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You might be limited to a strict budget when you want to start a business, but that doesn't mean you don't have any options. It is possible to start a business with very little money, if you have the right combination of skills, work ethic and marketing know-how.
According to Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup, "To succeed in a business project, especially one you're excited about, it helps to think carefully about all the skills you have that could be helpful to others and particularly about the combination of those skills."
Related: 8 Musts to Start Your Business With Little to No Capital
Follow these simple guidelines to start a business when you have little to no money. Learn how to make money today.
1. Make something.
Yes, making something does take an initial cost in supplies, but oftentimes, these products can be sold for many times over their actual cost. What you decide to make is up to you, but there are several places you can sell your handmade options online:
- Abe's Market deals in natural and organic goods, such as lotions, candles, granola, and more.
- Etsy is one of the largest online markets for almost anything homemade, from jewelry to wooden toys for kids.
- Bonanza is another growing handmade marketplace, similar to Etsy. According to PC World, it boasts over 10 million visits per month.
- eBay is one of the biggest online ecommerce marketplaces in the world, and its streamlined store options, easy checkout through Paypal, and customizable listing options make it a great choice for selling items.
Many business owners sell their products on multiple platforms to get the most exposure possible. It is important, however, to make sure your inventory stays updated on all sites you have a storefront on. If you want to learn about more resources for selling homemade items, check out this Lifehacker post.
2. Resell something.
If you don't want to make anything (or you don't consider yourself a creative person), many business owners have grown large businesses just be reselling products that have already been made. This can be done through a variety of ways or channels:
- Drop shipping: Set up an online store and partner with drop-shipping companies that will do all the order fulfillment for you. Online ecommerce platform Shopify has a great drop shipping guide, and Tim Ferriss does a good job of explaining drop shipping in his well-known book, The Four Hour Work Week.
- Thrift stores and garage sales: If you know where to look, you can find items at thrift stores, antique shops, flea markets and garage sales and resell them online or in your local community for more than you purchased them for. One extremely successful example of this is Sophia Amoruso, the founder of Nasty Gal. Amoruso started buying and reselling vintage and unique fashion pieces on eBay, and her company has grown to a net income of $24 million in 2011 with over 200 employees. Her book,#GIRLBOSS, is in inspiring look into how she got started.
3. Sell your services.
One way to start a business with little to no startup capital is to sell your services, instead of a physical product. There's a huge variety of services you can offer, depending on your background and interests.
Some will require advanced degrees, such as accounting, while others require little more than a working knowledge of how it's done (such as babysitting, lawn mowing or personal assistance).
Because you are selling your services, you will need a branding plan to make sure your name and company gets in front of the people who may need the service. Some places that are free for promoting your services include Fiverr, Craigslist, Elance, Taskrabbit and Skillshare.
It's also useful to have a website to show examples of your work, list your experience, and blog about your industry to draw visitors. If you want to learn more about branding and online marketing, check outBuffer's social-media blog, Hubspot's blog, Content Marketing Institute and CopyPress.
4. Barter to get what you need.
Unfortunately, it's extremely hard to start a business without any type of funds at all. Even creating a freelance-writing business utilizing Elance and a free WordPress or Wix website will still require a computer to work on as well as Internet. However, there are ways to get supplies you need for starting your business without money.
For instance, if you find yourself in need of a used laptop, try to barter for it. Build a new website for a used electronics supplier, or offer babysitting services to your neighbor for their old Macbook.
5. Utilize low-cost services.
As mentioned previously, you can use sites such as Fiverr or Elance to advertise your products and services on, but you can also use these platforms to build up your own company. For instance, many designers offer $5 to $25 logo designs (that come with free revisions). Sort by reviews and look at past examples to find a designer or service provider that matches your style.
This is a great way to get branding materials, printed items (Vistaprintand Zazzle are great places to buy personalized items), or other needed items without much cost. And for additional savings, be sure to look for coupon codes on sites such as RetailMeNot before checking out at any online retailer!
Starting a business requires ingenuity and a passion for what you are doing. Once you find yourself doing something you enjoy, you will be more likely to find ways to make it all come together.
(Source: Ventures Africa)


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Southern California rock band Bad Suns formed in 2012 and in the short time since inception, have managed to be musically beyond their years. Made up of Christo Bowman (vocals), Gavin Bennett (bass), Miles Morris (drums) and Ray Libby (guitar) the four piece ranges from ages 19-22 yet has a sound reminiscent of rock stalwarts from generations past. "I grew up with a lot of world music playing in the house. When I was 10, I started getting heavily interested in the guitar, and my dad began introducing me to his records from the 70's and the 80's. Initially Elvis Costello, then to The Clash, The Cure, and so on," notes Christo. "All of these artists and bands had a big impact on me, at a young age, as far as song composition goes. " Influences are apparent on the band's upcoming EP Transpose, where angst-ridden riffs and ethereal yet charismatic vocals pay tribute to post-punk legends of the early 80's. " I started writing my first songs at that time," Christo continues, "Though we can now reflect on that era of music, those artists were ahead of their time in a lot of ways. That's what's most inspiring."
Transpose was recorded in the studio with producer Eric Palmquist (The Mars Volta, Wavves, Trash Talk) and serves as a prelude to the band's debut full-length slated for 2014. "The writing and recording process is always exciting, because it's constantly changing and unique to each song. Inspiration comes and goes as it pleases, so a night when a song gets written is a very good night," says Christo. Comprised of four tracks, Transpose flows effortlessly from start to finish showcasing the band's stadium ready anthems and undeniably catchy hooks. "Music has the ability to evoke certain feelings in people, a way that not much else can. The pairing of words and sounds can be an extremely powerful tool, when done right. I think the ultimate goal for this band is to make music that causes people to really feel something."
Transpose will be released everywhere in the early months of 2014. The band will be playing 'Nashville Sunday Night' at 3rd and Lindsley on July 6th.

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Expert's Rating
- Flexible
- Lots of add-ons
- No obvious way to install color schemes
Our Verdict
This free and powerful programmer's text editor is built on the same foundation as Mozilla Firefox.
A programmer's editor has to strike a fine balance between being powerful enough for daily use and staying out of the way so you can just look at your code and think. The search for the perfect editor can take years. If you're not perfectly content with the editor you're currently using, you might want to consider Komodo Edit (free). Komodo offers some compelling features at a price that can't be beat.
Komodo Edit is a free, cut-down version of Komodo IDE, a complete development environment for Web and cloud-based projects, comparable to JetBrains PhpStorm. This is one thing that makes it different from other free code editors such as jEdit and Notepad++: Komodo offers a subset of what can be done with Komodo IDE.
Another important difference between Komodo Edit and other editors is that Komodo 7 is built on the same code base as Firefox 4 (Mozilla-2.0). This means it is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, without being Java-based. It also has a "Firefox-style" extension system for finding and installing add-ons.
Like most other modern code editors, Komodo supports customizable color schemes. There is even a website dedicated to Komodo color schemes called Kolormodo. It didn't have my favorite scheme, scientifically proven Solarized, but I was able to track it down with a quick Google search.
Once I had the scheme file on disk, installing it proved trickier. The scheme selection dialog didn't provide any hints, nor did the online help system. I ended up locating an obscure folder containing all other schemes and putting the file there to make Komodo Edit recognize it. I later discovered I could have simply dragged the file and dropped it over the Komodo icon. Too bad this wasn't mentioned in the application or documentation, though it is in the marketing materials.
On a day-to-day basis, working with Komodo Edit is a pleasant experience. Its built-in FTP client lets you access remotely hosted files without having to create a project or download an entire directory tree. If Firefox is your browser of choice, you would feel right at home with Komodo. For example, the Find feature works just like the one found in recent Firefox versions, with live search and a bar along the bottom of the window.
Komodo's auto-completion feature is excellent, similar to the one found in Microsoft Visual Studio: You get a scrollable menu with completion options, rather than having to blindly tab between options. I compared it with jEdit, editing a simple snippet of CSS, and it fared significantly better; jEdit's auto-completion stopped working after a few attempts. Komodo Edit also features other amenities, such as code folding and simple text zooming using the mouse wheel.
If you already know you need a full-fledged IDE, choosing between Komodo IDE and competitor JetBrains PhpStorm is a tough call. But if you're not sure whether you need an IDE or just a powerful editor, you can start out with free Komodo Edit and maybe graduate up to IDE if you find you need advanced features such as debugging or source code control integration.
