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The Big Picture: Brainiacs: The Once & Future Nerds
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as in he's a genius about the field that interests him. Ever see beat the geeks?
Hmm, I've been called a dork more than a nerd (mostly by my wife), you forgot that one.
Yes, praise where praise is due. I went into to this thinking "please don't be too preachy.. please don't be too preachy" and it was just fine.
You might be right for "otaku" (which is a far more extreme and negative term than "nerd" is in the US, but you are not right for "nerd". There is a lot of overlap between nerd behavior and Autism Spectrum Disorder, and there are probably a lot of people with ASD who are nerds. But that doesn't mean all nerds had ASD. I consider myself quite thoroughly nerdy, and do not have ASD.
I still think Yahzee's definition is the best. A "nerd" is just someone who is passionate about a subject. People who obsess over baseball statistics or celebrity gossip are every bit as much nerds as people who obsess about D&D or physics, it's just that one group has for the past couple decades been more culturally acceptable than the other. That's changing, but it's no big deal really.
Back in School I was bullied for being a nerd.
I also suspect a lot of people with Aspergers or those kinds of qualities are drawn to fantasy and scifi. That's certainly true for me. I can identify with trying to get along with an alien culture (which is what 'normal' social interaction is for me.) and I identify with characters like Spock or Data who aren't quite human. They kinda have the role of someone partially observing humanity from the outside, which is what I always felt like. As a kid I was convinced I wasn't human because I couldn't do things that everyone else seemed to, like recognise faces or emotions, or know when you were supposed to lie.
Also since I have problems with telling people apart, I prefer fantasy and scifi (or animation) where there are different-looking creatures.
Thanks for this video, Bob. When I found out I have Asperger's, it made so much make sense. I went full nerd, diving into sci-fi, comic books, anime, and science and computers. I still don't tell everyone I know I have Asperger's, because it's named after its funny-named discoverer.
How to tell if you are a geek:
Did you watch The Big Picture today? Yes?
Then you are a geek.
There ya go, problem solved.
When it comes to being insulting or offensive, what really matters is what people intend, rather than the specific words they use. Calling someone "black" or "ginger" can be offensive if it's meant in that way.
When people at school called me "geek", what they meant was that I was ugly, dressed badly, tried too hard to please teachers, knew nothing about popular culture, and had the personality of a brick. And they would spell it out if the word wasn't enough. As a teenager with very little self-esteem, I believed them. Which is why advice to just "not be offended" (which I got plenty of from my well-meaning mother) never particularly helped.
I'm now in my mid twenties and perfectly happy in my own skin. So I don't feel the need to apply a label to myself. Especially not one originally given to me by people who wanted to be hurtful and for reasons that I really don't believe apply to me any more. These days I'm more confident, I have a broader range of hobbies, I take care of my appearance, and I'm in a relationship with a wonderful man.
I'm not a "geek", a "nerd", a "dweeb" or anything else. I'm just me.
I remember people here back at school that used to say "nerd" as an insult, but as it is a spanish speaking country, most were too retarded to pronounce it properly and said "nerf", I assumed back then that they were trying to insult people, but since saying "you're really intelligent" to someone never seemed like something to be offended by.
Although I was asked how it was to be a nerd back in highschool by a classmate, and when I said "what do you mean by nerd?" She just stood there staring like I asked her why we exist. I was kind of lost by her question though since I was never to the "devoted to study" kinda guy, although I've been always regarded as "intelligent" or "brilliant" as of a year or so ago.
You merely adopted the term "Nerd". I was born it in, molded by it, I didn't talk to a girl until I was a man.
An interesting part of the whole "autists can't participate in social interactions", aspect, is that this can have a very specific form of facial recognition and nonverbal comunication skills being stuck on an immature level.
Stereotypical nerdy hobbies, such as video games, anime, or comic books, are all associated with children, because the average non-nerdy adult seems to grow out of them.
Is it possible that these mediums' very presentation, with the simplified drawn/animated characters, is the reason why these got classified as nerd media?
I can see what you mean - though I very much class myself as a 'nerd' (maybe from my choice of activities growing up aired on the stereotype 'nerd' side, maybe because people at school used to call me so), I've never thought of myself as particularly smart. I mean, I'm not dumb by any stretch of the imagination, I've just been able to grasp and retain details and methods a lot better than others I've known... Granted, that stuff can vanish from my head if I don't use it for a while, but with a little jogging/light reading I tend to get it back pretty quickly.
It also seems to me that the whore nerd/geek debate (the former meaning smart, the latter meaning just weird) seems to have switched around, to where 'geek' seems to now mean an interest in tech, and 'nerd' means more interest in comics/movies/etc.
Finally, since it's in the title, is it just me who finds it funny that people who use the term 'brainiac' as an insult (I've come across it fairly often, usually by people I'm surprised can form words that long) are actually drawing on a word which wouldn't exist thanks to comics?
Com'on people! say it with me! NERD AND PROUD!
A word with no definitive meaning had it's meaning expanded so far that it means even less. IE: people self identify with this in any area of interest. I took my girlfriend to see the movie Pitch Perfect when it came out in theaters. It had some pretty hot ladies in it who self identified as A Capella "nerds". That is is how far the meaning of this word has stretched. It now has hot girls and jocks identifying as this. So in the case where a words meaning expands so far that it has no meaning, it's effectively not a word. For a long time I identified as a nerd. I grew up reading comics, was very introverted and my perspective of enjoyment was skewed towards the more intellectual. So, in a lot of ways I was part of that original archetype as depicted in the movies of the 1980's. Now I still love comics, I go to the gym for 10 hours a week and powerlift for fun, boxed amateur heavyweight, am now way more outgoing, and still my interests are skewed towards the more intellectual. Since my life has changed thus, I identified (for fun of course) as an "alpha nerd". But now I have to seriously consider whether or not I want to identify as something that is essentially nothing. Good video, Bob.
I wouldn't call myself a Nerd, but then again I am socialy bereft and sexually frustrated so maybe I am a nerd.
Wish I could say the video held my interest at all. In the wake of the whole "girl gamer" debacles I really don't give a shit what label people give themselves or others.
You're a person who likes a thing that's different from the things some other people like... that's a preference.
