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Mississippi nurses roll call!!! (be known) - page 4
Hello all its been a minute for me d/t hectic scheduling but I love Allnurses.com its a wealth of knowledge to be learned here...however our MS threads are slightly outdated....lets keep the fire... Read More
Sep 19, '09Quote from Kaines NanaHi Jg24,
I don't mind telling you at all. I had a 24 on my act's and a 4.0, and I also had all prereq's including all academics out of the way. Good luck on getting in the program.
That's wonderful!! So you don't mind me asking for help when I start Mississippi Delta Community College's program next year?? LOL.
Oct 5, '09Hey all, I'm 28 LPN for 8-9 years in north MS. I am in my last semester of nursing school at NWCC- RN. I am hoping to get into a L&D unit somewhere. My ultimate goal is to be a nurse anesthetist or get a doctorate in it. It's a long road ahead but my heart is it even though my brain my not be. I work through a few agencies while I go to school. I have 2 small children and a practically common law husband of 13 years. Love being a MIssissippi girl.... all my life.
Oct 12, '09I am a transplant from Texas, but working in Jackson as a program manager, looking for a part time though..
Oct 20, '09Hi All!
Graduated Meridian Community College's ADN program May 2008. I've been working adolescent mental health ever since (private facility then changed to state facility).
Oct 20, '09Hello everyone.. I will be an LPN student come Jan 2010. I'm 29 and live in Brandon, MS... Looking forward to a new career as an LPN and hopefully move on to an RN.
Dec 17, '09Hello, everyone. Live in Pearl, worked at umc 2 years as cardiac nurse, but now in home health. So far so good. Lot of getting use to, but I don't think I'll go back to floor nursing for awhile.
Jan 3, '10Quote from 1BlessedRNCONGRATS to you I reside in Meridian...
I also reside in Meridian. I'm starting my first semester at MCC Jan. 12! Any advice?
Apr 21, '10Hi,
My name is Liz and im a transplant from San Diego, CA. I've been in the south (Lowndes County) since 1996. I worked as a CNA, scrub tech, and LVN in L/D through nursing school, graduated in 1994. Stayed in L/D until 06, and the only reason I left it was d/t my children needing mommy home in the daytime. L/D was always my passion and I still miss it, yet when I had my babies they took priority over my job. I've dabbed in nursing homes throughout the years PRN mainly for xtra money for vacations back home and such. Since 06 I have been an Industrial Nurse in Clay County. I am looking to study and take the COHN-S this year. Nice to meet you guys through these posts!
Jul 21, '10Toomsuba, MS but lived in Meridian most of my life
20 years as a nurse in a variety of areas
major areas: med/surg and hospice
Currently looking for full-time position in long-term care
University of Phoenix student in masters program
I love nursing!
Aug 5, '10Well hello there. I just realized that I haven't looked for Mississippi nurses since I moved down here - shame on me. I am a fairly new nurse - having graduated in May of 2009. I actually work in Arkansas, but I reside in Robinsonville Mississippi - home of the casinos. I moved to the area back in January to take my job in L & D in Arkansas. I love L & D and yes I work full time but I am also looking for some PRN work in Mississippi or Memphis area. I hope to meet other RN's here in the Mississippi area. Talk to you later.
Aug 6, '10Hi everyone.. I graduated the ADN program at Colin in 2009. I currently work in the ER and I am also starting my RN-MSN at USM.
Sep 1, '10hey everyone! rn from booneville, ms, but i work in corinth, ms.
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This program is designed to prepare students for entry into a mechanical environment. Further training in the mechanical field would qualify the student as a mechanical technician in Qatar's oil and gas industry.
A mechanical technician installs, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs stationary industrial machinery, mechanical equipment, and automated and robotic systems. Mechanical technicians are most often involved with installing, maintaining, repairing, and removing machinery and equipment in industrial plants and factories. This program is designed to cover theory and practical components necessary for a student preparing to become a mechanical technician. Emphasis will be on developing the relevant hands-on skills necessary to perform the duties associated with this occupation. The training consists of alternating semesters of inclass and shop training at the College and workplace learning assignments.
The competencies acquired in this program will prepare the graduate for careers in a wide variety of occupational settings such as oil refineries, petrochemical and chemical companies, electrical power companies, oil and natural gas companies, industrial processing plants, primary steel producers, and machinery and equipment manufacturers.
The curriculum is being designed to reflect competencies throughout the program.
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Workplace learning semesters alternate with College shop and classroom semesters as part of the training program. These semesters provide students the opportunity to gain valuable related work experience.
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The educational goal of the doctoral program in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is to prepare students for a successful career as a scholar in an academic or other professional setting. Although all students are expected to master at least a portion of the core areas in their respective concentrations, and meet the Masters Core requirements of the Department of Psychology, students are encouraged to devise, with the advice and consent of their Advisory Committee, a program of studies best suited to their particular needs and aspirations. In addition to general knowledge and skills that are expected for all graduate students in Psychology, specific programs of study are expected to foster advanced expertise in a specialty area.
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Well, I'm sobbing.
Watch twenty people living with cancer forget all their troubles when seeing their hilariously goofy makeovers. French non-profit the Mimi Foundation says they were inspired by a patient's statement that before cancer, she used to be much more carefree.
The makeovers took place in Brussels in June, and then last month, all of the participants reunited at the launch party of a book collecting the images of their surprise, delight, and pure joy at seeing their silly — and often, stunning — images."Within a second, smiling faces were seen all over the room. At that very moment, cancer did not exist for the family members either."
Not much to say about this except that it's wonderful and I love it. Most of us know someone fighting cancer — seriously, fuck cancer — I hope this brings a smile to their faces, too.
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A new life
The primary duty of a cinematheque is to preserve and screen films, however, only through film restoration can this duty be carried out. Showing the films of the past to the public of today, highlighting their strength, importance and modernity is one of our main aims. In order to best accomplish this difficult task it is necessary to be able to rely on the quality of the material. The preservation of original material remains a key point in the mission of any archive and, without doubt, one which a serious discussion on restoration must be developed around. By itself, restoration is not enough to guarantee eternal life to film, but it is a fundamental tool in the preservation process.
Every restoration is a child of its time. It is subject to the limitations and possibilities of the technologies employed, but also to the interpretation of the work by those individuals carrying out the restoration. Here, the importance of a high level of culture and training becomes clear: those who approach a restoration must be aware of the responsibility it involves, one which does not just require the highest technical standards, but above all a study of the work itself, the author's intentions, the colours, the light, the sound… A well-informed insight into each work of art.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the Cineteca di Bologna felt the urgent need to put into practise the knowledge it had acquired and set up a laboratory specialising in film restoration. L'Immagine Ritrovata was founded in 1992 thanks to the far-sightedness of the Comune di Bologna, the Region of Emilia-Romagna and the Ministry of Culture. Today, it is one of most advanced specialised laboratories working in the restoration sector.
