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You're listening to Making Waves from NOAA's National Ocean Service.
It's summertime! That means it's time for trips to the beach, vacations ... and re-runs! We have a previously-aired episode for you today, but you may not have heard this one before. That's because we had a problem with our syndicated feed when this episode came out back in March, so you may have not even known it was released. And that would be a shame, because it's a really interesting episode with two scientists talking about their latest research.
Earlier this year, thousands of people descended on Washington, DC, for the 177th American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. Today, you're going to hear about two studies funded in part by NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative presented at the science gathering on Feb. 19th, 2011. Broadly speaking, this new research is related to climate change. You've probably heard of climate change studies that deal with big-picture things like drought or sea level rise ... well, these new studies look at the problem from a different angle and on a smaller scale. Let's listen in.
Our first story today is about a new study that considers how global desertification -- the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert -- may help fuel the growth of harmful bacteria in the ocean.
Dr. Erin Lipp is the lead author of the study. Erin's a public health microbiologist and marine scientist at the University of Georgia's Department of Environmental Health Science. I caught up with her after she presented her research at the meeting to learn more about the study. Erin said her team focused on a group of ocean organisms that share the scientific name Vibrio. While many types of harmful bacteria in the ocean come from land-based sources like sewage, Vibrio is different because it naturally occurs in the marine environment.
For this study, her team experimented with two species of this organism that can cause gastroenteritis and infectious diseases in humans.
[Lipp] "We used Vibrio cholerae, which is the species that causes epidemic cholera. We also used the species Vibrio alginolyticus, they're similar in some ways, but quite different in others. Vibrio cholerae is of course notorious for causing a very severe disease. Vibrio alginolyticus is growing in importance, especially in tropical areas, it's one of the main species that we see on an increase, especially in area like Florida. Unlike Cholera, it primarily infects people by wound infections, or it infects their eyes and ears, so the symptoms are much less dramatic, but certainly still a cause for public health concern where people are recreating in marine waters."
Now, to put this in context...since 1996 Vibrio cases have jumped 85 percent in the U.S. based on reports that primarily track seafood-illnesses. So you can see why it'd be a good thing to better understand why we're seeing this trend. Erin said that Vibrio are complex organisms to study because scientists just don't know all the risk factors that can increase their populations. One thing we do know is that Vibrio bacteria do better in warmer marine waters -- that their populations are closely tied to water temperature ...
[Lipp] "...but it's not the only thing that affects that group of organism. It can also be affected by ocean chemistry. A major player in ocean chemistry is the availability of iron. Iron is not well soluble in marine waters, one of the ways we get soluble iron (or bioavailable iron) is through the production and transport of desert dust. And so we were interested in whether or not that desert dust can be a component in the natural population dynamics of Vibrio species."
Iron is an essential ingredient for life for Vibrio bacteria -- along with most other forms of life on the planet. But there's not a lot of iron in the ocean. So dust falling into the sea from the atmosphere is sort of like an iron delivery machine for these microscopic creatures.
[Lipp] "Vibrios, as part of their mechanism of being pathogens, are really, really good at scavenging iron, and so we suspected that with an influx of this dust that comes from desert areas around the world that carries a lot of iron in it, that when the Vibrio bacteria are exposed to that, they may be able to take advantage of it and see an increase in their growth rate."
And that's definitely what they found. Within 24 hours of mixing weathered desert dust from Morocco with seawater samples, they saw a 10-1000-fold growth in Vibrios, including the alginolyticus strain that can cause eye, ear, and open wound infections, and the cholerae strain that can lead to cholera.
With desert areas increasing in size on the planet, some climate change scenarios predict that we're going to see a lot more dust in the atmosphere. In fact, there's evidence that we're already seeing just that. Erin said this study is a small step in linking what's happening on a global scale with population changes at the local level for these types of harmful bacteria. While this study was conducted using ocean water off the coast of Florida, Erin suspects it may be a wider issue.
[Lipp] "The work that we've done has really been focused in the United States and in Florida in particular, but I really suspect this could be a global phenomenon. There are certainly areas of the world that are seeing a rapid expanse in Vibrio exposure, including the Mediterranean, The Mediterranean is an area that gets a lot of desert dust, and so I suspect that this may be something that is going on on a pretty large scale, but we just don't know anything about it yet. So I'm hoping there's going to be further study to look at it."
So it's possible that this additional input of iron through dust, along with rising sea surface temperatures from climate change, are affecting bacterial populations. And that may help to explain both current and future increases in human illnesses from exposure to contaminated seafood and seawater.
The University of Georgia hosts a graduate training consortium with NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative. You can read more about this study on our website at oceanservice.noaa.gov.
Next, we're going to turn our attention to a new model created by researchers in the Pacific Northwest that predicts longer seasonal outbreaks of harmful algal blooms may be in store for Washington State's Puget Sound.
To tell us all about it, we're going to hear from lead author Dr. Stephanie Moore with NOAA's West Coast Center for Oceans and Human Health in Seattle. I spoke with Stephanie a few hours after she presented her findings at the meeting ... and I began with a very basic question: what's a harmful algal bloom?
[Moore] "Well, a harmful algal bloom is a natural phenomena that is caused by the proliferation of algae, so its like an overgrowth of algae. The particular harmful algal bloom species that I've been working on is a uni-cellular algal species -- so it's a single celled organism -- and it grows in coastal environments, and it produces a toxin. Many harmful algal blooms species produce toxins that can accumulate in shellfish and also fish species, and then be passed on to humans or marine mammals."
Now the species Stephanie focused on in Puget Sound -- named Alexandrium catanella -- is particularly toxic. She said it produces a bunch of toxins, but one, called Saxitoxin, is really nasty.
[Moore] "...so what this toxin can do if we consume enough of it, is paralyze the muscles of our chest and abdomen, and then death can result in extreme cases."
Yikes. To make matters worse, there are no known antidotes to saxitoxin, and you can't destroy it by cooking your seafood.
[Moore] "Fortunately, our Departments of Health in the United States do a very good job of monitoring our seafood, so that we don't get sick. So there's not many cases in the United States these days, although in Alaska there's such a big coastline that it's very difficult to get around to monitor all the sites, and two deaths did occur in 2010. So it still poses a significant health risk, and it costs a lot of money to run these monitoring programs. The other big economic associated with these blooms is that the commercial shellfish growers, they can't sell their product during bloom events, so they suffer from huge economic losses during big blooms."
