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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Wordless Wednesday: Prom Nite '63
Kreativ Blogger Award
Thanks to Yogurt Moon for passing the Kreativ Blogger award on to me. I am honored.
The Rules:
"List 7 things that you love, and then pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you love! Be sure to tag them and let them know that they have won. You can copy the picture of the award and paste it on your sideboard letting the whole world know…you are Kreativ."
- I love going away with my friend on Saturday morning.
- I love listening to the Smothers Brothers with the family.
- I love the music Bob chooses to play at family get-togethers.
- I love having six of the world's greatest children and three of the world's greatest GRANDdaughters.
- I love Dylan music sung PP&M&JB.
- I love looking through thousands of old pictures and remembering the stories of nearly all of them.
- I love the way Dee tries to fit his over-sized body into the recliner with me.
I pass the Kreativ Blog Award to
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Elemaster Group
Elemaster Group stands out in the competitive scenario as company specialised in designing and developing electronic technologies, for command, control and regulation equipment through designing, engineering and manufacturing services (ODM/EMS), integrated with the creation of custom components and PCB manufacturing...
Our History
Elemaster Group has a history which can be told using two different, but complementary, facets.
The history of Elemaster Group's events, from 1978 an exponential growth in turnover and – even more importantly – an estimate of additional growth thanks to the expansion of its presence throughout the world (Europe, USA, India, China, Brazil, South Africa and Russia). An EMS Group in major expansion, believes in the future because the future believes in it.
A history of a passion and search for details. Our history is not just based on numbers: it is a history experienced in daily relationships with Customers, in a climate of esteem and confidence that grows the more we work side by side.
A resolute search for perfection, the ability to support and even anticipate customers' needs, the most modern technologies applied in all phases of the processes which generate our EMS services. All of this is measurable, visible and evident to all Elemaster Group Customers, not only in terms of tangible objectivity, but also from a sensation of reliability, due to the fact that every day we manage to demonstrate our competitiveness, flexibility and our speed in reacting in real time to needs (which change quickly in a constantly evolving market). Our number one job is to make our customers feel secure, whether they are: small companies with all of their energy and desire to lead the pack, to the biggest industrial groups in the world who want all the right answers.
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PEN Out Loud: Lest We Forget
PEN America and the Strand present a retrospective of 2018 through the eyes of some of our most talented authors. Panelists, from left to right: moderator Rakesh Satyal, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Wayétu Moore, and Amitava Kumar.
Amitava Kumar's "Immigrant, Montana" blends the traditional coming of age novel with the story of an Indian immigrant coming to America, in a book that was referred to as "bio-fiction." Wayetú Moore's "She Would Be King" weaves together the historical facts of the founding of Liberia with magical realism, bringing together characters from all corners of the African diaspora. Together, these authors will speak about their work, this year's news cycles, and what it means to work as a writer in an era of "fake news" and "alternative facts."
Literary Lives: 2018 National Book Festival
Mark Eisner presents "Neruda: The Poet's Calling," Kay Redfield Jamison presents "Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania and Character" and Fiona Sampson presents "In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Mark Eisner has spent most of the past two decades on projects related the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1971. Eisner's recent work is "Neruda: The Poet's Calling" (Ecco). Library Journal called the book "a definitive biography." In addition to writing about Neruda, Eisner has translated many of his poems, including ones for "The Essential Neruda." In association with Latino Public Broadcasting, Eisner is working on a documentary of the poet's life.
Speaker Biography: Kay Redfield Jamison is the Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best-sellers "An Unquiet Mind," "Night Falls Fast" and "Touched with Fire," and is the co-author of the standard medical text on bipolar disorder, "Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression." Her new book is "Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character" (Vintage). Dr. Jamison is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize, the Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
Appel Salon | Jay Baruchel
"We're only as good as our rivals." —Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss his memoir Born Into It with Dan Robson.
Michael Arceneaux | I Can't Date Jesus
Join us as Michael Arceneaux sits down with Doreen St. Felix from The New Yorker to share his story.
It's no question that equality for LGBTQ people has come a long way, but voices of persons of color within the community continue to remain stifled to this day. With distinctive wit and candor, I Can't Date Jesus is Michael Arceneaux's impassioned look at minority life in today's America, challenging every bigoted and ignorant argument along his journey into self-acceptance, in a world that seeks to reject him.
Michael writes with an engaging tone about coming out to his mother; growing up in Houston, Texas; being approached for the priesthood; his obstacles in embracing close and intimate encounters; and the persistent challenges of young people who feel marginalized and denied the chance to pursue their dreams.
I Can't Date Jesus is a timely collection of essays that tell—without apologies—what it's like to be outspoken and brave in a divisive world.
Evan Narcisse Talks About Writing Rise of the Black Panther
Evan Narcisse is the coauthor with TaNehisi Coates of Rise of the Black Panther, a bestselling series that presents the backstory of the most popular black character in comic book history. The six-issue series is now available as a bound graphic novel.
Rise of the Black Panther provides a mythic foundation for the Marvel comic book franchise that has become a transformative cultural phenomenon, enlisting the talents of some of America's leading African American public intellectuals and writers, including Coates and Roxane Gay.
Narcisse is a long-time comic book critic for io9, the sci-fi blog. His reviews and articles have also appeared in Essence, the Washington Post, and Atlantic Monthly.
Jill Lepore: These Truths
The American experiment rests on three ideas—"these truths," Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But according to renowned historian and best-selling author Jill Lepore, it rests, too, on "a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching." Witty, endlessly curious, and astonishingly lucid, Lepore returns to CHF with "the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades." American cultural historian Eric Slauter joins Lepore for a conversation focused on her groundbreaking investigation of an American past that claims to have placed truth itself at the center of the nation's history—and asks whether the actual course of events has supported this claim or, in fact, belied it.
"Click Here to Kill Everybody": A Book Talk with Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier, the author of Click Here to Kill Everybody in conversation with Abby Everett Jaques, MIT.
From the description of "Click Here to Kill Everybody":
Computer security is no longer about data; it's about life and property. This change makes an enormous difference, and will shake up our industry in many ways. First, data authentication and integrity will become more important than confidentiality. And second, our largely regulation-free Internet will become a thing of the past. Soon we will no longer have a choice between government regulation and no government regulation. Our choice is between smart government regulation and stupid government regulation. Given this future, it's vital that we look back at what we've learned from past attempts to secure these systems, and forward at what technologies, laws, regulations, economic incentives, and social norms we need to secure them in the future.
Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon with Hans Ulrich Obrist
A series of interviews with artists, authors, architects, and others representing Chicago's diverse creative community, presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival, in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO, Navy Pier, and Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago's art and design legacy, with presenting partner, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
What do artist Theaster Gates, architect Jeanne Gang, and photographer Dawoud Bey have in common?
They're all contributing to Chicago's ever-evolving creative culture—and will be sitting down with Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London and one of the world's leading art curators and critics, known for his long-form, dynamic interview marathons. Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon is Obrist's first U.S. marathon, and takes a multi-dimensional, multidisciplinary look at creativity in the city, past, present and future.