In that complex moment of passage many FIAF archives supported us by sending their most illustrious experts, technicians and restorers to Bologna – Enno Patalas and Kevin Brownlow (the two founders of modern restoration), and many others such as Eric de Kuyper and Harold Brown (then President of the FIAF Technical Commission). The history of restoration is a story of passions and of people. Through the immeasurable advice and experience of these extraordinary people, we became fully aware of the central role that film restoration plays in our activity.
A continuous exchange with colleagues from other organisations is obligatory: confronting experiences and approaches is an essential part in developing a shared and reasoned discourse on film restoration. Therefore, since 2007, we have hosted the FIAF Film Restoration School which takes place every two years in conjunction with Il Cinema Ritrovato.
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AppNexus CEO Brian O'Kelley told Ad Age this summer that his company had about $30 million in the bank, and so it would only take on more investment if it came across the perfect opportunity. Apparently, AppNexus found it.
The company announced today that it raised a $75 million Series D funding round led by Technology Crossover Ventures. The size of the round suggested that some of it might go to the management team, employees or previous investors. In a blog post, Mr. O'Kelley said "we decided not to take any money for management or employee liquidity, as we see huge upside opportunity over the next few years." But in an interview today, he conceded after some prodding that some early investors may sell parts of their stake. "We may allow that," he said, "but it's extremely nominal if it happens."
Mr. O'Kelley told Ad Age today that the new money will allow the company to add 400 employees this year to its current staff of 410. The funds will also be used to aggressively develop technologies that AppNexus hopes will bring some of the automation from the real-time bidding world to reserved ad inventory most often sold by salespeople.
AppNexus also has the money to become a bigger player in acquisitions, with Mr. O'Kelley saying that it would look for opportunities for acquiring the staff from other companies, rather than the actual businesses. Mr. O'Kelley said his company was previously "interested" in a deal for Microsoft's Atlas ad server, but "didn't get a deal done." "I expected an announcement by now of something," he said.
TCV's David Yuan will join the company's board, and will be expected to open doors in Silicon Valley previously closed to the New York City-based startup. "While we have access to a lot of companies there, we don't have the high-level relationships," he said. "We can't project our force on the west coast the same way we can here."
AppNexus has now raised $140.5 million, which could make it difficult for the company to find an acquirer who could afford it. It's looking more and more like IPO or bust.


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Windows 7 Bluetooth Configuration
Bluetooth headsets are a popular accessory for cell phones because they enable us to keep our hands free to perform other tasks while talking. Apart from cell phones, Bluetooth headsets can also be connected to Windows so that you can do a variety of things such as make calls on Skype with Windows, VoIP calls, listen to the radio, your audio files, etc.
Windows 7 Bluetooth configuration to connect a Bluetooth headset to your Windows 7 is very easy and can be done in a few simple steps. The basic requirements are that your PC must have the Bluetooth capability or alternatively you must have a Bluetooth dongle plugged into the computer and your Bluetooth headset is charged and turned on.
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Connect Your Bluetooth Headset To Windows 7
First off, turn on Bluetooth in your Windows 7. The way to do so is to go to "Device and Printers" from the Windows Start menu (or by using the "control" shortcut in the RUN window), select the Bluetooth built in module, right click on it and select "Bluetooth settings". When the Bluetooth options settings window opens, select the option that says "Allow Bluetooth Devices to Find This Computer" and finally click the "OK" button to save the setting and close the window.
If you have a USB Bluetooth dongle that you want to use, connect it to one of your computer's USB ports and install the drivers that came with it. It is possible that you will not need to manually install the drivers as Windows automatically does it for you for most of the devices.
The next thing to do is to get your Windows 7 to search for your Bluetooth headset, but before e Windows can do it, you need to go to the Control Panel and click on the "Add a device" under "Hardware and Sound". Once you are there and clicked on it, your Windows will begin to look for Bluetooth devices and display them in the window, once found.
Now turn on your Bluetooth headset. Look at the top of your headset for the main function button. Press it and hold for a few seconds. The majority of the Bluetooth headsets begin to blink once turned on. Once you see it blinking, your Bluetooth headset will become discoverable by your Windows 7.
Shortly after turning on your Bluetooth headset, Windows 7 will detect and pair the Bluetooth headset with Windows and show it in the list of available Bluetooth devices. Once you see the name of your Bluetooth headset on the screen, select it with your mouse and then click the "Next" button. Windows 7 will now ask you for a passkey. Enter the passkey, which is almost always "0000" In case it is not accepted, you might find the right passkey in your headset manual that came with it.
Once you have successfully completed the above Windows 7 Bluetooth configuration process, your Bluetooth headset will connect to your Windows and you will be able to use it to make VoIP calls, listen to the music or FM radio through your Windows 7.
Note that after connecting your Bluetooth headset with your Windows 7, you should not need to follow the above steps again unless you deliberately unpair your headset, uninstall the Bluetooth adapter or reformat your drive.
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Colo by the 'U' Customers Realize Substantial Cost Savings and Increased Flexibility
Colo by the 'U' Customers Realize Substantial Cost Savings and Increased Flexibility
DENVER, CO--(Marketwired - Apr 9, 2014) - Mod Mission Critical ('MOD'), a network service provider that combines facilities and non-facilities-based assets to deliver comprehensive, mission-critical network solutions, today announces the availability of its Colocation by the 'U' solution in data centers across Ashburn, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Phoenix, San Jose, Toronto and Sydney, with future deployments scheduled in Amsterdam, Chicago, Denver, London, Miami, São Paulo and Seattle.
MOD's Colo by the 'U' provides customers with flexible, scalable and cost-effective Colocation options available by the single rack unit -- approximately 1.75 inches of vertical cabinet space -- in secure, controlled data center facilities across most major and emerging markets. Unlike half-cabinet minimum commitments required by traditional data center and colocation providers, MOD's Colo by the 'U' allows customers to customize their space requirements based on specific business needs.
"We are excited to deploy our Colo by the 'U' solution, soon to be available globally across 18 major markets," says Michael Hollander, Managing Partner for MOD. "MOD's Colo by the 'U' fills a growing gap in today's marketplace, enabling customers to pay only for the cabinet space they require while also allowing them to scale readily and cost-effectively should their colocation requirements change."
MOD is a single-source provider of custom, flexible and comprehensive Data Center Colocation solutions, providing expert support from initial equipment racking, through installation, testing, turn-up and ongoing management. MOD's data center presence spans over 100 facilities around the globe. Each data center is carefully evaluated for the highest standards of quality, security, redundancy, space, power density, capacity and availability for customer online applications. MOD's Colocation customers also benefit from access to diverse network connectivity, fast service turn-up and maximum uptime and redundancy through one central, highly efficient Network Operations Center (NOC).
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A jury found a McLouth, Kan., man guilty of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer for trying to run down a Kansas state trooper.
