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Morality and Abstract Thinking
8/12/17- ON A SIDE NOTE: It is now a fact that local, state and presumably federal authorities will act with illegal violence in cooperation with terrorist groups in order to keep WHITE PEOPLE from simply giving speeches.
How Africans may differ from Westerners
by Gedaliah Braun
I am an American who taught philosophy in several African universities from 1976 to 1988, and have lived since that time in South Africa. When I first came to Africa, I knew virtually nothing about the continent or its people, but I began learning quickly. I noticed, for example, that Africans rarely kept promises and saw no need to apologize when they broke them. It was as if they were unaware they had done anything that called for an apology.
It took many years for me to understand why Africans behaved this way but I think I can now explain this and other behavior that characterizes Africa. I believe that morality requires abstract thinking—as does planning for the future—and that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.
What follow are not scientific findings. There could be alternative explanations for what I have observed, but my conclusions are drawn from more than 30 years of living among Africans.
|A public service billboard in South Africa. Note old tire and gas can.
My first inklings about what may be a deficiency in abstract thinking came from what I began to learn about African languages. In a conversation with students in Nigeria I asked how you would say that a coconut is about halfway up the tree in their local language. "You can't say that," they explained. "All you can say is that it is 'up'." "How about right at the top?" "Nope; just 'up'." In other words, there appeared to be no way to express gradations.
A few years later, in Nairobi, I learned something else about African languages when two women expressed surprise at my English dictionary. "Isn't English your language?" they asked. "Yes," I said. "It's my only language." "Then why do you need a dictionary?"
They were puzzled that I needed a dictionary, and I was puzzled by their puzzlement. I explained that there are times when you hear a word you're not sure about and so you look it up. "But if English is your language," they asked, "how can there be words you don't know?" "What?" I said. "No one knows all the words of his language."
|I have concluded that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.
"But we know all the words of Kikuyu; every Kikuyu does," they replied. I was even more surprised, but gradually it dawned on me that since their language is entirely oral, it exists only in the minds of Kikuyu speakers. Since there is a limit to what the human brain can retain, the overall size of the language remains more or less constant. A written language, on the other hand, existing as it does partly in the millions of pages of the written word, grows far beyond the capacity of anyone to know it in its entirety. But if the size of a language is limited, it follows that the number of concepts it contains will also be limited and hence that both language and thinking will be impoverished.
African languages were, of necessity, sufficient in their pre-colonial context. They are impoverished only by contrast to Western languages and in an Africa trying to emulate the West. While numerous dictionaries have been compiled between European and African languages, there are few dictionaries within a single African language, precisely because native speakers have no need for them. I did find a Zulu-Zulu dictionary, but it was a small-format paperback of 252 pages.
My queries into Zulu began when I rang the African Language Department at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and spoke to a white guy. Did "precision" exist in the Zulu language prior to European contact? "Oh," he said, "that's a very Eurocentric question!" and simply wouldn't answer. I rang again, spoke to another white guy, and got a virtually identical response.
|Kikuyu women do not need dictionaries.
So I called the University of South Africa, a large correspondence university in Pretoria, and spoke to a young black guy. As has so often been my experience in Africa, we hit it off from the start. He understood my interest in Zulu and found my questions of great interest. He explained that the Zulu word for "precision" means "to make like a straight line." Was this part of indigenous Zulu? No; this was added by the compilers of the dictionary.
But, he assured me, it was otherwise for "promise." I was skeptical. How about "obligation?" We both had the same dictionary (English-Zulu, Zulu-English Dictionary, published by Witwatersrand University Press in 1958), and looked it up. The Zulu entry means "as if to bind one's feet." He said that was not indigenous but was added by the compilers. But if Zulu didn't have the concept of obligation, how could it have the concept of a promise, since a promise is simply the oral undertaking of an obligation? I was interested in this, I said, because Africans often failed to keep promises and never apologized—as if this didn't warrant an apology.
A light bulb seemed to go on in his mind. Yes, he said; in fact, the Zulu word for promise—isithembiso—is not the correct word. When a black person "promises" he means "maybe I will and maybe I won't." But, I said, this makes nonsense of promising, the very purpose of which is to bind one to a course of action. When one is not sure he can do something he may say, "I will try but I can't promise." He said he'd heard whites say that and had never understood it till now. As a young Romanian friend so aptly summed it up, when a black person "promises" he means "I'll try."
The failure to keep promises is therefore not a language problem. It is hard to believe that after living with whites for so long they would not learn the correct meaning, and it is too much of a coincidence that the same phenomenon is found in Nigeria, Kenya and Papua New Guinea, where I have also lived. It is much more likely that Africans generally lack the very concept and hence cannot give the word its correct meaning. This would seem to indicate some difference in intellectual capacity.
Note the Zulu entry for obligation: "as if to bind one's feet." An obligation binds you, but it does so morally, not physically. It is an abstract concept, which is why there is no word for it in Zulu. So what did the authors of the dictionary do? They took this abstract concept and made it concrete. Feet, rope, and tying are all tangible and observable, and therefore things all blacks will understand, whereas many will not understand what an obligation is. The fact that they had to define it in this way is, by itself, compelling evidence for my conclusion that Zulu thought has few abstract concepts and indirect evidence for the view that Africans may be deficient in abstract thinking.
Abstract thinking
Abstract entities do not exist in space or time; they are typically intangible and can't be perceived by the senses. They are often things that do not exist. "What would happen if everyone threw rubbish everywhere?" refers to something we hope will not happen, but we can still think about it.
Everything we observe with our senses occurs in time and everything we see exists in space; yet we can perceive neither time nor space with our senses, but only with the mind. Precision is also abstract; while we can see and touch things made with precision, precision itself can only be perceived by the mind.
How do we acquire abstract concepts? Is it enough to make things with precision in order to have the concept of precision? Africans make excellent carvings, made with precision, so why isn't the concept in their language? To have this concept we must not only do things with precision but must be aware of this phenomenon and then give it a name.
How, for example, do we acquire such concepts as belief and doubt? We all have beliefs; even animals do. When a dog wags its tail on hearing his master's footsteps, it believes he is coming. But it has no concept of belief because it has no awareness that it has this belief and so no awareness of belief per se. In short, it has no self-consciousness, and thus is not aware of its own mental states.
It has long seemed to me that blacks tend to lack self-awareness. If such awareness is necessary for developing abstract concepts it is not surprising that African languages have so few abstract terms. A lack of self-awareness—or introspection—has advantages. In my experience neurotic behavior, characterized by excessive and unhealthy self-consciousness, is uncommon among blacks. I am also confident that sexual dysfunction, which is characterized by excessive self-consciousness, is less common among blacks than whites.
Time is another abstract concept with which Africans seem to have difficulties. I began to wonder about this in 1998. Several Africans drove up in a car and parked right in front of mine, blocking it. "Hey," I said, "you can't park here." "Oh, are you about to leave?" they asked in a perfectly polite and friendly way. "No," I said, "but I might later. Park over there"—and they did.
While the possibility that I might want to leave later was obvious to me, their thinking seemed to encompass only the here and now: "If you're leaving right now we understand, but otherwise, what's the problem?" I had other such encounters and the key question always seemed to be, "Are you leaving now?" The future, after all, does not exist. It will exist, but doesn't exist now. People who have difficulty thinking of things that do not exist will ipso facto have difficulty thinking about the future.
It appears that the Zulu word for "future"—isikhati—is the same as the word for time, as well as for space. Realistically, this means that these concepts probably do not exist in Zulu thought. It also appears that there is no word for the past—meaning, the time preceding the present. The past did exist, but no longer exists. Hence, people who may have problems thinking of things that do not exist will have trouble thinking of the past as well as the future.
This has an obvious bearing on such sentiments as gratitude and loyalty, which I have long noticed are uncommon among Africans. We feel gratitude for things that happened in the past, but for those with little sense of the past such feelings are less likely to arise.
Why did it take me more than 20 years to notice all of this? I think it is because our assumptions about time are so deeply rooted that we are not even aware of making them and hence the possibility that others may not share them simply does not occur to us. And so we don't see it, even when the evidence is staring us in the face.