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10 Things To Do While Booking Any Hotel and Grab The Best Deal
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Gartner Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2012: Sales Turns to the Cloud for Quick Relief
Sales VPs for years have been test-driving SaaS-based CRM systems, piloting them with sales teams to see if using them leads to higher sales and greater customer retention. Marketing VPs and Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) also continue to pilot SaaS-based web analytics and marketing automation applications.
What's been missing from these pilots is the ability to bring CRM, marketing automation, sales management and web analytics systems into existing enterprise IT architectures just as fast. This is changing quickly. CRM vendors have been quick to respond to the challenge, offering Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs), integration adapters, connectors and from larger vendors, integrated bus architectures.
What the Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2012 Means
CRM's real value is in unifying an entire enterprise based on its ability to sell, serve and retain customers better than before. Gartner shows this is a high priority for its CRM clients by underscoring which technology and application areas of the hype cycle are responding to his market dynamic, and which aren't.
This Hype Cycle also reflects the urgency I hear from Sales VPs who want to get in control of the complex compensation, quota, territory management, job appraisal and sales coaching responsibilities they have. While each of these areas is essential, many companies, even those in enterprise software, have ignored these areas, allowing them to stay manually based. Gartner calls this area Sales Performance Management (SPM) and shows it has the highest benefit of all SaaS-based sales management applications in the next two years. Gartner's analysis captures the time shortage that Sales VPs I know are facing; they have to get to high quota levels while also managing a diverse set of leadership responsibilities as well. The Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2012 (G00234919) is shown below:
- Gartner estimates 35% of all CRM implementations today use SaaS, growing to over 50% by 2020 according to their projections. In 2011, more than $5 billion was invested in sales applications.
- Cloud adoption varies significantly across CRM software categories with Web analytics achieving 95% adoption, Sales Force Automation achieving just over 50%, and Configure Price Quote (CPQ) achieving 40%. Cloud-based Sales Performance Management has the highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of any CRM category according to inquiry and client calls.
- Sales, Customer Service, Social CRM and Marketing are the four fastest-growing areas of enterprise Sales applications on SaaS. Campaign Management is increasingly quickly, up from 19% using SaaS in 2010 to 29% in 2011.
- Gartner sees significant growth in Configure Price Quote (CPQ), projecting a market of $300M in 2012, up from $240M in 2011. Gartner is due out with a MarketScope on CPQ shortly, where the 15 major vendors it tracks in this area will be ranked. 40% of existing implementations are on SaaS, and that proportion is increasing relative to licensed versions. Of the 15 vendors in this market, 12 have announced SaaS-based versions of their applications.
- There are 3.8M Sales Force Automation SaaS users globally today.
- By 2017, 25% of companies adopting CRM will have extended their customer service contact centers to include social media including Facebook, Twitter and other emerging online communities. As of 2012, Gartner is seeing only 1% of companies integrate social media into their companies' departments and workflows to ensure a consistent customer experience.
- Price Optimization will experience transformational growth in two to five years. Gartner sees this area as one of the most promising across all CRM Sales as can be seen in the Priority Matrix for CRM Sales 2012 below from the Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2012. The research firm has defined this market as including price analysis, price optimization and price execution. Gartner estimates this market was $180M to $190M in 2010. Vendor competing in this market include Accenture, Deloitte, Pros, Vendavo, Vistaar Technologies and Zilliant.
- Social CRM (SCRM) for Sales is at the Peak of Inflated Expectations, with 90% of spending for these applications being generated from B2C companies. Gartner expects B2B companies to lead the growth of these applications through 2015, increasing spending from 5% of total SCRM sales in 2011 to 30% by 2015.
- SaaS-based CRM sales within enterprises are expected to reach $4.48B in 2012, growing to $6.3B in 2015. The following table from the report Forecast: Software as a Service, Worldwide 2010-2015, 2H11 Update provides a frame of reference for SaaS-based CRM growth overall.
- Salesforce leads all CRM vendors in market share growth, advancing 2.8% from 2010 to 2011 according to Gartner's' global market share analysis shown below. Salesforce attained 26.9% revenue growth from 2010 to 2011 ($1.3B to $1.6B) and 36.7% growth from 2011 to 2012 ($1.6B to $2.27B). The future momentum of Salesforce is in unifying the enterprise, redefining corporate IT in the context of the customer. Their recent acquisitions show analytics, marketing automation and development platforms are key priorities. The following table is from the report Market Share Snapshot: CRM Software, 2011 (G00233998).
Bottom line: Making CRM strategies successful has to start with a common vision and urgency for results. Both are happening quicker in CRM than ever before, driven by a much clearer understanding of what enterprises need and an impatience for results.
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Ali Lohan 'Makes It Delicious' In Televised Tryout For Vaunted Porn ProducerMolly Friedman · 07/29/08 07:55PM
It's always a hoot when you show up to an audition thinking you're just trying out for another straight-to-DVD horror remake, only to find out afterwards that you just emoted all your talents in front of a titan of the porn industry. In yet another display of complete parental ignorance, Dina Lohan's decision to send Lindsay-wannabe Ali on a journey to score a part in Troll in this weekend's season finale of Living Lohan was kind of equivalent to sending your 14-year old daughter on a read-through of Bun Busters 13 or Breast Wishes 15. Yes, Ali's eager efforts to make it big in showbiz has officially included a smiley "nerve-wracking" experience reciting classic lines like "Ratburgers!" in front of the multi-colored hair piece-topped Peter Davy, responsible for discovering gangbang queen Houston, among many other hardcore accomplishments. The clip, including Ali's stomach-tightening attempt to impress the porn industry professionals, after the jump.We, just like most of you, watched the Sunday finale of Dina's pet project somewhat naïvely, unsuspecting of any cameos by canonized porn producers or guest spots made by directors intending on using Ali's potential role into a "private instruction" on how to turn an otherwise innocuous '80s film remake into a "delicious" and sexy flick made magical by "people in China." While the Troll director's instructions guide Ali through much of the embarrassing audition, we have a sneaking suspicion that Davy's presence is to blame for the wee Lohan's need to imitate the "acrobatic" lead's performance as Eunice, the "guardian against dark magic," by imagining the casting room's crew of greasy-haired Skinematic and Blowtime veterans are "really big movie people." Typically, we await tomorrow, when Dina releases a statement denying Ali was ever in such a room whatsoever, and that any footage documenting the fact that she was were created by vicious haters is pure "bull doodie."


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Chrysler has just released preliminary information on the exciting new Dodge Dart, the first all new car to be born from the Fiat / Chrysler collaboration. The Dodge Dart features the cutting edge C-Evo chassis developed by Fiat and first used in the Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
Chrysler adapted this dynamic platform and cloaked it in all new sheet metal designed and built in America for Americans. With a chassis developed by a company world renown for producing some of the finest driving vehicles ever made, the Dodge Dart promises to offer a driving experience missing from this segment.
Read more about the C-Evo Chassis here. Below is the Chrysler press release on the new Dodge Dart:
Dodge Hits the Mark With the All-new 2013 Dodge Dart Compact Car
- Dodge Dart Blends Alfa Romeo DNA and Dodge's Passion for Performance, Resulting in a Groundbreaking Car with the Ultimate Blend of Power, Fuel Economy, Handling and Style
- The Dodge brand is back in the U.S. compact sedan segment – in a big way – as the all-new 2013 Dodge Dart will make its world debut at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Mich., on Jan. 9, 2012
- Built on a world-class architecture, Dodge Dart offers three technologically advanced, fuel-efficient and powerful engines, including the 1.4L MultiAir® Turbo
- Dodge delivers exceptional craftsmanship with class-leading technology and style
With Alfa Romeo DNA and Dodge's passion for performance at its core, the all-new 2013 Dodge Dart is a thoroughly modern vehicle that's fuel-efficient, beautifully designed and crafted, agile and brings fun back to driving in the segment.
Similar to the Dodge Dart of the late 1960s, the 2013 Dart offers a special blend of style, performance and innovation. The Dodge brand leveraged its nearly 100-year history of passion for building high-quality, innovative vehicles that stand apart in performance and style, as well as from its partner Fiat's global compact car expertise, to develop the all-new Dodge Dart.