Kevin Reed, 33, led officers on a manhunt during the May 22 incident in Leavenworth County.
According to the Leavenworth County prosecutor, the trooper attempted to make a traffic stop when the female driver of the vehicle drove away. The trooper located the vehicle behind a barn with Reed at the wheel. When the trooper ordered him at gunpoint to get out of the car, Reed drove straight toward him. The trooper fired four shots, deflating one tire.
Reed drove off with other troopers in pursuit. Upon reaching a dead end, Reed fled on foot and was later found hiding in the loft of the barn.
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To manage the addition or removal of security keys, SecureDoc executes key distribution and revocation silently. Key management can be completely automated based on administrator actions or policy triggers. This minimizes the need for manual updates and reduces errors that can cause security breaches in your system. More importantly, this gives you the power to seamlessly control your network as it grows.
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Heart Card
Our heart card is a little piece of modern art that makes a great Valentine's Day gift for a creative friend. This Valentine's Day, forget the store-bought cards and create your own: here's an activity that helps you make a sweet heart card for your sweetheart! Get your preschooler painting her own homemade heart card to give to a friend or to decorate your home. All you need is some paint, marbles, and paper! The result? A beautiful heart card with an intricate,marbled design.
What You Need:
- 2 colors of paint (red and purple work well)
- 1 shallow box large enough for the paper heart to lay flat
- 2 pieces of construction paper such as pink and white
- Tape
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Marble
- Plastic spoon
- 2 paper cups
- White sheet of paper
- Marker
- Glue stick
What You Do:
- Lay the two sheets of construction paper on top of each other. With your pencil, draw half a heart along the edge of the paper. Cut out the shape with the two pieces together. You'll get two halves when done.
- Lay the two halves side-by-side, forming a heart. Tape them together. Lay your heart inside the box.
- Squirt just a little bit of paint inside the cup. Drop the marble in. Stir it around with the spoon.
- Using the spoon, drop the marble inside the box onto your heart. Start rolling the marble around by gently shaking the box. You'll see a neat design made by the marble. You might have to drop the marble into the paint several times in order to fill up the heart.
Make enough for all your relatives and friends. If you like, personalize each heart by having your child write an expression of love to glue in the center.


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KHS America of Mt. Juliet, Tenn., has recalled about 150 Monkey Glockenspiels. The pink metal note bar on the glockenspiel may contain excessive levels of lead in the paint, violating the federal lead paint standard. If the paint is scraped off and ingested lead can cause adverse health effects. The Green Tones 8-note Monkey Glockenspiel is a children's musical instrument with eight metal bars in multiple colors mounted on a wooden base shaped like a monkey. The bars are individually attached to the base with one screw at each end. The second bar from the top is pink, 3.5 inches long and has a "B" stamped on it. This is the bar that needs to be replaced. The Green Tones logo is stamped on the back of the glockenspiel and the tracking number HS0178410914 is printed in black at the bottom.
The instruments were sold at Independent toy and music retailers and online at amazon.com and gogreentones.com from January 2015 through September 2015 for about $40. Consumers should immediately remove the pink bar from the glockenspiel and contact KHS America for information on getting a free replacement pink bar. Contact KHS America Green Tones at 800-283-4676 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or online at www.gogreentones.com and click on "Contact Us" for more information.
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USDA is again funding projects to track the spread of soybean rust and create the Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education to provide producers with information about additional legume pests and diseases in 2006, officials have announced.
The nationally coordinated network will help producers in making crop management decisions that reduce pesticide input costs, reduce environmental exposure to pesticides and increase the efficiency and efficacy of pesticide applications.
"The soybean rust sentinel plots, mobile team monitoring program and online reporting system are important tools for our producers," said Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. "Timely information is essential to help farmers combat plant diseases and we are committed to providing it."
The risk management tool component of the network is an online, real-time data system that allows growers and their advisors to access the latest information, to the county level, of where there are confirmed disease and/or pest outbreaks. The mapping tool will include frequently updated commentaries from state Extension specialists and national specialists discussing immediate and projected risks and control options. USDA's Risk Management Agency funded this $2.4 million component.
To complement the network, USDA will continue to conduct teleconferences, workshops and organize Extension field visits to prepare first detectors to scout for pest and disease problems, to obtain diagnostic confirmation when a suspected problem is found and to manage the information for timely incorporation into the risk management map.
Training modules will also be produced for crop advisors and producers about how to use the map system and what the risk management alternatives are, based on a three-tiered (low, medium, high) risk advisory.
The risk management mapping tool will continue to help improve crop protection by educating farmers about risk-management strategies and providing timely information about good farming practices specific to current crop pest and disease risk status.
With foliage dropping, soybean rust is getting easier to find. Any remaining green leaves get attention.
"Sometimes there are still some beans at the field edges that have green foliage," said Sikora. "The three fields I found rust in Saturday were all that way — rust on a few green leaves."
In Georgia, soybean harvest is nearing full swing.
"There are some good beans and some sorry ones," said Phil Jost, Georgia Extension soybean specialist. "The August/September drought we experienced really hurt. The good beans are cutting 40 to 45 bushels. The bad beans won't do much better than 20 bushels."
USDA has the state average pegged at 30 bushels, down from earlier this summer.
Towards the end of the season, soybean rust has become widespread in Georgia. It's yet to be determined if the disease has had any yield consequences.
"Our gut feeling is there are very few, if any, fields with enough rust infestation to hurt yields," said Jost. "Some of our untreated trials, especially in the southwest corner of the state, will probably see yield drop. But as far as commercial fields, we don't think there's much damage. It's safe to say it's more widespread now than it was a year ago when the hurricane brought the rust in. But it hasn't hurt much."
Jost suspects a "large majority" of farmers likely sprayed a fungicide at least once. "No doubt that has something to do with low infection rates."
Georgia Extension agents have aided in finding the new cases of rust.
"Right now, the disease is easy to find. So agents are out pulling a couple of leaves and sending them in. We want to know how far north the rust has traveled. It's almost to the Georgia/Tennessee line. Most of the new finds are a pustule here and there, nothing major."
Still, the new finds are interesting and disturbing due to the dry conditions Georgia has experienced since mid-August.
"It's been extremely dry," said Jost. "Yet, the rust has moved and progressed. That worries me."
Both Jost and Sikora are concerned about what an increased rust spore load will mean for crops next year. Soybean producers have yet to see what the disease is truly capable of.
"The fact it has grown to the level it has this year is, in my opinion, just an indication we've increased the innoculum source," said Jost. "That means there will be a greater potential for trouble with soybean rust next year. If we have early-season wet conditions, this disease could be much, much worse than we've seen.
"Of course, it's all weather dependent. If 2006 is dry, rust may not be an issue. But if we find rust early in the season, knowing what it can do to our crop, we'll recommend fungicides again."
Does Sikora see any reason to tweak fungicide recommendations?
