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"Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals."
Finally somebody figured out what Bill Cooper said more than 2 decades ago!
Quote from William Cooper, behold a pale horse (full chapter can be found at the link below;)
David Graeber traces the 20th century promise of a 4 hour day and how we got unproductive labour instead.
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by centurys end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week.
Theres every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didnt happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless.
Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed.
The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.
Why did Keynes promised utopia still being eagerly awaited in the 60s never materialise? The standard line today is that he didnt figure in the massive increase in consumerism. Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, weve collectively chosen the latter. This presents a nice morality tale, but even a moments reflection shows it cant really be true. Yes, we have witnessed the creation of an endless variety of new jobs and industries since the 20s, but very few have anything to do with the production and distribution of sushi, iPhones, or fancy sneakers.
So what are these new jobs, precisely? A recent report comparing employment in the US between 1910 and 2000 gives us a clear picture (and I note, one pretty much exactly echoed in the UK). Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed as domestic servants, in industry, and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatically. At the same time, professional, managerial, clerical, sales, and service workers tripled, growing from one-quarter to three-quarters of total employment.
In other words, productive jobs have, just as predicted, been largely automated away (even if you count industrial workers globally, including the toiling masses in India and China, such workers are still not nearly so large a percentage of the world population as they used to be).
But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the worlds population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning not even so much of the service sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations.
And these numbers do not even reflect on all those people whose job is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries, or for that matter the whole host of ancillary industries (dog-washers, all-night pizza deliverymen) that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones.
These are what I propose to call bullshit jobs.
Its as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is precisely what is not supposed to happen.
Sure, in the old inefficient socialist states like the Soviet Union, where employment was considered both a right and a sacred duty, the system made up as many jobs as they had to (this is why in Soviet department stores it took three clerks to sell a piece of meat). But, of course, this is the sort of very problem market competition is supposed to fix. According to economic theory, at least, the last thing a profit-seeking firm is going to do is shell out money to workers they dont really need to employ. Still, somehow, it happens.
While corporations may engage in ruthless downsizing, the layoffs and speed-ups invariably fall on that class of people who are actually making, moving, fixing and maintaining things; through some strange alchemy no one can quite explain, the number of salaried paper-pushers ultimately seems to expand, and more and more employees find themselves, not unlike Soviet workers actually, working 40 or even 50 hour weeks on paper, but effectively working 15 hours just as Keynes predicted, since the rest of their time is spent organizing or attending motivational seminars, updating their facebook profiles or downloading TV box-sets.
The answer clearly isnt economic: its moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the 60s). And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them.
Once, when contemplating the apparently endless growth of administrative responsibilities in British academic departments, I came up with one possible vision of hell.
Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they dont like and are not especially good at.
Say they were hired because they were excellent cabinet-makers, and then discover they are expected to spend a great deal of their time frying fish. Neither does the task really need to be done at least, theres only a very limited number of fish that need to be fried. Yet somehow, they all become so obsessed with resentment at the thought that some of their co-workers might be spending more time making cabinets, and not doing their fair share of the fish-frying responsibilities, that before long theres endless piles of useless badly cooked fish piling up all over the workshop and its all that anyone really does.
I think this is actually a pretty accurate description of the moral dynamics of our own economy.
Now, I realise any such argument is going to run into immediate objections: who are you to say what jobs are really necessary? Whats necessary anyway? Youre an anthropology professor, whats the need for that? (And indeed a lot of tabloid readers would take the existence of my job as the very definition of wasteful social expenditure.) And on one level, this is obviously true. There can be no objective measure of social value.
I would not presume to tell someone who is convinced they are making a meaningful contribution to the world that, really, they are not. But what about those people who are themselves convinced their jobs are meaningless? Not long ago I got back in touch with a school friend who I hadnt seen since I was 12. I was amazed to discover that in the interim, he had become first a poet, then the front man in an indie rock band. Id heard some of his songs on the radio having no idea the singer was someone I actually knew. He was obviously brilliant, innovative, and his work had unquestionably brightened and improved the lives of people all over the world. Yet, after a couple of unsuccessful albums, hed lost his contract, and plagued with debts and a newborn daughter, ended up, as he put it, taking the default choice of so many directionless folk: law school. Now hes a corporate lawyer working in a prominent New York firm. He was the first to admit that his job was utterly meaningless, contributed nothing to the world, and, in his own estimation, should not really exist.
Theres a lot of questions one could ask here, starting with, what does it say about our society that it seems to generate an extremely limited demand for talented poet-musicians, but an apparently infinite demand for specialists in corporate law? (Answer: if 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call the market reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else.)
But even more, it shows that most people in these jobs are ultimately aware of it. In fact, Im not sure Ive ever met a corporate lawyer who didnt think their job was bullshit. The same goes for almost all the new industries outlined above. There is a whole class of salaried professionals that, should you meet them at parties and admit that you do something that might be considered interesting (an anthropologist, for example), will want to avoid even discussing their line of work entirely. Give them a few drinks, and they will launch into tirades about how pointless and stupid their job really is.
This is a profound psychological violence here. How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels ones job should not exist? How can it not create a sense of deep rage and resentment. Yet it is the peculiar genius of our society that its rulers have figured out a way, as in the case of the fish-fryers, to ensure that rage is directed precisely against those who actually do get to do meaningful work. For instance: in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously ones work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it. Again, an objective measure is hard to find, but one easy way to get a sense is to ask: what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, its obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate and catastrophic. A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place. Its not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish. (Many suspect it might markedly improve.) Yet apart from a handful of well-touted exceptions (doctors), the rule holds surprisingly well.
Even more perverse, there seems to be a broad sense that this is the way things should be.
This is one of the secret strengths of right-wing populism. You can see it when tabloids whip up resentment against tube workers for paralysing London during contract disputes: the very fact that tube workers can paralyse London shows that their work is actually necessary, but this seems to be precisely what annoys people. Its even clearer in the US, where Republicans have had remarkable success mobilizing resentment against school teachers, or auto workers (and not, significantly, against the school administrators or auto industry managers who actually cause the problems) for their supposedly bloated wages and benefits. Its as if they are being told but you get to teach children! Or make cars! You get to have real jobs! And on top of that you have the nerve to also expect middle-class pensions and health care?
If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, its hard to see how they could have done a better job. Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc) and particularly its financial avatars but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value.
Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error. But it is the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3-4 hour days.
May we add "analysts" at the NSA to the list of BS jobs? How about politicians, marketing managers, PR managers, sales managers, lobbyists, bankers, accountants etc. etc.
Let's see what Bill Hicks had to say on people in marketing & advertising;
"A person hears only what he understands."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Since everybody enjoyed David Graeber's last article so much, here's some more. From the artice;" A quarter of the American population is now engaged in guard labordefending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line."
Does this sound like the world you're living in? No? Well, unfortunately, it is.
A Practical Utopians Guide to the Coming Collapse
David Graeber
What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society. Nowadays, we live in an age when, if rebel armies do come sweeping into a city, or mass uprisings overthrow a dictator, its unlikely to have any such implications; when profound social transformation does occuras with, say, the rise of feminismits likely to take an entirely different form. Its not that revolutionary dreams arent out there. But contemporary revolutionaries rarely think they can bring them into being by some modern-day equivalent of storming the Bastille.
At moments like this, it generally pays to go back to the history one already knows and ask: Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? For me, the person who has asked this most effectively is the great world historian Immanuel Wallerstein. He argues that for the last quarter millennium or so, revolutions have consisted above all of planetwide transformations of political common sense.
Already by the time of the French Revolution, Wallerstein notes, there was a single world market, and increasingly a single world political system as well, dominated by the huge colonial empires. As a result, the storming of the Bastille in Paris could well end up having effects on Denmark, or even Egypt, just as profound as on France itselfin some cases, even more so. Hence he speaks of the world revolution of 1789, followed by the world revolution of 1848, which saw revolutions break out almost simultaneously in fifty countries, from Wallachia to Brazil. In no case did the revolutionaries succeed in taking power, but afterward, institutions inspired by the French Revolutionnotably, universal systems of primary educationwere put in place pretty much everywhere. Similarly, the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a world revolution ultimately responsible for the New Deal and European welfare states as much as for Soviet communism. The last in the series was the world revolution of 1968which, much like 1848, broke out almost everywhere, from China to Mexico, seized power nowhere, but nonetheless changed everything. This was a revolution against state bureaucracies, and for the inseparability of personal and political liberation, whose most lasting legacy will likely be the birth of modern feminism.