You may be wondering why deaths still occur in Alaska. Stephanie said it's because there just aren't enough resources available to agencies to conduct monitoring on the scale required to protect public health along Alaska's vast coastline. The only option in these remote areas is to close large areas of coastline often unnecessarily for much of the year. The problem with that is that people tend to lose faith in the advisories and collect and eat shellfish anyway ... and sometimes they get sick.
Of course, toxic algal blooms aren't just a problem for Washington State and Alaska. They're a problem in coastal areas around the world. So wouldn't it be good to have an advance warning system to give us a better idea of when to expect these toxic blooms? That's the idea behind Stephanie's research.
What she and her team did is look at a 15-year record of toxic bloom events, focusing on five 'hotspot' areas in the Sound where the most intense toxicity was consistently measured in shellfish. Then they looked at the weather and ocean conditions preceding the times when those most intense toxic conditions were measured -- the idea being that the conditions were ripest to produce the deadly blooms before the high toxin levels were measured. What they found is that ideal conditions to form the deadly toxins were those times when the water was warm, and there was little mixing in the water column. Stephanie calls this the 'window of opportunity.' The next step was to look into the past., back to the 1960s. While there aren't very good shellfish toxicity records spanning back to this time, there are very good records of weather and environmental conditions. This allowed her team to figure out those times -- those 'windows of opportunity' -- when conditions were ripe to form the toxic algal blooms.
[Moore] "And what we found was that the window of opportunity had been widening each year since the late 1960s. And just so that we're clear, a wider window of opportunity means that there's an increased risk of harmful algal bloom events."
So they found more days each year, as time went on, when harmful algal bloom events were likely to occur. The next step was to look to the future, using climate change models to see how those 'windows of opportunity' might change in years to come ... in the 2020s, the 2040s, and out to the 2080s. What they found was that the 'window' will likely continue to widen.
[Moore] "Not only do we see an increase in the number of days in any given month within a typical bloom period, which is from (present day) a typical bloom is from July to October. So we see an increase in the number of days each month during that typical time period from July to October that conditions are favorable for a bloom event, but we also start to see that period widen. So we're starting to see longer bloom seasons as we go out into the future. So much so that by the end of the century, we project that blooms may occur up to two months earlier in the year and persist for one month longer."
What this model can do is give public health authorities and shellfish growers in Puget Sound a much more refined and accurate projection of when they should expect toxic algal blooms.
[Moore] "So if you're a manager, and you're in charge of protecting public health from these toxic events, we want to make sure that they have the information that they need to know when in the year to start looking for a bloom. So the results of our study indicate that we're going to have to be on-guard and looking for these blooms events to be occurring a lot earlier in the year than what we're seeing now."
That's pretty powerful information to have. Not only will coastal managers better know when they should expect harmful blooms, by knowing what sea and air conditions to look for, they may be able to more efficiently open and close smaller areas to shellfish harvesting instead of just closing off a huge swath of coast.
While this study focused on a small area in the Pacific Northwest, the predictive prowess behind the new model may have a big future in helping people in similar coastal areas around the world better prepare for toxic algae outbreaks.
That was Dr. Stephanie Moore from NOAA's West Coast Center for Oceans and Human Health. Check our website at oceanservice.noaa.gov for more details about this new research.
Thanks to Drs. Erin Lipp and Stephanie Moore for joining us today. We only had time to cover two of the three NOAA-funded studies presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting.
Head to oceanservice.noaa.gov for a detailed look at a third study from Dr. Sandra McLellan of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukeee School of Freshwater Sciences. You should really check it out. It's about how a changing climate with more rainstorms on the horizon could increase the risk of overflows of dated sewage systems. This could cause the release of disease-causing bacteria, viruses and protozoa into drinking water and onto beaches. Do you live in a city? You may be interested in what this report has to say about urban infrastructure, climate change, and water quality.
Thank you for joining us this week. Write to us as firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions or comments about the podcast, the National Ocean Service, or our ocean. And visit us online. Our home on the Web is oceanservice.noaa.gov. And don't forget that you can subscribe to this podcast on our website so you'll never miss an episode … We serve up a feed for your feed reader and we're also on iTunes. You can get those links on our website.
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Yes, truck drivers do hit those low bridges. Here is a truck transporting a crane striking a low overpass in Russia, nearly getting the biker behind it killed.
The biker, probably staining the inside of his leathers, skids out on the wet highway and very nearly gets run over by the Audi behind. The driver who videotapes the whole incident (starting at 1:03) pulls over to help, which is more than can be said for the trucker, who speeds off into the distance.
This is just one more example of why Russians all carry dashcams.


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The holocaust industry: reflections on the exploitation of Jewish Suffering
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(2nd edition, Verso, New York, 2003. ISBN:1-85984-488-X, 150 pp) Norman G Finkelstein
The Holocaust Industry was hailed as the most controversial and provocative book of the year when initially published in 2000. Finkelstein provides insight into issues regarding the Holocaust, which most authors would shy away from and asks all the hard hitting questions. He seems to be an overseas version of South Africa's Carte Blanche team; he is not afraid to ask all the uncomfortable questions and presents the evidence to support his findings through his extensive research and impeccable references.
Finkelstein, a political science lecturer at the DePaul University in Chicago, attempts to provide a platform of information regarding The Holocaust which seems to have been swept under the carpet from the public. This second edition of The Holocaust Industry is a short 150 page read which documents the shocking cover-up of the blackmail of Swiss banks among other things. While the scandalous Swiss banks saga is the feature of this book, Finkelstein also deals with how the Holocaust has been capitalised, as a tool for political support.
The Holocaust Industry comprises of three, well sourced and documented chapters. The first, "Capitalising The Holocaust", takes a closer look at how powerful and useful the memory of The Holocaust can be as part of political ideologies and propaganda particularly in the United States. Finkelstein carefully unpacks the role each of the various Jewish organisations play in capitalising The Holocaust and in doing so, exploiting Jewish suffering to benefit their modus operandi.
The second chapter, "Hoaxers, Hucksters and History", explores authors of prize-winning books and memoirs on The Holocaust. Authors who profess to be survivors of this historical event but, who turn out to be nothing more than fame seeking frauds. Finkelstein's painstaking attention to detail and referencing ensures that while his writing may be polemic, what he produces as facts cannot be easily disputed.
