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Welcome to Murrell Farm Supply
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Murrell Farm Supply, located in Lebanon Missouri, carries a large assortment of animal and livestock feed, farm equipment and supplies, and more. If your farm needs it, we've probably got it! If we don't, we can almost always order it for you.
We carry feed and supplies for all kinds of critters, from cattle, deer and horses to pigs, chickens and poultry. We've also got all the mineral blocks and molasses tubs you'll need to keep your herd healthy and happy. Got a sickly swine or cranky calf? Check out our selection of products from West Plains Vet Supplies. We've also got all kinds of feeders, nesting boxes and almost anything else your animals might need.
Click here for information about the feed and animal supplies we carry.
There's more! After all, we wouldn't be much of a farm supply store if we didn't have all sorts of fencing products and supplies, a great selection of tractor accessories, not to mention quality seed, garden tools and accessories, welding and cutting supplies, and much more.
You can learn more about the many products we carry by clicking this link.
But we're more than just your typical feed store and farm supply. We offer products and services that other don't, like refilling propane tanks and selling metal buildings, burn barrels, food-grade totes, and… well, it's a pretty long list. Why don't you just stop by today and see for yourself; we'd love to see you!
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About Murrell Farm Supply
Murrel Farm Supply was founded in 2016 by Steve and Betsey Murrell.
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2015 Mitsubishi Outlander SE
When the 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander SE pulled up into my driveway I thought: HOLY MOLY! This car was huge. Clearly, it doesn't look that big, but for someone that's used to driving smaller cars, this seemed like a bus to me. It was really intimidating just looking at it, but I couldn't wait to get in and see all of the cool features it had to offer.
The 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander SE offers a big upgrade in style and comfort, so I was really excited to try it out. I reviewed the 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport last October and fell in love with it, so I couldn't wait to see the difference.
The 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander SE features fold-flat third row seats so you can seat up to seven people and when you have a big family like mine, that is great news. The third row seat folds down in a 50-50 spilt fashion and the second row seat folds down in a 60-40 spilt fashion. There's not a lot of leg room for the third row passengers, but I imagine if you are seating children in the back as opposed to adults, then it works out fine.
Grocery runs were great with the option to fold down the third row seating for extra trunk space, too. To fold the seats down, I just had to pull on those strings and release them for the seat to go down, which was really easy. You could even do this one-handed if you are carrying stuff in your other hand, too.
In the back you'll also find cup holders for your passengers and a Rockrod Fosgate sound system! This system pumps up to 710 watts through the speakers including a 10-inch subwoofer with Punch Control to deliver a rich bass and crystal clear highs.
The leather seating throughout the Outlander was simply beautiful. It adds another level of sleekness and luxury to the interior that I loved. The second row seating was very roomy and the seats themselves were pretty big, too. It helped make my passengers very comfortable. There is a cup holder that folds out from the seats which is great if you are seating two passengers and it can also act as a divider between the two passengers as well they can have more room.
The heated front seats kept me comfortable while driving in the snowy weather and my passengers loved that feature right away. There's a dual-zone front climate control to keep you and your passenger comfortable on the road. You can keep your temperature cooler and your passenger can keep their warmer or vice versa. This is such an awesome feature to have for me because I like cooler weather in the car while I'm driving, even if it happens to be cold outside. I get hot and uncomfortable while driving sometimes, so I don't have to compromise my comfort while driving with this feature which is much appreciated.
Easily one of my favorite features is that when the FAST-key is inside the car, you can just put your foot on the brakes and press the Start/Stop button and the engine starts right away. I always love this feature because it makes everything that much simpler. If you're not used to this feature, it will take a couple of tries to get used to, I remember the first time I drove a car with this feature I thought I lost the keys and couldn't find the ignition but then I remembered it was a push to start ha ha.
There's also a 6.1" touch panel display that features HD Radio that includes AM/FM signals, a rearview camera that is seriously a must for me while reverse parking, SIRIUSXM satellite radio, navigation, bluetooth hands-free phone system that I used frequently injunction with my music, CD and Mp3 audio system and more. Another cool feature is that I can actually control some of these things directly from the leather covered steering wheel! When my phone is connected, I can answer phone calls, control the volume of the music and even change tracks while staying focused on the road. The Mitsubishi Outlander SE also has ECO mode which helps with fuel efficiency and I noticed that I was able to drive a long period of time without having to worry about filling up on gas, too.
Safety features include Forward Collision Mitigation, Adaptive Cruise Control, and Lane Departure Warning System, 7 airbags (including one underneath the driver's dashboard!), LATCH child restraint system, child safety rear door locks. The Lane Departure Warning system uses a camera to monitor lane positions in the front of the car and if it detects the car is leaving its lane will alert the driver. This is such a cool feature to have especially if you drive frequently for long hours during the night. There's another cool feature mentioned, the Forward Collision Mitigation, which alerts the driver of oncoming obstructions that can help you avoid accidents and if required, can also apply the brakes automatically. SO cool.
The 18" alloy wheels are lightweight but strong enough to endure the twist and turns of the snowy streets. I had no problem driving this car in the snow, it was such a good sport! The Active Stability Control feature has sensors that grip each tire and if a wheel begins to slip, it applies the brakes to the wheels with the most traction. This is such a good feature to help prevent sliding across the roads during the rain or snow.
The headlights on the Mitsubishi Outlander SE were pretty good, they are super-wide beam High-Intensity Discharge headlights that made driving at night a lot easier. The Outlander also features rain-sensing windshield wiper system which I thought was pretty awesome! The side mirrors are heated so this helps when things are getting foggy due to the rain or colder temperatures. Also to help with precipitation, the rear wiper with washer made driving through the snowfall easier as well. The upper front grille is redesigned and looks much classier in my opinion, too. You'll also find a power sunroof that my son absolutely loved!
Overall, I really enjoyed driving the 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander SE! It had a ton of really cool features that made it very practical for me to drive. I think the size is great if you have a larger family like mine, but I would prefer a smaller vehicle personally. I definitely loved how effortless it was to drive this car in the snowy weather though, which is a HUGE plus for me. SO, with that said, I think I still love the 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport just a little bit more.
What are your favorite features of the 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander SE?
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The corn stubble is still holding snow and the afternoon high is freezing.
It is a mostly cloudy day, but the rays from the sun are strong enough to penetrate the clouds.
The snow around the black patches of exposed soil are melting. The wind is penetrating, as well, and cold.
The snow is far from melted.
There is much talk about the farming season. It is all speculation, of course. Every farmer knows that there is no one who controls the weather.
There are not green shoots growing anywhere. Not in the Winter Wheat fields, not in the pastures.
They must have eaten all the spill piles and lost grain in the fields by now.
Some folks have turned their Christmas lights back on. They look cheerful and give others a laugh. We will try to remember this Spring with good humor.
Spring is late. Just like last week and the week before, the forecast is for Spring weather next week in GriggsDakota.


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Saturday, 9 February 2013
Day 9 - FABruary Style Challenge
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You look... sparkly! I do enjoy this challenge, even if some days I have to really get out of my comfort zone (today, for example). I am in the same side of the world as you, by the way, enjoying this sunny cold day! Happy weekend!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks - sparkly was what I was aiming for! It's been very cold here too, though the sun makes up for it. Happy weekend to you too!Delete
You're doing so well. Do you know what each day's theme is for the month? Just wondered how far in advance do you get to know what to plan to wear.ReplyDelete
Jacqui, I do have the list of themes for the whole month, so in theory I can plan it all well in advance - however forward planning isn't my strong point! If you want to have a go yourself, this is the link: http://www.insideoutstyleblog.com/page/2?s=FABruary+Style+challengeReplyDelete
I haven't got a clue what I'm going to wear for "lace". I don't think it's a good idea to post a photo of me in my undies or nightwear! Similarly, "sheer" isn't a good look for over 60s.....!


