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WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- The United States doesn't face an immediate debt crisis, but entitlements must still be reformed to avoid one that lies ahead, House Speaker John Boehner says.
And any talk about including revenue to address the government's $16 trillion debt "is over," the Ohio Republican says.
"We do not have an immediate debt crisis," Boehner said on ABC's "This Week."
"But we all know that we have one looming. And we have one looming because we have entitlement programs that are not sustainable in their current form. They're gonna go bankrupt.
"Washington has [a] responsibility to our seniors and our near-seniors that we firm up these programs so that they're there for the long term," Boehner said. "Because if we don't do it, not only will they not get benefits, we will have a debt crisis right around the corner. We have time to solve our problems. But we need to do it now."
When asked how long Congress and the White House has before the crisis hits, Boehner said: "Nobody knows where this is. It could be a year or two years, three years, four years."
He said he agreed with President Barack Obama, who told ABC's "Good Morning America" last week, "We don't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt."
But Boehner took issue with Obama's assertion it doesn't make sense to "chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance."
Cutting spending to help balance the budget will "help our economy," Boehner said.
"It'll help create jobs in our country, get our economy going again and put more people back to work.
"The fact the government continues to spend more than a trillion dollars every year that it doesn't have scares investors, scares businesspeople, makes them less willing to hire people."
House Republicans proposed a spending plan last week that promises to balance the budget in 10 years, in part by transforming Medicare and Medicaid, overhauling the tax code to lower rates and ensuring no Pentagon cuts.
As for any chance of working out a deal with the White House to help balance the budget and reduce the debt by increasing revenue, Boehner said that discussion has timed out.
"The president got his tax hikes on January the 1st," Boehner said. "The talk about raising revenue is over. It's time to deal with the spending problem."
When asked if he saw a way of including both entitlement cuts and new revenues in any proportion, Boehner repeated, "The president got his tax hikes on January the 1st," but didn't answer the question.

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I love it when real life and entertainment collide for humorous effect, and social media is especially great for that.
My favorite example of this lately is Minnesota Viking Adrian Peterson's now-famous post-game confession of his passion for orange peanuts.
This comes courtesy of Bad Lip Reading. If you haven't seen their full set of YouTube videos, your life is not as rich as it could be.
Culture Jamming? Orange Peanut!
The best part of this is when Peterson was presented with a real-life orange peanut at an autograph session. And he was a great sport about it. Look at that smile.
Importantly, as USA Today notes, "The craftsmanship on the peanut is spot-on." Excellent.
What do you think? What's your favorite example of real/online/entertainment world convergence? Have you ever participated in culture jamming? Let us hear from you in the comments.
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My NY Mets sketchbook. I create an entry after each Mets game or commentary on the crazy stuff going on around the team.
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The United Food and Commercial Workers union has promised "not to engage in any picketing or confrontational conduct" at Wal-Mart facilities for at least two months, according to a government agency.
The giant retailer filed a complaint against the UFCW with the National Labor Relations Board in November amid demonstrations by the union. The protests, online petitions and gatherings – organized in part by affiliated advocacy groups seeking better working conditions for Wal-Mart workers – occurred during the bustling Black Friday and Christmas holiday shopping season.
The NLRB, an independent government agency, said the charge against UFCW will be dismissed in six months as long as the union ceases picketing for now.
In a statement, Wal-Mart said the union's demonstrations had amounted to "unlawful tactics and disruptions." The Bentonville, Ark., mega-retailer says the rallies violated the National Labor Relations Act – in short, by trying to unionize Wal-Mart workers without going through the proper channels.
But in a letter to the NLRB, the union and its affiliated group OUR Walmart said it was only agitating to help individual workers improve their lot at Wal-Mart. UFCW wrote that it "has no intent to have Wal-Mart recognize or bargain with it as the representative of Wal-Mart employees."
UFCW wrote that it accepted the terms of the NLRB settlement "without admitting that they have engaged in any conduct that constitutes an unfair labor practice."
Union membership in the U.S. continues its long decline
Some Wal-Mart workers walk out in lead-up to Black Friday
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Last week I attended the Queen's Volunteering Award Event with Age UK volunteer, John McArthur, to celebrate the huge contribution that our 70,000 volunteers add to our work across the Age UK network. We know that like many voluntary and charity organisations, a significant proportion of the support we provide would simply not be available without these individuals. In the current climate, their support is even more vital.
We're experiencing unprecedented cuts. NCVO estimates the voluntary sector is set to lose £3bn over the next five years with cuts to volunteering the most commonly reported theme by organisation. The belief that volunteering is free and will 'fill the gap' makes the situation even harder.
For those of us in the ageing sector, the challenge comes at a time when we need action more than ever before, with the number of people aged 65 and over expected to rise by 65% in the next 25 years, and the number of over 85s predicted to double. Ensuring we are able to enjoy the opportunities this presents will mean tackling significant challenges: providing decent and sustainable income in retirement, addressing inequalities in ageing, delivering dignity for older people, reforming social care and tackling isolation and loneliness. This means we need to ask ourselves not just how to strengthen volunteering in this difficult environment, but also how it can be used to help us meet the challenges of an ageing population. Continue reading "Celebrating volunteering"


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March is Women's History Month, and today (March 8th) marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day (1911-2011). As the International Women's Day press release states, "International Women's Day is a global celebration of the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future."
The Special Collections Department here at Iowa State University holds numerous collections documenting the history of women here at Iowa State, throughout Iowa, the United States and sometimes even the world. A listing of selected collections related to women can be found in our subject guide found online.
In the last few years, we have put a number of items related to women's history from our collections online. One of these is a scrapbook from the Ada Hayden Papers which contains beautiful black and white photographs, including brief captions, of prairie scenes and flora in Iowa. In addition to being an Iowa State graduate, Ada Hayden was also an Instructor and Assistant Professor (1910-1950) of botany for many years here at Iowa State, and later Curator of the Herbarium (1947-1950). In addition to studying Iowa's prairies and flora, she devoted herself to prairie preservation. Iowa State's Herbarium was named after Ada Hayden, and contains many specimens collected by her. For more on the Ada Hayden Herbarium, please visit the herbarium's website. You may also recognize her name from Ada Hayden Heritage Park on the north side of Ames. The finding aid for Hayden's papers can be found here.
The collection of quilt historian and Ames alumna Mary Barton is also available online through Digital Collections. The Fashion Plates Collection (1776-2003) contains plates of general fashion dating back to the 18th century and continuing through the 20th century.
Mary Welch's cookbook and several suffrage cookbooks can be found through the Cookbooks link on the Digital Collection's homepage. Mary Welch was the wife of Iowa State's first president, Adonijah Welch and was the organizer and head of the Department of Domestic Economy at Iowa State from 1875 to 1883. In addition to this cookbook, the Special Collections Department also holds Mary Welch's papers. The finding aid to her papers can be found online here. Her collection contains interesting writings and lectures from an influential Iowa State woman from the early part of Iowa State's history.