The all-new Dart is the first Chrysler Group vehicle based upon a Fiat architecture – adapted from the award-winning Alfa Romeo Giulietta. The Giulietta is renowned for satisfying the most demanding customers in terms of road-holding, agility and safety, with exceptional driving dynamics. The Dart leverages all of these attributes within a lengthened and widened platform delivering segment-leading levels of interior roominess.
The all-new Compact U.S. Wide (CUSW) architecture underpinning the Dart is a state-of-the-art architecture with an industry-leading 68 percent of the body composed of high-strength steel, resulting in a very strong and rigid structure. Combined with responsive steering, four-wheel independent suspension, and available 18-inch wheels, the Dart brings fun back to driving in the compact car segment.
The all-new 2013 Dart marks the Dodge brand's re-entry into the compact sedan segment, hitting the bulls-eye with a modern, unmistakable Dodge design that builds upon its performance heritage while evoking emotion, efficiency and fluidity of movement.
Eye-catching exterior proportions are set off from every angle by dynamic lines and curves, along with advanced technology, to deliver class-leading aerodynamic performance. The personality-packed front view is instantly recognizable as an all-new Dodge with its tailored split-crosshair grille, projector headlamps and fog lamps and accentuated fenders.
Signature Dodge full-width LED 'racetrack' tail lamps and class-exclusive integrated dual exhaust – both inspired by Dodge Charger – accentuate the athletic and muscular stance of this dynamic and passionate new design.
The 2013 Dodge Dart will be powered by three fuel-efficient, powerful, state-of-the-art four-cylinder engines that add to Dart's fun-to-drive quotient.
Drivers can select from a new Tigershark 16-valve 2.0-liter engine, a 16-valve 1.4-liter MultiAir Intercooled Turbo engine, and a new Tigershark 16-valve 2.4-liter MultiAir four cylinder engine. These three engines, combined with three transmission choices, combine to redefine performance by providing the most diverse powertrain lineup in its class.
MultiAir technology delivers optimum combustion at any speed under all driving conditions by allowing direct and dynamic control of air intake and combustion. The result is up to a 15 percent increase in low engine rpm torque, a 7.5 percent improvement in fuel efficiency and a 10 percent reduction in C02 emissions.
The all-new Dodge Dart will be made in America at Chrysler Group's Belvidere Assembly Plant in Belvidere, Ill. The Company is in the process of investing $600 million dollars to support the production of future products, including the 2013 Dodge Dart. The investment includes the construction of a 638,000-square-foot body shop, as well as the installation of new machinery, tooling and material handling equipment. Work on the expansion began in the summer of 2010 and will be completed this year.
The all-new Dodge Dart has been engineered with great levels of refinement, craftsmanship and engaging driving dynamics. Consumers can follow www.Dodge.com/Dart for additional photos and more information about the all-new 2013 Dodge Dart.
About Dodge Brand
For nearly 100 years, Dodge has defined passionate and innovative vehicles that stand apart in performance and in style. Building upon its rich heritage of muscle cars, racing technology and ingenious engineering, Dodge offers a full-line of cars, crossovers, minivans and SUVs built for top performance – from power off the line and handling in the corners, to high-quality vehicles that deliver unmatched versatility and excellent fuel efficiency.
Only Dodge offers such innovative functionality combined with class-leading performance, exceptional value and distinctive design. With the all-new 2013 Dodge Dart, the all-new Dodge Charger paired with the ZF eight-speed transmission that achieves a class-leading 31 miles per gallon on the highway, the new Durango and the significantly revamped Grand Caravan – inventor of the minivan – Journey, Avenger and iconic Challenger, Dodge now has one of the youngest dealer showrooms in the United States.
Make sure you visit the official Dodge Dart website here and sign up for updates!
Courtesy Chrysler Media


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|Phrack Inc. Index
|Taran King
|Phrack Pro-Phile V on Tuc
|Taran King
|City-Wide Centrex
|The Executioner
|The Integrated Services Digital Network
|Dr. Doom
|The Art of Junction Box Modeming
|Mad Hacker 616
|Compuserve Info
|Lotus & Morgoth
|Fun with Automatic Tellers
|The Mentor
|Phrack World News VII Part I
|Knight Lightning
|Phrack World News VII Part II
|Knight Lightning
==Phrack Inc.== Volume One, Issue Eight, Phile #2 of 9 ==Phrack Pro-Phile V== Written and Created by Taran King June 25, 1986 Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile V. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to bring information to you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial people. This month, I bring to you one of the most influential users of our times and of days of old... TUC ~~~ Tuc is the sysop of RACS III (TUCBBS), a telecom enthusiasts' bulletin board in Stony Point, N.Y. (914). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal ~~~~~~~~ Handle: Tuc Call him: Scott Jeffrey Ellentuch Past handles: None Handle origin: Nickname in high school derived from teachers calling him EllenTOUCH, EllenTOOK, and his corrections were phrased "TUCK!" Date of Birth: 10/10/65 Age at current date: 20-1/2 years old Height: 6'3-1/2" Weight: About 195 lbs. Eye color: Brown Hair Color: Black Computers: TRS Model I, then, 2 Atari 800's, then, countless Apple II+'s, then, finally, 1 IBM PC. Sysop/Co-Sysop of: RACS III (TUCBBS), Phreak Advisor: Sherwood Forest II ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuc started out in the BBS world in July 1980 when he first got his modem, a Novation Acoustic. In August of 1981, Connection-80 of Stony Point, his first bulletin board, was launched into the BBS world. It started on a TRS-80 Model I, Epson MX-80 printer, 2 single density disk drives, a Novation Acoustic modem, and a home built auto-answer module. At the time, he didn't even know what phreaking was, so it was a general public board. A software switch to RACS III occurred on January 10, 1982, running until January 10, 1985. The hard drive arrived a few months ago to build it to the board that it currently is. Members of the elite world which he has met include King Blotto, Lex Luthor, Dr. Who, Crimson Death, The Videosmith, Jester Sluggo, The Sprinter, Mark Tabas, BIOC Agent 003, Agrajag, Telenet Bob, Big Brother, Cheshire Catalyst, Egyptian Lover, Magnetic Surfer, Paul Muad'Dib, Lord Digital, Sir Knight, 2600 Editor (Emanuelle Goldstein [sp.]), Susan Thunder, Modem Rider, Sharp Razor, Hertz Tone, The Flying Avocado, and The Ace. His phreak experience began in March of 1982 through the new board's software having a section called "Phreak-80". People started calling and paying attention to it, including one caller by the name of Susan Thunder, which is how he personally began to phreak. She lead him around the scene which included the infamous 8 BBS and to other people such as Larry Kelly. Some of the memorable phreak boards he was on included 8 BBS, MOM, OSUNY, The Private 414 Board (as in THE 414's), Blottoland, The Connection, L.O.D., Plovernet, Pirate 80, Sherwood Forest I, II, and III, WOPR, IROC, Pirate Trek, Pirate's I/O, Datanet, Stalag 13, A.I. Labs, and Hell Phrozen Over. He gives credit for his phreak knowledge to Susan Thunder and the people that she put him in touch with. Tuc's work is as a computer and communications security freelance consultant. He's done lots of programming in basic for the TRS-80, and assembly language for the IBM 370. Tuc does hack and phreak, but with his employer's consent. Tuc attends the TAP meetings in New York occasionally, but in the past he was a regular. He's attended all Phreak-Con's, he was an assistant editor of the original TAP, and was a pioneer in the phreak world before blue boxing and Alliance Teleconferencing was common knowledge. Besides that, he was the one on West 57th Street labeled "Scott Jeffrey Ellentuch". He was hard to find on that particular program. Tuc has been involved with various groups in his lifetime including (in the order that he joined them) The Warelords, The Knights of Shadow, Apple Mafia, and, at the same time as Apple Mafia, Fargo 4A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking), martial arts (weaponry), radio controlled cars and airplanes, and video games. Tuc's Favorite Things --------------------- Women: A quiet evening with the girlfriend. Cars: MG-TD Kit Car. Foods: Anything vegetarian. Music: The Hooters, and any band he worked for. Leisure: Having just a "good old time". Most Memorable Experiences -------------------------- Car ride with 8 phreaks in Tuc's VW Super Beetle at a Phreak Con. The Fargo 4A stunt (getting all Fargo, N.D. DA's to go home). Some People to Mention ---------------------- Susan Thunder (for getting him started) All those that helped him while he was coming up in the world (too many to mention) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuc is 150% against credit carding. He thinks that is out and out criminal activity, something that is totally against the code of ethics of phreaking and hacking. He also doesn't appreciate the fighting between phreaks that occurs so often in the phreak world today. He thinks the modern community is crumbling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope you enjoyed this phile, look forward to more Phrack Pro-Philes coming in the near future. And now for the regularly taken poll from all interviewees. Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? No names mentioned, but yes, a few of the ones he has met are computer geeks. 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This module is an introduction to psychology both as a science and a profession, with specific emphasis on psychological issues that are relevant in the South African context. Psychology is positioned at the convergence of a number of traditions of research and practice, including biological, philosophical and pragmatic traditions. This introductory module provides students with a base from which further study in the discipline can be approached.
