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For a video close-up, heres Laptops YouTube review of the Samsung NC10. Youll see the cool mirrored look on the side that gives the unit a futuristic look.
By the way, you might consider customizing your netbook. An insiders trick for the Samsung NC10 (or many other netbooks): Go to a PC vendor and buy a 2GB RAM stick (at Newegg, for instance) and a faster 7200 rpm 320 disc drive. Yes, youve got to know what youre doing to modify it, but with the right skills you can build a heroic Road Warrior machine capable of surviving the Red Eye to Las Vegas.
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Should Megyn Kelly's interview with Alex Jones be pulled? Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly and her new home, NBC, are under fire this week for an interview set to air this Sunday with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Jones has questioned whether the killing of 26 people in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. Many argue that giving Jones… .repubhubembed{display:none;}Read more
It was on this day in 1949 that George Orwell's seminal work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was first published. Generations of readers have looked upon 1984 as a dystopian cautionary tale. However, with the elevation of Emperor Trump it feels more like a How To manual. One doesn't have to press too many buttons on the Googalizer Machine to find pundits comparing the current regime in the Oval Office with the events in the book. Here's just a small sample: Orwell's "1984" and Trump's America Revisiting Orwell's '1984' in Trump's America How '1984' can decode Trump's first 100 days Welcome to dystopia – George Orwell ...Read more
Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler On this day in 1808 Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his most well-known composition. The first 8 notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony are immediately recognizable. Not only did he premiere– and conduct — the Fifth, but this concert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna goes down in history as one of his most famous. It also saw the world premier of his Sixth Symphony. Other compositions on the bill that night were Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, premiered at a private event a year earlier, but this was its first public performance; and Choral Fantasy, so new ...Read more
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" was first spoken on this day in 1871 and repeated millions of times in the last 145 years. Henry Morgan Stanley, born John Rowlands, spoke those words to David Livingstone, who was thought to be lost in Africa while searching for the source of the Nile River during the great White Colonization of that great continent. Stanley's early life is almost unbelievable. He was a bastard whose mother turned him over to his grandfather. When the old man died while the boy was 6, he was sent to a workhouse where, despite the reputation of workhouses, managed to ...Read more
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The Hershey Bears returned to GIANT Center to complete a home-and-home stretch against the Syracuse Crunch. It was a happy ride home from up north for the Chocolate and White last night to set up tonight's match up.
Both teams scored a power play, shorthanded and 4-on-4 goal in last night's 5-3 win for Hershey. After traveling down I-81, the Bears' were poised for a similar outcome to conclude their weekend.
Great offensive jump for Hershey in the opening frame, with quick, unpredictable and effective breakouts from their defensive zone. In a crisp entry, Riley Barber hit the goal post on a snap shot that beat Kristers Gudlevskis.
Syracuse struck iron in the period as well. The iron of the back crossbar. After review, Andrew Yogan scored his first goal as a Syracuse Crunch at 15:57. Initial call was no goal and played continued for an additional two minutes before the chance for video review.
Luckily the Chocolate and White answered with 1:51 left in the opening frame. Riley Barber made perfect centering pass from near the goal line to Nathan Walker. Walker buried his ninth of the season to knot the contest before intermission.
The Bears gained their first lead of the night at the 14:58 mark of the middle period thanks to a relentless effort in the slot by Dustin Gazley. From between the face off circles, a Gazley backhand shot was blocked away and deflected to the goal line. Gazley raced to the loose puck and fed Carter Camper in the low slot. Camper buried his seventh goal of the season to give Hershey a lead in the later stages of the stanza.
Minutes later, Barber received his second scoring chance of the night, and unlike the previous, Barber did not miss. On a 2-on-1 rush with Scott Gomez, Gomez fed Barber, and the Miami University of Ohio product made it 3-1 Bears.
Great work ethic up the entire Hershey lineup led to the pair of late goals.
The work ethic continued into the third period, as Barber added his second goal of the night 1:01 into the period on the power play. He completed the hat trick with 25 seconds left by hitting the empty net, sending 10,964 fans home happy in a 5-1 win.
Scott Gomez added three more assists and has continued to bring a true veteran presence to the lineup.
But overall, it was a complete game effort in all aspects of the game. The goaltending in Dan Ellis was great, as he was worthy of third star honors. The penalty kill was perfect, the power play provided a dagger of a goal in the third period, and Hershey outplayed Syracuse when 5-on-5.
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Nike managed to outperform official Olympic sponsor Adidas on social media during the Games, generating more tweets and pulling in more new Facebook fans.
However Adidas had the last laugh, as it achieved a much bigger spike in traffic during the two weeks.
Non-sponsor Nike was particularly visible around London during the Olympics with a campaign that celebrated everyday athletes. It bought up hundreds of billboards around the city and on the tube featuring the hashtag '#findgreatness'.
Adidas, which spent tens of millions of pounds to be an official sponsor, ran a campaign featuring Team GB athletes and the hashtag '#takethestage'.
According to Socialbakers' CheerMeter there were more than 16,000 tweets associating Nike with the word Olympic between 27 July and 2 August compared to 9,295 for Adidas.
Furthermore. Nike attracted 166,718 new Facebook fans during the Games versus 80,761 for Adidas.
Data from Experian Hitwise shows that Nike achieved a 6% growth in its number of Facebook fans and a 77% boost in engagement on its Facebook page compared to 2% and 59% respectively for Adidas.
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Have you not mentioned Mars' huge spike in Twitter mentions as it isn't the chocolate bar company but a planet. Surely you have to at least mention that landing Curiosity on the red planet is nearly more interesting than the entire Olympic sponsors put together. Does this invalidate the Apple score because a lot of people tweet about eating an apple?
This tells us little.
