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Jewish World Review June 20, 2010/ 8 Tamuz 5770 Futility in Afghanistan: An NCO fires off a round of illumination By George Will
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Torrents of uninteresting mail inundate members of Congress, but occasionally there are riveting communications, such as a recent e-mail from a noncommissioned officer (NCO) serving in Afghanistan. He explains why the rules of engagement for U.S. troops are "too prohibitive for coalition forces to achieve sustained tactical successes." Receiving mortar fire during an overnight mission, his unit called for a 155mm howitzer illumination round to be fired to reveal the enemy's location. The request was rejected "on the grounds that it may cause collateral damage." The NCO says that the only thing that comes down from an illumination round is a canister, and the likelihood of it hitting someone or something was akin to that of being struck by lightning. Returning from a mission, his unit took casualties from an improvised explosive device that the unit knew had been placed no more than an hour earlier. "There were villagers laughing at the U.S. casualties" and "two suspicious individuals were seen fleeing the scene and entering a home." U.S. forces "are no longer allowed to search homes without Afghan National Security Forces personnel present." But when his unit asked Afghan police to search the house, the police refused on the grounds that the people in the house "are good people." On another mission, some Afghan adults ran off with their children immediately before the NCO's unit came under heavy small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), and the unit asked for artillery fire on the enemy position. The response was a question: Where is the nearest civilian structure? "Judging distances," the NCO writes dryly, "can be difficult when bullets and RPGs are flying over your head." When the artillery support was denied because of fear of collateral damage, the unit asked for a "smoke mission" -- like an illumination round; only the canister falls to earth -- "to conceal our movement as we planned to flank and destroy the enemy." This request was granted -- but because of fear of collateral damage, the round was deliberately fired one kilometer off the requested site, making "the smoke mission useless and leaving us to fend for ourselves."
The value of any particular counterinsurgency must be weighed against the risks implicit in the required tactics. The U.S. mission in Afghanistan involves trying to extend the power, over many people who fear it, of a corrupt government produced by a corrupted election. This gives rise to surreal strategies. The Wall Street Journal recently reported U.S. attempts "to persuade [President Hamid] Karzai to act more presidential by giving him more responsibility for operations inside his country." Think about that. Ann Marlowe, a visiting fellow of the Hudson Institute who has been embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan six times, says there have been successes at the local and even provincial levels "but nothing that has lasted even a year." And the election fraud last August that secured Karzai another five-year term was symptomatic: His "government has become more egregiously corrupt and incompetent in the last three or four years." Last month Marlowe reported: "The Pentagon's map of Afghanistan's 80 most key districts shows only five 'sympathetic' to the Afghan government -- and none supporting it." She suggests that Karzai might believe that President Obama's announced intention to begin withdrawing U.S. troops next summer "is a bluff." Those Americans who say that Afghanistan is a test of America's "staying power" are saying that we must stay there because we are there. This is steady work, but it treats perseverance as a virtue regardless of context or consequences and makes futility into a reason for persevering. Obama has counted on his 2011 run-up to reelection being smoothed by three developments in 2010 -- the health-care legislation becoming popular after enactment, job creation accelerating briskly and Afghanistan conditions improving significantly. The first two are not happening. He can decisively influence only the third, and only by adhering to his timetable for disentangling U.S. forces from this misadventure.
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It's hard to top Friday, but I'd argue that Wednesday is one of the best days of the week! Forget the hump day nonsense, I'm talking about food news. Granted, every weekday seems like a perfect day to get up, make coffee and dig into a stack of good reading, but if I had my choice, I'd make every Wednesday a sick day (cough).
I'd start with yoga, take a quick shower and then pour myself a hot cup of Cuban coffee, fresh out of my Bialetti. My husband would then serve me a fresh croissant from Breadline, possibly accompanied by apricot jam and interpretive dance. Then I'd dig in:
-The Washington Post food section. I'm excited to read about TangySweet's Dupont Circle opening!
-The Washington Post chats; one with Tom Sietsema and the other with the food section staff. I linger around these chats and (occasionally) ask questions about restaurant rumors or local ingredients, but have the most fun reading about the extreme disgust of people whose restaurant experiences are too noisy, waiters who are too rude, and whose local Whole Foods have run out of leeks. Seriously, chill out, folks.
-The New York Times food section. I'll be reading this Mark Bittmen gem on my lunch break.
-The Los Angeles Times' food section. I read an article in this month's Food and Wine about Grant Achatz's battle with cancer and its interesting effects on his career at Alinea, so I'm excited to read that he was awarded outstanding chef for 2007 at the James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony in New York.
-I'd end the day with Top Chef. I'm really pulling for Stephanie in tonight's finale, but would enjoy seeing Richard win as well…I'm just not crazy about little miss crossed-arms. Attitude much?
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The Southeastern Conference's new network debuts Thursday, promising more than 1,000 live events this year and a reach that includes most major television providers.
The network will be welcomed by millions of fans of who can't get enough coverage of the most powerful conference in college sports, and SEC officials think it will increase revenue. Getting the network off the ground -- with operations at 14 different campuses -- wasn't easy or inexpensive.
Some schools needed to build professional studios, upgrade technology and hire a video staff.
SEC associate commissioner for network relations Charlie Hussey says "a lot of our schools had done a good amount of work already in the infrastructure for this, while others had a little further along to go. But we'll be ready for launch day."
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Transworld Surf takes us 'behind the cover' of their February 2013 issue. This cover features 2 unique features; a sequence, and frame grab. The cover was pulled from video clips filmed with John John's RED camera shot by Blake Kueny. This has never before been done on a surf cover. Watch the 'behind the cover' video with John John Florence and Chris Cote below.
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MÖTLEY CRÜE/SIXX: A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx was interviewed on this past Thursday's (April 28) edition of "Dr. Drew" on HLN. A short clip from his appearance on the program can be viewed below.
Sixx's new book, "This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx", debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times "Hardcover Advice & Misc" best seller list. The book came out on April 12 via the HarperCollins imprint William Morrow. You can now "browse inside" the book at HarperCollins.com. The "This Is Gonna Hurt" book explores a new, more introspective side, the first-ever public showing of his photography and insights on his life yesterday, today and tomorrow. "This Is Gonna Hurt" takes Sixx to a whole new level as an artist, musician and photographer. Accompanying the book, and slated for a May 3 release, will be a new CD by SIXX: A.M. complementing the book's themes and showcasing the incredible songwriting and musicianship of Sixx and SIXX: A.M. bandmates James Michael and D.J. Ashba.NIKKI SIXX Talks Addictions On 'Dr. Drew' (Video)
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ARMONK, N.Y. - 07 Jan 2005: IBM today announced it has acquired SRD, a privately held company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and provider of identity resolution software.