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In this module the basic principles in psychology are applied in order to understand the person in context, with particular reference to core social issues and challenges facing South African society.
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This module addresses psychological theories and views of the person with reference to important contemporary approaches. Some of these theories may include systematic, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and existential components, with consideration of the applicability of psychological theories to African contexts.Human Development (223) - (2nd term)Co-ordinator:
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This module focuses on the statistical procedures that are commonly used in psychological research. The module will equip students with knowledge and skills to analyse quantitative data and to interpret statistical results.
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In this module abnormal behaviour is studied, from different perspectives and classification systems with specific reference to the mental health context in South Africa.
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In this module, theoretical and methodological developments in contemporary social psychology are presented. Social relationships and identity are investigated with reference to social categories like sex, race, etnicity and sexual orientation, with emphasis on the South African context.
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Psychologists operate in a range of contexts, from individual psychotherapies to community interventions. This module critically discusses the principles behind the contributions psychologists make to human health, development and individual and collective well-being, with specific reference to health and mental health context in contemporary South Africa.
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The Web sites selling sweet-smelling honeybush tea proudly proclaim its supposed health benefits, which range from lowering cholesterol and improving respiration to controlling the symptoms of menopause. Although none of these claims have been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, there is some minor research backing up a few of these benefits. That could be why U.S. imports of honeybush tea from South Africa have soared in recent years. According to a presentation at the Fynbos Forum last year, 180 metric tons of honeybush tea is produced every year, up from just 27 metric tons in 1997.
Three quarters of that production comes from wild plants, which are being harvested unsustainably. A recent report from the South African Broadcasting Corp. (SABC) issued a warning that this unsustainable harvest puts honeybush at risk of extinction—at least for the one species (Cyclopia intermedia) used to make tea as well as the five other species harvested for other commercial purposes. (There are 23 species altogether, most of which have extremely limited ranges.) The plants grow only in a small, mountainous region of the Western Cape province of South Africa known as the fynbos.
But Richard Cowling, distinguished professor in the Department of Botany at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, doesn't think wild harvesting will lead to extinction. He points out that most of the tea industry is moving toward controlled agriculture rather than wild extraction, a major change in decades of business practice. Indeed, one company told SABC it now gets 90 percent of its tea from plantations such as the Heights Tea Estate, which currently has 1,000 hectares of sustainably cultivated tea plants. This isn't moving fast enough, however. SABC reports that international demand for honeybush tea still exceeds supply.
The industry, which expanded so quickly, still has some growing to do in order to ensure its continued survival. Suggestions for continued improvement made at last year's Fynbos Forum included certifying growers, establishing veld-harvesting guidelines and fair labor practices to protect wild plants. Cowling, who presented at the conference, also recommended that South African companies invest in processing their own tea. Currently 90 percent of honeybush is shipped out of the country in bulk form, limiting the annual value of the crop to just over $250,000. Processing the plants in-country could increase profits, which in turn could increase opportunities to cultivate honeybush and reduce reliance on wild plants.
Meanwhile, even if the establishment of plantations and cultivated plants eases pressure on the fynbos, wild honeybush plants aren't out of the woods. Cowling reports that a bigger threat to wild honeybush is actually invasive species. "The principal culprits," he tells me via email, "are Australia wattles (Acacia spp.) and pines (mainly Pinus radiata from California)." These tall invaders create too much shade for the smaller (90-centimeter), sun-dependent indigenous shrubs in the fynbos region. That would affect not just the valuable tea plants, but potentially all of the other species in the region.
Photos: Bulk honeybush tea by Akuppa John Wigham. Honeybush tea infusion by inazakira. Both via Flickr and used under Creative Commons license


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The Dark Knight
From Conservapedia
|Batman Begins
|Directed by
|Christopher Nolan
|Produced by
| Kevin De La Noy
Benjamin Melniker
Christopher Nolan
Lorne Orleans
Charles Roven
Emma Thomas
Thomas Tull
Michael E. Uslan
|Written by
| Bob Kane (original)
David S. Goyer
Christopher Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
| Christian Bale
Heath Ledger
Aaron Ekhart
Michael Caine
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Gary Oldman
Morgan Freeman
|Music by
| Hans Zimmer
James Newton Howard
|Wally Pfister
|Editing by
|Lee Smith
|Distributed by
|Warner Bros.
|Release date(s)
|July 18, 2008
|Running time
|152 min
|United States
|Preceded by
|Batman Begins
|Followed by
|The Dark Knight Rises
|IMDb profile
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film, directed by Christopher Nolan as a sequel to his earlier film, Batman Begins. Heath Ledger in his last completed performance portrayed the Joker as a dark, insane criminal with anarchistic and nihilistic tendencies. Ledger died during post-production and won a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film also won another Oscar for Best Achievement in Sound Editing and was nominated for another six Academy Awards. The film was rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace. It is also considered to be one of the best conservative movies due to its message of not yielding to terrorists.
- Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne
- Heath Ledger as the Joker
- Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face/Harvey Dent
- Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
- Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
- Maggie Gylenhaal as Rachel Dawes
- Gary Oldman as Commissioner James Gordon
- Eric Roberts as Sal Maroni
- Cillian Murphy as the Scarecrow/Dr. Jonathan Crane


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John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001), was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter (The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967). Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas. He was the father of Jeffrey Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips, Chynna Phillips, Tamerlane Phillips, and Bijou Phillips.
Phillips was born in Parris Island, South Carolina. His father was a retired United States Marine Corps officer who won an Oklahoma bar from another Marine in a poker game on the way home from France after World War I. His mother, a Cherokee Native, met his father in Oklahoma. According to his autobiography, Papa John, Phillips' father was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health.
Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was inspired by Marlon Brando to be "street tough". He formed a group of teenage boys, who also sang doo-wop songs. He played basketball at George Washington High School, where he graduated in 1953, and gained an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. However, he resigned during his first (plebe) year. Phillips then attended Hampden-Sydney College on a partial athletic scholarship, but dropped out and married his first of four wives: Susan Adams, the daughter of a wealthy Virginia family. They had a son, Jeffrey, and a daughter, Laura Mackenzie (known as "Mackenzie") Phillips.


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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Advice From The Rabid Shrew and Oban The Knuckle Dragger OR What I Learned From The Opposite Sex By Julie Dolcemaschio
13 comments:
- Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Muses said...
Julie - Hi and Welcome!!
I always look forward to having you here, and you've given us another wonderful thought-provoking piece - Thank you!!
- February 11, 2012 at 7:54 PM
- Julie D said...
Thanks so much, Kaye! I love your blog and I'm so grateful to be a part of it.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:00 PM
- Molly Swoboda said...
Kaye, Julie -- a rich piece and so much to chew on. Wonderful what we learn from each other as well. ~m
- February 12, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- Carolyn J. Rose said...
LOL - do not bring that home - loved that bit.
- February 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM
This is a wonderful commentary - I wish it could be published in some magazine read by zillions of men and women!!! Thelma Straw, in Manhattan - MWA-NY
- February 12, 2012 at 4:42 PM
- Patty said...
This is wonderful and needs to hit the Internet/Facebook big time -- you said it better and more honestly than anyone I've ever read. Respect and honor win, every time!
- February 12, 2012 at 5:20 PM
- jenny milchman said...
I'm lucky enough to be married to the most enlightened man I've yet to come across--he cooks, will admit to the need to do his share of housework ;) and changed almost as many diapers as I did--and yet you nailed it: He needs to be honored as a man, for his contribution, and his ability to fix things.