Mathematics and maintenance
I quote from an article in the South African press about the problems blacks have with mathematics:
"[Xhosa] is a language where polygon and plane have the same definition … where concepts like triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon are defined by only one word." ("Finding New Languages for Maths and Science," Star [Johannesburg], July 24, 2002, p. 8.)
|Apartheid-era sign post.
More accurately, these concepts simply do not exist in Xhosa, which, along with Zulu, is one of the two most widely spoken languages in South Africa. In America, blacks are said to have a "tendency to approximate space, numbers and time instead of aiming for complete accuracy." (Star, June 8, 1988, p.10.) In other words, they are also poor at math. Notice the identical triumvirate—space, numbers, and time. Is it just a coincidence that these three highly abstract concepts are the ones with which blacks — everywhere — seem to have such difficulties?
The entry in the Zulu dictionary for "number," by the way — ningi — means "numerous," which is not at all the same as the concept of number. It is clear, therefore, that there is no concept of number in Zulu.
White rule in South Africa ended in 1994. It was about ten years later that power outages began, which eventually reached crisis proportions. The principle reason for this is simply lack of maintenance on the generating equipment. Maintenance is future-oriented, and the Zulu entry in the dictionary for it is ondla, which means: "1. Nourish, rear; bring up; 2. Keep an eye on; watch (your crop)." In short, there is no such thing as maintenance in Zulu thought, and it would be hard to argue that this is wholly unrelated to the fact that when people throughout Africa say "nothing works," it is only an exaggeration.
The New York Times reports that New York City is considering a plan (since implemented) aimed at getting blacks to "do well on standardized tests and to show up for class," by paying them to do these things and that could "earn [them] as much as $500 a year." Students would get money for regular school attendance, every book they read, doing well on tests, and sometimes just for taking them. Parents would be paid for "keeping a full-time job … having health insurance … and attending parent-teacher conferences." (Jennifer Medina, "Schools Plan to Pay Cash for Marks," New York Times, June 19, 2007.)
The clear implication is that blacks are not very motivated. Motivation involves thinking about the future and hence about things that do not exist. Given black deficiencies in this regard, it is not surprising that they would be lacking in motivation, and having to prod them in this way is further evidence for such a deficiency.
The Zulu entry for "motivate" is banga, under which we find "1. Make, cause, produce something unpleasant; … to cause trouble . … 2. Contend over a claim; … fight over inheritance; … 3. Make for, aim at, journey towards … ." Yet when I ask Africans what banga means, they have no idea. In fact, no Zulu word could refer to motivation for the simple reason that there is no such concept in Zulu; and if there is no such concept there cannot be a word for it. This helps explain the need to pay blacks to behave as if they were motivated.
The same New York Times article quotes Darwin Davis of the Urban League as "caution[ing] that the … money being offered [for attending class] was relatively paltry … and wondering … how many tests students would need to pass to buy the latest video game."
Instead of being shamed by the very need for such a plan, this black activist complains that the payments aren't enough! If he really is unaware how his remarks will strike most readers, he is morally obtuse, but his views may reflect a common understanding among blacks of what morality is: not something internalized but something others enforce from the outside. Hence his complaint that paying children to do things they should be motivated to do on their own is that they are not being paid enough.
In this context, I recall some remarkable discoveries by the late American linguist, William Stewart, who spent many years in Senegal studying local languages. Whereas Western cultures internalize norms—"Don't do that!" for a child, eventually becomes "I mustn't do that" for an adult—African cultures do not. They rely entirely on external controls on behavior from tribal elders and other sources of authority. When Africans were detribalized, these external constraints disappeared, and since there never were internal constraints, the results were crime, drugs, promiscuity, etc. Where there have been other forms of control—as in white-ruled South Africa, colonial Africa, or the segregated American South—this behavior was kept within tolerable limits. But when even these controls disappear there is often unbridled violence.
Stewart apparently never asked why African cultures did not internalize norms, that is, why they never developed moral consciousness, but it is unlikely that this was just a historical accident. More likely, it was the result of deficiencies in abstract thinking ability.
|Public service message, South Africa.
One explanation for this lack of abstract thinking, including the diminished understanding of time, is that Africans evolved in a climate where they could live day to day without having to think ahead. They never developed this ability because they had no need for it. Whites, on the other hand, evolved under circumstances in which they had to consider what would happen if they didn't build stout houses and store enough fuel and food for the winter. For them it was sink or swim.
Surprising confirmation of Stewart's ideas can be found in the May/June 2006 issue of the Boston Review, a typically liberal publication. In "Do the Right Thing: Cognitive Science's Search for a Common Morality," Rebecca Saxe distinguishes between "conventional" and "moral" rules. Conventional rules are supported by authorities but can be changed; moral rules, on the other hand, are not based on conventional authority and are not subject to change. "Even three-year-old children … distinguish between moral and conventional transgressions," she writes. The only exception, according to James Blair of the National Institutes of Health, are psychopaths, who exhibit "persistent aggressive behavior." For them, all rules are based only on external authority, in whose absence "anything is permissible." The conclusion drawn from this is that "healthy individuals in all cultures respect the distinction between conventional … and moral [rules]."
However, in the same article, another anthropologist argues that "the special status of moral rules cannot be part of human nature, but is … just … an artifact of Western values." Anita Jacobson-Widding, writing of her experiences among the Manyika of Zimbabwe, says:
"I tried to find a word that would correspond to the English concept of 'morality.' I explained what I meant by asking my informants to describe the norms for good behavior toward other people. The answer was unanimous. The word for this was tsika. But when I asked my bilingual informants to translate tsika into English, they said that it was 'good manners' …"
|An all-too-common problem.
She concluded that because good manners are clearly conventional rather than moral rules, the Manyika simply did not have a concept of morality. But how would one explain this absence? Miss Jacobson-Widding's explanation is the typical nonsense that could come only from a so-called intellectual: "the concept of morality does not exist." The far more likely explanation is that the concept of morality, while otherwise universal, is enfeebled in cultures that have a deficiency in abstract thinking.
According to now-discredited folk wisdom, blacks are "children in adult bodies," but there may be some foundation to this view. The average African adult has the raw IQ score of the average 11-year-old white child. This is about the age at which white children begin to internalize morality and no longer need such strong external enforcers.
Gruesome cruelty
Another aspect of African behavior that liberals do their best to ignore but that nevertheless requires an explanation is gratuitous cruelty. A reviewer of Driving South, a 1993 book by David Robbins, writes:
|Victim of Rwandan violence.
"A Cape social worker sees elements that revel in violence … It's like a cult which has embraced a lot of people who otherwise appear normal. … At the slightest provocation their blood-lust is aroused. And then they want to see death, and they jeer and mock at the suffering involved, especially the suffering of a slow and agonizing death." (Citizen [Johannesburg], July 12, 1993, p.6.)
There is something so unspeakably vile about this, something so beyond depravity, that the human brain recoils. This is not merely the absence of human empathy, but the positive enjoyment of human suffering, all the more so when it is "slow and agonizing." Can you imagine jeering at and mocking someone in such horrible agony?
During the apartheid era, black activists used to kill traitors and enemies by "necklacing" them. An old tire was put around the victim's neck, filled with gasoline, and—but it is best to let an eye-witness describe what happened next:
"The petrol-filled tyre is jammed on your shoulders and a lighter is placed within reach . … Your fingers are broken, needles are pushed up your nose and you are tortured until you put the lighter to the petrol yourself." (Citizen; "SA's New Nazis," August 10, 1993, p.18.)
The author of an article in the Chicago Tribune, describing the equally gruesome way the Hutu killed Tutsi in the Burundi massacres, marveled at "the ecstasy of killing, the lust for blood; this is the most horrible thought. It's beyond my reach." ("Hutu Killers Danced In Blood Of Victims, Videotapes Show," Chicago Tribune, September 14, 1995, p.8.) The lack of any moral sense is further evidenced by their having videotaped their crimes, "apparently want[ing] to record … [them] for posterity." Unlike Nazi war criminals, who hid their deeds, these people apparently took pride in their work.
|Where Amy Biehl was killed.
