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The Nationals loaded the bases in the sixth inning and the Cardinals did the same in the seventh, but neither team could take advantage to push across a run.
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At San Francisco, Reds pitcher Arroyo struck out four and walked just one to earn his first career playoff win.
Ryan Hanigan posted three RBI, Jay Bruce drove in a pair of runs and Ryan Ludwick added a solo home run for Cincinnati, who won 5-2 in Game 1 on Saturday.
Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner suffered the loss after giving up four runs on seven hits and a walk over 4-1/3 innings.
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On this date, in 1798, my 3rd great grandfather, John Earl Harris, was born in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., NY. Unfortunately, I don't know for sure who his parents are. John married Nancy Ormsbee in 1820. They moved to Pierpont, OH, Porter Co., IN, and eventually to Cato, WI.
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We see lots of students come into the library just before class to print a slideshow or document their instructor has just posted to Blackboard. We also see plenty of people print journal articles just so they can use a pencil or highlighter to mark them up, or print out blank forms so they can fill them out with a typewriter. Have you been in that situation and wished you could save the trees and do all that on your computer or tablet? You can — and here are some free or low-cost tools you can use to do it.
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The Orange County Register has the cool story of how Mike Langdon, pump salesman, found himself in Arte Moreno's suite. If you guessed it involved four-time AL All-Star (ed note: really?) Mark Langston, well, you're right. But we'll get there.
Here's the first bit of Marcia Smith's Langdon story:
A former season-ticket holder, the Irvine resident has been going to games at Angel Stadium for the past 15 seasons and had never once been where he found himself this past Saturday night in the bottom of the first inning as the Angels played host to the New York Yankees. He was in a restroom – but not just anyone's restroom – and he was panicking, breathing rapidly, sweating, wondering how he got here, how he will get out and whether he'd have a heart attack first.
Langdon, 50 and as old as his favorite baseball team, was supposed to be meeting friends at the game. Instead, he was standing in front of a sink, staring himself down in the mirror and shaking off ideas as if they were pitches he didn't want to throw.
He needed to come clean about this case of mistaken identity. He couldn't hide out for nine innings in the restroom of Angels' owner Arte Moreno.
"Are you okay?" the affable Moreno asked Langdon, having emerged from his self-imposed exile.
"Mr. Moreno," Langdon confessed, "I don't think I should be here."
Anyway, read onward for the exciting conclusion and Reggie Jackson cameo. I won't spoil it for you, but maybe he even gets to meet Tim Salmon. (Note: he does not get to meet Tim Salmon. Tim Salmon has places to be, damn it. But Reggie is there.)
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Popular Hot Rodding Magazine (PHR) officially kicks off the 2013 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge competition at the dyno facilities of University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH). With multiple dyno cells available, the PHR staff, as well as engine builder participants wait anxiously for their turn on the dyno. Although three teams dropped out of this morning's dyno challenge including Atlantic Engines, JM Performance Auto Repair and Wise Performance Engineering, we still have another three teams up to bat. Make sure to stay tuned, we'll be competing each morning throughout the week, beginning at 9am Eastern Standard Time. Over the course of the next five days, we'll be providing each team's final dyno numbers and points as each day progresses as well as a daily recap at the end of each day.
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Chris Henderson and the Henderson Power Sports team have competed in previous events, and were well prepared with a 407 cubic inch small block Chevy. The engine sounded crisp on fire-up, but seemed to develop valvetrain instability at the 7000 rpm redlines of eliminations. Nonetheless, the Chevy twisted the dyno with some impressive power numbers, edging up to 698 peak horsepower and 611 lb-ft of torque. The overall score was somewhat clipped by the valve float up top, but the final tally was still impressive at 2679.8 points.
Chuck Keech came to the show with a 402 cubic inch Gen III Chrysler Hemi. The modern engine featured a carbureted induction and a tall single plane intake manifold. The effort was compromised by a severe valvetrain stability issue at over 6500 rpm, making the engine labor to meet the required 7000 rpm. Despite the problem at the top of the rev range, the Hemi delivered very strong output, with as much as 677 peak horsepower and 602 lb-ft of torque. Chuck was disappointed that the high rpm woes curbed the score, leaving qualifying at 2609.5 points. Still, the Hemi's power potential was nicely displayed.
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Bryce Mulvey of Dr-J's Performance brought a 23-degree Chevrolet equipped with their own AirWolf cylinder heads. With the exception of custom CP pistons, their competition engine was re-assembled with off the shelf parts, including Dr-J's standard 220cc CNC cylinder heads. The 436-cube small block showed very good peak output, recording 711 horsepower and 629 lb-ft of torque. The engine pulled effortlessly to beyond 7000 rpm, however a dip in the torque curve at the very bottom of the rpm range put a crimp on the score. The team completed qualifying eliminations with 2604 posted to the board.


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exactly ... I want to be a professor when I get older. Not during my working years, but I would like to teach an advanced night class in econometric theory or something like that. But that dream goes out the window with the JD degree from the US i suppose.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Hunter Equipment Upgrades
What's cool about this site is that you can specify which equipment sources you want to filter by (for example a solo player like myself might want to only show items obtained from crafting, reputation rewards and BoE). Then it shows you all the available equipment broken down by slot and sorted in decreasing order of DPS. It's very easy to figure out what upgrades you can get and which ones are worth it. The only flaw that I noticed is that it seems to be missing some items. For example I didn't see my Rusted-Link Spiked Gauntlets in the list.
Anyhoo, thanks to that list, here are the upgrades that I made.
Eaglebane Bracers (ilvl 187) -> Bracers of the Smothering Inferno (ilvl 219). I spotted these epic bracers in the AH for 900 gold and snatched them right away. I don't even know if it's a good price as I've never seen them before but it doesn't seem like a bad bargain. Wowhead shows a price of over 2000 gold.
Razorstrike Breastplate (ilvl 187) -> Polished Regimental Hauberk (ilvl 200). The funny thing about this chest piece is that I could have bought it a long time ago from the Argent Crusade since I was Exalted with them for a while now but I had no idea they were selling it.
Greaves of Sanctified Dissolution (ilvl 154) -> Giantmaim Legguards (ilvl 200). Huge DPS jump here. I had these pants made by my Leatherworker and I also upgraded the leg armor from Nerubian Leg Armor to Icescale Leg Armor.
Band of the Kirin Tor (ilvl 200) -> Inscribed Band of the Kirin Tor (ilvl 213). 1000 gold upgrade. I love these rings.
Inscribed Band of the Kirin Tor (ilvl 213) -> Etched Band of the Kirin Tor (ilvl 226). Another 1000 gold upgrade.
In all, the DPS displayed under my character jumped over 100 points which is incredible as far as I'm concerned even though by raid standards I'm probably pathetic. Now I just have to replace those trinkets...
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For a trinket, you could look at Darkmoon Card: Death, which you receive when you turn in the Undeath Deck. It should be easier for you since you have a scribe. I bought it for 650g on Area 52 server. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42990
- August 19, 2009 at 12:58 AM
This maxdps site does look quite good actually, you're right, although I dislike that they assume you're either Affliction or Destruction. I raid as Demonology, darn it.