The only thing I was able to take away from this thread is that a lot of you folks supposedly have Asbergers.
I think Bob puts a little to much value into the term Nerd. It is interesting where it came from and such but honestly just cause someone isn't a walking stereotype doesn't mean they can't enjoy geek culture or even be a nerd.
WOW! Okay, look I understand the show plays off tropes maybe abit to freely but I really don't understand the hate the internet has for it, hell evan those swanky mother lickers on the Idea Channel don't like it. I get that maybe its a little insincere but its not like they don't do some research and you know what I laughed at that Wil Wheaton episode.
What was with the picture of lisa simpson and the comic guy? I honestly don't get it.
Great episode bob and i look forward to the next.
I kinda get the impression that Bob hasn't read a Spider-Man comic published after the late 70s.
I also like the dig at the new Spider-Man movie, followed immediately by the admission that maybe they weren't exactly off-point given the co-modification, so it literally was nothing more than a dig (and evidently a pointless one).
Holy crap, someone older than me on the Escapist. I'd heard rumours they existed, but I...I never knew!
(for frame of reference, I was barely tying my shoes in 1986...Or 1990, for that matter. It took me a while to get the loop thing down. >.>)
Fortunately, those really aren't the only two options.
I've never really come across them as synonymous. There's certainly been some overlap, though.
As someone who suffers from OCD, I've been told some of my tics are similar to those of someone with Aspergers or other high-functioning ASD. I don't have aspergers or any other ASD (Like Sheldon, "I was tested."), but it is telling a lot of nerds have some such condition.
To be fair, this video itself points out that the nerd stereotypes that make Sheldon possibly autistic predate the concept of Aspergers as a recognised condition. Not necessarily the use of the word nerd to apply, but the stereotypes that would lead to it. Sheldon strikes me as a lot of nerd stereotypes or tropes kicked up to eleven for comedic effects. The overall effect may be similar to ASD, but that doesn't have to be the intent.
He could very well be just a pastiche of quirks that have developed for decades and decades. Of course, those quirks may have roots in the same, or not. Could run completely parallel
People really need to back off the hyperbole on this one. The ERMHAGERD BLACKFACE thing is really over the top.
So the label of nerd or geek is on the same level as Art. It is whatever you want it to be. Making it also useless.
Those were my high school years whipper snapper.
*shakes cane*
*breaks hip from furious cane waving session*
What would be the desired "use" of the term? The only people I've seen who try their damnedest to get an absolute definition on what a "nerd" is are the ones who want the definition solely so they know exactly who to exclude from the group. If having an absolute definition leads to only negative results, I don't see why it's something we should strive for.
Plus, as someone who's studied some art history, I'd like to point out that art having a nebulous definition has only made it more fun, diverse, and subversive. Duchamp's Fountain was made nearly 100 years ago, yet to this day its very mention still sparks very heated and fascinating debates. It makes sure the art world is never completely comfortable with itself, and it's that wiggle room that allows it to be challenged and grow. If art had an absolute definition, there's a good chance the Museum of Modern Arts would never have even considered adding video games to its collection, and the US federal government wouldn't have been able to change the wording of what it considers to be "art" so that certain video game projects can have access to federal grants similar to what other art projects have access to.
I love how you're willing to vilify TBBT for its "offensive" portrayal of nerds and comparing it to racism, while the character of Raj being an actual stereotypical and borderline racist portrayal of an Indian person totally flies under your radar.
I mean really, I see what you were trying to do here, but if you really think about it what TBBT does with nerds is NOTHING like blackface. Blackface came into being because filmmakers at the time felt that actual black people weren't fit to be seen on camera. So they made caricatures of them to both avoid employing them and putting them on the same level of white actors, and also so that they would have an actor who would be willing to be as undignified and demeaning as possible to fully capitalize on all the stereotypes the public loved.
TBBT does capitalize on nerd stereotypes, but that's about it. There's nothing hateful or bigoted behind their reasoning, it's purely marketing. Nerd is the flavor of the day, and that's what they're capitalizing on. When the flavor becomes something else, they'll change along with it.
I see myself as a geek, but I think I was born one, to be honest. I was born disabled - something which put a serious limitation on any ambition I might have had to join a varsity team, to say the least - and my grades were hugely polarized for most of my life. Give me literature and creation and I'll ace those motherfucking tests! In the meantime, ask me to do my own tax reports and I'll probably lie and weasel my way out of it - or pay an accountant to do it for me. I hate numbers with a passion. There was even a time when I was evaluated and found to be above-average in my communication skills, and below-average in anything computational. Considering, my fields of interest were always tied to imaginary things or concepts. Literature, roleplaying, video games - anything that involved escapism was usually my jam as a kid.
Later on, I had the help of special teachers. Back in the later years of my elementary curriculum, they made me understand that none of what I was was my fault. I hadn't chosen to suck at math or geography; I just did. It would take some time before research would lead me to understand that I more than likely suffered from a mild form of autism.
Thankfully, what felt like an impassable chasm turned out to be a little divot. All I needed was more patience than the norm, a less standardized curriculum and more one-on-one time. As far as math was concerned, I just wasn't a "classroom" type. If they'd known, odds are my parents would have homeschooled me.
I've always thought that what nerds and geeks might find respite in is also where they'll find solace. You're socially awkward? Practice your skills with a chat room or an MMO! You're afraid of working in a team? Same thing! Orientation skills suck? Play Skyrim without the compass and refrain from using Clairvoyance! Get used to the province's landmarks and the sunrise/sunset positions! Then later, apply those same skills in the real world!
I honestly believe that I wouldn't be where I am today without my books and games. Everything I am, everything I can do , both online and off, I owe to my back-seat and online gaming sessions.
Really Bob? It's been more than a year now. The horse is dead. How about you stop taking every dig you can at The Amazing Spider-Man already? Do you honestly have nothing better to do than to carry out some strange vendetta against a movie you didn't like?
Watching this, I realized that Bob is sort of destroying the point that he himself made several weeks ago. Remember this video, where he basically says that geeks and nerds have this great responsibility towards promoting tolerance and social justice?
Here's the problem: now he says that there is no classification for a geek or nerd besides "you think of yourself as one".
