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China is buying up the world's finite industrial resources to feed its industrial growth. From Africa and the Americas to its own territory, Chinese state-run companies are acquiring access to oil, iron, copper, soybeans, and pork. China now controls 90 percent of the world's rare earth industry—the minerals necessary for the production of technologies such as cellphones and computers—and strictly limits their export.
To political scientists, it can be difficult to characterize the current Chinese system. It defies definitions like communist, fascist, or even totalitarian. Yet to the historian, China's mix of tight state control over the economy and its attempt to gain control over masses of natural resources actually looks remarkably familiar. It is a mercantilist approach that has already been tried—and that briefly succeeded—under Louis XIV's finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, in 17th-century France.
Mercantilism is the idea that the world's supply of gold and raw materials is finite, and that whichever country dominates these supplies will, in turn, dominate the world economy. And that entails a state managing its economy directly. To achieve this in France, Colbert created a program of state-sponsored colonies, scientific academies, industries, and monopolies, while taxing and, sometimes, forbidding imports of foreign goods. The idea was to amass natural resources, close the French economy to outside competition, and ultimately dominate the world export market.
That attempt was, in many ways, a failure, and Colbertism—or dirigisme, as the state ownership of industry is called—is largely seen as discredited today. But China has industry, population, and global reach that Colbert could not have conceived of, and today it seems to be following Colbert and succeeding.
China's increasing dominance offers something of a surprise: It suggests that Colbert's philosophy could actually work better than long believed. But it also offers a cautionary lesson for China, and perhaps an encouraging one for its Western rivals. The experience of France suggests that the most important resource of all—human capital—may be, paradoxically, very difficult for a centralized state to capture.
WHEN KING LOUIS XIV of France took the throne in 1654, France was the most populous and agriculturally rich country in Europe, with more than 23 million inhabitants. Yet as rich as France was, the crown was virtually broke. Louis needed his new finance minister, Colbert, to increase the demand for French goods by bringing the fight to the Dutch Republic in terms of both industrial and naval power. At the time, the Dutch Republic dominated world trade; it also countered the Sun King's monarchical might by promoting a free market, political freedoms, and religious tolerance.
To counter Holland and start amassing wealth, France needed to build its own shipping and industrial sector, and only the state could do it quickly. Colbert believed that state-sponsored and managed "manufactures" could compete with Holland and employ a million "idle" workers.
Colbert's administration issued strict rules and regulations, and the state became a vast industrial machine. Colbert built entire ports and ship-building cities, cloth and porcelain factories, and giant infrastructure projects, like the Canal du Midi, which created a national transport network for internal trade.
In terms of what it created, Colbert's project was a success. During his time in power, the navy grew sixfold to 250 boats, with more battle-ready ships of the line and naval personnel than either Holland or Britain. He founded the Academies of Sciences and Arts as well as the Royal Observatory, hiring foreign scientists to run the institutions. Colbert brought technicians and skilled artisans from Italy, Holland, and England to aid in key industries like cannon manufacturing. He founded the famous Gobelins tapestry works and the Royal Glass Works that made Versailles' Hall of Mirrors (and which still is in business today as the company Saint-Gobain). He invested state money in the East India Company and expanded French colonies in Canada and Louisiana (the Mississippi River was, for a time, named the Colbert River). And he personally oversaw the building of Versailles, the greatest palace of its time, which served as a showcase for French luxury goods.
Colbert's financial and legal administration was the envy of the world. From Samuel Pepys, the British chief secretary to the admiralty, to American founding father Alexander Hamilton, who designed the US government's early financial system, state administrators dreamed of centralizing industrial management as Colbert had done.
Still, for all of Colbert's grand vision, there was one significant problem: Most of his projects failed to make profits and compete with the Dutch. Colbert had to force merchants to invest in the money-losing East India Company. Millions of livres disappeared into unprofitable, state-subsidized factories, and many of Colbert's rules and regulations stifled industry.
Even more problematic, Colbert saw economic success as tied to state secrecy and absolute power. He organized a police, spying, and censorship network. The authors of pamphlets against the crown were sentenced to the galleys—forced to work rowing boats until they died—and those who leaked state information found their lives destroyed. Even before the mass expulsion of Protestants in 1685, many businessmen, skilled artisans, and influential thinkers fled to the freer air of Holland, England, and the British North American colonies, taking their entrepreneurial energy and brainpower with them.
At the same time, Louis spent scarce state funds on frivolous continental wars and building pleasure palaces, leaving increasing deficits, which mortified Colbert's accountant sensibilities. French industry was not profitable enough to support itself and endless war. Colbert died in 1683, and by the time Louis XIV followed in 1715, the state was bankrupt and many of Colbert's projects had long collapsed.
D oes this mean that Colbert's state-sponsored model presages the failure of China? There are key differences that might allow for Chinese success, at least in the near term. Where France was perpetually in the red due to overexpenditure and foreign war, China has a massive $500 billion sovereign wealth fund (which, in a Colbertian move, the government forces citizens to support through no-interest bank accounts). France constantly trailed Britain in industrialization; China, on the other hand, is one of the world centers of industry. And, as yet, it has avoided the kind of colonial or aggressive warfare that, as France and America have learned, drains state coffers. Finally, where France failed to dominate global resources, China's international deals and acquisitions are securing the material resources to meet its future growth.
Like France, China is competing with politically free and tolerant states, but many are indebted to China itself, and without comparable industrial policies, they are disadvantaged in the race to snap up world resources. Even if China's strategies fail and its industries lag, and even if it experiences political unrest, it has the wealth, labor force, internal market, and well-funded repressive police state to confront these challenges, at least for a time.
In the end, however, it was political freedom that was France's Achilles' heel, and it might be China's, too. Colbert was the first to understand the idea of human capital as a means of state-building. He spent major resources bringing the best minds to France. This was a purely mercantile tactic: Presumably, there were only so many great minds on earth. The irony is that his very philosophy doomed the effort: Political repression later drove many away, and their talents ended up fueling the growth of France's freer rivals.
So far, in this other arena of human resources, it may be the United States that turns out to be the Colbertists. In human terms, America has been mercantilist itself in drawing the world's finite number of highly skilled workers, thinkers, and business leaders to bolster all sectors of its society. Though China is on the rise in terms of physical resources, its current political climate means that it is a long way from competing with America on that front. To beat America in the world market for brains while maintaining its tight social control, China will have to solve a problem that eluded even Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
Jacob Soll is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. His new book, "The Reckoning: Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations" (Basic Books), will be published next year.
Because of a reporting error, this article included an incorrect date for Louis XIV's ascension to the throne. He became king in 1654.


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Bernhardt Furniture Company, Inc. was established in 1889, in Lenoir NC, by John Mathias Bernhardt. We are among the country's largest family-owned furniture companies and a leading diversified global furniture manufacturer.
The company operates eight manufacturing facilities and its corporate headquarters in North Carolina, and employs some 1,250 people worldwide including five overseas offices. Our 75,000 sq. ft. showroom is located in High Point NC. Our furniture is found in homes, offices, hotels and universities worldwide.
Our furniture has received numerous awards for product design excellence in diverse market segments. Our company has earned AHFA's environmental excellence award for corporate performance.
Now led by the fourth generation, Bernhardt remains deeply committed to the priniples upon which we were founded: high business standards, the artistry of furniture making, the generations of artisans who form the bedrock of our company, and the welfare of our local community.
- Alex Bernhardt, Sr. - Chairman
- Anne Bernhardt - Vice Chairman
- Alex Bernhardt, Jr. - President and Chief Executive Officer
- Rountree Collett - Chief Operating Officer; President, Bernhardt Ventures (Design|Hospitality)
- Jerry Helling - President, Bernhardt Design
- William Collett - Executive Vice President, General Manager, Residential Casegoods
- Harland Dick - Executive Vice President, General Manager, Residential Upholstery
Bernhardt Residential - Established 1889. Whole-home casegoods and occasional furniture, fabric and leather upholstered seating. Available at mainstream price points from a range of global retail outlets and residential designers.