Some good gear upgrades though for you there :D
- August 19, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- Celebrandil said...
I know you're a solo player and dislike 5-mans and heroics, but... Trial of the Champion takes only 20-30 minutes with a decent group, there is no trash, only bosses, just one room (an arena), and the loot is awesome if you don't go 10 or 25-mans. I really recommend checking out this new instance!
- August 19, 2009 at 3:27 AM
Why swear and be rude and/or racist? There's absolutely no need for that. If you don't like the blog then don't read it, nobody is forcing you. The author clearly put effort into writing a post good enough to read - else neither you nor I would have read it and commented - and you ought to respect that.
Instead of being abusive, what you could have done instead is recommend (ways to get) better gear so he can improve further, such as Celebrandil has. At least be constructive.
Break it down, it's ban-hammer time. I hope you can ban IP addresses; regardless, ignore the eijit above.
- August 19, 2009 at 6:22 AM
Same anonymous person who has posted previously? Just noticed a few of your previous posts have some derogatory comments on too.
- August 19, 2009 at 6:26 AM
- Darth Solo said...
@Tox I've already got the Undeath Deck made (inscription FTW) but I'm waiting for that damn Fair. I just wish they had it every month for each faction.
@veliaf yeah the site doesn't seem to have all the specs but still, it's a very good place to look for gear upgrades.
@Celebrandil I was actually thinking of trying that instance but I believe you have to be Crusader first, right? I still have a ways to go, need to get exalted with Darnassus and Exodar.
@veliaf yeah looks like the same jolly fella. I guess he gets his kicks from spouting rubbish here. Whatever. Now I'm just deleting his comments as they come.
- August 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM
You don't need any kind of rep requirement for ToC, Darth. Just hop in with a pug and you're set. I have yet to pick up anything good (nothing but cloth dropped), but it's really quick once you get a group going. First time, you'll be saying to yourself: "Oh, that's it?"
Do it on reg and you can do it over and over again.
- August 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Confirmed that there is no prerequisite for ToC. Though the first fight is a joust, so if you havent' done any Argent Tourney you may flail about ineffectively...er, like I do.
The second time I ran it THREE epic mail itmes dropped, all of which were significant upgrades for me. Granted that was a super-lucky run, but stil you will be amazed at the stuff you haul out of that place. And as said before, it's pretty easy...
- August 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
First off - your original posting of hunter gear inspired me so much that all my effort since hitting 80 has been acquiring these amazing items!
I actually ran some ToC stuff and picked up some pretty awesome items after a few runs, including a gun that beats the engineering crafted one, but since this is all about doing it solo, I won't list the stuff I dug up.
Second - I know people have talked about using the two darkmoon cards you mentioned - death and greatness. I see they have bonuses that might be better than the trinkets from the Oracles..... but I'm reluctant to trade "up" for them. I found the mana restoration provided by using two trinkets has effectively removed my ability to run out of mana when fighting normal mobs 72-80 in level. With all the gear you suggested giving me a nifty DPS and crit, I only need to fire off 1 or two rotations, killing the mob and giving me 1000 mana or so!
Anyone else have good luck with that? Is it worth giving up for better stat bonuses? (Or should I just swap them in and out when I'm fighting elites or low level farming?)
Lastly - your blog rocks my world.
- August 19, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Celebrandil said...
Don't buy both cards, it's a waste of money. Just get either Death or Greatness (which still costs >4k on my server) and keep your Oracles trinket. Furthermore I believe if you would have both cards equipped, they would share the same cooldown, so the overall proc rate would not increase. The proc is what contributes to their awesomeness.
- August 20, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Hey there Darth Solo, love the site.
Was wondering when you were going to do an article on your shot rotation, or some nifty macros that you have found and use.
Thanks and keep posting...
- August 20, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Also if you find a good group, you can farm REG TOC over and over, which has a few nice item level 200 pieces, but the good polearm is for heroic. Reg TOC has nice boots, belt, bracers, shoulders and chest for a hunter
- August 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM
oops scratch that just the boots belt and bracers are from reg, I need to filter better at wow head
- August 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- Darth Solo said...
@Shawn that's good. I think I'll give it a try. I do enjoy a good group occasionally but since I'm not in a guild with other people it's hard for me to run regular dungeons/raids, especially since I don't know the fights and even PUGs would hate me.
@Jarnow wow lucky! Now if I run ToC I will start regretting having spent all that gold on upgrades... If I get some good drops that is.
@Lorfallis thanks man! It really warms me up to hear that you are enjoying my blog :) Me, I don't even have the Oracles trinkets.
@Celebrandil I already have the Undeath deck and I might just buy the Greatness one. After all, I spent nearly 20K for those 2 Kirin Tor rings lol. What's 4-5K extra?
@Anonymous good idea on the shot rotation man. I've saved a draft and will start working on it soon. I'm not sure how ideal my rotation will seem but for me it works.
@Davinfelth I heard that the one problem with ToC is that very long cutscene at the beginning. Will have to try it though.
- August 20, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Oh! So I did a bit of grinding tonight and checked my combat log - you can gain mana from 2 oracles trinkets if you have it equipped. For me that's 554 mana per trinket on a non-grey kill. Mmmm daily quests go so quickly now :-D
- August 20, 2009 at 9:58 PM
- Celebrandil said...
It's not the money that should keep you from buying both Darkmoon trinkets. I'm 99% sure that only one of the cards can proc, and the proc is what makes the trinkets so sexy. So if I am not mistaken, one card will always keep the other from going off. You can never have two procs of the same kind at the same time. So it really doesn't make sense to buy both trinkets, because all it gives you is +90 agility, which is nice but there are other trinkets out there that come close. And the Greatness trinket is really made for long fights because it pushes your overall DPS significantly. Keep in mind it depends on a proc rate, you cannot fire it on your own. Get the Death card for a nice stat boost and the occasional burst damage, and the Greatness card if you are going heroics, 10 or 25mans. That's where it really pays off. ;-)
- August 21, 2009 at 12:48 AM
- Darth Solo said...
@Celebrandil you might have a point here. Anyways, trinkets aren't the top priority for me. I tend to kinda ignore them when I get to max level and start gearing up.
- August 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM
- David said...
Hey Darth,
One other site worth looking at for gear upgrades is Lootrank. You can filter it, similar to maxdps, but the thing that I like about it is that you can make your own adjustments to the stat weightings. (For example, if you tend to solo a lot..not sure why I would think that...you might want to more heavily emphasize stamina for survival than a pure raid-based dps spec would). There are a few "template" stat weightings available on the site and on their forums, but you can tweak them and filter them to your hearts content.
Oh, and I highly recommend the regular ToC runs as well!
- August 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Hey, nows the time to do ToC runs and H-ToC runs, since everyone is doing them, it should be easy to find a group.