Revolutions are thus planetary phenomena. But there is more. What they really do is transform basic assumptions about what politics is ultimately about. In the wake of a revolution, ideas that had been considered veritably lunatic fringe quickly become the accepted currency of debate. Before the French Revolution, the ideas that change is good, that government policy is the proper way to manage it, and that governments derive their authority from an entity called the people were considered the sorts of things one might hear from crackpots and demagogues, or at best a handful of freethinking intellectuals who spend their time debating in cafés. A generation later, even the stuffiest magistrates, priests, and headmasters had to at least pay lip service to these ideas.
Before long, we had reached the situation we are in today: that its necessary to lay out the terms for anyone to even notice they are there. Theyve become common sense, the very grounds of political discussion.
A quarter of the American population is now engaged in guard labordefending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line.
Until 1968, most world revolutions really just introduced practical refinements: an expanded franchise, universal primary education, the welfare state. The world revolution of 1968, in contrastwhether it took the form it did in China, of a revolt by students and young cadres supporting Maos call for a Cultural Revolution; or in Berkeley and New York, where it marked an alliance of students, dropouts, and cultural rebels; or even in Paris, where it was an alliance of students and workerswas a rebellion against bureaucracy, conformity, or anything that fettered the human imagination, a project for the revolutionizing of not just political or economic life, but every aspect of human existence. As a result, in most cases, the rebels didnt even try to take over the apparatus of state; they saw that apparatus as itself the problem.
Its fashionable nowadays to view the social movements of the late sixties as an embarrassing failure. A case can be made for that view.
Its certainly true that in the political sphere, the immediate beneficiary of any widespread change in political common sensea prioritizing of ideals of individual liberty, imagination, and desire; a hatred of bureaucracy; and suspicions about the role of governmentwas the political Right. Above all, the movements of the sixties allowed for the mass revival of free market doctrines that had largely been abandoned since the nineteenth century. Its no coincidence that the same generation who, as teenagers, made the Cultural Revolution in China was the one who, as forty-year-olds, presided over the introduction of capitalism. Since the eighties, freedom has come to mean the market, and the market has come to be seen as identical with capitalismeven, ironically, in places like China, which had known sophisticated markets for thousands of years, but rarely anything that could be described as capitalism.
The ironies are endless. While the new free market ideology has framed itself above all as a rejection of bureaucracy, it has, in fact, been responsible for the first administrative system that has operated on a planetary scale, with its endless layering of public and private bureaucracies: the IMF, World Bank, WTO, trade organizations, financial institutions, transnational corporations, NGOs. This is precisely the system that has imposed free market orthodoxy, and opened the world to financial pillage, under the watchful aegis of American arms. It only made sense that the first attempt to recreate a global revolutionary movement, the Global Justice Movement that peaked between 1998 and 2003, was effectively a rebellion against the rule of that very planetary bureaucracy.
Future Stop
In retrospect, though, I think that later historians will conclude that the legacy of the sixties revolution was deeper than we now imagine, and that the triumph of capitalist markets and their various planetary administrators and enforcerswhich seemed so epochal and permanent in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991was, in fact, far shallower.
Ill take an obvious example. One often hears that antiwar protests in the late sixties and early seventies were ultimately failures, since they did not appreciably speed up the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. But afterward, those controlling U.S. foreign policy were so anxious about being met with similar popular unrestand even more, with unrest within the military itself, which was genuinely falling apart by the early seventiesthat they refused to commit U.S. forces to any major ground conflict for almost thirty years. It took 9/11, an attack that led to thousands of civilian deaths on U.S. soil, to fully overcome the notorious Vietnam syndromeand even then, the war planners made an almost obsessive effort to ensure the wars were effectively protest-proof. Propaganda was incessant, the media was brought on board, experts provided exact calculations on body bag counts (how many U.S. casualties it would take to stir mass opposition), and the rules of engagement were carefully written to keep the count below that.
The problem was that since those rules of engagement ensured that thousands of women, children, and old people would end up collateral damage in order to minimize deaths and injuries to U.S. soldiers, this meant that in Iraq and Afghanistan, intense hatred for the occupying forces would pretty much guarantee that the United States couldnt obtain its military objectives. And remarkably, the war planners seemed to be aware of this. It didnt matter. They considered it far more important to prevent effective opposition at home than to actually win the war. Its as if American forces in Iraq were ultimately defeated by the ghost of Abbie Hoffman.
Clearly, an antiwar movement in the sixties that is still tying the hands of U.S. military planners in 2012 can hardly be considered a failure. But it raises an intriguing question: What happens when the creation of that sense of failure, of the complete ineffectiveness of political action against the system, becomes the chief objective of those in power?
Is it possible that this preemptive attitude toward social movements, the designing of wars and trade summits in such a way that preventing effective opposition is considered more of a priority than the success of the war or summit itself, really reflects a more general principle? What if those currently running the system, most of whom witnessed the unrest of the sixties firsthand as impressionable youngsters, areconsciously or unconsciously (and I suspect its more conscious than not)obsessed by the prospect of revolutionary social movements once again challenging prevailing common sense?The thought first occurred to me when participating in the IMF actions in Washington, D.C., in 2002. Coming on the heels of 9/11, we were relatively few and ineffective, the number of police overwhelming. There was no sense that we could succeed in shutting down the meetings. Most of us left feeling vaguely depressed. It was only a few days later, when I talked to someone who had friends attending the meetings, that I learned we had in fact shut them down: the police had introduced such stringent security measures, canceling half the events, that most of the actual meetings had been carried out online. In other words, the government had decided it was more important for protesters to walk away feeling like failures than for the IMF meetings to take place. If you think about it, they afforded protesters extraordinary importance.
It would explain a lot. In most of the world, the last thirty years has come to be known as the age of neoliberalismone dominated by a revival of the long-since-abandoned nineteenth-century creed that held that free markets and human freedom in general were ultimately the same thing. Neoliberalism has always been wracked by a central paradox. It declares that economic imperatives are to take priority over all others. Politics itself is just a matter of creating the conditions for growing the economy by allowing the magic of the marketplace to do its work. All other hopes and dreamsof equality, of securityare to be sacrificed for the primary goal of economic productivity. But global economic performance over the last thirty years has been decidedly mediocre. With one or two spectacular exceptions (notably China, which significantly ignored most neoliberal prescriptions), growth rates have been far below what they were in the days of the old-fashioned, state-directed, welfare-state-oriented capitalism of the fifties, sixties, and even seventies. By its own standards, then, the project was already a colossal failure even before the 2008 collapse.
If, on the other hand, we stop taking world leaders at their word and instead think of neoliberalism as a political project, it suddenly looks spectacularly effective. The politicians, CEOs, trade bureaucrats, and so forth who regularly meet at summits like Davos or the G20 may have done a miserable job in creating a world capitalist economy that meets the needs of a majority of the worlds inhabitants (let alone produces hope, happiness, security, or meaning), but they have succeeded magnificently in convincing the world that capitalismand not just capitalism, but exactly the financialized, semifeudal capitalism we happen to have right nowis the only viable economic system. If you think about it, this is a remarkable accomplishment.
Debt cancellation would make the perfect revolutionary demand.
How did they pull it off? The preemptive attitude toward social movements is clearly a part of it; under no conditions can alternatives, or anyone proposing alternatives, be seen to experience success. This helps explain the almost unimaginable investment in security systems of one sort or another: the fact that the United States, which lacks any major rival, spends more on its military and intelligence than it did during the Cold War, along with the almost dazzling accumulation of private security agencies, intelligence agencies, militarized police, guards, and mercenaries. Then there are the propaganda organs, including a massive media industry that did not even exist before the sixties, celebrating police. Mostly these systems do not so much attack dissidents directly as contribute to a pervasive climate of fear, jingoistic conformity, life insecurity, and simple despair that makes any thought of changing the world seem an idle fantasy. Yet these security systems are also extremely expensive. Some economists estimate that a quarter of the American population is now engaged in guard labor of one sort or anotherdefending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line. Economically, most of this disciplinary apparatus is pure deadweight.
In fact, most of the economic innovations of the last thirty years make more sense politically than economically. Eliminating guaranteed life employment for precarious contracts doesnt really create a more effective workforce, but it is extraordinarily effective in destroying unions and otherwise depoliticizing labor. The same can be said of endlessly increasing working hours. No one has much time for political activity if theyre working sixty-hour weeks.
