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Nicola Cuti, better known as Nick Cuti, is an American writer, editor and artist of comic books. Cuti saw his first scripts published in the Warren horror and sci-fi magazines, while working with the Ralph Bakshi animation studios. By 1968, he wrote and drew three underground comix starring his character 'Moonchild'. 'Moonchild' later also appeared in Weird Fantasies and in Cheri magazine, and in the comic book series 'Moonie, Moonchild the Starbabe' by MU Press.
Cuti was Wallace Wood's assistant on 'Cannon' and 'Sally Forth', before he became assistant editor with Charlton Comics between 1972 and 1976. He produced many scripts for the publisher's horror and fantasy titles and is best-known for creating the cult superhero 'E-Man' and the private investigator 'Michael Mauser' with Joe Staton.
In the second half of the 1970s, Cuti returned to writing scripts for Warren, while also selling cartoons to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Analog, Amazing Stories and Heavy Metal. He was an editor and writer with DC Comics' superhero and children's titles in the 1980s and settled in California to work on animated TV series in 1986. He has worked as a background artist and designer for studios like Disney, Sony Pictures and Universal.
He created a new comics character with Staton called 'Captain Cosmos', that appeared in comic books as well as Cuti's novel 'Spin a Web of Death' and radio and TV spin-offs. Nick Cuti moved to Florida in 2003, where he works as a scriptwriter for independent films, some of which were adaptations of his Warren and Charlton scripts. Starting in 2009, Cuti has written and illustrated new text novels starring his original character 'Moonchild'.


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Okay, scientific community. I love it when you cure disease and I get super excited when you discover new elements and all. But this study into what causes drunken blackouts—and how to prevent them—is giving my favorite coping mechanism a sad.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine have identified the specific brain cells involved in the those hazy, booze-induced blackout periods. The good news: alcohol may not actually kill brain cells, however much the difference between your high school and college grades suggests otherwise. Instead, booze interferes with brain receptors, causing neurons to manufacture steroids that inhibit memory formation.
This also means that there may be a drug-related cure to walking around unconscious for the better part of an evening:
The researchers found that if they could block the manufacture of steroids by neurons, they also could preserve LTP in the rat hippocampus. And they did that with drugs called 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors. These include finasteride and dutasteride, which are commonly prescribed to reduce a man's enlarged prostate gland. In the brain, however, those substances seem to preserve memory.
But... but what if we're drinking specifically to forget?
Kids in the room, I'm just kidding! Don't drink until you black out, you'll wake up in any icy bathtub somewhere with a scalpel angled precariously at your kidney. Adults, well, you know. Time to pour one out for blackouts. [MedicalXpress; Photo credit: Shutterstock/tommiphoto]


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(CNN) -- No longer able to fit into a booth at a restaurant and too embarrassed to ask for seatbelt extensions on an airplane, Maggie Sorrells was desperate to lose weight.
Maggie Sorrells lost 300 pounds and went from wearing a size 5X or 64 in men's clothing to a size 6.
The day she stepped on a hospital scale and realized she weighed 440 pounds she knew she had to do something.
Name: Maggie Sorrells
Age: 32
Hometown: Franklin, Tennessee
Occupation: Receptionist in doctor's office
Height: 5 feet 6 inches
Heaviest weight: 440 pounds
Current weight: 140 pounds
Pounds lost: 300 pounds
Defining moment
The moment I saw that I weighed as much as I did, it scared me, and I knew I had to do something about it.
How did you finally lose the weight?
Diet: Weigh Down Workshop, a faith-based weight loss program. I ate whatever I craved, but only when I was truly hungry, and then I ate a lot slower, so I could tell when to stop.
Exercise: Nothing out of the ordinary, occasionally I'd go for a walk, but never because I felt like I had to.
How long did it take you to lose weight?
Four years with two pregnancies within the same time period. One month after I lost 300 pounds, I became pregnant for the third time with my son.
How has this changed your life?
Drastically, the way I eat, the way I live my life. I am able to move better. I feel better emotionally and physically. I'm just a much happier person.
I love to hike and I could never go when I was big. I almost killed myself going a half-mile. My chest would hurt and I would think I was having a heart attack. Just after we had our daughter, we went hiking all day and climbed rocks.
I also love the beach. I'm no longer ashamed to go to the beach or wear a bathing suit.
Do you have any tips for other people who want to lose weight?
Yes, don't think about how much weight you have to lose because you'll get overwhelmed and discouraged. Set small goals, like 15 pounds. There were times I wanted to give up and there were days I felt like I couldn't do this. Food was my drug. Take [weight loss] in small increments because when you lose 15 pounds you'll be excited and before you know it you'll lose 50.
Perseverance is most important. If you mess up, especially in the beginning you're going to slip. Don't say, "I'll start over Monday." Start over right now. The worst enemy is if you give up. What got me to the end, to losing 300 pounds, was persevering. On days I wanted to eat the whole bowl of something -- I had to talk myself through it. The truth was, I really wasn't hungry. Food is so much better when you're hungry. Andy, my husband, eats what he wants to eat. But instead of eating an entire gallon of ice cream, he'll just have a scoop of ice cream.
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The FIFA Club World Cup has never been a happy hunting ground for CONCACAF clubs. Of all its representatives over the years, only Necaxa in 2000 and Deportivo Saprissa in 2005 have taken a place on the podium.
Nevertheless, 2012 is shaping up to be a landmark year for the region, and it has nothing to do with Mayan prophecies either, with Mexican hopefuls Club de Futbol Monterrey on a mission to alter the course of Club World Cup history.
Los Rayados took the first step on Sunday, when they saw off Ulsan Hyundai 3-1 to set up a semi-final meeting against a hungry Chelsea side with a point or two to prove. The Mexicans have incentives of their own however, and should they beat the reigning European champions, they will become the first CONCACAF outfit ever to make it to the final of the competition.
So we've got Chelsea? Well, we'll just have to go out and enjoy ourselves.
"We've got to dance with the ugliest one, as we say in my country, and that's Chelsea," said Monterrey coach Victor Manuel Vucetich, looking ahead to Thursday's crunch game. "We believe we're strong enough though."
That belief courses through Vucetich's team, which is skippered by Argentinian centre-half Jose Maria Basanta, who told FIFA.com of his excitement at the prospect of charting new ground: "We know that no CONCACAF has ever reached the final and we want to be the first to do it. It's something we're dreaming about."
