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Fun in Postbellum American Culture
Postdoctoral Project by
Sophie Spieler
The United States can be described, without running the risk of controversy, as a nation that for the better part of the twentieth century has privileged, demanded, and celebrated 'fun' in its cultural self-performances. I want to propose, however, that the conditions for this triumphant proliferation of 'fun' were created during the last decades of the nineteenth century. The aim of this project, then, is to investigate the emergence of a culture of fun in Postbellum America, by examining nascent infrastructures and discourses of fun along with their larger implications for American self-conceptualizations during and after that period. My approach is grounded in discourse theory and aims at including a diverse range of sources, for instance memoirs and diaries, literary texts, newspaper articles and trade journals, and advertisements.
A number of factors shaped the institutionalization and solidification of fun as a cultural imperative and will thus serve as analytical axes of my inquiry: the emergence of industrial capitalism and the concomitant consolidation of a market-driven economy; the rise of a mass culture of consumers along with the technological innovations that enabled it; and the unprecedented levels of immigration that, in addition to the trauma of the Civil War, informed national anxieties as well as attempts to alleviate them by generating collective understandings of Americanness.
I assume that 'fun' is distinct from, though always related to, semantically similar concepts such as leisure, recreation, play, and entertainment. Contrasted alternately with boredom, seriousness, work, or compulsion, fun is a multidimensional category that can be conceptualized as a social and affective experience as well as a practice or performance. Fun can also, in some contexts, be understood as political action: a form of protest or resistance. Regardless of the specifics, fun is furthermore always embedded in and informed by social hierarchies and the opportunities and restrictions they create—what kind of fun is had, in which contexts, and with what consequences depends on the particularities of the gendered, racialized, and classed body that experiences it. In this multiplicity, fun offers a diverse and productive, yet nevertheless distinctive point of departure to engage with late-nineteenth century cultural history.
The Kitchen and the Factory: Spaces of Women's Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature
This book asks for the cultural work that spaces of feminine labor do in antebellum texts from a variety of literary and 'para-literary' contexts. Singling out the kitchen and the factory, it argues that sites of women's work serve as key textual microcosms in which antebellum culture negotiates the discourses of social difference whose relevance skyrockets in this period, especially the discourses of gender, class, 'race,' and nationhood.
Kanzler, Katja. The Kitchen and the Factory: Spaces of Women's Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016.
Transnationality and Temporality in Early African American Texts
The essay argues that it is necessary to complicate spatial approaches to nationality by an acknowledgment of the equally important function of temporality in the imaginative constructions of the nation. The movement "beyond the nation" is not necessarily only a movement away from a particular territory but can also be a movement away from a particular temporal narrative.
Pisarz-Ramirez, Gabriele. "Transnationality and Temporality in Early African American Texts". In The International Turn in American Studies, eds. Marietta Messmer and Armin Paul Frank. Interamericana 7 (Frankfurt: Lang, 2015): 209–230.
Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective
Pisarz-Ramirez, Gabrielle and Markus Heide, eds. Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 2016. Print. Interamericana Series.
Narrative Liminality and/in the Formation of American Modernities
This DFG-funded network proposes the notion of "narrative liminality" as a category for the study of US American culture.
Spatial Fictions - Antebellum South
Research Project by
Deniz Bozkurt
My (ongoing) dissertation project Spatial Fictions in Antebellum American Writings about the Southern Peripheries of the United States focuses on spatial imaginations regarding the Southern peripheries of the US in the nineteen-century fictional and non-fictional literature. Laden with controversies such as discussions on slavery and abolition, territorial expansion and annexation, sectionalism, secessionism and unionism, industrialization and agricultural reforms, the literature on the nineteenth-century South a wide range of diverse spatial projections than the canonical spatial metanarratives, which evolve around concepts like Manifest Destiny, Errand into the Wilderness, and the Frontier, offer. While these metanarratives often contradicted the lived-realities of the region, the South was located in "the national imagery" that they constructed as the peripheral "internal other" to the US.
The main objective of this dissertation is, thus, to create a more heterogeneous and complex representation of spatial imagination regarding the American South in an era where the nation consolidation was accompanied and complicated by geographical expansion. Concentrating on the narratives about important events and debates of the era for the South like filibustering expeditions to Cuba and Nicaragua, and Southern independence and slavery, the first discursive complex of this projects aims at exploring geographical imaginations that envision the South as the center of a Southern empire that extends beyond the presumed borders of the South and reaches as far as Brazil. In the second part, texts by African-American and abolitionist authors who established invisible networks in space and time that spread from the Southern US to as far as Africa through shared experiences and expectations in their works will be read to draw an alternative landscape of spatial imaginations that is distinct from the texts that will be explored in the first discursive complex.
The 19th-Century US Data Imaginary
Postdoctoral Project by
Sebastian M. Herrmann
This ongoing postdoctoral project is interested in the 'data imaginary' of the nineteenth century. It asks how 'data' came to be an important cultural (social, political, textual) category; how something as abstract as the notion of presumably 'pure,' discontinuous, discrete, often numerical, and quantifiable information came to be imagined as a 'thing' that can be created, bought, sold, regulated, or used for all manner of interactions and socio-political negotiations; how data came to be imagined as something with social and political valencies; and, most importantly, how this new 'thing' gained cultural presence not simply as a tool but as a way of thinking about the world.
Literary and cultural studies have stressed the role of narrative for the emergence of national identity, for the negotiation of cultural and social difference, and for navigating the transformations of modernity. Thinking about the culturalization of data and the rise of the data imaginary complements this perspective by asking for the role that emphatically nonnarrative symbolic forms—and the textual practices they entail—have played in this.
For more information, please see the project webpage at www.data-imaginary.de.
Spatial Fictions - Florida
Research Project by
Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez
This (ongoing) project, Spatial Fictions: (Re)Imaginations of Nationality in the Southern and Western Peripheries of 19th Century America, is part of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition. It examines the imagination of space in nineteenth-century American cultural and literary discourses. Canonized patterns of spatialization in American national history are linked to central spatial concepts such as the frontier and the "errand into the wilderness" (i.e. the settlement and civilization of the American continent on an east-west geographical axis). However, the geographical imagination in the period from the American Revolution to the Civil War was much more diverse. The consolidation and expansion of the nation during the nineteenth century were accompanied by different and conflicting imaginations of spatial formats that often contradicted the official rhetoric of "Manifest Destiny". Particularly in the yet unstable and mobile southern and western peripheries of the nation, the ideology of Manifest Destiny collided with the topographical, social, economic, and cultural realities of the border zones, producing alternative "spatial fictions" that often pointed to commercial, political, or other entanglements with regions beyond the nation's boundaries.