I don't think I ever understood the times I have hurt him from this angle--it helps me, and I bet it will help him.
Thank you, Julie & Kaye.
- February 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM
- Unknown said...
Julie, You are such a wonderful writer. I laughed so hard at your wise humor. And the appreciation for our men... yes! And as the mother of a son, I bow to you. Oh right, as a (former) wife, I bow to you. Oh well, I just bow to YOU. Will you please keep your writing contributions coming our way? I look forward to your next article.
- February 12, 2012 at 10:19 PM
Just a terrific piece! As a wife who has long practiced what Julie preaches, I agree with "Anonomyous." Zillions of men & women should read this. It would make for a happier world.
- February 13, 2012 at 1:12 AM
- Mitzi said...
Wow, Julie, I forget sometimes that I, too, have made the choice to stay home with my boys, whom you know well, and even my man reminds me from time to time how much he enjoys knowing that he can take care of me, as a man. Thanks for your wonderful wisdom!
- February 13, 2012 at 1:42 AM
May I just say...if it wouldn't be a bit in the way, I might just tattoo this on my forehead! I WILL print it out and read it again when I need reminding, and may just slip it under my son's door one afternoon as he sits in the dark listening to Pink Floyd... Julie, you are a wise and wonderful writer.
- February 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM
What a mind expanding piece.
I've been married 47 years to a great guy but don't express my appreciation often enough or with the right words. So, thank you for this terrific insight.
I hope many people will get a chance to read this.
Roz Levine
- February 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM
- matthew said...
There so much eternal truth written in your piece. As a man, I'm always concerned, and for the past at least twenties years, when women write of men. I worried not with you and was rewarded with that trust. Thank you.
- February 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM


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Attention, luxuriant Graces and beautiful-haired Muses! Scholars have confirmed that they've found two heretofore undiscovered poems by the 7th-century-BC master Sappho. In case you haven't studied your Classics (and/or you never had that one asshole cousin who snorted "LOL UR FROM LESBOS" at every opportunity), Sappho is perhaps best known today as a lesbian icon—she was a resident of the aforementioned Greek island, and lush descriptions of female beauty and unrequited love feature prominently in her work.
But Sappho wrote passionately about men as well—plus she lived a really really long time ago and most of her work has been lost—so characterizations of her as the OG lesbian slam-poet may be a bit reductionist. Regardless, Sappho was rad.
Via the Telegraph:
Sappho was born on the Greek island of Lesbos in the late seventh century BC, after all, and not much her work has survived. Like Bowie, though, she has gained a reputation for playing with voices and manipulating our views of gender – which is one reason why so little of her work survives. Her best-known lines are filled with longing for another woman. Monks didn't preserve her poetry, and manuscripts of her work that were held in the Vatican burnt in purifying flames.
These gaps are all the more tormenting because what poetry we have from Sappho is so gorgeous. The best-known is addressed to a girl whom the poet sees forlornly through the eyes of the girl's boyfriend. Its description of the lurch and palpitations lovers feel is so physically acute that some commentators read it as a medical diagnosis.
...This latest poem emerges from elsewhere – an anonymous collector – and it is the scoop of Dr Dirk Obbink, a Classics fellow at Oxford, who when he saw it declared that it was by Sappho. It's highly unlikely that he's wrong. They are written in her distinctive meter, with the long vowels of the Lesbian dialect. Best of all, one poem mentions the Sappho's brother, Charaxos.
UUUUUGH, I MISS TAKING CLASSICS AND TALKING ABOUT GREEK SHIT SO MUCH. This makes me want to dig out all my old notebooks and pretend like I remember stuff.
Here's a translation of one of the poems, for your close-reading nerd-pleasure:
Tom Payne's verse translation of the Sappho fragment
Still, you keep on twittering that Charaxos
comes, his boat full. That kind of thing I reckon
Zeus and his fellow gods know; and you mustn't
make the assumption;
rather, command me, let me be an envoy
praying intensely to the throne of Hera
who could lead him, he and his boat arriving
here, my Charaxos,
finding me safely; let us then divert all
other concerns on to the lesser spirits;
after all, after hurricanes the clear skies
rapidly follow;
and the ones whose fate the Olympian ruler
wants to transform from troubles into better –
they are much blessed, they go about rejoicing
in their good fortune.
As for me, if Larichos reaches manhood,
[if he could manage to be rich and leisured,]
he would give me, so heavy-hearted, such a
swift liberation.
Image via Getty.


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One Million Moms Group Wants GEICO Ad Yanked — And You Won't Believe Why
GEICO has a seemingly infinite number of ad campaigns going these days, but who would've guessed that one featuring a talking pig would cause such controversy?
The group One Million Moms is furious that an ad for the insurance company starring the swine, named Maxwell, is offensive because it endorses bestiality. The group is now asking its members to encourage GEICO to pull the spot.
The commercial in question features Maxwell in a broken-down car with a woman who is upset the animal has used his GEICO app to call for a tow truck because it means they won't have time to themselves.
One Million Moms Director Monica Cole said, "It was just a pretty sleazy type of commercial because the girl [in the commercial] was really disappointed when she realized they wouldn't be able to pass the time alone together."
She further explained how the ad is harmful to children:
Kids are drawn to animals. That's normal. Animals are cute. That's why movies have animals that play the lead roles and the main parts. And it may be over their heads in terms of understanding the meaning behind it, but there's a big concern when kids are being desensitized to this kind of thing."
Cole also says GEICO previously dealt with this topic in a commercial where a bridesmaid flirted with the iconic gecko.
GEICO did not have a comment on the matter.


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Black Clay, La Chamba Dutch Oven
About the piece
Care and Use
How they are Made
Because of its deeper, flat sided shape, the Black Clay, La Chamba Dutch Oven is one of the most essential pieces of cookware in any kitchen. It is perfect for long cooking braise and stew recipes. The flat bottom shape is well suited for gas or electric ranges, and can be placed inside of an oven to generate a slow even heat ensuring the complete tenderizing of meats and vegetables. Since clay is a natural and porous material, it does not react with the food and causes a slow evaporation of steam from the pores. The moist enclosed interior results in food that is healthier and tastier as it requires less fat and liquids. The beautiful black finish makes for a great presentation for family style service.
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|Dimensions (inches):
|4.3 qt
|How we measure
About Black Clay, La Chamba, Cookware
Black Clay, La Chamba Cookware, is well-known and used throughout Colombia in restaurants and homes for preparing and serving traditional dishes such as Ajiaco. Its origins can be traced back at least 700 years to vases and pitchers found in pre-Columbian archaeological sites. It is still made in the traditional manner, by families in a small village on the banks of the Magdalena River in Central Colombia. The pieces heat very evenly and retain heat for a long period and can be used in the oven, the microwave or on a gas or electric stovetop. They can go directly to the table for a sophisticated presentation.
Because the pieces are unglazed, they are completely natural and safe and contain no toxins or lead. The porous nature of the unglazed clay allows the slow evaporation of steam resulting in using less liquids and fats while cooking which that produces food that is healthier and tastier!
Black Clay Cookware is not only beautiful, but it is also quite sturdy and will last many years with proper use and care. The pieces can be used in the oven, in the microwave or a stovetop, and can go directly to the table for a sophisticated presentation. The pieces can be used directly on a gas or electric range, however, it is recommended to use a heat diffuser on electric ranges (sold separately). The heat diffuser (which can be used with gas stove as well) has the added benefit of distributing the heat slowly to prevent foods from burning. Clay cookware can also be used on induction cooktops with the use of an iInduction cookware interface disk (sold separately).
The pieces must not be submitted to drastic changes in temperature. The pieces should be allowed to adjust slowly to heat, letting them slowly heat up until they are hot, either on the stove or in the oven. Likewise, you should also allow the pieces to adjust to room temperature before washing or storing them, and never sit a hot pot on a cold surface such as granite or tile.
The pieces retain heat for a long period of time, so be careful in handling a hot pot. The video to the right shows a pot which has been brought to the table, yet keeps bubbling for quite some time without any heat source.
For cleaning, avoid using the dishwasher, hand washing is recommended. After each use, fill with warm, soapy water, allowing to soak briefly if heavily soiled, then scrubbing lightly with a sponge or soft cloth.
Do not use metal or abrasive pads as they may scratch the surface and avoid strongly scented soaps which can flavor the clay. Use wooden utensils with the pieces as metal utensils can scratch and damage the inside.
