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I also thought this was a pretty awesome story.
The organization of the far right to take an idea that is factually incorrect and spread it around in the media and have conventional wisdom based upon it and then policy based on empirically incorrect "facts" is scary. News sites were publishing stories about Paul Krugman going bankrupt last week and that Chuck Hagel being funded by Friends of Hamas, a non-existent group, a couple of months ago after some right wing reporter spread it around. Oh yeah, Obama is a Muslim too.
Cherry-picking alone is very common, but when it gets coupled with anti-science and anti-math rhetoric and decision-making power, it gets disturbing. It seems to me that a large minority of powerful people in the GOP willfully disregard scientific, financial, and other data that is critical for smart decisions. Not everyone understands all of those details, but willful disregard is fundamentally different that relying on other people to help you figure out empirical reality. As someone who is a fan of data-based decision making and who is conservative about imposing financial and environmental risk upon unconsenting people, this scares me.
Two examples. One, offering options to some people to replace social security with privatized savings accounts. Great idea, except when you have crazy people exposing those accounts to high levels of risk that results in folks losing 1/3 of their savings. Due to people not being conservative enough about the financial risk they expose the public to, we have financial crises.
Second example: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. Will probably do a lot of good for the economy and is definitely going to happen. However, there are some real health and environmental risks associated with drilling and property rights that need to be addressed to do it righ. There are a lot of unknowns that we could understand with a little more time to do it in a much safer way, but now the GOP is completely closed to a more conservative risk strategy for drilling. Instead they want to rush in and impose unknown risks upon unconsenting property owners. Here too GOP leaders misquote studies and confuse people about what is going, dangling out the short term jobs carrot (which is good, but should not be the only consideration), so that they can do what fits with their ideology.
This leads us down the road of politicizing data-driven decision making that is typical practice for all major companies in the US. I'd be willing to bet that making government unable to use the tools of the time to govern will not lead to a good situation.
blah, blah, blah,
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
"You can prove anything with the right kind of research."
"Facts can lie, the truth never does."
It's also unfortunate the gullibility of the American people has risen dramatically since the days when the internet became commercialized.
No one knows the true effect of what we do or propose today. Tomorrow contains many variables that we can't anticipate.
Yes, the people in Washington do need to make smarter decisions based on better information. The American people need to become more informed about economics, science, and technology. Only then can our country get back on the right track.
I too am confused by what you're trying to say here. How can the American people become more informed about a subject if they dismiss research on the subject ("blah, blah, blah,", etc.)?
Generally speaking, the American people are too quick to take what they read on the internet as fact. You have to do your own research. The American media has the problem of not doing enough research or writing from a biased point of view.
At one point in time, I used to believe the numbers game. I became a Lean Six Sigma green belt and that changed it all.
Sorry, still not getting it. Are you saying we should doubt the original Reinhart and Rogoff study, or the study that reported the flaws in the original study, or the media source from which Fly learned about the second study? When you "do your own research," where do you get your raw data? And did Lean Six Sigma teach you to beware of other people's numbers, or did you become aware of the way that they play around with numbers?
"Facts can lie, the truth never does."
One example is when Obama said to the Mexican People.
"This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States… more than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that lay in our shared border. So we have responsibilities as well." BS!
Fly im still trying to figure out your point? To bash the contemporary Republican? As for a austerity program it makes since to me. Austerity programs can and do reflect both dem and gop agenda i.e. "tax increase" or "cuts in SS spending". What is balanceing a budget if not asserting some form of austerity program?
I think walkie may be trying to say that all the statistics and facts and such tossed around by fly and climegeist are enough to make your head spin. I have avoided this blog because it made my head hurt, not just spin.
Personally, I am getting tired of all the discussion about how "THEY" are deliberately misleading us, lying to us, feeding us poison, taking our guns, etc.
There are millions of people in this country and most of us are good folks. I don't believe most of us lie, steal, or murder as a daily practice.
If I dropped my wallet, I believe Fly would hand it back to me, and I trust that if I found Fly's wallet, he would not poison my sweet tea while I wasn't looking.
Geez people... lighten up.
Fly, just the other day I was agreeing with you! Today, however, I have to give a little input.
Being married to a professor of accounting who has worked in the business school and done plenty of research, he and many others will tell you that research and numbers can ALWAYS be skewed.
they can be skewed by anyone, on any side of an issue.
What needs to happen right now, is we need to set party aside and come up with a plan that will work for our country.
In my opinion, that doesn't require any further research; the evidence is right there as plain as the nose on their faces.
the problem is that the majority of them have no desire to do anything other than argue over who's right and who's wrong.
We need to clean house in DC.
Balancing the budget would seem to be the simple solution ,but simple solutions are never quite that simple. I think you may be assuming that all government workers are lazy and that most government program are bloated and unneeded,ignoring the fact that many government programs are vital to the health of the nation and passing over the fact that government workers buy groceries,pay rent, make car payments and pay taxes. In this instance austerity would reduce government spending but also have deleterious effects on the economy.Shall we kick grandma to the curb? Shall we shut down the FDA? Sell off the national parks? And what about all of those federal transfer payments to all of those red states that receive more federal money than they send to Washington? Shall we cut veterans benefits? Basic research? Does all of this take place without a tax cut? Do we assume that a national budget is comparable to a personal budget? In balancing the budget are we putting ideology ahead of pragmatism? My feeling is that the conservative embrace of austerity has more to do with politics than with economics.
Yes, numbers CAN always be skewed, but that doesn't mean they ARE always skewed, nor does it mean that skew can't be detected. Saying "well, numbers can lie" to dismiss a study whose conclusions are distasteful to you, without any evidence that their data or analyses are in fact skewed -- well, sorry, I can't think of a gentle way to describe that thought process!
There are a lot of interesting ideas being touched on here:
- on how the world is complicated even though (and I'd say because!) everyone has their own, simpler, ideas on how things should be
- on what things (other people) should base their decisions
- on balancing the federal budget (pols love to invoke 'we the people have to balance our budget, so why can't the government,' but how many Americans do you know who are debt-free?)
- on the idea of government as business (wait, that's not this thread, but still interesting).
I did not broach the government- as -a -business trope which I think is harmful. We are ,after all ,citizens of this nation and not merely consumers of services or customers. Citizenship demands much more than the vendor /customer relationship.Why devalue the relationship? Would young forensic students rifle Bartletts to find quotations about the glories of consumerism?How about this one: " If I have one life to give,let me die for my service provider"?
The government as a business doesn't play any better at the state level .The governors customer service initiative sets my teeth on edge.... We are citizens of Georgia too d... ..!
Let business do what it does best and that is to run business. When business intrudes into every aspect of American life , we all suffer.
Fly, When you say "I think you may be assuming that all government workers are lazy..." by "you" I assume you mean me. From what Ive said, you assume, I think all government workers are lazy. Why are you bashing me I am not a contemporary republican. 22
Pus, A well balanced budget does not mean "debt-free" think about how many americans have a balanced budget.
22, I am not bashing you. I made an inference based on some of your earlier comments. If I have been unfair, I apologize.
But the two are inextricably linked. Try to find an article about balancing budgets, either personal or governmental, in which debt is not a central topic. I'm curious, though, how many Americans you think have a "balanced budget."
Incidentally, if you choose to follow the "if I have to balance my budget, then so does the government" analogy, I'll note that you can't balance a personal budget OVER TIME simply by cutting expenses; you have to increase your income stream.
Thomas Herndon is the greatest economist to ever live. He has proved that debt has no relationship to economic activity. How have the greatest minds missed what he has now found? What a genius, and he is only a graduate student! What next. A new theory on gravity? Maybe he can solve the nuclear fission mystery. Need I go on.
No, please don't. Herndon didn't "prove" anything, he provided compelling evidence for serious flaws in earlier analyses. Misrepresenting him, and then mocking this imaginary version of him, instead of responding to what he actually found, is lazy and foolish.
