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So I got an e-mail from a friend a few days ago about a new movement seeking to be born. The name of the movement? Brights. The nature of the movement? The promotion of naturalism in our public discourse. With the rise of fundamentalism in the churches, in schools, and in the highest reaches of our government, one can imagine the urgency of such an idea. So I applaud it. But I do have some questions about the nature of this project.
First, the name brights needs to go. I can see the logic behind finding a short positive name but whenever I think of brights, words like sprites, and maybe care bears come to mind. It's hard to think of brights as a serious philosophic view. We need the genius of someone like a C.S. Peirce to come up with a better name :)
"Having a naturalistic worldview means that Brights are not themselves religious" says the website. Why? My impression from the website (as well as some of the names connected with this movement from Dawkins to Dennett) is that they are largely unfamiliar with a large body of religious thought in the 20th century which have had no problem combining religious faith and naturalism. Some of the schools of thought which come to mind include process philosophy, personalism, and empirical theology.
If they wanted to make a movement for atheists that is fine. But if one is going to make a movement centered around naturalism, then why exclude religious and theistic naturalists from the bunch? It's not just academic schools of thought which have successfully combined both things.
There have been religious movements who were born in this country which have worked with such a union. From Reconstruction and Humanistic Judaism to Ethical Culture to many Unitarians to many Quakers, the idea that the sacred is to be found in the natural world, in human relations, and in the possibilities of a better world versus some supernatural realm has made a definite contribution to the religious landscape.
One last thing: some of the most hilarious topics come up when some atheists seek to understand how it could be that religious belief could have such a hold on people today. I'm reminded of an essay by William James titled The Moral Equivalence of War and in that essay James argues that it's all fine and well for people to be opposed to war but that they are destined to fail in their efforts if they fail to recognize what positive things can come from war. Recognition of those goods, can provide a basis for seeking an alternative means to let such goods come into fruition.
So likewise, with religion. There are of course a number of ills associated with religion. And many folks could just start naming them off. But unless naturalists are able to provide a context where a community of faith can sustain people, can develop piety, can allow for worship, can attend to the depths and fullness of human experience, can in otherwords attend to the goods which religion can bring, I suspect there isn't much progress such a movement as the brights will be able to bring about.
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Michelle Webb
Age: 48
Occupation: Research and Community Engagement Manager at Longmont Public Safety
Years in the St. Vrain Valley: 12
What brought you here? What has kept you here? My husband and I moved to Boulder from Washington, D.C., for the lifestyle change. We ended up in Longmont because of its affordability, the convenient location and the trails, parks and lakes. We've stayed because of the people. It's such a phenomenal community.
You're leading the community engagement effort within the Public Safety Department. In what ways do you hope to help impact the city? One of the reasons that I came to work for Longmont Public Safety is because it's a highly innovative and forward thinking department that has figured out ways to solve significant problems by building bridges between law enforcement and the community. That is a mission that I'm incredibly passionate about. As part of building those bridges, one of my goals is to help community members who want to become more involved find ways to use their gifts, talents and passions toward strengthening our community.
What's on your itinerary for your ideal weekend in Longmont? My ideal weekend in Longmont includes a visit to Main Street for one of the events. The Festival on Main is one of my favorites. Paddle boarding on Union Reservoir and a dog walk at Pella Crossing would also be on the list. I like to be active and spend time with friends and in our community but I also need down time to recharge, so I'd find a little time to read outside, play in the garden or practice guitar before the weekend wrapped up.

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Location Index
Menu Index
Restaurant Info
- Character Dining
-- Character Meals
-- Character Meal
- All-You-Can-Eat
- Animal Kingdom
- BoardWalk Area
- Character Meals
- Disney Springs
- Disney's Hollywood Studios
- Epcot
- Magic Kingdom
- Resort: Counter
- Resort: Table Service
WDW Recipes
Dinner Shows
Special Dietary Needs
- Celiac Sprue
- Food Allergies
- Kosher
- Low Carb
- Other Special Diets
- Vegetarian/Vegan
- --Parks Counter
- --Parks Table Service
- --Resorts Table Service
- --Strategies
- --Meet the Authors
of Vegetarian WDW
- --A Vegetarian at
Mickey's Table - I
- --A Vegetarian at
Mickey's Table - II
Special Dining Events
- Afternoon Tea at Grand Floridian
- Dine with a Disney
- My Disney Girl's
Princess Tea Party
- Packages with Reserved Viewing
(Dessert Parties, Fireworks
Dining, etc.)
Dining Discounts
Smokie City
Raglan Road
Downtown Disney
Serves 4 as a starter
2 plum tomatoes, seeded and diced
1 pound smoked boneless cod fillet, skinned and cut into cubes
4 ounces mature Wexford Cheese
1 1/3 cups double cream
freshly ground black pepper
Crusty bread rolls (see below)
Method of Preparation
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Scatter half the tomatoes among 4 individual ovenproof dishes. Arrange the smoked cod on top and sprinkle over half of the cheese. Scatter over the remaining tomatoes, season with pepper and pour the cream on top. Arrange on a baking sheet and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the smoked cod is completely tender and the top is bubbling and golden brown.
To serve, place the cod smokey dishes directly on the table. Arrange the bread rolls in a separate basket and put on the table with a small pot of butter, then allow everyone to help themselves.
Use the Caramalised Onion Dunbrody bread recipe and shape into 8 - 10 rolls. Arrange on a non-stick baking sheet then brush with beaten egg.
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BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say two bombings targeting Shiite neighborhoods have killed eight people in Baghdad.
Police officials say a bomb blast on Tuesday near a clinic killed five people and wounded 11 others in the capital's New Baghdad district.
Police said a second bomb attached to a minibus exploded in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City neighborhood, killing three passengers and wounding seven others.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualty tolls. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to media.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni Islamic extremists frequently target the country's Shiite majority, whom they consider heretics.


