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If the future is behind schedule, it may be because the world's major financial institutions and venture capitalists have not been backing the right ideas.
Could pessimism about progress through technology be spreading to the political Right? Respected figures like entrepreneur/financier Peter Thiel and economist Tyler Cowen have been contemplating the heretofore unthinkable.
The trend is new. Over the last 75 or 80 years, conservatives and libertarians have been more sanguine than the Left about the future of rising living standards through scientific and technological innovation in America. While Franklin Roosevelt is remembered for boundless good cheer and for bold technocratic projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Flood Control Act of 1938 (recently celebrated by David Welky in his new book The Thousand Year Flood), there was a gloomier side to the New Deal. Alvin Hansen of Harvard, the greatest American Keynesian and one of the most respected economic advisors of the New Deal, developed what his now better-known colleague and sparring partner Joseph Schumpeter called "the theory of vanishing investment opportunities." (Keynes, as Schumpeter later wrote in a memorial essay, had believed as early as 1920 that the pace of technological innovation was flagging and that market incentives to invest were thus shrinking.) Ironically, some economic historians, including Alexander Field in his recent book A Great Leap Forward, now consider the 1930s to be a high point of technological innovation. By the early 1980s the Marxist economist Paul Sweezy, quoting Schumpeter's remark, took issue with both men but acknowledged that Hansen's analysis of the weakness of investment had become "a good deal less, not more persuasive."
Jimmy Carter, trained in the once-cornucopian profession of nuclear engineering, seemed to proclaim a new age of limits and lowered expectations during his time in office, whereas Ronald Reagan set the tone for his administration with a sign in the Oval Office that read, "It CAN Be Done!"; John Boehner, Speaker of the House, keeps a similar one on his desk. George W. Bush may have provoked snickers with his call to "make the pie higher" (actually more logical than "bigger," since pies are sold in standard diameters and often vary in depth), but the virally broadcast malapropism may actually have helped to reinforce his optimistic
What has changed the picture is not the current recession in itself but the failure of icons like the Concorde and the disappointing commercial progress (so far) of others: magnetic levitation trains, high-temperature superconductivity, genetic engineering, individualized medicine, fusion power, and nanotechnology. Solyndra's bankruptcy has dampened hopes for a green technology boom. Futurism is almost a nostalgic word.
Conservative stagnationists were not the first to identify the issue. On the scientific side, that credit goes to the writer John Horgan in The End of Science (1997); on the technological, to the military historian David Edgerton in The Shock of the Old(2007).
But there's new life in the theme. Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation (2011) has become a best-selling e-book in which the author argues that we have been living through decades of flat real income and that no turnaround is in sight. Yes, he says, the Depression continued an era of fundamental invention, but we have been largely living on its intellectual capital, especially since 1960 or so. New innovations are possible but have become so expensive that the rate of return on technology is doomed to sink.
Nor is government regulation a real culprit; the tandem growth of corporate and state bureaucracy is a consequence of technological maturity, not liberal conspiracy. Although he points to some signs of hope in the closing chapter, Cowen's only concrete suggestion is to "raise the social status of scientists." The paradox is—at least in my experience as a former science book editor—that the greater the scientist, the less the concern about social status. Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, and Cowen's favorite, Norman Borlaug, didn't do what they did in order to join some country club. In fact, if the fruit (so necessary for President Bush's deep-dish pie) is high enough, perhaps even such giants could not reach it.
Where Cowen sees inherent obstacles, Peter Thiel, in a series of interviews and essays (most recently in National Review) is most concerned about political ones. He scorns higher education and holds a competition for student entrepreneurs willing to drop out of school to pursue projects. He blames colleges for promoting identity politics and culture wars, politicians for maintaining entitlement programs at the expense of investment in infrastructure, and the public for abandoning its faith in the radiant future—as represented by Robert Moses of the 1930s (still a New Deal liberal) and the architect of Brasilia, Oscar Niemeyer (a lifelong Communist).
Thiel still appears to lean toward the low-hanging-fruit hypothesis; at least he has never identified some innovation with the potential to transform living standards, although like Cowen, he recognizes the technological fecundity of the 1930s. On the other hand, where Cowen cites the high quality of life in statist Japan to suggest that stagnation may not be so bad, Thiel "no longer believe[s] that freedom and democracy are compatible" and has spoken out for city-states on ocean platforms instead.
If the future is behind schedule, as I've joked elsewhere, there is another and more hopeful set of explanations. It's possible that, for cultural reasons, the world's major financial institutions and venture capitalists have not been backing the right ideas. They and their investors may be more impatient for payback than their predecessors. At least that is what business critics like Alfred Rappaport and John Bogle in Saving Capitalism from Short-Termism (2011) might argue. Some of the greatest postwar innovations like the Xerox 914 photocopier and jet aircraft had to overcome years of discouraging setbacks. On the other hand, the world's most admired technology company, Apple, is actually praised by authorities like Fareed Zakaria for how little it spends on basic research; if AT&T had adopted that policy in the mid-20th century, there would be no Apple. So changes in taxation and corporate culture should also be considered.
Neither optimism nor pessimism about future innovation can be proven. And optimism, as the Solyndra case shows, has its own pitfalls. But optimism has been a consistent political winner for conservatives, as well as liberals, not only because people like to hear positive things but because they understand that stagnationism has a fatal flaw: It can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.


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By Kazé on Sunday, December 2 2012, 21:21 :: Permalink
Wow, the last year just flew by! Time for a quick status update.