If I worked at Nike or Adidas I'd want to know:
What's behind the difference in numbers of Tweets? Was it purely because Nike had a more engaging campaign that people where happier to share?
A better measure of this is comparing the hashtags.
According to Visual.ly in the month running up to 16 August Adidas's #takethestage was mentioned 51,972 times, Nike's #findgreatness 79,490 times.
However, these are still fairly low numbers given the millions that will have been spent on global media.
In comparison #london2012 received 5,784,944 mentions and #bolt 272,779.
If I was responsible for either brand's social media efforts I'd be disappointed.
Hey, but at least they received millions of views on YouTube. Because that's a social channel, right?!
Facebook 'Likes' is not a measure of social buzz, It doesn't tell you anything about advocacy or conversation and is more likely to be the direct result of the $ that were spent on Facebook advertising.
Is true that Nike make very good products but from that graph appears that Nike had almoust twice as Adidas which is hard to belive.


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Kenya's Defense Ministry says it has not set a time frame for its operation against al-Shabab militants in Somalia, saying troops will leave the country when Kenyans feel secure. Kenyan officials emphasized that they are not at war with Somalia, but with al-Shabab.
Kenya's military chief, General Julius Karangi, told reporters Saturday that Kenya's military will continue its assault in Somalia until Kenyans feel safe from what he called "the al-Shabab menace."
"This campaign is not time bound, we shall leave it to the people of this country to decide that yes, we feel safe enough on the common border and then we shall come back. So key factors or indicators would be in the form of a highly degraded al-Shabab capacity," he said.
The military says it has killed hundreds of al-Shabab militants in 15 days of fighting, while only one Kenyan soldier has been killed in battle.
Three Kenyan soldiers are missing, including two who were kidnapped earlier this year, and a third who was lost at sea during a mission to save a kidnapped Frenchwoman.
General Karangi insisted that Kenya's military incursion was in direct reaction to those kidnappings and other similar attacks and that the entire operation was planned between October 4 and 14.
"Some people mentioned that this entire operation was pre-planned it had been on the table for many, many months and years, and the answer is no," he said. "We acted as a country on the spur of the moment and we were able to do what we have done so far inside 10 days."
Karangi added that Kenya has at no time planned to annex any part of Somalia.
The Kenyan military claims to be working in conjunction with forces from Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, but says no foreign troops are engaged in the offensive.
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Welcome to the newly-appointed IHO representatives to the Joint IHO-IOC GEBCO Guiding Committee
News and events — April 2013
The GEBCO community is pleased to announce that Vice Admiral Shin Tani (Chief Hydrographer of Japan) and Commander Peush Pawsey (Joint Director of Survey Operations, National Hydrographic Office, India) are the newly-appointed International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) representatives on the Joint IHO-IOC GEBCO Guiding Committee.
Vice Admiral Tani has made a major contribution to GEBCO's work and activities for a number of years and we are pleased for his continued involvement and new role. We welcome and look forward to working further with Cdr. Pawsey.
These positions had become vacant due to the retirement from the GEBCO Guiding Committee of Ingénieur général Etienne Cailliau (France) and Dr Kunio Yashima (Japan). We express our thanks and gratitude to Ingénieur général Cailliau and Dr Yashima for their contribution to and involvement in GEBCO's work.
About GEBCO
GEBCO consists of an international group of experts who work on the development of a range of bathymetric data sets and data products with the aim of providing the most authoritative publicly-available bathymetry for the world's oceans. It operates under the joint auspices of the IHO and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (of UNESCO).
GEBCO's work is directed by a Guiding Committee, consisting of an equal number of representatives from both the IHO and IOC. Its work is supported by technical sub-committees on ocean mapping and undersea feature names plus ad hoc working groups. These committees and groups are made up of experts in many fields and from organisations from all around the world.
During its annual meetings GEBCO hosts a Science Day consisting of oral and poster presentations on subjects relating to seafloor mapping and its applications. Attendance at Science Day is open to all.
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Dissenting Voices
A long-time friend of the editor explains why he no longer reads AR.
Dear Sam,
Since we are friends from way back, and with an old school tie as well, I think you're due an explanation for why I'm dropping American Renaissance when my subscription expires.
My reasons for taking your pamphlet have always had more to do with curiosity about you than with racialism's interest for me. I have always had some discomfort with the subject but I welcomed the challenge of your ideas to my complacent liberalism. I also admired your courage in taking on this touchiest of subjects. God knows it needs honest discussion in this age of politically correct hysteria. But having been a subscriber since its inception, I am tired of American Renaissance. You have heard most of my objections one way or another before, but I am in the mood to recapitulate them.
1. AR is hopelessly utopian. It dreams of a state or society that will never be. Historical processes have already overrun the racialist's hour.
2. Therefore AR is inutile. It articulates a point of view that, however "realistic" in terms of historical human nature, is nevertheless of no help when it comes to reinventing life on earth in the next epoch. The big mix is here already, ethnically and economically. The pertinent problems are in the mix, not in lamenting it.
What's the use of trying to push back the tide, reossify old prejudices, encourage the tribalization of a human community that is headed for further amalgamation? Like it or not, we will have to face it. Publicizing unfairness and the tyrannies of liberalism is fine, but AR goes further than that.
|"I have never been able to come to terms with a certain animus motivating AR."