Bernhardt Design - Established 1981. Contemporary office furniture and textiles for the contract market. Available through architectural and design firms.
Bernhardt Interiors - Established 2008. A curated whole-home collection of eclectic, customizable, high-design furniture. Available at mainstream price points from a range of global retail outlets and residential designers.
Bernhardt Hospitality - Established 2009. Commercial furniture for the travel and leisure market. Available through architectural and design firms.
Bernhardt Exteriors - Established 2019. A collection of high-end outdoor furniture that delivers quality and innovative styling. Available from a range of global retail outlets and residential designers.
Corporate Address
Bernhardt Furniture Company
PO Box 740
1839 Morganton Blvd
Lenoir, NC 28645
The year 2014 marked the 125th anniversary of Bernhardt Furniture. For Bernhardt, this milestone was not only a time to celebrate, but also a time to reaffirm the values that have enabled the company to endure. Foremost among those values: creating quality furniture…and a deep commitment to people and relationships.
Unique by today's standards, Bernhardt remains a family-owned business that is dedicated to the welfare of the community that's been its home since 1889.
The company's history, spanning those 125 years, is a story of pioneer spirit, of opportunities recognized and realized in spite of obstacles.
John Mathias Bernhardt, founder
America was beginning to take shape in 1860 when the Bernhardt family moved to the western North Carolina town of Lenoir. John Mathias Bernhardt's rural lifestyle became even more challenging at age 13 when both of his parents died within 60 days of each other. Left to face life as orphans, John and his older brother, Lynn, eventually went to work at a local general store. But unlike his brother, who stayed in the retail trade, John was destined for adventures out west in territory that became the state of Oregon. He secured a job as a government surveyor assisting settlers in the wild frontier, a post that nearly claimed his life. Had it not been for an Indian guide who saved him from a winter bout of pneumonia, J.M . Bernhardt and Bernhardt Furniture Company would not be known to us today.
As it was, he survived this and other frontier ordeals and returned to Lenoir after three years to begin an enterprise that would become one of the country's leading manufacturers of residential and commercial furniture.
J.M. Bernhardt was a man with imagination and drive. His legacy includes not only a thriving family enterprise, but also a heritage of perseverance and social responsibility.
After working as a surveyor in the Oregon territory, J.M. Bernhardt returned home to the mountainous region of western North Carolina, where he went to work as a logger. He spent much of his time in the densely forested foothills of Grandfather Mountain.
The early days were not easy days
Upon returning to Lenoir, John found work as a logger and timber cutter—a hard way to make a living. Yet, his diligence paid off, and he became supervisor at the Caldwell Land & Lumber Company.
Back when horses, mules, and oxen moved all supplies into this remote region, John was able to convince his company to build the first railroad to reach the slopes of Grandfather and Grandmother mountains, so that it would be easier to harvest and transport the timber abundant in the area.
Oxen were used to move J.M. Bernhardt's steam engine
down Main Street in Lenoir so it could be used in the lumber mill.
An eye for opportunity
John Bernhardt saw and acted upon the opportunities around him. First, he started his own sawmill and began buying timber. Then in 1889 he organized a company to manufacture furniture out of the native white oak. Bernhardt's vision ultimately led him to connect with distributors and merchants in large cities such as Chicago and New York City in order to supply sturdy oak bedroom furniture to people who lived as far away as the Rocky Mountains. This eager North Carolina entrepreneur began making an impression on the urban businessmen who would ultimately come to know his reliability and integrity.
Bernhardt's grasp of possibilities outside his locality and his willingness to work hard enabled his young company to survive and grow. As Bernhardt's fledgling enterprise built facilities and honed the skills of its craftsmen, the company earned a reputation for making high-quality furniture that was both durable and beautiful. Known for intricate oak-grain finishes, Bernhardt sold thousands of sturdy chests and tables costing less than $4 each. Cabinets and cases were stacked like bricks and loaded into freight cars for transport to cities across America.
Before entering the furniture business, J.M. Bernhardt made his mark on the lumber business, constructing a 20-mile log flume; water filled troughs on which boards floated from the sawmill's location down to the drying and storage yards. It's acknowledged as the longest flume ever built in America.
J.M. Bernhardt recognized an opportunity. He convinced Caldwell Land & Lumber Company to build a railroad to access hardwood forests.
The trials and experiences of his youth shaped J.M. Bernhardt's character. His pioneering spirit and personal fortitude are reflected in his legacy—today's Bernhardt Furniture Company. The company still places high value on old-fashioned intangibles such as perseverance, loyalty, social responsibility, and environmental stewardship.
Four generations of Bernhardt family members, who have been responsible for the success of this American enterprise, no doubt learned from J.M. Bernhardt's experience and example.
The first Bernhardt furniture was constructed from quarter-sawn white oak. This sturdy furniture was stacked and shipped by train, without protective cartons.
Trial by wars, fire, and a depression
After the turn of the century, the company expanded its product line from the dining room into the bedroom, and managed to deliver furniture in spite of severe labor and materials shortages during both World Wars.
When World War I ended, J.M. Bernhardt's son, George, returned from service as a U.S. Naval officer to operate the company. His management skills would be tested in 1926 by a catastrophic fire that destroyed everything except the factory's dry kiln and boiler room.
George and his loyal employees met the challenge and built a new plant by 1927. More trials followed during the Great Depression when banks closed. The company overcame this obstacle by using "script" or promises to pay employees after banks re-opened—and these promises were honored. This was just one of many instances that reinforced the company's commitment to its employees. As generations of Bernhardts strove to grow the family business, generations of Bernhardt employees continued to work alongside them. This working partnership continues today.
The Growth Years
After World War II, employees who served in the military were welcomed back with "as good or better" job offers. While materials were in short supply, demand for furniture mushroomed as soldiers returned home, married, and purchased homes. John Christian Bernhardt assumed leadership of the company after his brother George's death in 1947. Expansion followed with the development of a professional sales force, new factories, and diversification of Bernhardt's product line.
In 1958 a major new product category—upholstered furniture—was introduced with the launching of the Flair division. This new high-fashion look quickly made a name for itself with some of the most sophisticated buyers in America. Flair's creative styling and striking fabrics became a benchmark for others in the home fashion industry. During the sixties and seventies, Bernhardt continued to expand its manufacturing plants, showrooms, and offices to keep up with the increasing demand for its now broad line of furniture.
Expanding production facilities in the 1930s also included benefits for factory workers, like a company cafeteria.
In 1976, John Christian Bernhardt was CEO and Chairman, and his son, Alex Bernhardt Sr. (right) became President. In 1996, Alex Sr. became Chairman & CEO and John Christian became Chairman Emeritus.
Bernhardt Design has its own showrooms and sales force—as well as a unique product line that has garnered numerous design awards.
Entering the Global era
The 80′s and 90′s served as a period of refinement for Bernhardt. In the mid-80s, the company dropped the various marketing names that had emerged over the years for products and lines - opting instead to undertake a national brand-building effort concentrating solely on the Bernhardt name. In 1981 the company formed a contract division, Bernhardt Design, offering furniture for offices, conference rooms, and public spaces. This division, under the original leadership of Anne Bernhardt, has become a leading supplier and style setter in this product category. This era also saw Bernhardt confronting the reality of global sourcing, a move that led to the formation of regional offices overseas - staffed with 50 employees to ensure the quality and on-time delivery of offshore production. While some North American manufacturers have completely abandoned U.S. operations in favor of overseas production, Bernhardt has utilized outsourcing to supplement domestic production. The company still operates nine facilities in western North Carolina, employing skilled workers in jobs that blend traditional craftsmanship with advanced technology.