Through a wide-ranging dialogue with over 20 Chicago-based creatives, Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon examined the forces that have made and continue to make Chicago a creative powerhouse.
Funding for Creative Chicago was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation with additional support from Elizabeth A. Liebman, Herman Miller, and the WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive.
The event, featuring 20 artists, architects, authors, and representatives from the city, took place on Sept. 29, 2018 at Navy Pier.
Andrew Sean Greer: 2018 National Book Festival
Andrew Sean Greer discusses "Less" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Andrew Sean Greer is the best-selling author of five works of fiction, including "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. His new novel is "Less" (Lee Boudreaux), winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.
Sujatha Gidla: 2018 National Book Festival
Sujatha Gidla discusses "Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Sujatha Gidla was born an "untouchable" in Andhra Pradesh, India. (Untouchables are from the lowest caste or born without a caste.) She studied physics at the Regional Engineering College, Warangal. Her writing has appeared in The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing. Her new book, "Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is a memoir of her uncle, who was a Maoist leader and founder of a left-wing guerrilla group. Gidla lives in New York and works as a conductor on the subway.
N. K. Jemisin | How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.
N.K. Jemisin is joined in conversation by Makeba Lavan. Makeba is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she focuses on (African) American Studies, Afrofuturism and Popular Culture. She has taught writing and literature courses at Lehman College since 2014.
Joy Lisi Rankin: "A People's History of Computing in the United States"
By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today's debate about whether the internet should be a public utility, and laid the groundwork for the concept of net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers.
April Ryan, "Under Fire"
Book TV visited the National Press Club's annual Book Fair & Author's Night. There we interviewed April Ryan about her book "Under Fire."
Neoliberalism's World Order
Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discuss neoliberalism, globalization, and the future of democracy.
At Verso Books in Brooklyn, September 20, 2018.
Ten years after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers nearly shattered the global economy, basic questions about the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression remain unanswered. What drove the accumulation of private debt and financialization of the economy that made the downturn possible? Was this a crisis for neoliberalism? Given its association with globalization, is a defense of national sovereignty the only way to take back democratic control from neoliberal forces? How has this shaped the populist revolts now transforming the global order, and how might the left respond?
Adam Tooze is Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, where he also directs the European Institute. He is author of "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World."
Quinn Slobodian is associate professor of history at Wellesley College. His most recent book is "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism." Forthcoming is "Nine Lives of Neoliberalism" (Verso Books), co-edited with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski. He is currently writing a book with the working title "Hayek's Bastards" on the neoliberal roots of the far right.
The conversation is moderated by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, senior editor at the Nation and a contributing editor at Dissent.
Eric Klinenberg: Palaces for the People
Eric Klinenberg is a professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance and the author of the acclaimed books Going Solo and Heat Wave. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and This American Life. @EricKlinenberg.
Dorian T. Warren is President of the Center for Community Change Action and Vice-President of the Center for Community Change. He is also a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and Co-Chair of the Economic Security Project. He previously taught for over a decade at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. Warren also worked at MSNBC where he was a Contributor, fill-in host for Melissa Harris Perry and Now with Alex Wagner, and Host and Executive Producer of Nerding Out on MSNBC's digital platform. He has also written for The Nation, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, Medium, Ebony, and Boston Review. Warren is co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy and co-editor of Race and American Political Development. In 2013, he was included on the list of NBC's theGrio's 100 people making history today.
In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, churches, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. These are places where people gather and linger, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. Klinenberg calls this the "social infrastructure": When it is strong, neighborhoods flourish; when it is neglected, as it has been in recent years, families and individuals must fend for themselves.
Klinenberg takes us around the globe—from a floating school in Bangladesh to an arts incubator in Chicago, from a soccer pitch in Queens to an evangelical church in Houston—to show how social infrastructure is helping to solve some of our most pressing challenges: isolation, crime, education, addiction, political polarization, and even climate change.
Richly reported, elegantly written, and ultimately uplifting, Palaces for the People urges us to acknowledge the crucial role these spaces play in civic life. Our social infrastructure could be the key to bridging our seemingly unbridgeable divides—and safeguarding democracy.
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Michael G. Marshall 3/29/2010 3:17:24 AMWonderful image and place, Ian! Michael #1253178
Danny B. Head 3/29/2010 10:26:04 AMOutstanding! #8494151
Tania Bounader 3/29/2010 9:16:46 PMBeautiful shot, great smoky water effect #8496031
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 4/18/2010 8:34:14 PMIncredible beauty Ian! Congratulations!! #8545797
Summer A. Kozisek 4/18/2010 9:04:06 PMStunning image Ian, congratulations on your finalist! #8546040
Ken Smith 4/19/2010 5:20:45 AMI like the slow shutter speed in this. Congrats on your finalist! #8547741
The Judges at BetterPhoto.com 4/19/2010 11:24:18 AMLovely image taken with a tradional film camera. #8550128
Daniella Puente 4/19/2010 11:26:34 AMWOW!!! congrats :) #8550141
Anne McKinnell 4/19/2010 7:39:16 PMWow, I love this shot Ian! The rocks in the foreground are so clear and smooth and contrast so well with the texture of the water and the sky. Great job, congratulations on your wonderful finalist. #8552355
Erin L. Perkins-Watry 4/20/2010 3:41:10 AMIan, you have captured such a magical place. This is beautiful! Congrats on being a finalist! #8553258
Robert Baer 4/20/2010 3:59:06 PMAmazing image. congratulations on your very special win! #8555341
Usman M. Bajwa 4/20/2010 11:25:50 PMHuge CONGRATZ. on getting Golden, Ian.
Baqer Mohd Jawad 4/21/2010 5:37:29 AMWow .. this is really wonderful shot
Linda D. Lester 4/21/2010 3:54:02 PMAwesome.....Congrats on your win! #8559581
Erica Murphy 4/22/2010 4:58:29 PMCongratulations on this spectacular winner! #8562633
Elida Gutierrez 4/23/2010 8:35:27 AM
Anne McKinnell 4/24/2010 8:49:03 AMBeautiful! Congratulations on your win! #8566548
Cecil P. Whitt 4/24/2010 10:47:38 AMA marvelous image, congrats. C #8566751
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 4/24/2010 6:52:24 PMCongratulations on your win! Captivating Ian! #8567411
Songbird Cline 2/23/2013 9:16:49 AMthis image is glorious.. #10580339
Clashach Cove, Moray, Scotland.
This remarkable little beach near Hopeman is one of my favourite places to be during the summer months. In June, July and August, the sun shines directly into the bays at sunset and warm light filters across the pale rocks turning them to gold, but not on this occasion. This time a heavy summer storm is billowing over Inverness and the sky is purple with rage. Oddly this has given rise to incredible luminosity because directly above my head is a huge white cloud pumping white light down over the sea and pebbles, the long exposure was used in conjunction with a polariser to emphasise the clarity of the turquoise water and the pebbles can clearly be made out below a moderately turbulent sea.