As you know, I have never been able to come to terms with a certain animus motivating AR, sometimes naked, mostly veiled, which I am afraid really does lend to hurting people or at least saying "Well, it's better this way." And this leads me to an objection that takes objection into another dimension:
3. I do not see the religious possibilities in the AR point of view. It is a tract self-limited to the biological, the social, the political. I think that at the "end of all our exploring," whether we get there or not, is some kind of religious understanding. Something deep says that the AR perspective is inimical to this. Whether or not it is possible for one to hold to a racialist viewpoint or social philosophy with a clean and faithful heart, I know that I could not. I doubt it would be possible today, even if it were possible in the past, for Lincoln, say. I would be troubled by the worry that my race philosophy had been or could be misused as a vehicle for the expression of hatred and malice — or had, at best, been a means to look the other way. This leads me to my last point, the most troubling of all.
4. I do not detect the will nor perceive the means to resist excesses possible to commit in the name of AR's ideology. Indeed the validation that could be given to ethnic cleansing by the kind of cogent, calm arguments put forth in AR chill the soul. There is no set of crampons sufficiently sharp and strong to keep you guys from sliding to the bottom of the philosophical slippery slope into a bloodbath. I do not detect the strength of will to resist the barbarism that could be committed in the name of your ideas. I fear that should your racialist ideas prevail politically, you would become a Goebbels at worst, at best an editor of Pravda. I'd like to see the fervor with which you militate against liberalism and its obvious excesses matched by the fervor to preserve what's good and admirable in its sympathies and republican spirit. Your "hard truths" are all arranged on one vector, and a wrongheaded one at that.
You offer a rationalist rediscovery of human differences and suggest, by implication, concomitant social policies. But a visceral sense of human differences precedes and goes way deeper than any rationalistic appraisal. What any racialism does is immediately take those visceral reactions, make sense of them, codify them, make a veritable rosary, an unthinking incantation of them. I know what it is like to give way to a sense of repugnance. Some deep-seated appetite in one's nature answers to it. It cries out for an answer.
Racialism organizes much of this feeling (mostly fear and guilt), makes of it a construct energized by the viscera but justified by the mind. This is your Mephistophelian business with AR. It is persuasive. I feel myself lured by it but that doesn't make it right. It is the easy way out. It is the reptile leading the better angels of our nature.
I wholly approve of the war on cant and duplicity. We all have to fight it for our selves and for our souls. But I guess it has seeped into me that I shouldn't give money to promote ideas that have at best no future, at worst could help recapitulate the greatest horrors of the past. Ultimately I worry that AR attacks that which can give a human life its highest form of understanding. Times have changed. What Jefferson said then and what he might say now are unlikely to be mutually recognizable. You are talking last year's language and peddling a dangerous nostalgia.
Which is why I will not renew my subscription when it expires.
Malcolm Meldahl attended high school with the editor of AR and the two have been friends ever since. Mr. Meldahl lives on Cape Cod with his wife and two sons.
A Reply
Naturally, it is disappointing that an old friend should read AR for three full years and remain unconvinced by it. Even so, you gave it the benefit of the doubt for a long time, longer than any friend or editor could have asked.
Of the many objections you raise, there is only one that really matters. It is the view that for whites to think in racial terms is inherently evil and can only be the result of animus, or "hatred" as the press invariably calls it. Racial consciousness among whites has been forced underground because so many people have been taught to think this way. I must say that it is painful that you should think this of me. It is irritating to be thought evil by strangers; it is dispiriting to be thought evil by one's friends.
By your own admission, though, much of what AR says is persuasive. Am I wrong to suspect that if you no longer thought it immoral, your other objections would drop away? You are rejecting a view that, as you concede, promotes your own interests and that may even express your own instincts. Nevertheless, you are willing to forego an advantage because you think it wrong — an admirable position to take.
The scruples you express are, I believe, one of the hallmarks of our people. I think that to an unusual degree, whites must believe that what they do as a group is not just expedient but moral. That is one of our great strengths, and the last thing I would ask is that you set aside your scruples. My task is to convince you, and others who share your instincts for fairness and generosity, that it is not merely natural but right for whites to assert their own interests. Only then will they use their distinctive qualities to defend their race and culture rather than, as they do now, permit their own dispossession in the name of those qualities.
Lesser Objections
Before considering this all-important question I will reply to the objections I think less important. The first two are parts of the same argument: It does no good to promote the AR view of the world because that world will never be.
"Historical processes," you say, "have already overrun the racialist's hour." A moment's reflection should convince you that this is not so. Racialism now marches from strength to strength — but for everyone but whites. In the United States, blacks, Hispanics, and even Asians are banding together along racially exclusive lines as never before to extract privileges from whites. For millions of non-whites, race is central to their identities and informs everything they think and do. Indeed, every corner of every continent is exploding with assertions of peoplehood — sometimes violent — that reflect not just race but human differences of all kinds.
The current racial regimen is one of unilateral disarmament. Whites can be bullied and intimidated by non-whites because non-whites have clear understandings of their racial interests and whites do not. For blacks, especially, race comes before anything else. No matter how much they may differ among themselves, they almost invariably close ranks against whites.
This is why the rap singer Sister Souljah's advice to blacks — that they leave off killing each other for a week and kill whites instead — was not repudiated by other blacks. It is why the thugs who nearly killed Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots were lionized as "The L.A. Four." It is why a man so corrupt and incompetent as Marion Barry has been re-elected as mayor of Washington, DC.
What you meant to say is not that there is no hope for the white racialist. To that I would say only that ten years ago no one expected the Soviet Union to disappear, Germany to be reunited, or Yugoslavia to be torn apart. History is far from over. French royalty was at the height of its glory when it was struck down by revolution. Who can say that the current "tyrannies of liberalism," as even you call them, are not at flood tide and may soon recede? In Europe, the racialist right influences national policy. Is such a development unthinkable in the United States?
In any case, if you are a man willing to forego advantage in the name of what is right, surely you can understand persistence in a cause simply because it is right. There may never be world peace or a cure for cancer or an America as it should be, but people devote their lives to these things because it is right to do so and because much good can be accomplished short of total success.