The 90% debt to GDP is the amount of money our nation owes. It is our debt. Our current debt is over 16 Tillion dollars a year.To service it (pay the interest) is 900 Billion each year. This is what we spend on welfare programs ,medicaid and other social programs each year. The 900 Billion to pay to service our 16 Tillion in debt, comes from you and I paying higher taxes each year, which takes the money out of the pivate sector, which slows economic growth. People can't buy a new car because they need that money to pay higher taxes, so the government can pay the 900 Billion debt service. The 900 Billion does not pay off the debt,that 900 Billion only pays the interest for one year on the 16 Trillion in debt we still owe.Finally, this President and his Socialist Allies (Democrats) want to tax more money from the people, not to pay down the principal on the 16 Trillion dollar debt, and thus reduce the 900 Billion debt service cost each year, he wants to spend the money redistributing the taxpayers money to his socialist friends who don't deserve it. Our Government is not to be a rackateering enterprise. That is what corrupt governments around the world do. Finally, for those of you reading this, ask yourselves the following:
If you run up your credit card debt by 50,000 dollars, your minimum monthy payment wil go up. That minimum payment only pays the interest. You need to pay more than the minimum payment to begin paying off your debt. If you did not have any credit card debt, you would have more money to spend on new clothes,a new car, new shoes and so on. The same is true for government. So, I am to believe that because someone showed that two Harvard Professors don't know how to use a calculator, is a reason to abandon all logic concerning economics, is foolishness.
1. The $16 trillion debt includes $5 intragovernmental debt that does not, as far as I can tell, impose any kind of repayment burden on the public, because it's money that one branch of government borrows from another.
2. The interest paid on the federal debt in fiscal year 2013 was actually $191 billion, so either you've exaggerated your claim by some 470% or else you're mistakenly using a measure of "debt service" that includes both interest and principal payments (i.e., paying down our debt); I can't find that $900 billion figure anywhere, so I don't know which it is. But simple use of a calculator should convince you that your numbers are wrong: $900 billion interest on $16 trillion equals an interest rate of over 5.5%, which is rather significantly higher than what the Fed is paying!
3. I'm quite sure you don't REALLY want the Federal government to manage its money like a business (i.e., how many businesses do you know that do not borrow significant amounts of money) nor like a private household (most of which have significant debt for major purchases like homes and cars, and which ideally should have lots of money set aside in savings!). These are foolish analogies, because government is specifically designed to deal with issues that aren't best handled by either businesses or private households, so why would it approach these issues in the same way?
4. You're fond of slapping Obama, and Democrats, and anyone with liberal leanings, with the inflammatory label Socialist, but by defining it in terms of redistributing taxpayer money, you make the label meaningless, because, again, I doubt you REALLY think Bill Gates should receive 200 times as many benefits from the government than you do just because he pays 200 times as much taxes as you do!
But yes, I agree that our government is pretty dysfunctional, inefficient, and doesn't always work in our best interests. However, I continue to hope against hope that logic and evidence can prevail against irrational ranting, no matter how heartfelt. Because if you don't know what you're doing, and don't know it, you can easily make a bad situation much, much worse.
I didn't read the study cited, so I don't feel capable of comment. Wonder how many of the contributors to this blog could say the same (but contributed anyway).
Fly,excellent blog. Til you got to party bashing. Enjoyed it anyway. Very well done.
Our national debt is money we own to those who lent our government money. Money that the government spent on things that were over and above items paid for by taxes collected for budgeted items. Those who purchased our government bonds lent us the money. China has bought the lion's share of our bonds, and they want their interest payments each year and also their principal back at some point in time. It is not one part of the government lending the money to another part of the government. This is real debt and real money. Explaining what our President and his political allies have been doing is not ranting, it is calling it for what it is Socialism.
So all of the pele who receive Social Security are socialists? if Democrats are socialists, are Republicans fascists? I thought I knew what these terms meant. Please explain.
Social Security is a government retirement system to supplement a person's private retirement savings. The system requires you to pay into the system by law. It was to pay for itself. You put money in throughout your working live, 40 years or more, and you would get a monthly check in your retirement years. This is not Socialism because the individual pays for the end benefit, but it is bad government policy. The rate of return on Social Security has been 2%. Had the American people been required by law to invest that money into a private IRA, 401K or other retirement funds, the rate of return would have averaged 6% or more. This proves that government never can do better, what the private sector is set up to do. Government has no business getting involved where it doesn't belong.
In addition to the bad rate of return, politicians who have control over your Social Security money rather than you having control over your money if it were in a private sector retirement account, our politicians have raided the Social Security Trust Fund to allow millions of people who never paid in a dime to Social Security to receive payments from the fund. By having the government involved, our politicians have more power to control our lives. It grows the government, costing us more unnecessary tax dollars, paying for a failed system, and by doing this promotes Socialism.Dependency on government.
Finally, both parties are socialistic. The Democrats are committed to full Socialism where the government will control everything. The Republicans are Socialist when it helps them get re-elected. The current Immigration Bill illustrates this point. Our government was designed (A Republic Style Government) to stay out of our lives. Read the grievances listed in our Declaration of Independence. We had had enough of the King's government being in everything and controlling our lives. We fought a Revolution to rid ourselves of that oppressive Socialist Government. Sadly, we have spent the past 100 years trying to go back to that British Style Socialist Government. The American Socialists are winning because they have control of our education system controlled by government. Our children are being taught to hate this country, what it was founded on, what it has stood for and that our country is the cause of problems in the world. Nothing is farther from the truth. Our children are being lied to. Plato told the Greeks " If you want to know the future, it is, who is teaching the youth, and what are they teaching. Americans need to wake up, and re-learn our founding and insist that our children be taught the truth about our history. I was recently in a high school classroom in this county. The History teacher had left on the board that day's lesson. It said the following:
Lesson Objective: Causes of American Imperialism! If this doesn't outrage you, than you too have been lied to.
Bush floated the idea of private retirement accounts. Given the fiscal shennaginans allowed on his watch, I think we all dodged a bullet by not privatizing the system.
I really don't understand the screed against teachers.I also think you are making some sweeping generalizations.Some teachers may be too liberal for your tastes ,but others would share your opinions. As a rule, high school teachers are fairly conservative, and I suspect that the comment left on the board was taken out of context.Did you bring some preconceived notions with you?
I was not a big fan of Bush. He was far better than Gore. For me, Bush did one huge thing right. He correctly identified our war with Islamic Terrorists, when he said to the world " You are either with us or against us". This should still be our policy. Many lies were told about him, including those on his proposal to privatize Social Security. It was lied about because if it were privatized, the politicians lose that control over your life.
As for my comment on the teacher's lesson, when did you graduate from high school? Are your history teachers still teaching? What has been happening in school's outside of the Southern States for the past 45years is now happing in the past 10-15 years in the South. I retired from teaching two years ago. This type lesson was common with certain history teachers. Younger history teachers, under 40, learned their American liberal re-write of American History in their college courses taught by liberal professors and re-enforced by new revised Liberal written history textbooks. What I am saying is, they only know what they have been taught, and they teach it to our children. I applaud you for having the same reaction as I to the objective of that days' lesson, however it happens far more often than you think.
I will second Ironside's comment about some teachers. I know several and some of them are quite liberal. That is fine with me if that is their personal politics, but I remember several nights of straightening out that day's lesson because the teacher put a very liberal spin on things that occurred in the 19th century.
Not on the blogs. Not a chance. Not only will I not disparage another person's integrity when they cannot defend themselves, I will not threaten their livelihood.
I considered being a History teacher at one time, and gave some thought to how I might conduct a class. I felt I could honestly keep (most) of my personal opinions out of the classroom. Either some teachers do not have that much self control, or they deliberately try to work their agenda whenever they can.