In 1993, Amy Biehl, a 26-year-old American on a Fulbright scholarship, was living in South Africa, where she spent most of her time in black townships helping blacks. One day when she was driving three African friends home, young blacks stopped the car, dragged her out, and killed her because she was white. A retired senior South African judge, Rex van Schalkwyk, in his 1998 book One Miracle is Not Enough, quotes from a newspaper report on the trial of her killers: "Supporters of the three men accused of murdering [her] … burst out laughing in the public gallery of the Supreme Court today when a witness told how the battered woman groaned in pain." This behavior, Van Schalkwyk wrote, "is impossible to explain in terms accessible to rational minds." (pp. 188-89.)
These incidents and the responses they evoke—"the human brain recoils," "beyond my reach," "impossible to explain to rational minds" — represent a pattern of behavior and thinking that cannot be wished away, and offer additional support for my claim that Africans are deficient in moral consciousness.
I have long suspected that the idea of rape is not the same in Africa as elsewhere, and now I find confirmation of this in Newsweek:
"According to a three-year study [in Johannesburg] … more than half of the young people interviewed — both male and female — believe that forcing sex with someone you know does not constitute sexual violence … [T]he casual manner in which South African teens discuss coercive relationships and unprotected sex is staggering." (Tom Masland, "Breaking The Silence," Newsweek, July 9, 2000.)
Clearly, many blacks do not think rape is anything to be ashamed of.
The Newsweek author is puzzled by widespread behavior that is known to lead to AIDS, asking "Why has the safe-sex effort failed so abjectly?" Well, aside from their profoundly different attitudes towards sex and violence and their heightened libido, a major factor could be their diminished concept of time and reduced ability to think ahead.
|Liberian billboard
Nevertheless, I was still surprised by what I found in the Zulu dictionary. The main entry for rape reads: "1. Act hurriedly; … 2. Be greedy. 3. Rob, plunder, … take [possessions] by force." While these entries may be related to our concept of rape, there is one small problem: there is no reference to sexual intercourse! In a male-dominated culture, where saying "no" is often not an option (as confirmed by the study just mentioned), "taking sex by force" is not really part of the African mental calculus. Rape clearly has a moral dimension, but perhaps not to Africans. To the extent they do not consider coerced sex to be wrong, then, by our conception, they cannot consider it rape because rape is wrong. If such behavior isn't wrong it isn't rape.
An article about gang rape in the left-wing British paper, the Guardian, confirms this when it quotes a young black woman: "The thing is, they [black men] don't see it as rape, as us being forced. They just see it as pleasure for them." (Rose George, "They Don't See it as Rape. They Just See it as Pleasure for Them," June 5, 2004.) A similar attitude seems to be shared among some American blacks who casually refer to gang rape as "running a train." (Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler, Vintage Books, 1995.)
If the African understanding of rape is far afield, so may be their idea of romance or love. I recently watched a South African television program about having sex for money. Of the several women in the audience who spoke up, not a single one questioned the morality of this behavior. Indeed, one plaintively asked, "Why else would I have sex with a man?"
From the casual way in which Africans throw around the word "love," I suspect their understanding of it is, at best, childish. I suspect the notion is alien to Africans, and I would be surprised if things are very different among American blacks. Africans hear whites speak of "love" and try to give it a meaning from within their own conceptual repertoire. The result is a child's conception of this deepest of human emotions, probably similar to their misunderstanding of the nature of a promise.
I recently located a document that was dictated to me by a young African woman in June 1993. She called it her "story," and the final paragraph is a poignant illustration of what to Europeans would seem to be a limited understanding of love:
"On my way from school, I met a boy. And he proposed me. His name was Mokone. He tell me that he love me. And then I tell him I will give him his answer next week. At night I was crazy about him. I was always thinking about him."
Moral blindness
Whenever I taught ethics I used the example of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French Army who was convicted of treason in 1894 even though the authorities knew he was innocent. Admitting their mistake, it was said, would have a disastrous effect on military morale and would cause great social unrest. I would in turn argue that certain things are intrinsically wrong and not just because of their consequences. Even if the results of freeing Dreyfus would be much worse than keeping him in prison, he must be freed, because it is unjust to keep an innocent man in prison.
To my amazement, an entire class in Kenya said without hesitation that he should not be freed. Call me dense if you want, but it was 20 years before the full significance of this began to dawn on me.
|Death is certain but accidents are not.
Africans, I believe, may generally lack the concepts of subjunctivity and counterfactuality. Subjunctivity is conveyed in such statements as, "What would you have done if I hadn't showed up?" This is contrary to fact because I did show up, and it is now impossible for me not to have shown up. We are asking someone to imagine what he would have done if something that didn't happen (and now couldn't happen) had happened. This requires self-consciousness, and I have already described blacks' possible deficiency in this respect. It is obvious that animals, for example, cannot think counterfactually, because of their complete lack of self-awareness.
When someone I know tried to persuade his African workers to contribute to a health insurance policy, they asked "What's it for?" "Well, if you have an accident, it would pay for the hospital." Their response was immediate: "But boss, we didn't have an accident!" "Yes, but what if you did?" Reply? "We didn't have an accident!" End of story.
|South African AIDS education poster.
Interestingly, blacks do plan for funerals, for although an accident is only a risk, death is a certainty. (The Zulu entries for "risk" are "danger" and "a slippery surface.") Given the frequent all-or-nothing nature of black thinking, if it's not certain you will have an accident, then you will not have an accident. Furthermore, death is concrete and observable: We see people grow old and die. Africans tend to be aware of time when it is manifested in the concrete and observable.
One of the pivotal ideas underpinning morality is the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. "How would you feel if someone stole everything you owned? Well, that's how he would feel if you robbed him." The subjunctivity here is obvious. But if Africans may generally lack this concept, they will have difficulty in understanding the Golden Rule and, to that extent, in understanding morality.
If this is true we might also expect their capacity for human empathy to be diminished, and this is suggested in the examples cited above. After all, how do we empathize? When we hear about things like "necklacing" we instinctively — and unconsciously — think: "How would I feel if I were that person?" Of course I am not and cannot be that person, but to imagine being that person gives us valuable moral "information:" that we wouldn't want this to happen to us and so we shouldn't want it to happen to others. To the extent people are deficient in such abstract thinking, they will be deficient in moral understanding and hence in human empathy—which is what we tend to find in Africans.
In his 1990 book Devil's Night, Ze'ev Chafets quotes a black woman speaking about the problems of Detroit: "I know some people won't like this, but whenever you get a whole lot of black people, you're gonna have problems. Blacks are ignorant and rude." (pp. 76-77.)
If some Africans cannot clearly imagine what their own rude behavior feels like to others—in other words, if they cannot put themselves in the other person's shoes—they will be incapable of understanding what rudeness is. For them, what we call rude may be normal and therefore, from their perspective, not really rude. Africans may therefore not be offended by behavior we would consider rude — not keeping appointments, for example. One might even conjecture that African cruelty is not the same as white cruelty, since Africans may not be fully aware of the nature of their behavior, whereas such awareness is an essential part of "real" cruelty.
I am hardly the only one to notice this obliviousness to others that sometimes characterizes black behavior. Walt Harrington, a white liberal married to a light-skinned black, makes some surprising admissions in his 1994 book, Crossings: A White Man's Journey Into Black America:
"I notice a small car … in the distance. Suddenly … a bag of garbage flies out its window . … I think, I'll bet they're blacks. Over the years I've noticed more blacks littering than whites. I hate to admit this because it is a prejudice. But as I pass the car, I see that my reflex was correct—[they are blacks].
"[As I pull] into a McDonald's drive-through … [I see that] the car in front of me had four black[s] in it. Again … my mind made its unconscious calculation: We'll be sitting here forever while these people decide what to order. I literally shook my head . … My God, my kids are half black! But then the kicker: we waited and waited and waited. Each of the four … leaned out the window and ordered individually. The order was changed several times. We sat and sat, and I again shook my head, this time at the conundrum that is race in America.
"I knew that the buried sentiment that had made me predict this disorganization … was … racist. … But my prediction was right." (pp. 234-35.)
Africans also tend to litter. To understand this we must ask why whites don't litter, at least not as much. We ask ourselves: "What would happen if everyone threw rubbish everywhere? It would be a mess. So you shouldn't do it!" Blacks' possible deficiency in abstract thinking makes such reasoning more difficult, so any behavior requiring such thinking is less likely to develop in their cultures. Even after living for generations in societies where such thinking is commonplace, many may still fail to absorb it.
|A trash pile in Sudan.