SRD's operations will be integrated into IBM's Information Management software organization and SRD products will be immediately available from IBM. Financial details were not disclosed.
With this acquisition, IBM is extending the capabilities of its Information Management software portfolio by bringing new levels of accuracy to identity resolution. The SRD technology helps organizations increase business insight by delivering an accurate view into individuals and relationships in real-time -- associations that previously were nearly impossible to discover, enabling a wide range of solutions.
The acquisition also enhances IBM's business intelligence platform and strengthens its analytical capabilities by enabling solutions that require the melding of information stored in a variety of database and drawing out non-obvious relationships between entities.
"The seemingly simple questions of 'who is who?' and 'who knows whom?' cut across a wide variety of business problems today," said Janet Perna, general manager, IBM Information Management Software. "The SRD technology provides solutions to these age-old problems with unparalleled speed and accuracy."
SRD software strengthens IBM's middleware portfolio via a multidimensional approach to analytics that dramatically extends the capabilities of identity-based applications. The combination provides value to business partners who deliver business intelligence and other applications that might require a single customer view, fraud detection, or customer relationship management across many industries, such as government, banking, insurance and healthcare.
"The combination of SRD technology with IBM's middleware platform will bring a new era of accuracy, speed and scale to business analytics," said John Slitz, CEO, SRD.
The SRD technology also complements IBM's open computing approach through its ability to work with both IBM and non-IBM data sources, including Oracle and Microsoft databases, enabling customers to integrate it with their existing technology infrastructure. The technology is based on both SQL the Java industry standard J2EE, allowing developers to more easily develop, deploy and maintain analytical business applications.
SRD technology further extends investments IBM is making in support of analytical solutions, which include DB2 Data Warehouse Edition, DB2 Cube Views and DB2 Alphablox. IBM also enables industry-specific business intelligence solutions, including the IBM Banking Data Warehouse for financial institutions and the IBM Crime Information Warehouse for law enforcement.
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loves working for Lisa LingOprah. Parade sat down with the 38-year-old journalist whose show, Our America with Lisa Ling, is gearing up for its second season on OWN: the Oprah Winfrey network.
Parade questioned Ling on Oprah's management style and influence on Our America but Lisa remained positive and complimentary of media icon.
"I know that Oprah is going to be very involved and that's a good thing." She goes on to say, "I've worked for Oprah for quite awhile. It's so inspiring because she's not just a boss. Everything you do, she asks, 'What's your intention behind it?' You never find that in television. Oftentimes the only question is, 'What is it going to rate?'"
While she admires Oprah for her ethical and integrity-filled approach, Ling does admit working on Our America is a little different on the OWN network versus other longstanding networks such as ABC and NBC.
"OWN has gone through its challenges. It is a brand new network and looking to find its voice. But I actually feel more strongly about it now than ever. I don't think I would be able to do any other show on any other network."
The second season of Our America promises to shed light on provocative and gripping stories, beginning with the first episode about amateur porn.
"We explore everything from amateur porn, to veterans and PTSD, or the high number of African men in prisons. A completely diverse array of stories but each episode is a world in its own right. The stories are so rich and substantive and riveting."
Lisa is grateful to OWN because she believes the network's creative freedom allowed her to produce compelling documentary episodes. The one topic she hasn't had a chance to report on is foster care, but sites lack of access as the primary obstacle.
"There are so many thousands of children in foster care but we are dealing with minors. I think if more Americans know how many kids are in foster care and these are good, honest kids who need a home, they would be more inclined to adopt."
With all of the intense reporting Lisa Ling does, she confesses she is usually in need of a good social media fix to unwind.
"I'm a self-professed Twitter junkie. And I spend so much on Facebook. It's highly addictive." With over 100,000 Twitter followers and almost 2,500 tweets, we can tell.
You can follow Lisa Ling on Twitter @lisaling.
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Assisi Animal Health Highlights Some Best Practices for Veterinary Businesses
PINEHURST, N.C., July 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Assisi Animal Health developed the Assisi Loop®, an effective non-pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory device (NPAID®). The Loop helps heal wounds and relieve pain in cats, dogs, and horses through its targeted pulsed electromagnetic therapy.
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Like any other business, it's important for veterinary offices to think about business strategy and growth. Assisi Animal Health outlines some easy best practices that veterinarians can implement immediately to achieve results.
Elevate customer service behaviors for both human and pet interactions. Encourage your staff members to greet both pets and their owners. You want your human and animal clients to feel your office is an extension of their home, ensuring their comfort for the duration of their visit. Train your reception personnel to be friendly, empathetic, and knowledgeable. This is the first impression that clients will have and you want your staff to make a positive impression. You should also follow up with clients to see how their pet is doing. A friendly phone call to check in will go a long way and lead to repeat business and positive word-of-mouth advertising.
Understand the practice's revenue sources. Services should be the primary source of income. If a practice is making a large portion of its revenue through physical inventory such as food, accessories, and flea and tick treatments, then additional services should be added. Pet owners will often purchase such goods at locations that are more affordable. Consider adding grooming or boarding services to keep the practice sustainable and in high demand.
Efficient and updated operating systems for inventory management, billing, and medical records. Manually tracking inventory is time consuming. Updated technology makes work quicker, easier, and less prone to human error. Re-ordering becomes easy and slow moving inventory is easily identified, allowing for better purchasing decisions. Billing can be done in a fraction of the time through the proper technology as well.
Drive traffic through referral programs, social media, and reminder systems. Offer referral discount programs to drive word of mouth traffic and use social media to create brand recognition. Offering tips on a web page gives a practice added value and shows a commitment to the animal and human community. Future traffic is also impacted through treatment reminder systems which keep traffic flowing and show a high level of interest in animal care.
Offer something that sets the practice apart from the rest. The Assisi Loop offers targeted Pulse Electromagnetic Field Therapy in a portable and user friendly device that can be used as an in-practice treatment or sold to be used at home. It is a clinical solution for Osteoarthritis, post-surgery healing, inflammation, pain management and wound healing and is a call to action for clients to utilize a practice.
Assisi Animal Health's clinical solutions complete the Circle of Care® the collaboration of veterinarians and owners in animal health and healing. Our company helps veterinary professionals and owners improve the quality of life for companion animals using the Assisi Loop, the non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical healing device that is based on the same FDA-cleared technology used on humans. The device uses low-level pulses of electromagnetic energy to reduce pain and swelling, and to enhance recovery.