My history teachers taught American history without any personal spin. The textbooks had no agenda or spin. We did have open debates in class on all the political issues of the day, and current events. It was the 1960's and the Left's golden age of social change that they were pushing on to America. But, our debates were student generated and we always had student opinions from both sides and all sides. My teachers would become moderators of our debates. They never added their personal opinions.
When, I became a teacher, I followed this style of teaching because it is the only way to insure that student inquiry would not become indoctrination. A teacher must guard against injecting their personal opinion because students would tend to side with the teachers point of view to gain favor., and the teacher is an authority figure and must be right, that is why they are the teacher. I did play devil's advocate if there were no student willing to take the opposite point of view. But, again I would put it in a context like " What about this or that" to guide them to consider other points of view and debate them.
This style of teaching is not happening today, and it is not taught to college students studying to become teachers in our Schools of Education in our Colleges and Universities. Sadly, what is happening is open teacher opinion being expressed in the classroom.
Fly, No Worries. Often Its hard for me to truly understand what someone is saying when there is no eye contact, body language and tone. So I assume that Bryant stopped reading when she-he got to the part about "Contemporary Republican thought is sclerotic..." 22
Sorry for the break in postings, I had my own post-secondary education to deal with.
Don't believe any research until you can prove it with your own research. We are too quick to take what another person says as truthful fact.
For every one person pointing out evidence in the pro, another person can point out evidence in the negative. One must be willing to research and research with accuracy and credibility.
A common example is the fake "global climate change" debate. I have yet to find any single person to tell me what the optimum temperature is for our planet. We are 100,000 years out of our last ice age, we are probably nearing the day of the optimum temp, or maybe in another 10,000 or so years. This planet we live on has survive far more dangerous things than humankind. In retrospect, humans are a minor part of our ecological threat. The sun in the sky is a much bigger threat. Yet, I hear no one calling for sun control.
In regards to politics, we can't blame the politicians because we are the ones who put them there.
In regards to education, we had a great education system before President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. Even Dr. William J. Bennett, the first Secretary of Education is often the first person to say that in a crowded room or radio airways.
Research never "proves" anything, it gives you the probability that a hypothesis is incorrect! Every researcher knows that they may be wrong. Because of this, scientists are inherently skeptical; you should never "believe" research per se. Instead, you should be able to evaluate the data, the analysis, and the conclusions, and hopefully come up with the same odds that they did (but it doesn't always work that way, as Fly is pointing out in this post!). This is far more productive than doing your own research on everything; how could you even do that? And since you can't, where does that leave you? I'm not saying you shouldn't do research (it's what I do, after all!), I'm saying you need to be able to evaluate the logic and evidence of others as well.
The fact that you can always find people claiming "evidence!" on either side of any issue is too often used as an excuse to simply discount any evidence that contradicts your preconceptions.
"What is the optimum temperature for the entire planet?" is a nonsense question. The planet doesn't care, of course, so temperature could only matter for its inhabitants, and surely you realize that what's optimal for polar bears isn't optimal for orchids. Even if the only inhabitants you care about are people, there isn't going to be a single answer for all humanity either, and in any case, the problem isn't so much the temperature itself as it's the speed of the change in the temperature.
As far as the planet surviving catastrophes in the past, that's true, but not without massive consequences to its inhabitants (meaning, those that were present at the time were largely destroyed!). People survive cancer, but does that mean we've got a "fake cancer debate"?
Finally, I can't even imagine how you can conclude that "humans are a minor part of our ecological threat" unless you scrupulously avoid reading anything that has to do with pollution, habitat destruction, invasive species, overharvesting, ecology, humans, plants, or animals.
Let me be of assistance. Read about the fate of Sumerians,the Toltecs, the Mayans,the Anazazi ,and the residents of Easter Island and report back to me.You might also read the latest from Alexander Von Humbolt (1805).Lebanon is hotter and drier because the fabled cedars of Lebanon were logged off in antiquity. Take a long look at the J Curve, a graph that vividly illustrates the global warming phenomenon.If you do, you will note a correlation between industrial activity and rising temperature.
Human activity does have deleterious effects on the environment and has affected climate.And modern technology has given us the means to truly upend the apple cart. Modern man has cast a long shadow over the earth ,and unless we heed the warnings that are all around us, we will reap the whirlwind.
Global warming is apolitical.We do not have Democratic science and Republican science.We have only science.Republicans/Libertarians (disgruntled Republicans who want to smoke dope) make themselves look foolish and irrelevant if they choose to ignore the overwhelming evidence that we now have before us. We need to do something about it and soon.
Bill Bennet took The McGuffy Reader and sucked the life out of it to create his tomes for children.Pity the poor children!
If you can cite one new idea the Republican Party has floated about anything, I will retract my "sclerotic" comment.If you can refute the Republican animus against government and the great influence that Grover Norquist exerts on the party faithful, I will retract that statement as well.Many points are debatable ,but sometimes people are just wrong. The contemporary Republican Party seems to be wrong most of the time.
Regarding the OP: Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff wrote an editorial for the NYTimes today that 1) agreed with Herndon about their coding errors, 2) disagreed that they cherrypicked and massaged the data they did use, 3) complained that "The politically charged discussion, especially sharp in the past week or so, has falsely equated our finding of a negative association between debt and growth with an unambiguous call for austerity."
The first two items, incidentally, are pretty common in the scientific literature (not sure if economics qualifies, but I'm just saying these kind of disagreements do happen among researchers, and people do actually concede errors); the third item (i.e., interested parties manipulating research findings to fit their own agenda) happens all too often.
variable value food stamps
makeing mortage bailout recourse loans
fewer government agencies
"taxing consumption over income"
the emancipation proclamation!!
free markets
laissez-faire economics
reduced income tax rates
electronic medical records
removing federal review of the recognition of same-sex marriage
the national park service T Roosevelt
the EPA Nixon
Kyoto Protocols
increased oil drilling
pro life
partial birth abortion ban
gun ower rights
not suporting US department of education
training for jobs in high demand "scholarships" for tech training
social impact bonds
no or "exempt from" obamacare
JOBS act
blocking executive decision etc etc
tax credits for hiring veterans
prohibiting back door amnesty act
STEM jods act
strong national defence
strong support for Israel
fly im sure that,
never had a good idea for our country...
variable value food stamps
makeing mortage bailout recourse loans
social security reform
smaller government
fly your right not one good new idea.
Your list needs some editing.For example, Grant was too trusting and his administration was darkened by the Credit Moblier scandal and endemic corruption.Roosevelt would be called a RINO today. Harding was widely regarded as incompetent ,and his administration was marred by the Tea Pot Dome scandal. Coolidge wore funny hats and turned a blind eye to malfeasance on Wall Street. Hoover was a good man and a great humanitarian but was hampered by a conservative ideology that did not permit him to think outside of the box at a time when bold measures were needed to cope with the ravages of the Great Depression. Reagan set conservation and environmentalism back thirty years.Even avid conservatives don't want to claim W.
Laissez Fair predates the Republican Party.
Free markets are also encouraged by Democrats.
Social Security reform means cuts to Social Security.
Right to work laws have led to increased income inequality.
Reagan dropped the ball on immigration reform in 86.
Gun laws are too lax.
Oil companies should not be given a free pass on land held as a public trust.
Some drilling really needs to be restricted.
We should have signed the Kyoto Protocols long ago as even far right Republicans are coming to see that global warming is a problem.
Our relationship with Israel is often contrary to the national interest.
There a flaws in my post I'm sure, also there are flaws and scandal has haunted some great people. But you asked me to cite one new idea the GOP has floated. Did you not see one new idea or better, one good idea in the bunch? Reform does not have to mean cuts in SS. Better allocations is reform.
The better ideas on your list would not find favor among contemporary Republicans. The GOP is in a lot of trouble. Even Republicans note that.


