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Six months since Haiyan, Konno donates money for Philippine rebuildingMay 8, 2014
Japanese actress and writer Misako Konno has donated 1 million yen (approximately US$ 10,200) to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to help rebuild the Philippines following devastating Typhoon Haiyan.
The announcement comes on the six month anniversary of the disaster, which killed over 6,200 people and displaced more than 4 million from their homes when it made landfall in the Philippines' Eastern Samar province on 8 November last year. More than 1,000 people are still listed as missing.
"UNDP is doing a great deal to help the people of the Philippines who have been affected by this terrible storm," said Ms. Konno today. "By helping to meet the immediate needs of affected communities, kick-start recovery through the removal of debris and waste, and generate emergency employment – they are helping to create conditions for long-term recovery and sustainable development. I am very proud of my association with UNDP. I hope that my contribution will draw attention to continued recovery efforts in the country and, combined with other donations from around the world, empower the people to build a resilient society."
As well as donating her own money, Ms. Konno has also worked since the outset of the deadly storm to raise awareness about UNDP's efforts to rebuild the devastated region.
"We are very thankful to Ms. Konno and her hard work as a Goodwill Ambassador - raising awareness about poverty and development issues," said Maurice Dewulf, UNDP Philippines Country Director. "Her work to help make people aware of the devastation faced by those in the Philippines has been amazing. This sizable donation, combined with her long-term support for UNDP for many years now shows true dedication to the cause of sustainable development."
Ms. Konno is one of many UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors who have helped raise awareness about the plight of communities affected by Haiyan – and efforts to rebuild and recover. In April, soccer stars Marta Vieira da Silva, Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane joined a host of other well-known footballers in a benefit match – the 11th Match Against Poverty, which raised over US$ 190,000 for UNDP's recovery efforts in the Philippines.
Misako Konno made her debut in 1979, appearing in various television programmes, movies and stage productions and is well-known in Japan, where she regularly delivers public lectures at schools and events advocating the importance of Japanese international cooperation. Since becoming a Goodwill Ambassador in 1998, Ms. Konno has paid official visits to many countries to promote UNDP's activities. She recently published a book of essays "La La La Shinzentaishi (Goodwill Ambassador)," and is the longest-serving UNDP Goodwill Ambassador. Ms Konno received the Japan Writer's Prize in Women's Literary Category for her science essay "Sora Tobu Hotate" (English title: "The Flying Scallop") in 1995.


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Twinsie Tuesday - Crackle Manicure
Today is Twinsie Tuesday!!
For today's theme, we were to wear a crackle polish.
The polish I chose for today was sent to me by the lovely Amanda of amandalandish. A little while back she had a spring themed manicure contest, and I was one of the winners!! :D
Now for those of you who know me, I have been very back and forth about crackle polish. When I was first introduced to it (I think in the late 90's), I thought it was a pretty bad-ass idea!
Then, when it came out again last year or so, I didn't like it as much.
Well! When I got these Pure Ice Remix polishes in the mail and tried them on, it was love! :D I seriously adore these Pure Ice polishes!!! I got the turquoise-y pair, and when I put the black over the white, it was faint, but pretty. :) Then, when I put topcoat over it, it magically transformed and made the turquoise colouring even more deep and beautiful!! :D
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I added little red hearts with acrylic paint. :D
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I think this turned out great. I love the Pure Ice Remix polishes. I have them all except this one and the pink. Hopefully I will find those, too.ReplyDelete
I love those hearts!!ReplyDelete
@ JennaFroggy: Thank you so much!!ReplyDelete
Oooh lucky!! :D Oh wow I would love to have the pink one and green one and... lol XD. I really hope you find those last two too!! :D
@ Amanda: Thank you very much!!! :D
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omg I LOVE the hearts!!!ReplyDelete
lovely combo! love the heartsReplyDelete
OK.. if I could get my crackle manis to turn out like this.. I would love them!! Love the hearts Ash!ReplyDelete
Aww, broken (or almost broken) hearts - nice mani!ReplyDelete
Very cool! I like the little hearts it gives it a nice touchReplyDelete
Love the accents!ReplyDelete
I love that you did your crackle in all different directions! Very cool!ReplyDelete
I looove the little hearts!!ReplyDelete
the hearts are so cute! I've looking for these and I haven't seen them in stores yet.ReplyDelete
Ohhhhhh. This is so cute!ReplyDelete
Lovely mani as usual hun x :-)ReplyDelete
I like this with the hearts on top, very pretty! :)ReplyDelete
Aw how fun! I love your cute little hearts <3<3ReplyDelete
Yes they are amazing!! I really was on the fence about crackle as well, but I feel you can do interesting things with it sometimes - just have to be creative - a la YOU! HahaReplyDelete
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@ The Collegiate Nail: Ahahah!! Thank you Brandi!! :D
@ Marias Nail Art: :D!! Thank you!!! :D
@ Norelis Ocasio: Thank you so much, Nory!! :D
@ Meredith Anne: Thank you so much Meredith!! :D
@ Chelsea: :D!! I'm surprised that anyone could notice that!!! :D
@ HaulOfFame: :D Thank you!!!! :D
@ ChiChi: I hope that you can find them!! The only reason why I have these is because they were sent to me :D.
@ GoingtotheShowing: Aw, thank you, Anna!!! :D
@ CharlieDBeauty: :'D Thank you so much!!! :D
@ ScarsLikeLace: Thank you!!!! :D
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When the first Frontier Airlines jet kicking off regular service at Memphis International Airport arrives Friday, March 7, from Denver at gate C7, it will symbolize just how much the airport has changed. It is also an indication of how the airport continues to evolve.