It should go without saying that my observations about Africans are generalizations. I am not saying that none has the capacity for abstract thought or moral understanding. I am speaking of tendencies and averages, which leave room for many exceptions.
To what extent do my observations about Africans apply to American blacks? American blacks have an average IQ of 85, which is a full 15 points higher than the African average of 70. The capacity for abstract thought is unquestionably correlated with intelligence, and so we can expect American blacks generally to exceed Africans in these respects.
Still, American blacks show many of the traits so striking among Africans: low mathematical ability, diminished abstract reasoning, high crime rates, a short time-horizon, rudeness, littering, etc. If I had lived only among American blacks and not among Africans, I might never have reached the conclusions I have, but the more extreme behavior among Africans makes it easier to perceive the same tendencies among American blacks.
Gedhalia Braun holds a PhD in philosophy and is the author of Racism, Guilt, Self-Hatred and Self-Deceit. Anyone interested in reading his book can purchase it in PDF format at the AR website, AmRen.com.
O Tempora, O Mores!
Sub-replacement Fertility
|These fake babies are fast asleep.
Women who did not want children but still felt a maternal urge used to make do with houseplants or a cat, but now, thanks to a company called Reborn, they can experience the joys of motherhood without the bother of pregnancy, childbirth, or even midnight feedings. Reborn sells life-like infant dolls for prices ranging from $100 to several thousand dollars, and business is booming.
Forty-nine-year-old Linda is married with no children of her own, but with a Reborn in her arms she can now feel like a mother. "It's not a crazy habit, like, you know, drinking, or some sort of, something that's going to hurt you," she explains. "It's like a hobby and it doesn't really hurt anybody." Lachelle Moore, who has real children and grandchildren, has a clutch of fakes as well. "What's so wonderful about Reborns is that they're forever babies. There's no college tuition, no dirty diapers … just the good part of motherhood," she says. Mrs. Moore even throws birthday parties for her dolls and other women take them to the park or out to restaurants. Psychologists say all this is harmless unless women "stop interacting socially with others." [Adult Women Play House With Fake Babies, ABC-7 News (Washington, DC), Jan. 2, 2009.]
The Company He Kept
One of Martin Luther King's advisers was a black Baptist preacher named James Luther Bevel, who died in December. A prominent leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the New York Times remembered Bevel as "charismatic and eloquently quick-witted in a vernacular style" and noted, more reservedly, that he was "a man of passion and peculiarity." Historian Taylor Branch described him more vividly: "a wild man from Itta Bena, Mississippi . … A self-described example of the legendary 'chicken-eating, liquor-drinking, woman-chasing Baptist preacher.' "
Bevel is credited with turning King against the war in Vietnam War, which Bevel believed was an act of racist imperialism. Bevel was also at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis the day King was shot, and went to his grave insisting that James Earl Ray did not pull the trigger. Bevel claimed he had proof of Ray's innocence—which he never produced—and even offered to represent him in court, though he was not a lawyer. By 1970, Bevel had become something of a prophet to a group of disciples who were students at Spelman College, the black girls' school in Atlanta. After he forced some of them to drink his urine as a loyalty test, the SCLC expelled him. During the 1980s, Bevel supported Ronald Reagan and ran for Congress in Illinois as a Republican. He eventually switched allegiance to perpetual fringe presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, and even served as his running mate in 1992.
In April 2008, a Virginia jury convicted Bevel of incest after one of his daughters claimed he forced her to have sex with him in the 1990s (Virginia has no statute of limitations for incest). Three other daughters also accused Bevel of molesting them and it came out in court that Bevel had fathered 16 children by 7 women. In October, a judge sentenced Bevel to 15 years in prison, but he was released in November, shortly before he died, because of pancreatic cancer. [Bruce Weber, James L. Bevel, 72, An Adviser to Dr. King, New York Times, Dec. 23, 2008.]
Bankrupt Detroit
Detroit's public school district is $400 million in the red and no longer has the money to buy basic supplies. The principal of one elementary school, Academy of the Americas, recently sent a letter asking parents and staff to donate items "that are of the utmost importance for proper school functioning and most importantly for student health and safety," such as toilet paper, paper towels, trash bags, and 60, 100 or 150-watt light bulbs. This is not the first time Principal Naomi Khalil has rattled the tin cup. At the beginning of the academic year she asked for pencils, pens, and Kleenex. [Detroit School Lacks Toilet Paper, Light Bulbs, ClickOnDetroit.com, Jan. 7, 2009.]
Spilling the Beans
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is a British historian of Spanish descent who teaches at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Before the election, Mr. Fernandez-Armesto wrote an article predicting an easy Obama victory, but said he could work up no enthusiasm for Mr. Obama because his policies would differ little from those of John McCain. His article is interesting only because of the following sentences:
"I have not been in the US long enough to be hypocritical about race. The hypocrisy is especially strong in the university sector, where color-blindness policies are a mask for positive discrimination. We are not allowed to know the race of job applicants, but we search the CVs for clues to candidates who will boost our department's racial diversity statistics." [Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Obama's Promise is Global, Times Higher Education, Oct. 2, 2008.]
Scouting Hispanics
The Boy Scouts are America's largest youth organization, with 2.8 million members, but membership peaked in 1972 and is now down by half. Scandals and bad publicity cut the rolls, and many boys prefer video games to camping, but the biggest challenge is demographic. Scouting is overwhelmingly white, and there are a lot more non-white children now than in 1972. Twenty percent of children under 18 are Hispanic—double the figure in 1980—and another 15 percent are black. Just 57 percent are white.
"We either are going to figure out how to make Scouting the most exciting, dynamic organization for Hispanic kids, or we're going to be out of business," says Rick Cronk, former national president of the Boy Scouts, and chairman of the World Scout Committee. Today, only three percent of Scouts are Hispanic, and Mr. Cronk wants to double that figure by 2010, when the Boy Scouts celebrate their centennial. He says earlier attempts to recruit Hispanics with soccer and Spanish brochures have largely failed because "we knew very little about the Hispanic family, how they see us, what they value."
The Boy Scouts have hired a PR firm that specializes in marketing to Hispanics and is making a pitch to immigrant parents in six heavily Hispanic cities from Fresno, California to Orlando, Florida. They will run commercials on Spanish radio and television stations, and hire more Spanish-speaking staff. "We're serious about this," says Rob Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive. "This is a reinventing of the Boy Scouts of America."
Julio Cammarota, a University of Arizona professor who studies Hispanics says the Scouts will have to change if they want to appeal to Hispanics. What has to go? The focus on individual achievement and camping in the woods. "They'd be better off starting with a carne asada (barbecue) in a city park," he says. "Sending their kids away on their own, that's not familiar [to Hispanic parents]. "[Boy Scouts See Hispanics As Key to Boosting Ranks, AP, Dec. 26, 2008.]
Lowering the Boone
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Back in 1968, Disney Studios drew a cartoon figure for the University of Denver, whose athletic teams are called Pioneers. The figure is a pudgy, bearded mountain man who wears a coonskin cap. The character became known as "Denver Boone" or just "Boone." Boone was fired as mascot in 1998 when the university became uncomfortable with his "lack of gender inclusiveness," and students and alumni have been trying to bring him back ever since. A survey conducted in 2008 showed 87 percent wanted him reinstated, but the university's History and Traditions Task Force announced that would never happen because Boone represents "an era of Western imperialism" and is "offensive" to women and non-whites.
Student body president Monica Kumar hailed the decision. "The name 'Boone' is linked to Daniel Boone, and to people of Native American ancestry, it's sensitive because he was part of a movement that pushed Native Americans to the side," she says. "We are a university that has been very sensitive to diversity and one of our objectives is to be inclusive. And this was an opportunity for us to come together and show our inclusiveness." Chancellor Robert Coombe agrees. "The old Boone figure is one that does not reflect the broad diversity of the DU community and is not an image that many of today's women, persons of color, international students and faculty and others can easily relate to as defining the pioneering spirit," he says. [Valerie Richardson, Denver Axes Mascot 'Boone' in Diversity Drive, Washington Times, Dec. 27, 2008.]
Quis Custodiet?