It does often seem that, whenever there is a choice between one option that makes capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and another that would actually make capitalism a more viable economic system, neoliberalism means always choosing the former. The combined result is a relentless campaign against the human imagination. Or, to be more precise: imagination, desire, individual creativity, all those things that were to be liberated in the last great world revolution, were to be contained strictly in the domain of consumerism, or perhaps in the virtual realities of the Internet. In all other realms they were to be strictly banished. We are talking about the murdering of dreams, the imposition of an apparatus of hopelessness, designed to squelch any sense of an alternative future.
Yet as a result of putting virtually all their efforts in one political basket, we are left in the bizarre situation of watching the capitalist system crumbling before our very eyes, at just the moment everyone had finally concluded no other system would be possible.
Work It Out, Slow It Down
Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdomthat the current economic and political system is the only possible onethe first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someones blueprint? Its not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called capitalism, figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin.
This is not to say theres anything wrong with utopian visions. Or even blueprints. They just need to be kept in their place. The theorist Michael Albert has worked out a detailed plan for how a modern economy could run without money on a democratic, participatory basis. I think this is an important achievementnot because I think that exact model could ever be instituted, in exactly the form in which he describes it, but because it makes it impossible to say that such a thing is inconceivable. Still, such models can be only thought experiments. We cannot really conceive of the problems that will arise when we start trying to build a free society. What now seem likely to be the thorniest problems might not be problems at all; others that never even occurred to us might prove devilishly difficult. There are innumerable X-factors.
The most obvious is technology. This is the reason its so absurd to imagine activists in Renaissance Italy coming up with a model for a stock exchange and factorieswhat happened was based on all sorts of technologies that they couldnt have anticipated, but which in part only emerged because society began to move in the direction that it did. This might explain, for instance, why so many of the more compelling visions of an anarchist society have been produced by science fiction writers (Ursula K. Le Guin, Starhawk, Kim Stanley Robinson). In fiction, you are at least admitting the technological aspect is guesswork.
Myself, I am less interested in deciding what sort of economic system we should have in a free society than in creating the means by which people can make such decisions for themselves. What might a revolution in common sense actually look like? I dont know, but I can think of any number of pieces of conventional wisdom that surely need challenging if we are to create any sort of viable free society. Ive already explored onethe nature of money and debtin some detail in a recent book. I even suggested a debt jubilee, a general cancellation, in part just to bring home that money is really just a human product, a set of promises, that by its nature can always be renegotiated.
What would remain is the kind of work only human beings will ever be able to do: those forms of caring and helping labor that are at the very center of the crisis that brought about Occupy Wall Street to begin with. What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called the economy (a concept that didnt even exist three hundred years ago), but the fact that we are all, and have always been, projects of mutual creation.Labor, similarly, should be renegotiated. Submitting oneself to labor disciplinesupervision, control, even the self-control of the ambitious self-employeddoes not make one a better person. In most really important ways, it probably makes one worse. To undergo it is a misfortune that at best is sometimes necessary. Yet its only when we reject the idea that such labor is virtuous in itself that we can start to ask what is virtuous about labor. To which the answer is obvious. Labor is virtuous if it helps others. A renegotiated definition of productivity should make it easier to reimagine the very nature of what work is, since, among other things, it will mean that technological development will be redirected less toward creating ever more consumer products and ever more disciplined labor, and more toward eliminating those forms of labor entirely.
Its as if American forces in Iraq were ultimately defeated by the ghost of Abbie Hoffman.
At the moment, probably the most pressing need is simply to slow down the engines of productivity. This might seem a strange thing to sayour knee-jerk reaction to every crisis is to assume the solution is for everyone to work even more, though of course, this kind of reaction is really precisely the problembut if you consider the overall state of the world, the conclusion becomes obvious. We seem to be facing two insoluble problems. On the one hand, we have witnessed an endless series of global debt crises, which have grown only more and more severe since the seventies, to the point where the overall burden of debtsovereign, municipal, corporate, personalis obviously unsustainable. On the other, we have an ecological crisis, a galloping process of climate change that is threatening to throw the entire planet into drought, floods, chaos, starvation, and war. The two might seem unrelated. But ultimately they are the same. What is debt, after all, but the promise of future productivity? Saying that global debt levels keep rising is simply another way of saying that, as a collectivity, human beings are promising each other to produce an even greater volume of goods and services in the future than they are creating now. But even current levels are clearly unsustainable. They are precisely whats destroying the planet, at an ever-increasing pace.
Even those running the system are reluctantly beginning to conclude that some kind of mass debt cancellationsome kind of jubileeis inevitable.
The real political struggle is going to be over the form that it takes. Well, isnt the obvious thing to address both problems simultaneously? Why not a planetary debt cancellation, as broad as practically possible, followed by a mass reduction in working hours: a four-hour day, perhaps, or a guaranteed five-month vacation? This might not only save the planet but also (since its not like everyone would just be sitting around in their newfound hours of freedom) begin to change our basic conceptions of what value-creating labor might actually be.
Occupy was surely right not to make demands, but if I were to have to formulate one, that would be it. After all, this would be an attack on the dominant ideology at its very strongest points. The morality of debt and the morality of work are the most powerful ideological weapons in the hands of those running the current system. Thats why they cling to them even as they are effectively destroying everything else. Its also why debt cancellation would make the perfect revolutionary demand.
All this might still seem very distant. At the moment, the planet might seem poised more for a series of unprecedented catastrophes than for the kind of broad moral and political transformation that would open the way to such a world. But if we are going to have any chance of heading off those catastrophes, were going to have to change our accustomed ways of thinking. And as the events of 2011 reveal, the age of revolutions is by no means over. The human imagination stubbornly refuses to die. And the moment any significant number of people simultaneously shake off the shackles that have been placed on that collective imagination, even our most deeply inculcated assumptions about what is and is not politically possible have been known to crumble overnight.
This article is an excerpt from The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement, by David Graeber. Copyright © 2013 by David Graeber. Published by arrangement with Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
"A person hears only what he understands."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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She is on a couple of projects right now, developing new a role for "Battle of the Sexes", where she portraits the tennis legend Billie Jean King, who was a major Sex Equality Champion!
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On the interview, she also talks about her ex, Andrew Garfield, her co-star on The Amazing Spider-Man, "someone I still love very much".
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Thank you for your continued support - stay safe.
Aberrations caused by extreme differences between shadows and highlights are particularly obvious in images captured at night. Thanks to the outstanding correction of lateral chromatic aberration, the floodlit facade is reproduced with absolute perfection.
Thanks to its exceptional sharpness, the ZEISS Otus exploits the full potentials of contemporary high-resolution sensors and rewards photographers with images characterised by breathtaking rendition of even the finest details.
The aspherical lens design ensures consistent imaging performance throughout the entire focusing range as well as sharpness to the periphery of the image. The asphere's more complex surface profile can reduce or eliminate spherical aberration and also reduce other optical aberrations compared to a simple lens.
Because this lens is an apochromat, chromatic aberrations (axial chromatic aberations) are corrected with elements of special glass with anomalous partial dispersion. The chromatic aberrations are therefore significantly below the defined limits. Bright-dark transitions in the image, and especially highlights, are reproduced almost completely free of color artifacts.
Dramatic perspectives and a view from extraordinary image angles – ZEISS lenses open up new composition possibilities. Distortion would disrupt the composition because straight lines, whose image does not go through the image center, would be reproduced with a curved shape. This annoying effect is accordingly and largely compensated through elaborate optical designs at all focal lengths.
Uncompromising performance across the entire image field makes this full-frame lens unique and sets new standards among wide-angle focal lengths. Raise your photos to a totally new dimension by capturing even the tiniest details of your subject.
Like all focal lengths of the unique ZEISS Otus® family, the Otus 1.4/28 is in a class all of its own. A lens that incorporates the extensive know-how and all the experience of ZEISS.
Use the Otus® 1.4/28 from ZEISS and experience the quality and look of a medium format lens. Whether you are shooting landscape, architecture or interiors, during the day or at night – this lens will provide you with high resolution and outstanding definition regardless of the situation.
The optical correction of the Otus 1.4/28 prevents practically any aberration you can think of. It will just keep on fascinating you – even after many years of use and also on high-resolution systems.
Focal length
28 mm
Aperture range
f/1.4 – f/16
Camera mount
Nikon F-Mount(ZF.2)
Format compatibility
Full Frame
Focusing range
0,30 m (11.81") – ∞
Free working distance
0,15 m (5.91") – ∞
Angular field (diag. | horiz. | vert.)