The latest sign of the evolving Memphis International Airport comes as Frontier Airlines kicks off service Friday, March 7. American Airlines/US Airways has also announced three daily flights to Philadelphia.
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The new Frontier service begins a day after American Airlines/US Airways announced it will add three daily nonstop flights between Memphis and Philadelphia starting June 5.
American and US Airways completed their merger in December.
US Airways launched Memphis-Washington, D.C., air service a year ago this month, pre-merger, in the first indication that cuts in air service by Delta Air Lines at Memphis had caught the attention of other carriers.
It's been six years since Frontier has been in the Memphis air travel market, and what happened during Frontier's first attempt to enter the Memphis market in 2007 was a vivid lesson in the politics of a "fortress hub" airport.
At the time, Memphis International was a hub of Northwest Airlines and, later, Delta Airlines.
Frontier saw opportunities, and Northwest responded to the competition by temporarily dropping fares on the same service. Frontier pulled out of Memphis International Airport in less than a year.
The message resonated with other domestic discount carriers, which were hesitant to establish ties to Memphis even as the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority tried to recruit them and Delta began massive cuts to its service over several years as a prelude to closing its Memphis hub last year.
Frontier, which announced its Memphis re-entry in October, will start with four scheduled flights a week at the airport. But the Denver-based airline has already announced it will increase that to daily service starting in June.
"So that certainly bodes well for the business they've been able to do since they announced they were coming back," said Glen Thomas, spokesman for the airport authority.
The American Airlines/US Airways announcement makes June a milestone month as Memphis International Airport continues to have a significantly smaller passenger service footprint but a clear departure from what the airport has been for decades.
Frontier Airlines representative Katie O'Malley said the recent changes at Memphis International were the motivation for a re-entry into the Memphis market, then an expansion announcement even before the re-entry, prompted by bookings after the October announcement.
"The decision that really drove that was the affordable fares that were currently in the market," she said. "We saw an opportunity for residents in the area to take advantage of our ultra-low fares."
In 2007, connecting flights comprised the majority of airport passenger traffic. Today, the bulk is origin-and-destination traffic – passengers who are flying to or departing Memphis.
Delta featured more than 300 scheduled daily flights just before the first round of cuts to its Memphis service in 2011. The cuts came close behind several expansions of Delta service in 2010.
With an initial 20 percent cut in flight activity at Memphis International Airport, Delta consolidated its operations in Concourse B, leaving other gates open and unused.
By the pre-Delta rollback standards, four or five nonstop flights a week might not sound like much. But Memphis International Airport operates on a different scale these days.
The airport's January numbers show 86 daily flights compared with 134 a year earlier. Twenty-seven of the 86 were flights by major airlines, including 15 by Delta, six by American and US Airways and six by Southwest Airlines.
The American and US Airways flights are still listed separately as the integration of the two companies, post merger continues.
There were twice as many regional or commuter daily flights.
But daily flights by major carriers accounted for more than half of the 265,134 passengers for January. That compares with 379,059 in January 2012.
On an annual basis, the airport dipped below 10 million passengers in 2011 with the first round of Delta cuts, posting 8.7 million passengers, a 12.6 percent drop from 2010.
In 2012, the number of passengers dropped to 6.7 million – a bigger percentage annual drop of 22.7 percent.
And for 2013, Memphis International Airport statistics showed 4.5 million passengers for the year, down 31.9 percent from 2012.
Last month, the airport authority board approved a $114 million consolidation of airport functions into Concourse B, the site of Delta's original consolidation four years ago.
Ticket counters will remain in all three concourses, but the consolidation includes demolishing about 25 percent of the airport's gates overall.
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Tonight Amazon made a milestone release introducing the ability to boot instances from an EBS volume and stop and start instances. In addition, just a few weeks after announcing plans to expand AWS to the Far East, today it has moved west and made a U.S. West Coast cloud available. (Does Amazon need a compass?) For the AWS view on all this see Werner's Blog as well as Jeff Barr's postings. But one thing at a time...
Amazon Introduces US West Coast Cloud
Almost exactly a year after the first geographical expansion of EC2 to Europe today is the second big step to the West Coast. What is notable about the EC2 architecture is that each one of these expansions constitutes a new cloud or "region" in EC2 speak. This means that now in addition to the US-EAST-1 and EU-WEST-1 regions we have a new US-WEST-1 region. Each region operates autonomously from the others in order to provide failure isolation, which has benefits as well as downsides. A major benefit is obviously the redundancy one can get by operating in more than one region or placing DR in a region other than the one used for one's primary service. The downside is that sharing across regions is not as easy as one might imagine. For example, machine images (AMIs) are not shared, so for each image you're using in one region you have to copy and re-register the image in the other, and then it has a different id you need to keep track of and reference. We didn't plan it this way, but our multi-cloud support turns out to be very helpful in managing operations in multiple EC2 regions. For example, in RightScale you can define ServerTemplates that use different images in different clouds, this means that as you update your ServerTemplate it automatically works across clouds and thus EC2 regions.
For redundant operations the comparison between the cloud and DIY datacenters is becoming ever more lopsided. Who can really afford to lose the man-hours, the cap-ex, the time-to-market, and incur the headaches it takes to set up a datacenter from scratch, even if it's in a traditional colo? And who can afford to go through all that again to set up a second or DR site? The ease with which it is now possible to set-up a DR site in the cloud that is a faithful replica of the primary site is really remarkable. And the best is that the second site can be extremely low cost because very little needs to be running there: most of it can be fired up on-demand in the case something happens. If you already have your own datacenter/colo set-up then all hope is not lost. Setting up DR in the cloud is one of the common use cases we see.