You can't tell a group "you need to do this" on one hand, but on the other hand admit that actually being considered a member of this "group" is just an arbitrary label that anyone can apply to themselves.
So I go to RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and as I understand it, it's a pretty popular opinion the the word knurd was coined at RPI. The word appeared in an RPI publication (The RPI Bachelor), being used pretty much as we would use it today, as early as 1965. Additionally there's a picture I've seen, which I can't find for the life of me, that shows a Fraternity House on campus with a large banner advertising a party that says "No wimps, knurds, or deans. The picture seemed to be from the 60's but I can't actually confirm that one. If I find the pic, I'll edit this post.
As far as knurd being drunk spelled backwards, I'm told that came to be because it was a word used to describe people who would rather not be drunk and are therefore "backwards."
Hey I found it! Unfortunately no date attached, but I still think its a cool pic.
Wow I had to wait till post 50 for that song to show up. Well I guess it's really just us canuks who jump to the worms for a song about anything.
More on topic - the more I learn about recent pop culture history the more cycles I see. If you watch Happy days now the Fonz (I've probably gotten that really wrong) who was the coolest character at the time comes across as being really geeky. I think we're almost looping back to the era where being really intelligent in one area is more appealing than being a Renaissance-man.
I'd say a nerd has an in-depth knowledge about 1 thing where as a geek has a greater than average knowledge about the same subject, be it hockey, the DC universe, photography or fashion.
I like being a geek, I know a little about a lot of things, it's just enough to make me dangerous ;)
I think it's simpler than that Bob. "nerd" and activities have either been designed to be more cerebral or made to be so than the casual fare. They wanted to learn, not just absorb enough to pass a test. They read books instead of passively watching the game. They engaged the TV shows instead of using it to turn their brain off. They practically invented a game that's all numbers and imagination. Geek hatred has deep roots in anti-intellectualism, coupled with a binary mind that thnks anything not considered "manly" like sports, must be "girly" thus you're justified in the heckling.
Of course that's also why we took it as a badge of honor. It's one thing to quote Tyrion Lanister about taking the isult and making it your own so as not to be hurt by it, but the 80s and 90s gave us the tools for a really good superiority complex. The old joke was someone that couldn't set the VCR. It's hard not to feel superior when you figure something out on your own and keep it memorized against someone that can't follow printed step by step instructions. The computer age brought the nerd up, not only as someone that would be more in demand in the job market, but could get these funny computer things to work, and use it to find anything on anything. Even little things like the ability to remember decades of TV and comics next to the sports fan that couldn't remember a game they saw a month ago fed into the complex. We were nerds, which by definition made us smarter, more devoted, and more passionate than everyone else, so we were proud of it.
Today, well, the tech edge is dying with more user friendliness for devices designed to be cheaply replaced when broken. The passion's still there, but now comes with the "elitist" label by the people that for some reason want in on a label still steeped in insult. I have my issues with that. To paraphrase Genshiken, you don't try to be a nerd, you just realize you are one.
Glad you didn't talk about "dorks"
There was an insult in Australia where people insulted the smarter ones by calling them a "Spock" when I was a kid in Highschool (About 10 years ago).
Back then, I would have taken offense (But I wasn't that bright so no-one called me that anyway) but now that I think about it; how is calling someone a profoundly logical and brilliant person an insult? Oh well, kids.
Really good episode Bob, lots to think about here.
Definitely agree that "Nerd culture" has been looking at itself and its past with rose tinted glasses. We're not so much better, as we are different. Our level of discourse definitely proves we're not as enlightened as we like to think we are.
Yes, I've often associated my intellect with this guy.
This video brings about this song, however.
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Born Sept. 25, 1750, in Wehrau, near Görlitz; died June 30, 1817, in Dresden. German geologist and mineralogist.
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EDIT AirVPN has disputed some of this review. You can read our responses at the end of the post
AirVPN is VPN service started by a "small group of activists" in 2010 and is based in the Italy. The company has servers across Asia, Americas and Europe. Lets take a look at its privacy policy.
Out of the three VPN privacy policies we've looked at so far in this series AirVPN takes the most sensible and privacy-orientated approach to its customer's data. But while AirVPN seems to take user privacy seriously, it is let down by some vague language.
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We're lacking specifics here. In particular, AirVPN does not say how the IP address is stored and if it is anonymised. The policy continues:
"Data transmission is performed between Air servers network exclusively in order to erogate efficiently the AirVPN service. Data are deleted as soon as they are no more necessary for such purposes."
Again, AirVPN needs to be more specific and say exactly how long it retains data for. "Data are deleted as soon as they are no more necessary for such purposes" is far to vague to be taken seriously and there is no mention of data retention periods anywhere in the privacy policy. Someone who has little knowledge of how VPNs work also has no idea how long data is typically stored for troubleshooting.
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We wrote: "AirVPN is VPN service started by a "small group of activists" in 2010 and is based in the Netherlands." However, AirVPN is in fact based in Italy. This is our oversight and has been corrected. We apologise to AirVPN for this error.
AirVPN writes: "These data are not collected to identify, through elaboration or any other technique" has an unequivocal legal meaning in the EU. It means that personal data, including IP addresses (regardless of the debate whether an IP address is a personal data or not), are not collected at all and in any way. Therefore not only we legally state that they are not stored when a client accesses a VPN service, but we also say that they are not even sent to third-parties WHILE a client is connected to a VPN server, which is a higher privacy condition. It seems, to say the least, bizarre that a higher privacy protection policy is interpreted as a lower one.
AirVPN is somewhat missing the point of these reviews, as stated in our guidelines. The vast majority of people reading such privacy policies do not have a grasp of the legal intricacies and directives being mentioned, and that this has led to false expectations around VPN services. We believe it's the VPN's job to state clearly and in plain English what their practices are. The main point of this review wasn't to say AirVPN is guilty of logging data, but that its policy is not clear enough in this regard. The point still stands.
IVPN: "Data transmission is performed between Air servers network exclusively in order to erogate efficiently the AirVPN service. Data are deleted as soon as they are no more necessary for such purposes."