Religious Possibilities
Unless I have misunderstood it, your objection that racialism has no "religious possibilities" is the weakest of your arguments. I do not claim that the defense of race and culture is a religious task, but I see it as far more spiritually uplifting than its opposite. The reality of multi-racialism crushes the spirit. What are the special religious possibilities that are to be found in Detroit, Camden, Miami, or South-Central Los Angeles? Godhead may or may not be found in devotion to one's people, but there is the very devil to be found in every American city that has been transformed from white to non-white.
Our country has made a kind of secular religion out of the belief that pouring the nation's wealth into cities wrecked by non-whites will somehow bring back clean streets and polite neighbors. The real work that goes into this task is grim and spirit-killing; I do not believe that it is, for anyone, "the end of all our exploring" that you seek.
To turn your religious argument on its head, there are many things you care about passionately — poetry, integrity, beauty, work well done — that you do not, as far as I know, think of as having religious possibilities. Why must racialism have such possibilities in order to gain your support?
Questions of Biology
I am surprised that you write as if an interest in the scientific study of racial differences is only a cover for vulgar feelings of repugnance. Any number of people — and I count myself among them — have approached the questions of race and IQ from a desire to know the truth. And the truth, by the way, includes the likelihood that North Asians are more intelligent, on average, than whites. Let the chips fall where they may.
You remind me of the Victorian lady who said, when first hearing of Darwin's theory of evolution: "I pray that it is not true, but if it is true, I pray that it will not become widely known." The link between race and IQ is almost certainly true, and it is becoming widely known. AR has taken up this question at some length, so I will not cover old ground. I will say only that one of the greatest challenges our nation faces — and one utterly unacknowledged — is the desperate need to devise a humane system that recognizes the differences in abilities of the races.
The current pretense of equality only creates injustice, bitterness and a relentless destruction of standards. It guarantees that every attempt to solve racial problems will only make them worse. If all one did with one's life were to publicize the truth about race and intelligence, it would be a great service to justice and progress.
Thus it is not the racialist who strings his views into "a veritable rosary, an unthinking incantation" as you so gracefully put it. It is the egalitarian who lets his predispositions blind him to the facts. There are no racialist or even conservative mantras to numb the brain like "All men are created equal," "We are a nation of immigrants," or "Diversity is our strength." Liberals will chant these slogans right up to the edge of the precipice. These are your rosary, to which you might add another bead, "White racial consciousness is evil."
We come, therefore, to the heart of the issue. Is it moral for whites to defend their race and culture?
This reply will conclude in the next issue.
Dissenting Voices II
Can a black person be a "white racialist"?
Today, when there is so much resentment expressed by blacks for whites, it can be a revelation to meet a black who speaks of whites with genuine affection.
I recently had a frank, four-hour conversation with a middle-aged black woman, whom I will call Miss Channing. She has medium-brown skin and pleasant features, and was reared in a middle-class household. She claims some French and American Indian ancestry from her mother, and an unknown black-white mixture from her father.
When we met I was immediately struck by her consistent use of the word "Negro." "'Black,'" she explained, "was forced on us by dark-skinned Negroes who were jealous of light-skinned Negroes." She herself finds nothing attractive, much less beautiful, about blackness. She said that no one, not even the most strident Afro-centrist, thinks that "those big Negroid features" are appealing. She pointed out that all the models in advertisements in Ebony and Essence have light skins and sharp features. As she put it, "none of them look like they just stepped out of the jungle."
She noted that even frankly anti-white movie producers work the same preference into their casting decisions. Female leads are the light-skinned mixed-bloods who are the only blacks whom even other blacks find genuinely attractive.
Miss Channing is single. She says that most black men are worthless and that ever since she could remember, she has been attracted to white men. She believes that the great tragedy of her life was to have been an adolescent when inter-racial dating was not considered acceptable. She says she knows many black women younger than herself who have lost all patience with black men and she confidently predicts a marked rise in the number of black women who date and marry white men.
|"You people [whites] have to do something about this. You can't let it happen."
Miss Channing is adamantly opposed to non-white immigrants, whom she calls "pre-moderns." She fears that current policies will flood whites in a sea of third-wonders who will "turn the country into a banana republic." At one point she put her hand on my arm and said, "You people [whites] have to do something about this. You can't let it happen."
She has no compunction about saying that it is not only the country that must be kept from going non-white. She quoted a black friend as asking, "Why is it that whenever we finally get into any place that we have been kept out of all these years, the first thing we do is pervert it?" She believes that whites (and the better class of blacks) have every reason to resist integration because once the percentage of blacks reaches a certain level, standards cannot be maintained.
Miss Channing became aware of the research on race and intelligence only recently. It does not make her happy to think that Africans probably are, on average, less intelligent than people of other races, but she is prepared to accept the verdict of the data — as long as whites are willing to judge her as an individual rather than simply as a "Negro."
She observed that an understanding of racial differences and the genetic basis for intelligence has solved a riddle that had long puzzled her: Why have light-skinned blacks always been the most successful? She has recently been persuaded that although greater social acceptance may play a role in their advancement, the decisive advantage for light-skinned blacks is white genes.
Like her intellectual idols — Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams — Miss Channing believes that liberal interference by means of affirmative action and welfare has been a disaster for blacks. She thinks black underclass men are the nation's worst scourge and even wonders if black men may not be genetically inferior to black women.
She cannot understand why whites have permitted the liberal/socialist destruction of American institutions. She scarcely recognizes in today's whites the same race that founded the United States and made it great. "What happened to you," she says, "is that the non-whites and the pre-moderns ganged up on you."