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250 Heat Races & LCQ Notes
Heat One
- Christian Craig grabbed the holeshot aboard his GEICO Honda and looked great as he pulled away from the field. Unfortunately, Craig crashed and handed the lead to Joey Savatgy a few laps in.
- Once into the lead, Savatgy was unchallenged aboard his Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki.
- Craig remounted in seventh and would eventually qualify in the spot, but he looked a little sloppy as he tried to make up for lost time.
- Jimmy Savatgy, Jordon Smith, Jimmy DeCotis, Hayden Melross, Kyle Cunningham, Christian Craig and Mitchell Harrison transferred to the main.
- Alex Martin crashed early in the race with Frenchman Thomas Do and was credited with 19th.
- Jimmy DeCotis turned in the fastest lap of the race, a 48.279.
Heat Two
- Colt Nichols holeshot 250 heat race 2 and led for nearly three laps aboard his Cycle Trader/Rock River Yamaha YZ250F.
- Rockstar Energy Husqvarna's Zach Osborne started second and stalked Nichols before making the pass for the lead after the whoops. He went on unchallenged to the win.
- Cooper Webb was mired at the start of his heat race and completed lap one in 10th. A tangle as he was ripping through the field dropped him back to 12th, but he fought back to fourth at the finish.
- Zach Osborne, Colt Nichols, Mitchell Oldenburg, Cooper Webb, Trevor Reis, Cole Thompson, Chris Alldredge, Scott Champion and Cole Martinez qualified for the main.
- Cooper Webb set the fastest lap time of 48.886
- Bracken Hall holeshot the LCQ and led much of the race.
- Chris Howell took over the lead on the third lap on his Husqvarna and earned the win and a spot in the second main of his career.
- Alex Martin started sixth on his Yamalube/Star Racing/Yamaha and worked up to a close third.
- Zac Commans earned the final transfer spot into the main in his pro debut.
- Alex Martin turned the fastest lap of the race at 50.334.
250 Main
- Jordon Smith grabbed the holeshot ahead of GEICO Honda teammate Jimmy Decotis.
- Cooper Webb rounded turn one in seventh.
- Decotis crashed back to 11th on the second lap.
- Zach Osborne took over the lead on lap five, the same time that Webb moved into third.
- Webb moved past Smith on the table table section to take over second at the half-way point.
- On lap 11, Webb dive beneath Osborne to steal the lead. Osborne tried to retaliate in the next turn, but Webb saw it coming and maintained the lead.
- On the next lap, Osborne lost control in a corner and flipped a 180 off the following jump. He would finish sixth.
- Savatgy and Smith rounded out the podium.
- Cooper Webb turned in the fastest lap time of the main event, a 49.360.
Main Event Results
- Cooper Webb
- Joey Savatgy
- Jordon Smith
- Christian Craig
- Colt Nichols
- Zach Osborne
- Kyle Peters
- Jimmy DeCotis
- Kyle Cunningham
- Chris Alldredge
- Alex Martin
- Cole Thompson
- Michael Leib
- Trevor Reis
- Mitchell Oldenburg
- Cole Martinez
- Chris Howell
- Zac Commans
- Scott Champion
- Bracken Hall
- Hayden Melross
- Mitchell Harrison
250 West Coast Supercross Championship Points (After 2 of 8 races)
- Cooper Webb (50/2 wins)
- Jordon Smith (36)
- Joey Savatgy (35)
- Zach Osborne (35)
- Jimmy DeCotis (31)
- Colt Nichols (30)
- Kyle Peters (25)
- Alex Martin (25)
- Jessy Nelson (22)
- Christian Craig (22)
Read more at http://motocross.transworld.net/news/1000188432/#z0kKurblolIvXPhJ.99
CLASS 10 (Single or two-seaters to 1650cc)
1. 1068 Cody Reid, Apple Valley, Calif./Louis Chamberland, Oak Hills, Calif./Mike Majesky, Newbury Park, Calif., Custom-Chevy, 20:55:16 (39.26 mph);
2. 1011 Morgan Langley, Santa Monica, Calif./Kory Halopoff, Garden Grove, Calif./Paul Keller, Racer-Honda, 21:48:58;
3. 1062 J.J. Schnarr, Incline, Nev./Andrew Myers, Escondido, Calif./Eduardo Quinones, Tijuana, Mexico/Julio Quintero, Tijuana, Mexico, Alumi Craft-Chevy, 23:28:13;
4. 1034 Clifford Cole, Agoura Hills, Calif./Todd Starks, Agoura Hills, Calif., Alumi Craft-Chevy, 24:18:47;
5. 1088 Luis Salgado, Mexicali, Mexico/Joel Serna, Mexicali, Mexico/Matt Loiodice, Santee, Calif./Sergio Salgado, Mexicali, Mexico, Jimco-Honda, 24:29:23;
6. 1045 Travis Clarke, Encinitas, Calif./Pat Dailey, Carlsbad, Calif., Raceco-Chevy, 24:31:14;
7. 1089 Arnoldo Gutierrez Jr/Arnoldo Gutierrez Sr, Mexicali, Mexico, Racer-Chevy, 26:36:29;
8. 1002 Steve Lawler, Upland, Calif./Ian Egli/Jared Sollenburg, LMS-Chevy, 26:43:02 (Starters: 18, Finishers: 8)
COOPER WEBB WINS 1st IN A1!
250 Heat Races & LCQ Notes
Heat One
- Zach Osborne made only one pass in the first 250 heat race and it was the one that mattered most. The Rockstar Energy Husqvarna rider dove by Chris Alldredge on the opening lap, and the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki rider couldn't counter the move. Osborne won the race by a two second margin.
- Troy Lee Designs/GoPro/Red Bull/KTM's Jessy Nelson turned the fastest lap of the first 250 heat, a 1:02.740.
- Maxime Desprey and Fredrik Noren's fight for the final transfer spot to the main event went all the way to the finish line. Noren tried to cut Desprey off at the base of the jump, but the Desprey held on to take the spot.
- Zach Osborne, Chris Alldredge, Jessy Nelson, Alex Martin, Mitchell Oldenburg, Kyle Cunningham, Colt Nichols, Hayden Mellross, and Maxime Desprey transferred to the main event.
- Total Race Time: 6:10.855 minutes
Heat Two
- Christian Craig snagged the holeshot in his first Supercross since 2012. The GEICO Honda rider controlled the pace for much of the race. A mistake by Craig in one of the long rhythm allowed the charging Cooper Webb to close in and steal the lead. From there, Webb went unchallenged to the checkered flag.
- Webb turned the fastest lap of the second 250 heat race, a 1:01.441. Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki's Joey Savatgy was the only other 250 rider to turn a 1:01 lap in the heat races, a 1:01.985.
- Cooper Webb, Christian Craig, Joey Savatgy, Jimmy Decotis, Jordon Smith, Cole Thompson, Chris Howell, Kyle Peters, and Trevor Reis transferred to the main event.
- Total Race Time: 6:05.979 minutes
- Zach Bell led the LCQ until a simple mistake shot him off of the track. The 51Fifty Yamaha rider returned to the course without much issue and was still in transfer position.
- Yamalube/Star Racing/Yamaha's Mitchell Harrison won the LCQ. This was his first ever SX event.
- Mitchell Harrison, Cole Martinez, Zach Bell, and Fredrik Noren transferred to the main event.
- Total Race Time: 4:15.259 minutes
250 Main Event
- Jessy Nelson was the first rider to the holeshot stripe and earned a $1000 bonus. He made the most of the clear track and built a massive lead over the field.
- Cooper Webb started the race in fifth place. The defending 250 West SX champion was clearly the fastest rider on the track, as he went from fifth to second just two laps into the race and then decimated Nelson's early advantage. A mistake by Nelson in the final five laps helped Webb draw even and then take the lead, which he held to the checkered flag. This was Webb's seventh career main event win.
- Zach Osborne spent most of the moto on his own, with the Webb & Nelson battle far ahead while the rest of the field followed behind. He would end up third at the finish.
- Crashes and other issues had a major effect on the main event finishes of many in the class, namely Christian Craig, Joey Savatgy, Chris Alldredge. The possible podium contenders finished eighteenth, eighth, and twenty-first, respectively.
- Cooper Webb turned the fastest lap of the race, a 1:01.392.
- Total Race Time: 15:43.670 minutes
- Margin of Victory – 6.799 seconds
Main Event Results
- Cooper Webb
- Jessy Nelson
- Zach Osborne
- Jimmy Decotis
- Jordon Smith
- Alex Martin
- Colt Nichols
- Joey Savatgy
- Mitchell Oldenburg
- Kyle Peters
- Hayden Mellross
- Cole Martinez
- Mitchell Harrison
- Fredrik Noren
- Zach Bell
- Trevor Reis
- Christian Craig
- Cole Thompson
- Kyle Cunningham
- Maxime Desprey
- Chris Alldredge
- Chris Howell
250 West Coast SX Championship Point Standings (After 1 of 8 races)
- Cooper Webb | 25 pts – 1 win
- Jessy Nelson | 22 pts
- Zach Osborne | 20 pts
- Jimmy Decotis | 18 pts
- Jordon Smith | 16 pts
- Alex Martin | 15 pts
- Colt Nichols | 14 pts
- Joey Savatgy | 13 pts
- Mitchell Oldenburg | 12 pts
- Kyle Peters | 11 pts
- Hayden Mellross | 10 pts
- Cole Martinez | 9 pts
- Mitchell Harrison | 8 pts
- Fredrik Noren | 7 pts
- Zach Bell | 6 pts
- Trevor Reis | 5 pts
- Christian Craig | 4 pts
- Cole Thompson | 3 pts
- Kyle Cunningham | 2pts
- Maxime Desprey | 1 pt
- Chris Alldredge | 1 pt
- Chris Howell | 1 pt
Read more at http://motocross.transworld.net/news/2016-anaheim-one-sx-race-report/#wQSIXeOU07oA8SAT.99
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text: A road to nowhere? Robert B.D. Brice/Wattway September 21, 2018 Solar panels replaced tarmac on a motorway – here are the results Dylan Ryan, Edinburgh Napier University Solar roadways have been promoted as a way to fight climate change, put people to work and make driving safer. But on closer inspection the reality is less than impressive.


