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Building trust to sell harmful products and then recall defective risky products due to lack of quality control. We're supposed to trust JNJ? Ha!
Keywords: jnj, johnson and johnson, J&J, marketing, advertising, strategy, corrupt, corruption
Date Created/Edited: March 22, 2012
Check out this quick history lesson: When Columbus would sail the mighty ocean, blah, blah, he would drop anchor and learn about the natives. He would bring them gifts and be sooooo very 'giving' to gain their trust and admiration. When he would come back again, the natives were quite willing to happily and eagerly accept the invitation to go to the ship - where, of course, they were locked in cages and sold as slaves in other countries. Quite the effective marketing strategy.
For those who hunt, we know that feeding (giving) wild animals, such as deer or bears, is illegal. Why? Because the animal grows trust and will walk right up to be shot. That's not exactly sportsman-like, right?
Okay, with all that in mind, remember that I totally agree that corporations should give back to society to empower consumers and help improve the health and economy in the best interest of all. J&J goes into a new market with numerous goods, such as baby shampoo, lotions and drugs and somehow, the consumers end up being sicker than they were before J&J entered the area. It's such a good thing that J&J has a drug for that, and diagnostic equipment and so on, to help the 'improving' economy grow in that area - soooo concerned about the health of the people who buy their toxic products and life-saving medications that have side effects that require, well, more life-saving medications to save the lives of the consumers from the side effects of the original life-saving medications. I say, um, geeze, bullshit (sorry, couldn't help myself).
Bill Weldon summed it up quite well APEC Summit in Hawaii in November of 2011:
"The Asia Pacific regions is important to Johnson & Johnson and to many U.S. businesses because it represents a large and growing part of the global economy. If you think about it, the 21-member economies comprise 2.7 billion consumers, account for 44 percent of the world trade, represent 55 percent of global economic output, includes six of America�s 10 largest trading partners, and represent the fastest-growing region in the world.
The people of the APEC region have important non-met medical needs that our products and services can help meet. These economies are aging and the incidents of most chronic diseases rises with age. APEC countries are also experiencing a growing middle class and lifestyle changes that are linked to rising rates of non-communicable disease."
Wait, did I see that right? Um, well, after getting our products in there (such as J&J 'No More Tears' - but plenty of asthma and cancer baby shampoo), the people are, well, experiencing "rising rates of non-communicable disease." ? Nah - really?
Well, when you can poison people with products that you so willingly 'gave' - you have gained their trust, and now can give them 'life-saving' medications to save their lives, and, of course, more 'life-saving' medications to deal with the side effects of the 'life-saving' medications and so on....
Remember, J&J is still 'giving' mothers shampoo to use on their infants in the U.S. that contains 200 times the EPA safe exposure limit of formaldehyde - a *known* carcinogen - to use on their babies as they leave the hospital after delivery. And the mothers, quite trustingly, wash their own babies in a carcinogen - with trust for the 'respected' J&J brand.
1. Josh Earnest (2011, November 12). Press Briefing by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest, Bill Weldon, CEO for Johnson & Johnson, Rich Lavin, CEO for Caterpillar and Eric Schmidt, CEO for Google, 11/12/2011 United States Press Briefing. Retrieved from http://govne.ws/item/Press-Briefing-by-Principal-Deputy-Press-Secretary-Josh-Earnest-Bill-Weldon-CEO-for-Johnson-Johnson-Rich-Lavin-CEO-for-Caterpillar-and-Eric-Schmidt-CEO-for-Google-11-12-2011#


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Do you think gold and diamond are the ultimate in luxury? Can everything be made more luxurious and more valuable by making it in gold or by adding diamonds to it? Apparently the answer is yes. Along with the Bang & Olufsen Serenata Diamond Edition, Stuart Hughes has also taken the wraps off the Bang & Olufsen Beosound 24ct Gold & Diamond Edition.
There is no point talking about the technical features or the quality of the sound produced by the music center. It has been created as the most expensive music centre in the world. It took seven months to complete with the help of most luxurious materials. The Beosound's whole body, including the speakers, has been reformed using 32 kilograms of solid 24ct gold. As if that was not enough, the outer screen guard area has been embellished by 70 brilliant round cut 0.75 flawless diamonds which are in turn surrounded by gemstones like Aventurine and Topaz to form a classical design.
It is not very difficult to guess that the model has not been developed for the mass market but to satisfy the tastes of an exclusive few. Only five units will be offered for sale, with each costing a whopping £1.2 million (approx. US $1.85 million).

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A campaign for St. Mary's High School
Operational finances are a challenge every year as the school struggles to keep tuition affordable while meeting its financial obligations. Now is the time to address the financial reality of past building projects. Since moving to the current campus in 1992, St. Mary's has borrowed $6 million that was used to purchase the main building and successive improvements culminating with the opening of the Grace Center. The school continues to make progress on reducing its debt and has currently paid off $1.4 million of the bonds.
For this reason, leaders of St. Mary's High School are pleased to announce the We Believe…Our Faith, Our Family, Our Future Campaign. This campaign is an opportunity for us to come together for the greater benefit of our school – a chance to secure a solid foundation for the future. Throughout our history, we have consistently developed high achievers as well as students prepared for college and all walks of life, who are engaged in their community. This campaign will enable St. Mary's to continue this tradition in academics, service and extracurricular activities, remaining the sole Catholic high school in Southern Colorado.
Campaign Priorities
The campaign priorities are based on $10 million of need, listed below in order of priority. No building renovations or construction will begin until $2.5 million of debt service is reached and any of the building aspects are fully funded.
Debt Services ($2.5 million)
Academic Improvements ($3.5 million)
Tuition Assistance Endowment Fund ($2.5 million)
Locker Room Construction/Maintenance Endowment for The Grace Center ($1.5 million)
For more information on each of these areas of need, and to see plans for future expansions, please click on the Campaign Preview and Campaign Details PDFs located in the Checklist at right. The Checklist includes ways to give and a downloadable Pledge Form that can be returned to the school.


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If you live in an area that sees a lot of rain, then you might want to consider flood insurance. This is insurance that you can voluntarily take out with a home owner's policy that will cover items in the home if there is a flood. You need to read the policy carefully as there could be certain items that aren't covered and some circumstances that might not be considered a flood.
The National Flood Insurance Program often has information about what is included in a policy. You can get updates if anything changes in your coverage or if there have been more areas added to what are considered flood zones. A flood zone is an area where there will likely be some kind of flooding through the year. It could be an area that is near a river or lake, or it could be an area where there is a substantial amount of rain through the year. Some insurance companies won't insure a home if it's located in a flood zone.
Most policies will not only cover your possessions inside the home, but they will also cover the property as well. The building and foundation are typically covered as well as the electrical components. Central air conditioning and furnace systems are also covered under most policies. Most carpets and other types of flooring that are permanently installed are covered. However, temporary flooring likely won't be included. Policies usually cover the removal of debris after the home has been cleaned as well as the cleaning of the home. Many of the personal belongings that you have can be replaced as they will be covered under the policy. These include clothing, appliances and furniture.
There are some situations where flood insurance just won't do a lot of good. Policies won't cover mold and mildew from a leak that could be avoided. Currency and metals aren't covered. The property outside of an insured building isn't covered. This would be trees, decks, fences and storage sheds. Temporary housing isn't covered. Some items have a limit as to the coverage offered, such as crawl spaces, basements and enclosed areas under a deck.