Also, as a hunter, a lot of the dangers of this instance (whirlwind, poison, etc..) will be non-issues for you. Should be much easier for you than it was for me as a rogue. Try out the regular ToC to learn it and get some upgrades then jump right into H-ToC and get even more.
You'll also get emblems of Conquest with the H-ToC runs. Good luck!
- August 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM
- Darth Solo said...
@David thanks for pointing out that site. Will check it out.
As for ToC, I'm definitely planning on trying it. I found myself in Icecrown several times while people were looking for a DPS for regular but unfortunately it was bad timing for me. I need to be sure that I can commit to a group before I join.
- August 25, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- WOW HUnter Guide said...
This is cool a hunter is like a class that always have a companion, having pet is like having a dog you try to feed them, care for them and rely on them. They even fight with you. With the special skills that a hunter have like traps, aspects and hunter's mark no wonder why the hunter is always one of the top pick when leveling up.
- August 31, 2009 at 10:53 PM


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Jallianwala & Jinnah
By A.G. Noorani
THE massacre at JallianwalaBagh in Amritsar was executed on April 13, 1919 — a hundred years ago today. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah sent his telegram of protest to the secretary of state of India, Edwin S. Montagu, in these terms:
"The Council would therefore, before it is too late, respectfully draw the attention of the secretary of state for India to the state of public feeling here on this question, which will not be satisfied unless strict justice is meted out to those responsible for the Punjab atrocities, and earnestly urges that H.M.'s secretary of state for India will give the fullest consideration to the report of the Punjab Inquiry Committee appointed by the Indian National Congress along with the official Hunter Committee's report, and hopes that such action will be taken against the offenders as will make a repetition of such atrocities impossible in the future."
As president of the All-India Muslim League session in Calcutta, Mohammad Ali Jinnah delivered a famous speech on Sept 7, 1930, in which he said:
"What we want is true political freedom of the people, not posts and positions in government. Secondly, the unusual haste displayed in the passing of the Rowlatt Act before the new Council, and contrary to universal opinion, only goes to illustrate the policy of the government. And when, in the Punjab, this universal opposition against the Rowlatt manifested itself through constitutional methods, it fell to the lot of the lieutenant-governor to dishonestly characterise it as 'open rebellion'.
Only his administrative genius could have conjured up a vision of 'open rebellion'. Martial law was introduced; the manner and circumstances of its proclamation and its administration was calculated to destroy political freedom, political life, not only in the Punjab but throughout India, by striking terror into the hearts of its people.
"The majority report of the Hunter Committee is one more flagrant and disgraceful instance that there can be no justice when there is a conflict between an Englishman and an Indian. The government of India, with its keen sense of humour and characteristic modesty, proceeds to forward a resolution in its despatch to the secretary of state commending its conduct, blind to the fact that they were in the position of an accused passing judgment."Now, let us turn to the great 'error of judgment', the judicious finding of the cabinet which itself is no less an error of judgment and that was duly wired to us by Reuters. To follow up events in sequence, I must mention the parliamentary debate which forgot the Punjab and discussed General Dyer. Of course Mr Montagu hadn't the time to put India's case before the House, being far too busy offering personal explanations. And then the blue and brainless blood of England, to their crowning glory, carried the infamous resolution of Lord Finlay.
And what of the sacred land of the crescent and star and the blue and golden Bosporus — its capital seized and the Khalifa virtually a prisoner, its territories overrun by Allied troops — groaning under an imposition of impossible terms. It is a death warrant, not a treaty.
"These are the enormities crying aloud, and we have met today face to face with a dangerous and most unprecedented situation. The solution is not easy and the difficulties are great. But I cannot ask the people to submit to wrong after wrong. Yet I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr Gandhi."
At the famous Nagpur session of the Congress in December 1920, Mohammad Ali Jinnah said:
"I make bold to say in this assembly that you will never get your independence without bloodshed [cries of 'no, no']. If you think that you are not going to get your independence without bloodshed, I say that you are making the greatest blunder. Therefore, I say that at this moment you are making a declaration which you have not the means to carry out."
He left the Congress, never to return.
The massacre at JallianwalaBagh in 1919 marked the turning point in the campaign for India's independence, of which the infamous Rowlatt scheme marked a beginning — no vakil, no appeal, no daleel. Mohammad Ali Jinnah's language became stronger.
In adopting this position, Mohammad Ali Jinnah spoke up not only on the immediate one but the wider one too. JallianwalaBagh illustrated the futility of British coercion. India and Pakistan share many things in the subcontinent's history, culture and religion. It is only right that both countries should jointly commemorate events such as JallianwalaBagh and honour heroes such as Bhagat Singh.
Balakot strike: just for bragging rights?
By Manini Chatterjee
We, the people of India, must collectively thank NarendraModi, the chief campaigner of the BharatiyaJanata Party, for making it clear to us why NarendraModi, the prime minister of the country, ordered the air strikes on Balakot deep inside Pakistan in the last week of February.
The ostensible reason for the air strikes was to avenge the massacre that took place in Kashmir's Pulwama on February 14, which left 40 uniformed personnel of the CRPF dead. The deaths were not a result of an encounter between security forces and militants that have long become routine in the Kashmir Valley. They happened when a lone Kashmiri youth, allegedly belonging to the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad, rammed his vehicle — laden with over 300 kilograms of explosives — into a CRPF convoy inching its way along the highway.
Less than two weeks later, we woke up to the news that Indian Air Force jets had struck the biggest training camp of the JeM in Balakot. The government officially claimed that "a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis who were being trained for fidayeen action were eliminated." The unofficial claims, conveyed to the media by "sources", went further: 325 terrorists and 25 commanders had been killed in the strike. Pakistan had been taught a lesson it would not forget. The "New India" under the muscular leadership of NarendraModi would enter the country and take out the terrorists at will if they dared attack India again.
The rhetoric was so powerful and the hyper-nationalist cheering in the media so shrill that no one dared ask for evidence. But when one or two intrepid skeptics did wonder what exactly was achieved at Balakot, the ruling party and its army of supporters became menacing. Anyone who dared asked for proof was talking the language of Pakistan; was questioning the valour of the armed forces; was guilty of sedition and treason.
With the election campaign now under way, the Balakot strikes are becoming a central theme of the ruling party. Even though the Opposition has steered clear of national security issues and focused on jobs, farm distress and broken promises, the BJP is repeatedly bringing Balakot to the fore — and muddying the narrative even more.
Take, for instance, a recent interview given by the prime minister to an English TV channel. Asked whether he would eventually give proof that hundreds of terrorists had been killed in the strike, Modi retorted: "As far as proof is concerned, Pakistan itself has given proof. Why should they wake up at 5 a.m. and tweet? We were quiet. It is not as if the Indian government claimed the attacks first."
That was a clever answer — but it was too clever by half. It is true that it was Pakistan's director-general of the Inter-Services Public Relations, Major General Asif Ghafoor, who first tweeted that the Indian Air Force had "violated Line of Control". But Pakistan also claimed that the Indian jets "released payloads in haste" and there were "no casualties or damage".
