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We would like to thank the following companies for supplying and supporting us with our test system hardware and equipment: Intel, ASRock, Kingston, Mittoni, Sapphire and Corsair.
We'll be comparing our new i7 3960X against the other big three processors on the market at the moment. From AMD that comes in the form of the FX-8150. Of course, considering that the processor doesn't really compete with the 2600k in a lot of areas, we're not expecting it to fair well today against the new 3960X from Intel. While we won't exactly be comparing it against the i7 3960X, it seemed silly to not include it. Because we have the results, we'll also be including the 1100T in our testing.
From the Sandy Bridge side of things we'll have our trusted i7 2600k that's been serving us extremely well since launch. Showing off clocks of in excess of 5.4GHz, this one runs day in and day out on our video card testbed at 5.2GHz. It's probably the biggest competition for the new X79 platform as people decide if they just go down the Z68 path and pair it with something like a 2600k or 2700k, or instead join the big boys club and fork out the X79 money. In the end, it's win / win for Intel as you'll no doubt end up on one of their platforms.
The final processor in the lineup is the 990X sitting on the X58 platform which we know and love. It's a platform that's been great for Intel, Gamers and Enthusiasts the world over, but we've been waiting a long time for its replacement.
Like when we looked at the FX-8150, we will be overclocking all our processors today. That means our FX-8150 will be running at 4.76GHz, 1100T at 4.06GHz, 2600k at 5.2GHz and our 990X at 4.2GHz
That leaves us with our 3960X and its overclock. Overclocking a new processor type is always a worry; you wonder what the safe voltages are, what you should be adjusting and all that kind of stuff. Fortunately, ASUS put together a really nice guide for the Rampage IV Extreme which is the board we're using today.
Before we went all manual overclocking on the board, we fired up one of the profiles that is on offer in the BIOS. Hitting "Load Extreme OC Profile (Low Current)", our machine booted up at 4.99GHz with our Quad Channel RAM kit running at 2100MHz DDR. At a click of just a single button this is really a massive overclock on offer and I found myself truly surprised with the overclock that was offered via the OC Profile.
Getting into Windows was not a problem and everything ran like a dream just as we'd hope. With that chugging along without any problems, I figured we'd go back into the BIOS to see if we could push our overclock further. The main thing I wanted to do was at least crack the 5GHz mark.
Leaving the settings alone, I just pushed our multiplier up by x2 - this brought us in at just over 5.2GHz and while our machine booted, we couldn't get into Windows. So I dropped the multiplier down by x1 and this brought our CPU in at just over 5.1GHz. While we managed to get into Windows, about 17% into Cyberlink MediaEspresso encode our system froze up.
Moving back to the 38x multiplier meant that we would be running at 4.99GHz again and just shy of that 5GHz mark. So we just ended up bumping our BCLK up ever so slightly and we ended up in Windows at 5001.73MHz.
The main thing I wanted to know was that it was stable. Firing up MediaEspresso again, which is normally the one program that will cause an overclocked CPU to fall over, we completed the full run. Of course, compared to the 14MHz lower clocked 4.99GHz clock we got, there was no difference in time, so we didn't worry about testing everything again.
Before we get into it, the last few things that probably need to be covered are the motherboard we're using today which is the Rampage IV Extreme from ASUS - the new top dawg motherboard from the company sporting the X79 chipset. As usual, on the video card front we're using the MSI GTX 580 which has been serving us very well over the past few months and on the RAM front we're using the new G.Skill RipjawsZ 2133MHz kit.
That really sums up everything today. From the benchmark side of things we'll be checking out all our CPUs on our CPU orientated benchmark line-up to see just what's going on with performance today.
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The Moody 49 is a true blue water cruising boat, she is engineered for stiffness and strength and is fully capable of navigating the world?s oceans through the full range of cruising conditions. The Moody 49 has been designed without compromise, the balance and power of her underwater sections and lead keel give superb sail carrying ability and stability for swift trans ocean passage times. This sparkling performance is complemented by her ease of handling by two people. Standard equipment includes a fully furling triple spreader cutter rig by Selden.
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Hull Shape: Monohull
LOA: 48 ft 7 in
Beam: 14 ft 5 in
Maximum Draft: 6 ft 7 in
Displacement: 34556 lbs
Ballast: 11005 lbs
Dry Weight: 34556 lbs
Engine Options
Engine Option 1: 1x 100 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (139 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (176 Gallons)
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Wheel steering pedestal with stainless steel binnacle guard and binnacle mounted compass
Cockpit seats and sole finished in teak
Engine instrument panel plus binnacle mounted engine control lever
Stainless steel grab handles each side of companionway
Stainless steel framed windscreen with folding sprayhood top
Additional Description
Large L shaped settee to port with top lockers outboard to the hull side and additional storage both behind and below the seating area.
Extending leaf dining table with decorative teak veneer to the top and magazine rack incorporated into the table pillar with stainless fiddles.
2 Directors chairs provide additional seating to starboard side of the table allowing the dining area to comfortably seat eight people. Built in 2 seater sofa to starboard side with large stowage drawer below, drinks locker unit containing bottle stowage and top lockers to the hull side behind with glass stowage to forward locker.
Additional storage can be found behind the seat back rests.
Large fore and aft facing windows to side of coachroof plus deck head hatches and topside port lights allow light to flood in making the saloon a light and airy cabin.
Additional Description
Engine driven 80amp alternator charging 3 x heavy duty 12 volt batteries, wired though isolator switches and distribution panel incorporating circuit breaker switches, 240/220 volt (or 110 volt as specified) shore support system with ring main. 40 amp battery charger plus immersion coil to calorifier, indicator lights, battery state indicator, fuel and water gauges
Separate isolator switches for engine and domestic battery supply with engine starting battery isolated from domestic circuits
Navigation lights, deck flood light and steaming lights Lighting in all accommodation areas with overhead downlights, independently switched reading and recessed pelmet lighting
Cathodic protection with hull mounted anode
Additional Description
Large U shaped galley area with avonite worktop.