A member of the side that lost out to Kashiwa Reysol in the last eight in 2011, the tall stopper was relieved to make short work of Ulsan at the weekend.
"There's no getting away from it: it was our dream to play Chelsea," said the 28-year-old, who has made three appearances in the competition in all. "We never mentioned that before because we want to be totally focused on our opening game. If we hadn't concentrated on that game 100 per cent, we might have ended up getting another surprise like the one we had last year."
Formerly with Argentinian giants Estudiantes and Olimpo of Brazil, and the cousin of Cruz Azul goal-getter Mariano Pavone, Basanta is expecting quite a challenge against the English Premier League side: "It's going to be a very tough game against a team who have a big reputation in competitions like this. We need to play a measured game though, and be aware that anything can happen. Nothing is impossible."
In it togetherBasanta is not the only Argentinian with an important role to play in the Monterrey line-up. Midfielder Neri Cardozo is appearing in his third FIFA Club World Cup, while livewire forward Cesar Delgado, also known as El Chelito, is a close friend of the central defender, who has nothing but praise for him.
"When he's in the mood he's a different kind of player," said Basanta of his compatriot, with whom he regularly meets up to have dinner or drink mate. "You could see that against Ulsan. He proved the difference and scored two cracking goals."
Looking a little abashed by the effusive praise of his team-mate, who then took his leave amid a throng of journalists, Delgado offered up his thoughts on Thursday's game.
"So we've got Chelsea? Well, we'll just have to go out and enjoy ourselves," said the soft-spoken striker with a smile, one that soon vanished as he assessed the Londoners' style of play: "We know they're going to play a different game to Ulsan and not hit so many long balls. I think their style will suit us too and let us play a more expansive game."
Slight of build, the former Mexico and Cruz Azul front-man chooses his words carefully, so much so that it is hard to believe at times he is the same impish player who destroyed Ulsan with his verve and panache last Sunday.
"It's a big responsibility to be playing Chelsea but we know we can spring a surprise," he said, before setting out the objective he believes Monterrey are entitled to aspire to in the next few days: "We hope to reach what would be a historic final, and we don't care who we have to face, whether it's Chelsea or anyone else. If you want to be the champions, you have to beat everyone, don't you? And that's what we want to do: to surprise people, reach the final and win it. That's what we're here for."


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Cultural-historical psychology (also called the school of Vygotsky, sociocultural psychology, socio-historical psychology, activity theory, cultural psychology, cultural historical activity theory, and social development theory) is a psychological theory formed by Lev Vygotsky in the late 1920s, and further developed by his students and followers in Eastern Europe and worldwide. This theory focuses on how aspects of culture, such as values, beliefs, customs and skills, are transmitted from one generation to the next.[1] According to Vygotsky, social interaction, especially involvement with knowledgeable community or family members, helps children to acquire the thought processes and behaviours specific to their culture or society. The changes or growth that children experience as a result of these interactions differs greatly between cultures; this variance allows children to become competent in tasks important or necessary in their particular society.[2]
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Cultural-historical psychology emerged in response to Cartesian dualism as a deliberate attempt to establish a new paradigm in psychological research that would overcome the narrow objectivism of behaviorism (John B. Watson) and subjectivism of the introspective psychology of Wundt, James, and others. Furthermore, it emerged just when the Silver Age, or Renaissance, of the Russian culture was in decline. It focuses on human development for making genetic claims regarding the function of the mind during activity. These claims could be part of, or a basis for, a return to the unity of human sciences.
Another major characteristic of cultural-historical psychology was its integration of various approaches and methods used to consolidate knowledge about humanity.[3]
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Vygotsky and his associates postulate a non-adaptive character and the mechanisms of higher psychical (mental) functional development. The members of Vygotsky's school believed that the main goal of psychological inquiry was an objective study of human consciousness, and assigned the role of cultural mediation and cultural mediators as word, sign (Vygotsky), symbol, and myth (Losev, V. Zinchenko) in the development of higher psychological functions, development of personality and phenomenology.
Human beings who are different in terms of cultural beliefs are also different from each other psychologically.[4]
A basic distinguishing feature of cultural-historical psychology is that
the species-specific characteristic of human beings is their need and ability to inhabit an environment transformed by the activity of prior members of their species. Such transformations and the mechanism of the transfer of these transformations from one generation to the next are the result of the ability/proclivity of human beings to create and use artifacts - aspects of the material world that are taken up into human action as modes of coordinating with the physical and social environment.
—M. Cole , [5]
In this way, research has been done into the effects of literacy[6] and mathematics[7] outside of traditional schooling to understand how cognition develops embedded in a given place and time.
Vygotsky and his associates postulate in principle non-adaptive character and the mechanisms of higher psychical (mental) functions development. Defining the main goal of psychological inquiry as an objective study of human consciousness, the members of Vygotsky's school investigate the role of cultural mediation and such cultural mediators as word, sign (Vygotsky), symbol, myth (Losev, V. Zinchenko) in the development of human higher psychical functions, development of personality and its "top-most' phenomenology.
Some of Vygotsky´s students who took up and developed his approach to psychology include Aleksey Leontyev (sometimes also spelled A.N. Leontev) and A.R. Luria in the Soviet Union, and Klaus Holzkamp in Germany. Holzkamp developed his own approach to cultural-historical psychology which he termed "critical psychology" mainly based on Leontev´s work, also making use of Merleau-Ponty´s Phenomenology[8]
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- Constructivism (learning theory)
- Critical psychology
- Cultural mediation
- Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC)
- Leading activity
- Myth
- Prayer
- Social development theory
- Zone of proximal development
- ↑ Berk, L.E. (2012). "Infants and children: Prenatal through middle childhood". Boston, MA: Pearson
- ↑ Berk, L.E. (2012). "Infants and children: Prenatal through middle childhood". Boston, MA: Pearson
- ↑ Wertsh, James, V., Rio, Pablo and Alvarez, Amelia. Sociocultural Studies of Mind (1995)
- ↑ Heine, S.J.(2008). Cultural psychology p.2.
- ↑ Cole, M. (1995). "Socio-cultural historical psychology" Jim Wertsch et al., Sociocultural studies of mind, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- ↑ Cole, M. & Scribner, Sylvia. (1981). The Psychology of Literacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- ↑ Saxe, G. (1990) Culture and cognitive development : studies in mathematical understanding. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Press.
- ↑ Holzkamp, Klaus (1983): Grundlegung der Psychologie. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, ISBN: 3593335727
External resources Edit
- Зинченко В. П. (1993). Культурно-историческая психология: опыт амплификации. Вопросы психологии, 1993, N 4.
