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SAN DIEGO >> A few hours before tipoff, Stephen F. Austin laid claim to the longest winning streak in college basketball.
Or rather, the claim fell into the Lumberjacks' laps. In St. Louis, eighth-seeded Kentucky felled Wichita State, ending the Shockers' dream of an undefeated season. Some 1,800 miles away at Viejas Arena, SFA inherited the mantle of the country's hottest team.
Alas, its 29-game streak died before nightfall.
Fourth-seeded UCLA easily dispatched the Cinderella from East Texas on Sunday evening, trailing for just 25 seconds of a 77-60 South Regional third-round win over the Lumberjacks.
With the win, the Bruins advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2008. It also ends a long drought for first-year head coach Steve Alford, whose lone trip came in 1999 when he led 12th-seeded Southwest Missouri State to upsets over Wisconsin and Tennessee.
Up next? Who else but Florida — a top overall seed riding a 28-win streak, and the program responsible for three of UCLA's last six tournament exits.
But no matter for now. UCLA (28-8) has earned the right to celebrate this moment, having now beaten four of its last five opponents by at least 17 points. And yet, the postgame locker room felt muted.
"They don't hang Sweet 16 banners up in Pauley," said point guard Kyle Anderson.
Against No. 12-seed SFA, the Bruins scored nearly at will — shooting 55 percent from the field and earning 42 points inside the paint. Sophomore guard Jordan Adams led the team with 19 points, while point guard Kyle Anderson had 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists. In front of his hometown crowd, junior Norman Powell scored 15.
"We have guys that run like horses out in transition," Anderson said. "We're just a good transition team, but … it all starts with getting stops."
"They annihilated us in transition," said Stephen F. Austin coach Brad Underwood.
UCLA didn't play spotlessly in the first half, but still entered halftime with a comfortable 42-32 lead. Against a team that was fourth-best in the country at forcing turnovers, its remained tally spotless for over eight minutes. Until the game's final 88 seconds, no Bruin except backup point guard Bryce Alford — a mere two turnovers — had coughed up the ball.
After the first 4:40 of the second half, the Lumberjacks (32-3) never got within single digits again.
Somehow, SFA outrebounded UCLA, 20-14, at halftime, collecting five of those boards on offense. Looking fearless if outmatched on the big stage, the Lumberjacks scrapped for loose balls despite not starting a player taller than 6-foot-6. On one missed three-pointer, SFA boxed out for two back-to-back rebounds before finally putting in a layup.
"Those guys play really, really hard," said UCLA forward Tony Parker, who at a listed 6-foot-9 and 255, had at least 45 pounds on all but one Lumberjack. "I was really shocked at how well they played and they really surprised us in the first half."
It was never enough. Stephen F. Austin cut the deficit to three with 9:30 left in the first half, and to five with 3:53 – hitting key 3-pointers both times. Within the next three or four minutes, the Bruins would stretch the lead back to double digits.
The Lumberjacks never could find the bucket often enough from long range, perhaps their only hope for an upset. UCLA entered the round of 32 allowing 3-point attempts at a higher rate than all but three other Division I teams, making them vulnerable to a lights-out showing from beyond the arc.
Stephen F. Austin hit just 4-of-13 in the first half, and finished 7-of-27. UCLA dared them to let it fly, switching to a zone after the Lumberjacks scored six of their first 12 points in the paint. SFA didn't score a field goal for the next 6:24.


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I was worried there for a while. The narrative that the professional race industry and its subsidiaries across the spectrum of the American Left puts forth about what constitutes racism in the United States changes so often that I'm not sure from one day to the next whether or not I am a racist. But the latest missive from an authority no lesser than the Congressional Black Caucus has clarified the issue for me, and I have never been more relieved.
If I think Obama is "cool" and use the word to describe him, I am a racist (had I used the word to describe him when Ebony magazine and CNN did, I would have been fine). Logically, therefore, if I don't think Obama is cool, I am not a racist. I've never really thought Obama was cool. Most of the time he bores me to sleep. So you might say I was a racist when Ebony/CNN thought it was ok to say that Obama was cool, since I didn't find him cool then. Now, though, my racism has been revoked.
Of course, I may be jumping the gun. Logic is not exactly high on the priority list of people who manipulate emotions with hysterical rhetoric for raw political power. At some point, expressing one's opinion about Barack's uncoolness may well be considered racist again, or even simultaneously with a belief in his coolness. Both could be racist, or neither, in which case it might be racist not to have an opinion one way or the other. What will we do then?
We can always look to the emotional cues of our enlightened superiors in the political and media establishment. At a moment's notice, we can, like the citizens of Oceania, change our opinion on the racist content or lack thereof in the notion that Obama is cool. We can hysterically denounce all those who hold the currently racist opinion one day, then rehabilitate ourselves when the non-racist opinion becomes the racist opinion the next.
What happens if we find ourselves far from a telescreen to tell us what to think and show us how to react to the latest meme? We find a way to believe that Obama is both cool and uncool at the same time. All we have to do is discover how to double-think, which is:
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
So there you have it. As diligent consumers of the mainstream American media, you should already have an advanced degree in the subject. Avoid the stigma of racism, which we have been psychologically programmed to fear more than the boubonic plague and nuclear annihilation, with vigilant double-think. If you don't, you're a racist.


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When players reach level 10, they are presented with basic information on the three specializations within their class and are asked to choose one. Then they spend their talent point. The other trees darken and are unavailable until 31 points are spent in the chosen tree. The character is awarded an active ability, and one or more passive bonuses unique to the tree they've chosen. As they gain levels, they'll alternate between receiving a talent point and gaining new skills. They'll have a 31-point tree to work down, with each talent being more integral and exciting than they have been in the past. Once they spend their 31'st point in the final talent (at level 70), the other trees open up and become available to allocate points into from then on. As characters move into the level 78+ areas in Cataclysm, they'll begin seeing items with a new stat, Mastery. Once they learn the Mastery skill from their class trainer they'll receive bonuses from the stat based on the tree they've specialized in.I you can read the entire post from Zarhym here. I also suggest you check out this thread in which Ghostcrawler has been very active.
My First Reaction: Very Positive
If you've gone back and read some of my early blog posts you will know that I am Moonkin by default rather then choice. To this day, all druids start the leveling process as Balance, because your DPS choices for the first 10 levels is to cast spells or whack mobs with a stick, literally. So, when I got to level 10 and was faced with the choice of how to spend that first talent point, the choice was obvious to me.