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Posters for Bodyguards and Assassins released
Hu Jun, Eric Tsang, Nic Tse, Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Fan Bingbing, Wang Po-Chieh, Wang Xueqi, Zhou Yun, Li Yuchun
Scheduled for December 18th release
Overheard/Wiretap - Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu
Louis Koo put on thirty pounds for the role
Coweb Beijing press conference
Donnie Yen in for Bond-esque actioner
'14 Blades' will be directed by Daniel Lee
Chinese director Lou Ye to premiere movie at Cannes film festival despite ban - Spring Fever
Lou Ye - Spring Fever press kit
New H.K. sales firm embraces actresses
Vicky Zhao Wei, Tang Wei have faced career hurdles
Ethan Ruan replaces Jay Chou as triad member in new film
Cinema Popular unveils China's first superhero movie
Cinema Popular is unveiling four new projects at Cannes:
Jung Ku - The Man From 18th Hell (Peter Chan), The Flying Guillotines - (Dante Lam), Queen's Road Ripper, God of Wealth
Korea's Sidus to co-produce One Armed Swordsman remake
Fortissimo takes on Tian Zhuangzhuang's Warrior
Focus, Edko seal three film deal
True Legend, The Warrior and The Wolf, and Murderer (starring Aaron Kwok)
Don't bow down to vices, says Tsai Chin
Attending Guests: Want a date with Taiwanese female stars? Pay up
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It takes a lot of planning to make a children's birthday party successful; one of the favorite things for kids to do at a birthday party is to play the kids party games. However, birthday parties are typically on a tight time frame and it is important to offer birthday games for kids that are fun and entertaining but also that do not take up an excessive amount of time.
Finding the appropriate birthday party games is also important based on the ages on the kids. You will want to offer children's party games that are easy enough for the young kids to understand and be able to play. If the birthday party is for an older child then you will want to offer birthday party games that are challenging and entertaining enough for the older child.
Here you will find five classic birthday party games for kids that are for a wide age-range of kids; deciding which birthday party games are most age appropriate for your child's birthday party will be the decision you will have to make.
Bobbing for apples
This is a birthday party game for kids that is an oldie but a goodie. Even though apple bobbing is a game that has been around for what seems like forever, it still to this day is one game that is entertaining for kids and kids just seem to love it. I think the best part of apple bobbing is letting the kids eat an apple at the end of the birthday game and their stomachs are filled with a healthy and nutritious snack.
Balloon toss
This is a really fun birthday game that is low cost and it helps to get some of the kid's energy out of their system. Each child is given a blown up balloon and he or she has to keep the balloon in the air by tapping it with their hand; whoever keeps the balloon in the air the longest without allowing the balloon to touch the floor is the winner.
Hot potato
Who would think that a potato could keep the kids so entertained but the potato does do the job. Children sit in a circle and while music is played, children pass the potato to the person next to them. Whoever is left holding the potato when the music stops steps out of the game. The last player left sitting in the circle is the winner of this birthday party game.
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This fun birthday party game for kids keeps the children attentive and entertained; the object of this game is for the players to listen and follow the commands given by the caller. Each time a child misses a command, he or she steps out of game. The last player left in this birthday party game is the winner.
Clothing swap
This is a birthday party game that makes kids laugh; the object of the game is to break players into two teams and have two bags of equal amounts of clothing each bag. A player from each team races to put all the clothing on that is in the bag and then takes off all the clothing and places it back into the bag, the bag is then handed off to the next player on the team. The team who completes the clothing swap game the fastest is the winner.


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The driving force behind the successful Zonin company, this powerful figure in italian wine has mastered the art of the grape.
GIANNI ZONIN keeps his favorite bottle of wine near his office desk and picks it up to read from the label: "Robust and austere but balanced and generous, this wine was born in 1938 and was left to rest 20 years in its birthplace Gambellara before being refined in oak in the best cellars of Tuscany, Piedmont and Friuli. With noble and aristocratic characteristics, it is a perfect companion for elegant meals. Bottled young, it never ages."
A wide smile spreads across Zonin's face: "The wine? It's a 'Gianni Zonin'," he says with a satisfied chuckle. The label was written by his son, Michele, as a novelty keepsake bottle for Christmas.
Gianni Zonin is a name that looms large in Italy. President of Zonin Family Wines & Estates, the country's largest private wine enterprise, Gianni Zonin produces 25 million bottles each year, of which 40 percent is exported, mostly to the United States. Zonin, the company, employs 550 people and owns 11 estates in seven regions—for a total of 4,440 acres under vine spanning from the tip to the toe of Italy. Its history mirrors the country's own enological evolution so closely that understanding which follows which is a chicken-and-egg proposition.
And not unlike the larger Italian wine industry, the cross Zonin bears today is its awkward identity as both a producer of quality and quantity. Gianni Zonin is determined to prove he can be both. To that end, he is making shrewd land purchases, hiring a team of super enologists, investing heavily in his vineyards and wineries, and forming more marketing strategies in local and foreign markets.
"The consumer must understand there are two separate entities both owed by the Zonin family: The Zonin brand and Zonin Estates," says Michael Magnello, head of Zonin USA, which imports most of the Zonin products.
Wines bearing the Zonin name account for a staggering 18 million bottles per year available at restaurants and in supermarkets for everyday consumption and usually priced under $10. Zonin's lines include Terre Palladiane (Pinot Grigio, Soave and Valpolicella) and the Terre Mediterranee, a collection of wines made from indigenous varietals from the south of Italy. Also included is Zonin's Prosecco, or Italian sparkling wines. Thanks to these products, Zonin is Italy's volumetric leader accounting for 2.4 percent of the market, which is more than twice as much as the next brand.
The Estates, on the other hand, consist of prime vineyard property in the Veneto, Friuli, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Puglia and Sicily (as well as one estate in the U.S.) from which the Zonin family produces estate grown and bottles wines made under the supervision of one of Italy's leading enologists, Franco Giacosa. The consumer does not always know these are Zonin-owned since the family name does not appear on all products.
Zonin has been in family hands since 1821—the date listed on a deed of sale for a small plot of vineyard land in the lush basin that lies behind Gambellara, a small agricultural town in the Veneto. Over the ensuing century, the business began to take shape. Starting in the 1920s it was under the leadership of Gianni Zonin's uncle, Domenico (who died at age 101 in 2000). Domenico bought fruit from local growers to increase production; he also opened a grappa distillery. "By the 1960s we decided to dedicate ourselves to wine," says Zonin who eventually took over with the help of his brothers Giuseppe, Gaetano and Silvano.
In 1969, a far more important decision was made: The Zonin family purchased its first property outside the Veneto, marking the beginning of a buying frenzy that would last three decades. The company staunchly argues that bigger is better. Their philosophy goes against the grain in the Veneto, where small mom-and-pop operations are the backbone of the local economy. "Italian viticulture suffers from small dimensions," he says. "If there is a globalization of markets, Italy needs bigger dimensions to compete worldwide."
The aspect of Zonin's personality that leaves the deepest impression on those who meet him is his compulsion for collecting things. His Gambellara offices are crammed with display cases featuring an array of corkscrews and hand-blown Murano stemware. He boasts albums totaling 5,000 stamps, all picturing grapes or winemaking themes, and has personally amassed Italy's largest collection of legal proclamations linked to wine. These posters, the oldest of which is dated 1557, were affixed to municipal buildings or read aloud to illiterate farmers. He and his wife, Silvana, have scoured flea markets and antique stores to produce a museum-like exhibition of ancient wine books, maps, ceramic jars (including a glass container preserving 2,000-year-old, shriveled grapes recovered from a Roman amphora), wine prints and a complete collection of the old farming tools used in viticulture.
If those obsessions are any measure, one might conclude Gianni Zonin is collecting vineyards as well. "I have a few criteria when I look for properties," Zonin explains. "I look in famous wine zones with important DOC or DOCG denominations. Then, I look for properties with at least 100 hectares [250 acres] of vineyard, otherwise the purchase price and operation costs aren't justified."