As with most handmade products by artisans around the world, the pieces may have slight imperfections in the form or finish of the materials. Sometimes sizes of same model pieces may also vary slightly, however, these imperfection do not compromise the aesthetics or functionality of the pieces and are considered normal and to be expected. Likewise, although lids are made individually to match each pot, they do not always fit perfectly as the two parts may shrink differently during the firing process.
You may observe with certain use that your pieces may change in color, especially on the bottom where there is direct contact with heat. This is normal and does not affect the pieces in any way.
Before a Black Clay, La Chamba Piece is used for cooking the first time; it should be "cured" to seal the pores. Most pieces, since made with the best quality clay, will likely not need curing and can be used after light wash and slowly boiling some water, however, it is still a good idea to seal and cure the piece. The sealing process really only needs to be done on cooking pots and not on plates, bowls, and other serveware.
Every culture has different methods of sealing and curing their clay cookware. The video to the right shows the most traditional method used in Colombia which is to warm the clay piece slightly, then thoroughly rub the inside with a ripe plantain (a regular banana will do), leaving a thick coating on the clay. After drying for a bit, the piece can then be lightly washed to remove the residue.
The sealing can also be done with almost any oil, or even as easily as filling the piece with a mixture of milk and water and boiling it for a few minutes. During the boiling, some seepage may occur which is quite normal, however, the boiling action will eventually seal the pores.
You can also cure the piece by sautéing some onions or garlic in the oil of your choice, making sure to wipe the oil up the sides of the piece with a paper towel using tongs.
In a small village on the banks of the Magdalena River in central Colombia, live entire families of talented artisans that make Black Clay, La Chamba Pottery. Like their ancestors have done for 700 years. The process of making Black Clay, La Chamba Pottery has remained virtually unchanged since before the Spanish conquest. Still today, there are no mechanical wheels and each piece is made entirely by hand. It is a laborious process of molding, polishing, and firing.
The entire community is dedicated to the production of these ceramics and it is how the community sustains itself. Rather than one artisan completing an entire piece, families or individuals specialize in certain steps of the process, which make the creation of each piece an entire community affair. After each step is completed, the pieces are then transported by burros, motor bikes or even on top of their heads to other families or individuals who complete other steps and so on until the pieces are completely done and packaged.
Three different types of clays from local mines are used in the making of these ceramics. They are dissolved in water and strained to remove little stones and other impurities. The interior of the ceramics are made with a mixture of a smooth, grey clay that gives the piece its strength and body, and a sandy grey clay that makes it easier to mold. The exterior is then "glazed" with a watery red clay which gives the piece a smooth surface, and allows for the polishing.
The process begins by flattening a ball of clay and forming it around a mold specifically made for each model. This "shell" is then smoothed and trimmed using tools fashioned from bamboo and plastic pieces. The pieces are then left to air dry, receiving a light polishing during the drying to make sure they have a smooth surface and free of sand. The pieces are then transported to other artisans that specialize in adding rims and/or handles. The handing off progression continues with other artisans which specialize in the production of the lids, which are custom made for each piece. Even the knobs on the lids are made by artisans who specialize in only adding knobs to lids.
After each step the pieces are laid out to dry in the scorching La Chamba sun. Sometimes the process is delayed due to rains which prevent the drying of the pieces. When it begins to rain, the entire community is mobilized to quickly cover drying pieces that were outside in various production stages. The pieces are then lightly polished with a soft sponge to ensure a smooth exterior, and they are then taken to artisans that glaze each piece with the watery red clay. The glaze is not let to dry completely to allow for the next step of polishing, which is probably the most laborious part of the process, the polishing.
The hand polish, a process known as burnishing, is done by rubbing the entire piece with semiprecious stones until it has a uniform brightness on the surface. Depending on the size of a piece, the polishing can take up to half an hour to an hour. Originally, this polishing was done with smooth river rocks from the bottom of the Magdalena River, but is now done with agate stones brought from Brazil which are stronger. With use, the stones grind down even creating grooves from corners and edges.
After the pieces are polished and fully dry, they are taken to be fired in conically shaped, wood burning ovens, although some artisans now use custom made gas kilns which make the process somewhat easier and faster.
To start the firing process, the pieces are placed inside metal drums, with smaller objects first going inside larger earthenware pieces. These metal drums are then placed in wood burning ovens, usually late in the day so as to minimize the heat to the workers. The firing process takes approximately three hours, with the furnace reaching approximately 750°C. This high heat, together with the glazing and burnishing process, result in utilitarian pieces strong enough to withstand rough treatments and make them ovenproof.
After the firing comes probably the most interesting part of the entire process and is what gives the pieces their unique black color. The metal drums are pulled out of the ovens with the help of long sticks.
Processed vegetable materials in the form of saw dust, rice husks, or other materials are then added to the metal drums with the white hot clay pieces still inside. The materials immediately catch fire and begin to smoke. The drums are then covered to extinguish the flames but keep the material smoking vigorously for quite some time. The smoke penetrates the pieces giving each piece the black color that so characterizes products from La Chamba.
The entire village and artisans are extremely proud of their products, as we are bringing them to you.


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Why we should bulldoze the business school
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Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, "contribution" or "surplus") – as you might expect, from a form of knowledge that teaches people how to make profits.
Business schools have huge influence, yet they are also widely regarded to be intellectually fraudulent places, fostering a culture of short-termism and greed. (There is a whole genre of jokes about what MBA – Master of Business Administration – really stands for: "Mediocre But Arrogant", "Management by Accident", "More Bad Advice", "Master Bullshit Artist" and so on.) Critics of business schools come in many shapes and sizes: employers complain that graduates lack practical skills, conservative voices scorn the arriviste MBA, Europeans moan about Americanisation, radicals wail about the concentration of power in the hands of the running dogs of capital. Since 2008, many commentators have also suggested that business schools were complicit in producing the crash.
Having taught in business schools for 20 years, I have come to believe that the best solution to these problems is to shut down business schools altogether. This is not a typical view among my colleagues. Even so, it is remarkable just how much criticism of business schools over the past decade has come from inside the schools themselves. Many business school professors, particularly in north America, have argued that their institutions have gone horribly astray. B-schools have been corrupted, they say, by deans following the money, teachers giving the punters what they want, researchers pumping out paint-by-numbers papers for journals that no one reads and students expecting a qualification in return for their cash (or, more likely, their parents' cash). At the end of it all, most business-school graduates won't become high-level managers anyway, just precarious cubicle drones in anonymous office blocks.
These are not complaints from professors of sociology, state policymakers or even outraged anti-capitalist activists. These are views in books written by insiders, by employees of business schools who themselves feel some sense of disquiet or even disgust at what they are getting up to. Of course, these dissenting views are still those of a minority. Most work within business schools is blithely unconcerned with any expression of doubt, participants being too busy oiling the wheels to worry about where the engine is going. Still, this internal criticism is loud and significant.
The problem is that these insiders' dissent has become so thoroughly institutionalised within the well-carpeted corridors that it now passes unremarked, just an everyday counterpoint to business as usual. Careers are made by wailing loudly in books and papers about the problems with business schools. The business school has been described by two insiders as "a cancerous machine spewing out sick and irrelevant detritus". Even titles such as Against Management, Fucking Management and The Greedy Bastard's Guide to Business appear not to cause any particular difficulties for their authors. I know this, because I wrote the first two. Frankly, the idea that I was permitted to get away with this speaks volumes about the extent to which this sort of criticism means anything very much at all. In fact, it is rewarded, because the fact that I publish is more important than what I publish.
Most solutions to the problem of the B-school shy away from radical restructuring, and instead tend to suggest a return to supposedly more traditional business practices, or a form of moral rearmament decorated with terms such as "responsibility" and "ethics". All of these suggestions leave the basic problem untouched, that the business school only teaches one form of organising – market managerialism.
That's why I think that we should call in the bulldozers and demand an entirely new way of thinking about management, business and markets. If we want those in power to become more responsible, then we must stop teaching students that heroic transformational leaders are the answer to every problem, or that the purpose of learning about taxation laws is to evade taxation, or that creating new desires is the purpose of marketing. In every case, the business school acts as an apologist, selling ideology as if it were science.
