. Washed off the dirt and this is what I saw. A worthwhile after-dinner walk.
Moumita Dasgupta said:
Thank you Moumita for your visit and comment.
Intense love can be hypnotic and touches those who are open and sensitive, I reckon.
All good wishes, Eric
Soma Mukherjee said:
One word – says it all 🙂
A sacrifice willingly made for love even if this means to give up his youth. Could be in the current context where time passes away in a blink, but with no regrets for the love he had chosen and lived for. Could also be a mythological love of giving up his life/youth in one cast of the wand and hope to return and love again eternally. Beautiful expression of love.
Yes, Jasey – there are several threads here as you've pointed out. Love and hugz, Eric
Thank you – glad you found it so, Eric
billgncs said:
this could be for worldly love, or heavenly love… powerful either way..
I like this very much.
Spot on! Several blooms and we pick the one that enthralls us. Thank you for the kind words, Eric
liliessparrowsandgrass said:
Love is death to self, just like a seed is buried in the ground, shrivels, then grows into new life, bearing buds, then comes forth the fruit that bears more seeds, and the cycle continues.
True love nevers dies. Once enacted, it lives on for eternity – in cycles. Thanks Dee, Eric 🙂
Subhan Zein said:
Thank you Mas – Pak Eric 🙂
pennycoho said:
That's very encouraging Penny – words like yours keeps writers like me going 🙂
Cat Forsley said:
Thank you Cat for the 'wow' – 🙂
Cat Forsley said:
sometimes a WOW
is all i can say
kinda speechless is good 🙂
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It's May, love is in the air -- and if you're motoring north through Florida during the Memorial Day holiday, expect it on your car's windshield, grille and paint job. Or in your teeth, if you're riding a motorcycle.
Once again, as with every May and September, it's the season of the love bug, or Plecia nearctica.
From Florida to North Carolina, the smallish black-and-red bugs hatch, mate, lay eggs and die, all in a matter of days.
They are attracted not only to each other for marathon aerial mating (12 hours average) but also to hot highways awash in engine exhaust.
And thus to windshields and grilles, where acid from splattered bodies can pit a car's paint if left in the sun. The bugs can also clog radiators.
The influx of the amorous insects has been such this year that the Florida Highway Patrol warned drivers Friday to expect swarms of the bugs along rural highways and long lines of cars at turnpike wash stations.
Windshields covered with the bugs' carcasses "can cause the same impairment to visibility as smog or smoke from wildfires," said Sgt. Jorge Delahoz. Fort Pierce to St. Cloud was the worst section of the turnpike.
Savvy drivers bring water and a squeegee and never run wipers across a bug-spattered windshield, unless they want it smeared with a pasty goo.
Drive at night or early in the morning; love bugs are most common during the day.
Use a high-pressure hose to wash them off car and glass.
Bug removal sprays are available at department stores or auto parts shops.
Take advantage of free windshield washers at many service plazas along Florida's Turnpike.
Apply baby or vegetable oil, or a non-stick spray such as Pam, on grille, bumper or hood; do not apply to windshields.
Affix a bug screen or deflector to the front of your car.
Do not use Coca-Cola to remove bugs; it may stain today's cars.


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New to the industry, MOWE is a musical duo comprised of Mel, who is a tattooed cheeky rebel and Clemens, a charming young heart breaker. They had both been involved with several bands in their early days. However, the formation of MOWE was more of a war on boredom. MOWE began on a bad winter day on January 10 2013 in Vienna.
Their first song Blauer Tag quickly gained popularity on YouTube and MOWE was born. Since then, MOW has had worthy causes for celebration. Within the year, the duo had produced one successful hit after another along with several other remixes. Their songs are catchy and have a way of touching their listeners by getting underneath their skin with their lyrics and vocals. What sets the duo apart is the fact that they have free sourced most of their music on sound cloud. This shows their love for their fans and music enthusiasts alike.
Oliver Koletzi signed them under his label Stil vor Talent, under which they launched their second EP 'inside.' They describe their songs as something which brings good vibes and loads of melodies to the audience. They are mainly driven by their passion for making good music. Their fans are what keep them going and the fact that to them, music is life.