1? bowl stainless sinks with mixer tap inset in the worktop together with stainless steel pan rests adjacent to the cooker slot.
Stainless steel three burner gimballed cooker complete with oven, grill, sea rail and pan clamps.
Large stainless steel custom built fridge with timber veneer panel door and stainless surround.
Top opening freezer with avonite lid recessed into the worktop. (Both these units are water-cooled and have independent thermostats to control the temperature).
A combination microwave grill is built into the top locker furniture together with a galley extraction unit (12v) over the cooker.
Galley lower units contain numerous lockers with ample storage for provisions, crockery etc and drawers for cutlery and utensils.
A purpose built locker is provided for rubbish with a trash bag holder.
Out board and aft in the galley area can be found numerous top lockers providing further stowage.
Additional Description
A Yanmar 4JH3-HTE four cylinder diesel engine of 100 horsepower (74kw) is fitted with a mechanical KM4A gearbox with a 2.63:1 gearbox ratio.
The engine is fitted with an 80 amp alternator.
The engine is freshwater cooled via a heat exchanger and the raw water inlet is fitted with a plug type filter.
The exhaust system is run through a pot muffler.
The standard instruments fitted to the steering binnacle are as follows: a rev counter, water temperature, oil pressure, hour meter, fuel guage.
Warning lights for charging, oil pressure and water temperature
Engine control is through a single lever control mounted on the starboard side of the binnacle.
The engine compartment is naturally vented through ducting which runs to vents fitted in the transom. In addition there is forced ventilation to the compartment with a extractor fan and thermostat fitted to the deckhead in the engine compartment.
This runs the fan when the ambient temperature in the compartment reaches a pre-set level.
A Brunton 3 blade folding propeller is fitted on a Temet 25 ? 30mm diameter stainless steel shaft. This runs through a bronze P bracket which contains a cutlass bearing. The P bracket is through bolted to the hull.
The shaft gland carrying the shaft through the hull is maintenance free, water lubricated.
Additional Description
Lewmar V4GD reversible electric anchor windlass with handset control and separate switching at binnacle
Stainless steel stemhead fitting with twin bronze bow rollers Pulpit, pushpit and stanchions in stainless steel
Twin guardwires with boarding gates
Pushpits with gate access to hinging transom door/swimming platform with folding boarding ladder 6 stainless steel mooring cleats
Teak handrails to coachroof Framed windscreen with sprayhood top
Twin lazarettes for deck storage plus vented gas bottle locker and anchor locker
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Hand laid glassfibre construction with isophthalic gelcoat backed by initial lay up of powder bound mat and isophthalic resin
Balsa cored sandwich construction for increased panel stiffness and optimum weight distribution Hull stiffened by bonded in bulkheads plus frames and stringers
Underwater sections from stern to keel further stiffened by utilising an Aramid (Kevlar) laminate to increase impact resistance
Transom includes powered hinge down transom door/swimming platform
Swept teak laid ring deck plus for?d and after coachroof areas
Deck stiffened with balsa core, with plywood backing pads in way of deck fittings Deck edge incorporates raised bulwark with teak cap rail Inset cavita line in topsides Painted boot top, waterline and antifouling.
General Equipment
Compass Electronic speed/log and echo sounder
Electric windlass, 45lb (20kg) plough anchor and 40 metres of calibrated chain,
VHF radio with masthead aerial
Automatic bilge pump
Stereo radio CD player
3 dry powder fire extinguishers plus automatic extinguisher in engine bay
Mooring warps, fenders 2 winch handles
Emergency tiller
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Self tailing genoa sheet winches (Lewmar 58CST)
2 speed self tailing mainsheet and mainsail control line winches (40CST/30CST)
Single speed snubbing winch for furling forestay
Mast mounted halliard winch (Lewmar 40CST)
Mainsheet with adjustable track aft of cockpit plus traveller lines
Genoa sheet tracks with adjustable cars and traveller lines led aft to jamming turning blocks
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Mainsail control lines led aft through deck organisers and individual rope clutches
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Angie Lewis
4/20/2010 / Relationships
Most young women "give in" to their boyfriend's sexual advances because of peer pressure and fear they will leave the relationship if they don't give in and have sex. This is precisely why young people today should NOT ALLOW their emotions to lead the relationship. Let me ask you this. If you become emotionally attached and they leave you anyway, how are you going to feel then? Isn't it better to not become too attached to someone, at least until there is a commitment?
Sex between two people is not needed for a commitment to marriage and anyone who says differently is deceiving you. Believe me, there are many fish in the sea that will actually love you for who you are. There is really no need to be in fear of losing a loser. Am I being too harsh? I don't think so. God calls them heathens. Only losers beg for sex after you told them "no" fifteen times already. Only losers would disrespect your "Godly right" to remain pure until marriage. Only a loser would defraud your body with sexual advances after you told them "no"!
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-6)
Remember: Even if the guy says he loves you, don't give in. If a man truly loves you, he will not keep trying to arouse sexual desire within youhe will not take advantage of you! What he thinks is love is only lust and desire, which never turns into a REAL commitment for marriage.
Sadly if you do get married to these types, who only care about sex, they will truly believe that after several months or a year into the marriage that they are not in love with you anymore and most likely be unfaithful. That is because they have confused love with lust. Love would never intentionally harm another person. "Love is not self-seeking" (1 Corinthians 13:5) "Love always protects" (1 Corinthians 13: 7)
What to Tell Your Boyfriend
First off tell him you respect him and that's why you are not going to use him for sex. Let him know that you love God and you also respect your body and reserve the right to keep it pure for God and your spouse for marriage one day. Did you know that by having sexual relations before marriage the Christian would be sinning against God and defiling the Holy Spirit that lives within him or her?