Growing up on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, Edward Caballero feared the Border Patrol, even though he is a natural-born citizen. "It seems like most Border Patrol officers were Anglos, and I hate to say it, not too friendly towards Hispanics," he explains, adding, "It's not so much that way anymore." Mr. Caballero should know. He is one of the Border Patrol's new Hispanic agents. In just two years, as a result of the Bush administration's efforts to expand and diversify the force, the number of Hispanic agents has grown from 6,400 in 2006 to 9,300 today, an increase of 45 percent. More than half—52 percent—of Border Patrol agents are now Hispanic. Recruiters say Hispanics are a natural fit. They speak Spanish, which is required of all agents, and many are familiar with the job.
Critics see the obvious problems: Hispanic agents, especially if they have family on the other side of the border, will be tempted to go easy on illegals, and drug cartels are likely to infiltrate a Hispanic force. There is already no shortage of miscreant Hispanic agents. In December, prosecutors indicted Agent Leonel Morales for taking a $9,000 bribe to escort a load of drugs across the border. Just before Christmas, a federal judge sentenced former Border Patrol Agent Reynaldo Zuniga to seven years in prison for smuggling cocaine. [James Pinkerton, Hispanics Bolster Border Patrol, Houston Chronicle, Dec. 29, 2008.]
Amnesty on the Agenda
Shortly after the election, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada spoke to reporters about the top priorities of the new Congress that will meet in January. Here is what he had to say about amnesty:
Q: With more Democrats in the Senate and the House and a Democrat in the White House, how do you see congressional efforts playing out on such issues as health care and immigration?
A: On immigration, there's been an agreement between (President-elect Barack) Obama and (Arizona Republican Sen. John) McCain to move forward on that. …
Q: Will there be as much of a fight on immigration as last time?
A: We've got McCain and we've got a few others. I don't expect much of a fight at all. [Deborah Barfield Berry, Reid Says Democrats to Tackle Big Issues, Gannett News Service, Nov. 23, 2008.]
We'll prove him wrong.
Un-neighborly Behavior
Antioch, California, is a mostly white city of 100,000 about 40 miles northwest of San Francisco. When the housing market slowed a few years ago, many Antioch landlords began accepting Section 8 tenants. Section 8 is the federal housing program that subsidizes rent for poor people. Desperate landlords like it because they get a steady income and tax breaks. Poor people like Section 8 because they can live in pricier neighborhoods. Federal bureaucrats like Section 8 because it "de-concentrates" poverty. The only people who don't like it are the neighbors.
In Antioch, most of the people getting vouchers were black, and from 2000 to 2007, as more landlords got Section 8 tenants, Antioch's black population doubled to more than 16,000. Crime went up, and residents began complaining about "loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing, and muggings of schoolchildren." Police got so many complaints about Section 8 renters that in 2006 they formed a special unit to deal with them. "In some neighborhoods, it was complete madness," says longtime resident David Gilbert, a black retired man who organized a community watch.
Under federal law, Section 8 renters can be booted from subsidized housing if they commit crimes. Antioch police weren't shy about filing for eviction, and 70 percent of filings were against blacks. Now several blacks are suing the city, accusing police of "discrimination" and of trying to drive them out. They have asked a federal judge to make their case a class-action suit on behalf of hundreds of other black renters. "A lot of people are moving out here looking for a better place to live," says plaintiff Karen Coleman. "We are trying to raise our kids like everyone else. But they don't want us here."
The situation in Antioch is "hotter than elsewhere," according to a spokesman for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, but most cities with an influx of Section 8 renters have the same problems. Many activists and academics deny that Section 8 brings crime to the suburbs. Susan Popkin, of the Urban Institute, is one of them, but concedes that Section 8 causes problems. "That can be a recipe for anxiety," she says. "It can really change the demographics of a neighborhood." [Paul Elias, Influx of Black Renters Raises Tension in Bay Area, AP, Dec. 30, 2008.]
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You are invited to our
Tacky Sweater Christmas Party!
Okay, you know our little party is not big enough to invite all of our blog buddies, but here is a sneak peek at the fun details.
The Invitation!
Isn't it fun! makes you want to grab your tacky christmas sweater, doesn't it?
Here is our
Guest of Honor
If you want that red necklace you can find it HERE
I really appreciate our local friends that rocked their Christmas sweaters in the balmy, hot, humid 85 degrees! That was the only technicality, otherwise we had so much fun!
It was so warm that this guy needed to cool off a bit.
Remember how I made that silly Loofah Sponge Wreath HERE?
He got quite comfortable in our Frosty Snowman Bathroom!
Speaking of bathrooms, we are right in the middle of our master bath remodel so decided to poke a little fun in there too.
Enough about tacky bathrooms, let's get on with our tacky party!
"You want me to wear WHAT?" says MyLove.
Luckily he is a good sport and helped out a ton! as well as my sweet co-hosts who made it so much easier to coordinate and facilitate.
How fitting the "queen of trash" throw a tacky party!
You HAVE to know I am not really trashy, its all in fun!
I kind of ran out of time and didn't get to embellish my sweater like I wanted to, but these guys sure did!
They really Rocked It and were voted as our winners!
Welcome to our Photo Booth full of fun little props!
I LOVE the frame! I purchased it from my friend's shop HERE. I know you are shocked that I actually PURCHASED it instead of finding it on the side of the road!
The above were a few of the brave ones that would let me publish their pics, the others tried on the props and laughed and giggled at the fun!
My sweet cohost...we should be in charge of all future neighborhood parties, we worked well together :)
Almost forgot, the lucky tacky winners received a
cheap fine bottle of wine dressed up in Christmas socks to look like sweaters (the younger winner was substituted with non alcoholic sparkler). I felt kind of wrong taking a picture of them displayed in our advent candle centerpiece, but that's how we roll.
Jesus drank wine so God will forgive us, right?
By Sunday the Advent centerpiece was back in order and ready for it's reverent lighting.
I have to say we had some fabulous guests that brought an abundance of holiday food. I wish I had a picture of the table because there were so many delicious treats shared!
And finally a little treat...our hot chocolate buffet. I was excited to put my
Pottery Barn Wannabe Dresser Makeover to good use!
Anyone want some hot chocolate to go with our 85degree balmy weather?
It was a fun thought, nonetheless!
And today it's a perfect 50degrees outside, gotta love that Texas weather, right?
And here are my favorite babies pictured on their first Christmas's.
Love them!
Finally, whew! Thanks for scrolling down through all of the pics. I have tons more - it was hard to narrow them down.
It was indeed a good evening. On Sunday morning just when I thought we had everything all cleaned up, this little guy showed up!
...and all of our other guests were gone!
Have you ever been to a tacky sweater Christmas Party?
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In case you haven't been following the news, Charlie has been doing a Friday morning wine show – Charlie's Choice – on this station with local radio personality Joe Sanchez at 9:10 every Friday morning. The pair discuss and sample wine and beer. It's fun, informative, and most important, LOCAL!!!! Tune in to AM-610 or go the the station website and listen online.
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Always great to come home for a visit and see a good friend who always gives me great choices of wine.
The bottle you suggested last night was excellent.
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Whistler resort features a fantastic series of Fire and Ice shows during the Winter season which are free for the public to enjoy every Sunday night. These very family friendly events are one of a kind that feature skiers, snowboarders, fire dancers, music and a variety of entertainment. Everyone in your holiday group will be amazed watching local athletes do freestyle tricks as they jump through the ring of fire at the base of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. The shows start at sunset after 6:00 pm during the main Winter season. Check the schedule for details and make sure to bring your camera.
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1 Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation,-Mr Bill Olner reported from the Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and Northern Ireland Act 2000 (Modification) Order 2004 (S.I., 2004, No. 1164) and the Direction given by the Secretary of State under section 51B(2) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 on 28th April 2004.
2 Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill [Lords],-The Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill [Lords] was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time on Friday 15th October and to be printed [Bill 109].
3 Child Trust Funds Bill (Programme) (No. 3),-A Motion was made, and the Question being put forthwith, pursuant to pursuant to Orders [28th June 2001 and 6th November 2003 (Programming of Bills)], That the following provisions shall apply to the Child Trust Funds Bill for the purpose of supplementing the Order of 15th December 2003 (Child Trust Funds Bill (Programme))-
4 Child Trust Funds Bill,-The House, according to Order, proceeded to consider the Lords Amendments to the Child Trust Funds Bill.