First of all, I'm not working on the editor back-end any more. I joined the Firefox OS dev team last January and I mostly work on the Gaia front-end. It's been heart-breaking to stop working on the editor, which is the reason why I started contributing to Mozilla in 2006… but I have to confess I feel much more useful in the Gaia team, and I'm proud to be part of such an amazing project!
Sad corollary: like you would expect for such projects, the work pace is very high and I haven't been able to work significantly on any other FLOSS project. The first official Firefox OS release is scheduled for mid-January 2013, so don't expect any update on Kompozer or timesheets.js until the end of the winter. :-/
Among the cool things we do with Firefox OS, I'm the proud developer of webL10n, a client-side i18n/localization JS library. This library is used by all Gaia apps and by other cool projects like PDF.js or Etherpad Lite. We're ironing webL10n at the moment and we're trying to optimize its performances, so expect a first public release soon. :-)
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René Eugène Gateaux
Born: 5 May 1889 in Vitry-le-François, Marne, France
Died: 3 October 1914 in Rouvroy, near Lens, France
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René Eugène Gateaux was born on 5 May 1889 in Vitry-le-François in the département of Marne, 200 km east to Paris. Vitry-le-François is the sous-préfecture of this département, a town of some industrial and military importance, as its history testifies. Another very famous mathematician was born 222 years before Gateaux in the same small town, Abraham de Moivre, who had to leave for London where he spent all his outstanding scientific career. A local historian from Vitry, Gilbert Maheut, has written several short papers concerning his two brilliant mathematician fellow citizens. See in particular [48].
Not much is known about René's parents. His father Henri Eugène Gerasime was born in 1860. He was a small contractor who owned an enterprise of saddlery and cooperage located in the suburbs of Vitry. The mother was Marie Alexandrine Roblin, a seamstress. The couple had two children; René was the elder, the second one, Georges was born four years later on 27 August 1893. René's father died young, on 28 July 1905, aged 44. The precarious situation that may have resulted from this event may have increased the young boy's motivation in his studies.
We do not know precise details of the school career of René Gateaux. He was a pupil in Vitry and then in Reims. The only sure information comes from the first of his own written testimonies. On 24 February 1906, Gateaux signed a letter to the Ministry of Education to get permission to sit for the examination for admission to the École Normale Supérieure (science division) in 1906, though he had not attained the regular minimum age of 18 (he was to be 17 in May 1906).
In October 1907, Gateaux entered the École Normale Supérieure, which was in these years the very centre of intellectual life in France. We have a testimony, an obituary written in 1919 by two companions of Gateaux in the 1907 science section of the École Normale ([1], pp.136 to 140), Georges Gonthiez and Maurice Janet. They write:-
He was one of these good comrades with whom one likes to chat. His benevolence and absolute sincerity were immediately felt; he was among those who knew how to listen and to empathize with the other's thoughts. Maybe others were more assertive of their personality, more inclined to prove the originality of their spirit and character. It is without noise that Gateaux's personality blossomed, following the way he judged to be the best possible, and his personality unceasingly and smoothly strengthened. He had this freshness of spirit of the right natures not yet offended by life. When he arrived at the École, he quietly opened his spirit to new subjects with the natural easiness and the calm of a modest, self-confident and beautiful intelligence. ... He soon appeared to us as one of the best mathematicians in our group, serious-minded, and quick to focus on the essential. He liked to deal with all kind of philosophical or general questions.At that moment an unexpected event occurred in the life of the young man, certainly important as Gonthiez and Janet devote many lines to it. During his second year at the École Normale, Gateaux became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He joined the church 'with fervour' write his two fellow companions of the École Normale. A strong Catholic group attended the École Normale in these days (let us only mention Pierre Poyet, one of Gateaux's comrades among the 1907 pupils, who took orders and became a Jesuit) and Gateaux had certainly the occasion to move in these circles. This conversion, about which we did not find any trace apart from this account in the obituary [1], seems to have played a considerable role in Gateaux's spiritual life. This beautiful childish ingenuousness is what was most impressive in Gateaux and this is probably why he acceded so easily to a religious life.
In 1910, Gateaux passed the agrégation of mathematical sciences. On July 8th, 1912 a ministerial decree appointed Gateaux as Professor of Mathematics at the Lycée of Bar-le-Duc, the main town of the département of Meuse, 250 km east of Paris, and not very distant from his native Vitry-le-François. Nevertheless, before taking up this post, Gateaux had the boring but necessary task to fulfil his military obligations. Since 23 March 1905 ([44]), a new law replacing the law of 16 July 1889 for the organization of the army had been voted by the Parliament, where the length of the active military service had been reduced to 2 years, but there were many more candidates. Gateaux's military dossier ([32]) stipulates that he signed his voluntary engagement in Vitry on 12 October 1907 and asked to be incorporated only at the end of his study time. On October 10th, 1910 Gateaux joined the 94th Infantry regiment where he was a basic 'second class' soldier. On 18 February 1911 he became 'caporal' (a kind of private first class), and finally was declared second lieutenant in the reserve by the President of the Republic on 17 September 1911. Then Gateaux had to follow some special training for officers, and the comments made by his superiors on the military dossier indicate that the supposed military training at the École Normale had (not surprisingly) been more virtual than real.
On 4 October 1912, Gateaux, freed from the active army, began his lectures at the Lycée of Bar-le-Duc. Meanwhile, he had begun to prepare a thesis in mathematics, on themes closely related to functional analysis à la Hadamard and its application to potential theory. We did not find precise details about how Gateaux chose this subject for his researches, but it is plausible that he was advised to do so by Hadamard himself who had just delivered lectures at the Collège de France and entered the Academy of Science in 1912. There were good reasons for Gateaux to be attracted by this new and hardly explored domain. Paul Lévy had defended his own brilliant thesis about similar questions in 1911. And also, a young French normalien of the year before Gateaux, Joseph Pérès, had in 1912-1913 benefited from a grant offered by the David Weill foundation to work for a one-year period in Rome with Volterra. Volterra himself, invited by Borel and Hadamard, came to Paris to give a series of lectures on functional analysis, published in 1913 ([23]) and whose redaction was precisely made by Pérès.