The online suffrage cookbooks (the originals are housed here in the Special Collections Department) in the library's Digital Collections are also are also fun to look through. The "Woman Suffrage Cook Book, containing thoroughly tested and reliable recipes for cooking, directions for the care of the sick, and practical suggestions, contributed especially for this work" was edited and published by Mrs. Hattie A. Burr in 1886. In addition to the normal sections of a title page still present today, I was surprised to find on the title page Hattie's street address in Boston (or at least that is what I am assuming the address refers to)!
The final online suffrage cookbook in our Digital Collections, "The Suffrage Cookbook, " was compiled by Mrs. L.O. Kleber and published in 1915. In addition to the information and recipes this particular book contains, it also has additional value (sometimes referred to as "intrinsic value") in that it was owned by our own suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt (Iowa State graduate and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association). The book was once owned by Carrie Chapman Catt, and according to the note at the front of the book by her niece to Dr. Hilton [Helen LeBaron Hilton] "Aunt Carrie checked some of the recipes she liked and sometimes wrote figures on the side to show cost. Her own favorite desserts were cranberry souffle and strawberry shortcake-biscuit style." An example of one of these checked recipes (Inexpensive Spice Cake!) can be found on page 124. Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband (page 147) is also an interesting read.
Last year we celebrated the 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote and for which Carrie Chapman Catt had worked towards for many years. Ninety years ago this year, the 1921 Bomb (Iowa State's yearbook) was dedicated to Carrie Chapman Catt:


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1) A child should develop the ability to solve a variety of problems in real-world situations. This involves real-life experience in using problem-solving skills and the ability to find information when needed, by visiting the library, searching the internet, or locating an expert. It has very little dependence on a memorized set of knowledge.
2) Children should have an education that caters to their strengths. If a child is obviously gifted in writing, and has a passion for it, the bulk of his energy should be put into that subject. Those subjects we love and excel in are usually the ones we develop as adults and use to do important, possibly world-changing things. Children should be as free as possible to pursue what they love, no matter their age.
3) At the same time, an education should give a child enough basic knowledge to succeed in a variety of occupations. A child may not love math, but a little of it is necessary for everyday life and certain career paths require even more. A well-rounded education is important.
4) A good education maintains a child's excitement for each new day and nurtures her natural desire to learn, think and create. Catering to a child's individual interests and learning style is key.
5) A child should have opportunities to interact with others and develop interpersonal skills--not only with peers, but with people of all different ages and backgrounds. In the real world, we must regularly interact with all kinds of different people. We learn the most from people who are different from us.
6) Children should be taught to question authority. Some of the greatest achievements in history were made because of this. A leader is not always right. Always, always question.
I may add more to it later, but I can already see these beliefs shaping how we will homeschool. My dream homeschooling situation would include lots of dialogue in the middle of living life and working through everyday situations. We will do what we love at our favorite time of the day. Some books and worksheets will be used (mostly later on of course; Suzi is three) to ensure all important material is covered. We'll probably do more learning side-by-side on the couch rather than sitting under the bright lights at the dining room table, because it's more relaxed that way. We will make an effort to attend group meetings and have playdates and go places regularly. And lastly, I will respect my children's uniqueness and ideas in a way that is not so prevalent in schools.
From what I've read so far in a variety of places, I've gathered that the cornerstone of homeschooling is simply sharing everyday life with our children. I already love doing that. The rest will follow!
Do you homeschool? What is your educational philosophy and how does it shape your day? I am fascinated by the possibilities!


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Welcome to I-WALK!
I-WALK is an Iowa walkability program administered by Iowa Department of Public Health and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, and implemented by communities across Iowa. Local Public Health leads the implementation effort and is vital to the success of the program.
The goal of I-WALK is to provide community coalitions with relevant local information to help them continuously update, implement, and evaluate their community walking plans. I-WALK has a heavy emphasis on data collection and analysis, with the goal of providing communities with the best up-to-date information and data analysis to be used as a catalyst for environmental change.
I-WALK utilizes Web Mapping Technologies and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to accurately map routes that children and community members use to walk or bicycle to school, work, or other community destinations and identify barriers and solutions to make it safer for all. Creating environments that allow individuals to walk or bicycle safely to their destination will improve health outcomes for adults and children by providing additional opportunities to get the recommended 30-60 minutes of physical activity each day and normalizing walking as part of the family's lifestyle.
The program history of WALK includes a pilot project funded by an Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) non-infrastructure grant, launched in September 2010 in 12 Iowa schools, focusing on Safe Routes to School data collection and planning. In Spring 2012, I-WALK was implemented in an additional four schools through funds obtained by Iowans Fit for Life, Iowa Department of Public Health, through a grant from Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In July 2012, I-WALK piloted its first project specifically focusing on the aging adult population in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Additional funds have been awarded by IDOT to expand the I-WALK program into another 12 elementary schools during the 2012-13 school year.
Past and present participants can be found here along with a map of where they are located in the state.
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The breakfast menu is cook's choice and often decided on a few days prior or the evening before. All meals are accompanied by seasonal fresh fruit, homemade pastries, fruit juices and freshly ground and brewed coffee.
Some of the return guest favorite dishes are
- Seasonal baked pancakes with homemade fruit topping
- Farm fresh egg frittata with veggies
- Orange-pecan crusted French Toast
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Farm fresh eggs, local orchards fruits, and seasonal herbs and vegetables from our garden and the farmer's market are used when available.
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Identifying and helping landowners protect their natural areas is one of the jobs of the Louisiana Natural Heritage Program. However, we have determined that a natural area does not mean the same thing to everyone, whether they are a forester, wildlife biologist, or a private landowner. Therefore, we have attempted to describe below what a natural area is as accepted by the LNHP.
What is a natural area?
Natural areas registered with the Louisiana Natural Areas Program must support rare, threatened or endangered plants or animals, state significant natural communities, or high quality common elements. The state's registry program encourages voluntary conservation of significant natural lands in both private and public ownership. Landowners of natural sites placed on the registry play a crucial role in the conservation of the natural heritage resources found on their properties. Species and natural communities are often lost simply because a landowner is unaware of their existence and management needs. Often people think that the term "natural area" means that a piece of land must be left alone, and not managed to be natural. However, in most cases, the opposite is true. Natural areas must be managed using specific guidelines in order to preserve and/or restore natural communities or wildlife habitats occurring on the site. As Louisiana was settled, the natural environment and natural processes that maintained our biological communities were drastically altered. We now must battle factors such as invasion by exotic species, fire exclusion, altered streams and water systems, landscapes fragmented by roads, pipelines, and development, as well as many other threats in order to manage and maintain the character of our state's natural areas. A natural community that is out of balance in composition, structure and function, or that has been highly altered from its original condition, can be brought back toward natural balance through a carefully devised management regimen.