Doing Business in a Third Century
Bernhardt entered the 21st century grounded in the values that sustained it in the 19th and 20th— yet fully committed to being as fresh, alert, and aggressive as companies of any age. Appropriately, Bernhardt welcomed the new millennium by opening yet another domestic factory for its growing fabric and leather business.
This was also a period that brought Bernhardt into the national spotlight when they were selected by Martha Stewart in 2001 to produce a line of licensed furniture and in 2006 with a licensing venture with the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2008, the company moved in a new direction with the debut of Bernhardt Interiors, a curated whole home collection of eclectic, customizable, high design furniture. And in 2009, Bernhardt Furniture launched a new division, Bernhardt Hospitality, with a separate sales force to supply stocking and custom furniture to the hospitality marketplace.
Through the years, Bernhardt designs have garnered a host of prestigious awards from industry experts and the media. Among those awards, the American Society of Furniture Designers (ASFD) has recognized the excellence of Bernhardt's designs with multiple Pinnacle Design Achievement Awards.
The company has also been recognized for its leadership in environmental stewardship with five of their facilities achieving EFEC (Enhancing Furniture's Environmental Culture) Certification. The company has also developed programs with environmental groups such as SFI, FSC, GREENGUARD, and in support of LEED.
Today, Bernhardt is one of the largest family-owned furniture companies in the world with 3rd and 4th generation Bernhardt family members still actively involved in the direction and management of the family business.
The company operates eight manufacturing facilities and its corporate headquarters in North Carolina and five offices overseas. The company's "extended family" includes more than 1,250 employees plus dedicated sales people who represent Bernhardt in more than 50 countries.
Bernhardt's story is a tale of vision, perseverance, and uncompromising commitment to high standards of doing business. This story continues 125 years later with a focus to anticipate and satisfy the ever-changing needs of customers who expect the very best furniture for their homes, offices, hotels and universities.
Across the years, this family business still thrives
Bernhardt family members continue to be involved in the direction and management of the family business.
The company's "extended family" also includes more than 1,000 employees who work in Bernhardt factories and offices, as well as the dedicated salespeople who represent Bernhardt in the USA and more than 51 countries.
Also included as members of Bernhardt's furniture family are a host of retailers, designers, architects and decorators who are loyal partners in this enterprise.
Bernhardt's story is a tale of vision, perseverance, and uncompromising commitment to high standards of doing business. This story continues today with a focus: to anticipate and satisfy the needs of customers who expect the very best furniture for their home or office.
And today, with ever more appreciation for the changing needs of its consumers, customers and employees, Bernhardt is accomplishing its mission and preparing for even greater success in the decades to come.
Family member executives, shown left to right: Alex Bernhardt, Sr., Chairman; William Collett, Executive Vice President and General Manager, residential casegoods; Anne Bernhardt, Vice Chairman; Rountree Collett, Chief Operations Officer and President, Bernhardt Ventures (Design & Hospitality); Alex Bernhardt, Jr., Chief Executive Officer and President.
Today's Bernhardt furniture is transported across the country and around the world. The Bernhardt brand is recognized as a benchmark for others to follow.

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The church of Santa María de Melide, classified as a National Monument, is the gem of Melide's Romanesque style. It is a church with a single nave, ending in a semi-circular apse in its apse, with a cul-de-four, decorated with Renaissance paintings.
The arch of triumph is a double canted semi-circular one. The left capital is decorated with plant elements. The right one is figurative: with open jaws, which in Romanesque iconography seems to symbolise man's struggle against evil. The arch of triumph is enclosed by 13th century iron railings, the only Romanesque ones remaining in Melide.
Another two outstanding elements of the church are its Romanesque altar (one of the few Romanesque altars left in Galicia) and an image of Our Lady of the Snows, the parish's patron saint.
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The cost of doctors' visits, tests and treatments can be confusing, and some costs can be high. Together with things like parking, these expenses can add up.
Make sure you ask what you will have to pay. You may be able to get help with some costs.
To understand your financial options, contact Cancer Council on 13 11 20, or read about Cancer Council's financial support services.
What you need to know
Medical service costs
There are a number of medical services you may have to pay for, such as doctors' visits, tests and treatments.
Costs can vary depending on:
- whether you are seen as a public or private patient
- which doctors or other health professionals you see
- where you have tests or are treated
- whether you are an inpatient or an outpatient.
Medication costs
The amount you pay for medications (drugs) can vary a lot. The main reason is whether or not the drug is covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
- When a drug is covered by the PBS, The government pays most of the cost. The person having the drug pays a small amount called a co-payment,
- When a drug is not covered by the PBS, the person having it pays the whole cost. This is why the cost of some drugs can be very high.
Other reasons for cost differences include:
- whether you are being treated as an inpatient or outpatient
- the pharmacy your drug comes from (including hospital or private pharmacies)
- whether the drug is given as part of a clinical trial, or has been specially requested from the drug company by your doctor (compassionate access).
Hidden costs of cancer
Apart from medical expenses there are other costs that can add up when you have cancer. These are sometimes called the hidden costs of cancer.
Non-medical costs may include:
- transport to and from the hospital
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- having less income due to taking time off work
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- health aids, such as specialised clothing, mobility devices or dietary supplements
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Asking about costs
Before you have any doctors' visits, tests or treatments, it is important to ask about the costs.
Ask what the fees will be and how much you will get back from Medicare or your private health fund. You will have to pay any remaining costs (the gap payment).
When you talk to your doctor about treatment options, ask what each option will cost and the total amount you will need to pay.
Most treatments are available in both the public and private systems but the costs can be very different. Ask what your treatment will cost in each system.
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Help with medical costs
The government has a number of schemes that can help people with medical costs.
Bulk billing
This is when your doctor accepts the amount Medicare pays as full payment for your visit, and you do not have to pay anything. Not all doctors offer bulk billing. Some tests can also be bulk billed, so ask your doctor about this when they are ordering tests.
Medicare Safety Net
This helps people or families who have a lot of medical expenses. Medicare keeps track of the amounts you have paid for services, e.g. doctors' visits or tests.When these out-of-pocket costs reach a certain amount, Medicare pays a higher benefit for any more services you have that year.
PBS Safety Net
This helps people or families who pay a lot for prescription drugs (medications). Once you have spent a certain amount on your medications in a year, you can get your prescriptions at a lower cost for the rest of the year.
The PBS does not keep track of your expenses unless you go to the same pharmacy for the whole year. If you go to different pharmacies, you need to keep track of your own prescription expenses. Pharmacies can help you with this by giving you a Safety Net sticker or a computer print-out. Ask your pharmacist what to do.
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For general advice:
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- Contact Centrelink
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- There are some charities that provide volunteer transport. Ask your social worker or contact the Cancer Council.
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Looking at some of the wailing and moaning coming from various Republican pundits and politicians, you would think the GOP's days are over.
Well, maybe they should be if this is how they respond to what happened Tuesday.But as someone who is a conservative (that is, a classic liberal in the true sense of the word) rather than a doctrinaire party man, I'm far more interested in victory than appeasement.
That victory is eminently doable, but it will take some real soul searching and an answer to the age old questions: what are you prepared to do? How bad do you want it? Because it's time to let the pretty, convenient lies die if you do want it.
I've already gone over a lot of the tactical reasons Mitt Romney lost, and some of the lessons learned from that I'll expand on here.
The first thing we need to do is tune out the media static and realize that this was a far closer election than we're being told.