Universities have been around for a millenium, but the vast majority of business schools only came into existence in the last century. Despite loud and continual claims that they were a US invention, the first was probably the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, founded in 1819 as a privately funded attempt to produce a grande école for business. A century later, hundreds of business schools had popped up across Europe and the US, and from the 1950s onwards, they began to grow rapidly in other parts of the world.
In 2011, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business estimated that there were then nearly 13,000 business schools in the world. India alone is estimated to have 3,000 private schools of business. Pause for a moment, and consider that figure. Think about the huge numbers of people employed by those institutions, about the armies of graduates marching out with business degrees, about the gigantic sums of money circulating in the name of business education. (In 2013, the top 20 US MBA programmes already charged at least $100,000 (£72,000). At the time of writing, London Business School is advertising a tuition fee of £84,500 for its MBA.) No wonder that the bandwagon keeps rolling.
For the most part, business schools all assume a similar form. The architecture is generic modern – glass, panel, brick. Outside, there's some expensive signage offering an inoffensive logo, probably in blue, probably with a square on it. The door opens, automatically. Inside, there's a female receptionist dressed office-smart. Some abstract art hangs on the walls, and perhaps a banner or two with some hopeful assertions: "We mean business." "Teaching and Research for Impact." A big screen will hang somewhere over the lobby, running a Bloomberg news ticker and advertising visiting speakers and talks about preparing your CV. Shiny marketing leaflets sit in dispensing racks, with images of a diverse tableau of open-faced students on the cover. On the leaflets, you can find an alphabet of mastery: MBA, MSc Management, MSc Accounting, MSc Management and Accounting, MSc Marketing, MSc International Business, MSc Operations Management.
There will be plush lecture theatres with thick carpet, perhaps named after companies or personal donors. The lectern bears the logo of the business school. In fact, pretty much everything bears the weight of the logo, like someone who worries their possessions might get stolen and so marks them with their name. Unlike some of the shabby buildings in other parts of the university, the business school tries hard to project efficiency and confidence. The business school knows what it is doing and has its well-scrubbed face aimed firmly at the busy future. It cares about what people think of it.
Even if the reality isn't always as shiny – if the roof leaks a little and the toilet is blocked – that is what the business-school dean would like to think that their school was like, or what they would want their school to be. A clean machine for turning income from students into profits.
What do business schools actually teach? This is a more complicated question than it first appears. Much writing on education has explored the ways in which a "hidden curriculum" supplies lessons to students without doing so explicitly. From the 1970s onwards, researchers explored how social class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and so on were being implicitly taught in the classroom. This might involve segregating students into separate classes – the girls doing domestic science and the boys doing metalwork, say – which, in turn, implies what is natural or appropriate for different groups of people. The hidden curriculum can be taught in other ways too, by the ways in which teaching and assessment are practised, or through what is or isn't included in the curriculum. The hidden curriculum tells us what matters and who matters, which places are most important and what topics can be ignored.
In many countries, a lot of work has been done on trying to deal with these issues. Materials on black history, women in science or pop songs as poetry are now fairly routine. That doesn't mean that the hidden curriculum is no longer a problem, but at least in many of the more enlightened educational systems, it is not now routinely assumed that there is one history, one set of actors, one way of telling the story.
But in the business school, both the explicit and hidden curriculums sing the same song. The things taught and the way that they are taught generally mean that the virtues of capitalist market managerialism are told and sold as if there were no other ways of seeing the world.
If we educate our graduates in the inevitability of tooth-and-claw capitalism, it is hardly surprising that we end up with justifications for massive salary payments to people who take huge risks with other people's money. If we teach that there is nothing else below the bottom line, then ideas about sustainability, diversity, responsibility and so on become mere decoration. The message that management research and teaching often provides is that capitalism is inevitable, and that the financial and legal techniques for running capitalism are a form of science. This combination of ideology and technocracy is what has made the business school into such an effective, and dangerous, institution.
We can see how this works if we look a bit more closely at the business-school curriculum and how it is taught. Take finance, for instance. This is a field concerned with understanding how people with money invest it. It assumes that there are people with money or capital that can be used as security for money, and hence it also assumes substantial inequalities of income and wealth. The greater the inequalities within any given society, the greater the interest in finance, as well as the market in luxury yachts. Finance academics almost always assume that earning rent on capital (however it was acquired) is a legitimate and perhaps even praiseworthy activity, with skilful investors being lionised for their technical skills and success. The purpose of this form of knowledge is to maximise the rent from wealth, often by developing mathematical or legal mechanisms that can multiply it. Successful financial strategies are those that produce the maximum return in the shortest period, and hence that further exacerbate the social inequalities that made them possible in the first place.
Or consider human resource management. This field applies theories of rational egoism – roughly the idea that people act according to rational calculations about what will maximise their own interest – to the management of human beings in organisations. The name of the field is telling, since it implies that human beings are akin to technological or financial resources insofar as they are an element to be used by management in order to produce a successful organisation. Despite its use of the word, human resource management is not particularly interested in what it is like to be a human being. Its object of interest are categories – women, ethnic minorities, the underperforming employee – and their relationship to the functioning of the organisation. It is also the part of the business school most likely to be dealing with the problem of organised resistance to management strategies, usually in the form of trade unions. And in case it needs saying, human resource management is not on the side of the trade union. That would be partisan. It is a function which, in its most ambitious manifestation, seeks to become "strategic", to assist senior management in the formulation of their plans to open a factory here, or close a branch office there.
A similar kind of lens could be applied to other modules found in most business schools – accounting, marketing, international business, innovation, logistics – but I'll conclude with business ethics and corporate social responsibility – pretty much the only areas within the business school that have developed a sustained critique of the consequences of management education and practice. These are domains that pride themselves on being gadflies to the business school, insisting that its dominant forms of education, teaching and research require reform. The complaints that propel writing and teaching in these areas are predictable but important – sustainability, inequality, the production of graduates who are taught that greed is good.
The problem is that business ethics and corporate social responsibility are subjects used as window dressing in the marketing of the business school, and as a fig leaf to cover the conscience of B-school deans – as if talking about ethics and responsibility were the same as doing something about it. They almost never systematically address the simple idea that since current social and economic relations produce the problems that ethics and corporate social responsibility courses treat as subjects to be studied, it is those social and economic relations that need to be changed.
You might well think that each of these areas of research and teaching are innocuous enough in themselves, and collectively they just appear to cover all the different dimensions of business activity – money, people, technology, transport, selling and so on. But it is worth spelling out the shared assumptions of every subject studied at business school.
The first thing that all these areas share is a powerful sense that market managerial forms of social order are desirable. The acceleration of global trade, the use of market mechanisms and managerial techniques, the extension of technologies such as accounting, finance and operations are not routinely questioned. This is a progressive account of the modern world, one that relies on the promise of technology, choice, plenty and wealth. Within the business school, capitalism is assumed to be the end of history, an economic model that has trumped all the others, and is now taught as science, rather than ideology.
The second is the assumption that human behaviour – of employees, customers, managers and so on – is best understood as if we are all rational egoists. This provides a set of background assumptions that allow for the development of models of how human beings might be managed in the interests of the business organisation. Motivating employees, correcting market failures, designing lean management systems or persuading consumers to spend money are all instances of the same sort of problem. The foregrounded interest here is that of the person who wants control, and the people who are the objects of that interest can then be treated as people who can be manipulated.
The final similarity I want to point to concerns the nature of the knowledge being produced and disseminated by the business school itself. Because it borrows the gown and mortarboard of the university, and cloaks its knowledge in the apparatus of science – journals, professors, big words – it is relatively easy to imagine that the knowledge the business school sells and the way that it sells it somehow less vulgar and stupid than it really is.
The easiest summary of all of the above, and one that would inform most people's understandings of what goes on in the B-school, is that they are places that teach people how to get money out of the pockets of ordinary people and keep it for themselves. In some senses, that's a description of capitalism, but there is also a sense here that business schools actually teach that "greed is good". As Joel M Podolny, the former dean of Yale School of Management, once opined: "The way business schools today compete leads students to ask, 'What can I do to make the most money?' and the manner in which faculty members teach allows students to regard the moral consequences of their actions as mere afterthoughts."
This picture is, to some extent, backed up by research, although some of this is of dubious quality. There are various surveys of business-school students that suggest that they have an instrumental approach to education; that is to say, they want what marketing and branding tells them that they want. In terms of the classroom, they expect the teaching of uncomplicated and practical concepts and tools that they deem will be helpful to them in their future careers. Philosophy is for the birds.