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1919: "We established a temporary lookout on Baw Faw Peak in southwestern Lewis County. The State and Forest Service contributed to this project. Five and one-half miles of telephone line was constructed and four or five acres of sapling timber were slashed down in order to give the watchman an unobstructed view. The range of vision from this point takes in all of western Lewis, Northwestern Cowlitz, Wahkiakum, Pacific, southeastern Grays Harbor, and southern Thurston counties. So many fires were reported from this point that we feel warranted in making it a permanent station and have planned to construct a lookout house there next year." (12th Annual Report of the Washington Forest Fire Association)
1919: "Two new lookouts were established this biennium, the first in 1919 on Boistfort Peak in western Lewis county. The Washington Forest Fire Association contributed much the larger portion for the construction of this lookout. The top of the peak was cleared of trees, a lookout building erected, a fairly good trail was constructed and a telephone line built connecting the lookout with the district warden's headquarters and City of Chehalis. The Long-Bell Lumber Company contributed to this improvement by assisting in trail construction and also in clearing the top of the peak so that a better range of vision might be had." (1919-20 Annual Report Washington State Forester)
1920: "We maintained a lookout watchman on Boistfort Peak in southwestern Lewis County. We constructed a lookout house on Boistfort Peak this year. We were assisted in cutting down some timber which obstructed the view to the southeast from this point, by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, and they also helped in the construction of a better trail to the lookout." (13th Annual Report of the Washington Forest Fire Association)
May 15, 1925: "Baw Faw peak, the highest peak and most strategic forest fire outlook in Southwest Washington, situated in the extreme southwestern corner of Lewis County, is to have a full fledged weather observation station, the only one outside of the cities in the state, according to George C. Joy, state supervisor of forests.
Mr. Joy visited Baw Faw peak on Wednesday, meeting there with Geo. W. Alexander and O.A. Schick of the Seattle United States weather bureau, who will install the apparatus.
With co-operation of the weather bureau in the scientific end of it, the station is being installed at the joint expense of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, which has great timber holdings around and south of the peak, and by the Washington Forest Fire Association.
The instruments, costing about $1,000, will include a wind direction and velocity and sunshine recording instrument, a hydro-thermograph and a rain gauge.
The instruments will be kept at the fire lookout station on the peak in charge of H.O. Roundtree, one of the most experienced woodsmen and fire lookouts in Southwestern Washington. Last season he located a fire clear over in the Cascades, 50 miles away, to the exact location.
Daily weather reports will be made by telephone to the Seattle bureau. The station will be of especial value in registering the upper air currents, rather than mere surface indications." (The Chehalis Bee-Nugget)
May 17, 1925: "A fully equipped weather observation and forest fire lookout station will be established next week on the summit of Mount Baw Faw, a peak of 3000 feet elevation, located approximately 20 miles southwest of Chehalis, in Lewis county, it was announced here today by George C. Joy, state supervisor of forestry.
The work will be in charge of George W. Alexander, meteorologist for the fire weather service of the federal weather bureau.
The station, which is one of 17 being established in Washington to collect data on pre-forest fire weather conditions, will be provided with wind, rain, sunshine and relative humidity recording instruments, Supervisor Joy said." (The Sunday Oregonian)
May 19, 1925: "The summit of Baw Faw peak, nearly 3000 feet in elevation, overlooking the Long-Bell Lumber company's timber holdings and other areas in Lewis, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties, will be the site of a fully equipped weather observation and forest fire lookout station, to be installed by the forest fire service." (Morning Oregonian)
June 11, 1925: "Complete weather observation apparatus and a powerful radio receiving set have been installed by the Long-Bell Lumber company on Baw Faw peak, highest point in the company's 100,000 acres of timber holdings. The peak, which is 3100 feet above sea level and heavily timbered to the top, is 14 miles northwest of Ryderwood and is used as a fire lookout station." (Morning Oregonian)
1936: An 83-foot lookout tower was erected, (Division of Forestry Annual Report)
October 8, 1937: "H.O. Roundtree, lookout at the Baw Faw peak fire lookout station, reported last week end that he had discovered a wild tiger lily that had 61 blossoms on one stalk. The flower was found a few yards from the lookout. He has several snapshots which show the freak of nature." (The Chehalis Bee-Nugget)
September 18, 1941: "J.G. Morris worked on Baw Faw peak Monday. He was helping the lookout man move from the station to his home." (The Daily Chronicle)
1958-60: "The lookout construction work is performed by the Department's own carpentry crew. In the past two years, the crew completed nine lookouts at a cost averaging $8,000 apiece, the modernization of one which is located at Baw Faw, Lewis County." (2nd Biennial Report Washington Department of Natural Resources)


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by Adam Kranz
2 June 2017
In Part 1 of this article, I posed a rhetorical question: why are Rationalists so invested in rejecting epistemic relativism? I answered by pointing to their activism on issues where scientific authority has dramatic social import, like climate change and vaccinations. This is perhaps a charitable read. There was always some genuine altruism in atheist writers, but it was commingled with haughty and dogmatic arrogance. But like Pierre Menard's Quixote, the argument Pluckrose makes is a dramatically different beast than the same argument made by Dawkins two decades ago. It is no longer about science at all, really; the fearmongering about threats to scientific authority is only a figleaf of impartiality, a thin mask on their vile politics.