For a young doctoral student the natural people to be in contact with in these years were obviously Hadamard in Paris and Volterra in Rome.
On 18 April 1913, Émile Borel wrote to Volterra that:-
M Gateaux, presently a teacher at Bar-le-Duc lycée, advised me about his intention to solicit a study grant to continue his research. I recommended to him that he apply for a David Weill grant to go to Rome, if you will welcome him.A David Weill grant was awarded to Gateaux for the year 1913-1914. As he exposed them in a letter to Volterra, we know precisely what were the mathematical aims of Gateaux when he went to Rome. Gateaux considered two main points of interest for his future researches. The first one is about the extension of the Weierstrass expansion, the equivalence between analyticity and holomorphy and the Cauchy formula to functionals. The second one is about infinite dimensional integration. In a last paragraph, Gateaux mentions the possible applications of such an integration of functionals, such as the residue theorem ...
About Gateaux's stay in Rome, we do not have many details. An interesting document, found among the documents of the Académie des Sciences in Paris, is the draft of a report Gateaux had to write at the end of his visit, probably for the David Weill foundation. He mentioned there that he arrived in Rome in the last days of October, at the precise moment of elections for the Parliament, so that lectures were delayed until the end of November. As Gateaux only mentions that he followed two of Volterra's lectures in Rome (one of Mathematical Physics, the other about applications of functional calculus to Mechanics), it is probable that the delay refers to Volterra's political involvements as Senator. Gateaux seems to have worked quite actively in Rome. A first note in the Rendiconti dell'Accademia dei Lincei was published in December 1913 ([34]) in which he extended the results of the previous paper. Moreover, on the postcard sent by Borel to Volterra on 1 January 1914 with his best wishes for the new 1914 year (a sentence which sounds strange to the ears of one knowing what was going to happen soon ...), Borel mentioned how he was glad to learn that Volterra was absolutely satisfied with Gateaux in Rome. And indeed, the young man published three more notes during his stay ([35], [36], [37]), but also began the redaction of more detailed articles - found afterwards among his papers after the war. Paul Lévy (in [39], p.70) mentioned that two versions of this paper were found, both dated from March 1914.
On 14 February 1914, Gateaux delivered a lecture at Volterra's seminar; his lecture notes were kept among his papers. Gateaux mainly dealt with the notion of functional differentiation. He recalled that Volterra introduced this notion to study problems including an hereditary phenomenon, but also that it was used by others (Jacques Hadamard and Paul Lévy) to study some problems of mathematical physics - such as the equilibrium problem of fitted elastic plates - finding a solution to equations with functional derivatives, or, in other words, by calculating a relation between this functional and its derivative. Gateaux probably came back to France at the beginning of the summer, in June 1914. He certainly expected to go back soon to Rome as he obtained the Commercy grant he had applied for.
Gateaux seems to have been caught napping by the beginning of the war. The danger of war had in fact been realised only very late in July 1914, and most people received the mobilization announcement on 2 August with stupor. Gateaux was mobilized in the reserve as lieutenant of the 269th Infantry regiment, a member of the 70th infantry division. The quartering of Gateaux's regiment took place in Toul. The first battles were successful for the French, but, after the euphoria of the very beginning of August, the hard reality of the force of the German army obliged the French troops to withdraw day after day. At the end of August, the task of the 70th Infantry division was in the first place to defend the south-east sector of Nancy. At the end of September, the French and German headquarters became aware of the impossibility of any further movement on a front line running from the Aisne to Switzerland and so the only hope was to bypass the enemy in the zone, still almost free of soldiers, between the Aisne and the sea. General Joffre decided to withdraw from the eastern part of the front (precisely where Gateaux was) a large number of divisions and to send them by rail to places in Picardie, then to Artois, and finally to Flandres, to try to outrun the Germans. The so-called race for the sea lasted two months and was incredibly bloody.
The 70th division was transported between 28 September and 2 October from Nancy to Lens, a distance of almost 300 km! It received the order to defend the east of Lens and Arras. On 3 October, Gateaux's regiment was in Rouvroy, a small village, 10 km south-east of Lens, and Gateaux was killed at 1 o'clock in the morning, while trying to prevent the Germans from entering the village. In the general confusion of the bloodshed, corpses were not identified before being collected and hastily buried in improvised cemeteries. Gateaux's body was buried near the St Anne Chapel in Rouvroy, a simple cross without inscription marking the place. Only long after, Gateaux's corpse was exhumed and formally identified, and finally transported to the necropolis of the military cemetery of Bietz-Neuville St Vaast where Gateaux's grave is number 76.