AirVPN writes: Once again, the sentence has a very precise legal meaning in the EU. The service is erogated when a client is connected, therefore when a client is disconnected the service is not erogated, ergo when a client disconnects those data are no more on the servers and the data retention period is, in the worst case, the timeout period (up to 60 seconds), in the best case 0 seconds.
Same point as above.
IVPN "AirVPN doesn't mention anything regarding cookies, affiliates and ad data."
False. The Privacy Notice states, since three years ago:
Yes, this was a mistake by us. We've made the correction and offer our apologies to AirVPN.
IVPN: AirVPN also doesn't mention how it responds to DMCA notices
That's true and IT MUST BE SO. We will never mention how we "respond" to laws that are outside our jurisdiction and that are therefore inapplicable, simply because we are not forced to and we MUST NOT comply (and of course we must not even "respond") to such laws. An USA Act "has jurisdiction" on the USA. We are not subject to every single law existing in the world and we will NEVER mention them as if we recognized their validity. Doing so would imply an utter incompetence on the legal field. Ironically, we would like to ask to IVPN staff why they do not state in their policy how they "respond" to every single law in the world which makes VPN business illegal.
DMCA notices are an issue that's very important to individuals looking for a VPN service and those concerned with online freedoms. Acknowledging that DCMA notices exist, and are an issue customers want to know our stance on, is hardly legal incompetence. It's about giving your users relevant information to help them make an informed decision about your service.
IVPN: AirVPN's policy uses somewhat broken English (what does "erogate" mean exactly in this context?).
We recommend IVPN people to open a dictionary, for example the Webster dictionary, and search for "erogate", which means "give, lay out, provide, deal out".
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These two teams last met on Feb. 27 and it was freshman Jeremy Lamb's unofficial coming out party. The Huskies won 67-59 and Lamb scored 17 points. In his last seven games Lamb has gone for 19, 11, 17, 11, 13, 16 and 14 against the Bearcats Saturday night.
"We're happy as heck with this young group led by (Kemba Walker) the best player in America right there," coach Jim Calhoun said after the game. "I think he proved it again tonight. [Cincinnati] did a great job to start the second half -- they pulled the zone up, we got confused a little bit. We called a timeout, made a few adjustments, and then the kids took over … and I thought we played great, great defense."
As for Walker showing signs of mortality against the Bearcats, Calhoun offered this: "We played seven games in 12 days. [Kemba] says he could play every single day and I believe him."
Even after watching Walker wince and grimace his way through the final 30 minutes -- all while making clutch shots, including 14 for 14 from the line -- it's hard not to believe anything he might say about the state of his game.
"I'm always getting hurt," Walker said on the court after the game. "It's nothing new. I just want to win so bad that I [endure the pain] until the end of the game."
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A Sunday browse discovery
During my usual Sunday browsing of some favorite websites I came across a few articles about entrepreneurs being supported by Google. The first article drew my attention because the area in which the support was being provided was the Gulf region where hurricane Katrina had made a visit and left severe devastation.
Understanding that entrepreneurs often find it difficult get the kind financial support afforded to big business, and some small businesses (via SBA loans), I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Google is active in supporting Crescent City (New Orleans) entrepreneurs.
The article excerpt
Almost seven years later, I find myself amazed at the recovery and revitalization of the entire region, specifically in New Orleans. The city has come to embody a spirit of perseverance and evolved into a model for economic and community redevelopment. In 2010, Google provided $102 million of economic activity for Louisiana businesses, website publishers and nonprofits—and there's still more work to do. Read more here!
The second article also involved Google but the entrepreneurs being supported are women entrepreneurs who are operating in what would have been a very unlikely place a decade or two ago. That place is India! In the Web Pro News article "Google Launches Program For Women Entrepreneurs", the sub-heading read, "Females In India Get A New Voice", and my reaction was kind of a this-is-great-news-let-me-read-more one. So I was sure that this kind of news would be of interest to you.
The other article excerpt
Google can now add a launching pad for female entrepreneurs to their long list of accomplishments. As reported today on their blog, they recently began a program called Women Entrepreneurs On The Web, or WEOW. The program was created specifically to help women in India find a voice and…read more here!
Entrepreneurs – a group in which I include independent contractors, sole proprietors, small business men/women, artists, musicians and some commission sales people – have been going it alone for a long time without a lot of needed support (mostly financial, but affordable healthcare and retirement plans must be mentioned also) and to know that one of the most influential companies on the Web (and one with the largest Web presence) is doing something about entrepreneurial support is reassuring.
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Vo Nguyen Giap, the relentless and charismatic North Vietnamese general whose campaigns drove both France and the United States out of Vietnam, died on Friday in Hanoi. He was believed to be 102.
The death was reported by several Vietnamese news organizations, including the respected Tuoi Tre Online, which said he had died in an army hospital.
General Giap was among the last survivors of a generation of Communist revolutionaries who in the decades after World War II freed Vietnam of colonial rule and fought a superpower to a stalemate. In his later years, he was a living reminder of a war that was mostly old history to the Vietnamese, many of whom were born after it had ended.
But he had not faded away. He was regarded as an elder statesman whose hard-line views had softened with the cessation of the war that unified Vietnam. He supported economic reform and closer relations with the United States while publicly warning of the spread of Chinese influence and the environmental costs of industrialization.
To his American adversaries, however, from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, he was perhaps second only to his mentor, Ho Chi Minh, as the face of a tenacious, implacable enemy. And to historians, his willingness to sustain staggering losses against superior American firepower was a large reason the war dragged on as long as it did, costing more than 2.5 million lives — 58,000 of them American — sapping the United States Treasury and Washington's political will to fight, and bitterly dividing the country in an argument about America's role in the world that still echoes today.
A teacher and journalist with no formal military training, Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced vo nwin ZHAP) joined a ragtag Communist insurgency in the 1940s and built it into a highly disciplined force that ended an empire and united a nation.
He was charming and volatile, an erudite military historian and an intense nationalist who used his personal magnetism to motivate his troops and fire their devotion to their country. His admirers put him in the company of MacArthur, Rommel and other great military leaders of the 20th century.
But his critics said that his victories had been rooted in a profligate disregard for the lives of his soldiers. Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who commanded American forces in Vietnam from 1964 until 1968, said, "Any American commander who took the same vast losses as General Giap would not have lasted three weeks."