- Культурно-историческая психология, [Cultural-historical psychology], International psychological journal (in Russian)
- Lev Vygotsky Archive at marxists.org
- A.N. Leontev Archive at marxists.org
- A.R Luria Archive at marxists.org
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The 99 Names of Allah: Al- Adheem (The All-Glorious)
Everything in the heavens and everything in Earth belongs to Him. He is the Most High, the All-Glorious. (Surat ash-Shura, 42:4)
Allah's might and grandeur is surely beyond humanity's grasp. Yet, within the limits of their wisdom, people can still see and grasp His might. Indeed, the entire universe abounds with countless examples that indicate His greatness. A closer look at our own planet will make people feel His sublimity.
The heavens carrying clouds that weigh many tons, mountains rising thousands of meters in the air, oceans harboring millions of living beings, a lightening flash and the noise of thunder following it, and billions of living beings that have submitted to Allah—all of these and countless other details are clear signs of Allah's existence.
To have a better grasp of our Lord's grandeur, let's move beyond the limits of our world and think: We live in an unbounded space, the universe, which contains billions of galaxies with countless billions of stars. We live in one of these galaxies on a planet called Earth, which rotates about its axis at a velocity of about 1.670 kilometers an hour. Just thinking on these vast figures make us realize that our existence in the universe is as insignificant as the existence of a dust particle on Earth.
As this example also reveals, people given to sincere contemplation can grasp the majesty of their Lord, Who creates billions of galaxies and holds all of them in His hand. In one verse, Allah informs us about His beautiful names:
Allah, there is no deity but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or sleep. Everything in the heavens and Earth belongs to Him. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, but they cannot grasp any of His knowledge, except for what He wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens and Earth, and their preservation does not tire Him. He is the Most High, the All-Glorious. (Surat al-Baqara, 2:255)
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On the shore of Europe's oldest lake, in Ohrid, the medieval cultural heritage of Orthodoxy and its influence becomes visible. Until 1990 armed ships were stationed on the lake, which separated Albania from Yugoslavia. This was a blind spot at the end of the world. In 1991, the Balkan wars followed, and tourism has never fully recovered, despite the obvious beauty of the area.
Today, Ohrid is also a symbol of nascent European foreign policy and of the possibility of breaking with the bloody 1990s. In 2001, this city experienced one of the great successes of European diplomacy when the Ohrid Agreement helped prevent civil war in Macedonia. In the story of the peace of Ohrid and its implementation, all the tensions that Macedonia currently suffers due to its complex identity and tumultuous history become apparent.
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The digital media business and corporate multimedia departments are looking at increasing terabytes and even petabytes of information generated in the creation, editing, archiving and distribution of digital content. In addition, the move to high-definition television and higher resolution camera work will tax storage boundaries.
| Higher TV and movie resolution standards are radically pushing up storage requirements for producing and saving digital media.
For those users in the film, broadcast and music business, there could be a saying that applies to storage: "Anything that is bigger, better and faster is what I need." At least that's the view of Jason Navarro, IT lead at Image Engine Design Inc., a visual effects post-production studio in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Navarro, like others in the digital content business, is looking at the increasing terabytes (and even petabytes) of data generated in the creation, editing, archiving and distribution of digital content. Most of this data needs to be accessed quickly so organizations can meet deadlines imposed by movie premieres and television broadcasts, and as corporate HR and marketing departments increasingly develop multimedia training videos and product promotions.
Digital content requires not only more capacity, but the ability of the storage system to grow as a user's needs expand. And that's just what Navarro required: a system that could scale performance and capacity as Image Engine's work changed so the company could take on television projects in addition to its film visual effects.
"We were using a 3TB NetApp FAS940 [filer from NetApp Inc.], but found it wasn't going to be efficient enough," says Navarro. "With the transition to high-definition television [HDTV] from standard definition [SDTV], we needed five to six times the storage if we were going to pursue high-end film and television work."
Image Engine picked up the visual effects work for The Incredible Hulk, which was shot with 2K (2,048 horizontal pixel resolution) cameras and when finished could require more than 5TB of storage capacity. In transitioning from SDTV to HDTV, Navarro installed a system for Image Engine that consists of a render farm comprising 120 servers and a four-node 26TB NetApp FAS3050 running the NetApp Data Ontap GX operating system. As many as 200 clients connect to the NetApp cluster and render farm servers, which work together to perform computation-intensive 3D rendering.
"We were looking for a high-performance, high-availability system and decided that clustered storage was the way to go," says Navarro. "In this business, high availability is essential. If we can't get the work done in time, we'll lose money and miss deadlines."
Navarro stores high-demand applications on Fibre Channel (FC) disk and television files on SATA disk. Finished projects are archived on tape. If Image Engine requires more performance from the system, more controllers can be added; if more capacity is required, more disks can be added.
Digital media, and visual and audio effects, require high bandwidth. Traditionally, artists creating these digital files relied on their workstations' DAS to store the images they created. In the '90s, a storage administrator wheeled storage systems from edit station to edit station as needs required, sometimes delaying the production of a feature as artists waited for access to the storage system. The advent of SANs and NAS clusters in the late '90s gave artists a quick and easy way to share and access storage.
Digital media is growing rapidly mostly because of the transition from SDTV to HDTV, as well as the use of higher resolution cameras. According to Coughlin Associates, an Atascadero, CA-based research firm, the storage required for content creation and distribution will grow from 750,000TB today to about 2,250,000TB in 2012, which is more than 2 exabytes. (An exabyte is equal to 1 quintillion bytes. This year, 1 exabyte of hard drive storage would cost more than $200 million.)
"With digital media production, the user's machine needs the best possible storage performance, especially if you're dealing with high-definition media," says Ted Richardson, director of product management at Studio Network Solutions in St. Louis, which specializes in storage technology for the media and entertainment industry.
"With media, where you need the most storage horsepower, the highest bandwidth and lowest latency is at the front end when an artist is pulling data off cameras or recordings and doing that first round of editing," says Richardson. "Artists need to deal with the raw footage that hasn't been compressed or turned into production yet."
Post-production and archiving needs
"We started using the Archion [Inc.'s] Alliance product on the animated film Beowulf [released in 2007]," says Friedman. "We put in the Archion halfway through the production of Beowulf because [it was] newer technology and we were getting some drive failures on an older system." And because the company was entering the world of high-definition animation, a system that could "handle the bigger files seamlessly" was also needed, says Friedman.