The project comprises two dissertation projects (see project description by Steffen Wöll and Deniz Bozkurt) as well as a unit on the spatial construction of Florida in the early 19th century. This part explores Florida as a space that in the period between its successive acquisition from Spain and its permanent settlement by Americans generated widely varying spatial narratives. The divergent representations that the peninsula experienced in travel narratives, novels, captivity tales, and historical writings by American writers reveal how it became a foil of projection for quite different agendas. The geographical imagination of their authors about Florida reveals that as a spatial nexus of the domestic and the foreign, situated between the U.S. and the Caribbean, the peninsula played a crucial role in the debates about nationhood, expansionism, and slavery, and in the conflict between centrifugal and centripetal forces, i.e. those forces endorsing the consolidation of the nation v. those arguing for further expansion.
Fellow Tribesmen: German "Indianthusiasm," Nationalism, and Nazi Ideology
Dissertation by
Frank Usbeck
This (completed) project analyzes the role of Germans' fascination with Native Americans for the construction of national identity in the 19th century and, eventually, for Nazi ideology and propaganda. It scrutinizes the interrelation of typical manifestations of "Indian" imagery, such as the noble savage or the vanishing race, with ideas, cultural practices, and images in German culture since c. 1800. This interrelation promoted an essentialist construction of German group identity as well as the notion of German exceptionalism. Comparing the colonial conquest of the Americas with the resistance of ancient Germanic tribes against the encroaching Roman empire, nationalists portrayed Germans as the "Indians" of Europe. The Nazis' eventual perception and representation of Native Americans in Nazi-controlled media built on these traditions of German "Indianthusiasm," interweaving Romantic notions, cultural despair, conservative nationalism, and racial ideology.
Based on comprehensive research in German periodicals (newspapers, academic journals, and magazines) as well as academic monographs and political treatises published 1925-45, the project identifies two major motifs through which these Native American references served nationalists and Nazis to postulate German Indigeneity: The "Fellow Tribesmen" motif argued that Germans had retained elements of tribal culture from their ancestors and shared inheritable character traits with Native Americans, suggesting cultural and mental ties between both groups. This argument was interlaced with a dose of antimodernism and antiliberalism in German nationalist thinking. The "Common Enemy" motif deepened this sense of alienation from the 'West' by constructing German-'Indian' parallels, referring to the experience of resistance against foreign invasion and cultural imperialism, invoking ancient Rome, the French "arch enemy," and British and US imperialism and threats to German (and Native American) culture. The Nazis, thus, utilized a mixture of primitivism, exoticism and racial thought to harness German "Indianthusiasm" for propaganda against the Western Allies.
Spatial Fictions - American West
Dissertation Project by
Steffen A. Wöll
My (ongoing) dissertation project on "Globe, Region, and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in Antebellum US Literature" examines spatial imaginations of the Western American peripheries and their representation in US literature during the nineteenth century, comprising both fictional and non-fictional literary accounts of the Western peripheries, including travel narratives, diaries, exploration reports, as well as (pseudo-)scientific geographical and anthropological texts. Taking into consideration both populist and elitist views, female and male perspectives, racialist and philanthropist ideologies, I put focus on the intertextual dynamics that result in the discursive construction, affirmation, contestation, deconstruction, hierarchization, as well as synthetic and antithetic negotiations of imagined and actual spatial formats and orders. Without ignoring the Turnerian and New Western History's approaches to the American West and concepts like frontier and borderlands, my intention is nevertheless to take a step back. This seems necessarily especially in the light of current, often highly politicized discourses that view the West as yet another stage on which to transplant personal expectations and enact political agendas, resulting in presentism and ahistorical epistemic conceptualizations.


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I'm sick of many of us in advocacy simply stereotyping people who are not part of our particular movement. Stereotypes and assumptions prevent us from communicating. Too often, rather than listening to what someone who is not one of us says, we simply assume that they believe what other people with a certain trait believe.
Parents, professionals, and therapists deserve to be treated with respect. As all people do.
Sure, a lot of time the people doing horrible things to autistics are parents, professionals, and therapists. So they don't get a free pass just because they had a kid or have a professional job. But, at the same time, before we pronounce someone guilty, we probably should make sure they really are guilty – not with accusatory questions, but by sincerely listening.
We don't want to be tone policed in advocacy circles. If I need to express something happening to my people that is harming them, I shouldn't be silenced unless I can say things politely. I agree with this.
That said, if I can say them politely, I probably should. I should at least try a decent interaction with people, with an assumption that the person may be a potential ally, not an enemy, who simply doesn't know any better, who is doing something a certain way for a reason that negates my concern, or simply doesn't know any better – but agrees that autistic people (or whatever other group) need to be treated decently. If they prove themselves otherwise, fine, be an ass. But let's wait until they prove it, rather than having us assume it. There may be nuance that I don't know about unless I ask.
I've had this in my own advocacy. Sometimes I see something in the advocacy world that I don't think is particularly effective advocacy – so I speak up and say so. I try to do so respectfully, sometimes I do, sometimes I fail. Like all of us. But more often then not, the response isn't to read my words or listen to my thoughts, getting clarifications when something is unclear. No, it's to read one thing and then dismiss everything I'm about to say, on the basis of what stereotypes about people who say that one thing think.
I've seen this in my arguments against the widespread usage of the word "cis-" to refer to people who are not trans (ex: cis-male is a person born with normal male genitals and treated as a boy/man throughout his life, and who identifies with that identity). The initial assumption is that my actions are formed by the same ignorance and arrogance that causes some to fight against the word – but my thoughts are quite a bit more nuanced than that. But it's hard for me to express them, because the initial assumption is that I'm full of shit and saying this for the same reason they've seen others say this (and there is a lot of bullshit on the web about what is wrong with the cis- prefix, bullshit that is horrible and wrong and definitely anti-trans).
Yet, I make an argument like that, and people make assumptions, without really listening to what I want to say. And, often, these people are advocates for some cause. I probably agree with them far more than I disagree, but they immediately put me in the category of "hateful, anti-trans bigot", assuming that I hold a bunch of other views (on things other than cis- prefixes) that I don't hold, because I hold a view on the cis- prefix that is contrary to some of the louder advocacy right now (that said, I'm not the only person that holds this view for the reasons I hold it).
I've seen it in other areas of advocacy too. People are fine making assumptions about you if you don't say exactly the right words, exactly the right way. I might say I don't support food stamps, which is an accurate statement of my beliefs (for people outside the USA, food stamps aren't stamps anymore, but are assistance given by the government that can only be used to buy food). Immediately, I can sense my readership getting angry, about to tell me a few pieces of their mind. Some people stopped reading and declared me a conservative asshole. Others assume that I must never have been without food, because if I had been, I could never say something like this. A lot of stereotypes.