General Giap understood something that his adversaries did not, however. Early on, he learned that the loyalty of Vietnam's peasants was more crucial than controlling the land on which they lived. Like Ho Chi Minh, he believed devoutly that the Vietnamese would be willing to bear any burden to free their land from foreign armies.
He knew something else as well, and profited from it: that waging war in the television age depended as much on propaganda as it did on success in the field.
These lessons were driven home in the Tet offensive of 1968, when North Vietnamese regulars and Vietcong guerrillas attacked scores of military targets and provincial capitals throughout South Vietnam, only to be thrown back with staggering losses. General Giap had expected the offensive to set off uprisings and show the Vietnamese that the Americans were vulnerable.
Militarily, it was a failure. But the offensive came as opposition to the war was growing in the United States, and the televised savagery of the fighting fueled another wave of protests. President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had been contemplating retirement months before Tet, decided not to seek re-election, and with the election of Richard M. Nixon in November, the long withdrawal of American forces began.
General Giap had studied the military teachings of Mao Zedong, who wrote that political indoctrination, terrorism and sustained guerrilla warfare were prerequisites for a successful revolution. Using this strategy, General Giap defeated the French Army's elite and its Foreign Legion at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, forcing France from Indochina and earning the grudging admiration of the French.
"He learned from his mistakes and did not repeat them," Gen. Marcel Bigeard, who as a young colonel of French paratroops surrendered at Dien Bien Phu, told Peter G. Macdonald, one of General Giap's biographers. But "to Giap," he said, "a man's life was nothing."
Hanoi's casualty estimates are unreliable, so the cost of General Giap's victories will probably never be known. About 94,000 French troops died in the war to keep Vietnam, and the struggle for independence killed, by conservative estimates, about 300,000 Vietnamese fighters. In the American war, about 2.5 million North and South Vietnamese died out of a total population of 32 million. America lost about 58,000 service members.
"Every minute, hundreds of thousands of people die on this earth," General Giap is said to have remarked after the war with France. "The life or death of a hundred, a thousand, tens of thousands of human beings, even our compatriots, means little."
A Student of Revolution
Vo Nguyen Giap was born on Aug. 25, 1911 (some sources say 1912), in the village of An Xa in Quang Binh Province, the southernmost part of what would later be North Vietnam. His father, Vo Quang Nghiem, was an educated farmer and a fervent nationalist who, like his father before him, encouraged his children to resist the French.
Mr. Giap earned a degree in law and political economics in 1937 and then taught history at the Thanh Long School, a private institution for privileged Vietnamese in Hanoi, where he was known for the intensity of his lectures on the French Revolution. He also studied Lenin and Marx and was particularly impressed by Mao's theories on combining political and military strategy to win a revolution.
In 1941, Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party, chose Mr. Giap to lead the Viet Minh, the military wing of the Vietnam Independence League.
In late 1953, the French established a stronghold in the northwest at Dien Bien Phu, near the border with Laos, garrisoned by 13,000 Vietnamese and North African colonial troops as well as the French Army's top troops and its elite Foreign Legion.
After an eight-week siege by Communist forces, the last French outposts were overrun on May 7, 1954. The timing was a political masterstroke, coming on the very day that negotiators met in Geneva to discuss a settlement. Faced with the failure of their strategy, French negotiators gave up and agreed to withdraw. The country split into a Communist-ruled north and a non-Communist south.
In the late 1950s and early '60s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and later President John F. Kennedy looked on with rising anxiety as Communist forces stepped up their guerrilla war. By the time Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, the United States had more than 16,000 troops in South Vietnam.
General Westmoreland relied on superior weaponry to wage a war of attrition, in which he measured success by the number of enemy dead. Though the Communists lost in any comparative "body count" of casualties, General Giap was quick to see that the indiscriminate bombing and massed firepower of the Americans caused heavy civilian casualties and alienated many Vietnamese from the government the Americans supported.
With the war in stalemate and Americans becoming less tolerant of accepting casualties, General Giap told a European interviewer, South Vietnam "is for the Americans a bottomless pit."
A Turning Point
On Jan. 30, 1968, during a cease-fire in honor of the Vietnamese New Year (called Tet Nguyen Dan), more than 80,000 North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops hit military bases and cities throughout South Vietnam in what would be called the Tet offensive. For the Communists, things went wrong from the start. Some Vietcong units attacked prematurely, without the backing of regular troops as planned. Suicide squads, like one that penetrated the United States Embassy in Saigon, were quickly wiped out.
Despite some successes — the North Vietnamese entered the city of Hue and held it for three weeks — the offensive was a military disaster. The hoped-for uprisings never took place, and some 40,000 Communist fighters were killed or wounded. The Vietcong never regained the strength it had before Tet.
But the fierceness of the assault illustrated Hanoi's determination to win and shook the American public and leadership.
"The Tet offensive had been directed primarily at the people of South Vietnam," General Giap said later, "but as it turned out, it affected the people of the United States more. Until Tet, they thought they could win the war, but now they knew that they could not."
He told the journalist Stanley Karnow in 1990, "We wanted to show the Americans that we were not exhausted, that we could attack their arsenals, communications, elite units, even their headquarters, the brains behind the war."
He added, "We wanted to project the war into the homes of America's families, because we knew that most of them had nothing against us."
The United States government began peace talks in Paris in May 1968. The next year, Nixon began withdrawing American troops under his policy of Vietnamization, which called for the South Vietnamese troops to bear the brunt of the fighting.
In March 1972, the North Vietnamese carried out the Easter offensive on three fronts, expanding their holdings in Cambodia and Laos and bringing temporary gains in South Vietnam. But it ended in defeat, and General Giap again bore the brunt of criticism for the heavy losses. In summer 1972, he was replaced by Gen. Van Tien Dung, possibly because he had fallen from favor but possibly because, as was rumored, he had Hodgkin's disease.
Although he was removed from direct command in 1973, General Giap remained minister of defense, overseeing North Vietnam's final victory over South Vietnam and the United States when Saigon, the South's capital, fell on April 30, 1975. He also guided the invasion of Cambodia in January 1979, which ousted the brutal Communist Khmer Rouge. The next month, after Hanoi had established a new government in Phnom Penh, Chinese troops attacked along the North Vietnamese border to drive home the point that China remained the paramount regional power.