As soon as August 1915, Hadamard began the necessary steps to obtain the attribution of one of the prizes of the Academy of Science to Gateaux. In a letter dated 5 August 1915 and maybe addressed to Picard as Perpetual Secretary, Hadamard mentions that Gateaux:-
... has left very advanced researches on functional calculus (his thesis was composed to a great extent, and partly exposed in notes to the Academy), researches for which M Volterra and myself have a big consideration.At the meeting of 18 December 1916 the prix Francoeur was awarded to Gateaux ([42], pp.791-792). It is interesting to read in Hadamard's short report the following section:-
[Gateaux] was on the point of following a much more audacious way, promising to be most fruitful, by extending the notion of integration to the functional domain. Nobody could predict the development and the range that this new series of researches could have attained. This is what events have interrupted.In 1918, the Paris Académie des Sciences, following Hadamard's proposal, decided to call Paul Lévy for the Cours Peccot in 1919. On 3 January 1919, Lévy wrote to Volterra:-
As I was recently interested in the question of the extension of the integral to functional space, I spoke about the fact to M Hadamard who mentioned the existence of a R Gateaux note on the theme. But he could not give me the exact reference and I cannot find it. ... Though I am still mobilized, I work on lectures I should read at the Collège de France on the functions of lines and the equations with functional derivatives and at this occasion I would like to develop several chapters of the theory. ... I think that the generalization of the Dirichlet problem should be more difficult. Up to now, I was not able to extend your results on functions of the first degree and your extension of Green's formula. This is precisely due to the fact that I do not possess a convenient expression for the integral.On 12 January Lévy sent a new letter to Volterra:-
M Hadamard has just found several unpublished Gateaux papers at the École Normale. I have not seen them yet but maybe I'll find what I am looking for in them.Volterra answered both letters on January 15th, telling Lévy that none of Gateaux's publications concerned integration. He nevertheless adds:-
We had chatted before he left Rome about his general ideas on the subject, but he did not publish anything. I suppose that in the manuscripts he had left, one may probably find some notes dealing with the problem. I am happy that they are not lost and that you have them in hand. The question in very interesting.On 6 January 1919 Lévy wrote to Fréchet:-
About Gateaux's papers, I learnt precisely yesterday that M Hadamard had put them in security at the École Normale during the war and had just taken them back. Nothing is therefore yet published.From this sentence, we may infer that it is Fréchet who firstly wrote to Lévy about Gateaux's papers, and certainly because he had an idea of what they contained. Maybe this constitutes a proof that it was indeed through Fréchet that the papers were delivered to Hadamard during the war, and that Fréchet was the recipient of the aforementioned letter from the Principal of the Lycée in Bar-le-Duc? On 12 February, Lévy began to describe to Fréchet the content of what he had precisely found in Gateaux papers, namely a first theory of harmonic functionals.
Gateaux's interest in infinite dimensional integration originated in the extension of Cauchy's formula. For Lévy, the situation was somewhat different, being in connection with research devoted to potential theory. This theory, directly derived from electromagnetism, has the determination of the electric potential created in one point P by a repartition of electric charges in a region of the space. The study of these questions in infinite dimensional classical functional spaces leads to the question of integration over these spaces. A central problem arises from the fact that generally, in infinite dimension, a subset has a volume equal to zero or infinity, and this prevents the direct extension of the Riemann integral defined through an approximating step-functions sequence.
Gateaux seems to have been the first to propose a natural way to bypass the problem by considering the integral as an asymptotic mean value. In a paper he wrote in 1924 at the end of his intense period of activity around these questions ([13]), Lévy takes stock of this definition of integral as mean value as a natural definition of the uniform probability in an infinite set. In [12], Lévy has finally admitted that the right formulation for these problems is in a probabilistic framework, and it is impressive to see how in the book (and in particular in Chapter VI), Lévy makes use of probability theory to justify the passages to the limit by means of the law of large numbers. Interestingly, probability theory does not appear in the notes Lévy had published just after the war about his work on the function of lines. It is only when he wrote his book [12] that he understood this natural framework, at the precise moment when he began to be interested in probability theory because he needed to teach it. In his autobiography ([14]), Lévy has observed how in [12], he was close to Wiener measure. He was indeed so close that Wiener, when speaking with him in 1922, will immediately see that Lévy's considerations to define the integral over the infinite dimensional sphere are precisely what he could use to define his Differential-space and construct the Wiener measure of Brownian motion. Two years earlier, he has had the intention of using the results provided by Daniell, who, independently from Gateaux, has also defined an integral through a limit of means ([27]). In [51] (footnote *, p.67), Wiener mentions that he had just discovered Gateaux's earlier discoveries in [37]. In 1923, at the beginning of his epoch-making paper [52] (p.56),Wiener pays tribute to Gateaux and Lévy for having provided the most complete investigations about integration in infinitely many dimensions.
Article by: Laurent Mazliak Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles aléatoires et Institut de Mathématiques (Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques), Université Paris VI, France.
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Thereafter come those who are empaths. Empaths are always targeted as primary sources. They often fulfil secondary roles as well. They are rarer in a tertiary source position since if they are an empath, they would be better suited to either being a primary or secondary source. We would not want those empathic traits to go to waste. The empath has a good range of empathic traits those of honesty, decency, having a strong moral compass and being a good listener, just to list a few of them. They may not have all of the empathic traits that we look for, but they will have several and exhibit them in a concentrated form. Thus this person would look to donate to a charity, hand a wallet in that was found in the street, help a stranger who is in distress, sit and listen to somebody who has problems and acts of a similar nature.
Next comes the Super Empath. This person is not a co-dependent. Both the Super Empath and the co-dependent have many, if not all of the empathic traits that we look for and they have them to a stronger degree than the empath. For example, both might take the homeless person under their wing and take them to a shelter, maybe even house them themselves for a period of time. They would try and locate the person who had lost their wallet in order to hand it back in person rather than say hand it in at a police station first. They will listen to the person with problems and then offer practical solutions to resolve those difficulties. The co-dependent gains validation from such acts through giving and has to do this to an excessive degree even when it goes beyond what is good for themselves, such is their inherent addiction to the act of giving and selflessness. The co-dependent may not actually be that strong an individual (they are in the sense of the abuse that they can soak up) but they are not strong as they have no identity to assert, they must form one through self-flagellation, giving and not taking. They are masochistic in nature, driving themselves to the point of collapse and illness because they lack the strength to escape and the desire to do so from the clutches of our kind. Lesser Narcissists and Mid-Range Narcissists hook up with co-dependents especially because they give, give and give but do not fight back. They challenge themselves, blame themselves and always make excuses for their abuser.