The final chapter, "The Double Shakedown", investigates the Swiss Banks ordeal. Finkelstein uncovers the disgraceful extortion of Swiss Banks by Jewish organisations in the United States, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to name but one. While some may question Finkelstein's firm and critical stance on these organisations, once it is revealed what was done with the monies extorted, one becomes very suspicious of whose interests these organisations have at heart.
The Holocaust Industry is extremely thought provoking and the notions Finkelstein poses should be considered. The memory of The Holocaust is a powerful tool that can be used for instance, to gain political support for an alliance with Israel and thus benefit the American Jewry who by implication have huge influence in White House affairs. The Holocaust Industry illustrates how this has been done in the United States. Finkelstein is an iconoclast who exposes some uncomfortable issues like the Swiss banks scandal, which the wider public should know about.
In light of this, teaching The Holocaust can be a daunting task for any teacher whether an experienced or first year teacher. The nature of the Holocaust is contentious and should thus be approached with great care and caution. The information provided in textbooks is often the only source on this historical event which learners read and use. I need to stress the importance of teachers being well prepared to tackle a contentious issue. Therefore, it is quintessential that further reading needs to be done and that preparing a lesson solely from the information present in textbooks could be detrimental to learners.
As a learner of History myself, I was unaware that this information even existed. Reading Norman Finkelstein's book, The Holocaust Industry, opened me up to asking more questions and not accepting everything at face value; one of the things that all History teachers should instill in their learners.
The Holocaust Industry is not necessarily an easy read and it may be difficult to get into the material at first. The first chapter is heavily referenced and sourced which could be interpreted as a highly academic text. The latter two chapters are far easier to come to grips with. Once you grasp what Finkelstein is trying to prove with this book, the reader becomes curious about the scandal and drama. The intended audience thus, would be, in my opinion, from a matric (grade 12) level onwards. The language used is not a walk in the park as it is rather academic therefore, grade 12 learners may be the best level to start at. I would recommend that The Holocaust Industry is a must read for all History teachers, any tertiary scholar of History as well as anyone who has an interest in the Holocaust.
It is clear to see how The Holocaust Industry fits into the field of History teaching and research. Finkelstein is one of the few scholars who have dared challenge the norm of how the Holocaust is viewed. His basic argument that the memories of the Holocaust are being desecrated, should be taken seriously and thus further research needs to occur. It is clear that when The Holocaust Industry was first published, Finkelstein hit many a nerve if the very public outcry by elite American Jewry was anything to go by. Included in The Holocaust Industry are the reviews written to discredit Finkelstein and by default The Holocaust Industry.
Seeing as the Holocaust, as a historical event features prominently in the National Curriculum Statement, Finkelstein's book offers a different view. I am not suggesting that the content of The Holocaust Industry be taught however, it should definitely be read by teachers, especially, as background reading. Nonetheless, Finkelstein's argument would make for an interesting debate as to what should be believed when it comes to the Holocaust and the industry that has seemingly been created.


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Rebecca F. Parker, who had worked as an administrator for Maryland Legal Services Inc., died Jan. 17 from breast cancer at her Charles Center apartment. She was 62.
A daughter of a minister and a homemaker, the former Rebecca Fletcher was born and raised in Camden, S.C., where she graduated from high school.
She moved to Paterson, N.J., in the 1970s, and first worked at a Woolworth's department store before becoming a cost accountant for General Electric Corp. She also had been a GE product model.
She married Ronald Parker in 1973, and while living in Paterson, she was an active volunteer at St. Brendan parochial school in Clifton, N.J., and Paterson Catholic High School.
She moved to Baltimore in 1996 and took a job as an administrator with Maryland Legal Services Inc., from which she retired last year on a medical disability.
"She demonstrated time and again her skills, charm and common-sense approach to many solutions," said her husband. "Hundreds of Maryland judges, lawyers, state senators, delegates, bankers and representatives of nonprofit organizations were overwhelmingly satisfied by her service."
Her work earned her an Unsung Heroes Award in 2008 from Maryland Legal Services Inc.
Mrs. Parker enjoyed interior decorating and designing, and making jewelry.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Marble Room of the Tremont Grand Hotel, 225 N. Charles St., which will be followed by a life celebration in the Tower Club, 15 Charles Plaza.
In addition to her husband, a semiretired stock trader, Mrs. Parker is survived by her daughter, Joy Aisha Parker of Baltimore; a sister, Laura McNeil of Elizabeth, N.J.; a stepdaughter, Aretha Freeman of Talladega, Ala.; three step-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.


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Two of our organizers, Meredith and Eryca, are lucky enough to be attending the Chicago Zine Fest at this very moment. The remaining organizers are pretty jealous, but we're looking forward to living vicariously through pictures and "borrowing" the zines they bring back!
Thankfully, you don't have to be where the action is to stay informed about what's going on in the zine sphere. Daniela Capistrano's ZINE LOVE feed on Facebook has certainly made it a lot easy to keep up on what's new. Updates from the POC Zine Project, Portland Zine Symposium, and a new favorite, Original Plumbing Magazine–all on one page! Don't miss Original Plumbing's great interview with The Miracle Bookmobile about creating a transgender archive, the way books can bring us together, and the role of technology in the life and growth of the Bookmobile.


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Council provides a vast range of services to the community and information such as name, address and contact numbers are important to the delivery of these services. Council is also required to collect information under various state government legislations.
The information that you provide will remain for the use of Council and will not be disclosed except as required by law or if consent is provided to do so.
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Adds Lakeview Manor on a hill just across the water from the Imperial City. It has two main floors, a loft bedroom, and a large basement. The house is themed as if an alchemist had lived there at some point. There is ample storage throughout the home, and the basement functions as a training room. *Please note that when I named this house "Lakeview Manor" I had forgotten that there was a home of the same name in Skyrim*
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Web Application Toolkits to the Web Announcement
|Today with the announcement of Microsoft WebsiteSpark, we are launching a number of Web Application Toolkits to the Web. Web Application Toolkits are designed to enable Web Developers to simply extend their web application capabilities by providing them with a packaged set of running samples, templates and documentation.