The Resto talents seem dumb because it's the healing tree. I know there are people who level as resto, but most of them are either masochists or level as a part of a group. Plus none of the early talents seemed all that useful
Feral seemed even dumber. All of the feral talents only benefit you if you are in Bear or Cat form, and you don't even get Bear form until you complete a quest chain or cat form until you reach level 20. Put that on top of the fact that I just spend 10 levels using spells, choosing feral would have been like choosing a whole new toon. I won't even go into how freaken frustrating it has been to level as feral from 10 to 20.
The obvious choice when I hit level 10 was Balance. At the time I didn't know about the negative stigma that was attached to the spec, but I'd just spend the last 10 levels using spells and here is a talent that makes my spells cast faster. From then on my choice was to go for the better DPS talent, or go for the crappy early feral and resto talents. Obviously I choose Balance (most of the time), and the rest is history.
My Point: When I got to level 10 I didn't have a real choice, because feral and resto weren't real options. My hope is that this change provides that option at level 10 when the choice really matters, and hopefully ferals will get cat form at level 10 instead of level 20. That is why I like this change.
My Critique:
While I am a fan of this change, it is not scoring a 10 with me just yet. One of the themes of Cataclysm has been to provide players with more "meaningful" choices in their talent trees, and that is he heading under which they are promoting this change. How you spend that first talent point is a big choice, but I don't see how this change makes the 40 choices after that first one more interesting. Hamlet (the writer of the EJ Moonkin guide), said it best on the Moonkin Repository:
They're selling this as an opportunity to make spec choices more personal/interesting (which is always such a talking point). That benefit is illusory though--there aren't going to be magically more interesting talent choices, unless they design interesting talents (which they could have done under either system). The only effect for top-level players is a bit of cleanup, which is always nice.Has Hamlet said, this is all an illusion. It doesn't matter how many talent points you have, if the talents don't change then the choices don't change. It's not like Brambles or Owlkin Frenzy will become more interesting because Vengeance is now a passive ability. Unless, Blizzard provides some new talent choices soon, I stand by the post I made a month ago and say that Moonkin will still lack "meaningful" choices even under the new system.
Moonkin Speculation:
Not that this really matters to most of us as level 80 Moonkin, but one of my first thoughts after reading this announcement was what would this mean for those level 10 balance druids out there.
I'll admit that my first thought was that Balance Druids would get Moonkin form at level 10, because that is the signature ability of the balance tree. However I quickly realized that it is probably a bad choice. It would be a little to much, to soon, in my opinion.
Then I looked at the talent tree to see what other signature abilities might be good for a level 10. Force of Nature and Starfall pop out as possibilities, but I think they are very unlikely choices. I don't see a good reason for giving a level 10 a long cooldown, and the lack of control we have over Starfall could make a new players life very difficult. Solar Beam also seems unlikely, because an interrupt would have very limited utility for a level 10.
That left me with two choices: Typhoon and Starsurge.
Pros: I think an instant cast spell that provides a knockback and a daze would be great for a level 10 player. With the 20 second cooldown it isn't over powered but should be available for most pulls.
Cons: As a conal AoE spell, it could easily hit unintended targets. This could be particularly troubling for new players.
Pros: It is a high damage ability with a knockdown. It will also play an important part in Eclipse so it may be a good choice to get players used to the spell early.
Cons: Its a nuke. The level 10 will already have Wrath and will get Starfire a level 20. If I wanted to confuse a new player, I would give him 3 nukes by the time he hits level 20.
At this point I don't have a good guess as to what is the likely choice.
The Strange Quote:
In the original announcement Zarhym said:
The Mastery bonus that was unique to each tree will now be derived from the Mastery stat, found on high-level items, and Mastery will be a passive skill learned from class trainers around level 75.To me, this sounds like moonkin will train Eclipse at level 75 because Eclipse is our third Mastery. I don't have a problem with that. Currently moonkin can't get until level 50. Considering moonkin can't train Starfire until level 20 and since Eclipse is of limited use to leveling as a timed buff, it seemed natural to me to make players wait for it.
Then we get this quote from Ghostcrawler:
We'll probably give them the "balance bar" for picking Balance at level 10, then at level 78 you get the ability to affect the bonus damage from the bar by increasing your mastery stat.Now I'm confused, and only have a list of questions.
What will moonkin be training at 75 then?
Will Starfire be the "signature" ability that Balance druids get at level 10?
If so, does that mean other druids won't have access to Starfire?
If not, what is the point of Eclipse at level 10 if you don't have Starfire until level 20?
What is the point of having Eclipse at level 10 as a timed buff when a good portion of the buff will be lost due to finding new targets?
It will be interesting to see how this looks when we get more details.


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South Africa Passes Landmark Financial Cooperatives Law
March 13, 2008
Madison, Wis.-—The South African government recently passed the Cooperatives Banks Act, marking the first financial cooperative-specific legislation to be passed in English-speaking Africa. World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) assisted the Savings and Credit Co-operative League (SACCOL) of South Africa with drafting and reviewing the new legislation.
Musa Mbingo, general manager of SACCOL, sees the formal recognition of financial cooperatives as a way to deepen and strengthen outreach to South Africa's poor.
"In terms of poverty, South Africa's numbers are very high. There are many unbanked people that can't enter the mainstream banking system," Mbingo explained. "Cooperatives are the solution to provide financial services. In the fight for poverty alleviation, [the legislation] is a big step."
Savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs, credit unions) had previously been regulated under an "exemption" to the Banking Act, which required deposit-taking cooperative financial institutions to join a self-regulatory organization. Most SACCOs and financial cooperatives affiliated with SACCOL, a WOCCU member.
After unsuccessful attempts to address regulatory problems within the system, WOCCU was invited to perform a legislative assessment in 2000. By October 2001, South Africa's people had launched a campaign to encourage banks to serve the poor. Due to the campaign's popular mass appeal, the Financial Sector Campaign Coalition (FSCC) was established. More than 50 community-based organizations rallied around FSCC to address mainstream financial exclusion of the poor.
"SACCOL became pivotal within the FSCC and in addressing the exclusion of financial cooperatives operating under an 'exemption' rather than being brought into mainstream banking. One of the priority issues was a need to address the legislative and support environment for financial cooperatives," said David de Jong, former general manager of SACCOL and now regulator of cooperative banks for South African Microfinance Apex Fund, the new regulating authority for financial cooperatives.
Less than a year after FSCC's creation, government, business, labor and community constituencies organized and agreed to draft and enact legislation specifically for financial cooperatives. SACCOL and its affiliated SACCOs, South Africa's labor movement and WOCCU provided critical input for the Cooperatives Banks Act.
SACCOs are now allowed to provide their members a full range of financial services, all covered by a deposit insurance scheme. De Jong said that for the first time, this places financial cooperatives ahead of South Africa's mainstream banks, providing a unique window of opportunity for the movement.
