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Even before it had a name, the event was coming. Now, dubbed Spectropolis: Mobile Art, Media and The City, it's here. Convening panels, workshops and projects in Lower Manhattan over three days (Oct 1-3), Spectropolis explores how pioneering uses of communication technologies are generating new modes of urban experience and civic participation. Some of the projects have recently been put to use. Bikes Against Bush, for example, were downloading text messages of dissent and chalking them onto city sidewalks during the RNC. Others pose new ways to interface with the city. free103point9's Micro Radio Sound Walk modifies street sounds and feeds them back live into the participant's headphones to create walking tours of the city like it's never been heard before. Umbrella.net by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki experiments with the ad-hoc development of networks around Manhattan prompted by chance occurences or coincidence. The workshops offer practical information, such as how to build your own community network or make your own GPS drawing. And the panels, moderated by Jonah Peretti, Laura Forlano and Anthony Townsend, frame these diverse applications of mobile technology with discussions around their history and potential for wider social effect. See the site for a full schedule. - Lauren Cornell
Expressing the Art Gene
From the very beginning of its public life in the early 1970s, transgenic technology has been a controversial subject. Both 'high' and 'low' cultures have latched onto the image of genes and DNA as a new input into the decades old opposition between nature and nurture. Of course, as many scientists, and even artists, have pointed out, the matter is more complex, and the stakes are higher, than such terms can describe. What role is art playing in furthering our understanding of these technological and philosophical changes in how we view (and produce) life? A new colloquium on art and biotech, to be held at the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Montréal, will investigate some of the possibilities for answering such a question. From October 5-8, the numerous speakers and participants, including artists Suzanne Anker, Steve Kurtz and Eduardo Kac, will present their work and ideas on the themes of 'Intersections of Biology, Aesthetics and Ethics,' 'Artificial Life,' 'Genetic Art/Hybrids,' and 'Representations and Critical Strategies.' Registration can be completed on the website. - Ryan Griffis
Political Pomp for the People
The season of political sermons is upon us, that special time of the year when not only candidates, but neighbors, colleagues and friends are busy voicing decisive opinions to the public. Unlike our presidential candidates however, whose political parlance is often delivered to attentive crowds, the wise words of the standard citizen are often lost on deaf ears. Vox Populi, New York based Canadian artist Don Ritter's newest interactive artwork, comes to remedy this disappointing state of affairs. In Vox Populi, a video projected crowd chants 'speech, speech' and encourages visitors to step up to the lectern, speak through a microphone and hear their words amplified throughout the space. A teleprompter located within the lectern scrolls political speeches for the reciting pleasure of the participant, and the crowd on the video screen reacts with varying degrees of support and repulsion. Enjoy the supportive cheers of the many projected faces, but be prepared for their blaring jeers if you falter in your phrasing. Vox Populi is at Jack the Pelican Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn until October 9. - Ophra Wolf
Hacktivist Intertexts
Julia Kristeva's notion of intertextuality looks at the complex ways in which a given text is related to other texts. She claimed that every document is, in some way, a mosaic of other texts; every text is an absorption and transformation of others. Regime Change, the first of two, turbulence commissioned, textual instruments by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Brion Moss, David Durand, and Elaine Froehlich, literalizes and plays on Kristeva's connections. Beginning with a news article excerpt on Iraq, from April 2003, participants hyperlink between short passages from the Warren Commission, and back again. Viewers-turned-performers then jump between layers, and can add text back into the pieces preceding them. Eventually, the generated, mosaic texts become familiar committee-speak, requiring only contemporary names for us to read them as any contemporary subject: the 9-11 commission, Osama = Saddam, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth... And one bonus for dedicated players: with enough interaction, Regime Change's behavior shifts slightly, allowing your intertext re-mix to include a bit of the unexpected in uncanny ways. - Nathaniel Stern
Why Are There No Radical Feminists On Television?
No friends, this is not the lead up to a reactionary punch line, but rather a question that underlies Pilot TV, a 4-day public access happening in Chicago that begins today. Subtitled 'Experimental Media for Feminist Trespass', Pilot TV explores the intersections of feminism and public broadcast through 50 'pilot' programs produced in a warehouse temporarily turned television studio. Several of the programs hijack the format of stock cable fare. Stephen Remington's anti-Bush workout pumps participants 'towards a new kind of America'. While in 'Extreme Takeover', Edie Fake offers her body up to an open call for 'grafting, tattooing, gluing, embroidering and fringing'. Multi-media lectures on Early 70's Video Collectives and ACT-UP situate the event in a trajectory of media activism. These earlier actions are echoed in contemporary art, performed and presented for the camera. Tara Mateik will read the manifesto of SBI (Society for Biological Insurgents) and demonstrate the ways it lives up to its mission of overthrowing 'institutions of compulsory gender through the code'. Stay tuned for the pilot programs on public access following the event. If you are in or near Chicago this weekend, see the site to find out how you can get involved. - Lauren Cornell
Está aquí, está allí
If you were to plan a trip to Tijuana, where would you start? Expedia, Travelocity, Hotels.com? The web's role in commercial travel is difficult to overestimate. Hopefully, other forms of information about places, ones more enlightening and critical than e-commerce tourist guides, are being accessed as well. If you're planning on visiting the US-Mexico border region surrounding San Diego and Tijuana, may I suggest taking a look at the new inSite_05 website? Since 1992, the inSite program has explored the aesthetics, politics, economics, and otherwise everyday aspects of life in and around the US-Mexico border region between San Diego and Tijuana. While the main thrust of inSite lies in its direct engagement with physical sites through artists' interventions and staged discussions, the web is also becoming a critical point of contact. This year's 'Scenarios' component of the program will feature an online exhibition curated by former Rhizome Director Mark Tribe and an online/offline archive project by Berlin-based curator Ute Meta Bauer. But don't look for any utopian claims about virtual border crossing, these projects promise to keep their wires rooted in the ground. - Ryan Griffis
We Will Not Disappear
Ghostly figures materialise and dissolve as a relentless roll-call marches silently past; these are the names of disappeared women of Juarez, to whom the site gender[f] is dedicated. In the upper part of the screen the user has control, scrolling through a list of women artists and browsing the artworks that have been gathered together in this project. The interface neatly reflects the differences in the daily realities of women in the contemporary world, which ties into the theme of the work. While the world's politicians and media focus on an externalised 'war on terror', women everywhere continue to survive their individual wars and terrors. The works - contributed by 48 women artists - range across the bizarre, painful, hopeful and hilarious landscape of female realities, touching on everything from cyber-activism to religion to recontextualising Barbie. gender[f] has carved out a space within the digital sphere for these vital voices and experiences to be heard. - Helen Varley Jamieson.