The goal for the Web Application Toolkits is to provide Web Developers with resources such as project templates, controls, and code samples along with simplified documentation all in a consistent packaged format that is easy to download and run in a very short period of time. One of the key criteria around the Web Application Toolkits is to enable Web Developers to get to an F5 (Run) experience very quickly to ensure that this is the right solution for their problem; How many times have you heard developers trying for hours to get a sample to work only to find it does not do what they expected. The expectation is that with the correct prerequisites installedusing the Web Platform Installer, a Web Developer can have a Web Application Toolkit sample application installed and running in 5mins.
For the Microsoft WebsiteSpark launch, we have released 7 Web Application Toolkits, together with an introduction to the Web Application Toolkits on Channel9 by James Senior and Jonathan Carter. The scenarios were selectedbased on feedback from community developers with the first 7 being detailed below.
Web Application Toolkit for Internet Explorer 8 Extensibility
Today users can access rich information and services while they are browsing a site; it's not a trivial task to expose this content to the same users when they are not on that site. The goal of this Web Application Toolkit is to leverage the new features in Internet Explorer 8 (Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search Providers) to extend the reach of your web site and services also to those users that are not on your site. The Web Application Toolkit includes a set of ASP.NET Web Controls that you can use to take advantage of these IE new features in your own Web application.
Web Application Toolkit for Bing Search
Bing is a powerful new Decision Engine designed to help consumers accomplish tasks and make faster, more informed decisions. The Bing Application Programming Interface (API) provides developers programmatic access to Bing, offering flexible options for building or enhancing your site or applications. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to take advantage of the Bing API to add search capabilities to your Web site by leveraging the various search results that the Bing API provides, including Web content, images, news and videos, among others. Through this Web Application Toolkit you will also discover how to use ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to provide an enhanced and more interactive end user experience when using the Bing API.
Web Application Toolkit for REST Services
Many Web applications today are starting to expose data as REST service interfaces, so it can be accessed through APIs by other tiers of the application or even by other applications. A RESTful web service is a simple Web service implemented using HTTP and the principles of REST. REST Services focus on resources; each one is represented by a unique URI, and users interact with them via their URI using the HTTP uniform interface. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to easily add REST service interfaces for an existing Web application. The Web Application Toolkit includes a sample REST service, two sample client applications that access the REST services, one using simple ASP.NET Web Forms and a second Web application using AJAX to asynchronously invoke the REST service and finally a custom project template for Visual Studio to make it very easy to build new REST Services.
Check out the accompanying screencast.
Web Application Toolkit for Mobile Web Applications
This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to extend an existing ASP.NET MVC Web application to provide access from mobile devices. To enable mobile access, the Web application should have views targeting each of the mobile devices to be supported. The MVC pattern helps you create applications that separate the different aspects of the application (input logic, business logic, and UI logic), while providing a loose coupling between these elements. This Web Application Toolkit provides a component called MobileCapableViewEngine that enables the Web application to show the appropriate view depending on the device's browser that is performing the request. It also includes a sample site that provides different views for Windows Mobile, IPhone, and Blackberry devices.
Check out the accompanying screencast.
Web Application Toolkit for Template-Driven Email
This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to generate and send dynamic, template-based emails from a web application. There are many common scenarios where notification emails need to be sent to end users. Examples of these common scenarios may involve notifying a user of their newly created account, sending a new password in respond to a forgotten password request, or emailing an alert under specific business circumstances, such as the creation of a order. Typically the E-mails sent from a Web application scenario are formatted as HTML, include CSS stylesheets, and images and need to be generated dynamically with custom or user-specific data. This Web Application Toolkit includes samples that show how to use templates to generate these dynamic email bodies.
Check out the accompanying screencast.
Web Application Toolkit for making Your Web Site Social
Adding social capabilities to your Web site allows you to attract new users, keep them on your Web site for longer and get them to come back more often. This Web Application Toolkit shows how, using a few lines of code with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, it is possible to add social capabilities to a Web site with instant messaging from a website to various client endpoints like Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox 360 and Mac. Behind the scenes is a powerful set of UI Controls and a JavaScript library that connect your website to the Messenger Service which is used by 330 million users around the world.
Web Application Toolkit for FAQs
The majority of web sites have the need to display a list of frequently asked questions to their users. Although it's not difficult to create a simple set of FAQ pages, creating a great user experience that supports searching for FAQs, filtering, and paging, can become more difficult. Furthermore, this is often common functionality that has to be implemented repeatedly in multiple Web sites. This Web Application Toolkit is designed to provide a starting set of code including ASP.NET pages, data access logic, and database schemas, for integrating Frequently Asked Questions into your own ASP.NET MVC Web application.
Check out the accompanying screencast.
You can find the complete list of Web Application Toolkits here. With this initial release of 7 Web Application Toolkits, we are just getting started. We have plans for several more and we are exploring additional ways to make it easier for Web Developers to find and reuse this content.


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Members of the Andrews University community have been generous in their efforts to bring relief to the victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita over the past few months, joining countless others across the country.
Due to the increasing amount of donations given this year to hurricane relief efforts, Congress recently signed into effect the Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Act of 2005, which allows donors to contribute more than what would normally be deductible in a single tax year. While individuals can normally deduct charitable contributions in amounts up to 50 percent of their adjusted gross income, under the new Katrina tax act, cash gifts made to qualifying charities between August 28 and December 31, 2005 can now be deducted in amounts up to 100 percent of their adjusted gross income.
A qualifying charity is defined as any entity that is allowed to receive tax-deductible contributions other than private foundations, donor advised funds, charitable remainder trusts and similar gifts under which a donor retains income. This includes all gifts made to Andrews University.
Donors that give from their IRAs or other retirement accounts, will also receive special breaks under the new tax law. Donations from retirement accounts made by donors over 59.5 years of age do not have a 10% penalty fee for early withdrawal. For some taxpayers, however, the limits on deductible amounts, coupled with other reductions in itemized deductions, can result in a portion of retirement funds being taxed even if given to charity. However, under the new Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Act, a gift to an eligible charity made from any amount withdrawn from a retirement account is fully deductible if done before the end of the year.
This tax break has been done in order to encourage the generous giving that has already been in abundance this year, allowing individuals to continue their contributions to their regular charities as well as provide relief for hurricane victims.
If you would like to make a charitable gift to Andrews, you can do so online at www.andrews.edu/development.
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The report, written by U.S. advisers to Iraq's anti-corruption agency, analyzes corruption in 12 ministries and finds devastating and grim problems. "Corruption protected by senior members of the Iraqi government," the report said, "remains untouchable."
One potential problem is in the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to the report.