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Stevens lobbied the federal government to establish a federally appointed and funded Harbour Commission that would improve and administer Burrard Inlet, English Bay, Indian Arm and False Creek docks and harbour facilities.
Stevens was successful and in May of 1913, Parliament passed his bill which created not only commissions for Vancouver but also for South Vancouver (that controlled the North Arm of the Fraser River) and for New Westminster (therefore controlling the rest of Fraser River). Each commission had three commissioners who were empowered to hire a harbour master, port warden, shipping master, engineers and other officicals that would regulate navigation, shore side development and shipping into the new ports.
Federal funds were made available to construct a concrete 'Government's Wharf' in 1914. This was an industrial, rail and water linked island on False Creek, which became known as Granville Island. This was all done under the auspice of the newly formed Harbour Commission. The island proved profitable and was paying back the Harbour Commission's investment. Sadly, the grain terminals were not.
These were not only Vancouver's first grain terminals but also British Columbia's. They were built in 1913 but, with Vancouver's port affected by the worldwide economic depression, the terminals languished for a few years. Another element delaying the success of these structures was the fact that the new facility had not instilled confidence in either the grain growers to ship their products to Vancouver or the British buyers who weren't convinced the grain could survive the journey by water from Vancouver. These terminals stood empty and became known as 'Steven's Folly' or 'Steven's white elephant'.
That didn't deter the politician. At the end of 1918, under the watchful eye of government scientists, a trial shipment of grain was shipped to England. The journey through the Panama Canal, the Caribbean heat and across the water took three and a half months but the cargo suffered little damage. Still, it took a few more years before grain growers and buyers were convinced enough that the structures were filled with grain. Steven's folly was turned into a triumph.
Thanks goes to bob_2006 at flickr.com and The Vancouver Maritime Museum website for the information. I hope you find the beauty around you.
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adventure_geek Should check out the gap adventures departure http://www.gapadventures.com/destinations/asia/borneo/ been there and done it ... brilliant!
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I will be in Malaysian Borneo between these dates. No set itinerary as yet but hope to take in:
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This book vindicates the commonsense idea that the right to property is a right to things. Distinguishing between the 'practice' of property and the 'practice' of contract is essential for a proper understanding, but failure to do so is common. As the book shows, it mars both John Locke's and Georg Hegel's philosophies of property, and continues to contribute to confusion. It also obscures the central element of sharing and giving in the ownership of property, the importance of which has been generally neglected. Perhaps most controversially, the book argues that the justification of the right ... More
Keywords: right to property, sharing, giving, distribution of property, debts, persons, contract, ownership, things
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A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: The sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we study today.
An ancient version of one book has an extra phrase. Another appears to have been revised to retroactively insert a prophecy after the events happened.
Scholars in this out-of-the-way corner of the Hebrew University campus have been quietly at work for 53 years on one of the most ambitious projects attempted in biblical studies — publishing the authoritative edition of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, and tracking every single evolution of the text over centuries and millennia.
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"This is crazy but here we go again! You wanted it. You got it so you got it. Penn vs. Diaz Oct 29th in Vegas".
Dana White just announced via his Twitter account that BJ Penn will now face Nick Diaz at UFC 137. The announcement comes only the day after Diaz was pulled from his title fight with Georges St. Pierre and was replaced by Carlos Condit. With Condit getting bumped up to the main event, Penn was then left without an opponent, but with Diaz now back on the card, the two fights seem to finally be set.
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A gated community for rich kids. This is fiction from my mind. Completely made up.
Aiden came from a wealthy family. He always usually got what he wanted. When he was 10 his parents started to send him to a camp where they taught people how to live on their own. It lasted all summer. He is 13 now. He had never really been attracted to girls and never had a girl friend. He had been openly gay with his friends but hadn't come out to his family.
No one really followed the rules but everyone liked being their as they got their own cabin. Since they all came from fairly wealthy families they had enough
money to decorate it how they wanted.
Aiden moved his things into his cabin in late May waiting for the camp to officially open the first of June. It wasn't really a camp at all. More like a mini mansion gated community. This 'camp' was on a gigantic piece of land. They had the living sector with all the houses. They had something that resembled a town where they had shops of different sorts. It was like its own city with teens and pre-teens. Then they had roads that connected everything. No real cars where allowed but things like pocket bikes or golf carts could be driven.
Since Aiden felt uptight about the snotty kids staying at their cabins before camp opening he had surveillance camera put up around his cabin just to make sure no one did anything bad. When he was watching the cameras in his phone when he saw a cabin being built next to his. When it was time for camp to open and Aiden returned The new cabin was finished with a new kid and his parents moving things into it.
He thought he ought to go over and introduce himself. Aiden walked across the yards to the door where the three of them where walking out to get the last items out of the U-haul. He extended his hand and introduced himself " Hi! I'm Aiden, your new neighbor."
"Hey, My name's Anthony, My friends call me Tony, which backwards is 'y not?'"
Anthony's mother and father had finished moving in the last boxes labeled clothes while Aiden and Anthony made small talk. Anthony's mother and father left after they finished. He invited Aiden into his cabin.
"Hey wanna soda? just an FYI: they aren't cold yet" asked Tony
"Sure" replied Aiden
Tony grabbed a Pepsi from the mini fridge and tossed it to Aiden. Aiden looked around the cabin. It was a mid-sized main floor with a small stairway leading up to a balcony that was a wide as the rest of it but was about one third the length.
Tony flipped on the TV to the new episode of House M.D. At commercials they would talk about life, masturbation, that sorta thing.
"I'm gay" Aiden said to Tony.
"Good, Me too" Tony replied.
"Wanna watch a porno?" Asked Aiden
"Kay, Imma be right back. I need to get my laptop." said Aiden.
Aiden half jogged out the door, across the street into his cabin and snatched his laptop, a Dell Studio 17.
"Sweet laptop!!" exclaimed Tony.
"Mines a mini but I just connect it to the TV" said Tony.
Aiden turned on his laptop and opened up the internet page. He went to the porn site where he secretly bought a membership with a prepaid Visa card. When the video started playing each boy could see a tent rising up in each others pants. Aiden hadn't jacked off in days and really needed to let loose a few ropes. He couldn't take it any more.
"I really need to jack off. You mind?" Aiden burst out
"Not a bit I could too." Tony replied
They both stood up and dropped their pants. Tony had a 5 1/2 incher. While Aiden boasted more of a 7 incher. They sat down and started to jack off.
"Man Your really hot." Tony Blurted out
He took his hand off his dick and started to jack Aiden. he started pumping faster. And faster. And faster.