The first, and the largest, property to be added to the Zonin portfolio was Tenuta Cà Bolani in Friuli's Aquileia district (the nearby Tenuta Cà Vescovo was purchased afterward). Ten years later, in 1979, Zonin bought Castello d'Albola, property with rolling hills framed by cypress trees in the heart of Chianti Classico, where the Zonin family spends its summer holidays. The Tuscan castle is so iconic that is seems unreal.
"I went to Chianti and looked for properties morning to night until I found the one I liked," explains Zonin. " I was like a painter waiting for the right inspiration."
More properties followed in Tuscany, such as Fattoria Abbazia Monte Oliveto, with 75 acres planted to Vernaccia di San Gimignano and Fattoria il Palagio, in the province of Siena. By 1985, Zonin had established itself in the Asti area of Piedmont with the purchase of the 430-acre Castello del Poggio.
"We then became interested in Pinot Noir and sparkling wine made in the méthode champenoise and bought Tenuta il Bosco in Lombardy's Oltrepó Pavese zone," he explains.
Since 1995, Zonin has purchased three more properties in what are now Italy's most exciting new regions: Tenuta Rocca di Montemassi in Tuscany's Maremma, Feudo Principi di Butera in Sicily, and Masseria Altemura in Puglia's Salento, which will celebrate its first harvest in 2004.
Of these, Sicily's Feudo Principi di Butera holds a special place in the hearts of the Zonin clan. Applauded by critics for its quality wines and unique terroir, it has blossomed as a successful example of a stand-alone estate under the Zonin umbrella.
In addition to 11 estates in Italy, the Zonin family owns Barboursville Vineyards in Virginia (see sidebar). Zonin has no plans to buy more property over the next few years, but he does not exclude venturing into Umbria, Le Marche, Campania or Basilicata further down the road. "We always have our eyes open but finding large parcels is increasingly difficult," states Zonin. Abroad he has eyeballed parcels in Spain, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and even China, but for now he says, "we will concentrate on developing Maremma and Puglia."
One thing is certain: Zonin's investments reflect a business intuition that is unparalleled among Italy's vintners. In 1975, one hectare of land (2.5 acres) in Chianti Classico was worth between $1,600 to 3,200. Today, that same hectare sells for $250,000 to 300,000. In other regions, one hectare priced between $1,230 to $3,700 thirty years ago has ballooned to anywhere from $123,000 to $615,000, with the highest prices commanded in premium wine areas like Barolo and Montepulciano. That means Gianni Zonin has seen remarkable returns on his land investments—that range from between 300 and 1,000 percent.
Although Zonin is one of few companies that could attract stock market investors thanks to its $100 million in annual sales, it has no plans to go public. "Wine is a long-term business and the stock market short-term mentality," he says.
"Who is Gianni Zonin? I can answer that question with just a few words: He is the person who brought entrepreneurship to the world of wine," says enologist Riccardo Cotarella, a consultant for many of Zonin's fiercest competitors. "That's a very important thing."
Sometimes likened to California's Gallos or Mondavis, Gianni Zonin is in fact a curious a winemaker-businessman hybrid. As a winemaker, he holds an enology diploma from Conegliano Veneto. As a businessman, he introduced concepts like consolidation and brand-name recognition that have his competitors scrambling to copy the "Zonin model." He is also founder of Sicily's Banca Nuova and president of Banca Popolare di Vicenza. One of his side projects is bank-issued wine bonds for investors and he is often called upon as a leading expert on the business of wine.
"It's incredible to see my father complete millions in bank transactions one minute and move onto the plumber who missed an appointment in Sicily the next," says son Francesco.
"I work for the consumer," Gianni Zonin, the man who also earned a law degree before continuing in Uncle Domenico's footsteps, says flatly. "Thanks to the many vineyards we own, I can offer a complete range of products from seven regions. Instead of going to three or five different producers, the customer saves money and gets good value by coming to me."
Wines from the various properties are vinified and estate bottled and shipped to Gambellara, where the centralized storage facility, billing, sales and marketing office is located. Although the estates carry their own brand names, like Castello d'Albola and Fuedo Principi di Butera, Zonin has recently started adding the words "Gianni Zonin Vineyards" to the back labels of his premier cru single-vineyard products "so the consumer can put a face to the wine."
He also developed a corporate culture that is reflected in the architecture of the Gambellara headquarters. On the flanks of a central corridor, glass panels instead of walls delineate office space. Zonin's office is at the end and to the right and is the only one covered in wood paneling. Near Michele's Christmas gift are a series of plaques with business maxims: "Success is a consequence, not an objective," "Either you are part of the solution or part of the problem," and "There is no such thing as a good wind, if you don't know where port is."
Zonin family members and staff often buzz about the central corridor and brainstorm ideas. The latest: "Zonin wine tours," during which foreign enotourists explore Italy and visit Zonin tasting rooms.
But Gianni Zonin's portfolio of properties was not the only thing to grow in 30 years. A new Zonin generation did, too. He and Silvana have three sons: Domenico, 31, is the pensive winemaker who plays tennis; Francesco, 30, is the handsome marketer who enjoys extreme sports; and Michele, 28, is the son who opted to pursue a law career instead of joining the family business.
Domenico studied law in Milan and enology at California's UC Davis and now manages the various vineyards. Franceseo, who has a degree in economics from Milan's Bocconi University, and who worked in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York focuses on sales. "Domenico gives me the bottle and I sell it," Francesco explains.
Dr. Domenico and Dr. Francesco, as the two are affectionately called in order to avoid surname overlap, are being carefully groomed to carry forth Dr. Gianni's legacy.
On a sunny day in June, Gianni and Domenico arrange to have dad's 1962 Jaguar spruced up for a drive into the Colle San Marco vineyards beyond Gambellara. The antique automobile's leather upholstery is cracked with age and its engine emits woeful laments at the steepest ascents.
Gianni Zonin grinds the Jaguar into gear and nudges it forward by deftly measuring its acceleration against the road's rising gradation. But the Jaguar decides it has depleted its waning reserve of horsepower and stalls. The driver attempts to get it started, but nothing more than mechanical coughs and hiccups are returned.
"Hey Dad, maybe you should let me drive for a while," says Domenico. Without a second thought, Gianni Zonin moves over to the passenger seat and lets his son take the wheel.
For more on Zonin, see the October issue of Wine Enthusiast.


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Saratoga Springs Wineries, Breweries & Distilleries
Who knew Upstate NY had wineries, breweries & distilleries! Visit Saratoga wineries to try a tasting or pick up a bottle of your favorite red/white or a case of your favorite ale! Find a local winery, brewery or distillery in Saratoga Springs and other cities like Lake George below.


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|Ayn Rand; Jean-Paul Sartre
Like Sartre, Ayn Rand too was a fiction writer; unlike him she did not give a name to her philosophy in the initial years of her writing career. Her novel The Fountainhead in which she offers an account of her philosophy of individualism was published in 1943, but she started looking for a name for her philosophy after the publication of Atlas Shrugged in the 1950s. She felt that word "existentialism" would have been a good name for her ideas, but this word was already taken—Sartre's existentialism had become a major intellectual force in Europe by the end of the Second World War. Eventually Rand picked up the word "objectivism" in 1958.
After Sartre died in 1980, existentialism started fizzling out, and by the end of the decade, the movement was extinct. The fate of Rand's philosophy was not too different. Objectivism had been meandering confusedly since 1968 when Rand had a nasty breakup with her main disciple and associate Nathaniel Branden. Soon after her death in 1982, objectivism ran out of steam and it currently has a very small following.
But in the 1960s, when existentialism was at its zenith, and objectivism seemed to be on the ascendent, several scholars had started believing that the two philosophies were destined to collide and compete. In the 1960s no one could have predicted that by the end of the 1980s, existentialism (with a capital "E") and objectivism (with a capital "O") will become irrelevant.