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College cheerleaders and dancers spent the last couple of months on the sidelines cheering on some of the best teams in college sports. Some of them even got the opportunity to cheer in a Bowl Game, but now it's their turn to take the stage! From January 13 to 15, the country's top college cheerleaders and dancers will assemble at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando to compete in a national championship of their own.
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What persuasive argument(s) might prove that the texts 1984 and Hamlet have powerful themes? [George Orwell's 1984 and William Shakespeare's Hamlet]
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Arguably, 1984 and Hamlet, deal with existential themes as both protagonists contemplate their individual identities within their environments. Here are some aspects of each work that can be considered:
- Alienation
Both Winston Smith and Hamlet--albeit much more complex a personage--are alienated in their societies. In the exposition of 1984, for instance, Winston finds himself forced to create a facade; as he makes his way through the street of "gorilla-faced guards," under the scrutiny of telescreens, he
...set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen.
Unable to trust anyone, Winston feels himself alone. However, he finds solace in writing in a book he has secretly purchased, a book of "peculiar" beauty found in a junk shop, a relic of a time in which the expression of the soul was not dead. It is in this diary that Winston bares his soul, venting his hatred of Big Brother and his feelings "in sheer panic," but also in the desperate need to express himself freely as a thinking man.
Similarly, Hamlet feels himself alone in the corrupt court of Denmark where he, too, is watched by the sycophants of the usurper, King Claudius. To Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern Hamlet presents a facade, but his soliloquies are the private expressions of his inner being as he vents his hatred for Claudius and his disgust with his mother, that "pernicious woman" as well as his own self-examination. In his first soliloquy, for example, after having spoken with his father's ghost, interestingly, Hamlet uses the metaphor of "book" for his consciousness:
Remember thee [King Hamlet]?
....thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmixed with baser matter.(1.5.97-103)
Further in the two narratives, both Winston and Hamlet become confused and disturbed by their alienation. This emotional turbulence within them causes Winston to seek a surcease of his angsts with Julia, who shares his psychological rebellion against the tyranny of their government. He commits these "thoughtcrimes" in his diary and with Julia knowing that he will be arrested and tortured if caught. But, without this expression of his humanity, Winston is bereft. In Chapter II of Part Two, the first contact of Winston with Julia is especially poignant as he cannot feel many natural impulses at first with her because of the alienation from feeling that has so long been imposed upon him. In Hamlet, the paranoia that develops from his mistrust and its resulting alienation leads him, also, to a confusion of feelings ranging from deep melancholy, paranoia, and rage. Finally, he, too, rebels and follows a course of action.
- Fatality
In both protagonists, there is a sense of the tragic state of their lives as the meaninglessness of life and the imminent presence of death is clearly in the minds of these men. While Winston Smith cannot not possess the depth of introspection of the perspicacious and deeply poetic Hamlet because of the world in which he has been thrown after the disappearance of his mother, he, nevertheless, has an innate understanding of the fatality of one's inner being in Oceania that can only find expression by breaking the law. Throughout Shakespeare's play, not completely unlike Winston, Hamlet wrestles with the concepts of freedom, meaning in life, and nihilism. For, he, too, realizes as does Winston, that only in challenging death can he find meaning to his life.


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LeBron James becomes first player to score 30 points and shoot 60 percent in six straight games (video)
Originally posted on Hoop Fantasies Fantasy Basketball Blog | Last updated 2/13/13
LeBron James becomes is playing otherworldly basketball. King James scored 30 points and shoot 60 percent in six consecutive games. In Tuesday's shootout win over the Portland Trail Blazers, James scored 30 points (11-of-15 shooting and 7-of-8 from the line) with a three, six rebounds, nine assists, three steals and two blocks in 39 minutes. It's just not fair. And poor Sasha Pavlovic gets abused in this highlight video. James didn't even lead his team in scoring. Chris Bosh did with 32 points (13-of-16 field goals and 6-of-6 free throws) with 11 rebounds and two steals. Dwyane Wade's line seems almost pedestrian in comparison to James: 24 points, nine rebounds, seven assists, a steal and two blocks.
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A good credit score can put you in the driver's seat of the car of your dreams. However, if you already have a lot of debt, the high monthly payments on the car you covet can add up to big trouble. That's why many lenders look at your debt-to-income ratio when qualifying you for an auto loan. Including the expense of the new car, lenders want your total debt to be no more than 36 percent of your income.
Current Debt
Your current monthly obligations determine how much debt you can afford to take on to purchase a car. Combine the monthly payments for your installment loans, student loans, credit cards, mortgage and other loans. If you don't own your home, add your monthly rent. Even though you didn't borrow to rent your home, the regular obligation reduces your ability to handle more bills. Do not include groceries, gasoline or other variable expenses in this calculation even though you pay them each month.
Add up your current monthly income from all sources, including your salary, your spouse's salary and income from investments. Use your income before deductions, or the gross income. Divide your total debt by your gross income to get your current debt-to-income ratio. If math is not your strong suit, use an online debt-to-income calculator, such as the one at Bankrate.com. The 36 percent figure is commonly used in the lending industry. Lenders who quote a maximum debt-to-income ratio lower than 36 percent are generally excluding housing expenses.
Maximum Monthly Payments
Multiply your gross income by 36 percent to determine the maximum monthly debt payments you can make. For example, if your total monthly income is $5,000, multiply $5,000 by 0.36, or 36 percent, for a result of $1,800. Your total monthly debt obligations should not exceed $1,800 per month. If you have $1,300 in other monthly obligations, subtract $1,300 from the total, leaving $500 available each month for car payments. Add taxes, registration and insurance costs to figure the true monthly payments for a car. According to "Consumer Reports," these fees can increase your cost by 10 percent.
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If the car you want puts your ratio over 36 percent, you have options. If you don't want to pick a cheaper car, you could put more money down on the one you want, either in cash, or by trading in your old car. Selling your old car yourself often nets you more for a down payment than a dealer trade-in. Stretching out the term will also lower the monthly payments and the debt-to-income ratio. However, in her 2009 book "Making the Most of Your Money Now," Jane Bryant Quinn warns that loans of five years or more often result in you owing more than the car is worth for up to three years. This could mean big trouble if you have to sell before that time.
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Feb 1 | Dave Gibson Like everyone else, leads have slowed for us too, so marketing is naturally expected to make up for that. Being the one-man marketing team and already tapped, I needed some help. I looked out across the studio and suddenly before my eyes I saw my crew transform from designers, programmers, and strategists into micro marketers. Each has networks and each has expertise and knowledge they can share. The challenge is that many are not natural marketers and they need guidance. So consider this as a guide to help employees be better micro marketers.
First a little context. For marketing managers and employers, its important to realized that whether they know it or not, and whether for good or bad, your employees that already blog and participate in social networks are already brand ambassadors representing your company. As networks grow and mix personal with professional connections (read Facebook Cures Personal/Professional Schizophrenia) employees need to first recognize that once that mix happens, everything they post will contribute to the impression of the company.
The opportunity here lies in identifying people with relevant and marketable expertise in your company and position them as thought leaders for the company. When convinced of the value and properly guided and motivated, these employees can each serve as mini marketers that open up entirely new channels.
Employee Guide to Social 1. Separating Personal and Professional: Make a conscious decision and act accordingly. Each employee should decide whether they should mix business with pleasure, and assume that once you do, you can't turn back. Facebook is where we see this the most. A colleague or client invites you to be a friend. If you say yes, from that point on, they see what you post and what is posted to your wall. Everyone just needs to be conscious of this line and then act accordingly if it's crossed.
Now there are methods for maintaining degrees of separation. One is to identify channels. You can decide that you're going to use Facebook only for friends and family, and use LinkedIn for your professional network. I think this is common and acceptable. You just need to explain this to folks that invite you to join a network – call it your personal network policy.
Facebook also allows you to create "friend lists" for which you can control what members of a list can or cannot see. You can setup a "Professional Limited" friend category for example, and restrict access so that they don't see your photos, religious and political affiliations, etc.