"I'm gonna cummmm!!!!" screamed Aiden
Tony then moved Aiden's dick into his mouth and sealed his lips around it. Within seconds Aiden spewed 1,2,3,4 ropes of hot juicy cum into Tony's Mouth. There was a little trickle of cum seaping out of his mouth down his chin. Tony swallowed the rest and Aiden bend over and licked up the little trickle off Tony's chin.
"Wow that was the best cum I've ever had. Surely I must repay you." said Aiden after a moment of silence.
"Meet me up in bed on the balcony in a minute for my repayment." replied Tony in a deep sexy voice.
Tony walked up the stairs and went into a small room for a minute while Aiden watched the rest of the porno.
Tony had striped the rest of his clothes off. He then Dimmed the lights and hopped onto his queen sized bed. With one leg out, the other bent half way, leaning on an elbow and the opposite hand resting on his knee when he called out "Oh Aiden! Get up here!"
Aiden hopped up and almost sprinted up the stairs. He stopped in his tracks and his eyes almost popped out of his head when he saw Tony laying on the bed like that. He could get out of his clothes fast enough. Aiden Plopped down on the bed and they started to french kiss. They rolled all over the bed. Tony was on top of Aiden. Tony twisted around and the went into a 69 possition.
Tony moaned in pleasure.
"Give it to me up the ass!"
Aiden didnt have to be told twice. He rolled over Tony and slid his fingers in to loosen him up. He put a little spit on the head of his dick then carefully slid his 7 inch into Tony's ass.
At first Tony winced in pain but it quickly turned to moaning in pleasure. They where currently doggy style but aiden didn't like that because he couldn't see their face or penis. He pulled out and flipped tony over into his back and put Tonys feet over his shoulders and slid back in. Aiden slid halfway out. Alll the way in. He pounded Tonys ass harder and harder. They where both moaning and making unusual noises. Aiden was about to shoot for the second time. He thrusted his cock in and out as hard and fast as humanly possible. He shot some cum up Tonys ass but not much. Aidens penis began to deflate ad he collapsed onto Tonys chest and they both fell asleep. Aiden didn't even pull out.
Aiden awoke to find tony not in bed. He got up and made his way to Tonys dresser and found a pair of white Calvin Klein Boxer briefs. They where snug but he liked them that way. Aiden went down stairs to find tony making breakfast in The kitchen. Tony was wearing the same underwear as him just in briefs. "how do you like your eggs?" tony asked. "scrambled" aiden Replied. "hope you don't mind I borrowed. Pair of underwear" aiden said "not a problem". Tony answered with a wink. Aiden went up behind tony putting his hands on tony's hips with his whole front side touching tony's whole back side.
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good story well done I had three friends that we use to go to my folks summer cottage when they were away and we had many of good times the one I liked the best was four guys sucking at the same time and trying to cum at the same time it was great time for about 4 years.
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Can we get another story....
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2011-09-16 23:48:41
More more more, just a little longer story, plz. Looking forward to c more really hope i do
2010-11-26 03:52:24
Luv'd the story can't wait to read more & hopefully the boiz find some yung boiz to join in on the fun.
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From their hand-painted eyes, to their realistic facial expressions, great detail is realized in Heidi Ott's dolls. Part of the "Little Ones" series, Tom, Baby Harry, and Saddie were made during the late-1990s. They have vinyl heads, arms, and legs with stuffed knit bodies. Tom and Saddie have vinyl breast plates. The larger dolls are 13 inches; Baby Harry is 9 inches. Tom and Saddie have black, rooted human hair. Baby Harry's hair is molded. Their feet remain as they arrived from the artist, bare, but they wear their complete original outfits.
Baby Georgia (BG) from the year 2000 is a lug to carry! She is 29 inches and weighs at least 10 lb... at least. BG has a brown, human hair, afro-style wig that has a few tiny braids throughout. The braids were originally accented with fuchsia beads that I replaced with white beads. This big baby is from the "Dreamkid" series. She holds her vinyl "Dreamkid" teddy bear. BG has a male counterpart whose name is Samuel (owned by a fellow collector). See his pictures below.
Ott's Will and Ellie (made in China/distributed by Dayton Hudson Corporation) are from 1996. These 18-inch (American Girl-style) dolls are made of vinyl with stuffed knit bodies. They feature natural textured, brown kanekalon wigs; brown sleep eyes, and smiling mouths with two upper molded teeth. They wear their original clothes. (I added Ellie's glasses) A target exclusive, their original retail was $35.
According to Heidi Ott's "under construction" website, she currently makes miniature child dolls.
More links to Heidi Ott dolls:
Close up of another collector's Ellie
Two Heidi Ott babies
Another Lucie
Another Miniature Child Doll
It has been fun reacquainting myself with dolls in my collection that for years have gone without a glimpse or without a thought. Writing this month's themed blog allowed me to provide some much needed, undivided attention to the featured dolls and to learn a little more about them. I enjoyed the process. I hope you did, too.
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The Phoenix Players are in the dark until spring 2017.
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"I have been with the Phoenix Players as a Phire Phlie for seven years. It is one of the most rewarding and incredible experiences and I cannot even begin to express in words how grateful I am for this group.
I have gotten so much from the Phoenix Players. Being a Phire Phlie has improved my public speaking skills and my confidence. It has taught me to open up and step out of the bounds of my comfort zone. I have learned how to work on and off of the stage. Acting has become my hobby, my interest, and my passion. It is an activity that I enjoy more than anything else in the world. I have been introduced to an amazing theatre family. I am so extremely proud to say that I am a Phire Phlie.
A Phire Phlie has many defining characteristics. We are respectful to everyone in the cast and crew, as they are our friends and our family. We are responsible and follow directions. We try new things, look out for each other, work hard, and stay positive. Phire Phlies are capable of anything they set their minds to.
The Phoenix Players has, very simply, changed my life. I do not know where I would be right now if I had not gone to that workshop all those years ago. I have met fantastic people, put on amazing shows, and learned valuable lessons. I am, and always will be, a Phoenix Players Phire Phlie."
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There is only one way for a theatre company to expand and thrive to its best ability and that is to have a viable venue for its productions. In addition, the township hall will be used to its best advantage when local residents can continue to enjoy the aesthetics and sense of history on a continuing basis.
For this reason, the Phoenix Players and The Green Oak Historical Society feel that a joint venture to bring live theatre performances to the 1856 Green Oak Township Hall will be the best for our needs.
The historic township hall is the most feasible local venue for our productions, workshops, camps, and rehearsals. The schools have a few stages available, but the cost is prohibitive, and the spaces are not available for any extended period of time. Performing arts centers in the local area charge far more than any non-profit can afford and buying our own space without an extensive treasury is impossible.