Of course when I say I don't support food stamps, I'm talking something else entirely. I agree with economists that food stamps are a wasteful, inefficient redistribution of income that doesn't help the economy as much as it could, which doesn't get people out of poverty, and which is inefficient for the person needing assistance. Oh, again, I'm in the conservative asshole category in the eyes of my readers! I also agree with the most progressive anti-poverty activists (who, ironically agree with the economists!) in that cash distribution is a much better way of helping poor people than earmarked funds are. Rather than giving a family $400 of food assistance, $600 of rent assistance, $350 of medical assistance, $200 of transportation assistance, why not give them the cash for these things? Maybe they can economically eat for less than $400 (I couldn't if I had a family, but some people have resources I don't have or abilities I lack). But to get that better job, they need $250 in transportation assistance. Why shouldn't the people most connected with their needs make that decision? (hint on why people disagree with me: "What if they buy $1000 of lottery tickets?" And that's a legitimate concern – what if someone runs out of money in the beginning of the month? We can't let their kids starve. And I agree with that – I won't get into details now, but there are solutions for that too that don't involve kids starving; but that said, contrary to what most people seem think, most poor people aren't poor because they are too stupid to spend their money on food and rent, but rather they are poor because they don't have enough money – and will spend money they have wisely). So my view isn't "Cut support" but rather "Put people in charge of determining what they need, rather than us dictating." This isn't even a fringe view – most people who study this field (poverty) would agree with me, including people in government. But it is opposed from the right wing ("ABUSE!!! THINK OF THE ABUSE!!!") and from other advocates who only read "get rid of food stamps" and immediately make some assumptions. So it probably will never happen.
When we listen to a parent speak, we need to be careful to not make any assumptions. Maybe the parent is an awful curebie who wants sympathy at any cost to their child's privacy, so is fine posting exaggerated stories about shit smearing on their mommy blog. There certainly are plenty of parents in this category. But maybe they are talking about what they are talking about in a respectful, appropriate way that respects the child's privacy. Maybe the child is old enough to understand the implications of consent and has given it, but the mother didn't know that she was going to be stereotyped as a "mother who wants sympathy" and thus needed to make it clear she didn't fit the stereotype. But we should be listening, and asking non-accusatory questions, giving people not the benefit of the doubt, but simply recognizing "I don't know here, but it's important."
Now, a good ally won't be bothered by someone confronting them over a stereotype the self-advocate has about the group the ally is part of. Even if it's done somewhat aggressively and rudely. They'll recognize that a minority community has to put up with a lot of shit, and sometimes that is expressed in direct, up-front ways. They'll see where the pain and anger is coming from. Or maybe the ally is wrong, and does need to be corrected, and is willing to be corrected (if they are an ally, they will listen; note that I don't believe an ally to autistics has to agree with any one autistic on anything, either – and that's where things get complicated and messy).
But at the same time, I think sometimes we get a bit too aggressive in our advocacy, seeing enemies that aren't there. Advocacy is very nuanced much of the time, and not about just the big major things. It's not just about whether JRC is giving electric shocks to their prisoners (they are, and, yes, it's wrong). It's about an assumption that "more intensive" treatment is the right answer for "more severe" behavior. And that "more intensive" treatment works better and quicker for all types of behavior than less intensive. It's the assumption that the more effort put into therapy, the more positive results. It's the assumption that behavior X and Y are maladjusted and need therapy. Sometimes they do, but sometimes that "behavior" is just odd but okay.
I've also seen the reverse – I've seen it assumed that an autistic who speaks on advocacy is anti-parent, angry, and even militant. I've had all these things used against me, and while I can't speak for their accuracy in an unbiased way, I work very hard at channeling my anger appropriately and recognizing the importance of good parents. I certainly don't see "parents" as the enemy, nor am I trying to wage a war. I'm trying to help people understand and trying to make sure my people can fully participate in and enjoy society – nothing more. So this isn't exactly a one-way set of stereotypes.
So, when you hear something you disagree with today, I'll give my thought on what your response should be: Consider whether there may be nuances you aren't aware of. When someone says they want to get rid of food stamps, are they saying, "I want the poor to starve" or are they saying, "I think the poor know where this money should go better than I do?" When a parent says their 18 year old son wears a diaper, is it possible their 18 year old son has agreed to share that for a shared advocacy reason? Let's not assume that's not the case. No, I'm not saying to assume it is the case either. But we should listen and ask true questions, not just jump to accusations.


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Safety and Tolerability of the Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine IC51
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We all complain about the surging prices at the gas pump but what's the solution?
Is more production the answer?
Clearly we need to bring in more oil supply , says Addison Armstrong, Director of Market Research at Tradition Energy. But opening up new federal lands isn't going to do anything to solve the current problem.
Why not?
It takes years and billions of dollars to bring those kinds of projects to market and by the time it would happen we'd have new technology that could make us more efficient and lower the demand.
What's at the root of the problem?
We have a demand problem, he replies as well as an unprecedented level of investor interest in these markets and a weak dollar.
Then, when will oil turn?
I think by the fourth quarter a diminishing demand will break this market. But we have to get through the summer with weather anomalies such as hurricanes, etc. There's a lot of uncertainty between now and the fourth quarter that could send oil even higher.
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June 25, 2012
The last time we had a dance party a neighbor was so pissed about the loud music and late hour that he trampled the garden beds in the backyard. I assumed dance parties were permanently on hold. But not long ago we received a knock on the door and the same neighbor happily informed us he was moving to Thailand and we were free to party on. And also, did we have some moving boxes he could use?
And so we got back on schedule. Three or four dance parties a year, one at the beginning of the summer (last Friday night), one for Sarah's Bday in August, and a couple in the winter- Halloween or New Years or Reggae Xmas.
This. One. Was. Awesome. This was a proper dance party, meaning people were here to dance and that's about it. The music was so fucking good (Thank you DJ JEN O, DJ KM FIZZY and DJ SNAKKS!) and that kept people from… getting too drunk or breaking stuff or sneaking into our rooms to make-out or doing drugs in the bathroom. There just wasn't enough time between killer jams. While cleaning up the next day I kept finding whole, cracked beers, left in a fit of "I love this song" mad dash back to the dance floor. Because no amount of beer, or food, or sex or anything other vice, feels as good as dancing.
You have to dance to remember that.
Friends on Friends on Friends on Frien-Again
June 17, 2012
Seth and Kenya are getting even radder. They now build houses. Or at least small cabins.
They are transforming my garage from a dank shed with a hole-in-the-ceiling and dead chicken feathers on the ground to a wood paneled studio with a gas stove and french doors. At the crack of two they arrive, snacks in hand, ipod blasting from Kenya's pocket. My weekdays are suddenly much more fun now that I can take my lunch into the backyard and bother them.