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I know I did a review of the Charlotte Tilbury Magic Night cream (which I'm still unsure about) and mentioned that I was a big fan of the original Magic Cream, so I since I recently bought a new pot I thought I would write a full review on this product and let you know what I think!
This cream gets a lot of hype, and I think its really Charlotte's staple product. Apparently, the story of the cream is that Charlotte made it herself and used it backstage on the models, and they all loved it so much that it came to be known as 'Charlotte's Magic Cream'. Is this true? I'm not sure but what a great marketing tool – you can completely imagine Kate Moss nattering over a cup of tea and a fag with someone 'Oh my God, so HAVE you heard about this magic cream…' Maybe.
The types of skin it is aimed for is apparently EVERYONE. I found it a little far fetched reading that 'You may have an oily T-zone, but all skin types benefit from a rich, oily cream'… I would like to disagree. The richness of this cream is fantastic, but I say this being someone who has normal/dry skin and definitely think that this would be WAY too heavy for oily skin types – even in winter.
The packaging of the cream is typical Charlotte Tilbury… art deco rose gold chic chic chic! I love the look of this on my dressing table – who cares about the cream?! On a serious note, yes it looks absolutely lovely and very expensive, however I have heard that being in a jar means that a lot of the goodness in a cream can escape over time.
The texture of the cream is obviously very rich and thick, which is great as you feel like you're getting a lot of use out of the product. I only ever use about a pea size amount when my skin is very dry, and this is more than enough to revitalise my skin when it needs it the most. The smell of the cream isn't the best, I'm not going to lie, it's quite a clinical, rose smell that you might associate with an old lady's hand cream.
BUT none of this matters because my skin is so much nicer after I use this. It picks my skin up from off the floor when all it wants to do is go back to bed. It pumps my skin full of the moisture it deserves and makes me look like I have got sleep and no I haven't binged watched Geordie Shore all night drinking nothing but diet coke.
It sits nicely under makeup, creating a really supple and smooth base to work your magic on (see what I did there). BUT, you have to make sure that your skin is completely clean before applying the cream – I like to use micellar water and then a toner before using this – otherwise it can build up residue on your face as it is so thick that it takes a while to absorb. Unlike the Magic Night Cream, it doesn't feel as tacky after it is absorbed, despite the thickness.
In terms of long-term effects, I can't really say I can see much thus far. Obviously, on 23 year old skin I don't think there is much point in analysing any line-reducing features, but this does keep your skin very hydrated throughout the day – which is definitely key to preventing and reducing lines.
Overall, for someone with normal/dry skin that needs a bit of sprucing up and an injection of life back into it, this cream is definitely worth buying. Even as a mask that could be used once a week after a heavy weekend, just to make you look alive, I think this is definitely worth getting!
PS. Just a little disappointed side note (but doesn't affect the product, rather the customer service), although Charlotte Tilbury's services are easy, quick and perfectly presented, I haven't received ANY samples with ANY of my orders recently, despite requesting them which I found really frustrating.
PPS. If you would like to read my review of Charlotte Tilbury's Magic Night Cream, then please click here.


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Published: October 15th, 2013 at 3:38 pm ET
The Guardian, Oct. 15, 2013: […] men working inside the plant are suffering from plummeting morale, health problems and anxiety about the future, according to insiders […] the cleanup is entering its most precarious stage since the meltdown in March 2011. […] complaints from hoteliers and inn-keepers about drink-fuelled fights. […] A 42-year-old contract worker, who asked not be named, confirmed that alcohol abuse had become a problem among workers. "Lots of men I know drink heavily in the evening and come to work with the shakes the next day. I know of several who worked with hangovers during the summer and collapsed" […] Another worker […] said he had seen hungover colleagues collapse with heatstroke just minutes after beginning work. […] "I'm very worried about the labour shortage. If they don't do something about it soon, the employment system at Fukushima Daiichi will collapse first, not the plant" [said a former Tepco employee of 14 years] […] as concern grows over Tepco […] starting next month with the removal of 1,300 spent fuel assemblies from the top of reactor No 4 – the unfolding human crisis is being largely ignored. […]
WBKM, Oct. 13, 2013 – Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Chief Engineer (at 0:45 in): They've had a series of calamities. When you get a series of small calamities that usually implies that there's a larger calamity on the horizon. […]
Published: October 15th, 2013 at 3:38 pm ET
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- Nonprofit Group: "Every single person" we hosted from Japan has had health problems… Blood stains found in almost all of their beds — Japanese Mom: Most mothers I've met from Tokyo and Fukushima are suffering thyroid problems, eye problems, nose bleeds… It's been very surprising (VIDEO) June 28, 2015
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The Pedral 2-star aparthotel is in the centre of Encamp, in the parish of the same name.
It offers have 70 apartments for up to 5 people. Its functional apartments have handycap facilities, television and complete kitchen and lounge-diner. The services and facilities include car park, garage, bar-cafeteria and restaurant. Andorra la Vella is 7 Km away and the Funicamp cable car with access to the Grandvalira-Encamp ski slopes is 1 Km away. Pets are not admitted in the hotel.
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Prager H3: Dennis talks to Jamie Mithi, law student at the University of Witwatersrand, also known as WIT University. He has learned the truth about Israel and the truth is that Israel is not an apartheid state. The claim that it is, is a lie… How do you develop courage in children? Can it be taught or is just ingrained?


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HOLLYWOOD -- Four years ago, developer Harry Gampel came to the city with an ambitious proposal. He would build a huge commercial complex on Military Circle, he said, complete with offices, shops, restaurants and an outdoor plaza.
City commissioners had called Gampel`s $70 million proposed complex ``magnificent.``
To date, the 10-acre circle remains, although Gampel originally intended to start construction in the summer of 1984.
But Gampel has told city officials that his project is very much alive, even though his plans have been scaled down a bit.
Gampel`s revised plans, submitted to the city`s Growth Management Department last month, show the proposed complex has shrunk from 400,000 square feet to 300,000 square feet.
Bob Davis, the director of the Growth Management Department, said the plans are still preliminary but reflect a significant change from the original design. The new plans show less office and retail space than before and changes in the parking structure.
Gampel, whose business is based in Hallandale, could not be reached to discuss his new plans.
For more than 50 years, Military Circle, about one mile east of Interstate 95 on Hollywood Boulevard, had been the winter home for the Riverside Military Academy of Georgia. The academy`s buildings were torn down in 1984 after Gampel purchased the property for about $5 million.
The land had been designated for public and semi-public uses such as churches, schools, hospitals and public housing. But Gampel persuaded city commissioners to change the circle`s land-use designation so it could be developed as commercial property.
Chris Cutro, assistant director of Growth Management, said there are several other parcels near Military Circle on Hollywood Boulevard that can be developed for business or commercial use.
Already, two banks have decided to locate offices outside of the circle. The First National Bank of Hollywood has a four-story office building that is near completion on the southwest side of the circle, and Unifirst Federal Savings is planning a complex on the southeast side.