An Existentialist Ethics (1967), has devoted the Chapter 6, "Egoistic Humanism: Ayn Rand's Objectivism," to objectivist ethics. As Barnes, in the 1960s, was an existentialist devotee of Sartre, it is understandable that she finds several flaws in objectivist ethics and total perfection in existentialist ethics. In her essay on objectivist ethics, she offers an extensive critique of Rand's ethical theory. Here's an excerpt from her essay:
Ayn Rand has made her own position on existentialism very clear. In her essay, "For the New Intellectual," she writes, "The majority of those who posture as intellectuals today are frightened zombies, posturing in a vacuum of their own making, who admit their abdication from the realm of the intellect by embracing such doctrines as Existentialism and Zen Buddhism." Despite all this, the popular images of the Rand hero and the Existentialist have something in common. Both are commonly held to be totally selfish and solitary individuals who acknowledge no authority save their own arbitrary whims, whose human relationships are motivated solely by immediate self-interest, who recognize no responsibilities. If we forget about these popular distortions and leave the level of overgeneralization, we find that the task of comparing to two is surprisingly complex. There are a few precise similarities; there are some obvious sharp divergences. [….]
It would not be a distortion to say that both Objectivism and existentialism call for the assertion of the free individual against those theologies and those oppressively conformist societies which seek to make him deny his unique self in the interests of ready-made social molds and values. Both oppose a psychology which would reduce man to the animal level or to a mechanistic pattern of stimulus and response. They are equally opposed to the soul-body dichotomy of traditional theology. Objectivists and existentialists argue that every person is responsible for what he has made of his life Each man is ultimately a free choice. In so far as they claim that man himself is his own end and purpose, both may properly be called humanistic. This is an impressive list of parallels. One might easily suppose that with the sympathetic sharing of such fundamental premises, the general similarity in their over-all positions would outweigh any differences in detail.
Only what emerges is not a common point of view. It is not merely that Rand and Sartre differ as to how the individual should go about engaging his freedom and asserting his newly discovered self. One discovers that somehow words have not meant the same things in these descriptions. The self and its freedom do not mean for Rand what they mean for Sartre. If we examine these basic premises and starting points closely, we find that only one is left standing as a common landmark. That is the rejection of God or of any form of belief in an eternal spiritual world beyond the human. Man remains the author of his own destiny, the creator of his own values.Further in the essay, Barnes points out that Rand and Sartre have serious disagreement on existence and man's place in it. She is essentially saying that Rand says, "Existence is identity," Sartre says, "Existence precedes essence," and the two shall never meet. Rand believes that it is possible for a man to undertake an action that is completely good, whereas Sartre holds that when it comes to specific choices in the real world, the complexity of life is such that no action is pure and every man must make the best possible choice based on his own judgement.
Barnes is critical of Rand's theory of selfishness. She says:
I reject Objectivism, not because it is self-centered or because it seeks self-aggrandizement. I criticize it for being selfish in the pejorative sense of restricting the horizons of the Self so as to leave the self-center, not enriched but impoverished, not blown up but withered and blighted. The Self of the Objectivists runs the risk of the only child—it is not unloved, but it is likely to be spoiled, ailing, and fretful, due to the overprotection and the too close attention which prevents the growth of responsible freedoms.Barnes finds a lot of disagree with in Ayn Rand's famous essay, "Racism." She accepts Rand's viewpoint that racism is the result of collectivist thinking, but she disagrees with the broad historical and political perspectives that Rand offers on collectivism. Barnes says:
Given her definition of "collectivism," however, equated with "statism" and applied indiscriminately to Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and any liberal government which does not definitely eschew the concept of Welfare State, then Rand's statement that "historically racism has always risen and fallen with the rise or fall of collectivism" is not supported by evidence. This was not the case with the ancient Graeco-Roman world. The thesis is particularly hard to sustain for the United States. Rand attempts it by stating, "It is the capitalist North that destroyed the slavery of the agrarian-feudal South in the United States." It is true that the North, because of its greater industrialization, had less need for slaves, but it was not the capitalist leaders of the industry who became fervent abolitionists. It was the liberal intellectuals and religious idealists. Nor should one equate the near-feudalism of the South with collectivism. Rand entirely ignores the fact that, in the twentieth century, it has been the Liberals who have consistently spearheaded the pressure for civil rights and nondiscriminatory legislation.There are several problems in Barnes's critique of objectivist ethics, but a part of her criticism is right. For instance, she is right that Rand has used bad historical evidence to prove that there is a connection between collectivism and racism. Indeed, it was not the businessmen of the North who were fervent abolitionists—it was the liberals and religious idealists (who can also be seen as collectivists), and all the farmers of the South were not collectivists.


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Hot or Not?
In 2012, Harvard Business Review called Data Science:
"the sexiest job of the 21st century."
They cited the complex skill-set, high demand, and scarcity of data scientists as some of the drivers of this trend. Contrast that with a recent Forbes article whose take-home point is that the sexy days of data science are numbered. They claim that automation and a new crop of professionally-trained candidates will fundamentally change the landscape of this field.
"...the data scientist shortage has been overblown."
These two articles certainly are not the only ones of their kind. And, as I read through article after article, I started to feel like my profession, the one I have loved and worked in for nearly a decade now, was suddenly the subject of a tabloid "Hot or Not" list. As this debate rages on, we in the data science community are hard at work, doing what we love to do: being curious, learning and applying new skills, asking new questions, finding answers. The answer to the question of whether Data Scientists are "hot or not" is irrelevant. I'll let you in on a little secret:
we're not in it for the sex appeal.
Why do we choose this as a career?
I recently reached out to a dozen of my colleagues in the data science community to ask them why they choose to be in this profession. It probably won't come as a shock that not a single one of them said they did it because it was "sexy." So, what are the reasons? Why do we choose this career? Here's a summary of what I heard from my colleagues, coupled with my own reasons for loving my job.
We love to help people make better decisions. Nothing is more cringe-worthy to a Data Scientist than hearing that a company made a big, expensive decision without any data to guide them.
We are creative. We love making something new out of nothing. My colleague, Nick Ryberg, said it best, "There's a really nice intersection between the 5-year-old inside of me who, more than anything, simply loves connecting lego blocks in new and interesting ways."
We are endlessly curious. We feel compelled to explore the unknown and to push the boundaries of what we currently understand. This curiosity doesn't stop when we've answered a question - each answer leads to a new set of follow-up questions.
We are lifelong learners. There is always a new language, tool, or technique to learn. The rise of free or low-cost online learning communities has created a virtual playground for us, and we're taking full advantage of it.
Staying Power
In my opinion, there will always be a high demand for Data Scientists, although likely not in their current form. To say otherwise is to assume that we will someday know everything, that we will stop learning and growing, and that we will lose our curiosity. I'm much more optimistic than that. Here's why:
The volume, complexity, and breadth of data is not decreasing. In fact, it is exponentially increasing.
There will always be new questions that need to be answered. As business gets more complex and competition grows, so does our need for answers. Additionally, future work builds off of the work we're doing today - that is the nature of the scientific method.
Automation has always been present. Truly innovative people use technology and automation to their advantage. Automation can either be viewed as a threat or as a tool to help us accomplish even more. The complex work we can tackle today is possible because technology and automation have freed up time and resources that can be deployed onto new, complex problems.
There will always be something new to learn. Data Scientists are not the type of people who rest on their laurels. Rather, the skills and knowledge that we have today are merely a foundation for the skills we'll learn next.
In the end, the question of whether the field of data science is sexy is irrelevant. We don't do this job for the sex appeal. We do it because it's in our nature to ask, explore, create, and learn. Call me an optimist, but I believe there will always be a huge need for that - it just might look different than it does today.