June 15, 2012
Today is awesome. I woke at eight and ripped back the curtains. Sun! Now all the doors are open and the whole house smells like fresh laundry from the line.
Pure, full strength Vitamin D pumps through me, even as I sit in the kitchen shade. I have a grand sense of possibility, visions of travel, and an unquenchable hunger for fruit.
Cause Of It All…?
June 13, 2012
(Allison's mom is also a painter!)
I think I'm PMSing. But I can't be sure. I have an irregular cycle, one that did not begin until I was seventeen and one that continues to be absent most of the time. I am not the girl who had really bad cramps that kept her home from school with a bottle of Advil at her disposal. But I wanted to be! Just like I wanted to have divorced parents and go to Ala-teen meetings. I kept wondering why nobody in Health Class asked if it was cool to wear a tampon before you got your period, you know, just in case.
I was practically an adult when it finally came. And to make matters worse, my sister was… normal.
It was late summer and my mom and Nat were driving me home from camp. I was staring dreamily out the back window when my mom began to speak, the strained casualness of her tone catching my attention. Honey, …Natty got her period. I glanced at my sister, mute and humiliated in the front seat. Until now my little sister had readily adhered to the standard rules regarding family hierarchy: she was younger and therefore shorter and shyer and in love with me. Now, suddenly, without warning, she had jumped ahead while I was conveniently secluded in the woods! The betrayal! The injustice! The truth of the matter.
And now, twenty five years later, I am still waiting for that wonderful, terrible monthly occurrence. Oh sure, I get it now and then. But never consistently. And so my moods, wild and menacing, strike without drawing blood. I'm just a crabby asshole with nobody to blame. Instead of charting my cycle on the back page of my journal (one entry), I should note the days I am particularly rude. One guess which tally will win…
Inside/Outside/At The Cafe
June 12, 2012
(my mom is an oil painter. she loves every side of me)
There are some people who only write in their journal when they're feeling good. Because those are the moments they want to remember, later, flipping through. I, on the other hand, only journal when I'm feeling blue. Or angry. Or jealous. And those are the moments I revisit if I turn back the pages. And what I see is a woman spending a lot of effort on something or someone that does not warrant it.
But at least there is a something or someone. At least there is a subject, and therefore a plot. But today… there is just nothing. I feel (and look) like I have been crying all morning. I'm really crabby! And sensitive. And so easily wounded. So not easy to be around, even for me. But I can't seem to shake this girl. This drippy company. It's like I have an uninvited out of town visitor that assumes she is going everywhere I go- the cafe, the dog bone store, even to drop the fucking movie in the fucking drop box.
Today is a fine day. There is nothing wrong with this day. It looks just like yesterday and is full of genius. Full of joy.
And I am not.
June 5, 2012
This Moment, All Day
June 2, 2012
My sister is wise beyond her years. Her years being two less than mine.
When I call her, woes and worries in my bag, I expect her to take part of the load. She will understand and relate and agree… that this is not how it should go. I must know, by now, that that's not what she'll say. She will instead notice the tone of my voice, the victim-tinged self-righteousness, the misdirected time and energy. And by the time we are ready to get off the phone we will be talking about outlook, perspective, appreciation, trust. And joy. Finding joy, even in the smallest things, to keep your heart open and receptive to all the good coming your way.
I have been taking note of moments, little and inconsequential, but filled with everything there is to love about living. And so, in tribute to my sister, I would like to recognize this moment.
Morning: The house smells of sweetgrass. There is a Doc Martin tribute show on KBOO. I have a large mug of hot water waiting at my knees. My stomach is full of yogurt and peaches. The doors are open and silver light fills the room. I sit on the new couch.
Afternoon: The house smells of broccoli puree and baked yams. There is a Grateful Dead tribute show on KBOO. I am in work clothes, a trifecta of blue. The neighbor's mower growls a nasally whine. I ate all the chocolate in the house and feel frustrated that there isn't more to be found.
Broccoli Puree Recipe: (this is my comfort food. it may sound like an off combo but it isn't)
Bring a large pot of water to boil with a bay leaf floating on the top.
Take a lot of broccoli (1 1/2 pds) and break/cut it into smallish pieces.
Cut up a bunch of green onions (literally a bunch).
Add all to boiling water and cook until they are not firm.
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Do you have what it takes to be a trader? When we watch sports sometimes someone comes along that defies what normal people can do. When the game is on the line they rise to the occasion. Some say they have a gut of steel. Look at old videos of Joe Montana or current players like Tom Brady. It seems that when the game is on the line these guys get better.
That's what it takes in trading.
Trading Psychology is emotions and mental state that dictate success or failure in trading securities. Trading psychology refers to the aspects of an individual's mental makeup that help determine whether he or she will be successful in buying and selling securities for a profit. Trading psychology is as important as other attributes such as knowledge, experience and skill in determining trading success. Discipline and risk-taking are two of the most critical aspects of trading psychology, since a trader's implementation of these aspects is critical to the success of his or her trading plan. While fear and greed are the two most commonly known emotions associated with trading psychology, other emotions that drive trading behavior are hope and regret.
For an understanding of trading psychology, consider some examples of the emotions associated with it.
Greed is an excessive desire for wealth. Greed often causes traders to stay in a profitable trade longer than is advisable in a bid to squeeze out extra profits from it, or to take on large speculative positions. Greed is most apparent in the final phase of bull markets, when speculation runs rampant and investors throw caution to the winds.
Conversely, fear causes traders to close out positions prematurely or to refrain from taking on risk because of concern about large losses. Fear is palpable during bear markets, and it is a potent emotion that can cause traders and investors to act irrationally in their haste to exit the market. Fear often morphs into panic, which generally causes markets to decline at a much faster rate than they advance.
Regret may cause a trader to get into a trade after initially missing out on it because the stock moved too fast. This is a violation of trading discipline and often results in the trader getting in too late on the trade.
Successful traders have some common psychological traits that contribute to their success. These traits include –
• Know your limits and do not over trade.
• Risk management is the key to preserving trading capital and attaining trading success.
• Maintain trading discipline at all times.
• Know the difference between not fighting the trend and following the herd.
Below are 3 ways to get control of our emotions in trading.
1) Forget Right and wrong
One thing we have to do is forget about right and wrong. No one likes to be wrong. Sometimes when you are in a trade that goes the wrong direction we don't want to sell because for some reason in our mind that is admitting defeat.
I like to fish. If I go fishing with worms then I understand to catch a big fish you have to give up a few worms. It's the same with trading. To catch a big trend you have to be willing to lose on some trades. The key is to cut your losses when it is time. Don't hold onto a trade longer than your trading plan tells you to.
We need to realize that it is not about right and wrong. It is about giving up when the trade goes the wrong direction.
2) Trade With a System
To me this is the key to having a good trading psychology.