"At this point, they're solid. And they'd better be. I believe innoculum will continue to build in south Florida. I'm not trying to alarm anyone but that's my fear.
"What I don't want to have happen is producers look only at this year and not take soybean rust seriously. This isn't just a one-year problem. We must remain vigilant."
Due to high input costs, expectations in many states are for a larger soybean crop next year. While harvest may be keeping such talk to a minimum, Jost hasn't heard much along those lines.
"With input costs being so expensive, we'll probably see some increase. But I'm not hearing a huge shift. If a shift occurs, though, there's no doubt the extra acres will play a part in how this disease moves across the state."
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At the start of this year, 36% of Greece's debt was held by taxpayer-backed institutions (ECB, IMF, EFSF). By 2015, following the voluntary restructuring and the second bailout, the share could increase to as much as 85%, meaning that Greece's debt will be overwhelmingly owned by eurozone taxpayers.
Originally posted by pheonix358
Katter is a bloody idiot. He has such a narrow focus that he is incapable of seeing the realistic grey area. To him it's all black or it's all white. We can do better, a lot better.
Originally posted by Qumulys
reply to post by Germanicus
Very interesting OP. Well done there, S&F. But... Katter???? Seriously????? This country has no politicians worth a damn anymore. Those days are long gone, its now just a rape fest for big business on all fronts. Its all a miserable mess that someone as narrow minded and backwards as Katter has no hope of sorting out.
We need intelligence in power, not the grotty, weedy, sneaky puppets we have now. No matter what happens, everyday Aussies will lose.
Also, don't say my house is gonna be worth squat, I just bought it 6 years ago and your making me scared!
Originally posted by pheonix358
ROFL. You can't seriously compare Ron Paul with Katter.
Ron Paul would be the Lion and Katter would be a dyslectic mouse.
I can't stop laughing.
Well, we could give the job to Mr. Speedo. ROFL.
Originally posted by pheonix358
Katter should be in gaol for crimes against democracy. He is no better than that power mad red headed bitch we have now.
Originally posted by Qumulys
reply to post by Germanicus
Also, don't say my house is gonna be worth squat, I just bought it 6 years ago and your making me scared!
Originally posted by kwakakev
Covered Bond Legislation does come across as a scam so the rich can get their guaranteed money for nothing with the interest at the expense of the tax payers. Any ideas where the money raised from this went?
The US and China have both been stomping around this land for a while, along with many other nations. One the military side of things, I would give China more respect if they had the fortitude to talk about Tibet. The US is just one big crazy nutter with the stunts is has been pulling around the world. Must be too much mercury in the water at Washington or something.
As for the property market, lots too it but yeah too expensive for me.
Prior to the global financial crisis, Australia had a diverse and highly competitive financial system. The four major banks went head-to-head with the likes of St. George, BankWest, Bendigo Bank, Aussie, Adelaide Bank, RAMS, Wizard, and Challenger. Today every single one of these entities has disappeared as a genuinely independent concern, wholly or partly acquired by the majors (with competition concerns waived by the ACCC), or merged with one another. Prior to the crisis, Australia's banks were not explicitly government-backed. And taxpayers had never guaranteed bank deposits before (or conceived of providing such guarantees for free as they currently do), nor had they ever guaranteed the banks' institutional debts. The taxpayer-owned central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), had also never lent to the banks on the much longer-dated and more flexible terms that it offered as the financial markets meltdown started to gather momentum, and continues to offer to this day. The reason taxpayers had not got into the business of bailing-out private banks was because of a well-founded fear of "moral hazard". That's the concern that once you start insuring away a private company's risk of failure, you remove the critical disciplining influence of free markets. And executives will, over time, start behaving less responsibly, and expose taxpayers to even greater risk of loss.
Originally posted by Qumulys
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Luckily for me I own my house outright. But after 6 years, its only been recently value at $10k more than I payed for it. To think it would slide backwards just makes me miserable, but at least I own it (my house) and not the bank. However, the banks own me. My only income comes from interest on money in the bank. But the interest rates just keep sliding backwards for deposits. I'd love to see 10% plus interest rates again one day! (Which is a totally selfish view I realise compared to most)
Originally posted by Chadwickus
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Mate, whenever I come into one of your threads I am always looking for the small print at the bottom saying "Spoken by Germanicus for The Australian party and Bob Katter"
Seriously, I feel like I'm being fed a line here or something.
Just so ya know.
Originally posted by Nietrick
Let me start by saying I really don't know anything about the political scene, or the financial one, in Oz save for the OP and the occasional story about Aussie elections we get in the U.S. I am basing my opinion mostly on the OP and the comments that followed. If I'm not correctly understanding something, and that shows, know that it was honest ignorance and not malicious.
It sounds like Australia is prepping for a major housing bubble to burst like the one that popped in the U.S. in 2008. Over-valued homes and people getting loans for houses they simply couldn't afford led to an unsustainable boom in the housing market. It left people underwater in homes suddenly worth 2/3 or 1/2 of what they paid. Be careful. Sounds like you came out of the last global debt mess relatively unscathed, but things are so up in the air now on so many fronts, you may not be so lucky this time. If your housing bubble bursts that may be the thing that sets everything else off, or it may be the thing that weakens your economy enough to prevent you from riding out the coming Eurozone storm.
As for Obama provoking China....lots of us have noticed it, too and no one likes or understands it. China owns so much of our debt the only thing that makes sense is that maybe he's hoping an all out war would cancel our obligations..... Joking.....but who knows? After all his rhetoric about being the first " Pacific President " the last thing I expected was an aggressive stance in your part of the world. But then again, the only thing I did expect from him was to be an arrogant ass. In that respect, he has exceeded my wildest dreams.
One more thing, to all those living Down Under....
WTF is up with this business about fining people who speak ill of the carbon tax?


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The evidence mounts as a decade of new studies continues to underscore the benefits of arts education for our children. The following quotes, selected from a vast body of arts education research and commentary. provide supporting testimony for each of the five advantages of arts education outlined in the Mission Statement. Perhaps no statement is more powerful to introduce the importance of the effort to transform our schools than this one by Richard Deasy, Director of the Arts Education Partnership, in the Preface to the important research study Third Space:
"While the arts can indeed engage students in ways that contribute to their success on standard measures of achievement, we began to see that they play an even richer and more profound role in preparing students to cope in the present and contribute in the future in an America and a world of enormous opportunities and equally enormous conflicts….The challenge to American education has never been simply to raise test scores–that is a relatively recent and limited goal. The challenge has always been to raise citizens who are capable of active participation in the social, cultural, political, and economic life of the world's longest experiment in democracy, an experiment demanding a free, educated, and committed citizenry. We were amazed to discover anew the role of the arts in realizing that vision and creating that democracy. That is the larger story we believe Third Space can tell. That is why we offer it as a compelling reason to fully embrace the arts in our schools. It's how to sustain our democracy."