Miss Channing says that she knows many blacks who feel as she does and that their number is growing. She says that since whites are so afraid to talk about race and other taboo subjects, conservative blacks will have to do it for them. "Negroes have been a huge problem in this country," she says; "Maybe by speaking out we can become part of the solution." Her personal vision of salvation would be marriage to a white man and children who also married whites. She would be perfectly happy to have grandchildren who looked white.
What does one make of Miss Channing? It is not unusual for people to prefer one part of their family tree over another. Whites who are "part Irish" or "part Italian" often take pride in what they think of as their ethnic heritage. A woman with no more Confederate than Union ancestors may well think of herself as a staunch Confederate.
Race is somehow different. Virtually all whites are glad that they are white, and if they had to choose some degree of black-white mixture for themselves they would go long on the white and short on the black. And yet, perhaps because an honest admission of it is so rare, there is something heart-breaking about a black woman's admission of something that whites take for granted.
Miss Channing almost seems to think of herself as a white woman trapped in a black woman's body. To the extent that rising racial consciousness finally prompts whites to rally to their nation and their culture she applauds it. At the same time, it can only cause whites to think of her as different from themselves, and to the extent that white racial consciousness may exclude her she fears it. Among most blacks, of course, her views are anathema. Here may be the ingredients of tragedy.
Sacrificing the Best
An essay on the dysgenic savagery of war.
War and the Breed, David Starr Jordan, Beacon Press, 1915, (abridged reprint by Cliveden Press), 127 pp., $12.50.
Today, the welfare state is the most powerful force working to lower the genetic level of the population. Any system that forces the responsible and hard working to support unlimited procreation by the incompetent can only drag down the average. In this little book, David Starr Jordan reminds us that war is even more ruthlessly dysgenic. The very best of a nation's men are cut down in battle, often before they have had even a single child.
Jordan wrote this book in 1915, one year into the great, fratricidal struggle that desolated so much of Europe and set the stage for an even more terrible struggle. He saw the Great War as only the latest and most horrible of the butcheries that have retarded the evolution of the race. This contemporary and abridged reprint is illustrated with 28 full-page photographs and brief biographies of some of the young Britons who were needlessly sacrificed in that war. Their strong, honest faces are a silent reproach to governments that were willing to snuff them out without issue.
|Captain M.A. Fitzroy left his studies at Oxford to join the Seaforth Highland Regiment. He was killed on April 16, 1915, leaving no children.
Jordan offers several reasons why war sends a nation's best to their deaths. First, armies do not accept the feeble-minded, sickly, or deformed. Second, among those who serve in combat, it is the bravest, most intelligent men who make the best soldiers and who are therefore relied upon by commanders when combat is most desperate. Finally, until recently, all European nations had military traditions that drew their best and most patriotic sons to the colors.
Jordan makes the point that this has always been the case. Though he may press the point a little too far, he argues that it was war that brought down Greece and Rome by slaughtering their best men. The Greeks were not unmindful of the terrible genetic risks of war, and at one time took precautions against them. Every one of the Spartans who died in the defense against the Persians at Thermopylae was a volunteer, but no man who had not already had at least one son was left behind to guard the pass. Later, during the Pelloponesian Wars, hard-pressed Greeks could no longer hold their childless men in reserve.
Jordan notes that the burden of empire so decimated the Romans that whole tribes of aliens and even slaves were made into legionnaires. Horace, writing near the beginning of the Christian era, recorded the consequences:
Our grandfathers sired feeble children; their's
Were weaker still — ourselves; and now our curse
Must be to breed even more degenerate heirs.
The British, too, have suffered both from the losses of war and from the great outpouring of adventurous men who sought their fortunes in the colonies. The exertions of empire and the costs of two world wars have changed the character of the British. Jordan quotes Havelock Ellis: "The reckless Englishmen, who boldly sailed out from their little island to fight the Spanish Armada, were long since exterminated; and an admirably prudent and cautious race has been left alive."
Under Napoleon, France too reaped a gruesome harvest of Europe's best men. In the emperor's time, soldiers were chosen for their height, because tall men made a more fearsome impression on the battlefield. Jordan writes that the wars of the Republic and the First Empire notably diminished the stature of Frenchmen. The declining average height of a population can be measured; the other qualities that were lost — bravery, dash, and intelligence — cannot.
The losses that Napoleon inflicted on Europe come into perspective when compared with casualties during America's own fratricidal war. At Gettysburg, our bloodiest battle, 163,00 men were engaged and 37,000 killed or wounded. At Napoleon's defeat in 1813 at the Battle of Leipzig, 440,000 were engaged and 92,000 killed or wounded. However, the greatest loss France suffered under Napoleon was during the Grand Army's retreat from Moscow in 1812. Of the 400,000 men who had set out to discipline Russia, only 20,000 returned. It is testimony to the martial vanity of man that Napoleon, who once said that "a boy will stop a bullet as well as a man," should still be a hero to the French.
Of course, tanks and machine guns soon made modern war even more murderous. The Battle of the Somme, which dragged on for four months in 1916, claimed over 600,000 British and French casualties, and an unknown but roughly equal number of German casualties.
It is fortunate that war does not kill off the best of the women along with the men — at least it did not before the era of civilian bombing. However, as Jordan explains, war often so thins the ranks of the better men that the women they would have married may be unable to find husbands.
In today's climate of enforced silence on genetic matters, it is instructive to note how unself — consciously Jordan wrote about the dysgenic effects of war. At the time, he was chancellor of what became known as Stanford University, and his concerns about the genetic quality of the race were widely shared. He quotes many others — journalists, professors, and even poets — who issued the same warnings about the effects of war.
Neither Europe nor America has fought a major war since 1945, so an entire generation has been spared. Moreover, the technical means to wage mass war and the disappearance of the gentleman-soldier tradition mean that future conflicts may be more akin to indiscriminate massacres than to selective, dysgenic killing.