The report said that "the prime minister's office has on a number of occasions intervened on cases involving political supporters."
An al-Maliki adviser acknowledged to NBC that the problem of corruption in Iraq is "huge," but denied that al-Maliki's office has intervened in investigations. He said the prime minister is working hard to minimize the problem.
The draft report obtained by NBC said the Iraqi Ministry of Health, which oversees the country's hospitals, is in the "grip" of the Mahdi Army, the anti-American militia run by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
"Contract fraud and employee theft of medicines, food, vehicles are viewed by investigators as the greatest problems," the report said, adding that "military sources have reported that the Mehdi Army [sic] finances operations from diverted medicines."
Corruption 'widespread'
In the Ministry of Oil — the most important agency for Iraq's economy — the report said "corruption is a major problem" when it comes to refined oil products, such as gasoline and kerosene. The report said corruption in the oil ministry is partly to blame for lines of cars stretching for miles as Iraqis wait hours to fill up their tanks.
An entire battalion of Iraqi police "was found to be nonexistent" and corruption in the army is "widespread," with ghost employees and a shortage of supplies, according to the report.
The report also cites alleged favoritism and selective prosecution.
The draft report cited an incident at the Ministry of Oil that implicated the Shiite minister and four other officials, including one Sunni. The other three officials were reportedly Shiites, who were "the only ones capable of giving testimony against the minister."
The minister, the report said, then used a technicality in Iraqi law to exempt the three Shiites from prosecution so that only the Sunni went to prison.
That technicality he allegedly used is a Saddam Hussein-era law known as Article 136B that was lifted when Americans first occupied the country. The statute was reinstated by the Iraqi government.
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The law allows the prime minister to exempt Cabinet ministers from prosecution and allows ministers to exempt their employees from prosecution.
"This is tantamount to a get out of jail free card," Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, told NBC.
Bowen pointed to the oil ministry case involving the three Shiites as a stark example of the problem. "It exposes the arbitrariness of Article 136B," he said.
Bowen said the provision "essentially acts as a bulwark against effective enforcement. If a minister wants to protect an employee from corruption charges, simply by fiat that minister can do so."
The top Iraqi anti-corruption investigator, Judge Rahdi al Rahdi, told NBC that "in many important cases, ministers did not give us the permission to take their employees to court, the prime minister's office did not give us permission to take ministers to court."
Rahdi said the total amount of missing money involved in his investigations into government misconduct is $11 billion.
Corruption is so serious that it is difficult for the government to function, according to Ali Allawi, a former Iraqi government minister.
"There's a serious problem in the Ministry of Oil," Allawi said, "There's a serious problem in the Ministry of Health. There's a serious problem in the Ministry of Trade, and really, there's a serious problem in every government department."
Americans 'must grin and bear it'
Allawi, who has written a book called "The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace," said corruption has shattered any faith in government. "In some cases there is ... despair that ... corruption has destroyed the ability of the government to provide services," he said.
The draft report obtained by NBC outlines some devastating cases in Iraq, like a "guns for cash scheme with the Mehdi Army" involving a candidate for the head of Iraqi intelligence.
On top of the troubles of the current oil minister, the report said a former acting minister of oil was indicted — a case blocked by high-ranking officials. In another case a former minister of transportation was indicted.
Last week Bowen issued a report finding the U.S. Embassy had not done enough to combat corruption.
Allawi argues that U.S. authorities can do little because of the Iraqi officials with whom they are dealing.
"The Americans who are supporting this political class, I believe really have no choice. This is a group they have been saddled with, or supported in power, and must grin and bear it," he said.
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Maybe this will help motivate folks to get out there and move what you can.
I will start:
1.5 hours in garage - handcycle on a magnetic trainer - avg hr. 120 bpm
10 min on cross country ski machine with harness - half powered by me
30 min strength training
10 min elliptical with harness - 100% powered by me
10 min stationary bike backwards
30 min Estim on right arm
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Alex whoa. nice work...that's what I'm talkin' about....
I backed off my workout a tad today as I'm running a fever and feeling like crappola, but still managed a partial.
I used velcro to attach weights to my hands and lifted for 45 minutes. I also stood for 30.
When my fever drops, I'll hit full tilt boogie on the workouts again.
Yay workout people however and whatever you're doing!
Oh, I'm such a couch potato. I need to get back to the pool !
"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." -Gloria Steinem
about a half an hour on the bowflex
20 minutes on the recumbent bike (5 min. miles),
25 leg lifts with ankle weights
25 squats
I try to do pushups by using the counter and moving my feet back about 4 ft (I don't have the upper body strength to do a normal one)
then at night I play tuggy with my boxer/pit bull
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Light weight lifting to warm up for a 9 mile push (13 minute miles avg.) Today is a rest day tomorrow is 4 miles of interval training (hills ugh) and heavy weights.
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chest and triceps yesterday, cardio for 40 min with a target rate of 125 bpm, then ab work today.
into the 70's here today but another arctic front is coming so i'm taking advantage of it, with XMAS comin roadwork is going to be severely restricted.
so, who's next?
Alright, this is my second post in this thread. I must admit that knowing I am telling the WWW my workout did help my motivation:
30 min recumbent stationary bike - avg hr 114
55 min eliptical trainer (holding on for dear life) avg 115
35 min handcycle on magn. trainer - intervals 2 min on/ 2 min off times 6 avg hr 124
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December 7. I often say that we have to change "on a deeper level than culture" to escape the cycle of Empire and collapse. This week over email, Jack has been challenging that:
I'm not sure we need to. Culture is human. We keep looking for something new to help us, but I think we have the answers already, we just need the will to do the hard things... You are asking how to circumvent learning, or at least all cultural learning for all time. I am wary of this sort of thing because it sounds eugenic to me. I mean, the pharma companies can give us drugs to "change us deeper than culture" so that the soldiers fight without remorse.
I'm not talking about interfering with cultural learning, but about collectively changing the landscape on which it moves. Also I'm not talking about DNA -- although we're certainly close to getting ourselves even deeper into trouble on that level. I'm thinking more of what biologists call "instinct," and what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious, and what Rupert Sheldrake is trying to define with science under the name morphic fields.
Sheldrake has written about experiments where rats are trained to solve a puzzle, and then rats in a distant city are given the same puzzle and solve it faster. This kind of thing has been popularized as the "hundredth monkey" -- which is a trap, because the monkey experiment was completely anecdotal. But rigorous studies have been done and not publicized. Another example is that people who do the NY Times crossword in the afternoon finish it faster than people who do it in the morning.