Show him this scripture: "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." (1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
The truth is dating and everything that comes with dating is NOT scriptural. That's because dating is a temptation that leads to sex. For the Christian it is always best to remain platonic friends until you get to know if they are compatible with you or not. If the relationship never has any commitment for marriage it is best to remain friends and never give your heart awaythat way no one gets hurt.
Always be true to yourself and tell any new friendships of the opposite sex that you are saving yourself for your spouse, honoring God with your body and are not going to have sex. This gives the losers, the ones who are only out to disrespect you, a chance to walk away from the relationship without wasting your time and causing undue heartache.
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)
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Mindfulness: The practice of being "here"
Merlin Mann | Apr 7 2006
As I mentioned in a recent Lifehacker interview with Matt, I've been casting about for a good way to work in my newfound interest in mindfulness, or the ostensibly Buddhist practice of bringing your attention and focus back to the present moment, primarily through breathing and awareness. Well, here you go: one rank Western novice's collection of blurbs and excerpts on an ancient (yet oddly timely) method for easing yourself back into this moment -- any day, at any time, and in anything you choose to do. Mindfulness is this and here Just seeing Being here for this "Real life" mindfulness So, why here?The question will naturally arise: what does all this stuff have to do with manila folders, Getting Things Done, Quicksilver, and the rest of the usual smorgasbord on 43F? And I'll confess that my answer for today is "I have pretty much no idea." I do know that the more time I spend observing how people improve their decision-making at home and at work, the clearer it is to me that they are each developing a more cogent understanding of what's "really going on" in their lives -- they're not being driven by some unseen motor to stay busy or overstimulated for its own strangely modest rewards. For some people this might mean the ability to quickly re-prioritize on a busy day. For others it's reflected in the calm concentration that can come from not checking email for an hour. And for a great many it's the astoundingly simple realization -- that obvious moment of realization -- that this task and all of the others waiting behind it can just wait until tomorrow if it means I get to go home right now and enjoy an evening with my family. It means reacting to real reality rather than always dancing the manic watusi demanded by the ten-thousand monkeys in your head. Over the next little while, I'll be returning to the subject of mindfulness in sometimes overt and sometimes orthogonal ways, sharing some ideas about how people are finding its place in medicine, mental health, physical and health improvements, and -- yes -- even in the context of personal productivity. But even (or especially) when decoupled from its practical role in solving any given problem, mindfulness has much self-evident value all by itself. If you never learn to be here for this particular moment, you'll remain a sleepy captive to every anxiety, fantasy, or unintentional habit that's ever popped into your life. And that, my friends, is a crappy way to go through life. POSTED IN:
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I recommend regular sitting meditation. It is an intensive "practice" for extending mindfulness into everyday life. Otherwise it can easily fall into the category of good ideas that you never really do anything about. It takes real practice, just like a sport. You don't expect to be a great tennis player just by reading about it. Practice is key. Also, practicing with others helps immensely. I just found this world directory of Buddhist centers: http://www.buddhanet.net/worlddir.htm » POSTED IN:
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Throughout the tumult of last season a year which to that point could be considered Tyrone Corbin's most delicate assignment the man at the forefront of the Utah Jazz's rebuilding effort had a piece of advice for the seven players on his team facing free agency.
"I told the guys last year 'Play your game and be as good as you can be' " the Jazz head coach said last week. " 'Whether you're here or somewhere else the best you can do is represent yourself.' "
What then helped the former Jazz forward manage a potentially volatile locker room now serves as advice for Corbin himself. The coach entering his third full season at the helm for the Jazz is in the final year of his contract and according to the man who represents him in negotiations with the Jazz an extension is unlikely.
As training camp opens with Monday's media day Corbin has been presented with yet another set of objectives: this time developing a promising but untested young core with unknown quantities on the bench and his general manager asking earlier this summer that the team not be judged on wins and losses.
Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey said last week that Corbin whose career record is 87-89 has "performed really well under these circumstances" but declined to comment on anything related to his contract status. Corbin's agent Los Angeles-based Steve Kauffman said the sides have not begun negotiating an extension.
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February 19, 2012
Infosec Island's Javvad Malik will be on site at the Black Hat Europe conference in Amsterdam conducting video interviews and - no doubt - interjecting his trademark brand of humor while exploring cutting edge infosec trends and developments...
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December 18, 2011
Rather than giving a security roundup or predicting future security trends for 2012, I thought it a good idea to look at some of the security bloggers over at Infosec Island over the course of the year...
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Hacker Halted Miami: EC Council's Jay Bavisi
October 27, 2011
Jay Bavisi is the Co-Founder and President of EC-Council, a global Leader in Information Security Education, Training, and Certification. With 27 Infosec facing certifications, ECC's interest is in supporting the global need for Security Certified Professionals in the realm of Ethical Hacking...