5 Adjournment (Armed Forces Personnel),-A Motion was made, and the Question being proposed, That this House do now adjourn-(Derek Twigg);
6 Royal Assent,-The Deputy Speaker notified the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, That Her Majesty had signified her Royal Assent to the following Acts, agreed upon by both Houses:
7 Adjournment (Armed Forces Personnel),-The Question being again proposed, That this House do now adjourn;
8 Medicines,-Ordered, That the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 (S.I., 2004, No. 1031), dated 1st April 2004, be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.-(Mr Nick Ainger.)
9 Public Petitions,-A Public Petition from Scott Fewster and others for the introduction of the vaccine Prevanar to combat pneumococcal disease was presented and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table and to be printed.
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Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Avi Ganor
Hanukkah lamp with depiction of flaming altar flanked by lions
16th century
Bronze, cast
Inscribed in Hebrew: "For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching [Hebrew: "Torah"] is light" (Proverbs 6:23)
H: 13.5; W: 16.2 cm
The Stieglitz Collection was donated to the Museum with the contribution of Erica and Ludwig Jesselson, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum
Accession number: B86.0013 ; 118/853
A flaming altar similar to the one adorning this Hanukkah lamp appears on
"fake shekels,"
minted from the 15th century onward in different parts of Europe. These shekels were sold to pilgrims visiting the Holy Land, as if they were the authentic coins paid as bribery to Judas Iscariot for his betrayal of Jesus. The design was based on Nachmanides's erroneous interpretation of the urn which appeared on the ancient shekels as the "incense altar."
From the Israel Museum publications:
Benjamin, Chaya, The Stieglitz Collection: Masterpieces of Jewish Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987, English / Hebrew
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Kylie Jenner and Tyga are obsessed with flaunting their relationship now that the reality star turned 18 — and a new report claims Ky is leaving VERY little to the imagination!
"Kylie is at an all time high in her confidence right now. She's never felt this good about herself or her body and she loves showing it off," a source told Hollywood Life. "Her sex life with Tyga is off the charts and she can't help but brag about it. Pretty much everyone in her family, well except for Caitlyn [Jenner] and her older brothers, are encouraging her to explore her sexuality and be proud of it."
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While this is all fine and dandy, it sounds like her mother, Kris Jenner, would prefer if she found this ~happiness~ with another suitor — and she has no problem making this dramatic AF for the upcoming season of 'Keeping up with the Kardashians'!
Kylie Jenner and Tyga with Kris Jenner. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)
"Everyone says they're worried that Tyga's using Kylie for her money," a source told Radar, hinting we will learn how the ladies REALLY feel about the youngest family member's new man. We already know they have qualms about Kylie allegedly
acting like a sugar mama being the breadwinner — she DID pay his $50,000 rent and settled for accepted a LEASED Ferrari as a birthday gift.
RELATED: Transsexual Model Spills On Tryst With Tyga — Was He Dating Kylie Jenner At The Time?!
"The family later discovered that the car was not only leased in Kylie's name, but she paid for half of the down payment!" the source continued.
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The Top 10 Korean actresses of 2015, according to DramaFever fans
Each year, TV Report releases power rankings of Korean actresses based on a poll of top PDs and producers in the industry as they choose who they most want to see headlining dramas. If you disagreed with the 2015 list of actresses, why not see what actual drama fans have to say? We already saw the list of actors, but here are the top 10 Korean actresses based on the number of fans they have on DramaFever:
Note: These rankings are purely based on fan numbers. Don't like the results? Become a fan of your favorite actresses to change next year's list!
10. Im Yoon Ah
Number of fans: 10,027
Recent series: Prime Minister and I
Number of fans: 9,220
Recent series: Healer
8. Krystal Jung
Number of fans: 10,271
Recent series: My Lovable Girl
7. Gong Hyo Jin
Number of fans: 10,581
Upcoming series: Producer
6. Song Ji Hyo
Number of fans: 11,697
Upcoming series: Emergency Couple
5. Suzy
Number of fans: 12,140
Recent series: Gu Family Book
Number of fans: 13,795
Upcoming series: Producer
See both Gong Hyo Jin and IU in this variety-style teaser for the upcoming series Producer:
3. Gu Hye Sun
Number of fans: 22,454
Recent series: Blood
2. Yoon Eun Hye
Number of fans: 22,949
Recent series: Marry Him If You Dare
Number of fans: 63,904
Recent series: Pinocchio
As a reference, here are last year's rankings:
10. Jung So Min
9. Lee Min Jung
8. Gong Hyo Jin
7. Song Ji Hyo
6. Im Yoon Ah
5. Suzy
3. Gu Hye Sun
2. Yoon Eun Hye
1. Park Shin Hye
The women's list is very similar from 2014 to 2015, but congratulations to Krystal and Park Min Young for making the list this time around! My other big takeaway was that someone needs to give Yoon Eun Hye a new drama worthy of her skills immediately! Were there any surprises for you? Remember, you can change the rankings for next year by becoming a fan of your favorite actors and actresses!


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This template creates a front-end Nodejs service and a multi-server MongoDB deployment on Ubuntu virtual machines, and configures the MongoDB installation for high availability
This Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template was created by a member of the community and not by Microsoft. Each ARM template is licensed to you under a licence agreement by its owner, not Microsoft. Microsoft is not responsible for ARM templates provided and licensed by community members and does not screen for security, compatibility or performance. Community ARM templates are not supported under any Microsoft support programme or service, and are made available AS IS without warranty of any kind.
|Parameter Name
|Administrator user name used when provisioning virtual machines (which also becomes a system user administrator in MongoDB)
|Administrator password used when provisioning virtual machines (which is also a password for the system administrator in MongoDB)
|Unique namespace for the Storage Account where the Virtual Machine's disks will be placed (this name will be used as a prefix to create one or more storage accounts as per t-shirt size)
|The arbitrary name of the virtual network provisioned for the MongoDB deployment
|Subnet name for the virtual network that resources will be provisioned in to
|The network address space for the virtual network
|The network address space for the virtual subnet
|The IP address prefix that will be used for constructing a static private IP address for each node in the cluster
|Name of storage for front end VM's.
|Unique DNS Name for the Public IP used to access the front end Virtual Machine.
|The Ubuntu version for the front end VM. This will pick a fully patched image of this given Ubuntu version. Allowed values: 12.04.2-LTS, 12.04.3-LTS, 12.04.4-LTS, 12.04.5-LTS, 12.10, 14.04.5-LTS, 14.10, 15.10.
|The flag allowing to enable or disable provisioning of the jumpbox VM that can be used to access the MongoDB environment
|T-shirt size of the MongoDB deployment
|The name of the MongoDB replica set
|The shared secret key for the MongoDB replica set
|Location for all resources.
Use the template
New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -Name <deployment-name> -ResourceGroupName <resource-group-name> -TemplateUri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/mongodb-nodejs-high-availability/azuredeploy.jsonInstalling and configuring Azure PowerShell
Command line
azure config mode arm azure group deployment create <my-resource-group> <my-deployment-name> --template-uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/mongodb-nodejs-high-availability/azuredeploy.jsonInstalling and configuring the Azure cross-platform command-line interface


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Jet Life 4 Life
Tag: Young Roddy
November 15, 2017 @ 9:43 PM EDT Songs
June 28, 2017 @ 10:52 AM EDT Songs
Light Up Another One
November 29, 2016 @ 12:27 PM EDT Songs
November 4, 2015 @ 1:27 PM EDT Songs
Money All Day.
July 27, 2015 @ 4:51 PM EDT Videos
May 19, 2014 @ 4:25 PM EDT Videos
Opportune Opportunity.
September 6, 2013 @ 1:26 PM EDT Mixtapes
Curren$y and his fellow Jet Life rider Young Roddy come together for their joint mixtape, Bales. Guests include Juvenile with production from Harry Fraud, Mike Will Made It, Cardo and more.
September 4, 2013 @ 2:37 PM EDT Songs
You know what they say: Mo money, mo problems. But with Mike Will Made It on the beat, Juve and Spitta Andretti have no qualms watching the money pile up.