The Super Empath is also a giver but whereas the co-dependent is masochistic in this giving, the Super Empath does so from a position of strength. They hold their ability to empathise, to heal, to fix and impart goodness as a great gift and one which ought not to be abused. They are drawn to our kind less because of the co-dependent's need to seek validation of identity through a narcissist, but more because they are initially attracted to the apparent emotional output of the narcissist. The false strength which the narcissist exhibits at the outset of the seduction, the confidence, the apparent satisfaction with his self, that he appears comfortable in his own skin, at ease with others, capable of lighting up a room and so forth is a huge attraction to the Super Empath because that person actually sees something of themselves in the narcissist when the narcissist is seducing. That is not to state that the Super Empath is a narcissist. Far from it. But the Super Empath is just as engaging as the narcissist and thus there is a mutual attraction. The Super Empath is also more challenging to the narcissist and therefore is usually the recipient of some Mid-Range narcissists and most often the Greater Narcissist. This is not because the Super Empath is awkward or reticent but rather she will be forthcoming with her empathic traits once she feels that they have been earned. Accordingly, the narcissist must put the extra miles in, in terms of seduction to ensnare the Super Empath. This person needs to be coerced into sharing the fruits of their empathy but once that trust has been earned, once the gate has been unlocked the benefits are huge. The Super Empath shines with empathy, glows with decency and pours forth delicious fuel.
This continues during devaluation. The empath and co-dependent are easier to "break" in terms of causing negative fuel to flow. The Super Empath is made of sterner material and will resist the negative machinations of the narcissist at first. This may result in the narcissist dis-engaging if he does not feel able to impact on the Super Empath and seeking fuel elsewhere. The Greater knows who he has ensnared and knows once again he must unlock the fuel source, this time negative, of the Super Empath and once it is done the tidal wave of fuel is to be enjoyed. The Super Empath will remain, wanting to fix the narcissist, exhibiting again the same empathic traits of others on the empathic spectrum, but again being made of sterner stuff, their descent towards numbness and malfunction is far slower than that of the empath. The Super Empath will keep providing the fuel but deteriorates at a slower rate. The risk factor however with a Super Empath is that their own personal integrity is greater than the empath's and very much greater than that of the co-dependent and consequently of all these three classes of empath, the Super Empath is the one more likely to make a bid for escape and thus leave the narcissist with a cessation problem.
The challenge of unlocking both positive and negative fuel proves an attraction for the right type of narcissist because this allows him to assert his superiority and enjoy the challenge. The reward is magnificent. Excellent fuel and such that deteriorates at a much slower rate. The downside is the potential for the Super Empath becoming "aware" of what is happening, becoming unwilling to dedicate further energy to staying with the narcissist to fix and to heal and thus escaping. The Super Empath requires fairly careful management by our kind, but the rewards always mean that this person is a challenge which is often accepted.


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Warnes favourite pitch.Originally Posted by Nnanden
With Watson improving with the ball, selectors shouldn't have a problem playing two spinners. I can see this as the only pitch where Hoggard will be effective.
Hence pick Bracken?
Bracken`s First-Class Statistics at the `Gabba for the last five years. Including Test Matches.
201 overs, 26 wickets @ 20.42, RR @ 2.64, S/R @ 46.38.
Not heaps bad. Do I dare to find out his SCG average, which I believe to be as good?
EDIT: Hell no. But he`s taken 7/4 before, and outbowled Lee, McGrath and Clark in the second-innings of his last match there.
EDITEDIT: In Australia`s last Test at the SCG against South Africa, it was overcast for all five days. Australia picked MacGill, and he was very unpenetrative, taking only cheap second innings wickets as South Africa looked to declare. Bracken for Brisbane and Sydney.
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Bracken won't play test cricket again.
In front of him:
Johnson, Gillespie and Kasper shouldn't be in front of him.
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Johnson has an extremely good record at the `Gabba in comparison to his rubbish record almost everywhere else. Clark does not normally bowl well at the `Gabba, often not taking more than five wickets for the match.
Whether you agree or not, they are in the slectors eyes.Originally Posted by dontcloseyoureyes
I personally think all three should. Johnson's our best seaming prospect comfortably.
Haha I can't believe people are even suggesting Bracken for another test berth, If he plays again I'll support South Africa.
Last edited by benchmark00; 16-10-2006 at 10:56 AM.
What's he proven though? At least Bracken has yards on him. It's plain obvious that Gillespie is past it, and unless can get back the 10kph he suddenly lost, he's history. If Kasper keeps taking bucketloads of FC wickets then maybe, but at the moment he's injured.
Johnson took some wickets on a helpful pitch after it rained. Sure, they were good, but he's been blasted in nearly every other international game he played. Even took some stick against the Bangas, before getting some late wickets. All the while Bracken has a proven FC record in Australia (especially at the GABBA and the SCG) and has more than shown he is the goods in OD cricket. I fail to see why they can't do horses for courses and slot Bracken in at the grounds that will make hima dangerous prospect.
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NBBC Brewfest 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PST)
Event Details
It is time for our 5th annual Brewfest!
ONLY $25 for 12 taster tickets, $1 for each additional taster.