Amazon Instances Boot from EBS
The real sea change about to occur in EC2 is booting from EBS. Tonight's release includes a ton of new features which build on the recently introduced ability to publish EBS snapshots. Here's a quick summary:
- instances can boot from an EBS snapshot instead of a traditional AMI, EC2 creates an EBS volume from the snapshot and makes it the root partition
- instances can also boot from an EBS volume, which means that a "boot from EBS" instance can effectively be stopped and restarted later by keeping the volume around and launching a fresh instance from the same volume
- instances can now be stopped and restarted later, which works almost exactly as described in the bullet above except for the fact that the instance id (the i-12345678 number) remains the same
- almost all attributes of an instance can change while stopped, including the instance size (naturally the availability zone is one thing that can't change)
- EBS snapshots can be registered and published as images, so now we have "traditional images" as well as "EBS images" (I wonder what AWS will call these)
- images can specify snapshots and volumes to be automatically mounted at boot, and they can specify EIPs to be attached at boot, the run-instances API call can add/override these "image defaults"
- instances can be "locked", which prevents their accidental termination
- instances can be bundled into images using an API call (with shutdown or optionally without)
That's a long list of features to digest! What's going on here is that AWS is responding to the needs of enterprise customers who have many 'legacy' applications that are not designed to scale out or to play nice with the operations agility enabled by the cloud. It's for the apps that sysadmins spend weeks setting up and then do their utmost not to touch again. Now they can be installed on an EBS root volume and servers can be launched and relaunched as needed without having to touch the config. Basically this enables the old-school way of managing servers to be applied to EC2.
But these new features are also of great benefit to those operating scalable arrays of servers or Web 2.0 websites. It is now much easier to make changes to a clean server image: mount the image as a volume onto an extra server, edit the software/config on the image (e.g. using chroot and the native packaging system), when happy create an image from the volume and boot a server. Test it out and fix any problems in the original volume. Repeat until happy. If done correctly, this results in clean images that are not polluted by repeated boots and other operations, which is one goal we've always pursued with the RightImages we publish.
The stopping and starting of servers can also make development more cost effective. Developers that use dev and test servers can stop them at the end of the day and start them back up when they next need them. In fact, many servers could be set-up to stop by themselves if there has been no activity for a while. (This reminds me that I saw that the three longest-running instances visible by RightScale have been running for more than a thousand days and that the account they run in has seen no activity since then, except for credit card charges I assume. Impressive and scary at the same time!)
Stopping and starting servers can also be abused. For example, it can be used to implement "dumb auto-scaling": simply stop some servers when the load drops and start them back up later. The good thing is that you don't end up with fresh servers on start, so they don't have to self-configure. The bad thing is, well, that you don't end up with fresh servers, servers come up believing the world hasn't changed since they were last stopped. I think of this as abuse because it's easy to forget to update one of the stopped servers when making changes to the system, whether these are changes to the software installed on each server or changes to the rest of the system each server needs to communicate with. In other words, the danger of having a zombie come back to life and create mayhem is high. Better keep a basic amount of hygiene and start with fresh servers.
The Cloud Marches On...
It will be interesting to see how EC2 and its user base continue to evolve. With each release Amazon offers more options. That's more ways to do interesting stuff, but also more ways to shoot oneself in the foot and more stuff to 'grok' to get started. Maybe the most important, though, is that the Boot from EBS features rank very high on the "remove sales objections" scale: not every application is ready for the former EC2 cloud, not every sysadmin is ready for it either, by far not. I have to admit that all this leaves me with mixed feelings. EC2 used to have a simple & clean model, it required some rethinking but that was for the better. It was clear how to deploy highly scalable, highly redundant applications with a high degree of automation. Now that there are 10 ways to skin the proverbial cat it's much harder to stay on track and to leverage automation. Where early customers needed help figuring out how to operate in the world of EC2's disposable servers today's customers need help just navigating through all the options available in EC2 and which to apply to each application or use case.
Support for the new features and the new US-WEST region in RightScale will become available with our next release, currently scheduled to go live just before Christmas. Full support for booting from EBS will take a little longer as it has far-reaching implications. I'm sure that many of our customers will be operating in the new west region and that it may even have some appeal to those in the far east and south pacific as "one step closer" to a local presence. As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the new features, how you're planning to use them, and how you'd like to see us support them.
- AWS now gives each region a little local character: US-WEST-1 is listed as "N. California", US-EAST-1 as "N. Virginia", and "EU-WEST-1" as "Ireland".
- Nice blog post on some of the mechanics of using Boot from EBS by Shlomo Swidler (but see comment below)
- Some things you can't do with traditional AMIs: start & stop instance, create image (new way of bundling)
- Some things you can't do with EBS-based AMIs: dev pay, protect the content of public AMIs (someone can mount the content as a data volume and pull files off it)
- If you plan to create a public EBS-based AMI beware of deleted files: don't just "delete" files with sensitive data on the volume because they can be "undeleted", you have to erase the blocks, or better, not put anything sensitive there in the first place


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) announced its All-Conference teams on Tuesday and the Engineers earned three selections after advancing to their first championship final appearance in league history. Junior Jason Witzberger led the way with the program's third First Team selection and first since 2003.
Senior Wayne Duggan and sophomore Kevin Wheeler also earned Second Team All-Conference citations to give MIT three overall selections for the third consecutive season. While Witzberger's honor was the second in a row for Tech's starting center fielder, Duggan became the third player in school history to earn All-Conference honors three times as he was a Second Team pick following the 2004 and 2005 campaigns.