Like Putty in Your Hands
The act of rendering and manipulating the image of another - often in ridiculous and derisive ways - is an act of protest. Using political figures as amenable objects is a satisfying way of assuming control over a subject whose policies directly affect our lives and sense of nationhood. A traditional stomping grounds for editorial cartoonists, political criticism through caricature is something that newspaper readers have enjoyed vicariously for years. But not anymore. Now, with Subservient President, you assume the role of Commander-in-Chief and George W. Bush is your boy toy. Modeled after Burger King's Subservient Chicken, the site lets visitors type in commands that an animated Dubya responds to. Not all commands will work - 'sing' doesn't make anything happen, but 'drink' and 'dance' sure do. Sometimes he just shrugs or scratches his head, and other times he prompts the user by typing messages like 'ask me about my foreign policy' or 'I took a new oath of office' on his own computer. Click on the FAQ link and you can read about how the site works and enjoy some very funny political commentary at the same time. Jeanne Randolf would be proud. - Peggy MacKinnon
Didn't You Know? Democracy Is Fun!
For those of you who feel weighed down by the impending turmoil of the upcoming US presidential elections, curators Michele Thursz and Defne Ayas have prepared an exhibit to remind us all that democracy can be both fun and inventive. Democracy is Fun! showcases artist-led actions that respond to our politically tense times by putting both humor and technology to creative use. The seed for many of the actions in the exhibit was the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC, which sent hoards of artists on a whirlwind of creative protests. The works in Democracy is Fun! are characterized by an appropriation of the media of alternative culture - net art, video art, performance and installation - as tools for awakening the political and social consciousness of the urban masses. Some of you might remember the Experimental Party's online Homeland Insecurity Advisory System, the Imagine Festival of Arts Issues and Ideas, the CoDECK, and the massive Bikes Against Bush protest, which was taken off the streets before it could go online. These and many other projects are at The White Box gallery in Chelsea, NYC, opening on October 21 and running until November 6. - Ophra Wolf
Whose Speech? Our Speech!
Thanks to the efforts of many artists, writers, and scientists, the FBI's baseless prosecution of Critical Art Ensemble co-founder Steve Kurtz and University of Pittsburgh Geneticist Dr. Robert Ferrell is a well known story in the arts community. With the help of press coverage in such high profile art periodicals as ArtForum and Art in America, not to mention mainstream news sources like the New York Times and CNN, the grassroots-organized legal defense fund has raised thirty thousand dollars. Unfortunately, Kurtz's defense is expected to cost around five times that amount. One major component of the fundraising has been benefit events of all kinds, from art auctions in Portland, Oregon to DJ shows in London. One more effort to add to the list (and funds) is 'Biofeedback,' a NYC event featuring a line up of musical acts and an appearance by performance artist Martha Wilson as Barbara Bush. The event starts at 8pm on Thursday, October 21 at Tonic. - Ryan Griffis


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If you were ever wondering what is the cost of the Nikon D800/D800E cameras to a dealer in the US, this price list will show you that the D800 costs $2,699.96 and the D800E costs $2,969.96. As usual, the margin on the accessories is much higher - aprox. 40%.
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19 Militants Down Egyptian Helicopter, Killing 5 Soldiers
CAIRO — Islamist militants shot down an Egyptian military helicopter in the Sinai Peninsula with a surface-to-air missile over the weekend, raising new alarms about the terrorist insurgency that developed there in response to the military takeover last summer.
The attack — described by witnesses, documented in a video released by the militants, and confirmed by three people briefed on the Egyptian government's investigation — validated longstanding fears that such weapons would spill into Egypt and beyond after the Libyan civil war tore open Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's fearsome arsenals.
Known as manpads, for man-portable air defense systems, the missiles can bring down commercial airliners if they are flying at low altitude, as during takeoff and landing. They also strengthen Sinai-based militants' hand against the Egyptian Army, and there is concern that the militants might seek to use the missiles on the Egyptian mainland, where terrorist attacks have become more frequent. On Saturday, four bombings killed six people in greater Cairo.
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Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a militant group based in Sinai that has claimed responsibility for an escalating series of attacks on police and soldiers, said in a statement posted on jihadist websites that it had succeeded in "downing a military helicopter with a surface-to-air missile and killing its entire crew in the area around the city of Sheikh Zuweid" in North Sinai, near the border with Gaza. The group, which quotes Al Qaeda leaders in its online video statements, said it had targeted the aircraft "in an area clear of residents to preserve the lives of Muslims."
Witnesses said they had seen on Saturday "a strange body" flying toward the helicopter, which then burned in the air for a time before falling. The flames were visible from nearby towns. The helicopter landed near El Shollaq, a small town just south of Sheikh Zuweid, and continued to burn for hours.
Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis released a video on Sunday night that appeared to show one of its fighters firing the missile, and the burning aircraft falling from the sky.
All five soldiers in the helicopter were killed, security officials said.
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This is what I've been working on:
2012 was always going to be the year of "Me". Finding ways to make myself more of a priority - getting my hair cut more than every 6 months, getting my legs waxed more frequently, taking care of my skin, getting pedicures and most importantly (and the most difficult) losing the baby weight.
So for the last 20 weeks I've been on Michelle Bridge's team doing the 12WBT (12 Week Body Transformation). Clearly my body is a long term project - 12 weeks just ain't enough!! :-) I had considered joining Weight Watchers earlier in the year but didn't want to attend meetings, the online program seemed expensive without any support and there wasn't anywhere convenient for the one-on-one consultation. So for most of 2012, whilst it was on my mind I didn't do anything about getting healthier.
After seeing 12WBT was Liked a few times by friends on Facebook I finally checked out their website and signed up within 24hrs. For $200 you get a Nutrition Plan, Exercise Plan, Shopping List, Recipe Index, Motivational & Workout Videos, Forums and more. Everyone signs up and starts each round at the same time and finishes at the same time. I have been so blessed because I found a Facebook group of women (and a couple of men) within my area which has been a huge place of inspiration and support. Without the FB group I would've been less motivated, the 12WBT forums were not cutting it for me. Every week people organise bootcamps, runs & walks, gym sessions, yoga, etc. This weekend I've organised a group of us to go to Rollerfit (I was a roller skating whizz as a girl).
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So I'm on Wk 8 of Round 4, it has been much more difficult to achieve weight loss over Xmas but at least I have managed to lose a few kilos before Xmas and keep it in check. I have 4 weeks left of this Round and I'm 6kg (13 pounds) away from the goal I set myself. Overall my goal is to lose another 16kg (35 pounds) so I plan to sign up again for Round 1 2013 (starting as soon as the current round finishes).
I'm not getting any kudos for talking about 12WBT here, yes I am a raving fan! :-) The nutrition plan is really sensible - you eat carbs, protein, fruit and vegetables, pulses and legumes, nuts etc. This was the most important thing to me - to eat well. I don't believe carb-free or shake diets are of benefit long term. The 12WBT plan is how I always tried to eat but didn't have the guidelines for proper portions. My whole family eats what I eat, I don't have the time to cook separate meals for everyone. My husband was so impressed with my results from Round 3 that he signed up for Round 4 with me (he only needs to lose about 10-15kg).
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The most amazing thing that has come from all this is that I am now a "Runner" (slow jogger). About half way through Round 3 I downloaded the free version of C25k app (Couch to 5km) and have consistently been doing the program three times a week. I can now run for 30mins non-stop (about 3kms / 1.86 miles). My goal is to get to 5km / 3.1 miles (I did a 5km run two weeks ago but had to walk for a few minutes in the middle). My first fun run is coming up in a month - The Color Run which I'm looking forward to and about 60 people from my 12WBT Facebook group are going to be doing it too. I joined a local gym but I'm finding it hard to make the gym a part of the routine too, I want to put some focus on strength training since increasing muscle (not body building) will increase metabolism.