Louisiana Natural Heritage Program staff provides registry landowners with a biological assessment of their property, and develop specific management suggestions to retain the natural character of their property and ensure long‐term survival of the natural heritage resources. The following are general management guidelines that can be applied to managing any natural area. Each Natural Area in the program should also have individualized management guides for the particular species or natural communities found on that specific site.
What does managing my natural area mean?
The practice of natural area management means doing what is necessary to maintain or promote the natural integrity of the ecosystem that is present or should be present on any piece of ground, considering site factors such as surface geology, soils, topography, hydrology and geographic location.
It means determining what natural communities (habitats) were originally present on the site, considering the above factors, and working to maintain the natural integrity of that habitat, if it is still present, or working to promote and restore those natural conditions that have been lost or degraded through past land use practices.
The natural integrity of an ecosystem is probably best assessed by evaluating the composition, structure, and functions of the current habitat on site and comparing these to the composition, structure and functions of the system originally present. Restoration and maintenance of the system is really what natural area management is about.
Implementing Natural Area Management
Some ways to implement management of your natural area site are:
- Maintain/restore historical natural community composition and structure.
- Do not convert natural forests, or those forests that are similar to their pre‐European condition to commercial plantation forests.
- Do not convert natural prairies or grasslands (not even small portions) to food plots, or agricultural plantings. Avoid disturbance of the groundcover.
- Favor a full natural balance of species that would be expected at a site given site factors. For example, with forested sites do not ʺpushʺ the area to be overly stocked with commercially desirable trees or selected wildlife trees if this upsets the natural balance of species. Do not intentionally eliminate species indigenous to a site.
- Natural forest management often includes environmentally sensitive timber harvest. If timber removal is necessary, practice methods that duplicate as nearly as possible natural disturbance regimes under which our forest systems evolved. The great majority of natural disturbances are small‐scale events (e.g., lightning strike mortality, thunderstorm down‐bursts, small‐scale insect infestations) that operate at scales of less than an acre to only a few acres. An all‐aged (uneven‐aged) management, system such as single‐tree/small group selection, appears to best duplicate these events.
- Consider surrounding landscape conditions when formulating management plans. If this tract supports an indigenous habitat type that is largely missing from the general landscape (for example, shortleaf pine‐hardwood forests, longleaf pine forests, or older natural forests of any type), it is important to maintain this condition on as much of the tract as possible.
- ʺEdgeʺ is not utopia for all wildlife. While most early successional species prosper when much edge is introduced, plants and animals adapted to forest interior conditions usually have problems. It is important to maintain relatively large blocks of mature natural forest for these species. There is currently a super‐abundance of ʺedgeʺ and early successional habitat in the state. Older natural forests are becoming scarce, particularly patches larger than 100 acres.
- Maintain old‐growth natural forests where possible.
Fire is critical in maintaining/restoring many natural community types. Use prescribed fire as appropriate for different ecosystems and their inclusions. Some recommended fire intervals are:
- coastal, calcareous prairies ‐ once every 1 ‐ 3 years
- longleaf pine and included communities ‐ once every 1 ‐ 3 years
- shortleaf pine‐hardwood forest ‐ once every 5 ‐ 15 years
- mixed hardwood‐loblolly forest ‐ once every 20 ‐ 40 years
- Use growing‐season fires when possible; our natural ecosystems evolved under a regime of fires started by lightning, mainly in the spring and summer. Apply most fires in the spring, in the interval mid‐April to late June. Growing‐season fires can be rotated with dormant‐season fires.
- Use natural fire breaks such as streams, branch bottoms or other embedded wetland breaks, and allow the fire to create its own ecotonal patterns on the landscape as it originally did. By avoiding or minimizing the use of plowed fire breaks, you minimize erosion and soil movement, and maintain the natural integrity of your property.
- Do not mechanically or chemically disturb unique areas (e.g., bogs, seeps, temporary natural ponds, deep sandy spots, prairies or forests on calcareous clays, glades, shortleaf pine, longleaf pine, etc.) that may be present.
- Do not disturb stream‐side zones; do not disturb steep slopes above streams.
- Maintain/restore historical hydrologic patterns, to the extent practicable.
- Practice state‐of‐the‐art prevention/detection/control of southern pine beetle problems. Be ever vigilant in detection and control of the beetles.
- Monitor for rare species and habitats found on your property and working with LNHP, devise specialized management for any rare species or habitats present.
- Retain snags and low‐vigor/damaged trees within the stand. These are natural components of natural forests and are important for various ecological reasons.
- Likewise, large downed woody material (e.g., rotting logs) are important parts of naturally functioning forests. A tree has fulfilled only a portion of its ecological function in a forest at the time it dies.
- Control/remove aggressive non‐native plant species that are displacing native vegetation. Some of the worst are Japanese honeysuckle, privet‐hedge, Chinese tallow tree, and Japanese climbing fern (bridle‐veil fern). Careful use of appropriate herbicides will probably be necessary to accomplish this.
Remember, these are only general guidelines that will require site‐by‐site interpretation and application by professional biologists/ecologists. The Louisiana Natural Heritage Program can provide additional specific management recommendations tailored to your particular Natural Area. Contact Chris Reid at 225‐765‐2820 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What Eagle Managers Represent
In less than a month, several of the staff and a few thousand FBOs will be waving off the coast of Barcelona as the Freedom of the Seas cruise ship takes them through the Mediterranean. This is one of the rewards of being an Eagle Manager, but while it's a significant part of the Eagle incentive, there's something I believe we haven't talked about enough – what it means to be an Eagle.
There is the recognition it comes with, but more importantly, there are traits that define the type of FBO an Eagle Manager represents. These following four characteristics are not the only identifiers of a true leader, but they are several of the strongest qualities seen in these high-achievers.
Having faith in yourself, the products, the business and the journey is not only a core ingredient of an excellent Forever leader, but it's also the special power that keeps Eagle Managers positive and persevering. When an Eagle has true belief, they can accomplish anything because believing and desire is half of the secret to success. With strong belief, nothing can shake a leader.
If you asked an Eagle Manager what they want to achieve next month, they may tell you that they want to increase their sales by 15%. When you go back to that Eagle the following month, you can bet they have achieved it and they are ready to report on how they did it. Part of being an Eagle means you're committed to do what it takes to complete your goal.
You may be thinking that communication is an obvious trait for a network marketer, but you'll be surprised at how many FBOs don't fully understand what communication entails. Leaders are masters at this skill using it to influence others to accomplish their mission by providing direction, motivation and purpose. Communication is verbal, as well as non-verbal. It means being able to express positive news and recognition, but also being able to give criticism and report on negative feedback.