By citing Pakistan's tweet as proof of the success of the air strike, Modi has — embarrassingly for the country — brought attention to Pakistan's version as a whole.
More embarrassing has been Pakistan's subsequent response. If India wanted to teach Pakistan a lesson and left the country with a bloody nose, Islamabad's response has been very curious indeed.
In a recent chat with foreign correspondents, Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, appeared to take the whole Balakot offensive much too lightly. According to The New York Times report on the chat, Imran Khan said that on learning that the Indian bombs had fallen into an empty ravine near Balakot, Pakistan opted for "a measured response and bombed an empty area just across the Indian border." It went on to quote Imran Khan as saying: "They hit our trees; so we thought we'd hit their stones."
Imran Khan went further — batting for the return of NarendraModi to power and seeing it as the best possible option of settling the Kashmir conflict. If Balakot was a slap on the face of Pakistan, it is baffling — to put it mildly — why the country's prime minister should want another term for his hostile counterpart across the border.
But with each passing day that mystery is receding; with every BJP speech, it is becoming clearer that the Indian forces were made to strike Balakot not to teach Pakistan a lesson but to provide bragging rights to NarendraModi as a saviour of the nation and provide him a handy tool for his re-election bid.
If NarendraModi was indeed the supreme patriot that he claims to be and if he truly valued the courage and competence of our armed forces, he should have been the first person to reprimand the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, for referring to India's professional army as "Modijikisena". He did nothing of the kind — his silence serving as encouragement to other BJP leaders who repeated the epithet before the Election Commission, belatedly, stepped in.
In fact, he went further than his acolytes. In a speech that shocked retired and serving members of the defence services, NarendraModi asked first-time voters "to dedicate" their first vote to the "valiant soldiers who carried out the air strike in Pakistan's Balakot" and to the "brave martyrs of Pulwama." Never before has any Indian leader so brazenly sought to politicize the military for electoral gains.
Perhaps Modi was addressing his appeal to first-time voters because he is confident that the youth — subjected to the relentless propaganda of the last five years — have no knowledge of history and will be easily swayed by claims that Modi has achieved what no other Indian leader has in the past 70 years.
But not every Indian is a first-time voter. And even first time voters have parents and grandparents, teachers and tutors, people around them with longer memories. And many of them will still remember the grit and the glory of 1971 — the only time India decisively won a war. They will also recall that in complete contrast to the faux war-mongering of today, the prime minister of that time showed a grace and courage that was so much more powerful since it was entirely bereft of bombast.
Some BJP apologists, defending Modi's electoral use of Balakot, erroneously claim that Indira Gandhi too capitalized on the 1971 victory to win by a landslide in the elections that year. The truth, though, is that India won the war after, not before, the elections.
Mrs Gandhi won her famous "GaribiHatao" election in March 1971, a couple of weeks before the Pakistan army went on a brutal rampage in what was then East Pakistan. In the following months, there was a massive influx of East Pakistanis into India. We may have been a lot poorer back then but unlike today we kept our borders — and our hearts — open to those fleeing genocide. More than 10 million refugees found shelter in India.
Indira Gandhi went across the world, campaigning against the suppression of democracy by West Pakistan in its eastern wing and the mass killings and rapes that followed. The American president, Richard Nixon, was famously hostile to her and blatantly backed Pakistan. But Mrs Gandhi combined diplomatic outreach with a quiet military preparation — executed by able military men untrammelled by considerations of electoral expediency — that eventually resulted in unequivocal victory. On December 16, 1971, less than two weeks after Pakistan bombed Indian air bases, its commander in Dhaka, Lieutenant-General A.A.K. Niazi, signed the instrument of surrender in Dhaka before Lieutenant-General J.S. Aurora of the Indian Army. No proof of India's achievement was needed. No claims were made.
Two days later, Mrs Gandhi's victory speech in the LokSabha was equally shorn of rhetoric. It lasted barely a minute. "All the world," she said, "admires a deed well done. And I think, with all modesty, we can say that we have done this action well." India's most successful war prime minister went on to say: "But let us not forget that the road ahead is still long and very steep and we have many peaks to scale. Let us hope that we can do this with the same spirit in which we have faced this challenge. And that we will go ahead from peak to peak raising our nation to new heights of quality and of excellence…"
Watch that speech on YouTube. Even first-time voters will be able to tell the difference between the élan of true victory and its 56-inch, tawdry alternative…
(The Telegraph, Kolkata)
Don't blame Sharia for Islamic extremism – blame colonialism
By Mark Fathi
Warning that Islamic extremists want to impose fundamentalist religious rule in American communities, right-wing lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have tried banning Sharia, an Arabic term often understood to mean Islamic law.
These political debates – which cite terrorism and political violence in the Middle East to argue that Islam is incompatible with modern society – reinforce stereotypes that the Muslim world is uncivilized.
They also reflect ignorance of Sharia, which is not a strict legal code. Sharia means "path" or "way": It is a broad set of values and ethical principles drawn from the Quran – Islam's holy book – and the life of the Prophet Muhammad. As such, different people and governments may interpret Sharia differently.
Still, this is not the first time that the world has tried to figure out where Sharia fits into the global order.
In the 1950s and 1960s, when Great Britain, France and other European powers relinquished their colonies in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, leaders of newly sovereign Muslim-majority countries faced a decision of enormous consequence: Should they build their governments on Islamic religious values or embrace the European laws inherited from colonial rule?
Invariably, my historical research shows, political leaders of these young countries chose to keep their colonial justice systems rather than impose religious law.
Newly independent Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Somalia, among other places, all confined the application of Sharia to marital and inheritance disputes within Muslim families, just as their colonial administrators had done. The remainder of their legal systems would continue to be based on European law.
France, Italy and the United Kingdom imposed their legal systems onto Muslim-majority territories they colonized. CIA Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, CC BY
To understand why they chose this course, I researched the decision-making process in Sudan, the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from the British, in 1956.
In the national archives and libraries of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, and in interviews with Sudanese lawyers and officials, I discovered that leading judges, politicians and intellectuals actually pushed for Sudan to become a democratic Islamic state.
They envisioned a progressive legal system consistent with Islamic faith principles, one where all citizens – irrespective of religion, race or ethnicity – could practice their religious beliefs freely and openly.
"The People are equal like the teeth of a comb," wrote Sudan's soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Hassan Muddathir in 1956, quoting the Prophet Muhammad, in an official memorandum I found archived in Khartoum's Sudan Library. "An Arab is no better than a Persian, and the White is no better than the Black."
Sudan's post-colonial leadership, however, rejected those calls. They chose to keep the English common law tradition as the law of the land.
Why keep the laws of the oppressor?
My research identifies three reasons why early Sudan sidelined Sharia: politics, pragmatism and demography.
Rivalries between political parties in post-colonial Sudan led to parliamentary stalemate, which made it difficult to pass meaningful legislation. So Sudan simply maintained the colonial laws already on the books.
There were practical reasons for maintaining English common law, too.
Sudanese judges had been trained by British colonial officials. So they continued to apply English common law principles to the disputes they heard in their courtrooms.