Wheaton junior catcher Adam Laplante was named NEWMAC Player of the Year while Wheaton head coach Eric Podbelski was named NEWMAC Coach of the Year as the conference champions Lyons took two of the four major awards. Coast Guard senior pitcher Mike Jarbeau earned accolades as Pitcher of the Year while WPI freshman pitcher, Conor Fahey, earned Rookie of the Year honors. Laplante hit .346 with seven homers and 29 RBI's. Jarbeau, who tied the single-season school record and led the NEWMAC with 84 strikeouts was 6-3 with a 2.77 ERA. Fahey was 5-2 with a 2.54 ERA and was second in the league with 74 strikeouts.
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Students in the School of Arts and Humanities enjoy a variety of opportunities to conduct research with their distinguished faculty. It's a great way to dive deeply into the subject and also develops skills that can be used in any discipline.
Research Brings History to Life
Interns from the History Department teamed up with The Archives & Special Collections to transcribe and publish the Joseph Blanchard Property Record Ledger. The 84-page parchment-bound ledger is attributed to the New Hampshire surveyor Captain Joseph Blanchard and dates roughly from 1734 to 1756. This rare document contains property records relating to the colony of New Hampshire and serves as an insightful piece of 18th-century colonial American history. The transcription project will conserve, microfilm, and digitize the Blanchard Ledger and make it accessible to researchers. The collaboration between the History Department and the Archives & Special Collections provides more internship opportunities for students in the field of archives and public history.
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English and history major Brian Watson's paper, "Crossdressing, Crossculture: Conceptions and Perceptions of Crossdressing in Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London," was published in the fall 2012 issue of Metamorphosis, the Council on Public Liberal Arts College's (COPLAC) online journal of undergraduate research. Brian's research explores the issue of crossdressing as a common ground on which to explore Spanish and English cultures in three dimensions: on the stage, as a literary device, and as done by actual historical figures. Brian is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Intellectual and Cultural History at Drew University in NJ. Elementary education and communications major Anna Peterson's paper, "The Role of Organizational Culture in Donor Recruitment at the American Red Cross," was also published in the same issue of COPLAC's Metamorphosis. Her work looks at how government and the nonprofit sector in New Hampshire play a significant role in "preserving and enhancing the quality of life for NH residents." Anna is currently a permanent substitute teacher in the Merrimack Valley School District.
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For Keene State students, opportunities abound: study away; published work; independent study; and professional recognition, are just some of the achievements of our students.
Michelle Sigiel's passion for history and political science have taken her far. When she was at Keene State, she had the distinction of being the first Holocaust & Genocide Studies (HGS) major in the first such undergraduate program in the country. She also majored in European history and political science.
Not only did she graduate with honors in 2010, she co-founded, with department chair Paul Vincent, the HGS honor society, ZXP (Zeta Chi Rho). She went on to earn an MA in history at the University of Vermont, focusing on the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, and Austria.
Michelle is currently one of 10 graduate students and PhD candidates that the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF) chose to participate in the [Center's Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program](http://ajcf.org/education-center/programs /bridge-to-history/). This powerful, three-week intensive fosters academic and personal growth and community activism as participants study the universal implications of the Holocaust. Along with program fellows, Michelle will visit four cities, explore southeastern Poland's rich Jewish heritage, and meet with local Jewish and non-Jewish leaders.
Two independent-study photography students, Anastasia Dubrovina and Anne Johnson, have their work featured in the 2013 Magenta Festival in Boston.
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His case will go to trial March 3, 2014, reports The New York Times.
Pistorius has been free on bail since February and will remain so, said Magistrate Desmond Nair.
At Monday s brief hearing in Pretoria, the state prosecution outlined its case, saying Pistorius shot Steenkamp on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, as she cowered behind a locked bathroom door in his upscale residence.
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Your group will be going on a nature scavenger hunt. Rather than collecting objects, they will be listing ideas on paper. The hunt will help participants discover how much they have in common with the natural world and how the natural world influences their survival. This activity sets the stage for learning and embracing Leave No Trace.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
I made dinner on Saturday night for the first time in nearly a month (chicken, rice, and steamed veggies--it doesn't get any more boring than that) and spent the remainder of the evening laying on the couch, trying not to vomit. GAH. It's a GOOD thing I did the pantry challenge in January because I've blown all my savings from January this month on pre-made food...
Midget and I did have a great time at my service club's Valentine's Day Dance. As expected, I had to drag her off the dance floor when it was time for us to go. I enjoyed having a reason to pretty myself up and wear the gorgeous dress I bought from Bettie Page Clothing for my Stepson's wedding. Thanks to my nausea, the dress fit even better than it did in November, and I actually felt like a million bucks that evening!
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you look like a million bucks too! hope your "morning" sickness goes away soon
- February 22, 2010 at 10:39 PM
- Amy @ Living Locurto said...
Oh no, sorry you have been so sick! You look fabulous here. I can't believe how big your daughter is!! So cute:-)
- February 23, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Amy @ Finer Things said...
You look fabulous! That should be consolation for the "urfs". When are you due again?
- February 23, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- Deanna said...
You two looks beee-yoo-tee-ful! So sorry that the nausea is still attacking you full force. I am sure you have tried everything... sea bands, ginger ale, all the tried and trues?
- February 23, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Brandy said...
You're hiding your sickness very well my dear! I hope it passes soon!
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China Slowdown Creates Winners and Losers
China's economic growth rate slipped to 7.5% in the second quarter, continuing a slowdown that's affecting industries world-wide. The WSJ's Jake Lee and Alex Frangos talk about who benefits and who suffers as the world's second-largest economy loses momentum.
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The Nike+ FuelBand is one of the most popular fitness gadgets out there (although the verdict is still out on if fitness gadgets actually improve our health,) but there's been a complaint from Android users since it's release regarding the lack of an app for Android-powered smartphones. Despite waiting patiently for about a year, it turns out, a FuelBand app isn't even on the radar for Nike.