Pluckrose creates a kind of hierarchy of threats, where the far right and climate deniers are bad, but they're secondary to the threat of postmodernism, which empowers all those other threats by removing The West's ability to defend itself from them. This is a consistent thread in the Rationalist alt-right. They maintain this fiction that, under normal circumstances, they're liberals. But the extreme nature of the threat of postmodernism gives them no choice but to support equally extreme opposition, like Trump, until liberalism is purged of the postmodern poison. YouTube dipshit Sargon of Akkad puts it bluntly, "The right is not good to poor people, but I don't think they're trying to actively undermine Western civilization." Pluckrose echoes: "Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself."
Rationalists, as an identity group, have changed markedly. Early anti-theists couldn't quite shake the whiff of Islamophobia, but they certainly tried. I remember the days when atheism's unexamined misogyny felt like a frustrating practice in need of reform. Those days are long gone. Rationalists have graduated from unexamined misogyny to sputtering anti-feminism; from vague Islamophobia to open racism. They have framed feminism as a religion and directed at it the same sort of scorn, escalated by orders of magnitude, that they used to reserve for creationists. Things like 'meninism' and 'race realism' have become such core concerns that it's hard to even find Rationals talking about atheism anymore. Leaders like Dawkins and Sam Harris are still popular, but they have ceded primacy to a vastly less thoughtful and more cruel group of people, including Sargon as well as people like The Amazing Atheist, Stefan Molyneux, and Infowars writer Paul Joseph Watson. How did this happen? While the ultimate causes are hard to pin down, the proximate cause is undeniable: GamerGate.
At one point atheists were more or less Democrats by default; the Republican party was practically synonymous with the creationist Christians they loved to mock. GamerGate found an intersection of issues that a substantial demographic of "apolitical" but Dem-leaning atheists got really fired up about: video games and privilege. Its fundamental message to gamers was simply that social justice-oriented cultural criticism is bunk, that there is no such thing as white privilege or rape culture, there is nothing wrong with the media you like, there is nothing you need to question or change about the way you think and behave. It is a hostile, defensive politics that defends its claims by maligning, mocking, and harassing anyone who dares to push back. And since GamerGate, Rationalists have become a major audience for anti-liberal propaganda.
And this is the central paradox of Pluckrose's article. She claims to be writing on behalf of the Left, raising a warning cry about the postmodern extremists dragging our legitimate political movement into absurdity. Yet despite the extensive article space she devotes to mocking epistemic relativism, and despite cursory fearmongering about the Left-leaning science denial of anti-vaxxers and homeopaths, both are secondary beside the real threat to the Left. That honor goes to social justice. Her fearmongering about the fate of the Left doesn't feel particularly genuine when her article so directly matches the rhetoric of a movement that defends an illiberal status quo.
It is the tension between atheist-default liberalism and the need to combat the increasingly social-justice-oriented form of modern liberalism that makes postmodernism such a useful scapegoat. They remove modern social justice from the unimpeachable tradition of "actual" activists like King and Gandhi and put it in the arcane shadow of "The Frankfurt School" or Derrida, whose public reputation is mostly that no one understands their work. This way, they can side with the old social justice, the "good" kind, which fought legally explicit oppression that operated through overt state violence. But they can safely mock and dismiss the new social justice, which uses a postmodern decoder lens to see the hidden oppression in everything. (They play dumb about reading subtexts in any context unless it fits their narratives–then the Death Star represents the misandric demonization of men by needy single mothers who fear insemination). This is a neat rhetorical trick, because it allows them to claim continuity with the legacy of true justice and frame their ideological opponents as extremists divorced from reality.
After Rationalism broke away from modern liberal politics, it was free to drift further and further right. It is ironic that the far-Right is among the dangers Pluckrose attributes to postmodernism. The strawman of postmodernism she conjures is the bogeyman against which atheism and conservatism align to create a new Right–an "Alternative Right," if you will (and I can't help wondering if it is significant that Pluckrose never calls out the alt-right by name).
This rapid realignment has made the modern Rationalist movement a pretty strange place. They continue to insist they are non-partisan or even liberal while espousing views well to the right of the average Trump voter. And their relationship with science has become quite dodgy. They indulge in all sorts of statistical fabrications and misrepresent research to support their ideology, while continuing to assert that they are in fact still the faction defending science.