How about you? Why do you choose to be a Data Scientist?


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About Agape Christian High School
We Are Your Partner
Agape Christian High School is the discipleship training center for your student. We want to join along side you and help disciple students physically, mentally, and spiritually. Our desire is to aid the church in its mission of making disciples and helping the family in their charge of, "training a child in the way they should go…"
Our History
In 2006, leaders of three Christian Southern Illinois schools decided that a regional Christian high school would be spiritually and educationally beneficial to area high school students. Agape Christian High School was born out of that idea. To that end, many area people of faith have given their time, labor, materials, and money to realize this vision.
Our Growth
Enrollment in the past 9 years has increased from 47 to 72 students and is growing more and more. The area served by Agape Christian High School has spread from Salem to Vienna and from Harrisburg to Gorham. The number of churches represented in our student body has grown to over 85 churches of various denominations. Agape has grown because there is a great need for quality Christian education for high school students. We want this growth to continue so that we can better provide Christian-based education that will impact our local churches and spread God's truth wherever our students go.


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What happens when a great nation -- and this is a great nation -- elects a ruler who is not up to the task of being president?
The answer is to be found in George W. Bush's memoirs, Decision Points -- a hastily written, jokey self-portrait that reveals far more than the former president perhaps intended. Shallow, ignorant, self-deluding and possessed of a fatal inferiority complex, he comes across as a friendly buffoon: which is desperately sad, at least for those of us who believe in America's role as "the indispensible nation" in a troubled time. Mr. Bush would have done well to read my American Caesars before publishing his own book, in order to see clearly his place in the pantheon of leaders of the western world. In doing so he would, belatedly, recognize the real, not feigned stature of his predecessors in office since the United States took on the role of guardian of democracy in World War II. Certainly, reading American Caesars, he would not, I think, have dared put himself forward as a worthy successor, given his fatally blinkered worldview, and all too generous view of himself.
If this sounds harsh, it is not because I despise George Bush the man; it is because I deplore what he did to America's position in the world, despite -- if we are to believe him -- his best intentions.
We have had, let us be frank, other presidents since Pearl Harbor who have not been famed for their brains. President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer, and then as Congressman for a quarter century. As I have chronicled, he was remiss in not preparing himself for the presidency during his period as Vice-President, which opened him to the machinations of ambitious apparatchiks like Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. But fortunately Congress was not called upon during his presidency (1974-1977) to decide whether to go to war; rather, it had to decide whether to abandon war -- and an ally, South Vietnam. Which, to Ford's credit, was the decision he made as president, however painful. Even Ronald Reagan, another C student, had spent a veritable lifetime (he was turning seventy when he became president) in politics -- indeed his obsession with political ideas and issues had cost him his first marriage, to Jane Wyman. Criss-crossing the country he switched from the Democratic to the Republican party, and made factory-floor speeches to GE employees that testified not only to his extraordinary skills as a communicator, but to his profound belief in the non-communist, capitalist system. It was that belief, not going to war, which earned him the sobriquet of the slayer of the Soviet Empire, which collapsed soon after his presidency.
By contrast, George W. Bush failed to complete his service in the U.S. Air National Guard, and evinced no interest in any political issues, domestic or foreign, during his brief career after college. His bid for a seat in Congress in 1978, posing as the son of a distinguished father and grandfather, failed ignominiously. In his new memoirs, President Bush credits his defeat in 1978 for his rise to later gubernatorial office and then the presidency -- a defeat that "was not was not easy for someone as competitive as I am. But it was an important part of my maturing."
Would that this maturation had involved grappling with the real issues that confronted America and the world in the 1990s! Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on "the economy, stupid" -- and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history. Yet, although he had worked for his father, in that election, George W. Bush drew only the lesson that his father was too soft -- and ought to have used the same techniques Atwater had perfected in 1988 when campaigning against Mike Dukakis: namely negative advertising and the politics of personal destruction.
Decision Points, understandably, neglects to mention this aspect of Bush's "maturation"; nor does the president mention the most controversial of his "initiatives" as Governor of Texas, once he beat the popular incumbent, Ann Richards, in 1994, during an historic anti-incumbent year: his authorization of the execution of more than 100 felons, plus his bill legalizing the wearing of concealed hand-guns.
Nevertheless, there can be no contesting that Bush proved popular in Texas. He was roguishly good-looking, with a truly beautiful wife, a school librarian; moreover he went out of his way to befriend Democrats who controlled the legislature, including the all-important Lieutenant Governor. But was that ever going to be enough to step into the shoes of national leaders like FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan, his father George H.W. Bush, or Bill Clinton? What possessed George Junior, we ask ourselves, reading a book of memoirs in which there is no serious discussion of any political issue before 2001, to imagine he could lead the world's most powerful nation -- a veritable empire by any other name?
Decision Points offers no explanation, other than Bush's "competitive" streak. Historians will argue for decades to come about his "stolen" election in December, 2000, and the reasons why Vice President Al Gore allowed his commanding early lead in polls to dissipate, but readers of President Bush's memoirs will obtain no further insight beyond the candidate's determination not to make any serious gaffes in the debates, and his surprise when Gore retracted his concession, once reports showed Gore might well win Florida's all-important electoral votes, not just the plurality of votes cast across the nation.
Consistent omission thus characterizes the early part of Decision Points -- and things do not get any better once we reach the White House. Bush has, by then, given his own version why he chose Dick Cheney as his Vice Presidential nominee, maintaining that Karl Rove spoke against the decision -- but he does not mention Cheney's nefarious skulduggery as Bush's appointed vetter of candidates for the position, which is so brilliantly -- and hauntingly -- recounted in Barton Gellman's book Angler (pages 14-30). Indeed what is perhaps the most remarkable omission of Bush's entire account of his life is his near-erasure of the role of Dick Cheney, who scarcely figures in Bush's version of his presidency.
The reason? I can only surmise it is because former President Bush does not wish to see himself as Cheney's poodle for much of his eight years in the White House -- just as Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain hated to be considered Cheney's poodle. Thus there is no mention in Decision Points of the first significant, steely issues of the Bush presidency which Vice President Cheney swiftly made his own: the decision to move ahead and ignore President-elect Bush's proclaimed desire for reconciliation after such a divisive, contested election, which after all had only been decided by the casting vote among nine justices in the Supreme Court; the decision to abandon global environmental concerns and pursue secret meetings among energy moguls; major decisions about tax cuts and the economy (wonderfully recounted by Ron Suskind in his book The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill); and national security amidst the growing threat of Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism (as narrated in Richard Clarke's book, Against All Enemies: Inside America's Wars on Terror).
Instead, the very first presidential mini-chapter of Decision Points is devoted to... yes, Stem Cells.
Stem Cells! No wonder the Bush Administration fell asleep at the imperial switch in 2001, ignoring mounting concerns about jihad and a major attack on America -- Bush demoting his counter-terrorism czar, and relying on his musically-gifted but less than competent new National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice. As I've written in American Caesars, Bush "had no business seeking to be leader of the free world. His wife begged him not to do it. He had virtually never traveled abroad, (save for a single trip to China to stay with his father in the 1970s, and one trip to Europe with a group of CEOs). As his national security adviser, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, a Stanford University professor, put it, he was conversant only with Mexico, across the border. 'He has on-the-ground experience there,' Dr Rice explained, 'which I would say is much more valuable than if he had been attending seminars at the Council on Foreign Relations for the last five years.' Guffaws of laughter contested her view."
What on earth was the 43rd President of the United States doing, posing as the Pope of America on stem cell research, while his invidious vice president took over the primary issues facing the U.S. government?
Paul O'Neill, Bush's first Treasury Secretary, was not the only one to be stunned by what amounted to a surreptitious palace coup by the vice president -- especially when, ten days after Bush's inauguration on January 30, 2001, "O'Neill was astonished to hear the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and the vice president, Dick Cheney, talking about invading Iraq."
