text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Some thoughts about working at the MLI Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Some thoughts about working at the MLI Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message holbrookJoined: 14 Jun 2003Posts: 60 Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 8:32 am Post subject: Some thoughts about working at the MLI Working at the MLI can be a positive or negative experience depending on the kind of person you are. On the one hand the pay and benefits are OK. They don't give you as much as some of the other Universities but then again, it's much more than you'd make in many other countries. The pay differences are only marginal for people without children anyway. If you have kids the difference in educational stipends add up to a few months salary. The biggest downside to working for the military is that your working for the military. There is so much ridiculous paperwork involved and hassles to go through to get the benefits stipulated in you contract. For example it takes about 6 weeks to bring your family over (sometimes more). At other schools you can bring them over with you. Also, taking one of your sick days means coming into work on-time and going through about two hours of hassle (including walking across the base in 120/45 degree heat to get permission from the doctor and then back to the school to submit the papers to the administration) Fun when you have pneumonia or something. You'll also never be exactly certain if and when you can take vacation and take your plain ticket. Getting the purchase order for your annual leave tickets is a life altering experience. Usually the tickets come through just in time (like two or three hours before you leave). Also fun when you have small children and lots of plan to make including non-refundable hotel reservations. You get free medical care at the military hospital (as long as you don't need anything complicated or difficult). Many things such as dental work take months to get finished. It took me 5 hours the other day just to get my child it's vaccination shot! If you want to buy a car or have a phone hooked up in your house it takes a lot of time because you have to apply for permission letters from GHQ which could take up to 2 weeks to get (and they will only issue one letter per employee per month, so don't try to buy a car, get a drivers license, open a bank account and install your phone or cable TV all in the first month). That's not going to be too much of a problem anyway as you don't receive you first check for about 6 weeks anyway. If you think that those little hassles are tolerable than you are right. They are annoying but you can work around them and still have a good time here. There are two things that everyone should know if they want to come here. This way you won't get angry about being deceived. The first one is about plane tickets. They say you get ANNUAL round trip plane tickets. This is true if you keep signing additional contracts. However if you plan only to stay for two years then you only get one vacation ticket. Your other round trip ticket was used getting you here and sending you home. They consider that a round trip! Every other school that I've ever heard of give you one vacation ticket each year and your original arrival ticket and departure ticket. The second thing is annual leave days. They say that you get 45 days of annual leave but be warned. This includes the weekends! Many of us came here thinking 45 days = 9 weeks. WRONG! 45 days equal six weeks. Also you can't take them as and when you want. Your supposed to take them in three week block or longer and can't take any during your last 3 months of contract. Worse still, when you leave with days left over you get payment at only 25%. So image you leave with 20 unused days they will pay you for 5. 5 days is not a week or a quarter of a months salary as you might expect. 5 days is 5/31st of a month. It really angers many people especially since you can't get a plane ticket your last year, so most people don't use many of those days. However, there are some positive aspect to working at the MLI. One, the job is very easy. Two the hours are shorter than other places. Three the contract, including housing and furniture (which used to be pathetic), have just been improved. The Emirati administration is very laid back and friendly. The only problem is that they can't always be as helpful as they would like because of bureaucratic problems and constraints. The students and Information Technology at the school aren't the best in the Emirates but they are adequate and steadily improving. There has been a change in administration here recently and no one knows for sure how that's going to effect things. The old American consultants that ran the school have left. It was rumored that a certain (very unpopular) person was going to take the reins but thankfully that appears not to be the case. However, no decisions have been announced as of yet. If he manages to regain position and elevate his standing here than this will not be a pleasant place to work. He is not supported or respected by the vast majority of teachers. He is arrogant, unfriendly, and other times down right rude. He never says hello to the teachers and although a Westerner himself (*******/Canadian) he seems to be very anti-western in his worldview. Ordinarily this is fine. Anyone can feel or think as they please. It's a free world. However this does effect his job performance as he is the sole teacher performance evaluator. Many of us here feel that he lets these personal feeling interfere with his supposedly professional judgment of who is a good teacher and therefore should pass probation or be renewed and who is not. He also seems to have it out for certain personality types (anyone who would disagree with him or his world view). You just have to wait and see for yourself. In the end, to be know what your getting into can go a long way to accepting and appreciating the situation your in. If I had know some of these things when I first came here, perhaps I wouldn't have had such sour feeling from the beginning. On a day to day basis the job is OK. However, little things add up. As the idiom says "the straw that broke the camel's back". There are a lot of straws. How many you can take is up to you. Holbrook June 18, 2003 Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject: tickets and vacation days It is good to have a second voice heard from in reference to MLI. Many, if not most of the things that are negative about your job seem to be typical in the Middle East. (and overseas work in general - especially as relates to working attached to foreign governments) I have worked for 5 different universities/colleges in 4 different countries in the Gulf and the first months were invariably a paper chase of epic proportions with phones, driving licenses, internet hookups, car buying, etc always hinging on something that your employer was holding up because of a required paper which they would blame on the visa department etc etc etc. (The happy exception is that Oman can often be very efficient and shock your system if you have lived in Kuwait, KSA, or the Emirates where things are often not smooth) Two to three months to get that first pay is not unusual and I have known people who got caught up in paperwork errors who took as many as six in all these places. As to the ticket situation, I have never been given a full ticket at the end of my contracts. It has always been starting with a one-way, a return when I was coming back to teach, and a one-way the summer I was leaving. I have found this to be the standard. So, MLI is certainly not doing anything unusual here. The same with vacation day counts. Every place that I have taught always counted the weekend days. I have never heard of a place that does not. I know of no institution that gives more than 2 calendar months in the Gulf. I know that many departments at Kuwait University don't really keep track of how long you're gone. All the other places that I have been counted the day - weekends and all - and even required that you turn in copies of the stamps in your passport to prove it. As to the clash of some people with the person that does the observations - I have heard both good and bad about this fellow. I wouldn't want to have that job because it is a position that invariably makes you enemies. There are always going to be people in any administration that some people don't like. Such is working life In full disclosure, I know a number of people who have worked and do work at MLI. They seemed to have no more than the average beefs with their employers. To be honest, I wouldn't want to work there, but that is because I would not like to teach in an all-male environment (yes, sexist, I know - sorry guys) especially military males. Holbrook, could you address the problem that MLI Vet seemed to suggest was common at MLI? He suggested repeatedly late pay and not receiving the 10% withholding when he left. I think both of you mentioned the problem of unused vacation days (that is a strange penalty that I have never encountered before - guess it forces you to think ahead and use those days before you go) So for any people considering employment at MLI, their hassles are not markedly worse than other places. I agree with Holbook that most of this would be tolerable and Abu Dhabi can be a nice place to live. It will be more interesting to see what happens in the future with the change in management. I hear that a new employment contract is being worked out. It is supposedly to get rid of the 10% withholding for one thing. We will have to wait and see --- VS Back to top TNTJoined: 19 Jun 2003Posts: 9 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 2:36 am Post subject: Thanks for info about MLI. Thanks to the writers above for their info on MLI. I have been actively looking through these message boards for such information as I am currently considering an MLI contract. Thanks so much for your time. This really helps me a lot! TNT Back to top Mark100Joined: 05 Feb 2003Posts: 441 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 5:02 am Post subject: VS I have to agree that all institutions in the Gulf count the weekend in the hols. There is one place KFUPM in Dhahran that offers more than 2 months hols. They get about 18-22 weeks depending on the year. Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject: Mark100 - I try not to speak too much for what happens in KSA since as a single woman, along with avoiding all-male teaching situations, I also avoided KSA. It does give higher pay and better benefits as it must for the less desirable working and living conditions. I am sure that there are others in Saudi that give longer breaks, but it has seemed to me in the last few years that summer leaves are shrinking in many Gulf jobs. Almost every time I switched jobs, semester breaks and summer leaves were shorter. Another example of how jobs in the Middle East have been changing in the past 20 years ?? VS Back to top Stephen JonesJoined: 21 Feb 2003Posts: 4124 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 5:31 pm Post subject: Most schools and universities in the Gulf give acadmic holidays. So you should be managing three months a year (two months at summer and the Ramadan and Hajj holidays). When neither Ramadan nor Hajj coincide with the end semester break then you can manage a little more. The longest holidays I ever had were in Kuwait. I managed half term, Christmas, Ramadan, Easter and Hajj apart from the summer holiday one year (didn't save up much though!). Jordan also has both the Christian and Muslim holidays so the school year goes down to about 155 days as opposed to the 180 that are mandatory in England. The country with the most holidays in the world is Sri Lanka because you get the Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim holidays. Mind you, it does mean you have to be careful when you go on holiday as you can find all tha banks closed at the strangest of times. Back to top holbrookJoined: 14 Jun 2003Posts: 60 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 3:26 am Post subject: In response to the comments posted by veiled sentiments I would like to offer some rebuttals. First. Veiled sentiments claims that most places in the middle have problems paying their employees for months after their arrival. This is most certainly not true in the U.A.E.. Most universities in the U.A.E. like Zayed University, HCT, and U.A.E.U. not only pay you the first month but also give you around $10,000 U.S. upon arrival as part of your furniture allowance and relocation reimbursement. They take you to the bank your first day to open the account and deposit that money. Moreover, your normally put up in a hotel during the first week so you can settle in easily. Most of us MLIers arrive on a Thursday night and are dropped off penniless in a filthy apartment with no food except for an apple and a sandwich kindly prepared by the coordinator out of his own pocket. Of course, on Friday morning when you wake up hungry, tired and jet-lagged you cannot find anyplace to eat that is open, because it is Friday. You do not have a phone. You do not know anyone. And if it is summer you ca not even go outside to look because it is so hot. Fun. Second. While veiled sentiments seems to think one vacation ticket is standard for a two year contract, this is clearly not the case at most U.A.E. universities. At the three universities mentioned above it is One vacation ticket for each year worked, plus arrival and return one ways. Moreover, the policy at MLI is in direct contradiction to the contract as worded. I would like to quote from my contract: "Article 10: Air Tickets …..will provide the second party with air tickets as follows: a) For joining from home to the U.A.E. b) For annual leave to home and back –ONCE IN A YEAR. c) At the end of his service to his home." Notice how it has three parts, one for arrival, one for termination and one calling for a vacation ticket for each year not for each contract period!! This is blatant thievery! Third. I think that veiled sentiments is right about the counting of vacation days here. Many places do seem to count weekends as vacation days. This being said, it makes you angry when you first figure it out. However it is not correct that less than two months is the standard vacation amount in the U.A.E. At most universities here it is two months plus a few days in the summer AND two to three weeks in the winter. Not 45 days including weekends. Fourth. Yes it is true that most of the better jobs here do come with observations and lots of hoops to jump through. One difference is that many times those observations are performed by people with extensive teaching experience and by people who receive at least a modicum of respect from the teachers being observed. Not true in this case. Also, other places usually have a number of people involved in the process. This decreases the chance of personality conflicts becoming a major determining factor in the performance review. Reviews from a single source are clearly more vulnerable to basis than those done by a group of people. Finally I would like to answer veiled sentiments question about the 10 percent withholding. It looks like that is going to be a thing of the past. It was a part of my contract and I expect to get it back when I leave here, as most people do (It does take 4 to 6 weeks after you contract termination date to collect this deposit and your last 2 months pay). The stuff that you here about two years with holding is a thing of the past and was just bureaucratic bumbling. A final note on the days most recent gossip. Apparently the new contracts are going to be implemented across the board and all teachers will sign the new and improved contracts on the same day sometime this summer. Yippy! There is one catch though. Any unused vacation days that the teachers have left from the old contract are to be voided with or without compensation ( No one seems sure on this point but if compensated it will be at 25% of salary). Moreover all teachers scheduled to take leave are going to be asked to return early to sign that contract which of course voids any of the remaining days that they still had left on their leave. Still plenty of time for this one to be worked out but sounds scary. Cheers Holbrook Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:20 am Post subject: Tickets and holidays Dear Holbrook, I work in Saudi Arabia, not the UAE, so perhaps my comments aren't relevant. But I have worked here for quite a while and I do know a lot about the UAE. I agree with veiledsentiments about: 1. The ticket - I have NEVER heard of any place in the Middle East that would give you a round-trip ticket AND a " back home " ticket in your final year of service. I think you are misreading the contract ( the original is probably in Arabic, anyway, and translations are not always that accurate. ) 2. The vacation/weekends matter - once again, I have NEVER heard of any place in the Middle East that did not count the weekends as part of the holiday. In fact, we usually get " extra days " since the summer holidays often start on Saturdays - so most people leave on Wednesday night. Regards, John Back to top AfraJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 389 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:29 am Post subject: Tickets and holidays HCT and ZU certainly provide tickets for all eligible family members from the home base to the UAE. A return ticket each year for all eligible family members, including the final year of the contract, and a ticket out for all eligible family members. Holidays are calendar days, not working days so weekends are counted except the first and last. All public holidays are paid holidays. This coming academic year, Eid al Adha falls during the mid-year break so that holiday should be extended for another week, however, until this happens . . . Back to top mli_vetJoined: 11 Jun 2003Posts: 99 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject: Keep hammerin', Holbrook! You're hitting the nail on the head, Holbrook! Better than I could have put it. That ticket deal is bogus, thievery indeed! And just 25% for unused holiday time?!? What a joke! These are real issues, real problems that it would be nice to know about before signing. MLI Vet Over and Out [email protected] Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 3:38 pm Post subject: Final Travel Tickets and a bit more I avoid using HCT and ZU as my examples of Middle East employers. They tend to be the exception to every rule - so to speak - as if there were any rules controlling all this. And I have heard nightmare stories about things that have happened at UAEU - although they have supposedly cleared up many of the problems that they had in the 90's. (mostly with no set pay pattern, everyone getting different rates - not paying for overtime - either very late or not at all - all this info should be still in the job information journal) Yes, HCT and ZU are happily places that get you on the payroll quickly - 'il'hamdullilah!!' If only they were all that way. HCT put me into the hotel for my X number of days, handed me a check for furniture and then tried to put me into a flat that had a major construction site just under the bedroom windows (just blasting the hole - a couple of years of 24 hour contruction to follow. I refused it. They told me that they would stop paying for my hotel. I said fine, they could just drive me back to the airport. They decided they could pay a few more days. They found me an acceptable flat and told me that I had to be out of the hotel by the next day. The flat had nothing - no carpet, no appliances - bare concrete floors and plumbing. I told them I would move in when it was habitable. They said that they wouldn't pay for the hotel any longer. I again suggested that perhaps a ride to the airport may be our best choice. They decided that they could pay the couple days that it took to get it carpeted and basic furniture (appliances and a mattress). So all is not always smooth and perfect with dear HCT either. MLI seems to follow the Kuwait University system - dump you penniless into a roach infested flat - no pay for the first two or three months (or was it four). The department head did take me shopping the next morning and would have lent me money if I had no already been prepared for the circumstances - warned beforehand by both her and other teachers. And don't even get me started on the HCT observation and 'professional development' game!! Some of their colleges are nightmares in this regard. As to tickets, I managed to find my HCT contract: Annual Leave Tickets 12. 