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Brian McArdle & Wry Toast: Music
Cowboy Cadillac
(Jimmy Walker's version of a Brian McArdle/Donna Moody song)
Jimmy Walker released this song on his `"All Time Low'" CD in 1997 on Trac Records.
God's Hands
(Ted Synder records a Brian McArdle/Luke Liddy song.)
Sun Goes Down Over Dixie
(Lynn Guyo records a Brian McArdle/Gary Georgett Song)
Lynn Guyo released this song as a single on Interstate Records in 1996.
Going Nowhere Fast
(Lynn Guyo records Brian McArdle song)
Lynn Guyo released this song on an Interstate Records CD in 1998. Going Nowhere Fast, the story of my life.
How Love Can Go
(Rich Green records a Brian McArdle/Luke Liddy song)
If It Ain't Love By Now
(McArdle Brothers and Tom Woodard record Brian McArdle/Kevin McArdle & Gary Georgett Song)


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Gypsum Association Commissions Extensive Life Cycle Assessment Study – Times Union
In support of the study, primary life cycle inventory (LCI) data were collected for three major gate-to-gate processes in the production of gypsum wallboard (natural or crude gypsum ore extraction, gypsum paper manufacture, and gypsum wallboard production) for the reference year 2010. The manufacturing plant study sample included all Gypsum Association member companies and represented about 30% of all gypsum wallboard produced in the USA. To ensure representativeness, the manufacturing plant study also considered the scale of operations including a mix of small, medium and large facilities, their geographical location in each US census region and their source of gypsum (adjacent quarry, mine, or imported gypsum ore) as well as their use of flue gas desulphurization (FGD) gypsum.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/business/press-releases/article/Gypsum-Association-Commissions-Athena-Institute-3335326.php#ixzz1maHsKygW


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A Corpus Christi body shop owner is picking up the pieces after his shop went up in flames in the early morning of May 9. See video.
"And for me, I say, 'why, does it happen?' This, because I'm a good guy, I do favor to anybody and why does this happen to me," says Luis Baiza, owner of Baiza Paint and Body.
Around 2:30 AM in the morning, the Corpus Christi Fire Department was dispatched out to Baiza's paint and body at 601 Brownlee.
Crews arrived to find heavy smoke and flames spewing from the business. The shop restores old cars and the owner, who doesn't have insurance, estimates the damage to be about $75,000.
Fire investigators believe the blaze was the work of an arsonist.
"A friend of mine says he saw someone running from the shop. Pero, we don't know who it is. I want to know who it was," says Baiza.
It took about an hour to get the blaze under control. No one was injured, and firefighters were able to save a dog that lives in the shop.
If you have any information on who may have started this fire, you're asked to call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477).


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A couple that came to the Sheffield, Mass., estate to work on their marriage needs him now, as does a family attending sessions with their special-needs child, prompting the interview to be moved from a Hartford restaurant to the telephone.
Barry Neil Kaufman is, of course, apologetic. He is not one to stand up the press, but on his way to becoming a New Age guru, ``Bears'' Kaufman has become accustomed to being buffeted by the powers that be.


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A car crashed halfway into a room at the Days Inn hotel on Route 132 on Friday, injuring a housekeeper working inside.
HYANNIS — A car crashed halfway into a room at the Days Inn hotel on Route 132 on Friday, injuring a housekeeper working inside.
After arriving at the hotel from New Jersey at around 9:40 a.m., the driver tried to put the car into park when she mistakenly hit the gas pedal rather than the brake, Barnstable police Sgt. Sean Sweeney said. The car jumped the curb and slammed through the sliding glass door, sending broken glass flying through the room.
Sweeney said the housekeeper, a 39-year-old Hyannis resident, suffered a minor cut to her lower right leg and was taken to Cape Cod Hospital, where she was treated and released.
The hotel's general manager, Chris Manning, identified the housekeeper as Neide Santana. Neither the 30-year-old driver nor the male passenger in her car was injured.
The red Toyota Camry severed a post supporting the balcony above the damaged room, and authorities waited for a temporary beam to arrive before removing the car.
"It's probably not even needed to remove the car, but better safe than sorry," said Barnstable Building Inspector Jeffrey Lauzon.
The initial property damage estimate was $12,000 to $18,000, Manning said.
Sweeney said such incidents are uncommon but not rare.
"She thought she was stepping on the brake and was obviously stepping on the gas," Sweeney said. "Usually it's an older person that does this."
In her room just a few doors away, Maryse Bellemont said she couldn't hear a thing as she showered in preparation for her last full day of vacation on Cape Cod. But when she opened her door and turned to the right, she couldn't believe her eyes.
"I don't understand," said Bellemont, of Belgium, who was vacationing with her 17-year-old son. "The car is so far in the room."
The damage to the first-floor room and the balcony above would not likely affect business, said Manning, who said the Days Inn was "booked solidly" ahead of Labor Day weekend.
But without any vacancies, the hotel was faced with the challenge of finding space for the visitors who had reserved the damaged rooms.
Manning speculated that last-minute cancellations might open rooms elsewhere at the hotel.
"We're going to try to figure that out," he said.


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Liam Boyce described the feeling of scoring his first international goal as "unreal" after netting the winner for Northern Ireland against New Zealand.
The Ross County striker transferred his prolific club form onto the international stage to beat the All Whites in the friendly in Belfast.
"My family were all in the stands so to score in front of all of the fans and hear the noise of a goal was unreal.
"I thought I took my goal well, it's a brilliant feeling," Boyce said.
Boyce was unlucky to be omitted from Michael O'Neill's squad for the Euro 2016 finals but finished this season as the Scottish Premier League's top-scorer with 23 goals, including 10 in his last 10 games.
With forwards Conor Washington and Jamie Ward out injured, Boyce seized his chance and said the early goal after just six minutes was exactly what he wanted.
"The form I've been in you want to get a goal as early as possible and try to add to that," said Boyce.
"I cut inside and hit it well between the defender's legs and once that happens, more than likely it's going to go in."
Boyce is determined to make an impact in Northern Ireland's World Cup qualifier away to Azerbaijan on 10 June by scoring his first competitive goal.
"It's not so long ago I was playing in the Irish League and I want to show I'm better than that and see how far I can go in football," added the ex-Cliftonville man.
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill described Boyce's display as evidence of "a player on top of his game".
He admitted he was "slightly disappointed" the team did not add further to their tally.
"It was a physical game, a demanding game, which was exactly what we wanted.
"It leaves us in a good place for next week."