At the heart of all the work (in arts education) is the continuing conviction that the greatest gift we can give the next generation is a rigorous, flexible, and creative education that allows them to meet the world as it comes to them and perhaps even fashion it into something new. (From AEP conference report, All Together Now, February 2009.
The arts transform the environment for learning. When the arts become central to the learning environment, schools and other settings become places of discovery….Figurative walls between classrooms and disciplines are broken down. Teachers are renewed. Even the physical appearance of a school building is transformed through the representations of learning. Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning. 1999.
Sir Kenneth Robinson, a leading thinker and speaker on creativity, has said, "We do not grow into creativity, we grow out of it – or rather, we are educated out of it." For ages, traditional education, with its emphasis on rote learning and memorization of static facts, has valued conformity over novelty of thought. But in today's world of global competition and task automation, innovative capacity and a creative spirit are fast becoming requirements for personal and professional success. Robinson says, in fact, that humanity's future depends on our ability to "reconstitute our conception of human capacity" and place creativity and innovation in the forefront of our educational systems. The Intellectual and Policy Foundations of the 21st Century Skills Framework. 2006. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
Innovation is crucial to competition, and creativity is integral to innovation. In November 2007, The Conference Board and Americans for the Arts, in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators, surveyed public school superintendents and American business executives (employers) to identify and compare their views surrounding creativity. Overwhelmingly, both the superintendents who educated future workers and the employers who hire them agree that creativity is increasingly important in the U.S. workplaces, yet there is a gap between understanding the truth and putting it into meaningful practice. Ready to Innovate: Are Educators and Executives Aligned on the Creative Readiness of the U.S. Workforce. March 2008. The Conference Board.
A recent national poll conducted by Lake Research Partners has identified a new and growing constituency of voters in America who advocate building capacities of the imagination in public education. This population of self-identified voters will readily and strongly support public education that answers the call for innovation and goes beyond its current focus on the "so-called" basics to meet the changing demands of the 21st century….While voters recognize that building capacities of the imagination rests primarily with an education in and through the arts, they also believe that the arts are essential to invigorating the teaching of other fundamental school subjects and that incorporating imagination across the curriculum produces the strongest results. The Imagination Nation, 2008.
U.S. leadership depends on creativity and innovation and not technology alone in order to compete in the global marketplace. Strong skills in the arts are essential qualities needed for success in the workplace: creative and innovative; self-disciplined and well organized; team players who are flexible and adaptable to change; facility with the use of ideas and abstractions. Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report on the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (National Center on Education and the Economy, 2006).
Recent developments in cognitive science and neuroscience help explain the power of the arts. These developments have shown that "the mind is embodied - that brain and body make up a single, fully integrated cognitive system. Scientists have found that most thought occurs on a level well below our conscious control and awareness and involves the processing of a continual stream of sensory information. We consistently represent the abstract through metaphors that we associate with physical experiences and emotions. We speak, for example, of numbers going "up" and "down" or of ideas "flowing" from person to person. Physical sensation and emotion are essential components of the mind, as integral to thought and learning as logic is. In fact, logic may not be possible without them. (Damasio, 2003; Lakoff & Johnson, 1999).Arts at the Core: Every School, Every Student. Illniois Arts Alliance, 2006.
Students with four years of high school arts classes have higher SAT scores than students with one-half year or less. The College Board. 2008.
We hear repeatedly that the arts are proven to help students succeed. "A growing body of research points to the important role of the arts in improving students' achievement and preparing them for an economy that demands creative solutions to challenging problems. There is also evidence that the arts in education can increase students' engagement in learning as well as their social and civic development."Education Commission of the States. 2009.
Part of the genius of the arts as a school improvement strategy is that the arts offer a way for making excellence available, creating equity, and addressing the false tension between those two goals. In their five-year challenge, arts educators and their partners showed what it takes to achieve both equity and excellence: creating heterogeneous settings, teaching excellence, and providing students with many ways of showing what they know and can accomplish. Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2003.
In my judgment, this project has identified candidate genes involved in the predisposition to the arts and has also shown that cognitive improvements can be made to specific mental capacities such as geometric reasoning; that specific pathways in the brain can be identified and potentially changed during training; that sometimes it is not structural brain changes but rather changes in cognitive strategy that help solve a problem; and that early targeted music training may lead to better cognition through an as yet unknown neural mechanism. Learning, Arts, and the Brain, Dana Foundation, 2008.
Learning in certain arts activities promotes student growth in self-confidence, self-control, self-identity, conflict resolution, collaboration, empathy and social tolerance.Critical Links, 2002.
Where schools and communities are delivering high-quality learning opportunities in, through, and about the arts for children, extraordinary results occur. A recent study by the Arts Education Partnership, Third Space: When Learning Matters, finds that schools with large populations of students in economic poverty – too often places of frustration and failure for both students and teachers – can be transformed into vibrant hubs of learning when the arts are infused into their culture and curriculum. Arts Education: Creating Student Success in School, Work and Life. A coalition of national arts and arts education advocacy organizations. 2006.
The YouthARTS Development Project demonstrated the efficacy of arts programs for at-risk youth in three cities (Atlanta, Portland, and San Antonion). The project was a partnership between Americans for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Justice. Findings from the research show development of (1) skills needed to manage anger, communicate effectively with adults and peers and work cooperatively with others, as well as an increased ability to work on tasks from start to finish, (2) improvement of attitudes and behavior and (3) less involvement with the courts.Arts Facts. Americans for the Arts, 2007.
Whenever the research teams went in arts-based schools, they were greeted by smiles. Students, teachers, administrators said, "We are like a family." "We support one another." "This is our place." The occupants of arts-centered schools see themselves as members of communities – communities that they have a role in creating and sustaining. Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons From School Districts That Value Arts Education. 2000.
The arts provide one alternative for states looking to build the workforce of tomorrow—a choice growing in popularity and esteem. The arts can provide effective learning opportunities to the general student population, yielding increased academic performance, reduced absenteeism, and better skill- building. An even more compelling advantage is the striking success of arts- based educational programs among disadvantaged populations, especially at- risk and incarcerated youth. For at-risk youth, that segment of society most likely to suffer from limited lifetime productivity, the arts contribute to lower recidivism rates; increased self-esteem; the acquisition of job skills; and the development of much needed creative thinking, problem solving and communications skills. Involvement in the arts is one avenue by which at- risk youth can acquire the various competencies necessary to become economically self-sufficient over the long term, rather than becoming a financial strain on their states and communities. NGA Center for Best Practices, 2001.
The arts contribute to reducing dropout rates. Rising student drop rates have become a cause for concern in Massachusetts. Because the arts engage students in learning, they are more likely to attend school and less likely to drop out. Numerous studies have documented this effect of arts education. For example, the Texas Music Educators Association, along with the Texas Coalition for Quality Arts Education conducted a study that reported participation in fine arts courses leads to higher academic ratings and lower dropout rates in Texas middle schools and high schools. Research-Based Communication Tool Kit,2006. National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.