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September 29, 2011
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Black Hat USA 2011: Will Bechtel - Product Manager - Qualys
August 24, 2011
The demands on companies and government to protect networks from exploits that threaten the security of proprietary information have skyrocketed. The dependence on IT systems increased for nearly every business, and so have the financial motivations of criminals...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Rainer Enders - CTO - NCP Engineering
August 23, 2011
Rainer Enders is the CTO at NCP Engineering, and is interested in solving security related issues on all levels of data transfer and communication. NCP engineering delivers software that allows enterprises to rethink their secure remote access and overcome the network complexities...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Alex Quilter - Product Manager - Qualys
August 22, 2011
Qualys is the only security company that delivers these solutions through a single Software-as-a-Service platform: QualysGuard'. All of Qualys' on demand solutions can be deployed within hours anywhere around the globe, providing customers an immediate view of their security and compliance posture...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Tom Eston - Secure State Consultant
August 21, 2011
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Black Hat USA 2011: Robb Reck - Infosec Expert
August 18, 2011
Robb is a frequent contributor to Infosec Island, and is an experienced Information Security manager in the finance sector. Robb has over 13 years in IT security with proven experience creating and implementing security policy in small and large organizations...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Alexander Polyakov - CTO - ERPScan
August 18, 2011
Alexander Polyakov is the CTO at ERPScan, the OWASP-EAS manager for the OWASP-EAS, and a well-known security expert on enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle, and who published a significant number of the vulnerabilities found in the applications of these vendors...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Nabil Ouchn - CTO at NETpeas
August 17, 2011
Nabil Ouchn is the co-founder and CTO at NETpeas and the creator of Security Tools Watch. Nabil has over 10 years of experience in IT security assessment, vulnerability management and IS risk analysis driving security pentests and ethical hacking audits...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Mark Boltz - Solutions Architect - Stonesoft
August 17, 2011
Mark Boltz is the senior solutions architect at Stonesoft, a CISSP and an innovator in business continuity and network security solutions. Mark has more than twenty years experience in information systems and network administration, with more than twelve years specialization in information security...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Theresa Payton - CEO - Fortalice
August 16, 2011
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Black Hat USA 2011: Chris Blask of AlienVault
August 15, 2011
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Black Hat USA 2011: Rodrigo Branco - Vulnerability Research - Qualys
August 14, 2011
Rodrigo Branco is the Vulnerability and Malware Research Director for Qualys, the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance solutions. Qualys enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively ensure that their business technology systems remain highly secure...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Aaron Bryson - Security Engineer - Cisco
August 11, 2011
Aaron Bryson is a Senior Security Engineer for Cisco, with experience in computer, network, and information security in large corporate environments. Cisco offerings are used to create Internet solutions that make networks possible, providing access to information anywhere at any time...
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Peckham Library
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The building is a key element of the ongoing Peckham Square Project which is transforming the identity of the centre of Peckham. It is a reinvention of what is expected of a public library building and a building of unusual boldness, and what Alsop Architects call ? 'architectural generosity'. The library is one element of the new public community facilities on the new Peckham Square. The five-storey building comprises a branch library space on the upper two floors, a 'One Stop Shop' Southwark Council advice unit on the ground floor, separately accessible from the Square, and the council's Education and Training Advice Centre for Adults on the first floor. All three elements operate different opening hours and staff.


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The hereditary House of Lords has a constitutional basis, however dim and distant, in the old hierarchy of monarchy and aristocracy. Because this basis remained intact the Lords were able - just about - to absorb the creation of life peers. However an entirely appointed second chamber such as the Government now proposes would have no constitutional or moral justification at all.
Since the hereditary principle has had its day, the only defensible basis for a second chamber now is direct election. Better still, we need a chamber detached from the politics and timescale of the House of Commons. It should be elected for a fixed term of five or seven years and by proportional representation, a principle which the Government has already conceded by implication when it talks about rough balance between Labour and Tory peers in an appointed House of Lords.
Of course such an elected chamber would have to be given real powers. There is scant chance that any government - especially the present one - or the Commons would agree to that, so it looks as though the basic issues of principle, which are really very simple, will continue to be dodged.


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"The Pick-Up Artist is a great deal at $1,500. The list of compromises for the price is not long.
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First edition cover
Author | Clive Barker |
Illustrator | Clive Barker |
Cover artist | Clive Barker |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | The Books of Abarat |
Genre | Fantasy novel |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date
1 September 2002 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 418 pp |
[Fic] 21 | |
LC Class | PZ7.B25046 Ab 2002 |
Followed by | Days of Magic, Nights of War |
Abarat (2002) is a fantasy novel written and illustrated by Clive Barker, the first in Barker's The Books of Abarat series. It is aimed primarily at young adults. The eponymous Abarat is a fictional archipelago which is the setting for the majority of the story.
The title image contains an ambigram. The paintings in the book are done with oils. Barker had already completed 300 paintings before he started working on the first book.[1] By most accounts, Barker realised early that the story he wanted to tell could not be contained in one book.[2] The American Library Association picked Abarat as one of its Best Books for Young Adults.[3]
Abarat focuses on Candy Quackenbush, a teenage girl frustrated with her life in Chickentown, Minnesota. After an argument with her teacher over a school project, Candy leaves the school and goes to the edge of town, where she sees the remains of a lighthouse. She then encounters a master thief named John Mischief, whose brothers live on his horns. Because he is pursued by a sinister creature named Mendelson Shape, Mischief sends Candy to light the lamp in the lighthouse, which summons an ocean known as the Sea of Izabella from a parallel world. After giving her a key to protect and extinguishing the light, Mischief and Candy ride the seas to Abarat. A group of creatures carry them to a nearby island where Candy is separated from him. On the island, Candy learns that the Abarat consists of twenty-five islands, each occupying a different hour of the day, and was formerly connected to Candy's world before the harbour's destruction by Abaratian authorities. Thereafter the story follows her adventures as she discovers the crises affecting the Abarat, and gains intimations that she may be destined to conclude these. The story also introduces her chief antagonists: the sorcerer known as Christopher Carrion, his grandmother Mater Motley, and the industrialist Rojo Pixler, all of whom seek to dominate the Abarat.
The Abarat series is set on the "Islands of Abarat", of which each is based around a time of day (except the last island, which is the "25th hour"). These islands are mounted in the Sea of Izabella, an ocean sometimes personified by the characters. Together, they compose what is described as "a limitless world" encompassing "chaotic diversity" called Abarat.
Critical reception[edit]
In 2002, Abarat was nominated for the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers,[4] and won 2nd place in the 2003 Locus Poll for the Best Young Adult Novel.
Publishers Weekly reviewed it as "...The author's imagination runs wild as he conjures some striking imagery ("Dark threads of energy moved through her veins and leaped from her fingertips" says one of the three women in the opening scene) and cooks up a surreal stew of character portraits (rendered in bold colours and brushwork, they resemble some of Van Gogh's later work). But much of the novel feels like a wind-up for the books to follow and, after this rather unwieldy 400-page ride, readers may be disappointed by so many unresolved strands of the plot."