June 21, 2013 @ 8:19 AM EDT General
Leave it to Spitta for some free music. And for his latest, he keeps it cooler than cool with his fellow Jet Setter, Young Roddy.
June 10, 2013 @ 10:32 PM EDT General
Down in Nawlins, you can find Young Roddy and 3D Na'Tee reppin' their area to the fullest in their new video. Off the JET pilot's release, Good Sense 2. Don't touch that dial.


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Definition of refer
- refer a patient to a specialist
- refer a bill back to a committee
- no one referred to yesterday's quarrel
- referred frequently to his notes while speaking
How can doctors refer patients for treatment without examining them first?
Most of the patients we see here were referred by other doctors.
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a(1)See Words from the same year
: to send (someone or something) to a particular person or place for treatment, help, advice, etc.
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Rita Ora & Rob Kardashian – MIM's VIEWS
Wretch 32 has decided to go and release a free mixtape for his fans. 'Wretchercise' demonstrates Wretch's old school flows, witty punchlines and his trademark anecdotal rhyming pattern in this 17 track strong mixtape.
The mixtape features a number of features, freestyles and original tracks for free.
Download 'Wretchercise'.
Over the past few months I've made a few appearances on Radio 1 & 1Xtra, so me being the slightly big headed guy that I am, I decided to blog a few of them just in case you missed me on NATIONAL radio..
1. As part of the Hackney Academy, in the run to Radio 1's Hackney Weekend, the station decided to give 20 young individuals from London the opportunity to take part in a 3 day training session in the studios. We were all put on Vis' show who was covering for Tim Westwood at the time and this is what happened when I introduced a track for the Hot 6 at 6..
2. If that wasn't enough, a few of us were given a 15 minute chunk of Charlie Sloth's Weekend morning show. To get Charlie to shut up for 15 minutes is a rare occasion, so we jumped at the opportunity and produced this little 15 minute bad-boy for the listeners..
One love to the producers who helped us, APE Media, Break London and the Take It On Team – this is only the beginning..
Seems like everybody's talking about this certain female rapper who has decided to infiltrate her way into the Rap game, she goes by the name of Angel Haze, the 20 year old's relentlessly raw lyrics balance up well with her hard-hitting flow.
She dropped a mixtape entitled: Reservation which focuses mainly on her hard upbringing, battles with love and dedication towards chasing a dream she's had for the last few years. After the release, of her tape big labels such as Universal Repubilic and Island decided to sign her up – if you haven't checked her out yet, do so!
Download the tape HERE
Devlin recently passed through Radio 1 to deliver his Fire in the Booth for Charlie Sloth's late night Hip-Hop show on BBC Radio 1. I was helping out with the production of the show on the day, everyone knows that the booth gets demolished when artists decide to drop their freestyle.
However, this time things were a bit different, Devlin actually decided to DESTROY the microphone literally!
One of the biggest Fire in Booth's I've heard to date, If you haven't checked his Fire in the Booth, check it below:
The girl of the moment right now – Miss Rita Ora, is currently touring with DJ Fresh all over the country. She recently made an appearance at Leeds University Union, where she shacked out the whole venue!
Once I found out that Rita was going to be performing in Leeds, I could not let this opportunity slide, I had to get an interview with her, and that is exactly what happened:
I wanted to know everything about this young girl, her journey has been remarkable: I wanted to know where it all started, how it happened, who influences her, why is she such a success and most importantly why she has a problem with the word eclectic?
Listen to the full interview here:
'R.I.P' is her first debut single which is out now to download from iTunes.
This Sunday on the Official Chart Show, I have no doubt that Rita Ora will be at Radio 1 – celebrating her new number 1!


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Back in the swing of fall yet? Are you sprinkling cinnamon on your morning cereal? Me too! It's the return of cooler weather, falling leaves and knee-high boots. If you're a parent, fall brings the scent of fresh notebook paper and pencil shavings and, let's not forget, the morning mad dash to get those kiddies to school on time. My kids are notorious time-wasters—if I had a dollar for every time I'm asked to search for a sock or a shoe (and it's always right in front of them), I'd be able to retire to some Caribbean island.
While my kids find their socks before eagerly expanding their minds, it's my J-O-B to keep those minds in finely tuned condition with nice, hearty breakfast-time foods. This requires productive meal-planning, which is why I love these mini-casseroles. A play on Mexican chilaquiles, this dish is baked in mini Dutch ovens, packed with veggies and served hot.
These Mini Chilaquiles Breakfast-Time Casseroles start with a layer of crushed tortilla chips, followed by salsa and a hearty mix of corn, black beans, tomatoes, jalapeños, cilantro and cheese. And they come together in a snap! Make the filling the night before and store in the refrigerator, then layer them quickly in the morning and pop them in the oven. Your food will be ready before you step out of the shower!
Check out more easy Mexican casseroles and simple breakfast and brunch ideas.


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Associate Professors — Franklin Chen, Warren V. Johnson, John M. Lyon, Debra Pearson, Michael Zorn (chair)
Assistant Professors — Julie M. Lukesh, Michael J. McIntire
Lecturer — Nydia Villanueva
Web site: www.uwgb.edu/chemistry
Chemistry Major Requirements | Chemistry Minor Requirements | Course Descriptions
Chemists have made significant contributions to the improvement of the quality of our lives. They have played a vital role in the advancement of so many fields that it is hard to think of an area where the contributions of chemists have not been important. The challenges of today and tomorrow will continue to rely upon well-trained and creative chemists for their solutions.
The UW-Green Bay Chemistry program is an integrated progression of lecture and laboratory instruction that is designed to provide students with the skills needed by chemists today. These skills include a solid understanding of chemical principles, hands-on training in the use of modern instrumentation, experience in the design of experiments and the ability to analyze data and present results. Students are encouraged to refine these skills by engaging in research. The majority of UW-Green Bay Chemistry majors have opportunities to work as research assistants on faculty projects, or to conduct their own independent projects. UW-Green Bay faculty are active in research on chemical catalysis, sol-gel chemistry, natural product synthesis, alternative and renewable energy, chemistry of ultrasound, polymeric surfactant synthesis and application, mesoporous material synthesis and application, chemistry of colors (computation), photocatalysis, sensors, environmental chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Experience in research is very important when entering the job market and in applying to graduate and professional schools.
The University maintains an excellent collection of modern instrumentation, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, mass spectrometers (MS), uv-visible spectrophotometers, infrared (IR) spectrophotometers, an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES), an atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), a luminescence spectrometer, a flow injection analyzer (FIA), gas chromatographs (GCs), high performance liquid chromatographs (HPLCs), an ion chromatograph (IC), a total organic carbon (TOC) analyzer, gamma-ray and liquid scintillation counters. Students gain hands-on experience with these instruments during advanced coursework and in research projects.
The UW-Green Bay Chemistry program is accredited by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Students who want to add depth to their programs may pursue an ACS-certified major in either Chemistry or Environmental Chemistry. Students who complete these majors are registered with the ACS and have the certification recorded on their official University credentials.
Chemistry majors must combine their studies with an interdisciplinary major or minor. A Chemistry major combined with a minor in Human Biology is excellent training for students aiming for professional schools in the health sciences, medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. Environmental Science would be an appropriate interdisciplinary minor for students planning careers as chemists or in environmental studies, or pursuing graduate studies in chemistry. About half of UW-Green Bay Chemistry majors continue their studies in graduate or professional schools.
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Rural Youth Empowerment Project
Volunteers for Development Association in Uganda (VODA Uganda). As children progress higher in classes, scholarstic demands increase. In addition HIV/AIDS has robbed of this community the energetic young parents who leave their young children under the guardianship of their grand parents who have grown old and weaker.
The above has led to a high number of school drop outs and subsequently, young girls marrying at an early age, migration to urban centers where they are greatly exploited sexually. The result is increased HIV infections and orphandhood.
Once young people are empowered, they can lead a self sustaining life. This can achieved by the involvement of the community, family units, religious institutions and support groups in the community. This is what VODA Uganda seeks to achieve in this rural community.
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Patty Granville, namesake for the City of Garland's Granville Arts Center, will be recognized during the 2017 Dance Council of North Texas (DCNT) Honors on Sunday, Oct. 29.