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Nursing Profession Education-6 Things You Need to Know
6 Things to Prepare You for the Nursing Profession
If you are interested in entering the nursing profession, then there are a few things that you should do to prepare yourself.
1. You need to have a high school diploma.
If you are still in high school, talk with your guidance counselor to see what types of classes your school offers that will help prepare you for nursing. Most programs like to see 2-4 years of science and math, 2 years of some kind of health studies as well as language and computer classes.
If you have already graduated and have the above referenced classes, you can move on to our next checklist item. If you are lacking some of these classes, you might consider taking a few your local community college.
2. You need to search out nursing programs that appeal to you.
There are hundreds of schools across the United States with programs ranging from traditional on-campus format or with on-line courses. It is important to know that these programs are readily available to you, so find one that fits your time, cost and motivational needs. I will be doing future posts for more information on this.
3. The Nursing Program should be accredited
Accreditation is important because employers prefer nursing professionals whom have an education that is based in established national standards. Look for more posts that will tell you all you need to know about Accredited Nursing School Information.
4. Once you have found a few programs, you then need to apply.
You will want to apply to several schools. This is related to the old adage about eggs in a basket! Applying is quite a process, but if you are organized and pay attention to submittal requirements, it becomes less frustrating. I plan on writing several post on this topic in the very near future.
5. Some schools require a pre-admissions exam
Here is a link to the National League for Nursing. If you go to their site, they will give you more information about pre-admissions exams.
6. Getting your degree
There are several degrees that you can get. Associate's Degree, Bachelor of Science Nursing Master's Degree, even doctoral degrees are available to help you on your way into the nursing profession.
There is too much information regarding degrees to have in this short article, but you can get more info as I make posts focusing on Education for Nursing and Advanced Nursing Education.
I hope this post helps you in preparing for entering the nursing profession. Please come back to read future posts about more insights on nursing education & career information!
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I'm still working away on learning to draw in ballpoint pen. Honestly, it's kind of become an addiction as of late! I guess there are worse things, so with pen in hand, I'll continue practicing every day.
One of the things I'm really liking is the simplicity of working with only a few tools. With colored pencil, I needed several colors and different shades for each drawing. With ballpoint pen, I only need one pen for the drawing and one or two pens for the lettering. That really simplifies the process!
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A CAMPAIGNER who helped win the battle to keep consultant-led maternity services at the Conquest Hospital fears the unpopular plans are back on the agenda.
Margaret Williams, chairman of Hands off the Conquest, has also criticised an online questionnaire set up this week by NHS bosses, which asks for the public's view on the future of the units at the hospital on The Ridge and its sister one, Eastbourne DGH.
She, together with Liz Walke, her counterpart from Save the DGH, won a fight in December 2007 to keep full maternity units when the NHS trust was looking to downgrade either the Conquest's or DGH's.
Thousands marched along the seafront in both Hastings and Eastbourne to make their feelings known and managed to convince the Secretary of State to back the option which involved keeping both sites open.
Now though, just more than three years after the landmark decision, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has ordered a full review of maternity services at both hospitals, leading to widespread concern that bosses may be gearing up to try again.
Mrs Williams said: "Both Liz and I sit on the review panel and this questionnaire should have come back to us first so we could put our views across about the questions. It doesn't even mention journey times. This was the main issue last time and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says women about to give birth should be in hospital within 20 minutes if there are and complications. It takes a good 45 minutes to get from Hastings to Eastbourne and vice versa.
"Nothing has changed in the infrastructure since 2007 and we are getting more and more worried for the maternity units' future, what with the trust's current finances."
According to the trust, the purpose of the review is 'to consider how the service can continue to deliver excellent outcomes and a high quality patient experience, whilst adapting and responding to the needs of the local population and to potential risks to sustainability such as the ongoing difficulties experienced in recruiting staff'.
Mrs Williams is urging Observer readers to fill in the questionnaire to make sure health chiefs are left in no doubt as to the strength of feeling among local people.
To fill in the questionnaire visit www.esht.nhs.uk/maternity- review-questionnaire. Responses need to be in by Friday, August 26.


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Accession Number : AD0775761
Title : Salinity Problems of Organisms in Coastal Areas Subject to the Effect of Engineering Works.
Descriptive Note : Final rept.,
Corporate Author : GULF COAST RESEARCH LAB OCEAN SPRINGS MS
Personal Author(s) : Gunter, Gordon ; Ballard, Buena S. ; Venkataramaiah, A.
Report Date : DEC 1973
Pagination or Media Count : 187
Abstract : The nongaseous substances normally moving in and out of cells are metabolites, water and salts. The common salts in water determine its salinity, and the definition of sea water salinity and its composition are discussed. The relationships to salinity of all phyla of animals living in the coastal waters are reviewed, with emphasis on the estuaries of the Gulf coast and Atlantic coast of the United States, areas particularly influenced by coastal engineering works and changes of salinity caused thereby. (Modified author abstract)
Descriptors : *COASTAL REGIONS, *SALINITY, *ECOLOGY, AQUATIC PLANTS, AQUATIC ANIMALS, ENGINEERING, ESTUARIES, ENVIRONMENTS, SEA WATER, ATLANTIC OCEAN.
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Manchester United fans have been sitting on the edge of their seats in the past several weeks, as speculations continue to swirl around the possible return of Paul Pogba. However, the anticipation could reportedly end today, if rumors are true that an official announcement has been set for Wednesday, Aug. 3.
The Frenchman's transfer back to Old Trafford from Juventus, is one of the most anticipated deals of the summer. Spain's Diario AS reports that Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is hoping to get the transfer completed and officially announced today, despite fears that the sought-after player is still entertaining Real Madrid. According to Give Me Sport, fears of renewed talks with the Spanish giants were revived, after Pogba boarded a plane to New York on Tuesday.
The Real Madrid squad and their manager Zinedine Zidane are currently in the Big Apple. The team is in the middle of their pre-season tour of North America. There is no evidence to prove that Paul Pogba has been in touch with anyone in Real Madrid while he is in the United States, but speculations have gone into overdrive.
If the Manchester United deal is completed, Paul Pogba is expected to earn 20 million Euros per year. He has reportedly been offered to sign a five-year contract with a total record breaking value upwards of 110 million Euros. Pogba's current club Juventus has set a very high price on the Frenchman's head. Despite being linked to European Champions Real Madrid, it appears that Manchester United are the ones that are willing to shell out the cash.
The 23-year-old midfielder has been coy about his fate. He has been teasing fans and members of the media who have been asking about the impending transfer.However, multiple media sources, including the Telegraph, are under the impression that the transfer is only hours away from being announced.


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A very thoughtful friend of mine brought back a nice bag of chocolate chips (Guittard) from the States. They are harder to come by here in Germany, and I'd like to make something delicious.
Any ideas? I'm up for whatever. Only caveat is that recipes depending heavily on brown sugar need to be able to bear substitution with raw sugar and honey (again) because of availability.


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OAKLAND (KRON) — Oakland city officials sent a draft of the deadly Ghost Ship fire report to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office on Saturday, according to a city spokesperson.
"I can confirm that the draft report on the 31st Avenue Warehouse Fire was shared with the District Attorney's Office on Saturday, March 18 via email," a City of Oakland spokesperson told KRON4 News.
The Alameda County DA's Office has launched a criminal investigation into the Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people.
The fire broke out at 1315 31st Avenue at around 11:30 p.m. on December 2, 2016 during a dance party. It has been called the county's deadliest fire in 13 years and one of the most devastating in United States history.
The warehouse, known as the "Ghost Ship," was a place for Bay Area artists to live and work.