It was General Giap's last military campaign. He was removed as minister of defense in 1980 after his chief rivals, Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, eased him out of the Politburo. Too prominent to be openly denounced, he was instead made vice prime minister for science and education.
But his days of real power were gone. In August 1991, he was ousted after Vo Van Kiet, a Western-style reformer, came to power.
In his final years, General Giap was an avuncular host to foreign visitors to his villa in Hanoi, where he read extensively in Western literature, enjoyed Beethoven and Liszt and became a convert to pursuing socialism through free-market reforms.
"In the past, our greatest challenge was the invasion of our nation by foreigners," he told an interviewer. "Now that Vietnam is independent and united, we can address our biggest challenge. That challenge is poverty and economic backwardness."
Addressing that challenge had long been deferred, he told the journalist Neil Sheehan in 1989. "Our country is like an ill person who has suffered for a long time," he said. "The countries around us made a lot of progress. We were at war."


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Cease-fire agreement or no, the bilateral Israeli-Palestinian peace process is finished. Like Humpty Dumpty, all efforts to put it together again have failed. But this does not mean that all opportunity for Middle East peace has been destroyed. It means that a new attempt must be made in a different way.
In retrospect, it seems clear that the narrow-gauge approach was inadequate. The three parties, with the United States pushing and pulling the Israelis and Palestinians, could not generate the momentum to carry the day. The cast of characters must be expanded by including Syria - for both positive and negative reasons - in the same way it was brought into the Madrid conference in 1991. Syria has long been a major player in the region.
In recent times, under Hafez al-Assad, Syria's importance has been more that of a spoiler, radicalizing already high tensions. Damascus can still cause trouble. There is no evidence that it stoked the Palestinians' second intifada, but it harbors the headquarters of Palestinian terrorist organizations. It also controls Lebanon, where the Hizbullah, originally an Iranian creation, fought the Israeli Army to a standstill.
Bringing Syria into the broader peace process may seem like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. But there is little choice. At the Camp David talks last July, Israel's Ehud Barak took Yasser Arafat by surprise, offering the Palestinians a presence in Jerusalem that would have been inconceivable six months earlier. The corollary was that the Palestinians give up their claim to the rest of East Jerusalem. Arafat, explaining that it could be fatal to go down in history as the man who "lost Jerusalem" for the Arabs, said no and then traveled around the Islamic world seeking support.
He found support generally, but notably it was in the most important Arab states, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. The Saudis, as custodians of Mecca and Medina, were especially sensitive to the fate of Islam's third holiest shrine in Jerusalem. Also, over the long time this had been discussed, it had become a popular issue, orchestrated by opposition Islamist politicians. With strong backing by Syria and Iraq, they rendered any compromise on Jerusalem treason against the Arab nation. Most Arab regimes are seriously flawed as one-party states or traditionalist monarchies. Too many of their citizens, growing rapidly in number, are poor, unemployed, short of housing and of hope. They accuse their leaders of varying incompetence, corruption, and cronyism. They form a highly flammable mass, easily touched off by extremists, becoming a force that frightens - and overthrows - regimes: Arab history knows it as "the street."
A farsighted American diplomacy should have done everything in Arab capitals to back Arafat saying yes. On Sept. 28, Ariel Sharon acted to wreck the peace process as Arab suicide bombers had done four years earlier. With hundreds of police and officials, he provocatively visited what the Arabs call the Noble Sanctuary. Since then, bloodshed and force, which even the US accepted as being excessive against Palestinians, have enraged people across the Arab world.
Syria as part of the Middle East peace process is not a fantasy. It could regain its Golan Heights as part of a full agreement with Israel and attract the Western investment it needs very badly. For its part, it could tone down the incendiary propaganda against other Arab states and help to stabilize the area.
For the moment that is not happening. In fact, after generations of bitter hostility, Syria is moving closer to Iraq. It has resumed diplomatic relations with Baghdad, restored railroad services to Iraq, promised to increase trade, and joined the chorus against the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait.
The possibility of a poisonous partnership between Syria and Iraq is a reminder that things must not be allowed to drift. Peace must be pursued - and new means employed when old ones fail.
Richard C. Hottelet, a former correspondent for CBS, writes on world affairs.
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An international conference envisaged and organized in the spirit of sharing and learning from each other, saw delegates from 110 universities and 30 organisations from around the world convened at the University of Limerick to discuss community empowerment for health. The delegates who came from a range of backgrounds gathered to discuss how to create opportunities for others within their communities, to become more informed by giving them the confidence, skills, resources, and power to shape and influence their own health.
The main outcome of the conference, according to one of the main organizers, Dr Khalifa Elmusharaf, was a Limerick declaration on community empowerment. He proceeded to emphasize that the Conference 'declares that community empowerment goes beyond the traditional methods of listening, information sharing and consultation'.
The Conference 'involves a change in power relations and enabling people to have more control, and responsibility, for their own health', according to Dr Elmusharaf. And its declaration, he maintains, is a 'call of action on educational institutes and organizations worldwide to lead the change process for community empowerment and social accountability.'
Both Dr Khalifa Elmusharaf and Dr Anca Minescu, the Assistant Dean International at the Faculty of Education and Health Science at the University of Limerick, described the Conference as 'a resounding success'.
It is worth noting that Dr Khalifa Elmusharaf, who is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Graduate Entry Medical School at University of Limerick is a notable graduate of UMS.


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With departmental and School of Graduate Studies
and Research approval, a student may use the same course to count in two
different IUP graduate degree programs, if the course meets the published
graduation requirements in both programs.
However, the number of overlap credits counted
toward a second graduate degree will be limited to a maximum of one-third (1/3) of the credits, if department approved, in the
second graduate degree program. Should credits be requested for use in a second
degree program, they will be treated as transfer credits and will therefore
count toward the one-third (1/3) credit maximum permitted by the Transfer Credit Policy.