Exclusionists like to attack this idea with foreskins: Jews have been cutting off each other's foreskins for thousands of years and yet they're still born with them. But it's not what's done to us that builds morphic fields -- it's what we do, especially learned adaptive behaviors. Can natural selection alone explain why populations that have had alcohol longer have fewer alcoholics? Does anyone else notice that younger people are better than older people at tearing their attention away from TV sets? Why have the colonies beaten the empires in every major colonial war of the last 100 years, and not so much before that?
By all means, we should try to make an empire-proof culture. I wrote about it myself at the end of How to Survive the Crash and Save the Earth. But if you accept the possibility of deeper learning, then there's another level to the fight. Every time you wrestle with the Dominator (or submit to it), you could be transmitting into the future.
December 11. Return of the Tribes, a fascinating article about the coming breakdown of global uniformity, and the survival of the old religions:
Forests are the abodes of magic. Look to forested areas for resistance to innovation. Even European fairy tales insist on the forest's mystery. Islam, with its abhorrence of magic, had nothing to offer African forest tribes to replace the beliefs that enveloped them. In northern Europe, too, monotheism faced its greatest difficulty in penetrating forested expanses, and the persistence of essentially pagan folk beliefs in the forested mountains of eastern Europe can startle a visitor today.
December 18. Tess writes:
When I was 20, I went as a missionary to Albania just after the fall of communism. They had just started receiving television signals from Italy, and the family I stayed with loved to watch the glamorous commercials and dream that their country would soon have access to these luxuries. I looked at their town where everyone from the doctor to the caretaker earned the same each week, and I saw better than they did what they were giving up. In the few months since communism ended, there were already disparities in wealth appearing, and resentments, and the community was fracturing. I felt like a drug user, pleading with someone not yet addicted to stay away from the drug.
It seems that those who've never had wealth will never understand the curse until they've tasted it. I used to know a German woman who had grown up within a meditation community. She'd spent her life 'dropped out', and do you know what her deepest dream was? She wanted to prove to herself that she could 'make it' in an office environment. I wonder, is it humanity's doom that we must experience every nightmare before we can find peace?
January 5. Dan Bartlett summarizes Bruce Lipton and epigenetics. I've written often about Rupert Sheldrake and morphic fields, but this is a whole other way that biological life does important stuff that's wrongly credited to DNA. Actually two ways. First, you've got epigenetics, another layer of genetic tags which tell the cells how to read DNA, and which are affected by environment and passed on to later generations. And second, it turns out that genes are not even the brains of cells. They're more like a CD that you get prompted to stick into your computer. The intelligence of the cell is largely in the membrane, which has a complex system of semiconducting gates and channels like a microprocessor!
January 5-8. Big thanks to Ziggy for introducing me to Idle Theory. The idea is that the purpose of life is not to accomplish something, but to do as little as possible. There's a section on evolution, which reverses industrial-age mythology:
All living creatures have to work to stay alive. Some have to work harder than others. Those creatures that need do little work to stay alive are more likely to survive periods of difficulty than those that must work longer. The fittest are the most idle creatures, not the strongest or fastest or most rapidly reproducing.And there's a great section on ethics:
The primary ethical task for humanity (and any living creature) is to become as far as possible idle and free... Every part of human society -- its division of labour, its tools, its trade, its codes of conduct, its laws, its political organisation, or any other custom or practice -- are all to be judged according to whether they increase or decrease idleness.
Near the top of that page is one of the most important sentences I've ever read, something that everyone in industrial society is screaming from their bones, but that no one ever speaks: "Any creature that is continually busy stands at the threshold of death."
But Mat comments:
The Idle Theory page calls inorganic matter "inert". This is untrue on the microscopic, the regular, and the macroscopic. The Universe is dancing, the rocks have spirits and lives, waterfalls are one of the most beautiful forms of action, and at the quantum level everything is tumbling everywhere. Life is the conglomeration of these dancing particles getting together to play a bigger game. People die, get depressed, or go zombiefied if they sit around without action, without purpose. No one in primitive groups sits around in a hammock all day, every day. People gamble, dance, sing, lie around chatting, hunt, gather, garden, etc.
Mat has revealed a semantic knot, and it took me some thinking to unravel it: When we talk about activity vs inactivity, there are at least three different levels on which these concepts mean different things. First is nonbiological cyclical motion, like a waterfall. Here constant activity is good, or even necessary. We don't want rivers to dry up, or planets to stop orbiting stars.
Second is normal biological life, like a squirrel gathering nuts. Here you want a balance -- gathering nuts is the squirrel's ecological role, and what it loves to do. But it needs some slack time, because if it's active all the time, it has no room to increase activity, and the first emergency will kill it. On this level, most primitive humans are extremely successful. They spend only a few hours a day on productive activity, which they enjoy, and the rest of the time, even if they're active, they're idle in terms of idle theory, because there's nothing they have to be doing.
Third is you at your crappy job. This is a level that squirrels and healthy primitive tribes would not even understand. All they know is free fun productive activity, and free fun nonproductive activity. In civilization, you're constantly busy doing stuff that's not free, fun, or productive: rearranging fragments of abstract information to enable the destruction of the biosphere because if you don't do it, you'll be denied food and shelter, and die. Civilization is like a game that primitive humans started in their spare time, and then couldn't get out.
The idle theory solution to civilization is what I've been writing about for years: instead of going over the wall, go under it: Learn to need less, and then learn to do less. The problem here is that we're so deeply socialized to forced activity that without it we don't know how to act at all, and we get depressed and lethargic, which gives idleness a bad name. But I think the only way out is through, to face the emptiness and gradually learn how to fill it with spontaneous action and play. If you can grasp the deep and total wrongness of forced activity, you can see that the deepest freedom is the freedom to say no.
January 9. I've mentioned John Livingston's arguments, in his book Rogue Primate, that nature is not based on competition, and Dan Bartlett summarized Livingston in this unarchived dead link. But Chris Davis's Idle Theory site has a brilliant page on competition with arguments I've never seen before.