Sudan's founding fathers faced urgent challenges, such as creating the economy, establishing foreign trade and ending civil war. They felt it was simply not sensible to overhaul the rather smooth-running governance system in Khartoum.
The continued use of colonial law after independence also reflected Sudan's ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity.
Then, as now, Sudanese citizens spoke many languages and belonged to dozens of ethnic groups. At the time of Sudan's independence, people practicing Sunni and Sufi traditions of Islam lived largely in northern Sudan. Christianity was an important faith in southern Sudan.
Sudan's diversity of faith communities meant that maintaining a foreign legal system – English common law – was less controversial than choosing whose version of Sharia to adopt.
My research uncovers how today's instability across the Middle East and North Africa is, in part, a consequence of these post-colonial decisions to reject Sharia.
In maintaining colonial legal systems, Sudan and other Muslim-majority countries that followed a similar path appeased Western world powers, which were pushing their former colonies toward secularism.
But they avoided resolving tough questions about religious identity and the law. That created a disconnect between the people and their governments.
In the long run, that disconnect helped fuel unrest among some citizens of deep faith, leading to sectarian calls to unite religion and the state once and for all. In Iran, Saudi Arabia and parts of Somalia and Nigeria, these interpretations triumphed, imposing extremist versions of Sharia over millions of people.
In other words, Muslim-majority countries stunted the democratic potential of Sharia by rejecting it as a mainstream legal concept in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving Sharia in the hands of extremists.
But there is no inherent tension between Sharia, human rights and the rule of law. Like any use of religion in politics, Sharia's application depends on who is using it – and why.
Leaders of places like Saudi Arabia and Brunei have chosen to restrict women's freedom and minority rights. But many scholars of Islam and grassroots organizations interpret Sharia as a flexible, rights-oriented and equality-minded ethical order.
Religion is woven into the legal fabric of many post-colonial nations, with varying consequences for democracy and stability.
After its 1948 founding, Israel debated the role of Jewish law in Israeli society. Ultimately, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and his allies opted for a mixed legal system that combined Jewish law with English common law.
In Latin America, the Catholicism imposed by Spanish conquistadors underpins laws restricting abortion, divorce and gay rights.
And throughout the 19th century, judges in the U.S. regularly invoked the legal maxim that "Christianity is part of the common law." Legislators still routinely invoke their Christian faith when supporting or opposing a given law.
Political extremism and human rights abuses that occur in those places are rarely understood as inherent flaws of these religions.
When it comes to Muslim-majority countries, however, Sharia takes the blame for regressive laws – not the people who pass those policies in the name of religion.
Fundamentalism and violence, in other words, are a post-colonial problem – not a religious inevitability.
For the Muslim world, finding a system of government that reflects Islamic values while promoting democracy will not be easy after more than 50 years of failed secular rule. But building peace may demand it.
The Assange Arrest is a Warning from History
By John Pilger
The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in almost seven years.
That this outrage happened in the heart of London, in the land of Magna Carta, ought to shame and anger all who fear for "democratic" societies. Assange is a political refugee protected by international law, the recipient of asylum under a strict covenant to which Britain is a signatory. The United Nations made this clear in the legal ruling of its Working Party on Arbitrary Detention.
But to hell with that. Let the thugs go in. Directed by the quasi fascists in Trump's Washington, in league with Ecuador's Lenin Moreno, a Latin American Judas and liar seeking to disguise his rancid regime, the British elite abandoned its last imperial myth: that of fairness and justice.
Imagine Tony Blair dragged from his multi-million pound Georgian home in Connaught Square, London, in handcuffs, for onward dispatch to the dock in The Hague. By the standard of Nuremberg, Blair's "paramount crime" is the deaths of a million Iraqis. Assange's crime is journalism: holding the rapacious to account, exposing their lies and empowering people all over the world with truth.
The shocking arrest of Assange carries a warning for all who, as Oscar Wilde wrote, "sow the seeds of discontent [without which] there would be no advance towards civilisation". The warning is explicit towards journalists. What happened to the founder and editor of WikiLeaks can happen to you on a newspaper, you in a TV studio, you on radio, you running a podcast.
Assange's principal media tormentor, the Guardian, a collaborator with the secret state, displayed its nervousness this week with an editorial that scaled new weasel heights. The Guardian has exploited the work of Assange and WikiLeaks in what its previous editor called "the greatest scoop of the last 30 years". The paper creamed off WikiLeaks' revelations and claimed the accolades and riches that came with them.
With not a penny going to Julian Assange or to WikiLeaks, a hyped Guardian book led to a lucrative Hollywood movie. The book's authors, Luke Harding and David Leigh, turned on their source, abused him and disclosed the secret password Assange had given the paper in confidence, which was designed to protect a digital file containing leaked US embassy cables.
With Assange now trapped in the Ecuadorean embassy, Harding joined the police outside and gloated on his blog that "Scotland Yard may get the last laugh". The Guardian has since published a series of falsehoods about Assange, not least a discredited claim that a group of Russians and Trump's man, Paul Manafort, had visited Assange in the embassy. The meetings never happened; it was fake.
But the tone has now changed. "The Assange case is a morally tangled web," the paper opined. "He (Assange) believes in publishing things that should not be published…. But he has always shone a light on things that should never have been hidden."
These "things" are the truth about the homicidal way America conducts its colonial wars, the lies of the British Foreign Office in its denial of rights to vulnerable people, such as the Chagos Islanders, the expose of Hillary Clinton as a backer and beneficiary of jihadism in the Middle East, the detailed description of American ambassadors of how the governments in Syria and Venezuela might be overthrown, and much more. It all available on the WikiLeaks site.
The Guardian is understandably nervous. Secret policemen have already visited the newspaper and demanded and got the ritual destruction of a hard drive. On this, the paper has form. In 1983, a Foreign Office clerk, Sarah Tisdall, leaked British Government documents showing when American cruise nuclear weapons would arrive in Europe. The Guardian was showered with praise.
When a court order demanded to know the source, instead of the editor going to prison on a fundamental principle of protecting a source, Tisdall was betrayed, prosecuted and served six months.
If Assange is extradited to America for publishing what the Guardian calls truthful "things", what is to stop the current editor, Katherine Viner, following him, or the previous editor, Alan Rusbridger, or the prolific propagandist Luke Harding?
What is to stop the editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post, who also published morsels of the truth that originated with WikiLeaks, and the editor of El Pais in Spain, and Der Spiegel in Germany and the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. The list is long.
David McCraw, lead lawyer of the New York Times, wrote: "I think the prosecution [of Assange] would be a very, very bad precedent for publishers… from everything I know, he's sort of in a classic publisher's position and the law would have a very hard time distinguishing between the New York Times and WilLeaks."
Even if journalists who published WikiLeaks' leaks are not summoned by an American grand jury, the intimidation of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning will be enough. Real journalism is being criminalised by thugs in plain sight. Dissent has become an indulgence.