School Library Journal said "...Barker is obviously more comfortable in the Abarat than he is in our more mundane world; the chapters that take place in Chickentown don't seem fully developed. Once Candy is safely in the fantastical realm, however, the story takes off. The rendering of the Abarat's locales, cultures, and mythology, combined with the author's own full-color illustrations and well-realized characters, allows readers to become quickly immersed in this beautiful and frightening world. In spite of a less-than-credible, almost preternatural calm in the face of the bizarre, Candy makes a fine protagonist, displaying strength, vulnerability, and a lack of the forced spunkiness displayed by some adventurous heroines. This first book in a series of four sets the stage nicely for what is sure to be a rollicking, epic ride."
- ^ Pauley, Kimberly (November 2004). "Authors: Interviews: Clive Barker". YA & Kids Books Central. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- ^ Winter, Douglas E. (2002). Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic. Harper Colllins. ISBN 0-06-621392-4.
- ^ "2003 Best Books for Young Adults". American Library Association. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ^ "Past Stoker Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Archived from the original on 20 November 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
External links[edit]
- Barker, Clive- Abarat, HarperCollins publishers, 2002
- The Official Clive Barker Resource
- The Official HarperCollins Abarat site
- The Beautiful Moment – The Official Clive Barker Website for All Ages – Official site celebrating the work of Clive Barker for younger readers – features Abarat and The Thief of Always.
- Official Site of the Books of Abarat
- Revelations – The Official Clive Barker Online Resource – Includes a full bibliography, filmography and frequently updated news.


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Serve (4 to 5) 500 grams Fresh Fish Fillet (skinless) Ingredients (A) 1 teaspoon Ginger (paste) 2 teaspoons Garlic (paste) 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice 1 tablespoon Chilli Powder 1 teaspoon Fish Curry Powder 1 teaspoon Garam Masala A pinch Red Colour Powder A pinch Yellow Colour Powder 4 tablespoons Plain Yoghurt As necessary Salt Ingredients (B) As necessary Butter As necessary Lemon Juice 1. Cut the fish into pieces (2 inches each), then soak and wash the fish with salt to remove the fishy smell. 2. Marinate the fish with the Ingredients (A). 3. Then put it into the refrigerator for 1 hours or so. 4. Then take it out from the refrigerator, and leave it for it to defrost, before cooking. Check the salt content, add in if neccesary 5. Cook it in the tandoori oven (clay oven) or cook it in the oven or grill it. 6. Preheat the oven at 250oC before placing the fish into the oven. 7. Take the tray and grease it with cooking oil and place the fish on the tray. 8. Cook it in the oven for 4 minutes at 220oC. 9. Remove the fish from the oven and strain off any liquid found on the tray. Turn it over to the other side, if neccesary. 10. Then smear it with butter and place it back into the oven for 6 to 8 minutes at 250oC. 11. Once it is done, smear it with Ingredients (B). 12. Serve with mint or barbecue sauce. |
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New series are in bold and italics, and the link leads to a preview and more information about the show. Returning series link to their official sites. Also, check the full fall calendar here, or search for when your favorite shows return using this alphabetical list.
7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
Shark Tank
(Sept. 14) |
Primetime: What Would You Do?
(Sept. 14) |
(Sept. 14) |
Last Man Standing
(7 p.m., Nov. 2) |
Malibu County
(7:30 p.m., Nov. 2) |
Shark Tank
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(Sept. 14) |
(Sept. 28) |
Made in Jersey
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Blue Bloods
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America's Next Top Model
(Aug. 24) |
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Kitchen Nightmares
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(Sept. 28) |
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(Oct. 19) |
(Sept. 28) |
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Looks like someone is trying to revive TGIF (needs more Balkie). Reba McEntire's new family sitcom (which somehow is also starring Lily Tomlin), Malibu Country, has been paired with Tim Allen's family sitcom Last Man Standing, which, sure, why not. Over on CBS, Made in Jersey, a Jersey-girl-gone-lawyer drama, has been added to their procedurals block, which seems like a natural enough fit, what do I care, I don't watch CBS.
We at Tubular HQ will be blogging America's Next Top Model and the final season of Fringe. (I'm really not ready to discuss the fact that this is the last season.) But not Touch. Never Touch.
Other than that, we will be watching DVRing Community (and Ghost Adventures because we have no shame).
This fish-out-of water drama is sort of like The Nanny, if The Nanny were from Jersey and instead of being a nanny, she was an attorney. And it's not a sitcom. (These comparisons keep getting away from me.) You know what? No hate. This looks like a perfectly nice show that I will never ever watch.
This, however, looks like a dreadful show that I will never ever watch. Reba McEntire catches her country singer husband cheating on her, so she moves her family out to Malibu, including crusty grandma Lily Tomlin, and pursues her own country-singing dreams. No! Nope. No thank you. No.
Other notable shows on Fridays this fall (new shows in italics):
7 p.m.
- White Room Challenge: HGTV, Sept. 21
- Monsters Inside Me: Animal Planet, Oct. 5
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- Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making the Team: CMT, Sept. 7
- Ghost Adventures: Travel, Sept. 14
- Flea Market Flip: HGTV, Sept. 28
- Home Strange Home: HGTV, Oct. 19
- Killer Karaoke: TruTV, Oct. 19
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- Cheer: CMT, Sept. 14, preview Sept. 7
- The Ultimate Fighter: FX, Sept. 14
- Haven: Syfy, Sept. 15
- Secret Princes: TLC, Sept. 21
- Hunted: Cinemax, Oct. 19
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San Diego Alive continues its coverage of local Olympians with video of sprint kayaker Carrie Johnson, 24, who began kayaking in San Diego with the Junior Lifeguard Program in 1997, coached by former Olympian Chris Barlow.
Kill two dust bunnies with one stone and vacuum off some calories. An hour of vacuuming carpets burns about 238 calories for a 150-pound person, according to calorie-count.com. Crank up some music and think of it as productive exercise, not housecleaning.