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Some of the posts that got my attention this week…
- 5 Ways To Raise Funds for Your Startup – Mashable brings a good reminder on the ways to raise funding: friends/family/fools, incubators, convertible debt, preferred stock and VC.
- Funding round for the week ending in June 10th – Vator highlights the startups that got funding this week. It was good to see Editd, a London based fashion analytics company on the list.
- Food For Thought This Weekend: "Raising Capital Is Not The Same As Succeeding" – "The goal isn't to get money from a VC, just as the goal isn't to get into Harvard. Those are stepping stones, filters that some successful people have made their way through"
- Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures – Steve Blank brings up some good points on what board meetings should be like.
- Quick, practical tips for presentations – tip #1 sit close to the projector screen – don't force people to choose between you and the presentation
If you found these links interesting, you may want to follow my Twitter updates at @ediggs as well as on @IsraelVC
Eze Vidra
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Eze is the Chief Innovation Officer at Antidote, a startup helping patients search and match to clinical trial, to accelerate medical breakthroughs. Previously, Ezewas a General Partner at Google Ventures Europe. Before GV, Eze founded and led Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups, and was the Head Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe. He's an experienced product manager and startup mentor. In 2012 Eze founded Techbikers, a non-for profit supporting children education in developing countries.
Latest posts by Eze Vidra (see all)
- Purpose is no longer a "nice to have" - January 19, 2018
- Roundup of 2018 AI Predictions - January 8, 2018
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Putting My Kids Through a Wall
(story submitted by J, a Chestist)
I really love my kids. There are times when I just want to put them through a wall. Not to cause them misery or pain mind you, but to put them out of mine. In case anyone's worrying, I really won't do it. I just want to.
It's just there are moments when for no reason at all, or lots of reasons altogether, I can't help but thinking that the one instant of release would be like an immediate full-body massage, total relief. Kind of like my body screaming S-T-F-U for one minute WON'T YOU, PLEASE.
Then, of course, I feel guilty and sad, and my guilt and sadness pushes my frustration to the side and I hug and kiss them and tell them how much I love them. {end story}
Probably not a lot of parents that can't relate to this story somehow. Regardless of whether or not you have kids, has your frustration ever reached a point where you did something you really wish you hadn't done? Remember, you can always share anonymously. Go on and get it off ...
Confidence Wrecker
(submitted anonymously by a Chestist, an OOC rewiind)
"Why does he still need to constantly talk to his ex? He claims they're trying to be friends but why would you WANT to be friends with a girl that cheated on you? What does she have that I don't? I'm always afraid he'll go back to her even though I did nothing wrong. It's such a confidence wrecker and ruins my entire day." {end story}
Can you relate? Any advice? You think a relationship like this is heart-ache waiting to happen?
(story submitted anonymously, by a Chestist)
Losing a job can be hard. Thinking you're going to lose it and waiting to be told you have, well, that just sucks. Here's her story:
My company is "downsizing". I hate that word, "downsizing". To me it's just a bad euphemism for "you're probably going to lose your job" and I'm so afraid I am. Everyone's supposed to find out over the next few weeks. I'll probably get an ulcer between now and then.
I don't think the odds of being among those who aren't let go are that good. I'm pretty realistic and know I'm only okay at what I do. I'm okay with that. I'm not okay with being unemployed and having to look for work and worry about money and cut-back on the very few small luxuries I allow myself now. I'm not okay with that stuff at all.
It's also just like waiting for someone to die. You know it's going to happen, but it's still weeks away. How am I supposed to function while I wait for them to tell me I've been downsized? {end story}
Under the Influence
(story submitted anonymously, a Chestist)
Everything was going along fine, I was feeling good, until this one guy at work who's known to be a jerk asked me if I'd gained weight.
Forgetting the whole inappropriateness of the comment, what's been sticking with and annoying me is that since he said it a week or so ago, I think about it everytime I see myself in a morror or catch my reflection somewhere. Yes, I've gained a little weight but I don't really care about that. I'll take it off, put it back on, take it off, whatever. What I care about is that some jerk's words stick with me. What I wonder about is why I'm so influenced by the negative words of people I don't care about and yet ignore and am usually so un-influenced by the words and opinions of people I do care about.
Why's some idiot have more of a negative influence than some one I love has a positive one? {end story}
Try As I Might
(story submitted by F, a Chestist)
Some days I feel like no matter what I do it's not good enough for anyone, myself especially. (end story)
Short but relatable. You ever feel like your efforts aren't adding up to what you want them to?
An Irrational Fear of Death
(story submiited by A.G., a chestist)
I think I have an irrational fear of death. I absolutely have an irrational fear of death.
My father died when I was 16, my mother 3 years later, and my best friend died when we were 28. I'm 33 now and every time I cough or feel a twinge or get a headache or pretty much anything, I think I'm going to die. It's not being a hypochondriac as much as really thinking I'm going to die.
I wouldn't mind the fear as much if I lived a really robust life because of them. You know, the whole live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse idea. I'm not though. It's got me afaid to do anything, to build relationships, to even consider the long term. Being afraid of dying soon is keeping me from living now.\
You have any "irrational fears" that hate on your happy?
When Family Goes Missing
(submitted anonymously, by a 39yo Chestist) Is your family together? Here's her story:
I have two daughters...1 is three years old and one is seven months...how do I empower myself to get family back together and strengthen ties for these precious beings with their uncle, aunt and most importantly...their cousins. Daughters, girls, women, mothers, sister in laws cannot sit back anymore and allow possible family connections and memories to disappear. Suggestions PLEASE. {end story}
Thanksgiving tensions aside, our extended familes can be an important part of giving our kids - to say nothing of ourselves - a sense of the past that helps contextualize the present. How close is your exnteded family? Does it feel more like obligation, habit, or joy? Any advice for our writer? Remember, you can help change her story if you share yours.
My Heart Aches
(story submitted anonymously, by a Chestist)
I broke up with him for all the wrong reasons. It's only now that I realize it but he's moved on. My heart aches without him. My heart aches for him. {end story}
There's little that can so fully and completely hate on your happy like heart ache. Most of us have been through it. What's your story?
Getting Past Anger
(by OOC)
Anger. Some of us get there quickly, some of us are a really slow boil.
Is anger an inevitable part of our lives?
What makes you angry (or who)? How do you deal with it when you are? (Us, our heart beats fast, we get red in the face, and our typically not at our most productive. Just saying.)
Losing My Dad
(story submitted by "his girl", a Chestist)
My dad is sick and probably not going to make it much longer at all. When I think about being in a world without him I get physically ill. I know it can sound strange to describe your father as your best friend. My dad is my best-friend though.
Growing up, there was nothing I couldn't say to him, tell him, share with him or ask him. My mom and I were close (she died 6 years ago) but my father and I have always been so connected. My husband loves him, and my children love their grandfather so much. He is such a part of our lives and my life that I feel so lost already. Who wil I turn to? Who will I share with? Who will listen to me and understand me the way he always has?
I know I'll always be his girl. I just don't want him to leave yet. I don't think I'll ever be ready. I know I'm not now. {end story}
Ever lose someone you were beyond close with? How'd you get past it? Have you been ...
Body Image Buzzkill
(story submitted anonymously, by an 18 yo Chestist) ~ On Repeat
Yesterday we spoke at the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham about the Medi and Public Health Act. Along with other panelists, the conversation touched on what we're eaching doing to perpetutate, create and/or change norms. It's with this in mind, that we re-share this user-submitted story from Februrary. Here it is:
On our FB page the other day we posted a Teddy Roosevelt quote reading "comparison is the thief of joy." No doubt, and to think he lived before mass, popular culture. This reader writes us with a story that takes us to a similar space. Here's her story:
I'm 18 and have been struggling with my body image since I was 12.
I've never been overweight, but compared to the girls in magazines and all over TV, I'm huge. I've struggled so much with comparing myself to others, starving myself and purging. As hard as I try to not have these feelings, and I try to think "maybe I can be normal and healthy and accept my body" that mentality only lasts ...
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One of the best pieces of parenting advice we ever got was this. You know when a baby cries? Let the baby know crying is okay. Don't try and shoosh away what the child is feeling. Let them feel it.
Most of us, pick them up anbd gently start ricking them and shooshing them and saying something like "oh, don't cry. Don't be sad, baby, it's going to be okay."
Why do we do that? Why not let the baby cry and be sad on their way to being happier and feeling more better? It's like we're demonizing an inevitable part of our emotional lives. Sadness isn't bad, it's sad. We all feel sad, we all will feel sad, and while hopefully we won't spend a lot if time in that space, we often don't give oursleves the permission to spend any time there. Why is that?
How do you deal with sadness in your life? How do you work your way throught it and past it ~ or don't you? Do you let yourself feel all your emotions, or do you try and compartmentalize ...
Happiness, Wherefore Art Thou?
(story submitted anonymously, by a Chestist)
Is it just my life or does the whole world seem off its axis lately? I feel like I've never worked harder, at my job, with my family, on myself and yet I'm like one of those hamsters or gerbils on one of those treadmills -- not getting anywhere.
I grew up really fortunate. By any reasonable standard we were rich. I never had to work, always had whatever I needed and even most of what I wanted. I also had this sense that everything was going to work out well for me. It's not like it hasn't so far because it has. Good job, great guy, loving friends and all that. It just doesn't feel like it has. I want it to feel like it has, like it is and like it will be. I don't know why I've lost my sense of optimism when I'm still so fortunate. I want it back and I want to get off this hamster treadmill. Happiness and satisfaction, wherefore art thou? {end story}
Like that perfect-on-paper-date-but-not-so-much-for-us-in-real-life, sometimes things just feel wrong even when they seem like they ...
Keeping Me Small
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i'm so scared that i don't know what i'm doing.
is this relationship holding me back and keeping me small?
should i be pursuing this career or am i crazy?
i just want to feel loved, nurtured and supported.
why do i feel like i can't provide that for myself? seeking strength right now. {end story}
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If Sue Sylvester can have this kind of insight, thinkn what the rest of us are capable of: "You know when I finally began to like who I am? When I decided to stop trying to please you." ~ (Sue to her mom)
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Yeh Hai Mohabbatein November 4 episode: Ishita thinks about the expensive jewellery set that Raman has purchased; she cannot ask him directly. She only asks whether he has bought any gift for Shagun. He says that he has done so. Ishita complains that Raman gives expensive things to others, but never does the same for her. Raman cannot understand what she says.
Everyone praises Ishita for her traditional saree which makes a different style statement. She teases Raman as he criticized her outfit. Abhimanyu tells Ashok to propose Shagun for a second time. Ashok sits on his knees and proposes Shagun with an engagement ring. Raman watches Ishita's excitement in the incident.
Raman thinks Ishita cannot dance in saree, but she says she can. A sweet fight is continued between them. Ishita leaves the party earlier than Raman. When he comes back, he sees that the house is dark. Ishita comes out in a classic bollywood outfit and dances with a classic number.
Raman is charmed seeing Ishita. Mr and Mrs Bhalla come back from movie and see the couple in a romantic mood. They are relaxed to think that the couple is not fighting any more.
Ishita tells Raman that a woman can also look sexy in saree, and it is her choice whether she wants to look sexy in a party, or only inside her bedroom in front of her husband. Raman accepts her logic gladly. In the morning Ishita comes to know that Ruhi has denied going to Shagun's marriage. She understands that Ruhi is still upset.