Pentax 67 II ,55-100 zoom,Fujichrome Velvia. Polariser, 0.45ND grad, f/22 at 12 seconds.
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About Fox Chase Careers
Fox Chase Cancer Center is committed to recruiting and retaining the highest quality workforce possible. We offer support to all of our staff involving career counseling, job satisfaction, promotional opportunities and any other concerns or questions related to employment at Fox Chase.
Fox Chase Cancer Center is a world renowned leader in cancer research, prevention and treatment, and is distinguished as one of the first comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. The Center's mission is to prevail over cancer. Our scientists, physicians and support staff pursue this goal through a multidisciplinary program of basic and clinical research, patient care, cancer prevention and education. Career opportunities may be found at the Center in a number of fields.
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Fox Chase Cancer Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Our employment policy prohibits discrimination against any individual based on sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Fox Chase Cancer Center discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
Fox Chase is CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accredited
Organizations that are accredited to the CEO Cancer Gold Standard ™ demonstrate a commitment to improving the health and lives of their employees and their family members by maintaining a culture that fosters healthy lifestyles and provides support when a diagnosis of cancer becomes a reality. Fox Chase Cancer Center and other accredited members offer benefits and programs that lower the risk of cancer, detect it earlier, and provide access to high-quality treatment, including clinical trials.
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Man's Horror Story About This Sex Act Sending Him to the ER Goes Viral, Twitter Reacts
This may give another meaning to BDE.
A 19-year-old Chicago man's story about a Grindr hookup gone wrong, sending him to the emergency room, is going viral this week.
In an interview with the LGBTQ site Them.us, Fredy Alanis explained he was hospitalized after performing oral sex on a man with a 10-inch penis. As Alanis says, he hurt himself during the sex act with the man's penis literally rupturing his airway.
After the hookup, who happens to be Alanis' neighbor, Alanis said he knew something was wrong.
"I felt it was just this soreness in my chest," he told Them. "Nothing really hurt that bad. I thought, maybe my chest is just sore from what took place, and I didn't think anything of it."
But things didn't get any better for Alanis.
"I woke up the next morning, and the pain was still in my chest and it was sharp," he explained. "I was hunched over and crying."
He initially didn't tell health officials because "afterwards I was kind of confused more than anything. When I went to the doctor, when they said there was a rupture in my airway, they said the only thing it could possibly be was last night."
Nevertheless, Alanis says he eventually confessed to the doctors.
"I was in the hospital for three days," he told Them. "I felt like, eventually, I had to tell the doctors exactly what happened to be treated the right way."
On July 5, Alanis posted a photo of himself in the hospital from his Twitter account, writing, "Excuse the bad angle but remember when I sucked a hulk sized dick and ended up in the ER afterwards LMFAO never forget."
The interview, from Them writer John Paul Brammer, is full of fabulous nuggets. Brammer asks, "Do your parents know you're gay?" To which Alanis responds, "They do. They just don't know I'm a whore." Click here to read the full piece.
Of course, Alanis's story went viral. And Twitter users were quick to react. Find the best responses below.


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Trying to follow the turmoil in Iraq can be a bit like reading a Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel for the first time. The intricate plot can be confusing, one needs a scorecard to keep straight the characters, but there is plenty of far-reaching drama.
Make no mistake, there's drama aplenty in Iraq and it is so far-reaching that it may affect us all.
The nation invaded by a U.S.-led coalition, torn apart by the ensuing war and then rebuilding to some extent is once again in disarray.
Insurgent forces known as ISIS, or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, have systematically taken stretches of territory controlled by the Iraqi government. In fact, ISIS militia have taken Mosul, the nation's second-largest city, and are moving toward Baghdad with alacrity and alarmingly impotent resistance.
They attacked a huge oil refinery in northern Iraq on Wednesday and gained control of what used to be a chemical weapons facility the next day.
These guys are not your garden-variety zealots, they are so radical that even al-Qaida — from whence they arose — considers them extreme. Matters are so strange that talk arose suggesting the U.S. might team with Iran to help drive ISIS out.
Honestly, there is much we don't know. Information is conflicting, muddled or tainted. But we are certain on a few things.
First, it is the obvious that Iraq is a mess. It has been since before we invaded in 2003. It's possible that the huge divide is so deep among Shiites, Sunni and Kurds that it makes modern Iraq ungovernable.
Second, ISIS must be driven back. They are a dangerous group that sees terror as merely a means to an end.
Third, partisan bickering in this country helps not at all. It is irresponsible to treat this complex circumstance as if it can be resolved with pat, bumper-sticker type solutions.
Fourth, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's actions have favored his Shiite brethren and are at least partly responsible for the rise of ISIS. The Obama administration has made it clear they believe he should leave. They may be right. But on Thursday, Obama did commit to sending military advisers and hinted the U.S. might employ air strikes, if needed.
Finally, our nation has sacrificed much blood and treasure in Iraq with paltry results and it simply doesn't have the stomach or political resolve to send U.S. ground troops back to Iraq.


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Mali ata info ni ser Tedi. I called awhile ago sa market market.They're selling Istanbul MEHMET not Istanbul AGOP.The Lines available are Radiant, Sultan, and Samatya.FYI. Istanbul Cymbals split after Agop's death in 1997. So the other half formed Istanbul Mehmet and Agop's sons continued the Istanbul AGOP name.Mehmet and Agop are two different Brands. La lang.
how would you compare this to other brands such as sabian or zildjian?
They're like K's of Zildjian or HH's of Sabian. No kidding. Advantage of Z and S is their consistency... 2 pieces of the same cymbal (same size, series, kind and weight) will sound close to another. So it's safe to order without hearing the exact cymbal you'll order.Sa Istanbul (and other Turkish brands), each cymbal, even if they're the same size, series, and weight, may sound different from each other. So you have to hear the exact same cymbal that you're going to buy to have an idea on how it sounds like.
Advantage of Z and S is their consistency... 2 pieces of the same cymbal (same size, series, kind and weight) will sound close to another. So it's safe to order without hearing the exact cymbal you'll order.Sa Istanbul (and other Turkish brands), each cymbal, even if they're the same size, series, and weight, may sound different from each other. So you have to hear the exact same cymbal that you're going to buy to have an idea on how it sounds like.
Prices Radiant series 4pc 16,500Samatya 4pc 15,500Sulatan 3 pc 11,950/4pc 16,500FYI. These items are NOT on sale unless you buy a LAZER Drum set and then they'll give you 15% discount lang.
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paeng16, pag narinig mo yung istanbul radiant. iwanan mo k zildjian mastersound mo. hehe honestly bro. go audition yourself an Istanbul cymbal. you'll hear what the top 3 brands are trying to copy. this is the real deal.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — They haven't even had the parade yet and all anybody wants to know is if the Miami Heat's Big 3 is ready for an encore or the end of a fruitful three-year run together?
LeBron James isn't going anywhere, Heat boss Pat Riley cannot let that happen. And Dwyane Wade is already the most decorated and beloved player in franchise history. He should be and probably will be allowed to leave on his own terms, whenever he gets to that point in his career.