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I finished another quilt, a king size one no less. It's the rag quilt I started making at the 2015 quilting retreat I went to last fall. I actually started cutting squares before I went to the retreat thinking I would be assembling the quilt there, but all I managed on this project during the retreat was sewing the first row and snipping the seams. Then I got smart and thought it might be best to check the size on my bed before I got the cart before the horse and ended up with a quilt that was to small a size for my California king size bed.
Here's a picture of the main workroom at the quilting retreat where most of the ladies were set up. I was camped out in the other room with a few other ladies. On occasion I would venture into the other room and take pictures or just be nosey to see what the others were working on.
Later on in November, when I was home and had a good idea what size I needed I started working on the squares again. I assembled the blocks with the two squares of flannels and the batting. The fabric is the same on both sides of the block. You can do this quilt with a reversible option if you choose. I cut the flannel squares 8″ each and the cotton batting was cut to 7.5″. This allowed for a half inch seam allowance instead of the standard 1/4″ seam used in most quilting. To get a good ragging effect and a strong seam 1/2″ is used.
Initially I used a regular stitch on the seams but later learned a better method for secure seams throughout the quilt. One of the ladies in my quilting group had demonstrated how to make a rag quilt. I must have missed this step the first time she demonstrated it because when she did a demo in my other quilting group she mentioned using a "triple lock stitch". The stitch sews forward, backward, and forward again so each stitch is tacked in place. I didn't want to be mending seams on a king sized flannel quilt anytime in the near future, so triple locked it was.
Another tip is buy a set of snippers made for snipping rag quilts. You'll be glad you did. It makes it much easier to snip only the amount you want without cutting into the seam. It also is easier on your hands. Your hands will get tired, very tired, so snip a little here and a little there to avoid blisters and cramped hands.
I started using leftover flannel fabric from pajama bottoms I was making for Christmas presents for everyone in the family. I didn't realize how small that quilt would have been if I limited myself to just the leftovers. I started collecting flannel fabrics in darker colors but with the same tone or intensity. I incorporated some lighter squares and threw in some darker red for a punch of color. My husband was excited and asked me how long it would take to finish it. I thought a moment and then replied, "it depends on how many fabric stores I visit." I was setting myself up for the best excuse to buy fabric I think I've uttered from these lips.
Before your rag quilt is truly finished, it must be washed. The washing makes the seams get raggedy and is an entirely different look than when the seams are merely snipped and not washed. Believe me your quilt looks a whole lot better once the ragging effect "blooms" the seams nicely. However, I advised using a commercial washer and dryer at a laundry mat for washing your quilt. These quilts are heavy and a king size was way to big for even my oversized washer load. And don't forget to clean the lint trap, especially if you are using your home machine. These flannels really make for a lot of lint and the lint trap will fill up four times as much as usual.
We love our new rag quilt, it's nice and cozy on our bed. I'll be making some new flannel pillowcases with some of the flannel I had left. I love how snuggly and warm I feel all toasty in my flannel quilt. Just in time for summer in Michigan. Today it only got 43 degrees and it even snowed…so this quilt is still a good thing.
I guess it's time to get something on for dinner. I'm not getting any younger. As a matter of fact tomorrow is my birthday for me and for my blog. My blog is now one year old. I'm not telling how old I am….I'll keep you guessing.