While the space is small, allowing for an audience of about 40 people and a 16×20 foot stage, we have the innovative ability to work around these obstacles. Sets will be minimal, with the focus being on the acting, and with the ability to do more performances of each play, we can still accommodate all of the people who enjoy our productions. As the Historical Society is a non-profit, we have agreed to equitably share the profits of the Phoenix Players events, which will allow The Society to use their portion to do further renovations on this important local historic site.
Once we are done with our preliminary work on the building, we will be able not only to have our own space, but The Historical Society will be able to offer it to other local non-profit groups, such as musical groups, for their performances. This will fill a great need for such venues in the area and allow for even more cultural events to be provided to the community. Additionally, the increased revenue will help to fund our and the Historic Society's plans for the future.
We hope you share our vision for the future of the cultural experiences in western Oakland and eastern Livingston counties. We think that we have a great deal to offer and that our goals are reasonable and very reachable. The experiences we offer, especially to children, give them life-long memories and skills.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The birds of Albert Park #1
Please god let this one be right at least. Purple swamp hens.
Crested pigeons. I have never seen these in Melbourne before. I first saw them at my step mother's in the north of the state. They have a strange chirp. They are removing the seeds from the seeded grass bed where the Melbourne Grand Pricks organisation killed the grass during our annual 'burn petrol needlessly' event.
I was naughty. I attracted the birds with Salada cracker crumbs, but hey they were the Lite ones, so no harm done.
Just from my observations on the day, when two swans meet and they already know each other, they have a ritual to observe which also involves some sounds as well as the obvious physical.
If this is the same breed of duck as I saw last time, it is a Pacific Black Duck.
I think I have the name right but at this point I will just say it is a teal duck.
Ah, me ole mate P01. I have known him/her for a long time. She/he harassed our friend in Japan when she visited. He/she scared Little Jo. P01 if fine. I have her measure, and I am sure it is a she. You dun scare me you ho bitch. Speaking of family, err, reference to Little Jo, not ho bitch, Dreaded Nephew built the timber deck.
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Cazzie, it is wonderfully green now and the water level is high.
Hels, it is forbidden by Parks Victoria with the appropriate signage. I agree with the essence of their message, don't feed wild creatures, and very few do at the lake, but I thought a few crumbs wouldn't hurt. Apart from diet and becoming dependent on humans, there is the matter of them getting to used to humans and their dogs etc and lose their fear and flight response.They are a strange bird Jayne. I wonder what they are related to? Apart from perhaps pigeons.
V, we walked to the lake and several swans were out of the water and you were a little alarmed at how close they were. P01 was one of them. He/she has been on the lake forever. I can only remember them with neck bands.
Jane, Winnie had black swans and the black dog too. I don't think we have any white swans in Oz. What a shame.
So I must be correct then Red?No, I just didn't want to come across as a smartybottom again ... actually, the swamphen this time is a dusky moorhen (I believe). Smaller, and no purple - although the sheen can often be distracting, especially in the light of your pic. Also less red around the beak.
But get a 2nd opinion by all means!!Thanks Walker. I did read that and promptly forgot about it. But something must have implanted in my brain as the post was already written and the PO1 was added later. Interesting to put it all together and understand where bits go into my posts automatically, yet if I think about how they arose, I don't know.


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System Optimization Guide for Gamers
Ok the layout for this guide is simple - we have to start at the very heart of your PC and work our way outwards from there. That means starting with the hardware, then moving on to the BIOS and ultimately the software such as operating system and drivers. If you really want a tight, fast, stable rig then you will need to shore up each department. The latest drivers won't do anything if the problem lies with a faulty graphics card, poor overclocking or incorrect BIOS settings.
Where I refer to other guides/utilities/sites I highly recommend you take time out and read them. I don't just throw in links for the hell of it - this is stuff I use myself to optimize my system and so far it's worked extremely well for me, so I'm sharing the wealth.
Hardware Setup
The first thing to do is to make sure that your PC is physically operating correctly and that no hardware is faulty or badly set up. Just because your computer boots up into Windows and everything seems ok, doesn't mean your PC is set up 100% correctly or that the hardware is working to its fullest potential.
- How Do I Know What I've Got?
If you've bought a pre-built computer and you have no real idea exactly what's "in the box" then the first thing you have to do is get all your system specifications. Ideally you should have a listing of each component, its manufacturer/brand, model number, and details such as amount of onboard memory. If this is not available to you, or you just want to be sure, download SiSoft Sandra, which is a free benchmarking and system information utility, and run the relevant modules such as Mainboard Information, Video System Information, Sound Card Information, etc. There you'll see the exact specifications of the components, and you should note these down for future reference.
You should also note if you've got a pre-built PC and little knowledge of PCs in general, that the following information can potentially be harmful to your system, so please don't open up your case, fumble around, break the pins on your CPU, then email me angrily saying you're going to sue. Read, read, read...then do!
- Correct Setup
I recently built a PC and foolishly forgot to connect one of the obscure power connectors on the motherboard. Others with the same motherboard tell me it's a common mistake, but my PC seemed to be working fine initially. It did explain the occasional crashes I got in games though, and once I plugged in the extra connector - no more crashes.
By now the above example's got you thinking "so why am I listening to this guy?" My point is that it's easy for anyone to make a mistake when building a PC. Overlooking a connector, not setting a dipswitch correctly or not using the right type of cable are common mistakes. You can be thankful that one of the PC world's authorities, Tom's Hardware, has a recent 2-part guide on building your own PC which I recommend to everyone:
Even if you still think your PC is rock solid, there are a lot of great tips in those guides. Pay particular attention to their instructions on how to properly connect a hard drive and CD-ROM/DVD drive. This is something I see done incorrectly by a lot of first-time PC builders, or for people who've added drives to an existing pre-built machine. The optimal primary/secondary master/slave configuration is very important to getting the best performance out of your drives.
- Faulty Hardware
This is one area I believe is either "over-blamed" or "under-blamed", depending on whether you're new to PCs or a "veteran". The new tend to think everything that's going wrong with their PC is due to faulty hardware. The veterans are convinced there is a setting somewhere which will fix that dead hard drive. The truth lies somewhere in the middle: PC hardware components are just like any other electronics devices - they can malfunction, or be damaged through abuse, and eventually they will just plain stop working.
How do you determine whether your hardware is faulty or not? It's not always easy, but try following these basic steps:
1. Read software tweak guides such as those linked to in this guide to optimize all the software and BIOS settings. If that doesn't improve the situation then that's the first indication that it is hardware-related in some way.