"With the Archion system, six to seven users typically share an 8TB array," he says. "Scene by scene, they drop in high-resolution animation and that takes a lot of bandwidth."
Friedman says Non-Linear Solutions upgraded to a 4Gb/sec QLogic switch, adding that "if we had stayed in offline resolution throughout the production of Beowulf, we might have been OK. But once we started pumping high-resolution images through [the system, coupled] with the demands of six to seven users, it just made sense to upgrade our storage," he notes. "It's too taxing to the system when three editors, a visual effects editor and four assistants all use the system; you want to keep the throughput as optimized as possible."
Tom M. Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, estimates that even with the lower resolution uncompressed 2K format video (2,048 x 1,556 pixels), a user would need 12MB of storage per frame and 5TB for a movie. At the newest 4K resolution (4,096 x 3112 pixels), a movie would take 22TB at 3.1GB/sec; at 6K (6,144 x 4,668 pixels), a movie would take 49TB at 7GB/sec (see "Explosive growth in video content," below).
3ality Digital LLC has a different need for high-performance, scalable storage. The Burbank, CA-based company produces stereoscopic 3D content using a 250TB Isilon Systems Inc. IQ cluster. Its in-house post-production team, consisting of more than 90 users, edits raw imagery stored on its Isilon cluster.
"We had a storage area network before installing the Isilon cluster," says Howard Postley, COO/CTO at 3ality. "It was problematic and couldn't scale to the level we needed. We needed a system capable of storing petabytes, not simply terabytes, of information."
In its stereoscopic 3D activities, 3ality produces as much as 10TB of data each day, which it archives to a Quantum Corp. tape robot with LTO-4 media. The studio recently produced the U2 3D film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
In addition to higher resolution digital formats, broadcasters need to repackage content into other forms: breaking news stories, videos of news events and Web content, which increases storage capacity needs. According to Jim Casabella, director of advanced technology at ABC Owned Television Stations Group in Burbank, CA, an average-sized television station has approximately 30 to 40 non-linear edit systems and 100 desktop edit clients. If that same television station broadcasts about 200 news stories a day, the capacity necessary for those news stories will be 30TB in SDTV and 120TB in HDTV (see "The post-production process," below).
Once production is done, archiving of the finished project is required, which adds to the need for more storage capacity, albeit of a different type. Casabella has spent the last three years on a project for digitizing and preserving the organization's legacy archives using an EMC Corp. Documentum system for archiving his legacy data.
"We share media files among 450 business units," says Casabella. "In our legacy archive, we have over 30 years' worth of content on tape, which has to be digitized over the next 10 years or be lost forever. ABC Owned Television Stations have about 7 million news stories to archive requiring about 2PB of storage. Disney [The Walt Disney Co., which owns the ABC Television Group] itself has around 6 million hours of video tape, requiring about 300PB of storage to archive."
Content distribution
"Our primary service is Blu-ray disc authoring--a disc image is the end product--which we deliver to a disc replicator. Our services include HD video encoding, audio encoding in advanced formats, integrating menu elements, subtitles and navigation aspects of the disk," says Jordan. "The encoding process requires high-throughput and high-performance capabilities since it's high-definition video for Blu-ray."
Within their 300TB Isilon cluster, Jordan has created two different pools of storage. "We use a central pool of storage for the entire authoring process where all the elements--image files, encoded video and audio--come together," says Jordan. "A second cluster of storage is dedicated for video encoding, which has high capacity and throughput demands. The HD video encoding process runs on a bank of servers for each title. The file output from video encoding is 30GB on average, and is eventually migrated to the authoring cluster in our workflow."
Adds Jordan: "We start with high-definition video source files, which can be hundreds of GBs for feature-length content, and then encode to one of the supported Blu-ray video codecs, creating a high-quality file for the disc."
"We will see the end of analog [magnetic tape] and, on February 17, 2009, a transition to HD," he says. "Stations have already started to convert to digital from analog media." Over the next three to five years, says Casabella, most local production facilities will convert to HD. He estimates that the transition to HD will cost approximately $2 million to $10 million per station. And those estimates don't include the price of extra storage capacity.


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Bob Sihler wrote:I'll be honest-- Although Glacier may be my favorite place in all the world, the doom-and-gloom tone of the message in the first post is exactly why I discontinued memberships in environmental organizations and stopped giving money. And as someone who has stayed at many Xanterra properties and seen how Xanterra does a lot more than many other companies to be environmentally conscious, I don't find it automatically so that letting Xanterra into the park automatically means ruining the park.
That is not saying I'm not distrustful of extractive companies operating anywhere near wilderness areas. I'm just saying that the one-sided message and its tone leave me less than convinced.
I'll also be honest-- I deleted posts in this thread not because I disagreed with the points made or the author's right to make them but because the writer was being abusive and has a history here of doing that (and I deleted posts quoting that person). And when that comes from a nameless, faceless avatar with no useful contributions to this site, I have few qualms about pulling the trigger. That person is more than welcome to make his points strongly but without insulting and abusing people, and if he wants to throw shit at people, there's a different forum for it.
Carry on.
by Wastral » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:38 am
by ManyGlacierMountaineer » Sat Mar 16, 2013 4:02 pm
Wastral wrote:A very quick internet search shows the following:
1) There has been no cases of polluted water on Blackfeet land. You paint it as if this has already occurred and is documented. Its not. In fact, as far as I can tell, oil/ng companies drilling on Blackfeet land haven't found anything worth mentioning. The only cases I can quickly find are the ones in PA, where the local water table already had tons of methane in it and everytime anyone drills a new well, even a water well, it disturbs this top layer(aquifer) releasing methane into surrounding wells. Nothing new there. Now there is a certain case in WY where supposedly some chemicals showed up in someones well. 1 case in how many tens of thousands of wells? Really, this is what the doom and gloom is all about? What about the Bakken formation in E. MT & ND? Any polluted wells there? Nope.
2) They are pulling the water for fracking from water tables below where they are fracking on the blackfeet land from what I read, so they aren't even using drinking water sources either. They likewise truck the super saline waters that come up after fracking occurs and treat them. Its not even as if they are treating said saline water onsite and releasing it into local streams.
3) If a fire did somehow break containment and get into the GNP, it would hurt their concessionaire business as they would have to lay people off and therefore their kickback percentage would be lower. Hardly a conflict of interest there. The only interest they would have is to ensure that such a happenstance would never happen! That is called INCENTIVE to not screw the pooch. Not conflict of Interest!