"It's hard to emphasize the importance of this for African credit unions," said Dave Grace, WOCCU vice president of association services, who worked closely with SACCOL to draft the legislation. "We hope this is the first in a sea of changes enabling legislation for financial cooperatives in Africa."
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WWE has released a few new pay-per-views on DVDs, and with those come some
extras, featuring both WWE TV and exclusive footage. Enjoy this look at what
each of these DVD extras have to offer, and be sure to check out the survey
found at the bottom of this article.
No Way Out 2004
We all know that this was a very good pay-per-view, with Eddie Guererro winning
the WWE Title from Brock Lesnar, a solid bout for the Cruiserweight Ttile between
Rey Mysterio Jr. and Chavo Guererro Jr. and a pretty good match between Kurt
Angle, John Cena and Big Show.
The DVD extras, however, give you a couple more reasons to want this recording.
Let's start off with the DVD-exclusive content, primarily the post-match celebration
for Guererro. Eddie is as real as he can be in this segment, with some great
footage interspersed with celebrations amongst the wrestlers and an emotional
phone call to his wife. The other segments, surrounding Mysterio Jr.'s "Crossing
Borders" video (both the film and the making-of mini documentary), are
passable, unless you're really into the song.
The WWE TV segments are also pretty damn good. To start, you get the final
segment of the Smackdown! Royal Rumble, which saw Guererro eliminate Angle to
earn the title shot. This was one of the best endings ever to a Battle Royal-type
match, and is must-see. Also worth going out of your way to get a peek at is
the Tajiri/Akio/Sakoda vs. Billy Kidman/Paul London/Ultimo Dragon match. While
the match does not meet the high expectations many would have for it, it's still
a solid outing from these six grapplers.
Also from WWE TV are more segments from Heat and promo spots highlighting the
Cruiserweight and WWE Title matches.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Backlash 2004
To refresh everyone's memories, Backlash featured the return match from Wrestlemania
XX, with Chris Benoit putting up the World Heavyweight Title against HHH and
Shawn Michaels. The card also saw the PPV return of Edge, and what is perhaps
the goriest match of the WWE year, with Mick Foley battling Randy Orton.
The extras included here are, well, lacking. In fact there are only three segments
total that could not be seen on WWE TV - an "eavesdropping" on Garrison
Cade and Coach afther the latter's victory over Yoshihiro Tajiri, and two post-match
interviews, one with the team of Gail Kim and Molly Holly, and the other being
an interview with Mick Foley.
The rest of the DVD extras are filled with Sunday Night Heat segments (including
Matt Hardy vs. Val Venis), commercials promoting the PPV, and Chris Benoit's
speech from Monday Night Raw in Calgary. Other than the Benoit speech, there's
nothing entirely entertaining here.
Extra Rating: 1 out of 5
Judgement Day 2004
Depending on who you talk to, this was either the worst Smackdown! PPV ever
(if not the worst WWE PPV), or it was a card that had a main event that saved
it from being trashed beyond recognition.
It was this PPV, you see, that featured JBL and Guererro for the WWE Heavyweight
Title, which ended up as a bloody-to-all-hell brawl. Also included on the very-undercard
was Guererro Jr. against Jacqueline for the Cruiserweight Title, and the one quality
match of the Dudleyz vs. Mysterio Jr. and Rob Van Dam.
The extras for this recording mainly highlight the title bout and another heavily-hyped
bout, Booker T. vs. Undertaker. Among the WWE TV extras are JBL's illegal aliens
sketch, the house show footage of Guerrero's mother's heart attack, Booker T's
near Papa Shango experience, and promo spots for each bout. Also included is
a vignette for the debuting Mordecai and Sunday Night Heat segments, including
Funaki vs. Mark Jindrak.
The only exclusive footage is a post-match look at JBL and Guererro, as their
injuries are assessed and tended to.
With so little on this DVD, it's hard to recommend the extras. If you want
to see just how bad Eddy was banged up, then it's worth a rental; otherwise,
you can take a pass.
Rating: 2.25 out of 5
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J.E. Sawyer, project director on Fallout: New Vegas and its Honest Heart DLC, had already told us through his Formspring account that he was working on a mod for his personal playthroughs and would be releasing it for interested people, something that promptly happened today, without much fanfare. Here's the link to the mod (which requires all Fallout: New Vegas DLC to work) and some bits from the "changelog" he wrote on Formspring:* Max level with all DLCs installed is 35.
* XP rate is halved.
* Base player health is quartered and level-gained health is reduced by 25%.
* Base Carry Weight from 150 to 50 (related perks/things have also been adjusted).
* Energy Weapon ammo weighs less than its nearest equivalent Guns ammo.
* Energy Weapon durability is in the same ballpark as Guns durability.
* Medium Armor has a small amount of DR proportional to its DT.
* Heavy Armor has even more DR proportional to its DT.
* Power Armor does not require a perk, but if you have the perk, the weight of the armor is essentially negated.
* Karma/Alignment values adjusted all over.
* H2O/FOD/SLP rates doubled, but the first threshold is moved from 200 to 400 (statuses roll over ever 150 after).
* Water and Food drop rates on NPCs is dramatically lower. It is difficult to stay out of Dehydration/Starvation by looting enemies.
* Water/Nuka-Cola/Sunset Sarsaparilla heal much less, but now all restore H2O (alcohols will as well, but at lowered values).
* Default Stimpaks are uncommon. A new variant, Stimpak, Expired is the default. It is not that great.
* The player's Workbench recipe now makes Stimpak, Homemade. It is better than Expired, worse than default Stimpaks, and has the PE penalty from Healing Powder.
* All Stimpaks have weight.
* Pre-Order items have been adjusted to be more well-balanced and not worth that much if you rush to Chet's to trade them in.
* A bunch of fixes I couldn't make during development because of load order conflicts, time, etc. E.g.: Automatic Rifle spread re-adjustment, putting the Police Pistol on the Cowboy List, Bozar on Grunt, Junk Rounds are now actual ammo variants you can make, etc.
* Some other stuff.
* fKarmaModKillingEvilActor from 100 to 5
* fKarmaModKillingVeryEvilActor from 2 to 30
* All (known) Feral Ghouls set to Neutral alignment
* Colonel Moore Alignment changed from Neutral to Evil
* Colonel Hsu Alignment changed from Neutral to Good
* Dam Centurion Alignments changed from Evil to Neutral
* Doctor Usanagi Alignment changed to Very Good
* Dixon Alignment changed from Neutral to Very Evil
* Jean-Baptiste Cutting Alignment changed from Neutral to Very Evil
* Gloria Van Graff Alignment changed from Neutral to Very Evil
* Alice McLafferty Alignment changed from Neutral to Evil
* Alice McBride Alignment changed from Neutral to Good
* Squatter Alignments changed from Neutral to Good
* The King's Alignment changed from Neutral to Good
* Contreras' Alignment changed from Neutral to Evil
* Westside Citizens and Militia Alignments changed from Neutral to Good
* Gomorrah Prostitutes Alignments changed from Neutral to Good
* 1E Junkies' Alignments changed from Neutral to Good
* Michelle and Samuel's Alignments changed from Neutral to Good
Why can't you just add your changes to the game in an official patch?