Analyzing data from more than 200 New York City schools over a two-year period, this report shows that schools in the top third in graduation rates offered their students the most access to arts education and the most resources that support arts education. Schools in the bottom third in graduation rates consistently offer the least access and fewest resources. This pattern held true for nine key indicators that convey a school's commitment to arts education. Arts Education and New York City High School Graduation Rates. The Center for Arts Education. October 2009.
Creativity and innovation will be among the most prized skills in the future workforce. Each child needs to develop his/her abilities to think creatively, to develop ways to work collaboratively to solve problems. The arts provide avenues to develop these abilities as well as to improve both verbal and non-verbal communication. Committing to Quality in education: Arts at the Core, A Guideline and Planning Tool. Illinois Arts Alliance, 2008.
As this country works to strengthen our foothold in the global economy, the arts equip students with a creative, competitive edge. To succeed in today's economy of ideas, students must masterfully use words, images, sounds, and motion to communicate. The arts provide the skills and knowledge students need to develop the creativity and determination necessary for success in today's global information age. Arts Education: Creating Student Success in School, Work and Life. A coalition of national arts and arts education advocacy organizations. 2006.
Arts in the schools increase test scores and lower dropout rates. Critical Links contains 62 academic research studies that, taken together, demonstrate that arts education helps close the achievement gap, improves academic skills essential for reading and language development, and advances student's motivation to learn. Arts Facts. Americans for the Arts. 2007.
86% of voters believe that, often today, education is stifling and losing children. Arts, music and similar courses can engage a number of children who will be missed otherwise in learning and in school. Through these courses, we can help a number of children stay in school and learn a variety of skills and habits they need for life. Lake Research Partners, December 2007
In a recent study of several art classes in Boston-area schools (Studio Thinking), we found that arts programs teach a specific set of thinking skills rarely addressed elsewhere in the curriculum - and that far from being irrelevant in a test-driven education system, arts education is becoming even more important as standardized tests … exert a narrowing influence over what schools teach….While students in art classes learn techniques specific to art …they're also taught a remarkable array of mental habits not emphasized elsewhere in school. Such skills include visual-spatial abilities, reflection, self-criticism, and the willingness to experiment and learn from mistakes. All are important to numerous careers, but are widely ignored by today's standardized tests. Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland, "Art for Our Sake: Art Classes Matter More Than Ever-But Not for the Reasons You Think." The Boston Globe, September 2, 2007.
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Objective: SWBAT evaluate numerical and algebraic expressions and recall important properties.
Big Idea: Understanding properties associated with evaluating expressions is essential for all further mathematics.
As students enter the classroom today, I project the Launch questions Each of the questions in the launch stress the need to agree upon the rules for how to evaluate expressions. I have chosen them based on some patterns that I see in mistakes that my students make.
Question 1: I expect that many of my students will get -97 for Question 1. When we discuss this problem, I will help the class to perform the operations in the correct order and get 99. I will then ask students for some suggestions about how to make sure that another student will perform the operations in the correct order. We'll eventually come around to using parentheses to make sure that we perform the subtraction in the correct order.
Question 2: This task demonstrates how written expressions can be ambiguous. There is no way to know for sure whether you should divide or multiply first. So I tell students that it's quite normal to feel confused here. Sixty divided by two times three, written in one sentence would be 60 ÷ 2 x 3 and the answer should be 90, because we proceed from left to right. But, who is to really know what was meant?
Question 3: I anticipate that some students may write 3 as an answer. I remind students that 8x means 8 times x, unless otherwise indicated.
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When we begin working on new content today, I will pair up students. I'll give each pair a copy of New Info Sheet Evaluating Expressions. Evaluating expressions should be review for students. (In my school there will be some exceptions.) I find that it tends to be quite easy for students approaching this for the first time.
I will introduce the three questions without telling students the mathematical property involved. I want them to figure it out arithmetically, then add their own examples showing that these really work with numbers. As students are working, I walk around listening to their conversations guiding their thinking with questions without giving answers away.
After students are done with Part 1, I will ask students to write the name of each property next to its general (variable) representation. I never need to actually tell the class which name goes where. I can count on my students to call these out.
Before moving on to the Application section of the lesson, I will work with my students to name the property shown in Options iii and iv of Part 2. I will begin by asking volunteers to go up to the board and write a numerical expression demonstrating each of these properties.
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As I distribute the Application worksheet for today's lesson, I will ask my students to try to work as independently as possible.
One of the things I try to establish early in the year is a culture of "try your best" and don't give up easily. I want students to gradually see that perseverance is essential to improvement (MP1). Effective discussion and learning through collaboration results from students sharing their own ideas. Obtaining answers from other students without reflecting on the differences between their classmates' thinking and their own is unproductive. These ideas are not always easy for students to learn, so it's really my job to continually enforce them. It is very difficult to get students off the "grade" mindset and into the "learning and improving" (growth) mindset. But, I find that it can be done through formative assessment and feedback. By helping students know where they need to improve and then helping them in these areas.
It is also helpful to be aware of potential trouble spots in advance. Here are a few that I expect to arise during today's lesson:
- Question 3: I make sure that students see the fraction bar as representing two sets of implicit parentheses (in the numerator and in the denominator). Students are then better able to follow the order of operations.
- Questions 6: One of my goals of this question is to help students see that properties of real numbers (Associative Properties for Addition and for Multiplication in this case) work in algebra as well. Students may not be willing to take this problem on. I am ready to encourage them to take a risk and use what they know.
- Question 7: I find it important to tell students that the Transitive Property is both important and common. After answering the first part of the Launch section, I expect students to be successful with both Part a and Part b, but I am looking out for unusual responses.
- Question 8: I include Question 8 because it targets a theme that I push in my class: putting parenthesis in place correctly when using calculators. I observe carefully to make sure that my students recognize that parenthesis must be used to group 3p - q, before dividing by 2p.
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I close the lesson with a variation of the 3-2-1 Strategy reflection. I ask students to turn their application sheet over and before handing it in to me, to write:
- At least 1 thing they learned in today's lesson
- At least 1 question they have about the lesson that is still unclear in their minds.
I make sure I read these after collecting and assessing the students' papers. I've observed some of their skills, misconceptions, and tendencies as they worked today, but I am also mindful of the importance of students being aware of their own issues. I want them to have and pursue goals.


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I have had a LOT of problems with my RX330. The front differential went out at 80,000 miles. The bill was $2500. The rack and pinion ($1000)and radiator ($650) needed to be replaced at 95,0000 miles. I have had problems with the wheels. My tires leak in the winter even with Nitrogen added. I changed tires 3 times on the car and nothing seems to work. This is my 3rd Lexus and I am really unhappy with this one.