Today, welfare is a greater threat to the gene pool than warfare.
War and the Breed is available for $14.00, postage included, directly from Cliveden Press, 6861 Elm St, Ste. 4H, McLean, VA 22101.


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Vad already has what he wants from this, but I'll bet he helps a lot of people with this.


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Over the course of 28 (!) years, the Video Music Awards have played host to epic battles like "Nirvana v. Axl Rose," "RuPaul v. Milton Berle" and "Tyler, the Creator v. the censors," but the 2012 edition has a chance to really raise the bar.
Yes, when the 2012 VMA nominations were revealed Tuesday morning (July 31), the big headline was Drake and Rihanna leading the field with five nods apiece. But coming in a close second was the race for Best Male Video, which pits Drizzy's "Take Care" against Chris Brown's "Turn Up the Music," just over a month after the two were involved in a now-infamous nightclub brawl where somebody lobbed bottles of booze, resulting in a spate of injuries (and allegedly leaving Tony Parker's outside game suffering).
Of course, according to reports, neither Drake nor Brown were actually the ones who chucked the bottles, and we're reasonably sure they'll both be on their best behavior on September 6, when the VMAs air live from Staples Center in Los Angeles. But the fact remains that their Best Male Video showdown is sure to be one of the most talked-about stories in the lead-up to the show, and you can bet neither man is going to back down (neither will their fans, and since fan votes will ultimately determine who comes out on top, it's sure to be a tight race).
And while Drake v. Brown may top the card, there's no shortage of other battles that will be fought at the 2012 VMAs. Let's turn to the race for Best New Artist, which pits boy-band behemoths One Direction and the Wanted against each other, adding yet another chapter to their (sorta) rivalry and allowing fans to finally determine just who has the best dimples (j/k, everyone knows it's Harry Styles).
And then there's the Best Hip-Hop Video category, which, on the surface, looks to be a brawl between heavyweights Drake and Kanye West. But more interesting is the case of Childish Gambino, whose "Heartbeat" is the surprise nom here — and as such, he'll be fighting a battle of a different sort. A win would not only be an upset, but it would strike a blow for underdogs everywhere, and perhaps serve notice of a changing of the guard. And that battle for recognition is perhaps the theme of the 2012 VMAs. Everywhere you look, there are up-and-coming pups nipping at the old dogs' heels. Can Selena Gomez cement her status by knocking off established icons like Rihanna, Katy Perry and Beyoncé in the race for Best Female Video? Can Frank Ocean — up for three Moonmen — channel critical acclaim into actual awards? Will M.I.A. score the upset of upsets and best Katy, RiRi and Drake for Video of the Year?
And all those races are sure to make the 2012 Video Music Awards a show to remember. Will this be a year of upsets and underdogs, or will the old guard maintain their dominance? You know either side isn't going to go down without a fight — and given the VMA history of battles, both onstage and off, that's oddly fitting. Get ready: This one's going 12 rounds.


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Dear Darbo-Worthington-Starkweather and Town of Blooming Grove residents,
Please join us for an Open House on May 10th, at Salvation Army. 3030 Darbo Dr., from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. where our Planning team will present the complete DRAFT Plan for review and comment, and ask for your funding priorities of neighborhood projects. This will be also an opportunity for you to form or join one of the actions teams that the neighbors have created through this planning process.
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Is a person married to another if they both say "We accept each other as man and wife, having Allah as our witness," with no other witnesses present, and later having a celebration, telling everyone that they are married?
Praise be to Allah.
The Prophet (Peace & Blessings of Allaah be upon Him) said: "There is no marriage without a wali (guardian) and two witnesses." (It is a saheeh hadith because of corroborating reports: Irwa' al-Ghaleel, no. 1858).
Imam al-Tirmidhi, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "The correct opinion is that narrated from Ibn 'Abbas, who said that there is no marriage without clear evidence… Acting in accordance with that, the scholars among the Companions of the Prophet (Peace & Blessings of Allaah be upon Him) and the Taabi'een and others who followed them said that there is no marriage without witnesses. (Jaami' al-Tirmidhi, 4/235).
If the couple referred to in the question did not follow the above, they must repeat the marriage, this time with a guardian and two witnesses.
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I am a 26 year old female diagnosed with hypoglycemia a year ago after three years of misdiagnosis. Even with a proper diet, I have the tendency to nearly pass out about once or twice a year and can get quite 'shaky' if I stray from the diet even slightly. I am worried that my hypoglycemia will turn into type 1 or 2 diabetes in the future if not monitored. My mother was recently diagnosed with type 2. Should I purchase a glucose monitor for myself to monitor my blood sugar and, if so, how often should it be done?
Also, I feel that my short term memory is not as sharp as it used to be. During a traumatic brain injury course at graduate school, I learned that hypoglycemia is a cause of acquired brain injury, mainly impairing memory and attention. How much of an impact does hypoglycemia have on memory and how can further memory loss be prevented?
Although it is commonly stated that reactive hypoglycemia may be a precursor to type 2 diabetes, it is not really well documented. Many people with this condition do not develop type 2 diabetes. There is no evidence that monitoring the condition with blood sugars help to prevent symptomatic episodes or the onset of diabetes. My recommendation would be to see your physician on a regular basis, adopt a healthy lifestyle, and use your diet to avoid symptoms.
I am not aware that any data exists regarding brain damage resulting from reactive hypoglycemia. I would anticipate it would be difficult to show such problems as the severity of the episodes are not as severe as what are seen with type 1 diabetes on insulin therapy. In those patients, it is difficult to show changes in psychological testing or intelligence.