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By: Demiturk, Lale. Mississippi Quarterly, Spring97, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p267, 10p
RACIST IDEOLOGY CLAIMS THAT INDIVIDUAL "BEHAVIOR is determined by stable inherited characters deriving from separate racial stocks and usually considered to stand to one another in relations of superiority and inferiority."[1] It is based on the racial precept referring to "an irrational group prejudice that assumes racial others to be inferior purely in terms of their racial membership biologically conceived."[2] Race stands out as the basic element of the discourse of difference that pervades interracial relations. The "images of 'others' depend not upon ethnic differences but upon particular types of hierarchical relationships."" Image-formation of the Other is determined by the power of the labelling group in relation to the labelled group. The labelling mentality defines the Other as the enemy, who is thus dehumanized by stereotyping. White stereotyping of blacks demonstrates the power of preconception over perception, leaving the white oppressor with no ability to "see," and the oppressed black with no chance to be "seen." Having limited power to control his/her own image, the black is turned into a victim of white stereotyping unless s/he controls his/her own image and defines a meaningful relationship to the white definitional framework.
In this context, Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) addresses the dire consequences of the whites' image-formation of blacks, as Wright analyzes the role of perception in interracial relations determined by the blinding function of the prevalent image-domination. Stereotypical images of blacks as beast and savage, heathen, victim, devil, servant and entertainer, and the "merry nigger," which have all been part of colonialist discourse, also exist in the white stereotyping of Bigger Thomas. The opening scene, Bigger's violent act of killing the rat, juxtaposes Bigger's anger with the rat's fear. In the final scenes of the novel when he is trapped by the police--the legitimized release of white anger on him--Bigger will become the rat whose final cry of defiance is to no avail. But unlike the rat at the beginning, Bigger is able to attack both physically and mentally at the end.
Born in Mississippi, the twenty-year-old Bigger lives with his widowed mother, his sister Vera and his brother Buddy in one of the squalid apartments on Chicago's South Side. Bigger's violence directed to the rat is in fact the projection of his anger and hatred toward his own social role and family, for the rat, as Michel Fabre suggests, "symbolizes the family's poverty as well as Bigger's fierce hatred and the enormous forces that confront him. Eventually, too, Bigger himself will be caught like a rat."4 Bigger hates his own family, not because he is inhuman but because "he was powerless to help them"[5] in the face of suffering. He feels that his mother's forcing him into taking on the responsibility of the family "had tricked him into a cheap surrender" (p. 15).Just like the rat he is cornered in a position where he does not have any freedom to go beyond the limited scope of action. His frustration in his "cornered" orbit of life prevents him from moving beyond the color-line, and knowing that he has to take the job with the Daltons fills him with despair: "It maddened him to think that he did not have a wider choice of action" (p. 16). His sense of powerlessness takes on a different form when he hangs around the gang, for he has absolutely no sense of direction. When Gus and Bigger watch the planes, they know that white boys "get a chance to do everything" (p. 19). Realizing that white skin and money are the two prerequisites for fulfilling of their dreams, Bigger and Gus "play white," recreating the roles of the white power structure "typical of the American capitalist system: warfare, high finance, and political racism."[6] The recreation of the white power structure reinforces for Bigger, rather than releases, the gap between dream and reality: "We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail" (p. 23). Being pinned down to a role in life with no outlets, Bigger finds in the movies those moments when "he could dream without effort" (p. 17).
Bigger is made to be highly conscious of his marginal social status, as he is pushed into the sign system of his peripheral position. The Black Code, which has already defined his social status, has also controlled his sexuality. When Mary gets drunk and Bigger has to carry her to her bed, he has the freedom to touch the body of a white woman. But he quickly remembers the myth of the black rapist of white women when Mrs. Dalton walks into Mary's room. Her physical blindness does not reduce his hysterical fear: "A white blur was standing by the door, silent, ghostlike. It filled his eyes and gripped his body. It was Mrs. Dalton" (p. 84). He frantically presses the pillow to Mary's lips not to be caught, but after Mrs. Dalton walks out of the room, Bigger discovers that Mary is dead: "Her bosom, her bosom, her--her bosom was not moving!" (p. 86) Bigger becomes a murderer in order not to enact the white myth of the black rapist while he stands out as the very victim of the white myth itself, the myth that triumphs over black reality. He has been the victim of his own fear of the white world, as much as of his self-consciousness as a black which Mary and Jan have overly sensitized him to. The situation has worked against Bigger at the very moment when he tries to escape the stereotypical image of the black male as a sexual threat to white women.
Although it is an accident, Mary's murder has given Bigger a chance to reverse the power relationship between Mary and himself: for the first time he has been able to destroy the dominant image of the whites. No longer will Mary be able to manipulate his powerless image. By burning her corpse in the furnace to hide his crime, he can triumph over the white myth of black as totally powerless to act without white manipulation. Bigger finds power in white blindness to the individuality of a black person, in the whites' stereotypical images of blacks. That Bigger has done something that the whites do not know about provides him with a sense of superiority over them, regardless of the fact that the whites see him as inferior. He has now reversed the master-slave relationship between the Daltons and himself, for he has victimized the oppressor and has controlled the situation of which they are ignorant.
His counter-stereotyping of whites is his defiance of white power in image-formation. In his intentional counter-blindness to Mary through the process of stereotyping, he has made himself into an image-destroyer. He has long wanted to blot out all the images of whites as objects of fear in his life in order to erase fear from both his mind and life: "To Bigger and his kind white people were not really people; they were a sort of great natural force" (p. 109). He has found considerable freedom in attacking the very image that functions as the mere justification of his exclusion from the white definitional framework. He has turned the image of Mary into the image of a victim who has lost control of the situation and therefore he "felt that he had his destiny in his grasp" (p. 141). He has also killed the referential meanings of Mary, Jan, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton that create shame, fear and hate in him. His sense of powerlessness in the face of the taboos against his social conduct/status and sexuality that wipe the spirit of life out of his body is now replaced with the power he feels from violating those taboos, however covert the act of violation may be: "The knowledge that he had killed a white girl they loved and regarded as their symbol of beauty made him feel the equal of them, like a man who had been somehow cheated, but had now evened the score" (p. 155). He has been deprived of being any symbol of beauty, because his skin color has been the symbol of absence in the white society. He has now used his chance to kill the symbol that the white oppressor created in Mary: "Bigger Thomas," Houston A. Baker, Jr., points out, "struck America's most sensitive nerve; he attacked the white female, its 'symbol of beauty.'"[7] The white oppressor's image of beauty represents the very image of oppression for him. The whites' admiration for their object of purity and beauty has meant the rigid control of the black image of beauty and sexuality.
The private detective Britten's questions directed to Bigger about Mary and Jan reveal his stereotypical images of thee blacks. Britten's remark "To me, a nigger's a nigger" (p. 154) reinforces Bigger's stereotyping of whites: "Britten was familiar to him; he had met a thousand Brittens in his life" (p. 154). His slander points to Jan as the potential murderer because he is a communist, and it reveals Bigger's ability to manipulate the stereotypical images of the white man. His wish to project his own fear of the white world onto whites like Jan and Britten reveals his repressed desire to shake the whites' image of him as submissive. He functions according to the white definitional framework as he writes the kidnap note. It is not only the murder or the kidnap note that "evens his score" with the whites, but also the clever manipulation--a white weapon long used against the blacks--through which he can match his wits with those of the whites. When the success of his manipulation of the stereotypical images of blacks is threatened by Bessie's fear, he has to kill her. Unlike Mary's accidental murder, Bessie's murder is an intentional one to prevent her telling on him. Since Bessie is in the same boat sharing the same lot with Bigger, he identifies himself with her, as opposed to Mary. He kills Bessie, for she represents his own self-image--his own blackness--to him. As Darwin T. Turner contends: "Bigger himself has escaped from the insecurities, the fears, the feelings of inferiority etched into the Negro psyche by centuries of repression in a white-dominated society. In Bessie, he sees a continuation of those mental chains. She is still lazily amoral, timid, compliant--in short, the Sambo personality which threatens the existence of the new Bigger. In order to live, Bigger must destroy her, the last link which reminds him of and binds him to his Negroness."[8]
On the one hand he lets the whites--the Daltons, Peggy, Britten, the Press-feel that they control him because they control his image, but on the other he controls his own life by controlling his own image outside of their frame of reference. In either case the whites and Bigger are not equals, for while he can violate the imagery of domination, by not fitting into it, he cannot change the mental set of white labelling that determines the social space he is confined to. Bigger is surrounded by the people whose stereotypical images work against his manipulation of these images: Bigger is "just like all the other colored boys" (p. 180) to Peggy; "just another black ignorant Negro" (p. 199) to the reporters; the "Negro rapist and murderer" (p. 230) to the police; "black ape" (p. 253) to the white people who yell at him. The newspapers set the rhetoric of their image-domination: "Police . . . feel that the plan of the murder and kidnapping was too elaborate to be the work of a Negro mind" (p. 229). Against these various forms of stereotyping we have Bigger's pride in achieving freedom of action and opening up a personal space for himself: the murder of Mary produces "a possible order and meaning in his relations" (p. 255) with the whites, but the relationship creates meaning only for him, not for the whites, because they still refuse to see Bigger as an individual. Once his crime is clear and he is arrested by the police, Bigger's image is controlled by the Press. The Tribunals images of Bigger--"like an ape"/"a jungle beast" (p. 260)--remind us of the actual imagery of the Chicago Tribune clips of Robert Nixon from which Wright borrowed. The stereotypical images of blacks--such as "just like an ape," "giant ape," "animal," "jungle Negro," connoting the racist perception of the black as "beast/savage"; "rapist," as the sexual threat to white women; "criminal," as the primitive outlaw; and "moron"[9] with no intellectual capacity-- form a colonialist design for Bigger to fit into as the carbon-copy of all blacks.