Barack Obama is the only president in history to be re-elected with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than he won initially.. He won 53 percent to 46 percent in 2008 but his official numbers right now are 50.6 percent to 47.8 percent over Mitt Romney. The numbers might change slightly as the states finish their counts, but the president still won by a much smaller percentage than in 2008.As the National Review's Jim Geraghty observed, Had Romney won just another 407,000 or so additional votes total in the battle ground states of Virginia, Colorado, Ohio, and Florida, he'd be president.
The bottom line, when all's said and done is that about 3 million Republicans stayed home last Tuesday,mostly because they had no compelling reason to show up, and partly because, as we now know, the Romney campaign had an abysmal ground game. When you have only 6 campaign offices in a state like Ohio while your opponent has 130, you're asking for a beating.
Those voters who were supposedly willing to crawl over broken glass to vote against Obama existed, but 3 million others simply took a pass. If even half of them had showed up, we'd have a different story to tell today.So the key to our little puzzle is not only figuring out why they didn't show up, but why a relatively unpopular incumbent battling huge deficits, record food and energy costs and an 8% unemployment rate managed to prevail because enough of his people did.Again, not nearly as many as showed up in 2008,(which ought to tell you something about that so-called 'decisive victory') but enough to win.
In order to see how this works, it's first necessary to realize a few things.
Republicans have always told themselves that this is a center right nation. It still is, but it's moving in the opposite direction..Here's why.
Since the 1970's, when the unions took over, the left has gradually assumed almost total control of public education, and in K-12, not just the universities. Ever wonder why so many radicals found a home in academia, and why radicals like Bill Ayers became so interested and influential in public education, particularly of young children?
The results are obvious. Today, half the children produced out of this dysfunctional system may have trouble reading and writing, they may be ignorant of their culture and history, but boy are a lot of them proficient in repeating the leftist talking points they've been indoctrinated with for years!
As an added bonus, the teachers unions, like the other public employee unions are a major component of the Ponzi scheme that funds the Democratic Party at the taxpayer's expense.
The good news is that this is very slowly starting to change in some parts of America simply because it's financially unsustainable, but for now, especially in deep blue states like California and Massachusetts, that's simply how it is.
So the first major requirement of winning the White House is a candidate capable of educating voters on conservative principles in terms they can easily understand, why they work, and why leftist statism merely produces equal misery.
The last presidential candidate the Republicans had whom could do this was Ronald Reagan, Ronaldus Maximus. He wasn't known as the Great Communicator for nothing.Since Reagan, the only one who's even come close is Sarah Palin, and at this point, considering the way she was shafted by her own campaign and the GOP establishment, she might very well have been better off turning John McCain down in 2008, serving out her term as governor and running for the top of the ticket in 2012 or 2016.
One of the reasons Sarah Palin was so effective at it was that she promised a change in the very climate of Washington...which is exactly how Ronald Reagan approached it.That's something people turn out for.
Mitt Romney, for all his sincerity and obvious fitness for office never promised that kind of change in Washington and was surrounded by enough of the Republican establishment to ensure that it wasn't going to happen.
To a lot of people, the promise of a better managed Washington bureaucracy wasn't enough to get them to the polls.
And he certainly never explained conservative principles of government consistently and effectively and why they work. He tried, especially later in the campaign, but it was like listening to someone speak a second language. And by the time he started to get better at it,he'd already been defined by the Obama Campaign and their sycophants in the media.
Which brings us to my second point. It is time we started seeing how the left sees us, and acting accordingly:
As much as I despise the left, I have to admit I have a real admiration for the way they refuse to compromise on their principles and wage strategic,ideological war on their enemies. When something goes wrong, they circle the wagons rather than engage in a circular firing squad and admit that they might be mistaken about anything...because unlike conservatives, they don't regard their ideological opponents as wrong, but as evil. They will lie, cheat and steal to attain their objectives, and they wage offensive war while conservatives largely play defense.
General Douglas MacArthur had a one word definition for defensive war I've always loved: "Defeat".
Once we acknowledge these basic truths, other helpful facts come to light..and they are what we need to look at to begin to outline a strategy:
Let's start with the media.
There were four instances I cited where the media directly influenced the election in a major way, namely George Stephanopoulos' kickoff of the whole birth control/war on women theme for the Democrats when he was supposedly moderating a GOP debate, the WAPO's fraudulent article of Romney's tenure at Bain Capital that even their own fact checker gave 4 pinnochios. And there was Candy Crowley's assist to the president's fib during the second debate on Benghazzi, and CBS selectively editing President Obama's '60 minutes' interview and withholding the unaired footage that showed him denying Benghazzi was a terrorist attack - until election day.
And those are just the major ones.
There are a number of effective ways to deal with this problem. First, there's simple avoidance and honesty. There is literally no one with an 'r' after his name who's going to be treated fairly by any of the alphabet networks, the WAPO, the New York Times, or most other legacy media outlets.
Why not acknowledge it? Imagine a Republican candidate who simply said publicly, with a smile, 'Y'know what? I've never seen you treat conservatives fairly and without bias, so I see no point in doing interviews with you, carting one of your people around on the campaign trail, or having one of your talking heads moderate a debate.'
Imagine if that was the united position of all Republican candidates? Different ballgame.
Conservatives have their own media sources - social media, blogs, half of FOX, and talk radio. Rush Limbaugh has an audience of between 20 and 23 million people every day. Mitt Romney never went on his show even once, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people sat home on November 6th.
There's simply no need to pander to these dinosaurs.
I'd love to hear a Republican candidate call out the media for bias that's obvious to at least 60% of the American people, according to Pew.
Imagine how refreshing for average Americans it would have been to have one of the GOP candidates turn to George Stephanopoulos and say, 'George, why don't you admit that you just picked that question on birth control out of the nether regions of your anatomy just to try and get one of us saying something that could be edited into an attack ad and a Democrat talking point? Did you set this up in advance with the White House? I realize you're a partisan Democrat, but you're supposed to be here as a journalist. Don't you have any ethics at all?'
When Democrat activist Sarah Fluke was trotted out a couple of months later and the connection was obvious, did you hear Mitt Romney or even a campaign surrogate point it out? Was there ever an attack ad made on the obvious tie in? Nope.
There the key. You go one offense and make the Democrat's media shield largely irrelevant.And you do it with a smile.
Second, let's examine something that seems to elude a lot of Republicans and self-identified conservatives; no matter what kind of pretzels they twist themselves into, no matter how they attempt to outdo Democrats in pandering, they're doomed to failure.
Here's why..because no matter what, the Democrats and their media allies are never going to allow Republicans to appeal to any of the special interest groups on their plantation.So the appeal to these voters needs to made not in terms of groupthink but in terms of educating them in conservative principles and why these principles matter in terms of their own self interest and their children's future.
Again, a few examples.
George W. Bush was probably the U.S.president with the most aggressive record for combating AIDS.He spent billions to do so, especially in Africa, where he and his wife are revered to this day.He also appointed a number of gay members to his staff including his campaign manager and RNC head Ken Mehlman. Did any of this get reported much by the dinosaur media? And more importantly did it have much effect on President Bush's standing with gay voters? Nope.
When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Aiken made his now infamous remarks on 'legitimate rape' and Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock got sucked into a similar sounding statement about how sometimes pregnancy resulting from rape is G-d's will, the Democrat's media allies immediately made campaign fodder out of it to attack Mitt Romney using the 'war on women' theme. No real response was made aside from simple denial, even though Mitt Romney promptly condemned the remarks, is happily married and has a long standing record of treating women kindly and with equality.
Nor does it ever work both ways. No one ever questioned President Obama about say, Democrat senate candidate Tammy Baldwin's far left way out of the mainstream positions on Israel, or Elizabeth Warren's openly marxist views and asked him to condemn them.