A contract worker/company never has any say in anything. They are always the first to get fired. Thus if anything happened, your supposed so called "conflict of interest" would vanish in a puff of smoke as the NPS would simply void their contract and hire someone else.
4) This so called giant fire in Kiowa, didn't even spill a drop of oil. Only 'problem' was with the foam retardant used that needed to be cleaned up. The local Rocked pad did its job and no fire spread anywhere.
5) If one of their oil/ng wells is completed and actually produces a product, they have to disclose to MT all chemicals used in said well. That way they can trace any chemicals in local water source. So far none. Do you have a problem with the other 2 oil fields already developed on the edge of GNP/Watterton? No. Ack what about the grizzly bears and moose. Oh wait, those oil fields are improving the water quality as they are "cleansing" the ground of shallow oil that often polluted the local streams and rivers everytime there was an earthquake.
Ya know, if you doom and gloom alarmists actually provided economical, reliable, sustainable solutions to problems instead of just whining, things would go a lot smoother. So far all I hear is whining on subjects that even a half hour of internet searching can quickly disprove or debunk even by using the environmental over the top websites. I have to conclude that your real beef is that maybe one or two tourists driving on their way to GNP might have to observe an oil well and associated tanks as they whizz past at 70MPH, the occasional flaming stack, that power their cars, turn on their lights when they go home, provide hot showers, and create cheap fertilizer driving the cost of food and other basic necessities down to very low levels so they can do more with their life.
PS. There hasn't been any well drilled/developed in the last 40 years that hasn't been fracked with some method or other. It is certainly not a new technique and worthy of giant scorn. It is only with the economic incentive provided by cheap horizontal drilling, thank you accelerometers developed in the early 80's from Sundstrand Data Control, that a larger portion of strata layers are able to be effected and cracked compared to mostly vertical wells where ones local geology, perfectly good in the vertical well as they drilled down and obtained said geology map, might become in error as they can drill several thousand feet horizontally and it could change. Then again shale/sandstone layers are generally several thousand feet thick overlayed by other shale layers.
by Wastral » Sat Mar 16, 2013 10:43 pm
ManyGlacierMountaineer wrote:5. This following point you made has to be the most ridiculous of all and completely discredits anything you have to say: "Ack what about the grizzly bears and moose. Oh wait, those oil fields are improving the water quality as they are "cleansing" the ground of shallow oil that often polluted the local streams and rivers everytime there was an earthquake." You seriously have to be kidding me. Who are you trying to convince, 5 year olds? I am a highly educated individual, so you can try to play your little games with someone else.
by Wastral » Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:16 pm
by MoapaPk » Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:30 pm
by ManyGlacierMountaineer » Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:15 am
Wastral wrote:Conflict of Interst:
"A term used to describe the situation in which a public official or fiduciary who, contrary to the obligation and absolute duty to act for the benefit of the public or a designated individual, exploits the relationship for personal benefit, typically pecuniary."
If for instance NPS park higher mucky mucks, had shares of Xanterra stock etc, then THEY would have a conflict of interest.
Someone being hired to do a job(Xanterra) cannot influence a situation in any fiduciary way other than quitting, violating their contract. Of course to keep said Xanterra employees from walking off the job, the NPS could just temp hire them. All of those employees would rather be temp NPS employees anyways and the only reason Xanterra or whomever company wins is being used is because the NPS thinks they can save a $$$. If Xanterra was say, 1st cousin of the superintendent of GNP, yes, there would be a conflict of interest. AKA corruption. So far I don't see any conflict of interest. All I see are temp employees that would rather be NPS employees anyways as they are there because for the vast majority of them they WANT to be there so that on their off time, they can enjoy the beautiful national park. I have personally known several temp national park employees here in Washington state who specifically went after these summer jobs because they were in the national park.
All I can see is that A) you don't like Xanterra as a company because they have the audacity to be exploring for oil in the Grasslands of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation creating an "unsightly" mess(fuel tanks) and an occasional flaming smoke stack to the East side of GNP, and B) It would appear that Xanterra is somehow a bad company to work. At least position B) is valid as A) is pure personal preference. The real answer is to cut out the middle man and have the NPS hire the temp employees. Must be some union NPS contract that said temp employees have to be paid outrageous $$$/hr for the NPS to outsource their employees.
by Wastral » Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:57 am
by Wastral » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:17 am
ManyGlacierMountaineer wrote:not once made a single anti-oil remark other than to say that the use of Blackfeet lands on the border of Glacier National Park for oil is an inappropriate land use ...
You sir have no idea about/concern for the land in question, you have no... ranting SNIP
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- How much freedom of speech do you have in a social network setting -- for instance, can you be fired if you click "like" on Facebook for something your boss doesn't like?
If you're an employee in the private sector, you certainly can. As one analyst puts it, private employers are "not constrained" by the free speech protections of the First Amendment, except in a very narrow area usually connected to union activity.
Public employees are protected by the First Amendment, but is clicking "like" on Facebook a form of protected speech?
A case involving public employees, working its way through the federal courts in Virginia, is getting a lot of attention, and may eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
Daniel Ray Carter Jr. and five others were fired in 2009 by the sheriff in Hampton, Va., on the face of it because they weren't completely on board with his re-election.
The main plaintiff in the case, Carter, clicked "like" on the Facebook campaign page of Sheriff B.J. Roberts' political rival. The sheriff looked at Facebook and saw Carter's "like." After his re-election, Roberts fired Carter from his deputy sheriff's job.
Carter sued in 2011 but U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson ruled in Newport News, Va., the First Amendment's free speech provision did not protect Carter's Facebook "like" because it was "insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection" and did not involve actual statements -- which have been protected in other cases involving Facebook and public employees.
In court, Roberts' attorney argued the firings were not retaliatory or improper, and Carter's intended audience was Adams' Facebook friends, not the public. But Facebook said in its friend-of-the-court brief supporting Carter's appeal of the summary judgment, "Roberts is mistaken as a matter of fact," because Carter had made his profile available to "the world at large."
In its brief, Facebook told the appeals court it "provides a free Internet-based service that enables its users to connect with their friends and family, to discover what is going on in the world around them, and to share what matters to them and to the people they care about. Facebook's members ['Users'] can share and publish their opinions, ideas, photos, and activities to audiences ranging from their closest friends to Facebook's over 950 million Users, giving every User a voice within the Facebook community."