Adding citrus juice to green tea promotes better antioxidant absorption, says a study in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. Scientists added lemon juice to tea and found that 78 percent of the antioxidants remained intact during digestion; with orange, 71 percent.
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"Harley owners are nothing
more than dimwitted sheep and clueless cattle driven by an easily identifiable
flock / herd behavior with a think-by-numbers mindset operating under the
misunderstood cause of a
self-assumed, self replicating, trailer park grown,
redneck spread pagan religion which has
its roots buried deep in both rampant
commercialism and subscription based make-believe."
Christopher T. Shields (Black Echo)
"Twenty-five grand and twenty-five
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CODE OF CONDUCT | What I expect from you (but probably won't get...). | |
THE AMERICAN ANGST FAQ | Answers to most of your basic questions. | |
WHY A HARLEY DAVIDSON ISN'T A REAL AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE | The original personal opinion that started this crusade, dating all the way back to the year of our Lord, 1993 A.D. | |
HARLEY OWNER FEEDBACK | Giving a Harley owner access to Email is like giving a Neanderthal access to a microwave oven. |
THE WET DREAMS OF UTTER MORONS | Short mental spurts from genetic misfires and sub-mental pygmies. | |
STORIES AND NEWS FROM THE ROAD | Your stories and links ... submitted to this site. | |
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JOKES AND HUMOR | Jokes about the jokes. The difference is that these jokes actually work... | |
SPORT BIKES FOREVER | An old opinion of mine, circa 1995. Why I don't and won't ride anything made by Harley Davidson. | |
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW | Comparing old technology to new technology | |
2004 HONDA CBR600RR | The Dark One rides a dark horse indeed ... | |
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"We've all seen
that bumper sticker: "If God rode a motorcycle, it would be a Harley." I thought to myself......
now I know why God hasn't made His second coming..... He's still stuck in a cornfield
out in
Nebraska or somewhere waiting for parts!"
- Lee
(former HD owner)
"Sure, nine out of ten people would want a Harley if you asked them,
but then again,
nine of ten people don't know shit about bikes."
think of these people (HD owners) as oxygen thieves, stealing it
from those of us
that can
really use it."
"We have to
protect ourselves from the trampling and roar of a bewildered herd."
-Walter Lippmann
"You can't
dress trashy 'till you spend lots of money."
-Billy Joel
"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
"Honda Valkyrie- the "Made-In-America" motorcycle that America wishes it could make." -BradP
"Simply put, Harley Davidson is to motorcycles what AOL is to the Internet." - Christopher T. Shields
"Buying a
Harley is like paying $3,000 for a 13" black & white TV and telling
people it's
better than a 42" flatscreen."
-Bill L
"The authority of a thousand is not worth the humble
of a
single individual." -Quoted in Arago
Eulogy of
Galileo (1874)
"Show me a man riding his
Harley and
I will show you
a man with a flat on his truck."
Legal Notice: The term "Harley™" and "Harley-Davidson™" are registered trademarks of Harley-Davidson™ Motorcycle Company. The terms
"Hill Scoggin™",
"Flag Slathered
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Nourishing My Scholar is a Mom blogging about raising and homeschooling her children.
Last week my Papa and my Uncle took me to the Mall to see LEGO Americana!
I had an awesome feeling that we would be seeing amazing LEGO's. When we got there I saw just how big these LEGO's were. The Washington Monument was two stories tall!
Our son is developing a love of history! He is fascinated with the stories, adventures and, in particular, ancient battles. So, I've been on the lookout for a hands on program that incorporates living books, and audio stories that will keep history exciting and that he would enjoy while letting him dive as deeply as he desired into the pages of the past.
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Released: 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Runtime: 2 hr 1 min
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Adrienne Pickering, Nadia Townsend, Alan Hopgood, Danielle Carter, Alethea McGrath
Both over- and underrated.
Review by: MiamiMovieCritic
Added: 7 years ago
The Movie
Knowing (not to be confused with the 2007 Nicolas Cage flick Next) is one of those rarities: a movie that's both over- and underrated.
Roger Ebert has called it one of the best sci-fi movies ever. It so isn't, but the movie is also nowhere near as bad as some would have you believe. Ebert is fascinated by the film's philosophical questions; if you go to his blog, you can read a very serious discussion about whether the aliens at the end are actually angels. ("Did you see wings?") The haters are simply piling on the film because they don't like Nicolas Cage. While I have some sympathy for that position after seeing Ghost Rider and Bangkok Dangerous, I find The Wicker Man a guilty pleasure, and you can't deny the brilliant energy he brought to such films as Raising Arizona, Wild at Heart and Adaptation. Never pre-judge a film by this kind of angry-mob Internet buzz, I always say.
The film turns out to be not great or bad but merely good. It's refreshing in that it's a big-budget science-fiction film that's not a remake or a reboot, and the concept behind it is certainly intriguing.
It was directed by Alex Proyas, who has yet to top his two triumphs of the 1990s, The Crow and Dark City. His visual sense is every bit as strong as Darren Aronofsky's, and this is evident in the flashback sequence that opens the film and some spectacular special-effects scenes later on.
The flashback takes place in 1959. A class of grade-schoolers is asked to draw on pieces of paper what the future might look like in 50 years. Instead of doing a drawing, one of the girls obsessively writes row after row of numbers. The papers are put in a time capsule and buried underground.
Cut to the present day. Cage plays an MIT professor, John Koestler, who lives with his young son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury, from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Koestler is skeptical of the theory of determinism, and there's an interesting discussion in which he admits he thinks "shit just happens." The movie lays it on a bit thick in this regard – he's a widower, and his father is a devout religious man – but no more so than M. Night Shyamalan did with Mel Gibson's character in Signs.