The same thing is going to be true of Latinos.
Much is being made of the Latino demographic, and they're important, but by no means responsible by themselves for President Obama's victory. They represent 10% of the electorate, and the president got between 68% and 70% of that vote...so at best we're are talking about 7% of those who voted. Just by contrast, there were over 9 million white voters who didn't show up.
In response to this, a number of members of the GOP establishment are frantically talking about 'comprehensive immigration reform' (read 'amnesty) in order to try and out pander the Democrats.It won't work, for the same reason the Republican party's superb record on civil rights and equality for women (it was Republicans who primarily passed women's suffrage over Democrat opposition)doesn't matter to a certain portion of women voters.
It doesn't matter because the Democrats will always find people to carry the flag for them, and a Republican whose words can be twisted for the cause.
If the Republicans were to come out en masse for amnesty, all the Democrats would have to do is find Latino equivalents of Elizabeth Fluke, and latch on to any statements by Republicans supporting controlling the borders.
Also, if the GOP does come out for amnesty, they will be cutting their own throats as far as winning a national election goes. Not only will they not get more Latino votes than they do now, but they will continue to alienate conservatives who oppose that policy..and whom will likewise sit out the elections again.
So,how do we stop this vicious circle jerk?
There are two strategies, one long term and one short term. In the long term,you push adamantly in congress for assimilation of legal immigrants to the degree you can. You use the term 'access' constantly and accuse democrats who oppose it of racism.
One of my fonder memories was participating in a demonstration of Latino parents against bi-lingual education in the Edgemont neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.These parents understood that as much as they loved la lingua English was the language of success and access for their children.
In the short term, we come down again to educating people on conservative principles and why they're better in terms of their own self interest than the alternative.
According to the exit polls, more people thought Mitt Romney was superior to President Obama in almost every category except one..'cares about people like me'. In a word, empathy.
And to me, a winning hand is talking to people with respect like fellow citizens rather than as a special interest group.
Instead of talking about people 'self-deporting' , you go on Telemundo and Univision talking about the issues that matter to Latinos. Healthcare is a hot button issue, so you explain why ObamaCare is going to lead to rationing and less availability, something that will be apparent in a couple of years anyway. You make school choice and vouchers a major campaign issue, something that matters a great deal to Latinos with children now stuck in the dysfunctional public schools. You talk about about the good paying blue collar jobs and lower food and gas prices that would result from a sensible energy program that utilizes our resources, and how President Obama's policies have hurt them in the wallet .You explain how Obama's HHS mandate attacks their religious freedom, and talk about the president's position on infanticide for newborns who survive abortions.You speak to them about how and why lower regulation and taxes equals prosperity and economic freedom for them and how Obama's policies limit it.
On immigration, you talk about fairness, on the need to have a clear cut policy for everyone, on things like a points system and clear guidelines, on things like guarantors to allow pending but legal status, increased opportunities to earn citizenship in the military or other forms of national service, and use of E-verify.
You do it a lot, and you do it in English and Spanish.
Would a Republican who did these things sweep the Latino vote? Of course not. But I guarantee they'd get more than 30%, and more importantly, as recent immigrants begin to become established and their children advance, they tend to become more conservative. And you've let them know that there's a home for them in the GOP without compromising your principles as well as retaining your core conservative base.
Trying to get into a pandering match with Democrats is a sure loser. They'll always win that race to the cellar.
In the interests of time, let's look at the last three truths we discovered together, since they're related. Ask yourself - is there any point in engaging in gentlemanly, respectable behavior with the left and expecting the same in return? In being polite and accommodating? Ask Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney about that one.
Or simply replay the last Democrat campaign in your mind, and read some of the gloating and destructive language over at leftist enclaves like MSNBC after Obama's victory.
They don't care about you, because to them, remember, you're not just wrong, you're evil.
The way to win is to force the left to play by our rules and on our turf, not the other way around.
And of course, remember that victory lies in attack, not defense and not in merely reacting to attacks.
These are all closely related items.
You force the left to play on your turf by defining them before they define you.
You do it by holding them accountable for their failures in no uncertain terms and forcing them to address them.
You do it by holding their ideas up to the light so that everyone sees the innate ugliness inside.
You do it using the powerful weapons of ridicule, sarcasm, truth and common sense.
You do it by framing their worst moments and repeating them over and over again.
And most of all, you do it with a smile, and without fear.
We used to know how to do this a lot better.
Remember how Ronald Reagan dealt with Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale? Geroge HW Bush with Dukakis? Richard Nixon with George McGovern? George W. Bush with John Kerry?
They defined them as tax and spend liberals, as failures and in at least three of these cases as so out of the American mainstream as to be unelectable.
In fairness, it wasn't really George W. Bush who did this, but the Swift Boat veterans and John Kerry's own transcendent unlikeable arrogance that sunk him, but the model holds.
Ever wonder why no one did this with Barack Obama? Why neither John McCain or Mitt Romney dwelt on his far left, marxist roots, his radical associations or his lack of qualifications? His championing of infanticide, his pledge to eviscerate the U.S. military or 'spread the wealth around', and in the case of Mitt Romney, the wasted stimulus money, Fast and Furious, Benghazzi, the active campaign to disenfranchise the votes of active duty military?
When President Obama thumped his chest about the auto bailout, did Mitt Romney ever explain to the American people that it was a bail out to benefit the president's union allies and cost the American taxpayers $80 billion we'll never see again?
When the president outright lied about how he 'funded' Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, did Mitt Romney ever call him on it and reveal that the president actually wanted to cut it to the bone, and that it was congress that revolted and insisted on funding it?
When President Obama claimed he ended the Iraq War, did Mitt Romney counter by telling America that the disposition of forces agreement and our date to leave Iraq were actually put in place by the Bush Administration, and that it was only possible because of the surge strategy that Senator Obama and his Democrat cohorts tried to sabotage and destroy at every opportunity?
Umm, no.
And therein hangs a large part of the tale.
Were they afraid to do it because they felt the Obama Media would call them racist? That black voters would vote against the GOP ticket?
If that's what they thought, they were kidding themselves. There was a lot of playing the race card and dubbing the president's opponents racists by the Obama media and their campaign surrogates.
And blacks voted almost as a bloc for the president regardless.
On the other hand, running a campaign that directly highlighted the president's misdeeds, that ridiculed his pretensions (did you even see one GOP ad featuring golf clubs or Michelle Obama's vacations?) and promised a brand new climate in Washington just might have brought some of the three million Republicans who stayed home out to the polls.
The entire campaign was corrupted and sabotaged by this attitude of 'niceness'. It suited Mitt Romney's personality, but again, it gave the impression to a lot of people that they had no real reason to vote Barack Obama out..especially once Romney
was demonized early in the campaign as a heartless plutocrat.
That's something to remember, by the way, if the left could take an accomplished, essentially decent man with a squeaky clean record and paint him in these colors, they can and will do this with anybody.
Mitt Romney even made the classic mistake of knocking out the champ and giving him an immediate rematch.Out of niceness and a mutated sense of 'fairness'.
Forced to fight on the enemy's turf, Mitt Romney scored an upset win.A sensible thing to do would be to simply cancel the next two debates, simply saying that the American people had gotten a pretty clear look at the differences between him and the president, and further debates were unnecessary.
Or if they were, instead of going along with the scheduled program of left leaning Democrat friendly talking heads, Romney could have insisted a different venue with a conservative moderator, or even a Lincoln-Douglas style debate with a timekeeper and no moderator.
He could have forced President Obama to fight on his turf instead of the other way around.
He didn't and you see the results.
Will the GOP take an honest look at itself and start turning itself around?
Will they start playing to win?
I honestly don't know. The Republican establishment mostly lives in a bubble and they're overly concerned about being liked and likeable.