2. If you've overclocked your PC components, set them all to their defaults. For starters, the overclocking itself may have damaged a component (see Overclocking section), but sometimes a component which is overclocked too far can behave in a faulty manner. Remember that overclocking automatically voids your warranty, so at the very least don't expect support from your PC dealer if you mention the component is or has been overclocked.
3. Try the drastic step of a full reformat of your hard drive and then a clean reinstall of your operating system (see Operating System section). This should resolve a lot of problems. If it doesn't then the remaining areas of exploration are the configuration of your PC components or the BIOS settings.
4. Go through your BIOS settings carefully (see BIOS Optimization section) and if in doubt, or if you're still having problems, choose the "Load Fail-Safe Defaults" option.
5. If you've reached this step, it's time to open up your PC and refer to your components' instruction manuals, and/or the guides linked above, for correct setup. It may well be that a badly set switch or missing/incorrect cable is the source of your problems, or perhaps a build up of heat. While you're in there, look for any signs of extreme heat such as scorch marks, a burnt smell, or strange noises. Remember to completely switch off and all your hardware before opening anything up, and to avoid damage to components from static electricity, wear a special wristband or ground yourself by touching the power supply box first.
6. Once you've exhausted all of the above options and you still suspect a component is faulty, it may be hard to determine which one. If in doubt don't attempt to repair or muck around with an item yourself. Take your entire PC to an authorized dealer or specialist PC technician. Sometimes it's better to cut your losses and get something fixed correctly or replaced under warranty than to wind up losing all your data or suffering a destroyed component just because you decide to play PC Doctor one afternoon.
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- System Optimization - Page 1 [Introduction]
- System Optimization - Page 2 [Hardware Setup]
- System Optimization - Page 3 [BIOS Optimization]
- System Optimization - Page 4 [Overclocking]
- System Optimization - Page 5 [Overclocking (Part 2)]
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I downloaded a PDF document on my iPad from a website. Now I want to save it for later reading when my wifi connection will be down. How and where to save it on the iPad? Thanks
Let us know more about how you "saved" the PDF file. Safari doesn't do this but other browsers and PDF viewers do it quite easily. More to come when we understand your current process. Regards, DaveR
GoodReader Stanza I could have sworn iBooks would open from Safari... Pretty sure Atomic allows you to "open in..."
And where isnit saved? I've been using file browser app to get PDFs and other files off my IMac. I can save the. In what they call local files but they don't seem to be accessible to other apps. I too would like to save PDFs i find on websites. Is there actually a file system in IOS 4 that we can put data into and retrieve it via multiple apps?
Let's me be more specific Using Safari browser I found a web page with an interesting article I downloaded the PDF fine I wanted save it for further reading later when wifi connection is not available I could not find a way to save the file Dave If Safari do not allow to save a downloaded PDF file this is a very unfortunate limitation. Do you think it will really necessary to have another application bowser to do it? USbill What is Atomic? How atomic can help me?
Hey there, Thanks for the clarification. What actually happens is the PDF was "opened" which is why I was asking for more details. Atomic web browser is a fantastic browser that you might consider over Safari; however, it won't allow you to "download/save" either. I also bought Mercury browser as it supports saving PDF downloaded files....or, use goodreader Viewer and point to the URL and it will save it for later. Mercury, atomic and goodreader cost but they are super cheap. I wish atomic browser would save downloads but it won't. Oh well. Hope this helps. Keep us posted. Thx, DaveR
From the iPad: when you find a PDF you wish to save in safari, copy the Url. Open Goodreader, tap "Browse the Web" or "From URL" paste Url, open document and save.
Or, put a "g" in front of the URL (the one that ends with PDF) and press "Go." Goodreader will open and download the document. Either way, Goodreader can save PDFs for you. Marilyn
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Great men grow tired of contentedness.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted.Napoleon Bonaparte
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.Longfellow
Every great action is extreme.Duc de La Rochefoucauld
However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of great purpose.Duc de La Rochefoucauld
There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.Kierkegaard
The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well, this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their "I cannot do otherwise" and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all life's terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this "I cannot do otherwise". They are the geniuses. Their "I cannot do otherwise" is an infinite thought, for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought, he would lose his mind.Kierkegaard
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.Nietzsche (in Zarathustra)
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.Kierkegaard
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.Joey Adams
Genius is born, not paid.Oscar Wilde
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease — a genuine, absolute disease. For everyday human existence it would more than suffice to have the ordinary share of human consciousness; that is to say, one half, one quarter that that which falls to the lot of a cultivated man in our wretched nineteenth century [...] It would, for instance, be quite enough to have the amount of consciousness by which all the so-called simple, direct people and men of action live.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Genius borrows nobly.R.W Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.R.W Emerson
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel T. Coleridge
Genius is not so much about new ideas as it is about clarity of ideas. Two people can have the same idea yet it will be genius in the one and mediocrity in the other.Kevin Solway
It has been seen that the object of a sane upbringing is increasingly to direct all emotion towards objects which involve other people. Now basically the situation of being finite is an infinitely frustrating one, which would be expected to arouse sensations of desperation and aggression - as indeed it may sometimes be seen to do in very young children. I am aware that I must be careful, in using the word aggression, to state that I do not mean aggression directed towards people. What I mean is an impersonal drive directed against reality - it is difficult to give examples but it may be presumed that geniuses who are at all worthy of the name preserve a small degree of this. However, since all emotion must be directed towards people, it is obvious that the only form of aggression which a sane person can understand is aggression against people, which is probably better described as sadism or cruelty.Celia Green
I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age...The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder...I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.Oscar Wilde, in De Profundis
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.Elbert Hubbard
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
To see things in the seed, that is genius.Lao-tzu
The ability of someone to choose and arrange the details of their creative field guided by a vision is a major hallmark of a genius.John Briggs
Philosophy becomes poetry and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.Disraeli
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?Oliver Goldsmith
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.Nietzsche
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.Wolfgang A. Mozart
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.Edmund Spenser
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.Mark Twain
Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.R.W. Emerson
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.R.W. Emerson
The reason we have so few geniuses is that people do not have faith in what they know to be true.Kevin Solway
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.Owen Meredith Earl of Lytton
Andy Warhol is the only genius with an IQ of 60.Gore Vidal
I have nothing to declare except my genius.Oscar Wilde's response to an American customs official
Genius is an infinite capacity for giving pains.Oscar Wilde
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.Oscar Wilde
- to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true.
- a sledgehammer.
- the fruit of labour and thought.
- the ability to see the obvious.
- soul.