Companies might want to consider policies that address these issues as well. This begs a posting all on its own.
2. Employee as Company Ambassador Once the line is crossed and an employee is posting publicly or within networks that include professional contacts, they're online actions reflect upon the company. The simple test of what content would be appropriate to post might include asking yourself "would I email this to my boss or a customer?"
3. Understand the Strategy and its Value It's important for those participating to first understand why this matters. For Propeller, online marketing and application development is constantly evolving, so there is a lot of education we have to do about the risks and opportunities, and the strategies that address both. There are also a lot of hacks. So, our social strategy is to first educate our community and position Propeller as the partner for both the strategy and execution. We want to be recognized for our thought leadership and further the separation the wheat from the chafe.
This effort is valuable because we ultimately want to build upon our position of thought leadership. Plus we need to educate our clients and the market about what we do and its value. In our business, the person-to-person relationship is very important. We want to earn trust, and it starts with honesty and showing potential customers who we really are. We have excellent people with great ideas, strong work ethic and high values. We want to leverage all these things through multiple channels and build broader awareness with the least amount of effort (for me).
The other huge value point is how these efforts affect SEO. Dominating the search engine results page (SERP) is of major importance. Multiple channels and the in-bound and cross links that an army of micro marketers can provide is gold. Let your staff know of pages that need inbound links and the associated keywords for staffers to user in their posts and the anchor text of the link. Outbound links are important too for that matter.
4. Channels, Message, Tone Whether it's the website, blog, LinkedIn, Facebook ,Twitter – the message and tone is going to be unique. The audience will be different as will be the culture. Let me walk through just a few channels – there are many more, but this is a combo that work well together. I'm ordering these from strictest to loosest in terms of message and tone. In all, while the conversation tone may become more conversational, don't abandon proper grammar, spelling, and common sense. Assume your mother, your boss, and your customer will read anything you write.
Website: Here the message is professionally designed, with clear communication of your mission, offering, and competitive advantage. It's tight and professional. The average employee isn't going to write on the site, but the website serves as the strictest of the channels
Blog: Depending on the company the blog is going to serve many purposes such as education, customer engagement, hr recruiting, and/or SEO. Where the website may be written in the second or third person, here you write in the first. The tone shifts to be more conversational and real – here you talk to the audience as if they're in the room with you. It's an opportunity to really demonstrate thought leadership while educating clients.
LinkedIn: As a professional networking tool used for lead generation, customer engagement, branding, recruiting – the tone of the profile page tends to be pretty stiff. Consider it to be a dynamic resume – so dot each i and cross teach t.
Facebook: Crosses personal with professional with those that choose. Create a "friend list" for professional contacts and restrict access. Be smart, and use good judgment about what you post and who can see it. Facebook can be used very effectively as a channel for positioning yourself as a thought leader – and for getting the word out.
Twitter: As a microblogging platform, you only have 140 characters to make your point anyhow, so grammar and spelling are out the door. Text messaging short cuts are common. Rather than sharing the fact that you're eating a PB&J, this channel is more effective in sharing what has your attention: breaking news, links, ideas, and events. Here's a great article on using Twitter for business by Chris Brogan
5. Appropriate Content You want to obviously put a positive light on what you post. Don't air your dirty laundry. Duh, right? You'd be surprised. You may address a challenge your company might face, but make sure the challenge isn't potentially damaging to the sense of trust from the customer, and then only to highlight the brilliant solution that evolved from addressing the challenge. Transparency is important, but for the sake of your company, be smart about it. In all, take it back to that rule mentioned before: if it passes the mom, boss and customer test, it's probably fine. If you have a question, ask the person in charge of the company's marketing strategy.
In general though, content needs to be engaging to the given audience. Allow humor and tangents. Let it be fun to write.
Last Point for Employers and Managers For employers, temper fears of "controlling the message", and understand that its too late for that. The opportunity is to now engage and turn your crew into an army of micro marketers to position your company where you want it.
Post Script | March 25, 09 : Found this blog post noting the US Air Force's adoption of social media and their use of service men as word-of-mouth communicators. For all those afraid of loosing control of the message - consider the implications of the military now entering the social web.


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Blackburn Rovers are close to securing the services of Barry Bannan from Aston Villa.
The 23-year old midfielder is unlikely to feature under Paul Lambert this season after he signed the likes of Leandro Bacuna and Aleksandar Tonev and could move to Ewood Park for around £750,000.
Rovers boss Gary Bowyer was fairly confident of getting the deal done: "It's still ongoing. These things take a little bit longer than managers want.
"We have just got to keep working hard at it and try to get things over the line. If it doesn't happen, then we have got other targets that we can certainly aim for."
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Experts place toddlers as children from ages one to three years old, a moment of your little angel's life suspended between being an infant and a preschooler. Aside from infancy, this age also needs constant attention and care as they are more prone to injury, poisoning and various behavioral disorders. Being a toddler is also an area of growth and development not only in physically but mentally and emotionally as well. This article will tackle toddler milestones and what you can do as a parent to help them out:
Physical toddler development milestones:
- Being able to throw and kick a ball (12 months-24 months) – Shortly after your child's first birthday cake, he will most likely show an interest for ball play. Initially, he will throw the ball around, waiting for someone else to pick it up and give it to them or picking it up on their own. Kicking the ball typically comes around when they reach 2 years old. It is important that you assist and guide the child on these activities, especially since they are not as adept in handling the ball compared to school-age children.
- Being able to push and pull (12-18 months) – This milestone oftentimes depends on the child's ability and confidence to walk as well. Once they get the hang of using their feet to move around and to be able to coordinate the movements of their hands and feet well, they will also have an affinity to pull or push toys along with them. Provide them toys that they can push and pull around such as toy cars with strings. It is important to remember to restrict the cord only up to 12 inches to avoid potential for strangulation.
- Potty training (24-36 months) – This is probably one of the most exciting toddler milestones for most parents as they would no longer need to spend on diapers. However, it is important to remember that the readiness of children differ from time to time. Your child needs to be able to show initiative when he needs to go to the potty or when he shows interest in potty-training. If you see these signs in your child, you can begin toilet training.
Psychosocial toddler development milestones
- Being able to acquire independence (18-36 months) – Normally, it isn't until their second year that toddlers feel like being their own individual instead of a joined entity with that of their primary caregiver. As a parent or guardian, it is your duty to assist your toddler into acquiring that independence. Offer him choices such as what food he likes to eat, what clothes he would like to wear in the morning, what color of hanky he would like to bring and so on. You should also allow your child to explore on his own.
- Being able to learn empathy (24 months) – This is an important psychosocial milestone for your toddler as it enables them to find a bond between their emotions and those with other people. It is your responsibility to help them cope with the emotions by identifying and exploring them instead of trying to fix it.
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BMW's 420d costs almost the same as a top-spec 330d saloon - but which is the better car?
The 4-series has good body control, but the 3-series is more fun to drive
The driving position in the 420d is lower, and its cabin feels more premium
The 330d comes with more equipment and more room in the rear
As tested here in M Sport specification, this 330d costs £38,605
Despite being slightly shorter than the 4-series, it's the 3-series which offers the most space in the rear
Our 330d came on 19-inch alloy wheels
Both models sport BMW's signature kidney grille
The 3-series' boot is slightly wider and deeper than the 4-series
Boot capacity is the same on both models, at 480 litres
Like the 330d, our 420d test car came on 19-inch alloy wheels
The 4-series is the better car to look at, in our opinion
Despite its classy cabin, the 4-series doesn't feel as engaging to drive as the 3-series
The 4-series' 4-cylinder 2.0-litre turbodiesel engine produces 181bhp
The 330'd 6-cylinder 3.0-litre turbodiesel engine produces 255bhp
In xDrive M Sport specification this 420d Gran Coupé costs £37,975
The 420d can reach 62mph in 7.5 seconds
The 330d is faster to 62mph, taking 5.3 seconds
The 330d also has a higher top speed than the 420d, at 155mph
Both cars come with a 57-litre fuel tank, but the 420d will travel further
The 420d returns 56.5mpg on a combined cycle, slightly better than the 330d's 54.3mpg
For power delivery, pace and refinement the 330d has the edge
Now must be a curious time to be selling BMWs if, as rumours suggest, the popularity of the evergreen BMW 3-series is suddenly under threat. Time will tell if that's true, but it's certainly what Autocar's sources are beginning to hint at.