However, there are a few faces, the GOP's bench that they got almost entirely because of Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint's efforts in 2010 that may force things along these lines in spite of the Old Boys.
If not, the GOP will go the way of the Whigs, and good riddance.
We'll see what happens between now and 2014.


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Scholarly debate continues to heat up over the possibility that Sardinia is the lost isle of Atlantis. Generally believed to have been located ~ if Atlantis really existed at all ~ somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, recent research by Italian journalist Sergio Frau has named Sardinia as the locale of the mythic realm.
Now, however, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is saying Frau's idea bears further investigation. It has pulled together archeologists, academics, geologists and historians to determine the direction of future studies regarding Atlantis. According to the Malta Independent:
Traditional theories have placed Atlantis somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean because Plato said it was beyond the Pillars of Hercules which, according to another ancient writer, Erathosthenes, were at the Straits of Gibraltar. But Frau believes Erathosthenes, a librarian and geographer who lived in Alexandria in the third and second centuries BC, got it wrong and that the Pillars of Hercules were actually on Sicily. . . If the Pillars of Hercules really were in Sicily, Sardinia would be the obvious location for Atlantis.


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Next-gen cyborgs will have human blood flowing through artificial veins (pictured), and their organs will be grown in a lab to act just like real organs, only better, stronger, faster. We have the technology. The next time someone you know gets a coronary bypass, they might come out of the operation as a cyborg. In fact, there is a new field of biotech whose practitioners are calling themselves cyborg engineers.
Sometimes here at io9, we have to stretch a little to fit cool sci-fi buzzwords like "cyborg" or "post-apocalypse" into our science headlines. But sometimes the scientists do it for us. A team of scientists recently grafted vascular smooth muscle cells and epithelial umbilical cells onto a scaffold of poly-urethane, forming flexible artificial veins and arteries. They referred to this as "cyborg engineering." Once they started pumping blood through them, they found the cyborg veins worked better under vascular pressure. They hope to use them in coronary bypass surgeries, in which a vein from another part of the body is used to shunt a vein around a blockage.
Artificial veins are just a first step toward engineering artifical organs. Not only would this give us a near limitless supply of replacement organs (no more dramatic "tricking hospital administrators into allowing a patient onto the donor waiting list" scenes on House), but we could design the organs to be more healthy and perfect than real ones. You could celebrate your 50th birthday with a batch of fresh, young organs. Your cyborg grandpa might live to be 200. Image by: Science Daily.
'Cyborg Engineering' Enables Coronary Bypass Grafting Using Artificial Veins And Arteries. [Science Daily]


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The west side of Sustenpass is rarely too steep. But it is a giant climb – 27.5 kilometres long. And it's beautiful.
The route map at the very bottom includes the superb climb to Lac d"Engstlen that I climbed earlier during the same day – details here
Descending from Lac d'Engstlen, I joined the road to Sustenpass about 4kms into the climb. The early part is fairly easy, and I stuffed some food and refilled the bottles and plugged away at this giant. Early on is a very unfortunately named little Swiss place.
One of the truly great loops in the Swiss Alps includes Sustenpass but from the other side. Also starting in Innertkirchen the loop climbs the huge Grimselpass, then the awesome Furkapass, and finally the east side of Sustenpass. I cycled it as part of the Alpenbrevet.ch — Details of this loop are here. It's better done counterclockwise as the short stretch below Andermatt before Susten usually has traffic jams in summer and it's best doing this downhill.
There are a bunch of tunnels along the route, more than ten – another reason to do the above loop counterclockwise. But none are too long, and there was virtually no traffic so it wasn't too terrible for this tunnel wimp. And for those that really hate tunnels there are little side-walks that are rideable.
A tunnel with a view:
The entire climb is nice, but the higher I got, the better the views, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire route and hadn't realized just how great a climb this is.
Some of the tunnels are very small:
At the summit there is a tunnel to the other side. It was still closed – perhaps an avalanche on the other side?
Anyway, the only other time I was here, in the other direction it was pouring with rain so I forgot a Col sign photo, so I was pleased to snap a shot for my collection and catch my breath. Just a dream day on the bike. This climb should be included on any list as one of the great Swiss climbs
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
Super-Team Family Presents ... Batman and Thor
Posted by Jason Shayer at 10:24 PM
Labels: Art Adams, Batman, Super-Team Family Lost Issues, thor
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Highly recommend the link! I thought this was just a commission but it's actually a really great Photoshop job. Check the link for more excellent renditions.ReplyDelete
On a side note I really hate the lazy a lot of artists use Photoshop today. Is it too much work to letter effects anymore? It really takes me out of the comic.
Hey Conanxxxv, good point that it's not a commission.ReplyDelete
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Julian Treasure: How Can We All Listen Better?
So - so far, we've been talking about how technology can stretch human senses, right? But what if you don't need that technology? And what if you aren't using your senses to their fullest potential without even knowing about it? Well, that - that's Julian Treasure's big idea. Julian studies sound.
JULIAN TREASURE: I'm totally obsessed with sound. It's my life. But do you know something? I think, Guy, that most people are secretly fascinated by sound.
RAZ: Really?
TREASURE: Yeah, we've just got used to, over the last 200 years, to suppressing sound because of the...
TREASURE: ...Noise. I mean, there's just so much noise pollution now. And we've just got into the habit of suppressing our sense of hearing. So a big part of my mission in life is to get people listening consciously.
RAZ: Julian's idea is that sound affects your life in a bunch of ways you never even think about. But the flipside of that idea is that becoming aware of sound and really listening, it can actually make our lives a little better. For instance, a couple years ago, the city of Lancaster, in California, was trying to figure out how to keep petty criminals from doing things like stealing purses and harassing shoppers on the main drag. And city officials tried all kinds of crime-prevention techniques, but no luck. So they called Julian, and he installed...
TREASURE: ...Hundreds of all-weather, Bose loudspeakers in the main street called the Boulevards.
RAZ: And those speakers played this soundscape for five hours a day.
TREASURE: And what happened, according to the sheriff of Lancaster, Calif., is that crime fell 15 percent after that soundscape...
RAZ: Fifteen percent after that...
TREASURE: Yep.
RAZ: ...Soundscape came on.
TREASURE: Yep. And they absolutely love it.
RAZ: And, I mean, come on. There's no way this is not bringing your heart rate down a little bit, right? I mean, you've got a little gentle surf in there.
TREASURE: The surf, incidentally, that kind of gentle surf has a cadence of roughly 12 cycles per minute, which is very similar to the breathing of a sleeping human being. And so we find it a very restful sound.
RAZ: And the birds?
TREASURE: Just because we've evolved to it over 250,000 years, it's the sound of security because when the birds are singing, generally things are OK.
TREASURE: If they suddenly stop, you need to be worrying. You know, at this point, somebody out there will be thinking manipulation because that's the word that I always encounter when I start talking about designing soundscapes.
RAZ: Right.
TREASURE: And the answer I give to that is, do you feel manipulated by architecture? Do you feel manipulated by color? Do you feel manipulated by street layout? Because you are being changed by those things. They are consciously designed. So why would we start to think we're being manipulative the moment we start to design soundscapes?
RAZ: And what Julian argues is that listening is the most undervalued sense we have. But our ability to listen, to really listen, it's slipping away. Here's his TED Talk.
TREASURE: We are losing our listening. We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it. We retain just 25 percent of what we hear. Now, not you, not this talk, but that is generally true. Let's define listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition.
TREASURE: So in a cocktail party like this, if I say, David, Sarah, pay attention, some of you just sat up. We recognize patterns to distinguish noise from signal and especially, our name.
Differencing is another technique we use.