Of this para-White House, there is, to be sure, no mention in Decision Points. The historian, indeed the serious voter or patriot, can only shake his or her head in despair at the latest confirmation, from President Bush's own pen, that the most powerful man in the world was not only an electoral fraud, arguably, but a political fraud: an emperor with no clothes -- the truth about his Cheney-led administration concealed from the public by a mix of secrecy, high security, and an unwillingness to face questioning that made a mockery of the word democratic government.
To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and "spin" news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it. George W. Bush's accession to the presidency, however, marked a new departure in presidential performance -- and one we see today in full form in Alaska: namely the deliberate protecting of the president (or would-be president) from critical media questioning, lest he or she be exposed as incompetent, or a dunce.
Political commentators and journalists have taken, and will continue to take issue with President Bush's account of his presidency, but for me, as an historian and biographer who has spent a lifetime charting both leadership and greatness (literary, military and political), President Bush's "decision" to go for national office without being willing to face tough questioning goes to the very heart of the fiasco that was his presidency. Thanks to this protective screen -- subsequently managed by Bush's loyal but challenged chiefs of staff, who were steamrollered by the vice president -- the public had had no idea what they were getting, beyond the son of the esteemed 41st president, who had so deftly managed the collapse of the Soviet Union and so carefully avoided a quagmire in Iraq, while forcing Saddam Hussein to withdraw his forces from Kuwait.
Even today we might not be certain we had the true picture of the 43rd president, before this book. It is in this respect that George W. Bush's work will be of value to historians -- for it is only with publication of Decision Points that we can be sure that, no, we have not misjudged or misunderstood the unfortunate president, who left office with the lowest poll rating of any holder of the office since polls began. Given the former President's famed inability to speak in public, as well as the way he was kept in a sort of purdah by his handlers, it is only now we have access to George W. Bush's thinking and attitudes, behind the eight-year long mask. And the result can be summarized, sadly, in a single word: risible.
President Bush's great "decision" on stem cells, he tells us proudly on page 125, was given out, "in August 2001" -- perhaps, he quotes an unnamed, admiring commentator, the "most important decision of my presidency." In fact it was August 9 of that year -- and his self-congratulation soon segueways into the central event and issue of his presidency, four weeks later, which the president admits hit him like a bombshell: 9/11.
A bombshell? Was the President asleep in national security meetings where ever more concerned warnings were issued, or was he merely thinking about the ethics of stem cell research? He asks us to believe his surprise and sudden "outrage" that "Someone had dared attack America."
Had the president ever bothered to travel abroad, or read political articles, or talked one single time to his counterterrorism czar, he would not have been so astonished -- and might well have led the nation, and the world, to a more measured response. One thinks, for example, of President Clinton in the wake of news of the Oklahoma City bombing, in 1995, and his maturity in leading the nation to a realization that terrorism can come from anti-U.S. government forces and militias within America, not just from without. Instead, thanks to the deliberately protective veil drawn around an incompetent and all too shallow candidate for the highest office, America found itself saddled with a president who, he freely admits in Decision Points, was driven not by rational intellect but by schoolboy venom. "Someone had dared attack America, They were going to pay..."
Thus the Bush Tragedy, as Jacob Weisberg titled his 2008 biography, unfolded -- with a child-like president, and a virtual madman in the background, urging not the pursuit of Osama bin Laden and his followers, but the invasion of Iraq!
I'd like to quote, if I may, American Caesars at this point. American Caesars charts the trials and tribulations of the twelve presidents who led America from the time of Pearl Harbor; in many ways it is a noble story, even when mistakes are made or presidents succumb to the pressures of their great office. But nothing in the sixty years following Pearl Harbor can match the sickening feeling one experiences as an historian when thinking back to September 2001, as the lessons and knowledge gained over six decades of world hegemony were simply cast aside, and "decisions" were made by a charming rogue, completely out of his depth, and by his deputy: a man of Shakespearean malevolence and blinkered, greed-obsessed vision.
In vain, that summer, after sending out word that 'al Qaeda is planning a major attack on us,' and having ordered all agencies onto high alert status, and having asked the FBI and CIA to report to the downgraded Counterterrorism Group everything they could find out about suspicious individuals or activity inside and outside the United States, Richard Clarke, as America's counter-terrorism chief, decided to confront the president's National Security Adviser, Dr. Rice, at the Principals meeting which she belatedly convened on September 4, 2001. There he asked her, in front of her colleagues, to put herself in her very own shoes "when in the very near future al Qaeda has killed hundreds of Americans," and to imagine asking herself what "you wish then that you had already done." On September 11, 2001, Clarke's fears were justified.
Neither the President nor Dr. Rice, nor the senior members of the Bush Administration, would ever admit afterwards to their somnambulance. Nor would any of them be brought to account. It made Clarke's blood boil... The [al-Qaeda] outrage achieved its object: the United States suffered more deaths that sunlit morning, in New York and Washington, than at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
As film and video of the collapsing Twin Towers at New York's World Trade Center were broadcast across the world, America went into shock. The President himself, sitting in on a class of second graders in a school in Sarasota, Florida, seemed as stunned as ordinary people. He appeared unable to comprehend the video footage of an aircraft flying into a high-rise building in Manhattan, playing on a television screen as he went into the classroom, or the news whispered to him, some minutes later, that a second plane had crashed into the second of the World Trade Center towers. Vice President Cheney was equally stunned.
The news came as no surprise, however, to the demoted counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who knew immediately the organization behind the attack.
The President's message to the nation and the world, written by Karen Hughes and videotaped on board Air Force One, was forceful in asserting that the United States would not be intimidated by terrorists. Yet when President Bush finally spoke, for the very first time in his presidency, to Richard Clarke the next evening in the Situation Room, it was to make what seemed an amazing presidential request. "Look," the President explained to Clarke and his colleagues, "I know you have a lot to do and all, but I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way...."
Clarke, who had scarcely slept or eaten in two days as he grounded the nation's air traffic and attempted to thwart possible follow-up terrorist attacks, was "taken aback, incredulous," he recalled. "But Mr. President, al-Qaeda did this," he protested. "I know, I know," the President said, "but ... see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know..."
Dutifully, Clarke did so -- suspecting the President must already, in the space of a few hours, have been "gotten at' by the madmen controlling National Security: Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz -- men who had, on the very night of the attack, held meetings not to avert further terrorism, or pursue al-Qaeda, but "discussions about Iraq."
Vice President Cheney had advised the President to stay out of Washington, in a "secure location" -- a euphemism for cowardice. To his credit, the President had insisted on returning to the White House, joined by the First Lady -- but the Vice President, who hid away for the next weeks, would not thereby allow his obsession with Iraq to be defused or sidelined. As in a surrealist science fiction, Cheney continue to participate in all discussions via "secure video" communications -- encouraging Bush to see the 9/11 attack not as the premeditated plot of perverted Islamic terrorists answering to Osama bin Laden, but as a global casus belli. George W. Bush could then become the war leader of the American empire.
The President needed little persuasion. Without consulting his Secretary of State, President Bush announced to assembled reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on September 12, 2001, that the "deliberate and deadly attacks" on New York were "more than acts of terror. They were acts of war." America would respond with full-scale war -- a "monumental struggle between good and evil" in which, if other countries did not join the U.S., "we'll go it alone."
Had the last half-century of American experience as the leader of the free, democratic nations of the world, with decades of diplomacy and careful nurturing of allies, been discarded overnight? Half an hour later, when the President again used the word "war," the new Senate Majority Leader, Democratic Senator Tom Daschle, cautioned that, "War is a powerful word." The President ignored him -- and it was left to 83 year-old Senator Robert Byrd, president pro tempore of the Senate, to warn that Congress would not give the "blank check" it had given Lyndon Johnson over the Tonkin incident -- pulling from his pocket a copy of the U.S. Constitution to prove his point. Any riposte, to obtain congressional approval under the Constitution, would have to be targeted on al-Qaeda -- not take America to war on a massive, open-ended scale like Vietnam.