The DCNT will honor Patty with the Mary Warner Award for Service in Dance for her longtime support of the local dance community.
"I am so excited about this award," said Patty. "It is such an honor!"
Patty has served as director of the Garland Center for the Performing Arts since its opening in 1982. In 2003, the Garland City Council unanimously voted to rename the performing arts center to the Granville Arts Center, where she remains director. Patty is co-founder of Garland Summer Musicals and has served as its producer since 1983.
The DCNT congratulates Patty for this well-deserved honor. Thank you, Patty, for providing countless opportunities for performers, musicians and artisans to participate in their love of musical theatre!
The DCNT Honors will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, at the Dallas Black Dance Theater, 2700 Ann Williams Way, Dallas, TX 75201. Tickets are available at TheDanceCouncil.org or by calling 214-219-2290.


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Major Spoilers Podcast #501: Orchid
This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Skylanders, Orchid, and Hawkeye, oh my! Plus Fairy Quest, Dia de los Muertos, and the Harbinger! [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/msp501.mp3[/podcast] Direct Download Subscribe via iTunes RSS Feed Subscribe to the Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed! Show Notes after the Jump!
On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Orchid Volume 1
Tom Morello made a name for himself with his music, and this week, The Major Spoilers Podcast takes a look at his comic book endeavors by examining Orchid Volume 1. When the seas rose, genetic codes were smashed. Human settlements are ringed by a dense wilderness from which ferocious new animal species prey on the helpless. The high ground belongs to the rich and powerful that overlook swampland shantytowns from their fortress-like cities. Iron-fisted rule ensures order and allows the wealthy to harvest the poor as slaves. Delve into the first chapter of Orchid, the tale of a teenage prostitute
SNEAK PEEK: Orchid #2
Orchid #2 arrives in stores next week, but you can check out a sneak peek, right now, thanks to Dark Horse Comics.
NYCC'11: Tom Morello to perform at Kick-Off Concert
Press Release On Thursday, October 13th at 7:30PM, Tom Morello as The Nightwatchman, accompanied by the Freedom Fighter Orchestra will take the stage at the IGN Theater at the Javitts Center to play a riveting set for the New York Comic Con Kick-Off Concert.
SNEAK PEEK: Orchid #1
The highly anticipated Orchid #1 arrives in stores this week, and Dark Horse Comics sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek.
SNEAK PEEK: Orchid #1
Tom Morello's Orchid arrives in stores October 12, 2011, but we have your early sneak peek of the first issue direct from our friends at Dark Horse Comics.
SDCC'11: Tom Morello comes to Dark Horse
Well, we completely didn't get the Tom Morello connection and the latest Dark Horse announcement, but it is now official – Orchid from the mind of Tom MOrello will arrive from the comic book publisher in October.


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Canada faces the most high-flying team of the Olympics in a serious goal drought going into the semifinal. But even though there has been a crisis in offense, there is no crisis of confidence entering the game against the Americans.
SOCHI – There would be no fiery, Phil Esposito-like speech from Jeff Carter on this day. The way Team Canada sees it, there is no need for a rallying point because there's no need for a rally. And in a way, they're right. Never before has there been this much consternation and hand wringing over a team that is 4-0-0. And rarely does a team come into a game with that kind of record labeled as the underdog.
"Yeah, I hear you," Carter said. "That's not bad, eh?"
Much of it has to do with 'not bad' being just good enough to win. But Canada knows that 'not bad' will translate to playing for bronze if they don't step up their scoring against USA in the semifinal. And all they have to do to accomplish that is get some pucks by Jonathan Quick, all the while stopping the best offensive team in the tournament at the other end of the ice.
And they'll have to do it with something of a different look. John Tavares, who had played well in a limited role, injured his knee and is out for the tournament. That could necessitate a move back to center for Patrice Bergeron, which would move him off the right side on the top line, although he practiced with Crosby and Chris Kunitz on Thursday, while Matt Duchene moved to the center spot on the fourth line.
The game between Canada and USA could turn out to be the crown jewel of a tournament that has so far, from a hockey quality standpoint, been a little lacking. To be sure, the level of play has been nowhere near what it was four years ago in Vancouver. So now the legacy might be built on two semifinals that feature some bitter neighbors. As intense as the rivalry is between Canada and USA, it's every bit as intense between Finland and Sweden.
Canadian defenseman Drew Doughty won a Stanley Cup with Quick two years ago and knows exactly what is at stake against him and fellow teammate Dustin Brown. "You really want those bragging rights for the rest of the season," Doughty said. "The rest of your life, really."
In order to do that, Canada is going to have to find a way to score goals from somewhere other than the blueline. Doughty and Shea Weber have found the back of the net from 58 feet away, but have done almost nothing from the prime scoring areas. For three games, Canada seemed to have no success getting anywhere near the net, but in the quarterfinal against Latvia, they were in so tight so many times on goalie Kristers Gudlevskis that they were almost too close to the net to score.
Unlike their opponent, they're generating very little off the rush, they're not able to find the middle of the ice and every time they try to find a lane, there are five bodies from the other team piled in front of them. The Americans, by contrast, have had no trouble scoring goals, have been dangerous in transition and off the rush and enter the game with all kinds of confidence on the offensive side of the puck.
"I think for the last two games, the way we've had to compete around the net and really grind for those chances, that will hopefully help us tomorrow," said captain Sidney Crosby, who has just three assists in four games. "We've had a lot of zone time. Whether we scored two goals or 10 in the last game doesn't matter."
Really? Canada would not have preferred to go into its semifinal against its biggest rival with more of a sense of confidence? Canada loved everything about the way it played against Latvia in the quarterfinal but lamented their lack of finish around the net. Playing a more familiar opponent in terms of style might help that cause.
"I think it will be a lot of fun," Carter said. "They're not just clogging up the middle of the ice and it will be a little more of what we're used to."
And one thing that has seemed to go unmentioned amid Canada's scoring woes is that Canada has been woefully behind the Americans in offense, but with six goals against so far, the Americans have given up twice as many goals as Canada in the tournament. The Canadians have surrendered just three, two that were tipped and one as the result of a clean-cut breakaway. And Doughty and Carter are used to being on teams that don't score. When the Kings won the Stanley Cup in 2012, they did so after finishing 28th in NHL scoring in the regular season.
"I know defense wins championships and goaltending wins championships," Doughty said, "and we're getting that from everyone on our team."


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ISMETT/UPMC Italy Language ServicesTranslation from Italian – December 13, 2006
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"The shout of alarm expressed today by professor Jeffrey Romoff, President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Pittsburgh, about the possibility of transferring the Ri.MED center to Ireland should make one reflect and should lead to an immediate change of course on the part of the national government". The President of ARS, Gianfranco Micchiche', made this statement today about the interview given by professor Romoff to the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. "The Prodi government", adds Micchiche', "has the courage to turn backwards. To not follow through on the realization of the biomedical center of Carini would be an obviously wrong choice that would lead to grave damage for our country. In fact, the Ri.MED center represents a concrete hope for the return of the many italian "brains" who today are working overseas and, at the same time, a strong injection of trust for a land that is alreadybeginning to wake itself up from a lengthy lethargic state".
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(ANSA) - PALERMO, 13 DIC - "Il grido d'allarme lanciato oggi
dal professor Jeffrey Romoff, presidente e chief executive
officer dell'Università di Pittsburgh, sulla possibilità di
trasferire in Irlanda il centro Ri.Med. deve far riflettere e
indurre a un repentino cambio di rotta da parte dell'esecutivo
nazionale". Il presidente dell'Ars Gianfranco Micciché
commenta così l'intervista rilasciata dal prof. Romoff al
quotidiano 'Il Sole 24 Ore'. "Il governo Prodi - aggiunge
Micciché - abbia il coraggio di tornare sui suoi passi. Non
dare seguito alla realizzazione del centro biomedico di Carini
sarebbe una scelta oggettivamente sbagliata che arrecherebbe un
grave danno al nostro Paese. Il centro Ri.Med. rappresenta,
infatti, una concreta speranza di rientro per quei tanti
'cervelli' italiani che oggi sono impegnati all'estero, e allo
stesso tempo una forte iniezione di fiducia per una terra che
sta cominciando a svegliarsi da un lungo letargo". (ANSA).
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