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Hi there! My name is Larry Kalesinskas and I am a Junior at Loyola University Chicago. I am a Bioinformatics/Biology Double Major on a Pre-Medical Track, and also part of Loyola's Interdisciplinary Honors Program. I am very much interested in Big Data-Orientated Science, using computers (along with programming and statistics) in solving our day-to-day problems and using them to expand our fields of knowledge. I am also interested in the medical field, and am currently a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician. Away from Science and Technology, I am an avid cyclist (not during the winter though! BURR!) and theatergoer.


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At the weekend we went to a wedding in Surrey. It was held in a beautiful country house hotel, Great Fosters, with a big park with manicured gardens and loads of sculptures. Dave was a groomsman, so we stayed the night before the wedding so had plenty of time in the morning to have a wee wander around the grounds.
The wedding was lovely too, and I even managed to do some dancing AND stay up til midnight (believe me, this is impressive for me at the moment!). There will be no photos of that so as to not breach anyone's privacy, since neither the bride nor groom are on facebook or have smartphones. Or ever were, so it's not a facebook suicide thing. Anyway, not relevant! I'll leave you to enjoy the pictures.


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"When you have fortitude, you stand supreme under any conditions."
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By definition, fortitude is having courage even in the face of diversity.
I like to apply this sentiment when teaching classes, especially when it comes to long holds or challenging poses. Some people may try to leave a pose when it becomes uncomfortable or it's something they don't want to try. I know, I've been there. When I first started practicing yoga, I would find reasons to leave the room when I wanted to avoid the challenging stuff. I don't do that any more. Now, I'm all in.
The practice of yoga teaches us to remain calm even when times get tough. We learn how to navigate stressful situations, remain focused, and stay committed to an end goal. This is tapas, one of the niyamas of yoga, meaning austerity, commitment and self-discipline. Fortitude is essential to increase your tapas, so that when things fall apart or become challenging, you can move through them with ease, grace, and steadiness. [Read more…]