75° / 65° / 46°
Diameter of image field
43 mm (1.69")
Coverage at close range (MOD)
203 x 134 mm (7.99 x 5.27")
Image ratio at minimum object distance
1 : 5.5
Lens elements | groups
16 / 13
Flange focal distance
ZE: 44 mm (1.73") | ZF.2: 46 mm (1.83")
Entrance pupil position (front of image plane)
133 mm (5.23")
Filter thread
M95 x 1.00
Rotation angle of focusing ring
Diameter max.
ZE: 109 mm (4.29") | ZF.2: 109 mm (4.29")
Diameter of focusing ring
ZE: 88 mm (3.45") | ZF.2: 88 mm (3.45")
Length (with lens caps)
ZE: 154 mm (6.06") | ZF.2: 152 mm (5.98")
Length (without lens caps)
ZE: 137 mm (5.39") | ZF.2: 135 mm (5.31")
ZE: 1390 g (3.06 lbs) | ZF.2: 1350 g (2.98 lbs)
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Apo Killings: Families Protest Court Verdict, Urge AGF's Intervention
The family members of the six Igbo traders who were murdered in Abuja in June 2005 have staged a protest at the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice.
They registered their displeasure over the judgment of an Abuja High Court which sentenced to death, two out of the six police officers who were initially charged for their alleged complicity in the killings.
Leader of the aggrieved family members and Chairman of Apo Traders Association, Mr Chimezie Ifeh, stated their objection to the court's decision on the matter.
He queried the propriety of the court judgment, saying "the real culprits of the gruesome murder of the Apo six traders have been left off the hook".
Mr Ifeh urged the Minister of Justice to appeal the judgment and ensure that the perpetrators be brought to book.
The protesters were addressed on Friday on behalf of the Minister by the Director of Legal Drafting at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr Tahir Hamzam.
Mr Hamzam assured them that the AGF would to look into the matter as he urged them to remain law abiding.
He also promised the protesters that the judgment would be studied while appropriate steps will be taken to address the issue.
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When you think of Orlando, Florida, you probably think of sunshine and vacation. But did you know that Orlando will be hosting the innovation-inspiring Healthcare Design Expo & Conference(HCD) this year?
HCD, the premier show in the healthcare design industry, will take place November 11-14 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. We're excited to be exhibiting for the second year in a row!
If you've attended HCD before, you know it's a center for design inspiration. Over 200 providers will be giving live demonstrations of the latest innovations in healthcare design products and services.
With Senseon being the safety and security asset it is, this show is the ideal environment for us to inspire the next generation of healthcare facility design.
Senseon transcends traditional CAM locks by using its hidden design to help facilities meet compliance standards. Our knowledge of Joint Commission, CMS, and other regulations help us better understand our customer's needs and provide them an ideal locking solution.
In addition to our knowledge of healthcare regulations, our team brings a great deal of experience in security, medical design, and engineering. Meaning when you choose Senseon, you're getting a solutions partner who will tailor a solution that best fits your needs.
As medical technology advances at an exponential rate, medical facilities should as well. Senseon can help bring any facility's security up to today's standards.
Whether you're looking for a standalone system or to ingrate with your current setup, we'll be glad to discuss your access control needs at this year's HCD show (Booth #1140).
Can't make it to HCD?
Tune into our Facebook and Instagram, where we'll be live broadcasting from the show. We'll be broadcasting how Senseon functions as a non-design compromising electronic locking system and other exciting activities from the show floor.


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The New England Patriots reportedly worked out three players Tuesday, including one with whom they're particularly familiar.
Running backs Orleans Darkwa and Charles Sims and wide receiver Brandon Tate all visited Gillette Stadium for tryouts, according to ESPN.com's Mike Reiss.
Tate was a Patriots second-round draft pick in 2009. He's played nine NFL seasons for three different teams (Patriots, Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills) and primarily has been used as a punt/kick returner. The 30-year-old spent the summer with the New Orleans Saints but was released during final cuts.
Darkwa reportedly drew interest from the Patriots during the spring. He's coming off the most productive season of his career, having carried the ball 171 yards for 751 yards and five touchdowns for the New York Giants in 2017, but has been a free agent since his Giants contract expired in March.
Sims, who spent the last four seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was released with an injury settlement last month after tweaking his knee in the preseason. He's a receiving threat out of the backfield who tallied 1,090 yards from scrimmage in 2015.
The Patriots entered Tuesday with question marks at receiver, running back and punt returner but remedied those by signing Corey Coleman, Bennie Fowler and Kenjon Barner.
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Ad of the Day: Nokia
Wieden channels Lady Gaga in dancing-dolls video for the pink N8 phone
Wieden + Kennedy London brought in director David Wilson to create a promo for Nokia's N8 phone, featuring dolls dancing to girl group Sugababes' song "Freedom." Wilson has had ample experience with high-concept music videos for bands like the Japanese Popstars, and it shows: The Nokia spot is a lot less Barbie than it is Lady Gaga.
As the video opens, we're introduced a harmless-looking doll with a cute blond flip. A few seconds later, the video cuts to a second doll, and things are clearly getting darker: This one is standing naked in a dilapidated room, covered in an eerily blowing white sheet. Next there's a pop-star-meets-Lady-Godiva doll reclining provocatively on a pink deer (also naked, which seems to be a theme), and then our first doll again, who suddenly snaps her head around 180 degrees, Exorcist-style, as a thumping bass begins. At this point, it's clear this isn't your typical girly-girl affair, pink phone or not. Jump cuts take us from shot to shot of giant video-monitor-covered walls, Nokia-tattooed plastic skin, and dismembered doll legs—all slightly twisted and very sexually charged, despite (or maybe because of) the fact that these stars are really children's toys.
The dance sequences, for which Wieden hired actual choreographers, could give most pop stars a run for their money. In one particularly Gaga-esque bit, a trio of gyrating dolls shoot laser beams from their bras, which happen to be made of N8 phones held together with phone cord—perhaps an homage to the Queen of Pop's own pioneering of phone-chic in her "Telephone" video. The spot might not give us anything we haven't seen in a Lady Gaga video (even the music isn't far off), but it manages to capture the same dark yet fiercely feminine aesthetic that her work conveys. And for a mobile-phone ad starring a bunch of plastic toys, that's impressive.
Client: Nokia
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, London
Spot: "Freedom"
Creatives: Oli Beale, Alex holder
Agency Producers: Danielle Stewart, Rob Steiner, Helen Whiteley
Production Co: BlinkInk
Director: David Wilson
Producer: James Stevenson Bretton
Photography: Catherine Derry
Editing Company: Cut + Run
Editor: James Rose
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For this design I used the polishes pictured below
|L --> R : Sinful Colors Glass Pink, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Strobe Light, Essie Your Hut or Mine, Essie A Cut Above
There much better LOL. You don't even want to know how long this all took me and how many layers of polish this all took! I will say that the Glass Pink polish by Sinful Colors was VERY sheer and thus took like 3 layers over a base whitish base coat polish. I did my nails while over at my friend Kristine's house so sadly I did not have my dotting tool to make the polka dots perfect and just had to free hand them.
Here's the polish I used for the darker gradient with Strobe Light.
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Train hits 110 mph in test run on Conn. tracks
Recent track improvements have allowed an Amtrak train to reach a top speed of 110 mph on the Hartford Line corridor.
The state Department of Transportation says the speed test runs were part of the final preparations for the launch of the Hartford Line between New Haven and Springfield, Mass.
The service, which begins on June 16, is the first new rail service in Connecticut in two decades.
Both Amtrak and CTrail trains will serve the Hartford Line.
Amtrak trains operating on the Hartford Line will be able to reach speeds of up to 110 mph on portions of track located in Berlin, Newington, New Britain, and West Hartford, and speeds up to 100 mph between Meriden and Berlin.
Upon launch, CTrail trains serving the Hartford Line will travel at speeds of up to 80 mph.
Metro-North trains on the New Haven do not go as fast. While there are some stretches today where a top speed of 80 mph is permitted, many more curves, bridges and switches are speed-restricted.
The world's fastest trains include the SCMaglev train in Japan that has a top speed of 375 mph and the TGV train in France up to 357 mph.
America's fastest train is the Acela Express that is capable of reaching a top speed of 150 mph. However, most of the tracks between Washington, D.C. and Boston can only accommodate speeds under 100 mph.