So there you have it. I do want to fit sewing back into my life too. There are too many WIPs laying around and I still don't have any nice sofa cushions!


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Tired of piling on the layers, ordering delivery, and living your life as prisoner to the weather? Well then CHANGE THE GAME. Getting milk isn't a bastard cold chore, it's a challenge. Behold how you can turn your wintery nightmare into an epic RPG quest.
Created by Julia Lepetit AND Andrew Bridgman for Dorkly, this web comic is actually a pretty good way to make the winter commute just a little more magical.
I would also add: Eat like you're hoarding calories for 10 years of winter. And consume all food wrapped in blankets in front of a glowing Netflix.


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It may be a "Friends" reunion on television—well, at least for two of the six former cast mates.
Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello has reported that Jennifer Aniston is on the verge of a deal to appear on the ABC sitcom "Cougar Town" starring her former "Friends" co-star Courteney Cox, according to sources. Aniston could be featured in an episode somewhere in the early part of the second season of "Cougar Town."
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Check out a recent piece published in The Nation by Kia Franklin, the author of the Tort Deform blog and a strong voice in support of our civil justice system, who has also been kind enough in the past to cross-post an article on that blog from Yours Truly.
Kia focuses the spotlight on the continuing problem of arbitration clauses which impede the ability of workers and consumers to have access to justice.
Keep on keepin' on, Kia!


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I found it interestingly relevant to our usual discussions because, although it doesn't come from anti-SM feminists or anti-SM conservatives, I think it reveals something interesting about mind control that I do see mirrored in some of the anti-SM writing, particularly the strongly theory-oriented radical feminist stuff.
Here's the mighty mighty LRH:
There are two items in this universe that cause more trouble than many others combined.Basically, if I properly understand this mutilated English (my poor language! I'm sure it safeworded paragraphs ago!), what he's saying is that pain and sex distract us from Serious Business by taking control of our consciousness and making us unable to "produce much."
One is PAIN.
The other is SEX.
One should know more about these things.
They may have applications but they are used by destructive beings in great volume to cave others in.
....Pain becomes a lock on a being's abhorrence for misalignment of his own electrical flows. It is a lock upon unconsciousness which shuts off knowingness.
Sex is a lock on and perversion of the "joy of creation" which involves a whole being and expands him, but by using just one wavelength, sex, this can be perverted and he contracts.
When pain enters a scene, a being withdraws, contracts and can go unconscious.
When sex enters the scene, a being fixates and loses power.
Destructive creatures who do not want people big or reaching -- since they are terrified of punishment due to their crimes -- invented pain and sex to shrink people and cut their alertness, knowingness, power and reach.
Thus, you see people who are "experiencing" either pain or sex introverting and not producing much.
Pain and sex were the INVENTED tools of degradation.
Which, at least in terms of sex, is that same old line: Sex is unimportant. Sex distracts from the Important Things -- in Scientology, "clearing the planet"; in various feminisms, fundamental and far-reaching sociocultural reform that radically changes the social status of women.
Don't fuck, PRODUCE! How dare you waste perfectly good time getting off that you could spend changing the world?
Don't enjoy yourself, that's individualism, and we've gotten beyond that foolish white male delusion!
It's very close indeed.
And then there's the pain bit. I think in the Scientology case it's more of the self-helpish veneer they have: We're promising you that if you give us just a little more money and time you won't experience pain any more. It won't bog you down, bother you, upset you. No more tears.
Which there isn't really an analogous phenomenon to in the groupthinkier forms of radical feminism. Radical feminists of this stripe often pride themselves on pain to a degree that would make a masochist green: They're not the fun kind, and don't you forget it.
While you're enjoying the approval of your masters, laughing and getting wet and partying, they're up to Serious Things which are Eminently Serious Business. They're forcing themselves to hold it together through a porno movie so they can adequately Theory, and weeping great tears and risking horrible flashbacks to do it. (I do think this is actually the truth in a lot of cases. Personally I think it's an oddly ungratifying form of masochism that's probably not good for people, but what would I know, I like sex too much :)
(Speaking of, here's what he has to say about us specifically. It's charming indeed!)
Believe it or not, a being can be so overwhelmed by either [sex or pain] that he or she becomes an addict of it. Priests become flagellants and cut themselves to pieces with self-whipping. Torturers drool over pain. Lovers are very seldom happy. People do the most irrational things when overcharged with sex, and prostitutes use it as a knowing stock-in-trade. Combined, pain and sex make up the insane Jack-the-Rippers (who killed only prostitutes) and the whole strange body of sex-murder freaks, including Hinckley*, and the devotees of late-night horror movies. Under the false data of the psychs (who have been on the track a long time and are the sole cause of decline in this universe) both pain and sex are gaining ground in this society and, coupled with robbery which is a hooded companion of both, may very soon make the land a true jungle of crime.But I do think there's a connection here too. Pain and pleasure are fraternal twins after all -- they're both words that apply to sensation and emotion, and the sensations are bodily responses. They're not conscious. They're the gut reacting, and the gut reacts to things that seem off to it. Things feel nice that people tell us aren't so nice. Things raise our hackles sometimes despite people assuring us those things are good for us.
Go into an asylum or a prison and look at the increasing institutional population and know what you are looking at. In the main, these are pain and sex addicts, decadent and degraded and no longer capable. They were sent on that route down through the ages by the psychs and here they are still in the psychs' hands! And do they get well or go straight? Oh no. Whether in prisons or insane asylums they just get worse. And the psychs in both places rub their bloodied hands as they turn their products loose again upon the remaining population! It's no accident. And the stocks-in-trade of psychs are PAIN and SEX. They will even tell you it's "natural" to steal!
....They [pain and sex] are the most-used tools in the campaign against beings in furthering the general goal of those creatures whose sole ambition is destruction. The universe does not happen to be either destructive or chaotic except as such obsessed creeps make it. Statements it is otherwise are just more false data from the same suspect "authorities"....
Controlling these basic responses -- controlling pain or controlling pleasure -- is controlling the beings who feel them.
And radical feminism of this sort, while it isn't invested in battling pain, is certainly invested in controlling pleasure.
Pleasure is suspect from the get-go. As I've already discussed, it distracts one from Serious Business. It drives one to look at, want, savor things and experiences that go against the theory, that have been branded "Bad For Women."
Think about all the emphasis on examining your desires. The statements that "oh, we'd never demand someone give up her pleasures, but we want her to be aware of where they come from." If we say we already are aware, or that we've uncovered that their sources are benign or even positive, we're told to do it again, as if we're faulty computers that never quite properly executed some complex subroutine.
There's one answer, and it's that certain pleasures are out of bounds. While many such "feminists" recognize that these pleasures aren't avoidable, indulging in them requires regular confession and purging, proper purification after soiling oneself with the pleasures of the fle-- er, Patriarchy.