Facebook said it tries "to create an online environment that facilitates communication, social connection, and the sharing of ideas, and in which Users can engage in debate and advocate for the political ideas, parties and candidates of their choice."
The social site said the judge's ruling "betrays a misunderstanding of the nature of the communication at issue and disregards well settled Supreme Court and [appeals court] precedent. Liking a Facebook page [or other Web site] is core speech: It is a statement that will be viewed by a small group of Facebook friends or by a vast community of online users.
"When Carter clicked the like button on the Facebook page entitled 'Jim Adams for Hampton Sheriff,' the words 'Jim Adams for Hampton Sheriff' and a photo of Adams appeared on Carter's Facebook profile in a list of pages Carter had liked ... the 21st-century equivalent of a front-yard campaign sign," the brief said.
Facebook said an announcement that Carter liked the campaign's page was shared with Carter's Facebook "friends," and Carter's name and photo appeared on the campaign's page in a list of people who liked that page.
In arguing that the appeals court should "vacate," or throw out, the judge's ruling, Facebook said, "If Carter had stood on a street corner and announced, 'I like Jim Adams for Hampton Sheriff,' there would be no dispute that his statement was constitutionally protected speech. Carter made that very statement; the fact that he did it online, with a click of a computer's mouse, does not deprive Carter's speech of constitutional protection."
The American Civil Liberties Union filed its own friend-of-the-court brief to the appeals court supporting Carter. The court document takes major swipes at how the sheriff allegedly operated to maintain power.
"During his tenure, the sheriff used his authority to bolster his re-election efforts, including using employees to manage his political activities, using prisoners to set up campaign events and forcing employees to sell and buy tickets to campaign fundraisers," the ACLU brief said.
Told a number of his employees were supporting a rival, Roberts "called a meeting in which he informed all employees that they should support him because he was on the 'long train.'
"After the sheriff won re-election, he fired those employees who had supported his opponent. The sheriff attempted to justify his actions by claiming that he did not reappoint two of the plaintiffs -- civilian employees -- because he wanted to replace the civilian employees with sworn deputies," the ACLU brief said. "The sheriff claimed he fired the other four plaintiffs for unsatisfactory work performance or because he believed that their actions 'hindered the harmony and efficiency of the office.'
"'Liking' a political candidate on Facebook -- just like holding a campaign sign -- is constitutionally protected speech," the ACLU brief argued. "It is verbal expression, as well as symbolic expression. Clicking the 'like' button announces to others that the user supports, approves or enjoys the content being 'liked.' Merely because 'liking' requires only a click of a button does not mean that it does not warrant First Amendment protection. Nor does the fact that many people today choose to convey their personal and political views online, via Facebook and other social media tools, affect the inquiry."
Public employees generally have more freedom of speech than private employees, unless the public employee is in the armed forces. Nevertheless, the National Labor Relations Board has been moving to protect speech in the private sector -- as long as it concerns speech such as union organizing.
The Washington Post reported the NLRB, "a federal agency that brings labor-related complaints on behalf of workers, said it had seen the number of cases involving social media skyrocket from zero to more than 100 over five years."
How much protection the NLRB can give is problematic. The protection can differ from state to state.
In an analysis posted on FindLaw.com, Karen Sutherland of Washington state's Ogden Murphy Wallace P.L.L.C., points out public employees "have First Amendment rights in the workplace," but she knows of no Washington state case "where freedom of speech has been protected under the First Amendment in private sector workplaces."
Douglas E. Lee, writing for the First Amendment Center Online, said in his analysis in September last year: "In recent years, both public and private employers have experienced the disruption and despair that occurs when a disgruntled employee takes to Facebook to air his or her work grievances.
"Unlike public employers, however, private employers have felt free to discipline or fire these employees," he said. "Private employers, after all, are not constrained by the First Amendment and need not recognize anyone's freedom of speech. Moreover, private employers in most states and in most circumstances employ their employees at will, meaning the employers' management decisions cannot be challenged unless those decisions discriminate against an employee because of the employee's age, gender or other protected characteristic."
However, "the discretion private employers have enjoyed is diminishing," Lee added.
A report by Lafe E. Solomon, acting general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, released in August last year said the "NLRB now maintains that the [National Labor Relations Act] protects some employee social-media activity," Lee said. "As a result, private employees now have more freedom of speech than their government counterparts.
"Intended to protect employees' right to unionize, the NLRA prohibits private employers from, among other things, interfering in employees' attempts to engage in concerted activity. These attempts, the board traditionally has held, include discussions among co-workers about the terms and conditions of their employment. As the board now is applying that tradition to today's technology, those employee discussions need not be private and may take place in social media open to all."
Solomon recounted the board's handling of 14 cases "in which unfair labor practice charges arose out of social-media postings or policies," Lee said. In half of those, the board found that the employers had violated the National Labor Relations Act. "In cases involving social-media postings, a fact critical to the board's determination was whether the postings were directed at or discussed with co-workers."
However, attorney Summer Murshid of Wisonsin's Hawks Quindel S.C. wrote in her own analysis for clients: "Private employers do not have an obligation to recognize their employee's free speech rights and because Wisconsin is an 'at will' employment state, a private employer may discipline or terminate you with or without a reason, as long as the adverse employment action is not based on your association with a protected class [i.e. disability, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation, etc.].
"This means that if your employer doesn't like what you are saying -- either on or off duty -- on your Facebook page, or Twitter account, or your blog, to a radio call in show or to your co-workers in the break room, you can be terminated and the First Amendment will not protect you."
Many Americans will look at the Carter case and wonder what all the fuss is about -- if you're going to be a deputy, don't you have to support the sheriff?
But as a 1993 article in the Page University Law Review points out, patronage isn't what it used to be.
In the article, Brian L. Porto points to three U.S. Supreme Court decisions limiting patronage and the firing of public employees.
In 1976's Elrod vs. Burns, the justices used strict scrutiny -- the highest of three forms of scrutiny, used in most First Amendment cases -- to examine the firing of public employees because of their partisan political affiliations. In Elrod, the justices ruled 5-2 in several opinions that such firings must further a compelling governmental interest in the least restrictive way. Justice John Paul Stevens did not take part in the ruling.
In the prevailing Elrod opinion, the high court said the "benefit gained [through such firings] must outweigh the loss of constitutionally protected rights."
In effect, the article said, this meant "that patronage dismissals would henceforth be limited to positions whose occupants could be characterized as 'policymakers.'"