'The Employee shall be eligible to receive return air tickets between the UAE and the Country of Residence... subject to the following: (next page) 12.2 'In the case of terminal leave at the conclusion of the contract the air tickets will be in accordance with provisions for Relocation. (14 pages later in appendix) 10. End of service ticket from the UAE to (contract home)' (Summary: a standard 3 year contract got two returns and two one-ways.) I would be very surprised if the ZU contract is different since these two colleges tend to follow pretty much the same procedures as they are supervised by the same Ministry. But, I have not read their contracts. SQU in Oman had wording similar to the MLI. The reality was that if you wished to take advantage of that second return ticket, you had to take leave for your 60 days and then come back and go through the exit procedures (at a time when the admin staff who handle it would also be on leave making completion darn near impossible). Since most people were heading off to a new job in another country, they usually just packed up their stuff and took their one way ticket and left. Certainly they could have packed up their stuff and left with their return ticket in hand, but they wouldn't have checked out and been able to get their gratuity. Since most everyone stayed for at least four years, this was usually a tidy little sum to give up. Kuwait University contract: 5. One economy class air ticket for you, shall be issued at the beginning and end of the contract between Kuwait and your permanent place of residence... Summer holiday tickets are issued according to the above procedures. (pretty vague, but I can pretty much guarantee that no one ever got a return ticket at the end of their second contract year unless they had renewed.) Can't find my other contracts - luckily for all of you. As I said, I can only speak from my own years of experience and that of my many friends. Through the years it seemed a common thread over drinks in the local pub was the sharing of these kinds of stories. To survive in the Middle East, you need patience and a sense of humor. If you allow yourself to become bitter over the hiccups and vagaries of an imperfect system, you shouldn't go. That is what makes a board like this so useful. People that read our messages and are bothered by our personal examples of things gone wrong should just consider teaching in some other part of the world. For those who can go with the flow - 'ahlan wa sahlan' - I wouldn't trade my years of experience over there for anything - problems and all. 'hallas haalas' (enough already...........finished) VS Back to top mli_vetJoined: 11 Jun 2003Posts: 99 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:50 pm Post subject: Shukran Jazeelan Shukran Jazeelan Mr. Veiled Sentiments. Your contract research helps put things into perspective. But I must confess I lean toward Holbrook's interpretation of the MLI contract. I wasn't in the first cadre of MLI recruits, but this first batch reported that MLI GHQ did follow this clause in the beginning. It is certainly open to misinterpretation! If you're not the R. M. Amideaster, here's another guess. Just in case, I'll try not to blow your cover: VS = Vanced Sentiments ?!? Perhaps, perhaps not. Cheers in any case and Ma'a Salamma dude (Californian?). How's the CALL going these days? Ashoofak later dude. MLI Vet Over and Out [email protected] Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject: Well boys I just checked and darned if I am not still a woman. Just as I have been for the last 50 some years. I did ask my mother to make sure and she swore it was true. It gives your position little validity when you have to resort to insulting someone who does not agree with you. Even when given evidence to show that I am not creating my side of the story. You both have given your valid complaints in reference to your experiences. I have noted those in my posting (re late pay and vacation pay cuts), and I have been able to give my side without resorting to immature insults or silly accusations. VS (Sorry, not Vance - though I do know him from Oman long ago) Back to top holbrookJoined: 14 Jun 2003Posts: 60 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 4:44 am Post subject: sorry Dear veiled sentiments, I would like to say I'm sorry for the implication that you were Randall Martin. It is just so hard for many of us here now, living through the MLI as it is now, to understand how a personal not immediately connected to the administration here to devote so much time to defend it. I'm sure you can see how strange that may seem to some of us. But enough about this. As you said before I'm sure you just have a lot of free time on your hands and enjoyment of vigorous debate. Me too. Rereading the postings made on this list about the MLI I feel that we are not really catching the essence of the problem. It is true that contractually maybe the MLI is better than some places and worse than others. But there is more going on here than just that. I haven't made many posts to this list in the 5 years that I've been reading it. For the most part this is because I don't like complainers too much. I have always thought that if you dont' like some place than you should just leave. That's what many of us did with our home countries or other countries that we've lived or worked in. But the mood here at the MLI has gone so sour so quickly it's hard to keep quite about it. It's not just the contract or the administration. It's the contract and the administration and everything else working together. It's also a lot about personalities. I left the last job and country that I was working in because I thought everyone was complaining too much over nothing. I came here looking for better. I liked the MLI because it seemed so professional and cutting edge. As of late this place has slid to point of such low moral that I feel like I'm student in high school or worse. There is so much drama, politics, backstabbing, etc. No one here seems happy. When rumors of the new contract began receiving confirmation everyone was very excited. The bad stuff seemed to be going away. Little by little the small details of the new contract have changed. First they said we would receive furniture allowances, then they said not exactly. Instead of an allowance to spend as we like we will receive a batch of new furniture bought by other people on our behalf. They also said we'd get end of service bonuses, then they said not exactly. Instead of one months pay for each year worked we will get about 70% of one month's salary for every two years worked. Now they say that we will all sign these new contracts on August 1st regardless of when our old contract expires or our scheduled annual leave vacations. And once we sign the new contract all previously unused vacation days are immediately voided! Many of us have paid reservations, travel plans to see our families, family weddings to go to, etc. Too bad! Some teachers have 40,50, up to even 70 days vacation built up. Just come back on August 1st to sign the new contract and sit around with no classes to teach for 23 days. Why? Because administratively it is easier for them, so that's the way it is. People here are reaching there boiling point. Sorry for such a long posting but what can I do? I have a lot to say. There's probably more to come as well. Holbrook Back to top mli_vetJoined: 11 Jun 2003Posts: 99 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject: What insult VS ?!? It was a guess (perhaps, perhaps not) ! Wait a minute here VS, nobody's doing any insulting! Sorry Ms.Veiled Sentiments, but I didn't really think it was an insult to take a guess as to who you might be. You've gotta admit, Holbrook and I had reason for wondering why someone not really at MLI would have such in interest in defending MLI/GHQ, specifically as in asking a person to address a very particular contractual issue. Ever hear that Tom Sawyer story where Tom was playing a girl but didn't fool the lady when he (playing she) tried to catch something in his (her) lap? (boys cross their legs to catch, girls--used to anyway--spread their skirts according to American author Mark Twain) I have to admit that that thought crossed my mind. But see here now, I did add the "perhaps, perhaps not" didn't I? And I added "just in case" as well! So don't take it as an insult VS, cause it wasn't intended as such. You're right about this being "silly", but silly things do happen as those of us who've lived in the ME know. Another "silly" thought that crossed my mind was the mental image of a certain veiled CALL Coordinator whom we both seem to know--Veiled Ste****. Now that's a picture! Did you hear the one about the Abu Dhabi teens (locals) who put on abayas and sneaked into an Emirati bride's wedding tent to get a glimpse of the women? The women became suspicious when the 2 guys didn't remove their veils as everyone else did, and they were busted, pictures published in the Gulf News and all! That thought came to mind as well. So see, men can wear veils too! It happens !!! Lighten up! As for the validity of my position/postings, well that's a more serious issue. There are serious issues which, if Holbrook is correct, are just going to fester some more rather than being resolved. This is a big deal! Why should this have to happen anyway? The MLI Admin/GHQ don't have to jerk teachers around like this ! ! ! If they've got the power to change the contract and make teachers sign again, why can't they just get it right? I had quite a few vacation days left at the end of my tenure and was very disappointed to learn that not only would I not be receiving my "annual" contractual vacation tickets, but that I would also be receiving only 25% salary for these unused days. That's gougery, plain and simple! And the gougery looks set to continue on indefinitely, i.e. 70% of a months salary "gratuity" for every 2 years! (Wow! Thanks GHQ--everyone else gets a month's salary for each year of service according to UAE Labor Law from which the UAE Armed Forces seems to think it has an exemption). "New" furniture, purchased no doubt from local big wig Colonel Al somebody or other (maybe one of the Al Suweidi/Al Shamsi/Al Dhahiri furniture stores ). As I've already said, I'll be over and out soon enough. This gougery is ridiculous, and I for one won't just keep my head down and be quiet about it. If people know about this, guess what? MLI/GHQ will have to change these policies of gougery if they want to attract and retain qualified ELT professionals. We've gotta deal with these straws here and keep that camel's back from breaking ! 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Wendy Davis calls on Greg Abbott to stop defending same-sex marriage ban
SAN ANTONIO — Sen. Wendy Davis said Thursday that she supports same-sex marriage and that Attorney General Greg Abbott, her presumed general-election opponent in the race for governor, should stop defending the state's ban.