Ticket includes a Brew Co taster pint glass.
This is a festival type event that is held in our brew pub focusing on locally brewed craft beer and beer education.
Seasonal, limited release and special brews represented by local award winning breweries.
Food will also be available for additional cost.
Plenty of free parking in our parking lot.
This event is 21 years and older.
Breweries confirmed:
Packinghouse Brewery
Valiant Brewing
I & I Brewing
Karl Strauss
Old Orange Brewing
Tustin Brewing
Karl Strauss
Bootleggers Brewery
A portion of the proceeds will go to Yellow Ribbon America.
When & Where
2920 Newport Blvd
Newport Beach,
Sunday, February 24, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PST)
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Ziggurat Square
Product Information
|link the towers together in the correct way
|Level 10 - Mind Boggling
|Creative Crafthouse
|Dave Janelle
|5.8 in x 5.8 in x 1.1 in / 14.6 cm x 14.6 cm x 2.7 cm
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An extremely difficult puzzle to solve at the most difficult level., but there are 3 levels so that some success is likely.
A Ziggurat was an ancient Mesopotamian temple with sloping sides and a flattened top, Your goal is to link 9 of these towers together to form a 3x3 square in the courtyard (base) provided. You will need the wisdom of the God's to achieve this!
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PECATONICA — Laura Bybee, of Pecatonica, recently earned an athletic letter for outstanding participation on the women's track and field team at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Bybee is a second-year letter winner in women's track and field, and was named to the Academic All-Iowa Conference Team this year.
For information: CoeAthletics.com.


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Valentine's Day Travel: Plan a Romantic Escape with CityPASS
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New York, N.Y. (January 30, 2013) —
What does your Valentine really want? In this age of overwhelming virtual connectivity, they're probably itching to log off, unplug and simply spend a little eye-gazing, hand-holding, one-on-one time with their sweetheart.
The CityPASS® program offers terrific places to do just that in 11 of North America's top destinations: New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Hollywood, Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and Southern California. CityPASS ticket booklets and admission cards offer prepaid admission to a destination's most popular attractions at a savings of up to 50 percent — not to mention VIP line-skipping access at many locations. And because CityPASS ticket booklets are valid for nine consecutive days (14 days for Southern California), you can easily stretch Valentine's Day into a romantic vacation or a sizzling weekend getaway.
Surprise your sweetheart with a sunny, thrill-filled visit to Southern California using a Southern California CityPASS admissions card ($306* for adults; a value of $411). That's a savings of 26 percent off a three-day Disneyland Resort Park Hopper ticket, which covers three days of unlimited back-and-forth access to Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park; plus one-day admissions to Universal Studios Hollywood and SeaWorld San Diego.
Or, how about a romantic Big Apple escape? New York CityPASS ticket booklets are just $89* (value $166) and include prepaid admission to six top attractions whose tickets, if purchased individually, would total $166. You can romance your sweetie atop the Empire State Building, while visiting the galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, or while sailing around the Statue of Liberty aboard a Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise. There are also tickets to The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the American Museum of Natural History, Statue of Liberty Harbor Cruise (can be taken in lieu of the Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise**), and a choice between Top of the Rock observation deck and Guggenheim Museum.
For more than 15 years, CityPASS ticket booklets and admission cards have been a premier product for travelers who want to visit a destination's top attractions while enjoying significant savings of up to 50 percent. CityPASS ticket booklets, which have a 95 percent customer recommendation rating, are available for New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Hollywood, Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Southern California and Toronto. For more information, visit CityPASS.com.
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* Quoted prices for New York CityPASS ticket booklets valid through Feb. 28, 2013. Prices for Southern California CityPASS admissions cards valid through Dec. 31, 2013.
** Due to damage incurred during Hurricane Sandy, both Liberty Island and Ellis Island are currently closed for repairs. Until these two visitor locations are reopened, guests can experience the sights of New York Harbor aboard a Statue of Liberty Harbor Cruise.


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August 29, 2002
Paid Family Leave Could Become Reality in California
Run Date: 08/29/02
By Rebecca Vesely
WEnews correspondent
Momentum is building for California to become the first state to mandate paid family medical leave. Also, the world summit on development is ignoring the birth control issues because of U.S. opposition to family planning, say women's advocates.
SAN FRANCISCO (WOMENSENEWS)--In a battle that has pitted labor interests against businesses, California legislators are considering a bill that would provide paid leave to workers who need time off to care for a newborn or sick relatives.
The Paid Family Leave Act would provide up to six weeks of paid leave to more than 13 million California workers. The program, administered through the state's disability insurance plan, would pay out 55 percent of workers' wages over the six weeks, with a cap of $490 per week, starting in 2004. Employees could use the time for parental leave or to care for ill family members or domestic partners.
The bill has passed the Assembly and the Senate is expected to give its final approval today. Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, in a bid for reelection, has not taken a position on the bill.
Paid Leave a Crucial Issue for Women
Paid family leave is especially important to women, who are often the primary caretakers for ill parents and children. National studies suggest that inflexibility in work schedules is one of the biggest barriers women face when looking for paid employment. Two-thirds of job trainers preparing women to leave welfare say that conflicts between work and family often prevent job placement, according to a report by the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Today, the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and California Family Rights Act provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but studies show that many workers do not take advantage of the time off because they cannot support themselves without a paycheck. As many as 78 percent of workers nationwide who need family leave cannot afford to take it unpaid, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. In addition, 55 percent of workers do not have vacation or sick days to fall back on in case of a family emergency.