When you look at the car commercials on TV sometimes they show robots building or welding on a car. That robot is programmed to do the same thing over and over and over. The robot does not have feelings.
That is how our trading should be we should trade like a robot. The robot does not think I need to make money for college or to pay rent. It just does the same thing over and over.
When we trade like a robot we do the same thing over and over no matter what market. We trade all of them the same way. That is what trading with a system is about. You build the system and then you just do what the system says. That takes your mind and feelings out of the equation. When you trade with a system then you have no emotions or if you do they don't effect your trading. You only follow the trading system.
3) Trade Position Size
If you are risking your whole account on one trade then you will not sleep very well at night. When a trader takes too much risk they will not be in the trading business very long. One large loss can take years to recover from.
If too much money is on the line then we are going to get out to early or lose too much money.
Systematic Trading VS Psychological Trading
Systematic trading takes most of the emotions out of trading. If you know how much you will lose before you ever get into a trade it make it a lot less stressful. Just look at yourself as an example. Some days you are happy. Some days you are sad. Some days you have great confidence some days you have no confidence. Do you want that person making split second decision on what, when, and how much to buy? Imagine if our accounts were tied to our emotional state. For me that would not be good.
What if while the market was closed you built a system that would think for you while the market was open? That would be a much better way. It tells you when to buy, when to sell, and how much. It has no opinion except the opinion that you programmed it to have. Its decisions are calculation based. What would that do for your trading psychology?
When a person moves from a Psychological trader to a Systematic trader it is a light bulb moment. It all starts to make sense. You become a thoughtless trader. Trading becomes boring and that is the way it should be.
You go from spending all day looking at a computer screen to making a 15 min daily updated once the market is closed.
The goal of a trading system should be to eliminate trading psychology. Remove thought while the market is open and you will be on the road to becoming a systematic trader.


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1/2 teaspoon McCormick Garlic
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Nominated by a select committee of industry peers, Fyfe was presented the award at a private ceremony in Auckland last night.
The panel of judges noted Fyfe is a worthy recipient for the CIO Lifetime Contribution Award due to "his approach to innovation and his courage and leadership in supporting technology-based initiatives while CIO and subsequently CEO at Air New Zealand".
The award, sponsored by SAP, is part of the 2013 New Zealand CIO Summit and Awards.
"He is a role model for future leaders in how he takes staff, customers and the public with him when introducing new technologies," says Graeme Riley, SAP New Zealand managing director, on presenting the award to Fyfe.
Fyfe says it was a privilege for him to accept the award because he knows how much it means to the people he works with, particularly in the information technology space.
The recognition, he says, is an "absolute career highlight" for him, and is happy it will give people working in IT "a sense of what is possible in their own careers".
The Lifetime Contribution award is given to a high-profile business person (who may or may not be a current or former CIO) from a public or private company whose contribution has significantly and uniquely impacted the greater New Zealand or global business community using information technology over the course of his or her career.
Fyfe's stint as CIO at Air New Zealand gave him first-hand knowledge of how innovation and creativity, in the use and adoption of technologies, changed the nature of its relationships with customers.
Air New Zealand became known as a world leader in areas such as check-in, baggage handling and boarding, use of social media, application of RFID, e-commerce, business performance optimisation and human resource management systems.
"I am very proud of the achievements we made in these areas," says Fyfe, who was CEO from 2005 to 2012.
"As CEO, or any senior executive for that matter, and CIO as well, our biggest challenge is how to allocate our time to our roles … over what is important to the success of the business."
He applied this insight when he was CIO at Air New Zealand.
"When I became CIO, there was a raging debate inside our organisation about whether we should be sitting there as an IT division waiting for business to tell us what we needed; whether we should be prompting the business and pushing ideas and opportunities to the business.
"I was a strong believer that our IT team needed to have a strong identity within the organisation and be promoting ideas and opportunities within the organisation."
To do this, he says, ICT had to have a clear understanding of what the end customers wanted from the organisation and how the market was changing.
He says he introduced a whole range of seminars and getting the ICT team to focus a lot more on market research and understanding the primary drivers of value within the business, which he says at that time was a "quite foreign" approach for ICT teams.
At the same time, as CIO and CEO, he stressed the importance of giving "permission" for the team to take risks and to encourage and promote ideas.
He says he has always found "untapped potential" for people who are often in their cubicles "programming away" but wanted to have a much larger contribution to the business.
It comes back to the issue of giving them that permission, Fyfe says, and what he tried to do was "unlock" that degree of permission to innovate.
Some of the ideas failed, he says, but key was to "celebrate failure" by learning from that failure, getting insights on customer value that they were able to adopt and learn from "and end up with a much stronger solution".
One such failure, he says, was when they decided to put an extra row of seats on their 737 planes. The business class passengers complained the reduced space meant they could not open their laptops. "In the end not only did we take out that row of seats, we took out [another] half row of seats."
"Clearly, we got it wrong," he says. "We learned from that and now we have a march on our competitors, and our customers are prepared to pay a premium because we discovered this insight."
As for his next role, "I am not going to run another airline, I have crossed that one off", he says, despite several requests to do so.
If he had wanted to run an airline, he says he could have stayed on at Air New Zealand. "I was running what I felt was the best airline in the world."
His next role will not necessarily be in a large corporate. "I would like to work with companies that have the potential and the aspiration and the self belief that they can be world-class, based on a sense of a New Zealand identity," says Fyfe. "Once I finish this year of recharge, then I will be looking for one of those opportunities."
"I am passionate about New Zealand," he says. "What drove me during my time at Air New Zealand was a belief that we could embrace our sense of identity as New Zealanders and perform at a world class level."
He says the range of awards they received suggest "we made really good progress in achieving that".
The award Fyfe treasured most was Air New Zealand's "most reputable and respected company" award, which the airline received twice.
"Ultimately the measure for me was creating an organisation that New Zealanders could be proud of, and New Zealanders could see as a role model of what a New Zealand company can achieve on the world stage without having to shed a cloak of our identity."
Rob Fyfe's CV:
- CEO Air NZ from 2005-2012
- Chairman of Management Board of Star Alliance Services until 2012
- Joined Air NZ in 2003 as CIO and led the Business Transformation Team
- Senior management positions in NZ and overseas including National Australia Bank, BNZ, Telecom NZ and ITV Group in the UK
- Independent director of Ecoya since 2010
- Director of Icebreaker since 2012
- Member of Board of Governors at IATA
- Honours degree in Engineering from Canterbury University
- Started work in RNZAF
- Attended Royal Air Force College in UK – graduated from Aero-Systems Engineering Programme
- 2009 Deloitte Executive of the Year
- 2010 William Pickering Award for Engineering Leadership
- 2010 Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation CEO of the Year Award
- 2012 Orient Aviation Lifetime Achievement Award 2012
- And, recently announced
- 2013 Winner New Thinking Category of World Class New Zealand Awards
The video of the CIO Lifetime Contribution Award ceremony will be aired during the CIO Awards on June 11 at SkyCity Convention Centre. The New Zealand CIO Summit is organised by CIO magazine, Conferenz and IDC.