Possibly one of the most important traits of a leader is consistency. Ensuring that you have steadfast adherence to the same principles means you've become an unsinkable ship. No matter how rough the seas get, your ship never fails you. Consistency is built through building the right habits and keeping the end in mind. Eagles are a true representation of consistency because they have built businesses that bring not only themselves into the light of success, but they also focus on bringing others up. To accomplish this, they must be able train, mentor and guide other FBOs through their journey.
Qualification for Eagle Manager 2018 is open until April 30th, 2018. Are you up for the challenge? I urge you to talk to other Eagles to ask them about their success and discover what it takes to be one of these leaders. Also, be sure to follow the events happening at this year's Eagle Manager's Retreat by following Forever on social media and searching the hashtag #EMR17. You'll soon find out why you don't want to miss the opportunity to be part of this elite group.
Keep Smiling,
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Abuja, Nigeria, July 13, 2012--Armed, masked assailants abducted and beat a veteran journalist in Mali on Thursday, leaving him with a broken hand and other injuries, according to news reports and local journalists.
Eight gunmen stormed the offices of L'Indépendant newspaper in the capital, Bamako, at about 9 p.m., firing in the air to disperse staff and bystanders, and then seizing publisher Saouti Labass Haïdara and taking him away in a 4-by-4 vehicle, news reports said. Haïdara, dumped by a roadside four hours later, was treated at a hospital in Bamako, local journalists said. Oussouf Camara, a reporter with L'Indépendant, told CPJ that Haïdara suffered head injuries in addition to a broken hand.
Local journalists told CPJ they believe the attack came in reprisal for articles critical of the government. "We have published stories on the government. I believe his assault is linked to our Tuesday July 10 publication, which was on the situation in the North of Mali," Camara said. The issue carried a piece that criticized the government's response to separatist Tuaregs who have declared an independent state in northern Mali, according to local journalists.
"We condemn this brutal attack on Saouti Labass Haïdara and are deeply concerned that it comes in retaliation for L'Indépendant's critical reporting," CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita said from New York. "With journalists in Mali working in extremely insecure conditions, authorities must act now to apprehend the perpetrators in this attack and to take urgent steps to ensure the safety of all journalists."
Hamadoun Touré, Mali's communications minister and government spokesman, told CPJ the government is investigating the assault on Haïdara as well as past attacks on other journalists. "We have not made any arrests as we have not been able to identify these armed men because they are masked. But the government is investigating," Touré said.
The attack on Haïdara comes just two months after state security agents pretending to be printers entered the publisher's office and took him to the agency's headquarters, according to news reports. Security agents interrogated him about an article describing a political leaflet that was critical of coup leader Capt. Amadou Sanogo, the reports said. Since the country's March 22 coup, journalists have been subjected to increasing instances of harassment and assault, CPJ research shows.


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Surely, I'm not the only one!
We already know that atheist men [allegedly] outnumber women, although I do sometimes suspect there are merely more "in the closet" atheist women who don't come out because they don't want to lose friends.
While I was on my search for truth, which ultimately led to my atheism, I didn't anticipate losing friends... but I have. In my case, it's not that they've exactly abandoned me because of my lack of faith, but we simply don't have anything in common anymore. I simply cannot just call one of my lifelong buddies up and ask for advise or get support from them... because all I'll get from them is woo-advice! "Oh, did you pray about it?!" or "All things work out for the good of those who love Him... " or "The Bible says this about your problem..." For this very reason, I also cannot call my mom when I'm upset. I can just feel that she wants to make some religious reference every time I talk about my life.
Four years after finally deciding I don't believe there's a god, this lack of emotional connection has gotten to me. I had a really good friend in 2008, but I moved away. We're still close, but our lives get in the way so we don't talk often, and we've only seen each other once, briefly, since. I'd LOVE if she lived closer, but yeah... this being an adult nonsense really prohibits one from uprooting for any reason other than money.
Basically, I feel like I'm admitting weakness by simply stating that I need a friend. I've always, always had close friends. I've never had trouble finding friends! It could be my age (everyone is getting married or having babies, thus making them unavailable). It could also be that I can't be friends with just anyone at this point because the likelihood is high that a random, nice person will also believe there's a god.
Are any of you other ladies having difficulty with this? Am I the only one who need yet lacks close girlfriends because of being atheist? What do you do to cope? Are you near family? What should we do to reconnect with our sister? Because I, for one, thrive best when I have females in my life.
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Wow... it's even hard to find good secular girlfriends in Oregon? I thought those north-westerners were more progressive! I've always wanted to live somewhere in Oregon, or just the west coast <3
God, it makes me sad that so many of us nerdy, secular gals have had such awful experiences with the same sex. I know that females can certainly be catty and competitive, but somehow I escaped the worst of it (or successfully avoided it... I wasn't drawn to "those" girls). I am ever-grateful for the friends I've had over the years... they really had my back! And, just like I've mentioned, I was never a "typical" girl either.
I definitely enjoy the company of men... but I feel like each gender typically offers something that the other doesn't. Guys are cool surface friends, and girls you can go deep with. My boyfriend appreciates my mind (and, yeah, my body too lol), my talent and interests... we talk about science and politics and do lots of activities together. But uh... as far as really getting some of my emotional complexity, I feel sorry for him sometimes. He takes a lot of my angst personally. All I really need to do is talk it out and get some feedback, but he thinks he's failing me by not being able to "fix it."
I just wish all you girls responding were nearby! I feel like we'd get along. I am the least competitive person... I just want buddies and good times! God should've made 'em all like us!! ;)
There's Portland, and then there's the rest of Oregon.
Anyway, I get what you're saying about your boyfriend - you can be with the greatest guy on the planet (well, you can't, because he's mine!), and still need a girlfriend or two.
Oregon really is a great place to live and overall people here are very progressive. Progressive doesn't mean that they aren't tainted by some kind of woo though. I know many people who are atheists, however beyond that many aren't very rational. They are the people who think that homeopathy works, that licensed physicians just want to sell you drugs that keep you sick, raising your voice to a child is abuse, 9/11 was an inside job, we never landed on the moon, aliens are among us, they believe in a life force, the universe is like mind blowing man.... Ok so I might be exaggerating a little but sometimes this sort of person is more annoying and frustrating and harder to be around than my christian tea party relatives who surprisingly enough don't mind having me around or discussing politics and religion. And really Portland isn't the only progressive place in Oregon, most cities with a population over 5,000 have decent number of so called hippy-liberal-progressives in them.
I too wish all the girls on here lived near each other.
Boy do I hear ya - just last weekend, I got caught in a discussion of balancing chakras and reorienting all molecules in our children to their true nature. Like wrestling with jell-o, that.
I'll admit the Portland thing was an overstatement. But my town (Medford, population 75,000) has nothing like what I could call a decent number of progressives. Yes, 12 miles down the road, there's Ashland (pop. 20,000). Lovely and fun, but very very woo. As a region, southern Oregon is more religious and less educated than the state as a whole. It is BY FAR the most conservative place I've lived. Also, the most Mormon place I've lived.
just last weekend, I got caught in a discussion of balancing chakras and reorienting all molecules in our children to their true nature. Like wrestling with jell-o, that.