California is ahead of other states in making paid family leave a reality because it is one of only five states that offers temporary disability leave, and thus has an infrastructure in place that could be expanded to administer the program. Twenty-seven other states have considered legislation for paid family leave this year.
"We're at a great advantage over other states," says Pam Haynes, legislative advocate for the California Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which helped draft the bill. "We don't have to build something completely from scratch, which cuts down on the cost of starting the program."
Polls Show Support for Plan, but Businesses Worry About Costs
The plan calls for the state to deduct approximately $27 from the average Californian's paycheck (.08 percent of wages). The bill was recently amended, however, to strike a provision requiring employers to pay into the program over concerns that the extra cost would hurt small businesses.
Other recent amendments also have whittled down the program: reducing paid leave from 12 weeks to six; requiring workers to take two weeks of unused vacation before receiving paid leave and mandating verification that no other family members are available to help out with family needs.
Still, Haynes says polls show that workers want paid family leave so much that they would be willing to pay as much as $5 per week out of their paychecks for the program.
But opponents of the bill say that costs to administer the program are still too high, especially for small businesses, which employ 6 out of 10 workers in California, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
About 1.2 million women own businesses in California and the majority employ fewer than 50 workers. So far, about 13,000 businesses have signed on in opposition to the bill.
Julianne Broyles, director of insurance and employee relations for the California Chamber of Commerce, says that bill is "outrageous" because it does not carve out an exception for companies with a small number of employees. She describes the bill as a "job killer."
Broyles argues that very small businesses, such as an auto transmission shop with five workers, would suffer from lost productivity if even one worker went on paid family leave, possibly closing down the whole shop and putting more workers on the unemployment rolls. California has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.
"All workers would be penalized if even one worker took paid leave," Broyles says.
Broyles argues that less costly ways exist to make paid family leave a reality, such as using tax credits for workers or starting a voluntary "opt-in" program.
Like State Disability, Everyone Pays In
Jennifer Richard, legislative assistant for Democratic state Sen. Shelia Kuehl of Los Angeles, the bill's chief sponsor, counters that an opt-in plan would cost more.
"The reason why the cost for this is so amazingly low is because, like state disability insurance currently, everyone pays in, whether you need family leave or not," Richard says. "It's there for everyone when and if they need it."
A report by the National Federation of Independent Businesses claims that paid family leave could create millions of dollars in hidden costs in the form of lawsuits, unrealized sales, overtime for workers covering for those on leave and liability insurance. Women would be disproportionately hurt because more women own small businesses and work for small companies than men, the report says.
Richard rejects these arguments, saying that under current law, small businesses have no legal responsibility to hold a job open for a worker who goes on unpaid family leave or on disability. Small businesses would have the same protections under the paid family leave plan, she says, with any on-leave employee's salary and benefits paid through the state-administered employee-contribution pool.
Pro-paid leave forces have their own report--this one arguing that family leave would actually save the state money. The Labor Project for Working Families using U.S. Labor Department statistics found that California companies could save $89 million under a paid family-leave program due to increased employee retention and decreased worker turnover. And the state could save $25 million each year because of decreased reliance on assistance programs, such as food stamps, which families often turn to during unpaid leave, according to that report. One in 10 workers who take unpaid family leave rely on public assistance, according to bipartisan Commission on Family and Medical Leave.
"Those who say [the bill] would be a financial burden to California businesses are using baseless and irresponsible scare tactics," says Netsy Firestein, executive director of the Labor Project for Working Families.
Outcome of Bill Likely to Rest with Davis
Though many California businesses are lobbying hard to stop Kuehl's bill from becoming law, the bill is now on the way to reach Davis's desk.
Davis's single biggest supporters in California are labor unions, which account for more than 13 percent of his total campaign contributions, a Los Angeles Times report found. But he is not popular among many business groups, and may be under pressure to appear pro-business during this election year. Davis's Republican foe, millionaire Bill Simon, has support among business associations.
However, Simon's campaign has been severely crippled since his family's business was slapped with a $78 million civil penalty in July for fraudulent dealings.
Concerns about spending for new programs also could kill the bill. The state Assembly still has not passed a budget for fiscal year 2003 because of bitter fights over how to make up a $24.7 million budget shortfall--slashing health care programs and other social services to make ends meet.
"Is this any time to consider a new spending program?" Broyles asks rhetorically.
Supporters of paid family leave say the answer is yes.
"It is a very good time to make paid family leave available to workers," says Haynes of the California Labor Federation. "A disproportionate number of families need support during difficult economic times to take care of sick family members."
Rebecca Vesely is a frequent contributor to Women's Enews.
For more information:
National Partnership for Women and Families
"Campaign for Family Leave Benefits: An Overview":
California Chamber of Commerce:
The California Coalition for Family Leave
Labor Project For Working Families:


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Barron necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 76 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
I need a modern attention getting logo for ValueRents.com. The site will be a home rental site for Renters, Landlords and Brokers.
Desired Color Scheme:
Designers Choice
Desired Style:
I like clean vector designs (but I need a high res raster file as well). It needs to be eye catching and memorable.
Accepted File Formats:
Vector & PSD
ValueRents.com is a website (not currently up) that will give renters rent credit towards the purchase of any house. It will also be a place that landlords will go to get property management services a la carte for their properties.
The idea is simply adding more value for everyone involved with Rental Property.
Please submit only original art. I may close the competition early if I have a clear winner but I won't choose a winner until everyone who has a posted that they will be entering a design has done so.
I don't want to lock people in too much with ideas but I do like logos that are simple but communicate the ideas quickly. Check out move.com and rent.com for what I mean.
Things I've noticed so far.