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|2012-09-16, 23:09
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I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 32
I have never felt as justified in taking a dim view of the mainland Chinese as I did the last few days. And this is including the time when one tried to steal my girlfriend.
Yes, I am also an ethnic Chinese, just in case anyone is about to throw the 'racist' accusation at me.
And yes, I realise this is taking me down a most unsavoury train of thought.
Yes, I also realise I'm going to get some rage and negreps over this. Just give it here already if you really have to.
But this here? This here, amongst many other instances of unsavoury behaviour by the mainland Chinese, is why I want to avoid being associated with them as much as is possible. This sort of irrational, destructive nationalist sentiment is so last century, and is not going to help matters any.
|2012-09-16, 23:11
|Link #22
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Iwakawa Base
Age: 26
This is where we have to agree to disagree because I do mind the insults. I understand why people would call out on me, and I have to accept the fact that some people are just like that and I also usually take it with humor, but at the end of the day I simply do mind. I don't go emo or hate on anyone for it but I just don't find it good and I mostly mean those that would not apologize after you gently talked to them. And most my cases did not end up with an apology so I guess I got the short end of the stick.
|2012-09-16, 23:18
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: DP 原画 --> ヨハネ
Not going to add anymore fuel to the fire here except to point out....
The Japan and PRC patrol craft bear very similar markings....I wonder what's the reason for that...
Is not just conscription actually....pretty much 97% of chinese are born here....with everyone brainwashed into a "ME ME ME, MONEY MONEY MONEY" working mindset....thus no one actually cares two shits about what goes on up north except "don't start shooting now or my bloody portfolio investments are sunk too"
|2012-09-16, 23:22
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
Heck, we are even desensitised to racist jokes : there is this 3rd gen angmoh I served with who called one of the laziest people in my unit a "chink in our defence line" for sleeping on guard duty, and that guy casually replied that "the white man gives us away under the cover of darkness and is a waste of camo paint". It eventually "degenerated" into a humourous exchange of racial slurs (the black Indian guy not needing camo paint, the Malay guy needing to avoid wild boars, etc) then made all of us laugh into the night (and having the whole squad signing extras).
Race maybe yes, but most I have met (even those from Mainland who have been here for years) say that they feel "ashamed" to be a Chinese when a loudmouthed mainlander espouses the superiority of the "Chinese race".
|2012-09-16, 23:26
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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|2012-09-16, 23:31
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Auckland, NZ
Despite the constant rioting and protests and whatnot by Muslims, it's always stressed that it's a minority and that the majority decry such behaviour and want peace. It's always unPC to generalise Muslims and Islam as violent etc, unless you're a far right loony in which case you aren't entitled to an opinion.
Why isn't this standard applied here? I mean, judging from the pics these protesters number no more than a few 100000. That's less than 0.1% of the population. Why is every mainlander hated on for that?
There will be nutjobs in any society. When said society numbers over a billion there're be more than a few. It's inevitable.
I don't support this stupidity, but I wish there was less vehemence. I'm not proud of my country but I love my people. I don't think that's wrong. Can't we keep things more objective and tone down the rhetoric please?
|2012-09-16, 23:36
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
Sort of like a self-fulfilling prophecy gone ugly. I still remember the responses on a deleted thread in a local forum when our then Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong responded to rising anti-China sentiment with "Don't forget where we came from" : most of it went along the lines of "Go fakh yourself" and "Stop selling out our country to China"; Singapore is known to have a high number of China expats due to "special deals", but if the sentiment is like that, there certainly has to be something wrong with the people we get from there.
Or there is something wrong with the immigration authorities (yay! another reason to blame the government! [/sarcasm]).
|2012-09-16, 23:41
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I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 32
Yes, I also realise I'm not being fair when I'm generalising my dim views to mainlanders in general.
I mean if anything, I should be aware that not all mainlanders display such a level of arrogance. And it's not like I've not seen that for myself either; my girlfriend's landlady is a mainlander who married a local and had kids with him, and she's about as nice a lady as one gets. Surely, they're not all arrogant pricks, right?
But when you hear the same tales about them repeatedly, and from difference places from sources all over the world, what's more? It can get very, very hard to keep a balanced perspective.
I'm not saying I'm immune to bias, or any such crap, but how did that saying go? When there's this much smoke in the air...
|2012-09-16, 23:42
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Iwakawa Base
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|2012-09-16, 23:49
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
DIE YOU DELUDED OPTIMIST. DIE!!!! Stop dragging others away from reality!
The problem is that they don't want to even try. Sometimes I wonder if it is embedded in our genes that the Chinese value "face" more than anything else - I mean, personal image doesn't actually worth much when you can't do work or get along with others.
You can't really do much about those hardcore xenophobics because like any other extremist, they are immune to reason. There are some moderate ones who use it as a casual joke because they don't know you well enough and tend to let the media get the better of them.
|2012-09-17, 00:12
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Join Date: Nov 2003
the article over-exaggerates the quote, but it's still something unsettling
|2012-09-17, 00:40
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Iwakawa Base
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|2012-09-17, 01:24
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Would you condemn all of Egypt and Libya for their recent attacks on the US Embassy? or all of Palestine for the action of Hamas? or all Muslims based on the action of the radical terrorists?
You have to realize that once you start going down the path of using broad strokes of generalization, you'll simply turn yourself into a bigot in the end.
|2012-09-17, 01:57
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Join Date: May 2007
It probably fits the silly and odd news thread better. Japanese man burns cars in front of the Russia embassy and claim that it is a protest against the Chinese demonstrations.