In 1980's Branti vs. Finkel, the justices ruled 6-3 the "First and 14th Amendments protect [public employees] from discharge solely because of their political beliefs."
"The issue is not whether the label 'policymaker' or 'confidential' fits the particular public office in question, but rather whether the hiring authority can demonstrate that party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the office," the majority said.
In 1990's Rutan vs. Republican Party of Illinois, "the high court faced the larger issue of whether promotions and transfers, as well as recall and hiring decisions involving low level public employees, may be constitutionally based upon the employee's affiliation with and support for a particular political party," the article said.
The justices ruled 5-4 that Elrod and Branti extend "to promotion, transfer, recall and hiring decisions based on party affiliation and support."


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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
My reading list
Recently someone online was recommending that I read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The thought of it made me ill. I try to do a little reading when I can, but Jane Austen is pretty heavy stuff. I jokingly replied that I was a working mom and that I really couldn't focus on anything that couldn't be read in fifteen minute spurts with a toddler screaming in my ear. Jane Austen doesn't really fall into that category.
The person replied that she was working mom too and "I'm sure I'm not the only one who's managed to read Jane Austen or other books with at least a little substance." Ouch. It took every fiber of my being to end that conversation and not get drawn into an argument. Every fiber of my being.
But of course, I then went to look at my bookcase to verify that my reading list is not completely vapid (although I've been getting most of my books from the library lately). All right, there was perhaps an overabundance of books with the word "shopaholic" in the title. (Recently read Kinsella's "Remember Me?" So good!) I've been making rounds on the NYT Bestseller List with "The Time Traveler's Wife" and "Prep." I've also got a book called "Murder on the Rehab Unit" which, as a rehab doctor, I was compelled to purchase (although apparently, not read).
All in all, I'm not entirely sure I've read anything "of substance" lately. Actually, I don't think I've read anything "of substance" in years. Unless of course, you count all the zillions of articles that I read for work, the textbooks, and of course, EMedicine and UpToDate. I guess that's why when I read something for myself, I like it to be fun and light.
What about you? Is Jane Austen something you trudge through in your spare time? Do you try to go for the books of substance or do you unwind with the guilty pleasures?
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I love Jane Austen. However, when I read books like that, I don't do a "book club" type read where I'm prepared to discuss intricacies of relationships or symbolism of a blue sky versus a gray sky.ReplyDelete
I read them to escape and go someplace entirely different, where there are no hospitals, no boards to pass, no crazy people to deal with. And most importantly, I don't think about what I'm reading or try at all to remember what was read. I try and read something non-medical everyday while I dry my hair. It works sometimes. :)
Not remembering or being able to discuss what I've read is probably worse in some peoples' minds than not reading at all.
Done rambling, time for sleep!
You should try Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. :)ReplyDelete
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: "The story follows the plot of Pride and Prejudice, but places the novel in an alternative universe version of Regency-era England where zombies roam the countryside."ReplyDelete
Okay... :P
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2009 at 12:40 AM
I've read more than three quarters of the books on one of those "Modern Library Greatest Books" lists, most for pleasure, at one juncture or another in my life.ReplyDelete
And these days, when I get home from the hospital, all I want to read are trashy romance novels. I know they'll end happily and I can zone out for pages at a time and not miss much. If I'm feeling ambitious, I will go re-read my favorite sections of old standbys like Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice, but only in little 20-page nibbles.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm a resident or because I'm lazy, but tackling a new Great Work is quite frankly the last thing I'm up for these days.
- FP in CanadaNovember 11, 2009 at 1:25 AM
hmm, I've never thought of Jane Austen as "heavy stuff" or "books of substance" but more as a guilty pleasure. Maybe it's like "Jane" above says - it's not like I'm trying to do a book club analysis of it, it's an escape :-).ReplyDelete
For what it's worth, I've never been able to stand Jane Austin, even when I had no job and I wasn't even distally involved with health care. I can't even stand the movies.ReplyDelete
That being said, I do not consider the Time Traveler's Wife to be "fluff." Prep, maybe -- though I do know an IR fellow who went to prep school with the author, so that's my excuse there. Anything by Sophie Kinsella.... yes, fluff. But so what? It's not a competition about who can read books with the most substance! We're supposed to ENJOY reading, right?
If you want to one up her though, you can try Anna Karenina. I've actually really enjoyed it (all 80 pages so far), and it has the clout of being heavy Russian lit. yet, it's not so heavy going as say, Dostoyevsky. I bought it in a moment of guilt for reading only substance-less novels myself, and have been pleasantly surprised.
Let me know if you want other suggestions for easy-ish reads that have *a little* substance to them.
Actually, OMDG, I'd go in the opposite direction and say I'd like recommendations for enjoyable books that I might feel guilty about reading, but that will make me happy, make me laugh, and not have to think to hard at the end of the day. Chick lit rocks.ReplyDelete
(I love TTTW, but honestly, it WAS too heavy. I cried. Then I told my husband the plot and he cried.)
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM
how about voltaire's candide? or Dr. ZhivagoReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2009 at 12:58 PM
I'm a different Anonymous from those above...ReplyDelete
There was a time in my life when I only read "fluff" becaue the in the last serious novel that I had read, the heroine died on the last page, second to the last paragraph, and I wasn't expecting it. I was "down" for days and put away serious lit for about 20 years. Because I really needed light and happiness in my life.
I just recently started reading non-fluff again coincidentally when I had time to go back to the gym rather than timing showers and making lunches. I would recommend The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. There are heavy parts, but you can pick it up and put it down and it ends happily.
By the way, I consider Jane Austen part of my "happy fluff" books. Absolutely love them.
I love reading, although ..to be honest, now that I'm in school full time ... Psychology, Biology and Philosophy are getting all of my reading time.ReplyDelete
My bio professor hooked me onto this site
(then I asked her if I got a pass on the quiz for the next day since I'd spent all night on it instead of studying, she didn't go for it)
It's a great way to organize what you love, what you've read, what you want to read ... and a wish list!
As far as something as 'heavy' as Jane Austin. I have read P&P but I was younger and the language didn't seem as oppressive. But trying to relax while reading something intense on language that is not what we speak ... is challenging, not relaxing.
Which, challenging can be good, but my brain power that is challenged is all being channeled.
One of the joys of Austin is that she gets better when you hit about 35. For some reason, at that point, the humor just sparkles through.ReplyDelete
Maybe give her a few years?