"It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation," Davis told the Express-News editorial board.
Davis, D-Fort Worth, said she is "pleased" that the state's constitutional definition of marriage, as being between a man and a woman, is under challenge in federal court.
"I think that what we see happening at the federal level in terms of constitutional interpretations on that provide some hope that it may be found unconstitutional," she said.
The Republican attorney general's office is defending the constitutional provision.
Asked if she would call on him to stop doing so - as she earlier called on Abbott this week to reach a settlement in a state school funding lawsuit - Davis said that "makes perfect sense. We've seen that happen."
She cited such decisions by Virginia and Nevada.
"Obviously our AG has the capacity to do the same if he chooses to do so," she said. Asked if she would call on him to do so, she said yes.
Abbott spokesman Matt Hirsch scoffed at Davis' urging.
"Unlike Senator Davis' positions on the issues, the Texas constitution is not subject to change on the latest whims of the day. Senator Davis' comment suggesting the Attorney General not enforce the Constitution mimics an Obama-style approach to government, and Texans deserve better," Hirsch said.
Davis, asked if she would push to repeal the state constitutional provision on gay marriage if elected governor, said, "I would certainly open up that conversation with the Legislature.
"I think it's important, and I think that people across this country are evolving on that issue and moving in a direction that demonstrates support for it, so I think it is time to re-open that conversation and ask Texans where they are on it to see if that's something that we might change legislatively if it doesn't happen constitutionally," she said.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Follow Friday - From One Extreme to Another!
I'm amazed at ignorance, although I know I shouldn't be. If you haven't read Marian Pierre-Louis' blog post, "And So She Risks Everything by Being Completely Honest," over at Roots and Rambles, you really need to. Perhaps those tactless individuals were indeed joking, but it really doesn't matter. Just because someone hasn't gotten letters after their name yet doesn't mean that they are any less a researcher/genealogist/family historian. It means that they don't have letters after their name. Maybe some day they will. Maybe some day they won't, but it doesn't make that person inexperienced, unqualified or any less than another. It means THEY DON'T HAVE LETTERS AFTER THEIR NAME! I'm not sure if they had their heads jammed in the sand or somewhere else!
Now I'd like to move to something of a more solemn nature. A remembrance posted by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. I've posted about the VVMF previously. I love the fact that they are looking to put a face with every name that is inscribed on the Vietnam Wall. The VVMF posted on Monday about a Vietnam Hero that does not appear on the Vietnam Wall, because he made it home alive and died saving others (thousands of others) in the WTC on 9/11. Go and read the post, "10 Years Later and No One Has Forgotten." It was incredibly moving. A true hero.
A great point made by none other than Dick Eastman (always an excellent source for information), was a post "Copyright Myths." We deal with these issues daily whether we are hearing about someone taking from us or from one of our colleagues (hopefully not us taking improperly from someone else.). It's always nice for a little refresher. Wouldn't it be nice if the people that needed the refresher would read this? Ah well...we can always hope! Thanks for the post, Dick!
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Rays Foundation donates to 17 nonprofit organizations
ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- The Rays Baseball Foundation, the official charity of the Rays, awarded a total of $100,000 to 17 local nonprofit organizations through the Community Fund Grant Program on Tuesday.
"The Rays Baseball Foundation is proud to recognize and support these community organizations and their valuable work," said Matt Silverman, team president. "Each year, we see evidence of how our partnerships with nonprofit organizations help strengthen our community and we look forward to extending that impact with our new partners."
The Rays Community Fund Grant Program provides assistance to local nonprofits in the Tampa Bay region. Grants worth up to $10,000 are awarded to help support and enhance current programs offered by community-based nonprofit organizations. To date, the Community Grant Fund Program has awarded more than 130 grants to local charities totaling $672,500. The Rays will award a second round of grants from the 2013 Community Fund Grant in September. Applications for those grants will be available on raysbaseball.com/community beginning June 1.
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Another storm hits Northeast; 'Oh, not again'
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The latest storm to roll off nature's assembly line this bustling winter spread heavy snow and sleet along the Northeast corridor Thursday, while utility crews in the ice-encrusted South labored to restore power to hundreds of thousands of shivering residents.
The sloppy weather shuttered schools and businesses, made driving scary, grounded more than 6,000 flights on Thursday alone and created more back-breaking work for people along the East Coast, where shoveling out has become a weekly chore -- sometimes a twice-weekly one.
"Snow has become a four-letter word," said Tom McGarrigle, chairman of the Delaware County Council, in suburban Philadelphia.
Baltimore awoke to 15 inches of snow. Washington, D.C., had at least 8, and federal offices and the city's two main airports were closed.
Philadelphia had nearly 9 inches, making it the fourth 6-inch snowstorm of the season -- the first time that has happened in the city's history. New York City received nearly 10 inches. Parts of New Jersey had over 11. The Boston area was expecting 4 to 6, while inland Connecticut and Massachusetts were looking at a foot or more.
In New Cumberland, Pa., Randal DeIvernois had to take a rest after shoveling his driveway. His snow blower had conked out.
"Every time it snows, it's like, oh, not again," he said. "I didn't get this much snow when I lived in Colorado. It's warmer at the Olympics than it is here. That's ridiculous."
At least 17 deaths, most of them in traffic accidents, were blamed on the storm as it made its way across the South and up the coast.
The victims included a man hit by a falling tree limb in North Carolina and a truck driver in Ashburn, Va., who was working to clear snowy roads. He was standing behind his vehicle when he was hit by a dump truck.
Across the South, the storm left in its wake a world of ice-encrusted trees and driveways and snapped branches and power lines.
About 750,000 homes and businesses were left without power in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama, with scattered outages reported in the mid-Atlantic.
More than 200,000 households and businesses in the Atlanta area alone were waiting for the electricity to come back on. Temperatures were expected to drop below freezing again overnight.
In North Carolina, where the storm caused huge traffic jams in the Raleigh area on Wednesday as people left work and rushed to get home in the middle of the day, National Guardsmen in high-riding Humvees patrolled the snowy roads, looking for stranded motorists.
North Carolina Emergency Management Director Mike Sprayberry said there was no way to estimate how many had gotten stuck in their vehicles.