I may get laughed at for this, but I really am beginning to think that sadomasochists -- not the real people, the actual participants in certain sexual activities, but rather Those Who Love Pain as an archetype, paradoxical and irreducible -- frighten this subset of radical feminists and frighten Scientologists for the same reason: because they resist these forms of control.
Of course any given kinky person will be more or less resistant to mind control. I've gotten deeper involved in culty groups before than I want to admit, and my pain fetish wasn't a good defense. But the archetypal sadomasochist is something different: someone who knows and seeks her own pleasure, someone who explores her pain and its sources through unflinching experience.
Someone who seeks pleasure and isn't afraid of pain cannot be controlled, cannot be roped in by an ideology that rests on the fear of sex or the fear of pain (or its twin.)
She is free, radically and wildly free... and therefore she is the ultimate Enemy.


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We kicked off fall Restaurant Week at Nove inside the Palms. Our foursome was seated at 7:15. The restaurant remained pretty quiet until late into our meal.
We started with an amuse bouche of bruschetta and caponata. Plus a bread basket with sesame bread, twists and focaccia. We opted for the $20 wine pairing: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Merlot and I missed the dessert wine. Not a moscato, I'm sure of that, but still very sweet. Too sweet for my liking.
Butternut Squash Ravioli; Brown Butter, Sage whet our appetite. The pasta was tender, and a bit rustic. The filling was sweet. I prefer a more savory squash, but it was very good.
Next, we had Baby Fennel and Apple Salad; Endive, Toasted Hazelnuts, Gorgonzola Cheese and Petite Farmers Market Greens; Roasted Heirloom Beets, Humboldt Fog Goat Cheese, Candy Walnuts. Both salads were nicely dressed, crisp and loaded with tasty bits.
Before the third course, we had a second amuse bouche of salumis. The venison was one of the better varieties. Entrees were Salmon; Cauliflower Puree, Truffle Pan Sauce, Arugula and Almond Salad and Veal Scaloppini; Broccoli Rabe, Roasted Garlic, Scampi Sauce. I couldn't find fault in either dish, but I think the veal was a bit better than the salmon. It had bolder flavor and it was so tender, it seemed to melt like butter.
Dessert was odd. The menu read Chocolate Ganache; EVOO, Sea-Salt, Toasted Walnut and White Chocolate Bread, and I interpreted it as individual desserts with ganache over sweet toast. Instead, a single large scoop of ganache was served with a half dozen pieces of toast and two knives were provided. We spread the ganache across the toast, and dug in. It was like a saltier, and a more decadent version of nutella and toast. It was very rich so a little went a long way.
Service was attentive throughout. Nove is perched on the 51st floor of the Palms' Fantasy tower. The views are stellar. We watched the skies fade from day to night. It is always a joy to see the glimmer of lights across the desert. Eats tend to suffer when you get views like these, but Nove seems to get it right.


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So, you've been working on a Google App Engine project on your VPS and for some reason, when you type the following command:
dev_appserver.py <projectfolder>
it works, but when you try to access it in your browser from the client machine (your personal PC or laptop from where you've ssh'd into), it doesn't work or gives you a "Connection Timed Out" error.
There are 2 things you need to check when this happens:
- IPTables – check whether you've opened up the port on which the local app server is working on
- App Server host name and port settings
For IPTables, you just need to make sure the correct rules are set. Since my app server will be running on port 8080, I had to check to see if that port was open or not. The ports can be checked with the following command:
sudo iptables -nvL –line-numbers
If you don't see port 8080 opened on the INPUT list, you'll need to open it.
IPTables works from top to bottom. So, usually, the last entry is to reject everything that doesn't fit. So, you might need to add the rule in between and for this we use the -I argument. For example, if I want to make this rule the 4th entry in my INPUT list (I have 5 rules), this can be done with the following command:
sudo iptables -I INPUT 4 -p tcp –dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
This should fix the iptables part of things.
Next, we need to fix the app server host and port values. By default app engine server runs on localhost and port 8080. Let's change that to work with the external IP address of the Linux box and fix it to port 8080:
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FORT JACKSON, S.C.—South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and her family bid a tearful farewell to her husband Michael on Thursday as he departed with a National Guard unit for a month of training and then deployment to Afghanistan.
Capt. Michael Haley wrapped his arms around his wife and two children, ages 10 and 14, as his unit was given a send-off by several hundred family members, friends and Guard officials at a National Guard site outside Columbia.
The Republican governor issued a statement saying "we are a proud military family who understands the sacrifices any family goes through when a loved one is serving his or her country."
Haley's spokesman, Rob Godfrey, said the governor's office is not aware of any other governor's spouse who is deployed with the uniformed military. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, said he could not answer the question of whether any governor's spouses were deployed military and instead referred calls to each of the separate military service branches.
After Gov. Haley hugged their 10-year-old son Nalin and 14-year-old daughter Rena, the governor wrapped her arms around her husband and buried her head in his shoulder. Family members crowded around the small group, many wiping away tears. The governor stepped away, dabbing her nose with a handkerchief as she appeared to be fighting back tears, after giving her husband multiple kisses.
Haley's unit is not scheduled to return to South Carolina before departing on its yearlong mission. It is the third South Carolina Army National Guard group to spend a year working with Afghan farmers to improve farming practices. It is formally known as the 3-49th Agribusiness Development Team and will work in Helmand province.
Michael Haley joined the guard as an officer in 2006. This will be his first deployment overseas. He has served as a medical service corps officer and a planning officer in the Guard's Columbia headquarters.
Guard officials said Haley's background as a businessman would be helpful to the unit as it works with Afghan farmers to sell their crops and improve the ways they bring them to market.
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Livingston, Jr., State Adjutant General and head of the Guard, said Haley's unit has trained for months to better understand the rudimentary nature of Afghan agriculture.
But no special treatment is being accorded Haley because his wife happens to be governor, Livingston said.
"Each soldier, each family is special to us, and the Haleys are part of our National Guard family," he said. "He has always been and always will be treated like any other soldier."
Haley's commander, Lt. Col. Todd Shealy, acknowledged there is always some danger when an individual in the public eye serves as a soldier in a combat region, and mentioned the military service in Afghanistan of Britain's Prince Harry.
"It does make him more of a target," Shealy said of Haley. "But there are some particular things to do to minimize that threat," he added, pointedly not defining what they might be.
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Well I use English client so I couldn't feel any uncomfortable
but I notice recently my Korean friends could not use in game shop search because its buggy when type Korean.
when I try to search 린켄의 구슬 which is linken's sphere
it changed into 리ㄴ켄의 구슬 so I couldn't see any result.
칠흑왕의 지팡이 which is BKB also 치ㄹ흑왕의 지팡이
Something I know about this bug :
does not happen in English client, only happens in Korean client
seems the result disturb the korean typing system.
this bug is from dota 2 reborn, amazed no one make a report about this and yet not changed ...