Basically, Empire-culture philosophers like Darwin see domesticated pigs fighting at feeding troughs, and extrapolate this vision to all of nature. And Jane Goodall provided a concentrated food souce for the chimps she studied, which might have caused the warlike behavior she observed. But in nature food is seldom concentrated in one place -- it's usually widely dispersed in space and time, like oxygen and sunlight. Nobody competes for oxygen. And even when food energy is concentrated, animals cannot afford to collectively spend more energy fighting than the food is worth, so competitive traits will actually tend to die off, while cooperative traits will survive.
Livingston has compared the "territories" of animals to cells in a body, and Davis uses the same metaphor:
The many millions of cells that make up a human body all have a shared requirement for a resource in limited supply -- the glucose, oxygen, and amino acids carried in the blood stream. Occasionally, blood sugar levels may fall low enough to affect the survival of cells. Are we then to suppose that the cells in a human body compete with each other, and that the life of these cells is a struggle for existence?
One kind of cell actually does work that way -- the cancer cell! And if a cancer colony had intellectuals, they would surely argue that the entire body functions according to the same ethics as the tumor, and therefore that we are justified in selfishly fighting and growing and monopolizing resources.
In the body, cancer kills its host and dies with it. On Earth, civilization will not totally kill the biosphere -- but it's almost finished killing the parts that it feeds on. We have entered an age of limited and declining resources, and here, accidentally, Idle Theory is describing the collapse of civilization:
As field energy densities fall, creatures work harder. It is the most hard-working creatures that first succumb, while their more idle companions survive. There is no need for the most idle to compete at all for food, but merely to wait until energy densities have fallen to a level where the least idle can no longer survive.
And if at the nadir of such a crisis the least idle are working continuously, while the most idle are hardly working at all, then it is perfectly possible for an idle and altruistic creature to not only give way to their toiling fellows, but also to actively assist them.
That the most idle can assist the least idle does not, of course, mean that they will regularly do so. They may not be able to assist. They may not see the need for assistance. And if they do assist, they can only save a minority of the least idle from extinction.
January 11. A reader makes the common argument that civilization is "just part of the natural process." The trick here is that the word "natural" has a bunch of definitions, some of them almost opposite, and yet we use the word as if it has one meaning that everyone understands.
One definition of "natural" includes absolutely everything in the universe, and any word that includes everything is worthless, except for purposes of deception, by blurring one definition with another: if "natural" includes everything, and "natural" is good, then anything is good.
A more common definition is arising from nature, but this is not at all the same as beneficial to nature. Stalin arose from humans and was not beneficial to humans. Civilization arose from biological life on Earth and is almost finished killing it back to weeds. "Arising from nature" does not help us ethically. If humans are ever going to be helpful on this planet, we need a word that means "beneficial to the totality of biological life", and we need to use it all the time.
January 13. Joel comments that Idle Theory...
...reminded me of a fun lecture by Freeman Dyson that I heard a few years ago, in which he refuted the notion of a "heat death" of the universe due to the spread of entropy. As the last stars cool down and space warms up, there will be less energy available, but in his calculations this would never slow down the pace of adaptation enough to cause a universal extinction, even as the whole system approaches equilibrium. In the long run, we can expect a lot of idleness.
I'm skeptical of the heat death theory, since I don't believe in the Big Bang. If there wasn't a Big Bang, the next theory in line is an eternal dynamic steady state universe. And if the universe has always been here, it must be finding a way around heat death.
But suppose we don't have a steady state universe either, and the second law of thermodynamics is accurate, and there's no escape from increasing entropy. Joel writes:
I really like the second law from an aesthetic point of view, because of my view of entropy. A good professor of mine said he was annoyed by people who thought of entropy as disorder; a better word for it is fluidity, or maybe unpredictability. To me, the second law says that a system will continue to become more amenable to change, have more variety, and be less easy to predict, if left to its own devices.
Cool! Here's a related post on weird math.
January 17. We hear all the time how people are getting stupider, but I think we're also getting smarter in ways that are harder to measure. Here's part of an article Carol found in an employment agency newsletter:
Human resource development experts believe that employers are finding it harder to relate to younger workers, especially when it comes to motivating them. Novations CEO Mike Hyter says, "The latest generation to enter the work force is singularly disengaged and getting them motivated is now one of management's most urgent challenges."
Hyter says that traditional motivators like money or authority don't seem to appeal to younger workers the way they did to previous generations. And many younger workers have no interest in establishing a lifetime career. He says the younger generation seems to drop a job and leave at the first sign of discomfort, and that they seem to be seeking happiness, and don't have much interest in self-sacrifice.
Hyter believers that these characteristics could be the result of watching their boomer generation parents get used up and thrown away by corporations, and this generation's not going to have any of it.
Dan (age 20) comments:
That is spot on. I've only been working since I was 18 and I'm already finding it extremely hard going back into an office to do more temp work. My friends are the same. It feels like endgame already. I hang around with my brother's friends (he's 16) and they are more aware of what work and careers entail than I was at that age. Everyone seems to have that base discontent. The problem is empowering them to take their discontent and do something about it. I think a lot of it is having a strong enough character to simply say "no" and do your own thing. But people don't know what their own thing is! They have been so trained into "what it is right to do", that they can't listen to themselves.
Nigel points out that the same thing is happening in Japan. They even have a word, freeter, for young people who are deliberately underemployed.
I think this is all part of the human journey. Ever since the invention of "work," it's been a great challenge for the dominators to motivate people. In ancient times they did it with overt slavery. For the last 200 years, they've done it by buying us off with increasing material wealth, paid for by the exhaustion of cheap oil and the near-destruction of the biosphere. In places like China, that's still going on. People see that if they enslave themselves ("work hard"), their children will have lots of shallow lifestyle improvements.
But in America and Japan, the system's ability to buy us off peaked with the Baby Boomers, and has been in decline since the 1970's, so we're seeking motivation in other directions. I think the same thing explains why American women are now going to college more, and are more motivated for conventional "success," than American men. That dreadful mountain has only recently been open to women, while men have climbed it and are on the way down.
So, will the domination system quietly fade away? Of course not! Loretta comments:
Because of my job I meet approximately 150 new people in the 18-34 age group every year, and I've been in the same position for 10 years. I do see younger people searching for something more, some better avenue to happiness than becoming a wage-slave; however, that quickly changes when debt comes into play. Every day I see young people take on enormous amounts of crushing debt, and that tends to kill any dream or desire that does not service that debt. These kids don't know that there is any other way to get on in the world and they're told again and again that they are doing the right thing and acting "grown up." The phrase "good debt" is thrown around so much that they think anything labeled as such qualifies as an investment, until they get out of school and start working with no benefits and rent to pay and a "good debt" of $75,000. I've seen 21 year olds sparkling with creative energy become bitter 23 year-old zombies. Doesn't take long. Maybe some type of economic crash would free them, but there is another little problem...