Getting to know the CIO Lifetime Contribution Award recipients:
Rob Fyfe's rise to Air New Zealand chief executive included a brief stop as its CIO. As such, ICT plays a critical role in helping make the airline one of the country's most admired brands.
Tech career gave Sir Ralph Norris the edge
Experience in low level IT, and high level IT-management directly influenced Sir Ralph Norris' award-filled career.
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A Brooklyn woman was arrested for drunk driving after her Mercedes crashed into a Long Island house, apparently plowing through the kitchen and landing in the backyard.
Suffolk County police say the car ended up in the backyard of the house on Browns Road in Huntington at about 4 a.m. Monday. She was arraigned Tuesday.
A 90-year-old woman and her caretaker were in the house, but were not hurt.
Police say the driver, Sophia Anderson, 21, failed to turn at the Southdown Road T-section.
There were downed trees and what appeared to be tire tracks in the yard after what neighbors said was a noisy crash that woke them up.
"In order for the car, I think, to go through the house into the backyard, it must have been going at a pretty fast clip," said the woman who lives across the street.
Her bail was set at $50,000. Her lawyer, John Loturco, asked for $2,500.
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That project would be NoMa's Capitol Square project, an almost two-block-square site located a block away from the NoMa-Gallaudet U Metro station that will eventually include a hotel, office space and residential units. The first phase—a Hyatt Place hotel—is just starting up, but the rest is all "phaseable," the developers explain. That is, the developers will build in stages, waiting to move forward on office space, for example, until they have tenants in hand.
But first things first. The starting project is Hyatt Place, a 14-story hotel with a fairly small footprint that's been designed by local architecture firm Cooper Carry. "We literally just closed on financing and acquisition of the land," said Cinkala. The company plans to begin demolition and abatement immediately, and expects to be finished by early 2014.
That's at the western end of the triangular plot of land, where the nightclub Mirrors currently sits. The company also owns land on the eastern side of the block. That Smithsonian-worthy McDonalds at the corner of 1st and New York Ave. will also be gone, transformed into an 800,000 s.f. office building designed by the New Haven, Ct.-based architect Pickard Chilton, which has burst onto the DC architectural scene recently.
There will be more office space on the south block, which isn't wholly owned by JBG (a nightclub at 1st and Patterson streets will remain, as will another section abutting North Capitol Street). Perkins and Will, a nationally-known architecture firm with a Washington office, will be designing a second office building of roughly 575,000 s.f. there, which may be completed in two phases.
|JBG properties include 5a and 5b within the red box
The final piece of the pie is 33 N Street, a spot on the southern parcel. The current lease expires in November 2013, and Cinkala says the company is currently hiring residential architects to design a 300-350 unit building directly across from the hotel that will be ready to deploy next November.
That's a lot of building on the drawing board. To tie it all together, JBG is working with local landscape architects Lee and Associates to create an urban streetscape that draws pedestrians onto the side streets of N and Patterson streets.
It's all about boosting the neighborhood's dynamism, said Cinkala. "NoMa is clearly evolving into a mixed-use area. All this development will help the market mature, and create that live-work-play environment that's so attractive."
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There were people and clothes everywhere. Clothes were filled on hangers, across racks, piled like a mountain on a table and across the floor, accompanied by a copious amount of large plastic bags forcefully shoved full of discounted clothes.
Among the warehouse wildness, my hands somehow managed to pick up this Asilio History of You shirt. So many thoughts were running through my head - who is touching me, can you tell I am sweating, why did I decide to wear a hat, but I knew I was walking away with this shirt. It's clean and simple like any white shirt, but with exaggerated and such interesting sleeves. The cuffs of the shirts are like bell sleeves, but attached to the shirt with a string almost like a shoelace. Who would have thought?!
I am in deep admiration of the designer who came up with this idea and in the name of the a good bargain, I knew I had to dedicate a whole blog post to this shirt. With the help of my beautiful and skilled friend, we took some images on a film camera to capture its interesting design. Sorry for being super posey in these photos, but seriously how cool is this shirt?!
Okay I'll stop now, although I'd love to know if you've found a great find a warehouse sale?


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School Start Time Research and Teens & Sleep Resources
Examining the Impact of Later High School Start Times on the Health and Academic Performance of High School Students: A Multi-Site Study (Final Report, February 2014)
The following presentations provide a comprehensive view of research on teen sleep and its associated key issues. As listed here, the presentations begin with basic biological background and move towards policy implications. These presentations were recorded at the national Teens and Sleep Conference sponsored by CAREI in October 2013.
Sleep & Biology of the Human Brain - Conrad Iber, M.D.
Dr. Iber provides the basic underpinning information about what happens in the human brain during sleep.
Biology of Adolescent Sleep - Mary Carskadon, Ph.D.
Dr. Carskadon explains why the human brain of teenagers has unique developmental characteristics for which sleep is an essential ingredient to become a healthy adult.
Sleep and Memory - Jessica Payne, Ph.D.
Dr. Payne describes how sleep has a major role in what, how and why humans remember factual and emotional information.
Adolescent Depression & Sleep - Allison Harvey, Ph.D.
Dr. Harvey describes how sleep acts as a regulator of human emotions and depressive feelings and how lack of sleep is linked to suicide and other life-threatening outcomes.
Sleep, Caffeine Use & Social Media - Amy Wolfson, Ph.D.
Dr. Wolfson explains how caffeine, technology use, and light emitted from devices can interfere with sleep patterns.
Adolescent Obesity, Health & Sleep - Dean Beebe, Ph.D.
Dr. Beebe describes how sleep links with teens' health and other risky behavior choices.
School Start Times - Kyla Wahlstrom, Ph.D.
Dr. Wahlstrom details the research findings on school performance and teen's health behavior outcomes when high schools have shifted to later start times.
Implementing Later Start Times: Getting It Done - Kenneth Dragseth, Ph.D. and Randall Zipf, Ph.D.
Dr. Dragseth and Dr. Zipf, as former district school superintendents who instituted later high school start times, provide hands-on descriptions of the steps and the reasoning of how, when and why later high school start times were instituted in their respective districts.
Teens and Car Crashes - Lieutenant Eric Roeske
Lt. Roeske of the MN Highway Patrol describes how teen drivers' inattention and poor choices can lead to crashes and fatal outcomes, with the link to teens' lack of sleep as a likely contributing factor.


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Post Name: Networking/Infrastructure.