- the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
- something one can become.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.Heinrich Heine
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.Gustave Le Bon
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.Arthur Schopenhauer
A man of genius makes no mistakes . His Errors are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.Antonin Artaud, of Van Gogh
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.Denis Diderot
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.Loren Eiseley, in "The Mind as Nature"
Genius . . . is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.Ezra Pound
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.Robert Graves
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.Samuel Johnson
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius does not steal, he conquers.Dumas
The principal mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiersArthur Koestler
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.Kierkegaard
It is through woman that ideality is born into the world and - what were man without her! There is many a man who has become a genius through a woman, many a one a hero, many a one a poet, many a one even a saint; but he did not become a genius through the woman he married, for through her he only became a privy councillor; he did not become a hero through the woman he married, for through her he only became a general; he did not become a poet through the woman he married, for through her he only became a father; he did not become a saint through the woman he married, for he did not marry, and would have married but one - the one whom he did not marry; just as the others became a genius, became a hero, became a poet through the help of the woman they did not marry.Kierkegaard
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.Rousseau
Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.Camille Paglia, in Sexual Personae
There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.Camille Paglia
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.Ambrose Bierce
Sporadic great men come everywhere. But for a community to get vibrating through and through with intensely active life, many geniuses coming together and in rapid succession are required. This is why great epochs are so rare, - why the sudden bloom of a Greece, an early Rome, a Renaissance, is such a mystery. Blow must follow blow so fast that no cooling can occur in the intervals. Then the mass of the nation glows incandescent, and may continue to glow by pure inertia long after the originators of its internal movement have passed away. We often hear surprise expressed that in these high tides of human affairs not only the people should be filled with stronger life, but that individual geniuses should seem so exceptionally abundant. This mystery is just about as deep as the time-honored conundrum as to why great rivers flow by great t owns. It is true that great public fermentations awaken and adopt many geniuses who in more torpid times would have had no chance to work. But over and above this there must be an exceptional concourse of genius about a time, to make the fermentation begin at all. The unlikeliness of the concourse is far greater than the unlikeliness of any particular genius; hence the rarity of these periods and the exceptional aspect which they always wear.William James
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.William James
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.Lavater, J.C.
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.Pope
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.Nietzsche
Genius is nothing but continued attention.Claude Adrien Helvetius
It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Emerson
I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, which does not cower to human opinion, which feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which respects itself too much to be the slave of the many or the few.Channing
The genius differs from us men in being able to endure isolation, his rank as a genius is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we men are constantly in need of "the others," the herd; we die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the herd, of the same opinion as the herd.,Kierkegaard
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.Gibbon
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.Charles Chaplin
Genius is the ability to escape the human condition; Humanity is the need to escape.
Q. Uim
Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.John Stuart Mill
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive ... We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.Thoreau
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.Bertrand Russell
He is a man of capacity who possesses considerable intellectual riches: while he is a man of genius who finds out a vein of new ore. Originality is the seeing nature differently from others, and yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity or affectation, but the discovery of new and valuable truth. All the world do not see the whole meaning of any object they have been looking at. Habit blinds them to some things: shortsightedness to others. Every mind is not a gauge and measure of truth. Nature has her surface and her dark recesses. She is deep, obscure, and infinite. It is only minds on whom she makes her fullest impressions that can penetrate her shrine or unveil her Holy of Holies. It is only those whom she has filled with her spirit that have the boldness or the power to reveal her mysteries to others.William Hazlitt
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.Goethe
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.Blair
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.Heinrich Heine
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself... Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.Schopenhauer
Genius does not herd with genius.OW Holmes
This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.William Hazlitt
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
Genius might well be defined as the ability to make a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
Genius never desires what does not exist.Kierkegaard
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.Oscar Wilde
Fortunately for us, there have been traitors and there have been heretics, blasphemers, thinkers, investigators, lovers of liberty, men of genius who have given their lives to better the condition of their fellow-men. It may be well enough here to ask the question: What is greatness? A great man adds to the sum of knowledge, extends the horizon of thought, releases souls from the Bastille of fear, crosses unknown and mysterious seas, gives new islands and new continents to the domain of thought, new constellations to the firmament of mind. A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains he gives to others. A great man throws pearls before swine, and the swine are sometimes changed to men. If the great had always kept their pearls, vast multitudes would be barbarians now. A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon: in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. Greatness is not the gift of majorities; it cannot be thrust upon any man; men cannot give it to another; they can give place and power, but not greatness. The place does not make the man, nor the scepter the king. Greatness is from within.Robert Ingersoll
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.Joseph Joubert
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.Celia Green
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar Wilde
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.Robert S. Lund
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.Christian Nevell Bovee
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.C. W. Ceran
It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.Edmond Duranty
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.Francis Bacon
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.Paul Valery
Men of genius are the worst possible role models for men of talent.Murray D. Edwards
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.Thomas Huxley
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.Author unknown
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.Simone Weil
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.Bernard Berenson
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.Victor Hugo
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.Friedrich Schlegel
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.Joshua Reynolds
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.Horace
In following the strong bent of his genius, he was self assured that he should 'create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.Emerson
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.Walter Russell
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.G. C. Lichtenberg
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.G. C. Lichtenberg
Genius is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.Pablo Picasso
Once you had to be a genius to make works of art. Now you have to be a genius to understand them.Roy Emmins
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.William Crashaw
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.George Steiner
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.Winston Churchill
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.Christopher Quill
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.Samuel Johnson
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.William Blake
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.Abraham Lincoln
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days and spoil him for his proper work.R.W. Emerson
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese (1883 - 1965)
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Geniuses experience a second adolescence, whereas other people are only young once.Goethe
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Goethe
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.Puzant Thomajan
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.Robert Browning
Otto Weininger on Genius
The man of genius is he who understands incomparably more other beings than the average man. Goethe is said to have said of himself that there was no vice or crime of which he could not trace the tendency in himself, and that at some period of his life he could not have understood fully. The genius, therefore, is a more complicated, more richly endowed, more varied man; and a man is the closer to being a genius the more men he has in his personality, and the more really and strongly he has these others within him. If comprehension of those about him only flickers in him like a poor candle, then he is unable, like the great poet, to kindle a mighty flame in his heroes, to give distinction and character to his creations. The ideal of an artistic genius is to live in all men, to lose himself in all men, to reveal himself in multitudes; and so also the aim of the philosopher is to discover all others in himself, to fuse them into a unit which is his own unit.
Otto Weininger
The ideal genius, who has all men within him, has also all their preferences and all their dislikes. There is in him not only the universality of men, but of all nature. He is the man to whom all things tell their secrets, to whom most happens, and whom least escapes. He understands most things, and those most deeply, because he has the greatest number of things to contrast and compare them with. The genius is he who is conscious of most, and of that most acutely. And so without doubt his sensations must be most acute; but this must not be understood as implying, say, in the artist the keenest power of vision, in the composer the most acute hearing; the measure of genius is not to be taken from the acuteness of the sense organ but from that of the perceiving brain.