What I've noticed about youngsters today is their complete aversion to learning ANYTHING that requires more than two or three basic steps. I've met thousands of young people and I can say this is what ties them together as a generation. Some might think this is a good thing, that the oversimplified way these kids look at the world is the necessary antidote to the enormous amount of BS thrown at us every day, but I'm not so sure. I mean, no matter what happens, we still have to provide ourselves with food and shelter, right? These kids have trouble following Mapquest directions. We've infantilized them and got them to buy into the system at such a young age that their version of an alternative is cartoonish at best. Sadly, throwing so many commercial products at them since birth has stunted some very important things, like curiosity and problem solving skills.
It could be all kinds of things other than commercial products. I speculated about a few of them when I did a post on increasing stupidity last year. Now I can think of more: Extreme time structuring, high-fructose corn syrup, maybe even chemtrails. More research is needed: Is this only happening in America? Only in the first world? Everywhere? What about individual exceptions? Anyway, Loretta continues:
I do think positive change is occurring but it isn't a youth movement. I'm seeing regular, everyday folks making choices that allow them to start letting go of the system bit by bit. Choices that would have been perceived as a little off the wall and risky even five years ago that are now met with understanding and support. This is a change and I think it's a big one.
January 19. 2005 article about a German woman who lived with a jungle tribe from age 7-17 and then went back to civilization. She says:
The difference between my two worlds is this: life in the jungle is more challenging physically but psychologically much easier. Life in the Western world is physically easier but much more complicated for the soul.
I've never heard anyone put civilized vs primitive so concisely, and with so little judgment. If you think of it this way, it explains why civilized people do crazy things like climb mountains and starve themselves -- they want to trade psychological challenge for physical challenge. It explains why we love action movies -- because we can have the feeling of making that trade, with no risk. And it justifies people who understand the critique of civilization but make no move to go primitive: you don't have to, if you've mastered the complications of modernity.
January 20. Robert Anton Wilson died a couple weeks ago. Here's a great piece from 1988, in which he tells the story of his own intellectual development and mentions a bunch of thinkers who influenced him: Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspective.
January 22. Elaine asks, "When an economic crash occurs do you think they will bring back debtors prisons?"
They would love to! The problem is the sheer number of people who owe money. If debtors awaken as a political force, and get organized, they can get the government to declare that certain kinds of debts are canceled. This has been normal throughout history. Most pre-Roman civilizations had Jubilee traditions, in which debts were forgiven and property redistributed every few decades. They understood what modern people do not: that wealth concentration leads to inefficiency, instability, and collapse. Since the Romans invented the idea that accumulation of money/power is virtuous, redistribution has happened only through upheaval and catastrophe.
So the owners will fight like hell to hold onto everything. Their strategy will be to keep debtors isolated from each other, keep the debt issue in the background, keep the amnesty option off the table, and keep quietly collecting as much money as they can. When the depression comes, and almost nobody can pay, I expect them to keep piling up the numbers to absurd heights, and then sell the inflated debt, at an apparent discount, to whatever entity has the power to keep extracting payment. Maybe Blackwater. Then, if that entity is clever, it will forgive just enough debt to make debtors a minority, and put them in work camps.
January 29. Hundred pound block of ice falls from sky! (2011 update: if you're wondering why this kind of article always becomes an unarchived dead link, check out George Hansen's book The Trickster and The Paranormal.) This kind of thing happened long before airplanes. Charles Fort covered it in The Book of the Damned, chapter 13 (scroll down about halfway).
January 31. Jeff Wells has a major new post about occult manifestations and the holographic universe and the end of the world and all that: Are You Being Served? Even though I'm into the same stuff, I look at it differently. I'm reminded of a reader who pointed out how similar Charles Fort is to H.P. Lovecraft. They were writing at the same time, about how humans are minor actors in a world of bottomless weirdness. The difference is, Lovecraft viewed the unknown with fear, and Fort viewed it with a sense of fun. And that reminds me of a famous bit in The Continuum Concept, where Liedloff observed natives and Europeans moving heavy canoes over rocks, and the Europeans saw it as a horrible ordeal while the natives saw it as a playful challenge. Neither perspective is wrong, but one of them works a lot better. The trick is learning how to choose it.


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What happened to TV while I wasn't paying attention?
This all started when the person I share a cubicle with at work asked me, "Do you know Bon Qui Qui?" To which I said, "I dunno. Does she work here?" This happens a lot actually. Because I am not watching YouTube, apparently I have no idea what is going on in the world. So, he directs me to this rather amusing video and we all have a nice laugh.
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I particularly like the part how the dude at the end states he is no longer under house arrest. I don't know about you, but that is how I pick my men.
So, later on in the week, this same individual asks if I have seen, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. "No," I innocently reply. So… a brief Google search reveals what people are watching on television these days:
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That was only the trailer. If you look a little below this paragraph, you will notice another YouTube link. This will fully explain the whole disturbing thing. DON'T click it yet! Before you proceed, I must warn you that once you watch this on YouTube, you can never un-see it. Never. Remember that time you were reading heinakroon.com and suddenly people's torsos were burning up and you were looking at a bunch of legs sitting there? This is EXACTLY like that. Only with a strange little child that can't enunciate. And no one spontaneously catches on fire.
"A dollar make me holler, BABY." Really? You are going to train your kid to say that and then send her out on stage with a halter top and a pair of daisy dukes? Also, is a dollar even a respectful price point for hollering? You'd think it would be more than that.
Worst of all, this is on TLC…. The LEARNING Channel! At least, I think TLC still stands for The Learning Channel. What am I supposed to be learning from all of this? Granted, it is almost a reference guide for turning a six-year-old into a stripper, but I don't think this is anything I need to know. I don't even have a little girl, much less one that I want to train to be a stripper. I'm sure I could start some sort of outreach program or something, but I really don't have time for all that. So, let's just say I DON'T want to start a stripper training outreach program for six-year olds. Thank you anyway, TLC. Maybe next time you can have a show about how to get started with the meth labs, because THAT is something worth looking into.


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