That leaves Chris Bosh, the oft-maligned third member of the crew, the one who went scoreless in that deciding Game 7 of The Finals, the one who always seems to be at the center of trade rumors when the topic of what the next act is for this Heat outfit. If Bosh is the one member of the group that is expendable, the time to strike and make a move could be upon us this summer.
Free agency is around the corner, July 1, and if the ongoing escapades between the Los Angeles Clippers and Boston Celtics have shown us anything, it's that there are teams out there ready to risk franchise and limb to either remain or make themselves relevant in the championship picture.
Only Riley knows how long the Heat's Big 3 lasts. It's going to be his call, no matter what anyone else says about it. And in the immediate aftermath of the Heat clinching their second straight title, he didn't seem inclined to touch a hair on the head of his masterpiece:
"I just want this thing to keep going," the 68-year-old Riley told ESPN.com after the Heat defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 7 of an epic Finals. "I'm at an age now where I'm ready to just fly off somewhere. But I'm not going to because the Good Lord has blessed me with a team that's allowed me to grab onto its coattails for as long as they want to be together."
But it's obvious that the gap between the Heat and the rest of the pack is closing. We saw that in the playoffs, when Joakim Noah, Roy Hibbert and then Tim Duncan took turns exposing the Heat's tender underbelly inside.
A "stretch 4 or 5" like Bosh is a luxury for a team that is head and shoulders above the competition, a team with a healthy James and Wade to lean on night after night. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has often referred to Bosh as his team's most important player, though I'm still not sure how much of that is honesty and how much of it is posturing to keep Bosh's fragile confidence intact. But this three-year grind the Heat have been on has taken its toll on Wade (knees), and even LeBron looked mortal dealing with the likes of Paul George and Kawhi Leonard in the Eastern Conference finals and The Finals, respectively.
There's a reason Bosh, an eight-time All-Star and self-professed future Hall of Famer, was reduced to pedestrian numbers this postseason. As the quality of the competition increased, Bosh's performances didn't increase along with it. Sure, he mustered a couple inspiring performances along the way and played a huge role at the end of the Heat's pivotal Game 6 overtime comeback win.
But Bosh's critics, and there are plenty of them, would point to the fact that Spurs coach Gregg Popovich had Duncan on the bench when Bosh grabbed that critical offensive rebound and found Ray Allen for the game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation.
In theory, that is work that a younger and perhaps much cheaper big man (names like DeMarcus Cousins and Kevin Love have been floated for months now) can do.
The company line, however, tends to favor at least one more year of this holy hoops trinity. James, Wade and Bosh all have opt-outs in their contracts that come up after the 2013-14 season, giving any one of the three the option of bolting from this championship experiment for the fruits of free agency. And James and Bosh are young enough and healthy enough to command the full max-salary available from any team capable of paying that price.
Wade, who has spent his entire career with the Heat, believes in the future of the Big 3, as my main man Mike Wallace of ESPN.com explains:
"Our first year together, we tried to make it work," Wade said. "But we weren't the team that we needed to be to gut out a Game 6, to win a game like that. Everybody can't get to the Finals and win six [championships] in a row — and not lose one like Michael Jordan. But we are excited about the future of this organization. We are still a good team, and we're going to do everything we can to make sure we stay competitive."
But in some ways, they remain a work in progress. While Riley said before the playoffs that he envisioned the Heat being like the Spurs, who kept Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili together for a decade, Wade said he, Bosh, and James haven't spoken as a group yet about how they'll approach their contract options after next season.
"This organization doesn't rest on trying to make sure we can put ourselves in a position to have a trophy like this," Wade said as he sat next to the Larry O'Brien Trophy. "So we'll be back next year again, looking to do it again. We're living in this moment right here, and it's a sweet moment. It'll be sweet to be able to have a long run like the Spurs, but we'll get to that when we get to that."
Three years, three straight trips to The Finals and two straight titles … is it just the beginning or is this the beginning of the end?


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We would like to thank everyone in the community and county for all of their help in preparation of Staff Sergeant Steven P. Blass's funeral.
We would like to thank the people who helped with the dinner and clean up at the VFW in Estherville. Another load of thanks to the Henry-Olson Funeral Home personnel and the churches that came through in on way or another. The Patriot Guard Riders, Larry 'The Flag Man' Eckhardt, and all military personnel for their help to make this tragedy something no one will ever forget.
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Childhood's end
My 7-year-old daughter Willa came home from school last week and said she knew what sex was. Her friend Melissa had told her.
"OK, what is it?" My wife Ellen asked, as I poured the bourbon for the Manhattan I knew I'd need.
"It's when a man and a woman lie down together and kiss."
There was a long and thoughtful pause. I looked at Ellen, holding the bottle of bourbon tipped, still pouring it into the shaker. Perhaps a stiff cocktail tonight.
"No, that's not what sex is, Willa," Ellen said. And she muttered to me: "I'll be damned if Melissa is going to be the one to teach her about sex."
I can't believe this is happening, I thought. The iconic experience of parenthood, coming five years early, on a nondescript fall evening with no time to prepare.
Parenthood can be summed up simply: You try to insulate and protect your children, at least for a while, and you fail right out of the gate. The true nature of the world, experience, maturity, the meanness of things, it all sneaks up. The world offers endless hardship along with its graces, and only luck can tip the scales.
Willa and Ellen retreated to her room, protected by its flowered comforter and small glass animals.
"Uh, hey, do you want me in here, I mean. …"
"NO!" Willa and Ellen both yelled. I started doing dishes. Then went back and hovered outside the door, missing the most important conversation of my daughter's life. I felt I should be there, but was relieved I wasn't. To be honest, I had no idea what I would say, though I'm certain my first word would have been "Uh. ..."
I scrubbed at the cast iron skillet, a legendary culinary instrument meant to work flawlessly, the original nonstick. Never for me. I chipped off vulcanized omelet with a paring knife.
I ought to have known all this was coming. Not six months ago I was brushing Willa's teeth. She asked me to stop.
"What do you think of this?" She pulled the strap of her pajamas over her shoulder, a red and white ensemble that said "Cutiesaurus" below a ridiculous cartoon dinosaur, let a curl of hair hang over her eyes, canted her hips, and looked into the mirror with a sultry pout. Six years old then.
The poet Julia Kasdorf says the first gesture we learn is good-bye.
"You look beautiful," I said, panicking. "Open wide, I got to get the molars."
One summer afternoon, I biked to the supermarket with Willa and her 5-year-old brother, Elias. Almost there, we stopped to pet horses and play on a stump by a ditch. The weather had been threatening all day. Now, ominous clouds billowed to the south. You could see the arcing lines of precipitation; there was thunder, lightning. It was spectacularly beautiful, and also terrifying.
"Hey, guys, we better head out now, it's probably going to rain."
They played. The storm was about four miles off; we had maybe 15 minutes. But the weather has been odd this year, and this storm came onto us faster than I had anticipated.