Some roads around Raleigh remained clogged with abandoned vehicles Thursday morning. City crews were working to tow the vehicles to safe areas where their owners could recover them.
By late Thursday morning, parts of northern Georgia had over 9 inches of snow, while North Carolina ranged from 6 inches in cities to up to 15 inches in mountainous areas. Parts of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania were reporting 15 to 18 inches.
Pat O'Pake, a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation plow operator with more than 20 years on the job, began his grueling 12-hour shift at midnight, plying a stretch of Interstate 78 in Berks County.
"It's like a dog chasing its tail all day," O'Pake said as he drove his 14-ton International at a steady 37 mph. "Until it stops snowing, and then we'll catch up at the end. We always do. It just takes a while."
The procession of storms and cold blasts -- blamed in part on a kink in the jet stream, the high-altitude air currents that dictate weather -- has cut into retail sales across the U.S., the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Sales dipped 0.4 percent in January.
"It's been a tough winter. It seems like it will never end," said Deb Ragan, clearing a sidewalk in downtown Philadelphia.
Many school systems have run out of school days. South Carolina lawmakers will consider letting school boards forgive up to five days of canceled classes.
On the National Mall in Washington, 8-year-old Lucas Moore was out having fun with his father and thinking about how all the snow days may come back to haunt him.
If they do cut into summer, I'm going to be, like, really mad and trying not to go to school," he said. "When it's summer, play time."
In New York City, the teachers union and TV weatherman Al Roker blasted Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to keep the schools open. Roker, who was in Russia for the Winter Olympics but has a daughter in New York's public schools, said on Twitter: "It's going to take some kid or kids getting hurt before this goofball policy gets changed."
The mayor said many parents depend on schools to watch over their children while they are at work.
The dangerous weather threatened to disrupt deliveries of Valentine's Day flowers.
"It's a godawful thing," said Mike Flood, owner of Falls Church Florist in Virginia. "We're going to lose money, there's no doubt about it."
Associated Press writers Kevin Begos in Pittsburgh; Michael Rubinkam in Berks County, Pa.; Kathy Matheson in Philadelphia; Sarah Brumfield and Brent Zongker in Washington; Matthew Barakat in Falls Church, Va.; and David Dishneau in Frederick, Md.; contributed to this report.


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Helio Castroneves was braking hard into a turn during practice for this weekend's debut of the Baltimore Grand Prix when, out of nowhere, Tony Kanaan went flying over Helio's car and into he wall. Kanaan would later blame a stuck throttle, but after shotgunning five seasons of The Wire in one week we're suspicious.
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There's nothing sadder than a big blank space where your cable show's programming schedule used to be. Exactly what fate has befallen Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller, the Versus series that made America fall in love with elephant polo references once again? It's a mystery (for some reason, Versus isn't returning my calls). All that remains of it on the Versus site is this smoking husk, which includes nary a word on the fate of the series that debuted just a scant two months ago.
My best guess is that the show has been canceled. But instead of mourning, I prefer to remember the good times; guests like Jose Canseco, Pete Rose and Warren Sapp (did Miller ever land someone who was actually still active?). Segments like "Ask Dennis," and "Photo Captions." The commercials for bull riding. Good times. It's also possible that Dennis just ditched the whole thing to concentrate on his next big enterprise: NBC's Amne$ia, the game show. Yep, that's a dollar-sign you see in place of the S ... so you know it's going to be good.
Oh well, at least we can count on Friday Night Lights being around forever and ever.
Ben Silverman Loves Friday Night Lights (But It's About To Get Cancelled) [TV Squad]
Sports Unfiltered With Dennis Miller [Versus]
Dennis Miller Explains It All: On Versus! [Deadspin]


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Total RecallTotal RecallTotal Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.
In 1988, Taito released Akira, cash-in on the hugely-popular animated film of the same name. Just in case you were wondering if Japanese developers somehow made better movie adaptations in the 1980s, no, they did not. The game was terrible.
Still, that's mostly second-hand information, as most Westerners have never actually played the game, since it was never released in English.
It has now! A fan translation means you too can experience the drudgery of clicking around static screens on a Famicom (well, your PC).
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I have a system with two accounts. The primary (and administrator) account automatically logs in at boot time and is used 95% of the time. On occasion I need to logout and switch to a secondary account dedicated to part time work which is set to log in without a password (just click login). When I log out of that account I would like to log back into the other without a password but I don't see any way to set that as an option in the "Users and Accounts".
I know how to get disable the password when the screen goes to sleep and I want to keep the password intact because it seems like it is necessary for administrative purposes. Having something that could easily be reversed would also be a plus (in other words just re-enable the password for login).
This is marked as a duplicate, but that question does not answer my specifics and the methods referenced do not show up in my stock 13.04 install. I have placed an answer below that did fit the bill.


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From time to time, I often hear of stories that it's harder to find administrators who have a solid knowledge of Oracle Solaris when compared to Linux. Oracle Solaris can be an intimidating operating system to come to terms with for those who are used to dealing with Linux on a daily basis, particularly if they've had previous perceptions of what it would be like or former experiences with much, much older versions of Solaris. With Oracle Solaris 11 development, one of the primary goals was to greatly modernize the operating system and make it easier to use, remove some of the uneccessary differences between the two operating systems, and remove some of the frustrations that people have had. I believe we've done exactly that with the introduction of Oracle Solaris ZFS as the default root file system, the Image Packaging System (IPS) and much more familiar installation experiences with the LiveCD and interactive text installer. It's now even easier to approach Oracle Solaris, install it into a virtual machine and give it a spin!
One of the help guides that I've recently written is a mapping guide between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Solaris 11. Essentially for each general technology area, I list of the main features of Oracle Solaris 11, their advantages and how the command lines and configuration files map between the two operating systems - whether it's between RPM and IPS, KVM and Oracle Solaris Zones, Upstart and the Service Management Facility (SMF). It's designed to give administrators who are familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux a first step for where to go to get more information. So, if you're struggling with trying to get started with Oracle Solaris 11, look no further.
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Assorted notes on the metaphysical notion of 'sharing'Schmidt, Kjeld (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In CSCW, phrases such as 'shared goal' or 'shared understanding' are often used to denote what is taken to be a defining feature of cooperative work or at least what is thought to be an essential precondition of the orderliness without which cooperative work in practice is impossible; that is, these terms are used in an explanatory function [e.g., 1; 6]. To take but one example: In one of her articles on 'situation awareness' the muchcited Mica Endsley posits: 'In a smoothly functioning team, each team member shares a common understanding of what is happening on those [Situation Awareness] elements that are common — that is, they have shared situation awareness, which refers to the overlap among the SA requirements of the team members.' However, she prudently adds, 'The concept of shared mental models is not universally heralded' and 'The development of shared mental models has not been the subject of much research' [4, pp. 48, 52 f.]. A 'shared situation awareness'? A 'shared mental model'? What does she mean? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8567
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Abstract: The medical record, the collection of notes and other documents concerning a particular patient, is a time-honored and robust institutional artifact. However, with patients with chronic ailments that typically are treated and monitored by multiple clinical workers, sometimes at different institutions, the medical record is more than 'beginning to burst': it is beginning to fragment. This becomes clear from our ongoing study of the coordinative practices of clinical workers dealing with patients with 'implantable cardioverter-defibrillators' (ICDs), i.e., pacemakers that dub as defibrillators.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8418
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Rumor is that Traxxas is producing an LCG chassis for Slash 4x4, and so is STRC.. Heres a diagram of leaked pic.