Since 2013, the state of California has been working on building a high-speed rail line that will reach speeds of 220 mph. Once service begins in 2033, a rail trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles will take two hours and 40 minutes. The estimated cost of building the line is $77 billion.
DOT says future phases of the new line will include the installation of a second mainline track between sections of the route between Hartford and Springfield, as well as the purchase of new CTrail rolling stock—trains— capable of reaching speeds of up to 110 mph.
On Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17 (Father's Day) will feature free train travel along the Hartford Line.
To view the full Hartford Line schedule, fares, and information regarding connecting transit services, please visit the Hartford Line website at http://www.hartfordline.com/ .


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Girl and goldfinch linocut print
Linocut about a confined girl who receives silver dollar "coins" from a goldfinch friend.
This is a pulled print form a hand carved linoleum plate.
The image dimensions are: 8.5×10.25 inches
The paper dimensions are 15×18 inches
This image was printed with an oil-based ink and hand colored with acrylic ink. I used Stonehenge warm white paper.
Limited edition of 50
I will ship this print flat domestically or rolled up overseas.
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Educating the future partnership
Durban - Higher Education Minister Naledi Pandor hosted the sixth BRICS Education Minister's Meeting at the Westin Hotel in Cape Town on Wednesday. The theme for this year's meeting is 'Deepening BRICS Education Partnerships and Exchanges', and the aim is to reflect on the successes and challenges related to earlier education commitments made by the BRICS countries.
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Description or Situation
A disaster is typically described in various resources as a sudden or abrupt event causing unexpected and overwhelming damage. There is nothing sudden about growing older yet it still has attributes associated with descriptive words that resemble such events. Synonyms often used to describe a disaster may be fitting to those who are unfamiliar with the aging process in humans. Words such as catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm, adversity, tribulation, affliction, misfortune, misadventure are all applicable for many people who are suffering one way or another from the aging process. It can feel disastrous.
For many, ... growing older can feel like a slow death prompting the surrendering of efforts to combat the effects. Some continue to fight against the aging process while continuing forward and feel they are successful with the results. The acceptance or denial of getting older has caused a great many people to either seek out remedies and solutions or give up altogether. The realization of aging and it's effects has been known to provoke a sense of defeat which can consume zeal and enthusiasm resulting in deep depression. Some people are successful at combating the effects of aging and use the process to their advantage. Despite our illustrious efforts to mask the effects of aging the inevitable still remains. We as humans grow older. How we deal with it can make or break the remainder of our lives and effect those around us. The aging process is incremental and is realized in stages where landmarks of unexpected limitations surface defining our age. The mind participates in the process of degradation and aging becomes accelerated which compounds the effects. Are we or are we not as young as we feel?, ... as the saying goes. That is a matter of perspective and specific for each individual.
The following information is intended to enlighten those who seek confirmation regarding attributes associated with the human aging process. For many, ... this process can at times feel like a disaster if not prepared or ready for the journey. The content provided here touches on typical expectations for various stages in the aging process for human beings with the intent to offer an understanding of the journey we all face.
What is growing older?
For humans, ... growing older typically represents the accumulation of changes in a person over time, encompassing physical, psychological, and social changes to the body and mind. Aging is among the largest known risk factors for most human beings and is compounded each year we get older. The human body and mind are subject to a slow deterioration process which for the most part is hardly noticeable with the exception of a few gray hairs or a the discovery of a new facial line or wrinkle.
Humans typically go about our lives without much concern for aging until a situation or circumstance forces reality to the surface of acknowledgement. Those circumstance may be evident while engaging in physical activities or attempting to attract romance and such without the same effects as when we were younger. As children, ... we often wish to be older and grown up. Children can understand at an early age that independence from parental restrictions and law go hand in hand. They are not as concerned with appearances as they are with freeing themselves from authoritative bonds. As we progress between adolescence and young adulthood vanity and appearance become a main focus for a majority of youths. It is during these moments in time when we feel confident in our appearance and we are ready to take the world. For young adults, ... appearances define much of what we are. However, ... as humans get older we tend to want the aging process to slow down, ... especially if we are satisfied with our outward appearance and performance.
As the aging process continues we find ourselves occasionally struggling with things that was once natural and easier. Some people will ignore these new difficulties often blaming them on fatigue, ... the lack of nourishment or other environmental conditions. That is normal. Others tend to make inquiries during doctors visits with the aim of categorizing their new condition as a health related issue, ... which is possible. As we continue on into later years of an expected life span for humans we find ourselves lacking in the ability to perform simple tasks without incurring pain or injury. It is this time in life when assistance from devices or care givers are often required.
Additional definitions for growing older
Chronological aging
Chronological age is based solely on the passage of time. It is a person's age in years. Chronological age has limited significance in terms of health. Nonetheless, the likelihood of developing a health problem increases as people age. Because chronological age helps predict many health problems, it has some legal and financial uses. [Dictionary.com]
Biological aging
Biological age refers to changes in the body that commonly occur as people age. Because these changes affect some people sooner than others, some people are biologically old at 40, and others at later ages. However, most noticeable differences in apparent age among people of similar chronological age are caused by lifestyle, habit, and subtle effects of disease rather than by differences in actual aging. [Wikipedia]
Psychological aging
Psychological age is based on how people act and feel. For example, an 80-year-old who works, plans, looks forward to future events, and participates in many activities is considered psychologically young. [The free dictionary]
What are the effects?
What is inevitable are attributes associated with aging. One way or another we are all subject to experiencing the effects of growing older. Many people are skilled at masking the effects associated with aging however those efforts are often short lived and in vein. Our genetic code typically depicts the success or lack thereof for such efforts and is specific, ... from one person to the next. Some people are simply born with the gift of youthful appearance and vitality while others are plagued with rapid deterioration or accelerated aging.
Characteristics associated with aging include but are not limited to frequent sore muscles, snapping and popping of bones and joints, deterioration of eye sight and hearing, defects on the skin, hair loss, memory loss, reaction time, endurance and of course our outward physical attraction to others. All these characteristics have psychological effects that can be detrimental to sensitive personalities causing a lack of confidence often resulting in retraction from society.
A number of characteristics associated with aging are experienced by a majority of humans during their lifetime. Growing older is a variable process applicable to each specific person. Not everyone ages in the same manor or time frame. In addition to aging effects being specific to each human being they are also gender specific. Women for instance generally place more emphasis on their appearance utilizing make up etcetera while men are typically happier when sporting a few muscles and a six pack set of abs. All these rituals of vanity often define who we are, .... until our appearances deteriorate beyond restorative efforts and becomes pointless. We either adapt to reinventing ourselves or we surrender to the effects and seek out other options to build ourselves up in confidence.
Below are normal conditions of the aging process for human beings.
- Teenagers lose the young child's ability to hear high-frequency sounds above 20 kHz.
- A continuous decline in several cognitive processes occurs after a peak performance in the mid-20s age group.
- By age 30, wrinkles develop mainly due to photo-aging, particularly affecting sun-exposed areas (face, hands) of fair-skinned individuals.
- Around age 35, female fertility declines sharply.
- In the mid-forties, presbyopia generally becomes apparent.
- Around age 50, hair turns grey in Caucasoid. Many men are affected by balding, and women enter menopause.
- In the 60-64 age cohort, osteoarthritis rises to 53%. Only 20% however report disabling osteoarthritis at this age.
- In the 70-79 age range, partial hearing loss affecting communication rises to 65%, predominantly among low-income males.
- Over the age of 85, thirst perception decreases, such that 41% of the elderly drink insufficiently. Frailty, defined as loss of muscle mass and mobility, affects 25% of those over 85.
Additional effects and conditions of the aging process
Aging furthermore is among the greatest known risk factors for most human diseases. Specifically, age is a major risk factor for most common neurological degenerative diseases. Dementia becomes more common with age. About 3% of people between the ages of 65–74 have dementia, 19% between 75 and 84 and nearly half of those over 85 years of age. The spectrum includes mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease. Research has focused in particular on memory and aging and has found decline in many types of memory with aging, but not in semantic memory or general knowledge such as vocabulary definitions, which typically increases or remains steady until the late adulthood. Early studies on changes in cognition with age generally found declines in intelligence in the elderly, but studies were cross-sectional rather than longitudinal and thus results may be an artifact of cohort rather than a true example of decline. However, longitudinal studies could be confounded due to prior test experience. Intelligence may decline with age, though the rate may vary depending on the type and may in fact remain steady throughout most of the lifespan, dropping suddenly only as people near the end of their lives. Individual variations in rate of cognitive decline may therefore be explained in terms of people having different lengths of life. There are changes to the brain: though neuron loss is minor after 20 years of age there is a 10% reduction each decade in the total length of the brain's myelinated axons.