TREASURE: If I left this pink noise on for more than a couple of minutes, you would literally, cease to hear it. We listen to differences. We discount sounds that remain the same.
Most people are entirely unconscious of these filters, but they actually create our reality, in a way, because they tell us what we're paying attention to right now. I'll give you one example of that. Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her that I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now, that's something I fall short of on a daily basis, but it's a great intention to have in a relationship. I said at the beginning, we're losing our listening. This is not trivial because listening is our access to understanding. Conscious listening always creates understanding. A world where we don't listen to each other at all is a very scary place indeed.
RAZ: And Julian Treasure thinks there are all kinds of things getting in the way of our listening. Just think about all the sounds around you every day. In Europe, where Julian does most of his work...
TREASURE: ...Something like 8 million people are having their sleep seriously disturbed by traffic noise at night.
RAZ: And a lot of the people ride the subway every day, including Julian.
TREASURE: And I wear hearing protectors every time I can.
RAZ: Every time you go.
TREASURE: Yeah.
RAZ: Wow.
TREASURE: I'm shocked every day. I see people standing on the cheap station as this screech is happening at a 110, 120 decibels, and they're just standing there.
RAZ: And once you get to work - well, researchers have actually tested people in these noisy, open-plan office environments.
TREASURE: And they found that productivity dropped by two-thirds...
RAZ: Wow.
TREASURE: Sixty-six percent drop in productivity in open-plan office types...
RAZ: In open-plan offices.
TREASURE: The bosses, of course, are all in hermetically sealed offices, so they're not even aware that this a problem.
RAZ: Yeah.
TREASURE: But there's a lot of research now showing that noise, and the lack of quiet working space, is one of the biggest issues for all office workers.
RAZ: What does it do to people?
TREASURE: It creates stress hormones, increases your risk of heart attack. It increases your risk of stroke. And there's a whole range of other issues - sexual dysfunction, bowel dysfunction, depression, psychological disorders - which are associated with living in noisy situations day in and day out.
RAZ: OK, so that's the environmental stuff that Julian says is making it harder for us to listen. But there are also things inside our own heads that get in the way. So, for example, you might notice that sometimes, you know, when you get a group of people together - right? - the conversation isn't really a conversation. People don't often ask other people questions, and they don't really listen. They just sort of take turns telling stories about themselves.
TREASURE: Yes, so I call that speech writing. And it's not really listening, you know. If you're - while the other person's talking, that's just a sort of gap while you're writing your next bon meau...
RAZ: In your mind.
TREASURE: Exactly. That's not actually listening to somebody.
RAZ: And listening takes brainpower. There are studies that show that the human brain can only understand 1.6 conversations at a time, which is enough for one person, and a little bit of your inner monologue.
TREASURE: That's the amount of auditory bandwidth we have. And if you're in an office where you can overhear one person talking right next to you, they're taking up one of your 1.6. We don't have any earlids. And unless you put headphones on, that person's conversation is inevitably going to be decoded in your brain because we're programmed to decode conversation.
RAZ: And the way we listen might also be hard-wired, depending on our gender.
TREASURE: Men tend to listen in, what I call, a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we like to have a problem and solve it. Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing.
RAZ: Yeah.
TREASURE: Women tend, on the other hand, to listen in more of an expansive way. It's not about a point. It's not about a solution. It's just about going with the flow and being with the person, and listening and enjoying the journey with them. So you get this mismatch where she comes home and says: I've had a terrible day, darling. It's been absolutely awful. This happened, that happened. And he says: Have a bath, you'll be fine. So I think the two listenings are quite different. And when we become conscious of our filters, then we can start to play with them and change our listening position. And that is a very, very powerful thing to do.
TREASURE: So I'd like to share with you exercises, tools you can take away with you, to improve your own conscious listening. Would you like that?
UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Yes.
TREASURE: Good. The first one is silence. Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your years, and to recalibrate so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet. That's absolutely fine. Second, I call this the mixer. So even if you're in a noisy environment like this, and we all spend a lot of time in places like this, listen in the coffee bar to how many channels of sound can I hear?
How many individual channels in that mix am I listening to? You can do it in a beautiful place as well, like a lake. How many birds am I hearing? Where are they? Where are those ripples? It's a great exercise for improving the quality of your listening. And finally, an acronym. The acronym is RASA, which is the Sanskrit word for juice or essence. And RASA stands for receive, which means pay attention to the person, appreciate - making little noises like hm, oh, OK, summarize - the word "so" is very important in communication, and ask - ask questions afterwards.
RAZ: I love that. I mean, that - 'cause that's what I do, right? I talk to people, and I ask them questions. And I listen to them.
TREASURE: Absolutely.
RAZ: And I love doing it. It's a real gift that I get to have.
TREASURE: Do you know, I often think that listening is the most generous gift you can give to another human being. And many people have never had that experience.
RAZ: Yeah.
TREASURE: I often have said to my teenage children as they're looking down, doing something on their phone, and they're saying I am listening. I say no, that's not listening. But when you think about it, we've got four ways of communicating - reading, writing, speaking, listening. We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening.
TREASURE: And if we can teach listening in our schools, we can take our listening off that slippery slope to that dangerous, scary world that I talked about, and move it to a place where everybody is consciously listening all the time - or at least capable of doing it. Now, sound is my passion. It's my life. I wrote a whole book about it, so I live to listen. That's too much to ask for most people.
But I believe that every human being needs to listen consciously in order to live fully; connected in space and in time to the physical world around us, connected in understanding to each other, not to mention spiritually connected because every spiritual path I know of has listening and contemplation at its heart. So I invite you to connect with me, connect with each other, take this mission out. And let's get listening taught in schools and transform the world, in one generation, to a conscious listening world; a world of connection, a world of understanding, and a world of peace. Thank you for listening to me today.
RAZ: Julian Treasure is the chairman of the Sound Agency. He's got four TED Talks, all of them pretty spectacular - and all of them at TED.com.
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The capture and release of carbon dioxide (CO2) by the forest is the net result of many biological processes.
The green parts of plants perform the first and most important step in the carbon capture via the photosynthesis. Plants can use the energy from sunlight to transform the atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic molecules. These molecules become the building elements for growth and the basic material to maintain existing components of vital functions. Roughly half of the dry biomass of plants is made up of carbon molecules.
As plants grow, carbon becomes locked as part of the accumulating plant biomass. In trees, approximately half of the carbon bound in photosynthesis is used for construction of new biomass. Part of this biomass is allocated to long-lived stem, branches and coarse roots; the rest is seasonally shed as falling fruits, needles, branches or bark and discarded roots. This organic material is slowly decomposed by the soil microbiota, releasing carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere. The same happens with the biomass of the whole plant when it dies. Thus, as plants die, some of the carbon becomes locked in the soil.
At the same time, as carbon-locking processes take place, some of the carbon returns back to the atmosphere as respired carbon dioxide from plants as well as soil microbiota. Respiration is the basic cellular process to obtain chemical energy from the oxidation of organic molecules, and CO2 results as a waste product of the overall metabolism. Generally, about half of the caught carbon is released in respiration.
Plant leaves such as needles retain the carbon dioxide by the process of photosynthesis and release it by the process of respiration. Photosynthesis needs light, whereas respiration happens both in light and dark. Both processes are strongly affected by temperature and water availability.
When there is enough light and the air temperature is above zero, we can see photosynthesis as a flow of carbon dioxide molecules towards the crown: carbon dioxide enters needles through the pores located at the needle surface (the stomata). At the same time, we can see carbon dioxide being released out of the canopy. This carbon dioxide is produced in respiration. When it is dark, the only flow of CO2 comes from respiration and it is thus outwards from the canopy.