There's no need for alarm bells, because the bedrock of a 50,000-unit sales phenomenon doesn't just vanish overnight. But at certain points in the model range, the cracks are starting to appear. Higher-end Threes are evidently getting harder to sell.
A close friend of mine recently changed jobs, opted out of the new company car scheme, and went to his local BMW dealer to investigate financing his own new car. He wasn't sure what he wanted, but fell quickly under the spell of the new four-door 4-series Gran Coupé.
Read our review on the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe
He isn't alone in that. A big proportion of 3-series owners due for a new car this year are currently on the waiting list for a 4-series, they told him. "Everyone wants one," they said.
When our man sat down to talk turkey, BMW's 'product genius' advised that he'd be waiting several months for delivery and, with interest in the car running so hot, he'd also be paying close to full price. So far, so rubbish the sales pitch.
But it didn't end there. "If you're not absolutely decided on a 420d, perhaps there's something we can do to tempt you back towards a 3-series saloon," the salesman said. 'Something' consisted of a £6000 manufacturer-funded deposit contribution on a 330d bought on finance, plus another £3000 off from the dealer – making the monthly payment on the six-cylinder BMW £40 less than he'd pay for a four-cylinder 420d Gran Coupé. Crikey, thought I, £9k off a five-star car is a very good advert indeed for taking delivery of a new BMW in September.
My friend, meanwhile, was in a right old pickle: wait for the newer, prettier 4-series and put up with the four-cylinder diesel engine – or get a new six-pot 3-series saloon in half the time, with more performance and more standard equipment, for less money a month? It was grunt versus grace, and desirability versus the discount.
His monthly saving would probably be more than offset against greater insurance and fuel costs for the 330d – but which car would give him the bigger buzz?
Being something of a brick, I volunteered to find out, imagining that this would be a straightforward choice, on behalf of a fairly low-mileage private buyer, of either 255bhp or 181bhp. Easy peasy. But with the two cars side by side in a Wiltshire car park, the complexity of the decision fully reveals itself.
Read the full BMW 3-series review
This new 4-series is a handsome thing. It makes the 3-series look unexpectedly dumpy and awkward – all straight-sided from the rear end and ill-proportioned in profile.
The frameless doors, elegant roofline and eye-catching details of the 4-series all contribute to a much more appealing overall impression than the 3-series gives. Which is saying something considering that, to these eyes, a 3-series is still about the best-looking 'normal' compact exec you can buy.
On the inside, the cars are much less easily separated. To be frank, the 4-series' cabin designers ought to have done more. The architecture, material richness and finish of both fascias are identical. You sit slightly lower in the 4-series and feel a touch more intimately cocooned by the nearer driver's window and roofline, so the 4-series feels a bit more special, but not much.
In the back, the relative shortage of passenger space in the 420d is big enough to notice. And although the 4-series' boot is easier to access, it's slightly narrower and shorter than that of the 3-series.
It's not often that a road tester gets handed two cars as precisely matched as these to compare. Then again, all-BMW twin tests aren't normally as interesting as those involving other brands as well. This one's certainly not short of intrigue or subtlety, though.
BMW supplied our pair with matching xDrive four-wheel-drive sport automatic transmissions and similar adaptively damped M Sport suspension set-ups, in similar M Sport trims – even with identical alloy wheel sizes and tyres. And yet they are more different to drive than the gap between their respective engines and performance levels would suggest. And that, in itself, is a pretty big gap.
There are, of course, fundamental differences between a 3-series and a 4-series that account for some of the disparity between their driving experiences. Lower and wider of both body and axle tracks, the 4-series has its own chassis tuning, intended to convince you that it's more spry and precise than its cheaper sibling. It works.
The Gran Coupé feels a shade more taut in its body control and crisp in its directional responses than the saloon. Although outright grip levels are as evenly matched as you'd expect and both cars have excellent cornering balance, the 4-series is just a little bit more eager and direct as you turn the steering wheel.
Read the full BMW 4-series Gran Coupé review
The 330d hits back because its surfeit of power and torque makes it more engaging once you're settled in a corner, driving out. Simply put, a 420d doesn't have the urge to feel characteristically rear driven when you want to have a bit of fun. A 330d does. Even in xDrive form, it'll wiggle its rear end and take a poised, neutral attitude out of a bend under power.
In that microcosm, you could say that the 330d handles like a fully fledged BMW and the 420d doesn't – although it'd be harsh on the 4-series to apply that generalisation more widely.
On steering feel, for example, the 4-series' helm feels a tiny bit more fluent and connected at bumbling speeds, but both systems come alive as you load them with cornering forces, and both telegraph ebbing grip well enough.
Working against the 4-series is an occasionally nagging ride. On smooth A-roads and motorways, the 420d's chassis flows between gentler dips and bumps well, but on B-roads it's too firm. Even in Comfort mode on the adaptive suspension, it feels short on wheel travel and slightly aggressively damped.
The coarseness of the 420d's engine, its relative lack of potency and that patchy ride contrast starkly with the 330d in all departments. It may not be that the 3-series' 3.0-litre straight six is markedly quieter than the 420d's four-pot, but it seems that way because it's so much more smooth and suave.
On power delivery, the 330d is so much more flexible, as well as stronger absolutely everywhere, than the 420d. The 330d is every inch a distinguished premium product. And it's a much more rounded, luxurious machine than the 4-series as well, thanks to a chassis that can be supple and forgiving at one moment and still stout and engaging the next.
The verdict
So in the end, it is a straightforward choice: for me, for my mate, and for anyone smart enough to value true class over novelty value.
The 330d remains not just the very best BMW in the real world, but also one of the most complete new cars that money can buy. A 25 per cent discount on one is sale of the century stuff – and if you can get one, regardless of which other BMW the crowds may be queuing for at the time, you shouldn't need asking twice.
Read Autocar's previous comparison - Ford Fiesta Red Edition versus Mini Cooper and Seat Ibiza FR Edition
BMW 330d xDrive M Sport auto
Price £38,605; 0-62mph 5.3sec; Top speed 155mph; Economy 54.3mpg; CO2 137g/km; Kerb weight 1685kg; Engine 6 cyls in line, 2993cc, turbodiesel; Power 255bhp at 4000rpm; Torque 413lb ft at 1500-3000rpm; Gearbox 8-speed automatic
BMW 420d Gran Coupe xDrive M Sport auto
Price £37,975; 0-62mph 7.5sec; Top speed 142mph; Economy 56.5mpg; CO2 131g/km; Kerb weight 1675kg; Engine 4 cyls in line, 1995cc, turbodiesel; Power 181bhp at 4000rpm; Torque 280lb ft at 1500-3000rpm; Gearbox 8-speed automatic
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Sambruna Receives Grant for Astrophysics Research
Posted: July 10, 2001 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
By Lynn Burke
Rita Sambruna, assistant professor in Physics and Astronomy and the School of Computational Sciences, has been awarded $550,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to supp ort her extragalactic astrophysics research on black holes. Funds from the five-year grant, which comes from NASA's highly competitive Long-Term Space Astrophysics program, will be used to hire a postdoctoral fellow to join Sambruna's research group.
The research involves the material that falls near a black hole and the high-energy radiation that comes from the inner regions of the accretion disk that surrounds the black hole. Under the grant, Sambruna plans to use the data to understand the structure of the inner accretion disk using state-of-the-art models.