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The strength in depth in their squad has given Ben Ryan's men hope of retaining their title next month.
England have high hopes for a Dubai Sevens hat-trick
Ben Ryan, the England coach, is confident a bolter will emerge from his injury-hit squad to give the defending champions a chance of a third successive title at the Dubai Rugby Sevens next month.
Despite being better resourced than ever before, England started their assault on this season's world series in listless fashion, with serious injury adding to the insult of losing to Spain in a consolation final at the Gold Coast Sevens.
Chris Cracknell, the indefatigable forward who has been an England regular under Ryan, went under the knife on Wednesday to repair the cruciate ligament he injured at the start of the tournament in Australia.
While Cracknell is liable to be out for some months yet, Mat Turner, the player of the tournament when England won here last year, is also set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines.
The speedy half-back broke his ankle and tore ligaments on the Gold Coast and is not expected back until next year.
However, despite the loss of two key players, Ryan is optimistic he still has enough firepower left in his 19-man centrally-contracted squad to be successful at The Sevens at the end of next month.
"Last year, Mat Turner wasn't playing very well going into Dubai then he was sensational, and the year before that Ollie Lindsay-Hague was not doing well at all for us then in Dubai he was stellar," Ryan said. "There is somebody within our ranks who is going to do the job in five weeks' time, who is not going to be very lauded but go on and light it up, I hope."
Ryan has good reason to look forward to the trip to the UAE, even with their injury problems.
England have a fine record at the showpiece occasion on Dubai's sporting calendar, having won the Emirates International Trophy four times in the past eight years.
However, the coach warned that his side will have to raise their level of performance markedly from that in Australia if they are to stand a chance of success here.
"Everyone knows there are some standards and non-negotiables," said Ryan, whose side have been drawn in a pool with South Africa, Samoa and Portugal.
"The ones who get on that plane know they will have to work hard to either correct what they didn't get right, or force their way in and bring some energy."
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We only have less than four weeks to enjoy President Barack Obama. Then all hell breaks loose under President Orange. So, Obama has continued to do his exit interviews, and he ended up sitting down with his friend David Axelrod for Axelrod's podcast. The interview came out after Christmas, and there's one part in particular that has drawn the ire of President Orange. Though he is barred by the Constitution from a third four-year-term, President Obama believes voters would have supported him … read more
On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News that one of his executive superpowers is being so wise that he doesn't need regular intelligence briefings. "You know, I'm, like, a smart person," he told Chris Wallace. "I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years."
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Some people are dealing with the reality of a Donald Trump presidency by getting high. I feel like Jeff Bridges is one of those people. I just read Bridges' Daily Beast interview, conducted post-election, and it reads like he was high AF. Not that I blame him for that at all. Jeff Bridges is a longtime Democrat, a longtime Clinton family supporter, and a longtime advocate for liberal/progressive causes. He's spent years advocating for his progressive politics, and I too have felt the urge to … read more
â "Financial crusader" John Oliver is riding a horse made of money on the latest cover of Money as its champion of the year. While Oliver recently joked that he's "wasting HBO's resources," per Vanity Fair, Money notes he dedicated whole episodes of his third season of Last Week Tonight to "complicated subjects critical to Americans' financial health," including credit reports and retirement savings, offering "detailed explanations, investigative reporting, exhortations for viewers to take … read more
At this point, I'm completely over Susan Sarandon. It's not just a forced ambivalence, either. Now I actively hate her. Her words and actions over the course of this year have been nothing short of insane. She was a Bernie Sanders supporter at first, endorsing Bernie in the early months of his candidacy. When it became clearer that Bernie was not going to win the primary – and I still don't know why that came as a shock to people? – Susan had several notable meltdowns. One of those meltdowns … read more
This is what late-night looks like with Donald Trump as President of the United States.
After most of the talk shows went off the air during Election Night, so Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Conan O'Brien, shared messages of hope and humor when they returned to address a divided nation late Wednesday.
It's no secret that Meyers favored Hillary Clinton. As he began his monologue on NBC's Late Night, he shocked his audience by saying, "Well, … read more
Now that I've had some 30-odd hours to process Donald Trump's victory, I no longer feel numb. That was my problem yesterday: I was in shock. The country was in shock. The world is in shock. I have no doubt that the next months and years are going to be brutal, difficult, infuriating, embarrassing, heinous and disastrous for our country, for our neighbors, for our friends, for our families and for ourselves. But since I actually am a positive person (I know, weird), I thought I would make a list … read more
1. Must quickly and decisively form an opposition movement, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 1960s. I will do my part to help lead this as I'm sure many others (Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, MoveOn, the hip-hop community, DFA, etc.) will, too. The core of this opposition force will be fueled by young people who, as with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, don't tolerate b.s. and are relentless in their resistance to authority. They have no interest in compromising with racists … read more
After 28 years of Donald Trump pretending to run for president and then somehow winning a nomination, and 10 years of Hillary Clinton running for president or saying she definitely wasn't going to run for president, we are finally here. The election is one day away — and after it's over, one of these two will be president. At least we think so. After this year, it's probably unwise to predict that this will happen with 100 percent certainty. I mean, what if there's a tie?
We lived through a lot … read more
Welcome to The Battle For North Carolina, a series where we take you inside one of the most contentious states in 2016.
On Tuesday, Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross was at Meredith College in Raleigh, counting the raised hands of people who had already voted early. "What's wrong," she asked, "with the rest of you?" From now until the election, North Carolina is like an electioneering Epcot, where you can find every type of supporter and every type of campaign character if you have … read more
If you need any further proof of Hamilton's cultural monumentality, watch Lin-Manuel Miranda — its playwright, songwriter, and original star — as he interviews President Obama about the musical's importance in the Broadway production's making-of documentary. With performances sold out until next spring and ticket prices in the hundreds of dollars, Hamilton's America (PBS) — which debuts tonight (October 21) — is probably the closest many of us will get to the show for a while. That's … read more
I've been wondering for a while if Hillary Clinton might be better served if she merely goes on vacation to Margaritaville for the next three weeks and empowers her surrogates to fight on her behalf. Pres. Obama is a great surrogate, as is Joe Biden, as is Elizabeth Warren. But HRC's best surrogate? Michelle Obama. You guys, when FLOTUS speaks, everyone stops and listens. Michelle hasn't even been able to say Donald Trump's name, which makes it even more powerful. Michelle f—king thrashed … read more
I was scared. Everybody I knew was scared. Perfect strangers told me to wear a bulletproof vest. Friends who were attending told me their hearts were racing and they couldn't sleep. Judgment was at hand. The seals would open. The earth would split apart and swallow up our folly. This was it. Peals of thunder. The pale horse.
In that moment, it made sense. Just after midnight on July 5, a black man named Alton Sterling who was selling CDs outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge was thrown against … read more
"Hillary Clinton has officially been to Temple more times than my parents," tweeted a junior at the Philadelphia university on Monday morning, hours before the Democratic nominee was set to give a speech before a room full of students on campus. We don't have the data to fact-check said parent-shaming, but it's true that the Democratic presidential nominee and her surrogates have been visiting Philadelphia quite a bit — part of a larger effort to convince young voters that it is possible to play … read more
For all the outrage they inspire, Donald Trump's controversial comments sometimes seem to squeak by without much consequence – until now. The US Secret Service (USSS) had words with Trump's campaign after the GOP nominee said that "Second Amendment people" could thwart Hillary Clinton – a suggestion many viewed as a thinly veiled call to violence. A US Secret Service official confirmed to CNN Wednesday that the agency has had "more than one conversation" with Trump's campaign regarding his Second … read more


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text: My older daughter (9 yo), the one that I talked about on an earlier thread for stealing $3, the one that is getting evaluated for the ED label, acted out again what is apparently her new gig- stealing. Fortunately, she is not very good at so probably gets caught every time. This past Friday she took a childs book money envelope, scratched out their name on the envelope and wrote hers then took the money. RT new eactly where to start looking when he checked the envelope and it was empty. She told her RT that she gave $10 of the money to a boy in her class (That I thought she didn't even like) and the other $1 to a girl at Boys & Girls Club. Everyone involved readily fessed up when questioned. Apparently the boy in her class gave it to a 5th grade girl who said she still had it and would bring it in tomorrow. What the hell was my difficult child thinking??? Two identical things here in addition to the stealing: 1) It was Carnival Night at Boys & Girls Club aftercare for which they need money. She did not wind up with any from the theft though & my boyfriend brought them money b4 the carnival. 2) It was book club money that she stole. My dilemma is that we planned to take our first snow trip this weekend. **If** I tell my boyfriend (who is paying for the trip) what happened- she will NOT be going on this trip! Her resource teacher is benching her for the rest of the week and will have her make amends to the student. I am SO ANGRY with her right now and I just feel like pulling my hair out!!! It's just in one ear and out the other with her! She promises she is not going to steal again every time- but keeps doing it. I talked to my sister who was a habitual stealer as a child and says she did it for the attention and because she wanted something. How do I instill in my child that you don't take other peoples things? I feel dishonest not to share this with my boyfriend but know that her punishment will be severe (and most likely innafective) if I tell him. She is being disciplined at school. What if I just acted as if I didn't know and let them deal with it? I think if she is doing this at all for attention and I/We get upset with her and give her a bunch of attention and punishments- she wins! Meanwhile, I thought I might come up with something more creative to help her learn the lesson. My idea is to start giving her allowance and arrange for it to "disappear". I wonder how upset she would be if she thought someone was stealing from her? Or maybe her just having a few bucks in her pocket will deter her from stealing. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this in a way that has been successful in stopping the behavior??? I need advice- PLEASE!