- You just described many people I meet in Eugene perfectly! This is exactly the reason I have such a hard time finding friends. Everything's going fine then suddenly Bam! Woo all over in my face... makes me want to carry around one of those 'bang head here' posters.
I don't have a single female friend. Some because I am an atheist, and others because I find it hard to relate to vacuous empty headed bimbos, which most unfortunately seems to be the norm where I work, travel and live.
Be nice to discuss female issues without all the boring gossip, bitching and small talk that seems to be the centre (Aussie sic) line of their existence.
Yep, I read, I make, I do. I certainly am hearing the other women that have responded here.
You can join this site --> www.meetup.com They've got events for people from all sort of backgrounds, atheist included. We have a group on Think Atheist dedicated to those in Florida. Click this link!
Where in Florida are you located? I used to live in Fort Lauderdale.
I've actually been pining for some good girlfriends lately too. Although we moved to a more rural area from Seattle last year, and since moving here, my husband and I have been meeting a lot of people. I was a little scared because neither of us have jobs (so no finding friends at work), and we're both in school online (so no finding friends in class). I honestly had no idea how to make friends except for going to church, because all of my friends are either leftovers from high school, or friends from church or other Christian circles, most of whom I have little in common with now. Anyway, I was fiddling around online one day when I remembered meetup.com, so I gave it a look. I actually found a skeptics group and an atheist/agnostic group in my area. I also found a ladies social group and a ladies book club. We've been here for nearly a year now, and John and I have both made some really good friends. I am so glad the groups exist, because now I still go to the groups, but I have friends from the groups that I just hang out with. Luckily, since I live in the PNW, most people out here are pretty open minded, and while not everyone is atheist/agnostic (in my book club, for instance), we all just accept each other and get along really well. It's very cool. Especially since I live in a military town, too. I thought for sure the fundies would be rampant here, but I haven't run into too many of them, thank goodness.
But yeah, I think that having girlfriends is a really important thing. Women need other like minded women to talk to and have fun with.
Hi Cara!
I can relate to all of it. I'm 30, just "came out of he closet" so to speak and when I finally said I dont believe in God most women I know took a step back, even family. I also feel like I would love a female friend. Preferably one that can challenge me intellectually, someone like minded, and someone without kids. Is that too much to ask? LOL. I'm also in an interesting situation where I am focused more on my career. I'm taking classes to get professional certification and hope to attain a Masters and ultimately a doctorates in Curriculum and Instruction. So I'm 30 and I have no desire to have kids. Really I'm not sure if I ever want kids, thankfully my hubby is on the same page.
I also have a very close friend who lives pretty far away (Tampa). We dont see each other but talk occasionally. I have another who lives in NY and we see each other every summer and chat throughout the year. She's a doctor of Psychology and I love talking with her because she can actually hold an intelligent conversation. Unfortunately there arent many open-minded women around here so I can relate you when you say it's lonely.
I do not think it is a sign of weakness to admit you need a friend, on the contrary I think it is a sign of strength to admit when something is your life isnt going the way you would like it to and you take steps to make it better. Once you say it, it's out there in the universe, and the universe has a strange yet wonderful way of responding.
I spend a lot of time with my hubby. I love my mom and dad, very much, but they tend to throw around the religious rhetoric. When I got my contract re-newed and a raise my mom said "God answered my prayers!" I wanted to be like....ummmm no Mom you are robbing me, I DID THAT! by working my ass off! I was the reason I got a good contact and raise, not God. So yeah, things like that really annoy me. However they are my parents and above everything else I dont want any regrets so I spend a lot of time with them and keep conversations to cooking, the Bakery, gardening, and the weather.
Wow I'm rambling....anyways yes it's super important to have a girl friend to do stuff with, yes I feel the same way, I'm lonely and need a friend too, and to cope I have had to "learn" to be by myself and I found this place of like minded individuals.
My mom is in Texas, which is halfway across the country from me. I try to just keep our convos about my niece (her granddaughter), the weather, and whatever other random thing we can think of to steer clear of politics and religion. I think that, because the elections are coming up and our country is so divided over it, that our relationship has been especially strained. It's gotten harder and harder for me to go to her when I need emotional support. It's almost impossible to avoid some key issue from sneaking into our conversations... but when she keeps hoping aloud I'll one day move back to Texas, I can only hold my tongue so many times before I blurt out something about Gov Rick Perry defunding women's healthcare in the state just to spite Planned Parenthood. And when she sends me links to Faux News, even after I've asked her not to send me stuff like that, I am not always able to resist launching into my opinion about that "news" network, and the Republicans, and the liar Mitt Romney. She's baiting me. We're at an impasse right now, and that's painful. I'm glad you're mostly able to keep it civil with your parents.
I did just get off the phone with my amazing friend from Florida. It is good to talk with her. I feel like I'd be able to let off so much steam with her if she were around. We just get each other. Life gets so much in the way. At least we've picked a date and are planning a weekend trip to NYC. Hopefully that'll pan out.
I guess I'm in the process of learning to be by myself. I mean, I'm pretty cool ;) , but I feel I get a little lost in my head and need someone to pull me out of my thoughts sometimes. I am way too analytical, and I think things to death. I can't turn my brain off. Expressing all my, sometimes crazy, thoughts to my partner isn't always good for us... but talking is how I sort things out. Oh well! I'll talk to my cat (this must be the makings of a crazy cat lady).
Anyway... thanks for all your thoughtful responses. We'll all have to plan on hanging out if any of us ever happen to be in the area. :)
I have female friends, but I don't get to see them much because of busy lives. I have one friend whose company I enjoy but with whom I can't hang out much because she ends up trying to convert me. I know she genuinely cares about me and likes me, but I don't like that aspect of our friendship. She is a very caring and funny person anyway. She says I'm the smartest person she's ever met. Even among friends sometimes I feel different because of that.
I think a lot of religious folks naturally meet and grow close to others at church, and we lack that social environment. The closest thing I've found is the Unitarian Universalist church, which tends to attract the more cerebral crowd but still, it's a church. I would rather be out hiking on Sunday mornings.
I find that the females with whom I'm connected online do actually provide some of that connection. It's not like we can go have a cup of coffee and hang out though.
This is an interesting topic. I do feel alone sometimes but it's not because I don't have friends, even female friends. I've got two kids with serious health issues and sometimes I feel like that takes up most of my time and energy. I truly am grateful for somehow having changed from being a rather screwed-up and socially misguided teenager and young adult, to knowing there are a lot of people who care about me and want to spend time with me.