The short technical reason is ".esm inter-dependencies" and "load order errors". Sorry.
In addition to technical reasons, some of the mechanics changes make the game significantly more difficult (base health / stim changes) or at least more of a hassle (carry weight, stims having weight, H2O/SLP/FOD rate increase). I'd rather have people opt-in to those changes than make them the default in a patch.
Finally, the game's over. The ship has sailed. No one is working on it anymore. No testers, nothing. This mod is just me working in my free time. If I horribly botch something, you can just un-check the mod and go on your way.
Do you plan to reintroduce the armored vault 21 jumpsuit in your mod? If so, would it be by crafting or found?
Yes. It is for sale in Sarah's store at Vault 21. Both it and the Armored Vault 13 Jumpsuit now use the RepairVaultSuit list and have 200 CND. The Armored Vault 21 Jumpsuit grants 12 DT, +1 LK, and costs 2000 caps.
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Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray, son of the late party supremo Bal Thackeray, formally took charge as the party president Wednesday.
Even as the decision was on expected lines, the timing of the event was symbolic as the party observed the birth anniversary of Bal Thackeray, who passed away Nov 17 last year aged 86.
The decision was officially announced after the party's national executive meet Wednesday where the members anointed Uddhav, 52, as the new party president.
Even after Uddhav taking over as president, the late Sena patriarch will continue to be known as 'pramukh' (supremo), a party official said.
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Rather, this post is about the tricky business of assigning animal totems to folks wanting to know.
Not a day passes when someone doesn't send in an email with a question like: "Avia, can you tell me what my animal totem is?"
On the one hand, I'm thrilled with these inquiries. It suggests a desire to re-connect to animal kin. It's a sign that folks are becoming more attuned to the wild and wonderful realms of the Mother [Nature] – and that is uber-awesome.
On the other hand, I'm often distressed by the lack of personal investment in re-connecting with our animal brothers and sisters. Connections to our animal kin is a deeply personal act.
What's even more irking is the idea that a virtual stranger can arbitrarily assign a totem to another person. To explain, I've been known to listen in on certain radio show discussions about totems and neo-shamanism. I'm not naming names, but I'm suspect when these totem-experts get callers on their show with the inevitable question: "Can you tell me my animal totem?" and I'm floored when the totem-practitioner pops off a critter to the caller – essentially assigning a totem to him or her in the span of two seconds.
How can that cosmic connection be gleaned from a distant second party? It feels like "slot-machine logic" – an answer spit out at random. I could be wrong. These totem experts could be mightily connected to their spiritual council, and so they are fed this totem information to present to the caller. Still, I have doubts.
On my most connected days, in which unification with my own Spirit Council is super-tight, I am fed information in terms of "seeing" woodland creatures or other critters scampering around my client's energy. These visions give me a good idea about the inquirer's totem affiliations. Nevertheless, in the midst of these visions come strong admonishments from the Council. Admonishments like: "These are the animal energies communing with the human – but he/she must establish the connection."
Historically, shamans could succinctly identify totems to the members of their tribe/village. There's a reason for that. Shamans, elders, seers, and wise-women of a tribe typically hold their positions in the group over long spans of time. They live, learn, love together in a tight-knit community, intrinsically linked to the clan members. They often oversee the birthing of new members, and are participants of that member's life from day one. This gives them special knowing, they see the patterns between a tribal-member's aura, energy, personality that link to the like-energy of their totem. Simply put, tribal shamans have had a long-standing connection with their people, and are therefore in a better position to identify the individual totems of their tribesmen and women.
So what if we don't live in a native setting in which an Elder knows us and can help us retrieve our animal totem identities?
The onus is on us. We must be the ones to invest the time to re-connect with our animal guides and guardians.
Asking others to identify our totems isn't a bad thing, but I'd be leery of pat answers from virtual strangers. Those who ask me what their totems are often get frustrated with my round-about answers. I offer information that my Council feeds me, but not without belting out a few paragraphs about the importance of personal meditation, research and investigation into the matter.
Let's face it. Most of us wouldn't ask a stranger "Who is my life-partner?" and then marry the first person named Joe or Suzie just because we've been given a pat answer to this question.
In my opinion, re-partnering with our animal totems is no less serious. Our animal totems are profound partnerships – indeed, a marriage. They deserve our time and attention to get to know them. We deserve the investment to familiarize ourselves with our connection to them. So, be wary of the "poof! you're a toad" syndrome. Pat answers to complex questions like these are to be approached with caution.


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According to the 1891 Census, seventeen year old Annie Sophia Lloyd was living in Bentinck, Ontario with her aunt and uncle, Jane (Devlin) and Simon Young. Annie was around the age where if a girl was a spinster and there was someone else keeping house, she could take appropriate work until she married. Simon was listed as a tailor-cutter, and Annie as a tailoress. At around 50 years old, after working as a tailor for at least 20 years, Simon's eyes were surely becoming weak from concentrating on tiny stitches day after day and he needed an extra pair of hands to help him with his business.
I wonder why and how Annie ended up living with the Youngs. I have a strong feeling that Jane was my third-great grandmother Mary Devlin Lloyd's sister. Simon and Jane had only one child, their adopted daughter Margaret. Mary had at least eleven children and five or six of them would have been living at home in the late 1880s, so maybe Jane wrote to her to see if she could spare someone interested in learning a trade.
Annie would be home in Mulmur by 1892, and die of heart failure caused by rheumatism.


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(Honestly, I think the leadership is new to raiding in general, and don't realize that most guilds believe paladins are supposed to stay at the back. And we paladins are not enlightening them. :) )
Getting to melee makes Molten Core so much more fun! I find healing and cleansing can easily be done from the front lines. There are times when it's better to stay back (for example, when I need to help keep the main tank up), but the guild leaves the choice up to the individual paladin. This is actually quite liberating. I find that having the option to melee makes the game more fun, even if I choose not to take it.
Now, I'm not sure that paladins meleeing is the absolute optimal strategy. We are only on Gehennas. However, we have problems getting more than 30 people in the raid, and we did take down Magmadar for the first time with only 33 people. That seems like a pretty good accomplishment, so I'm willing to reserve judgement. And I'm having a lot more fun, so that has to count for something.