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Though it's only her fourth full-length album, third coherent one and second to reach a competitive slice of the public, Art Angels is hardly Grimes' first brush with the critical hosanna. Her last outing, Visions, boasted a broader-than-before appeal, expanding her audience beyond its once cult-like parameters; so intensely so that the single "Oblivion" — an indigo, Eurythmics-spare reflection on sexual assault, at turns chilling and thought-provoking — earned Pitchfork's nod as best song of the decade. Like her previous work, Visions felt averse to definition, more intent on suggestive effects than landing a cogent blow. All the praise seemed to reinforce the sometimes unfairly bandied accusation that the self-styled indie ethos pays little heed to catchiness, thrust or hooks—the founding tenets of modern pop music. After all, the vaguer the art, the easier it is for listeners to project their own feelings onto it, regardless of artist intentions. If Grimes' music is anything, it's "evocative."
In the past, Grimes' most arresting element, Claire Boucher's voice, was typically filtered so deep into the uncanny valley that it could often leave listeners cold. Yet a celebrated (and polarizing) Tumblr post I came across shortly thereafter put a tantalizing chip in this over-easy theory. If one took Grimes' take on "the greatest songs of all time" seriously, this down-to-earth, ambitious and funny millennial, who just so happened to be signed to and in many ways epitomized the 4AD label, wasn't all that crazy about 4AD's notoriously shadowy aesthetic after all. What emerged from this list was a revelation: Grimes loved pop with a capital P: Bey was her bae; Mariah Carey was inordinately important to her; and "I Knew You Were Trouble", a Max Martin product, was to her mind beyond reproach. This was the outlook of an artist thrillingly untroubled by blurring the lines between art and pop that the 21st century has long served to strengthen.
Two years, an entire scrapped long-player and a compelling abundance of soul-searching later (detailed best in this magnificent New Yorker profile) and we're given Art Angels: a disarming sucker punch of pop inclinations, replete with bejeweled brass knuckles. Above all, Art Angels is bursting with brilliant choruses, themselves ebullient climaxes to verses and bridges of equal melodic assurance and astounding writerly technique. Yet, for all its visceral payoffs, the beatific sound beaming out of the album isn't exactly "pop." Still, Art Angels' sound speaks to Boucher's freshly unearthed pop affections, impulses that were likely stifled in the past by the weight of indie cred as much as anything else. To make her objective even starker, she's already declared that her previous work was really just practice. And indeed, this is the first time her artistic confidence has sounded competitive; the singular sonic palette with which she paints her new meet-you-halfway melodies brings no obvious peers to mind.
That's key here: Grimes is partisan to neither side of the commercial/uncommercial coin. She's eccentric and proud of it, and as unconventional as a lot of popular music is becoming, the fun and surprise that accompanies eccentricity has been in slim supply of late. It's obvious we're living in a pop moment, in a century that's evolved from a reflexive revulsion of the big-machine con of Britney and boy bands to a time when self-conscious intellectuals strain to elevate Taylor Swift and Jason Derulo to breathless aesthetic heights. Some of this is compensation for stuff like Pitchfork's previous, unapologetic refusal to rate popular hip hop or Taylor Swift — i.e. a walk back of unwitting racism and sexism. But mostly it's just the usual insecure in-crowd maneuvering. People who twenty years ago would be crowing about the triumph of grunge guitar over Reagan-era synthesizing are now salivating over "the end of analogue comforts," as if today's manifold computer worlds aren't often the same brand of soft escapism. Yet as I see it, pop is ascendant because it uses, like hip-hop, a production style instrumentally dismissive of forms and limitations; the best pop can wrangle randomly sourced electronics into a flawless facsimile of life's organic joys (see Swift's 1989, which programmed a whole existential gamut from heartache to sex to despair to fun to longing to recovery).
Art Angels is much trickier though; its surrealist quirks might well wrinkle Swift's nose; and yet its cadences and invigorating arrangements could also turn her eyes green. Which, against Grimes' seemingly incongruous back catalogue, begs the question: is this the most unexpected march into genius in pop history? Sure, proponents of Grimes' older work will disagree. But if like me you saw smoke and mirrors in her previous records, let's be real here: how does a person who never wrote a memorable hook in her life suddenly pour forth with the sort of luxurious soul-pop erotica Mariah would kill for (case in point: "Easily")? Where and how did she locate these melodies that seemed to elude her all decade? (Her addictive deliveries of "after all I just don't like you" and "if you believe me… just – let – me – go" on "Flesh Without Blood" are just one example). There's a chorus for the ages lurking in every corner of these songs. On Art Angels, Grimes is born again. This is the sound of a free soul, the kind millennials have spent the Obama age perfecting, shuffling off every lingering restriction and convention, and pushing hard against any that won't crack.
Not that some personal sea change is Art Angels' theme. Sure, it may strike some fans as strange that Grimes now sounds so chart-ready, but she knows as well as you do that Gaga and Nicki drew a dividing line between epochs for pop-as-compromise and pop-as-vehicle-for-the-uncompromising. Radioland jubilation may be expertly effected here, but it's never conceded to; there's still a lot of room for the bizarre in the belly of her irresistible beats. In a year when Justin Bieber, roughly two seconds out of his long-merited comeuppance, proved that a world-uniting genre still has nefarious uses, it's high time for a willful weirdness infiltration. Now that critics have learned to love the conformist, or at least appreciate it, the next half of the 2010s is poised for some punk atavism, and it'd only be natural for the sonically unrestricted world of big-beat pop to provide the revolution its canvas.
And if Art Angels could be that revolution's opening salvo, Grimes has keyed her self-actualization to a relevant issue: feminism—not as a polemical wedge, but as empowerment for an increasingly genderless and post-patriarchal age. Sure, many tracks probe specific relationship situations without attempting, or requiring, broader commentary. But when she really taps into something she leaves a scar: from her hip-to-your-tricks lyricism ("you only like me when you think I'm looking sad") to girl-power anthem "Venus Fly" (which channels Beyonce's "Run the World (Girls)" and ends up running circles around it), to the way she liberates a sound that you can tell she's especially fond of — the ever-affected "anime girl" voice — from its usual exploitative trappings. On "Belly of the Beat", she finds untapped emotion in the kind of high-pitched, expressly prefab timbre previously reserved for blatantly objectified, implicitly oppressed giant-eyed illustrations. A handful of critics have expressed dismay that she's assumed this new guise, reflexively associating her J-pop and anime-culture nods with the usual prejudicial clichés without trying to hear how she's subverting and overturning them.
This is most pronounced on Art Angels' most exciting cut, "Kill v. Maim". In an age where the tired habits of wicked bros are increasingly decried, and many an insidious predator can hide behind declarations of allegiance to the cause, Grimes dons male-face for four amazing minutes without bothering to lower the pitch, slaying an entire gender with a mic drop's casual devastation. "I'm only a man, and I do what I can," her paradigm dude repeatedly defends, only growing more menacing with repetition. Breaking from the character in what is Art Angels' most wonderful moment, she reminds the whole globe-ruining male order "you gave up being good when you declared a state of WAAAAAAAR!" Frustrated contra-misogynists could make this their anthem.
You don't have to hear any such subtextual heroics to enjoy Grimes' latest album. Still, if your first reaction is perplexity or, old fan that you are, disenchantment, you may be more reactionary than think. Our increasingly mechanized future won't bear witness to pop-industry overtake any more than unsynthesized sounds will go extinct. Nah — it'll be teeming with Grimeses, grinning through conformist contradictions, ecstatically outwitting new technology into submission.