Undeterred, President Bush attended a fateful National Security Council meeting at 4 p.m. that day. "Why shouldn't we go against Iraq, not just Al Qaeda," Rumsfeld asked the President. "... It was left to Secretary Powell to bring the meeting, which was advocating something very close to treason in its indifference to the need for Congress to approve such a war, back to its senses. (American Caesars, pages 493 to 494)
Sadly, nothing in George W. Bush's evasive memoir, Decision Points, contradicts this account -- save his concealment of Vice President Cheney's part in the "plot against America," pace Philip Roth. Far from questioning his own gut-motivated rush to war, in retrospect, President Bush casts himself as a noble warrior, astride his horse, in the manner of a modern Genghis Khan. With each page his self-portrait becomes more emotive, less anchored in fact or perspective -- such as his retrospective claim that all intelligence showed Saddam Hussein as harboring weapons of mass destruction, in 2003.
All? The former president never asks himself whether he acted too hastily, on too little evidence, and above all, without regard for the consequences -- for the truth is, greed had mixed with revenge. The word in Washington, I recall, was that there was a killing to be made by the likes of Halliburton, once we invaded and took possession of Iraq, with its rich oil reserves.
Instead, the killing would be both civil and, within weeks of the invasion, military. The "liberation" led almost immediately to a fierce anti-American guerrilla war - -fanning the flames of anti-Americanism across the entire Muslim world, and providing more and more recruits for al-Qaeda, not less.
At some level I believe Bush to be a man of compassion, and the great virtue of his book is, without doubt, his refusal to throw mud, or engage in vindictive asides at his critics or Democrats -- which will make it very difficult for Dick Cheney to indulge in more sneering venom when he recovers from his latest heart problems and publishes his own memoirs. Or Donald Rumsfeld. But are we to excuse the worst presidential performance in the last seventy years because the president meant well, once he had, by hook and by crook, managed to get to the White House - and once Senator Kerry's bid for the presidency in 2004 had been destroyed in a hail of "Swift Boats For Truth" assassinatory blitz, reminiscent of George W. Bush and Atwater at their "competitive" worst, in 1988?
Many thousands of brave American soldiers in uniform have died in Afghanistan and Iraq, because the 43rd President refused to listen to his Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, who warned him that by "breaking it" one would be subsequently responsible for "fixing it" -- and that, without an exit strategy, mass invasions, however temporarily successful, were bound to end badly -- as many a dictator had found.
Urged by Vice President Cheney and their "Vulcans," President Bush went ahead with his Iraq invasion, however, like a man demented -- and all these years later, we are dealing with the consequences. The Bush Tragedy, in other words, became our tragedy. I applaud President Bush for the civil tone of his memoirs, even if -- like every memoirist as distinct from confessional, self-questioning autobiographer -- his account is, throughout, a collection of anecdotes and impressions he wants to remember, rather than a searching account of what actually took place. It pains me, however, to have to remind our former president of this: that by his willful and reckless conduct as president - particularly in assenting to the takeover of his administration's key elements by Vice President Cheney and the Vulcans -- George W. Bush not only failed the test of greatness, but recklessly endangered America's commanding position and role throughout the world, as well as giving rise to the worst disaster-response in recent American history during the 2005 Katrina debacle, ending the anti-regulatory excesses of his administration with an economic meltdown that had not been experienced since the 1930s.
Almost two thousand Americans lost their lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi; in Iraq and Afghanistan almost six thousand American soldiers have now lost their lives - and tens of thousands have been wounded, many of them now disabled. In other words, for all his retrospective bonhomie, President Bush, along with Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and their Vulcan cohort, bear tragic blood on their hands. Though Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney, as well as Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair and other men responsible for the debacle in Iraq, stand to make millions of dollars from their triumphalist memoirs, they should be held accountable. Even if they are not indicted or required to do penance, they should, in my view, be made to donate their book royalties -- or blood monies -- to the rehabilitation clinics serving the maimed and suffering survivors of their much-vaunted "decisions."
Karl Rove, as President Bush's senior political adviser and deputy chief of staff in the White House, boasted that, with the declaration of war on terror, the Republican party would have a lock on electoral victory forever.
It was that kind of hubris that led to catastrophe -- with such senseless casualties. It played into Osama bin Laden's delighted hands, while tying ours for years to come. Before we ever make that mistake again, in my humble opinion as a citizen and as an historian, we must be more careful that we entrust ultimate, presidential power and authority only to prospective leaders who are not masked and protected from critical questioning when seeking power, but who are truly accountable to the electorate. No more free passes given by a craven and trivia-distracted press! If a candidate will not agree to critical questioning, to judge his or her knowledge and ability, then the media should decline to cover the candidate. The stakes are too high and the future of our country are too important to repeat the mistakes of 2000 and 2004.
It is for this reason that I hope and pray our 44th President and thirteenth Caesar -- so rational, calm, thoughtful and cautious -- will stand again in 2012.


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It seems like grief sneaks up on us during times when we least expect it. The overwhelming array of feelings attached can seem unbearable so what do we do? We avoid it altogether.
Take a moment, if you will, and ask yourself this: "Do I ever really make time to grieve over ANYTHING?" In American culture especially, we are encouraged to always appear as though our lives are perfect so much so that we have created a generation who is addicted to taking a dozen selfies of themselves every five minutes.While I poke fun at millennials, in all seriousness, they are simply mirroring our reality. Most of us hate dealing with grief. I know I do…
I would rather eat my grief with a big bowl of something unhealthy, while others would prefer to watch porn, or shop until they are broke, or play video games, or stare at Facebook, or fill in the blank. The reality is that we grieve all the time. We grieve when a friendship ends, when our children face challenges or experience a loss of some kind, or when we feel at war with the world. We also grieve over the obvious: Death, which includes the literal ending of one's life, as well as the death of a marriage, one's career, one's identity as they knew it in their addiction, and we grieve over losing our addiction. This is true. Starting recovery is really hard; it is ok to grieve your addiction. That is a normal part of reality. We grieve when we realize our parents weren't all we thought they were (even if we know they did the best they could), we grieve if our parents become ill or start to change as a result of say, dementia. We grieve if a pet dies. We grieve when we realize that we aren't getting any younger. We grieve when our kids grow up and leave the house. We grieve at the end of the year when we realize goals and dreams were left unfulfilled. Indeed, we grieve for all kinds of reasons…But there is something really powerful when we actually take time to schedule an appointment with grief.
We heal from it.
Here is the question: Can we overcome the fear and let ourselves actually grieve, and, what is the fear anyway? The fear attached to grieving is that we are often terrified of actually feeling the sadness. For so many of us, actually feeling the pain can be extremely daunting (hence why so many of us are in recovery from an addiction(s). But you won't die from feeling your pain or sadness or anxiety. It may feel incredibly intense and overwhelming for a bit, but I promise you, you won't die. And, I also promise you, you are not alone in your feelings. That is another fear, being alone in our grief, which can feel like such a terrifying place. But you are never alone. We all can relate to the feeling.So, how do you schedule time to grieve, whatever it is that you are grieving?
- Put it on your calendar. That's right. Literally, schedule time. Start with 5 minutes of reflection or journalling. Increase it to 10, 15, and so on.
- Have a conversation with the person or thing that you are grieving, even if they have passed. You can do this in your head, in your journal, type it in your phone
- Share your grief with a safe person: a therapist, group, friend, family member. You will be amazed who else is grieving.
- Self care. Grieving is hard and as we have already established, no one likes to do it. So be gentle on yourself.
- Let yourself cry. Ball your eyes out if you need to. You won't die from doing this (even if it feels like you will). Get it out.
- Don't schedule one time; make it a ritual. With letting go comes letting in. So practice this often.