In all honesty, I think a lot of the problems at the raid level, from loot issues to class behaviour stem from the arrogance of some raiders. A lot of them believe that they know how to play your character better than you do. That's why they impose restrictions on you and on themselves. They do not trust you to make the correct decisions for your character, and so they try to make the decisions for you.
A good guild, in my opinion, needs to adopt the view that: The person who can best play your character is you. In the end, it all comes down to trust. If you trust that your people know how to play, you trust that they will only take loot they will use well.
There's a quote I've always liked. It's possibly a bit extreme for something as mundane as guilds in an MMO, but for what it's worth:
"You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."
She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope.'"
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Large 24"X30" acrylic paint and resin on canvas,...signed. Or not signed so you can claim it as your own, and sign it yourself. Perfect for your office or home. This is my please help me statement. I'm a author by trade. It helps me escape. Let's me leave my damages in some world far away. I'm a artist by necessity since it's my therapy when I need to take a break. Born bi-polar...caught a case of PTSD. agoraphobic, ah geez smh. I'm one of the others. I'm all of the above. I'm different. Yeap, I really really am. Just like Ernie Vango. Just trying to make life a little better for the world just because. I am me. Handicapped? They say I am. But I think No Way...I know how to paint. I can write. I can paint. And nuts isn't all that bad when you give your best parts away. It's the way I give. It's the way I love. It's a way to share my mind with the heavens for gifting me all my blessings for being born nuts. My mind though some consider broken, is more beautiful because of this love. Please buy my art. Help! Cause I gotta buy paint. To view some on my art in a video slide show please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krtTOOAuILw or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXAJSgARee4 Hope you enjoy.


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Auroras are generally seen in the night sky in the regions close to the Earth's magnetic poles.
They are essentially caused by sunbursts.
Energetic charged particles, carried to our Earth by solar winds, are directed by the Earth's magnetic field towards the high latitude regions where very few people live.
They are ionized by colliding with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere, and this causes light to be emitted.
Pink, red and particularly green light enchants those who observe them.
These colorful rays that illuminate our world in the darkness, and so much else that is so beautiful, are all manifestations of the artistry of Allah, the matchless Creator.
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I am deeply saddened to have to report the death of our own Barbara Lea, "The High Priestess of Popular Song". She died peacefully yesterday, Monday, December 26 here in Raleigh; I was with her as were my husband, Bill, and our dear friend, Junk. And as most of you already know, Barbara has been battling Alzheimer's for quite some time. So, "Sleep Peaceful", dear Barbara... we will miss you but now you are free to sing once again.
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I was at todays game in detroit. Long drive home afterwards. But a few things I noticed.
- We played a good game.
-I think we gave too much attention to Johnson. We let young off easy.
-Lions fans were good natured, even when loosing.
-Millers catch was BEAUTIFUL. Stadium went silent.
-not very much pass rush. It killed us on third and long.
-I was disappointed it the lack of big hits. I didn't hear many Pads cracking.
-Hashuka's kick was closer than it looked on the big screen.
- stafford's keeper td run even tricked me, it was sneaky.
-nowhere near as loud as c-link
-saw a boz jersey.
-saw a curry jersey
I kept a count of hawks fans I saw. Made it To 47
The hopes and dreams of the 05 season died in on that field. It will haunt ford field forever
Funniest quotes by lions fans: his name is goldman! Who the hell named him?(after Tate's 4th and 2 grab). Who is this asshole and what has he done with megatron?(after Johnson's dropped td catch.)
All touchdowns and field goals were scored in the end one were I was seated
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MADISON, N.J. – On Wednesday morning, the Landmark Conference office released its 2011 baseball all-conference selections and USMMA freshman Warren Hartmann (Wyckoff, N.J.) was named to the All-Conference First Team as a second baseman. In addition, the Wyckoff native was honored with the league's Rookie of the Year award.
Hartmann led the Mariners in batting average (.377), at-bats (122), runs scored (32), hits (46), triples (2) and stolen bases (18). He was second in doubles with nine and third in RBI (24), on-base percentage (.430) and slugging percentage (.508). Around the conference, he was tied for third in stolen bases and sixth in batting average.
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According to Mark Gurman over at 9to5Mac, Apple has acquired a third mapping company, this time 3D specialists 3C Technologies.
Sources say that C3 Technologies CEO Mattias Astrom , C3 Technologies CFO Kjell Cederstrand, and lead C3 Technologies Product Manager Ludvig Emgard are now working within Apple's iOS division. The leading trio, along with most of the former C3 Technologies team, is still working as a team in Sweden (interestingly, the division is now called "Sputnik"), where the C3 Technologies company was located prior to the Apple acquisition.
They specialize in making 3D maps from photo data using declassified missile-targeting technology. Apple previously bought map data companies PlaceBase and Poly9, and while they still rely on Google for the actual maps in OS X and iOS, it's not hard to imagine some fantastic new Map app just may be in our future.
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Set to make its global debut at the 2012 LA Auto Show, Jaguar is unleashing its top-of-the-range XF model, the XFR-S.
Jaguar has been reinventing itself as a performance driven company with leading design and an eye on its heritage. And with BMW setting the benchmark in out-of-the-box performance machines, Jag is keen to hit the enthusiast right between the eyes.
With the new F-Type flagship poised to cast a big performance shadow over the Jag lineup, the future looks bright for the Leaping Cat. And the XFR-S is clearly aiming at the M5, which has dominated the high-po sedan market for decades.
While the XFR came close to kicking the M5 off its podium, the XFR-S might just do the trick. Of course, we won't know until we get some proper seat time in the car but the numbers look good: Marked as a 2014 model, only 100 of the 5.0-liter V8 supercharged cars will be coming to the US. With 550hp and 502 lb-ft it boasts staggering performance numbers such as 0-60mph in 4.4sec and a top track speed of 186mph.
The XFR-S also receives an entirely new aero kit, no doubt inspired by the XKR-S. Constructed almost entirely from carbon fiber, the aero kit is claimed to reduce lift by 68%.
The car will sit on forged 20" Varuna wheels with wider tires to maximize traction for the powerful sedan. The suspension has also received attention with a 30% increase in lateral stiffness.