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2005 Legacy Gt
Drove to Miramar Motor Sports, never again!
Stay far away from these guy's. A friend of mine found a Legacy Gt Wagon listed in the autotrader, it was over priced but the ad said it was "babied" and only 60k mileage on it. So we went to look at it, first off the initial sales person a young guy started off respectful enough, but said "We are not flexible on price, and no you cannot take it for a test drive, until you agree on price." We we should have walked away then. After looking over the car, the leather was rock hard from sun damage the bumpers and head light had there fair share of the same. I said to he gentleman this car was misrepresented. But with the low mileage we are still interested in the car. After further review of the car they figured we were serious buyers and agreed to a test drive under one condition (should have walked away again) keep the car under 4k rpm. Easy enough for me so I did my test first, the car felt solid. Then it was my friend turn, and never owning a Subaru and unfamiliar with the clutch, he burnt the clutch a bit on take off. But the second time had it all figured out. Got back to the dealer and we discussed the car, a second sale person takes over, and gets irate about the smell of Burt clutch, my buddy apologized, it was a simple mistake. Then the guy says you agreed on the price, which was a lie, so we said enough of this and walked off. As we walked off, the second salesman yelled "You fat ****s, you fat ****s!" Really? Ok we're never going back there, then he drives up to where we were parked and yelled out the window, "You stupid fat ****s!" Totally un professional and uncalled for.
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JJ Thomson Essay Research Paper Joseph John
J.J Thomson Essay, Research Paper
Joseph John Thomson was born on December 18, 1856 near Manchester, England. His father died when
"J.J.." was only sixteen. The young Thomson attended Owens College in Manchester, where his professor of
mathematics encouraged him to apply for a scholarship at Trinity College, one of the most prestigious of the
colleges at Cambridge University. Thomson won the scholarship, and in 1880 finished second in his class in
the grueling graduation examination in mathematics. Trinity gave him a fellowship and he stayed on there,
trying to craft mathematical models that would reveal the nature of atoms and electromagnetic forces.
One hundred years ago, amidst glowing glass tubes and the hum of electricity, the British physicist
J.J.. Thomson went venturing into the interior of the atom. At the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge
University, Thomson was experimenting with currents of electricity inside empty glass tubes. He was
investigating a long-standing puzzle known as "cathode rays." His experiments prompted him to make a bold
proposal: these mysterious rays are streams of particles much smaller than atoms, they are in fact minuscule
pieces of atoms. He called these particles "corpuscles," and suggested that they might make up all of the
matter in atoms. It was startling to imagine a particle residing inside the atom–most people thought that the
atom was indivisible, the most fundamental unit of matter.
Thomson's speculation was not explicitly supported by his experiments. It took more experimental
work by Thomson and others to sort out the confusion. The atom is now known to contain other particles as
well. Yet Thomson's bold suggestion that cathode rays were material constituents of atoms turned out to be
correct. The rays are made up of electrons: very small, negatively charged particles that are indeed
fundamental parts of every atom.
Modern ideas and technologies based on the electron, leading to television and the computer and
much else, evolved through many difficult steps. Thomson's careful experiments and adventurous hypotheses
were followed by crucial experimental and theoretical work by many others in the United Kingdom,
Germany, France and elsewhere. These physicists opened for us a new perspective–a view from inside the
First, in a variation of an 1895 experiment by Jean Perrin, Thomson built a cathode ray tube ending
in a pair of metal cylinders with a slit in them. These cylinders were in turn connected to an electrometer, a
device for catching and measuring electrical charge. Perrin had found that cathode rays deposited an electric
charge. Thomson wanted to see if, by bending the rays with a magnet, he could separate the charge from the
rays. He found that when the rays entered the slit in the cylinders, the electrometer measured a large amount
of negative charge. The electrometer did not register much electric charge if the rays were bent so they
would not enter the slit. As Thomson saw it, the negative charge and the cathode rays must somehow be
stuck together: you cannot separate the charge from the rays.
All attempts had failed when physicists tried to bend cathode rays with an electric field. Now
Thomson thought of a new approach. A charged particle will normally curve as it moves through an electric
field, but not if it is surrounded by a conductor (a sheath of copper, for example). Thomson suspected that
the traces of gas remaining in the tube were being turned into an electrical conductor by the cathode rays
themselves. To test this idea, he took great pains to extract nearly all of the gas from a tube, and found that
now the cathode rays did bend in an electric field after all.
Thomson concluded from these two experiments, "I can see no escape from the conclusion that
[cathode rays] are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter." But, he continued, "What
are these particles? are they atoms, or molecules, or matter in a still finer state of subdivision?"
Thomson's third experiment sought to determine the basic properties of the particles. Although he couldn't
measure directly the mass or the electric charge of such a particle, he could measure how much the rays
were bent by a magnetic field, and how much energy they carried. From this data he could calculate the ratio
of the mass of a particle to its electric charge (m/e). He collected data using a variety of tubes and using
different gases.
Theories about the atom proliferated in the wake of Thomson's 1897 work. If Thomson had found
the single building block of all atoms, how could atoms be built up out of these corpuscles? Thomson
proposed a model, sometimes called the "plum pudding" or "raisin cake" model, in which thousands of tiny,
negatively charged corpuscles swarm inside a sort of cloud of massless positive charge. This theory was
struck down by Thomson's own former student, Ernest Rutherford. Using a different kind of particle beam,
Rutherford found evidence that the atom has a small core, a nucleus. Rutherford suggested that the atom
might resemble a tiny solar system, with a massive, positively charged center circled by only a few electrons.
Later this nucleus was found to be built of new kinds of particles (protons and neutrons), much heavier than
The results were astounding. Just as Emil Wiechert had reported earlier that year, the
mass-to-charge ratio for cathode rays turned out to be over one thousand times smaller than that of a
charged hydrogen atom. Either the cathode rays carried an enormous charge (as compared with a charged
atom), or else they were amazingly light relative to their charge.
The choice between these possibilities was settled by Philipp Lenard. Experimenting on how
cathode rays penetrate gases, he showed that if cathode rays were particles they had to have a very small
mass–far smaller than the mass of any atom. The proof was far from conclusive. But experiments by others
in the next two years yielded an independent measurement of the value of the charge (e) and confirmed this
remarkable conclusion.
Thomson boldly announced the hypothesis that "we have in the cathode rays matter in a new state,
a state in which the subdivision of matter is carried very much further than in the ordinary gaseous state: a
state in which all matter… is of one and the same kind; this matter being the substance from which all the
chemical elements are built up." Thomson presented three hypotheses about cathode rays based on his 1897
experiments: Cathode rays are charged particles (which he called "corpuscles"), these corpuscles are
constituents of the atom, and the corpuscles are the only constituents of the atom.
Thomson's speculations met with some skepticism. The second and third hypotheses were
especially controversial (the third hypothesis indeed turned out to be false). Years later he recalled, "At first