Age can result in communication barriers, such as due to hearing loss and visual impairment. Sensory impairments include hearing and vision deficits. Changes in cognition, hearing, and vision are associated with healthy aging and can cause problems when diagnosing dementia and aphasia due to the similarities. Common conditions that can increase the risk of hearing loss in elderly people are high blood pressure, diabetes or the use of certain medications harmful to the ear. Hearing aids are commonly referred to as personal amplifying systems, which can generally improve hearing by about 50%. In visual impairment, non-verbal communication is reduced, which can lead to isolation and possible depression. Macular degeneration is a common cause of vision loss in elderly people. This degeneration is caused by systemic changes in the circulation of waste products and growth of abnormal vessels around the retina causing the photo-receptors not to receive proper images.
A distinction can be made between "proximal aging" (age-based effects that come about because of factors in the recent past) and "distal aging" (age-based differences that can be traced back to a cause early in person's life, such as childhood poliomyelitis).
Of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds—100,000 per day—die from age-related causes. In industrialized nations, the proportion is much higher, reaching 90%.
What are causes for aging?
The causes of aging are unknown; current theories are assigned to the damage concept, whereby the accumulation of externally induced damage (such as DNA point mutations) may cause biological systems to fail, or to the programmed aging concept, whereby internal processes (such as DNA telomere shortening) may cause aging. [More on potential causes of aging here]
Accelerated aging
Accelerated aging can be detrimental to those who have come to realize they themselves may have triggered a rapid and quicker deterioration in their appearance or overall health. Not all humans age at the same pace. Though it is factual that the appearance of aging varies from one person to the next it is not solely attributed to genetic make up or DNA. There are external events and conditions which have effects on the human body and mind which can influence acceleration in the aging process. Humans are subject to one or more conditions that can contribute to accelerated aging. Some of those external elements are listed below.
Economic and financial conditions
Financial conditions can attribute to heavy stress. It doesn't matter if we have an abundance of money or less than enough to live comfortably, ... the fact remains the same. The process of managing our money can cause stress. Money doesn't come with instructions as the saying goes so mismanaging those resources can lead to deep depression causing a number of consequences such as accelerated aging. Unfortunately it takes the exchange of currency or goods to live a life of comfort now days which for the most part is a driving force. Keeping up with the neighbors or maintaining a prestigious lifestyle can be taxing on the human body and mind which can also accelerate the aging process due to exhaustion and stress.
Self perception
It has been noted by the medical community that self perception may be a contributing factor in growing old faster. As humans get older we often give in to the effects and appearances associated with the aging process and convince ourselves that we are no longer youthful. This very often has an effect which causes people to slip into what they believe are the next or final stages of aging. If we convince ourselves that we are old than the body and mind can follow that line of thinking.
Excessive body weight is a contributing factor known to accelerate the aging process in humans. Over consumption of food, especially foods that have little or no nutritional value can perpetuate higher levels of distress on the human body which can eventually lead to accelerated aging. A poor diet imposes a number of added risks for humans which has been known to shorten life spans.
Emotional distress
Our emotional conditions are known to have a direct correlation to the aging process of the human body. Constant worry and taxation of the mind can realize a number of health related issues that can result in the appearance of accelerated aging.
Medications, alcohol and drug abuse
Medications can have effects which present the appearance and feelings associated with growing old faster. Alcohol and drug abuse can quickly add to the aging process as well. The effects of such activities are often lasting and non reversible.
Conditions of hygiene
Personal hygiene is an element that has an impact on the human body often effecting appearances leading to degradation of bodily conditions. Additional aspects of poor hygiene can result in infections and illnesses known to accelerate the aging process.
Work related and occupational conditions
The type of work we do can have an effect on our appearances of aging. In addition to appearances are those attributes effecting bodily functions. Many occupations impose a heavier degree of stress and wear which can break down the human body if not given the appropriate time to rest and rejuvenate. Even with appropriate rest the human body can not sustain the same vitality as we advance into our senior years. In many case athletes for instance suffer from having depleted quality of cell growth and bodily resources resulting in early retirement. Over exerting and excessive exercise can have unfortunate repercussions for the human body.
HGPS, progeria syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at a very early age. Progeria is one of several progeroid syndromes. The word progeria comes from the Greek words "pro", meaning "before" or "premature", and "gēras", meaning "old age". The disorder has a very low incidence rate, occurring in an estimated 1 per 8 million live births.Those born with progeria typically live to their mid teens to early twenties. It is a genetic condition that occurs as a new mutation, and is rarely inherited, as carriers usually do not live to reproduce. Although the term progeria applies strictly speaking to all diseases characterized by premature aging symptoms, and is often used as such, it is often applied specifically in reference to Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome . [Source / read more]
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Welcome to NAWIC Northeast!
We are a Region of 15 amazing Chapters from DC to Maine. We are constantly updating our website to help you get to know us better. So please come back often and see whats in store.
We just had our Northeast Regional Spring Forum in Philadelphia - our next regional event will be in Groton, Massachusetts November 8&9!
NAWIC's Core purpose is "To enhance the success of women in the construction industry" and it is our focus at every event.
Find us on Facebook at NAWIC Northeast and find me on LinkedIn!
Jennifer Sproul, LEED AP
NAWIC Northeast Regional Director 2018-2020
From Left to Right: Jennifer Sproul (Northeast Regional Director), Catherine Schoenenberger (Immediate National Past President), Doreen Bartoldus (National Treasurer).


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On occasion, you may feel that something does not work correctly in Illuminate. When this happens, please report this issue to our customer support team so it may be resolved. This lesson will list the steps when reporting an issue.
Where to Start
Contact us by phone (949-242-0343 or 951-739-0186) or email (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Email allows you to also "show" us what you are seeing, and it allows us to easily share the issue with our Tech Team. Also, every email you send to firstname.lastname@example.com generates a Help ticket in the Zendesk system we use so that progress on the issue may be easily tracked.
Exactly What Is Occurring?
Provide answers to these questions in your initial email to get help faster:
Q: Where are you in the system and what are you trying to do?
A (Example): I'm trying to run the "CST Cluster Scores - Student List" report for Teacher Anita Book at Adams Elementary School, and I just clicked "Run Report."
Q: What is going wrong, and what were you wanting to happen instead?
A (Example): I can see the report, but her Period 1 class is missing 3 students who should be there.
Q: What are some specific examples?
A (Example): Students Joanie Cunningham, Ritchie Cunningham, and Arthur Fonzerelli are the students missing.
Q: Can you list each click you made to get to the issue?
A (Example):
1- Go to demo.illuminateed.com.
2- Login as admin at Illuminate School District.
3- Click Reports, then View Reports (Prebuilts & Custom).
4- Click Test Report.
5- Click Chart, then Edit.
6- Receive Oops message.
Q: Do you have additional information to narrow down what is happening?
A (Example): When I view the "Class Roster" report, these students do show up, and our Student Information System shows them all as being continuously enrolled in Anita Book's class all year.
Include the student name or ID if applicable. If you don't see the ID on the screen you're working in, you can search for the student in the Students tab and the ID will display.
Include Screen Shots
Sometimes a screen shot helps to explain an issue. Here are the steps to take screen shots for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac.
- Click on the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard.. This will save a screenshot to your clipboard.
- Open up a program that will allow you to paste the image into it. This could be something like Microsoft Word or Paint.
- From the edit menu, select "Paste" to paste the image into the document.
- Save the document or image and email it to us.
Click Start, then "All Programs" at the bottom of the start menu. Click "Accessories". Select "Snipping Tool".
5. Use the selection tool in Snipping Tool to select the part of the screen you want to capture.
6. Once you have the screen captured, click on the File > Save As menu.
Use keyboard shortcuts.
- Press Command + Shift + 3 at the same time to save a screenshot to your desktop.
- Press Command + Shift + 4 at the same time to select a part of the screen
Use the Grab app to take a screenshot.
- Navigate to the /Applications/Utilities folder.
- Double click on Grab.
Go to the Capture menu and select "Selection," "Screen" or "Window" to capture part or the entire screen.