Job Location: Chennai
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- Willing to Work in Night Shifts
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Job Profile: Networking
Contact Person: Nandakumar
Contact Number: 044-33410706
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Central Highlands Water is a regional water corporation located in Ballarat Victoria, approximately one and a half hours west of Melbourne.
We deliver quality water and wastewater services to more than 130,000 people in a service area encompassing Ballarat, Maryborough, Daylesford and Avoca townships.
One of 19 state-owned water businesses, we provide fully integrated catchment-to-tap-to-catchment water services.
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Central Highlands Water are an inclusive and equal opportunity employer, so offer a range of flexible working arrangements for people of all abilities and backgrounds.
We provide excellent working conditions, flexible, family friendly working hours and a welcoming and supportive team culture.
Central Highlands Water offer careers in:
- Communications, marketing and community relations
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- Flexible work and leave arrangements
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As a trainee at Central Highlands Water you'll learn new, transferable skills and gain hands-on work experience in the water industry.
The program takes approximately 12-24 months to complete. Upon successful completion, a trainee receives a nationally recognised qualification issued by a Registered Training Organisation and the State Training Authority.
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We offer summer vacation employment for students in courses relevant to our business. This includes science, engineering, IT, communications, development and finance. Positions are advertised with Federation University towards the end of each year.
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Fantastic start to things here in Mui Ne. The conditions are the best we have seen on the tour so far, consistent 25kt winds that build nicely through the day, a great local organising team from Sankara and C2Sky and 70 riders from 18 different countries taking part in freestyle, course racing and especially for Vietnam – BIG AIR !!
Following the registration morning on day one of the event, the women's race fleet kicked off the competitions for the day on what proved to be a very challenging and technical course set by the KTA Head judge, with a grand prix style beach start. Due to the area restrictions here in Mui Ne the course was raced over two laps, which by the end stretched the field out a little, however the battle remained tight between the first five women with the lead changing two or three times during the last lap that was to see Germany's Kathryn Borgwardt take the finish line first.
For the men's course race the fleet was split into two groups, which gave the day four further races to enjoy with the two heats and the winners and looser finals. Again we were to be treated to some great tactical racing, high speed overtaking and even some excellent comedy moments as riders battled for the best lines at the turning marks. Finally when it was all over, the current KTA course race leader Yo from Thailand was still there holding onto that position, but it's all still to play for with more racing still to come during the tour stop.
For day two the event moved to freestyle and again the excellent conditions provided both riders and spectators with a top quality day of kiteboarding.
With such a big entry the day was to be packed with heat after heat of head to head competition, with some great rounds put in by Dep Anh Thu Julia (Vietnam), Kathryn Borgwardt, Austrailia's Ali Dufield and Nuria Goma (Spain).
For the guys the outstanding performances of the day were to be seen once again by the current tour leader Ken Nacor (Philippines), Kin (Vietnam) Sedat Celenk (Turkey), Yo and Camron Bouceta from Morocco.
So with the light fading and the wind finally starting to drop, the competition was halted for the day, with everything hanging for the winners and outcomes of both the women's and men's freestyle on the morning of day three of the KTA Vietnam.


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Anti-abortion bloggers convene in Washington
Technology is playing an integral role in delivering the anti-abortion message, say those in the movement, but better communication between bloggers as well as firsthand reporting is needed, agreed prominent anti-abortion bloggers Monday at their first annual conference.
Anti-abortion bloggers convened at the Family Research Council to discuss strategic uses of the blogosphere to communicate Christian anti-abortion messages prior to the 33rd annual March for Life in Washington.
A growing number of anti-abortion blogs have joined the abortion debate, promoting the views of the movement against legalized abortion and playing watchdog to abortion-rights activists, legislation and abortion clinics.
Networking among anti-abortion bloggers through technology will counter the portrayal of the anti-abortion movement in mainstream media, according to Charmaine Yoest, vice president for external relations at the Family Research Council and managing editor of the daily blog www.FRCBlog.com.
Yoest compared the anti-abortion blogging movement to a line of high-tech 21st-century water buckets putting out a large fire burning since the Roe vs. Wade decision was passed down in 1973.
"We form an association, that's the American way," said Yoest, one of three hosts for the event.
Emphasizing the impact of technology in actively promoting the anti-abortion stance, she said more women on both sides of the debate were becoming more conscious of the healthy fetus via technology including sonograms.
"We are headed into a whole new era of abortion public policy," Yoest said.
Aside from the abortion debate, bloggers also addressed concerns of effective messages and network building within their blogging community.
"The blogosphere, I sometimes think, is the ultimate Darwinian experiment -- survival of the fittest," said Kathryn Lopez, syndicated columnist and editor of The Corner at National Review Online, mentioning the blogosphere was an amazing medium but that there was no science to the success of a blog.
Lopez, who was the keynote speaker, was unable to attend the conference in person but phoned in.
However, she insists individual bloggers should pinpoint and contact notable bloggers who would be interested in their posts, pitching them their site and any specific posts, rather than just sending a link.
"The world needs more reporting," said Lopez, noting that anti-abortion blogs could gain more attention through reporting than commentating due to the abundance of instant pundits.
"Tim" of ProLifeBlogs.com (who requested anonymity), another host of the event, added that the blogging community could also become more effective by providing solid messages in principles, writing firsthand experiences, engaging in meaningful discussions with the abortion-rights culture, collaborating with others and partnering with anti-abortion organizations.
But the Internet also offers bloggers an opportunity to discuss other issues associated with the abortion debate.
According to Peter Shinn, another host and blogger of March Together for Life, blogs are a good way to speak about God and anti-abortion bloggers, recognizing that most anti-abortion individuals he has met have been Christians, he said.
"Move Together is growing, but the main focus now is the pro-life unity," said Shinn, who is also promoting ProLifeUnity.com, which sends out calls for support for member efforts including the Monthly Call for Life.
Moreover, freelance writer and blog consultant La Shawn Barber (lashawnbarber.com) noted the blogosphere provides a good forum to discuss race and the anti-abortion movement, an issue that she says needs to be addressed more.
A number of international bloggers attended the event such as "Auds" (who also asked to remain anonymous), blogger of realitycheckdotie.blogspot.com and a student from Ireland who came to Washington for the first time this week.
According to Auds, the Irish media have not reported adequately on the issue. And with the recent emergence of political blogs, Auds predicts more anti-abortion bloggers will appear as more individuals adapt to technology with the introduction of broadband, she said.
Joseph P. Gillin, 50, of the blog Life at the Frontier (lifeatthefrontier.blogspot.com), says blogging is a medium in which bloggers can pass information, educate the public and communicate with other bloggers.
"It will help turn the tide, raising awareness about the dignity of human life and protecting it," said Gillin, who began blogging almost three years ago. "And it's a healthy progress, finding more sources of information than the few networks I grew up with."