In order to receive the doctorate as a second
degree, doctoral students using credits earned in a previous IUP graduate
degree program must meet the minimum doctoral degree credit requirement of 60
graduate credits earned beyond the bachelor's degree, exclusive of dissertation
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In 2007, in Parents Involved, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school districts could not classify students solely on the basis of race when voluntarily pursuing integration. Since then, many school districts have been scrambling to replace their race-based assignment plans with race-neutral ones. To some this signals the end of Brown and the abandonment of racially integrated schools. Yet, a majority of the Justices agreed that the state has a compelling interest in both promoting diversity and avoiding racial isolation in our public schools. Given the increasingly deep and pervasive race and classbased segregation in our nation, what can be done to end this isolation and increase opportunities in our schools and in our communities?
The remedies and educational initiatives we have enacted thus far have only demonstrated modest amounts of success in part because they are failing to disrupt the cycle of racialized poverty that is creating and reinforcing pervasive educational inequities. In this report, we demonstrate the benefits of an approach that proactively pursues racial and economic integration in our schools. Setting integration both as a goal and as a solution, requires targeting policies and practices embedded in educational opportunity structures such as school locations, student assignment plans, and the quality and diversity of instructors.


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Use the Sun as a Signal Booster
Here's yet another idea hatched by the Project Icarus researchers. According to Einstein's relativity theories, extremely massive objects' gravitational forces can actually deflect light that's passing near them and concentrate it, the way a hand-held magnifying glass does. That gave the Project Icarus think tank the idea of using that effect to focus and boost transmissions from a distant spacecraft. The way they would do it, admittedly, is a little tough for a non-physicist to fathom: A spacecraft capable of receiving communications transmissions would be positioned in interstellar space opposite the direction that the starship is going, about 51 billion miles (82 billion kilometers) away from the sun. That's really, really far -- about 18 times the distance between Pluto and the sun, in fact -- but let's assume that an Earth civilization capable of sending a starship trillions of miles from Earth can do that. The communications craft would then use the sun as a lens to magnify the signals it gets from the distant starship, and then would transmit them back to Earth though some other system, such as a network of satellites with laser links.
"The potential gain from doing this is immense," engineer Pat Galea explained to Discovery News in 2012. "The transmitter power on Icarus could be ramped down to much lower levels without impacting the available data rate, or if the power is kept the same, we could be receiving much more data than a direct link would provide." Ingenious as it might seem, however, the scheme also has some Jupiter-sized complications. It'd be necessary, for example, to keep the receiver spacecraft, the one getting the signals from the starship, pretty close to perfectly aligned at all times, and keeping it that way could prove very, very difficult [source: Galea, Obousy et al].


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Curator, the moodboard app, gets a streamlined redesign
Somewhere between Tumblr, Pinterest and Flipboard, Curator has found an overlooked niche. The iPad app enables the user the bring together visual links to images, text and websites, in a mixed media moodboard that trumps its peers through its simple layouts, focussing on the visual satisfaction of "curating" your own collections.
Initiated by architect and app developer Daniel Nordh and designed by A Practice For Everyday Life (APFEL), Curator "allows users to collect, organise and present mood boards mixing websites, images and text using a simple, intuitive tap-and-drag interface."
The app has already been around for a while, and last year sat in the top ten of the productivity category of the Appstore across the globe. Nordh believed it could be faring even better, and engaged APFEL to improve the usability and visual experience of the app.
The app was redesigned with cleaner grids and smoother functionality, installing the GT Walsheim typeface and reworking the identity. "The app icon and Curator & Co logo was derived from the boards within Curator, and appears in several iterations depending on context, evolving into a pattern that appears on the welcome screen and company business cards," the studio explained.


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ESPN Soccernet Snags Ljungberg
Bristol – Soccernet.com today announced that internationally renowned soccer star Freddie Ljungberg will join host Derek Rae, and analysts Tommy Smyth and Janusz Michallik,as a regular guest on ESPNSoccernet Press Pass.
This exclusive program, which is aired five days per week since August 13th, gives millions fans across the world a chance to stay up to date on the latest global soccer news and expert opinion's leading up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
In addition, Freddie will also be sharing his opinions and knowledgeable by writing a column, which is rare and unique among top players in the world, twice per month for the site.
Currently playing in the U.S. for Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders FC, Ljungberg's 15-year career in soccer will add invaluable contributions to the latest news on the pitch. He began his professional career playing for Halmstad BK before joining Arsenal FC where he won the award 2002 Premier League Player of the Year and became a key player on the undefeated team that went on to capture the 2004 EPL title. The Swedish native also participated in the 2002 and 2006 World Cup tournaments and the Euro 2000, Euro 2004 and Euro 2008 for his home country's national team.
His experience with fame and popularity as a model, fashion icon and product endorser, will also add new dimensions to discussions about the lives of players off the pitch as well.
In addition to being a columnist for ESPN Freddie is running his own blog on www.freddie.speaksup.com


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Party Recipes, Peckish Recipes
November 29, 2018
These Cheese and Roast Beef Sliders will be sliding into your favourite recipes. They're ideal to make use of delicious Sunday leftovers and so easy to make.
200g roast beef, thinly sliced
12 seeded bread buns
50g wholegrain mustard (optional)
2 sprigs of dill, chopped
150g Primula Cheese with Chives
1Preheat the oven to 190°C/ Gas Mark 5.
2Slice the bread buns in half horizontally and place the bottom halves in a baking dish.
3Add the mustard and dill evenly over the bread buns.
4Place the roast beef on each bun bottom.
5Squeeze Primula Cheese with Chives over the beef.
6Add the top half of the bread buns.
7Wrap in foil and bake for 15 minutes. Then, remove the foil and bake for a further 5 minutes until the cheese is wonderfully melty and the buns are crisp and golden.
8Serve immediately.
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Archive for the 'Ciudad Guzmán' Tag
I first became aware of Talpa as a pilgrimage destination when I read Juan Rulfo's bleak, acerbic short story called 'Talpa' in his brilliant collection of short stories set in the South of Jalisco "Llana en Llamas". The mother of a friend here has invited me to make the pilgrimage with the local group she goes with the last two years but each time I have been ill and have not been able to go. Continue reading
7 Reasons to live in Ciudad Guzmán
In a recent article I read about writing for the internet, which claims it is different than other kinds of writing, the advice is to write lists. It seems people like lists. I have read this advice before on another specialist site for blog-writing. Continue reading
Volcano of Snow, Volcano of Fire
People, generally Mexican friends who live in large cities like Guadalajara or Mexico City, often ask me why I live in Ciudad Guzmán. To them it is a provincial backwater out 'in the sticks' – as an ex-girlfriend once memorably said to me, "Es un un pueblito rascuache y polvoriento" – it is a wretched, dusty little town. In reply I say, half-jokingly, that it is "la Perla de Jalisco"– the pearl of the state of Jalisco, perhaps something of an exaggeration.