"Yeah, OK, we gotta go here!" I said. The kids hopped on their bikes, and within 30 seconds it was pouring. I was as wet as if someone had doused me with a bucket from the blindside.
"Come on guys! Let's go!"
I looked back and they were pedaling their tiny bikes frantically, expressing some slight concern, getting soaked. And then came the hail.
"Dada!" little Elias was yelling, the ice hitting hard on his hands and face, on the verge of tears.
Willa looked terrified. "We have to stop!" And I was thinking: stop where? And do what? Crawl under a tree? Or into a culvert? What could I do, short of laying on top of them?
"We can't stop! We have no choice! I can't help you!" I yelled, drowned out in simultaneous lightning and thunder. I didn't want to circle back, because I worried they'd stop, and we'd get annihilated. So I stayed ahead, yelling and exhorting like some crazy World War I Lieutenant with a bugle and a soccer ball, leading my men off into catastrophe, an apt metaphor for parenthood.
Squinting back into the sideways-blowing, bitterly stinging hail, I watched my two children, their heads down, hands bright red, legs pumping furiously, making their way as best they could into a world they'd find to be part pig iron, part gold, and theirs alone.
Auden Schendler is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News(hcn.org). He lives in Basalt, Colorado, and works for the Aspen Skiing Co.
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Miranda Lambert Spills About Playing Advisor to Blake Shelton's 'The Voice' Team
Miranda Lambert has a more active role on this season of 'The Voice.' While she supported her husband, coach Blake Shelton, last season and performed with his finalist Dia Frampton on air, this season, she's more deeply involved as an advisor to Shelton's team.
Lambert chatted with the show's social media correspondent Christina Milian to discuss her emergence from behind the scenes as a fan to in front of the camera as a mentor in Season 2. She reveals she is very involved in the happenings and understands the pressure of the situation, since she got her start on a reality talent show, too!
"I was behind the scenes all last season and I was a fan," she recalled, adding that she didn't want Shelton to spill any spoilers. "I said, 'Don't tell me anything, who stays, who goes.' I watched as a fan." Lambert decided to mentor on the show since she says she was a "bad back seat driver last year." Shelton didn't do too bad, though, as Frampton placed second and nearly won.
Lambert also spoke about some of the song choices for the live shows, which she often finds questionable, saying, "Last year, I had some issues. This year, I stayed out of it. It turns out okay."
Lambert reminded fans that she was on 'Nashville Star' when she was just 19, so she can appreciate the position and perspective of the contestants. As the mentor to Shelton's charges, she got emotionally involved, admitting, "I am attached to my six now. I am excited to watch the battle rounds. I can't imagine being in their shoes."
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The cause was
An expert on gender, work and families, Bianchi was best known for her research examining the amount of time mothers spent with their children. Most surprising was the finding she reported in 2000 that despite a dramatic influx of women into the workforce, the amount of time spent with children was relatively unchanged.
Bianchi, who was coauthor of the study with John P. Robinson of the
"For a long time, family researchers have been looking for negative effects of maternal employment on children," she told The Times in 2000. "Women decide what their priorities are, what is most precious, and at the top of the precious list is time with their children."
Bianchi's work "had a far and profound reach into the culture because it questioned conventional wisdom about mothers' time, and in the process generated a lot of press," said Melissa A. Milkie, a University of Maryland sociology professor who collaborated with Bianchi on work and family studies.
"Her rigorous empirical research shed light on an emotional debate about mothers' work and showed that despite all the challenges families face in 'balancing' work and family, today's employed mothers … are no more neglecting their children than were the middle-class housewives of an earlier era," Milkie said.
Bianchi found, however, that contemporary working mothers were not superwomen. They spent time with their children at the expense of housework, sleep and leisure time. Compared with their stay-at-home counterparts, mothers who worked outside the home spent as much as six fewer hours a week on housework, had 12 fewer hours of free time and slept only five to six hours a night. These trade-offs occurred despite another finding that fathers' time with their children had nearly doubled over 30 years.
For Bianchi, the research questions were not strictly professional. With her economist husband Mark Browning, she raised three children while working her way up the academic ladder.
"She was very much aware of the constraints of juggling career and motherhood. She lived as well as researched it," her daughter said.
Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on April 15, 1952, she was one of six children of Pesho Bianchi, a meat-packing plant worker, and his homemaker wife, Rita. She earned a bachelor's degree at
She began her career as a demographer for the
In 2009 she moved to UCLA, where she was Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities.
She made a major contribution with her use of "time diaries" to chronicle people's activities. In the 2000 study on mothers, she helped interview 1,200 men and women across the country, asking them to describe exactly what they had done at what time the previous day. The time-diary approach, now used widely by social scientists, is considered more reliable than merely asking people how much time they spent on a particular activity, which often elicits exaggerated reports.
Bianchi co-wrote several books, including "Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage and Employment Among American Women" (1996) with Daphne Spain and "Continuity and Change in the American Family" (2002) with Lynne Casper.
A third book, "Changing Rhythms of American Family Life" (2006), written with Milkie and Robinson, was ranked "among the most widely cited resources on work and family life in the United States today" by the Population Assn. of America, a nonprofit organization that promotes research on population issues.
Most recently Bianchi was working on a book with UCLA colleague Judith Seltzer on parent-child relationships in later life, including the time and money exchanged when parents help adult children with unpaid work such as child care and adult children care for elderly parents. "She always identified puzzles in the social world and tried to solve them by rigorous empirical studies," Seltzer said.
Besides her husband and children, Bianchi is survived by her mother and five siblings.


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Almost there! I haven't really been training my pull up, but after my KB workouts I always try to do a couple of sets to see if I'm getting any closer, and I am!
Warm up
40 2 hand swings 1 min. on, 1 min. rest x 3 sets = 6 min.
40 transfers, 1 min. on 1 min. rest x 2 sets = 4 min.
14 snatch, transfer, 1 min. on 1 min. rest x 1 set = 2 min.
Total warm up 12 min.
Work sets
20 L/20 R snatches x 10 (5 sets each side, continuous) 10 min.
20 L/20 R snatches, 2 min. on, 1 min. rest x 5 sets = 15 min.
15 L/15 R snatches, 1.5 min. on 1 min. rest x 5 sets = 12.5 min.
Total snatches 550/37.5 min.
Reverse warmup to cool down
14 snatch transfer, 1 min. on, 1 min. rest x 1 set = 2 min.
40 transfers, 1 min. on 1 min. rest x 2 sets = 4 min.
40 2 hand swings, 1 min. on 1 min. rest x 3 sets = 6 min.
Total workout 61.5 min.
My first 10 minute set of snatches, I think I actually went 12 min., that's what happens when you get in a "zone" and lose track of time, damn! Anyway, my pace was 20 snatches per 1 min. before switching w/1 trans. to the other side, so maybe a 1 sec. hold at the top. The first 15 reps, not a problem, it was the last 5 of 20 that was the killer! My forearms and grip were certainly tested today! My second round of 20/20 sets w/1 min. rest period, the same experience with the last 5 reps of 20, killer! So I dropped down to 15/15 for my last 5 sets, keeping the same pace.