Otto Weininger
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.Otto Weininger
I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius. -Otto Weininger
The reason why madness overtakes so many men of genius - fools believe it comes from the influence of Venus, or the spinal degeneration of neurasthenics - is that for many the burden becomes too heavy, the task of bearing the whole world on the shoulders, like Atlas, intolerable for the smaller, but never for the really mighty minds. But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery, and darkness, and if it degenerates and goes to pieces, the ruin is greater in proportion to the success. The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius; it has chosen happiness instead of morality. All madness is the outcome of the insupportability of suffering attached to all consciousness.Otto Weininger
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .Otto Weininger
It results from their periodicity that, in men of genius, sterile years precede productive years, these again to be followed by sterility, the barren periods being marked by psychological self-depreciation, by the feeling that they are less than other men; times in which the remembrance of the creative periods is a torment, and when they envy those who go about undisturbed by such penalties. Just as his moments of ecstasy are more poignant, so are the periods of depression of a man of genius more intense than those of other men. Every great man has such periods, of longer or shorter duration, times in which he loses self-confidence, in which he thinks of suicide; times in which, indeed, he may be sowing the seeds of a future harvest, but which are devoid of the stimulus to production; times which call forth the blind criticisms 'How such a genius is degenerating!' 'How he has played himself out!' 'How he repeates himself!' and so forth.
Otto Weininger
Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.
Otto Weininger
The age does not create the genius it requires. The genius is not the product of his age, is not to be explained by it, and we do him no honour if we attempt to account for him by it . . . And as the causes of its appearance do not lie in any one age, so also the consequences are not limited by time. The achievements of genius live for ever, and time cannot change them. By his works a man of genius is granted immortality on the earth, and thus in a threefold manner he has transcended time. His universal comprehension and memory forbid the annihilation of his experiences with the passing of the moment in which each occurred; his birth is independent of his age, and his work never dies.
Otto Weininger
Genius is, in its essence, nothing but the full completion of the idea of a man, and, therefore, every man ought to have some quality of it, and it should be regarded as a possible principle for every one. Genius is the highest morality, and, therefore, it is every one's duty. Genius is to be attained by a supreme act of the will, in which the whole universe is affirmed in the individual. Genius is something which 'men of genius' take upon themselves; it is the greatest exertion and the greatest pride, the greatest misery and the greatest ecstasy to a man. A man may become a genius if he wishes to. But at once it will certainly be said: "Very many men would like very much to be 'original geniuses,'" and their wish has no effect. But if these men who "would like very much" had a livelier sense of what is signified by their wish, if they were aware that genius is identical with universal responsibility - and until that is grasped it will only be a wish and not a determination - it is highly probable that a very large number of these men would cease to wish to become geniuses.Otto Weininger
The most powerful musical motifs of world-music are those in which the representation of the breaking-through of time within time, the breaking out of time, is attempted, in which an ictus falls upon the tonic such that it reabsorbs the other parts of the melody (which as a whole represents time; separate points unified by the I) and in this manner sublimates the melody. The end of the Grail-motif in 'Parsifal,' the Siegfried-motif, are such melodies. There is, however, an act that, so to speak, reabsorbs the future in itself, experiences in advance all future falling back into immorality already as guilt, no less than all the immoral past, and by this means grows out over and beyond both: A timeless setting of the character, rebirth. It is the act by which genius comes to be.Otto Weininger
Since the soul of man is the microcosm, and great men are those who live entirely in and through their souls, the whole universe thus having its being in them, the female must be described as absolutely without the quality of genius. . . . There is no female genius, and there never has been one . . . and there never can be one. Those who are in favour of laxity in these matters, and are anxious to extend and enlarge the idea of genius in order to make it possible to include women, would simply by such action destroy the concept of genius. . . . How could a soulless being possess genius? The possession of genius is identical with profundity; and if any one were to try to combine woman and profundity as subject and predicate, he would be contradicted on all sides. A female genius is a contradiction in terms, for genius is simply intensified, perfectly developed, universally conscious maleness.Otto Weininger
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.Otto Weininger
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.Otto Weininger
The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.Otto Weininger
There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.Otto Weininger
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.Otto Weininger
The genius is not a critic of language, but its creator, as he is the creator of all the mental achievements which are the material of culture and which make up the objective mind, the spirit of the peoples. The "timeless" men are those who make history, for history can be made only by those who are not floating with the stream. It is only those who are unconditioned by time who have real value, and whose productions have an enduring force. And the events that become forces of culture become so only because they have an enduring value. -Otto Weininger
It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history. The great man has a history, the emperor is only a part of history. The great man transcends time; time creates and time destroys the emperor.Otto Weininger
It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law. . . .Otto Weininger
The ego of the genius accordingly is simply itself universal comprehension, the centre of infinite space; the great man contains the whole universe within himself; genius is the living microcosm. He is not an intricate mosaic, a chemical combination of an infinite number of elements; the argument in chap. iv. as to his relation to other men and things must not be taken in that sense; he is everything. In him and through him all psychical manifestations cohere and are real experiences, not an elaborate piece-work, a whole put together from parts in the fashion of science. For the genius the ego is the all, lives as the all; the genius sees nature and all existences as whole; the relations of things flash on him intuitively; he has not to build bridges of stones between them.Otto Weininger
The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.Otto Weininger
The history of the human race (naturally I mean the history of its mind and not merely its wars) is readily intelligible on the theory of the appearance of genius, and of the imitation by the more monkey-like individuals of the conduct of those with genius. The chief stages, no doubt, were house- building, agriculture, and above all, speech. Every single word has been the invention of a single man, as, indeed, we still see, if we leave out of consideration the merely technical terms. How else could language have arisen? The earliest words were "onomatopoetic"; a sound similar to the exciting cause was evolved almost without the will of the speaker, in direct response to the sensuous stimulation. All the other words were originally metaphors, or comparisons, a kind of primitive poetry, for all prose has come from poetry. Many, perhaps the majority of the greatest geniuses, have remained unknown. Think of the proverbs, now almost commonplaces, such as "one good turn deserves another." These were said for the first time by some great man. How many quotations from the classics, or sayings of Christ, have passed into the common language, so that we have to think twice before we can remember who were the authors of them. Language is as little the work of the multitude as our ballads. Every form of speech owes much that is not acknowledged to individuals of another language. Because of the universality of genius, the words and phrases that he invents are useful not only to those who use the language in which he wrote them. A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.Otto Weininger
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