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Best vehicle I've ever owned. I bought mine new at the end of 2004. I've got 144K miles and have had no problems. Recalls are handled easily with my dealership. Love that they fill my gas tank when they do a recall. I've always brought the vehicle to the dealer for maintenance but it's just getting too expensive. I'm nervous about using another mechanic but have no choice. I have a long crack in the windshield and Lexus wants $2K to replace it!!! What! I'll guess I'll replace for just under $300.00 from another glass shop. I can live without the Lexus monogram on the lower corner of the windshield. :-) Time now to replace the timing light and water pump. Just now need to replace rear brakes. I'm on my 2nd set of new tires. I don't want another car payment so I'm sticking with this one. Love it!
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I have had my lexus since the day I drove it off the showroom floor and that was 90,000 miles ago. This is the best riding car I have ever driven...only thing is the tires only last 40,000 miles and they are over $1000 per set...Ive put 2 sets on my car now. I will drive this car until it falls apart. Before I bought this one I leased an RX 300 for 3 years and an RX 330 for 3 years...needless to say ive been driving them now for quite a while...Its the perfect size, not to tall not too wide and not too long and I love having the area behind the back seat to haul groceriers, bags of mulch, whatever.....and it drives like a car-NOT an SUV!
2005 Lexus RX330
By on 9/19/09 | East Brunswick, NJ
53000 since brand new. Best dealership experience with recall to fix minor problems. Earlier than usual brake pad replacement--4 wheel drive! Easy parts replacement. Looking forward for long term ownership. Replaced 2 front strut due to leak @$700. Great car with recent long trip to Florida and back. Used Lucas engine lube--great product to clean engine--smooth run!
2005 Lexus RX330
By on 10/29/08 | Boss, MO
This is the best car I've owned. Power is good, handles well, it has a really good "feel" to it. It's a solid vehicle. I don't think I'll get a car without GPS and a rear view mirror camera again!
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Greetings and salutations, kind sirs, for today you are looking at the newest build of Android and Me. While we're in no way finished, we figured now would be a good time to roll out some of the changes we've been working on.
What's changed, you ask? Lots of stuff.
Most exciting, we've taken our first steps towards deploying our user rating system. Now anyone with an Android and Me account can rack up points for leaving comments (and score extra points when other users up-vote your content). Along with the point system, you'll find a user widget in the top right sidebar (when logged in) that displays your avatar, point total, last login, recently viewed articles and your most recent comments. We'll be greatly expanding the user profile options in the next few weeks, but we wanted to go ahead and start letting you guys earn some points while we build out the rest of the system.
While the main masthead for the site remains mostly unchanged for now, we've added a bit of spice to hold us over to the next iteration. In an effort to make the entire section more timely, the popular posts now have a relative time stamp and the secondary navigation has been replaced with a list of trending tags. For now, these trending tags are built solely on our own content, but in the future I hope to plug these into the pulse of the internet.
In the sidebar, we've got new Hotly debated and Top commenters widgets. Hotly debated, as before, will show you the posts with the most comments in the past few weeks. Top commenters will highlight specific users from the past 5 days whose comments received the most up-votes. Moving forward, we're going to try to feature more user content on the site. Posting solid comments and racking up a high score will soon come with perks.
When viewing a single entry, you'll be followed by our new social buttons. We ditched the ShareThisAddAnythingEtc plugins and went 3rd party official buttons only. We think they'll lead to more accurate counts and we encourage you to use them as much as your fellow social users can stand.
We've also built a new type of editorial post, which we're calling the hero post, that should make its debut here any day now. You'll know it when you see it; hero posts are full width and will center around an editorial illustration or typesetting from @angiedoes. We'll use hero posts to draw attention to any content worth a daily feature.
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Probe Into Michael Jackson's Death Could Turn Criminal; Also: Joe Already Talent Scouting Michael's Kids
The chances that this story will stop becoming more awful anytime soon are probably pretty slim.
Well, the chances of this story becoming less awful anytime soon are probably pretty slim. In a new interview with Good Morning America, Michael Jackson's father
Lord Voldemort Joe says he thinks the King of Pop's death could have been a homicide: "I do believe it was foul play." And this apparently isn't just crazy talk — CNN reports today that, pending toxicology reports, the investigation into MJ's death could turn into a criminal probe: "Based on those, we will have an idea of what it is we are dealing [with]: Are we dealing with a homicide or are we dealing with an accidental overdose?" says LAPD chief William Bratton.
Why? Apparently the King of Pop's pill habit was even worse than we thought. Five years ago, he was ingesting as many as ten Xanax a night to combat an alleged sleeping disorder, claims a former security guard in a document from 2004 obtained by CNN. What's more, at that time he was doing "better" since this was down from the 30 to 40 Xanax he previously took — an incredible amount of drugs that shocked even Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who says this is "a huge red flag," even for an addict who'd built up a tolerance.
Now for the crazy talk! Ranch Records founder Joe is already talent scouting Michael's kids (who will probably go to Michael's mom, Katherine, from whom Joe is believed to be separated, thankfully). He tells GMA: "I don't know — I keep watching Paris. She wants to do something." Also: "And as far as I can see, well, they say Blanket, he can really dance." Yikes!
Portrait of Jackson's pill consumption emerges [CNN]
EXCLUSIVE: Jackson Patriarch Fears 'Foul Play' in Michael Jackson Death [ABC]


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At the 18th century building that houses Sylvain, the large windows that front Chartres Street invite passersby to investigate the dark, cozy bistro and barroom. The curious enter through the alley on the right side of those windows and are met with another tempting place to tipple: the lush, brick-lined courtyard.
Inside the intimate bar and dining room, a large 48-state flag and sparse taxidermy adorn the charcoal walls. There is little to distract from Sylvain's gems behind the bar: housemade shrubs and tinctures, amari, bitters, a strong selection of fortified wines and more than 30 labels of dark liquor.
Sylvain, resolutely uninterested in wooing the average tourist, kicked off a wave of casually cool French Quarter bars and restaurants. Without Sylvain, it's hard to imagine Doris Metropolitan, Cane and Table or even Latitude 29.
From the start, co-founder Sean McCusker was Sylvain's ringleader and reigning bad influence. He left in March 2015 for California. The bar and restaurant, however, kept its spirit. Sylvain remains a nearly perfect stop for a drink within a block of Jackson Square.
Tip: On weekends, the kitchen closes from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., but the bar stays open. Stop by for an expertly made cocktail and your pick of the best seat in the house.
Location: 625 Chartres St., New Orleans, 504.265.8123.
Open: Daily. Parking: Street, nearby lots.
Prices: Beer, $3-$12; wine, $6-$15; cocktails, $9-$13.
Crowd: Everyone from tourists and service industry workers to Hollywood stars.
Live music: No. Food: Yes. Outdoor seating: Yes.
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Cucked like Rod
There's nothing quite so pathetic as serving as oblivious host and apologist for an ideology you're actively hostile to. A classic example of this is the way many virulently anti-Christian atheists subscribe to what amounts to a non-theistic Protestantism. You can see the phenomenon in reverse, as well, in those who claim to be traditional, orthodox Christians and yet accept the anti-Christian, modernist presuppositions of the secular liberal order.