Meanwhile, Mary Worthington, 23, of The Revolution (myheartsrevolution.blogspot.com), said she posts three to five times a week writing about the anti-abortion movement, contraceptives, human sexuality and the teachings of the Catholic Church.
"We need to avoid the temptation of only blogging among each other but rather we need to communicate with the general public who really needs to hear our message," Worthington said. "The mainstream media portrays us as extremists, but the blogging movement provides a lot of factual information on the movement."
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53 bodies found in Sirte; Loyalists executed?
TRIPOLI, Libya - The New York-based Human Rights Watch warned Monday of a "trend of killings, looting and other abuses" by those who fought Muammar Qaddafi, after finding 53 decomposing bodies - apparently of Qaddafi loyalists - some of whom it said may have been executed by revolutionary forces.
The bodies were found on the lawn of the abandoned Mahari hotel in Sirte, and some had their hands bound. HRW researcher Peter Bouckaert said the hotel had come under the control of fighters from Misrata before the killings took place.
The condition of the bodies suggested the men were killed between Oct. 15-19, the group said. Bloodstains on the grass and spent cartridges indicated some were shot and killed at the spot they were discovered.
"This latest massacre seems part of a trend of killings, looting, and other abuses committed by armed anti-Qaddafi fighters who consider themselves above the law," Bouckaert said in a statement. "It is imperative that the transitional authorities take action to rein in these groups."
The group called on Libyan authorities to conduct an immediate investigation.
Apparent Execution of 53 Gaddafi Supporters (Human Rights Watch)
Rebel fighters in Misrata a city which had been besieged by Qaddafi loyalists for weeks in the spring, coming under heavy shelling at the time had no immediate comment.
Qaddafi's death paved the way for the liberation declaration, but it remains unclear what happened in his final moments.
Video: Questions linger over Qaddafi's death
A morbid cleanup left in Libya
Libya's interim leader said Monday he has ordered an investigation into Qaddafi's death in response to strong international pressure to determine how the ousted leader was killed by a bullet to the head shortly after he was captured alive.
Libyan leader orders probe into Qaddafi's death
Jibril Othman, a Libyan fighter involved in the capture, said late Sunday that when he and others placed Qaddafi in an ambulance, the former dictator had not yet suffered what Libya's chief pathologist said was a fatal gunshot to the head.
Omar al-Shibani, a commander at the scene, told a news conference that Qaddafi had been bleeding from the head and the abdomen when he was pulled out of the pipe, but that it was unclear whether the head wound was from a gunshot.
One Qaddafi son, Muatassim, also was killed, but the former leader's one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, apparently escaped with some of his supporters.
The U.S., Britain and international rights groups have called for an investigation into whether Libya's former rebels killed a wounded Qaddafi after pulling him out of a drainage pipe in his hometown of Sirte, the last city to fall to revolutionary forces after an 8-month civil war.
Critics also have said the gruesome spectacle of his blood-streaked body laid out as a trophy for a fourth day of public viewing in a commercial freezer raises questions about the new leadership's commitment to the rule of law.


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Large, Western-Style Wooden Building Atop Small Hill Overlooking Harbor, Samoa
This early-20th century photograph shows the governor's mansion on Togo Togo Ridge in Utulei, American Samoa, overlooking the harbor of Pago Pago. The mansion has served as the residence of all the governors of American Samoa, naval and civilian, from its construction in 1903 to the present. The photograph is by A.J. Tattersall, who wrote on its reverse side: "I warn anyone against using this copy without my permission. A.T., Photo, Samoa." Tattersall was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1861, and was employed by photographic firms in Auckland before going to Apia, Samoa, to work for the commercial photographer J. Davis. When Davis died in 1893, Tattersall took over his firm. The U.S. Navy established a coaling station at Pago Pago in 1878. Under an 1899 treaty signed by Britain, Germany, and the United States, all parts of the Samoan group east of longitude 171º west were ceded to the United States, those west of this line to Germany. The western islands now make up the Independent State of Samoa (formerly known as Western Samoa), those east of it American Samoa.
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Where Are the Bodies Buried?
Whatever your views on yesterday's Fed action might be, a disturbing question is emerging that few seem to be paying much attention to – How long does it take for the financial system to identify who owes what to whom?
CDOs of CDOs of CDOs of CDOs cannot stand unaccounted for indefinitely. Knowing where the bodies are buried is a vital component to putting an end to the uncertainty risk premium that has elevated the fear factor among many investors, which, in the process, has sucked the Fed into reverting to the Greenspan playbook of more liquidity. But will more liquidity alone do the trick?
The Bank Credit Analyst's thesis, "The Debt Supercycle", says liquidity will work its magic, provided inflation remains relatively tame. Massive amounts of money can be pumped into the system to help reflate assets and preemptively avoid a severe economic downturn. All well and good, but a reflating system that contains untold amounts of hidden toxic paper may end up producing unintended and unforeseen consequences. A true manifestation of the expression, "You don't know what you don't know".
Therefore, as we approach the six-month anniversary of the great awakening, the moment when complacent investors woke up from their Goldilocks stupor and came to recognize that all was not kosher, the question of who owes what to whom still remains unresolved.
The longer it takes bankers to identify the toxic paper on and off the books, the more damage to the global economy they will incur as trust erodes both within and without the core of the financial system thereby exacerbating an already tenuous credit situation.
With bankers still unable (unwilling?) to identify where the bodies lie and horde their precious capital, the far less than transparent New Power Brokers (Petrodollars, Asian Central Banks and their Sovereign Wealth Funds, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity) have stepped into the breach to save the day. However, their rescue efforts come with a price – opacity. And opacity is precisely what is not needed at a time when so much remains unknown and trust hangs in the balance.
Investment Strategy Implications
Equities are undervalued and yesterday's Fed action certainly helps improve everyone's valuation model. Equities are undervalued in a scenario that overstates the downside risks to global growth and corporate profitability (see "Here Comes the Global Depression"). Equities are not undervalued, however, in a world of endless undisclosed toxic paper and new capital opacity.
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In case you folders hadn't noticed, or just now realizing your GPU's are not folding, here is why.
I woke up this morning and wandered into my office to find it cooler than usual. Checked the PC and sure enough the GPU was stuck idle trying to download a WU. Funny how the first clue I had a problem was it wasn't as warm as normal in my office.
Then again when the current outdoor temperature is -9F the lack of heat gets your attention.
January 6, 2014 by Vijay Pande ·
The VM server went down again last night. It's back up now, but I'm not happy that this has happened so frequently. We're looking into what's going on here. Later this week, we'll have a redundant GPU AS which will minimize the impact of this machine going down, but still we need to find out the root of what's going on here. It's possible that VM server is hitting end of life and having some hardware issues.