The stereotypical image of Bigger as inhuman creature is shattered by Bigger's attitudes toward Jan and later toward Max. Bigger's stereotyping of Jan as a representative of all other whites disappears with Jan's understanding of his shame and guilt. His ability to go beyond his stereotypical image, when he is treated as being as human as any white, turns into a need for communicating to the white world that fails to see him as he is. He had "killed" any religious philosophy of life, for he knew he did not exist as part of the human universe in the eyes of the whites. He rejects whatever Reverend Hammond, the black preacher, tells him, not because he is incapable of faith in God but because he was pushed outside of the Christian scheme of the universe by the Christians themselves. He has always acted hard to his family, in order to protect himself from the sense of guilt they evoke in him by accepting the role of slaves of the Daltons. The sense of shame, hate and despair has been at the root of his anger that mounted to the violence toward Mary. And his despair now is the fact that "he could never make anybody know what had driven him to it" (p. 286). His violent attitude is his response to the white definitional framework that represses his individuality. The action is what the whites concentrate on and try to indict him for, but the narrator describes the thought-process behind his action that the white world motivated: "Bigger wanted to tell how he had felt when Jan had held his hand; how Mary had made him feel when she asked him about how Negroes lived; the tremendous excitement that had hold of him during the day and night he had been in the Dalton home--but there were no words for him" (p. 287).
Pride in committing an action that violates the white racist codes goes against the stereotypical image of the "merry nigger." Bigger has overturned the plantation myth that the blacks are happy with their lot because it is what they want. Mr. Dalton reenacts the plantation myth as he tries to keep the double-standard by hiring the Negro boys to make them the "merry niggers" in his house, a replica of the plantation mansion, while renting houses to the blacks only in the Black Belt, for he likes confining them to the "slave shacks" of his oppressive mind. It is a representative act of the whites who would like to keep the black plight out of sight and out of mind so that there will never be a reason for guilt and responsibility for their own crime. Dalton's evasion of any situation that would bring him into any confrontation of his own guilt is compensated for by Max who speaks in the name of all whites who have prescribed the conditions of black life in such a way that there is nothing else for the blacks to become other than criminals: "But to Mr. Dalton, who is a real estate operator, I say now: 'You rent houses to Negroes in the Black Belt and you refuse to rent to them elsewhere. You kept Bigger Thomas in that forest. You kept the man who murdered your daughter a stranger to her and you kept your daughter a stranger to him'" (p. 362). In this context, Max gets Mr. Dalton to verbalize the Daltons' blindness not only to the black plight but also to their own selves, in believing that they improve the blacks' living standards.
When Max says the whites hate the Reds as much as the blacks, he simply fails to see through Mary's condescending attitude to Bigger, and Bigger replies: "But they hate black folks more than they hate unions" (p. 322). Max is humane but is blind to the degree to which the white proscriptions of blacks' social conduct can push Bigger into such a frenzy. Max's interpretation of Mary's treatment of Bigger in the car as "being kind" is in full contrast to Bigger's reading that white sign system in Mary as condescension: "She acted and talked in a way that made me hate her. She made me feel like a dog" (p. 324). Max fails to read the unbearable pressure and the mental constructs of white myths, such as that of the black rapist, that can be imprinted on the black consciousness, and make the black unable to distinguish between what the white myth says about the black behavior and how the black "feels" about himself. Later, in the general explanation of the real motivation for his violent reaction to the white world, Bigger attempts to get Max to see the culturally prescribed role he has been put into by the whites: "Mr. Max, a guy gets fired of being told what he can do and can't do. You get a little job here and a little job there .... You don't know when you going to get fired, pretty soon you get so you can't hope for anything .... You ain't a man no more" (p. 326). Even if Max can't understand Bigger as an individual, he can at least explain to the white audience that white society's stereotyping of blacks is the real cause of the crime of such blacks as Bigger: "He was living; only as he knew how, and as we have forced him to live. The actions that resulted in the death of those two women were as instinctive and inevitable as breathing or blinking one's eyes. It was an act of creation!" (p. 366).
Max can give theoretical/impersonal explanations of Bigger's act of murder, but, much like Jan, he cannot move one step beyond seeing him as a type oppressed by the capitalistic system. Unlike Bigger, who searches for meaning, Max sees Bigger as "the Symbolic Oppressed Negro."[10] He sees the impact of the white power structure on the blacks' relationships with each other as the cause of Bigger's unhealthy relationship with the other blacks: "The attitude of America toward this boy regulated his most intimate dealings with his own kind" (p. 367). White supremacist ideology has been the main controlling force Bigger has known. He is unable to verbalize his gratitude to Max for at least having listened to and tried to defend his murder of Mary Dalton as a valid reaction to white supremacy, for Bigger "had lived outside of the lives of men. Their modes of communication, their symbols and images, had been denied him" (p. 386). But he is now able to articulate how he was made to feel by the whites who caused him to become a murderer: "But really I never wanted to hurt nobody .... They was crowding me too close; they wouldn't give me no room" (p. 388). The white American success myth, which necessitates a freedom of action and a sense of dignity in the white man is re-created by Bigger through a reversal process. Murder is the negative version of that success, but since it is an act of creation for him, it is the only success myth in the name of freedom that he can ever have: "But what I killed for, I am" (pp. 391-392).
Ironically enough Max fails to comprehend that white blindness to the black plight constitutes the problem of meaning in the sense that meaning refers "to the interpretation of messages."[11] Interpretation requires a mode of seeing, because it needs the definitional framework within which one looks at and understands the given situation in order to share the reality of experience. As Molefi Asante maintains: "Sharing of images is reasonable, valuable, and positive; image-domination, however, is the same as other colonial conquests, vile, repressive, and negative."[12] In this sense, Bigger's meaning is never shared by the whites to the extent needed to make any "communicative understanding" between them possible. Hence, stereotyping becomes for Bigger a way of"mastering the master's tongue [as] the sole path to civilization, intellectual freedom, and social equality."[13]
Bigger, who is forced to become the victim of stereotypical images at the beginning of the novel, now becomes a participant in the process of controlling images and meaning. He controls his own image and interprets the meaning of that image for his own self. He has succeeded in manipulating the whites' images of blacks and has turned to the stereotyping process as a weapon against the whites themselves. He has discovered that if he oppresses the oppressor with the same power of images, he will share the same power with the oppressor. Bigger, then, rebels against the blacks' lack of power to define themselves by operating within a white definitional framework. He exerts his power to destroy the whites by operating outside the white definitional framework. By acting out his role, defined by the white stereotypical image of a black man as a beast to be caged, yet by using his mind as untypical of the same image, he attacks the white definitional framework both physically and mentally, unlike the rat at the beginning of the novel. However, he ends up being trapped by the police for not operating within a white definitional framework. Since the white labelling .group has already formed the image of the Other in him, as the member of the labelled group, he is punished according to the rules of the image-domination of the whites, because only the white oppressor has the right to act as the oppressor, as the master of the oppressive definitional framework, and not Bigger. He is punished with the death penalty, regardless of the fact that white stereotyping made him what he is--monster to the Press; victim to Jan and Max; heathen to the mother/minister; black worker to Mary, Peggy and the Daltons; "unhappy nigger," as opposed to the "merry nigger," to the white society, including the police and the press.
The image-domination pins him down to his prescribed role within the framework of these images. However, 'in the eyes of the reader, Bigger's acceptance of the individual responsibility for his own act of murder erases the image of Bigger as a type, as the novel itself shatters the white illusion that racist oppression produced minimal effects on the black mind. As James Baldwin remarks, if the black "breaks our sociological and sentimental image of him we are panic-stricken and we feel ourselves betrayed."[14] The sense of betrayal aroused in the white readers is carried further, for in the final scene Bigger is in full control of his image as an individual, and of the meaning that self-image holds for him. He has made a shift in his basic power relationship to the whites in murdering Mary and seeing her as a type. Unlike the stereotypical definition of the image, he has become a "merry nigger," not because he has enjoyed oppression but because he has managed to act as a "bad-nigger." Having victimized a white out of his free will, he has felt proud of it, for whites have been forced "to see the world through the eyes of a black man" who "reduce [s] the Whites to stereotypes, since Bigger always remains an outsider to their world" (Fabre, p. 185). Hence, he has challenged and threatened the whites' control of the black image in proving his intellectual capability by planning out and rationalizing the murder. He has taken on the role of the oppressor in determining and destroying the image-formation of the whites by the dynamics of his own blackness. He has treated the white image as the Other and in doing so he has redefined the logic of center and periphery in personal terms in an attempt to alleviate his marginal role in the oppressive definitional framework.
[1] George M. Frederickson, "Toward a Social Interpretation of the Development of American Racism," in Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience, ed. Nathan L. Huggins, Martin Kilson, and Daniel M. Fox (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971), p. 240.
[2] David Theo Goldberg, "The Semantics of Race," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 15 (October 1992), 544.
[3] Jan Nederveen Pieterse White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture, trans. Jan N. Pieterse (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 104.
[4] Michel Fabre, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright, trans. Isabel Barzun, (1973; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 182-183.
[5] Richard Wright, Native Son (1940; New York: Harper and Row, 1966), p. 13.
[6] Keneth Kinnamon, ""Native Son: The Personal, Social, and Political Background," in
Yoshinobu Hakutani, ed. Critical Essays on Richard Wright (Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall and Co., 1982), p. 125.
[7] Houston A. Baker, Jr., "Racial Wisdom and Richard Wright's Native Son," in Hakutani, p. 73.
[8] Darwin T. Turner, "The Outside. Revision of an Idea," CLA Journal 12 (June 1969), 313.
[9] Charles Leavelle, "Brick Slayer is Likened to Jungle Beast: Ferocity is Reflected in Nixon's Features," Chicago Sunday Tribune, June 5, 1938, Sec. 1, p. 6.
[10] Charles De Arman, "Bigger Thomas: The Symbolic Negro and the Discrete Human Entity," in Bigger Thomas, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House), p. 87.
[11] Michael L. Hecht, Peter A. Anderson, and Sidney A. Ribeau, "The Cultural Dimensions of Nonverbal Communication," in Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, ed. Molefi Kete Asante and William B. Gudykunst (with the assistance of Eileen Newmark), (1989; Newbury Park, California: Sage, 1990), p. 165.
[12] Molefi Kete Asante, "The Ideological Significance of Afrocentricity in Intercultural Communication," in Handbook, pp. 5-6.
[13] Henry Louis Gates, Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 73.
[14] James Baldwin, '"Many Thousands Gone," Notes of a Native Son (1955; New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1979), p. 19.
By LALE DEMITURK[*], Bilkent University
[*] Dr. Lale Demiturk is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University, Turkey. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Iowa was The Female Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Immigrant Women's Autobiographies.
A specialist in American literature, women in American culture, and the short story, she has published in numerous Turkish- and English-language journals, including Journal of Human Sciences, American Studies International, and Adam Sanat Dergisi. Her book Modern Afro-American Novel (Ankara: Gundogon) was published in 1996.