In fact, there are many reasons why I like living here. Continue reading


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Tips for Skiing With Children
Here are a few tips if you are thinking of taking your kids on a skiing holiday this winter.
It is possible for a child to learn to ski as soon as they can walk, however you know your child best, and you will know how willing they are to try new things, how co-ordinated they are and how quickly they will become tired.
The Ecole du Ski Francais recommend that children under 5 years only ski for a couple of hours a day, but few younger children will be able to ski for as long as an adult. Remember to factor in other activities and don't expect the kids to have the same stamina as you!
Many ski resorts, hotels and tour operators will offer a crèche and activities for the children, or you may wish to hire a nanny for the week.
Warm clothing is vital for anyone skiing, and children are more susceptible to the cold that adults.Recommended items for skiing are waterproof mittens or gloves, a hat, ski socks, a wind/water resistant jacket and trousers and long underwear.
Safety on the slopes is important too. Use a high factor sunscreen at all times, wear UV resistant goggles or sunglasses and children are recommended to wear a ski helmet as well – in many countries including the USA and Italy they will not be allowed to ski without a helmet.
If your child is really unhappy skiing, never force them. If you are not sure whether your children will enjoy a skiing holiday choose a resort which offers lots of other activities for the kids.
Choose a resort with a 'Magic Carpet' to take the kids back up the ski slope – walking up hill will tire younger children out very quickly.
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My first time at a WildBlue Aircraft Show
Aircraft shows have always fascinated me right from my childhood. The same goes with my grandmother, who loves Aircraft shows. We both got an opportunity to visit the famous WildBlue Aircraft event that was held at our State last week. Here, I would like to share some of the interesting incidents that happened during our visit to the Aircraft show.
It was an amazing view when we first entered the venue with all those giant aircrafts and biplanes placed on the ground. There was a huge crowd of spectators who were very much excited to watch the show just like us. My grandmother was pleased about visiting the show as it was her longtime desire. With her being diagnosed with dcis breast cancer, I felt it is very much important for me to fulfill her everlasting desire.
The show was organised by the WildBlue Aircraft and there were both the dynamic air shows and the static air shows for the event. We first made our visit to the static air show where many models of aircrafts were exhibited. My grandmother was astonished to see them so close by and I really enjoyed her expressions. There were biplanes, gliders, helicopters, and a few unmanned aircraft systems. Every model was accompanied with a neat explanation about its key features.
I had to take some time to explain my grandma about them as she was more interested and eager to know about them. I was happy when she enjoyed herself after so much struggle in the past few months. Due to the cancer, she severely suffered from weight loss. So this visit was inevitable for her to regain her happiness that she lost due to the suffering.
So coming back to our visit, the next thing we did was to visit the aircraft show that exhibits the flying aircrafts. The childishness of my grandma came out when we entered the show. She was overwhelmed to see the flying aircraft and biplanes. The weather was too good on the day of our visit, so we really enjoyed the view. The aviators were so talented that they displayed their skills so well.
There was a display of harmony among various aircraft pilots and they flew with complete coordination. We were completely lost in their display and it was a glorious view that one should never miss in his/her lifetime. This is the very reason that I took my grandma even at this stage of her life.
The show was started in the evening and it continued till the night. There were many patterns that the aviators displayed in the sky. The colorful display stole our eyes. We did not miss to take the snapshots of those wonderful views. The most attractive display was the multicolor display where the aircraft flew to different angles from a common point. It was a delight for the audiences and we really enjoyed it.
The organisers of the aircraft show gave a speech about the safety measures that have been taken in the event. I could see that with my own eyes that they have maintained a rather good distance between the crowd and the area where aircrafts fly. Even the slow moving aircraft were flying a bit far from the crowd and we did note that. It was all well planned and well coordinated.
When it was time to leave, my grandma obliged to meet one of the aviators. But I was not sure about that. It was our luck, one of the aviators was just passing by us and we were able to talk to him. More than me, my grandma was too excited and she expressed her wishes to him. The guy was too polite and he was concerned to know about my grandma's breast cancer and consequent weight loss. When it was the time to leave, my grandma took an autograph from him and that really made her day!
It was just a pleasant to visit the WildBlue Aircraft show and being the first time, it was really a thrilling experience. Having taken my grandma somewhere she was yearning to go, I am so much contented at my heart. Not many of us get a chance always to visit such aircraft shows, but if you do, please don't miss the opportunity. You will find it more interesting when you make your presence there.


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"James have you seen my wallet? I asked.
"No dear, when did you see it last?"
"Put down that paper you're reading, this is important."
"Yes dear," replied James.
"Yesterday I used my wallet at Macy's."
"Was it in your purse? You know I have told you many times not to take your wallet out of your purse or you'll lose it."
"Yes, but..."
"But what?"
"I had an incident," I tried to explain.
"What, a mugger? Someone stole it?"
"No, I was leaving with my friend through the revolving exit door after we had made our purchases. My purse got caught and..."
"I'm calling the store maybe someone there found it."
"and I will call the credit card company to cancel your card. Don't worry, I'll get them to send you a new one."
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|Full house at the gala. God bless them (you) all.
|Some silent auctions were beautiful pictures of Our Lady of Guadalupe and San Martin.
|A Randy Friemel was also included in the silent auctions (the one of Jesus there).
|Celebrating 60 years in the Diocese - 60 candles
|Award given to our benefactor of the year.
|Just a little skit to make everyone laugh.
Advent is beginning -- let us not forget how much God longs for us to be close to Him! Let us take extra time to pray the Bible, to have quiet reflection time to be with Him and to listen to Him. He loves us SO much. Let us strive to grow closer to Him and His People. Come, Lord Jesus, Come!