"This research is timely because we have a lot of new instruments in space that allow us to capture world-class data," says Sambruna. The data primarily are gathered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a European spacecraft, XMM-Newton. She also will tap into archived data from past x-ray missions.
Eventually, Sambruna hopes to set up a research group at George Mason that will be at the forefront of jet and black hole research. "I'm lucky enough that I have a lot of very good colleagues within the university who are very supportive of what I do," she says. "It's a very good place to be, and I'm delighted to be here."


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Prison stuns wife in ex-cop's gun killing
Woman who says she shot in self-defense gets five years
Updated 12:40 am, Friday, November 11, 2011
NEW YORK -- A school secretary who was acquitted of murder was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday on a weapons charge for fatally shooting her husband -- a retired police sergeant -- 11 times with his own gun in a sensational case that cast a spotlight on domestic violence.
Barbara Sheehan, 50, appeared stunned by the sentence and left the courtroom without speaking to reporters. She is free pending her appeal.
The mother of two had said she shot in self-defense on Feb. 18, 2008 after her husband of 24 years, retired New York Police Department Sgt. Raymond Sheehan, threatened to kill her if she didn't go with him on a Florida vacation. After decades of marriage to a violent and abusive man, her attorney argued, she was enough of an expert on his terrifying behavior to know he was serious.
She grabbed his loaded revolver from the bedroom while he was in the bathroom shaving, a loaded Glock by his side on the vanity. She emptied the revolver, then picked up the Glock and fired six shots.
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Jurors, nine women and three men, found the wife guilty of a weapons charge for using the Glock. She was found not guilty of a second weapon charge for using the revolver.
The case became a referendum on so-called battered women's syndrome and whether a woman should be capable of getting out of an abusive relationship. The not guilty verdict on the murder charge came as a surprise. Domestic violence experts say battered women accused of killing their partners in self-defense are convicted at about the same rate as others accused of murder.
At Thursday's contentious sentencing in state Supreme Court in Queens, the two sides again battled over whether Sheehan had been a battered woman or not.
"Barbara was not the victim in this case," Assistant District Attorney Debra Pomodore said. "Raymond, her husband, was the victim."
Sheehan's lawyer, Michael Dowd, responded, "It became ... a question of whether or not she would live or die. And she chose to live."


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Etisalat first in the region to launch carrier billing for Google Play purchases
Etisalat, the UAE's leading telecommunications operator, announced that it is the first in the Middle East to launch carrier billing for Google Play store allowing its customers to charge their Google Play purchases directly to their monthly mobile bill or prepaid account.
Etisalat's mobile customers in the UAE can now enjoy this secure, convenient, and flexible payment option using their Etisalat accounts. To enable this payment option, customers need to choose the application that they want to buy from the Google Play store. Thereafter, they need to select the 'Etisalat account' option on the payment screen to continue with the transaction. The customer's Etisalat account will be automatically set as the default option for all future purchases of applications, games, or in-app purchases.
Google Play store is the official application store for Android smartphones and tablets. Google makes software applications, music, movies and books available for purchase and download through the store. The Google Play store allows users to purchase, download and install applications from Google and third-party developers.
This simple and convenient payment option will initially be available to all Etisalat mobile post-paid and prepaid customers in the UAE. With this payment option in place, customers do not need to use a credit card to pay for applications and content on Google Play and can enjoy the one-stop convenience of having all of their application purchases consolidated into their mobile bill or prepaid account.
Khaled ElKhouly, Chief Marketing Officer at Etisalat UAE, said: "Etisalat is keen on introducing services that improve our customers' smartphone experience. We are very happy to be the first in the region to offer millions of our Android smartphone customers the facility to pay for apps purchased on Google Play through their mobile phone accounts. It's our effort to make access and payment for millions of apps, games and other content much easier and more secure for users."
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iPad 2 sliced up again, this time in the name of radio science
By now you've probably watched iFixit's recent iPad 2 teardown video several times while drooling profusely, but we just know you're itching to find out what's different with the innards of the WiFi-only, GSM, and CDMA versions. Well once again, iFixit's got you covered — via an "exceptionally cool" user-contributed post, this time. A grand total of three iPad 2s were sacrificed in this round, revealing variations in case design, antenna count, WWAN board layout, radio chipset choices, and headphone jack assemblies. Besides clearly visible changes like the black antenna window on the 3G models and the microSIM slot on the GSM version, it's interesting to note that Apple made the same design choices with the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4. The CDMA model features an additional antenna over its GSM sibling, and uses a Qualcomm Gobi dual-mode radio which supports both CDMA and GSM — the latter being unused — along with an integrated GPS receiver, just like the iPhone 4 for Verizon. The GSM version, meanwhile, uses an Infineon chipset for GSM and a separate Broadcom module for GPS, just like the global iPhone 4. Follow the source link below for more sordid details plus high-resolution pictures.


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Food-Cost Surge on U.S. Drought May Bring Steel Slump, Alfa Says
Higher global food costs caused by the drought in the U.S. could lead to lower steel prices by prompting China to curb inflation and slow demand for metals, said Barry Ehrlich, a Moscow-based analyst at Alfa Bank.
A sustained 20 percent increase in agricultural prices in the U.S. could push up Chinese inflation by 260 basis points, as food accounts for about 30 percent of the country's CPI, Ehrlich said in a report published today.
Soybean and corn prices climbed to all-time highs this week, as U.S. farmers face the worst drought since 1956, India delays sowing because of a late monsoon and below-average rainfall confronts Australian crops. China accounts for 48 percent of global steel consumption and any pull back on stimulus measures aimed at controlling inflation would slow home sales and construction, hurting steel demand, Ehrlich said.
"Investors should be alert that if prices remain at high levels or more higher, this will likely have a negative impact on steel demand and pricing," Ehrlich said.
The risks are higher for Russian steelmakers, as rising global food prices rise may contribute to political and social tensions in oil-producing countries and "likely exert upward pressure" on oil and the ruble, Ehrlich said.
Russian steelmakers could see costs rising, adding to a squeeze on their profits as prices decline, he said. Steel prices are at about their lowest for at least two years minimum, Metal Bulletin statistics shows.
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KIEV: Ukrainian forces ceded a strategic eastern airport to pro-Russian insurgents on Monday as the government in Kiev accused Moscow of launching a "great war" that could claim tens of thousands of lives.
The sense of foreboding in Kiev came as European-mediated talks over the fast-escalating crisis opened behind closed doors in the Belarussian capital Minsk, attended by government, separatist and Russian envoys.
The rebels have launched a major counteroffensive in recent days that the Ukrainian government and its Western allies claim is backed by Russian forces — a charge Moscow denies.
Ukraine's Defence Minister Valeriy Geletey vowed on Monday to "immediately mount defences against Russia, which is trying not only to secure positions held by terrorists before but to advance on other territories of Ukraine".
"A great war arrived at our doorstep, the likes of which Europe has not seen since World War II," he wrote on Facebook, warning of "tens of thousands of deaths".
Russian agencies quoted rebel representatives at the Belarus meeting demanding that Kiev provides the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk with a "unique procedure" that would let them integrate closer with Russia.
The developments come a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said for the first time that the issue of "statehood" should be discussed in talks on the crisis in the east, where fighting has killed over 2,600 people since mid-April.
Putin accused Europe of ignoring the Ukrainian military's "direct targeting" of civilians in the conflict and said the offensive pushed by insurgents there were simply an attempt to expel Kiev's forces from residential areas.
Kiev said its forces south of the rebel hub of Lugansk were forced to retreat from the local airfield and a nearby village after withstanding artillery fire and battling a Russian tank battalion.
"There is direct, overt aggression against Ukraine from the neighbouring state," Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said.