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Research in the Wang laboratory focuses on the roles of Eph receptor tyrosine kinases in invasive growth and distal metastasis of cancer cells. The 14 members of Eph kinases are by far the largest subfamily of receptor tyrosine kinases in mammalian system. They interact with the membrane-anchored ligands called ephrins and mediate cell-cell contact signaling. Over the past decade we have made several major contributions in unraveling the intricate interplays between Eph kinases and other cell regulatory pathways in controlling tumor etiology and malignant progression. Most recently, a novel reciprocal regulatory loop between EphA2 and Akt was discovered in glioblastoma and prostate cancer (Figure 1). The discovery revealed an intricate dichotomy of EphA2, which can either promote or suppress tumor progression, depending on the ligand occupancy status of EphA2. This body of work constitutes a significant part of our current understanding of Eph/ephrin system in cancer biology.
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"Give Your Heart A Break" - Demi Lovato
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Raspberry Truffle and Guatemalan Ripple.
Putting my crazy cat lady skills to good use and feeding the stray kitties at one of the offices I clean.
After deciding on a platter and vase, we picked out our paint and sat down for some fun.
I couldn't wait to see what my super talented amiga was going to create.
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Dinner at casa de Marino's.
Steve was a sweet Mr. and grilled us up some yum-o chicken.
Jessica taught me how to saute spinach for the fifth time.
And who am I kidding...she cooked.
But, hey, let's not forget, I "chopped" the bread.
Reunited and if feels so good.
We laughed hysterically when Muffin took the spotlight with her mad paper chasing skills.
What a sweet and special day it was. <3
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Kim Dotcom has announced his intention to invest in a second Internet cable connecting New Zealand to the world.
Dotcom has said that the move isn't out of charity towards New Zealanders who are currently reliant on one international cable link to the rest of the world - Southern Cross Cable, which is majority owned by Telecom. He says his new business ventures need a second cable in order to service potentially millions of customers around the world.
In the past two weeks Dotcom has been testing two new cloud products called Me.ga, a cloud locker service similar to the one shut down early the year by the US government, and Megabox, a music service.
To support the "new Mega", Dotcom is establishing a business out of New Zealand, which will include a data center to host Me.ga, and he says it could be an example for others to use New Zealand as a base for cloud services.
Dotcom is a New Zealand resident, living in Auckland's North Shore. He says he wants to set up Me.ga in New Zealand because of its relatively cheap and clean power supply.
"You have clean and cheap energy here. Power is becoming the biggest cost factor for data centres around the world. With its own cable, cheap power, and connectivity New Zealand could attract foreign internet businesses," says Dotcom.
"The new Mega based in New Zealand might be what's needed to make this thing happen."
The two new services alone will require connection speeds of over two terabits within two years.
New Zealand could benefit from Pacific Fibre
Dotcom suggests resurrecting the failed Pacific Fibre submarine internet cable project, which fell short of its $400 million target earlier this year.
Dotcom says he was a supporter of the cable project, which would have connected New Zealand to Australia and the US. Two years ago Dotcom met with Mark Rushworth, co-founder and Pacific Fibre CEO, to discuss funding the cable and flew in the chief executive of Cogent Communications to discuss potential parnerships in the venture.
"I was always of the opinion that Pacific Fibre was the most important investment into the future of New Zealand to ensure its competitiveness in the online world,"says Dotcom.
"Unfortunately the government wants to invest more into tarmac roads,"says Dotcom.
"In 10 to 15 years most people will work and shop from home. You don't need tarmac, you need fibre."
When Pacific Fibre wound up, chair Rod Drury cited a lack of investment was the deciding factor in the project's failure.
Dotcom says he would raise investment domestically with backbone providers and through his Mega business, which would be the biggest customer on the cable.
If there is a shortfall, Dotcom says "Plan B" is to sue the US government for shutting down Megaupload and use any money recouped from civil proceedings to fund the cable.
Once the cable is live, Dotcom says New Zealand ISPs would be provided with free access to overseas connections for residential customers. Government and business connections would be charged for.
He expects this to reduce prices across the market for broadband data.
Rushworth says he wishes Dotcom all the best with the project. "It will be good for New Zealand if he gets it away."
He says the meeting with Dotcom and Cogent Communications two years ago took place over a "lovely lunch" at Dotcom's house. However a deal with Cogent didn't eventuate because most of that company's traffic is within the US and it isn't a big user of bandwidth in this part of the world.
Rushworth was unaware of Dotcom's new plans but he is open to "a swim at Kim's" (a reference to a pool party that Dotcom held for high profile tech commentator Ben Gracewood and friends earlier this year) to find out more.
Extradition could prevent cable being laid
When asked if he thought it would be difficult for a cable project backed by Dotcom to get consent to land the cable in the US because he is facing extradition, Rushworth agreed that it probably would.
Rushworth says he hasn't done any work on Pacific Fibre for the past two months, "other than to lie there and think how else can this be done?"
Pacific Fibre co-founder Sam Morgan has tweeted about Dotcom's plans. "Dear Journalists: I've not yet talked to Dotcom, but wish him all the best if he is going to do a cable. Not easy, but important for NZ."
TUANZ CEO Paul Brislen says the case for a second Internet cable is strong, but the failure of Pacific Fibre in the past will weigh on the minds of potential investors. He says Dotcom's influence might play a crucial role in any new venture.
"He's a strange character, but his contacts might be just what is needed for a second cable. If anyone could do it, it is him," says Brislen.
Brislen says getting a licence to land a cable in the US will be difficult considering Dotcom is currently facing extradition to the US on copyright charges. Dotcom's chances lie with Pacific Fibre and its consents and previous ventures.
Brislen says this could be a defining moment for the New Zealand technology scene in showing it is capable of supporting a cloud business the potential size of Me.ga.
According to Brislen, the Southern Cross Cable has spare capacity to support Dotcom's new business. In October, Southern Cross said it has a capacity of two terabits and is capable of expanding to 7 terabits. Brislen says it has the cash to expand its capacity further if needed.
In a conversation Brislen had with a Google executive recently he was told the deciding factors for building a Google data center in a country are its power supply, liveability for Google engineers, the number of IT graduates available and international connectivity.


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The next generation of smarter valves Part 2
Much improvement and change is expected in the design of smart and self-diagnosing control valves, with potential advantages outweighing the required investment of time and money.
By Béla Lipták
ACCORDING TO HANS Baumann, if existing control valves are built in conformance with IEC standard 60534-4-1, intelligent positioners can replace pneumatic or analog electronic positioners from the same supplier. Conformance to a new German VDI/VDE Standard 3847 would guarantee interchangeability between positioners made by different manufacturers.
The control signals into the smart positioners can be analog (4-20 mA) or digital (via bus systems). Among these, Foundation Fieldbus dominates in the USA, while Profibus is more commonly used in Europe.
Similar to electronic analog positioners, digital units are also available in "intrinsically safe" designs or with explosion proof housings, and are protected from EMC interference. They typically meet US/CSA as well as CENELEC (European) and CESI (Japanese) standards. The advantages of digital positioners relative to their analog counterparts are listed below:
- Increased accuracy, 0.1% to 1% vs. 0.3%-2% for analog.