In Australia, the current America-besotted government is prosecuting two whistle-blowers who revealed that Canberra's spooks bugged the cabinet meetings of the new government of East Timor for the express purpose of cheating the tiny, impoverished nation out of its proper share of the oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea. Their trial will be held in secret. The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, is infamous for his part in setting up concentration camps for refugees on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus, where children self harm and suicide. In 2014, Morrison proposed mass detention camps for 30,000 people.
Real journalism is the enemy of these disgraces. A decade ago, the Ministry of Defence in London produced a secret document which described the "principal threats" to public order as threefold: terrorists, Russian spies and investigative journalists. The latter was designated the major threat.
The document was duly leaked to WikiLeaks, which published it. "We had no choice," Assange told me. "It's very simple. People have a right to know and a right to question and challenge power. That's true democracy."
What if Assange and Manning and others in their wake – if there are others – are silenced and "the right to know and question and challenge" is taken away?
In the 1970s, I met LeniReifenstahl, close friend of Adolf Hitler, whose films helped cast the Nazi spell over Germany.
She told me that the message in her films, the propaganda, was dependent not on "orders from above" but on what she called the "submissive void" of the public.
"Did this submissive void include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie?" I asked her.
"Of course," she said, "especially the intelligentsia…. When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen."
And did.
The rest, she might have added, is history.


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Colorado was one of twelve states granted Ed-Flex authority under the Education Flexibility Partnership Demonstration Program by the United States Department of Education in 1995. Those twelve states served as "pilot program" states. As a result of Colorado's "pilot" status, CDE was able to issue numerous waivers from federal law.
During 1999, Congress made significant changes to the original Ed-Flex law with the passage and enactment of the Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999. The new Ed-Flex Program allows the Secretary of Education to delegate to states, with strong accountability measures, the authority to waive certain federal education requirements that may impede local efforts to reform and improve education. It is designed to help districts and schools carry out educational reforms and raise the achievement levels of all children by providing increased flexibility in the implementation of federal education programs in exchange for enhanced accountability for the performance of students.
Section 1073 of the No Child Left Behind Act updated the list of programs that are subject to Ed-Flex waiver authority. As revised, the Ed-Flex legislation permits Ed-Flex states to waiver requirements of the following state-administered formula grant programs:
- Part A of Title I (other than sections 111 and 1116) (Improving the Academic Achievement of Disadvantaged Children)
- Subpart 3 of Part B of Title I (Even Start Family Literacy Program) (NOTE: Ed-Flex states may not waive requirements of the new Reading First or Early Reading First Programs (subparts 1 and 2 of Part B of Title I))
- Part C of Title I (Education of Migratory Children)
- Part D of Title I (Prevention and Intervention Programs of Children and Youth Who are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk)
- Part F of Title I (Comprehensive School Reform)
- Subparts 2 and 3 of Part A of Title II (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting)
- Subpart 1 of Part D of Title II (Enhancing Education through Technology)
- Subpart 4 of Part B of Title III (Emergency Immigrant Education, if this program is funded)
- Subpart 1 of Part A of Title IV (Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities)
- Part A of Title V (Innovative Programs)
- The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act
A State may also waive certain requirements of the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) and the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) applicable to the covered programs.
On September 22, 2017, an extension of Colorado's Ed-Flex authority through the 2016-2017 school year was approved by U.S. Department of Education.
Ed-Flex Extension Letter 17-18
Ed-Flex Extension Letter 16-17
To request waivers
Ed-Flex General Request Form - (coming soon)
Ed-Flex Schoolwide Poverty Waiver - word
Waivers Not Authorized
On the other hand, some requirements do not fall under the umbrella of Ed-Flex. For instance, waivers may not be granted for requirements related to:
- Maintenance of effort;
- Comparability of services;
- Equitable participation of students and professional staff in private schools;
- Parental participation and involvement;
- Distribution of funds to states or to local educational agencies;
- Serving eligible school attendance areas in rank order under section 113(a)(3) of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965;
- The section of a school attendance area or school under subsections (a) and (b) of section 1113 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, except that a state educational agency may grant a waiver to allow a school attendance area or school to participate in activities under part A of Title I of such Act if the percentage of children from low-income families in the school attendance area of such school or who attend such school is not less than ten percentage points below the lowest percentage of such children for any school attendance area or school of the local educational agency that meets the requirements of such subsections (a) and (b);
- Use of federal funds to supplement, not supplant, non-federal funds;
- Applicable civil rights requirements.
In addition, waivers may not be granted unless the underlying purposes of the statutory requirements of the program for which a waiver is granted continue to be met.
Ed-Flex law requires CDE to monitor the progress of districts/schools receiving waivers. CSAP scores and other bodies of evidence determined by the district/school will be used for this purpose. All waiver requests will be reviewed by CDE's Ed-Flex Committee, and all schools, districts, and BOCES receiving a waiver(s) will be required to complete and submit to the department an annual evaluation of the impact of the waiver(s) on instructional services and academic achievement that is not being improved. The waiver(s) must be revoked pursuant to Ed-Flex legislation.
All requests reviewed by the CDE Ed-Flex Committee are forwarded to the commissioner for final approval. Review and response will occur within a 30-day period. Technical assistance is available by contacting Brad Bylsma at (303) 866-6937 or via e-mail email@example.com
Related Links
- Ed Flex Application to the USDOE
- Colorado Ed Flex Performance Reports
- U.S. Department of Education Ed-flex
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After years of debate about health clubs that cater to women, two recent stories show that fitness facilities still struggle to offer women's fitness programs without allegations of sexism.
Earlier this month, CrossFit South Brooklyn made headlines when a woman considering joining the gym took offense to the women-only class being called "Tough Titsday." The woman emailed owner David Osorio saying she was uncomfortable with the class's name and thought it should be changed, according to news reports.
She received a response from the trainer who created the class, Margie Lempert, who said she chose the class's name "as a subversive, cheeky reclamation of silly vulgarity."
The exchange grew more heated and led to Osorio banning the woman from the gym. In a statement posted on the gym's website, Osorio said he would be open to debating the class's name if the conversation was respectful.
Lempert also released a statement on the gym's website explaining why she started the class and how women can benefit from it.
"When I started coaching, and our membership became more diverse, I wanted to offer women an opportunity to develop a… desire for strength," Lempert said. "I wanted to share the powerful self-possession I experienced. And I wanted women to feel awesome about it. I've now witnessed many women experience a similar transformation to mine, which has been endlessly gratifying."
Trying to get more women to feel comfortable exercising is a worthwhile endeavor. For some women-only facilities, it can also be a profitable one, although they also have faced allegations of sexism. Other health clubs have tried to appeal to women by designating women-only hours or areas of the gym.
One of those facilities, Kentish Town Sports Centre, London, is being sued for offering women-only hours. Peter Lloyd filed a lawsuit against the club in April after asking the facility's manager to introduce men-only hours, charge men less for their memberships or get rid of single-gender sessions entirely, according to an op-ed Lloyd wrote that was published by the Daily Mail.
The manager declined to make any of the proposed changes and said that the hours are in place because a significant portion of women are self-conscious about how they look while working out.