Caleb happens to be in the class that digs up the time capsule. (Or maybe he doesn't "just" happen to be there; the film argues that shit doesn't "just happen.") Caleb takes home the piece of paper on which the little girl wrote the numbers, and by accident Koestler discovers there's a pattern here. The numbers correspond with the dates of every major disaster of the last 50 years. The first numbers he discovers are 911012996 – or Sept 11, 2001, on which 2996 people were murdered in the terrorist attacks.
Of course, there are other numbers that predict cataclysmic events in the near future. The first of these to come to pass is surely one of the most spectacular action scenes of the year. Captured in a single shot, it shows a plane crashing into a field. Koestler runs toward the wreckage, and passengers emerge screaming and on fire. The you-are-there immediacy of this scene is downright shocking.
Proyas has more tricks up his sleeve. Looked at in pieces, you can see how Knowing might have been a masterpiece, but it's marred by some silly and preposterous moments. One note: it's interesting how the aliens in the film (if that's what they are) are referred to as "the Strangers." This is the same name given to the frightening creatures in Dark City. Are they related?
The Special Features
The DVD has three special features. The best is a commentary track featuring Proyas, though it's annoying that the man interviewing him is never identified. Whoever this man is, he's a deadly serious interviewer. Proyas seems a bit testy when asked about the film's religious connotations, but he's engaging throughout. The two other special features are both slickly produced mini-docs: "Knowing All: The Making of a Futuristic Thriller" and "Visions of the Apocalypse."


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When Santa Clara County supervisors decided last week to buck the U.S. government by reducing the county's role in deporting criminals, immigration authorities warned local officials that they were endangering the public.
But it's not only the feds who are concerned with the 3-1 vote by the board of supervisors. So are some of the county's top law enforcement officials, including District Attorney Jeff Rosen and Sheriff Laurie Smith.
They say supervisors are playing a potentially dangerous game of chicken with U.S. immigration officials.
Most alarming, Rosen and Smith say, is that supervisors decided to release illegal immigrants with a history of committing serious or violent crimes into the community if immigration authorities don't pay to detain them. Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, have balked at that request. So the county now will free those inmates when their sentences are up.
"The action taken by the board of supervisors does not allow us the latitude to make a decision in the best interest of public safety," Smith told this newspaper. "If a person has been convicted of a serious or violent felony, they should remain in jail."
Similarly, Rosen said he supports honoring immigration holds "on individuals convicted of serious or violent crimes because deporting dangerous criminals promotes public safety."
Illegal immigrants with a violent past should be kept in jail even if the feds don't pay for the detention, Rosen said.
Santa Clara County's new policy is a reaction to the federal Secure Communities program, which the county tried to avoid but was forced to join in May 2010. The program requires local jailers to share with ICE the fingerprints of everyone booked.
The county's beef with ICE? Because it's not in the business of arresting immigrants suspected of staying in the country illegally, it doesn't want to be linked to those arrests. That's why immigrant rights advocates last week called the county's new policy the most progressive "immigration hold" policy in the U.S. They particularly support the part of the new policy that shields illegal immigrants arrested for nonviolent crimes and misdemeanors. Under the new policy, those immigrants will be freed before federal agents can grab them.
Rosen and Smith say they agree with that part of the new policy.
Detaining illegal immigrants who are minor offenders makes little sense because "it breaks families apart and drives a wedge between law enforcement and immigrant communities, which is bad for all Santa Clara County residents," Rosen said.
Smith also said that her goal is to detain only those immigrants who pose a threat to the community.
But Rosen and Smith think supervisors went way too far in asking ICE to reimburse the county to detain illegal immigrants with a serious criminal history for an additional 24 hours after they were set to be released.
Voting to impose the new policy were Supervisors George Shirakawa Jr., Ken Yeager and Dave Cortese. Mike Wasserman, who has the same concerns as Rosen and Smith, dissented. Supervisor Liz Kniss was absent.
Before it was amended this month by Shirakawa to include charging the federal government to detain immigrants with serious felony records, Rosen and Smith — members of the county's Civil Detainers Task Force — had agreed to the panel's recommendation to continue jailing those immigrants for 24 hours so that ICE could deport them.
"I agreed with the first policy," Rosen said, "but this is a bridge too far."
Shirakawa said he changed the original task force proposal after officials in Cook County, Ill., recently told federal authorities they would not detain immigrants unless ICE paid the county for holding them.
Shirakawa and other Santa Clara County officials say that's only fair, because the cash-strapped county is already paying to do ICE's work by having to house inmates until federal agents can pick them up at the county jail. It costs about $125 daily to house an inmate.
County officials also say they have to spend money researching inmates' prior convictions — not only locally, but also nationwide — and have to place children in the county's dependency system when their parents are put into deportation proceedings.
Still, neither Shirakawa nor any other county official could say exactly how much money the county believes it will save with the new policy — which takes effect immediately.
ICE officials say the agency isn't costing the county much at all because its officers pick up inmates in a timely fashion and do not detain parents who have the sole responsibility for child care. ICE says it allows such parents to remain out of custody while their immigration cases are being adjudicated.
ICE says the county's new policy is flawed because some immigrants arrested on minor charges also have serious criminal backgrounds. Releasing them to the streets rather than turning them over to federal authorities can result in those people committing more serious crimes, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for ICE. "Law enforcement agencies that honor ICE detainers ultimately help protect public safety," she said
But county attorneys argue that the court system already has punished the criminals. "We're not suddenly letting people go before they serve time for their crimes," said Juniper Downs, lead deputy county counsel.
"ICE has a job to do, and as a county we have a job to do," she said. "The board has made a decision that we are not going to volunteer county resources to enforce civil immigration. If ICE is requesting our cooperation and is willing to reimburse us for the costs we incur, then we are willing to cooperate."
Contact Tracy Seipel at 408 275-0140.
Source: Mercury News reporting


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Westminster Outlook In the shadow of Augustus Pugin's final and finest architectural gift to the nation, a 156-year-old clock tower that is the most city-defining example of the 19th century Gothic revival, Westminster hacks revel in "data dumps".