- Improved stability, about 0.1% compared to 0.175%.
- Wider rangeability (without sacrificing accuracy) up to 50:1 compared to 10:1.
In addition, they are capable of performing multiple functions, self-testing and diagnostics; can be miniaturized, calibrated or adjusted without physical access to the instrument; and can use information that can not be measured or accessed by analog means.
Valve Performance Monitoring
Valve performance is usually monitored by checking valve calibration parameters, such as the zero position and the travel span of the valve. Additional tests can monitor the air pressure in the actuator as a function of stem travel and compare this signature against data that was obtained when the valve was newly installed.
A major deviation from the desired characteristic can be an indication of the valve stuffing box being too tight, the valve stem being corroded, or the actuator spring being damaged. When such conditions evolve, they can cause an increase in the dead band and the dead time of the valve, thereby creating a potential for instability and cycling in the control loop.
This test data can be called up via HART protocol and can be a vital part of the plant's asset management system. Some believe such data could also be transmitted over a fieldbus to a computer by a digital signal while the valve is actively controlling the process. Others argue that to measure the valve's performance, one has to provide an artificial offset to the control signal. Therefore, some plant operators are understandably reluctant to use this feature, because they fear that this offset to the control signal would cause too much disturbance to the process. As a result, one typically has to wait until the valve is out of service (process is shut down) in order to perform the functionality tests.
Future Trends and Tasks
Future uses of the intelligent positioner as "data transmitter" will no longer be restricted to monitoring the condition of the valve actuator but will most likely include:
- Monitoring the leakage of the valve's packing box or bellows using the output of suitably placed pressure sensors, or by "sniffing" the ambient air around the valve stem to detect toxic substances by means of a miniaturized chemical detector.
- Checking for fluid leakage between plug and seat by measuring the sound frequency detected by a sound pressure transducer (located within the valve housing) and comparing that against a known frequency profile.
- Discovering excessive seat leakage by comparing the controller output signal at low flow conditions with the same signal that was measured for the same low flow rate when the valve was new. Excessive leakage would be indicated if less travel (less opening) was required to obtain the same flow as when the valve was new.
An important feature of all positioners is the time they take to either evacuate all the air from the actuator (if the valve is "air-to-open") or to deliver the maximum air pressure to the actuator (if the valve is "air-to-close") when the control signal calls for the valve to be closed. When this occurs, to avoid seat leakage the positioner output signal must change rapidly to apply the maximum actuator force to the valve plug.
Some digital positioners also provide memory-embedded data such as the serial number, date purchased, vendor, tag number, valve size, etc. These are all useful for asset management purposes and are especially handy when the original valve serial plate is corroded and has become unreadable.
Future intelligent positioners may be able to receive their control signal via radio transmission. The difficulties with such techniques include reliability, path loss, RF interference, multi-path radio echoes, and the required transmission power. Most of all, these positioners will still require sufficient electrical power to operate their pneumatic and electronic components. Consequently, valve positioners will never be truly "wireless."
Changing the Valve's Characteristics
Another common feature of digital positioners is their ability to modify the relationship between the controller's output signal and the pneumatic output signal to the valve actuator. The effect of this relationship is to alter the valve's inherent flow characteristic. In addition to "quick opening," "linear" or "equal percentage," characteristics can also be user defined and custom programmed.
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- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:2 1/2 hours
- 3/4 cup juice and 1/2 tablespoon zest from 3 blood oranges
- 1/2 tablespoons honey
- 3 medium garlic cloves, minced (about 1 tablespoon)
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 1/2 tablespoons butter
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 whole, bone-in turkey breast, 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 pounds
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 pounds Idaho potatoes, peeled and halved (about 3 medium)
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 325°F. Combine blood orange juice, zest, honey, garlic, mustard, vinegar, pepper flakes, and butter in a medium saucepan. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until glaze has reduced by half, about 30 minutes. Transfer half of glaze to a container and set aside for serving.
Meanwhile, place turkey in roasting pan. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Arrange potatoes around the meat, season with salt and pepper and roast for 1 hour. Remove from oven, and baste turkey with glaze. Continue roasting, basting with additional glaze every 20 minutes until the skin is golden brown and an instant-read thermometer registers 165°F when inserted into the thickest part of the breast, 1 1/2 to 2 hours total. If the skin starts to get too dark, tent loosely with aluminum foil.
When the turkey is done, remove from the oven and allow to rest for 15 minutes. Carve from bone, slice, arrange on a platter with potatoes and drizzle with pan juices. Warm reserved glaze and serve alongside.
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If your answer is yes to either of those questions, why then does St. Paul call St. Philemon a fellow bondservant and laboror in the gospel???If he is committing this abominable act, why does St. Paul not excommunicate him like he would an abortionist, murderer, adulterer, or practicing homosexsual???
Well, it seems to me that the answer to the questions I quote (if not those "for the record") was already in the message to which you replied. Expressing outrage is less desirable than effecting change.
The truth of the matter is that if the South would have stayed in the Union they would have been able to keep their slaves.
There's no "truth of the matter" here. This is an opinion, not a fact.ÂÂ
There's no "truth of the matter" here. This is an opinion, not a fact.
Then why were some slave states part of the Union during the Civil War? Nobody even brought up the issue of slavery until well into the war. Lincoln never said that the war had to be fought to free the slaves. The only claim he ever made was that he believed the Union had to remain as a whole. Nobody can show any evidence where northern politicans said they were going to fight the south over the issue of slavery. The claim was always to perserve the union.
Nacho, how can a hypothetical situation be the "truth?" It can't, by definition, be the "truth." It's an opinion, not the "truth of the matter."ÂÂ
'If China nukes us, we will retaliate.'This is also a hypothetical statement, but more than merely an 'opinion.' It is both the Most Probable and Realistic Conclusion for the given Situation, on account of the evidence at hand. Accordingly, the Scenarios that Nacho and myself have put forward, though hypothetical, are more than mere 'opinion,' they are the Most Probably and Realistic Conclusions that can be drawn about the given situation from the facts available to us.
Jennifer,You're wrong on this one.
Your example is different. It *could* happen and therefore become truth. Nacho's statement cannot be be truth because it can never happen.ÂÂ
Take for example the counter-factual statement, "If I had been born female, I would look different than I do now." This is obviously true and it is obviously hypothetical.
I invite readers to go to this page and search for the word "slave" to see how often it appears in these documents.