Lloyd said that male members should not have to pay full price when they are not allowed to use the gym as often as female members. Lloyd also noted that the gym's policy ignores that men may also have insecurities about their bodies. He wrote that he hopes his lawsuit will inspire men in similar situations to take action and lead the health club to change their policies or refund 10 percent of his membership fees.
Do you think it is fair to ask men to pay for a full gym membership if there are certain times and areas of the club that are off-limits to them? How does your health club appeal to women without isolating other members? Let us know in the comments below.


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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 16, No. 2 December 1989
INTRODUCTION by
William W. Cooper Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow University of Texas, Austin
Accounting Hall of Fame Board of Nominations
Our Inductee's favorite reading is that of the mathemati-cian, Raymond Smullyan. I quote from one of Smullyan's recent works, entitled "What is There?" as follows:
One dictionary defines ontology as the science of being; the branch of metaphysics that investigates the nature of being and of the essence of things . . . [Thus Willard van Orman Quine the American philosopher-logician] starts his famous essay On What There Is with the words, 'A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word — "Everything."
A similar philosophy was expressed in Oscar Man-del's delightful book, Chi Po and the Sorcerer: A Chinese Tale for Children and Philosophers. In one scene, the boy Chi Po is taking painting lessons from the sorcerer Bu Fu. At one point Bu Fu says 'No, No! You have merely painted what is! Anyone can paint what is; the real secret is to paint what isn't?' Chi Po, quite puzzled, replies "But what is there that isn't?" [Smullyan, 1988, pp. 111-112].
Smullyan quotes the student approvingly but my sympathies are with the sorcerer. Surely the answer to the boy's question is . . . "What can be created!" — And I take Ijiri as my example. How did he create the ideas of triple-entry bookkeeping? I leave you with the mystery as follows: At a Conference on Creative and Innovative Management [Cooper, 1988, p. 60], I asked Ijiri how he came to have these ideas of triple-entry bookkeeping,


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Thousands line up to pay county property, personal taxes
Filing deadline is Oct. 15
Thousands lined up across Arkansas Tuesday to pay their county property and personal taxes.
In 2012, the process hit some speed bumps for those trying to pay online when the credit card system crashed. However, this year the online system has had smooth sailing, according to county officials.
"Yes, it's working perfect this year, so everything's good," said Tausha Treadway, Crawford County's chief deputy collector.
Treadway cautioned those filing online may pay up to an extra 4 percent in total costs. To avoid the fees, officials recommend bringing payment in directly, get it postmarked for Oct. 15 or drop it off at one of the bins outside the filer's county collector's office before Wednesday morning.
Offices closed at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, but those who didn't make it in time can pay online by midnight or drop it off in the drop box by 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The taxes collected help fund education, city government costs and some county roads.


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Whenever I am worried about being "cool," I am caught up in the capitalist configuration of social relations and turning my consumption, my efforts to sustain and "reproduce" myself, and even my efforts to concretize and express my identity into labor on capitalism's terms. I am regarding social relations as intrinsically competitive with the reward being not reciprocation in the abstract but validation as a zero-sum thing -- I win the exchange when I am seen as cool relative to someone else, who is less cool. And the cool I have produced in my person, through my mediation of my everyday existence, will extend the tyranny of cool over social life that much further (I've enhanced the "value" of other commodities in symbolic terms, in terms of their coolness); in exchange I get to feel a little more secure in my status. I get to feel a little better about myself by feeling better than someone else.
The degree to which one accepts cool as a legitimate positive value, as something that enhances life, is also the degree to which one has bought into capitalism in its current stage. This is why I'm often puzzled when writers talk about something being cool without any shade of irony or apology; they are taking cool at face value as something that is making society better and not worse. Such people (Tiqqun calls them "Young Girls" in some allegedly nongendered way), I imagine, can shop at Urban Outfitters without a moment of hesitation because they actually respect what that company does in its cool hunting. It gathers the "valuable" things of culture in one place and distributes them to a broader base. Democratization!
But pursuing cool is always the pursuit of self-alienation as self-realization. It's accepting the purpose of self-actualization as winning approval in terms of the relative value of commodities one can display (or become). It's mistaking value (a specifically capitalist mediation) for wealth (a transhistorical value attuned to some more basic pleasure of existence). I'm deriving this distinction from Moishe Postone's analysis of value in Time, Labor and Social Domination, which is largely about how capitalism generates a confusion between value and wealth so that our energy is directed toward reproducing capitalism and its categories and social hierarchies rather than, say, ending poverty in the midst of plenty. All labor within consumer capitalism only seems to make useful things; in fact its main purpose is to make "value" -- what I'm calling cool. I just think passages like these from Postone make a lot more sense when you understand "value" as "cool" -- this weird social category of value that has nothing to do with use value but absorbs a great deal of effort and seems objectively important nonetheless:
Marx argues that what characterizes capitalist production is that the transformation of matter by labor is simply a means toward the creation of the social form constituted by labor (value). To say that the goal of production is (surplus-)value is to say that that goal is the social mediation itself.
This makes a lot more sense if you think about it in terms of "immaterial labor" as Virno and Lazzaurato describe it -- the enhancement of commodity values through our virtuosic consumption or deployment of them. When I'm posting a Faceook update, I'm creating value/cool via the work on my personal brand, and that is objectively relevent in capital though totally useless as a form of collective material wealth. I haven't added anything to the pile of stuff we need as a species, really, but I have produced value, I've made something that can circulate and add cool/value to other things. The point of posting to Facebook is "social mediation itself" -- the premise that doing so is a valuable thing to do, that we should all recognize it as such. That we should all acknowledge "cool" as value, whether or not our striving for it in any given attempt is totally successful. In other words, "surplus value" is another way of saying "cool" in consumer capitalism; its "surplus" because it has no basis in labor as such -- in the material transformation of stuff -- but in the way social relations are transformed by the work we do (on stuff, on ourselves, in communicating, etc.).
Postone argues that
The goal of the expenditure of labor power no longer is bound intrinsically to the specific nature of that labor; rather, this goal, despite appearances, is independent of the qualitative character of the labor expended — it is the objectification of labor time itself. That is to say, the expenditure of labor power is not a means to another end, but, as a means, has itself become an "end." This goal is given by the alienated structures constituted by (abstract) labor itself. As a goal, it is very singular; it is not only extrinsic to the specificity of (concrete) labor but also is posited independently of the social actors' wills.
Again, I think this is far less cryptic and implausible if you think of it in terms of making things "cool" -- not that all work is about cool, but "cool" work is paradigmatic -- also "Cool" is what value is called perhaps in my hipster corner of the world; it might have some other name elsewhere, but would be describing the same phenomenon, the same capitalistic social relation. Anyway, the point of work is make "value" in the form of cool (value in the form of "value"), which then justifies the effort spent on it. Such "value" is limitless, not bound by material restraints, and thus suits capitalism's need for perpetual growth and the fantasy that wealth (personal and social) can be infinite. If we are measuring the worth of what we do in cool, we can never stop doing more to get more of it (and the distribution of this social "product" will never really be geared toward alleviating human suffering or mitigating inequality).