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CMake now supports a
-DTMPDIR=option to specify the default
tmpdirvalue. If unspecified, the value defaults to
<stdio.h>. Thanks to Honza Horak for the patch. (Bug #68338, Bug #16316074)
InnoDB: Table renaming errors would appear in the
LATEST FOREIGN KEY ERRORsection of the
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUSoutput. (Bug #12762390, Bug #61746)
Partitioning: Queries using the
index_mergeoptimization (see Index Merge Optimization) could return invalid results when run against tables that were partitioned by
HASH. (Bug #17588348, Bug #70588)
References: See also: Bug #16862316, Bug #17648468, Bug #18167648.
Partitioning: When no partition had returned a row since the last HA_ERR_KEY_NOT_FOUND error, the use of uninitialized memory in the priority queue used for returning rows in sorted order could lead to a crash of the server. (Bug #17401628)
Replication: When
log_warningsis greater than 1, the master prints binary log dump thread information—containing the slave server ID, binary log file name, and binary log position—in
mysqld.1.err. A slave server ID greater than 2 billion was printed with a negative value in such cases. (Bug #17641586, Bug #70685)
Replication: mysqlbinlog
--verbosefailed when it encountered a corrupt row event in the binary log. Such a row event could also cause the slave to fail. (Bug #17632978)
References: See also: Bug #16960133.
Replication: Invalid event offsets in the binary log were not always handled correctly, which could lead to replication failure. (Bug #16736412, Bug #69087)
Microsoft Windows: On Windows, the
--local-serviceserver option did not work, and was not displayed in the
--helpmessage. (Bug #69637, Bug #17049656)
The cache used for the Index Merge access method was freed only after successful retrieval of all rows. Interruption or failure of the operation led to a file descriptor leak. (Bug #17708621)
utf8mb4strings, handler functions unnecessarily called a Unicode conversion function. (Bug #14057034)
Use of a nonmultibyte algorithm for skipping leading spaces in multibyte strings could cause a server exit. (Bug #12368495, Bug #18315770)
The prototype of the Performance Schema instrumentation API
mysql_cond_timedwait()call was fixed to be drop-in compatible with
pthread_cond_timedwait(). This fix affects only implementors of third-party plugins. (Bug #70628, Bug #17702677)
For the path specified with the
--basediroption, mysql_plugin attempted to unlink the path rather than free the memory in which the path was stored. (Bug #69752, Bug #17168602)
For the
ORDER BY LOWER(could produce incorrect ordering. (Bug #69005, Bug #16691598)
COUNT(DISTINCT) sometimes produced an incorrect result when the last read row contained a
NULLvalue. (Bug #68749, Bug #16539979, Bug #71028, Bug #17867117)
Some scripts displayed out-of-date information regarding where to report bugs. (Bug #68742, Bug #16530527)
Updating a
FEDERATEDtable with
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Breaking Down ESPN's Prestige RankingsPosted by nvr1983 on August 4th, 2008
Ed. Note: Don't like ESPN's Prestige Rankings? Provide your comment on how to improve them here. We're going to take this information and create a new set of rankings based on additional factors (and getting rid of the moronic NIT appearance = NCAA appearance (1 point) criterion).
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that ESPN was trying to fill the dead space between the NBA Finals and the Olympics with yet another list. Normally I wouldn't have even bothered to look at it because ESPN's lists have been getting progressively more ludicrous (hitting its peak–or nadir–when John Hollinger put Dwayne Wade's 2006 "Fall down 7 times, shoot 14 free throws" performance above every single one of Michael Jordan's masterpieces). However, when I noticed that ESPN was trying to rank the most prestigious programs for college basketball in the 64-/65-team era, I was intrigued and figured it was worth some analysis.
The first thing I always do when looking at any list is to see the scoring system used and ESPN sure picked an interesting system. I'll break it into segments with some analysis:
• National title … 25
• Title game loss … 20
• National semifinal loss … 15
• Elite Eight loss … 10
– All four of these things seems pretty reasonable. I think that most fans would value the post-season performances in a way that is pretty close to the points awarded although it seems like a Final 4 berth is considered a great accomplishment for any program (even for the Duke's and North Carolina's of the college basketball world). I probably would have bumped up the national title, title game loss, and national semifinal loss by 5 points to give a 10 point spread between an Elite 8 loss and a national semifinal loss.
• Best W-L record in conference's regular season … 5
• 30-plus wins in a season … 5
• Sweet 16 loss … 5
– This is where the scoring starts to get questionable. I'm assuming the "Best W-L record in conference's regular season" is lawyerspeak for regular season conference champion. I'm glad that ESPN has decided that the America East regular season champion deserves more points for their in-conference performance than the regular season runner-ups in the ACC, Big East, and SEC. The 5 points for the 30-plus win season may seem like a lot, but in fact they are very rare (Duke leads with 9 such seasons and I could only count/remember 16 programs with any 30-win seasons since the start of the 1984-85 season) so that seems reasonable (as does the 5 points for a Sweet 16 loss although 16 programs achieve are awarded this each season while approximately the same number have achieved it for a 30-win season during the entire era). My main question with the 5-point awards is if they really consider all regular season conference titles the same as it is easier to win certain titles than others. One interesting note about this methodology is that Princeton with 10 regular season Ivy League titles is awarded 50 points with this methodology while Duke with 9 30-plus win seasons is only awarded 45 points for that feat (ignoring the fact that Duke probably won the regular season conference title most of those years).
• Conference tournament title … 3
• AP first-team All-American … 3
• Losing in NCAA second round … 3
– I'm assuming that the Ivy League regular season champ automatically gets the 3 points for winning the conference tournament title since they don't have a post-season tournament. This only further skews the points Princeton and UPenn get in this system as they receive 80 points and 96 points respectively for their Ivy League titles not to mention the 20-win seasons they racked up beating up on Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, and Brown. I'm perfectly fine with the AP 1st-team AA points as at most 5 teams a year will have a player earn that distinction. Perhaps they should have thrown in a National POY bonus as that player is the one who usually defines the season (Ralph Sampson, Christian Laettner, etc.). Likewise, I'm in agreement with the 3 points for the 2nd round NCAA tournament loss.
• Player in top 10 of NBA draft … 2
• NCAA first-round win as a 12-16 seed … 2
• NIT title … 2
• AP second-team All-American … 2
– This is where it starts to get really weird. Let's get the reasonable things out of the way first. Top 10 pick worth 2 points? Ok. That seems fine even if the draft was dominated by high schoolers and Euros for a few years. In the future, the one-and-done rule might make this benefit the schools that are willing to take the one-and-done guys even if it does hurt their APR. That is unless those guys start going to Europe. Cinderella getting 2 points for a 1st-round upset? Fine with this too even if we will all remember the Hampton upset of Iowa State more than we will remember the annual 5-12 upsets. AP second-team AA worth 2 points? Ok with this one too even if I think once you start getting to the 2nd team the players selected start getting more dependent on the voters. I'm too lazy to check this out (perhaps rtmsf can do it), but I'd be willing to venture there is a lot more variation in the guys selected to the 2nd team by various publications/groups than there is with the 1st team. Now for the crazy one. . .Awarding 2 points for a NIT title? Maybe in the 1950s, but today winning the NIT only makes you the butt-end of every more successful team in your conference. How many message board threads have trolls made mocking the 65th (now 66th) best team in country? I'll admit that the NIT champs would probably beat the 13-16 seeds most of the time, but is there really any pride in being the small fish (mediocre team) in the big ponds (power conference) that can beat up on the plankton (13-16 seeds)? I'd give the NIT champ 1 point overall, which leads into the next big problem. . .