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Back to roots: After times of formal experimentation and technical and aesthetic hig-end appearances it seems like the archtypical design found its way back to modern living rooms – original forms which refer to times, when things were above all appreciated for their usability. Some of the new creations by the Swedish lighting manufacturer ZERO took up this trend. Jens Fager's series of lamps 'Lens' consists of two pendant lights and a table lamp. The lamp shades are made from painted aluminum and matt acrylic. The table lamp can be mounted on the adjustable table base or fixed through the table top.
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WackyMeetsPractical wrote:Does anyone think we should go pick up Joan's dry cleaning? Could be another hint.
narrativedilettante wrote:5:31 AM Saturday October 13th
You must be familiar with the early works of Carl Jung, as animals in your care are named for him. He was famous for his work with the collective unconscious. I'm sure you know that much, and what that means. I can take the form of an archetype you may recognize. And with that, I can threaten you on a deeply personal and cultural level. You will want to back down.
narrativedilettante wrote:Message 8
8:13 AM Saturday October 13th
If only you had found your little notebook earlier, we wouldn't have had time to copy down your number. But now we have it. And we could easily find you. Where you live, where you work. Do not make us take actions against you.
Dryunya wrote:In that case, the dangerous ones would be the Shadow, the Warrior and the Devil.
Dryunya wrote:Trickster is the one not to be trusted, but doesn't instill instant fear, either. If that guy meant Jung's archetypes, he was probably meaning the Devil.
NeverSlender wrote:We haven't actually learnt anything from the voicemails. All we have is one from a person we haven't heard of who might be important.
NeverSlender wrote:Btw, does anyone else find it strange that the restaurant looked through notebook, found a phone number, decided not to ring it, gave the book away to the first person who asked, and was willing to give out the phone number they found?
Sophira wrote:Hi guys,
I used some of my Skype credit to call the number and record it on the computer. I called twice, once without putting in the code, and once with. The files are too big to attach here, so here, links:
Recording of call without putting in the code:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4IvvY ... 2hEV01XOVk
Recording of call when putting in the code:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4IvvY ... UpqdTluY1E
Yay, I feel useful. ^^
[edit: On the ethical issue: The therapist said in this post that "I think I'll keep the messages as evidence and switch to a new number." - so that explains why nobody is picking up, and it's possible the therapist never even noticed us calling. I wouldn't be surprised if it disappears completely soon now that we've got everything.]
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Factor XIII injection is used to prevent bleeding in patients with congenital Factor XIII deficiency.
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The Crew will play its first of three matches this season against the New England Revolution as it welcomes Jay Heaps' side to Crew Stadium on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET / FOX Sports Ohio). The Revs have been a surprise in the Eastern Conference in 2013 with a League-low 16 goals conceded through 18 matches.
In his first year as the Revolution's starter, goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth is tied for the MLS lead with eight shutouts. The 26-year-old netminder's play, along with the addition of Portuguese defender Jose Gonçalves and the first overall pick in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft, Andrew Farrell, have made New England a serious playoff contender in 2013.
"[The Revolution] brought in some new players and they have some players that grew within their system and they're playing better," Crew Head Coach Robert Warzycha said. "They had a bad season last year, they didn't qualify for the playoffs and they were one of the bottom teams in the League. This year, they brought in new players and they're doing better."
Against the Revolution's staunch defense, the Crew will need to make the most of its chances on Saturday. Creativity in the final third hasn't been a problem as the Black & Gold rank ninth in MLS with 257 shots, yet Warzycha would like to see better finishing from his team -- which has 23 goals on the season.
"We create a lot of chances," the Head Coach said. "We just have to be much sharper in front of the goal. That's what I wish for."
Upon the acquisition of U.S. International Juan Agudelo and the return of Saer Sene from a torn ACL suffered last season, the Revolution attack got a much needed boost in the middle of the first half of the 2013 season. Though Agudelo has missed the last three matches with a sprained knee, Sene (three goals since June 2) and veteran Chad Barrett have stepped up to contribute in the attack.
The Revolution has also benefited from Diego Fagundez's breakout season. The 18-year-old forward leads New England with five tallies in 2013. Second-year midfielder Kelyn Rowe leads the team with six assists.
The Revolution announced on Monday that defender Kevin Alston was taken off the club's disabled list and will be available for this week's matches against the Colorado Rapids and the Crew. Alston was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in April, and has been undergoing treatment ever since.
A 2010 MLS All-Star, Alston returned to training earlier this month and will make the trip to Colorado and Columbus. Should he play against the Crew, expect Alston to test the Black & Gold with his pace to provide width and service out of the backline.


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An shi's words caused Feng Jin Yuan to become a little angry: "I will naturally make sure to make up for that amount of money later. It is unrelated to this matter."
An shi went against this crime and added: "But husband also took another Su Zhou embroidery three days ago, but he did pay at that time. Also, it just happened to be 200 taels. It was paid with banknotes." An shi was completely puzzled, "Husband, what are you buying so many celebratory embroideries for?"
The words celebratory embroideries caused everyone to freeze. The so-called celebratory embroideries were not just a single type of embroidery. Instead, they were things that could be used for joyous occasions. For example, during weddings, childbirths or when one succeeded in imperial examinations. Normally, the color and pattern would have a joyous scene, thus people would call them celebratory embroideries.
But the Feng family had been conducting a funeral over the past few days. What was Feng Jin Yuan buying celebratory embroideries for?
Everyone turned their gaze on Feng Jin Yuan. Cheng Jun Man was the fastest and was the first to say: "When mother was being moved, there was no Su Zhou embroidery in the new coffin. Is husband certain that those embroideries were bought for mother?"
Feng Zi Rui pondered while saying: "When I saw father leaving, the Su Zhou embroidery that he held was indeed red. Teacher said that red must not be used during a funeral. It's impossible that father does not even know this, thus they were not bought for grandmother."
With a young child exposing the matter, Feng Jin Yuan felt that he had lost even more face. He had that he could not find a crack to crawl into to hide from others. He hated even more that he could not strangle all of his wives and children.
In the end, he still valued his face. Seeing that he was about to lose control of the situation, he quickly shot a look to He Zhong to disperse the citizens standing in front of the entrance. He Zhong glanced at Feng Yu Heng. Seeing that she did not express anything, he led the family's retainers to disperse the crowd.
On one side, the servants were dispersing the crowd. On the other side, Feng Jin Yuan was negotiating with his second daughter: "If there is something to talk about, can we talk about it back in the manor?"
Feng Yu Heng glanced at him and asked: "Why did father not think to discuss the matter of the coffin earlier in the manor? You had to force this imperial daughter to pay that 600 taels in front of all those people?" Although she said this, she did not deliberately embarrass him any further. Instead, she turned around and entered the Feng manor, going straight in the direction of Peony courtyard. In regards to this father, she felt that she was about to lose that last bit of patience that remained. This person never knew how to stop before going too far. He also never knew what sort of person he could plot against and what sort he could not. Thinking back to when Feng Jin Yuan was given a government post after being the top-ranked scholar, who knew how much wealth the Yao family spent to help this mediocre person reach the prime minister's position.
Feng Jin Yuan followed closely behind her the entire time; however, he did not forget to fiercely glare at An shi a few times. A hatred within the family could not be shown to the outside world. Why was it that all of the problems in his family were all well-known?