Info @ Bigsquidrc.com
This is of course nothing new, Intro Team RCE, and SSC. But still cool to see a more main stream company doing it. More the merrier.
Build, Bash, Clean, Repair, Repeat..
Nice...info on price should be interesting
ERBE,Losi 8ight,Slash 4X4
Yeah very sweet, can't wait to see
Looks like a shortened xo1.
looks like the Team RCE one
SL4SH Mamba Monster-Rustler Mamba Max 2400kv
I would think that Traxxas would make it out of a material like their standard 4x4 chassis now. That's interesting to see, don't know how much more I will wait before buying a LCG. Lots at the local shop are suggesting to just go to Losi SCTE ten.. I really like Traxxas and the fact they are here in Dallas.
Yet I would like to compete better with the Losi on the track. If Traxxas was going to make a LCG for sure I would hold off. Wish they would announce something either way..
Got to go research LCG's more!
STRC has a blurred image of this on their website now.
I'm curious if I should wait for this or get the ssc
Goto rctech or rcshortcourse to see the newest cad drawing.
I'd wait until wyd gets his proto..... it looks like it will be worth it!! @ $99!
Will the bottom be aluminum
i've been doing some research on these short course trucks...i've looked at the ssc slash...the AE...the Losi...the Durango...and the Ofnas...and even with this new LCG chassis coming out...i'm liking the Ofna Nexx-SC10...
shaft drive with center tranny...diff at the front and rear...pillow ball pivot...lcg aluminum chassis...aluminum where it counts...yeah so it's weak at the a-arms...but all trucks have their weakness....u just gotta pick ur poison...
i'll wait to see if traxxas will come up with anything new that will make me go wow....but for now...i'll do more research...
still leaning towards the nexx sc10....(btw...i hate Losi and AE...gonna boycott their products...don't care how good they are...personal preference).
In the first pic, the drive shaft is not reaching the center diff. Is it gonna be longer????
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
Aluminum chassis....CF top plate.
Hmmm, looks like the SSC LCG chassis, perhaps with a carbon fibre top plate.
Slash 4X4 SSC , T-MAXX, Revo and Bandit
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is it worth waiting for? how long? any ideas or rumors
Looks are deceiving. It has a much different motor mount than any of the current setups and is way easier to adjust the motor. It will have a 4mm aluminum chassis with a 2.5mm graphite topdeck. Another feature is the chassis is 125mm wide and the servo will lay flat on the chassis to have a lower cg than what is currently out on the market today. Battery placement is fully adjustable as well. Chassis will be out right around the 1st week in October and be priced right around 99.95.
Another cool thing is is Steve has is have a series of articles on the STRC website that will take the customer thru coming up with the idea to the finished product like never posted before by an R/C company. If you want to read some cool stuff then check it out. You can also find a little backround on Steve and how he started in R/C. This is something I never seen from an R/C company in 25 plus years so for those new or old it makes for some great reading.
Its fact and is not a rumor. Roughly first week in November. I will have pics of it in two weeks but not on this site as they might frown upon that so it will be on two other popular sites under the STRC LCG chassis.
Sorry I did make a mistake in my first post. The chassis will be out around 1st week in November is the date STRC is working hard to make happen for the release of the new LCG chassis setup.
i think im going to pass on the ssc and get this
So yeah, I need to spend more money!!!!
Slash 4X4, MM 2200kv
Tekno Bigbone
It will be worth the wait because you will get a lot of bang for your buck. I will have pics for everyone of my test version in about 2 weeks. The original test version is getting picked up today and installed. After Steve uses it for the week it is being sent to me and I will install it on my Slash and race it for 2 weeks plus testing at 2 or 3 different tracks. I will be posting my report on a few different sites as well as this one.
I've been waiting on pulling the trigger on the 4x4 for quite a long time.. I guess I'm happy to wait a little longer if they're going to come stock with an LCG chassis now.
Slash 2WD, Slash 4WD, T-Rex 250
It's only money!
This chassis is not stock...
Ya it's just a chassis
This is a upgraded after market chassis from STRC to make it a LCG Slash 4x4. If you want a whole kit you will have to wait and see if Traxxas is going to make a LCG setup of their own or just just selling what it working for them now as since they gone to RTR kits they don't worry about making kits for full blown racing.
For those reading the step by step process from Steve at STRC on how an idea becomes an R/C part for the consumer has his 2nd article up for everyone to read. It is super interesting.
Can you post a link to the article please?
Thank you.
Slash 2WD, Slash 4WD, T-Rex 250
It's only money!
STRC Slash 4x4
Hobby Hut Raceway, Audubon Pa.
thank you!
Slash 2WD, Slash 4WD, T-Rex 250
It's only money!
You guys beat me to it. This thread like many on this site move fast. I to enjoy reading what Steves thought process is on the new chassis setup. After reading the 2nd article I see where he is coming from. He gives great insight on why he chose to go the way he is on the new LCG chassis.
I'm really looking forward to trying the new chassis out... I have to get a roller first I guess, lol.
Slash 2WD, Slash 4WD, T-Rex 250
It's only money!
Steve should be giving the new chassis a work out this weekend. Waiting to hear what he thinks on how it was working.
I checked with Steve and he has ran the new prototype and its working great. He is going to run it again today and then its getting sent out for me to run next weekend. Overall its a complete success
Sounds great!
wyd10, have you previous experience with any other LCG chassis for said vehcile? If so, it would be real nice to read about your impressions.
Slash 2WD, Slash 4WD, T-Rex 250
It's only money!
Ok here is the first picture of the STRC LCG Prototype. It is the first on the web given to me from Steve Wang at STRC to post. I have more pics but for now this is one I will be posting on a few other threads I have.
Steve ran it Thursday and all weekend with no issues. It is being sent to me to test the upcoming weekend. It is missing the front sway bar mounting setup but it will be included in the final production model. This is just a test version so its not perfect it was made just for testing purposes only.


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Bei Versuchen beginnt der zweite Teil der ALN mit der Ziffer "0".
The cases of Swiss small arms ammunition is marked like following:
Number on top (12 0'clock): month manufactured
Number on the bottom (6 0'clock): year manufactured
Letter on the left (9 o'clock): source of metal of which case is made
- brass:
--- T: Selve & Co, Thun
--- D: Dornach
- aluminium:
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- steel:
--- BT: Borsig (Germany), steel processed at Selve & Co, Thun
--- FD: Fagersta (Sweden), steel processed in Dornach
--- FT: Fagersta (Sweden), steel processed at Selve & Co, Thun
--- GD: Gerlafingen (Switzerland), steel processed in Dornach
--- HT: Hellefors (Sweden), steel processed at Selve & Co, Thun
--- OT SRO: steel Switzerland, steel processed at Selve & Co, Thun
--- ST: Schwedenstahl, steel processed at Selve & Co, Thun
--- UD: Uddeholm (Sweden), steel processed in Dornach
--- UT: Uddeholm (Sweden), steel processed at Selve & Co, Thun
Letter on the right (3 o'clock): manufacturer
- A: Altdorf
- T: Thun
- S: Solothurn (rare)
- R: Rothenburg (rare)
Letter "B" top left (10 o'clock): cases made from fired cases
Letter "A" bottom left (8 o'clock): cases made from scrap virgin brass
Number "2" bottom right (4 o'clock): modified piston
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It will now join the program of the 2020 Games, which were awarded to Tokyo on Saturday
by Alissa Gula (2019-08-01)
The sport, which has ancient roots in the Olympics, easily defeated bids from baseball-softball and squash. It will now join the program of the 2020 Games, which were awarded to Tokyo on Saturday.