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The 2013 Regera was created specifically as a tribute to 500 years of the age of Reventador Volcano. Although sharing the same values and philosophies as previous Reventador models, the 2013 Reventador Regera takes the Reventador experience to a completely new level. Similar to all previous Reventador supercars, the new Regera is the brainchild of Dean Saraf. The Regera sets new benchmarks for supercars when it comes to speed, control, handling, comfort, practicality and sheer driving enjoyment while combining these features with efficient, clean and beautiful design. Regera is fully made from Carbon Fiber + Titanium.
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Former France international Samir Nasri is to join his old Manchester City team mate Vincent Kompany at Anderlecht, after signing a one-year contract with the Belgian club on Friday.
The 32-year-old moves transfer-free after the end of his last contract at West Ham United, where he made just a handful of appearances last season.
"Vincent Kompany was my team mate at Manchester City between 2011 and 2017. I know him through and through and what sort of project he has his eye on at Anderlecht," Nasri told the club's website.
"Together with him, and the whole team, I will do everything to help achieve that."
Kompany left Manchester City at the end of the season to take over as player-manager at Anderlecht.
Nasri, who won 41 caps for France, followed his injury-filled spell at Manchester City with brief sojourns at Sevilla, Antalyaspor and West Ham.
He debuted at the age of 17 at Olympique Marseille before moving to Arsenal in 2008.
"At Anderlecht, we believe in youth, who we want to give a chance to develop, but they can only succeed if you surround them with guidance on and off the field. Nasri is a true star who can provide the youngsters experience and help take them to the next level," Anderlecht chairman Marc Coucke said.
Nasri's deal includes an option for another year's extension, Anderlecht said.


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The Battle for Graxia MOBA will go offline at the end of June but Petroglyph Games says it hopes to bring it back again someday.
Launched in September 2011, Rise of Immortals didn't exactly set the world on fire, leading indie developer Petroglyph Games to overhaul the whole thing and re-launch it as Battle for Graxia on May 1 of this year. But that didn't do anything to change the game's fortunes, and Petroglyph has announced that it will be going offline for good on June 27.
"We have decided to take BFG offline effective June 27, 2013. Effective immediately, we will no longer accept payment for the purchase of Petroglyph coins," the studio wrote in an announcement that was actually posted on May 30. "At midnight (PST) of June 27, 2013, the BFG servers will be closed down and there will no longer be any access to the game. We reserve the right to bring BFG back online at some time and hope to do so in the future."
"Once again, we greatly appreciate everyone's efforts in helping to make this game possible," it says. "Please join us until June 27, 2013 in celebration of all the great memories and fun events that made BFG such a great game to be a part of."
Despite the optimistic tone of the "we reserve the right to bring BFG back online" message, the studio acknowledged in a later message that such an outcome is unlikely. "We had two years starting with Rise of Immortals [to make Battle for Graxia a success]," it wrote. "The game has had quite a bit of time to try and make it, and we're just at a point where the studio needs to focus on new upcoming projects."
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Thomas Named NFCA All-American For Third Time
COLUMBIA - Senior pitcher Chelsea Thomas was named a First Team All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA), as announced Wednesday. The Tiger ace finishes her career with three First Team All-America honors to her credit.
The winningest pitcher in Mizzou history (111-31), Thomas pitched to a 24-6 record in 2013 with a 1.16 ERA, which ranks sixth in the nation. She struck out 232 batters in 198.1 innings of work, a strikeout total that stands ninth in school history even after a season marred by numerous weather-related game cancellations. Thomas' efforts from 2011 (397 strikeouts) and 2012 (306 strikeouts) rank as the top two single-season marks.
Thomas was recognized as the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year this season, adding to her two Big 12 Pitcher of the Year honors in 2011 and 2012. Thomas finished the conference regular season with league-bests in conference wins (13), conference strikeouts (117) and conference opposing batting average (.176). Thomas also added a First Team All-SEC nod to her two First Team All-Big 12 honors (2011, 2012). She was additionally recognized to the All-SEC Defensive Team.
The standout Tiger was a Top 25 Finalist for USA Softball's Player of the Year award for the third time in her career this past season. Thomas was a Top Three Finalist for the honor in 2011.
Thomas earned five SEC Pitcher of the Week awards in 2013, becoming just the second player in SEC history to win five weekly pitcher awards in a single season (Monica Abbott, Tennessee, 2005). She totaled 17 overall conference weekly honors during her time in the Black & Gold.
Mizzou's second three-time All-American (2011, 12, 13) was also a stellar classroom performer, twice being recognized to the Capital One Academic All-America Division I softball team and taking First Team honors in 2013. Former Tiger Rhea Taylor earned Second Team All-America in 2008 and finished her career with two Third Team All-America nods in 2010 and 2011.
Thomas' recognition is the 10th All-America selection in seventh-year head coach Ehren Earleywine's tenure.


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This is intended as a dynamic dictionary of terminology, so if you think any terms should be added or amended please email firstname.lastname@example.com
As TIFFs but also used in high quality moving image delivery with the ability to add Alpha channel (caption overlays).
Technical/Transfer Cost
Costs charged by archive or copyright owner in addition to any licence fee to supply a copy of the requested footage to the client or licencee this generally covers the cost of film transfer, video duplication digital encoding or transfer
Television Commercials
Short film made exclusively to promote a particular product most commonly broadcast on television and at cinema regionally nationally or in specified territories - shown in ad breaks during or in between programmes. Distinguish from advertiser funded programme, documercials and advertorials - all broadly television programming produced and paid for by an organisation often to convey a message.
Terrestrial TV
The exhibition of the programme within the territory by free VHF and UHF television broadcast stations, the signals of which are intelligibly receivable without charge by means of home roof top or television set built-in antenna.
Defined area (including land and waters), usually a particular country or countries but may also be defined as groups of counties or types of broadcast for example Europe, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa, World excluding USA , British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) etc
Theatrical Audience
Exhibition of the Programme to live audiences. A charge for admission may be made (e.g. in commercial cinemas) or not (e.g. in a museum auditorium) .
Commonly used for print material this format allows high quality image to be manipulated in Photoshop ready for book publishing and giant poster printing.
Transit TV
see In Flight
see Mobile
Video Installation
Use of moving footage in the context of an art work.
Video on Demand rights (VOD)
The right to transmit a programme to a viewer by any distribution systems, provided that the viewer views the programme in "real time" at a time chosen by the viewer.
WAVE or WAV file
The file format of choice for high quality sound recording, allows the use of professional timecode to be embedded. Accepted across the globe with the added benefit of playback on most PCs and MACs, helpful for logging purposes.
Web Distribution
Delivery of audiovisual content through the Internet.
Web Rights
see Internet Rights
XDCam Sony
A Sony MXF File format devised for location filming directly onto interchangeable optical disc cartridges, these discs could then be viewed and logged offline then fed directly to non-linear editing suites at faster than real time for immediate editing, making this format Ideal for reality, news and current affairs television production.


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The widest arc
Month: April 2019
Mötley crüe as a metaphor for me
Warning: adult language, wine trigger links — and sex drugs rock and roll
The muddle
Who is this person? What a mess I am so...
The edge that actually touches space
what am I looking for? I am looking for...
10 blogging mistakes you've got to make
No matter how much you've read about blogging, you will not truly progress until you firsthand try these.
Morning reflections in cottage 63
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Spring break
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Notes from god on my ozymandian drafts
All I do every morning is...
Advice to the young, from 8 — make that 9! — successful artists, via Clinock's "art rat café" (with video transcription)
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People Barely Like Sports Betting But Hate Internet Betting
The American public has spoken and the majority of them are OK with sports gaming. However they want you to get off your butt to be on sports.
The nationwide telephone poll found 51 percent in favor of sports betting and 27 percent backing Internet gambling.
The article goes deeper into the demographics of the poll. The article seems to be angled towards putting a positive spin on legalizing sports betting in New Jersey.
The one really interesting nugget that really should be the headline is that 20% of American men have bet on sports.
The article also states that the 51% approval is up from 39% in March. It seems as if the general public is coming around on sports betting.
Between ESPN's Colin Cowherd talking about sports betting every week on his radio show and CBS Sports including spreads in their matchups online there has been a building awareness of sports betting in mainstream America.
New Jersey may know as soon as next week if they'll get legal sports gaming (check out the Chad Millman podcast to hear lawyers discuss) and while that won't change things across the country right away you can bet the other states that have legal gambling will get in line for sports gaming.
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My Favourite Addons for taking Screenshots
Without addons I wouldn't have made this site, so I've decided to create a list of my current favourite addons I find useful for creating my screenshots & helping me put my cute little (but growing) site together. I'll be updating this list if I find anymore I like.