My form was best by the time I got about 1/2 way and then to the last set, when I lost it and got sloppy, it was over! Great workout!
Thursday AM weight 131.2
1:00pm weight 130.4, 18% BF
6:30 Bikram yoga
9:45 KB snatches
coffee w/cream 70 cal.
prunes (5) 100 cal.
yogurt w/fiber, blueberries, 3 triscut crackers 380 cal.
spinach salad w/anchovy dressing 300 cal.
1 can tuna 150 cal.
2 Bit O Honey candies 60 cal.
chili pepper and tomato stew w/skirt steak (5oz) 450 cal.
Total calories 1610
I'm tempted to go on a walk this evening, but I'll be on the beach tomorrow doing my walk/jog for 50-60 min. so I'll pass on it tonight and do something else with my hour! It'll probably be overcast in Santa Cruz in the morning, but that's fine, it's still the beach!


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By Virginia Sowers, ChildFund Community Manager
To celebrate Blog Action Day 2012, we take you to Mékhé, Senegal, where a community has discovered the "Power of We."
The sun is high overhead when we arrive at the daara school on the outskirts of Mékhé, Senegal, located in the Thies region, about 100 miles from the capital city of Dakar. A large crowd of community members has gathered in the circle of shade bestowed by the largest tree in the compound. The children, unfettered by the heat that is radiating from the parched and sandy soil, run quick steps around us, flashing shy, yet welcoming smiles.
Thies is home to more than 700 daaras, which are informal Islamic schools that most parents favor over the government school system. From an early age, boys are sent to board at daaras, where they learn religious principles and how to read and write. Because most of these schools have operated independently without oversight or financial assistance from the government, more than 30,000 children in the Thies region are missing out on a well-rounded formal education. Far worse, these children – often lacking proper shelter and food at the daaras – beg on the streets and are exposed to risks and abuses.
To address this situation, while respecting religious traditions, the government of Senegal is undertaking a daaras modernization program, working with nonprofit partners like ChildFund. The goal is to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children while incorporating languages (French and Arabic), math and science education with traditional religious teachings.
During the past 12 months, ChildFund has been working closely with community leaders to jointly transform the Mékhé daara. We immediately see the results all around us – a new building with two airy classrooms; a brightly painted dormitory for 60 children, complete with neat bunk beds and hall bathrooms; and an open-air shelter for religious studies. Well-built private latrines are available for boys and girls—yes, the school now welcomes female children to day classes.
The new facilities are impressive, yet it's only when school and community leaders lead us through the old classroom and dormitory building that we begin to comprehend just how much Mékhé daara has changed. On the opposite side of the compound are the old buildings. Inside, we find a dark and dingy classroom that once held 300 students in what must have been impossibly crowded seating. Across the way is an equally bleak dorm room where 50 students once slept with cots and mattresses crammed together. As we step outside, we drink in the fresh air and sunshine while inwardly wondering how children could have possibly learned and slept in such environments.
Community members make room for us under the shade tree, eager to talk about the modernized school and to answer our questions. "We wanted to improve the situation of the children living here," the leader of the Daara Management Committee says. "Everybody in the village is involved; we want to be effective," he says.
As we talk with the men and women, we learn that the work of keeping up the school and grounds is now divided among subcommittees: education, children's health and welfare, animal husbandry and food. The community has welcomed ChildFund's efforts to strengthen and support teachers in delivering expanded courses. "Our children can now do the same exams as in formal school," one community member says.
ChildFund also has been instrumental in helping establish the animal husbandry program (goats and cows) and a large garden to grow eggplant, okra, tomatoes and other nourishing foods for the children. "Children in other daaras must go outside [the compound] and beg for food. We are growing our own food, and the children have mother and parent figures they can turn to," the committee leader explains. "It's a big difference in the old way of running the daara, and the way it is now."
We turn to ask the children what they think about the changes in their school. Shyness renders them silent. But then, Moy, a young boy of around 12 speaks up. "I like the new beds and the sleeping arrangements. I like the classrooms. And the fences that protect us."
The success of the school has not gone unnoticed in the region. More parents are now sending their children to Mékhé. In turn, the Daara Management Committee and ChildFund are working together to gain more financial support from the Senegal government to pay teacher salaries and add more classrooms and teachers. Plans are under way to expand the garden and promote more community farming of millet, corn and peanuts to feed the children and also provide an additional source of income.
Working side by side these past 12 months, community members have discovered that they have the power to bring about positive change.


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The following PLOWBOY INTERVIEW originally appeared in ZYGOTE, a new Rock-Culture magazine out of New York recently and, while there, stopped in to get acquainted with the ZYGOTE staff. During that visit, I asked Allen Richards, the turned-on young writer responsible for this piece, if Arthur Shaw and his theory were really on the level. Allen immediately made arrangements for me to visit Mr. Shaw and his family in their apartment on Manhattan's upper west side. There, over a late Saturday breakfast and a magnificent view of the polluted Hudson River, I got to know Arthur Shaw just a little bit.
He's a fascinating individual with an elusive ability to seemingly offer answers while actually pulling new thoughts and clarified visions out of minds and — particularly — the hearts of those around him. After four hours with Arthur I was so turned on that I walked and thought myself completely across Manhattan from the Hudson to 1st Ave. and south from 92nd to 67th St. If you know the territory, you know that's a "fur piece". Arthur Shaw does things like that to you. - JS
There is a plan, there is a theory, there is a man who is trying desperately to shake the course of the world from what he feels, and what many ecologists have predicted, is the path leading to race suicide. There has been extensive research and mathematical planning and there has even been a word invented to describe his labors: Copionics.
Copionics is the theory that is being preached relentlessly by Dr. Arthur Shaw in an effort to make the "aware" people of our world realize the true situation on earth. Copionics is the theory of economic abundance ... it is the plan that may possibly save the world from its fate.
I met Arthur Shaw about six months ago, and initially thought he was a deluded quack who must have gone mad sometime during his research and planning for this theory of Copionics. But that was before I really got acquainted with his life-style. He is not mad. He is definitely not mad. Arthur is a soft-spoken, deliberately-worded and prophet-like man, who has been involved with many inventive projects in the past. Here's some of his biography:
Shaw attended Brooklyn College, New York University, and St. John's University, where he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. He has worked with his own organic chemical production company and headed a public corporation in plastics, where he did work on expandable plastics. He has been in construction and he did experiments in new forms, particularly in a concrete of his own design and invention.
Arthur once devised a scheme in communications called "envelets" which he proved would reduce the cost of letters by one-third. He's also done research in underwater craft. But Shaw's most important endeavor — and the exigency of this can not be stressed enough — is Copionics.
Exactly what does Copionics mean, what does it do, how will it help us? I can't give an all-inclusive, detailed report of this economic theory but I can offer this introduction to Dr. Arthur Shaw and his plan. Copionics is something I believe in, and that I feel is a valid offering to our society by a brilliant and devoted man. This is something I trust. I hope we will be witnessing Copionics in practice soon.