As he remained puzzled after thinking it over many times, Fen Dai, who had been following further behind said to her personal servant: "When you get back, ask concubine mother. Did she receive any Su Zhou embroideries from father over the past few days."
The group of people finally returned to the main hall. Originally, this hall had been turned into a mourning hall. After the matriarch was moved to her coffin in the morning, the servants returned it to its original arrangement. Feng Yu Heng found her own spot and sat down. The people that followed her in also sat down.
Feng Jin Yuan very shamelessly sat in the seat that had always belonged to the matriarch. In his eyes, the matriarch was no longer in the family. He was now the eldest, thus he ought to sit there. But he very quickly realized that something was off because everyone had turned their eyes on him. In their eyes, there were two very clear thoughts. One was querying and the other was contempt.
He wanted to get angry; however, he was truly uncertain and a little disturbed and even more afraid.
Cheng Jun Man was the first to speak; however, the words that she said caused everyone to be stunned. She said: "A few days ago, Jun Mei and I went into the palace to see aunty. While eating with aunty, we heard aunty mention that while snuffing out the remaining evil forces of Qian Zhou, they found on their list that there was a maidservant that had come with Kang Yi that was missing. After inquiring, it was said that the servant had been beaten to death by Kang Yi because of a mistake many months earlier. At that time, nobody thought anything of it. A master beating a servant to death could not be more normal; moreover, it was a servant from Qian Zhou; however, for some reason, why is there a knot in my heart that I can't seem to get rid of?"
She had brought this up as though she was speaking about the daily life. Feng Yu Heng looked toward Feng Jin Yuan and found that Feng Jin Yuan's face was extremely pale, and his hands trembled uncontrollably.
Feng Yu Heng curled up the corner of her lips into a smile and asked Cheng Jun Man: "It's just a servant. Why has mother brought this up?"
Cheng Jun man pondered for a while then said: "I entered the Feng manor after Kang Yi. After we sisters arrived in the Feng manor, we did not pay too much attention to the servants at her side. Speaking about it, I indeed cannot recall when one went missing. But… I could occasionally hear husband call out a name while dreaming. It seemed to be…"
"Was it Xiao Jing?" Cheng Jun Mei finished her sentence, "Did elder sister also hear this name?"
Cheng Jun Man nodded, "Xiao Jing is the one. At first, I did not think much of it. After all, even if husband had a close female friend outside, it's nothing major. But for some reason, that girl from Qian Zhou keeps coming to mind. Perhaps I have been overthinking it."
The fear in Feng Jin Yuan's heart had reached a certain degree, as he did not even dare pick up the cup of tea brought up by the servant. He feared that he would knock over the cup of tea with his trembling hands.
Yet at this time, Fen Dai's servant hastily returned. Walking over to Fen Dai's side, she quietly whispered into her ear, and Fen Dai's face also turned dark. She then turned to ask him: "Father, that Su Zhou embroidery was not given to my concubine mother?"
Her words caused others to feel even more puzzled. If Feng Jin Yuan had secretly spent money to provide the pregnant Han shi with some joy, Cheng Jun Man may be able to accept it, and she would be able to handle it. After all, being pregnant with a child was a joyous matter. Using a few embroideries to make Han shi happy was nothing. But now that Fen Dai said that they were not given to Han shi, one could only imagine where they had gone.
Feng Yu Heng smiled and looked at the still pale Feng Jin Yuan. She then asked An shi: "Back then, grandmother had told concubine mother An to help take care of the matters in the manor. Does concubine mother remember which people came into the manor and what they were called?"
An shi replied: "The specifics cannot be recalled, but because she was from Qian Zhou, I have a clear memory of the servants that were brought in." While saying this, she said to her maidservant: "Go fetch the register. Just say that second young miss wishes to take a look."
Just as the servant was about to run out, a sudden "bang" rang out. Feng Jin Yuan had suddenly slapped a table. He looked as though he was willing to try his luck, saying: "No need! The servant that was missing was indeed Xiao Jing. Currently, she is living in the suburbs of the capital, and she is already seven months pregnant. I was preparing to bring her back to the manor in a few days. Since you know about it now, it's also fine."
Once these words were said, everyone in the room had different reactions. Feng Fen Dai became furious. An shi and Xiang Rong revealed their disappointment, and the Cheng shi sisters suddenly stood up. Zi Rui's face was filled with disgust, and Feng Yu Heng began to giggle.
Feng Jin Yuan ignored the emotions of others. He even ignored the Cheng shi sisters that had suddenly stood up. He just glared at Feng Yu Heng, as though he was looking at someone who had committed some sort of unpardonable evil. He fiercely asked: "What are you laughing for?"
Feng Yu Heng laughed for a while and finally stopped; however, she replied with her own question: "Father, do you not even know what I am laughing for? Then this imperial daughter will ask you. What did you just say?"
It felt as though Feng Jin Yuan was deliberately making the situation worse. He did not even understand why he felt uncertain, replying: "I said that I want to bring Xiao Jing back to the manor to allow the Feng family's flesh and blood in her belly to return to live with its family!"
"Oh." Feng Yu Heng nodded and did not say anything further to him. Instead, she turned to say to Cheng Jun Man: "Mother, send someone to the government office. Since father wants to drag this family to accompany Qian Zhou in the grave, there is no need for us to worry about any familial relationship with him. Go to the government office and say that we are willingly leaving the Feng family. We will be removed from the genealogical records and the family. From this moment forth, we will have nothing to do with each other."
"What are you saying?" Feng Jin Yuan became even more furious. Pointing at Feng Yu Heng, he said: "Now that you have become an imperial daughter, you look down on this family. If you want to leave, leave on your own!"
The person that replied to him, however, was not Feng Yu Heng. It was Cheng Jun Man, saying: "I agree with imperial daughter's arrangements."
Cheng Jun Mei also said: "Although I am called second madam, I am not that old. I have not lived enough and do not wish to die."
An shi also said: "My Xiang Rong still has not gotten married. I must remain alive until I can see her get married."
Even Fen Dai expressed her position at this time: "Father, if you want a son, concubine mother Han is pregnant with one. If you want women, there are many women in the world, yet why must you choose someone from Qian Zhou? Aren't you just making a joke out of our family's lives."
Feng Zi Rui was young and did not want to comment on this topic; however, he placed his small hand in Feng Yu Heng's hand. He quietly told Feng Jin Yuan, no matter when or where he would always stand on his sister's side.
This was not the first time that Feng Jin Yuan had experienced being deserted by all. It was not that he did not hear what they had said, and he knew that her status as someone from Qian Zhou was sensitive. Once this matter was exposed, perhaps the entire Feng manor would be sent to the grave. But he did indeed like that Xiao Jing. In practically the first instant that Kang Yi brought her to the manor, he became enamored. Later on, he came up with a method to get the servant out of the Feng manor and secretly raised her on the outside. He had been planning to bring her back; however, who knew that it would be exposed without him being prepared. This caused him to feel completely caught off-guard.
Feng Jin Yuan gritted his teeth and said something extremely shameless: "As long as you don't say anything, this matter will never leave the Feng manor. She is nothing more than a normal woman."