Now try reading the reasons instead of counting particular words and taking them out of context. The issue with slavery and secession wasn't that the North was going to take away the South's slaves.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
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The exchange of goods and services through markets is as old as human civilization itself—indeed, depending on what one means by "markets" and "civilization," it may even be older. But the study of the economy, politics, and society as discrete subjects, together with their relationship, is a relatively recent historical development, beginning only in the eighteenth century—about the time of the American Founding. As the American conservative intellectual movement began to coalesce in the early 1950s, it was natural that economics—the "free economy," or more broadly, the "free society," with a rich civil society of associations beyond the reach of state control—would be a central theme of conservative reflection. On the one hand, libertarian-minded conservatives were still contesting the welfare state that Franklin Roosevelt had constructed in the 1930s, seeing it as a centralizing, socialist threat to liberty. On the other hand, the global ideological competitor for America and the West was Soviet communism, and of course, Karl Marx had claimed that politics and culture were merely surface phenomena, reflecting the "relationship to the means of production" in the economic "base" of society. Since Marxist-Leninists deployed economic arguments to address political, social, and moral questions, communism's adversaries would attempt to meet them on their own terrain, mustering economic arguments of their own. As a result, the intellectual project of American conservatives during the period of the Cold War was substantially shaped by classical liberal economic concepts.
"Classical" economic theory blossomed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with such thinkers as Adam Smith in Scotland and A. R. J. Turgot in France (though antecedents can be found in the sixteenth-century School of Salamanca, and even earlier). These early political economists believed that the self-interested choices of individuals in free markets—that is, markets in which buyers and sellers may trade freely and prices are determined by supply and demand rather than by government edict—would lead to greater prosperity for the whole of society. As Smith famously wrote in The Wealth of Nations, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." It was also believed that in a "commercial republic"—a consensual, rights-respecting polity oriented to commerce—the causes of war and civil war would be removed, and so an unprecedented social harmony was to be expected in the new regime. Manners would be "gentled" as "irrational" motives such as glory and religious devotion gave way to the decent, cautious virtues of the secular bourgeoisie.
Since we ourselves are inheritors of the legacy of the classical liberal economists, we too often fail to consider what a moral revolution these ideas entailed. The classical philosophy of the Greeks and Romans had affirmed the warrior virtues and generally contemned mere commerce as a servile occupation. Christian theology was wary of self-interest and considered riches a source of sinful temptation. Given the powerful arguments of these traditional perspectives, the theoretical victory of classical liberal economics has never been entirely secure—however successful liberal economics has been in practice.
In Smith's day, "civil society" was still a near synonym for "political society" or society in general, including, most decisively, the state. Over the course of the nineteenth century, however, the term came to signify instead those institutions of the social order which were independent of government—the myriad intermediary groups between the individual and the state, such as churches, neighborhoods, trade associations, guilds, labor unions, clubs, and, on some accounts, families. (Some nineteenth-century thinkers, such as G. W. F. Hegel, classified the family as a pre-civil institution, because the family tie is unchosen, involuntary.) Businesses typically were not considered part of civil society, on the theory that they are private rather than civil concerns. As the institutions of civil society came to be distinguished from both the state and the economy, the study of society became a discipline in its own right—"sociology," as Auguste Comte christened it.
Classical liberalism—the political expression of free-market economics that extends a concern for individual liberty to other spheres beyond the economy—supplied the dominant paradigm of political thought in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American world. Society and the economy, it held, would flourish best with minimal government intervention, and existing impediments to social and economic freedom should be abolished. This school of thought was not without its critics both among conservatives and on the newborn socialist Left. As early as 1790, the British statesman Edmund Burke had warned of the dangers attendant upon replacing an older social order with one conceived by rationalist "sophisters, calculators, and economists"—though Burke, a friend of Adam Smith, appreciated market freedom within its own sphere. Before long a literary backlash against liberalism, utilitarianism, and the "dark satanic mills" of the Industrial Revolution marshaled intellectuals into support for emerging working-class movements and various forms of socialism, including, after 1848, Marxism. Liberalism itself, meanwhile, frequently strayed from its laissez-faire ideals into imperialism (in Great Britain) and plutocracy (in the United States). Nevertheless, it was a liberal age, and as late as 1925 President Calvin Coolidge could justly say, "the chief business of the American people is business." What was not always acknowledged, nor reflected upon, was that the social context in which business flourished was built upon the civil associations Alexis de Tocqueville had described in Democracy in America.
Already by the time Coolidge spoke, the liberal social and economic order was approaching a crisis. Critics had long attacked the free-market economy along four lines, arguing that it was unjust because of the unequal distribution of wealth it produced; immoral because of the free rein laissez-faire gave to acquisitiveness and selfishness; inefficient relative to socialism, which could marshal much greater economies of scale by nationalizing entire industries; and inherently marred by "market failures" and the business cycle of booms and busts. World War I, which seemed to discredit the liberal dream of world peace through free trade, also gave socialists concrete examples of how governments could centrally plan national economies, and indeed society itself. The Soviet Union, which arose as one consequence of that war, looked to many intellectuals like the wave of the future. Finally, the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression dealt a near-fatal blow to the free-market system, shattering the American public's confidence in the market's ability to provide jobs and goods—and shattering as well the public's confidence in civil society's ability to provide independently for the sick, the destitute, and the aged.
Around the world, the economic downturn of the 1930s fed into socialist movements and new ideologies that proposed to use state power to save society and put people back to work. Benito Mussolini encapsulated the spirit of the age in his description of fascism: "Everything for the State; nothing outside the State; nothing against the State." This was the very inversion of classical liberalism: instead of the economy and civil society existing independently of the state—which, indeed, was conceived of as merely a framework for supporting the market and society—the economy and daily life would be subsumed under government power. Though nothing like overt socialism or fascism caught on in the United States, the direction of change was similar: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal expanded controls on the U.S. economy and erected a welfare state to fulfill functions once served by families and free associations within civil society.
Ironically, the man who would do most to undermine the free-market system in the U.S. and Great Britain was not an avowed socialist but a defender of capitalism. But this man, the British economist John Maynard Keynes, believed that capitalism had grown old and decrepit, in need of life-support from government. His was a vision, as his critic and fellow economist Joseph Schumpeter said, of "capitalism in the oxygen tent." Keynes believed, among other things, that in "late" capitalism the public had a propensity to save too much, which stalled the engine of the economy. To rev that engine back up, government must stimulate aggregate demand through public spending—particularly deficit spending. Roosevelt's New Deal, itself a project designed to rescue, rather than replace, the free market, was already well underway by the time Keynes published his seminal General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936. But Keynes's theory would provide a coherent philosophy for what had been ad hoc New Deal measures. And Keynesianism would endure as the basis for U.S. economic policy through the 1970s.
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