PLOWBOY: What is Copionics?
AS: Copionics is the theory of global sufficiency. It's both an idea, a theory, and a means of effectuating plenty on a planetary basis.
PLOWBOY: What are you trying to expound with the theory of Copionics besides plenty? What are you trying to tell the people of this planet that we have to do?
AS: The information about the plenty is becoming more and more general, a statement that there was enough for all on Earth was greeted with a good deal of doubt, questioning and — even — scorn not too many years ago.
PLOWBOY: Were they questioning your statement?
AS: Yes. I have been indicating global abundance as a mathematically provable fact. Something we can inventory and show for over a score of years.
PLOWBOY: Twenty years?
AS: Yes, more than that. Now at this point then, just the statement of plenty adds to existent growing knowledge. The idea to implement this plenty, and to implement it and effect it, is the contribution specifically of the program, World Economic Organization. W.E.O. is an expression and a program to demonstrate and prove Copionics. Your question is how does it operate, what does it say, how does it propose to effect plenty.
Copionics is a negation in itself of the very basis for our present scarcity — economics. It negates scarcity in that it states that the sufficiency of the planet can be made available to all its inhabitants. Moreover, the distribution and the satisfaction and fulfillment of all mankind can be accomplished gainfully. Perhaps this is the key: That we are not talking about a charitable or a give-away program — a program of "foreign aid" — but, rather, the expression of natural exchange.
PLOWBOY: What do you mean by natural exchange?
AS: We find that the processes by which man lives, whether they are technological or processes of nature or anatomical functions, are all — in effect — natural in exchange. For example, our exchange with plants ... the C02-oxygen cycle ... is a free and gainful exchange between the parties to the "trade". There is no tariff, there is no charge and both plant and animal gain in the relationship. The nitrogen cycle, the formation of crystals in a super-saturated solution, are all examples of the largesse — of the abundance — in natural functions. The scarcity premise, the scarcity concept with which man has somehow burdened himself, is an unnatural precept. It does not sit with, nor is it normal, to natural life.
PLOWBOY: It's not in the natural way of living.
AS: It's not in the natural way of living nor is it consistent with fact. We have presupposed that there is not enough and the laws of the market have been devised to accord with this idea of "not enough" ... which is wrong. We're challenged. As soon as we have begun to talk of sufficiency, and this is the nature of our present knowledge, we are faced with a challenge.
PLOWBOY: How do we effect it then? How do we deal with this sufficiency?
AS: In World Economic Organization — which, again, is the demonstration of Copionics — we take factual and actual data and conditions and assemble the data into a flow chart, a visible directive for our actions. To be more specific, we know what's produced in various areas of the globe. Certainly we know the need — need which we somehow accept today — in terms of two-thirds of the world's people being hungry and 10,000 starving to death per day.
We note these two series of facts — free availability and need — in the W.E.O. computer-programmed flow chart and, in the expression of the satisfaction of the need, we demonstrate the feasibility of free-flow exchange.
The prime question that occurs and will occur to any economist is, "how to effect payment, how to make free exchange happen, how to motivate free exchange." And here a notion of Copionics called resource credit is employed.
PLOWBOY: Could you give us some figures of the abundance of the food that could be distributed? How much do we waste, how much is there ... how much most people don't even know about?
AS: The first expression of Copionics, in W.E.O., is in food, the food program. For there is the most apparent area for us to demonstrate sufficiency. The isolated pieces of news we have about the glut of wheat in Canada or the oversufficiency of potatoes plowed under out west is not persuasive enough. However, we have arbitrary and objective data.
For instance, the amount of cultivation on this planet — in terms of vegetation per day — comes to something in the area of over 200 pounds per capita. This represents vegetation which can be reprocessed, which can be extracted.
PLOWBOY: Over 200 pounds a day?
AS: Yes, per person. Presently, we share (or fail to share) two-thirds of a pound per person per day, and you and I know that when we eat one and a half pounds of food per day, we've lowered the amount for someone else, elsewhere.
This cultivation I refer to, by the way, is an unplanted amount of vegetation. This does not come by man's hands or effort. It is indicative of the abundance of nature itself.
PLOWBOY: Can we eat this vegetation?
AS: This can be recovered. There are known extraction processes, yes. We have a figure of one-half million square miles of cultivated land in the world which is devoted to wheat and soybeans and oats and so forth. We know that there are 5.5 million square miles of acreage suitable for immediate cultivation. That is to say, with the appropriate water, the right kind of soil and so on. So there is a reserve of 11 times what we presently use as cultivated land. Moreover, we are increasingly familiar with hybrid seeds that are five-fold productive — wheat, corn, rice and others — which, alone, can be a total solution to man's hunger.
PLOWBOY: Why is this not distributed? Why aren't corporations doing something about it?
AS: There's no profit in it. If people can't pay, then the exchange doesn't happen.
PLOWBOY: Do they know about it?
AS: They know that there's sufficiency or they certainly should know. This is their responsibility if they are in government, in the agri-food business, etc. These are items of knowledge that are available to anyone. The politicians certainly should know.
Again, it comes back to our constraint: There is an economic premise of scarcity and, somehow, that premise of scarcity has governed our decisions. This is the way it is! And once the premise is accepted, all of the laws of economics automatically evolve — The Law of Supply and Demand, The Law of the Least Useful Unit — all things we learn at school and accept and nod our heads to.
This is the shape of the world. This is the existing situation and we accept it. We're conditioned to this and not only in school. I mean, this is the way our parents react because they accept this. No one denies this total commandment. We are all 'hooked' on scarcity...
There's a definition of the Law of Supply and Demand that I think I should give. One economist, Samuelson, puts it, "When the rich man's dog gets the milk that the poor man's child needs to avoid rickets, is the system working badly? No. It is working as it is designed to do — putting goods in the hands of those with the most money or dollar votes."
This may sound reprehensible. Actually, it is colloquially well put and it represents the accepted economics — the exchange situation — in our world. We have given up.
Since we all accept the false premise — there's not enough — since our world is so governed, the gaps increase between nations, as they do between races and peoples. And, of course, the gap between generations and minds seems equally to conform. It is this gap, with its many faces, that is our threat today. Because it is this gap expressed in environmental destruction, expressed in war and violence, which represents the many faces of our fixed system.
PLOWBOY: Does Copionics require violence or revolution?
AS: For some of us, angry and committed to deep change, there may be at first some disappointment. For Copionics requires no violence, no expropriation. Copionics is deep change. The realization of sufficiency can be effected and expressed and accomplished with no harm to any group or any class.
PLOWBOY: Wouldn't this radically change our society though? I mean, there's some guy across the street who must be watching his color television.and dreaming of his freshly polished Cadillac. Would he have to worry — I mean would he say, "I can't let this happen, what about my TV and Cadillac?"