As someone who has taught in business schools for decades, this sort of finding doesn't surprise me, though others suggest rather more incendiary findings. One US survey compared MBA students to people who were imprisoned in low-security prisons and found that the latter were more ethical. Another suggested that the likelihood of committing some form of corporate crime increased if the individual concerned had experience of graduate business education, or military service. (Both careers presumably involve absolving responsibility to an organisation.) Other surveys suggest that students come in believing in employee wellbeing and customer satisfaction and leave thinking that shareholder value is the most important issue, and that business-school students are more likely to cheat than students in other subjects.
Whether the causes and effects (or indeed the findings) are as neat as surveys like this might suggest is something that I doubt, but it would be equally daft to suggest that the business school has no effect on its graduates. Having an MBA might not make a student greedy, impatient or unethical, but both the B-school's explicit and hidden curriculums do teach lessons. Not that these lessons are acknowledged when something goes wrong, because then the business school usually denies all responsibility. That's a tricky position, though, because, as a 2009 Economist editorial put it, "You cannot claim that your mission is to 'educate the leaders who make a difference to the world' and then wash your hands of your alumni when the difference they make is malign".
After the 2007 crash, there was a game of pass-the-blame-parcel going on, so it's not surprising that most business-school deans were also trying to blame consumers for borrowing too much, the bankers for behaving so riskily, rotten apples for being so bad and the system for being, well, the system. Who, after all, would want to claim that they merely taught greed?
The sorts of doors to knowledge we find in universities are based on exclusions. A subject is made up by teaching this and not that, about space (geography) and not time (history), about collectives of people (sociology) and not about individuals (psychology), and so on. Of course, there are leakages and these are often where the most interesting thinking happens, but this partitioning of the world is constitutive of any university discipline. We cannot study everything, all the time, which is why there are names of departments over the doors to buildings and corridors.
However, the B-school is an even more extreme case. It is constituted through separating commercial life from the rest of life, but then undergoes a further specialisation. The business school assumes capitalism, corporations and managers as the default form of organisation, and everything else as history, anomaly, exception, alternative. In terms of curriculum and research, everything else is peripheral.
Most business schools exist as parts of universities, and universities are generally understood as institutions with responsibilities to the societies they serve. Why then do we assume that degree courses in business should only teach one form of organisation – capitalism – as if that were the only way in which human life could be arranged?
The sort of world that is being produced by the market managerialism that the business school sells is not a pleasant one. It's a sort of utopia for the wealthy and powerful, a group that the students are encouraged to imagine themselves joining, but such privilege is bought at a very high cost, resulting in environmental catastrophe, resource wars and forced migration, inequality within and between countries, the encouragement of hyper-consumption as well as persistently anti-democratic practices at work.
Selling the business school works by ignoring these problems, or by mentioning them as challenges and then ignoring them in the practices of teaching and research. If we want to be able to respond to the challenges that face human life on this planet, then we need to research and teach about as many different forms of organising as we are able to collectively imagine. For us to assume that global capitalism can continue as it is means to assume a path to destruction. So if we are going to move away from business as usual, then we also need to radically reimagine the business school as usual. And this means more than pious murmurings about corporate social responsibility. It means doing away with what we have, and starting again.
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Facebook has released as open source some software modules that can speed image recognition, language modeling and other machine learning tasks, in a move to advance computer artificial intelligence for itself and others,
Such modules could be used by startups or other companies that want to build AI-based products and services, but may not have the "deep engineering" expertise on hand to develop such capabilities in-house, said Soumith Chintala, a Facebook research engineer who works for the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab.
Facebook does not yet incorporate AI technologies into its social networking service, Chintala said, though the techniques being developed at FAIR may one day be used to improve customer experience. Given the relative paucity of commercially available AI tools, Facebook is funding FAIR to build basic capabilities in-house, and open sourcing the results so others can use and refine them, he said.
The new modules run on Facebook's Torch, an open source development framework for building deep learning applications. Google, Twitter, Nvidia, Intel, and Nvidia have used this framework for their projects.
The module that Chintala was most enthusiastic about discussing was one that was written to recognize objects within images. While there are plenty of software libraries that already do this task, this set of code does it much more quickly than other approaches, using techniques Facebook researchers developed along with Nvidia's cuFFT library (FFT stands for fast Fourier Transform, an algorithm for converting signals).
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Illegal immigrants who want to legalize their status must leave the country for as many as 10 years to apply. That's too harsh on those who marry spouses who are US citizens, critics say.
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It sounds like a Valentine's Day love story. With a little help from a Spanish-English dictionary, Margot Bruemmer, a graduate student waiting tables at a New Jersey country club to help pay for school, falls in love with Osmark, a cook at the club.
The two get married by the local mayor in Long Branch, N.J., and then the couple tries to get Osmark, an undocumented immigrant, right with the law.
But US law requires nearly all those who wish to adjust their citizenship status to apply from abroad, and those who have been in the country illegally for more than a year are barred from reentering the US for 10 years after they exit the country. So Osmark, who came to the US as a teen, faced a choice: Stay in the US illegally or return to Mexico and wait for a green card.
Now, more than eight years into what Margot calls an "exile," the couple and their two young daughters live in Veracruz, Mexico, where they've missed a litany of Thanksgivings, birthdays, weddings back in America, as well as the death of Margot's grandparents.
Marriages between US citizens and those without legal status put thousands of Americans and, in some cases, their US citizen children, into a situation like the Bruemmers' every year.
As Congress digs into the details of immigration reform, such cases show both the legal complexity and emotional impact of deciding how a government bureaucracy should handle affairs of the heart.
"The American public does not understand this situation," says Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D) of Illinois, a leading immigration reform advocate in the House who met with Margot and two dozen other impacted individuals on Thursday. "When the government gets between two people who are in love with one another and who consecrate that love through marriage, and they get in the way, there is something fundamentally wrong."
The policy of barring undocumented immigrants from adjusting their status while in the country was built into a 1996 law that aimed to deter illegal immigration.
Many lawmakers say preventing illegal immigrants from adjusting their status from within the United States helps make up for a lack of immigration enforcement. If the federal government can't or won't remove undocumented individuals, the logic goes, they will have to remove themselves in order to obtain permanent status.
"I don't know if this topic about or a three- or a 10-year bar has any meaning, considering [the federal government is not] enforcing the law in so many other areas," says Rep. Steve King (R) of Iowa.
Margot says she isn't blind to the fact that her husband entered the country illegally. Rather, she sees the issue as a question of degree: "The punishment," she says, "does not fit the crime."
That was a sentiment echoed among many of the advocates on the Hill Thursday.
"For everybody who is involved in this nightmare who is an American citizen, you believe that with marriage, you're going to be able to resolve that problem," said Carla Wissel of Vero Beach, Fla., whose husband, Rafael, has obtained permanent legal status in the US. "It's just such a shock. It comes as such a terrible, terrible shock."
For lawmakers like Rep. Lamar Smith (R) of Texas, the law must be upheld.
"No one wants families to be split up. But there must be some deterrent to illegal behavior or everyone would break the law," he said in an e-mailed statement.
Legal immigrants "followed our laws and waited in line (sometimes years) to come to the U.S.," Smith said. "The 3-10 year ban is a deterrent to illegal immigration. It ensures that illegal immigrants, like millions of legal immigrants, wait in line before they enter the U.S."
House lawmakers, who have been tight-lipped on their immigration deliberations, are at the "conversation" stage of working through potential fixes for immigrants like Osmark. (Undocumented immigrants currently in the country would have some pathway to at least legal status, according to lawmakers in both chambers, and so would theoretically not face the same issue that Osmark is facing.)
Fixes to the system could include allowing immigrants like Osmark to return to the US at least until final adjudication or expanding applications for "extreme hardship" waivers to include marriages and situations involving children who are US citizens.
Until then, however, undocumented persons and their US citizen spouses are stuck in a Catch-22: leave the country and pray the government approves a hardship waiver or stay in the US fearing deportation.
"It stands to reason that the very cases that most strongly support a waiver – in which the US citizen or [permanent resident] spouse or parent would most clearly suffer 'extreme hardship' are those in which the visa beneficiary is most reluctant to leave," noted a 2011 Migration Policy Institute paper.


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