1. It doesn't have to have a house for the graphic, feel free to play up the idea of the value as an option.
2. I really like strong line work so that the graphic stands well on its own even before adding the color. Definately like the vector stuff.
3. I like when the graphic integrate well with the text visually.
4. Everyone uses little houses which isn't a horrible idea since it is a real estate business but I'd like to see something different that emphasizes the value and is still simple.
I will try to post feedback as soon as possible.
Thanks to all participants.
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Real Men, Real Life, Real Impact
What do NASCAR, the United States military and churches around the world have in common? There are Christian men. And there's Rough Cut Men!
Picture this. Men from all walks of life: every age, color, denomination, status and region. Their over-committed, over-burdened lives come to a screeching halt as they sit captivated by the screen in front of them. They laugh, they cry, they ponder the similarities between these characters and their own.
Every week, men walk in and out of churches, yet almost always miss what God has for them. They hear messages about different topics. They are asked to serve, pray, usher, greet, help with kids, play the drums with the worship team and be better men for Christ. Yet they are never given a compelling reason to go beyond "performance based" Christianity. "Why am I here?", they ask themselves. And they are so steeped in the troubles of the world, that the transforming power of Jesus has been overshadowed by foreclosures, war, internet pornography and failed marriages. In the hearts of most men, the white noise of the world has drowned out His still, small voice.
The sad fact is that most Christian men in America today have hundreds of acquaintances and no real friends. We shake hands with many, yet know very few. There is a saying in business, "Your system is perfectly designed to produce the results that you are getting". Our discipleship system in the church is perfectly designed for the men that we have sitting in the pews…or not sitting in the pews, as the case may be.
Furthermore, our culture has become one of the most prevalent ways that our men are forming their worldview. Pop culture, especially television and movies, has depicted men as watered down wimps who have no solid ground upon which to stand. These fictitious characters have become the new "normal", discarding any semblance of faith, integrity or leadership.
Through the ROUGH CUT MEN experience, men see how the pop culture that has played a role in forming men can be used to develop relationships between them.
Throughout the event, we watch movie clips which reflect where men are, in an effort to get them into David and Jonathan relationships with one another. The Bible says, "Pity the man who falls and has no one to pick him up"…we all need to be back-to-back with someone in order to be victorious in the battle for men's souls. Simply put, we help every David meet his Jonathan, and vice versa.
Relationships are the axis upon which discipleship revolves. Until the walls of self-preservation that the world puts around men fall down, discipleship will yet be another "task" assigned by the church. Until we realize that we are not alone, we will live in our own walled-in world.
With the help of ROUGH CUT MEN, these walls are going to come down.


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Flooded this morning with your emails about today's GOOP and the presence of Kate Bosworth – what?
Click here to see the newsletter in service of Meat Free Monday, a campaign supported by Paul McCartney whose thorough explanation of the Meat Free Monday initiative is the main post this week.
As you know, Gwyneth Paltrow and Stella McCartney are tight. OF COURSE she had to feature the McCartney Family's project. Of course she did. But she had to swallow some sh-t in the process. You will note – Kate Bosworth is in the photo, that starving desperate homewrecking hag who called herself a friend of the GOOPs. And Gwyneth had to include the photo. Does this mean the cheating allegations, Chris Martin kissing Kate Bosworth at a U2 concert in October, does this mean it was all just a tabloid fraud? That nothing happened?
You must consider the dates.
The official launch event for Meat Free Monday when this photo was taken was on June 15, 2009 FOUR MONTHS BEFORE the infidelity report broke. You can see more of the photos here. If this photo had been taken 2 weeks ago, sure, I'd be all doubty about it too. But it's over 6 months old. And it happens to be the group shot promoting Meat Free Monday wants to use. Which means editorially Gwyneth had no choice. It's not like she could crop it. Kate was in, like, every image trying to make herself relevant. And G had to please McCartney. She chose to please McCartney over satisfying her own grudge.
But she was raised for this. She was born to it. She was taught to consider the bigger picture, to consider associations, to nurture connections for future favours and long term benefits before hasty emotional decisions, to always save face, to never let them see you hurting.
It stings, yes, but she made her decision. They are moving ahead. They are buying more houses and mashing them all together. They are perfect on the outside.
Oh and by the way? While Chris Martin announced that he'd be suing, legal action still has not actually been taken against Star Magazine for the cheating story.
Photo from Gareth Cattermole/Staff/Gettyimages.com


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EN 0% • Venezuela
Valentina Villanueva Lanz is a sweet, smart girl. She has it all, except one thing — physical beauty. She lost both her parents in tragic accidents. Upon returning to her ancestral home, she has to contend with her conniving uncle's wife and her rude cousins. With her loving aunt, Tza Tza, Valentina will fight to recover her mother's inheritance. In her quest, Valentina tries not to hurt the love of her life, her cousin Orestes.
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Thursday, July 07, 2011
the making of my cover
My book BALTO is coming out in August and so I'm working on a section for it about how the cover was made. My uncle carved the cover for it and then I painted the dog onto the wood. I have finished a page showing the inside of his shop.
Go here to check out the page.
I'm going to make a simple page that shows kids how a sign is made as soon as my uncle gets around to taking some photos for me. I feel bad that I'm giving him projects! I already invaded his space with my camera.
Posted by Meghan McCarthy at 6:59 PM
1 comment:
- Libby Koponen said...
What a great studio! Where is it?
From what little I have seen of Balto (only what you've posted here), I like the paintings the best of any of your books so far. The way you do the light and capture the feeling of being in a blizzard, and the way you paint the dogs, really brought me into that Northern world. And the light and snow are so beautiful!
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