AS: Well, the super-abundance of our world — of our life — the amazing sufficiency expressed in the comprehension that there is limitless energy flowing into our world, puts the Cadillac in an appropriate perspective. No one need want more than that ... the lives of us all would be full and fulfilled.
You ask how all this will change our lives? I think the expression of free-flow that man will see and enjoy will create for him the realization that he can enlarge himself in terms of feeling, in terms of idea; in terms of expression. In matters that have real meaning ...
PLOWBOY: We're so restricted ...
AS: Yes.
PLOWBOY: We should stop listening to all the ideas that have been put down, that say, "Do it this way." We're asking — and you're asking — for what appears to be a human revolution.
AS: Yes, I think that is the fundamental thing. If we break through this basic constraint which is something we've been saddled with — the acceptance of scarcity — I think the implications will free us in every way. And I think the students, the young people, sense this — realize this, feel this — and that Copionics provides them with a program, a tangible device to show this to all people, to show this to their parents, to show this to the businessman, to show this to the technician, to show it to the world.
PLOWBOY: You mentioned college students growing more aware of Copionics. What has been happening on college campuses with it?
AS: At one campus, Queens College, an Abundance Club has been started with the idea that the information — the facts that "we have it made" — can be told at the school level, as well as at all other levels of life.
You must remember that we are attempting to make pragmatic the facts of availability. Just to express it might mean continuation of our present affairs. What can we do? You know we're restrained by the Law of International Balance of Payments: Capital formation ... growth for the Have countries, while the Have-Not countries become increasingly Have-Not.
What good is this information of sufficiency if it is not effected? And this is our challenge: To put this into program form, to put this into computerized statement. This is our work and objective, presently.
PLOWBOY: Could you mention where else there is work and consideration of Copionics occurring?
AS: The program has been discussed — not only with students — but with members of faculty, heads of universities and economists such as the heads of graduate schools at Columbia, Ohio State, etc. More than one university faculty member is a trustee in World Economics Organization. Presently, there are many professors and graduate students working on models for this program.
It's not the ecologists alone who pointed out that race suicide is our terminal point. All strata indicate the exponentially increasing danger to us all. We've all read the predictions that society is headed for a disaster.
PLOWBOY: I want to ask you about the computer system — how does this function in solving our problems? You said you feed in the data of abundance and scarcity and compute a "free-flow" or, I suppose, a nearly ideal distribution. Is this feasible? Can it be done?
AS: Yes, it can be done. Primarily and particularly because we are relying on the gain factor, the multiplier theorem which has acceptance and economic recognition. The expression of resource credit that I previously mentioned is the method and the means for justifying the exchange for "payment". With that credit provided, which in itself is backed by the true facts of global plenitude, It happens, It occurs: We have the balance of Supply with Need. I like to state this in present tense because this is something which is accomplishable NOW.
We do have it made. I mean, abundance is the condition of our world as an object, as an ascertainable, as a mathematical, as a realizable fact. And perhaps the word realization is the key. Because, in our knowledge that all men can benefit, we are presently divided. The fact of accumulation and its need is the cause for our wars and our dissatisfactions.
PLOWBOY: Well, how would you then distribute ... who would distribute this abundance of food?
AS: If you look at the total idea as one of enlarging trade, I think the accomplishment becomes, not formidable, but easily comprehensible and assimilable. This, in effect, is what we do. We set forth that all the world is the market and that there is availability to supply all the world. The present channels, the present means, are continued. The mechanisms for distribution continue.
It's as though we come to you and say we can enlarge the Gross National Product of each country and the global product of the world. We are enlarging the market to encompass the two-thirds of the world that is not considered a market.
PLOWBOY: Don't you think it would hurt the present market system ... keep it from functioning properly?
AS: No. There would be no alteration of our methodology for trade. Certainly there would be a greater assurance for those who produce because of an assured market. This is a gain over present technologies. The larger gain is in the profitable enlargement of the total market.
PLOWBOY: With this increase of distribution — where everyone, everywhere would receive food — do you think it would be possible to maintain a constant level? I mean, there would be no famine or wasted harvests? Could we actually have one constant level?
AS: Yes, that is our goal: Homeostatic balance.
PLOWBOY: Arthur, how do you think these economic changes would affect politics? What would be the political implications?
AS: I think political forms — the ones based on scarcity — will be varied, will be altered. I think they will coalesce and all forms will become one. Politics and political forms are economic expressions, and this is what we should stress. With the alteration of economics, political forms will alter too. And if scarcity is obsolete, of course these forms will convert over to something much more fulfilling to man.
If I can add something too, Allan: Many young people are concerned with "the computerized society". There's a large fallacy there, and a large need to get rid of: The fear that a machine will be running us.
It's hardly that. I mean, we merely turn over to a very efficient device, the computer, the rote and mechanical and ministerial functions of food-getting and the like. It's similar to our own body organization. We don't protest breathing or osmosis by our body mechanisms. Because of them, we're free ... to think, to ideate.
In a sense, this ought to and can occur between men. Things which occur naturally, automatically, in our own anatomy will be occurring between men and we'll be free for the first time. Really free. To live, make love, create, play the guitar, whatever.
PLOWBOY: This may be very difficult for people to accept and to believe as a practical theory. It may sound too idealistic to many. How has the World Economic Organization been received?
AS: Well, the reaction has been pretty negative — up to the last three to five years.
PLOWBOY: Exactly how long have you been pursuing this plan?
AS: About 25 years. But today there is a growing kind of acceptance instead of the resistance (and that's putting it mildly) I met before. There are people now who just recognize and realize and feel and comprehend Copionics ... and these are people not only in ecology or in mathematic sciences, but economists! And there's a feeling that there can be a break through this indomitable wall — this indomitable creation of scarcity — economics.
PLOWBOY: Do you think it's the growth of the ecological movement that's helped you, or is it just the growing awareness that we are in real trouble?
AS: I think ecology and awareness of trouble are really one. They represent a threat. I think Copionics will develop because of its promise, rather than as a result of any threat. Man's hope is the thing to look to.
PLOWBOY: Do many people tell you you're crazy?
AS: Oh yes, yes.
PLOWBOY: What's your reaction to that?
AS: There are people who find abundance a threat because scarcity is their accustomed way of thinking. Freud says the threat of health, the threat of success, is an awful one for many of us. Not only for the so-called "sick" people, but for most of mankind.
PLOWBOY: Arthur, I want to ask you one last question: Do you think you're crazy?
AS: (pause) Well, if man is bent on his own destruction, if the predictions of many of our best minds are correct and this species is coming to its end — inevitable end — then I think the criticism would be valid ... I am crazy.
I offer an approach that is contrary to all our scarcity conditioning, an approach against the awful "design" of our present system. It would be the madness, then, of optimism, if you will. The madness of life against death. The madness of health against sickness.
"When the rich man's dog gets the milk that the poor man's child needs to avoid rickets, is the system working badly? No. It is working as it is designed to do — putting goods in the hands of those with the most money or dollar votes."
Is Arthur Shaw crazy? I know he's not. What about you?
The above interview is reprinted with permission of ZYGOTE Magazine, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10011.