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David Fincher is set to direct a 2012 production starrring Daniel Craig and Carey Mulligan.[20]
ITA she would be PERFECT for the role. I meant to get the movie this weekend but never got around to it. Hopefully I'll see it soon. ;)tgir wrote:My (unlikely to be fulfilled) ideal candidate for a US version (and I know there will have to be one) would be Summer Glau from Firefly. She's the only person I can think of who would suit.


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Source: CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge - July 1, 2010
CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge is a project funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to develop online modules on effective practices for early childhood professional development providers. These modules use an evidence-based approach to professional development and include video clips, activities, and handouts for instructors and learners. They are focused on young children with disabilities in inclusive environments and are designed to be used with existing curricula, coursework and other professional development opportunities. CONNECT's first Module addresses embedded interventions and is now available at http://community.fpg.unc.edu/connect-modules/learners
Source: Child Trends - July 1, 2010
Child Trends has published a new guide to help states apply for federal home visiting grants. Home Visiting Application Process: A Guide for Planning State Needs Assessments outlines what needs to be done to complete the grant application process and provides data useful to applicants conducting needs assessments, identifying high-risk populations, and selecting and measuring benchmarks. It also offers strategies for planning a new program. To learn more, go to http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2010_06_30_Home_Visiting_Guide.pdf
Source: FPG Child Development Institute - June 29, 2010
Investigators at the FPG Child Development Institute recently published a new Snapshot summarizing the findings of a literature review on factors that may influence language development of individuals with Down syndrome. Based on this review, recommendations are provided that emphasize the importance of early and continued language and literacy interventions. To learn more, see Promoting Language and Literacy Skills in Children with Down Syndrome, FPG Snapshot no. 60 (June 2010) at http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~snapshots/Snap60_Final.pdf
Source: Society for Human Resource Management and the Partnership for America's Economic Success - June 16, 2010
The Society for Human Resource Management and the Partnership for America's Economic Success have published a new brochure, Meeting the Workforce Needs of the Future Means Meeting the Developmental Needs of Young Children Today. This brochure includes data showing that investment in early childhood education is the best way to improve our nation's workforce and economy. It is available at http://www.partnershipforsuccess.org/uploads/20100616_PAESSHRM.web.pdf
Source: Urban Institute - June 30, 2010
The Urban Institute recently published the results of a study examining the link between childhood poverty and adult outcomes. The report, Childhood Poverty Persistence: Facts and Consequences (June 2010), finds that 49 percent of children who are poor at birth will spend at least half their childhoods living in poverty. Children who are poor at birth are also more likely than their counterparts in higher-income families to be poor between ages 25 and 30, drop out of high school, have a teen nonmarital birth, and have patchy employment records . The report is available online at http://www.urban.org/publications/412126.html
Source: U.S. Department of Education - June 25, 2010
As part of the Obama Administration's Open Government Initiative, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently launched a new Web site to share data about its grant programs. Data.ed.gov is a pilot program and presently hosts information on the Investing in Innovation and Promise Neighborhood grant programs. Additional data and grant programs will be published on an ongoing basis. To learn more, go to http://www.data.ed.gov/
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - June 30, 2010
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently announced the availability of FY 2010 funds to award a cooperative agreement to plan and implement one National Autism Resource and Information Center. The closing date for applications is August 16, 2010. To learn more, go to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ADD-DN-0135


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EBI Named Among Best Background Screening Companies for 10th Time
For the 10th time EBI has been named one of the thirteen best background screening companies in the country, as ranked by HRO Today Magazine's Pre-Employment Screening Baker's Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings. EBI has been ranked on this prestigious list more times than any other screening firm. This honor caps off a tremendous year for EBI, which also included a move to a new office and several other national and local awards.
The Baker's Dozen List
The Baker's Dozen is the largest and most respected survey of its kind. For the 2017 list, more than 600 customers of screening firms were asked to answer dozens of questions based on the breadth of service, size of deal and overall quality of service. The final list represents the top 13 screening providers in the US.
"With hundreds of screening firms out there, the Baker's Dozen list can look very different from year to year," said Larry White, President and COO of EBI. "The ability to consistently be at the top of the industry shows the true dedication of our team to customer care, quality, compliance and reliability. Many companies have a great year or two, and are appropriately recognized by making this list. But year-in and year-out, EBI is identified as one of the top screening firms. In fact, we're the only screening firm to be on the list 10 times. We are thrilled to see our efforts recognized, and grateful to our wonderful customers who gave their feedback to get us there."
Our New, State-of-the-Art Office
EBI made some transformative changes to their business in 2017, including moving to a new 30,000 sq. ft. facility. The state-of-the-art EBI headquarters is a physical incarnation of our mission statement: "To be the happiest company… period. Only happy people can deliver happy."
The visually stunning space features several gourmet coffee breakrooms, a micro food market, and a learning center for new hire training and continual education for current employees. The numerous glass conference rooms and meeting spaces are designed to encourage collaboration and interaction between departments.
See photos of the new office on our Careers Page.
Particularly unique is an in-house video recording studio where we produce industry news segments for our Screening News Network™. As the only news network for the screening industry, the Screening News Network helps to educate not just our customers, but the entire HR community.
A Year of Accolades
Making the 2017 Bakers' Dozen Best Background Screening Firms List for the 10th year caps a tremendously successful year of accolades and national recognition for EBI:
- Named to the Inc. Magazine list of 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the United States
- Named for the 11th consecutive year to Workforce Magazine's "Hot List" of screening firms
- Named one of Baltimore's Top Workplaces in a ranking by the Baltimore Sun
- EBI's new Corporate Headquaters recognized by the Baltimore Business Journal as one of the "Coolest Digs" to work
"We are very proud and humbled at the awards and accolades we have received this year," said EBI CEO Rick Kurland. "I think these accolades are a direct reflection of the culture we've created at EBI. Over 25% of our employees have been with EBI for more than 10 years. It's a model workforce of consistency and dedication. We've worked tirelessly to create an environment where our employees are happy. And when you do that it shines through in everything they do: from their quality of work, to their dedication to 'delivering happy' to all our customers."


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Marrying up the modern ventilation requirements within old listed buildings can be an incredibly difficult operation. Keeping the aesthetic integrity whilst allowing the building to meet its purpose in the 21st Century can be achieved using clever ventilation technology. Discrete chain motors engineered within window frames is just one of example where modern requirements/regulations do not ruin the appearance of old buildings.
This Grade II listed glamorous art-deco hotel recently had a highly impressive refurbishment, allowing Dyer to provide unobtrusive fire-rated chain actuators coupled with flush mounted smoke ventilation control panels and break glass switches. The simple, flexible system design was also available to lend itself to provide natural ventilation using simple switches linked directly into the smoke vent control panels.
With the help of English Heritage, this fascinating set of Victorian buildings was recently refurbished as part of Derby College. The showpiece Grade II listed Roundhouse, as well as the adjacent "Engine Shed" buildings, all required a completely new ventilation system and Dyer provided 230volt natural ventilation systems in keeping with the old railway buildings. The rack & pinion actuators were used to incrementally open the bespoke cast rooflights and were all controlled via space temperature sensors linked to remote control panels. These also linked to the heating and mechanical ventilation systems as well as to our own weather station.
This complex restoration required low level automated windows to assist in the ventilation control of this impressive glass house. Dyer was able to provide incrementally opening RAL coloured chain actuators with bespoke brackets to fit unobtrusively within the surroundings. Due to the easy access to these automated windows, the actuators incorporated an in-built, electronically controlled anti-trap facility to ensure safety for the visiting public. Our own natural ventilation control system interfaced seamlessly with the BMS to complete an impressive installation.