Rod Dreher—author, columnist, blogger, and resident church lady of Paleoconservatism—is one of the chief exemplars of this latter category. In one breath, Dreher can be found decrying the ravages of Liberalism on Christian faith and traditional modes of life, emphatic about the necessity of retreating from the sphere of its deadly influence. In the next, he will be cordially agreeing (or at most politely disagreeing) with one of Liberalism's foremost public apostles on matters diverse. Just how dangerous can you really believe Liberalism to be when you're this cozy with it?
Not very. Dreher's chic anti-liberalism is mostly a fashion statement, like a flannel-wearing hipster posing for selfies with their locally sourced, grass-fed meal; a sort of traditionalist and monastic LARPing which conceals a deep-rooted commitment to the Liberal order.
Dreher recently claimed that conservatism is more than anti-liberalism, (reminiscent of the liberal Catholic refrain that "pro-life is more than anti-abortion!") but the truth is that conservatism is less than anti-liberalism. It's an irenicism with the enemies of Christ and the Church. This being the case, it's fitting that Dreher's project for Christian survival and renewal "The Benedict Option" is fundamentally a conservative (not reactionary) project, despite its pretensions of being entirely opposed to the reigning Liberal order. Its merely conservative nature can be seen when Dreher says things like:
Anyway, I agree with you about the Novus Ordo, believe it or not, because I have seen it celebrated with great reverence — especially by Father Paul Weinberger out in Greenville, Texas. Making a successful Ben Op dependent on the Traditional Latin Mass is unnecessary and futile. Don't get me wrong; I fully support the TLM for Catholics who want it. I just don't believe it's strictly necessary. That said, that's not an argument for me, but for Catholics.
The Novus Ordo, and presumably the Vatican II reforms generally, are not to be rejected or resisted but accommodated. This is the conservative temperament at work: preserve the deleterious advances of liberalism and then try (perhaps, if you get around to it) to resist any further ones.
So little is the character of Dreher's project anti-liberal (much less anti-liberal+) that the Benedict Option reminds one of nothing so much as the progressive Protestant project "The New Monasticism." With more of an urban focus and less concerned about the corrosive effects of a post-Christian culture on public morality, the movements are otherwise quite similar. Both seek organic communal life, more pious and simple, centered on Christian worship patterned after monastic traditions, and are committed to distancing themselves from dangerous worldly influences (late capitalism, bourgeois comforts, popular mass culture, etc.) Both also effectively cast off the single essential thing that traditionally distinguished monastic life from Christian life in the world: consecrated celibacy. Dreher, ever the progressive, has even taken to calling these non-celibate communities "Benedict Option monasteries."
But the Old Monasticism never left. In America, true, Orthodox monasticism has never really taken hold in any large-scale way. And even the Roman Catholic variants have substantially faded in number and influence in the last 50 years. But still, it does exist, and in the last few decades Orthodox monasticism has grown and established a presence throughout the United States. Why doesn't Dreher call attention to the traditional forms of monasticism of his own tradition as models?1 Likely because they are too austere, too traditional, too genuinely anti-liberal to fit the bill for his novel program. "Do what the Orthodox have always done" doesn't make for a sizzling pitch for a new book with ecumenical pretensions.
Of course, rural living in tight-knit, whole-life communities centered on the daily rhythms of the true faith is desirable for many reasons. And perhaps possible to pull off for some, at least for a time. But not for most, as this sort of transition requires both education and resources, which are often lacking. And not forever. The problem with this approach is that, while it seems to understand the Liberal order is beyond repair and must be separated from, it underestimates the extent to which that order is committed to our destruction. If they force you to bake the cake, it won't be that long before they arrive at your Benedict Option compound armed to the hilt to shut it down, if not go full Waco. The pious suburbanites who practice the Benedict Option may not be interested in the Liberal State, but the Liberal State is quite interested in them.
"But what other options are there?" A bolder, more aggressive approach which understands that the Christian witness calls for a martyric, hostile confrontation with the existing order. No retreat, no surrender. Witnessing to the Gospel requires, not only non-submittal but a confrontation with the monsters of the age. Surely Dreher would claim he is not neglecting this call, but every eschewal of every criticism exposes the chimerical nature of his project. Rural and urban, novel and traditional, monastic and familial, quietist and yet confrontational: the Benedict Option is everything you want it to be, and thus can never be much of anything at all.
C.S. Lewis once wrote that "there is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan." To give way to Liberalism, even to cede a square inch, is to cooperate with the forces of darkness. In a cultural moment when Christians have lost so much ground, the answer certainly isn't to concede yet more. Heroism is needed. The heroism we've neglected for the false promises of the American social contract, which daily looks more and more like a suicide pact. Heroism which demands the restoration of the social order to its rightful place under Christ's rule, come what may. One which knows well, and vows to protect, the humble heroism of the monastic and simple, rustic Christians, but which refuses to surrender the remainder of the field to the Evil One. A moral framework and order will be imposed on society, as it always is. The only question that remains is whose moral framework it will be.
Dreher, for a man so firmly committed to opposing the American liberal project, sure knows how to ape its talking points and pal around with its proponents. His deep catechesis in Liberalism has taught him the way to win friends and influence people. Protestant leaders like Russell Moore and Albert Mohler aren't to be called to repentance for rejection of the Orthodox Church but effusively praised. Mohammedans aren't blasphemous Christ deniers, but saints. Liberals like David Brooks aren't to be vociferously opposed as an existential enemy, but calmly and rationally persuaded, if not simply agreed with.
Meanwhile, reactionaries and traditionalist Orthodox and Roman Catholics not only aren't wined and dined by Dreher in this manner; they have a tough time even getting a proper hearing. Which you may have noticed if you've ever entered the combox at AmCon—which Dreher tyrannically moderates—to strenuously object to his effete pontificating. No friends to the right, few enemies to the left, it seems.
While quick to denounce SJW histrionics and virtue-signalling, Dreher himself resembles nothing so much as a poor man's Andrew Sullivan: a prolific content-scraper and hectoring schoolmarm, prone to flights of hysteria, gesticulating feverishly at the outrage du jour. Not only has he rashly adopted the Left's content, but its aesthetic.
It is difficult to find a better term for this state of affairs, where one is outwardly and formally committed to opposing some system (liberalism in this case), but unwittingly a devout adherent of the same, than cucked. Either Christians must separate themselves from the corrosive, death-dealing influence of liberalism to maintain traditional communities of faith, or they can blithely cooperate with it, even to the extent of proclaiming many of its doctrines sacrosanct. That is the choice, you cannot serve both God and Liberalism. Someone alert Rod Dreher.
He did have a brief stop at St. Anthony's in Arizona a couple years ago, but not to highlight as a Benedict Option model. ↩


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