Learning how to allow ourselves the time we deserve to grieve is daunting at first. However, in time it becomes more manageable. By doing so we open ourselves up to the richness that life has to offer….by feeling our grief we allow the joy and sunshine in tenfold.
Please remember what beautiful souls you are. You are not alone and you are loved.
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If you are looking for a novel that will grip you from the first sentence and leave you wanting more after you've finished, Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer should be the next book you read. And we are giving away a copy of this fantastic debut novel! Just leave a comment and you'll be entered to win! The contest will close on Thursday, August 21st at 8am PST.
The scoop: Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy's mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.
Liz & Lisa's Book Club: Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer
First, thanks for having me! Congratulations to both of you on the success of Your Perfect Life!
1. How did you think of the idea for FIVE DAYS LEFT?
I lost a friend to cancer a few years ago. In the last nine months, she knew she was going to die, and I could not fathom how it was that she could be so brave in facing her last moments with her family. I was knocked flat, really, by what she was going through, and what it must be like for her to know she wouldn't be there to see her kids grow up. I decided to write about someone dealing with a fatal, incurable disease in order to both explore the feelings my friend might have had and to honor her bravery, and her life. I chose Huntington's because I didn't want (or believe I had any right) to write my friend's story. Five Days Left is not biographical in any sense.
I wanted to give Mara a break from her difficult situation, and adding the online group allowed me to do that. I am actually a member of an anonymous online group and it's always intrigued me, how we feel so close to each other and share very intimate things, but have never met. When I was casting around in my imagination for an online friend who Mara could become close to, Scott materialized, as did his job as a middle school teacher and coach. I decided to make Scott a limited guardian (similar to a foster parent, though with distinct differences not important here) because I am a stepparent, and the roles are similar--stepparents and temporary guardians care for, make sacrifices for, and deeply love, children whose future isn't in our control. I wanted to explore the challenges and benefits of that kind of relationship, since I live with those challenges and benefits every day.
2. Was there one particular storyline that was easier/harder to write and why?
This is a good and straightforward question, for which I have a not-so-good or straightforward answer. On one hand, it was definitely harder for me to write Scott's chapters because those are obviously from a guy's point of view, and I am a woman. I had to run bits of Scott's dialogue or inner thought past my husband a few times, to make sure it passed "the guy test"--often it didn't, and thank goodness for my husband setting me straight! On the other hand, I found Mara's chapters very challenging because I don't have Huntington's and am not an expert on it, but I was obsessive in my intent to portray it accurately. So, while I was writing her chapters, I was constantly worried about whether I was getting the disease right, double checking my research, calling my experts back to run over something another time, etc. In the end, I loved having two story lines because if I was stuck on one, I could simply flip over to the other. And when Mara's got emotional, I could switch to Scott's for a bit of a reprieve--something I hope readers will enjoy.
3. This is your debut novel (congrats as you've received high praise!). Can you tell us a little about your journey to publication?
Thank you very much! My journey to publication was one of premature querying, many mistakes and, finally, a tremendous amount of luck. I wrote a terrible first draft and pitched it (prematurely) at a writer's conference in the summer of 2011. Those pitches went nowhere but I met some great friends at the conference, and I figured out that the book needed huge revisions.
After the conference, I rewrote the book and queried it. I was extremely lucky to receive a revise and resubmit request (R&R) early on, from an agent who took the time to speak with me about the changes she thought FDL required. She ended up giving me two chances to revise and resubmit, which means she read the book three times--to this day, I remain blown away by her generosity. She ultimately passed, but thanks to her, I had a much more polished manuscript.
However, instead of querying more, I decided in August 2012 to shelve FDL. It had been a year, I had spent hours revising it and had sent almost 100 queries, none of which led to an offer. I was ready to call it a "practice novel" and move on. So, when I received an R&R from Victoria Sanders later that month, I considered not even responding. Thankfully, my husband urged me to sleep on it and reconsider. I did both, and ended up doing another 6-month gut-and-rewrite.
I sent my revision to Victoria at the end of January 2013. She called five days later to offer representation. Twenty-one days after that, she sold it at auction, to Amy Einhorn, who at the time had an imprint at Putnam. After the long slog of revision and rejection, the speed at which I ended up with an agent and a book deal made my head spin.
In fact, my husband and I were on a (rare) kids-free vacation when the interest started coming in from different editors, and the combination of the tropical location, the freedom from kid-related obligations and the all-inclusive nature of the resort (i.e., bubbly flowing 24/7) already made the week feel dreamlike. When we added daily calls with editors to the mix, it became completely surreal, and we spent the week shaking our heads at each other in disbelief. When we finally returned to the cold, snowy, four-teenager reality of our life in Michigan, we kept asking each other, "Did all of that really just happen?"
4. Have you thought about how you would spend your last five days? Or what have you learned from writing this book?
Oooh, great question! I have definitely thought about this, thanks to my friend and to the hours I spent getting to know Mara. I have absolutely learned some things about myself through writing Mara's story. What I have learned is that I don't have a long Bucket List of things I want to do and places I want to see. I appreciate the existence of the Great Wall, for example, but if I never see it, that will be fine with me. What matters to me are the five people I live with--my wonderful husband and our four amazing children. If I had five days left, I would spend them with those five people, telling them how terrific I think they are, and how much of a privilege it has been to spend these years with them, and hugging them every second I could.
5. Are you working on another book? If so, can you share any details?
My second book deals with estranged families, step parenting and the terrible practice of "rehoming," where people who no longer want their adopted children advertise them on the Internet. As you can imagine, the wrong kind of person can respond to the ad and the children can end up in awful situations. The book is very different from Five Days Left, but as I expect every book I write will do, it raises a lot of "What would you do?" questions, and it explores different forms of "family" and how families get through (or don't get through) various challenges.
Thanks again for having me!
Thank YOU, Julie!


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Immediate Action Needed: Stop Ineffective Sentencing Bill
Illinois lawmakers will vote Monday morning on a bill that would enhance Illinois' already harsh sentencing policies, but not reduce violence. This proposal is a continuation of harmful public policies that studies have shown are ineffective.
Take action now and send an email to your state representatives to oppose legislation that will increase sentences for second time gun possession but not make our communities safer.
The Illinois General Assembly will convene for the "Lame Duck" session on Monday, January 9, 2017. One of the bills that legislators will consider is SB 1824 HFA 6. This legislation is worse than a mandatory minimum proposal because it is a sentencing hike added to existing mandatory minimums, more than doubling them and turning them into presumptive maximum sentences.
Research shows that tougher sentences have not and will not deter gun violence and enhance public safety. Nonetheless, Illinois has increased gun possession sentences six times since 2000, tripling the number of people in prison for possessing a weapon. Still, we have experienced record levels of violence. As part of our Platform for Renewal for FORCE, we oppose any new legislation that expands mandatory minimums or enhances Illinois' already harsh sentencing policies.
There are more effective options lawmakers can take to reduce violence. We joined nearly 50 organizations supporting Building a Safe Chicago: Calling for a Comprehensive Plan to Reduce Violence, which allows for a public health approach, regulation of illegal gun flow, tailored sentencing, effective policing, and economic development.
Illinois lawmakers need to stop passing piecemeal sentencing laws that are unlikely to increase public safety, but will instead increase Illinois' overcrowded and expensive prison system. Take action now and send an email to your legislators to oppose SB 1824 HFA 6.


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A Co.Donegal man is to stand trial at Derry Crown Court accused of committing a lewd and disgusting act on a bus.
Patrick Gavin Porter, of Grange, Inch Island, is charged with exposure and committing an act outraging public decency.
The charges relate to an alleged incident on a bus on June 22, last year.
During a brief hearing at the city's magistrates court, the 38-year-old declined to say anything in answer to the charges or to call any evidence.
Defence solicitor Paddy McGurk accepted there is a case for his client to answer.
Porter was released on continuing bail to appear in court again on February 26.


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