I must confess I never thought of Jane Austen as "heavy!" I loved Pride and Prejudice and remember being unable to put it down. Is it scandalous that i think of it as the "chick lit" of her era? Chick lit is fun! :)ReplyDelete
I always get sucked into those online spats and can't stand it. Kudos to you for managing to rise above it. I have 3 kids 2-5 yrs old, so I hear ya about the reading spurts and the background ambiance. I'm currently reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. The issues it deals with (missionaries and the good/bad of what they do, Africa in political turmoil, etc) are not light, but the writing is FAN.TAS.TIC and the book is really readable! Bonus: it's written in little chapters where the events are retold through the eyes of various characters in the book. So, you can absolutely read it and set it down and come back to it. I'm excited that she has so many other books, and this is only my first read! Other recent things I have enjoyed are Alexander McCall Smith's Number One Ladies Detective Agency series of book--very light, very entertaining--and anything by Milan Kundera (best known for "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" but many others too, many of which are better). I also read Glamour Magazine, but only for the articles. ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2009 at 6:54 AM
When you deal with the heavy of medicine during the day, I am all about light reading! I just watched a patient die today due to terminal cancer and delivered a baby. I am EMOTIONALLY SPENT and can't afford that on a book right now.ReplyDelete
Plus I'm the type of reader who can't put a good read down. So, I don't want to be tired the next day and when I come home not have fun with my little ones in the FEW moments we have together! Ditto to Tempeh above on the books she mentioned. I must admit I just finished the twighlight series - they were good guilty pleasure books, but gave me some weird dreams?? Also rec - Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner is great but stay away from little earthquakes - it was hard for me to read with little ones - I only want happy endings :)
Reading is my way to relax and de-stress. I will read almost anything, but my daily favorites are usually not hardcore literature. I like it, but not for a 30-minute read on the weekend. I liked Jane Austen more after I saw the movie Pride and Prejudice; I had read the book before seeing the movie, but seeing live action somehow grounded the book in reality better for me. I find the same phenomenon with Shakespeare.ReplyDelete
Lately, I have found myself enjoying historical fiction. Many of the books are entertaining and easy to read (like Rutherfurd's work), and the stories make the history stick in my mind. How else would I remember that King Charles I was beheaded?
Other books I've enjoyed include Arthur C. Clarke's complete short story collection (great for a stop-and-go reader) and the Clan of the Cave Bear series.
Bookworms of the world unite! :-)
My answer is an unequivocal, both!ReplyDelete
I love love love Rebecca Brandon nee Bloomwood and the Shopaholic saga. + Has anyone had the pleasure of reading books by Emily Giffin? She's top notch; I found her when I'd raced through everything Sophie had to offer.
While I have never read a page of Jane Austen, I do enjoy picking up some heavies... Any book by Daniel Quinn is worth reading twice. I'm also currently in the middle of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers, which is quite good.
My all time favorite book--and #1 recommendation--is "Women Who Run With the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Phd. It's an excellent guide to the beautiful and difficult things we face as women.
For me, I have to read more than just my Organic Chemistry textbook, even though I am fascinated by what I find out about alkenes, constitutional isomers and the like. :)
We feel guilty about enough things, let's embrace whatever it is we like to read!!
- mamadocNovember 12, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Didn't like Jane when forced to read her in high school, don't like her now either. My reading time is very limited and by granny I'm going to read something I enjoy. It doesn't matter a hoot to me whether it has "substacne" or not.ReplyDelete
When I was in Med school I had a patient who was a high school librian. I was reading Jane Eyre at the time and LOVING it. She gave me a reading list based on our conversation (Rebecca, Gone with the Wind, and several other) I keep the list and read every one and so enjoyed them. Now I always get into (too long) discussions with patients about books. I even give my patients reading assignments sometimes (and get irritated when they don't read them. (Seriously a teenager on bed rest should read Twilight)ReplyDelete
I'm also obsessed with Twilight.
I also Loved Poision Wood Bible. Tempeth, when you finish it you should read "King Leopold's Ghost"
Grinning at Bardiac's post ... I enjoyed it far more when I was younger (it may have been one of the ones I read when my children were young.ReplyDelete
I'm significantly past 35 ... and it's too much. I feel my younger brain was more capable of handling her. But then, when I was reading when I was younger, when I should have been in school ... I was enjoying books of all kinds. Now ..it's text books all the way for this middle aged student!
I have to admit I've always snobbishly looked down my nose at chick-lit, but while staying with a friend for a few days earlier this year was totally sucked into her collection of Emily Giffin books and read two of them in quick succession... thereby putting myself FAR behind in classes right at the beginning of the semester! I actually avoid novels except during vacations, because I have so much trouble putting them down, whether they are fun light books, darker stuff (I read TTTW in two days while staying with my boyfriend's family over fourth-of-july... he was amused but not entirely pleased!), or even something with more "substance" (I was totally drawn into Michael Cunningham's "Specimen Days" a few years ago -- a result of the last time I allowed myself to wander into a bookstore and leave with whatever caught my fancy). These days, I usually limit myself to the New Yorkers that pile up week after week, and poetry or short stories. But, I completely agree that feeling guilty about what we read is not worth it!ReplyDelete
Jennifer Weiner, although I'd avoid "Little Earthquakes", which is (IMHO) the weakest of her books and not a fun read for a mother with small children. Or big children. All her other books are delightful, well-written, and fun. Ditto Laurie Colwin, both her fiction and her cooking books.ReplyDelete
I was an English major in college and am a serious bookworm, and these days I read mostly mysteries and "light" novels. I see plenty of deep drama in my actual life. I don't need it on the page. Or in the movies.
I loved both the Poisonwood Bible and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society after reading the Book Thief and some books about the Rwanda Genocide, a few MSF bios and a story about concentration camps earlier in the year. It was a good antidote.ReplyDelete
The Hunger Games is awesome. It's a YA novel, very similar to Battle Royale.ReplyDelete
I am sure this has been mentioned... check out the PBS 8 hour pride and prejudice. It is awesome. You don't have to read just because someone said something STUPID. I like my nine hours of sleep a night, thank you very much. No time for anything but the essentials!ReplyDelete
I read, but not as much as I would like. Full time surgeon, mother and wife takes way too much time and energy. When I do read, I seem to have completely different tastes than all the above commenters. I'm a murder mystery/Stephen King/Dean Koontz fan. I'm going to have to spread my wings a little bit (after I'm done with the latest John Sanford and Stephen King books!ReplyDelete


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