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Alison Pensy was born and raised in England. She grew up near a medieval city, which is where much of the inspiration for her books comes from. Moving to the States in 2001, she eventually settled near a small town in mid Missouri with her menagerie of animals.
Alison also runs her own tax and accounting business and started writing when she became so fed up with the real world, she decided to create her own.
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Robyn Jane Sheppard
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Excellent story, very well crafted. Credible plot, good character development. I will definitely read the next two in the trilogy.
And while this is billed as a "young adult" book (which it certainly is), this 62-year-old grandmother enjoyed it, too!
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Very good for lazy evening read
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Excellent book! Gonna get the second and 3rd also.
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The Amulet, by Alison Pensy, succeeds on several levels. Set in England and the world of Faerie, the book chronicles the adventures of Faedra, a young woman of mixed human and faerie blood, as she awakens to both her hereditary power and responsibilities. As an adventure, the book certainly does not disappoint. There are chases, betrayals, loves and surprises aplenty.
Beyond storyline, the book also succeeds in blending the mythology of the Celtic Age with the wants and needs of current-day youth: friends, celebrations, dogs, horses, a much-loved father, and a fondly-remembered mother. Pensy wisely does not dodge the early dawnings of eros in her heroine, and we rediscover the joy and trust that define erotic love early in one's life.
Perhaps most importantly for girls of the 21st Century, The Amulet is an allegory of empowerment for our own daughters and sisters. At the end of the rainbow, today's young women can anticipate fulfillments greatly surpassing silk gowns, glass slippers, and a handsome prince or two. Pensy's heroine is every bit as likely as the hero to make a wise decision, face a danger, or deal with the inevitable set-back.
People of both sexes and any age will enjoy the story, but it will appeal most viscerally to girls between ages 9 and 15.
The book opens a three-book set. I predict Alison Pensy will become well-known and loved in the world of young adult books.
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I think "The Amulet" is a wonderful debut fantasy from Alison Pensy. It is the kind of book I would have loved to be stranded home alone with on a rainy day when I was in middle school. Is it written on the same scale as Harry Potter or Percy Jakson? No. But I enjoyed it immensely and could not have given the book any less than 5 stars.
The author's writing style is so beautifully visual, you feel enveloped in a book from the moment you start reading. All the right characters are easy to love and hate, plus it has a few surprises along the way, just when you think you are getting comfortable with a plot.
If you buy this book for a girl age 10-14, who loves to read fantasy, she is guaranteed a good time.
My favorite parts about the book: a touch of romance and great visual descriptions.
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In December, AEGPL will speak at the 2015 International LPG Summit, the International LPG Summit that takes place in Novi Sad, Serbia. This annual conference attracts every year LPG professionals coming from the Balkan area and beyond.
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In our Fall 2015 issue, we asked alumni to share what they would do if they had no limits. We printed only a few of the responses we received. Here are several more, some of which were edited for grammar, spelling, length, and clarity.
If you had no limits, what would you do, build, or explore?
Build a faster-than-light spacecraft and explore the universe.
Establish a settlement on the moon.
I would want to unify physics, biology, and psychology to answer the three biggest questions about our world: 1. How did the universe arise? 2. How did life arise? 3. How did consciousness arise?
I would build a public college or university where talented students could attend without paying tuition or fees.
Build a diagnostic tool to determine what mental illness a person has, whether a person is getting better or worse, and whether treatment is effective.
Since 1984, my dream has been to work on the development of the first-generation artificial intelligence system capable of guiding the development of a second-generation AI system that exceeds the capabilities of humans.
I would end all wars, fighting, terrorism, crime, poverty and suffering—forever. I would change people so they accept other people as they are without trying to convert them to their beliefs.
I would expand to fill the universe.


text: Manufacturing Investigation into the influence of processing and manufacturing method on the elastic properties of structural stainless steel One of the most common production routes for stainless steel structural members is cold working and cold-formed sections are the most common type of stainless steel section currently available. These materials are particularly sensitive to the effects of cold working and can experience significant changes in their mechanical properties compared with the annealed material. Considerable attention has been given to strength enhancements which are induced during the forming process of cold-worked sections, especially in the corner regions, and also the residual stresses induced during forming. However, the current project is focussing on the less-studied effect of cold working on the elastic properties such as Young's Modulus (E) and poissons ratio (υ). So far, it has been shown that the Young's modulus of austenitic and ferritic stainless steels decreases with cold-work as a function of equivalent plastic strain, gradually approaching an asymptotic value. The saturation level is similar to that of mild steel, but the rate of decrease is up to five times slower for stainless steel. Sheet metal forming In sheet metal forming simulations it is possible to predict with high accuracy the forces involved in the forming process, how the material deforms and behaves, including its yielding, hardening and formability, predict if the forming process will lead to material instabilities such as wrinkles, non-uniform localised thinning, on how friction and lubricant affect the forming, etc. There are many different forming operations in sheet metal forming processes making the process very challenging from a simulation point of view. These operations include for example drawing, re-drawing and reverse drawing, trimming, ironing, hydroforming and spring back just to name a few. The purpose of these forming operations is to avoid necking, wrinkling or fracture in the formed part by selecting an optimized strain path. This optimized strain path is commonly assessed through the use of strain-based or stress-based Forming Limit Diagrams (FLD) and fracture criteria, where the principal strains or stresses need to lie below the forming limit curve. Necking followed by fracture in a cup drawing and reverse drawing sheet metal forming process Metal cutting In metal cutting processes one major mechanism that is taken into account in the modelling is the formation and development of strain localisations such as shear bands. Material experiences localised necking followed by damage and fracture. The study of the development and evolution of these material imperfections falls very well within the scope of the Structural Integrity theme.