So yes, this is a product of my privilege that I can think of it this way, but I see the difference between "value" and "material wealth" as mirroring the difference between walking out the door full of anxiety over whether or not one is dressed in such a way as to be noticed positively (and then feeling reassured or depressed depending on what sort of attention one gets) or walking out the door and feeling immersed in the processes and abundance of life. When I am thinking about being cool, I am worried about producing value; when I manage to forget about it and stop worrying about being "productive" with my time, I am much closer to experiencing and perceiving the material value of being alive.
That probably sounds a little bogus and spiritualized. Mainly I am thinking of the difference between perpetual self-consciousness (which is an effect of capitalism requiring everyone to always self-commoditize, whether as a wage worker as a prosumer) and being able to see the world beyond oneself and not through that instrumental filter, looking for "value" everywhere.
Social media, etc., obviously makes this harder to avoid, extending the anxiety of leaving the house insufficiently cool into a full-time mode of existence, since every time you check Facebook, Twitter, etc., you are metaphorically walking out the door, worrying about how cool you are seeming. I've generally been afraid of going to Brooklyn because I am not nearly cool enough and the environment makes it hard for me to forget it, to see past that game, to escape that construct of value. Social media means Brooklyn everywhere.
Cool is a ramification of communication as commodity; social media are merely the latest means for capitalism to extend its form of value into everyday life and leave fewer spaces for respite from it. This is why social media represents "real subsumption" -- reshaping life to suit capitalism's functioning (rather than the adoption of precapitalist, transhistorical forms of life to capitalism's ends). Social media would not exist in a noncapitalist society; communication as mode of expressing "value" would not exist.
Anders Ramsay makes a similar point about value here. (I quoted this is a previous post; I added the bolding.)
As Heinrich states, "Value does not arise somewhere to then be 'there'." Value is not a thing but rather a social relationship. It emerges neither through production nor through exchange, but presupposes both. It is a property something is assigned in relation to other things, which then gives the appearance of possessing it quite apart from such a relationship. As Marx insists on repeatedly, value is a ghostly or over-sensual property, not a substantial one. The conception of a commodity possessing its value objectivity independent of these relations is a semblance that transforms a social property into what is taken to be a natural one.
The same situation applies to Pierre Bourdieu's non-economic concept of capital. One must both work for one's capital, get an education, practice, and produce something which is recognised by the field of science or art in order to become a scientist or an artist, or else one becomes neither, regardless of what one has produced for the drawer or the hard disc. Similarly, the value-relation does not arise in exchange without a labour process, but without exchange, concrete labour would never be reduced to abstract labour either, and thus, no value would emerge. One might also bring to mind Ludwig Wittgenstein's by now famous, and to modern social sciences so significant statement, that one cannot have a private language. The same thing applies to the value, one cannot decide it on one's own.
Cool is a damaged capitalist form of that shared social value. But it has the virtue of being social, at least, and there is no way backward from it. The point is to turn the self-consciousness cool induces into something that doesn't posit anxiety-inducing hierarchies and doesn't make us feel enslaved by notions of what is important that seem entirely alien and uncontrollable. The goal is to make self-consciousness and social presence not merely compatible but indistinguishable.


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The pleasure of open top driving has a very special place in the heart of many Ferrari fans. The 308 GTS was developed in collaboration with Pininfarina in 1977 to help make that dream come true. When not in use, its Targa hard-top could be stored neatly away behind the seats. The chassis was specially reinforced to compensate for the lack of a full roof. Performance was similar to that of the 308 GTB.
The 308 GTS joined the Ferrari model range at the 1977 Frankfurt Salon. Visually it was very similar to its 308 GTB berlinetta stable mate, apart from the black finished solid removable glass-fibre roof panel, and the satin black finished hinged opening louvre panels over the rear quarter windows. They were hinged to permit cleaning of the rear quarter glass, and the one on the left side also gave access to the fuel filler cap, and both were lockable. The "S" in the model title stood for "Spider", although as with the Dino 246 GTS, the spider title was a degree of artistic license, as it was in fact a targa top, with a roof panel that could be stowed behind the seats for open air motoring. As on the 308 GTB, a luggage compartment was provided in the tail of the car behind the engine bay, accessed by lifting the entire engine bay cover, which revealed a zip top luggage compartment at the rear. As with the 308 GTB berlinetta an optional deep front spoiler was available, as was the sports exhaust system, and high compression piston plus high lift camshaft package. A further option was 16″ wheels fitted with Pirelli P7 low profile tyres.Read more
The 308 GTS featured a steel body with an aluminium front lid, whilst USA market cars can be identified by heavier bumper assemblies, and rectangular side marker lights on the wings. The main European market 308 GTS models had a tubular steel chassis with factory type reference F 106 AS 100. Disc brakes, with independent suspension via wishbones, coil springs, and hydraulic shock absorbers, were provided all round, with front and rear anti roll bars. All models were numbered in the Ferrari odd number road car chassis sequence, with right and left hand drive available. Production ran from 1977 to 1980 in the chassis number range 22619 to 34501, during which time 3219 examples were produced, around 50% more than the concurrent 308 GTB model.
The V8 engine was identical to that used in the concurrent 308 GTB model, being of a 90 degree configuration, with belt driven twin overhead camshafts per bank, having a total capacity of 2926cc, with a bore and stroke of 81mm x 71mm, bearing factory type reference F 106 AB 000 for European market cars. The engine was transversely mounted in unit with the all synchromesh five speed transmission assembly, which was below, and to the rear of the engine's sump. It was fitted with a bank of four twin choke Weber 40 DCNF carburettors, mounted in the centre of the vee, the exact specification depending upon the market, and power output was in the order of 255bhp. European market cars were fitted with dry sump lubrication, whereas Australian, Japanese and USA market examples had wet sump lubrication.
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Accurate selection of the best shots of the 308 GTS in high definition. The photo gallery shows the distinctive features of this model Ferrari in 1977, focusing on the details and the most important parts.
|rear, transverse, 90° V8
|81 x 71 mm
|Unitary displacement
|365.86 cc
|Total displacement
|2926.90 cc
|Compression ratio
|8.8 : 1
|Maximum power
|188 kW (255 hp) at 7700 rpm
|Power per litre
|87 hp/l
|Maximum torque
|Valve actuation
|twin overhead camshafts per bank, two valves per cylinder
|Fuel feed
|four Weber 40 DCNF carburettors
|single spark plug per cylinder, single coil
|wet sump
|tubular steel
|Front suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|Rear suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|5-speed + reverse
|Fuel tank
|capacity 80 litres
|Front tyres
|Rear tyres
|two-seater targa-top
|4230 mm
|1720 mm
|1120 mm
|2340 mm
|Front track
|1460 mm
|Rear track
|1460 mm
|1090 kg (dry)
|Top speed
|252 km/h
|Acceleration 0-100 km/h
|0-400 m
|0-1000 m