• 20-29 wins in a season … 1
• NCAA tournament berth … 1
• Postseason NIT berth … 1
• AP third-team All-American … 1
– Let's get the easy ones out of the way. No problems here with the 20-29 wins or AP 3rd team AA getting 1 point. I would probably differentiate between 20-24 wins, which is usually a solid season, and 25-29 wins, which usually will put you into consideration for a top 4 seed if you're from a power conference. Like I said before the further down the AA list you go, the more variation you will have by publication/group, but it's not really worth arguing about for 1 point. The thing worth arguing about is giving the same number of points for a NCAA tournament berth and a postseason NIT berth. To borrow an over-used phrase from John McEnroe, "You cannot be serious!" While I recognize that in this system the NIT team can only receive 2 points from the tournament (if they win), it is ridiculous to even consider invitations to the 2 tournament similar when the entire selection special is based on camera crews camping out in rooms with bubble teams to see if they got into the NCAA tournament. Maybe the ESPN stat whizzes have access to different camera feeds than I do, but it seems like the players, coaches, and families are happier when they get into the NCAA tournament than when they find out they are going to the NIT (even if Madison Square Garden is a slight upgrade from Boise, Idaho–unless we're talking NBA). That's just one man's interpretation of the reactions I see although I could probably point out that a few years ago Georgetown declined an invitation to the NIT because they wanted to give their players more time to study for exams. . .in March. I wonder why Georgetown didn't turn down its #2 seed this year. Do John Thompson III and the Georgetown AD not care about those same exams any more?
• NCAA first-round loss to a 12-16 seed … -2
• Losing season … -3
• Ban from NCAA tournament … -3
– No problem with the first two although I wonder if a losing season is counted against you if you have it expunged from your record and throw your long-time assistant coach under the bus? Also, I'd consider a 15-16 season a disappointment while I would consider 8-20 a complete embarrassment, so I'd probably make the less than 10-win season a significantly bigger penalty. I think the NCAA tournament ban should be a much larger penalty in this scoring system as the public (and press) reaction tends to be pretty bad (see below).
>> Minimum 15 seasons in Division I
** Ties are broken by overall winning percentage since the 1984-85 season
– After all the issues with the scoring system, I'm not going to complain about these minor qualifiers and tiebreakers. Both of them seem reasonable and none of the top 50 teams were tied.
Now that we've looked the methodology it's time to pick apart the rankings to see what ESPN got right and what they screwed up. Duke is the run-away winner as even the most ardent Duke-hater (feel free to chime in here rtmsf) would agree that Coach K's Blue Devils have been the most dominant program of the era even if their results have been underwhelming the past few years. The Blue Devils are followed by the Jayhawks in 2nd and the Tar Heels in 3rd. I'm not going to argue much with this although I would have UNC in 2nd just because I consider Kansas a team that historically underperforms in the tournament (Mario Chalmers' shot and Danny and the Miracles not withstanding). Now onto the rankings I am utterly confused by.
– UNLV: 8th?!? I loved Jerry Tarkanian's Runnin' Rebs, who may have been one of the best college teams ever even if they lost/threw the 1991 national semifinal against Duke, but there is no way this has been the 8th most prestigious program in the country over the past 20+ years just like Memphis isn't in that category. ESPN provides a pretty clear summary of why UNLV shouldn't be in the top 10: "2 NCAA sanctions; 10 coaches since 1984-85; 0 NCAA tourney wins between 1992 and 2007". I'd keep UNLV in the top 20, but they definitely don't belong in the top 10 with that track record.
– Xavier: The Muskeeters (at #17) have a nice Atlantic-10 program, but the fact that they have never made a Final 4 should automatically keep them out of the top 25. The Musketeers are buoyed by 21 combined conference titles, but have not really been a threat in the NCAA tournament having only racked up 15 NCAA tournament wins. Interestingly, Xavier came in 2 spots ahead of Cincinnati even though Xavier is widely considered the red-headed stepchild in the city.
– Temple: I don't mean to sound like Billy Packer ripping on the mid-majors (sorry, if you're not a BCS conference, you're a mid-major in my eyes), but the Owls never made the Final 4 despite five trips there under John Chaney. I think they're a very good program, but like Xavier, Temple shouldn't be in the Top 25 without a Final 4 appearance.
– Murray State: Now this is the point where I rip the little guy. I was absolutely stunned when I saw this one. The Racers always seem to be one of those teams you see at the bottom of the bracket and maybe every once in a while you decide to take a chance on them to pull off the huge upset. Unfortunately, if you're one of those people, you've only been rewarded once (1988 against 3rd-seeded NC State). The Racers piled up the points by dominating the Ohio Valley Conference racking up 22 (or 24 depending on your addition skills) conference titles and twelve 20+ win seasons (thanks to an easy conference schedule). Somehow this manages to put them above Villanova, Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, and Wake Forest.
– Maryland: The Terps (28th) are killed by the fact that they play in the ACC and have lost out on a ton of points thanks to playing in the same conference as Duke and UNC. Although Gary Williams hasn't had good teams the past few years, the Terps run especially in the Juan Dixon era should have been enough to propel them into the top 20. How does this program only rank 2 spots ahead of Murray State?
– Utah: I don't think the Utes would be able to move up much higher, but it would be interesting to see how high they would be on this list if they didn't have the misfortune of playing Kentucky so many times in the 1990s. While the Utes benefited playing in a softer conference than some of their peers on the list (SEC and ACC), the Mountain West has been a fairly strong conference in recent years.
– Florida: I'm not sure how much higher the Gators could move up because of their relative lack of success (not counting Lon Kruger's 1994 Final 4 run) before Joakim Noah and company ran off back-to-back titles, but it seems like that alone should be enough to crack the top 20 especially when programs like Xavier and Temple are ranked ahead of them despite not making a single Final 4 appearance. The Gators probably belong in the top 15 although that may be more of a recency effect, but it just seems that there recent run puts them at a level that isn't that much different than UNLV with its run with Larry Johnson.
Other points of interest:
– Coach K's current program (Duke) ranks #1. The program he left (Army) comes in tied for 298th, or as it is more commonly referred to "DFL". Hopefully the Duke athletic department program has a better succession plan in place than Army did when Coach K decides to leave the sidelines.
– I found this rather amusing from personal experience. Boston University comes in at 108th ahead of programs such as Clemson, Providence (with a Final 4 appearance), Washington, and USC.