Wrestling, which was surprisingly dropped from the list of core sports in February, received 49 votes to win in the first round of secret balloting by the International Olympic Committee. Baseball-softball got 24 votes and squash 22.
The decision capped a frantic six-month campaign by the wrestling body FILA to revamp the organization and reshape the sport to save its Olympic status.
"With this vote, you have shown that the steps we have taken to improve our sport have made a difference," FILA President Nenad Lalovic said. "I assure each of you that our modernization will not stop now. We will continue to strive to be the best partner to the Olympic movement that we can be."
The vote followed final presentations by all three sports, with Lalovic promising the delegates that wrestling had learned its lesson.
"Today is the most important day in the 2,000-year history of our sport," Lalovic said. "We feel the weight of that history. Remaining on the Olympic program is crucial to wrestling's survival."
Wrestling goes back to the ancient Olympics in Greece and has been on the program of every modern games except 1900. The sport was caught off guard when it was axed by the IOC executive board a decision that surprised even most IOC members.
"We have made mistakes," Lalovic told the IOC members Sunday. "We admitted but we decided to listen and learn. This is the only way to be a partner of the IOC. We are aware of our mistakes and they will not happen again. We have to update our sport, like any other sport, every day."
The result was welcomed by IOC members as rectifying a mistake.
"We cannot imagine the games without wrestling," said Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, 부산출장안마 the influential Kuwaiti who heads the Association of National Olympic Committees. "Wrestling is a founder. Today was a great result."
Squash was trying to make the Olympics for the third time. Men's baseball and women's softball merged into a single federation to try to return after being dropped for the 2012 and 2016 Games.


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Subliminal stimuli
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Subliminal stimuli (/sʌbˈlɪmᵻnəl/; literally "below threshold"), contrary to supraliminal stimuli or "above threshold", are any sensory stimuli below an individual's threshold for conscious perception.[1] A recent review of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies shows that subliminal stimuli activate specific regions of the brain despite participants being unaware.[2] Visual stimuli may be quickly flashed before an individual can process them, or flashed and then masked, thereby interrupting the processing. Audio stimuli may be played below audible volumes or masked by other stimuli.
- 1 Effectiveness
- 2 Method
- 3 Visual stimuli
- 4 Auditory stimuli
- 5 Consumption and television
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 Further reading
Applications of subliminal stimuli often base themselves on the persuasiveness of the message. Importantly, research on action priming has shown that subliminal stimuli can trigger only actions a receiver of the message plans to perform anyway; however, consensus of this finding remains unsubstantiated by other research. Most actions can be triggered subliminally only if the person already has the potential to perform a specific action.[3] The following sections have more information on specific studies which investigate the effectiveness of subliminal stimuli.[4][5]
The threshold in subliminal stimuli research is the level at which the participant is not aware of the stimulus being presented.[6] Researchers determine a threshold for the stimulus that will be used as the subliminal stimulus. That subliminal stimulus is then presented during the study at some point and measures are taken to determine the effects of the stimulus. The way in which studies operationally define thresholds depends on the methods of the particular article. The methodology of the research also varies by the type of subliminal stimulus (auditory or visual) and the dependent variables they measure.
Objective threshold
The objective threshold is found using a forced choice procedure, in which participants must choose which stimulus they saw from options given to them.[6] Participants are flashed a stimulus (e.g. the word "orange") and then given a few choices and asked which one they saw. Participants must choose an answer in this design. The objective threshold is obtained when participants are at chance level of performance in this task.[6] The length of presentation that causes chance performance on the forced choice task is used later in the study for the subliminal stimuli.
Subjective threshold
The subjective threshold is determined by when the participant reports that his or her performance on the forced choice procedure approximates chance.[6] The subjective threshold is 30 to 50 ms slower than the objective threshold, demonstrating that participants are able to detect the stimuli is present sooner than their perceived accuracy ratings would indicate.[6] In other words, stimuli presented at a subjective threshold have a longer presentation time than those presented at an objective threshold. When using the objective threshold, primes neither facilitated nor inhibited the recognition of a color.[6] However, the longer the duration of the priming stimuli, the greater effect it had on subsequent responding.[6] These findings indicate that the results of some studies may be due to their definition of below threshold.
Direct and indirect measures
Perception without awareness can be demonstrated through the comparison of direct and indirect measures of perception.[7] Direct measures use responses to task definitions as per the explicit instructions given to the subjects. Indirect measures use responses that are not a part of the task definition given to subjects.[7] Both direct and indirect measures are displayed under comparable conditions except for the direct or indirect instruction. For example, in a typical Stroop Task, subjects are given the task of naming the color of a patch of ink. A direct measure is 'accuracy' — true to the instructions given to the participants. The popular indirect measure used in the same task is 'response time' — subjects are not told that they are being measured for response times.
Similarly, a direct effect is the effect of a task stimulus on the instructed response to that stimulus, usually measured as accuracy. An indirect effect is an uninstructed effect of the task stimulus on behavior, sometimes measured by including an irrelevant or distracting component in the task stimulus and measuring its effect on accuracy.[8] These effects are then compared on their relative sensitivity: an indirect effect that is greater than direct effect indicates existence of unconscious cognition.[7][8]
Visual stimuli
In order to study the effects of subliminal stimuli, researchers will often prime the participants with specific visual stimuli, often images, and determine if those stimuli elicit different responses.[9][10] Subliminal stimuli has mostly been studied in the context of emotion, in particular, researchers have focused a lot of attention to the perception of faces and how subliminal presentation to different facial expression affects emotion.[11][12][13][14] Visual subliminal stimuli has also been used to study emotion eliciting stimuli and simple geometric stimuli.[15][16][17][18] A significant amount of research has been produced throughout the years to demonstrate the effects of subliminal visual stimuli.[19]
Attitudes can develop without being aware of its antecedents.[9] Individuals viewed slides of people performing familiar daily activities after being exposed to either an emotionally positive scene, such as a romantic couple or kittens, or an emotionally negative scene, such as a werewolf or a dead body between each slide and the next. After exposure from something which the individuals consciously perceived as a flash of light, the participants gave more positive personality traits to those people whose slides were associated with an emotionally positive scene and vice versa. Despite the statistical difference, the subliminal messages had less of an impact on judgment than the slide's inherent level of physical attractiveness.[9]
Individuals show right amygdala activity in response to subliminal fear, and greater left amygdala response to supraliminal fear.[10] People were exposed to a subliminal image flashed for 16.7 milliseconds that could signal a potential threat and again with a supraliminal image flashed for half a second. Furthermore, supraliminal fear showed more sustained cortical activity, suggesting that subliminal fear may not entail conscious surveillance while supraliminal fear entails higher-order processing.[10]
Emotion eliciting stimuli
A subliminal sexual stimulus has a different effect on men compared to women.[15] Men and women were subliminally exposed to either a sexual or a neutral picture, and their sexual arousal was recorded. Researchers examined the accessibility of sex-related thoughts after following the same procedure with either a pictorial judgment task or lexical decision task. The results revealed that the subliminal sexual stimuli did not have an effect on men, but for women, lower levels of sexual arousal were reported.[15] However, in conditions related to accessibility of sex-related thoughts, the subliminal sexual stimuli led to higher accessibility for both men and women.[15]