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U.S. Teams Start Work Of Restoring South Iraq
Sunday, May 25, 2008
NAJAF, Iraq, May 24 -- U.S. officials on Saturday launched local reconstruction teams at two sites in the southern provinces of Karbala and Najaf, saying they intend to take advantage of security gains by repairing the region's ailing infrastructure and boosting economic development.
"As security conditions stabilize, you have opportunities that weren't there before," said Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. "This is an important part of the country, and there are opportunities for development here."
During a visit to the two provinces Saturday, Crocker expressed optimism about improved security in parts of the country, and he praised Iraqi military operations in recent weeks in the southern port city of Basra, the northern city of Mosul and Sadr City, a vast Shiite district of Baghdad.
"What we've seen in Basra, Baghdad and Mosul is Iraqi forces are leading the operation," Crocker said. "In the case of Sadr City, they have the whole show."
Thousands of Iraqi troops were deployed last week to Sadr City, a stronghold of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, to quell clashes that began in late March. The soldiers were deployed after Sadrist leaders and Iraqi government officials reached a cease-fire agreement that included keeping U.S. forces on the sidelines of an Iraqi army incursion into the area.
In Mosul, the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq remains a threat, Crocker said, but has "never been closer to defeat."
The State Department has 29 provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq. The program cost U.S. taxpayers about $1 billion this year. Nineteen of the teams have formed since Crocker became ambassador in March 2007. The teams in Karbala and Najaf will each have about 15 employees.
The contingent in Karbala province, about eight miles east of the city of Karbala, is surrounded by blast walls and guarded by Ugandan security contractors and a small unit of U.S. soldiers. The chief of the Karbala team, Donald J. Cooke, a Foreign Service officer, was among the American diplomats taken hostage in the Iranian capital of Tehran in 1979.
Karbala has been the scene of several large attacks since the war began.
In 2004, more than 100 people were killed and hundreds were injured in a series of bombings targeting pilgrims traveling to the province to commemorate Ashura, a Shiite Islamic period of mourning.
One of the most dramatic attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq also occurred in Karbala. On Jan. 20, 2007, men dressed as American security workers drove several GMC trucks into the province's main government building in downtown Karbala. They killed one soldier and abducted four others who were executed later that day.
In what U.S. and Iraqi officials described as a stunning turnaround, Crocker and several other diplomats visited the provincial headquarters Saturday morning to meet with Karbala's governor, Akeel al-Khazaali.
Khazaali said the government had rid its security forces of militiamen and otherwise cracked down on Shiite extremists.
"This province is now secure," he said.
The governor of Najaf, Assad Sulran Abu Gelal, said he hopes the provincial reconstruction team there is helping to expedite construction of an international airport in the city, which is visited by millions of Shiite pilgrims each spring.
Also Saturday, aides to Sadr accused Iraqi and U.S. troops of violating a cease-fire agreement by rounding up his followers in the Amil neighborhood of southwestern Baghdad. More than 400 worshipers were detained at the Amil Mosque on Friday, according to Salah al-Obaidi, Sadr's chief spokesman.
"The Sadr office in Najaf denounces this act and condemns the desecration of a sacred place," Obaidi said, "and considers it a violation of the agreement . . . and a dangerous step."
Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, said the detentions took place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Bayaa neighborhood west of Amil after Iraqi forces discovered a weapons cache near the local Sadr office. He said 513 people "of interest" were screened by American and Iraqi troops; 128 people were detained by the Iraqi military, and 41 were detained by U.S. soldiers.
The agreement reached between the Sadrists and the main Shiite bloc in parliament was designed to allow Iraqi troops to enter Sadr City in exchange for avoiding mass detentions of Sadrists, Obaidi said. He added that it was supposed to apply to the entire country, not just Sadr City.
Crocker said Saturday that Sadr's followers, who include members of the powerful Mahdi Army militia, must decide whether "they are going to identify with a militia that is increasingly unpopular" or seek to consolidate their power by participating in provincial elections scheduled for the fall.
"They have some decisions to make, especially in light of recent events," he said, referring to the recent military operations in Basra and Sadr City.
Correspondent Amit R. Paley and special correspondent K.I. Ibrahim in Baghdad contributed to this report.


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This is a very tasty homemade French dressing.
I missed French dressing from when I was a child but the bottle stuff as an adult is not very good.... This recipe is a perfect blend of sweetness salty savory tangy... A definite keeper and didn't need to change a thing - 23 Sep 2014
This is one of the best French dressings I've tried. Very thick and tangy. I would cut down on the oil just slightly. I tried a few variations: for the vinegar I used half rice vinegar and half balsamic. I also used brown sugar for more flavor and a thicker texture. No liquid smoke? Try a splash of worstershire. - 09 Sep 2001 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This recipe is better than any french dressing that I have ever tasted. It was so good that we served it on a salad after only being chilled for about 15 minutes. I had not fresh chives so I used dry chives. It worked great. The pepper sauce gave it a "gently" spiced flavor, somewhat tangy! - 20 Feb 2004 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


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Whole body vibration induced increase in leg muscle activity during different squat exercises
Abstract:This study analyzed leg muscle activity during Whole Body Vibration training. Subjects performed standard unloaded exercises on a Power Plate machine. The exercises were performed in two conditions: with Whole Body Vibration and without.Conclusion:Whole Body Vibration resulted in an increased activation of the leg muscles. During Whole Body Vibration, leg muscle activity varied between 12.6 and 82.4% of MVC values.
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Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 20(1), 124–129 , 2006 Authors: Machteld Roelants, Sabine M.P. Verschueren, Christophe Delecluse, Oron Levin, and ValŠre Stijnen Affiliations: Exercise Physiology and Biomechanics Laboratory and Laboratory of Motor Control, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Department of Kinesiology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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