The tree mostly release carbon dioxide due to the respiration of the living cells in its interior. In some part of the stems, some photosynthesis may also happen. Trunk respiration is most affected by temperature. On a sunny day, the bark of the tree may become warmer than the surrounding air, producing a rise in CO2 outflow from the trunk.
Ground vegetation
Boreal forests have a vegetation structure that consists of the trees. It also has of a diverse layer of ground vegetation that photosynthesizes, transpires and respires similarly to trees but the volumes are smaller due to the smaller sizes of ground vegetation and diminished light environment at the ground level. Low shrubs and mosses predominate the ground level in mature forests such as in our measuring site. In addition, some grasses and herbs also exist.
Roots and soil
Trees may allocate almost one-third of the total biomass to the roots. Roots provide the physical anchorage of the tree to the soil and its main activity is the absorption of water and inorganic nutrients. The uptake and transport of ions, together with growth and maintenance of roots themselves need energy, and thus, root respiration releases CO2 to the soil and into the air. In addition to plant roots, a complex soil microbiota lives below ground. Their activity results in the release of carbon dioxide to the soil, which flows out to the atmosphere. More than half of the total respiration in the soil may be respired from this soil microbiota, which is responsible for the decomposition of litter and in general, all dead organic matter in the soil. Soil temperature and moisture heavily influence the activity of roots and microbes. Soil respiration is highest in warm and moderately moist soil.


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With March madness comfortably behind us, and the summer playground leagues still a month or so from startup, it's a good time for those of us who never outgrew dreams of playing in the NBA to take stock of our skills and look for every tool we can find to improve our game.
And so it was with no small amount of fascination that we read about the Infusion basketball, a new product from Spalding. It looks and feels like a regular ball, but it's got something extra: a 3-inch-long, 0.5-inch diameter pump concealed inside the ball. When the ball loses air-which Spalding's research says is the number-one consumer complaint about basketballs-you just press and turn a dime-size section of dark rubber and out pops the piston. Push that piston a hundred times and you add 1 psi to the ball, hopefully enough to resume dribbling toward the basket.
We wondered how Spalding could put a 16- to 19-gram pump inside the ball without affecting the balance. Engineer Tom Veilleux, who worked on the design, said it was simple. On traditional balls, there's a rubber-patch counterweight 180 degrees away from the valve for balance. On the Infusion ball, he says, the pump is heavier than the valve so they put the counterweight inside the ball on the valve side. Engineers eliminated a dead spot that created a stiffening effect, and the solution is one of the many they've filed patents for with this ball.
Okay, but will this ball lose air easily? Apparently not. Veilleux says their ball-tossing machine threw the Infusion against a wood wall at 30 mph 30,000 to 45,000 times (about the number of my free-throw attempts before I sink one) and it didn't lose any air.
So, is this the development that will let us quit our day jobs and make the big bucks in b-ball? Maybe for someone else. As for yours truly, I may as well sit in a rocking chair in mid court the way other players run around me, and the Infusion won't help that. But, if Spalding could adapt the design so that the pump would give me more air, I might have a chance.
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This beloved Italian soup isn't just hearty and healthy -- it's really flexible. Minestrone typically includes lots of leafy greens, other veggies, and beans. Which to choose?
You're only limited by the contents of your refrigerator and pantry.
2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for serving (optional)
1 medium red onion, chopped
2 medium carrots, peeled and diced
1 large celery stalk, diced
1/4 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary, or 1/4 teaspoon dried
Coarse salt and ground pepper
1 can (14.5 ounces) whole peeled tomatoes, drained and finely chopped
1 large potato, peeled and diced
1/4 head Savoy or green cabbage (1/2 pound), cored and thinly sliced
1 can (15 ounces) cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 pound green beans, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 garlic clove, minced (optional)
1/4 cup thinly sliced fresh basil, plus torn leaves for serving (optional)
3/4 cup grated Parmesan, for serving
In a large pot, heat oil over medium. Add onion, carrots, celery, red-pepper flakes, rosemary, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion begins to turn golden, 5 to 8 minutes.
Add tomatoes; cook until some of the liquid evaporates, 1 minute. Add potato, cabbage, cannellini beans, and 7 cups water; bring to a boil. Stir in green beans.
Reduce to a simmer, and cook until all the vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper; stir in garlic, if using, and basil. Serve sprinkled with Parmesan and, if using, torn basil. Drizzle with more oil, if desired.


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Gil Student's recent review of a book about Orthodox pluralism (R. Yisroel Miller's In Search of Torah Wisdom: Questions You Forgot to Ask Your Rebbi) got me thinking about my own view on this subject.
Pluralism begets unity or Achdus.
There are different kinds of Achdus. We can be bonded by a wide variety of commonalities. We can all be united as human beings. There is also a sense of unity that we should feel as a people regardless of our ideology.
It is also legitimate to speak of unity within a defined segment of Judaism. Indeed even within segments there is a sense of unity that is often eluded. There can for example be a right and left even within Religious Zionism.
I have always sought to unite all of Orthodoxy. This includes even Satmar Chasidim, and the right wing Yeshiva world on the right – all the way to Left Wing Modern Orthodox (LWMO) movements represented by people like Rabbi Avi Wiess and his Yeshiva, YCT. The common bond being belief in the Torah and adherence to Halacha.
One may wonder about this considering my recent very harsh criticism of Satmar. Or my occasional strong criticism of some of innovations of the left – like the attempt to ordain women. Or my strong criticism of price tag raids by settler movements (consisting of extremist Religious Zionists) in Israel. The fact is that my criticism remains but it does not contradict my belief in a pluralistic Orthodoxy.
I disagree with the ideology of those to my right and my left. But I respect them all in the sense of Elu V'Elu. For example, I understand the Satmar objection to the existence of the State of Israel. It is based on the how Satmar interprets passages in the Gemarah. I have no problem with those who have this Hashkafa.
Nor do I have a problem with the belief of those religious Zionists who believe that we must settle all the land of Israel; that it is Halachically forbidden to cede an inch of the holy land that is now in our hands; and that we must risk our very lives to retain it. That is based on interpretations of Halacha.
Even though I disagree with both of those positions, I respect them. My only problem is when they act on them in ways that impinge on the rights of others or create a Chilul HaShem. It is trying to impose one's religious values upon others that upsets me. Not the ideologies themselves. Ideologies, yes. Bad behavior, no.
Achdus, unity, or pluralism is not about agreement. It is about tolerance and acceptance… and the humility to understand and accept that we might just be wrong and someone else might be right.
This does not mean that one has to be apologetic about one's strongly held views. One can argue his views with those of different Hashkafos and try and convince them of the rectitude of their own. Perfectly legitimate. I would even go a step further that if one has strongly held beliefs one ought to be able to make the case for them to a friend with different ideologies. At the same time, one must respect he views of others even if you think they are wrong. They too have thought things through and have arrived at a different conclusion that you have. In other words it is all about respecting the wisdom of others even when disagreeing with them.
On this level I respect the Hashkafos of Haredi thinkers. And I respect the Hashkafos of LWMO thinkers even though I disagree with them and agree with Centrist thinkers. Elu V'Elu is what it's all about for me. My harsh criticism is reserved for extremist behavior that is a result of those Hashkafos – even if it is from my own.
Many in the Satmar community's behavior with respect to sex abuse or right wing Religious Zionist settler behavior that results in a Chilul HaShem will raise my hackles every single time. Not the beliefs that generate them. One can be a principled pluralist – to use Gil's expression – without rejecting the Hashkafos of others. There is no need to try and reconcile such wildly disparate views.


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The Riemann Hypothesis is probably the hardest unsolved problem in all of mathematics, and one of the most important. It has to do with prime numbers - the building blocks of arithmetic. Nick Mee, together with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, tells us about the patterns hiding inside numbers.


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