Feng Yu Heng truly did not know what she should say. She had lived two lives and had seen a large number of people. She had also seen shameless people; however, Feng Jin Yuan was truly the top among them.
He was the most outstanding among the best, the VIP of the best!
She raised a finger and tapped her forehead. Not a single person spoke. It seemed as though everyone was waiting for her to make a decision. Even Feng Jin Yuan looked at her with eyes filled with expectation.
Feng Yu Heng suddenly felt that this was hilarious. The father wanted a woman, yet he was now waiting for his daughter to agree?
She felt that this was hilarious and actually ended up laughing; however, after she stopped laughing, she said to Wang Chuan: "Go call back the soldiers that had left earlier. Tell them that this imperial daughter will not handle the matter of Feng Jin Yuan deceiving the ruler. Have them quickly take this person away!"


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THE father of a 14-year-old boy who died after falling from a multi-storey car park has said the family will cherish his memory.
Thomas Boomer, pictured, who was from Bloxham, fell from the five-storey Bolton Road car parkin Banbury at about 1am on Monday but died of his injuries at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital later that afternoon.
Yesterday his dad Doug said: "We are struggling to come to terms with and understand Tom's death.
"He was a bright star with the potential to shine in whatever path he chose in life."
He added: "Our wonderful memories of Tom, together with the love and support of our friends in Bloxham and wider family, will sustain us in both coming weeks and months.
"We appreciate the many messages of love from his friends who must be suffering greatly too.
"We will cherish memories of the 14 years we were privileged to spend with Tom."
Police were last night continuing their investigation into Tom's death, on behalf of the Oxfordshire coroner but it is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious.
The teenager, of Queen Street, was a drummer and also leaves behind his mother Clare and his sister Kirstin.
In the family statement Mr Boomer added: "To his sister he was a constant friend, always happy to improvise a tune for her to sing to.
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"His more recent love of canoeing was a great outlet for his energy and the club provided a strong network."
The teen had recently moved to Chipping Norton School from The Warriner School in nearby Bloxham.
Simon Duffy, headteacher at Chipping Norton School, yesterday said: "Tom was a polite, smart and talented student.
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Despite a resume that includes three decades as a payroll processor, Patti Di Pino, 56, has been looking for work for three years since her divorce from her husband of 30 years,
Meet Patti Di Pino, 56. She's single, she's unemployed and she lives in an RV. She's one of the many women voters being courted by President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney in the waning days of the presidential election campaign.
If she's being courted, she's wondering: Where are the flowers and chocolates?
"I listened to the speeches by the candidates for president and I hear them talking about college kids, finding jobs for them and helping them with their student loans and such," Di Pino told NBC News in a recent interview. "I hear them talking about helping vets get jobs. Not once have I heard about helping baby boomers getting jobs."
A generation of women who flooded the paid labor force in the 1970s has spent the past four decades overcoming a host of obstacles to win its fair share of the American economic pie.
But for many women now approaching what was to have been the end of their careers, the Great Recession has turned out to be the biggest obstacle of their lives.
Di Pino has been looking for steady work for three years since her divorce from her husband of 30 years. In 2009, her employer of 15 years, a construction company, closed its doors and laid her off.
Despite a resume that includes three decades in office administration, potential employers continue to pass her over because she has been out of the work force for so long, she says. Relying on a small savings account, she lives in an RV in Aurora, Colo., trolling the Internet for job leads and working odd jobs to pay the bills.
Di Pino is one of millions of boomer women whose finances and economic well-being have been shredded by the Great Recession. Since 2007, some 3.5 million women over the age of 18 have fallen below the poverty level, bringing the total to nearly 18 million and raising the poverty rate for women from 12.5 percent to 14.6 percent.
Many left the work force in better economic times to raise families, expecting to return later in life to resume careers that have been upended by the recession. Now after long stretches of unemployment they face a bleak future with little retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits diminished by fewer years of payroll tax credits into the system.
Candidates offering to help older women voters have provided only vague promises, they say.
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Patti Di Pino, 56, lives in an RV near Denver, working odd jobs to make ends meet.
Romney has promised "better access to higher education, and better retraining programs" but hasn't said how he would provide them or who would be eligible. Obama cites gains of more than 5 million new jobs since he took office and his signature of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women fight back against pay discrimination.
"For some of these workers, I don't think there's much hope in the way of recovery," said Sara Rix, a public policy analyst at AARP. "Their jobs are gone and they don't have the skills for emerging jobs. We haven't been willing to invest what we need to invest in training."
The future looked brighter when boomer women first entered the work force in the 1970s, buoyed by the equal rights movement, and began to advance their careers in the economic boom of the 1980s. In doing so, they left behind the postwar American ideal, promoted heavily by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, that men were breadwinners and women were housewives.
"You go to college and find a nice man who will do well," said Carroll Metzger, 65. "That's the culture I came from."
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Metzger considers herself one of the lucky ones. In 1976, divorced at 28, with two small kids, she experienced single motherhood at a relatively early age. It wasn't easy. But it brought home the reality of raising a family while having to generate an income. After returning to school, she earned her registered nursing degree and, two years later, embarked on a lifelong nursing career.
Her generation of women was determined to have both career and family – by leaving work temporarily to raise their children and then picking up those careers when the children were grown. But it didn't always work out as planned.
"That was the great deception for women of our generation," said Metzger. "That I can leave the work force for a number of years to stay home and raise my kids and rely on the husband's income. What happened is that not every man does well. And not all marriages work."
Women are also more likely to outlive their husbands. Metzger, who eventually remarried, retired in 2009 from a paid nursing job to care for her ailing husband, who died in 2010. Today she's rebuilding her life, shoring up her retirement investments and finding part-time work in nursing.
"I've been very fortunate that I ended up in this point in my life not having to work full time," she said.
Many single boomer women aren't as lucky. When they do find work, it will pay less, on average, than a similar job performed by a male colleague. That "wage gap," which begins as early as graduation, increases as women get older, according to a study on pay equity released in April by the American Association of University Women.
Some 50 years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law, the researchers found that a woman aged 20 to 24 can expect to bring home 94 cents for every dollar earned by a man her age. By 55, the pay gap for women widens to 75 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Incomes for single boomer women have lagged even further behind other households. Since 1970, median incomes for married couples with both spouses in the paid work force have risen steadily – up more than 40 percent to nearly $86,000 (as of 2009). One-income couples and households headed by single men saw little improvement, with median incomes rising to less than $50,000. For single women, the median income, after rising slowly since 1970, barely hit $29,000 in 2009.
Adrienne Esposito, a 53-year-old widowed mother of three, never imagined she'd have to fend for herself 14 years ago when, after 20 years of marriage, her husband died. Her children were 8, 10 and 19.
"I really counted on things that I probably shouldn't have," she said. "I know what I was doing was better for the children. I knew it was a sacrifice, and I would have to do something to make up for what I lost by not working. In that case, I thought that with an education I would be able to re-enter the work force in a better position to advance myself."