By the logic of many people here, he is a good representative of Japanese people.
|2012-09-17, 02:29
|Link #36
The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
A single incident with one or few people? No that would not logically represent Japan.
80 or more incidents in a short amount of time with thousands of people (someone suggested a hundred thousand people)? That's a little more wide spread and such a leap of logic could be made against China's public character.
|2012-09-17, 05:43
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|2012-09-17, 08:14
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China is undergoing high-level political problems because of the upcoming 18th Party Congress. I'm pretty sure they want to get the nationalistic sentiments of their people riled up (at the cost of good relations with neighboring countries) so that their attention is focused outward.
The whole thing is entirely pointless when you realize that nobody actually lives on the islands. They should just bomb it into the water and pretend it never existed. EDIT: But apparently the whole things is 7km^2 so I'm not sure what the feasibility of that is.
EDIT': Speaking as someone who interacts mostly with mainlanders, mainland Chinese are generally in my opinion and experience a lot less pleasant to deal with than those who live overseas. Actually the main, and IMO very important distinction is fundamentally political and not cultural, but nobody seems to care enough to realize. It ought to be "Communist" vs. "non-Communist" Chinese. And don't get started about how China isn't really Communist anymore, the point is that they live under an abnormal political culture commonly seen in states that call or used to call themselves Communist.
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I tell ya, the suitation at sea is descending into a stalemate, just like the Spratly. Nobody will dare to fire the first shot due to variety of reasons.
The way I see it is if the CCP fire first, they will lose their moral high ground with pretty much everybody ganging up on them. Japan will not fire first because they do not want to court suicide.
But on the flip side, if China dare to do a repeat of Tiananmen and send in troops with heavy armour to quell the rioters instead of the token riot police, I suppose the Japanese are oblige to do something in return. Those mainland citizens are too cowed to do anything aganist their own government, right ?
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Prescription Medicines
Topic Overview
There are many types of prescription medicines used to help people manage their health. Your doctor and your pharmacist are your best sources to learn about your prescription medicines.
Guidelines for taking every kind of prescription medicine could fill a whole shelf of books. This topic gives you basic information about antibiotics, minor tranquilizers, and sleeping pills.
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Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria. But they only work against bacteria. They don't kill viruses, so they won't work against a cold, the flu, or another viral illness. Unless you have a bacterial infection, it's best to avoid the possible harmful effects of antibiotics, which may include:
- Side effects. Antibiotics can cause nausea and diarrhea and can make you more sensitive to sunlight. Most of these common side effects are mild. But some side effects, such as allergic reactions, can be severe. They can cause shortness of breath or even death. If you have an unexpected reaction to an antibiotic, tell your doctor.
- Other infections. Antibiotics kill most of the bacteria in your body that are sensitive to them, even the "good" bacteria that help your body. Antibiotics can ruin the balance of bacteria in your body, leading to an upset stomach, diarrhea, a vaginal infection, or other problems.
- Bacterial resistance. If you take antibiotics when you do not need them, they may not work when you do need them. Each time you take antibiotics, you are more likely to have some bacteria that the medicine doesn't kill. Over time, these bacteria change and become harder to kill. They become resistant to the medicine. The antibiotics that used to kill them no longer work.
If you and your doctor decide that you need an antibiotic, carefully follow the instructions for taking the medicine.
- Take the whole dose for as many days as your doctor tells you to, unless you have side effects you did not expect (in which case, call your doctor).
- Be sure you know any special instructions for taking the medicine. They should be printed on the label, but it's also a good idea to check with your doctor and pharmacist.
- Keep antibiotics in a cool, dry place. Check the label to see if you should store them in the refrigerator.
- Never give an antibiotic prescribed for one person to someone else.
- Do not save any extra antibiotics. And do not take one prescribed for another illness unless your doctor tells you it is okay. Ask your pharmacist about how to safely throw away your leftover medicine.
For more information, see the topic Using Antibiotics Wisely.
Minor Tranquilizers and Sleeping Pills
Some minor tranquilizers (such as Valium and Xanax) and sleeping pills (such as Dalmane and Restoril) are widely prescribed. But these medicines can cause problems such as memory loss, addiction, and loss of balance. In rare cases, people who use them have done things like drive or eat while they're still asleep. These medicines also can cause a serious allergic reaction. So it's important to use them with caution.
Minor tranquilizers can be useful if you use them for a short time. But long-term use often isn't very helpful, and it increases the risk of addiction and mental problems.
Sleeping pills may help for a few days or a few weeks. But if you use them for more than a month, they are likely to cause more sleep problems than they solve. For other options, see the topic Insomnia or Sleeping Better.
If you have been taking minor tranquilizers or sleeping pills for a while, talk with your doctor. Ask if you can stop taking the medicine or if you can gradually take less of it over time. If you have felt unsteady or dizzy, have had any memory loss, or have had signs of an allergic reaction, tell your doctor.
Medicine Problems
There are many kinds of bad reactions (adverse reactions) to medicine.
Side effects. A side effect is any effect other than the one you want. They tend to be mild, but they can still bother you. In some cases, side effects can be serious.
Allergies. Some people have strong reactions to some medicines. These reactions can be deadly. To learn the signs of an allergic reaction, see the topic Drug Allergies.
Medicine interactions. These happen when two or more medicines or herbal supplements mix in a person's body and cause a bad reaction. The symptoms can be severe and may be wrongly diagnosed as a new illness.
Medicine-food interactions. These happen when medicines react with food. Some drugs work best when you take them with food, but others should be taken on an empty stomach. Some medicine-food interactions can cause serious symptoms.