There's a particularly rich example to illustrate just how far this has gone. On one hand, we have Pluckrose quoting an excerpt from Sokal and Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense, one of the final parting shots fired against postmodernism in the Science Wars. The quote is meant to demonstrate how absurd postmodernist claims are because of the kind of intellectual company they end up in: "Who could now seriously deny the 'grand narrative' of evolution, except someone in the grip of a far less plausible master narrative such as Creationism? And who would wish to deny the truth of basic physics? The answer was, 'some postmodernists.'" On the other hand, we have Rationalists citing Creationist tweets in their crusade to deny the scientific legitimacy of nonbinary genders. What would Christopher Hitchens have to say about that?
Rationalists are not really in the business of epistemology or philosophy of science anymore. Neither are their ideological opponents. Yet Rationalists find themselves dredging up the same old arguments against epistemic relativism, divorced from their conversational context and repurposed as partisan insults. The best example, of course, comes from infamous Twitter dipshit Ian Miles Cheong. He trotted out a riff on the Dawkins airplane line that somehow managed to make it even stupider (though the fact that someone who has almost certainly never had any direct contact with postmodern philosophy of science could replicate the comeback so well illustrates just how poorly Dawkins understood it too).
Postmodernism serves the same function in scientific dialogues as it does politically: it is a wedge to separate social justice science from the institutional science that still (despite Pluckrose's apocalyptic fretting) retains public respect. If the studies and statistics cited to support social justice causes can be systematically undermined by association with postmodernism, there's no need to waste time figuring out what they actually say. Pluckrose makes this position explicit. She asks, rhetorically, "How much of a threat is postmodernism to science?" Her answer is simply to point to scientists working to make their field a more inclusive and just enterprise and paint their efforts as "external attacks." Pluckrose's own discipline, sociology, is "in danger of changing beyond all recognition." It's not much of a stretch to parallel such rhetoric to the way Trumpists talk about immigrants, excluding them from the definition of "real Americans" and saying they're making white people strangers in 'their own' country.
It's perhaps not surprising to note that postmodernism entered modern Rationalist eschatology not through atheism but as a GamerGate anti-Semitic conspiracy theory: Jewish Communist intellectuals in the Frankfurt School supposedly developed "cultural Marxism" to erode Western culture by normalizing homosexuality, pedophilia, and other forms of "degeneracy." In that light, Pluckrose's anxieties about the threat intellectuals pose to The West takes on an uncomfortable resonance with Nazi ideas. Which feels unfair to Pluckrose–her claims to liberalism feel much more genuine than the barely-concealed white-nationalism-shading-to-fascism of most people who make this argument–but she's still singing the same song.
The reality, of course, is that postmodernism is a part of science, and has opened up productive new avenues of research by dethroning assumptions that were previously taken for granted. Science, in turn, has validated many postmodern claims–on gender, race, ecology, and even science itself.It has made them more specific, more predictive, more empirical. It has, in short, been a productive and mutually beneficial engagement in many fields, though it has been and remains contentious and imperfect. One of the most important areas has been work related to social justice. While postmodernism isn't a conspiracy to destroy everything good about The West, it did play an important part in creating modern social justice. And as much as Pluckrose insists she's defending science, she's really just attacking it for producing results that challenge her worldview.
Postmodernism has become a rhetorical football, kicked around without much meaningful agency of its own. There are plenty of people pointing out that the connections Rationalists are making are historically ignorant, alarmist, and fundamentally absurd. But there are not a lot of people standing up and saying "The Frankfurt School had some good points, actually."
I don't know how far it's possible to rehabilitate postmodernism's reputation. Polarization between progressives and Rationals has reached a point where a more positive portrayal is unlikely to convince them. That doesn't mean it isn't worth doing. Pluckrose is right that postmodern insights have already become part of our culture. They form the intellectual bedrock for so many important ideas that it seems borderline negligent that they aren't taught in high school (it would be great if everyone could at least get on the same page about what a social construct is). If people aren't fluent in postmodern ideas, we can't parse the wheat from the chaff, can't participate constructively in conversations about them, can't call out their misuse and abuse.
So for those of us who do identify with postmodernism, maybe it's worth being a little more open and proud about that. We could certainly use some good introductory resources, summarizing classic thinkers and reframing their insights in accessible ways. It would also be good to make more of an effort to communicate new work (science Twitter provides a great model), showing that postmodernism still underlies a vibrant and relevant intellectual endeavor. At the very least, maybe it's time we started wearing our postmodernism hats out in public.
Adam Kranz is a graduate student in insect ecology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He writes about fantasy, games, postmodernism, and environmental history. Find him on Twitter @adam_kranz


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