With her husband survivors' benefits, and $35,000 in student loans, Esposito completed a master's degree in family therapy in 2007 and found a job with a social services agency for $33,000 a year. After three years, she was laid off when the agency was hit with funding cuts. Ten months later, she went to work for a Texas state agency for $27,000 a year. After nine months, that job ended earlier this year.
Despite her recent training and work experience, Esposito believes her job prospects are narrowing. She said one recent interviewer explained, in stark terms, why.
"I was basically told, in the nicest way, that I'm too old for the job," she said. "Because they want someone who -- and this is how they put it -- 'We need someone who can give presentations to the public.' They did not want a 53-year-old doing that. It's not a bonus being an older woman in the workplace."
'What do you do about food?'
Age discrimination, often less overt, has left many boomer women with few alternatives beyond minimum wage work. Di Pino figures that if she took a full-time job at minimum wage, she'd still have to draw on her savings to make ends meet.
"It's going to net me $320 (a week), which means I might get $250 after Social Security, state and federal taxes, and unemployment," said Di Pino. "That's $1,000 a month. (In the Denver area), even a one-bedroom apartment is $650 – minimum. That leaves you $300 for gas, electric, Internet and gas in the truck. And food? What do you do for food?"
Retirement savings? That's something to dream about.
Years of lost paychecks while working at home raising children left many boomer women with a large hole in the retirement safety net their male counterparts generated through 401(k) contributions and payments into the Social Security system. Boomer women also face late-in-life events like divorce and widowhood that "can have devastating effects on (their) income and asset levels," according to a GAO report issued in July.
For those who have saved, or acquired savings in divorce settlements, the financial collapse of 2008 tore a large hole in many retirement accounts. For those in and out of work since, any remaining savings have been farther depleted to pay expenses.
"I haven't put into Social Security, so I'm not entitled to benefits," said Esposito. "I have zero retirement savings."
It's no surprise that a recent AARP survey found older women much more worried about retirement than their male counterparts. They have reason to be concerned, said Rix.
"It's going to be extremely difficult for people to catch up to where they were before the recession," she said. "They're going to have to make do on a lot less. And they're going to find it very difficult to make up the savings they've exhausted."
The outlook for boomer women depends heavily on whether the job market continues to improve. But even once employers begin hiring again, many of the economic obstacles older women face likely will remain.
Few employers, for example, have shown a willingness to pay the cost of retraining older workers of either gender. With Congress under intense political pressure to cut federal spending, further government assistance will be a tough sell.
Still, the longer the job market remains bleak, the further boomer women's meager savings will be depleted.
"I cannot believe that many policymakers are going to relish the sight of huge numbers of impoverished constituents sitting on the steps of their state houses," said Rix.
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Research with the most modern technologies confirms what old texts already claimed 5000 years ago: transcending is essential for our full development.
The brain is like a muscle. When we train it, it becomes stronger, if we neglect it, it will shrink. We only use a small part of our brain potential as we evidently forgot how to train our brain and increase its capacity. That training is transcending.
Every experience we encounter stimulates a part of our brain. When we see something, the neurons in our visual cortex start making all kinds of connections and thereby as a network increase in strength. But if we only have local experiences (for example, we see what's inside the room, but not what's outside of it), we only use a local part of our brain. Other parts are not stimulated, fail to make the requisite connections, and as a result the neurons start to die.
Transcending is an experience of the united source of all there is, a non-local experience, an experience where the individual wave of our own consciousness melts together with the infinite ocean, its universal source. (see in touch with our higher self) In modern times the effect of this on our brain can be measured with MRI scanners. The same impulse will affect a much larger part of our brain, including the so-called "hidden reserves".Ref.Human physiology, 25: 171–180, 1999)
But there are even more interesting ways of measuring what happens in the brain, without expensive medical scanners, but with a normal laptop, through EEG-coherence measurements.
Every time a part of the brain is active, there is an electrical activity that can be measured with an electroencephalogram (EEG), an instrument visualizing information as waves.
The EEG waves of different parts of the brain are then sent to a computer that (in real time) calculates the extent to which different waves overlap (= display coherence). If the brain waves are fully coherent, then this implies that the different parts of the brain are connected to each other. They function as one whole.
During normal activities this coherence is quite low, somewhere between 30 and 40%. During transcending, however, the mind experiences a state of unity, and this has an immediate, measurable impact on the brain which starts working as a more unified whole. Below video shows in real-time how this process takes place.
By regularly experiencing unity, we stimulate the brain to more complete growth.
The more someone experiences high EEG coherence, the more the brain gets used to this state, as a result of which EEG coherence also increases outside of the TM exercises, as shown also by below research.Ref.Travis, F. and Arenander, A. International Journal of Neuroscience, 2006
This graph shows the evolution of the average EEG values of 50 students over the course of 12 months. It shows that there is no difference between EEG coherence during TM exercises for someone practicing it for 2 months as compared to someone who practices it for 12 months. Transcending is not something you improve in with practice. As it is a fully natural process, one will already transcend from the first time. We do however see a difference during the activity outside of the TM exercises: the increased EEG coherence becomes more stabilised.
Over 30 years of research on EEG coherence has shown that all that is good in our human brain improves if the brain is able to function in a more efficient way, more as one whole. IQ and creativity increase, the ability to learn increases, concentration improves, emotional stability increases, impulsiveness decreases, and people have better ethical behavior towards others, and even ADHD symptoms, which have been linked to exceptionally low EEG coherence, spontaneously disappear. In essence EEG coherence is a way of objectively measuring how the qualities of unity can be increased in our consciousness. (the qualities described in in contact with our higher self: creativity, intelligence, love, peace etc.)
Such increased EEG coherence can only be obtained when one really experiences transcending, the real experience of unity which influences the brain. Normal relaxation won't do much to increase EEG coherence. This is why the TM technique has a much stronger effect on improved intelligence, creativity and school performance than other forms of meditation.
If we were to buy a new laptop only to then find that it only works at 10% of the advertized speed, no one would accept this. Anyone would immediately walk back to the store and demand a repair or upgrade. But if no one realised the real potential of the computer, and everyone's laptop worked at more or less the same slow speed, then that same 10% would be considered "normal".
Throughout the centuries, teachers have appeared that "advertised" the real potential of humanity, and sometimes also offered examples of the real possibilities of the human nervous system, but the practical technique to obtain this result was often lost. Maharishi has always said that Transcendental Meditation is nothing new, and that it can be found in the scriptures of old cultures. He just rediscovered the practical method and turned it into a systematic technique.
All benefits of the Transcendental Meditation technique can be found on this site, improved health, being more in touch with oneself, improved relationships, improved intelligence, more personal and professional success, are all side-benefits of what is really taking place, growth towards the development of our full potential, growth to a state of life in which the qualities of transcendental consciousness (rest, peace, happiness, love, infinite creativity and intelligence, to be connected) are permanently present in everyday life. This is a state described by Maharishi as "invincibility" (see in contact with our higher self).
To specifically accelerate the growth to higher states of consciousness, various advanced techniques other than Transcendental Meditation were structured. These techniques can be learned after receiving instruction in TM. One of these techniques is the TM-sidhi program, including a technique that goes by the name of Yogic Flying. (what is the TM-sidhi program)