Overmedication. If you take too much of a medicine, it may trigger an adverse reaction. This can especially be a problem for people of small size and older adults. Sometimes the typical adult dose is too much for these people. Take your medicines exactly as prescribed. Call your doctor if you think you are having a problem with your medicine.
Addiction. Long-term use of some medicines can lead to dependency. You may have a severe reaction if you stop taking the medicine all at once. Find out from your doctor if a medicine may be addictive. To learn more, see the topic Alcohol and Drug Problems.
Decision Points are designed to guide you through key health decisions, combining medical information with your personal information to make a wise health decision. For help in learning the pros and cons of certain medicines, see a list of Decision Points About Medicines.
Getting Rid of Old or Unwanted Medicine
No matter what type of medicine you take, make sure to follow your doctor's advice about how to take it. And find out the safest way to get rid of medicines that are expired or no longer used. Use these drug disposal tips to help prevent people and animals from taking medicines that aren't intended for them:
- Do not put medicines in the garbage or flush them down the toilet or sink.
- Talk to your pharmacist first. Most pharmacies have a medicine take-back program. This is the best way to safely throw away medicines.
- Find out if your local waste disposal centre collects expired or unused medicines.
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- Prevent Medical Errors
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- Reducing Medication Costs
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- Work Closely With Your Doctor
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- Lorig K, et al. (2006). Managing your medicines. In Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, 3rd ed., pp. 239-253. Boulder, CO: Bull.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2011). Disposal of unused medicines: What you should know. Available online: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely/EnsuringSafeUseofMedicine/SafeDisposalofMedicines/ucm186187.htm#MEDICINES.
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Gosbee confident success is coming for Coyotesby Jerry Brown
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The bouquet of flowers sitting in George Gosbee's office across the street from Jobing.com Arena came from a new admirer.
His week-old Twitter account has more than 1,300 followers. A 70-year-old hockey lifer drove nearly 100 miles from Tucson to hug him with tears streaming down her face at a Phoenix Coyotes season-ticket event.
Yes, there is no doubt the Coyotes' die-hard fan base is over the moon after Gosbee and his IceArizona partners ended the team's five-year stint as pro-sports orphans and completed their purchase of the team in July.
Now comes the real challenge.
The owners are betting there are enough hockey fans living in and around Phoenix, the fifth-largest city in the United States, who will trek to suburban Glendale and turn the Coyotes' checkered 16-year past into a long-term success story. Gosbee, a 43-year-old Calgary-based financier and lifelong hockey fan, isn't predicting midweek sellouts, but the early indicators are positive.
"Just since the announcement, we're not seeing just renewals, we're seeing new season-ticket holders come in steadily," Gosbee said. "We've also sold 10 corporate boxes over the same period.
"We have a real hardcore fan base here. We have a phenomenal facility. Now we just have to make sure everyone knows we're here to stay. Our fans have been through losing seasons, work stoppages, ownership uncertainly … but they stuck with us and brighter days are here. Our base has been increasing as the team has been more successful and now the job is to build from there."
There are other good signs. New money from rebalanced revenue sharing included in the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and an improved television deal, gave Gosbee, "a lot of confidence in the viability and direction of the League." Division realignment will give Canadian hockey fans who visit Arizona during the winter extra chances to see the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks.
"One of the first games I saw here was against Calgary and I came down with a good friend, [former Flames goalie] Mike Vernon," Gosbee said. "It took us an hour just to get to our seats. A whole generation of people who watched Mike and those great Flames teams has moved down here and he was just mobbed. That's when it really hit me how many Canadians and devoted hockey fans there are here.
"We just have to give them a reason to come more often and to be Coyotes fans when their team isn't here."
The Coyotes reached the Western Conference Final in 2012 before a run of three straight Stanley Cup Playoff appearances ended last season. The new ownership agreed to long-term contracts for general manager Don Maloney, coach Dave Tippett and goalie Mike Smith before Maloney signed playmaking center Mike Ribeiro in free agency.
Gosbee is expected to be an active owner, and there are plans for marketing and presentation, but the group said it has no intention of meddling in the personnel side of the team.
"We give Don [payroll] parameters. We want him to continue to do what he does and stay out of his kitchen," Gosbee said. "You won't see me down in the room between periods telling them how to run the power play. We have faith in the people we have in place.
"It was important to us that Don and [Tippet] and Mike Smith stay and keep that core intact, but we also have one of the best dressing rooms in the League, a great mixture of veterans and exciting young players.
"We've factored in payroll increases every year, and we can exceed those if we're doing better financially. We understand to have a winning product on the ice you have to pay for it, within reason. We've already shown we're comfortable exploring the free-agent market when Don sees opportunities."
Recent Coyotes owners Steve Ellman and Jerry Moyes had only a pedestrian knowledge of hockey, but the 11 members of the new group (all Canadian) are fans and have roots in the sport.
The team's "Here to Stay" marketing campaign will debut with a series of commercials during the Arizona Cardinals' NFL regular-season opener Sept. 8. Increased visibility and rededication to the youth hockey presence in Arizona will give the Coyotes an opportunity to lure fringe fans from the NBA's Phoenix Suns.
"The unique thing about this deal is there isn't one thing we're dependent upon to make it work," Gosbee said. "A series of things will come into play. Some things will work, some won't. But I have confidence that enough will work to grow this into a strong franchise which people will want to be a part of.
"The new CBA gave me a lot of confidence in the viability and direction of the League. It's in a good place and has a lot of momentum. The [TV] ratings for the Stanley Cup were almost equal to the World Series this year. And the energy from our fans in our building is really outstanding. I felt it right away."