– In the current SportsNation voting, Kentucky is in the lead (good work out of the Sea of Blue crowd) with Duke in 4th even though they have the most #1 votes (something tells me they were left off a lot of ballots or voted 25th). The three teams I singled out as being overrated in the top 25 were moved down quite a bit. Note: I thought they were overrated even before I saw the online voting.


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Elderly, Old Or Aine: Three Provocative Takes On A Label
My recent post on use of the world "elderly" struck a nerve among many in the over-60 set. Three of the responses were particularly eloquent and with very different views. One offers a French lesson from Quebec, another sees answers in her old pottery and the third is from a certain cantankerous Morning Edition sports commentator and prolific author who says we should all grow up.
I begin with the latter, Frank Deford:
Dear Middle-Aged Ed,
I simply could not believe the fuss over "elderly." Are we really getting so delusional we can't acknowledge the truth? And if some vain old idiots don't want to admit that they're old, it seems to me that neither NPR or the AP or any other journalistic entity should support them in their fantasy. Stop already with the kid gloves.
Elderly is not an optional description. Neither, for example, is kid. You may not feel what you regard as being elderly. You may think you feel like a kid, but if you're a 71-year-old midwife or the 74-year-old man writing you this letter, you are elderly. Get over it. I'm old because I'm not new. The only old-age-descriptive term I can't stand is "senior citizen," but that's just because it's so gummy, not because it's inaccurate. Please, NPR, call me elderly or call me old before you patronize me and call me a senior citizen. And if anybody calls me "seventy-four years young" I am going to hit them with my ear trumpet.
Here's the deal, as pronounced by my old seventy-year-old wife: If you take Social Security, if you take Medicare, you're elderly. You don't want people to call you elderly, don't take the money.
All best,
Old Frank
Catherine Rahal, of Montreal, offers a different view:
I, too, am 63 and I am struggling mightily with this question. I've got a web project on the go aimed at those over 65 and their families, and the issue of what to call us won't settle. When I forget something momentarily I confess to having a senior moment, and we all have a good laugh. I have, however, come to the conclusion that "old" is a very subjective description, particularly when talking about people in their 60s and 70s. I know people in their 50s who are much "older" than I am, and some in their 80s who seem on a par with me. I met a man yesterday, 10 months my senior, who seems considerably older, not least because he has had several health problems and wears two hearing aids, though I think his attitude towards life in general contributed to that impression as well.
Here in Canada there is a magazine for seniors called Zoomer - but the target audience is as young as late 40s, so it doesn't really hit that sweet spot for me. In French (I live in Quebec) the term "ainé" can mean not only senior, but also first born, and seems to my immigrant mind a softer description. I'd love to find an equivalent in English - some things just don't quite translate.
Perhaps our negative association with "elder" comes from the fact that we, the general population, no longer have the same degree of respect for that considerable life experience as in days of yore, so the descriptors have become somewhat pejorative rather than marks of respect.
Those of us that live well and long will in any case arrive at "old", but by that time we may be too old to worry about how we are described.
If you have any brainstorms about terminology, I would love to hear from you.
Glenna Auxier of Gainesville, Fla., says "old" is relative. But, she definitely prefers it over other choices:
I would rather be called old, than elderly. Old is a matter of perspective. My collection of pottery is old. I have friends who have antiques that are ancient. I don't like senior citizen or other such words.
Why is it that for all these years I have been a woman and now you must hook on some adjective to separate us?
To be called elderly, suggests to me and many friends who are also 65 years plus, a state of helplessness, inability to care for themselves and unable to contribute.
The sign you posted on your website shows two people with walking sticks, hunched over and says, "elderly people".
I will be 70 in June and I would never consider donating money to an organization that considered me "unable to contribute."
The NPR digital edition, site of the original headline that set off the debate, has come back with a full article of its own on the labeling tied to aging. Please feel free to continue the conversation.


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Mexican Migration to the United States with David FitzGerald -- 20 Years After NAFTA -- Center for US-Mexican Studies & Osher UCSD
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SENIOR (2014): Big Sky All-Academic (4x)...ITA Scholar Athlete (4x)...Went 11-6 overall and a perfect 7-0 in the Big Sky in singles play at No. 4, 5, and 6...Was 5-3 at No. 5 and 3-0 at No. 6...All seven singles wins in Big Sky play were in two sets...Had a seven match winning streak March 15-22...Won at No. 6 singles in Big Sky Tournament semifinals and finals...Ranked second on the team with an 18-4 overall doubles record and went 7-0 in Big Sky doubles play...Started the year playing with freshman Alina Soltanici at No 3, doubles going 10-2 overall and 3-0 in the Big Sky...Played with sophomore Daria Savchenko at No. 2 doubles over the second half of the season, going 8-2 overall and 4-0 in Big Sky play...Was one of two Hornet starters that went undefeated in Big Sky doubles matches and had two doubles win at No. 2 in the Big Sky Tournament.
JUNIOR (2013): All-Big Sky Honorable Mention...Big Sky All-Academic (3x)...ITA Scholar Athlete (3x)...Went 13-8 overall and 8-0 in the Big Sky at No. 2, 3, 4, and 5 singles...Went 5-0 at No. 4 and 6-2 at No. 5...Won at No. 5 against No. 45 Washington and No. 56 San Diego State and forced a third set against players from three ranked teams..Won all eight Big Sky singles matches in straight sets...16-7 overall doubles mark and 9-0 in Big Sky doubles at No. 2 with Jennifer Nguyen...Earned doubles wins against No. 23 UC Irvine and No. 49 Saint Mary's and won doubles in Big Sky Championship final.
SOPHOMORE (2012): Big Sky All-Academic (2x)...ITA Scholar Athlete (2x)...Posted an 11-10 singles record and 11-10 doubles record as well in her sophomore season...had a season-long five match singles winning streak from Feb. 17 to Feb. 27, which included three conference wins...went 5-2 in Big Sky play...played mostly at No. 3 singles, where she posted a 9-8 record...played all but two doubles matches with fellow sophomore, Sophie Lohscheidt, where they went 10-10 and 5-1 in Big Sky matches...the duo tallied a perfect 4-0 mark at No. 2 doubles while going 6-10 at No. 3.
FRESHMAN (2011): Big Sky All-Academic...ITA Scholar Athlete...Went 10-3 in singles play during her freshman season before missing the final 13 matches of the season due to injury...posted a 2-0 record in Big Sky Conference play...won her final five singles match...defeated No. 28 Arizona's June Huh, 6-3, 6-1 on March 14...played at both No. 5 and No. 6 singles, going 5-2 and 5-1, respectively...tallied an 8-7 mark in doubles play, including 3-0 in the Big Sky, primarily at No. 3...teamed up mostly with fellow freshman Sophie Lohscheidt with a 5-7 record.
PERSONAL: Majoring in geography.