there were very few who believed in the existence of these bodies smaller than atoms. I was even told long
afterwards by a distinguished physicist who had been present at my lecture at the Royal Institution that he
thought I had been 'pulling their legs.'"
On January 2, 1890, J.J. married Rose Paget. They had 2 kids. His son, George Thomson also
went into the field of atomics. Throughout the marriage, the word "electron," coined by G. Johnstone
Stoney in 1891, had been used to denote the unit of charge found in experiments that passed electric current
through chemicals. In this sense the term was used by Joseph Larmor, J.J.. Thomson's Cambridge classmate.
Larmor devised a theory of the electron that described it as a structure in the ether. But Larmor's theory did
not describe the electron as a part of the atom. When it was discovered in 1897 that Thomson's corpuscles
were really "free electrons," he was actually disagreeing with Thomson's hypotheses. FitzGerald had in mind
the kind of "electron" described by Larmor's theory.
Gradually scientists accepted Thomson's first and second hypotheses, although with some subtle
changes in their meaning. Experiments by Thomson, Lenard, and others through the crucial year of 1897
were not enough to settle the uncertainties. In 1906, Thomson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work and
in 1918 he became the master of his college. J.J. deceased on August 30th, 1940. Real understanding
required many more experiments over later years
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Half a King
by Joe Abercrombie
Del Rey (July 15, 2014)
When we first heard that Mr. Abercrombie was penning a young-adult novel, the kingdom grinded to a halt. The commonfolk were in an uproar. "Off to the torture chamber with him!" they cried, "Do whatever it takes to make him write a proper fantasy novel!"
An overreaction? Perhaps. Despite its success, young-adult fiction is a term that raises some crooked eyebrows among the hardcore fantasy and science-fiction readers, automatically likening the term to the avalanche of soppy vampire novels and raunchy love-triangle stories that plague the shelves. Sadly, it's true that fantastic works such as Michael Grant's Gone (2008) and Sarah J. Mass' Throne of Glass (2012) are lost under the rubble. But this is Joe Abercrombie we're talking about here, and no amount of genre branding is going to stop him doing what he does best; writing blood-soaked, morally ambiguous fantasy in a dark world full of revenge, adventure and a never-ending onslaught of danger.
And Half A King is just that.
Prince Yarvi has suddenly become King Yarvi, once he learns of the deaths of both his brother and father. Thrown into a world of mockery, betrayal and people as cold as the land they live on, a cruel twist of fate finds him betrayed and sold into slavery, doomed to live and die on his knees. But we all know that an Abercrombie character isn't going to buckle so easily. And so begins his quest to escape and make his way back home to reclaim his rightful throne, the throne he never actually desired.
The book doesn't feel like an Abercrombie story. The cynical humor that once dominated the pages is hard pressed to find. Half A King seems to go for the less subtle approach, using phrases that are almost lyrical in structure. Oddly enough, as someone whose books deliberately subvert fantasy tropes, Half A King plays out a lot more like a traditional novel. Idioms such as "the cold has killed many a man" and "I have kneeled long enough" are frequently seen on the page. This is a dangerous ledge Abercrombie walks on, for a lesser writer would topple into cringe-worthy clichés and wooden dialogue. But not Abercrombie. Much like his blood-brother George R. R. Martin, these phrases never feel out of place; nor do they seem poorly fitted by the character who speaks them. This high-risk, high-reward prose works brilliantly, and is used only when it needs to be. There are still traces of dark humor, but it's far less frequent.
Unlike his previous books, Abercrombie has snatched away all the bloodstained shoes that we could don, gaining the ability to see through the eyes of multiple characters. All the fat is trimmed, leaving our crippled hero Yarvi as the one and only point of view character. Abercrombie is more than capable of juggling half a dozen characters, but it's nice to see him tighten his focus to a single protagonist. Doing so comes at a hefty cost, leaving Half A King at a bite-sized morsel of 80,000 words. This is a YA book after all. For the fantasy readers who are accustomed to their novels exceeding a quarter of a million words, this may sound unacceptable. But if you do feel that way, I'm happy to say that it felt exactly the right length, finishing exactly where it needed to finish. I definitely wanted more, but quality over quantity is a rare commodity in fantasy these days, and I was glad for the opportunity to read meat that wasn't lavishly drowned in gravy.
But not a word of the 80,000 that Abercrombie has packed in is gone to waste. Bloodshed, witty dialogue, betrayal and hair-raising adventure is stuffed into every single page. In his other novels, there are always a moment or two for a respite. Not here. There's never a single moment to stop and catch your breath. Danger is around every corner and behind every hill. Abercrombie is a master of maintaining a sense of urgency throughout the novel; a sense of dread that holds you in an iron-like grip and doesn't let go.
To all those wringing your blood-spattered hands, worrying that Half A King is low on grim, gritty violence; worry no longer! Although it is definitely toned down a notch from The First Law, there is plenty of ultra violence to go around. Fingers are severed, throats are slit, and bones are crushed. This isn't particularly new to the genre, but it's definitely a cut above the average YA novel. So while the violence is lesser than that of, say Last Arguments of Kings (2008), the horrors of war and a city under siege is never glazed over, but nor is it ever glorified.
As per usual, all this comes with a dose of moral ambiguity. Characters are difficult to categorize as good or bad, especially when later events cast them in a new light. And while we all know who we're rooting for, Yarvi gets his fair share of blood and grime on his hands too, and no deed ever goes unpunished. This quote sums it up rather nicely: "If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best."
While The First Law primary took place in a very Renaissance-esque Kingdom, the Shattered Seas has a far more Viking aesthetic to it. If anything, the Shattered Seas has a far harsher landscape, packed with frozen glaciers, snow-capped mountain, icy seas and the bitter wind. It feels like the polar opposite of his previous novels in almost every regard. From the heavy emphasis on gods and religion to the political climate and the land's unique history, no traces of his other work has managed to trickle into this new world. It's been conjured up completely from scratch. It's a blank canvas that Abercrombie has started working with, and it's definitely for the best. How often have recurring author-favorite tropes been spotted popping up out of nowhere across their body of work? Far too many. But you won't find them here.
Half A King may not be Abercrombie's best (that crown goes to The Blade Itself (2006)), but it's his most significant one. As mentioned at the outset, the YA genre has become a groan-inducing term, inspiring nightmarish visions of rows and rows of cookie-cutter books, stuffed with sickly sweet teenage vampires in all their milk-and-watery prose. Readers don't imagine it to be a wealth of fantastic literature, one that appeals to younger reader, but is not exclusively devoted to them. With Half A King, Abercrombie has done a damn fine job of eroding the barrier between adult and young-adult fantasy, something that more authors would do well to attempt. It's been a gamble, but it's one that's worked out magnificently for all parties. I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun with a YA novel, and I'm anxiously waiting for the next installment in the Shattered Seas trilogy.
With the likes of Abercrombie on the throne, it's a fine few next years, my friends.
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Born in 1995, Jeremy Szal is a Writers of the Future finalist and the author of more than forty publications. His fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in venues such as Nature, Abyss & Apex, Perihelion magazine, and his nonfiction has appeared multiple times in Strange Horizons, Grimdark Magazine, and Fantasy Scroll.


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