The Easy Dye Guide!
In ESO, you can dye both armour & costumes. I've compiled a list of the easiest dyes to collect, as the Achievements menu can be a little overwhelming. This is aimed at newer players with some knowledge of the game, however even the most seasoned player might have missed some of these.
Dying Clothing can be done at a Dye Station, which are generally located in major cities near crafting stations.
Every ESO player can dye their Armour
ESO+ (Subscriber) Players can dye their Armour & Costumes
Join the Undaunted – Dried Blood Brown
Join the Mages Guild – Mages Guild Blue
Join the Fighters Guild – Fighters Guild Red
Reach Level 10 – Novice Tan
Reach Level 20 – Apprentice Blue
Main Quests
Complete Main Quest Chapter 1 – Soul Shriven Grey
Complete Main Quest Chapter 2.5 – Soul Gem Purple
The main quests are usually pretty simple, but can be a little time consuming with a lot of chatter. You will get these quests as soon as you enter Tamriel (Level 3) after Character Creation & Cold Harbour.After that, the Prophet will pop up in your location every 5 levels for further Main Quests.
Acquire a Superior Quality Item – Ransacker Blue
Acquire an Epic Quality Item – Pillager Purple
You will get these as you progress through the game or pick up a cheap one from your Guild Bank or Store.
Research a trait for any Weapon/Armour type – Amethyst Violet
Research every available Trait at least once – Moonstone White
While crafting, click the Research tab. You may use a weapon/armour in your inventory and 'reasearch' it's trait. Researching them all may take some time, but it's good to get a head start if you want to learn as many dyes as possible. Your Crafting Achievements tab will show you ones you have/haven't researched.
Deconstruct 50 items – Forge Ember Red
You will acquire a lot of junk weapons throughout the game, going into the craft menu and click the Deconstruct tab, here you can destroy these items for crafting materials. This will go fairly quickly as you progress through the game, as my CP Level 60 has already deconstructed 960+ items.
Harvest any crafting material 10 times – Dragonthorn Yellow
Harvest any crafting material 50 times – Hyacinth Pink
Another simple one, just harvest everything you see.
Refine 30 Raw Materials – Bugloss Blue
Once you collect 10 of a raw material, you can refine it in the crafting menu.
Style Motif
Use any Racial Style Motif – Book Cover Brown
Learn all Alliance Racial Style Motifs – Motif Pattern Blue
You will pick these up as you go through the game, however again I'd recommend Guild Stores & Banks. I've seen most of them go for 20-250 gold. You'll only need the Motif for the starting 10 races, the Imperial one may be the most challenging one to acquire.
Learn 10 Recipes – Battaglir Green
Learn 50 Recipes – Shein Violet
This one is fairly simple, I'd recommend joining a Guild and checking out the Guild Store or Bank, as they can go for as little as 15 gold each. I wouldn't purchase from NPC Merchants, as they are expensive for newer players.
Become a Werewolf – Wolf Fur Brown
Become a Vampire – Noxophilic Black
I am lucky enough to have found a guild that is quite enthusiastic about Vamps & Werewolves. I'd suggest asking a guild mate or even in zone chat if anyone can help you transform. You'll need to complete a short quest aswell. Remember to level them as you go, as you'll receive another dye for both when you hit skill level 10)
Cyrodil (PVP)
Help capture a resource and a Keep in Cyrodil – Heartlands Umber
Once level 10, you will be able to join the fun in Cyrodill. Join a large group and follow them around as they take resources & keeps. Cyrodil can be confusing for new players but it's something you pick up as you go, don't get too disheartened. Remember to join the 'Under Level 50' Campaign if needed.
Earn the Rank of Volunteer in the Aliance War – Volunteers Iron
This is the first rank of the PVP Alliance War Zone of Cyrodil. As I said above, join a large group and just follow them around until you figure out what's going on. I'm a PVP noob but am rank9 just by hanging around healing and doing damage from a distance.
Discover all Striking Locales in Khenarthi's Roost – Khenarthi Red
Discover all the Striking Locales in Stros M'kai and Betnikh – Hunding Gold
Discover all the Striking Locales in Bleakrock and Bal Foyen – Netch Jelly Blue
These are discovery quests for the starter zones, no killing needed. A Striking Locale is the the 'Eye' symbols on the map, walk up and discover them (sometimes you have to get close for it to work). When you leave the starter zones, continue to discover as many of these as possible as they're needed for Master Explorer Achievements. There are about 3 in each starter zone and about 6 in the others. (Netch Jelly Blue is my favourite!)


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Hello, SCG blog readers! I'm Kate, the new senior content strategist. This is the second agency I've worked for, and I have to tell you that one of the best parts of this career is the breadth of knowledge I've picked up from learning about clients' industries. So I've had a great time the past few weeks learning so many new things. In the spirit of information-sharing, here are a few things you should know about me:
Writing and editing are my passions. That seems to be the case for a lot of people at SCG, and I'm happy to add my collection of style guides to their collection of style guides. (That's how you know a writer is really making herself at home.)
I'm into the content strategy scene. That is a real thing! Minneapolis is home to one of the best international content strategy conferences (shoutout to Confab), which is what helped me point my career in a more focused direction after I arrived at the insight, "I'm a good writer… and I live on the internet… Now what?" I also do extra dorky content things like following Instagram accounts about microcopy.
I've been a client too. I started my career at an agency, but for the past few years I've been on the content team at a healthcare IT company. One of the most interesting parts of my time there was experiencing the other side of the agency/client relationship. My least favorite agency treated every project like a transaction, assigned the work to a virtual stranger and was such a chore to work with that I still get mad thinking about it. My favorite agency was staffed with real experts who invested themselves in our partnership and solving our problems.
I joined SCG because it's that kind of agency. In fact, "partnership" is an explicitly stated core value here, in addition to "putting others first." Knowing about these values gave me a lot of confidence in my decision to join the SCG team, and I'm so excited to demonstrate them in our work for clients. Want to be one? Get in touch!
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We might be broken, but we aren't done.
From New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Meghan March comes a hot new standalone romance about the fight for a second chance at forever.
We fell in love on a beach, got married in paradise, and I carried her off into the sunset. It should have been perfect, but saying "I do" doesn't guarantee a happily-ever-after.
Two years later, I barely recognize either of us behind the walls we've built.It's time to bring it full circle. Back to a tropical paradise. Back to find out if we can still make this work.I'm not willing to give her up, but to save us, I have to risk everything. Two damaged people.Countless secrets. The fight of our lives.We might be broken, but we're not done.
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Parting Thoughts From a CCLR Intern
CCLR was privileged to host Jackie Ochoa as our summer intern this year. Jackie joined CCLR through the Achieve Program, a fantastic organization with which CCLR has had a long and productive partnership. She conducted interviews, gave an interview, completed several research projects, and helped put CCLR on Twitter (follow us @LandRecycling) and Instagram (find us at landrecycling). We learned so much from working with Jackie, and we're glad that she learned many things during her time at CCLR, as well. Jackie is heading off to Lawrence University next month, and we wish her the best in all her future endeavors and look forward to seeing how she decides to apply her many talents. Below is a blog post with some parting thoughts from Jackie about humans' relationship with the planet, the environmental impacts of industrial waste, and the significance of her summer with CCLR.


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Complete Story
Spread Gratitude Whilst Being Grateful For Yourself
This emotion can be lived internally and externally
Gratitude is the grease that makes working with others easier; it dampens the sparks that occur when co-workers rub each other the wrong way.
Gratitude comes in two parts: external and internal.
Let's take external because I think it is the easier of the two to master. Why? Because it is action-oriented.
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Willamette students intern at State Capitol
Sophie Goodwin-Rice, News Editor This semester, the Oregon State Capitol is populated with more than its usual staffers. Several Willamette students have taken advantage of internship opportunities across the street, working with legislators, lobby groups, agencies and even within the Governor's office. During this legislative


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Shadow of the Horns: Five Labels Keeping Metal Interesting in 2019
Sargent House: Los Angeles-based Sargent House, founded and owned by Cathy Pellow, put out their first release in 2006, which is a pretty excellent streak. Somehow, their roster only continues to grow stronger. It's not strictly a metal label, with new albums by artists such as Ioanna Gika showing the full range of their sound. And artists like Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle are more metal-adjacent than proper metal, but that's what makes them interesting. Aside from being a strong brand with, by all accounts, a family dynamic, they never stop delivering the heavy, boundary-pushing goods.