The 15-year arena deal with the City of Glendale includes an out clause in five years if the team loses $50 million, a figure surpassed over the previous five years. The clause has been well-publicized and given pause to those tired of the ongoing financial saga. But Gosbee said it's an overhyped and misunderstood mechanism and the Coyotes are in Arizona to stay.
"It's not like in five years we can move or sell the team," he said. "We can't. We have an out clause if we lose $50 million. If that gets triggered it's a real disaster for me, so I don't want [it] to work even more than the fans do. It's a fallback where if all the moons align and the worst-case scenario happens, we at least have some options.
"We're coming into this with a unique deal. We're very well capitalized. We can withstand tough seasons or losses. We know this will take time to overcome and build, and we'll get there."


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When we think about the American legend Clarence Darrow, the images in our heads conjure a turn-of-the-century figure larger than life, a lawyer who fought for the underdog and tackled controversial issues of his day.
In Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast, Andrew E. Kersten, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, reveals these known images of Darrow and a lot more. Kersten relates an American ideological journey that is passionate and opinionated yet not always consistent or smooth. Darrow's journey resonates with the ideological struggles our society experiences now, with many of them with roots in Darrow's time. Whether it is Darrow's ability to manage media trials, his struggles over supporting a war despite basic pacifist beliefs or his fierce frustration with being unable to convince the public that union struggles were important to their own well-being, Kersten portrays a man who could easily walk alongside us, struggling with our issues. How Darrow chose to think his way through big issues was as important to him as his ultimate choices, and these can teach us some important lessons.
Lesson 1. Surround yourself with people willing to take the intellectual journey, even if (especially when) they do not agree with all of your beliefs. Darrow was raised in a freethinking household by parents who bucked the norms of their small Midwestern town. In Chicago Darrow created a salon of thinkers to discuss and debate issues, and they included a diverse range of views. Today people tend to listen only to those who share their views, but Clarence Darrow modeled a very different approach. He had strong views but was famously open-minded. As Kersten writes: "…at no time in his life did Clarence Darrow subscribe to any clearly defined grand philosophical tradition. He remained dogmatically antidogmatic throughout his life. But he held dear a constellation of ideas and political commitments."
Lesson 2. Focus on a few issues at a time; do not spread yourself too thin. Darrow worked on many causes throughout his long life. They included supporting union activists, working to abolish the death penalty, establishing mental illness defenses, advocating penal reform, advocating for safety in industry, advocating against prohibition, fighting for civil rights for African-Americans, fighting governmental intrusion into religious beliefs (including the right not to believe in any religion) advocating on behalf of government involvement in World War I and then, afterwards, advocating against the government for limiting the free speech rights of those who were against war.
Darrow worked as a political appointee, lawyer for companies, lawyer for famous and not-so-famous "cause" clients, public speaker, author of both fiction and non-fiction. But at any given time, Darrow limited himself to a few issues. His priorities changed, as did his methods for expressing his views, but limiting his work kept him influential and focused.
Lesson 3. Do not be afraid to change your mind publicly about issues. Darrow was always an original thinker. Darrow thought for himself, evaluated data and reached his own conclusions. Sometimes this process led him to disagree with important allies, at some cost to his personal and professional standing. One famous example was his support of America's entry into World War I, which he believed was necessary to stop fascists from bullying ordinary workers in Europe. Most of Darrow's friends were against the war, seeing it as large corporate interests pitted against each other. Darrow was public in his support of the war and alienated many friends. After the war, he was equally vigorous in defending antiwar groups against criminal sedition laws, alienating his government friends. He changed his mind about feminism, first supporting equal rights for women and then opposing women's voting rights. Whether one agreed with his views or not, Darrow was always thinking for himself and unafraid to take a stand or change his mind.
Lesson 4. Hone your craft and give 100 percent of your talents. Darrow was an excellent lawyer and a great speaker. On behalf of paid or pro bono clients, he was brilliant. He worked a case thoroughly, with careful strategizing and analysis. A professional is someone who gets the job done through hard work and excellent craft, always keeping the client's goals in mind.
Lesson 5. Sometimes a public person has to rest, regenerate and rejuvenate (what Kersten calls Darrow taking care of Darrow). Darrow lived more than 80 years. His work in politics and in the courtroom were stressful, and Darrow suffered from "dark moods." There were periods when he chose less stressful ways to earn a living—public speaking, writing or taking on clients just for the money, for example. While he was criticized by some when he retreated from causes, respite always brought him back to important work.
Lesson 6. What goes around comes around. Hard-to-solve issues in American discourse are still hard to solve, but they are worth solving. Should lawyers shape media perception of big trials? Should unions be supported? Should religion play a role in public life? Should the government legislate to regulate controlled substances? Should the state execute people? Are prisons meant to reform or punish? Do all citizens enjoy equal rights? Darrow tackled some of the hardest issues of his day, which remain some of the hardest issues of our day. But there are differences. It is helpful to remember that in the late 1800s, labor was fighting for an eight-hour work shift, fighting for basic safety standards (many workers were killed in industry), fighting to keep children out of the workforce and fighting against the company town, where a worker could never free himself of debt. Many of the core positions for and against unions can be seen today in states discussing elimination of state employee collective bargaining or in the rhetoric blaming union wages for industry decline. The battle over whether to tax "millionaires and billionaires" follows these lines. Reading how Darrow analyzed issues helps frame them in a historical context.
In addition to these lessons, Kersten reveals Darrow's human foibles—his difficulties with women, which unfortunately may have contributed to his philosophical distancing from feminism; his sometimes naked political ambition; and, most damning, his possible (some think probable) participation in bribing jurors, for which he was indicted but acquitted. Kersten does not ignore these significant flaws but weaves them into a human portrait. Darrow offers us not only lessons to follow but also lessons about what not to follow.