A beautiful sty for us dirty pigs.
Still, muck must be raked and swathes of documents published all at once pored over.
One such inelegantly termed data dump went fairly unnoticed recently. A business select committee has launched an inquiry into business-university collaboration. This is a subject that is increasingly concerning academics and politicians as UK research and development spending, 1.72 per cent as a proportion of GDP, continues to lag behind the likes of France, Germany and, in particular, the research hotbed of South Korea.
In a dump of more than 60 written submissions to the inquiry, only a handful came from businesses. The rest were from universities or academic groupings, which illustrates who is wooing whom in this relationship.
GlaxoSmithKline did make a submission – unsurprising, given that the inquiry was partly prompted by a government-commissioned review led by the drug group's chief executive, Sir Andrew Witty.
GSK warns that the introduction of full economic costing nearly a decade ago is "making UK academics more expensive … in comparison with similar collaborative opportunities in other countries". Under this model, universities charge companies for more than just pure financial costs, typically including unquantified aspects of joint research such as using faculty equipment or laboratories. GSK argues that charging what is, admittedly, a more accurate assessment of the costs of a collaborative project ignores the benefits that universities receive from the relationship, such as use of private-sector technologies.
The submission points to a survey by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry that found 25 per cent of post-doctoral research funded by British companies goes to institutions outside the UK. That is double the proportion in 2007, which, as GSK points out, "may inevitably undermine the competitiveness of the UK academic base". Universities need to stop thinking that industry makes enough money that it can pay for the bulk of joint research projects.
The Government has ringfenced publicly funded research, but the budget has been static at £4.6bn since 2011. That is just 0.65 per cent of GDP and is falling with inflation at a time when China and Brazil are aiming to reach 2.5 per cent by the early 2020s. GSK argues that it is "pivotal" for this spending to be protected against inflation and beyond one five-year parliament, which means there will need to be some cross-party collaboration as well.
Politicians, unions, the media and much of the public were fuming over the idea that GSK's rival, AstraZeneca, might fall into foreign hands when the US Viagra maker Pfizer tried and failed to buy the group for £69bn last month. Among the chief concerns was that a foreign company might reduce Britain's research base, making scientists redundant. In an instant, AstraZeneca was transformed into a company of national strategic importance. Whether a Pfizer deal would have seen researchers lose their jobs and facilities closed is debatable, but what should be beyond debate is the value that we put on science.
GSK is not a perfect company, as any animal rights protester will tell you. But the warnings on full economic costing and inflation-proofing the government science budget should be taken seriously if the UK wants an R&D base that will help our universities, businesses and economy thrive in the coming decades.
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Jewish World Review March 8, 2012/ 14 Adar, 5772 College for Everyone? Some Children Need to be Left Behind By Ron Hart
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"Some people have incredible gifts with their hands. Some people have incredible gifts and ... want to work out there making things. President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob."
I have been hard on Rick Santorum over his injection of unworkable religious dogma into the campaign. He is a man who does not believe evolution or sleeves on sweaters. He also does not believe in contraception; although with Snooki announcing her pregnancy, he might just revisit his position.
In his recent verbal brush-up with Obama, Santorum got it right. Obama's notion that everyone somehow deserves, or should have, a college education is silly. Has he met "everyone" in America?
I really fear that our educational system has advanced too far the idea that "anyone can become president." We need to stop telling kids that; we have to be realistic. Just look at the candidates who are running.
Why should we support a failing, costly, government-run educational system that uses its podium to indoctrinate rather than to teach kids? With falling rankings in math and science and politicians unable to do the simple math of trillion-dollar deficit spending, American education has not created much of a useful product. By sending our kids to be educated by these liberal loons, we just reinforce bad behavior.
It seems only Ivy League egg-heads can find jobs in Washington. They want to work there on theories they had in college about how government can make better decisions for people than people can for make themselves. Just like makers of firearms, medical devices and cigarettes, colleges should face product liability litigation for the damage their products cause.
Hopefully, Ivy League affirmative action product Obama will flunk out of the Electoral College in November.
According to The Wall Street Journal, in-state tuition and fees for public colleges rose again last year by an average of 8.3%. This continues a trend of a product whose cost has risen more than twice the rate of inflation over thirty years, while its producers (colleges) are not held accountable for what they produce.
Just look at the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd to see today's college-educated products. Illogical, angry, and feeling they are owed something that others have earned, their mantra seems to be, "We don't know what we want, but we want it now!"
Andrew Rosen tells a story of a consultant hired by a university to help implement the then-trendy "Total Quality Management" program. The consultant's first question to the college's administrators and staffers was, "Who is your customer?" The provost answered "everyone," the college president said "the trustees," and the school deans all said "the faculty." When taken to task about their answers, the faculty said they found the word "customer" offensive. The consultant was later fired.
That, my friends, is the current state of our dysfunctional education system. Taken to its logical conclusion, Obama would say his "customer" is teachers' unions. Kids are just the maudlin means to the money.
With each passing year, college degrees cost more and are worth less. Yet Obama wants to produce more of them. Almost like a dictate of a Russian ten-year plan, he said he wanted five million more by 2021. Kids in colleges across the country were like, "Slow up there, Presedenta, you want us to complete college in nine years? Stop with the pressure, dude, you're stressing us out!"
The good news is that Ron Paul is winning the youth vote with his message of smaller government, low taxes and liberty. This independent thinking, which contradicts liberal articles of faith among college academia, has tenured professors so concerned that they might have to call for a crackdown on campus binge thinking.
Every kid in America who is well prepared for post-secondary education, is intellectually competitive, and is driven to advance his education should follow his dream. Those who choose another path, such as soldier, painter, carpenter, plumber, craftsman, etc. are equally noble. Freed from four years of liberal propaganda, they will become clearer thinkers on economic and social issues.
There are many roads to the fulfillment of dreams and to adding to society. People who pursue those roads without a college education can do just fine. Just ask Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Harry Truman.
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