Subliminal stimuli can elicit significant emotional changes, but these changes are not valuable for a therapeutic effect.[16] Spider-fearful and non-fearful undergraduates experienced either a positive, negative, or neutral subliminal prime followed immediately by a picture of a spider or a snake. Using visual analogue scales, the participants rated the affective quality of the picture. No evidence was found to support that the unpleasantness of the pictures can be modulated by subliminal priming.[16] In fact, the non-fearful participants rated the spiders as more frightening after being primed with a negative stimuli, however, for the fearful participants, this effect was not found.[16]
Simple geometric stimuli
Laboratory research on unconscious perception often employs simple stimuli (e.g., geometric shapes or colors) in which visibility is controlled by visual masking.[17] Masked stimuli are then used to prime the processing of subsequently presented target stimuli. For instance, in the Response Priming paradigm, participants have to respond to a target stimulus (e.g., by identifying whether it is a diamond or a square) which is immediately preceded by a masked priming stimulus (also a diamond or a square). The prime has large effects on responses to the target; it speeds responses when it is consistent with the target, and slows responses when it is inconsistent. Response priming effects can be dissociated from visual awareness of the prime, such as when prime identification performance is at chance, or when priming effects increase despite decreases in prime visibility.[17]
The presentation of geometric figures as subliminal stimuli can result in below threshold discriminations.[18] The geometric figures were presented on slides of a tachistoscope followed by a supraliminal shock for a given slide every time it appeared. The shock was administered after a five-second interval. Electrical skin changes of the participants that occurred before the reinforcement (shock) or non-reinforcement were recorded. The findings indicate that the proportion of electrical skin changes that occurred following subliminal visual stimuli was significantly greater than expected.[18] In contrast, the proportion of electrical skin changes that occurred in response to the stimuli which were not reinforced was significantly less. As a whole, participants were able to make below threshold discriminations.[18]
Word and non-word stimuli
Another form of visual stimuli are words and non-words. In a set of experiments, words and non-word were used as subliminal primes. Primes that work best as subliminal stimuli are words that have been classified several times before they are used as primes. Word primes can also be made from parts of practiced words to create new words. In this case, the actual word used as a prime can have the opposite meaning of the words it came from (its "parents"), but it will still prime for the meaning of the parent words. Non-words created from previously practiced stimuli have a similar effect, even when they are unpronounceable (e.g., made of all consonants). These primes generally only increase response times for later stimuli for a very short period of time (milliseconds).[20]
Masking visual stimuli
Visual stimuli are often masked by forward and backward masks so that they can be displayed for longer periods of time, but without the subject being able to tell what the prime is. A forward mask displayed before the prime for a short period of time and usually a backward mask will follow the prime. This prevents recognition of the prime by the subject.[21]
Auditory stimuli
Auditory masking
One method for creating subliminal auditory stimuli is called masking. This method involves hiding the target auditory stimulus in some way. Auditory subliminal stimuli are shown to have some effect on the participant, but not a large one.[21] For example, one study used other speechlike sounds to cover up the target words.[21] The study found evidence of priming in the absence of awareness of the stimuli. But the effects of these subliminal stimuli were only seen in one of the outcome measures of priming, while the effects of conscious stimuli were seen in multiple outcome measures.[21] However, the empirical evidence for the assumption of an impact of auditory subliminal stimuli on human behavior remains weak: In an experimental study on the influence of subliminal target words (embedded into a music track) on choice behavior for a drink,[22] authors found no evidence for a manipulative effect.
Self-help audio recordings
A study investigated the effects on self-concept of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and auditory subliminal stimulation (separately and in combination) on 141 undergraduate students with self-concept problems. They were randomly assigned to one of four groups receiving either Rational-Emotive Therapy, subliminal stimulation, both, or a placebo treatment. Rational-Emotive Therapy significantly improved scores on all the dependent measures (cognition, self-concept, self-esteem, anxiety), except for behavior. Results for the subliminal stimulation group were similar to those of the placebo treatment except for a significant self-concept improvement and a decline in self-concept related irrational cognitions. The combined treatment yielded results similar to those of Rational-Emotive Therapy, with tentative indications of continued improvement in irrational cognitions and self-concept from posttest to follow-up.[23]
Another study investigated the effects of self-help tapes on self-esteem and memory. Volunteers who wanted to improve their self-esteem or memory were recruited and completed several self-esteem and memory tests before being given a self-help tape. Subjects were given a self-esteem audio tape or a memory audio tape, but half of the tapes were mislabeled and half were correctly labeled. After listening to the tapes daily for five weeks, subjects came back and repeated the self-esteem and memory tests. There was no significant change from the first set of testing to the second, although subjects believed that their self-esteem or memory improved based on which tape they believed they had, even when they had a mislabeled tape (those who had tapes labeled as self-esteem tapes felt their self-esteem had increased and the same with memory). This effect is often referred to as a placebo.[24][25] There are multiple other studies on subliminal self-help with different measures and have given similar results.[26][27]
Consumption and television
Some studies have looked at the efficacy of subliminal messaging in television. Subliminal messages produce only one-tenth of the effects of detected messages and the findings related the effects of subliminal messaging were relatively ambiguous.[28] Also, participants' ratings of positive response to commercials are not affected by subliminal messages in the commercials.[28]
Karremans suggests that subliminal messages have an effect when the messages are goal-relevant.[29] Subliminally priming a brand name of a soft drink (Lipton Ice) made those who were thirsty want the Lipton Ice. However, those who were not thirsty were not influenced by the subliminal messages.[29] Karremans did a study assessing whether subliminal priming of a brand name of a drink would affect a person's choice of drink, and whether this effect is caused by the individual's feelings of being thirsty.[29] In another study, participant's ratings of thirst were higher after viewing an episode of "The Simpsons" that contained single frames of the word "thirsty" or of a picture of a Coca-Cola can.[30] Some studies have shown greater effects of subliminal messaging with as high as 80% of participants showing a preference for a particular rum when subliminally primed by the name placed in an ad backward.[31]
Many authors have continued to argue for the effectiveness of subliminal cues in changing consumption behavior, citing environmental cues as a main culprit of behavior change.[32] Authors who support this line of reasoning cite findings such as the research that showed slow-paced music in a supermarket was associated with more sales and customers moving at a slower pace.[33] Findings such as these support the notion that external cues can affect behavior, although the stimulus may not fit into a strict definition of subliminal stimuli because although the music may not be attended to or consciously affecting the customers, they are certainly able to perceive it.
Subliminal messaging is prohibited in advertising in the United Kingdom.[34]
See also
- Instances of subliminal messages
- Neuroethics
- Peripheral vision horizon display (PVHD)
- Pre-attentive processing
- Priming (psychology)
- Response priming
- Unconscious thought theory § Criticism of UTT
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Further reading
- Boese, Alex (2006), Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S., Orlando: Harcourt, pp. 193–195, ISBN 0-15-603083-7
- Dixon, Norman F. (1971), Subliminal Perception: The nature of a controversy, New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-094147-5
- Greenwald, A. G. (1992). "New Look 3: Unconscious cognition reclaimed". American Psychologist. 47 (6): 766–779. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.47.6.766. PMID 1616174.
- Holender, D. (1986), "Semantic activation without conscious identification in dichotic listening, parafoveal vision, and visual masking: A survey and appraisal", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9 (1): 1–23, doi:10.1017/s0140525x00021269
- Merikle, P. M.; Daneman, M. (1998), "Psychological Investigations of Unconscious Perception", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5 (1): 5–18
- United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session on Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records (September 19, 1985), Record Labeling: Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Watanabe, T.; Náñez, J.; Sasaki, Y. (2001). "Perceptual learning without perception". Nature. 413 (6858): 844–848. doi:10.1038/35101601. PMID 11677607.