The retreat marked the latest setback for Ukrainian troops, which had been closing in on rebels in Donetsk and Lugansk until about a week ago, when the insurgents opened a new front in the south.
Since then, the rebels' lightning offensive has forced Ukrainian army units to abandon numerous positions gear up for the defence of the southeast, in particular the strategic port city of Mariupol, which had been peaceful for months after government troops routed the rebels in May.
AFP correspondents said the presence of Ukrainian army in the region has visibly decreased in recent days.
"The town is being erased off the face of the earth," said Yelena Proidak, a resident of Petrovske, a town between Donetsk and Lugansk. "There is no normal life here."
On the Azov Sea coast, where the Kiev government still controls Mariupol, a city of half a million people, rocket launchers were used to fire on two Ukrainian patrol boats about five kilometres (three miles) from the shore on Sunday. Two border guards from one of the crews went missing, Kiev said.
A senior Ukrainian security official told AFP on condition of anonymity that Russia's goal was to "destabilise (Ukraine) and create a land corridor to Crimea," the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Moscow in March but connected to Russia only by an old and overloaded ferry link.
Kiev and the West have repeatedly accused Russia of direct involvement in Ukraine, with NATO saying last week that Russia had more than 1,000 of its troops deployed in Ukraine and 20,000 massed along the border.
Rights activists in Moscow told AFP that up to 15,000 Russian soldiers had been sent across the Ukrainian border over the past two months. Kiev's security spokesman Andriy Lysenko has estimated the current number or Russian troops at 1,600.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said ahead of the Western military alliance's two-day summit in Wales that opens on Thursday that the growing Russian threat meant the Cold War-era bloc must create a bigger presence in eastern Europe.
"We must face the reality that Russia… considers NATO an adversary," he told reporters. "We cannot afford to be naive."
Kiev has asked NATO for help and Poroshenko is expected to travel to Wales and meet with US President Barack Obama.
Russia has repeatedly denied helping the insurgency, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declaring on Monday that "there will be no military intervention (in Ukraine)".
The European Union warned Moscow on Sunday that it would slap it with fresh sanctions unless it reversed course in the crisis within a week.
Putin responded on Monday by saying that he hoped "common sense will prevail" and urged the bloc to "work together normally" with Moscow.
But that wish looks unlikely to be granted for now, with EU leaders growing increasingly critical of Putin's actions.
On Monday, German President Joachim Gauck said Russia has "effectively severed its partnership" with Europe and wants to establish a new order. AFP


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2012 Indians Top 50 Prospects: #16 Jason Knapp
16. Jason Knapp – Right-handed Pitcher Born: 08/31/1990 – Height: 6'5" – Weight: 235 – Bats: Right – Throws: Right
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The Auxiliary at Citizens Baptist saw a need on the hospital's Senior Care Unit and moved quickly to champion the project.
Members of the Auxiliary are using their sewing talents to help these patients in a very practical way – and one that also helps the seniors maintain their dignity. Janice Johnson, who is leading the initiative, and other volunteers are making bib aprons for the patients.
"One of our overall treatment goals is to assist our patients in preserving their dignity," said Dianna Knight, senior care program director. "But, as our patients lose coordination and begin to experience tremors and other movement disorders related to their mental and physical health conditions, it becomes more difficult for them to feed themselves or to eat without assistance.
"Even if a patient cannot remember his name, he understands enough to not want a towel tucked into his shirt at meal time or to feel ashamed of food stains on his shirt."
When the volunteers heard about this issue, they voted unanimously to support the project and stepped up by providing handmade aprons for the patients. They have already presented a number of the colorful bib aprons to the unit.
"They come in an array of patterns that make the men and women on the unit feel more comfortable," Knight said. "The aprons have even eased the workload of our mental health technicians. After a meal the techs can simply gather the aprons and throw them in the washer, instead of having to change the patients and wash their clothes.
"Aprons are familiar to our patients. Many of the women grew up in a time when aprons were part of the daily wardrobe, and the men relate when we talk about them in terms of a barbecue apron. These aprons have not only helped with the way our patients view themselves, but an unexpected benefit has been that they stimulate a trip down memory lane."


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Today, DOE officially kicked off its annual DOE Feeds Families campaign to assist local food banks in replenishing supplies during the summer months. DOE and NNSA employees can participate throughout the summer by dropping off non-perishable food items in boxes located throughout the Forrestal, Germantown and L'Enfant buildings or at field offices.
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Meditation, usually. It may take more than one session of meditation as well...depends on whether or not you're ready to find your spirit animal. And just thinking that you're ready doesn't neccessarily mean that you are.
Reading articles will give you the best direction about spirit animal communication - finding.
You'll probably get a summary of a fewer method :
Animal spirits frequently disclose themselves to us, as human beings, via our deep subconscious during sleep and mostly meditation (meditative states). During these periods and sessions, the spirit animals signify precious information about our past, present and future, as well as help us with situations we are dealing with in our lives.
Animals also show themselves during dreams and meditations to exclusively place themselves as our spiritual guide, and thus our animal totem. This consumes us to pay attention, and learn more about what this animal symbolically represents so that we can work with our animal totems.
These were the more common methods as the poster above me has stated.
Some existing methods recommended to learn about are shortly these:
As far as you can see I just brought up some further methods and generally defined them, however I don't believe it covered everything that an article could have done. So search for these basic terms, read, and start working on it.
I agree mediation, however my 1st spirit animal/totem came to me, I'd see a black panther everywhere, then after a while I'd start connecting with her, inviting her to meditate with me. Then last night I was gifted with a 2nd spirit animal a wolf. I feel very blessed to have 2 as this is very rare! I'm also worried as does this mean I've lost my panther & now she's been replaced with my wolf. I feel in life thou we have to go with the flow, change is good & it happens for a reason. back to your question, mediation & also just ask for them to come to you. Invite them, maybe if there an animal you feel drawn to, getsomething symbolic of that animal & place it some where in your home. A great place would be your scared space. Spirit works in strange ways at times, it's hard to work them out but they have our best interests at heart. They never give us to much to handle. There timing is perfect trimming. Blessed be


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Category: Web Developing
Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, April Fools Edition
- The History of Web Browsers (Picture)
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- Internet Explorer 10: Microsoft Immersive Browser
- CrashIE.com Is a Scam
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- Opera: Remove/Hide Blue Dots
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Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, March 28th
- Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Firefox 3.6 vs. Google Chrome 10 vs. Opera 11 vs. Safari 5
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Mozilla: We Support 10 Year Old OS
Hate the web browser.
Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's director of Firefox web browser has criticized Microsoft for abandoning a 10 year old Windows XP operating system and releasing IE9 for Windows 7/Vista only.
He said:
For me, the most interesting thing is not the quibbling about what browser [boasts] full hardware acceleration. What surprises me the most is that acceleration is not available for Windows XP.
URL Hunter
Your video card can't handle video games on a big display? No worries! Here is a game where the URL bar is an actual screen.
Wait, what!
You are almighty letter O and have to kill as many a's as possible. Use left and right arrow keys to control your character and space bar to kill.
Convert Flash to HTML5
Adobe has released an experimental technology codenamed Wallaby which is designed to convert Flash (FLA) to HTML files.
Although not all features are yet supported, it's a welcomed step forward.
Wallaby is free to use, so if you want to give it a try, here is a download link.
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Replace onclick form id with its name
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Find JS event:
Replace with:
All set. It now works with all web browsers.
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What's new?
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It now uses two separate fields for property name and value.
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Overall, it's a nice update and we hope to see CSS tracking implemented into other dev tools as well.
For even more details, visit the original post.
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You've probably been using LinkedIn for a while as a way to personally connect with other like-minded business people via a personal profile. But did you know that LinkedIn has a Company Profile page that you can use to promote your freelance business as well? With more than 90 million members (according to LinkedIn's own About page at the time of publication in 2011), having a company profile page on … [Read more...]